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The unholy progressive trinity of Reps. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) just suffered a major blow. They are out and Congress is waving goodbye.
In a dramatic reversal, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi decided to support President Trump’s $4.5 billion border funding bill, thereby sending a message and shutting down the socialist left in her own party.
We will see how long this holds, however, for now, the likes of Ocasio-Cortez, Omar, and Tlaib have been shut down. It seems obvious that Pelosi and other establishment fixtures got tired of their grandstanding.
Just before the vote, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “Under no circumstances should the House vote for a McConnell-only bill w/ no negotiation with Democrats. Hell no.”
Omar also got in her two cents and claimed that voting for the bill “is a vote to keep kids in cages and terrorize immigrant communities,” which couldn’t be more absurd or untrue.
“If you see the Senate bill as an option, then you don’t believe in basic human rights,” added Tlaib in a tweet of her own. Is it any wonder why Pelosi said ‘enough’ and put these gadflies in their place?
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The Expendables 2 has raked in a cumulative gross of over $1.88M, surpassing the original film in just over eight days of release. The first film opened with a-then surprisingly strong weekend, taking over $800,000 at the Singapore box office; and ended up with a final box office of $1.85M in the same August period in 2010. The Expendables 2 surpassed that mark to earn over $1.2M by Sunday, and has made over $1.5M by the end of the long Hari Raya weekend. Industry estimates that the film will finish over $2.5M in the Singapore box office.
The Expendables 2 opened number 1 in the US as well last week. However the box office trend is reversed; with the sequel earning less than the original in the opening weekend – US$28.59M versus US$34.8M respectively.
Directed by Simon West, the highly anticipated sequel to the August 2010 worldwide box-office success (over US$274M worldwide), The Expendables 2 stars Sylvester Stallon, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Terry Crews, Randy Couture, with Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarnegger, with newest cast members Liam Hemworth, Scott Adkins, martial arts legends Chuck Norris and Jean Claude Van Damme, as well as Chinese actress Yu Nan and the first female EXPENDABLE.
The Expendables: Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) are back — with newest members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) aboard. Reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time – six pounds of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that`s nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. That is done the Expendables way….

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Florida Gators (Last Year: 26-11, 10-6 in SEC)
2012-13 Projected Depth Chart:
F/C: Patric Young (Jr)
PF: Erik Murphy (Sr)/Will Yeguette (Jr)
G/F: Casey Prather (Jr)/Michael Frazier (Fr)/Devon Walker (Fr)
SG: Mike Rosario (Sr)/Dillon Graham (Fr)
PG: Kenny Boynton (Sr)/Scottie Wilbekin (Jr)/Braxton Ogbueze (Fr)
SG-Bradley Beal, PG-Erving Walker, F/C-Walter Pitchford (transfer-Nebraska), C/F-Cody Larson (transfer)
Florida will once again rely on its talented group of guards to lead the way this season. With expected starting point guard Scottie Wilbekin suspended indefinitely by Billy Donovan for undisclosed reasons, Kenny Boynton will run the point. The three-point gunner has played off the ball most of his college career, so his transition until Wilbekin's return will be vital to the Gators' success.
With Bradley Beal and Erving Walker gone, Mike Rosario will step into a bigger role on the wing. The Rutgers transfer is a pure scorer, but struggled to find his niche last season coming off the bench. Casey Prather brings athleticism and versatility to the starting five, while four freshmen will make up the depth at guard. Braxton Ogbueze is the most highly touted of that group, and his role should be bigger than expected due to Wilbekin's suspension.
Patric Young and Erik Murphy form a solid frontcourt duo. Young is a beast inside, plays with an incredible motor, but is fairly limited on the offensive end. Murphy is an inside/outside threat who can stretch defenses with his three-point shooting.
The frontcourt depth took a major hit with Cody Larson's decision to transfer just prior to the start of the season. That will leave Donovan with only Young and Murphy as Florida's big guys. Will Yeguette and Prather will see some time at the four, but the Gators have used three, and even four-guard, lineups in the past so expect to see a lot of that again this year.
Florida did pick up a couple of key transfers who will tremendously help the frontcourt depth next season. Damontre Harris comes from South Carolina, while athletic forward Dorian Finney-Smith arrives in Gainesville after spending his freshman campaign at Virginia Tech.
Player to Watch: Mike Rosario, SG
The former McDonald's All-American was a volume scorer in his first two seasons at Rutgers, but struggled to earn minutes last year with guys like Beal, Walker, and Boynton ahead of him on the depth chart. Rosario needs to return to his scoring ways now that he figures to see regular minutes.
Key Non-Conference Games:
11/14 vs. Wisconsin
11/18 at Middle Tennessee
11/23 vs. UCF
11/29 vs. Marquette
12/5 at Florida State
12/15 at Arizona
12/22 vs.Kansas State
Predicted SEC Finish: 3rd
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text: Nutrient cycling for crop production is desired to reduce environment impact, enhance nutrients use efficiency and reduce cost production. Several agriculture techniques are available to support this possibility for grower and so give the sustainable production driving for the better nutrient using. Conservation Agriculture is a current system for crop production that provide this possibility and it is based in three agronomic principles that are minimum disturbance of soil or no-tillage for crop establishment, permanent residue on soil surface and crop rotation. In this context, cover crops is use as crop rotation in vegetable production and this possibilities the nutrients cycling, straw production to protect soil surface and improving in soil fertility, among another benefits to agricultural environment. Because your vigorous root growth they achieve nutrients that were being lost by leaching in the soil profile e come back to their shoot recycling nutrients into the system. After, nutrients will be mineralized and so available to the soil solution and crop nutrition. Many horticulturists around the world have been using successfully cover crops as crop rotation to get sustainable in their production and here in this work we approach some results that support rational using of cover crops for recycling nutrients in horticultural crops in the context of Conservation Agriculture. So we certified this efficient function of cover crops to straw production and nutrient recycling in some crop like tomato, broccolis and watermelon to get high yield with reduced environmental impacts and improvement of soil fertility.

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SMYR Consortium LLP, which has been levying toll on behalf of MCD from commercial vehicles entering Delhi, today moved the Supreme Court expressing its inability to also collect the court-mandated ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ (ECC) from such vehicles.
The petition was mentioned for urgent hearing before a bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun
Mishra which said that it would hear it.
The plea of SMYR Consortium, which has a toll-collection pact with MCD, assumes significance as the apex court’s direction to levy Rs 700 and Rs 1,300 ECC will come into effect from November 1 and would remain operational for a period of four months till February 29, 2016 on “experimental basis”.
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The Consortium has alleged that the levy of court-mandated ECC is beyond the terms of agreement entered into between it and the civic body.
The court had imposed the ‘Environment Compensation Charge’ on commercial vehicles entering Delhi, in addition to the toll tax, from November 1 for four months on a trial basis, in a bid to check high pollution levels in the city. It had directed the Delhi Government to issue appropriate notification in this regard.
The bench, however had said that passenger buses, vehicles carrying essential commodities, food articles and ambulances would be exempted from paying the ‘environment compensation charge’.
Taking note of Centre for Science and Environment study that about 23 per cent of the commercial vehicles and 40-60 per cent of the heavy trucks entering the city were not destined for Delhi, the court had said it was necessary to impose the charges, along with the MCD toll, to equalize the difference in cost in travelling through alternative routes.
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How to differentiate impact sockets from regular sockets?
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(also called non-impact / normal / standard)
Matt and black (due to a black oxide coating, also known as ‘industrial surface finish’)
Chromed and glossy
Molybdenum chromium steel
Chrome vanadium steel
Designed with a cross hole in the handle end, compatible with a retaining pin and ring, or locking pin anvil
No cross hole in the handle end
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Hand tools only
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Ensure safety: Contrary to regular sockets, impact sockets are designed to support and absorb the momentary shock of each impact, therefore preventing cracks or breaks, and prolonging the life of the socket.
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To build an art collection is to tell a story.
It begins with an eye, an appropriation of sorts, of images which are the iconographic interpretation of what we are, of what we feel, and of our potential projections.
Between fascination and sublimation, to reunite meaningful works filled with a profound symbolic function.
It is no doubt also, beyond temptations of vanity and the obsessiveness, a way to leave a trace, a testimony.
In the most demanding, honest and coherent way possible, we wanted to base our collection on three fundamental concepts: emotion, History, and connections.
Through the eye, sensitivity captures the representation and generates emotion. Based on a subjective perception of “beauty” and “strength”, and beyond aestheticism, emotion transports us. In this sense, it makes us feel life and stimulates our imagination. It widens our sense of possibilities and nourishes our deepest aspirations. It reconnects us with what is beyond us; it is a path to elevation.
History in general, and the history of art in particular, intimately linked to that of science and literature, restores our common heritage and testifies to our collective memory. It revives a sense of slow time and restores the transversal and timeless dimension of art, further confirming the view that rupture is just an illusion. In the eyes on history, ruptures are but tremors of continuity. History contextualises and allows one to apprehend a work of art and to induce a reflection along the axis of the perspectives it generates. History is a school of humility, it structures our research and protects us from the blind arrogance that freedom affords.
Connections are omnipresent in this story; they re-establish the very essence of this vis-à-vis; they bring down the siloes of thought and reason which result from them. They reconnect humanity with history, the living with the dead, the real with what reality inspires. They link origins to the perpetual renewal of creation. Finally, they fuse in a common dynamic, man and the art of man. To that effect, they harbour the ability of artworks to constantly question us.
In 2016, we decided to merge our respective collections. This exercise forces us to take a certain distance with the introspection of the collector. But in sharing our eyes and challenging our respective influences and sensitivities, we have progressed in our confrontation. We are enriched by our differences and have attained from this a leitmotiv :
“modernity in classical and classical in modernity”.
This is the axis and the nervous system of our iconographic quest which tends to demonstrate only that art is free of all restrictions and all contingencies beyond the passing of time…
We wish to share our vision through our collaborations with both public and private, French and foreign institutions. Our collection is alive, it mutates, evolves, travels. It thrives on its environment and its time. It must embody an act of resistance through meaningful choices.
This site aims to share our common passion with collectors, art historians and curators. Opening our collection allows us to bring our story to life, to stimulate exchanges, reflections and knowledge which we hope will nourish it further and always.
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Cisco Developer contest prize money increased to 10 million dollars
1st April 2009Today, in a bid to boost the economy and give more incentive to developers, Cisco decided to boost the prize money for the ‘Think Inside the Box’ Developer Contest to a million dollars, and revise the judging criteria to give more weightage to entrants with countries with a lower GDP. Moreover, instead of to a team, these awards will be provided to every member of the team, and the number of winning teams will be increased from three to ten. In a bid to ensure fairness, and because we believe that innovation is global, no single country will be allowed to have more than one winning team.Oh well, that’s as far as we could string it on April fool’s day 🙂 Maybe someday we will hold a contest with 10 million dollars in prize money. For now, everything remains just the same as outlined in our original announcement terms and conditions. We’re having a FANTASTIC time going through the various entries that have come in, and closing down on potential finalists. If I didn’t say this already, the quality of proposals is amazing and that does pose a good problem for the judgest. But if everything goes per schedule, we should be announcing the finalists by end of April. And yessir, that won’t be an April Fool’s joke.Hope you’ve had fun with your friends and relatives on April 1st. We’d some teams in Cisco come out with real good pranks. Amidst all our daily hectic lives, it’s good to have some humour sprinked around. I saw the traditional Google effort as well (been looking forward to it the last couple of years now). Any interesting stories – do tell!

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The human gut hosts a huge community of microbes, potentially even before birth, which helps us digest and absorb nutrients, and plays a crucial role in metabolism and the immune system. Some of the microbial strains in the microbiome may be highly beneficial while others might have the potential for harm. Antibiotics can indiscriminately kill any kind of gut microbe.
Studies using animal models have shown that in early life, antibiotics can disrupt the gut microbiome, which causes metabolic disruptions including obesity. Research has also suggested that the way the gut is colonized by microbes also influences the risk of obesity in adolescence.
Scientists that were investigators in the Growing up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcome (GUSTO) study examined the link between antibiotic exposure in infancy and childhood obesity. Reporting in the International Journal of Obesity, the researchers finally confirmed the connection between antibiotics and metabolic disease risk in human infants. Their work showed that antibiotics interfere with the development of the microbes in the gut in infants and that the risk of childhood obesity is also increased when infants have to receive antibiotics.
"Childhood obesity is a growing concern for the many adverse health effects it brings in adulthood such as type 2 diabetes. The infancy period (first year) represents part of a critical window of development which can have a lasting effect on subsequent health and disease later in life," explained the leader of the GUSTO substudy, Professor Lee Yung Seng, Head of Paediatrics at National University of Singapore (NUS) Medicine among other appointments.
"Acquisition of gut microbes in infancy is a highly dynamic and vulnerable process. Use of antibiotics during this process can disrupt the normal colonization and development of infant gut microbiota, and this may consequently influence a child's weight gain and obesity risk," added Dr. Neerja Karnani, Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS Medicine's Department of Biochemistry.
The mechanisms linking the microbes in the gut to the risk of obesity are still unclear, but this study highlights the importance of weighing the benefits and risks of antibiotic treatments in infancy.
The GUSTO project also examined the connection between childhood obesity and sleep deprivation, a study that is outlined in the video.

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Some of us, like people with complex childhood trauma, need look at depression and anxiety like any other chronic illness that can be successfully managed through consistent monitoring and utilization of internal and external resources.
It’s not like you got cancer and then beat it. With complex childhood trauma, you start with it. It’s all you know.
Over time you can get really good at creating and maintaining a holistic environment that supports and nourishes you. But storms can still roll through. You know what to do. You neither overreact nor under-respond. You know better now what is soothing instead of merely stimulating. You know the amounts of solitude and connection that are required to weather it. You can still get tangled in the seaweed from time to time but you don’t panic as much as you did in the past. It’s painful but it’s no longer terrifying. You can talk and walk yourself through it. You’ve already looked under the bed. You know you are actually safe despite how it feels. There is a truce now. Peace talks worked. Meds helped. You don’t ask what’s wrong with me anymore. You have accepted that every feeling you have is valid and every choice you have made, even the ones that didn’t serve you well, make sense because you know the whole story. You have integrated context. You have connected all the dots and arrived at a coherent narrative that allowed you to shift the story of yourself from being one of contamination to one of redemption. The hero’s journey.
Forgiveness turned out to be the very hardest thing. Forgiving them felt like saying it was ok or that it never happened. It felt like losing something that defined you, protected you. Protected them, the ones that let you down and hurt you. To let that go felt like you’d lose all over again. You’d be unmoored from the only self you ever knew. You had hidden any remaining innocence or sense of wonder and awe deep inside you. You hid it so well you forgot where you put it.
But over time you felt something new in yourself. Like waking up after a really good and long overdue sleep. Now you sometimes feel bratty instead of brooding. It’s like happiness snuck up on you. You never knew happiness could be alternately so majestic and so boring. You’d have known that if you’d had a different childhood. But you didn’t. You accept that and have let go of the pain that defined you.
The story of yourself is different now. You have arrived at something else after all the trial and tribulation, an intersection of what you think and what you feel. You have learned to distinguish between what you fear and what you intuit. You can trust your gut now, your felt sense, and you check it against what you know and what you feel and the alignment and agreement of these is wisdom. Hard won. Real.
Rebuilding a traumatized nervous system is choice by choice. Every time you do the thing that you know is healthy but doesn’t yet feel natural you fortify the new neural pathway you are creating…the pathway that affirms and validates you. One day you realize that has become the new default and it not only benefits you, it benefits everyone around you.

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Courting the Dragon Widow (Cloudburst Colorado, Book 6)
Lissandra Charforest is finally stepping back into the dating game after three decades of widowhood. Accepting a blind date, she travels to a small town in upstate New York to meet an eligible dragon bachelor. Too bad the guy seems determined to stand her up.
Denarrion Goldencoat wouldn’t have agreed to a blind date with the Widow from Colorado if his father hadn’t insisted. Happy being the perennial bachelor, he has no desire to settle down on one woman, much less one with kids already. Until he falls into the reservoir with her.
But everything’s not as it seems. Beneath the quaint façade of Redfield, darkness and decay lurks to ensnare the unwary. When Lissandra discovers she’s been lured to Redfield to kill a demon under the pretense of a courtship, she almost walks away. But the truth jeopardizes the life of her True Bonded mate, leaving her with one choice: Destroy the demon or die trying.


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Q. Does fosterage refer to adoption in Islam?
A. If by fosterage, you are referring to the breastfeeding/suckling (Radhaa’at) of a child, then there is a difference between fosterage and adoption in Islam.
If a child is breastfed/suckled before the age of two years, a bond of fosterage (Radhaa’at) is established. The same relationship that is established through lineage will be the same relationship that will be established through fosterage (Radhaa’at). For e.g. ones foster mother, father, brother, sister etc. would be considered to be ones Mahrams.
If a child is taken under ones care and adopted without breastfeeding/suckling (Radhaa’at) the child, then no bond of fosterage (Radhaa’at) will take place. In this case, the child would not be considered to be ones Mahram.
As such, the laws that govern breastfeeding/suckling/fosterage (Radhaa’at) are different from the laws of adoption in Islam.
Allah Ta’ala Knows Best
Mufti Ismaeel Bassa


Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital has finally released the body of Brian Kimani that had been detained over a huge medical bill.
The hospital announced on Tuesday that the body that had been detained at the hospital for about four months had been released to the family unconditionally.
Kimani, 13, succumbed to Acute Myeloid Leukemia on February 29 after being admitted at the hospital for five and a half months.
His family was on March 11 forced to hold his funeral at ACK Saint Stephen’s Gatuikira church in Ndenderu, Kiambu county, without the body after failing to raise the hospital bill that stood at ksh17.8 million.
At the time of the mock burial, the family had only managed to raise Ksh1.7 million through a fundraiser and contributions from schools.
The hospital is said to have given the family a 10 per cent waiver (Ksh1.5 million) and the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) paid Ksh668,000 leaving the family with still a huge outstanding bill.
Despite pleas from the family, the hospital declined to release the body for burial leaving the family with no option but to pay their last respects to the young boy in the best way they could, mock burial.
This writer understands that the body has been moved to the Chiromo mortuary as burial arrangements begin.


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I would like to support the vigil for life with this quote / poem that I shared earlier via my website, to especially say thank you to Catholic faith leaders and community organizations who recognize the many positive and negative circumstances of conception and birth. And in all cases support life and are ready and prepared to support expectant mothers who are in-need. Thank you. God Bless You!
With love & Kindness! 🇺🇸❤


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So you drag yourself out of bed each morning and, along with millions of your fellow neighbors of the American West, you jump in a hot shower, rev up your coffeemaker and toss some bread in the toaster. All of that energy usage takes on toll on utility companies and they respond by amping up supplies to meet demand.
Good news for you, but maybe not for the environment. In particular, widespread use of “hydropeaking,” a practice used to increase river flows from hydroelectric dams during peak demand, is harming the Colorado River’s fragile food webs, says Utah State University ecologist Scott Miller.
“Aquatic organisms such as insects have adapted to natural disturbances, including spring flooding from snow melt,” says Miller, assistant professor in USU’s Department of Watershed Sciences and the USU Ecology Center. “But these are disturbances that occur over weeks or months. The river’s tiny critters aren’t prepared for novel disturbances by humans, such as hydropeaking, that occur in the span of hours.”
The result is a decline in the health of the river’s aquatic ecosystems, which Miller and colleagues from the U.S. Geological Survey, Idaho State University and Oregon State University, describe in the May 2, 2016, early online edition of BioScience.
Aquatic insects play an essential role in river food webs and are the main food source for the region’s fish, birds, bats and other wildlife.
“This study is unique because it focuses on how abrupt water level changes affect aquatic insects at every stage of life,” says Miller, director of the USU-based Bureau of Land Management National Aquatic Monitoring Center, known as “The Bug Lab.”
Having this information, he says, offers a path forward in making adjustments to mitigate the effects of hydropeaking.
Miller’s colleague Ted Kennedy, USGS scientist and lead author of the study, says the research determines, for the first time, the ecological impacts of hydropeaking separated from other dam-imposed stressors.
“It identifies specific cause-and-effect relationships responsible for biodiversity loss below hydroelectric dams,” Kennedy says. “These results may help resource managers improve river health, while still meeting societal needs for renewable hydroelectricity.”
One idea for reducing the effects of hydropeaking is “to give insects the weekend off,” Miller says.
“Managers still have to meet human customer demands, but a course of action might be to avoid hydropeaking on weekends or at least avoid it during dawn or dusk, when insects often lay their eggs,” he says.
Miller’s USU colleague Jack Schmidt, a professor in the Department of Watershed Sciences, encouraged research focused on river ecosystems during his tenure as chief of the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center from 2011 to 2014.
“Hydropower production is a pervasive component of American’s energy portfolio and transformation of free-flowing rivers into reservoirs is an unavoidable impact of dams,” Schmidt says. “But, with this study, Miller, Kennedy and their colleagues demonstrate that mitigation of the adverse impacts of hydropower generation is possible. Society will have to evaluate how to balance the costs of this mitigation with the benefits of healthier downstream aquatic ecosystems.”
- “River Food Webs Threatened by Widespread Hydropower Practice,” U.S. Geological Survey
- BLM/USU National Aquatic Monitoring Center
- USU Department of Watershed Sciences
- USU Ecology Center
- USU Quinney College of Natural Resources
Contact: Scott Miller, 435-797-2612, firstname.lastname@example.org
Writer: Mary-Ann Muffoletto, 435-797-3517, email@example.com


Feb. 6, 2018
Naval Air Forces, U.S. Atlantic Fleet commander visits DSCR
RICHMOND, VA —
Rear Adm. Roy Kelley, commander, Naval Air Forces, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, traveled to Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, to meet with Defense Logistics Agency Aviation Commander Air Force Brig. Gen. Linda Hurry and other top DLA Aviation leadership Jan. 31.


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Sitting atop the rough hewn face of the cliff and looking out over the small inlet town and the moors that surround it, Ella felt as though she’d been transported through time. Not just back to her childhood and the last time she had sat atop the hill, but back to a time long ago, when life was simpler and calmer and yet wilder and more untamed.
The rolling green hills that surrounded the town had the same massive awesomeness and beauty of the hills she’d visited in Ireland. She’d heard many times growing up that the hills of Ireland were life-changing to be beheld in person, but when she’d finally made it there she hadn’t felt changed or wowed. In truth, all she had felt was nostalgic.
The water, cool and as calm as slate glass today, carried a soft breeze with it that brought the taste and smell of salt to her face. The gentle lapping of the tides provided her a soundtrack for her hike.
The community center was below her, a tarp over its back entrance flapping in the wind.
The houses below look small and are built on top of one another, fitting wherever they can like Lego blocks within the enclosed space of the harbor. Stairs wind along the rock face if the shone zipping one way and then another at high angles, connecting both low road and high road to the main street that bisects the town.
She realized, suddenly, why she’d felt so homesick in Mexico. All the houses cramped together must have reminded her of home.
The church peeks up over a mound in the far right of her vision, the eyes of its large stained glass windows peering at her secretively. Lovingly. She’d never felt any other church was a real church since leaving. That no church was closer to God than that blue-and-white house on the hill.
She sighed. Down below in the distance, she could see Uncle Tom coming out of the back door to tend to the barbecue. His house was an unmistakable orange, but she didn’t need that to pick it out. She knew the names of every person that lived in every house before her.
She was home.
Story and image copyright 2012 Matthew LeDrew
Never Look Back


US retail sales data came in better than expected and industrial production increased for the fourth month in a row. The solid economic data was released just hours before Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pledged to keep raising rates until inflation cools down. GDP forecasts at the start of the second quarter point to a US economic recovery. Analysts expect US economic activity to rebound in the second quarter.
Against the backdrop of good economic data, US stock indices traded higher yesterday. At the close of the stock market yesterday the Dow Jones index (US30) gained 1.34% and the S&P 500 index (US500) added 2.02%. The technology index NASDAQ (US100) jumped by 2.76%.
Major European indices closed in the green zone yesterday. German DAX (DE30) gained 1.59%, French CAC 40 (FR40) added 1.30%, Spanish IBEX 35 (ES35) jumped by 1.46%, British FTSE 100 (UK100) increased by +0.72%. The UK inflation rate reached 9.0% on an annualised basis. This is the highest recorded 12-month rate since 1997. On a monthly basis, inflation increased by 2%. The Producer Price Index, which measures the inflation rate between factories and plants, rose from 11.9% to 14% y/y. UK consumer prices are approaching a projected peak of 10.25%. The Bank of England needs to take action to suppress inflation. Analysts forecast more aggressive interest rate hikes at subsequent meetings. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he did not share the pessimism of Bank of England Governor Bailey, saying on Tuesday that Britain has a "fantastic future" and that ministers have the means to deal with high prices. The divergence is a sign of tension between Johnson's Conservative Party and the central bank, which senior conservative lawmakers have criticised in recent days for failing to curb inflation.
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has given national central bankers more say in policy meetings, asking her own board of directors to talk less and spend more time debating. Reaching consensus among different countries has always been a challenge for the Frankfurt-based central bank, and complaints about the structure of the meetings, which are usually dominated by multiple voices.
European Central Bank Governing Council spokesman Klaas Knot on Tuesday became the first eurozone official to propose a possible half-point interest rate hike if inflation risks worsen, although he currently supports a 0.25% rate hike at the July meeting.
Oil prices fell for the first time in five days as market participants expressed their displeasure with Europe's continued hesitation over a ban on Russian oil supplies. Oil was further weighed down by news that the Biden administration was to give US oil company Chevron Corp permission to negotiate to resume business with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, temporarily lifting the ban.
Asian markets closed in the green zone yesterday. Japan's Nikkei 225 (JP225) gained 0.42%, Hong Kong's Hang Seng (HK50) ended the day +3.27%, and Australia's S&P/ASX 200 (AU200) increased by 0.27%.
Japan's GDP fell by 0.2% for the quarter, but it was better than analysts' expectations of -1.0%. Japanese Economy Minister Yamagiwa believes the slowdown is due to rising commodity prices and supply-side constraints caused by the war in Ukraine and prolonged lockdowns in China. The industrial production rate showed a 0.3% increase last month. This is a significant drop from the 2% increase a month earlier.
Shanghai authorities have authorised 864 of the city's financial institutions to resume operations. The move is part of the financial centre's plan to reopen widely and resume a normal life.
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How does Victor die?
How does Victor die?
Victor dies from pneumonia, which he contracts as he travels across the icy wastes of the Arctic to escape his hideous creation. In a sense, then, one could say that the Monster has inadvertently caused Frankenstein’s death. But ultimate responsibility for Frankenstein’s fate lies with the man himself.
Is Victor Frankenstein a good person?
Victor Frankenstein was a good scientist. Because the story of Frankenstein’s creation goes rogue, it’s easy to dismiss him as a bad scientist. But there are arguments to be made that Dr. Frankenstein did in fact possess at least some of the traits of a good scientist.
What is the story behind Frankenstein?
Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus (1818), is a combination of Gothic horror story and science fiction. The book tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a Swiss student of natural science who creates an artificial man from pieces of corpses and brings his creature to life.
Why does Victor Frankenstein reject his creation?
Hover for more information. Victor fails his creation by recoiling from it in horror and being unable to love it once it comes to life. He realizes too late that in his pride, his desire to emulate the divine, he has made a mistake. Yet his mistake lives.
How does Victor Frankenstein describe his childhood?
Victor Frankenstein sees his childhood as a happy one. He remembers how his parents doted on him and loved him dearly. His parents were very well off and came from a long line of distinguished people. They are very wealthy and have no problem showering their son with love and affection.
Who does Victor blame for the death of William?
Summary: Chapter 7 As he walks near the spot where his brother’s body was found, he spies the monster lurking and becomes convinced that his creation is responsible for killing William. The next day, however, when he returns home, Victor learns that Justine has been accused of the murder.
What happened to Mary Shelley’s baby?
Not only did her mother die as a result of childbirth, but her father’s first child with his new wife did not survive. Neither did Mary’s two daughters. Her son William died of malaria at the age of 3, and her fifth pregnancy miscarried.
Is the Monster guilty in Frankenstein?
Frankenstein’s creature is guilty of two counts of first degree murder for the deaths of Henry Clerval and Elizabeth Lavenza, one count of third degree murder for the death of William Frankenstein, and one count of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Justine Moritz.
Why does Frankenstein not like the monster?
Frankenstein neglects the creature because of its hideous demeanor, and his actions are the cause of his ultimate downfall. Although hideous, the monster still has feelings and emotions similar to regular people.
Does Victor Frankenstein feel guilty?
Victor Frankenstein has the convenient tendency to become ill whenever he feels guilt and has a responsibility to do something. Immediately after creating the monster and realizing how terrifying it is, Frankenstein flees, proving that he is loath to take any type of responsibility for what he had done.
How does Henry die in Frankenstein?
Clerval is killed by The Monster in Scotland in revenge for Frankenstein not keeping his promise to create him a companion. Upon seeing Clerval’s body, Frankenstein suffers a breakdown and contracts a fever, but recovers after some time.
What was Frankenstein’s monster’s name?
The creature is often erroneously referred to as “Frankenstein”, but in the novel the creature has no name. He does call himself, when speaking to his creator, Victor Frankenstein, the “Adam of your labours”.
Is Victor Frankenstein innocent?
There is no doubt in my mind that Victor Frankenstein is innocent for the murder of Justine, Elizabeth, and William. They were in fact killed by a man named, “The Creature.” He in fact killed the two of them to get revenge on the man who created him.
Who brought dead bodies back to life and created a monster?
What does Victor Frankenstein represent?
Frankenstein represents the dangers of enlightenment and the responsibilities that come with great knowledge. His scientific achievement becomes the cause of his downfall, rather than the source of praise he once hoped for.
How is Frankenstein affected by his abandonment of the creature?
When Victor Frankenstein abandoned his creation, the result was disastrous; his monster was left alone, not knowing what to do, or how to live. Miraculously, he managed to survive, and become knowledgeable on his own.
Does Victor feel guilty?
In this quote, Victor feels accountable and guilty for the actions his creature has taken. Shelley brings Henry back into the picture at this time to prove that Victor is unable to deal with and accept his guilt currently. As Victor is healing, he forgets about the creature and so his guilt begins to go away.
Why Victor is the real monster in Frankenstein?
The True Monster- Victor Victor’s goal to generate life causes a great deal of pain through his ambition, selfishness, and hostility, both to himself and others. As a result, these acts caused him to become alienated from his friends and family, and turned him into the true monster in Frankenstein.
What is Victor’s first reaction to the monster?
The creature has now been given life, but Victor’s initial reaction is that the creature is an “it”. Victor is telling this story to Robert Walton after the events have occurred, but when remembering the moment Victor first saw the creature move, his description uses “it”.
Is Victor Frankenstein mad?
As we reread Shelley’s Frankenstein at two hundred years, it is evident that Victor Frankenstein is both a mad scientist (fevered, obsessive) and a bad scientist (secretive, hubristic, irresponsible). He’s also not a very nice person. He’s a narcissist, a liar, and a bad “parent.” But he is not genuinely evil.
How old is Frankenstein when he creates the monster?
What mental illness does Victor Frankenstein have?
Is Victor a monster?
So yes, Frankenstein was a monster. But not the Frankenstein from the movies, not the creature, but Victor Frankenstein, the crazy man who became possessed by his act of unethical creation, and tortured himself to death with guilt because of it.
What are the characteristics of Victor Frankenstein?
Victor Frankenstein is the protagonist of Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. He’s an ambitious, intelligent, and hardworking scientist.
Does Frankenstein’s monster have a soul?
Yes, Frankenstein’s monster has a soul. The creature is a sentient being, who thinks and feels and can discern morally between right and wrong, all of which are characteristic human traits and indicative of a soul. The creature longs for love and acceptance, only lashing out when he is rejected and abandoned.
What does Henry clerval represent?
Clerval’s pure appreciation of science and nature provides a stark contrast to Victor’s twisted understanding. In relation to the monster, Clerval represents everything he is not – well bred, attractive, and universally welcomed.
Who did the monster kill in Frankenstein?
Who Wrote Frankenstein?
Who is Victor’s best friend?
Henry Clerval Victor’s
Why is Frankenstein the monster?
Victor was severely punished by his actions, as he was morally tormented by his creation. This punishment and portrayal seems to indicate that Victor has overstepped the bounds of human control and gone past the limits of what is ethical in creating his monster, an inhuman act. So yes, Frankenstein was a monster.
Is Victor Frankenstein a hero or villain?
In Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, Doctor Victor Frankenstein stands out as neither a hero nor a villain; he is something in between. Some actions of Doctor Victor Frankenstein are heroic, while some of his deeds are heinous.
Does Victor kill himself?
Victor Frankenstein dies aboard Captain Walton’s ship. Upon Frankenstein’s death, the creature declares that he will kill himself soon and jumps off the ship. Both characters are similar in that they exhibit dangerous, self-serving behavior, and they both die by the story’s end.
Why Victor Frankenstein is innocent?
Is Victor Frankenstein good or bad?
Victor Frankenstein was a good scientist. Because the story of Frankenstein’s creation goes rogue, it’s easy to dismiss him as a bad scientist. Frankenstein did in fact possess at least some of the traits of a good scientist.
Who is the real monster in Frankenstein?
What is the tone of the story Frankenstein?
The tone of Frankenstein is largely bleak and despairing. The tone begins with optimism from the perspective of Captain Walton who is excited and hopeful about his Arctic voyage.
Did Victor kill Henry?
When Victor sees the body, he does indeed react with horror, for the victim is Henry Clerval, with the black marks of the monster’s hands around his neck. Victor is overjoyed to see his father, who stays with him until the court, having nothing but circumstantial evidence, finds him innocent of Henry’s murder.
Why does Victor refuse to make a female?
Why does Frankenstein destroy the Monster’s female companion? Frankenstein decides that he has a moral duty to destroy the female companion he is making for the Monster. He concludes that it would be selfish for him to create a companion for the Monster in order to save his own life.
Does Victor create a female monster?
Summary and Analysis Chapter 20 Victor sets about his work, creating a second female monster. After following Victor and Henry through mainland Europe and England, the monster comes near Victor’s workshop in Scotland to see his mate.
Who killed Victor in Miss Peregrine’s?
from the collection of Robert Jackson Victor Bruntley was killed by a hollowgast after leaving Miss Peregrine’s loop when he “couldn’t stand it any longer”, as Emma explains to Jake.
In this quote, Victor feels accountable and guilty for the actions his creature has taken. As Victor is healing, he forgets about the creature and so his guilt begins to go away. Shelley links guilt and illness to point out the toxicity of it and that Victor is unable to overcome it at this point in the novel.
What stops Victor from killing himself?
What keeps Victor from killing himself? He could not kill himself because he does not want to let Elizabeth and her father and brother unprotected from the creature. You just studied 12 terms!
Why is Caroline Frankenstein death ironic?
Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein’s death is ironic because it is actually Elizabeth Lavenza who gets sick first. Elizabeth contracts scarlet fever, and her illness is quite bad, putting her in “the greatest danger.” Mrs.
What is a nickname for Victor?
Vic or Vik is short for Victor. It may refer to: Vic Aldridge (1893–1973), American Major League Baseball pitcher. Vic Bellamy (born 1963), American football player.
What type of diction is used in Frankenstein?
Does Victor want to kill the monster?
At the end of Frankenstein Victor Frankenstein dies wishing that he could destroy the Monster he created. The Monster visits Frankenstein’s body. He tells Walton that he regrets the murders he has committed and that he intends to commit suicide.

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SOLD FOR: $1291.77
Make: Smith & Wesson
Serial Number: BFJ6527
Year of Manufacture: Ca. 1990
Caliber: .22 Magnum
Action Type: Single and Double Action Revolver with Swing-Out Cylinder
Markings: The left side of the barrel is marked “SMITH & WESSON”. The right side of the barrel is marked “22 M.R.F. CTG.”. The right side of the frame has the four line Marcas Registradas address. The left side of the frame has the Smith & Wesson logo. The yoke cut is marked “BFJ6527 / MOD 648”. The yoke and sides of the grip frame have inspection marks. The rear face of the cylinder is marked “W” and the cutout for the ejector is marked “S”. The butt of the grip frame is marked with the serial number “BFJ6527”. The interior of the right grip panel is marked “DEC 3 1990”.
Barrel Length: 6″ with Full Underlug
Sights / Optics: The front sight is a Patridge blade pinned to a rise in the serrated rib. The rear sight is a standard square notch S&W micrometer sight adjustable for windage and elevation and is screwed to the top strap.
Stock Configuration & Condition: The grips are smooth Goncalo Alves combat stocks with finger grooves and medallions. There are a few scrapes, most noticeable on the bottom front corner of the left panel. There are some scattered little patches of finish loss. There are some little scratches and nicks through the finish. There are some light handling marks. There are no chips or cracks. Overall, the grip is in about Very Good condition.
Type of Finish: Stainless
Finish Originality: Original
Bore Condition: The bore is bright and the rifling is sharp. There is no erosion in the bore.
Overall Condition: This handgun retains about 95% of its metal finish. There are some scattered light handling marks. There are some scattered scuffs that have caused smooth spots, some of the most noticeable are on the sides of the muzzle and left side of the barrel toward the front. There are some draglines from use and storage. There are a few hairline scratches, mostly on the cylinder. There are couple of small spots of dark discoloration from previous oxidation on the rib, most noticeable at the front. There is a light turn line on the cylinder. There are some tool marks on the left side of the frame surrounding the pin at the top rear. There are a few spots of minor discoloration on the grip frame. The screw heads are lightly tool marked with strong slots. The markings are clear. Overall, this handgun rates in about Fine condition.
Mechanics: The action functions correctly. The cylinder lockup has light play in lockup on each of the six chambers. We did not fire this handgun. As with all used firearms, a thorough cleaning may be necessary to meet your maintenance requirements.
Box, Paperwork & Accessories: None
Our Assessment: This is a Smith & Wesson Model 648, 6-Shot .22 Magnum Single and Double Action Target Revolver. It has a stainless finish, 6” barrel, patridge front sight, micrometer rear sight, Goncalo Alves combat stocks, smooth combat trigger, and a semi-target hammer. This one has seen some light use but still looks great and has a great bore. This revolver would be tremendous fun to shoot targets with or use for varmint hunting. It will also make a nice companion for a 686 if you have one. Any way you slice it this will be a nice addition to the collection of one lucky winner. Please see our photos and good luck!


Sen. Al Franken warned recently about the possible loss of federal funds for the $1.8 billion Southwest LRT project if the state doesn’t pony up. His cautionary words provided a reality check for the 14-mile transit line that continues to encounter political headwinds. In the 1990s, deal-making at the state Capitol helped Minnesota’s first LRT project, now known as the Blue Line, overcome similar headwinds.
The idea for a light rail line through South Minneapolis was hatched by a group of neighborhood activists in 1976 who saw transit as an alternative to a full-scale depressed freeway along the Hiawatha corridor. The activists were able to scuttle an initial freeway plan but they faced opposition to LRT, at least initially, from an influential “good government” group, the Citizens League. While the League would eventually come around to support transit, in the beginning the group maintained that LRT represented an inefficient approach to meeting the region’s transportation needs.
The South Minneapolis LRT plan remained dormant for nearly 20 years until it was revived in the 1990s by Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin and other transit advocates.
“I kept telling the skeptics that we had strong support in Washington. We had [U.S. Reps. James] Oberstar and [Martin] Sabo, who were key on transportation, so why dissipate our efforts on relatively small projects like bus lanes? Let’s go for broke, I told them. If we can’t get LRT, then our fallback will be a busway. But if we fall back to buses, we will do them forever. We will never get LRT,” McLaughlin recalled.
Local match requirement
Sabo was waiting in the wings, ready to deliver for the new project, dubbed the Hiawatha line, but he kept reminding McLaughlin and other transit advocates about a local match requirement. In other parts of the county, regional transit agencies were able to rely on a regional tax to help generate the local match, but that revenue source was not available in the Twin Cities.
“We had to get our match from the state Legislature, and we had to crawl over cut glass to do so,” McLaughlin said.
At the Capitol, the heavy political lifting fell to Carol Flynn, the South Minneapolis legislator who had been a transit advocate on the Metropolitan Council prior to her election to the state Senate in 1990.
“I had always felt that transit was important, and I wanted LRT to happen. In the beginning I didn’t think it would necessarily happen in my own district,” Flynn recalled. “When that looked like a real possibility, I was pleased, but then I had to absorb all the slings and arrows from the transit opponents.”
By 1998, Flynn was the chair of the Minnesota Senate Transportation Committee, and a key player on transit issues in the Capitol. She worked hard at forging an alliance with rural legislators. “They needed roads and we needed transit, so we could come together, but our real problems were with the suburbanites — particularly the suburban Republicans,” she recalled.
Arne Carlson, a transit skeptic, was governor, but his appointee as Met Council Chair, Curt Johnson, had become a supporter. Johnson had been a fierce foe of LRT in his previous job as head of the anti-rail Citizens League but the Carlson appointee had experienced a change of heart.
Johnson said that his conversion was prompted, at least in part, by increased population pressures, an overburdened transportation system and the ineffectiveness of measures such as car pooling and exclusive bus lanes in easing traffic pressures.
“Seeing all of this, I have come to believe that we are going to experience — by Minnesota standard at least — unspeakable congestion,” Johnson told the Star Tribune in January 1998.
Johnson’s support provided a pipeline to Carlson who, seven years earlier, had predicted that the LRT would never be built. By 1998, as his term was coming to a close, the Republican governor was ready to deal.
The hockey arena
In an end-of-the-session agreement, engineered in part by Flynn, Carlson agreed, albeit reluctantly, to a $40 million bonding allocation for Hiawatha LRT in exchange for a $60 million loan for a St. Paul hockey arena.
“He agreed to the $40 million, only because it was part of a package deal,” Flynn recalled. “Arne and Norm Coleman (then St. Paul’s mayor) wanted the hockey arena. That was their highest priority. I went along with it because it helped us move transit forward.”
Carlson signed the bonding bill, which included the $40 million for LRT, but the Hiawatha line was still not a done deal in 1998. The $40 million was only a start. An additional $200 million needed to come from the federal treasury, along with $60 million more from the state and $70 million from local governments, including Hennepin County and the City of Minneapolis.
The new year of 1999 brought a new governor, the flamboyant Jesse Ventura, who replaced LRT skeptic Carlson. While Carlson had acquiesced to the initial $40 million, but only as part of an end-of-the-session agreement, Ventura was an enthusiastic LRT booster who earmarked $60 million for the project in his first biennial budget.
Ventura had become an LRT booster during a trip to Atlanta for a meeting with Ted Turner at the Cable News Network (CNN), according to McLaughlin.
“Jesse was ready to take a cab in from the airport to Turner’s office in downtown Atlanta, when the man next to him told him about Atlanta’s light rail line,” McLaughlin recounted. “The two of them got on the LRT and it deposited Jesse right in front of the CNN building. ‘That was just great,’ Jesse later told me. “With the money I saved on cab fare, I could fill up both of my jet skis with gas all week-end long.”
Attacked by East Metro politicians
Ventura included $60 million for LRT in his bonding bill, but almost immediately the proposal was attacked by East Metro politicians, including St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman and State Sen. Randy Kelly, who would later succeed Coleman as mayor.
Coleman was irate that St. Paul had been left out of the bonding bill. “To invest in light rail simply in the west metro area will hurt the economic vitality of the entire region and I won’t support it,” he declared angrily. “Unless we are treated more fairly, we are not going to acquiesce to a proposal that is western oriented,” Kelly added.
Met Council Chair Ted Mondale felt more than a little threatened by Coleman’s and Kelly’s efforts to torpedo the $60 million for Hiawatha LRT. In early April, Mondale said he was “a bit nervous” about prospects for winning federal construction funding in light of the intraregional squabbling. “We need to get our act together in the next month or two, because competition from the other 180 cities is fierce.”
Coleman and Kelly were eventually mollified when Ramsey County transit projects were included on MnDOT’s priority list, but attacks from another power center could not be so easily quelled.
Krinkie and Molnau
Opposition in the Republican-dominated House was hardening, and LRT opponents such as Phil Krinkie and Carol Molnau would lead a bitter fight by House Republicans to derail the Hiawatha line. Krinkie and Molnau, backed by House Majority Leader Tim Pawlenty, would continue working to defund LRT even after Ventura’s $60 million request was approved by a House-Senate conference committee later in 1999.
As the federal approval process for the Minnesota transit project moved forward, Krinkie and his band of LRT opponents stepped up their attacks. Saying that he was willing to go to “quite extreme lengths” to stop construction of the transit project, the Shoreview representative filed suit in state court in December, along with nine other Republicans legislators, to block the project. Five months later, Ramsey County District Judge A. James Dickenson threw out the suit, saying that he was not willing to referee “a political dispute” between the governor and the legislator.
Krinkie and his allies had been turned back in state court, and they made little headway as well at the Federal Transit Administration. Even though Hiawatha LRT was not ranked in the “highest priority” by the federal agency, the Minnesota project received passing marks and the green light to receive the federal construction dollars that Martin Sabo had squirreled away in the federal budget.
When the required 60-day congressional review posed no further roadblocks, Star Tribune reporter Laurie Blake was able to announce on Jan. 14, 2001, that “light rail in the Twin Cities is a done deal.” Met Council Chair Mondale breathed a sigh of relief.
“We were on a critical path timeline for a year and a half,” Mondale reported. “We came within a day of being killed a number of times.”
Later that week, Jesse Ventura told a cheering crowd at a hastily arranged groundbreaking ceremony: “The Hiawatha Line is happening today because the people demanded more transportation choices.” The January 2001 groundbreaking would be one of the few opportunities that Ventura would have to celebrate one of the major achievements of his embattled administration. By the time the Hiawatha LRT opened for business three and half years later, in June 2003, Ventura would no longer be in office.


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The Indians' season had plenty of similarities to Moneyball, so everyone brought that up.
Arizona's bullpen killed the chances of stealing a game at Dodger Stadium
Strasburg has a reputation of falling just short of (often unrealistic) expectations. Now he has a chance to change that.
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The Sox dominate extra innings, they're peaking at the right time, and they have a new weapon in the bullpen.
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Esquire's praise for top Austin Mexican restaurant leads this week's top 5 most-read headlines
Editor’s note: It’s that time again — time to check in with our top stories. From our best chefs to our neighbors' strong tourist pulls, here are five articles that captured our collective attention over the past seven days.
1. Austin's new favorite Mexican restaurant scores coveted spot on Esquire's Best New Restaurants list. Este was the only Texas restaurant on the main list.
2. 'The twinkliest town in Texas' and 6 other Hill Country locales become Christmas wonderlands. Those warm fuzzies aren't always easy to find amongst Austin's seasonal glitz — they're a mall-town affair.
3. Austin sparkles and shines as the No. 1 most festive city in the U.S. for 2023. Thumbtack specifically focuses on home holiday projects, but Austinites can glean inspiration from the city's many festive displays.
4. Austin is among the 20 most 'house rich' cities in U.S., report says. The study found that 44.70 percent of all housing in Austin is owner-occupied. The median home value of a home in the city was $593,000.
5. This Texas city is among the 50 best places to travel in 2024, says Travel + Leisure. Fort Worth was the only Texas city to make Travel + Leisure's prestigious list, and one of just a handful of U.S. cities.

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Mohammed Mansoor Khan had an elaborate plan of cheating poor people of Karnataka and other neighbouring states with his Ponzi scheme as a forefront for his other businesses.
Khan, who has fled to the UAE, had received the visa on May 5 through METT Travels. He safely shifted his family - his wife and two children - to Dubai before his little escape and acquired nearly Rs 20 crore from the directors of I Monetary Advisory (IMA).
It is alleged that Khan was backed by some powerful politicians and administrative authorities, and without their help, he could never have made such a huge scam running hassle-free for years.
According to a TOI report, a Karnataka minister aggressively lobbied for a Rs 600 crore bailout for Khan. It is alleged that Khan had visited the minister's office in Vidhana Soudha with a prominent Muslim politician in May.
The report claims that Khan had approached a bank earlier this year for a big loan. But since the Revenue Department had issued a lookout notice against IMA, the bank demanded a no-objection certificate (NOC). Khan, who had his deep contacts with the higher authorities, obtained the NOC with the help of the minister.
But Khan was unable to fulfil the NOC request as it was rejected by an IAS official. The Central Crime Branch (CCB) had summoned Khan for questioning following the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) update on IMA's functioning. He was interrogated after DG and IGP Neelamani Raju called for an enquiry over the fraudulent schemes run by IMA.
On June 6, Khan appeared before the CCB sleuths along with his auditors. They questioned him for an hour and asked him to furnish company related documents and balance sheets on June 9. But Khan, who already knew about the enforcement authorities tailing him, quickly fled the country stranding more than 32,000 depositors.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has filed a case of money laundering against the IMA group for running Ponzi schemes by cheating thousands of investors to a tune of more than Rs 2,000 crore. The ED has filed a case under the Prevention of Money Lending Act (PMLA) in its Enforcement Case Information Report (ECIR).


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From March 11 to 14, 2019, Connie Snider from Saskatoon Resource Centre, Alzheimer Society of Saskatchewan, Canada, was the guest of Lviv Polytechnic National University. The visit was organized jointly by International «Integration» Center for Professional Partnerships and community organization Institute for Medical and Social Initiatives «Leader» with the assistance of our partner from Canada – Dr. Maureen Flaherty, Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, Executive Director at the Center for Ukrainian Canadian Studies at the University of Manitoba.
Within a visit, there was held an international seminar on Understanding Dementia and Communication, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of Reforming Social Services – Canada-Ukraine project (1999–2003), conducted on the basis of Lviv Polytechnic National University with the financial support of Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The event was attended by staff members of «Integration» center, lecturers and students of the Department of Sociology and Social Work, specialists in the field of mental health, practitioners and community representatives. According to the results of the international seminar, the participants were awarded certificates, signed by the rector of Lviv Polytechnic.
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First assessing the question of a man with a negative MRI, Dr. Lamb considered the question of the negative predictive value of MRI. It’s important to consider that there are two definitions of MRI (PIRADS < 3 and PIRADS <4) as well as two definitions of clinically significant prostate cancer (GGG 2-5 and GGG 3-5). He cited a systemic review of 42 studies published between 2016 and 2020 reporting on 7321 men. Overall, these data demonstrated a negative predictive value of 91%, as Dr. Ahmed also discussed in his presentation on MRI as a triage test.
Patients (and physicians) may wonder if it is reasonable and safe to forgo biopsy in men with a negative MRI. Dr. Lamb suggested that it was, except for men with elevated PSA density. He suggested that biopsy would still be usually indicated for patients with PSAD > 0.15 ng/mL, though thresholds of 0.1 or 0.2 ng/mL would also be considered. Citing evidence published by Venderink and colleagues, 42% of patients with a PIRADS lesion could avoid biopsy if using a threshold of PSAD >0.15ng/mL with only 6% (95% confidence interval 2-15%) of clinically significant cancers being missed. Dr. Lamb also highlighted other reasons that may prompt biopsy in the setting of a negative MRI including patient concern and doubt of the MRI (for reasons including hip prostheses, very large prostates, and young patients).
When opting not to biopsy in the setting of a normal MRI, Dr. Lamb highlighted two philosophical approaches ranging from “close monitoring” to a non-interventional approach.
Dr. Lamb closed this question by suggesting that patient-centered decision making should form the basis of our approach to patients with a negative MRI. We need to be transparent about the false-negative rates and be open to the idea of biopsy in this setting, particularly when considering PSA density, patient concern, and specific MRI technical shortcomings.
Dr. Lamb then transitioned to assessing the question of how to manage patients who had a negative biopsy. As with how he concluded the discussion of the patient with a negative MRI, he began this discussion highlighting the EAU-EANM-ESTRO-ESUR-SIOG guidelines on prostate cancer.
As with the initial discussion of initial negative MRI, we must consider the negative predictive value in this context. Again highlighting data from a recent systemic review, the negative predictive value in this clinical context (with a prior negative biopsy) is 93% based on pooled data, even higher than in the upfront setting.
In patients who have had a prior negative TRUS biopsy, Dr. Lamb highlighted outcomes of local anesthetic transperineal biopsy demonstrating 34% chance of clinically significant prostate cancer in those with PIRADS 4 and 5, 49% chance in those with an anterior MRI lesion, and 33% chance in those with apical lesion on biopsy.
Short of another biopsy, Dr. Lamb highlighted numerous other tests that may be useful for risk stratification. A number of these are described in the EAU-EANM-ESTRO-ESUR-SIOG guidelines.
Again, we can consider two philosophical approaches here, one more aggressive (keeping a “close eye”) and one more conservative, on the basis of patient characteristics and concerns, as well as clinical characteristics.
Presented by: Alastair Lamb Ph.D, FRCS(Urol), Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford
Written by: Christopher J.D. Wallis, Urologic Oncology Fellow, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, @WallisCJD on Twitter at the Virtual 2020 EAU Annual Meeting #EAU20, July 17-19, 2020.


Daniel Lena (born August 17, 1999), Is professionally known as Unknown T, a successful British musician, singer, rapper, and songwriter.
He quickly gained popularity and prominence in the industry after his album “Rise Above Hate,” released in 2020, reached the top of the charts in the UK.”
Rapper Unknown T, a rising star hailing from Homerton, East London, has roots that trace back to Uganda through his parents’ descent. He first made a splash in the music industry with the release of “Bop with Smoke” (2017), a highly acclaimed underground hit that put London on notice of his formidable flow.
2018 marked the year that the rapper truly broke through, with the release of his hit single “Homerton B” propelling him to fame. He has become known for his signature flow and lyrics that often draw inspiration from his upbringing in Homerton, providing a unique perspective and insight into his life and experiences.
His discography includes several well-received mixtapes and singles, and he has also collaborated with other prominent figures in the UK rap scene.
Unknown T gained widespread recognition with his debut single “Homerton B,” debuting at number 48 on the UK Singles Chart in October 2018.
After the success of “Homerton B,” Unknown T released his debut album “Unknown to the Unknown” in 2018, which featured several popular tracks such as “Throwback” and “Stylo G” in addition to his breakout hit. The album received positive reviews and solidified his place as a prominent figure in the UK rap scene.
The success of this single, Homerton B, also led to Unknown T being signed by Island Records through Universal Music Group and performing at the Wireless festival in 2019. “Homerton B” was highly praised by critics, appearing on numerous “best of 2018” lists, and became the first UK drill track to be certified Silver by the BPI.
His subsequent tracks Throwback”, “Meat,” and “Leave Dat Trap,” which feature AJ Tracey, garnered over 5 million views online.”
The 25-year-old rapper, who is believed to be currently single, has had a few past relationships, but none of them have been long-lasting.
In 2017, the charges against Unknown T of possessing a 4mm revolver and ammunition were dismissed, as he maintained that the weapon had been given to him by a stranger.
The following year, he was also acquitted of the murder of Steve Narvaez-Jara at a London party. Despite the legal proceedings, Unknown T has been vocal about the drill scene, in which he is a member, stating that the media have unjustly criticized it.
In an interview with The Guardian, he argued that the themes present in drill music reflect larger societal issues and that the music industry should not be held responsible for them.
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Unknown T‘s net worth is estimated to be within the range of US$500,000 – US$1 million.