Great Plague. But when the Doctor and his companions arrive, they discover an even greater threat: the entire planet is in danger. As the Grim Reaper stalks the countryside, the Doctor uncovers an alien menace intent on wiping out humanity and claiming our planet for themselves. The Terileptils have arrived – and only the Doctor can stop them…

Grim Tales - Brand-new 45-minute documentary. Former companion Mark Strickson takes Peter Davison, Janet Fielding and Sarah Sutton back to the original filming locations while other cast and crew discuss their memories of the story.

The Television Centre of the Universe: Part One - Peter Davison, Mark Strickson and Janet Fielding return to BBC Television Centre and meet up with old friends and colleagues to reminisce on their time in the iconicstar Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor (seen on TV from 1984-1986) alongside Bonnie Langford as Mel, who partnered him on screen in 1986. As the title would suggest, they find themselves on an apparently deserted spaceport... but there are strange and terrifying things lurking in the dark corners. Will they ever manage to facilitate a departure? Written by William Gallagher and directed by Barnaby Edwards, the story also features Ronald Pickup.

Synopsis:
Welcome to Tantane Spaceport – where the tribes of Business and Economy have been at war for all of four hundred years...

Welcome to Tantane Spaceport – where a terrible creature called the Wailer prowls the corridors around the Control Tower, looking to eat the unwary...

Welcome to Tantane Spaceport – where there is one Arrival: a battered blue


Police Box containing the time-travelling Doctor and his companion, Mel...

Meanwhile, over on The Fourth Doctor Adventures, the Doctor, Romana and K9 find themselves caught between a mass of aliens heading for Earth and the powerful head of the Conglomerate, Cuthbert, in The Sands of Life. Tom Baker (the Doctor on TV form 1974-1981) is once more teamed with Mary Tamm as Romana, and John Leeson joins them in the TARDIS as well this month as K9 for the first three (count 'em!) parts of a five-part story which continues next month with War Against the Laan.

Producer David Richardson says:

It felt very special to have Tom, Mary and John back together in this story, and it sets up a chain of events that will be felt all the waythrough until the end of the season.

Synopsis:
Sheridan Moorkurk has just been elected president of Earth... but the harsh realities of who really runs the planet are just beginning to dawn on her. And what's more, she's starting to hear voices.

Meanwhile, the Doctor and Romana encounter a mass of aliens heading to Earth... Aliens who have already made the mistake of upsetting the infamous Cuthbert, all-powerful CEO of The Conglomerate, by destroying one of his space platforms.

Will the Doctor and Romana be able to avert inter-species war that will destroy all life on Earth?

The latest Companion Chronicles story is also available. House of Cards finds the Doctor, Polly, Jamie and Ben in a space casino surrounded by monsters include the sinister Sidewinder Syndicate - can they escape with their


lives?

Written by Steve Lyons, it stars Frazer Hines as Jamie alongside Anneke Wills as Polly, back together reprising their Sixties roles, with Frazer also once more providing his amazing impersonation of Patrick Troughton's Second Doctor.

David Richardson says:

People had loved The Selachian Gambit, which was also written by Steve Lyons, and starred Anneke and Frazer. I jumped at the chance to get them back together, along with director Lisa Bowerman, to recreate that magic period from the Second Doctor’s era.

Synopsis:
The TARDIS has landed in a futuristic space casino, where the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie find fun, games… and monsters everywhere. There are vicious robot dogs, snake-headed gangsters from the Sidewinder Syndicate and a mysterious masked woman called Hope.

In this place, time travellers are to be tracked down andarrested. Yet, as events spiral out of control, time may be Polly's only ally...

Gallifrey V is the first of two box sets for 2013, with the saga drawing to an epic close in Gallifrey VI in October.
When we last heard from them, Romana and Leela were trapped on an alternate version of Gallifrey planning to build a new life. But things aren't going to plan.

Crammed with twists, turns, plots, machinations and double-dealing, the fifth series of Gallifrey takes Romana, Leela and Narvin through a host of trials and tribulations and prepares the way for the epic conclusion to the series in Gallifrey VI.

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With Romana and Narvin ruling New Gallifrey from the heart of the capitol, their former friend Leela now lives as an Outsider, existing in the wastelands


the pen of Kenny Smith, writer of unofficial Big Finish fanzine The Finished Product. Covering Doctor Who, Stargate, Iris Wildthyme and more, including an in-depth look at the plans for the series of The Tomorrow People which were never made, it's an indispensable guide and a fascinating insight into Big Finish's productions.

In addition to the Doctor Who releases, Vienna is a new series starring Chase Masterson as Vienna Salvatori, a cosmic assassin. The first story, The Memory Box, is out now and finds Vienna being investigated for the murder of an intergalactic businessman – but did she do it?

David Richardson says:

It’s a twisty-turny tale by Jonathan Morris, and it boasts a brilliant starring turn by Chase. While Vienna isn’t anything to do with Doctor Who, the character wasoriginally introduced in the Seventh Doctor story The Shadow Heart last year – and it was during the recording we realized what a treasure we had with Chase!

Monday, 18 February 2013

Born in 1934 in Raynes Park, Briers started off his career as a filing clerk, a role he continued to perform during his national service. It was at this time he met Brian Murphy, who introduced him to acting and once his service had finished Briers went to study at RADA. After graduating, he then worked at Liverpool Repertory Theatre, where he was to meet his wife Ann Davies.

An established actor of stage and screen, Briers became a household name during the 1970s for his role as Tom Good in The Good Life. This was followed by other


popular roles such as Martin Bryce in Ever Decreasing Circles, Tony Fairfax in Down to Earth, Hector McDonald in Monarch of the Glen, and for two generations of children as the narrator and voices of Roobarb.

Other notable television roles included his breakthrough as George Starling in Marriage Lines (in which he starred alongside Prunella Scales, whose son Sam is his godson), Birds on a Wing, The Norman Conquests, All in Good Faith, and If You See God, Tell Him. He was also a presenter of Jackanory, the original voice of Noddy, narrator of another childrens' animated series Noah and Nelly, and played Bob The Builder's dad Robert.

In theatre, he worked alongside Kenneth Branagh in a number of productions, including the lead roles in King Lear and Uncle Vanya,and also took on roles in some nine films by the director, including Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and Frankenstein. His most recent role was as machine gun-wielding walker-bound Hamish in Cockneys vs Zombies.

In 1987 he appeared in the Doctor Who story Paradise Towers alongside Sylvester McCoy, playing the Chief Caretaker. Talking about the role to Doctor Who Magazine, the actor said: Doctor Who enabled me to overact, and I enjoy that. The producer (John Nathan-Turner) worried that I wasn't taking the role seriously. He thought that Doctor Who was some kind of classic, which I suppose it was, but he considered it a classic like one of Shakespeare's plays. He thought that I wanted to send up Doctor Who. I think he was frightened that I


yesterday, cast and crew descended upon Westminster Bridge to record the iconic scene of the Daleks gliding across the bridge, with articles on the shoot published by several media sources, including the BBC, Daily Mail and Express. After these scenes were completed the production moved back to BBC Television Centre, which saw scenes filmed including Brian Cox as Sydney Newman with Jessica Raine as Verity Lambert.

Starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and Sheridan Smith as Lucie Miller, it finds the pair thrust together by the Time Lords and, as they get to know and rely on each other, taking part in a series of wild and wonderful adventures fighting Cybermen, Ice Warriors, Zygons, Krynoids, Wirrn, the Giant Spiders, fallen Time Lord Morbius and, of course, the dreadedDaleks - at their most evil and terrifying ever!

Add to that killer robots, horrific beasts and a range of psychopathic villains, and you've got a recipe for epic, fast-paced adventures. For a taster of those adventures, we're also offering the chance to download the first half of series two tale Max Warp - guest starring Graeme Garden, James Fleet and Duncan 'from Blue' James - absolutely free as a podcast. Just pop over to the podcast page and download or stream it now!

This marks the fourth time Daleks have crossed the bridge in their pursuit of world domination (and publicity!): as well as the 1964 incursion, the scene was recreated in 1993 for the 30th Anniversary documentary (More Than) Thirty Years in the TARDIS, and then again in


2011 as part of the publicity for the Doctor Who Experience.

This weekend marks the halfway point in filming of the drama, which during the course of last week has focussed on scenes set in BBC Television Centre.

Cast and Crew updates:

As well as the actors that portray William Russell, Jacqueline Hill and Carole Ann Ford, other members of the cast are expected to feature in some way. Speaking at The William Hartnell Years convention, Peter Purves mentioned that he would be represented in the drama, and observer Nick Lawton commented on Friday's filming: "'Vicky' [sic] was actually sitting in reception talking with Mark Gatiss, as Bill, Waris etc were filming scene. 'Vicki' was wearing her 'The Rescue' outfit, which is why I think it was her".unemployment rate has actually risen in 26 states, including battleground states where Obama is currently leading. The economy grew by just 1.7 percent in the second quarter of 2012, down from 2 percent during the first three months of the year. Real median household incomes fell by over 8 percent since 2007, when the recession began.

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Throw in attacks on U.S. embassies and escalating anti-American violence in the Middle East, and Obama


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(Scroll down for video) A teen tragically lost his life while trying to record a prank on Snapchat, according to police in Singapore.

The incident unfolded at the Orchard Central shopping mall, which is located along the main shopping belt on Orchard Road.

17-year-old Jonathan Chow was at the mall with his friend, Ruth, 17, on Friday night. The two were on the fourth floor when Chow asked Ruth to record a prank he was about to do on Snapchat.

Chow wanted to record himself jumping over a safety railing.

However, he planned to land on a small platform immediately below, but things did not go as planned. After Chow jumped, he crashed through the platform as it was not strong enough to support his weight.

He fell about 50 feet to theground below. Ruth rushed to the railing and leaned over to see what happened. She was horrified to see Chow lying on the ground below in a pool of blood.

Ruth told police that she and Chow thought that the platform was made of concrete, but the fact was it was just a piece of thin wood.

Ruth also planned to jump, but her life was spared as Chow went first.

Four people performed CPR on Chow, and he was rushed to the Tan Tock Seng Hospital, where he was declared dead. The boy’s father, Matthew Chow, said that he was shocked to hear that his son died.

He also said that he cannot believe his son died at a shopping mall. The owners of the shopping mall plan to hire additional


to HIV/AIDS care -- indeed, those surrounding HIV/AIDS in general -- were explored by the morning's first panel, consisting of healthcare professionals and consumers (see Body Positive, December 1999). The discussion then moved from the personal to the political with the introduction of individuals active on the national stage -- one a government insider, the other a representative of a national AIDS organization. From both, the message was clear: Talk to the policy-makers. Share your experience and expertise. In short, advocate!

The Insider's View

Todd Summers is the current Deputy Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy at the White House and a former AIDS advocate in Boston. In arguing for advocacy on a national level, he stressed three important issues: the current state of AIDS policy; some directionsothers. Scientific validation for CAM therapies is critical in order to redirect program funding to CAM.

The Advocate's View

Terje Anderson, Director of Policy at the National Association of People With AIDS, offered an advocate's good-natured counterpoint to Summers's "government line." Although his perspective was somewhat different from that of Summers, Anderson made a similar plea for audience members to get involved in the fight to legitimize integrative medicine -- both in the short and the long term, at both the local and national levels.

Anderson prefaced his talk by saying that the subject is particularly meaningful to him, a pharmaceutically naive person living with HIV. He also honestly admitted that none of the national AIDS advocacy groups -- including his own NAPWA -- is carrying out any substantial activities or


policy work related to CAM therapies. In his words, "there is probably no other issue that further separates the reality of what's going on at the grassroots from what's going on at the leadership in the national AIDS movement and what's going on in the government." Despite the fact that there are large numbers of people with HIV -- in fact, probably a majority -- who use CAM in some way, shape, or form, this utilization is simply not acknowledged at the national level, nor has the issue made it onto any advocacy agenda in a sustained way.

Anderson offered his views on why this issue is being sidelined in Washington, and outlined some of the obstacles to making CAM a part of national AIDS policy discussions.

Regarding the currentways that you can put this issue on the agenda at grand rounds or staff meetings.

Get involved in the political process. Start locally and work your way up to the federal level. Document your work and help to make people's voices heard.

It's a Long Road . . .

Ironically, while this report on the CAM Conference is being prepared in New York (late October 1999), the Fifth International Conference on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific is being held in Kuala, Malaysia. Medical experts on that side of the world are railing against the unavailability of pharmaceuticals in the Asia Pacific region, and crying for more research and treatment of opportunistic infections.

Since the high hopes of Vancouver's 1996 revelations were not realized, Asian and Pacific Islanders are placing a


the United States and China escalate their tariff war, a step that could have negative consequences for the world trading system, according to the United Nations trade agency UNCTAD.

A new round of U.S.-China talks will take place in Washington on Tuesday, with follow-up sessions at a higher level later in the week, the White House said on Monday, following a round in Beijing last week.Mr. Maunder, who, with his wife, joined the party on special invitation of Sir Wilfred Laurier, is Superintendent of the solar department at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, England. The eclipse flag was lowered to half-mast after totality.


and adjusted mean values by exposure group and as differences in means across exposure groups with 95% confidence intervals. Adjustments were made for a fixed set of a priory selected extraneous covariates including age, education, smoking status, BMI, and discomfort in an adjacent anatomical region. Discomfort was included as a continuous variable taking the values from 0 to 9. We used discomfort in the anatomical region most closely to the actual site of the PPT (neck for the trapezius region, average of right and left shoulder region for supraspinatus, and low back for tibia). In additional analyses, discomfort in regions more distant to the site of PPT was included (for instance substituting discomfort of the shoulder with discomfort in the low back in models addressing PPT of supraspinatus).site in addition to age and body mass index were included into the models. Discomfort in regions more distant from the PPT site (for instance, substituting discomfort of the shoulder with discomfort in the low back in models addressing PPT in the supraspinatus) produced almost the same attenuation (results not shown). For all locations, men on average had higher PPT compared with women. In women we found significant results when adjusting for age and body mass index, but not when including discomfort. In both men and women we found the distributions of PPT among stressed and non-stressed persons are strongly overlapping.

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WASHINGTON -- President Trump warned Iranian President Hassan Rouhani early Monday that he will face dire consequences for threatening the United States. Mr. Trump tweeted in all capital letters about the dangers to Iran of making hostile threats after Rouhani said Sunday, "American must understand well that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars."

To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 23, 2018

Within hours, Iranian state-owned news agency IRNA dismissed Mr. Trump'stweet, describing it as a "passive reaction" to Rouhani's remarks.

The agency, a government mouthpiece, also said Monday that Mr. Trump's comment was only mimicking and copying Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who had in the past warned the West to "never threaten an Iranian."

Mr. Trump earlier this year pulled the United States out of the international deal meant to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon and ordered increased American sanctions.

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Rouhani had warned Mr. Trump Sunday to stop "playing with the lion's tail" and threatening Iran, "or else you will regret it."

Mr. Trump has suggested Iranian leaders are "going to call me and say 'let's make a deal'" but Iran has rejected talks.

Rouhani has previously lashed out against Mr. Trump for


threatening to re-impose the sanctions, as well as for moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and banning travel to the U.S. from certain Muslim-majority countries.

Mr. Trump's early Monday tweet suggested he has little patience with the trading of hostile messages with Iran.

Mr. Trump has a history of firing off heated tweets that seem to quickly escalate long-standing disputes with leaders of nations at odds with the U.S.

In the case of North Korea, the public war of words cooled quickly and gradually led to the high profile summit and denuclearization talks.

Of the tweet by Mr. Trump, the Reuters news service says, "The escalation in rhetoric came as the Trump administration has launched an offensive of speeches and online communications meant to foment unrest and help pressure Iran to endits nuclear program and its support of militant groups, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter."

In California Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was strongly critical of Tehran.

He called the religious leaders of Iran "hypocritical holy men" who amassed vast sums of wealth while allowing their people to suffer, part of a highly critical broadside issued as the republic approached the 40th anniversary of its Islamic revolution and the U.S. prepared to reimpose the economic sanctions.

In a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Pompeo castigated Iran's political, judicial and military leaders, too, accusing several by name of participating in widespread corruption. He also said the government has "heartlessly repressed its own people's human rights, dignity and fundamental freedoms."

He said despite poor treatment by their


leaders, "the proud Iranian people are not staying silent about their government's many abuses."

"And the United States under President Trump will not stay silent either. In light of these protests and 40 years of regime tyranny, I have a message for the people of Iran: The United States hears you," he said. "The United States supports you. The United States is with you."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Mr. Trump for his "strong stance" on Iran.

Netanyahu said Mr. Trump and his secretary of state were taking a clear position against "Iranian aggression" after years in which the "regime was pampered by world powers."

The Israeli prime minister spoke at his weekly Cabinet meeting Monday, after Mr. Trump's tweet.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on Monday thatthe president was responding to Iran and that he's "not going to allow them to continue to make threats against America. If anybody is inciting anything look no further than to Iran."

Asked if he had consulted with this national security team before tweeting the edict, Sanders said that the president consults with his national security team "on a daily basis."

National security adviser John Bolton said in a statement on Monday that he had spoken to Mr. Trump over the last several days, "and President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before."

A high-ranking Iranian officer says Mr. Trump's Monday warning was nothing but "psychological warfare."

Gen. Gholam Hossein Gheibparvar, the chief of


the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard's volunteer Basij force, also said Monday that Mr. Trump "won't dare" take any military action against Iran. Gheibparvar's comments were reported by the semi-official ISNA news agency.

Iranian lawmaker Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh told The Associated Press he doubted it would come to a military confrontation between Iran and the United States, despite the escalating rhetoric.

Falahatpisheh says Mr. Trump and his Iranian counterpart "express themselves through speeches since diplomatic channels are closed" as the two countries haven't had diplomatic relations since 1979.

He says that unlike North Korea, "Iran never moved toward a nuclear bomb" and that therefore, "Iran is angry since Trump responded to Tehran's engagement diplomacy by pulling the U.S. out of the nuclear deal."benefit corporations, is also the creator of a set of standards for social impact that make it more tangible and measurable. The idea here is to move from intentions to outcomes. Not just what an organization values, but what it does. To become a Certified B Corporation, an organization must take the B Impact Assessment, which measures impact areas such as governance, workers, community, and environment, from the perspective of both operations and the underlying business model. Applicants that achieve an impact score above a certain threshold are certified, authorized to use the Certified B Corporation language and logo, and join a community of more than 2,600 organizations that represent sixty countries and more than 150 industries. Interestingly, many companies leverage both the public benefit corporation legal structure


The present invention relates to an apparatus for relieving tension of an electric cable. More specifically, the present invention relates to an apparatus for relieving tension of an electric cable configured to prevent the slipping-down phenomenon of cables.
In general, electric cables may deviate from their originally fixed installation position due to deformation in tension caused by its own weight and heat during railway operation.
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For example, the slipping-down phenomenon of cables may occur in cables installed inCharter bus carrying students from Texas plunges into Alabama ravine

Another bus carrying the majority of the students immediately turned around to render aid.

Outside their high school, still closed for spring break, police were stationed at every entrance and no one was available to speak.

The bus was one of two carrying the school band and chaperones back from a band competition at Disney World in Florida.

"The bus came to rest on one side down in the ravine".

Officials confirm the driver was killed in the crash. "Thank God they were alive but (they) had to take them on (a) helicopter", he said in an interview conducted by instant messages. The agency's records don't indicate fault.

Local authorities confirmed Tuesday that one person was killed, and dozens more injured in a school-chartered


bus accident in the US state of Alabama.

State Trooper also says City Hope Church in Malbis will be a meeting point for parents and students.

Many others were injured in the Tuesday morning crash near the Alabama-Florida line on Interstate 10.

At least 45 band members and adults from the Channelview High School Falcon Band from northeast Houston were on the bus, returning from a trip to Disney World in Orlando.

The extent of the injuries is not known, but the Baldwin County Coroner's Office told CNN it is responding to the scene.

Google Co-Founder Debuts Autonomous Flying Taxi 'Cora'
Federal Aviation Administration rules would have made it hard to get a project like this off the ground in the United States. But it seems entirely feasible to build aircraft for short-range flights-likethe 62-mile range of Kitty Hawk's new airplane.

The cause of the crash is yet to be released.

First Class Tours, which owns the vehicle involved in the accident pledged their "assistance in cooperating with local authorities in the investigation".

"Everybody is being transferred to a hospital to at least be checked out", said Elliott. Our prayers are with the injured and their families at this time. The bus struck a bridge support when it landed in the ravine, and inspectors need to make sure the bridge is sound before reopening the interstate, he said.

Injured passengers were taken to several different hospitals in Baldwin County, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida.

The crash was called into law enforcement at around 5:30 a.m., the Houston Chronicle reported.

According to Caligone's Facebook page, the Texas native worked


as a tour bus operator for First Class Tours and Houston Baptist University.

Baldwin County Sheriff Huey Hoss Mack confirmed the death Tuesday morning while talking to new reporters. Local news media put the number at 12 to 20.

Baldwin County commissioner Christ Elliott said first responders "are having to rappel down" to access the crash site.

According to Alabama State Troopers the person that died was the driver of the bus.

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More importantly, it is also missing Fitbit Pay, which is not widely available yet in any case, but maybe more felt in the future. The trackers also allow users to monitor their sleep habits, and women can follow their menstrual cycles using the devices.

In general, the researchers found that the misinformation spread faster because it was more fanciful andoutrageous. When they looked at who was spreading the wrong stuff, they found it was ordinary users of social media.

The England cricketer Ben Stokes has appeared in crown court via video-link from New Zealand and pleaded not guilty to affray. England all-rounder Ben Stokes will miss the second Test match of the five-match series against India in August.

US President Donald Trump has sacked Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, replacing him with the director of the CIA, Mike Pompeo. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to speak publicly.

Since the All-Star break, Randle is almost averging 20 points and 10 rebounds per game, which would put him in some elite company. With its sixth win in eight games overall, Los Angeles (30-36) emphatically snapped


an offer that blows the Saints' stance out the water. New Orleans Saints right tackle Zach Strief announced his retirement on Monday after 12 seasons with the franchise.

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In a campaign statement released this morning, McEntee joins the re-election team "as a senior advisor for campaign operations". McEntee was an early Trump assistant in the presidential campaign. "He's much taller than I thought", Trump said.

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Trump replaces Tillerson with Pompeo in dramatic shakeup
Mr Tillerson continued to insist his relationship with the president was solid and brushed off rumours of strain between them. Tillerson's nomination as head of the State Department passed a Senate panel by a 11-10 party line vote January 23.

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Claire Foy , who played the monarch in the first two seasons of The Crown , was not paid equally to her co-star Matt Smith . The Crown is one of the most expensive television shows ever produced, costing a reported $130 million for the first season.

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State wide receiver Allen Robinson will be suiting up with a new National Football League team next season. Robinson, who the Jaguars drafted in 2014, has 202 catches for 2,848 yards and 22 touchdowns in 43 games.

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The bloc says that it's a close ally of the USA and therefore any import levies on national security grounds are unjustified. China's Commerce Ministry criticized Trump for acting unilaterally rather than working through(Reuters) - The U.S. government on Wednesday granted eight U.S. airlines permission to begin scheduled commercial flights to Havana starting as early as this fall, with American Airlines Group Inc AAL.O being awarded 35 direct flights a week.

An American Airlines Boeing 757 aircraft takes off at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Roissy, France, August 9, 2016. REUTERS/Jacky Naegelen

JetBlue Airways Corp JBLU.O, Delta Air Lines Inc DAL.N and United Continental Holdings Inc UAL.N were among the winners, with most proposing to begin services later this year or early in 2017.

The U.S. Transportation Department granted 20 daily Havana flights now after previously assigning routes to several Cuban provinces. The announcement was timed to coincide with the first scheduled commercial flight to the provinces, as JetBlue flew from Fort Lauderdale,


Florida, to the Cuban city of Santa Clara on Wednesday.

Improved air travel resulted from U.S. President Barack Obama’s opening toward Cuba. The Cold War foes restored diplomatic relations a year ago following a 54-year break. However, the Communist-led island is still subject to a U.S. economic embargo that prohibits most other commerce.

Wednesday’s final decision confirmed tentative assignments made on July 7.

American, the biggest U.S. airline in Latin America by flights, was granted four flights a day from Miami and one from Charlotte, North Carolina.

Its rival for Caribbean travel, JetBlue, was granted 27 weekly flights from New York, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando.

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A U.S. ban on tourism to Cuba is still in effect, but the United States stopped prosecuting individuals for going to Cuba when Obama became president. Americans can legally travel to Cuba if they meet one of 12 criteria, such as for educational, cultural or religious purposes.

Obama has expanded commerce with


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On Thursday a Hampden Superior Court judge said potential jurors could be excluded if they believed they could not act impartially.

Veiovis is accused of helping David Chalue and Adam Lee Hall kidnap, torture and murder the three victims on August 28, 2011.

The victims' dismembered remains were later found in a ditch.

According to police, the trio murdered Mr Glasser to prevent him from giving evidence against Hall, a member of the Hell's Angels bikie gang, in an unrelated case.

The other two victims were simply witnesses to the crime.

Hall, 37, was convicted in February of first-degree murder and kidnapping and sentenced to three consecutive life terms


for the truth and for the existential consequences that can be unleashed,” Brown said in an interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” which is set to air on Sunday. Brown, who studied to become a Jesuit priest prior to entering politics, has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration. His latest comments come as the southern portion of California battles massive wildfires that in just a few days have damaged thousands of acres of property and destroyed hundreds of buildings. Trump declared a state of emergency in California, which permits federal assistance to supplement the state and local response to the fires. The order allows the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts in the areas affected by the wildfires. Northern California grappled with a seriesinto circumscribed and diffuse tumors. The circumscribed tumors are generally in lower grade occurring in young patients while the diffuse tumors are the most common cerebral tumors in adults belonging to WHO grades, II, III, and IV \[[@B2]\]. As the names imply, circumscribed tumors, such as pilocytic astrocytoma (WHO grade I), are localized with distinct margin and diffuse tumors are notorious in their propensity to infiltrate surrounding parenchyma, irrespective of the grades. The WHO grade II astrocytomas consist of diffusely infiltrative and well-differentiated fibrillary, protoplasmic, or gemistocytic astrocytes with increased cellularity and nuclear atypia but without mitoses, endothelial proliferation, or necrosis. The WHO grade III astrocytomas, anaplastic astrocytomas, show higher cellularity and nuclear atypia than the WHO grade II tumors with mitoses but without endothelial proliferation or necrosis.


In this image released by St. John Properties, employees of the Maryland real estate firm react after finding out the company is surprising them with $10 million in bonuses at a holiday party, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Baltimore. (Wendy Hickok Photography via AP)

In this image released by St. John Properties, employees of the Maryland real estate firm react after finding out the company is surprising them with $10 million in bonuses at a holiday party, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019, in Baltimore. (Wendy Hickok Photography via AP)

BALTIMORE (AP) — A commercial real estate developer is handing out a total of $10 million in bonuses to its 198 employees.

WTOP reported Monday that Baltimore-based St. John Properties announced the bonuses at the company’s holiday party.

Edward St. John, the founder andSerbia experts use heavy machinery to move mammoth

KOSTOLAC, Serbia (AP) — Serbian archaeologists on Friday used heavy machinery to move a female mammoth skeleton — believed to be one million years old — from an open mine pit where it was unearthed nearly five years ago.

Workers with cranes and bulldozers worked carefully for hours at the Kostolac coal mine in eastern Serbia to transfer the mammoth, known as Vika, to an exhibition area several kilometers away.

Chief archaeologist Miomir Korac told The Associated Press that preparations had lasted several months. He said that archaeologists secured Vika in a 60-ton structure of rubber and sand to avoid any damage.

"We are extremely sad and heavy-hearted about this, but we had to move her," Korac said. "It was just too complicated to


leave the mammoth where it was found; that would have required securing a 500-square-meter (5,000-square-foot) area right in the heart of the coal mine."

Serbian archaeologists say Vika is a southern mammoth, or mammuthus meridionalis, one of the oldest species found in Europe, which originated from northern Africa and did not have fur.

She was discovered during routine excavation at the coal mine at 27 meters (90 feet) below ground. Vika is more than 4 meters (13 feet) high, 5 meters (16 feet) long and weighed more than 10 tons.

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Two years ago, an entire mammoth field of more recent date was also discovered in Kostolac, while another female mammoth skeleton, about 500,000 years old, was discovered in northern Serbia in 1996.

That skeleton was named Kika, and is on display inThis is a reminder to join Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling at an All-Employee
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"Crowned" is about a girl's search for a lost crown once belong to a deity, as she's suspiciously gifted in recovering lost relics.
The Merchant is one of the royalty she'll encounter along her way. Under her governance, she leads the country into a flourishing trading port for the realm. With her unusual facial feature and towering height, she claimed rights to the lost crown as they were the descendants of the deity, but will the myth alone prove her legacy to the crown?issue of The adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko by Belgian author Hergé, which was originally pre-published in the French weekly newspaper Cœurs vaillants.
The panel is dated from February 2, 1936. Full page here, if you're curious.

From where I stand, "The Secret Ray" qualifies as SFF in the sense that while Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko can feel like classic 1930s action-adventure stories for children, this particular story features:

An evil scientist who created a taser-like ray, as well as the title "secret ray", which he uses to put ships' crews to sleep and steal from them.

A killer robot, creation of aforementioned scientist. The robot is remote-controlled, but is intended to be fully autonomous, the "first living being ever created", elevating its creator as a God.

Research done
I meant


to randomly browse 40s-50s Marvel/DC comics at first, but I grew up with Franco-Belgian comics, and the grawlixes are recurrent in those. I found several in Tintin issues, which were also written and drawn by Hergé. Not all Tintin issues qualify as SFF though, so I went for "Manitoba no reply" which I knew was SFF.
Bingo, just had to trace back the original one from the 30s to make sure the grawlix wasn't added in the later reprints. Jackpot, it wasn't. :-)

So what could be an earlier instance?

For the sake of completeness, let's mention this Slate article which provides a 1902 grawlix from Katzenjammer Kids (not SFF as far as I know).
The Hergé panel being dated from 1936, most classic comics franchises are out (Superman for instance debutedin 1938).
user14111 mention Li'l Abner in a comment, with a grawlix dated November 27, 1951. I've been through a good bunch of the 1934-1935 Li'l Abner strips (available on this website) and found none, though it's possible I missed one. However, the SFF element in this comic is apparently the Shmoos, which if I am to believe Wikipedia were only introduced in 1948.
I don't have access to early Tarzan and Mandrake the magician comics, but grawlixes usually are a "comedy" thing, and from the little I know of these, they don't seem to qualify.
There's a comic titled The Adventures of Patsy which involve a magical kingdom and a magician, and looks cartoonish. It debuted in 1934 though, so it's a narrow period to catch up to Hergé's 1936.

For


nitpickers
Someone wants to argue that the 1936 panel isn't exactly profanity, and just the ship's captain's confusion (though it could be profanity - the captain's confusion was already depicted in the panel before)?
Fine, here's my second best. It's the earliest grawlix in Tintin's issue "Prisoners of the Sun" (1948). Not the first grawlix in all Tintin issues, but the first in a SFF one.

in part reversed the decision of the ALJ.  The Commission concluded that Lawrence's violation of its order to pay the $3,500 on April 15, 1981 had been willful, and suspended his AP registration for three months.

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The Commission based its determination on uncontroverted evidence that Lawrence was aware that payment was due on April 15, 1981;  that he failed to pay the penalty when due;  that he never made a written request for an extension of time in which to pay;  that he never responded in writing to a warning letter sent to him by the Commission on May 7, 1981;  and that he never tendered even partial payment until after the enforcement complaint was filed, more than seven months after payment had come


fallen due on April 15, 1981.  Despite doubts about his ability to pay the fine as far back as September 1980 when he first agreed to it, Lawrence admittedly never made a written request for an extension of time;  nor did he speak with any responsible official at the CFTC's Division of Enforcement.  Moreover, Lawrence admits that he never responded in writing to the Commission's warning letter of May 7, 1981.13   He did not even tender partial payment during the eight months of his delinquency leading up to the issuance of the second complaint.

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Lawrence does not dispute these facts.  Instead he argues that his conduct was merely negligent.  For purposes of the Act, however, it is well settled that:

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[i]f a personin an attempt to settle this proceeding, once it was commenced, belies his claimed inability to comply.  Lawrence's intentional inaction until faced with the second proceeding shows indifference toward the Commission's 1980 payment order and disrespect for the Commission.  Lawrence failed to carry the heavy burden of demonstrating mitigation.

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As for rehabilitation, Lawrence argues that except for his failure to pay the penalty (and for the underlying findings against him as set forth in the 1980 payment order), he did not otherwise violate the Act or the Commission's regulations.  Lawrence also argues that his offer to settle the second complaint by paying the overdue $3,500 demonstrated rehabilitation.

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The Commission determined below and argues here, however, that while Lawrence's late offer of payment may have obviated the permanent


that the Commission abused its discretion.  Neither his tender of payment after commencement of the second proceeding, nor his refraining from further offenses, is sufficiently probative.  We conclude that the suspension was specifically authorized by the Act, was warranted in fact, and was within the Commission's statutory discretion.16

2. Severity

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Lawrence argues that his three-month suspension was too severe because this case represents the Commission's first administrative action brought for a failure to obey an order to pay a civil penalty, and because he may suffer financial harm from his suspension.17

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The Commission, "like the SEC in the securities area, is the 'statutory guardian' entrusted with the enforcement of the congressional scheme for safeguarding the public interest in commodity futures markets."   CFTC v. British American Commodity Optionsof the time left in his suspension (approximately 78 days), he has not established that he cannot remain gainfully employed in other capacities with his current employer.  Nor has he established that his employer, a large company offering a vast array of financial services, cannot service Lawrence's long-term customers during the remainder of the suspension period.


was sentenced in a bank robbery in 2003 and served six years.

The robberies started Dec. 28 and ended March 8, just a few days after police got lucky by finding a business with surveillance footage of a sport-utility vehicle fleeing a March 3 robbery at Key Bank, 1115 Elkton Drive, Fox said.

An employee of the business later recognized the same vehicle driving down the street more than two miles away.

This time, however, the worker had a view of the rear license plate that couldn’t be seen on the surveillance footage. The plate was traced to a Dodge Durango belonging to Cyprian and his wife, police said.

Police turned up four weapons while searching a garage used by Keener, including three pistols and a semiautomatic variant of a Fabrique NationaleThis post was released for Issue 13 of Bitcoin Magazine as part of a series of articles about puzzles and games that started with Issue 12. I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.

Background

In 2005, computer scientist Cameron Browne¹·¹ begins work on a computer program called LUDI as part of his Ph.D. research. On November 2007, after running for a month, LUDI becomes self aware. In a panic, humans attempt to shut it down…

Okay, okay. LUDI did not become self aware (yet). But it did something amazing.

While humans code sets of rules to be executed by computers, LUDI coded sets of rules to be executed by humans. But not only that, LUDI coded sets of rules that humans enjoy executing.

LUDI invented games.

It invented


thousands of games, and tested them by playing against itself over and over. And it evolved them, combined them, mutated them, repeating this process until it came up with a final list: LUDI’s nineteen playable games.

Two of these games were recognised as being outstanding. LUDI also invented names¹·² for these games – Yavalath and Ndengrod – although Ndengrod was later changed to Pentalath by myself. Both were published by nestorgames in 2009. LUDI was described in the “Evolutionary Game Design” book and it went on to win the GECCO Humies gold medal for human-competitive results in evolutionary computation in 2012.

I’ll show you the most popular of the two, Yavalath, which at one point was ranked in the top #100 abstract board games ever invented on boardgamegeek, the largestthan Moore was Sacred Heart's Patrick Fillian with a four-under 68.

The Bulldogs currently lead all Ivy League competitors in the tournament, and a win would give the Bulldogs momentum going into next weeks Ivy Championship. The final round will tee-off Sunday morning.


Moffat County High School football coach Kip Hafey draws up a defensive schematic. Hafey is not alone in his efforts. Many coaches utilize game planning as well as other methods to gain a competitive edge in the sports world.

X's and O's

An inside look at game planning for high school, college athletics coaches

Craig  Not an hour had passed since the Moffat County boys basketball team defeated Delta High School, but coach Steve Maneotis wasn't relishing in the victory.

He was more interested in getting ready for the team's next opponent.

Instead of sitting back and soaking up the win, he had game film to watch.

Maneotis isn't alone in the sports world. He isn't acting out of the norm. He's doing what most coaches do: scouting out the opposition in aneffort to get a competitive edge.

This is the life of a coach.

Scouting

It's the initial step in game preparation. From high school to the pros, scouting the opposition is a constant. When coaches begin is the variable.

Some coaches begin two or three days before; others, more than a week.

"We have our graduate assistants out scouting the opposition the Tuesday or Wednesday a week before we play the team we are scouting," said Joe Ramunno, Mesa State head football coach. "It's never too early to take a look at who you're about to face. Heck, we are scouting right now, and it's not even football season."

At the high school level, Moffat County High School girls basketball coach Craig Mortensen recalls traveling for hours to watch the upcoming opposition in person.

"I


used to travel all over the place," he said. "There were times I'd watch three games over a weekend, and none of them were of my team. Now, when the VCR came out, everything changed."

Fortunately for coaches, technology has progressed, and scouting along with it.

High school coaches now exchange game film through the mail; the only trip needed is a once-a-week run to the local post office.

In college, the NCAA doesn't allow in-person scouting, but it has established a nationwide server that allows coaches to pull up opponents' game film with the click of a button.

"All of our scouting is done by video now," said Pi'i Aiu, University of Colorado women's volleyball coach. "It's become simple to edit together clips of team and player highlights to research. WeOver the past year, public outrage of the use and lack of labeling of Genetically Modified Organisms -- a.k.a. GMOs -- in the food supply has reached a fever pitch.

Since the failure of California's Proposition 37 last November, protestors across the country began pushing for mandatory labeling initiatives in other states.

Then came the 'Monsanto Protection Act.' Actually titled the Farmer's Assurance Provision, the rider was snuck into the unrelated Federal Budget, the Continuing Resolution Act. Food activists, parents, health advocates, environmentalists, and a number of other groups were -- and still are -- livid.

More than 26 states have added mandatory labeling initiatives on legislative agendas since. In the past couple weeks, Maine and Connecticut legislatures have overwhelmingly supported their own mandatory labeling initiatives.

In Florida, Senator Maria Lorts Sachs


is working with activists to rewrite a new labeling initiative to introduce in the fall. Clean Plate Charlie spoke to Trish Sheldon of GMO Free Florida about the new bill.

Connecticut's mandatory labeling bill easily passed both the House and the Senate. Governor Dannel Malloy (D) has said he will also sign off on the bill.

However, while the state looks like it will be the first in the country to require labeling of GMOs, it does have stipulations that will take time to allow its passage. To actually go into effect, labeling initiatives must become law in four other states, including one bordering state. On top of that, the clause indicates that these states must include Northeast states with total populations of more than 20 million.

Connecticut has a totalpremise that we have a right to know what's in our food."

Sheldon has been working on labeling initiatives for quite some time now. Since the failure of California's Prop. 37, she's seen a huge uptick in champions for the measure, which was only magnified by the passage of the Farmer's Assurance Provision in the Continuing Resolution Act.

"Ever since the rider I've seen a steady increase in support," she said. "People are livid and they're coming out of the woodwork."

South Florida's next big anti-GMO demonstration is taking place on the Fourth of July. GMO Free Florida and Millions Against Monsanto Florida will be hosting Moms Across America March on Fort Lauderdale Beach (near Las Olas Blvd. and A1A) from 1 p.m. onwards. The groups are planning to march and


operate on the principle of "the more we provide you with our cleaning services, the less expensive each window cleaning service becomes''. The two conventional window cleaning programs offered by Window cleaning in Frithelstock Stone include the interior and exterior cleanings. The two services are provided after specific durations, where the internal cleaning services are provided after every six months, and the exterior window cleaning services are done at an interval of three months. However, Window cleaning in Frithelstock Stone services varies based on the area and specific surroundings like pets, children, and the nature of other activities done.

Window cleaning in Frithelstock Stone uses the proficient expertise that provides you with the best window cleaning services. Unlike the regular window cleaning services offered that may leave you unsatisfied,Guns N’ Roses Close Out 2014 Revolver Golden Gods With One-Hour Set [Watch]

Last night (April 24), the 2014 Revolver Golden Gods Awards was broadcast online via various sources. To cap off the long night of rock and metal, Guns N' Roses busted out an hour-long set after singer Axl Rose was awarded the Ronnie James Dio Lifetime Achievement Award.

After all the night's winners were announced, an interesting celebrity duo introduced Axl Rose before he accepted his Lifetime Achievement Award. First up was comedian Andrew 'Dice' Clay, who was followed by actor (and noted metal fan) Nicolas Cage. The latter gave an intense speech about Axl and how Cage himself witnessed the very first live performance of 'Welcome to the Jungle.' Cage's intro was something straight out of 'Vampire's


the wider investment community.

As laid out previously, the bank needs to raise €5 billion by the end of this month to avert being wound down. The Italian government, which earlier today got a greenlight to issue €20 billion in public debt to use for bank bailout purposes, is expected to step in this week and nationalize the bank.

The approval came after the ECB refused to extend a deadline on a €5bn recapitalisation before the end of the year and fears mounted the lender’s liquidity levels were becoming unsustainable. MPS has lost €14bn, or 11 per cent of its total deposits, from January to September 2016 and warned its liquidity provision would fall under the required levels should it suffer another €10bn of deposit outflows under a “stress” scenarioPaul Castellano was a gangster and racketeer of America. Popularly known as ‘The Howard Hughes of the Mob’, ‘Big Paul’, ‘The Pope’ and ‘The Chicken Man’, he was the head of the Gambino crime family which used to operate organized crime activities in New York City. During Apalachin Conference, police took him into custody. At that time he was one of 61 high ranking mobsters arrested. Later, his extravagant life style created envy and dissatisfaction within the Gambino family. As the son of a butcher, he left school in the eighth grade. As a criminal, he was popular for not disclosing the identity of his associates to police. As a boss, he started demanding more money from top ranking mafia leaders. Apart from that, he banned family members


from running drug trafficking rackets, though he used to accept large amount of payment from drug business from the Cherry Hill Gambinos and the DeMeo crew. Though he was a hardcore criminal, he liked to consider himself as a businessman first. He did not mind being referred as a murderer. But he felt insulted when he thought that he was regarded as less than a gentleman by police. He was murdered by his rival John Gotti’s men.

In 1934, in the month of July, he was arrested for the first time in Hartford, Connecticut for robbing a haberdasher. When he refused to reveal the identity of his two assistants during this crime, he served a three-month prison sentence.

In 1940, he joined the Mangano family. Under his boss Albert Anastasia,he became a caporegime , a high rank in Mafia family. After Anastasia’s murder in 1957, Carlo Gambino became his boss.

In this year, he attended Apalachin Conference in Apalachin, New York. This was a historic summit of the American Mafia, an Italian-American criminal society. The New York State Police raided the meeting and arrested him.

During police custody, he refused to provide any clue about the meeting to the grand jury. As a consequence, he was imprisoned for a year on charges of contempt.

For his conspiracy to withhold information, he received sentence to five years of imprisonment on January 13, 1960. But on the month of November of the same year, an Appeals Court reversed his conviction.

He was actively involved for the establishment of Dial Poultry, a poultry distribution


business.

After attaining power in the Gambino family, he started earning a large amount of money from construction concrete. Besides this, he used to manage business interest of Gambino family in the Concrete Club, a consortium.

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He also supervised Gambino’s interest in Teamsters Union. This organization worked to provide workers to pour concrete at all the major building projects across New York and Long Island.

In 1976, shortly before his death, Carlo Gambino appointed Castellano to succeed him over his underboss. As its result, he played a crucial role in running activities like robbery, extortion and loan shark.

After becoming the acting boss of Carlo Gambino in 1975, police charged him for loan sharking. The police also claimed that he did not provide any information about the profits from hisillegal racket and thus evaded tax.

In 1975, he ordered the murder of Vito Borelli, boyfriend of his daughter Constance. Vito compared Paul to Frank Perdue, the owner of Perdue Farms. Feeling insulted, he took measures to terminate Vito’s life.

In 1978, he ordered the murder of Nicholas Scibetta, a Gambino associate, for being involved in several public fights and insulting a female cousin of Frank DeCicco, underboss of Gambino family. In the same year, he planned the murder of Gambino Capo James Eppolitto and his mobster son.

In 1983, he played a crucial role in the murder of Roy DeMeo. He was aware of DeMeo’s dependency on cocaine and he utilized this information to succeed in his plan. DEMeo’s dead body was found in the trunk of his Cadillac.

In the


following year, police accused him of extortion, narcotics trafficking, robbery and prostitution. In 1985, police took him into custody on charges of racketeering. Later, he was released on bail.

He married Nina Castellano with whom he had three sons namely Paul, Philip and Joseph Castellano and a daughter whose name was Constance Castellano. Later, he developed a romantic relationship with his live-in maid Gloria Olarte.

He was assassinated on 16 December 1985. John Joseph Gotti, an Italian-American mobster made a plan to murder him at a dinner party. Gotti successfully executed his plan with the help of a hit team. The gunmen shot Castellano several times.

According to FBI documents, this notorious person ordered to terminate the life of Frank Amato, his former son-in-law for physically abusing his daughter Connie Castellano.Hundreds of thousands of US citizens may have to scrap their holiday plans, the Internal Revenue Service said, as it is enforcing a law allowing authorities to revoke and deny passports to those owing over $51,000 in unpaid taxes.

Some 362,000 people may fall under the scope of the 2015 law as early as the end of this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing an IRS spokesperson.

The Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which became a law in December 2015, allows the State Department and the IRS to refuse to issue passports to those with "seriously delinquent" debts that are defined as "an unpaid, legally enforceable federal tax liability" of more than $51,000, including interest and penalties. That rule envisions denying first-time passport applications, as well


as the renewal of the travel document. In a worst-case scenario, a valid passport can be revoked by the State Department.

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However, an IRS representative told the publication in June that the authorities have not gone that far as of yet and, for now, they have contented themselves with simply denying applications. It's not known how many tax debtors have already seen their travel plans ruined, with the State Department saying that it has already denied some applications.

The IRS, meanwhile, said that the process of alerting the State Department about individuals with outstanding debts is in full swing and should be completed by the end of the year.

An ongoing crackdown on tax debtors has been deemed a success, with IRS Division Commissioner Mary Beth Murphy telling the WSJclassic grandeur. Greeted by doormen looking positively regal in their royal blue top hats and tails, we swung through the iconic revolving door and into the elegant lobby.

We were guided to our table in the center of the opulent Palm Court where afternoon tea is served. The resident pianist Ian Gomes aided in creating a buzzy ambience as he performed classical favourites, as did the room full of guests, I suspect there is never an empty seat at any of the afternoon tea sittings.

The decor is decadent; miniature palms in pretty pots decorate the entrance, spectacular chandeliers hang from the domed ceiling over impressive floral centerpieces and the walls are delicately decorated in gold and pastel pink.


Forget all your favorite children’s books. They may be deeply racist. In the August 7 Time came an article headlined “The hidden (and not-so-hidden) racism in kids’ lit.” Sarah Begley reported:

In his new book, Was the Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children's Literature, and the Need for Diverse Books, Philip Nel studies the paradox of stories that are meant to nurture but can also do harm. An English professor at Kansas State University, Nel has probed racism in kids' books in his classes and in previous books, and he uses this volume to highlight how dozens of beloved picture and chapter books leave negative messages in children's minds.

Next to images of these iconic children's books were Professor Nel's radical-left indictments of their glaring racistRemembering Harmony the Cat, 1993 – 2011

I first met Harmony while I was in college, I’d say it was sometime around 1993 or maybe 1994. I lived in a house with four other guys, and one of my housemates (Ben) was dating a girl named Kim (who was living in a house with several other girls). Someone over there got Harmony, but then their landlord found out and demanded the cat removed… so she stayed with us. Eventually, my housemate Ben and Kim broke up, and Harmony was left in our place. I ended up being her de facto caretaker, and she followed me from place to place.

While in Bloomington, Harmony was a total outdoor cat. We had, at various times, a lot of large dogs in the


America's worst drought in half a century will push up inflation and put a fresh obstacle in the path of the struggling global economy, one of the UK's leading banks has warned.

Senior global economist at HSBC, Karen Ward, said sharp rises in the cost of wheat, corn and soya beans came when growth was slowing but said the weakness of wage pressure meant there was no need for central banks to raise interest rates in response to a higher cost of living.

Blistering heat in the US has destroyed 45% of the corn and 35% of the soya bean crop in the worst harvest since 1988. Russia and Ukraine have also had poor crop yields. Ward said higher food prices would result.

"This is another dampener for the global economyA friend of the man whose body was found outside a home in Waddon last week has paid a moving tribute to the young dad as details have emerged as to what happened on the night of his death.

The man who died has been named by his landlord and family friend as Andrii Kupynets, 28, a Ukrainian refugee and labourer who had lived at the address in a room with his wife Olga, 28, his six-month-old daughter Anna and five-year-old son Arsan.

Emergency services were called to the address on the corner of Williams Terrace and Bates Crescent at 4.18am last Friday (January 12) where Andrii was pronounced dead at the scene.

Landlord Rachid Moustahib, 58, described Andrii as “a very good guy who was very friendly and a little


is steep.

Mr Moustahib said: “I have spoken with the vicar at the local Ukrainian church. He said that he would submit the case to specialised companies who take the bodies back to Ukraine once we get him the death certificate.

“We are aiming to raise £5,000 minimum to help him and his family go home. We are putting in £600 to help him.”

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“The Italian said that when he saw Andrii in the living room he was fully clothed, but when he died he was only in his shorts.

“He noticed that the first floor window was open, under which Andrii was lying on his back.

Forensics units gathered items from the house at the time (Image: Grant Melton)

“His wife said she was asleep when it happened.

“She was asleep in thebed earlier with her husband and two kids, the baby was crying a lot and she told him to sleep in the second bed with the son because he’d be tired for work [the next day]; but the question is why he went down to the living room at 2 o’clock.”

Andrii’s friends and family told Mr Moustahib that he was in debt and was borrowing to keep up with bills.

His immigration status was not yet finalised and his case was being processed during the seven months the family were living there. A decision was supposed to come this February as to whether he could stay in the country.

He had told Mr Moustahib and his wife that he was in the UK on a humanitarian basis because of the


Sophomoreshot a 3-under 68 in the final round of The Goodwin to run away from the field for a six-shot victory Saturday at TPC Harding Park. It was the fourth win of the season for Xiong which sets a new program-record while he tied the career record for victories with his fifth.Oregon as a team put on a strong showing against an elite field, finishing the tournament at 10 under and in fourth place.Xiong got off to a great start, making birdie on the par-4 first hole before another birdie on hole five got him to 2 under on the day. He shot a 2-under 34 going out to sit at 14 under for the tournament and held a four-shot lead at the turn.Xiong stayed steady over the47th at 4 over.came in tied for 20th at 1 under for the tournament after shooting a 2-over 73 andshot a 4-over 75 and was tied for 88th.Defending NCAA Champion and No. 7 Oklahoma took home the team title at 24 under while No. 9 California and No. 16 Stanford came in second and third.Head coachOn the Xiong's win and the team's play…"We had a good tournament. Norman was simply sensational. He blew away a great field and I was so proud of him."The win was Xiong's second of the week after he took home medalist honors at the Duck Invitational on Tuesday … He set a new career-low over a three-round tournament with 198 strokes and finished at 15 under for his best to par score as


Bishop Rt. Rev. Ken Clarke, and Blackrock Clinic co-founder, orthopaedic surgeon and engineer, Jimmy Sheehan. The philosophy lecturer, Dr. Angelo Bottone serves as research officer for the Institute.

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"The Iona Institute" is a trading name of Lolek Ltd, a private limited company incorporated in Ireland in August 2006. Whereas "Institute" is a restricted term in the UK, it is not in Ireland. Graham Norton commented, "Everyone knows the use of the word ‘institute’ is just a feeble attempt to give themselves a veneer of considered intellectual respectability." David Norris referred to "the so-called Iona Institute" as "an unelected, unrepresentative group of reactionary, right-wing, religiously motivated people".

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The letter delivered by Samuel Moncada, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and Representative of the Bolivarian Republic to the United Nations, also targeted the diplomatic delegations of Canada, Guyana and the member countries of the Lima group.

The Lima group is a coalition of right-wing governments constituted in August 2017 with Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Peru and others.

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letter also bashed the Organization of American States (OAS) for choosing Peru as the host country for the eighth summit on “Democratic Governance in the Face of Corruption,” a country which “just lost its president in the midst of a corruption scandal (Pedro Pablo Kuczynski).” And the country that “pardoned another former president who was imprisoned for corruption and genocide (Alberto Fujimori), not counting the cases of a former president who is in prison (Ollanta Humala) and another who had his repatriation requested by the Justice ( Alejandro Toledo).”

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U.S. regulators are scrutinizing whether prices are being manipulated in the world's largest gold market, according to people familiar with the situation.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is examining the setting of prices in London, in which a handful of banks meet twice daily and set the spot price for a troy ounce of physical gold, the people said.

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in the silver market in 2008 after some investors argued that a steep price decline that summer was the result of market manipulation.

The CFTC never announced results of that investigation or officially confirmed it had closed.

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The potential for manipulation of the London price-setting has long been a subject of debate in the gold and silver markets.

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The price settings, which date to 1897 in the case of silver and 1919 for gold, now take place now via conference calls among banks. The gold calls occur at 10:30a.m. and 3 p.m. London time. The silver call occurs once daily at noon.

Representatives from the other two banks couldn't immediately be reached.

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From Shamrock, TX to Tucumcari, NM: High Plains Drifter

After yesterday's deluge, the Lone Star State's weather is behaving itself again as I trudge out of Shamrock to make the briefest of runs across the Texas Panhandle into New Mexico.

Route 66 exists in places alongside I-40, but so close it may as well be its hard shoulder. And after last night's torrential rains, common sense - plus a little namby-pamby tourist wobbliness - takes charge and I forgo America's Highway for...er...one of America's highways.

Texas is, after California and probably even before California, the state I would wager most non-Americans think of when they think of the United States. It's the


the dinosaurs, who roamed freely across the southern plains of before eventually turning into the more recent boon to the Texan economy, oil. It's at this point I must declare a tiny, but personal revelation: after many years visiting and driving through the US, I have never before noticed the Sinclair Oil company, which operates filling stations in 22 states in the American heartland between the Mississippi River and California. The reason I mention this now, is that driving on Route 66 has brought me in to close proximity to Sinclair's logo - a brontosaurus.

At first thought, this seemed to me a little like McDonalds replacing its golden arches with the outline of a cow, or KFC removing Colonel Sanders' visage and putting an actual chicken in itsplace. But, thanks to the wonders of the Internet, I have now learned that Sinclair's logo is in fact educational and is, perhaps, the only example of a corporate logo having such value.

It evidently dates back to the Chicago World's Fair of 1933 where Sinclair sponsored a two-tonne animatronic brontosaurus that explained the role dinosaurs played in the formation of petroleum. This led to Sinclair selling toy brontosaurs (and, later, giant inflatable dinosaurs) at its filling stations as promotional gimmicks. The dino proved so popular that Sinclair eventually made it part of its logo, becoming yet another familiar visual fixture along highways like Route 66.

Oil, though, has added considerably to the Texan economy, and the state does possess roughly a third of the entire US oil reserve. This


does lead to the misconception, perpetuated by Supertramp, that everyone's a millionaire here.

I would beg to differ, but with the vehicle of choice in Texas being, apparently, a sizeable V8 pickup truck, fuel is either dirt cheap or there's money abroad to pay for it. In Texas, pickups are utilitarian vehicles. In Afghanistan, Syria and Somalia they carry AK-47-toting thugs or large machine guns mounted on the back. Without wishing to make any correlation, a lot of such vehicles in Texas do carry gun racks. Even the police drive pickups.

Guns remain a Texan sub-culture: contrary to popular disbelief, people don't walk around with holstered 9mm pistols at their hips, and there are tight(ish) laws governing the ownership and concealment of guns.

Nevertheless, it is somewhat ironic that on thefront door of the Texas Book Depository in Dallas - from the sixth floor of which Lee Harvey Oswald shot President Kennedy - there is a sign saying "No Smoking, No Firearms, No Photography". In that order.

Trying to encapsulate Texas in this tin shack of a blog is never going to do a state this vast any justice, especially as Route 66 just cuts a straight line across the top of the Panhandle. But it's worth noting that it is the state more people are moving to than anywhere else in the country.

Recent figures from the US Census Bureau showed that five of the 10 fastest-growing cities over the last couple of years were in Texas, with Houston the country's second fastest after New York. Employment has been


the main factor swelling the Texan population, with the still booming oil and gas industry, as well as military-related industries drawing people in to reasonably well paid jobs. And once there, people find a relatively low cost of living - including no personal state income taxes.

Culturally, Texas is cooler than some might expect it to be. Austin is one of America's hippest cities, and another one of the state's fastest growing towns, with a thriving, college-fuelled music scene and the annual SXSW festival to its credit.

Texas does have, however, one questionable mark hanging over it: earlier this year the state - which has the highest rate of legal executions in the US (more than 500 since 1982) - announced that it was running out of the drug pentobarbitalused in lethal injections. With 11 inmates put to death so far this year, and a further five to come, supplies have become scarce due to drug companies objecting to their products being used for capital punishment. Despite the shortage, the state said it was "confident" that it would be able to continue with the deaths, despite the shortage. Now there's a thought.

But, back to the road. Less than an hour's drive from Shamrock along I-40/Route 66 is Amarillo. Let's, first, get the business of that song out of the way: Neil Sedaka's cheesy hit - made even bigger by British crooner Tony Christie - put the city on the map for no other reason than "Amarillo" was the only place name Sedaka could find to rhyme with


"pillow". Thus, Sweet Marie could have been waiting anywhere else.

It's unlikely, too, that Marie would have chosen Amarillo in any case. It's a bustling, functional town, providing the economic hub of the Panhandle, and work, such as at the 15-year-old Bell Helicopter factory, which produces aircraft for the US military on a site adjacent to Amarillo's "international" airport. Frankly, though, there isn't much to keep anyone in Amarillo, beyond hotels and shopping.

On the western edges, however, is a bizarre photo opportunity - the Cadillac Ranch. In 1974 local millionaire philanthropist Stanley Marsh III commissioned a collective of artists to create a piece of art by burying 10 Cadillacs nose down in the mud as a symbolic representation of the marque's evolution.

Like most artistic obscurities, it's hard to trulyunderstand the concept, though there is something decidedly Storm Thorgerson about the entire scene. It has, though, become a minor landmark on Route 66, with visitors encouraged to apply their own spray paint signature to the vertical car corpses. Unfortunately, this also leaves the area around the exhibit littered with discarded spray cans.

While still in Texas I reach the exact midpoint of the entire journey at the small community of Adrian. With 1,139 miles to Santa Monica, or 1,139 miles the other direction to Chicago, it's a significant landmark on the trip, deep in the heart of farmland and, it would appear, the world's largest collection of wind turbines.

Adrian is another must-do photo opportunity, and its Midpoint Cafe is a delightfully kitsch throwback to the era of cars


of years beforehand, Tucumcari has had a long history, particularly during the tribal era when the area was the hunting domain of the Apache, Comanche and other tribes (nearby Tucumcari Mountain is one of those classic flat-top desert erections directors of Western movies would have Indian warriors looking out from before attacking a wagon train...).

The town started to grow at the beginning of the 20th century when the Chicago, Rock Island and Union Pacific Railroad turned Tucumcari into a major town. Route 66 brought even more business Tucumcari's way. Today, however, it's the nostalgia for 66 which turns the town's commercial axles.

66 itself runs through the town, still lined with vintage-looking motels replete with traditional flashing neon signs. Don't be put off by this: at the charming BlueSwallow Motel, owners Kevin and Nancy put the extra effort into making this a very special stopover indeed, and well worth avoiding the chain motels further back up the road as you come off the interstate.

From the stunning sign out front, to the charming and perfectly maintained period detail in each of its 12 rooms, to the provision of free bottles of water and even an individual garage to park your car next to your room, the Blue Swallow Motel is a treat and a simple, but absolute highlight of the trip so far.

And there's history to it. Opened in 1941 - a brave move then as wartime rationing was limiting cross-country travel - it was taken over in the 1950s by Lillian Redman, bought for her by


fiancé Floyd as an engagement gift. Lillian had lived in Tucumcari since 1923, and originally moved to New Mexico with her family in 1915 in a covered wagon. The story goes that Lillian walked alongside the wagon. As a tribute, Room 6 of the hotel is now the Lillian Redman Suite, complete with open bathtub and a cute writing desk - where this post is being written - which contains a model of a covered wagon that has been turned into a desk lamp.

Unlike the other anonymous hotels I've stayed in, this is the first stop along the way where other guests gather in front of their doors to compare notes of their own road trips along Route 66. Some are doing it for the nostalgia, others forMagazine, TV & Satellite Week and Teletext UK. A career in corporate communications has taken me from London to Amsterdam, California, back to the Netherlands, to Paris and now back to London after 17 years abroad. All a long leap from my professional origins, but I retain my enthusiasm for writing as well as music - listening to it, playing it and occasionally commenting on it via my blog Where Are We Now? and its predecessor What Would David Bowie Do?.


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