early references to Coldwell in the Wakefield records.

Some interesting Coldwell people:

John Coldwell 1535-1596 Doctor of Medicine and Bishop of Salisbury, England. He had five children.

William Coldwell Born 1694 died aged 108. In 1760 he moved to Nova Scotia. 2000 ancestors born in NS.

John Coldwell 1788-1819. Convicted in 1813 and transported to New South Wales arriving July 1814.

William Edward Coldwell 1795-1867 Priest who became Presbendary of Litchfield

Name frequency

Distribution of the name

In the 1881 census for England and Scotland, there were 1311 individuals named Coldwell and 261 named Couldwell. The number in Yorkshire was 1048 and 61 in Lancashire with the balance of 463 spread around England and Scotland. In Yorkshire the greatest numbers of Coldwell families were in the Poor Law unions of Huddersfield, Wortley (Penistone area), Barnsley, SheffieldHopper & Freud

16th July, 2013

One way of looking at the American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967) is that he mirrored the psychological currents of the 20th century. Before Sigmund Freud wrote 'Mourning & Melancholia' (1917), Hopper's melancholic style was already established. His motifs were darkness and solitude in the city - and the black and white medium of etching, to which he turned his attention from 1915 onwards, lent itself particularly to such a mood. 'Night in the Park' (1921) is a lovely example.

Freud had visited America in 1912, and news and images of the Great War affected American thinking during that decade. Hopper himself, still single and unsuccessful, turned his attention from oil canvases to etching, which made more sense commercially.

In mid-life, like Freud, his creativity gained clearer


expression, and in 1923 he sold his first canvas 'Mansard Roof', which features a house with blank windows, Hopper's expression of the discomfort of emptiness.

Later, 'Automat' (1928), a most beautifully evocative and timeless work, shows a young woman alone in a coffee-shop. It's typical of Hopper that the painting fits the mood of the times, the girl's studious interiority in contrast to 'outside' - the flourescent light and large window behind her.

Hopper's paintings lure the spectator in, and then ask endless, unanswerable questions. However, this task is softened by the melancholic beauty of the scene. Her timelessness is exquisite. Can't we imagine her sitting alone in a cafe in Hoxton, with exactly the same concerns three-quarters of a century later? Is she lonely, tired or lost? Is sheAt least 16 self-proclaimed MS-13 gang members were transferred out of federal custody and into community placement centers across the country during the border surge in unaccompanied children from Central America in 2014, according to a new letter from the Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

It was unclear what happened to the members of Mara Salvatrucha, one of the most brutal transnational gangs in the world, and that’s why Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., wrote the Office of Refugee Resettlement on Tuesday demanding answers.

In 2014, the Obama Administration declared a humanitarian crisis after tens of thousands of immigrants flooded across the United States border.The dramatic increase in immigrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras overwhelmed border authorities at the time.

Fox News has now learned that


for UACs (unaccompanied children) to be released from their placement center while awaiting a court date. It is unclear from these July 2014 documents whether any of these self-identified UAC gang members were released,” Johnson wrote in his letter to the Office of Refugee Resettlement.

Johnson is now asking for a complete accounting of all UACs captured at the border who have self-identified as gang members since 2010.

He also wants to know if any of the gang members were released into communities in Virginia, Washington, Texas, New York and Oklahoma. The questions come as the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs holds hearings this week on the "The Rise of MS-13 and Other Transnational Criminal Organizations".

A spokesperson for the Administration for Children and Families told Fox News in," Miller muttered without looking up.

The man identified as Miller was in his early thirties. His sandy blonde hair was short, but unkempt, with streaks of dirt and blood though it. His left arm was in a sling that hung down below the table. His clothes were as dirty as his body. In fact, he looked more like a corpse than a man.

"You don't look so good, Miller," the officer working the camera told him, "do you want to do this later?"

"The sooner we get this over with," Miller grunted, "the sooner the record will be set and the safer I'll be. If they kill me after the whole mess is on public record they'll lose the chance to try to discredit me on the stand."

The cameraman nodded


after death."

"What is my new salary?" Miller asked him, though money wasn't the prime factor in him taking this job.

"$77,500," Jack Lewis replied, "Probably about double what you make now. And when you are undercover, you live off your various enterprises and us completely. Your salary will go into a special holding account until you are out of the life, just as you should have read in the paperwork."

"I take it this is a deep cover assignment?" Miller asked, still not knowing exactly what he was doing there.

"That's up to Tom Richter," he said, "This unit does both. Anyway, the risks are there on both types. Who would you like the benefit to go to? Your wife?"

"Hell no," Mike shuddered, "I don't want that bitch to get aMiller up and down, "Good. I knew you wouldn't lose your nerve. You even dressed for success, I see."

"Sounds like you have a job in mind for me," Mike replied, not feeling like making small talk, "Probably had one when you recruited me."

"That I did, my boy," Richter said with a big grin, "A job you were born for, Miller."

Richter tossed a folder onto the desk so that it slid into Miller's lap. Mike cocked his head in wonder and picked it up. Miller knew within seconds why he had been chosen for this assignment. The name on the folder said it all. Howard Bronson was the subject of the folder. Miller flinched as he opened the folder and looked at the photo of a man he knew


it was one of Charlie Bullock's operations we were trying to get into."

Miller nodded. It was starting to make sense. They had not just recruited him for his abilities and for the fact that he was newly without family. They wanted him because they knew he had a real animus towards Howard Bronson and would do anything to get him, or at least the people who controlled him.

Mike Miller was a little annoyed at the way that Richter was playing this situation. He thought that Richter should have brought Bronson in but knew that they were playing for bigger game. As far as they had known, Bronson was nothing but high-powered muscle, Charlie Bullock was the one that was calling the shots.

"So what do you want me towas the same sort of clothing that they released you with when you leave a military prison.

"Ok," Thomas Richter said as he looked Miller up and down, "Did you hand over all of your identification?"

"It's in my desk," Al said before Miller could respond, "He has a wallet with a dated military ID and a little bit of well-used cash, enough to party with tonight and maybe enough to pay his fine on Monday if he's lucky. He doesn't have to worry about finding a place to stay since he plans on getting arrested."

"Good," Richter said, "Is everything ready for his arrest?"

"Yes sir," Tracy said dutifully, this being her department, "Eric has gotten a list ready for Mike to make a choice from. Everyone else either has been


kid was unable to defend himself at this point, and Miller was still pounding on him when Al Martinez opened the cell door and rushed in with four guards behind him. It took him and another guard to separate the exceedingly pissed off Miller from the insane kid. The other three had to fight to keep the kid down on the ground, despite the fact that he should have had several broken ribs and other assorted broken bones.

"Get that kid under restraint!" Martinez yelled, "I'll take this one to interrogation room one. Have the medics look at Lupo, he doesn't look so hot!"

"Neither do you," Lupo muttered, though he was still a little peaked.

Mike fought a little bit, his adrenalin was still raging, but Martinez and the otherthat was Miller's first thought, "Everyone outside still thinks you're Ray Nester. Do you want me to keep it going or do you want out now?"

"It didn't go how I anticipated," Miller said, "But I think we got the desired effect. That is if Harry Lupo is all right."

"The medics said that he's going to be fine," Richter confirmed, "You probably saved the miserable bastard's life, unfortunately. What did he do to provoke the kid?"

"Nothing that I saw," Mike replied, clueless as to what had started it, "Unless I badly passed out, which I don't think I did. I still want to know what the hell that kid was on."

"PCP most likely," Richter said with a shrug and pulled out a cigarette, "He probably took it just before


the cops arrested him, which would explain why it took so long."

"Harry's ribbing probably set him off," he nodded, "He went at the kid harder than I did."

"What do you want me to do?" Richter asked him, "This probably wasn't a good start."

"Actually," Mike said with a wide grin, "Although I would never have planned it this way, this was probably the best result. I saved Harry Lupo's life. He's probably going to be pretty grateful."

"Possibly," Richter agreed, "But if you show up after this, he's going to be suspicious."

"I don't think I'll have to, Tom," Mike continued, "Put me through the system. I'm willing to bet that one of Lupo's mouthpieces will be there to get me out."

"You're a bit confident on that," Richter warned, "What makesthem.

"Memorize this number," Eric said and handed Miller a notepad with a telephone number on it, "That number rings four phones up on floor 13, one in each of our offices. It will be manned by one of the four of us 24 hours a day for the duration of this operation. If we have to leave to deal with other business, it will be forwarded to our cell phones. It also rings here, and there will be somebody here during most days and nights if you request it."

"Can it be traced to the department?"

"No," Eric continued, "Anyone tracing the line will get a sporting goods shop. There is a repeater at that shop that will send the call on to everywhere else. It's completely secure on our


the cash. Miller, annoyed at Harry because of the hassle, threw in an extra four grand in to pay for the hooker and for Eddie's trouble. He figured Harry would agree, or at least acquiesce to it. They had his 90K, plus some more, even after taking their own cuts out of it.

"Can you get home if you want to?" Mike asked Nick.

"I'll take a cab," he said, "It's not a problem. I may just crash on the couch up in Eddie's room anyway for tonight. I'm not sure I want to trust a hooker with this yet."

"Cool," Mike told him, "I'll go square with Harry and then I'm going to find a place for the night myself. Maybe even get my back looked at."

Nick nodded and wentand handed her a hundred dollar bill, "We've got us something to do. That goes for all of you ladies."

The girls feigned as if they cared and collected their money as they filed out of the room. Mike was curious, but he waited for Harry to sit down and tell them what the hell was going on. That never happened, however, Harry merely went to the door.

"Come on," he said like an excited child, "I've got a surprise. You'll especially like it, Ray."

Miller looked up at him, shrugged, and stood up to follow. Harry's mood was too good for it to be a bad thing against his new employee. The four of them went outside, and Harry looked at Miller. Miller figured he'd be the driver so he


his reaction was nearly the same. Miller had seen many people die over the years, and a large percentage of them had died like Eddie.

"The organs were damaged worse than I thought," Noyes said, "I repaired what I could that night, but I knew it was hit or miss then."

"I was right," Mike said softly, "He is dying."

"You killed him!" Nick cried in grief, "You fucking killed him!"

Harry and Mike held him back. Noyes understood. Working in conditions like he'd been working in for the previous years he'd seen this reaction more than once. Luckily he had Harry and the others there to protect him from Nick.

"He'll live another few hours," Noyes informed them and kept a wide berth from Nick, "Maybe a day. Probably not much longerfall?"

"No," Mike said vehemently, "There will be questions asked and they might try to match the bullets with the meth house."

"Shit," Harry said, "Why did he have to get shot like this?"

"Did you get all the bullets, Doc?" Mike asked Noyes, not remembering if any of them were still there.

"Not sure," he said, "I was never able to do a proper x-ray."

"Why?" Harry asked, "They can match him with DNA, can't they?"

"I'm curious to what you're thinking as well," Noyes asked.

"How hard would it be to remove all evidence that he'd been shot?" Miller asked him, already knowing the answer.

"Impossible," Noyes said, "Any good medical examiner would be able to ferret that fact out."

"Do you think you can at least remove all the bullets?" Miller asked, a plan


then get blood on her. She's going to become our patsy."

"The cops are never going to believe this," Harry chuckled.

"Sure they will," Miller replied, "The average cop is lazy. Give them a plausible story and they'll buy it, especially if it's a case they'd rather not deal with. Believe me this will fall into that category."

"You think it will work?" Nick asked.

"Sure," Mike replied, "She gets pissed and knifes Eddie up. Then, she washes up in the bathroom and comes out. She decides to snort up before leaving, but oh shit its pure coke. Dead as a doornail."

"I like it," Harry agreed, "Let's get it over with and get out of here."

Miller was regretting that the girl had to die, but Harry had already pronounced the death sentenceto try to block out the sound. He had only been sleeping for about seven hours, and he desperately wanted two or three more. The pounding was persistent; however, so Mike grudgingly dragged himself up and went over to the door to see who the asshole was. He was surprised to see that the asshole turned out to be Tom Richter himself.

Mike growled and opened the door for him. He then promptly went back to the bed and got back under the covers. Tom closed the door behind him and went wordlessly to the chair and sat himself down. Miller really was not particularly interested in being awake at that moment in time, and he made that perfectly clear to Richter.

"You look like hell, Mike," he said after


Mike asked him, not liking the sound of this.

Jerry came in with the shots and left the bottle of Stolichnaya on the table as well. He left wordlessly as quickly as he could. He did not want to know what was going on. Smart man, that bartender was. He knew how dangerous excess knowledge could be.

"Shot multiple times," Harry said with a nod and downed the vodka, "Sounds like our shooters were busy."

"Yeah," Miller agreed, "Any other information?"

"None," Harry said and poured another glass, "What do you think?"

"I think someone doesn't like us," Miller said with a shrug, "Have you let anyone else know?"

"No," he said with a sigh, "I think I'd better call Charlie."

"I think I'll drink some more," Nick said and reached for the bottle ofthe point that it was about to make a beeline to the scrap heap.

"Jeeze Harry," one of Bullock's main bodyguards said as he surveyed the damage, "What happened?"

"Someone decided to use us for target practice on the way over," He said with a shrug, keeping up appearances, "We're better shots."

"I heard what happened to the chop shop," the guy said, "Charlie's waiting to see you."

"Ok," Harry replied and then introduced everyone, "Ray, this is Matt D'Antoni. He's been working for Charlie for years. Matt, this is Ray Nester. He's the reason I'm still walking right now."

"Nice to meet you," Miller said, showing proper respect.

"Likewise," D'Antoni said with a nod, "Harry, what do you want me to do with the car."

"I don't know," Harry said, "What do you think,


only get Barry in to assess the damage," Harry grumbled, "Do you have any idea what he's been doing?"

"Not a clue," Mike shrugged, "We operate in separate spheres, remember?"

"I wish I hadn't split you two up so much," Harry groused, "But it was the only way I could use you without totally pissing off Barry."

"I don't think it worked," he chuckled, "He still resents it whenever I fix a problem even close to something he controls."

"He's hungry," Harry said, "He wanted my job years ago. But, I was too fast and got in ahead of him. I would have left him out in the cold except for the fact that Charlie told me to take him to keep the peace."

"Do you think he might be responsible for this?"on all the details about the mess on highway ten. He then told them about the meeting with Charlie Bullock and about his suspicions involving Barry Northrup. They were all intrigued by the idea, but they were also scared about what it could mean.

"Assume that your suspicion is right," Al put in afterwards, "What the hell would he have to gain?"

"It depends on how he goes about it," Mike told them, "If Barry continues to do little things and make Harry seem incompetent or ineffectual, he may be able to institute an overthrow."

"You call this little?" Tom asked me cynically, "Maybe this is warping you."

"In the grand scheme it is," Mike replied cynically, "It's the opening salvo. The one thing that makes the others hard to deal with."

"It


also weakened Harry's position by taking out his staunchest allies," Tracy said, "Whoever did this really put some thought into it."

"I'm still not positive that it's Barry," Mike cautioned, "Do you have the files on the crime scenes? I'd like to get an inside look at what's going on."

"Yes," Tracy said and slid the files over to him, "I figured you'd want these so I made a quick grab for them before I came over here."

"Just be careful how much you share," Richter warned, "Even Mozzio wouldn't give you that much information."

"I know," Miller said, "But if I can figure out who is doing it Harry won't care what information I used or where I got it."

"That's true," Al grinned, "I bet Harry doesn't want written reports likeonly identified the driver; a small time thug named Clinton Carpazzo. The weapons recovered were Steyr machine pistols that used the same type ammunition as the other killings.

"No word on who the others were?" Mike asked everyone.

"I checked on that just before you came in," Eric said, "Carpazzo was the only local. The others are probably out of town talent. It'll take a week to get ID's on them."

"Figures," Tom grunted, "What do we know about Carpazzo?"

"Small time hood that was on the fringes of the syndicate about fifteen years ago," Martinez said, "He pulled a bunch of stupid bullshit and was declared persona non grata. Evidently, he pissed off some of Charlie's subordinates, including Harry's predecessor. He'd been trying to find his way back into the life


Mike said, "Keep him locked up here as long as you can get away with, it'll keep him out of my way and lessen the chance that I'll blow my cover."

"Anything else I can do?" she asked him.

"Let Nick Jones out," Mike told her, "He didn't do it either. You know damn well none of us would have done anything that blatantly stupid."

"Harry was sitting there waiting for the officers though," Tracy said, "It was like he was daring them to pick him up."

"He expected the cops to show because of the killings," Miller reminded her, "This must have floored him, if he even knows yet."

"He knows," she said, "They've been going at him since 4pm trying to get him to release the whereabouts of the girl. He'sMike simply sat down there and waited. She left the door open so Mike could hear what was going on outside at least. Robbins was out there arguing with Tom Richter, Tracy, and a few others. Robbins was livid and wanted everyone arrested released. Tom was not budging on most of them.

Richter was very good at the game and convincing as a DA. He had the skill necessary to make Robbins go away thinking that he'd talked Nester and Jones out of custody. After the release had been agreed to, a couple officers went in and took the cuffs off Miller, telling him that his lawyer was outside. Miller grumbled and told the cops to let Robbins into the room and go away.

"How are you, Ray?" Robbins asked


letting you, Nick and a whole bunch of the others out."

"How about Harry?" Mike asked him, already knowing the answer.

"They are going to question him all night probably," he said, "I just wanted to check on you and Nick while they were taking a break."

"How's Nick holding up?" Mike asked.

"They've just about given up on him," Robbins chuckled, "It seems he spent a good part of the day drunk. I hear he even managed to throw up on one of the questioning officers."

"Good," Mike said, chuckling a little, "Serves them right. I guess he didn't tell them much either?"

"I'd say that was a good bet," he agreed, "Anyway, they'll let you out of here in a few minutes. If you have any contacts that can find that girl,cell phone to call the bar and find out the status there. He did not much care if anyone listened in on the conversation because he was in a police station anyway.

Nick slowly went through the procedures as the phone rang. Jerry picked up after two rings and greeted Miller in a drowsy tone. Mike thought it odd that he was sleeping at the bar but was not about to argue with good fortune.

"Jerry," Mike said over the phone, "It's Nester."

"Ray," he said, "Did they get you too?"

"Hours ago," Mike replied, "Don't remind me. They just let me out."

"Glad to hear it," he said, "How bout Harry, Nick and Jamie?"

"Nick is with me," Miller told him, "As soon as he's signed out we're blowing this joint."

"Harry and Jamie?"

"They're


"Two people who were loyal and would do whatever he told them. I found them for him, but didn't want to know what he was doing. I didn't know until later that they were taking the DA's kid."

"Who were they?" Mike asked, "And where did they take the kid?"

"Richard Bundy and Shawn Costello," Curletto said, though his strength was fading fast. The blood was flowing out faster than Miller had anticipated, "They are a strange pair, a Mutt and Jeff team. Not very bright though. I don't know where they took the kid. I haven't seen Barry since yesterday. I've just been keeping my head low. I don't know. Everything is just so strange..."

Curletto was babbling the last of his life away. He began babbling about his childhooddo you think?" Charlie asked the people in the room.

"He may have information," Eric said, "Maybe he knows what's going on."

"I still don't think Harry is this stupid," Max put in, "Word on the street is that Nester is Harry's troubleshooter. Maybe he's figured it out."

"Elise?" Charlie said.

"My guess lies with Barry Northrup still," the severe woman said, "Freddie warned you about saddling Harry with him four years ago. I'm betting that decision has now come back to haunt you."

"At any rate," Eric said, "We have nothing to lose by seeing the guy."

"True," Charlie said, "Elise, why don't you go observe this through the peephole. I don't want anyone I don't know to get this close to your arm of things."

"All right," she said, "I'll call in on


all connected. If it's disjointed, let me know. I haven't slept since well before the last time you saw me."

"Continue," Charlie said simply, "Eric, can you have the maid get the kid a cup of coffee."

"Sure," Roth agreed.

"The hit team that tried to kill us on the way here yesterday," Miller said while following instructions, "Was armed with similar pistols. The police have connected them to the other murders. The hit team yesterday was led by Clinton Carpazzo."

"I know that name from somewhere," Roth said.

"I don't," Max said.

"Truman Carpazzo's kid brother, right?" Charlie said, "No reason for you to remember, Max. Kirby wiped out the Carpazzos over a decade ago."

"Clinton Carpazzo was framed for murder," Miller rehashed for them, "He was released six weeks ago."

"So this whole thinga lot of your actions over the past months are making a lot of sense. Let me guess, you keep in contact with your laptop?"

"Exactly," Miller replied.

"That would explain why I couldn't get into it," she nodded, "I'd hoped to find evidence of criminal activity on it."

"I encrypted it well, thank you," he grinned, "Let's get this kid out of here. Can you scrape together enough clothing to cover yourself?"

"Give me a few seconds," she said, "Where is your car?"

"A ways from here," Miller replied, nodding in the general direction.

"I'll get the girl out of there and get myself dressed," she said, "Bring your car around."

"You're not going to run out on me, are you?" Mike asked her.

"No," she said, "I trust you for now. Besides, I wouldn't


been in the room that morning, and all the sheets were fresh and clean. There were a few moments of insecurity for both of them when they entered the bed. The dynamic was so different that neither one knew exactly how to handle it. Finally, she slid up close to him and snuggled up to him. She felt so small and so warm, yet very different from the way she felt in his arms the last time he had held her. They were both positive that this was going to be one hell of an improvement in their relationship.

She tried kissing him a little, but Miller's body had given all it had to give. Thirty-six hours of constant stress and action had taken their toll. He only managedtake that in the long run. Harry is big on the loyalty thing, remember."

"Well," Mike shrugged, "All we can do is move on. I think you and I proved our loyalty in the last few days."

"If it were up to him you'd officially have the job already," Nick said, "Hell, I'm glad you're getting it and not me. I'd rather not have to deal with the bullshit."

"Someone has to," Miller shrugged, trying to act humble, "Might as well be me."

"You going to get Jamie?" he asked, "He said he'd probably drop that task on you."

"Yeah," Miller nodded, figuring that Harry had maneuvered him into volunteering, "It's either that or watch Harry get high before he has to deal with Charlie."

"Yeah," Nick chuckled, "One of you has to stay


his fault that Northrup was an idiot."

"I still want you to get a little closer to him," Bullock told Elise, "Get a feel for the man, so to speak. Your report was good, but you still haven't met the man but once."

"If you like," she said, displaying a wicked smile, "It's been a while since I've had some fun anyway."

"Go ahead and talk to him," Bullock restated, "If you think he'll be amenable then bring him over here later and we'll talk about it with him, without Harry."

"Sounds fine to me," she agreed.

Roth and Bullock then began discussing some more mundane business, the type of thing that Steele had no patience for. She walked around the room, conscious of the dozen pairs of eyes following her every move.look and a gesture.

Miller picked up his drink and followed Elise to a table by the side of the room. Bullock had designed his party room well, with the tables off to the side just dark enough that you could see whom you were with. The desired effect of this being that nobody else could tell who was with whom.

"Nice spot," Miller said as he sat down, "Nice company too."

"Thank you, Ray," she said, "As I was saying before, there are some people who are worried about Harry."

"I figured," Miller nodded, "What can I do to help allay those fears?"

"Not my department," she said, putting her hand out in a stopping motion, "I'm just making conversation."

"Sure," he grinned, "I can think of more pleasant subjects to talk about


main one who's worried?"

"He's the most important of them," Elise reminded him.

"Gotcha," Miller said and silently finished dressing himself.

Her sexual needs fulfilled for the time being Elise Steele went back to her normal self, back to the ice woman. Miller followed her quietly back to the party, amazed at the way her manner so quickly changed. He knew that she was probably a pure sociopath, possibly even mildly psychotic. He hoped that he did not just complicate his job any further, though from the looks of things at that particular moment most likely he was only the toy of the moment for her.

The party was indeed beginning to wind down a little, though Harry was still out cavorting around with anyone who would dance with him. Elise andasked him.

"He's doing all right," Miller lied.

Miller silently reflected on this as he lined up another shot, this time on one of his two remaining solid balls. Harry Lupo had been falling further and further into addiction. His effectiveness was slipping to the point of being nonexistent. Miller was trying to take up the slack, but his management skills were not that great to begin with. Both Miller and Max Bullock knew that Harry's organization was falling apart. Mike took the shot and did little but moved the balls around.

"If you say so," Max shrugged, he knew better but knew that Miller had to remain loyal for a while, "Just keep doing your best."

"Will do," Miller nodded as he watched Max sink his remaining striped ball and set


starting up with him. He felt bad that he was not able to have the full on relationship with her that he felt she deserved. It was not as if he had anything close to a relationship with anyone else. Jade and he did little but sleep in the same bed since they realized each other's status and his encounters with Steele could be classified as little more than athletic events. Though neither Mike nor Tracy would ever bring the subject up it did create a void. It was sometimes a void that sometimes they had to try to fill.

"I know it isn't easy kiddo," Mike said, "But that's it in a nutshell. Sex could almost be too strong a word for what happens with Elise Steele. It'sfucking crazy, Harry?" Miller yelled, "Leave them alone. You've already hurt them enough for one night. Let's get out of here before the police show up."

"Witnesses," Harry mumbled, his insanity taking a different turn.

"You think that four more bodies will make this go away?" Miller asked him, "Come on, Let's go!"

Harry nodded and came a little closer to his senses. Miller wanted to do something for the family, but he couldn't afford to stay any longer. He quickly wiped the arms of the chair and the floor where he'd fallen. Miller looked at the family and at the body one last time before following Harry out the door.

Harry fled into his car and started the engine. Miller ran like hell down the steps and got to the car


not," Nick said and handed a white bag to Mike, "He's got a good stash of coke on him though."

"All yours Harry," Mike said and tossed the drugs to him, "Do you own this place?"

"Yeah," Harry chuckled, "Been using them to funnel cash for years."

"Nick," Mike said, "Go see if anyone is here. If not, jimmy the lock and get the keys to the tow truck."

Nick nodded and went off to the building. Miller then took a good look at Jamie for the first time. The kid was in bad shape. He had taken the brunt of the force of the accident, and it showed. From the looks of things, he was thrown into the steering wheel headfirst. Jamie's head was a mass of blood and contusions. Millernodded, "I'm sure Charlie is going to be a mite pissed that Jamie is dead, but that responsibility will fall on Harry too."

"You think this will work?" Tom asked to see whether Miller had confidence in his own plan.

"Depends on if they dump this on me like I think they will," Miller shrugged, "But the longer I wait the longer you have to wait."

"Then get moving," Tom grinned, "We'll be here all night. And here, take these."

Tom tossed Mike a set of handcuffs, complete with keys. Miller nodded and hugged Tracy before he left. He pulled the little car out of the drive and headed back onto the highway to go ruin the nights of several powerful men. Tom and Tracy stood there and watched him as he


this again, it won't be the boss we're burying, but you. That comes directly from Freddie, ok?"

"Yes," Eric said with a gulp.

Roth had been Charlie's closest friend and associate for many years, but his propensity to dabble in underworld politics had annoyed him for years. This was not the first situation Roth had mucked up, but it was certainly turning out to be one of the most serious. Charlie decided that he'd had enough of it.

Meanwhile, Max and Mike went back up to his apartment for a few minutes. Miller was itching to get moving, but Max wanted to have a drink first. Miller decided to humor his new boss before going to deal with Harry.

"What's your poison, Ray?" Max asked from behind the bar.

"Ginger ale," Miller said,the older, uglier one asked.

"Positive," Miller scowled, trying to stem the nausea from the thought.

"You heard the man," Nick said, "Get out of here."

"Wait a minute," the same one said, "What about our money? It's not our fault that he couldn't get it up!"

"Here," Miller growled and handed them a hundred dollar bill each, "Get your ugly ass out of here. If I see you again, the cops will find that bill shoved up your asshole when they find your body."

The girls were out of there like a shot. Miller felt nothing about threatening them like that, knowing that it would be in their minds that he would do it. He knew he would not, but a little fear never hurt to keep things in control. He then


looked at the sleeping form of the once powerful mob boss, the man he had been told to eliminate.

"What now?" Nick asked.

"This," Miller said and pulled out the pair of handcuffs.

Nick watched in awe as Miller went over to Harry and quickly cuffed the sleeping man. Miller tossed Nick the keys and told him to go get ready to open the back door. Miller wanted to get this done quickly.

"Make sure there's nobody there," Miller told him.

Mike dragged Harry out to the door, luckily not waking him up. Nick gave Miller the ok sign and he quickly dragged Harry out to the Neon. Nick opened the back door and they tossed Harry into the seat. Mike went back into the room and took the linens from the bed,going to have to yank anyone who's at risk, no matter what we do about Miller's cover."

"I'll get that list together," Eric said and turned to his computer, starting the music again.

Tracy was still crying on Mike's shoulder after a few minutes. He simply held on to her for a while. He stroked her hair slowly kissing the top of her head a little. It took her a while to get the crying out of her system. She had kept a torch for this man for several years, and now hearing his voice again she knew that he had lied to her. She realized that he had lied to everyone.

"How could he do it?" She bawled to Miller, "How could he do this to me? How could he


make me have to pull the plug. Then, I can go back and become a normal person again."

"At least as much of a normal person as you can be after confronting scum this close," Tom said, "Much as you hate to admit it, Mike, you'll never be the same again."

"That's a good thing," Miller grinned, "But there's a difference between being the same and living normally. I'd sort of like to be able to live without a gun under my pillow."

"Wouldn't we all," Tom chuckled, "My wife still gets annoyed by the fact that I still can't sleep without a gun in the bedside table."

"Have you got everything ready, Eric?" Miller asked to change the subject.

"Audio is ready," Eric said, "So is the film. Just need a guestthe scars altered or removed, but had never found the time to do so. His only hope was that they didn't have anything on him other than a minor traffic incident. There was nothing against the law about disappearing.

"That doesn't change anything," Price shrugged, "You have nothing on me."

"Sure we do," Martinez said, "Eight counts of assault. Seven robberies. Fifty-two counts of racketeering. I'm sure we'll come up with more when we reopen your undercover record."

"Never stick," Price sneered, "I have immunity for that stuff."

"You never were very good on the details, Frank," Tracy said, "You never did read the fine print either. Every single one of those immunity agreements has a standard rider. If you go over to the other side, all of them are null and


this," Nick said, "Killing a crook is one thing, they're usually asking for it. But killing a cop is bad."

"What do you want me to do about it?" Miller asked.

"We could let him go?" Nick asked hopefully.

"I don't know about that," Miller sighed, "I don't think I'd particularly care to have that psychotic bitch pissed at me."

"There's got to be a way around it," Nick asked, "If we kill this guy and he's a cop, Steele will have us locked for life."

"I need to have a talk with this guy," Miller said, trying to figure out how to use Nick's reluctance to his advantage, "Go upstairs and keep an eye out for Elise and Bowen."

"Why?" he asked suspiciously.

"I want to find out who he is before we decideElise had left them with. Miller took a sheet with him from the downstairs and put it into the back seat, to keep it from getting covered with Kane's blood. Mike also took the description list with him, figuring that Tom Richter could use it to decide which agents he had to pull.

They drove out of the area and found a pay phone. Miller instructed Nick to stay with the guy in the car while he called his 'army buddy' to set up a meeting. Mike made a show of dialing information and getting a bogus number, then he dialed the PCS number Martinez had given him.

"Alice's wonderland," Al grumbled, "How may I help you?"

"It's me," Miller said, "I've got a situation."

"Shoot," Al said, instantly alert.

"That's what I'm


Nick asked.

"Ted Bundy," Mike said, "He burned out and was finally caught. John Gacy pretty much had the same thing happen. Jerry Healy was stopped by his own brother at the end of his killing spree."

"Christ," Nick muttered, "What do we do?"

"Endure," Mike said bitterly, "Don't piss her off and you'll be fine."

"I'm more worried about you," Nick said, "You're actually sleeping with her?"

"With one eye open after this afternoon," Mike nodded, "I'm willing to bet I'm in for one hell of a workout as soon as I go into the room."

"You sure you want to fuck her after that?" Nick asked.

"No," Mike said honestly, "But it beats becoming her next victim."

"True," Nick conceded as the elevator came to a stop.

"Wish me luck," Mike said as he steppedthings, but in a civilized discourse there is nothing that could be considered consensual about what happened in the room that afternoon. He performed for her and made her happy. When they were done they collapsed in a heap on the bed, with Mike rolling off to the side as best he could.

She no longer cared by then, content in the black recesses of her mind. Mike finally retreated to the easy chair and smoked a quick cigarette. Now more than ever he longed for the loving embrace of Tracy, or at least the healthy sexual vibe he had with Jade. He also realized that he probably had a good idea what a rape victim felt like.

Chapter Forty-Three – October 29, 2000 – Afternoon

Mike, Nick and Elise stepped


suppressed a mild chuckle. He then noticed that a car was coming up the road.

"Stay cool, Nester," Stockton said as he headed out to meet the car.

The cheap import pulled over about twenty yards from where Miller was still sitting on the ground. A self-important man in a three-piece suit stepped out of the car and looked around nervously.

"Why are we meeting out here?" the man demanded, "This is in the middle of nowhere."

"Stow it, Adler," Stockton said, "You don't expect us to take care of business in the city do you?"

"Christ!" Scott Adler said, "You brought me here to see that?"

"No," Stockton said and motioned towards Miller, "I brought you here to see him."

"Who's he?" Adler asked.

"Not one of yours is he?" Stockton asked him.

"No," Adler shrugged.

"Good,"fanfare.

Stockton instinctively went for his gun, but was stopped by Miller pushing him down onto the hood backwards. Mike used the tire iron to brace across Stockton's neck and used his left hand to pull out his weapon. Stockton looked pissed, but said nothing. He knew that if Miller had intended to kill him he would already have done so.

"I'm not a cop," Miller said to him, "But I am a human being. If you ever bring me to see something like this again, I will kill you, just like I did that son of a bitch. If you ever pull a gun on me again you damn well better be prepared to use it. Because if you don't, I'll take it away from you and shove it


he knew that Ray Nester was a valuable man to the organization. Scott Adler had already pretty well served his purpose. He was worried about this perceived morality streak in Nester, however.

"What do we do with the body?" Miller asked him.

"Leave it," Stockton said, "Doc will take care of it along with the others."

Miller kept the gun, but the tension dropped as they got back into the car. They were silent as they drove back to the mansion. Stockton briefly considered trying to disarm Miller, but decided that it was safer to just let him go back to the mansion. Miller was considering whether to bolt and run or whether to try to bluff his way out of this one.

Seeing Jade's death brought the possibility of death closersaid, "I don't apologize, but I see where he's coming from."

"Next time he gives you the order," Tracy said, "Take it, ok?"

"Yeah," Mike nodded, though he was going to continue to follow his own instinct on that.

Mike proceeded to get dressed and look out the window. He saw kids playing out on the street and people moving around through the snow that had fallen the day before. He was torn on whether he wanted to go back, but he still had the strong desire to see things to the end.

Tracy walked up behind him, despite the fact that she was not wearing anything at all. Mike smiled as she wrapped her arms around him and dragged him away from the window. Perhaps he did not need to get


said abruptly, cutting him off.

"What did you say?" Twombly said, doing a double take.

"Lisa Catherine Collins," Miller said, standing up and looking at the agent, "Better known in lower class circles as Jade."

"What are you proposing?" Twombly asked him.

"I'll tell you what happened to her," Miller said, "I'll even tell you who did it."

"What do you get out of this?" he asked suspiciously, "How do you even know about this?"

"Pictures," Miller said, "I want confirmed pictures of Frederick Pena. As for how I know, let's say I was on rather intimate terms with her."

"Jesus!" Twombly exclaimed, "You don't want much do you? It cost us three agents to get those pictures!"

"And he's cost both of us much more than that," Miller agreed, "I'll give you the information onwhile. Your job is pretty well finished, even if Max and Charlie survive it."

"I know it," Nick said, "I just don't want a hit put out on me."

"My brother is running a joint across town," Tony said, "Why don't you go with him for a bit. If Max asks I'll tell him that Matt needed another hand and figured you'd do more good there."

"All right," Nick agreed, "Thanks, Tony."

"No problem," he said, "I guess I'd better go look in on the meeting."

"Good luck," Nick said, "You'll need it."

Nick went off and left Tony standing there wondering. Tony shook his head and walked back into the mansion. He heard shouting coming from the office and hurried over to the door to take a closer look. Charlie, Max and Fred


a truck and rolled over to the other side.

The two men were looking for Martinez in the wrong place. Martinez managed to get up and fired three well-aimed shots into the first one of the goons. The man in the black suit fell down backwards, prompting his partner to turn around and fire a stream in full automatic.

Martinez fired two more shots at the man and did a side roll to avoid the stream of bullets. He was not entirely successful, taking two in his right leg as he rolled. He screamed as he did this, but his opponent was not screaming at all. Al's second shot at him had hit him just under the nose, killing him instantly.

Martinez breathed a sigh of relief as he realized hehad won the battle, but then realized that it was not a victory at all. Pena and company still had Tracy Howard in their hands. He also knew that he was not going to be happy to see what happened when Mike Miller found this out as well.

Martinez heard sirens approaching and put his gun down on the ground. He was bleeding and had two corpses to explain. He figured he could wait three minutes for the sirens to reach him. He only hoped that Tracy would be able to wait that long as well.

Chapter Fifty-Five – December 30, 2000 – Mid Evening

Mike Miller almost ran into the emergency room, but Tom held him back a little. Eric Craig walked slowly behind them, not really looking forward to


Eric asked, "Unless we've been compromised somehow?"

"Not likely," Martinez said, "They didn't even try to take me."

"How many women do we have working?" Tom asked Eric.

"In the undercover operation?" Eric asked, "Three including Tracy."

"Tracy was in Pena's book," Miller said, "That's why they took her."

"They figured that taking a woman would push the right buttons," Richter agreed, "They want you to go after her. They're probably planning on taking you out."

"They're welcome to try," Miller said, "I'll take out more of them than they can of me."

"You're talking crazy, Mike," Richter said, "You can't do this."

"I have to do this," Mike said, "I can't let them kill her."

"You can't do it, Mike," Eric said, "You go and play cop with them you will get killed."

"I don't care aboutdown who did a snatch that we didn't sanction."

"I didn't have nothing to do with it," D'Antoni said, "They just said they needed vans, so I gave them to him."

"Who?" Miller asked.

"Who else?" D'Antoni asked, "Pena's boy. Stockton. He had two more of those scary blacksuit dudes with him. I didn't want to give the vans away, but they sort of made you feel like it wouldn't be a good idea to refuse; you know?"

"Where did they come from?" Miller asked, "And did they bring the vans back?"

"Shit no," D'Antoni said, "I don't even want to know what happened to them. I had my people wipe them down before I handed them over. One of Stockton's goons drove the van and Stockton followed them. Haven't seen them since


and don't particularly want to either."

"What was Stockton driving?" Miller asked.

"Rented Mercedes," D'Antoni said, "It had the logo for Hertz on it. Why are you asking me this? I thought Stockton was one of us?"

"He is," a new voice said, "It's Nester that isn't."

Miller turned around and saw Fat Tony D'Antoni standing by the door, flanked by two of Bullock's bodyguards from the mansion. Fat Tony was looking exceptionally fat holding an undersized peashooter aimed at Miller. The others were not even holding guns at all.

"Jesus Christ!" Matt yelled.

"He wants nothing to do with it," Miller mumbled as he leaped over D'Antoni's desk and did a forward roll on the ground.

Pandemonium broke out in the room then. Fat Tony let off three shots, all going wild except forasked.

"It was an assignment, Nick," Mike said, "My job was to get in and get as much information as possible. The goal originally was just to bring down Harry."

"I guess that got twisted a little," Nick frowned, "Seeing as you killed Harry and all. How did you get away with that?"

"What makes you think he's dead?" Mike chuckled.

"What?" Nick asked, "He isn't..."

"Not even close," Miller told him, "He's currently doing time in an isolation cell in ADX Florence. He folded quite quickly when I played the tape of Charlie ordering the hit."

"You recorded that?" Nick asked, dumbfounded at the idea, "You really are a crazy mofo."

"I'm a crazy SOB for sticking around after Jade was grabbed," Miller said, "That one almost brought me down."

"Was she working with you?"


seat of the car and fell promptly to sleep, praying that things held up until he could actually get in to save her.

Chapter Fifty-Eight – December 31, 2000 – Noon

After a successful foray in taking out the stock of the local arms dealer, Mike and Nick pulled up behind the storefront that had been used for the office. They went upstairs carrying a whole crate of weapons and ammunition. Eric Craig jumped when he saw what they were lugging.

"What the hell?" Eric asked, "Who is he, Mike?"

"Eric Craig," Miller said, "Meet Nick Jones."

"Pleasure," Nick said.

"Likewise," Eric said, looking at the other man carefully, "What the hell is going on?"

"Nick has decided to join our side," Mike chuckled, "He saved my ass last night. I nearly blew it."

"Ok," Ericroof," Tom suggested, "Its over. You're safe now."

"How is Tracy?" Mike asked.

"I don't know," Richter said honestly, "I didn't have time to look. I was more worried about what was happening to you. I left Eric down there to take care of that. The ambulances should be here by now. From the looks of your arm, you could use one of them."

"Just a scratch," Miller shrugged, still in shock a little, "Some peroxide and a couple stitches. No more than that."

The line of officers parted as Richter helped Miller down the stairs. The physical tension and strain had taken their toll on Miller physically. He looked drained, both physically and emotionally. He limped his way through the room and went to the office where Tracy had been.

She also


Nick Jones was smiling at him, sitting down in the front row with his new girlfriend while wearing his patrolman's uniform. He had passed the academy months earlier (with heavy Tutoring from Miller) and was a rookie officer in Miller's own precinct.

Harry Lupo was sitting in the glass holding cage, waiting for the transport back to ADX Florence. He looked at Miller with a blank stare, not sure how to feel about the man. If he had been free, he would probably have tried to attack Miller. The only thing keeping him from this was fear of the needle and the thick wall of plexiglass.

The looks he got from Charlie, Max and Eric Roth were purely undying hatred. To them, he would forever be a traitor on theTen Democrats will take the stage tonight in the party’s fifth debate, and while South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg may have climbed to the front of the pack in early state polls, on a national level, former Vice President Joe Biden and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren remain the first choices for the largest share of Democratic primary voters.

The latest Economist/YouGov Poll suggests that the impeachment hearing – and President Donald Trump’s criticism of Biden and request to have Ukraine investigate Biden’s family may be helping Biden –- at least among Democrats.

In the last week, Biden has picked up four points and Warren has lost four among Democratic primary voters; the percentage considering Biden has risen nine points. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and Buttigieg are further back, with the


Why Was It Poland That Led The European Revolt Against ACTA?

from the understanding-history dept

In retrospect, it is now clear that the pivotal moment in the campaign against ACTA was last January, when thousands of people took to the streets in Poland despite the sub-zero temperatures there. A few weeks later, similar protests took place across the continent, especially in Eastern Europe, which then influenced politicians at all levels, culminating in the rejection of ACTA by the European Parliament on July 4.

It describes how books, music, and movies circulate among Poles who sometimes buy them, but more often than not acquire them via the Internet and borrow or copy them from friends.

Interestingly, according to the publication's introduction, the document itself played a role in the ACTA debate when itfirst appeared (in Polish) in January 2012:

The publication took place at the height of the debate on ACTA and became an important element in public debates on
copyright and regulation of online circulations of content.

One reason why it may have provoked discussion is because of the terminology it uses:

this is not a report about "pirates" that conduct illegal activities, but rather about people who engage in informal content sharing practices.

As the report's authors explain:

abandoning the simple legal-illegal binary has yet another reason. The goal of this report is to foster real dialogue on the issue of acquiring cultural content in Poland. The overuse of labels such as "piracy" or "theft" will not improve the chances of establishing such dialogue. An opposition between "formal" and "informal" is in our opinion


The World of Edena, the first volume in Dark Horse's Moebius Library, is part adventure and part spiritual. Back in the early 1980s, Moebius discovered the tiniest gem of a much larger story in a comic that was basically a promotional comic for French car salesmen. Moebius is maybe one of the only cartoonists who could take a paying gig for a company like Citreon and turn it into the opening chapter of a cycle of stories about how the late 20th century humanity has disconnected itself from everything pure and good that came before. Starting with the short story “Repairs,” Moebius discovers Stel and Atan, two very plain and non-sexual repairmen who have to fix the fantastic machines of the future. “Repairs” is very much a MoebiusA Concert for Willis

On Tuesday April 29th, the sounds of live jazz rang out in the Voice of America auditorium. A concert was held to celebrate a studio dedication in honor of our own legendary Jazz producer and broadcaster Willis Conover.

Two groups were featured, the U.S. Navy Band Commodores and yours truly, Heather Maxwell and my trio. The video clip below features our performance and is introduced by VOA Music Director Eric Felton, an accomplished jazz musician himself.

Russian bassist, Victor Dvoskin opens our set with a powerful personal narrative about his special relationship to Willis followed by the instrumental “Just Squeeze Me.” Robert Jospé is on drums and Bob Hallahan on keys. I then join the guys to sing “Autumn Leaves”, “Cry Me A River”, “Girl From Ipanema”,


and “Body and Soul”.

It felt fabulous singing on this occasion for my fellow VOA colleagues and with my cats. I regularly gigged and toured with them in Virginia from 2006-2010. As a true American art form, jazz is a historic and living treasure.

After our performance, we heard from our esteemed Director David Ensor and then watched this VOA documentary produced especially for the occasion. It tells the story of how Willis Conover’s daily VOA broadcast “Jazz Hour” was the driving force behind the explosion of jazz worldwide. For many, Conover’s American jazz was the only exposure to music from the West. It was especially meaningful for those like Victor Dvoskin who tuned in from from his basement behind the Iron Curtain.

The U.S. Navy Band Commodores played the afternoonCameroon not long ago and appeared on a few radio and tv programs. What an exciting place. Stay well.
Heather

About

Heather Maxwell produces and hosts the award-winning radio program “Music Time in Africa” and is the African Music Editor for the Voice of America. Heather is an ethnomusicologist with Doctorate and Master’s degrees from Indiana University specializing in African Music. She is also an accomplished jazz and Afrojazz/Afrosoul vocalist and has been working, researching, and performing in Africa and the U.S. since 1987.


According to the latest analysis, more employment chances will open up for jobseekers in UAE in 2019, as corporate heads are feeling more and more convinced about their company’s growth possibility.

According to recruitment specialist Robert Half, in 2019, the most in demand professionals will comprise of IT security analysts, personal assistants, systems administrators, as well as those with accomplishment and experience in accounting and finance professionals.

Other hiring experts stated that skills that would be high in demand at the present moment and potentially to remain the same following year are data scientists and analysts, project managers, digital and cyber security experts. There are also chances for job-hunters looking towards land administration and support roles.

Robert Half has recently surveyed Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in the UAE, and the majorityPhotographs of Smith Rock State Park, Terrebonne, Oregon.

The first time I went hiking at Central Oregon’s Smith Rock State Park, I was shocked that it had not somehow become a national park. I realize that the acreage is on the small size for a National Park, but the scenery is absolutely stunning. Smith Rock’s vertical spires trump virtually any rock formations outside of Southern Utah. With impeccable views of the Oregon Cascade Mountains, and the Crooked River meandering below, the setting is sublime. To top things off, Smith Rock State Park typically offers impeccable people watching opportunities as the park is a favorite rock climbing destination for rock climbers from around the world.

The above Photograph of Smith Rock was taken this past summer from near the viewpoint where


the trail from the parking lot descends into the Crooked River Canyon far below. This image has the summer desert feel I was looking for in a new Smith Rock Print.

This image taken at the northern end of Smith Rock State Park is a long time favorite of mine. The wonderful contrast between the delicate sulfur flowers and an aging sagebrush in the foreground and the stunning pinnacles of the Christian Brothers rock formations in the background manage to beautifully captured the variety and textures of Smith Rock.

This image of a lichen covered juniper snag embodies the rugged nature of the smith rock area. Because Smith Rock receives very little rainfall and summers can be scorching hot(by Bend area standards), life is hard for plants and animals inALEXANDER GOTTLIEB BAUMGARTEN (1714-1762), German philosopher, born at Berlin. ' He studied at Halle, and became professor of philosophy at Halle and at Frankfort on the Oder, where he died in 1762. He was a disciple of Leibnitz and Wolff, and was particularly distinguished as having been the first to establish the Theory of the Beautiful as an independent science. Baumgarten did good service in severing aesthetics (q.v.) from the other philosophic disciplines, and in marking out a definite object for its researches. The very name (Aesthetics), which Baumgarten was the first to use, indicates the imperfect and partial nature of his analysis, pointing as it doesto an element so variable as feeling or sensation as the ultimate ground of judgment in questions pertaining to beauty. It is


LOS ANGELES -- In a wholly unprecedented move, Kevin Spacey is being cut from Ridley Scott's finished film "All the Money in the World" and replaced by Christopher Plummer just over one month before it's supposed to hit theaters.

People close to the production who were not authorized to speak publicly said Wednesday that Plummer is commencing reshoots immediately in the role of J. Paul Getty. All of Spacey's scenes will be reshot, the people told The Associated Press. Co-stars Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams are expected to participate.

Scott, who is known to be an efficient director, is intending to keep the film's Dec. 22 release date. As of Wednesday, the trailer with Spacey was still live on Sony Pictures' YouTube page.

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Representatives forScott did not immediately return email messages seeking comment.

The film was originally set to have its world premiere at the AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Nov. 16 but was pulled earlier this week amid the sexual harassment reports surrounding Spacey, who has also been fired from "House of Cards" and dropped by his talent agency and publicist.

On Wednesday, former Boston news anchor Heather Unruh said that in 2016, Spacey sexually assaulted her then-18-year-old son in Nantucket.

Fighting back tears, she said her son was a "star-struck, straight, 18-year-old young man who had no idea that the famous actor was an alleged sexual predator, or that he was about to become his next victim."

"To Kevin Spacey, I want to say this," Unruh told reporters. "Shame on you for what


you did to my son."

The former anchor claims Spacey bought her son several drinks, and eventually stuck his hand in his pants and grabbed the teen's genitals without consent in the crowded, dimly lit club.

"All the Money in the World" was primed for a plush awards season release from distributor Sony Pictures Entertainment and its advertising campaign, which prominently features Spacey, has been public for about a month already. But its plans have been in question since Spacey's reputation has diminished over the past week with harassment allegations growing daily.

The film chronicles the events surrounding the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and his mother's attempt to convince J. Paul Getty, his billionaire grandfather, to pay the ransom.

The 87-year-old Plummer was reportedly Scott's first choice for therole of J. Paul Getty, but the director was pressured into casting a bigger name. Plummer is probably best known for "The Sound of Music." He won his first Oscar in 2012 for the film "Beginners."

One of the people close to the production said that Scott's plan caught Sony by surprise, but the studio is supporting the switch.

The trade publication Deadline first reported the news.


History on Cavs side with Kevin Love trade

For the Cavaliers, adding a signature piece to the cast for James was a no-brainer.

By Special to the UT, Ivan Carter
| 12:36 p.m.Aug. 23, 2014

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012, file photo, Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Love, left, and Chicago Bulls' Joakim Noah battle for the ball during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Minneapolis. The Timberwolves, Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers completed a blockbuster trade sending Love to team up with LeBron James in Cleveland for 2014 No. 1 draft pick Andrew Wiggins on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, a person familiar with the trade said. The Timberwolves are getting Wiggins and former top pick Anthony Bennett from Cleveland and veteran forward Thaddeus Young from Philadelphia. The 76ersget a 2015 first-round draft choice from Cleveland, and guard Alexey Shved and forward Luc Mbah a Moute from Minnesota. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
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FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2012, file photo, Minnesota Timberwolves' Kevin Love, left, and Chicago Bulls' Joakim Noah battle for the ball during the first half of an NBA basketball game in Minneapolis. The Timberwolves, Cleveland Cavaliers and Philadelphia 76ers completed a blockbuster trade sending Love to team up with LeBron James in Cleveland for 2014 No. 1 draft pick Andrew Wiggins on Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, a person familiar with the trade said. The Timberwolves are getting Wiggins and former top pick Anthony Bennett from Cleveland and veteran forward Thaddeus Young from Philadelphia. The 76ers get a 2015 first-round draft choice


from Cleveland, and guard Alexey Shved and forward Luc Mbah a Moute from Minnesota. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

A deal that was in the works throughout the 'Summer of LeBron James' was ultimately finalized Saturday with the Cavaliers acquiring Kevin Love as the key piece in a three-team deal which sent No. 1 overall pick Andrew Wiggins to Minnesota along with 2013 first-overall pick Anthony Bennett.

For the Cavaliers, a franchise which has never captured a title and is on a two-year clock to win as much as possible before James can sign a new contract in Cleveland or elsewhere, this was an absolute no-brainer.

Former Chicago Bulls General Manager Jerry Krause is often mischaracterized as having once said “organizations win championships.” What Krause actually said was, “Players and coaches alonedon’t win championships, organizations win championships.”

Krause was right. And many of them did it by trading for a star player in his prime.

In 1995, Dennis Rodman was a freak show channeling Wesley Snipes with a goofy blonde hairdo while playing for the ultra-conservative Spurs. Krause and the Bulls pounced, landing one of the greatest rebounders and defenders in NBA history in exchange for Will Perdue and cash.

With Rodman doing the dirty work, like defending Shawn Kemp and Karl Malone, Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen added three more rings to their fingers between 1995-96 and 1997-98 while playing some of the most beautifully dominant hoops we’ve ever seen.

In 2007, Kevin Garnett was much like Love: playing superstar level basketball with a floundering Timberwolves franchise. Celtics general manager Danny Ainge


worked a deal with his former teammate Kevin McHale - then the Wolves GM - and landed one of the best big men in NBA history for a package which included Al Jefferson and spare parts.

The Celtics, who also picked up Ray Allen from Seattle that summer, went on to win an NBA title and play for another with Garnett in the green and white.

In 2008, Pau Gasol was an All-Star talent stuck on a Memphis Grizzlies team which was good but in no way set up to ever break through the talent-packed Western Conference. In stepped the Lakers, who acquired Gasol for a package which included his younger brother, Marc.

With a skilled big man who could pass, score and rebound, Kobe Bryant and the Lakers rolled toin this chamber overnight and prepared an extra outer tank with egg water before the experiment. On the morning of the next day, the plastic sheet was removed and the fish began to mate. Once the female began to spawn eggs, the male and female were quickly separated by the plastic sheet and the inner tank was immediately transferred to the prepared extra outer tank. The synchronic eggs were collected immediately from the original outer tank and subjected to treatment or injection at indicated stages. Another batch of synchronic eggs can be collected by removing the plastic sheet again when convenient and repeating the procedure described above. In order to get sufficient synchronic eggs, the male and female fish were raised separately for more than a week before


snow condition was "good."

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Men's downhillVenezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro announced on Wednesday that five zeros will be removed off the currency. The announcement comes at a time in which hyperinflation has made the country’s currency nearly worthless.

Maduro said during a meeting with other government officials that the monetary changes will begin on August 20. He mentioned that five zeros will be knocked off the currency. The president had originally said that three zeros would be removed off the currency. The previous changes were coming with new bills that were scheduled to begin circulating in early August.

Maduro explained that the new changes will ease transactions and protect the currency. The president often blames the economic crisis on an economic war created by the opposition and the US. He has also blamed gangs for taking


the currency to neighboring countries such as Colombia.

The announcement on Wednesday is one of the many that the government has made on currency in recent years. Back in late 2016, the government announced the removal of the 100 Bolivar bill, which made up a high percentage of the country’s currency. The announcement brought long lines to banks and protests from those who couldn’t exchange the bills in time.

The removal was delayed several times by the government. The 100 Bolivar bill is now worthless but the government recently released a similar bill that is much higher. After that, the government announced new bills. The launch of the new bills did not go smoothly as they could not be found everywhere. The highest bills were mostly found in the capital.

Thehyperinflation has led to huge price increases in just a few years. The government does not release any data on inflation but the opposition and experts have revealed the record levels in recent years. The monthly inflation of Venezuela is much higher that what the other South American nations register combined in the year.

The announcement by Maduro comes just days after the IMF estimated that the inflation numbers could reach one million percent by the end of the year. The IMF had previously estimated that inflation would be 13,000 percent for 2018. The national assembly, which is held by the opposition, releases inflation data every month.

Venezuela’s exchange controls along with the drop in oil prices a few years ago have been blamed for the economic crisis. The government


Kokpar, Central Asia’s rough-and-tumble sport played on horseback with a goat carcass, has made it to the big screen, courtesy of Kyrgyz filmmaker Ruslan Akun, whose latest project takes a behind-the-scenes look at this most macho of sports.

Kokpar, a distant cousin of polo known as buzkashi in Afghanistan and Tajikistan, is a fast and furious struggle between two teams of riders to keep hold of the carcass and deposit it into the opposing team’s goal. It combines supreme horse-riding skills with elements of wrestling and the rugby scrum as players tussle over a dead goat.

The film, released on September 20 under the titles “Time of the Stalwarts” in Kazakhstan and “Kok Boru” in Kyrgyzstan (kokpar in Kyrgyz), follows the universal theme of little guys standing up to thebig guys, whilst also touching on some contentious social issues such as corruption, bride-kidnapping and land ownership.

Akun is best known for 2013’s Salam, New York! and 2017’s Finding Mother. He recently graduated from film school in the United States and has returned home to Central Asia, where his latest work was filmed on location in both Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The film takes an up-close look at the brutal action of this sport for “real men” with actual kokpar horses from Kyrgyzstan used in the film.

In the movie, Maksat, a talented kokpar player, is the captain of Zhalin (flame), the national champions, until he falls out with the team owner after refusing to ride an injured horse. Ejected from the team, he returns to his home village to find


from the movie with Tom Hanks, about midway through the flight, there was a explosion in part of their spacecraft and it became a mission not to land them on the moon, but to bring home the astronauts safely. And part of that was turning a lunar module, the lunar lander that would have taken Jim Lovell and Fred Haise to the surface of the moon and convert it into a lifeboat so that they could make it back to earth.

CORNISH: And I gather that the notebook had his notes about navigation and about transferring some of the information from the main spacecraft to this little lifeboat and Lovell has had it for decades, so why is he selling it now and what happened when he finally gotit to market?

PEARLMAN: Jim Lovell had donated a lot of his memorabilia that he'd kept from the mission to the Adler Planetarium in Chicago in 2005. More recently, he was cleaning out a bookshelf at his home and he found this checklist. And he had already asked his children what they wanted to keep from his collection and he'd already given away all of this other material. And so he decided that someone out there might want to own this checklist and so he put it up for auction.

CORNISH: So what's the difference now? Because space memorabilia has always been popular. Why is NASA challenging this or any of the other artifacts that have made it to auction?

PEARLMAN: It's not entirely clear. Checklist sales have gone on for


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street department employee, worked Monday.on March 4, 1966, and, on March 22, 1966, counsel was appointed to represent him in this appeal. Appellant's brief was initially due to be filed on June 15, 1966. At the request of his court-appointed counsel, the time for filing the brief was successively extended through numerous stipulations with the State until January 25, 1967. Notwithstanding these numerous extensions, no brief was ever filed and the State thereafter moved to dismiss the appeal. A copy of the motion was sent to the Appellant who filed an answer, pro se, in opposition thereto. This Court denied the State's Motion to dismiss and appointed another attorney to act on behalf of the Appellant in this appeal.
The Appellant's newly appointed counsel contends that the Appellant "was deprived of due process


reason for more droughts and floods in coming future.

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Nostradamus: Centuries ago, zodiac signs were discovered and practiced by Nostradamus, by looking at the position of different stars in the solar system.

21 Century: Scientists and researchers have scientific explanations now behind the concept of zodiac signs, that are based on Motion Of Celestial Bodies. These concepts are well elucidated by physicists.

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#Nostradamus: During the deadly outbreaks of plague disease, when million of people lost their lives looking for a cure,Nostradamus was the most famous doctor during black death years. He recommended his patients to drink only boiled water, to sleep in clean beds and to leave infected towns as soon as it was possible. It was him, who saved lives of countless people by explaining them basic hygiene tips'Memogate' and Trump's dangerous paranoia

The infamous Nunes memo has likely fed Trump's paranoia about US law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

The top secret classified memo written by House Intelligence Committee Republican staff was declassified for release by US President Donald Trump on 2 February 2018 [Jim Bourg/Reuters]

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Daniel R DePetris

Daniel R DePetris is a political columnist for a variety of publications including The Spectator and Rare.

Washington, DC, is a city of memos. The entire town runs on memos produced by the massive US government bureaucracy on everything from internal reforms at the State Department to debates about personnel in the White House. Indeed, this is how the sausage is made; without the paper pushers on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington would cease to function.

Yet over the last week, one


memo, in particular, has hovered over the town like a giant, black storm cloud: the Nunes memo. It is a four-page document written by Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes' staff that alleges FBI and Justice Department abuse of surveillance laws in order to monitor a man named Carter Page, a former foreign policy adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

Democrats have blasted its contents as inaccurate, misleading, and spurious, manufactured by Republican partisans to protect President Trump and discredit Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Not so, say Trump's allies on Capitol Hill; the memo is all about exposing the length to which the nation's law enforcement agencies went to spy on an American citizen based on politically-biased information.

Whatever the memo's actual motive, President Trump has embraced itNixon was the president most famous for letting his political enemies get the better of him, Trump is Nixon on steroids.

All presidents, Republican and Democrat, expect and are indeed entitled to a certain amount of loyalty from their staffers and cabinet officers.

Trump, however, is different. He demands full, complete, and unfettered loyalty to Trump, the brand, and to Trump, the person, even if it may cross legal or ethical lines. No department head is immune to Trump's wrath; when Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation, Trump insulted him to his face and humiliated him in public.

When Secretary of State Rex Tillerson implied that the US was open to a discussion with Kim Jong-un about North Korea's nuclear weapons programme, Trump undercut his top diplomat


at the knees to remind him about who was calling the shots. And when congressional Democrats chose to stay in their seats for much of the State of the Union address last week rather than participate in numerous standing ovations, the president called it unpatriotic to the point of treason.

America's institutions do not skate free either. When the press writes critical stories about him or scrutinises his accomplishments, Trump indicts the media as "the enemy of the American people." When stories about the inner workings of the administration are revealed in a less than flattering light, the president exploits his Twitter cudgel and blames the FBI for failing to stop the leaks. His administration, in other words, is not the problem - the system is.

This is a man,after all, who appears to genuinely believe that the Mueller investigation is a political hit job created by his opponents to delegitimise his presidency after losing an election. This is a man who, before he was even inaugurated, equated the US intelligence community to Nazi Germany for seemingly allowing anonymous sources to talk to the press about the infamous Steele dossier. And this is a man who accused his predecessor of using the awesome powers of the presidency to wiretap his phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.

If Nixon was the president most famous for letting his political enemies get the better of him. Trump is Nixon on steroids. It's not just Democratic politicians and a left-leaning mainstream media under the microscope, but district court judges, circuit


Ivanka Trump faced a hostile reception during a women's panel in Berlin, when the audience booed and hissed at the first daughter on Tuesday after calling her father a "tremendous champion of supporting families."

Ivanka spoke about about her father's attitude toward women, saying she has heard criticism from the media and noted her goal through her role in her father's administration is "incremental positive change" but the audience clearly disagreed.

In her first international trip as an official representative of the United States, the first daughter was put on the spot about her father's attitudes toward women, booed and hissed at by the crowd, and grilled by the moderator about what, exactly, her role is in President Donald Trump’s administration.

“You’re the first daughter of the United States, and you’realso an assistant to the president,” the moderator, WirtschaftsWoche editor-in-chief Miriam Meckel, said cited by Politico. “The German audience is not that familiar with the concept of a first daughter. I’d like to ask you, what is your role, and who are you representing, your father as president of the United States, the American people, or your business?” It was an aggressive opening line of questioning for the first daughter, who was seated next to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund and one seat down from Merkel. Queen Maxima of the Netherlands was also a participant on the W20 panel, which Ivanka Trump attended at Merkel's invitation. And it appeared to put her on the spot. “Certainly not the latter,” Ivanka Trump said. “I’m


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scale degrees in the C major scale, we obtain three interval patterns: M2-M2, M2-m2, m2-M2.

Melodic lines in the C major scale with n distinct pitch classes always generate n distinct patterns.

The property was first described by John Clough and Gerald Myerson in "Variety and Multiplicity in Diatonic Systems" (1985) (Johnson 2003, p. 68, 151).  Cardinality equals variety in the diatonic collection and the pentatonic scale, and, more generally, what Carey and Clampitt (1989) call "nondegenerate well-formed scales."  "Nondegenerate well-formed scales" are those that possess Myhill's property.

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Clough, John and Myerson, Gerald (1985). "Variety and Multiplicity in Diatonic Systems", Journal of Music Theory 29: 249-70.
Carey, Norman and Clampitt, David (1989).  "Aspects of Well-Formed Scales", Music Theory Spectrum 29: 249-70.
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A histologic investigation was carried out of the testis and epididymis of a total of 42 calves of the Black-and-white grouped in 14 test groups. The animals were currently castrated after the age of 2 months and were raised in the open. Material for investigation was taken on the 1st and 15th day, and once in every following month up to the completion of 12 months of age. It was found that up to the 3rd month there was no lumen in the testicular tubules, but only differentiating Sertoli cells and gonocytes were seen. Spermatogonia and spermatocytes were first observed at the age of 4 months, and prespermatids and sporadic spermatids--in the 8th month. Single spermatozoa in


the phase of final shaping appeared in the 10th month, and completed spermatogenesis--in the 11th month. The histogenesis of the wall of the tubules of the epididymis completed earlier as compared to the histogenesis process in the testis--by the age of 8 months. Later on there were morphologically in the epididymis some proliferation and folding of the tubules with widening of the lumen, whereupon the amount of the surrounding connective tissue relatively decreased.Home >

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Nation Pardons reemerge as issue in Clinton run WASHINGTON -- Six years ago, the launch of Hillary Clinton's career in the US Senate was marred by allegations that her brothers had received payments from people pardoned by President Bill Clinton in the waning months of his presidency. Now, in the wake of the launch of her presidential campaign, the pardon controversy has reemerged in an obscure court case in which Senator Clinton's brother Tony is battling an order to repay more than $100,000 he received from a couple pardoned by President Clinton. Tony Rodham, who acknowledged approaching the president about a pardon for the couple, is the second of Hillary Clinton's brothers to receive money from people who were eventually pardoned by President Clinton. Hugh Rodham


Nashville ordered Tony Rodham to respond by March 16 to the allegation that he failed to repay a loan of $107,000 from the couple pardoned by Clinton, according to attorneys involved in the case. President Clinton's pardons have been a political issue for Hillary Clinton because of her ties to a number of the cases. In addition to the people who paid her brothers, those receiving pardons included commodities trader Marc Rich, a fugitive who was prosecuted for tax evasion by then-US Attorney Rudolph Giuliani and fled to Switzerland. Rich was pardoned after his former wife, Denise Rich, contributed heavily to Hillary Clinton's Senate campaign. Controversy over the pardons was reignited last week after Hollywood mogul and former Clinton supporter David Geffen criticized the Clintons for the Richpardon. "It is a legitimate campaign issue," said Stephen Gillers, professor of legal ethics at New York University School of Law. He said that Hillary Clinton should answer questions about her brothers' and her own involvement in the pardons because "the stench of the Marc Rich pardon still stinks and it has never been adequately explained. " The Tony Rodham lawsuit revolves around his work for a carnival company, United Shows of America, which was owned by Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory. The couple, who had been convicted of bank fraud, hired Tony Rodham as a business consultant and paid him $244,769 in salary over 2 1/2 years, according to a congressional report. President Clinton pardoned the couple in March 2000. The Republican-controlled House Government Reform Committee issued


a 2002 report that said Rodham had helped the couple obtain the pardon. Edgar Gregory has since died, and his company is now bankrupt. The lawsuit against Tony Rodham, brought by the bankruptcy trustee, revolves around whether the Gregorys loaned Rodham $107,000, or whether that money was part of his salary. The trustee for the bankrupt estate says it was a loan that was never repaid and that, with interest, it would now be $153,000. When Tony Rodham's involvement with the Gregorys first became public in early 2001, Hillary Clinton said that her brother had known the couple "for some time . . . he has a personal relationship with them. He was not paid." The House Government Reform Committee report the next year, noting that Rodham hadreview the circumstances of the pardon. But a Justice Department official wrote to Judicial Watch on Jan. 16 that "it is likely that any new allegations would be outside of the five-year statute of limitations period." Judicial Watch last year tried to obtain unredacted documents related to the pardon of the Gregorys but were rebuffed by the Bush administration, which said releasing them would violate executive privilege. The Clinton pardons were a major scandal in early 2001, as Hillary was beginning her term. She said she and the president did not know her brother Hugh had received $400,000 in fees from two people, one of whom received a commutation and one a pardon. Hugh Rodham has said he returned the money. The Rich pardon received the most attention.


Rich had been indicted in 1983 on charges of tax evasion and illegal trading with Iran. Rich fled to Switzerland and never stood trial. Before Rich received the pardon in January 2001, his former wife, Denise Rich, contributed $70,000 to a fund supporting Hillary Clinton's Senate bid, and also made a large contribution to the Clinton presidential library. President Clinton has said he pardoned Rich at the behest of Israeli officials, and has denied any wrongdoing. © Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. RELATED: Brothers' roles

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The chosen line-up in the Real Madrid defence for the encounter against Borussia Dortmund was previously put to the test by José José Mourinho against Athletic de Bilbao. The outcome was magnificent, as the team ran out 3-0 winners and proved it could be solid at the back, which is vitally needed to keep a clean-sheet against the Germans.

Pepe and Raphael Varane will be the centre-back pairing for the clash at the Signal Iduna Park, and Sergio Ramos will occupy the right-back position. Mourinho has been forced to break up the Ramos-Varane partnership, because of injury to Michael Essien. Pepe - who had lost his place in the defence after being injured and also due to Varane's explosion on the scene -


is the fortunate player to be drafted into the team.

The trio of Ramos, Pepe and Varane played in both the group matches against Dortmund, but the outcome was somewhat disappointing - defeat in Germany and a draw at the Santiago Bernabéu. However, Mourinho has not been deterred by the two results and believes the games took place at the worst point in the season for Real Madrid – the month of October.

Varane and Pepe have played together four times at the heart of the defence and Ramos has been used at right-back on seven occasions. In these matches the team has conceded just once – when Real beat Deportivo de La Coruña 5-1. 'Los Blancos' kept clean sheets in the other games in which the Portuguese and FrenchmanFeatured

Life Healthcare shares shot up 2.45% in early trade on the JSE on Monday after the group said it expected its revenue to increase by between 16.5% and 18.5% in the six months to the end of March, largely because of the inclusion of Alliance Medical Group.

The healthcare group said it expected its revenue to rise by between R11.23 billion and R11.42 billion as a result.

Life Healthcare said it had used normalised earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) as a primary measure to assess underlying financial performance.

“The group has performed to the board’s expectations, with the expected increase for the group’s normalised Ebitda being between 9.5% and 11.5% above the comparable period in 2017,” the group said.

In November 2016, Life Healthcare agreed to buy diagnostics specialist


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East Timor electors are voting today in the second round runoff for the presidential election. The vote is between Taur Matan Ruak and Francisco Guterres Lu Olo with the former slightly ahead in the opinion polls.

In the first round of voting Guterres of FRETILIN took 28.76% of the vote whilst Ruaktook 25.71%. There will be around 620,000 voters voting at 850 polling stations between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m. local time.

The campaign has been remarkably peaceful so far and if the general election in July is equally peaceful then the likelihood is that Australian peacekeepers will start returning home.

More detailed briefing on the politics and risk of doing business in this country is available to clients and subscribers. If you would like to knowOccipito-vertebral fusion in ocean sunfishes (Teleostei: Tetraodontiformes: Molidae) and its phylogenetic implications.
We describe the ontogeny of the occipital skull and anterior vertebrae of the molids Ranzania laevis and Masturus lanceolatus and compare it with that of the ostraciid Lactophrys sp. The first vertebra fuses to the basioccipital in early ontogeny in the two molids and previous authors thus confused that vertebra with the back of the basioccipital, so that all previous counts of their vertebral numbers are incorrect by one vertebra. As evidenced by Lactophrys sp., ostraciids are the only other tetraodontiforms with similar occipito-vertebral fusion. In contrast to the molids, additional anterior vertebrae fuse with this complex in ostraciids. We conclude that the shared occipito-vertebral fusion in molids and ostraciids and its otherwise extremely rare occurrence among


Vijay Nagaraj, a former director of Amnesty International in India and an activist-researcher based in Sri Lanka died in a car accident on Friday. He was 44.

According to local police, Mr. Nagaraj was driving from Colombo to the eastern town of Batticaloa for a workshop, and met with the accident early Friday morning in Polonnaruwa, about 220 km northeast of Colombo.

Mr. Nagaraj, who was from Bengaluru, was active in the campaign for the Right to Information Act in India, working with the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS) in Rajasthan. He also worked in the field of international human rights in India and later Geneva, before moving to Colombo over five years ago.

As a researcher in Sri Lanka, Mr. Nagaraj worked with several non-governmental and research organisations, including theInternational Centre for Ethnic Studies, the Centre for Poverty Analysis and the Law & Society Trust, where he headed the research division.

In his research and writings, Mr. Nagaraj focussed on a host of issues ranging from land, housing, urban development to labour, hill country Tamils, gender and queer politics. He played a key role in a campaign to make Economic, Social and Cultural rights justiciable.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the Law & Society Trust said Mr. Nagaraj contributed immensely to social justice and human rights work in Sri Lanka.

“He worked across multiple issues and with different communities throughout the country. His tremendous courage, his critical eye, his emphasis on rigorous scholarship and commitment to ensuring a human dimension to research and advocacy will be greatly missed …”


have burned American and Israeli flags and trampled on pictures of Trump. But concerns that the decision would lead to a major wave of bloodshed have as yet not materialised.

Protests broke out across the Palestinian territories for the second Friday in a row after the end of weekly Muslim prayers, often a catalyst for clashes between young Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.

In Gaza, the strip’s Islamist rulers Hamas had called for another ‘day of rage’ against the decision, with tens of thousands taking to the streets.

Clashes were expected along the border with Israel later Friday.

In the occupied West Bank, a few thousand people gathered in the southern city of Hebron, as well as Nablus in the north, with clashes near the Al-Arroub camp, south of Bethlehem.

In Jerusalem itself, around30,000 people prayed at the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site for Muslims, the Islamic organisation that administers the site said.

The vast majority left without incident, but small scuffles broke out in Jerusalem’s Old City.

Nothing burger

The status of Jerusalem is one of the most controversial issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Israel seized control of the eastern part of the city in the 1967 Middle East war and sees the whole of Jerusalem as its undivided capital, while the Palestinians view the east as the capital of their future state.

For decades global powers have avoided taking an opinion, keeping their embassies in Tel Aviv instead.

Trump declared, however, that he would move the embassy and recognised the city as Israel’s capital.

Amid condemnation from much of the international community, the Palestinians have


Exclusive: Robert Vadra had nothing to do with shady London home deal

Records accessed by Firstpost from London's land registry department reveal that Robert Vadra is not even remotely linked with 12, Ellerton House, 11 Bryanston Square, London, a property purportedly bought by the Congress president's son-in-law through a proxy.

12, Ellerton House. Image courtesy Asian Lite

According to official documents, the flat no 12 in Ellerton House, located in Central London is owned by Harold and Shirley Sacks, not by any company allegedly fronting for Vadra.

The current owners had bought this flat for 9,50,000 GBP on 23 September, 2005, documents reveal. Since then, the property has not changed hands.

On Tuesday, NDTV had reported that the government was probing allegations that Vadra had purchased the property through Sanjay Bhandari for 19lakh GBP in 2009 and then sold it a year later.

According to NDTV, the investigation was based on two reports by investigating agencies based on e-mails allegedly sent by Vadra and his executive assistant Manoj Arora to Bhandari.

Vadra's lawyer had denied the allegation saying their client had nothing to directly or indirectly with 12, Ellerton House. On Wednesday, The Indian Express reported that Bhandari had admitted to the alleged e-mails exchange between him and Vadra. "...the property in question (located in Bryanston Square, thus several of the emails are titled BS) was registered with the Westminster City Council in the name of Mayfair Properties, a company based in Dubai and thus a reference has been sent to Dubai via the Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) for details of its