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Nearly 75 Displaced, Some With Injuries, in Carteret Apartment Complex Fire
by Gisselle Perdomo July 23, 2021 July 24, 2021
CARTERET, NJ—One of the six buildings in Carteret's Bristol Station apartment complex was destroyed in a fire that began at approximately 2 p.m. on July 23, leaving dozens of people homeless and causing an unknown number of injuries.
The blaze purportedly began shooting from a second floor balcony and continued to spread throughout the complex.
The building was engulfed by flames, creating a challenge for fire officials as they tried to bring equipment to the scene and suppress the fire.
Carteret Fire Chief Mark Hruska said every unit and hallway of the complex came equipped with sprinklers. He added however, that there were no sprinklers on the balcony where the blaze initially started and spread.
In an interview with ABC Channel 7 news, Huruska shared: "We had multiple interior collapses…. And the roof collapsed about eight minutes into the fire… and then we had multiple floor-on-floor collapses within the building that blew the windows out."
Carteret's Fire Department declined to comment any further about the events that led to the blaze, stating "at this time, the cause of the fire is under investigation and a statement will be released once the investigation process is finished."
A huge fire today displaced nearly 75 people and destroyed one of the six buildings in Carteret's "Bristol Station" development.
The Mayor tells @NB_Today there's "only a few non-life-threatening minor injuries" but the blaze will lead to a "total loss" of building #4. pic.twitter.com/yoS6nz2IOb
— Charlie Kratovil (@Charlie4Change) July 24, 2021
"So far preliminary reports say there are only a few non-life-threatening minor injuries," said Mayor Reiman.
"However, fire suppression continues and then inspectors will conduct a thorough investigation and will visit every accessible unit. We continue to pray for the safety of our first responders and for the residents who lost their homes today."
Tenants fleeing the scene were directed to a common area where they began receiving assistance from the American Red Cross.
Jon Salonis, Director of Communications at Borough of Carteret confirmed to New Brunswick Today "there is no loss of life or serious injuries."
"We are waiting on reports for any pets which are family to so many of us," said Salonis.
Mayor Dan Reiman lamented, "the structure fire today at Bristol Station will cause a complete loss of building 4 which is comprised of 48 units and nearly 75 residents."
Reiman promoted a link where people can donate to a "charity trust fund" to assist displaced residents.
The complex opened in the summer of 2007 after being built by Matzel Development, and is located off of the Peter J. Sica Industrial Highway on a road called Bristol Station Court.
In 2019, the 288-unit complex was transferred from Brooklyn-based Bristol TIC LLC for just over $2.3 million to Lakewood-based Bristol Apartments Owners LLC, according to property records. The Bristol Station website says it belongs to Premier Properties.
Some firefighters were also treated for heat exhaustion, but backup and support came from several fire departments including South Amboy, Sayreville, and Woodbridge.
One out-of-town firefighter told New Brunswick Today that his department came through because fighting fires requires more personnel on hot summer days as each crew can spend less time in a blaze before they have to pull out.
Gisselle Perdomo
gperdomo@nb.today
Gisselle is a reporter at New Brunswick Today and a proud Rutgers University Alumni. She has a passion for writing, investigating and bringing attention grabbing news to the local community.
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As Harry Potter turns 20, let's focus on reading pleasure rather than literary merit
It's 20 years on June 26 since the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, the first in the seven-book series. The Philosopher's Stone has sold more than 450 million copies and been translated into 79 languages.
What does DNA sound like? Using music to unlock the secrets of genetic code
There is strong interest to understand how DNA sequences determine our physical form. Hopefully, listening to audio from DNA may help scientists understand how cell biology works.
Free textbooks for first-year university students could help improve retention rates
To improve the attrition rates that remain all too high, we need to use emerging technology to promote proven pedagogical methods. The availability of free textbooks is one such strategy that is showing results.
Western Sydney University wins national design award
The John Phillips Library at Western Sydney University's Penrith campus has placed first in the academic category of the inaugural Australian Library Design Awards, held in Melbourne.
Blasphemy is still a crime in Australia – and it shouldn't be
The crime of blasphemy has had a bit of publicity lately. You might also find yourself reported to police for blasphemy in Australia, where it is still a crime.
The war on waste takes Western Sydney's WiSE women abroad
The Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program at Western Sydney University creates opportunities for women to explore where careers in science and engineering can take them. In June, it is taking them to Fiji.

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At the intersection of private international law and legal and political philosophy is the question of how courts can legitimately apply a foreign law domestically. If two Canadian citizens were married in Canada, then came before a New York court as residents in a marital dispute, would New York or Canadian law apply? "It's such a fundamental part of our legal system that happens in these really boring examples all the time, and yet it's really under-studied from a theoretical point of view," says Joanna Langille '11. "It also raises a problem of prior accounts that political theory has tried to give for legal authority."
Langille, who is pursuing this inquiry in her doctorate at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, is one of 14 recipients of a 2014 Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, the most prestigious award of its kind in Canada. This marks the third Trudeau Scholarship given to an NYU Law graduate in as many years; previous recipients include Lisa Kerr LLM '09, JSD '13 and Emily Kidd White LLM '09, JSD '15.
This scholarly undertaking allows Langille to combine her impressive background in philosophy, political science, international relations, and the law. Before receiving her JD from NYU Law, Langille studied philosophy and political science as an undergraduate at the University of Toronto and received an MPhil in international relations as a Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford.
Langille will return to NYU Law in Fall 2014 as a Furman Academic Fellow. "Jo is an incredibly astute and hardworking person with broad intellectual interests," says Barry Friedman, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Professor of Law and faculty director of the Furman Fellows program. "I'm thrilled to welcome her back to NYU next year as a Furman Fellow."


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Piano Evolution Design and Performance by David Crombie A history, exploration, and explanation of the most amazing musical instrument ever produced Over 200 stunning photographs of pianos, past and present Illuminating audio clips, present and historic Revealing video clips of instruments in action Animated diagrams showing how the various elements of the piano work An archive of all the main piano manufacturing companies throughout history Detailed and authoritative text throughout An extensive illustrated glossary. PIANO is the most spectacular and informative publication ever assembled on the history and workings of the piano. At its heart is a stunning collection of more than 150 pianos ranging from the instrument's earliest roots to today's magnificent upright and grand pianos. The sheer diversity and beauty of this magnificent family of instruments reveals an incredible marriage of technology and invention that has transformed the world of music. Specially commissioned photographs illustrate the outer beauty and inner complexity of the modern piano, while other technologies examined include: reproducing and mechanical pianos; electric and electronic pianos; and more recent developments such as the digital and virtual piano. This work was originally produced as a hardback book, and received 5-star reviews when released. It has now been completely revised and transformed into a multi-touch iBook. With the introduction of animation, audio and video, it now gives the reader a fascinating, compelling, and immersive experience.
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Lakers vs. Pelicans Recap: The good, the bad and the Ball
Despite a valiant fight in the fourth, a story told over and over this season, the Pelicans saw their rally fall short to the Lakers on Friday, losing 123-113.
The Good: Anthony Davis
It's a hard pill to swallow for obvious reasons, but Anthony Davis was absolutely dominant on the night. He finished with 46 points on 15-of-21 shooting with 13 points. That was better even than the 41 points and nine rebounds he had in the first meeting against New Orleans earlier this season.
He was unguardable on the night. The Pelicans tried to continue playing small against the super-sized Lakers and it failed. And Davis put the exclamation point on the night twice with a pair of one-handed lobs in each half.
Honorable Mentions: Baby Lakers, nine-man rotations, E'Twaun Moore again
The Bad: The first and third quarter
It's the same old song and dance with the Pelicans this year with a slow start in any of the opening three quarters is followed by the team clawing its way back into the game. On Friday, the Pelicans were outscored 42-30 and, if not for a handful of buckets from Lonzo Ball, would have trailed further.
New Orleans fought back into the game in the second quarter but then repeated the feat in the third, falling behind this time by as many as 24 points at 100-76. Again, they fought back in the fourth and made it a contest but couldn't overcome their big deficit again.
Honorable Mention: Defense on Anthony Davis, defense on Danny Green, three-point shooting
The Ball: Best basketball of his career
Lonzo Ball followed up a 27-point night on Sunday against Houston with another 20-point outing, leading the Pelicans with 23 points. It's the first time in his career he's paired 20-point games back-to-back and another symbol of how well he's playing.
While the three ball didn't fall quite at the rate it has in recent weeks, he still finished with five assists, a pair of steals and a pair of rebounds. He attacked the rim with an aggressiveness that is rarely seen from him, highlighted by a pair of dunks on strong drives into the lane.
WATCH: Lakers play tribute video for Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram, Josh Hart
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Preparing for Democratic Oversight Investigations
Skadden's 2019 Insights
Margaret E. Krawiec David B. Leland Ivan A. Schlager
Following eight years of Republican majorities in Congress, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January 2019, thereby regaining the ability to control committee and subcommittee agendas, hold hearings and issue investigative subpoenas. Companies can expect the new Democratic majority to employ these tools to vigorously pursue vastly different legislative and investigative priorities than Republicans, including issues affecting the health care industry (access to health care and high drug prices); the financial services industry (deceptive consumer practices); for-profit colleges (student debt issues); oil and gas companies (relaxation or deregulation of environmental protection rules); and technology companies (election interference and data privacy issues). Companies in these industries should anticipate that House Democrats will launch a number of investigations that reach beyond the activities of the Trump administration, and they should prepare a game plan for responding to a subpoena or other inquiry in the event they are affected by one of these investigations.
Chairs of key oversight committees have expressed an interest in pursuing a range of investigations. Rep. Elijah Cummings, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has indicated that one of his highest priorities will be drug pricing. Rep. Adam Schiff, chair of the House Intelligence Committee, has stated that he plans to reopen the Russia probe and likely pursue angles that Democrats claim were not fully explored by Republicans, including gathering further information from social media companies and banking records from financial institutions. Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has expressed an interest in Russian election interference issues as well as drug pricing. Nadler also would lead impeachment efforts if Democrats pursue that path. Rep. Maxine Waters, chair of the House Financial Services Committee, has stated that her priorities will include banking relationships with President Donald Trump and such consumer protection issues as deceptive sales practices. Waters also will focus on restoring the intensity of enforcement and regulatory activities of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. (See "Despite Leadership Changes, No Pivot in Priorities Expected for Consumer Financial Services Enforcement.")
Democratic Priorities
Congress can broadly investigate any matter for which it can propose and enact legislation. As a result, few companies or industries are beyond the reach of a congressional subpoena. Democrats' investigative priorities the past two years have been evident in the letter requests they have issued to companies; reports they have solicited from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) — an independent, nonpartisan legislative agency that investigates federal spending and federal programs, and assists Congress in making effective policy and oversight decisions; investigations by Democratic state attorneys general; and oversight letters issued by Democrats to the Trump administration. Further, Democrats likely will use their oversight efforts to scrutinize those initiatives that Trump has touted to date.
Congress can broadly investigate any matter for which it can propose and enact legislation. As a result, few companies or industries are beyond the reach of a congressional subpoena.
Letter Requests. As the minority party, Democrats lacked subpoena power to compel witness testimony and document production. Accordingly, they often resorted to the issuance of letter requests in an effort to increase the visibility of issues and potentially convince the chairman or majority members that a thorough committee investigation was warranted. With a House majority, Democrats in committee chairs likely will issue legally enforceable subpoenas demanding similar information, particularly where companies have not responded to or are perceived to have otherwise mishandled earlier informal requests.
Many of these letter requests — the recipients of which included pharmaceutical companies, financial institutions and social media companies, among others — have been sent to multiple companies within an industry, particularly when the issue being raised was an industrywide one. Congressional Democrats also have called on the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and other federal regulators to either investigate or provide information regarding a number of companies.
GAO Reports. Like letter requests, GAO reports often become talking points aimed at spurring a more thorough investigation or hearing. A review of GAO reports issued over the 13 months starting with November 2017 (see our November 7, 2018, client alert for a list of GAO reports that Democrats in Congress requested during that time) shows that a substantial number of these reports were issued solely at the request of Democratic members of Congress and focused on the health care industry (e.g., the opioid crisis; open enrollment outcomes in the Affordable Care Act health insurance exchanges; profits and research-and-development spending; and merger and acquisition activity in the pharmaceutical industry).
Other topics that appear to be the focus of Democrat-requested GAO reports include:
Trump administration programs and priorities (e.g., family separations at the border, deregulation of environmental protection standards, implementation of recent tax cuts);
education and student lending (e.g., federal student aid, public service loan forgiveness, school accreditation);
the mining and oil and gas industries (e.g., oil and gas lease management, coal mine reclamation, natural gas storage);
the financial services industry (e.g., lending to low- and moderate-income communities, large bank supervision, workplace retirement accounts); and
climate change (e.g., SEC requirements for disclosures of climate-related risks, Department of Defense climate change adaptation planning).
Democratic State Attorneys General Investigations. More than 20 Democratic state attorneys general have pursued investigations and enforcement actions that also may be useful in assessing the potential investigative interests of the new House majority.
New York has been particularly active, using the state's expansive anti-fraud law and other regulatory tools to pursue investigations into and lawsuits against a number of public companies. Among other active matters during the past year are:
a New York state lawsuit against an oil and gas company for its disclosures relating to climate change;
subpoenas issued to trade groups, lobbying firms and advocacy organizations over allegedly fraudulent net neutrality comments; and
the pursuit of consumer protection issues across various industries, including the financial services sector.
Other examples include North Carolina's and Massachusetts' investigations into e-cigarettes and New Jersey's settlements with oil and gas companies for alleged environmental damage caused by a gasoline additive.
Oversight Letters to the Trump Administration. Senate Democrats have sent a number of oversight letters to various federal agencies that appear to remain outstanding and could have implications on the private sector if pursued. Such letters include requests for information regarding or relating to:
loopholes in the Buy American laws;
alleged malfeasance of federal agency heads (e.g., stock market trading activities; conflicts of interest with private sectors, such as oil and gas companies, Russian investors and higher education companies);
the approval and construction of oil pipelines;
alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election;
drug pricing issues;
Americans' access to health insurance coverage information; and
health care enrollment issues.
While the Democrats will no doubt focus on Trump himself — his tax returns, family businesses and alleged dealings with Russia, among other issues — they are expected to also follow up on outstanding requests that may have a wide reach beyond the Trump administration.
Trump Administration Accomplishments and Priorities. Democrats are expected to use their control of oversight committees and subcommittees to scrutinize the policy initiatives of the Trump administration. For example, Trump has repeatedly touted the passage of the tax bill, which, among other changes, lowered the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent. He also has stated his desire to further reduce the corporate tax rate. (See "US Tax Reform and Cross-Border M&A: Considering the Impact, One Year In.") Democrats will do their best to oppose such efforts by shining a spotlight on provisions of the tax code that they perceive as disproportionately benefiting large corporations. As part of their efforts, Democrats may turn to corporations for information and set public hearings where CEOs are called to testify and disclose the amounts saved as a result of the tax cuts as well as how these savings were used.
Trump also has taken steps to cut regulations that he argues diminish the growth of the U.S. economy. For example, he has moved toward expanding drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and the Arctic. Democrats have strongly denounced the Trump administration's environmental record and contend that changes at the Environmental Protection Agency have not only harmed the environment but also damaged how the U.S. is viewed around the world. Deregulation will likely remain a priority of the Trump administration, and Democrats are expected to devote substantial oversight efforts to identifying and publicizing any regulatory changes with which they disagree.
Responding to Congressional Inquiries
Congress frequently has used investigations to force industrywide changes. For that reason, companies that have received letter requests from Democrats in Congress, or whose industry has been the subject of a GAO report or state attorney general investigation, should take steps to prepare for potential congressional investigations. For example, companies should assess whether to make changes to policies, procedures or business practices that may be scrutinized. Companies also might consider identifying and reviewing documents that may need to be produced in the event of a congressional subpoena. Additionally, companies involved in transactions should consider assessing the risk of congressional oversight — which could impact the value of the acquisition — as part of their due diligence.
This memorandum is provided by Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and its affiliates for educational and informational purposes only and is not intended and should not be construed as legal advice. This memorandum is considered advertising under applicable state laws.
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Der Briefmarken-Jahrgang 1951 der Deutschen Bundespost umfasste neun Sondermarken. In diesem Jahr und Anfang 1952 wurde die erste Dauermarkenserie der Deutschen Bundespost Posthorn nach einem Entwurf von Georg Alexander Mathéy mit 16 Werten herausgegeben.

Diese Serie zählt auch heute (2008) zu den gesuchtesten Dauermarken der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Der Kaufkraft von 1,00 DM entspricht heute zirka  Euro.

Liste der Ausgaben und Motive

Siehe auch
Briefmarken-Jahrgang 1951 der Deutschen Bundespost Berlin
Briefmarken-Jahrgang 1951 des Saarprotektorats
Briefmarken-Jahrgang 1951 der Deutschen Post der DDR

Literatur
 Michel-Katalog Deutschland 2006/2007 (broschiert), Schwaneberger Verlag GmbH (2006), ISBN 3-87858-035-5

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Arrow - Season 6 (CD) | La La Land Records | LLLCD1483
Composer: - Blake Neely
La-La Land Records, Warner Bros., DC and WaterTower Music presents an all-new collection of knockout score music from the sixth season of the hit television series ARROW, starring Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey and Willa Holland. Acclaimed composer Blake Neely (DC's LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, RIVERDALE, THE FLASH) harnesses all the drama and action teeming in this popular hit series and musically unleashes it to propel its titular hood vigilante hero. Super music for a one-of-kind super hero! Composer Neely has selected, assembled and produced this brilliant collection of Season 6's most notable musical moments. Mastered by Stephen Marsh and sharply art-designed by Dan Goldwasser, this special release is limited to 2000 Units.
1. Trying to Carry On (2:09)
2. Fallout (3:02)
3. I Killed My Daughter (2:33)
4. Siren Storms the Lair (1:54)
5. I Know You're the Green Arrow (3:58)
6. You Could Be Greater (3:17)
7. Team Meets Cayden / Inside the Internet (3:06)
8. Dinah Identifies Vincent (1:55)
9. Deathstroke Extracts Revenge (3:38)
10. Like Father, Like Son (4:00)
11. Been Mad at You Before / Oliver is Back (4:08)
12. I Need Someone (2:21)
13. Team Divided (3:05)
14. What Your Dad Is (3:53)
15. Right Before Her Eyes (4:02)
16. The Devil's Greatest Trick (1:55)
17. Who Do I Bring the Pain To? (2:29)
18. Take Good Care of Her (3:23)
19. Brothers in Arms (3:23)
20. Why Do They All Leave? (2:24)
21. The Dragon (3:33)
22. Never a Normal Life (3:15)
23. Love is a King Killer (2:59)
24. Final Showdown with Diaz (3:31)
25. At What Cost? (4:04)
TOTAL ALBUM TIME: 77:58
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Bode Projects
Armand Boua Abidjan, Ivory Coast, b. 1978
Armand Boua is a mixed-media artist whose work addresses the socio-political troubles and injustices of his home environment. Working in Abidjan, the economic capital at the crossroads of urbanisation and industrialisation, the artist illustrates the lives of street kids who testify to the violence and political struggles in West Africa.
His paintings are based on observations from street scenes characterised by ethnic, linguistic, cultural and social entanglements due to urban migrations. Children abduction remains a cruel reality in West Africa, fuelled by sextrafficking,illegaladoptionrings, plantationlabour as well as an organ market for human sacrifices. In his paintings, Boua aims at showing these children in an immediate and unvarnished way. Boua's subjects are both victims of such exploitation, and symbols of hope and innocence. The severity of this crisis foreshadows the practice of the street-based artist, who sees the atrocities of man echoed in everyday life and gives them shape through painting and emotive movements.
His technique employs found material to which the artist applies his signature forms which invoke images and scenes in remembrance. Using tar and acrylic on found cardboard boxes, he creates textured and layered compositions which are scrubbed and stripped back, leaving abstract forms that come in and out of focus. Thereby, the artist achieves a careful balance between heavy gestures and violent execution, and the gentle treatment of his subjectmatter.
"I wanted to show their [the children's] suffering, their way of life, so that people are finally aware of this painful reality they pretend not tosee."
Armand Boua was born in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in 1978. He studied at the National School of Fine Arts and the Technical Center of Applied Arts, both in Abidjan. Furthermore, he attended courses at the Sainte Mary Training Institute and the Museum of Civilisation, equally in Abidjan. His work has been internationally featured in solo and group exhibitions, among them Dans Le Djassa, Bode Projects, Hamburg, DE (2018); IN-DISCIPLINE, Fondation Montresso, Marrakech, and Fondation CDG, Rabat, MA (2019); Kubatana, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, NO (2019); PANGAEA II: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (2019); and Dak'Art, Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, SN (2010). Armand Boua lives and works in Abidjan, CI.
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WISEPA J154151.66−225025.2 (designação abreviada para WISE 1541-2250) é uma (sub-)anã marrom da classe espectral  Y0.5, que está localizada na constelação de Libra, a cerca de 18,6 anos-luz da Terra. Este objeto recebeu atenção popular quando a sua descoberta foi anunciada em 2011 a uma distância estimada em apenas cerca de 9 anos-luz, o que teria tornado a anã marrom mais próxima conhecida.

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 Solstation.com (New Objects within 20 light-years)

Anãs marrons
Estrelas de classe Y
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Pleasant Valley started as a community in Clay County and was first called a "Village." In the early days, it was more of a farming community. Early ordinances deal mostly with keeping animals and building barns and sheds.
The Village had its own school where most of the community activities were held. The ordinances changed as time passed. An August 1960 ordinances states, "Motor vehicles in operation within the Village of Pleasant Valley, Missouri, during the period from thirty minutes past sunset to thirty minutes before sunrise, shall carry lighted lamps . . . shall be equipped with at least two approved headlamps mounted at the same level with at least one on either side of the vehicle."
On July 21st, 1961 an ordinance was passed to issue a bond in the amount of $70,000 to construct a village hall. The hall was built near the corner of Sobbie Road and Pleasant Valley Road. In 2000 a new City Hall and Police Department were built at its present location at 6500 Royal Street (the corner of Royal Street and South Church Street.)
On January 14, 1963, the Village of Pleasant Valley was incorporated into a fourth class city called the "City of Pleasant Valley." Often referred to as "The Valley" by residents, the new City found itself without many services. There was no street department, no fire department, no sewers and the water system was a 1930's WPA project. There was no where to go but "UP" and so began the progress that has given us the Pleasant Valley we know today.
The young city evolved because of the dedicated residents who cared about their city. When winter arrived and snow fell, the streets were treated by Ben Linhart and Dave Kane shoveling sand from the back of Bob Lehman's dump truck. Today, we have a Public Works Department to keep the streets clear and safe. This Department also does inspections on construction projects, mow the grass the City is responsible for, inspect and insure sewer and street repairs are done, etc. It is staffed by a Director and two other employees.
Jess Gabbert was elected Marshall and the Police Department was staffed with Will Carder, Bill Francis and Bob Wheeler.
The current Police Department consist of a professional Chief of Police and 9 full time Police Officers, 4 part time Reserve Police Officers who assist with Municipal Court administration and special events and projects, a Communications/Records Section Manager, and 8 full and part time Police/Fire/EMS Communications Officers.
In 2013, there were 55 Reported Part I Crimes. The department responded to 1,979 Calls for Service and issued 2,922 City Criminal and Traffic Citations. In addition, the department filed 32 State Level cases with the Clay County Prosecuting Attorneys Office.
Fire protection was provided by Liberty at the cost of $100 per truck and $4.00 per man—"if they didn't have another call." In 1963 meetings were held and plans made to have their own fire department. A new building to house the city offices and a fire house were built and in December 1964 the city took possession of its first fire truck.
Today, the Chief of the Fire Department provides leadership and direction to approximately 40 dedicated part time and volunteer firefighters, paramedics, and EMT's.
The City is approximately one square mile. As a result of the 2010 United States Census, the City of Pleasant Valley has a population of 2,961 residents.
It has a comprehensive plan in place to develop and upgrade our community.
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The Future of NATO: Transatlantic Security Alliance or European Strategic Autonomy?
Tuesday, June 21, 2022 12:30 to 14:00
The AJC Transatlantic Institute and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom hosted H.E. Francesco M. Talò, Ambassador of Italy to NATO and H.E. Nataliia Galibarenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to NATO as well as MEP Urmas Paet (Renew Europe), Vice Chair of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and Former Foreign Minister of Estonia between 2005 and 2014, for a discussion on the future of the transatlantic alliance. Attended by over 80 guests and expertly moderated by defense journalist Teri Schultz, the discussion covered NATO's most pressing challenges: Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and the security challenges this poses for Europe and the transatlantic alliance.
Faced with the return of history to the continent, Europe is reevaluating the importance of military power for our collective security. Torn between the concepts of strategic autonomy and strategic responsibility, the panelists discussed the best way to protect Western freedom and democracy from foreign aggressors.
The recording of the Panel Discussion can be listened to here
Daniel Schwammenthal, Director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute, gave strong opening remarks on how the Russian invasion threatened all of Europe: "There is a need for denazification today, AJC CEO David Harris said last week after President Zelensky's speech [during AJC Global Forum], but it is in Moscow, not Kiev. And as we have now raised more than $2 million for our "Stand with Ukraine" fund for humanitarian aid, we have also been urging the U.S. and the entire West to provide crucial military aid [...] Putin gets away with invading a sovereign nation in an unprovoked war. Our so-called commitment to the rules-based international order will be exposed as a cheap talking point. [...] Let us not become more fatigue of this war than the Ukrainian heroes fighting it. Ukraine must win, for their sake and ours. In that spirit, ladies and gentlemen, Slavu Ukraiini."
Ambassador Galibarenko reiterated that her country needs more weapons, but also expressed her gratitude for all the help Ukraine had received: "When you are looking at so many countries, even countries like Australia, it's something very inspiring, it shows that we are not alone and that so many countries are ready to help despite the geographical distance.[...] The spirits and the bravery of Ukrainian armed forces is of course the main prerequisite of the victory in this war but this victory can only happen and can be accelerated only with Western help, with the delivery of weapons, with the financial assistance, with the humanitarian assistance."
Ambassador Talò further conveyed Italy's strong support for Ukraine: "My country is strongly in favor of sanctions on gas, on oil though we are one of the most dependent on on this. So day one after the start of the war we started to find new alternatives. We have alternatives. We are confident that we can find a new one and of course this means that we have to pay a price. But we are willing to do it. It's something important."
MEP Paet made clear that the brutal war is on top of Europe's agenda: "The ultimate goal for Europe today is free Ukraine which controls all of its territory. This must be the goal number one for each European and international organization and every European country."
Daniel Schwammenthal, AJC Transatlantic Institute Director
Jeroen Dobber, Head of the FNF Global Security Hub
H.E. Nataliia Galibarenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to NATO
H.E. Francesco M. Talò, Ambassador of Italy to NATO
MEP Urmas Paet, Vice Chair of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Former Foreign Minister of Estonia between 2005 and 2014 (Renew Europe)
Moderator: Teri Schultz, Freelance Reporter
06:30 - 08:00 EDT
11:30 - 13:00 WEST
13:30 - 15:00 EEST
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As Vietnam celebrated the 1968 Lunar New Year, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese communist troops and Viet Cong guerrillas launched attacks that changed the course of the war.
The audacious campaign stunned the US-backed South Vietnam regime, and although the communist force was forced to retreat after weeks of bloody fighting, the "Tet Offensive" was pivotal.
More than 100 sites across southern Vietnam were targeted, including the bustling capital Saigon -- today called Ho Chi Minh City -- which was plunged into war overnight.
On January 31, 15 Viet Cong took up positions in the building next door to the AFP bureau, breaking an informal holiday truce which had seen most soldiers go home.
Four days after the start of the offensive, bureau chief Francois Pelou filed an account of what he witnessed and what he was told later about how the fighters infiltrated the city.
SAIGON, February 3, 1968 (AFP) - ... Bazooka fire shakes our building... a few minutes of calm, then: bang bang bang... AK-47s respond immediately. From the office, we followed the battle of the 15 Viet Cong.
In the street are two Viet Cong, killed in the first hours of the fight, and two Americans dead next to their jeep. The bodies will stay there for 24 hours, blackening under the sun.
On Thursday morning the 15, maybe 10, remaining Viet Cong fighters attempt a final push. By 9:30 am six are prisoners, their ammunition is spent.
There is a woman among them. In dirty, old civilian clothes, several are injured, with haggard eyes, bleeding from the mouth and ears because of the blasts of the bazooka.
Crouched, beaten-up on the pavement, handcuffed, they refuse to talk, taunting their guards. They have just lived a whole 36 hours in a city they have seen for the first time.
Lured by a dream, these rice farmers came to liberate the capital, to start a revolution.
The dream has just died.
Some had come from Kiem Hoa in the delta, walking for five days. They are dressed as civilians. In their pockets, a red armband; supplies for a day and a half in a small plastic bag.
They come from all over, mysteriously turning up at meeting points in the middle of fireworks for Tet celebrations. The locals are enjoying themselves; they have no idea the battle for Saigon has started. Tet in Saigon is like the carnival in Rio.
Commandos form, weapons are handed out. More than 600, heavy machine guns and bazookas, have been in Saigon for weeks, hidden in the Chinese neighbourhood of Cholon.
The most audacious offensive of the war is under way.
At midnight the commandos set out for their targets. There are 18 in the city: the US embassy -- where 19 Viet Cong will die in the gardens, unable to break into the building -- and also Independence Palace, Saigon radio station, Tan Son Nhut air base, the racecourse, nine police stations and four US military hospitals.
At 2:50 am on Wednesday powerful explosions rock the city centre; my home shakes. They are like mortar bombardments.
In the city bursts of fireworks continue. Firecrackers or bullets... In my garden they whistle and ricochet in the trees. Tet is over. The battle of Saigon begins.
Seamlessly, Saigon has gone from firecrackers to gunfire. This will last nearly four days. For the first time, Saigon will experience the war.
The US intelligence service now understands that the majority of the population was aware of the Viet Cong preparations but nobody said anything.
Maybe this was out of fear, but maybe also out of solidarity, and, more likely, because of indifference after 20 years of war and reversals.
At the same time the population did not take part in a general uprising that the Viet Cong were maybe hoping to stir up.
The daily display of US power is too great to allow, for now, even the slimmest chance of victory for these fighters in their old clothes and Japanese sandals held together by string, a single armband turning any outfit into a uniform.
They have not attracted the masses anywhere.
But it is undeniable the Viet Cong's resistance in Saigon has made an impression. "They are brave," a young student from Cholon, who has spent two days with them, tells me.
There is the same reaction from a woman from Gia Dinh who had to accommodate fleeing Viet Cong soldiers for a day. "They never wanted to take food. They only took water to drink."
The vulnerability of the United States and the government, exposed after the undeniable victory of the Viet Cong in the first phase of their offensive, risks becoming an important factor.
US power has lost its prestige. The most powerful army in the world was put on the defensive across the country. For a moment it was overwhelmed.


Marie has been at Western since 1975, and has served in both administrative and faculty roles, to include Dean of Fairhaven College, Interim Vice President for Student Affairs, Associate Dean of the School of Education, and Professor, Woodring College and Fairhaven College. In these roles, Marie has dedicated herself to promoting inclusion and equity.
As an administrator Marie supported policies and initiatives to advance the success of underrepresented students and programs. She has been a significant contributor on the President's Taskforce on Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity, contributing to the development of the Taskforce's strategic plan. Marie was instrumental in forging a vision for the Education for Social Justice minor that is currently offered jointly between the Woodring College of Education and the Fairhaven College for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Marie has supported many students coming from socioeconomically challenged positions, and is an outstanding role model of someone who advocates for social justice. Her scholarly work promotes a deeper understanding of how educational practices can disadvantage people who are outside of the main stream, and includes attention to how issues of diversity play out with respect to power and privilege.


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1910 Louisville Motor Boat Club Regatta
Louisville, Kentucky, July 16, 1910
Regatta of the Louisville Motor Boat Club
The first annual regatta of the Louisville Motor Boat Club, which had been postponed from July 4th, was held July 16th. The most spectacular event was the fifteen mile race. The time made by the Laura Jean in this event was the fastest ever made here, and the boat covered the course in 52 minutes 25 seconds. Although the Little Captain, the former won the time prize, the Jefferson cup and the Lorch prize, as well as the Michigan speed wheel offered as second prize in the fourth race. In view of the fact that because of the high water the river was considered by experts as being fully five minutes slower on a fifteen mile run than it was last year, the time made by the Laura Jean is considered exceptional.
Although the events were the first held since the organization of the club, there was not a hitch to mar the sport and everything moved off smoothly. The summary:
First Race—Once around course, about two miles, for boats making 8 miles an hour or less: First, Adeline, 14:50, Julius Kemp; second, Lexington, 15:45, Lexington Motorboat Company; third, Scioto, H. C. Korfhage; fourth, Emelia M., Chester Gall; fifth, Oriole, J. H. Benner; sixth, Drop, George Droppelman; seventh, Moose, C. M. Raphun; eighth, Cotytto, A. G. Unglaub.
The Oriole and Adeline finished faster than the Emeline M., but the latter won the time prize, the barret cup, which can only be won by a member of the club.
Second Race—Only one entry, the cruiser Marjorie, owned by Lee Bernheim. She had a sailover.
Third Race—Twice around course, 10 miles; boats making eight to twelve miles an hour: First, Dr. B., 52:48, Dr. Butler; second, Esther, James E. Howard; third, Idler, Dr. Allen Voiers; fourth, Jimmie, H. J. Waner; fifth, Lillian R., Meehan and Greiner; sixth, Billy, John H. Dawson; seventh, Itasa, C. G. Niman; eighth, Soubrette, Hughes Moore.
Dr. B., the winner, wins the prize cup. Esther won a storage battery, and Idler took a whistle for third prize. The latter boat also won the Barret cup as the time prize.
Fourth Race—15 miles; three times around the course; boats making over twelve miles an hour.
First, Little Captain, 57:32, James E. Howard; second, Laura Jean, 52:25, Phelps and Knight; third, Marse Henry, 59:07, Wright Bros.; fourth, Flo, 1:02:27. Thurman and Schilling; fifth, Hobo, 57:44, Mr. Schoofield.
Another regatta has been planned by the Louisville Motor Boat Club for August 20th. Since the handicap events on July 21st a great deal of interest has developed in racing boats and a number of challenges have been passed between owners. At a recent meeting of the club preliminary arrangements for the coming meet were perfected. Already two races have been decided upon, and one or two others may be arranged before the date set for the regatta. The first race will be between Flo, owned by Thurman & Schilling, and Mick, owned by Alvin Nicholson. Both boats are capable of making 15 miles an hour. The second contest will have five entries, as follows: Vivace, owned by E. M. Hughes; Laura Jean, owned by Phelps & Knight; Eclipse, owned by Whallen Bros., and Little Captain, owned by James E. Howard. There will be no handicaps or time allowance in either of the races. The boats entered in the second races all belong to the 20-mile-an-hour class.
The third regatta to be conducted under the auspices of the club will be run on Labor Day, and several speed boats that will compete in the Cincinnati meet are expected to enter; among them Hoosier Boy. A number of Louisville boats will enter the big regatta at Cincinnati on August 27th.
(Transcribed from MotorBoat, Aug. 10, 1910, p. 54)


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Q: Why Do I Need To Make This Method Async? I've got code very similar to this (I've simplified the code a bit to demonstrate the essence of the behavior I'm trying to figure out).
public async System.Threading.Tasks.Task<bool> IsNumberOdd(int numToTest)
{
    if (numToTest % 2 == 0)
    {
        return false;
    }
    else
    {
        return true;
    }
}

If I leave off the async keyword, I get a complaint about not being able to cast a bool to a Task<bool>.  I'm assuming there's some syntactic sugar involved here. Looking at the IL (I'm not super familiar with IL) it seems as if the async keyword is causing the task to be run and then the return value is the result of the task.  Am I understanding this correctly?
By the way, if this is a dupe or if there's some blog posting that discusses this, feel free to point me to it and close this up.  I'm not trying to pad my rep; I'm trying to understand what's going on with this code.
EDIT:

For all those who were asking "why is this method async?"--because I was trying to build a small and simple code example to demonstrate the question. I should have also added an example of the calling code but I was trying to keep the code as small and simple as I could.

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I'm assuming there's some syntactic sugar involved here

Not exactly "syntactic sugar". The compiler is generating a state-machine as the method was marked as async. That is why you can return a Task<bool> without explicitly creating a Task for the return value.

If I leave off the async keyword, I get a complaint about not being
  able to cast a bool to a Task<bool>.

The async modifier is what triggers the compiler to create the state machine. If you remove it, you'll need to create the Task yourself. If for any reason you want to create a Task<T> but you're actually running synchronously, Task.FromResult is your friend.
I see no reason why this method is marked async.

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it seems as if the async keyword is causing the task to be run and then the return value is the result of the task

Correct.
There is nothing in this method that would benefit from it being async. However:

If I leave off the async keyword, I get a complaint about not being able to cast a bool to a Task<bool>

Would be happening in the caller. Without seeing that code one can only comment generally that you can either:

*

*Change the caller to not assume it is getting a waitable return.

*Change the function to return bool, but on the caller use Task.FromResult(IsNumberOdd(value)).

A: It's not about the async. Its about the Task.
your returning a bool and the return value of your function is Task
     public Task<bool> DoSomething()
     {
         return false;
     }

will also not compile.
if your not doing any thing asynchronous you shouldn't return a Task.
If you need to run something asynchronously , here are a few options which i hope will make the usage of async/await clearer.
public class Sample
{
    public async void RunSample()
    {
        // return a task. later obtain a result if some fashion
        Task<bool> task = DoSomethingAsync();
        bool res1 = task.Result;

        // await a task which is created for you by re-wrapping the result.
        bool res2 = await AwaitSomethingAsync();

        // await a task which is created for you by rewrapping the result due to await.
        bool res3 = await DoSomethingAsync2();

        // await a task.
        bool res4 = await DoSomethingAsync();
    }

    public async Task<bool> DoSomethingAsync2()
    {
        return false;
    }

    public Task<bool> DoSomethingAsync()
    {
        return Task<bool>.Run(() => { return false; });
    }

    public async Task<bool> AwaitSomethingAsync()
    {
        bool res = await Task<bool>.Run(() => { return false; });
        return res; // re-wraps it in a Task
    }

}


Twin Pines Golf course will be the first Cedar Rapids municipal golf course to open for the 2019 season tomorrow.
The course, at 3800 42nd St. NE, will operate daily from 9 a.m. to dusk and tee times are not needed. The city stated the course for now is open to walkers only with no golf carts allowed. The driving range remains closed at this time.
Gardner, Ellis and Jones golf courses will open later.


29th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, PMLR 49:1417-1418, 2016.
This paper considers the optimal adaptive allocation of measurement effort for identifying the best among a finite set of options or designs. An experimenter sequentially chooses designs to measure and observes noisy signals of their quality with the goal of confidently identifying the best design after a small number of measurements. I propose three simple Bayesian algorithms for adaptively allocating measurement effort. One is Top-Two Probability sampling, which computes the two designs with the highest posterior probability of being optimal, and then randomizes to select among these two. One is a variant a top-two sampling which considers not only the probability a design is optimal, but the expected amount by which its quality exceeds that of other designs. The final algorithm is a modified version of Thompson sampling that is tailored for identifying the best design. I prove that these simple algorithms satisfy a strong optimality property. In a frequestist setting where the true quality of the designs is fixed, one hopes the posterior definitively identifies the optimal design, in the sense that that the posterior probability assigned to the event that some other design is optimal converges to zero as measurements are collected. I show that under the proposed algorithms this convergence occurs at an \emphexponential rate, and the corresponding exponent is the best possible among all allocation rules.
%X This paper considers the optimal adaptive allocation of measurement effort for identifying the best among a finite set of options or designs.  An experimenter sequentially chooses designs to measure and observes noisy signals of their quality with the goal of confidently identifying the best design  after a small number of measurements. I propose three simple Bayesian algorithms for adaptively allocating measurement effort. One is Top-Two Probability sampling, which computes the two designs with the highest posterior probability of being optimal, and then randomizes to select among these two. One is a variant a top-two sampling which considers not only the probability a design is optimal, but the expected amount by which its quality exceeds that of other designs. The final algorithm is a modified version of Thompson sampling that is tailored for identifying the best design. I prove that these simple algorithms satisfy a strong optimality property. In a frequestist setting where the true quality of the designs is fixed, one hopes the posterior definitively identifies the optimal design, in the sense that that the posterior probability assigned to the event that some other design is optimal converges to zero as measurements are collected. I show that under the proposed algorithms this convergence occurs at an \emphexponential rate, and the corresponding exponent is the best possible among all allocation rules.
AB  - This paper considers the optimal adaptive allocation of measurement effort for identifying the best among a finite set of options or designs.  An experimenter sequentially chooses designs to measure and observes noisy signals of their quality with the goal of confidently identifying the best design  after a small number of measurements. I propose three simple Bayesian algorithms for adaptively allocating measurement effort. One is Top-Two Probability sampling, which computes the two designs with the highest posterior probability of being optimal, and then randomizes to select among these two. One is a variant a top-two sampling which considers not only the probability a design is optimal, but the expected amount by which its quality exceeds that of other designs. The final algorithm is a modified version of Thompson sampling that is tailored for identifying the best design. I prove that these simple algorithms satisfy a strong optimality property. In a frequestist setting where the true quality of the designs is fixed, one hopes the posterior definitively identifies the optimal design, in the sense that that the posterior probability assigned to the event that some other design is optimal converges to zero as measurements are collected. I show that under the proposed algorithms this convergence occurs at an \emphexponential rate, and the corresponding exponent is the best possible among all allocation rules.


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seems predicted by such signs as these, that the English language is now used in part by more than one hundred millions of people, that the nations speaking the Teutonic tongues are increasing, and that forty-two million square miles of the land-surface of the globe are to-day guarded by Christian powers.
No movement of the century has been more significant than the wide extension of the English-speaking peoples. Christian England has not failed to make her Biblical faith a beneficent power wherever her wide commerce has extended. When we go beyond the British Islands to the greater Britain of her colossal possessions, and watch the course of Christian advance in the many lands over which waves the red-cross flag, when we note the ample Dominion of Canada, the new and wondrous world of Australia, the English mission stations in every corner of the earth, and on the great islands of the sea, and especially when we study this mighty Empire, where, during the Victorian Era, according to Sir Bartle Frere the "changes have been more important than those in modern Europe," we gain a new impression of the extent of that Biblical dominion, which seems likely to cover the earth. It is certain that the English-speaking nations will soon control the destinies of mankind. England has seven flourishing states in Africa, and who can doubt, asks John Fiske, the American historian " that the African Continent will be occupied by a mighty nation of English descent, covered with populous cities and flourishing farms ?" He points to New Zealand, "with its climate of perpetual spring, where the English race is multiplying faster than anywhere else in the world, unless it be in Texas and Minnesota." In a century and a half the population in North America will reach seven hundred millions. English colonies will occupy the vast Oceanic, African, Indian worlds, and "the day is at hand when four-fifths of the human race will trace their pedigree to English forefathers, as four-fifths of the population of the United States trace their pedigree to-day." Are not these tremendous facts a prophecy that the coming man is likely to read his books, not in two hundred languages, but in the tongue of Bacon and Bunyan, of Burke and Webster, and have we not here a prophecy, confirmatory of all else that we have discovered that the coming man will find his sacred literature in those Scriptures which "principally teach what man is to believe concerning God and what duty God requires of man ?"
When Queen Victoria on the fiftieth anniversary of her coronation walked the aisles of Westminster Abbey, she crossed the grave of Livingstone on which are inscribed the words of the Christ, "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold." These words on that heroic grave are surely a sweet great prophecy of the gathering of all nations beneath one spiritual banner. Of that majestic kingdom whose outlines already appear, the Universal Book is the harbinger, symbol, and moulding power, more luminous, attractive and divine, than our present imperfect and divided Christendom. With that Book we go to the Moslem and recall to him that his own Koran pays high and unstinted homage to the Old and New Testaments as the Word of God. With that Book we shall go to China, and holding up a standard which accords with her best political and social ideals, shall reveal to her toughfibred people the true King of Heaven. With that Book we come to India, and, not denying her own deepest doctrine, the omnipenetrativeness of the Deity, declare the God who was in Christ, the incarnate and atoning Redeemer, reconciling the world unto Himself. With that Book we come to all who linger in the twilight of Asia, and flash from these pages the Light of the World—until through the Universal Book men shall see the Universal Man and Saviour, and shall be brought into harmony with prophets, apostles, martyrs, who have kept the sayings of this Book, and now stand robed in white, before Him whom John saw with vesture dipped in blood, whose name is called The Word of God.
FIFTH LECTURE.
THE UNIVERSAL MAN AND SAVIOUR. I am simply speaking demonstrable fact when I say that the one magnetic centre in the world of thought and religion to-day is Jesus Christ. This course of Lectures has brought us to a theme before which I might well keep silent, acknowledging what I profoundly feel, the utter inadequacy of any speech which I am able to offer. I have endeavoured to set forth the Universal Aspects of Christianity, as indicating its ultimate universal acceptance. I have shown some of the World-wide Effects of Christianity, which point to its rightful supremacy and world-wide prevalence. We have considered together the Universal Book, and have seen in Christian Theism a basis for a Universal Religion. It is surely appropriate that we should compare Christianity with the ethnic and the would-be universal faiths. It is appropriate also that we should place the Christian Bible by the side of the other sacred scriptures. But we advance to-day a step further and a step higher. Christendom is great and wonderful, but Christ is infinitely greater. Matched with Him the best golden acres of His kingdom are as moonlight unto sunlight. The Bible is surpassingly great, but He is the Light which flashes from its pages. He is the priceless pearl within its sacred casket. The Bible has well been called only the "Christian's score-book, while Christ Himself is our song, concrete, vital, expressive, rhythmic, universal." And while we may compare the sacred books of the world with each other, the believer in Christ shrinks back almost from naming his Saviour and King, even in the august company of the founders of other religions. We may compare Moses, Zoroaster, Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed among themselves, and with a long list of other great personages; but when we mention before a company of Christians the name of Jesus Christ, who for them has the spiritual significance of God, we feel that worship supplants criticism and comparison, and that an act of homage in praiseful hymn or grateful prayer is the first commanding duty.
We have now arrived at what is essential in Christianity and what is most distinctive. Christianity is Christ. More and more it is identified with its Founder, and the preservation of His life as the supreme historical reality is the final vindication of the Christian religion. If men ask us what is the substance of the Christian belief, we point them to Christ as predicted by the prophets, as disclosed in the Gospels, as interpreted by the Epistles, and as living to-day in the hearts of His people. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning, middle and end of Christian faith. To the believer, He is the Marvel, the Mystery, the Glory, the Explanation of the world, standing out singular, unique, alone. He sustains the most opposite characters as the Sufferer and the Sovereign, the despised of men and the adored of 'angels, the Victim and the King, the Stone of Stumbling and Bright and Morning Star, the Child of Mary, the Son of God. The greatest poetry and a golden treasury of holy hymns have been laid at His feet. There is no form or degree of love which He has not touched. Where else will you find a love which covers and absorbs the whole of life like that which Jesus has called forth? The love which is born of gratitude He certainly has inspired; the love which is linked with perfect admiration He surely has commanded; the love which delights to pour itself out in lyric ecstacy, the love which is filled with pitiful sorrow for great suffering, the love which bows in adoration, the love which inspires men to endure hardships, traverse oceans, brave dangers from savage tribes and wasting pestilence, submit to shame and despise death in its direst forms, all these manifestations of love appear like a band of radiant angels about the Christ. This love to Him has given joy to a faith which persecution could not conquer and has produced those tender confidences between the soul and its Saviour which have marked the lives of some of the wisest and sweetest of our race. It beat with strong pulses through the mighty, generous and oft-burdened heart of Martin Luther ; it was a tender under-song beneath the stern life and iron theology of John Calvin ; it is the ever-burning lamp overhanging the feast of heaven which Thomas à Kempis sets before us in his Imitation of Christ. The great epic poet of England was sustained by it in all the sorrows that covered him, and it burns, not only in the stately grandeur of his poetry, but through the equal majesty of his prose. This is the love which explains the joy of the missionary and the martyr, and which forbade and prevented the betrayal of Jesus in the persecuted Christian of Madagascar, who saw his wife and brethren and children bound and thrown down the rocks and who bravely followed them to death in a sublime confession. This love gladdened the heart of the all accomplished Vander Kemp amid the degraded Hottentots; it moved the soul of Henry Martyn in his life of heroic sacrifice; it cheered the
weary labors of the American scholars who gave the Arabic Bible to the race of Mohammed ; it was the inspiration of Neander, as with incredible toil he unrolled anew the past record of the Church ; it comforted the great heart of Dorner as, in his History of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ, he traced through the centuries the manifold and majestic impression which His august personality has made upon men. But while He enkindles the heart, He equally illumines the mind of the believer, who perceives in Him the goal of prophecy and the turning point of History. In Correggio's picture of the Infancy the light streams from the face of the new-born King in the lowly stable, and Christian faith beholds in it the light of love and truth and hope and Messianic expectation that illumined the sad path-way leading the exiles of Eden out of the lost Paradise. It was the radiance which brought comfort to the father of the faithful in the supreme moment of his life; it was the pillar of light which led Israel out of Egypt; it was the gleam of hope which shone amid the altar fires of tabernacle and temple ; it was the splendor which appeared on the breastplate of Aaron, the high priest, and the crown of David, the king; it was the stellar glory which illumined the souls of prophets, becoming at last the rounded fulness of the Sun of Righteousness; it was the light which five centuries before Bethlehem cradled the King, had illumined the soul of the Indian prince Siddartha who may be classed among those prophets that dimly saw what was yet to fill all the world with its gracious illumination.
And Christian faith has seen in the coming of the Christ the starting-point of the world's greater history. He appeared at a time when peace covered the nations, and there seemed to be a pause in the on-goings of humanity, when His own people were helpless, and craving a Deliverer, smitten from without and torn from within. They had scattered their synagogues over the Roman Empire, little dreaming that in them the messengers of Jesus of Nazareth were to find their first listeners to the glad tidings of a Messiah come. As little did the Romans imagine that along the military roads which they had stretched from land to land, the ambassadors of the Prince of the house of David was to herald a new Kingdom, which
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MORGAN, Binger (Plantiff) and MORGAN, Elinor Gassaway (Defendant); married 1807/08 Hampshire Co., VA; divorced 22 Dec 1812; He commited adultery, she deserted; D* 1-481.
NOLAN, Barnabas (defendant) and Mary Ann Nolan (Plantiff) married 1 Dec 1804 Augusta Co, VA; divorced 15 Jul 1814; Moved to Ohio in 1805; She was deserted Jul 1813; D*1-39, 44, 504.
REED, William (Defendant) and REED, Margaret nee BLACK (Plantiff) married in PA; divorced 10 Jul 1813; William was extremely cruel; children John and Rufus; D* 1-40, 481.


STRATA Architecture Inc. collaborated with Draw Architecture + Urban Design, LLC on the exterior and interior renovation of a 1940's car dealership into an arts incubator for at-risk teenagers. MyArts mission is to provide a safe work/play space for youth to gather and explore their creativity while socializing and motivating each other. Our firm's involvement included the following: detailed assessment of the existing building, production of as-built documentation, programming through design development and production of exterior rehabilitation documents for bidding and construction including: masonry, new window and storefront design, new exterior entry and stair, loading dock, historic entrance marquee lighting and fascia restoration, and new roof. The 13,000 sq.ft. interior rehabilitation transformed the large warehouse space into an open gallery with collaborative studio environments for ceramics, painting, screen printing, photography and graphic design. The former automobile showroom was repurposed with offices, meeting rooms and a retail/gallery space for the students to sell their artwork.


Bryan Schwartz has adjudicated on a number of labour arbitration disputes. Below are a number of the decisions.
Re Mallard and Prairie Flour Mills Ltd.
Harrison v Canadian National Railway Co.
Bartlett v Arrowhead Development Corp.
Fehr v Canadian Pacific Railway Co.
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Genesis Belanger
The Party's Over
14.11.2020 > 31.01.2021
Rue de Livourne 32 Livornostraat
rodolphe janssen is pleased to announce The Party's Over, a solo exhibition by New York based artist, Genesis Belanger. This is her first solo European show.
In Belanger's latest body of work, the remnants of a raucous celebration lie scattered throughout the gallery's space. Her groupings of expressive sculpted forms, muted in color and rendered in porcelain and stoneware (often atop lush furnishings), intimate a blowout of epic proportions and a desperate need to pick up the pieces. After the party, Belanger seems to say, the hangover comes.
In mathematics, an inflection point marks the moment in a curve where a change in direction occurs. The calculus on display in this exhibition seems to portend a possible shift—a sense that we're approaching the terminal decline of a toxic patriarchy. "They're getting in their last punches," explains Belanger. As such, the cumulative effect of the show's work is a sense of quiet outrage, masked by Belanger's playful forms that are suffused in humor and irony. With this dual narrative at play, Belanger's own domestic drama can in some manner be compared to the deceptively complex melodramatic films of Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, where a pronounced sense of style slyly conceals the profound message beneath.
Belanger's ability to anthropomorphize common domestic items with clichéd feminine attributes, denotes an acknowledgement of the issues that women endure at the hands of society at large. An exaggerated ceramic guitar lies in repose on a soft marshmellow-ish lounge chair with bronze fingers for legs. The guitar's metal strings are broken, frayed, frazzled, and rendered useless. Belanger suggests the female form is an instrument that men demand to be played. Here, though, this odalisque is unplayable—a futile instrument in the eyes of the powerful. Elsewhere, a clothes iron—a literal symbol of the archetypal American housewife's liberation—has its cord cut and wires exposed.
While Belanger's individual sculptures have isolated and subverted modern symbols of femininity, this exhibition seeks to install a broader thematic dialogue between each of these objects and their respective tableaus. Pieces from one part of the exhibition exist in dialogue with another. A lavish cake with two slices missing sits on a crowded table, one slice laying sideways on a plate nearby. Elsewhere in the show we find the other missing slice, now serving as a wedge sandal on a disembodied foot, cream seeping through the toes in tiny circular beads. The effect is reminiscent of the parlor game, 'telephone.' The whispered message? #Time'sUp.
Throughout the show, Belanger introduces fugazis—false symbols—of female liberation for our close inspection (bras that restrict, boxy handbags with teeth-like zippers, candy-colored tranquilizers) that reveal themselves to be deceptions and diversions. These, Belanger posits, are things that society forces on women, removed from their actual needs. Spending time with The Party's Over and its complex web of silent dialogue reveals Belanger's quiet confidence that while the powerful have had fun while it lasted, the last laugh clearly won't be theirs.
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On Wednesday, soon after the terrorist attack in London and in the midst of emergency responses to tend to the victims, Donald Trump Jr., the President's son and name-sake, used his Twitter account to lay into London's Mayor Sadiq Khan.
"You have to be kidding me?!: Terror attacks are part of living in big city, says London Mayor Sadiq Khan," Trump Jr. wrote.
This was just like Dad seeing thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating the horrors of the 9/11 attacks!
The Khan citation was taken from an article that the newspaper The Independent published in the wake of last fall's ineffective bombing attempts in New York City's Chelsea area. At the time, Mayor Khan told Londoners that nothing was more important than to keep them safe confessing that he had "a sleepless night" following the news from New York.
Khan was right and is right now. After major terrorist attacks in New York, Washington, Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels, Berlin and many more in other cities there is no doubt that sooner or later more such strikes will be attempted and some of them are likely to succeed. London's excellent Metropolitan Police, better known as Scotland Yard, America's formidable counterterrorism community and their counterparts in France, Germany, Sweden, and elsewhere in Europe have prevented a large number of plots and they will prevent more; they cannot prevent all attacks--certainly not those carried out by lone actors with trucks, cars, guns, or kitchen knives. Today, one day after the London attack, there was another, luckily failed attempt to kill by a weapon-laden car in the Belgian city of Antwerp.
Just as no police force in the world can prevent all murders, no security service can prevent all acts of terrorism. As horrific as some crimes and some terrorist attacks are such, neither crimes nor terrorism amount to existential threats.
Recognizing this reality is essential for dealing effectively and properly with the threat of terrorism which means trying to prevent and at the same time preparing to respond to attacks by all kinds of organizations, cells, and lone wolves.
It is always regrettable when people who have no knowledge about a particular problem or issue, in this case terrorism and counterterrorism, and who have no inclination to think before they speak and insult. But it is particularly dangerous when this sort of stuff is publicized by the son of a sitting president who tends to mimic his father.


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Ultimo NSW, Australia (July 14, 2016) - It started in 1976 as an investigation into the potential health consequences of oral contraceptives, but the long-running Nurses' Health Study has yielded increasingly greater benefits to scientific knowledge of health and disease, according to a paper published today in the journal Public Health Research & Practice .
The Perspective paper by Dr. Graham Colditz, the Study's Principal Investigator from 2000-2006, says researchers have used information gathered from the Study's more than 275,000 participants from right across the US to make many advances, including helping expand the field of risk prediction in cancer.
"The Study has guided recommendations from the US Surgeon General in areas such as the adverse health effects of smoking, and resulted in changes to regulation, such as in the area of transfat and its effect on heart disease and diabetes," said Dr. Colditz, who is currently Chief of the Division of Public Health Sciences and the Niess-Gain Professor of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, US.
"The Study is now working with a third generation of American women. Much has changed in the field of epidemiology in the past 40 years and we have had to adapt to respond to emerging public health issues.
"For example, wider use of pathology samples to understand the causes of disease led us to conduct a series of biomarker studies to better understand the connections between lifestyle and cancer. One finding to emerge from that work was that breastfeeding is linked to lower rates of certain types of breast cancer."
There is no association between silicone breast implants and connective tissue disease.
The latest issue of Public Health Research & Practice has a special focus on cohort studies, and also examines the contributions of other major longitudinal cohort studies such as the Sax Institute's 45 and Up Study examining healthy ageing in more than a quarter of a million Australians.
Sax Institute , 14.07.2016 (tB).


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