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with the Smithsonian Institution was made using the latest USC mobile light stage wherein President Barack Obama had his geometry, textures and reflectance captured.
In 2014 Ian Goodfellow et al presented the principles of a generative adversarial network. GANs made the headlines in early 2018 with the deepfakes controversies.
For the 2015 film Furious 7 a digital look-alike of actor Paul Walker who died in an accident during the filming was done by Weta Digital to enable the completion of the film.
In 2016 techniques which allow near real-time counterfeiting of facial expressions in existing 2D video have been believably demonstrated.
In 2016 a digital look-alike of Peter Cushing was made for the Rogue One film where its appearance would appear to be of same age asThe PATINS Project is a state-wide technical assistance network for the provision of assistive/accessible technology for assisting local educational agencies in the utilization and creation of accessible learning environments and instructional materials. As a sole source provider for the Indiana Dept. of Administration and the Indiana Dept. of Education, the PATINS Project provides a complete state NIMAS delivery process designed to support the IDOE and LEA's in addressing the statutory and final regulatory requirements of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004.
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$2,015.36
Duplicate notices of deficiency dated July 8, 1994, were
sent to Fe Green (petitioner) and Joseph Green at 1503 Hastings
Mill Road, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and to P.O. Box 1136, Cherry
Hill, New Jersey. United States Postal Service Form 3877 (Form
3877) reflects that the notices of deficiency were mailed on July
8, 1994. On June 24, 1993, approximately one year prior to the
mailing of the notices of deficiency, petitioner notified the
Internal Revenue Service Appeals Office in Newark, New Jersey
(Appeals), by letter, of Joseph Green's new address in Lyndhurst,
New Jersey. No notice of deficiency was sent to Joseph Green's
Lyndhurst, New Jersey, address.
Petitionersby the Court on October 13, 1994. The
90th day from July 8, 1994, was Thursday, October 6, 1994 (which
was not a legal holiday in the District of Columbia).
In her motion to dismiss, respondent asserts that because
the notice of deficiency was mailed on July 8, 1994, the filing
of the petition on October 13, 1994, is untimely. Respondent
further argues that even considering the U.S. Postal Service
postmark reflected on the envelope in which the petition was
contained (October 9, 1994), the petition is nevertheless
untimely. At the hearing held on this matter, respondent
conceded that the notice of deficiency mailed on July 8, 1994,
with respect to Joseph Green is invalid, since it
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was not sent to
his last known address. Petitioner asserts that the envelope
containing the notice of deficiency is postmarked July 12, 1994,
and, therefore, her petition, mailed October 9, 1994, was timely
filed. No evidence (either a postmarked envelope, testimony, or
an affidavit) were offered to support petitioner's allegations.2
2
Petitioner did not appear at the hearing on respondent's
Motion to Dismiss. By order dated June 12, 1995, petitioner was
given an opportunity to submit a report on or before July 12,
1995, pertaining to the allegation that the notice of deficiency
was mailed sometime after July 8, 1994. The order, sent by
certified mail, was returned to the Court on Aug. 18, 1995,
condition. At least two tried to take flight but managed only to bounce across the flat surface of the bay. Their oily feet splashed through the water and their wings flapped helplessly.
“This island is what brought the brown pelican back to Louisiana,” said Hudgins Littleton III, a retired oil worker watching the arrival of rescue boats.
For days, orange booms encircled the rookery as protection against a spill that has broken up into patches and streaks across the gulf. But oily water topped the barrier and spilled through a hole punched by a weekend storm.
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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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Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Several soldiers were seriously injured in the search for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, including a sergeant who was shot in the head, an Air Force intelligence officer testified Thursday in the sentencing phase of Bergdahl's desertion trial.
The officer, Lt. Col. John Marx said he was leading a team of Americans and members of the Afghan Army in July 2009 through two villages searching for Bergdahl, who had abandoned his post, when they were ambushed by insurgents from "all sides."
"That's when all hell broke loose," Marx said.
About six feet from him, he said, Sgt. 1st Class Mark Allen was shot through the head, with the bullet entering and exiting his temples."I thought he might be dead," Marx said.
Let our news meet your inbox. The news and stories that matters, delivered weekday mornings. This site is protected by recaptcha
Allen, a member of the Georgia Army National Guard, was airlifted to safety, but now uses a wheelchair and cannot speak. He was not in court on Thursday.
Bergdahl, 31, pleaded guilty last week to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. He claims he was trying to bring attention to misconduct in his unit when he wandered off and was captured by the Taliban, who held him for five years. Prosecutors want to prove that his desertion endangered those who went looking for him.
Related: Bowe Bergdahl Case Up in the Air as Sentencing Resumes
The military judge in the case, Col. Jeffery R.
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Nance, could sentence Bergdahl to prison for life.
In addition to Marx, Nance heard from three other witnesses, including Spc. Jonathan Morita, whose hand and elbow were hit by two rocket-propelled grenades during the same mission that injured Allen.
"I just thought I was going to definitely die right there in Afghanistan," Morita said. "I accepted my fate. Picked up my Bible, read it, picked up a rifle and started firing again."
Morita said he can't write or eat with his right hand and can't clean himself properly in the bathroom. As he left the courtroom, Morita cast a dirty look in Bergdahl's direction.
Bergdahl was tortured and often held in solitary confinement during his five years in Taliban captivity. He was released in 2014 in a prisoner swap by President BarackJustin Timberlake lounged for a photo shoot in the July issue of Vanity Fair, which features Mario Testino's new photo of Prince William and Kate Middleton on the cover. JT is starting to do interviews for his upcoming movie Friends With Benefits, which comes out on July 22. He shared his thoughts on both acting and making music, also touching on his youth as a badly behaved Mouseketeer with Ryan Gosling. JT got personal, too, saying that Jessica Biel is still close to his heart despite their breakup and that he hasn't spoken to ex Britney Spears in nearly a decade. There was no addressing, though, rumors that Justin Timberlake and Ashley Olsen are a new item. Justin Timberlake told Vanity Fair:
On his enduring affection for Jessica Biel:
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they ask. They love to leave the questions out of the interview because it makes it more melodramatic, like the celeb is just spilling this information.
He looks great in the pic. It's nice he'll remain close friends with Jessica. It's sort of sad he and Brittany don't speak. She shared their childhoods together but it's best for his career and hers too. I'm dying to see him act. I've never seen him act other than SNL skits. I think going into acting was a very smart career move.
He looks great in the pic. It's nice he'll remain close friends with Jessica.
It's sort of sad he and Brittany don't speak. She shared their childhoods together but it's best for his career and hers too.
I'm dying to see him act.conduit.
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American politics and repeats the same old conservative pleas for faith in his failed institutions. The fact is that most eligible voters chose nobody for president. The number of people who would rather spend time with their family, read a book, have sex, get high, burn a flag, see a movie, work, or just sit there and stare at a wall rather than cast a meaningless vote for one of two aspiring murderers outweigh the backwards, out of touch, “politically engaged” citizens.
Obama should recognize this trend and use his platform to channel it into true civic virtue and mutual aid, not beg the productive members of society for their time, attention, or, worst of all, moral license while he uses their money to blow up children in theASK EMPATHY!You can order a PERSONAL EMAILED TAROT READING by Empathy from anywhere in the world! Your questions answered in detail from as little as £7.00. Prompt reply on payment and Personal helpful and friendly communication. Please visit the Readings Page in the INFORMATION MENU. (Right hand Margin or click LINK under the large Tarot card)
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
CRAIG HETHERINGTON
Craig, from Guisborough, Cleveland, has been missing since the early hours of Saturday 22 February 2003. Last seen leaving a pub in Middlesbrough at about 1am, Craig has not been heard from since and his current whereabouts remain unknown.
According to friends who had spent the evening with him, Craig was not drunk when he left and gave no indication he was planning to disappear.
His family are extremely concerned for
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problems I think he met up with some kind of situation where there is or was a dispute outside the house - what house I dont know but I think its suggesting in the street or on his way because he has opposition against him here. It is possible that there is a dark man here somewhere. Theres something unforseen here and some unprepared state, something unexpected happening.
I think he got on a train..I have a train here. Has the railway been searched at Eaglescliff?
Missing man may have been spotted on TV
A woman whose son went missing in 2003 believes she has seen him in the background of a weather forecast on television.
Craig Hetherington was 23-years-old when he went missing almost a decade ago. He was last seenoutside a pub in Middlesbrough, Cleveland.
During a recent weather forecast aired on the BBC Breakfast programme a short clip of flooding in the centre of Leeds was shown. The footage was seen by Craig's mother who believes a man wearing a pink T-shirt in the clip has a very similar appearance to her son and may have been him.
A spokesperson for Cleveland Police said:
"Craig Hetherington was last seen in Middlesbrough on Saturday 22nd February at around 1am outside the Cornerhouse Public House on Albert Road at the junction with Zetland Road. There has been no trace of him since. Craig was 23 years old when he was reported missing and would be 32 in April 2012."
The clip was taken in Leeds in June 2007 during the floods in
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Concrete Institute (PCI) for over three decades, serving as Chairman of the Board in 2012, Chairman of the Design Handbook Committee for the 7th Edition, Chairman of the Parking Structures Committee and a member of the Technical Activities Council. He remains active on several technical committees, and he is presently the Chairman of the Research and Development Council, as well as a member of the PCI Foundation Board of Trustees. He is a Fellow of PCI and was named a Titan of the Industry by PCI in 2014.
“Throughout his career, Greg has shown exceptional leadership, integrity and dedication to the advancement of the precast concrete industry,” said Bob Risser, PCI President and CEO, of Force. “He is known for mentoring and encouraging young engineers in their professional andLATEST: April 28, 2016, 3:38 PM ET
Baltimore police confirmed the suspect, who was clad in a full-body panda suit and a surgical mask, was shot by a law enforcement sniper as he exited the Fox45 station building after being inside for about an hour.
The suspect was not complying with law enforcement directives to take his hands out of his pockets and was advancing toward officers before he was shot, Baltimore police spokesperson T.J. Smith said in a Thursday afternoon news conference.
Smith said a bomb squad robot was moving around the suspect, who was lying in the road after being shot. He also said the man appears to be conscious and is not dead.
The suspect’s motive is not yet known, Smith said.
ORIGINAL STORY:
A man dressed in what appeared to
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be a “full body, white panda suit,” strolled into the lobby of Baltimore news station Fox45 (WBFF) and threatened the office with a bomb, according to local media reports.
Citing information from Fox45 News Director Mike Tomko, Fox News reported on air that the office had been completely evacuated after the suspect claimed to have a bomb.
According to live reports from CBS Pittsburgh, the man was being escorted out of the building by several police officers with weapons drawn. But the affiliate cut their footage of the walkout, with anchors saying it appeared officers fired several shots at the man.
Fox News was reporting on air that the suspect had been “neutralized.”
A security guard took the flash drive from the man but didn’t let him past the vestibule of thedown ghosts!
She made him dream of silk sheets and thunderstorms.
No one else dared call her Sam, dared stroke her with sensual magick until she lost control in his arms–but still she feared Kyle was the enemy; a reporter who might betray her family...or break her tender heart. She had a talent for making illusions seem utterly real, yet desperately yearned to believe in the truth of Kyle’s love. Could he convince his stubborn witch that he adored the woman she was?
Linda Wisdom was born and raised in Huntington Beach, California. Her career began when she sold her first two novels to Silhouette Romance on her wedding anniversary in 1979. Since then she has sold more than 75 novels to four different publishers. Her books have appeared on various
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their engagement. Heartbroken at the thought of life without Poppy, Zach drowns his sorrows and, when his agent suggests that Zach becomes a contestant in a reality TV show, Jungle Survival, he reluctantly agrees. Plunged deep in the jungle, into a bizarre mix of talent and trials, Zach meets glamour model Cleo Petra, and the cameras go crazy.
Will Zach survive and be crowned Jungle King? Or will his latest exploits push Poppy further away...
What did I think?
I jumped at the chance of reading Jungle Rock as the latest series of I'm a Celebrity was ending and it was just the thing to feed my jungle addiction. The only problem is that it's only a novella and I could have quite easily read a full novel about Zach's exploitsin Jungle Survival.
Zach is a celebrity chef but after being caught in a compromising position with a woman who wasn't his fiancée, his engagement is called off and he heads for the Australian jungle to star in Jungle Rock. Poppy, his ex-fiancée also jets off to America as part of the publicity team for another celebrity chef, but even in America you can catch episodes of Jungle Survival. Zach seems like a lovely normal guy and as the real events surrounding the exposé are revealed I had my fingers crossed that it wasn't too late to win back Poppy.
For a short book there are quite a few colourful characters in it and each of them are so much larger than life that they virtually jump out of the
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brakes, carbs, transmission and heads all received an overhaul to keep it running reliably and the engine breathes more freely through the new exhaust and open velocity stacks. The ride was improved by adding a pair of Redwing rear shocks and an 18'/21' wheel set up running Michelin rubber.
"Although confessed admirers of Hunter S. Thompson, the name Gonzo does not come from his attitude of journalism, but because of the bikes resemblance to the great Gonzo from The Muppets."
The only aspect of the Gonzo's build that wasn't completed by the ESMC team was the artwork and gold leaf on its tank. For thos ESMC enlisted the help of Maxwell Paternoster AKA: Corpses from Hell whose whacky style of illustration is perfectly suited to The Gonzo's anything goes design.
It'sappellants and appellee the subsequent year for the same space
as the first lease.
{¶3} On the morning of November 8, 2010, a fire to the structure caused
significant property loss. On November 10, 2010, a second fire destroyed the property.
Appellants lost all their personal belongings kept in the home, as well as a pair of four-
wheelers, a snowmobile, and a Ford Mustang, which were all kept in the home’s
garage. Neither appellant was home at the time either fire began.
{¶4} After the fires, investigations were conducted by a number of entities,
including insurance investigators for both appellants and appellee. The results of the
investigations were inconclusive as to the cause of the fire.
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of the area, this work included the use of torches to cut off bolts in
order to remove some of the kennels.
{¶7} Prior to the fires, while appellee owned the property, several incidents
involving the proper functioning of the electrical service to the property were reported.
In April 2008, a melted meter was replaced by the utility company. While appellants
lived at the home, an electrical surge ruined several appliances and electronic pieces,
including appellants’ washer, television, hot water heater, and home theater system.
The home’s lights were also known to flicker and dim. However, Appellant Brink
admitted in his deposition that the power surge issues were fully rectified by the utility
company a couple of months before theDoi Mae Salong Doi Mae Salong is one of the renowned mountain peaks in Chiang Rai. It is located in Mae Salong Nok subdistrict, Mae Fah Luang district. With a comfortable temperature all year round, the main source of income is Oolong tea plantations. Santikhiri Village on the mountain peak was predominately populated with a community of Chinese immigrants since 1961. Nowadays, it is home to many hill tribes. Highlights of Doi Mae Salong include its splendid natural beauty, cold breeze, authentic tribal culture and remarkable tourist attractions. It is best to visit this mountain peak in winter from December to February. Tourists can indulge themselves in a nice and comfortable temperature, admire the picturesque sea of fog and sip a cup of warm tea in a meantime.
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Wednesday, July 19, 2017
Christopher Nolan's new World War II blockbuster tells the epic true story of over 400,000 soldiers from Britain, Belgium, France and Canada who were surrounded and bombarded by GermanForces at the harbour and beaches of Dunkirk in 1940 for eight days when over 338,000 were heroically rescued by a ragtag fleet made up of 800 fishing boats, merchant marine boats, pleasure crafts and lifeboats.
Dunkirk movie exhibit at ArcLight Hollywood cinema
This cool exhibit of costumes and part of an aircraft cockpit fuselage for the WWII film was photographed on display at ArcLight Hollywood cinema on July 17, 2017.
This costume was worn by Barry Keoghan as one of the young men that sailed to Dunkirk, France from England with other citizens to help the rescue the strandedsoldiers.
British Army private costume worn by Harry Styles
as Alex in Dunkirk
This costume should please One Direction fans (a sentence I never thought I'd type on this blog), as it's the British Army private uniform worn by Harry Styles as 'Alex' in the movie. At his feet are propaganda pamphlets dropped by the Nazis to demoralise the Allied Forces at Dunkirk.
RAF pilot costume worn by Jack Lowden
as Collins in Dunkirk
Writer and director Christopher Nolan's film shows the perspective of this conflict from land, sea and air and this Royal Air Force pilot costume was worn by Jack Lowden as 'Collins'.
Shivering Soldier costume worn by Cillian Murphy
in Dunkirk
Meanwhile repeat Nolan collaborator Cillian Murphy plays a shivering soldier pulled from the freezing water with PTSD in this film.
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and a scheme for older people in Rochdale.
Age UK report calls for urgent action, including cash injection in spring budget and development of long-term plan The government has urged people to care for their ageing parents, to compensate for any social care inefficiencies. Photograph: Tomas Rodriguez/Getty Images/Picture Press RM Social care in England is at risk of imminent collapse in the worst […]
Pensioner who was jailed by a secret court can finally tell the story of how she tried to protect her brother because, shortly after these photographs were taken, he died Teresa Kirk defied order to bring brother Manuel back from Portugal care home Court of Protection jailed her for protecting Manuel, who had vascular dementia […]
More than 13 million workers across Britain could be heading forsolutions” said David Shen, Group CTO at Premier Farnell. “The FRDM-K20D50M is the latest evolution of their Freedom Development Platform series and it provides all software and hardware tools needed for evaluation and development.”
Premier Farnell offers design engineers a space to share project concepts with 160,000 members in its award-winning online community element14, the first of its kind. Additionally the industry’s most comprehensive online knowledge tool for electronic design the Knode on element14 is a first stop for any engineer undertaking a design project with a new development kit.
Technical information for the FRDM-K20D50M Freescale Freedom Development Platform is available at element14.
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Last updated on .From the section European Football
Atletico Madrid won La Liga for the first time since 1996 by securing a draw in a pulsating match at Barcelona.
Striker Diego Costa went off injured for Atletico early on and Barcelona capitalised as Alexis Sanchez smashed in a superb opener.
Atletico came out strong in the second half as David Villa hit the post before Diego Godin headed an equaliser.
Barcelona would have won the title with a win and Dani Alves went close with a fierce drive, but Atletico held on.
The final whistle was greeted by wild celebrations from the Atletico players and coaching staff, while the entire Nou Camp stood to applaud Diego Simeone's side as they finally ended the Barcelona-Real Madrid duopoly in Spanish football.
The draw meant Atletico finishedfirst with 90 points, three ahead of Barcelona and Real.
Final La Liga table Played Won Drawn Lost Points Atletico 38 28 6 4 90 Barcelona 38 27 6 5 87 Real Madrid 38 27 6 5 87
It completed what has been a superb season for Atletico, which has seen them take victory at city rivals Real, as well as win nine league games in succession to go top of the table in March.
Their run faltered slightly towards the end, as they lost to Levante and drew at home to Malaga, but they went into the game against Barcelona knowing a point would be enough to win the title.
If that gave Atletico players any psychological advantage, it was swiftly eradicated when Simeone's side lost two of their key players
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inside the opening 20 minutes.
Their first casualty was Costa. The striker, with 27 goals in the league this season, had only just returned to the side after missing last week's draw with Malaga, and he lasted just 14 minutes before his hamstring went after a brief sprint.
Alexis Sanchez's rasping drive midway through the fist half had put Barcelona ahead.
Costa limped off in tears and just seven minutes later it got worse for the visitors. Arda Turan, so often the creator of Atletico's better moves this season, landed on his back awkwardly when challenging for possession and he too was unable to continue.
To Atletico's credit, they did not let that double blow disrupt them as they managed to keep Barcelona at arm's length, whilst also threatening occasionally themselves.
Last 11La Liga winners 2014: Atletico Madrid
2013: FC Barcelona
2012: Real Madrid
2011: Barcelona
2010: Barcelona
2009: Barcelona
2008: Real Madrid
2007: Real Madrid
2006: Barcelona
2005: Barcelona
2004: Valencia
Atletico's Tiago directed a header over the bar from Koke's inviting cross, before Pedro missed with a similar attempt for Barcelona soon after.
There had barely been a shot on target in the first half hour but it was a moment of brilliance from Sanchez that gave Barcelona the lead.
Cesc Fabregas curled a ball into the box for Lionel Messi who, with his back to goal, chested the ball into the path of an onrushing Sanchez, who smashed a first time effort from the tightest of angles just inside the top right of the Atletico goal.
The half-time whistle provided Simeone the chance to offer words of encouragement to his players,
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and whatever he said evidently worked as the visitors made a storming start to the second half.
Villa's shot on the turn struck the post, before the former Barcelona striker saw a low, left-footed effort saved by Pinto, but their pressure paid dividends just five minutes after the restart when Gabi whipped a corner into the middle of the area where Godin rose highest to send a bullet header low into the back of the net.
Barcelona needed to regain the initiative if they were to successfully defend the league title and the balance of play quickly swung back in their favour, with the visitors seemingly content to soak up pressure and try and hit the hosts on the counter.
Atletico Madrid players lofted their coach Diego Simeone in the airafter he led them to a first title since 1996.
Messi, quiet for large periods of the game, had the ball in the net midway through the second half, but the Argentine's effort was ruled offside, before Alves struck a shot from distance that seemed destined for the top corner, only for Atletico keeper Thibaut Courtois to react superbly to push the ball over his goal.
The Atletico players held their nerve to keep Barcelona at bay in the final 10 minutes before the final whistle confirmed their status as league champions.
With one trophy secured, Simeone will now switch his attention to the Champions League, with Atletico taking on Real Madrid in the final on Saturday, 24 May.
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in March 2010. Fortunately, we're 93 million miles away from the sun so the odds are very much in our favor.
This post was originally published on Smartplanet.com
Published: June 29, 2011 -- 12:09 GMT (05:09 PDT)
Caption by: Andy Smith
The 1859 super flare is called the "Carrington event" after English astronomer Richard Carrington who was studying sunspots when "blinding white light" suddenly appeared over them in a kidney shape. See his diagram above.
The next day, telegraph offices reported sparks flying that caused some fires, and in some places electrical currents kept the equipment operating even after the batteries were disconnected. Auroras could be seen all over the planet, even in tropical latitudes such as Hawaii. Some were so bright that newspapers could be read at night.
This post was originally publishedon Smartplanet.com
Published: June 29, 2011 -- 12:09 GMT (05:09 PDT)
Caption by: Andy Smith
Solar flares are a very common occurance. This one in 2006 damaged the X-ray Imager, which took this image onboard NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. The Carrington event was most likely much brighter.
This post was originally published on Smartplanet.com
Published: June 29, 2011 -- 12:09 GMT (05:09 PDT)
Caption by: Andy Smith
In 1989 a solar flare caused geomagnetic storms that shut down the power system in Quebec for 9 hours.
It doesn't sound that significant but many more massive flares have been observed.
There is only one sunspot right now with no threat of a solar flare according to NASA.
This post was originally published on Smartplanet.com
Published: June 29, 2011 -- 12:09 GMT (05:09 PDT)
Caption by: Andy Smith
Imagine my surprise upon visiting NASA's
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Island, Maries County, Missouri, and Special Road District No. 4 of Maries County to be present. At the hearing the evidence showed that the road in question runs from Maries County Highway J, across the Rock Island tracks and dead-ends at the Gasconade River. While the road and the rail line both run at angles at the point of the crossing, we shall refer to the road as running north and south and the rail line as running east and west. This is a gravel road and three families live on it south of the grade crossing. One family has two children of school age. Eight or ten other people own farm land, access to which is had by this road, and members of the public use theroad to get to the Gasconade River for purposes of fishing and other recreational activities.
The rail line slopes downhill to the west of this grade crossing and curves through a cut some 16 to 20 feet deep. To the east of the road, the rail line curves through a cut 8 to 10 feet deep. As one comes out from the river in a northerly direction and approaches this grade crossing, he could see west (left) from 80 to 300 feet down the track as he approached from 100 feet back from the crossing to a point 25 feet from the crossing. To his right or east, he could see approximately 400 feet. As one approaches this grade crossing from the north going toward the river his line
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of sight to the west (his right) would vary from 80 feet to 150 feet as he traveled from 100 feet away from the crossing to a point 25 feet from the crossing. To his left or east, he could see from 200 feet to 300 feet down the track. It appears that the trains on this track travel at approximately 25 to 35 miles an hour. They travel faster going downhill on the slope to the west than when they are pulling uphill going east. The members of the families living to the south between the crossing and the river must use this crossing daily to get to and from their homes. The 8 to 10 other people owning land south of the crossing must use thecrossing to get to and from their farm land carrying feed, supplies and equipment used on the farms and stock and crops from the farms to market. Thus, the vehicular traffic consists of automobiles and trucks and farm tractors pulling equipment. Also, the crossing is used for carrying and driving livestock to and from the farms. Several witnesses who use this crossing to get to their homes or farm lands, plus a member of the highway patrol and the Safety Supervisor for the Public Service Commission, all testified that this crossing was dangerous because the cuts through which the rail line goes and the curves in the track resulted in short sight distances at the crossing. There had been one wreck at the crossing a few years before
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the hearing and several near-misses. On *745 the advice of the highway patrol, the school bus was not permitted to cross this crossing and mail was not delivered to the families residing south of the crossing because of the danger in using this crossing.
The Public Service Commission concluded that this crossing was dangerous and the evidence supported such a finding. To relieve this dangerous condition, the Public Service Commission ordered the installation of flashing light signals at the grade crossing and the total cost was apportioned to the railroad. From this order, the railroad has appealed.
It contends that the Public Service Commission was without jurisdiction to proceed in this matter on the complaint of private individuals or on the commission's own motion because of the requirements of Sectioncrossings or the separation of such grades shall be divided between the railroad or street railroad corporations affected or between such corporations and the state, county, municipality or other public authority in interest; provided, however, that any agreement entered into after October 13, 1963, between any such corporation and the state, county, municipality or other public authority in interest, as to the apportionment of any cost mentioned in this section, shall be final and binding upon the filing with the commission of an executed copy of such agreement. If such parties are unable to agree upon the apportionment of said cost, the commission shall, except as to projects of the state highway commission, *746 apportion the cost among the parties according to the benefits accruing to each. In
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Commission found that the prior order had been substantially complied with and the record shows that this finding is supported by the evidence. The president of the Special Road District testified that the county and road district cleared away the brush and removed the earth as required by the agreement in Case No. 11944 and that everything that was required had been done. The plans referred to in the prior order in Case No. 11944 required moving of earth only in the northeast quadrant of the intersection. One witness testified that shortly prior to the present hearing, he had visited the crossing and could see that at some time in the past, dirt had been removed from this northeast quadrant. While the railroad engineer testified that nothing hadEmery: Neymar will stay at PSG next season
The Brazil star is believed to be a target for Real Madrid and Manchester United, but the outgoing PSG manager thinks he will remain in Paris
Unai Emery believes star Neymar will remain with the champions next season.
Neymar, 26, has been linked with a move to and , despite being contracted until 2022.
However, PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi said on Saturday he was "2000 per cent" sure the Brazil international would stay at the club.
Emery, who leaves the club after two seasons in charge, also feels Neymar will remain at PSG.
"This season there have been times when everything related to Neymar was oversized," he told Cadena SER.
"Neymar is not talking much. He told us he was tired of the lies that are told.
"I'm
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10s, including catchy hits “Staying out for the Summer” and “Good Enough” Dodgy can lay claim to selling over 1 million albums to date. Their brand new album, “Stand Upright in a Cool Place was released to critical acclaim summer 2011, and they have since toured the UK with their new material.
Alvin Stardust returns to GuilFest on The Main Stage on Sunday 15th July. Best known for his enormous hits “My Coo-Ca-Choo”, “Jealous Mind”, and “Pretend”, the pop icon with the leather glove (and catsuit) shot to fame with a raft of moody hits with impossibly catchy choruses. One of the first rockers in the UK, he idolised Elvis, toured with Joe Brown, Eden Kane and Billy Fury, amongst others, and turned up at Buddy Holly gigs asa callow youth clutching a £1.50 guitar!
Hotly tipped South London based indie/RnB outfit Bastille will appear on The Good Time Guide Stage on Saturday 14th July. From the early success of their debut “Flaws” which garnered over 250,000 views on Youtube and has been treated to scores of covers by performers around the world, Bastille have gone from strength to strength with a run of sold-out shows in 2011 and appearances at many major festivals. Organisers are very excited to have this fantastic new band at GuilFest for the first time and are expecting them to become one of the major success stories of the coming years.
Elsewhere at the festival there are new confirmations on The Big Cheese Cave: On Saturday 14th July, you can catch British mathcore
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Sam Girvan (Sam Girvan)
More than ever before, the children of today have an uncertain environmental future, not knowing what species will still exist in their lifetime. Bouncing Back: An Eastern Barred Bandicoot Story tells the story of one of southeastern Australia’s most iconic threatened species. It is also a story of hope. While speaking with Rohan Cleave, the author...a girl before Christmas.
guy: Tell you what. I'll be on the lookout for someone as long as you're doing the same. After all, you've been widowed for some time now. Isn't it time you started to find someone for your saddle? You said it yourself — love can be wonderful the second . . .
jessie: My saddle's too old and worn out, thank you very much. And after forty-five years of marriage, I'm not looking for another rider. You, on the other hand, better find some filly fast before you forget how to ride.
peggy: Ma!
guy: You mean it's not like a bike, Mrs. Mac? I thought once you learned you never forgot.
jessie: When you were a kid you fell off your bike all the time.
guy: Trust me, I
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delicate frilly-edged doily of batter was difficult to turn over without breaking.(2)At the end of this mammoth crèpe making session, the heat had gone out of the top of the Aga therefore the best solution was to fold the savoury crepes with garlic mushrooms and cheese into an oven dish and bake them. The alcoholic batter gave the pancakes a pleasingly boozy sour and tangy flavour.
Jane Milton of @FoodNetworking came to help in the evening. She made the broken galettes into a true Shrove Tuesday dish of leftovers from the fridge: I christened it Crèpes millefeuilles. It was a kind of crèpe lasagne, broken crèpes layered with cream, onions, pesto and Spanish Cabrales blue cheese which is incredibly piquant. The result was absolutely delicious. It's great having guestform of pancake is common to most countries from the tortilla in Mexico to theBánh xèo in Vietnam.
Friday, 12 February 2010
Three supperclubs that couldn't be more different but all worth visiting: the first at an Indian 'amma's' in Tufnell park; the second, a chic molecular do in an architect's bachelor pad in West London; lastly, a stylish duplex off the Holloway Rd.
Joginder'sSupperclub is run by a mother Rani (cooking) and daughter Saira (front of house) team, at times aided by dad Graham. Eight guests sat by the fire in the living room, eating freshly fried onion bhajis with a glass of champagne. As we are led downstairs to the dining room dad points to a strange object on the stairs
"What do you think that is?"
We spend the rest
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Teton County Highpoint Trip Report
Grand Teton (13,770 feet)
Dates: July 21-22, 2008
Author: Adam Helman
Owen-Spalding Route and Wyoming state completion
participants include Dennis Poulin and Adam Helman
All photographs are courtesy of Dennis Poulin.
Mouse-click any photograph for enlargement.
Preamble
Even the average guy on the street ought to at least have heard of "Grand Teton".
As the chief attraction (and raison d'être?) of the eponymous national park,
Grand Teton,
and indeed the entire Teton range is strikingly situated as the
western edge of Jackson Hole. No compact mountain range in all of North America is more
photographed - this, the "Alps of America".
Middle Teton from the Owen-Spalding Route
just above the Lower Saddle.
The superlatives continue - again, beyond the objective truths that Grand Teton is
the Teton County, Wyoming highpoint; that it is an ultra prominence summit;
and that it has thesecond largest spire measure in the lower forty-eight states.
Yes, to scale Grand Teton by even the easiest route, and even with an experienced guide,
requires skills, physical ability, and some daring beyond a run-of-the-mill peak ascent.
The Owen-Spalding Route was the path taken on August 11, 1898 during the first ascent
by William Owen, Franklin Spalding, Frank Peterson, and John Shive. Routes of ever-increasing
difficulty have been explored; but none remain so popular as the Owen-Spalding.
It is our chosen route.
Background
I had planned on this magnificent peak four consecutive summers - each time
my would-be ascent foiled by other people's disinterest. In 2005 I had paid for going with
a lead climber who, although highly experienced on Grand Teton, was not sanctioned
by the National Park Service to guide there. He was thus able to markedly
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undercut the
rates charged by Exum Guides and Jackson Hole Mountain Guides.
As the climb grew near he canceled the ascent and refunded my money, citing family obligations.
Although I was upset by this impasse, in 2006 I was set yet again for climbing with him.
A few weeks before the fixed climbing date he was arrested on Grand Teton for guiding
without a license.
Then, in 2007 I hung my hopes on going with a friend of a friend. However he was more
interested in finishing the Colorado fourteener peak list during the limited climbing season.
So finally I have given up trying to go privately, and pay major bucks for
climbing with Exum Guides.
My partners include Dean Molen and Dennis Poulin. We meet late on July 18,
and choose to camp at Gros Ventre in twothe Exum Ridge Route risky without a quick means of "escape".
Dawn orange on a nearby subpeak
as Adam points it out.
It is not really cold. That's good. The first belayed pitch is in complete darkness above the black dike.
Fortunately Dennis belays me since I have literally one-half his weight.
The guide hurries us, and Dennis gets out of breath - it is a somewhat brisk pace for 13,000 feet!
I understand and appreciate the motivation that we are rushing to beat potentially
summit-cancelling weather.
Dennis at the summit. Congratulations!
We climb a series of (I believe) three belayed pitches, including the famous "Belly Roll"
and other named sections.
We walk closely, rope in coils, and then climb yet another set of pitches
that I estimate three in number. One is a dihedral; one entails a friction move
on
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Source: Xinhua| 2017-04-14 23:41:04|Editor: An
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BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- China-France relationship is one of the most mature and stable examples of ties between major countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday.
Wang made the remarks during his talks with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, saying that the two sides should continue to respect each other's core interests and major concerns.
Wang said that the two countries should carry out pragmatic cooperation in nuclear energy, aviation and aerospace as well as in third party markets, adding that the two countries should also explore industrial production capacity cooperation in countries along the Belt and Road.
The comprehensive strategic partnership between France and China will continuously move forward regardless of French presidential election's result, Ayrault said, noting that he visited Beijingbefore the presidential election to underscore the importance of the France-China relationship and its significance to world peace and stability.
France will enhance nuclear energy cooperations with China, and boost people-to-people exchanges in culture, tourism and sports and it will take measures to safeguard the security of Chinese citizens travelling to or living in France, said Ayrault.
Ayrault expressed France's willing to join in the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Peters spearheaded the project that would have Tim Burton direct and Nicolas Cage star as Superman. But it was never to be. 3 weeks before the movie was to start filming, it was canceled. The documentary Death of Superman Lives, What Happened? takes an in depth look at the movie that was never to be.
Director Jon Schnepp wastes no time in getting into the thick of things with interviews that span key crew members including writers, costume designers, art department and more. The movie is filled with anecdotes, visuals, and test footage from the the ill fated Superman film. Artwork depicting Doomsday, Brainiac, alien creatures and more are seen as artists explain the directives they were given.
Kevin Smith, who wrote an early draft of the movie, has infamouslya small expedition to a planet. Murderbot, as the A.I. calls itself, is plainly uncomfortable with personal attention and has little interest in anything outside its scope of concern, namely, its job and entertainment videos. I have to confess, that sounds like me during most of my adolescent years (substitute books for videos and you have me at every family event, ever).
Written as a novella, the plot takes off from page two. It isn't long before both Murderbot and the team realize they're facing multiple types of danger. Characterization is one of the outstanding parts of the story, with Murderbot's nature getting a lot of subtle build. The team never stood out to any great degree, but that's partly because until this expedition, Murderbot has had generally negative
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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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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 to know that they're making Murderbot uncomfortable (and that she has feelings as human as any of them).
Also, I've just realized that I've been using female pronouns for Murderbot, when Murderbot is actually genderless and is referred to as 'it' by the crew. For some reason I naturally thought of Murderbot as being female and I'm not sure why, maybe because the author is female?
The Murderbot novella series had crossed my path a time ortwo before I finally picked it up, but it was the glowing recommendation from my book buddy TS & the convenient timing of an Audible Daily Deal that pushed my curiosity over the edge!
This was such an adorable story, which is ironic since the name of the series is Murderbot. But despite Murderbot's name for itself, it's actually a rather hilarious & relatable individual.
Being deeply invested in downloaded media & characterizThe Murderbot novella series had crossed my path a time or two before I finally picked it up, but it was the glowing recommendation from my book buddy TS & the convenient timing of an Audible Daily Deal that pushed my curiosity over the edge!
This was such an adorable story, which is ironic since the name of the
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as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction. Her most recent fantasy novel is The Harbors of the Sun in 2017, the final novel in The Books of the Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads), the Ile-Rien series (including The Death of the Necromancer) as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction. Her most recent fantasy novel is The Harbors of the Sun in 2017, the final novel in The Books of the Raksura series. She has a new series of SF novellas, The Murderbot Diaries, published by Tor.com in 2017 and 2018. She wasalso the lead writer for the story team of Magic: the Gathering's Dominaria expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, an ALA/YALSA Alex Award, a Locus Award, and her work has appeared on the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award ballots, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. Her books have been published in eleven languages.
She has had short stories in the magazines Black Gate, Realms of Fantasy, Lone Star Stories, Lightspeed Magazine, and Stargate Magazine, and in the Tsunami Relief anthology Elemental, The Other Half of the Sky, Tales of the Emerald Serpent, Mech: Age of Steel, and The Gods of Lovecraft.
She has essays in the nonfiction anthologies Farscape Forever, Mapping the World of Harry Potter, Chicks Unravel Time,
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most of his twenties he was in a rock band called ‘The Mags’. The video below is a short vid-doc about the band that was made by film director and cinematographer Paul Bashour while the band recorded in New York City in 2006. It will give you a great flavour of the background and influences that have shaped the Academy.
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When John Roberts had trouble using his hands the doctor said he suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome.
When his vision blurred, a detached retina was blamed. When Roberts, of Eminence, had difficulties with his balance doctors diagnosed an inner ear condition. The worst was when doctors said he’d had a stroke.
Often we overlook a good thing that is right under our noses. When we decide to have a meal away from home, we automatically think going out of county, but Henry County is blessed with many restaurants that serve wonderful food at reasonable prices.
A 2008 Shelby County High School graduate is suing a former teacher and the staff of three Kentucky school districts, charging they were complicit in sexual harassment and wanton negligence.
In a lawsuit filed Nov. 6
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@blackskepticsgroup
EVENTS
In case you hadn’t heard, NBA journeyman center Jason Collins has declared to the world that he is a gay man. Collins entered the NBA twelve years ago, along with his twin Jarron, after the two played collegiate basketball at Stanford. He is being hailed as the first out active male athlete in a major professional team sport in the U.S. (though some may argue that late baseball player Glenn Burke was the first).
Collins says he was inspired to come out after his former college roommate, current Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy, marched in a Boston gay pride parade:
I’m seldom jealous of others, but hearing what Joe had done filled me with envy. I was proud of him for participating but angry that as a closeted gay man Inever told that they would be more likely to drop-out and get pregnant than go on to a four-year college. These vaunted intellectuals and philosophers were certainly not seventeen year-old East L.A. girls like Paula Crisostomo, a Mexican-American Filipina activist who helped spearhead the Chicano student walkouts of 1968. As a student at Lincoln High School in East L.A. Crisostomo was influenced by social studies teacher Sal Castro, who recently passed away at the age of 79. Castro’s fierce commitment to culturally relevant education inspired generations of youth social justice activism in the LAUSD. His guidance of Crisostomo and other youth leaders helped make the 1968 walkouts the largest high school student protests in this nation’s history. Thousands of students boycotted their classes in protest over lack of
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fountains. Racism wasn’t the systematic sexual terrorism of black women in the Jim Crow South and the de facto segregationist North or the demonization of black women as welfare queen matriarchs. Then, as now, there was no room for analyses of sexism, racial apartheid, heterosexism, and patriarchy and how our lived experiences diverged from the corrupt pedagogy of the American dream.
Last year, Crisostomo came and spoke to a group of my students at Washington Prep High School in South Los Angeles. She drew parallels between the racism she’d encountered during the Vietnam War era and the de facto segregation of the Obama age. [Read more…]
To be sure, many assumptions are made about atheists. Some of the assumptions about atheists are made by atheists, and African American atheists arebe an evangelist, and no doubt evolved into a believer who apparently took no prisoners. Born in Jamaica, she arrived in NYC the divorced mother of four small children and recalls the loneliness of having no family members or friends in her newly-adopted country; she had no one but Jesus as most committed Christians would say. She recounted the endless time spent preparing her small children for the arduous journey to and from church, three times a week. Hurriedly making her way along the sidewalks, she’d push the double-stroller containing her two smallest children with one hand; and would pull along the other two children with her other hand. By the time she fought her way in and out of trains and subways stations, she’d finally arrive at
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first!”
— Anthony Pinn, author, African American Humanist Principles and The End of God Talk: An African American Humanist Theology
From Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (forthcoming May 2013):
Christianity was one of the primary means by which African Americans learned the lexicon of becoming subjects through otherness. This is a uniquely American dialectic, borne of the soul-killing terrorism of slave ships, and, later, the plantation, a gulag awash in the new republic’s corrupt gospel of individual liberty. When my students traveled to the California African American museum last year, they had a chance to see and imagine the terror of these spaces. They walked through galleries with floor-to-ceiling inscriptions chronicling the birth dates, family lineages, appearances, habits, and idiosyncracies of slaves. They marveled at the relevance and medievalism ofthe notorious Willie Lynch manifesto. Their blood ran cold at the military assemblage of black bodies in the slavers’ hull. They stood mesmerized, contemplating the sheer number, weight, and scope of intertwined bodies, twinned in the endless sea voyage, hour after murderous hour. Enraged, many of them wondered how these obliterated ancestors made it out alive. How they resisted the gnashing white turbine of the sea and the urge to rise up against their savage captors.
Often did I think many of the inhabitants of the deep much more happy than myself. I envied them the freedom they enjoyed, and as often wished I could change my condition for theirs.
Olaudah Equiano, 1789
Later, in the classroom, we read Alice Walker on the spirituality of art-making. She wonders about the enslaved
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End of Time
This year's EA British Academy Children's Awards honours Bernard Cribbins. Many will know him for his reoccurring role of Wilf, Donna's granddad currently in Doctor Who (and is set to return for the upcoming specials The End of Time), though his association with Doctor Who goes back to the 1966 feature film, Daleks: Invasion of Earth 2150 AD with Peter Cushing, he can also be heard in a radio version with Paul McGann, and was in the running to succeed Jon Pertwee as the Doctor.
Happy Birthday to Who, Dreamland, Karen Gillan's 9 Year Old Cousin to Follow Footsteps, The Sarah Jane Adventures Strong Numbers, The End of Time is Coming, Jeffrey Tambor Joins David Tennant, David Tennant Has Nothing to Say, David Tennant Does Have Somethingto Say for Christmas, and more.
Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One - this year's Christmas special starring David Tennant as the 10th Doctor will be coming to BBC America on Saturday, December 26th at 9pm Eastern / 8pm Central. See a preview below:
BBC AMERICA airs the next special, Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars on Saturday, December 19th at 9pm EST /8pm CST. The Doctor and Adelaide face terror on the red planet in one of the scariest and exciting adventures yet. It stars David Tennant and British stage and screen actress Lindsay Duncan (Rome, Langford) as Adelaide, the clever and strong-minded leader of Bowie Base One.
Three promos currently being shown on BBC America for the last few Doctor Who specials coming in December starring David
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Heatter-Quigley Productions, in 1981. The round used the same dice table as the 1978–80 version (complete with sound effects) and had the same rules, but the top award was an accumulating jackpot of prizes known as the Gambit Galaxy.
Champions stayed on the show until they were defeated or until they won five matches (seven on the 1978–80 version). On the 1987–88 version, winning five matches originally won a new car but was later dropped by the time a contestant finally retired undefeated, which led to more cars being awarded in some of the mini-games played during the main game.
Production information
Personnel
Alex Trebek and Wink Martindale served as hosts for High Rollers. Heatter-Quigley staff announcer Kenny Williams served as announcer for the Trebek versions. The 1987 series used Dean Gossamount of $22,799.43 and affirm as modified.
I. Background
In an unrelated suit, a default judgment was rendered against
appellant=s brother, the former owner of the commercial property at issue. The
court authorized a receiver to sell the property. By special warranty deed
dated November 16, 2005, the receiver conveyed the property to Plaza Centro.
On
February 28, 2006, Plaza Centro sent identical letters to Tierrablanca and
Rainbow Seafood. In the letters, Plaza Centro expressed its understanding that
Tierrablanca and Rainbow Seafood were occupying the property without a written
lease. Plaza Centro considered Tierrablanca and Rainbow Seafood to be occupying
the property as tenant-at-will or tenant-by-sufferance. The entities were
instructed that, to the extent they were paying rent, they were now to forward
all rental payments to Plaza Centro=s address.
Neither
entity paid rent to Plaza Centro for the month of
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March 2006. On March 14,
2006, Plaza Centro again sent identical letters to Tierrablanca and Rainbow
Seafood. Plaza Centro notified the entities that Plaza Centro was terminating
their tenancies and right to possession of the premises, effective March 19,
2006. Plaza Centro further demanded that the entities vacate the premises
within three days. On April 26, 2006, Plaza Centro filed separate forcible
detainer suits against Tierrablanca and Rainbow Seafood in the Justice Court of
Harris County. Plaza Centro sought possession of the property, unpaid rent,
unspecified damages, and attorney=s fees. The Justice Court awarded
possession, attorney=s fees, and costs to Plaza Centro.
Appellant
timely appealed to the Harris County Court at Law Number Two. The Honorable
Gary Michael Block conducted one trial de novo for both suits. On September 6,
2006, the trial court rendered two separate judgments. Relative to
Tierrablanca,withholding or defending possession of the premises
because there is no evidence he occupied the premises during the pendency of
the appeal.[4] In contrast,
Plaza Centro contends the evidence is legally sufficient to prove appellant
occupied the premises because (1) Plaza Centro mailed letters to the entities
at the address of the premises on February 28, 2006 and March 14, 2006 and
appellant personally signed for one March 14 letter, (2) Giorgio Lofti, Plaza
Centro=s representative, testified that
appellant did not vacate the premises, and (3) appellant believed he was
entitled to occupy and was defending his right to possession of the premises.
However, we conclude this evidence is insufficient to establish appellant
occupied the premises during the pendency of the appeal.
1. February 28 and March 14
Letters
On
February 28, 2006, Plaza Centro mailed letters to the entities at the address
of
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of any corroborative facts, either from the informants or the FBI, sufficient to subject the appellant to a lawful search. The minimum standards of Aguilar and Spinelli simply have not been met.
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Reversed.
APPENDIX TO OPINION OF THE COURT
AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF WARRANT
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Affidavit in support of an application for a United States Magistrate's arrest warrant for violation of Title 18, Section 1952, United States Code; and Title 22, Sections 1501 and 1502, District of Columbia Code of Lynwood 'Shorty' Long; and in support of a United States Magistrate's search warrant for the premise located at Apartment Number 1604, 2338 24th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., which apartment bears the name of R. J. Cecchini on the door.
Statement of Facts
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Information was received on February 3, 1966, from a confidential informant thatFederal Bureau of Investigation.
26
Information was received on August 6, 1969, from this same confidential informant that he has personal knowledge that Lynwood 'Shorty' Long, who resides in nearby Maryland, is now conducting a numbers operation at the residence of Russ Cecchini in Washington, D.C. strictly by telephone.
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The above confidential informant is well acquainted with gambling activities in the Washington, D.C. area and on numerous occasions in the past has furnished information that has been verified as correct either through independent sources or Federal Bureau of Investigation observations or has resulted in arrests.
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Another confidential informant advised on September 9, 1969, he has personal knowledge that Lynwood 'Shorty' Long has worked in numbers offices in the local area for many years and is currently working in a numbers office, location
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unknown. This latter confidential informant is also well acquainted with gambling activities in the Washington, D.C. area and has furnished information on numerous occasions in the past that was either verified as correct through independent sources or Federal Bureau of Investigation observations.
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According to the records of the Metropolitan Police Department, Russell Joseph Cecchini, 2338 24th Street, S.E., Washington, D.C., was arrested on September 17, 1968, on charges of operating a lottery, maintaining a gambling premise, and possession of numbers slips. On the latter two charges, a judgment of guilty was entered.
Observations
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At approximately 11:20 a.m., August 15, 1969, Special Agents Bernard A. De Santis and Edward N. Wills observed an automobile belonging to Lynwood 'Shorty' Long, which is a 1964 Mercury Sedan bearing District of Columbia licensein conducting this numbers operation and that the above-mentioned premise is now being used as an office for this numbers operation, in violation of the provisions of Title 18, Section 1952, United States Code; and Title 22, Section 1501 and 1502, District of Columbia Code.
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(s) Bernard A. De Santis Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1969
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(s) John F. Doyle United States Magistrate for the District of Columbia
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Sitting by designation pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 292(c) (1964)
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the staff from Health Services for Older People at the Royal Free NHS Trust and the North Middlesex University Trust (Dr Sophie Edwards and Dr Dan Lee, Consultants in Care of the Elderly); and particularly our professional consultees Jo James, Jenny Kenward, Pippa Street, Bridget Cooney, Jane Dunne, and Dr. Ada Chime.
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It was a busy, albeit not overly exciting deadline period for the Montreal Canadiens, as they acquired several role players in various trades. While early acquisitions were met with universal praise, the latter trades left people scratching their heads.
Jordie Benn for Greg Pateryn and 2017 4th round-pick
The first trade for Marc Bergevin was out of left field to say the least, it was known that Greg Pateryn was on the market, but it was unclear what his return was. Jordie Benn however, is a great return as a good penalty killing defenceman and decent puck mover. In his debut game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Benn played alongside Nathan Beaulieu on the third pair and on the penalty kill next to Shea Weber and performed admirably. It’s early,
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Armstrong leaves national legacy | Marcia Roth
Marcia Roth | Guest Contributor
Show Caption Hide Caption Remembering former Mayor Dave Armstrong Armstrong was the last mayor of the city of Louisville, prior to the merged city and county governments. He strived to make Louisville a vibrant place “to live, work, and play.”
The Mary Byron Project Inc., fostering innovations and strategies to end domestic violence, expresses its deepest sympathy to Carol Armstrong, and all the family of the Honorable David L. Armstrong.
Of all the accomplishments rightly attributed to Armstrong, the greatest will be the role he played in one of the biggest victims’ rights milestones in our nation’s history.
His commitment to serving victims of crime was a cornerstone of his long career in public service. As Kentucky Attorney General from 1984to 1988, his door was always open to victims’ groups, and he became attuned to the issues associated with being a victim of crime. He was responsible for the Kentucky General Assembly’s passage of the Victims’ Bill of Rights during his term, long before most other states recognized victims as being a pivotal part of the criminal justice system.
More: Former Mayor, Judge-Executive Dave Armstrong's career spanned more than four decades
More: Dave Armstrong, last mayor of the old City of Louisville, dies at 75
When Armstrong was elected Jefferson County Judge/Executive in 1990, he committed to first righting the county’s finances. His next effort was to open Kentucky’s first Office for Women in 1991. At that time Jefferson County’s elected officers were exclusively men. The mission of this office was
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the U.S. now have the ability to find peace of mind and safety. He was one in a million and he will be missed.
Marcia Roth served as the first director of the Jefferson County Office for Women and is the founding and current Executive Director of the Mary Byron Project, a national non-profit that cultivates and supports efforts that extend beyond crisis management to attack the root causes of the domestic violence epidemic and help build safer healthier communities. To date, the Mary Byron Project has contributed more than $1 million to domestic violence intervention and prevention programs across the country.When the League of Nations formed from the ashes of the first world war, it was tasked with preventing another global conflict.
That was 100 years ago, and as history tells us, it failed miserably.
Al Jazeera's James Bays reports from Geneva on what the League's successor, the United Nations, can still learn from its demise.
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organizations including the FDA in the US. But there are different standards for Veterinary and pharmaceutical products within and outside of the United states. For example, in the supplement industry, the quality standards differ for both production and formulation of drugs and supplements. In example of r ALA, the american and european standard is 99% purity, where in other places it is as low as 90%. Beyond that, the production standards can be quite different. The highest quality for standards of production, packaging and compounding comes from the United States Pharmacopeia specifications (USP). USP standards have long been respected and trusted within the scientific and manufacturing community.
The standards of production for animals and humans are definitely different. One of the main examples is the purity standards for the"I was in the Golden Living Center for a week in December. The staff was very friendly, this includes both nurses and other staff members. They activities director was very kind and upbeat and kept..." More
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across a set of four maps, leaving the door open for draws.
At the end of each stage there will be a playoff based on a team's record during that period (the winner will take $125,000) and then a 10-day break before the next batch of games begin. The overall league standings are based on a team's record across all stages.
Got that? Okay, because now it gets a little complicated. The League is broken into two divisions: Pacific and Atlantic. The Pacific Division is made up of West coast US teams and the two Asian sides, and the Atlantic Division consists of the East coast teams plus London Spitfire. Teams will play 20 games within their division and 20 games cross-division.
The top team in each division goes into thePhoto Gallery
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A relationship-advice guru, upon learning that her fiancé is cheating on her, decides to stay in a small town in Alaska, the most recent stop on her book tour. It's in this remote town, where the ratio of men to women is ten to one, she realizes she can truly learn about the subject she thought she knew so well -- how to find, and keep, a good man.
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the infrastructure needed for a spaceport, including one of the longest runways in the country as well as assorted ground facilities, is in place. Moreover, there is strong support by the state government, which has been the driving force behind efforts to convert the old air base into a spaceport. The question remains, though, just how much business any spaceport there could attract. A visit to Burns Flat These days, the biggest challenge can be actually getting to the spaceport itself. Despite the prominent sign on the Interstate, there are few directions leading from the exit to the facility. On a tour of the spaceport organized by the International Space Development Conference (ISDC), held Memorial Day weekend in Oklahoma City, the tour director had to stop for directionsan office building/control tower, emergency facilities, a 2,800-square-meter hangar, and storage bunkers originally designed to house nuclear weapons. A quick tour of the facility, though, shows that many of the buildings and other facilities at Burns Flat are in various stages of disrepair. At one end of the long tarmac at the base a portion of an aircraft fuselage, apparently being disassembled for scrap, is visible, listing to one side like a wrecked ship. Given that the Air Force abandoned the base over three decades ago, the state of the facility is not surprising, but anyone planning to use it realizes that considerable work will be needed to before it can support space flights. Much of the site’s history has involved unrealized potential. The Navy established the first
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airport there in 1942 to train pilots during World War Two. (The outlines of the original runways at the site are still visible in overhead photos of the current airport.) After the war the naval air station was closed and temporarily turned into a civilian airport that was also used to dispose of thousands of surplus aircraft from the war. In 1954 the military returned, converting the site into an Air Force base and building the long runway to support B-52 bombers based there. Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base was closed at the end of 1969, although the military intermittently uses the airport to this day for training purposes, such as touch-and-go landings of tankers and cargo aircraft. The base became the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark, home to a limitedamount of industrial and general aviation activity. No shortage of optimism Since the Air Force left nearly 35 years ago, there have been a number of efforts to convert the base into a thriving commercial aviation facility, efforts that have generally fallen through. In the late 1990s regional and state officials seized on a new use for the base: as a spaceport. At the time Lockheed Martin was planning its VentureStar RLV, which would land horizontally; other companies at the time were also planning RLVs that would take off and/or land horizontally. For them, the former air base, located in a relatively isolated area and with its long runway, was potentially very attractive. The state established a new office, the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA), with the
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to facilities for the spaceport itself. Royce Jones, CEO of Spaceliner Corporation, described plans to use the spaceport for a more terrestrial form of space tourism: having people come out to see launches. During a talk at ISDC, Jones said that tourists visiting the spaceport to see launches could generate $34 million a year in expenditures, although he didn’t disclose how many visitors or launches that estimate was based upon. Jones said he was negotiating with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a $100 million loan guarantee to pay for building tourist and other facilities there; he noted that the USDA has sponsored airport projects in the past as part of its mission to support rural communities. While the remote location of the Oklahoma Spaceport serves asVolkswagen hopes to not enter production hell with I.D.
Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess and brand Board members met with more than 30 CEOs from suppliers at the MEB Supplier Event, with whom VW is carefully preparing the launch of the all-electric I.D. family.
The importance of the first model, Volkswagen I.D. hatchback, is compared to the first Beetle or the first Golf. Production will begin at the end of 2019 at the Zwickau plant in Germany, which means that the original timeline was maintained.
Currently, Volkswagen is one of the smaller manufacturers of all-electric cars, but by 2025, the brand hopes to produce 1 million BEVs annually. The all-new Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB) platform is expected to be used in 15 million cars.
Total investment in e-mobility, digitalization, autonomous driving and
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from the campaign, dropped US$4.2 million into his coffers. John Kerry and Howard Dean both raised significant amounts of cash online in 2004 (which actually helped close the funding gap between Kerry and Bush), and way back in 1998, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura was the first to show that the Internet could be used to circumvent major donors in politics.
But it was the elder Paul who showed that the Internet could be used to lift up an outsider in a presidential election. (Kerry and Dean can't be called outsiders, and Ventura's race was a gubernatorial one.) It should be noted that people who were born during that Ventura campaign will be voting for president for the first time in 2016.
Rand Paul is hoping that Bitcoin will behis version of Internet donations, providing the unexpected advantage that can rise out of new technology. Some fear, however, that the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin could be used to hurt Paul in the primaries or the general election (if he gets that far). There are strict rules on who political candidates can take money from during a campaign, and foreign nationals without legal resident status in the United States are one group that is officially restricted from donating. This point was quickly brought up on Reddit by various users, one who mentioned that he was able to donate to the Paul campaign by generating a fake United States address.
While I would discourage foreign nationals from attempting to donate to the Paul campaign, I do not think this will
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was predicted to reach Yakeshi and Elunchun in Inner Mongolia, and the western boundary would reach to Keerkezi in Xinjiang Province. Based on a global-warming scenario, the area with a potential climate suited to RTB in the next 30 years (2010-2039) may extend further to the northeast. The northern limit of the distribution could reach most parts of south Heilongjiang Province, whereas the western limit would remain unchanged. Combined with the tendency for RTB to spread, the variation in suitable habitats within the scenario of extreme climate warming and the multiple geographical elements of China led us to assume that, within the next 30 years, RTB would spread towards the northeast, northwest, and central regions of China and could be a potentially serious problem for the forests ofThursday, February 23, 2012
Red heads for Alphie?
I'd lost sight of Red for several days, but others said they had seen her, so I wasn't that worried. Then yesterday I found her in a tree just south of the fountain. She had traveled all that distance from her area over by the main entrance to PCV. Alphie lives just north of the fountain, and it looked like Red was making her way towards him, perhaps propelled by a force stronger than what her little peanut brain could understand. In another day she could reach the bushes by the orange tree, and find her destiny!
The Fountain
In the center is the fountain. On the right there's a nest, way out on the branch of the tree where I'd found Red. On
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make quantitative ultrastructural analyses of adult zebrafish muscle mitochondria in the lateral muscles of the segments S4 and S5. The area, perimeter and circularity of about 100 mitochondria in each animal were measured on electron micrographs acquired at 10500x and 13500x using ImageJ64 software.
The morphological and morphometric analyses of the NMJs at 96 hpf were made using ImageJ64 software and electron micrographs of zebrafish larvae trunk muscle acquired at 34000x. The area of synaptic boutons, the number, density and distribution of synaptic vesicles, and number and morphological features of the mitochondria were evaluated, and the area, perimeter and circularity of NMJ synaptic vesicles and mitochondria were measured[@b25]. Electron micrographs acquired at 10500x and 13500x were used for the ultrastructural analysis of zebrafish larvae muscles, in which sarcomere length wascan be crucial.
The result is a titanic and costly clash between the Republican old guard and trial lawyers, and the outcome could have implications for years in the state capital.
"Crist and former chief of staff George LeMieux -- the subjects of a federal public corruption investigation -- have been cleared of allegations that they tried to thwart a state criminal probe into a Fort Lauderdale insurance company, according to sources familiar with the ongoing case."
Crist's selection of LeMieux to replace U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez would not have been possible had LeMieux still been under scrutiny by federal prosecutors investigating alleged influence-peddling by Mutual Benefits and its former top executive.
LeMieux was in the cross-hairs of the investigation after a major Republican fundraiser working with the FBI made a secretly
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recorded phone call to LeMieux at the governor's office in 2007, trying to get LeMieux to implicate himself, sources said.
But the phone call backfired: LeMieux immediately reported it to Crist's general counsel, who called the FBI. Still, LeMieux remained under investigation through much of 2008, along with Crist and several other members of his inner circle from his tenure as Florida attorney general and then as governor.
Adam Smith: "Forget that the governor's office, a U.S. Senate seat and every other statewide office are open this election cycle. The 2010 campaign that could have the farthest-reaching implications for Florida is a redistricting ballot initiative that would change the way congressional and legislative districts are drawn." "Florida's ballot initiative to ban gerrymandering starts to draw foes".
The malleable Miami Herald editorialISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkish air strikes pounded a group of Kurdish fighters allied to a U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria overnight, highlighting the conflicting agendas of NATO members Ankara and Washington in an increasingly complex battlefield.
A man walks past damaged buildings in the rebel held besieged al-Sukkari neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
The jets targeted positions of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in three villages, northeast of the city of Aleppo, that the SDF had captured from Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said late on Wednesday.
The Turkish military confirmed its warplanes had carried out 26 strikes on areas recently taken by the Kurdish YPG militia, the strongest force in the SDF, and that it had killed between 160 and 200 combatants.
The
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on we will not wait for problems to come knocking on our door, we will not wait until the blade is against our bone and skin, we will not wait for terrorist organisations to come and attack us,” Erdogan said in a speech on Wednesday.
The Observatory named the bombed villages as al-Hasiya, Um al-Qura and Um Hosh. They lie around 30 km (19 miles) west of al-Bab, the last big town held by Islamic State militants in northwest Syria after a series of battlefield reverses.
Turkey, a major backer of the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad, entered the Syrian conflict in August, using its armour and air power to help Free Syrian Army rebel groups take territory near the border held by Islamic State.
But its intervention also aimed toprevent the SDF from gaining more ground. The SDF has been moving eastwards towards al-Bab, which Turkish-backed rebel forces also want to capture from Islamic State.
The Turkish military said its air strikes had destroyed nine buildings, one armoured vehicle and four other vehicles that belonged to the YPG.
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Yukon
Dawson City
Technically a town, Dawson City (or Dawson as many refer to it) has a special provision allowing it to use the word "City" in its name for historical reasons.
The town was legally incorporated as a city in 1902, but no longer met the criteria for a city by the 1980s.Signs at the town's boundaries read "Welcome to the Town of the City of Dawson".
Tourism and Gold Mining are at the core of Dawson's economy.There are 8 National Historic Sites of Canada in Dawson including the Dawson Historical Complex, which encompasses the historic core of the town.The Visitor Information Centre should be your first stop here.The friendly staff here have information about everything there is to see and do in this eclectic town.To whet your appetite though, weYukon
Dawson City Museum. Photo: Government of Yukon
Horse and Cart in Dawson City, Yukon
Burlesque Girls, Dawson City, Yukon. Photo: Government of Yukon
Old Gold Mining Dredge Bonanza Creek near Dawson City, Yukon
Relive the Klondike Gold Rush in Dawson City
A visit to Dawson City in Canada's Yukon Territory is like stepping back in time.Buildings, both restored and in ruins, stand testimony to the towns's colourful story from the great Klondike Gold Rush.Video courtesy of Travel Yukon
Make sure you call in at the visitor centre. It's a great starting point for your visit to Dawson City. The staff are in gold rush costumes and are very helpful with information about things to do and see. Top rate.
Allen Tait
Australia
The town itself is quaint - not unlike similar gold rush towns of the era
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Officers with the Cumberland Police Department said a pedestrian was struck in the 100-block of Park Street on Tuesday just before 12:30 a.m.
When police arrived on scene, they found a man laying on the street with serious injuries from the accident. The victim was transported to Western Maryland Regional Health Center, then to Baltimore Shock Trauma after being stabilized.
Video surveillance obtained by officers led them to identify a suspect vehicle that fled the scene. That vehicle was later located by officers in the area of Baltimore Street near Altamont Terrace. Police said the vehicle had damage to the right front headlight and there was a strong odor of alcohol coming from the car.
Police located the driver of the vehicle 35-year-old Christopher Pullin, of Cumberland in the area ofPingxiangWade-Giles romanization P’ing-hsiangcity, Pinyin Pingxiang, city in southwestern Kwangsi Chuang autonomous regionsouthwestern Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi, China. The city is situated on the border with Vietnam. It was founded as a military outpost under the name P’ing-hsiang Pingxiang during the Sung Song dynasty (960–1279), and under the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) it became a county and later a prefecture. It was, however, little more than an administrative outpost among non-Chinese tribesmen. The Ch’ing tribal peoples. During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) it was made it a subprefecture. P’ing-hsiang’s modern growth stemmed from the railway from Nan-ningBecause of Pingxiang’s strategic location, it often has been a major battlefield.
Pingxiang’s modern growth dates to the arrival of a railway from Nanning (Guangxi’s capital), which provides a through route from central China to
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Vietnam, crossing . The line crosses the border a few miles to the south at Yu-i-kuanshort distance south of Pingxiang at Youyiguan. Construction of this the line was begun in 1938 by the French, who completed it as far as Ning-mingNingming; but, following the Japanese occupation of Nan-ningNanning, work was abandoned in 1943–44, and much of the track was dismantled. The line was completed in 1951 and linked with the Vietnamese rail system in 1955. After this, P’ing-hsiang Pingxiang rapidly grew into a commercial centre for international trade with Vietnam; it also developed some small-scale industries. A considerable part of Sino-Vietnamese trade passes through P’ing-hsiang Pingxiang because the rail link there is superior to the an older line that runs through Yunnan province to the west and becauseDistributors
A U.S. consumer group on Monday added its voice to the growing criticism of Google's proposed settlement with the European Union's competition authorities.
"We had been impressed with the strong position the Commission had taken in your investigation, unlike regulatory authorities in the United States," wrote John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project director in a letter to the Commission on Monday. "We cannot understand what prompted this recent change in attitude."
Last Wednesday E.U. Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that he was satisfied with Google's proposals to give comparable display to specialized search services that rival its own. He added that while he would analyze responses from the 18 complainants, he didn't believe he would change his mind.
Google has been under investigation by the European Commission since November 2010 after
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fail to resonate to the overall negativity and nihilism of his world view, of the kind that meant that towards the end of his life, when he was asked (Cronin – page 590), ‘And now it’s nearly over, Sam, was there much of the journey you found worthwhile?’ he replied ‘Precious little.’
There is nonetheless something about his perspective I do appreciate.
At the very end of his book Cronin concludes (page 592):
It is doubtful if he believed in any sort of survival of consciousness, or disbelieved in it either, since belief – or disbelief – was not something he permitted himself. He thought that all the guides were poor ones and that it was better to live, and to admit to living, in complete uncertainty . . .
In TheEclipseempathy and his casual disregard for the debts he owed to people who could ill-afford to incur them. A telling late example of his oblivion to other people’s legitimate concerns comes in Ann Wroe’s account of a boating incident where he took Jane Williams, a close companion, and her two babies, out on the water in a coracle (page 177-78). He was plainly pre-occupied with death as he gazed interminably into the water. Jane did her best to distract him, but when, in the end, he said he could easily discover the meaning of death by rocking the coracle, Jane had the presence of mind to say, ‘No, thank you; not now. I should like my dinner first, and so would the children.’ When they got back safely
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on land, ‘Shelley seemed unaware that he had said, or done, anything remotely strange.’ The sad irony is that his final possible acts of recklessness in his boat killed not only Shelley himself but also her husband.
He also had great positive qualities, not least the courage to publicise his idealistic vision of society at a time when to do so was extremely dangerous, even for someone of his privileged background. His attitude towards authority had its roots both in his later fractious relationship with his father, but possibly earlier in what seems to have been his insensitive, even brutal treatment at the hands of most of his teachers.
In his personal life he was both victim, for example of bullying at school, and victimizer, for instance in his treatmentand reinforcing the Syon House pattern and reaction, there can be little doubt. Fear of society en masse, fear of enforced solitude, fear of the violence within himself and from others, fear of withdrawal of love and acceptance, all these were implanted in the centre of his personality so that it became fundamentally unstable and highly volatile.
Holmes feels that the character of the monster in Mary’s Frankenstein was drawn in part from Shelley and that expressions such as (page 333) ‘ . . . misery made me a fiend. Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous,’ from the monster, capture something of his psychodynamics.
Clairmont in 1819, painted by Amelia Curran (for source of image see link)
Claire Clairmont, to whom Shelley was closer than to anyone else
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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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three long non-satirical poems not marked as read. My exploration of Shelley had stalled at the earlier Revolt of Islam, after feeling moved by Ode to the West Wind, impressed by two of his sonnets – Ozymandias and England in 1819 – and finally frustrated by the strained rhetoric of Adonais. I went back to Byron for a while, before settling my affections on Wordsworth, to some extent, and on Coleridge more whole-heartedly.
Lord Byron by Richard Westall (for source of image see link)
Holmes explains the characters and impetus of the poem (page 450):
Maddalo [Byron] is a philosophic pessimist and cynic, who pretends to believe that most men are mere sheep and that all men are at the mercy of chance and circumstance and their own passions. Julian [Shelley]to events that may thrust Shelley further on. He feels that Shelley had suffered much in order to become capable of such an achievement as Julian & Maddalo, though sadly more suffering was yet to come for him and all those close to him, as the episode involving Elise and the birth of Elena, explored in an earlier post, testifies.
Abdu’l-Bahá said…: ‘All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose,
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and in the wake of revolution. During his career as a poet he behaved oppressively to most of the women closest to him, one of them committing suicide partly as a result of his indifference to her suffering. He also displayed great courage in speaking out for the oppressed in his society, at the risk of imprisonment and possibly even death.
I quoted his sonnet about Ozymandias to illustrate how powerfully he understood the emptiness and vanity of power and wealth. His sonnet about the condition of England in 1819 as George III was dying, which I also quoted, showed his compassion for the poorest in his society when he wrote of ‘[a] people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,’ and looked forward in hope to the possibleredemption of his society.
After looking at his early life of privilege and, while at home, his domination of his younger sisters, tempered by his later experiences of being cruelly bullied at both his schools, I quoted the conclusion Holmes came to as his biographer (page 21):
Of the damage that the early Eton experience did to him, repeating and reinforcing the Syon House pattern and reaction, there can be little doubt. Fear of society en masse, fear of enforced solitude, fear of the violence within himself and from others, fear of withdrawal of love and acceptance, all these were implanted in the centre of his personality so that it became fundamentally unstable and highly volatile. Here to seem to lie the sources of his compensatory qualities: his daring, his
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exhibitionism, his flamboyant generosity, his instinctive and demonstrative hatred of authority.
Later years saw his continuing love of the macabre and episodes of hysterical intensity. His close relationships continued to reveal a lack of empathy and this could be exacerbated by his intense idealism. So much so, that it was tempting to conclude that he had invested a huge amount of ego in the ideals he chose to espouse. It took much suffering, his own and other people’s, to shift the tight grip of Narcissus on his thinking.
That he could be generous is shown by his consistent support for Claire Clairmont after her affair with Byron and the birth of their daughter, Allegra. His protracted negotiations with Byron on Claire’s behalf also show that he could be perceptive anddiplomatic when he saw the compelling need, as he did in this case.
Holmes’s conclusion about Shelley at this time was that he was not completely blind to his socially destructive impulses but was rarely able to curb them. Commenting on a letter Shelley wrote to William Godwin, with whom his relationship was positive at that point, Holmes writes (page 145):
It was a warm and touching letter. In the intellectual presence of one he felt he could trust, Shelley’s sense of personal inadequacy is revealing. He was rarely able to admit his own impatience and his own bitterness of feeling; more usually he was ‘unimpeached and unimpeachable.’
A key event that helped Shelley mature was the suicide of his first wife. Claire Clairmont wrote in a letter that (page 356)
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Donald Trump boards Air Force One in the rain holding a large umbrella — wife and son trail behind pic.twitter.com/esWTEr7lvR — Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 27, 2018
President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One tugging an umbrella close to protect himself from the intense wind and rain.
Barron Trump, the president’s 11-year-old son, is seen just feet behind him, unprotected by an umbrella or a raincoat. Trump, seeing his son, continues to keep the umbrella for himself.
Then, Melania Trump arrives on the scene a little behind Barron, and she, too, has nothing to shield her from the elements. The president stops for a wave to the crowd as the First Lady ducks swiftly onto the plane.
What began as a moving picture of Man vs. Nature turns, in mere seconds, intoand North Dakota -- with marijuana legalization on the ballot and there are two more states -- Michigan and Utah -- with medical marijuana initiatives on the ballot.
It's possible that all four will pass, but it's looking more likely in Michigan and Missouri than in North Dakota and Utah. In North Dakota, well-funded opposition may drown out the legalization message, while in Utah, late maneuvering by the Mormon church and state political leaders is undercutting support from what had previously appeared to be a measure cruising toward victory.
The measure would legalize the possession up to 2.5 ounces of pot for personal use and up to 10 ounces at home, as well as allowing for the personal cultivation of up to 12 plants and the fruits of that harvest.
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of thousands of dollars banked for the final push. The only ballot committee opposed to both campaigns, Citizens for Safe Medicine, was just registered last month and has reported no donations or expenditures.
North Dakota
This year, a grassroots group, Legalize ND, managed to get enough signatures to get Measure 3, the Marijuana Legalization and Automatic Expungement initiative, on the November ballot.
This is a radical initiative. It would legalize all forms of marijuana for adults by removing marijuana, THC, and hashish from the state's controlled substance schedules, and it sets no limits on the amount of marijuana people could possess or how many plants they grow. It also provides for the automatic expungement of criminal convictions for anyone convicted of a marijuana-related crime that would be legal under the measure.
Andnow truly nationwide in the Gallup poll. As recently as 2010, only the West reported a marijuana majority, but now support is at 65 percent in the West, Midwest, and South, and even two points higher in the East.
The Pew poll found a few demographic groups not reporting majorities for legalization. In addition to Republicans, only 48 percent of Hispanics, 43 percent of white evangelicals, only 39 percent of the "Silent Generation" (people over age 75) could get behind it. But all other races, age groups, religious denominations (and atheists), and educational levels reported majorities for legalization.
The poll numbers reflect an increasing acceptance of weed as the country grows accustomed to the idea of marijuana being sold in stores (and taxed!) instead of in back alleyways. Nine states,
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should hold hearings, bring in experts, and discuss possible policy fixes," he wrote.
Blumenauer is calling for the numerous hearings by March, including:
A House Judiciary Committee hearing on descheduling marijuana;
A House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on safe and equal access to medical marijuana for veterans;
A House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on marijuana research;
A House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the unequal and unfair taxation of marijuana businesses; and
A House Administration Committee hearing on access to financial services for candidates who support marijuana legalization.
From April to June, Blumenauer wants relevant committees to "start marking up bills in their jurisdiction to responsibly narrow the marijuana policy gap -- the gap between federal and state marijuana laws -- before the end of the year."
Those issues would include addressing the racialinjustices of the unequal application of federal marijuana laws, protection of state marijuana laws, removal of barriers to marijuana research, civil asset forfeiture protections, job protections, access to financial services, and equal taxation for marijuana businesses, among others.
Blumenauer wants to see bills addressing these issues passed by August, and then movement to get a legalization bill through the Congress by year's end.
"With the marijuana policy gap diminished, after months of hearings and markups, the House should pass a full descheduling bill and work with Senate allies to guide the bill through Senate passage," he wrote. "Our chances in the Senate depend both on the November elections and increased public pressure following House passage. While the Senate has been slower on marijuana policy reform than the House and the
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American people, it now has almost 20 introduced bills in an effort to catch up with the House. We must build on this momentum."
If all goes well, Blumenauer predicts, "By the end of 2019, marijuana will be legal at the federal level, and states allowed to responsibly regulate its use. The federal government will not interfere in state efforts to responsibly regulate marijuana use within their borders."
All of this, though, starts with winning the House in November. As Blumenauer notes, with even Donald Trump having signaled support for a state-regulated approach to marijuana, "the only obstacle standing in our way is the Republican leadership in Congress."
This article was produced by Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Take the time to comment on how marijuana should besay.
"Canada's move to legalize marijuana is a historic rebuke to the disastrous global war on drugs, which has ruined millions of lives," said Hannah Hetzer, global marijuana policy analyst for the Drug Policy Alliance. "Many countries are searching for innovative approaches to drug policy that emphasize health and rights, rather than repression. By taking this bold and principled step, Canada will likely become an inspiration for many other countries," she said.
"The legalization of marijuana in Canada, and the likely changes we will see on drug policy in Mexico under its new government, make the United States federal government's prohibition on marijuana even more untenable. It's long past time for Congress and the administration to take action on this issue," Hetzer concluded.
"Canada is setting a strong example for how
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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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nation to free the weed, after Uruguay, and the largest national legal marijuana market. (It's still smaller than the legal market in the US state of California.)
Like other Great Plains states, South Dakota has a methamphetamine problem. But it's becoming increasingly evident that South Dakota also has a problem with the way it deals with meth.
South Dakota women's prison in Pierre (KELO-TV screen grab)
Because of its strict drug laws, the state is seeing a dramatic spike in women being sent to prison for meth. According to a new report from the nonprofit South Dakota News Watch, the number of women in prison in the state has jumped 35 percent since 2013, while the male prison population has increased at only one-quarter of that rate. Nearly two-thirds of allwomen prisoners in the state are there for nonviolent drug offenses. The state now has the fourth-highest incarceration rate for women in the country, trailing only Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Kentucky.
Overall, about one-third of all inmates in the state are doing time for drug-related offenses, the majority of them for simple drug possession. That's a higher percentage than most other states, where drug offenders tend to make up somewhere around 20 to 25 percent of the inmate population.
The high drug-related incarceration overall and for women in particular stems less from the prevalence of drug use than from the conservative, largely rural state's reaction to it. South Dakota has not responded to decades of failed war on drug policies by reforming them, but by doubling down on them.
The state has
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not moved toward the defelonization of drug possession, as at least 16 others have. Instead, it has moved in the opposite direction. South Dakota has mandatory sentencing laws that include prison for not only for the manufacture and distribution of meth but also for simple possession.
State lawmakers and cops have long favored tough drug laws, and they are still at it. This year, state Attorney General Marty Jackley (R) guided bills through the legislature that heighten penalties for meth dealing and increase sentences for dealers whose clients overdose and die.
But the state's most notorious and contentious drug law -- bone that is sending hundreds of people to prison -- is the state's "possession by ingestion" statute. Otherwise known as an "internal possession" law, the statute allows for afelony conviction if a drug test reveals the presence of illicit drugs in a suspect's system. (The law also applies to marijuana, but the penalty for testing positive for pot is only a misdemeanor.)
The strictest in the nation, that law was upheld by the state Supreme Court in 2004. Last year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers filed a measure that would have slightly tweaked the law by removing marijuana, but that bill was killed by a unanimous vote in the first committee that heard it.
As of August, about nine percent of the male prison population and an astonishing 21 percent of the female prison population was doing time for unauthorized ingestion of a controlled substance. That's right: More than one out of five women prisoners in South Dakota
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are more likely to end up in prison themselves. He pointed to national studies showing that up to 80 percent of children who have parents behind bars will end up there themselves.
"Imprisonment in South Dakota is generational," Kaemingk said. "The females behind prison walls have experienced that as a child. The generation we have back there now as inmates experienced the same things when they were children."
Kraemingk and other relatively enlightened actors in the state are pushing for enhanced treatment opportunities and expanding drug courts, among other measures, to better deal with the situation, but nobody seems to be talking about not involving these women in the criminal justice system in the first place. A first step would be getting rid of that hideous "possession by ingestion" statute.The next step would be defelonization or outright decriminalization of drug possession in the state. Drug use absent harm to others should not be the state's business.
This article was produced by Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The Justice Department creates a new anti-cartel task force, a California summit will address issues around chronic pain and the war on drugs, the New York Assembly holds a hearing on marijuana legalization, and more.
New York State Assembly Holds Hearing on Marijuana Legalization. Four legislative committees held a joint hearing on marijuana legalization in Albany Tuesday. The hearing covered how marijuana should be legalized, taxed, and regulated. The hearing comes ahead of next year's legislative session when lawmakers are expected to take up proposals to legalize the herb.
Medical Marijuana
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be included in the program of crop substitution so they have an alternative to growing coca. Farmers in Cucuta and El Zulia blocked two main local highways. They are members of the National Coordination of Cultivators of Coca, Poppy and Marijuana and the Campesino Association of Catatumbo.
The US has clarified that Canadiana marijuana workers and investors can enter the US but not engage in business here, New Jersey's governor says a vote on marijuana legalization will happen before month's end, Pennsylvania's former governor sticks up for safe injection sites, and more.
California Governor Signs Bill Banning CBD Cocktails and Beverages. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has signed into law Assembly Bill 2914, which prohibits the sale of CBD beverages and alcoholic drinks. "This bill would prohibit an alcoholic beverage licenseefrom, at its licensed premises, selling, offering, or providing cannabis or cannabis products, including an alcoholic beverage that contains cannabis or cannabis products, and would provide that no alcoholic beverage shall be manufactured, sold, or offered for sale if it contains tetrahydrocannabinol or cannabinoids, regardless of source," says a legislative summary.
New Jersey Governor Says Legalization Coming at End of Month. Gov. Phil Murphy (D) says he and the legislature are looking at October 29 as the date the legislature will pass a bill legalizing marijuana. One issue yet to be settled, though, is how much to tax legal pot. Still, Murphy said, October 29 "feels about right."
US Clarifies Policy on Entry of Canadian Marijuana Industry Workers. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has clarified its position on whether
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ACLU of Northern California on Thursday filed a federal civil lawsuit on behalf of six of those rolled up in the busts. The lawsuit alleges the plaintiffs were targeted because of their race and cites a survey of Tenderloin drug users to bolster its case. That survey found racial diversity among Tenderloin drug sellers. About half were black, but 20 percent were Latino and 17 percent were white.
The lawsuit is "an opportunity to hold the actors in the San Francisco Police Department and the city itself accountable for the police department's longstanding practices of engaging in racially discriminatory law enforcement," said ACLU attorney Novella Coleman, who is representing the plaintiffs.
It's also about financial relief for the plaintiffs, Coleman allowed. "The court will determine how to monetize that," shesaid.
Not an Anomaly
Racially biased policing is nothing new in San Francisco. In fact, as Ezekiel Edwards, director of the national ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project, pointed out in a post announcing the lawsuit, the city has the dubious honor of setting precedent for the idea that law enforcement targeting people based on their race is unconstitutional. In an 1886 case, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, the city attempted to deny laundry permits to Chinese people while granting them to non-Chinese. Such an action could only be explained by the city's "hostility to the race and nationality" of the applicants, a violation of the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law.
Fast forward to the 21st century, and the evidence that the city's penchant for targeting non-whites for harsher
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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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deflection of the electron beams, electron beam pass through holes 711 and 721 formed in the first and second focusing lenses 71 and 72 at facing end surfaces 712 and 722, and a pair of burring parts 723 at an upper and a lower portions of each of the electron beam pass through holes 721 in the second focusing electrode 72 projected toward or inserted in one of the electron beam pass through holes 711 in the first focusing electrode 71. With this configuration, when the electron beams are deflected, the second focusing electrode 72 is applied of the dynamic voltage to form the dynamic four polar correcting lens between the first and second focusing lenses 71 and 72 by the voltage difference formed between them. The burringBreakthrough in Chile mine rescue Published duration 9 October 2010
Rescuers have drilled through to the underground chamber where 33 Chilean miners have been trapped since August.
The breakthrough at the San Jose mine came shortly after 0800 local time (1200 GMT), sparking celebrations.
It means efforts to remove the miners through the tunnel should begin within days.
The men were trapped when part of the mine collapsed on 5 August - their 65-day ordeal is the longest suffered by a group of miners caught underground.
They have been living in a shelter 700m (2,300ft) underground. However, the Plan B drill - the second of three which have been working simultaneously - has penetrated 624m to a workshop which can be reached by the miners.
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halfway decent B film. Halfway. But then Nic Cage comes in, eats the scenery, sometimes has snakes for hands, occasionally has an eye, and tips all the cameramen over with a glance. He ruins everything in sight, but that’s just what Canadian Irish Crusader Pirates do. Is there precedent for getting someone’s salary back?
Oh, and they’ve planned a sequel.
Comments
Gabriel is a movie critic who's been a campaign manager in Oregon, an investigative reporter in Texas, and a film producer in Massachusetts. His writing was named best North American criticism of 2014 by the Local Media Association. He's assembled a band of writers who focus on social issues in film. They have a home base.Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama says he could have been reelected for a third term and that the nation still largely embraces his political vision despite last month's election of Donald Trump to succeed him.
The US leader's remarks were made in an interview posted on the podcast "The Axe Files," produced by CNN and the University of Chicago.
Obama, who ends his second and final term in office in just over three weeks, said he believes the American public still supports his progressive vision, despite having voted for Trump -- his political opposite.
"I am confident in this vision because I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it," Obama tells the
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there are in the best biscuits.
I leave it to you to enjoy these with cheese's other best friend: wine. The cookies are nice with champagne or white wine as an aperitif. Alternatively, they're great alongside soup.
A word on the cheese and chives: The best cheese for these cookies is a soft, mashable fresh goat cheese, often sold under its French name, chèvre. Chives are my first choice, but if you can't find them, you can use the pale green parts of slender scallions or even the scallions themselves. See Playing Around for other ideas.
Makes about 35 cookies
* 1 stick (8 tablespoons; 4 ounces; 113 grams) unsalted butter, cut into chunks, at room temperature
* 3 ounces (⅓ cup packed; 85 grams) soft fresh goat cheese
little piece of dough between small pieces of parchment paper until it's as thin as it can possibly be—so thin that I bake it on the sheet of parchment it was rolled on, because peeling it off borders on the impossible. You can make these aperitif size—about 4 inches long—and get about 14 of them, or you can go larger, making about 5 wafers, each big enough to stand in for the bread you might serve with a salad.
A word on the seeds: I'm partial to poppy seeds with the cheddar, but sesame seeds are nice, as are flax and chia.
Makes 5 large wafers or 14 small wafers
* ½ stick (4 tablespoons; 2 ounces; 56 grams) unsalted butter, cut into chunks, at room temperature
*
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the agents to search his house and two lockers he rented at Barth's Storage. The agents searched units 38 and 63, finding no drugs, and a search of the Klotz home was no more rewarding.
2
Lieutenant Robert Reschke suspected that Klotz had not told the agents everything and returned to Barth's Storage to find out whether he had any other units. Perusing the records, Reschke came across a unit rented to Teresa Teigen, Klotz's wife. Barth's records showed that Teigen leased Unit No. 377 on July 18, 1989, before her marriage to Klotz, and that payments had been made regularly. (The records did not show who made the payments.) A payment in November 1989 extended the lease through February 18,1990 (five days in the future), and another payment in January 1990 ensured possession to March 18, 1990. Reschke tried one of the keys that Klotz had handed over and found that it worked the lock of Unit 377. He did not look inside but returned to Klotz's home and asked Teigen for her permission to search Unit 377. Teigen expressed surprise that the lease was current, telling Reschke that the final payment had been made in December 1989. Teigen related that Klotz told her that he had sold the waterbed they stored in Unit 377, so that they had no need of it. Nonetheless, Teigen signed a consent form. Acting on her permission the agents
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in Europe, the time for a massive highway program had not arrived. At the end of the war, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 funded highway improvements and established major new ground by authorizing and designating, in Section 7, the construction of 40,000 miles of a ‘National System of Interstate Highways.’”
Flag on the play? - Email us at
HALFTIMEREPORT@FOXNEWS.COM with your tips, comments or questions.
SCOREBOARD
Trump job performance
Average approval: 41.8 percent
Average disapproval: 51.8 percent
Net Score: -10 points
Change from one week ago: down 1 point
[Average includes: Gallup: 41% approve - 55% disapprove; CNBC: 41% approve - 47% disapprove; Quinnipiac University: 43% approve - 52% disapprove; USA Today/Suffolk University: 43% approve - 51% disapprove; CNN: 41% approve - 54% disapprove.]
Control of House
Republican average: 41.6 percent
Democratic average: 48 percent
Advantage: Democrats plus 6.4 points
Changeincluding a $500,000 donation from Steyer to Gillum's political committee, Forward Florida. The political organization called the money an ‘initial investment,’ and said it's also provided 50 organizers as part of an effort to help Gillum with his field, digital and mail operations, specifically those targeting voters under the age of 40. … NextGen's relationship with Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, goes back to Gillum's time as executive director of the Young Elected Officials Network. … Gillum already had the endorsement of George Soros, a billionaire Democratic donor…”
SATURDAY VOTE TO REPLACE DISGRACED TEXAS REP.
Texas Tribune: “Voters in the 27th Congressional District are preparing to go to the polls for a third time this year on Saturday for a sleepy special election in which both parties are working to
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rally their fatigued troops behind a single candidate in the nine-person field to replace former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi. Farenthold abruptly resigned in April amid the fallout from sexual harassment allegations and an ethics investigation by the House Ethics Committee. He had announced four months earlier that he wouldn't run for re-election, creating an open race to succeed him. Saturday's election is to determine who completes Farenthold's current term, which ends in January, and it's separate from the November election, the winner of which will take over the seat for a full two-year term after that. Despite nine candidates on the ballot, Republicans are hoping their general election nominee, Michael Cloud, can win outright Saturday and avoid a runoff… Democrats, meanwhile, believe the crowded race providesan opening for their consensus candidate — Eric Holguin…”
Michigan gubernatorial candidates hash it out in last debate - Detroit Free Press: “In their last televised debate, the Republican candidates for governor tried to distinguish themselves. Three of them — Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, Sen. Patrick Colbeck and Saginaw Township physician Jim Hines — often jabbed at Attorney General Bill Schuette, trying to chip away at the consistent lead in the polls he has enjoyed since getting into the race last year. … While there was much agreement among the four candidates on issues such as guns — don’t take them away from people in the name of increasing safety in schools — or fixing the roads without raising taxes, the candidates did diverge on one key issue for
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has been running ads attacking Bright’s vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker when he was a congressional Democrat in 2009 — an especially tough hit in a Republican primary.”
Trump heads to Montana July 5 - Great Falls Tribune: “President Donald Trump will come to Montana on July 5 to bolster support for Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 midterm elections. The visit was confirmed Thursday by White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters, but it was not immediately known whether he was coming to Great Falls. The president's official website had Great Falls listed as the location for the event for a brief time on Thursday evening, but the page was down shortly afterward. Montana Republican officials could also not confirm the location of the event as of late Thursday.more blunt, warning the 81-year-old justice that time was of the essence. There was no telling, they said, what would happen if Democrats gained control of the Senate after the November elections and had the power to block the president’s choice as his successor. There were no direct efforts to pressure or lobby Justice Kennedy to announce his resignation on Wednesday, and it was hardly the first time a president had done his best to create a court opening. … But in subtle and not so subtle ways, the White House waged a quiet campaign to ensure that Mr. Trump had a second opportunity in his administration’s first 18 months to fulfill one of his most important campaign promises to his conservative followers — that he would change
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reputation, deservedly or not, of the man in the middle, whose votes on a range of hot-button issues proved decisive over a 30-year high court career.”
White House hopes nomination will happen before Putin summit - Politico: “The White House hopes to have a Supreme Court nominee chosen by the time President Donald Trump leaves for his European trip on July 10, according to one Republican close to the White House and one person involved with the judicial selection process. The White House is expected to start interviewing candidates early next week, with the White House’s top attorney, Don McGahn, leading that process. The goal is to hold confirmation hearings in August or September, so that any confirmed justice can join the court in early October, before the nextFame
In 1987, Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Obviously, it’s a shame no woman was inducted sooner (the Hall of Fame was established in 1983) but it’s fitting that the Queen got to be first.
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Pop-culture footprint
Aside from lending Dan Aykroyd’s and John Belushi’s Blues Brothers legitimacy by appearing in their film with a fiery performance of “Think,” Franklin also popped up on Murphy Brown, and her music has appeared in everything from The Simpsons to Sneakers and School of Rock. She surely rivals James Brown for soundtrack supremacy.
Substitute opera singer
Disaster nearly struck at the 1998 Grammys. Luciano Pavarotti bowed out at the last moment, due to illness, leaving the other members of the Three tenors desperately needing a backup. Luckily,
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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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Contents
Wealthy Texan Big Enos Burdette and his son Little Enos seek a trucker willing to bootlegCoors beer to Georgia for their refreshment; Big Enos has sponsored a racer in Atlanta's Southern Classic and wants to celebrate in style when he wins. They find local legend Bo "Bandit" Darville at a roadeo at Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta and offer him $80,000 to pick up 400 cases of Coors from Texarkana (the closest place it could be legally sold at that time), and bring it back to Atlanta in 28 hours. Bandit takes the bet and recruits his partner Cledus "Snowman" Snow to drive the truck, while Bandit drives a black Pontiac Trans Am bought on an advance from the Burdettes as a "blocker" to divert attention away from thetruck and its illegal cargo.
They arrive in Texarkana an hour ahead of schedule, load the truck and head back toward Atlanta. Immediately upon starting the second leg of the run, Bandit is stopped by a runaway bride named Carrie who hitches a ride with him, but in so doing Bandit becomes a target of Sheriff Buford T. Justice, a career Texas lawman whose son Junior was to have been Carrie's bridegroom. Ignoring his own jurisdiction, Sheriff Justice, with dimwitted Junior in tow, pursues Bandit all the way to Georgia to get Carrie back, even as various mishaps cause his cruiser to disintegrate around them.
Bandit's antics attract more attention from police throughout Dixie while Snowman barrels on toward Atlanta with the contraband beer, but they are helped along the
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film, a variation of the phrase "son-of-a-bitch" that, according to Reynolds, he uttered quite often.
Jackie Gleason was given free rein to ad-lib dialogue and make suggestions. It was his idea to have Junior alongside him throughout. In particular, the scene where Sheriff Justice unknowingly encounters the Bandit in the "choke and puke" (a roadside diner) was not in the original story, but rather was Gleason's idea.
Before Gleason was cast in the film, Richard Boone was originally considered for the role of Buford T. Justice.[4]
Sally Field only accepted the part after her agent advised her that she needed a big movie role on her résumé. Reynolds actively pushed for her casting after Universal initially resisted, claiming Field was not attractive enough. Field enjoyed making the film, but remembers thatvirtually the entire project was improvised.
Reportedly, Needham had great difficulty getting any studios or producers to take his project seriously, as in the film industry, he was better known as a stuntman. He managed to obtain studio attention after his friend Reynolds agreed to portray the Bandit in the film.
The movie was primarily filmed in Georgia in the cities of McDonough, Jonesboro and Lithonia. The scenes set in Texarkana were filmed in Jonesboro and the surrounding area, and many of the chase scenes were filmed in the surrounding areas on Highway 54 between Fayetteville and Jonesboro for a majority of the driving scenes, Mundy's Mill Road, Main Street in Jonesboro, Georgia State Route 400, I-85 (Pleasant Hill exit), and in McDonough. However, the scene where they drive through
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the Shell gas station was filmed in Ojai, California on the corner of Ojai Avenue and El Paseo Road. Much of the surrounding scene comes from that immediate vicinity. The scene featuring the racetrack was filmed at Lakewood Speedway at the old Lakewood Fairgrounds on the south side of Atlanta. The roller coaster seen in the movie was the Greyhound. It had not been used for some time and was repainted for the film. It was destroyed in Smokey and the Bandit II and a flashback scene in Part 3.[5]
The film's theme song, "East Bound and Down", was written virtually overnight by Jerry Reed. He gave Needham a preview of the song, and when initially he got no reaction from the director, offered to rewrite the song. Needham,however, liked the song so much he assured Jerry not to change a word. It became one of Reed's biggest hits and his signature song.[6]
The area around Helen, Georgia was also used for some locations. The scene where Buford T. Justice's car has the door knocked off by a passing semi truck was shot on Georgia State Route 75, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Helen. The tow truck driver was a local garage owner, Berlin Wike.
The film features the custom clothing and costuming of Niver Western Wear of Fort Worth, Texas.[7] Niver provided much of the western attire worn in the film, as well as the custom-made sheriff's uniforms (waist size 64 inches) that Jackie Gleason wore throughout the film.
Reynolds and Sally Field began dating during the
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deadline.[13]
The theme music, "East Bound and Down", was sung and co-written by Reed (credited under his birth name, Jerry Hubbard) and Dick Feller. It became Reed's signature song and is found on multiple albums, including Country Legends and his live album Jerry Reed: Live Still. In 1991 it was arranged for orchestra by Crafton Beck and recorded by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for their album Down on the Farm. Several other groups, such as US rock band Tonic, have also covered it. Reed also penned and performed the song for the opening credits, entitled "The Legend", which tells of some of The Bandit's escapades prior to the events of the film, and the ballad "The Bandit", which features in several versions in the movie andon the soundtrack. Reed's hit notwithstanding, Bill Justis is the first name on the credits for the soundtrack as he composed and arranged original music throughout the film. Musicians such as Beegie Adair and George Tidwell played on the soundtrack as part of long careers in music. Legendary five-string banjo player Bobby Thompson is also heard prominently towards the end of "East Bound and Down." The soundtrack album was released in 1977 on vinyl, cassette and 8-track through MCA Records.[14]
Smokey and the Bandit was a sleeper hit.[15] The film premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City where it performed badly.[16] It then opened in just the South of the United States over the Memorial Day weekend and grossed $2,689,851 in 386 theatres. By the end
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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.
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have enough money to buy out Hardman's stake in the firm by herself, hence why they had to resort to blackmail in the first place.
When he came back in season 2, IIRC, Hardman said he had told his wife everything, so the blackmail threat was now void. He didn't need to be re-hired because he still owned half the firm and (presumably) had enough friends left on the board to overrule Pearson in the case of a vote on the matter. (I don't recall if that bit was addressed specifically in the show, but Hardman certainly had enough friends on the board to threaten Pearson's control in other issues that were raised later on.)
A:
Source: Suits Wikia
Daniel Hardman, was the co-founder of Pearson-Hardman. He is an attorneyand was the former managing partner before Jessica Pearson and Harvey Specter threatened to expose his affair to Alicia Hardman, his wife, who had cancer.
In the year 2007, Jessica had noticed someone had been stealing from the firm after looking at the accounting books. Hesitant to go to Daniel without any concrete proof, Jessica sends Harvey to investigate, promising him partnership if he succeeds. Harvey soon finds the culprit to be Louis, only to find out that the real culprit had made Louis out to be the fall guy. With Louis's help, Harvey proves that Daniel Hardman had been the one stealing from the firm. When confronted about this by Jessica, Daniel reveals that his wife has cancer and he has been stealing this money to help
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her. This was enough to satisfy Jessica but not Harvey who really wanted his partnership. He soon discovered that the money was not for Alicia but for Monica Eton, with whom Daniel was having an affair. Threatening to tell his wife, Harvey asks Daniel to sign a piece of paper saying Daniel is walking away from the firm. Daniel reluctantly agrees. And this was removing Hardman from actively participating firm's business and just being a guy whom name kept as a name partner, because Jessica couldn't came up with money to buy his shares.
First attempt:
Five years later, when Alicia loses the fight against her cancer, Hardman comes back and manages to take over the firm once again and takes advantage of a lawsuit filed against Harvey by TravisTanner, saying Harvey had buried evidence in a case. Harvey, who had done no such thing, ordered Donna to find any such evidence in the file room. When Donna found the evidence stamped with her name on it, she destroyed it in an attempt to protect Harvey. Later, it was revealed that Hardman had planted the CM memo to make it look like Donna had buried it, and then had Travis Tanner attempt to sue the firm. Hardman was then dismissed from the firm for fraudulently suing the firm.
Second attempt :
More than two years later after his dismissal, Hardman once again returns to New York and is trying to take over the firm from Jessica and Harvey, by using senior partner Jack Soloff.
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areas of the cat auditory cortex (AI, Ep, and association). Wong observed that the shapes of basal dendritic fields ranged from relatively circular to "extremely polar," although elongated fields were unusual. He concluded that the degree of elongation is greater in the visual than in the auditory cortex.
More recently, [@B10] examined the orientation of basal dendritic arbors of Layer III pyramidal cells that were labeled using intracellular injections of Lucifer yellow in tangential sections of the monkey cerebral cortex, including: the primary visual area (V1), the second visual area (V2), the middle temporal area (MT), the ventral portion of the lateral intraparietal area (LIPv), and the portion of cytoarchitectonic area 7a within the anterior bank of the superior temporal sulcus. They classified neurons based on polar plots ofThe Supreme Court has come down heavily on public interest litigations (PILs) in the Rs 11,400-crore Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam.
The apex court said, "It is fashionable to file PILs after seeing news headlines."
Reprimanding the PIL petitioners the Supreme Court said, "It is clear that the petitioner is seeking publicity and playing to the gallery. Such PILs are a gross abuse of process."
The PILs were filed separately by lawyers Vineet Dhanda and ML Sharma. On Tuesday, a bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices AM Khanwilkar and DY Chandrachud considered lawyer JP Dhanda's submission that the scam was of enormous magnitude and the plea be listed for urgent hearing.
The court had listed the matter for today.
Dhanda's plea had made PNB, Reserve Bank of India, finance, and law
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ministries as parties.
The PIL asked for setting up a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the scam as well as look into the role of PNB management.
It also wanted the finance ministry to frame guidelines for disbursal of large-ticket loans. The plea also sought the framing of rules for the recovery of loans.
ML Sharma's PIL alleged that the multi-crore-rupee PNB scam has caused serious injury to the general public and the state's treasury.
Also read: Did Riteish Deshmukh just take a dig at 'Bank Chor' Nirav Modi?
Earlier today the government opposed the PILs in the PNB fraud case.
Appearing before the court the Attorney General KK Venugopal said a probe is in full swing and arrests have been made. He also questioned the locus standi of the petitioners.
Opposing the AG,Offrez un Bon ou Chèque Cadeaux à vos proches ou amis.
Your 3 Star Hotel in Arcachon
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Charming 3 Star Hotel located in the "Golden Triangle" of the city center of Arcachon, Hôtel Villa-Lamartine opens its doors to you, where every detail is thought for an unforgettable stay in a warm, calm and elegant atmosphere.
In the heart of the center city, close to the beach, the market, its restaurants and shops,
A few steps from the beach and cultural and event centers (Theater, Casino, Palais des Congrès...),
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March opening for Wal-Mart SuperCenter
January 21, 2004
The opening date for the new 204,000-square-foot Wal-Mart SuperCenter has not yet been set, however, local store officials say they are aiming to be open sometime in March. Meanwhile, workmen, above, put some finishing touches on the building's front exterior.Big story: Once again, the Anaheim Ducks and Detroit Red Wings are going the distance in a Western Conference Quarterfinal series. Four years ago, the underdog Ducks took the Red Wings to a Game 7 before falling in Detroit; this time around, they'll try to take advantage of the home ice that came with being the No. 2 seed in the West this season. Anaheim has been no worse than tied at the end of regulation in all six games, but Detroit's knack for overtime heroics -- most recently Henrik Zetterberg's goal in Game 6 that sent the teams back to Honda Center -- has prolonged the series to a winner-take-all battle Sunday night.
Team Scope:
Red Wings: It was Gustav Nyquist in Game 2 and Damien Brunner in Game
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Jean Rouaud : "In the Face of Mercantilism, Ours Is a Formidable Power"
A writer who won the Prix Goncourt in 1990 for his novel Les Champs d’honneur. (Fields of Glory), and author of many other novels, poems and essays, Jean Rouaud invites his readers in his last essay entitled Manifestons notre désintérêt (Let Us Show Our Lack Of Interest), to cast a sidelong, poetic glance on the global capitalist world around us in order to invent practical ways of “bypassing the dictatorship of the markets”.
Jean Rouaud was interviewed by Pierre Chaillan
Fields of Glory
HUMA : In this early year, the centenary of WWI, a lot of potentially historical debates have resurfaced. The literary production it inspires is very important. It was very present in the run-up to the prixsays Peter Suber, director of the Harvard Open Access Project in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Withholding grants is not the only enforcement tool available to funders. On 31 March, four UK higher-education funders announced that from 2016, only open-access papers posted to online institutional archives will be considered in the Research Excellence Framework — the periodic research audit that grades academic work and guides the distribution of money to UK universities. Because the audit has become an academic obsession (see Nature 502, 288–290; 2013), the policy will be “a game-changer”, says Paul Ayris, director of library services at University College London.
Research institutions can also help with bottom-up policy enforcement, says Bernard Rentier, rector of the University of Liège in Belgium. At Liège, only articles placed in a local repository count towards
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Radio talk show host and Religious Right activist Penna Dexter was the keynote speaker at the National Day of Prayer event yesterday in Rapid City, South Dakota. Dexter, a member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, last year blamed a gay California youth who was murdered by another student for his own death. According to the Rapid City Journal, Dexter lamented that while Osama bin Laden is dead, the “the advancing homosexual agenda” continues to flourish:
A smaller than expected crowd of about 350 people, including at least two out of four mayoral candidates, turned out for Rapid City’s National Day of Prayer event Thursday at Rushmore Plaza Civic Center to hear Christian political commentator Penna Dexter encourage Americans to offer “fervent prayer” for aA Texas woman miraculously survived being submerged underwater for 50 minutes by apparently breathing in her car's air pocket.
The Houston Chronicle reported that the woman plunged Thursday morning into the Lake Houston waters. Rescuers were able to pull the car to dry land and take the woman to a nearby hospital. Fishermen in the area watched the car drive into the water, KHOU.com reported, and they alerted authorities.
The condition of the woman, 60, was not immediately clear, but KHOU.com reported that she was talking to police while she was transported to the hospital. Police are investigating the circumstances behind the incident.
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