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After 1917, the Soviet regime required all citizens to have a fixed surname, a patronymic, and a given name in official records. Kazakh names were recorded in Russian orthography and morphology, replacing native endings with -ov/-ova or -ev/-eva, and patronymics with -ovich/-ovna. Soviet policy discouraged explicit references to ru (tribes) or traditional honorifics in surnames, viewing them as “feudal” remnants.

By the 1960s–1980s, nearly all Kazakh citizens had surnames in the Russian format, even if the root was Kazakh. Extended Islamic names (including father’s, grandfather’s, clan, and place of origin) and heroic/dynastic titles largely disappeared from public use, surviving only in literature and oral history. In rural areas and within families, traditional -uly, -kyzy, and -tegi forms were sometimes preserved in speech, but not in passports or legal documents.

For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent.

The Washington Department of Licensing said in a statement that it was trying to fix the Spanish option and figure out how it happened in the first place. It noted that the self-service option includes 10 languages and runs on a newer, AI-driven technology.

From a relative’s home in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, environmental engineer Evens Emmanuel teaches students and convenes colleagues by phone and laptop to avoid the armed gangs that have plagued Haiti’s capital since the 2021 assassination of then-President Jovenel Moïse. The professor at Quisqueya University has endured crushing losses: His parents, along with an uncle and aunt, were killed in Haiti’s catastrophic magnitude 7 earthquake in January 2010; thugs evicted him and his wife from their Port-au-Prince home in 2023; then, just last year, a younger brother was slain in a shooting. Yet Emmanuel, 67, has chosen to remain in the struggling Caribbean island nation. “It would be very difficult to leave knowing my competence could give something to my country,” he says.

MARTY FRIEDMAN: I think all of our stuff was great and I think we did the best we could on every record and believed in everything equally. As much as Rust in Peace worked, we believed all of the records that we made together were equally as good if not better than Rust in Peace or else we wouldn't have released them. We never went into a mixing session being done and said, "Wow, this isn't as good as our last couple records, but let's put it out anyway." Believe me, at the time Risk was done, we all felt exactly the same way we did after Rust in Peace.

MARTY FRIEDMAN: I had other problems that I couldn't let anybody know about. I had a serious arm issue, far worse than tendon-itis. The nerves on my right arm had become detached and were mangled inside, barely connected to each other enough to have the synapse from my brain get to my hands. If I shook someone's hand, it would feel like a big electric shock going through my arm.
I had just joined a band on a major label, and I didn't want anybody to know about it. I had a doctor tell me to quit playing guitar or I could lose use of my arm entirely. He did not understand that I was recording this album. I went for a second opinion from a sports medicine doctor, and she said the first doctor was probably right, but she knew I was not going to stop playing at this point and worked to minimize the injury. I went to therapy every day for a couple of months. The doctor recommended I only play the barest minimum; no warming up, no noodling around, do as few takes as possible, just record when the red light is on, get your shit done, and get out of there. That is totally not my style. I like to do a lot of takes. I like to live with things and think about what I'm playing, try stuff and change things. But no, she said, play as little as possible.

MARTY FRIEDMAN: Dave wasn't there most of the time. I found this kind of odd because he was supposed to be the Mr. Megadeth guy, but he wasn't even there. When he did show up, he asked me if I could loan him a hundred bucks. I had just joined the band after being homeless and he drives up in a Mercedes asking me for a hundred bucks. I didn't know what to make of any of this because I was quite naive. I knew that I really liked the guys, but the whole drug thing was the hardest part for me to overcome. I didn't want to go back to being homeless.

DAVE MUSTAINE: Marty was such a great guitar player, it caused a crisis of confidence in me. Voices inside my head starting picking on me. Going into the studio brought all these raging doubts crashing down on me. I stayed in the lounge or the kitchen, feeling discouraged about my guitar playing. Until then, I thought of myself as one of the best guitar players in the world, but here was this new guy — granted, he was really good at lead, but he was not a well-rounded player; not a rhythmic-lead-acoustic-electric-songwriter-lyric-writer-producer-engineer. He was not all these things. He was only a lead guitar player. But, in my diseased mind, he still was so much better than me that I simply crumbled. I thought, here, I've been playing all these years, and I should be so much better.

S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, visited Dilley after Liam and his father, both originally from Ecuador, were picked up in Minnesota and transferred in January. He went again last week and was asked at a Friday news conference about reports of children’s letters and drawings being suppressed.

“I believe those stories, because I’ve heard similar stories myself,” Castro said.

He said he’d been told repeatedly that guards had warned detainees not to talk to him. “Yes, I think there’s a lot of secrecy there,” Castro said.

TONY LETTIERI: At the height of this medication he was taking under Dr. Mark's care, Dave was out of it. Sometimes he could barely stand. I took him to the shoot. Ron Laffitte met us there. Penelope could see that he was not in great shape and the shoot was difficult.
He was barely capable. She put him on this revolving stage and he was supposed to be playing a guitar solo while the stage spun around, but he had no equilibrium. They had me behind him out of camera range because he kept falling over. They shot him from the waist up while I ducked down holding on to his belt loop while this stage spun. It was a mess.

The question is, how is this flippin' useful? In a reference manual? Who writes documentation like this?

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Suddenly we know a lot more! What happened in May of 1989? (Aside from me passing my first college programming course.) That's right -- the shuttering of Infocom as a Cambridge studio.

EXERCISE THREE Design and implement a full-size game. Submit it to testing, fix all the resulting bugs, help marketing design a package, ship the game, and sell at least 250,000 units.

DAVID ELLEFSON: Dave and I started to do a lot of crack. Crack was everywhere, especially in that neighborhood where I lived on Cherokee. We were doing a lot of heroin every day. And I simply melted down. I couldn't take it anymore. I was dating the woman who would become my wife, Julie Foley, who worked for Doug Thaler at McGhee Entertainment, which, of course, was kind of weird because I'm dating the office girl and she's dating the client, which is somewhat taboo, but we hit it off. Julie would stop over to the apartment on Cherokee and me and Dave would be smoking crack and doing heroin and I would always have to hide it from her.
Things were getting very weird.

DAVE MUSTAINE: I didn't like Elleson's girlfriend, luie Fole. She came over to our apartment, saw that we were getting high, and ratted me out to Doug Thaler, told him that I was doing heroin. Of course, Ellefson had been doing it, too. Everybody had been doing it.

DAVE MUSTAINE: His girlfriend was really bad. She was very controlling.
She once made him dump a gram of heroin into the carpet. Too bad he didn't know that if you blew up a balloon and rubbed it over the carpet, all the heroin would stick to the balloon and it would come out of the carpet, but he was pretty much an amateur junkie. Ha-ha.

We played a warmup for the show at the Ritz in New York. We were going to fly to New York, play the Ritz, and from there, fly over to England, which was good because it gave us one last chance to cop and make sure we had enough drugs to get from New York to England. None of us smuggled heroin. We never brought drugs through borders or any of that stuff. By the time we got to England and were driving up to Donington, some of us were coming down off the heroin and starting to jones. I was thinking Guns N' Roses was going to be there, and we knew they got high. We knew that they were like us; they did heroin and coke.

There is also a question of how long the president could keep the Section 122 tariffs in place. As noted, the statute limits presidential action to 150 days unless Congress extends that period. But it is not clear whether the president could simply, on day 151, declare the conditions under Section 122 to be in place and to issue a new proclamation imposing tariffs for another 150 days.

Taken together, it is clear that the president can re-create much of his prior tariff landscape before we even get to March.