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Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has been described as a misunderstood man, who is also a victim of bad politics and peculiar circumstance of the politics of his environment.

Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State has been described as a misunderstood man, who is also a victim of bad politics and peculiar circumstance of the politics of his environment.

The Good Governance Monitoring Group (GGMG) made this disclosure at the weekend in Abuja, while x-raying the political situation in Oyo State.

According to the group’s national co-ordinator, Abiodun Adedeji, Akala is not the devil painted of him, but a man who found himself trapped in a dangerous terrain where two erstwhile friends and political allies turned to bitter rivals and in the process,increment was done in bad faith by the past administration. It was like pouring petrol on a burning bush.

“Everyone knows the political situation in Oyo has been volatile for some time now, then you introduce a controversial project at the dying minute of your administration. What you are definitely aiming at is anarchy. And that is the situation at hand. Even if the past government meant well, the timing was wrong; the motive was suspect.”

While not condemning labour in its demand, since workers are entitled to good welfare packages that would enhance their living conditions, the group urged workers to employ dialogue and reason in the resolution of the conflict, in the overall interest of the people of the state who have been bearing the brunt of the


Andy Thomas

For 30 years, the Republican Party dominated American political life, winning five of the seven presidential elections before 2008. But the GOP has taken its lumps of late, culminating in its loss of Congress in 2006 and the White House last November. As the party suffers not just from a leadership vacuum but from considerable internal division, its future direction is unclear. This much, however, is certain: as America struggles to emerge from a financial crisis, any renewal of the Right will require the Republicans to rethink their approach to the economy. An agenda focused chiefly on tax cuts, as the Republicans’ has been since Ronald Reagan’s presidency, is no longer enough.

In 1980, Reagan won the election by attracting a substantial portion of Democrats with three simplethe Right, which regarded them as a way to “starve the beast.” By burdening the state with debts, the thinking went, we could reduce its ability to expand and thus the danger that it could suffocate the economy.

In 1980, when the highest marginal income-tax rate stood at 70 percent, this economic platform was extremely attractive, as were Reagan’s other key ideas. The country had just seen a decade of low growth and high inflation, defeat in Vietnam, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the humiliation of the American hostages in Tehran. It was ready for change. An entire generation adhered to the Republican Party, forming a majority so solid that it permitted George W. Bush to be elected president 20 years later.

The success of the Republican platform went


well beyond the voting booth, of course. The war against the evil empire brought the collapse of Communism and the democratization of the Soviet Bloc countries. During the Reagan years, the battle against the state led to a negative real growth rate in nondefense public spending. Deregulation freed the economy from excessive constraints and, together with tax cuts, sparked enormous entrepreneurial and creative forces. A golden era of economic growth began in the early eighties and continued, aside from a few minor recessionary interludes, until 2007—a quarter-century of unparalleled prosperity. After the Reagan economic reforms kicked in, the United States grew by an average of 3 percent each year, against Germany’s 1.9 percent, France’s 2.1, and Italy’s 1.8.

Not only did this revolution allow the U.S. to outpace Europehas been won. Taxes were substantially reduced. The battle for deregulation has achieved many of its main objectives. Deregulation was a cry of freedom that most Americans supported back when Chicago banks couldn’t open branches in southern Illinois—let alone in other states; when a truck had to obtain a permit to transport merchandise across state borders; and when a government agency decided the prices of commercial flights. But now that these restrictions are only a distant memory, the public may see further deregulation as unnecessary, or even as a cover for the financial lobby, rather than as a symbol of freedom.

In part, too, Reagan’s platform lost its appeal because the Republican Party frequently betrayed it. How can Republicans effectively campaign against big government when the size of government


relatively small number of geniuses who design devices like the iPhone and earn millions, while less educated workers have fewer opportunities to make a good living.

Ironically, the relatively slow increase in American workers’ wages also results, in part, from the success of the American economic model throughout the world. In the first three quarters of the twentieth century, companies operating in the United States enjoyed unique advantages: a well-educated workforce that shared pro-market values and a government sensitive to the will of the people. Much of the rest of the world was run by dictators, torn by ideological conflicts, and populated by illiterate or semiliterate people. American companies dominated easily, and American workers shared in the prosperity that came from their privileged position.

Over the last 30 years, however,establishment did last autumn, they leave a powerful and potentially disruptive force in the hands of Democrats. The majority of the Democratic establishment does not believe in the American dream, in the importance of providing incentives for economic growth, or in the market as the best mechanism to allocate available resources. The Democrats could channel popular anger into protectionism, 90 percent tax rates, and onerous new market constraints.

In Republican hands, though, populism could become a strong force for positive change. At the beginning of the twentieth century, facing similar conditions of rising income inequality and popular anger, President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, approved a series of fundamental reforms that turned the United States into a modern country. From creating the Food and Drug Administration to trust-busting, Roosevelt used


Nelson Cruz has proven to have above-average elite power and has become one of the most reliable run producers in baseball. That fact illuminated brightly in Baltimore last season as the small dimensions in Camden Yards helped Cruz lead the league in home runs, the only player to hit 40 in 2014.

When Nelson Cruz signed with the Seattle Mariners this offseason, many were worried that his run production would suffer by playing in spacious Safeco Field. That notion was a justified thought. Per Baseball Prospectus, in 2014, not only did Safeco Field rank in the middle of the pack in terms of home runs by a right-handed hitter, it also ranked near the bottom for right-handed hitters as a run producing environment.

And yet, here we are, talking about‘Hairspray’ Cast Then and Now

‘Hairspray’

The musical “Hairspray” wowed Broadway in the summer 2002 and went on to win eight Tony Awards, including the top trophy for new musical. Based on the 1988 John Waters movie that starred a young Ricki Lake, the 1960s-set musical centers on zaftig teen Tracy, whose quest to appear on the “American Bandstand”-like “Corny Collins Show” introduces her to the civil rights movement. The musical version of “Hairspray” in turn inspired a 2007 movie adaptation directed by Adam Shankman before NBC chose to revive the show for its latest live musical telecast, “Hairspray Live!” Here’s a look at who’s played the biggest parts of “Hairspray” on Broadway, on the big screen, and now on TV.

Courtesy of NBC

Tracy Turnblad

Marissa Jaret Winokur/Nikki Blonsky/Maddie Baillio

Tracy is the


the littering carbon in the natural reserve. There was accumulation of organic matter in the meadow soil and shrub soil. The decomposition and accumulation of soil organic matter was in the nearly balancing condition in the alpine tundra soil and alpine grass soil. The decomposition of organic matter was as one and a half time or double as litterfall in the arbor forest soil.When Ben Goldthwaite isn’t in class, the 16-year-old sophomore usually bounces between YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, Netflix and other on-demand distractions. A new pastime, though, has him on a strict schedule.

On a recent night, Ben cut short a meeting with a teacher to join a dozen boys, all armed with iPhones, to play HQ Trivia, a twice-daily online quiz show with cash prizes.

In a throwback to the days when popular network shows bound viewers to their televisions, HQ Trivia has hooked hundreds of thousands of fans to click on the iPhone app at 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. On Sunday night, the game show drew 680,000 players, up from 440,000 a week earlier, its previous record.

Some offices fall silent as employees huddle to play during the afternoon session. At


Dennis Staples, a radio announcer in Toledo, Ohio, slipped into a coma the day before his 60th birthday. He had been on dialysis for more than two years because of kidney failure, but had fared well with treatment. Then one day, while on dialysis at the doctor's office, Staples went into cardiac arrest. Despite a quick medical response, he never recovered.
Today, his wife Johanna attributes his death to the blood-thinner drug heparin that he received to prevent clotting during treatment.
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(photo: Gabriele Grunewald following closely behind Jordan Hasay) INDIANAPOLIS – Gabriele Grunewald has been reinstated as the 2014 USA indoor women’s 3,000-meter champion and named to Team USA for the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships, USATF CEO Max Siegel announced Monday. Grunewald will be joined by Shannon Rowbury in the women’s 3,000m at World Indoors, March 7-9 in Sopot, Poland.

Siegel on Monday spoke with representatives for Grunewald and Jordan Hasay, the two athletes involved in jostling during the women’s 3,000 contested Saturday at the 2014 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships in Albuquerque. Grunewald won the race, followed by Rowbury, Sara Vaughn and Hasay, but she was ultimately disqualified by the Jury of Appeal for clipping Hasay’s stride. The final disqualification was made on the basis of


Intercultural House

This facility is home to several international students and also contains a residential
suite for general students on the third floor.

The Intercultural House residence hall dates to 1939, when it was built to house the
Beta Kappa (later Theta Chi) fraternity. Today, the spacious building houses students
from several countries as well as the office of the director of intercultural life.Complex systems of microscopic tunnels found inside garnet crystals from Thailand are most likely the result of microorganisms making their homes inside these minerals, according to a study published August 8, 2018 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Magnus Ivarsson of the University of Southern Denmark and colleagues.

Endolithic organisms are those that live inside a substrate, be it mineral, wood, bone, or some other material. Some microbes move into pre-existing cavities while others dig their own way in, but this behavior is unexpected in highly resistant minerals like garnet. In this study, Ivarsson and colleagues examined the structure and content of intricately branching tunnels inside garnet crystals from river sediments and soils in Thailand to determine whether they were formed by abiotic or biotic processes.

Chemical analysis of


failed because it was not convenient. The lesson learned: Customers prefer convenience over privacy.

Move over to the mid-1990s to the early 2000s where E-gold at its popular height was used by over 1 million people. Its platform was built over micropayments which were worth tiny fractions of gold. One of its use was to send bloggers rewards, similar to how Brave Browser tipping works today. After reaching a market capitalization of over 2 billion USD, hackers started attacking users through Internet explorer and the centralized exchanges e-gold was being stored on. Eventually ending the project. Another lesson to learn from this: don’t leave your coins on exchanges. Or in modern crypto speech, not your keys, not your coins.

Enter Bitcoin. Learning from the previous attempts at creating the digitalHattiesburg, Markeysia Harness of Biloxi, Tamesha Horne of Taylorsville, Joshua Johnson of Monre, La., Jolonda Jones of Quitman, Skyeshia Moss of Shubuta, Essence Pulliam of Jackson, LaDerrick Scott of Forest, Vamikka Smith of Mobile, Ala., and Tamara Williams of Raymond.Dr. Robert Escudero is Student Support Services director.

Tyler Huber of Carriere received the Outstanding Student Award during the Pearl River Community College Summer Bridge to College program luncheon from Georgia Field, program coordinator, and Dr. Robert Escudero, Student Support Services director.

Brenton Coates of Carriere sings his original song, Walking on Air, to close the Summer Bridge to College luncheon.

Shakira Smith of Hattiesburg received the reading award from instructor George Denius.

Tamara McCurdy of Taylorsville received the English award from instructor Crystal Penton.

Kaci Sisson of Quitman received the math award from


his insurer, brought this suit to recover for damages sustained due to the SEA FEVER's sinking.  Sullivan brought suit against Vernay Products, Inc.  ("Vernay") and Young Brothers and Company Inc.  ("Young Brothers") under theories of strict liability, negligence, and breach of implied and express warranties.  Young Brothers crossclaimed against Vernay for indemnification and contribution, and Vernay similarly crossclaimed against Young Brothers for indemnification and contribution.  The district court found only Vernay to be liable for the damages caused by the SEA FEVER's sinking and awarded damages to Sullivan in the amount of $54,318.68.  On the crossclaim, it entered judgment in favor of Young Brothers.  Before us is Vernay's appeal of the district court's judgment, damage award, and denial of its motionFEVER as a commercial lobster vessel during the 1990 fishing season without significant problems.  In early 1991, Sullivan discovered a crack (the "1991 crack") in the portion of the Vernatube exhaust located in the lazarette, which permitted water to enter the vessel to the point of near sinking.  Sullivan discovered the crack because the bilge pump was running more than usual.  At the time, the boat was tied to the dock and fully loaded with 90-100 lobster traps, such that the wet exhaust tubing was completely submerged.  Sullivan notified Young Brothers of this crack, and Young Brothers repaired it by fiberglassing over the break.  Young Brothers also notified H & H Propeller of the crack.  Neither of these companies notified Vernay of


this crack, and there was no evidence that Sullivan did.  The cause of this crack was never investigated or discovered.

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After this repair, the SEA FEVER operated without further problems and Sullivan fished the 1991 season until January 1992.  Thereafter, the SEA FEVER remained at her slip until March 1992, when it was hauled for routine maintenance.  While the SEA FEVER was out of the water, Sullivan did not specifically inspect the exhaust system.  The record shows that the last time he inspected it was at the end of the summer of 1991.  On March 17, 1992, Edward S. Blackmore, a marine surveyor appointed by Sullivan's marine hull insurance company, surveyed the SEA FEVER.  Blackmore found the vessel to be in "A-1" conditionwith a fair market value of $130,000.  Blackmore's inspection included observation of the Vernatube exhaust, which did not have any water in it at the time of the inspection as the SEA FEVER was not loaded.  Nothing unusual was noted about the condition of the Vernatube and Blackmore observed no fractures, no discoloration, and no staining or other evidence of failure in the Vernatube.

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After the March maintenance and inspection, the SEA FEVER was not operated and remained at her slip until April 4, 1992.  On that day, Sullivan and his sternman made an eight-to-ten-mile trip aboard the SEA FEVER, picking up approximately eighty lobster traps.  After returning, they tied the SEA FEVER to the dock at about 1:00 p.m.  and went home for


the day.  Due to the weight of the lobster traps, the end of the exhaust discharge port was several inches under water and, as a result, the Vernatube had water in it.  The SEA FEVER was left with the automatic bilge pump switch in the "off" position rather than the "automatic" one.  Later that day, at approximately 7:30 p.m., Sullivan was notified that the SEA FEVER had sunk at the dock.  Sullivan retained Wayne Godfrey, a salvage diver from D & G Diving Services, to raise the vessel, which was approximately 90% to 95% submerged.  The SEA FEVER was surveyed by Werner Splettstoesser of Marine Safety Consultants on behalf of Sullivan's insurer, who determined that the SEA FEVER sank due to a crackin the wet exhaust tubing which was visible from the access hatch to the fish hold compartment.  This suit followed.

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On July 26, 1995, after a four-day bench trial, the district court issued its written decision and order, in which it found that the cause of the SEA FEVER's sinking was a full circumference crack in the Vernatube located a few inches forward of the bulkhead between the lazarette and fish hold (the "1992 crack").  The district court further found that this crack was a fatigue failure caused by tension stresses over time exceeding the axial length of the tube.  As there was no other known instance prior to the lawsuit in which a Vernatube had cracked under similar circumstances, much of the trial testimony was


directed at the question of whether the 1992 crack had been caused by a defective section of Vernatube or by improper installation of the exhaust system by Young Brothers.

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After evaluation of expert testimony offered by all three parties, review of the largely technical evidence, and inspection and analysis of the SEA FEVER's Vernatube, the district court found that the ten-foot section of the Vernatube, which developed at least two cracks during a two-year period, was defective.  The district court specifically found that the evidence regarding the Vernatube's porosity, wall thickness, and longitudinal strength "clearly proves that the section of Vernatube was defective" and that its defect contributed to the Vernatube's failure in the SEA FEVER.  In particular, the district court found that with respect to thesein 1837.

He also built with his father in law a shipyard in Pillau, (present-day Baltijsk),  near Königsberg, (East Prussia) (today Kaliningrad Oblast).

They built in 1877 the first torpedo boat ever ordered for the Russian Navy.

His only daughter, née Hildegard Ziese, married Swedish Engineer Carl Carlson,  taking over as Hildegard Carlson the general running of the several thousand industrial workers from their shipyards and factories in what is now either Poland or the Russian Federation.

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the number of missed obligatory days.

Muslims, estimated at more than 1.6 billion in 2010 worldwide, observe fasting with intensified prayers and religious rituals in varying degrees depending on the environment prevailing in their locations.

In conflict-affected areas like Palestine and Marawi City, the lone Islamic community in the Philippines, Ramadan fasting would be more difficult for Muslim constituents to observe, but their sacrifices are bound to earn more divine rewards, according to Islamic scholars.

Because of the lack of marketplaces in war-torn villages of Marawi, the ARMM Humanitarian Emergency Action and Response Team on Tuesday delivered truckloads of food and other basic commodities enough for four weeks to hundreds of Muslim Maranaos resettled at the Sarimanok Tent Zone. The resettlement area was built for residents displaced by the five-month fightingof aspects of their identity, both in their own and others’ eyes, this research explored the social construction of the sex offender, and ways in which this can hinder crime reduction strategies.

Funder

ESRC

Duration

3 Years

Additional Information

From this research Dr Hudson published 'Offending Identities', which came runner up in the British Society of Criminology's annual book prize for best first time author in 2006.


defendant was at the house of Bud Naylor, a private residence which was also a tavern and gambling casino. When Rogers arrived, he approached defendant and stated that he would not pay a $35 debt owed to defendant. Defendant and Rogers had been friends since their boyhood but the friendly relationship was severed in 1964 when defendant had refused to submit a false statement in connection with a law suit by Rogers against a railroad. Since that time Rogers had insulted, threatened and, at times, had struck defendant. In addition to refusing to pay the debt, Rogers ridiculed and criticized defendant. Defendant responded in kind by ridiculing Rogers. During the argument, Rogers slapped defendant's face. Defendant then walked over to Houston Terrell and he handed his gun tomany times in the ten years since the railroad incident, he had been subjected to abuse and threats by Rogers. On three occasions Rogers showed defendant a shotgun which Rogers kept in his car and he threatened to use it against defendant. The last such threat occurred only a week prior to the shooting. Defendant testified that he had grabbed his gun from Terrell because he had thought that Rogers was going to get the shotgun that was in Rogers' car. He denied that he had himself threatened to kill Rogers and he denied having any conversation with Rogers once outside the house. Furthermore, he testified that he was intoxicated during the time that he had made the videotaped confession and that he had been instructed by the


police on what to say. He also said that he only intended to wound Rogers in the shoulder to force him to drop the knife and to prevent Rogers from reaching the shotgun.
In support of his defense of insanity, defendant testified that he was an alcoholic and that while intoxicated in March, 1974, he had attempted to put his wife's head into hot water and in June, 1974, he had attempted to jump out of a moving automobile. Nathan Blackman, a psychiatrist who examined defendant on three occasions prior to trial, testified that defendant suffered from a degree of pathological intoxication which deprived him of the capacity to conform his behavior to the requirements of the law. Blackman stated, however, that a psychological report indicated that defendant hadonly very minimal brain damage.
On rebuttal, the State presented the tape recording of the first interrogation of defendant. A transcript of this recording was not made part of the record on appeal. Deputy Robert Hertz testified that the videotape was made after it was determined that portions of the first tape recording were inaudible. Hertz denied that defendant was intoxicated at the time or had been instructed on what to say.
Defendant first contends that the evidence shows that he had believed that circumstances existed at the time of the killing which justified his use of deadly force in "self-defense" against Rogers although his belief was, in fact, unreasonable. Thus, he argues that his murder conviction was not supported by sufficient evidence and he should have only been found


People v Crawford (2019 NY Slip Op 07789)

People v Crawford

2019 NY Slip Op 07789

Decided on October 30, 2019

Appellate Division, Second Department

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on October 30, 2019
SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department

RUTH C. BALKIN, J.P.
CHERYL E. CHAMBERS
JEFFREY A. COHEN
BETSY BARROS
FRANCESCA E. CONNOLLY, JJ.

2017-06275
 (Ind. No. 7372/16)

[*1]The People of the State of New York, respondent,
vDaquan Crawford, appellant.

Paul Skip Laisure, New York, NY (Alexis A. Ascher of counsel), for appellant.
Eric Gonzalez, District Attorney, Brooklyn, NY (Leonard Joblove and Caroline R. Donhauser of counsel), for respondent.

DECISION & ORDER
Appeal by the defendant, as limited by his motion, from a sentence of the

With reporting by RFE/RL correspondent Tom Balmforth in Makhachkhala and AP

MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- The father of Boston Marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev insists he wants to travel to the United States to seek justice for his sons, who he claims are victims of a "clear setup."An emotional Anzor Tsarnaev, speaking via telephone to RFE/RL's Tom Balmforth and the Associated Press on April 21, said there was "no sense" to accusations tying his sons to the attacks in Boston, which left three dead and around 173 injured on April 15.They are also thought by investigators to have killed a campus police officer four days later."I want real justice," Anzor Tsarnaev said, after indicating that he wants to visit the United States. "I have a lot of questions


to ask the [American] police and secret services. I am a lawyer myself. I want answers to all the questions that I have on criminal issues, on terrorism."The boy’s mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, told RFE/RL and the AP that her oldest son, 26-year-old Tamerlan, who was killed in a shoot-out with police on April 19, had been under surveillance. She said he had "been monitored" by the FBI for the last five years and protested at a lack of evidence. She said her sons were innocent and that they had been "set up" by U.S. authorities.Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said on April 21 that surveillance video from the Boston attack shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev dropping his backpack and calmly walking away from it before the bomb inside it exploded.Speaking toNBC, Patrick said, "It's pretty clear about his involvement and pretty chilling, frankly."The Russian government had reportedly flagged Tamerlan to U.S officials as a potential terrorist suspect in 2011. He was said to have been questioned by the FBI that same year and his application for U.S. citizenship in 2012 denied based on related concerns.Speculation has linked the brothers, who were born to a Chechen father and a mother believed by neighbors to be an ethnic Avar, to Islamist militant groups in the North Caucasus.On April 21, a website used by the so-called Caucasus Emirate -- the Islamist resistance movement in Russia's North Caucasus --saying it has no connection with the bombings in Boston.Tamerlan visited Russia for at least six months starting on January 12, 2012. His father


claimed he spent six months in Makhachkala with him and visiting nearby family relatives as well as in Chechnya."He visited Chechnya twice with me," Anzor said. "We went to see my uncles and aunts. I have many of them there. All of them are clean people; they pray, everybody knows them. They never left Chechnya. My relatives had jobs there and they stayed there throughout the war."Nonetheless, a Makhachkala shopkeeper who identified herself only as Madina said Tamerlan stayed at the Tsarnaev family house across the road in the middle of last summer for a single month.A trained lawyer, Tsarnaev maintained that, to his knowledge, Tamerlan had not exhibited any extremist tendencies."[Tamerlan Tsarnaev] had no [radical] ideas whatsoever," he said. "I don't get it. Who could have comeIndictments handed down in cattle theft scam

Mark Ray

A Lampasas County Grand Jury handed down a double indictment March 14 against Mark Ray, 57, of Aurora, Colorado. The indictments, Theft by Deception and False Statement to Obtain Property, are both third-degree felonies and come after an investigation led by TSCRA Special Ranger Marvin Wills.

The indictments stem from a cattle transaction between Ray and a Stephens County, Texas, victim in December 2016. Ray is accused of persuading the victim to invest in 52 head of cattle, which he alleged to be located in Lampasas County, Texas. The cattle were then said to be relocated to a ranch in Pawhuska, Okla., where they were to be cared for and later sold.

When the victim failed to receive his interest in the cattle,


The roots of the present Wall Street crash can be traced to a company
called Mark-It Partners in 2001. But as market analyst Pam Martens says,
"It was four years after the crash of 1929 before the major titans
of Wall Street were forced to give testimony under oath to Congress and
the full magnitude of the fraud emerged. The modern-day Wall Street corruption
hearings in Congress must resume in earnest and with sworn testimony if
we are to escape a similar fate." This article was originally published
on CounterPunch, January 21, 2008.

The massive
losses by big Wall Street firms, now topping those of the Great
Depression in relative terms, have yet to be adequately explained.
Wall Street power players are obfuscating and Congress is too
embarrassed or frightened to ask, preferring to just throw money
at the problem andhope it goes away.

But as job losses and foreclosures mount and pensions and 401(k)s
shrink, public policy measures to address the economic stresses
require a full set of unembellished facts.

The proof
that Wall Street is giving mainstream media a stage-managed version
of what went wrong begins with a strange revelation by Gary Crittenden,
CFO of Citigroup, on the November 5, 2007 conference call where
he discusses what have now become the largest losses in the firm's
196-year history. Mr. Crittenden is asked by an analyst why the
firm didn't hedge its risk. Here's his response:

"I mean
I think it is a very fair question... we are the largest player
in this [collateralized debt obligation; CDO] business and given
that we are the largest player in the business, reducing the book
by half and then putting on what at the time


Saudi princes.

The
private company that would become Wall Street's ticker tape
for pricing exotic credit instruments (derivatives on subprime
mortgages and credit default swaps) started out as Mark-it
Partners in 2001, the brain child of Lance Uggla while he
was working for a division of Toronto Dominion Bank, TD
Securities.

In
fact, the unabridged story is breathtaking in its callous disregard
for the economic well being of this nation and its people. Exchange
traded products did not emerge to hedge this risk because, behind
the scenes, Citigroup, along with 12 other big banks and securities
firms were funding a private company to gobble up all the necessary
components to keep this burgeoning cash cow to themselves in the
opaque, unregulated, over-the-counter (OTC) market, despite the
fact that they knew it was dysfunctional.

The
private company that would become Wall Street's ticker tape for
pricing exotic creditinstruments (derivatives on subprime mortgages
and credit default swaps) started out as Mark-it Partners in 2001,
the brain child of Lance Uggla while he was working for a division
of Toronto Dominion Bank, TD Securities.

By 2004, according to an archived company press release, all of
the companies had kicked in capital. The Financial Times would
later report that these banks and brokerage firms held a majority
interest of approximately 67 per cent, hedge funds owned 13 per
cent, and employees 20 per cent. The firm's web site currently
says it has 16 banks as shareholders, without naming the banks.

Deutsche
Bank, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan were reportedly the first three
firms to take an equity stake in Mark-it on or around August 29,
2003 when the three firms sold a proprietary database of credit
derivative information to Mark-it. Since Mark-it is


a private
firm, financial terms have not been disclosed.

Around
August 2003, regulators with a fetish for orderly paper
trails had stumbled upon the fact that there was a growing
backlog of credit derivative trades that were never officially
confirmed between the parties, reaching a peak of 153,860
unconfirmed trades by September 2005.

What
would have been the incentive for three big Wall Street players
to build a proprietary database and then, in a magnanimous gesture
completely uncharacteristic of Wall Street greed, hand it over
to be shared with their largest competitors?

One likely
answer is that around this time regulators with a fetish for orderly
paper trails (but myopic to the rapidly escalating financial hazard
of this unregulated market) had stumbled upon the fact that there
was a growing backlog of credit derivative trades that were never
officially confirmed between the parties, reaching a peakmechanism to inflate values
for the worst hit firms on Wall Street: namely, Citigroup.)

To
grasp the magnitude of this wild west world of trading,
one needs to understand that we are not talking about a
market of a few billion dollars. According to the International
Swaps and Derivatives Association, the credit derivatives
market has grown from an estimated total notional amount
of nearly US$1 trillion outstanding at year-end 2001 to
over $34 trillion at year-end 2006.

According
to the GAO report, significant progress was achieved for a period
in bringing down these unconfirmed trades but by November 2006,
the numbers had climbed again: there were over 81,000 unconfirmed
trades with around 31,000, or 54 per cent, remaining unconfirmed
for over 30 days.

Raising images of the early 1900s curb market in lower Manhattan
where traders posted securities for sale on lampposts, the report
notes that


this vast market is being handled manually to a significant
extent. (Our nation has apparently devolved not only on torture
and constitutional rights and habeas corpus and election integrity
but we now seem to have wiped out 100 years of trading advances.)

The obvious
solution, a transparent, regulated, automated, exchange traded
model does not seem to have occurred to the Masters of the Universe
or their timid regulators.

It did, however,
occur to four Exchanges: Eurex, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
(Merc), the Chicago Board of Exchange (CBOE) and the Chicago Board
of Trade (CBOT). In 2007, all four created exchange traded instruments
to hedge the risk of credit defaults. Some traders call the response
from the Wall Street firms a boycott; others call it a cabal that
circled the wagons.

According to a Bloomberg article in April 2007, "Banks and securities
firms are keepinga stranglehold on the market, which has swelled
to cover debt sold by more than 3,000 companies, governments and
industries." A call to the CBOT on January 18, 2008 confirmed
that they are still not seeing any business from the big Wall
Street firms in their credit default product.

The track
for this train wreck was put in place in December 2000 when Congress
passed the Commodity Futures Modernization Act giving a free pass
on regulation to the over-the-counter trading between sophisticated
individuals and institutions.

Brooksley Born, then Chairperson of the regulatory body, the Commodities
Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), literally begged Congress to
slow down the train and carefully consider the future ramifications
of this legislation. Speaking before the House Committee on Banking
and Financial Services on July 24, 1998, Ms. Born said:

"The CFTC
or its predecessor agency, the Commodity Exchange Authority, has
regulated


derivative instruments for almost three-quarters of
a century. Its authority is contained in the Commodity Exchange
Act ("CEA" or "Act"), which is the primary federal law governing
regulation of derivative transactions. The CEA vests the CFTC
with exclusive jurisdiction over futures and commodity option
transactions whether they occur on an exchange or over the counter.
The Act generally contemplates that, unless exempted, futures
and commodity options are to be sold through Commission-regulated
exchanges which provide the safeguards of open and competitive
trading, a continuous market, price discovery and dissemination,
and protection against counterparty risk."

The
track for this train wreck was put in place in December
2000 when Congress passed the Commodity Futures Modernization
Act giving a free pass on regulation to the over-the-counter
trading between sophisticated individuals and institutions.

Alan Greenspan,
Chair of the Federal Reserve Board at the time, testified before
Congress in favorWall Street players late last year, Mark-it Partners,
now known as Markit Group Ltd., had yet another amazing burst
of good fortune. In November 2007, two consortiums owned by essentially
the same group of banks and brokerage firms that were early investors
in Mark-it Partners, who conveniently also owned the major credit
default indices, CDS IndexCo and International Index Co., up and
sold themselves to little Markit Group Ltd.

Included in the deal by CDS IndexCo were the two subprime indices,
ABX and TABX, along with the prominent CDX index which acquired
much of its respectability by previously having the name Dow Jones
in front of its three letters.

ABX and TABX
were the indices Citigroup should have been able to hedge itself
with if this over-the-counter market was liquid, functional and
able to handle pesky details like proof the trade happened.


fate.

Note:
Pam Martens worked on Wall Street for 21 years; she has no securities
position, long or short, in any company mentioned in this article.
She writes on public interest issues from New Hampshire. She can
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Paul Craig RobertsOn June 10, 2016, I reported on how Someone wants to suppress this video of vile BDS shoutdown of Professor.

The video in question showed Irish anti-Israel activist Joseph Loughnane verbally abusing and threatening Professor Alan Johnson, who runs the Fathom Journal and was giving a lecture against the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. His speech was titled, Solidarity not Boycotts: the progressive case against boycotting Israel:

Thank you for inviting me to Galway University. I am the editor of Fathom journal, and Senior Research Fellow at BICOM. I speak as a friend of Israel, a friend of Palestine and friend of peace. I am not Jewish. I am a democratic socialist, an editor of Dissent magazine and a former editor of Historical Materialism. I am a Professor of Politics


YouTube error message:

Irish4Israel did repost the video on Vimeo, with this explanation:

“Watch these BDS bullies try to break up an anti-boycott meeting on the campus of National University of Ireland Galway, 5 March 2014. Disgraceful, but typical. Defend free speech on campus! At the lectern is Professor Alan Johnson, editor of the pro-‘two states for two peoples’ journal ‘Fathom: for a deeper understanding of Israel and the region’. The anti-Israel fanatic shouting vile abuse, threatening the students, and trying to break up the meeting is Joseph Loughnane.” On March 12th 2014 this video with over 41,000 hits was deleted from Youtube due to the individuals in this video complaining. We are uploading it to Vimeo as we wont be silent exposing the true face of BDS.

With all dueA 6.3 magnitude earthquake, first estimated at 6.6, has struck the east coast of the Mexican state of Baja California, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) has reported.

The quake hit within the Gulf of California Rift Zone (GCRZ). The Zone is a seismic area which lies between the opening to the Gulf and Los Cabos on the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula, to the San Andreas fault, which runs through the US state of California.

READ MORE: Magnitude 5.7 quake strikes off Mexican coast

The earthquake struck 69 kilometers north-east of the seaside town of Loreto, known for its colonial-era architecture. The quake’s epicenter was ten kilometers below the surface, according to the USGS.

Last year, a 7.1-magnitude earthquake in Mexico killed hundreds of people across the capital and


central regions. Thousands more were injured and hundreds of buildings destroyed. It was the worst natural disaster since the 1985 quake in Mexico City, which lead to thousands of deaths.

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Finally, while these potentially life-saving steps might take some planning, Gimenez said horse owners need not spend a lot of money on fire prevention.

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Story highlights Putin says 755 staff will be cut from US missions

The move follows a US Congress decision to impose fresh Russian sanctions

Moscow (CNN) President Vladimir Putin has hit back at new American sanctions by ordering the US to cut staff at its diplomatic mission by 755, in Moscow's most aggressive move against Washington since the final years of the Cold War.

Putin confirmed the move Sunday after the Foreign Ministry on Friday demanded the US cut staff numbers and announced a rash of other measures against Washington's missions.

The measures came after the US Congress passed a bill last week imposing fresh sanctions over Russia's meddling in the US' 2016 election. President Donald Trump has indicated he will sign the sanctions bill into law.

The response represents a sharp downturnguys for making it a great day.

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made, during and at the end of the growing season. The inbred lines which are developed are unpredictable. This unpredictability is because the breeder's selection occurs in unique environments, with no control at the DNA level (using conventional breeding procedures), and with millions of different possible genetic combinations being generated. A breeder of ordinary skill in the art cannot predict the final resulting lines he develops, except possibly in a very gross and general fashion. The same breeder cannot produce the same line twice by using the exact same original parents and the same selection techniques. This unpredictability results in the expenditure of large research monies to develop a superior new corn inbred line.
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The evidence presented to the court indicates that Phillip Steele and Ron Casteel are stockholders in American Heritage Productions, Inc. (American Heritage) which produces and markets documentary films about the "Old West". For reasons of obscure historical importance, Steele and Casteel planned a trip to Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri to shoot documentary footage. The trip required at least four people: Ron and Sheila


change. Countries recognizing this have already moved beyond the 5-percent reduction goal outlined in the protocol. Germany has lowered its emissions by 9 percent since 1991 and is discussing the possibility of another 40-percent reduction by 2020. The United Kingdom, which has cut emissions by 8 percent since 1990, aims to reduce them 60 percent by 2050 and is urging the rest of the European Union to do the same. A report from the David Suzuki Foundation and the Canadian Climate Action Network sets out a plan to halve greenhouse gas emissions in Canada by 2030. And where national governments fail to act, local governments have stepped in: More than 600 cities worldwide have developed their own plans to reduce carbon emissions.

While the Kyoto Protocol provides a cruciallead to a serious rebound when therapy is terminated. This proposal requests funds to support the 2010 Molecular Biology of Hepatitis B Viruses Meeting to be held in Taipei, Taiwan from October 9 -13, 2010. The Hepatitis B meeting is a forum for the truly international community of researchers focusing on HBV and the closely associated HDV. For the first time this meeting will be held in Southeast Asia, where as much as 20% of the population has chronic HBV. 2010 will mark the 25th anniversary of the first HBV meeting, organized by Harold Varmus and Jesse Summers. Since then, the HBV meeting has introduced a continuous series of broad-reaching advances to the virology community. Because so much scientific progress arises from competition, collaboration, and discussion, it can


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That's going to be difficult with a single query because your data is normalizedas the Prince of Wales and the Duke of York. Blenheim started an 18/1 outsider in a field of seventeen. Rustom Pasha led the field on the final turn but weakened and dropped away in the straight. Blenheim was produced by Wragg with a perfectly timed run to take the lead inside the final furlong and won by a length from Iliad with Diolite in third. After the race Wragg described the winner as "a lovely little horse" and explained that although he had only made very gradual progress in the second half of the race he had always been confident of victory.

After the Derby, Blenheim was being prepared or a run in the Eclipse Stakes when he sustained a tendon injury. He did not recover sufficiently to


old guys they had no choice, yes they suck but it has to do more with their front office and owners than anything else, just because a team sucks at drafting high doesn't mean that you are also going to suck at drafting high.

That's the norm unfortunately. Even the Knicks when they blew up their team by trading Ewing and the Bulls post MJ and Pippen had several runs at the top lottery picks and they had several of their picks blow up in their faces. A lot of the guys they drafted looked like studs and turned out to be straight up duds.

I'm down with the Pacers trading one or maybe even 2 of their players to get a proven scorer added to the roster but I'mat the top lottery picks and they had several of their picks blow up in their faces. A lot of the guys they drafted looked like studs and turned out to be straight up duds.

Not only that, but the logical fallacy comes from people always recalling anecdotal version of what a great situation those teams were in, and then when it fails they just forget about that part and focus on the new "bad team". And then when someone does win that's also all they focus on.

It's like seeing a Powerball winner and saying "see, it works, that's how you get rich" instead of sitting in the depressing parking lot of a gas station watching lottery loser after lottery loser walk out with dud tickets.

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the Projects and Cores, planning and conducting regular In-person meetings of the P01 investigators and with the External Advisory Board, and fiscal management of the overall P01 and disbursement of subcontract funds. Importantly, the Core will be responsible for evaluating and monitoring productivity, executing deadlines, and mediating any issues or problems that may arise. Core A will be based primarily at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI), in close coordination with the other 2 PI institutions, Boston University (BU) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), and with Dr. Kolonel at the University of Hawaii. The Administrative Core will ensure that the scientific and fiscal management of the study is rigorous, and provide a resource for coordination of the research through the Projects and Cores. CoreWashington (CNN) President Donald Trump would not say Friday whether he plans to sign legislation enacting tough sanctions on China for its crackdown in Hong Kong, cementing the impression Trump ranks the economic relationship with Beijing higher than human rights.

His noncommittal answer during a largely friendly interview prompted confusion and angst on Capitol Hill, where the measure passed this week with overwhelming bipartisan majorities.

And it furthered a pattern of Trump prioritizing fragile trade talks with China's President Xi Jinping over a forceful denunciation of his counterpart's battle with pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong

"We have to stand with Hong Kong, but I'm also standing with President Xi," Trump said during a phone call to the Fox News morning program. "He's a friend of mine. I'd like to see them


work it out, OK?"

Trump has spent months walking tenderly around the Hong Kong issue, raising it periodically but failing to voice a strong condemnation of China's tactics in the semiautonomous territory. In June, he told Xi in a telephone call he would remain quiet on the issue as trade talks progressed, according to senior administration officials and others familiar with the call.

Read MoreThe family-friendly Hyatt Place Dallas-North/By The Galleria Hotel is rated 3 stars and features 123 rooms for guests to stay in. Founded in 1997, the hotel underwent a renovation in 2007.

A short distance to a bus stop enables you to get to University of Texas at Dallas and Meadows Museum in no time. A tower, a theater and a college as well as a valley and meadows are in a short distance from the property.

Guests will find convention centers and corporations in the neighborhood.

Hyatt Place Dallas-North/By The Galleria Hotel offers cozy rooms with climate control, cable TV with on-demand movies, a laptop safe, a microwave and a DVD player as well as coffee/tea makers and a fridge. Some rooms come with a view of Addison Circle Park. They


provide bathrooms with a bathtub, a shower and a hairdryer.

A freshly prepared breakfast is served daily. The café bar serves espresso, coffee and beers. Del Frisco's and Carmine's Pizzeria are situated in a shopping area, about 100 meters away of the property.

Hyatt Place Dallas-North/By The Galleria Hotel enjoys a convenient location within a 20-minute drive to Love Field airport.

Business travelers can avail of computers, a meeting room and a catering service offered on site.

Hyatt Place Dallas-North/By The Galleria Hotel provides cribs and babysitting for children. On-site fitness facilities include a gym and a fitness center.

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Hyatt Place Dallas-North/By The Galleria Hotel offers cozy rooms with climate control, cable TV with on-demand movies, a laptop safe, a microwave and a DVD player as well as coffee/tea makers andproperty. In this case, plaintiff was ordered to pay defendant $1,000.00 as child support, out of which she was to pay the house note. Thus, the house note payments would come from her separate property. Clearly, under Lovell and Lowe, if plaintiff had been ordered to pay the house note directly as part of his child support obligation, he would only be entitled to reimbursement for the amount by which the principal balance of the mortgage was reduced. We find that the same should be true where defendant was to pay the house note, since the payment represented part of plaintiff's child support obligation. As in Lowe and Lovell, plaintiff would not be entitled to a credit for the amount which was part of child support, but only


area are copied into the backup area at the start of the update, and log data, which represent execution results of each step according to an update procedure, are stored in the journaling area. The update procedure comprises three steps, with a first step for copying the storage contents of the update area into the backup area, a second step for clearing the update area, and a third step for storing the software code to be updated in the update area.
The reason for copying the storage contents of the update area into the backup area is to prepare the portable terminal for an abrupt power cut-off after the clearance of the update area and to prevent software stored in the update area from being deleted without being updated.A rural community which has won its fight against plans for an unwelcome wind turbine has been left counting the emotional and financial costs of the campaign which has left them stressed, out-of-pocket and wary of future plans.

This week the residents of Culbo Road near Culbokie enjoyed a victory when Dawn Energy LLP withdrew its second application to build a turbine at Upper Badrain near Culbokie. The firm has also withdrawn its bid for a similar structure at nearby Dunvournie.

However, neighbours fear they have “won the battle, but not the war” and say they would not be surprised if future plans were not lodged for a wind development on the farmland close to their homes.

Last year the 68 households on Culbo Road rallied together to “fight tooth and


Trump’s rallies generally take place where his most vocal and visible supporters live — in working-class towns, suburbs, and regions. Melania’s rally took place in the affluent suburbs of Philadelphia, where Trump needs to win over the voters who’ve been repelled by his demeanor and behavior. Trump’s rallies are replete with shirts that declare “Trump That Bitch,” “Lock Her Up,” and “Hillary Sucks but Not Like Monica.” At Melania’s rally, very few attendees even wore Trump shirts, and sales at the T-shirt vendors outside the indoor arena were slow to nonexistent. Some women were there in their tennis clothes; others, in stylish casual wear, with their daughters, still in their school uniforms of plaid kilts and V-neck sweaters.

BERWYN, Pennsylvania – There are a few obvious, expected differences betweencombat online bullying. The crowd was small, subdued, and respectful — a perfect match for the speech, which was short, apolitical, and without a whiff of controversy.

The Melania rally was an example of conservative political performance as it was before Donald Trump: a little wooden, a little staid, yet very safe. She smiled when telling broad parables about her childhood, all the while looking vaguely uncomfortable to be there: politics, in other words, as usual. For years, this sort of safety and blandness helped whitewash, or at least mute, some of the most controversial and conservative aims of the Republican Party: the work to overturn Roe v. Wade, to prevent marriage equality, to ignore climate science.

Trump has stripped away the veneer of the GOP and steered the ship


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Little Polish Way of Saint James

Little Polish Way of Saint James

Little Polish Way of Saint James takes you along the valley of Vistula and is related to a medieval road which was used as early as in the time of first Piasts.

The location of James the Greater Apostle churches helped to map out the route. These churches suggest that in the Middle Ages there was a pilgrimage route here to the grave of James the Greater Apostle in Santiago de Compostela. The churches were located in close proximity, which allowed to cover the distance between them in one day.
In 2008 the first fragment of the Little Way of Saint James was reconstructed, from Pałecznica through Więcławice Stare. The whole route is almost 200 km long and divided intoproof that it is more than just petty theft and robbery that motivated this murder. In other words, blame the victim.

Glassey became concerned during the course of several phone conversations with her mother, when West asked her when she could conceivably expect her insurance check. From First Coast News:

The daughter of Sherry West, Ashley Glassey, said she does not want to falsely accuse anyone but she wants the truth.

Glassey, 21, lives in New Jersey and said her mother lost custody of her when she was 8. She said she has forgiven her mom and has spoken to her every day since Thursday’s shooting but said some of her mother’s responses have her concerned.

Glassey said she started to have her doubts after receiving a phone call from her mother


get the knife away from him “and Glassey ended up on the wrong end of the knife”, Weisenfeld recalled.[…]

This new angle has been lighting up message boards around the web from those questioning certain suspicious behaviors of West after the murder, including interviews she had given so soon after the murder to various news organizations. In one such interview with WJXT in Jacksonville, West curiously speculated if the shooting of her 13-month-old baby was related to the death of her 18-year-old son Shaun Glassey, who was fatally stabbed five years ago in New Jersey. The boy who stabbed Glassey was never charged in the case because the police thought he acted in self-defense, after it was determined that Glassey and four other unnamed juveniles lured the boy viatext message to a secluded location and initially tried to use the knife in the murder on him.

The Brunswick cops are rather mum about Ashley Glassey’s latest statements about her mother; they won’t say whether Glassey has spoken with them or whether they are taking her allegations seriously. They have apprehended the suspected shooter, 17-year-old DeMarquis Elkins, who boasted on Facebook that he wanted to be a gangsta Blood, and his accomplice, 15-year-old Dominique Lang, whose name was finally released by national media because local media were naming him, and because he is being tried as an adult. Because both are under the age of 18, Elkins and Lang do not face the death penalty if they are convicted.

When Elkins was first named—after I had hoped that it


gunpoint. Jonylah Watkins’ father, Jonathan Watkins, was quite probably still in a gang and may have been the actual target of the shooter.

Nonetheless, Robert Zimmerman, Jr. tried to tie the murder of Antonio Santiago to his brother, who is also a white Latino. George Zimmerman is an adult who is is very much alive while Trayvon Martin, like baby Antonio, didn’t know who his assailant was, was unarmed and is dead. Trayvon Martin never was a member of a gang, and he was not on the prowl or wanting to rob anyone.

Add to this the very real possibility Trayvon was fighting for his life against a stranger, and like Antonio, he did not have a chance. Good thing George Zimmerman had a gun—when he wasn’t supposed to packNov. 28, in response to the election, 35 mayors from progressive cities in both blue and red states signed an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump. They asked for leadership on climate change issues, but promised to…

Playground slides sold to municipalities and schools are being recalled because of a defect that can cause a finger amputation. Other recalled consumer products this week include potentially moldy gift boxes and defective windows.

A DeKalb County judge Friday vacated the conviction of Jack McCullough, who was found guilty in 2012 of the 1957 murder of a 7-year-old Sycamore girl. Judge William Brady ordered a new trial for McCullough and also ordered that he be freed from custody on his own recognizance. The hearing was held...

A judge on Friday refused to reduce the


$500,000 bond set for two Wisconsin girls accused of trying to kill their classmate in an attempt to please the fictional horror character Slender Man. Judge Michael Bohren denied requests by the girls' attorneys to lower the bond amount. The girls have been...

By signing off on a plan to move the museum east of Lake Shore Drive, parks advocates would be trampling on the very principle they used to block the museum.Does Mayor Rahm Emanuel want to tear down the McCormick Place East building to make way for the controversial Lucas Museum of Narrative Art?...

As they gathered at the crime tape, looking down at the body of their son under a white sheet, Raymond and Charisma Pryor were taken off to the side by police and told hewas the target of a gang conflict.But all they could see was a man gunned down as he was straightening out his life, going to...

As a kid, Jonathan Toews threw the worst sleepovers. Just ask Tyler Riel, a friend who went over to Toews' house one night on the southern end of Winnipeg. Riel, then 11, was expecting the usual trappings of a night with buddies — video games, junk food and hockey on the rink Toews' dad Brian built....

A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of an Oak Lawn man charged in the burning and killing a teenage boy on Chicago's Southwest Side in 2009, the FBI said Friday morning. Luis Macedo, 28, whose last known address is in


the 6200 block of West 90th Place,...

The parents of a north suburban Muslim family abruptly removed from a United Airlines flight last month say the way they and their three children were treated by a flight crew at Chicago O'Hare International Airport went way beyond poor customer service. Yet three weeks later, they still have not...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel wants to tear down McCormick Place East to create a lakefront parcel for Star Wars filmmaker George Lucas' art museum in an effort to prevent Lucas from taking the project to another city, a source close to the mayoral administration said Friday. The source confirmed the mayor's...

There are tons of obvious holiday traditions played out throughout households in the River Parishes each December. There is Christmas tree shopping, cookie decorating,office.State broadcaster Ghana Television said on Friday that the president, John Mahama, had conceded defeat in a telephone call that Akufo-Addo confirmed soon after. Continue reading...

Officials believe penguins were sent into panic at zoo which has seen several other accidents including an otter who died after becoming entangled in trousersA Canadian zoo has launched an investigation into the deaths of seven penguins at the facility, which are believed to have drowned in a state of panic. “It was obviously something we did not expect to f […]

Video recording of Roof saying ‘I killed them’ while laughing is shown for the first time at death penalty trial for June 2015 murders of nine peopleDylann Roof hesitated for about 20 seconds when an FBI agent asked him what he was


doing on the night nine black church members were killed during Bible study in Charleston, South Carolina.“Uh, I did it,” Roof s […]

Park fights for her political life amid scandal that has made her country’s least popular leader since it became democraticThe South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, is fighting for her political life after MPs on Friday voted by a huge margin to impeach her over a corruption and cronyism scandal that has made her the country’s most unpopular leader since it […]in New York City for several years. Sixteen years have gone by since we last heard from her in the pages of To Kill a Mockingbird, and the Maycomb she comes home to isn’t the same Maycomb we know from the 1960 novel.

This Must Be the Place

For the better part of the last decade, my life during the summer was music festivals. From Maine to California, Michigan to Arkansas, I was there, in an endless crowd, cheering on the greatest musicians of our time. In those innumerable moments, I felt more alive, at home, and at peace, than anywhere else in the world.


Zeid, addressing the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) assembly in Geneva, has called on the Philippine government to uphold global human rights obligations after expressing grave concern over Duterte "open support for a shoot-to-kill policy" regarding suspects.

During the budget vote, house speaker and Duterte ally Pantaleon Alvarez criticised the commission, saying it was "useless" and "not doing its job".

"Many human rights defenders who are the honor of their country face a growing number of death threats, and I call on the government to ensure they are accorded full protection and the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly without reprisals", he said.

Congressman Edcel Lagman said 32 minority lawmakers opposed the measure during the debate at the second reading. He said Duterte's supporters were "virtually imposing the deathpenalty on a constitutionally created and mandated independent office".

The commission was last year awarded nearly (749 million pesos) $15 million for its annual budget, and had initially requested for a budget of 1.72 billion pesos ($34 million) this year.

Congress voted to slash that to just 1,000 pesos, a huge cut from the 2017 budget of 749 million.

The budget requires Senate approval before it becomes final - which opponents say is likely, because President Duterte has a majority in the two chambers. Lawmakers have voted to give the Commission on Human Rights an annual budget of $20.

The CHR, which had been investigating killings related to the drugs trade, initially requested a budget of $42million, reports the BBC.

"If the Philippines Congress is looking for public money being wasted, damaging and


hurting the Philippines society, this is it". "All drug killings are subject to investigations", he added.

Missing Hyderabad Teen's Body Found On Outskirts Of City
The girl apparently was pressurizing him to continue the relationship and marry her, so he chose to get rid of her. The mysterious murder of Chandini Jain has been cracked as her lover Sai Kiran Reddy has admitted to the crime.

SCOTUS: Texas' Disputed Voting Map Can Stay
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pertaining to the possession of alcoholic beverages.  With regard to the other employee, Kenyon, the arbitrator found that he had not been similarly advised of the consequences, but noted that no claim had been asserted on his behalf that he was unaware of the rules.

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The Union subsequently filed a complaint in the district court seeking to vacate the arbitration award on the grounds that the board exceeded its authority and that the award was arbitrary and capricious.  In granting the Union's motion for summary judgment, the district court held that in relying on the 1963 grievance settlement agreement which purported to establish that possession of alcohol was grounds for immediate discharge, the board of arbitration "improperly deferred to a source extrinsic to the labor agreement insteadMonday, February 19, 2007

Basketball, anyone?

Images of the classic Looney Tunes characters playing basketball are not hard to find. Nike's early 90's ad campaign "Hare Jordan" pairing the characters with basketball legend Michael Jordan even inspired the movie "Space Jam". Then there are the countless t-shirts.

But one of the earliest uses of the idea I know of is from 1990. Tyson came out with a series of TV dinners called "Looney Tunes Meals". I wish I had saved a box or could find an image. But occasionally they had fun prizes inside, including trading cards (once again, wish I'd saved one!) and little things like this:

It was a create-a-scene sticker activity, and the artwork on the characters was actually pretty good. If anyone else has any more images of


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PGA Tour: AT&T Byron Nelson, Dallas (to 20)

Leishman leads by three in Dallas

Australian Marc Leishman takes a three-shot lead over Americans Jimmy Walker and J.J. Spaun into the second round at Trinity Forest Golf Club where hometown favourite and world number three Jordan Spieth is eight shots off the pace. (GOLF-BYRONNELSON/, expect first lead by 2330 GMT/7:30 PM ET, 400 words)

Caddies to let their clubs do the talking for a change

Fresh from working for winner Webb Simpson at the Players Championship last week, Paul Tesori will swap roles and swing for himself at the PGA Tour caddie tournament in Dallas on Monday. (GOLF-CADDIES/TESORI, moved, by Andrew Both, 500 words)

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Haven’t the nation’s soils been exposed enough to toxins?

Pornsil Patcharintanakul, Executive in charge of Animal Feed Operations at Charoen Pokphand Foods Plc, who is also the President of the Thai Feedmill Association of Thailand, along with Mr Pramote Tirapraiwong, President of the Thai Agro Business Association, a group of traders of hazardous pesticides and Mr Nipon Iamsupasit, President of the Thai Biotechnology Alliance Association, which was set up by multinational corporations that promote GM crops, have jointly issued a letter to the Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives opposing the Bill to promote and develop a sustainable agriculture system that is currently being drafted.

This draft legislation is aimed at increasing the area of land under sustainable agriculture to a total of 5 million rai (800,000 ha) by 2021. Thiswould see the expansion of various forms of sustainable agriculture, such as integrated cropping, organic farming, Thailand’s new theory agriculture, agroforestry, natural farming, etc. The Bill is consistent with both the 12th National Social and Economic Development Plan, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to which Thailand has declared its commitment.

Amongst those who have also signed their opposition to the draft Sustainable Agriculture Bill is Mr Anand Dalodom, former Director of the Department of Agriculture, who was behind past efforts to promote GM cotton by the Monsanto company. Other signatories include academics in the field of plant breeding who have written articles in support of switching from existing rice varieties, which can currently be planted and replanted by farmers, to hybrid varieties – which is a marketing strategy


favoured by the Charoen Phokphand company and certain transnational companies allowing them to dominate the rice seeds market in the same way as they have the maize seeds market - even though the yield of hybrid rice is not as high as the advertising would suggest, and farmers would have to buy seeds every growing season at expensive prices from these giant companies.

Mr Winij Chuanchai, another executive of the Jia Tai company in the Charoen Pokphand group explained that their opposition was because "the draft Bill will damage the growth and progress of the majority of the country’s farmers and violates the Thai Constitution".

The draft law is being promoted by the National Farmers Council and the National Economic and Social Development Council, and has been supported by MrJenny Was a Friend of Mine

Danny J. Simons | Love Cassandra Goodchild | Quintin Vale; , 2009

Quintin Vale; February 14, 2009

PERSONAL ACTION:

Quinn is going to look up Jennifer's funeral [using the last name Seth gave to him] and prepare to go to it. He will show up with flowers to leave at the grave site and looking generally disturbed. While trying to discuss who she was with any other mourners he will explain that he met her a short while before her death. He will apologize to her family, saying that he really thought she was going to see her mother and would be okay, he never thought Mark's death had her that distraught.

After the funeral he will go to the closest bar and drink himself into oblivion.

Influence


end of the two weeks, they get to play the song twice before the staff stops them.

ST Notes: It costs Pansy 300$ all told

Love Cassandra Goodchild; February 16, 2009

PERSONAL ACTION:

ACTUAL PERSONAL ACTIONS I

Goal: Cassandra/Columna is in a messed up mood. They will do a variety of messed up things to cope.

1. [Cassandra] Jennifer's Funeral

If at all humanly possible, Cassandra goes to Jennifer's visitation. (Funerals are usually during the day, but the whole looking at the preserved body in a coffin thing is usually at night.) She wears a black dress and a cross-hatched eye-liner veil drawn on a la Barbie in Neil Gaiman's "A Dream of You." She drags Pangloss along, kicking and screaming if necessary.

She talks to people, friends, family, etc... Cassandra introduces herself as a randomweird. Most people wouldn't have taken it like she did. She felt horribly grief stricken, but it was a brave sort of grief. Jenny - she mentioned that Mark wouldn't have wanted her to be miserable. She really seemed to honestly love him. They were one of those one in a million couples that were going to be 70 together and still act like honeymooners. She wasn't just realizing what she had had all along, only just grasping at it now that it was gone. She felt horrible because she knew she had it great. She did have it great, too."

"Sorry to be cynical about most relationships and all. I just got out of a bad one. I admit I was a little jealous when I talked to


her. I was just... I'd never seen somebody with this sort of quiet vibrancy. She was so... alive in spite of it all. She really hadn't felt alone until that exact day. She'd felt safe the whole time, even when he was in Iraq. Mark must've been a lucky guy."

"Maybe she was lying a little. People lie. I didn't think she was. She was confused, to be sure. She'd decided she needed to spend some time with her mother to sort things out. I feel horrible. I... I mean I'd asked if she'd needed a ride. If it had been me.... I mean..."

"[Not really lying anymore] Christ. I'm so sorry."

If necessary, she will burn her dot of Subterfuge and make hopeful commentary about how Jenny and Mark aretogether in heaven now... with Jesus and everything. Military people are probably religious like that and she wants them to feel okay.

Going over to look at her, she reflexively checks for an aura, knowing there won't be one. She unlatches Danny's marble from it's clasp and drops it into the casket - thinking to herself that Jennifer will get lonely with only her wedding ring to keep her company. She has plenty of marbles anyhow.

She tries to be as friendly and supportive as she can without edging into the unspoken spotlight reserved for people who actually knew this woman. She apologizes more times than she really needs to to Jennifer's mother.

2. [Cassandra] Bobo's Funeral

If at all humanly possible, Cassandra figures out who Bobo is and gets to his


well.

Influence Response:

You get thanks from his wife and an offer to come to dinner, which you politely decline, explaining that you have a strict diet to keep to or else health issues pop up. She also tells you when the viewing for his body will be. If you go, you will encounter Cassandra.

Danny J. Simons; February 24, 2009

PERSONAL ACTION:

Danny does some basic research into the Jenny situation by buying a newspaper on Saturday, on the off chance that she'll have been mentioned. Sie is looking for a last name and any other identification information. Sie also keeps an eye out for Seth Samuel's name.

Influence Response:

In the paper is an obituary, giving the time and date for her viewing. There's a nice little blurb on her past, the normalSTAMFORD, Conn. — Aaron Boone and Hensley Meulens are both intriguing candidates in their own right — easily deserving of top-2 consideration for the Yankees’ managerial vacancy, as colleague Bill Madden first reported Friday.

But the fans wanted Carlos Beltran, and he really did feel like a Home Run hire for the position given all the tools in his toolbox.

In the end, though, Beltran, 40, and Rob Thomson were both informed that they were out of the running.

It wasn’t necessarily a surprise that Beltran was eliminated, as he had no previous managerial or coaching experience and had literally just retired. Even Beltran himself was surprised he was asked to interview this soon after hanging up his spikes.

Why Yankees will name Hensley Meulens or Aaron Boone manager

Still, he definitely merits


for appellees Steve Lussier, John Lussier, Donald
Lussier and Steve Sorel.
     Christopher E. Hultquist, with whom DeLuca & Weizenbaum Ltd.
on brief, for appellees Officer Kim Carroll, Officer Nathan
Bagshaw, Sergeant Weller, and City of Cranston.
     Marc DeSisto, with whom Kathleen M. Daniels, and DeSisto Law
LLC on brief, for appellees Kevin Petit, and City of Warwick.
August 21, 2018
             TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.                 Jason Boudreau worked for

Automated Temperature Controls, Inc. (ATC), in Cranston, Rhode

Island.     His employers came to suspect that he was viewing child

pornography       at     Boudreau then brought a host of

claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the Electronic Communications

Privacy     Act    (ECPA),     18    U.S.C.        § 2511,   against     the    various

individuals who participated in the events leading up to and

following his arrest.             The named defendants, now the appellees,

included: ATC corporate president Steven Lussier, ATC co-owner

John Lussier, and ATC information technology manager Steven Sorel

(collectively, the "ATC Defendants); the City of Cranston and

Cranston Police Department Officer Kim Carrol, Officer Nathan

Bagshaw, and Sergeant Greg Weller (collectively, the "Cranston

Defendants"); and the City of Warwick


to Boudreau, and Detective Petit

responded that he wanted to examine that laptop as well.                        That

afternoon, Detective Petit spoke to John Lussier about Boudreau's

company laptop again.            John Lussier told Detective Petit that

Boudreau was out golfing with Steven Lussier, but that he would be

returning to ATC later on.           During this conversation, Detective

Petit   also    told   John   Lussier    that    he    had    become    aware                  -5-
dispatched    to   ATC    headquarters.       They   arrested   Boudreau   for

driving on a suspended license upon his arrival to ATC.

             After arresting Boudreau, the Cranston Police impounded

the   blue   Toyota      Corolla   in   which   he   had   returned   to   ATC

headquarters.      John Lussier also requested that the Cranston

Police impound Boudreau's green Ford Explorer, which he had left

parked at


state court to one count of possession of child

pornography, and was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.

                                        B.

             Boudreau filed a pro se complaint in the District of

Rhode Island on May 28, 2013, and amended it exactly three months

later.   His amended complaint contained five counts.              Count One

alleged Steven Lussier, John Lussier, and Steven Sorrel, along

        The answer may not be certain, but for all those wondering how to win the battle against a graying head of hair, perhaps winning a presidential election is the answer.

Photos of Obama before and after Election Day show a marked difference in the tint on his noggin.

President Barack Obama on Nov. 14, 2012

Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner was among those who noticed the change, writing, “President Obama’s re-election didn’t just put a bounce in his step. It appears that it also erased his gray hair. Appearing in the East Room Wednesday for his post-election press conference, the chatty Obama displayed a head of rich, black hair. Photos and even the White House live stream of the session showed no more gray. But just a week ago, at


the end of his campaign, the president had a head of salt and pepper hair with lots more gray.”

Ironically, on Oct. 25, when Mr. Obama cast his own early ballot, he was asked to show his I.D.Antoine Griezmann has said that he turned down a move to Barcelona because he did not like the thought of being “Lionel Messi’s lieutenant”.

The France international came close to leaving Atletico Madrid in the summer, with Barcelona among a number of clubs interested in signing him.

Griezmann eventually announced that he would be staying put in Madrid – with Messi playing a key role in his decision.

“Was it hard to refuse Barca? It was very difficult,” he told French TV station Canal+.

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Carlos Rogers was released as well. The holdovers from that Super Bowl team are Chris Culliver, Perrish Cox, Tramaine Brock, and C.J. Spillman.

Of those four, Culliver saw the most extensive playing time that year. Cox was the dime back and special teamer, Spillman was the third safety when the 49ers went with an extra safety, and a special teams ace, and Brock was almost exclusively a special teams player. Culliver was the third cornerback in nickel situations, moving into Carlos Rogers spot on the outside while Rogers went inside to the slot.

We haven't seen Culliver on the field since the start of last year's training camp. He suffered a torn ACL, and has been rehabbing it ever since. His last game experience was the Super Bowl, which wasa bit of a forgettable game for him. And really, a sizable chunk of the second half of the 2012 season was a bit forgettable. Culliver had a very solid rookie campaign, and was off to strong start in 2012, but he suffered some sophomore inconsistencies.

Culliver's ACL recovery has been fairly quiet, which hopefully bodes well for his return to the field. He took part in individual work during the last minicamp, but did not take part in team drills. He seems on track to join the team drills at the start of training camp, but we won't know for certain until camp actually starts.

Of course, off the field, things were not quite as smooth. Culliver was arrested for misdemeanor hit-and-run, with a felony brass knuckles possession charge


as well. He has a preliminary hearing scheduled for July 10. He is also facing a lawsuit as a result of the incident.

What to expect in 2014:

It is difficult to say for certain what to expect of Cully in 2014 because of the knee injury. The start of camp will mark a full year in his recovery. Vic Fangio has acknowledged Culliver's knee is a wildcard in fully evaluating where the secondary stands. If he is back close to 100 percent, he has the talent to be a very solid cornerback. He needs to clean up the inconsistencies, but he and Brock could pair up as a very solid duo. The question will be how confident Culliver is making the cuts with wide receivers. That will be aA Florida jury convicted Denise Harvey of five counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor in 2008. The victim was a boy on her son’s baseball team. Harvey assaulted the 16-year-old boy several times at his father’s home and her office. She faces a 30-year sentence she will likely not serve.

Why? She applied for and was granted refugee status in Canada.

I will repeat that: Harvey was convicted of sexually abusing a minor. She faces 30 years in prison. To avoid the prison sentence she filed for refugee status in Canada. Canada granted her request.

One more time: Canada granted refugee status to a convicted sex offender fleeing her sentence.

Here is the explanation for this embarrassment:

The Immigration and Refugee Board initially granted asylum to Ms. Harvey. In federal court


not apply here.

I wrote about Harvey in 2008 when she was convicted. I noted then that I was not sure if the 30-year sentence was the right call. Yet the quibbling over whether the sex was consensual is a moot point. The law states that the act is illegal regardless of whether the minor consented. That is the same language used in Canadian law. In other words, if one had consensual sex with a 15-year-old in Canada, it would still be illegal despite the minor’s consent.

Things were not that simple for Harvey’s application:

Canada’s Minister of Citizenship and Immigration then appealed to the Federal Court of Canada to overturn the decision. In a decision released in July, 2013, the appeal was granted and Ms. Harvey lost her refugee status.when he began college at UCLA in 2003, California was a uniquely friendly environment for undocumented students and after many communications with the school, he was able to pay in-state tuition.

"The process of me trying to figure out how I was going to fund my first year at UCLA dragged on until two to three weeks before I started," Mathay said. His family had to ask a friend of a friend to take out a private loan to pay for the first year, but he became a lawful permanent resident at 19 and was able to seek out other scholarships to complete college.

Now he works as a Daca law fellow at the National Immigration Law Center and has seen that while the legal process of attending college is


KAPURTHALA: A resident of Kala Sanghia village in Punjab, who had been working in Jordan for the last one-and-a-half years and had returned home late on Wednesday, set himself, his wife and their two children on fire at his home in the wee hours of Thursday. While NRI Kulwinder Singh, 35, died on the spot, his children succumbed to their injuries in hospital.

Kulwinder’s wife Mandeep told the police that they were being blackmailed by four persons of the village with a threat to make her objectionable video and pictures with someone public. After her statement was recorded, she also died on Thursday afternoon .

“Kulwinder’s mother and sister heard screams from his room around 4am. As they woke up, they found smoke emanating from the room. They raised analarm, following which neighbours broke open the door and took the four out,” said Kapurthala SP (investigation) Jagjit Singh Saroya.

While Kulwinder was already dead, his wife and children were rushed to Kapurthala civil hospital, where the kids died. Mandeep was then rushed to Jalandhar civil hospital, where her statement was recorded by a magistrate. “She told the magistrate that she was being blackmailed by four persons with her pictures and a video, and that they were threatening to put those pictures and video in public domain. She said Kulwinder threw petrol on her, himself and the two kids and set all four on fire,” Saroya said.

The SP said inquiries revealed that when Kulwinder was in Jordan, he received information that his wife had developed a relationship with a