from a hill behind the Baldpate Hospital in Georgetown, Massachusetts.

In September 1992, a new broadcast antenna was mounted, via a Sikorsky sky-crane helicopter, on top of One Beacon Street in Boston. WMFP installed its new transmitter on an upper floor of the building, and started broadcasting from Boston in November 1992. The station's president at that time was Boston-area political commentator Avi Nelson. Bill Mockbee, well known in Boston radio and television broadcasting, was the general manager; composer/conductor/actor David Morrow was the operations manager; and Jim Capillo served as production manager, producing several local programs for the station. WMFP also expanded to a 24-hour schedule, with programming including syndicated talk shows, game shows, low budget movies, and drama shows. In early 1993, the station picked up several NBCfalse narratives, but that energy was missing, with a few noted examples, when it came to discuss gun control.

The Perpetrator

The shooter who killed 58 people and injured more than 500 was confirmed as Stephen Paddock. Since he took his own life and left little to provide information about his motives, his life and persona became the focus of reports across the media.

This article in the BBC exemplifies the typical ‘regular guy, gone wrong’ narrative seen in most accounts; a quiet accountant who some people found weird with a troubled past but no criminal record. These adjectives and descriptions abounded almost as much as the image of an unkempt Paddock in a white t-shirt smiling to camera, seemingly harmless and friendly in a slightly zany sort of way.

The other


Joc's flaws as a rapper, but said that it was the best song off the album with its bouncy production and sing-along chorus, preferring it over 50 Cent's "Amusement Park" but not to "Candy Shop".

Chart performance
The single reached number 78 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 39 on Hot R&B/Hip Hop songs.

Charts

Music video
The video premiered on BET's Access Granted on June 20, 2007.

In the video, Yung Joc plays four different roles; as himself, as a fat man who works at the shop, a dwarf who works at the shop, and as a bald old man who also works at the shop. Gorilla Zoe's verse in the video is not the same as his verse in the single, and the video ends after Joc says, "Hey kids, pleaseRecently, it has become a fad in the United States for individuals to raise chickens in their backyards. This has given rise to suburban backyard chicken coops. The coops are typically a size suitable for use in a backyard. Thus, due to the size of the chicken coops, an individual may not enter the coop. The chicken coops typically have nesting structures on which the chickens being housed may roost and lay eggs. These nesting structures often have external access.
It is often necessary to clean the residential coups. Cleaning the chicken coups may require various implements. The implements may be, for example, a scooper and a brush.


After losing both houses of Congress in the 1994 election, Bill Clinton expostulated: The president of the United States is not irrelevant!

On learning his trusted aide from Texas Scott McClellan has denounced as an “unnecessary war” the same Iraq war McClellan defended from the White House podium, George Bush must feel as Clinton did.

The synchronized savagery of the attacks on McClellan as turncoat suggests he drew blood. For what he has done is offer confirmation to the president’s war critics, from within the White House inner circle, that Bush’s motive in going to war was not a clear and present danger of attack by Iraq with weapons of mass destruction, but to advance a Bush crusade to impose democracy on the Middle East.

Neoconservative ideology, not U.S. national interests,broker between Jerusalem and Damascus, Turkey, at Israel’s request, stepped into the role.

The pro-American Lebanese government of Prime Minister Siniora has negotiated a truce and power-sharing arrangement with Hezbollah, giving that militant Shiite movement and party veto power in the Beirut government. Egypt is negotiating with Hamas for a truce in the Israeli-Gaza war and to effect the exchange of a captured Israeli solider held by Hamas for Hamas fighters held in Israel.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard, designated a terrorist organization by the Senate, helped to arrange the ceasefire between government forces and the Mahdi Army in Basra and Sadr City. While the United States has used the roughest of language to denounce Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president has been received as an honored guest by the Iraqi government


we support and by the Ayatollah Sistani, who has yet to meet a high-ranking American.

When Bush went to the Middle East to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israel as the Zionist he has become, he was criticized by a Palestinian leader who survives on U.S. aid. When he went to Riyadh to plead for an increase in the flow of oil, he got a token concession from the king.

In Pakistan, the new government has been negotiating a truce with the radicalized frontier provinces, which would leave the Taliban with a privileged sanctuary from which to prepare their annual offensives to overthrow the government in Kabul and expel the Americans, as their fathers expelled the Russians.

As Russia and China move closer together to oppose U.S. missile defenses and theU.S. presence, military and economic, in the Caucasus and Central Asia, Latin America seems to be going its own leftward way. The halcyon days of the Alliance for Progress are long gone.

The world seems to be waiting for Bush to depart and for the next American president. For the foreign policy differences between John McCain and Barack Obama are as real and stark as they have been since the Reagan-Carter election of 1980, or the Nixon-McGovern election of 1972.

Looking back on the years since 9/11, it is hard to give the Bush foreign policy passing grades. We pushed NATO eastward and alienated Russia. We have 140,000 Army and Marine Corps troops tied down in Iraq in a war now in its sixth year, from which our NATO allies


Royals Keep Fighting and Advance to ALCS - Party Like its 1985

Notes on the upcoming Blue Jays - Royals ALCS. Game 1 will be at Kansas City on Friday night at 7:30. The last time these 2 teams played in postseason was the 1985 ALCS. Keep in mind that in 1985, MLB changed its League Championship Series from a Best-of-Five to a new and improved Best-of-Seven.

The Blue Jays got off to a 3-1 series lead - which every year from the start of divisional play and LCS in 1969 would have put them in the World Series. However, because of the new Best-of-Seven format, the Royals were still alive.

For the Blue Jays, they won both Games 2 and 4 in their final AB when Dan Quisenberry couldn't convertStradas are taking over London’s most characterful district AssetAccess.jpg Alastair Levy So long, Soho: Starbucks and Stradas are taking over London’s most characterful district AssetAccessCAV1SLY4.jpg Alastair Levy So long, Soho: Starbucks and Stradas are taking over London’s most characterful district AssetAccessCATS6PXM.jpg Alastair Levy So long, Soho: Starbucks and Stradas are taking over London’s most characterful district AssetAccessCAILNS3F.jpg Alastair Levy So long, Soho: Starbucks and Stradas are taking over London’s most characterful district AssetAccessCAP96YJZ.jpg Alastair Levy

When it first opened, the outlet had just three sizes: short, tall and grande but after a trip to Italy in 1983, Schultz became obsessed with the country's coffee bars.

As a result, his own venture became intrinsically designed around the romance of an Italian coffee experience, but why stop at the interior?

Schultz wanted to


after the crash, as doctors felt he was not strong enough to know the truth until then. Sometime around the end of February, he asked a Franciscan friar at the hospital how Duncan Edwards was faring; the friar was unaware that the news of Edwards's death had been kept from him and felt that it was his duty to inform Busby that Edwards was dead. His wife Jean then had to tell him of all the other players and officials who had lost their lives.

He reportedly told his wife that he felt like quitting the manager's job, as he had feelings of guilt over the disaster. Busby had gone against the wishes of Football League officials by pressing for Manchester United's participation in the European Cup and hadwinning managers

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Context is for Kings - An Edited Collection on Star Trek: Discovery

Announcement published by Sabrina Mittermeier on Wednesday, February 14, 2018

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51 years after Star Trek: The Original Series first aired on U.S. American TV, Star Trek: Discovery is updating the franchise for the 21st century. Like TOS was in the 60s, Discovery is firmly rooted in the zeitgeist and current political climate—a fact that has led to surprising amount of backlash from some corners of the fandom. Thanks to the advantage of streaming platforms over network television, the series is also updating the largely episodic structure of the earlier installments to a moreserial and coherent storytelling that allows for longer narrative arcs as well as a focus on in-depth character development.

Set 10 years before The Original Series, Discovery is notably darker than any of the previous iterations of the franchise. Depicting the Federation at war with the Klingon Empire, the first season raises questions about identity and othering, war and trauma, and the conflict between idealism and pragmatism. It explores how Starfleet, an organization ostensibly dedicated to exploration and diplomacy, deals with the ethical questions surrounding war, and the lengths people are willing to go to win. These questions are deepened and complicated by the fact that the series, unlike any of the previous entries in the Star Trek canon, focuses not exclusively on the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery


and the United Federation of planets, but also presents the events from the point of view of the Klingon Empire. A foray into the Mirror Universe dominated by the fascist Terran Empire throws Starfleet’s ideals and the characters’ struggles to live up to them into even sharper relief.

In addition to the questions raised by the narrative, Discovery has continued the franchise’s commitment to representing diversity on screen. Featuring a woman of color in the lead role, a racially and ethnically diverse main and supporting cast, and introducing the franchise’s first gay couple (played by out gay actors), the show is even more inclusive than any of the previous Star Trek series. Discovery thus has once more proven Star Trek’s continued cultural relevance and has, after only one season,already warranted an in-depth academic study that engages with the series from the perspectives of a variety of academic disciplines, such as cultural studies, gender and queer theory, political science, philosophy, and more.

We thus invite contributions to an edited collection to be published with a notable international publishing house or University Press.


Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian man at Gaza Strip border

GAZA CITY — Israeli soldiers shot to death a Palestinian man near the Gaza Strip border Thursday, the latest in a series of deadly cross-border incidents, officials said.

Ashraf al-Qedra, a spokesman for the Health Ministry in Gaza, said 26-year-old Ibrahim Mansour was shot in the head by Israeli forces. Mansour died of his injuries, al-Qedra said, and another Palestinian man was wounded in his right foot.

A radio station run by Hamas, the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza, said the men were collecting gravel with a group of workers near the border fence when Israeli forces opened fire without warning.

A spokeswoman for the Israeli military said the men had approached the border and were tampering with the security fence. Thespokeswoman, who did not give her name, citing Israel Defense Forces protocol, said soldiers fired after exhausting all other means to disperse the group.

She said three explosive devices have been detonated near soldiers patrolling the security fence this year. No soldiers have been injured.

Violence along the border has been escalating in recent months. In late December, a sniper killed an Israeli civilian repairing the border fence, prompting Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that left a 3-year-old girl dead. In recent weeks, Israel has killed several militants in missile strikes that it says are retaliation for dozens of rocket attacks into Israeli territory. None of the rockets have caused injuries.


Welcome to Hyperion Records, an independent British classical label devoted to presenting high-quality recordings of music of all styles and from all periods from the twelfth century to the twenty-first.

Hyperion offers both CDs, and downloads in a number of formats. The site is also available in several languages.

Please use the dropdown buttons to set your preferred options, or use the checkbox to accept the defaults.

Phantasm

Phantasm is an award-winning consort of viols founded in 1994 by Laurence Dreyfus; it has since become recognized as the most exciting viol consort active on the world scene today. The ensemble catapulted into international prominence when its debut album of works by Henry Purcell won a Gramophone Award for ‘Best Baroque Instrumental Recording’ in 1997. Since then, the consort has travelled the worldover, performing in festivals and concert series in cities such as Vienna, Prague, Tokyo, Istanbul, Helsinki and Washington DC.

Recent engagements have included the Wigmore Hall Early Music series in London, Barcelona Early Music Festival, Bergen International Festival, Lufthansa Early Music Festival in London, Aldeburgh Festival, BRQ Festival in Finland, Hong Kong International Arts Festival, Vienna Resonances Festival, Stockholm Early Music Festival, Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels and De Bijloke Hall in Ghent. Phantasm’s fourteen recordings have won consistent praise, and several of them have received awards, including a Gramophone Award in 2004, for the music of Orlando Gibbons, which was also a finalist for ‘Record of the Year’. The ensemble’s first recording on the Scottish label Linn (named Gramophone’s ‘Label of the Year’ in 2010) was devoted


to the consort works of the seventeenth-century composer John Ward and was a ‘Choice’ recording in BBC Music Magazine as well as a finalist for the 2010 Gramophone ‘Early Music’ Award. Its Linn recording of the complete consort music of William Byrd was awarded a Diapason d’Or, selected as ‘Disc of the Month’ by BBC Music Magazine and named a finalist for Gramophone’s best ‘Early Music Recording’ in 2011. Phantasm’s 2012 recording of William Lawes’s Consorts to the Organ was ‘Chamber Choice’ in BBC Music Magazine and was nominated for ‘Best Chamber Recording’ at the journal’s annual award ceremony in 2013.

Phantasm’s members (from Britain, Finland and the USA) have been based at the University of Oxford since 2005, when they were appointed Consort-in-Residence. In 2010, the ensemble beganNeymar scores first league goal, Barcelona tops Real Sociedad

MADRID, Spain -- Neymar scored his first league goal and helped Barcelona ease past Real Sociedad 4-1 in the Spanish league on Tuesday and stay perfect after six rounds.

Atletico Madrid also stayed perfect thanks to goals by Diego Costa in a 2-1 win against Osasuna, giving it 18 points, although Barcelona stay top with its better goal differential.

Neymar opened the scoring in the fourth minute before two more goals from Lionel Messi and Sergio Busquets inside 25 minutes left Real Sociedad reeling at the Camp Nou.

The Brazil forward made the most of hesitation between two Sociedad defenders and goalkeeper Claudio Bravo to rush forward and poke the ball home for his first goal since joining the champions in the close


season for 57 million euros ($76 million), .

"It doesn't matter that it was a scrambled goal, what is important is that it went in," said Neymar. "The team is getting better all the time."

Messi lunged headlong four minutes later to score past Bravo from Neymar's cross for his seventh league goal this season.

A minute later Bravo was forced to sprint forward and punch away a head-high ball as Neymar arrived alone into the penalty area.

Sociedad captain Xabier Prieto fell to the ground clutching his right thigh and had to be substituted in midfield by Imanol Agirretxe in the 21st.

Busquets scored Barcelona's third two minutes later after the ball had bounced off the crossbar from Messi's close-range shot.

Mascherano was substituted at half time by Marc Bartra, and Barcelona uppedthe pressure on Bravo, who was forced to save twice and watch another shot go just over the bar in a 10-minute spell.

Sociedad pulled one back when Agruirretxe beat Gerard Pique and passed the ball across the goalmouth for Alberto de la Bella to tap into goal past a stranded Victor Valdes in the 64th.

"One of our starting premises was not to allow them to score in the first few minutes, which is something we've done in other years, and look what happened," said de la Bella. "Playing like this in the Camp Nou makes it very difficult for us."

In the 76th minute, Messi dribbled past three defenders before crossing to Bartra who flicked the ball into goal to complete the rout.

Costa scored his sixth league goal of


the season for Atletico when he deftly flicked in a cross in the 18th and he then doubled his tally with a sublime header from a Jorge "Koke" Resurreccion assist in the 25th.

Oriol Rieira pulled one back for Osasuna in the 43rd.

Atletico coach Diego Simeone chose to rest striker David Villa and began with an all-Brazillian attack of Baptistao and Diego Costa.

Elsewhere, Levante drew 1-1 with Valladolid. Baba Diawara opened the scoring for Levante in the 35th minute and Javier Guerra equalized six minutes later.It's the third year of the awards, described by the LBF as the "UK's recognition of international publishing industry excellence". Go Set a Watchman took pride of place at Readings bookstore in St Kilda. Credit:Simon Schluter The Bookstore award was "to highlight the absolutely vital role bookshops play worldwide in not only promoting new titles but also advising readers on the many excellent books already published but yet to be discovered". The judges said Readings took the gong for "its community outreach, support of Australian authors and its help for non-profit organisations working on literacy initiatives". Readings boss Mark Rubbo said in a statement: "We're delighted and extremely honoured to receive this award. It's a reflection of the quality of Australian independent bookshops.

Though Readings was the only Australian


winner at the awards, it was not the only finalist. Little Australian outfit Quirky Kid was among the top three in the Education Initiatives Award. This little Wollongong-based child psychology clinic decided it wanted to put its knowledge into book form, so teachers and schoolkids would have a tool to help build social and communication skills. In between counseling sessions they turned their clinical expertise into a series of books. It has become a quiet Australian success story, used by thousands of organisations around the world. Quirky Kids principal child psychologist, Kimberley O'Brien, said she was at the fair looking for partners to take their project to a global audience – and through the London Book Fair they'd found new interest for a potential Chinese translation, and distributorsin the Middle East.

"Instead of repeating myself in the clinic setting I wanted to have that out there for all kids so they can understand their emotions," Dr O'Brien said. "Rather than feeling stuck or confused, they understand what's happening for themselves and they can express it and then they can resolve it - in families as well as in the playground."


Community food system provider Farmigo raises $8M from Sherbrooke, RSF and Benchmark

Posted by Israel Industries press review of the week on décembre 23rd, 2012

Community-oriented food system provider Farmigo has raised $8 million in second financing funding round led by Sherbrooke Capital and RSF Social Finance, joined by first round lead investor Benchmark Capital.

In addition Farmigo has launched the first online farmer’s market to connect communities – such as workplaces, schools and community centers – directly to local farms to provide a personalized online marketplace for local, fresh-from-harvest food. The first food communities are rolling out in San Francisco and New York with Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Denver and Chicago.

“At Farmigo, we envision a community-oriented food system in which people and farmers in the same geographic region are connected,Lady: the latter is another butterfly that can sometimes arrive from
across the sea in large numbers. Although not technically a butterfly, the
Six-Spot Burnet moth flies very actively during the day, and can often be seen
in the grassy section of The Common between the bridge over Fox’s Beck and
Warren Road.

This area is the best part of
Southrepps Commons for spotting butterflies, but many can also be seen from any
part of the boardwalk. Not surprisingly, the wooded areas are particularly
likely to harbour many Speckled Wood specimens.

Our website has pictures of all
the species mentioned above, and more that occur earlier in the year.


he was parked in the traffic lane and believed he was parked on the highway's shoulder or in a service lane. Woodley activated his flashers but did not light flares or employ any other warning devices. Thereafter, plaintiff, who had been driving in the newly opened traffic lane, collided with Woodley's rig and sustained serious injuries, including facial disfigurement and permanent blindness.
Plaintiff commenced an action in Wayne Circuit Court against Woodley and Dacon Trucking Company. Prior to trial in the circuit court, plaintiff accepted $150,000 in full settlement of these claims. Plaintiff then filed a complaint in the Court of Claims against defendant on November 25, 1974. In this complaint, plaintiff alleged negligence on the part of the defendant in failing to maintain I-75 in a condition reasonablyThe female Bruce Lee Chloe Bruce

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If you’ve seen Daisy Ridley in Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Zoe Saldana in Guardians of the Galaxy, engaging in amazing fight scenes or performing death-defying feats, you’ve got modern cinematic magic to thank. Great direction, superb acting, and glorious special effects definitely help with the experience.

A fighter since she was eight years old when she first saw her brother training in martial arts, Chloe has always been into sports. In her school days, she enjoyed netball and athletics classes. Throughout the years, Bruce has repeatedly won a variety of kickboxing championships, including the WKA World Championships and WAKO British Championships. She has performed on Britain’s Got Talent along with her sister, Grace Bruce, as the martial arts


duo Bruce Sistaz. She’s also the Guinness World Record holder for most kicks in a minute – a staggering 212!

Aside from her kickboxing and Tang Soo Do abilities, Chloe is also a formidable fighter with the bo staff, a traditional Japanese weapon used in bōjutsu. Her proficiency with the staff has contributed to the weapon skills shown by Rey, Daisy Ridley’s character in Star Wars. She also has a tremendously powerful scorpion kick, a trademark of hers, which she employed during her Guinness record-setting, and which eagle-eyed moviegoers might spot in Guardians of the Galaxy during a climactic fight scene between Gamora, Zoe Saldana’s character, and her rival and sister Nebula.

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                         No. 95-5652

RENEE WITHERS,
Defendant-Appellee.

Appeals from the United States District Court
for the Eastern District of Virginia, at Alexandria.
Leonie M. Brinkema, District Judge.
(CR-95-91-A)

Argued: September 27, 1996

Decided: November 19, 1996

Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, and RUSSELL and HALL,
Circuit Judges.

_________________________________________________________________

Affirmed in part and vacated and remanded in part by published opin-
ion. Chief Judge Wilkinson wrote the opinion, in which Judge Russell
and Judge Hall joined.

_________________________________________________________________
COUNSEL

ARGUED: Peter Paul Vangellow, Falls Church, Virginia, for Appel-
lant. John Patrick Rowley, III, Assistant United States Attorney,
Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Helen F. Fahey,
United States Attorney, Vincent L. Gambale, Assistant United States
Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellee.

_________________________________________________________________

OPINION

WILKINSON, Chief Judge:

Renee Withers was sentenced to 40 months imprisonmentshowed that Withers made two trips to Japan -- one in
October 1990 and another in August 1991. In November 1991,
another of Whiting's couriers, Bonita Freeman, was arrested in San
Francisco. Freeman's cooperation with law enforcement authorities
led to the eventual demise of the conspiracy and the arrest of Withers.
At trial, the jury convicted Withers of conspiracy and of the October
1990 importation, but acquitted her of the August 1991 importation.

II.

Withers raises several challenges to her conviction. We shall
address them in turn.

A.

First, Withers argues that the evidence adduced at trial was insuffi-
cient to sustain her convictions. She contends that the government
produced no evidence to refute her assertions that she did not know
she was transporting drugs into the United States and believed her
trips to Japan were solely to assist Whiting in the establishment


84 F.3d at 701; see
also United States v. Barajas-Nunez, 91 F.3d 826, 831 (6th Cir.
1996).

The circumstances of this case do not support the district court's
downward departure on the grounds of diminished capacity. The dis-
trict court found that Withers' depression over the death of her mother
four months prior to the October 1990 trip to Japan qualified her for
a diminished capacity departure due to her state of"vulnerability" and
"extreme mental disarray." The only evidence in the record that With-
ers suffered from depression prior to October 1990, however, was her
own testimony and that of a friend who testified that she had talked
to Withers about her depression. The only doctor that testified as to
Withers' depression saw her only once in 1993, after she had become
intertwined with the drug importation conspiracy and after sheHistorique Monaco Event sees Prost and his ’83 Renault Reunite

At last weekends ninth running of the Grand Prix Historique de Monaco, four-time Formula 1 World Champion Alain Prost got back behind the wheel of a racing car as he did a series of parade laps in his 1983 Renault F1 Turbo RE40 that he raced to second place in that years World Championship.

Prost took the RE40 to four victories that year, but was beaten to the title by the Brabham of Nelson Piquet. He took pole position at the 1983 Monaco Grand Prix so it was apt to see the Frenchman back in the car at the legendary circuit. He entertained the crowd in the Principality with a few laps of the circuit, plus the bark of the


cars 750hp Renault v6 Turbo engine.

Another former Renault driver ingrained in the history to the marquee also took to the streets in Monaco. Jean-Pierre Jabouille took Renault’s first F1 win in 1979, and was the first driver of the teams’ famous Turbo era. He did some laps in the Renault F1 Turbo F1 RS01 that he drove in 1977 and 1978, the original turbocharged car to race in F1.

With turbocharged engines back in Formula 1 in 2014, it was apt to see Renault bring out the landmark cars from back in the day at the Monaco event.

The RS01, RE40 and the Renault-powered Lotus 98T will be seen again at the forthcoming British Grand Prix in July, as part of the Silverstone circuits 50th Grand Prix celebration. Current LotusQ:

How to strong winds cause baroclinic intensification in the upper ocean?

Below is an excerpt from The Biology of the Indian Ocean,  Bernt Zeitzschel, Sebastian A. Gerlach

The more vigorous atmospheric and oceanic circulation during the SW
  monsoon causes not only the development of a strong western boundary
  current, the Somali Current, but also intense upwelling in several
  places. The circulation appears to penetrate deeper, affecting the
  movements of water masses below the thermocline. The formation of the
  Somali Current as a strong western boundary current of the monsoon
  gyre causes a strong baroclinic adjustment of the structure along the
  coast of Somalia. This baroclinic structure is noticeable as deep as
  1000 m, but is especially pronounced in the upper 400


m. The strong
  winds parallel to the coast intensify the baroclinicity in the upper
  layer and cause, in addition, strong upwelling along the coast.

Through what mechanism do strong winds cause intensification of baroclinicity in the ocean?

A:

Strong upwelling-favorable winds (like the ones described) cause coastal upwelling in the following manner:

Winds in these systems flow parallel to the coast (with the coast to the left in the northern hemisphere or to the right in the southern hemisphere) and generate upwelling dynamics.
Surface Ekman balance is setup (in deep enough waters) with water transport being to the right (left) of the wind in the northern (southern) hemisphere. The result is a deficit along the coast that requires a compensating flow in the deeper part of the water columnThe murdered former intelligence officer was under investigation for plotting the assassination of an exiled Republic of Congo opposition figure.

Daniel Forestier, a former French intelligence employee, was discovered shot dead at a rest stop in the Alps near Lake Geneva, the Washington Examiner reported Friday.

Police officers have characterized the murder as a "professional job," adding that Forestier was shot five times in the head and heart. The body was discovered nine miles from where the former spy lived with his wife and two kids, according to The Guardian.

The murder took place six months after Forestier was accused of plotting the assassination of General Ferdinand Mbaou, an opposition figure to President Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo. Forestier and another former intelligence agent were charged by French


authorities last September with "criminal conspiracy" and "possession of explosives" in the course of a plot to assassinate Mbaou, who has lived in exile in France for about 20 years, the Daily Mail reports.

According to the Daily Mail, Forestier's killing is being investigated by the same Lyon city crime squad which was investigating him over the plot against Mbaou.

Fostier's lawyer said the former spy repeatedly denied the allegations.

"My client always rejected these incredible allegations, which were based on an account from a single anonymous source," the lawyer, Cedric Huissoud, said.

Forestier is believed to have worked for 14 years for the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) — the French equivalent of the CIA or MI6. He even published a semi-autobiographical novel entitled "Spy for the Republic." However, he reportedlyswitched to village life back in 2002.

Reacting to Forestier's murder, Mbaou said he was "saddened," according to the Daily Mail.

"I hope that his death does not prevent justice being served, but I'm confident," the general added, referring to the alleged plot to kill him, "He [Forestier] was not acting alone. There are other suspects," he said.

Back in 2015, Mbaou survived an assassination attempt in Paris. He is said to still be carrying the bullet inside his body. Mbaou left the Republic of Congo after his former boss, the first democratically elected president, Pascal Lissouba, was overthrown by Nguesso in 1997.


for customers" and that the company is subject to the requirements of the National Labor Relations Act.
Some time during the summer months of 2005, R.J. Conley observed union pamphlets in the company parking lot and informed his father of that fact. Additionally, R.J. "heard employees talking about a Union around the workplace" and "probably" disclosed that information to his father as well. Nevertheless, no overt efforts at unionization of the Conley Trucking drivers occurred until October 2005, when Teamsters organizer Rick Kepler *633 met at an area restaurant with drivers Jeremy Thompson, Ata Thunderdance, Roger Rosenogle, and Dan Gulliver. A second meeting organized by Kepler convened at a Lucasville fast-food establishment on Sunday, October 23, 2005, and was attended by Thompson, Thunderdance, Rosenogle, Gulliver, Tim Gilbert, and Steveand I opened my coat to show him that I did not. Delmas said that he would fight the Union and would shut the company down. He said that if we stopped right now, no one would lose their jobs, but if it didn't stop right now, we would all lose our jobs. Delmas said that he would shut the company down if we unionized. He said he would use scab labor. . . . Delmas said that the Union was good years ago, but was not worth a fuck now. Delmas said that he would fire anyone he wanted and that he owned the company and could do anything he wanted anytime and that no one short of the President of the United States could tell him


workers not to vote for the union. Although Conley Trucking officials admitted to making many of the statements that the general counsel alleged were in violation of the Act, they countered the allegation of retaliatory termination of Gilbert with testimony indicating that Gilbert was far from a model employee and that he was fired, not for union activities, but for numerous transgressions of workplace rules, for excessive absenteeism, and for substandard work performance.
In particular, R.J. Conley testified that Gilbert had shown up for work on March 9, 2005, too intoxicated to drive after being found asleep in his own car in the company parking lot with a beer can between his legs. Even so, on that occasion, Gilbert was not suspended by his employers and received only awritten warning. Additionally, the company asserted that Gilbert was the only driver who had been involved in multiple accidents during the relevant *635 time period, jackknifing a company truck on July 11, 2005, causing approximately $1000 in damage, backing his truck into the truck of Steve Delabar in September 2005, causing another $1,200-$1,300 in damage, and backing his truck into another truck driven by Charlie Floyd. Also, R.J. Conley testified that Gilbert was once seen parked in a rest area for an extended period of time with other Conley Trucking drivers, rather than returning with an additional load prior to quitting work for the day. Conley Trucking management also alleged before the administrative law judge that Gilbert had more missed loads than any other driver for the period


between November 1, 2004, and December 31, 2005, and that Gilbert was chronically late for work and missed more days of work than the number to which he was entitled. Finally, the company contends that Gilbert failed to show up for work on Saturday, October 15, 2005, a designated mandatory workday, instead opting to remain home to cut firewood for the winter.
In response to the company's arguments that Gilbert was terminated solely for his substandard work record, the Board's general counsel adduced testimony that the company failed to discipline Gilbert for any of the alleged workplace infractions at the time they were committed, other than the one occasion on which he reported for work while intoxicated. Furthermore, testimony established that even though many other drivers had less-than-stellar attendancerecords, that even though other drivers also missed an inordinate number of work loads, and that even though other drivers were involved in accidents resulting in greater vehicle repair costs to the company, no other driver had been terminated by the management of the company before Gilbert's dismissal.
The general counsel also attempted to introduce testimony from Jeremy Thompson to substantiate that the Conleys were aware of Gilbert's pro-union activities shortly before the termination decision was made. In contravention of the information Thompson had previously provided in affidavits, however, once he was sworn at the administrative hearing, he denied that anybody from Conley management ever said anything to him about the union. When confronted with his prior affidavit clearly stating that R.J. Conley had indeed mentioned that he knew


the most limited circumstances.
The decision of the administrative law judge, however, relied upon numerous federal court decisions and prior Board rulings that, in turn, cited other decisions that have permitted admission of hearsay as substantive evidence of violations of federal labor laws. In doing so, the administrative law judge emphasized that Congress's insertion of the language "so far as practicable" into the National Labor Relations Act demonstrated that some deviation from the Federal Rules of Evidence was envisioned and was deemed necessary by the legislative drafters in order to effectuate federal labor policy. In its appellate brief, however, Conley Trucking argues that the precedents upon which the administrative law judge relied are extremely limited in their application. Consequently, argues Conley Trucking, hearsay has been admitted as substantive evidenceraised a concern that the company, wielding superior economic power, had intimidated Thompson at a time when, as an employee, he was still dependent upon the company for his livelihood. The judge clearly found that, without adoption of a relaxed evidentiary rule to permit a more complete picture of the situation faced by Conley Trucking's workers, there was a distinct possibility that company officials would succeed in suppressing evidence otherwise available for consideration in determining whether an unfair labor practice had occurred.
To counteract that undesirable possibility, the administrative law judge fashioned a workable rule permitted by the governing statutes that met the challenge presented to him. He noted that Thompson, at the time he gave the statements contained in his affidavits, was given the opportunity to review those


that Gilbert was fired for "Absenteeism/Tardiness." After examining all testimony and documentary evidence, however, the administrative law judge concluded that such a justification was merely a thinly-veiled pretext for prohibited discrimination. As explained by the administrative law judge in his written decision:
Had Respondent terminated Gilbert, as reflected in the termination report, simply for absenteeism, it would have had the virtue of being consistent with Respondent's demonstrated apathy towards other aspects of Gilbert's performance for months before the discharge. But it would have had the vice (in addition to being inconsistent with Respondent's position at trial) of being a particularly unconvincing explanation of Respondent's decision to take action against Gilbert. [N]umerous other employees had absenteeism records worse than Gilbert's and yet were not discharged. Absenteeism was rife among employees.our ever-truthful government that the bonds are fake, and that it's all part of a vast counterfeiting scheme dreamed up by high-scale confidence men and grifters as a part of the "prime bank private bond market" swindle.

However, as I also attempted to argue in that book, one does not counterfeit what does not exist. In other words, there had to be a kernel of an ugly truth squatting like a toad in the middle of the whole bearer bonds scandal, and the ugly truth was that there was indeed a hidden system of finance, established in the aftermath of World War Two, by the oligarchs and technocrats that were erecting the vast American military-industrial-intelligence-finance complex. It was a highly fraudulent system, but like all such schemes, worked for


the work site, scouring the Scodies for vertical mulch, when the realization sank in that the war between brain and bowels was climaxing. Hastily I made my way to the truck, vertical mulch abandoned, to retrieve my weapons: shovel and toilet paper. I took a quick survey of the area, found a spot in a stand of pinyon pines that would allow for ample privacy while I ﬁgured out what alien life form had decided to occupy my insides, and made for the hills.

Here I break from my nearly-tragic narrative to provide the reader with an image of the Scodies.

Located in the Kiavah Wilderness, the Scodie Mountains are part of the southern Sierras that occupy a unique transition area between the desert and the mountains. As such, theDallas Mavericks, dug the worst cathole in history, and FREED myself of my insides’ assailants.

It was uncooked black beans, an honest mistake, cloaked inside of burgers.

It was uncooked black beans, easily undetected, and no one escaped their wrath.

1 stepover installed, with two signs installed.

735 square meters restored.

61 vertical mulch plants constructed.

4 pounds of seed spread into 61 seed pits.

893 hours of training and restoration.

Before restoration.

After restoration and step over installation

Josh with Grape Soda lupine.

Installation of the step over.

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GENEVA (AP) — The death toll from three years of Syria's civil war has risen to more than 191,000 people, the United Nations reported Friday.

The figure, covering the period from March 2011 to April 2014, is the first issued by the U.N.'s human rights office since July 2013, when it documented more than 100,000 killed.

The high death toll is a reflection of the brutality of Syria's conflict, which has transformed into a complex, multi-layered war where various factions fight against each other.

It also reflects the recent surge in deadly attacks by the al-Qaida-breakaway Islamic State group targeting rival militant groups, mainstream Western-backed Syrian rebels and Kurdish militiamen in northern Syria as it seeks to eliminate opponents and consolidate its hold on territory and resources.

Navi Pillay, the U.N.'s tophuman rights official who oversees the Geneva-based office, said the new figures are so much higher because they include additional killings from earlier periods, as well as deaths since the last report. The exact figure of confirmed deaths is 191,369, Pillay said.

"As the report explains, tragically it is probably an underestimate of the real total number of people killed during the first three years of this murderous conflict," she said.

Men comprised 85 percent of the victims, women more than 9 percent, while the sex was unknown in the remaining cases.

The records show at least 8,800 child victims, although the age of most victims is unknown.

The figures are based on information from the Syrian Center for Statistics and Research, the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the Violations Documentation Center,


the Syrian government and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Pillay criticized the world's "paralysis" over the fighting in Syria, which "has dropped off the international radar" in the face of so many other armed conflicts around the world. Her spokesman, Rupert Colville, told reporters she was referring mainly to the standoff on the U.N. Security Council.

Russia has been one of Syrian President Bashar Assad's main allies and has used its veto power four times at the 15-nation Security Council to prevent international sanctions on Syria.

In January, Pillay's office said it had stopped updating the death toll, blaming the organization's lack of access on the ground in Syria and its inability to verify source material. It was unclear why it has released new figures now.

The U.N. also would notkind of a jerk (as a person) since he moved in, although other than the dogs issue, he is fine as a neighbor.

A few other things:

My friend was dropping me off Saturday night and had to slam on her brakes in front of my house because one of neighbors dogs ran right in front of her car. He was running toward our house from the other direction a half a block away. Neighbor was in the yard and not with the dog half a block away.

We live in the middle of the city in a heavily residential area.

There is a leash law in my city. It includes leashing your dogs in yards if they are unfenced.

I kind of feel that it's ridiculous that I have to ask this


I represent the first generation who, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson.
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Your Mental Sorbet: Conan Emmy Intro

Here is another "Mental Sorbet" that we could use to momentarily forget about those things that leave a bad taste in our mouths.

Conan O'Brien inserted into several shows at the beginning of the 58th Annual Emmy Awards

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Pre-ramble

I represent the first generation whom, when we were born, the television was now a permanent fixture in our homes. When I was born people had breakfast with Barbara Walters, dinner with Walter Cronkite, and slept with Johnny Carson.
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the second mate this afternoon that they contemplated sending a
deputation to the Captain to explain their grievance. I much doubt
how he will receive it, as he is a man of fierce temper, and very
sensitive about anything approaching to an infringement of his
rights. I shall venture after dinner to say a few words to him
upon the subject. I have always found that he will tolerate from
me what he would resent from any other member of the crew.
Amsterdam Island, at the north-west corner of Spitzbergen, is
visible upon our starboard quarter--a rugged line of volcanic
rocks, intersected by white seams, which represent glaciers. It is
curious to think that at the present moment there is probably no
human being nearer to us than the Danish settlements in the south
of Greenland--a good nine


by the recipient
alone, thereby influencing the tone accordingly. Is there a way for the future
generations to ever learn from the personal message exchanges of today's
greats?

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logicallee
My personal reaction when I first read about the revelations of the scope of
private email and chat, "every keystroke, know what you are thinking before
you do" collection by spy agencies was: wow. This shitstorm is like Mount
Vesuvius and the world's mails are Pompeii.

As everyone knows, Pompeii was a thriving Roman city that was instantly buried
under volcanic ash by Mt. Vesuvius, in a very dramatic natural disaster. But
it is also a fertile and excellent historical snapshot of people's lives at
that time - historians got to see people frozen in time doing their daily
activities. Juvenile graffiti in classrooms and on the city walls. Everything.
It is sooooovessel, many in mounts on the hull or superstructure with limited travel.  Confusion also arose when combinations of large caliber "main battery" and smaller "secondary battery" weapons of mixed offensive and defensive use were deployed.

This began to be resolved with the 1906 launching of the revolutionary "all big gun" battleship . It shipped a main battery of ten heavy caliber guns, and a smaller secondary battery for self-defense. This leap in heavy offensive armament from a standard four large caliber guns to a main battery of ten made all other battleships obsolete overnight, as the weight of broadside it could unleash, and overwhelming rate of fire a superior number of similar weapons could sustain, could overwhelm any similarly sized warship.

A third, or tertiary battery, of weapons


INVERNESS, CALIFORNIAJudge James Shafter, whose sharp-eyed family wound up with the Point Reyes peninsula following California statehood, subdivided the wooded west shore of Tomales Bay in 1889 to recover some railroading losses. Inverness - Shafter was a Scotsman - served as a summer town from the start, a magnet for many of the Bay Area's comfortable set and later, refugees from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake who unknowlingly relocated atop the same, mischievous San Andreas Fault. Over time, Inverness has also drawn its share of artists and academicians.

A high percentage of the homes remain with their original families. One can find Shafter descendents, as well as the grand-nephew of the last tsar of Russia, plus heirs to this or that fortune that was gained generations before dot.com Monopolymoney.

Many old-timey traditions survive: swimming lessons at Shell Beach (at the end of Camino del Mar), a full calendar of sailing races in summer, foot races on July 4, and in early spring, the garden club's Primrose Tea. To walk the shady lanes under a canopy of bay, oak, and pine, is to sense a bygone era of endless family picnics, with kids meeting up to adventure in the woods or camp on the beach - an era, observes local writer John Grissim, which if it didn't exist, it certainly should have.

For the visitor, Inverness marks the last settlement before entering the mass of the Point Reyes National Seashore, 72,000 acres of wilderness and beach and ranchland from which one can still see San Francisco.

The Inverness Library on


About this book

- How do bees communicate?- How long have they been around?- What does a beekeeper actually do?- Who survived being stung by 2,443 bees?

This encyclopaedic book, originally published in Polish as Pszczoły, answers all these questions and many more, imparting masses of information with a light, humorous touch, and in scores of vibrant illustrations. Piotr Socha tracks the history of bees from the age of the dinosaurs to their current plight, examining along the way the role bees have played in history and in the rest of the natural world.

"Designed like a coffee table book, yet containing the knowledge of an encyclopaedia, and reading like a fun newspaper, this is stunningly executed – my top non-fiction book of the year"– Minerva Reads

"This glorious book will introduceGolbargan

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Broad of Sacramento, Lewis Investment Co., and Kern Schumacher, LLC (intervenors).
Gregory Dean Thatch, Law Offices of Gregory D. Thatch, Sacramento, CA, for Kaufman and Broad Home and Natomas Estates LLC (intervenors).
Renee Frances Hawkins, Remy Thomas and Moose, Sacramento, CA, for Lennar Winncrest, LLC, (Intervenor).
Stephen M. MacFarlane, U.S. Attorney's Office, Sacramento, CA, Jane P. Davenport, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, DC, for Bruce Babbitt (defendant).
Renee Frances Hawkins, Remy Thomas and Moose, Sacramento, CA, for River West Investments, Northpointe Park and Borden Ranch Partnership (proposed intervenors).

MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND ORDER
LEVI, District Judge.
Plaintiffs challenge the United States Fish and Wildlife Service's issuance of an incidental take permit to allow development in the Natomas Basin, a 53,000 acre tract of largely undeveloped land stretching to theNorth of the City of Sacramento. The Natomas Basin contains habitat of *1277 the Giant Garter Snake, a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act, and the Swainson's hawk, a threatened species under the California Endangered Species Act. The parties now bring cross-motions for summary judgment.

I. Background and Procedural History

A. The Natomas Basin
The Natomas Basin ("Basin") is a low-lying region of predominately agricultural lands in the Sacramento Valley consisting of approximately 53,000 acres. The Basin is part of a larger flood plain known as the American Basin, and is situated at the northern end of the City of Sacramento ("City"). Approximately 22% of the area of the Basin is within the City limits, with the remainder to the north, in the jurisdiction of Sacramento and Sutter Counties.


the Sacramento area. In response, the Army Corps of Engineers ("Corps") undertook a study of proposals to improve flood control measures. This study culminated in the Corps' issuance, in 1991, of the "American River Watershed Investigation Feasibility Report" ("Feasibility Report"). The Feasibility Report proposed to provide 200 year flood protection through construction of the Auburn Dam and a series of levee improvements. (See Def.'s Mem. P. & A. at 12.)
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service ("the Service") reacted to the Corps' proposal with concern, noting the importance of the Basin to waterfowl using the Pacific Flyway for migration and to certain native species listed as endangered or threatened under federal or state law. (See AR 6:886.) The Service issued a report in 1991, the "American River Watershedthe Fish and Wildlife Service's insistence on this issue, the Corps agreed, in November 1993, to require SAFCA to address the urban development that would occur as a result of the requested § 404 permit.
In 1993, the Service listed the Giant Garter Snake ("GGS") as a threatened species under the ESA. The listing notice identified 13 distinct populations of the GGS, of which the American Basin population was one of the largest. See 58 Fed. Reg. 54053 (Oct. 20, 1993). The Natomas Basin population is a subpopulation of the American Basin population of the GGS. After the listing of the GGS, "interest renewed ... in developing a habitat conservation plan." (Def.'s Mem. P. & A. at 15.) In January 1994, the Natomas Basin Habitat Conservation Plan Working Group


("Working Group") was formed, and began development of a habitat conservation plan ("Plan," or "HCP"),[1] as required to qualify for an ITP. The Working Group was comprised of "representatives of land owners of a large proportion of the affected area." (AR 23:03931.)
In March 1994, the Service issued a Biological Opinion ("1994 Biological Opinion") regarding SAFCA's proposed flood control project.[2] (See AR 1:227.) The 1994 Biological Opinion noted that "nine of the twelve other extant populations [of the GGS are] on the verge of extinction," and expressed the Service's opinion that, given "the severe, declining trends in habitat suitability/availability and population levels throughout 75 percent of the range of the species," the American Basin population of GGS was "vital to the survival of the species." (Id. at 231.) Inin the basin would be developed over the 50 year life of the Plan.
In October 1995, and again in June 1996, SAFCA published revised HCPs, incorporating some of the comments rendered on earlier drafts. (See AR 21:3680; 19:3440.) Subsequently, the City of Sacramento took over for SAFCA as the prospective permittee, and in December 1996, the City submitted its application for an ITP, consisting of a draft HCP, draft Implementation Agreement and other supporting documents. Upon receipt of this application, the Service prepared a draft Environmental Assessment ("EA"), and the permit package was released for public comment in January 1997. See 62 Fed.Reg. 2174 (Jan. 15, 1997). The Service considered the extensive public comments it received and proposed changes to the Plan and the Implementation Agreement based on


the comments. (See AR 39:6347-6355.) In November 1997, the City issued another amended version of the permit application, including a revised HCP and a revised Implementation Agreement. (See AR 10:1657.) The Service reviewed the revised documents, and on November 21, 1997, requested minor changes aimed at harmonizing the Implementation Agreement with the HCP and otherwise clarifying the intent of the parties. (See AR 9:1640, 1641.) In December, the Service prepared and released a new Environmental Assessment ("EA"), (see AR 9:1638), and on December 8, 1997, the City executed the Implementation Agreement. On December 17, 1997, the Fish and Wildlife Service issued a new Biological Opinion ("1997 Biological Opinion") which concluded that issuance of the ITP would not jeopardize the continued existence of any covered species. (See AR 9:1563.)a Technical Advisory Committee ("TAC"), comprised of representatives from the Service, the California Department of Fish and Game, and any permittee, as well as outside experts, "to advise the NBC in implementing" the HCP. (AR 10:1657 at IV-7.) The TAC's role is:
to advise the NBC in making technical and biological decisions with respect to reserve land selection, enhancement, and management; monitoring programs and needs; species relocation or reintroduction plans; and other issues pertaining to technical implementation of the Plan.
(Id.)
The Plan calls upon the NBC to assemble connected 400 acre blocks of reserve lands  with one block of at least 2500 acres  for the benefit of the Giant Garter Snake and to protect Swainson's hawk habitat and nesting areas. The HCP states that "to the maximum extent


total will have been developed in the Basin before the program review is completed.

C. The 1997 Biological Opinion
As required by § 7(a)(2) of the ESA, the Service issued a Biological Opinion, ("1997 Biological Opinion") (AR 9:1563), in which it concludes that the issuance of the ITP is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any species covered by the Permit. In the 1997 Biological Opinion, the Service provides an account of the then current state of knowledge with respect to the "status and environmental baseline" of each covered species, including distribution and population. (See id. at 1574-79.) With regard to the Giant Garter Snake, the 1997 Biological Opinion emphasizes the benefits of the wetland habitat portion of the reserve system, which is to consist of "a networkassured, and "a lack of participation by Sacramento or Sutter County, could compromise the NBC's ability to assemble the required contiguous 400-acre and 2500-acre habitat blocks for the mitigation reserve system." (Id. at 1580.) The 1997 Biological Opinion ultimately brushes off these concerns, stating that mitigation "will keep pace with, and contribute to an overall balance between, habitat converted and habitat protected," (id. at 1581), and concluding that "the Plan would be self-sufficient within each permit area, to the extent that each permittee must mitigate for impacts to covered species that occur as a result of development within its respective jurisdiction ... and the mitigation must meet the Plan's basic biological standards." (Id. at 1580.)

D. The 1997 Findings and Recommendations
On December 31, 1997, the Service's Regional Director signed


and failing to conduct a required EIS.
On August 13, 1999, plaintiffs moved for partial summary judgment as to their first through fifth and ninth claims. On September 28, 1999, the court granted the motion to intervene of two real estate developers with landholdings in the Natomas Basin, Kaufman and Broad of Sacramento, Inc., and Kern Schumacher. On October 29, 1999, the Secretary filed his brief in opposition to plaintiffs' motion, and also moved for summary judgment on all claims. Oral argument was heard on February 25, 2000 and on March 3, 2000. The City and intervenors join in the Secretary's motion and in his opposition to plaintiffs' motion.

II. Legal Background
Plaintiffs challenge the HCP and the Secretary's issuance of the ITP as in violation of the Endangered Species Actthe City's lands and made no analysis of the effects of the development of the City's lands were the protective features of the HCP not in place in the rest of the Basin. It cannot be assumed that if valuable habitat lands in the City are developed, equally valuable habitat lands may be protected elsewhere in the Basin because those lands may be developed outside of the HCP and may not be protected.
Furthermore, there is little discussion of the effect on the GGS if the Plan's goal of large connected blocks of reserve lands cannot be met because only the City participates in the Plan. Such a fundamental change in the Plan's conservation strategy requires discussion. Yet the Service merely acknowledges the problem without explaining how the reserves


set aside by the City's development will be adequate to protect the GGS and the other affected species.
The problem of the reserve lands is just an example of a larger problem when the Plan is applied only to the City's Basin lands. The Secretary concedes that the ITP will result in take of threatened species, including between 14 and 37% of the Basin population of the GGS, but relies on certain features of the Plan, including the monitoring, adaptive management, and 9,000 acre review provisions, to adequately mitigate the impact of the take. The Secretary's emphasis on these provisions, however, only underscores the tension between the HCP's regional nature and the local focus of the ITP and the Service's biological findings. Based on the projected development in City'sPakistani troops Wednesday intensely shelled Indian posts in Uri Sector of Jammu and Kashmir, officials said.

The shelling comes a day after the IAF carried out air strikes on Jaish-e-Mohammad terror camps inside the neighbouring country.

Pakistani Army fired mortar shells towards Indian posts in the early hours of Wednesday, a police official said.

He said there were no reports of any casualties so far.

The official said the Indian Army retaliated to the Pakistani action in an equal measure.

The exchange of fire across the LoC in Uri sector was going in when reports last came in, he added.


stability; it's about preventing religious extremism from seeping into all of American culture."

Because the "international anti-terror situation" was destabilizing China, a "people's war" by Chinese citizens is needed to safeguard the country's national identity, Shaerheti Ahan, a top party official in the predominantly Muslim Xingjian region, told a group of political leaders in Beijing Sunday.

Municipal lawmakers in the western Xinjiang region, which is home to China's minority Uighur Muslim community, implemented greater surveillance measures and police patrols after a number of attacks, which Beijing blamed on Uighur separatist fighters linked to al Qaeda and the Islamic State, killed hundreds of Chinese citizens. The Islamic State released a video in February allegedly showing Uighur fighters training alongside Islamic State militants in Iraq. In the video, the terrorists threatened toCohesion Studios, Inc. of which he was the president and sole employee, was contracted for 6 architectural jobs around the Capital Region, including townhouses, senior living communities and a multifamily apartment building. Newman was paid tens of thousands of dollars for these jobs, despite being as much of an architect as I am an acrobat.

Newman allegedly worked at it, however, going as far as creating a fake Registered Architect Stamp using the license number of a real professional architect, and taking the Professional Engineer Stamp from an engineer he once worked with, allegedly placing a copy of it with a forged signature on over 1,000 pages of building plans for the projects he worked on.

Attorney General Schneiderman insisted on dunking on Newman on Twitter in not just the


cost of production (the cost as estimated by the government Commission on Costs and Prices). One estimate of the cost of this increase is the Rs 29,000 crore increase in the food subsidy Budget 2018-19—the government buys from farmers at a higher price but still sells wheat and rice in the rations shops at Rs 2/kg and Rs 3/kg, respectively. This transfer from the Centre, largely to farmers, is certain. In addition, states like MP and Telangana are transferring incomes to the farmer. As Sunil Jain has pointed out in the pages of FE, the MP scheme has a major moral hazard problem—farmers, or traders, can dump supply in the market, lower the price, receive a subsidy from the government (difference between market price and MSP), and thenbit more, around Rs 95,000 crore but who is counting). The Centre will receive Rs 26,000 crore, and the excess fiscal deficit is almost cut in half. Now assume that the GST March 2018 revenue is Rs 130,000 crore—the Centre receives Rs 38,000 crore, and the FD for 2017-18 is close to 3.3% of GDP! Given high tax revenues, and sensible redistribution to the poor (all those opposed, please speak up!), what was the regression in the budget 2018? Tragically, and ironically, it was an additional tax revenue that is the dream of “traditional” revenue collectors. It was the introduction of a 10% tax on long-term capital gains.

WATCH | Budget 2018: 10 New Facts On The Indian Economy

I have to indulge in a bit of disclosure here. Back


in 2003, I prepared a note for the Kelkar committee on direct taxes, a committee that included Arbind Modi, the person in charge of drafting a blueprint for direct taxes by the Modi government. As it turned out, the recommendation of this panel—elimination of long-term capital gains (LTCG) tax, a 10% short-term gain tax (later increased to 15%), and the introduction of a securities transaction tax—was introduced by finance minister P Chidambaram in the 2004-5 budget. The STT has yielded a steady revenue of around Rs 8,000 crore a year, and is estimated to yield Rs 11,000 crore next fiscal year. The argument for the introduction of STT in 2003 was that certainty of tax revenue regardless of market conditions was to be preferred over fluctuating revenues (ieSooners

Sooners stymied: The Sooners entered with one of the nation's top offenses, especially in the red zone. They had scored points 76 of 80 trips inside the 20, including 69 touchdowns. It was why the Sooners scored an NCAA-record 702 points this season, but they had problems against the Gators. Not only did they not score on their opening possession for just the third time this season, the Sooners failed to get any points on twice appearances in the red zone. After the Gators goal-line stand, the Sooners threatened just before halftime.

A couple suffers injuries in a car accident and receives a settlement in a lawsuit. Insurance won't cover all their bills and they need to make changes to their home, now that one partner is confined to


career touchdown receptions, Gresham is the Sooners' all-time leader at his position.

With the mayor and two council seats up for grabs, nobody wants to go on the record predicting if more than the usual low show of city voters will turn out for the Boca Raton Municipal Election on Tuesday. With 53,000 registered voters, only 6,851 came out to vote in 2012 for incumbent Councilman Anthony Majhess, who won, or his challenger Frank Chapman. A low turnout is a Boca Raton tradition. In 2009, Majhess won against M.J. "Mike" Arts with 6,672 voting, and Councilwoman Constance Scott won against Mitch Fogel with 6,629 votes.

The Oklahoma Sooners arrived in South Florida on Friday about 45 minutes earlier than expected. They hope it's the beginning to a fast start inbegan his undoing. Schnellenberger would last just one season, resigning the following December after the Sooners went 5-5-1. That year remains the lone stain on Schnellenberger's college coaching resume, and still is something that neither Schnellenberger nor many in Oklahoma enjoy revisiting.

Memphis State neutralized the highest-scoring player on the highest-scoring major college team in the nation Saturday and, with its 63-61 upset of Oklahoma, advanced to the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament. Wayman Tisdale, the Sooners` three-time All-America center, was boxed, hounded and sometimes pummeled by an aggressive defense. Tisdale took only 10 shots, making only 5, and wound up with only 11 points. His teammates were unable to take up the slack. So Oklahoma (30-6), which had produced the best scoring average in Division I regular-season


games (91.2 points a game)

Oklahoma linebacker Torrance Marshall will have the most unlikely cheerleader when the Sooners try to win the national championship in the FedEx Orange Bowl Classic showdown with Florida State on Jan. 3 at Pro Player Stadium. Marshall's brother, Sheven, is a linebacker at the University of Miami. The Hurricanes need FSU to defeat the Sooners to have a shot at the national championship, but apparently, Sheven won't root against family. "Sheven's been supporting us," Marshall said. "He's probably the only person in Miami."

UConn remains on course to go down as one of the best women's basketball teams of all-time. The No. 1 and undefeated Huskies took care of Tennessee 79-56 in the semifinals of the Final Four on Friday night and will meet Oklahomaon Sunday night in the championship game. The Sooners defeated Duke 86-71 to make it to their first NCAA title game. If UConn (38-0) defeats Oklahoma (32-3), it would tie the 1998 Tennessee team for the most wins in NCAA history. It would also be the fourth undefeated season for a women's basketball team, and second for coach Geno Auriemma, who guided the 1995 Huskies to a 35-0 record and the school's first national championship.

With 2:26 left in the third quarter, Oklahoma had a 27-0 lead over Nebraska. Todd Carpenter was awaiting the Sooners` kickoff when a big orange balloon floated near. He grabbed it, and it popped. So much for the Cornhuskers` national championship hopes. About 30 minutes later, Oklahoma nose tackle Tony Casillas marched into the


aggressively to move the start date much sooner. "The future is a lot closer than we thought. We've had success in operating the express lanes, and we're eager to extend that," said John Olson, of the Florida Department of Transportation.

After a couple thousand years of hatred and bitterness and mistrust and fighting, it's doubtful President Obama's short visit to the Middle East this week is going to magically produce peace. But I still find it amazing that this is his first visit to Israel since he's been president. We're talking over four years folks. If Israel is our strongest ally in the critical Middle East - which it obviously is - and the situation there has been a hotbed of violence forever, shouldn't' Obama have been there muchabout 20 minutes away.

Joe Castiglione had barely begun shaving when he watched Oklahoma defeat Michigan 14-6 in his first Orange Bowl Classic 25 years ago. A St. Thomas High graduate, Castiglione was working his way through school, running the parking valet at Inverrary Country Club, where he got to know Jackie Gleason, a member and resident there. He liked Castiglione enough to hire him to work private parties at the Gleason home. Castiglione once watched Gleason run the table and beat the great Willie Mosconi in a game of pool.

Major changes should make heading west on Interstate 595 a lot smoother, a lot sooner than expected. It'll be a lot easier to merge onto northbound Florida's Turnpike. A new elevated ramp system will put some exit ramps on


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Vancouver Biennale announces Jaume Plensa’s new work entitled We

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The Vancouver Biennale is warming up the wet and chilly nights of the city with We by Jaume Plensa, widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists of the 21st century. This work of art celebrates the linguistic diversity and multiculturalism of Vancouver by putting multiple alphabets together to create a larger-than-life sculpture in human form. Sitting proud and peaceful, the 16-foot-tall figure is made up of characters from eight alphabets – Latin, Greek, Russian Cyrillic, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Arabic and Chinese. The sculpture, dramatically illuminated at night and large enough for people to gather inside – draws a global audience in to enjoy the embrace of an intimate enclave within this urban city. We fully exemplifiesthe Vancouver Biennale’s commitment to diversity, engagement, accessibility and education.

Jaume Plensa, who works both in Barcelona and Paris, is a widely acclaimed artist who has received numerous national and international awards and has exhibited in public museums across Europe, Japan and North America, including the Institute Valencia d’Art Modern in Valencia and Musée d’Art Contemporain in Nice, France (2007); the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2006); and most recently, inclusion in the prestigious 53rd International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2009). For more information on Plensa, please visit www.jaumeplensa.com.

The Vancouver Biennale is a non-profit organization that mounts biannual public art exhibitions, bringing sculptures, new media and performance works by celebrated and emerging international artists to Vancouver and surrounding area parks, beaches and urban plazas. In


doing so, the Biennale creates an open-air museum that merges the natural beauty of the BC landscape and the love of outdoor recreation with a world-class cultural experience, all contributing to Vancouver’s designation as one of the most livable cities in the world. For more information on the Biennale, please visit www.vancouverbiennale.com.

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Femi Fani-Kayode has been married four times. His first marriage was to Saratu “Baby” Atta in 1987 but they were divorced by 1990. They have one daughter whose name is Oluwafolake. The second marriage was to Yemisi Olasunbo Adeniji in 1991 but they were divorced by 1995. They have three daughters whose names are Oluwatemitope, Oluwatobiloba and Oluwatuminu. The third marriage was to Regina-Hanson Amonoo. They were married in 1997 They have one daughter whose name is Oluwaremilekun. Chief Femi-Fani Kayode Married Precious Chikwendu in 2015 On 1st February 2016 Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and his wife,Precious Chikwendu, the winner of the 2014 Miss United Nations International Beauty Pageant, had their first child. He was christened Joshua Oluwafemi Emmanuel Lotanna Aragorn Fani-Kayode. He is Chief Femi Fani-Kayode’s first son.


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Eve loosened the hoodie. She had pulled it tight around her face, trying to screen out the world, for all the good it had done. The cafeteria was too loud, and the sounds too diverse. Boys thumping on tables, high-pitched laughter from girls, the hum of the microphone that the lunch lady used, in vain, to get them to shut up. Eve stared down into her juice, and thought of water, the silent, cool, Boundless Deeps. She felt the cold on her skin, and she was home, if only in her mind.

Something slammed into her back and pitched her forward. One of the boys — Antonio — was playing catch using a wadded up piece of paper and had slipped. Eve stood up, wiping juice and the remnantsof her lunch from her hoodie. She turned to face him.

“My bad,” said Antonio. Eve said nothing. Antonio didn’t wait for acknowledgement, he just turned and went back to his game.

Eve reached out and grabbed him by the hair. She pulled, using only a fraction of her true strength, and yanked him backwards into her arms. If we were in the ocean, she thought, I could crush him. I could eat his skin and liquefy his flesh in my mouth, and drink him slowly. The thought appealed, and started to call her home.

Seawater trickled into the room from the corners. No one noticed. The students chanted “Fight! Fight!” Someone ran to get the principal.

Eve let him go. Antonio turned, and curled his hands into a fist. And then


found lint. His lips curled up in a snarl, and he knew the Dead Dog was mad. He wanted ice cream. He wanted to take ice cream from someone, but there were little kids there, and he knew he’d get in trouble if he beat up a little kid for ice cream.

So what?

He dug his fingernails into his palms. He wasn’t going to walk across the street.

Go. The little black girl with the puffy hair. She’s by herself. Take her ice cream and shove her down.

Richard was walking across the parking lot before he knew what was happening. He was going to do it. This is how it always happened. He was going to do it and he’d feel terrible and he’d get in so much trouble andEngage with an Expert

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MIDTOWN EAST

Bounded by Madison Avenue to the west, 59th Street to the north, 34th Street to south and the East River to the east. Neighborhoods include Murray Hill, Sutton Place and Beekman Place.

Midtown East is an eclectic section of Manhattan with multiple personalities. At its center is


a bustling business district containing some of the city’s most iconic edifices, including Grand Central Terminal, the Waldorf-Astoria and the Chrysler Building. Historic mansions are tucked in between modern high-rises in nearby Murray Hill, where, thanks to its proximity to the United Nations, many countries operate embassies and consulates. Folks who live here enjoy an easy walk to many corporate headquarters as well as convenient access to department stores, bars and restaurants. Overlooking the East River, the elegant enclaves of Sutton Place and Beekman Place are pockets of tranquility filled with dog-friendly buildings and neighbors who have known each other for years. Residents include many doctors, who prize the quick access to Manhattan’s top hospitals via the nearby FDR Drive.

Iconic Architecture

Midtown East features a little bit of everything,from soaring glass high-rises to brownstones to the jewel-like Sniffen Court, a hidden mews of Civil War-era carriage houses on 36th Street. Sutton Place is renowned for some of the city’s most prestigious co-op apartment buildings and town houses, some with stunning features like wrought-iron gates and lush, rolling lawns. The two-block neighborhood of Beekman Place is primarily filled with luxurious prewar co-ops.

Historic Highlights

During the bitter winter of 1808, an innovative public program kept laid-off dockworkers busy by employing them to slice through the almost impenetrable rock summits of Murray Hill.

The magnificent, 48-foot-high clock face in front of Grand Central Terminal, unveiled in 1914, is the world’s largest example of Tiffany glass.

Sutton Place rose to fashionable prominence in 1920, when wealthy socialites, Anne Harriman Vanderbilt and Anne Morgan


A petition on the White House website demanding that President Donald Trump release his tax returns has garnered over 380,000 signatures in a matter of days, breaking the all-time record for signatures on the site.

"The unprecedented economic conflicts of this administration need to be visible to the American people, including any pertinent documentation which can reveal the foreign influences and financial interests which may put Donald Trump in conflict with the emoluments clause of the Constitution," the petition states.

The petition went live on January 20, the day of Trump's inauguration. It was the first petition posted to the site during Trump's presidency.

"Trump shattered decades of precedent during the 2016 campaign by refusing to release his personal tax returns," The Hill notes. "At a news conference earlier this month,for the Humanities are not registering new signatures. (Last week, Trump released a budget plan that would gut both agencies.)

President Barack Obama created the White House petitions website in 2011. Prior to the petition about Trump's taxes, the most popular one demanded that the federal government classify the Westboro Baptist Church as a hate group.


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While waiting for his teacher in their usual meeting spot, Sakashita bursts in. She demands to know about the nature of the relationship between Hazuki and Misaki. However, Hazuki’s lips are sealed. Frustrated by his newfound stubbornness, she tackles him and has her way with him. He is resistant at first, out of loyalty to his teacher but she easily dominates him and shows him the ecstasy of vaginal sex. Unfortunately, for Hazuki he cannot climax, despite the pleasure. He realizes that he cannot cum without Misaki. Just as that realization hits him, he is suddenly penetrated by his teacher and quickly cums. However, his teacher is not pleased and decides heneeds to be punished. During the brutal anal fucking and nipple torture, the nature of their relationship is revealed. Frustrated by his perversions, Sakashita chastises him and gives him a footjob. This causes him to climax. While initially put off by his masochistic desires, she grows to love them and she joins the teacher in using Hazuki for their own pleasure. After this experience, he is a willing slave to both women, eagerly awaiting his next batch of “punishment.”


The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the Cayman Islands, Premier Alden McLaughlin said at a press conference Thursday afternoon.

The patient is a visitor – a 68-year-old man from Italy – who was transferred from a cruise ship to Health City Cayman Islands for a critical cardiac issue, the premier said.

McLaughlin said the man, who arrived in Cayman in 29 Feb., is doing well and is still in isolation in hospital, adding, “We are confident that all the appropriate measures have been and continue to be taken and the patient poses no risk to the broader community.”

The man was among six who had been tested for coronavirus in Cayman. Four tested negative and the result of a sixth test is still pending.

The premier said an emergency"The drainage problem causes the field to be very soft," Tull said. "The drainage of the field is the main thing right now."

Over the past few months, War Memorial Stadium has undergone repairs. The stands were the most needed area. Boards were repaired and painted. The clubhouses, concession stands, press box and field also were worked on.

Angle Owens, the chairman of the stadium authority, said War Memorial is in excellent condition. He said he has heard nothing about a drainage problem.

"It's in better shape now than I've known it to be in several years," Owens said. "As of now, we face no major problems. We will continue to upgrade the stadium. It's in very good shape.

"The stands are in excellent shape, and that's the main thing, to make


them attractive to the people. But we will keep working, improving as we go along."

Tull said the stadium has received good ratings from the National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs, the governing body of minor league baseball.

"The facility isn't keeping the fans away," Tull said. "The facility was rated playable. It's a good old facility."

Tull said there is little chance, if that, the Pilots will move to a new stadium any time soon. Such a venture would cost Hampton Roads and Newport News taxpayers millions of dollars.

The Frederick Keys, like the Pilots a Carolina League team, will begin play in their new stadium a week from today. It cost $3 million to build.

South Bend's (Ind.) Class AA affiliate of the Chicago White Sox spent $10 million to buildTim Ellis was born in Leicester and now lives in the South East. Tim has a BA Illustration from Anglia Ruskin University and an MA in Communication Design from Central Saint Martins. Tim is primarily interested in storytelling and conveying messages using characters, signs, symbols and narrative devices. Tim’s work begins with drawing, which he then builds on using Photoshop.

Tim works on a wide range of commissions in editorial, design and publishing as well as producing personal projects. Tim also lectures in Illustration at UCA and City Lit in London.


the Brumbies in Christchurch.

Tim Bateman, who has returned to the Crusaders after stints at the Hurricanes and in Japan, was signed during the off season as a midfielder or first-five but injured his back during the Brisbane Global 10s tournament.

So while Mitchell Hunt and Marty McKenzie did well at first-five in the Crusaders' spectacular 30-27 come-from-behind victory over the Highlanders, the franchise needed additional cover and Gatland, the son of former All Black and current British and Irish Lions coach Warren, has received the call-up.

Gatland the younger, a mature, steady player with a big clearing kick and a right foot which is extremely accurate off the tee, was seen as unlucky to miss out on a Super Rugby contract this year.

He played for the Blues Development team againsttheir Chiefs counterparts at Waikato Stadium at the weekend and has now been given the opportunity to take his game to the next level.

Gatland is unlikely to be in the frame for the Crusaders when they play the British and Irish Lions in Christchurch on June 10, but should he still be in the mix then the media spotlight, particularly from the travelling British pack, would be considerable.

His call-up comes following the return of one-test All Black Lelia Masaga to the Chiefs as injury cover as the high intensity of the competition - particularly in the New Zealand derby matches - takes its toll.

The latest high-profile player to be ruled out is Highlanders and All Blacks loose forward Liam Squire, who injured a knee during the Crusaders match


in Dunedin but played on and has now been sidelined for up to six weeks.

The injury continues a theme among the Highlanders loose forwards and will rule Squire out of the match against the Blues at Eden Park on Saturday, but the southerners could yet be boosted by the return from concussion of fullback Ben Smith.

Squire, who was noticeably fired-up on defence early against the Crusaders, impressed his coaches with his toughness in staying on for the remainder of the match, and there is no doubt his absence will affect the Highlanders pack against the Blues.

"It's huge," assistant coach Scott McLeod said of the injury blow. "We felt he had an outstanding night and really motivated a lot of our players. He did a lot of damage, butin saying that, we've got other players who will step into that void and hopefully bring that same intensity."

The Highlanders are already without loose forwards James Lentjies (dislocated elbow), Dan Pryor (knee) and Shane Christie (illness), but may welcome back No8 Luke Whitelock from a shoulder injury for the match against the Blues on Saturday night.

Tasman flanker Christie, a Highlanders co-captain last year, has been suffering from an undiagnosed illness which has ruled him out of pre-season and his team's first two matches.


Lan party that took place Late fall 2001. This is my buddy Keith. He refuses to have less than 2 monitors, ever. He coaches the Midgets hockey team for Back Bay hockey in Wolfeboro. He likes beer, and highly caffinated soda. Sometimes he smokes cigarettes. In the summer we hack behind where the old mill used to be. You can swim back there too, its nice. This lan took place on 12-28-99 at jeff's house in effingham. Def. a cool place for a lan party. We also have them at a few other locations. The origional "Barn Carnage" took place in a barn which had been renovated. It was rented a year ago and we havent had it there since. What exactly IS a LAN party? Its when× Expand Daniel Lupton, owner of Sorry State Records, is expanding his Carrboro-based label into a record store retail location next to The Borough.

When Brian Shaw tries to remember how old Nice Price Books on Raleigh's Hillsborough Street is, he uses his age as a measuring stick.

"I think it's 1991," he says, staring at the cars passing by in a parking lot as he does the quick calculation. "I'm 30, and it's been there as long as I can remember, at least since I was 8."

And now, along with his middle school friend and Nice Price coworker, Enoch Marchant, Shaw will buy the shop at week's end, with hopes of expanding its inventory. Come December, when another Hillsborough Street landmark, Schoolkids Records, relocates to the other side of


campus, Nice Price will be the only store on N.C. State's prime collegiate drag that sells new music. After years of daydreaming and months of negotiations, the pair wants to revitalize the space.

"I first thought about buying Nice Price in 2003. I'd been working there for about 10 days," says Marchant, laughing. He's worked there in fits and starts for the last decade, but he's been sitting behind the stacks of books and records on the counter for four steady years now. "It became a thing we talked about that we might do until it became a thing where we had to do this."

In the past five years, both Durham and Carrboro have opened new music storesBull City Records and All Day Records, respectivelythat have not only bolsteredthe retailers already there but also become vital parts of the music communities in those towns and the Triangle at large. In Raleigh, the record store scene has been relatively stagnant for the last several years, with exceptions: Former Schoolkids employee Stephen Judge purchased the store from founder Mike Phillips last April, and a few used-vinyl shops popped up in art spaces and back alleys.

But during the next several months, a bustle of sells and relocations, openings and rebrandings will scramble the once-stable picture of Raleigh record stores. Shaw and Marchant plan not only to increase the store's stock of music but also to turn the room into an off-hours show or rehearsal space and bar. In late December, Judge will move Schoolkids across N.C. State's campus to


a former video rental space in the Mission Valley Shopping Center. It's been in various locations along Hillsborough Street for all of its 39 years. In the new spot, Judge will install a bar and a prominent stage, allowing him to do more with a much bigger space than the tight quarters on Hillsborough Street.

And just more than two miles away, in the ground floor of a gargantuan condominium building, downtown Raleigh will finally have a new record store, albeit from an unlikely suspect. Sorry State Records, a punk and hardcore label and music distributor based in Carrboro, will open its first-ever storefront this weekend.

"The space is definitely more expensive than I'd planned on," says Daniel Lupton, the owner of the expanding Sorry State empire. He spent thebetter part of the last year looking at spaces throughout Raleigh and came close to finalizing one just outside of the city's center, in the Oakwood neighborhood. "But downtown is where the energy is," he says.

Since 2004, Lupton's label and distribution service have emerged as lodestars of sorts on the international punk circuit. Sorry State will be the first record store of its kind in Raleigh, not only for its location but for its stock. Located in a 900-square-foot space on Morgan Street, adjacent to eatery and late-night hangout The Borough, Sorry State will follow the highly curated and personal model of Bull City and All Day, or Goner in Memphis and Aquarius in San Francisco.

He'll use a good portion of the space to boost his healthy mail-order


business. But after a year spent selling records to Raleigh hardcore fans through a small used-vinyl shop on Glenwood Avenue called In the Groove, Lupton knows that there's a rapt audience for his merchandise in the cityone capable of supporting such a specialized place. He also wants to use the store as a way to learn about what's been happening outside of punk and hardcore during his own immersion in those worlds during the last decade, so that he can build the other portions of inventory to suit potential new customers. He hopes to use online sales to keep records moving in and out of the store, creating a dynamic space where merchandise doesn't gather dust for long.

"More general record stores are tougher to operate because you don'tType: McMahon McMahon

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Main Tournament is 7 rounds. Time limit 90 minutes with 20/5 overtime.

Web site: 2019 London Open Web Page

Venue: London Go Centre, 54 Goldhawk Road, London London Go Centre, 54 Goldhawk Road, London

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Major four-day McMahon tournament, held in London at the New Year

The London Open is the UK's biggest tournament. It is always held at the new year period: 28th - 31st December. It first ran at new year 1974/75 (2nd - 5th January) and has run every new year since.

Previously, over 100 players have taken part - even up to 150 - but current event is limited to 100. Players battle over 4 days in