It seems demonetisation is not India's last experiment with currency. The Reserve Bank of India ( RBI ) is now looking at the brave new world of cryptocurrency The success of Bitcoin , a popular cryptocurrency, may have encouraged the central bank to consider its own cryptocurrency since it is not comfortable with this non-fiat cryptocurrency, as stated by RBI executive director Sudarshan Sen a few days ago.Despite RBI's call for caution to people against the use of virtual currencies, a domestic Bitcoin exchange said it was adding over 2,500 users a day and had reached five lakh downloads. The company, launched in 2015, said the increasing downloads highlighted the "growing acceptance of Bitcoins as one of the most popular emerging asset class."A group of experts at RBIis examining the possibility of a fiat cryptocurrency which would become an alternative to the Indian rupee for digital transactions.According to a media report, RBI's own Bitcoin can be named Lakshmi, after the Hindu goddess of wealth.RBI's cryptocurrency could be a part of creating its own Blockchain , a distributed digital ledger and technology that supports cryptocurrencies.State Bank of India has taken the lead in bringing lenders and tech companies together for using Blockchain technology to share information among banks which will eventually help prevent frauds and tackle bad loans which are almost one-fifth of banks' loan book. The SBI's initiative, christened Bankchain, is in partnership with IBM, Microsoft, Skylark, KPMG and 10 commercial banks.Blockchain, the technology behind cyber currency Bitcoin, follows the concept of a centralised registry


that can be accessed by all members, and every event is registered as an unalterable 'block'.Despite a distrust of non-fiat cryptocurrencies, central banks all over the world have taken note of their effectiveness and popularity.The People’s Bank of China has done trial runs of its prototype cryptocurrency, taking it a step closer to being the first major central bank to issue digital money, according to a Bloomberg report. The Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank have launched a joint research project which studies the possible use of Blockchain.The Dutch central bank has created its own cryptocurrency for internal circulation just to better understand how it works, says the report. Ben Bernanke, the former chairman of the US Federal Reserve who has said digital currencies show "longHobbled Danes fall short

Shorthanded squad takes tough Vermont team down to last second

Tim Wilki, Times Union

By Tim Wilkin

Published 11:22 pm, Wednesday, February 15, 2012

UAlbany's Jayson Guerrier is guarded by Luke Apfeld of Vermont as he drives to the basket during a basketball game at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

UAlbany's Jayson Guerrier is guarded by Luke Apfeld of Vermont as...

UAlbany's Blake Metcalf shoots a jump shot during a basketball game against Vermont at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

UAlbany's Mike Black hands off the ball during a basketball game against Vermont at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

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Mike Black hands off the ball during a basketball game...

UAlbany's Logan Aronhalt dribbles the ball between his legs just before getting the ball stolen by Josh Elbaum of Vermont during a basketball game at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

UAlbany's Logan Aronhalt dribbles the ball between his legs just...

UAlbany's Blake Metcalf is guarded by Pat Bergmann of Vermont during a basketball game at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

UAlbany's Blake Metcalf is guarded by Pat Bergmann of Vermont...

UAlbany's Mike Black is guarded by Josh Elbaum of Vermont as he drives to the basket during a basketball game at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y.(Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

UAlbany's Mike Black is guarded by Josh Elbaum of Vermont as he...

UAlbany's Mike Black is guarded by Matt Glass of Vermont as he drives to the basket during a basketball game at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

UAlbany's Mike Black is guarded by Matt Glass of Vermont as he...

UAlbany's Mike Black is fouled by Matt Glass of Vermont as he drives to the basket during a basketball game at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

UAlbany's Mike Black is fouled by Matt Glass of Vermont as he...

UAlbany's Jayson Guerrier is guarded by Four McGlynn of Vermont as he drives to the basket during a


basketball game at SEFCU arena on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren / Times Union)

ALBANY — Before this game was even played, you would have thought the University at Albany was going to get beat by 50 Wednesday night.

The tale of the tape didn't favor the Great Danes at all.

First, UAlbany was playing Vermont, which, right now, is the best team in the America East with nine straight wins.

The leading scorer for the Danes, Gerardo Suero, was home under the covers with a case of shingles. The second leading scorer for UAlbany, Logan Aronhalt, has a gimpy right knee, and wasn't in the starting lineup.

This was a recipe for a Dane disaster.

Instead, the depleted roster played brave right to the end before bowing tothe Catamounts 50-47 in front of 2,811 at SEFCU Arena.

This is the second-fewest points the Danes have scored all season (46 at George Mason on Nov. 22 was the previous low). UAlbany came into this night averaging 73.8 points per game, best in the America East.

An offensive offensive night was perfectly predictable with Suero out and Aronhalt hobbling.

"You see, what? We only scored like 50 points and we were averaging 73," said junior guard Mike Black. "We are a completely different team without G and Logan."

Aronhalt tried to play, but was completely ineffective in the nine minutes he was on the floor in the first half. He missed all three shots he took, and was obviously having problems cutting and moving.

Things didn't get any better when starting forward


Luke Devlin went down with 4:53 left in the first half and never returned. Brown fears he might have a dislocated right knee.

The Danes (8-7, 16-13) played the Catamounts tough for the entire game, and, even when they trailed by nine points with 37 seconds left, UAlbany wouldn't go away.

In the last 32 seconds, Jacob Iati, who played a season-high 37 minutes (he was averaging 6.3 a game), hit a pair of 3-pointers and Black, the Danes' leading scorer with 16, converted a four-point play with 27.3 seconds left.

UAlbany still had a chance to get the game to overtime, but Iati missed a 3-pointer from the right corner as the buzzer went off.

"I am proud of my guys," Brown said. "That was supposed to be the best teamFAT Announces The End of Its Practice

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Following on from the completion of a number of architecturally significant projects, directors Sean Griffiths, Charles Holland and Sam Jacob believe that, with the conclusion of these final projects, FAT will have achieved all it set out to do when the practice first emerged in the 1990's. FAT was always conceived as a project in itself, a vehicle for critically opening up the culture of architecture rather than


and masterplans that include (amongst others) Kessels Kramers offices in Amsterdam, The Blue House in Hackney, the BBC Drama Production Village, Cardiff for Igloo, Islington Square for Urban Splash and the Great Places Housing Group, The Villa in Rotterdam and CIAC in

Middlesbrough, as well as installations and exhibitions at the Venice Biennale, the V&A, MAK and the Vienna Secession House.

FAT's work has been characterised by a highly conceptual approach, which combined the practical demands of architecture with critical and provocative thinking. Their work demonstrated the creative possibilities for architecture to engage beyond the traditional boundaries of an architecture office and the limits of professional concern.

FAT has also been an influential international presence in architectural education at a diverse range of institutions including the AA, the University of Westminster,the RCA, The Bartlett, the University of the Arts, UIC and Yale.

FAT's final two projects will realise many of the strands that have characterised its work:

Pushing the boundaries of architecture, collaboration and working with fine art, a deep interest in the culture of architecture and how architecture relates to wider culture, society and politics.

FAT would like to place on record its thanks to all our collaborators, the students, critics and journalists, who have avidly followed our progress, the outraged BTL commentators who gave us so much entertainment, and above all to the visionary clients who saw the potential for, and who dared to invest in, a unique approach to twenty first century architecture.

FAT's directors will continue to be a presence as individuals in the fields of architecture, design,


Thousands of posters offering advice on safer hitchhiking are being distributed across Canada as part of a campaign the RCMP describes as a first.

The national police force and a leading native group have reluctantly accepted that hitchhiking is inevitable in regions with poor public transit, so they are promoting tips to try to reduce the risks and generate evidence to track down those who assault hitchhikers.

The distribution list includes the Prince George area where the "Highway of Tears" is located, an area where dozens of women have gone missing and been murdered, some while hitchhiking.

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Michèle Audette, president of the women's association, said she and colleagues hitchhiked in their youth because they lived in isolated communities.

Ms. Audette recalled she was assaulted by a driver when she was 16 and travelling in Quebec, but escaped the vehicle thanks to self-defence lessons her father had insisted she take.

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She said the organization discussed the campaign and realized that many hitchhikers have no choice, so it ruled out any advocacy that argued against the tradition. The challenge, she said, was trying to eliminate the dangers of hitchhiking. "If we can save one life or protect or save [someone] by sharing those tips, it's important for us," she said.

Supt. Bates said the advice is universal, though it was developed with First Nations communities in


In 2014, so-called Islamic State fighters targeted the Yazidis, an ethnic Kurdish group in northern Iraq, killing the men and capturing the women and children.

Ekhlas, who was 14 at the time, tried to escape up Mount Sinjar but was not fast enough.

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after his demise that he was tormented in the German jail, the German powers created a suicide note for Pakistan's outside office. sometime during the examination, the German legal framework closed his passing was a suicide. However, a group of nine senior FIA authorities from Pakistan reasoned that indications of unfairness were available and his demise was because of torture.german powers' augmented sub-par collaboration towards Pakistani examiners and denied access to essential confirmation when the recent went by Berlin in the month of May to confirm the reason for Aamir's demise. Extra Director General FIA (Federal Investigational Agency) Tariq Khosa told the senate council few days after the fact, that Cheema's situation is anything but hopeful and the primary vein of his heart was cut off, which plainlythe loss of lives of several of my friends. It is still in my heart. So I don't want to relive that haunting experience again", said Prommin.  His role in the burgeoning democratic movement continued until the 6 October 1976 massacre, when the military brutally cracked down on students at Thammasat University.

Prommin joined thousands of students in leaving the cities and joining the Communist Party of Thailand in its insurgency against the military dictatorship.  Joining him were several comrades that would become allies in the establishment of the Thai Rak Thai party, like Chaturon Chaisang, Prapat Panyachatraksa, and Surapong Suebwonglee.  After 4 years of fighting, the Communist Party collapsed, and Prommin and his comrades laid down their arms under a government amnesty.

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government faced rising opposition from its landslide victory in the 2005 House election.  As tensions mounted to critical proportions, Prommin Lertsuridej, almost in tears, gave a public statement in August 2006 begging all sides, both within the government and in the anti-Thaksin People's Alliance for Democracy to try to refrain from violence.  His plea fell on deaf ears, with the Bangkok Post calling it an "absurd call."

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In July 2012, the Court of Appeals imposed a suspended four month jail sentence and a Bt2,000 fine on former Democrat Party secretary general Suthep Thaugsubanprotect their own residents from harm). Racial discrepancies, subtle but decisive, persist in areas such as bank lending and healthcare. Black men are tragically overrepresented in the prison population.

Yet these remnants of pre-Civil Rights Act America hardly constitute the "reign of white supremacy" that some blacks still decry. The United States now has a lower percentage of black families living below the poverty line than at any time in the nation's history, and the figure is falling with every census count.

It is difficult to see "apartheid" in a country in which the secretary of State, the national security advisor, the CEOs of Time Warner, American Express and Merrill Lynch, the presidents of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the American Bar Assn. and even the last James


fact remains that there are no new black leaders in Sharpton's mold. Pulling stunts like grilling Howard Dean on the black representation on his staff when he was governor of a state that had a mere 3,050 African American residents in 2000 (0.5% of the state population), Sharpton shows he is old school, not a sign of the times.

Of course, most of us still know a black person or two who bring to mind Homey the Clown from the television variety classic "In Living Color," painting life as a black person in the U.S. as an endless battle against racist abuse. This ideology, increasingly difficult to square with reality, is a legacy of a stain that the past left on the African American self-image.

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Squirrel overpopulation in Palisades Park has been an issue for the last 20 years. But the debate over what to do with the estimated 1,000 squirrels in the coastal park reached a boiling point in 2005, when the city set out poison-filled traps. Joining with other activists, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals complained to City Hall that the method was painful and illegal.

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Santa Monica and Berkeley, but the truth is, there are plenty of folks in the non-coastal counties living the reddest of 'red state' lives right here in the Golden State.

The closing quote from the article says it all, what the journalist doesn't convey is whether the jogger quoted was being derisive or admiring of our city's 'progressive edge'

Resident Mike Sheldon, who was jogging in Palisades Park recently, said he for one was not surprised by the city's action.

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China Miéville has been publishing speculative fiction for close to two decades, beginning with King Rat in 1998. In the course of this career he has become known as the foremost exponent of the New Weird, rivaled only by Jeff VanderMeer. VanderMeer and his wife, Ann VanderMeer, brought the existence of the fledgling subgenre to the attention of a wider reading public with The New Weird, the anthology they edited in 2008. In his introduction, VanderMeer maintains that the (Old) Weird, which is epitomized by H.P. Lovecraft and includes the likes of Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and William Hope Hodgson, is characterized by the combination of supernatural unease with visionary sensibility. By contrast, the New Weird characteristically involves the triple combination of complex urban settings, surreal or


the latter in January of this year. The Last Days of New Paris weaves two narratives together – one set in a recognizable France of 1941 and the other in an unrecognizable Paris of 1950 -- and populates each with a mix of real and fictional people, but it does not invite one to ruminate on the possible consequences of, for example, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s assassination (Dick) or a Luftwaffe victory in the Battle of Britain (Deighton). Instead, the geopolitics that led up to and followed the “S-Blast” (presumably "surrealist blast"), the explosion that both created living manifestations of surrealist works of art and opened the gates of hell, are for the most part circumstantial. The second context, which may be related to the first, is to seethe novella as a response to the global rise of nationalism, often in extreme forms, in the second decade of the 21st century. The phenomenon is no doubt of grave concern to Miéville, who is a left wing political activist, a founding member of the Left Unity political party, and a Marxist academic. His third book on Marxism, October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, is due for publication in May and has been praised for historical accuracy as well as effective storytelling. In her review in the London Review of Books, Sheila Fitzpatrick writes of Miéville’s enthusiasm for the concept of revolution, and while his history may well be an artistic call for political revolt, The Last Days of New Paris is neither a call for resistance


nor a naïve allegory of art’s revolutionary power.
The novella consists of nine chapters, with the odd numbers devoted to events in the 1950 present and the even numbers to events in the 1941 past. The story is followed by an afterword and notes section and my only criticism of the work concerns the inclusion of this supplementary material. The afterword is subtitled “On Coming to Write The Last Days of New Paris” and constitutes a curious and anachronistic conceit in which Miéville claims to have met Thibaut, the fictional protagonist of 1950, and to have merely edited the manuscript passed to him. This was a common device in Victorian fiction, a hangover from the novel as a literary form derived from history rather than poetry, and was supposedfactions rising up against the Germans and the “battalions from below” rising up to join the chaos. The resistance includes the Free French, led by Charles de Gaulle and backed by the United States, and the Main à plume, the surrealist irregulars, some of whom -- like Thibaut -- have been able to harness the power released by the detonation. The most significant effect of the S-Blast was not the release of hell’s minions (who show only a passing interest in the city), but to create the living manifestations of surrealist artworks, “manifs,” that roam the streets either on their own or under the less than perfect command of surrealist or SS handlers. By 1950 the Germans have sealed the city, which has become a "free-fire zone and


centaur -- against the German lines. There is also a satisfyingly overdetermined symmetry in the work’s design as the onset is bookended by the appearance of "Fall Rot," a Panzer III-giant man centaur, in the first stage of the story’s tripartite climax. The symmetry is superbly complex: in the same way that science and the supernatural are the dual interests of Jack Parsons, the real-life protagonist of the 1941 narrative, so Fall Rot has been created by the combination of the biological experimentation of Josef Mengele and the perverted faith of Robert Alesch. In a further parallel, both of the plots begin with the arrival of an American on the scene, Parsons in Vichy Marseilles in 1941 and an American photojournalist named Sam in the free part of(and the New Weird in his own definition) resist nationalism and neoliberalism in virtue of being politico-artistic movements in the first instance. Surrealism is not an artistic movement in the service of Marxism, but a Marxist artistic movement. As such, The Last Days of New Paris calls for a revolt in art rather than a revolt in politics, for integrating politics into art rather than employing art as a means to political ends. The link from New Paris to the contemporary world comes in the perfectly-pitched anti-climax with which the narrative concludes, as Thibaut takes it upon himself to write his own book, to start “from scratch, redo history, make it mine.” In Thibaut’s return to the fray to write his revolution, Miéville urges readers to artistic revolt,


to the reconception of art as essentially rather than circumstantially political and the New Weird as essentially rather than instrumentally resistant to nationalism and neoliberalism.

This has been my year of reading genre-ously. There were a couple of dips into familiar but rarely visited genres – William Gibson's lackluster new science fiction novel, Zero History, and Elmore Leonard's dazzling new crime novel, Djibouti. If it was disappointing to see a gifted SF trailblazer struggling in mid-career, it was a genuine joy to see our greatest crime writer going strong as train smoke at the ripe age of 85.
But after a lifetime devoted almost exclusively to reading literary fiction, my eyes were finally opened to the boundless possibilities of genre writing by the fantasy novelist China Mieville. When I decidedgot something to keep me warm through a long cold winter.
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This is a story about how China Miéville opens eyes. It begins in Detroit in the 1950s with a boy who flat loves to read, who can't get enough of Dr. Seuss, the Hardy Boys, and the Flash (Marvel and Zap Comix will come much later). He reads an actual newspaper every day, and he cherishes his first library card the way kids today cherish their first iPhone. (This doesn't make him wiser or better than kids


today, just luckier.) When the boy's mother enrolls him in the after-school Great Books Club, he's thrilled to discover such "grown-up" writers as Robert Louis Stevenson and Jack London, Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle, then Hemingway's quietly complex Nick Adams Stories.
Some 50 years later that boy is me, a writer who has spent his life reading novels and short stories that can fairly be regarded as the offspring of that Great Books Club – what some people call "literary" fiction and others call High-Brow Rot. This dutiful quest for quality has familiarized me with most of the pantheon's usual suspects, and there's certainly nothing wrong with that. But it left little time for supposedly inferior "genre" or "mainstream" fiction. Only a few things seeped through – thewhole worlds of reading pleasure.
And that, conveniently, was when China Miéville came into my life.
He was recommended by a friend who has been a life-long fan of fantasy and science fiction. I trusted her because she's smart and she made a documentary movie about William Gibson in the 1980s, when Gibson was helping forge the "cyber-punk" sub-genre of science fiction. At her urging I read Gibson's early short stories, and I was blown away by their prescience and hip wit, particularly "The Gernsback Continuum," "The Winter Market," and "Burning Chrome." To top it off, the writer who coined the term "cyberspace" didn't even own a computer. He wrote on an old manual typewriter. My kind of Luddite!
Despite the pleasant surprise of reading Gibson's short fiction and Neal Stephenson's


splendid SF novel Snow Crash – what's not to love about high-tech skateboards in the service of on-time pizza delivery? – I had modest expectations when I opened China Miéville's first novel, King Rat. Published in 1998 when the author was just 26, it tells the story of a Londoner named Saul Garamond who is wrongly suspected of murdering his father. He's sprung from his police holding cell by a mysterious creature in a gray overcoat, the furtive, foul-smelling rodent of the book's title. What ensues is a mind-bending journey across London's rooftops and through its sewers as Saul learns that he's part human and part rat and therefore a vital weapon in the war against a murderous Pied Piper figure who wants to annihilate all of thecity's rats and spiders. It ends with an orgy of violence at a Drum and Bass rave called Junglist Terror.
I wasn't quite sure what to make of the novel. Was it just a delicious stew of weirdness? Was it an allegory about the need for solidarity among the underclass as it fights prejudice and oppression? Whatever it was or was not, the book whetted my appetite for more.
While King Rat was a respectable debut, it barely hinted at what was coming. Perdido Street Station, published in 2000, anointed Miéville as a star of the fantasy genre – or the "New Weird" – and gave birth to a cult following. The novel is an astonishment, the work of a writer with a fecund, feverish, inexhaustible imagination, a brilliant world-maker.


We are on the world of Bas-Lag, in a suppurating cesspool of a city called New Crobuzon, where humans and strange races and brutally altered convicts called Remades jostle and thieve and whore under the eye of a vicious, all-seeing militia. The city festers around the spot where the River Tar and River Canker meet to form the River Gross Tar. It's peppered with evocatively named precincts – Smog Bend, Nigh Sump, Murkside, Spatters – and rail lines emerge like an evil spider web from the titular train station.
There are human frogs called vodyanoi, half-bird half-men called garuda, green-skinned cactus people, and intelligent beetles called khepri. People get strung out on shazbah, dreamshit, quinner, and very-tea. In their midst, a rogue scientist named Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin receivesof revisiting the dank alleys of New Crobuzon he took to the high seas, where two New Crobuzon natives have been captured by pirates and sequestered on Armada, a vast floating city made of lashed-together boats, all of it dragged slowly across the world by tug boats. As they plot their escape, Bellis Coldwine, a gifted linguist, and Silas Fennec, a vaguely disreputable adventurer with curious powers, piece together the great mystery and mission of Armada: its rulers are working to raise a mythical mile-long beast from the deep, the avanc, so they can lash it to the bottom of the city and move at much greater speeds – toward... what?
Once again the fauna is irresistible: the Lovers, the autocratic couple who rule Armada and cement their bond


Crobuzon, the renegades succeed in traversing the uncharted, forbidding continent, ripping up the tracks behind them and re-laying them in front as they inch along, writing history. The train itself, this Iron Council, soon goes feral. It's led by Judah, a master at making golems out of dirt, corpses, air, even time, and eventually it must decide if it should return to New Crobuzon to help the revolt, or continue on its epic journey. Interrupted by a long flashback in the middle, the novel is more overtly political than its predecessors, with a subtext about the pain of unrequited love between saintly Judah and a male disciple named Cutter. It's both brutal and tender, with plenty of monsters and combat and high adventure, but fans and critics weresharply divided.
After its publication, Miéville cited Iron Council as his personal favorite among his books. It's not hard to understand why. The writing is lean, free of pyrotechnics, fearless, a sign that the writer has attained full confidence in his powers, in his characters, and in the weird world they travel through. Miéville no longer had anything to prove to himself or anyone else. What writer wouldn't revel in such liberating self-possession?
Miéville was entitled to a breather, and he took it in 2007 with Un Lun Dun, a delightful children's book that posits there are "abcities" that live alongside real ones – London has Un Lun Dun, and then there's Parisn't, No York, Lost Angeles, and others. Into Un Lun Dun come two London girls, Zanna and Deeba,


buildings (Mildly Outdated in London) made of discarded TVs and record players, and Webminster Abbey, a church made of cobwebs. She teams up with a kindly bus conductor, a talking book, a cuddly milk carton named Curdle, and the binja, protective trash bins that know karate. Their battle against the Smog and its devious human allies draws on Miéville's twin strengths – his boundless imagination and his ability to whip a narrative into a frenzy. He even illustrated the book with deft pen-and-ink sketches.
Next came The City & the City (2009), which, though it just won the 2010 Hugo Award, strikes me as the weakest of Miéville's novels. It's essentially a noir police procedural set in a pair of intertwined cities, Beszel and Ul Qoma, which occupy thethe other London – a netherworld of cultists, magickers, angels, witches, stone cold killers, and some people who are trying to engineer the end of the world. One of them is a talking tattoo. Another wants to erase the achievements of Charles Darwin. More than a few people believe the giant squid is a god. The novel is Miéville's grandest achievement to date, brainy and funny and harrowing, its pages studded with finely cut gems, such as: "The street stank of fox." And: "The presence of Billy's dream was persistent, like water in his ears." And: "All buildings whisper. This one did it with drips, with the scuff of rubbish crawling in breezes, with the exhalations of concrete." This other London, Miéville writes, is "a graveyard haunted by


as any reader has a right to ask of any writer.
Word is getting out of the genre ghetto. Even the Decade-Late Desk at the New York Times gave Miéville the full treatment after the publication of Kraken – an interview in his London home that duly noted his middle-class upbringing, his shaved skull and multiple ear piercings, his degree from the London School of Economics, and his numerous literary prizes. "And," the article concluded with tepid Gray Lady praise, "his fan base has come to include reviewers outside the sci-fi establishment."
True, as far as it goes. But the Times article barely touched on what might be the most startling aspect of Miéville's career to date. Rather than trying to distance himself from the fantasy genre, he has embracedfirst such program in the United States. DeLuca manage the U.S. Program for the Business Association. He Serves on the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Board, co-chairing its Enterprise Financing Options Committee. He previously served on the board of the Vermont Agriculture Innovation Center. Through those two initiatives, he has engaged in over $3.5 Million in funding decisions benefitting working lands enterprises. He led the NESAWG Processing Infrastructure Work Group for two years and guided the development of the Neighboring Food Co-op Association-a New England network of 35 fod co-ops responsible for over $30 Million of local product purchases annually'.

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BuzzWorthy Radio is celebrating its 5 year anniversary with special guests: Roger Newcomb of WE LOVE SOAPS TV and Daniel Goddard of CBS Daytime's THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS. Join host NaVell J. Lee as he relives some of his favorite moments from the past five years, as well as take calls from fans for his return to BlogTalkRadio for one evening.

2008 Sundance fellow iZLER (pronounced "eye-zler") is a Czech born, English raised composer and multi instrumentalist, living in Los Angeles, who started his career as a recording and touring musician / collaborator with Robbie Williams (amongst many others), before coming back to studying conducting and orchestration in LA and focusing on film. An authentic voicein both the rock and orchestral worlds, he has scored a variety of movies including Humboldt County, Robbie Pickering’s Natural Selection (winner, Best Picture, Best Score 2011 SxSW) and Andrew MacLean’s thriller On the Ice, (2011 Sundance Film Festival, winner Silver Bear, Berlin 2011). He was nominated for the “Discovery of the Year” award at the World Soundtrack Awards in 2011. In the world of TV he is currently serving up weekly orchestral scores on ABC's hit drama Revenge. He has written songs and score for numerous other shows including ER, Thief and Chicago Code and regularly contributes score to Showtime’s current hit series Shameless.

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favorite shows from 2011! Tonight, we share with you our interview with Daniel Goddard, originally aired on November, 2, 2011! Daniel plays the role of Cane Ashby on CBS Daytime's THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS!

Hollywood Foreign Press Association President Aida Takla O'Reilly made her way to the podcast this week to chat about one of the biggest events to take place in Hollywood...The Golden Globes! Dr. O'Reilly spoke with us on the rehiring of Ricky Gervais as Golden Globe host for the third time. While some actors may not have been perceptive to his Brit humor, fans were pleased to see such a host have fun. Also, we spoke on the nomination process, and if it indeed shows favoritism. The 69th Annual Golden Globes air on NBC thisthe
motions to dismiss, and continuing the first appearance and
detention hearing on the petition and supplemental petition.

Continued Detention Hearing on April 9, 2018;
Denial of Motions to Dismiss;
and Detention Order.
   On April 9, 2018, the juvenile court conducted a hearing on
the motions to dismiss, first appearance, and detention. The
family permanency specialist testified that on April 2, the par-
ents were served in the State of Washington with notice of the
April 9 hearing. The special prosecutor offered documents pur-
porting to show service of summons, which the juvenile court
received. At the conclusion of the hearing, the court announced
that the motions to dismiss were denied.
   On April 11, 2018, the juvenile court issued a detention
order that also memorialized its ruling disposing of the parents’
motions to dismiss. It found that the


Coming Up: Brigid Mae Power

February 7 2018 by Bjørn Hammershaug

Coming Up: Brigid Mae Power

February 7 2018 by Bjørn Hammershaug

London born and Irish-based singer and songwriter Brigid Mae Power recorded her proper debut album in Portland with her husband, renowned musician and producer Peter Broderick (Efterklang, Nils Frahm), and released in 2016 on the San Francisco label Tompkins Square to great acclaim. Pitchfork described her voice as “agile and exhilarating, conveying all her nervous optimism and frank exhaustion” and linker her to the sound of This Mortal Coil, Marissa Nadler and PJ Harvey, while Uncut magazine declared it a “masterpiece”.

On February 9th, Power is set to release the anticipated follow up. The Two Worlds is yet again made in collaboration with Peter Broderick, and recorded in her native Galway,in the West of Ireland. I had found the system in place very judgmental towards single mothers and I felt the heaviness of that. I had a lot of experiences where people were judgmental towards me.

I also had a lot of compassion from people around me, but from the authorities and system it was the opposite. So I was feeling frustration from that, but also I had been in a relationship with someone who was very manipulative and psychologically abusive, and I had a few people around me at the time that were putting me down.

So some of my experiences in the west of Ireland, including my schooling, had felt very oppressive to me and that song was just sort of a response to that once I had


IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz told the annual Herzliya Conference on Monday that Hezbollah knows conflict with Israel would "set it back decades."

Gantz said he was sure Israel would face Hezbollah either in "direct combat" or in broader-scope fighting inside Lebanon, but added that "Hezbollah is deterred."

Hezbollah "knows what will happen if it gets into conflict with us, and that this will set Lebanon back decades," the chief of staff told the security conference, Israel's Channel 2 reported.

There is "dramatic instability" in the Middle East, the chief of staff told the audience, adding that the region has undergone "terrible turmoil in recent years."

Gantz predicted that the Syrian conflict will continue over the next decade. The Assad regime is falling apart "like a house of cards," he said.

Healso warned against the growth of radicalism in Syria, under the leadership of Iran and Hezbollah. "The Lebanese terrorist organization is in it up to their necks, and Global Jihad is growing stronger there," Channel 2 cited him as saying.

On Iran, he said that Tehran had not abandoned its nuclear ambitions. "However, the Iranians who did not give up on the vision, are struggling internally and will have to reach a dialogue with the international community on the issue."

Gantz said he was "convinced that we must prevent Iran" from acquiring a nuclear weapon, as this would result in an arms race, and that the international cooperation could prevent that. "Iran must not reach nuclear capabilities."

On Egypt, he said that Israel's southern neighbor was "fighting for its image" after


the election of President-elect Abed Fateh al-Sissi, who he said is also trying to fight Global Jihad.

When it comes to Gaza, the chief of staff said "there is no small drama" with the extent of medium and long-range rockets around. Like Hezbollah, however, Hamas "understands the price of fighting," he said.into the penitentiary.  The decisive question here is whether the evidence presented was sufficient to prove that Wagner was a party to the plot.  The evidence consisted of the testimony of co-conspirators, and of Wagner's name endorsed on a check from a co-conspirator.  The sufficiency of this evidence turns on the admissibility of the co-conspirators' implicating testimony, and this depends upon proof that Wagner did, indeed, cash the check.  He denies doing so, hence, his complicity in the conspiracy hinges largely upon the identification of his endorsement on the co-conspirator's check.

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On trial, the court admitted records from other court cases bearing signatures of Wagner's name, for use as comparisons with the endorsement on the check.  Using these records and handwriting exemplars given by


and the public records.  When the expert was asked if he had an opinion as a result of the examination, counsel objected, and was granted permission to ask a preliminary question.  The witness was then asked if the opinion he would give was confined singularly to the exemplar, and whether he could state an opinion without utilizing the signature on the public records.  When the expert answered that he would need the signatures on the public records to form an opinion, Wagner's counsel objected to the expert's opinion on grounds that the signatures on the public records had not been authenticated.  The court thereupon observed that "[i]t was admitted by the court because it was a public document that showed what purported to bethe signature . . . . The only relevance is the purported signature on a public document.  And the document purports to have the signature of the defendant Wagner upon it."  The objection was overruled, and the expert witness proceeded to testify that he made a "side-by-side comparison" of the endorsement on the check "with the known material," i.e. the public documents and the exemplar.  At this point the court intervened to instruct the jury in conventional language concerning the weight to be given expert testimony.  The expert witness was then permitted to express the opinion that the questioned endorsement on the check was prepared by the writer of the material found on the other exhibits.  He further testified that the exemplars were


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York Racecourse to show World Cup Play Off at John Smith's Cup Day on Saturday

York Racecourse still intends to show the World Cup 3rd/4th Place Play Off match at the course, as part of John Smith’s Cup Day on Saturday 14 July.

Though sharing the disappointment of millions of fans after Gareth Southgate’s young lions lost their semi-final match; the team at the Knavesmire want to offer a last chance for fans to salute the players, after a marvellous month of entertainment and restoration of pride in the national shirt.

For fans on Stands Side (County Stand and Grandstand & Paddock) who want to follow the match with full commentary, the large screen overlooking the Roberto Lawn will offer both sound and vision, as well as uninterrupted coverage ofThe Center for Constitutional Rights filed the federal class action lawsuit Floyd, et al. v. City of New York, et al. against the City of New York to challenge the New York Police Department’s practices of racial profiling and unconstitutional stop and frisks of New York City residents. The named plaintiffs in the case – David Floyd, David Ourlicht, Lalit Clarkson, and Deon Dennis – represent the thousands of primarily Black and Latino New Yorkers who have been stopped without any cause on the way to work or home from school, in front of their house, or just walking down the street.

In a historic ruling on August 12, 2013, following a nine-week trial, a federal judge found the New York City Police Department liable for a pattern and


practice of racial profiling and unconstitutional stops. Under a new administration, the City agreed to drop its appeal and begin the joint remedial process ordered by the court. After attempts by the police unions to derail the process, the United States Court of Appeals at last allowed the City to officially withdraw its appeal in October 2014, and the joint reform process – in which all stakeholders, from community groups to the NYPD, come together to agree on solutions – is being mapped out.

The Floyd case stems from CCR's landmark racial profiling case, Daniels, et al. v. City of New York, et al., which led to the disbanding of the infamous Street Crime Unit and a settlement with the City in 2003. The Daniels settlement agreement required thePresentation Transcript

William Bronchick is one of the best selling authors for real estate books. He is also one of the best attorneys in the United States. He has been practicing law and real estate since 1990. Bronchick has appeared as a guest on numerous radio and television talk shows including CNBC Power Lunch.

Bronchick has also been featured in Who's Who in American Business, Money Magazine, the Los Angeles Times and the Denver Business Journal. William Bronchick has written several books on real estate and wealth protection. He also offers courses on owner financing, fix and flip, wholesaling, and other real estate issues. Some of his best selling books include Wealth Protection Strategies, The Ultimate Guide to Fix and Flip, Defensive Real Estate Investing, Financing Secrets, Wealth Protection Secrets,


as many as 16,000 at "Get Motivated" events sharing the stage with names like Rudy Guliani, Steve Forbes, and Colin Powell. His best selling book, ‘Flipping Properties' was named one of the ten best real estate books of the year by the Chicago Tribune.A majority of Americans has an unfavorable view of Black Lives Matter, although opinions on the protest movement cut sharply along racial and partisan lines, according to a new poll.

Overall, 43 percent of voters have a positive view of Black Lives Matter, compared with 57 percent who have a negative view of the movement, the latest Harvard-Harris survey found.

Only 35 percent of whites have a favorable view of the movement, while 83 percent of blacks have a favorable view.

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Twenty-one percent of Republicans have a positive view of the movement. That figure dips to 18 percent among those who voted for President Trump.Meanwhile, 65 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of those who voted for Democratic presidential nomineesupport the movement, which sprung up during the 2016 election to protest


5 ounces of gold that he
must set aside to pay his doctor for life-saving surgery. He will need to withdraw
it as soon as the doctor can schedule the operation.

In this instance, the bank finds that their scheme seems to have worked. The
wedding hall and the doctor both deposit their new gold into the bank. "It's
not a problem until it's a problem," they tell themselves. And they pocket
the difference between the rate they must pay demand depositors (near zero)
and the yield on a 30-year bond (for example, 5%).

So the bank repeats this trick many times over. They come to think they can
get away with it forever. Until one day, it blows up. There is a net flow of
gold out of the bank; withdrawals exceed deposits. The bank goes toout of a
failing bond, others try to sell out also. And they are driven by the same
essential cause. The project is non-viable; it is malinvestment. They want
to cut their losses.

Unfortunately, someone must take the losses as real capital is consumed and
destroyed. A bust of credit contraction, business contraction, layoffs, and
losses inevitably follows the false boom. People who are employed in wealth-destroying
enterprises must be laid off and the enterprises shut down.

Busts inflict real pain on people, and this is tragic as there is no need
for busts. They are not intrinsic to free markets. They are caused by government's
attempts at central planning, and also by duration mismatch.

Keith Weiner is CEO of Monetary Metals, a precious metals fund company in
Scottsdale, Arizona. He is a leading authority in the areas of gold,


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of the Gold Standard Institute USA.

Weiner attended university at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and earned
his PhD at the New Austrian School of Economics. He blogs about gold and the
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and DVD library.

The building has free WiFi throughout.

As well as a full Scottish breakfast, Big Deal buyers will be able to gleefully wield their cutlery in the Rihas Restaurant.

Popular with locals as well as residents, locally sourced ingredients take centre stage on the menu.

Think along the lines of starters such as the haggis fritters with creamed neeps and pearl barley risotto or the king prawn tempura with pickled squid and sweet chilli.

Typical main courses include medallions of beef with spring onion mash and mushrooms or the chicken supreme with petit pois and rocket risotto.

Afterwards or indeed before your meal, the hotel’s Romas wine bar is a pleasant spot for quaffing a frosty one or take your drinks out to the terrace and gardens.

With nearby attractions such as golf,As they do with several plays each week, the Dallas Cowboys have asked the NFL to look into Washington's snap simulation from Monday's game that led to several early shotgun snaps from center Phil Costa.

The Cowboys have accused the Redskins of causing Costa's itchy trigger finger by mimicking Romo's cadence. The culprit was thought to be Washington defensive end Stephen Bowen, who spent the last five seasons in Dallas.

An official response has not been sent yet, but coach Jason Garrett is not waiting for a reply to get it corrected before Sunday's game against Detroit.

"We need to be able to handle the situation and we'll do a better job of that going forward," Garrett said. "A lot of times there's noise at the line of scrimmage and we


college, Costa made the Cowboys last season and started one game at guard as an injury fill-in. He played so well at center during training camp that Dallas booted Pro Bowl regular Andre Gurode to hand him the job, even though he was dealing with a knee injury. The knee has sidelined him some this season, one of many injuries along the line and throughout the Cowboys' offense.

Costa took responsibility for the snaps after the game and had a conversation recently with Gurode.

"It was cool," Costa said. "He's a good dude."

On Tuesday, in an interview with The Ben and Skin Show on 103.3 FM ESPN in Dallas, he absolved Bowen but said that the Redskins' defensive linemen were "barking a little bit."

"Either way, it is on me," CostaThe case has been posted for further hearing on June 26. The case has been posted for further hearing on June 26.

The Madras High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Tamil Nadu government for not taking adequate steps to handle the water crisis in Chennai despite two failed monsoon seasons.

Justices S Manikumar and Subramonium Prasad, who earlier sought a reply from the government on a number of steps they had taken up to handle the water crisis, orally observed that the government did not take adequate steps even if the water crisis in the wake of failed monsoons was expected.

READ | Citing water shortage, 100 Chennai hostels shut

The court was hearing cases filed against the commercial exploitation of groundwater from the outskirts of the city, including a PIL


from a resident of Vellore district, who alleged that sewage was being allowed to flow through into a water channel.

While the government explained steps they had taken up to handle the water crisis and the progress in new desalination projects, besides steps taken with regard to encroachments, the court suo moto impleaded the secretary of Public Works Department (PWD) in the case and directed to submit a state-wide comprehensive report on the number of reservoirs in the state, steps taken for desilting, amount sanctioned, and status of those works.

The court observed that some of the water bodies have been destroyed or reduced in size due to encroachment. “Encroachment is also said to be one of the causes of the reduction of storage capacity of lakes and water bodies.The PWD secretary who is vested with the custody of preserving the lakes is also directed to submit a detailed report of the steps taken for the removal of encroachment. The secretary is directed to issue a circular to all district collectors to submit details about the action taken for removal of encroachments in water bodies,” the court said.

The court also sought a report on the desalination projects taken up by the government and information about plans for additional desalination plant.

The case has been posted for further hearing on June 26.

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Income tax is likely to fall short of the government's target for this financial year despite record employment, the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has warned.

The UK budgetary watchdog said many new jobs were low paid or created through low-paid self-employment.

OBR chairman Robert Chote told the BBC fewer revenues were coming in for each new pound earned.

The first £10,000 earned a year is free from income tax.

Figures from HM Revenue & Customs show that of the growing number of people who work for themselves, 35% earn less than £10,000 a year.

In 2008, 20% of self-employed earned less than the prevailing tax-free allowance.

Earnings lag

A survey released on Monday by business services group BDO found firms' hiring intentions reached a new post-crisis high in September.

Official figures show there are currentlyThis morning, the office of the Ethiopian Prime Minister has announced that an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on a regular scheduled flight to Nairobi has crashed and an unknown number of people have lost their lives.

So far, there has been no official communication from the Ethiopian Airlines and we shall give you subsequent updates immediately they surface.

Here is the post from the official Twitter handle of the Ethiopian Prime Minister.

The Office of the PM, on behalf of the Government and people of Ethiopia, would like to express it’s deepest condolences to the families of those that have lost their loved ones on Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 on regular scheduled flight to Nairobi, Kenya this morning. — Office of the Prime Minister – Ethiopia (@PMEthiopia) March 10, 2019


Timbuktu: bulk manuscripts safe!

Experts say that while up to 2,000 manuscripts may have been lost at the South African-funded Ahmed Baba Institute ransacked by the rebels, the bulk of the around 300,000 texts existing in Timbuktu and its surrounding region are believed to be safe.breached its duty of fair representation by impairing the seniority rights of "Carbo, Victoriano and Dugas9 by failing to follow its unlawful 2001 bump order and allowing employees with less seniority to earn higher wages." As discussed, of the three, only Victoriano's recall claims are not barred, and plaintiffs fail to brief, in this section, how Victoriano's seniority rights were impaired.

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Even assuming that this claim was not waived for want of briefing, it fails for two reasons. First, the evidence shows that Victoriano was displaced from his Warehouseman job by Tamplain, who was more senior than he was, because she had a badge number of 3011 and Victoriano's badge number was 3086.

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Second, Victoriano's complaints with respect to less senior employees working in higher paying jobs were about Breaux


Dorothy.

The point of view shifts subtly among the three of them. Putting Dorothy’s internal voice into the mix might sound a bit precious but Ciment has a light touch. I found myself curious about what each, even the dog, was thinking. At the peak of my interest, Ciment told me. It’s an uncanny narrative skill.

Alex and Ruth are old lefties. Alex has acquired and decided to illuminate the pages of his FBI file, though not quite like a medieval manuscript or a book of hours. “In place of crosses and saints, martyrs and angels, [he would] paint A-bombs, Mousketeers, two-tone refrigerators, Khrushchev, and portraits of him and Ruth.” Ciment, who teaches English at the University of Florida in Gainesville, is married to the artist Arnold Mensches, who isThe Man in the Wooden Hat was also a runner up in the Times prizes for 2009.

Gardam, who has written many books, is well known in her native Britain where she’s been honored — the Whitbread prize, twice — and has a steady audience. She deserves to have an American readership as large as, say, Julian Barnes or Anita Brookner.

Like them Gardam has a distinctly English voice. Old Filth (FILTH is an acronym for Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is the story of Sir Edward Feathers, a son of empire, unhappily born in Malaya. He becomes a war orphan and is sent home, as the English have always put it, for his education. Eventually he returns to the Far East where he makes his name and reputation.


We meet him in his retirement, living in Dorset, heavy with honors and remembering his marriage to the late Betty.

Betty’s memory of the events told in Old Filth is the core of The Man in the Wooden Hat. Betty sees things differently. She keeps her secrets and Edward is none the wiser. Like her husband, Betty was born in the Far East and spent a portion of her childhood in a Japanese internment camp in China. As a young woman, she knows that she doesn’t want a conventional marriage, like her mother’s. She does want children. Betty gets a version of her mother’s marriage but the time spent in the camp with its deprivations forecloses the possibility of children. For all that, she finds a measure of serenity,Washington (CNN) The fate of President Donald Trump's summit with Kim Jong Un remains uncertain after a series of provocative statements from North Korea. But even if history isn't made, a commemorative coin created by members of a White House military unit forever memorializes what could have been.

Members of the White House Communications Agency, which provides a range of communications support to US presidents, created and issued a commemorative coin featuring Trump and Kim's likeness with the words "PEACE TALKS" above them.

The coin quickly sparked controversy amid questions about the White House's role in creating it and criticism that it featured Kim's likeness and referred to him as "Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un," his official North Korean title.

But the coin -- which members of the White House Communications


British filmmakers, Deirdre O'Neill and Mike Wayne. The poetry reading was curated by the poet, Vanessa Jimenez Gabb. Garrett spoke about the taxi industry and also read poems about his long career as a taxi driver.

On June 18, 2018, Garrett was featured at The Cornelia Street Cafe in Greenwich Village in a spoken word show titled: "Ghost City Cabaret." The show's theme was Weimar Republic Meets Trump's America. Garrett served as co-host of the evening with the cabaret singer, Maria Neuda. The evening was curated and staged by playwright poet, Kathryn Adisman. Garrett performed his ekphrasis poem, "Viewing Gert Wolheim's (untitled couple) from 1926 at The Jewish Museum." This poem was published in The Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow Anthology in October 2018.

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Garrett's poetry has garnished awardsDiego, but have lived in California, Texas, D.C., New York, Oklahoma, Nebraska (Go Huskers!!), Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland, Florida, Utah, and now temporarily in S.C. New quilter since 2004.

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hot hungry cunt. At my helpless moan, she moves her hand up from my neck to cover my mouth, giggling “Sshh now. Quiet”

Now she has me in a pincer grip, thumb circling my swollen clit, delving in and out of my twitching cunt with three fingers and I’m bucking my hips to speed up her deliberate movements. In the back of my mind, I’m slightly concerned that any minute a security guard or wandering tourist will appear at the end of the corridor and catch us, but most of my attention is taken up with the glorious friction of her fingers and the heat of her stocky muscular body pressed against me, the bristle of her short spiky hair against my neck as she nestles her head inCBC journalists scooped up several awards on Saturday honouring national and regional work, including multiple awards given to CBC Edmonton for a series of stories that exposed the controversial use of public resources by former premier Alison Redford.

At the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) national conference in Halifax, CBC picked up four awards, with the Don McGillivray Award for investigative journalism going to CBC Edmonton's Charles Rusnell and Jennie Russell for "Aura of Power," their work on Redford. Their series also won the top prize in the community broadcast category.

In the Open Broadcast News division, the team of Enza Uda, Kathy Tomlinson and Robb Douglas from CBC's The National won for "Foreign Workers – McJobs."

CBC also took home the CWA Canada/CAJ Award for labour reporting, which was shared


by Carla Turner, Dave Seglins, Gord Westmacott, Heather Evans, Jeremy MacDonald and John Nicol for their work "Rail Fatigue" on CBC Radio's World Report and The Current.

More awards

At the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) conference in Toronto on Saturday, CBC won several network and national awards for journalism.

Linden MacIntyre, the former host of CBC's the fifth estate, was honoured with the RTDNA's Lifetime Achievement Award. The Gord Sinclair Award for live special events went to CBC Radio's World Report and The Current for their Parliament Hill shooting special coverage.

CBCNews.ca won two awards for online coverage: The Charlie Edwards Award for spot news coverage of the National War Memorial and Parliament Hill shootings, and the Ron Laidlaw Award for continuing coverage for its reporting from Liberia on theEbola crisis.

Coast-to-coast honours

CBC took home regional awards from coast to coast.

CBC Nova Scotia was honoured with the Dave Rogers Award for long television feature in a small or medium market for A Day in the Life of Nova Scotia, while CBC Vancouver's The Early Edition radio show took the large market long feature award for All in the Family.

CBC Montreal won the large market digital media award for its website.

CBC was also given two U.S.-based Edward R. Murrow Awards. CBC Toronto won the breaking news award for large market television for its coverage of the attacks at the National War Memorial and Parliament Hill, while CBC Edmonton added to its honours for its "Aura of Power" series.

"Not only do our awards demonstrate our ability to work together across


media lines but across departmental lines, too," said a joint statement from Jennifer McGuire, the general manager and editor in chief of CBC News and regional centres, and Cindy Witten, the interim executive director of English radio services.

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CAJ 2015

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CHARLIE EDWARDS AWARD – Spot News A Family Disappears - The Liknes-O'Brien Case and the Man Chargedtrial on the above styled cause was held on or about October 22, 1990, during which the following was presented by live testimony, deposition, and exhibits.
It is undisputed that on the morning of October 3, 1985, William Dyer, a thirty-seven year old black male, was voluntarily admitted to the Gulfport Psychiatric Division (Gulfport division) of the Biloxi Veterans Administration Medical Center (hereinafter "BVAMC").
After being examined at the BVAMC emergency room, Dyer was transferred to the Gulfport division and assigned to an "open ward."
Dyer was seen by several staff members off and on from his admission. He was last seen between 6:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. and his absence was recorded at 9:00 p.m. when the staff did a "bed check."
At approximately 8:30 p.m. on the night of October


3, 1985, Dyer entered the house of the plaintiff and assaulted her. The Gulfport Police Department responded to the plaintiff's telephone call, made prior to the assault, and arrested Dyer.
Dyer was charged and convicted of attempted rape and felonious burglary of an occupied dwelling in connection with the assault.

*1313 I.
At the trial on this cause the majority of the testimony centered around the plaintiff's contention that the defendant's agents violated the standard of care required of persons and treatment facilities when dealing with psychiatric patients as well as failing to follow their own written policies regarding such treatment.
The following is a summary of the testimony of witnesses regarding Dyer's diagnosis and the decision to admit him to an open ward.

BETTY TRISTAN
Ms. Tristan is a clinical social worker employedat the BVAMC on October 3, 1985. She interviewed Dyer's mother, Dorothy Spann, regarding his reasons for wishing to be committed.
Referring to her notes, as recorded at 10:30 a.m. in plaintiff's Exhibit 1(C) on page 913, she represented to the Court that Dyer suffered from a service connected nervous disorder and was 80% disabled.
Dyer had been living alone near his mother's home in Louisiana when he started causing a disturbance. Specifically, he was knocking on neighborhood doors at night and making phone calls. After being notified of his behavior, Mrs. Spann went to his house the morning of October 3, and found that the heat was turned up; the bathtub was overflowing; the mattress had been pulled off of the bed; drawers had all been pulled out of


dressers; and other evidence of general destructive behavior by Dyer.
Dyer's mother did not think he was psychotic but she stated that he had a history of schizophrenia and she suspected that he was responding to "voices." She wanted him to be hospitalized as soon as possible.
Ms. Tristan did not personally interview Dyer because he did not want to be interviewed. During Ms. Tristan's interview with his mother, Dyer was walking up and down the hall.
Ms. Tristan stated that prior to being sent to her, Dyer would have been seen in the emergency room, and if his condition had been acute, he would have been kept there.
At no time did anyone represent to Ms. Tristan that Dyer was a danger to himself or others.

WILLIAM McCAUGHN
Mr. McCaughn is a licensedat 3:45 p.m. and according to his notes on page 915 of plaintiff's Exhibit 1(C), Dyer's problems were related to his brother's mental illness and his attempts to assist his brother.
McCaughn had seen Dyer five or six times during prior hospitalizations since 1981 or 1982. He testified that Dyer had never been a problem; however, he did have to restrain Dyer once and was aware that he had eloped from an open ward on a previous occasion.
The witness said that he had heard that Dyer had attempted to rape a teenager but that he had not been indicted and that it involved money for sex.
When questioned concerning his knowledge of instances of violent and disruptive behavior by Dyer, which apparently occurred several years prior, the witness was generally


unfamiliar.
*1314 Regarding the voices which Dyer said he heard, the witness said that Dyer told him that they were of a threatening nature; told him to do "bad things"; were hard to understand; and called him a "M.F." Dyer told McCaughn that he knew the voices were not real and was not going to do anything about them. After questioning Dyer, McCaughn did not believe he would do anything.
McCaughn stated that he thought Dr. Erickson was present during the questioning about the voices.
The witness said that he did not have Dyer's complete records at the time and did not see a need to ask for them.

DR. MILES ERICKSON
Dr. Erickson is a psychiatrist who, on October 3, 1985, was employed as a staff psychiatrist and assigned to an openward at the Gulfport division.
Referring to his notes found on pages 917-921 of plaintiff's Exhibit 1(C), Dr. Erickson represented that he interviewed Dyer at "15:30." He noted that Dyer was diagnosed as a schizophrenic decompensating and that he was restless, hearing voices, talkative and cooperative.
Dr. Erickson stated that Dyer had already been assigned to an open ward by Biloxi staff and he countersigned the order.
Dr. Erickson was not the regular psychiatrist assigned to this ward and had never seen Dyer prior to October 3, 1985; however, he and Bill McCaughn worked together on Dyer's interview.
He could have placed Dyer in a closed ward; however, Dyer gave him no indication that he should change what Biloxi had started.
Responding to questions as to what minimum symptoms or behaviors would justify


by the plaintiff as an expert on the standard of care and as to whether the defendant's agents properly admitted Dyer to an open ward.
Dr. Seastrunk stressed the need to evaluate a patient with particular emphasis on family history and the patient's past behaviors. He noted that Dyer had spent seven of the past fifteen years in psychiatric hospitals which, in addition to the Gulfport division, included Greenwell Springs Hospital in Louisiana, East Louisiana State Hospital and the Alexandria Louisiana VA Hospital.
The witness testified that what happened to Dyer in the past is important as a means to determine his pattern.
Having reviewed the policies of the Gulfport division, as set out in plaintiff's Exhibit 6, Dr. Seastrunk identified several violations which in summary are:
1. Based upon his mother'swho was employed on October 3, 1985, as admitting physician in the emergency room of BVAMC, a position he had held since 1982.
Dr. Springer testified that he saw Dyer after the physician's assistant took a history of the patient and gave him a physical examination and after a history was taken by R.N. Bishop, as reflected on VA form 10-10M, page 911 of plaintiff's Exhibit 1(C).
Regarding his care and treatment of Dyer, the witness stated that Dyer was taken to the observation room where he was made comfortable and periodically observed by the witness to determine the appropriate referral.
Dr. Springer's diagnosis was that Dyer was "schizophrenia decompensating" and recommended sending him to an open ward in Gulfport. According to the witness, Dyer presented no indication that he was


homicidal or suicidal.

FLORENCE SANDERS, R.N.
Mrs. Sanders has been a staff nurse at the Gulfport division for nine years and was assigned to Ward 4, which was an open ward. She stated that open ward patients are allowed to go on the grounds on their own for any reason.
The witness stated that she knew Dyer because he had been a patient on her ward several times.
When the witness came on duty about 3:30 p.m., Dyer was outside greeting the staff and acting pleasantly.
Mrs. Sanders called Dyer to the nurses' station around 4:00 p.m. and interviewed him as part of the admission procedure.
At the interview, which lasted twenty-five to thirty minutes, Dyer showed no acute distress or dangerous behavior. He told Nurse Sanders that he was there because his mothertreatment complied with the standard of care.
Regarding Dyer's placement in an open ward, Dr. Hiatt testified that this was proper.
Regarding Dyer's history, Dr. Hiatt stated that events more than a year in the past are relatively unimportant.

GLORIA HUSBAND
Mrs. Husband operates a foster home for the VA in Maxie, Mississippi, and has done so for ten years.
She testified that Dyer was a resident in her home for about fifteen months, beginning in January, 1984. According to Mrs. Husband, Dyer was nice, clean, cooperative and never destructive. She said he even played ball with her children.
*1316 Mrs. Husband said that Dyer left to "give his mother away" at her wedding and though he did not return, he could have.

DR. DONALD C. GUILD
Dr. Guild is a psychiatrist from Jackson, Mississippi, who


has been in private practice for nineteen years. He also holds a law degree.
The witness testified that according to the law and standard of care regarding the treatment of psychiatric patients, institutions are to place the patient in the least restrictive environment.
Based upon his review of the record and familiarity with such patients, Dr. Guild's opinion was that Dyer was a "21 day" person who came into the VA periodically to obtain 100% benefits which normally drop back to 70% within three months. This awareness of how to work the system was referred to as "street wise", which the witness said could have been the reason Dyer said he heard voices.
Dr. Guild's opinion regarding the appropriateness of Dyer's assessment at Gulfport was that it was appropriate and thathe would have made the same diagnosis and assessment.
Regarding the weight to be given to Dyer's history, Dr. Guild indicated that the violent behavior of the patient in November of 1983 was too remote considering his two-year history of good behavior.

DR. HENRY MAGGIO
Dr. Maggio is a Gulfport psychiatrist with seventeen years experience evaluating persons involved in felony cases and civil actions, as well as commitment evaluations for the Gulfport division. He has also treated schizophrenics for twenty years.
Regarding the standard of care, the witness testified that a patient who presents himself for treatment should be placed in the least restrictive environment commensurate with his condition.
Based upon his two examinations of Dyer in connection with his competency to stand trial and upon his review of the record, Dr. Maggio's


opinion was that Dyer's assault of the plaintiff was the result of lowered inhibitions caused by his drinking whiskey and smoking marijuana after eloping.
Dr. Maggio said that the plaintiff was randomly selected and that her assault was not reasonably foreseeable. He also stated that Dyer's assignment to an open ward was appropriate.

DOROTHY SPANN (BY DEPOSITION)
Mrs. Spann is Dyer's mother. She stated that since he came out of Vietnam, eighteen or nineteen years prior, he had been in psychiatric hospitals in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi, and that he had been in the Gulfport VA Hospital many times.
She stated that he had been committed a "good many" times and that he had a family history of mental illness; both his father and grandmother having died in mental institutions.
Regarding the circumstancesleading to her bringing Dyer to Biloxi on October 5, 1985, she stated that he had been going around disturbing people in the neighborhood so she took him to the VA in Baton Rouge but as they had no psychiatrist, she brought him to Biloxi.
Mrs. Spann testified that she told a lady social worker that Dyer was "on a war path" and that "he needed to be locked up." She further stated that Dyer "needed to be picked up off the street so he wouldn't do no harm to himself or no one else, because he was plumb out of it."

II.
On the issue of damages to the plaintiff, Judy Burchfield, the Court was presented the following testimony.

DR. J.W. SEASTRUNK
Dr. Seastrunk testified that Ms. Burchfield suffered from post traumatic


stress disorder which, while somewhat resolved, could be chronic and could be reactivated. He described the disorder as being characterized by sudden feelings that the assault *1317 could happen again and withdrawing socially.
Based upon his examination of the plaintiff, he said that she had experienced fear of her home, loss of sleep, anxiety at sounds and shadows, fear of people touching her throat, nightmares, and feelings of rage. He also said that she did not seek psychiatric treatment because of her fear of reliving the experience.

MRS. VIRGINIA BURCHFIELD
Mrs. Burchfield is the plaintiff's mother. She testified that she noticed that her daughter was not "happy-go-lucky" anymore; was jittery; impatient; and avoiding visiting their home in Wiggins, Mississippi, because everyone knew of the assault.
She also noticed that the plaintiff beganpulling out her own hair to the point of making a bald spot.

JUDY BURCHFIELD
She stated that her home is located two blocks west of the VA on Second Street which "deadends" at the VA gate.
Ms. Burchfield stated that she never saw guards at the gate on Second Street.
On October 3, 1985, the plaintiff was a physical therapist.
The plaintiff testified that after the assault she was afraid to be alone in her home, had difficulty sleeping, and was very sensitive to noises. She stated that she got a gun and a dog and "blocked" the windows.
Ms. Burchfield thinks that having a security system installed would be helpful.
The witness produced a statement of costs to replace three doors and all locksets in her home, P-8, which totalled $1,898.00; a statement


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The Parts Left Out of Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now Redux, Francis Ford Coppola's re-fashioning of his 1979 Vietnam war story masterpiece, is on DVD after a brief 2001 theatrical run, and the film is just as good as it was on the screen.

That is, if you liked it on the screen. If you didn't like it, the film is just as bad.

Coppola is a guy who can't leave things alone. He re-edited The Godfather for television as a mini-series, inserting numerous deleted scenes and re-ordering the sequences. DVD technology is perfect for the restless director. He can edit, re-edit, add commentaries, resurrect old footage and make other cosmetic changes (the recent Godfather DVD set has new sound effects provided by Walter Murch's team). He's likethe poet Auden, who kept re-writing his famous poems throughout the rest of his life and creating nightmares for the executors and curators of his work. Or Coppola's like those kids with their non-linear editing programs who re-jig Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to delete Jar-Jar Binks. Coppola's like the Air Cav in Apocalypse Now  "Those boys just couldn't stay put."

Apocalypse Now has already been reviewed by The DVD Journal, and there is no need to supersede Greg Dorr's excellent summary of the film's virtues and vices. What the digital release of Apocalypse Now Redux raises are questions about the impact of DVD technology on movies both contemporary and old, and the notion of a "finished" film  a notion that Coppola seems to resist,


as least with his two most popular works.

What Apocalypse Now Means

Apocalypse Now Redux, like its predecessor, is about a soldier going up-river to look for a man. As he travels, the soldier encounters people and places that take him on a trip backwards into the past, a journey that exists parallel with his voyage north and forward. When he reaches his destination, he learns that the man he has been seeking has been expecting him for some time. Knowing that the soldier is going to assassinate him, the man prepares his killer and himself for the act. Sensing that the two are really the same, and have had similar experiences, the man expects the soldier to carry on with his own project. The film ends with the executionaccomplished, but with the soldier seemingly not taking the place of his victim.

Apocalypse Now is a war film, and a Vietnam war film, but not necessarily a movie that has anything to say about war or Vietnam. There is "breaking news" in the film, of course, and an attempt at surface verisimilitude and historical accuracy. Preceding Platoon, Apocalypse Now did indeed note the insanity of the war: drugs, conflicts between leadership and troops, bureaucratic corruption, sexual temptation, atrocities, and the whole idea of a war backgrounded with Rock Music to Shoot Gooks By. But like The Godfather and several other Coppola films, Apocalypse Now is really about how one generation hands over authority to the next. That's what makes the final sequence  long, dreamy, inexplicable  so


important to Coppola's film. It's an important variation on the themes that have plagued Coppola from the beginning.

The First Five Minutes of Apocalypse Now

The best way to highlight the genius of Apocalypse Now is to pick any sequence at random and study it. How about the first five minutes? It lays out everything that is to follow. The film begins in limbo. It's a long focal-length shot of a tropical forest. We hear helicopters (an attractive sound that is used seductively throughout the film). We realize that what we are seeing is also in slow motion. Close up, slow motion: the entire mood of the film. Just before Jim Morrison sings "The End," napalm explodes through the forest, turning it into an inferno. The footage is "borrowed" fromthe inside of one's head and Vietnam in this drug-addled war? Coppola now layers images upon images in a beautiful visual symphony of reflection, memory, and anticipation.

Eventually, Willard gets up from his dream-state and looks out the window, only to discover that he is "still only in Saigon." How can a person not know where he is? Is that much of a confluence between the inner Willard and the outer world? The only thing is, Kurtz knows where he is. Kurtz seems to know that Willard is coming before Willard does. We soon learn that Willard is alone. His wife has asked him for a divorce, and now he is alone, between in country and jungle, in Saigon. Almost like Kurtz, who has abandoned his family and military


position under the sway of the horrors of war.

Willard is Kurtz. The "war" cannot be won because the soldiers "become" their enemy, and cannot live with the change.

The New Stuff in Apocalypse Now Redux

Does the new material in Apocalypse Now Redux help or hinder Coppola's weaving of a Kurtz-Willard similitude? The new material augments the similarity by showing Willard's descent into the jungle, into the past, a journey that Kurtz must have taken too. The insert in Paramount's Redux DVD helpfully segregates the new from the old, with the new scenes listed in yellow in the chapter chart. There are 14 chapters that represent new material, and most of them are clustered together (chapters 5 and 6, 10 through 13, 16 and 18 and 20, 24 through 27,and 32).

There are two main sequences. First there is the Bunny-MedEvac scene, the one where Willard exchanges diesel fuel for sex. The crew of his boat get to have sex with Playboy Bunnies so that the Bunnies can get the heck out of 'Nam. In the sequence, they seem willing enough. However, the men and the women talk at cross-purposes. Cindi Wood (an actual Playmate of the Year) describes the loneliness of the post, as Lance (Sam Bottoms) ignores her, while Chef (Frederic Forrest) tries to make over his Bunny (Colleen Camp) into the one he wants while she talks about birds. The sequence harks back to the rather obvious message moments of the existential-humanism films of the '50s and early '60s, showing how people can't communicate. It's


angry and well-informed, and this is the only scene in which Vietnam politics is explicitly addressed. Clean is buried, and the men join the family for dinner. It's actually a very poignant, subtle sequence, with the crew of the boat off to the side, like kids at a Thanksgiving dinner, and with the French family falling further into disharmony, each leaving the table in order, until only Willard and a woman named Roxanne (Aurore Clement) remain, thence to go off and smoke opium and have sex.

The French plantation sequence has been attacked as unnecessary, boring, and out of sync with Willard's character. Even more out of sync with Willard's character, as we know it from the first movie, is the moment when he steals the surfboard belonging toColonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall). This scene also includes a moment when Kilgore saves a mother and child. Other new material is found during the first Kilgore raid that Willard stumbles upon, and after the second; of Willard and the men hiding from Kilgore, who is searching for his surfboard. There's also Clean's story about a soldier who shoots a Vietnamese over a Playboy foldout; and a scene in which Brando, in daylight, reads to Willard from actual weekly news magazine reports about the war in Vietnam.

More important is that Coppola and Murch have reordered some of the scenes that are in the previous film. In the first version, the crew of the boat are shown sunning, surfing, and smoking pot. This material is moved to chapter 17, and


shows instead that Willard grows more isolated from the men as the journey progresses, while they become in some respects happier, freer, and more stoned, at least for a while. (This material occurs in chapter 3 in of the original Apocalypse Now DVD.)

All of these scenes were left out of the original cut because Coppola and Murch were rushing to complete the film before its debut at Cannes. Restored, they change the character of Willard. He becomes less of a passive observer and a fuller person: he laughs, he plays pranks, he has sex. He is no longer just a vacant traveler. His final actions make sense.

The Scenes Still Left Out of Apocalypse Now

There is still much more to Apocalypse Now than we get in this new DVDHeart of Darkness; the original (and much different) screenplay to Apocalypse Now; and even comparisons between Joseph Conrad's book and the finished film. There are also numerous commentary-track possibilities, such as a Coppola track, a Walter Murch track (as there is on Paramount's Conversation disc), or even a John Milius and Michael Herr commentary.

There simply are a lot of lost opportunities here, and perhaps the most obvious item is Fax Barh and George Hickenlooper's Hearts of Darkness, the 1991 documentary about the making of the film that incorporates footage shot by Coppola's wife Eleanor. Hickenlooper's movie has only come out on VHS and Laserdisc and is out of print (at this writing). And one of the most interesting supplements that could have been added would be footage of


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