which
contains such a breadth and clarity of wisdom on things that seem alien
to his sympathies, even in some of his poems; Coleridge, in his
_Biographia Literaria_, in his notes on Shakespeare, in those rhapsodies
at Highgate which were the basis for his recorded table talk; Keats in
his letters; Shelley in his _Defence of Poetry_; Byron in his satires
and journals; Scott in those lives of the novelists which contain so
much truth and insight into the works of fellow craftsmen--they are all
to be found turning the new acuteness of impression which was in the air
they breathed, to the study of literature, as well as to the study of
nature. Alongside of them were two authors, Lamb and Hazlitt, whose bent
was rather critical than creative, and the best part of whose
intelligence and sympathy wasthe light of common
day. He had his memories and that was all.

There is, of course, more in the matter than this, and Wordsworth's
beliefs were inextricably entangled with the conception which Coleridge
borrowed from German philosophy.

"We receive but what we give"

wrote Coleridge to his friend,

"And in our life alone doth Nature live."

And Wordsworth came to know that the light he had imagined to be
bestowed, was a light reflected from his own mind. It is easy to pass
from criticism to metaphysics where Coleridge leads, and wise not to
follow.

If Wordsworth represents that side of the Romantic Revival which is best
described as the return to Nature, Coleridge has justification for the
phrase "Renascence of Wonder." He revived the supernatural as a literary
force, emancipated it from the crude mechanism which had been applied to
it by


he
describes a handwriting,

"In such a hand as when a field of corn
 Bows all its ears before the roaring East."

he is using up a sight noted in his walks and transmuted into poetry on
a trivial and frivolous occasion. You do not feel, in fact, that the
handwriting visualized spontaneously called up the comparison; you are
as good as certain that the simile existed waiting for use before the
handwriting was thought of.

The accuracy of his observation of nature, his love of birds and larvae
is matched by the carefulness with which he embodies, as soon as ever
they were made, the discoveries of natural and physical science.
Nowadays, possibly because these things have become commonplace to us,
we may find him a little school-boy-like in his pride of knowledge. He
knows that

"This world was once aspeak for himself, and with
_Men and Women_, a series of poems of amazing variety and brilliance, he
placed himself unassailably in the first rank. Like Tennyson's, his
genius continued high and undimmed while life was left him. _Men and
Women_ was followed by an extraordinary narrative poem, _The Ring and
the Book_, and it by several volumes of scarcely less brilliance, the
last of which appeared on the very day of his death.

Of the two classes into which, as we saw when we were studying Burns,
creative artists can be divided, Browning belongs to that one which
makes everything new for itself, and has in consequence to educate the
readers by whom its work can alone be judged. He was an innovator in
nearly everything he did; he thought for himself; he wrote for himself,
and in his


one – with a strong Chinese twist – the event dishes out awards to talent from all fields of entertainment, from stage theater to film, pop music to TV – and even traditional Chinese opera.

Other Hollywood names in attendance included Sam Worthington, Jeremy Irons, Mathew Perry, Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Booboo Stewart (Twilight, X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Avril Lavigne.

STORY: Hollywood Stars to Attend China's Version of the Oscars

Sources close to the event say awards show veteran Don Mischer, who was hired by Global Talents to advise on the show as a consultant, was instrumental in securing the Hollywood presence. Mischer has produced or directed three Academy Award shows, two Olympics opening ceremonies, several Super Bowl halftime shows and the 2009 Obama Inaugural Celebration in Washington, D.C.

InChinese opera singer category.

With a few small logistical delays and no cap on acceptance speech lengths, the show ran nearly four hours. Translations of the proceedings were intermittent.

Stepping behind the podium late in the night to receive her best global actress in motion pictures trophy, Nicole Kidman thanked the crowd and said, “I haven’t understood all of it, but I’ve had a great time being a spectator.”

She added that she hopes to come back and make a film in China -- and to show her daughters the country someday.

Jackie Chan next presented Tarantino with the best global director in motion pictures award – a somewhat surprising honor for the celebrated pop auteur, given the difficulties he encountered in releasing his last film Django Unchained in China (it was


and I decided that Hong Kong would be the perfect place for me to have a life.”

While approaching the stage to accept his award as best actor in motion pictures, Cage went out of his way to shake hands with a young Chinese boy seated near the front of the hall and wearing a Superman costume.

In beard and pony tail – presumably for his role in Outcast, in which he plays a warrior in Imperial China – Cage opened his arms dramatically as if to embrace the crowd and said: “Nihao, people of China. Xie xie, people of China. Wo ai ni men, people of China.” (“Hi, thanks, I love you people.”)

The awards are listed below.

Lifetime achievement award: Jeremy Irons

Best global actor in motion pictures: Nicolas Cage

Best globalany – to prove this claim.

Retired Pakistani lieutenant general Hamid Gul has recently made a similar allegation as well. Speaking with the Islamic Republic News Agency, the former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) said,

“That the US claims it has killed Bin Laden is basically untrue. Bin Laden died of natural causes in 2005. The individual the US claims it has killed in 2011 in Abbottabad was not Bin Laden. The Americans are not trustworthy and their claims are not true.”

The comment was in reference to statements made this month by Pakistan’s current lieutenant general Mohammad Asad Durrani, where he speculated that the ISI had assisted the United States in tracking down Bin Laden.

Officially, the ISI asserts that they played no part in the May 2011 raid.

Fox News,


The New York Times, and the President of Pakistan – who was speaking with CNN – all reported years prior to 2011 that Osama Bin Laden had died from an illness. It was also disclosed in 2002 that Israeli intelligence had concluded that the infamous Bin Laden died in December of the previous year.

A Funeral Notice for Osama Bin Laden was also published on December 26, 2001, in the Egyptian newspaper al-Ward.

The translation – which was originally posted by former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts – reads:

al-Wafd, Wednesday, December 26, 2001 Vol 15 No 4633

News of Bin Laden’s Death and Funeral 10 days ago

Islamabad –

A prominent official in the Afghan Taleban movement announced yesterday the death of Osama bin Laden, the chief of al-Qa’da organization,stating that binLaden suffered serious complications in the lungs and died a natural and quiet death.

The official, who asked to remain anonymous, stated to The Observer of Pakistan that he had himself attended the funeral of bin Laden and saw his face prior to burial in Tora Bora 10 days ago. He mentioned that 30 of al-Qa’da fighters attended the burial as well as members of his family and some friends from the Taleban.

In the farewell ceremony to his final rest guns were fired in the air. The official stated that it is difficult to pinpoint the burial location of bin Laden because according to the Wahhabi tradition no mark is left by the grave. He stressed that it is unlikely that the American forces would ever uncover


The role of homeobox gene, Prox 1 in vertebrate eye development and regeneration was studied. The zebrafish Prox 1 gene was isolated and characterized and its expression pattern was studied by whole-mount immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization. Expression of Prox 1 was first detected in the ten-somite stage embryos in the ectoderm overlaying the eye buds. As embryogenesis proceeds, Prox 1 expression was also detected in muscle pioneer cells, forebrain-midbrain boundary, ventral hindbrain, and selected cells of the ventral spinal cord. A partial Prox 1 cDNA was isolated from the newt. In the process of lens regeneration in the newt, Prox 1 protein was found to be selectively expressed in the regenerating competent cells of the dorsal iris but not in the cells of ventral iris.A shipping traffic officer in Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, Suyadi, told The Jakarta Post that he has received a report from a tugboat, AS Jaya II, that the crew had seen a downed plane in Tanjung Bungin in Karawang, West Java.

Camera IconThe flight path followed by the Lion Air flight.

"At 7:15am the tugboat reported it had approached the site and the crew saw the debris of a plane," Suyadi said.

As of 9am there was no report about passengers or the plane crew, he said.

Two other ships, a tanker and a cargo ship, near the location were approaching the site, he said, and a Basarnas rescue boat was also on the way.

Indonesia’s state air navigation operator AirNav has alerted search and rescue authorities, spokesman Yohannes Harry Douglas said in


relies heavily on air transport to connect its thousands of islands but has a poor aviation safety record and has suffered several fatal crashes in recent years.

A 12-year-old boy was the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed eight people in mountainous eastern Indonesia in August.

In August 2015, a commercial passenger aircraft operated by Indonesian carrier Trigana crashed in Papua due to bad weather, killing all 54 people on board.for which the fingers are inserted to intermediate positions between the first and second knuckle are referred to as semi-fingertip grips. The drilling of holes in the ball, of necessity, removes material from the ball and accounts for unbalanced conditions in what would otherwise be a homogenous ball.
Various methods and apparatus have been proposed in the prior art to compensate for the weight removed by drilling finger and thumb holes. Traditionally, a form of weight block has been incorporated into the design of prior art bowling balls. It has been generally thought that the center of gravity of the ball should be slightly off the geometric center during manufacture of the ball so that after drilling the finger and thumb holes, the ball will be reasonably balanced. To


and delivery of the bowler, the equipment selected by the bowler including the ball and shoes, and the ability of the bowler to place the ball at an intended target. Variable factors encountered by the bowler over which he has little or no control include the conditions of the lane including the surface finish, the oil coating on the lane surface, the interaction of the ball with the lane surface and the interaction of the ball with the pins after striking the pins. The ability of a bowler to compensate for lane conditions is important. Thus, the ability to accurately control movement of the ball under various conditions can result in improved or higher scores.
It is a general object of this invention to provide a bowling ball whichof: (i) the 30th day after the date on which such notice is given by the Company in accordance with the terms of the Warrants, and (ii) the actual expiry date of the Warrants.

The closing of the Offering is expected to occur on or about December 4, 2018 (the "Closing Date") and is subject to the completion of formal documentation and receipt of all regulatory approvals, including the approval of the Canadian Securities Exchange. The net proceeds from the Offering will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.

The Company has granted the Underwriters an option (the "Over-Allotment Option"), exercisable, in whole or in part, by Beacon, on behalf of the Underwriters, giving notice to the Company at any time and from time to time up to


well as the public."

Steve Soboroff, one of civilian commissioners who oversees the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), said Trump's recommendations would not be in line with LAPD policy, stressing that "it's not what policing is about today."

Gainesville police spokesman Ben Tobias rebuffed Trump's position by tweeting that he, as a cop, disagreed with the president's remarks and that those who "cheered should be ashamed." Until Sunday afternoon, his tweet has been liked more than 320,000 times.

SETBACK TO SOOTHING POLICE-COMMUNITY TENSIONS

Trump's speech in Suffolk came months after former Suffolk County Police Department (SCPD) Chief James Burke was sentenced to 46 months in prison for furiously beating and yelling at a shackled suspect who allegedly stole a bag from Burke's car.

Before the revelation of Burke's scandal, the SCPD was putunder federal oversight by the Justice Department, following a federal probe that exposed discrimination against Latinos and immigrants, another indication of the deep-rooted tensions between the police and communities in Suffolk.

The president's comments also resurrected memories of the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old Baltimorean whose death sparked protests and riots in the city, and triggered a nationwide debate over excessive use of force by police dealing with cases involving African Americans.

Gray was arrested, shackled and put in the back of a police van by six officers before dying of a spine injury.

"Are you kidding me? This is disgusting," Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz tweeted about Trump's remarks on handling suspects, as rough policing remains a sensitive topic in the city.

Maya Wiley, chairwoman of New York City's Civilian


against him. During the plea hearing, the

State informed the court that it was abandoning the prosecution of Hooghe as a habitual and

subsequent offender, in exchange for his guilty plea. On September 29, 2014, the court

sentenced him to a total of forty-five years: fifteen years as a subsequent offender under

count one for motor-vehicle theft, ten years under count two for grand larceny, ten years

under count three for grand larceny, and ten years for the second indictment’s single count

of grand larceny, all to run consecutively.

¶5.    On December 30, 2014, Hooghe, acting pro se, filed an unsworn PCR motion in the

circuit court, alleging multiple errors. On February 9, 2015, he filed an amended version of

that PCR motion, still unsworn. On March 4, 2015, the circuit court summarily dismissed

Hooghe’sbe granted unless a petitioner proves by a preponderance of the

evidence that he is entitled to such relief.

       1.      Preliminary Hearing

¶8.    Hooghe maintains that he was wrongly deprived of preliminary hearings for all

charges brought against him, despite his repeated requests while in custody. Further, Hooghe

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contends that he was denied his right to due process, as he was not served with the first

indictment until July 11, 2014,


County police officer who

arrested Hooghe, detailing the fact that Hooghe was in the area of the crime and wearing

similar clothing to the suspect.

                                             12
¶27.   The transcript of Hooghe’s plea hearing is included in the record. During the hearing,

the court read to Hooghe the elements of each charge, and the State set forth a factual basis

for each charge. The State represented that it had video surveillance of Hooghe going in and

out of the locker room at the Baptist Healthplex on the evening the     I.

       In 1996, following a jury trial, Rogers was found guilty of one count of

distribution of cocaine base and one count of distribution of cocaine base within 1,000

feet of a school. The Probation Office prepared a Presentence Investigation Report

(“PSR”) and calculated Rogers’ initial base offense level under the Guidelines at 28 and

his criminal history level at VI. Rogers received a two-level adjustment for the school

zone count, a two-level adjustment for his role in the offense, and a two-level adjustment

for obstruction of justice, resulting in an adjusted offense level of 34. However, he was

classified as a career offender because of his two prior felony drug convictions, see

U.S.S.G. § 4B1.1, and his offense level under those Guidelines was also


Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to devices for handling cards, including cards known as “playing cards.” In particular, the invention relates to an electromechanical machine for organizing or arranging playing cards into a plurality of randomly arranged groups of cards. All references cited in this entire document are herein incorporated by reference in their entirety.
Background of the Art
Wagering games based on the outcome of randomly generated arrangements of cards are well known. Such games are widely played in gaming establishments and often a single deck of 52 playing cards is used to play the game. Some games use multiple decks of cards (typically six or eight decks), such as blackjack and baccarat. Other games use two decks of cards, such as double deck blackjack. Many specialtyBeneath the ocean's surface, glaciers may be melting 10 to 100 times faster than previously believed, new research shows.

Until now, scientists had a limited understanding of what happens under the water at the point where land-based glaciers meet the sea. Using a combination of radar, sonar and time-lapse photography, a team of researchers has now provided the first detailed measurements of the underwater changes over time. Their findings suggest that the theories currently used to gauge glacier change are underestimating glaciers' ice loss.

"The overall trend of glacier retreat around the world is due to both warming air and warming oceans," said David Sutherland, an oceanographer at the University of Oregon and lead author of the new study, published July 25 in the journal Science.

"They're getting eaten away on


one of his clients.

Silvert represented Gerard Puana, who was accused by the Kealohas of stealing their mailbox in 2013. But while preparing his defense, Silvert said he uncovered a wide-ranging conspiracy involving the Kealohas and several police officers.

Puana is Katherine Kealoha’s uncle, and at the time he was suing his niece for money that he claimed she stole from him and his mother. Sivert said gaining the upperhand in the lawsuit was the motivation for the frame job.

“We have a historic mandate to move forward and investigate the chief of police.” — Honolulu Police Commissioner Loretta Sheehan

But Kealoha told commissioners in her letter that the DOJ investigation into her and her husband was a big misunderstanding and the result of vindictive prosecution.

She said it was based on flimsyHorrifying Scene In Iraq

In this image taken from video, US soldiers, center background, inspect the body of a fellow soldier in Mosul, Iraq Sunday, Nov. 23, 2003 after gunmen shot two American soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division as they drove through the city center to another U.S. garrison, sending their vehicle crashing into a wall according to witnesses.

Iraqi teenagers dragged the bloody bodies of two American soldiers from a wrecked vehicle and pummeled them with concrete blocks Sunday, witnesses said, describing a burst of savagery in a city once safe for Americans. Another soldier was killed by a bomb and a U.S.-allied police chief was assassinated.

The U.S.-led coalition also said it grounded commercial flights after the military confirmed that a missile struck a DHL cargo plane that


landed Saturday at Baghdad International Airport with its wing aflame.

Nevertheless, American officers insisted they were making progress in bringing stability to Iraq, and the U.S.-appointed Governing Council named an ambassador to Washington — an Iraqi-American woman who spent the last decade lobbying U.S. lawmakers to promote democracy in her homeland.

Witnesses to the Mosul attack said gunmen shot two soldiers driving through the city center, sending their vehicle crashing into a wall. The 101st Airborne Division said the soldiers were driving to another garrison.

About a dozen swarming teenagers dragged the soldiers' bodies out of the wreckage and beat them with concrete blocks, the witnesses said.

"They lifted a block and hit them with it on the face," Younis Mahmoud, 19, said.

Another teenager, Bahaa Jassim, said some looted the vehicle ofweapons, CDs and a backpack.

"They remained there for over an hour without the Americans knowing anything about it," he said. "I ... went and told other troops."

Television video showed the soldiers' bodies splayed on the ground as U.S. troops secured the area. One victim's foot appeared to have been severed.

The frenzy recalled the October 1993 scene in Somalia, when locals dragged the bodies of Marines killed in fighting with warlords through the streets.

In other developments:

Since April, at least 17 American troops in Iraq -- 15 Army soldiers and two Marines -- have taken their own lives, according to an Associated Press review of Army casualty reports. The number is likely even higher because the Pentagon is still investigating at least two dozen other non-combat deaths. No one in


the military is calling the suicide rate in Iraq alarming -- and experts say it is nearly impossible to compare it with suicides in previous conflicts.

Secretary of State Colin Powell has asked Palestinian leaders to show support for a transitional Iraqi government that is to be installed by June, Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath said. Palestinian backing could boost the legitimacy of such a government in the eyes of the Arab world, at a time when U.S. policy in Iraq is under sharp attack. Palestinian-Iraqi ties have traditionally been close, and former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had styled himself as a champion of the Palestinian cause.

An Iraqi-American woman and veteran lobbyist, Rend Rahim Francke, was chosen as Iraq's ambassador to the United States.

In Baqouba, just north of Baghdad,insurgents detonated a roadside bomb as a 4th Infantry Division convoy passed, killing one soldier and wounding two others, the military said.

The savagery of the attack was unusual for Mosul, once touted as a success story in sharp contrast to the anti-American violence seen in Sunni Muslim areas north and west of Baghdad.

In recent weeks, however, attacks against U.S. troops have increased in Mosul, raising concerns the insurgency is spreading.

Simultaneously, attacks have accelerated against Iraqis considered to be supporting Americans — such as policemen and politicians working for the interim Iraqi administration.

On Sunday, gunmen killed the Iraqi police chief of Latifiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, and his bodyguard and driver, American and Iraqi officials said. No further details were released.

The assassination occurred one day after suicide bombers


struck two police stations northeast of Baghdad within 30 minutes, killing at least 14 people. Gunmen on Saturday also killed an Iraqi police colonel protecting oil installations in Mosul.

Elsewhere, Iraqi police said six U.S. Apache helicopter gunships blasted marshland after insurgents fired four rocket-propelled grenades at the American military garrison at the city's northern end. One Iraqi passer-by was killed in the air attack, police said.

In Kirkuk, 150 miles north of Baghdad, a bomb exploded at an oil compound, injuring three American civilian contractors from the U.S. firm Kellogg Brown & Root. The three suffered facial cuts from flying glass, U.S. Lt. Col. Matt Croke said.

KBR, a subsidiary of Halliburton, also has a significant presence at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, which was rocketed by insurgents Friday, wounding one civilian.

"Weall know that Americans are being threatened," Croke said.

Kimmitt told reporters in Baghdad that witnesses saw two surface-to-air missiles fired Saturday at a cargo plane operated by the Belgium-based package service DHL as it left for Bahrain.

The plane was the first civilian airliner hit by insurgents, who have shot down several military helicopters with shoulder-fired rockets.

DHL and Royal Jordanian, the only commercial passenger airline flying into Baghdad, immediately suspended flights on orders of the coalition authority.

Despite the ongoing violence, U.S. officials insisted the occupation was going well.

"If you look at the accomplishments of the coalition since March of this year, it has been enormous," Marine Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in Tikrit.

Pace is touring Afghanistan and Iraq.

Also Sunday, Iraqi Foreign Minister


Hoshyar Zebari said veteran Washington lobbyist Rend Rahim Francke was appointed Iraq's ambassador to the United States. Francke, an Iraq native who has spent most of her life abroad, led the Iraq Foundation, a Washington-based pro-democracy group, and has helped plan Iraq's transition from Saddam Hussein's rule.

The appointment will renew the diplomatic ties between Washington and Baghdad severed in 1990 when Saddam invaded Kuwait.February is looking an awful lot like January for investors. Emphasis on awful.

The Dow tumbled 326 points Monday, or almost 2.1%, after a much worse-than-expected reading on manufacturing activity in the United States. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were also down more than 2%. CNNMoney's Tech 30 index was down sharply as well.

Investors were disappointed after the Institute for Supply Management's monthly index showed that manufacturing activity last month expanded at its weakest pace since May.

The bad news comes as investors are still reeling from a rough January. Disappointing earnings and volatility in emerging markets sent stocks sharply lower during the first month of the year. The Dow tumbled more than 5% last month -- its worst January since 2009.

Many experts think the market could fall further, following


big gains in 2013 and the fact that the stocks haven't taken a big breather in a while. Though stocks took a small step back last spring, they haven't experienced a correction, typically defined as a decline of 10% or more, in more than two years.

With Monday's losses, the Dow is down more than 7% from the all-time high it hit on the last day of 2013, while the S&P 500 has fallen almost 6% from the all-time high it reached last month.

Plus, stocks could continue to be volatile ahead of the monthly jobs report due Friday and the possibility of another debt ceiling debate, said Kristina Hooper, investment strategist at Allianz Global Investors. But she thinks investors should not be scared by the market sell-off. "Rather, theyIreland And Ministers Welcome Reinstated Shannon Flights..

Updated : Mar 28, 2009

Aer Lingus has brought back their Shannon to Heathrow Flight route and Shannon airport staff and ministers are very happy!

Minister Killeen said that Aer Lingus’ decision to reinstate the service was commercially based, just as the original decision to end the service had been. “Aer Lingus’ move to reinstate flights between Shannon and Heathrow bears out exactly what I said in August 2007 when the airline announced it was withdrawing the service; it was a commercial decision by the airline to remove the service. The commercial reality in the meantime has changed dramatically, however,” stated the Minister.

He continued, “The dramatic reduction in the cost base at Shannon Airport has played a significant role in the return of the


Heathrow service and vital international connectivity.” Minister Killeen noted that the restoration of the service would help Shannon Airport to expand its operations in the coming months.

He added, “Coupled with the advent of Open Skies, Shannon Airport has successfully weathered the huge economic downturn and its corresponding impact on the aviation sector. The airport is well placed to prosper and expand when the economy eventually and inevitably rebounds.”
“I also wish to compliment the Shannon Airport Authority, staff at Shannon Airport and the people of the West of Ireland for their steadfast commitment to seeking the reinstatement of this vital service. I wish Aer Lingus every success with the new service,” commented Minister Killeen.
Meanwhile, Minister Killeen acknowledged the importance that the Government attached to the resumption of the twice-dailyFranklin Hills

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We'reThe U.S. State Department confirmed that one American was killed in the attack.

By midnight, the assault had morphed into a standoff as armed forces continued to clear the complex. Early Wednesday, Kenya’s Interior Ministry said on Twitter that all buildings had been secured and there was no further threat to the public, the Associated Press reported.

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Kenya National Police chief Joseph Boinnet said the attack began with “a suicide explosion in the foyer of DusitD2 hotel, where a number of guests suffered severe injuries.” He said in a late-night news conference that only the top floor of the hotel remained to be cleared.

His counterpart, Interior Minister Fred Matiang’i, added, “We are now in the final stages of mopping out the area and securing evidence and documenting the consequences of


of shops and offices, including those of many multinational companies such as Visa and Shell. It is also a popular shopping destination. Before Tuesday, it would have been considered one of Nairobi’s safest spaces.

Those being evacuated represented Nairobi’s diverse, international workforce. The city is home to tens of thousands of expatriates and is considered the economic hub of East Africa.

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Many of the multinational companies with offices in the complex appeared to have their own private security working alongside Kenyan security forces to move their workers to safety.

Four hospitals in the city were taking victims. One of them, Kenyatta National Hospital, said four people were brought in with bullet wounds.

Yvonne Nkirote, who works at the Redhouse communications firm in the hotel complex, said she had stopped by the Amadiva2015, nearly 150 people were killed and dozens of others were injured when al-Shabab militants stormed Garissa University in eastern Kenya.

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Witnesses at the time said gunmen entered the university’s dormitories and opened fire, at times separating Christians and Muslims and then executing Christian students.

The standoff lasted 16 hours, and four of the gunmen were eventually killed when they detonated suicide vests.

It was the deadliest terrorist attack in Kenya since a bombing at the U.S. Embassy in 1998 killed more than 200 people.

Tuesday’s attack also comes on the third anniversary of an attack on a Kenyan military compound in which about 250 Kenyan soldiers serving in Somalia were killed by al-Shabab fighters.


creating a shopping experience and easily switching between videos that are running concurrently, Aurora HD videos ads enable users to maximally engage with their viewing experience as well as personalize it.

To test out this interactive ad experience, AdColony partnered with Disney to launch a mobile campaign for its global blockbuster release of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” which ran in the U.S. and APAC. The video ad consisted of an online treasure hunt that allows users to unlock rewards by engaging with the content in front of them. As the custom trailer for the film played, consumers tapped specific items on the screen, and were rewarded with exclusive video content from the film for everything they found.

Gulati added, “Mobile is no longer just anNews & Events

Lamar Advertising Company Bulks Up Billboard Holdings

Lamar Advertising Co. is filling in some blank spots in its national billboard network by acquiring a number of smaller billboard companies, including substantial acquisitions in California and the Southwest, Lamar executives revealed during the company’s second-quarter earnings conference call.

The “in-fill” acquisitions, with a price tag totaling $24 million, include local companies like Empire Outdoor, which owns hundreds of roadside billboards in Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties, as well as in the L.A. metro area and the Inland Empire region, extending to the Nevada and Arizona borders.

Many of the billboards are located on heavily traveled roadways like Interstate 10, 15, and 215. That particular acquisition was completed in June. It is expected to add up to $3 million


North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un has dispatched his infamous right-hand man on a rare mission to the U.S. amid a diplomatic flurry aimed at salvaging a stalled peace summit.

Kim Yong Chol, Pyongyang's longtime spy chief and a vice chairman of the ruling Workers’ Party, was spotted at Beijing Capital International Airport, where he boarded a flight to New York after first meeting with Chinese officials. As the Hermit Kingdom's black operations chief, Kim has had a bloody hand in some of the rogue nation's most notorious attacks on South Korea and even U.S. cyber targets.

President Trump, who abruptly canceled the June 12 summit in Singapore last week after hostile rhetoric from North Korea, has since opened the door for putting the meeting back on track. In aTuesday morning tweet, Trump confirmed Kim's pending visit.

“We have put a great team together for our talks with North Korea. Meetings are currently taking place concerning Summit, and more. Kim Young Chol, the Vice Chairman of North Korea, heading now to New York. Solid response to my letter, thank you!” Trump tweeted.

Choe Kang Il, a North Korean foreign ministry official involved with North America issues, was also spotted at the airport and could be accompanying the former spymaster, according to Yonhap.

NORTH KOREA SPY CHIEF, ACCUSED IN DEADLY ATTACKS ON SOUTH KOREA, TO LEAD OLYMPIC DELEGATION AT CLOSING CEREMONY

Kim, who is believed to be 72, will meet with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week in New York, the White House said. Their talks will largely focus on rescheduling


the summit between the North Korean despot and Trump.

Kim was thrust into the spotlight during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February, when he was sent to attend the closing ceremony. Kim was pictured sitting a row behind Trump’s daughter, Ivanka Trump, during the ceremony, but the two did not interact.

He was also spotted by Kim Jong Un's side during the May summit between the North and the South.

The U.S.-bound official is believed to have plotted the attack on Cheonan, a South Korean warship, and shelling of Yeonpyeong Island in 2010 that left 46 sailors dead. He’s also accused of planting landmines across the Demilitarized Zone, according to Yonhap News Agency. Two South Korean soldiers have been severely wounded by landmines, though North Korea vehemently denied any involvement.

During Kim’stime in the intelligence agency, which is called the Reconnaissance General Bureau, North Korea was suspected of carrying out the 2014 cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. The department is tasked with carrying out cyber warfare and intelligence operations against other countries.

TRUMP: US TEAM IN NORTH KOREA ARRANGING 'FOR THE SUMMIT BETWEEN KIM JONG UN AND MYSELF'

The North Korean official was also blacklisted by the U.S. and South Korea for supporting the regime’s nuclear and missile programs in 2010 and 2016, Reuters reported. His visit this week would indicate a waiver was granted to Kim to come to the U.S.

Kim’s visit to New York comes as officials from the U.S. and both Koreas head to Singapore for advance work on the possible meeting. Kim Jong Un’s de facto chief


of staff, Kim Chang Son, flew to Singapore via Beijing late on Monday, Japanese public broadcaster NHK reported.

At the same time, a “pre-advance” U.S. team was traveling to Singapore to meet North Koreans, the White House said.

U.S. government officials, including the White House deputy chief of staff for operations, Joe Hagin, left U.S. Yokota Air Base in Japan for Singapore on Monday, NHK said.

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In Singapore, a team of U.S. officials, with a fleet of idling vehicles on standby, was at a hotel on the resort island of Sentosa but declined to comment.

While Kim’s visit to the U.S. could prompt both sides to resume plans to meet in Singapore in June, history shows that thingsU.S. Groups Press China Over Piracy

By CHRIS BUCKLEY

Published: September 17, 2004

It looks like the edition of Bill Clinton's memoirs in American bookstores. It is in English, has a glossy cover with the same photo of the tanned, smiling former president, the same bronze-tinted title, and a spine announcing its publisher to be Knopf.

But the shrunken print, tissue-thin paper and smeared black-and-white photographs inside betray its true identity -- a pirated copy of the former president's book, ''My Life,'' printed just weeks after the original appeared in the United States, and sold by roadside hawkers for as little as $5.

The book retails for $35 in the United States.

The bootlegging is another example of the widespread defiance of copyrights and patents here, a problem that two leading American business groups


said on Thursday threatened to chill American trade with China.

In an otherwise encouraging annual report on American business in China released on Thursday, the American Chamber of Commerce in China singled out lax protection of intellectual property rights as the Achilles' heel that might cripple investor confidence.

''There's virtually no enforcement'' of intellectual property rights in China, Charles Martin, president of the chamber, said at a news conference. ''It's worsening, and there's now a flood of counterfeit exports.''

Myron Brilliant, a vice president of the United States Chamber of Commerce in Washington, said his organization's annual report on China, to be released next week, would also single out intellectual property abuses as a major threat to American businesses.

''We see ourselves as friends of China, but our patience has its limits,''office to override Pfizer's patent for its best-selling impotence drug, Viagra, arguing that the original patent did not adequately explain the drug's technical uses.

That was followed by the Ministry of Commerce's dismissal of a complaint that General Motors had lodged against a Chinese carmaker, SAIC Chery Automobile, which makes a car strikingly similar to G.M.'s Spark.

Other United States companies that have complained about flagrant copying of their products are in industries like software, cigarettes, luxury goods and vehicle parts. And growing numbers of the pirated goods are being imported into the United States, business representatives said.

The ease with which industrial secrets are stolen is putting a ceiling on American investment in China by deterring investment in more sophisticated fields of manufacturing and research, Mr. Martin said.

The China-based chamber's


survey of its members found that although most were generally confident of their business prospects in China, 90 percent believed that the Chinese government's protections of intellectual property were ineffective, and more than three-quarters said their business was hurt by the problem.

Michael Byrne, the chief China representative of Rockwell Automation, a company based in Milwaukee that specializes in machine control, said that China's treatment of intellectual property ''is moving in the right direction, but it's not moving fast enough or deep enough.''

''It hasn't deterred us,'' he said, ''but it's made us more cautious.''

The reports from both chambers of commerce did say that China has made marked progress in the last year in opening up its markets to international investors and clarifying commercial rules.

Last year, American businesses invested morethan $4 billion in the country. But America's trade deficit with China has swelled, reaching $39 billion in the first seven months of 2004, according to Chinese customs statistics.

The trade gap is likely to cause American trade officials and businesses to push for faster and more decisive action from China, including harsher criminal penalties for bootleggers and speedier court injunctions against manufacturers of pirated goods.

If protections are not improved, Mr. Brilliant said, his organization may ultimately press for government legal action under United States trade law and China's commitments to the World Trade Organization.

''We're getting a lot of pressure from American business,'' he said. ''Time is running out and we have to see movement this year.''

The United States Chamber of Commerce is opening an office in Beijing to


monitor China's efforts on intellectual property, and is working with Japanese and European business groups to press China on the issue.

As for the hawker selling President Clinton's memoirs opposite the World Trade Center in Beijing, he gave only his surname, Li, and said he could not read English and had never heard of a more recent political best seller, Kitty Kelley's book on the Bush family.

But he said he was sure that pirated copies would be available soon.

''If it's that popular,'' he said, ''then wait a few weeks and come around here and find me.''

Photo: Pirated copies of Bill Clinton's memoir, ''My Life,'' are widely available in China. American businesses are protesting such piracy. (Photo by Associated Press)said, claiming that officials considered 12 potential sites before settling on Doral. He also claimed Trump would not profit from the decision to hold the global conference at his own commercial property. In their letter ― addressed to Mulvaney, acting Homeland Security Secretary Kevin McAleenan (who submitted his resignation last week), Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ― the senators demanded to know when Trump first suggested the summit be held at his Miami resort. He first made the suggestion publicly in late August. The senators are demanding to see a wide swath of documentation, including texts, emails and meeting notes, a list of precisely which other sites were considered and those properties’ bids, and projected costs of hosting the summit at Doral. Multiple


past White House ethics chiefs ― along with Fox News legal analyst Andrew Napolitano ― have slammed the decision as a clear violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clauses.

Other critics say Trump may have violated the constitutional ban on accepting outside payments on multiple occasions already, having made frequent visits to his golf properties in Virginia and Florida since his inauguration. The White House, for its part, says these visits are billed “at cost” so the Trump Organization derives no profit from taxpayer dollars.

But the president sparked even more questions when Vice President Mike Pence stayed at Trump International in Doonbeg, Ireland, over the summer, even though his meetings with Irish leaders were on the other side of the country, in Dublin. Pence’s trip is currently under investigation byEuropean leaders have agreed on a 17-point plan of action to tackle the escalating refugee crisis in the region. At an emergency summit in Brussels, leaders of 11 EU countries along the western Balkan route from Greece to Germany said they would increase their reception capacity by 100,000 by the end of the year, half of them in Greece.

The rest will be put in place in Balkan countries along the migrants' more popular routes north towards Germany and Scandinavia. Leaders also agreed to work with the border agency Frontex to strengthen border management in Greece, Macedonia and Albania.

The joint plan came after Greece recorded some 48,000 refugees entering its borders last week – the highest weekly influx since the beginning of 2015. The International Organization for Migration said


an average of 9,600 refugees crossed over from Turkey to the Greek islands between 17 October and 21 October.

'Collective approach'

In a joint statement, the Balkan leaders said they recognised the need for a "collective cross-border approach in a European spirit" to tackle the deepening migrant crisis. "Unilateral action may trigger a chain reaction. Countries affected should therefore talk to each other," the statement read.

"Neighbours should work together along the route, as well as upstream with countries such as Turkey, as host to the largest number of refugees. This is the only way to restore stability to the management of migration in the region, ease the pressure on the over-stretched capacity of the countries most affected, and to slow down the flows."

Leaders agreed to "discourage" the movement of migrantsaction, I believe Europe will start falling apart," he was quoted as saying by Reuters.

With winter setting in, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pleaded with countries to work together to avert a "humanitarian tragedy" in the region. "Countries affected should not only talk about and at each other but also with each other. Neighbours should work together not against each other," he said. "Refugees need to be treated in a humane manner along the length of the Western Balkans route to avoid a humanitarian tragedy in Europe."


and dagger were in his hand in an instant. Pierce's arrow flew to his bowstring, and Lei pulled a short wand of polished densewood from her belt, but as Daine took his first step toward the stranger, he met her gaze--and a wave of rippling force spread out toward him. It was just the vaguest distortion in the air, the shimmer of heat in the desert. When it struck him, there was no heat. There was no sensation at all. All feeling, all thought seemed to recede, and he hardly noticed when his hands fell to his sides. Though he couldn't turn his head to look at Pierce and Lei, the sound of bow, staff, and wand striking the ground told him they were as powerless as heUpcoming Events

Bernice L. McFadden (Praise Song for the Butterflies), Katia D. Ulysse (Mouths Don’t Speak), and Karen E. Osborne (Getting it Right) will appear on a panel moderated by Angel Nafis at the 10th Annual Literary Arts Festival at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center.

Jim Pascoe

JIM PASCOE is a writer, designer, and an Emmy Award-winning creative director. He is responsible for the packaging design of over 100 DVDs, including Mad Men, the 2010 Kubrick Collection, and Coraline, which won Best in Show at the Hollywood Reporter’s Key Art Awards. He has written comics and books featuring Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kim Possible, and Hellboy. His graphic novel series Undertown was serialized in over fifty newspapers worldwide, and his recent crime fiction has appeared in Los Angeles


much closer to home that the girls need fear. While alone in her room one night, Blanche witnesses something chilling through a hole in the wall that looks into the abandoned building behind her. What she sees will upend her world and send her to uncover the meaning behind the senseless death of her dear friend. To get closer to the truth, Blanche adopts the role of Miss Don't Touch Me, or a stern punishing English governess, at the Pompadour, a high-class bordello where the Butcher's last victim came from. Once there, she witnesses behavior that scandalizes her, and makes the acquaintance of several fascinating characters, and many enemies, whose petty jealousies force her to commit acts she didn't think herself capable of. I love the character ofNot to get all patriotic and sappy, but a friend of mine who is a Marine Heliocopter pilot sent this out as he was leaving for a year tour in Iraq. I know I am very thankful that we have such honorable men and women defending the thing I hold most precious, freedom. The right to water ski, the right for my kid to attend school and college, the right to express my opinion, own a gun and have a say in who leads our country. Again, I thought this was very heart felt. The writer again is a Marine, not a media guy, or someone selling his life story. He is a skier like us. He owns a Tige and is an avid barefooter. Please take 60


in that flag there when Washington took
it across the Delaware. And it got powder-burned the night Francis Scott
Key Sat watching it writing Say Can You See. And it got a bad rip in New
Orleans With Packingham and Jackson tuggin' at its seems".

"And it almost fell at the Alamo
Beside the Texas flag, but she waved on though.
She got cut with a sword at Chancellorsville
And she got cut again at Shiloh Hill.
There was Robert E. Lee, Beauregard, and Bragg,
And the south wind blew hard on that Ragged Old Flag."

"On Flanders Field in World War I
She got a big hole from a Bertha gun.
She turned blood red in World War II.
She hung limp and low by the time it was through.
She was in Korea and Vietnam.
She was sent where she wasby her Uncle Sam."

"She waved from our ships upon the briny foam,
And now they've about quit waving her back here at home.
In her own good land here she's been abused -- She's been
burned, dishonored, denied, and refused."

"And the government for which she stands
Is scandalized throughout the land.
And she's getting threadbare and wearing thin,
But she's in good shape for the shape she's in.
'Cause she's been through the fire before
And I believe she can take a whole lot more."

"So we raise her up every morning,
take her down every night.
We don't let her touch the ground
and we fold her up right.
On second thought, I do like to brag,
'Cause I'm mighty proud of that Ragged Old Flag."
:smile: :smile: :smile:

JimN

09-13-2004, 09:26 PM

Brian- I don't think they're gonna hand out the sticks, now. They


Judge Aaron Persky, the Santa Clara County, California judge who drew national headlines after sentencing convicted Stanford university sex offender Brock Turner to just six months in jail, once permitted the defense team in a gang-rape case of a high school student to show revealing photographs of the 17-year-old in court, the Guardian reported.

According to the Mercury News, during the victim's 2011 civil suit against the alleged rapists who were members of the De Anza College baseball team, Persky permitted the defendants to display one photo of the woman "offering a college baseball player a drink — by nestling a shot glass full of liquor in her exposed cleavage." Another photo featured "the young woman at the same party, with a group of men looking on, making ahand gesture signaling oral sex on a female."

Three female soccer players from De Anza said they rescued the victim from a gang rape while she was mostly unconscious and covered in vomit during a party in 2007. In court, defense attorney Alison Crane used the photos to attack the victim's credibility, the Mercury News reported:

"Did you have PTSD when you did the acts shown in these pictures?" attorney Alison Crane scornfully asked the young woman, who has claimed she had post-traumatic stress disorder...."People told you you were flirtatious when you drank alcohol?" Crane asked. "I don't recall," the young woman said. "People told you that you were touchy feely when you drank alcohol," the attorney hammered. "I don't recall," the woman said.

According to the Guardian, "Four of the


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on an automobile approaching us from the opposite direction. Just as it was about to pass us, it crossed the highway center line, striking the car in which we were driving on the left front fender and wheel. A large piece of metal from the other vehicle came through the windshield of our car, striking Clyde on the left side of his head, splitting the skull and upper jaw bone. 1 was apprehensive but not frightened, holding still as the momentum of our then driverless car carried us off the left side of the road, narrowly missing a utility pole and coming to a rather sudden stop in the sand. Clyde fell into my lap. The dome light from our car enabled me to see the pulsation inhis exposed brain. I carefully slipped out from under him, leaving him on the front seat. I hurried back to the road and flagged down the few passing cars, regardless of which way they were travelling. Each driver was briefly informed of the situation and appealed to for help. By this time Clyde had removed himself from the wreck, was on his feet, moving aimlessly about and uttering incoherently. With the help of someone who had stopped, we laid him down on the ground to await the arrival of the ambulance. Orpha later told me that she, Irene, Clyde's wife, and others, were traveling to watch an Indian dance at one of the villages but were stopped by a motor policeman and informed that there had been an


approaching us from the opposite direction. Just as it was about to pass us, it crossed the highway center line, striking the car in which we were driving on the left front fender and wheel. A large piece of metal from the other vehicle came through the windshield of our car, striking Clyde on the left side of his head, splitting the skull and upper jaw bone. 1 was apprehensive but not frightened, holding still as the momentum of our then driverless car carried us off the left side of the road, narrowly missing a utility pole and coming to a rather sudden stop in the sand. Clyde fell into my lap. The dome light from our car enabled me to see the pulsation in his exposed brain.I carefully slipped out from under him, leaving him on the front seat. I hurried back to the road and flagged down the few passing cars, regardless of which way they were travelling. Each driver was briefly informed of the situation and appealed to for help. By this time Clyde had removed himself from the wreck, was on his feet, moving aimlessly about and uttering incoherently. With the help of someone who had stopped, we laid him down on the ground to await the arrival of the ambulance. Orpha later told me that she, Irene, Clyde's wife, and others, were traveling to watch an Indian dance at one of the villages but were stopped by a motor policeman and informed that there had been an accident in which


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In order to prevent such trouble, itAshley Furniture to move into former bookstore in Montclair

The former Borders Books and Music location Thursday at the MonTclair Plaza. An Ashley Furniture Homestore will be opening in Spring 2013. ((Jennifer Cappuccio Maher/Staff Photographer)

MONTCLAIR -- Ever since Borders Books and Music went out of the business, the 42,000-square-foot building adjacent to Montclair Plaza has sat empty. But in recent weeks, the interior has being demolished to make way for Ashley Furniture Homestore set to open in the spring.

Those involved hope the new store will spur development in the surrounding vacant buildings and the Montclair Plaza.

The seller was represented by Brad Umansky of Progressive Real Estate Partners who said the furniture store could provide a development boost, which has also seen the closure of two neighboring national retailers during


representatives from Ashley Furniture were at a conference.

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Borders had closed in April 2011 and a month later, Ashley inquired about the property, indicating they were looking for a couple of locations in Southern California, said Steve Lustro, Community Development Director for Montclair.

"We chatted with their representative and they were very interested becoming part of the Montclair business community and left it at that," he said. "Many times in the last year we've had perspective tenants discussions end with the conversation and you never hear anything again."

Then earlier this summer, Lustro was again contacted by Ashley Furniture who told the city they were looking to move forward with the acquisition.

"We've been working with them since then with their plan for occupying the building and more recently they submitted someconceptual plans for a little of a remodel," Lustro said.

Crews have already demolished the interior of the building but Ashley will formally submitted plans soon, he said.

The goal is to have the Planning Commission review the plans for remodel by the end of January, Lustro said.

After the holidays, Ashley plans to get the tenant improvements started, he said.

But the new furniture may also give the city a boost with another development.

Lustro says the city may soon have good news to share regarding the delayed improvements at the plaza. Mall owners had indicated were going to be tearing down the former Broadway/Macy's building earlier this year. The plan was to build a "lifestyle style center" by the end of the year. The expansion would have included two or three


out, Kendrick Lamar takes home the spacemen

* Lorde performs interpretive dance at MTV awards, doesn't sing a single word

* VMAs: World and Adam Levine slam Lorde's avant-garde performance

Though the performance had its critics, it also had its fans - and one of them was University of Auckland Dance Studies associate professor Carol Brown.

DANNY MOLOSHOK/REUTERS Lorde's performance at the VMAs earned her criticism from the likes of Maroon 5's Adam Levine.

"It's a beautifully flawed performance. It's awkward, but at the same time it's joyous and it's exuberant and it's exploratory and it's experimental," Brown said. "I think it's a really brave choice by Lorde."

Brown was initially taken aback by the performance, but it quickly grew on her after a couple of viewings.

She said the dance's flaws and rawness wereweeks, the first month and a half–we tend do that at times,” explained LaRocque.“

We want players to experience the next level that they’re shooting for. It gives them the opportunity to see exactly what it is they’re trying to get to next. In this case, he went there and we were less concerned about the production, more concerned about getting him the at-bats and the experience of a higher level against, clearly, players that at the time who were much older than he was.

“He actually held his own, despite the way the numbers looked offensively. With the plan at that point, when we hit June, he was sent to Johnson City by design. He certainly put together a really strong year there. He goes back to Peoria and


date preps for pick-up in just ten minutes.

For Joshua, the biggest challenges to creating “Almost Ready” were time and directing. “I came across the contest on the Nikon Web site rather late and did not begin shooting until December 14, which gave me slightly more than two weeks to do everything. Additionally, my leading actress was out of town for the entire week of Christmas.”
With a laugh, he shares another challenge: coaxing model Gabriela to act in certain scenes. Her reluctance to be half nude and submersed in the Wacissa River on a cold and rainy December day was pronounced. In jest, the director recounts, “[there were] moments where her burning stares caused me to fear for my safety!”
Having never made a short film before, Joshua credits thesolution of KCN, to form a combination product, i.e., the DMC catalyst.
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in Tampa Bay for the rest of his career. Longoria will gain control over his future when he gains no-trade protection as a 10-and-5 player in April 2018, so if the Rays ever did want to entertain the idea of a Longoria trade, they only have roughly 13 months to freely do so.

Deal Of Note

De Leon seemed to be halfway out the door to the Twins for much of the winter, as he was the top trade chip offered by the Dodgers to Minnesota in trade talks involving Brian Dozier. Instead, De Leon ended up in a Rays uniform for another second baseman in Forsythe. The fact that such a notable prospect was so openly shopped could be seen as a red flag, though that could’ve just betrades and, aside from Miller’s power surge last year, the Rays are still waiting to see exactly what they have in the quartet.

Tampa Bay will spend a projected $65.46MM on player salaries this season, a minor step down from last year’s Opening Day number ($66.68MM) and once again one of the lowest payrolls of any club in baseball. With this financial reality in place until the Rays can finally get a new ballpark, cost-cutting moves like trading Forsythe and Smyly are par for the course in order for the team to budget for even modest signings like Ramos or Rasmus. The last time the team went “all-in” by their standards was in the 2013-14 offseason, a move that backfired on the Rays after they suffered the first of


The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories

Lord DUNSANY (1878 - 1957)

The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by George Allen & Sons in October, 1908, and has been reprinted a number of times since. Issued by the Modern Library in a combined edition with A Dreamer's Tales as A Dreamer's Tales and Other Stories in 1917. The book is a series of short stories, some of them linked by Dunsany's invented pantheon of deities who dwell in Pegāna, which were the focus of his earlier collections The Gods of Pegāna andRetired Hall of Fame trainer Flint "Scotty" Schulhofer died Dec. 14 at Aventura Hospital in South Florida. He was 80.

According to his son and retired second-generation trainer, Randy Schulhofer, his father had been in the South Florida hospital since Dec. 5.

"He went peacefully," Schulhofer said. "He had a lot of friends and followers. He was just a great man, and he will be missed."

The younger Schulhofer said his father would be buried in his hometown of Aiken, S.C., Dec. 19.

"I worked for Scotty for 17 years," said Sal Russo. "He was a special man; a first-class kind of person. Not that he wasn't tough, because he was. I learned a lot from him, but I just wish I had the horses he did. He's always telling me to


hang in there, because it took him a long time.

"He was a very good caretaker. If he could have taken them home with him at night, he would have. He always preached: if you treat them right, they'll treat you right."

Jockey Jose Santos, who rode Lemon Drop Kid in the Belmont and Travers among other Schulhofer horses, said, "We definitely have great memories together. He was a pretty quiet person and always knew what he was doing with horses. I was only 25-years-old when I came under his wing and I couldn't even speak English that well, but he gave me a great chance.

"He put me on my first Kentucky Derby horse, Cryptoclearance. I also rode Rubiano, Fly So Free, and Colonial Affair. He treated me like awinter sets in.

These insects are known in the prairies of the western US where their mass emergence in spring can cause an agricultural nuisance. Around June they migrate to alpine climates where they feed on the nectar of wildflowers. The moths fatten up over the summer to an extraordinary extent, reaching a whopping 72% body fat by the autumn.

“Basically fat is the storage mechanism by which insects that engage in migratory flight obtain their energy. Some insects might fly over 100 km in a single day without feeding, thus they need a large energy reserve,” explains entomologist Dr Todd Gilligan from Ohio State University in the US.

Much like Australia’s bogong moths, army cutworm moths have a long journey to complete and at the end of it they must


response is needed “Adversity Points.” I noted seven in the game against TCU. Each time, Iowa State responded and rose to the occasion. I pulled 22 clips, but had to pare it down to 11 with some narrative.

Adversity Point #1

Early in the game, Iowa State was moving the ball on the ground and in the air. A big punt return by Trever Ryen set up an opportunity to score and put pressure on TCU’s offense and defense. On first down, David Montgomery takes an adequately blocked play and turns it in to something special.

The line fits their blocks here and Montgomery is not forced to make an evasive maneuver until he is three yards down field. He does so with violence and effort and turns a five yardendzone.

A stuffed run play and an incompletion puts Iowa State in a third and long situation with a likely punt from their end zone. TCU alternates its third down play calling between pressure and drop 8. Here they drop 8 in an alignment similar to what ISU runs.

Butler runs a fine out and in route. The route causes his zone defender to turn it over to the outside corner. He now has leverage across the middle for an easy throw from Kempt. The key is the second effort once the catch is made. A five yard catch turns in to a 17 yard gain because Butler knifes for the first down and uses his size and strength to fight for extra yards.

Iowa State goes on to convert a


the second half. TCU scores on a kick return. A dropped pass and a blown blocking assignment kill the answering drive for Iowa State. A bad punt follows, but the Iowa State defense holds.

Iowa State is pinned again and throws an ill-advised pass on first down that is intercepted in Iowa State territory. Tack on a 15 yard Iowa State penalty and TCU is in position to tie the game with little effort. Iowa State is pinned on the goal line and TCU has room to maneuver.

After an effective run, Iowa State comes up big here. Jamahl Johnson, who has had two excellent weeks on the defensive line, beats his block and pressures Hill up the middle. The pressure forces and incompletion and a third and goal. Thirdand again stop TCU in the face of the strength of their game. At this point, TCU is searching for answers in their attempt to sustain offense.

Adversity Point #6

Both teams punt on the following possessions and Iowa State goes three and out prior to the play shown below. TCU has a long field, but this play puts ISU on its heels.

Again we see TCU achieve angles on the ISU front. This time by sliding outside the alignment and pinning the edge setting players. ISU has two free tacklers, but they both miss as does Trent from the inside. The result is a 31 yard gain and TCU in scoring position.

TCU hits another 15 yard run using the same play to the left side. Then, they convert a 3rd


and 13 inside the Iowa State 5 yard line. Iowa State is skating backwards.

For the sixth time, Iowa State responds by making a play. TCU is counting on beating the man coverage quickly or slipping the tight end free in the middle. The man coverage holds and Cotton-Moya picks up the tight end. This allows Harvey, who is free to pressure the play and Bailey to beat his blocker. Waggoner beats two men again and is there for the fateful convergence.

Iowa State played this smartly and with discipline. The coverage was disciplined and the rushers knew they were free to make a play. Hill had no options here and the aggressive tackle forced another huge turnover.

Backs against the wall and the Cyclones answered for 60 minutes.

Adversity Point #7

Finally,in 1978. There is one big difference, though: Indira was not handcuffed and produced before court for corruption! She was jailed on the same day 37 years ago…

The trials and judgments will come later. Meanwhile, it’s ripe opportunity for Congress crown prince, Rahul Gandhi, to seek a level of maturity. He also needs a new script writer, because the current ones are pushing him to his own doom. For all practical purposes, he alleged that the Courts are hand-in-glove with the Government, when he claimed that the PMO is influencing every move against them.

He must tread carefully. In the heat and excitement of the whole case, he is laying aspersions on the one true independent body – India’s venerable Courts. In the long run, this will boomerang on


generic prescription drugs, including Akzo, N.V.  ("Akzo"), a Dutch corporation having its principal place of business in the Netherlands, and Pharmaceutical Basics, Inc.  ("PBI"), a Delaware corporation that maintains its principal place of business in Illinois.  Mylan's complaint alleged that between 1984 and 1989 the defendants conspired to facilitate and accelerate the United States Food and Drug Administration's ("FDA") approval of their abbreviated new drug applications for generic drugs, or "ANDAs," and to delay or impede approval of ANDAs submitted by competing drug manufacturers, including Mylan.

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Akzo promptly moved to dismiss Mylan's complaint for lack of personal jurisdiction.  Before ruling on Akzo's motion, the district court found that venue was improper in the District of Columbia and ordered the case transferred to the District of3. 1910 | The Rolex Oyster Perpetual

Why it Matters: The Rolex Oyster redefined where you could take a watch by making it waterproof.

The Story: Like most great innovations, the Rolex merges two simple technologies to create something that no one thought they needed but then became indispensible. The technology, the perpetual movement, was first conceived by Louis Perrelet in the 1750s and was perfected by Rolex. A small weight wound the watch when the wearer moved his or her arm, resulting in a watch that ran "perpetually" with no need for daily winding.

The next innovation was a crown that screwed down to protect the inside of the watch from water. They advertised the first model in 1910 by dunking the watches in aquariums in watch shops around the


at one point, Psyche, in the course of describing the Fox's teaching, gives what is in fact a close paraphrase of the opening of Book II of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Marcus Aurelius is a nearly exact contemporary of Apuleius, since he also died in AD 180 and we know that the Meditations were more or less composed in the last decade of his life. It is not, of course, plausible that Lewis is suggesting Marcus Aurelius as the source of the Fox's teaching, but it is entirely plausible to suggest a common influence. The Emperor was only writing a sort of philosophical notebook for himself, and often quotes and borrows from other authors in various ways. If one assumed that Marcus Aurelius was quoting or alludingofficials. Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek was openly critical of the decision for Sutter to step down and later sign to coach another team.

On April 12, 2012, he was not offered a new contract by the Calgary Flames.  In November 2012, Sutter again took the reins of the Red Deer Rebels, where he also serves as General Manager.

Sutter family in hockey

The Sutter family, originally from Viking, Alberta, Canada, is one of the most famous families in the National Hockey League (NHL). Six brothers: Brian, Darryl, Duane, Brent, Rich and Ron, reached the NHL in the 1970s and 80s. Four brothers: Brian, Duane, Darryl and Brent have gone on to become coaches and general managers as well. A seventh brother named Gary is said by his brothers to have


Before he was transferred to a notoriously violent prison in West Virginia, Boston gangster and FBI snitch James "Whitey" Bulger was locked up at a Florida penitentiary known as a safe haven for marked men like him.

Despite being in his late 80s and confined to a wheelchair, prison staffers said Bulger had little to worry about while living among the general population at the Coleman II penitentiary–a mix of informants, gang dropouts, and others with targets on their back.

"We have a lot of snitches there," said Joe Rojas, who worked as a GED teacher at Coleman II until this August. "But they're safe. Like that old saying, they're among thieves."

Bulger had it particularly good. "He was in a wheelchair but he had money so he paid off acouple of the younger guys," Rojas said. "They used to bring him his lunch. They used to bring him his breakfast. And they protected him."

Why Bulger was relocated to West Virginia remains an open question.

Interviews with multiple current and former federal prison staffers–wardens, investigators and medical personnel–as well as a review of several internal prison documents revealed that several aspects of Bulger's transfer stand out as unusual and perplexing.

The current and former prison staffers believe that moving Bulger to the Hazelton penitentiary may have been the result of a series of bureaucratic failures that all added up to a "death sentence," as one former prison investigator put it, or it may have been about unloading a troublesome inmate with little regard for where he ended up.

The official reason


given for Bulger's transfer from Coleman was medical in nature – that the 89-year-old's health had improved enough to allow his relocation, according to prison files obtained by NBC News. Prison officials specified on his transfer paperwork that he completed treatment at a medical facility and was in good enough health to return to the general population.

But other prison records tell a different story. Bulger wasn't at a prison hospital receiving treatment before heading off to Hazelton. He was in fact locked up in solitary confinement.

Instead of staying at Coleman, where prison workers said he was safe, Bulger was inexplicably shipped off to a general population unit at Hazelton, where he was beaten to death less than 12 hours after he arrived.

Cameron Lindsay, a retired warden at threeand former prison staffers.

Bulger, a notorious South Boston mobster who served as the inspiration for several books and Hollywood films, was among the most high-profile of federal prisoners. With his reputation as a mob turncoat and killer of women, he also would have had no shortage of enemies in a system that comprised 122 institutions and more than 150,000 inmates.

"He ratted out a lot of people," said Rojas, the prison teacher who also runs the local prison workers union near Coleman. "You cannot put that person in, not just Hazelton, but any open yard. It's a death sentence."

The transfer process would have been started by Coleman II warden Charles Lockett, according to the current and former prison staffers.

The request, after passing through layers of federal prison bureaucracy and


ultimately getting the approval from the regional offices, would have generated paperwork that would eventually cross the desk of Hazelton warden Joe Coakley, the current and former prison staffers said.

Bulger's dark past was not covered up on his intake screening form. It described him as a "Boston mobster involved in numerous murders and acts of violence…High Profile Case." His severity level was marked off as "greatest."

Still, Bulger was placed into the general population in a prison considered among the system's most violent.

"The Hazelton warden and his staff were ultimately responsible, unless, of course, ordered by a higher authority, for deciding whether or not Bulger would be released to their general population," said Lindsay.

"The prudent move would have been to safeguard Bulger by isolating him in the facility's SpecialHousing Unit while determining how and why he was transferred to Hazelton."

Bob Hood, a former federal Bureau of Prisons chief of internal affairs and warden at the ADX Florence supermax prison in Colorado, agreed.

"Personally, I would have placed an inmate like Bulger on protective custody status on any of the federal prisons where I served as warden," Hood said. "He would always be considered a target because of his criminal background, status as informant, and age. Never, ever, to be placed in general population status."

The official code listed on Bulger's transfer papers was 332 for "medical treatment completed." The description of 332 is as follows: "Return from medical referral center to general population after treatment for medical/physical treatment."

But the classification is baffling – none of Bulger's paperwork indicates


Bulger's transfer lies in his disciplinary history. As NBC News previously reported, Bulger was sanctioned for threatening a nursing supervisor this February, according to prisoner records.

"Your day of reckoning is coming," he allegedly told the worker on Feb. 23, according to a law enforcement source.

Since it was a verbal threat rather than a physical assault, the infraction wasn't severe enough to justify a transfer. But starting on that day, Bulger, then 88, was placed in solitary confinement and kept there for the next eight months.

"That's a huge red flag," said Maraviglia, the prison investigator. "There was no reason for him to be locked up that long."

A Boston Police booking image dated March 16, 1953 of James 'Whitey' Bulger. Boston Police Department via EPA file

Some of the current andstaffers said.

Tucson would have been out of the question, however, because Bulger was placed there in early 2014. He was shipped off to Coleman II that August after being accused of engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a female psychologist, according to the Boston Globe.

"It appears they were playing hot potato with him," said Hood. "No one wanted Bulger because he's such a high-profile inmate and you know that if anything happens to him, it will get attention around the world."

Bulger arrived at the Hazelton prison on the night of Oct. 29. The geriatric mobster agreed to be placed in a general population unit, law enforcement sources told NBC News.

Bulger was wheeled into his cell just before 10 p.m. At 8:20 a.m., three hours after the cells in


his unit were unlocked, he was found murdered.

Law enforcement sources said inmates assaulted him with a padlock stuffed inside a sock before placing his bloodied body in bed to make it look like he was sleeping.

For Maraviglia, it wasn't entirely surprising that Bulger would have been asked to be in general population. But the Hazelton higher-ups should have known better than to grant his wish, he said.

"He may have felt that he was too powerful to be messed with," said Maraviglia. "We see that with major organized crime figures sometimes. But you're an 89-year-old man now. Nobody's scared of you."

Maraviglia said if he were handling the case, he would have spelled out his grave concerns, as well as Bulger's wishes, in a letter to the warden and othertop brass.

"I would have said he wanted to go but I don't think he should and this is why," said Maraviglia.

The FBI and the The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Northern District of West Virginia are conducting an investigation into Bulger's killing.

Among the inmates under suspicion is a former Mafia hitman with a disdain for snitches, according to law enforcement sources and the man's lawyer. But there have been no arrests.

Hood said the probe into the murder represents the easy part. Surveillance cameras likely caught the killer or killers entering Bulger's cell.

It's the investigation that will come after, led by the Justice Department inspector general's office and focused on the federal Bureau of Prison staffers involved in the transfer, that has the potential to shake up the system.

"The


This file photo, released by The Dominion Post in 2005, shows Atafu lagoon in the New Zealand dependency of Tokelau. These remote Pacific islands have become the first territory in the world to generate their electricity entirely from solar energy, in a project hailed as an environmental milestone.

The remote Pacific islands of Tokelau have become the first territory in the world to generate their electricity entirely from solar energy, in a project hailed as an environmental milestone.

Before the solar power grid was completed, the New Zealand-administered grouping of three coral atolls, with a population of just 1,500, relied on diesel generators for electricity.

Project coordinator Mike Bassett-Smith said the diesel was not only environmentally unfriendly, it also cost the islands, which lie about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii,received that George A. Norton requested this ten thousand dollar payment as a deposit for aircraft seating on Laker Airways Limited. Additionally, the Club's check number 378, dated June 11, 1980, bears on its face the notation "deposit on airplane." Plaintiff's Exhibit 1. Likewise, the Club's contemporaneous executive minutes of June 4, 1980 reflect George A. Norton's report that a $10,000.00 deposit was needed to reserve seating on the Laker aircraft. Norton was to receive the check by the end of the week. Plaintiff's Exhibit 14 at 2.
Defendant Norton denies informing the Club the ten thousand dollar payment was requested as a deposit on aircraft seating. This testimony is impeached by his own notes, subtracting from the aircraft cost of $97,865.00 the sum of $10,000.00 as "deposit received


Southeast Texas have given up the crop entirely.

But in mid-July, the Texas rice industry — which is worth about $100 million per year to farmers — was granted a reprieve: a deal to allow U.S. rice sales to China. The industry estimates that China soon could buy 250,000 tons of U.S. rice per year, out of the 9 million tons it produces, which could boost prices significantly.

Although trade between the two countries had been liberalized when China entered the world trade organization in 2001, trade in rice remained off the table. An agreement to allow exports has been in the making for nearly a decade, with talks launched by George W. Bush, continued under Barack Obama and ultimately concluded under President Donald Trump. The deal sets complex safetycounties east of Houston used to be full of rice fields — in 1968, 70 square miles of Liberty County were planted with the crop. Growing up in the area, Ray's son, Neal, always saw the rice business as his future, and he didn't finish college.

"I went to the University of Rice Farming, I guess," he said, while piloting a giant combine around the field, gobbling up stalks with a 40-foot-wide reaper and separating them from the grains.

The Stoessers have owned land since Neal's great-grandfather came to the area from Germany in the late 1800s, and Neal has been driving a combine since he was old enough to climb up into the cab, as his 8- and 4-year-old sons do now. Over that time, the Stoesser farm has


grown to cover several thousand acres as the family bought out surrounding farms.

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The rest of Texas' rice industry, however, has shrunk to 187,000 acres from more than 600,000 in the 1950s. In Liberty County, the 70 square miles of rice fields is now eight.

"I hate to say it, but when I was in high school, there were 70 farmers," Neal said. Now there are just three in Liberty County — Neal, his father and his brother, Grant.

Several reasons are behind the decline, including the encroachment of suburban housing developments, which raised land prices to the point where it made more sense to sell than keep farming. Today, Texas accounts for about 6percent of U.S. rice production, far behind the leader, Arkansas, which accounts for about half.

But Texas rice farmers have a few things working in their favor. New seed varieties allowed them to nearly double the yield per acre, with the assistance of experts from Texas A&M's field offices. And federal crop subsidy programs have kept them afloat through thin years, paying out $1.8 billion to Texas rice farmers between 1995 and 2014, according to a database maintained by the Environmental Working Group, an advocacy organization that opposes farm subsidies.

Meanwhile, the rice industry has tried to expand its market by boosting Americans' rice consumption. Stoesser runs the Texas Rice Council, which collects payments from the state's rice farmers for joint marketing efforts, such as one that produced a bumper


sticker on his Yukon SUV. "Eat Rice," it reads. "Potatoes make your butt big."

In one regard, they've made progress. Americans now eat 26 pounds of rice per year on average, which is nearly triple their consumption in the 1970s. But that increase is driven largely by immigrant communities that favor jasmine and basmati varieties, mostly imported from Thailand, India and Pakistan, over American medium and long grain rice.

'Selling ice to Eskimos'

Back in 2005, Greg Yielding took a trip to China.

Nothing terribly official for the executive director of the Arkansas Rice Growers Association - just a few visits with people like the U.S. Department of Agriculture's representative in China and the office of COFCO, China's state-owned food importer. At that point, the prospect of selling rice to China seemedlike a hopeless quest — "The ultimate example of selling ice to the Eskimos," as one California official put it.

But Yielding heard differently. Chinese supermarket executives, he said, thought they could market American rice as a high-end, safer alternative to their own crops, which had suffered waves of contamination. On successive visits, funded by grants from the USDA, Yielding engaged a market research company to have young women hand out samples of U.S. rice at luxury supermarkets in big cities.

"I couldn't tell you that there was something better about it, but they tried it, they liked the taste of it, they liked the cooking quality," said Yielding, who soon started working for the U.S. Rice Producers Association, a Houston-based trade group. "I just kept making contacts and finding


So, a few years ago, the USDA started facilitating trips by Chinese scientists to visit U.S. farms and rice mills. Ray Stoesser helped shepherd them around in Arkansas.

"The Chinese were optimistic about what they saw," he said, extolling the quality and sanitation of U.S. facilities.

The Rice Producers Association, of which Stoesser is a member, wasn't the only group working for market access — the U.S.A Rice Federation, a coalition of farmers and millers, was sponsoring exchanges as well. Rice mills remove the tough husk from rice grains to make it edible. The millers were particularly keen on the Chinese market, since all the rice going there would be milled in the U.S., in contrast to the largely unmilled "rough" rice that goes to Mexico and South America.

Two yearsago, USA Rice's executive director, Betsy Ward, said she thought U.S. negotiators had a deal with China. But they could never get it signed by the Chinese, which Ward thinks may have had to do with the Obama administration having other trade priorities — such as the massive Trans Pacific Partnership, which pointedly didn't include China.

After Trump's agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, took office, Ward said her group met with him four times about getting the rice agreement done. Only a few weeks after Perdue visited China to celebrate a deal allowing exports of beef, the rice deal was finally signed.

It was a relief, after more than a decade of work. But the road forward may not be easy.

"It's a very complex agreement and gives them room to find


                Background

     The appellant, a 27-year-old Marine Corps recruiter, first
met the victim, a fifteen year old high school freshman, while
he was representing the Marine Corps at her high school’s Career
Day event. A couple of days later, the appellant contacted her
via phone to discuss the recruiting process. At that time, the
appellant learned from her father, who was listening in on the
conversation, that she was a 15-year-old freshman and knew then
that she was too young to be recruited. However, rather than
discontinue communication with her, over the course of the next
several days, the appellant and the victim engaged in sexually
graphic dialogue via phone calls and text messages. Although
most of these communications wereinitiated by the victim, the
appellant did nothing to dissuade her. Approximately two weeks
after they first met, the appellant met the victim at a local
pizza shop near her school and took her back to his residence.
The appellant was wearing his Marine Corps uniform and driving a
Government vehicle when he picked her up that day. Once at his
residence, the appellant engaged in unprotected sexual
intercourse with her multiple times before he drove her back to
the pizza shop and dropped her off. The appellant spoke with
her via phone a couple of days later and told her that he would
not see her anymore because he could get in trouble.

                        Sentence


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had boasted of physically attacking a patient. She alleges she endured a series of retaliatory actions leading to her emotional breakdown and ingestion of an overdose of Elavil in August 1993; to her consequent suspension from employment in August 1993; and to her constructive discharge when appellants refused to reinstate her before her accrued leave expired in November 1993. She filed suit under the Whistleblower Act in January 1994.
Appellants filed a plea to the jurisdiction in January 2001. They contend that the district court lacks jurisdiction over Olofsson's Whistleblower cause of action because she failed to comply with a statutory prerequisite for maintaining a suit under the Whistleblower Act; specifically, they contend that she failed to file suit within ninety days of the alleged retaliatory action. See Tex.Nurse leaders have cautiously welcomed government plans to restore some grants for trainees entering the profession.

The Royal College of Nursing said the new policy was only a “first step” to removing barriers and that more funding was needed.

The government has been criticised for abolishing nursing bursaries, which NHS leaders have predicted will lead to a shortfall in staff.

Boris Johnson announced on Tuesday evening that all nursing students on courses from September 2020 will now receive a £5,000 a year grant, while additional payments of up to £3,000 are available for students in regions or specialisms struggling to recruit.

Dame Donna Kinnair, chief executive and general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said: “With tens of thousands of vacant nurse jobs in England, serious measures are needed and


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2012 Toyota Camry Recalls

Toyota is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Avalon, Avalon HV, Venza, Camry, and Camry HV vehicles. In the affected vehicles, the drain hose for the air conditioning condenser may become clogged causing water to accumulate at the bottom of the air conditioning condenser unit housing. The accumulated water may then leak through a seam in the housing onto the air bag control module potentially resulting in a short circuit of the module.

Consequences:

A short circuit may cause the air bags to become disabled or inadvertently deploy. An inadvertent airbag deployment can increase the risk of injury or the possibility of a crash. An inoperative airbagcan increase the risk of injury in a severe crash. The power steering assist could also become inoperable resulting in increased steering effort and can increase the risk of a crash at low speeds.

Remedy:

Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will seal the air conditioning condenser unit housing and install a protective cover on the airbag control module, free of charge. The recall began on February 5, 2014. Owners may contact Toyota at 1-800-331-4331.

Toyota is recalling certain model year 2012-2013 Avalon, Avalon HV, Venza, Camry, and Camry HV vehicles. In the affected vehicles, the drain hose for the air conditioning condenser may become clogged causing water to accumulate at the bottom of the air conditioning condenser unit housing. The accumulated water may then leak through a seam in the


Avalon HV, Venza, Camry, and Camry HV vehicles. In the affected vehicles, the drain hose for the air conditioning condenser may become clogged causing water to accumulate at the bottom of the air conditioning condenser unit housing. The accumulated water may then leak through a seam in the housing onto the air bag control module potentially resulting in a short circuit of the module.

Consequences:

A short circuit may cause the air bags to become disabled or inadvertently deploy. An inadvertent airbag deployment can increase the risk of injury or the possibility of a crash. An inoperative airbag can increase the risk of injury in a severe crash. The power steering assist could also become inoperable resulting in increased steering effort and can increase the risk of a crash atlow speeds.

Remedy:

Toyota will notify owners, and dealers will seal the air conditioning condenser unit housing and install a protective cover on the airbag control module, free of charge. The recall began on February 5, 2014. Owners may contact Toyota at 1-800-331-4331.

Southeast Toyota Distributors, LLC (SET) is recalling certain models interspersed through model years 2009 through 2013 as follows: model year 2009-2012 Tacoma, 4Runner, Camry, Camry Hybrid, Prius, and RAV4; model year 2009-2010 Avalon, FJ Cruiser, and Highlander Hybrid; model year 2010-2013 model year Corolla, Sienna and Tundra; model year 2009-2013 Highlander and Venza; model year 2012 Prius V; and model year 2010-2012 Sequoia. During modification by SET to include accessories such as leather seat covers, seat heaters or headrest DVD systems, these vehicles may not have had the