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by Andrew
This year's MCC Cup Weekender was held from the 2nd-6th of November, and had a pretty strong field, with 4 IMs, one IM-elect (with a GM norm), and 2 FMs playing. There was also a number of strong non-titled players; most notably New Zealand Olympic Representative Luke Li (2256), and strong Victorian junior Justin Tan (2250).
Rounds 1-3
Before going to this tournament I'd had an enormous amount of uni assessment to wade through, and during it I had much still to go. Between each of the first 3 rounds I tried in vain to do a bit of study, and my chess suffered. I had made it to 2/2, yet my first three games were riddled with mistakes - the third round game against top seed IM Stephen Solomon, being an absolute disaster. Having confused two different opening ideas, I created huge weaknesses on my queenside early on - though it was not even that which lost me the game. Solo capitalised on my awkward development by playing a quick f4, f5, g4, and I sadly had to allow my bishop to be trapped on h8, as g5 and f6 were more or less unstoppable.
|After 16...Bh8. The rest of the game wasn't much fun.
From then on I was basically playing a piece down, and had to give it up later. I had tried for a couple of tricks in the ending, as you do, but Solo was never in danger of letting me snatch half a point.
From this point on my tournament went remarkably well, as I put my uni work aside (wasn't getting anywhere anyway) and focused on the chess. Life lesson learned:
Rounds 4 and 5
In Round four I played Thai Ly (2008) as White. My opponent arrived 20 minutes late to the game, and unfortunately did not know the sharp line of the Botvinnik that I played, so had to spend mcuh more time figuring out what to do. I held a comfortable advantage into the middle game and my opponent missed an interesting exchange sacrifice that might have lead to equality. Instead I won two pawns, and seeing that his only way to develop was to sacrifice more material he resigned.
In Round 5, I played Ari Dale (2161), a strong and up-and-coming Victorian junior; so I knew I would be in for a pretty tough game from the start. Ari played an interesting variation of the Queen's Indian that I had not come across before (novelty?) and I was unable to find any decent plan to push for an advantage. He equalised quite comfortable and was probably slightly better for a portion of the game. Pieces were swapped off, and we reached a Q+R vs. Q+R endgame which was most likely just drawn. However, after a couple of moves were repeated, Ari played on for a win, allowing a queen swap. However after the queen swap it was really only me who could win, and I able to get two, and later three, passed pawns on the queenside. However Ari fought on and I had to work hard to fend off threats of checkmate and perpetual check which I was being faced with left, right and centre. In the end I was able to consolidate and my passed pawns prevailed.
Rounds 6 and 7
So after some degree of turbulence, I had made it to 4/5 and was paired as Black against the leader (on 5/5!) IM-elect Max Illingworth (2394), who had just made his debut as a member of the Australian Olympic Team. The opening was a Maroczy Bind variation of the Accelerated Dragon. This is a rather solid opening and I thought I would stand a better chance with this than I did last year with my Sveshnikov. We got into a queenless middlegame after 15 moves, and the game (I would later find out) had followed theory until then. At one stage I made an interesting decision to swap off my dark-squared bishop for his knight in order to give my knight good prospects. This worked out pretty well, and the position gradually went from equal to slightly better for me. Finally we got into a R+B vs R+B endgame where my pawns were on better sqaures and I had a slight advantage. However I was short of time and misplayed it initially, allowing him to take the initiative. Before long we swapped off bishops and I ended up with an extra pawn, and a position that should have been winning. One or two moves away from promoting, I made a horrible blunder which lead to a draw. (See below.)
Here I suddenly forgot what the difference between pushing my f-pawn and pushing my e-pawn was, and so proceeded with 83...f4?? only to allow White to play the last real trick left: 84.Ra3+, followed by Rb3. The game continued 84...Ke2? (...e3 85.Rb3 Rxb3 86.Kxb3 e2 87.b8=Q e1=Q and Black has good winning chances because of the far advanced pawn and the position of White's king) 85.Rb3 Rxb7 86.Rxb7 f3 (D)
And both sides had to play quite precisely for the rest: 87.Kc3 e3 88.Rb2+ Kf1 89.Rb1+ Ke2 90.Kd4 f2 91.Ke4 (91.Rb2+ Kf3 -+) f1=Q 92.Rxf1 Kxf1 93.Kxe3 1/2-1/2
Full game can be seen here:
I felt that this game was the best of my tournament, despite missing out on the full point. I was disappointed with the finish, but I later found out that it was his birthday that day, so I could at least content myself with the fact that I had not made his birthday a dismal one by winning the game.
In Round 7 I played IM George Xie (2399), who had not had a great start to the tournament, losing two games (and nearly more than that) against lower-rated players. The game was a Queen's Indian, where I had a decent position for a sacrificed pawn in the opening but never really had an advantage. We swapped off into an endgame where he was a bit better but it never looked like it was clearly winning. A dubious winning try by him allowed me to pick up some of his weak pawns and have good chances in the rook ending, which I managed to convert.
|After 38.Rh4. White has been moving his rook back and
forth along the 4th rank, holding the Black king at bay.
This move does quite a bit at once. Firstly it stops the Black king invading with Ra2+ and Kf3, due to Rxf5. Secondly it prevents a thematic f4 push, and thirdly it simply plans to win a pawn with Rxf7. Soon after this some inaccuracies by Black allowed me to win the other f-pawn via a tactic involving a mating net, after which the three connected passed pawns allowed for an easy finish.
Rounds 8 and 9
In Round 8 I was Black against 15-year old Luke Li from NZ (2256), who has recently played a number of tournaments in Victoria, and is now participating in the 2012 Australasian Masters. The game was a King's Indian where White sacs a pawn for a lot of initiative on the queenside. I was never any better in this game, and for a large part of the middlegame I was considerably worse. We got into an interesting endgame where I had two outside passed-pawns for his knight, and it was tricky for him to untangle his pieces without losing material.
|After 34.b5
Here Luke offered a draw, and after about 20 mins of calculation I was not able to find anything that would give me good winning chances, so I accepted the draw. After the game we looked at a lot of interesting lines. After 34...axb5, there are two moves. The move I was most afraid of was 35.a5, with the idea of giving up the knight on d3 to aid in a swift promotion of the a-pawn. The other move was 35.axb5, and after Rb3, 36. Bc7 with some interesting complications arising. Most lines ended in a draw, some were winning for White. Overall I was glad I took the draw when I did, and was still on track to reach my goal score of 7/9.
In Round 9, I played IM Mirko Rujevic (2253) as White. The game followed a familiar story I'd been getting in the tournament: game starts off as a Queen's Indian, I am not able to get any advantage out of the opening and I am even slightly worse, pieces come off and we end up in an equal or += rook ending that I manage to win.
|After 29.Bc6
|After 46...Kg4?
|White to play and win
Here I was in a bit of time trouble and could easily have gone wrong with the natural-looking 56.Rc8. In fact, what I played, 56.Rd8+!, was the only way to win. After 56.Rc8 a3! (...Kd2 57.Ke4 +-) Black is one tempo up on the game, which turns out to make all the difference. The point is that after 56.Rd8+ Kc3 57.Rc8+ Kd2 White now has the crucial square for his king on e4 to win the Q vs. a-pawn endgame, whereas after 57...Kd3 White plays the only move 57.a3! himself, forcing the Black king to move aside. After this was a long forcing sequence which can be seen below:
56...Kc3 57.Rc8+ Kd2 58.Ke4 c1=Q 59.Rxc1 Kxc1 60.f4 Kb2 61.f5 Kxa2 62.f6 Kb2 63.f7 a3 64.f8=Q a2 (D)
65.Qb4+ Kc2 66.Qa3 Kb1 67.Qb3+ Ka1 68.Qc3+ Kb1 69.Kd3 and here, seeing that a1=Q allows Qc2# Black half jokingly promoted to a knight ...a1=N (D) and promptly resigned afterwards.
As far as I can tell, the entire sequence from 47.Rc8! to 69...a1=N was forced, or at least, (from what I can see) both sides played the best moves till the end. For me this was certainly a very satisfying way to finish the game, and the tournament. (And I'd never had quite so many rook endings in one tournament before...) The full game can be seen below.
After my draw with Max in Round 6, he had convincingly pressed on, beating 3 more strong players to finish with an amazing 8.5/9, collecting the $1500 first prize. Solomon came in 2nd with 7.5 winning $750, and I took 3rd place on 7/9, winning $500 (which just payed for the trip!). From this tournament I managed to gain 26 points, with a 2457 performance rating (Max's being 2700+).
Tonight I am flying to Adelaide to play in my last Australian Young Masters, which has been co-organised for the second year in a row by fellow Figjammer Fedja Zulfic. There will be a live blog during the tournament done by GM Ian Rogers - who will also be coaching - on this site, as well as all the other usual details. It should be a really exciting tournament, and I will probably do a wrap up of the tournament sometime in the next couple of weeks, as well as some previous neglected posts.
Leading Final Scores for MCC Cup Weekender 2012:
1st with 8.5/9: IM Max Illingworth (2394)
2nd with 7.5/9: IM Stephen Solomon (2402)
3rd with 7/9: IM Andrew Brown (2263)
4th with 6.5/9: Luke Li (2256)
A full list of scores and other details (including top games) from the tournament and Melbourne Chess Club can be found on their site here, and some other reports on the tournament by arbiter Kerry Stead on his blog here.


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Disparate BDS events in February suggest that the movement is reorienting to changing political circumstances thanks to unprecedented pushback. This included US pressure that was key to the decision by the Irish parliament to postpone a vote on BDS legislation, and to the UN 'Human Rights Council's' decision to release only partial information regarding a blacklist of companies working in the 'West Bank.' Without effective political leadership, including legislation, and with rapidly deteriorating behavioral norms regarding harassment and intimidation, BDS degenerates rapidly into overt antisemitism.
Some of the most important BDS developments in February took place in the international sphere. Reports indicated that pressure from the US State Department had been key to changing the position of the Irish government from its previous support for BDS legislation that would have criminalized economic relations with Israeli 'settlements.' The bill reflected longstanding Irish antipathy towards Israel and would have put Ireland at odds with US and European anti-boycott statutes.
In another case, US and Israeli pressure appears to have caused the 'United Nations Human Rights Council' (UNHCR) to postpone release of a full blacklist of international and Israeli firms with ties to the 'West Bank.' UNHCR stated that it had not yet contacted all 206 firms, most of which are Israeli, on the blacklist.
The blackmail implicit in the constructing and publicizing of the blacklist is palpable, and reflects the organization's obsession with Israel. The situation is so extreme a US Congressional resolution has been introduced to reduce funding or cut ties altogether with UNHCR.
In strong contrast, the recent apology by the US Department of Justice regarding the improper refusal of tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) given to the pro-Israel organization Z Street explicitly acknowledged the Obama Administration targeted the organization because of its politics. A number of other pro-Israel and conservative organizations received similar treatment from the IRS. The case demonstrated that pro-Israel politics and BDS are shaped at the highest political levels in the US and implemented by the administrative state.
One strange and still emerging BDS related story is the apparent effort by the al Jazeera network, owned by the government of Qatar, to blackmail American Jewish groups over support for Israel. Reports in 2017 indicated that a number of US and UK based pro-Israel organizations had been infiltrated as part of an exposé on the "Israel lobby." Reports now indicate that Qatari representatives have contacted some of those organizations asking for an explanation regarding their activities.
The apparent blackmail effort comes at the same time Qatar has been engaged in a high profile effort to reach out to prominent American Jews and organizations, either in the belief that Jews exercise disproportionate influence or an effort to widen splits within the American Jewish community. The effort has once again exposed al Jazeera as an unregistered foreign agent engaged in state sponsored espionage. Congressional efforts to force the network to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act have begun.
The position of the BDS movement as a global left wing fixation was signaled by its nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. Bjornar Moxnes, leader of the Red Party in the Norwegian Parliament, announced that he had nominated the movement, saying "Awarding a Nobel Peace Prize to the BDS movement would be a powerful sign demonstrating that the international community is committed to supporting a just peace in the Middle East and using peaceful means to end military rule and broader violations of international law."
Reacting to criticism, Moxnes claimed that the BDS movement is "not against the people of Israel. It's not against the Jewish people; it's against the policies of a state, which (are) without doubt against international law." Israeli commentators reacted scornfully, while representatives of 'Jewish Voice for Peace' expressed their approval. Nominations for the prize are a reliable indicator of European elite opinion, which uniformly tracks left. Announcement of the nomination, however, violates Nobel Foundation regulations.
Another manifestation of the official European fixation was an invitation extended by a Portuguese lawmaker for BDS leader Omar Barghouti to speak at the European Parliament. Portuguese and Belgian Jewish groups protested the invitation, which "directly undermines its [the EU's] own policy stance on anti-Semitism." An even more egregious example was speaking invitation extended to convicted terrorist Rasmea Odeh, recently expelled from the US, by two organizations in the Netherlands.
On campus there were several BDS related incidents. Most notable was the passage of a BDS resolution by the student government at City University in London. The event was marked by overt harassment and intimidation directed against Jewish students who spoke out during the debate. Students reported being poked and jabbed and being told to "shut the fuck up" during the proceedings.
In contrast, the student government at Northeastern University voted down a BDS resolution that associated university investments with in the "Israeli occupation of Palestine" and "the mass deportation of immigrants from the US by Immigration and Customs Enforcement." A similar resolution will shortly come under consideration at the University of Illinois. BDS supporters at Tufts University made another 'intersectional' allegation, that Israel is responsible for police violence in the US, and who complained about the participation of campus police in an Israeli law enforcement exchange.
There were also several instances where BDS efforts to manipulate academic administrations backfired. At Fresno State University a 2017 search for the 'Edward Said Professorship of Middle East Studies' collapsed after procedural abnormalities by the search committee. This failure, however, was quickly attributed by local BDS supporters and 'Jewish Voice for Peace' to sabotage by pro-Israel groups. One faculty member and BDS supporter stated there had been "documented campaign of harassment and intimidation of search committee members by Israel advocacy groups to influence and derail the outcome of the search," a claim repeated an amplified by many groups including local Islamic organizations and the Middle East Studies Association.
There was, however, no evidence that anyone outside the university, let alone in the Jewish community, had even heard of the proposed position. Analysis of the university's files, obtained through a freedom of information request, also showed there was no outside involvement, but rather repeated failures by the search organizers. Their readiness, however, to allege Jewish conspiracies is characteristic of the paranoid and antisemitic mindset of the BDS movement and a subset of faculty members.
Another unfounded accusation against Jewish and Israeli organizations was resolved at the University of California at Irvine. A pro-Israel group, whose event had been disrupted by the local Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), was subsequently accused of harassment and other misconduct by the same SJP branch. After a lengthy 'investigation' the university cleared the pro-Israel group and extended the SJP chapter's suspension into 2019. The incident is another where a BDS group has leveled false charge in order to use university disciplinary procedures against pro-Israel groups and speakers.
But these and other recent failures must be viewed through several lenses. First, accusations by BDS supporters successfully poison the campus atmosphere further against Israel and its supporters. Second, because the BDS movement has a quasi-religious mentality convinced of its own righteousness, failure and rebuke are interpreted as evidence of institutional corruption and corruption, which energizes the hard core base. Third, the resort to antisemitic allegations of conspiracy is intensifying and will continue to do so as BDS-related antisemitism poisons more aspects of campus life and as university demographics continue to change.
There were several incidents of harassment directed at Israeli speakers and events at the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia. At King's College London former Israeli Minister Dan Meridor's talk was disrupted by screaming protestors. The academic administration had previously promised that protestors would not be admitted. The King's College Israel Society is now threatening legal action against the student government over its support for BDS.
Finally, at the University of Lille, an Israeli festival was disrupted by protests. After the protests and complaints from two faculty members to the administration, the festival was canceled. One of the festival's organizers stated, "The protesters told us that they were coming to demonstrate at all our activities. So we decided to stop. We do not want to create more controversy on this."
The British BDS vote and protests come amidst public cautions that 'Israel Apartheid Week' rhetoric that characterizes Israel as 'racist' risks contravening accepted guidelines from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism. Other reports, however, suggest that 'apartheid week' is waning on British campuses. This must be weighed against continuing harassment and intimidation of Jewish students and pro-Israel events, and the growing atmosphere of Labour Party antisemitism that is helping fuel an unprecedented number of attacks on British Jews.
In the US political sphere, a bill expressing opposition to BDS is set to pass in the Ohio legislature. In Kansas, however, a court ruled that the state's recently passed legislation making it illegal for state entities to do business with companies boycotting Israel violated constitutional free speech protections. A similar challenge is underway in Arizona. Both legal challenges are being spearheaded by local branches of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), in association with Palestine Legal, the lawfare arm of the BDS movement.
The unwillingness of local ACLU branches to distinguish between unrestricted free speech in a private capacity and restricted commercial behavior conducted by a state representative or employee, and their role as an adjunct to the BDS movement, represents a disturbing intensification of the organized left's movement away from free speech.

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YSF Venue and Travel
The 17th FEBS YSF will be held at the Ramat Rachel Resort, Jerusalem (7–10 September 2017).
Ramat Rachel Resort offers both accommodation and a Kibbutz experience! There is a tranquil garden overlooking natural surroundings, and it's only a 15-minute drive from Jerusalem city center. The Resort's auditorium and meeting areas will also provide an excellent setting for the scientific discussion.
You are welcome to enjoy the unique environment and enrich your knowledge and network during the YSF, before moving on with the other YSF participants to experience the 42nd FEBS Congress in Jerusalem. During the days of the Congress (10–14 September 2017), YSF participants will stay at the Jerusalem Gate Hotel, near to the ICC Congress venue.
Accommodation will be in shared rooms. YSF participants do not need to book a room or pay accommodation fees. The YSF Organizing Committee will take care of this, in collaboration with the Congress Organizers and FEBS.


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EthicalOil.org, the organization that sparked a diplomatic incident between Canada and Saudi Arabia with its television commercials criticizing Saudi oil imports, has brought its controversial campaign to the United States.
The group, which launched this summer, promotes "ethical" Canadian oil from the oil sands as a more responsible choice for North American consumers than "conflict oil" from producers like Saudi Arabia. OPEC oil imports, it argues, supports totalitarian regimes that repress women and abuse human rights while funding military belligerence and terrorism. It has aggressively pushed oil from Canada –which has the third largest deposit of oil reserves on earth — as a way for North Americans to end their dependence on imports from undemocratic and hostile regimes in Venezuela, Libya and Saudi Arabia.
The group is running ads on the Fox Business channel, the first time they have appeared in the U.S. marketplace. The commercial is the same one that rankled the Saudi royal family when it ran in Canada in September.
Highlighting the Saudis' abysmal treatment of women and encouraging consumers to question their support for the Saudis' misogynist rule, the TV spot set off a diplomatic incident when the Saudi Arabian government attempted to quash the ad with threats against Canadian broadcasters.
Canada's foreign affairs minister, John Baird, demanded Saudi diplomats explain their attempts to "stifle free speech" in his country after it was revealed that the prominent international law firm Norton Rose had been hired by the desert kingdom to secretly pressure Canadian television networks to turn away EthicalOil.org's ad. The attorneys sent letters to Canada's broadcasters, reportedly warning that the networks could face legal action if they accepted the commercial.
Though several networks were successfully cowed by the threats, citizenship minister,Jason Kenney, protested the foreign interference, insisting that Canadians "don't take kindly to foreign governments threatening directly or indirectly Canadian broadcasters or media for giving voice to freedom of speech." EthicalOil.org pointed to the Saudis' heavy handed response as an example of the kingdom's lack of respect for freedoms, as well as its growing apprehension over Canada's growing power as an oil producer and exporter.
Canada overtook Saudi Arabia as America's biggest oil supplier in the Nineties and many U.S. politicians and business leaders have been pressing for approval of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would ship an additional million barrels of Canadian oil from the oil sands to U.S. markets every day. Though the State Department had ruled the pipeline to be environmentally safe and in America's national interest, President Barack Obama refused last week to approve the pipeline, maintaining that it required more study and delaying the decision till after the 2012 election. Critics say the president had buckled to the anti-oil environmentalists in his left-wing base.
The Ethical Oil ad points out that by importing Saudi oil, "we bankrolled a state that doesn't allow women to drive, doesn't allow them to leave their homes or work without their make guardian's permission, and a state where a woman's testimony only counts for a half of a man's." It concludes by asking, "Why are we paying their bills and funding their oppression?" when there is a "better way: ethical oil from Canada's oil sands."


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Riot rumours fly amid hunt for driver
Amid fears of further violence, rumours are flying in south-west Sydney over the identity of the driver who survived the fatal crash that sparked riots three nights running.
Near the tree in Eucalyptus Drive, Macquarie Fields, where Dyllan Raywar, 17, and Matthew Robertson, 19, died in a stolen car after a police chase on Friday, a group of young people today said rumours were going around that the driver was someone called Jess, who might be female.
Meanwhile, a mother of four school aged children, who declined to be named, said her children were frightened because they'd heard rumours there would be more riots tonight.
Some talking of guns and going bigger: youth worker
Rick Herrera, a 32-year-old youth leader at the Calvary Life Outreach in Glenfield, said he was alarmed because a small group of youths had been talking of guns last night.
"They are talking about going bigger and bigger," he said. "In the past I've seen young fellows carrying pistols and this is the stuff that you've got to be careful of.''
He said there was nothing for youngsters to do in the area .
"There's a youth centre but it's open for a couple of hours a day," he said. "We tried to keep it open but council said it was too expensive."
Dead teen's friend appeals for calm
But a friend of one of the dead teenagers, Melissah Robertson, 21, of Minto, told smh.com.au that violence against the police was not the answer.
Her comments came as NSW Opposition leader John Brogden told media in Macquarie Fields today that the government should have 800 police, not 80, in the area to restore law and order immediately.
Riot should have been crushed: Brogden
"They should have crushed this riot on Saturday night," he said. "We've got a riot squad, let them do their job."
Police say they are prepared for more trouble tonight.
But Ms Robertson, who said she was not related to Matthew but had been his best friend for four years, appealed for young people to stay calm and call a halt to the violence.
"If they [the young people] want to keep rioting they know they'll get taken, they'll get caught," she said. "They're going to be locked up and they won't be at his funeral."
Victim's friend's tattoo tribute
"He was my best friend," she said, adding that she met him through her cousin, who had been going out with him. "I saw him in every jail he went to ... He had a lovely heart.
"He was loved by everyone. You gave him respect and he gave it straight back."
Ms Robertson, who works for an employment agency, has Matt's name tattooed with a rose on her right shoulder.
She said she would be getting the tattoo finished with "rest in peace" before his funeral.
Couple has enough and will move
Long-time residents of Macquarie Fields, Ron, 61, and Kerry, 60 (who declined to give their surname) said the latest violence had convinced them to move home to northern NSW.
``We've had enough'' said Kerry, who has lived in the area for 16 years. ``This is a ghetto.
`` This is the third generation [we've seen in this area] growing up and they're bad. They're worse than what they were even five years ago.
``They [the riots] just confirmed our decision to move is the right one.''
Ron, who has lived in the area for 32 years and has raised a son there, said he had been threatened while walking the dog.
Young people being victimised: teen
But Guy Mason, 17, from Glenfield, who said he knew the two crash victims, rejected the idea that the area was dangerous and said young people were being victimised.
``No-one's running around on the street bashing people, `` he said, adding that he was not involved in last night's clash with police ``but it would have been good to be''.
He said he had scrawled graffiti near where the two were killed and ``it was a memorial for the boys''.
Flowers and graffiti
Tributes to the crash victims and sprays of flowers were pinned to the gum tree which the stolen car ploughed into, including a sign reading "Everbody needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer" - under the tree a number of beer bottles were stacked.
"RIP Dylan + Matt" was daubed on an electricity box.
But other graffiti was less cryptic. "Police will die" was scrawled large on one wall, along with"We know who the real criminals are. We just want justice", "Police will die", "Cops kill kids", and "We will kill you dogs".
Commissioner appalled by slogans
NSW Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said the slogans were the worst he had ever seen.
"I've been a police officer for 40 years and have never seen these sorts of slogans written on walls at any time in this state," he told reporters. "That's disturbing in itself.
"But that's not going to lessen our focus how we drive down crime and reduce the fear of crime.
"We will identify those responsible, in whatever form they participate, whether it's riotous behaviour or the painting of offensive slogans."
Mr Moroney also rejected suggestions by locals that the police car involved in the chase rammed the stolen car during the pursuit.
"No," he said when asked if that had happened.
Firemen get police escort
Half a dozen police in riot gear escorted two fire trucks into Eucalyptus Drive this afternoon after reports of a gas leak, but left soon after.
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- Welcome to Battleworld! Super FUN for boys and girls! You might be ruled by APOCALYPSE... or laugh all day at Spider-Quips. It's quirky, it's silly, a bit insane. And Doc Ock might try to eat your brain... But there's a special place... in the land of ol' Metal Face... where every night and day... On Avengers Street and X-Men Way... the kids all jump for joy... but never share their toys... they're all the best of friends... they're sure to make you grinnnnnn... it's a GIANT-SIZE LITTLE MARVEL! AVENGERS VS. X-MENNNNNN!
Marville was one of the domains of Battleworld. Its most notorious inhabitants were child versions of the Avengers and X-Men, who were always competing against each other to see what group was the best, whether it be while selling food in their food trucks[1] or in a dodgeball game.[2] But the result was always the same: they ended up fighting.
Recently, the two teams started fighting over the attention of the new residents of Marville, the twins Zachary and Zoe. They invited them to their secret clubhouses to convince them to join their crews, but one thing they didn't expect happened: they found new rivals for the twins' attention in the form of the Guardians of the Galaxy.[3] However, the Guardians were far from being their last rivals. Eventually, the Inhumans also showed up to fight for the twins' friendship, but none of them were successful in their goal as while they battled the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants were able to convince the twins join their ranks.[4]
Points of Interest
- Asgard
- Avengers St.
- Avengers' Clubhouse
- Downtown Marville
- Ghost Rider's House
- Marville Elementary
- Marville Junk
- Santo Sanctorum
- Venom's House
- X-Men Way
- X-Tree Mansion
- Ant-Man
- Apocalypse
- Avengers
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
- Black Panther
- Blade
- Brother Voodoo
- Cable
- Cloak
- Dagger
- Daredevil
- Deadpool
- Doctor Strange
- Doop
- Elektra
- Fantastic Four
- Galactus
- Ghost Rider
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Inhumans
- Iron Fist
- Luke Cage
- Man-Thing
- Moon Knight
- Morbius the Living Vampire
- Ms. Marvel
- Nova
- Professor X
- Sasquatch
- Shatterstar
- Silver Surfer
- Speedball
- Spider-Woman (Gwen Stacy)
- Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
- Thanos
- Uatu the Watcher
- X-Men
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- 6 Appearances of Marville
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NYU Steinhardt Alumna Dorothy Height (BA '33, MA '35, HON '75) was honored with a special FOREVER stamp issued by the U.S. Postal Service in honor of Black History Month.
A leader of the African-American and women's rights movements, Height worked alongside prominent civil rights activists and shared the stage with Martin Luther King, Jr. at the historic 1963 March on Washington.
Height had a certain fondness for NYU's School of Education (Steinhardt), and liked to tell interviewers how she arrived, transcript in hand, and was accepted on the spot after being rejected by Barnard because the college's "two Negro per year" admissions quota had just been filled.
"From that day forward I have loved every brick of that university," she wrote in her memoir, Open Wide the Freedom Gates.
"The Dorothy Height Forever stamp serves as a lasting tribute to her life and legacy of seeking equality and justice for all Americans, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or race." said deputy postmaster general, Ronald Stroman, in a special dedication ceremony at Howard University on February 1st.
Height is the second NYU Steinhardt alumnus to be honored by the U.S. Postal Service. The art of Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was featured on a set of FOREVER stamps in 2012.
Bearden, a 1935 graduate of NYU's School of Education, broke social and artistic barriers with his painting, and is best known for collages that use African American culture to explore the complexities of modern life.


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Forget a quarter-pound burger — how about a quarter-pound of cookie dough?
Forget a quarter-pound burger — how about a quarter-pound of cookie dough?
Port Angeles, Wash., restaurant Oven Spoonful serves the most delicious chocolate chip cookie, nicknamed "Quarter Pound of Dough." The gigantic cookies are crisp on the edges and soft and chewy in the center, tasting of vanilla, salt and caramelized sugar.
The recipe for Oven Spoonful's mountainous, mouth-watering cookies are below.
Oven Spoonful's Chocolate Chip Cookies
20 minutes, plus baking time. Makes about 10 quarter-pound cookies
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup light brown sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 heaping cups (11 3/4 ounces) unbleached flour
2 cups chocolate chips
1. Heat the oven to 325 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large bowl using a hand mixer, add the butter. With the mixer running, slowly beat in the sugars a little at a time until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla.
3. With the mixer running, beat in the egg until fully incorporated, then beat in the egg yolk. Beat in the salt and baking soda, scraping down the sides of the bowl to make sure everything is evenly incorporated.
4. Slowly beat in the flour, mixing just to incorporate. Be careful not to overmix, or the cookies will toughen. Gently mix or fold in the chocolate chips by hand.
5. Scoop about half-cup portions of the dough onto the parchment-lined cookie sheets. This should make about 10 cookies; you can make smaller ones if you prefer. Space the cookies evenly on the sheets (only 3 cookies will fit on each sheet if making the larger, quarter-pound cookies). Press the cookies slightly to flatten once they are on the sheet.
6. Bake the cookies, 1 sheet at a time, until set and lightly golden, 20 to 22 minutes for the quarter-pound cookies; smaller cookies will bake in less time. Rotate the cookies halfway through baking for even coloring.


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- http://eightmedia.github.io/hammer.js/ – for multi touch gestures
- https://github.com/egrove/valerie – validation library for KnockoutJS
- http://tech.pro/blog/1402/five-patterns-to-help-you-tame-asynchronous-javascript
- https://twitter.com/addyosmani/status/344884445007994880 – showheaders.js prints response headers in the devtools console, using console.table (seems to be undocumented, use it like this: console.table([{FirstName: 'Johann', Surname: 'Gambolputty'}]) )
- https://github.com/kriskowal/es5-shim – ECMAScript 5 shim
- http://sampsonblog.com/576/display-grid-the-future-of-responsive-grid-layouts
- http://lab.hakim.se/scroll-effects/ – cool list scroll effects
- http://www.thomashardy.me.uk/demos/css3-hover-effects/ – nice hover effects, this kind of effect works well when showing a collection of articles say on a page, with a short title over the image for each one, and a summary being brought in when the user hovers over it (careful with touch device users though!)
- http://www.css3generator.in – CSS3 generator, quick visual feedback for various effects, transforms etc.
- http://alexwolfe.github.io/Buttons/ – button library
- https://plus.google.com/118010414872916542489/posts/Y1E8gVFXLVF – example use of nice ComparisonChain Guava class
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnZiTL0tUc – The Secret to Safe Continuous Deployment: how a team at Google uses "perceptual diffs" of screenshots of their web application to detect things that usual forms of automated tests won't
I have a few more interesting things queued, they'll have to wait until next time though as I haven't had time to read them properly and/or play with them.


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This is a preventive measure to protect the children that have been victims of documented sexual abuse and to prevent further dissemination of the evidence of this abuse.
All domains that experience redirection have been checked by police officers at INTERPOL in co-operation with CIRCAMP, and were found to contain child sexual abuse material according to very strict criteria.
The content on the domain may change over time and/or be hidden from plain view, so that the domain may appear legal if accessed. If you strongly believe that the domain is wrongly blocked, you may contact INTERPOL.
If you are the domain owner, you may complain about the inclusion of your domain on this list via EUROPOL.
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force said a number of its troops and local Basij forces have been kidnapped at a border post southeast of Iran.
In a statement on Tuesday, the IRGC Ground Force's Quds Base said a number of local Basij forces and the border regiment forces stationed at a border post in Mirjaveh region in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan were abducted on Monday evening after act of treason and collusion involving an element or elements of the anti-Revolution groups who had infiltrated into the country.
Noting that the border post is properly fortified, the statement said the proxies of terrorist groups who receive support from foreign services had deceived and bribed the infiltrated elements to carry out the abduction operation at the border, located opposite of one of Pakistan's border stations.
The statement added that Iranian defense and security forces in the border areas have launched a manhunt to catch the outlaws, terrorists and infiltrators and are taking serious measures to free the abductees.
It urged the Pakistani government to take serious action against the terrorists who are stationed along its common border with Iran and benefit from the backing of certain regional reactionary states that foster terrorism.
The statement also called on Pakistan to take action to immediately secure the release of the border guards and their return to Iran.
The IRGC is tasked with protecting the country's northwestern and southeastern borders.
Iranian military forces along the southeastern border areas are frequently attacked by terrorist groups coming from Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Tehran has frequently asked the two neighbors to step up security at the common border to prevent terrorist attacks on Iranian forces.


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(CNN) -- Law enforcement officials arrested more than 500 people, and took custody of 48 juveniles in a coordinated 29-city weekend sweep aimed at combating child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday.
Task forces made up largely of state and local police officers arrested and booked what authorities said were 464 adult prostitutes, 55 pimps and 55 customers on state charges. While most faced local charges, a senior FBI official said he expected there were would be some federal charges as well.
The FBI Monday said 19 searches were conducted, netting a total of $438,000 in cash, plus illegal drugs, cars and computers.
The four dozen juveniles were recovered in the third phase of Operation Cross Country, an initiative that seeks to help child prostitutes and crack down on people who control them and patronize them.
In the previous coordinated operations, authorities recovered 21 alleged child prostitutes last June and 47 in October.
In 2003 the FBI, Department of Justice prosecutors, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children launched what was called the Innocence Lost National Initiative to address what had become a growing problem of children forced into prostitution. Many were young runaways.
Officials say the 32 Innocence Lost task forces formed nationwide have now recovered about 670 children in the six years, and seized more than $3 million in cash.
The most recent operation involved law enforcement agencies in several states including California, Alaska, Michigan, Georgia, Colorado, Oregon, Alabama, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Ohio, Minnesota and Arizona.
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|Schimel Won't Debate Outside of Milwaukee or Madison
|Elections, Elected Officials, Political Parties
|Written by Kaul for Attorney General Press
|Thursday, 11 October 2018 12:23
Republican AG candidate withdraws from only debate for the race that was scheduled to take place outside of the I-94 corridor.
MADISON - Yesterday evening, Brad Schimel, who has ignored Josh Kaul's challenge to debate in every congressional district in Wisconsin, withdrew from the only debate for the Attorney General's race that was scheduled to take place outside of the I-94 corridor.
Kaul campaign advisor Gillian Drummond commented, "Josh Kaul believes that people from across the state deserve the opportunity to hear from the candidates for Attorney General about how they will address the important issues in their communities. Brad Schimel should explain to Wisconsinites why he won't debate Josh Kaul anywhere outside of Milwaukee or Madison."
Josh Kaul served as a federal prosecutor in Baltimore, one of America's most violent cities. There, Kaul prosecuted murderers, gang members, and drug traffickers, taking dangerous criminals off the street and making communities more secure. He grew up in Oshkosh and Fond du Lac in a family of law enforcement professionals and teachers. He is running for Attorney General in 2018.
For more information, please visit: www.joshkaul.org
|Last Updated on Friday, 12 October 2018 10:47


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"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
Hi MathsIsFun,
The Decimal to Fraction Converter works perfectly well! Brilliant work, MathsIsFun!!!
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge - Enrico Fermi.
Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.
Looks fine from here.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
It works well. However, I have noticed some idiosyncrasies with many digits and repeating digits. It seems indecisive about whether to count a pattern as recurring or not when it repeats over 30 times, sometimes doing so, usually not. Also, every now and again (with over 30 digits) the greatest common factor is negative.
I think it is convenient that there is a way for it to interpret patterns as recurring, though
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Thank you Relentless!
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman


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Cahiers d'Art was pleased to present an exhibition of Philippe Parreno, one of the most original figures in the international art world.
This presentation included more than thirty recent drawings by the artist as well as recent photographs from a performance he conducted with a colony of Magellanic penguins on a beach in Patagonia. A second exhibition at 15 rue du Dragon included a dozen master drawings (Francisco de Goya, Victor Hugo, Wassily Kandinsky, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Case, Liam Gillick , Matthew Barney, Koo Jeong-A and John Cage).
© Philippe Parreno. A Plant Believes It's a Man 2, 2011
Courtesy Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-editor of the Cahiers d'Art revue and a co-director of the Serpentine Gallery in London, was the curator of the exhibition in 14 rue du Dragon. This new collaboration between the artist and the curator is part of a process that has united these two unique figures in the world of contemporary art for many years.
The series presented here - CHZ, Fireflies, Marilyn: In preparation of a Biometric Portrait - all date from 2011 and 2012 and are recent projects, as is the practice of drawing for the artist. Parreno compares drawing to writing. The grammar is substituted for him with aspects of image, which together form an almost formal language, and the different series are conceived in the manner of a storyboard.
Regarding his curated exhibition in 15 rue du Dragon, Philippe Parreno said that "These are the drawings I was thinking of while working on the CHZ series. For me, these are drawings where the memories of the drawings are truly linked to writing."


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A Latin word meaning "examiner," "investigator," or "scrutinizer." The OED cites instances of the word used in English as early as 1593. Trollope uses it here as a part of a newspaper or magazine's name, the Musical Scrutator, which is dedicated to the topic of music. This publication is said to have commented on Mr. Harding's musical work, Harding's Church Music, and given it high praise. [MD 2005]
Sources: OED.
undying fame
Used to describe the praise which Mr. Harding received in an article in the Musical Scrutator, this phrase is a classical reference. Epic heroes like those in Homer's Iliad desire "undying fame" or "undying glory," and Trollope likens Mr. Harding to these classical epic heroes. This description could be seen to be humorous because Mr. Harding will probably never become as famous as any of the warriors in Homer's Iliad. [MD 2005]
There is also, of course, a humorous disparity between Homeric warriors and mild Mr. Harding. [RR 2011]
Sources: Homer, Iliad 9.413 (for an example of the use of the phrase "undying fame").
A Latin word meaning truth, the OED has no record of this word being introduced into standard English vocabulary. It is used in this instance as the alias of an anonymous person who has written a letter to The Jupiter in favor of the editors' views. This individual has signed the letter with the name "Veritas," which claims a significant amount of authority for the writer and the writer's personal views. Several other letters were said to have been written to the paper as well, which were signed by "Common Sense" and "One that loves fair play," further establishing these authors' beliefs in the superior value of their own opinions. [MD 2005]
The authority claimed by "Veritas" is at least two-fold: the authority derived from an assertion of truthfulness, and the cultural authority of asserting that truthfulness with a Latin pseudonym. [RR 2011]
Sources: OED.
Cassandra was not believed
In Greek mythology, Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, who was the King of Troy, was given the power to foresee future events by Apollo. However, when she would not be Apollo's lover, Apollo cursed her to never be believed by anyone. We can see an example of this in Vergil's Aeneid, when Cassandra foretells the destruction of Troy but is unheeded. This is an interesting allusion because Trollope is likening the paper The Jupiter to the mythological figure of Cassandra; this publication is also able to know the future, but at times no one listens to it or trusts its ideas. [MD 2005]
Sources: Vergil, Aeneid 2.246-247.
woman as ivy, husband as tree
Trollope describes Eleanor Harding as being like the parasitic ivy, which attaches itself to trees and climbs up them, using the tree's support to further its own growth. John Bold, Eleanor's husband, is described as the tree on which Eleanor climbs and secures herself. She is shown as one who worships her husband and who completely defends him in all of his decisions. This imagery recalls that found in Catullus' poem 61, written in the style of a marriage hymn. [MD & RR 2005]
We find similar symbolism, but with a grape-vine and tree, in book 14 of Ovid's Metamorphoses: the god Vertumnus (in disguise) suggests to his beloved Pomona that a woman, like the grape-vine, needs a husband, like the tree, on which to grow. For Ovid, ivy growing on a tree may be a more dire image: in book 4 of Ovid's Metamorphoses the nymph Salmacis tries to subdue the youth whom she desires, and she is likened to a snake attacking an eagle, a squid encompassing its prey, and ivy climbing up trees. An ivy-like–suffocating–wife becomes a trope in British literature used by the likes of Shakespeare and Dryden; a quick example is Thomas' Hardy's "Ivy Wife." Trollope seems to use the idea of an ivy wife without any of the accumulated negative associations. [RR 2011]
Sources: Catullus 61. 31-35. Link to a side-by-side English-Latin version.
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.661-668 and 4.361-367.
Hardy, "Ivy Wife." Link to the poem at bartleby.com.
Williams, Aubrey L., "The Decking of Ruins: Dryden's All for Love," South Atlantic Review 49 (1984): 6-18. (Williams doesn't mention Trollope, but he discusses the tradition of the trope.)
an ever-running fountain of tears
This description recalls the mythological Niobe, whose seven sons and seven daughters are killed by the gods, and as a result she cries endless tears of sorrow over their deaths. [MD 2005]
Sources: Ovid, Metamorphoses 6.146-312.


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ABS-CBN's Buzz ng Bayan aired an investigative report on February 23 about Roxanne Cabañero y Acosta and the new rape case she filed against comedian Vhong Navarro. Buzz ng Bayan presented Roxanne's sworn affidavit vis-à-vis statements and evidences that will support or falsify Roxanne's claims.
After presenting Roxanne Cabanero's background according to the people she has worked with in the past and her interview with Doris Bigornia of ABS-CBN News, Buzz ng Bayan dug deeper into the issue with its own investigation from where Vhong Navarro first met Roxanne Cabanero up to the whereabouts of the It's Showtime host at the time Roxanne claims she was raped.
In an interview with Astoria Plaza Hotel's project director Ric Valenzuela, it was revealed that Roxanne Cabanero nor the Slimmer's World Miss Bikini Philippines 2010 candidates were not checked in on the said hotel, contrary to what Roxanne said in her affidavit.
Pets were also not allowed in the said hotel according to Valenzuela, so there's a question on Roxanne's claim that her co-candidate, who was with a pet dog at the time, saw her coming out of Vhong's car after the rape incident.
Buzz ng Bayan host Boy Abunda also interviewed Gwen Villanueva, manager of Island Cove Hotel and Leisure Park where Vice Ganda's April 24, 2010 concert was held. Villanueva confirmed that the concert started late and she said that she saw Vhong Navarro performed and stayed until the end of the show.
Boy Abunda also interviewed Vice Ganda who also recalled that the concert started around nine or half past nine of April 24, 2010 and ended around midnight. He also confirmed Vhong's participation in the concert just like what Villanueva said. Watch the said interview here.
The balanced reporting of Buzz ng Bayan was lauded by netizens, who were enlightened about this new rape case filed by Roxanne against Vhong. Some netizens also expressed their disgust on Roxanne Cabanero, who according to them was lying based on the evidences presented.
In an interview with ABS-CBN News, Roxanne Cabanero challenged Vhong to prove where he was on the night she was allegedly rape before she respond to new developments on the case.
In an interview with ABS-CBN News, Roxanne Cabanero challenged Vhong to prove where he was on the night she was allegedly rape before she respond to new developments on the case.
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All good writers know, "Writing is rewriting."
Sometimes you read your personal statement draft and you realize, this is not the story I want to tell.
You're definitely not alone.
Sometimes you can rewrite what you have but other times you need to scrap the whole thing and go back to the drawing board.
Are you telling one story or two or three?
I've read many drafts where the author tried to shove too many stories into one essay. It was a mish-mash and there was no cohesion to the essay. Remember what I said earlier, you have to pick one story. Cut the extraneous stories and focus on expanding your core story.
What if it's too long?
On the other hand, if you're satisfied with the story itself but it's too long, then you need to edit. Every sentence has to count. If a sentence repeats what you said earlier, just in different words, cut it out. I learned from a writing teacher that you should cut until the paragraph makes no sense. Then put back the last thing you cut.
Kick it up a notch!
Let's say you've written the story you want to tell and your length is good. How can you take your essay to the next level?
One simple way to improve your essay is to pay attention to how it flows. You do this by focusing on the first and last sentences of every paragraph.
Look at the last sentence of your introduction. Does it make you wonder, what's next? Does it entice you to keep reading? Now look at the first sentence of your second paragraph. Does it connect with the last sentence of your introduction? If not, rewrite those sentences.
Keep going. Look at the last sentence of your second paragraph. Then look at the first sentence of your third paragraph. Is there a connection there? Does it make sense?
Do this with each of your paragraphs. Keep working on those first and last sentences to make sure each of your paragraphs connects well with the next one.
Word counts & essay length
Many schools require that the personal statement be two pages, double-spaced, with 11- or 12-point font, and one-inch margins. Some schools want three or four pages. Some give a maximum word count. Some don't have a word count or page limit at all.
Follow the directions for each school. The major mistake that law school applicants make is they don't tailor their personal statement and other materials to every school. Yes, tailoring takes time. Yes, it takes diligence. This is your future career we're talking about! Do the work.
Can you use the same personal statement for all schools?
Yes, you can use the same basic personal statement. But as I just stated, you need to tailor your personal statement to the length requirements, and any other requirements, given by each school.
Proofread like a pro
So you feel like your essay is almost ready for human consumption. Now you need to proofread. Print out your draft. I repeat, print out your draft.
Any editor worth his or her salt will tell you that you can't find all the mistakes and errors in a document by proofing it on the computer screen. On paper, errors pop out more. Your eyes are more careful when you're reading it on paper.
Now that you have your essay printed, use a bright-colored pen to mark anything you need to change. After you're finished editing, make corrections to your electronic copy. Then, print out your essay and proofread it again.
Great writing takes time.
Don't settle for okay or decent or good. Revise, revise, revise until your personal statement is the best it can be.
Want more help? Take my class, Write Your Personal Statement in 7 Days. It's a great way to get support and structure for writing a personal statement in a short amount of time.
Have questions about your law school personal statement? I'd love to hear from you! I'm here to help. Post your questions below and I'll respond.


text: Charlotte - While Jordan Spieth failed in his bid to become the youngest player to win all four majors, South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen completed a somewhat unwelcome career grand slam of his own on Sunday with his second-place finish at the PGA Championship. Oosthuizen, who finished tied for second behind Justin Thomas alongside Francesco Molinari and Patrick Reed, lost a playoff to Bubba Watson at the 2012 Masters, another playoff to Zach Johnson at the British Open in 2015 and tied for second behind Dustin Johnson at that year's US Open too.Oosthuizen had flashed into contention late in the final round on Sunday when he pitched in for eagle from 20 yards at the par-five 15th at Quail Hollow, but a long three-putt bogey from nearly 100 feet at the 16th ended his hopes. "I gave it everything I had coming in," he said. "I left myself with an impossible first putt on 16. I mean, I didn't really make any putts the whole round. "The only putt I made was on the last hole (for birdie)." That five-footer gave Oosthuizen a round of 70 and a six-under 278 total, two strokes behind Thomas. Oosthuizen's victory at the 2010 British Open, when he finished seven strokes clear, suggested the floodgates were about to open for the sweet-swinging South African but the 34-year-old has not kicked on in the majors the way many had expected. Oosthuizen is in fine company with his runner-up slam, joining the likes of Greg Norman, who lost playoffs in all four majors.


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The biggest black mark on the Predacons' hardcore reputation.
Ever since Grimlock took the Autobots off Earth, the Decepticons have been running wild, staging more and more daring raids on human-run facilities around the country. Because of this, Triple-I has come under heavy bureaucratic fire for failing to fulfill their mission objectives and keep the robots contained. Director Forsythe is becoming increasingly more demanding of results from his top man, Walter Barnett, and the Autobot captives under their control. However, the Throttlebots' professed ignorance of the raids, and their repeated explanations about the two different factions of Transformers, fall mostly on deaf ears. Barnett has seen the Transformers in battle against one another, but despite his suspicions that the captives are telling the truth, he finds himself unable to convince Forsythe and the higher-ups of this fact.
Matters only get worse after Forsythe makes a public declaration that Triple-I will execute their Transformer prisoners in retaliation for any future attacks by the robots. Naturally, the Decepticons jump at the humans' offer to kill six Autobots for them if they just go ahead and steal some more energon. Before Barnett can convince Forsythe of anything, the next raid takes place and Forsythe becomes unable to go back on his promise for any reason, due to political concerns. In desperation, Barnett comes up with a way to save the Autobots by removing their individual brain modules and placing each one in an electronic toy car. Thus, the Autobots' empty shells are destroyed the next morning at a public (and rather gruesome) execution by car-compactor, yet the Throttlebots survive hidden away in Barnett's briefcase. Now fully committed to helping the Autobots, Walter Barnett begins making plans with Goldbug to reconnect him to his fellow Autobots.
Back at Triple-I, Ratbat and the Predacons stage an assault on the base to confirm the Autobots' deaths. Forsythe and his men try in vain to fight back, but are easily brushed aside, or just annihilated. As Razorclaw and Ratbat examine the crushed cubes, though, they determine there is no sign of the Autobots' brain modules, and Ratbat begins tracing the scent of their fuel to finally track down and exterminate their prey. Forsythe is finally forced to admit he was wrong about the existence of the factions. Good going, dude.
In Portland, Oregon, Walter Barnett has brought Goldbug to the Witwickys' garage. Due to his past history with the Autobots, Goldbug believes Buster is the only human who can safely approach the Grimlock-commanded Ark unmolested. With his father's consent, Buster and Barnett take the family pick-up truck for the journey. After they leave, though, Ratbat and the Predacons arrive to "question" Sparkplug about the Autobots, and tear his garage down around him. On their way to the Ark, Goldbug and the other Autobots begin to run low on power, having used up too much juice from their batteries. Stopping off at a local mall, Buster and the Autobots are stalled long enough for the Decepticons to catch up to them, and the Predacons begin tearing the place apart.
A comical melee ensues, with the Predacons attempting to pounce on the little toy Throttlebots, and failing miserably. Ratbat, meanwhile, pinpoints Buster with his senses, and begins personally stalking the human to take his revenge for past encounters. After Barnett manages to crash a security gate down on Ratbat, however, he tells Buster to get away while he collects the rest of the Autobots. Buster is able to recharge Goldbug using batteries from his boom box, and then grabs his old friend and tosses him and the stereo back in the pick-up truck to hightail it to the Ark . At Mount St. Hilary, however, they find the volcano deserted, and the space ship gone. Goldbug and Buster manage to hook up an intergalactic transceiver, and begin broadcasting a distress call for the Autobots of Cybertron. But, they are soon interrupted by Ratbat, who snuck aboard the pick-up hidden inside Buster's stereo. He crushes Goldbug in his claws, and begins to advance on Buster...
Script: Bob Budiansky
Pencils: Jose Delbo
Inks: Ian Akin and Brian Garvey
Colors: Nelson Yomtov
Lettering: Bill Oakley
Editor: Don Daley
Editor-in-Chief: Tom DeFalco
- Originally published: February, 1988
Major characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
- Goldbug's head is consistently colored blue this issue, like the toy, but unlike the golden head he sports in his past and future appearances.
- Buster manages to pull Stupid Human Trick #1 — never carry around a tape player without fully checking it for foreign cassettes or glaringly obvious insignias.
- The battery case on Buster's tape player is inexplicably opened by pushing one of the cassette player controls — rewind, fast forward, change batteries. While this conceit allows Ratbat to hitch a ride and thus provides a bang-up cliffhanger, TAPE PLAYERS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!
Items of note
- Walter Barnett is apparently a genius with micro-electronics and comparative xeno-biology/technology. Yup. Move along now.
- Somebody who looks like Clark Kent appears on bottom of page 3.
- Spike Witwicky is mentioned for the first time in this issue.
- Goldbug's radio S.O.S. is picked up by the Autobots of Nebulos in Headmasters #4, and is the catalyst for that cast of characters joining the main series next issue.
- Buster and Barnett attempt to find batteries at 'Radio Shed', a parody of Radio Shack.
- The half-built office building the Constructicons ransack and demolish by stealing its steel girders was in downtown Atlanta, Georgia.
- At Grimlock's behest, the Autobots repaired the Ark and left Earth behind in U.S. #35.
- Goldbug and the Throttlebots were captured by RAAT in U.S. #32.
- Buster and Sparkplug recall first meeting Bumblebee in U.S. #2.
- Buster disrupts Ratbat's Wash and Roll scheme in U.S. #31.
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- In Grim Grams for issue #154, Grimlock blames the stubbies for not clearly showing he never intended to harm the Spacehikers, and explains how Legacy of Unicron clears up why Headmasters takes place in the present, even with future Decepticons Cyclonus and Scourge appearing it.
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- In Grim Grams for issue #155, Grimlock explains that Gears has two mottos, that having good art all the time would spoil people and that he believes the UK origin, as seen in Legacy of Unicron, trumps that of Season 3 of the U.S. cartoon.
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Some things just defy reason. To wit, here's how the Pope apparently likes to celebrate Christmas.
Please comment freely, I'm just too baffled to find anything that could make this any funnier .
Some things just defy reason. To wit, here's how the Pope apparently likes to celebrate Christmas.
Please comment freely, I'm just too baffled to find anything that could make this any funnier .
I think there is one spot in this you'll have to watch out for that is slightly offensive (in case you're at work). I'm just saying.
Aside from that, I'm totally down with the sentiment expressed here. 100% and then some.
I've held off commenting on the Pope and the Catholic child molestation story only because it was more interesting to watch the rest of the world spin in a tizzy of concern and outrage while still completely missing the point. It's truly fascinating to watch most everyone from pundit and commentator to politician and parishioner wonder if the Pope should take any responsibility for the crimes of his church or the acts protected and promoted on his watch as bishop.
Indeed, some rightly point out that the institutional molestation and rape of thousands of children worldwide should be prosecuted and that everyone within the church who protected the criminals who committed these atrocities should be held accountable as accomplices to the crimes. Obviously. Oh if only the Catholic church would recognize the authority of US justice system and hand over the supporting documents in full cooperation with court subpoenas.
But most of the media somehow continues to miss the elephant with the long robes and funny hat right in front of them pissing in the the holy water.
So I ask anyone in the media who might come across this humble blog, in light of these horrible acts inflicted against the most defenseless among us, why do we give preferential treatment to any organization purely because they make unprovable claims of divine sanction?
If any other corporation or organization in the US had promoted and protected systematic child rape the police would not have hesitated to raid them in an effort to shut them down as soon as possible, to seize evidence for trials, to jail everyone involved, and to secure assets to be distributed to the victims.
Of course the Vatican is no mere corporation but is in fact a sovereign entity recognized by international law. It is reasonable however to expect that the United states would levy severe sanctions and even attack and invade any foreign nation operating bases in the US where the systematic rape of US children is being committed. The assertion that those bases are recruiting new members and distributing unverifiable propaganda would of course be a completely irrelevant and absurd defense.
So to put it more succinctly, this Pope and the Catholic church are directly responsible for the molestation and rape of more US children than Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and Hitler combined. Why haven't people and the media been demanding that the police and the US government take stronger actions against this criminal organization that has for decades been committing crimes against humanity and protecting those who committed them?
Every so often someone will ask me why I bother with this blog. Isn't it only radical religion that's bad while moderate religion is ultimately benign? Why do I bother to post videos? Why do I waste my time grinding out my opinions, arguments, and views in these posts? Why do I beg people of faith to rationally reconsider the tenets of their chosen devotion and confront the obvious contradictions and hypocrisy therein?
I do this because, by association, moderate religion gives unjustified shelter to radical religion. Because moderate faith is only separated from radical faith by a few degrees of literalism and commitment. Because moderate religion demands universal respect for all religious beliefs regardless how ridiculous, immoral, irrational, or criminal they might be.
Need proof?
I could point to how yesterday, despite all scientific evidence to the contrary, the Pope declared that condoms make the spread of AIDS worse…but I won't.
I could point to the systematic rape of children and polygamy within the FLDS…but I won't.
I could point to the man who founded a Muslim-American television station (to help fight Muslim stereotypes) and then beheaded his wife with a sword in a traditional honor killing…but even that is not visceral enough.
I will point to this story where yesterday 1,000 people accused of being witches in Gambia have been locked up in secret detention centers and forced to drink a dangerous hallucinogenic potion. Two have died so far.
I will point to this video that talks about the Pentacostal church teaching fear of witches in Niger Delta and the children who are maimed and killed as witches.
I will point you to the single most disturbing video I've ever seen. It is infuriating and anguishing and I warn you up front that it shows people accused of being witches…being beaten…and burned alive. This cannot be unwatched and it is not something to view at work or around children. You have been warned. It is here.
To bring this full circle, as AIDS has taken its horrific toll in Africa, villagers have blamed witches — and not the virus — for the deaths. (Thanks Pope!)
And lest you think this has no impact on people here in the US… VP candidate Sarah Palin gave credit to Kenyan Pentecostal pastor Thomas Muthee for her 2006 gubernatorial election victory. This same pastor began his ministry with a witch hunt against a Kenyan woman he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells and famously prayed over Palin saying "In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, every form of witchcraft is what you rebuke. "
The salvation of humanity rests in education and rational thought, not in the outdated superstitions of ancient dogma. God help us? Today God can only help us by getting out of the way. So I do this small thing, this insignificant blog, to try and help bring the insanity and fear out of the dark corners of the world and to replace it with the light of reason and courage. It isn't much, but at least it's something.
We miss your wit and wisdom. Here's to you.
This last Sunday the Vatican defended the excommunication of a pregnant Brazilian woman and the doctors who decided to abort the twins she was carrying. Sounds like a reasonable application of the typical pro-life/anti-abortion logic.
Except that what the Vatican chose to ignore was that the doctors were saving the life of a pregnant Brazilian woman who happened to be a 9 year old girl who was pregnant because she was raped by her stepfather.
Yep,the regional archbishop, Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, pronounced excommunication for the mother for authorizing the operation and doctors who carried it out. The doctors' evil motivation? They were afraid that the slim 9 year old girl would not survive carrying the fetuses to term.
"God's law is above any human law. So when a human law … is contrary to God's law, this human law has no value," Cardoso said.
That's not to say the church isn't forgiving. The stepfather, who had been sexually abusing the girl since the age of six AND sexually abusing the girl's physically handicapped fourteen year old sister, was not excommunicated.
According to Cardoso even though the man committed "a heinous crime … the abortion – the elimination of an innocent life – was more serious".
How the Catholic Church has the unmitigated gall to claim moral authority on anything is beyond my comprehension. Why would anyone continue to be a member of this kind of barbaric and morally bankrupt organization?
Oh, by the way, the Brazilian police weren't quite as understanding as the church. The stepfather faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.


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As I hoped and expected, the New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf was a great time, and entirely too short. My daughter Julia attended the workshops led by another fiction writer, while I worked with a talented and extraordinarily open and enthusiastic group of fourteen high school students on their fiction writing. That was just the core of it; there were also readings (from the podium where Robert Frost used to hold forth—I did one myself), additional writing sessions open to all, conversations with writers of all stripes, good food and good company, and—wonder of wonders—sunshine on the mountain. I was sad to leave. But I'll tell you this: there are some excellent writers coming up in the years ahead! Be warned. Be heartened.
The Sunborn galleys arrived for my inspection and correction just before the conference, and I didn't have time to so much as glance at them over the weekend. Now I'm working on them, but I'm also getting ready to leave on another trip, this time to meet with another group that wants to pick the brains of SF writers.
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Most of the time, having a big collection of tribal earrings hanging from the side of my head is no big deal. I don't really notice them, and pretty much forget that they are there. For the most part, I only hear about people staring from others who are with me and notice it. I am almost never aware of being stared at. Once in a great while, someone will act towards me in an antisocial way that I assume is commonly experienced by marginalized people: refused service, pushed off sidewalk, aggressive or openly insulting remarks, beer cans thrown at you from moving vehicle, but this is very rare. So rare that it always surprises me. Otherwise, I might quit. I don't want to upset people, even intolerant dicks.
However, the earrings do not just attract human attention, negative or otherwise, and the attraction they have for non-humans is, in a way, more dangerous. The earrings are shiny. Certain creatures really like shiny things. When they encounter these shiny objects, such creatures, like this conure, try to take them. This is usually done with mouth parts, since most creatures who might end up near your shoulder don't have hands. The mouth parts of a conure, like other pssitacines, parrots, macaws, cockatoos, etc. are really strong and sharp. I have come very close to having my entire earlobe nipped off. This photo was posed, and not posed for long either. By the way, this problem occurs when snorkeling as well, and could be really disastrous, as my earrings are about the size of a lure one would use for a good sized, fast-swimming game fish,
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