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the 40-minute scenic ferry trip across to tour Dauphin Island's Fort Gaines . Another Confederate defense, the fort has self-guided tours, a blacksmith demonstration several days a week (in season) and a rather astounding 10-man latrine.
Don't miss: Dauphin Island Sea Lab and Estuarium , a marine research lab, seemingly offers tours as an afterthought, but the information about the ecology of these barrier islands is fascinating and worth the short hop from Fort Gaines.
Fredericksburg, Virginia
The beautiful farmland around Fredericksburg seemed especially attractive during the war because of the city's position midway between D.C. and the Confederate capital of Richmond.
Horrible and decisive battles were fought in the area. Begin at the Visitor Center at the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park to get oriented with the several separate unitsof the park complex.
Walk the trail at Marye's Heights, where Confederate infantry, shielded by a 4-foot-high stone wall, mowed down wave upon wave of assailants, leaving 9,000 Union dead before Gen. Ambrose Burnside gave the order to retreat. Salem Church, surrounded by decidedly nonhistorical development, is a satellite of the national park.
The Wilderness Battlefield, where the armies met in the overgrown and gnarled woods, is now mostly manicured, but peaceful paths are punctuated by historic markers and still surrounded by dense thickets.
Don't miss: A macabre side trip to Ellwood Farm, where Stonewall Jackson's amputated arm is buried in its own marked grave (open weekends, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; on weekdays, pick up a pass at the Chancellorsville Visitor Center).
Jackson was famously shot by his own troops when returning from
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and eviscerated not just by austerity but by the enforcement of market-inflected doctrine, especially NPM. More a body of precepts and reflexes than an elaborated theory, NPM is a derivative of the global project (“neoliberalism”) to expand markets and crimp, cull, and confine the social state. In the UK, Thatcher was the doctrine’s high priest, but the gospel was actively propagated by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and set out canonically in David Cameron and George Osborne’s 2011 ‘open public services’ white paper.
A central precept of NPM was “steering not rowing”. Public bodies should step back from providing services and outsource to private, often global, companies. Outsourcing, along with the expansion of opportunities for financial intermediation in private finance initiative (PFI), simultaneously secures a route to corporate profitif Labour is to secure approval for tax increases – economy.
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Note: the above draws on the report ‘Out of Contract: time to move on from the ‘love in’ with outsourcing and PFI’, available free on the Smith Institute’s website.
About the Authors
John Tizard is a former director of Capita and leader of Bedfordshire County Council.
David Walker is contributing editor at Guardian Public, and was a director of the Audit Commission.
All articles posted on this blog give the views of the author(s), and not the position of LSE British Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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is expected to repeat what he and other central bankers have said in recent years: that the huge borrowing from China by the United States to finance its trade imbalance is not sustainable in the long run. Mr. Bernanke, who would not comment on his plans, has in the past urged the Chinese to be more flexible with the yuan and their economy.
When David Cameron, the Tory leader, speaks on poverty tomorrow, he will, according to his advisers, accept much of Clark's analysis of Margaret Thatcher's policies: "Ignoring the reality of relative poverty was a terrible mistake." The Churchillian idea that all the state need do is provide a basic safety net to stop the poor starving is over. Poverty is measured internationally in relative terms, because thatand America,†Merkel told Bild newspaper on Wednesday.
If Britain and Germany joined NAFTA the rest of Europe would follow meekly.
WE'RE GONNA NEED MORE BICYCLES...:
His world records are house of cards: Professional card stacker comes back to his home state for festival of storytellers, magicians and jugglers (MARY CHALLENDER, 11/22/06, Des Moines REGISTER)
Architect Bryan Berg spends weeks, sometimes even months, building some of the largest, most elaborate structures of their kind in the world.
Then the Iowa native typically picks up a leaf blower and sends his creations fluttering to the ground.
It's all in a day's work when you're a professional card stacker. [...]
As a kid growing up in the Okoboji area, Berg said he liked stacking cards but was just average until one day, during an Iowa blizzard, when
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23-year-old goaltenders.
Not many who fit that description have gone from playing in the minors to being a team's No. 1 goaltender in the Stanley Cup Playoffs while their fiancee was about to give birth to their first child, though.
Braden Holtby had already earned plaudits for his mental approach before he helped carry the Washington Capitals to within one victory of a place in the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals. Playing in 14 NHL postseason games, including seven straight one-goal affairs in the first round, solidified Holtby's place in the organization and probably provided general manager George McPhee some nice reassurance on the decision to not try harder to retain restricted free agent Semyon Varlamov before the start of the 2011-12 season.
The Detroit Red Wings knew they had some majorholes to fill on their blue line by the time the middle of June rolled around.
They had traded Brad Stuart, who played more than 21 minutes a night, to the San Jose Sharks. In addition, the day also had arrived that the organization and its fans long feared when seven-time Norris Trophy winner Nicklas Lidstrom retired in May.
Many expected the Red Wings to go after a big name like 2012 All-Star Ryan Suter -- and they did, but he chose to sign with the Minnesota Wild. From there, the Red Wings chose homegrown talent along with a couple of free agents to fill out the roster.
ARLINGTON, Va. -- Alex Ovechkin had Sunday off from his responsibilities as the captain of the Washington Capitals, a day after scoring his
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Bambi; the symphonic, almost entirely dialogue-free Fantasia.
The Disney Renaissance, as it’s been dubbed, followed a deeply fallow period in the ’70s and most of the ’80s, and began in earnest with The Little Mermaid. The movies that followed—including Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King—took their cues from musical theater, with composers like Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, and Stephen Schwartz writing catchy, classic songs for the movies’ performers to croon. The box office was record-breaking, critics loved the films, and Beauty and the Beast even scored the first Best Picture Oscar nomination for an animated film.
But the films’ depictions of women and people of color left much to be desired. Belle is often cited, correctly, as the studio’s first real stab at creating a feminist character,Lindsey Graham is a big talker.
On May 1, 2019 Lindsey Graham, the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, promised investigations on how the Mueller probe started.
He made the the comments during testimony by US Attorney General Bill Barr in front of the US Senate.
TRENDING: BREAKING: Multiple Injuries After Car Plows Through Crowd of Trump Supporters in Yorba Linda, California (VIDEO)
But Lindsey Graham lied.
Lindsey Graham is a fraud.
Lindsey Graham has scheduled NO COMMITTEE HEARINGS on Deep State, FBI, CIA, Spygate, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, Mueller, Stefan Halper, George Papadopoulos, Tom Fitton, Sidney Powell, Joe diGenova, John Brennan, James Comey, Chris Wray, etc.
Here is the list of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings since Lindsey Graham made that lie back on May 1, 2019.
Earlier this week we found that Rep. Adam
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Image copyright AFP Image caption Images from a drone revealed the extent of the damage to the museum's interior
Brazilian President Michel Temer says the government is seeking funding from companies and banks to help rebuild the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro after it was destroyed by fire.
Education Minister Rossieli Soares said international help was also being sought and talks with the UN's cultural body, Unesco, were under way.
Museum officials say almost 90% of the collection has been destroyed.
Staff have blamed the fire on years of funding cuts.
The museum housed one of the largest anthropology and natural history collections in the Americas. It included the 12,000-year-old remains of a woman known as "Luzia".
On Monday, President Temer's office said he had held talks with officials from major Brazilian banksemergency services arrived. He said crews had to get water from a nearby lake and from tanker trucks.
"Yesterday was one of the saddest days of my career," he said.
On Monday, fire crews were sifting through the charred wreckage, occasionally emerging with an artefact or a painting they had managed to rescue.
What has the reaction been?
Riot police fired tear gas outside the park housing the museum on Monday as a small, irate crowd tried to enter.
Many demonstrators were angry at the budget cuts that they say led to the fire.
The protesters were later allowed to surround the museum's perimeter in a symbolic "embrace."
Image copyright AFP Image caption Paintings damaged by fire and smoke were pulled from the debris
Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, a deputy director at the museum, expressed "immense
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his insights, but Henry Kissinger – who recently met with Trump to talk Russia – was there.
Comic relief at Bilderberg was, presumably, to be had from the heads of four of the world’s Top Ten financial services giants – AXA, Allianz, ING and Santander – asking “Can globalization be slowed down?.” One wonders if they kept their faces straight.
And then there was a panel on China, with Cui Tiankai, the Chinese ambassador to the US, sitting side by side with the US commerce secretary, the US national security adviser, a couple of senators, two former heads of the CIA, heads of the Carlyle Group and KKR – and, last but not least, Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet, Google’s holding company, who had just been to China.
Finally, onDevelopment Bank (EDB) has started financing projects turned down by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), according to the EDB’s CEO, Dmitry Pankin.
On the energy front, in 2014 Gazprom and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) signed a ground-breaking US$400 billion 30-year framework to deliver 38 billion cubic meters of Russian gas to China annually. Gazprom will approve the final terms of this supply by the end of 2017, according to CEO Aleksey Miller. And of course another pipeline – the Power of Siberia-2 – will also be built, delivering another 30 billion cubic meters of Russian gas.
On the bilateral front, what Macron had earlier hinted at during his Versailles meeting with Putin translated in St. Petersburg as a Russia-France Business Roundtable.
And at SPIEF’s Russia-US Business Dialogue
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to Hitchcock's North by Northwest, while the enormity of the missile's launch is reminiscent of Fail-Safe and The Iron Giant.
The film is supported by a comprehensive Web site with a blog, podcasts, and merchandise. The first episode of the creator's 19-part behind-the-scenes videos reveals his initial belief that, since Pixar does one 90-minute movie a year, he could produce a six-minute short in a fraction of the time. The reality? Pigeon: Impossible, released on June 25, 2009, took four years to create. (It could be worse; The Passenger took twice that time.)
Whether Lucas Martell created this masterpiece for pleasure or profit, he has an incredible work of art on his hands that will likely lead to a bright future. Such fortune also has precedent: when Victor Navone created"Alien Song" in 1999, it wasn't long before he got snapped up by Pixar to lend his talents to everything from Finding Nemo to WALL•E.
With the last two weekly shorts being fairly light-hearted, I thought the third entry in the Summer Shorts series should shake things up a bit. The Black Hole, shown here last summer, toed the line of comedy and tragedy in that live-action short. Accompanying it in the fifth annual National Film Board of Canada Online Short Film Competition was the animated short Sebastian's Voodoo, which goes full-bore to the dark side while still offering a message of hope:
Sebastian's Voodoo takes the well-known concept of voodoo folk magic and gives it nuance. For a doll to represent a living entity, it too must have some
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a triumphant culmination of post punk's dancefloor diaspora. It's as if the experiments of 23 Skidoo, Material and The Pop Group were finally being picked up again, warped and twisted into strange new shapes, and projected deep into the heart of the future. After all, there's a reason they're called The Future Sound Of London.
Space. The vastness of which we cannot even begin to comprehend. The crew of the Apollo 13 mission traveled farther into it than any human ever has — 248,655 miles — during their improvised orbit of the moon. By way of comparison, the Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years across... that's 600,000,000,000,000,000 miles! And then there's the rest of the universe out there... Hubble gives us a deeper view into it, but we'restill talking about just the tip of the iceberg.
Outer space has long been a perennial obsession of mine, and one that I've indulged in freely for the first half of 2016. It kept me going for what you might call a transitional period in my life, during which I aimed to get back to the core of what inspired me to get out there and do my thing in the first place. For that stretch, the Parallax Room became a starship with which to survey the outer reaches of the cosmos through the lens of sonic exploration. The objective was to pull together a brace of records from the Parallax stacks that cleave to space as a theme, reveling in it's vastness of possibility.
The initial plan back in
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as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick's bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.
From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan's Washington Square, Amy Bloom's new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity.
Advance praise for White Houses
"Amy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my breath away."--Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife
"Anovel of the secret, scandalous love of Eleanor Roosevelt and her longtime friend and companion Lorena Hickok, who relates the tale in her own, quite wonderful voice."--Joyce Carol Oates
"Lorena Hickok is a woman who found love with another lost soul, Eleanor Roosevelt. And love is what this book is all about: It suffuses every page, so that by the time you reach the end, you are simply stunned by the beauty of the world these two carved out for themselves."--Melanie Benjamin, author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue*
About the Author
Amy Bloom is the author of Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist; A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Love Invents Us; Normal; Away, a New
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more than a dozen directors - which include such distinguished names as former Sens. Sam Nunn and David Boren, currently Sen. Cory Booker, and former Bush-43 officials Elaine Chao and Hank Paulson - what responsibility does the former Florida governor bear?
The issue bubbled up in April, giving his yet-unannounced campaign an opportunity to respond.
“Governor Bush was honored to serve on the board of Bloomberg Philanthropies, which does a lot of good work across the world,” Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell told the Tampa Bay Times. "As a board member, Governor Bush did not vote on or approve individual projects or programs."
Although Bush and Bloomberg "disagree on several policy issues, both share a passion for improving education in America," she added - a reference to their mutual embrace of theCherry.
Who Can Help
About this Author
Based in Rockdale Texas, Jim Gober has been writing garden-related articles for 25 years. His articles appear in several Texas newspapers including The Rockdale Reporter, The Lexington Leader, The Cameron Herald and The Hearne Democrat. He is a Master Gardener and Certified Texas Nursery and Landscape Professional. He holds bachelor degrees in English Writing from St. Edward's University and Finance from Lamar University.
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Ferguson Police Department conducts their job.
NANCY PELOSI, MINORITY LEADER, UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: Let me tell you something, if there`s ever an action moron, it`s de facto speaker.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The fight over DHS is effectively over. House Speaker John Boehner told his Republican Congress today they plan to call for a vote.
UNIDENTIIFIED MALE: This is good day for America. Congress worked today.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Better late than never.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O`DONNELL: Today, as Rachel reported in the last hour, former CIA director David Petraeus negotiated a plea deal and avoided the possibility of a high profile trial and possible jail time.
The retired army general pled guilty to a single misdemeanor count of unauthorized removal of classified information. The charges punishable by up to one year in prison, $100,000 fineand five years probation.
General Petraeus supplied author Paula Broadwell classified material for a book she was writing about Petraeus. Petraeus was also having an extramarital affair with her at that time.
Today, Hillary Clinton has not said whether any classified information was put at risk by her use of private e-mail account while she was Secretary of State.
We are joined now by Krystal Ball, co-host of “MSNBC`s CYCLE”, who is in the room right now where Hillary Clinton will be giving that speech tonight in Washington.
Also joined here by – in the studio by Jonathan Alter, MSNBC political analyst and “Daily Beast” columnist, Jason Baron, a former Director of Litigation at the National Archives and Stephen Vladec, a law professor at American University.
Krystal Ball, what`s happening in the room
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A friend recently returned, seemingly traumatised, from what he described as "a terrible date". After much prompting, he relayed the reason in a hushed and horrified voice: "She tried to force me to steal money from a car park machine."
I was fascinated. Had the date, mistakenly thinking she had spotted criminal potential in my friend, decided to enlist him – under the cunning guise of sharing a romantic evening – as her accomplice in this most unglamorous act of theft? Had she brought a screwdriver along, or a whole toolkit? And if she had pulled off this relatively small-scale job, did she envisage the pair of them graduating to train station ticket machines, drinks machines in sports centres, or perhaps even bank jobs? It was hugely intriguing.
The truth,not been charged. Both have since lost their jobs.
The two deputies worked at the department's Rio Consumes Correction Center in Elk Grove. One deputy resigned and the other is on administrative leave, said Deputy Jason Ramos, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.
The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, assisted by deputies and police within the local departments, spent months investigating the alleged weapons dealing. The investigation became known when agents served search warrants in November.
The weapons include easily concealable semiautomatic pistols that shoot high-velocity .223 caliber bullets, the same long-range ammunition used by the U.S. military for its M16 and M4 rifles.
Also sold were handguns that fire .50 caliber pistol bullets, a less powerful version of the same large-caliber round used in machine guns and sniper
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Pot Plant Arrest
Matthew York, 39, was arrested after deputies allegedly found marijuana plants growing behind his home. Steuben County sheriff deputies originally responded to York's Tuscarora home after a complaint of an alleged domestic disturbance.
York was issued an appearance ticket and released. He will appear in town court at a later date.expecting very little.
Near sunset, but much earlier than I expected, I caught the sound of a footstep on the loose rock. A body brushed against a cedar branch. A limb cracked. Something was coming.
I eased around in my chair, thrilled to feel the barely moving breeze right in my face. A shadow appeared through the cedars. The white glow of antlers crowned a dark head. The eight point I’ve been watching since August pushed through into the clearing, 19 yards from where I sat… rapt and surprised.
In person, he was a lot bigger than he looked on the game camera. I slowly lifted my bow, moving in millimeters. He was looking away, surveying the trail ahead. My shoulders tensed as I started to draw. And then he whipped
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FIND A SPEAKER FOR YOUR NEXT EVENT
Warren Macdonald
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About Warren Macdonald - Inspirational Speaker and Expert on Change:
Warren Macdonald's inspirational story and powerful message deliver life-changing instruction on not only navigating, but embracing change; with focus, energy and confidence. His life's boundaries were redefined in April 1997 with his accident on North Queensland's Hinchinbrook Island in Australia. Climbing to the Island's tallest peak, Warren became trapped beneath a one-ton slab boulder in a freak rock fall. Two days later he was rescued, only to undergo the amputation of both legs at mid thigh.
Just ten months later, Warren climbed Tasmania's Cradle Mountain using a modified wheelchair and the seat of his pants.In February 2003, he became the first double above-knee amputee to reach the summit of Africa's tallest peak, Mt Kilimanjaro (19,222ft), and more recently, in a spectacular effort requiring more than 2,800 pull-ups over 4 days, created history once again in an ascent of America's tallest cliff face, El Capitan. He is also the only above knee amputee to make an ascent of Canada's landmark frozen waterfall, the 600 ft Weeping Wall in Alberta.
Warren's first book, A Test of Will is an Australian bestseller and the subject of the Trapped under a Boulder episode of the Discovery Channel series I Shouldn't Be Alive. His film documenting the epic four-week journey to Federation Peak, Australia most challenging mountain summit, The Second Step, has been acclaimed worldwide, screening on National
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and published by CRiSAP in collaboration with RGAP.
Work Details
A sound composition created for a multi-channel performance/installation which took place over three weeks in the Bargehouse Gallery. Visitors were asked to remove their shoes, and led into a darkened environment by candle light. The single female performer guided visitors through a multisensory immersive environment.
Taking a small audience through an experience and back to its beginning. The fragmented story conjures dreamlike images and situations that enthrall and the audience is magically drawn into the scene.
The piece deals with the themes of refinding childhood, and asking basic questions, inspiring the imagination of the audience. Taking them through a close, intimate, almost personal experience. Coming close, leading the audience around not just by touch, but also sound, smell and taste. A gentlepurpose (‘Destroy Athens’), by treating Athens as a signal source to be sampled, tweaked with, looped, filtered, commented on and jammed along to. Through the use of on-site found & recorded sound & image, real-time local radio broadcasting interventions, and sonic-surgical media operations, the performers offer a response to context as they find it. Such a grounding for free & open improvisation is a platform for testing their own ignorance of so many aspects of the signal source – cultural, linguistic, historical, while drawing parallels with their own experiences as inhabitants of London, a multi-branded city.
Welcome to the ICMC 07. This is the entrance to the Huset venue where the film program, installations and informal evening concerts were presented.
ICMC Poster Session: Co-presenters demo’ing their own projects. The nature
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An assistant Austin police chief was recently stopped for driving 92 mph on MoPac Boulevard (Loop 1) in a city-owned car while off-duty — and drove away with just a warning.
Assistant Chief Chris McIlvain, who oversees the department’s professional standards division, was traveling to Waco to watch a Baylor basketball game with his young son when officer David Montalvo stopped him near Braker Lane.
A Feb. 18 patrol car video shows Montalvo confirming that the car belonged to the city, and he and McIlvain had a less than 30-second interaction before he released the assistant chief with a written warning.
"How fast was I going?" McIlvain asked.
"The first reading was 92, and I clocked you in at 88," Montalvo responded.
"Holy mackerel," McIlvain said.
On Tuesday, McIlvain told the American-Statesman, "At theNew York and began working as a freelance photographer. In 1981, he covered his first assignment in Northern Ireland illustrating civil strife. He has documented a variety of armed conflicts and social issues, spending time in South Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Russia, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union shooting pictures of war, conflict and images of socio-political issues in Western Europe and the United States. He is not married and currently inhabits in New York City.
In 1994, Nachtwey was covering the upcoming elections in South Africa, the first non-racial ones in decades. As an associate of the Bang-Bang Club, he was at the scene when Ken Oosterbroek was killed and Greg Marinovich was seriously injured.
Nachtwey had been injured previously in his work, but it was during
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LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A brother of Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock appeared in court in Los Angeles on Friday and pleaded not guilty to multiple charges of child pornography.Bruce Douglas Paddock, 58, requested to be released on bail but was denied by a Superior Court judge. Paddock's arraignment had been postponed to Friday due to an unspecified medical issue the previous day.Paddock's bail was initially set at $60,000 after he was arrested Wednesday at an assisted-living facility in the 5300 block of Laurel Canyon Boulevard in Valley Village.The L.A. County District Attorney's Office on Tuesday filed a felony complaint against Paddock, who is accused of one count of possessing more than 600 images of child pornography and 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a child.The investigationbegan after evidence was discovered inside a business in the 9000 block of San Fernando Road in Sun Valley, according to the Los Angeles Police Department, whose detectives were accompanied by Homeland Security and FBI officials when they arrested Paddock."Paddock had been squatting inside the business and after his eviction, the evidence was discovered," the LAPD said in a statement, describing the defendant as a transient.A law enforcement official told the Associated Press that the child pornography case predates the Oct. 1 Las Vegas shooting, and Bruce Paddock is not considered a suspect in the massacre.Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds more were wounded at the Route 91 Harvest Festival after Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel.
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A few weeks ago, Rockstar Games revealed Red Dead Redemption 2 's long-awaited gameplay. While the footage blew everyone away, many gamers asked the studio to provide more details about the characters. Luckily, the team did just that and now we know a lot more about the individuals who will be part of the experience. You can read abridged biographies of the gang members below.
Red Dead Redemption 2 tells a personal story. After a robbery goes wrong in the town of Blackwater, Arthur Morgan and the Van der Linde gang are forced to flee. With federal agents and the best bounty hunters in the nation massing on their heels, the gang must rob, steal, and fight their way across the rugged heartland of America in order to survive.As deepening internal divisions threaten to tear the gang apart, Arthur must make a choice between his own ideals or loyalty to the gang who raised him.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Director of Art at Rockstar North Aaron Garbut said the following.
We've aimed to capture a wide slice of American life in 1899, a rapidly industrializing nation that would soon have its sights on the world's stage — and would do whatever possible to 'modernize.' It's a brutal landscape with a sordid history, but also one that's full of opportunity. One of the most satisfying aspects of creating a world of such scope and scale is the ability to experience a whole range of stories and characters in your journey across that world. The gang's journey
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Saturday) in Paris, France, 23 March 2019. To prevent a repeat of the last week riots, French authorities have banned demonstrations in a large area in the west of Paris, including the Champs-Elysees. Yellow vest organizers called on social media for protests in different places in Paris, including the Trocadero square. EPA/CHRISTOPHE PETIT TESSON
In December 2018, French parliament passed a law forcing big social media sites and search engines to be more transparent about the sources of political advertising.
It obliges companies to publish how much they are paid for electoral advertisements, as well as providing an online register of who is behind sponsored political messages on its platform.
Twitter has not yet updated its services in France to provide the required transparency.
The new law aims to crack down onown voice-controlled speaker in October, and also partnered with Amazon to allow owners of existing Sonos speakers to control them with the help of an Amazon Echo. Music services that respond to voice commands on Sonos include Amazon Music, Pandora and TuneIn, with support for Spotify being promised for December 21.
Tidal is not yet among that list, but Jay Z’s music service did unveil a different kind of partnership with Sonos on Thursday as well: Both companies teamed up for a new interview series called “Sound Tracks.” Filmed in the Sonos store in New York, each episode features one-on-one interviews with music record label execs, managers, engineers and others who usually work behind the scenes of the industry.
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a stunning list of breakthroughs, from advances in high-speed photography to the development of the physics behind microwaves. Building 20 served as an incubator for the Bose Corporation. It gave rise to the first video game and to Chomskyan linguistics. Stewart Brand, in his study “How Buildings Learn,” cites Building 20 as an example of a “Low Road” structure, a type of space that is unusually creative because it is so unwanted and underdesigned. (Another example is the Silicon Valley garage.) As a result, scientists in Building 20 felt free to remake their rooms, customizing the structure to fit their needs. Walls were torn down without permission; equipment was stored in the courtyards and bolted to the roof. When Jerrold Zacharias was developing the first atomic clock, workingThe morning after chants of “Send her back” rang across one of his campaign rallies, President Trump sought to disavow it, insisting that he “was not happy with it.”
Trump made no effort to stop the chanting during his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night. The crowd broke into the chant after Trump began cataloging grievances against Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Rather than admonish them, he paused for about 12 seconds and looked on, appearing to show approval.
But “I was not happy with it — I disagree with it,” Trump told reporters during a photo session in the Oval Office on Thursday morning.
His disavowal of the chants was rare for a president who hates to appear as if he is either apologizing or bowing to pressure
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lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years.
The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist.
Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.
4.) The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted13 – 51
The sun set on a city overtaken by festivity. The Punaji so loved a good storm under any circumstances that they were frequently followed by parties, but as soon as this one had faded, hundreds of citizens had descended upon the Rock, quite a few carrying weapons. Even Naphthene’s fury had not been enough to stop the spread of rumor, and it seemed widely known that the castle was under attack. The King himself had addressed the public quickly.
From there, a celebration was all but inevitable. It was a political move to solidify the Crown’s standing in the aftermath of having beaten an enemy, but also a very necessary release of tension which the city badly needed. Soon all of Puna Dara seemed to be partying,
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Jackson Follmann, had to have his right leg amputated while being treated at San Vicente Foundation Hospital outside Medellin. He is said to be “stabilizing” in intensive care.
Two other players were among the survivors. Alan Ruschel was reported in the most serious condition, facing surgery for a spinal fracture.
According to volunteer rescuer Santiago Campuzano, Ruschel was being stretchered to safety when he mustered the strength to ask him: “My family, my friends, where are they?”Teammate Helio Zampier also suffered multiple injuries. Journalist Rafael Valmorbida also underwent surgery while Bolivian flight attendant Ximena Suarez and Bolivian flight technician Erwin Tumiri were both said to be in a stable condition.
As an investigation in to the crash got underway today, a Colombian military source revealed: “It is very suspicious that despiteis that law enforcement is capable of meeting the challenge posed by criminal adoption of cryptocurrency just as it was up to the challenge posed by the adoption of email, pagers, and automobiles.
Permissionless Technology and Criminal Use
The concern about Bitcoin’s criminal applications is reminiscent of the early days of the consumer internet. The internet, then as now, was a permissionless tool that anyone could use for good or for ill.That permissionless nature unfortunately meant that bad actors could get a hold of the technology and use it for bad purposes, but it also meant that anyone could start a blog and share their perspective with the world (even a political dissident in a totalitarian state). It also meant that anyone could start a business and gain access to
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Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic Culture Foundation and Press TV.
US top diplomat John Kerry appeared to offer cooperation during lengthy talks in Moscow this week with President Vladimir Putin. Kerry said that US policy was not trying to isolate Russia, neither was it seeking regimehas returned 0 final results There won't be any accessible properties matching the criteria which you've got specified.
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progressions to complete a pass on the next play and completing the series with a really nice touch pass to Spencer Webb .
Other observations: Phil Knight attended practice and addressed the team afterward. … Among the true freshman on the travel squad rather than with the scout team were Sean Dollars , Cale Millen , Josh Delgado , Mykael Wright , DJ James , Jamal Hill , Ge'mon Eaford , Kayvon Thibodeaux , Mase Funa and Keyon Ware-Hudson . … With Mycah Pittman and JR Waters both sidelined several weeks by injuries, the Ducks welcomed running back KJ Maduike and receiver Vincenzo Logan to the preseason camp roster, which has a cap of 105 players. … After a couple days in which they were perfect last week, allWada-san has composed music for Inuyasha, Princess Tutu, Kingdom Hearts, and more.
Kaoru Wada is a Japanese music composer, music arranger, conductor, music orchestrator and pianist. He has worked in a wide range of musical fields, including anime, film, television, theater, and video games. He has received numerous prizes for his work, including his music on the film Crest of Betrayal.
Best known in the west for his work on Inuyasha and Samurai 7, he has also composed music for a number of other anime series, including Ghost Stories, Battle Angel, Princess Tutu, Saint Seiya, Ninja Scroll, D.Gray-man, Record of Lodoss War: Chronicles of the Heroic Knight, and Ace Attorney. In addition to his work as a composer, Wada-san also arranges music for several notable titles, including Kingdom Hearts I&II
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relief (including relief against a government) in a civil action.
FOCA is a sane, simple, and just way to put the abortion debate to rest and let the wheels of government move on, unimpeded by the right wing anti-woman roadblocks that have kept us from fixing the economy, health care, education, and other essential social institutions.
GLORIA FELDT is the New York Times bestselling author of several books including No Excuses: 9 Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power, a sought-after speaker and frequent contributor to major news outlets, and the Co-Founder and President of Take The Lead. People has called her “the voice of experience,” and among the many honors she has been given, Vanity Fair called her one of America’s “Top 200 Women Legends, Leaders, andover and over and over. It annoyed her.
I do not matter.
Awful horrible, bad, first time, painful, eyes shut, squirming sex. He didn’t love me. He hardly knew me. We had sex. I was 14, he was older and while he was moaning and groaning and saying please, baby, please, oh, yes, baby…. on the Zenith black and white television that was tucked in the corner of the room, Janet Leigh was getting bludgeoned to death in the shower while I was losing my virginity at the exact same time. He was older, an artist and he hung out at Max’s Kansas City and the Ninth Circle, and he wanted to paint me and told me I looked like, reminded him of …a younger, much younger, Ultra Violet, an
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itself become fixated on just the use of chemical weapons, the West is allowing Syria to retain a dangerous capability.
Dr. Jill Bellamy van Aalst, CEO of Warfare Technology Analytics, is an internationally recognized expert on biological warfare who develops and runs biological and nuclear war-games for EU and NATO states. Olivier Guitta is the Director of Research at the Henry Jackson Society, a foreign affairs think tank in London.counterproductive to that advocacy. My vote Thursday will be between me and my ballot.”
Translation: Mr. de Blasio chose to play it safe. Had he endorsed his friend, Ms. Nixon, it could have further exacerbated his vitriolic rivalry with Mr. Cuomo. In contrast, if he were to endorse Mr. Cuomo, as he did four years ago, he would expose himself to criticism that he was cravenly currying favor with the man he has called an obstacle to progress on many issues — and it could seem a betrayal of his progressive values.
But his caution in making no endorsement at home belies his ambitious positioning as a national progressive leader; he recently created a political action committee, Fairness PAC, to support his national political activities. The PAC has raised more
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and shortly after North Korea's military revealed a plan to strike the U.S. territory of Guam. Kim threatened to go through with the plan if the U.S. attempted to undermine North Korea's sovereignty.
Most popular: Iran: Islamic Republic Is Again Largest Backer of Hamas Against Israel, Providing Weapons and Money for 'Resistance'
North Korea tested three short-range ballistic missiles over the weekend, and the state-run Korean Central News Agency likened the U.S.'s moves to "sitting on thorns" in a commentary published Monday.
"Citizens are not having a comfortable sleep but heavyweights of the Trump administration are inviting misfortune, being utterly un-thoughtful of what is uttered by them," the article read.
"The U.S. had better be mindful of its own destiny, not resorting to the useless anti-DPRK racket for confrontation and pressure whileP.D.James has died at her home in Oxford aged 94. She was a very fine writer in her genre and a most delightful writer to interview. Here’s my last conversation with her, conducted on the occasion of her ninetieth birthday, in August 2010.
Ramona Koval: PD James’s first novel, Cover Her Face, published in 1962 when she was 42, was written over a period of three years while she raised two children and worked as a civil servant in London. And throughout her writing career she has held several bureaucratic posts which have helped her to write much of the background to her novels.
Popular as well as critically acclaimed, her mysteries are usually of the ‘closed circle of suspects’ variety. She likes setting them in small towns or country
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disclosed that he was gay and in a long-term relationship with another man, reports the Huffington Post.
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About U.S. Ninth Circuit
U.S. Ninth Circuit features news and information from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which hears appeals from U.S. District Courts in Alaska, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, Montana, Oregon and Washington. This blog also features news that would be of interest to legal professionals practicing in the 9th Circuit. Have a comment or tip? Write to us.Before the hits and tackles and meltdowns, before the disputed call that will haunt the state of North Carolina, before a cacophony of harried barking fills the cramped, sweaty truck where ESPN decides what you see on TV, there is just a beige hotel ballroom. It looks like the type of place that normally hosts an annual conference of actuaries. But today, college football is in town.
"Let's have fun and kick some ass."
Nine hours from now, when the ACC Championship game between Clemson and the University of North Carolina kicks off, ABC/ESPN's top crew will have about five conversations at once. From the press box of Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit will be talking to America about the pair of
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and competition watchdog.
She studied at the Faculty of Management at the Poznan University of Economics and at the Warsaw School of Economics. She has also a vast experience in management of international projects, e.g. EU funded capacity building projects. As a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Foundation Programme for the Young Executives from the Public Sector, she worked at the Division for World Bank International Monetary Fund, Debt Issues and International Finance Structure at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. She was an expert at various EU Council’s Working Parties such as the WP on Financial Services and WP on Competitiveness and Growth, as well as European Commission’s Working Groups and Advisory Committees. One of her task was also external representation and managing professional networkssuch as Consumer Policy Network (CPN), International Consumer Protection and Enforcement Network (ICPEN), European Competition Network (ECN) and OECD Competition Committee.
Arnaud Houdmont joined the team at BETTER FINANCE following a varied and multi-facetted career in the world of communication, press relations and research at the heart of Europe. During this time he worked closely with policy makers from the European Commission, the European Parliament and private sector stakeholders on topics such as youth employment, entrepreneurship, health policy, sustainability and innovation. Prior to this he earned a master’s degree in Global Communication from Goldsmith’s College (University of London) and a bachelor’s degree in International relations from Sussex University.
His studies and career have given him a critical and analytical insight in a range of issues, as well as a profound
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for this excellent group of experienced Olympic veterans and dynamic newbies is open for the next month. After that, it'll be a different team.
ESPN On Ice After weighing in on the long farewell to Jaromir Jagr's NHL career, Greg Wyshynski and Emily Kaplan share their reactions to All-Star Weekend in Tampa, including the success of the Skills Competition and whose star shone the brightest as well as the dimmest. Plus, we hear from Kevin Weekes of the NHL Network on goaltending controversies and Amanda Kessel of the USWNT, in addition to some reckless speculation on Erik Karlsson's future and relocation. Listen »
And yet, that's where I'm optimistic about the next American Olympic team with NHL talent. Matthews (Arizona), Jones (Texas), Gostisbehere (Florida) and others are products of nontraditionalmarkets. Those pipelines are now flowing with talent: The roster for the 2018 World Junior Championship spanned from Orlando to St. Louis to Minneapolis to Spokane. We're casting a wider net for athletes and snagging better hockey players. No one ultimately knows how the pieces will fit, but a 2022 team with Matthews, Eichel, Jack Hughes and Casey Mittelstadt up the middle makes one start believing in the inevitability of a gold medal, rather than the dream of one.
But not in 2018. "The Inevitability" will be playing NHL regular-season games while the rest of us are watching "The Dream" play out for a disparate collection of American players in Pyeongchang.
Can the Americans win with a roster that includes Brian Gionta and ... others? Sure, why not? It's a
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cubic meters. Baumgartner’s equipment included main and emergency parachutes, along with a drogue stabilization chute to help him recover from an uncontrollable spin. The main and reserve chutes were designed to open at speeds of up to 280 kilometers per hour.
At the other extreme, filmmaker James Cameron in March became the first solo aquanaut to reach the deepest recess of the Mariana Trench, touching down at the Challenger Deep site about 11 kilometers below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Cameron, who directed the first two Terminator movies as well as Titanic and Avatar, piloted his DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible on the seven-hour round-trip, spending about three hours at the deepest spot on the planet’s crust to collect samples for marine biological, microbiological, astrobiological, marine geologic and geophysical research.
Theobtained access to the information, led the U.S. National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity to green-light the publications of the papers. The first appeared in the June 21 issue of Nature. —Philip Yam
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Record Meltdown of Arctic Sea Ice
On September 16, 2012, the extent of ice covering the Arctic Ocean reached an all-time low of 3.4 million square kilometers (since satellite records began in 1979). The minimum ice cover each summer had begun to shrink annually in 2000 and declined much more rapidly each year beginning in 2007.
Whereas happy shipping moguls marveled at how less ice might allow them to send freighters across the Arctic, scientists began to demonstrate and speak
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a group project to plan a fictitious employee appreciation party. She also recalled how he volunteered to serve soup to the poor at a local monastery on a South American study-abroad project.
For his trip to Peru, District 6970 Rotary Club in downtown Jacksonville helped Martinez fulfill his dream of creating a sustainable youth soccer program in rural parts of the department of Piura Peru, in which Los Ranchos is located. Through his network of contacts within local Rotary Clubs, Martinez was able to acquire dozens of new soccer balls, nets, cones and other equipment to transport to Peru this year and distribute with the help of his former Peace Corps colleagues.
His hope is that the soccer league can have the same ability to engage and transform other ruralher daily foot and belly messages.
“[They have] been keeping my skin soft and I haven’t dealt with stretch marks yet,” she said.
Fishel revealed that her former co-stars have also provided a helping hand. She noted Rider Strong, who played Shawn Hunter in the series, has been giving her plenty of advice. He welcomed a baby named Indigo with his wife Alexandra Barreto in 2014.
Will Friedle, who starred as Eric Matthews, also lives close by with his wife Susan Martens. Fishel told the outlet the couple frequently “check in to see if they can bring anything.”
Fishel announced in January she was expecting on Instagram.
'BOY MEETS WORLD' STAR: WHY I STOPPED WORKING
“I’m eating for two,” she wrote at the time, as reported by the outlet. “I’m napping with wild abandon.
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Fulton jailers sentenced for obstructing investigation
ATLANTA – Three former detention officers at the Fulton County Jail were sentenced Thursday for hampering a federal probe into the death of an inmate two years ago.
Curtis Jerome Brown, 42, of Lithonia, was sentenced to two years and three months in federal prison. Mitnee Markette Jones, 47, of Atlanta, was sentenced to one year and three months in prison. Both were convicted of lying to a federal grand jury, making false statements to an FBI agent and writing false incident reports with the intent to hinder a federal investigation.
A third former jailer – Derontay Anton Langford, 35, of Atlanta – was sentenced to four months of home confinement as part of a three-year-long probation sentence. Langford, who cooperated with the federal investigation,An underground electrical fire sent smoke billowing into the air as emergency crews brought traffic to a halt for hours on Center City streets Wednesday.
The fire broke out shortly before 8:15 a.m. sending heavy smoke and flames out of manholes and grates in the area of Will’s Eye Hospital at 9th and Walnut streets, Philadelphia police said. After more than an hour, smoke continued to pour into the air.
Commuters dealt with traffic troubles throughout the day as police blocked Walnut, Locust, 8th and 9th streets to vehicles and pedestrians into the afternoon.
PECO crews initially responded to an underground cable issue around 7:15 a.m., the utility said. While working to isolate the issue, a cable overheated.
The area includes theaters, medical buildings and restaurants. Videos on social media showed thick
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he set out on his own, wanting to make a name for himself.Personality: As a pony, he is kind, tempered, and all around good hearted. As a sensei, he has learned to be cold, only giving subtle praise when it is deserved. His students only get his true respect when they have become somewhere close to his equal.Current Home: Neighpon, though he travels oftenMisc: The shackles along his hooves are a symbol of his freedom from normal sight. He takes them off at night, when he goes to sleepPower LevelStrength: 2-4 (Aura Strength)Intelligence: 3Energy Projection: 4Fighting Ability: 6Durability: 3- 6 (Aura Shield)Speed: 2-4 (Aura Speed)
Name: The One who walks alone (Fearful Night)Race: Pegasus (Vampire)Age: 12054Mane: Red, short and roughCoat: White, smooth and shortCutie mark.: A tao, surrounded byfair amount of his aura, send messages via telepathy. His body is also extremely malleable when exposed to his concentrated aura, and he can modify it, though he cannot stretch it beyond his original body, that of a tall pegasus.Weaknesses: Being a vampire, One is exceptionally weak to any form of light magic, as well as the natural light of the sun and silver. He is also extremely emotional at the present time, and often makes rash decisions. He is currently not himself at all, and is delusional, beliving that he sees the ‘paths of fate.’ He also possesses a weakness to his own sword, Hope. Regardless of which emotional state he is in, One is almost always vain, and often proud, often leading to confrontations he cannot
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in Fairbanks, Alaska - I started on drums, then acoustic and electric guitars, and about eight years of classical piano. – I was so broke that I never had the money to buy records in the first place. – Always wanted to be Brian Wilson. – That dream about William Blake? I didn't know I was dreaming. Was it an hour or was it just seconds? I remember walking into a workshop and he was working on some sort of copper etchings – We exchanged words as I was interested in what he was doing; then floated out into the street which took me somewhere else. – I was attacked at knife point by five Mexican banditos in a dark alley in the middle of the night inEnsenada, Mexico while trying to get Snow's wallet back from a transvestite who had propositioned him and promptly stole it. I was a little too late – I kicked a couple of them, punched one and then jumped through a closed gate and made it home without ever losing my billfold but didn't get Snow's back. – Bob was the first person we met when we pulled into Seattle. He was working at Tully's and we bought a coffee from him and started talking. I think he is a great writer. Our previous records were always recorded without any budget in a time crunch and half the time done entirely by us. The end result was not always pretty! – The song's popularity that surprises us is “Two
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been a contribution to the slow news. Even film people must have holidays and stuff.
Yup! The first week of the year is usually a slow week. But we should be patient because it won't be too long since the new X-Men movie will be released this July and if DOFP is really going to start filming this Spring of 2013.
__________________2017 films - best to worst
Wonder Woman, Planet of the Apes, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Logan, Kong, Fast & Furious, Cars, Alien, Beauty and the Beast, Power Rangers, Resident Evil, The Mummy, Pirates of the Caribbean, Ghost in the Shell, Underworld, Transformers
From past It will likely be march till we get complete list of returning actors
When Bryan Singer has to promate Jack The Giant Slayer he Is surecelebrating enviromentalism through worldwide folklore
Oak Royal
The following story was contributed by John Barrington for this year’s Scottish International Storytelling Festival ‘Dig Where You Stand’ campaign, and the full resource can be accessed here.
Many years ago there was a small kingdom on the edge of the Scottish Highlands. Here lived a pretty king called Eochaid [say eesha], a grandson of the great Kenneth MacAlpine. The king’s wooden fortress stood on a hilltop of magic rock, known today as ‘pudding stone’ or conglomerate, overlooking the River Forth. A township stood by.
On mid-summer Eve AD 884 the whole place was filled with gaiety and music and no food or drink was denied as they caroused into the small hours. This was King Eochaid’s wedding feast. The night was in full flow
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Biography
The Cat Wright Trio all met whilst studying at the Royal Welsh College of Music and have since performed at a number of distinguished events around the world including a 5 week residency aboard the largest privately owned yacht ever built 'The World', performing in Haifa (Israel), The Seychelles, Madagascar, Maputo (Mozambique) and Durban (South Africa) with an open invitation of return.
Band leader Cat's career highlights include performing at The Princess of Monaco Foundation, The Epsom Derby (where the Queen was in attendance), Top Of The Pops ( NYE Special 2017), a performance at Aston Martin HQ for the recent ‘DB4 GT’ relaunch (2017), The Venezuelan Embassy, The Bluthners show room in London’s Berkeley Square, Biggin Hill Private Airport (for Rizon Jet, Luxury Travel), the National Assembly ofWales, The National Lottery, The Gherkin, Canary Wharf, The Royal Academy of Arts, The BBC BAFTA Cymru Awards, The 2011 England vs Sri-Lanka Cricket test matches at the Swalec Stadium and a private function held at The Barbican for European Royalty. Cat has also performed at the famous 'Hotel Du Cap Eden Roc' in CANNES for fashion label ‘BALLY’, and performed at a range of 5* hotels (including The Mayfair, The Connaught Hotel, The Dorchester, The Kensington Hotel, The Soho Hotel, Cafe Royal and The Hilton).
Cat Delphi is also an up and coming recording artist with credentials which include being the first recipient of the MOBO Awards fund ( Dec 2017), original songs on TV Shows including ‘Home and Away’ and ‘Neighbours’ and her debut single reaching over
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handed a "Group of Death" spot in Russia alongside Germany, Sweden and South Korea.
Though Jimenez and Hernandez eventually stayed at their current clubs, their playing situations also stayed the same. Elsewhere, Osorio could be happy about Miguel Layun exiting Porto for Sevilla and Hector Moreno finding solace at Real Sociedad after an unproductive spell at Roma.
Mercifully, a little over two months before the World Cup, the story is finally appearing to veer toward a sunnier conclusion.
Last weekend, Hernandez scored his first goal in nearly two months, victimizing Chelsea yet again and rescuing a point for West Ham. In Portugal, Jimenez followed up a spectacular rabona assist two matches ago with a pair of goals, and Hirving Lozano returned to the fold with PSV Eindhoven, scoring a sliding goalin his team's victory in Holland.
Other positive performances from the Old Continent were sure to please Osorio. The Colombian manager is still weighing his options about whether to stay on with Mexico after the World Cup, a tournament where El Tri is looking to get to the quarterfinals for the first time since 1986.
In the past, experts confidently pointed out Mexico's biggest hurdle toward international relevance: placing its best talent in Europe. Beyond Hugo Sanchez and Rafa Marquez, there was little to crow about in regard to El Tri stalwarts making a splash abroad.
Marquez's extended run in Europe opened doors, and Mexico's best and brightest followed him, creating precedence and a sustainable market. By the time the 2010 and 2014 World Cups rolled around, the country could already
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were immediate after a certain round of vaccine. No one is going to tell me my son was born autistic. I have the pictures and the video to prove it,” LaHood said at the time.
According to the CDC website, one vaccine ingredient that has been studied specifically is thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used to prevent contamination of multidose vials of vaccines.
"Since 2003, there have been nine CDC-funded or conducted studies that have found no link between thimerosal-containing vaccines and ASD, as well as no link between the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine and ASD in children," the site states.
Additionally, LaHood called Brian Chasnoff, a staff writer for the Express-News who has covered the district attorney in the past, an “unethical ‘journalist’’ who is “as dishonest as theyButler Seder14. Goodnight Moonby Margaret Wise Brown15. Almost an Animal Alphabet by Katie Viggers16. On the Night You Were Born by Nancy Tillman17. Moby Dick: A Babylit Ocean Primer by Jennifer Adams18. Sherlock Holmes in the Hounds of Baskervilles: by Jennifer Adams19. Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry20. Fifteen Animals by Sandra Boynton
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we celebrated dean's third birthday yesterday and the one thing he requested for it months ago was a skateboard. we were completely shocked at how well he could ride it and from the moment he touched it his inner skater dude came out...
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they were no longer virgins.
R. Kelly.
Ted Nugent has admitted to a fondness for underage girls, and at one point became 17-year-old girlfriend Pele Massa's legal guardian to avoid hassle. Marvin Gaye was 33 when he started dating 16-year-old Janis Hunter. The Eagles' Don Henley was arrested when police found a drugged, naked 16-year-old girl at his house. Salinger dated teenage girls.
Iggy Pop allegedly slept with Sable Starr when she was only 13, then wrote the song "Look Away" about her. Starr went on to have relationships with Johnny Thunders of the New York Dolls and Richard Hell, all before turning 17. Chuck Berry went to jail for transporting an underage girl across state lines, and allegedly appeared in in a video urinating on a young girl in ahotel bathtub. Rob Lowe made a sex tape with a 16-year-old girl.
Roman Polanski plead guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, then fled to France to escape imprisonment. Cher was 16 when she met 27-year-old Sonny Bono. Jimmy Page had a relationship with Lori Maddox, a 14-year-old groupie he proceeded to keep behind closed doors for years to avoid legal trouble. She was linked to David Bowie a year earlier.
Charles Dickens left his wife for an 18-year-old and then publicly slandered his betrayed wife in the newspaper. Fifty-one-year-old Doug Hutchinson married 16-year-old Courtney Stodden. Bill Wyman, the Rolling Stones' bassist, infamously "dated" 13-year-old Mandy Smith. Mackenzie Phillips' musician dad first raped her when she was 17 or 18.
The above are not only just the ones that
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well be the guy for whom she changes the rules. That is until she meets Braydon.
About the Author
J. S. Cooper is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author. She is a true romantic that is in love with love. The J. S. stands for Jaimie Suzi. She just thought J. S. sounded cooler! J. S. was born in London, England and moved to the States at age 17. She studied history in college and then went to law school and then decided to follow her writing dreams. J. S. writes ‘New Adult’ contemporary romance books because that is what she also loves to read.
Available Books: The Last Boyfriend, The Last Husband, Before Lucky, The Other Side of Love, Zane & Lucky’s First Christmas, Crazy Beautiful Love,up in her life at the most unpredictable moments.
A sensual game of cat and mouse ensues before the attraction between them reaches a fever pitch—the magnetism combustible, the sexual tension nearly unbearable—and Kat finally abandons inhibition and explores the cunning, selfish, and sexual side of a world she’s never known.
They have the perfect non-relationship—passion-fueled nights with no strings attached—until life gets real and the past and present collide in a dangerous storm of lust and obsession.
About the Author
Adriane Leigh was born and raised in a snowbank in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and now lives among the sand dunes of the Lake Michigan lakeshore.She graduated with a Literature degree but never particularly enjoyed reading Shakespeare or Chaucer.
She is married to a tall, dark, and handsome guy, and plays mama to
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associates, of which there were many. What goes on in Monaco is often carefully watched.
Then Oumou and I chitchatted about her progress. She had joined the Islamic Center, a few blocks away. It was a Mecca for the wealthy Muslim set and often a hotbed of gossip. With her language skills, Oumou was like a vacuum cleaner, buzzing up the latest dirt.
We took no chances on our room and our landline being bugged. Business was conducted by cell phone in the wide-open spaces. Even then we were careful. It didn't sit well with me to place my three-member family, plus domestic help, in harm's way. But the cover was excellent.
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
Strolling into the coffee shop just after ten, Larry Abraham (although I had read a brief rundown anda very complicated one in the States. I'm on the phone, e-mailing, trying to make the poem rhyme. Blackjack is my relaxation. I get lost in it, no other thoughts crowd my head. So it's that simple."
"Sounds reasonable enough. You've always had money?"
"No. I didn't earn it. I inherited it. Now tell me about yourself. What's your nationality?"
"French."
"Single?"
"Confirmed bachelor, a bon vivant to the core."
Interesting, that Larry was lying to me. Why? "I'd guess you're German."
"Why in the world?"
"Your English is excellent. I've heard you speak a few words of French. I'm sure you're fluent. But for some reason German sticks in my mind."
"You think Larry's a German name?"
"It sounds more American. I'm guessing you could pass. Konrad is German."
A slight twitch and a blink of the eyes
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in Syria.
He told an executive council of the OPCW that Syrian and the Russian officials who took part in meetings in Damascus told the team "that there were still pending security issues to be worked out before any deployment could take place."
He said Syrian authorities were offering 22 people to interview as witnesses instead.
Uzumcu said he hoped "all necessary arrangements will be made ... to allow the team to deploy to Douma as soon as possible."
Syrian opposition activists and first responders say a chemical attack by government forces in Douma on April 7 killed more than 40 people. The government has denied ever using chemical weapons and had welcomed the fact-finding mission.
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Members of a communist student organization have attempted to pull down a statue of U.S. PresidentHarry Truman during an anti-war protest in central Athens.
Police detained two protesters during clashes Monday and fired tear gas at youths who attached ropes to the 3.5-meter (12-foot) bronze statue and were preparing to saw through the base of the structure.
The Greek Communist Party has organized successive anti-U.S. protests following the airstrikes in Syria over the weekend.
First unveiled near the American Embassy in 1963, the statue has been repeatedly targeted in protests and was twice bombed by far-left militant groups in the mid-1980s. It has been pulled down twice and vandalized on several occasions.
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Syrian state TV is airing interviews with nearly a dozen doctors and medics who say they found no trace of poisonous gas in the town of Douma, where opposition activists and first responders say
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FEATURE: EA calls on united industry to crack Russia
EA's VP of Central Europe Peter Laughton has told MCV that the Russian games market is there for the taking – providing the industry chooses to work together to crack it.
We would love everyone else to join us in trying to open up this market,” he told MCV. It is important that the games industry spends on marketing in Russia properly, as well as holding events – in particular, shows like the one here in November, where you can expect around 50,000 consumers.
We have some great retailers here – as good as any in the world. Currently publishers are very focused on the kiosks and jewel case market, but there is a huge and rapidly growing ‘traditional' retail market here.In the 1980s, many people were using the AIDS epidemic as an excuse to perpetuate homophobia. Madonna was one of the first mainstream figures who spoke out in defense of the gay community at this time. She got involved in the fight against AIDS, encouraging research and the practice of safe sex. She brought vogueing—a style of dance started in New York’s gay club scene—to the mainstream and featured footage from a gay pride parade in her tour documentary, “Truth or Dare.” She also featured gay, lesbian, and bisexual affection in “Truth or Dare,” the “Justify My Love” video and her “Sex” book. This was still in the early 1990s, before it was a trendy thing for female pop stars to do. More recently, Madonna has spoken out
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blue-green eyes.
We froze in place.
Only our chests rose and fell, and they did it more rapidly
the longer we stared at each other.
As his eyes lowered to my lips, his fingers tightened gently
around my chin.
The flare of his nostrils and the intensity of his stare
mesmerized me, made me want him closer. And it told me that he was struggling
too and was in profound debate over what we were doing. No ward should be this
close to their guardian, even if the ward didn't recognize them as one. It was
taboo, unheard of, an abject insult to the role the guardian had been given.
Yet, here he was, looking at me, at my lips, tensing at the sight of them.
And he wasn't alone in the struggle. For the first time, I
forgot my urgehis surprise when he finds himself falling for his
recent hire from America . . . his mature, attractive magazine editor, Rae
Spencer. Picture her confusion as she finds herself deeply attracted to her handsome,
take-charge Scottish boss.
Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, you can't fight love.
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Author Information
In the three short years since Jamie Salisbury
began publishing her Romance stories, she has seen her books soar to #1 on
Amazon. Her novella Tudor Rubato was a finalist in the 2012 RONE (Reward of
Novel Excellence) award, and the cover won for Best Contemporary Cover. Now in
2014, her novel Life and Lies has been nominated for a RONE in the Erotica
category. She has expanded her audience to include several now published by
Secret Cravings Publishing.
Her previous career in public relations has afforded her
with a
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experiment with proportional representation gave it 35 deputies.
Based on Sunday's results, the party could reach the second round in up to 345 of the 577 constituencies in the parliamentary election, splitting the right-wing vote.
Several of Sarkozy's top cabinet members and advisers have ruled out any alliance with the National Front, although they do not rule out the possibility of the UMP letting the party fight solely against the Socialist party in certain constituencies.Eden Arts Cooperative
Instruments:
Nylon, Steel string acoustic, Electric Guitar
Styles:
Classical, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Folk Pop, American and Brazilian and Country
Mike Blaskiewicz
has over 25 years of teaching experience in southeast Michigan. He attended the Center for Creative Studies Institute of Music and Dance where he was selected by the faculty to meet the legendary Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia in his last Detroit appearance. Michael holds both a Bachelor and Masters degree in Classical Guitar Performance from Wayne State University. He has performed in Master Classes taught by David Russell, Roland Dyens, Scott Tennant, Ricardo Cobo, David Tannenbaum, Fabio Zanon, Jason Vieaux and William Kanengiser and attended classes of Christopher Parkening, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Manual Barrueco and Jorge Morel.
Michael began teaching guitar in the late 80’s and was an instructor with the Wayne
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urge, please, to cry media conspiracy, because Rooney's intentions are a matter of legitimate conjecture, given the slow pace of his contract negotiations and the sense that, at 24, he will want to sign one mega-deal before his precocity catches up with him in his late 20s.
An Everton debutant at 16, he is not going to be running round like Raúl in his 30s. Nor is he likely to be the face of Barbour or Twinings Tea when he stops playing, so the pressure is on to pile up earnings now. A familiar measure of brinkmanship will be present in his dealings with the United board, but there is also authentic concern that he will court a silly-money move to the more tax‑advantageous haven of Spain.
We know Fergusonhas refused to indulge him. There was shock throughout the club that his personal discipline should deteriorate so sharply and produce accounts of him drinking, smoking and urinating in the street, never mind the carnal urges that placed such a strain on his marriage. The disappointment at United was not moral in nature. It stemmed from a belief that he had violated the team ethic and Ferguson's unambiguous professional code.
Against this chaotic backdrop there was bound to be ambivalence about awarding him a £60,000-a-week pay rise. Some supporters see only the tinsel around the name and think there is no greater duty than bowing to a star player's every demand. But United's past says there is a point of no return, a line which even the most venerated
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franchise and NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning play across the bay. Bowl games, pro golf tournaments and events such as the Firestone Grand Prix of St. Petersburg make St. Petersburg or the St. Petersburg Grand Slam Beach Volleyball Tournament round out an active calendar of sporting events.
Neighborhoods
St. Petersburg is the largest city both in terms of land mass and population in Pinellas County. Its residents inhabit the southern half of the Pinellas peninsula, and the city is surrounded by 260 miles of shoreline – Tampa Bay to the east, Boca Ciega Bay to the south, and the Gulf of Mexico and its Intracoastal Waterway to the west.
As such, St. Petersburg is home to desirable waterfront neighborhoods, whether those rich in the Mediterranean tradition, mid-century homes or new, modern subdivisions.Surrounding downtown, the city has several quaint, historic neighborhoods where bungalows cozy up to brick streets, and neighbors congregate on front porches. Downtown itself has become one of the hottest residential neighborhoods, adding roughly 2,000 housing units from townhouses to highrise condominiums and apartments, in recent years.
The cost of living in St. Petersburg is below the US average. In fact, St. Petersburg ranks 92.2 on the Cost of Living Index by the Council for Community and Economic Research, making it more affordable than many of its peer cities including Sarasota, Charlotte, NC, and Miami. The median sales price in the area for a single family home is $206,500 and $145,000 for a condo or townhome (Pinellas Realtor Organization, October 2016).
The city’s residents have grown accustomed to an outstanding
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More than 2,000 migrants have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea already in 2015, according to the International Organization for Migration. As the Mediterranean migrant crisis continues in the face of apparent government inaction, a private organization has stepped in to help.
Founded by American millionaire Christopher Catrambone and his Italian wife Regina Catrambone, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station (MOAS) aims to provide search and rescue assistance to the thousands of people fleeing conflict and economic hardship in the Middle East and Africa.
VICE News went to meet the team behind MOAS before it launched its operation from Malta.A lawsuit claims the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and Chicago Lakeshore Hospital “turned a blind eye” to sexual and physical abuse inflicted upon children at the psychiatric hospital.
The 16-count suit, filed in federal court Tuesday by Cook County Public Guardian Charles Golbert, lists DCFS overseers as well as former Lakeshore administrators and nurses among its defendants. Lakeshore’s parent company, Signature Healthcare Services, LLC, is also included as a defendant.
It comes over a year after the alleged abuse was brought to light by a ProPublica investigation. In December 2018, the federal government slashed their funding to the Uptown hospital and DCFS was forced to relocate the children who were placed there, according to the suit.
In the 40-page lawsuit, Golbert testifies on behalf of several minors who
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night pulled out of the President-elect's festivities after being threatened and branded an 'Uncle Tom'.
Singer Holliday, 56, famed for her performance as Effie in Dreamgirls, had originally said she was 'determined' to sing for Trump despite voting against him. She also denounced the abuse she was getting and called it an attack on freedom of speech.
Stars including Elton John and Celine Dion have declined invitations to sing at the ceremony.
Isn't it great just how 'non-violent' and 'accepting' Americans are (when they get their way)?Friday, April 28, 2017
I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post will include blurbs on American Race, Labyrinth, Diana Ross, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee's "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner", Losing Sight of Shore, Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery, People of Earth, and The Detour.
- TNT has released a trailer for its new docu-series series American Race with host Charles Barkley:
- Extending the 30th anniversary celebration of the beloved film, Labyrinth, Jim Henson’s mesmerizing and enduring fantasy classic, David Bowie and Trevor Jones’ iconic soundtrack will be remastered and reissued on vinyl on May 12 for the first time since its original 1986 release. Long out of print, the album, which was
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up. My mom, a retired schoolteacher, volunteers at a thrift shop at an inner-city parish in Syracuse, and my dad, a retired electrical engineer and amateur woodworker, has designed and built an ambo, candle stands and a shelf for the holy oils for the church.
One of my sisters now teaches music at a Catholic school in Madison, Wis., after some years performing on the French horn in orchestras and ensembles around the Boston area. My other sister is a physical therapist based in Salem, Mass., who engages her severely disabled patients in adaptive sports like skiing and biking. I'm proud of them all.
Where and with whom do you now live?
I'm happy to say that I got married over Memorial Day Weekend 2015 to a wonderful guy whom Iaddressing them -- a first boyfriend who was steeped in Catholic social teaching and had considered the priesthood, a college roommate who became a Franciscan sister to live out her passion for service, writing about social justice advocates while I was a newspaper reporter, meeting women religious passionate about justice, the Mercy justice team director Jean Stokan, who lives and breathes the urgency of easing the suffering of people around the world.
Are there issues you believe women religious should address?
Mercy justice ministers are exploring in an ever-deeper way the whole concept of sustainability, and it is taking us beyond commitments to recycling and driving less, to considering our complicity in the excesses of a capitalist system that is destroying vulnerable people, communities and cultures around the world and
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Opens in a row after Scot Willie Anderson in 1905.
"I always believed I would be a professional athlete and be successful," Woodland told CNN World Sport's Patrick Snell after his three-shot victory on the Monterey Peninsula. "I didn't know what sport that would be in."
'This ain't gonna work'
Woodland's wake-up call came when his Washburn University basketball side took on the top-ranked University of Kansas.
"I was guarding Kirk Hinrich (2003 Chicago Bulls draft pick), and, was like, 'OK, I need to find something else, because this ain't gonna work,'" he told reporters in California.
"And that was my first game in college. I was a two-time State champion, All-State, blah, blah, blah, but that was a different level."
Golf had always been in the background, and after his freshman year hetook up a scholarship in the sport at the University of Kansas. Now he was on the right track, and after a successful college career he joined the PGA Tour in 2009, winning the first of four titles in 2011.
'I got this'
Woodland's previous best major finishes were tied sixth at the PGA Championship last year, after leading at halfway, and tied eighth in the US PGA at Bethpage in May 2019.
❤️ @GaryWoodland is leading by two at the U.S. Open.
The solo leader shines on and off the course.#LiveUnderPar pic.twitter.com/Tmv1h87Soy — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) June 15, 2019
But his name went viral on social media earlier this season after he formed a friendship with Special Olympics golfer Amy Bockerstette, who has Downs Syndrome.
In a video organized by the PGA Tour,
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depositions provided to him, and he concluded that "I will not be able to say that this was a clear case of malpractice...." Dr. Haase was, of course, lost to the plaintiff as a potential expert witness.
MLCS also contacted Dr. Gerald F. Winkler, an eminent neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He reviewed the case and agreed to testify for the plaintiff. It happened, however, that the trial date was set at a time the only time in his schedule when Dr. Winkler had a long-standing prior commitment. Although he offered to appear by way of videotaped deposition, Mr. Schackow ultimately decided that he would not be an appropriate witness for an Alachua County jury; he apparently also felt that the doctor's fee was tooSupervisor David Campos announced on Monday that within four months, all of the homeless encampments in the Mission District would be dismantled.
“Our plan, and my commitment to you, is to remove all Mission encampments within the next four months, in an effective and humane manner,” said Campos in a press release addressed to Mission District residents and businesses.
“I am glad to report that the process for encampment removal is already underway,” he added, saying a new “Encampment Resolution Team” would be targeting tent cities in the northeastern section of the Mission District, from 16th to 19th streets between South Van Ness Avenue and Bryant Street.
Later on Monday at a community meeting, Campos, Jeff Kositsky — the head of the newly-created Department of Homelessness — Captain Daniel Perea of
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free ascent in under 24 hours. Today The Nose attracts climbers of a wide range of experience and ability. With a success rate of around 60%, it typically takes fit climbers 2-3 full days of climbing to complete.
Free climbing
As it became clear that any face could be conquered with sufficient perseverance and bolt-hole drilling, some climbers began searching for El Cap routes that could be climbed either free or with minimal aid. The "West Face" route was free climbed in 1979 by Ray Jardine and Bill Price; but despite numerous efforts by Jardine and others, The Nose resisted free attempts for another fourteen years.
The first free ascent of a main El Cap route, though, was not The Nose, but The Salathe Wall. Todd Skinner and Paul Piana madewas something of an embarrassment. Not only was the man a poor public speaker, but his comments failed to match the energy potential of the occasion and generally went well under the heads of his audience.
Given the range of approaches he could have chosen, the speaker selected the most innocuous — and also the most trivial: chatty, informal reminiscence. Entertainment, in short. Most of his time was given over to unnecessarily elaborate recountings of the comparatively infrequent occasions on which he had deigned to direct his attention to photography. Considering the major creative and technical developments which have taken place within the medium in the last twenty-five years — the period his critical career spans — his relationship to photography could hardly be called prophetic, nor indeed even
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Nearby Theaters
Located n the northwest of the city centre. A big capacity movie palace built in 1913, and designed by architect Jean-Marius Girard. Seating was provided in orchestra and balcony levels. The manager was the son-in-law of Henry Guimard, the architect of the Art Nouveau period. The seats designed in Art Nouveau style were from a short-lived theatre also designed by architect Jean-Marius Girard.
The building was renovated through the years and closed in 1954. This was the beginning of the TV age in France and the Mozart Pathe became a supermarket.
In 2004, it is easy to look at the building and imagine it a former movie palace.up the next morning with dark clouds of regret. It happened to me in July 1985 — I had sex with a midget, the last woman standing in the pseudo-goth nightclub White Trash at three o’clock in the morning. Although I had not thought she was standing at the time; I thought she was sitting. But by this point the alcohol had worked its magic and I reckoned she looked like a rather fetching cross between Gina Lollobrigida and one of the Time Bandits. Next morning, in the cold light of day, when I had to bend over double to reach her bedroom door handle and get the hell out, I thought differently. But no retrospective redress for me, only for the women.
The paradoxes became an absurdity. Sex
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President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE on Friday criticized a question from CNN reporter Abby Phillip as "stupid" while speaking with reporters on the White House lawn on Friday.
In a gaggle with reporters, Trump was asked by Phillip if he was hoping that Matthew Whitaker, the acting attorney general appointed on Wednesday and a past critic of Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's special counsel investigation, wouldpass after the reporter pressed Trump on his statements about a migrant caravan at a press conference earlier that day.
The White House then tweeted out an apparently doctored video first posted by the conspiracy site InfoWars to claim that Acosta physically struck a White House intern who was attempting to take his microphone.
Acosta's arm briefly brushed the White House aide's arm as she reached in to take his microphone, but Acosta did not put his hands on the aide.
“We will ... never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern," White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. "This conduct is absolutely unacceptable.”
CNN responded in a statement, stating that Sanders "lied" about
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SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty years ago, amid a national panic over crime, California voters adopted the country’s most stringent three-strikes law, sentencing repeat felons to 25 years to life, even if the third offense was a minor theft.
The law epitomized the tough-on-crime policies that produced overflowing prisons and soaring costs.
Now California voters appear poised to scale back the heavy reliance on incarceration they once embraced, with a measure that would transform several lower-level, nonviolent felonies into misdemeanors punishable by brief jail stays, if that, rather than time in a state penitentiary. The referendum on Nov. 4 is part of a national reappraisal of mass incarceration.
To its advocates — not only liberals and moderates, but also an evangelical conservative businessman who has donated more than $1 million to thecommittees, adding that the intention of the proposed law was in response to demands for better copyright protection from the German cultural sector.
Devil in the details
The proposed legislation aims to scrutinize the sale of any artworks or artifacts valued at more than 150,000 euro ($164,000) and older the 50 years, intending to both stem the flow of the illegal sale of antiques and keep works in Germany which are considered "national treasures." While many in the art world agree the sale of illegal antiques needs to be better regulated - specifically in the wake of Islamic State's plundering of historic sites across the Middle East - they also insist the collateral impact on the wider German art market will be detrimental.
As the world's most expensive living artist, Richter
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has been seen in highly vaccinated population by Lamb.\[[@ref21]\] Many developed countries such as United States, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Oman and United Kingdom had eliminated rubeola by two doses schedule.
Despite \>95% of this high coverage in Shahpur block and those of the affected villages under sub center Seilli, inter epidemic interval became more and the number of the cases are sporadic.\[[@ref14][@ref16][@ref22]\] The epidemic appeared out due to the gradual accumulation of a small number of susceptible children over the years in the community. Such accumulations typically resulted owing to the combination of (1) 85% measles VE and (2) subsequently, children left un-immunized each year. Retrospective cohort study conducted during these outbreaks proved that the efficacy of the vaccine (83%) was within the anticipated level thereby warranting the requirementUCLA Broadcast Studio
Using project-based learning, creativity and 3D-printed rocket kits, the students who make up the Rocket Project at UCLA have become science and engineering ambassadors.
The UCLA undergraduates have recently started to share their love of science, engineering and rockets to inspire schoolchildren through visits to Los Angeles-area schools. Their first two outreach events were held at Scott Avenue Elementary School and Marina Del Rey Middle School, where they worked to show students that engineering and problem-solving is exciting by teaching them some basic principles of flight and aerodynamics using model rockets, which are 3-D printed at the UCLA Lux Lab.
Members of the Rocket Project, which has about 120 members from various majors across campus, also test their skills each year at the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition, during
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Douglas Finch established an impressive career as a concert pianist after winning several national competitions in Canada, Third Prize in the Washington J.S. Bach International Competition and silver medal at the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels. Besides appearing as soloist with conductors including Charles Dutoit, John Avison, Georges Octors, Boris Brott and Uri Mayer, he has performed many recitals internationally with a large 'established' repertoire ranging from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier to Ives’ Concord Sonata, as well as many pieces by living composers. His acclaimed work with The Continuum Ensemble since 1994 (of which he is co-artistic director) has been heard at the Southbank Centre, in festivals including Spitalfields, and on a number of programmes on BBC Radio, championing music by Xenakis, Aperghis, Smalley, Wallen, Dutilleux, Vivier,New Delhi, April 11: China is expected to emerge as one of India's largest trading partners with the two countries planning to shoot for a bilateral trade target of $30 billion by 2010.
The two countries ' which along with Brazil and Russia form the famous BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) axis of the best emerging economies ' are also proposing to start work on a feasibility study to establish a regional trade agreement (RTA) between themselves.
The two nations are independently pursuing the idea of establishing a free-trade arrangement with the 12-member Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) and an RTA between them will help create a pan-Asia common market of close to 3 billion consumers, almost half the world's population.
'We have set an objective (in the
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homeless dog adoption campaign, including underwear worn by lead actress and former porn star Sunny Leone. PETA never disclosed exactly how much they made from the auction, but given how hugely popular Bollywood films are and how many weirdos there are willing to drop ridiculous amounts of money on used celebrity underwear (see above), you gotta imagine it was a lot.
11. According to USA Today, in 2008, the late Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, paid $2,800 at auction for a set of lingerie worn by Smith during a Playboy shoot. At the time, Birkhead claimed the pink bustier and white negligee were intended as keepsakes for his and Smith's then 1-year-old daughter, Dannielynn.
10. In 2013, Bordelle created a Christmas capsule collection for U.K. department store Selfridges,Huffington Post, Monica thought she'd get closer to $50,000 for the collection, which did not include her infamous blue dress but did include an unopened box of slightly crushed presidential M&M'S.
7. In 2002, jeweler Uwe Koetter created a gold, pearl, and diamond chastity belt for a private client in South Africa for $20,000. This thing makes Samantha's pearl thong look like a pair of pajama jeans. There is no way any woman would buy this for herself, meaning someone must have bought it for her, making this truly the worst gift ever.
6. In 2007, a lingerie show in Shenyang City, in northern China, featured a yellow gold lingerie set valued at more than $26,000. Apparently, the piece took over four months to make and was on display for
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from dream to its problematic reality.
Through extensive interviews, Ross documents how it was Palestinians who actually built Israeli cities, contradicting Zionist narratives. He also analyses the tensions within the Jewish labour movement caused by entrepreneurs employing cheaper, more skilled, Palestinian workers.
Richard Falk taught at Princeton University for 40 years. In 2008 he was appointed by the UN to serve a six-year term as the Special Rapporteur on Palestinian human rights. He is also a contributor to Middle East Eye.
Dania Akkad
One of the more important pieces of writing of the year was a report – the Mueller Report investigating alleged Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential elections.
Sure, the 448-page, two-volume monstrosity, published back in April, is not exactly a book, although several publishers have reprinted it as such,Terrorism (IG Publishing) while researching a piece about The Day Shall Come, Chris Morris’ first film since Four Lions. Aaronson examines how the FBI has manufactured terrorists in the United States as part of the so-called War On Terror, fuelling the instability we witness in parts of the Middle East and acting as an indicator of the racism that so often underpins policy in the region.
Oscar Rickett is a journalist who has written and worked for Middle East Eye, openDemocracy, VICE, The Guardian, BBC, Channel 4 and Africa Confidential among others.
Mustafa Abu Sneineh
Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan was born in Bethlehem in 1954, returning to Ramallah in the 1990s after years of exile (he also worked as a journalist for various PLO publications). In 2013, Zaqtan won the prestigious
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support for national unity, carried by Canadians gathered from coast to coast.
Mr. Speaker, a week ago today well over 100,000 Canadians converged on Place du Canada in Montreal to stand on guard for their country. From every part of Canada they came because they care. The rally last Friday was a defining moment in the referendum and in our history. It was a beautiful moment, a moment the people of Canada cannot let us politicians forget.
All week I have been getting calls from people asking me what they can do to make sure their message was understood and remembered. I have a suggestion. I invite those who were in Montreal last Friday to take a few moments to put their thoughts to paper, to share with others howEver since the Presidential election we have witnessed Hollywood and celebrities embark on an ever-widening mission to lambaste Donald Trump. It began on social media, then broadened to their awards shows, content in programming, and now has even spread into our sports world.
The amazing part of this antagonistic outreach has been the participants’ obliviousness to consistent diminishing returns. The Academy Awards, and just recently The Emmy Awards, have endured historic lows in the ratings. ESPN has encouraged a social justice agenda with its talent and that has led to loss of subscribers, and layoffs. Hollywood just completed its worst summer at the box office in years. And as the NFL has ramped up the activism it is resulting in audience flight and lower attendance figures at games.
At least
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night. Lex simply walked out of the house. It was trash day, and Matt hopped on a bicycle at 6 a.m. to scour the streets. He found her about three blocks to the east casually sniffing a bush.
More than anything, Lex loved negotiating space on the couch with Matt. They always ended up in some contorted pile of pillows and fur, both of them snoring away.
Lex deeply loved her little brother, Charlie. She enthusiastically welcomed him into our family, and showed him the ropes to Big Dog World.
She didn’t like playing dress up, although when she was younger she did allow me to suit up her paws in doggie muttluks for our winter walks. Lex never quite forgave me for that.
Lex took part in a colorful journey, andwas quite possibly more traveled than some people I know. Over the years, she accompanied me on numerous camping trips, morel mushroom hunting and a two-month odyssey driving from Detroit to Miami and back again. She demanded the front passenger seat when it was just us girls driving. Her eyes remained alert as we passed farms and skyscrapers. She didn’t want to miss a thing.
Saying goodbye
If anything, Lexie was a fighter. She came close to death last year, and unbelieveably fought her way through kidney failure. But she was no match for dementia and old age. She no longer knew who I was, and frequently got lost in the house. Her hind legs betrayed her, refusing to hold her weight. She frequently fell off her favorite chair, and
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Umami is Japanese for "pleasant savoury taste" and although it's lesser known, it's one of the five basic tastes.
But Dr Kwok's research didn't conclusively prove a link between MSG and the symptoms some claim to experience after consuming it.
In 2003, Food Standards Australia New Zealand concluded in a technical report that there was no convincing evidence that MSG had caused any reactions resulting in serious illness or death.
The real takeaway is this: the current scientific consensus is that MSG can temporarily affect a select few when consumed in large quantities on an empty stomach. But for the large majority of people, it's perfectly fine to consume.
However, nutritionist Tracie Connor says MSG is dangerous for a different reason.
"MSG is added to foods to increase the desire to eat theit comes housed in a beautiful gatefold jacket with expanded artwork throughout.
Its expansive, singular vision infamously took years to realise, involving Earth Wind & Fire’s horn arranger (the legendary Tom Tom MMLXXXIV) amongst other elite personnel. Recorded with five different engineers (including Steve Albini and John McEntire), Hayes meticulously extracted every ounce of pop from each note. A long list of renowned studio ringers (including soul drummer Morris Jennings) and Chicago regulars (McEntire, Rizzo, Parker) among many others provide playing of demonstrably professional precision. As such, Hayes' complex, meandering melodies are rendered far more coherent and satisfying than they otherwise might have appeared, bringing his epic, anguished pop to a rarely seen level of perfection and depth. This unstinting dedication to the overarching vision was rewarded handsomely -
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virtually regular panelists, joined frequently by Arte Johnson, Rex Reed, Rip Taylor, Steve Garvey, Phyllis Diller, and others at home with this kind of mayhem. The show was created by Chris Bearde and Chuck Barris, and premiered on the NBC daytime lineup in June 1976. Curly-headed Chuck "Chuckie Baby" Barris, one of the most successful game-show producers in Hollywood (The Dating Game, The Newlywed Game), was the host of the daytime version throughout its run, and replaced by Gary Owens on the syndicated version after its first year. When The Gong Show was revived in 1988, Don Bleu was the new host.
Gentle comedy starring Carl Reiner as a warm and witty business-suited angel who descended to earth to bestow one wish on a different mortal each week --any wish except money. Thanks to Mr. Angel, and to themselves, a sporting-goods salesman go this long-dreamt-of tryout in the big leagues; a young woman who couldn't decide between two suitors got a new beau who combined the best qualities of each; and an unsuccessful author got an adventure to which everyone wanted the literary rights.
GOOD TIMESSituation Comedy
FIRST TELECAST: February 1, 1974
LAST TELECAST: August 1, 1979
PRODUCER: Norman Lear
Good Times was a spinoff from Maude, which in turn was a spinoff from All in the Family. Florida Evans (Esther Rolle) was originally Maude Findlay's maid until, in the spring of 1974, she got a show of her own. Florida and James (John Amos) Evans were lower-middle-class blacks living with their three children in a high-rise ghetto on the South
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told the Hollywood Reporter.
The offbeat show was the brainchild of The Simpsons mastermind Groening and writer David X. Cohen and debuted on Fox in March 1999. The series revolved around Fry, a pizza delivery boy who is accidentally frozen for a thousand years. When he wakes up in the year 3000, he befriends a sassy one-eyed pilot, Leela, and a cranky robot, Bender, who both work for an intergalactic delivery service run by a distant nephew of Fry's.
In August 2003, after five seasons and three Emmys, including the 2002 award for Best Animated Series, Futurama was canceled due to low ratings.
Reruns of the show, however, were picked up by Cartoon Network, and just like cable home did with Family Guy before it, the move paved the way fora Futurama revival.
Both shows aired on the Cartoon Network and quickly built up unexpectedly robust ratings.
In 2004, Stewie & Co. were resuscitated by to Fox thanks to staggering DVD sales--the show ranks as the fourth-biggest TV series seller ever--and its proliferation in reruns.
In January of this year, 20th Century Fox began talks with Comedy Central to revive the long-gone Futurama as well, thanks to its resurgence in popularity courtesy of its second life in reruns and high--though not Family Guy high--DVD sales.
The cable net has already re-signed voice stars Billy West, Katey Sagal and John DiMaggio to reprise their animated roles.
In the meantime, new Futurama plots can already be had in comic book form, with Groening's Bongo Comics releasing the stories.
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in Southeast Asia, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, India, India subcontinent, and New Zealand.
Cartoon Network Asia has taken seasons 6 and 7 of Oggy and the Cockroaches. The series is distributed in more than 160 countries around the world and is watched in 600 million homes.
Chinese distributor Jetsen Huashi Wangju Kids has picked up the digital rights to season one of Xilam’s Zig and Sharko. The series is slated to be released in China across VOD platforms in 2018.
On being asked if Xilam foresees consolidation in the market in the days to come, he argues animation is driven by creativity. No giant will change that, especially as content is now in the stronger side of the business. “Anyone has the ability to distribute, however very few can create.”winners - including Open champion Francesco Molinari and US Open and US PGA winner Brooks Koepka.
However, Woods was almost knocked over by a security guard who slipped on the damp grass and clipped his right ankle, causing the 43-year-old to hop forward to avoid a fall.
Ian Poulter is the leading Englishman on five under, while Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy shot a 71 that leaves him level par but world number one Justin Rose bogeyed the last to miss the cut on four over.
It is an exceptionally tight leaderboard though, with 22 players within four shots of the lead.
The third round is live on BBC Two and the BBC Sport website from 19:30 BST with live coverage of featured groups on Connected TV and online from 15:15.
What happened to
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it was a good time to return to school to pursue a graduate degree. She originally moved to Oregon to work at the Bandon National Wildlife Preserve, but is now a Masters Student with Dr. Joan Hagar while continuing her outreach activities volunteering for birding festivals such as the Oregon Shorebird Festival and the Birding & Blue Festivals. In her free time you can find Lorelle running away from the office and searching for mushrooms, wild edibles, or other elusive birds.
Join us Sunday October 21st at 7PM on 88.7FM, or listen live, to learn more about Purple Martins and how these birds are intimately tied to the natural ecosystems around us as well as the urbanized spaces we occupy together.
Lorelle at the age of 8 continuing her passionbut lends itself well to automation by computer. Francisco is in the process of implementing a computer vision-based tool to track the animals’ movement automatically.
The crew that assisted in helping collect the animals: From left to right: Chris Flora (undergraduate), Lauren Zatkos (Master’s student), Ivan Arismendi (PI).
Why OSU?
Originally from a small town in Washington state, Francisco grew up in a logging community near the woods. He knew he wanted to pursue a career involving wild animals and fishing, with the opportunity to work outside. Francisco came to OSU’s Department of Fisheries and Wildlife for his undergraduate studies. As an undergrad, Francisco had the opportunity to explore research through the NSF REU program while working on a project related to algae in the lab of Brooke Penaluna. After he
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controversies came when he falsely stated that, unlike Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Hitler had never used chemical weapons and did not resort to using gas "on his own people." Spicer later apologized for both of these comments, after numerous Jewish groups and students of history called for his resignation.
In this photo: Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing at the White House on March 27, 2017.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
"If the president puts Russian salad dressing on his salad tonight, somehow that's a Russian connection," Spicer once said to questions about Trump.
In late March, Spicer tried to downplay questions about whether Trump had collaborated with Russian officials by saying that the media used anything as nebulous as Russian salad dressing to demonstrate a connection.
In this photo: Sean Spicer arrives in theIn households throughout Britain, mementos of the lighthouse keeper's daughter could be found on the mantelpiece or sideboard.
Although Grace Darling was undoubtedly brave and played a crucial part in rescuing some of the survivors of the shipwrecked vessel, her exploits scarcely bear comparison with some of the American lighthouse women, notably Ida Lewis, who single-handedly saved the lives of at least eighteen people over a period of twenty-five years. But there was a peculiar drama associated with the wreck of the _Forfarshire_ that made it into a story, and though some key features of the story were entirely fictitious, it is not difficult to see why it should have taken such a hold on the public imagination.
The Farne Islands, where the drama took place, lie off the coast
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has seemed moderate by Trump's standards," said Samuel Brazys, an associate politics professor at University College Dublin.
"But it's hard to say whether he has actually been behaving a bit more like a normal president, or it's just that everyone has got Trump-fatigue," he said. "We're all so acclimatized to the gaffes, the insults, and the naivety or lack of knowledge about certain subjects."
Trump meets with Varadkar in Shannon, Ireland, on Wednesday. Alex Brandon / AP
Aside from some questionable tailoring, Trump's state banquet with the queen went by without a hitch. Elsewhere, he quickly rowed back his comments about the NHS and paid fitting tributes to veterans at the several events commemorating 75 years since D-Day.
In Portsmouth, where Allied ships departed for Normandy in June 1944, Trump read aprayer originally delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He paid tribute to those who fought in "what may have been the greatest battle ever," and echoed those sentiments again in northern France on Thursday.
Even the protests against him were down from last year. Tuesday's crowds were noticeably smaller than the horde of 250,000 who turned out last year — although a drizzly British summer day played its part.
As well as becoming desensitized to Trump, there's also a sense that Britain is engulfed in so much chaos of its own that the visiting president was more of a sideshow.
The future of Brexit is as uncertain as ever and May is days away from resigning as Conservative Party leader ahead of vacating Downing Street in the near future. British political
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Based on 1) undisputable acumen. 2) carnivorous fortunes, delicately Referred to here as “bull market” And (of course) other irrational factors Deadly smoke thick over the icecaps, Our man in Saigon Lima Tokyo etc etc
— Lorenzo Thomas
Michael Boughn's most recent book, City — A Poem from the End of the World, was published in 2016 by Spuyten Duyvil. Hermetic Divagations — After H.D. is forthcoming in March, 2017 from Swimmers Group in Toronto. Together with Victor Coleman, he edited Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book for University of California Press. He lives in Toronto.
Dante Di Stefano is the author of Love is a Stone Endlessly in Flight (Brighthorse Books, 2016). His poetry, essays, and reviews have appeared in Brilliant Corners, The Los Angeles Review, Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
Februarypublication in his own lifetime, a writer who had been literally starving to death for the final five years of his life, and who finally did so, during the Siege of Leningrad, in 1942. While I do take this awesome responsibility before the court of your judgment very seriously, I have every intention of pursuing my own work, with or without financial remuneration or even the prospect of the publication of another book; among my next book projects is a Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the 20th Century, one who has been most consequential to me personally, and yet another poet repressed by the Soviet regime. With this in mind, this, my last post dedicated to this book, is on DANIIL
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particularly awaited but the U.S. regulator only resorted to taking measures against separate crypto-related projects without providing clear guidelines.
At G20, representatives of numerous countries discussed the possible uses of the technology, yet their overall attitude towards cryptocurrencies was neutral at best.
Asia, one of the largest cryptocurrency markets in the world, has turned crypto market into a bloodbath several times by introducing unexpected bans on ICOs and/or cryptocurrency trading. On the other hand, this region also contains examples of the clearest regulatory measures taken by the state towards cryptocurrencies. In 2016, Japan became the first country to recognize digital currencies as money.
Part 2: What is going on now?
Quick growth most often leads to rapid decline — this rule works for any asset on the market, and is especially trueIraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets with President Obama in the Oval Office in December 2011. (AP Photo/ Carolyn Kaster)
(CNSNews.com) – Iraqi authorities are on the verge of releasing a leading Shi’ite terrorist wanted by the United States for the killing of American soldiers there, but the Obama administration maintains that the U.S. has “a good and robust and strategic partnership” with Baghdad.
The case of Ali Musa Daqduq, one of the most senior Hezbollah figures ever to have been in U.S. custody, threatens to become a heated political issue in the U.S., with Republican critics accusing the administration of botching the affair.
The Lebanese national allegedly was a key link between Hezbollah, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force, and violent Shi’ite “special groups” held responsible by the Pentagon
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regimen with the help of underfunded federal programs, underpaid labor by undocumented immigrants, and unpaid labor by female relatives.
Old age is primarily a concern for women, which is surely one reason that it has not received much critical attention.
This much and more is revealed in two recent books on the subject: Nomadland (2017), an eye-opening work of journalism by Jessica Bruder, and The Age of Dignity (2015), a clarion call for a new approach to aging by the activist and organizer Ai-jen Poo. The former shows how capital is exploiting the elderly themselves, while the latter shows how the same process is ravaging the lives of their caretakers. Together they suggest that the magnificent expansion of the lifespan is being subsumed by the logic of neoliberalism. Here, aselsewhere, the great successes of the twentieth century are devoured by the locusts of the twenty-first.
Bruder’s Nomadland chronicles the surprising number of elderly people who have abandoned their homes and started living in their vans. While technically homeless, they prefer to call themselves “houseless.” Most suffered a combination of blows: lost jobs, failed marriages, and healthcare disasters chief among them. Financial and communal resources might be enough to deal with one crisis, but together they conspire to place downward pressure on these stalwart veterans of the middle class. With her journalist’s eye, Bruder uncovers colorful characters, most memorably a vibrant woman named Linda May. For years, May has been living in her old yellow van, which she affectionately calls the Squeeze Inn. Together with a motley crew of
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virus will gain a foothold in detention centers just as public health leaders are desperately trying to contain it.
Already, ICE acknowledged that one worker at a New Jersey detention center is in self-quarantine and was tested for COVID-19. The ACLU of Southern California, The Bronx Defenders, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and a coalition of advocacy groups in the South have asked ICE to release people who are most at risk of becoming severely ill from COVID-19 – the elderly and those with chronic conditions such as Remón. A lawsuit filed Monday by the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the American Civil Liberties Union demands that ICE release at-risk detainees at a facility in Tacoma, Washington, part of the Seattle metro area, which is home to one ofThere lies a vale in Ida, lovelier
Than all the valleys of Ionian hills.
The swimming vapour slopes athwart the glen,
Puts forth an arm, and creeps from pine to pine,
And loiters, slowly drawn. On either hand
The lawns and meadow-ledges midway down
Hang rich in flowers, and far below them roars
The long brook falling thro' the clov'n ravine
In cataract after cataract to the sea.
Behind the valley topmost Gargarus
Stands up and takes the morning: but in front
The gorges, opening wide apart, reveal
Troas and Ilion's column'd citadel,
The crown of Troas.
Hither came at noon
Mournful Oenone, wandering forlorn
Of Paris, once her playmate on the hills.
Her cheek had lost the rose, and round her neck
Floated her hair or seem'd to float in rest.
She, leaning on a fragment twined with vine,
Sang to the stillness, till the mountain-shade
Sloped downward
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9,000 people across the region were affected. Up to 185 miles (300 km) of roads and several thousand acres of farmland were also under water, and thousands of heads of livestock were killed. Damage was also reported to dams, bridges, power and telephone lines, and a gas pipeline.
Torrential rains triggered landslides and floods across southern Brazil on April 22nd, leaving at least eleven people dead and two missing. The hardest hit region was the Rio Grande Del Sol state. Several regions of the state were evacuated due to fears of additional landslides. It was reported that about 100,000 residents were without power. Also impacted was Rio de Janeiro, to the north. Blackouts were widespread across the western portion of the city where power lines had fallen. Several downtowncity streets were flooded as well as the Maracana stadium, home of the 2016 Olympic Games opening ceremony and the 2014 World Cup final.
Flood waters which impacted the upper Midwest of the U.S. during the first part of April slowly made their way down the Mississippi into the mid-Mississippi River Valley. Water from snowmelt from winter, in addition to heavy rainfall in the region, caused record flooding. On April 26th, 48 river gauges reported major flooding along rivers in the central United States. Most of the heavy rain across the region fell between April 22nd-26th, with several locations receiving over a foot of rain in that time period. Flooding is not new for the region, but the aging earthen levees, which have been built to protect population centers,
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About The Author:Christopher Brookmyre is a Scottish novelist whose novels mix politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was Quite Ugly One Morning, and subsequent works have included One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night, which he said “was just the sort of book he needed to write before he turned 30”, and All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye (2005).
About The Book:Sam Morpeth is growing up way too fast, left to fend for a younger sister with learning difficulties when their mother goes to prison and watching her dreams of university evaporate. But Sam learns what it is to be truly powerless when a stranger begins to blackmailand I’ll leave it at that.
All in all, a contemporary crime novel solved by combining hacking skills and investigative journalism, the plot is intriguing and has good development, and if it wasn’t for the problematic bullying issues, I’d have given this five stars.
About The Author:Born in the Kingdom of Fife in 1960, Ian Rankin graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1982 and then spent three years writing novels when he was supposed to be working towards a PhD in Scottish Literature. His first Rebus novel was published in 1987; the Rebus books are now translated into 22 languages and are bestsellers on several continents. He recently received the OBE for services to literature, and opted to receive the prize in his home city of Edinburgh, where he
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has reported from such locations as North Korea, Iraq, Sudan, Libya, Afghanistan and Liberia.
Smith graduated with honors from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, with a B.A. in history and political science.
Smith currently resides in New York City with his wife and two daughters. He enjoys cold white wine and long, bubbly baths—preferably in tandem.
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HBO is home to the most talked about programs on television - from groundbreaking series, films, documentaries and sports to the biggest blockbuster movies available anywhere. And it's never been easier to watch HBO programs - when you want, where you want.Capitol Hill Buzz: Sanders rallies Capitol workers over pay
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is rallying for an increase in pay for low-wage workers at his day-job workplace — the Senate.
Speaking in the rain in a park outside the Senate on Tuesday, Sanders urged a group of a hundred or more striking and protesting workers to keep up their fight. The event was scheduled on the day of the Republican presidential debate to highlight what Sanders says is the divide between Democrats and Republicans on the issue.
Some of the protesters work in the Senate and were taking the day to strike. One woman who works in a Senate cafeteria spoke in Spanish about not having enough money to buy medicine for her sick child.
Democratic presidential candidate,
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and the Kennedy School of Executive Education at Harvard University, he is an accomplished attorney of note, and the recipient of many professional awards for excellence, brilliance, and leadership on such issues as public interest, environmental, administrative, and constitutional law.
ROSS YAMASAKI
Ross Yamasaki is an established design strategist who deeply values the people and place of Hawaii. He is the primary responsible for the firm’s operations and development, and lead’s activities in the area of sustainability, environmental quality, and green technology.
Prior to joining CCH, he was a partner at KYA Design Group where he practiced architecture for nearly 25 years. While there, he worked extensively with government on projects, was a leader in the development of the green building industry and founded a subsidiary that was one of Hawaii’san individual with absolute credibility to represent them. He has served as Executive Vice President (Chief of Staff) of the Honolulu Board of Realtors, and in the same capacity with the Hawaii Association of Realtors.
He chaired and served as a member of the State Real Estate Commission, and was a member of the Hawaii Community Development Authority. He has been for more than twenty years, and continues to serve as, Chairman of the Board of the Royal Aloha Vacation Club, one of the largest “member owned” time-share organization in the world. he has served as president of the National Association of Real Estate License Law Officials.
He has served in various important advisory capacities to the various Governors of Hawaii. He attended the University of Hawaii on a basketball
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wants to help ‘Make WSU Great Again.’”
Allsup attended the January 2017 “Deploraball,” an inauguration party in Washington, D.C., organized by provocateurs who flirted with the alt-right throughout the 2016 election such as Mike Cernovich, Jack Posobiec, Lauren Southern and Gavin McInnes. The event, hosted at the National Press Club, was protested heavily and resulted in several skirmishes outside. Allsup was allegedly punched in the face and later struck in the head by a flagpole, resulting in seven stitches.
Six months later, Allsup was back in Washington, D.C., to appear on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial with some of the far right’s largest stars, including Richard Spencer, Mike Peinovich, Christopher Cantwell, Nathan Damigo, Augustus Invictus, Jason Kessler and others, for a Free Speech Rally. Allsup told a crowd that,of his alleged classmates unearthed posts on his personal Facebook account featuring antisemitic and sexist tropes.
Allsup alleges that he was invited to speak at the August 12, 2017, event.
The next day, Allsup stepped down as president of the WSU College Republicans. He was reelected the following December but was blocked from assuming the position by the chapter’s advisor because of his impending graduation.
Allsup formerly wrote for The Liberty Conservative, a rightwing publication that bills itself as, “An online political magazine devoted to the vision of less government and more liberty in achieving true prosperity for all.” Allsup wrote 30 articles for the publication, primarily about the 2016 Trump campaign, immigration, and globalists.
He also co-founded America First Media and co-hosted the “Nationalist Review” with Nick Fuentes, a program that
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driven by aggressive sports analogies and Israel was a winner. That made a big difference in spite of the repeated day long attacks by the Israeli air force and navy against USS Liberty, an American SIGINT collector positioned off the Egyptian coast. LBJ suppressed an armed reaction by a US carrier battle group in the area and a subsequent naval investigation. His policy then became one of relatively complete support of Israel.
The indoctrination and conditioning program described by Shoshana Bryen began in earnest after that and has carried through to the present under the umbrella of AIPAC and its galaxy of linked organizations especially the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). This program has been wildly, incredibly successful. As a result there is an unthinking willingness amongThe Prohibition era in America, which lasted for well over a decade and—inconceivable as it might be today—effectively banned the sale and production of booze in the United States, ended with the ratification of the 21st Amendment on Dec. 5, 1933.
"The project was my desire to look deeply into the lives of those around me who I have known for over ten years and who live in my building," Tavakolian explains. "I wanted to bring to life the story of a nation of middle class youths who are everyday battling with themselves, their isolated conformed society, their lack of hope for the future and each of their individual stories."
In 1999, Iranian students took the streets of Tehran in the fiercest unrest the country had seen since the 1979
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London and back to the U.S.
NYSportsJournalism.com:How challenging was it leading up to the Olympics to work with returning partners, sign new partners and help coordinate all of the activation that would support the team?
Aaron Ryan: It has been an incredible couple of months on the partnership side. A lot of time was spent getting content up and running and in motion, and then a shift in focus to gear up for the Olympics themselves. What has been so great is that all of our partners have been a vital part of the ride the entire time.
NYSJ:Was having the 2012 Olympic Games coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Dream Team a sort of perfect storm for marketing partners?
AR: We have hung our hat on a couple of things.Munich: Fink Verlag, 1976, 183 pp. Monograph.
Auf Deutsch, Kompetenz durch kommunikatives Lernen A First Year College Text. With Workbook, Instructors’ Manual, und Computer Program. Coauthor: Barbara Kosta. Englewood: Prentice Hall, 1991. 483 pp.
Recent articles and chapters
“Mächtige Männer in der Krise. Kreuzungen. Von Marlene Streeruwitz.“ Frauenphantasien. Der imaginierte Mann im Werk von Film- und Buchautorinnen. Ed. Renate Möhrmann. Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner, 2014. 548-563.
“Herta Müller,“ Berühmte Frauen 2013.” Ed. Luise Pusch. Berlin: Suhrkamp Verlag, 2012.
"Goethes Farbenlehre und Das Märchen -- Farbmagie oder -wissenschaft?“ In: Die Farben imaginierter Welten, Zur Kulturgeschichte ihrer Codierung in Literatur und Kunst vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Ed. Monika Schausten. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012.
“Christa Wolf’s Himmelsrichtungen.” In: Konzept Osteuropa. Der „Osten“ als Konstrukt der Fremd-
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Rockies, you can bet it's time for the annual Big Band Boogie Benefit, which brings together more than a hundred of the town's best jazz musicians in seven big bands playing for a big cause.
"Since its inception two years ago, the Big Band Boogie Benefit has raised more than $15,000 for local jazz education," says Andrew Hudson, first bass and founder of the event. "This year, the BBBB will celebrate and support the tremendous jazz education efforts of the Denver community's beloved jazz radio station, KUVO."
For music lovers, today's marathon itself is a good lesson on Denver's big-band musicians. The ten hours of performances start at 2:30 p.m. and include stints by bands ranging from Fairview High School Jazz 1 to the Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra, the Ultraphonic JazzEdge @ Serpentine: Extinction Panel
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HELENA CRONIN is the Co-Director of LSE's Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science; Author, The Ant and the Peacock: Altruism and Sexual Selection from Darwin to Today. Helena Cronin's Edge Bio Page
CHIARA MARLETTO is a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College and Postdoctoral Research Assistnat at the Materials Department at the University of Oxford. Chiara Marletto's Edge Bio Page
JENNIFER JACQUET is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU researching cooperation and the tragedy of the commons; Author, Is Shame Necessary Jennifer Jacquet's Edge Bio Page
STEVE JONES is a Professor of Genetics at the Galton Laboratory of University College London; Author, The Lanugage of the Genes. Steve Jones's Edge Bio Page
MOLLY CROCKETT is an Associate Professor in the
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“Black Lives Matter and the Paradoxes of U.S. Black Politics: From Democratic Sacrifice to Democratic Repair,” Political Theory (2016). In 2014–2015 professor Hooker served as co-Chair of the American Political Science Association’s Presidential Task Force on Racial and Social Class Inequalities in the Americas, and as Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies at UT-Austin from 2009–2014. She has received awards from various institutions including the National Endowment for the Humanities, and held visiting fellowships at the CUNY Graduate Center and the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Follow her on Twitter @creoleprof.
Francisco Herrera: How did this project come about? What questions led you to ask how race was theorized in a hemispheric way?
Juliet Hooker: The impetus for the book came from twoyards.
I kind of felt soft, said afterward.Uses his hands to keep pulling guards at bay, wholesale jerseys but can also dip under their shoulder to avoid their reach.He had a close call on that final drive with a near-fumble that was taken to the house by the defense, but review conclusively showed that was down before the ball came out.July 17 Real Salt Lake Rio Tinto Stadium, Salt Lake ?There’s also a massive match Group B, where second-placed Portugal host first-placed Switzerland – live on and – with top spot on the line.
The Netherlands earned a vital 3 win over a battling Bulgaria Amsterdam, while Portugal battled to a 1 win Hungary the latest round of World Cup Qualifiers.carried 28 times for 51 yards and parlayed his only
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off his feminism-friendly credentials: he stated that, while he was governor of Massachusetts, “We took a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our [State] cabinet. I went to a number of women's groups and said: 'Can you help us find folks?' and they brought us whole binders full of women”.
By the day after the debate, Tumblr pages had been created illustrating commentary on the phrase, tweets and original works of art had been produced and a Facebook page about 'Binders Full of Women' had received 274,000 likes. Amazon.com received a barrage of satirical reviews for binders, with thousands of users marking the reviews as 'helpful', moving them to the top of the review pages. A(1931 – 2011), academic lawyer in legal history, legal philosophy, and human rights. Author of Cannibalism and the Common Law (1984) and Human Rights and the End of Empire (2001).
STONE ROSES
The Stone Roses are an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band's most successful line up consists of vocalist Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Gary "Mani" Mounfield, and drummer Alan "Reni" Wren.
The band's relationship with the mass media has been vastly different to other self-endorsing bands. They often display no interest in promoting themselves, and many journalists have been confused, and sometimes angered, when their questions have met with complete silence from the
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THE world's most prominent atheists are bound for Australia - and the Victorian government will pick up part of the bill.
The Global Atheist Convention, whose theme is A Celebration of Reason, will host authors Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett and Sam Harris. Funding was approved last year by the former Labor government.
Atheist Foundation president David Nicholls said the ''four horsemen of the anti-apocalypse'' would ''attract people from everywhere on the planet'' to the April 2012 convention. No visit to Sydney has been confirmed.
''It will be the biggest global event for atheism ever, and it probably won't be repeated,'' Mr Nicholls said.
American author and academic Dennett said the four were ''like buddies''.
Rob Ward, of the Australian Christian Lobby, said people were free to gather but the debate shouldnever mind the concerted effort of the corporate media to characterize the Bilderbergers as a harmless association of politicians and business types.
“The Bilderberg Group is an elite invitation-only conference of influential members of the business, media and political communities. Past attendees have included Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair,” the BBC reported. “It’s officially described as a private gathering, but with a guest list including the heads of European and American corporations, political leaders and a few intellectuals, it’s one of the most influential organizations on the planet.”
“People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public,” wrote the political economist Adam Smith over
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because I also notice the following...
The military runs through the Duke of Westminster like the lettering in a stick of rock. His family has served in the Cheshire Yeomanry, since they founded it hundreds of years ago. His father, grandfather and great grandfather all wore the cap badge. (...)
On Friday, crime scene investigators carried out forensic searches of the alley behind Kirby Road and at the Grafton House bed-and-breakfast hotel on the same road, which is a few streets off the Promenade.
I wonder if there is a link to West Kirby West Kirby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
West Kirby is a town on the north-west corner of the coast of the Wirral Peninsula, in the county of Merseyside, England, at the mouth of the River Dee across fromthe Point of Ayr in Flintshire, Wales. To the north-east of the town lies Hoylake, with the suburbs of Grange and Newton to the east, and the village of Caldy to the south-east.
BOHEMIAN GIRL was the last movie of THELMA TODD.
She died mysteriously in a GARAGE
In The Bohemian Girl, Todd had played the Gypsy Queen, a very substantial role.
All of her scenes were re-shot and her character was renamed as the
Gypsy Queen's Daughter, and Zeffie Tilbury playing the Queen, and with a vampish
Mae Busch character replacing her in the narrative.
Most dramatic role was THELMA TODD as the QUEEN
because she died.
QUEEN and BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY.....
tintin
03-02-2013, 06:47 PM
Bohemia, Matterhorn and Sierra. II
STEIN, STONE
have explained while ago, why it always appears in tragedy and katastrophe
The pompous restaurant at which Sam meets his
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community support. Any decisions on the possible addition of hockey will be made at the conclusion of the feasibility study. No deadline has been set for completion of the study.
Illinois sponsored hockey as a varsity sport for six years from 1938-43, when it was disbanded during World War II. Despite winning Big Ten titles the final three years, the sport was never re-started after the completion of the war. It has been a very successful club sport on campus for decades.New York, New York – Days 8 & 9
(Yes, again this post is a little late ….)‘Tis now the run down to the end of the conference. Great speakers including Kathryn Erskine, panels on making picture books and also one presented by agents on the current market today and the announcement of an award for middle listers created by Jane Yolen were on the agenda … and then of course, to conclude the Lucky 13 Winter SCBWI Conference was the craziness of the autograph party! This was followed quickly for me by the board meeting.
But we also squeezed in a quick zap to the Top of the Rock at the Rockerfeller Centre … which has the most spectacular views of New York City – especially on such a
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get to vicariously experience the pilgrimage through this pioneering exhibit. Relics painstakingly gathered from public and private collections from the UK, Saudi Arabia and other parts of the world are on display.
Loans from Saudi Arabia include a seetanah, an embroidered cloth that parts in the middle to allow entry into the Kaaba itself when being used. The reds and blues which surround the stitched Arabic calligraphy highlight the richness of the Qur’anic text that adorns the cloth.
The exhibit offers the opportunity to hear about both contemporary and historic pilgrim experiences. My eye is caught by an original map identifying the possible routes for the Hijaz Railway, which was planned by the Ottoman official Haji Mukhtar Bey during his own haj.
On the other side of the hall is afrom their perspective?
The haj is a primary instance of creating connections with other people by sharing space and time with them. As pilgrimages go, it is not the largest in scale, but it certainly has the most diverse group of participants –bringing together people from over 180 nationalities last year.
Amongst the historic artefacts in the exhibit is a 15th century painting from Shiraz (in modern day Iran) which depicts a throng of people inside the haram, or holy sanctuary, in Mecca. The artist has depicted a sea of humanity with skin tones from black to white and every shade in between.
On the other side of the hall is a photograph from 2009 showing contemporary pilgrims at the desert of Arafat where pilgrims journey for forgiveness.
Again, the faces are
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ARLINGTON, Va. — At dawn, along the west wall of the Pentagon, an American flag was unfurled over the point of impact to mark the 17th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
Alongside family and building survivors was Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Paul Selva, as well as other Department of Defense leadership and Queen Elizabeth's youngest son, Prince Edward. President Donald Trump traveled to the site of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, with the First Lady for a memorial service.
Mattis, who recently returned from an unannounced trip to Afghanistan, began his remarks by addressing the family members in attendance.
"To our most honored guests, the families of those we lost, seventeen Septembers ago, let meIn the wake of a disturbing account of one landlord's nightmarish experience with the city's housing first program, one woman is sharing her story about how a similar program took her off the streets and dramatically changed her life.
"I was homeless and this program saved my life," Kandice Baron said Thursday.
"I'm a few years clean and I know other people that are working now that would never ever be able to hold a job."
Kandice Baron said she likes to draw in her spare time because it helps to clear her mind. (Ashley Burke/CBC)
On Wednesday, CBC News reported landlord Nitin Mehra discovered one of his apartment units was littered with an ocean of garbage, maggots and feces.
His duplex was part of the City of Ottawa Housing First program, which
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Reiners, who debuted for the Glory three years ago at the age of just 17, was viewed by many as of one of Australia’s brightest young products.
The South African-born forward came through Football West’s National Training Centre and the FFA Centre of Excellence in Canberra, and played 10 times for the Joeys.
But his career fell apart in April 2017 when he suffered a horrendous training accident that ruled him out of the football for more than a year.
Reiners tore all the ligaments in his left ankle, broke bones and dislocated his ankle, when he collided with a football mannequin while at Glory's training ground.
“I was in training, and I happened to get involved in a tackle and there was a mannequin involved as well right on the sideMatt Damon is ditching his deluxe Miami Beach abode, and it can be all yours for $20 million. The Wall Street Journal reports that the actor, who just paid $15 million for a place in LA, has decided to part with the beachfront home he purchased in 2005. The seven-bedroom, 10-bathroom mansion has a home theater, a terrace overlooking the water, and a two-bedroom guesthouse. The 12,705-square-foot house, in a neighborhood that’s also home to Jennifer Lopez, Alex Rodriguez, Calvin Klein, and Ricky Martin, has views of Biscayne Bay and downtown Miami. This weekend, Damon, who grew up in Cambridge and Newton, is throwing a wedding celebration with his wife, Luciana, on the Caribbean island of St. Lucia. (The couple got married without fanfare in 2005.) Guests expected
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generally fails at life, but is unexpectedly confronted with an opportunity for heroism and rises to the occasion. Despite this path having been trod countless times in every form of storytelling, Mr. Southcotte has made this story especially gratifying with added elements of psychosis, a dark yet meticulously restrained (yet no less unsettling) violence, and a persistent infusion of the supernatural. This story was quite ambitious for a piece of short fiction, but for the most part it was very efficient in its narrative. The main character, Barlow is expertly fleshed out as his daily routine is anchored by reminders of a combination of unfortunate circumstances and questionable life choices. He is beset by spirits and distracted by voices, but whether this stems from an accursed supernatural ‘gift’or the remnants of recreational hallucinogenic exploits of his youth is left to speculation. We learn he has studied the art of the cold read, but also benefits from semi-manifest familiars, or possibly schizophrenic projections, allowing him to peer into darker recesses of the minds of his subjects. In either case, he has become especially equipped to exploit the vulnerabilities of the unwary, yet he struggles with the moral complexities of doing so. I love this about him. What I struggled with, however, was most of the opening scene. I mostly loved how it was written. The description of the setting was perfect, and the interaction between Barlow and the client felt completely real. But the scene itself felt unnecessary overall, and I was distracted by the argument
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horrible for the first couple hundred pages (the vice). Get through it and be rewarded with his redemption story (the virtue)! Monty’s struggle with being bisexual in a time that doesn’t allow for it made me cry and cheer. –Carol
Ariel’s mother abandoned her when she was still a toddler, and she’s been on the move with her hard-drinking, hard-loving father for as long as she can remember. When they finally settle in California, she begins to discover home, love, and, eventually, answers.
Plenty of drama and dysfunction, along with strong characters, keep readers engrossed. A parallel story of a woman and her troubled marriage sometimes seemed out of place until the stories intertwine. –Elizabeth
A summer house is carefully shared by a bitterly divided family, assuring the two groups neverThe middle must be unknotted to figure out the end and the beginning. –Emily
On a desolate ranch, there lives a saint. It’s a strange place, where pilgrims receive the miracle they deserve, not necessarily the miracle they want. The teens growing up on the ranch start a pirate radio station, hoping for a miracle of their own.
Set in the early 1960s, the author weaves together strands of folklore, fable, legend, and historical fiction. The language and imagery is reminiscent of authors such as Clive Barker, Tom Robbins, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. –Emily
When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students, all four become suspects. It’s up to them to solve the case.
Part Breakfast Club, part Agatha Christie, part Gossip
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Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern US Poetics (Wesleyan, 2002). Re: Cancergate: An Amneoir : “Since the dates of the Watergate scandal and the dates of my mother’s last illness coincide almost exactly, I find it impossible to separate the two.” Harrington’s poems have appeared recently in First Intensity, Tarpaulin Sky, and on screen at the University of Victoria, B.C. He teaches at the University of Kansas. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas and edits a blog called Blog of Myselfs at http://josephharrington.blogspot.com
A. E. Stallings: she was born in 1968 and grew up in Decatur, GA. Her poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry series (1994 & 2000) and has received numerous awards, including a Pushcart Prize, the Eunice Archaic Smile Award, received the 1999Richard Wilbur Award. She composed the Latin lyrics for the opening music of the Paramount film, Sumof All Fears, and has made a new verse translation of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura for Penguin Classics. Hapax (Northwestern) received the 2008 Poet's Prize. She resides in Athens, Greece with her husband and their small son. Visit her website at www.geocities.com/aestallings
Adam Clay: he has been published or has forthcoming poems in Black Warrior Review, Milk, Denver Quarterly, Boston Review, Free Verse, storySouth and elsewhere. He is the co-director of the Arkansas Writers in the Schools Program and is an editor of the online poetry journal Typo Magazine. His first poetry collection is The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). A chapbook, Canoe, is available from Horse Less Press. Born and raised in Mississippi,
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oxygen and a constant presence of sulfides, gas and concentrated brine.
No, he mistook his reflection for Lloyd Kelley Police responding to a burglary call at a Stafford store found the front door smashed and a billy goat ramming the window. Said one cop: "He probably thought he was butting another male goat."
Does Ken Hoffman have an alibi? After the first black bear in a generation was spotted in Montgomery County, local ranchers blamed it for devouring calves and leaving just the rib cages.
First the mayor's race, now this One of the worst infestations of forest tent caterpillars in years sent a thick rain of caterpillar excrement onto the decks, patios, sidewalks and lawns of Missouri City.
With some nice forest tent caterpillars for dessert Rice University administrators, staff, maintenanceworkers and students lured a three-foot iguana down from a campus tree by laying out a vegetable buffet.
With practice, they hoped to become Houston voters A flock of wayward Muscovy ducks kept loitering on the Southwest Freeway in Sugar Land, resisting attempts to relocate them to a safer home, even after a motorist mowed down ten of them.
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Now the manager knows what "deep shit" means The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission investigated Rowdy's nightclub on I-45 near Spring after a customer reported that she had discovered a video camera -- which was connected to a monitor in the manager's office -- hidden behind an air-conditioning vent over the women's toilet.
The manager of Rowdy's wanted a copy Former HISD teacher Michael Madison filed suit claiming he was fired after
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Woodstock was going to happen.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 15
(YouTube link)
By evening, close to half a million hippies had converged on the site. Estimates say that half a million more tried to get to Woodstock, but never made it past the 20-mile traffic jam leading into Bethel. In the end, thousands of people just abandoned their cars and walked to the farm. And when they got there, instead of going through one of the two gates, the kids trampled the fence and walked right in. While Woodstock Ventures was overjoyed by the turnout, they were equally dismayed when they found out that very few of the concertgoers had paid. The largest concert of the century had suddenly become a free concert. And Rosenman, Lang, Kornfeld, and Roberts had no clue howevery night at midnight was abandoned. If all went well, the music would go on nonstop until Sunday evening.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16
When the sun rose on Max Yasgur’s field on Saturday morning, Woodstock was the third largest city in New York state. It was also one of the muddiest: five inches of rain had fallen during the night. On the surface, the entire event looked like a mess. Greil Marcus, a reporter who covered the event for Rolling Stone, described the troubles: “The sanitation facilities were breaking down and overflowing; the water from six wells and parked water tanks were proving to be an inadequate supply …the food concessions were sold out and it was impossible to ferry in more through the traffic.”
(Image credit: Derek Redmond and Paul Campbell)
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HOLTVILLE, Calif. -- In this election year, in this place, in the rare event someone mentions Canada it's liable to be as a joke.
John Hernandez offers an example of the genre.
He greets a visitor to the southern tip of California and, upon learning he's Canadian, Hernandez cracks a quip about the border -- not the one nearby that everyone's talking about in the presidential election, but the other one, way up north.
"You gonna build a wall there too?" the retired state employee says upon encountering a Canadian reporter outside a cemetery in Holtville, Calif., a few kilometres from Mexico.
"No? Canada's not gonna have to build a wall and pay for it yourselves?"
He's being sarcastic.
He knows the answer to both questions is no. Like many here, he's noticed thatonly one of America's neighbours has become an issue in this election -- and it's not the one closest to the North Pole.
"People know the disparity," he said. "Mexicans are treated differently."
This tale of two disparately discussed neighbours has experienced its dramatic climax with Donald Trump flying into Mexico City on a public-relations mission Wednesday, followed by an evening speech where he doubled-down on his hardline approach of deporting millions, building a wall, and forcing Mexico to pay for it.
Trump delivered a one hour, 15-minute speech about border security without mentioning Canada.
It's the story of the campaign. Even when he raises an issue that seriously affects Canada, the northern neighbour's an incidental bystander. Like his threat to cancel a trade deal in the country that buys 76 per
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being able to "whip out" those layouts one right after another! Sketch challenges are by far my favorites.
Ok, so this layout was submitted at Scrappy Sketches for their Mid Week Sketch 02-13. Here's the sketch:
Here's my layout:
This is Max, our daughter's little peek-a-poo. He's such a funny little dog with quite a character too!
This is one of the weekends I babysat him. I wanted to get a picture of him and I and he's such a wiggle-worm, I ended up sprawled out on the grass, trying to keep him still long enough to get a photo. Just as I was about to take the photo (on the left), he decided to roll over on his back so his little paw was in my face and he was tryingBackground
Dr. Alfred E. Osborne, Jr., Ph.D., is the Founder and Faculty Director of The Harold & Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at UCLA. Dr. Osborne is a Senior Associate Dean and an Associate Professor of Business and Global Economics in the Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California at Los Angeles, where he has been employed since 1972. He serves as an Advisor to InnoCal Ventures, RBC Capital Partners and Rustic Canyon Group. He ... served as an Independent General Partner at Technology Funding Venture Partners V. He has been Lead Independent Director, Chairman of Compensation Committee, Member of Audit Committee and Member of Executive Committee at Outdoor Sports Gear, Inc. He has been an Independent Director of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation since July 2006
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affecting individual taxpayers is the new treatment of itemized deductions.
The Internal Revenue Service announced that the nation's 2017 tax season will begin Monday, January 29, 2018. This is to ensure the security and readiness of tax processing systems and assess the potential impact of tax legislation on 2017 tax returns.
On December 22, 2017, New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo issued an emergency Executive Order authorizing local governments to issue warrants for the collection of 2018 property taxes, to allow property owners to pay at least a portion of their bills prior to the end of 2017.
From New York to Kentucky to Florida, accountants and tax lawyers are scanning the 1,000 page measure, fielding a swirl of questions from clients and swapping tips via email in their efforts toLLP announced that Raffa-Marcum's Nonprofit & Social Sector Group was named to the inaugural list of Real Leaders 100 Top Impact Companies, a collaboration of Real Leaders magazine, Big Path Capital, and B Lab.
Marcum LLP is one of the largest independent public accounting and advisory services firms in the nation, with offices in major
business markets throughout the U.S., as well as Grand Cayman, China and Ireland.
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pleasure soon after she moved to the village, at least one of her new neighbors can relate.
Betty McIntosh signed up for the OSS in 1943. A Hawaii-raised journalist fluent in Japanese, she had seen the wreckage of Pearl Harbor first hand. She was sent to Asia to write propaganda and deliver messages and supplies to undercover agents, including a bomb disguised as a lump of coal that derailed a Japanese troop train.
“Doris and I got to talking and realized we were both stationed overseas for the OSS at the same exact time, except she was in Europe and I was in Asia,” said McIntosh, now 98. “It was great fun to realize she was just down the street and we had so much in common. We’ve been greatwould later write. During one mission, McIntosh even shared a terrifying flight and then a room with famed chef Julia Child, a fellow OSS agent.
As the women flew from India to Kunming, China, their plane crossed the infamous and deadly “Hump.” The flight was turbulent and they could look out the window at the glinting hulks of all the crashed planes scattered on the mountainsides.
Betty McIntosh, 98, and Doris Bohrer, 90, are two of the oldest living American female spies. They sat down with NBC's Ann Curry to discuss what it was like to serve in the CIA and its predecessor, the OSS, during World War II.
“We were all kind of shuddering, and holding our hands,” recalled McIntosh, “and she was busy reading a book." Child, then known
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