Cracks in the monolithic Soviet bloc are starting to appear in the 1980s, and the very symbol of communist repression comes crashing down in November, when the Berlin Wall is breached, ending a 28-year division of the city. During the day on Nov. 9, a spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party says starting at midnight that day, citizens of East Germany are free to cross the country’s borders. Almost immediately Berliners start slamming the wall with axes and sledgehammers. By nightfall, the celebration turns into what one observer calls "the greatest street party in the history of the world" and the city is reunited. East and West Germany would reunite one year later.

[F24D] DOMESTIC- OR SPACE-HEATING SYSTEMS, e.g. CENTRAL HEATING SYSTEMS; DOMESTIC HOT-WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS; ELEMENTS OR COMPONENTS THEREFOR (preventing corrosion C23F; water supply in general E03; using steam or condensate extracted or exhausted from steam engine plants for heating purposes F01K 17/02; steam traps F16T; domestic stoves or ranges F24B, F24C; water or air heaters having heat generating means F24H; combined heating and refrigeration systems F25B; heat exchange apparatus or elements F28; removing furring F28G; electric heating elements or arrangements H05B)

– The D.C. Council stripped Jack Evans of his chairmanship on the Committee on Finance and Revenue and said it will hire a law firm to investigate him. Steve Thompson reports: “The council stopped short of stripping Evans of other committee assignments — with the embattled, longtime lawmaker casting a deciding vote. … Brianne K. Nadeau (D-Ward 1), who voted in favor of taking away all of Evans’s committee assignments, said the lawmaker’s situation has already left voters in his ward disenfranchised. … Evans spoke few words during Tuesday’s discussions, looking tired and occasionally puffing his cheeks as he exhaled.”

EPSTEIN’S CASH … “Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Infinite Means’ May Be a Mirage,” by NYT’s James Stewart, Matthew Goldstein, Kate Kelly and David Enrich: “Epstein is routinely described as a billionaire and brilliant financier, and he rubbed elbows with the powerful, including former and future presidents. Even after his 2008 guilty plea in a prostitution case in Florida, he promoted himself as a financial wizard who used arcane mathematical models, and he often dropped the names of Nobel Prize-winning friends. He told potential clients that they had to invest a minimum of $1 billion. At his peak in the early 2000s, a magazine profile said he employed 150 people, some working out of the historic Villard Houses on Madison Avenue.

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Winter of Fire may be classified as fantasy/dystopia, but the world that Sherryl Jordan wrote is the same one I find, wherever I travel, whatever I study. Both the depth of inequality, cruelty, and stubbornness in many societies (not excluding ours), and also the kindness, the courage, the possibility. I’ve met the Quelled, and the Chosen, and I’ve met many Elshas, fierce and soft and strong. I look forward to meeting the next ones too, as they pick up a shiny new copy from their own ‘red’ shelf. Maybe in a few years I’ll see them in my classroom, ready to deconstruct their own worlds. Ready to be brave. 

Try to cut this hole neatly, as any extra dirt that comes out will have to be replaced with concrete. You may find that the old fence posts are still in place, or that their concrete bases are still in the ground – these have to come out. Don’t bother using a hammer drill for this, unless you are sure there is only a little concrete in the ground – hire a breaker instead (you can hire a Hilti TE3000 Heavy Duty Breaker from £88.44 for one day, HSS Hire).

Besides dragon boat races, the event also featured a farmers’ market, art competition for children and various cultural activities.

“Although we are not professionals, we give our very best and compete within ourselves to be better every time.

Leica launched its Rangefinder CRF 2800.COM at the Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show, or SHOT Show, Tuesday at the Sands Expo and Convention Center.

‘Everybody’s losing everything:’ Sand Springs residents evacuate as floodwaters breach homes, roadways