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One of the more persistent, but less well-known, conspiracy theories surrounding Watergate is the crash of United Airlines flight 553 that killed Dorothy Hunt, a former government employee who was transporting $10,000 in hush money on behalf of her husband and Watergate burglar, E. Howard Hunt. At the time, these theories were widely pushed by activist Sherman Skolnick, who used his call-in hotline to spread this and other conspiracy theories, making particular use of the control tower recording of the UA 553 crash having been preserved by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to Skolnick, Dorothy carried $2 million in traveler’s checks and money orders stolen from the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, $50,000 in cash, and documents that may have led to the impeachment of Presidentviolence, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence.
This organization promotes nonviolent expressions of masculinity by mentoring male youth and teaching them about consent. It also lists many resources for male sexual assault victims and male perpetrators of sexual violence.
Some researchers say that one in six men experienced unwanted sexual conduct before the age of 18—and 1in6 provides resources for those men and their families, including an online hotline as well as a questionnaire focused on helping men sort out their experiences.
This national trans anti-violence organization provides services to transgender, gender-nonconforming, and gender nonbinary sexual assault victims and their family and friends. It offers training and assistance for those who work with sexual assault survivors, as well as connects victims with therapists in their area. It also runs a listserv, | {
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a non-existent problem. Furthermore, Burkhard had the opportunity to rebuild a crashed G.I (serial number 9/15) and re-arrange its components to place the fuselage on the lower wing, and found this design workable, while also removing the grave danger to the crew that landing accidents posed.
The G.II carried a crew of three and a defensive armament of two 7.92 mm (.312 in) machine guns. The forward section of the fuselage was skinned in plywood, with the remainder covered in fabric. The fuselage and two very large nacelles were mounted on the lower wing. Each nacelle contained fuel and oil tanks beneath each of a pair of geared-output 160 KW (220 hp) Mercedes D.IV straight-eight engines, one per nacelle, driving pusher propellers. The undercarriage was unusual, being quadricycle in arrangement with a pairWorld Cup-winning captain, wrote on his twitter handle about the seasoned player who has also led his country to two World Cup triumphs.
ALSO READ: 5th ODI report card – Rishabh Pant, Shikhar Dhawan disappoint in series decider
India surrendered a 2-0 lead in the just-concluded five-match series even as the Australians made a remarkable comeback by winning three consecutive matches.
Incidentally, Dhoni did not feature in the last two games with young wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant struggling to fill in the former India captain’s shoes.
Under Dhoni’s captaincy, India won the inaugural World T20 in 2007 and the ICC World Cup in 2011, ending a 28-year drought.
Not just as a reliable batsman and wicketkeeper, Dhoni’s guidance in the field was also missed in the last two matches that India lost against Australia. | {
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Diao Keita struck in the first half and substitute Moussa Sow in the 80th minute to give Senegal an opening win.
Earlier, Burkina Faso squandered two penalties but did manage to grab a dramatic injury-time equaliser as they drew 1-1 with South Africa in their Group D match in Ouagadougou.
Jonathan Pitroipa had the chance to put Burkina Faso 1-0 up in the 10th minute from the penalty spot, but South African goal-keeper Itumeleng Khune saved the spot-kick to keep his team in the match.
It remained 0-0 until the 80th minute when South Africa took the lead through Dean Furman against the run of play.
Burkina Faso won their second penalty of the game with Alain Traore stepping up to take it, but he missed from the spot.
South Africa and theirthe code of conduct were not singling out any one individual commissioner, the new regulations seem specifically designed to target one particular DHSMC member — Victor Ashe, who was just reappointed to the commission for another four years and has been a regular critic of some of the commission’s recent actions.
Former Knoxville Mayor Victor Ashe, who has clashed repeatedly with other members of the board governing the Tennessee State Museum in the past, was appointed Friday to a new four-year term on the panel by Lt. Gov. Randy McNally.
McNally, who shares appointments to the board formally known as the Douglas Henry State Museum Commission with House Speaker Beth Harwell, also reappointed Nancy Baker De Friece, a Bristol realtor. The old terms of both expired Friday; their new terms | {
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The Douglas Henry State Museum Commission announced today that Tennessee native Ashley Howell has accepted the position of executive director of the Tennessee State Museum. The commission voted to offer Howell the position at its meeting on January 24. She succeeds long serving director Lois Riggins Ezzell who retired December 31.
“Ashley Howell will bring a new level of leadership to the Tennessee State Museum,” Commission Chairman Tom Smith said. “I am confident she is the right choice at the right time. Her background in all aspects of museum management will serve us well, and her ties to Tennessee make her an ideal choice as we prepare for the new museum’s opening late next year.”
Howell, 40, currently serves as the deputy director of the Frist Center for the VisualArts in Nashville.
The Douglas Henry State Museum Commission has selected Ashley Brown Howell, the deputy director at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, to succeed Lois Riggins-Ezell as its executive director, reports Cari Wade Gervin for the Nashville Post.
It seemed like the first motion to hire Howell failed on a voice vote. But before the Commission could take a roll call vote to confirm the failure, chair Tom Smith called for a five-minute recess. When the body returned, Smith asked that the motion to hire Howell be withdrawn, even though one cannot withdraw a motion one has voted on. However, the members went along with the violation of parliamentary procedure, and then recessed for 40 minutes. Once the meeting resumed, the DHSMC voted unanimously (with | {
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of extensive reporting by the Post on the troubled agency and its apparent lack of oversight by the state commission entrusted with those duties — and it follows two highly critical audits in January 2011 and September 2015. In addition to new problems, the latter audit found the museum had still not implemented several procedural changes deemed necessary by the former one.
The legislative session that begins Tuesday is the focus of much Tennessee media reporting in recent days. A sampler:
Legislative issue overviews
This week’s legislative meetings will be devoted to organization matters, followed by a recess until Jan. 30, when Gov. Bill Haslam delivers his “state-of-the-state” speech. But there’s a pile of proposals awaiting action afterwards — a gas tax increase, cuts in other state taxes, a big budgetpublic service that began in the muddy streets of Oak Ridge.
Less than a year after her son resigned, Tennessee State Museum Deputy Director Mary Jane Crockett-Green’s sister came out of retirement to work for the museum, raising further questions about the agency’s hiring practices in the days before Executive Director Lois Riggins-Ezzell retires.
Allegations of nepotism and favoritism have long followed both Riggins-Ezzell and Crockett-Green, but now even staff within the agency is revolting, as Crockett-Green looks like a favorite to replace her boss on Jan. 1 — at least in the interim until a new, outside hire is made. The Douglas Henry State Museum Commission will meet Friday afternoon to discuss possible replacements.
Riggins-Ezzell hired Loretta Lisa Hester, Crockett-Green’s sister, this past March for a part-time job. According to | {
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related. But it is clear Riggins-Ezzell knew the women were sisters.
…Chris Crockett (Crockett-Green’s son) was hired in 2005 as a museum preparator — someone who builds and tears down installations, among other duties. At the time of his hiring, Crockett did not disclose a 1998 felony conviction for dealing drugs, or that he was still on probation for the incident; in fact, he lied on his application about it.
… Crockett had also been arrested on additional felony drug charges in 2007 (later dropped; he pleaded guilty to felony possession of a weapon). He was then arrested again for reckless driving in 2012. And on June 30, 2015, he and two other men were arrested after attempting to purchase 100 pounds of marijuana in Wilson County, a drug bustenhanced the offense was punishable
by imprisonment in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for life, or for any term of not more than 99
years or less than 25 years.
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BACKGROUND
Appellant has an extensive criminal background dating back to 1996. He served
time in the penitentiary until his release in 2016. In July 2017, he was arrested for arson
for what he claims was merely popping fireworks. But the | {
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accepting a guilty plea constitutes sufficient evidence to
sustain the plea).
Additionally, several witnesses from the 100th District Community Supervision and
Corrections Department testified to Appellant’s criminal history in Texas as well as in
Kansas and in Oklahoma. During cross-examination, Appellant was asked about his
criminal history. He confirmed that on September 9, 1996, he had his first criminal charge
for driving while intoxicated; February 23, 1997—an arrest for aggravated assault with a
deadly weapon; July 31, 1997—an arrest in Oklahoma for felony burglary; September 15,
1997—an arrest for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; and August 3, 1998—an
arrest for failure to identify as a fugitive.
Appellant then served time in the penitentiary until 2008 and upon his release, his
criminal conduct continued. OnJuly 7, 2008, he was arrested in Lubbock County but the
charge was dismissed. On March 6, 2010, he was arrested in Kansas for aggravated
battery and aggravated endangerment of a child, plus five or six other lesser charges.
Notwithstanding the fact that most of the charges were dismissed, he still served eighteen
months in prison.
He served time in Texas until 2016, and on January 3, 2017, he was arrested in
Oklahoma for failure to appear on an assault and battery charge with a dangerous
weapon but was later exonerated. On February 20, 2017, he was arrested in Oklahoma
for larceny and Appellant testified that charge was eventually dismissed. He was
incarcerated from March through June 2017. One month | {
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As a specialist in developmental psychology, Dr. Vianna has spent much of his career examining the way young people from disadvantaged backgrounds acquire knowledge and use it, the way the identities they have forged in the face of myriad deprivations can influence and impede the process of learning. At LaGuardia, where some of the city’s least-prepared students land, and where he has taught for 10 years, he is, in some sense, involved in a near-constant project of professional development. His classroom is his laboratory.
One enormous challenge for community college instructors is that many students arrive with the notion that a college education is essential, but remain unconvinced that what they will learn during the course of their studies is equally so. To create a world of young peoplethis.”
Dr. Vianna came to the United States in the late 1990s to study developmental psychology, after he had already obtained a medical degree in Brazil and practiced child psychiatry in Rio de Janeiro. There, he had seen patients who were autistic, defiant or struggling in school, but he resisted the notion of viewing them through the lens of psychopathology. Instead, he sought to explore more about learning theories and to develop new ones. He enrolled at the Graduate Center and received his doctorate in 2006. | {
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nationwide survey of acute KD in 1970 and the first angiographic and ultrasound findings of coronary artery lesions after KD were reported in 1975 and1979, respectively ([@B21]--[@B25]). Accordingly, a substantial population with registered KD diagnosis and coronary sequelae should have begun to reach adulthood in 2000s in Japan. We therefore conducted a Japanese nationwide survey to characterize ACS, which is emerging in adults with a confirmed (whether followed-up or lost to follow-up) as well as missed history of KD.
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This was a retrospective, nationwide hospital-based questionnaire survey of ACS occurring during 2000--2009 in adults (≧ 20 years of age) after a confirmed or missed KD in Japan. This was an official research project, which was endorsed by the Japanese Society of Kawasaki Disease and was conducted byAskinosie Chocolate Goes to Tanzania, Gets Noticed by Oprah
When Riverfront Times visited the Askinosie Chocolate factory in Springfield last winter, founder and proprietor Shawn Askinosie promised he would take members of the Cocoa Honors program at the factory's Chocolate University to either Tanzania or Liberia to source beans for the newest bar in Askinosie's chocolate line -- provided they helped raise money for the trip.
Honors students are known to be overachievers, so it should be no surprise that the class of thirteen students from Springfield's Central High School raised $70,000. (They had help from Springfield businessman and philanthropist Doug Pitt, brother of Brad, who was recently appointed a goodwill ambassador to Tanzania.) And because Askinosie is a man of his word, he took the students along on a | {
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buying trip to the village of Tenende, Tanzania, which the students had decided -- after considerable research -- was the best source for cocoa beans in Africa. (Tanzania is also more politically stable than the cocoa-growing region of Liberia, which borders Ivory Coast, currently on the verge of civil war.)
In Tenende they tasted and tested beans and used some of the money they'd raised to build a well to provide fresh water for 2,000 residents. They also gave chocolate bars to the farmers and students at the local school, most of whom had never tasted actual chocolate.
The Tenende bar reached stores in November. Like all Askinosie bars, it has a wrapper that bears a photo of the farmer who grew the beans to make it -- in thisSunday, August 28, 2016
The National Football League has descended as low into the hypocrisy barrel as it can go if you ask me.
While the internet explodes this morning over Colin Kaepernick's decision to not stand during the National Anthem, I'm more disgusted with the double standard of the NFL, not only in their support for his decision to disrespect the flag, but also with their decision to disallow the Dallas Cowboys to wear stickers showing support for the officers that were murdered in their city in an ambush.
The NFL also released a statement, obtained by NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport: "Players are encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem."
With regard to the Arm in Arm decal the Cowboys wanted to wear on | {
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very timid dog, even at home where he is very comfortable -- he's a mama's baby and well, he's just timid. We have had him since he was six weeks old and was found abandoned by a dumpster; he was riddled with all kinds of worms and very sick and dehydrated, but he survived and thrived. That was seven years ago.
As we walked to the meet and greet area where Spot was, I saw him standing at the fence watching us - I literally gasped and a tear welled up. He is so beautiful. I mean, really.
We walked into the gated play area and Spot loved Jazz. He was all wiggles and tail wagging. Jazz
was terrified. It was nothing Spot did -- Spot just wanted to play! Butevery two hours. As a result of this limitation, he said, he has had “inadequate
sanitation” in his cell. One time, he defecated on his cell floor. Another time, he alleged,
he asked a guard to use the bathroom; the guard refused and told him to “shit on
himself”; and White then defecated in a bag in his cell, thereby causing him to develop
post-traumatic stress disorder. (White did not sue the guard and did not allege a
specific medical need that required him to use the bathroom more often than other
inmates.)
At screening the district judge dismissed the complaint without prejudice,
identifying three problems for White to address by amendment. First, White did not
allege what role Knight personally played in the denial of his toilet access. Second, | {
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Erdogan has done, only in reverse. He and his parliamentary majority party managed to strip the office of President of almost all but ceremonial roles, while giving actual decision powers to the office of Prime Minister. That he managed just before he himself became Prime Minister. Reaction from Moscow to the ongoing protests until now has evidently been muted following a statement that it won’t get involved in Armenian internal affairs.
At this point, despite the fact that Sargysan resigned as Prime Minister and did not submit himself as candidate to oppose Pashinyan in the May 1 parliament vote, Pashinyan fell short of the majority needed to be named Prime Minister. As of this writing he has called for a total blockage of traffic and government buildings by “peacefulSecretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, A. Wess Mitchell, noted he had initiated a phone discussion with opposition Civil Contract MP, Nikol Pashinyan. In his official statement Mitchell merely stated that the
“US government looks forward to working closely with the new government in Armenia, aiming to further deepen the decades-long US-Armenian relationship.”
Wess Mitchell sits in the post held under Obama by the infamous neoconservative Ukraine Color Revolution instigator, Victoria Nuland.It seems he is the continuity of Nuland as well. Mitchell came to the State Department post in 2017 from something called the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) where he was CEO and which he actually founded. Now things get interesting.
The CEPA, a Washington think tank founded in 2004 at the time the US was deep | {
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involved in the Ukraine Orange Revolution, describes its mission being “to promote an economically vibrant, strategically secure and politically free Central and Eastern Europe with close and enduring ties to the United States.” A major program of CEPA is “dedicated to monitoring and exposing Russian disinformation in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.”
Indeed Assistant Secretary of State Mitchell comes from a Washington anti-Russian think tank whose funders include NATO, US Defense Department, National Endowment for Democracy, the major military industry giants including Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, BAE Systems, Bell Helicopter.Notably after an article in the Russian state RT on the funding of CEPA that portion of their website seems to have vanished into cyber nirvana.
In addition to Russophobe Mitchell in admitted contact with opposition leader Nikol Pashinyan,bordered by two hostile countries—Azerbaijan and Turkey. Her other neighbors are Iran and Georgia. With the situation in Georgia precarious since the US staged a Color Revolution in 2003 bringing the pro-NATO Mikhail Saakashvili into power, were Armenia to come under influence of a leader determined to pull the country away from Russian dependence, its major trading partner and investor, it would result in some kind of civil war.
Already there are voices in Azerbaijan gleefully anticipating such an outcome. On May 1 as the Armenian parliament refused to vote Pashinyan in as Prime Minister, Azeri parliament member Gudrat Hasanguliyev warned that the situation in Armenia might turn into a civil war. He insisted that Azerbaijan should be prepared to use such a civil war as a chance to | {
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is dealing with currently, it is worth pondering if more forms of responsible tourism like this could be the answer to improve the image of Goa as a tourist destination.
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Born in 2014, Nativefolks is a startup which all about the local folks – their culture, their home, their way of life, all the drama and the stories. We are dedicated to connecting culturally sensitive travelers to culturally rich rural communities. This initiative looks forward to tread the path of a cultural entrepreneurship, unique to each community. Its ultimate aim is to open up alternate livelihood opportunities for locals, create more exposure to local arts, heritage and culture and in turn rejuvenate the local economy.girl from Delhi has been raped by her own boyfriend along with 6 others in the hotel room at Paharganj area in New Delhi. According to the victim girl, the boyfriend had spiked her drink before raping her in the hotel room along with his six friends. This most disgraceful incident came into the light when the minor victim girl lodged the complaint with Delhi police following the incident.
The girl told the police that, she was in a relationship with the accused boy for more than one and half year and on the day of the incident the accused had called her on the pretext of taking her to the movie but instead he took her into the hotel room where the remaining accused were already present. Accordingto | {
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the girl, the incident took place on a Friday night and police managed to arrest three accused on Saturday, claims the report.
The police sources have informed that the alleged rape of the 15-year-old girl took place in the hotel room in Paharganj area on Friday night. The main accused identified as Rehan who raped her first is her boyfriend for more than one year. According to the Delhi police, in her first statement, the girl told the police that her boyfriend had alone assaulted her but later on two more accused forced them on her. But later on a Saturday evening, the girl revised her statement claiming that there were seven people in the room at the time when the incident took place and all of them hadraped her.
The cops have managed to arrest only three accused and is in search of remaining four others who are absconding at the present. The teenager told police that Rehan called her at her Old Delhi home at 4 pm on Friday and said he would take her to see a movie. Instead, he took her to a hotel, where he had already called his friends. She alleged that they spiked her drink with alcohol and then took turns raping her.
Meanwhile, the parents of the girl have told the police that, they have tried to convince the girl on several occasions to give up the friendship of the accused Rehan who had a very bad reputation in the locality. The mother confirmed she was with her daughter when | {
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the girl received a call from Rehan on Friday and left soon after.
Delhi police have confirmed that the main accused is a history sheeter with several petty crimes registered against him in the various police station that includes the robbery and chain snatching. According to the police, The rape survivor appeared to be unaware of his illegal activities.
After taking cognisance of the girl’s version of what had transpired, the cops registered a case under IPC Section 376(A) (punishment for rape) and arrested Rehan. They said they had detained two others who were in the room where the incident took place.late 1979, Tom Battle, Sam Dumas and Anton E. Meduna (the "Owners") were the proprietors of Merit Petroleum Company, a corporation engaged in crude oil trading, located in Houston, Texas. Sensing a favorable business climate, the owners decided to diversify their business interests. To do this, the owners in November 1979 created Merit Ventures Incorporated and three subsidiaries: Merit Properties Inc., Merit Exploration Inc. and Merit Refining Inc. From the beginning Merit Ventures owned 100% of these subsidiaries. The parent corporation and its subsidiaries had overlapping officers and directors. At all times Merit Ventures and it subsidiaries shared the same offices. Incoming telephone calls for the parent or any of the subsidiaries were handled by a receptionist who simply answered "Merit Ventures."
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Merit Ventures owners decided to enter the marine transportation business. They met with Dennis Kirkonis, a man with extensive experience in the barge industry, and discussed the creation of a barge operating company. During this meeting, Kirkonis pointed out to the Merit Venture officials that the barge industry was about to go into a deep recession, a prediction borne out by subsequent events. Despite this prediction (or, as plaintiffs allege, because of it) the decision was made to enter the barge business. The Owners transformed Merit Refining Company, a subsidiary that had never conducted any business, into Merit Transportation Company. Kirkonis was named as president; and was given twenty percent ownership of the subsidiary. The initial capitalization of the company was $300,000, a sum felt to be inadequateby Kirkonis, who believed, based on his experience, that $800,000 would have been a better figure. Kirkonis believed that $500,000 would be needed to cover accounts from third parties, and that $300,000 would only cover primary start-up. Nevertheless, Kirkonis was apparently not too concerned about the initial undercapitalization, believing Merit Ventures would make up any deficiency in capital for its subsidiary.
Merit Transportation commenced business in August, 1980. The company rented barges and tugs to other companies. It owned no boats of its own, but would charter vessels from other companies. It was the breach of these charter agreements after Merit Transportation became insolvent that gave rise to this lawsuit. Shortly after Merit Transportation began operation, Waxler Towing Company entered into a charter party agreement with the new company. | {
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By this agreement, Waxler chartered for hire one complete "tow", consisting of a tug and several barges, fully crewed and supplied. The charter party covered a one-year period through November, 1981. In April, 1981, Sabine Towing and Transportation Company, Inc. entered into two one-year charter agreements pursuant to which Sabine Towing hired out four tows. In November, 1980, Walter Blessey and Richard Wilson entered into a bareboat charter agreement with Merit Transportation whereby they agreed to lease to the company the WEB 162, a newly constructed barge owned jointly by them. This charter agreement was to last for a three year period, ending in December, 1980.
Merit Transportation chartered barges from one other company that deserves mention. This was Merit Equipment Company, another subsidiary of Merit Ventures. It hadbeen formed about the same time as Merit Transportation, for the express purpose of purchasing barges. Merit *1445 Transportation used several of the barges it purchased.
During the first six months of operation, Merit Transportation made a profit. Soon, however, the owners were seeking additional capital to keep the business afloat. On or about March 31, 1981, in an action that has figured prominently in this litigation, Merit Transportation borrowed $1,000,000 from the Greenspoint Bank of Houston. The loan was secured by the accounts receivable of Merit Transportation; but it was also guaranteed by Merit Ventures, and by the individual guarantees of two Merit Ventures' owners. Despite the fact that Merit Transportation made the loan, almost immediately afterwards $260,000 was advanced to Merit Equipment to allow that company to | {
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make payment on a barge construction project and to pay off certain debts. This sort of inter-subsidiary loan was not uncommon with the Merit Ventures group. Indeed, Merit Transportation received several such loans from sister companies itself. Furthermore, Merit Ventures, the parent, advanced money to Merit Transportation throughout the life of the subsidiary.
From April to August the company operated at a gross profit, as the gross revenues exceeded the cost of barge operation. Yet the general and administrative expenses drained those profits, and caused it to operate at a net loss. As the year wore on, it became apparent that Kirkonis' prediction about a severe downturn in the barge industry was being borne out. A review of Merit Transportation's finances shows that by September, 1981, the company waslosing money heavily.
In light of the depressed situation, a decision was made to get out of the marine transportation business. During the early part of November, 1981, Merit Ventures officials informed Kirkonis of this decision and told him that no more funds would be advanced to Merit Transportation. Kirkonis, realizing the company would soon collapse, arranged for a rival towing company to offer to take over several of Merit Transportation's contracts. The owners rejected this offer. On November 13th, 1981, a meeting was held between the Merit Ventures' owners, Kirkonis, and Merit Ventures' legal counsel. A decision was made at this meeting to sell Merit Transportation and to cancel its further operations. The testimony of the Merit Ventures owners reveals that no concern was expressed regarding the effects | {
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of this decision on any third party contracts. On the same date, a final payment in the amount of $251,000 was made on the Greenspoint Bank loan. An earlier payment of $700,000 had been made in mid-September. These payments extinguished Merit Ventures' liability on the loan, but impeded Merit Transportations financially and its ability to pay its creditors.
On November 16th, all Merit Transportation employees were terminated. Merit Ventures then directed an employee to take over the Merit Transportation's management. The employee's main duty was to contact the companies whose equipment Merit Transportation had under lease and tell them that Merit Transportation was defunct and had no further use for their property. On November 24th, all of Merit Transportation's stock was sold for $1,250 to Far West Transportation Company.Far West had been created a short time before the sale for the express purpose of acquiring Merit Transportation. It was owned by two men, B.D. Shipwash and Ralph Keen, who were acquaintances of Richard Fuqua, Merit Venture's attorney. Neither were knowledgeable in the marine transportation business, but were experienced in dealing with the problems of financially troubled companies. Almost immediately Keene and Shipwash transferred approximately $300,000 from Merit Transportation to Far West. Sabine Towing, concerned about payment on its contracts, filed a garnishment action against Merit Transportation, effectively freezing its accounts. Shortly thereafter, Merit Transportation's new owners filed Chapter Eleven bankruptcy proceedings for the company. Realizing that Merit Transportation was insolvent, plaintiffs brought this action against the parent.
*1446 II. CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
A. PIERCING THE CORPORATE VEIL.
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company was created.
11. Decision-Making for the Subsidiary made by the Parent and its Principals. Kirkonis testified that it was his understanding that he was to report to Sam Dumas, who, he assumed, was the Merit Ventures' representative on the Merit Transportation board of directors. The testimony of third parties reveals that it was widely believed that Merit Transportation was a mere adjunct of the parent and that Kirkonis had no authority to act. It is obvious that Larry Morris, not Kirkonis, made the major financial decisions involving the subsidiary; and it is clear that Morris acted at Merit Ventures' behest. It was Morris, not Kirkonis, who negotiated the million dollar loan from Greenspoint *1448 Bank. Kirkonis never saw the note or loan documentation. Furthermore, it was Merit Venturesunder the control of Merit Ventures. An analysis of the financial records involving the two subsidiaries indicates that the barges it leased to Merit Transportation could not be used profitably. The result was that while Merit Transportation was losing money, Merit Equipment was showing a profit. In effect, this resulted in Merit Transportation's assets being used to pay for Merit Equipment's barges.
14. Observance of Formal Legal Requirements. This is a factor cited in Markow, supra. It cannot be stated with certainty whether Merit Transportation observed all the formal legal requirements expected of a corporation. Merit Transportation's corporate records have disappeared in mysterious circumstances. Nevertheless, Kirkonis testified that he could not recall any formal shareholder's or director's meetings being held. This information coming from the president of the corporation, | {
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leads to a conclusion that at least one important aspect of the corporate entity was ignored.
15. The Existence of Fraud, Wrong-doing or Injustice to Third Parties. The events surrounding the final days of Merit Transportation indicate there was an injustice done to the company's creditors. Suddenly, in November, 1981, plaintiffs found the corporation they had done business with sold and the payments on their contracts stopped. Furthermore, the corporation was sold to men who had no experience in the barge business; but who were familiar with handling failing corporations. Almost immediately after the sale to these men $300,000 was transferred from Merit Transportation to Far West, the company they had created to acquire Merit Transportation, a loan that is unsecured and documented only in the board minutes ofcommon sense and the plain reading of the contract. Interest is paid here, not as a penalty, but as consideration for the right to use another's money. To allow only $3,000 for two years use of money would be ludicrous. Blessey and Wilson are entitled to the full amount.
Plaintiff Blessey, individually, contends that he is entitled to $47,171.20 in damages because of his being forced to idle one of his personal barges as a result of the Charter breach. This was the situation: Blessey and Wilson each owned fifty percent of the WEB 162, the barge under charter to Merit Transportation. After the breach, Blessey would hire out the WEB 162 before any of his personal barges in order not to deny Wilson income; and as an effort | {
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Rose Namajunas: Mackenzie Dern needs to get s**t together; open to fighting in future
Strawweight champion Rose Namajunas is looking for some fresh contenders after defeating former champion Joanna Jedrzejczyk for the second time, and she may have a future opponent in Mackenzie Dern. Dern was the talk of UFC 224 fight week after she came in overweight by 7 pounds and was still allowed to fight Amanda Cooper.
Dern would go on to defeat Cooper by first-round submission, and although she gave up plenty of purse money to Cooper, she improved to 7-0 in her professional MMA career, and improved to 2-0 under the UFC. Following her win over Cooper, Dern spoke to the media and said she would be going to the UFC Performance Institute to fix herKim was staying at the Melia hotel tower in the heart of the city, but the hotel also happened to have been booked by the White House as the filing center for the traveling press corps to cover the summit.
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Not long before Kim arrived, a notice was distributed to the press corps that the filing center would be moved to a separate site for the international press corps at the Cultural Friendship Palace.
A tweet from the Vietnamese government, complete with three megaphone emoji, confirmed the switch.
That left the U.S. press contingent scrambling to make the move. Television network producers had spent weeks setting up cameras, lights, monitors and other equipment shipped halfway across the world. A person with knowledge of the situation said the networks were told they | {
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for major American media outlets, and water bottles and extension cords for the print and broadcast equipment necessary to cover the major media event.
As it became clear Kim would stay at the Melia, U.S. and foreign diplomats had privately expressed surprise that the White House was keeping with its plan to keep the filing center there.
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The young dictator lives in near-constant fear of attempts on his life staged from inside or outside North Korea, making the regime highly concerned about security precautions during the rare occasions he travels outside the country.
Once Kim set foot in the Melia Hanoi, a person inside the hotel said they witnessed a tense standoff between a North Korean official who yelled at Vietnamese security and hotel staff, demanding they tell journalists in thelobby not to take pictures or even look at the scene. One member of hotel management called the North Korean moves “unprecedented” and said he was forced to turn over control of the entire hotel to the North Koreans.
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Margaret Talev, a White House reporter for Bloomberg News who is staying at the Melia, wrote on Twitter that security was tight in the hotel as Kim arrived: Guests were cleared from the lobby, and window shades were pulled down.
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“Security forces prohibited us from taking pictures from inside the hotel though we could see (state?) camera rolling on him as his entourage came thru,” Talev wrote. “Guards were literally right up on us saying no cameras.”
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vacate the Melia. It is not clear why summit organizers did not foresee the coincidence in advance and make the switch before both sides had checked in.
Like previous presidents, Trump travels with a 13-member press pool that typically stays in the same hotel when he is on the road; that group is scheduled to stay in his hotel, the JW Marriott, when Trump is in Vietnam on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. However, the press filing center is typically at a different location.
Outside the Melia, where police had cordoned off the street, reporters shot video and pictures of Kim’s arrival from down the block. A metal detector had been set up at the door a day earlier, and guests at the hotel were accompanied in and out by authorities.to sweat on Simunovic as van Dijk’s replacement after a deal was done with Dinamo Zagreb on Monday night.
Personal terms were agreed with the Croatian – who is on Under-21 duty – but the paperwork was not completed until the final two hours of the transfer window.
Celtic also knocked back a late bid from Bolton to take Anthony Stokes on loan for the season after struggling to land a top striker.
But Irish centre-back Eoghan O’Connell moved to Oldham on a loan deal until January and youth coach Stevie Frail announced he was quitting the club. | {
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Teenagers have many ways to spend their summer these days. They can go to the mall. Or go bowling. Few choose to delve into the complex and often emotional histories of their national groups.
But every summer for the past 12 years, the Gary and Jerri-Ann Jacobs International Teen Leadership Institute (JITLI) has been bringing together 11th grade high schoolers from three distinct communities: the Jewish community of San Diego, the Israeli Moshavim and Kibbutzim of Shaar Hanegev Regional Council, near the Gaza Strip; and Bedouin Arab communities in the Beersheba region. Together, the students undergo leadership training and tour Israel for three weeks, staying at each others’ homes.
Gary Jacobs, who funds the program in association with the United Jewish Federation of San Diego County, says the initiative camefrom the former head of Shaar Hanegev Regional Council (and current Kadima MK) Shai Hermesh. In 2000, “with peace around the corner,” Hermesh wanted to create a leadership program which brought together Jewish and Arab youth. But the Second Intifada broke out that year, and the idea of including Gaza students became impossible.
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Eran Tzidkiyahu, who built the tour program and has been guiding it for the past few years, says that JITLI brings together teenagers who would never normally meet despite living just a short distance from one another.
“While other summer programs create bubbles through very limited exposure to the land, this program bursts them,” he tells The Times of Israel. | {
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158 Ohio State students in front of a digital camera. The students were filmed and photographed as they had a casual conversation with the person behind the camera in their native language.
The students belonged to four groups, which were chosen to represent a wide variety of grammatical structures. English is a Germanic language, while Spanish is based on Latin; Mandarin Chinese is a modern form of Middle Chinese that was formalized early in the 20th century. Like other forms of sign language, ASL combines hand gestures, head and body movements and facial expressions to communicate individual words or phrases.
The researchers were looking for a facial “grammatical marker,” a facial expression that determines the grammatical function of a sentence. For example, in the sentence “I am not going toSENTENCING HEARING, AND THAT DECISION DENIED
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On July 30, 2012, the Sandusky Police Department was called to the Firelands Hospital
emergency room at the request of the Sandusky Fire Department in connection to a badly
injured boy who had just been transported to the hospital.
{¶ 4} The three-year-old male victim resided in a Sandusky apartment with his
mother and her live-in boyfriend. The Sandusky Fire Department had received a call
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A third suspect linked to the poisoning of the former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury has been identified as a high-ranking officer in Russian military intelligence by the investigative website Bellingcat.
Bellingcat reported that Denis Sergeyev, a graduate of the Military Diplomatic Academy, a training ground for intelligence officers, is the real identity of a man operating under the cover persona of Sergey Fedotov.
Two other Russian military intelligence officers – who were first identified by Bellingcat – have already been charged in absentia by the UK over the March 2018 attack.
According to the website, Sergeyev was in Bulgaria in 2015 when a businessman there fell into a coma along with his son and one of his company directors. All three survived the suspected poisoning, butgovernment’s chemical weapons laboratories from Porton Down have said they were poisoned with a nerve agent called novichok, which was developed by Soviet chemists.
Two Russians, who identified themselves as Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshiro – the aliases used by the agents charged by the UK – appeared on Russian TV to say they were innocent tourists who had gone to Salisbury to see its cathedral.
Bellingcat claimed that Russian authorities have erased the public records of Sergeyev, Alexander Mishkin and Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga – Petrov and Boshiro’s real names – over the past two months.
The use of a nerve agent in the UK by Russian agents has led to the worst diplomatic fallout between London and Moscow since the cold war. The UK and its allies expelled more than | {
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150 Russian diplomats as a result of the poisoning.
Neither Sergei Skripal nor his daughter have appeared in public since the poisonings, although both have reportedly been discharged from hospital. A police officer also affected by the poison, DS Nick Bailey, returned to work last month after 10 months of recuperation.
Dawn Sturgess, 44, fell ill in Amesbury months after the incident after coming into contact with a counterfeit Nina Ricci perfume bottle believed to have been used in the attack on the Skripals and then discarded. She died in hospital in July. Her partner, Charlie Rowley, 45, was also exposed to the same nerve agent but was treated and discharged.obsessively for years and years before Lance started winning. I can name every winner dating back to 1981. In fact, the first year I paid close attention was the last time a Frenchman won his country's own race. Yes, a very long time ago.
However, this year, I'm having a hard time caring. Blame doping and drugs.
Cheating has always been part of sports. But it is so omnipresent now that it has begun to blot out the sun that is the sport itself. Cycling is hardly alone in this, but that doesn't make it better.
This year has been one of awful revelation. The winner of the 1996 Tour recently admitted he doped his way to victory. Until he had to slink away earlier this season, he had been coaching | {
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one of the best teams and had honestly pledged to make his team ride clean. The winner of the 1997 Tour retired after too many questions about his involvement with doping came out. The 1998 winner was already long dead after a downward spiral of recreational and performance-enhancing drugs. The 2006 winner - American Floyd Landis - is barred from competing until his doping charges are resolved. Some of the best riders aren't even at the Tour this year, suspended for suspicions of doping. It's finally just too much.
Three American riders have won the Tour. Each one had a great personal story that made him more than just an athlete. You already know of Lance, of course, and his cancer fight. But did you know that the firstAmerican winner, Greg LeMond, nearly bled to death after being shot in a hunting accident and later came back to win the closest Tour in history on its last day, a matter of a few seconds in a race that lasts weeks?
And until Floyd Landis got caught up in the latest doping scandal, he too was fascinating. Raised Mennonite, he used bicycling as a means of escape as a kid. Improbably, he rode away from all of the competition on one stage last year in one of the greatest one-day performances ever. To top it off, he did it on a bad hip that made him limp. He put off hip surgery until he completed one of the hardest athletic events in the world. What a story. Until | {
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more methodically than anyone to win year after year. Cynics don't think it's that simple. But even after all this time, they have no real proof, just whispers and accusations. And it just gets old.
The cynics forget that he was greatest when he was weakest. In 2003, in my view the best Tour ever, he nearly lost the race time after time. On a fast descent, the rider in front of him fishtailed and crashed in pain, breaking a leg on asphalt that was melting in the heat. To avoid him, Armstrong shot off the road, across a hayfield, dismounted and then jumped back on his bike to rejoin riders who had just negotiated a hairpin turn. Another day, Armstrong suffered during a time trial - each rideragainst the clock - as he slowly dehydrated in the wilting heat. His lips ringed white with salt, he fought not to win, but to not lose. The pain on his face was palpable. Finally, later in the race, as he blasted up a mountain finally looking like the Lance of old, he clipped a spectator's bag and fell hard, shattering part of his bike. He went on to win the stage anyway. It was a show of determination that matches anything I've ever seen in sports, and it was best because he was not a superman but a weakened man battling on through sheer force of will. Drugs wouldn't have helped much there. The grit with which he fought cancer, though, did.
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monitor Tour news only by listening to daily updates from the BBC squawking and hissing on my shortwave. One year, my wife and I were in France during the Tour, so I was able to follow the race in the French sporting papers. My mother-in-law, a Swede who learned French before she learned English, was with us, and she would translate the French to English for me, and I would translate the idioms of cycling to normal language for her. My mother-in-law, translating the French: "It says he was 'dancing on the pedals.' Is that good?" Me: "Yes, that's good. It means he is pedaling beautifully and effortlessly."
In those days it was an adventure to follow the Tour. Now, it's possible to get nearly minute-by-minute results streamed tothe vehicle on the same side as the front wheel observed by the first camera. Alternative configurations may only utilize two cameras, one in each camera assembly, and each of which is configured to acquire images of targets mounted on both the front and rear wheels of the vehicle.
Within a four-camera configuration, the relationship between the two cameras mounted in a camera assembly is called the rear-to-front cross transform. Traditionally, this relationship is established and measured in a factory at the time of assembly, and is unchanged during the operational life of the camera assembly. The process for establishing the relationship is commonly referred to as rear-to-front cross-calibration, and the resulting rear-to-front cross transform is stored in non-volatile memory within one or both cameras of the two-camera assembly. | {
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a four camera vehicle wheel aligner determines the transform between the right front camera and the left front camera, plus the transform between the left front camera and the runway. The observation set needed to compute these transforms involves a series of calibration fixture positions in the front axle area of the runway surface, plus a series of calibration fixture positions in the rear area of the runway surface. There are front observations seen only by front cameras plus rear observations seen only by rear cameras. Computation of the full set of inter-camera relationships relies upon the front-to-rear transforms for the right and left camera assemblies that were established at the factory during manufacture of the camera assemblies.
Accordingly, it would be advantageous to provide a process of fieldof the best briefed in the land.
She certainly isn't meant to be party political. But she has a political role.
It is one that she has exercised very sparingly - if anything she has been a conservative Queen, pulling back from any intervention that might seem to involve the Monarchy in controversy or leave it open to accusations of political favouritism.
But when the unity of the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth has been under threat she has acted. Her call before the Scottish referendum in 2014 for voters to 'think very carefully' was long mulled and scrupulously scripted.
Now, with the air full of vitriol, and accusations of treachery and betrayal hurled hither and thither, she has spoken again to try and calm a fevered nation.
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Sink into comfort at this open-concept, dog-friendly condo in Depoe Bay! Perched right across the street from the water, with a private patio and views of the town's famous seawall, this elegant rental makes for a delightful destination no matter what the season.
With a prime location in the middle of town, you'll be perfectly situated to experience the best of one of Oregon's most charming coastal towns. Stroll one block south to Depoe Bay's harbor - the smallest navigable harbor in the world! - before enjoying a meal at one of the many cafes and restaurants tucked along the waterfront's dramatic scenery. Though you'll be able to watch for whales right from your condo, no visit to Depoe Bay is complete without a whale watching cruise, which takesits assignor heretofore paid to the defendant, Blue Front Market, as a deposit, pursuant to the aforesaid agreement, and to the further sum of $300 toward the payment of fees expended for the examination of title.
*64 The agreement, here the subject matter of consideration, relates to the sale of certain described real estate situated in the Township of Berkeley, Ocean County, New Jersey, and to the grocery, meat and produce business, as well as the business of the sale of alcoholic beverages conducted at said premises, including the retail plenary distributors license thereto.
The deposit paid was held in escrow by Herbert Fenster, as attorney for Blue Front Market, and by Edward Gaulkin, as the attorney for Edward Gelb. By order heretofore entered in this cause, these two named | {
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attorneys, having deposited with the clerk of this court the said sum of $10,000, were severally discharged from all liability in the premises, and the above entitled action, including the counterclaim as well as the complaint, dismissed as against them. The cause therefor thus proceeds with the Blue Front Market, as the sole defendant herein.
The agreement of December 26, 1950, consists of 14 typewritten sheets. The provisions thereof, considered pertinent and applicable to the instant motion, are as follows:
"1. The party of the first part does covenant and agree to and with the said party of the second part that the said party of the first part will well and sufficiently convey to the said party of the second part, by full covenant warranty deed, free and clearof all encumbrances, all those certain lots of land situated in the Township of Berkeley, County of Ocean and State of New Jersey, being Lots Numbered 36 and 38 on Central Avenue, and Lot Numbered 427, all as laid down on a map or plan of Lots of Seaside Park, duly filed in the Clerk's Office of said Ocean County, bounded and described as follows:
First Tract: Beginning at a stake for a corner at the intersection of the Easterly line of Central Avenue with the Northerly line of Fourth Avenue; thence in an Easterly direction, along the Northerly line of said Fourth Avenue, 100 feet to a corner; thence in a Northerly direction, parallel with Central Avenue, and bounding on the Westerly line of Lot Number 427, 100 | {
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and description, and the party of the second part agrees to purchase the said business, fixtures, equipment, merchandise, supplies and all other assets thereof, except accounts receivable and cash in bank, of the said grocery, meat, produce and liquor business owned and operated by the party of the first part and situate at 310 Central Avenue, Seaside Park, New Jersey.
3. The purchase price of the aforesaid real estate, fixtures and equipment and other assets, exclusive of stock, shall be $170,000.00, which sum shall be payable as hereinafter stated. Said $170,000.00 has been arrived at as follows:
Land requirements of the agreement between the parties, both to the title and as to the terms of the escrow and that, accordingly, the plaintiff or its assignor is not entitled to the return of said deposit, but has forfeited the same because of the refusal to carry out the terms of the agreement; that the plaintiff's assignor did not attend at the time and place fixed for the closing, nor offered or tendered the necessary documents required by the terms of the agreement, and that the present plaintiff is not the real party in interest in this suit, but is acting as the agent for Edward Gelb, who was the original party to the agreement. In its counterclaim the defendant recites that it has always been and is | {
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Doctor says he's found the actual G spot
A researcher's report on the G spot touched off a scientific… (Getty Images )
8:00 a.m. EST, April 25, 2012|By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times
Like so many explorers before him, Dr. Adam Ostrzenski has long dreamed of finding a piece of elusive territory with a reputation for near-mythic powers.
Ostrzenski's quarry is the G spot, the long-conjectured trigger for enhancing female orgasm. And in an article published Wednesday by the Journal of Sexual Medicine, the semi-retired Florida gynecologist declared that he had found it.
To do so, Ostrzenski conducted a postmortem examination of an 83-year-old woman in Warsaw Medical University's Department of Forensic Medicine. Unlike the United States, which strictly regulates the research use of cadavers, Poland allows the dissection of human remains soonafter death, when fine distinctions in tissue remain easy to see.
Inspecting the six distinct layers of tissue that make up a woman's vaginal wall, Ostrzenski said, he uncovered small, grape-like clusters of erectile tissue housed in a sac less than 1 centimeter across— "a deep, deep structure" nestled between the vaginal wall's fifth layer, the endopelvic fascia, and its sixth, the dorsal perineal membrane.
The dissection took seven hours for the Poland-trained physician and anatomist, who said the first principles of medicine — "first you have to establish the anatomy" — prompted him to undertake the study. If confirmed by further investigation, he said, he hopes his finding will help rewrite female anatomy books.
But his study quickly touched off a scientific and political tempest among the small camp of | {
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experts in female sexual health.
In some corners, Ostrzenski's study is cause for celebration. To have isolated a unique structure capable of boosting women's orgasmic powers should lay to rest the doubts of those who question its existence, said sexual medicine specialist Dr. Andrew Goldstein, director of the Centers for Vulvovaginal Disorders in Annapolis, Md.
Others, however, are crying foul. Ostrzenski's report not only fails to support his grand claim of a "new discovery" but falls prey to the all-too-common urge to simplify women's sexuality, said Beverly Whipple, the Rutgers University sexologist who popularized the name "G spot" as coauthor of a 1982 book on the subject.
Laying out a bundle of poorly defined tissues and calling them the G spot likens women's powers of sexual pleasure to the "on-off switch"he added.
Some of the backlash may come from Ostrzenski's other professional pursuits, which include performing plastic surgery on women's genitalia — a growing practice that was condemned by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in 2007. Among the services advertised on Ostrzenski's website are "G spotplasty," typically offered as a means to enhance sexual pleasure despite a lack of evidence that it works.
The G spot was first identified in 1950 by the German gynecologist Ernst Grafenberg and was long thought to belong to the female urological anatomy. But its powers of pleasure have been attested to as far back as the third century, when an early medical .topic">oxytocin, a hormone associated with enhanced bonding and trust.
Other studies have suggested that there may be many G spots. Brain | {
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scans of women in various states of sexual arousal have underscored the fluid nature of female sexuality and the key role of psychological factors in women's sexual pleasure, said Dr. Michael Krychman, director of the Southern California Center for Sexual Health in Newport Beach.
Researchers have documented cases of women achieving orgasm with cervical stimulation even after spinal cord injuries that should have left them numb below the waist, and others doing so in the absence of any direct physical stimulation.
Still, Krychman said, Ostrzenski's report offers an important caveat for those who think women's sexual arousal is entirely a mental matter. While the psychological dimensions of women's sexuality dominate the field, the new study recognizes that "women have anatomy issues that contribute to their sexual problems," he said. "ThereMINNEAPOLIS -- The longer the Kurt Rambis saga dragged on, the bigger the mess got for president of basketball operations David Kahn and the Minnesota Timberwolves.
The organization endured a torrent of criticism nationally for allowing Rambis to twist in the wind, tarnishing the team's image across the league while many accomplished candidates took other jobs as Kahn mulled the decision.
The long expected firing finally was officially announced Tuesday, ending more than three months of uncertainty and awkwardness surrounding the head coach of the worst team in the NBA last season.
"People can argue about this should have happened and that should've happened, but I think collectively we felt that we were doing the right thing in terms of the way we approached it," Kahn said. "But I also recognize | {
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it took a long time. That's on me. And I realize that it can look more convoluted and complicated than maybe it really is, and that's on me. And to that extent I feel badly about that, too, and I apologize for that."
Kahn hired Rambis in 2009 to turn around one of the league's struggling franchises. But Rambis went 32-132 in his two seasons, including a league-worst 17-65 in his second year on the job.
The unusual sequence of events began at season's end, with Kahn holding his own press conference hours before the season finale on April 13 to say that he would take his time to make a decision on Rambis' future. The eventful summer also included Kahn asking Rambis to write a report on what hewould change if he returned for a third season and offering a position in the front office if Rambis would step down as coach.
Through it all, eyebrows were raised across the league, never more than in May when dozens of league executives came to Target Center to watch a group of draft prospects workout. Rambis showed up unannounced, even though he did not know if he would be back in 2011-12.
Rambis wasn't fired until seven weeks later, long after being told he was not welcome at an introductory news conference for point guard Ricky Rubio or the draft on June 23.
It was somewhat similar to when Kahn was first hired in 2009 and let then-coach Kevin McHale dangle for weeks before ultimately deciding not to retain him.
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Garamendi helps introduce Invest in American Jobs Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield) joined several colleagues in introducing legislation aimed at ensuring federal transportation and infrastructure investments support American jobs and domestic manufacturing Tuesday.
"By strengthening 'Buy America' requirements, we can create good middle-class jobs," Garamendi, who represents a portion of Lake County, stated. "When we make it in America, Americans will make it once again."
Under the Invest in American Jobs Act of 2013, all future transit, rail, wastewater or airport infrastructure projects financed by U.S. taxpayers would be stamped "Made in America" and crafted with American workmanship.
The bill is sponsored by Congressman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), who used the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reconstruction as an example of the type of project his bill hopes to address.
"Instead ofsteel cast in the Alleghenies or roadbed segments assembled in Alameda, cars and trucks using the bridge will be driving more than 43,000 tons of steel imported from China, which supported 3,000 Chinese jobs and was financed by U.S. taxpayers," Rahall stated.
A number of labor and manufacturer groups showed support for the legislation, including the Alliance for American Manufacturing, International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Steel Manufacturers Association.
In part, the bill looks to strengthen and expand existing "Buy America" requirements as well as require federal agencies to justify proposed waivers of "Buy America" rules.
The legislation would lay the groundwork for how an agency could waive the America-made requirements, which would be applied in a manner consistent with United States obligations under international agreements. | {
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Sydney Wanderers on Friday night but began the game brightly, fizzing vertical passes to one another to create some promising bullrushes into the Wanderers penalty area.
Connor Pain and Matthew Millar are both positive dribblers and bustling runners, and on either side of the pitch they matched each other’s searing sojourns into the attacking third.
But that early fizz quickly went flat. From about the 15-minute mark the Mariners became the reactive team looking for sporadic counter-attacks, allowing the Wanderers to assume control of possession and begin applying thin layers of pressure.
Often, once the ball was won back by Central Coast, the outlet pass of choice was a long punt toward Matt Simon. As much as Simon is a ferocious aerial presence, more an airborne elbow than he is aThe President of Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI), Prince Adetokunbo Kayode has commended members of the chamber for their resilience and contribution in the efforts towards the fight against the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
He made this known in a message after assessing the remote working initiative embarked upon by the Chamber last week.
It could be recalled that, the chamber was closed to physical traffic a week ago as part of its efforts to minimise the risk of the spread of the corona virus.
He enjoined members to embark only on functions and activities that would minimise the risk of spreading COVID 19 to clients, families, friends and the general public.
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The latest instalment of the record breaking Call of Duty franchise has been long flagged for release by Activision and their new developer company, Sledgehammer Games. Part of a new three year game development policy, where Activision have three different companies working on three different Call of Duty games at the same time, when Sledgehammer release Call of Duty: Advanced War later this year, the next game we see from this company will be sometime in 2017. It’s a great idea and gives each development company plenty of time to develop new and fresh ideas for the franchise, rather than rushing through simple upgrades and hastily designed new maps each year.
It is with this new approach that the player base of both casual and eSports collectively held theirthe Call of Duty series League Play was essentially a ranked playlist mode, where players of the game competed in six different skill level tiers with the highest being Master Division. The playlist revolved mainly around small tight map and helped greatly to cement together the community of Call of Duty eSports players. It has been a feature that has been greatly missed by the community since it was announced at the launch of Ghosts that the playlist would not be present.
Details are still not fully clear on what the list will contain as all Sledgehammer Games announced was “ranked playlists”, a big indicator of what is to come. More information on Advanced Warfare will start to come in spades soon enough over the next few weeks and | {
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Maureen Dowd has a split personality lately - her pieces start out about the glowing spectacular Obama and end up facing bitter reality - like she gets wound up as she goes.
She sees it. But she doesn't want to. She's being drug, kicking and screaming into the light, and the sunshine burns. Damn those Republicans. It would be so much nicer to be ignorant and stay in the shade.
The comment by Dowd about Republicans is rich, considering she spent nearly all 8 years of the Bush/Cheney administration ripping Bush and Cheney in nearly every column she wrote. She was probably the fiercest critic of Cheney of the major newspaper column writers, spewing more vitriol towards him than just about anyone.
Its Obama's own fault he isnt setting theAnd that FDR ran in '32 on what was basically a republican platform of lower taxes and federal spending and borrowing.
So MoDo finally wakes up. Anybody who remembers him talking about Hillary in that faux Jack Benny pose with his middle finger raised against his cheek knew he was a coward and a punk right then.
"As always, the same questions persist in our long, fruitless effort to pierce the Obama opacity. How long can the president sustain the sizzle before the fizzle?"
She still wants the Lightworker, the sort of God from the Greek temple.
For God's sake, woman, grow up!
"Does he get it together when the country’s in trouble or when he’s in trouble?"
Does she get it this is the vainest man in the world and, like her other | {
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Demo wet dream, Willie Whitewater, it's all about him - and only him? In Zero's case, he'll never get it together. Willie was able to coast on the illusion of peace and prosperity - and Dick Morris telling him what to do. As tomorrow reminds us, we have neither today.
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Maureen Dowd has a split personality lately - her pieces start out about the glowing spectacular Obama and end up facing bitter reality - like she gets wound up as she goes.
She was like this when the news came out about Willie and Monica. The woman is the last to know, you know.
It's hilarious how Republicans have become nihilists and Tea Partiers are a "a cult hellbent on taking a wrecking ball at government and all the normsplace and giving the kill order on Bin Laden on sketchy intelligence."
How can an intelligent person possibly reach that conclusion? His entry into the presidential race was virtually without risk. He was a two year senator, virtually guaranteed both 40% of the primary vote in many states on racial grounds and the VP slot if he did not win the nomination. And, even if he somehow got less, what was the risk?
And Bin Laden? He had been observed for about 6 months living in a house with no security protection. Obama sent a Seals unit, the fiercest and best fighters in the world, to take out a 60 year old weakling, two couriers and several wives. I suppose both helicopters could have crashed (instead of one), but the | {
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He was a genius at selecting people far smarter than him with the right character traits, to do a good job. And he only guided one affair - with Lucy.Then came egghead Adlai. JFK as a brilliant author. Hubert Humphrey as "the smartest man in the Midwest since Adlai". The brilliant Mondale and the all-wise Michael Dukakis. Then the legitimately Nixon-level IQ Bill Clinton.But we soon had people shilling his successor Algore, as the Ubermind that knew Everything!!. (Problem became Algore believing his press) Then Jean Claude Kerry, the LOVED! debating genius from Yale. They did get Obama in, in part by showing how stupid their former pet, John McCain, actually was. But the Transcendental Mind of Black Messiah was a constant theme of liberals and progressive Jewsa strangely risk-averse tact
the odd rhythms of his temperament are less interesting when so much is at stake
Disengaging when the United States and the world are going to hell is playing with fire.
In the capital of political tactics, it was just another fine day of faking it.
I put her real thesis last. There's no such thing as "Energizing Barry" or "electrifying" Barry or bold, risky Barry. There's not even "strangely" Barry or "odd" Barry. He is exactly what his opponents -- from Hillary in the primaries to the Tea Party in the summer of 2009 to the House Republicans -- told us he is. A man not ready, or inclined, for the executive.
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upon him (by academic panderers, by idealistic primary voters, by Nancy Pelosi, by the CIA) yet must be cast as the image of accomplishment.
Obama's failure as president is so irrefutably complete, in order to praise Obama, MoDo has to suggest that she hardly sees any difference between the Civil Rights America of the last century and the current clueless America that elected his bold risky *ss.
And reading Dowd's article, it's hard to believe she's living in the same country as the rest of us. Same with the other Democrats who are worried about Obama getting re-elected because "he's not been getting his message out." The problem is not Obama getting the message out, it's the subject of the message itself, both words and actions, which have resulted inFriday, April 26, 2002
The number of Indonesian VIPs under arrest or facing trial - from parliamentary speaker Akbar Tandjung to the son of former President Suharto - has raised hopes that Indonesia is finally adopting the rule of law.
But legal specialists and human rights activists warn that most high profile suspects in the past have in fact walked free. Legal loopholes and corrupt and incompetent law enforcement officials are to blame.
"Their initial arrest is widely publicised in the media but after months of prosecutions and trial sessions, one by one they escaped justice. Only two major corruption cases have so far resulted in convictions," according to Teten Masduki of Indonesia Corruption Watch.
Star suspects Prominent suspects have included former President Suharto himself, central bank governor Syahril Sabirin, several former | {
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ministers, high ranking military officers and Suharto supporters like businessmen Bob Hasan and Hashim Djojohadikusumo, who until three years ago controlled two of the country's biggest business groups.
Mr Suharto never turned up to his trial and the case was finally discarded due to illness.
Mr Sabirin, despite being found guilty of corruption and sentenced to three years' jail, is still a free man and continues in his post at the central bank.
Only Mr Hasan was sentenced and is now serving time in a prison island for corruption.
In another high-profile case, seven men have been charged with genocide and crimes against humanity for a massacre in East Timor in 1999. But some analysts say the court case is so weak they are expected to walk free.
Sidney Jones of the NewYork-based Human Rights Watch said: "The judges were poorly chosen, the prosecutors have shown no interest in accountability, the defence is likely to take advantage of an array of legal loopholes."
Legal loopholes Loopholes are a big part of the problem.
Nono Anwar Makarim of the Aksara Foundation, a Jakarta think tank, said judges, "influenced by political and monetary factors", adhere to often absurd legal technicalities to get suspects off the hook.
Mr Makarim, a retired lawyer who trained at Harvard University, tells a joke popular among Jakarta lawyers to illustrate his point.
It is about a man who killed another man. There were 15 witnesses who testified to seeing the killing. The forensic test showed a bullet missing from the suspect's gun was found in the victim's head.
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Becky GilletteWednesday, May 07, 2014
Opponents of the proposed American Electric Power (AEP)/Southwestern Electric Power Company (SWEPCO) 345-kiloVolt transmission line may get some help on the statewide level with efforts to reform eminent domain laws due to growing citizen opposition.
Arkansas Citizens Against Clean Line Energy is a citizen group organizing in western Arkansas to oppose their land being taken for a proposed Plains & Clean Line transmission line that would carry wind-generated power from the panhandle of Oklahoma through Arkansas and Tennessee to deliver power to the East Coast. Recently about 150 people attended a hearing in Mulberry to organize opposition to the transmission line that would carry 600 kiloVolts of power – 1.7 times the amount of electricitymuseum from which various items were missing. When the smoke of battle cleared, it turned out that museum staff had hidden these items for safekeeping during the fighting.
Then there was the incident in which a Marine shot a terrorist who was pretending to be asleep, and the media turned that into a big scandal until an investigation revealed how this trick and others used by terrorists had cost the lives of American troops in Iraq.
None of the beheadings of innocent hostages taken by terrorists in Iraq - and videotaped for distribution throughout the Middle East - has aroused half the outrage in the mainstream media as have unsubstantiated charges made by terrorists imprisoned in Guantanamo.
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other channels.
The total hobby games market estimate is derived from estimates for five individual categories: collectible games (which include Collectible Card Games, Collectible Miniatures Games, and Collectible Dice Games), miniatures (non-collectible), board games, card and dice games, and roleplaying games.
We want to thank the many industry insiders that were willing to contribute their expertise and unique viewpoints to our efforts; without their help and willingness to speak frankly about their own estimates of market size and the reasoning behind them, it would have been impossible to complete this project.
We also report on the Spring season in the hobby game market in the new issue of Internal Correspondence, and found that sales increases continued, albeit at a more modest pace, as tectonic shifts in the distribution of hobby gamespresaged major impacts on the business for years to comic. The early net effects of those changes were to anoint the Big Five hobby game distributors as the key paths to the channel, with major exclusive distribution relationships ending.
ICv2 also published its hobby game bestseller charts for the Spring season in the new issue, covering all five categories.
For the lists of the bestselling Collectible Games in the hobby channel, mass channel, and overall, click here.
For the bestselling Board Games in the hobby channel, click here.
For the bestselling Card/Dice Games in the hobby channel, click here.
For the bestselling hobby channel Non-Collectible Miniature lines, click here.
For the bestselling hobby channel RPGs, click here.
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and long on debate as to who the top player is at several key positions, and Bills fans are finding themselves in a position where nearly two dozen players would make some degree of sense for the team.
Quarterback: The team is bringing Texas A&M senior Ryan Tannehill in for a visit. The highly talented Tannehill is now expected to be a Top 10 pick despite only having started 19 games in college. Yes, the Bills gave a big contract to Ryan Fitzpatrick, but they've been looking for two years for a high-level developmental option, and while Tannehill would not fill an immediate need, he'd also be an ideal long-term successor to Fitzpatrick as the team's franchise quarterback.
Running Back: Well, okay; running back isn't likely to be high oncream of this year's crop, but it's still unlikely that the team would explore a trade up to secure his services. From there, there are a whopping four first-round caliber tackle prospects that the team could consider, either at No. 10 or in a trade down: Iowa's Riley Reiff, Ohio State's Mike Adams, Stanford's Jonathan Martin and Georgia's Cordy Glenn, who may be a better fit at guard. It's nearly impossible to pick a front-runner out of that group, though Reiff is by far the team's most popular mock draft selection around the web.
Guard/Center: David DeCastro is certain to be in or near the Bills' group of top-rated players when they're on the clock; we're just not sure his position is valued enough to take that early. That | {
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People of colour in South Africa have faced a long history of ostracism on multiple levels. Though I missed the worst of it, apartheid laws mandated racist exclusion: careers, political roles, even door entrances and homes, all were determined by race. These attitudes remain, even without laws to back them up.
I was a child, the first time I was subjected to a racial slur. Decades later it continues in South Africa, but also online, particularly in an internet environment dominated by status quo warriors who love Trump, hate women and believe progress is poison.
It was fascinating to me, then, to encounter a racial slur in the recent video game Mafia III. It was intentionally made at the game’s main character, who’s black.
Mafia III is an open-world sandbox game,similar in design to the recent Grand Theft Auto titles. The creators, Hangar 13, make no apologies for the inclusion of racism as it’s central to their story of a black man in the middle of the 20th century. These were the attitudes at the time, they remind us. In a version of 1960s America, players take on the role of Lincoln Clay, a biracial Vietnam war veteran. Lincoln returns home to the fictional city of New Bordeaux and his adopted family, members of the Black Mob.
In an early part of the game, Lincoln pretends to be a security guard. A white character snarls that his white friend is unable to find a job, but “some nigger” can. Lincoln says nothing, staying in disguise. A few moments later, | {
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Spoken word artist Gil Scott-Heron's memorable poem "Whitey on the Moon" catalogued a host of genuine hazards and deprivations earthbound African-Americans endured while Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin hopped about on the moonscape. "No hot water, no toilets, no lights, while whitey's on the moon" he rapped, adding that "all that money I made last year" went to the race to beat the Soviets to the moon.'
Back to top.8. Three generations of space experts react to the Moon landingsFrom: Heather Flewelling [heather_at_ifa.hawaii.edu]
By Adam Levy
"Half a century ago, a human set foot on the moon for the first time. Nature invited three experts to rewatch the highlights of the landing, reflecting on the Apollo missions' huge significance to humanity and to science. Sara Russell and Marissa Lo are researchers whostudy the moon, and Wally Funk was the youngest of the 'Mercury 13' women who underwent - and passed - many of the same tests as the Apollo 11 astronauts."
"Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) announced the release of 42 new badges for girls in grades K–12 in outdoor adventure and science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Among these new badges are the Space Science badges for Girl Scout Cadettes (grades 6-8), Seniors (grades 9-10), and Ambassadors (grades 11-12) which were developed as part of the SETI Institute's Reaching for the Stars: NASA Science for Girl Scouts program (also known as Girl Scouts Stars). These badges follow the Space Science badges for Girl Scouts in grades K-5, which were released in 2018."
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list of 'The 50 Most Important Women in Science'. Included was Esther Conwell, an American professor of chemistry at the University of Rochester, in New York.
In a career packed with achievements, the magazine settles on one in particular. 'Half a century ago,' it says, 'Conwell's research on how electrons course through silicon and other semiconducting materials jump-started the computer age.'"
Back to top.11. The universal Universe or making astronomy inclusiveFrom: JoEllen McBride [joellen.mcbride_at_gmail.com]
By Mario A. De Leo Winkler
[Editors note: The link to this article was provided by the author to share with our readers.]
"Astronomy is a gateway into science. The concepts it discusses and questions it raises create a sense of grandeur and awe, while offering answers to our origin and destiny. Its riveting images universally electrify people andto her. So, Seevers tried an experiment. She and a nearby male participant, who'd been getting lots of attention, switched spots, presenting each other’s research. Lo and behold, his project became much less popular with her standing in front of it, while hers suddenly attracted more interest.
But Seevers triumphed anyway. She went on to become the first-ever top winner from Kentucky, earning $50,000 to help her pay tuition at Harvard University in the fall."
"The sketch and improv group Astronomy Club has landed a self-titled variety sketch series at Netflix, Variety has learned exclusively.
The streamer has given the half-hour series a six episode order. Kenya Barris will executive produce under his Khalabo Ink Society banner at Netflix, with the show falling under the 'Black-ish' creator’s overall deal. Daniel Powell | {
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have sex with minors," said Cmdr. Shawn Cosgrove with the Arroyo Grande Police Department.
Officers created an avatar of a 15-year-old girl, which they used to communicate with Rieger, Cosgrove said.
Rieger has worked as a pastor for the Winnipeg Centre Vineyard Church on Main Street. The church released a statement Tuesday saying Rieger, who worked there for 19 years, had resigned his position. His departure and criminal charges were announced at a church service on Sunday.
The Winnipeg church, which is part of a worldwide group of 2,500 evangelical churches, regularly ministers to vulnerable people in the core area. The church community "was not prepared for this news which was given to the congregation last Sunday morning," the statement says.
"The church is transcending the challenges of this development and isoptimistic that the impact we have on the goodness of our community will continue. Our commitment to the social and spiritual well-being of our parish and surrounding community will continue to thrive."
Joyce Rees is pastor of a Vineyard church in Calgary and part of the church's national team.
She said she'd been in contact with some members of Winnipeg Centre Vineyard Church.
"There's denial, there's shock, there's anger. Just a whole bunch of responses," she said.
"Everyone takes bad news in differently. It's going to take time, and they're going to need care to get through this, and feelings of disappointment and deep grief."
At this point, she said she's not aware of any other allegations against Rieger.
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Located on the east end of Long Island in East Hampton, New York on three forested acres, the Arc House is a private modern residence designed with a stunning combination of glass, steel, stone and wood. Partially buried, over half of the 6,400 square foot subterranean construction home was prescribed by the owners who desired a pared-down aesthetic. The architect, Maziar Behrooz, says he was inspired by an F-16 fighter jet coming out of a hangar – a U.S. military’s humble Quonset hut (a lightweight prefabricated structure of corrugated galvanized steel having a semicircular cross-section).
The roof and side walls of the Arc House’s upper level are constructed with a 60-foot by 20-foot self-supporting corrugated steel arch. Green features include geothermal heating, a rainwater collection system on both endshouse is significantly lower than an average house of this size. In 2011, the Arc House won Best Metal Roofing in the 2011 MCN Building and Roofing Awards and in 2009 the AIA Peconic Honor Award in Project Category when it was then called “Hangar House.”
The green roof completed the landscape for the Arc House acts in a manner such as an infinity pool: the vegetation blends into the background providing a seamless appearance. This project was a culminating activity by Bronx students at the GLTi beta classroom as part of a four year program that implemented Green Living Technologies’ green roofs and walls to enhance student learning.
The MEWU (Mobile Edible Wall Unit) is the signature classroom tool used for indoor vertical farming. The unit provides the means | {
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media. The program teaches students to problem solve and learn critical thinking through some of the most advanced green roof and wall technologies. The students are learning by using real world technology that has become mainstream.
Not all students enjoy the physical work; many are attracted to data collection, scientific testing, and engineering – many of the skills that make up STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math). This program allows third year students the opportunity to take part in the authentic maintenance of a green roof or wall that they installed. As a senior they plan the installation to add sections to an already existing green roof, starting with their own school – the benefit to the school is they get green roofs for pennies on the dollar sinceit is part of a larger curriculum. It has been a win-win for schools, students, and the environment.
The Arc House was the 2010 year end culminating activity that capped a full year of learning; students had a chance to earn a living wage, practice the skills they learned in the classroom, and enjoy the surroundings of a project in East Hampton they may have never ventured to see. These types of projects are the apex of the GLTi education program. Other programs in the planning include Boston, NJ, and various university programs. | {
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their agency, as well as any involvement in the anti-FGM movement. Global civil society starts by ignoring what people in target communities need. It also suggests that dictatorial governments and international law become excessively involved in African family life. A single issue approach will not win the war on FGM. The intersectionality of the existence of African women has to be paramount in the war against FGM. Excessive focus on FGM also serves to illustrate how research often proceeds in very harmful and dehumanising ways, especially when its advancement is predicated on ignoring the power imbalances in knowledge extraction and the accompanying histories. A quote cited by Obiora illustrates this:
‘‘I have visited villages where, at a time when the village women are asking for better health facilities andaccompany him back to his
patrol car. As Hyde passed the rear of the Suburban, he shined his flashlight into
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the rear of the Suburban. He observed the luggage cover pulled over the cargo
area and he saw the ends of two duffel bags and a trash bag with square-shaped
packages. Trooper Hyde testified that he immediately identified the square
packages as kilos of narcotics. The length of time Hyde shined his light into the
Suburban was approximately one second.
While sitting in Hyde’s patrol car, Hyde and | {
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Gonzalez discussed
Gonzalez’s travel plans. Gonzalez said he was going to Tulsa to visit a friend and
that he would stay in Tulsa for two or three days. Gonzalez named his friend as
Aaron Lyon, and he said he would be staying at Lyon’s house if there was room.
Gonzalez also told Trooper Hyde that he owned his own construction company.
Hyde filled out the warning citation and asked Gonzalez to sign it. When
Gonzalez handed the pen back to Hyde, Hyde observed Gonzalez’s hand
trembling. Trooper Hyde told Gonzalez he was free to go, but then asked if he
could ask Gonzalez a few more questions. In response to the questions, Gonzalez
said he was not transporting weapons or drugs in the car and he refused to give
consent to search it.
the defendant that he was issuing only a warning ticket. However,
the defendant’s voice continued to sound strained when he spoke to
the officer. The defendant offered very little conversation except for
brief answers to direct questions asked by Trooper Hyde. Moreover,
as the defendant was observing Trooper Hyde search his vehicle he
was talking to an unidentified person on a cell phone or radio. In
that conversation there was minimal change in the defendant’s voice
after he observed Trooper Hyde discover the marijuana in the
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the search of his vehicle was supported by probable cause.”
Id. at 9.
Gonzalez pled guilty and, in preparation for sentencing, the United States
Probation Office prepared a presentence report (“PSR”). In the PSR, a total of
453 kilograms of marijuana were attributed to Gonzalez. This consisted of the
approximately 403 pounds seized in the current transaction, as well as 597 pounds
seized from a boat Gonzalez was towing the year before. 1 The PSR concluded
1
The PSR described the incident from the prior year as follows:
Consistent with his admission, on a previous occasion one year
earlier,raw marijuana. Both Gonzalez
and Gomez were handcuffed. A locked compartment was located in
the front of the boat. Gomez advised he did not know where the key
to the compartment was. Agents forced the compartment opened and
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he was coming from a source city going
to a source city traveling on a main drug courier highway. He had a
third-party rental vehicle that was only rented for three days,
obviously a quick turn around trip. Had the food wrappers and
energy drinks. He looked exhausted. He had obviously been
traveling nonstop since he left. I did not . . . see any luggage in the
vehicle. And also the fact that he was extremely, extremely nervous.
Id. at 21. When asked if the bundles in the back of the car contributed to his
suspicion, Cody said theyA proposed CFL franchise for Halifax continues to gain momentum, with the group behind it trademarking the name Atlantic Schooners.
The trademark was formalized on Dec. 1 and gives the proponents the sole right to use of the team name on a long list of souvenirs and others items, ranging from licence-plate holders to golf umbrellas and even Christmas ornaments.
Included on the list, according to online records, is "wholesale and retail sales of sporting goods, athletic and casual clothing, and novelty items; online retail sale of sporting goods, athletic and casual clothing and novelty items."
(CBC)
Anthony Leblanc, who is part of the group trying to bring a team to Halifax, told TSN the trademark was registered "just for safety, just in case we want that name," but there's still a | {
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the Coyotes when the team went through a front-office makeover in June.
Bruce Bowser, president of AMJ Campbell Van Lines, is listed as director and secretary.
Fans display an Atlantic Schooners banner at the Toronto-Edmonton CFL game in Moncton, N.B., on Sept. 26, 2010. (Andrew Vaughan/Canadian Press)
The trademark documents also deal with copyright protection relating to "broadcasting and re-broadcasting of football games through television, streaming services, satellite, radio and the internet."
The Canadian Football League currently has nine teams, five in the West division and four in the East division. It was revealed just prior to the Grey Cup game in Ottawa that the investor group had met with Halifax council to discuss a franchise coming to the city.
Halifax currently has no stadium for a pro football team to play in.
CanadianTycoon refused his wife credit card
A shipping tycoon with a fortune estimated at £50 million kept his wife on such a tight rein that he refused her a bank account for most of their marriage and denied her a credit card until three years ago.
George Tsavliris, 53, would not carry a key to the couple's £10m home in Virginia Water, Surrey, expecting his wife Christiana to let him in however late he returned.
As well as the Surrey home, overlooking Wentworth Golf Club, and complete with swimming pool, tennis court and servants, the couple had a flat in Athens and a boat with a crew.
But London-born Greek Mr Tsavliris treated his wife like a second-class citizen, constantly belittled her and refused to allow her financial independence for most of | {
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their marriage. The tycoon's behaviour was revealed in a judgment granting diplomat's daughter Ms Tsavliris, 42, a divorce on the grounds of his unreasonable behaviour.
London divorce cour t recorder Alison Ball said Mr Tsavliris thought of his wife as someone who should be satisfied with her expensive lifestyle and who should always be under his control as he was the provider. She said: "The wife eventually faced up to the fact that her husband treated her like a second-class citizen."
Following the breakup of their 12-year marriage, Ms Tsavliris is negotiating a settlement from her husband, who is head of the London end of his family's salvage business. Described by the recorder as "intelligent and articulate", she could be entitled to a third of his fortune. The couple havethree children.
Ms Tsavliris claimed that if she needed something while her husband was away she was reduced to the indignity of asking his secretary. Miss Ball said: "I cannot think of a more obvious way of telling a person who is the inferior partner."
Miss Ball said Mr Tsavliris sought to control his wife's movements. She added: "If he had no key she could not go out without him without risking him being locked out."
A former business associate today described how Mr Tsavliris received the divorce writ. He said: "George came down to breakfast in the magnificent dining room that overlooks the golf course and found his wife reading a newspaper. He sat at the other end of the vast dining table and started to open the mail. The | {
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Nuke Cult
The faction was led by convicted murderer Cain, who orchestrated the firebombing of a drug treatment clinic – killing five – and the assassination of the Surgeon General.
Although the had various Nuke manufacturing facilities around Detroit, the cult's primary base of operations was an old sludge plant along the banks of River Rouge. Cyborg police officer RoboCop attempted to raid this facility, but was disassembled by the gang.
After being repaired, RoboCop led a more successful raid at the plant, ousting the cult and ending in the hospitalization and death of Cain, effectively weakening the cult, as it dwindled down to Cain's lover, Angie, and the youth, Hob.
Setting up business at an abandoned warehouse, Hob assumed the position of the cult's new leader and tried to legalize Nukethrough bribing the Mayor, Marvin Kuzak who sought a way to pay the town's debts to OCP. This plan was revealed to the company and Dr. Juliette Faxx, who chose the brain of Cain for RoboCop 2, sent him to the meeting, where he killed the two remaining members of the cult, ironically making the founder of the Nuke Cult also the demise of it. | {
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Tommy Seymour
Tommy Seymour enjoyed a fine start to his international rugby career at Murrayfield, scoring two tries in Scotland's opening 2013 viagogo Autumn Test 42-17 success against Japan. His first try in the RBS 6 Nations Championship came in Scotland's agonising 17-19 loss to France at Murrayfield in March 2014.
Tommy made the short hop across the Irish sea from RaboDirect PRO12 side Ulster to become a summer signing at Glasgow Warriors in advance of season 2011/12.
His first taste of sevens rugby was when he joined up with the Scotland 7s squad that prepared for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
The winger boasts a rich and varied back-story, having been born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee before moving to Northern Ireland via a spell in Dubai, wherehis father was based for work.
A pleasing aspect to Seymour's eclectic heritage is that he's Scottish qualified, his mother, Sue, being a born and bred Glaswegian. He was one of nine uncapped players named in Scotland's 2013 summer tour squad to South Africa and made his debut against the host nation in Nelspruit. A tenth uncapped player eventually was blooded on the tour. | {
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member, and has one end connected to a respective one of the terminals. A slide member includes at least a resilient conductive wiper that is disposed in the housing and that is simultaneously and constantly in sliding contact with the resistance member and the conductive member so as to complete a circuit through the terminals, the conductive member, and the resistance member. The slide member is operable to move in the longitudinal direction between an ON position, in which, the wiper is in sliding contact with the second end of the resistance member, and an OFF position, in which, the wiper is in sliding contact with the first end of the resistance member. The wiper is slidable over the conductive member and the resistance member so as toEmmy-winning political branded entertainment division whose rollout Morris helped execute, produced campaigns including President Obama: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.
Prior to Funny Or Die, Peter headed up business affairs and distribution for Quarterlife, a ground-breaking web series created by Academy Award and Emmy winners Marshall Herskowitz and Edward Zwick. The show was the first ever web series to transition to TV, on NBC.
The Chernin Group, a key Barstool backer, recently invested further into the brand to enable new hires and ventures such as a just-launched SiriusXM channel.
Barstool is an intentionally provocative brand that has scaled quickly by disrupting established networks’ dominance of sports conversation and channeling the male-dominated fan ethos across digital platforms. Its popular podcasts include Pardon My Take, hosted by Dan “Big Cat” Katz and | {
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Two more women have claimed that Joe Biden inappropriately touched them, in a further blow to the former US Vice President said to be considering a bid for the White House.
Caitlyn Caruso, 22, told the New York Times on Tuesday that Mr Biden hugged her "just a little bit too long" when she was 19 at a University of Nevada event on sexual harassment.
According to the former student, the senior Democrat rested his hand on her thigh moments after Miss Caruso had shared a personal story of sexual assault.
She said: “It doesn’t even really cross your mind that such a person would dare perpetuate harm like that".
A second women, 59-year-old DJ Hill, also told the New York Times that Mr Biden had placed his hands on her shouldersand dropped them down her back at a 2012 campaign event in Minneapolis.
The new claims follow that of Amy Lappos, who said Mr Biden had rubbed noses with her, and Lucy Flores, who claimed Biden had kissed her on the back.
US President Donald Trump took a shot on Tuesday at Mr Biden, a possible Democratic rival in the 2020 race for the White House, mocking him over allegations of unwanted physical contact with women. | {
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in case there is an accident or student in trouble. The police are very helpful on campus.
Clubs and Activities
Radford University holds a Club Fair every semester to try and introduce new students to different organizations. Clubs range from the aviation and chemistry club, all the way to the belly-dancing club and the LGBT club. The club fair is also a good opportunity to meet different fraternities and sororities and learn about Greek Life. Each Semester there are also many theatre and dance performances that are free for Radford students to attend.
What to do for fun
There is a movie theatre located on Main Street that is only about 5 minutes from campus. There is also a Hookah lounge as well as some bars. On campus during the summer therea sorority or fraternity.
Clubs and Activities
The club fair at the beginning of the school year shows the hundreds of clubs and activities there are on campus, from acting to club sports, greek life and academic, there is something for everyone.
Great for these types of students
The school is great for any type of student. I have never seen a more diverse school.
Share any unusual traditions or locations on campus
Greek life is so much fun. With there traditions and culture, there is never a dull moment on this campus. The highlander festival full of kilts and goats is also a must see.
Bang for the buck
This is the school you come to and feel at home. You get what you pay for and never regret a day that you accepted that | {
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dance with students at school events. However, they take their jobs very seriously. At student orientation, the campus police introduce themselves and encourage you to utilize their services when necessary. They are dedicated to their jobs and they care about your safety more than anything so do not be afraid to call them!
Clubs and Activities
Radford University gets you acquainted with activities they have to offer during the first week of school. Two days before classes started, the university had an outdoor movie night on the lawn which I thought was pretty awesome. They also have a club fair which introduces over two hundred clubs and organizations. Due to the university's surrounding environment, there are activities that you would not necessarily find in city-like areas such as kayaking, canoeing,of the New River Valley, just a short walk away from the New River itself. During the Fall, Spring, and Summer, you can raft, kayak, swim, or float lazily down the banks of the second oldest river in the world. Several local parks provide sanctuary from the hustle and bustle of town life. I often find myself trekking down River-way park which links the University directly to nearby Bisset park. The local retreats offer rest and relaxation as well as the space to enjoy a game of Frisbee, volley ball, or basketball should the mood strike you. There are also lots of open spaces on campus. Students can often be seen frolicking in the quad or common areas when not in class. There is always something to do | {
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it comes to food, Radford University has anything a college student like myself could want- and its all just a brief stroll away from your dorm or classroom.
Dorm Life
The University strives to maintain excellence in living quarters. During my first year at Radford, I lived on Campus in the Governors quad. The accommodations were wonderful. I shared a room with a close personal friend and my suite mates and I became good friends in no time. The dorms are designed to bring students closer together and they do so in a meaningful way - all while allowing the students a roomy and expansive environment in which to learn and grow as citizen-scholars.
Academic Rigor
Depending upon the course of study, Radford University offers a varying degree of challenge and prestigeare also available. I am the treasurer and secretary of Radford’s Premed Club, which allows the members to tour different Medical schools and be able to have workshops so that students can do better on the MCATs. Radford also has an Honors Society that I am a member of, which holds picnics and allows you to register early for classes. Another club is the Club for College of Science and Technology (CSAT); this club goes on trips such as Washington D.C. to visit the Smithsonian, the National Observatory in West Virginia, and picnics at the local park. The chemistry club is not only for chemistry majors, but for anyone who has an interest in chemistry. The chemistry club holds chemistry shows for the local elementary school as well | {
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fuel flow is maintained to the engines. Fuel tank balance is desired for a number of reasons. Maintaining the balance minimizes the stress applied to the aircraft structure. Keeping the tanks in balance assists in controlling the aircraft center of gravity, which in turn determines how efficiently the aircraft flies with the corresponding cost savings.
Present day solutions to the above identified problem are handled simply by including an additional crew member, a second officer (also known as the flight engineer), working in the cockpit to monitor the fuel system via various indicator lights and gages. At the flight engineer work station, all the switches, meters, . . . are available to permit the flight engineer to turn on/off the pumps, valves, . . . and allows the monitoringof the flow, pressures, quantities of the fuel in the system. Based on the current operating conditions, the flight engineer's knowledge of the system, and established operating procedures, the flight engineer recognizes certain conditions, e.g., the fuel tanks are out of balance. The flight engineer determines which pumps need to be turned on, which valves need to be opened, . . . in order to correct the condition. When the quantities in the tanks reach the levels desired by the flight engineer, the pumps and valves are shut down. The fuel tanks are now balanced as desired by the flight engineer. This present day system is oriented towards a human flight engineer who has detailed knowledge of the system, and extensive training and experience on how to operate | {
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"Apocalypse Now"." ""Apocalypse Now", is directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with music by the Doors." "The film starts off with a burning forest, choppers fly overhead and underneath, is music by the Doors." "A beautiful scene." " How much did the film cost?" " A load of money!" "They probably spent a million dollars just on the helicopters, then Storaro..." " Did you read about the film?" " Of course." "The main actor is Marlon Brando." "Marlon Brando is Kurtz, the film's main character." "Kurtz is all like..." "What's the name of the real main actor?" "The real main actor." "What's the name?" "There are many actors in the film, but Coppola Marlon Brando used as a pretext..." "Marlon Brando is really for Coppola it was a pretextAhead of the Bell: US Housing Starts
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. home construction has risen steadily in the past year, fueled by more buyers and a scarcity of houses for sale.
An increase in permits and growing confidence among builders suggest the pace of construction strengthened in May, providing more support for economic growth.
The Commerce Department will report on May housing starts and permits at 8:30 a.m. EST Tuesday.
In April, builders started work at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 853,000. That was down from March, when the pace topped the 1 million mark for the first time in five years.
Still, most of the decline was in apartment construction, which tends to vary sharply from month to month. And the pace of home construction was still 13.1 percent higher than | {
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The United States Mint is gearing up for the full release of its 2016 America the Beautiful silver coins, and the state of Illinois is first up on the list for release in the programs seventh year of production. As with all other coins in the series, a national park, forest, or monument will represent each state in the 2016 series, and Shawnee National Forest is honored on the Illinois coin. Right now, the 2016 5 oz ATB Shawnee National Forest Silver Coin is available from JM Bullion.
Coin Highlights:
Mintage limited to just 105,000 coins.
Individual coins ship in capsules, mint tubes for multiples of 10, and Monster Boxes for multiples of 100.
First ATB release of 2016. Contains 5 oz of .999 pure silver.
Bears a face value of $.25 (USD)backed by the federal government.
Features a unique design honoring Shawnee National Forest.
Struck by the United States Mint in Philadelphia or Denver.
Eligible for use in Precious Metal IRA accounts.
Shawnee National Forest is located in the very southern tip of Illinois, and covers 265,000 acres of land in the Ozark and Shawnee Hills region of the state. The area is administered by the U.S. Forest Service, and was first established in September 1939 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Most of the land originally added as part of the forest was exhausted farmland, but significant efforts by the President Roosevelts Civilian Conservation Corps added pine trees to the region that rebuilt the soil levels and prevented future erosion.
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is the image of the famous Camel Rock setting in the forest. The rock feature is so named because it resembles a seated camel, with a distinct head and hump in the back. Natural vegetation is visible in the foreground, with a red-tailed hawk flying overhead.
The obverse bears the standard imagery used on all ATB silver coins. President George Washingtons left-profile portrait, used on circulation quarters since 1932, is featured in the center.
All coins in the America the Beautiful program are produced by the United States Mint, predominantly at the Philadelphia Mint and Denver Mint. The former had a new coining press installed in 2010 that is capable striking one million coins each year.
If you have questions, please reach out to a JM Bullion associate at 800-276-6508, connectFirst Lady Melania Trump made a rare public appearance Wednesday morning when she spoke and presented awards at the International Women of Courage Awards.
In brief remarks, Trump honored the honorees, who she said are “remarkable and inspiring women who have given so much for so many, regardless of the unimaginable threat to their own personal safety.”
The International Women of Courage Awards were launched in 2007 by then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. The ceremony, which takes place at the State Department in D.C. each year, honored 12 women from around the world.
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“Each one of these heroic women has an extraordinary story of courage which must inspire each of us to also achieve more than we had ever imagined possible,” she said. “Their lives | {
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'Drain the Swamp' Becomes 'Remove the Cancer'
It is easy to dismiss Donald Trump's "Drain the Swamp" rhetoric as a campaign gimmick. Many believed that's all it was. Clearly, it was a message never before heard from an elected politician. Even when he was a long shot, a "could never be elected" candidate, his message struck fear in the hearts and minds of the establishment. Oh, never mind – he didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of winning. But still, what if he did, and what if he meant what he said? The video below nicely tracks the ebbs and flows of the last presidential campaign. As it points out, as the impossible began to look possible, the corruption increased.
Imagine the horror as Trump went from impossible toout of respect that a business contributes to a politician. These "contributions" are investments made only because they yield profitable returns for the provider. The Mueller investigation is supported by both parties. It should never have begun, but it was necessary to remove Trump from office. It also was necessary to protect the criminals in Washington who are Mueller's friends. For those who admire the "integrity" of Mueller, check out his history. It is one of bumbling investigations. Further, Mueller was at the center of some of the shady dealings in the Obama administration. Mueller has integrity compared to the rest of the swamp-dwellers in the same way that the Unabomber could claim to have integrity compared to Jack the Ripper. Integrity in Washington means something different outside | {
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History Of America In 5 Minutes
The History Of Flag Day. The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America’s birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885.
Welcome to the American Museum of Natural History on YouTube! Our video channel takes you behind the scenes of our exhibits, into our world-class collections, out to the field with researchers.
Alexander Hamilton High School Football Several former Arizona high school football players elevated their games in college. defense and special teams during the college football season. Oklahoma: Mark Andrews, tight end, 6-5, 254, The seventh Hall of Fame class will be recognized before the Fort Chiswell-Radford High School football game at Bobcat Stadium on. Robert Jordan and Virginia Deryline DeHart
Jun28, 2016 · Tony Kushner (playwright of Angels in America): Around November of 1985, the first person that I knew personally died of AIDS.A dancer that I.
THE AMERICA’S CUP – HISTORY. The America’s Cup, the pinnacle of yachting, was first contested in 1851 making it the oldest trophy in international sport, predating the modern Olympic Games by 45 years.
Jun 28, 2016 · Tony Kushner (playwright of Angels in America): Around November of 1985, the first person that I knew personally died of AIDS.A dancer that I.
The History Of Flag Day. The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America’s birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885.
(Reuters) – The man accused of seriously injuring a 5. | {
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founded In 2017 by Ibram X. Kendi, whose book, Stamped from the Beginning: The.
Where Did American Presidents Go To College The former vice president repeated his previous calls for free community college and providing an option to buy into. It certainly matters more than nominating a candidate who could be the first female president. women with college degrees. Featured Founding Founder Gouverneur Morris, the peg-legged, anti-slavery delegate from Pennsylvania spoke more on the floor of
THE AMERICA’S CUP – HISTORY. The America’s Cup, the pinnacle of yachting, was first contested in 1851 making it the oldest trophy in international sport, predating the modern Olympic Games by 45 years.
“Here is how they do it,” Lamm said: First to destroy America, “Turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country.exoneree in U.S.
He was inspired by England’s Epsom Downs racecourse, home since 1780 of the Derby Stakes, a 1.5-mile. Two Minutes in Sports.” Kentucky Derby Museum. The Story of the Derby (Epsom). Epsom Derby. The.
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Chaos and violence turned to tragedy Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members — planning to stage what they described as their largest rally in.
Women have played crucial roles in NASA’s history. first American woman to walk in space, Kathryn Sullivan spent over 532.
which reaches an estimated 1.5 million homes. The short looks at the rally that attracted 22,000 people to cheer on Fritz Kuhn and other leaders of the American Nazi Party. Filmmakers have bought time.
Gun-control advocates often argue that gun-control laws must be more restrictive | {
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than the original meaning of the Second Amendment would allow. M.L. Brown, Firearms in Colonial America: The Impact.
MINNEAPOLIS – A 5-year-old boy plummeted three floors Friday after being pushed or thrown from a balcony at the Mall of America, according to witnesses, and a 24-year-old man with a history of causing.
Welcome to the American Museum of Natural History on YouTube! Our video channel takes you behind the scenes of our exhibits, into our world-class collections, out to the field with researchers.
James Madison As A Kid PART TWO [Bob Keeshan’s other shows] It has been well documented that Bob Keeshan was Clarabelle the Clown on the ‘Howdy Doody Show’ before he was Captain Kangaroo – but how many remember him as Corney the Clown, Tinker the Toymaker or MisterMayor? Jack Klugman, Actor: The Odd Couple. As a film character actor,
Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum. Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Early individual arrivals Elias Legarde. Elias Legarde (or Legardo) was a Sephardic Jew who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia, on the HMS Abigail in 1621. Solomon Franco. The second Jew known to have lived in northern North America was Solomon Franco, a Sephardic Jew from Holland who is believed to have settled in the city of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1649.
Mar 04, 2010 · In September 1620, a merchant ship called the Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England. Typically, the Mayflower’s.
Beignet History: The word beignet (pronounced ben-YAY) comes from the early Celtic | {
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Post-War Era • 1960s • Vietnam War • 1970-2000 • The 21st Century
5) Phong Vũ Buffalo and Invictus Gaming. the hometown heroes dragged Invictus through one of the bloodiest games in MSI.
Week 4 of the Alliance of American Football kicked off Saturday afternoon in Memphis. San Diego Fleet defensive back Ron Brooks then pulled off the first punt return for a touchdown in AAF history,
Beignet History: The word beignet (pronounced ben-YAY) comes from the early Celtic word bigne meaning “to raise.” It is also French for “fritter.” Beignets, a New Orleans specialty, are fried, raised pieces of yeast dough, usually about 2 inches in diameter or 2 inches square.
102 Minutes That Changed America is a 102-minute American television special documentary film that was produced by the History channelacres north of 40th Avenue Northeast, between 2nd and 4th streets northeast.
The final plat for phase seven was approved by the city planning advisory board Tuesday afternoon, with no area residents in attendance.
Phase seven includes 38 houses on about 12 acres and will include installation of 41st Street Northeast from 4th Street Northeast to the property boundary with Thaniel.
Thaniel includes 88 single-family homes, including 60 for the self-help build program through NeighborWorks Great Falls. Neighbors objected to the project with issues of traffic, public safety, utilities and the possible impact on property values.
The West Ridge project is being developed by S&L Development which also developed West Ridge phase six, which is directly south of the current proposed phase.
The planning board voted 6-0 to recommend annexation, final plats and | {
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R-3 single-family high density zoning.
According to the staff report, Neighborhood Council 3 voted to support the West Ridge project.
The lot sizes ranges from 9,771 square feet and 11,801 square feet, which is similar to phase six, according to the staff report.
The West Ridge Additional phase 7-11 goes before the City Commission on Aug. 18 for annexation and zoning approval.
S&L developers are working with Ken Cox, the Thaniel developer, to pay for transportation, storm water, park studies and master plans.
A new lift station to support sewer lines in the area is also planned and the city approved a design contract last fall.
Nate Weisenburger, planning board chair, asked about when other collector roads might be built and City Planner Galen Amy said the planned transportation study in that area would(inter)national relevance. However, this is a small fraction (estimated about 10%) of all NAA laboratories in the world.
Now, 40 years later after Lyon's comments, NAA laboratories worldwide are facing viability challenges, especially with respect to staffing as many that pioneered the technique in the 1960s and 1970s are retiring. Many organizations are missing strategies for timely replacement of retiring staff by appointing successors well before the retirement takes place. The absence of such a strategy---and thus of potential vacant positions---has a negative effect on the attractiveness to young academics of career making in NAA and its applications. It eventually hampers the expansion of the utilization due to the lack of experienced and creative manpower.
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Marvel Entertainment and Netflix have announced today that Elden Henson of "The Hunger Games" and "Mighty Ducks" franchises has joined the cast of "Daredevil" as Matt Murdock's friend and law partner, Foggy Nelson!
"Elden plays one of the most important characters in the world of 'Marvel’s Daredevil,' and we’re thrilled to see Foggy Nelson brought to life by such an incredibly talented actor," said Jeph Loeb, Marvel's Head of Television. "He perfectly captures the heart and soul of this series, bringing an added resonance to Matt Murdock's fight against the injustice in their great city."
Henson joins a cast that already includes Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock aka Daredevil, Vincent D'Onofrio as Kingpin, and Rosario Dawson in an unspecified role.
"Marvel’s Daredevil" follows the journey of Matt Murdock, who was blindedas a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, now fighting against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the super hero Daredevil in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City.
Marvel's first original series on Netflix is executive produced by series showrunner Steven S. DeKnight ("Spartacus," "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer") and Drew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"), who is writing the first two episodes of the series along with Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb ("Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Smallville").
"Marvel’s Daredevil" is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios for Netflix. | {
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Moldova calls Russian sanctions 'counterproductive'
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Moldova's top diplomat has criticized Russian sanctions against her nation, at a meeting to promote regional trade and political dialogue.
Russia placed an embargo on some Moldovan fruit and vegetables after it signed a trade and political agreement with the European Union in June 2014.
Natalia Gherman called it "a counterproductive move......Moldova did nothing to provoke sanctions." Some 62 percent of Moldova's trade is now with the EU.
Gherman, Moldova's acting foreign minister, spoke Friday at the end of a meeting of the 12-member Black Sea Economic Cooperation, which was overshadowed by political tensions as Russia took over the chairmanship from Romania.
While other countries were represented by foreign ministers and senior foreign ministry officials, Turkey and Ukraine — whose relations have deteriorated withMoscow — sent their ambassadors.
Vasily Nebenzya, a deputy Russian foreign minister, said he had not discussed bilateral issues with the Turkish ambassador Friday, referring to the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey that spiked tensions between the countries. He said Ukraine's ambassador had reiterated Kiev's "well-known" position during the Friday morning meeting, which was off-limits to the media. | {
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intimidating display of raw power.
Ki (8 points). M. Bison harnesses the mystic energy of ki and can spend these points to fuel various ki features. When he spends a ki point, it is unavailable until he finishes a short or long rest, at the end of which he draws all of his expended ki back into himself. He must spend at least 30 minutes of the rest meditating to regain his ki points.
Flurry of Blows. Immediately after M. Bison takes the Attack action on his turn, he can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.
Patient Defense. M. Bison can spend 1 ki point to take the Dodge action as a bonus action on his turn.
Step of the Wind. M. Bison can spend1 ki point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on his turn, and his jump distance is doubled for the turn.
Stunning Attack. M. Bison can spend 1 ki point to attempt to stun a creature he hits with a melee weapon attack. The target must succeed on a DC 18 Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the end of his next turn.
Martial Arts. M. Bison can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of his unarmed strikes and monk weapons, and he rolls a 1d8 in place of the normal damage of his unarmed strike or monk weapons. In addition, when M. Bison uses the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on his turn, | {
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Free the Tamimis Campaign calls on allies, comrades and supporters around the world to protest the ongoing incarceration and systematic targeting of members of the Tamimi family and the village of Nabi Saleh.
On Tuesday the 19th of December 2017, 17 year old Ahed Tamimi was arrested from her family home in Nabi Saleh by the Israeli army under the cover of darkness. Ahed is one of over 300 Palestinian children in Israeli military detention. Her mother, Nariman Tamimi was arrested later on the same day when she went to inquire about her daughter. On Thursday the 11th of January 2018, Mohammad Tamimi, Ahed’s cousin, was arrested from his home in Nabi Saleh. 11 days later, his brother Osama was also arrested on his way home from work. AllWhen your team rushes for 24 yards, gives up 203 yards on the ground, goes 3 for 16 on third down conversions (19%) and throws 5 interceptions you might think the game was a blow out.
Instead the Ravens had an opportunity to tie the game or take the lead when they had the ball on the 50-yard line with 1:33 to play and 2 timeouts.
But hopes of snatching victory from the jaws of defeat fell into the hands of Bills rookie linebacker Kiko Alonso at the Buffalo 36 yard line when he picked off Joe Flacco for the second time of the game.
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it 3 straight times. Unless changes are made it’s going to be a long season for the Ravens backfield, one that has two of the highest paid players in the league at their respective positions (Rice, Leach)…The defensive front seven against the run made the Bills look like the ’72 Dolphins…
John Harbaugh’s clock management at the end of the first half was completely amateurish. With 3 timeouts remaining the Ravens had a first and 10 from their own 38 with 1:01 remaining. After an incompletion and a short throw to Marlon Brown the Ravens faced a third and 5. They opted not to use a timeout with 37 seconds left to gather together and get on the same page for a key third down play and push towardsWith the last streaks of daylight fading on a mild October evening, the cars pulled up in waves at Piero’s Italian Cuisine, an old-school Las Vegas hotspot known for its osso buco.
Cadillacs with tinted windows. Taxis and rideshares. A black Bentley limousine and a white minivan. Men and women emerged, most casually dressed, there for the first of a series of posh, private events hosted by the video gambling industry during the 2018 Global Gaming Expo, North America’s largest gambling trade show. They included gambling executives, lobbyists — and about a dozen Illinois lawmakers.
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gambled a lot more, but most of the additional money ended up in the coffers of the companies behind video gambling.
As states and cities across the country consider gambling expansions to stabilize wobbly finances, Illinois’ experience with video gambling stands as a cautionary tale, a lesson that has become even more urgent since the U.S. Supreme Court in May opened the door to the spread of legalized sports betting.
Illinois lawmakers from both parties passed the Video Gaming Act in 2009 with little debate and unrealistic revenue projections. They did so during the depths of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, promising that video gambling would help fund a $31 billion building program to create jobs and upgrade the state’s infrastructure.
Within months of the law’s passage, thefound in lower-income communities, according to a ProPublica Illinois analysis of demographic and gaming board data. Devices can be found in Berwyn but not Oak Park, in Waukegan but not Lake Forest, in Harvey but not Palos Park. In fact, as the average income level of a municipality decreases, the average number of machines increases.
The companies that own and operate the machines, called terminal operators, have reaped nearly $2 billion in revenue since video gambling went live in September 2012. Recently, that largess has become concentrated in a handful of companies, with the top five terminal operators controlling nearly 50 percent of the video gambling market, according to internal gaming board reports.
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Machine Operators Association — which picked up the tab for the Las Vegas dinner — wrote the Video Gaming Act. The group declined to comment for this story.
The General Assembly passed the legislation without scrutinizing the details, including the low tax rate on the machines. At 30 percent, with 25 percent going to the state and 5 percent to local governments, it’s much lower than most other states with video gambling. In West Virginia and South Dakota, video gambling is taxed at 50 percent. In Oregon, where the state owns and operates video gambling machines through the state lottery, the tax rate is 73 percent. Pennsylvania, which recently legalized video gambling but hasn’t yet gone live, has set a tax rate of 52 percent.
Even casino gambling here isstate’s population lived in communities with video gambling.
Despite the broken promises of video gambling, some lawmakers are pushing for another big bet on the industry, with some members of the General Assembly eyeing an expansion vote in the early days of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration. Many Chicago politicians also want to open the city to gambling. All of the front-runners in the city’s Feb. 26 mayoral primary support some version of a casino, and some want to bring in video gambling as well.
That’s why the crowd gathered at Piero’s in October, enjoying dinner at the iconic, white-tablecloth restaurant featured in the Martin Scorsese mobster film “Casino.” Among them was the co-owner of the industry’s primary lobbying firm, which shepherded the Video Gaming Act through the legislature in 2009: | {
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Joseph Berrios, former chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party and the longtime county assessor until being voted out of office last year.
Berrios is an ally of House Speaker Michael Madigan, the lead sponsor of the Video Gaming Act in the House before ceding that role to state Rep. Lou Lang, D-Skokie. Lang was a staunch gambling proponent before he resigned from the General Assembly this month.
As Berrios stepped from the cab that October night, wearing a white guayabera, he paused for a moment before entering the restaurant.
“We’re an industry running strong,” Berrios said. “After January, we’re going to be looking at a bunch of things to make us a lot stronger and a lot better.”
A rushed new law
On the afternoon of May 21, 2009, the crowd packinggambling expansion in Illinois since the creation of the state lottery in 1974. Lawmakers were counting on video gambling to generate nearly a third of the revenue for Illinois Jobs Now!
It was a critical period for the state and its politicians.
For more than a decade, Illinois’ fiscal issues had prevented the General Assembly from funding infrastructure projects.
The 2010 election loomed, and the state was reeling amid the worst economic downturn since the Depression. Unemployment had reached double digits. Homes were being foreclosed. Public sentiment across the country had soured on incumbents, giving rise to the Tea Party movement and making politicians from both parties skittish.
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people back to work.”
Unintended consequences, immediate shortfalls
The speed and lack of planning that marked the legalization of video gambling created a cascading series of unintended consequences that continue to plague the state today.
The legislature assumed video gambling would be up and running within a year of the bill’s passage, to quickly begin generating revenue. Instead, it took three years.
The liquor industry, which bristled at the tax increase for alcohol also contained in the bill, tied up the legislation in court, claiming the General Assembly had violated the state constitution by passing multiple substantive measures in a single bill. Regulatory hurdles also contributed to delays.
And lawmakers had counted on tens of thousands of machines being installed in Chicago to meet their revenue projections. But they somehow failed to takeinto account a century-old ordinance that banned gambling in the city without a referendum, which then-Mayor Richard M. Daley never embraced.
The General Assembly borrowed against the projected revenues anyway. Within a year, Illinois had issued nearly $2.5 billion in general obligation bonds — loans backed by state revenues — before it had received a single penny from video gambling.
By the time video gambling machines were turned on and players could start betting, in September 2012, the state had borrowed more than $5 billion. Debt payments reached about $340 million that year. Yet video gambling brought in just $30 million to cover them. The shortfalls meant the state had to draw from other sources.
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50-50 with establishment owners, just as they do under the Video Gaming Act.
Known as “gray” machines, for their nebulous legal status, video gambling had long been associated with Chicago-area organized crime. Less well known were the tight-knit groups of amusement companies from other parts of the state that ran “gray” machines while providing establishments with jukeboxes, pool tables and other coin-operated devices.
Lobbyists for these amusement operators drafted the Video Gaming Act, according to industry insiders and lawmakers, creating licensing guidelines and determining how profits would be divided among operators, establishments, local governments and the state.
Those operators also began entering into video gambling contracts with their existing clients well before the board could set up a regulatory structure or conduct the thousands of investigations needed to make licensing decisions.
Oncethe law passed, the gaming board was given the task of sorting out these relationships while attempting to keep unsavory operators — including those with ties to organized crime — out of the industry.
The board estimated it would need a staff of 350 to do the job, according to internal agency reports. Yet the number of workers has never topped 286 and has dipped as low as 233 in the past three years, even as the industry has grown. At one point, the board had a single lawyer to help regulate what has become a highly litigious industry.
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Captain N: The Game Master is an Animated Series on NBC based on the popular Nintendo games that weren't Super Mario Bros. It is about the story of Kevin Keene, a teenager who loves playing video games, so much that one day he and his dog, Duke, are sucked into the TV and they enter a strange dimension called Videoland.
Once there, Kevin learns that he is to fulfill a prophecy as "Captain N", a savior sent to save Videoland from the forces of evil, led by the Audrey II-esque Mother Brain (the main villain from Metroid). Joining him are Videoland's sovereign Princess Lana, Mega Man, Kid Icarus (who should have been named Pit), Simon Belmont from Castlevania, and later Game Boy. Kevin/Captain N and the gang would defendVideoland from Mother Brain and her henchmen, who included King Hippo from Punch-Out!!! and The Eggplant Wizard from Kid Icarus. Other frequently occurring villains were Dr. Wily of Mega Man fame (who was probably the only semi-competent villain in the entire series), a Large Ham version of Dracula from Castlevania, and a King Kong-like Donkey Kong.
This series features examples of:
Abhorrent Admirer: Simon Belmont gained a few of these for comedic effect. In the episode "I Wish I Was a Wombatman", a short, blonde haired and blue eyed octopus with an hourglass figure fell in love with him the moment he expressed an interest in acting. She gave him a hug, a wink and chased after him so she could kiss him. A heavy set female gorilla also fell | {
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for Simon and wanted to smooch in the episode "Queen of the Apes."
Adaptation Distillation: The comics released by Valiant Comics were altogether better written and spent quite some time exploring the relationships between the characters instead of the show's simplistic "game world of the week" plotlines. They couldn't use half the N-team due to legal issues, but this was a blessing in disguise, as it was the far more annoying and less true-to-source-material half. And they actually remembered that Metroid has a heroine, and other characters besides Mother Brain.
Adaptational Villainy: Simon's not the only Castlevania character to get the shit end of the stick. Here, Alucard starts out on the heroes' side but proves to be a villain, which a complete 180 from his characterization in the games.
AdaptationalWimp: Simon, to an embarrassing extent. For example, in the games, he was so Badass that he single-handedly traversed through a demonic hell castle, killed Dracula, then brought him back to life so he could kill him again.
Animation Bump: The first episode is much better animated than the rest of the series.
Aroused by Their Voice: In the episode "Mega Trouble for Megaland", Medusa seduces Simon with her sexy voice alone to the point where he is ready to kiss her sight unseen. Once he does see how ugly she is, Simon turns to stone. Medusa effectively pulls off a subversion of Audio Erotica, a "Siren Switch."
Bare Your Midriff: Princess Lana, and also the redesigned Princess Zelda in the second season.
Benevolent Genie: Pretty much a critique of the newly-developed | {
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patch devicesnote specifically, Game Genie; Kevin wishes for enhanced skills, and quickly realizes Victory Is Boring. Mega Man wishes for enhanced strength, and nearly knocks down the palace. Princess Lana immediately wishes that "no one had made any wishes", returning things to normal for the moment so they can get on with the plot.
Betty and Veronica: In the show, Kevin is the Betty to Simon's Veronica and Lana's Archie while in the comics, Lana is the Betty to Samus's Veronica to Kevin's Archie.
Kevin in the very final episode. Also has elements of Brainwashed and Crazy about it as although he never directly attacks the heroes, he very well could have at the end and he did act a bit violently when "training" some of the villain's warriors.
Simon alsohas this happen to him twice, one time via Eggplant Wizard and King Hippo.
Another episode revolved around a hypnotic ink Mother Brain devised, that did this to anyone who read the words printed with it.
Black Sheep: Lana's introverted brother, Prince Lyle, is a boxy kind of guy who lives in the Tetris portion of Videoland. He shows up in one episode, then briefly again in the third season to provide a Deus ex Machina.
Body Horror: In one episode Simon has a nightmare where his mighty muscular physique turns to flab, all his pearly white teeth fall out when he tries to smile and then to add insult to injury all his hair falls out, leaving him completely bald. He is quite terrified over this.
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Kid Icarus gets to meet Wombatman, the star of his favorite show. His disillusionment when he realizes Wombatman is just an actor is painful.
Clip Show: "When Mother Brain Rules", which is missing from the DVD sets. A clip show in the purest sense of the term, this episode has no new footage whatsoever, and no framing story to justify the clips. Even stranger, all the voices were missing in the clips, so it was half an hour of voiceless recycled animation with background music (and very occasional out-of-nowhere narration from Simon.) Needless to say, little kids watching it in 1991 were pretty damn confused.
Dances and Balls: Lana's unexplained desire to have one is the background of the episode titled, fittingly, "Having a Ball." Which ends up being kindof weird since that only ends up giving King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard the chance to sneak in and steal the Triforce while nobody's around.
Demoted to Dragon: Averted in "The Quest for the Potion of Power." Mother Brain resurrects Ganon so that he will serve her, but he doesn't submit.
Demoted to Extra: All the Robot Masters from Mega Man 1 - Cut Man is the only one to have dialogue or extended screen time (for some reason). Ice Man is also mentioned briefly in "Nightmare on Mother Brain's Street."
Disappeared Dad: Lana's father, King Charles, is apparently trapped in some kind of alternate dimension. He shows up in one episode.
Disintegrator Ray: Kevin's Zapper, in the comics. In the cartoon, anything from a tactical nuke to a mosquito bite.
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Bites Back: King Hippo and Eggplant Wizard are prone to do this if Mother Brain slaps them around too much, by turning on her with whatever MacGuffin they were sent to retrieve. Of course, this never sticks, yet for some reason, she continues to keep them around...
The Drag-Along: Simon F'ing Belmont. Quite a turnaround from the guy that risked his life against the legions of darkness by himself, eh?
Evil Former Friend: Mike Vincent in "The Most Dangerous Game Master". The villains didn't know they used to be friends when they created an evil android based on Kevin's memories of him, so Kevin is able to make him do a Heel-Face Turn by reminding him of when they were friends.
Fisher King: Zelda is shown to be a reverse oneof these in the episode "Having A Ball," when the theft of the Triforce causes both herself and Hyrule to begin dying.
Forgot About Their Powers: Most of the characters from video games, regardless of what happened to their personalities, still had most of the abilities from their sources. Eggplant Wizard (whose reason for existing in Kid Icarus was to turn you into an eggplant) only ever turns someone into an eggplant once, and he has to call on a genie to do it. (He uses magic based around all other forms of fruits and vegetables throughout the series, but for some reason, none of those are ever eggplants.)
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weaknesses and strategies. Even if it's something he couldn't possibly know from playing Nintendo games, like where warp zones between disparate games are.
Kevin even seems to know everything about games released after he entered Video Land. This article discusses the changes in-depth (mostly for the featured Mega Man characters) and suggests that the creators had poor reference material. Still...
One of Mother Brain's early plans was to research the real world Kevin and find a game he wasn't good at, thus removing Captain N's Genre Savvy. She finds that Kevin can't beat The Adventures of Bayou Billy, and sends him to its Videoland counterpart, Bayou Land. It almost worked, until Bayou Billy showed up.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: In the first episode where King Hippo and the Eggplant Wizardkidnap Princess Lana in her room, Hippo (poorly) impersonates her as Kevin knocks on her door, saying that "she's not decent", with the Wizard responding with "You can say that again". Considering the size of Hippo's boobs and nipples...
Gun Twirling: A maddening example for viewers, due to the real Zapper's lack of trigger guard.
Almost none of the characters bear any resemblance to their video game counterparts. There are also a lot of glaring inaccuracies about the games in question.
Let's put it this way, the people making this comic were faced with challenges like coming up with a way to turn Tetris into a setting for the characters to interact with in any meaningful way.
Jerkass: Link tended to be portrayed this way. As this was the same general team | {
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at the palace in "Having a Ball", they're announced as "Her Royal Highness the Princess Zelda of Hyrule and... uh... Link." Somewhat justified since Link doesn't have an official title.
New Powers as the Plot Demands: In one episode, the Eggplant Wizard (disguised as a TV repairman) even used a mushroom to transform into a giant escape pod so he and King Hippo (also disguised) can escape from the Palace of Power after figuring out Kevin's greatest fear.
Nintendo Hard: Referenced on the show, as even though Kevin is the ultimate gamer and he knows every secret and strategy to nearly every NES game ever made, even he can't get very far in The Adventures of Bayou Billy.
Off Model: Not that the series' animation quality was good per say, buttime). However, the show like many other animated shows at the time was a very light-hearted comedic series and DiC wrote certain characters such as Simon Belmont as they did just for the sake of comedy.
Samus is a Girl: When the N Team first meets Samus in the comic, they're surprised when she takes off her helmet (including Lana, who you might expect would know better). And Kevin, who if he's so great at games, would know "he" is a she, but she is definitely not a changeling. Although it's possible he was reacting instead to how hot she is in person.
Shoddy Knockoff Product: The show is basically a goofy remake of TRON with Nintendo characters. Mother Brain is essentially a comedically goofy version of the Master Control | {
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