The Wheel were asked to support Oasis on several dates across their 'Dig Out Your Soul' tour. Noel and Liam were very impressed by the trio and Twisted Wheel successfully wrote themselves into Oasis history. It's 2018 and Johnny Brown is determined to make a success of the band and I for one am right behind him. We Are Scientists come to town with their back catalogue of Indie hits which everyone knows at least one of! They're sure to play a stellar live set which will be a great end to the festival. Another headliner come in the form of The Lightning Seeds, the 90's favourites have plenty of tunes in their locker including 'The Life of Riley' and the well-known England singalong 'Three Lions'. With theWorld Cup quickly approaching I'm sure many will partake in an alcohol fulled singalong for this tune.

The Spitfires return to Stockton for the first time since 2015 when they last appeared at the festival. The band have two strong albums behind them in the form of 2015's 'Response' and 2016's 'A Thousand Times'. Both albums have been very well received and have gained the lads several new followers with every chord played. Frontman Billy Sullivan is constantly progressing and moving forward and is becoming one of the best young songwriters of his generation. The Spitfires bring 2018 to your ears with verses of social commentary, tales of broken Tory Britain and infectious ska, dub beats. With an added brass section the band's sound has grown massively and they're


and sounds as fresh then as it did now. 'Distance Runner' , 'Operation Margarine' are just two tracks to listen out for, they're sure to impress any new head who happens to be in the Georgian when they're on. Scottish boys Vida return to Teesside since their support slot with The Sherlocks in Feb 2017. These lads are a band on the rise and they proved back in Feb 17 to Teesside's finest that they were as good as if not better than the 'headliner'. Frontman Jamie Pollock is proving himself as one of the best, young Scottish songwriters out there at the moment in a time when Scottish bands are on the rise again. Sunderland's best music outlet at the moment come in the form of 'SocialRoom' who's huge indie guitar anthems grab the listener and transport you back to a time when frontmen who didn't play guitar were all the rage. Matt and the boys have some big tunes and are determined to make 2018 a success.

Alongside all the talent that's travelling from far and wide there's the usual host of local bands on the bill. Cape Cub, Tom Joshua and Dylan Cartlidge are just a few of the many who are worth a mention. Saturday 31st March 2018, a day of great tunes, beers with mates and a warm, loud atmosphere from some of Teesside's finest. Be there yeah!?


                FIELDS   v. MSPB

DC, for respondent. With her on the brief was BRYAN G.
POLISUK, General Counsel.

    KATY M. BARTELMA, Trial Attorney, Civil Division,
Commercial Litigation Branch, United States Department
of Justice, of Washington, DC, for intervenor. With her on
the brief were STUART F. DELERY, Assistant Attorney
General, JEANNE E. DAVIDSON, Director, and PATRICIA M.
MCCARTHY, Assistant Director.
                  ______________________

    Before MOORE, CLEVENGER, and REYNA, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM.
    Keith A. Fields appeals from the decision of the Merit
Systems Protection Board (Board) dismissing his appeal
of a constructive suspension claim for lack ofHarmful levels of long-banned chemicals, including the pesticide DDT, have been found in the tissues of two vulnerable dolphin species swimming in waters flowing into the Great Barrier Reef.

Scientists found levels of the chemicals in the tissues of snubfin dolphins and humpback dolphins had tripled and, in some cases, risen even higher between 2010 and 2015.

One tissue sample taken from a female humpback dolphin had concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) – banned in Australia since 1975 – that were among the highest recorded in the scientific literature.

Scientists at Flinders University and Southern Cross University examined levels of PCBs, DDT and hexachlorobenzene (HCB) in the tissues of dolphins in 2009 and 2010, and then took samples again between 2014 and 2016. They published the results in the journal Ecological


Australia, and is listed in Queensland as vulnerable. There were 18 samples from snubfin dolphins analysed for the three pollutants, all taken at the Fitzroy River estuary.

Humpback dolphins are also listed as vulnerable in Queensland. There were six samples analysed from the Fitzroy River and 11 from Port Curtis.

A 2015 sample from one female humpback dolphin from the Fitzroy River estuary had concentrations of PCBs among the highest ever recorded in the scientific literature.

While the study was not designed to find a cause, researchers wrote that flooding in the regions and nearby port developments were likely to be behind the rising levels of contaminants.

Associate Prof Guido Parra, a co-author of the study at Flinders University, said the build-up of contaminants “could have implications on the long-term survival ofentire dolphin populations in Queensland”.

He said the threat from the chemicals added to existing problems faced by dolphins, including climate change, habitat destruction, underwater noise and fishing bycatch.

Tooni Mahto, the threatened species campaign manager at the Australian Marine Conservation Society, said: “These dolphins are a unique and vulnerable species and they exist in very small populations. They need protecting.

“These animals are still paying the price of these chemicals that we stopped using almost half a century ago. They are silent killers in the water.”

Dr Liesbeth Weijs, of the Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University, who was not involved in the study, said the results were indicative of findings around the world. Her own work had found the same rising levels of contaminants in dolphins in South Australia.

She said


Review: Richard and Alice

The best works of Science Fiction are far reaching and explore the global and personal costs of a global catastrophe, alien attack or any other subject that falls under this genre. It This doesn’t just happen in books, but video games as well.

Richard and Alice, a game developed by Ashton Raze and Lewis Denby at Owl Cave Games, is a work of science fiction that explores its subject with a visceral and human touch. It explores a world beset by a relentless onslaught of snow. It’s an apocalypse wrought by an endless winter that wears society down to its nubs. Richard and Alice are part of the fortunate (or unfortunate depending on your perspective) to survive. the characters used to reveal the consequences of thisThere are so many titles in my library at paint a fantastic world and explore a cool story, yet fail to deliver a compelling or interesting characters. Richard and Alice for delivering on both accounts with subtlety and and depth that had me viewing the world and myself a bit differently after finishing it.

About The Author

Jose is a straight shooter who always goes the paragon route. He joined the team at Indie Haven to spread the word about indie games all across the galaxy. When not aboard the Normandy, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area playing video games and plotting ways to rid the world of games like Colonial Marines.


Roberto Martinez believes Gareth Barry is a "perfect fit" for Everton as he tries to sign the midfielder on a permanent deal.

Barry spent last season on loan at Goodison Park and made 37 appearances in all competitions as they finished fifth in the Premier League.

The midfielder is out-of-contract with parent club Manchester City, and is set for talks with the Toffees in the coming days, sources have told ESPN.

Martinez was prepared to sign Barry permanently in January as part of an attempt to bring former Evertonian Jack Rodwell back to the club on loan from City.

That was the proposed solution to getting round a rule that prevents more than one player from one Premier League club being on loan to another at the same time.

But when the moveThe new one, Valkyrie, "unleashes the full power of Mercy's Valkyrie suit" by buffing her weapon and each of her abilities in different ways; among these, she gains the ability to fly freely with Hover. Resurrect goes from being an Ultimate to a standard ability, and it can only target a single deceased ally, rather than all teammates near her.

"While resurrecting downed allies is a core part of Mercy's gameplay, the way her Ultimate functioned was causing a number of problems," Blizzard said. "It was frustrating to play against, and it incentivized Mercy players to hide away from important battles, instead of taking part in them. This version turns Resurrect into a single target ability. It's still an important part of Mercy's kit, but plays much better for


January 2014

How One Planner Performed Reconstructive Surgery On A Meeting

Planner Tina Squillante took a standard classroom-style medical meeting and, by applying lessons she learned at PCMA Convening Leaders, blew it out of the water. This is how she did it.

It's not easy to change a meeting that's been done the same way for many years — much less a learning paradigm that's been in place since the 13th century. That's how long we've been putting learners in rooms, seated in rows and columns, with the expert up at the front, bestowing knowledge, Lennie Scott-Webber, director of education environments at Steelcase Inc., said during a breakout session at PCMA Convening Leaders 2013 in Orlando last January. We're so conditioned to expect the traditional kind of learning environment, Scott-Webber said,by interacting, rather than by just reading information, and [if they learn more] by having more engagement and conversation, either with a co-attendee or by being able to speak with the speaker more freely, then I want to give them that opportunity.”

Those two themes — how interactivity improves learning, and the impact that environment has on learning behavior — kept repeating themselves during Convening Leaders 2013. And as ideas accumulated, a vision for radically changing an upcoming meeting took shape in Squillante's mind.

At the time, the 2013 winter meeting of the American Society of Transplantation (AST), a longtime Association Headquarters client whose members include transplant physicians, surgeons, and scientists, was almost exactly one month away. Over the years, Squillante had tried to change up the programming for the


said. “They wouldn't feel comfortable.” She instead proposed a modified plan for CEOT: putting attendees on three sides of the stage, with the speaker in the center.

And although she wanted to use a round stage like the one at Greenbuild, a custom stage wasn't in her budget. In fact, her budget pretty much limited her to using the existing rectangular risers at the meeting hotel, the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass Resort & Spa, in Chandler, Ariz.

It was a challenge that Squillante solved — ingeniously — by using the risers to create a diamond-shaped stage, which was pushed away from the back wall and extended out into the audience. Configuring the stage on a diagonal “allowed me to put seating on two sides as well as the front,” SquillanteTwo people were killed, two others injured in shooting in Miami. (Source: CBS4)

NORTHWEST MIAMI-DADE (CBSMiami) – Two people were killed, two others injured, in a shooting in northwest Miami-Dade.

One of the victim’s who was fatally shot has been identified by police as Tyquavious Charles, 21. The second person killed was in his 30s but has yet to be named.

Police confirm that Tashia Burse was the woman who was grazed in the head. Her condition has stabilized. A fourth person who police identify as Ricky Hudson, 27, is in critical condition as a result of the shooting.

It happened at NW 61st Street and 19th Avenue at 10:23 p.m. Sunday.

When police arrived they found four people had been shot. Two of them were pronounced dead on the scene. Burse and


approved by parliament. Refusals to do so are extremely rare. President Grimsson, who is now serving a fourth term in the office he has held since 1996, last did so in 2004 when he refused to approve a new media law. In the last few days, the president had said he needed more time to come to a final decision on the repayment bill, which had passed through parliament last Wednesday with a slim 33-30 majority. The government had reached a deal with Britain and the Netherlands in June to repay the lost savings, but it required parliamentary approval. On Dec. 31, 52,000 Icelanders presented him with a petition protesting the law. By Tuesday afternoon, that number had grown to 62,282, representing close to a quarter of theDrew and Janet Richardson sold their house and bought two condominiums: One for them, and one for their cars.

The empty-nesters wanted their six-car garage but not the four-bedroom house connected to it.

"We decided to downsize the house but not the garage," he said.

They moved their British sports cars to the AutoMotorPlex, a Chanhassen complex that is the only one of its kind between Chicago and Los Angeles. The deluxe garage condominiums serve as the ultimate man cave after being outfitted with the likes of 80-inch flat-screen TVs, full kitchens, plush living rooms and even basketball courts for the kids to play on while Dad tinkers with a timing belt.

Most of the owners, who paid from $39,000 to $100,000 for their spaces even before outfitting them with the extras,


a squeegee."

Despite the listless economy, business is booming. Of the 135 units that founder Bruno Silikowski has built so far, only two are unsold. He plans to break ground on more garages in September.

In retrospect, he thinks the recession helped business.

"The baby boomers wanted to give up their bigger homes while keeping their toys," said Silikowski, who is looking into opening additional car condos, which got their start in New York City, where parking space is always at a premium.

Community spirit

The 40-acre complex, complete with paved roads and a clubhouse for social gatherings, looks like a fancy mini-storage, with a Tudor twist. The cars run the gamut, from the classics to ultra-high-end sports cars. One garage holds a collection of Mustangs spanning five decades. The next is fullone owned by Wayne Srsen, who was talked into chipping in on a space with his car-fanatic business partners, Donn LaVoie and Don Huizenga.

"I was driving a Camry, so I bought a Camaro just so I would fit in," said Srsen, who confessed that his notion of "working on a car" is to wash and wax it. "I still don't know anything about cars, but I love being here." (For the record, his car has an impressive shine.)

"It's like a country club, except instead of golf, this is about the cars," Huizenga said.

To maintain the country club aura, Silikowski arranges social events, some for owners only and others open to the public. The highest-profile event takes place the first Saturday of the month from April to October. Anyone


Sid & Sergei.

M Grabovski looks to be a good player for the leafs. J Pogge, struggle early, but ended strong.

penny lane wrote:Hardly any leaf fans there last evening to "discuss" hockey.

I got a good laugh out of the guy who was sitting about 10 rows ahead of me. He had a Jiri Tlusty jersey on. And midway through the game someone screamed at the guy saying, "Hey, you know you have the jersey of a player who revealed himself in public!! And the guy stood up looked back and he tried to say something, but he couldn't, and he sat back down.

malkin on the point is good and bad. the bad side is like tonight he almost got beat on the powerplay. he isnt very defensive minded andthe penalty.

penny lane wrote:Hardly any leaf fans there last evening to "discuss" hockey.

I got a good laugh out of the guy who was sitting about 10 rows ahead of me. He had a Jiri Tlusty jersey on. And midway through the game someone screamed at the guy saying, "Hey, you know you have the jersey of a player who revealed himself in public!! And the guy stood up looked back and he tried to say something, but he couldn't, and he sat back down.


to their Congressman, and the big railroads fell under the thumb of excessive federal regulation that, kvetch though they might, was well-deserved.

Those chickens truly came home to roost after World War II when the US was the only fully-intact global superpower. Uncle Sam went all-in on the Eisenhower Interstate System, making the railroads compete for both passenger and freight business against a federal entity with an endless bank account and carte blanche to make the rules of the game. Railroads replaced the orgy-of-the-senses steam locomotives with much easier to maintain, sleek diesel locomotives.

And American boys and girls who once pulled trains across floors now lifted toy DC-7s into the sky; mimicking the roar of jet engines instead of that outdated chuff, chuff, chuff.

Built in 1944, 765 was afairly-late arrival into the steam locomotive market. So when the end of ‘mainline’, every day use of steam locomotives happened in approximately 1958, she had less than a decade-and-a-half of use, making her a relative schoolgirl as far as the grand ladies of steam went. The limited wear-and-tear combined with the ultimate advances in mechanical precision of steam engines that the Lima Locomotive Co. had put into 765 made her an ideal candidate for preservation and, eventually, excursion train operations for rail enthusiasts. 765 ran these excursion trains much longer than she ran everyday, regularly-scheduled freight and passenger trains.

So when I heard that 765 was coming out of retirement for a second time in 2014, I was thrilled. And when I read that she would run over that


hand maybe we just shouldn’t shoot anyone for sport.

There is a touch of almost every 20th Century decade at Coney Island. The 1920s boardwalk, where women dared to show leg above the ankle. The original Coney Island hot dog stand looks much the same as it did in the 1930s, when a hot dog was all Depression-era New Yorkers could afford to eat. ‘Newer’ rides speak to World War II and glorious fifties-era America. And the American Century rounds out nicely in East New York with the ravages of our sad experiment with urban renewal (read still-undeveloped lots) and a smattering of public housing and hastily-built condo towers.

Coney Island remains an essential visit, be you a local or a tourist tired of the maddening crowds of Manhattan. Makeit for breakfast to have it the Indonesian way.

Oh, the 1980s! These were the years of TV and billboard ads for glorious junk food laden with enough preservatives to give them a probable shelf life of 900 years. Pringles, Twinkies, Hostess Cup Cakes, Jell-O, Spaghetti-Os, Kool Aid, Happy Meals. It would have been positively Un-American not to have eaten them..."Everybody" did and still does. In our growing up years, we want to be like "Everybody."

In 1975, Bich Minh Nguyen's father emigrated from Vietnam to Grand Rapids, MI with baby Bich and her older sister. Nguyen grew up eating both her Buddhist Grandmother's traditional foods and her fair share of TV advertised "American" food. Ngyuen's memoir charms and delights. Her good humor and lively prose carries us down Memory


attracts thousands of people to the heart of Seattle's Chinatown to sample new foods, and explore what is unique and fun about the area.

The evening is filled with local vendors showcasing a unique mix of cultural arts and crafts and international cuisine offering something that will satisfy everyone's taste buds. In addition to food and shopping, the event features cultural performances including Chinese lion and dragon dances, live art demonstrations, as well as a free outdoor showing of new Karate Kid in Hing Hay Park.*Admission is free and open to the public.

Japan comes to the Bellevue College for a weekend! A two-day program of Japanese cultural and educational events for all ages!

The matsuri includes 2 full days of on-stage Performing Arts, Martial Art demonstrations by local dojo members,Puppet Shows based on Japanese Folk Tales, Tea Ceremony demonstrations, more than 80 exhibit booths, and Japanese food booths. There are workshops on bonsai, taiko, and Japanese Gardening Presentation. Browse through "Nomi-no-ichi ... a Japanese style flea market" to make a lucky find! Meet with Aki Matsuri Mascot and friends!

The 20th Annual Koi Show by the Washington Koi & Water Garden Society will be held at Bellevue College during Aki Matsuri Weekend.


Stuart Broad Unable To Join England Squad Because Of Snow

England have been dealt another blow in their attempt to win the One-Day International series against India after Stuart Broad, who was due to join the squad for the final two games, was left stranded at Heathrow Airport because of heavy snowfall.

Large parts of England have been covered in around 5-10cm of snow over the past week, with London and the south-east particularly badly affected over the past few days. With the forecast not set to improve for at least 48 hours, Broad would have struggled to be in India in time for the fourth ODI on Wednesday so it has been decided that he should not travel at all.

Broad tweeted: "Gutted I can't get to India. I'm offhome with all my luggage at Heathrow. I'll be waiting for the lads in New Zealand!!"

The first warm-up match on England’s tour of New Zealand is on 4th February. Broad will then hope to get a career which has seen a significant setback this winter due to injury and loss of form back on track by leading England in the first of two Twenty20 Internationals on the 9th February.


The recent release of the Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 demo on Xbox One reveals that it does not run in 1080p.

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Pro Evolution Soccer product manager Adam Bhatti says on Twitter that Konami has chosen to keep the resolution "just shy" of 1080p in favour of higher FPS and game quality.According to his next tweet , he is "Very confident no one will be able to tell the difference."The PES 2016 demo available on Xbox One runs at 1360x1080p. The Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions run at 1280x720.The Xbox One demo came out on August 13. PES 2016 will be released on September 15 in North America and September 17 in Europe. For a taste of what to expect, check out IGN's PES 2016 preview

Katie Williams is adoor. Sad to see that I'd missed her, I glanced at her card and felt an immediate smile on my face because she's the Manager of Anne Bruno Floral + Event Design in NYC.

Tammy is a big apple success story and I'm proud of her. She left behind her home and large family, with whom she is extremely close to, all in the name of floral design in Manhattan. Something a girl in her early 20's would only dare to do all alone. I remember when she left, I was both sad and proud, sad to see a friend leave, but happy she was on a mission - not as another hopeful girl jumping to see where she lands, but heading out with a game plan and a


passion, and from what I can see, she's making it in old New York.

Tammy has real talent, she's been obsessed with flowers as far back as her early teen years. I've seen her work numerous times at events, and most recently at a large wedding and reception where her gorgeous blooms nearly took our breathe away. Only the bride was more revered.their child to safety."

Reed was preparing for a wild-card playoff game in Kansas City the day his brother went missing.

Reed thanked the Ravens and even opponents who supported him during the difficult time.

"Being around my teammates, who support me through so much, and like my brothers are very spiritual men," Reed said.

"Even the friends I have on the other teams, Kansas City, the Steelers, those guys were just tremendous at showing support, knowing that life is bigger than the game I play. … We are human and regular people at the end of the day. We’re not immune from the trials and tribulations that go on through life."

Outside linebacker Terrell Suggs was moments away from doing an interview with Marshall Faulk and showing off his biceps, but when


UNCW hockey team announces schedule

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The UNC Wilmington hockey team has released their schedule for the upcoming 2018-19 season.

The upcoming season for the club hockey team will be the team’s first ever season in Division II, after the team was accepted as a member of the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League back in March.

Following a 15-2-1 season and a regional win against the University of Florida in the regional tournament, the Seahawks are set to begin their new season on Sept. 7 against Wake Forest at the Wilmington Ice House. The game is scheduled to begin at 9 p.m. which is earlier than start timesin previous seasons. This is because the following day on Sept. 8, the team will travel to Richmond, Virginia to play the University of Richmond.

“We are looking to play at a different level of competition and I wanted to get a true taste of that both inside the ACC and outside of it,” said assistant head coach Peter Gilinson, who is taking on a new role this season as the director of hockey operations for the team.

On the weekends of Sept. 14 and Sept. 28, the Seahawks will host two home games each weekend against Coastal Carolina and College of Charleston. The team will then prepare to participate in the Stephen Russell Memorial Tournament in Raleigh the weekend of Oct. 5.

The Stephen Russell Memorial Tournament is a tournament


to honor the life of NC State goaltender Stephen Russell, who drowned in Jordan Lake back on the Fourth of July in 2009. In that tournament, the Seahawks will play Virginia Tech, George Washington and West Virginia.

Between Oct. 19 and Nov. 17, the Seahawks will play a total of seven games and six of those games will be on the road. The lone home game will be played on Oct. 20 against Duke. This will be a quick turnaround, as the night beforehand on Oct. 19, the Seahawks will play North Carolina State in Raleigh with a time for that game to be determined.

The lack of home games on the schedule can be credited to the team getting off to a late start in terms of planning outThematic areas

Studio Tamani's mission is to contribute to peace, reconciliation and dialogue between all sectors of the population in Mali.

The organisation sees media as having a key role in peacebuilding in Mali by informing people about what is going on, countering rumours and hate speech, and facilitating dialogue between different players in the crisis, thus helping national reconciliation. However, while the current local media landscape is pluralistic, it lacks quality reporting and faces a widespread problem of corruption as well as strong external pressure from political and military authorities. Private and community media sources are often fragile and dependent on political or personal patronage.

Studio Tamani responds to this need for independent, reliable news and information with a project that supports existing radio networks and provides programming in the


form of national news and debates in five languages, accessible to the entire population.

Studio Tamani is designed to meet the particular challenges of national reconciliation and peacebuilding in Mali and is implemented in partnership with URTEL (Union des radios et télévisions libres du Mali), one of the oldest organisations of independent community radio stations in Africa. Tamani, the name of a small djembe drum popular in Malian musical heritage, serves as a positive image for a project focused on facilitating and promoting dialogue between all Malians.

Studio Tamani produces news bulletins and other radio programmes designed to help strengthen peace and reconciliation in Mali. It's flagship 'Grand Dialogue' programme discusses the big issues in Malia, and it and Studio Tamani’s other programmes are broadcast by 24 partner radio stationsThis was not the suspect's first brush with the law. Matsumoto was arrested 2006 and convicted in 2007 on one count of abuse of a family or household member and one count of harassment. He served two days in jail and was put on probation for two years. Matsumoto has been arrested four other times, but never charged. Police wouldn't say if they've previously responded to domestic disturbance calls at the residence.


Arsene Wenger: Rosicky has Agreed to Extend his Contract

Arsene Wenger has revealed that Tomas Rosicky is set to sign a new contract with the Gunners when his current deal expires at the end of this season.

The Czech Republic international's stay at Arsenal has been cut short due to injuries but the 33-year-old is getting back to his best and epitomised the same with a valiant performance against Sunderland.

The midfielder scored a brilliant team goal, reminiscent of the one by Jack Wilshere against Norwich and is likely to be a key player for the Gunners as the season culminates to a close.

Wenger chose Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain ahead of the midfielder in their Champions League tie against Bayern Munich, but Rosicky gave a good exhibition of himself against the Black Catsand is likely to keep his place in the side irrespective of the return of Mesut Ozil into the side next week against Stoke City.

The Gunners are currently second in the league, one point behind Chelsea in the league table. The win over Sunderland kept Wenger's team in sniffing distance of the title as they look to take maximum points from the next league fixture, with their next four games involving trips to White Hart Lane, Stamford Bridge and Goodison Park and a visit from Manchester City.

"Tomas Rosicky will stay. We have an agreement with him and it will come out soon. I am absolutely adamant he has to stay at the club. I think he is one of the players who plays the game of give and


move. He is a great accelerator of the game. When the ball comes to him it goes into second gear and that is something I admire in him," Wenger said.

"He always makes things happen, not with individual dribbling but with individual acceleration of his passing and of his runs. I think when he arrived here he was a less tactical player and more like Mozart, who is also from Prague, he was a purely creative and offensive player.

"Today he is a real organiser on the pitch as well. I like to have him in the team because he gives a real structure to our team," he concluded.Back in July, the Philadelphia Union were linked to Deportivo Saprissa striker Josue Martinez, and reportedly even made a bid of nearly $1 million for him. MLS Rumors spotted a new report, out of Norway, that says that the Union are set to bid for the forward again, but this time are the most likely destination for Martinez with Norwegian club FFK unable to afford a transfer themselves of between $400-500,000.

Martinez has excelled at both the club and international levels, despite being only 21-years-old. In 11 starts for the Costa Rican national team, Martinez has found the back of the net five times. His form for Saprissa is not quite as good, but a goal about every three games played (15 goals in 42 league games in Costa


Rica) is still in line with the likes of Sebastien Le Toux on the Union.

The striker is considered once of Costa Rica's brightest prospects on both the club and international level, alongside Arsenal forward Joel Campbell, who was sold by Saprissa for $1 million. Martinez has a stronger pedigree than Campbell, who only played in three league games for Saprissa before moving to England, and apparently is just half the cost for the Union.

Union head coach Piotr Nowak has talked about bringing in both new talent and competition into the squad in order to propel Philadelphia towards becoming a championship contender.

"We are looking towards making some competition in the group. The group will be better off knowing that someone is breathing heavy and will keep you on yourHundreds of Yazidi women have been taken captive by Sunni militants, according to an Iraqi official - further underscoring the plight of Iraq's minorities at the hands of the Islamic State group.

The women captured are under 35-years-old, and are being held in schools in Iraq’s second city, Mosul, said the spokesman for Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, Kamil Amin.

Amin told reporters he believes the women are likely to be considered slaves by the militants who have “vicious plans…in a way that contradicts all the human and Islamic values.”

His comments were the first Iraqi government confirmation that some women were being held by the group. On Tuesday, Yazidi lawmaker Vian Dakheel made an emotional plea in parliament to the Iraqi government to save the Yazidi people, saying the “women have


been sold in a slavery market.”

The US also confirmed that the Islamic State had kidnapped and imprisoned the women, but the exact number victimised is unknown. The captives will be sold or married off to extremist fighters, said the US official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the information came from classified intelligence reports.

Earlier this month, tens of thousands of Yazidis fled when the Islamic State group captured the northern Iraqi town of Sinjar, near the Syrian border. The Yazidis practice an ancient religion that the Sunni Muslim radicals consider heretical.

In pictures: The rise of Isis Show all 74 1 /74 In pictures: The rise of Isis In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters Fighters of the Islamic State wave the group's flag from a damageddisplay of a government fighter jet following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria AP In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters Fighters from Islamic State group sit on their tank during a parade in Raqqa, Syria AP In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters Fighters from the Islamic State group pray at the Tabqa air base after capturing it from the Syrian government in Raqqa, Syria AP In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters Fighters from extremist Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria AP In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis kidnapping A video uploaded to social networks shows men in underwear being marched barefoot along a desert road before being allegedly executed by Isis Getty Images In pictures: The


rise of Isis Isis kidnapping Haruna Yukawa after his capture by Isis In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis kidnapping Khalinda Sharaf Ajour, a Yazidi, says two of her daughters were captured by Isis militants Washington Post In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters Spokesperson for Isis Vice News via Youtube In pictures: The rise of Isis A pro-Isis leaflet A pro-Isis leaflet handed out on Oxford Street In London Ghaffar Hussain In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters Isis Jihadists burn their passports In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis controls Syrian Aid A man collecting aid administered by Isis in Syria In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis controls Syrian Aid A woman collecting aid administered by Isis in Syria In pictures: The riseof Isis Isis controls Syrian Aid Local civilians queue for aid administered by Isis. Since it declared a caliphate the group has increasingly been delivering services such as healthcare, and distributing aid and free fuel In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces detain men suspected of being militants of the Isis group in Diyala province In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Mourners carry the coffin of a Shi'ite volunteer from the brigades of peace, who joined the Iraqi army and was killed during clashes with militants of the Isis group in Samarra, during his funeral in Najaf In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraqi refugees An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, west of


Mosul, arrives at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi A photograph made from a video by the jihadist affiliated group Furqan Media via their twitter account allegedly showing Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon during Friday prayers at a mosque in Mosul. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared an Islamist caliphate in the territory under the group's control in Iraq and Syria In pictures: The rise of Isis Islamic extremists destroying mosques in Iraq Shiite's Al-Qubba Husseiniya mosque explodes in Mosul In pictures: The rise of Isis Islamic extremists destroying mosques in Iraq Smoke and debris go up in the air as Shiite's Al-Qubba Husseiniya mosque explodes in Mosul. Images postedonline show that Islamic extremists have destroyed at least 10 ancient shrines and Shiite mosques in territory - the city of Mosul and the town of Tal Afar - they have seized in northern Iraq in recent weeks In pictures: The rise of Isis Islamic extremists destroying mosques in Iraq A bulldozer destroys Sunni's Ahmed al-Rifai shrine and tomb in Mahlabiya district outside of Tal Afar In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces celebrate after clashes with followers of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi, in front of his home in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with


his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi at his home after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis A vehicle burns in front of a home of a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holycity of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraqi refugees An Iraqi woman holds her exhausted son as over 1000 Iraqis who have fled fighting in and around the city of Mosul and Tal Afar wait at a Kurdish checkpoint in the hopes of entering a temporary displacement camp in Khazair In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraqi refugees Displaced Iraqi women hold pots as they queue to receive food during the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at an encampment for displaced Iraqis who fled from Mosul and other towns, in the Khazer area outside Irbil, north Iraq In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria A militant Islamist fighter waving a flag, cheers


as he takes part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa. The fighters held the parade to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria Isis fighters wave flags as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province Reuters In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria Isis fighters travel in a vehicle as they take part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria Fighters from the Isis group during a parade with a missile in Raqqa, Syria. Militants from an al-Qaida splintergroup held a military parade in their stronghold in northeastern Syria, displaying U.S.-made Humvees, heavy machine guns, and missiles captured from the Iraqi army for the first time since taking over large parts of the Iraq-Syria border In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria Isis fighters during a parade in Raqqa, Syria In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria Fighters from the Isis group during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. Militants from the splinter group held a military parade in their stronghold in northeastern Syria, displaying U.S.-made Humvees, heavy machine guns, and missiles captured from the Iraqi army for the first time since taking over large parts of the Iraq-Syria border In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria Isis


fighters hold a military parade in their stronghold in northeastern Syria In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria Isis fighters during a parade in Raqqa, Syria In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Syria A member loyal to the Isis waves an Isis flag in Raqqa In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi anti-government gunmen from Sunni tribes in the western Anbar province march during a protest in Ramadi, west of Baghdad. The United Nations warned that Iraq is at a "crossroads" and appealed for restraint, as a bloody four-day wave of violence killed 195 people. The violence is the deadliest so far linked to demonstrations that broke out in Sunni areas of the Shiite-majority country more than four months ago,raising fears of a return to all-out sectarian conflict In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces hold up a flag of the Isis group they captured during an operation to regain control of Dallah Abbas north of Baqouba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Iraq Isis fighters parade in the northern city of Mosul In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Volunteers, who have joined the Iraqi army to fight against the predominantly Sunni militants from the radical Isis group, demonstrate their skills during a graduation ceremony after completing their field training in Najaf In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Kurdish Peshmerga troops fire a


cannon during clashes with militants of the Isis group in Jalawla, Diyala province In pictures: The rise of Isis Lieutenant General Qassem Atta speaks during a press conference Iraqi Prime Minister's security spokesman, Lieutenant General Qassem Atta speaks during a press conference about the latest military development in Iraq, in the capital Baghdad. Iraqi forces pressed a campaign to retake militant-held Tikrit, clashing with jihadist-led Sunni militants nearby and pounding positions inside the city with air strikes in their biggest counter-offensive so far In pictures: The rise of Isis A police station building destroyed by Isis fighters An exterior view of a police station building destroyed by gunmen in Mosul city, northern Iraq. Iraq's new parliament is expected to convene to start the process of setting up anew government, despite deepening political rifts and an ongoing Islamist-led insurgency. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani issued a decree inviting the new House of Representatives to meet and form a new government In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Iraq Smoke billows from an area controlled by the Isis between the Iraqi towns of Naojul and Tuz Khurmatu, both located north of the capital Baghdad, as Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces take part in an operation to repel the Sunni militants In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraqi refugees An elderly Iraqi woman is helped into a temporary displacement camp for Iraqis caught-up in the fighting in and around the city of Mosul in Khazair In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraqi refugees An Iraqi Christian woman fleeing


the violence in the village of Qaraqush, about 30 kms east of the northern province of Nineveh, cries upon her arrival at a community center in the Kurdish city of Arbil in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraqi refugees An Iraqi woman, who fled with her family from the northern city of Mosul, prays with a copy of the Quran AP In pictures: The rise of Isis Isis fighters in Iraq The body of an Isis militant killed during clashes with Iraqi security forces on the outskirts of the city of Samarra Reuters In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Iraqi civilians inspect the damage at a market after an air strike by the Iraqi army in central Mosul EPA In pictures:The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Members of the Al-Abbas brigades, who volunteered to protect the Shiite Muslim holy sites in Karbala against Sunni militants fighting the Baghdad government, parade in the streets of the city AP In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis Shia tribesmen gather in Baghdad to take up arms against Sunni insurgents marching on the capital. Thousands have volunteered to bolster defences AFP/Getty In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq crisis A van carrying volunteers joining Iraqi security forces against Jihadist militants. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Iraqi government would arm and equip civilians who volunteered to fight AFP/Getty In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Fighters of the Isis group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a


main road at the northern city of Mosul In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq An Islamist fighter, identified as Abu Muthanna al-Yemeni from Britain (R), speaks in this still image taken undated video shot at an unknown location and uploaded to a social media website. Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the wars in Syria and Iraq, in the new video released by the Isis In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Al-Qa’ida inspired militants stand with captured Iraqi Army Humvee at a checkpoint belonging to Iraqi Army outside Beiji refinery some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad. The fighting at Beiji comes as Iraq has asked the U.S. for airstrikes targeting the militants from the Isisgroup. While U.S. President Barack Obama has not fully ruled out the possibility of launching airstrikes, such action is not imminent in part because intelligence agencies have been unable to identify clear targets on the ground, officials said In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Militants attacked Iraq's main oil refinein Baiji as they pressed an offensive that has seen them capture swathes of territory, a manager and a refinery employee said In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Militants from the Isis group parading with their weapons in the northern city of Baiji in the in Salaheddin province In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq A smoke rises after an attack by Isis militants on the country's largest oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles)


north of the capital, Baghdad. Iraqi security forces battled insurgents targeting the country's main oil refinery and said they regained partial control of a city near the Syrian border, trying to blunt an offensive by Sunni militants who diplomats fear may have also seized some 100 foreign workers In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Militants of the Isis group stand next to captured vehicles left behind by Iraqi security forces at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province. For militant groups, the fight over public perception can be even more important than actual combat, turning military losses into propaganda victories and battlefield successes into powerful tools to build support for the cause In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq An injured fighter (C) from the Isis groupafter a battle with Iraqi soldiers at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Fighters from the Isis aiming at advancing Iraqi troops at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Fighters from the Isis group taking position at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Fighters from the Isis group inspecting vehicles of the Iraqi army after they were seized at an undisclosed location near the border between Syria and Iraq In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq One Iraqi captive, a corporal, is reluctant to say the slogan, and has to be shouted at repeatedly before


he obeys Sky News In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Iraqi captives held by the extremists Sky News In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Iraqi captives held by the extremists Sky News In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Militants of the Isis group force captured Iraqi security forces members to the transport In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Militants of the Isis group transporting dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members to an unknown location in the Salaheddin province ahead of executing them In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq A major offensive spearheaded by Isis but also involving supporters of executed dictator Saddam Hussein has overrun all of one province and chunks of three others In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Militantsof the Isis group executing dozens of captured Iraqi security forces members at an unknown location in the Salaheddin province In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Isis militants taking position at a Iraqi border post on the Syrian-Iraqi border between the Iraqi Nineveh province and the Syrian town of Al-Hasakah In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Isis rebels show their flag after seizing an army post AFP/Getty Images In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Isis militants waving an Islamist flag after the seizure of an Iraqi army checkpoint in Salahuddin Getty Images In pictures: The rise of Isis Iraq Demonstrators chant slogans as they carry al-Qa’ida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. In the


week since it captured Iraq's second-largest city, Mosul, a Muslim extremist group has tried to win over residents and has stopped short of widely enforcing its strict brand of Islamic law, residents say. Churches remain unharmed and street cleaners are back at work

The extremist group's capture of a string of towns and villages in the north has sent minority communities fleeing for their lives. The Islamic state views Yazidis and Shiite Muslims as apostates, and has demanded Christians either convert to Islam or pay a special tax.

About 50,000 Yazidis — half of them children, according to UN figures — fled to the mountains outside Sinjar where many of them remain, trapped and running out of food and water. Late Thursday, the US military cargo jets dropped humanitarian aidto the mountains.

On Friday in the northern city of Arbil, the US military conducted two additional air strikes against Islamic State forces on Friday, the Pentagon said.

The air strikes followed the dropping of two 500-pound bombs on Islamic State positions earlier Friday, included a drone strike on a mortar position and an attack by four F/A-18 jets on an Islamic State convoy and mortar position, the Pentagon said in a statement.

President Barack Obama said the humanitarian airdrops were made at the request of the Iraqi government as the Islamic State militant group tightened its grip on northern Iraq. In his remarks late Thursday, he mentioned “chilling reports” of fighters with the group “rounding up families, conducting mass executions, and enslaving Yezidi women.”


[Werner Catel--a protagonist in Nazi "pediatric euthanasia" and his post-war career].
This article deals with the biography of Werner Catel, a German paediatrician and protagonist of the Nazi programme for "euthanasia of children". Based on original research into recently discovered source materials, two aspects of Catel's life are considered. Firstly, Catel's attitude towards "euthanasia" is analysed. This analysis is not limited to the period of National Socialism, but focuses also on the phase before 1933 and especially on the era after 1945. Secondly, the authors explore Catel's academic career. What effects on his career in the later Federal Republic of Germany had his exposed role in the Nazi programme for "euthanasia of children"? In this context it is also examined how the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel/Germany, which employed Catel untilEntertainment News, Interviews & more

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Interior Café Night actress Shweta Prasad Basu, who started her career as a child artist in the famous TV serial Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, doesn’t follow Indian TV shows today but believes with the rising popularity of web series and short films, TV contents have also changed and will get bolder in coming time. Interior Café Night actress Shweta Prasad Basu, who started her career as a child artist in the famous TV serial Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, doesn’t follow Indian TV shows today but believes with the rising popularity of web series and short films, TV contents have also changed and will get bolder in coming time.

Actor Shweta Basu Prasad who won million hearts with her performances in Makdee and Iqbal as a child actor is backwith a short film Interior Café Night, which is getting rave reviews. The film, which also features Naseeruddion Shah has been co-produced by Shweta and directed by her schoolmate Adhiraj Bose.

“The movie was shot and completed in 2014. Adhiraj Bose and I went to school together. I have known him for 8 years now! I loved the script, because he is a friend I knew what was he working on. We wanted to work together as one team ever since we were teenagers, I am happy it’s finally come true,” Basu told The Indian Express.

Basu, who started her career as a child artist in the famous TV serial Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, doesn’t follow Indian TV shows today but believes with the rising popularity of web series and


For a time, it looked as if Stephen King would never reach retirement age. Nine years ago, a pickup truck slammed into him on the side of a Maine road. One of his legs shattered, a lung collapsed, several ribs broke and his hip fractured. A few years later, after developing a severe case of pneumonia, the king of chills decided to embrace warmth. "It's the law," he jokes from his part-time home on the Gulf Coast. "You get a little bit older, and you have to move to Florida." So, in one of the rare cliché moments of his life,...of hydroelectric facilities, a disappointing
precipitation season, and demand growth will push these utilization rates to
nearly 60 percent in the first quarter  2001. This will cause markets to clear
at or above the production cost of gas-fired generation even more often than
in
2000.

Pacific Northwest

Hydroelectric generators in the Pacific Northwest have drawn down the region,s
hydroelectric reservoirs to well below average historical levels. Grand
Coulee,
the largest hydroelectric facility in the West, with over 6,000 megawatts (MW)
of capacity, was near 75 percent of the historical average as of early January
and reflects the general condition of the major reservoirs in the region. In
the event that precipitation remains low, the drawdown of these facilities in
early winter to meet load spikes in the Pacific Northwest and California has
hurt the region,s ability to supply power throughout


of repeated localized blackouts in the event of extensive
future outages.

The agreements reached through negotiations between suppliers, the IOUs, and
state and federal officials in recent weeks will calm some of the price-
inflating uncertainty in the market, but California will be the premium market
through the first quarter of 2001 and most of the coming year owing to
persistent supply tightness. For February in California CERA expects sustained
price strength of $152 per MWh on peak and $126 per MWh off peak.

Rockies and the Southwest

The Southwest and Rockies regions had warm weather in December and the first
half of January but have not been completely insulated from the price run-ups
in other parts of the West. Demand growth in the region is expected to be near
3 percent for the first quarter, with February experiencing moderateWest*particularly in California*has switched off of gas. Some end users
have turned to diesel fuel for industrial boilers; some plants have simply
curtailed operations in response to the higher prices.

On the power side, plants within California are extremely limited in their
ability to burn alternative fuels because of emissions credits. However,
plants
outside of California do have some backup capability. Arizona Public Service
has purchased 400,000 barrels of 1% sulfur residual fuel oil to burn as an
alternative to gas. Given the intense pressure on gas, oil will absorb some of
growth in power loads.

California

In November an early strong draw on storage in California raised questions
about winter deliverability within the state. A combination of low storage
inventories, high gas demand for power generation, and continued high
utilization rates on import pipelines into the state will keep pressure


the
spring.

Rocky Mountains

The volatility in Rocky Mountain differentials continues. Differentials
continue to depend primarily on local heating loads; cooler weather supports
loads and prices within the region, but periods of warm weather drive steep
declines in Rocky Mountain prices relative to prices at the Henry Hub. During
February, demand should drop off in the region. Although declines in heating
loads in neighboring western regions will be offset by increases in gas demand
for power generation, the Rockies remain primarily coal based. As a result,
the
lower expected hydroelectric output will do little to support loads within the
region. Increases in supply*CERA expects supply increases of 300 MMcf per day
during 2001 relative to 2000*will overwhelm available pipeline capacity out of
the region.

Demand during February in the Rockies is expected to remain flat at 2.9 Bcf
per
day; however, within thewhich requires an action for recovery of costs to be brought within three years of completion of the removal action.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency conducted three major response activities at the Site. Removal of liquids and sludges from the ponds located *82 at the Site with subsequent backfilling of the ponds with clean soil and capping with a clay cover took place between March 31, 1984 and June 7, 1984. A hazard ranking was performed in June, 1984 on the Site to determine whether it posed a sufficient hazard to be included on the National Priorities List, which ranking indicated the possibility of additional risks. A remedial investigation was then conducted between December, 1987 and May, 1988, through which the Environmental Protection Agency determined that no further


response activities were necessary. A Record of Decision was issued by the Environmental Protection Agency on September 16, 1988.
Under 42 U.S.C. § 9607, liability extends to "all costs of removal or remedial action incurred by the United States Government ... not inconsistent with the national contingency plan." The term "removal" is defined under 42 U.S.C. § 9601(23) to include "such actions as may be necessary to monitor, assess, and evaluate the release or threat of release of hazardous substances." The Court finds, therefore, that all Site activities conducted by the United States, including the remedial investigation, were removal actions under the meaning of CERCLA.
The present suit was filed on October 13, 1989, approximately thirteen months following the Record of Decision. Said suit is, therefore, within the three-year limitationFranz Beckenbauer's trial had been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic

Franz Beckenbauer's five-year-long trial for corruption charges has been ended without a verdict after a statute of limitations expired.

The trial, which related to allegations of Beckenbauer being involved as the head of organising committee in two transactions made to FIFA when the 2006 World Cup was awarded to Germany, had to be suspended due to coronavirus.

FIFA, who have been under a new governance since 2016, say they are "deeply disappointed" but are adamant "the case is not over".

The World Cup-winning player and coach was accused of paying Qatari former FIFA exec Mohamed bin Hammam £8.4m before the 2006 World Cup in April 2005, with the second payment being made on April 27, 2005.

Beckenbauer headed the 2006 World Cup


organising committee and at the time Bin Hammam was a member of the FIFA Executive Committee and the FIFA Finance Committee.

FIFA said in a statement: "FIFA is deeply disappointed that the trial related to the FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 will not take place because it has now become time barred.

FIFA has been under new governance with Gianni Infantino since 2016

"The fact that the case has now ended without a result of any kind is very worrying, not only for football but also for the administration of justice in Switzerland."

In Switzerland, the maximum time in which criminal proceedings for allegations of fraud and assistance to fraud can be initiated is 15 years, which means the courts no longer have jurisdiction in Beckenbauer's case.

World football's governing body say theymay take their case somewhere else.

"We hope that the truth around the CHF 10 million payment will one day come to light and that those having committed wrongful acts will be duly sanctioned, if not in Switzerland, then maybe somewhere else," FIFA said.

"For FIFA this case is certainly not over as we cannot and will not accept that a CHF 10 million payment is made from FIFA accounts without a proper reason."

Swiss federal prosecutors had filed fraud charges against three former senior German football organisers and a former FIFA official over a suspect payment linked to the same World Cup in 2006 but those cases have now ended.

Former president of the German FA, Theo Zwanziger, Horst R Schmidt (former German FA treasurer), Wolfgang Niersbach (executive vice president and


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Age.COPDdevelops slowlyPINAL COUNTY, Ariz. -- On a flat and desolate stretch of Interstate 10 some 50 miles south of Phoenix, a sheriff's deputy pulls over a green Chevy Tahoe speeding westbound and carrying three young Hispanic men.

The man behind the wheel produces no driver's license or registration. The deputy notices $1,000 in cash stuffed in the doorframe -- payment, he presumes, for completed passage from Mexico. He radios the sheriff's immigration enforcement team, summoning agents from the U.S. Border Patrol. Soon, the three men are ushered into the back of a white van with a federal seal.

This routine traffic stop represents the front end of an increasingly lucrative commercial enterprise: the business of incarcerating immigrant detainees, the fastest-growing segment of the American prison population. The three men loaded into


company does not attempt to influence detention policy through its lobbying. He says the company is proud of its work and has built its reputation through "providing quality services at cost savings to our government partner."

"CCA has always worked to educate decision makers on the merits and benefits of public-private partnerships to meet their expressed need for detention space and services," Machak says. "It is CCA's longstanding policy not to draft, lobby for or in any way promote crime, sentencing or detention legislation."

GEO Group declined to comment for this report.

Americans have grown accustomed to the crackdown on illegal immigration as part of the fabric of contemporary political debate, one in which Arizona's strict enforcement posture frequently captures attention. The private prison industry has exploited the crackdown as somethingelse: a lucrative business model.

"The policy in this country has changed from catch and release to more detention," CCA's former board chairman, William Andrews, told investors in 2006, according to the transcript of an upbeat earnings call. "That means we'll be incarcerating more illegal aliens."

The success of the industry in growing revenues through undocumented immigrant detention has in part resulted from two distinct campaigns -- one in Washington, and the other in local communities such as this one, where prisoners are housed. Rural towns and counties have eagerly embraced the arrival of immigrant prisoners for the attendant economic benefits, including tax revenues and jobs.

"For small towns that are economically depressed, this is attractive," says Travis Pratt, a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University who


has studied the private prison industry. "It's an influx of public money immediately. There doesn't need to be a delay."

In Pinal County, a vast stretch of Arizona ranchlands and stunning desert scenery between Phoenix and Tucson, towns compete with one another to attract new prisons. Pinal has become the nerve center of immigrant detention in Arizona, with five separate facilities holding up to 3,000 detainees on a given day. CCA is the county's largest private employer.

White prison buses with caged windows appear on cactus-lined local highways more frequently than school buses. The growing concentration of prisoners has led some to rename this "Penal County."

The expanding prison populations have allowed small towns to carry budget surpluses in a state that has otherwise been pummeled by the recession. Prison communitieshave largely avoided the dire economic straits suffered by Arizona communities in every direction, where the housing bust and subsequent foreclosure crisis have ravaged local government coffers.

In the town of Florence -- which has a prison population of more than 17,000, plus 7,800 residents who are not behind bars -- more than 40 percent of the local government's general fund comes from state revenues directly related to housing inmates, according to Jess Knudson, the deputy town manager. That has allowed the local government to offer highly popular services for seniors and build skate parks, dog parks and little league fields throughout town.

"We're one of the few towns in Arizona that has been able to stay in the black with this recession," Knudson says.

The prison industry's expansion in southern


Arizona has been propelled in part by a county sheriff, Paul Babeu, who has gained a national reputation for his aggressive stance on illegal immigration, making Pinal County one of the state's top jurisdictions for undocumented immigrant apprehensions and deportations.

CCA pays the county government based on the number of inmates in one of its prisons in Pinal, as part of an agreement to operate in the county. Last year that amounted to roughly $1.4 million, according to county budget documents. The payments increase as more beds are filled -- under the agreement, the county receives two dollars per day for each inmate held in the facility. The money in part funds the county sheriff's office, whose enforcement actions have influence over the size of the prisoner population: Underan agreement with the federal government, the office acts as an enforcement agent on immigration law, arresting violators and referring them to federal authorities, who make the ultimate decision on detention.

Babeu, who declined repeated requests for comment, heads that office. According to campaign finance records, he has received political contributions from CCA executives and lobbyists.

The sheriff's spokesman, Elias Johnson, says the department enforces immigration law on the merits, and has no financial incentive to fill CCA's facilities. He notes that CCA's contracts to operate local prisons are with the county, and not with the sheriff's office. He adds that immigrant detainees held within local facilities are brought in from several states, meaning that those apprehended locally make up only a small percentage of the total beds filled.

"You're talking


we stopped the mandatory detention of immigrants, CCA and GEO Group and these other companies would have a major financial crisis."

UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AS GROWTH ENGINE

The industry's modern-day boom is the product of strategic decisions made a decade ago, when growth was far from assured.

In the economic downturn that followed the terrorist attacks of 9/11, state governments -- the biggest customers for private prison beds -- were confronting budget deficits, prompting a pullback on prison expansion plans. The federal Bureau of Prisons, which had increasingly outsourced inmates to private contractors during the Clinton administration, was also in the midst of a slowdown on new construction projects. Stock prices for CCA and GEO Group, the two major publicly traded industry players, were at all-time lows.

But in Washington, the industry spotteda potential growth opportunity in the form of a sweeping reorganization of the federal government. As part of the restructuring, the Bush administration shifted responsibility for enforcing immigration law from the Immigration and Naturalization Service, an arm of the Justice Department, to the newly created Department of Homeland Security.

The new agency would "control our borders and prevent terrorists and explosives from entering our country," President George W. Bush declared in 2002.

Private prison executives recognized a fertile new market. Stepped-up enforcement on the border would yield larger numbers of undocumented immigrants bound for detention. Their companies positioned themselves to secure federal contracts to hold those immigrants in their own for-profit facilities.

"It's clear that since September 11th there's a heightened focus on detention, both on the borders and in the


U.S.," declared Steve Logan, the chief executive of Cornell Companies Inc., a prison corporation now owned by GEO Group. He spoke shortly after the terrorist attacks, according to the transcript of a quarterly earnings call. "What we are seeing is an increased scrutiny of tightening up the borders. Some of that means that people don't get through, but the other side of that is more people are going to get caught. So I would say that's positive."

As the Bush administration and Congress signaled a tougher stance on immigration policy, both CCA and GEO Group ramped up federal lobbying efforts aimed at influencing government spending on detention beds.

Before the creation of DHS, CCA rarely spent more than $500,000 a year lobbying the federal government, according to a review ofof the appropriations committees in the House and Senate -- the politicians who control the federal purse strings.

By 2006, executives at both CCA and GEO Group were boasting of substantially improved prospects.

"We've never seen the wind at our back like it is today," CCA's then-chief executive John Ferguson said in a 2006 conference call, according to a transcript. "We couldn't be more bullish."

GEO Group chief executive George Zoley, who helped raise more than $100,000 for George W. Bush's 2004 campaign as a bundler, foresaw continued growth of the new market for detainees, partly because the immigration crackdown had been elevated to an issue of livelihood in the national political conversation.

"U.S. border security and the detention beds necessary to detain illegal aliens will increasingly be seen as a national


imperative to protect U.S. workers and their jobs," Zoley told financial analysts during a conference call in 2009.

The lobbying efforts have been maintained under the Obama administration, though not at the same level as during the Bush administration, when the detention system grew fastest. Funding for new beds has also continued to increase under Obama, and deportations in recent years have reached record numbers, angering immigration reform advocates.

Responding to questions about private prison lobbying, a spokeswoman for ICE, Gillian Christensen, says the agency "routinely evaluates the agency’s detention space needs and awards contracts based on fluctuating detainee populations around the country and the progress of the agency’s overarching detention reform efforts."

Those efforts include consolidating detention centers in "strategic locations" closer to consulates and pro-bono legal services, she says.says Judith Greene, the director of Justice Strategies, an advocacy group that has followed the private prison industry since its inception in the 1980s. "You had large, moneyed organizations who were well-connected politically with the right people to see that a decent share of this cash ended up in their pockets."

PARTNERSHIP IN THE DESERT

Even as policymakers in Washington expanded the ranks of immigrant detainees through intensified border enforcement, the private prison industry required another element to realize the potential profits: It needed a place to house the prisoners.

Pinal County beckoned as a ready business partner.

Local residents had long grown comfortable with prisons in their midst. For generations, razor wire, concrete cells and floodlights have dominated this patch of barren ranchlands and irrigated cotton fields framed by the jagged


outlines of the Superstition Mountains.

More than a century ago, Arizona's territorial government faced grave troubles at its only prison, a dangerous and overcrowded facility in Yuma that had become one of the most notorious jails in the Old West. Seeking a clean start, the government moved the prisoners 200 miles northeast to Florence, closer to the growing capital of Phoenix.

Inmate laborers built the prison in blistering heat, living in makeshift desert camps before eventually moving inside cells they crafted with their own hands.

Florence had been a trading post serving nearby silver-mining operations. Much like other frontier towns, its fortunes were volatile. The prison brought stability, delivering a reliable stream of state government jobs.

"Other boomtowns would die when the ore ran out," says Chris Reid, a researcher at thePinal County Historical Museum in Florence, which features displays of nooses and a gas chamber execution chair used on death row. "The ore did run out, but the prison and the county courthouse kept our town from dying. We've been building prisons ever since."

Until the early 1970s, the prison at Florence remained Arizona's only state correctional facility. With no source of growth, the town stagnated. By the early 1980s, its finances were in a shambles. A bad economy and high interest rates left Florence with few options for repairing roads laden with potholes and aging emergency response equipment.

Tom Rankin, then the town's police chief and now its incoming mayor, recalls operating the entire department on a shoestring budget of $90,000 a year.

"I had 13 cars and three motorcycles,"


Rankin says. "Three of the cars ran."

In 1981, Rankin read a newspaper article about a Massachusetts town that annexed a prison to boost revenues. After doing some research, Rankin and the town council realized that they could increase Florence's official population by expanding the town's boundaries to include the prison, which had previously been in an unincorporated area. The additional headcount brought the town a greater share of state tax revenues, alleviating its financial crunch.

Prisons have become a central part of the economy in Florence and Pinal County, Ariz.

So began a sustained expansion of prisons in Florence and its surrounding area. When CCA came to Pinal County in the mid-1990s with a proposal to house more than 1,000 federal prisoners, Florence welcomed the venture with little hesitation.

The arrivalof the private prison industry served as an antidote to worries about the area's economic future. Arizona's state prison population could only grow so fast. Moreover, the Arizona Department of Corrections was building new prisons in other parts of the state. But private prisons brought contracts with federal agencies such as the U.S. Marshals Service, or more distant states like Alaska and Hawaii, allowing for a new influx of "closed quarters" residents. In recent years, some of the steadiest inmate growth has come from ICE.

In Florence today, seven separate prisons and jails are compressed into a span of two miles along the town's main drag. Collectively, they house county inmates, state inmates, federal inmates, tribal inmates, sex offenders, Vermont prisoners and, increasingly, undocumented immigrants. CCA has two prisons


in Florence and four more in the nearby city of Eloy.

Prisons fan out on the horizon as drivers enter Florence, Ariz.

During shift changes in the mornings and afternoons, the roadways in Florence fill with hundreds of correctional officers streaming in and out. Driving into town on lonely highways at night, the tall orange lights flanking the perimeter gates can be seen more than a dozen miles away, obscuring views of the stars.

In the historic adobe brick neighborhoods within a stone's throw of the barbed wire, backyard clotheslines are draped with uniforms worn by correctional officers: white for CCA, khaki for the state facilities. A "prison outlet" store along the highway sells T-shirts featuring wry local humor, such as "Florence Prison -- A Gated Community."

For a number of localgovernments here in Arizona, boosting the prison population has emerged as a primary economic development strategy, one that has allowed towns of fewer than 10,000 people to maintain full-service police departments, little league ballfields and -- in the case of Florence -- a town fitness center that charges members less than $20 a month.

Arizona Department of Corrections inmates work fields near the prison complex in Florence, Ariz.

The prison population brought Florence an estimated $5.2 million in additional state revenues last year, amounting to nearly $300 per inmate, according to local government estimates.

The neighboring city of Eloy -- home to four sprawling CCA prisons -- contains one of the largest immigrant detention centers in the country. Revenues from construction fees on new prisons have endowed Eloy with nearly $9


million in reserves -- roughly the same size as the budget for the city's general fund, according to Eloy's financial statements. Extra money has gone toward much-needed upgrades to the city's water lines, the purchase of new police cars and the construction of a new town playground.

"Let me put it in perspective for you," says Rick Miller, the city of Eloy's community development director. "If CCA were to close today, that would represent about 20 percent of our operating budget."

Eloy's prisons were constructed in part to capture overflow from the facilities in neighboring Florence. CCA's Eloy Detention Center, one of the largest immigrant detention facilities in the nation, has been a focal point of criticism for human rights advocates. Since 2003, ten detainees have died in custody atthe Eloy Detention Center, the most of all facilities owned or contracted by ICE.

But now, both communities are girding for expansion. Officials in Florence have already annexed the parcel of land adjacent to CCA's two prisons there. In Eloy, the city approved a permit earlier this year for the company to either expand one of its four existing prisons or build another one.

The significance of CCA in the local economy has translated into influence in local and state government affairs -- power the company has wielded to protect its business interests.

In part, this is a function of having allies in prominent positions. Dennis DeConcini, a former Democratic U.S. senator from Arizona, sits on CCA's board of directors. Several CCA lobbyists in Phoenix have worked or consulted for Arizona


Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican.

But mostly, CCA's clout in state and local politics reflects the fact that it signs so many paychecks.

Four years ago, after two prisoners escaped from a CCA facility in Florence, then-Gov. Janet Napolitano -- a Democrat who is now Homeland Security secretary -- sought to compel the company and other private prison operators to disclose more information about the types of prisoners they house. CCA complained.

"If you change the rules of the game midstream, we are going to resist it because we invested based on the current rules," Tony Grande, a CCA senior vice president, told The Arizona Republic.

Napolitano's measure disappeared.

More than a decade ago, Pete Rios, a former state legislator who now sits on Pinal County's board of supervisors, introduced a bill thatthe tattoos on his muscular arms, Babeu, 43, is the youngest sheriff in Arizona. He is also among the state's most prominent public officials, owing to his vocal pronouncements on the need to patrol the Mexican border and hunt down people who cross it illegally. He is prone to issuing rousing defenses of his state's aggressive crackdown on illegal immigration and excoriating what he calls federal inaction, advancing his cause with regular television appearances on Fox News Channel.

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu examines one of the seized weapons after a news conference last fall, as a variety of law enforcement agencies announced a bust on a major drug smuggling ring in Arizona.

"We asked the federal government for help," Babeu said last year in a speech at the annual


meeting of the National Rifle Association. The government "sent teams of lawyers to sue us for enforcing the law. This is how twisted the situation is."

In the lobby of the Pinal County Sheriff's Office in Florence, a flatscreen television beams HD-quality footage of deputies making raids on suspected immigrant drug houses in rural parts of the county. Another scene shows a team of sheriff's deputies preparing to intercept suspected drug smugglers on a rocky outcropping in the western part of the county. Babeu stands on a ledge above them, wearing a flak jacket, explaining the mission.

Far from a mere showman, Babeu has frequently deployed the deputies under his command in pursuit of undocumented immigrants. He has sent special task forces deep into the desert to track undocumented immigrantscarrying loads of marijuana through Pinal County, which he frequently calls "the number one pass-through county for drug- and human-smuggling in America."

His deputies patrol area highways at night looking for "layup" spots -- rendezvous points where coyotes shuttling immigrants pick up passengers who have been on foot.

Under Babeu's tenure, Pinal County has taken on responsibility to enforce federal immigration laws within its jurisdiction. The county first signed such an agreement with ICE in 2008, and Babeu signed an updated version when he took over as sheriff in 2009. Since then, the number of undocumented immigrant deportations from Pinal County has shot up from 33 in 2008 to 199 in 2009, and has remained above 120 every year since, according to ICE data. Those numbers do not include undocumented


immigrants who were apprehended by Pinal County sheriff's deputies and then referred to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

Department of Homeland Security data shows that Pinal County is among the top counties in the state in terms of the numbers of undocumented immigrants arrested and brought to local jail -- often the first step en route to federal detention, a path that increasingly leads to private prisons.

Only a quarter of those arrested and identified as undocumented in Pinal County jails last year were apprehended for serious crimes, including drug possession charges and more violent crimes such as aggravated assault, robbery or homicide, according to ICE statistics. The rest were booked for minor offenses.

Babeu's priorities have drawn critics who have accused him of grandstanding on immigration enforcement at the expenseof public safety. Current and former sheriff's deputies complain that the focus on patrolling uninhabited desert terrain has taken manpower away from routine crime-fighting measures in places where people actually live.

"They're putting 10 or 20 people out there with no results, and yet we're leaving six people in an area of 80,000 people," says a former deputy, speaking on condition of anonymity because he still works in law enforcement. "We're taking from the citizens."

But Babeu's deployment decisions dovetail with the financial interests of his department: As part of the agreement that first brought CCA to Pinal County, the county gets a share of the profits from housing prisoners in one of the company's detention centers in Florence. For each inmate held in the facility, the county receives two


the state's detention centers are. Outside of Pinal County, the next closest federal detention center is in El Centro, Calif., nearly 300 miles to the west.

Machak, the CCA spokesman, pointed out that the payments to the county are also based on other inmate populations in the jail, such as U.S. Marshals Service detainees.

Babeu's spokesman acknowledges that that the sheriff's department is financed via the county's general fund, which holds the proceeds of the contracts with CCA and the federal immigration enforcement agency. But he emphasized that those funds are shared with the rest of the county government.

"The same money we get from the county also goes to roads, goes to courts, goes to fleets," says Johnson, the spokesman. "It goes to a number of other things."

According to areview of campaign finance records, Babeu has received more than $4,000 in combined campaign donations from CCA executives in Tennessee and company lobbyists in Phoenix -- funds dedicated to his race for sheriff in 2008 and an aborted Congressional campaign this year.

Johnson agrees to do a tour of the county hotspots for undocumented immigrants and drug smuggling.

He drives east along Interstate 10, pointing to treeless brown mountains in the distance and explaining how the natural geographic barriers funnel human traffic through Pinal County.

"We're the pass-through," he says. "The drugs and the people are all on their way to Phoenix."

Johnson spots the traffic stop with the three young Hispanic men, initially apprehended by the sheriff's deputy. Border Patrol agents and Pinal County sheriff's deputies confer under flashing lights on


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On the day before the fire broke out, the city of Chico had 243 homes for sale, said Adam Pearce, president of the North Valley group. About a week later, less than a third of them were still on the market. Pearce said that many of those that remain


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After the Camp fire turned her home in Paradise to ash and took everything she had, Leeanne Watts and her family of six people, four dogs and one bearded dragon lizard, found themselves stuck in a hotel in Yuba City.

Although she had recently received a voucher from the federal government’s Section 8 program that would subsidize her rent payments, Watts 41, quickly learned that Butte County landlords wouldn’t even entertain her inquiries. The voucher, which at first seemed like a stroke of unbelievable luck, had become a mark against her as a flood of tenants able to pay higher rents entered the market.

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Faced with the loss of their homes and the worsening shortage of affordable housing, some fire evacuees are giving up on California.

Jessica Swisher, 26, and her husband Eric Busby, 38, had moved into the Butte Creek Mobile Home Park about four months before the fire. It had taken them