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\section{Introduction}
The active galaxy PKS~2155--304{} is an archetypal blazar, for which the relativistic jet is along the line-of-sight of the observer and the jet has a small opening angle, that is associated with a compact, flat-spectrum radio source. Located at a redshift $z=0.116$, it is highly luminous, with an apparent \textit{V}--band magnitude $m_V =13^\mathrm{mag}$ \cite{Falomo1993}. At low energies (radio to soft \textit{X}--ray), relativistic charged particle acceleration in the magnetic field of the jet results in non-thermal continuum emission through synchrotron emission. This results in polarized emission, as seen at radio to optical wavelengths, which serves as a direct indicator of the state of the magnetic field. Emission at high energies (hard \textit{X}--ray{} to $\gamma$--ray{}) is attributed to Inverse Compton (IC) scattering between the synchrotron particle population and ambient photon fields (e.g. the synchrotron photons themselves, external photons from the accretion disk, broad line region or circum-nuclear dust, \cite{Bottcher2012}). The underlying blazar emission processes are described by the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED), which is studied through simultaneous multi-wavelength observations, while the study of simultaneous optical polarization and multi-wavelength data makes it possible to relate changes in the magnetic field properties of the jet, the driver of the observed emission, to changes in the SED. These results can then be compared with blazar emission models, e.g. \cite{Katarzynski2008, HESS2009, Fermi2010, HESS2012, Chandra2015}.

Here, we investigate the long-term optical polarization of the archetypal blazar PKS~2155--304 in order to gain insight into the relation between the magnetic field structure and the spectral energy distribution of the source.

\section{Observations and Analysis}
The polarization of electromagnetic radiation is observable as the polarization degree ($p$) and the polarization angle ($\theta$). The polarization degree measures the fraction of the total intensity that is polarized, while the polarization angle gives the orientation of the electric field vector\footnote{In the plane of the sky, $\theta$ is measured from the North Celestial Pole towards the Celestial East.}. Optical spectro-polarimetric measurements of PKS~2155--304{} between July 2009 and December 2014 were obtained from long-term monitoring of the source at the Steward Observatory (Arizona, USA)\footnote{The results from Steward monitoring campaign is publicly available at \url{http://james.as.arizona.edu/~psmith/Fermi/}.}. Overlapping photometric observations were obtained from three optical monitoring programmes: the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System\footnote{The SMARTS archive is publicly available at \url{http://www.astro.yale.edu/smarts/glast/home.php}.} (SMARTS \cite{Bonning2012}), Automatic Telescope for Optical Monitoring (ATOM \cite{HESS2014}) and Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment (ROTSE \cite{Kastendieck2011}). High-energy (HE) gamma-ray observations (photons with energies from 200 MeV -- 300 GeV) were obtained with the space-based Fermi gamma-ray telescope\footnote{The Fermi database is publicly available at \url{http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/}.}, while Very High-Energy (VHE, photons with energies exceeding 300 GeV) observations were obtained from the long-term monitoring campaign of the ground-based \hess{} telescope \cite{HESS2014}. Total integrated radio intensity measurements were obtained at 15 mm, 4 cm and 16 cm from the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) Calibrator Survey. Figure ~\ref{fig:mwlcoverage} illustrates the overlap in spectral band coverage available for PKS~2155--304{} between 2009 and 2014. The multi-wavelength light curves of the source during this period are displayed in Fig.~\ref{fig:obs}.

\begin{figure}[ht!]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[trim = 2.7cm 6.8cm 2.cm 7.4cm, clip ,scale=.7]{Band_Coverage.pdf}
   \caption{\small{Graphical representation of the spectral band coverage for the available observations.}}
  \label{fig:mwlcoverage}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure}[ht!]
  \centering
  \includegraphics[trim = 2.8cm 1.7cm 2.65cm 1.9cm, clip ,width=1\textwidth]{mwlvar_2009_2015_annote_flares_v5.pdf}
   \caption{\small{The multi-wavelength variability of PKS~2155--304{} between July 2009 and December 2014. The top panel illustrates the behaviour of the polarization degree ($p$) on the left and the polarization angle ($\theta$), on the right. The position angle of the resolved radio jet, $\theta_\mathrm{jet}$, and the persistent optical polarization component, $\theta_\mathrm{c}$, is superposed. The optical and radio intensities ($I$) are displayed on the left and right, respectively, of the middle panel. The spectral band of the observations are listed in the legend, which are the \textit{B}, \textit{V} and \textit{R} --band, and at 15 mm, 4 cm and 16 cm. The units of measurement are indicated in brackets. The gamma-ray intensities are displayed in the bottom panel for photon energies $\epsilon>300$ GeV (left) and $\epsilon> 200$ MeV (right). All measurements represent daily averages, except for the HE emission, which represents weekly averages (due to the low sensitivity of the instrument).}}
  \label{fig:obs}
\end{figure}

Significant changes in the strength of the polarized emission is detected, from nearly unpolarized emission with a polarization degree of $p\sim 0.5\%$ to a maximum of $p\sim 13\%$. Variations in the polarization are typically seen to occur on timescales of a few days, similar to the high-energy emission, whereas the polarization angle, total optical and radio intensity appear to fluctuate on timescales of a few months. Note that we are unable to resolve short-timescale variations for the high-energy $\gamma$--ray{} emission since the HE light curve has a time-resolution of 7 days. However, some structure is detected on timescales of a few months.

From Fig.~\ref{fig:obs}, it can be seen that the multi-wavelength time series of PKS~2155--304{} exhibit a number of interesting features, including: large changes in the polarization angle (indicated by A, B, C, D and E), a number of minor optical flares (symbolized by $F_\mathrm{1}$, $F_\mathrm{3}$, $F_\mathrm{4}$ and $F_\mathrm{5}$), as well as a prominent optical flare ($F_\mathrm{2}$) and strong to moderate $\gamma$--ray{} flares ($F_\mathrm{6}$, $F_\mathrm{7}$ and $F_\mathrm{8}$). The outbursts are associated with periods during which the polarization angle undergoes large rotations, typically $\gae 80^\circ$. For example, during A, the polarization angle rotates by 88$^\circ${} and the source experiences simultaneous optical ($F_\mathrm{1}$) and VHE ($F_\mathrm{6}$) flares, while the polarization degree experiences a minimum of $\sim 1\%$. Similar correlated behaviour is observed for B, C, D and E. A very prominent optical flare ($F_\mathrm{2}$), which is accompanied by the VHE $\gamma$--ray{} flare $F_\mathrm{7}$, is seen during B, the optical flares $F_\mathrm{3}$ and $F_\mathrm{4}$ are observed during C and D, respectively and the HE $\gamma$--ray{} flare seen during E appears to be accompanied by optical flaring activity at $F_\mathrm{5}$. These results provide evidence supporting a correlation between large polarization angle rotations and the appearance of optical and, sometimes, $\gamma$--ray{} flares.

Finally, if the jet has a persistent polarized component then the average values of the Stokes parameters, which completely describe the polarization, will be displaced from the origin of the Stokes plane. For PKS~2155--304, this yields a polarization degree $p_\mathrm{c}=3.7\pm 0.2\%$ and a polarization angle $\theta_\mathrm{c}=77^\circ\pm2^\circ$. Since the polarization angle measures the orientation of the electric field vector, the orientation of the corresponding magnetic field (which is orthogonal to the electric field) is $\theta_\mathrm{c}+90^\circ=167^\circ$. This means that the magnetic field of the persistent jet component effectively lies parallel to the direction of the resolved radio jet, for which the position angle is $\theta_\mathrm{jet}\sim 160^\circ$ \cite{Piner2008, Piner2010}. It is also noteworthy that the most prominent optical flare ($F_\mathrm{2}$) occurs directly after the observed polarization angle aligns with the direction of the jet.

\section{Concluding Remarks and Future Plans}
We have collected optical polarization measurements for PKS~2155--304{} spanning a period of roughly five years, during which time the source experienced several optical and gamma-ray flares. A comparison of the evolution of the polarization angle during these outbursts suggest that some of the flaring activity may be related to the orientation of the polarization angle relative to the position angle of the jet. Future work will involve a more detailed analysis of a specific flaring event, wherein we will track the evolution of the polarization angle and spectral energy distribution before, during and after the flare. These changes in the SED will then be compared to the orientation of the polarization angle, which will allow us to investigate how the physical processes that produce the observed radiation is related to the magnetic field of the emission region. The results of this study (to be published in 2017) can then be compared to blazar emission models that also make predictions for the polarization, e.g. \cite{Zhang2014, Zhang2015}.

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I just worked it out from the novelMichael Wood
Vol. 19 No. 8 · 24 April 1997
I just worked it out from the novel
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
by Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Harvill, 313 pp., £8.99, October 1996, 1 86046 199 9Show More
by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Sonia Soto.
Harcourt Brace, 368 pp., $23, February 1997, 0 15 100182 0Show More
It's easy to feel that life leaves too many traces or too few, scarcely ever the right amount: either fingerprints everywhere or total erasure. In such a mood your memory itself becomes a double agent, and you may be ready, like the hero of Orson Welles's Mr Arkadin, to hire a private eye to explore your own past or, like the hero of Arturo Pérez-Reverte's The Club Dumas, to welcome the devil as your research assistant. You could also just read one of the formidably intelligent works of Javier Marías, expert in what he calls the 'shadows' of the untold story. He is the author of eight novels, the last three of which are available in English (from Harvill) as All Souls, A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me. All three are admirably translated by Margaret Jull Costa, who not only catches the meanings of words with grace and precision, but gets rhythms of thought, and even better, rhythms of afterthought to carry over into English. Marías writes the kind of old-fashioned, speculative prose we associate with Proust and Henry James, all qualifications and revisions, no assertion that can't be infinitely embroidered or unravelled. But he also deals in violence, historical and personal, and in the movie titles, politicians, brand-names and underwear we connect with a quite different kind of writer. The King of Spain (identified only by various nicknames, Solus, the One and Only, Only You, the Lone Ranger and so on), appears in Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, and Mrs Thatcher (recognisable from her lipstick, her manicure and the fact that she is called 'the British leader') in A Heart So White. In All Souls people die and are remembered, strange coincidences link the past to the present. In A Heart So White a remote and lurid suicide finds echoes in apparently unconnected lives. In Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me a man discovers he has a corpse in his arms and spends the rest of the novel trying to find a tellable story for this uncomfortable fact. All of these books are impressive, but the latest, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, probably offers the deepest immersion in Marías's haunted universe.
Toy aeroplanes hang in a child's bedroom, fighters and bombers from two world wars, German and English and Russian and Japanese machines, an imaginary international encounter in the dark.
The planes did not move or sway, apart from a very slight toing and froing – a kind of inert, or perhaps impassive, oscillation – inevitable in any light object suspended by a thread: as if above the head and body of the child they were all languidly preparing for some weary night-time foray, tiny, ghostly and impossible, which would, nonetheless, have taken place several times in the past, or perhaps it still took place anachronistically each night.
The bedroom is in Madrid, and the planes and the wars suggest still other conflicts to the man who is looking at them, the bombardment of the city during the Spanish Civil War, for example, and an ancient English battle which runs in the man's mind because he has seen and can't forget a famous movie. Ghosts visit a sleeping kingly figure, wishing him all kinds of ill, muttering grisly promises and instructions. They say: 'Let me sit heavy on thy soul tomorrow,' and 'Tomorrow in the battle think on me,/And fall thy edgeless sword: despair, and die!' The ghosts are those of the people we know as the Duke of Clarence, Prince Edward, Queen Anne and others. The movie is Richard III, although the man in the novel doesn't know this, since he has caught only part of the film on television, and the time is the eve of the battle of Bosworth Field.
The toy planes and the movie run through the novel like flickering images of endless war, remembered, anticipated, simulated, transposed, hidden. The child, again, 'dreams in blissful ignorance beneath his inherited scene of aerial combat', and the narrator, without a break, makes the connection again: 'Tomorrow in the battle think on me, when I was mortal; and let fall thy lance.' This is an amalgam of several voices from the movie, a scrambled memory, a secondary haunting. On the last page of the book the narrator is still thinking about the child's planes, half-quoting his own earlier description.
The King of Spain has also caught a film on television, shot in Spain but set in England. The King recognises various locations – Avila, Lecumberri and the Casa de Campo – and also Orson Welles. He remembers the phrase 'partial sleep' since he himself saw the movie in the middle of the night, and rather improbably recalls verbatim certain relevant portions of the dialogue, such as 'God knows, my son, by what by-paths and indirect crooked ways I met this crown.' Someone else has to tell him, though, that this movie is Chimes at Midnight.
This Spanish-English criss-crossing is important for Marías, and not only because he taught at Oxford and is the Spanish translator of Conrad, Stevenson, Sterne and others. If Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier is the best French novel in the English language, Marías's works must be strong contenders for the title of best English novel in Spanish. 'England' here is a half-mythological, half-observed country and culture, quaint, exotic, sleepy, devious, haunted, an old movie. 'The English spring is a peculiarly distressing season to those already in distress'; 'As is well known, the English never look openly at anything, or they look in such a veiled, indifferent way that one can never be sure that someone is actually looking at what they appear to be looking at, such is their ability to lend an opaque glaze to the most ordinary of glances'. A hightable dinner in All Souls is a comic tour de force, with plenty of disorderly drinking and every kind of college bore brilliantly caught, but it is also an outsider's bemused, admiring picture of a living ritual. 'England' is a state of mind for Marías, and a way of naming elusive international experiences. In Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me the narrator informs his Spanish readers and reminds us of the interesting, untranslatable meaning of the English verb haunt (and the French verb hanter).
The etymology is uncertain, but it seems that both come from other verbs in Anglo-Saxon and Old French meaning 'to dwell', 'to inhabit', 'to live in' permanently ... Perhaps the link was merely that, a kind of enchantment or haunting, which, when you think about it, is just another name for the curse of memory, for the fact events and people recur and reappear indefinitely and never entirely go away, they may never completely leave or abandon us, and, after a certain point, they live in or inhabit our minds, awake and asleep, they lodge there for lack of anywhere more comfortable, struggling against their own dissolution and wanting to find embodiment in the one thing left to them that can preserve some validity and contact, the repetition or infinite resonance of what they once did or of one particular event: infinite, but increasingly weary and tenuous.
The war in Marías's world doesn't have to be historic or dynastic, scarcely has to be recognisable as a war. There has only to be some form of human damage, foreseen or misrecognised, the violence of disease or anger or accident. There is a battle of some kind each night; therefore always a battle tomorrow. Waking or sleeping, historical or fictional, flesh or film, kings dream of past crimes and future fights. Only children sleep in ignorance of the ghostly battles taking place above their heads. The kings think now of what they will think tomorrow, and they are in this sense a model for many of Marías's characters, who suffer curious dislocations of time and experience.
In a dizzying chapter of Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, the narrator encounters a prostitute he thinks may be his ex-wife. She doesn't acknowledge any such thing, and the narrator perhaps doesn't believe his own suspicions either. How could he not know who she is? How could there be any doubt on this score? He knows this is a reasonable question but reason isn't any real help to him. 'She still looked too much like Celia for me to feel distrustful or to decide that it wasn't her. Anyway, it was her, even if it wasn't.' How could a mere fact tear apart what the spooked, obsessive mind has put together? In All Souls Marías evokes an Oxford porter who has come adrift in time:
Will literally did not know what day it was and spent each morning in a different year, travelling backwards and forwards in time according to his desires or, more likely, quite independently of any conscious desire on his part. No one could predict which date he would choose, far less why he chose it. It was not just that on certain days he believed it was 1947, for him it really was 1947 or 1914 or 1935 or 1960 or 1926 or any other year of his extremely long life.
The narrator finds himself wondering whether Will's time-travel may extend to the future, so that he would one day greet by name, maybe the narrator's own name, never pronounced in his presence, 'someone who had not yet arrived in Oxford and who, perhaps, wherever he might be now, was as yet unaware that he would one day live in that inhospitable city'.
Marías's characters live such thoroughly speculative lives that everything happens to them several times: once in fact and then as many times as the number of variants and analogues they can think of. 'As if' is his and their favourite trope. 'He remained silent for a moment, as if contemplating his own funeral and imagining the future that awaited his various successors'; 'I would become involved aimlessly and surreptitiously in the lives of strangers, as if I were a spy who doesn't even know what it is he has to find out'; 'this time it was raining faster, and more furiously, as if the rain had to make the most of the brief time allotted to it or as if it were an air-raid being fought off by artillery'; 'she tried to justify what could not be justified, as if the love people bear you could wash away certain things.' These quotations are taken more or less at random from Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me. The formula, as you can see, allows for imaginary events, elaborate similes and the evocation of impossibility. Much else besides, no doubt. At times Marías's images take on a self-consciously Proustian flavour, the sense of a homage to the master of the exfoliating, multiple-choice analogy.
Perhaps she was crying too because she felt the kind of envy or sense of exile that afflicts children when they are separated from their siblings, when one of them is left alone with the grandparents while the others go off with their parents on a trip, or when one of them goes to a different school from the one the other children go to, or when they are ill in bed, nestling amongst the pillows with the comics and the coloured prints and the storybooks by which their world is configured (and above them, their model planes), and they see the others going off to the beach or the river or the park or the cinema and setting out on their bikes, and when they hear the first gust of laughter and the summery sound of bicycle bells, they feel like a prisoner or perhaps an exile ...
This sentence is still nine lines from its end. If you feel the style could get tiresome in someone who is not Proust (and even in someone who is), you will not be alone. Any reader of Marías needs to be ready for the prolix self-absorption of his narrators, the way they take all events, even the most melodramatic, and convert them into escalating thought.
There is a death in the first pages of Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, but we don't learn the narrator's occupation ('I'm a screenwriter for the movies, but I almost always end up writing television series instead') until p.67, and don't learn his name (Victor) until p.191. All Souls rests on disease, death, vagrancy, suicide and the weird convergence of very different lives, but it is organised around a series of meditations on book-collecting, long English evenings, sex, time, jealousy and the not always secure distinction between living and dead souls. Yet the style doesn't get nearly as tiresome as you might think; indeed, I mention its occasional excesses only as a warning against the idea of the quick read. Marías is a disciplined as well as an extremely fluent writer, and there is an intricate method to his narrators' apparent garrulousness – note the casual-seeming appearance of the model aeroplanes in the quotation above. More important still, his excursions into analogy are inventive and interesting in their own right, so that even as you are wondering when you are going to get back to the story, you are enjoying the detour too much to want to return in a hurry. Particularly since the detour, more often than not, is in the end inseparable from the story. It's not incidental to Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, for example, that a death notice in a newspaper should, indeed must, report 'the person's age at the moment when they ceased to have an age'. A little later Marías speaks of the surnames of the dead 'and their now abandoned ages'.
The novel starts out, as I have said, with the shocking death of a young woman in the arms of her would-be lover. They have had dinner, have gone to bed and begun to undress, the woman just gets sick and dies among the foreplay. The child with the aeroplane above his head is asleep in another room. The lover, our narrator, tries telephoning the husband in London, but doesn't get through, gives up his attempt. He sets out some food for the child, and sneaks off into the early morning. Some time later, he gets to know the woman's family, her sister, her father, her husband. The father is a minor personage at the palace, and it is through him that we and the narrator meet the King, and learn of his night-time movie watching. The spectacular climax of the book depends on the narrator's finally learning what the husband was doing the next day in London, the whole of that next day when his wife was already dead and he didn't know. What seems like a speculation, albeit a brilliant one, about a state of mind, about the way we are likely to respond to disaster and alteration – 'There are certain things that we should be told about immediately so that we do not, for a single second, walk about the world believing something that is utterly mistaken, when the world has utterly changed because of them' – becomes, through the final events of the book, something else entirely. It's not just, as the narrator thinks, that we can't bear to believe, or to have believed, that a person is alive when she has in reality been dead for a whole day. It's that we could, as the husband did, make on that day a series of irrevocable and calamitous moves because we don't know the world has changed. What we don't know can not only hurt us, it can ruin us. The novel thus becomes a kind of parable about the occlusion or intermittence of knowledge. Its repeated, obsessive worries about the traces left in the world by people and events ('there is almost no record of anything'; 'it's as if nothing ever really happened, not even the things that happen to us, things we cannot forget'; 'all time is useless ... for all time is the same, however much happens'; 'and how little remains of each individual in time') are not only a traditional form of grieving for the snows and other weather of yesteryear. They are a picture of the anxiety of ignorance: how can we know when what we don't know doesn't matter?
'I didn't know about it,' the girl says in Pérez-Reverte's clever and entertaining The Club Dumas (first published in Spanish in 1993). 'I just worked it out from the novel.' 'It' is a 20th-century meeting in the town of Meung, and the novel is The Three Musketeers. An old novel, set in an even older time, turns out to be a precise clue to the present. This is not as surprising as it seems, since much of the present, in this context, is organised by a group of Dumas fans, a secret society about to hold its annual meeting. But then what about the rest of the events in the book? The conjurations of the devil, the centuries-old conspiracy, the ancient texts with weird and possibly lethal variants? The deaths that cannot be accidents, the ensuing destruction of priceless volumes? Here, as in his bestselling The Flanders Panel, Peréz-Reverte unfolds all kinds of playful learning (about printing, book-collecting, painting, demonology, Dumas, the Battle of Waterloo) in the service of the kind of scholarly paranoid mystery we associate with Umberto Eco – who indeed makes a discreet appearance as a member of the Club Dumas ('Look who's arrived. You know him, don't you? Professor of semiotics in Bologna'). A question about genre (could these strange events, in this kind of fiction, not all be connected?) turns into a question about readers and the world (could we bear it if they, or their analogues in history, were not connected, how do we distinguish between coherence and our need for coherence, between probability and desire?). If the Club Dumas is not behind everything that happens, who is?
The detective in this novel is Lucas Corso, described as 'a mercenary of the book world, hunting down books for other people'. 'That meant talking fast,' we are told, 'and getting his hands dirty.' Corso is Sam Spade among the bibliophiles, a character out of Woody Allen as well as out of Eco. He is a pastiche of a pastiche, but he still fails to understand, until the end, that some coincidences are just coincidences, that both chance and conspiracy are features of the world we imagine we know. 'I thought you were all omniscient,' Corso says to the girl who worked out the meeting from the novel, mocking her reliance on a book. The conversation takes place late in the story, and Corso is now convinced that the girl, who seems to know everything and to be everywhere, is a fallen angel, the fallen angel, the devil as a woman. Perhaps she is, but the story doesn't go the way he thinks it does. 'Well, you were wrong,' she says. 'And I don't know why you keep talking to me as if I were one of many. I've been alone for a long time.' A major consequence of the Fall, as theologians have been telling us for a long time, is the uncertainty of interpretation, and even the devil is a solitary reader.
Michael Wood is an emeritus professor at Princeton. He has written books on Yeats, Nabokov, Stendhal, Hitchcock and Empson, among other things.
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FBI conducting own investigation in sexual harassment case of former Rep. Eric Massa
By Larry Margasak, AP
FBI conducting own investigation in Massa case
WASHINGTON — The FBI is investigating the case of former Rep. Eric Massa, accused by his onetime male staff members of sexual harassment.
The lawyer for a former Massa staff member said Wednesday she was contacted by the FBI. Attorney Debra Katz said she was requested to preserve all documents that her client had in his possession involving the New York Democrat.
Katz told The Associated Press that she believes the FBI is interested in a $40,000 check from Massa's campaign to his former chief of staff, Joe Racalto.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House ethics committee on Wednesday opened what it said will be "a full and complete investigation" into whether anyone covered up information that former Rep. Eric Massa sexually harassed male staff members.
The investigation will likely reach into the office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Massa's chief of staff met with an aide in Pelosi's office in October — some five months before the New York Democrat resigned — to discuss Massa's problems with employees.
Leadership aides have insisted that those discussions did not include the sexual harassment allegations.
Massa, 50, resigned from the House last month after the sexual harassment allegations surfaced. The ethics committee cannot investigate former members, but can look into what others did — or did not do — with knowledge of Massa's conduct.
To emphasize the importance of the case, the four-member investigative subcommittee will be led by committee Chairman Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., and ranking Republican Jo Bonner of Alabama.
The case has political importance this year, as Republicans have tried to make the ethical conduct of Democrats a campaign issue — turning the tables on an issue that Democrats used successfully against Republicans to win control of the House in 2006.
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., stepped aside as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee last month after the ethics panel admonished him for allowing corporate money to pay for two trips to Caribbean conferences.
Pelosi's office has acknowledged that Massa's chief of staff, Joe Racalto, met with Pelosi's staff member and discussed a news story in the then-congressman's hometown paper. The news story described Massa's living in a residence with aides on his staff. Racalto told the speaker's office that he had told Massa, who is married, that he should move out. Pelosi's office said Racalto also discussed Massa's use of strong language and the way he ran his office.
In February, the harassment allegations were brought to the attention of Majority Leader Steny Hoyer. Hoyer's office demanded that the allegations be sent to the ethics committee.
The investigation will look into whether House members or employees:
—Had personal knowledge, or were made aware, of Massa's conduct.
—Failed to properly report or fully disclose allegations of misconduct.
—Had a duty to pursue or call attention to the allegations.
The committee said it will also investigate whether money or other payments may have been misappropriated, or fraudulently or improperly distributed.
Massa's campaign wrote a $40,000 check to his chief of staff, Racalto, shortly before resigning his seat last month. The aide is among those pursuing complaints against the former congressman.
Racalto's lawyer, Camilla McKinney, said last week that the $40,000 check was a "deferred payment" for Racalto's work this year and last year on Massa's 2010 re-election campaign and for his work on Massa's transition after the 2008 election.
Massa, however, said the next day in a statement from his campaign office that he did not authorize the $40,000 check from his campaign account for Racalto. Massa also said that someone forged a $40,000 salary increase for Racalto on his congressional payroll.
McKinney disputed Massa's account, saying both transactions were done at Massa's direction. She questioned the timing of the allegations in light of Racalto's sexual harassment complaint against Massa, which was filed March 23, but didn't come to light until last week.
Racalto is one of two staffers in Massa's office who have filed sexual harassment complaints against him. Another male aide also filed a complaint March 23 alleging Massa regularly groped him, propositioned him and made lewd remarks to him and other staffers, according to his attorney, Debra Katz.
Katz, who refused to further identify her client, said aggressive sexual overtures by Massa were routine in the freshman lawmaker's congressional office. They began in early 2009 shortly after Massa took office and escalated over time, particularly after Massa had been drinking, she said.
Associated Press reporter Andrew Miga contributed to this story.
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Music|A Flannel-Wearing Wall of Ragged Sound
Music | Music Review | Fanfarlo
A Flannel-Wearing Wall of Ragged Sound
By JON CARAMANICA SEPT. 22, 2009
When it comes to the young British band Fanfarlo, it's mostly the trumpet. At the beginning of "The Walls Are Coming Down," the group's current single, Leon Beckenham, playing that instrument, steers the song with a countermelody that's somehow both lethargic and triumphant while the singer Simon Balthazar muses on the descent of the would-be exorcist Pellegrino Ernetti. All in all, the horn tells the better tale.
And so it went on Monday night at the Bowery Ballroom: Mr. Balthazar spinning yarns steeped in history from the band's debut album, "Reservoir" (Canvasback/Atlantic), to be released next month, and, in places, Mr. Beckenham poking his trumpet through the band's haze to tell the true story.
Fanfarlo: The British band performing at the Bowery Ballroom. From left, Leon Beckenham, Cathy Lucas, Simon Balthazar, Justin Finch and Jeremy Warmsley. Obscured from view is the drummer Amos Memon. Credit G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times
Fanfarlo is a slightly unwieldy outfit. In addition to Mr. Balthazar and Mr. Beckenham, it includes Cathy Lucas, who plays violin and mandolin and sings harmony; the drummer Amos Memon; and the bassist Justin Finch. (Here, the band was joined by the guitarist Jeremy Warmsley.) Collectively, they have a homespun quality, as if still learning how to make do. Three band members played mandolin over the course of the show. Three played drums. On one song Mr. Balthazar put down his guitar and picked up a clarinet. Glockenspiel was used to dramatic effect. A melodica made an appearance.
The result is a quasi-symphonic indie rock in the vein of Arcade Fire. But really Fanfarlo recalls Beirut, the Gypsy-folk miniorchestra, with its emphasis on melancholy, rustic harmonies, though without the blatant culture scavenging. (As if to drive home the parallel, Fanfarlo was joined for two songs by Jon Natchez, who has played with Beirut, on accordion and alto clarinet.) Fitting the mood, band members, the men at least, dressed like extras in "There Will Be Blood": flannels, suspenders, tight suit vests. (Ms. Lucas's red high-waisted pants were a welcome splash of primary color.)
But Fanfarlo's songs, while alluring, had a similarly weathered texture. The harmonies between Mr. Balthazar and Ms. Lucas are pretty but monotone, and often the group appears skittish about dynamics, every member coalescing around one sound. When it varied from form, Fanfarlo seemed full of possibility. Mr. Beckenham enlivened "Finish Line," which morphed into a bluegrass song, and "Luna" was the night's fastest, with the band veering from loud to soft and back again.
Too often, though, the band remained comfortable, intensely committed to its mean. Backlighted by white holiday lights, it was as if Fanfarlo was in sepia.
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American Angus Association congratulates Heritage Foundation inductees
News News | Dec 9, 2022
Heritage Foundation inductees awarded at the 2022 Angus Convention
To celebrate and honor the contributions of individuals who have gone above and beyond for the Angus breed, the American Angus Association created the Heritage Foundation in 1983. At the 2022 Angus Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, three couples and one individual were inducted into the Heritage Foundation because of their innovation, service and leadership. Over the past 130 years, the business breed has proven itself as an industry leader and expert. Inductees of the Heritage Foundation depict the type of individuals who built a reputation with their drive, ambition and forward-thinking attitude.
From the start of their operations, these individuals set out on a mission to improve the Angus breed and the cattle industry even if they did not realize what the fruits of their efforts would be. This group held the vision and foresight to elevate Angus cattle for the betterment of farmers and ranchers across the country. Looking back, many of these inductees question how they managed to prosper through tough times.
The 2022 inductees include: Jim and Sue Coleman of Modesto, Calif.; Leo and Sam McDonnell of Columbus, Mont.; Dave Nichols of Anita, Iowa; and Becky and the late Arlen Sawyer of Bassett, Neb.
Jim and Sue Coleman — What started out as a small business investment in 1976, Jim and Sue Coleman's Vintage Angus Ranch has since turned into an established set of diverse genetics with an emphasis on cow families and more importantly — emphasis on the Angus Family. Alongside manager Doug Worthington, the operation consists of a 450 Angus cowherd that grazes more than 5,000 acres in the California Sierra Foothills. In addition to their commitment to performance data and maternal traits, the Coleman's heavily pour support into the efforts of the Angus Foundation to enhance the future of the Angus breed's education, youth and research. The Coleman's passion for the breed is clearly shown in their commitment to the Angus female, commitment to the Angus Family and commitment to the next generation.
Leo and Sam McDonnell — Generational on the top and bottom side, Leo and Sam McDonnell devote their time and efforts to providing the most predictable and proven genetics available on their operation, McDonnell Angus. Moving toward trait selection of economic value, the family's success increased as they worked with breeders toward a common goal — industrywide efficiency. Carrying on what his father started in 1962, Leo managed the Midland Bull Test which has since grown to become the largest performance test center in North America, testing about 2,000 bulls annually, but has since been passed on to his son. As Leo and Sam transition their focus to McDonnell Angus, they note that the legacy isn't the business — the legacy is their children and grandchildren. Their legacy lies in the future of the industry.
Dave Nichols — Dedicated to data — the mantra of lifetime Angus breeder, Dave Nichols. From being the first Iowan herd to incorporate computer performance records to intricate feed intake and measurement systems, Nichols has continuously adapted and extended the limits of performance records. This immense interest in data led to his heavy involvement in the Angus Herd Improvement Records, Beef Improvement Federation along with partaking in numerous research projects to improve technology. From his leadership and accolades to his dedication to providing customers with a firm handshake and the best genetics possible, Nichols' investment in the breed and its success is evident in all he does.
Becky and the late Arlen Sawyer — A family who built themselves on grit and resilience, it's no surprise they've relied on the adaptability and performance of Angus genetics to sustain their livelihood. For the past 30 years, the Sawyer family's main priority has been to produce cattle that thrive under Nebraska Sandhills range conditions. With a cow herd consisting of 600 registered and commercial Angus cows, Becky and her late husband, Arlen, along with their children, Adam and Jessica, have worked diligently each day to sustain their 100-plus year operation, A&B Cattle. Dedicated just as much to the next 100 years as they've been in the past 100, they continue to create a prosperous future for both the beef industry and the next generation of cattlemen.
To learn more about the Angus Heritage Foundation and those inducted since its inception, visit https://angusawards.com/.


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Kim Kardashian Honors Kris Jenner With Touching Mother's Day Video
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Kim Kardashian is kicking off her Mother's Day celebration early with a special tribute to Kris Jenner.
On Friday, the reality star honored her mom with a throwback video montage posted to her official website and app. Featuring candid home footage of Kris doting on Kim and other daughters Kourtney and Khloé as children, the clip showcases the now-famous family in a touching light.
The late Robert Kardashian, Kim's father, can be heard speaking from behind the camera a number of times, including the final segment in which a very pregnant Kris shows off her baby belly.
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Other highlights include a costumed Kim and Kourtney being encouraged to sing a song for their dad, and Kris wishing Kim a happy Sweet 16.
Kim also included a personal message for Kris in her post, expressing gratitude for her care and influence.
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"Mom, thank you for always being there and being my best friend. I love you so much and I'm so grateful for all that you've done for me over the years," Kim wrote. "Happy Mother's Day to you and all of the amazing moms in my life!"
Now a mom of two herself, Kim went on to share another post listing the top five things she cherishes most about motherhood.
"I love watching their little personalities develop and seeing them constantly change," she wrote of 3-year-old daughter North and 1-year-old son Saint. "My kids make me laugh every day!"
Kim noted that she enjoys seeing North and Saint "interact with their cousins and [be] so close to them," because it reminds her of how she and her siblings were as youngsters.
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The mogul explained that it's rewarding for her to be "able to carry on traditions from my childhood and how my parents raised me."
Kim also joked that boredom is virtually impossible as a parent, because "there's never a dull moment" with little ones around.
"They always keep me on my toes. Especially North, LOL," she added.
Above all, the 36-year-old revealed why the ultimate gift is realizing how much parenting has affected her own perspective.
"It's not about me anymore. My priorities have totally changed. My kids make me a better person," she concluded.
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A philosophical approach to film history
A new book written by an academic at Queen Mary University of London sheds fresh light on the way in which early cinema is understood.
A photograph of a cinema projector
Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema: A Philosophical Approach to Film History examines the relationship between fiction and illusion and how early films were perceived by the audience. In particular it explores how the categories of fiction and non-fiction were understood in the period of film history when the present-day generic labels were not yet operational.
A new model for understanding fiction
Author Dr Mario Slugan, Lecturer in Film Studies at Queen Mary, advocates that the period between 1880 and 1915 provides a unique opportunity to understand the notion of fiction overall. The work explores how a new representational medium (film) became employed in the production of fiction, and the crucial role the discourse on imaginary engagement played in this process.
By looking at the production, promotion, exhibition, and reception of early European and American cinema, he investigates why we engage with some films as fictions and others as non-fictions. Dr Slugan also argues that cinema provides a better model for understanding fiction than literature.
Dr Slugan said: "This is the first monograph to combine analytic philosophy and new film history in an effort to argue that the fictional status of a film may change over time, and that numerous pre-1915 films that present-day audiences treat as non-fictions were treated by their contemporaries as fictions and vice versa."
Dr Mario Slugan joined Queen Mary as a Lecturer in the Department of Film and Television Studies in 2019. "I am very excited to be a part of both one of the best film departments in the UK and the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS). Whereas the former has already established its credentials the latter promises to be a perfect place to continue my interdisciplinary work," he added.
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    }
    echo '{"members":'.json_encode($arr).'}';
    ?>

Then i have an html file that grabs the link to the api.php files and displays all of the entries in a list, I just cant get it to work on cross domain.
showjson.html
    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

    <title>jQuery</title>
    </style>

    Id
    Product
    Price

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I apologize for the sloppy wording and code this is my first post on stack overflow :p

A: I dont know if i understand your question 100%, but in this type of situation, isnt a good method to generate a php file on the server that runs the javascript to? Just include the remote file with php, call it the same, api.php, and use ajax on that file and pass the parameters on. I have used this method several times.
This is not an actual answer to the question, but i think it is the correct answer in most circumstances.

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5 Things That Are Expected To Happen During & After John Cena's Mixed Tag Team Match At WrestleMania 33
WrestleMania 33 is almost here and for the first time ever, 16 time WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena won't be involved in a big match or a Title match at WrestleMania. At "The Ultimate Thrill Ride" WrestleMania 33, John Cena will team up with his girlfriend Nikki Bella to face the team of The Miz & Maryse in a mixed tag team match.
Let's take a look at 5 things that are expected to happen during & after John Cena's mixed tag team match at WrestleMania 33:
#5 John Cena & Nikki Bella's Final Match Together
WrestleMania 33 – John Cena & Nikki Bella vs. The Miz & Maryse with Al Roker as Special Guest Ring Announcer
John Cena & Nikki Bella have team up only once before on an episode of SmackDown Live, where they defeated the mixed tag team of James Ellsworth & Carmella. They will now team up only one more time at WrestleMania 33, as there's no plans for them as of now to team up in the future.


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From Student Services
Take part in our sexual harassment prevention training
The #NeverOK project offers a number of training courses which aim to prevent sexual harassment on or off campus.
Campus campaign
Open from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2023
View more campaigns in Student Services
Bringing in the Bystander® Training
Aimed at: staff and students
Please be aware that course looks at case studies of sexual violence, and may be triggering or upsetting.
We have all been in situations where we have witnessed something that made us feel uncomfortable. But we weren't quite sure what to do about it, or we thought about a great come-back on the way home!
The Bringing In The Bystander programme® gives people to tools to become effective and safe bystanders, whether that is in the moment, or having a quiet word at a more opportune time.
The programme was developed by the University of New Hampshire and has been delivered at universities across the world, with significant research demonstrating its effectiveness at encouraging attitude change and increasing bystander behaviours.
To arrange training for your group, please contact Josh Callander (for staff training) or Alisha Lobo (for student training).
Bringing in the Bystander® Train the Trainer Course
As part of the strategy to roll out the Bringing in the Bystander course as widely as possible across the University and The SU, we can train staff and students to become bystander trainers themselves.
Joining a group of active facilitators, you would be expected to deliver a minimum of two training courses a year, to stay familiar with the content. In particular, we would like to hear from male-identifying or non-binary students or staff who would like to become facilitators.
Good Night Out Training
Aimed at: Hospitality staff
Inspired by the Good Night Out Campaign, this training aims to prevent sexual harassment for students on night's out. It teaches bar staff to recognise sexual harassment, and how to respond if a student tells them that they have been harassed, groped, followed or otherwise made to feel uncomfortable.
To arrange training for your group, please contact Alisha Lobo.
Josh Callander j.a.callander@bath.ac.uk 01225 383098


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Enkronassedeln var 1 kr-sedlar som gavs ut åren 1874, 1875 och 1914 – 1921. Det var brist på silver som gjorde att man gav ut en sedel på 1 kr.

Sedlarna från 1874-75 kallades i folkmun för pappersetta och de från 1914-21 för kotia (ko-tia) (som möjligen kan ha kommit från att sedeln förväxlades med 10 kr-sedlar vid kreatursmarknader). I Stockholmsområdet kallades de även Hagalundstia. Tiokronorssedeln är dock betydligt större (135 x 150 mm), men tryckt i samma färger. Det ursprungliga namnet kan ha varit "kofemma", eftersom femkronorssedeln hade samma dimensioner.

Trycktes på vitt handgjort finpapper och hade grön ram med svart tryck på framsidan och svart spegelvänt tryck på baksidan. De som trycktes på 1800-talet var 75 x 135 mm och de på 1900-talet 70 x 120 mm. Överst i mitten det svenska riksvapnet och i hörnen de fyra ståndens symboler:
Adeln övre vänster: Krönt sköld med riddarhjälm, lansar med fanor
Prästerna övre högra: Änglahuvud som kröner orgel, biskopsnyckel korslagd med biskopskräkla.
Borgare nedre vänster: Ankare, borste, m.m.
Bönder nedre högra: Kratta, spade, lie, grep, skära och slagpinne över halmkärve.

Enkronassedeln var giltigt betalningsmedel fram till och med 31 december 1987.

Referenser

Externa länkar
1874 års serie
Kronor-sedlar med Stora Riksvapnet

Sveriges ekonomiska historia
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Q: Returning the sum of a column without using group by The following sql...
declare @parent table (id int, description varchar(50))
declare @child table (parentid int, amount money)

insert into @parent(id, description) values (1, 'test')

insert into @child(parentid, amount) values (1, 3)
insert into @child(parentid, amount) values (1, 3)

select p.*,
       sum(c.amount) as amount
    from @parent p
        inner join @child c on c.parentid = p.id

Generates the following error...
Msg 8120, Level 16, State 1, Line 10
Column '@parent.id' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.

This fixes it...
select p.*,
       sum(c.amount) as amount
    from @parent p
        inner join @child c on c.parentid = p.id
    group by p.id,
             p.description

How do I change it so the query returns the sum of the child records, but without using the group by expression?  Maybe a subquery of some sort?

A: You can use window function :
select distinct p.*, sum(c.amount) over (partition by p.id) as amount
from @parent p inner join
     @child c
     on c.parentid = p.id;

You can also use apply :
select distinct p.*, c.amount
from @parent p cross apply
     (select sum(c.amount) as amount
      from @child c
      where c.parentid = p.id
     ) c;

A: window aggregates:
select p.*,
       sum(c.amount) over(partition by p.id) as amountperparent,
       sum(c.amount) over() as amountofallchildren
    from @parent p
        inner join @child c on c.parentid = p.id;

--subquery
select p.*,
       (select sum(c.amount) from @child as c where c.parentid = p.id) as amountperparent,
       (select sum(c.amount) from @child as c ) as amountofallchildren
    from @parent p ;

--derived aggregation
select p.*, c.amountperparent
from @parent p
join
(
    select parentid, sum(amount) as amountperparent
    from @child
    group by parentid
) as c on p.id = c.parentid;

A: You can express this as:
select p.*,
       (select sum(c.amount) as amount
        from @child c
        where c.parentid = p.id
       ) as child_amount
from @parent p;

However, this is not exactly equivalent, because it include parents with no children.  One solution is:
select p.*,
       (select sum(c.amount) as amount
        from @child c
        where c.parentid = p.id
       ) as child_amount
from @parent p
where exists (select 1 from @child c where c.parentid = p.id);

That said, you can also use apply:
select p.*, c.amount
from @parent p cross apply
     (select sum(c.amount) as amount
      from @child c
      where c.parentid = p.id
     ) c;

cross apply filters out non-matches (outer apply keeps them).


Offering a very nice EC-127 DCM side chair designed by Charles & Ray Eames for Herman Miller, circa 1971 to 1981. Featuring molded plastic seats and backs with handsome orange wool upholstery. Legs and frame are solid chrome-plated steel. Original Herman Miller label present on underside. A very comfortable design produced for only ten years. The chair is in very good original condition, with minor wear from age and use.


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Aimee Osbourne/ARO's debut single 'Raining Gold' is Spectacular (Video)
In the entertainment industry, there are a myriad of artists who got where they were as quickly as they did because they were the children of somebody famous. And then there are people like Aimee Osbourne, sister of the fabulous Kelly and the very cool Jack, and daughter of the amazing Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne (and, yes, I'm a long-time fan of the Osbournes, as I like people who tell it like it is and then live comfortably with the consequences).
Aimee Osbourne is someone who has seemingly shunned the spotlight always around her family, preferring to make her own way in life. Her 'own way' now being a new music career, with a brand new single, and an EP on its way.
Aimee sings under the name ARO (Aimee Rachel Osbourne) and, if her first single and video are anything to go by, she's going to be a big star.
The debut single is called 'Raining Gold'. Her voice is ethereally gorgeous, the video is incredible (looks to me like only one shot made up the entire 4:15 film?) and the story behind the video is an interesting one. At least if I'm 'feeling' it correctly.
As to me, 'Raining Gold' has a stuck under water, sluggish feeling. As if Aimée has been pulled into that world of mess and horror, a world she refuses to let touch her, but can't even muster up the energy to drag herself out. (An analogy for her own life, perhaps?)
But then she does. Slowly and languorously and lugubriously walking to her car, and driving away.
ARO's 'Raining Gold' releases today, March 5th. All I can say is, if this is the caliber of work ARO is going to put out, I can't wait to see more.
Conchita Wurst: Are Book and Singles Covers an Homage to Tom?
Maja Francis 'Last Days Of Dancing' Song and Video are Fabulous


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With win over Bengals, Patriots buy themselves important time to fix some things
38dMike Reiss
Sources: Edelman had surgery to repair shoulder
1dRich Cimini
David Andrews has vested interest in success of Ben Jones, Titans
Pats QB Stidham not focused on Brady's future
Pats CB McCourty recovering from groin surgery
30 trades that shaped the NFL season: Barnwell ranks from worst to first
6dBill Barnwell
NFL players considering retirement in the 2020 offseason: 16 who could walk away
7dNFL Nation
Patriots' Joe Thuney could command monster contract in free agency
Chung has drug charge conditionally dismissed
The highest-graded NFL players: Top overall, plus surprises and best rookies
7dPro Football Focus
Mike ReissESPN Staff Writer
Covered Patriots since 1997
Joined ESPN in 2009
CINCINNATI -- The New England Patriots' 34-13 win over the Cincinnati Bengals at Paul Brown Stadium on Sunday wasn't the decisive blowout to quiet some of the growing doubts about their Super Bowl credentials. Nonetheless, their second-half recovery was critical as they improve to 11-3 on the season and buy more time to find what they can consistently do best going into the playoffs.
At halftime, things didn't look rosy with a 13-10 lead, as all of New England had to be asking the question, "How could this team be struggling with the one-win Bengals?"
Then they found themselves, sparked by an offense that shows promise in spurts, a defense that recovered from a slow start against the run, and special-teams units that are playing a major role in dictating the outcome of games.
Simulate your own scenarios and check the latest playoff picture. Playoff Machine »
So, now, the big-picture question: Is this team built to beat red-hot Baltimore?
They'd be underdogs today, no doubt. Just like they were last year against Kansas City in the AFC Championship Game, which serves up a reminder that anything is still possible, even when the performance doesn't always look top-notch in mid-December.
Buy a breakout performance: Stephon Gilmore is proving that he's the best cornerback in the game. Gilmore had an interception early in the third quarter, and then followed it up with a 64-yard interception return for a touchdown later in the quarter. He now has six interceptions on the season, and this type of game could even vault him into the conversation for Defensive Player of the Year consideration.
Eye-popping NextGen Stat: Gilmore reached a max speed of 19.86 miles per hour on his return, the fourth fastest by a ball-carrying Patriots player this season and fastest by any of their defensive ball carriers. The Patriots are the only team this season without a ball-carrier reaching 20 miles per hour.
Pivotal play: Special-teams captain Matthew Slater, a perennial Pro Bowler, was singled up as a gunner on a punt late in the second quarter. He timed his arrival at the same time returner Alex Erickson was catching the ball, and Erickson muffed it, with perennial Pro Bowler Justin Bethel recovering it in a pile. That stole the Patriots three points going into halftime, giving them a 13-10 lead they wouldn't relinquish as they raced away in the third quarter.
NFL Essentials
Everything you need this week:
• Full schedule » | Standings »
• Depth charts for every team »
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• 2020 NFL draft order: Top 20 picks »
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Promising trend: The Patriots' offense badly needs a consistent spark, and rookie receiver N'Keal Harry helped provide it. This came after he played just two snaps in last week's loss to the Chiefs. But Harry was part of the primary three-receiver package against the Bengals, and his third-quarter touchdown catch was a play in which he kept himself alive along the back line of the end zone. Quarterback Tom Brady shuffled his feet, and showed great patience in the pocket to make it happen, as the play -- and overall day -- was a building block for the duo.
Biggest hole in the game plan: The Bengals successfully ran the ball on their first eight plays against the Patriots' nickel defense, and the fits and tackling were poor. The ninth play was a pass for a touchdown. The Patriots then switched to more of a run-based front/personnel, and things settled down. It was a critical in-game adjustment, with defensive lineman Adam Butler providing a spark as a third-down lineman added to the mix.


The KONG Cozie King Lion Plush Dog Toy is cute, soft and cuddly. It is made with an extra layer of material, so it is extra tough. It is perfect for a game of fetch, or as a comfort toy when it is time to rest. There is minimal filling for minimal mess. A squeaker inside helps to entice play.
Small: 6.5" x 5" x 2"
Cute and dogs love plush toys.
my wife says it looks cute for her baby girl "are dog"


Easy Brown Sugar Glazed Ham is a great addition to any holiday meal. This spiral sliced ham is basted with pineapple juice and crusted with brown sugar and warm spices for the most flavorful ham. Easy Brown Sugar Glazed Ham A spiral sliced ham is the ultimate centerpiece for Easter, Christmas or any special celebration….


Personal Essay: What is the perfect diet?
Like many young girls, I became aware of nutrition and what I ate around the age of 12 when my body started to change and I started really paying attention to my body image and the images that were being thrown at me from all angles. And like many young girls, I was completely sucked in by the notion of what my body is "supposed to look like". However, I'm actually not here today to talk about body image but instead nutrition image.
To me, "nutrition image" is the image that you have in your head of what your diet is supposed to look like. For some, they think that carbs are evil and they're never supposed to eat them. Others think that eating meat is terrible and they would never dream of admitting that the smell of bacon makes their mouth drool every time. Some say to replace sugar with things like stevia while others preach that stevia is terrible for you. It seems that every day there's some new study released praising the benefits of this or condemning the consumption of that. There are SO many images/ ideas out there of what the ideal diet is but I believe that the ideal diet is what makes YOU feel good and what makes your body thrive. There is truly no one size fits all diet.
I first got really interested in nutrition when I was about 21 and was getting super into Crossfit. Naturally, I did what everyone around me was doing which was to adopt a very strict paleo diet condemning all forms of carbs and grains and really shoving in the protein. Fast forward a few years and I started asking questions about how my meat was sourced. I got sucked into the vortex of endless YouTube videos, books and documentaries about the meat and dairy industry and completely changed my diet to being mostly vegan. I never gave up eggs since I have my own backyard chickens BUT I did feel ashamed that I still ate eggs (which now seems completely ridiculous) and hid that from social media when I posted the food I was eating daily. The few times I did post a simple photo of eggs, I got some of the most ridiculous criticism.
Jump ahead to today and I've realized that I have to stop looking at what others are eating and think that I need to be eating the exact same way. Just because so-and-so lost weight eating a paleo diet or my best friend completely cleared up her acne after cutting out dairy doesn't mean that it will work for me OR that it has to. My advice: listen to your body and start experimenting. If following a certain kind of diet is what you want to do, then great. In fact, I think it's often a good place to start. From there, keep eating more of the things that energize you and less of the things that don't. Also- make sure to try new things! Go to the Farmer's Market and get a vegetable you've never tried before and then learn to cook with it. Some of my favorite recipes have come about this way.
About Brita: Hi! I'm Brita, a Nashville based food photographer and writer who blogs at BBritnell.com where I create delicious, mostly plant based and healthy recipes. I just recently quit my day job of working in state government to pursue a full time career of food photography, videography, and working on my blog! I first got into yoga while playing roller derby for the Nashville Rollergirls. Honestly, I hated it at first but quickly realized the immense benefits it had to my body, my mind, and (at the time) my ability to better play the sport. Since retiring from roller derby, I've kept up with yoga and am working on increasing my flexibility and finally managing to do some of the fun arm balances. :) You might have guessed since I have a food blog but I also LOVE to cook. Some of my favorite recipes include these Black Bean Stuffed Sweet Potatoes, this Peanut Butter Pie, Black Bean & Quinoa Burgers, and Loaded Chili! If you're a meat eater, almost all of my recipes can be easily adapted to include meat as well (which is purposeful since my husband eats meat and I put a little bit in all of my recipes for him).


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Enslaved Peoples as Prisoners of War
The struggle to abolish the slave trade and protect labor rights has been a catastrophic infringement of humanitarian rights upon people worldwide. The slave trade was first condemned by treaty in the Additional Articles to the Paris Peace Treaty of 1814 between France and Britain (Vega & Weisbrodt 2007). In 1885, the General Act of the Berlin Conference on Central Africa declared that "trading in slaves is forbidden in conformity with the principles of international law" (Vega & Weisbrodt 2007). In spite of the fact of slavery being forbidden, it would be strategically replaced with racial capitalism or economic slavery that would produce the largest atrocity of genocide known to mankind. However, the enslavement of beings from the Atlantic and Indian slave trade is rarely identified as a genocide nor is the residual effect of the war on civilians.
The Atlantic and Indian slave trade was an egregious war between the sovereignty of peoples and governments, companies, and international systems that supported institutionalized global exploitation. Although, the international legal documents have ideal principles, standards, and treaties they have wholeheartedly been breached by its creators, thus, it has not been applied to all states and its people. It is evident of the hypocrisy and contradictions that exists in international law which deliberately ostracizes groups of people to ensure justice is not obtainable. Article 1 of the 1907 Hague III Convention of the Opening of Hostilities asserts that:
"Hostilities between [contracting parties] must not commence without previous and explicit warning, in the form either of a declaration of war, giving reasons, or of an ultimatum with conditional declaration of war" (Orackhelashvili, 2019).
However, it is crucial to take notice of their being an absence of an explicit warning when it came to the deliberate genocide of people that became casualties (prisoners of war) of the Atlantic and Indian slave trade. This genocide would dismantle the infrastructures of various nation-states across continents for generations causing an ongoing mass confusion of the current state of war against citizens worldwide. Enslaved peoples and the generations that followed after, are prisoners of war from a system that is insidious in regard to their efforts to rewrite history, construct deceptive laws, and continuously breach of the inherent rights of mankind.
Paragraph 10 of General Assembly Resolution 2105, passed on December 1965 by seventy-four to six with twenty-seven abstentions:
"Recognizes the legitimacy of the struggle by people under colonial rule to exercise their right to self-determination and independence and invites all States to provide material and moral assistance to the national liberation movements in colonial territories" (Orackhelashvili 2019).
Yet, it fails to mention the pseudo-scientific belief of the superiority of 'whites' over 'non-whites'. Orackhelashvili conceptions of war in international law excludes the prevalence of cultural, economic, spiritual, psychological, and biological chemical warfare which are all forms of intense violence that exists against non-whites from the conception of the slave trade to contemporary times. In the 1970 Friendly Relations Declaration asserts that the transgression of the right to self-determination is forbidden in international law:
"Every State has the duty to refrain from any forcible action which deprives peoples referred to above in the elaboration of the present principle of their right to self-determination and freedom and independence. In their actions against, and resistance to, such forcible action in pursuit of the exercise of their right to self-determination, such peoples are entitled to seek and to receive support in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter" (Orackhelashvili 2019).
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is meant to "settle legal disputes submitted to it by states (contentious jurisdiction) and give advisory opinion on legal questions referred to it by international organs and agencies duly authorized under advisory jurisdiction" (Orackhelashvili). Nonetheless, the deception lies in the ICJ condemning leaders of 'African' states and being deficient in condemning the parties that are involved in the economic and social disorder of these states. For instance, the British had a clear involvement in instigating the Rwandan genocide between the Tutsis and Hutus by way of misidentifying groups of people with arbitrary titles to promote the agenda of divide and conquer for their own political interests.
The issue of the matter is that there has been genocide coupled with the enslavement of war captives that have forgotten their cultures. Chattel slavery prospered through the attainment of war captives which calls attention to the process of enslavement through war, thus, it is imperative to reinterpret the concept of prisoners of war as those that were enslaved. In other words, war and violence have become an inescapable part of modern life. There is sociological, psychological, or political violence that has been constructed from the states of war that involves ethnic cleansing and systemic murders, which go unrecognized in the international legal systems comprehension of war, sovereignty, self-determination, and peace. Economic-socio-political states permits those in power to use charity as a façade of economic exploitation permitting civilized prisoners of war within a system of oppression. Structural violence is the foundation of global capitalism which is a system of oppression that maintains racism and racial violence within multicultural societies.
Orackhelashvili, Alexander, (2019) Akehurst's Modern Introduction International Law: Eight
Edition. Chapter 21: Laws applicable to war and armed conflict. Routledge Taylor &
Francis Group. London and New York
Edition. Chapter 23: Settlement of disputes. London and New York
Resolution 2105 (XX, UNYb 1965, 554-5
Vega De La, Connie & Weissbrodt, David, 2007 International Human Rights Law: An
Introduction. University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia.
https://www.hazarainternational.com/2011/10/19/the-ameer-of-afghanistan-has-sold-ten-thousand-hazara-captives-as-slaves-to-pay-the-expenses-of-war/
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Information for current postgraduate taught students (MSc, PGDip, PGCert) undertaking degrees or modules in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies (STS).
Almost all our modules are available to UCL students from other departments. You are welcome. Please note for some modules there may be limited space. In these cases priority will be given to STS students, and places may be capped. Modules may be subject to change. Students should register via Portico. The UCL common timetable provides information on times and locations.
Not all modules will be available to you and entry may be dependent on your previous experience/qualification.
STS postgraduate taught programme is managed by the PGT programme tutor, Dr William Maclehose.