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Attorneys have been hard at work readying appeals to National Labor Relations Board rulings since a three-judge panel unanimously ruled in Noel Canning v. NLRB that President Barack Obama violated the constitution when he stacked the board with recess appointments while the Senate was still in session. The court’s ruling does not invalidate every decision that the NLRB has made since Obama appointed Democrats Sharon Block and Richard Griffin in Jan. 2012, but it does boost the prospects of those seeking appeal. The ruling raises questions of legal strategy moving forward.
Comments: This is what happens when you don´t follow the Constitution and the rule of law. It causes utter chaos. You can´t help but think this is exactly what 0bama wants. I wish someone would address the recess appointment of Donald Berwick as it relates to 0bamacare and if that appointment too is nullfied. I searched everywhere and can´t find that answer.
For those of you interested, there are three kinds of ´law´ when dealing with employment/labor issues. Statutory law, case law coming from federal courts, and NLBB law, known as board law. So in the labor relations business, we refer to statutory law, case law, and board law. If the U.S. supreme court agrees with the D.C. circuit, then every board law case should be vacated, as well as any rules promulgated by the NLRB since the illegal appointments took place. I cannot imagine the supreme court doing anything else. The legal analogy would be if a lab technician, handling specimens in criminal cases, was using fake credentials. All of the convictions based on reports from that person would be vacated.
One thing I haven´t seen pointed out in response to the Obama administration´s apparent decision to ignore the court´s ruling: if the NLRB tries to go on with business as usual under their currently illegal status, every single decision they make from here forward is likely to be overturned by the courts. Sure, the Board can issue decisions, but those decisions won´t stand.
Court ruling doesn´t stop Hugo Obama or his regime´s lackeys:
"NLRB chairman Mark Gaston Pearce pledged to continue board operations on Friday.....Pearce has thus far followed through on that promise. The board released seven rulings after the appeals court decision was issued."
If these seven rulings and future rulings are overturned by the Supreme Court on the same unconstitutional grounds, shouldn´t the NLRB Board be held in contempt of the courts, with fines and imprisonment?
President Obama has recalled John Podesta to work at the White House as a “counselor.” Podesta is the Clinton hand who founded the far-left Center for American Progress (home of the clownish Think Progress blog). Podesta’s appointment, which needs no congressional approval, comes at a time when Obama is already making moves to do without Congress. He has used executive actions to re-write Obamacare, and to recalibrate immigration law, both in ways that just happen to favor either himself or the Democrats. The New York Times reports that Podesta will work on executive actions when he returns to the White
On CNN’s “Reliable Sources” on Sunday, new host Brian Stelter turned to President Obama the press critic. At the end of his cakewalk “Hardball” interview last week, Obama called out the media for being divisive. “The American people are good and they are decent. And yes, we get very divided partly because our politics and our media specifically tries to divide them and splinter them.” Stelter asked a decent question about whether that was an odd statement to make on divisive MSNBC. NPR television critic Eric Deggans shot that down, insisting MSNBC was a “great place” to attack cable news
Former CIA Director Leon Panetta revealed classified information at a 2011 awards ceremony attended by Zero Dark Thirty filmmaker Mark Boal, according to documents obtained by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. The CIA allowed Boal, the screenwriter of Zero Dark Thirty, to attend a June 24, 2011 award ceremony celebrating the successful raid on Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan that May. A transcript of Panetta’s speech that night obtained by Judicial Watch is labeled “top secret,” and significant portions of it are redacted. At the conclusion his speech, Panetta told the audience, “You have made me proud
UPDATE: Rep. Paul Ryan and Sen. Patty Murray unveiled a budget proposal Tuesday night. The proposal, which has yet to be voted on, busts through sequester caps, setting FY 2014 spending at $1.014 trillion — billions beyond the levels mandated by sequester. The proposal contains no mention of pension reform. Conservatives had better start paying attention to the budget battle raging in Washington: If things go south — and they are poised to do just that — the tea party’s single greatest policy victory, the sequester, could be destroyed. And worse yet, it could be destroyed in exchange for nothing. The sequester
Approval of ObamaCare in the United States has risen eight percentage points in the last month, according to a new poll. Thirty-nine percent of people now approve of the law, according to a CBS News/New York Times poll released Tuesday evening. Half of the public, by contrast, disapproves of ObamaCare, the poll found. Nearly 60 percent say they don’t think the sign-up process for ObamaCare is going well, but more than one-third say it’s improving. These figures come in just ten days after the administration touted the repaired federal portal for the insurance, HealthCare.gov. Obama’s general job approval rating has increased to 42 percent,
Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.), in an appearance on MSNBC´s "PoliticsNation" on Friday, condemned former Sen. Rick Santorum´s comments comparing Nelson Mandela´s fight against apartheid to the fight against Obamacare as "shameful." "And actually if I was going to make a comparison, I would make the opposite comparison, because I think the struggle for justice, which Nelson Mandela led for so many years is similar as the struggle for the health care as a right for people in the richest country in the world, and so the idea that they would make that comparison in the opposite way is just tragic,"
According to a new Rasmussen Report, the majority of Americans do not believe the deportation of illegal immigrants living in the United States is aggressive enough. More than 20 House Democrats last week urged President Obama to halt the deportation of illegal immigrants until Congress passes a comprehensive immigration reform plan, but voters by a two-to-one margin oppose that idea. Most already think the federal government is not vigilant enough in deporting those who are in this country illegally. Only 29% of Likely U.S. Voters think the government should stop deporting illegal immigrants until Congress passes an immigration reform plan.
On his way to the podium at the memorial ceremony for former South African president Nelson Mandela, President Obama walked down the line of dignitaries, greeting other leaders there to pay their respects. Among the hands shaken: that of Cuban leader Raul Castro. Obama neither made a special effort to shake Castro’s hand nor to avoid him. A snub might have been awkward: In his speech, Obama praised Mandela’s “greatest gift” as “his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by
The Obama State Department has finally released a second round of photos revealing the harrowing devastation wrought by a terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. The new photographs depict rampant damage to the consulate. They show charred walls, smoldering fires, Arabic graffiti defacing exterior walls, and scattered debris throughout. The extent of the damage would lead any reasonably serious person to conclude that this was a cold, calculated attack, carefully coordinated to mark the 11th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. Unfortunately for the American people, the Obama-Clinton-Rice cabal that led to the Benghazi cover-up was
A black fashion student says he was brutally attacked by a gang of Hasidic men who shouted anti-gay slurs at him while he was walking through Williamsburg after a night of partying, the Daily News has learned. Taj Patterson, 22, was headed home to Fort Greene around 4:30 a.m. on Dec. 1 when he says more than a dozen ultra-Orthodox Jewish men began assaulting him on Flushing Ave. and yelling, “Stay down, f----t!”
A “presidential selfie” featuring President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, and Denmark’s Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service began making the rounds this morning, but it’s the person not included in the frame who caught everyone’s attention: As anyone with two eyes and a Twitter account has noticed, Michelle Obama does not appear amused. Of course, though a picture says a thousand words, not all of those words are necessarily true. FLOTUS might not have even known the photo was taking place. Or she could disapprove of funeral selfies. Either way.
Just how much do many Hollywood liberals hate conservatives? In an interview with Playboy, Ben Affleck said, "When I watch a guy [on film] I know is a big Republican, part of me thinks, I probably wouldn’t like this person if I met him": PLAYBOY: You developed a political profile campaigning for presidential candidates Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack Obama. How did that come about? AFFLECK: I grew up in a house with a mother who was a teacher and a Freedom Rider—very left-wing Democrats living in a heterogeneous working-class neighborhood. I picked up a lot of those values there, and I
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry opened her program over the weekend with a commentary about the Affordable Care Act’s colloquial moniker: “Obamacare.” She said that the word was originally created as a “derogatory term,” designed by white men as a way to delegitimize President Barack Obama and his achievement. However, she said that the term will soon be synonymous with all of Obama’s accomplishments and she urged her audience to use the term with pride. “I want to talk today about a controversial word. It’s a word that has been with us for years, and like it or not, it’s indelibly
Barack Obama has arrived in South Africa to lead the American delegation at a memorial service for former South African President Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg. But his party is reportedly stuck in traffic and he is said to have arrived late at the stadium for the ceremony. [Snip] But Mr Clinton, Mr Carter and his wife Rosalynn have all traveled separately to the event. According to reports, Mr Obama and his delegation are stuck in a lines of traffic caused by tens of thousands of people making their way to the event. Mr Obama is among the foreign leaders who


For starters, you are taking this article out of context and way too seriously. This is not serious journalism. Chan's comments were friendly rivalry. Afterall Patrick Chan is quite a few years younger than Plushenko and the man to beat as it were. I am sure Plushenko would be saying the same things had he stuck around for the past few years. All skaters make comments from time to time. I did not find the article that damaging towards Plushenko. Also there are many men in the field who are going to give Plushenko a run for his money, besides Patrick Chan.


Green Wave, Spartan athletes meet their match
In CIAC post-season action last week, the Green Wave field hockey, boys' soccer and girls' soccer teams lost first-round matches while the Spartan field hockey squad suffered a quarterfinal defeat.
New Milford field hockey
The emotional hurdle of playing Nov. 10's class 'L' first-round tournament match against a tournament-savvy program such as 15th-ranked Cheshire just a little more than three days after the death of fellow NMHS student Joe South proved too much for coach Dawn Hough 's 2nd-ranked Green Wave.
The visiting Rams capitalized on the apparent lethargy of the NMHS girls to earn a 1-0 victory and move on to the state quarterfinals.
The match was the first for Hough and Co. since the celebratory high it had reached Nov. 5 courtesy of a 1-0 conquest of arch-rival Pomperaug in the South-West Conference championship match.
During Nov. 10's match, Cheshire scored in the 29th minute of the first half on a rebound shot off one of its 15 penalty corners. Green Wave goaltender Ashley Hinz stopped all but one of the Rams' shots, but that was good enough considering the shortage of NMHS offensive spark.
The Green Wave finished its season owner of a 14-2-0-1 record and the SWC title plaque.
Seniors saying goodbye to NMHS field hockey were co-captains Lynda Pearl and Caitlin Duggan , as well as Nikki Collins , Christina Gioia , Jennifer Hawkins , Jen Vinhateiro and Ashley Williams.
New Milford boys' soccer
The host Governors of Wilbur Cross, 16th-ranked in class 'LL', outlasted coach Paul Cameron 's 17th-ranked Green Wave, 2-1, Nov. 8 in a first-round match in New Haven.
Diego Mendiola scored New Milford's goal and goalkeeper Micah Lamb made seven saves to keep the visitors in the match (see photographs).
The tournament defeat lowered the curtain on an 8-5-5 season for Cameron's crew, who'll lose Jon Gasiewski , Chris Sturgeon , A.J. LaBonte , Tommy McGrath , Joe Hall and Valmar Franca to graduation.
New Milford girls' soccer
The 18th-ranked Green Wave's satisfying return to the state tournament for the first time in several years resulted in Nov. 9's 2-1 class 'LL' first-round loss to host 15th-ranked Westhill in Stamford (see photographs).
Meghan Miller's high-bouncing entering pass from midfield hopped over the Vikings' goalkeeper for NMHS' only goal early inthe second half.
Green Wave netminder Kierstan Lurcott played a solid match, permitting one goal in each half.
Coach Rich Reynolds ' 8-6-3 side bids adieu to senior all-stater Julie Reynolds as well as classmates Nicole Altorelli , Kendra Kelly , Elizabeth LaMontagne and Lillian O'Brien.
The 8th-ranked Spartans earned a measure of satisfaction Nov. 9 by outdueling 9th-ranked Thomaston, its Berkshire League rival, in a class 'S' first-round match in Washington.
The girls jumped on top, 2-0, on Kate Fredlund 's penalty stroke conversion and Jessica Alex ' unassisted goal in the first half and then rode Melinda Maher 's five-save goaltending into the quarterfinals.
The Spartans' hopes of achieving the state title glory of coach Jaye Stuart 's 2001 and 2002 squads went by the boards Nov. 11, however, when top-ranked Granby Memorial overcame Maher's 11-save goaltending and a gallant Shepaug upset effort, 1-0, on the winners' upstate field.
The loss closed the books on a 10-4-3-1 campaign and marked the end of the Spartan field hockey careers of seniors Jessica Alex, Steph Cardi , Jenny Francis , Kate Fredlund, Meg Henry , Meredith Stuart and Meghan Williams .


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The Photography of Alice Austen
Examining the range of Alice Austen’s photography, this exhibition specifically inserts the trailblazing photographer into a contemporary context as the modern woman she was. 22 newly printed photographs are paired and accompanied by interpretive text by leading scholars, artists and activists from the LGBTQ+ and allied community.
About the Exhibition
Sarah Kate Gillespie
ALICE AUSTEN (1866 –1952) was one of America’s earliest and most prolific female photographers. Austen was an artist with a strong aesthetic sensibility and a rebel who broke away from the constraints of Victorian life, spending 56 years in a loving relationship with her partner Gertrude Tate.
This exhibition examines the range of Austen’s photography and specifically inserts her into a contemporary context as the modern woman she was. 22 newly printed photographs are paired, and accompanied by interpretive text by leading scholars, artists and activists from the LGBTQ+ and allied community. In June 2017 the Alice Austen House, where Austen and Tate, lived together for nearly 30 years, marked its national designation as a site of LGBTQ+ history
On view September 21st 2022 through February 15th 2023
This exhibition was made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Institute of Museum and Library Services; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature

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The art of the Bushman in South Africa. Text in german. Brown cloth boards with white print. Dust jacket bound into the book. Many illustrations, some black and white photographs and 3 colour plates. Some foxing throughout. Well bound.
Publisher: Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen).
Date Published: 1910
Publication Place: Berlin.
Dimensions: 8vo. 100pp.

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In a rapidly changing world, understanding the intricate relationships between climate and ecosystems has become more critical than ever.
The “Climate-Inclusive Ecosystem Modeling: Understanding the Dynamics of Ecosystems in a Changing World (CIEM-24)” conference seeks to bring together researchers, scientists and stakeholders to explore and discuss cutting-edge approaches in modeling ecosystems, taking into account the profound influence of climate factors. The conference aims to address a wide range of topics, including theoretical ecology, ordinary and partial differential equations, autonomous and non-autonomous dynamical systems, multi-scale modelling, stochastic systems, among others, providing a comprehensive understanding of how climate change affects ecosystems and how ecosystem modeling can be enhanced to incorporate these effects.
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Coari teacher aliciava stepdaughter and his daughter is arrested for the second timeThe teacher was arrested at the home of a brother and taken to the prison unit of the city of Coari.
Civil police arrested Coari, the second time the morning of Wednesday (1º), a professor of 52 years denounced by pedophilia.
He was on bail, however, Flávio Mota prosecutor appealed to the TJ-AM against the decision, which was authorized by Judge Sabino Marques, the 1st Criminal Chamber. In the second arrest the teacher was in the house of a brother and taken to the prison unit of the city of Coari.
The man was arrested at the scene on 16 January this year, to be carrying a pen drive containing 45 videos and photos of his stepdaughter, a teenager 15 years, and his daughter.
In one of the records the teacher puts his penis in the mouth of stepdaughter when she slept. By discovering the pornographic mother of the victims went to the police to report fellow.

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Care about your data privacy? Here's a good reason to stop using the Google Chrome browser, and use Firefox or Safari instead on your desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.
Facebook, Google, and many other online ad businesses are tracking pretty much everything you do online, through your web browser and apps, to figure out how to more precisely target ads and commerce at you.
Firefox and Safari web browsers are now adding updated privacy protections to thwart web tracking.
Google's Chrome browser commands about half of the global user base, but because Google's business is based on ad revenue, these privacy protections are not in their bottom line interest.
The idea behind the updated privacy features is to prevent companies from being able to exploit "cookie" data files (for your login and user preferences) into trackers that go way beyond that, and spy on what blog posts you read, what porno you're watching, what creepy stuff you're looking up on Google late at night.
Apple's new approach to blocking web trackers is significant because it focuses on "a technique developed by tracking companies to override users' attempts to delete their cookies," reports the Associated Press.
Unlike Firefox, Safari makes these protections automatic in updates coming Tuesday to iPhones and iPads and a week later to Mac computers.
To get the protections, you'll have to break your habit of using Google's Chrome browser, which by some estimates has more than half of the worldwide browser usage. Safari and Firefox have less than 20 percent combined.
Even then, Safari and Firefox can't entirely stop tracking. For starters, they won't block tracking when you're using Facebook or Google itself. Nor can they help much when you use phone or tablet apps, unless the app happens to embed Safari, as Twitter's iPhone app does.
(…) Safari will try to automatically distinguish cookies that are useful from ones that are there just to track you. Apple notes that cookies can appear in unexpected places, such as sites that embed "like" and "share" buttons. Now, those cookies will be blocked until you click on one of those buttons, in which case you'll be prompted for permission to allow the tracking. If you don't, your "like" won't register.
Safari is also attacking a technique developed to circumvent cookie deletions. Through "fingerprinting," a company can identify you through your computer's characteristics, such as browser type and fonts installed. Your new cookie can then be tied to your old profile. Safari will now limit the technical details it sends.
Firefox has an anti-tracking feature that also tries to distinguish tracking cookies from useful ones. But it's on by default only on Apple's mobile devices. Otherwise, you need to turn it on or use a private-browsing mode, which gets more aggressive at killing cookies, including useful ones.
For personal computers, Firefox also has an optional add-on, called Facebook Container, to segregate your Facebook activity from everything else. Think of it as a wall that prevents Facebook from accessing its data cookie as you surf elsewhere. A version is available for other trackers, too, but requires configuration on your part.
Read the whole article.
'Apple, Firefox tools aim to thwart Facebook, Google tracking'
In a blog post, Apple says their tests show that some popular websites stick users with a whopping 70 trackers — mostly from Facebook and Google.


The game wouldn’t have been as memorable if the result didn’t live up to the action.
The Detroit Red Wings beat the Colorado Avalanche handily on March 26, 1997, first with their gloves off and then, in overtime, with their gloves on in a game that has become an integral part of franchise history.
Darren McCarty was the hero twice over that night at Joe Louis Arena: First, when he pummeled archvillain Claude Lemieux in retaliation for Lemieux’s hit in the 1996 Western Conference finals that sent Kris Draper to hospital with multiple severe facial injuries. The second was when McCarty scored in overtime, slapping the puck past Patrick Roy 39 seconds into the extra period.
Teammate-turned-Wings scout Kirk Maltby, reminiscing this week ahead of the game’s 25th anniversary, laughed when he brought up the winning goal, which Brendan Shanahan set up. Shanahan had thrown a flying bodycheck when he intercepted Patrick Roy’s attempt to come to Lemieux’s aid late in the first period.
“Mac scores in overtime, where in today’s game, he’d probably have been kicked out and gotten a 20-game suspension,” Maltby told the Free Press this week. “I think it’s safe to say, between Mac and Shanny being in that melee, they’d probably have been kicked out and Mac would have been suspended after that. It’s funny how the game has evolved.”
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McCarty pummeled Lemieux late in the first period, and was assessed two roughing penalties by referee Paul Devorski. McCarty was assessed a minor for roughing and major for fighting Adam Deadmarsh in the second period. Shanahan wasn’t assessed a penalty for leaping at Roy, but did get five minutes for fighting Adam Foote in the second period.
The final blow came when McCarty scored in overtime, and the Wings won, 6-5.
“It was a big win for morale,” Maltby said. “It was just a great night, like a special event.”
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Results 1 - 48 of 1507 Get the best deal for Silver US Dollar Coins from the largest online selection at eBay.com. 1879-S Silver Morgan 1 Dollar United States of America USA US 1877 Silver US Trade Dollar $1 (Extra Fine, XF Condition). 30 Jan 2020 Designed by William Barber (1807-1879), who was the fifth chief engraver of the U.S. Mint from 1869 until his death, the front of the coin Pricing Guide of Numismatic Reproductions. Sold at Auction: Usa trade dollar 1879 - 38.mm diametro - 23.gramos (20% plata 80% nickel y otros). 4 Nov 2018 Sample 1879-dated Morgan dollars were made up, consisting of two-headed Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States - A Complete
The 1879 Morgan Silver Dollar was produced in four mints: Carson City, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and San Francisco. The most valuable 1879 Morgan Silver Dollar carries the "CC" mintmark used by the Carson City Mint. It always carries a premium value because of very low production, making it the rarest 1879 Morgan Dollar.
The History of the Trade Dollar - CoinWeek May 31, 2012 · Minted for circulation from July, 1873 until April, 1878, the Trade dollar represents one of the shortest-lived of all United States numismatic series. Across all dates and mintmarks nearly 36 1 Dollar "Trade Dollar" - United States – Numista William Barber (2 May 1807 – 31 August 1879) was the fifth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1869 until his death. Barber is best known for his "Britannia"-inspired trade dollar design, and his adaptation pf the long-standing Seated Liberty design for use on the ill-fated 20-cent piece, which saw circulation only in 1875 and 1876. 1873 Trade Dollar Value | CoinTrackers 1873 Trade Dollar. CoinTrackers.com has estimated the 1873 Trade Dollar value at an average of $95, one in certified mint state (MS+) could be worth $3,039.
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Aug 03, 2009 · Home Forums > Coin Forums > US Coins Forum > how do you spot fake Trade Dollars, anyway? If you want a nice Trade Dollar for a type set, buy only a properly certified example from a reputable seller, and be done with it. Study the seller's photos carefully. If they are too small, you cannot tell anything about the coin.
With a mintage of more than 14 million, the 1879 Morgan Dollars (Buy on eBay) struck at the Philadelphia Mint were the most abundant issue of the new series Results 1 - 48 of 1507 Get the best deal for Silver US Dollar Coins from the largest online selection at eBay.com. 1879-S Silver Morgan 1 Dollar United States of America USA US 1877 Silver US Trade Dollar $1 (Extra Fine, XF Condition).
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"Winchester Cathedral" (1966)
Earlier in '66, Sinatra recorded a cover of Petula Clark's "Downtown," but this remake of the New Vaudeville Band novelty hit marked the beginning of his deeper dive into then-current pop. The original, an ersatz Brit-music-hall fluke complete with a fake-megaphone voice, wasn't much to begin with, and Sinatra seems a bit lost in this brassy-cheesy arrangement, even when he ad-libs, "Man, you brought me down!" He clearly relishes sinking his teeth into the line "My baby left town!" — but still not a promising start to the Sinatra "rock" years.


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Title: Title page and preliminary page of Caprices d’un bibliophile / par Octave Uzanne.
Creator: Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931.
Bibliographic Citation: Uzanne, Octave, 1852-1931. Caprices d’un bibliophile / par Octave Uzanne. Paris : Librairie ancienne et moderne, É. Rouveyre, 1878.
Z992 U99 C3 1878 Rare Books/Special Collections – McLennan Bldg, 4th floor
Notes: The famous English bibliophile Andrew Lang once wrote, “the love of books for their own sake, for their paper, print, binding, and for their associations, as distinct from the love of literature, is a stronger and more universal passion in France than elsewhere in Europe.” Octave Uzanne represented this new generation of fin-de-siècle bibliophiles who rejected the growing trend of mass-produced books on cheap paper. In the spirit of preserving the ancient arts of book-making, partnered with a healthy dose of elitism, they revived the concept of the livre de luxe with Moroccan bindings, Japanese paper, and colorful illustrations. He was also a prolific author on the subjects of bibliophilia and bibliomania, often lamenting how the two words are so frequently confused as synonyms. In this particular work, Uzanne described the common situation of many bibliophiles who began collecting books for the content within the pages, only to eventually become more interested in the quality of the materials on the outside. Uzanne did not view this as a negative development. Fearing books would become obsolete in the age of phonographs and cylinders, he actively encouraged placing high material value on books as objects.
Publisher: Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University
is Part Of Exhibition: People in the World of Print
Exhibition Theme: Bibliophilia and Bibliomania
Image Identifier: uzanne_caprices_bibliophile_1878_limited_ed_statement-titlepage


text: Draya is an American media personality, model, actress, host, and entrepreneur. With a huge social media presence consisting of over 6.8 million Instagram followers and over 700,000 Twitter followers, she has hosted the BET Awards 2014 and the 2016 Soul Train Awards. In addition to having been apart of the cast of VH1’s BASKETBALL WIVES, Draya recently starred in and executive produced the BET Feature Film, WE BELONG TOGETHER, which was the most-viewed program on the network for the summer. She can also recently be seen portraying ‘Holly’ in the Lionsgate Feature Film, THE PERFECT MATCH, alongside Paula Patton, Donald Faison and Cassie. She is also the creator and owner of several successful fashion lines; the most notable being her swimsuit company, Mint Swim, which was recently featured in Style Fashion Week New York 2018. Draya can next be seen in the lead roles in TALES for BET opposite Isaiah Washington and in the Kevin Hart/ Jeff Clanagan produced show, HIP HOP LIES, which will be available for streaming on Kevin Hart’s LOL app. She can also recently be seen recurring on STAR for FOX, alongside Quincy Brown, Miss Lawrence, and Brandy.


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Joint Economic Development Boards Must Comply With Requirements of Public Chapter 1101
The Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (ECD) will not approve grants for entities not in compliance with the requirements of Public Chapter 1101. Effective September 1, 2003, all state grant applications administered by ECD must include supporting documentation that the joint economic and community development board (1) is legally established and (2) is composed of the minimum required members, and (3) that the board and its executive committee have met according to state law. A copy of the interlocal agreement establishing the joint board and certified minutes shall be the minimum acceptable documentation. The department will accept applications where good faith efforts to meet are demonstrated by a schedule for both the board and executive committee indicating meeting dates between September 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004. By July 1, 2004, every local government applying for a state grant administered by ECD must provide records documenting that a minimum of four board meetings and four executive committee meetings were held during the previous 12 months.
Public Chapter 1101 requires that each county, and cities therein, establish a joint economic and community development board for the purpose of “fostering communications with regard to economic and community development between and among governmental entities, industry, and private citizens.” Cities and counties generally have complied with the requirement that such joint boards be established.
T.C.A. § 6-58-114(f) requires that the board meet a minimum of four times annually and that the board’s executive committee meet at least four times annually. When applying for state grants, cities and counties are required to certify compliance with the requirements of T.C.A. § 6-58-114.
The commissioner is required by law to ensure local government compliance with Public Chapter 1101. The stakes are simply too high not to comply with the law. Accordingly, MTAS recommends that:
- Every city develop and maintain documentation proving the existence of a joint board by interlocal agreement with the minimum required members;
- Every joint board schedule the required four board meetings and four executive committee meetings for each year; and
- Every joint board maintain minutes proving that the board has met the required number of times for any given 12-month period.


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If you were halfway sentient in the mid-1970s you know how to describe the Big Mac: Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. This phrase, set to an irritatingly irresistible jingle, defined not only a sandwich but also an era. While the PBJ sandwich (peanut butter and jelly) — and maybe, for the daring, especially in the Northeast, PBJF (PBJ plus Marshmallow Fluff) or even the Fluffernutter — once was the national sandwich, the Big Mac is an honest contender for the title. This sandwich has its own museum (North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania). And it is so ubiquitous that The Economist magazine has created a Big Mac Index, which it employs to determine whether world currencies are at their natural level.
New York Strip Steak
You don’t have to be in New York, and even if you are in New York you don’t have to be at Delmonico’s — where, according to the folklore, this all-American food item was popularized — to enjoy a New York strip steak. Connoisseurs will debate which is the most flavorful cut of steak, but there is no sturdier symbol of America at table, at least through the early 1960s, than the New York strip. A good New York strip — to many American diners the phrase is redundant — will set you back $45 or more, even outside of New York. (The price at Delmonico’s is $49.) Cut from the longissimus dorsi muscle, the steak is sometimes called the Kansas City strip or top sirloin. By any name, it’s America in a bite.
Philadelphia Cheesesteak Sandwich
Here’s another American food classic that defies its geographical label. You can get a Philly cheesesteak at pretty much any sandwich shop, but in this case returning to the roots is the way to go. Let’s not wade into the controversy of where or how the sandwich originated, or the Cheez-Whiz-versus-provolone dispute, or even whether it should be one word or two (though many purists will argue for one). And let’s agree, too, that while there may be many claimants for the finest Philly cheesesteak, Pat’s King of Steaks and Geno’s Steaks are on the list of contenders, with a slight advantage to Pat’s if only because its address (Passyunk Avenue) is so much fun to say. VisitPhilly.com describes the sandwich as a “civic icon, a tourist draw and a cultural obsession” — a description upon which everyone can agree.
Southern Fried Chicken
Chicken is fried all over the world — India, Korea, Austria — but it is in the American South where fried chicken is the signature regional staple. Likely produced when a Scottish recipe was amplified and immensely improved by the addition of spices familiar to the African slaves who were sent in bondage to the region, there are a zillion contenders for best Southern fried chicken. But Gus’s (locales in Tennessee) and Mary Mac’s Tea Room (in Atlanta — order the fried green tomatoes as a side) are two of the best. And don’t ignore the BBB restaurant in Oxford, Mississippi, where the Last Gentleman entrée features a two-piece plate of Coca-Cola brined fried chicken, available for breakfast.
The American Thanksgiving Meal
On the surface this needs no further explanation: roast turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, apple pie. But not so fast. Maybe it’s a deep-fried turkey. Maybe it is oyster stuffing. Maybe the cranberry sauce doesn’t come slipping out of an Ocean Spray can and instead is made with fresh cranberries. Maybe there is pecan pie. Maybe there’s an ice cream dessert. Maybe there’s a Mexican appetizer — a cheese-and-salsa dip, perhaps. Maybe the beverage of choice is fresh apple cider. Maybe you have your own ideas. Whatever they are, there’s no disagreement that this is the best meal of the year, a harvest celebration and a moment when gluttony is forgiven and fostered, consumed around the time the Detroit Lions play the Packers or the Bears.
The Ballpark Hot Dog
This is so much a part of American culture that there actually is a brand called Ball Park, created in 1957 at the request of the Detroit Tigers. Hot dogs first appeared at ballparks in 1893, when they were introduced as a mid-game snack by the old St. Louis Browns, according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council. And there is the story, probably apocryphal, that Harry Stevens hawked “red hot dachshund sausages” at the Polo Grounds in New York and then shortened his appeal to “hot dog.” None of this matters. What matters is that the most frequently uttered phrase at a food stand in all 30 major league parks is this:_ It wouldn’t be a ballgame without a hot dog._
Let’s agree: The rectangular milk chocolate bar manufactured by Hershey is not the finest chocolate bar available in the United States, or even in Pennsylvania, home of the Hershey Company, which nonetheless markets its product as “The Great American Chocolate Bar.” But there is something about the Hershey bar, with its trademark silver writing on its brown wrapper, that elevates it from snack to icon. Whether consumed with a glass of milk — the combination of choice for your grandfather — or between pieces of graham cracker around a campfire as a s’more, the Hershey bar has been part of the American diet since 1900, a 210-calorie portion of Americana.
Whether with cumin, coriander and paprika, or with a lime crema sauce, or with an ancho chile powder and dried oregano, the fish taco combines two vital American epicurean impulses — food from the sea and from Latin American traditions. Popular in the West and South for decades, the fish taco recently has become a sturdy staple in the East, where it holds a prominent place both in Mexican joints and seafood palaces. The centerpiece is a firm white fish, sometimes tilapia, sometimes halibut, sometimes sole, even catfish, preferably fried in either pork fat or beer batter, but sometimes grilled. Agave nectar is optional, superfine cut slaw is a must — and so is an ample supply of napkins.
Sometimes (wrongly) described as Hawaiian ice, this tasty treat is offered on nearly every street corner in Honolulu and in rural outposts on Hawaii’s islands. In its natural setting it bears no resemblance whatsoever to commercially manufactured ice favors, to the products of home snow-cone machines, or to franchise or even so-called artisan shops on the mainland. First there’s the size differential; in Hawaii they’re huge. Then there are the fruit flavors; in Hawaii they’re the native guava or coconut. Shave ice almost certainly arrived in Hawaii through Japanese migrants, and it was in their modest early grocery stores that it began being offered. Warning: These are not snow cones. And they are not called “shaved ice.” Confuse these at your own risk, especially in Hawaii.
Here is an example of how a simple item — broken grains of corn, the hull and germ removed — can become a food favorite. These corn grains are the essence of grits, a lifestyle choice as well as a food group in the South, where this legacy of Native American cooking has taken on cultural importance far more robust than the food itself. This is serious business (the corn must be dried to a moisture content of 14 percent), but then again breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and, to the devotee, grits are the most important part of breakfast. And yes, it is a health food, of sorts, if you control the butter and milk, and it is a good source of folate and Vitamin B-6.
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Jacob Tremblay Hits the Dance Floor (Again!) and Has a Twinning Moment with Idris Elba After the SAG Awards
The crowd didn't faze Tremblay or his dance moves. House of Cards' Michael Kelly even filmed a clip of it on his phone!
Tremblay hit the dance floor again on Saturday while attending the Weinstein Company/Netflix SAG afterparty.
And while it was Justin Bieber‘s “Sorry” that first got him moving (even trying to convince Beasts of No Nation‘s Abraham Attah to dance too), it wasn’t until the DJ spun Bruno Mars‘ “Uptown Funk” that the rest of the crowd got excited.
After all, they’d already seen what Tremblay could do during that song, after an earlier clip of him dancing to it at the Critics’ Choice Awards drew awws around the Internet.
But the crowd didn’t faze Tremblay or his dance moves. House of Cards‘ Michael Kelly even filmed a clip of it on his phone!
It was perhaps Tremblay’s fourth adorable moment of the night, after his presentation alongside costar Brie Larson, finally meeting Leonardo DiCaprio and having a twinning moment with SAG Award-winner Idris Elba at the afterparty.
But all these A-listers are going to have to fight it out with one another to make it into Tremblay’s clique, especially since he and Johnny Depp are already “best friends.”
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John Paul Jones House was the home of Captain Gregory Purcell and his wife in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. They had it built in 1758 and Purcell lived there until his death in 1776. The widow Purcell then took in boarders. American naval hero John Paul Jones rented a room during 1781-1782 while supervising construction of the ship America. This is the only surviving building known to have been associated with John Paul Jones' life.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972.
It is located at Middle and State Streets in Portsmouth.


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Irish opposition warns against rushed legislation for police use of facial recognition
Plans by Irish Minister of Justice Simon Harris to amend existing legislation to allow the use of facial recognition technology by An Garda Síochána (Ireland’s national police) has met with what is being called a coalition resistance fronted by the opposition Green Party.
The Green Party has told the Minister a standalone legislation would be better for that purpose, which would allow the opportunity for broader pre-legislation scrutiny and inputs from various important stakeholders such as subject matter experts among others, reports Irish Times (IT).
The government is seeking to add the amendments to allow the use of facial recognition technology to a law currently in parliament (Oireachtas) on the use of body cameras by members of the national police.
The Green Party says it is not opposed to the use of the technology in all cases, but it prefers specific legislation that will reflect greater participation from the public and other interested parties.
Irish Times quotes the Green Party Minister of State Ossian Smyth as admitting in an interview to RTE that the proposal is a welcome idea as the technology would allow the police to dig into serious crimes, but “what we’ve said is that we don’t think it should be included in the body cam legislation, which is halfway through its process, that we think that it should be properly debated and that should go to the Justice Committee.”
Smyth adds that while the facial recognition technology is important for instances such as search for crime suspects, the technology also comes with certain risks as people’s biometric data recorded and stored by the system could be used for other purposes in what could turn out to be “mass surveillance” which “isn’t really compatible with democracy.”
The Chairperson of the Oireachtas Justice Committee is also reported to be in favour of a separate legislation for the technology, urging the government “to tread carefully or it will be one step forward, two steps back, as has been seen in other jurisdictions already.”
A spokesman for the Justice Minister cited by IT underlines the benefits of facial recognition especially in the execution of law enforcement tasks.
The push by Harris seeks to allow the use of facial recognition by the police in a limited number of circumstances such as during probes on cases of murder, missing persons or child abuse, notes Sunday Independent.
But there has been some criticism of the plan with an analysis by the Irish Times last year describing the move as controversial and ill-advised.

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Jonathan Richardson, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, has received a grant of $480,000 from the National Science Foundation to develop advanced instrumentation for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, or LIGO, based at sites in Louisiana and Washington.
Completed in 2002, LIGO detects gravitational waves — ripples in space that travel at the speed of light — generated by the collisions of distant black holes and neutron stars. Its detectors employ high-power laser beams over a 4 km distance to measure passing gravitational waves. LIGO accomplishes this by splitting a laser beam in two and looking for interference patterns when the two halves of the beam recombine.
The three-year grant supports the development of new laser wavefront control technologies aimed at extending the astrophysical reach of gravitational-wave detectors.
Richardson explained that gravitational waves carry new and complementary information to the light observed by telescopes.
“In the coming decade, we expect gravitational-wave detections will reveal new insights into extreme gravity, ultradense states of matter inside neutron stars, and the nature of black holes,” he said.
The project will develop novel adaptive optics that can significantly reduce the optical losses inside LIGO and future detectors, enabling higher laser power and greater sensitivity to gravitational waves.
“In addition to its astrophysical impact, this new technology will provide a general means of achieving lower loss in complex laser systems, with potential to accelerate discoveries in many fields including atomic, molecular, and optical physics and optical quantum computing,” Richardson said.
Richardson’s research focuses on precision tests of gravity and illuminating the nature of black holes. In support of these goals, his group works to solve major technological limitations in gravitational wave detection. Prior to joining the UCR faculty this year, he was a LIGO Laboratory postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology from 2017-21. He is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Cosmic Explorer Consortium.


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The last official data on the whole economy before the May 6 General Election showed that gross domestic product rose 0.2pc in the first quarter of 2010. The figure is half the rate seen in the final three months of 2009, when Britain emerged from its deepest peacetime recession since the 1930s. Economists had been expecting growth of 0.4pc.
The Conservatives said the figures underlined the dangers of going ahead with the Government's planned increase in National Insurance contributions.
"After the longest recession, we now have a jobless recovery from a weak Government," George Osborne, the shadow chancellor, said.
"These figures are below expectations and they come in a week when unemployment went up again and the Government borrowed more than ever before.
"What Britain doesn't need now is a jobs tax that would kill the recovery or a hung Parliament that would lead to economic paralysis."
However Gordon Brown said that it was the Tories who threaten to derail the recovery by cutting £6 billion from public spending.
The Prime Minister told a press conference in London that the Conservative plans were a "death sentence" for thousands of jobs, hitting teachers, police and other workers.
Lord Mandelson added a more personal attack on the Conservative leadership: "They're just a couple of kids in school trousers, Dave and George, running around saying Britain is broken one day, like Greece the next, saying it is moral cowardice not to cut everything in sight, and this week it is if the country doesn't vote Tory the financial markets will pull the plug.
"They never stop talking Britain down."
The growth estimate is the first of three to be released by the Office for National Statistics. It will be closely watched by all three political parties as the economy dominates the election campaign. The next Government will be challenged with nurturing the fragile recovery as well as tackling Britain's biggest Budget deficit since World War II.
Gordon Brown is seeking to persuade voters that a rapid withdrawal of stimulus as well as cuts in public spending will derail a recovery. David Cameron, the Conservative leader, is trying to convince the electorate that failure to tackle the deficit, which reached £163.4bn last year would hurt the value of the pound and drive investors away from Britain.
January's cold weather, which saw heavy snowfall across the country, held back manufacturing and consumer spending, the the Office for National Statistics said said. Industrial production grew 0.7pc; the services sector, which makes up the lion's share of the economy, edged up 0.2pc; construction contracted 0.7pc.

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text: I’ve finished all the Suits episodes on Netflix. Woe is me. While I wait impatiently for the next season to appear I’ve started watching stand up specials while I make the kids lunches. I’m currently making my way through some based on a ‘Parks & Recreation Association‘ theme that I decided on once I watched Nick Offerman’s American Ham followed by Aziz Ansari’s Buried Alive. While I love Ron Swanson the character, and enjoyed Nick too, he is not down with vegetarians at all, so I don’t think we’d get on so well. Aziz on the other hand, coined the phrase “Treat yo’self” as the character Tom in Parks & Rec, and that I can get on board with. As well as having four stand up specials streaming, he is also starring in his own Netflix Original series Master of None. It. Is. Sublime.


Original U.S. “For The Record” 1946 Calendar by Thompson Products Featuring Artwork of the “Best Enemy Planes”
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely example of a rather large wall calendar by Thompson Products of Cleveland, Ohio. Thompson Products began Charles H. Hubbell, 'aviation's pictorial historian', on his successful art career in 1934, creating paintings for the Thompson Products annual calendar. These plates on each month show World War II warplanes: FZG-76 Flying Bomb (Various Manufacturers) - German; Mitsubishi Navy 'O1' Bomber (Betty) - Japanese; Nakajima Navy 'O2' Torpedo Bomber (Jill) - Japanese; Mitsubishi Navy 'O' Fighter (Zeke) - Japanese; Messerschmitt ME-262 Jet-Propelled Fighter - German; Kawasaki Army 'O3' Fighter (Tony) - Japanese; Focke-Wulf FW-190 Fighter - German; Nakajima Army 'O2' Fighter (Tojo) - Japanese; Messerschmitt ME-410 Fighter-Bomber - German; Junkers JU-188 All-Purpose Bomber - German; Messerschmitt ME-109 Fighter - German; Heinkel HE-177 Heavy Bomber - German. Each plate shows a detailed machine in heavy action; below titles are listed span, length, height, crew, top speed, range, ceiling, armament, bomb load and engines.
The calendar is missing the front cover and the first few pages are completely separate from the calendar itself.
Comes more than ready for display.
Air warfare was a major component in all theaters of World War II and, together with anti-aircraft warfare, consumed a large fraction of the industrial output of the major powers. Germany and Japan depended on air forces that were closely integrated with land and naval forces; the Axis powers downplayed the advantage of fleets of strategic bombers and were late in appreciating the need to defend against Allied strategic bombing. By contrast, Britain and the United States took an approach that greatly emphasized strategic bombing and (to a lesser degree) tactical control of the battlefield by air as well as adequate air defenses. Both Britain and the U.S. built substantially larger strategic forces of large, long-range bombers. Simultaneously, they built tactical air forces that could win air superiority over the battlefields, thereby giving vital assistance to ground troops. The U.S. Navy and Royal Navy also built a powerful naval-air component based on aircraft carriers, as did the Imperial Japanese Navy; these played the central role in the war at sea.
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Pakistan confirms Su 35 talks with Russia
Officials from Pakistan confirmed to IHS Janes that they were in talks with the Russian arms supplier Rosoboronexport to sell unknown numbers of Su 35 S fighters, the information was first leaked by the Russian deputy foreign minister Sergi Ryankov that Russia and Islamabad in talks to supply Su 35 Multi role combat aircraft to the Pakistani Air force, earlier many times Pakistani air force officials talks about the need of twin engine aircraft to counter Indian Air force, the Pakistani officials didn't says about exact timeline of new fighters jets induction, however it's believed they get modern twin engine fighters before 2020.
The Pakistani air force so far flying only single engine Fighters, which lacks combat radius, sortie rate and survival probability, PAF has a Fleet of modern F 16 Blk 52 fighters, Chinese and Pakistani made JF 17, and older Mirage III and some Russian origin Chinese modified MiG 21's dubbed as F 7, and France almost stopped it's support to the Mirage platforms, so they have to relies on the F 16 fighter jets, where they get offset and maintenance support from Turkey, even if the US stopped the support,
As new generation comes, the PAF yet to matured to operate in a long range twin engine heavy fighters, as first they sought the Chinese J 31 fifth generation fighters, the J 31 program is hits a road block after the first flight in 2012, there is no clear progress made in the J 31, while China continuously working on the J 20, as per Initial plans the PAF intended to buy some two squadrons of FC 31, a degraded version of J 31 made by the Chinese, also the Pakistani officials not interested in the Kilmov RD 93 Engines, so they have to move on some other platforms, after many rounds of Talks the PAF Finally selects the Su 35 S Multi role fighter for it's future induction program.
The PAF has a sight of dominance in the Arabian Sea, where The Indian Navy and Air force always enjoy freedom of Navigation, so far PAF has no real fighters that can bolster the Arabian sea, the F 16 lacks of Range and has no Anti shipping missiles, meantime the JF 17 has such capabilities, JF 17 is capable to carry YJ 12 based Anti shipping missile, however it's lack of range and questions about it's sea skimming capability, So PAF need a good a good fighter that can capable to launch proven Anti shipping missile from stand off Ranges, the Su 35 S with Kh 35 is a good option for them, and Russia can ready to sell those missiles to Pakistan if they were willing to pay the money. which helps them to secure the Pakistani Ports from Indian Naval Attack in case of war,
As per Pakistani analysts, the PAF may get only one squadron of Su 35 S fighters with the Service availability rate of 60% at any time, due to the maintenance issue and cost factors, It's hard to establish a data link between Friendly fighter jets from PAF for situation awareness and co operation, so It's clear the PAF Su 35 may work stand alone mode, a four finger formation of Su 35 fighter is a good show off against any modern Fighter jets, two set of four finger is more enough to pose good deterrence in peacetime asymmetric warfare.
Meanwhile the Chinese and the Indonesians are the other customers of Su 35, where all of them will buy only two or less squadrons, and Pakistan also gets the reservation, more over it's a good export opportunity for Russia, all these orders would give some $5 billions, while each Su 35 costs some $60 millions, while Pakistan can get some twenty Su 35 S fighters, missiles, offsite support, maintenance, and Spare parts for $1.5 billions, not a big money to spend Pakistan in three years due.
Those Su 35 S surely pose an threat to Marginal IAF fighter aircraft's. where the current IAF Fighters can keep the Pakistani Air force to keep their fighters in Hanger, the Sukhoi and MiG fleet can control the entire Pakistani Airspace and destroy any PAF fighters if they tries to take off from the runway, if they gets the advanced Su 35 they will never hesitate to confront the IAF fleet, due to it's long range combat radius and radar detecting capability, they can easily pose a show off against Indian fleet at any time.


Russian state nuclear power corporation Rosatom on Tuesday said the No. 4, 5, and 6 reactors at Japan’s quake-stricken Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant may be facing meltdowns.
Radiation levels have reached harmful levels around the plant after a hydrogen blast rocked reactor No. 2 on Tuesday, following similar explosions at reactors No. 1 and 3.
The other three reactors were shut down for maintenance before Friday’s 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in the country’s northeast.
Speaking at an emergency government meeting, Rosatom head Sergei Kiriyenko said he was concerned about reactors No. 4, 5, and 6. A fire broke out at reactor No. 4 Tuesday morning. The temperature in reactors No. 5 and 6 is reported to be rising rapidly.
“The fuel rods are not inside the reactor, they are in the spent rod pool, they are cool but they should also be doused with water,” Kiriyenko said.
“We don’t understand why this hasn’t been done,” he said, adding that this had triggered the fire at reactor No. 4.
“The worst part is that the temperature is rising in neighboring reactors No. 5 and 6,” Kiriyenko said.
The danger zone around the plant was extended to 30 km, and an upsurge in radiation levels forced the evacuation of personnel from the plant’s control room.
NOVO-OGARYOVO, March 15 (RIA Novosti)


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- 1 Who won RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13?
- 2 Is Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race good?
- 3 Will there be a RuPaul season 13?
- 4 What happened on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13?
- 5 Who won RuPaul’s Drag Queen 2021?
- 6 Who won RuPaul 2021?
- 7 Will There Be a Drag Race season 14?
- 8 Is RuPaul’s Drag Race over?
- 9 How many seasons are there of RuPaul’s Drag Race?
- 10 Where can I watch RuPaul Drag Race Season 13?
- 11 How did Kandy Muse beat Rose?
- 12 Who won Miss Congeniality season 13?
Who won RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13?
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ season 13 winner Symone struts her crown and scepter at the finale.
Is Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race good?
Following season 12, a fan favorite, audiences had high hopes for season 13. Ultimately, however, the latest installment was unable to live up to its potential. Despite the talent of the drag queen contestants, the stylistic and structural production of this season was notably lackluster.
Will there be a RuPaul season 13?
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 release date Season 13 started on New Year’s Day 2021. The trailer concluded with a title card, revealing that series 13 will air on 31st December in the US on VH1.
What happened on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13?
The final episode was in part dedicated to Chi Chi DeVayne, who passed away in August 2020. The Winner of Season 13 was Symone, with Kandy Muse placing as Runner-Up and Rosé and Gottmik placing as 3rd/4th Place. The Winner of the Miss Congeniality title was LaLa Ri.
Who won RuPaul’s Drag Queen 2021?
The now Emmy-winning Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race was a season like none other as the latest group of fierce queens vied for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Drag Race crowned Los Angeles queen Symone the winner.
Who won RuPaul 2021?
When the dust and glitter settled, RuPaul made the big announcement: The winner of Season 13 is… Symone! (As for Miss Congeniality, that honor was, indeed, bestowed upon LaLa Ri. Long may she reign.)
Will There Be a Drag Race season 14?
On August 23, 2021, it was confirmed that Season 14 of RuPaul’s Drag Race will air on VH1 unlike the season before it, All Stars 6.
Is RuPaul’s Drag Race over?
RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked! The thirteenth season of RuPaul’s Drag Race premiered on January 1 and concluded on April 23, 2021.
How many seasons are there of RuPaul’s Drag Race?
As an actor, drag queen, model, author and recording artist, RuPaul, 60, is estimated to have a net worth of US$60 million and is widely considered to be the most commercially successful drag queen in the world.
Where can I watch RuPaul Drag Race Season 13?
Here’s the tea for everyone who has a cable login: y’all can stream the Drag Race Season 13 finale live on VH1.com. For all of y’all without a cable login, there’s still a way for you to stream it live and online. You can watch VH1 if you have an account with a live TV streaming service, like Philo, or Fubo TV.
How did Kandy Muse beat Rose?
In the first spin it landed on Kandy and the second spin hit Rosé, for a showdown of the two New York queens and leaving the two Los Angeles queens Gottmik and Symone to go against each other. This time, Kandy won another lip sync, defeating Rosé and sending herself to the next round to lip sync for the crown.
Who won Miss Congeniality season 13?
LaLa Ri, the current reigning Miss Congeniality on the regular US series (Season 13). “Miss Congeniality” is the title awarded to the queens who are regarded as the kindest, most helpful ones on their respective seasons.

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Palo Verde National park is a wildlife refuge located between the Tempisque and Bebedero rivers. The park is the largest wetland area in Costa Rica! It is here that you will see pristine saltwater and freshwater lagoons, marshes, mangroves and grasslands. This park is known for its biodiversity, and has the highest concentration of wading birds in Central America. Over 270 species of birds have been observed there, and each year thousands of migratory birds nest there due to its ideal conditions.
Let our boat take you on an unforgettable floating safari! During the tour we will cruise up and down river to admire the natural beauty of the wetland ecosystem. Tourists will have the opportunity to gaze upon: gigantic crocodiles sunning themselves on the bank, prehistoric iguanas climbing tree trunks, birds wading in the riverbanks, moneys traveling through the canopy, and tiny lizards darting through the underbrush
Start time: 7: 00am Duration: 6 or 7 hours Price: $95 per person Minimum: 4 people
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Stolen from summer's trove of warm sun, flesh-bearing fashions and beach days, I am now winter's child.
Photographer Bevan Percival's timelapse brings together strong composition, dramatic light and beautiful scenery.
It was one of those spur-of-the-moment decisions to take an overnight trip south to the Mackenzie Country.
A Cape Kidnappers escape where magical golf meets glorious gannets and farmyard chic.
A luxury hideaway lodge in Wairarapa has been named as one of the world's best by a leading travel guide.

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1952: Leonard X. Bosack was born in Pennsylvania, USA.
1969: graduated from La Selle College and then University of Pennsylvania in 1973.
1979: joined Stanford University as a hardware engineer and then credited as a support engineer.
1981: worked as a support engineer for different projects of Stanford Mainframes such as minis, lisp machine and altos.
1984: co-founded Cisco System with his wife, Sandra Lerner and then in 1986, the Cisco’s product began to be sold to the market.
The company produced revolutionary technology such as the first multiport router-specific line cards and sophisticated routing protocols, giving them domination over the market-place. Cisco went public in 1990.
1990: resigned from Cisco.


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Rapper Kanye West will celebrate his 45th birthday on June 8 and have his children by his side if he wants them to be there. A source revealed Kanye’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian is ensuring their four children, North, 8, Saint, 6, Chicago, 4, and Saint, 3, will be available to spend his birthday with him.
The source told HollywoodLife that Kim is not involving herself in Kanye’s birthday plans this year but knows he would love to spend time and celebrate it with his kids. Hence, the SKIMS founder, who is currently dating Pete Davidson, has been taking her kids shopping to buy items for their father’s birthday. The insider added,
“She wanted to make sure and buy a gift for their father from each of the kids because she still cares about Kanye, and that is just what mothers do. Kim believes it is important for their kids to spend his birthday with him, and she would never keep them away from their father.”
Kanye West’s Birthday Plans
The source opened up about where Kanye’s birthday festivities might occur and revealed that Kim thinks it will happen in Los Angeles. However, Kanye has not yet disclosed if he is taking the kids out of town or anything of the sort.
According to the insider, Kim and Kanye’s custody arrangement is still being settled. Also, The Kardashians star has some summer vacation plans that may involve her kids. However, regardless of such plans, Kim and Kanye remain devoted parents and always put their kids first. Hence, they will ensure their kids are never without one of their parents, whatever the case.
Kanye Wants To Be With The Kids
Meanwhile, a second source revealed that Kanye expressed his desire to spend his birthday with his children, and Kim agrees. The source explained that Kim does everything to ensure she and her kids have a great relationship with Kanye. The insider further said that Kim fully supports whatever Kanye wants to do when it comes to spending time with their children, adding,
“Kanye will always be family, and she actually wishes they were at a place where she could throw him a great birthday party because she knows how much their kids would love that. Unfortunately, they’re not there yet when it comes to their co-parenting relationship, but Kim does dream that one day, they might reach that level.”
Kim and Kanye have experienced so many topsy turvy moments in their relationship since she filed for divorce in February 2021. However, despite moving on with their lives after their split, it is good that the former couple has a somewhat cordial parenting relationship. Hopefully, Kim’s wish for that relationship to become even better will come to pass.

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In response to possible building collapse accidents caused by earthquakes, explosions or other reasons, the firefighting force can improve the combat effectiveness of the fire fighting in dealing with such disasters, and can accurately search and rescue the trapped people in a short period of time, and reduce the number of casualties to a minimum , “Life Detector” has become one of the most frequently used equipment by fire brigade in rescue work. With this detector, it can detect whether there are people trapped in areas that cannot be reached by manpower, so as to implement rescue. In the rescue work where every second counts, the life detector can help search and rescue personnel quickly, accurately and safely find the people in distress who are still alive, thereby gaining valuable time for the rescue work.
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For fixed installations, position the temperature control camera or cameras on the ceiling or on the wall using one of the several brackets supplied. Ceiling and wall mounted brackets for our camera are available. We can also study possible integration with existing CCTV systems and bespoke integrations.
The use of the blackbody improves the accuracy of the thermal camera and reduces the maximum deviation from 0.5 ° C to 0.3 ° C. The blackbody requires a DC 24V supply. Once powered, a digital screen on the back allows you to adjust the temperature of the temperature reference frame.


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4078 Melissa Drive has a Walk Score of 15 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so almost all errands require a car.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (WSVN) -- A construction drilling project is set to begin in Fort Lauderdale.
The drilling is expected Monday along A1A..
Construction crews will be between Northeast 14th Court and Northeast 18th Street north of Sunrise.
The Florida Department of Transportation anticipates the work will take place from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
On Sunday construction will take place from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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Invest more in predicting the future to be better prepared, say experts
Investing more in technology is essential to better forecast the impact of environmental, technological and biological hazards and help prevent disasters, said regional experts.
More funding needs to be poured into technology projects which have a focus on areas such as climate change in order to help communities prepare for major events and reduce disaster risk, they said.
“Investments must be made in all sectors, but climate and natural resource information is essential”, said Víctor García Lemus, founding member of the Latin American and Caribbean University Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (REDULAC).
In order to get a better grasp of complex, multi-hazard scenarios, funding is needed to generate more geospatial information as well as social information related to food security and health systems, he said.
García Lemus is a member of the Regional Scientific and Technical Advisory Group (RSTAG), set up by United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean.
Recently, technology has played a critical role in understanding the spread of the COVID-19 virus and helped governments and communities around the world take steps to reduce its impact.
Several countries have applied satellite location systems to trace the efficiency of lockdown and social distancing measures. The New York Times’ interactive maps showed how the movement of people in China and the United States played a key role in the spread of the virus in those countries.
The Central American Integration System (SICA), for example, has launched its SICA COVID-19 Emergency Information and Coordination Platform. Organized through the Coordination Centre for Disaster Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (CEPREDENAC), the platform draws on information from contagion databases and response strategies.
It shows available hospitals and isolation centers, as well as airports, sea and land ports. Using NASA data, it also incorporates weather forecasts and shows areas vulnerable to floods and landslides, helping create a key tool for decision making.
Science, technology and innovation plays a crucial role in the formulation of actions, strategies and public policies, said Raul Salazar, chief of UNDRR’s Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean.
“Applied science must influence decision making and the development of evidence-based policies, clear mandates, strategic collaborations and the allocation of resources for data collection, management and updating”, said Salazar.
“Science and technology at the service of society ensures resilience”, he said.
The need to improve forecasting and preparation in order to reduce risk is a key component of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015-2030).
The Framework calls on academia, scientific and research entities and networks to focus on the disaster risk factors and scenarios, including emerging disaster risks, in the medium and long term; increase research for regional, national and local application; support action by local communities and authorities; and support the interface between policy and science for decision-making.
While data and technology are often used effectively in response to disasters, they need to be better incorporated into preventing damage and losses from events, said Allan Lavell, a member of RSTAG.
“We are confident that we can use probability models to project future losses and damages and produce hazard maps for different times and events”, said Lavell.


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Choosing the fish for your personal freshwater aquarium is crucial in the success of this hobby.
A fish aquarium is usually a really enjoyable view for a home or for an Business office. Many individuals locate tranquility in watching the fish swim to and from a single aspect of your tank to another.
Fish aquariums are uncovered in a number of variations, dimensions, and shapes.
On top of that, the categories of fish which can be well suited for aquarium life also fluctuate greatly. The most typical kind of fish that may be chosen cá ngũ sắc thần tiên by aquarium newcomers is freshwater fish. Prior to making your excursion on the pet store and getting fish for your personal freshwater aquarium, it is necessary to know which kind of fish will do the job best for yourself:
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The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has cancelled the bidding for the Great Western rail franchise between south Wales and London after awarding current operator FirstGroup an extension to its contract by 28 weeks.
Negotiations with FirstGroup to extend the contract for a further two years beyond October 2013 will now commence; longer-term proposals will be explored in the spring of 2013.
The decision comes as part of a wide-ranging announcement from the DfT on the future of several key rail franchise competitions, many of which were suspended in the wake of the collapse of the West Coast Main Line competition.
According to DfT, the competition for the 15-year Essex Thameside franchise will resume, while the Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern franchise competitions will resume with the aim of issuing seven-year contracts.
UK Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the plans mark an important step on the way to restarting the franchising programme.
"We have had to take some tough decisions regarding franchising, and while they may provide a challenge in the short term, I believe the lessons we have learnt will help deliver a more robust system in the future, benefitting fare payers and taxpayers alike," McLoughlin said.
The DfT will now commence negotiations for new short-term franchises, while longer-term options can be explored, with existing operators First Great Western, First Capital Connect and c2c set to continue running their services.
DfT said its company Directly Operated Railways will be undertaking the minimum necessary preparations to take over services in case any negotiations fail.
Image: DfT will start negotiations with FirstGroup to extend the Great Western franchise contract for another two years beyond October 2013. Photo: courtesy of Vermatt.


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