most dramatic affirmation of Beijing’s desire to change the ground realities in the region in its favor. This has generated apprehensions about a growing void in the region to balance China’s growing dominance.

With the U.S. consumed by its own domestic vulnerabilities and never ending crises in the Middle East, regional powers such as India, Japan, and Australia have been more proactive than in the past in managing this turbulence. The new trilaterals emerging in Asia go beyond past attempts at rudimentary joint military exercises. In December 2013, the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) conducted its first bilateral maritime exercise with the Indian Navy in the Indian Ocean Region. With growing strategic convergence between the two, in 2014 India invited the JMSDF to participate in the annual Malabar exerciseswith the U.S. Navy in the Pacific waters.

India and Japan have an institutionalized trilateral strategic dialogue partnership with the United States, initiated in 2011. Maintaining a balance of power in the Asian-Pacific as well as maritime security in the Indo-Pacific waters has become an important element of this dialogue. A similar dialogue exists between the U.S., Japan, and Australia. And now a new trilateral involving India, Japan, and Australia has joined these initiatives, which can potentially to transform into a ‘quad’ of democracies in the Indo-Pacific region. The roots of this potential partnership were laid as early as late-2004, when navies from the U.S., India, Japan, and Australia collaborated in tsunami relief operations all across the Indian Ocean.

Japan was one of the earliest vocal supporters of such initiatives.


In 2007, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, in his earlier stint as prime minister, lobbied for Asia’s democracies to come together in a ‘quadrilateral.’ This was also actively supported by the United States. Such an initiative resulted in a five nation naval exercise in Bay of Bengal in September 2007. However, China, perceiving a possible ganging-up of Asia’s democracies, issued demarches to New Delhi and Canberra, causing this initiative to lose steam, since both Australia and New Delhi felt it unwise to provoke China. However, as China becomes more aggressive in the region, there are signs that India and Australia may be warming up to the idea again.

The uncertainty of Chinese power and intentions in the region as well as the future of American commitment to maintaining themust keep. Not yet at least.

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to the ERA — a 52-word constitutional measure that guaranteed equal rights under the law regardless of gender — arguing that it would mark the end of the traditional family.

“She was an important figure who was the first to plug in to the power of the female conservative vote in modern times,” said Donald Critchlow, author of the 2005 political biography “Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman’s Crusade.”

“Her importance wasn’t fully seen until the ascendancy of the right that began with the election of Ronald Reagan as president,” he said.

The National Organization for Women, which made the amendment central to its mission after it formed in 1966, had cast the ERA as a matter of economic equality.

Schlafly’s entrance into the fight focused the debate on the changingrole of women in society.

Her army of volunteers brimmed with stay-at-home mothers, and she contended that the amendment would deprive a woman of the fundamental right to stay home and care for her children.

“Phyllis Schlafly courageously and single-handedly took on the issue of the Equal Rights Amendment when no one else in the country was opposing it,” James C. Dobson, chairman and founder of Focus on the Family, told the St. Louis Dispatch in 2005. “In so doing, she essentially launched the pro-family, pro-life movement.”

Her calmly expressed, unshakable conviction that the amendment was a threat to a woman’s financial security and traditional motherhood drove pro-ERA audiences crazy.

“The only way to debate Phyllis Schlafly is to jump up and down and shout ‘Liar, liar, liar!’” one feminist told Newsweek


the party for years.

“This was strong medicine, even for a campaign book intended to stir up the Republican grass roots,” Critchlow wrote, yet “it proved remarkably successful in its goal.”

Phyllis McAlpin Stewart was born Aug. 15, 1924, in St. Louis, the elder of two daughters of John and Odile Stewart. Her mother worked for 25 years as the head librarian at the St. Louis Art Museum.

After a year at Maryville College of the Sacred Heart in St. Louis, Schlafly transferred to Washington University, also in St. Louis, and paid for her education by testing rifles and machine guns on the night shift at a World War II munitions plant.

She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science in 1944 and received a master’s degree in government from Radcliffe Collegea year later.

In 1949, she married Fred Schlafly, a fellow Roman Catholic and conservative 15 years her senior. They were together until his death in 1993. The young couple moved to the industrial city of Alton, Ill., and she became a self-described homemaker.

When the first of her six children was a toddler, she plunged into an unsuccessful campaign for Congress, one of two, and became a fixture as a delegate and behind-the-scenes platform player at Republican national conventions.

In later years, Schlafly cited 1964, the year she turned 40 and wrote her first book, as the most productive of her life.

She began collaborating that year with Adm. Chester Ward on “The Gravediggers,” the first of five books they wrote on the Soviet military threat. (The partnership endured until Ward’s


death in 1978.)

She also ran the Illinois Federation of Republican Women, successfully ran for vice president of the National Federation of Republican Women, won a contested race to be a delegate to the Republican National Convention, and made dozens of speeches for Goldwater. On Nov. 16, 1964 — 13 days after her candidate was crushed at the polls by President Lyndon Johnson, she gave birth to her last baby.

In “Phyllis Schlafly: The Sweetheart of the Silent Majority,” author Carol Felsenthal argued that Schlafly “was obviously ‘liberated’ decades before the word got hackneyed. She never, ever allowed her sex to stand between her and her goal. And that perhaps, is one reason for her unrelenting disdain for ‘libbers.'“

When Schlafly found her authority repeatedly challenged during ERA debates because shewasn’t a lawyer, she attended Washington University “in her spare time” and graduated with a law degree in 1978.

At the start of the ERA fight, she founded the St. Louis-based Eagle Forum, which became an influential conservative group that she ran with a firm hand. She took no salary.

At the 1992 GOP convention in Houston, Schlafly supported the party’s platform, which condemned same-sex marriage and gay civil rights. Soon after, a New York gay magazine outed her oldest child, John, then a 41-year-old lawyer who helped run the Eagle Forum.

“I love my son,” she told the New York Post in a reaction story at the time. “But all my children are adults and lead their own lives.”

Her children grew up to be achievers — three lawyers, an orthopedic


Bobby Petrino, motorcycles, crisis management

As I write this on a Monday morning, an entire state sits on pins and needles awaiting more details on the condition of University of Arkansas head football coach Bobby Petrino.

I’ve decided to offer some unsolicited advice to the university.

The motorcycle accident that injured Petrino occurred early Sunday evening at about 6:45 p.m.

Arkansas media began reporting on the incident early Monday morning with the first official statement coming not from the University of Arkansas but from Bill Sadler, the long-serving and highly capable spokesman for the Arkansas State Police.

As television stations in Little Rock rushed crews to Fayetteville, the most solid information by 9 a.m. came from ESPN, which was quoting “a source close to Petrino” as having told ESPN college football reporter Joeall of Bill Clinton’s 12 years as governor.

There were the school shootings near Jonesboro in 1998.

There was much more. In all of these instances, our philosophy was to provide as much solid information as possible as quickly as possible.

As things got crazier by the moment on July 15, 1996, we held regular briefings for the media in the hall outside Lt. Gov. Huckabee’s office at the state Capitol. It was the biggest news story in the nation that afternoon.

In Jonesboro, we set up a media center in the Convocation Center on the Arkansas State University campus and staffed it 24 hours a day for almost a week, holding daily briefings for the media representatives who poured into northeast Arkansas from around the world.

I realize that the UA athletic


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had filed his Second Supplemental Verified Declaration on June 20, 2002, (Docket Entry 731) further addressing the potential conflicts. That order was mailed to Mr. Guberman at his office address. The order discussed Mr. Gold's comment in his Second Supplemental Verified Declaration that raised the idea that conflicts arising from the merger of the law firms could be resolved, as to the trustee, by the appointment of a "limited special purpose co-trustee." Second Supplemental Verified Declaration at ¶ 5. The court, without ruling on the suggestion, discussed §§ 701, 702, and 703 of the Bankruptcy Code and the requirement for the appointment of "one disinterested person" as trustee. In the process of discussing this matter, the court noted § 702(b) and quoted that portion of § 702(b) whichstates "creditors may elect one person to serve as trustee in the case." The purpose of the discussion was to draw the trustee's attention to the phrase "one person" so that in a further supplement to his application he would be prepared to discuss his proposal of a special purpose co-trustee in light of the apparent requirement of a single trustee. This relates to the present motion because Mr. Guberman stated at the July 9, 2002, hearing that he was familiar with the court's order of June 25, 2002, and, in fact, had read it that morning. While the hearing did not concern the election of a successor trustee, he noted the reference to § 702(b) and the ability of the creditors to elect a trustee. He asked


Trustee was actively considering appointing Mr. King, and that Mr. Gold's resignation was effective July 15, 2002. Mr. Guberman spoke with Mr. Bove at the United States Trustee's Office about the appointment of a successor trustee and expressed interest in electing a successor trustee. He met with Mr. King on August 16, 2002, and met with an attorney, Jeffrey L. Tarkenton, on September 19, 2002. Mr. Tarkenton ultimately argued Mr. Guberman's motion on November 11, 2002.[10] In light of Mr. Guberman's knowledge, his request was not timely.

CONCLUSION
In light of the circumstances presented, the court will deny the motion to require the United States Trustee to convene a § 341 meeting.
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The Texas Tech basketball team’s top 2019 signee, Jahmius Ramsey, is now officially a 5-star recruit after picking up his fifth star from one of the nation’s top recruiting services.

The Texas Tech basketball team continues to experience never-before-seen territory this spring. On the heels of the Red Raiders’ first ever appearance in the Final Four, the program experienced another first on Tuesday when 2019 signee Jahmius Ramsey was elevated to a 5-star prospect according to Rivals.com marking the first time a Texas Tech signee has ben rated a 5-star player.

Prior to Tuesday’s release of the final Rivals 150, Ramsey had been the top-rated 4-star player in the nation and the No. 27 overall prospect in his class. Now, he is No. 21 overall after jumping six spots tobecome the fourth-highest ranked player in Texas. Interestingly, the top player from the state is R.J. Hampton (No. 6 overall), who has Texas Tech in his top-4 along with Kansas, Memphis and Kentucky after reclassifying to join the 2019 class.

The reason that Ramsey was elevated to the highest point of his recruiting cycle is that he has recently impressed in two national all-star games. In last week’s Ballislife All-American game, Ramsey earned co-MVP honors thanks to some spectacular displays of athleticism.

And at April’s Iverson Classic, he opened eyes with jaw-dropping dunks over some of the best players in the country. Playing his senior season at Duncanville High School rather than at one of the national private school basketball powers such as IMG Academy in Florida or Oak Hill


a boy becomes more appealing to the girls in his middle school class after he has his first girlfriend, Tech will be more appealing to top recruits now that it is viewed as a legitimate destination for 5-star players. (Obviously, that would increase exponentially should Hampton decide to join Ramsey in Lubbock.)

By landing 5-star talent, Chris Beard continues to show that Texas Tech is a legitimate big-time program rather than a feisty underdog that got hot and made a Cinderella run in the tournament. Despite 2019’s success, Tech will still have to prove that it is a program that will remain relevant on the national stage and landing 5-star players will catch the attention of people around the nation and prove that the Red Raiders deserve to beCountry singer Granger Smith says that his youngest son, River Kelly Smith, has died after an undisclosed accident. According to multiple reports, the boy drowned in an accident at Smith's home.

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thinking. In fact, he was thrown out trying to take second on a throw to third after his single in the eighth, with the Giants trailing by a run.

Marco Scutaro's safe call is wishful thinking. In fact, he was thrown out trying to take second on a throw to third after his single in the eighth, with the Giants trailing by a run.

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Miami's Justin Ruggiano is greeted by Ed Lucas after Ruggiano hit his second homer of the game, off Jean Machi in the ninth.

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avoidable when, back in Coventry, there is a lovely stadium with a pristine pitch and the kind of facilities that should be the envy of just about every club outside the Premier League.

The Ricoh Arena, you might be surprised to learn, is still a buzz of activity. On the night their former tenants pulled in a crowd of 1,697 against Stevenage (437 away fans) six motorway junctions south, the Ricoh was hosting a "Making Cosmetics" conference. Tickets for Psychic Sally were on sale. The British Tarantula Society exhibition – the Crufts of spiders, apparently – is coming up. Leicester, Wolves and West Brom have played under-21 matches here. Coventry's ladies team stage matches here. So, next season, will FootballCV Reds of the Conference Youth Alliance (Midlands Division). Futureevents include weightlifting, darts, an antiques fair and a conference on dental technology. Everything really, apart from the reason the stadium was built in the first place.

It is a mess that reduced John Sillett to tears when Coventry's former manager, going back to the days when imaginary champagne was swigged from the FA Cup, took part in a radio interview this season. The old players had a dinner recently and Ronnie Farmer explained to the Coventry Evening Telegraph why none would accept freebies on offer in Northampton. Farmer played for Coventry in all four divisions in the 1950s and 1960s. He is 78 now. "At my age," he said, "I have realised I may never get to see them again."

Unfortunately, the suspicion is that will resonate with ordinary


football people more than it does with Sisu, the Mayfair-based hedge fund that owns the club and brought about the move after complaining that the rent at the Ricoh was too high and, many feel, playing hardball with Coventry City Council, which built and owns the ground.

Sisu seem like an awfully nice bunch. Tim Fisher, working on their behalf as the club's chief executive, when referring to the acrimonious detail, described them last summer as an organisation that "batter people in court". You can imagine what the people of Coventry make of them. "I won't go to Northampton because I class that team as Northampton reserves," Farmer said. "It is not a Coventry team if they are not playing in Coventry."

Some of the Hillers did come down fromand the indignities stack up.

Seven non-league clubs currently have a higher average attendance than Coventry. The lowest gate – 1,603 – was a midweek February game against Carlisle, and Nuneaton Town pulled in more twice that number the following weekend. Coventry have recorded their 10 worst "home" crowds in history this season. "Is this all you take away?" was the chant from the Stevenage end.

Sixfields is certainly a strange and largely joyless experience. The balls and kit arrive in a red van. The souvenir shop is a trailer. The curtains tremble, the wind howls and, at the top of the hill, the regulars reminisce about Highfield Road, with its worn carpets and mossy terraces, and the good old days when they managed 34 consecutive years in the top


division.

I popped in on the way and it is not such an easy place to find these days, swallowed up by a housing estate that has tried to blend in but will never colour co-ordinate with the surrounding red-brick terraces. Look closely and you can make out the faded paintwork of "Cut the Blues", the old barber's shop on the corner of Swan Lane. But there is not a great deal else. The ex-servicemen's club is long gone. The Binley Oak, one of the city's great ska pubs, is now a school. Shops and businesses have closed down. The woman in the Nisa Local told me the place had gone downhill almost instantly and the sculpture that is supposed to mark the significance of Highfield Road is, well,unusual.

"The City", commissioned by the housing developers, actually looks quite impressive. Unless, like me, you are a bit of a pedant. Three of the four dates are wrong, including one that is 24 years out. The club's original name, Singers FC, is missing its second "S" and the picture of a commemorative sewing machine is the football equivalent of putting Lady Godiva in a duffle jacket. Singers, to clarify, were named after the bicycle factory on Alma Street, not the New York sewing machine company.

The protest ribbons on Sky Blue Way were still there, though, and it did not take long standing on that hill – memo for next time: don't wear suede shoes – to be reminded about the sacrifices fans are willing to make to protect


their own.

The Hillers will be back on Tuesday for a game against Bradford City they will not see, blowing their whistles, hoping their voices carry inside the ground they call "The Library". Except the people responsible for this mess never hear them. Thirty-five miles away, there is a £113m stadium, with 32,609 seats, sky-blue trimmings and a statue of Jimmy Hill, and it is preparing for a spider show.

Rumours of Ireland's international demise have been exaggerated – hopefully

That must have been a slightly awkward moment for Roy Keane, not usually a man who likes to be disturbed, when an elderly lady introduced herself on a flight from Manchester to Cork a few days ago. She happened to be the grandmother Stephen Ireland said had died when he requestedcompassionate leave to get out of playing for the Republic of Ireland in 2007. Or one of them anyway.

The story was later changed to him mourning his paternal grandmother, Brenda Kitchener, not the maternal one, Patricia Tallon. Both of them read about their apparent deaths in the newspapers, at which point Ireland explained that his grandfather was divorced and it was actually his new wife who had died.

He did eventually confess to making up the whole thing and later walked away from international football, at the age of 21. But whichever grandmother it was who approached Keane – and it does get confusing – she wanted to ask if there was any way back for the Stoke City player. There is apparently, and the Republic manager, Martin O'Neill,


has already been in touch. Ireland is 27 now – older and wiser, hopefully – and showing glimpses of the form that once made him an outstanding prospect at Manchester City. His exile from international football has always seemed self‑defeating.

It would be nice to think rumours of its demise have been exaggerated.

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The debate over how much teachers should be held accountable for academic achievement has captured national attention since 26,000 teachers walked off the job in Chicago last week largely to protest an evaluation system that factors in student scores on standardized tests.

Other school districts — including those in Los Angeles, New York City, Houston and New Haven, Conn. — also are moving toward or have implemented evaluation methods that rely, in part, on test-score data to rate teachers.

Districts throughout San Diego County and California are waiting for official direction from the Legislature before making changes to teacher reviews. Until then, the vast majority of schools in the state continue to assess teachers the same way they have for the past four decades: Their system gives the highest ratingsthat a handful of teachers have left the profession in her decade there. They were “counseled out of the profession,” she added.

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The state report from the new task force praised the Poway Unified School District for its teacher evaluation system, which is run by instructors and administrators.

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central areas of study at key stages one to three. At the same time, Michael Gove has promised to "revitalise conversations on RE" and work with the Catholic and Anglican churches – "and others" – to improve the subject. Perhaps the "others" will include groups outside the main religious organisations.

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actor constellations of German food retail, thereby including established firms with considerable market power and recently grown start‐ups. Besides the supply side, the particularities on the demand side also play a role. Of particular importance is urban‐rural disparities.

The MLP offers insights in the differentiation of levels and economic and spatial penetration of innovations, within the comprehensive socio‐economic conditions. It is useful to analyse the impact of COVID‐19 on online grocery retailing. Before the COVID‐19 crisis, online grocery retail was a typical example of an innovation in a niche, compared to other industries that already serve large online segments (such as book and apparel retail). It was marked by small networks of actors, low turnovers and often only viable based on supporting measures (e.g. transfers from other segments of               Online platform with own logistics for home delivery
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the MLP suggests. The quick onset and unpredictability of the event limited the expansion of online food retail during COVID‐19, and the conceivably limited timeframe of 'stay at home' practices acted as a barrier for expansion. Thus, the window of opportunity caused by 'stay at home' offered only limited space for experimentation and trying out new methods, such as initiatives by local retailers to help each other. 'Stay at home' practices also created high pressure to satisfy the soaring customer demand. With regard to digitalisation in space, this study shows that digitalisation does not generally help to overcome spatial disparities.

At the time of completing this manuscript (with 'stay at home' still in place), there was no true reconfiguration of the general actor constellation. So far, even the unprecedentedBill Benulis

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Outlaw Fighters #3 (December 1954)

Bill Benulis was an American comic book artist who mainly worked for Timely/Atlas in the 1950s, often in cooperation with Jack Abel. He contributed to many mystery and war titles, including 'Adventures into Weird Worlds', 'Astonishing Comics', 'Battle', 'Journey into Mystery', 'Mystery Tales', 'Navy Action', 'Private Penny', 'Strange Tales', 'War Comics' and 'Speed Carter Spaceman'.

He was also present at Fiction House in titles like 'Ghost Comics', 'The Monster', 'Planet Comics', 'Rangers Comics and 'Wings Comics'. He was affiliated to the Simon-Kirby studio around 1952-53.


Veterinary Schools in Murray, Kentucky

in the areaMurray, Kentucky is an OK place to get your veterinary diploma. The only college offering that option in the city is Murray State University. That school has a decent quality programs: three-star rating for curriculum and three-star rating for teaching as well.

There are thirty more veterinary schools near Murray. Learn about all schools offering veterinary programs around the city below.Scalia would refer customers to her home where she would perform sexual acts in exchange for money.

The agreed amount was about $100 and then to further engage in an additional sex act - it was another $50, Detective Smith told CBS News.

The New York Post reported that Scalia used business cards titled Strips-R-Us, leaving them in pharmacies offering topless cleaning and one-on-one strips.

Neighbors told CBS that they believed she was indeed a prostitute based on her appearance and the amount of visitors at her home.

The way she dressed, you knew something wasn't exactly right there, one neighbor told CBS.

I always see her smoking cigarette with bra and bikini outside, another neighbor said.

According to CBS, Scalia was arrested for prostitution eight years ago, also using a hot dog truck


the capacity of the z800.

Such flexibility is key at a time when customer's computing needs
increase or decrease in an instant, and is another example of how IBM is bringing
its e-business on-demand strategy to fruition.

Sageza Research Director Charles King said the play is another hallmark
of IBM's strategy to push features from high-end machines down into lower
cost products designed for smaller companies that ask for high-level
functionality.

"They're pushing the z990 technology that was introduced in the T-Rex down
into the mid-market in the same way that they did with the z900 into
the z800," King told internetnews.com. "The z900 was the original
big box and typically what they'll do -- at least for the last two product
releases -- is bring the big box out first and then a year or so later
they push thatDumont. This strange, unsettling film follows ‘The Guy’, a mystical, messianic figure, and ‘The Girl’, a local gothic girl who together roam the windswept coastline of Northern France. ‘The Guy’ has the power to kill and the power to heal, with a strange ability to save people by having sex with them. An absurd idea on paper, but Dumont makes it work. A beguiling mix of realism and surrealism, Dumont orchestrates both the visual and aural brutality of the desolate landscape to startling effect.

Carrying on from his previous film I Wish, director Koreeda concocts another incisive and moving portrait of modern Japanese families. Ryota is a workaholic in the city who has little time for his son Keita, and when Ryota learns that Keita might be the result


year. Matthias Schoenaerts, a hulking presence, plays a simmering Cattle farmer in rural Belgium who helps illegally inject steroids into the animals. When a new business venture with foreign investors goes suitably awry, Schoenaerts has to fight to save the business and his own life. Coming on the heels of moody, character driven French thrillers like A Prophet and A Beat That My Heart Skipped, newcomer Roskam delivers a punchy crime drama like Scorsese used to make in his heyday.

Harmony Korine now seems like the Peter Pan of the US underground cinema, constantly ferreting away trying to find the latest movements in youth culture. With Spring Breakers he has hit upon the Girls Gone Wild franchise and turned it into something surreal and often beautiful. In a masterstroke of casting he nabbed a couple of Disney starlets for the leads, giving the film both considerable marketable clout and blurring the lines between reality and fiction. The lean story is essentially a bunch of bollocks; four teenagers go on a Cancun-style orgy of excess and violence. It is Korine’s own warped, poetic take on proceedings that make it something special.

In one of his most notorious quotes Yasujiro Ozu mused ‘I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.’ What the Japanese auteur was insinuating was a dedication to his own distinctive film making style and a dismissal of experimentation for experimentation’s sake. The same could equally be applied to his fellow native


A total of 39 states have adopted, adapted, or endorsed the Standards for Professional Learning, including the standards issued in 2011 (labeled in red) and those published earlier (labeled in blue). Making a commitment to the standards is a commitment to continuous learning for all educators in a school.Tags

The Velvet Revolution, a victory of the people, a victory of the individual, took place on November 17, 1989 when a relatively small group of people in Czechoslovakia put events in motion that could not be stopped. They brought an end to communist rule of their lands, and by the end of the year, a dissident — Vaclav Havel — imprisoned many times by the regime would sit in Prague Castle. At the same time, a beloved reformer — Alexander Dubcek — long ago chased from power by the Soviets, and relegated literally to the backwoods of Bratislava, would be chairman of the federal legislature. Many small victories for the people continue to take place every day in the lives of millions of Slovaks and Czechs as they


caused by the failures of the state, but which certainly were failures of the state, and are failures that are easily repeated wherever a state sees it best to control an economy.

In Czechoslovakia, this included tangerine shortages that made tangerines an exciting, hard to get, exotic St. Nicholas Day present for children each December 6. The popularity of the tangerine as a special gift is an indicator of how relatively impoverished Czechoslovakia was.

There were underwear shortages that left people walking around in tattered rags for underpants, causing young men embarrassment when they found themselves in a romantic encounter equipped only with tattered underwear (as depicted by Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being).

There were condom shortages that left abortion as a multiple-occasion de facto method of standardbirth control used by many for family planning.

There were doctor shortages that made a small bribe of a bottle of alcohol or something similar an almost mandatory aspect of rudimentary medical care.

The disruptive and burdensome attitude that anyone who did not steal from the state was stealing from their own family eventually became commonplace. The economy was largely forced into the incapable hands of the state as many reasonable and entrepreneurial people took to one of the only methods of social advancement — pilfering — in order to provide for the family. This system became an even greater drain on the economy.

This all led to a lack of economic development that put Czechoslovakia further and further behind the freer parts of the world, year after year.

It was easy


to see the bribery and lack of services and goods, but so much more went unseen, and the “unseen,” which Frédéric Bastiat and Henry Hazlitt so effectively described, was the missed opportunities that were occurring everywhere. Consequently, every Slovak today was in a sense betrayed by every ancestor who allowed a less free Slovakia to exist, and every Slovak today was in a sense given a gift by every ancestor who allowed a more free Slovakia to exist.

Meanwhile, In the West

Today, even in the most free-market Western countries, governments participate in massive economic intervention, as if they have learned none of the poignant lessons offered by Soviet-style controlled economies. Government intervention is praised in the West by those who do not have an understanding of markets and tendto confuse the concept of a free market with crony capitalism.

With medical care, pharmaceuticals, and education, for example, the West insists on hindering itself by undermining the market. In doing so, it almost certainly punishes the weakest members of society. Just as the central planners of Czechoslovakia in the last century claimed to act on behalf of “the people” while acting to their detriment, the social democrats of the West in this century follow in those footsteps.

In contrast, personal computing, telecom, the Internet, and burgeoning technologies are areas where technology has moved with such dramatic creativity that governments have been nearly incapable of restraining the markets.

Every year, the government-regulated industries become less efficient and more expensive while the market-regulated industries become ever more efficient and less expensive.

Skepticism Remains

Skepticism


toward any political and economic system is understandable in Central Europe. There have been some unpleasant attempts at using government and economics to control the people. Many look back at 1989 critically and wonder if the right decisions were made during the transitions. Some even look at the time before that with rose-colored glasses and long for what was. Some prospered in the old system and miss it. While the old system promised comfort to some, it was not a system of individual freedom.

But, each day statists and individuals do battle in this place where East meets West, and overwhelmingly, it is the spirit of 1989 and not the spirit of 1948 that wins the battle. From the West (sadly) and from the East (as can be expected)EMBO Conference on Replication and Segregation of Chromosomes, Geilo, Norway, June 16-20. Replication and segregation of chromosomes in the three domains of life: EMBO conference reports common grounds. Meeting report.
A meeting of the EMBO Conference Series on Replication and Segregation of Chromosomes was held in Geilo, Norway, 16-20 June, 2008, under a scenic backdrop of high mountains. The meeting focused on the mechanistic details of replication and segregation primarily from well-characterized systems. Because the same basic principles govern chromosome maintenance in all three domains of life, participants encountering parallel processes in distantly-related organisms were stimulated to interact. Another successful aspect of the meeting was the quality of the posters, several of which were chosen for platform presentation and two for special rewards. The organizers Kirsten Skarstad and Erik


elders to a rock and he has to hit the rock and the rock will give forth water which the people could drink. Where was the rock located – by Har Sinai.

Then Amalek came and fought with the Jews. Amalek only comes when we mess up. Moshe stands on a mountain and lifts his hands heavenwards – while the Jews fight back. Whilst his hands are pointed upwards, the Jews are victorious and when he weakened and his hands drooped, the tide of battle turned. Which mountain was he on – Har Sinai. Was Moshe’s hands deciding the battle? No – as long as he pointed his hands upwards, the folks looked up and glimpsed the sky and remembered “Ezree May’im Hashem” – that saving comes from Hashem,Recently, with major elections soon taking place, the B'nai Brith of Canada, the sister organization of American "hate-watch" group the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), launched a defamatory broadside against the People's Party of Canada (PPC), that nation's brand-new populist alternative to the more establishment-friendly Conservative Party of Canada.

Instead of yielding to pressure, Masse and the PPC fired back, claiming that the attack was completely meritless and that the Conservatives were actually likely involved. In a tough election year against Justin Trudeau's Liberals, and with outspoken PPC founder Maxime "Mad Max" Bernier increasingly scoring points against (as he calls them) the "intellectually corrupt" Conservatives, even in Canada's otherwise ultra-polite political arena, the Conservatives' involvement looks highly believable.

Although covered by most of Canada's institutional media, the basis for the B'nai Brith's


attack was remarkably thin. In their press release, the group quoted lines from blog posts that were not only over a decade old (having appeared on a French-Canadian blog in 2002), but, according to Masse, highly exaggerated and clearly out of context.

For instance, the B'nai Brith accused Masse of "racism" and "having Nazi sympathies" for stating at the time that the media's labeling of Austria's Freedom Party as a "group of Nazis" was overblown — that party is now part of Austria's coalition government. But as Masse had to point out later in his own press release, the B'nai Brith apparently "missed" the part in his post where he quoted Simon Wiesenthal saying the exact same thing.

Elsewhere, they accused Masse of anti-Semitism for raising concerns about Israel's policiesit's shoot first, debate never. Like the ADL or the Southern Poverty Law Center, the B'nai Brith's business model depends on finding "hate" wherever it can so as to ensure that donations remain high and steady. This should give major media sources serious pause before they report on their investigations or turn to them for "expert opinion."

The B'nai Brith's more direct motivation for the smear campaign was likely related to its CEO, Michael Mostyn, who is closely connected with the Conservative Party. Mostyn ran as a candidate twice for the party in recent federal elections (he lost both times). This was a fact raised in Masse's response but, unfortunately, not in the media's coverage. The media did note that the Conservatives suspiciously had an official condemnation of the


Image caption Almost 200 people were arrested as a result of SCDEA operations

More organised crime gangs have been tackled by the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency (SCDEA) than ever before, according to its annual report.

The report said the agency disrupted organised crime groups on 109 occasions - twice as often as last year.

Of these, 42 were classed as "high level", defined as resulting in the most significant impact to criminal activities.

The agency's operations resulted in 194 people being arrested.

This included 75 who were said to be among the country's most harmful and dangerous criminals.

SCDEA investigations also resulted in criminals being sentenced to a combined total of 170 years imprisonment.

More than 782kg of illegal drugs were seized, with an estimated street value of £18.45m, along with 328kg ofthem grabbed him by the neck and then pulled him down the stairs by his legs. He was brutally beaten – punched and kicked in front of me and my daughters. When my eldest daughter interfered, they responded with insults and tried to arrest her too. I was torn between begging them not to take her and looking at my husband on the stairs where they were still kicking him and praying that he was ok. As if that was not enough, I suddenly noticed three masked men holding my three sons-in-law by their necks and taking them downstairs. At that point I was furious, sad and helpless.

My husband was gone, but I could not show how sad I felt because my daughters were suffering after watching the


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Millennials everywhere, beware! The word “epic” has finally found its rightful place in the modern world and it has little to do with your festival experience or favorite burrito joint. Kamasi Washington Dectet, a tight-knit jazz regiment headed by the masterful composer and saxophonist best known for his work with Kendrick Lamar and Flying Lotus, dropped their 3-disc debut The Epic (Brainfeeder Records, 2015) this Tuesday, a timely release just under two months after To Pimp a Butterfly (Interscope Records, 2015) took music media by a storm and brought jazz back into the limelight. Washington has been in the touring game since college (to wit: Snoop Dogg, Lauryn Hill, Raphael Saadiq, Chaka Khan), and spent much of his time back home in LA recording with ten collaborators, andconspiracy to distribute cocaine.  Masters was later arraigned and entered a guilty plea to the one count information.  The district court conducted a full inquiry before accepting the defendant's plea of guilt.  It was careful to remind Masters that his maximum exposure for conviction of the crime was fifteen years and a substantial fine. moreover, the court warned Masters that the length of sentence was completely within the court's discretion and that neither defense counsel nor the government could promise him anything in the way of sentencing that was binding on the court.  The district court then ordered that a presentence report be prepared.

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On November 5, 1986, a hearing was held by the district court for the purpose of sentencing.  The government pointed


St Moritz Match Race - Competitors duel for King of the Mountain title

St Moritz Match Race, the sixth stage of the World Match Racing Tour, takes place on Lake St Moritz in the Engadin Valley from 30 August to 4 September 2011.

For the ninth year running, St. Moritz is preparing to welcome the world's top match racers. The competitors will be duelling for the annual Match Race title, a cash prize of 150,000 CHF and – most sought after all – the 'King of the Mountain' title!

Two Swiss teams have qualified to race this edition: Jérôme Clerc and his team from the Geneva Race Training Centre (CER) and Eric Monnin who, as a wild card holder, has raced every St. Moritz Match Race so far.

Current World Match RaceTour leader, Italian Francesco Bruni, will be a favourite at the St. Moritz Match Race. Bruni has been the most consistent competitor so far this season with a win at Match Race Germany and two seconds at the Korea Match Cup and the Portimao Portugal Match Cup. He did have a very disappointing 12th place out of 14 last month in Sweden however. Francesco Bruni and his crew have taken a break to recharge their batteries ahead of the final three regattas of the season that kick off with St. Moritz Match Race. Bruni holds an eight point lead over his closest rival; a fragile advantage considering the importance of the final regattas remaining on the calendar.

With Australian Peter Gilmour absent in St. Moritz, Britain's Ian Williams is


Bruni's closest rival for the world championship title having won the last two events of the Tour. Williams is the man of the moment, as Bruni points out: 'Ian Williams sails very well and has a lot of experience. This season, the best teams are also the most experienced teams. Newcomers are finding it tougher.'

Other serious contenders, such as France's Mathieu Richard, who won St. Moritz Match Race last year, will most certainly cause some upsets. 'Our mid-season ranking is disappointing as we are lying eighth overall, however all is not lost. We have to claw back the points during the last three events of the season, starting with St. Moritz Match Race. Last year, by this stage, we had won three events and Williams, Bruni and Gilmourlost hope: we are lying sixth, but are not far behind on points.'

The Swiss teams have nothing to lose. Despite coming last at the 2010 St. Moritz Match Race, Jérôme Clerc and his CER team qualified and have had an excellent season so far. They are approaching the high altitude stage of the World Match Race Tour unashamedly determined to play their hand. As for Eric Monnin, 10th last year and third in 2007, he will benefit greatly from his local knowledge and experience.


Woman insists exorcism took place

STOCKTON, CA - Though two family members were arrested but not prosecuted for kidnapping her last weekend for an exorcism, Blanca insists she was held against her will.

"They made me throw up. Yes, that was getting the devil out of me, to make me throw up," said Blanca.

She didn't want her last name used, or her face photographed, when interviewed by News10 on Thursday.

It was last weekend that Blanca claims she was taken by her husband and son to a Bay Area church where she says she was held against her will and forced to consume some type of oil.

The San Joaquin County Sheriff's Office arrested the husband and son. However, no charges have been filed by the county district against the two.

Without beingto be forcibly torn from each other in the U.S. and detained separately 2,000 miles apart. Earlier this week, the government abruptly released the mother, who is waiting to be reunited with her daughter.

Under the long-standing international law, asylum-seekers are expected to apply for asylum in the first safe nation they reach. However, an increasing number of Africans and Asians are migrating through many sate s– including Brazil and Mexico — to reach the United States.


Viewpoints of Korean senior high school students on school-based sex education.
The percentage of sexually experienced young persons in South Korea has increased and the age of first intercourse has lowered significantly. However, these marked changes in the sexual behavior of young people have been taking place when schools in the country still generally lack a realistic sex education program. Given this situation, the aim of this study is to gather student opinions on current school-based sex education in Korea. A self-administered questionnaire survey was conducted in Seoul, Incheon, and Kyunggi Province to assess the status and needs of high school sexuality education. Survey data was obtained from 1,160 senior high school students. In this study 68.8% of boys and 94.4% of girls had some school-based sex or sexualityeducation. The mean hours of sex education instruction of boys and girls were 2.29 and 3.39 hours respectively. There are several reasons for not being satisfied with sex education in schools. Lack of information was the first reason in all categories. About seventy-four percent of respondents felt that the sex education taught in schools did not cover the information that they want. The second reason was that there was no trained sex education teacher. Lack of materials, interactive teaching method, and time were the other reasons given. They advocated starting sex education in elementary school and covering all topics by the age-appropriate level. More than half supported that sex education should be made compulsory in schools.


Aaron is a bachelor living a stereotypical life with a decent earning. He works in a bank, managing people’s finances, but he has trouble to manage his own life in late 20’s. Whenever he finds a minute of privacy in his day, he hastily delves into his own fabricated reality: a world of excessive sex, pornography, and masturbation. However, this is a manifestation of his feelings of intense lack of connection (Anorexia-Avoidance), and the loneliness around him. One day Aaron meets a new neighbor and establishes a connection. This moment lights a spark inside that grows, opening a door to achieve the emotional and physical satisfaction he was longing. Is Aaron ready to give up his comfort zone? “Authentic” is a portrait of a person desperately trying toin a week as she was ready.
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World number one Datuk Lee Chong Wei will also see action Saturday in the semifinals against Chen Jin of China.

In squash, world number one and five times world champion, Datuk Nicol David and Low Wee Wern will feature in the women's squash semifinals while Mohd Azlan Iskandar and Ong Beng Hee face their opponents in the men's semifinals.

Consolation for the Malaysian camp was retaining the 10th spot in the medal tally despite failing to win any medals for two consecutive days.

Malaysia's three gold, three silver and four bronze to remain in the top ten but well off the target of nine gold medals predicted by the National Sports Council.

Host China continued their dominance by piling up the gold medals and opened up a huge gap over the restHere’s one guess that is boring, but makes quite a bit more sense than any of the high-profile grifters in Trump’s cabinet who might otherwise have written the essay: Andrew Bremberg, an assistant to the president and director of the Domestic Policy Council, an under-the-radar body which “supervises the development, coordination, and execution of domestic policy in the White House,” and which has virtually no internet presence in Trump’s White House.

Bremberg started in the role the day Trump was inaugurated, but congruent with the stated beliefs in the Times op-ed,is pretty firmly in the establishment wing of the Republican Party: He was a former top aide to Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), an advisor for Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, an HHS official in the Bush administration, and served as


issue a relationship certificate. The amphur could also require the id paperwork, such as the passport, plus your paperwork showing that preceding marriages have been lawfully terminated.

Polygamy may be the act or condition of an individual marrying another individual when nonetheless currently being lawfully hitched to another loved one.

Polygamy was outlawed in federal territories by the Edmunds Act, and legal guidelines against the follow in every 50 claims, as well as the Area of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Lujoso.

The offense is punishable by a superb, imprisonment, or perhaps each, based on the law of your person state and the situations of the criminal offense.

Any zugezogener who is visiting the United States to put on polygamy is certainly inadmissible.

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It was closing time, and Sarkis Antonyan sat behind the front counter of his Pets R Us store on Victory Boulevard in Burbank. As ever, he was sharply dressed: black shoes, black Italian slacks, a black belt, and a gleaming yellow short-sleeved turtleneck that set off swarthy skin and a thick crop of heavily oiled hair, combed straight back.

Five feet, 7 inches tall and 27 years old, Antonyan weighed a comfortable 180 pounds and had a paunch to show it. It was just 11 years since hed emigrated to the U.S. from Armenia with his parents and sister. During that span hed picked up the American nickname Sam, married and started a family, and learned to run with the fast crowd in the ethnic underworld that


thrives in the Valley-fringe suburbs of Glendale and Burbank.

By some measures, he was still feeling his way in the new world. He lived at home, his parents and his wife sharing a cozy white house with a garage in the back on a leafy residential street north of Glenoaks Boulevard in Glendale. But he never let limited English and rudimentary education hold him back: Within just two years of arriving in Los Angeles, he operated a store in the jewelry district downtown, and in the years that followed he launched, sold and swapped a string of businesses. He was loud and sardonic, quick to smile from behind his long, broad nose.

He was called Little Al Capone by his fellow Armenians, one former associate said. He wore a lotof gold. He was a thick little kid in a nice jacket, fancy shoes and a Calvin Klein T-shirt. He looked like the Fat Tony character from The Simpsons.

And he always looked for an angle. It might be a stretch to call Sarkis Antonyan a gangster -- he was never accused of violent crime, and if any organization dominated his life it was his family -- but according to police and several former associates, most of his businesses were scams. Like so many ambitious immigrants before him, he shunned the prospect of menial work for low wages, choosing instead to slip underground, moving easily in the Armenian enclaves of polyglot L.A., living by his wits on the far side of the law.

Following that path led him deep into


the California recycling program, the $450 million state buy-back financed by all those nickel deposits on bottles and cans. The program was launched for environmental reasons, but to him it presented an opportunity for graft and larceny.

In 1999, he followed that same path to Pets R Us. Sarkis Antonyan bought the place early that summer, along with two other small storefront pet shops, one in Glendale and another in Tujunga. He never showed much interest in small-animal husbandry; according to Burbank police, he was using the stores as fronts to carry out credit-card fraud.

It was September 14, 1999, and the place was a mess at the end of a long, sweaty day. The bird cages stank, and the water in the fish tanks was dingy, but Antonyan didntseem to mind. He took a moment to relax while somebody he referred to as his cousin closed up shop in a rear supply room. The man wasnt actually his cousin, but that was how he and the friends he grew up with in Armenia liked to identify each other to outsiders.

Around 7:15 p.m., another man, later described simply as Armenian-looking, strolled into the pet store and up to the counter where Antonyan was seated.

There may have been a conversation, but nothing so heated as to alert Antonyans cousin in the backroom. The first thing the shop assistant heard was a pop, pop, pop; believing it was an electrical problem, he headed out front to find Antonyan still seated on his stool, his head resting on the front


counter in a pool of blood. Antonyan had been shot four times, twice in the head, the dual bullet holes forming a fatal figure eight in the top of his scalp.

The shop assistant never saw Antonyans killer, who left the days receipts untouched in the register drawer. The assistant spoke little English and did not know to call 911. Instead, he ran out into the street and flagged down a motorist and asked for help.

He also placed a call to the Antonyan family home, about a mile away. Sarkis mother, Margarit Tumanyan, was already at the store by the time police arrived. She was always close to her son, and is devastated by his demise. We lost a hundred-percent good man, she said in a recent telephone interview.turn-of-the-century ethnic communities fed by waves of immigration. And while La Cosa Nostra has withered through years of assimilation and the focused attention of federal law enforcement, new immigrants have brought crime syndicates of their own.

In Orange County and the San Gabriel Valley, that means Asian gangs, and in West Hollywood it translates into Russian organized crime. In those cases, as with the Italian Mafia, the crime organizations were already entrenched in the home countries, and were imported virtually intact, along with some key players.

In Burbank and Glendale, the pattern is more recent, and more fluid. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, those sleepy communities became home to tens of thousands of new immigrants from Armenia, so that Glendale can now claim the largest concentration of Armen-ians


outside the capital city of Yerevan. The Armenian National Committee of America has its regional headquarters in Glendale, and in November, the Armenian Music Awards were filmed there and broadcast to an audience of millions around the globe.

Isolated by language and custom, the tide of Armenian immigration was marked by the proliferation of cafes, delis and shish-kebab joints, as well as its own crime scene. Officials with Armenian Solidarity say their crime problem is little different than in other immigrant communities, but a member of Antonyans family, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said that crime shadows the life of her people. This family member attributes the lawlessness primarily to Russian immigrants. We were all new in this country. This was the time ofhead deputy of Cooleys newly formed Organized Crime Division, the ethnic crime scene is less tightly controlled than more traditional underworld families like the Mafia or the Chinese Triads. Theres no single boss, and theres a lot of freelancing, but this new breed of criminal is equally effective in committing crimes, Thomas said.

The biggest Armenian crime operation identified to date was a black-market network known as the Mikaelian Organ-ization, which commandeered state and federal taxes due from millions of gallons of diesel fuel sold through scores of gas stations and truck stops throughout Southern California. That racket was shut down by 13 arrests in September 1995, but the underworld continues to thrive. Clearly they are operating in organized groups, Thomas said, and they use violence to keep people


in line.

In Burbank, Lieutenant Brown said, investigating Antonyans slaying gave his officers an education in the scope and extent of the ethnic underworld. His murder led us to uncover a lot of illegal activity in the city of Burbank. Its an interwoven, intriguing type of situation.

In particular, Antonyans murder a shed new light on corruption in Californias recycling program, the statewide effort to recover cans and bottles returned by consumers to more than 2,000 centers. In 1986, California became one of just 10 states with buy-back recycling. Problems arose immediately, as the 5-cent bounty on bottles and cans soon spawned a black market for out-of-state containers.

The racket is fairly simple: Middlemen truck in bottles and cans from neighboring states and Mexico, process them through the California system, andsmoldering and never ignites.

Sarkis Antonyan got into THE business in 1996 with the purchase of High Tech Recycling in Eagle Rock. As became his pattern, he kept his own name out of the picture; state records show the business was registered to his mother.

Antonyan cut a memorable figure in the recycling business, an industry marked by close regulation and narrow profit margins. He was flashy, said one source. He flashed his money around and tried to impress people with it.

Another source recalled meeting Antonyan at his recycling center. He arrived in a black Mercedes. Four weeks later, he showed up in an old Datsun. He just wanted to make an impression. He probably just borrowed the car from a friend.

One source from the recycling industry said he took


the time to get to know Antonyan, and said he came to like him. Sam always had a smile on his face. He was a sharp kid and could argue his point. But the source said Antonyans scams caught up with him. His downfall was that he was overtly weaselly. He took ripping people off way too far and way too many times.

These sources are among several quoted in this story who agreed to discuss Antonyan and his business activities only on condition they not be named. They had good reasons to request anonymity: They feared loss of business if other recyclers or state officials knew they had divulged knowledge of illegal activity, and they feared retribution, possibly by Antonyans killer, who is still at large. We presenttheir comments because of their inside knowledge of the industry, and because they had direct contact with him.

These sources say Antonyan was the leader of a fistful of Armenians in the L.A. area who moved into recycling during the middle 1990s and promptly generated suspicion on the part of established recyclers. The Armenians got into the business several years ago and bilked the state out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, said one recycler. The fraud spurred increased scrutiny by the state and unfair pricing practices, he said. Theyre ruining the business for the rest of us.

Members of Antonyans family dispute that account, asserting that he never engaged in illegal activity, but simply had trouble keeping the detailed forms required to ensure that state dollars were spent solely


on forever, and that doesnt mean they will find anything.

But the industry veterans who spoke to the Weekly said they know the truth of the matter firsthand. Until his death, Sarkis denied he was involved in fraud, said a former associate who befriended Antonyan. He kept saying that he was the victim, that he wasnt up to anything, that he made mistakes but wasnt doing anything suspicious. But I know for sure he was bringing in out-of-state cans.

Moreover, the arrival of Antonyan and his cohorts transformed the recycling industry, introducing cons and schemes -- and outright intimidation -- on a scale unseen before.

I dont know about organized crime, but theyre working together, said one source. The Armenians came in, and they found a system they thought they couldof takers.

Thats not overly surprising. Most recycling centers are low-overhead, low-profit businesses -- grimy, grungy places that generate revenues in the neighborhood of $25,000 a year. But where most prospective buyers would expect slim returns on their investments, sources said Antonyan and his clique learned to wring profits out of his recycling centers in two ways.

The first was to immediately begin running out-of-state containers through the centers he owned. Records required by the state to track the sources of the containers were either falsified or ignored. When inspectors caught up with the scheme, they would move to revoke the centers certification, but bogus operators like Antonyan just moved on, either selling the center in question or simply switching ownership on paper. Observed one operator, Decertifying is a minor


former associate described the racket: He would buy a place, then run a bunch of bad material through it to show the prospective buyer that the business was doing well. He would show the buyer his records, then sell it at an inflated price. In one case the source detailed, Antonyan bought a center for less than $20,000 and sold it for $75,000. As the source described it, He was probably doing it primarily to sell the place. Defrauding the state was just icing on the cake.

The profits from the recycling were never spectacular -- they paled compared to, say, smuggling cocaine -- but for Antonyan and his friends, it was a bonanza. Its not per se a Mafia thing, but they travel in packs, said one U.S.-bornthem. They thought he had changed the business name but that he was still the owner.

Ibranyan entered another venture with Antonyan in 1997, according to a claim Antonyan made in a civil lawsuit. That was V&S Auto Dismantling, in Sun Valley. Antonyan owned a second Sun Valley wrecking yard, according to state records, but according to Ibranyan, Antonyans claim to the V&S operation was just another scam.

I owned the auto-dismantling business, Ibranyan said in a telephone interview. I owned the business from the first day to the last. Ibranyan said Antonyans legal claim was bogus, just another scheme to steal money. He opened a lawsuit and said he was a partner with me. It had nothing to do with him. It never happened.

He did the same thing with


from the legitimate recyclers viewpoint is that we provide information and still we get hit for being the bad guys, Massey complained.

That frustration only mounted in 1999 when the industry was racked by escalating violence. On June 27, two former partners in a recycling center were shot and killed on a residential street in Glendale.

The victims, Rafael Aibouchev and Gevork Petrosyan, were cousins. The center they operated together had been decertified by the state, but Aibouchev disputed Petrosyans decision to dissolve their partnership. Not long after dark the night of the shootings, Aibouchev took a 9 mm handgun and drove over to his cousins house. As it happened, he arrived in the middle of a Petrosyan family get-together.

Gevork Petrosyan was standing on the front lawn with his brotherTigran and Rafik Petrosyan, 67, an uncle to both Gevork and Rafael. The trio crossed the street to speak with Aibouchev, and an argument broke out. Still seated in his car, Aibouchev shot Gevork and Rafik. In the confusion that followed, Tigran Petrosyan wrestled the gun from Aibouchev and shot him twice. Aibouchev sped off but crashed into parked cars about a block away. The gunfire left both Aibouchev, 36, and Gevork, 37, fatally wounded. Rafik Petrosyan sustained a bullet wound to his leg.

Three months later, Sarkis Antonyan was murdered in Burbank. Recyclers across Southern California assumed the successive shootings were business-related, a sign that organized crime had arrived in their industry. I look both ways before I cross the street now, said one recycling-center operator. I shared


some of these stories with my wife, and she insisted that we move.

Officials with the state Department of Justice made the same assumption. In its Annual Report on Organized Crime, issued in March 2000, the department made public for the first time its knowledge of a Russian-Armenian organized-crime group operating primarily in Los Angeles County that is involved in defrauding the California recycling fund controlled by the California Department of Conservation . . .

The violence potential of this group is demonstrated by three murders connected to this investigation, the report stated -- clear references to the shootings of Aibouchev, Petrosyan and Antonyan.

The report went into a surprising level of detail. The group, it read, is made up of approximately 25 to 50 individuals of Armenian descent . .a family feud, not rival gangsters pushing competitors out of business.

Sarkis Antonyan, the young Armenian who liked to be called Little Al Capone, seemed a more likely victim of recycling-racket violence. As one former associate in the industry noted, More than one [recycler] said to me they would kill him if they saw him again. Others in the recycling business believed Antonyan was slain for fear he would cooperate with the federal investigation. We think he knew too much, and the feds were putting pressure on him and he might spill the beans, one recycler speculated.

But the Burbank police investigating the murder arent ready to buy it. To say that those people took action and had him killed I think is presumptive, said Burbank Detective Miranda. Asked about


the state Department of Justice report, Miranda said, That investigator was involved in one window of Sarkis life. I looked into several, and nothing I investigated was able to point me in a definite direction.

While the Burbank detectives are not ready to file charges in the case, their deep probe into Antonyans life has revealed a far more likely scenario for murder. As Lieutenant Brown put it, You wouldnt believe how much you can learn about someone once theyre dead.

One intriguing fact investigators learned about Sarkis Antonyan was a trip abroad he made in the latter part of 1998. Taking his wife, Araksiya Muradyan, he headed back to Armenia. He stayed roughly six months in Yerevan, the place of his birth and his home until he was 16,a city of 1.2 million that boasts Soviet-era monuments and crowded sidewalk cafes.

Antonyans colleagues in the recycling industry believe he made his sojourn out of fear for his safety. As the story went, word got out that Antonyan had begun speaking with the FBI, and he went to Yerevan to avoid retaliation. One source said he learned from mutual friends that Antonyan was assaulted while he was there and had his legs broken. He was told he had to come back and retract his comments.

A member of Antonyans family confirmed the trip in an interview, but disputed the story that he was on the lam. He went there with his wife on vacation, this source said. He didnt tell me he was scared. To my understanding, that is


the time he went to the Bahamas, too. The family member denied that Antonyan was injured on the trip.

Burbank police also said the report that he had his legs broken was a new one to them. But they turned up another factor that might explain his timely return to the city where he grew up.

The story dates back to the first business Antonyan operated in the U.S., a store in the downtown L.A. jewelry district that he opened in 1992, when he was 20 years old. He called it Hi-Tech Jewelry, and, police discovered, he used it for yet another scam.

In 1995, as he later told investigators, Antonyan was approached by Maher (Mike) Darbinyan, whose father operated a store in the same building as Hi-Tech. Antonyan said Darbinyanowed him $8,000, but rather than pay him off, Darbinyan proposed a scheme that would profit both of them. With Antonyans cooperation, Darbinyan would stage a mock robbery of Hi-Tech. Antonyan had gold bullion in his inventory worth an estimated $750,000; after the heist, Darbinyan would sell it and they would split the proceeds.

The robbery took place on the afternoon of December 21, 1995. Antonyan and a security guard named Craig Kusaba were inside the store when Darbinyan arrived with an accomplice. The two visitors entered the store, pulled out handguns and announced it was a robbery. They led Antonyan and Kusaba into an office, cuffed their hands behind them and duct-taped their feet. They also taped Kusabas mouth shut, but not Antonyans. The robbers found the gold


in a safe and took it, along with Kusabas gun.

Kusaba, who was a reserve LAPD officer, was immediately suspicious of the ruse. He told police the next day that, in the weeks before the robbery, hed noticed Antonyan huddled in a series of meetings with a stranger. The discussions were in Armenian, which Kusaba didnt understand, but just before the robbery, he walked in on one of the meetings and the word police came up, in English. As LAPD Detective Bill Speer explained it later in court testimony, He turned to look, because he heard the word police, and they were both looking at him.

But if the detectives were skeptical, they made no move against Antonyan. Promptly after the robbery, he filed a crime report that described therobber as Hispanic. He also filed a claim with his insurance company, and records show he got out of the jewelry business later that month. He met with Darbinyan weeks after the robbery, but he later told police he had to settle for just $30,000 -- a tenth of what hed been hoping for. By then it may have occurred to Antonyan that he had been played as a victim all along. He told police he attempted to contact Darbinyan several more times, but the calls were not returned. He also let on that he was afraid of Darbinyan.

He had good reason to be. If Antonyan at times seemed to be a wannabe gangster, Maher Darbinyan looked like the real thing. Police named Darbinyan as the leader of


a team that committed a string of takeover robberies in the jewelry district and elsewhere. In three of those crimes, witnesses said Darbinyan was armed and, on two occasions, pistol-whipped victims who failed to cooperate promptly. On another occasion, a store owner said he opened fire on Darbinyan and his cohorts during the course of a robbery; They returned fire before leaving with a van full of loot. Police sources say Darbinyan also on occasion drafted members of the Temple Street Gang to act as sluggers, a surprising mix of underworld muscle that investigators say serves as a measure of his clout.

When Darbinyan turned up as a suspect in one of those robberies, it triggered police to look again at the Hi-Tech Jewelry heist. Detective Speer promptly contactedAntonyan in August to ask about Kusabas hunch. Perhaps still angry that hed failed to collect from Darbinyan, Antonyan came clean, telling Speer, The robbery was a setup.

The detective called a meeting to take a formal statement. On August 8, 1997, Antonyan presented himself in the company of two private attorneys at the offices of the Robbery Homicide Division on the third floor of Parker Center, the LAPDs downtown headquarters. Detective Speer agreed to two conditions: that Antonyan would not be charged for his participation in the robbery, and that he would not be charged for filing a false police report. Antonyan then made a detailed statement implicating Darbinyan.

It was a break in an ongoing case: Other detectives at the LAPD had already issued a warrant for Darbinyans


arrest in connection with several other armed robberies. Speer went back to Kusaba, obtained his identification of Darbinyan as the man whom hed seen meeting with Antonyan, and added the Hi-Tech robbery to the charge sheet.

Once the case was filed, Antonyans statement to the police became available to Darbinyan and his attorney. And when Darbinyan was released, word of Antonyans betrayal traveled quickly. In fact, according to some of Antonyans associates, someone made scores of copies of the taped confession and distributed them throughout the Armenian underground.

Antonyans role in the prosecution of his former accomplice seems the best explanation for his decision to return to Armenia. Certainly, the timing fits. Prosecutors contacted him in March of 1998, as they prepared to file an 11-count indictment charging Darbinyan ina subpoena for the hearing arrived, he was already out of the country.

In his absence, the district attorney agreed to drop the Hi-Tech Jewelry case, but Darbinyan pleaded guilty to one of the 11 counts alleged against him and received a three-year term in state prison. By the time Antonyan returned to Glendale, around May of 1999, Darbinyan was doing time.

While Antonyan was away, he had let the licenses to his recycling businesses lapse, and he never bothered renewing them. Instead, he filed suit against his former partner Vahe Ibranyan, claiming more than $100,000 for his share of their auto-wrecking business -- a claim Ibranyan said was baseless. It had nothing to do with him.

Otherwise, the loudmouthed young hustler with the easy smile laid low -- he bought


into Pets R Us and never resumed contact with his friends in the recycling business. But Sarkis couldnt escape the grumblings in the Armenian underworld over his taped testimony in the jewelry-mart heist.

Detective Miranda of Burbank heard of the damning tape two days after Antonyan was murdered. As he explained in a formal statement attached to a search warrant, Miranda was interviewing one of Antonyans associates when the friend mentioned that a tape had been made which may have led to the motive for other persons to murder Sarkis. The source said, A hundred copies of this tape were made and distributed among the Armenian community.

Miranda made extensive efforts to get hold of a copy, but none of the tapes turned up. To this day, the detective saysthe story of its distribution may just be a rumor, but he has no doubt that word of Antonyans confession made the rounds of the underworld.

Darbinyan was serving his sentence at the state prison in Chino at the time of Antonyans shooting and thus was never a suspect, but Miranda decided to canvas Darbinyans crew of friends. In the course of these interviews, Miranda said, another officer working on the case ran across Vahe Ibranyan, Antonyans estranged partner, a coincidence the detective termed interesting.

Miranda obtained a warrant to search Ibranyans home, where he found a newspaper report of Antonyans murder, but no copies of the tape and nothing incriminating. Ibranyan later went to the Burbank police station to answer a series of questions, but told the Weekly he


was assured then that he was not a suspect.

Ibranyan said his experience with Antonyan drained his assets and ruined his future prospects. He filed for bankruptcy in February of 2000, retaining his $270,000 home and discharging $65,000 in credit-card debt. He now claims income of $920 a month and works as a limo driver. Asked his thoughts on Antonyan, Ibranyan said, I had a big problem with him, and I dont want to even remember his name.

Antonyans memory also evokes bitterness among his former associates in the recycling industry. The scams that he pioneered have become commonplace, they say, as has the Armenian presence in the Southern California market. At the time Antonyan left the industry, Armenians controlled about 50 recycling centers; now its more than 200. Itsworse than ever.

If Antonyan left a legacy of crime, his murder also energized the authorities regulating the recycling industry. In October 1999, a month after his slaying, agents from the state Department of Conservation and the FBI raided the Los Angeles offices of Active Recycling, the L.A. County processing center favored by Antonyan and his cohorts as a place to send bad materials.

State officials followed up the raid by filing a formal accusation against Active last April alleging dishonesty, incompetence, negligence or fraud. In addition, the state Department of Conservation initiated audits of close to a dozen of the recycling centers that relied on Active to process their bottles and cans. Four centers opted to drop out of the business; six more were decertified by the state.

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of the enforcement agency, we are all guilty. We are nothing but a bunch of crooks.

Sarkis Antonyans survivors think he got a bad rap as well. He was a really good person, said one family member. He lived to serve people. And he lived to protect his family.

In September, a memorial service drew more than 200 people to the Armenian Community Center in Glendale. You wouldnt believe how many people came up to talk to me, said one of the Antonyan clan. My family is very close to the community.

Too close, in Antonyans case, to at least one member of that community. You have a big Mafia, said Margarit Tumanyan, Sarkis mother. Tumanyan recounted her frustrations with the Burbank police, and lamented the course of her life inBrandon Sharp.
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