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As a distinguished Air Force officer and intrepid astronaut; as a bold and courageous pioneer who spearheaded the American conquest of space; as Command Module pilot on mankind's historic first landing on the moon; as an Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs who initiated progressive and dynamic educational programs for the nation's youth; and as the architect whose vision foresight and innovative leadership created the National Air and Space Museum, Michael Collins has served his country with distinction and integrity in a wide variety of endeavors throughout a career spanning nearly five decades.

Born in Rome, Italy, in 1930, Michael Collins graduated from the Military Academy in 1952 and was commissioned in the Air Force.

Following pilot training at a number of bases, he was assigned to Nellis Air Force Base for advanced day fighter training in F-86 Sabrejets.

Upon completion of the eleven-week course, he was assigned to the 21st Fighter-Bomber Wing at Victorville, California.

In December 1954, the Wing was transferred to France, where he flew F-86 fighters until late 1957.

He then returned to the United States to attend an aircraft maintenance officers course at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois.

He completed the nine-month course in six months and was then assigned as an instructor at the school.

For two years, Captain Collins commanded a Mobile Training Detachment, and later, a Field Training Detachment at Chanute and Nellis Air Force Bases.

In 1960, he was assigned to the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

In 1961, Captain Collins completed Test Pilot School and was assigned to Fighter Operations.

For the next two years at Edwards Air Force Base he tested new, sophisticated, and experimental Air Force fighters.

Determined to improve his qualifications for selection as an astronaut, he enrolled in the newly established Aerospace Research Pilot School in 1963.

Later that year, he was chosen as one of fourteen new astronauts from an original list of 271 applicants.

In the Spring of 1964, then Major Collins began his six-year career as an astronaut.

Two years later, he commanded the Gemini 10 mission, setting a world altitude record and taking on the important task of walking in space to service an orbiting satellite.

As the 17th American in space, Michael Collins was the first astronaut to walk out twice during a single mission, and in doing so, he helped to demonstrate the growing potential of man to perform the tasks essential to building and maintaining useful satellites in earth orbit.

This mission projected him into national prominence portending the spectacular success of Apollo 11 just three years in the future.

In July, 1969, Colonel Collins became the Command Module pilot on Apollo 11, the historic first mission to land on the moon, and the most widely viewed and daring exploration of all time.

As Command Module Pilot, he circumnavigated the moon alone while Eagle Astronauts Armstrong and Aldrin descended to the lunar surface.

Colonel Collins was given the honor of addressing a joint session of Congress, and shortly thereafter he resigned his commission in the Air Force to take up the position of Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.

His primary responsibility with State Department was focused on its relations with the American public, with special emphasis on communicating with our youth.

Assistant Secretary Collins initiated a comprehensive youth participation program with several forward-looking aspects.

His leadership made a strong impact and helped to provide a change in the essentially negative attitude on American campuses at the height of the Vietnam War.

In 1971, after fifteen months with the State Department, he was offered the opportunity to construct and then direct the newly authorized National Air and Space Museum.

Thus, Michael Collins began what became an enduring and vitally important contribution to America — the building and operation of the Smithsonian's most popular museum.

He was to spend seven years as the Museum's director, but first he was charged with the task of organizing a staff, constructing a building, and furnishing its exhibits in time for the opening on July 4, 1976, to celebrate the nation's bicentennial.

That he brought in this enterprise ahead of schedule and under budget was a remarkable achievement; that this museum continues to draw some ten million visitors a year after over twenty years of operation is a lasting testament to Michael Collins' understanding of the role it would play in fostering the public interest in air and space exploration.

He demonstrated an outstanding ability to direct, coordinate, and organize the efforts of a wide range of people: contractors, scientists, artists, preservationists, historians, and the air and space community at large.

A fitting capstone to a career spanning over thirty years of service to his country, the National Air and Space Museum enabled Michael Collins to realize his vision of teaching American youth their heritage and inspiring all to look to the future in space.

In 1970, he joined the Air Force Reserve, reaching the rank of major general in 1976.

His duties included mobilization planning at Headquarters, U.S. Air Force and Air Force Systems Command at Andrews Air Force Base.

Upon his retirement in 1982, he was lauded for his exemplary energy and intelligence in putting together the "best Reserve program of any major command in the Air Force."

After seven years as Director of the National Air and Space Museum, in 1978 General Collins was named Under Secretary for the Smithsonian Institution, responsible for administering its far-flung enterprises throughout this country and overseas.

His unique managerial skills enabled him to make an immediate and positive impact on the operations of the Smithsonian.

Upon his departure in 1980, his commendation stated that ". . . the Smithsonian and the Nation are forever indebted to him for his service."

In 1980, General Collins became Vice-President for Field Operations, Vought Corporation, a position he held until 1985, when he resigned to become an independent consultant.

Michael Collins is the author of several books on space.

In 1974 he wrote Carrying the Fire, describing his experiences in the space program.

It is the single best book of its genre and remains to this day the standard reference on space travel.

General Collins has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Collier Trophy, the Harmon Trophy, the Thomas D. White Trophy, and the Goddard Trophy.

The Air Force awarded him the Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and the Distinguished Flying Cross.

NASA awarded General Collins its Distinguished Service Medal and the Exceptional Service Medal.

Eleven foreign countries have decorated him for his space achievements.

His likeness appears on a Romanian stamp issue.

Among his many affiliations, he is a Fellow, American Astronautical Society; Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Board of Directors, Air Force Historical Foundation; Trustee, National Geographic Society; and a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and the Washington Institute of Foreign Affairs.

He has been awarded honorary degrees from six colleges and universities.

General Collins' career exemplifies the purpose of the Military Academy: to produce graduates who will give a lifetime of service to this country.

In over thirty years of dedication to the ideals of West Point, Michael Collins has made permanent and invaluable contributions to the national security.

His resolute courage and peerless leadership as an astronaut on perilous and record-setting missions have insured his place in history's pantheon of eminent explorers.

No one has served his country better in a wide variety of difficult and challenging assignments than General Collins.

Accordingly, the Association of Graduates takes pride in presenting the 1998 Distinguished Graduate Award to Michael Collins, USMA Class of 1952.

To see more of the world, she was working for the Air Force service club. After getting engaged, they had to overcome a difference in religion. Collins was nominally Episcopalian, while Finnegan came from a staunchly Roman Catholic family. After seeking permission to marry from Finnegan's father, and delaying their wedding when Collins was redeployed to West Germany during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, they married in the summer of 1957. They had a daughter, actress Kate Collins, in 1959, a second daughter, Ann, in 1961 and a son, Michael, in 1963.
 After Collins returned to the United States in late 1957, he attended an aircraft maintenance officer course at Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois. He would later describe this school as "dismal" in his autobiography; he found the classwork boring, flying time scarce, and the equipment outdated. Upon completing the course, he commanded a Mobile Training Detachment (MTD) and traveled to air bases around the world. The detachment trained mechanics on the servicing of new aircraft, and pilots how to fly them.


In May 2010, accounts were released showing the holding company of the club to be £350m in debt (due to leveraged takeover) with losses of £55m, causing auditor KPMG to qualify its audit opinion.

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# Auditors cast doubt on future of Liverpool after losses

• Accounts show debt has increased to £350m

• Chairman says 'no reason to sell' best players

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Liverpool do not need to sell Fernando Torres despite the club being £350m in debt.

The parlous financial position at Liverpool was underlined today when accounts were released showing the club £350m in debt.

The figures covered the year to 30 July 2009, so included Liverpool's relative success last season, yet still the club recorded the biggest loss in its history, £55m, having paid £40m in interest on its loans.

The bulk of the loans, owed to Royal Bank of Scotland and Wachovia, are the borrowings originally made by the two United States owners, Tom Hicks and George Gillett, to buy Liverpool in the first place, which they then imposed on the club to pay off.

The accounts detail how impatient the banks have been for the debts to be reduced; Liverpool were formally due to repay the £250m owed on 24 January this year and the banks extended that loan by only six weeks, to 3 March.

Since then, following further negotiations with the banks, Hicks and Gillett agreed to sell the club, and a chairman, Martin Broughton, was appointed to get a sale agreed.

The banks extended their loans – which the club says stand now at £237m – until the sale, which Broughton said today will be "a matter of months".

The club's auditors, KPMG, summed up that Liverpool are now "dependent on short-term [bank loan] facility extensions" until investment arrives and for the second year running raised a stark warning about the club's financial health.

"This fact indicates the existence of a material uncertainty which may cast significant doubt upon [Liverpool's] ability to continue as a going concern," they said.

It is understood that the Premier League last month sought detailed reassurances from Liverpool that it does have the backing from the banks to fulfil its fixtures next season and not go bust.

This debt-laden, loss-making predicament is not what Hicks and Gillett were promising when they bought the club for £174m in February 2007.

Hicks promised that work on a 70,000-seat stadium in neighbouring Stanley Park would start within weeks, but the pair made the club responsible for paying their own borrowings, and failed to raise money for the stadium project.

Since July 2009, the date of these accounts, Liverpool's position can be assumed to have worsened, although commercial deals, including sponsorships, have improved.

Last season Rafael Benítez's team, featuring Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres in devastating form, finished second to Manchester United in the Premier League and reached the quarter-finals of the European Champions League, where they were knocked out by Chelsea.

The club's income went up from £162m the previous year to £185m and it said "a large part of this increase" was due to Premier League TV and merit payments for finishing second.

Liverpool received £20m from Uefa for their run in the Champions League and made around £7m more from hosting the European matches at Anfield.

This season, having been knocked out of the Champions League in the qualifying round and finishing below fourth in the Premier League, Liverpool's income will be significantly reduced.

Next season, with no Champions League football Liverpool will again miss out on the £27m made in that competition in 2008-09.

Despite these figures, the worst in Liverpool's history, Broughton said today that he will achieve a sale "in a relatively short period", so the club will not have to sell its star players.

"There's absolutely no reason to sell either Torres or Gerrard," he said.

"I don't want to sell either of them; Rafa doesn't want to sell either of them.

We don't need to do it to pay off any debt."

His successor was Noel White who became chairman in 1990. In August 1991 David Moores, whose family had owned the club for more than 50 years became chairman. His uncle John Moores was also a shareholder at Liverpool and was chairman of Everton from 1961 to 1973. Moores owned 51 percent of the club, and in 2004 expressed his willingness to consider a bid for his shares in Liverpool.
 Moores eventually sold the club to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks on 6 February 2007. The deal valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million. The pair paid £5,000 per share, or £174.1m for the total shareholding and £44.8m to cover the club's debts. Disagreements between Gillett and Hicks, and the fans' lack of support for them, resulted in the pair looking to sell the club. Martin Broughton was appointed chairman of the club on 16 April 2010 to oversee its sale.


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India is helping develop the Chabahar Port, which will give it access to the oil and gas resources in Iran and the Central Asian states. By doing so, India hopes to compete with the Chinese, who are building Gwadar Port on the other side of the border in Pakistan's Balochistan Province. In 2014, Indian government sanctioned an initial amount USD 85 million for the development of Chabahar port.


The village was left largely untouched by Russian influences.

Discovering the natural treasures of Fertő-Hanság National Park.

The task of the natural park is to protect the natural value of the preserved moorish marshland, the marshland of Hanság and the reed of Lake Fertő.

Stressed task is the protection of natural genomes and the preservation of some species.

The permanent exhibition representing the flora and fauna of Hanság takes places in the Öntésmajor Múzeum.

The wonderful bird fauna of Hanság can be observed in Madárvárta.

Due to the developments of the recent period, the natural flooding of an area of approximately 2500 hectares resulted in the partial reconstruction of the habitat, which restored the natural growing place of the indigenous flora.

Species that used to represent the natural part of the area of Hanság but became extinct from the land, such as otter, bustard, black stork, osprey, Hungarian grey ox and water buffalo were resettled.

The intact flora and fauna can be observed by organized bird-watches and kayaking tours too.

The wines of the Sopron wine region can be discovered by wine-tastings and wine-tours.

Local gastronomic specialties include clasp-knife platter of Kapuvár, rolled meat of Hany Istók, slaughterman liver, foreleg ham of Kapuvár, rolled meat of Hanság, fritter-like pastry and pretzel of Rábaköz.

Horse-riding tourism has significantly developed in the recent years.

Both sport riding and therapeutic riding came into prominence.

In our town, carriage tours are organized with the intention of presenting the preserved natural values for the visitors.

The natural and hydrographical conditions of the surroundings render it possible to meet the demands of guests who are fond of hunting and fishing.

Kapuvár and its surroundings are rich in traditional, folk artistic and architectural characteristics that visitors find really interesting (for example the lace of Hövej, traditional soldiers' songs – verbunk – of Kapuvár, the national costume of Rábaköz, many gastronomic specialties etc.).

Some of the outstanding values of the Hungarian architecture (such as the castle of Fertőd, Nagycenk, Röjtökmuzsaj and Mihályi) can be found in the surroundings.

In the respect of beliefs and folklore, our town is proud of a curio, namely the legend of Istók Hany.

According to the legend, in the marshland of Hanság once lived a wild child, who was taken out of Lake Király in 1749 by fishermen.

He was christened István Hany in Kapuvár.

He lived in the prince's court for a short period, but he escaped from there because of the human viciousness, and never returned.

Several legends, literary works and novels recorded his figure.

His existence is proved by a Latin note recorded in the baptismal book of Kapuvár parish church about his christening.

Fertő-Hanság National Park and the Fertő region world heritage is one of the most special "wild waterlands" in Middle-Europe.

Lake Fertő was first mentioned in 1199 in a document.

Its larger part belongs to Austria; Hungary possesses 82 km2 of it.

Its average depths is 60-70 centimeters, its deepest point is only 160 cm below the water level.

The lake is surrounded by various landscapes.

Lake Fertő is part of Fertő-Hanság National Park of 20 000 hectares.

At the national park 300 nesting and passing bird species can be observed.

The lake is the home of approximately 30 fish species.

The water is ideal for bathing, but is also perfect for boating and sailing.

In winter skating on its ice is a great pastime.

In 2001 UNESCO declared the conserved architectural unity of the region, the reedy area of Lake Fertő and the uniquely bird and other fauna part of the World Heritage.

The Esterházy Castle of Fertőd is situated 20 kilometers from Kapuvár.

The building complex is called "the Hungarian Versailles".

It was the scene of wonderful ceremonies, Europe-famous performances and concerts, due to the work of Joseph Haydn.

In the English style park, at the end of the roads, which radiately part from the center, once sculptures and chapels were standing.

The permanent exhibition can be visited in the former residency of Haydn, which is located in one of the most beautiful baroque buildings, in the House of Music.

The most important attraction of the village is the Széchenyi Castle.

The building is home to István Széchenyi Commemorative Museum, a hotel, a café, a stud and a horse-riding school.

In the 1970's a locomotive outdoor museum was established.

The small locomotives are only for exhibition purposes, but a locomotive of the same age and size, István Széchenyi Museum Train is clattering through the area of Lake Fertő.

It is situated 11 kilometers from Kapuvár.

The most important tourist sight of the village is the Dőry Castle.

Its walls were built on a fort originating from the beginning of the 10th century.

The castle was constructed by Demeter Ládonyi around 1570, in the place of a wooden mansion.

The owner of the castle was Miklós Dőry from 1860.

He added a new look to the building, which corresponded to the romantic spirit of that time.

According to the tradition, the Hungarian Queen Elizabeth and her attendance found shelter here in the summer of 1440, on the way from Visegrád to Vienna.

She hid the sacred crown in a hollow of a tree here.

The protected park of 2 hectares, which is divided in two by the Kis-Rába, is also a great attraction of the castle.

and Hegykő are located 6 kilometres from Sopron in the vicinity of Lake Fertő, both

settlements gained reputation because of their thermal baths.

bottling of Balf mineral water takes place here too.

Sopron is one of the most atmospheric towns of Hungary.

It is also called city of museums , due to its 23 permanent exhibitions.

Hungary's western gate, and the cultural center of the region.

The grape and wine culture has a history of more than 2000 years.

It is one of Hungary's historical wine regions, so it rightly bears the name "Town of wine and grape".

The monastery was founded in 1208 by the members of the Benedictine order.

One of Hungary's largest and most valuable roman monument, the abbey was added to the monastery in the 13th century.

The 7-meter-long and 2-meter-wide wooden Bridge of Andau – which spans over Hanság main channel – is a historical site and a temporary border crossing.

This is the starting point of the 9-kilometer-long "trail of refugees", on which first in 1947-48 ousted Germans, then after the revolution of 1956 200 000 Hungarians fled to Austria.

The soviets blew up the bridge twice,consequently the present bridge is only a reconstruction.

By the road on the Austrian side, sculptures against violence, intolerance and hatred are exhibited.

The bridge can be approached from Kapuvár on a 15-kilometer-long bicycle road, which uncovers the intact natural values of the fenwoods of Hanság.

Due to its accessibility and geographical location, Győr is often referred to as the city of meetings.

It is also called city of waters, because here four rivers join together, the Marcal, the Rábca, the Rába and the Mosoni Danube.

The radiately converging roads arrive from north from Slovakia, from west from Austria, from south from the Balaton region and from east from Budapest to the hearth of Kisalföld.

The town, which once possessed right of holding markets and staple right, continuously developed into the center of western trade and later the center of economy.

Hungary's third richest town in historic buildings won the Europe award of protection of historic buildings as recognition for reconstructing the baroque city center.

The Győr Ballet Company, the National Theater of Győr and the Győr Philharmonic Orchestra offer unforgettable artistic experience in every season for the enthusiastic audience.

Several palaces in Vienna and Sopron were built by using the limestone extracted from the quarry of Fertőrákos.

Enormous, underground halls resembling to Egyptian rock-graves amaze the visitors, who can enjoy opera performances here in the summer, because the inside theater hall provides fantastic acoustics.

The beautiful, panoramic landscape of Lake Fertő can be admired from the hill of the quarry.

Hungary's largest island, Szigetköz – surrounded by the Danube and the Moson Danube – is often called the gift of the Danube.

The region lying approximately 50 kilometers from Kapuvár offers ideal environment for water touring, fishing, and horse-riding.

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Kapuvár (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkɒpuvaːr]; German: "Kobrunn") is a small but ancient town of some 11,000 inhabitants in Győr-Moson-Sopron county, Hungary.
The town is known for its thermal water which some believe has hydrotherapeutic properties.  It is served by highway 85, and has a train station. It borders the Fertő-Hanság National Park, 15 kilometres (9 miles) from the border station of Pomogy. The settlement was fortified as early as the 11th century and was the estate owned by the Nádasdy family in the 16th century. St. Ann's church contains an ancient cemetery that is still being used. Local gastronomic specialties include "clasp-knife platter of Kapuvár," rolled meat of Hany Istók, slaughterman liver, foreleg ham of Kapuvár, rolled meat of Hanság, fritter-like pastry, rolled crêpes filled with preserves, and "pretzel of Rábaköz." There is one fine-dining restaurant in the village, and a few small cafes. A pleasant collection of small, pretty houses with colorful flower gardens reflects the tranquillity of the surrounding rural area.


It was also confirmed that the website would have “two permanent paid part time student journalists” appointed for yearly terms and that the new website would be integrated into the current University of Sydney Union website.

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# BULL Recedes Six Years Shy of a Century

Rebecca Wong wades through the legacy of Union publications at the University of Sydney.

The Union Recorder was Sydney University's first student-edited news publication.

Dating back to 1921, and notable for coining the phrase "been there, done that", it documents more than eight decades of student activism, along with the myriad misdemeanors of straight-laced private school boys with Prime Ministerial ambition (for more on this, see pages 6-7).

Six years shy of a century later, without editorial consultation and in a confidential meeting, the USU has decided to axe its only print publication, BULL Magazine.

Rachel Hills, who edited the Union Recorder in 2002, cites the experience as an important learning curve.

"I started writing about student politics towards the end of my tenure…

I think mostly through UR actually, I'd critique the Union and things that were happening on the Board."

Hills notes that Union oversight of the magazine was "fairly minimal".

According to Hills, though the UR was less radical than Honi, it had its fair share of controversy.

"Part of the reason that we had to have the head of the Women's Committee look over our issues was because on one of our covers, there was an image that was considered to be sexist.

That was the issue that I edited, and I was trying to comment on female gender roles.

"It's kind of ironic, because I write about feminism now, and I wrote about feminism then, and I certainly identified as a feminist at that point in my life," says Hills, who lives in New York and recently published her first book, The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality.

"Honi led the charge about the UR being sexist and put posters up all over the university."

"One of the useful things as a student journalist were those pieces that I got to do where I was interrogating things that were happening on Union Board.

So even though I don't presently work as a political journalist, I think that the kind of observation reporting I got to do on those machinations is something that you can really only do on campus when you're that age, because that's the political environment that you have intimate exposure to.

I learnt some useful lessons about reporting from doing those stories."

In the face of funding cuts arising from the introduction of voluntary student unionism, the UR was effectively wound up in 2005.

The Daily Bull, formerly a newsletter advertising the services and events provided by the USU, was rebranded as BULL Magazine, replacing the UR as the union's flagship publication.

While it seems clear that BULL was subject to greater Union oversight than its predecessor, the extent to which this compromised the editorial independence of the publication has perhaps been overstated.

Though a USU representative subedited every article and sat in on editorial meetings, the role was described by one editor as "always pretty administrative"; it was about keeping track of pitches and articles.

From 2012 to May 2015, the editorial liaison was USU Marketing and Communications Manager Louisa Stylian.

"She provided quite a bit of editorial feedback, and that's actually something I found hugely helpful.

I thought she had a really strong sense of what worked well in the mag," says John Rowley, who edited BULL in 2013.

"I felt like she was more of an editorial mentor than a voice for the USU."

Two editors cite instances where articles didn't make it to print because of their critical stances on the Union.

Alex McKinnon, who edited BULL in 2011 and has since gone on to be assistant editor of popular news website Junkee, remembers:

"Someone pitched to me the idea of comparing food prices at Union outlets to prices off campus, which I thought was a really good idea.

And it didn't get through, I mean as you can imagine the markup on things sold at campus outlets would be quite high."

Another editor states that, "we didn't want to bite the hand that fed us.

I always saw working on BULL as similar to working in the real world—where someone else subedits your work and your publication has marketing agendas."

Prior to this year, much of the publication's design was outsourced to the Union's Sales and Marketing Department, whose conception of the paper seemed to differ drastically from the students'.

"There was a really intelligent feature about people's apparent progressivism in racial politics… yet their refusal to sleep with people that don't look like them in their sexual lives," recalls Eleanor Gordon-Smith.

"And the cover was a penis wearing a KKK hood."

While noting that the fuzzy chain of command made it difficult to challenge such decisions, Gordon-Smith emphasises that any issues of editorial autonomy fell squarely at the feet of board directors, "rather than some graphic designer who's just doing their job".

The overall impact of the USU's proposed media alternative on the independence and viability of student publications is mixed.

Stylian declined to be interviewed for this article.

However, in a Facebook comment, she decried the board's failure to consult with the current editorial team, writing "rest assured I would have fought for you".

A new section of the Union's website will be devoted to multimedia news and campus culture coverage, with two part-time editors being paid an hourly rate in line with the applicable workplace award agreement.

The decision to increase remuneration for student journalists has been met with near universal praise.

It is an uncomfortable truth that, generally speaking, only those with the luxury of 12-hour timetables and considerable financial support from their families are able to undertake editorial work for an effective hourly rate of less than $1.

"BULL has been a place where a lot of many dedicated talented people get to cut their teeth in a pseudo-professional environment," says Gordon-Smith.

"So I think recognising that and leaning in to it, for instance by paying people, is a really good way to make sure it keeps doing that."

USU Board Director Ed McMahon told Honi that an editorial policy will be drafted by a working party chaired by elected Directors, and that the student editors will be in charge of the broad editorial vision of the site.

That said, several students have expressed concerns that paying contributors may give the USU a bit too much editorial power in terms of the content students may be incentivised to produce.

Much of BULL's content, such as photojournalism and long-form features, is particularly suited to the production cycle of a monthly print publication.

It is unclear how much continuity will exist between BULL and the new site.

The shift to an exclusively digital platform, and salaried rather than stipended positions, suggests an attempt by the USU to inject a sense of professionalism into its publications programs.

The impact of this shift on the relatively radical institution of student journalism is, at best, questionable.

As McKinnon observes, "student journalists have more of a capacity to be feral than they would if they were writing for more respectable publications."

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In late 2015, Honi Soit reported that student magazine BULL would be replaced by 'an online news site with more “Buzzfeed style articles”' in 2016. This decision was made by the student Board of Directors who govern the University of Sydney Union after the decreased readership in 2015.


In only 5 games, Watt finished with 11 tackles and 2 passes defended.

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# J.J. Watt out for season with tibial plateau fracture

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The Houston Texans took a significant hit to their front seven in Sunday's 42-34 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs.

Star defensive end J.J. Watt suffered a tibial plateau fracture in his left leg on the first drive.

NFL Network Insider Ian Rapoport reported that Watt is out for the season and will be placed on injured reserve.

The Texans pass rusher was helped off the field limping and taken to the sideline medical tent before being carted to the locker room.

He was later seen on crutches getting into an ambulance.

This is the second consecutive year that Watt was been ruled out for the year before Houston's bye.

The All-Pro missed 13 games last season with a back injury.

"I don't have a ton of information on it, but I feel terrible for the guy," Houston coach Bill O'Brien said after the game.

"With that being said, knowing him and knowing the type of guy he is, he's an amazing human being, he's an amazing human being' and he will work extremely hard to be back, to be back to play for his football team.

To make immediate matters worse, fellow Texans defender Whitney Mercilus was ruled out with a chest injury.

Mercilus went to the locker room with the injury on the same drive.

NFL Network's James Palmer reported that he suffered a torn pectoral and will be out for the year.

Alongside Jadeveon Clowney, Watt and Mercilus made up one of, if not, the league's most feared pass-rushing triumvirates.

Though he did not register a sack in his first four games of the season, Watt led all Houston defenders entering Sunday night in total pressures (11) and pressure percentage (9.7 percent); Mercilus was fourth with three pressures.

In a non-football sense, Watt's loss is almost more devastating.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey's devastation on Houston, Watt's amazing fundraising effort, raising more than $37 million for relief efforts, reignited hope in the city and lifted spirits across the country.

, Watt means more to this franchise than as just one of the greatest pass-rushers in football history.

It is a great shame that one of the league's transcendent talents and one of its great ambassadors won't be able to finish out a campaign, on a playoff contender no less, for the second straight season.

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Watt returned from his injury to play in the season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars. During Week 5 against the Kansas City Chiefs on "Sunday Night Football", Watt left the game after an apparent leg injury. It was later revealed that he suffered a tibial plateau fracture in his left leg. He underwent surgery the next day and was ruled out the remainder of the season.


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# Dow Chemical urges Trump administration to ignore pesticide findings

A group of three pesticide makers, including Dow Chemical, sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency demanding they throw out a study showing the impact of three pesticides on endangered species.

A crop duster sprays a field of crops just outside Headland, Ala., in 2009.(Photo: Dave Martin, AP)

Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration that's open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species.

Lawyers representing Dow, whose CEO is a close adviser to President Donald Trump, and two other manufacturers of organophosphates sent letters last week to the heads of three of Trump's Cabinet agencies.

The companies asked them "to set aside" the results of government studies the companies contend are fundamentally flawed.

Dow Chemical wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump's inaugural festivities, and its chairman and CEO, Andrew Liveris, heads a White House manufacturing working group.

The industry's request comes after EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced last month he was reversing an Obama-era effort to bar the use of Dow's chlorpyrifos pesticide on food after recent peer-reviewed studies found that even tiny levels of exposure could hinder the development of children's brains.

In his prior job as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt often aligned himself in legal disputes with the interests of executives and corporations who supported his state campaigns.

He filed more than a dozen lawsuits seeking to overturn some of the same regulations he is now charged with enforcing.

Pruitt declined to answer questions from reporters Wednesday as he toured a polluted Superfund site in Indiana.

Agency spokesman J.P. Freire later told AP that Pruitt won't "prejudge" any potential rule-making decisions as "we are trying to restore regulatory sanity to EPA's work."

The letters to Cabinet heads, dated April 13, were obtained by The Associated Press.

As with the recent human studies of chlorpyrifos, Dow hired its own scientists who produced a lengthy rebuttal to the government studies.

Over the past four years, federal scientists have compiled an official record running more than 10,000 pages indicating the three pesticides under review — chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion — pose a risk to nearly every endangered species they studied.

Regulators at the three federal agencies, which share responsibilities for enforcing the Endangered Species Act, are close to issuing findings expected to result in new limits on how and where the highly toxic pesticides can be used.

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The office of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Natural Marine Fisheries Service, did not respond to emailed questions.

A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, referred questions back to EPA.

The EPA's recent biological evaluation of chlorpyrifos found the pesticide is "likely to adversely affect" 1,778 of the 1,835 animals and plants accessed as part of its study, including critically endangered or threatened species of frogs, fish, birds and mammals.

Similar results were shown for malathion and diazinon.

In a statement, the Dow subsidiary that sells chlorpyrifos said its lawyers asked for the EPA's biological assessment to be withdrawn because its "scientific basis was not reliable."

"Dow AgroSciences is committed to the production and marketing of products that will help American farmers feed the world, and do so with full respect for human health and the environment, including endangered and threatened species," the statement said.

"These letters, and the detailed scientific analyses that support them, demonstrate that commitment."

FMC Corp., which sells malathion, said withdrawal of the EPA studies would allow the necessary time for the "best available" scientific data to be compiled.

Environmental advocates said Wednesday that criticism of the government's scientists was unfounded.

The methods used to conduct EPA's biological evaluations were developed by the National Academy of Sciences.

Brett Hartl, government affairs director for the Center for Biological Diversity, said Dow's experts were trying to hold EPA scientists to an unrealistic standard of data collection.

"You can't just take an endangered fish out of the wild, take it to the lab and then expose it to enough pesticides until it dies to get that sort of data," Hartl said.

Organophosphorus gas was originally developed as a chemical weapon by Nazi Germany.

Dow has been selling Chlorpyrifos for spraying on citrus fruits, apples, cherries and other crops since the 1960s.

It is among the most widely used agricultural pesticides in the United States, with Dow selling about 5 million pounds domestically each year.

As a result, traces of the chemical are commonly found in sources of drinking water.

A 2012 study at the University of California, Berkeley found that 87 percent of umbilical-cord blood samples tested from newborn babies contained detectable levels of chlorpyrifos.

Dow, which spent more than $13.6 million on lobbying in 2016, has long wielded substantial political power in the nation's capital.

When Trump signed an executive order in February mandating the creation of task forces at federal agencies to roll back government regulations, he gave the pen as a souvenir to Dow's chief executive and thanked Liveris.

Rachelle Schikorra, the director of public affairs for Dow Chemical, said any suggestion that the company's $1 million donation to Trump's inaugural committee was intended to help influence regulatory decisions is "completely off the mark."

"Dow maintains and is committed to the highest standard of ethical conduct in all such activity," Schikorra said.

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In December 2016, Liveris was named by Donald Trump to lead his American Manufacturing Council.  Liveris said Trump created a climate that is conducive to business effectiveness for his company. On 27 January 2017, Trump publicly announced the names of the 28 members to make up the council,  with Liveris heading the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative. In February 2017, Liveris was standing next to Trump when the executive order "mandating the creation of task forces at federal agencies to roll back government regulations" was signed.


According to Duraid Hikmat, an expert on minority relationships and resident of Mosul, the Christians were fearful to attend.

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# ISIS Forces Last Iraqi Christians to Flee Mosul

ImageIraqis attending Mass in June at a church in Al Qosh, where many Christians have fled after being intimidated into leaving their homes in Mosul.CreditCreditAssociated Press

BAGHDAD — By 1 p.m. on Friday almost every Christian in Mosul had heard the Sunni militants' message — they had until noon Saturday to leave the city.

Men, women and children piled into neighbors' cars, some begged for rides to the city limits and hoped to get taxis to the nearest Christian villages.

They took nothing more than the clothes on their backs, according to several who were reached late Friday.

The order from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria came after Christians decided not to attend a meeting that ISIS had arranged for Thursday night to discuss their status.

"We were so afraid to go," said Duraid Hikmat, an expert on minorities who had done research for years in Mosul.

He fled two weeks ago to Al Qosh, a largely Christian town barely an hour away, but his extended family left on Friday.

Since 2003, when Saddam Hussein was ousted, Mosul's Christians, one of the oldest communities of its kind in the world, had seen their numbers dwindle from over 30,000 to just a few thousand, but once ISIS swept into the city in early June, there were reports that the remaining Christians had fled.

Interviews on Friday with Christian elders and leaders suggest that in fact many had hung on, hoping for an accommodation, a way to continue the quiet practice of their faith in the city that had been their home for more than 1,700 years.

Chaldeans, Assyrians and other sects, including Mandeans, a Gnostic community who revere John the Baptist, could still be found in Iraq, and many made their home on the plains of Nineveh in the north of the country, an area mentioned in the Bible's Book of Genesis.

ImageFriar Gabriel Tooma at the Chaldean Church of the Virgin Mary of the Harvest, part of a seventh-century monastery overlooking Al Qosh, Iraq.

Friday's edict, however, was probably the real end.

While a few scattered souls may find a way to stay in secret, the community will be gone.

A YouTube video shows ISIS taking sledgehammers to the tomb of Jonah, something that was also confirmed by Mr. Hikmat.

The militants also removed the cross from St. Ephrem's Cathedral, the seat of the Syriac Orthodox archdiocese in Mosul, and put up the black ISIS flag in its place.

They also destroyed a statue of the Virgin Mary, according to Ghazwan Ilyas, the head of the Chaldean Culture Society in Mosul, who spoke by telephone on Thursday from Mosul but seemed to have left on Friday.

"They did not destroy the churches, but they killed us when they removed the cross, this is death for us," he said.

Christians are among several minorities who are being systematically expelled or killed by ISIS, according to a United Nations report on civilian casualties in Iraq released on Friday.

Among them are Yazidis, a tiny sect that has survived for centuries and whose theology fuses elements of Islam, Christianity and Zoroastrianism; Shabaks, who are often described as Shiites whose language is close to Persian and who take beliefs from different traditions; and Shiite Turkmen.

The Yazidis and the Shabaks are being persecuted in the Sinjar area west of Mosul, according to the United Nations and interviews with members of both communities.

The United Nations has documented scores of abductions and killings as well as the destruction of shrines.

In the past few days, ISIS has been setting up checkpoints along a road that the Shabaks have been using to flee the area and apprehending them, according to Shabak families who have escaped.

While sometimes ISIS appears to abduct people for ransom, in many cases there have been summary executions.

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Efforts to stem the rise of the Islamic State.

The United Nations report noted that extrajudicial killings had also been carried out by Iraqi security forces and allied militias, and warned that the executions on both sides might constitute war crimes.

At least 1,531 civilians were killed in June alone, bringing the civilian death toll in the first half of the year to a minimum of 5,576, according to the joint report by the United Nations human rights office in Geneva and the United Nations mission in Iraq.

More than 600,000 people were driven from their homes during June alone, doubling the number of internally displaced people in Iraq to more than 1.2 million, the report added.

For the Christians displaced from Mosul, sudden departure has meant a series of treks — first to nearby Christian villages like Bartella and Hamdaniya, already badly overcrowded, then to Kurdistan, a semiautonomous region of Iraq where there is more tolerance for Christians.

As the Christians leave Mosul, ISIS has painted the Arabic letter that means "Nasrani," from Nazrene, a word often used to refer to Christians, on their homes.

Next to the letter, in black, are the words: "Property of the Islamic State of Iraq."

The militants have also told Muslims who rent property from Christians that they no longer need to pay rent, said a businessman who rents from a Christian.

Many Christians interviewed expressed a sense of utter abandonment and desolation as well as a recognition that the sound of church bells mingled with the Muslim calls to prayer, the ultimate symbol of Mosul's tolerance, would likely never be heard again.

"We are not thinking of going back to Mosul, we have left homes with our memories," said Omar who had just arrived in Bartella and did not give his surname.

An article on Saturday about the flight by Christians and others from the Iraqi city of Mosul after an ultimatum by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the militant group that overran Mosul in June, referred incorrectly to the Mandeans.

They are a Gnostic community that reveres John the Baptist; they are not Christians.

Omar Al-Jawoshy contributed reporting from Baghdad, and a New York Times employee from Mosul.

A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: ISIS Expels Last Iraqi Christians From Mosul.

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History.:Government by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).:Persecution of religious and ethnic minorities and destruction of cultural sites.

ISIL issued an edict expelling (in effect ethnically cleansing) the remaining predominantly ethnic Assyrian and Armenian Christian Mosul citizens, after the Christians refused to attend a meeting to discuss their future status.


However, it was important that Serena was blonde and Blair was brunette, so Meester dyed her hair brown for the role.

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You Know You Love MeWhen Gossip Girl Ruled the WorldA decade ago this fall, just as social media was fracturing pop culture into a million pieces, a pair of sophomore show-runners, a start-up network, and a cast of barely of-age millennials aligned to capture one last old-fashioned teenage zeitgeist.

On the tenth anniversary of the CW's flagship series, Gossip Girl 's actors, producers, and crew members reflect on the frenzy, contemplate the series's lasting impact, and, yes, dish on its on-set dramas.

XOXO . . .by Josh DuboffGossip Girl cast members Jessica Szohr, Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, and Taylor Momsen, photographed by Mark Seliger in Coney Island for V.F.'s August 2008 issue.

The blonde Tarzana, California, native—who, one imagines, leaves a trail of sunflower emojis and the scent of cupcake icing in her wake wherever she goes—had had enough.

Eighteen years old at the time, she had just appeared in a small independent film and come to a crushing conclusion:

"I realized that [acting] was a business as much as a craft," she told me more than a decade after the fact, while on the West Coast, where her husband, Ryan Reynolds, was about to start shooting Deadpool 2.

"People will go see your movie based on your standing and all of that, and it didn't make sense to me because I was 18 and being an artist."

She decided, having deferred from college a year earlier, that she would jump off the Hollywood carousel and enroll in school.

It was at about this time, in 2007, that The O.C., a prime-time soap opera about beautiful, articulate, sun-kissed teenagers living in Orange County, was wrapping up its four-year run.

The show had arrived on the scene with a tidal wave of buzz, its actors almost immediately splashed on magazine covers and pushed out onto red carpets; but after burning through plot at a rapid pace (its leading lady, Mischa Barton, saw her character get killed off somewhat unceremoniously in the third season), the show sputtered to a close, ending with a truncated final season.

But The O.C.'s creators and show-runners, Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, already had the beaches of Newport in their rearview mirror, with their sights on a next project.

They had been sent Cecily von Ziegesar's popular Gossip Girl book series, centered on a group of affluent, conniving New York private-school students.

As soon as they finished reading the first book, the duo knew this was it.

"We learned a lot of lessons [on The O.C.] and its kind of crazy four-year run that we wanted to take and apply to something moving forward, and we were really excited about doing something in New York," Schwartz said over lunch in Los Angeles this past winter.

Meanwhile, a new television network, the CW, was simultaneously in the midst of a delicate birthing process.

Formed by the union of the WB and UPN, the new network—led by then President of Entertainment Dawn Ostroff—was searching for an identity.

"We knew we needed the defining show," Ostroff (currently president of Condé Nast Entertainment) said.

"You have to sort of catch the wind at your back.

You have to really hit something that's in the zeitgeist, or really going to matter to people in a way that becomes an emotional connection.

And it was even more difficult for us, because we were going after a younger, more finicky audience."

It was a perfect storm: a buzzy property, a hot creative team, and a new network.

The official green light was a mere formality: Schwartz and Savage were off to the races.

Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Blake Lively, and Penn Badgley, at a gala at Cipriani Wall Street in October 2008.

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There were two core figures at the center of the books—Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen—and casting them was at the top of Schwartz and Savage's agenda.

Waldorf is a brunette queen bee—controlling, poised, meticulous.

Van der Woodsen, by contrast, is the blonde, effortlessly cool free spirit.

Blair, the Veronica, inspires fear; Serena, the Betty, inspires envy.

When they started to cast the show, Savage and Schwartz looked at online message boards, where fans of the book series had already decided that Lively—known at this point primarily for her role in 2005's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants—would be the perfect Serena.

"We didn't see a lot of other girls for Serena," Schwartz said.

"She has to be somebody that you believe would be sitting in the front row at Fashion Week eventually."

Then they said, 'O.K., you can go to Columbia [University] one day a week.

After the first year [of the show], it'll quiet down.

Your life will go back to normal and you can start going to school.

We can't put it in writing, but we promise you can go.'

So that's why I said, 'O.K. You know what?

When I asked Lively if that arrangement ended up working out (even though I already knew the answer), she responded, laughing: "This is advice to anyone: when they say, 'We promise, but we can't put it in writing,' there's a reason they can't put it in writing."

She added, "But no, the show didn't slow down.

If every generation has its one or two shows that prove defining, that essentially everyone seemed to watch as if there were no other choice in the matter, Gossip Girl—which is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its premiere this September—would be that show for anyone who was a teenager or twentysomething (or, in many cases, older than that!) when it first aired.

The show premiered before Instagram or Snapchat had launched, and before Facebook and Twitter had become the juggernaut forces they are today.

But the premise of the series—an anonymous blogger, who goes by "Gossip Girl," monitors the goings-on of a small group of glamorous Upper East Side high-schoolers—predicted, to an almost eerie extent, what was to come for our culture.

The notion of a group of people being callously gossiped about online by an anonymous troll certainly has resonance in our current climate, in which celebrities (as well as politicians and public figures) are often blogged about with a blithe and biting disregard.

As Kristen Bell, who voiced "Gossip Girl" for the show, said to me, "[Schwartz and Savage] were spearheading: 'What if the Internet is just a place to judge people? What if that's what it turns into?'

(On a meta level, the actors on the show were among the last wave of young television stars who were not broadcasting their every move on social media—which perhaps helped to create a certain air of mystery and intrigue about them, one that doesn't exist in the same way for young television stars now.)

The show also debuted at the very end of the period during which people regularly watched shows live when they aired (as opposed to on their DVRs or laptops or phones).

As Ostroff put it, "It holds such a place in pop culture and in society where people just really say, 'I remember everything around that show.

I remember where I was [when watching it] and what I was doing in my life.'"

Viewers wanted to dress like the characters; they wanted their haircuts and jewelry and ringtones; they wanted to talk like them and listen to the music they listened to.

At some New York City private schools, the show—which featured its lead characters partaking in all sorts of illicit antics—was in fact "banned," which of course only served, in all likelihood, to make the students want to watch it more.

New York magazine featured the (scantily clad) cast of the show on its cover toward the end of the first season, proclaiming in its cover headline (only semi-tongue in cheek), "BEST. SHOW. EVER."

At its core, though, while the fashion and music and Lively-ness of it all no doubt drew a large swath of viewers, the central, relatable dilemmas faced by the main characters—Blair and Serena, as well as Brooklyn "lonely boy" and eventual Serena boyfriend Dan Humphrey, ostentatious bad boy and Blair soul-mate Chuck Bass, and pinup prepster Nate Archibald—were what kept people tuning in.

"Phones get updated, but the inner life of teenagers, and the things that they struggle with, are pretty timeless, regardless of what device they're on," Schwartz said.

At many New York City private schools, the show—which featured its

lead characters partaking in all sorts of illicit antics—was in fact

There was no shortage of high-profile guest stars throughout the run, either, as luminaries from the world of fashion, publishing, music, and art appeared on the series.

Lady Gaga performed "Bad Romance" on the show, right as she was approaching the height of her fame; David O. Russell filmed a multi-episode arc, as, yes, a director.

And, that's right, Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made an appearance, in a club scene filmed at the Boom Boom Room.

("They did it for the money," Schwartz said, with a laugh.)

Trump said in an interview at the time that she never missed an episode of Gossip Girl.

"I think I'm a cross between Blair Waldorf and Lily van der Woodsen when it comes to the style," she told InStyle.

While the show was as zeitgeist-y as zeitgeist-y gets, Gossip Girl never did particularly well in the ratings.

But it has enjoyed a continuing popularity, even 10 years later.

It's currently available on Netflix, where a new generation is discovering the show for the first time.

(Chace Crawford, who played Nate, noted, "It's so weird how the same demographic has been frozen in time.

Fourteen- to 20-year-olds still come up to me freaking out and it's because they binge [the show] on Netflix.")

And in other countries, the show has come to represent the allure and glamour of New York.

Nearly every cast member I spoke with—from Crawford to Wallace Shawn—reported that they, to this day, are regularly stopped by foreigners who recognize them from the show.

Ostroff recalled that, about seven or eight years ago, she had a meeting with Chinese executives, who told her that the most illegally streamed show in China was not C.S.I. or Lost, but Gossip Girl.

During the filming of the pilot in 2007—the cast now assembled in New York—Schwartz and Savage felt confident they had magic on their hands.

In addition to Lively as Serena, they had cast relative unknowns Leighton Meester, Crawford, Penn Badgley, and Ed Westwick as Blair, Nate, Dan, and Chuck, respectively.

Savage remembered an early cast outing as the moment it hit her that things were clicking: "We all went to see Blades of Glory and [we were] walking with them [and thinking], 'I don't know what the rest of the world is going to think, [but] when I see these kids together, I feel excited.'"

The actors felt they were a part of something that could be quite special, as well.

Crawford said he remembers meeting Meester at his audition and thinking, at first, "I just don't see her as Blair Waldorf.

But then she turned around "slyly in her chair," with Blair's soon-to-be-trademark headband on, and she snapped into character.

"I just remember thinking, 'That girl can act.

Schwartz recalled Meester's audition, and her determination to get the part, vividly: "She came in and she was really funny, and really smart and played vulnerable.

But there was one problem: she was blonde.

And Blake was blonde, obviously; Serena had to be blonde.

So, [Leighton] went to the sink and dyed her hair.

Lively said, frankly, she was scared about the attention that was to come.

"I'm actually a very shy person and the idea of losing my anonymity was one that was scary to me," she said.

"I remember saying when I read this script, 'Whoever does this will not be able to walk out of their house ever again and be the same as before they started this.'

You could tell it was a cultural phenomenon.

That was both exciting and thrilling, but also very scary."

(Meester, who actually auditioned first for Serena before telling the producers she felt she was a better fit for Blair, was a bit more blasé in reflecting on the project's beginnings: "I think it was just the normal, typical pilot season audition for me.

I auditioned and then I tested once and then we did a screen test with everybody.

On the precipice of what promised to be great fame, Texas native Crawford and Westwick, a young Brit in America on a work visa, decided to move into a two-bedroom apartment in Chelsea together.

(Schwartz and Savage said they were adamant about casting Westwick, who had initially auditioned to play Nate; when the network asked them to prep a backup in case his visa situation did not work out, the duo refused.)

Before the show had even aired, but after casting had been announced, Westwick and Crawford were already getting swarmed when they ventured out in the wild.

Crawford recalled attending an Arctic Monkeys show with Westwick, where they got a sense of what their future might hold.

"We had these girls coming up to us, and they were kind of freaking out about it: 'Oh, we love the books.'

[Ed and I] kept looking at each other like, shit, man."

The CW moved ahead with the series after seeing the pilot, and Ostroff now says the show was essentially to the CW what House of Cards is seen as for Netflix—the singular series that came to represent an entire network.

While Schwartz and Savage were able to develop an audience over the fall, it was the spring of 2008 that the show really hit its stride, in part thanks to the timing of the writer's strike.

"The CW, because they couldn't just run repeats or game shows, [Gossip Girl is] all they had," Schwartz said.

"They kept re-running the show during the strike so more and more people were watching."

The show's return was preceded by a controversial "OMFG" marketing campaign, featuring stills of the cast in states of undress, with pull quotes saucily warning that the show was, "Every parent's nightmare" and "Mind-blowingly inappropriate."

(Again, what better way to make sure teenagers did whatever it took to watch?)

When the writers returned to craft the new batch of episodes post-strike, "people knew what the show was," executive producer Joshua Safran said.

It was not long before packs of paparazzi were stalking the set, not dissimilar from the way in which "Gossip Girl" and "her" sources snapped Serena and Blair on the show itself—and it was impossible for the cast to so much as walk to set without getting swarmed.

Hairstylist Jennifer Johnson said, "I had a little S.U.V. at the time and I had it parked out front of our location at the school.

There were just so many fans everywhere, and when we wrapped at the end of the day, there were handprints all over my car.

Sam Robards, who played Nate's father, laughed as he remembered what it was like to shoot scenes with Crawford: "It was a Friday night around midnight, and we were up on Fifth Avenue and 95th Street, and I looked across the street and there were, like, 200 kids with cell phones, and I said to Chace, 'Hey buddy, there are 200 kids on a Friday night in the city [here] . . . and they ain't taking my picture.'"

Michelle Trachtenberg, who played impeccably dressed menace Georgina Sparks, said she remembers fans trying to "pet [her] hair" as she made her way through the set: "I opened up my trailer door to see, literally, on my first day, I think 40 paparazzi.

That's when I was like, 'O.K., I need my own bodyguard.'"

Crawford said while he didn't necessarily mind the frenzy at the time, he reflects on it now somewhat differently.

"I think I used to feel like I was fine with it, but looking back on it from a different perspective now, I never really got used to it. . . .

I'm a private person and I don't like being the center of attention."

Meester was somewhat flippant about the initial fan attention: "I think they were mostly there for the guys."

While Sex and the City had blazed the trail for a New York-based show that enjoyed a symbiotic relationship with the worlds of fashion and commerce, Gossip Girl set trends for the coveted 18 to 34 demographic in a particularly emphatic way.

"It was very clear from the beginning that we wanted to editorialize television and give it this high-fashion, international flair," costume designer Eric Daman explained.

Savage said, "We talked about how the show, on the one hand, is telling this fictional story about these characters, but it's also kind of working as a lifestyle magazine."

Johnson, who remains close friends with Lively, said she was amazed to see how much interest there was in how Lively's hair was styled, comparing it to Jennifer Aniston's iconic haircut on Friends:

"A lot of magazines would call and want to do interviews on how you get the 'Serena look.' . . .

A 2008 New York Times story noted, "Merchants, designers, and trend consultants say that Gossip Girl . . . is one of the biggest influences on how young women spend," with a Bloomingdale's fashion director explaining that the show had had a "profound influence on retail."

Daman said, "When we came back with Season 2, so many designers were lining up and wanting to be a part of it—they wanted their stuff on either Blake or Leighton."

Daman said the bold looks Westwick's Chuck Bass, ostensibly the show's romantic male lead, wore on the show—which involved purple suits, patterned handkerchiefs, and bowler hats—had a profound impact on the marketplace, as well.

"I think because he was a Brit and had a different understanding of clothing and what it means, he was game day one," Daman said.

"He had a very big influence on menswear and how men dress today, and on what getting dressed up means.

Menswear, at that point, was still very Jersey Shore.

I'm very proud we got to break through to the men and be like, 'No, it's O.K. to dress up.

You're not gonna look like some big pansy because you're in a fucking suit, dude.

While men may have taken fashion cues from the show, they perhaps gleaned other recreational benefits from it as well.

Zuzanna Szadkowski, who played Blair's housekeeper (a fan-favorite character), said she remembers "a guy coming up to me who had a suit and a briefcase, this total Wall Street Guy, and he was all like, 'Oh my god, Dorota!'

He told me, and a couple of other guys have told me this, too, that they used to watch the show because it was a great way in with the ladies."

While the tabloids may have desperately hoped for some Lively-Meester on-set friction, this, by all first-hand accounts from those involved with the show, was not the case—though, god knows, that did not stop the tabloids from conjuring such tales.

"It's funny," Trachtenberg said, "Because when we were filming, there was, 'Leighton hates Blake, Blake hates Leighton, everyone hates Blake, everyone hates Leighton, everyone hates Chace,' and blah, blah, blah.

Makeup artist Amy Tagliamonti explained, "I have to say there was too much work to do for things to be that dramatic behind the scenes.

It's not like [the actors] were trying to get followers for Instagram; nobody was trying to do all the things that I feel like people do now, like, 'Let's get attention.'

Safran—who was Savage and Schwartz's second-in-command and who wrote nearly every premiere and finale of the series—had this to say about the two leading ladies: "Blake is very much in the moment.

She knows this movie's coming out, this band is happening.

You talk to Blake on a very contemporary level, and she would be like, 'I'm doing this thing tonight.

Leighton was very removed and very quiet, and, after her scenes were done, she would wander the stage.

I had this image of her just in these gorgeous dresses with a book in her hand, sort of a little bit out of focus out in the corners."

But even though they may have had different demeanors, the two got along just fine on set: "Blake and Leighton were not friends.

They were friendly, but they were not friends like Serena and Blair.

Yet the second they'd be on set together, it's as if they were."

Lively's life ended up mirroring and then eclipsing that of Serena, the character she was playing.

"It was funny," Schwartz said, "When we first started talking to Blake, it was like, in order for this show to work and for you to be the ultimate New Yorker, you're going to have to host Saturday Night Live and be in a Woody Allen movie."

"And be on the cover of Rolling Stone," Savage added.

(Lively has by now checked all three of these achievements off her list.)

When Lively first appeared on the cover of Vogue, Schwartz remembers thinking, "Oh my god, this is . . . Blair's nightmare.

It really felt like life imitating art."

Costume designer Daman noted, recalling Lively "running around on Christian Louboutin's moped" when they filmed a few episodes of the series in Paris: "I feel like Serena and Blake definitely had a symbiotic relationship: in their lives and in the show."

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For the first few seasons of the show, Lively was dating Badgley—their characters dated on the show, as well—but the two were careful to keep the relationship largely hidden from the public eye.

"The shocking thing was, I found out on the set of the Season 2 finale that Blake and Penn had broken up months before," Safran said.

"They kept the breakup hidden from the crew, which you could never do now.

They kept it from everybody which is a testament to how good they are as actors.

Because they did not want their personal drama to relate to the show."

Lively said she now sees that those in power likely were thrilled about the fact that her personal life was receiving as much attention as it was.

"Stepping back from it, I can see it," she said.

"But I remember there was one point where we were just afraid of how our personal lives overlapping our work life could be perceived by our bosses.

[But then] we were like, 'Oh no, that's exactly what they want.'

They wanted us all to wear the same clothes that we're wearing on the show.

They wanted that, because then it fed their whole narrative.

I asked Lively if it was ever surreal or strange to have her own life seemingly bleed into Serena's and vice versa.

She responded emphatically that, in fact, playing Serena only clarified for the actress how much her real life was not like her character's.

"At the time," Lively says, "I was wearing the same clothes and doing fashion shoots, and dating the same person that my character was dating—or sometimes that person [Dan] was my brother, you never know with Serena—and because of that, what people were projecting onto me was that I was Serena . . .

We look the same, and we acted the same as far as they could tell, because I wasn't doing anything but that show.

If [Badgley and I] were photographed walking down the street, they didn't know if it was a paparazzi shot or if it was a shot from the show. . . .

At the time, what was heightened was, wow, it all looks similar from the outside, but it's so different on the inside."

Badgley—who declined to be interviewed for this piece—has spoken publicly, since the show ended, about his displeasure with aspects of the series.

"Penn didn't like being on Gossip Girl, but . . . he was Dan.

He may not have liked it, but [his character] was the closest to who he was," Safran said, in reference to Badgley's sardonic, outsider, Brooklyn-dwelling character.

Towards the close of the show's run, as might be expected for any television show producing 20 or more episodes almost every year and featuring a slew of gorgeous young stars with an increasing number of career options, the cast became restless.

Meester was pursuing a pop music career on the side.

Taylor Momsen—who played rebellious Jenny Humphrey—left the show to record and tour with her rock band, the Pretty Reckless.

(Kelly Rutherford, who played Serena's mom, remembered: "You'd walk by the dressing rooms and everyone would be doing their music.")

"Some of the actors were not entirely happy to be there after a certain point," Safran explained.

"And no matter what we did, they were never going be happy. . . . They were kids.

Billy Baldwin, who played Serena's father, recounted Lively getting a call from set one day informing her she'd been offered a movie role opposite Billy's brother Alec.

"She goes, 'Yeah, he's gonna play my husband.'

And I said, 'So in what universe is it just or right or fair that he plays your husband and I play your father?'

And she started laughing and said, 'That makes you Alec's father-in-law.'

And I was like, 'Say that again and I'm gonna stab you with a pen or something. Or, like, break your kneecap.'"

Lively asked for the show to shift production to Los Angeles while she filmed the 2012 movie Savages, directed by Oliver Stone.

She began dating Leonardo DiCaprio, which also—inadvertently, thanks to her innovative means of communication with the actor—came to influence the content of the show itself.

"We learned a lot from Blake," Safran said.

"When I think about shooting the L.A. episodes, Blake was dating [DiCaprio] at the time, and she had this thing where she had a doll that she took photos of that she sent to Leo.

She was documenting her life in photographs in a way that people were not yet doing."

Lively herself said that she doesn't think of her work on the show so much like acting as she does being part of a machine.

"It didn't really feel like acting as much . . .

It felt like we were in the center of a marketing machine, a cultural pop phenomenon.

We were creating three episodes at once sometimes, we were given our lines at the very last minute, we didn't know where our characters were going; there was no planning or arc. . . .

We were basically sort of reading off of cue cards.

There were people taking pictures the whole time and paparazzi jumping in front of the cameras—it felt like we were part of a cultural experiment."

She concluded, with a very Lively graceful landing, "There was something neat about that."

"It didn't really feel like acting as much . . . It felt like we were

in the center of a marketing machine, a cultural pop phenomenon."

While the interest in the show from the actors may have been waning by the show's end, there was still enough for Russian hackers—again, Gossip Girl very ahead of the curve!—to attempt to infiltrate the show's database in the fourth season.

"All season, our scripts were ending up online, and we couldn't figure out how," one of the producers on the series explained.

We didn't understand what was happening, because everything was getting leaked, every detail. . . .

A teenager, I think either [from] Russia or Bulgaria, had hacked one of the writer's e-mails, and was selling scripts on eBay.

But they were underage, so they couldn't be prosecuted.

We would have to print on red paper. . . .

It was like there was a 'Gossip Girl' in our system."

As it turned out—spoiler alert, if you're one of those people working your way through the series for the first time now on Netflix—"Gossip Girl," on the show, was revealed in the series finale to be Badgley's character, Dan Humphrey, a decision that was seen as somewhat controversial, given it was tough to work out logistically how Dan would have been able to maintain the blog.

(Both Nate and Eric van der Woodsen, Serena's brother, had been considered as potential "Gossip Girls" by the writers earlier in the show's run.)

Someone should let Ed Westwick know about the Dan reveal, though.

The actor e-mailed me, in response to a question about favorite plotlines or memories from filming: "I still am not sure who GG was lol."

The last episode of Gossip Girl aired in 2012, but the show's continued relevance means that there is talk about revisiting the franchise.

Many of the cast members seem quite excited by the notion.

Wallace Shawn—who played Blair's stepfather, Cyrus Rose—practically shouted, "Oh, I would jump at it."

Rutherford said, "I would be completely on board.

I'm open to anything that's good, that's interesting, and that sort of feels necessary. . . .

I can't speak for everyone else, but we all owe so much to this show, and I think that it would be silly not to acknowledge that."

(Aside from Lively, the other young cast members have had trouble finding traction with film roles since the show's end.)

When I asked Meester if she would ever want to revisit the character of Blair now, given rumors of a reboot or reunion, she responded, deadpan, "Yeah, I don't really hear [talk of] that . . .

I guess I hear that in fits and starts here and there, but it's hard to say.

If everyone was into it and if the timing was right, you know?" She trailed off, "I don't want to say, 'No, never . . .'"

Schwartz and Savage told me they think they "could be persuaded [to revisit the world of Gossip Girl] if there were new stories to tell."

New Line briefly flirted with producing a "new version" of the franchise as a film, though it has not moved forward.

Von Ziegesar, who wrote the Gossip Girl books, told me that she would love to see a take of Gossip Girl: Psycho Killer, a horror adaptation she published in 2002 based on her original installment (in this version, "Serena comes back from boarding school to kill everyone").

At one point during my conversation with Safran—which took place in the very thematically appropriate King Cole Bar at the St. Regis hotel—he said that "the saddest thing that has happened is that network television has decided that it is not important to tell aspirational stories."

He assessed, "Every show on any television network right now has a murder in it, or is dour.

We were working [on Gossip Girl] feeling like, 'O.K., this is the beginning of something,' and when I look back on it, it was almost like the end of something, actually."

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The year began for Lively with the release of the movie her husband, Ryan Reynolds, had fought to make for years, Deadpool.

The film would go on to be nominated for two Golden Globes in December and become the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time.

Photo: By Dave Alloca/StarPix/Rex/Shutterstock.

We came to Lively's defense earlier this year, when it was reported that she had—quite unjustly—been asked to uncross her legs at a fashion show.

We will reiterate here: if Blake Lively wants to come to your fashion show, you should just emanate thankfulness, bow your head in the direction of the Serena van der Woodsen poster in your office, and then let her sit however she damn pleases.

Photo: By Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images.

Lively and Reynolds attended a state dinner in March where they met the Canadian prime minster, Justin Trudeau.

Photo: By Andrew Harnik/A.P. Images/Rex/Shutterstock.

Few provide the Met Ball red carpet with as much "Look. At. Me" glamour—usually with a touch of Old Hollywood—these days as Lively does.

If you have never seen this photo before, well, we don't know what to say to you.

This is Lively (pregnant at the time), and, yes, the squad led by Taylor Swift, in the ocean off Rhode Island over July Fourth.

Lively joked on air with Jimmy Fallon that her daughter James believed that Fallon was her dad, due to some confusion related to a Fallon cardboard cutout in their home.

Lively and Reynolds brought out two-year-old daughter James, and their younger daughter Ines, born this fall, for Reynolds's Walk of Fame ceremony and their first public appearances.

Photo: By Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty Images.

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On 15 January 2019, Martin O'Neill was appointed as the new manager and Ireland therefore continued as a member of the staff.

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Martin O'Neill becomes Nottingham Forest's 11th full-time manager since 2011.

Nottingham Forest have named Martin O'Neill as their new manager.

The 66-year-old, a former Forest player who won two European Cups at the City Ground, replaces Aitor Karanka in the job after the Spaniard's departure last week.

## Martin O'Neill set to be appointed Nottingham Forest manager

O'Neill becomes the club's 11th full-time boss since 2011 and his first game in charge is likely to be at home against fellow Championship play-off hopefuls Bristol City on Saturday.

There is no news yet on whether Roy Keane, the former Forest midfielder who assisted O'Neill during his five years as Republic of Ireland manager, will also be returning to the club.

O'Neill was a midfielder for Brian Clough's continental conquering Forest team which won the 1977-78 English title and then back-to-back European Cups in 1979 and 1980.

Clough managed Forest from 1975 to 1993.

Irishman O'Neill enjoyed success with Wycombe, Leicester and Celtic as a manager, before less fruitful spells with Aston Villa and Sunderland.

He left his role as Ireland boss in November.

Forest are ninth in the Championship table, four points behind local rivals Derby, who occupy the final play-off spot, and lost 2-0 at Reading on Saturday.

Simon Ireland was in caretaker charge for the game at the Madejski Stadium.

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In January 2008, Ireland was appointed as assistant director, with responsibility for the U9-U12 age groups at Blackburn Rovers. From 2010 to 2013, he worked as the U18 assistant academy manager. In August 2013, he then became the U21 manager of Brighton & Hove Albion. After 18 months, Ireland left to join Queens Park Rangers as the academy’s new head of coaching and coach education on 14 February 2015. After almost three years, he left on 18 January and a few days later, he joined the staff of Aitor Karanka at Nottingham Forest as a first team coach. On 11 January 2019, Aitor Karanka was released and Ireland was appointed as the caretaker. Ireland faced his first game as manager the following day against Reading which he lost 0-2.


Filming began in early February 2018 and later that month Priya Anand was signed to play the female lead opposite Ganesh.

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# Priya Anand signed to star opposite Ganesh in 'Orange'

The film's team zeroed in on Priya Anand after her performance in 'Rajakumara' won her accolades.

Priya Anand's debut in the Kannada film industry with the Puneeth Rajkumar starrer Rajakumara was a huge hit and has been fetching the actor several new offers.

According to reports, she has signed a new project in Kannada titled Orange and it will be directed by Prashanth Raj.

Incidentally, Orange will bring back the winning combo, Prashanth Raj and Ganesh, after the success of Zoom.

The shooting for the film commenced on February 11 and is progressing at a rapid pace.

Sources close to the film unit say that when the team was scouting for a suitable heroine to play Ganesh's love interest in this rom com, they zeroed in on Priya Anand after her performance in Rajakumara won her accolades.

The technical crew of Orange includes Joshua Sridhar as the music composer, Santhosh Rai Pataje as the cinematographer and Ravi Varma as the stunt director.

Prashanth Raj made his directorial debut with Love Guru in 2009 which fetched him several awards.

He then went on to direct movies such as Gaana Bajaana, Whistle and Zoom.

Ganesh's last release was Chamak last year and he currently has a couple of films on hand, including Orange.

He also has Nicotine (C10H14N2), which will be directed by Pawan Kumar.

The shooting for this film is expected to commence soon and it is in the pre-production mode right now.

Priya Anand made her debut with the Tamil movie Vaamanan in 2009.

She has acted in Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi movies till now.

Her last release was the Bollywood film Fukrey Returns.

For upcoming films, she currently has the Malayalam movie Kayamkulam Kochunni, in which she will share screen space with Nivin Pauly and Mohanlal, and now the Kannada movie Orange.

Terming the film a romcom with a "cute love story", director Prashant Raj stated that the film was named after the orange fruit because it "plays a major role in the film". He added that the protagonists in the film meet because of it. He added that Ganesh who plays the lead role in the film, plays a thief, while Sadhu Kokila plays a wrestler called Undertaker. The film was Raj and Ganesh's second collaboration after "Zoom" (2016).


Amnesty International has confirmed that the RPF committed war crimes and crimes against humanity, but the crimes have largely escaped international notice.

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# Former military official "instigated Rwandan genocide"

A former senior defence official was convicted on Thursday of instigating Rwanda's 1994 genocide and committing crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Theoneste Bagosora was sentenced to life in prison by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR).

Former military commanders Anatole Nsegiyumva and Alloys Ntabakuze were also found guilty of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, and given life sentences.

A co-accused, General Gratien Kabiligi, was acquitted of all charges.

Theoneste Bagosora and the others convicted have the right to appeal their convictions.

The ICTR said that Theoneste Bagosora and the two co-defendants led a committee that plotted the massacre of ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

More than 800,000 people were killed in Rwanda's genocide.

Amnesty International said that the conviction of Theoneste Bagosora is welcome news to the survivors of the Rwandan genocide.

"Theoneste Bagosora's conviction sends a strong signal that those who planned and committed acts of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity will be brought to justice," said Tawanda Hondora, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Africa Programme.

"There can be no impunity for such serious crimes, whether committed in Rwanda or anywhere else in the world.

"It is important to stress, however, that there are many others still walking the streets who took part in the Rwandan genocide.

Many of them are living in exile," added Tawanda Hondura.

"The international community must complement the work of the UN Tribunal by arresting and prosecuting all those against whom there is evidence that they took part in the genocide.

The trials must be fair and must meet international standards of fair trial."

The ICTR is due to wind up its operations in 2010.

Amnesty International has called on the ICTR, and especially the Office of the Prosecutor, to ensure that it deals with all the outstanding cases, without prejudice to the accused persons' rights to a fair trial.

In addition, Amnesty International also called on the ICTR to ensure that it immediately prosecutes members of the Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF), who are also suspected of having committed war crimes and crimes against humanity before, during and after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Amnesty International documented numerous killings by RPF forces during this period, but the ICTR, which was established to prosecute crimes committed by individuals regardless of affiliation, has not prosecuted a single member of the RPF or their civilian superiors in the past 14 years.

Erlinder was arrested on May 28, 2010, in the Rwandan capital.  He is currently defending opposition leader Victoire Ingabire against the same charge which he now faces, a law prohibiting "Genocide Ideology" – speech refuting that the 1994 Rwandan Genocide occurred exactly as the Rwandan government claims. The Republic of Rwanda has issued a statement that claims that Erlinder "continually engaged in conspiracy theories and denial surrounding the circumstances of the genocide [and] has promulgated this dangerous and distorted fiction over many years."   This statement claims that he was arrested for allegedly denying the Rwandan Genocide, and accuses him of links to FDLR. Police spokesman Eric Kayiranga claims that Erlinder said that "no Tutsis were killed by Hutus."    As a result of Kayiranga's claim, some media have reported that Erlinder's defense of clients accused of genocide included the argument "that the Tutsis were not the primary victims but the instigators and that the massacres were actually part of a civil war."
 Although "Conspiracy to commit genocide" is just one of six possible genocidal crimes enumerated in the "Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide," the crime of genocide still requires proof of "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."
 Erlinder has sued Kagame for ordering the Rwanda Patriot Front (RPF) to commit war crimes, including murder, and has accused the United States of turning a blind eye to Kagame's wrongdoing.


Upon announcing his retirement, Brodeur was hired by the Blues as a special assistant to general manager Doug Armstrong.

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# Martin Brodeur retires, joins Blues management

By The Canadian PressThu., Jan. 29, 2015timer1 min. read

ST. LOUIS—Martin Brodeur is moving from the crease to the front office.

The St. Louis Blues goaltender announced his retirement Thursday at a news conference at Scottrade Center.

The 42-year-old Montreal native will remain with the organization as a senior adviser to general manager Doug Armstrong.

"I had a blast for the month and a half that I was here," Brodeur said.

"They really took me into their family, and for me that meant a lot."

The 10-time all-star and four-time Vezina Trophy winner finished his career with St. Louis after a two-decade run with New Jersey.

Brodeur holds several NHL records, including most regular-season wins (691), most playoff starts (204) and most playoff shutouts (24).

He won three Stanley Cups with the Devils and was a two-time Olympic gold medallist with Team Canada in 2002 and 2010.

Brodeur signed with St. Louis as a free agent on Dec. 2 as the Blues looked to shore up their goaltending while Brian Elliott recovered from a knee injury.

He was 3-3 with a 2.87 goals-against average with the Blues, and in his final victory became the fifth-oldest goalie to post a shutout in a 3-0 win over Colorado on Dec. 29.

Brodeur dropped to third on the Blues' goaltending depth chart after Elliott returned, with 24-year-old Jake Allen sharing the position.

Brodeur said while the Blues wanted him to stay, he started to feel "in the way" as a third goalie.

"I think everybody has to understand there were no promises from the organization towards me," Brodeur said.

"They have two solid goaltenders, so for me to come in and help them out was a great opportunity for me to get back into the game and see if I still like it and see if I can still play."

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