record."

In March, Haley noted the UNHRC had adopted five resolutions condemning Israel and only one resolution each against, North Korea, Iran and Syria. Since its inception, the council has passed more than 70 resolutions targeting Israel and seven on Iran.

"Our patience is not unlimited. Today's actions make clear that the organization lacks the credibility needed to be a true advocate for human rights," Haley said in March.

Haley has called for a more transparent review of its members and pointed out that member countries like Venezuela, Cuba, China, Burundi and Saudi Arabia do not uphold the highest standards of human rights.

The most recent tension between the U.S. and the council came Monday, when the U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called Mr. Trump's zero-tolerance policy that hasAfMA Events

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Roderic Risper, and Albernard Clinton as the same two individuals that punched, beat, and tried to take Mr. Cortes's iPhone."

[¶6] At trial, Gerardo Cortes testified that, at approximately 4:30 p.m. on March 25, 2011, he was riding alone on the CTA blue line train, sitting in an aisle seat, and listening to music on his iPhone through headphones when a group of four or five people surrounded him, sat down and looked at him. Cortes felt uneasy and moved his phone lower on his lap. Defendant, who wore his hair in small twists, sat across the aisle from Cortes to his right, and Cortes could see his profile. Codefendant, who had darker skin and was short and stocky, sat behind Cortes. Most of the group wore dark clothing,but codefendant wore a tan jacket. Cortes felt a punch to the back of his head, and the people surrounding him started punching him repeatedly. Someone in the group told Cortes, " Give it up. Give it up," and reached for the iPhone in his lap, which Cortes then placed inside his pocket. The group continued punching Cortes for about a minute with defendant standing to Cortes' right. When the train stopped at the Clark and Lake station, the group ran off the train, and when Cortes looked up, one of the men punched him in the right eye, giving him a black eye.

[¶7] Cortes testified that after the group fled the train, two women approached him and said they saw everything that had happened. Cortes and the


women, one of whom was Cynthia Kindle, went upstairs and outside, where an ambulance and police were waiting. Cortes briefly told the police what happened, and they told him and the women to get inside the back of the ambulance. About five minutes later, the police brought defendant and codefendant to the ambulance, told Cortes and the women to look out the back window, and asked if they could identify the men. Cortes identified defendant and codefendant as two of the men from the group that beat him on the train. Specifically, Cortes identified defendant as the man who sat to his right, and codefendant as the man who sat behind him. In court, Cortes also identified photographs of defendant and codefendant as the two men from thetrain who sat to the right of him and behind him, respectively, and testified that they were the same men he identified from the ambulance.

[¶8] Cortes testified that four days before trial, defense counsel and defense investigator Mary Waller Clemons arrived at his

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dorm room unannounced to question him. He told them that he was not required to speak with them but did so, anyway. Cortes acknowledged that he told them that he did not recall much about the incident because it had occurred two years earlier. He further acknowledged telling them that he never looked any of his attackers in the face but saw their side profiles. Cortes explained that he told counsel that he did not make an identification of defendant because he interpreted an "


identification" to mean looking someone in the eye; he testified that he was able to identify defendant from his " characteristic traits," including his hair and his profile. Cortes testified that he did not see defendant hit him but felt punches to the right side of his body, and the only person standing to his right was defendant.

[¶9] Cynthia Kindle testified that she was riding the CTA blue line train with her coworker, Jennifer, when she observed defendant walking through the emergency doors, going from car to car, looking at people who were on their cell phones. Kindle described defendant as a tall African-American man with twists in his hair, dressed in mostly black clothing. Defendant walked through their car twice and returned a third time with fourother men. The group of men stopped by Cortes, who was sitting four rows in front of Kindle facing her. Defendant stood to the side of Cortes in the aisle, two men stood behind Cortes, and one man stood at the doors. Kindle had an unobstructed view of defendant's profile for approximately a minute. As the train neared the Clark and Lake station, the men began punching Cortes and continued hitting him for more than a minute. When the train pulled into the station, the man standing near the door yelled " [l]et's go," and when the doors opened, the group of men, including defendant, ran from the train.

[¶10] Kindle testified that she called 911 and gave the dispatcher descriptions of the men. Kindle and Jennifer then approached


Cortes to see if he was okay. They left the train together and spoke with the conductor. Upstairs at the street level, they spoke with police officers. Kindle told an officer that the offenders were a group of five men, the majority of them dressed in black, but one man wore a purple or blue leather jacket. She did not recall telling police that one man wore a cream-colored jacket. She described one of the men as tall with twists in his hair, and another man as short and stocky with a short haircut. Cortes, Kindle and Jennifer got into the back of an ambulance. Five minutes later, the police returned with two suspects, and Kindle looked through the back window of the ambulance and recognized them astwo of the men who had hit Cortes. Kindle identified defendant as the man with twists in his hair whom she saw doing most of the hitting, and the second man was the short and stocky man who had been standing behind Cortes. In court, Kindle identified photographs of defendant and codefendant as two of the men from the train who hit Cortes and testified that they were the same men she identified from the ambulance.

[¶11] Chicago police officer Isagany Peralta testified that he and his partner, Officer Alvarez, responded to a call of a battery in progress involving five or six juvenile men hitting one person. Officer Peralta testified that when they entered the train station, CTA personnel directed them to " the location where they thought


1955-1956 Season playbill: Loyola University of Los Angeles presents the Del Rey Players in "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" by Herman Wouk, directed by Paul Blackburn, at the Loyola University Little Theater on October 24, 1955. Includes a theater...Brazil’s da Silva first president jailed, but others accused

By JILL LANGLOISApril 8, 2018

Brazilian former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is lifted by supporters outside the Metal Workers Union headquarters in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, Saturday, April 7, 2018. Da Silva, the once wildly popular leader, who rose from poverty to lead Latin America's largest nation, had until 5 p.m. local time Friday, to present himself to the police in Curitiba to begin serving a sentence of 12 years and one month for a corruption conviction, but he defied the order to turn himself in. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)

SAO PAULO (AP) — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been arrested and will become the first current or former president in Brazil’s modern history to be incarcerated. However, he


has said he is considering running for president in October’s election.

FERNANDO COLLOR DE MELLO

Brazil’s 32nd president and the first to be directly elected following its 1964-85 military dictatorship, Fernando Collor de Mello stepped down from his post just two years into his term, in 1992. His resignation was a failed attempt to stop an impeachment trial he was facing in the Senate on charges of corruption. Despite walking away from the presidency, Collor’s trial continued and he was found guilty. He managed to escape jail time, however, thanks to an acquittal for a lack of sufficient evidence during his judicial trial in Brazil’s top court.

Collor returned to office in 2007 when he was elected senator of Alagoas, a position he still holds today. He has also said heplans to run for president later this year.

JUSCELINO KUBITSCHEK

While Juscelino Kubitschek was well respected by many Brazilian during a 1956-61 term that was known for its economic prosperity and political stability, his presidency was not without controversy. While he is credited with modernizing Brazil by way of industrial growth, his massive spending to build capital city Brasilia was criticized and created problems for the country, including sharp increases in the national debt and inflation. He was accused of corruption and was said to have favored people in his political circle during the construction of Brasilia. However, no charges were ever laid.

GETULIO VARGAS

In 1945, Getulio Vargas was overthrown in a coup, but returned to office in 1951 after being democratically elected president. He struggled to satisfy both his followers


and the middle-class opposition, and his government was highly criticized for its nationalistic appeals. It was a time of serious unrest in Brazil: inflation was at an all-time high, wages were not keeping pace and there were implications that one of Vargas bodyguards was involved in the attempted assassination of an opposition newspaper editor. Rather than be forced out again, Vargas shot himself through the heart.Signal rockets pierced the darkness over Vicksburg, Mississippi, on February 25, 1863. Dozing Southern artillery crews sprang to life, yelling, ‘Ironclad approaching!’ Supporting a skull-and-crossbones flag at her bow, the iron hulk protruded guns from all sides. Both paddle-wheel housings bore the taunting legend ‘Deluded People Cave In.’ Angered by the vessel’s audacity, the Confederate batteries opened a blistering fire. ‘Never did the batteries of Vicksburg open with such a din,’ recalled Union Rear Admiral David Dixon Porter. ‘The earth fairly trembled, and shot flew thick and fast around the devoted monitor.’ Incredibly, the vessel simply cruised past at her leisure with no alteration in speed, nor did she bother to return fire.

On course to Vicksburg, the Confederate ram Queen of the West spotted the behemoth and swung


quickly around. Her captain, James McCloskey, recalled, ‘Her guns were run out and her deck was cleared for action.’ With her steam up, Queenretreated downriver with the ironclad seemingly in pursuit. What the panic-stricken McCloskey failed to realize was that the giant Union ironclad was a giant hoax sent to prevent the salvage of a real Union ironclad, USS Indianola.

Indianola was part of a new, supposedly faster class of river ironclads constructed to bolster the sluggish river ‘tinclads’ currently in use. Named for the city in Iowa, she possessed the shallow draft of a conventional riverboat, but with casemates of 3-inch armor plating in the bow and stern. For wide-angle firing, two powerful 11-inch Dahlgren cannons were placed on pivots in the front casemate. Two 9-inch guns weremounted in the rear. Two side paddle wheels, enclosed in iron housings, and two screw propellers beneath the stern propelled Indianola. Each paddle wheel had its own engine, enabling the vessel to turn sharply in narrow channels. The crew’s quarters were virtually nonexistent, since the engines took up most of the interior space. Despite that, she could only manage a paltry 6 knots, or slower if going against the current. Anticipation, however, was great for Indianola — so great that no journalists were allowed on board to reveal her secrets.

Lieutenant Commander George Brown was tabbed as Indianola‘s skipper. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Brown had seen action with the blockading fleets off Mobile and New Orleans.

On January 23, 1863, Indianola joined the Mississippi Squadron


under Admiral Porter, son of the controversial Commodore David Porter of War of 1812 fame. Commodore Porter was a hot-tempered, impulsive man who once led an unauthorized attack on the Puerto Rican city of Fajardo to force an apology from Spanish authorities for arresting one of his officers. He was subsequently court-martialed and resigned his commission. He then served in the Mexican navy, taking his son along with him. Young David served as a midshipman on the Mexican vessel Guerrero off the coast of Cuba. After an encounter with a Spanish frigate, he was captured and spent several months in a Havana prison. Eventually he returned to the United States, and in 1847 he served with distinction against the country he previously fought for as a U.S. Navycaptain aboard the steamer Spitfire.

During the early days of the Civil War, Porter commanded a flotilla of mortar schooners that were used with telling effect against Confederate forts guarding the passage to New Orleans. Impressed with his vigor, Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles tapped Porter for command of the Mississippi Squadron, even though 80 naval officers preceded him in rank. Consumed with ambition, Porter would not hesitate to trample on a fellow officer if he could benefit from doing so. One newspaper correspondent wrote that he was ‘vain, arrogant and egotistical to an extent that can neither be described nor exaggerated.’ For all his vanity, Porter possessed extraordinary resourcefulness, a tremendous asset in river warfare.

Porter’s vessels operated above Vicksburg, held at bay by the city’s formidable batteries.


Farragut had conquered that portion of the river the previous summer, but was forced to return to New Orleans after the river level dropped. An attempt to circumvent Vicksburg by digging a canal ended in failure.

That the Rebels were still able to supply Vicksburg was particularly vexing for Porter and gave newspapers fodder to launch barbs at the admiral. The Chicago Tribune labeled him ‘The greatest humbug of the war. He absolutely never accomplished anything unaided. He bombarded Vicksburg for months; threw hundreds of tons of metal into the city; never hit but one house and never killed a man. The Confederates laughed at him.’ As a further inducement to act, Assistant Navy Secretary Gustavus Fox telegraphed Porter that he would be made a full admiral if hecould reconquer the lower Mississippi.

Porter decided instead to send a ram, one of the lightweight maneuverable vessels designed by Charles Ellet Jr., downriver to disrupt Confederate supply shipments. Colonel Charles Rivers Ellet, the 19-year-old son of Charles Ellet Jr., was given the assignment. Porter thought highly of young Ellet and considered him a ‘gallant young fellow, full of dash and enterprise.’ A former medical student, Ellet had no formal naval training, but made up for it with a relentless courage in battle. No fort or vessel was too tough for his ram. At the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862, he personally accepted the surrender of that city after the fleet commanded by his father annihilated the Confederate River Defense Fleet. Ironically, Charles Ellet Jr. was the


to start a blaze on Vicksburg, but the Southern crewmen doused the fire before it caused much damage.

The vessels then moved apart, providing Vicksburg’s river batteries with the opportunity to shell Queen. The Rebel shellbursts soon ignited some of Queen‘s cotton-bale armor, forcing Ellet to concentrate on saving his ship rather than destroying his enemy. The Yankees went to work beating out the flames and headed downriver through a storm of shot and shell. A group of Rebel infantrymen added to Queen‘s misery by popping off at the burning ship as she floated by.

Crewmen on Queen pushed burning cotton bales overboard. Ellet reported: ‘After much exertion, we finally put out the fire by cutting the bales loose….We were struck twelve times, but though the cabin was knocked topieces, no material injury to the boat or any of those on her was inflicted.’ City of Vicksburg was not sunk, but a hole was punched in the ship below the waterline. She was later propped up on two coal barges, and her machinery and cargo were salvaged.

Queen next rendezvoused with the termite-ridden steamer De Soto, stationed downriver to offer assistance to Queen if needed. Ellet and De Soto proceeded downriver. For the next two weeks, Ellet operated below Vicksburg with the two ships. He had the vessels steaming up the Big Black and Red rivers capturing ships and making a general nuisance of himself. Ellet also outfitted Queen with two Parrott cannons, a 30 pounder and a 20 pounder, armament he obtained from the Union infantry that


was in control of Young’s Point.

On February 12, hearing of possible targets on the Atchafalaya River, Ellet cruised down to the Louisiana town of Simmesport. Queen‘s crew went ashore, destroying all supplies on the wharves and looting the residential area. That evening, Queen went back upriver toward the Mississippi. Local civilians fired their rifles at her along the way, shattering the knee of 1st Mate James Thompson. Angered by the attack, Ellet burned three plantations believed to have been the homes of those who wounded Thompson. As her manor house burned, a planter’s daughter defiantly sang ‘The Bonny Blue Flag’ into the face of a startled Ellet.

On February 14, 1863, Queen and De Soto set course up the Red River, overtaking and capturing the steamboat Era No.5 carrying4,500 bushels of corn to Little Rock. After paroling the ship’s crew and passengers, a small crew from Queen transferred to Era to sail the vessel. The wounded Thompson was not among those transferred, a mistake that would come back to haunt Ellet. Era was left behind while Queen and De Soto proceeded toward the earthen Confederate battery at Fort Taylor (later renamed Fort DeRussey), built to defend the upper passages of the Red River.

Warned of Queen‘s approach, Fort Taylor’s commander, Captain John Kelso, carefully targeted his guns at the site where the ram would come into view. De Soto laid anchor behind a bend while Ellet reconnoitered Fort Taylor that evening. The stronghold opened fire, and Ellet ordered Queen about to avoid the shells. Not one of


on board. As a result, Queen could not be scuttled, but had to be abandoned to the Fort Taylor garrison. Thompson died in captivity several days later.

The survivors floated down to De Soto and clambered aboard. Departing in a thick fog, De Soto also ran aground, shearing off her rudder in the process. Ellet blamed pilot Garvey, whom he clapped in irons for treasonous behavior. Era No. 5 came to the rescue and took Ellet and his men aboard. No longer able to steer, De Soto was set on fire by spreading hot coals across her decks.

Two days prior to Queen‘s capture, Admiral Porter had sent Indianola downriver with a load of coal for Queen and De Soto. Lieutenant Commander George Brown lashed two coal barges to eitherside of Indianola and headed out. He caught the Vicksburg batteries napping around midnight on February 13 and slipped past without any appreciable damage. According to newspaper reporter W.S. Ward, ‘The fun had actually begun — shot and shell screamed and burst above and beyond us, and the pilot’s orders, now changed from whispered signs to vigorous commands, were heard and answered with no need of intervening messengers.’

Eventually, Era No. 5, battered by driftwood floating in the Red River that had snapped off portions of her starboard paddle wheel, limped into the Mississippi River. Ellet had exhausted his supply of coal, and had also burned his coal barge to prevent its capture. The harried officer was burning the cargo of captured corn as fuel. On February 16, Era


made contact with Indianola. ‘You may be sure that no men ever witnessed a more welcome sight than this same good steamer Indianola,’ a reporter on Era stated. ‘It was a miraculous escape; from the depths of despair we were raised to the heights of exaltation.’

Ellet explained his fiasco to Brown over coffee. He warned him that Queen had been captured and would certainly be redeployed as a Confederate ram. After loading up on coal, Era set off upriver. Cotton bales, confiscated from plantations along the way, were used to protect her from gunfire. Indianola remained behind to block the mouth of the Red River. The Confederate ram William H. Webb tried to pursue Era No. 5, but after Indianola fired a few shots in her direction, Webbquickly turned upriver to warn Fort Taylor and any vessels she encountered.

The Confederate commander of Louisiana, Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor, was soon aware of Indianola‘s presence. ‘We barely had time to congratulate ourselves on the capture of the Queen,’ he wrote, ‘before the appearance of the Indianola deprived us again of the navigation of the great river, so vital to our cause.’ Taylor, a prominent local planter and son of President Zachary Taylor, ordered the captured Queen towed to Alexandria, La., for repairs. ‘She was an ordinary river steamer, with her bow strengthened for ramming,’ he observed. ‘A heavy bulwark for protection against sharp-shooters, and with embrasures for field guns, surrounded her upper deck.’

Later Queen of the West, William H. Webb and the steamer Grand Era were assembled


to drive off Indianola. At 14 knots against the current, Webb was one of the fastest vessels on the Mississippi. Both rams were loaded with sharpshooters and field artillery. Eager volunteers from the garrison at Fort Taylor served as crew members. Slaves to be used as stokers for the engine boilers were forcibly obtained from nearby plantations. ‘It was a curious feature,’ noted Taylor, ‘that Southern people would cheerfully send their sons to battle, but kept their slaves out of danger.’ Major Joseph Brent was given command of the expedition. A lawyer before the war, Brent was a master improviser in a theater where supply lines were at a trickle. Short of paper, he once used wallpaper for wrapping rifle cartridges. Brent later recalled, ‘I doubt whether anyreturn when I found that no other boat was sent below.’ To hasten his return, Brown could have left the coal barges behind. But he felt the coal would be needed if Porter sent another vessel down. Besides, he had a 90-mile lead on any potential pursuers. The loaded-down ship, however, could do only about 2 1/2 knots against the current, and the speedier Confederate rams would soon catch up.

On the evening of February 24, 1863, on the east bank of the Mississippi, just above Palmyra Island, Brown spied the shadowy outlines of four vessels heading straight toward him. He cleverly brought Indianola about to interpose one of the barges between his ship and the Confederate warships.

Major Brent reported: ‘We first discovered the Indianola about 1,000 yards distant,


hugging the eastern bank of the Mississippi, with his head quartering across and down the river. Not an indication of life was given as we dashed on toward him — no light, no perceptible motion of his machinery was discernible.’

Queen of the West served her new Confederate cause well. She struck first, slicing through the coal barge on Indianola‘s port side, but doing little damage. Next came Webb. ‘I stood for her at full speed,’ recalled Brown. ‘Both vessels came together bows on, with a tremendous crash, which knocked nearly everyone down aboard both vessels.’ As the rams plowed into Indianola, the transports poured rifle fire into portholes. Webb rammed the starboard side next, splitting that coal barge in two. Queen followed, shearing off the starboard rudder andcaving in the wheel housing. Water began to pour into Indianola‘s hull, causing her to list dangerously to one side. The 9-inch Dahlgrens fired wildly into the dark, not scoring a single hit. Major Brent recalled, ‘The moon was partially obscured by a veil of white clouds and permitted just sufficient obscurity to render uncertain the aim of the formidable artillery of the enemy.’ To make matters worse, cotton bales piled around the pilothouse for added protection significantly reduced pilot visibility.

Brown recklessly ran about while trying to coordinate the defense of his ship. ‘Brown exposed himself everywhere,’ recalled assistant surgeon H.M. Mixer. ‘He stood upon the hurricane deck, swept by volleys of musketry, grape and canister shot, looking out for the rams, giving orders to his pilots, and


with his revolver firing upon the pilots of the enemy. He stood on his knees on the grating on the main deck to see to it that the engineer correctly understood the orders from the pilots.’ Realizing his command was sinking fast into the Mississippi, Brown decided to keep Indianola in deep water, hoping she could not be salvaged by the Confederates.

The signal books were tossed overboard to keep them from falling into enemy hands. Aboard Dr. Beatty, Colonel Frederick Brand called out to his men, ‘Prepare to board!’ Brown heard the command and called out that he was sinking. ‘For God’s sake don’t shoot anymore, I’ve surrendered!’ he cried. Brown offered his sword to Colonel Brand, who eagerly accepted it. The victorious Confederates took Brown and hisbeen indifferently fought. She gave up too soon. She would have gained victory if properly managed!’

Unconcerned with who was to blame, Gideon Welles thundered, ‘The Indianola is too formidable to be left at large.’ He demanded that a sufficient squadron be gathered to recapture the ironclad before she was salvaged. Porter, on the other hand, thought that he had too few vessels for a sufficient squadron. Two more Ellet rams, Lancaster and Switzerland, had been sunk or severely damaged by battery fire. None of his remaining vessels could match the speed and maneuverability of Queen or Webb. Not wanting further embarrassment, Porter came up with the idea of using a mock ironclad to frighten away Rebel salvagers.

Starting with an abandoned flatboat, Porter put his command to work constructing


his ruse. Tapered logs were added to the sides of the flatboat to give it a hull-like appearance. Canvas and wooden planks were used in the center to form a casemate, pilothouse and paddle-wheel housings. Two unusable lifeboats were bolted to fake davits for further realism. Blackened logs served as the vessel’s weaponry. Pork barrel smokestacks were added to either side of the pilothouse. For a dark, sinister appearance, the exterior was blackened with tar. As a final touch, two iron pots filled with tar and oakum were placed at the base of the smokestacks and ignited. Clouds of black smoke curled upward as the ersatz ironclad was set adrift in the Mississippi current. Dubbed Black Terror, she was built in 12 hours for a mere $8.63.

At 11p.m., on February 25, Black Terror was towed into the Mississippi, cut loose and sent on her journey. After cruising past Vicksburg, the vessel struck the west bank of the Mississippi near Warrenton, but Union soldiers pushed her back into the current, and soon Black Terror was drifting at 5 knots. Confederate crewmen on Queen of the West saw Black Terror approaching and turned about and headed downriver to warn any vessels of the Union’s latest threat. Coming upon the wrecked Indianola, Captain McCloskey of Queen warned the salvage party of the ironclad’s approach. The frightened salvagers decided to scuttle Indianola to prevent her recapture. The guns were spiked or thrown overboard. What was left was set on fire, burning her down to the waterline. Colonel Wirt Adams,


commander of a nearby cavalry regiment, remarked, ‘With the exception of the wine and liquor stores of the Indianola, nothing was saved. The valuable armament, the large supplies of powder, shot and shell are all lost.’ Black Terror, her mission completed, drifted on for two more miles, then struck a mudbank. She fired no shots and no crew members appeared on the deck. Curious about the lack of any crew activity, a Confederate party from ashore rowed toward the silent vessel. Upon closer inspection, they realized too late the duplicity.

The Southern press wasted no time in running down the botched Indianola salvage effort. ‘Laugh and hold your sides lest you die of a surfeit of derision,’ stated the Richmond Examiner, ‘blown up because, forsooth, a flat boat ormud scow, with a small house taken from a back garden of a plantation put on top of it, is floated down the river, before the frightened eyes of the Partisan Rangers.’

Not only had Indianola been denied to the Confederate Navy, but Webb and Queen skeedaddled up the Red River, never again to emerge on the Mississippi as a threat. ‘Gunboat panic seized the whole country,’ reported the Examiner, ‘and it became a serious question at the Navy Department whether liberty and the Southern Confederacy could exist in the presence of a cannon floating on a piece of wood in the water.’ The Confederacy would have to rely on the garrisons of Vicksburg and Port Hudson to hold its shrinking portion of the Mississippi. Both key cities would


details of their offending was opened to the court, were also banned from keeping, dealing in or transporting animals for a 10-year period.

Animal trap

They each admitted causing unnecessary suffering to animals, namely four terrier pups, between 1 November 2011 and 28 November 2011.

Dogs are blooded in this way in order to train them to fight other animals in blood sports including badgers, foxes and deer” Trial judge

They also admitted ownership of items in connection with an animal fight on 27 November 2011.

The items included a battery pack, hand-held lamps, a dog harness and an animal trap.

The third count to which they pleaded guilty was keeping or training four bull lurcher-type dogs in connection with an animal fight between 10 July 2011 and 28 November 2011.

One man also pleaded1967.

During the interrogation, Turing reveals he worked at Bletchley Park during World War II. He confesses that he broke the Enigma code—the famous cipher used by the Nazis—and helped end the war early.

It’s a story that was still classified at the time, and contained information Britain didn’t want to get out. Although the war was over, much of the world anticipated another conflict erupting, this time between the West and Russia.

The filmmakers want the audience to feel that Turing has been hiding all his life, and is now revealing his true self. He was a man who imitated normal behavior but never understood it. As a trope, this interrogation scene serves as a confession framing the story of his life.

But revealing his war record is treason, a crime


Turing never committed. Nor was he ashamed of—or afraid—to reveal his sexuality.

It was an open secret. When questioned by the police, he readily admitted the fact because he felt it would soon no longer be a crime.

These are just two of the many ways The Imitation Game screws up one of the greatest stories of World War II.

Film adaptations of a life will always change facts and cut out complicated information. Such is the nature of movies—bio pics are themselves condensed and entertaining versions of a subject’s life.

These films work best when they focus on one aspect of a famous life and capture that essence.

Walk the Line works because it’s the love story of Johnny Cash and June Carter as told through their music. Raging Bull works becauseaffable, possessed a mischievous sense of humor and had many friends at Bletchley Park.

He did enjoy working alone and would—at times—talk over people, but most people found him charming.

The movie also depicts Turing as the driving force behind cracking the Enigma code. In this depiction, he built the computer that decoded it, and pulled his fellow cryptographers kicking and screaming to the answers.

In truth, Turing had great help from the hundreds of other scientists working to break the Nazi code. He did pioneer many code-cracking techniques, but couldn’t have accomplished so much without the help of his co-workers.

Turing based the bombe—his code-breaking computer—on an existing Polish design. He constructed the machine alongside Gordon Welchman—a mathematician not even mentioned in the film.

The real Turing was a brilliant, affable man


With Hurricane Dolly bearing down on Brownsville, Texans can say they know a thing or two about horrific storms. The state is second only to Florida in the number of direct hurricane hits.

And while Dolly is expected to cause serious flooding, it is unlikely to be anything like the deadliest hurricane ever to strike the United States, one that struck Galveston, Texas, more than a century ago.

Early on the evening of Sept. 8, 1900, a powerful Category 4 storm, with sustained winds over 130 mph, roared ashore. Storm surges of 8 to 15 feet swamped all of Galveston Island and inundated other parts of the nearby Texas coast, according to a National Hurricane Center historical account.

Half the homes on Galveston were swept away, according to NOAA, the hurricanecenter's parent organization. The storm left somewhere between 8,000 and 12,000 dead. Most of the deaths were due to the storm surge.

In the entire Atlantic Basin, only an October 1780 hurricane that killed 20,000 or so on Caribbean islands was deadlier.

Things were different back then. There were no satellites, of course, and no radar. Weather forecasts were less accurate and provided less warning time. The 1900 hurricane came in from the Caribbean, across the Gulf of Mexico, swooped up through Texas and across the Midwest before finally skirting Canada and shooting back into the Atlantic.

Warnings were issued by what was then known as the Weather Bureau. The real problem, according to a NOAA analysis: "Many didn't heed the warnings, preferring instead to watch the huge waves."

The following account


of the water's rapid rise comes from Isaac M. Cline, the senior Weather Bureau employee in Galveston at the time:

"By 8 p.m. a number of houses had drifted up and lodged to the east and southeast of my residence, and these with the force of the waves acted as a battering ram against which it was impossible for any building to stand for any length of time, and at 8:30 p.m. my residence went down with about fifty persons who had sought it for safety, and all but eighteen were hurled into eternity. Among the lost was my wife, who never rose above the water after the wreck of the building. I was nearly drowned and became unconscious, but recovered though being crushed by timbers and found myselfclinging to my youngest child, who had gone down with myself and wife."

Cline floated with small group of other people for three hours until the water began to drop.

"We landed about 11:30 p.m., by climbing over floating debris to a residence on Twenty-eighth Street and Avenue P," he wrote.

Between 1900 and 2004, Florida was hit by 64 hurricanes, Texas absorbed 38, and North Carolina took the brunt of 29. Over the past century, conditions have changed as the planet has warmed. Scientists now say the Atlantic hurricane season is getting longer, with strong storms emerging earlier in the season.


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Giacometti related this work to his memory of sitting in a Paris brothel and seeing four naked women at the far end of the room. ‘The distance which separated us, the polished floor, seemed insurmountable in spite of my desire to cross it and impressed me as much as the women’, he recalled. The tiny size of the figures and the heavy base with sloping sides, which suggests a receding floor, recreates the sense of distance and confrontation experienced by the artist.Claudine Françoise Mignot

Claudine Françoise Mignot (commonly called Marie; 20 January 1624 – 30 November 1711) was a French adventuress born near Grenoble, at Meylan.

At the age of sixteen she attracted the notice of the secretary of Pierre de Portes d'Ambérieux, treasurer of the province of Dauphiné, and Ambérieux promised to promote their marriage. Instead, he married her himself on 29 July 1640 and left her his fortune.

His will was disputed by his family, and Claudine went to Paris in 1653 to secure its fulfilment. She sought the protection of , marshal of France, then a man of seventy-five. He married her on 25 August 1653, within a week of their first meeting, and after seven years of marriage died on 20 April 1660 leaving her part of his


The Canadian Minister of Immigration has agreed ## hold up approval of any applications of members of the Ukrainian Galician Division for immigration to Canada in order to give the Canadian Jewish Congress an opportunity ## submit evidence that the Galician Division, which was formed by Hitler during the ## World War, is composed of persons who participated in the mass murder of Jews ##der Nazi instructions.

The Canadian Jewish Congress is continuing its search for data in support of ##ts assertions concerning the fascist and anti-democratic activities of the Ukrainian ##vision. It will submit all facts to the government as soon as they are collated. ## the meantime, the Congress has been assured that if the facts presented by it are correct, the members of the Ukrainian divisiona generation's understanding of the gross anatomy of narrative.

The Ghosts had receded. It was now my intellect versus my soul. My intellect took the ball and ran with it:

Star Wars is the monomyth of Gens- X and Y: so pervasive that it occupies the mental volume whole genres did in the past. In some future accounting of late twentieth and early twenty-first century popular entertainment the term Star Wars could be spoken in the same way we now say "the Western." Star Wars isn't entertainment: it is a language, and anyone with access to the Internet, DVD, VHS, Super-8, or two cans attached by a string can share in the conversation.

As members of an audience, millions of us feel that Star Wars speaks to and for us. We


Death Star, you wanna tell us what you learned so we can go dance with the Ewoks?"

Lesson #1: the longer I stay away from Star Wars, the more annoyed I am by its ubiquity.

In my willing estrangement from Luke Skywalker and his merry band of rebels, I came to value their small and very personal adventure in contrast to the massive cultural apparatus it spawned. It now seems absurd that a film as sparsely populated — one whose triumph of the imagination was to imply massive scope through the judicious use of production design, location and editing while telling a relatively small hero's journey story — has developed so overwhelming a cultural footprint.

Where before, a character's despair at being sent to the "Spice Mines of Kessel" sparked ana future self is a Moebius loop of mental fuckery that could only lead to insanity.

The creative life with which I want communion as an adult is one lived by the principle described by Raul Julia's character in the obscure 1976 film The Gumball Rally. Playing a lecherous Ferrari driver, Julia takes the pilot seat, tears out the rearview mirror, and declares that "the first rule of Italian driving" is "what's behind me is not important."

So while I respect that George Lucas believes that in some bright pixellated future there exists a perfect version of Star Wars that transcends the limited capacity of 1970's analog cinema, I just don't want to walk beside him on the journey anymore. I love the past and no longer find a reason


One of the best – if not the best – amateur sumo wrestlers in America, Ed Suczewski, will be hosting a sumo camp on May 25th and 26th in Madison, NJ. For those who don’t know Ed, he is a multi-time gold medalist at the US Sumo Nationals, he has medaled multiple times at the US Sumo Open, and he has competed at the World Sumo Championships. He is also one of the nicest people in sumo. NorthAmericanSumo.com was able to interview him a few months ago, and his enthusiasm for sumo is simply contagious. In other words, there are few people better to run a sumo camp in America than Ed.

Ed provided a PDF of the camp’s activities along with other necessary info (click here), and heas error:

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(1) That the prosecution was permitted to comment upon the fact that he chose to exercise his fifth amendment right in declining to turn over his books and records to Government agents who were conducting the criminal investigation of his tax returns.

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In January, 1971, the defendant, Helina, was contacted by Revenue Agent Marx, who had been assigned the audit of Helina's 1969 tax return.  At the end of March, 1971, the audit of Helina's tax returns shifted to a criminal investigation and Marx referred Helina's case to the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service.  On August 25, 1971, Special Agent O'Boyle of the Intelligence Division of the Internal Revenue Service met with


net worth method of proof1 and a bank deposit analysis.2 Evidence of the bank deposit analysis, in the form of testimony by Special Agent Huntsman and Mrs. Clark, Helina's assistant, was admitted over the objection of defense counsel.

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Primarily, although recent United States Supreme Court cases3 and cases from other circuits4 perhaps intimate a different result, we initially conclude that Helina was within hisInspired by Modernists, such as Neutra and Schindler, this home reflects it's Latin American origins, infused with Asian influences. This home is a family oriented residence that keeps in mind the environment and modern California living.

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Female giant panda, Yuan Yuan, received artificial insemination on Tuesday and Wednesday with sperm from male giant panda Tuan Tuan at Taipei Zoo.

Both born in 2004, the pair were given as a goodwill gift to Taiwan by the Chinese mainland in 2008. They had their first and only cub so far, Yuan Zai, on July 6, 2013, also by artificial insemination.

The zoo has been attempting to assist the pair to conceive again since 2015.

The zoo's Eric Tsao said Yuan Yuan went into estrus during Chinese Lunar New Year, a little earlier than usual.

Zoo staff speculated that the peak of Yuan Yuan's estrus came on Tuesday and let the pair stay in the same cage to try natural mating, but it failed as before.

Sperm was collected from Tuan Tuan,a dominant stretch in divisional play, putting great distance between the Cardinals and the next-closest teams in the Atlantic (Notre Dame and Florida State at 17-13).

The ACC has had a good, but far from dominant season to date. Eight of the top 40 RPI teams hail from the conference — including four from the Atlantic. Still, Louisville won every series this year, including the final one against a desperate North Carolina State team that had won nine in a row entering the Wolfpack’s final home stand.

It didn’t matter.

The Cardinals took a tight Game 1 of the series with ace Kyle Funkhouser on the mound, and NC State won Game 2, fighting off a late Louisville rally.

In Game 3, Louisville got out to a big lead — 5-1 —


Oscar 2011 Fashion - 2

History of the Oscar Awards

Far from the eagerly anticipated and globally televised event it is today, the first Academy Awards ceremony took place out of the public eye during an Academy banquet at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. Two hundred seventy people attended the May 16, 1929 dinner in the hotel’s Blossom Room; guest tickets cost $5. It was a long affair filled with speeches, but Academy President Douglas Fairbanks made quick work of handing out the statuettes.

There was little suspense when the awards were presented that night: the recipients had already been announced three months earlier. That all changed the following year, however, when the Academy decided to keep the results secret until the ceremony but gave a list in advance to newspapers forpublication at 11 p.m. on the night of the Awards. This policy continued until 1940 when, much to the Academy’s consternation, the Los Angeles Times broke the embargo and published the names of the winners in its evening edition – which was readily available to guests arriving for the ceremony. That prompted the Academy in 1941 to adopt the sealed-envelope system still in use today.

Fifteen statuettes were awarded at the first ceremony for cinematic achievements in 1927 and 1928. The first Best Actor winner was acclaimed German tragedian Emil Jannings, who had to return to Europe before the ceremony. The Academy granted his request to receive the trophy early, making his statuette the very first Academy Award ever presented.


Live Linux distribution Knoppix as the "host" operating system; the computer system boots to Knoppix to recognize any devices the system has attached to it. The host then runs the VMware virtual machine, which resumes the user's last session in their operating system.

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Issues addressed in the paper include the large amount of resources necessary to use SoulPad. In addition, the paper mentions the large amount of time it takes to resume from Soulpad (around two minutes), contrasted with the small amount of time it takes to suspend the operating environment. This is attributed to the need for Knoppix to recognize all the devices attached to the current machine. A solution suggested to correct this problem is to provide the user with a set of system profiles to chooseA short piece in the Evening Standard yesterday mentioned a wildcat bus action in North London yesterday. This is the only place I could find any mention of it on the internet. Anyone know any thing else?

Bus staff start protesting over Olympics bonus payments

Action by bus workers halted 33 services during the morning peak today.

Workers trapped vehicles in the depots and police had to be summed to halt the protests and let vehicles out.

The wildcat action was condemned as "deplorable" by Transport for London (TfL.)

Workers were protesting over failed demands for a £500-a-time Olympic bonuses.

It came as union bosses at Unite, staging its annual general meeting at Brighton, decided the next course of action which has already led to a 24-hour strike in pursuit of the bonuses for


all 20,000 plus staff.

The protests took place at the Holloway Road, Cricklewood, Waterloo, Wood Green and Tottenham depots.

A TfL spokesman said “Protesters at five bus garages caused disruption to 33 bus services this morning. The Metropolitan Police Service were called in each case and all buses have now resumed passenger service.

"The payment of bus staff for the Olympic and Paralympic Games is a matter for the private companies who employ them. Any disruption to transport services for Londoners is simply deplorable especially in circumstances where the employers’ offer has not even been put to the bus workers themselves”.

The protest came as 220 workers at the Boris Bike scheme were awarded £500 Olympic bonuses - putting added pressure on the capital's private sector bus operators to pay their staffUnusually, Shipping Coalition Demands an ECA

China Daily

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

A coalition of shipping companies wants the Pearl River Delta cleaned up and turned into a low emission zone.

The call, from the Hong Kong Liner Shipping Association (HKLSA) and the Hong Kong Shipowners’ Association (HKSA) in conjunction with 17 shipping companies came along with a renewed, one-year pledge from the shipping companies to burn only low-sulfur fuels while berthed in Hong Kong, reports the China Daily.

The coalition wants low sulfur emissions mandated by laws by January 2014. But in the meantime, the coalition is also recommending that authorities provide incentives, such as a 50 percent cut in port fees for vessels that come into voluntary compliance, prior to the January 2014 deadline.

The alliance wants to increase its reach, beyond


than two hundred million dollars in loans to a New York office building that Trump co-owns, Politico reported on Friday. The loans will come due in 2022, “in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term,” the timely article noted.

The building in question is 1290 Avenue of the Americas, which is located between West Fifty-first and West Fifty-second Streets. The majority owner of the building is Vornado Realty Trust, a big real-estate company that is run by the veteran developer Steven Roth. In 2007, the Trump Organization acquired a thirty-per-cent stake in the Sixth Avenue building and also in separate Vornado development, in San Francisco. By all appearances, the Vornado stake has been one of Trump’s most successful investments, and the Bank of China played a significantwrote on Twitter on Friday. “So, who knows who else he owes money? I’ll tell you who: The lenders who have him in their grip.”

We do know that Trump-family companies have done business with Chinese entities on other occasions, too. In 2017, a Trump-branded golf resort in Dubai hired two Chinese firms to do construction, McClatchy reported. And, since Trump has been in the White House, the Chinese government has issued numerous trademarks to Ivanka Trump’s businesses.

Relative to the size of the two-hundred-and-eleven-million-dollar loan in 2012, these dealings were minor, but they confirm the essential truth that Trump, despite his rhetoric, is a participant and a beneficiary of the global economic system that he blames for the gutting of the American middle class. The Chinese financial investments that


couple of times, and she has now been captured by the freaky islanders again. She has her hands tied behind her back, and the leader of this group of freaky islanders orders the shooting of Lara and another couple of crewmembers from her ship. Those crewmembers are shot in cold blood right in front of her. She has an opportunity to escape, so she takes it, running and sneaking through the camp with her arms still bound. The island men are looking for her. She can’t move well or fast, and she can’t use any tools; all she can do is move and hide.

She’s spotted. A man drags her out of her hiding place and pushes her against a wall. Hands distinctly wander. He tells her she’s goingstill in the middle of a camp crawling with men just like the one lying in front of her, all of whom are looking for her. Killing is a big thing and it takes her time and emotional strength to pull herself together enough to fight her way out of the camp, but she does it (killing more in the process, but the emotional damage is already done). Later, she stumbles over admitting the killing to Roth, still shocked by what she has done and coming to terms with it.

The rest of the game is rife with weapons, killing, and bad guys falling by the wayside, but I think the character side was nicely done. It’s perhaps a little too easy to fall into the rhythm of the


off the island, because she led them there and it’s her responsibility to get them safely home.

Survivor

The tagline that the game lives up to.

It’s all of these things that make Lara from the inexperienced, shocked woman who washed up on a beach into the survivor who is strong enough to pull herself and her friends out of a hellish situation. The whole game is her evolution, far more than that one moment when she was caught with her hands tied behind her back. The rescues that come for them are thwarted, but she pushes on, determined to find an answer. She loses friends along the way – painfully – and the losses she suffers all spur her on to save those she has left. She takes control of62°

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Hulu continues to clean house.

The streamer has canceled Jeffrey Donovan and KaDee Strickland drama Shut Eye after two seasons. The news, announced Tuesday in a tweet by Donovan, comes nearly two months after the sophomore season launched. Hulu has confirmed the cancellation.

Produced by Sony Pictures Television Studios, the show revolved around a former fake psychic scammer (Donovan) who starts to experience visions that may or may not be real.

Hulu, like fellow streamers Netflix and Amazon, does not release viewership information. The series had a mixed score of 50 among critics on Metacritic and a slightly more favorable 6.4 score among users. The drama, which also changed showrunners in a bid to draw a wider audience, ultimately did not cut through.

The decision to cancel Shut Eye comes as Huluis refining its scripted strategy under new chief content officer Joel Stillerman to better compete with deep-pocketed rivals Netflix and Amazon. To that end, Hulu this month canceled Hugh Laurie drama Chance after two seasons and recently announced the upcoming final season of comedy Casual, while also wrapping The Mindy Project last year. The streamer, which has the highly anticipated second season of Emmy-winning drama The Handmaid's Tale due in April, has a full slate of originals that also includes recently renewed drama Runaways and comedy Future Man. Next up this year are Beau Willimon's ambitious space drama The First, starring Sean Penn; limited series The Looming Tower; Universal Television-produced The Path; and the Stephen King/J.J. Abrams anthology Castle Rock, among others.


The Brandeis Story

Brandeis University is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian institution of higher learning named in honor of the distinguished U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis. Founded in 1948 by members of the American Jewish community, the university today combines the breadth and scope of a world-class research university and the intimacy and accessibility of a small liberal arts college.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s best universities, Brandeis is widely recognized for the excellence of its teaching, the quality and diversity of its student body and the outstanding research of its faculty. In 1985 Brandeis was nominated and elected to membership in the Association of American Universities, which represents the 61 leading research universities in the United States and Canada.

Students who succeed at Brandeis are self motivated, curious and openWest explosion leaves at least five dead, hundreds injured

West, TX (KWKT) —
Authorities searched through mounds of rubble in hopes of finding survivors of the huge, deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant that flattened much of a small Texas town on Wednesday night.

The blast, which residents described as "massive" and "overwhelming," left shattered homes and wreckage in a wide swath of West, TX, a town of only 2,800 people, according to CNN.

Police estimate five to 15 people have been killed, more than 160 injured.

On Thursday, Gov. Rick Perry has officially declared West a disaster area.

"The Texas department of transportation is handling traffic flow for the effected areas, and we have officials from the texas commission of environmental quality who are monitoring air quality," Governor Perry said on Thursday. "Pipelines


in the area are being monitored closely. the gas distribution system to homes has been disconnected. and it is our understanding that those are being both double and triple checked before any service will go back onto those homes. the texas department of state health services has been on the ground with ambulance, buses with a mobile hospital and other resources. the Texas Education Agency -- because there was an intermediate school within close proximity is working with the local school district to coordinate any immediate needs in the district."

On Thursday afternoon, Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Director Steven McCraw today issued the following statement regarding Wednesday’s fertilizer plant explosion in the city of West:

“DPS is continuing to work closely with our local, state and federal partnersconducted with radioactivity victims, such as the reflection of psychosocial aspects on the victims of the accident, were well exploited. However, so far there are few publications linking SAH with radioacticity victims. This study aims to contribute with studies that address the primary prevention and early diagnosis for SAH.

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After the approval of the Ethics and Research Committee, data collection was started, guided by SISRAD, with 102 registered


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Anyone interested in the complete story of the Amistad Africans needs to know about Farmington CT where the freed captives resided for 8 months until a ship was raised to return them to Africa. Contact Farmington Historical Society. See Webthe right thing to do, I just told her she was having the needles for her tummy aches”.

When puberty hit Charlotte, she was subject to a different type of ignorance. She got her first period at 10, had no idea what it was and literally thought she was “bleeding to death”. She was also teenager-tall and filled a C-cup bra. She recalls being at the supermarket with her mother “and men would literally crash their shopping trolleys looking at me”, she says, now 25. “Sexual attention from adult men really screws with your head when you’re a child, but I learnt really early to shut out people who looked at me. I still do it.”

She went on to develop anorexia in her first year at high school. The


from the get-go is an exquisitely tuned genetic brake located in the brain. At a time it deems right, based on unknown environmental and genetic information, the brake eases off and the process completes itself. There is even a “mini puberty” in young babies – which manifests as enlarged genitalia in boys and slight breast enlargement in girls – which then subsides. Midwives and GPs often have to reassure parents that what they’re seeing is quite normal, says Steinbeck.

A team of US scientists believe they have – at least in a mouse model – identified the key genetic elements within the brain that form the puberty brake in girls, and how those elements interact. Their report was published in the March issue of Nature Neuroscience. A commentary publishedCome hop on an evening flight to Houston.

Descend through the dark Texas sky, touch down at George Bush Intercontinental Airport north of the city and exit through a busy terminal. Sign for a rental car and ease into the driver’s seat. Get comfortable.

Curl right onto I-69, and snake south for 18 miles toward a bustling downtown. Then split left onto Highway 288, and allow a half hour to pass; the city lights dimming in the rearview and flat, dry, dusty earth sprawling all around. When the sign appears, exit left onto the final freeway, Highway 6 South.

Dead ahead, where faint lights flicker in the space where the sky meets the soil, lies our destination.

Welcome to Alvin, Texas, population 27,000.

Pulling into town and hanging right for the last turn,


a faded red sign appears a quarter mile down the street. It hangs in front of a 139-year-old watering hole, the Gordon Street Tavern.

Inside, townsfolk occupy most of the worn wooden tables in a crowded main room. They drink cold beer and watch football on wide screens overhead. Amble to the back and grab a chair at the bar.

Sit and listen.

Months after he picked up shifts as a floor supervisor to make ends meet while pursuing his NFL dream, there is Gunner Olszewski.

“We’ve been spreading the word about how excited we are for Gunner,” says his former manager Natalie Peters. “People here talk about him all the time.”

Back on the road the compass points west, where a dark-haired freshman at New Mexico State sweats out several pounds duringall of one practice for an upperclassmen to approach Bolte and predict Olszewski’s eventual All-America honor. By season’s end, Olszewski led the team with seven interceptions, made the all-conference first team and was named Newcomer of the Year.

He even stepped in as an emergency holder in his second collegiate game — with no prior experience.

“Really, it became a no-brainer,” Bolte said of playing Olszewski. “He was so damn good.”

Bolte never could keep him off the field. Neither could Bellew — not even when the emergency room beckoned during his freshman season.

Midway through a three-game series at Oklahoma City University, the tireless Texan tapped a grounder to first base and flew down the line to force a close play. The pitcher, a hulking 6-foot-6 hurler, lumbered over to cover


said. "Once he starts on something, there's no turning that off."

Months after Olszewski bid Bemidji goodbye to train for the NFL full time, the school completed wholesale renovations inside its football offices. The finishing touch belonged to Al Wolden, the first player in program history to reach the NFL and a member of the BSU Athletics Hall of Fame. Wolden, 56, played three games with the Bears and lives in town with his wife and two sons.

Walking back from a prominent wall inside the facility, Wolden stopped to admire his work. He smiled. Then Wolden stepped forward and had his picture taken next to the new mural depicting the greatest player in Bemidji State football history.

It was Olszewski.

Preparation and Pro Day

Tipping the scale at 168 pounds, his faceGunner is that special type of guy.”

Still bothered by his separated shoulder, Olszewski played in the all-star game, returned home and centered his training around Pro Day-specific drills. He hadn’t heard from Bolte yet whether he would perform for scouts at the University of Minnesota’s Pro Day in late March or the lesser-attended Division II showcase the following day. Olszewski wouldn’t hear for almost two months.

While he continued grinding with Appel, Olszewski called in a favor from a high school friend who worked at the Gordon Street Tavern. He wanted to work more, pocket a little extra cash.

Olszewski’s interview went so well management agreed to work around his training schedule. In return, he served food, lent a hand in the kitchen and behind the bar and wherever else


danced for them, bouncing about the gym spurred on by the sounds of their laughter, a smile spread wide across his face.

As the calendar turned to March, Bolte found smiling more difficult. He’d pressed Minnesota’s staff to formally invite Olszewski and BSU’s other top prospects to their Pro Day for weeks. Welcoming local small-school prospects to these events is a common courtesy expected of FBS programs across the country.

Yet the Gophers refused him. Bolte had his suspicions why.

The year before, a Bemidji State offensive lineman, Jake Krause, outran and out-lifted every Gophers lineman at their Pro Day, which triggered a mini meltdown from head coach P.J. Fleck. Bolte believed Minnesota was barring all Division II prospects to avoid a repeat embarrassment. Despite the troubling uncertainty he had caused,traveled for Olszewski. But unless Minnesota’s staff relented in time for Pro Day, only a few would study Olszewski in person.

At last, with hours to spare before their Pro Day, the Gophers changed their minds. Minnesota formally extended invites to Olszewski and Bemidji State safety John Vogeler. Bolte suspects either Olszewski’s agent or several vocal scouts applied enough pressure to get his players through the door.

But it didn’t matter. His star defensive backs finally had an NFL audience.

On March 27, Olszewski ran in the mid 4.5s during the 40-yard dash and leapt 36 inches in the vertical leap, competitive marks for most any NFL prospect regardless of position. A longtime Bears scout called Bolte to say Olszewski had done well. The coach thought Chicago might move on him.

Later,


were already underway in Nashville. The couple’s eyes climbed the screen searching for No. 9 in white. The Patriots had received the opening kick, so this should be easy.

A-ha! There he was.

There was Olszewski, starting at wide receiver for New England. At that moment, Appel turned to his wife and proclaimed: “Gunner’s gonna make the team."

Starting reps in the second week were a positive sign for his 53-man roster odds no doubt, but it was a series of injuries that propelled Olszewski to a place of preseason prominence. With Phillip Dorsett and Maurice Harris sidelined, Tom Brady threw to Olszewski several times during joint practices in Tennessee, where he made a fan out of Titans cornerback Malcolm Butler. Butler had no idea seven months earlier they played thesame position.

For that change, Olszewski owed Patriots scouts Tim Heffelfinger and Steve Cargile.

According to a source, both scouts attended Minnesota’s Pro Day and approached him about transitioning to wide receiver. His lateral quickness had stirred their imaginations. No other team suggested trying another position.

The two confirmed with Bolte and Bemidji State defensive backs coach Rich Jahner that Olszewski would be a character fit in New England. They brought his name back to Belichick and the front office.

After flying back to Houston, Olszewski upended his training regimen again. He asked Appel to redesign every aspect of his workouts so he could become a wide receiver.

Not two months later, his cuts were sharp and routes passable at New England’s rookie minicamp. It still took a week and the unexpected retirement


Pats’ preseason finale, he flashed in all three phases with a 29-yard reception, 35-yard kick return and several defensive series at cornerback.

His steady improvement sparked questions about whether his odds of making the roster now exceeded players like 2018 sixth-round pick Braxton Berrios, a lifelong receiver and returner.

New England answered those questions by making Berrios one of its first cuts Saturday. For a time, Olszewski sat with him on the league’s curb. The Patriots called shortly before noon to inform him he would be released.

Thanks for the time, the training, the transition. Best of luck.

Then, with less than 15 minutes until the NFL’s deadline, they called back. He was staying put.

New England had filed a deadline deal with the Texans, trading second-year cornerback Keion Crossen in exchange forOfficers informed
McCalvin of her Miranda rights, and McCalvin signed a waiver form. McCalvin stated that she had
no medical problems, was not under the influence of alcohol or drugs, and understood English.
McCalvin was twenty-seven years old and had never been in jail before. She was a high school
graduate.
        Between approximately 5:00 a.m. and 7:30 a.m., Detectives Palmer and Shadwell
interrogated McCalvin. The interrogation began with McCalvin giving her version of how Branch
died. McCalvin told the detectives that Branch’s death was an accident. McCalvin stated that she
had only attempted to back her car out of Smith’s driveway. She thought that she put the car into
reverse, but instead she accidentally put it into drive. When McCalvin pressed the gas pedal, her
car lunged forward and hit


the Ale, One Inn The Wood and Yard of Ale. In November 2015, CAMRA announced that Yard of Ale (Kent regional winner) had been chosen to be one of the four finalists in this competition.

In April 2015, CAMRA announced that Martyn Hillier had been chosen as the Campaigner of the Year at its 2015 AGM for his tireless work giving advice to other would-be micropub owners and for founding the Micropub Association.

In March 2017, the first book devoted solely to micropubs was published. "The Micropub Guide : Enjoying the pint-sized pub revolution" is a 350 page paperback published by Duncan Petersen () which describes the concept, its history and development, with venue listings and has a foreword written by the concept's deviser Martyn Hillier.

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the task and at the end of the 100 days was transformed into a beautiful woman, who became the mother of Tangun, father of Korea. The Tiger, however, was impatient and hungry and bolted from the cave before the 100 days were over. He has been slinking through the mountains ever since.

Tragically no tigers exist today in Korea. Depending on who you believe, the last tiger was captured on the Korean peninsula in either 1922 or 1944. The Japanese occupation of Korea during World War II was a bitter foreshadowing for the end of Korea’s unity and the nation’s tiger as the country was torn in two following the Korean War and the tiger faded quietly into folklore.

Fortunately for you, South Korea’s tiger prowls again on this beautiful


Tiger bullion medal struck by KOMSCO (Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation), the official mint of South Korea.

RIVETING DESIGN OF A CLASSIC SIBERIAN TIGER – The image of snarling tiger stalking through some bamboo trees is drop-dead gorgeous. The largest big cat in the world, Korean Tigers are more commonly called Siberian tigers. They once ranged throughout Korea but today fewer than 600 exist in the wilds of the Russian Far East. The reverse shows a stylized outline of the Korean peninsula made up exclusively of symbols from the Korean language.

STRUCK IN A TROY OUNCE OF FINE SILVER – Your 2018 South Korea 1-oz Silver Tiger is struck in a full Troy ounce of fine 99.9% silver.

GRADED IN GEM BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED CONDITION – The 2018 South Korea 1-ozCPAC in March, an annual meet-and-green often seen as a launching pad for presidential aspirants that featured a keynote speech from Walker in 2013. He blamed "scheduling" conflicts for his decision to stay out of the national lens.

It wasn't long ago that Walker was a darling of the rightwing media, willing to grant interviews to conservative cheerleaders in outlets large and small. Walker sat down with the rightwing blog American Thinker as recently as January 14, where his Q&A was introduced by flowery prose extolling his virtue as a "pragmatic, honest" governor who keeps his promises.

Walker then proceeded to hang himself with his own words.

"Governors should be defined not just by what they do and say, but who they surround themselves with, making sure to have the smartest


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Conducted in 195 countries over a 35-year period, the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at a conference in Stockholm, is billed as the most comprehensive research to date on the subject.

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“I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.”
– Charles Quint

Albion’s alliance with France has lasted more than two generations now, though the warmth of the alliance has certainly varied over that period. A common enmity against powerful Spain has been the foundation of this friendship, though the marriages between Princess Marguerite and Prime Minister Milton and now between King Matthew himself and Princess Joanne have helped to bring personal warmth (and some guarantee of continuity) to the long standing pact.

Normandy and other Northern regions have been the most affected and France has suffered less than than some. Rennes and Caens are island fortresses and Paris is half-flooded, now a burgeoning port city, Bordeaux could not be saved and was sunkon purpose to prevent it from falling into the hands of invading Spaniards. It is, for sunken treasure, almost as famous as London.

Many new waterways are in existence and sea and river transport has grown significantly, rivalling even the Guild of Navigators for popularity and spread.

More fortunate than England, France has nevertheless suffered significantly from the floods and, like its Archipelago cousin, began to adapt to a more nautical Kingdom. To this end the King of France has begun more than any other affected country to finance and develop learning related to the seas and oceans.

Unfortunately the current status of the alliance is unclear. King Louis XIV of France passed away in the spring (the normally rumours of assassination and conspiracy attended his death but no more than


at the death of any other reigning monarch) and his throne is now held by his wife, Anne of Austria, until such time as the Dauphin reaches the age of majority.

Although notionally a Princess of Austria, Anne was brought up in Spain, and became the wife of the late King as part of a misjudged and short-lived peace with Spain. Their arranged marriage was always cold and distant, with the two living apart for much of their lives. It surprised many when after a series of miscarriages she finally bore a son, Louis, and she has never succeeded in suppressing the rumours of his illegitimacy (though the King certainly believed him to be his).

This reflects her own great unpopularity. She has always been viewed as a foreigner anda lackey of the Spaniards who devastated France at the start of the century. Her correspondence with her brother Philip IV of Spain during the wars of the 1630s was suspected of exceeding the bonds of familial loyalty, with enough cause that Richelieu forced her to sign covenants regarding her correspondence, which was henceforth open to inspection.

Even worse, from the perspective of Albion, is that she has long held a hatred for the Archipelago beyond that of many Spaniards. If it were not for the peace treaty that King Henry IX extracted from Spain she would have been entitled to the title Princess of Navarre. A vain woman she has always regarded this as an affront to her dignity, and has amply illustrated this with a thousand slights


to the Albion ambassador.

Fortunately the low esteem with which she is regarded limits her power. However Spanish gold has increasingly allowed her to enforce her unpopular orders. It was certainly the means by which she persuaded the weak Parlement de Paris to disregard the will of the late king, which would have limited her powers as regent.

The protégé of the respected or at least feared Cardinal Richelieu, Cardinal Mazarin is cut from a different cloth. He has become the power behind the throne, like his late master, but where Richelieu was imperious and arrogant Mazarin is a more reasonable and modest man. Even those who opposed Richelieu most fiercely have found some kinds words to say about Mazarin. In large part this is because he has always putFrance first; he is known to oppose the Queen’s flirtations with Spain and has himself resisted the commands of the Papacy (reinforcing the broad streak of independence characteristic of the bishops of France). Couple with this is an iron grasp of the treasury, which he has managed to make far more efficient than his predecessors. The burden of taxation in France is heavier and less fair than that of Albion, but Mazarin has at least managed to make collection reliable which has prevented the need for large levies which antagonise the nobles and commoners alike.

Mazarin has also continued the French throne’s long-standing policy of moderation and froideur towards the Protestant Huguenots. France has never suffered the religious massacres and civil wars of Albion and the Germany, but it


As the Democratic primary heads into South Carolina and the The Black Vote becomes important issue, I've noticed the phenomenon of people sharing headlines about liberal black supporters as if they are magical amulets that can persuade others and repel criticism.

The "Magical Negro" is a trope in cinema where a black supporting characters are "portrayed as coming to the aid of a film's white protagonists" and who "possess special insight or mystical powers," as Wikipedia has it written up. From who Ta-Nehisi Coates is voting for to shots at John Lewis and Killer Mike's respective endorsements and missteps to reconciling the '94 crime bill and various problematic statements over the years, black support of candidates have become like Magic cards, used to defeat foes in online combat.

° °will be proud to support. To Dwight, we thank him for his time and consideration, and for his efforts with us last season. We wish him the best of luck on the remainder of his NBA career." For all the allure of the Lakers that he was so excited about after the trade that brought him to Los Angeles in the summer of 2012, Howard ultimately went with the team that gave him the best chance to win a championship now rather than later. The Rockets had gone to great lengths to clear the way for his arrival, remaking their roster and offering a chance to partner with James Harden on the team that went 45-37 last season and pushed his former Oklahoma City Thunder team to six


games in a first-round playoff loss. After being traded from the Orlando Magic to the Los Angeles Lakers in a four-team deal a year ago, Howard entered the summer unsure of what he might do because of the awful Lakers season that had unfolded. DWIGHTMARE: How Howard took over free agency MAVERICKS: Mark Cuban moves on from snub His partnership with Kobe Bryant never went as planned, nor did his recovery from back surgery in April 2012 that hindered his play for most of the season. The five-team race between the Rockets, Lakers, Golden State Warriors, Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks included lengthy meetings with each team in Los Angeles this week that not only would determine his final destination but also slow a free agency period thatshould speed up now that his decision is known. WINNING: What Howard wanted from free agency ROCKETS: GM's daughter gets in on Dwight pitch The practice of superstars pushing their way to greener pastures is hardly a unique concept in today's NBA, but Howard's was in a class all its own because of the seemingly endless twists and turns and his infamous indecisiveness. With word long having spread about his growing unhappiness in Orlando during the lockout, his first public request came during training camp in December 2011. He had taken the Magic to new heights, as they went from 21 wins the season before he was taken first overall out of Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy in 2004 to 36 wins in his rookie season. Then, starting in


2006, they went on a run of six consecutive playoff appearances that included an NBA Finals loss to the Lakers in 2009 and a conference finals loss to the Boston Celtics in 2010. Howard has won three NBA Defensive Player of the Year awards, was known as the best center in the game, and had a fun-loving image that would be battered throughout the year to come coach. But Howard wanted more, to play on the sort of stage that would help him become an icon of the sporting world. That was the word he so often came back to with those closest to him, and the one he had written on a sheet of paper that was taped to the bedroom mirror of his Bel Air homeas a reminder: "Icon." PHOTOS: How Dwight ended up here So his list of preferred destinations would soon be widely known, with the then-soon-to-be Brooklyn Nets a clear favorite and the Lakers and Dallas Mavericks seen as distant backup options. There were months of trade talk updates, both real and contrived, followed by the surreal All-Star weekend in Orlando in which Howard was the host who had one foot out the door. It was the perfect storm of media madness, with Howard facing relentless questioning about his future while trying to explain the difference between loving a town and loving a team. As the March 2012 trade deadline neared, the Nets were closing in on a deal and it seemed Howard's vision of pairing with point guard Deron


Williams in Brooklyn would become reality. Until, of course, Howard made the stunning and puzzling decision that complicated it all. By deciding to opt in with the Magic for last season – a choice he credited to loyalty that also allowed him to keep open the possibility of a five-year maximum contract as opposed to four – the "Dwightmare" was painfully prolonged coach handbag. It would all unravel a month later with the most memorable moment of them all, when then-Magic coach Stan Van Gundy candidly told the local media that Howard wanted him fired and, seconds later, felt the affectionate embrace of Howard as he walked up unknowingly and draped his right arm around his coach. A month later, Van Gundy and then-general manager Otis Smith wereImage caption One of the recently discovered fossil rodents hinted at a grassland ecosystem

Two of the earliest rodents, including the earliest chinchilla, have been discovered in Chile.

The finds add weight to the suggestion that grasslands appeared in South America 15 million years before anywhere else on Earth, after a period of global cooling.

The rodents have been described from two fragmentary fossils of lower jaws.

Both lived near a volcanic chain 32.5 million years ago that was buried in volcanic debris.

The structure of the animals' cheek teeth have been interpreted as being adapted to a diet of plants found in open, dry environments.

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dreamlike golden hue rising from the spray of the glacier water rushing into the canyon. On our way to our accommodation, we have the chance to visit both Seljalandsfoss and Skógafoss waterfalls. We will spend the night in a country hotel close to the village of Vík. Overnight: Country hotel near the village of Vík

Day 2 – Vík – Skaftafell – Glacier Lagoon – Höfn

We start the day exploring Reynisfjara black sand beach with the glorious Reynisdrangar peaks and basalt column cave. After that, glaciers are on the agenda. We pass Mýrdalsjökull glacier having a possibility of a view of Katla Volcano and drive through Eldhraun lava field on the way to Skaftafell. Skaftafell is a part of Vatnajökull National park and is a true oasis in thewhales, and sometimes even the majestic blue whale, you do also get a chance to try your luck at sea angling. When we come ashore, we drive to Siglufjörður a fishing village and around Tröllaskagi peninsula where you can get a good idea about the life in the small villages around Iceland. Before we reach Borgarfjörður where we spend the last night of this tour we will drive through a thriving agricultural area. The night will be spent in a hotel in the small university community at Bifröst.

Overnight: Hotel Bifröst

Day 6 – Borgarfjörður – Reykholt – Hraunfossar Waterfalls – Hvalfjörður – Reykjavik

On this last day, we will find ourselves in the west of Iceland – an area Lonely Planet voted as on of the best destinations in 2016.


Comedian and talk show host Hasan Minhaj made Congress members on Capitol Hill laugh Tuesday as he described the serious repercussions facing the nation's 45 million people who have student loan debts.

"This issue is sidelining millions of Americans. People are putting off marriage, kids, homeownership and retirement — especially my generation," Minhaj, 33, told the House Financial Services Committee.

Minhaj focused on student loans during an episode of his Netflix series, "Patriot Act," earlier this year. And while he told the committee that he didn't personally have to worry about post-college debt, he surveyed his audience of about 200 people and learned they collectively owed more than $6 million in student loans.

"Granted, our audience is mainly unemployed poly sci majors, but that's still a lot of money," he said.

Heregulate a student loan servicer and the department believes that regulation is pre-empted by federal law, then the data won't be released, a department spokesman said.

Both Democrats and Republicans on the House Financial Services Committee agreed there are systemic problems within the student loan industry, and House Financial Services Chair Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said lawmakers are discussing a series of bills, including creating a comprehensive borrower bill of rights and helping borrowers purchase first homes.

Waters accused the Trump administration of undermining the protection of student borrowers with the appointment last month of a new student loan ombudsman who was a top official at the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, a federal student loan servicer that has been the target of consumer lawsuits and state investigations.

In lawsuits against student


utilize new Baffler technologies and control software, and are so advanced only ONI technicians are qualified to maintain them.[1]

Some examples of the class, such as the ONI Acrisius, are fitted with a prototypical slipspace drive. This allows these select few craft to travel to distant parts of the Milky Way at a relatively high speed, monitoring the ex-Covenant races and human Insurrectionists for signs of trouble.[2]

Crew and complement [ edit ]

Five personnel are enough to optimally crew each Winter-class, with each being reserved a station in the prowler's bridge; a Commander, a navigator, a technician, a tactical director and surveillance controller. However, only the first two are required to operate one of these vessels, with the latter three spots only being filled during infiltration missions. Nevertheless, each individualthe Spartan and left to participate in another operation.[6]

Another Prowler, the UNSC Fast Gus was dispatched by Intrepid Eye to take Papa-10 and Lieutenant Bartalan Craddog to Meridian to retrieve the organs of the Tuwa family during Operation: RETRIBUTION. However, the mission failed and both Papa-10 and Craddog were killed.[7]

One Winter-class prowler—the ONI Acrisius—was stationed aboard research vessel Argent Moon as an evacuation vessel for its ONI personnel. However, the crew of Argent Moon were all killed in a bioweapon weapon accident in 2557.[2] When Spartan-II Blue Team traveled to Argent Moon to prevent ONI intelligence from falling into the hands of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant, the Spartans used Acrisius to evacuate Argent Moon after they overloaded its reactors as their Pelican had been destroyed.[4] The ship was eventually


means - our season is pretty much done.

I shake my head at people who think losing a Pro Bowl player like Melton, is "no big deal" and point to two undrafted FA's as being able to replace one of the best defensive linemen in the NFL (a Pro Bowl player). Melton was coming back from injury, and understandably had not reached his play-level of last year - but he was coming along nicely. The unit (DL) is already struggling. Losing a Pro Bowl player, isn't going to be "just fine" with a "next man up" when the next man up is very mediocre at best. People don't like to hear that. But sometimes the truth hurts. Collins is a journeyman undrafted kid who couldn't stick on his twoThe birth of a chemical society.
A short description of the events leading to the birth of the Italian Chemical Society is given. The first Italian Chemical Society was established in 1909, and resulted from the merging of the Milan and Rome sections.


Miller, Sr. Westoil Terminals Co. (Westoil Corporation) was incorporated in California in 1950. From their establishment, C. Edward Miller, Sr., held controlling interest in these businesses until 1974 when he turned the reins over to his son, C. Edward Miller, Jr. (Miller). In 1986, all of the shareholders of Westoil Corporation were members of Miller's family, except for Expert Property Management, Inc., of which Miller was the president. In that year, the individual shareholders traded their shares for a limited partnership interest in Westoil Partnership. Expert Property Management, Inc. traded its stock for the sole general partnership of Westoil Partnership. Except for real property described as "the Wilshire Office Building," all of the assets of the corporation were transferred to the new limited partnership. In the agreement memorializing1950. In 1974, it leased the terminal to Coastal States Marketing, Inc., which, in turn, assigned the lease to Western Fuel Oil Co. (Western Fuel). In 1995, Western Fuel brought suit against Westoil Partnership in federal court claiming that the latter had negligently polluted the terminal and adjacent lands. The following year, Western Fuel filed a cross-complaint against Westoil Partnership in state court on a similar claim. In January of 1996, Westoil Partnership tendered the defense of the suits to Continental and Harbor under the policies. In January of 1997, Continental and Harbor agreed to defend, but with a reservation of rights, stating, in pertinent part: "It appears that Westoil may not be a named insured under the alleged Time Oil policies" and "... nothing in this letter


in its brief, it "seeks coverage under those policies for events that occurred during the policy periods." During the policy periods referenced, the site was operated by named insured Westoil Corporation. The interests of Westoil Partnership and Westoil Corporation hence appear to be adverse. This adversity should preclude representation of both these entities by the same counsel. It would be more expectable to find appellant's counsel representing Westoil Partnership in a suit against Westoil Corporation, in order to trigger Westoil Corporation's insurance coverage under Peñasquitos, rather than attempting to represent both of these diverging interests. Even after conclusion of the instant litigation in the trial court, Westoil Partnership could have sued Westoil Corporation for indemnity, and perhaps still can (the record does not reveal precisely when the statutefor exposing respondent insurers' to a bad faith claim merely for denying coverage to an uninsured entity. There was no de facto "merger" here. A merger causes two independent entities to become one, leaving only one entity to be defended and indemnified. In the instant situation, there are quite clearly still two different entitiesWestoil Corporation, which can still be sued pursuant to Peñasquitos, and Westoil Partnership, which still owns the terminal and administers the lease and was in fact sued. These two entities never "merged" into one on the facts in this record.
Appellant Westoil Partnership accuses respondent insurers of attempting to "cloud the issues," and advances such contentions as "[t]he undisputed facts provide the clarity [that the respondent insurer] fears and compel reversal of the trial court's ruling.