Rakesh Asthana will hold additional charge after CBI chief Anil Sinha retired today.

Highlights CBI Director Anil Sinha retired, handing over the baton to Rakesh Asthana

Mr Asthana got elevated as the second-in-command in CBI 2 days ago

First time in 10 years that no new CBI chief has been named

For the first time in 10 years and only the second time in the agency's history, the Central Bureau of Investigation or CBI will have no full time chief. Rakesh Asthana, a Gujarat cadre officer will hold additional charge after CBI chief Anil Sinha retired today.Rakesh Asthana is said to be the Modi government's top choice for the post having been handpicked for the agency as soon as the BJP-led government took office in 2014. But the Indian Police Service orIPS officer of the 1984 batch is not even on the panel of about six officers in line to be the next chief.The frontrunner based on seniority, Special Director RK Dutta, was removed from the race in a sudden transfer on Wednesday night to another department in the Home Ministry.That made Mr Asthana, who is an additional director in the CBI, the number 2 in the agency after Anil Sinha. Mr Asthana is in charge of investigating important cases like the AugustaWestland chopper deal and CBI cases against liquor baron Vijay Mallya.The committee that appoints the CBI chief - which has on it the Prime Minister, the Chief Justice of India and the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha - has not yet met to decide on


the next chief. The CBI chief is appointed for a two-year term; Anil Sinha completed his two years today."The competent authority has approved assignment of additional charge of the post of Director, Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), to Rakesh Asthana, IPS, Additional Director, CBI with effect from the date of relinquishment of charge by Anil Kumar Sinha, IPS on completion of his tenure with immediate effect and until further orders," said an order issued by the Department of Personnel and Training.

The post of second special secretary was created in the ministry to accommodate Mr Dutta, whose transfer raised eyebrows since he was in charge of two sensitive corruption cases - the coal allocation case and the 2G scam cases. The Supreme Court has ordered that no officer connectedSyntax and its Limits

Edited by Raffaella R. Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Robert Truswell

Syntax and its Limits

Edited by Raffaella R. Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Robert Truswell

Description

In this book, leading linguists explore the empirical scope of syntactic theory, by concentrating on a set of phenomena for which both syntactic and nonsyntactic analyses initially appear plausible. Exploring the nature of such phenomena permits a deeper understanding of the nature of syntax and of neighbouring modules and their interaction. The book contributes to both traditional work in generative syntax and to the recent emphasis placed on questions related to the interfaces. The major topics covered include areas of current intensive research within the Minimalist Program and syntactic theory more generally, such as constraints on scope and binding relations, information-structural effects on syntactic


structure, the structure of words and idioms, argument- and
event-structural alternations, and the nature of the relations between syntactic, semantic, and phonological representations.

After the editors' introduction, the volume is organized into four thematic sections: architectures; syntax and information structure; syntax and the lexicon; and lexical items at the interfaces. The volume is of interest to syntactic theorists, as well as linguists and cognitive scientists working in neighbouring disciplines such as lexical and compositional semantics, pragmatics and discourse structure, and morphophonology, and anyone with an interest in the modular architecture of the language faculty.

Syntax and its Limits

Edited by Raffaella R. Folli, Christina Sevdali, and Robert Truswell

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Raffaella Folli,Christina Sevdali,Robert Truswell

Raffaella Folli is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ulster. Her research interests are theoretical and comparative syntaxand language processing, with special focus on the syntax-lexicon and the syntax-semantics interface. She has published her work in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry, Journal of Linguistics, Lingua, Trends in Cognitive Science among others, as well as in several edited volumes.

Christina Sevdali is a lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Ulster. She received her BA from the University of Crete and her MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge. Her main area of expertise is Ancient Greek syntax, but her research interests also
include multilingual acquisition, and the syntax - morphology interface, particularly case. Her paper "Ancient Greek infinitives and Phases" will appear in Syntax and her collaboration with Artemis Alexiadou and Elena Anagnostopoulou on "Patterns of dative -nominative alternations" will appear in the Proceedings of NELS


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Robert Truswell is Assistant Professor of Syntax at the University of Ottawa. Prior to that, he was a PhD student at University College London, and a postdoc at Tufts University and the University of Edinburgh. He has published on various aspects of the syntax-semantics interface, including Events, Phrases, and Questions (OUP, 2011), and has other research interests in diachronic syntax and the evolution of language.Chargers sign ex-Raider to practice squad

The Chargers completed their eight-man practice roster Tuesday, signing offensive tackle Kevin Haslam, who spent all of training camp and the preseason with the Raiders. San Diego will face his former team in next Monday's season opener.

Haslam is entering his third year in the NFL.

The first two ended on injured reserve.

Haslam, undrafted out of Rutgers, broke into the league in 2010 with the Jaguars. He saw limited snaps in five games before suffering a season-ending hand injury.

He was sidelined all of last season with a torn MCL, and the Jaguars released him in March.

The Raiders signed the 6-foot-5, 310-pounder in May, keeping him throughout training camp and the preseason before waiving him last week.

The Chargers have no quarterbacks on their practice squad.

That is


Trevor Ariza, Gerald Green suspended two games each for locker room visit in Los Angeles

The Houston Rockets have two big games coming up and they’ll now be without two key rotation players in both of them.

The NBA handed down punishment for the locker room incident in Los Angeles on Monday and both Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green have been suspended two games each, according to Adrian Wojnarowski. The Rockets face the Timberwolves on Thursday and the Warriors on Friday, both games at Toyota Center.

Neither Chris Paul nor James Harden (who is expected to play Thursday) were given any penalty of any kind, a clear sign that many reports that initially came out about one or both being aggressors were false.

The NBA’s official report concluded Harden and Paul weresimply there to “defuse the situation.”

During the league’s investigation, which included more than 20 interviews with executives, staff, coaches and players from both teams, as well as arena personnel, it was determined that Ariza and Green entered the Clippers’ locker room immediately after the game and engaged in a hostile, verbal altercation with several Clippers players. The league’s investigation further concluded that Rockets players, James Harden and Chris Paul, followed Ariza and Green into the corridor outside the locker room in an effort to defuse the situation and accordingly, discipline was not warranted.

Unfortunately, Blake Griffin, who escalated the problem on the court when he targeted coach Mike D’Antoni, was not given any punishment.

Here's the play where Blake Griffin went right at D'Antoni on the way up the court,


Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Book Review: Starship Grifters

Starship Grifters is a crazy story about a gambling, alcoholic, con-artist and his robot assistant that accidentally become owners of a planet that put them deep in debt and smack-dab in the center of a conflict between the current galactic empire and the rebels who want to overthrow it.

There are character names like Rex Nihilo and General Issimo, the Malarchy Empire, and the prison planet Gulagatraz. There are borrowed quotes from The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy and Star Wars, as well as plenty of other similarities and ... parodies. If Ex Nihilo means out of nothing, then does Rex Nihilo mean king of nothing? There were probably other names that had plays on words that I didn't catch.

Taken piecemeal, that wouldmake this book seem quite silly and derivative. However, on the whole it all works. I got caught up in the story, and the absolute wonder of how Rex Nihilo spins his yarns to con people, and the witty, snarky banter between him and his robot assistant Sasha.

If Douglas Adams and Mel Brooks wrote Star Wars as an episode of Leverage, and JJ Abrams and Michael Bay directed and produced it for the SyFy channel, you might end up with something close to Starship Grifters.

And that twist at the end... just another crazy whiskey tango foxtrot moment in a book full of fun moments.

Starship Grifters was provided to me by the author for review. Thanks!


money, and pay themselves £400,000 salaries, in a decade when austerity has dominated every other public service, including schools and hospitals?

It is a morality tale of opportunism and greed on the part of vice-chancellors, and one thing leading to another, in a typically unplanned British way, on the part of successive governments. It all began 30 years ago, with seriously underfunded universities trying to work out a survival strategy in the face of Margaret Thatcher’s dislike of all things public sector – particularly universities, after Oxford refused to grant her an honorary degree in 1985. In an act of semi-privatisation, the Thatcher government removed controls on fees for international students. There were campus demonstrations, but this sensible deregulation soon established a vibrant market for students from overseas, givinghigher education a vital source of non-state income. It also converted the vice-chancellors to the cause of fees for home students.

Tony Blair followed, with his mantra “education, education, education”. But he really meant “schools, schools, schools”, which were the political priority of Middle England. When the vice-chancellors realised that they were not New Labour favourites, they agitated hard for fees higher than the modest £1,000 at which they were introduced in 1998. As Blair’s head of policy, I was on the receiving end, and persuaded him that he should forge a new settlement for university funding – copying the Australian scheme of part-payment by students on a sliding scale to reflect cost and benefit, with repayments made only after graduation through the tax system, with no interest. That


missiles that can target anywhere in the mainland United States.

Diplomacy has stalled since the June summit between Trump and Kim in Singapore, with Washington pushing for more action on nuclear disarmament and the North insisting the US first approve a peace declaration formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War.

Professor Yang Moo-jin, from the University of North Korea Studies in Seoul, South Korea, said Friday’s test was “a signal to the US sent ahead of the high-level talks that its own patience is also wearing thin”.day, with the flight, just wanted to come in today and make sure everything was good. And it is."

With Mark Trumbo on the 15-day disabled list because of a stress fracture in his left foot and Cody Ross being given a game off in his comeback from last year's severe hip injury and surgery, the D-backs had a shortage of top-line outfielders on Friday.

Pollock is batting .235 with a homer and two RBIs in 21 games. Trumbo leads the club with seven homers and 19 RBIs.

"I want to get in there," Pollock said. "I want to contribute to the team and help win. The injury was kind of a shocker. It happened just taking a swing against [Josh] Beckett. It was a curveball and I was out in


front. Right when it happened, it was a jolt in the upper back area. It was one of those things I was hoping was going to loosen up as the game went on.

"It just got worse and worse to a point where I had trouble picking my head up in the field. Some guys who had it said it usually took around four or five days. It's four days now so I'm good."Mission 26 The Big Endeavour

A very special thanks to the City of Inglewood, Chief of Police Mark Fronterotta, Lieutenant James Madia, Sergeant Dirk Dewachter, and to the Men and Women of the Inglewood Police Department. None of this would have been possible without them.

This project was only made possible by the help of a truly amazing and talented timelapse team which included; Joe Capra, Chris Pritchard, Brian Hawkins, Andrew Walker, Ryan Killackey and myself.

This truly was a once in a lifetime opportunity that we are so happy and honored to have been be a part of.

The endeavor started on Thursday night and went on until Sunday night, with very little sleep to no sleep. The only thing that kept us going was pure love of the art and


Nine Roman ships have been uncovered during construction at Pisa's San Rossore train station. Ship D (right), a small utilitarian vessel, is the best preserved.

Summoned last April to survey a construction site in Pisa, Italian archaeologist Stefano Bruni never imagined what he would find: nine well-preserved Roman ships--the largest group of ancient vessels ever discovered in a single place--and part of Pisa's classical port. Eight months of patient testing had yielded little, and construction of an office building at the San Rossore train station was proceeding. Then, in December, builders sinking a corrugated steel retaining wall to support the sides of the foundation pit realized they had bisected an ancient ship, nearly intact, its wooden frame and planks still held together by copper nails. During the next fivemonths, eight others were found, dating between the second century B.C. and the fifth century A.D., from Pisa's florescence as a Republican naval naval base to the end of the Roman Empire. Bruni's original cores had stopped in what seemed like sterile soil three inches shy of the discovery of a lifetime.

Clad in a professorial tweed jacket, pipe in hand, Bruni, of the Archaeological Superintendency of Tuscany, surveys his domain with the confidence of a man whose name is made. The vast foundation pit, nearly 300 feet long and 150 feet wide, stretches out before us, a temporary concrete floor interrupted at intervals by green corrugated plastic roofs supported on scaffolding. Beneath each shelter, archaeologists from the Florence-based contract firm Co.Idra, working under Bruni's supervision, are excavating the


asset, and ancient sources mention fleets setting out from it for Gaul and Spain during the Second Punic War (218-201 B.C.). Thanks to Bruni's excavations, the area of San Rossore is now recognized as site of the Porto delle Conche (Port of the Basins), a small tidal lake near the mouth of the Auser River mentioned by the sixteenth-century historian Raffaello Roncioni. In antiquity the Porto delle Conche was evidently one of Pisa's harbors, and, as in any harbor, some vessels sank or were abandoned at anchor. During the past 2,000 years, large amounts of silt washing downriver were deposited on the basin floor, covering and protecting ships as they sank and eventually filling the basin altogether.Larry Young

Articles By Larry Young

Fri, November 30th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

A cannon, stout, noble cannon; off its
railings and loose upon the deck. The cannon points every which way with
the bounding of the sea... the cannon points this week at PREVIEWS and
its import and necessity.

Fri, November 9th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

Fri, November 2nd, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

Apparently this week Larry is filled with the Milk of
Human Kindness, or something, because he gives the other four premier
comic book vendors a money-making idea that his company's been using for
a while.

Fri, October 26th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

This week, Larry talks to writer Matt Fraction about dinosaurs, DVDs, comic books, and Getting The Job Done. You know that bit in Star Trek where Riker and Worf sit down and


sum things up? This is like that.

Fri, October 19th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

A couple of ruminations this week, from Our Man Lar, detailing what ancillary merchandise has got to do with anything, how Spider-man first climbed up Half Dome in Yosemite, and what Mike Allred says about comic books.

Fri, October 5th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

Fri, September 28th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

This week, Larry sees a stylish rebirth of hackneyed science fiction, a "fixing" of a concept that wasn't really broken in the first place, and makes a bet with one of you folks reading this right this very second.

Fri, July 27th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

Fri, July 13th, 2001 | Category: Comic Books

There's a chimpanzee at the dinner table, there's a fond remembrance of 1970sThe U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday urged China to stop censoring news about the Tiananmen Square crackdown as authorities enforced a tight blackout ahead of the 25th anniversary.

In a nearly unanimous vote, the House of Representatives approved a resolution that called on China “to stop censoring information about the Tiananmen Square massacre.”

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It urged the country to “end the harassment, detention, torture and imprisonment of Chinese citizens expressing their legitimate freedom of religion, expression and association, including on the Internet.”

Representative Nancy Pelosi, the House leader of President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party, brought onto the floor a framed copy — signed by exiled dissidents — of the famous picture of the man who stood alone on June 5, 1989 to hinder a column of tanks at the square in


on the court in some way.

The team accomplished the win by evenly spreading out both their defensive and offensive strategy, which often tripped up St. Johnsbury and had them chasing. This was very noticable in the fourth quarter as the Colonels forced the Hilltoppers to put up some desperate shots from the outside. Taylor Bird was instrumental to the Colonels in the same quarter, scoring five points on the evening.

Abbie Lesure led the Colonels with 11 points and seven assists. Her initial make was a welcome 3 in the first period that kept Brattleboro close, though the Hilltoppers managed 18 points for a four-point lead heading into the second. Brattleboro’s Daisy Giroux and Alyssa Bezanson each had a bucket and a steal.

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Brattleboro’s Meghan Powell came off the benchto score all seven of her points in the opening quarter. After Aiden Early set the pick, Powell received a pass from Lesure underneath, to throw in a layup, in the first.

Meghan Siggins and Lesure poured in all of the Colonel 3-pointers. Siggins splashed two back-to-back in the second and third quarters, and Lesure’s duo came in the first and last quarters. Siggins finished with six points.

It was the Colonels’ first contest in which the team had less turnovers than their opponents.

The Colonels biggest struggle this season has been their offense, and this game showed a vast improvement. They moved the ball better to create opportunities, and handled it well down the stretch.

Freed attributes the Friday night victory to a few recent productive team practices. "I knew it


was going to take all of us tonight," he said.

The Colonels changed up their defense several times, which worked well against St. Johnsbury, a structured, desciplined crew.

The Colonels subs put on a good show as well.

Molly Goodhue may have had the hardest role of anybody. The Brattleboro senior guard was thrown to the lions in the second half with the game hinging on a few points. She put together four points, all in a critical fourth quarter, and was also a big help to teammate Ari Harrison, when she got in trouble. Harrsion ended up with six points and teammate Kayla Savage chipped in with four.

The Colonels adjusted with better rebounding in the later part of the game, and did an excellent job holding their opponents to usuallyto remain. So on the biggest issue in British politics for a generation, two-thirds of Labour MPs had a dissident view to their constituents.

None of this will have passed Ukip by. Over the last five years, the party has attempted to redefine itself: ditching the reputation as the party of crusty retirees in the south, and replace it with an altogether more abrasive image. Even if they only have a solitary MP - and he is a Tory defector - Ukip have been remarkably successful. They came within 600 votes of ousting Labour in the Heywood and Middleton by-election at the end of 2014, and then gained 3.8 million votes in the general election. Ukip came second in 120 seats, 44 of which were held by Labour. In


two favourites to be Ukip’s next leader are Steven Woolfe (pictured, left) and Paul Nuttall: two working-class men from the north who grew up in Labour-supporting households. Together, they have led Ukip’s surge into Labour territory. Indeed, it was Nuttall who pioneered Ukip’s use of pavement politics in by-elections in the north, in 2011.

Either would double down on Ukip’s strategy of targeting disaffected Labour voters. Their backstories - Woolfe grew up on a council estate in Moss Side, and was in the same class as Noel Gallagher; Nuttall’s youth was spent in in Bootle, a dockyard town next to Liverpool, and played football with Jamie Carragher - leave them well-primed to attack Labour for inauthenticity. Woolfe, who is mixed race and endured racist abuse growing up, would becomeNewt Gingrich received a major financial boost on Monday when the family who donated $5m to an organisation supporting his campaign earlier this month gave another $5m.

The money came from Miriam Adelson, wife of Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino and hotel owner, revealed Nevada political journalist Jon Ralston in his Las Vegas Sun column.Details of the donation emerged as Gingrich made public his contract with the government-backed mortgage giant Freddie Mac, which many Republicans blame, alongside sister organisation Fannie Mae, for playing a key role in the subprime mortgage crisis.

Gingrich received at least $1.6m advising the giant lender, a fact that Romney is using as the main focus of his attacks on the former speaker as he attempts to regain the initiative after his massive defeat in


South Carolina.

The 15-page contract shows that Gingrich was paid $25,000 a month for "Consulting and related services as requested by Freddie Mac's Director, Public policy". Beyond that, the contract appears to contain little other detail on what Gingrich's role involved. It remains to be seen whether the release will be enough to stop the criticism.

On Twitter, senior Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom questioned why Gingrich had released only the 2006 contract when he had advised them since 1999. "Under Freddie contract, Newt has to provide monthly a 'detailed description of the services provided'. Why not release that?" Fehrnstrom wrote.

Florida was one of the states hit hardest by the ensuing housing collapse, and the former House speaker's ties to the controversial lender look set to be a major talking pointat tonight's Republican debate in Tampa.

Earlier on Monday, Romney attacked Gingrich at a rally in Daytona Beach: "He talks about great, bold movements and ideas. Well, what's he been doing for 15 years? He's been working as a lobbyist … that's selling influence around Washington," he told supporters at a rally.

In an interview with ABC on Monday morning, Gingrich denied he had ever worked as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and had only been an adviser. "I did no lobbying, period," Gingrich said.

"Strategic advisor?" queried New Jersey governor Chris Christie, a Romney supporter, on NBC's Sunday show, Meet The Press. "That is the oldest Washington dodge in the book. That's because he didn't want to register as a lobbyist ... First he said he was


a historian, now he says he was a strategic advisor. He was using his influence that he obtained in public office to try to help get paid $1.6m."

The need for the Romney campaign to get the 'lobbyist' charge to stick was given added urgency by a series of polls released showing that Romney's double-digit lead in Florida has evaporated, with Gingrich either in the lead or in a dead heat. Insider Advantage has Gingrich at 34% to Romney's 26%, with Ron Paul at 13% and Rick Santorum 11%.

Rasmussen has Gingrich at 41% to Romney's 32% while Public Policy Polling said its poll, still to be released, has the two tied.

The latest injection of Adelson money for the Gingrich-backing organisation, Winning Our Future, means that Romney no longer massivelyoutguns the former Speaker in his ability to buy expensive television advertising slots, a crucial factor in the Florida race.

Sheldon Adelson is the eighth wealthiest American, with a $23bn fortune, capable of sustaining Gingrich all the way through the nominating process if necessary. But Gingrich, on the back of the success of South Carolina, will see money coming in from other sources too.


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In his United States debut, Jerwin Ancajas retained his 115-pound world title for the fourth time as he knocked out Israel Gonzalez in the 10th round of Saturday night's undercard in Corpus Christi, Texas.

That's when Ramirez, the heavy favorite, dominated Habib "Wild Hurricane" Ahmed en route to a sixth-round knockout before about 3,200 in the main event of the Top Rank ESPN card at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Ramirez, the first-ever Mexican to win a 168-pound world title, retained his belt for the third time and, in the process, scored his first knockout in six fights dating to 2014.

Ramirez said before the fight he wanted to score a knockout. He was very aware it had been quite a while since his last stoppage.

"It was


really important," he said. "We've been training a lot for this fight, and we were training for a knockout, and we made it. I was trying to hit the body. I kept my belt. It was my night."

It was a spirited fight, but Ramirez, with a longer reach and better skills, was in control for the entire fight. At the time of the knockout, he was ahead 50-45 on all three scorecards.

Gilberto "Zurdo" Ramirez, left, said he would like to eventually face the winner of the eight-man World Boxing Super Series super middleweight tournament. Photo provided by Mikey Williams/Top Rank

Ahmed, 27, of Ghana and making his United States debut, had an awkward style, and it led to an accidental head butt that opened a cut over Ramirez's lefteye in the third round. But Ramirez was undeterred. He continued to go at Ahmed with combinations and rattled him with a combination later in the third round.

As Ramirez came forward firing punches, Ahmed did his best to hang with him. He landed a few decent shots but was constantly on the move trying to escape Ramirez's pressure, so even when he landed, he did not have much leverage on the punches.

Ramirez (37-0, 25 KOs), a 26-year-old southpaw, chased him all over the place and cornered him in the fifth round before landing heavy head shots, especially with his left hand, that had the crowd cheering.

He continued to land big shots in the sixth round, and Ahmed (25-1-1, 17 KOs) looked to be wearing down. A big right


hand rocked Ahmed badly with a minute to go in the sixth round. Ahmed tried to escape, but Ramirez chased him down again. He hurt him to the body and head and was pouring it on when referee Laurence Cole stepped in and stopped the fight at 2 minutes, 31 seconds.

Punch stats

Punches

Ramirez

Ahmed

Landed

123

22

Thrown

406

190

Percent

30%

12%

-- Courtesy of CompuBox

"Zurdo was the better man in the ring tonight," Ahmed said. "I tried, but he was all over me. His experience in big fights was too much for me to handle."

Ramirez's domination was evident in the CompuBox punch statistics. He landed 123 of 406 shots (30 percent), and Ahmed landed only 22 of 190 (12 percent). Ramirez landed at least 14 punches in every round and 40 body shots overall.

Ahmed never landed double-digit punchesin any round. In the fourth round, he landed only one punch.

With Ramirez having taken care of Ahmed, Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said he expects Ramirez to fight up to three more times this year, including in May, then in a September defense in Australia followed by another in December.

Eventually, Ramirez would like to face the winner of the eight-man World Boxing Super Series super middleweight tournament, which is in its semifinal stage. World titleholder George Groves and British rival Chris Eubank Jr. meet in one semifinal on Feb. 17, and British contender Callum Smith will face former light heavyweight world titleholder Juergen Braehmer in the other semifinal on Feb. 24. The winners will meet in the final on a date to be announced in May or


Moments later Hart, 28, of Philadelphia, unloaded a five-punch combination to drop Awimbono, 37, a Ghana native fighting out of Las Vegas, again, and referee Lee Rogers stopped the bout at 1 minute, 28 seconds.

"I really prepared. That was tremendous," Hart said. "I was mentally prepared. It was a lot of mental preparation."

Hart was fighting for only the second time without his father in his corner because he was in Philadelphia under the weather.

"That was very frustrating," Hart said. "That was hard. But my dad is watching back home. This is for you, dad."

Now Hart wants a rematch with Ramirez.

"I want that rematch as bad as I can taste it," he said. "I can't sleep knowing that loss is on my mind. I have to avenge that one.I want him. My eyes are locked on him."

Lopez, 20, of Las Vegas, who fought in the 2016 Olympics for his parents' home country of Honduras, fought as a junior welterweight because Sanchez, 29, of Mexico, came in very overweight at 144.5 pounds, but the size difference did not help him.

Lopez's speed, power and skills were far superior. However, an accidental head butt in the second round left Lopez with a deep cut over his left eye. It bled for the rest of the fight, but Lopez never seemed in distress and did not panic.

He rocked Sanchez with a left in the fourth round and doled out major punishment in the fifth round when he forced him to the ropes and connected with several punches in a sustained


somewhat suspect. The Court therefore relies on the report of Holloman, who is a licensed engineer.[7]
Holloman's report is attached as Exhibit "9" to Plaintiff's Response and Evidence in Support of Motion to Remand. In the report, Holloman attributes the cause of the subject accident to improperly functioning brakes on the trailer. Holloman attributes the brake malfunction to improper maintenance by Choctaw Maid. Regarding Holloman's conclusion that Choctaw Maid failed to properly maintain the brake system, he relies in part on the maintenance records of Choctaw Maid for the subject trailer. On a maintenance record dated April 30, 1999, the mechanic's note states "need brake job." The subject accident occurred on September 27, 1999. Between April 30 and September 27, the maintenance records indicate that the brakes on theJohn Heilemann (Credit: MSNBC) After Bernie Sanders takes Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton "no longer guaranteed a win in her home state" of New York John Heilemann said Clinton will spend next two weeks explaining "why she can't put away" a 74-year-old socialist

John Heilemann, the award-winning reporter who co-wrote "Game Change" and "Double Down" with Mark Halperin after the last presidential election cycle, was on MSNBC this morning pontificating about the possibility that Bernie Sanders' victory in Wisconsin Tuesday night has opened the door for a Hillary Clinton defeat in New York later this month.

Not winning what is, nominally, her home state would be a disaster for the Clinton campaign. "Primaries here are crazy," Heilemann said, "because this is the home of the national media."

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"For the next two weeks, Hillary


Clinton -- who is not guaranteed a win in this, her home state -- is going to face questions about why she can't 'put away' the 74-year-old socialist" Bernie Sanders.

"He's going to throw a rally next Wednesday," Heilemann continued, "and Sanders could draw 20,000 people. That would be -- the optics of seeing Sanders go around her 'home' state and draw crowds five or ten times larger than hers -- it's going to be like the Beatles." Which is not, presumably, what he meant to say, but his point is clear -- it would not be good for her campaign to have Sanders significantly out-draw in the weeks leading up to the election.

Watch the entire segment below via MSNBC.two good reasons to avoid intervention in Vietnam. Victory, first of all, would have been very costly. Eisenhower could never forget that he had won the presidency on a peace platform. The American people had elected him to end a war in Asia, not to start a new one. Second, he harbored a strong strategic objection to American involvement in Vietnam—one that he refrained from expressing until years later. In the early 1960s, when he was out of office and writing his memoirs, he drafted the following passage, which did not make it into the published text:

The standing of the United States as the most powerful of the anti-colonial powers is an asset of incalculable value to the Free World. It means that our counsel is trusted where


general it will make you a big hero. Why don't you take advantage of the sudden popularity to do something really statesmanlike?'" What, precisely, did Roosevelt have in mind? Alpha, of course. He urged Nasser to make a peace overture.

Roosevelt was playing a weak hand. A peace initiative would, of course, entirely destroy Nasser's gains. Defiance of the West and Israel was the engine that was rocketing him to the heights of Arab politics. A public call for peace with Israel would cast him back to earth like a stone. For Nasser, however, it made no sense to explain the laws of gravity to the Americans. The Soviet arms were already in the pipeline, and what he most needed from Roosevelt was insurance, lest the Americans were toindependence as rapidly and as fully as possible." While the Americans and their European allies stood as one in the North Atlantic arena, "any areas encroaching in some form or manner on the problem of so-called colonialism, [will] find the United States playing an independent role."

Faced with this downgrade, Eden saw only two stark choices: defeat at the hands of Nasser, or war. The Americans, however, were still convinced that they were defining a third option. Their realistic alternative to war, in their minds, was not limited to SCUA; they were also proposing a host of other measures, based on the Omega strategy, to diminish Nasser's power—measures that included covert action. Eisenhower's favorite idea, in this context, was still to detach Saudi Arabia from Egypt and to build


fact that Nasser seems to be the first successful leader of the Arab world in a thousand years. He has become the hero of the masses because he has enjoyed an unbroken series of successes, due largely to our support. In the past, U.S. support has not prevented Nasser from pursuing his ambitions. Nasser's unbroken series of successes include getting the British out of the Suez bases, taking over the Suez Canal Company, taking over Syria, getting the United Kingdom, France and Israel to suspend hostilities against Egypt, and having the government of Iraq overthrown. In connection with the British-French-Israeli attack on Egypt, Secretary Dulles noted that Egypt had been saved because the United States had upheld the principles of the Charter [of the United Nations] and inscores of Egyptian soldiers, the raid exposed Nasser to attacks from hawkish officers in his inner circle. To cover his nationalist flank, Nasser cut the arms deal with the Soviet Union, but in his heart of hearts, he believed that the natural place of Egypt was in the Western camp. At first, Eisenhower and Dulles recognized that attempts to pressure Nasser would simply drive him closer to the Soviet Union. Before long, however, restraint gave way to impatience, and they adopted a strategy designed to contain Nasser—Omega—which led Dulles to deny funding for the Aswan High Dam in a manner calculated to offend. This ham-fisted power play enraged Nasser, who reacted by nationalizing the Suez Canal. After the United States blundered into the crisis, Eisenhower, who had been


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SI World Cup Preview Issue Cover: Argentina's Lionel Messi

Lionel Messi has just about done it all. He's won multiple UEFA Champions League titles, league championships, domestic cups and FIFA Ballon d'Or crowns with FC Barcelona. He's already entered the "Best Ever" conversation while still just 26, scoring an incredible 354 goals in 425 matches to become Barcelona's all-time scoring leader. He's won the admiration of fans, teammates and opponents across the world. One thing he hasn't done? Win the World Cup.

Messi could forever cement his legacy by leading Argentina to a World Cup title on rival Brazil's soil this summer. The comparisons to Argentine legend Diego Maradona will always be prevalent, and some may say that Messi has already surpassedMaradona in the all-time soccer hierarchy based on his skill, talent and club production alone.

But Maradona has one accomplishment that Messi has yet to achieve: Leading Argentina to the World Cup title. The pressure is on Messi to match that feat this summer, perhaps his final World Cup while playing at the true height of his abilities. The fact that Brazil's Neymar, his superstar club teammate but South American international adversary, could stand in his way adds another potential obstacle that would turn Messi's already storybook career into an unequivocal legendary tale.


Davis Cup Qualifying Previews: Morocco at Australia, Japan at Chile

Posted on September 24, 2004

Tennis-X will take a look at two Davis Cup qualifying matches per day leading to the beginning of play on Friday, Sept. 24. Four countries will advance to the World Group, while the four losers will wallow for at least another year in the minor leagues of Davis Cup zonal play.

The eight qualifying matches this weekend are Morocco at Australia, Japan at Chile, Belgium at Croatia, Czech Republic at Paraguay, Germany at Slovak Republic, Great Britain at Austria, Canada at Romania, and Thailand at Russia.

This was at least a match before Younes El Aynaoui pulled with his chronic foot problem and Hicham Arazi said he wouldn't play because the Moroccan federation wasn't paying him enoughits lack of visa paperwork and cheap accommodation prices, it’s one of the most affordable European destinations for South African passport holders.

Why You Should Visit Armenia

It was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity as a state religion. Visit Echmiadzin Cathedral, the first Christian cathedral in the world.

as a state religion. Visit Echmiadzin Cathedral, the first Christian cathedral in the world. Head to the mountains to gaze upon Lake Sevan. The largest like in the Caucasus that looks like the water surface is touching the sky when you sit on the bank.

that looks like the water surface is touching the sky when you sit on the bank. Visit a traditional restaurant in Yerevan and taste one of the oldest cuisines in Europe and the South Caucasus.

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have to dinosaurs in their natural habitat at Komodo National Park.

– The Komodo Dragon. Visit the closest thing we have to dinosaurs in their natural habitat at Komodo National Park. 20% of the world’s coral reefs can be found in Indonesia , making it an ultimate destination for scuba divers. Explore the many shipwrecks off its shores, and if you are lucky, you might even spot a whale shark or two.

, making it an ultimate destination for scuba divers. Explore the many shipwrecks off its shores, and if you are lucky, you might even spot a whale shark or two. Visit Borobudur – the largest Buddhist temple in the world. Made up of over 2000 relief panels and 500+ Buddha statues, this 9th-century temple is an amazing sitefestival runs from March to May and the tunnels of pink that blanket the country can put Japan to shame.

from March to May and the tunnels of pink that blanket the country can put Japan to shame. Visit the Bongeunsa Temple in Seoul . It is the home of Buddhism in the country and over 1000 years old.

. It is the home of Buddhism in the country and over 1000 years old. Watch dawn break on top of Seongsan Sunrise Peak. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the most popular hiking routes in the country.

Visa Information: 30-day visa for South Africans

Exchange Rate: R 1 / 83.26 Won

Direct Flights: Johannesburg to Seoul R 9000+ return

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Visa-free Countries in the Middle East for South African Passport Holders

9. Jordan

Jordan is a land of lost cities, incredible landscapes and epic adventures. Not only is this country safe, despite the reputation it gets from being in the Middle East, but it offers a variety of unique experiences.

With tourism to the Middle East on the decline thanks to the turmoil in neighbouring countries, Jordan has seen a 66% decrease in tourism since 2011. Some of the country’s most extraordinary sites are virtually empty, making this gap in crowds the perfect time for South Africans to visit all its wonders.

Why You Should Visit Jordan

Float in The Dead Sea. Bordered by Jordan, Israel and Palestinian, the lakes extreme saltiness makes your body instantlyfloat at the world’s lowest point.

Bordered by Jordan, Israel and Palestinian, the lakes extreme saltiness makes your body instantly float at the world’s lowest point. Visit Petra , a city built of stone, one of the new seven wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Once the capital of the Nabataean kingdom, the centuries-old metropolis is like nothing else on Earth.

, a city built of stone, one of the new seven wonders of the world and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Once the capital of the Nabataean kingdom, the centuries-old metropolis is like nothing else on Earth. Camp inside Wadi Rum – a UNESCO World Heritage protected desert. The unusual terrain is often used as a stand-in for moon or Mars landscapes and is one


Forecasting the 7 Toughest Games on the Detroit Lions' 2012 Schedule

Although every NFL game is a dogfight, there are seven games on the Detroit Lions’ 2012 schedule that standout as difficult victories.

In the salary cap era in the NFL, there are very few “gimme” games. The league has been designed to promote equality from top to bottom and most games still hang in the balance as the fourth quarter of each contest begins.

With the manifestation of parity in the league, a winning record is no guarantee of future success and, likewise, a miserable year does not guarantee another disappointing season.

The Lions surprised many with their 10-6 record in 2011, but can they follow up that winning season with another playoff-caliber campaign in 2012 and post back-to-back winning seasonsbe favored to win their division this year and with playmakers Andre Johnson and Arian Foster, the Texans bring a balanced attack that can grind you down or go over the top.

I do think the Lions will finally get off the schneid and get their first Thanksgiving Day victory in nine years, but it won’t be easy.

Schwartz has preached how he wants to protect the Detroit tradition of pro football on Thanksgiving; he can start this year with a victory against a probable division leader.

Week 6 at Philadelphia

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To avoid a knockout blow when they head to the City of Brotherly Love, the Detroit Lions will need to play one of their best games of the season.

The 2011 season for the Eagles was probably one of the


to town and with the offseason problems of the New Orleans Saints, Matt Ryan will probably have his team safely atop the NFC South and looking to secure at least one home game in the playoffs. The question is, will Detroit be in the same boat?

Probably not. If Detroit does win the NFC North, it will come down to the final week of the season. More than likely, the Lions will be fighting for their playoff lives and this game will be treated as a must-win affair.

Revenge should be on the mind of most Lion players as Atlanta came to town last year and won 23-16 and gave the Lions back-to-back home losses after their surprising 5-0 start.

Ford Field should be raucous as ESPN will be in thehouse for a Saturday night showdown with Santa hats and holiday cheer abound. Detroit will need every one of the Lions faithful to bring the noise to send the Falcons home with coal in their stockings.

Week 11 Green Bay

If things go according to plan, this game should be for first in the NFC North.

More than half of the season will be in the books before Detroit gets its shot at the defending division champion Green Bay Packers.

The last time Detroit hosted Green Bay was on Thanksgiving Day and it held its own early on. Then, Ndamukong Suh was ejected, the wheels fell of the cart and the Lions suffered another Turkey Day defeat.

Make no mistake; the Lions have November 18 circled as a statement game. But they will


Conventional wisdom suggests 29ers are only viable at high speed on smooth hardpack. FOX Racing Shox doesn't give a damn. The brand's 34 Float 29 140 3Pos Adj FIT4 Fork with 51mm Rake combines five inches of generous travel, a high riding tendency, and an offset axle to aid in low speed maneuvers in short, all of the benefits of wagon wheels' high angle of attack and none of the downsides that relegated earlier generations to the XC life. A fork with 51mm of rake decreases the bike's trail, which results in less dead space between the steering axis and the hub. The design is an attempt to offset the floppy, low speed steering issues that arise from the longer trails produced by taller wheels and slack geometries,Must-see in KC: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum

April 3, 2011

Updated Aug. 21, 2013 1:17 p.m.

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This statue of Negro Leagues legend Buck O'Neill is one of the first things you see after entering the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.Until his death in 2006, O'Neill was a walking repository of knowledge about the Negro Leagues and was frequently on hand to tell stories to visitors at the museum.br>Click on the photos for a look inside the museum.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is located in Kansas City's historic 18th and Vine District. It shares a building with the American Jazz Museum and the neighborhood with historic theaters like The Gem and The Blue Room.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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features row upon row of baseballs autographed by players who took the field in the Negro Leagues which existed from 1920 to 1955. You can find names like Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Satchel Paige, Ray Dandridge and more.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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This ball caught my eye -- Lyman Bostock Sr. Bostock played for several Negro Leagues teams from 1938-54, making the All-Star team as a member of the Birmingham Black Barons in 1941 and traveling with the Jackie Robinson All-Stars.Bostock never had a chance to play in the major leagues but his son, Lyman Jr., did with the Minnesota Twins and California Angels until his murder during the 1978 season.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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Exhibits and videos throughout themound or take a fielding position next to Judy Johnson out on the infield.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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Martin Dihigo was the choice to step in as batter against Satchel Paige.Born in Cuba, Dihigo played all nine positions during his Negro Leagues career, led the league in home runs twice and once took the mound to outpitch Paige in an exhibition game in Cuba.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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One wall outside the gift shop is lined with uniforms and caps from the many teams that made up the Negro Leagues over the years.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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Satchel Paige's original gravestone is on display in the museum. Since replaced by a larger marker, the stone features


a question mark for Paige's birth year -- an homage to Paige's running gag about not knowing his own age. Paige actually was born in 1906 (and a birth certificate exists to prove it).TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

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The NLBM is located in Kansas City's historic 18th and Vine District.This statue across the street near The Gem Theater is 18th and .... bo-vine.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

This statue of Negro Leagues legend Buck O'Neill is one of the first things you see after entering the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.Until his death in 2006, O'Neill was a walking repository of knowledge about the Negro Leagues and was frequently on hand to tell stories to visitors at the museum.br>Click on the photos fora look inside the museum.TEXT BY BILL PLUNKETT, PHOTO BY BILL PLUNKETT

Howie Kendrick came from a baseball-playing family. So he knew a little something about the history of the game including the Negro Leagues.

As a young player with the Angels, though, he went to visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum with teammates Chone Figgins and Garret Anderson during a road trip to Kansas City and got a better feel for what their African-American predecessors in the game went through in the years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier.

"It's part of baseball history," Kendrick said of the feeling he had during that visit which included a conversation with Negro Leagues legend Buck O'Neil. "I knew about it (the history of the Negro Leagues). But to go through the


museum and see what they went through – what Jackie Robinson went through to get us in the game – it's amazing the journey they all went through."

The museum is located in the historic 18th and Vine District where it shares a building with the American Jazz Museum, just a short drive from Kauffman Stadium, home of the Kansas City Royals. The NLBM preserves the history of the leagues which formed in 1920 to give black men (and even a few women) an alternative to the major leagues which banned them and much more. Since it opened in 1997, it has been on the itinerary of many baseball fans visiting Kansas City – like the fathers of current Angels Hank Conger and Chris Pettit who stopped by whilein town to watch their sons open the season with the Angels.

And like the Chicago White Sox.

Museum employees still remember the day in 2006 when the White Sox team bus pulled up out front, manager Ozzie Guillen making good on a vow to bring the entire team to the museum. (They also remember the boorish behavior of Barry Bonds when he visited several years ago.)

Angels outfielder Torii Hunter said he has visited the museum "shoot, 10, 12 times" over the years. He was so moved by his first visit as a young player with several Twins teammates that, through his charitable foundation, he has become involved with the museum's fundraising and community outreach efforts over the years. He met with museum officials during the Angels-Royals series to discuss


a project to build a youth baseball field in the area.

"I think it was LaTroy Hawkins' idea the first time I came," Hunter recalled. "It was me and LaTroy, Jacque Jones, Eddie Guardado, Jason Maxwell. A bunch of us. They walked us through, told us all kinds of stories about the exhibits, about the players.

"I just thought it was so impressive. There were guys in there who slept in basements so they could play. Rube Foster – he was everything. He was a team owner, manager, player, general manager, commissioner of the league. He probably popped the popcorn and sold the tickets. But they told us a story about how he had to sleep in a basement where there was a gas leak and that slowly killed him.making it one of the places where Women on Web refuses to mail the drugs. Still, Martina thought she would try her luck. She had lost her job to downsizing, and in its place she had found only part-time work. Her rent had gone up. Lately, she was borrowing money for gas.

There was no question that she couldn’t afford to have a child. The question was whether she could even afford an abortion.

Martina had an inkling that what she was asking for – help performing her own abortion – might not be fully legal. But she was out of answers. She hit send. Then she began to case the internet for other ways she could cause her own abortion.

If this scene feels out of place in 2016, that


is some evidence – although it is inconclusive – to suggest that self-abortion attempts are on the rise. From 2008 to 2011, as the economy worsened and a wave of new restrictions choked abortion access around the country, online queries about self-induced abortion almost doubled, according to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist who analyzes Google searches.

Into this crisis of reproductive rights now walks Donald Trump. As president, Trump has promised to restrict abortion even further. He has vowed to nominate justices to the supreme court who might overturn Roe v Wade. Roe, because the court is loath to reverse itself, has survived such threats before. But Trump has explicitly promised to nominate justices who might put Roe in their crosshairs.

In his first major interview after winning office, Trump describedshe seized in pain, doctors removed an intact cotton boll – the husk was still attached – from her vagina. She had soaked the cotton fibers in turpentine and honey.

“In three years, I suppose I saw a dozen cases,” said Doe. (Doe agreed to speak only under a pseudonym. He works as an abortion provider in Shreveport and has kept his identity hidden from the public.) He treated women who had gone to back-alley abortion providers and a woman who had shot herself in the stomach. Turpentine became a kind of harrowing motif. One woman used a syringe to inject it into her abdomen. The tide only ceased in 1980, when two abortion clinics opened a few months apart in nearby Bossier City and Shreveport. Roe v Wade


fact, nearly every year after Roe v Wade brought isolated reports of a woman taking drastic steps to terminate her pregnancy. 1978: Three young women in Colorado poisoned their livers by drinking tiny amounts of aromatherapy oil to try to induce an abortion. 1984: A teenager injected herself with a local anesthetic and attempted to cut out her fetus. 1994: A Florida teenager placed a pillow over her abdomen and shot herself in the side.

Earlier this month, a woman in Tennessee was charged with aggravated assault for trying to give herself an abortion with a coat hanger. She was found out after profuse bleeding sent her to the emergency room.

It is against this backdrop of tragedies that some reproductive rights activists have argued for making the same abortionpregnancy center, an ultrasound confirmed that Martina’s home remedies hadn’t worked. She was still pregnant. The distress must have shown on her face, because the technician offered a flurry of reassurances. They see a lot of single moms who do it on their own. They have a store that sells baby clothes at a markdown. They help with discounts on daycare. Martina fumed. A baby is more than just buying clothes and food, she thought.

In her head, she was already reviewing her plan. She had heard back from only one abortion fund, which had turned her down for assistance because she had a job. And so, for a quarter of what a US abortion clinic would charge, she had purchased a flight to Mexico City. The flight left


were speaking a few days after she returned from Mexico. An ultrasound had just confirmed that she was no longer pregnant, and her voice was sunny. “I am so relieved, to be honest.” She hadn’t realized, until she was no longer pregnant, how much stress she had placed on herself. Now, she felt like she could breathe, she said. Like she could step back on the path of her life and figure out where she had been when she diverged.

Martina had taken the pills on a Saturday. She took the first dose. She set a timer on her phone. Then she took the second dose.

The pills worked just like they were supposed to. She bled, but not too much. She felt the pregnancy pass. She felt exhausted.

And thenrespond to requests for comment on Thursday.

In 2014, the N.F.L.’s first openly gay player, Michael Sam, was drafted by the St. Louis Rams — now the Los Angeles Rams — in the seventh round. Sam’s path to the N.F.L. was widely chronicled at the time.

But Sam, an all-American at the University of Missouri and a co-defensive player of the year in the Southeastern Conference in 2013, was cut by the Rams and never played a down in the N.F.L. In 2015, he said he was stepping away from the game for “mental health” reasons after a brief stint in the Canadian Football League.

Russell said one of the people he had reached out to was Ryan O’Callaghan, a former member of the New England Patriots and Kansas City Chiefs


“srutis.” One may see here, also, a skeletal framework - “bones,” as it were. It may be of interest to note that in the mythology of Greece, Pelops, the son of Tantalus and grandfather of Agamenmon, is associated with bones. Having been fed by his wicked father to the gods at a dinner party, he was then put back together, bone to bone. Pelops had twenty-two children, the number of bones in the skull. Sacred geography relates the geographical area of the Peloponnese with the skull.

Pelops became famous as a charioteer who defeated the king’s own chariot in a race and won the hand of the king’s daughter. But it was said that he won race because he bribed Myrtilus, the royal charioteer, to remove the lynchpins fromweekly celebration of the New Year which had been arbitrarily changed by the king from the last week in March to the first week in January. From such a change in the laws, the beginning of the New Year could no longer blossom in the springtime (March, the vernal equinox); and the seventh month would no longer occur in September (sept, seven) at the autumnal equinox. Instead, what was formerly the eleventh month, January, would now originate the new calendar months. (This sounds suspiciously like the Chinese Lu Scale which, according to ancient texts, begins at the eleventh note).

Since a revised calendar would make the times and seasons “out-of-whack,” one sees how there could be very valid objections to such arbitrary overruling of Nature’s plan. Those unfortunate dissidents,


upside-down: The real Master, the root of the system, is invisible. The “grounding” comes from the region at the foot of the Tree, not its head.

The words in Ouspensky’s Symbolism of the Tarot about “The Hanged Man” are apropos.

"In his own soul appears the gallows on which he hangs in suffering, feeling that he is indeed inverted. He chose this way himself. For this he went over a long road from trial to trial, from initiation to initiation, through failures and falls. . . . he seeks for Truth in a desert. Now he has found Her."

The Hanged Man

THE HANGED MANClick image to enlarge

Obviously the three parts of the tree show the places where the three kinds of food enter the organism: ordinary food, air, and impressions. Inthose April Fools, those resistors, who refused to abide by the new time-keeping. Remember, the April Fools wanted the month of March and the vernal equinox to originate the calendar. Keeping to this scheme, the month of February, having 28 days, would be the twelfth month, and January the eleventh. December, the tenth month, would end the decimal year, November would be the ninth, October eight, September seven, August six, July five, June four, May three, April two, and March one.

The first month, March, may show the derogatory connotations associated with the word “yoke.” For example, in ancient Rome it was a device made of two upright spears across which was laid a transverse piece under which conquered armies were forced to march. Yoking of animals kept them


Calgary Cycle: Supporting Local Trails

In February Calgary Cycle held our annual fat-bike frozen rodeo. We organized a poker event with all proceeds going to the GBCTA. This week we presented them with a cheque for $1000 representing the money raised from the event.

After talking to these hard working gentlemen for an afternoon it is evident the mountain bike scene in Calgary is growing and the trail crew in Bragg is on the front lines of the growth. The number of riders travelling through the West Bragg parking lot has grown exponentially in the last few years. The West Bragg Creek trailhead that previously saw 30,000 - 40,000 people in a year, is now being expanded by the government to accommodate 140,000 - 150,000 people.

At Calgary Cycle, we wantedwere adapted instead, going on to become the most popular portion of the original Voltron run. A third version/series of Voltron based on yet another Japanese series, Lightspeed Electroid Albegas, was also in progress, but it was dropped when World Events Productions joined with Toei to make new GoLion-based shows, due to that show's popularity over the Dairugger run.

Changes from the Japanese version

Though airing in syndication, which offered other anime shows such as Robotech greater freedom to deal with subject matter such as death that were off-limits in most US network children's programming, WEP's adaptation of Voltron was heavily edited to conform to the more conservative standards of children's television in the United States, as well as the standard name change of characters and concepts in GoLion and


year ago with a complaint of decrease in the sight acuity of the right eye. The right eye was operated on due to cataract diagnosis. Uveitis was developed firstly in the right eye and then in the left eye after the operation. The patient was suit for the VKH syndrome because of the ophthalmologists\' opinion, patients\' age, and skin and auditory involvements. She patient was diagnosed VKH syndrome according to uveitis, tinnitus and hearing sense loss complaints. She had joint complaints and complained of joint problems for more than six weeks. That\'s why; she was examined. The pains started to be felt in small hand joints and both of the two ankles. The pains were increasing especially in the mornings and during rest. The duration of morning stiffnessA Kids' "Care-Van." Hospital's mobile health program provides screenings for neighborhood children.
Last year Franciscan Children's Hospital & Rehabilitation Center in Boston launched a "Kids' Care-Van" in an attempt to better serve the children of its community. That community, the city's Allston-Brighton neighborhood, is the home of many immigrants and minority group members, people likely to face economic, cultural, and linguistic barriers when seeking healthcare. A survey showed that neighborhood children especially needed better access to the Women, Infants and Children program (WIC), health education, and dental care. The Kids' Care-Van regularly tours Allston-Brighton, making stops at schools, Head Start programs, day care centers, a youth club, and the local YMCA. At those stops children are given medical and dental screenings; if needed, referrals are made to other healthcare


Trinamool Congress legislator Satyajit Biswas was shot dead on Saturday (File)

A Trinamool Congress lawmaker was shot dead at point-blank range on Saturday while attending a public function in West Bengal's Majhdia, 120 km from Kolkata. Trinamool lawmaker from Krishnaganj constituency in Nadia district, Satyajit Biswas, had just lit a candle to inaugurate a Saraswati Puja function when he was shot dead at point-blank range, the police said. The event was organised by a club called "Amra Shobai" (All of Us).

Eyewitnesses said Mr Biswas was sitting on a chair in the front row with a small group of people who had gathered to watch a cultural show on a small stage. Suddenly, someone fired at him from the crowd milling around.

"It sounded like a firecracker going off. Then Isaw Mr Biswas slumped to the ground," an eyewitness said. "I was just about five feet away from Biswas and rushed to help him. He was completely covered in blood."

Gaurishankar Dutta, Trinamool president of Nadia district, has accused BJP leader Mukul Roy and his men for the murder. Mr Dutta had left the venue minutes before the daylight murder happened.

Another minister, Ratna Dey Nag, was at the spot some time before the Krishnaganj constituency lawmaker from Nadia district was killed. Mr Biswas had even escorted Ms Nag to her car 45 minutes before he was shot dead.

A team of the Criminal Investigation Department has left from Kolkata to probe the murder.

The Trinamool strongly condemned the killing.

Satyajit Biswas our MLA was a dear colleague. Words fail me. Recently BJP


hosting the acclaimed exhibition The History of the World in 100 Objects, for 100 days until August 1.
With artefacts picked from the extensive collection at the British Museum in London, the UAE exhibition gives particular focus to a series of objects that showcase the history of material culture in the Arab world across different epochs.
Curated by the British Museum’s Becky Allen, the exhibition will feature objects such as a lifelike cast bronze hand from Yemen that was made between 100BC and 300BC; an Egyptian granite statue of the pharaoh Ramesses II discovered on Elephantine Island at the Temple of Khnum; and the famous Royal Game of Ur – found in a royal cemetery in southern Iraq and estimated to be around 4,500 years old.
Held in the lead upthe residues and incineration ashes after incineration of the combustible materials, melting processing has been considered.
As an incineration furnace for processing combustible radioactive solid wastes, an apparatus described in xe2x80x9cResearch and Development on Processing and Disposal of Radioactive Wastesxe2x80x9d (Sangyo Gijutsu Shuppan, p175) have been used generally. In this incineration furnace, combustible radioactive solid wastes are burnt by a gas burner inside of a furnace main body lined with refractories and exhaust gases are discharged from the upper portion of the furnace main body. The exhaust gases are removed with coarse particulates by ceramic filters and high performance filters provided in two stages, and then released out of the system. Further, residues and incineration ashes accumulated at the bottom of the furnace main body are discharged by opening


for exhaust gases, and further, provision of the molten product discharging channel with air tight property connected to the molten product discharging port for introducing the molten products into the coolant vessel, an exhaust gas discharging pipeline connected to the molten product discharging channel above the liquid surface in the coolant vessel for discharging the exhaust gases flowing in the molten product discharging channel and a means for taking out the coagulated molten products from the coolant in the coolant vessel.
According to the feature of the eighth invention, since the molten products are supplied into the coolant vessel filled with the coolant and the molten products coagulated in the coolant vessel are taken out of the coolant vessel, the molten products can be handled easily and can bethe air tight chamber.
Since the combustion air supply means is connected to the upper portion of the furnace main body and the exhaust gas discharging port is provided at the lower end of the furnace main body, the combustion air is supplied to the upper portion of the furnace main body and exhaust gases generated by the combustion of the combustible radioactive solid wastes are discharged through the gaps between each of the conductive heat generation bodies at a high temperature from the discharging port situated at the lower end to the outside of the furnace main body. Accordingly, since radioactive materials (for example, cesium) is transferred downwardly, being entrained by the flow of the exhaust gases, from the upper end of the conductive heat generation body filled


ST. LUCIA

Saint Lucia is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint Vincent, northwest of Barbados and south of Martinique. It covers a land area of 617 km² (238 square miles) and reported a population of 165,595 in the 2010 census. Its capital is Castries.

The French were the island’s first European settlers. They signed a treaty with the native Island Caribs in 1660. England took control of the island from 1663 to 1667. In ensuing years, it was at war with France fourteen times, and rule of the island changed frequently (it was ruled seven times each by the French and British).In 1814, the British took definitive control of the island. Because it switched so often between British and French control, Saint Lucia was also known as the “Helen of the West Indies”.

Representative government came about in 1840 (universal suffrage was established in 1953). From 1958 to 1962, the island was a member of the West Indies Federation. On 22 February 1979, Saint Lucia became an independent state and a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. Saint Lucia is a mixed jurisdiction, meaning that it has a legal system based in part on both the civil law and English common law. The Civil Code of St. Lucia of 1867 was based on the Quebec Civil Code of 1866, as supplemented by English common law-style legislation. It is also a


member of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

Christopher Columbus may have sighted the island during his fourth voyage in 1502, since he made landfall on Martinique, yet he does not mention the island in his log. Juan de la Cosa noted the island on his map of 1500, calling it El Falcon, and another island to the south Las Agujas. A Spanish Cedula from 1511 mentions the island within the Spanish domain, and a globe in the Vatican made in 1520, shows the island as Sancta Lucia. A 1529 Spanish map shows S. Luzia. One of the Windward Islands, Saint Lucia was named after Saint Lucy of Syracuse. It is the only country in the world named after a historical woman (Ireland is named after the Celtic goddess ofthis question uninteresting, feeling that neither
a 'yes' nor a 'no' answer contributes meaningfully to the elimination
of suffering.

There are two major streams of Buddhism. The earliest Theravada
(meaning "Doctrine of the elders"), is based on texts (sutras)
written in the Pali language very close to that spoken by Buddha.
This site, an excellent Theravada resource, includes translations
of the Pali canon and a good history
of Theravada. An excerpt of that history:

Owing to its historical dominance in southern Asia (Sri Lanka,
Thailand, and Burma), Theravada is also identified as "Southern
Buddhism," in contrast to "Northern Buddhism," which migrated
northwards from India into China, Tibet, Japan, and Korea. Theravada
is often equated with "Hinayana" (the "Lesser Vehicle"), in contrast
to "Mahayana" (the "Greater Vehicle"), which is usually a synonym
for Zen, Ch'an, and other expressions of Northern Buddhism. The
use of "Hinayana"


Free markets have few barriers to entry. Individuals and firms can offer new products or services to consumers, thereby fostering competition and choice. American elections, in contrast, are dominated by two parties. Not Invited to the Party synthesizes political science, economics, and history to demonstrate how the two-party system is the artificial creation of a network of laws, restrictions, and subsidies that favor the Democrats and Republicans and cripple potential challengers, depriving voters of truly vigorous political debate. Consequently, Americans are deprived of choices on election day and arguably, deprived of effective and accurate representation in Congress and the presidency. Please join us for a lively discussion of the political limits on electoral competition and reforms that might encourage a more active and responsive government.China Newsphoto

ROSS PEROT, a populist American politician, predicted in the early 1990s that a trade pact with Mexico would create a ‘‘giant sucking sound'' as jobs headed south. Instead, America experienced full employment. So giant-sucking-sound detectors turned to China. In time, China became the workshop of the world, although by then America had long hollowed out much of its manufacturing.

Now there really is a giant sucking sound—not one made by the flight of jobs, but by China ferociously hoovering up commodities and raw materials. Although it accounts for roughly 4% of global GDP (measured at market exchange rates), China consumes 30% of the world's supply of minerals and other raw materials. This time around, the world has not only heard the sucking sound, but has also felt its


firms that led to the overheating and consequent severe austerity programme in the mid-1990s.

China's growth has become too expensive in many ways. Overinvestment pulls up prices of raw materials but, simultaneously, overcapacity depresses the prices of finished products. Whereas prices of imported raw materials rose sharply between 2003 and 2005, those of Chinese exports to America fell by 5.2%. As a net importer of raw materials and a net exporter of finished products, China is paying a high price for its growth, particularly to commodity-producing countries.

China needs a break to catch its breath, in more ways than one. As anyone who has been to the mainland in recent years knows, all the major cities are choking with smoke and environmental damage has reached appalling levels. The government knowsthis and during 2006 tightened the screw on the economy several more turns. Interest rates will continue to rise. The trouble is that much of the liquidity comes from hot money, which finds its way into China around foreign-exchange controls in anticipation of a yuan appreciation. Each rise in interest rates only encourages more speculative inflows. This means that China will inevitably allow the yuan to appreciate further in 2007 (though not as sharply as worriers in Washington, DC, would like), while also further relaxing capital controls, to keep the growth of money supply at least partly in check. The central bank has taken other measures to reduce liquidity, including telling banks not to lend to ‘‘overheated sectors'' such as steel, cement, coal and power, and forcing them


1. Field of the Invention
The present application relates to the field of electronics, and more particularly, to methods of forming electronic component packages and related structures.
2. Description of the Related Art
To form an electronic component package, an electronic component is mounted to a substrate. The substrate includes traces on the same surface of the substrate to which the electronic component is mounted. Bond wires are formed to electrically connect bond pads of the electronic component to the traces.
To protect the electronic component as well as the bond wires, the electronic component and bond wires are covered in an encapsulant. The traces extend from under the encapsulant to an exposed area of the surface of the substrate outside of the periphery of the encapsulant, i.e., not covered by themade by the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries (DGIF). While there were people who felt that man shouldn’t interfere with nature in that manner, the decision was made because it would be in the best interest of the dad and the three eaglets. You can read more about that in this press release (PDF).

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found in mountains and prairies. The western chorus frog remains close to these ephemeral aquatic habitats, since they provide excellent mating, breeding, and hibernation grounds. Since these areas tend to dry out, these frogs can be, but are less commonly, found in fallowed agricultural fields, damp woodlands, roadside ditches, and wooded swamps.

Behavior
Due to their nocturnal and secretive nature, these frogs are not commonly seen. The best time to see western chorus frogs is on warm nights when they come out to call. Both males and sometimes females call in large choruses. Males use a special call to attract several potential mates to breeding sites. The western chorus frog call can be heard from half a mile away. The call is a very distinct "cree-ee-ee—eeek", but can beTop News

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In North America, Warner Bros. is being more conservative and suggesting a $65 million to $70 million debut, considering tracking has been unreliable as of late. On Thursday night, Wonder Woman earned a strong $11 million in previews, on par with the first Guardians of the Galaxy.

But if tracking is right, Wonder Woman could land the biggest domestic opening ever for a female director, primarily because very few women have been given the chance to helm a Hollywood tentpole. It would also be a morale boost for Hollywood following the worst Memorial Day weekend in 18 years, thanks to a number of underperforming summer event pics.

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stellar 94 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Warners and DC Entertainment need a critical victory in the superhero space after Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) were largely snubbed by critics.

The film marks the first time Wonder Woman has received her own big-screen adaptation. (Gadot did appear in Dawn of Justice.)

Hollywood grew skittish about making female superhero films after both Catwoman (2004) and Elektra (2005) flopped. Wonder Woman languished for years in development before Jenkins was brought aboard to direct from a script by Allan Heinberg. The film opens as World War I pilot Steve Trevor (Chris Pine) and his plane crash on Themyscira, the island of the Amazons, where Diana has been trained by her aunt, the great warrior Antiope(Robin Wright). Soon, Diana leaves the island to try and stop the war, marking the beginning of her transformation into Wonder Woman.

Superhero films generally skew male, but tracking for Wonder Woman suggests both sexes are equally interested, or nearly, in seeing the movie, which cost $150 million to make and also stars Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen and Elena Anaya.

Among its first international returns this week, Wonder Woman has earned $1.3 million in Taiwan, surpassing the openings of such superhero pics as Man of Steel, Suicide Squad, Doctor Strange, Thor and both Guardians of the Galaxy films, among others. In North Korea, it debuted to $1.2 million.

The weekend's other new offering, DreamWorks Animation's Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, is targeting younger tots. The animated film is


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Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expressed “concerns” about the unrest in the South American country and accused the Maduro administration of violating constitutional norms.

"We are concerned that the government of Maduro is violating its own constitution and is not allowing the opposition to ... organize in a way that expresses the views of the Venezuelan people,” he said.

The comment provoked the ire of Venezuelan Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez who challenged Washington’s moral authority to interfere in the South American nation’s internal affairs.

"The world and Venezuela


are deeply concerned about the recent US-launched bombs on Syria and Afghanistan," the top diplomat fired back.

“Venezuela is likewise concerned about the immigration policies against Latin American citizens in the US and institutionally promoted racism,” she added.

The European Union likewise expressed concern for the rising tensions between the Maduro administration and the right-wing opposition.

"We call on all Venezuelans to come together to de-escalate the situation and find democratic solutions in the framework of the constitution,” said EU Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Nabila Massrali, who also urged “an investigation into the deaths and acts of violence that occurred during the demonstrations, and for those responsible to be held accountable”.

The call to de-escalate tensions was echoed by the United Nations.

“We call on the Government of Venezuela and the opposition to engageTo see the most immediately obvious change concerning schools in the area, students need look no further than their calendars. New state legislation allows school districts to begin classes as early as Aug. 15. Most schools in the area are taking advantage of the ability to start early despite many districts making up days missed due to inclement weather well into June during the 2010-11 school year.

"You can't do much in August anyway. The kids are ready to get back to school -a lot for more of the social aspect -but we sneak education in there with it."

Brad Spikes, superintendent of Western Yell Schools, pointed out the advantage of starting early in relation to inclement weather days.

"It's not as evident at our school, because we had snow days


built in to our schedule," he said. "But some schools missed a lot of days and had to go through the second week of June, which gives them just seven weeks before starting back again. I think starting early will be to our advantage in the long run."

Lamar was one of the few schools not taking advantage of the Aug. 15 start date, opting instead to begin Aug. 17.

"In years past, we've been starting on Thursday or sometime mid-week," Lamar superintendent Roy Hester said. "We wanted to stay in that mode, so there was no sudden jolt or shock to the teachers."

Mike Hernandez, first-year superintendent at Danville, said he was expecting to see that kind of shock in his teachers when they reported for in-service this week. Heconnect to the Internet almost anywhere on campus. We're trying to make our campus modern and take full advantage of available technology."

Atkins will also offer a new course entitled "digital communications," which Watkins said encompasses video editing, along with other aspects.

Russellville High School has several new courses this year, including the state's first biomedical sciences high school course, marine biology, digital engineering and two new drama courses -technical design and theater performance.

Clarksville now offers netbooks for each student in seventh to 12th grade.

"We're going one-to-one on computers. Each student will have a netbook. We're working with a group from University of Oklahoma on staff development so we can utilize that technology," Wyatt said.

"The kids are excited about it," he continued. "They embrace technology. Now, just because a kid


can text with one hand doesn't mean they can upload and share documents automatically, but they are more willing to learn. I think they'll take to it."

Facilities

Russellville has seen a flurry of construction in the past year, including a whirlwind renovation of its business and family and consumer sciences area at the high school.

"We basically tore out everything that was there and replaced it with all new facilities and technology," Williams said. "New furniture, new everything. It turned out nice."

The Center for the Performing Arts at the high school is expected to be complete in October.

Safe rooms and art and science classrooms at Center Valley Elementary, Oakland Heights Elementary and Crawford Elementary and a safe room at Sequoyah Elementary are complete. Safe rooms at Russellville Middle School andPhonological skills and vocabulary knowledge mediate socioeconomic status effects in predicting reading outcomes for Chinese children.
This study examined the relations among socioeconomic status (SES), early phonological processing, vocabulary, and reading in 262 children from diverse SES backgrounds followed from ages 4 to 9 in Beijing, China. SES contributed to variations in phonological skills and vocabulary in children's early development. Nonetheless, early phonological and vocabulary abilities exerted equally strong and independent mediation of the SES effects on children's reading achievement by the end of 3rd grade for this Chinese sample. These findings not only replicate studies in alphabetic languages but, because of their longitudinal nature, also demonstrate the potential for interventions focused on improving children's early language skills, and at which ages these factors may have the greatest impact.


Phillips back in the fold, ready for season

By Mark Sheldon / MLB.com

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Truth be told, Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips wasn't quite ready to return to camp after the World Baseball Classic. He hoped Team USA would make it to the championship game on Tuesday night in San Francisco.

Instead, Puerto Rico eliminated the American squad Friday night and advanced into the championship game against the Dominican Republic after beating two-time defending champion Japan. But, Phillips wasn't sad about being among the Reds again.

"I'm disappointed about losing. Being back, I missed the guys and missed the team," Phillips said on Tuesday morning. "Would I have loved to win the WBC? Of course. That's the goal. I wish I was still playing in it right now. Things didn'tand hopefully it can help me during the season."

Speedster Hamilton assigned to Minors

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Reds center fielder and top prospect Billy Hamilton was part of the latest roster cuts from Spring Training.

On Tuesday, Hamilton and right-hander Drew Hayes were re-assigned to the Minor League camp.

Hamilton, 22, batted .174 (4-for-23) with two triples and nine strikeouts. He was in camp as a non-roster player.

"He hasn't been switch-hitting that long. His record here in Spring Training, he's not doing real well for a guy that has speed," Reds manager Dusty Baker said before the move was revealed. "He's striking out too much. He had to come here to see where his development is, where he is, and realize he has some ways to go. If he didn't, he'd be


most guys could run."

Hamilton being cut comes as no surprise. The expectations entering camp were that he would begin the season at Triple-A Louisville.

Hayes was 0-1 with a 3.86 ERA in six spring relief appearances. There are 37 players remaining on the spring roster.

Ludwick's early cold spell not a concern

GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Reds left fielder Ryan Ludwick is not off to a robust start at the plate this spring, batting .111 (4-for-36) in 14 games. His only home run came in an exhibition against Team Canada.

Manager Dusty Baker is not remotely worried about Ludwick, however.

"I think we put too much stock in Spring Training with veterans. He started slowly last year," Baker said.

Ludwick seized control of the regular left fielder's job by June of last season and wentHoover is giving the Reds every reason to make the decision harder. In his last two outings, Hoover has struck out all seven batters faced. He fanned four batters against the Rockies on Monday.

"A guy throwing fastballs is an even greater feat because that's what guys are ready to hit. He's throwing fastballs," Baker said on Tuesday. "Guys throwing a lot of junk, it's tarnished a little bit because guys aren't ready to hit junk."

Hoover has a 2.25 ERA in seven appearances but faces an uphill battle nonetheless because he has Minor League options. Relievers like Alfredo Simon and Jose Arredondo do not have options left.

Mark Sheldon is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Mark My Word, and follow him on Twitter @m_sheldon. This story was not


terça-feira, dezembro 23, 2008

KIWANJA, Congo — At last the bullets had stopped, and François Kambere Siviri made a dash for the door. After hiding all night from firefights between rebels and a government-allied militia over this small but strategic town, he was desperate to get to the latrine a few feet away.

Michael Kamber for The New York Times

The son of Ludia Kavira Nzuva, 67, was among at least 150 people killed in little more than 24 hours by rebels in Kiwanja, Congo.

"Pow, pow, pow," said his widowed mother, Ludia Kavira Nzuva, recounting how the rebels killed her 25-year-old son just outside her front door. As they abandoned his bloodied corpse, she said, one turned to her and declared, "Voilà, here is your gift."

In little more than 24 hours,at least 150 people would be dead, most of them young men, summarily executed by the rebels last month as they tightened their grip over parts of eastern Congo, according to witnesses and human-rights investigators.

And yet, as the killings took place, a contingent of about 100 United Nations peacekeepers was less than a mile away, struggling to understand what was happening outside the gates of its base. The peacekeepers were short of equipment and men, United Nations officials said, and they were focusing on evacuating frightened aid workers and searching for a foreign journalist who had been kidnapped. Already overwhelmed, officials said, they had no intelligence capabilities or even an interpreter who could speak the necessary languages.

The peacekeepers said they had no idea that the killings were taking


place until it was all over.

The executions in Kiwanja are a study in the unfettered cruelty meted out by the armed groups fighting for power and resources in eastern Congo. But the events are also a textbook example of the continuing failure of the world's largest international peacekeeping force, which has a mandate to protect the Congolese people from brutality.

In this instance, the failure came from a mix of poor communication and staffing, inadequate equipment, intelligence breakdowns and spectacularly bad luck, said Lt. Col. H. S. Brar, the commander of the Indian peacekeepers based in Kiwanja.

But the killings and the stumbling response to the rebel advance were symptomatic of problems that have plagued the United Nations peacekeeping force in Congo for years, said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a seniorresearcher for Human Rights Watch, who investigated the slayings this month. The rebel onslaught was even led by a commander who is wanted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court.

The massacre in Kiwanja followed an advance into the area by rebel troops in late October. Left, a child stood near the ruins of his home and others destroyed by rebels. Congolese Army troops fled the town, fearful of the advance of the troops of the rebel general Laurent Nkunda.

Photo: Michael Kamber for The New York Times

Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes over the past year as rebel forces have waged a fierce insurgency against government troops. Left, an elderly woman in a displaced persons camp with her granddaughter.

Photo: Michael Kamber for