whose stories are told in a new Norwegian film, Silenced Voices, by Beate Arnestad previewed last night at the Fritt Ord Foundation in Oslo.

“In trying to do good, we have been living beyond our moral resources and have fallen into hypocrisy and self-righteousness” — William V. Cannon, commenting on the Vietnam War, New York Times, February 6, 1966

“Conquer the angry man by love, Conquer the ill-natured man by goodness. Conquer the miser with generosity. Conquer the liar with truth.” — The Dhammapada p. 223

Three years after the end of decades-long armed conflict in Sri Lanka, there are new government-sponsored efforts afoot to encourage people to speak both national languages – Sinhala and Tamil – and to promote English as a common link language. Toward that goal, President MahindaRajapakse has named 2012 the “Year of Trilingualism,” kicking off a 10-year plan to make Sri Lanka a nation of three official languages: Sinhala, Tamil, and English.

Even as attention is riveted on the bloodshed in Syria, another conflict, far more deadly, is belatedly attracting the notice it deserves.

Beginning this week, the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva has returned to an issue that has haunted it since 2009 — the bloody finish to Sri Lanka’s civil war. That conflict ended on a stretch of beach in the country’s northeast, as the remaining fighters of the Tamil Tigers and tens of thousands of traumatized civilians were surrounded by and surrendered to the Sri Lankan Army.

Sri Lankans and many abroad rejoiced at the defeat of a force that had routinely


deployed terrorist tactics. But even as the government’s military campaign was under way, it became clear that the cost in civilian lives from its attacks on the Tigers was enormous. Right after the war, the Human Rights Council, to the shock of many observers, passed a resolution praising Sri Lanka’s conduct of the war. Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, promised Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at the time that he would address the question of accountability for violations against civilians.

When, a year later, the government had done nothing to carry out Rajapaksa’s commitment, the secretary general asked the three of us to study the allegations of atrocities during the last stages of the war and Sri Lanka’s response. In our report, we found credible evidence that both sides hadsystematically flouted the laws of war, leading to as many as 40,000 deaths — many multiples more than caused by the strife in Libya or Syria.

The bulk of that total was attributable to deliberate, indiscriminate, or disproportionate governmental attacks on civilians, through massive shelling and aerial bombardment, including on clearly marked hospitals.

Rather than tackling these allegations head-on through a truth commission or criminal investigations, Sri Lanka created a “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission,” whose mandate, composition and methods all cast serious doubt on its willingness to uncover what really happened in those fateful months.

When the commission issued its final report last November, it ignored or played down our report’s conclusions and characterized civilian deaths as stemming from the army’s response to Tamil Tiger shelling or cross-fire — as


is the lesson from states as varied as South Africa, Sierra Leone and Argentina. The lack of much outside interest in the bloodshed while it happened cannot be an excuse for continuing to ignore the situation. The international community must now assume its duty to ensure that Sri Lanka fulfills its responsibilities to all its people and to the rest of the world.

Touted as historic for being the first elections to be held in Sri Lanka since the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), this week’s poll did not mark a departure from intimidation and violence. History, in fact, repeated itself as Mahinda Rajapaksa, was re-elected, in part because the minority Tamil community could not exercise its franchise without fear.

In November 2005, the Tigers forciblyprevented Tamils from voting, an exercise that catapulted Mr Rajapaksa into power by a narrow margin. The Tigers were defeated in the bloodiest phase of a three-decade-long conflict last year, but nearly seven months later, a large number of Tamils in the north east could not vote as they were coerced to abstain, unable to register, or had no transport to reach polling stations.

Elsewhere,state power was brazenly abused and Mr Rajapaksa’s main challenger, Sarath Fonseka, was undermined and compared to Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. General Fonseka’s supporters were threatened and attacked and as a final straw, his candidacy was challenged in court. He has in turn contested the results and accused the government of trying to have him assassinated.

With its claims of being a democracy already in question


president makes moves to establish a more inclusive and democratic state which shows genuine commitment to the rule of law and human rights. So far, his track record remains questionable.

While hectic activity is underway to restart the peace process with a host of international players due in the days to come, the government is finding itself circumscribed by its own past rhetoric on the issue of the interim administration and the status of the LTTE, with the Tigers driving home the advantage in a series of master strokes.

President Chandrika Kumaratunga threw caution to the winds and invited Norway to revive the peace process as a knee jerk reaction following the parliamentary defeat on the Speaker’s vote without formulating a proper strategy, a decision that could well haunt herDomed coins have been a big hit over the last few years as the ability to strike them to a high standard has spread from the Monnaie de Paris to other mints. One of the first to embrace the format was the Royal Australian Mint back in 2012 with a space coin depicting the constellation Crux, with a new coin was released annually, Pavo in 2013 and Orion in 2014. Such was the popularity of this ‘Southern Sky’ series that the mint launched a new three-coin series called ‘Northern Sky’ last year. First off the starting block was Cassiopeia, a coin of fundamentally the same design, but with a few tweaks.

Where previously the centre of the coin was completely filled with a really brightly coloured depiction of the


constellation, Cassiopeia had more muted colours and a clean struck crescent tree-line to enhance the sense of realism; less clinical than the design previously employed. Some preffered it, some didn’t but both are great designs.The second coin features Ursa Major, also called the Great Bear. It’s the third largest of the 88 modern constellations and is home to I Zwicky 18, the youngest known galaxy in the visible universe.

The design is exactly as collectors of the series would expect. The tree line of Cassiopeia has been replaced with a mountain line, but the effect is the same. Colour is well chosen and not overdone, and all fits the popular series very well. Packaging remains the new RAM style box, the Southern Sky series being presented in a tin.EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- At the end of a cold winter's day in the Jersey swamps, in a stadium overtaken by Dallas Cowboys fans, pockets of New York Giants faithful rose above the din and chanted Eli Manning's name. They were trying to inspire their quarterback to deliver one more winning drive -- and perhaps one last memory for the road.

Needing a mere 15 yards to move into field goal range with 72 seconds to play and Dallas holding a 36-35 lead, Manning responded to the moment by throwing four consecutive incompletions and sending the Cowboys into the playoffs on a bit of an artificial high. They had just beaten a lousy team, after all, a team that has managed four seasons of six or fewer victories over


the past five years.

A 5-11 team that looks nothing like the two that Manning led to Super Bowl titles on Tom Coughlin's watch.

"If Eli is done playing," his father, Archie, said by phone afterward, "I'm fine with it. But if he comes back, the Giants have got to win. They can't go through another season like this."

No, they cannot. The Giants need to make dramatic changes, and when a football team needs to make dramatic changes, the quarterback position is often the best place to start. Eli Manning knows this. For the first time, he brought his three daughters onto the field before a game, all of them dressed in their father's No. 10, and took some family pictures in the end zone. The quarterback declined to attachcolumnist included, but Sunday wasn't the day to rewrite Manning's obituary or to debate whether he was worthy of returning to the same backfield with Saquon Barkley, who made like an airborne, in-his-prime Michael Jordan on a surreal touchdown that punctuated his record-breaking first year. There will be plenty more opportunities for that.

Sunday was a day to appreciate what Manning has meant to the Giants, and to New York, ever since Derek Jeter called Manning during his rookie-year struggles in 2004 to tell him to keep his head up and to keep carrying himself with the poise he already had showed. Manning listened to Jeter, whom he described as a role model, and became a study in dignity and grace. Manning also listened to his old man.

When Eli


first arrived in the Meadowlands, Archie told his youngest of three boys that he shouldn't try to be like big brother Peyton, already an established superstar with the Indianapolis Colts. "Be like Phil Simms, not Peyton Manning," the father said. Just like he didn't want Eli to enter college thinking he had to match his father's career at Ole Miss -- or what Peyton had accomplished in a much stronger program at Tennessee -- Archie didn't want Eli to start his NFL career suffocated by the weight of expectation. He thought Simms, the proud Giant, was a more reasonable target.

"Phil was a mighty good player," Archie said. "He was dependable, accountable, a tough quarterback, and the Giants won a championship with him. Be like him."

Eli turned out tobe better than Simms.

"And I wish my dad had been around to see it," Archie said.

Buddy Manning took his own life in the summer of 1969, while his son was still playing at Ole Miss. Buddy had loved anyone and anything from the Magnolia State, and so he adored Giants quarterback Charlie Conerly, born and raised in the Mississippi Delta about a half hour's drive from the Manning home in Drew. Buddy's affection for the Giants was passed down to Archie, and then to Eli, who proudly owns Conerly memorabilia and Conerly's old job.

Eli's family members and friends tease him about how he has become a card-carrying Jersey Guy and about how hard it is to get him to return for even a week or two to the


South. The job Eli has is the only job he has ever wanted, which explains the no-trade clause in his deal and the tears he cried last year when coach Ben McAdoo effectively benched him. Eli doesn't want to experience the heartbreak Peyton experienced when fired by the Colts and forced to find work in Denver.

Archie said that he hasn't had a single conversation with Eli about next season and that, to his knowledge, the team hadn't discussed its 2019 plans with his son as of Sunday afternoon. Archie said the season-long noise surrounding Eli's status did nothing to rattle the quarterback's focus.

"I haven't heard him bad-mouth one writer or TV guy," Archie said. "Eli doesn't go high and he doesn't go low. He goes week to week."

Now,Eli is all out of weeks in the 2018 season, his 15th in the league. Some people in the Giants' organization believe Manning would choose to retire if the team surprises most observers and releases him.

"It's hard to leave football," Archie said. "It's hard for players to really look at themselves and say, 'I need to retire.' At the same time, there's some value in walking away from the game healthy and playing your entire career in one place. Peyton doesn't regret his decision [to play with the Broncos], but there's a little something in there that he wishes he could've done it all in one uniform."

And yet Archie made it clear that he believes Eli can play winning football, postseason football, if the Giants bring him back.

"I


haven't seen any decline in his arm strength," Archie said, "and he never did run fast. Eli understands the game. He knows how to run a football team, and he's still physically capable of playing at a high level. That's just the way I feel, and of course I'm his father. But I know this: If Eli felt like he couldn't do it anymore, he would quit. I know he would."

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It never ends perfectly in New York -- or anywhere else, for that matter. Nearly a quarter century ago, coming off an 11-5 season, a 38-year-old Simms thought he was being summoned intoDan Reeves' office to sign footballs for charity before the Giants coach fired him on the spot. Don Mattingly was pushed into retirement by George Steinbrenner, and a bitter Patrick Ewing was traded by the Knicks. Jeter engaged management in a bloody contract negotiations and, in his last season, fought off calls that he should be dropped to the bottom of the order before delivering his near-miraculous walk-off single in his last Yankee Stadium at-bat.

Actually, Yankees owner Hal Steinbrenner protected a 40-year-old Jeter in that final season, 2014, by making it clear to general manager Brian Cashman and manager Joe Girardi that he didn't want the captain embarrassed (demoted or benched) during his farewell tour.

Will Giants president and co-owner John Mara protect Manning this offseason and quiet the


it was all over Sunday, Manning offered a quick wave to the fans as he headed through the tunnel, fist-bumped a locker room security guard and then disappeared behind the door. No, this wasn't a day to scream for Manning's job. This was a day to thank him for the memories, just in case the Giants decide in the coming months that he's too old to make any more.JRR Tolkien Biography

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) was a scholar of the English language, specializing in old and middle English. He’s best known as the author of the classic fantasy books The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

Tolkien was incredibly devoted to the world he created, and you can see his love for it in the attention he gives to every detail. He knew how the first beings got there, the hierarchy, the history, etc of Middle Earth intimately. All this before he even wrote the book. There were other fantasy stories before him, but in the way he created his world and his stories, he changed the game. He didn’t write books to build a world, he built the world and then wrote about


he created. The documentary below gives a complete JRR Tolkien biography and history of Tolkien and all his writings. Told by all his children, friends, scholars and Tolkien himself. If you like J.R.R. Tolkien, this will answer almost any question you could conceive of.

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.

Born: January 3, 1892, Bloemfontein, Free State

Died: September 2, 1973, Bournemouth

Movies: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return Of The King, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Children: Christopher Tolkien, John Tolkien, Priscilla Tolkien, Michael Tolkien

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Star, the government cut off internet as well as cell phone activity amid increasingly fierce clashes between government troops and rebels.

Emirates airline has meanwhile stopped all flights into the country as Damascus airport is currently unreachable, as Syrian president Bashar al-Assad appears to be preparing for a military showdown with those who oppose him.

Fixed telephone lines appear to be working intermittently, as are satellite phones. The war on the ground in the country has been mirrored by an online war, which has seen both sides hacking major sites including Al Jazeeraand Reuters.Sitting atop the National League West, having won 17 division titles including the last six, the Los Angeles Dodgers are once again the favorites to repeat. With Clayton Kershaw once again ailing, their hopes may take a hit.

Last month, it was announced that Kershaw was dealing with shoulder inflammation, thought to be a product of increasing his offseason progression.

The veteran left-hander has incurred multiple injury-plagued years, including a total of 74 starts the past three regular seasons. That total is down from his previous three-year total between 2013 and 2015 of 93. In those starts, he racked up 667 innings pitched. With only 485.1 innings the past three years, those efforts appear to be taking a toll.

Multiple back injuries played a large role in his missed starts the


last trio of years, resulting in the Dodgers being forced to supplant him in the rotation.

This year, with his shoulder injury flaring up in Spring Training, the team is once again looking at an uncertain future. The questions come after the club awarded their ace with a 3-year, $93 million deal to avoid free agency.

His absence creates a ripple effect in their outlook, with the Colorado Rockies subsequently being affected.

If Kershaw is forced to miss time this year, the onus will be placed on the shoulders of last year’s rookie sensation, Walker Buehler.

In 23 starts last season, the youngster posted a 2.62 earned run average in 137.1 innings and racked up 151 strikeouts. The efforts led the former Vanderbilt standout to a third-place finish in NL Rookie ofthe Year voting, with only Ronald Acuna Jr. and Juan Soto finishing ahead of him.

Adding in his minor league stints, last season was the most innings in Buehler’s post-collegiate career.

With the rotation all being pushed forward a spot, Buehler would be the staff’s new ace, followed by Hyun-jin Ryu and a combination of Rich Hill, Kenta Maeda and Ross Stripling who would be allocated a spot in Kershaw’s stead.

That rotation, in a vacuum, still likely beats out the Rockies staff.

The problem for the NL West’s leader is that injuries have also plagued Ryu and Hill. Hill, entering his 14th season at 39 years old, has only started north of 30 games once in his career, with blisters and various ailments placing his day-to-day status each year in question.


Ryu has only one season of 30 starts as well, though his sample size is merely five seasons.

In their lineup, the Dodgers also let both Yasmani Grandal and Manny Machado walk, traded Yasiel Puig and are relying on Corey Seager to return from Tommy John surgery with minimal complications.

In a five-game series to begin the postseason, if the Dodgers injuries come to fruition again, the Rockies could oppose Buehler with Kyle Freeland, Maeda with German Marquez and Stripling or Julio Urias with Jon Gray. Outside of the first game, the Rockies would likely hold the advantage in each if Gray’s recent outings continue into meaningful games.

For the final two games, the Rockies could likely split behind either a second start from Freeland or a communal bullpen effort, givingthem a series win.

If healthy, the Dodgers, led by Kershaw, can trot out a proven starter or young star in each game, with few holes in their rotation. With Urias returning from surgery and both Brock Stewart and Caleb Fergusen able to fill in among others, even the team’s worst-case scenario still likely resides in the upper half of the NL.

In their utopian circumstance, the Dodgers can trot out a greater starter in the majority of games opposing the Rockies.

The Rockies rotation also carries several question marks. Will Gray rebound? Can Tyler Andersen pitch more like his 2016 stint (3.54 ERA in 114.1 innings)? Is Jeff Hoffman going to finally find his groove and head the final spot of the rotation?

Both teams carry several questions on the mound,


EXCL Government spent £200k putting cones on the M20 for Brexit day - and removed them a day later

The Government spent £200,000 putting out cones to turn the M20 into a lorry park in preparation for a no-deal Brexit - then took them away again a day later.

A Freedom of Information (FOI) request revealed the cost of activating Operation Brock on 28 October - three days before the UK was due to leave the EU - was £107,000.

But a further £88,000 was spent deactivating it on 29 October.

Highways England planned to put a contraflow system in place on the motorway leading down to the Kent coast so that one side of the M20 was only used by heavy goods vehicles (HGVs)

This was due to fears there would bedelays with customs checks at cross-Channel ports if the UK left the EU without a deal, creating a back-log of vehicles leading from Dover.

The plan swung into action despite the fact that MPs had passed the Benn Act delaying a no-deal Brexit.

Just hours after highways officials began the process of putting out the 7,500 cones, Boris Johnson sent a letter to Brussels requesting the Article 50 deadline be extended to 31 January.

After it was accepted by the European Council, Highways England confirmed Operation Brock was being stood down.

In response to the FOI asking how much this cost they told PoliticsHome: “The costs associated with the activation of the contraflow was £107,847.22.

“Installing and removing traffic management is a significant operation and is a main consideration in any road scheme.

“In


the case of Operation Brock it involved installing crossover points in the central reservation, altering the road layout and putting out 7,500 traffic cones and 350 signs.”

The further costs “associated with the deactivation of the contraflow were £88,547.12," it confirmed.

In total Highways England has been allocated £35million for the operation, £30million for the M20, and £5million assigned to adapting the nearby M26 “as an additional contingency measure”.

It was also put in place back in March ahead of the first Article 50 deadline, but was deactivated three weeks later once the extension to October 31 was agreed.The Tasmanian mother of three allegedly fired by Cricket Australia after tweeting her opinions on abortion legislation says she feels overwhelmed by the support she's received since speaking out about the incident.

Angela Williamson was working at the sporting body when she travelled interstate to have a termination in February, following the closure of Tasmania's only abortion clinic the previous month.

Returning home, Williamson used her personal Twitter account to voice her criticism of access to reproductive health services in the state, and claims she subsequently lost her job in June.

Speaking with The Today Show's Sylvia Jeffreys on Wednesday, the mum admitted she has felt "quite vulnerable" since going public with her story.

"I am a little overwhelmed ... telling such a personal and horrific story and losing my job, there


are so many complexities to this," she said, adding she feels buoyed by the support she's received both locally and internationally.

Explaining the circumstances of her firing from Cricket Australia, Williamson said the organisation had perceived her tweets as "insulting" to the Tasmanian government.

Angela Williamson says she's 'overwhelmed' by the public support she's received. (nine)
"They felt ... that I had compromised the ability for delivering my role as a government relations and infrastructure manager down here in Australia," she said.

"I just don't see the connection between me having a termination, me telling my story with my name withheld, and then my tweets - which were very much about timeliness and needing to deal with this situation quicker than the government had, as well as the language they were usingAs Jeronimo Yanez, the officer who had been on leave for fatally shooting Philando Castile during a traffic stop on July 6, returned to work last week, protests intensified outside of the St. Anthony Police Department where he was to return to desk duty.

The mayor and city officials announced that they had rescinded Yanez instatement and that he was back on administrative leave, out of respect to the concerns raised by activists and by Castile's family. Here's the statement:

The City of St. Anthony has changed Officer Jeronimo Yanez's status with the city's police department. He will now return to administrative leave. The decision to change Officer Yanez's status was made after reviewing concerns and other feedback from the community. Out of respect to the sensitive nature of the


Castile over for driving with a broken taillight before shooting him multiple times as he reached for ID and a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Soon after, Castile's girlfriend, who was also in the car with her daughter, began livestreaming the shooting aftermath through the Facebook app on her smartphone.

Occurring just one day after a Louisiana man was killed by Baton Rouge police, Castile's shooting death sparked weeks of protests nationwide. Protesters targeted the residence of Gov. Mark Dayton, who requested a U.S. Department of Justice review of Yanez's conduct in the shooting.

Protests were also staged outside of the St. Anthony Police Department and the office of Ramsey County Attorney John Choi. The prosecutor refused protesters' requests to step aside. Choi has hired a private attorney whoand "strengthen the Commission in its role as guardian of the Treaties". That shouldn’t be overestimated but maybe could be read as a sign that the complacency of the outgoing German government with respect to Hungary and Poland might come to an end at last.

Poland’s strongman Kaczynski and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have quite a bit in common, most of all their fervent nationalism, but one thing separates them: Unlike the former, the latter is in possession of a two-third majority since the recent parliamentary elections in Japan, and he seems determined to make use of it. According to TOMOAKI KURISHIMA, however, the constitutional changes he envisions for Japan are mostly symbolic for the time being (which makes another crucial difference to Kaczynski; in German).

In Luxembourg,


social hotspots is in line with the right to freely chose their residence.

ALBERTO CODDOU MCMANUS reports on the constitutional reform plans in Chile and the ambivalent role of opinion polls in this context.

ELEONORA BOTTINI examines why the referendum in the US state of New York to reform the state constitution fell through so spectacularly (in French).

LEONID SIROTA reports on a Canadian Supreme Court ruling on the religious freedom of a First Nation who claimed that developing a piece of public land would drive the Grizzly Bear Spirit away and thereby impair their religious beliefs and practices.

So much for this week. I apologize for the occasional use of infection and cold metaphors in this letter, which might reflect my still slightly off-colour condition. All the best to you, andAfricans Press Serving South Sudan and the world

African Union criticises US for ‘taking many of our people as slaves’ and not taking refugees

January 30, 2017, Trump has suspended all US refugee programmes and banned immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries, three of which are AU members

African Heads of State pose for a group photo ahead of the start of the 28th African Union summit in Addis Ababa on 30 January, 2017 AFP

The head of the African Union has criticised Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from some Muslim-majority countries, saying it presents “one of the greatest challenges” for the continent.

As representatives of the AU’s 53 member states met in Addis Ababa for a two-day summit, the chief of its commission said the bloc was entering “very turbulent times” after the


of Syrian refugees to America indefinitely.

Also speaking in Ethiopia, the UN Secretary General commended African countries for opening their borders to refugees and people fleeing violence while other parts of the world, including the developed West, close boundaries and build walls.

Antonio Guterres, attending his first AU summit as the UN chief, said: “African nations are among the world’s largest and most generous hosts of refugees.

“African borders remain open for those in need of protection when so many borders are being closed, even in the most developed countries in the world.”

Mr Guterres didn’t make a direct reference to the recent executive orders signed by Mr Trump, which also included a commitment to build a wall along the Mexican border, but his comment drew enthusiastic applause from hundreds of Africanthe first year of life. She developed dystonic posturing of the neck, trunk, and all four limbs. We also saw a gradual progression of chorea-like movements of the arms. Additionally, all aspects of psychomotor development were delayed from early infancy. She achieved unsupported sitting, but she was never able to walk independently and was wheel chair bound. She was unable to speak, and she communicated using gestures. Although higher mental function was not formally assessed, her cognitive level was estimated to be moderately disabled. At the age of 2 years, she experienced an episode of tonic-clonic seizures. Electroencephalography reported excessive beta activity, with no clear evidence of epileptiform discharges. Biochemical and metabolic markers were normal. Targeted genetic testing for mitochondrial disorders and hereditary dystonias did not yield any


assessment (aged 18 years). She was born healthy subsequent to a full-term pregnancy with no known environmental contributing factors; she sat independently at the age of six months; and started walking at the age of one year. At the age of four months, she displayed her first seizures, which since re-occurred seven to eight times during her first three years of life; these have since abated without any medical interventions. During her seizure episodes, she became unconscious for 10--20 minutes. At her last clinical assessment, she also presented with severe speech impairment. She displays dolichocephaly with a head circumference of 53 cm (within normal range for age, 51--57 cm)^[@R21]^. Her neurological assessment showed no symptoms of dystonia, ataxia or tremors; MRI imaging of the brain showed no significantmain developmental concern reported by the parents has been a severe and persistent speech disorder, namely childhood apraxia of speech which was severe from ages 3 to 8 years of age and has only begun to resolve in the past 2 years. She attends regular school but neuropsychological assessment showed low average IQ (FSIQ 78). She has not had any major physical health problems, has not had seizures, and has normal hearing and vision. Height, weight and head circumference are all at the 90th centile. On examination she was non-dysmorphic and could walk and run. She had normal muscle power but was hyper-reflexive in the lower limbs with sustained clonus and increased tone. Upper limb reflexes are relatively brisk. An MRI showed mild thinning of the posterior aspect


date of the court’s judgment in Bharat Aluminium Co. v Kaiser Aluminium Technical Services Inc. (“BALCO“) (discussed here). As we consider in further detail below, this can have significant implications on the degree of Indian courts’ powers to interfere in arbitration proceedings, grant interim relief, appoint arbitrators or set aside an award, in connection with pre-BALCO agreements.

Background and facts

The parties in Shashoua provided that “the venue of the arbitration shall be London, United Kingdom”. They also provided for arbitration in accordance with the arbitration rules of the International Chamber of Commerce, and that the substantive law of the contract would be Indian law. There was no express choice of seat. After an arbitral tribunal had rendered its award, the award debtor applied to have the award set asideunder Section 34 of India’s Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (the “Arbitration Act“). The award debtor (the respondent) argued that the parties had not expressly designated a seat and the courts should find that India was the proper seat of the arbitration, and consequently, the Indian courts had jurisdiction to set aside the award.

English High Court proceedings

This was not the first attempt by the respondent in Shashoua to argue that India and not London was the seat of arbitration. In an application for interim measures under Section 44 of the (English) Arbitration Act, the respondent argued that India was the correct seat of the arbitration as the parties applied Indian law to the substantive aspects of the agreement and only designated London as the location for the arbitration


hearings. In his judgment (Shashoua v Sharma 2009 EWHC 957 (Comm)), Cooke J held that London was the seat of the arbitration since there was an express designation of London as the venue, no alternative designation of a seat and the parties had adopted a supranational body of rules (ie, the ICC Rules). He observed that “London arbitration” was a well-known phenomenon that was often chosen by foreign parties together with a different governing law, and did not place much emphasis on the choice of Indian law as the substantive law.

After the tribunal issued its award following the High Court’s judgment, the respondent applied to set aside the award under Indian law, arguing again that India was the seat of the arbitration.

The Supreme Court’s decision

Prior to hearing thisglobally expensive natural disaster in history.

"People suddenly for the first time really started to consider risk properly."

Kate's dress

Above all else, it led many companies to consider their flexibility and reaction speed.

Could they, if needs must, switch their source of manufacture overnight? If 1000 workers went on strike next week, would 1000 others be able to pick up tools somewhere else?

An ability to change systems in an instant became crucial, be it for natural disasters or other factors beyond their control, both good and bad.

Apple's Tim Cook is bringing more of his company's supply chain back to the US

When the Duchess of Cambridge unexpectedly wore a highly affordable polka dot dress, the high street chain she bought it from struggled to make the most of its golden opportunity.

"That dress


sold out in an instant," recalls Craig Sears Black, managing director of Manhattan Associates, a firm that provides software to aid in flexible supply chain management.

"The shop could have sold 30,000 of those garments - but it had no idea that Kate Middleton would wear that dress.

The retailers and manufacturers who are smart at spotting those trends are the ones that will have greater profitability."

The shop missed its chance, Mr Sears Black says, because its supply chain was too inflexible. It was able to increase production, but by the time the product would have worked its way through the supply chain, the moment would have been lost.

Fashionistas would have already moved on.

"If they'd had at that point the ability to divert the manufacturing orders for that dress toIt may be hard to believe, but once there was a time when scientists (young and old), policy wonks and those in government worried about a shortage of trained individuals to conduct research. Indeed, one of the primary reasons for establishing the National Science Foundation in the US in 1950 (and ratcheting up funding for the National Institutes of Health) was the concern, expressed by Vannevar Bush in his now famous report Science: The Endless Frontier, that the US and other countries had exited the second world war with a severe lack of capacity to do research. Thus, a goal of government and, indirectly, universities and medical schools, was to build research capacity by training new researchers. It was also to conduct research. However, it was never Bush’s


Loop Houston: a Houston podcast

Podcast Episode 2: Meet Lennart Koopmann August 19, 2016 Lennart Koopmann is one of Houston's many imports. Lennart grew up in the German countryside and moved to Houston via Hamburg in 2015. Lennart moved to Houston to grow the company he founded in Germany, open source log management software company, Graylog. (Don't worry! Lennart explains what the hell that means in the interview. :-) ) read more →an impressive balance between grim subject matter and simple enjoyment of remembered childhood activities. Her novella is, after all, set in Poland in the 1980s, the last decade of it being a Communist state in the Soviet Union.

The narrator (and autobiographical stand-in?) is Wiolka Rogalówna, who lives with her parents in a moldering house in the fictional town of Hektary. Her father, one of the most striking characters, was arrested for deserting from the army two weeks before she was born, and now works for a paper mill and zealously pursues his hobbies of hunting, fishing, and taxidermy. The signs of their deprivation – really the whole country’s poverty – are subtle: Wiolka has to go selling hand-picked sour cherries with her grandmother at the market even though


the way Greg depicts some universalities of childhood and adolescence, such as catching bugs, having eerie experiences in the dark, and getting one’s first period. This is a book of titled vignettes of just five to 10 pages, but it feels much more expansive than that, capturing the whole of early life. The Polish title translates as “Unripe,” which better reflects the coming-of-age theme; the English translator has gone for that quirk instead.

A favorite passage:

“Then I sat at the table, which was set with plates full of pasta, laid my head down on the surface and felt the pulsating of the wood. In its cracks and knots, christenings, wakes and name-day celebrations were in full swing, and woodworms were playing dodgeball using poppy seeds that had fallen fromthe crusts of freshly baked bread.”

Thanks to Portobello Books for the free copy for review.

A Field Guide to the North American Family by Garth Risk Hallberg

[126 pages]

Written somewhat in the style of a bird field guide, this is essentially a set of flash fiction stories you have to put together in your mind to figure out what happens to two seemingly conventional middle-class families: the Harrisons and the Hungates, neighbors on Long Island. Frank Harrison dies suddenly in 2008, and the Hungates divorce soon after. Their son Gabe devotes much of his high school years to drug-taking before an accident lands him in a burn unit. Here he’s visited by his girlfriend, Lacey Harrison. Her little brother, Tommy, is a compulsive liar but knows a big secret his


Trueblood receives early career award from Psychonomic Society

Assistant Professor of Psychology Jennifer Trueblood is one of four young scientists who have made significant contributions to psychological science chosen by the Psychonomic Society to receive its 2016 Early Career Award.

The society and its members perform and promote the basic science of behavior in areas such as memory, learning, problem solving, action planning, language and perception that connect with other fields of research. It confers these awards annually to individuals early in their career “to raise the visibility of our science and of our very best young scientists within the field, within the awardees’ institutions, in the press, and in the larger community.”

Awardees will be formally recognized at the society’s annual meeting, which will be held in November in Boston.Village Builders in Creemore has been in the construction business for over 30 years. We build custom homes and specialize in renovations and additions.

Friday, September 4, 2015

Make sure you have a proper design plan before you start your renovation

Proper design/planning and a good contractor when attempting a renovation

I once was called to a home where the new owners wanted renovations completed on a house that was 150 years old. The previous owners of the home had started renovations two years prior but never finished them.

The previous couple had lived in the home as they attempted to renovate it the older home. The whole first floor of the home was in one state of partly completed renovation or demolition with the upper floors still looking like they did when


all the barring walls around the stairs and the railings up stairs. It also required them to rebuild a new set of stairs that were reversed to the old ones. This idea was thousands of dollars to do and could have easily been avoided if they would have taken some time to draw up a properly planned out master bedroom and main floor layout.

There were many other issues throughout the home that the former owner had attempted and had either failed at completing or had done incorrectly.

The new owners and I worked together came up with a proper plan, design, budget and a schedule. Then we proceeded with the work.

When the home was finished it was unrecognizable compared to the start that it was procured when we firstand controls it in governance and operation. The parent company, Capital Guidance, is a Middle Eastern company that employs, consistent with their morals, a “Sharia Advisory Board,” chaired by the one of the worst human rights bandits in the world – Sheikh Muhammad Taqi Usmani. You don’t know him, but outside of America he was named the 22nd most influential person in the Islamic world. Let’s take a look at his greatest hits:

Regarding the LGBT community, Sheik Usmani wrote the laws of Pakistan, and enforced them as a judge, that jails gays for life for being gay. In other areas of that country gays are stoned to death. You’ll agree this is exponentially worse than a North Carolina Republican keeping a transgender person out of the ladies room.

Bruce,


study.

A self-administered questionnaire that was adapted from the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ) was used to assess WRMDs. A pilot study using the questionnaire was carried out among six physiotherapists, who responded well to the questionnaire, indicating the clarity of the questions asked. The questionnaires were distributed to the respective physiotherapists through their managers. Subjects were given two weeks to complete the questionnaire, and the completed questionnaires were returned to the respective managers for collection by the researchers. All subjects received an information sheet and signed an informed consent form prior to completing the questionnaire. Ethical approval was granted by the Research and Ethics Committee of the National University of Malaysia and by the Clinical Research Centre of Ministry of Health, Malaysia. The data obtained were analyzed using theSpeaker, asked Whitaker during the House Judiciary Committee hearing.

"And how the heck did you become the head of the Department of Justice?" Jeffries stated. "Hopefully you can help me work through this confusion."

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"I assume you know the difference," he said.

It was just the latest confrontational moment of the hearing, one of the first to center on special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's investigation and the legal controversies swirling around Trump since Democrats took over the House.

Whitaker is seen as a Trump loyalist, and he is expected to be replaced as attorney general as soon as William Barr wins


confirmation in the Senate. Barr is a former attorney general from former President George H.W. Bush's administration.

Whitaker took the post when Trump fired former Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsGOP set to release controversial Biden report Trump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status MORE, who had recused himself from overseeing the Russia investigation — earning Trump's wrath in the process.

Jeffries listed former Trump campaign aides who have pleaded guilty in Mueller's probe, naming former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort Paul John ManafortOur Constitution is under attack by Attorney General William Barr Bannon trial date set in alleged border wall scam Conspicuous by their absence from the Republican Convention MORE, the president's former personal lawyerMichael Cohen, Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn, and his longtime adviser Roger Stone Roger Jason StoneOur Constitution is under attack by Attorney General William Barr Justice IG investigating Stone sentencing: report Romney says Trump's protest tweets 'clearly intended to further inflame racial tensions' MORE.

"Manafort, Gates, Flynn, Cohen, Papadopoulos and Stone are all in deep trouble. One by one, all of the president's men are going down in flames," Jeffries said.

"It is often said where there is smoke, there's fire. There's a lot of smoke emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. right now."

He also issued a stark warning that Whitaker should not to interfere in Mueller's investigation during his final days as the DOJ's top cop.

"In your final week, keep your hands off the Mueller investigation," Jeffries told


         Defendant consented to a search of the pickup truck. Detective Densmore noticed
a strong odor of marijuana inside the truck and there were remnants of marijuana stock,
stems, leaves, and flowers. In the glove box, the detective found a one-gallon plastic
baggie containing concentrated cannabis--the baggie was half full. In the truck bed, the
detective found remnants of marijuana underneath a mattress which was dry even though
it had rained earlier in that day. The detective believed the truck had been used to
transport marijuana. Based on the items found, the amount of money, and defendant’s
statements, the detective believed that defendant was growing and selling marijuana for a
profit.
          The detective contacted the narcotics unit and severaldetectives responded. Later,
they along with defendant went to a property located on One Eye Creek Road (Creek
property) to look for evidence of cultivation. They found an empty trailer which had an
odor of marijuana inside.
          When interviewed, defendant admitted he had been growing 40 to 50 plants at the
Creek property. Defendant hoped the plants would yield 100 pounds but thought the
plants would yield only 20 pounds. Defendant explained the plants had been harvested
just days before and hung in a trailer. Defendant admitted personal use of about four
ounces of marijuana every month or about three pounds a year. At first, defendant
admitted selling the remainder to “other marijuana recommendation holders” as well as to
dispensaries. From the most recent crop (but not from


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With respect to the concentrated cannabis, he admitted he planned to sell it in the near
future.
          When interviewed at the Buckeye property, Jerry stated he used marijuana for
medical problems. He admitted that 32 marijuana plants had been grown at the Buckeye
property that year and that 16 plants belonged to him. Each plant yielded four ounces for
a total of 64 ounces or four pounds. Jerry denied knowing about the marijuana grow at
the Creek property. Jerry eventually admitted there was marijuana in a shed on the
Buckeye property.
          A search warrant was obtained. Jerry then admitted that he had been to the Creek
property a few days before.was in a rural area, surrounded by trees, and lacked traffic.
Based on the items found, Detective Rath was of the opinion that the marijuana was
possessed for commercial distribution rather than personal use.
       About 2:45 p.m. on January 30, 2013, California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer
David Rodgers saw a pickup truck traveling down the right hand shoulder of an on-ramp
to Highway 50. The pickup truck swerved back into its lane and then traveled several
feet on the shoulder of the slow lane of the highway. The officer stopped the truck.
Defendant was the driver. The officer detected the odor of marijuana from inside the
truck cab and on defendant’s breath and person. Defendant’s eyes were red and watery.
Defendant admitted having smoked marijuana an hour earlier. At first,


he said he had
smoked a blunt but changed his statement to just one hit from the blunt. Defendant
claimed he was going on a business trip but then stated he was unemployed and headed to
the grocery store. He denied feeling the effects of smoking marijuana. Defendant’s
tongue was green, his pulse was rapid and his pupils were dilated, and he could not
converge his eyes, did not complete a balance test, and had eyelid tremors. CHP Officer
Ronald Ellison, a drug recognition evaluator, conducted an evaluation of defendant and
was of the opinion that defendant was under the influence of marijuana and was unable to
drive safely. Officer Rodgers concurred with Officer Ellison’s opinion. After arresting
defendant, Officer Rodgers searched the pickup truck which revealed five bags of
marijuana behind the bench seat. Inside one oftestified that he suffered from chronic pain and
psychological problems and claimed he obtained a medical marijuana recommendation in
2011 and continuously since then. He had been living with Jerry but moved out about a
month before November 28, 2012, because of his alcohol problems and behavior and
lived in the trailer on the Creek property. Defendant explained that Doug Lancaster
owned the Creek property. Lancaster paid defendant $500 to plant and grow medical
marijuana for Lancaster. Defendant harvested three pounds for Lancaster. Defendant
claimed he lied to detectives when he said: marijuana in the trailer at the Creek property
belonged to him; he sold 10 pounds of marijuana; he received $7,000 from selling
marijuana most of which went to Jerry; and he intended to sell the concentrated cannabis
found in his pickup truck. He also claimed he


was Jerry’s caregiver as well as

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Lancaster’s. The $1,000 found on his person in November 2012 came from growing
marijuana at the Creek property, which he considered yard work. Defendant also said the
money was his “caregiver” money. Two to three pounds of the marijuana found in the
shed on the Buckeye property in November 2012 belonged to him. After his arrest in
November, he lived in his truck and “donated” marijuana to C4C cooperative in exchange
for money on which he lived. In January 2013, themarijuana found in his truck was his
“marijuana medicine,” which he grew at the Buckeye property.
       Jerry testified and denied that defendant was selling marijuana for him; Jerry
claimed the 10 pounds of marijuana found at the Buckeye property was his 10-month
supply grown at the Buckeye property. He used a pound per month. Jerry claimed he
was a member of a cannabis club in Colfax. Jerry hired defendant to be a caregiver for
Jerry and Lancaster. At the Buckeye property, 16 plants belonged to Jerry and 16 plants
belonged to defendant. Jerry knew defendant was growing marijuana at the Creek
property. Both the Buckeye and Creek properties were harvested in October 2012. Jerry
claimed defendant was not selling marijuana but “only donated to clubs in a legal way.”


with his jaw dropped and eyes wide and beginning to fill with tears”.  Nancy says the name “Lucius” in the end.  The chapter also mentions that Nancy had a dream to move to Australia.
Here's what I surmise from this.

The boy with the white-blonde hair is presumably Draco, since this is a chapter about Draco.  But the short hair confuses me, because I have an image of Draco with long hair from the Harry Potter films.
Nancy is presumably Narcissa, since they have a similar name, Narcissa's story wasn't resolved up to then, and Draco finding her mother would certainly make her eyes fill with tears.
I presume the Scottish witch was Professor McGonagall.
Someone has hidden Narcissa to protect her after the Dark Lord hasgoing after families. Dumbledore's brother was held hostage and tortured to death under the Cruciatus Curse. In response, Dumbledore "killed" Narcissa.

"Do you also wish to see my brother as he died under the Cruciatus?" said Albus Dumbledore. "Voldemort sent me that memory as well!"
"And that - " Harry was having trouble producing a voice, for the growing sickness in his chest. "That was when -" The words seemed to burn in his throat, as the awful knowledge dawned on him, the horrible understanding. "That was when you burned Narcissa Malfoy alive in her own bedroom."
Albus Dumbledore's gaze was cold as he answered. "To that question only a fool would say yea or nay. What matters is that the Death Eaters believe I killed her, and that belief kept


the people Dumbledore had to stop from doing this ever again. It would completely defeat Dumbledore's purpose if Lucius knew.
That Narcissa was actually saved was foreshadowed here, and when Harry first met Dumbledore.

"I didn't know about Fawkes," Harry's voice said rapidly, "so he told me that Fawkes was a phoenix, while he was pointing to a chicken on Fawkes's stand so I'd think that was Fawkes, and then he set the chicken on fire - and also he gave me this big rock and told me it had belonged to my father and I ought to carry it everywhere -"
(Chapter 70)

Dumbledore describes it in his letter to Harry as:

"Here's the last thing," Harry Potter said. "I found it in a folded parchment whose outside said that it wasTuesday, September 11, 2007

Today the Taipei Times reports on how delegates from Taiwan's Environmental Protection Agency, after being invited to participate in the Basel Convention on Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (fun title), were turned away upon arrival because their idendification documents had been issued by the Taiwan government:

The administration sent a total of six representatives to the Basel Convention this year. Two of them returned to Taiwan early on Sunday and told reporters about the situation.

Lai Ying-ying (賴瑩瑩), a senior specialist at the EPA's waste management department, said the convention was mainly attended by professionals to discuss the latest technology for handling hazardous waste.

Lai said that the administration submitted an online application to the UN Secretariat before departing for the convention. To


participate at the current session because their accreditation documents had been issued by Taiwan, which is not a Member State of the United Nations."

The report said the Secretariat of the Basel Convention in Geneva "had been surprised" by the situation, as the rule had never been applied previously and Taiwan had made useful contributions on the issue of e-waste.

This is a textbook example of how the United Nations is going overboard in its efforts to please China and snub Taiwan at every turn. It also underscores China's general disconcern for issues pertaining to the environment, world health, or any of the other numerous issues UN bodies are created to address. Taiwan is a major playor in the electronics industry, as this article points out -- and yet Chinaconnection to a drill string and a passage for supplying drilling fluid to the face of the bit, which carries a plurality of preform cutting elements each formed, at least in part, from polycrystalline diamond, some cutting elements on the bit body having their cutting faces at a different angular orientation from the cutting faces of other cutting elements on the bit body, with respect to the axis of rotation of the bit, the different angular orientations of the cutting faces of the respective cutting elements being so selected that the vectorial sum of the reaction forces between the formation being drilled and the cutting elements provides a resultant lateral imbalance force acting on the bit body as it rotates in use, the gauge of the bit body


including at least one low friction bearing pad so located as to transmit said resultant lateral force to the part of the formation with which the bearing pad is for the time being engaged.
The front cutting face of a PDC cutting element is disposed at an angle to the surface of the formation being cut, as viewed in a plane normal to the formation and extending in the direction of movement of the cutter relative to the formation. In the case where the cutting face leans forwardly in the direction of movement with respect to the formation, the angle which the cutting face makes to the normal is referred to as a negative back rake angle. Different back rake angles produce different forces acting on the bit asangle from cutting elements on the other side of the diameter. In this case, cutting elements on said one side of the diameter may have positive side rake and cutting elements on the other side of the diameter may have negative side rake, said low friction bearing pad being located on the same side of the diameter as those cutting elements having negative side rake.
According to another aspect of the invention there is provided a rotary drill bit comprising a bit body having a shank for connection to a drill string and a passage for supplying drilling fluid to the face of the bit, which carries a plurality of preform cutting elements each formed, at least in part, from polycrystalline diamond, the centre of gravity of the bit


body being offset offset from the central axis of rotation of the bit body so as to apply a resultant lateral imbalance force to the bit body as it rotates in use, the gauge of the bit body including at least one low friction beaing pad so located as to transmit said resultant lateral force to the part of the formation which the bearing pad is for the time being engaging.
The centre of gravity of the bit body may be offset from the central axis of rotation by the inclusion in the bit body of a mass of material which is asymmetrically disposed with respect to the central axis of the bit.
For example, the bit body may comprise a solid infiltrated matrix moulded around a steel blank, thesteel blank including a cavity asymmetrically disposed with respect to the axis of rotation of the bit, the cavity being filled with denser material, for example matrix material, which thereby constitutes the aforesaid mass of material.
Alternatively, the bit body may comprise a solid infiltrated matrix moulded around a steel blank, a portion of the matrix asymmetrically offset from the axis of the bit being of different density from the rest of the matrix.
In another embodiment the bit body is machined from steel and is formed with a cavity which is asymmetrically offset from the axis of the bit, said cavity being filled with a body of a material of different density from the steel from which the rest of the bit body is formed.
It will be appreciated that


The first record Paola ever bought was
Michael Jackson's Off The Wall on a school trip to Paris in 1980, at a cost
of 79 francs. She still had enough left over from her spending money to buy
10 Carambars, a small Eiffel Tower and a pen where if you hold it upside
down the ladies black swimsuit disappeared. They all had a great laugh on
the bus home playing with that. She also kept a pear and some of her baguette
and smelly cheese for the trip home.

If you ever need milk in France on a Sunday and the shops are closed - ask Paola. She's
got the inside track on that...its fifth anniversary in business, and had a band playing in addition to various

special events such as a raffle and giveaways of promotional items. The defendant arrived

between 7:30 and 8 p.m. and sat at a table near the restrooms. The bar was U-shaped, with the

back door to the parking lot at the southwest end of the U. The defendant was sitting in the

northwest corner. The defendant drank at least 10 beers, ordering 3 or 4 “buckets” of beer

(buckets filled with ice and bottles of beer). The bar was crowded, primarily with family and

friends of the owner, Jesus Medrano, Sr. Witnesses estimated that there were between 40 and 60

people there.

¶6     Sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight, the defendant went to the restroom. There he

encountered Jesus


blood on the

sleeve, and he changed it later while still at the bar.      Various witnesses testified that the

defendant left El Tenampa peacefully (accompanied to the door by Medrano, Sr.), although the

defendant testified that he was angry.

¶7     A friend gave the defendant a ride to his home, which was about 10 minutes away. The

defendant did not have his keys, so he used a hidden key to enter his home. (The defendant

originally testified that when he got home he looked for his keys and realized at that point he did

not have them. However, the defendant later testified that he realized as he was being ejected

from El Tenampa that he did not have his keys or cell phone and that he askedMedrano, Sr., to

get those items for him, but Medrano, Sr., merely repeated that the defendant had to leave.) At

his home, the defendant went to the bathroom, washed his face, and changed his clothes. He

then decided to go back to El Tenampa to get his phone and keys. He took with him a fully-

loaded .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun. The same friend who had given him a ride home

gave him a ride back to El Tenampa.

¶8                             The Shooting of Leonardo Medrano

¶9     The defendant arrived back at El Tenampa about 30 to 45 minutes after he had been

ejected, and entered


by the back door (the door most commonly used by patrons). Immediately

inside the back door was a short hallway with two side doors, one leading to the area where

drinks were served and one to the kitchen. Beyond that was the main room of El Tenampa. The

defendant testified that he had his gun in the pocket of his jacket, with the handle sticking out a

little bit. He walked into the main room and toward the area where he had been sitting earlier.

According to the defendant, when he was a short distance away from the table where he had been

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sitting, he saw that his keys and phone were not on the table and turned around to leave. Without

warning he was then grabbed from behind. He took his gun out of his pocket and fired a shot

into the floor. He fired into the floor because he did not want to hurt the man who had grabbed

him.

¶ 10    Various witnesses had differing accounts of the events that occurred immediately after

the defendant returned to the bar. Nicole Beard, a waitress at El Tenampa, testified that she was

in front of a closet near the back door when the defendant came in. He walked past her, and then

he bumped


into someone else and his coat flew open. At that point, people started screaming in

Spanish. (Beard did not understand Spanish.) The defendant kept walking toward the crowd,

and the crowd came toward him. The defendant then raised his hand above the crowd. He was

holding a gun and started shooting in the air toward the crowd. Beard heard two to four shots as

she left.

¶ 11    Medrano, Sr., testified that he did not notice that the defendant had come into the bar

until someone yelled, “He has a gun!” The defendant was standing near the dartboard (near the

restrooms) when Medrano, Sr., heard the first shot. After the first shot, the defendant began

walking back toward the exit. Leonardo Medrano (one of the owner’s sons) came up to the

defendant and triedto take his gun away. Leonardo fell back and the defendant shot him in the

leg. Leonardo’s sister Nidya Angeles covered Leonardo with her body, and the defendant kicked

at Leonardo’s face. Medrano, Sr., hit the bar’s “panic button” to call the police.

¶ 12    Angeles testified that she, Leonardo, and some others were at a table between the pool

table and the restrooms. She saw the defendant escorted out. Later, she heard someone yell, “he

has a gun!” The defendant was near the dartboard then. She saw the defendant pointing the gun,

then shooting. Leonardo was near her and the defendant pointed the gun at him. She pulled


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Leonardo backward and he fell. Angeles then covered him with her body. Angeles did not

recall the defendant shooting Leonardo. However, as she and Leonardo were lying on the floor,

she “felt kicking.”

¶ 13   Leonardo testified that he had followed his father as the defendant was escorted out after

the restroom fight. When the defendant returned about 30 minutes later, Leonardo saw him. He

approached the defendant and asked “what are you doing?” because the defendant had a gun in

his hand. Leonardo described the defendant as holding the gun with his elbow bent and the gun

pointed upward at a 45-degree angle.     As the defendant walked toward the dartboard, he

straightened his arm and began sweeping the gun back and forth in a panning motion. Leonardo

tried to grab the gun from the defendant, but the defendant pulled away and shot once. The shot

was toward Leonardo but missed him. Leonardo tried again to grab the gun. The defendant

pushed him and then shot him in the leg as he fell backward. Angeles jumped on top of

Leonardo and covered him, screaming at the defendant to leave him alone. The defendant then

kicked Leonardo in the mouth.

¶ 14   Antonio Ramirez testified that he was at El Tenampa with his brother Christiano. He was

sitting near the front door and the pool table, near the east end of the room. He saw


the

defendant escorted out after the restroom fight. About half an hour later, he saw the defendant

run in, screaming “where is he, where is he?” and scanning the bar. (This is contrary to the

testimony of most of the witnesses, who stated that the defendant did not say anything while he

was moving through the bar.) Christiano pointed the defendant out to Antonio. Antonio saw the

defendant holding the gun straight out in front of him and sweeping it back and forth toward

people in a horizontal panning motion. Antonio saw Leonardo approach the defendant and try to

calm him down. The defendant got mad and pushed Leonardo, who fell backward.                 The

            The Shooting of Mora

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¶ 18   The defendant testified that he continued toward the back door, but Tomas Mora

approached him and hit him twice on the back with a bar stool. Most of the other patrons who

testified at the trial agreed that Mora had lifted a bar stool and swung it down toward the

defendant. Medrano, Sr., who was in the service area at the time, stated that Mora missed


his

step as he was doing this and fell. The defendant shot Mora in the chest. Mora fell on the floor,

near the dance floor. The defendant conceded that, at the time Mora attacked him, he had

already fired two shots.

¶ 19   Medrano, Sr., stated that, after the defendant shot Mora, Medrano, Sr., began to shout

“bad words” at the defendant. The defendant came toward Medrano, Sr., pointing his gun at

him, and Medrano, Sr., dropped to the floor.

¶ 20                                 The Shooting of Ibarra

¶ 21   José Ibarra testified that he had arrived at El Tenampa at aboutat his father. Leonardo came out from behind the bar and approached the

defendant, grabbing him around the chest and trying to pin his arms downward. Leonardo’s

cousin Heriberto Mendez (Ibarra’s nephew) came to help, and they wrestled the defendant into

the kitchen. The lights were off in the kitchen. The defendant testified that he was trying to

leave El Tenampa but people were hitting him and he was thrown into a dark room. Medrano,

Sr., also came out from behind the bar to assist Leonardo and Mendez at this point.

¶ 24   The four men scuffled in the dark kitchen. Medrano, Sr., testified that the men were

standing at first but then they fell and continued fighting on the floor. They were yelling at the

defendant to drop the gun, but he would


not, so they continued to fight with him to try to get the

gun away from him. The defendant fired the gun “a lot of times.” At some point, Mendez was

shot in the head and died. Leonardo was shot in the foot. Medrano, Sr., was shot through the

shoulder; the bullet also grazed his neck and chin. Medrano, Sr., Leonardo, and the defendant all

agreed that the gun remained in the defendant’s hand throughout the fighting. The defendant

testified that he did not intend to pull the trigger or shoot anyone while he was in the kitchen.

Agreeing with a question from his attorney, the defendant stated that the gun might have gone

off when people in the kitchen pulled on the gun while his finger was on the trigger. Medrano,

Sr., stated that noone could get the gun away from the defendant until all of the bullets were

gone. Leonardo testified that he eventually bit the defendant on the hand to make him let go of

the gun. The defendant testified that, because he was afraid, he held on to the gun tightly until he

lost consciousness from the blows being showered on him.

¶ 25                                      The Aftermath

¶ 26   When the police arrived (in response to several calls to 911), they found a small crowd in

the kitchen, beating the defendant, who was unconscious. The defendant, Leonardo,


crime-scene investigators found eight spent .45-caliber shell casings in El

Tenampa: four in the main room and four in the kitchen. The .45-caliber handgun recovered

from the scene had a magazine that could hold eight bullets, but it was empty. A second

magazine, fully loaded with .45-caliber bullets, was also found at the scene, but no evidence

linked it to the defendant.

¶ 28                              The Verdicts and the Sentence

¶ 29   On May 13, 2010, the jury returned its verdicts. As to the charges of knowing murder,

the jury found the defendant guilty of second-degree murder as to Mora and involuntary

manslaughter as to Mendez.of Erasmo Soto, Jose Luis Ildefonso, and Manuel Tello. The

men testified that, when the defendant returned to the bar, someone grabbed him from behind.

The defendant pulled out a gun and yelled “Don’t touch me!” as a couple of men approached

him. He then shot at the floor. At that point, people began yelling and started heading toward

the door. The defendant appeared scared and began to leave, but someone blocked him while

holding a bottle in his hand. That man pushed the defendant and threw the bottle toward him,

and the defendant fired one more shot at the floor.

¶ 35   The three witnesses further testified that the defendant was going toward the exit when

someone hit him in the back, and then someone hit him in the head with a pool


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that he feared that Christiano, who had already pushed him and was blocking the exit, would hit

him with a bottle.

¶ 48   In their affidavits, the three witnesses explained that, after the defendant was grabbed

from behind after he returned to the bar, the defendant pulled out a gun and yelled “Don’t touch

me!” as men approached him, after which he shot at the floor. The defendant then tried to leave,

but was blocked by a man holding a bottle. After that man pushed thecars are placed.  During a "flat switching" operation, an engineer begins to back up a set of cars toward a designated track.  The switch list indicates in what order cars are going to be switched into each track.  A switchman then uncouples a group or "cut" of cars by pulling the pin lifter attached to the front coupling mechanism on the following car.  When the pin is lifted, the engine stops and its momentum sends the now unattached cars into the bowl-shaped area of the yard.  The descending cars are directed into the appropriate track according to the switch list where they are automatically coupled upon impact with the cars presently sitting in that track.

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In the early hours of the morning on February


6, 1992, DeBiasio was performing his duties as a switchman for IC at its Glenn Yard in Chicago.  DeBiasio was then 33 years old and had worked for IC for 13 years.  His crew included John Smith, the engineer operating the switching engine, Tony Manestar, the conductor in charge of the crew, and, Johnny Wilson, the utility switchman who at the time was lifting the pins to release cars to one of the Yard's twenty tracks.  DeBiasio was the field switchman responsible for opening and closing the switches so that the cars would roll into the proper tracks, and checking to see if the cars coupled on impact with the cars already standing on those tracks.

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DeBiasio's shift had started at 10:30 pm.  After thecrew ate "lunch" at around 2:00 in the morning, Manestar distributed the switch list for the rest of the shift's operations.  Smith lined a cut of 22 cars onto the switching lead for tracks 1-10.  In the second movement of cars after lunch, three cars were sent, or "kicked," onto track 8.  Wilson testified that he was able to pull the pin on the coupler connecting the last car to remain with the train with the three cars to be released, and the momentum of the three cars' release opened up the knuckle on IC car 388423 which remained and became the lead car for the next cut of cars.  Thus, on the subsequent movement, when six cars were released for track 3, the


lead car's coupler was in the open position, ready for coupling.  After DeBiasio flipped the switch for track 3 in preparation for this movement, he informed Manestar by radio that there was insufficient room in track 3 for the scheduled six cars.  When this happens, a cut of cars may "foul" the lead track, so that the cars do not go completely onto the designated track and thus block the lead track.  DeBiasio thus returned to track 3 to check on the progress of the six cars which had already been released.  As DeBiasio was walking along the lead to track 3, he heard the 6 cars make contact with the cars already on that track.  Listening to his radio, DeBiasio heard thatto open the knuckle on car 388423 with the pin lifter so as to prepare the cars for a second attempt at automatic coupling.  After several failed attempts with the pin lifter, DeBiasio had to place one foot inside the rail and between the cars in order to try to manually open the knuckle.  At this point, DeBiasio heard a loud impact against the cars on track 3 and was pushed over by the oncoming cut of cars.  His left arm was caught under the wheels of one of the cars, resulting in its amputation at the shoulder.

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On April 3, 1992, DeBiasio brought this action against IC alleging negligence in violation of FELA, and the failure to maintain couplers which couple automatically upon impact, in


authenticated as the knuckle thrower in question, although he did permit IC's counsel to secure an admission from Appelt that exhibit 33 was not broken.  During IC's presentation of its case, it introduced testimony from David Hall, the IC employee in charge of investigating the accident, that he had directed M.O. Jones to retrieve the coupler off of car 388423 and bring it to him.  He also testified that the knuckle thrower Jones brought to him was now labeled exhibit 33.  At this point, the jury knew that exhibit 33 was not broken, but it did not know whether exhibit 33 was the actual knuckle thrower DeBiasio's expert had claimed to be broken.  When IC called Jones to testify that he did indeed retrieveinteracting with his family, would prompt the jury to award damages to him for his family's loss instead of solely as compensation for DeBiasio's injuries.  See New York C. & Hudson River R.R. Co. v. Tonsellito, 244 U.S. 360, 37 S.Ct. 620, 61 L.Ed. 1194 (1917) (jury not entitled to consider damages for non-railroad employees).  The trial judge viewed the video in its entirety outside the presence of the jury.  When the video was displayed before the jury, the trial judge explicitly instructed the jury that they were not to consider the accident's harm to his family.  Finally, DeBiasio was both present in the courtroom and subject to cross-examination.  "The possibility that a film will be prejudicial is significantly reduced when the subject


IC did secure admissions that DeBiasio's injuries did not foreclose his ever working again in any capacity.  The only jobs IC contended were reasonably available to him, though, were the two jobs with the railroad which he would have been emotionally unable to handle according to his psychologist.  IC presented no counter evidence that DeBiasio could have handled the jobs offered to him.  Nor did IC offer any evidence as to other jobs available to DeBiasio and at what salaries.  Considering his search for another job in his brother's business, and his chiropractor's testimony that he will continue to suffer muscle spasms and be subject to the risk of shoulder and back injury, the jury was entitled to find that DeBiasio had satisfied hisGreat Falls founder Paris Gibson made an unsuccessful pitch in the 1893 Montana Legislature for the new state to place a single-unit university in his city.

He even offered the state free land along the Missouri River where the Meadow Lark Country Club now is located and a sizable cash endowment, according to Montana State historians Michael Malone and Richard Roeder.

But, the historians recounted in their 1976 book, “Montana: A History of Two Centuries,” legislators rejected Gibson’s “lucrative and sensible offer” of a Great Falls site and instead created a four unit-system, “to gratify several ambitious cities and keep hard feelings to a minimum.”

Missoula received the university, Bozeman an agricultural college, Butte a school of mines and Dillon a normal college, or school to train teachers. And Great Falls


Falls was situated in a good place from which to ferry planes and other military goods to World War II ally Russia via Canada and Alaska in the 1940s, when a military base was placed first on Gore Hill and later moved east of Great Falls to present-day Malmstrom Air Force Base.

After the war, Great Falls had favorable traits as the Air Force sought sites to place fighter and bomber units in active duty and Guard bases, Robison said. It was near wide open range land that was away from the mountains for training flights, had many clear, sunny days for flying, chinook winds to ward off winter snow in the winter and was a big enough city to provide support services.

“Regardless of where the universities were situated,Great Falls would have been attractive to the military for placing installations, from World War II on,” he said.

Fritz said prominent U.S. Sen. Mike Mansfield might not have lobbied so hard in the late 1950s to place land-based nuclear missiles at Malmstrom if Great Falls had been a thriving college town, but noted the ICBMs had to go somewhere and were placed in rural areas of North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana.

Robison agreed.

“Missile bases were built in rural states near communities with the resources to serve them, so Great Falls was a logical site,” he said.

“But if Great Falls had ended up as a combined liberal arts and agricultural university, there likely would have been a lot more people lined up at those Easter antiwar protests held for several


Matt Storin in ‘House of Cards’? Yes and no.

Not mentioned in any of the reviews we’ve read of the new Netflix series “House of Cards” is that Brit Michael Dobbs, the author of the novel on which the show is based, was once a copy editor at The Boston Globe. It was the early 1970s and Dobbs was a student at the Fletcher School at Tufts. During his tenure at the Globe, Dobbs became friendly with a number of Globies, including Matt Storin, who was then the newspaper’s metro editor. Well, fast forward several years. Dobbs, who returned to England and became a top adviser to Margaret Thatcher, wrote “House of Cards” in 1989. One of the primary characters in the political thriller is a female journalist namedU.S. House of Representatives

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