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the 21st century they have dwindled into dollar-strewing automata for the Hollywood machine. All the interesting ideas seem to be on the small screen, in shows such as Black Mirror, or independent cinema such as the recent Netflix hits I Am Mother or See You Yesterday. Blade Runner 2049, from 2017, is perhaps the last great example of futuristic cinema as spectacle to truly resonate, and it struggled badly at the box office.

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In October, we will be treated to Terminator: Dark Fate, the latest instalment in the long-running man v machines saga, directed by Deadpool’s Tim Miller, and it may well be the one that resets the timeline and puts everything back on track. The trailers look cool, butof the final group of androids waiting with the technicians aborted his part of the attack; he decided to return to the sleek spacecraft that had brought the androids to Orion.

Chapter Two

Time Storm

Colonel Bragg soon located the scientists, and finding that the key to the door was still in the lock released them from the store room.

"I think that the attack is over Jameson, but shut the facility down now, and please keep your team under cover here in the Laboratory until you are told by me that it is safe to come out." Bragg said to the scientist.

Jameson called his team together, but he didn`t need to stress the urgency of the situation, or the need to shut down the facility immediately, for smoke from the Laboratory


of course all happened a long time ago, when the Earth was very young.

Chapter Four

Into the Netherworld

May 24th in the year 2014

In a world totally removed from that of dealing with the problems of the universe, of Colonel Bragg, of Richard Jameson and his group, and whoever was behind the android attack on Orion, Saturday had arrived. Now Saturday is Tyler`s favourite day. Thankfully the world and, as far as Tyler was aware, the Cosmos, were running smoothly, well as smoothly as mankind would allow it to. It was only one little section of it that troubled Tyler. For this Saturday was different from the ones that had preceded it, for this was the first day following that eventful moment that had left him unemployed? It all startedbed and into the small bathroom that led off his bedroom, only to see a haggard face looking back at him from the mirror.

Tyler was twenty-eight years old, not tall, about five feet nine inches in height and on the slim side, weighing only a shade over ten stone. He had dark brown hair, a chin that was a little too square and a nose that was just a shade to large, his normally big baby blue eyes were his best part, all the girls like them. That had been what had attracted Annabelle, though today he would not be able to attract a dead rat, he looked a state. His hair was a mess, his head ached, his blue eyes were red and haggard, and whilst only


but his destiny had already been decided by the Fates, so what could a mere mortal do? Tyler walked to the front door and pulled on his black leather jacket, but as he left the room, he saw lying on the table a silver cigarette lighter that belonged to his friend, Jake. Putting it into his jacket pocket he decided that he would drop it off at Jakes house after seeing about the flying lesson, maybe they could have half a pint or two down at the pub.

With the trip to the building society forgotten, and before he could change his mind, Tyler was in his old second hand Peugeot coupe, and within a half hour was at Keston aerodrome. The aerodrome had been home to a RAFthe sun after being frozen by their nightmare journey. Tyler meanwhile stood staring at the jungle in the final desperate hope that it would change back into the world that they had left only a short time ago, it didn`t. Masters put his hand on Tyler`s shoulder and pointed towards a rough meandering track to their right.

"Well this way seems as good as any Tyler, come on, who knows maybe there is a luxury hotel just around the bend, and anyway I am very thirsty all of a sudden, as I suspect are you, so we need to find some water, and maybe something to eat." Masters led the way towards the trees which seemed to open up invitingly, unveiling a narrow track that led them into the


luck. This meant that Tyler was forced to spend valuable time shoving a puffing and complaining Masters up to safety. Unfortunately, the beast was too near now to allow Tyler to scramble to the safety that George Masters had found, and so Tyler did what was to become natural to him, he fought back. Tyler picked up a section of a branch that a storm had torn from a tree, and with the bear almost upon him he spun about and caught the bear a blow with the heavy branch. However, he had almost mistimed it for it only caught the beast a blow on its stubby snout, but the beast stopped its charge abruptly and howled out in shock and pain. Tyler followed this blow by jabbingof hyperspace without warning and smashed into the side of the Indefatigable. It strained everything that was fixed down, never mind those things that were not. Everyone who was not seated was thrown violently to the floor. Around the bridge delicate instruments were certainly strained to breaking point with fires breaking out, while crewmen were getting violent electric shocks from the damaged equipment. One serious result from the collision was that the hyperspace engines were knocked offline, along with the defence shields. This large rock was the last of the asteroids gathered up by the Time Platform, and for it to hit the cruiser showed that the Fates were still taking a hand in the drama that would make the planet of Orion a household name that would


to me each night in the NAAFI."

The two walked on with the jungle giving way to scrub and grasses, and it was well after noon, and the time had come and gone for breakfast and lunch, when from up ahead Tyler heard a commotion, raised voices and what sounded like a brief scuffle. Tyler and Masters edged closer, hidden behind the undergrowth that had always surrounded them since their forced landing on this strange planet. From between the leafy branches of a large green bush they looked down at their first group of Heliot troopers.

"It looks as if we have company George, although I am not sure if I like the look of those soldiers." Tyler said looking down from the low hill at the scene being playedbreak. The first thing he did on not receiving aid was to ram the Heliot`s head against the hard and very stony ground. When the afore mentioned trooper took umbrage at this and tried to rise Tyler, much to Masters surprise and the trooper's discomfort, rammed his knee hard into the trooper`s back. This made Tyler cry out "Ouch!" as his knee impacted the tough body armour of the Heliot trooper. However, it also forced the trooper back down and also brought forth a grunt of pain, Tyler followed this action up by putting his arm around the trooper`s neck and pulling the troopers upper body backwards while he screamed at the two natives.

"Well hit him then before he shoots one of us."

The trooper was already reaching out


at humour brought a laugh from everyone, and with this changed disposition amongst the four friends complete, they walked towards the village of the Orionist`s with lighter hearts and a smile upon their faces. Tryon was still not convinced, either by his chief`s argument, or by the earthmen`s banter.

"This may well be my friends, but the gods don`t always make their wishes clear to those they pick; only the actions of their chosen ones tell of them."

This was the final remark about the reasons behind Tyler`s and Masters journey to Orion, and the four friends settled down to their journey to Tryon`s and Appolon`s village.

Appolon was everything a warrior chief should be. He was six feet tall, blond and all muscle; he had been the leader of hisa few of the people from other worlds."

"Do you have any family Appolon?" Tyler asked. His question was answered by Tryon.

"Yes, a brother," Tryon burst out laughing and nothing would make them explain the joke to the two earthmen.

"I also have a beautiful wife and two equally beautiful daughters my friend." Appolon said answering Tyler`s question more fully.

"And you Tryon, do you also have a wife?" George Masters asked.

"Yes, she too is very beautiful, but she is always making me work, so I propose hunting trips to Appolon so that I can get away from such ideas."

"Tryon is a very brave warrior, but he is afraid of his small wife." Appolon scoffed at his friend playfully.

Masters went up in the native`s estimation when he spoke about his time


the missionaries who lived in the village. The missionaries taught at the school, looked after the villager`s spiritual needs and supplied the villagers with some of the modern items that the villagers had come to rely on. There was also a local blacksmith, which told not only of the locals` prosperity but also of the size of the village, for the inhabitants of other smaller villages had to come here to be able to enjoy the use of the blacksmith.

On entering into the village, children flocked all around them and asked many questions, such as what success Appolon and Tryon had had in the hunt and who were the two earthmen, all of course in the native language, the earthmen couldn`t understand any of it. At the sightyoung woman with long dark hair and large grey eyes. She had also heard the two earthmen`s story from the back of the crowd, but had waited to meet them in the quiet of her home so that she could thank them properly.

"Thank you, Tyler, thank you George, for rescuing my husband and our good friend Tryon from the two off-worlders, for this I will not be able to repay you sufficiently enough to show you my gratitude." Fleur was dressed in the same clothes worn by the other women of the village, a linen frock, but each had put their own designs upon their own frock to show their individuality. Fleur had decorated hers with small coloured flowers embroidered onto the plain linen material of the frock.

"The


scientists are here." Cassidy replied.

"After that attack on the complex do you really think they are going to want to stay out here on the frontier of space, no they will move to a safer place, and they will take you all along with them?" Lambert predicted, correctly as it turned out.

"There is another way for John, father. He could settle down on Orion and take some of the load off your hands; you know that it is getting too much for you now." Marcia said more in hope than expectation.

"I am quite able to work my own farm Marcia." Lambert protested, and there it was left for the moment.

Later that evening Marcia saw Cassidy to the door and they stood on the porch for a moment andHave to Investigate

June 23rd the Year 2494

The natives of Orion had been Neolithic farmers, one who had also hunted game and collected wild fruit and vegetables to supplement their diet when the first colonist`s from Earth had arrived. Now one hundred years on they had been helped into the Iron Age. The colonists who were all of the Church of the Universe, had all been trained in the many crafts and trades that turned Orion from a Neolithic world into a world comprising a mixture of times. They provided all the goods that made Orion a paradise for its native population, whose ancestors never dreamed of such conveniences, such as indoor plumbing, many roomed houses and a diet that included much more protein and fat than the natives


just plain terrified.

Parsons had been born on Orion forty five years ago, he was slight of build with short straight brown hair and the tanned skin of all the colonists, tanned by spending time amongst the natives who lived and worked mostly out of doors. His brown eyes showed a defiance that he didn`t feel, but he kept calm in front of his family.

"I demand that you allow me to speak to my Bishop, Sir, and just who are you people anyway, and what are you doing here on Orion?"

"I am your worst nightmare little man." Divilio snarled. "You will answer all of my questions quickly, and in full, or I will order my men to kill your family one by one until you do so, is thatto their domain." Tocra said.

It was at least an hour later when Masters began to really feel the pace of their hurried journey; even Appolon was in need of a break to rest his sore ankle.

"It is just superstitious twaddle, this talk of the people of the underworld." Masters whispered to Tyler.

"Look here Appolon, can`t we rest for a while, for my legs are just about giving out on me." Masters complained a little louder.

"It is not safe here earthman." Tocra warned. "We are right in the middle of their land."

"Whose land Tocra?" Masters demanded angrily.

"The people of the underworld, as I told you, they don`t like strangers moving about their land."

"What do you mean, people of the underworld, do you mean ghosts, spirits and such twaddle?" Masters


half way when the roots he was suspending all his weight on, while his feet searched for a ledge, broke. Tyler dropped the rest of the way down to the bottom of the pit, but instead of a solid thump he hit with a splash. The bottom was not the solid ground that he thought it to be, but deep water with a green covering of algae giving it the look of green grass. Tyler shot to the surface and called up to his friends.

"Don`t worry my friends, I am fine." He dragged himself from the slime that covered the surface of the water and stood up. Before him was a long dark tunnel, black as pitch except for where the thin beam of sunlight reached it. Lookinghad been in fact a volcano. Then water had come along and created the vast chamber. A large fallen rock at the edge of the pathway concealed him from their view and he was able to look around the dim chamber without too much chance of being seen.

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As Caroline finally started to regain consciousness, she first felt the pain coming from the back of her head, this had been caused by one of the Troglodytes coming up behind her and striking her on the back of her head with a rock. Then she found that she couldn`t move her arms so she now opened her eyes. Dimly she saw that she had been bound and tied to a large rock, and that she was in a large dimly


for the Troglodytes had used green wood for just this reason. The smoke was caught in the terrific up draught of the chimney and it was swirling up towards them, they could hear the roaring of the fire which was fed with so much oxygen by the breeze that had now strengthened into a gale. The Troglodytes were attempting to make them choke and lose consciousness, and then they would fall back down the chimney to die when they hit rock floor below.

The chimney widened out now and Tyler moved slightly to the left while Caroline who was above him had climbed straight on up its steep walls. Her hands were bleeding from grasping the sharp rocks, her back torn, her muscles complaining, but she struggled on upthe chimney. When it seemed as if things couldn`t get any worse she found herself unable to continue upwards.

"Tyler, I have run out of handholds, can you climb up and then help me up too." For the first time since Tyler`s arrival that night her voice showed the first hint of fear.

Tyler looked up at his fearful Neolithic princess. "Sure, don`t worry."

Tyler slowly drew level with Caroline and smiled across at her before turning again to look for more handholds on the wall above him that would help pull him up to the top, which he could now see just out of hands reach. Tyler now realised that he too had run out of hand holds; the nearest thing to grab on too was a long thick root


her brother and looked him in the eye.

"My beloved brother, I shall pay you back for your insults, tit for tat, and at the earliest possible moment, mark me well." With that Caroline turned away from him contemptuously.

"First though Tyler." Tryon said with a smile spread right across his face as he listened to his friends' banter. "I think we had better get you some new clothes, for those ones are only fit for the fire, they smell, they are filthy and they are so badly torn that they are only just about hanging on your back." The camp erupted in laughter and all was well, for now they were safely back together, a band of the best of friends.

"Tryon is quite right George; we are both inbefore. No, Michaels thought, there is only one way that he had heard of it happening, and that was when someone was jamming your signals.

Tyler meanwhile had been putting on some new clothes; Colonel Bragg had taken him to the marine`s storeroom where he found a trooper`s uniform that fitted Tyler perfectly, and the uniform was certainly better than the rags that Tyler had worn into the town. The only problem was his new shoes, well marine`s boots, and they pinched just a bit. He had been forced to leave his shoes behind at the place where they had entered the underground river; he now promised himself that he would collect them sometime, as they were quite comfortable. He now looked presentable, and not like the figure of


a cargo vessel which the pirates are sending down. In return they have promised to destroy the alien army."

Appolon took the microphone off Caroline and spoke to Tyler.

"Tyler, this changes things my friend, it now seems that my family will be safe where they are for the moment, and so Caroline and I will go in search of Tryon who in turn has returned back along the valley in search of my warriors. When we find them, we will bring them back to assist New Eden, for if New Eden falls under the control of the alien army there is no knowing what would happen to our people."

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Divilio, after a bad night's rest, was in a very sour disposition, snapping at everyone including Aswan. Aswan and Divilio wereshelter of the mountain. The Indefatigable could have simply moved position and destroyed them in a matter of moments, but Kruger wanted the small Earth fleet to be too occupied with the aliens to have the time to look for his ship, which in any case would soon be sitting deep within their massive bunker within the planet Altera, hidden and untraceable.

The sleek assault craft slipped silently through the atmosphere and down over the vast ocean of Orion. It was soon over the single land mass and approaching New Eden along a wide channel carved out by a small mountain stream. Looking at it through his binoculars was George Masters.

"Tyler can you hear me, this is George Masters." He called.

"I hear you George. What`s up?" Tyler replied almost


pick it up an android fired at him, the blazing hot energy bolt shot across his shoulder leaving a red-hot painful line that made Tyler groan in agony. However, had he not been stooping down to pick up the plasma weapon dropped by the dead marine, then he would have died there and then. Tyler scooped up the Colt plasma weapon and fired at his attacker, stopping his android foe in its metallic tracks, sparks of blue lightning blazed across its body as it fell to the ground, it wouldn`t rise again. The androids seeing their position worsen still more, began to fall back towards their assault vessel. The advantage of the position that the marines had taken up was nullified as soon as they began to pursuewas sitting there patiently awaiting the expected orders.

"Mr Masterson it seems that just this once we will have to partly abide by our agreement. Take out all of the vehicles that are in the valley, let`s make the aliens walk, for it seems we are now in need of a bigger smokescreen."

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Appolon had changed his position, he was now camped within a deep cave high in the foothills of the mountain. Appolon and Caroline had first checked it out to ensure that it contained no hidden surprises inside, but it came to an end some twenty feet inside the entrance and so they were safe here from troglodytes and tigrons. Careful to keep out of sight from the valley below, they saw and heard the new lines of


no fear, we will abide by our agreement." Sinclair replied fearing to push the pirate captain any further, lest he carried out his threat.

Tyler was standing beside Bishop Sinclair and could see that the man of god had aged twenty years since he had first seen him. Tyler also felt the same ravages of guilt eating away at his own insides, but he also couldn`t see any other way around their problem. Leadership brought with it many things, and the main one was the obligation one had to those whom you led or in his case, advised.

The five marines plus Colonel Bragg watched as the crew of the cargo vessel supervised the loading of the final ten crates. It galled Bragg to be finally beaten, but he wasalso join us." President Michaels asked, his heart beating faster at the thought that they might yet win through.

"After we have seen Brian, for without his help it will not work." They found Brian Goddard in the almost empty science complex. Brian Goddard almost jumped to attention.

"Hello Mr President, how may I help you?" He asked excitedly.

"It is Mr Burrows who wants to speak with you, Professor Goddard." President Michaels replied. All the other scientists plus Tracy Goddard, moved forward to see what help Tyler needed, and whether they could possibly provide it.

"First things first Brian, will you please turn on that jamming device of yours that prevents any sort of radio or telephone communication." Tyler requested.

"Of course, I will do that, but why do you want me


and only have this box of tricks of yours."

The box of tricks of course was the translator and it was mounted on a small vehicle resembling a land rover. They got into the vehicle and slowly drove towards the trees that were about a mile away, and when they had almost reached the trees Tyler instructed Brian to switch on the device and call out their peaceful intentions to the aliens. All was quiet, the aliens making no move to show themselves until Brian and Tyler were almost amongst the trees, and then Aswan stepped forward.

"What is it that you want earthmen; talk fast, for it might be your last chance?"

Aswan was still very angry at losing his fleet, almost all his troops, and his equipment, and hadhad felt justly proud to accompany such warriors, but put his hope in victory in being able to get close to the aliens under the cover of darkness, thereby nullifying the advantage the aliens had in body armour and weapons, and thereby allowing the warriors to simply overwhelm them.

**********

The lights of New Eden were all blacked out as the black stealth assault craft glided in towards New Eden, and the cargo vessel. Its engines made hardly any sound at all now that it was in stealth mode, even the crew of the cargo vessel didn`t hear it glide to a stop, just feet above the top of the ship. The darkness was due to Captain Kruger who had also sent some of his own men down to Orion,


have lifted off from the planet, that and no more or you will be the first to die."

Captain Kruger felt that things were finally coming right and he could breathe again as he heard the message from his communications officer.

Ten minutes later, Aswan saw that they were making their final approach to the space cruiser Indefatigable, and so ordered the commander to report in again.

"Remember Commander, that some of my men will be left behind on this ship to guard you, should I walk into a trap, you will all die, if everything goes smoothly there is no reason why anyone should get hurt. Do you understand this Commander?" Aswan threatened.

"Yes, I understand, don`t worry, I am not prepared to die for my captain, and neither is anybodyTyler, I am here, what can I do for you?" Colonel Bragg answered.

"Colonel where is the bomb, I need to unload it onto the mother ship, as we are using the cargo vessel to come home in?"

Colonel Bragg knew the whereabouts of the bomb.

"It is on top of crates left of the entrance; it says Handle with Care, Fragile." Colonel Bragg replied.

"Thanks, Colonel. Tyler Out"

Next, Tyler returned to the bridge and spoke to the Commander.

"We must all switch over to our oxygen bottles now because I want you to open the rear door of the ship and let our Heliot guests breathe vacuum. Then decompress the rest of the ship, including the bridge, but not the engineering department, as I need to be able to move about without


more Heliot troopers entering the bridge behind the first one quickly threw up his hands and screamed out. "Don`t shoot, I surrender." The computer reading the drop in air pressure on the bridge flashed up another warning and set off the alarms once again, but when the drop in pressure stopped almost as soon as it had begun, the computer quickly compensated and pumped in more air so that the two gasping officers could breathe normally again.

Aswan finally entered the bridge in triumph and exclaimed. "The ship is ours." To all the Heliots within earshot.

Down in the science department of the Indefatigable, Captain Kruger hadn`t surrendered his ship yet.

"They must have taken the bridge by now Mr Billings, but we still control the engineering section and of coursefind and you can park your car at the front. We were warmly welcomed by Mike; the main volunteer from England who has been living on the island since 2004. He told us extensively who he was and what they do in the cat shelter. In advance, we bought 40 cans of cat food and not unimportant we gave a donation in cash.

After our talk with Mike we were able to walk around and spoke to some Dutch volunteers. Immediately when you enter the shelter, you feel the warmth, so many cats together who all want some attention and love from you. They lie on your lap, climb in your neck and all giving hugs and paws.

Confrontation

They have a facility for sick cats and a large garden where


foreign governments and political interests.

Flynn Intel and S.G.R. LLC Government Relations and Lobbying pressured congressional aides to investigate a cleric who Erdogan had accused of directing a botched coup last summer. The two firms orchestrated meetings with U.S. officials- including congressional staffers and Arkansas Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin, a Republican - as well as journalists. They also worked on research, informational materials and a video on the cleric, Fethullah Gulen.

Flynn met privately in September in New York with two senior Turkish government officials, including the government’s ministers of foreign affairs and energy. Flynn’s company did not name the officials, but the current Turkish energy minister is Berat Albayrak, who is Erdogan’s son-in-law.

Alptekin told the AP he set up the meeting at a New York hotel between Flynn andof the parliamentary caucus of the opposition party Nowoczesna.

Polish currency zloty immediately rose against the euro, as investors saw the decision as lowering the political risk in Poland.

Observers say Duda’s decision puts him at odds with the de facto leader of the country, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is the leader of PiS but has no formal government post.


those last few years at Folsom High that God choose to put my family though its greatest trial.

My mother, who had previously battled severe tumors while I was in grade school, had been diagnosed with a rare form of stomach cancer. The doctors could not promise her much help or time. With firmness she attended her chemo-therapy sessions even though her hair would fall out as a result; while also seeking other treatments. She was determined to see her children grow up. The family gathered around her in an amazing support. All of her children were there to care for her, especially my younger sister.

I was seventeen years old and did not know how to help. High school seemed to add problems on top of it for me,in her a warm trust in whatever God had planned for her, and her words left an impression upon my heart. Only a few weeks later my sister knocked on my bedroom door to let me know that our mother had passed away.

She had been a devoted friend, a loving sister, and an active member of the community, as well as a mother. Her funeral was attended by hundreds of family members and friends. Each of which had nothing but the best things to say about her. There was one statement though which changed my life forever. While giving the eulogy the priest asked each one of us to think of one characteristic my mother had which we treasured, and to place that character trait within ourselves. “That,”


in November 2016 (the last planned visit in August 2014 was cancelled by Mongolian authorities because President Xi was to set foot there on the same dates). China unsurprisingly objected to the November visit: it closed down a key border crossing between the two countries and cut-off talks on providing a $4.2 billion debt to Mongolia. Soon enough, the Mongolian Foreign Minister was made to publicly apologise for permitting the visit. He went on to say that the Dalai Lama will not be allowed to visit Mongolia under the current administration henceforth.

China’s official response to the events was sullen — an approach that has come to characterise its relations with most of its neighbours. The Chinese Foreign Affairs Spokesperson said:

we hope that Mongolia will truly learn lessons fromall the money and other support they get from Hollywood far, far outweighs the few they loose to a few "malcontents", as they view them. And when they retire from politics they might get a nice cushy job from Hollywood too. How are you going to compete with that?

George W. Bush continuously criminally stalked Margie Schoedinger to the point that she could not get away from it, and she committed suicide in desperation to escape: he murdered her.

“In her suit, Margie Schoedinger states that George W. Bush committed sexual crimes against her, organized harassment and moral pressure on her, her family members and close relatives and friends. As Schoedinger said, she was strongly recommended to keep her mouth shut. . . . Furthermore, she alleges that George Bush


April 13, 2011: Cycles Of Release

In an odd coincidence, last month I incorporated musings on sales trends into the usual e23 announcement, and just a day or two later Fred Hicks of Evil Hat posted his thoughts on his recent success with The Dresden Files RPG. Both of us noted the tried-and-true rule of thumb: new releases start with large sales and then gradually slope down to a fraction of the initial rate.

Fred refers to the pursuit of these sales spikes as "junkie economics," which is an accurate (if somewhat inflammatory) description of the cycle of supplement after supplement some game publishers have found themselves in. In the past, publishers felt a bit trapped by this cycle, which led some to release expansions of lower and lower quality.He then apologised to Hayleigh and Chaise for what he had done, before calmly leaving the flat.

When the couple went into the living room, they found an horrific scene. Sabrina was lying naked on the kitchen floor, bleeding to death.

Chaise rushed to Sabrina’s side to try and administer first aid, but she only had just enough time to utter Hayleigh’s name before she died.

Sabrina, right, with her daughter Hayleigh (Picture: PA)

After a trial, jurors at the Old Bailey found Griffin guilty of murder on September 25. He has now been sentenced to life, with a minimum of 16 and a half years in prison.

Detective Chief Inspector Will Reynolds, of the Met Police’s Homicide and Major Crime Command, said: ‘Griffin callously and viciously attacked a vulnerable, trusting woman that


he purported to love and had asked to marry him.

‘He subjected her daughter, Hayleigh, and her boyfriend to the terrible ordeal of hearing the attack on Sabrina but being prevented from helping her, and then callously fled the scene.

‘Her death has left the family utterly devastated.

‘I am pleased that the jury did not accept the argument put forward of diminished responsibility and have rightly found Griffin fully accountable for his appalling actions of that terrible night on which Sabrina lost her life.’Seven months later, she's just now beginning to walk again.

Here's a shot of Krause in the ER with Wilms (in the purple sweatshirt):

And one of Krause's scar, post-surgery: And finally, one of Krause in her cast: But Krause isn't the only derby girl to have ever broken an ankle...

Continue for more photos. Wilms also operated on fellow skater Krystal "Gator Dunn" Sprouse, who broke her ankle at a scrimmage. Here's how it happened: "I was jamming, and I was out there right behind one other skater, and we just kind of got tangled up," Sprouse says. "Our wheels locked, and when she skated and pushed with her left leg, it literally folded my foot over."

Here's what Sprouse's ankle looked like soon after she broke it:

And here's what an


X-ray showed: Sprouse also requested that Wilms do her repair. On the day of the surgery, she changed the names on the hospital whiteboard to read "Kimmy Kimmy Bang Bang" and "Gator Dunn." Here's a photo of the two in the hospital before the operation: After Sprouse healed, she decided to remember her surgery, and her surgeon, in a unique way -- by getting a tattoo that says "Dr. Bang Bang was here" above her scar.

Continue for photos of Sprouse's tattoo. On a recent Thursday night, Sprouse and Wilms met up at a tattoo shop in Boulder where another Dolls skater, Amanda "The Swiss Missile" Sharpless, is an artist. As Wilms watched, Sharpless inked the tattoo -- in Wilms's handwriting -- into Sprouse's leg.

Here's a close-up photo ofthe finished product: And one of Sprouse on skates, sporting her new tattoo: Continue for photos and stories of other skaters' injuries. The very first skater on whom Wilms operated was Amanda "Aim N. Buster" Cleveland, who wasn't hurt on the track. Instead, Cleveland found herself under Dr. Bang Bang's knife after a tumble down the stairs that was likely caused by a derby-related knee injury. When she got to the hospital, the ER doctor asked Cleveland if he could take a photo of her broken ankle. She agreed, but only if he promised to send it to her.

Here's that photo:

Cleveland posted the photo on Facebook. Soon after she did, she heard from Wilms. "She called me and she was like, 'You know, I could fix that,'" recalls


both House leadership, and the Committee on Administration, that the Awans had gained unauthorized access into the servers of 15 House members who did not employ them! Additionally, it came to light that from October 2015 to April 2016, the Awans made “excessive log ons,” to the tune of 27 times per day, to a server belonging to the House Democratic Caucus.

Not only does the case raise serious national security and obstruction of justice concerns, it also suggests a blatant cover-up on the part of the lawmakers involved.

In January of 2017, a Democratic Caucus server was reported stolen.

Shortly after the Awans were barred from accessing the House computer systems in February of 2017, many of the 44 House Members – all Democrats -- who gave the Awans accessto their constituent and other office data, fired them. One high profile member, however, continued to employ Imran Awan.

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., employed Imran Awan from 2005 until he was arrested on bank fraud charges while attempting to flee the United States to Pakistan on July 25, 2017. Although Awan was barred from the House computer systems in February of that same year and unable to perform IT work for her office, Wasserman Schultz refused to remove Awan from house payroll and continued to pay him at the same rate. She compensated Awan with taxpayer funds for several months, all while he was under indictment for bank fraud charges.

Since Wasserman Schultz failed to answer even basic questions about the nature of Awan’s employment in her office, last


July my organization asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate her for blatantly disregarding House Ethics rules, as members of Congress are directly responsible for ensuring their staff are only paid for official public work.

What makes this situation even more bizarre and troubling is in April of 2017, during the time Wasserman Schultz kept Awan employed, he left a laptop belonging to her in an abandoned public phone booth in the House Rayburn Office Building, along with “a Pakistani ID card, copies of Awan’s driver’s license and congressional ID badge, and letters to the U.S. attorney.” After this incident, Wasserman Schultz went on a public attack against the United States Capitol Police demanding they return her laptop, even publicly threatening Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa with “consequences”The representatives of the resource CoinMarketCap intend to change the system of cryptocurrency exchange rankings after several researches proving an artificial overestimate of trading volumes. The resource CoinMarketCap, tracking the cost of cryptocurrency and the activity of trading platforms, confirmed the coming change on its twitter.

In the middle of the month, an anonymous group of CryptoIntegrity researchers published report, according to which 86% of transactions and 88% of the trading volume on cryptocurrency exchanges are created artificially.

Besides, at the end of last year, the Blockchain Transparency Institute published its annual report on trading volumes of stock exchanges, according to which only two of the TOP-25 sites do not overstate their trading volumes.

Apparently, these researches have influenced the decision of CoinMarketCap. The resource representatives tweeted:

“We listen to the feedback


This project was born out of the New York City English Research Group. It aims to further the study of New York City English (NYCE) — the varieties of English particular to New York City and the surrounding region — through the development and use of an innovative audio-aligned and parsed corpus of New Yorkers’ speech. The project combines recent advances in speech corpus development tools with the special talents and backgrounds of undergraduates at the City University of New York (CUNY), to create the first such corpus of New York City English (the CUNY-CoNYCE). The CUNY-CoNYCE is based on interviews with New Yorkers across the five boroughs and Long Island, conducted by CUNY undergraduates from Queens College, Lehman College (The Bronx), and the College of Staten Island.Why is 5 aside the future of sport investments?

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relevant to specific issues will be introduced when we take up those issues.

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From at least April 1987 to September 1989, Mr. Jewel and Mr. Jackson were involved in narcotics trafficking in Milwaukee.   One individual who often was involved in their dealings was Everett Pierce.   The appellants had known Pierce since childhood.   Pierce and Mr. Jackson began purchasing small quantities of cocaine from Mr. Jewel for resale in 1987.   Pierce later became a supplier for, rather than only a regular customer of, the appellants.   In 1989, Mr. Jackson contacted Pierce and asked him to find a source of cocaine for them.   Mr. Jewel and Mr. Jackson later asked Pierce to purchase cocaine for their younger brothers, RickyJewel and Michael Jackson.   That deal fell through because the younger brothers never showed up with the purchase money.   However, on three occasions in 1989, Pierce supplied a total of three kilograms of cocaine to Mr. Jackson.

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Meanwhile, in the spring of 1989, Pierce was arrested on drug charges and agreed to serve as a confidential informant for Milwaukee police officers.2  Pierce began to assist in the investigation of the narcotics activities of Mr. Jewel and Mr. Jackson, who were living in Atlanta at the time.   Under the supervision of Milwaukee Police Department Detective James Cesar and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Agent Jeanne Tasch, Pierce telephoned the appellants in Atlanta, purportedly to set up a cocaine purchase.   He then accompanied


Detective Cesar to Atlanta in early September and began working with DEA Agent Regina Bledsoe.   On September 11, 1989, Pierce and Agent Bledsoe met Mr. Jackson and a friend, Gilbert Lewis, at the Lion's Den bar.   Pierce told Mr. Jackson that he had brought $100,000 to Atlanta and hoped to buy five kilograms of cocaine.   Mr. Jackson indicated that he was leaving for Milwaukee the next day, but advised Pierce to contact Mr. Jewel.   Pierce and Agent Bledsoe met Mr. Jewel and Lewis the next day at Bucks Underground, another Atlanta bar.   Mr. Jewel told Pierce that he was out of cocaine but that he would try to arrange to have five kilograms flown from California to Milwaukee.

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Piercereturned to Milwaukee, and Mr. Jewel called Donnell Pickens, a California-based drug dealer, to inform him about the five-kilogram deal.3  Although Pickens was unable to obtain the entire amount, he flew to Milwaukee with approximately two kilograms of cocaine on September 20, 1989.   The next day, Pickens was arrested when he met Pierce to deliver the cocaine.   On September 26, Mr. Jewel and Mr. Jackson were arrested at separate locations in Atlanta.

B. District Court Proceedings

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On September 26, 1989, Mr. Jewel, Mr. Jackson, Ricky Jewel, and Pickens were named in a four-count indictment.   Count One charged them with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute in excess of five kilograms of cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846.   The


 Thus, under the Pinkerton doctrine, the jury properly could have convicted Mr. Jackson on both Counts Two and Three.

B. Challenges to Sentences

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The district court conducted a day-long sentencing proceeding on April 24, 1990.   The court determined that the base offense level for each defendant was 34.   After the government put on witnesses to support its contention that Mr. Jewel had threatened Everett Pierce twice in the days just after Pickens' Milwaukee arrest and just before Mr. Jewel's Atlanta arrest, the court enhanced Mr. Jewel's offense level two levels for obstruction of justice.   In addition, each defendant's offense level was enhanced two levels for his role in the offense and two levels for possession of a firearm, resulting in an adjusted offenseperson who was responsible for indictments that were going to, that were brought down.19  And he stated that at that time this person indicating to him that something could happen to him like happened to Porter Magee."   Sentencing Tr. at 29.   Magee had been murdered in early 1989.   Detective Cesar also testified that Pierce called him again on September 26 to report that he had received another call--this one from either Mr. Jewel or Mr. Jackson--threatening both Pierce and his attorney, John McNally.   According to Detective Cesar, Pierce also had told McNally about that second threat.   Less than one week later, on October 1, 1989, Pierce was shot at by Cleveland Jeans after Jeans accused Pierce of


Jackson in the beginning of his career as a confidential informant

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 Mr. Jewel and Mr. Jackson had been using Pickens as a supplier for some time.   In late 1987 and early 1988, they twice obtained one kilogram of cocaine from Pickens.   Pickens spent April 1988 to early June 1989 in jail on a parole violation.   Shortly thereafter, he again began transporting cocaine to Milwaukee.   Pickens made several trips from California to Milwaukee between July and September.   In Milwaukee, he supplied a total of five kilograms of cocaine to Mr. Jewel's brother Ricky.   According to Pickens, the negotiations regarding these sales involved Mr. Jewel

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 All citations to the guidelines are to the version in effect at theas tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached in his bag for a small gift.

Four blue pills. Viagra.

"Take one of these. You'll love it," the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.

The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes - followed by a request for more pills.

For U.S. intelligence officials, this is how some crucial battles in Afghanistan are fought and won. While the CIA has a long history of buying information with cash, the growing Taliban insurgency has prompted the use of novel incentives and creative bargaining to gain support in some of


the country's roughest neighborhoods, according to officials directly involved in such operations.

In their efforts to win over notoriously fickle warlords and chieftains, the officials say, the agency's operatives have used a variety of personal services. These include pocket knives and tools, medicine or surgeries for ailing family members, toys and school equipment, tooth extractions, travel visas and, occasionally, pharmaceutical enhancements for aging patriarchs with slumping libidos, the officials said.

"Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people - whether it's building a school or handing out Viagra," said one longtime agency operative and veteran of several Afghanistan tours. Like other field officers interviewed for the story, he spoke on the condition of anonymity when describing tactics and operations that are largely classified.

Officials say these inducements are necessary ina veteran of CIA covert operations in Afghanistan and now chief executive officer of SCG International, a private security and intelligence company. "Even if he doesn't get killed, he becomes ineffective as an informant because everyone knows where he got it."

The key, Smith said, is to meet the informant's personal needs in a way that keeps him firmly on your side but leaves little or no visible trace.

"You're trying to bridge a gap between people living in the 18th century and people coming in from the 21st century," Smith said, "so you look for those common things in the form of material aid that motivate people everywhere."

Among the world's intelligence agencies, there's a long tradition of using sex as a motivator. Robert Baer, a retired CIA officer and


performance drugs are generally unavailable in the remote areas where the agency's teams operated, they have been sold in some Kabul street markets since at least 2003, and were known by reputation elsewhere.

"You didn't hand it out to younger guys, but it could be a silver bullet to make connections to the older ones," said one retired operative familiar with the drug's use in Afghanistan. Afghan tribal leaders often had four wives - the maximum number allowed by the Quran - and aging village patriarchs were easily sold on the utility of a pill that could "put them back in an authoritative position," the official said.

Not everyone in Afghanistan's hinterlands had heard of the drug, leading to some awkward encounters when Americans delicately attempted to explain its effects,taking care not to offend their hosts' religious sensitivities.

Such was the case with the 60-year-old chieftain who received the four pills from a U.S. operative. According to the retired operative who was there, the man was a clan leader in southern Afghanistan who had been wary of Americans - neither supportive nor actively opposed. The man had extensive knowledge of the region, and his village controlled key passages through the area. U.S. forces needed his cooperation and worked hard to win it, the retired operative said.

After a long conversation through an interpreter, the retired operator began to probe for ways to win the man's loyalty. A discussion of the man's family and many wives provided inspiration. Once it was established that the man was in good health, the


Angeles, California.

5 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

6 Department of Medicine (Genetics Program), Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

7 Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas.

8 Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

9 Department of Neurological Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

10 Department of Behavioral Sciences, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

11 Civin Laboratory for Neuropathology, Banner Sun Health Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona.

12 The John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.

13 Dr. John T. Macdonald Foundation Department of Human Genetics, University of Miami, Miami, Florida.

14 National Alzheimer\'s Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

15 Rush Alzheimer\'s Disease Center, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

16 Department of Pathology, NorthwesternUniversity, Chicago, Illinois.

17 Department of Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

18 Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

19 Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

20 Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

21 Swedish Medical Center, Seattle, Washington.

22 Department of Neurology, University of California San Francisco, San Fransisco, California.

23 Department of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

24 Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

25 Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

26 Departments of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York.

27 Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

28 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

29 USF Health Byrd Alzheimer\'s Institute, University of South


Brigham and Women\'s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

42 Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

43 Department of Neurology, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California.

44 University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia.

45 Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.

46 Wien Center for Alzheimer\'s Disease and Memory Disorders, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, Florida.

47 Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.

48 Rush Institute for Healthy Aging, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

49 Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

50 Department of Neurology, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

51 Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York.

52 C.S. Kubik Laboratory for Neuropathology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts.

53 Department of Neurosciences, University of CaliforniaSan Diego, La Jolla, California.

54 Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

55 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

56 Emory Alzheimer\'s Disease Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

57 Neurogenetics Program, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

58 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

59 Department of Neurology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

60 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine and Partners Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine, Brigham and Women\'s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

61 Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

62 Center for Applied Genomics, Children\'s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

63 Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

64 Institute of Neurology, University College London, Queen Square, London.

65 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Department of Molecular and Biomedical Pharmacology,


University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

66 Taub Institute on Alzheimer\'s Disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York.

67 Department of Pathology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

68 Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

69 Department of Medicine (Medical Genetics), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

70 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Department Neurology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

71 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Davis, Sacramento, California.

72 University of Pittsburgh Alheimer\'s Disease Research Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

73 Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah.

74 Department of Neurology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

75 Department of Neurology, Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon.

76 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California.

77 Department of Neurology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

78 DepartmentFlorida.

92 Department of Pathology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California.

93 School of Nursing Northwest Research Group on Aging, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

94 Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer\'s Disease Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.

95 Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

96 Department of Neurology, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.

97 Department of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

98 Department of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

99 Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.

100 Arizona Alzheimer's Consortium, Phoenix, Arizona.

101 Banner Alzheimer\'s Institute, Phoenix, Arizona.

102 Department of Psychiatry, University of Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona.

103 Alzheimer\'s Disease Center, New York University, New York.

104 Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, New York.

105 Department of Neurology, Columbia University, New York.

106 Tanz Centre for Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, University of


Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

107 Department of Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas.

108 Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

109 Department of Pathology (Neuropathology), Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

110 Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

111 Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

112 Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

113 Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.

114 Taub Institute on Alzheimer\'s Disease and the Aging Brain, Department of Pathology, Columbia University, New York.

115 Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

116 Department of Pathology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.

117 Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, Department of Neurology, Miller School of Medicine, Universityof which is the newRock Band. It was unintentionally hinted at during GDC, and today, Harmonix officially announced that yes, there is going to be a Lego Rock Band. From the press release:

LEGO Rock Band combines the multiplayer music experience of Rock Band® with the fun, customization and humor of the LEGO videogame franchise packed with brilliant chart-topping songs and classic favorites suitable for younger audiences.

The second piece of news is the launch date for Tim Schafer’s Brutal Legend. Double Fine and company is going to turn October into Rocktober (nifty turn of the phrase there) with the release of the heavy metal-inspired adventure game. It’s going to roxors your soxors on Oct. 13.

And lastly, Danny will be happy to find out that Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10


Snapchat is not following the tech crowd.

Snap, the company behind the app, has picked London as its international headquarters instead of more traditional destinations for major U.S. tech firms including Ireland and Luxembourg.

The move is in keeping with Snap's identity: Its U.S. headquarters is located roughly 300 miles south of Silicon Valley in the colorful beach town of Venice, California.

"The U.K. is where our advertising clients are, where more than 10 million daily Snapchatters are, and where we've already begun to hire talent," said Claire Valoti, General Manager of Snap.

Snap said its U.K. arm will book revenue from sales in the U.K. and other countries where it has no local entity or sales team. The startup has only a few offices outside the U.S.: Paris, Sydney, Toronto andOdessa, Ukraine.

At 20%, the U.K. already has one of the lowest corporate tax rates in Europe. The government has hinted at cutting the rate even further in a bit to attract more businesses head of its departure from the European Union.

Ireland, meanwhile, has a 12.5% corporate tax rate. The international headquarters of Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), Twitter (TWTR) and LinkedIn are all located in the country.

While the U.K. is on its way out of the EU, Ireland will remain a member of the bloc.

Related: Snapchat files for its IPO

A huge chunk of Snapchat's European audience is in the U.K. The company said that one fifth of its daily active users in Europe are in Britain, and so are many of its biggest advertisers.

The company has more


anterosuperior (Gemini) cannula, and a 2.4-mm drill is used to drill a hole for the anchor at the 12-o'clock position of the lesion. A 3-mm Knotless SutureTak (Arthrex) is then inserted. Another anchor is placed at the trans-subscapularis metal cannula. A third anchor is placed at the 6-o'clock position of the lesion through the same cannula. The fourth and final anchor is placed at the 9-o'clock position of the lesion from the anterosuperior cannula. Each anchor has 3 suture strands that are then meticulously retrieved, brought out of the anterosuperior (Gemini) cannula, and kept separated. A needle is used to pass the FiberWire suture end (white) from the 12-o'clock anchor through the perforations of the graft with the corresponding 12-o'clock position. The free end of the FiberWire sutureICE believes are removable from the U.S. The groups go out daily to knock on doors and try to pick up their targets. They are allowed to knock anytime between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m., and they frequently start their work days before 6 a.m. so that they can be outside their first stop when the clock strikes six.

On a recent Wednesday morning, a squad of unmarked vehicles set out for Chula Vista to arrest three targets: a 23-year-old unauthorized immigrant from Mexico who overstayed his visa and was convicted in April for driving under the influence, a 61-year-old green card holder from Mexico with a conviction of spousal battery and a 55-year-old Cuban man who had been ordered deported due to several felony convictions.

The officers believed that


the first target lived with his parents, who had also overstayed their visas, and they intended to initiate court proceedings for the parents as well.

After arriving in the family’s neighborhood, some of the gray SUVs synchronized passes along the family’s street while others on the team stationed themselves around a corner, waiting to move in. A neighbor putting mail in a mailbox stared at the waiting cars before heading home.

At 6 a.m., all of the team’s cars converged on the family’s street. Another neighbor walking her dog in the early morning turned to watch before hurrying away.

Three officers walked to the front door while two more guarded the perimeter of the house, which had several cars and a basketball hoop in the driveway. The mother came to thewas at work.

Johnston said he expected that the man would turn himself in at the Federal Building to avoid having ICE officers come back to his house.

At 6:36 a.m., the officers were back on the road, heading to the third target’s apartment, which was above a shop. Those working inside peered warily out at the agents as they spanned the perimeter. Because the third target had a history of drug and weapon convictions, the officers were especially wary that this stop might be dangerous.

An employee for a neighboring business quickly turned around to go back behind his building when he came around the corner from the parking lot and saw the agents working.

The man, Emilio Sotomayor, came peacefully, leaving his partner and their two sons in the house.

Depending


you would get some peace, then you must go to Honolulu, the capital of the state of Hawaii spread through the Southeastern shores of Hawaii.

The “vibrant epicenter” of Hawaii boasts of some of the best spots for snorkeling, where one can get into the deep waters, and enjoy the beauty of marine biodiversity.

Where Do We Snorkel In Honolulu?

If you love snorkeling, Honolulu has many places you can go. Following are the best places in Honolulu where you could snorkel and have an amazing experience:

1. Hanauma Bay:

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side of the football. It is an entirely different world
because he now has the ears of the entire
team. He is the man who sets the tone for everything going forward.

Initial observations from listening to Kitchens indicate he
will be a players’ coach. Instead of separating himself from the players in a somewhat
aloof manner, he genuinely cares about them on a personal basis.

The NFL head coaching landscape is dotted with coaches who
prefer their relationships with the players to be strictly on a coach-player
plane, a business basis. Kitchens is too down home to bend in that direction.

I get the impression he believes his success will be
determined on how close he gets to the players, planting seeds in an effort to
get them to play that much harder for him because they reallythe second half of the 2019 season, it’s time for Browns
General Manager John Dorsey to stop shopping Duke Johnson Jr.

There is no logical reason to continue to solicit any kind
of activity that would land the versatile running back/wide receiver on the
roster of another National Football League team.

Besides, there is no guarantee Hunt, who received an
eight-game suspension by the NFL Friday and will be a restricted free agent at
the end of this season, will return to the Browns for the 2020 season.

The Browns rescued the Willoughby native after the Kansas
City Chiefs cut him late last season following violations of the league’s
personal conduct policy. He obviously is grateful, the Browns signed him, but
in the business world, that goes just so far.

Unless Dorsey, who drafted Hunt as the Chiefs’ general
manager, can


stunning the NFL – and the entire sports world, for
that matter – by trading for New York Giants superstar wide receiver Odell
Beckham Jr, Tuesday, it turned out the audacious Dorsey clearly was playing his
cards close to the vest.

When the blockbuster news arrived shortly before 8 o’clock
Tuesday night that the Browns had shipped their first-round pick and the lower
of two third-round choices in next month’s college draft and safety Jabrill Peppers
to the Giants for the peerless Beckham, it shook the NFL Universe to its core.

The future is clearly bright now in Berea and Dorsey, even
more clearly, is as all in as a poker player sitting with a straight flush and
equally straight face.

His aim is higher, a whole lot higher, than the AFC North
championship, which seemed like an achievement justa few short months ago. The
championship thoughts now coursing through his mind are much closer to the Super
Bowl.

All of which makes the almost-miraculous transformation of this
franchise in the last 15 months, or since Dorsey took charge, as remarkable as
any in recent NFL memory.

This franchise was setting numerous records for futility as
recently as a couple of years ago. They became only the second team in league
history to lose all 16 games in one season (2017) and won only once in 32 games
in consecutive campaigns.

The Cleveland Browns were an embarrassment to the league, wandering
aimlessly. Finishing in the basement was an annual event. Fans jumped off the
bandwagon in droves.

Then along came Dorsey, who keeps topping himself, with a
simple objective. Change the culture. He methodically dismantled half the roster
he inherited and went


Beckham, who has
averaged 93 yards a game and scored 44 touchdowns in five seasons, legitimizes
a Cleveland offense that flirted with being one of the most dangerous in the
league in the second half of last season. Some national media observers are
calling the Browns “scary good.”

Keeping the mercurial Beckham happy in his new environment
should not be a problem, Besides rejoining his former Louisiana State teammate
Landry, he also will be coached by Adam Henry, their position coach at LSU.

The domino effect on offense should be felt almost
immediately and serve as a supreme challenge to the creative minds of new head
coach Freddie Kitchens and offensive coordinator Todd Monken.

The mind boggles at what these guys can do with the talents
of Mayfield, Beckham, Landry, Antonio Callaway, Njoku, Chubb, Hunt, etc. There
is so much talentof a return to the glory days of this once-proud
franchise dance around.

Fans who have stuck around and been patient through the last
two decades despite all the losing will now be rewarded for their patience and
loyalty with the kind of football team they expected when the NFL allowed it to
return in 1999 after an undeserved three-year absence.

Bottom line: OBJ in Cleveland is one of the most joyous OMG
moments in not just Cleveland Browns history, but Cleveland sports history,
ranking right up there with the LeBron James era. Two transcendent,
generational athletes performing for the great sports fans of Cleveland.

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Defensive line sports new look

John Dorsey, the mad scientist of Berea, emerged from his
underground laboratory Tuesday with yet another piece of the puzzle along the
Browns’ defensive line.

In agreeing with defensive


tackle Sheldon Richardson on a
three-year, $39 million contract, which will be announced officially Wednesday,
Dorsey all but assured the 2019 revamped defensive line will look nothing like
the one that performed in 2018, especially from a quality standpoint.

With newly-acquired Olivier Vernon partnering with Myles
Garrett on the edges and Richardson lining up next to Larry Ogunjobi, journeys
deep into to the offensive backfields of opponents should ostensibly become
much more frequent and productive.

The question, however, is what Sheldon Richardson have the
Browns signed? The one who played defensive end so well for four seasons with
the New York Jets? Or the one whose production fell off after being switched to
tackle the last two seasons in Seattle and Minnesota?

Does he still have the skills that earned him defensive
Rookie-of-the-Year honors in the National Football League? Or havethe Cleveland general manager attempt to strengthen the
depth there.

Enough skill players taken early in the draft should push a
high quality defensive lineman or two down to the Browns’ slot at No. 17.
Unless, of course, Dorsey feels the need to move up and grab someone he has
identified as a must-get.

The two latest moves, in addition to the continuing growth
of second-year hybrid linebacker Genard Avery, relegate second-year
disappointment Trevon Coley to a situational role inside and seriously jeopardize
Emmanuel Ogbah’s stay in Cleveland.

It will also give new defensive coordinator Steve Wilks and
his staff a chance to unlock the mystery of why Chad Thomas, a third-round draft
pick last year, all but disappeared during the season and contributed less than
zero.

The 67th overall selection in the lottery should
not become a cipher in the grand scheme


of things with a professional football
team. His team biography says he is “a working music producer when not playing
football and produced tracks for (several) recording artists.” The Browns need
him to produce . . . on a football field.

***

One less concern on offense: Breshad Perriman somewhat
surprisingly signed a one-year, $4 million contract Tuesday, 24 hours before
his contract would have expired.

The former first-round draft choice by Baltimore, whose
career took off with the Browns last season after three disappointing seasons
with the Ravens, was rumored to be using last season’s success as a reason to
test free agency.

It is being labeled a prove-it signing, as in prove last
season – the speedy wide receiver caught 16 passes for 340 yards and a pair of
touchdowns in 10 games – was no fluke and further successMarch 9, 2019

Catching up . . . again

Let’s start with the fresh stuff and work back to recent
events that have aged the last few weeks.

THE TRADE

John Dorsey arrived in Cleveland about 16 months ago with
the reputation of getting things done in a hurry.

It took him less than one season to overhaul the roster of
the National Football League’s most moribund franchise and emerge with what can
arguably be called the most surprising record in the league last season.

The fact that he labeled it unsatisfactory – it all depends
on your perspective – was a clear signal it will not be any different this
season.

Sending guard Kevin Zeitler, the club’s best offensive
lineman the last two seasons and one of the best in the NFL overall, to the New
York Giants for defensive end Olivier


Peroneal nerve palsy: the role of early electromyography.
Footdrop is rare in the newborn period. In this report, the clinical and electrophysiological features of a newborn whose peroneal neuropathy was detected in the delivery room is presented. Her first electrophysiological examination, at the 13th hour of life, revealed a peroneal nerve lesion. All findings elicited in this and subsequent examinations suggested an antenatal onset. Clinical recovery began within weeks of the birth and she was able to walk, with no residual neurological abnormality, by her first birthday. Early electrophysiological examination of a newborn with peripheral neuropathy may provide valuable information about the time of onset and pathophysiological features of the nerve lesion. In spite of the early electromyogram findings revealing severe nerve injury, a good prognosis is possible inShe consistently refused preventative services from October

2004 until January 2005. J.T. was placed in foster care in January 2005.

       Thereafter, HDSS and Bailey conferred on an almost daily basis because J.T. was in

foster care and Bailey had requested help finding a new home. Around this time, Bailey called

HDSS regarding another of her children, D.T. She had been forced to call the police several

times about D.T., she said, because he was getting into trouble in school and staying out all

night. But when HDSS offered its services to help Bailey with D.T., she refused. She told the

social worker that it would not do any good; there was nothing that could be done.

       Also during the time J.T. was


in foster care, HDSS received a complaint that Bailey’s

six-year-old son, T.M., was wandering the neighborhood unsupervised. When a social worker

arrived at her home, Bailey yelled for T.M. but could not locate him. A friend of Bailey’s later

found him on the far side of a busy street. In response to this incident, HDSS had Bailey sign a

safety plan requiring her to know where her children were when they were not at home. During

the Family Needs Assessment, HDSS once again offered Bailey services to help her with her

children, but she refused.

       HDSS offered Bailey a psychological evaluation, which she willingly completed. Dr.

Anderson, the evaluating psychologist, testified that Bailey “basically rated herself as unable to

handle child rearing responsibilities.” He described her as a narcissistic andstatute.” Harrison, 42 Va. App. at 164, 590 S.E.2d at 583.

       Bailey refused many of the services offered by HDSS both before and after T.M.’s

removal. She repeatedly told caseworkers that all she needed was help finding a different

apartment, which they helped her to accomplish. During this period, the social worker and

Bailey spoke almost daily. HDSS helped Bailey find new housing by discussing options and

transporting her to fill out applications. Bailey refused in-home services both when J.T. was

removed from the home and again when D.T. was in danger of removal from the home. She was

offered, and attended, a parenting class. She told social services that she was receiving mental

health counseling from another agency. She received a psychological evaluation from Dr.

Anderson and refused HDSS’s


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  VIII. Dona Marina                                             sweet apple, but I never let him have it inside his cage, but made
him come to me for it. I kept a piece in a little dish on my table, and
he soon found out where it was, and would help himself on the sly. I
also kept on my table, in a little china cup, some hemp seed, which I
gave to Tricksey as a great treat. Every time I would tap on the cup and
make it ring, Tricksey would come out of his cage, down from a
picture-frame, or wherever he was, for a seed.

One day he had had his one hemp seed, and teased for more, but I said,
“No,” and he went flying about the room, having a fine time. Soon he
flew back on the table, hopped over to


them
through the bars. Then she would hang with one claw caught on the top of
the cage and go through all sorts of performances. I had a box which
rested on a low table, divided off into two compartments, one filled
with gravel and the other with food. In the centre of one side was part
of a broomstick, with any number of perches all sizes on it, and a
platform over the other side where a brass cage stood. The box and
perches, being painted light green, made a pretty sight when the perches
were filled with many birds of different size and colour. There was a
platform that rested on the window-sill, where Teddy, the pigeon, liked
best to stay. He would walk back and forth or sit there most of the day,
looking out ofwhich took a great deal
of time, nervous strength, and patience, but with it all we derived a
great deal of pleasure, and the birds seemed to thoroughly enjoy being
naughty.

               [Illustration: BLONDE    BOBBY    BLONDELL
                               BOBBINETTE
                               BRUNETTE]

Just at this time a young Italian came to town, fresh from a school of
photography,


The United States government cannot be trusted so long as Donald Trump runs it.

That is the simple, chilling takeaway of James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is separate from the legal question of whether Trump obstructed justice, or the political question of whether congressional Republicans care even if he did.

The picture Comey paints of Trump is also, importantly, the picture Trump paints of himself: He is a man who lies constantly, who values loyalty over integrity, who has little understanding of nor respect for the values and restraints that people in power impose on themselves to keep from misusing their positions, and who intends to use both his powers of hiring and firing to stock the government with people who will serve him first and(@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 8, 2017

Here is another way to understand this story. James Comey was the director of the FBI. He was elevated to that position precisely because he had proven himself unusually able to resist political intimidation. As director of the FBI, he had a 10-year term designed to grant him independence, he led an agency with a proud culture of resisting outside interference, and he was exposed, daily, to the most unnerving secrets and profound threats that face the country.

In other words, Comey was, for reasons both of personality and position, one of the hardest civil servants to intimidate. But when trapped in a room with the president of the United States, and when his job and all the good he believed he could do in it


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The Crooks' journal indicates that Susan's father was part of a traveling group of ten family members. It is assumed that Susan was part of that group. Her autobiography confirms that she and her family traveled in 1851, as well as her birth date. She is first documented in Utah with the birth of her daughter Emma Seraphine on 12 August 1853 as recorded in the Iron County mission records.

The spelling of her given name is confirmed by her patriarchal blessing.


Anurag Kashyap was asked to appear before the Service Tax Department on August 22, but he failed to do so and instead, sent his representatives to deal with the matter. (IE Photo)

Here is yet another filmmaker who landed in trouble with the Service Tax Department after Samir Karnik. Anurag Kashyap is the next on the list for service tax evasion. News is that, the filmmaker will now have to return to Mumbai, leaving the shoot of his upcoming film Bombay Velvet in Sri Lanka by September 3.

Apparently, a team from the Service Tax Department carried out an investigation at the filmmaker's Yari road office in Mumbai in August and later charged him guilty for service tax evasion of Rs. 55 lakh. Based on this, the director/producer was askedThe call from the White House was not unexpected. Back in New Jersey for the August recess, Sen. Robert Menendez answered the phone Thursday evening, fully expecting to learn final details of President Obama's plan for attacking Syria.

The Democratic senator, a social liberal with foreign policy views that border on the hawkish, is in his rookie season as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. The Syria chemical-weapons crisis would mark Menendez's first moment front-and-center on the international stage as leader of the critical Senate panel.

It was to be a chance for the backroom brawler from the city streets of North Jersey to finally step out of the shadow of his predecessors, John Kerry (now secretary of state) and Joe Biden (now vice president) -- and to prove to


his critics he deserved his coveted spot.

That Thursday phone call was not unexpected. But it did offer a surprise. A huge surprise. Instead of hearing strike details, Menendez listened as the president explained he was thinking of altering course and holding off on an attack so he could secure congressional approval for military action.

Never a fan of Obama or his laid-back style, which the administration described during the build-up to effort to depose Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi as "leading from behind," Menendez was now on the verge of becoming the unlikely go-to guy for a White House quickly bleeding support and credibility.

Less than two days later, Obama went to the Rose Garden to make official his plan to go to Capitol Hill. With that, the president put MenendezFamily structure and children's health in the United States: findings from the National Health Interview Survey, 2001-2007.
This report presents statistics from the 2001-2007 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) on selected measures of physical health and limitations, access to or utilization of health care, and behavior or emotional well-being for children under age 18 by family structure, sex, age, race, Hispanic origin, parent's education, family income, poverty status, home tenure status, health insurance coverage, place of residence, and region. NHIS is a multistage probability sample survey conducted annually by interviewers of the U.S. Census Bureau for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, and is representative of the civilian noninstitutionalized population of the United States. Information about one randomly selected child per family is


Lucy’s life by the pond has always been full. She has water and friends, laughter and the love of her adoptive mother, Lynn, who has made sure that Lucy’s childhood was very different from her own. Yet it seems Lucy’s future is settled already—a house, a man, children, and a water source—and anything beyond their life by the pond is beyond reach.

When disease burns through their community, the once life-saving water of the pond might be the source of what’s killing them now. Rumors of desalinization plants in California have lingered in Lynn’s mind, and the prospect of a “normal” life for Lucy sets the two of them on an epic journey west to face new dangers: hunger, mountains, deserts, betrayal, and the perils of a world sowater day and night from scavengers, wild critters, and desperate humans. The pair are honed for survival, spending hours on the roof of their home with their weapons, fighting to protect their land, every second of every day. In a world where water has dried up, economies have collapsed, and civilization is a crumbling, ruined memory, a freshwater pond is the most valuable commodity that blood can buy. Lynn is a hardened young woman, whose will to live is tempered steel and cutting resolve; she knows what she has to do in order to protect what she cares about. In this second book, Lynn is an older woman of nearly thirty, who has adopted young Lucy – now a teenager – as her own daughter. Lucy, as a


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4 : a duo of awesomely badass book nerdsThe Portland Timbers' search for a big-money striker this offseason was very public, though ultimately an exploration that led to no official discoveries (yet).

Meanwhile, the club's two incumbent strikers are looking to convince the front office that they need not pursue exterior options, that the goals the club craves can be found in-house.

Regardless of how the last six weeks of the primary transfer window shape up, in the interim the pair have provided a bit of a conundrum for head coach Gio Savarese's preferred one-striker setup: Jeremy Ebobisse or Lucas Melano?

At the beginning of 2019, after returning from the US national team's January camp, Ebobisse started the club's first two matches, scoring once. In the team's latest match, a 3-0 loss to FC Cincinnati, it was Melano up


the case in soccer: They also fill different roles in the team. Melano is eager to get in behind, stretching defenses to provide more space between the lines for star midfielders Diego Valeri and Sebastian Blanco while giving the club another direct dimension when breaking on the counter. Ebobisse is asked to play more of a target striker role, linking play and occupying central defenders.

Importantly, Ebobisse is a developing 22-year-old US international without a meaningful enough sample size in MLS to draw concrete conclusions. His regular-season career spans just nine starts, with four goals and five assists in 956 minutes.

Meanwhile, Melano has had longer to make his mark in the league, as the 26-year-old has accrued 3,216 minutes in 54 appearances (37 starts). In that time he's scoredas all three are Argentinian.

Savarese's solution is likely not to be binary, if using the first three matches of the season as example. Ebobisse started the first two and Melano the third, despite the fixture list remaining very manageable, with midweek matches yet to come.

As long as that mystery striker hasn't yet walked through the door, both Ebobisse and Melano have the chance to stake claims to regular playing time. It continues Sunday against the Galaxy, as the Timbers look to pick up their first win of 2019.


great couple. She was originally from Bermuda and he was from Jamaica. Kim was great. A wonderful personality and stunningly gorgeous skin. (I’ll post a couple bridal shots at a later date as I haven’t finished them yet) The ceremony was small (and fast) with family and just a handful of friends. It was a quick 20 minute ceremony. It seemed like I blinked and it was over. After the formals I ventured to a small street with bride and groom that had a view of one of the towers of the Brooklyn Bridge. Kim and Alton wanted to get some shots with the bridge in the background. I readily agreed since I wasn’t familiar with the area and didn’t get anytime to scout things out and ita couple that’s into making beautiful images and beautiful venue.

On the 23rd of November I did a wedding for Corey at Faymus Media. It was the wedding of Jessica and Julian Reyes and it was held in New Rochelle at the Davenport Club. It was a cold, windy day so we didn’t get outside except for about 5 or 6 frames before everyone was too cold to continue. A beautiful late 19th century mansion the Davenport club is very nicely set-up for weddings. With an intimate area for the ceremony and very nice reception area replete with bar and dining area. The ceremony area was a little tight but was beautifully appointed. The reception area was large and three walls of windows looking out on to the bay.


'Endless' pipe seen for oil, gas industry

Conception of how Ehsani's mobile pipe-laying truck could create a pipeline of virtually infinite length. Credit: Graphics by Reynard Perrin and Joerg Schmit.

TUCSON, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Aerospace materials and a process to make endless pipelines for the oil and gas industry could transform pipeline construction, a U.S. researcher says.

Civil engineering Professor Mo Ehsani of the University of Arizona has designed pipeline that, rather than the conventional concrete or steel, uses a central layer of lightweight plastic honeycomb, similar to that used in the aerospace industry, sandwiched between layers of resin-saturated carbon fiber fabric.

And whereas concrete and steel pipes must be built in short sections to fit on standard 18-wheel trucks for transport to construction sites, Ehsani's says his new pipe canUN fears 200 died in coalition air strikes on Mosul Published duration 25 March 2017

media caption Thousands of civilians flee Mosul fearing being caught up in airstrikes

The United Nations has raised grave concerns about reports of high civilian casualties in the Iraqi city of Mosul.

A senior UN official in Iraq said she was stunned by accounts of "terrible loss of life", after claims that at least 200 people had been killed in air strikes by the US-led coalition.

US warplanes are supporting the Iraqi army's mission to retake Mosul from the Islamic State (IS).

The Kurdish news website, Rudaw, quoted its correspondent on 23 March as saying at least 200 people, mainly civilians but possibly also IS members, were killed.

It reported more than one air strike in the western Jadideh


neighbourhood, killing 130 people in one house and 100 in another.

The exact timing of the strikes and the numbers of casualties have yet to be confirmed.

Reporters in Jadideh said they saw 50 bodies being pulled out of buildings on Friday, after they were razed in air attacks earlier in March.

The New York Times quoted US military officials saying the coalition was investigating reports of civilian deaths from a strike between 17-23 March.

Colonel Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for the US-led command in Baghdad, said that "the coalition has opened a formal civilian casualty credibility assessment on this allegation" from Mosul.

"This process takes time, though, especially when the date of the alleged strike is in question," he said.

image copyright AP image caption Residents carry the bodies of people killed inMosul's Jadideh neighbourhood

Iraqi forces have been waging a months-long offensive to recapture Mosul, the last IS stronghold in Iraq, which has been occupied since 2014.

The UN estimates that 400,000 Iraqi civilians are trapped in the Old City of Mosul as government forces battle to recapture it.

More than 180,000 civilians have fled the west of the city in the past month, amid fears that an additional 320,000 may follow in the coming weeks.

Residents who have managed to flee say the militants are using civilians as human shields, hiding in houses and forcing young men to fight.


Environment ministers overcame seven years of obstacles today and committed to reducing the world's mercury pollution.

In a sign of America's return to a global leadership role, United Nations environment ministers meeting in Nairobi agreed to take immediate steps to limit exposure to mercury.

The White House said it would press hard for a legally binding treaty when negotiations get under way later this year.

"The United States will play a leading role in working with other nations to craft a global, legally binding agreement that will prevent the spread of mercury into the environment," said Nancy Sutley, chair of the White House council on environmental quality.

The Bush administration had blocked international efforts to limit mercury - although such protections are in place in America.

Mercury, which can travel thousands of milesfrom its original source, damages the central nervous system, and is especially dangerous to pregnant women and babies.

The treaty will include measures to reduce the supply of mercury and its use in products, such as thermomenters, and processes, like paper making. It will also seek to cut back on mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants, which are responsible for about half of the world's mercury pollution.

The new-found consensus in Nairobi, which saw the US, India and China lifting their resistance to a binding global mercury treaty, raised hopes for progress later this year at the crucial UN meeting in Copenhagen on an international climate change deal.

"There was a seismic shift from the American government from its previous position," said Nick Nuttall, the spokesman for the UN environment programme.


"It was clear from the beginning of this week that the US negotiators had been given a clear line from Washington, and indeed the White House, to come together with the rest of the world and do something."

"The US has taken a leadership role that will chart a new course on mercury protections around the world. We have set a strong example that is already influencing others to do the same," said Susan Egan Keane, an analyst at the US National Resources Defence Council.

Barack Obama had earlier taken a number of steps at home to break with the George Bush legacy on the environment - most notably restoring the power of government agencies to regulate carbon dioxide from power plants.

The strong push from the US side in Nairobithis week evidently helped wear down resistance from governments such as China and India. China is heavily dependent on coal-fired power plants, while Indian manufacturers still use many processes that depend on the metal.

The eight-point plan agreed on Friday calls for reduction in mercury emissions from power plants, and in its use in thermometers and other household products, as well as in plastics production and paper-making. It would cut down on the use of mercury in gold panning, a process that results in huge quantities of the heavy metal being washed into streams.

Mercury is a naturally occurring element, but pollution has caused levels to rise sharply in many fish species, increasing the danger to humans that eat them.

"Today the world's environment ministers, armed with the full facts and


A good horror game succeeds in making you feel like you're completely alone... with the exception of some sort of big supernatural or undead evil potentially lurking around every corner. Moons of Madness from Rock Pocket Games and published by Funcom is bent on doing just that. And judging from what I played of the game at E3, the foundations for a solid first-person supernatural horror game are definitely in place.

It's Lonely in Space

In Moons of Madness, you play as a low-level clearance technician who's posted at a base on Mars. While the job is simple — make sure all the base's systems are running smoothly — you soon begin to encounter strange occurrences inside the ship. Lights begin to flicker and ultimately shut down. Greenhouse areas becomeflashlight, which meant I couldn't really see anything other than what was directly in front of me. There were times when I'd be walking down a long hall, only to turn and see the silhouette of a creepy, long-haired woman with a slender figure and creepy posture — think Diana in the movie Lights Out.

Rather than rushing me, though, the creature ran off. Naturally I followed her, but I found nothing when I turned another corner. I expected a jump scare right then and there, but surprisingly, there was nothing, thus more tension built. I continued to explore until I found the woman sitting in a chair, with her back to me. I approached her slowly, and turned the chair, only to witness a grotesque face on the