on Australia-Chinese relations and its implications for Australian politics, by Andrew Jakubowicz, Professor of Sociology at the University of Technology Sydney. Jakubowicz was foundation director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies at Wollongong University and collaborated with the Office of the Board of Studies of New South Wales to produce the award-winning website Making Multicultural Australia in the 21st Century aimed at school pupils. The paper[14] assembles important information about Chinese ethnic activism in Australia, beginning with the unseating of John Howard in the 2007 federal election, and the way their influence is based on strong representation in some professions and business sectors, on large targeted donations to political parties, and on international linkages mobilised by pan-Chinese nationalism. The Chinese community does not present a united front inbusiness. A final fallacy is acceptance of Foucaultian constructionist theory unrestrained by human nature, which allows the fantasy that manipulation of Australia’s national historical narrative can produce something that has never existed, a diverse ethno-nation possessing the same benefits of social cohesion, social capital and allegiance that accrue to real nations. It is doubtful that Chinese-Australian interests would be served by allowing themselves to become allied with the grievance industry,[16] though this might advance Chinese regional hegemony.

Radical anti-Western analysis of race and nation is not new. Mistaken Identity: Multiculturalism and the Demise of Nationalism in Australia (1988),[17] by Stephen Castles and colleagues, assumes that Western societies have been inherently racist, including Australia, Western Europe and of course the United States. The racism concept is used promiscuously. Formally the


not countenance ethnic differences in economic behaviour. In that countenance inequality can only be due to oppression or bad luck, which makes radical social engineering seem more appropriate. This leftist myth is still mainstream in the social sciences. For example, well into this century university courses in politics and sociology still do not cover group differences in IQ, a strong predictor of educational success and social mobility.[18] Greater weight is given to the mythical agency of white racism in producing inequality, setting the stage for Castles and his co-authors’ conclusion: “Above all, the history of white racism and genocide against the Aborigines must become a central theme of education and public debate, and an accommodation with the Aborigines must be achieved through payment of reparations and Land RightsHe is a sociologist and political economist specialising in international migration and its transformatory effects. He has advised the British and Australian governments and has worked for the International Labour Organisation, the International Organisation for Migration, the European Union and other international organisations. He is presently Research Chair in Sociology at Sydney University. Earlier in his career, at Wollongong University, he was Director of the Centre for Asia Pacific Social Transformation Studies and, like Andrew Jakubowicz, Director of the Centre for Multicultural Studies (1986–1996).[19] The second author, Bill Cope, was also at the Centre (1984–1991) and was the Director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (1995–96), when he was also Director of the Bureau of Immigration, Multicultural and Population


Research in the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, and is presently Professor of Education Policy at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. The third author, Mary Kalantzis, has also had a successful academic career and served as Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and as Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee. The radicals advocating the deconstruction of Western societies are not shouting in the streets at the establishment. By the 1990s they were in the establishment.

An extreme example of the politicisation of the field of ethnic studies is the school of “whiteness studies”. This began with a Marxist thesis developed in The Wages of Whiteness (1999) by American historian David Roediger. The thesis is that belonging to the white race bringsaround the world are in steep demographic and economic decline, a fact not easy to reconcile with the unchanging white hegemony alleged in whiteness studies. The sole emphasis on white privilege, in a diverse world in which that race is in headlong retreat, is difficult to distinguish from racial animus.

Another analytical flaw is the school’s dogma that race is a social construct, that it has no objective existence. The notion is found throughout the social sciences and humanities. Also absent from whiteness studies is the concept of ethnic interests, a recurring deficiency of contemporary ethnic studies.

Left radicalism does not monopolise academic ethnic studies in Australia. An example of moderate liberal analysis, though still lacking a biosocial dimension, is that of David Brown at Murdoch University. In Contemporary Nationalism


for example as “racism”. Criteria include contractual obligations and compassion but a useful definition cannot encompass universal adaptive choices. Ethnic solidarity can be adaptive because ethnic groups typically have different genetic interests, in the same way that families do but at a scale several orders of magnitude greater. A racial component to ethnic difference magnifies this effect. It seems that few if any in Australian social science departments understand that ethnic genetic kinship is real, has been measured and is substantial. I could find only one biosocial treatment of ethnicity or nationality in an Australian journal, and that was by me in 2008.[27]

The Left-multicultural approach to ethnic conflict dates to the early twentieth century in the United States and was a mature thread of the cosmopolitan critique ofis hatred of Anglo Australia, which is consistent with the fealty to minority interests. A biosocial analysis—or a behaviourally-based sociological one—would search for more fundamental causes, such as competitive motives derived from conflicts of ethnic interests.[32]

The origins of Anglo and European intellectual self-hatred are obscure. George Orwell noted that sentiment in English leftist intellectuals in the 1930s. In an essay, “The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius”, published in 1941, he criticised most Left intellectuals for lack of patriotism. Orwell was critical of cosmopolitanism because it discounted the bonds of nation. He was a radical socialist but also loved his country and saw that it was threatened by Soviet and Nazi tyranny. He wrote the essay at a time shortly after Dunkirk when Britain was


exposed to German bombing and invasion. The most moving section is titled “England Your England”. In it Orwell describes what the English identity meant to him and why national freedom was worth defending. He did not attempt to trace anti-English sentiment to its roots. Anti-Anglo cosmopolitanism was introduced to England as early as 1911, when Franz Boas presented his fresh “findings” about the plasticity of race at the Universal Races Congress held at the University of London.[33] The meeting was organised by the local branch of the Ethical Culture Society founded by Felix Adler, regarded by Eric Kaufmann as the first public intellectual to completely sever the ties of ethnicity to achieve a truly cosmopolitan consciousness.[34]

Another source of anti-Western sentiment was revolutionary Marxism, which conceptualised nationalism and ethnicsentiment as types of “false consciousness”. Anti-racism was at the heart of communism and was enacted by the Bolsheviks during their cosmopolitan phase up to the Second World War. Like Western multiculturalism, Soviet anti-racism was focused on protecting minorities. The regime directed the widespread killing of the Slavic majority, including the Ukrainian genocide of 1931–32 in which many millions were starved to death. In the 1920s the regime also considered the family to be a by-product of capitalism.[35] This was consistent with utopian socialist suspicion of parents discriminating in favour of their own children. Soviet meddling with the Russian family was as disastrous as any totalitarian utopian experiment and was withdrawn in the late 1920s. Its experiment with cosmopolitanism ended in 1941 when Stalin, desperate to put spine


of white populations in their homelands. In February 2012 Buchanan was fired as a senior news analyst by CNBC for expressing similar views.

The most Stalinist example of academic intolerance was reserved for actual advocacy of Anglo ethnic interests. In 2005 Andrew Fraser, associate professor of public law at Macquarie University, criticised the immigration of black Africans on the ground that they commit crime at higher rates than do whites. Fraser was suspended from teaching duties and an article in which he documented his assertion was censored from the Deakin University law journal by the university’s vice-chancellor after it had passed peer review and been accepted by the editor.[40]

Conclusion

Anglo Australians are a subaltern ethnicity. They are second-class citizens, the only ethnic group subjected to gratuitous defamation and hostile interrogationin the quality media, academia and race-relations bureaucracy. The national question is obscured in political culture by fallout from a continuing culture war against the historical Australian nation. Many of the premises on which ethnic policy have been based since the 1970s are simply false, from the beneficence of diversity to the white monopoly of racism and the irrelevance of race. The elite media and strong elements of the professoriate assert that racial hatred in Australia is the product of Anglo-Celtic society. But in the same media and even in the Commission for Race Discrimination most ethnic disparagement is aimed at “homogenised white” people.

What would correct the situation? At the minimum, analysis based on human nature needs to be injected into the study of the national question. Behavioural


the land of Australia. And it would insist that if any people is to be recognised in the Constitution, pride of place should be given to that which founded the nation and provided its infrastructure, political and legal systems, culture and language. Representing the core national identity and the majority of Australians, such a council should adopt a conciliatory role to smooth ethnic relations but in a manner compatible with defending its constituents’ rights and legitimate interests. The effect would be to democratise multiculturalism and the immigration industry by giving the majority of Australians representation in those spheres for the first time.

The handful of existing Anglo-Australian associations mostly promote culture and the English language, including the Britain-Australia Society and the English Speaking Union. The body that most closely(Silver Spring Stage - named one of the "Best Directors" and "Best Plays" of 2015 by DCMetroTheatreArts), [title of show] (purple light theatre co.), and a staged reading of Dancing Lessons (Olney Theatre Center). Her work has also been seen at Source Festival, the DC One Minute Play Festival, Nu Sass' Nu Drafts, and Rorschach Theatre's Klecksography. Other directing credits include: The Lord of the Underworld’s Home for Unwed Mothers, Mr. Bundy, and The Best Laid Plans. She has assistant directed at numerous theatres throughout the Northeast and completed an SDCF Observership with Michael Wilson. She has worked in a variety of capacities for The Welders, Round House, Olney, Capital Fringe, Clubbed Thumb, Wellfleet Harbor Actor's Theater, Kitchen Theatre, and more. www.sarahscafididirector.com


Wrexham FC chief executive Don Bircham has not joined the chorus of condemnation that greeted proposals to establish a new ‘League Three’ as one way of boosting the number of English players at the top of club football.

Football Association chairman Greg Dyke unveiled a raft of England Commission proposals at Wembley on Thursday that also included plans for special loan relationships between clubs, overhauling the work permit system and increasing the number of home-grown players in squads.

The most controversial however was the introduction of Premier League B teams in a new ’League Three’ from 2016/17 and it provoked a backlash of criticism from all corners of the game.

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Wired correspondent Gus Mastrapa was on the scene in Los Angeles to witness the recovery of a piece of gaming history.

LOS ANGELES – Jordan Mechner saved everything.

He saved all the videotape he took in October 1985 of his brother running and jumping around their old neighborhood, footage that he rotoscoped into the animations for his Apple II game Prince of Persia. He saved all of the meticulous journals he kept of the production process, documenting each tiny step of the creation of the landmark hit game.

When he was working on Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time in 2002, the new game’s programmers wanted to add Mechner’s classic to their PlayStation 2 update as an Easter Egg, and asked if he had the source code.

No problem,


of geeks, The Lone Gunmen. Mechner followed his lead and dialed up his own personal geek squad, calling them to his Los Angeles home one Monday morning in April.

To Them, It's Just Old Stuff —————————-

Jordan Mechner’s house is nestled at the base of the Hollywood hills on one of those Los Angeles streets so verdant and well-maintained that you’d never know that the smoggy grime of Hollywood Boulevard was mere blocks away.

A white pickup truck pulls up and parks on the street; enter vintage computer collector Tony Diaz. He made the 80-mile drive up from Oceanside to help Mechner mine his old floppies for their lost treasures. From the bed of his pickup, he unloads crate after crate of old Apple II computers, drives and cable. He’s broughtcareful reading of the case indicates that such was not the holding. In that case, order of dismissal of the suit was entered on defendant's motion, on the ground that plaintiff's cause of action had been released and transferred to the decedent's employer by plaintiff's acceptance of compensation benefits. In support of the motion copies of the records of the Industrial Commission were filed showing that the employer was insured against liability under the Workmen's Compensation Act at the time of the accident; that the plaintiff had filed an application for adjustment of compensation for the death of her husband; that compensation had been awarded; that pending a review of the award plaintiff's application was dismissed on a motion of the defendant setting up a settlement contract approved


by the Industrial Commission and disaffirming liability on the part of the defendant company, and stating that the settlement was made solely to avoid litigation. No evidence was heard, nor were any affidavits filed. The motion was determined solely upon matters presented by the records of the Industrial Commission. It was objected that while it was admitted all parties were under the Workmen's Compensation Act, the Act has no application unless the accident resulting in decedent's death arose out of and in the course of his employment, and that that was a question of fact which should be decided by a jury. The court held that the question of whether the accident did or did not arise out of and in the course of decedent's employment was aalso supplied nurses and interns to assist the surgeons during their operations. The plaintiff at the time of the occurrence was not licensed to practice medicine in Illinois. There was no contractual relationship between the plaintiff and the surgeon or the patient. The contract of internship further provided that the plaintiff could be discharged by the hospital for any dereliction of duty, improper *57 conduct, unsatisfactory service or other sufficient cause. During the period when he was engaged in the operating room assisting the surgeon in the operation he was still under the control of the hospital. Of course the superintendent of the hospital could not tell him how he should use the retractor or other instruments during the operation, but nevertheless, if his services to the attending


owned by Dr. Nyberg and was kept on the second floor of the premises which were used for hospital purposes. Dr. Nyberg had an assistant employed by him. The plaintiff went to Dr. Nyberg's office on the first floor and engaged him to take the pictures. The pictures were made by Dr. Nyberg and his assistant in the X-ray room. The plaintiff was not registered at the hospital nor does the evidence show that any of the hospital employees had anything to do with the taking of the pictures. The question before the court was whether Dr. Nyberg, in the taking of the X-ray pictures, was acting for and on behalf of the defendant; and the court holds he was not. This decision is not applicable to thedamages on account of the alleged negligence of the defendant, an operating surgeon, in leaving a sponge in the plaintiff's body in the course of an operation. The operation was performed at St. Joseph's Hospital, at Joliet, which was a recognized, modern hospital. In the performance of the operation the defendant was assisted by the regular operating room staff of the hospital, all of whom were connected with or employed by the hospital, including the attending intern. The responsibility for keeping a count of the sponges rested upon the nurses. A sponge was left in the body of the plaintiff. The mistake was made by the nurses. The question considered by the court was whether or not the defendant was responsible for the mistake of the nurses. The


charitable institution, and maintained its own corps of nurses, internes, and staff officers. A physician who used the operating room was required by the rules of the hospital to employ the equipment of the hospital. In the case of the particular operation, it included the nurses in attendance, the sponges supplied, and the records kept. Every physician who avails himself of the privilege of operating in a hospital of this character must conform to the rules of the hospital. Unless he does, he may be deprived of the privilege of practicing his profession at that institution. (People v. Julia F. Burnham Hospital, 71 Ill. App. 246.)"
In the case before this court it was a part of the hospital's business to furnish the use of the intern, and thefact that during the period of the operation the intern was subject to the direction of a physician does not change the relationship. Here the furnishing of the intern necessarily involved the circumstances that the intern furnished would carry out the directions of the physician in charge, and such duty is recognized by the rules of the hospital governing interns: that he will fulfill orders for treatment given by the attending physician and his own orders must not conflict with those. When he was injured he was acting for the hospital under the directions of the surgeon. It still was the duty of the hospital to see that he carried out the directions devolving upon him as an intern. If the plaintiff did not exhibit the knowledge and


general, 10 former top national security officials, and a slew of civil liberties groups joined the opposition to the travel ban.

The group, including former secretaries of state John F. Kerry and Madeleine Albright, former CIA director Leon Panetta, and former CIA and National Security Agency director Michael V. Hayden, said there was “no national security purpose” for barring the seven countries.

Trump’s attorneys argue the executive branch has the power to determine whether foreign nationals should be allowed into the United States, and the courts, by questioning that authority, are taking an “extraordinary step of second-guessing a formal national-security judgement.”

Divisions within the administration over what the order means or which officials were consulted before it was issued have spilled out into the public. The DOJ seemed to acknowledge thein a sex-specific way. Daughters of non-supplemented mothers and daughters which did not receive extra food during the early postnatal period had higher oxidative damage than sons, while no differences between sons and daughters were found when extra food was provided pre- or postnatally. No effect of the food supplementations on growth, fledging mass or tarsus length was observed, indicating that female nestlings maintained their investment in growth at the expense of ROS defence mechanisms when resources were limited. The lower priority of the antioxidant defence system for female nestlings was also evidenced by lower levels of specific antioxidant components. These results highlight the important role of early parental effects in shaping oxidative stress in the offspring, and show that the sensitivity to these parental effects is sex-specific.


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Marcin was appointed city clerk by Mayor Richard J. Daley in 1955 and he held the office until 1979. During his time as clerk, Marcin established himself as one of Daley’s closest political allies, a “Polish political king,” according to reports.

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Olivier Giroud knows all about pressure. Montpellier, his former club, needed to win at Auxerre on the final day of last season to secure their maiden French title. Amid riotous scenes, as the home fans revolted, Montpellier kept their cool and recovered from 1-0 down to triumph 2-1. The crown was theirs.

Almost a year on the pressure is on again. Giroud is now with Arsenal, a £9.6m summer capture, and, if winning the Premier League – or any trophy – is but a distant dream, there is the not insignificant issue of claiming a place in the Champions League via a top-four finish. Manchester United and Manchester City may have flown the coop but Tottenham, Chelsea and Arsenal are involved in a three-way fight for the remaining twois perhaps their London rivals who are feeling the heat, a death grip that particularly affects Spurs at this stage of the season.

Are their neighbours quaking? "Yes, I think so," Giroud said, with a twinkle in the eye that earned him the affectionate French nickname of "Charm Striker" when he played for Montpellier. "We're scoring lots of goals. We're playing well."

Lots of goals is Giroud's trade – 21 in Ligue 1 last season and now 16 in all competitions for Arsenal. The latest, the third against Reading, demonstrated his willingness to be involved. Reading won a rare corner, nothing came of it and Gervinho sped away on his own. The Ivorian glanced across for support and no one, apart from the Frenchman, had bothered to break with him.


16-8 in Arsenal's favour.

"We believe that since November we have created momentum," Arsène Wenger, their manager, said. "We just focus on winning the next game. I am sure everyone will give their maximum."

A near maximum return from their remaining seven games might be all that can save Reading, who slipped into the basement with barely a murmur. The arrival of Nigel Adkins, their new manager, on Tuesday appeared to have made little discernible difference and time is not on his side, emphasising the puzzling decision to dismiss Brian McDermott, his predecessor, so late in the campaign. Still, Danny Guthrie, the Reading midfielder and not the greatest McDermott admirer, sees a sliver of hope under Adkins. "He's been brilliant already," Guthrie said. "He's made a big impact on theanother deviation from human athletics, the track was
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Another Very Bad Day for U.S.-Pakistan Ties

Protesters in Lahore chant slogans against the U.S. and NATO on Saturday / AP

Early Saturday morning, NATO helicopters opened fire on two checkpoints in the Baizai area of Mohmand, Pakistan, killing at least 24 members of the Pakistani Armed Forces. From Reuters:

A spokesman for NATO-led troops in Afghanistan confirmed that NATO aircraft had been called in to support troops in the area and had probably killed some Pakistani soldiers.

"Close air support was called in, in the development of the tactical situation, and it is what highly likely caused the Pakistan casualties," said General Carsten Jacobson, spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

A few questions are in order, not the least of which is how gunships confused a couple of sleepy outpostsactivity, much of which appears tolerated by Pakistan. Someone may well have fired at NATO forces. But one is hard pressed to make the argument that an outpost of sleeping Pakistani soldiers were engaged in such kinetic operations.

In response to the incident, Pakistan has closed routes used to usher much-needed supplies into Afghanistan. According to one report, "During the suspension period, thousands of NATO supply trucks were stranded on the ways from Pakistan to Afghanistan and hundreds of them had been attacked and torched, causing a heavy loss for the NATO troops." Meanwhile, Pakistan has issued an eviction notice to U.S. drones stationed at Shamsi Airfield in the Balochistan region, which is strategically close to the crucial border intersections of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran.

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Archaeologist Sinan Sertel, who was doing his PhD in Olympos Ancient City excavations in Antalya and was the vice chair of the excavation team, was attacked in Çıralı Beach in Kemer at around 3.30 p.m. yesterday (May 19).

A dispute erupted between archaeologist Sinan Sertel (32) and S.P. over the allegations that trees were being cut during the excavation works in the Olympos Ancient City in Kumluca district in Antalya.

The dispute escalated and S.P. stabbed Sertel in his chest. While S.P. left the scene of incident, Sinan Sertel was severely injured. He lost his life while he was being taken to hospital in an ambulance.

The excavation team has announced that the deceased body of archaeologist Sinan Sertel will be laid to rest today.Accordingly, a funeral ceremony will be held for Sertel at Antalya Arhcaeology Museum at 12 p.m.

S.P. taken into custody

It has been reported that Sertel lost his life as the knife harmed his cardiac membrane. Sinan Sertel was doing his PhD in the excavation in Olympos Ancient City and was the vice chair of the excavation team.

The gendarmerie officers caught and detained S.P. shortly after he escaped from the crime scene. Deposing to the gendarmerie, the suspect first stated that he threw the knife in the sea. However, changing his deposition, S.P. then stated that he threw the murder weapon to the woods.

It has been reported later that the gendarmerie could find the knife in accordance with the deposition of the suspect.

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(Aaron Abrams) as he strugles to keep his failing restaurant afloat over the course of one day and one night. Jesse Zigelstein’s debut feature is now shooting in Toronto. Others in the cast are Ennis Esmer, Carolina Bartczak, and Lauren Collins. NOSE TO TAIL will premiere at the 2018 Whistler Film Festival (28 November-2 December) in British Columbia.

Chorostecki will also be Debbie in HAMMER, a film written and directed by Christian Sparkes. The crime drama explores the lives of friends who move out west and become involved with drug gangs in Vancouver and Seattle. Dayle McLeod (Jenny in “Vessel“) and Mark O’Brien (Grayson in “Kiss Kiss, Bye Bye“) are also in the cast. HAMMER is currently filming in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Aaron Ashmore (John Jaqobis) will be RandalWishart in the third season of CARDINAL, which will be inspired by the fourth and fifth novels in the John Cardinal series of mysteries (written by Giles Blunt). In the fourth novel, “By the Time You Read This”, Lise Delorme investigates the trading of unspeakable photos of a young girl (believed to be living in Algonquin Bay) being traded online, and Cardinal receives a string of hateful anonymous notes about his wife’s death. In the fifth novel, “Crime Machine”, the decapitated bodies of two Russians (in town for the annual fur auction) are found in a summer home on Trout Lake. The six-episode third season of CARDINAL is currently being filmed in North Bay, Ontario and in Toronto. The first two seasons of CARDINAL can be streamed on


Kiel Phegley

What it is. My name is Kiel, former News Editor of CBR, now staff writer and teacher.

Before I worked for CBR, I was a staff writer at something called Wizard Magazine that used to be around comic shops and stuff.

Aside from the comics stuff, I'm somewhat diligently pursuing a masters degree in writing for children. I live in Chicago now but originally hail from the hardest working town in America: Flint, Michigan. If you ever meet me, remember that I give great high fives.

Holla.

FIRST COMIC: It's a toss up between "Batman" #436 and "Web of Spider-Man" Annual #4. I bought them both in the same summer, and liked Batman WAY better is all I can recall.

Articles By Kiel Phegley

Mon, February 14th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

The wifeof Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel and inspiration for Lois Lane passed away at 93, leaving a legacy of tenaciously fighting for her husband's rights to the Man of Steel as remembered by author Brad Meltzer.

Mon, February 14th, 2011 | Category: TV/Film

Another face familiar to fans of the DC Universe will make its way onto The CW's decade-long Superman drama as producers have confirmed Connor Kent will enter the story in advance of Michael Rosenbaum's Lex Luthor.

Fri, February 11th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

"Kirby: Genesis," the universe-launching series based on Jack Kirby's creator-owned characters, kicks off in May with a $1 #0 issue and finished art by Jack Herbert over Alex Ross layouts and a Kurt Busiek script.

Thu, February 10th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

DC Comics newly minted Executive


Editor explains how the "Reign of Doomsday" story grew from the initial pitch to a full DC Universe event while sharing James Robinson's JLA ambitions and an exclusive Dan Jurgens variant.

Tue, February 8th, 2011 | Category: TV/Film

The reports have hit that the "How I Met Your Mother" star is in final negotiations to play Samuel L. Jackson's right hand woman in Joss Whedon's incoming "Avengers" film which begins filming in spring.

Thu, February 3rd, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

John Layman and Rob Guillory's delectable Image Comics series will get an interactive twist come July as the pair announce Scratch N' Sniff variant cover for sale at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego.

Wed, February 2nd, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

DC Comics co-publisher Dan DiDio stops by CBR News totalk writing "Outsiders" as it runs into the Eradicator-crushing "Reign of Doomsday" event. Plus, an exclusive first look at Batman's return to the team!

Tue, February 1st, 2011 | Category: TV/Film

Series producers Greg Weisman and Brandon Vietti explain how they turned a teen team towards black ops, how "Young Justice" delivers realism in the DC Universe and the possibility of crossing over with Conan O'Brien.

Mon, January 31st, 2011 | Category: TV/Film

Zack Snyder's new Man of Steel spent years losing out on some of the biggest movie franchises in pop culture, but now British actor Henry Cavill is bulking up for his shot at the spotlight and Superman.

Fri, January 28th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

In support of Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert's upcoming five-issue event series "Flashpoint," DC Comics has


announced titles for 14 tie-in mini series though creators details remain scarce for the "Whatever Happened?" style stories.

Fri, January 28th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

Editor Scott Allie returns to CBR for an inside look at the final issues of Joss Whedon's "Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Season 8" as the cast deals with recent deaths, fights Slayer uprisings and prepares for "Season 9."

Fri, January 28th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

With a new platform allowing retailers to sell digital comics on their own sites, the CEO of comiXology spoke with CBR to explain how the system works, why digital isn't a threat and why sales charts are unlikely.

Thu, January 27th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

CBR News takes readers inside the story summit behind Dynamite Entertainment's gathering of Jack Kirby's creator-ownedcharacters in one epic by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross with an exclusive first look at the #0 issue.

Wed, January 26th, 2011 | Category: Comic Books

CBR News reaches out to comic shop owners and managers from coast to coast to see what kind of business they drew on Tuesday for Marvel's nationally-promoted "Death Bag" issue of "Fantastic Four" and how it affects their stores.


Henan migrant worker walks 40 km home from train station in heavy snow

He plans to use the money he saved on cab fare to buy his wife a new outfit for Chinese New Year

’Tis the season for heart-warming feats of staggering endurance. “Ice Boy” — the Yunnan eight-year-old who vaulted to national fame after walking 4.5 kilometers to school in negative 9 degree weather earlier this month — was just the tip of the iceberg, it seems.

Zhao Fangzi, a sixty-year-old migrant worker from Henan, walked 40 kilometers home on Friday after a blizzard shut down the buses running from Luoyang train station to the local environs. He was returning to his hometown for the holidays after a stint working construction in Shanghai.

While Ice Boy’s frigid trek inspired aAyushmann Khurrana is ready to treat his fans with another film on an offbeat subject of a man facing premature balding in Bala. But even before the actor kick-started the shooting of the film, it ran into trouble.

In March, a case was filed by assistant director Kamal Kant Chandra against the Vicky Donor actor along with director Amar Kaushik and producer Dinesh Vijan for allegedly plagiarising the story of Bala.

Now, Kamal has filed a criminal complaint under Section 420 (cheating) and 406 (breach of trust) against Ayushmann and the makers for shooting the film without waiting for the court's verdict.

According to a report in Mid-Day, Chandra says that in the last hearing on April 19, Ayushmann and his team's lawyer falsely mentioned that the film is in the


scripting stage.

Kamal told the daily, "It's wrong to start shooting before the court has given its verdict. At the last hearing, they said that they would take time to develop the script. How did they start shooting in 15 days? This means they gave a misleading picture to the court. I approached the vacation bench four days ago, but they stated that I should wait for the next hearing on June 10. But the makers might finish [a chunk of] the film by then and argue that since a lot of money is at stake, the court should rule in their favour."

Kamal also says that he has messages from Ayushmann from 2017 which prove that the actor showed interest in the idea of the film. He said, "Ifellowships and unlikely friendships, The Sands of Harad offers us new versions of Legolas (The Sands of Harad, 2) and Gimli (The Sands of Harad, 1), the Elf and Dwarf who famously bickered for much of The Fellowship of the Ring before learning to respect each other and, eventually, becoming fast friends.

While both these heroes also appeared in the Core Set, their Core Set versions were—like most heroes—more individualistic. Tactics Gimli (Core Set, 4) didn't give anyone else a bonus to Attack Strength whenever he got wounded; he only fueled his own attacks. Similarly, Tactics Legolas (Core Set, 5) may place progress on the quest whenever he helps defeat an enemy, but he won't make anyone else better at questing or ready them for future action.

By contrast, the


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Peter Schiff has a pretty dire outlook for the global economy. The gold bug and Bitcoin naysayer says that the Federal Reserve injecting capital into the US economy will spawn a crisis that will make the Great Recession look tame.

Despite being less than impressed with Bitcoin and its whole ‘digital gold’ narrative, Peter Schiff often sings from the same hymn sheet as cryptocurrency proponents. The CEO of Euro Pacific Capital says the Federal Reserve adding billions to the economy over recent months will drive the value of the dollar down and hard forms of money, such as gold, will become more attractive to investors.

Gold and the Weakening Dollar

In an interview with Kitco News, Schiff said that he sees no difference between the cash injections and the controversial policyStudents make final preparations before robotics competition (+photos)

DaVinci Academy's Sheyne Anderson "zaps" his laptop with good vibes as Thad Lowe tweaks their team's robot during practice for the regional robotics competition at the Maverik Center in West Valley City on Thursday, March 21, 2013.

Laura Seitz, Deseret News

Summary

After six weeks of preparation, including long hours after school and on weekends, Skyline High School sophomore Samuel Adams was putting the finishing touches on his team's robot, Kevin III.

WEST VALLEY CITY — After six weeks of preparation, including long hours after school and on weekends, Skyline High School sophomore Samuel Adams was putting the finishing touches on his team's robot, Kevin III.

Adams was surrounded Thursday by students, tools and assorted robot parts at the Maverik Center, where 44 teams from high


scratch by students, incorporating various strategies to win the competition. Some robots climb, while other robots, such as Kevin III, throw. Adams said Kevin III is manually loaded by students on the sidelines and uses a spinning wheel to launch discs.

"We're still tweaking it a little," he said. "It was a pretty packed six weeks."

The event is co-sponsored by the University of Utah's College of Engineering. Associate professor Mark Minor said the competition is intended to help students experience real-world engineering scenarios and realize that science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education can be fun.

Each team is provided with a basic kit of robot parts, which essentially includes a frame, wheels and the computing system to propel those wheels, Minor said. From there, students build from scratchwhatever design they can devise to compete in the event.

"The things these kids create are absolutely inspiring," he said. "They really have to challenge themselves, and I'm really impressed with the solutions they come up with."

FIRST, which stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology, is a nonprofit organization focused on introducing students to STEM education. The organization runs programs for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, such as the FIRST Lego League, the FIRST Tech challenge and, at the high school level, the FIRST Robotics Competition.

Richard Anderson, Utah regional director of FIRST, said students who participate in FIRST programs attend college at higher rates than their peers and are more likely to major in STEM fields.

"This is STEM. This is science, technology, engineering and mathematics


in action," Anderson said of the robotics event.

Rien Reid, a senior at Hillcrest High School, said he plans to study engineering in college, possibly at Utah State University. His team's robot HARV-E, derived from "highly accurate vehicle extraordinaire," is a thrower like Kevin III, though painted green and proudly sporting its NASA sponsorship like an Indy race car.

"NASA's our biggest sponsor," Reid said. "We probably wouldn't be able to do it without them."

During the recent legislative session, investment in STEM education and a need for more STEM graduates was a top priority for Gov. Gary Herbert as part of his push to see 66 percent of Utah's adults holding a postsecondary degrees or certificates by 2020.

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Two enemies have entered the arena – but the story takes an unexpected turn featuring ‘Gladiator’ Lance, Gythia’s Champion!

CHECK OUT HIS 3D MODEL:

MODEL CHANGES:

Manica armor

Galea helm

Scutum shield

All-new pilum

SPECIAL EFFECTS CHANGES:

Black and red impact

Red shield energy

Trident pulse effect

Eyes on shield glow when active

ALTERNATE FATE LORE

Read Part I: The Reunion

The Champion

The fighters stepped through separate doors into the arena. Catherine blinked against the glare reflected off of the metal masks worn by the crowd. Before she could clear her vision, Ardan was upon her, his caestus slamming all of his rage and pain into her raised shield. The blow knocked her off her feet. She spat sand and blood. With something like childish glee he struck again, expecting her ribcage to splinter and sever her heart, but instead the forcesome recent luck, had won by the skin of his teeth and been stitched up in time to be torn apart in a half-dozen subsequent fights, but Lance, the Archelion, had won every bout for a year. He was not Gythian by birth, but the people had adopted him. His spiked black armguard rose, displaying a heavy bladed pilum to the roaring crowd; from his black helmet burst the red horsehair brush of the warriors. Into his armor was sculpted the faces of monsters he had beaten in the sands. His crimson shield bore the face of Caius, the fabled first warrior of Gythia. The crowd erupted in songs for the champion in red and black; some threw their masks into the sand.

Ardan’s heart sank. He had abandoned


Gythia long ago, in his youth, to join the Technologist rebels, and he had in turn abandoned them to protect his children, but he had been raised among the warriors. To bear the face of Caius would have made his father proud. As the Champion took his time striding across the sand toward them, Ardan forced himself to breathe through the throat-crushing weight of his failures. His fans called him a Son of Gythia, but this Archelion, Lance, was more Gythian than he.

Despite his heavy armor, The Champion somersaulted like a nimble dancer to the delight of the crowd. He lunged at the other gladiators with a battle cry, the eyes of Caius on his shield glowing, his pilum speeding toward Ardan’s masked face.

Before he could use hisVanguard, Ardan saw Catherine speed into the path of the pilum, following the blades of her shield, and slammed full force into the Champion. Energy crackled around the black armor, stunning the Champion long enough for Catherine to grasp Ardan by his one bare arm. In the noise, he only saw her lips moving, saying, “Join me now, or you will not survive long enough to kill me.”

The Champion shook off the effects of the stun. A blood-red energy came off of his shield as he bashed Catherine away. She tumbled backward, her shield sliding out of reach. Scrambling on her knees, grasping at nothing, the great tall shadow of the Champion stretched over her.

But Ardan’s caestus landed first, cracking into the Champion’s solar plexus. While he stumbled,


Ardan kicked the arcshield to Catherine; she grabbed it and rolled, slicing the shield at the Champion’s knees. He jumped clear, but Ardan was on him again, punching at his exposed belly while Catherine found her feet and flanked around to the back. But the Champion rolled away again, lithe and quick, and sprinted to the barbed wire-encased edge of the arena. The crowd pushed forward, crushing, reaching, risking their lives for the chance to brush their fingertips against greatness. Catherine walked ahead, shield before her, no rush, and the closest row of fans tumbled into the arena as the Champion raised his pilum.

“No!” bellowed Ardan. “Her head is mine!”

And then the ground shifted.

There was a rumbling, and the floor split apart. The crowd went quiet, so thatthe great metal wheels cranking to pull away the arena floor could be heard. The gladiators had to jump to one side or another, their eyes darting left and right, crouched in defensive postures. Dark water appeared from under the floor; the sand fell in and sank. The fans who had fallen into the arena scrambled and grasped for handholds wherever they could. One fell in with a splash, and the floor continued to roll away, separating the fighters farther and farther while the man in the water screamed for help. And then he disappeared, fast as if pulled under, and screamed no more.

Three small boats were lowered down from the stands and pushed through the dark water toward the gladiators.

Read Lance’s canon lore:

The Archelions

Gythian Lance

Read about Ardan


From apology to regional cooperation

The civil war in Syria as well as potential the rise of radical Islamists in the country constitute a major national security threat for Turkey on its southern border and for Israel on its northern border.

By OZGUR ERKAN

March 24, 2013 23:46

4 minute read.

Turkish flag 311 (R).
(photo credit: Osman Orsal / Reuters)

Following the deterioration of Turkish-Israeli relations after the Mavi Marmara
flotilla incident in May 2010, the long-awaited Israeli apology finally came,
shortly before President Barack Obama was about to complete his official trip to
Israel. While the apology was reported as the last-minute major event of the day
in the Turkish press, both Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu reportedly found Israel’s apology
satisfactory.

The apology is without question an important step for the
rapprochement betweenTurkey and Israel. However, both sides need to move
forward and engage in a regional cooperation, given the common security threats
both Israel and Turkey face from Syria and Iran, and given the potential
benefits to both countries from the natural gas project in the
Mediterranean.

In a nutshell, the militaries of Israel and Turkey should
start working together to face the national security threats in the region, a
type of cooperation which was also the basis of the golden age of bilateral
relations between the two countries in the 1990s. This time, however,
cooperation should exceed the military dimension and include new parameters such
as the natural gas project in the Mediterranean and a future triangular alliance
with Azerbaijan.

The most imminent threat both countries currently face
is Syria. The civil war in Syria as well as potential the rise


of radical
Islamists in the country constitute a major national security threat for Turkey
on its southern border and for Israel on its northern border. To deal with this
threat, the two countries need to participate in joint military training and
share intelligence on both the Assad regime and the radical Islamists, regarding
military capabilities and (potential) use of chemical weapons.

Such
military cooperation, especially in terms of intelligence, can reduce the threat
of potential attacks, to which both countries are prone at the moment. Take for
example the recent attack from the Syrian side on Turkey in February 2013, where
a explosives-laden vehicle was detonated at the Turkish-Syrian, killing 14
civilians, including Turkish citizens.

Similarly, the Golan Heights have
been subjected to mortar shelling from the Syrian side since November
2012.

Furthermore, if a NATO intervention takes place in Syria, similar
to theof the realities of race, "niggerized," and forced to understand what it means to be a problem.

These are necessary life and survival skills in America, even one that is post civil rights, and where a black man is President. This reality holds for both black girls and black boys. However, it is especially true for the latter, lest they end up dead like Trayvon Martin. [my emphasis]

He also focuses on the posture of whiny white people, of which the neo-Confederate/Lost Cause ideology is very much a part:

One of the great ironies of the post racial era, is that a white America which spent many years denying the very existence of racism against people of colr [sic], has now discovered it for themselves, as conservatives and Right-wing reactionaries boohoo


~ Author of science fiction and fantasy stories, choosing to write the stories that he would love to read.

First Watch

The night air was brisk, cutting through the cloak draped over his frail figure. A fire burned down in the center of the camp, the flames flickering into the air as it consumed the dry logs, but its warmth seemed to do nothing to combat the chill in his bones. His companions slept around him, rolled snug in a ring around the campfire. Their snores echoed softly into the dreadful night, overridden by the hoots and shrieks of the wildlife around them. He jumped at every new sound, a small dirk trembling in his pale fingers.

He shouldn’t be like this. After all, he was the son of a knightand his grandfather was a knight. He was pretty sure the knighthood could be traced back across dozens of generations. Warrior blood ran strong through his family’s veins, but somehow it decided to skip a generation the night Tyriel was born. It resumed three years later when his sister, Rhys, was brought into the world. Everyone knew that she should be the one out here leading this expedition, but his father would hear none of it. He said it was time that Tyriel stepped up and earned his keep as the future heir to the tower.

The men with him all thought he was craven, and Tyriel wished that he could prove them wrong just once. But it was hard to be courageous and bold when every sound in


the forest made him panic. He feared an ambush at every turn, saw rabid eyes in every beast, and felt cold steel swinging down every night when he slept. And now, after three weeks, they finally forced him to take a watch during the night. They gave him the first watch, reassuring him that if there were to be an attack it would come during second or third watch instead. Tyriel didn’t believe them.

It was dreadful out here, under the open skies and among the wilderness. Even though the open land stretched far beyond his sight in each direction, he felt more confined here than he had been at home. Things had been much better when he had been hidden, snug within the safe walls of the tower,buried beneath stacks of tomes in the library. Nothing bothered him up there, apart from the thick layers of dust, because no one else held any interest in the ancient books and scrolls. But Tyriel felt that the information contained in them was far more important than knowing how to swing a sword or shoot a bow and hit a target on horseback. Knowledge was a superior weapon, and he would prove it if he could ever get his nerves under control.

A log in the fire popped, making Tyriel jump to his feet. His dirk fell from his hands, the clattering of steel on stone startling him further. An owl hooted in the darkness and Tyriel spun toward the sound. His eyes hunted the depths of the blackness


before him, willing the haunts of the night to reveal themselves to him. When nothing emerged from the depths he squatted down, retrieving his dirk. He felt, for the first time in his life, an odd comfort in having a weapon in his hand. He eased back to his perch, peering into the perilous night with a new sense of calm under his command.

The night crept by in silence as Tyriel struggled to remain awake. His watch was nearly over, judging by the flames of the campfire. It had been an easy watch, like they had said it would be, once he had his nerves in check. He was a far cry from becoming a knight, but at least it could be said he was no craven foolanymore. He felt control, a new sensation, and he relished it. He welcomed what the night had in store for him now, thinking there was no sight nor sound that could rattle his resolve.

He could hear the wind’s menacing howl before he felt its icy tendrils caressing his body. The dwindling flames in the campfire struggled to cling to life as the wind relentlessly assaulted their camp. Thick clouds blanketed the moon and stars above as the final embers were snuffed out, leaving Tyriel shrouded in darkness. His newfound confidence drained as the night sounds emerged in a terrifying crescendo. Bushes rustled, twigs snapped, and noises echoes from every direction. He spun toward each sound, holding his dirk with white knuckles, his tongue mute in spite of attempts


to sound an alarm. He stumbled toward his companions, hoping to rouse them before the evil closed in upon them. He sensed it drawing closer with each ragged breath, his throat tightening as the seconds passed.

The toe of his boot caught the edge of a rock, bringing him crashing forward. As the ground raced to meet his face, a sense of dread overwhelmed him. He had failed as the first watch, just like everyone expected.

*****

The chirping of birds greeted Tyriel as he regained consciousness. He shielded his eyes from the glare of the morning sun in the horizon. A numb pain flared when he ran his hand across his scalp and he noticed a smear of dried blood on the rock where he fell. But he was alive.

Anew joy flowed through him as he felt the joy of success. He had not failed, after all, and led them all into the hands of death. He was still alive, and relatively unharmed. Perhaps he might even volunteer for a watch tonight. He took off toward the creek to wash his wound and ease his thirst, but along the way he got a nagging sense that he overlooked something. He shrugged it off to lingering nerves and drank deep from the flowing water, feeling relief as the cold liquid hit his dry throat.

And he realized what was bothering him. He ran back to the camp, weaving around fallen logs and hurdling rocks. He arrived and doubled over, gasping to regain his breath while his eyes confirmed what


the district court's denial of plaintiffs' suit to enjoin the United States Attorney from conducting a grand jury proceeding involving the plaintiffs.   On or about April 9, 1990, appellants were advised by letter that they were targets of a federal grand jury investigation.   The investigation involved an inquiry about whether plaintiffs and their companies had participated in criminal offenses involving the distribution of prescription drugs without a prescription and the distribution of unapproved new drugs.

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The opening paragraph of appellant's complaint describes their cause of action.

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This is an action in the nature of mandamus and pursuant to Title 5, United States Code, Section 702, to compel James Benson, the acting Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration, to follow his own statute, rules and regulations andwas little to raise suspicion about the first combatant in what became dubbed the Battle of the British Museum. Security scarcely registered the smartly dressed gentleman of Middle Eastern appearance trotting through the main entrance and, with distinct clarity of purpose, making his way to the Great Court. He had thin angular features and diagonal cheekbones that lent something of the razor blade to his face. A copy of Le Monde was tucked under one arm and he could easily have been a Parisian academic or a visiting tourist. Nobody commented on his unusually trim frame and darting, potent movements.

The second protagonist was a more arresting sight; indeed staff recalled seeing her on several occasions in the days leading up to the rampage. Her head was shaved in


a brutal number one cut and she wore a vast woollen jumper gaping with holes. She had three piercings and a tattoo of an acorn behind one ear. She was in her mid-thirties and her face wore signs of hard-living; but it was her eyes that grabbed the attention. They were a slake of bright blue and seemed to smoulder through her ruddy face with joy and rage. She bounded through the Great Court with purposeful strides, hot on the heels of the first suspect.

There are no CCTV cameras in the research facilities of the British Museum, which are out of bounds to the public. So detectives piecing together the events later were unable to deduce for certain what had transpired in the closeted world of the AncientNear East Department. But it being lunchtime, the museum was heaving with punters. So what happened next was witnessed by hundreds of tourists, captured on dozens of mobile phones, recorded with forensic scrutiny on the cameras of the west wing. The ‘staff only’ door exploded outwards and from the department burst the man, one hand grasping something unseen inside his suit jacket. A group of schoolchildren were congregating in the corridor, blocking his route to the covered courtyard and out of the museum, and he turned to see the woman descending upon him murderously, hollering like a banshee. He bolted up one of the grand marble staircases that stand at each corner of the museum and she followed, taking two steps at a time, never ceasing a barrage


of invective that elicited delighted gasps from the children. Their teacher recalled afterwards that, amid the tide of profanities, she had shrieked something in a Deep South accent about “the professor’s tablet”.

The man emerged on the first floor and darted into one of the Greek galleries, the American in hot pursuit. They thundered past an exhibit of gold jewellery, the paper thin leaves of a golden wreath rattling against each other as the gale passed through. But the distance between the two was widening. The man was fleet of foot and in the peak of physical condition; and after the staircase, her fury was giving way to leaden limbs. She seized the nearest artefact, a hefty terracotta flask in the form of a squatting African man. Taking amarble dust. An overweight security guard leapt from his chair with a howl of fury to join the chase.

The man was momentarily dazed and sat spluttering, enveloped in a galaxy of chalky white. His pursuers were upon him.

Realising the danger he sprang to his feet like a startled gazelle and was off, dashing into the first of the Roman galleries. The security guard was already off the pace; yet the woman, who seemed to be enjoying the brouhaha, was feet behind. They passed the baleful stare of Augustus, a tour group admiring the green-bronze bust of Rome’s greatest emperor.

“He put Rome on a sound defensive footing,” came a snatch of the guide’s droning. “And the other thing he is remembered for …”

The group scattered in a cacophony of


outraged exclamations as the pair barged past. One by one the marble busts of Rome’s most infamous emperors flickered by; first Nero the debauched, then thick-set Vespian, Hadrian with his Herculean shoulders and the boyish countenance of his lover Antonius. In death Nero watched the chase with a dignity he seldom mustered in life as the chariot race reached its crescendo.

But now the woman was gasping and wheezing, an abhorrence of exercise rudely apparent. The man had drawn away again and was at the far end of the gallery, about to disappear down the grand staircase at the museum’s south-west corner. In desperation she scanned for potential ammunition. To her left was a cabinet displaying the wares of Roman gladiators. The display was being rearranged and the curatorhad left it unlocked. There were a selection of iron spear points and short flat swords, pitted with age but viciously sharp. Her hand wavered – she didn’t want to actually kill him. Instead her gaze alighted on the helmet of a long-dead murmillo gladiator. It was a sinister sight, two webbed eye guards bulging from a mask of tempered iron like the eyeballs of a fly. She grabbed it by the helm and hurled it at her opponent with both hands. The helmet was unwieldy and there was nothing graceful about this throw – it wobbled awkwardly through the air, overshooting the intended victim and shattering a cabinet ahead of him. The man glanced back fearfully, hunted, aghast at the onslaught. He had been briefed to expect


meek academics, underpaid security guards – the kind of people whose necks could be broken with ease. But how to fight such a vision of ferocity? Who was this Gorgon? Already the monster was reaching back into the gladiator display. Instinctively he reached into the shattered cabinet and returned fire with the first object to hand, a Greek wine cup decorated with the humble image of a carpenter cutting leather in his workshop, pointed slippers dangling above his head. One could make out where it had been repaired after some long-forgotten mishap, but rather a tasteful little scene it remained. The man threw it like a Frisbee, hard and true; it whizzed across the gallery making a beeline for her face. She ducked at the last moment, theartefact impacting into its constituent atoms against the wall behind her. There would be no repairing it this time.

From somewhere an alarm began its deafening wail. The man had sprinted the full length of the west wing; now he was bowling down the grand marble staircase leading back to the museum’s main entrance. The American stood wheezing amid the flotsam of the gallery.

But she was not beaten yet.

With abundant disregard for treasures of the ancients, she seized another object from the stricken cabinet. It was a stunning black-and-red vase almost a metre tall, Greeks and Amazons prancing around the piece in fussy and elaborate combat. She grabbed it by the jug handles and lugged it to a balcony overlooking the grand staircase. Then she heaved the vase up


onto a banister and concentrated hard. Timing was everything; like a gunner on a First World War battleship, she needed to consider how long the shell would be in flight.

Her target never saw it coming.

He had descended the first flight of stairs and was at the foot of the second, which doubled back right under her vantage point. Such was his haste that he didn’t clock the vengeful figure emerging directly above, nor notice the priceless 30 kilogram work of art about to come crashing down from the heavens. The fleeing figure entered Heather’s crosshairs. Which was the exact moment the security guard caught up with her, flailing for the vase. Sadly for the Friends of the British Museum, there was no counteracting the momentum of his charge.The object was knocked from her hands with the impact and for one terrible moment it teetered on the banister like a spinning coin – before pitching over into space.

The vase dropped in a silent deadly rush, pirouetting daintily as a waterborne hippopotamus as it fell. But the security guard’s intervention had spoiled her aim; instead of cracking its intended target over the head it struck a glancing blow to his shoulder before shattering with acute destruction into ten thousand smithereens on the flagstones. The noise of raining porcelain seemed to go on, and on, and on. And on. The imposing figure of the Townley caryatid watched the pandemonium impassively, one marble hand outstretched in supplication. Not in two millennia had the Roman statue witnessed such devastation. Triangles


of broken pottery cascaded in a tinkling wave down the staircase, the heavy bottom of the vase bouncing and spinning away like an escaped hub cap. Tourists gleefully photographed the bedlam; and through them weaved the fleeing figure who had somehow managed to stay on his feet. Clasping his shoulder, running with a drunken canter, he reached the main entrance. Then he shot out from the columned auspices of the museum and into the clanking rumble of London beyond. A black Audi was waiting on Great Russell Street – and he was away.

Back in the museum, a phalanx of security guards descended – swiftly, angrily – to complete the detention of one Heather Kochalski.Rise, Fall and Rise of CHINDIA: A peek into History

From the 15th to 18th century, China and India controlled almost half of the global trade. This pattern continued till India became the part of British Empire, in the 19th century and Chinese trade became increasingly controlled by those who controlled the sea routes – England, France and the US. India became the independent and China the communist in the mid – 20th century and both began rebuilding their economies. In the 21st century, China and India became the world’s fastest growing economies and the centre of gravity of global trade appeared to be shifting east. A look at the growth trajectory of the Asian giants over 500 years:

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in Khambat the volume of trade is so high, more than 3,000 ships visit the port every year.

China continues to control a quarter of world trade. The English establish a trading post at Canton in 1637 .Trade grows further after a Quing emperor relaxes maritime trade restrictions in the 1680’s. By now, Taiwan has come under Quing control. But, the sea trade makes the Chinese apprehensive about conquest.

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Aurangzeb’s India has a 24.4%share of world income, the largest in the world. But as Mughal power declines the East India Company disrupts trade relationship between India’s mercantile community and the wider world.

In 1760, as China’s share of global trade began to fall, the government sets out regulations for foreigners and foreign ships. Canton is the only port open toalien traders, after their war of independence (1776), the Americans began to trade with China. It is a set back for the British.

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In 1820, India’s economy – now completely controlled by east India Company- is 16% of world income. The company promotes the opium trade with China. The Indian agricultural pattern is changed by the company. By 1870, India has 12.2% of world income.

The Quing King refuses to open all the ports to foreign traders and seeks to restrict the opium trade with India. War breaks out twice between Britain and China. A defeated China accepts the opium trade and gives western merchants access to its most developed areas. Tea exports increases 500%in eight years in 1843, totaling 42,000,000 kg in 1855.

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IN 1913, India’s economy has


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In early 1992, Madam Malkin went to Paris for the Which Witch? fashion show, and left her shop closed with a notice outside.

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The name "Malkin" may be derived from "Malkin Tower" which was a key element in the Pendle Witches trial.[3]

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The precious metal markets caught on fire in a big way today. Gold prices surged the most in nine months by over $40 per ounce and silver closed in on $21 per ounce. After losing 28% last year as short term hot

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The price of silver soared from its low of around $10 during the height of the financial crisis to almost $50 per ounce

The March sales report of American Eagle bullion coins by the U.S. Mint showed a large drop in gold bullion coins while sales of the ever popular silver bullion coins soared.
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Four decades after his star turn as an alcoholic alien in the film “The Man Who Fell to Earth,” David Bowie is now co-writing a new stage work based on the same story.

Off Broadway’s New York Theater Workshop said on Thursday that Mr. Bowie would collaborate with Enda Walsh, the Irish playwright who won a Tony Award for “Once,” in writing the new piece, entitled “Lazarus.” The play will feature new songs by Mr. Bowie, as well as new arrangements of older songs, and will focus on the story of Thomas Newton, the alien-turned-inventor portrayed by Mr. Bowie in the 1976 film.

Mr. Bowie won’t be on stage, nor will this be his first theatrical venture — in the early 1980s, he spent three months playing the title role


Armed with unity and good vibes, scores of Shepherd's Bush residents turned out to try and save Ginglik on Saturday.

As it stands, the seven-year-old cultural centre and club is due to be filled with concrete by H&F Council, which says it cannot justify spending taxpayers' money on refitting the venue.

The ageing underground structure - which was once an Edwardian toilet - is now prone to flooding and the estimated £300,000 to fix it has been shrugged off by the council, in favour of spending an estimated £50,000 to fill it with concrete.

Famous for its determination to nurture quality up-and-coming bands, the line-up at Saturday's protest was yet again a testament to owners Colin Welsh, 30, and Tammi Willis, 31 (pictured).

Despite the empassioned speeches, it was the Shepherd's Bushlocals Pirate Casino, headed by James Gadd, who stole the show and drowned the frustration in their body-rocking basslines.

Shepherd's Bush local Nat Mackay: "Trying to close down Ginglik has nothing to do with regenerating the area. H&F are trying to turn us into another Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington - sterilising the area in the name of profits. Shepherd's Bush is a village and we will not lie down and become another sanitised society. Our diversity makes us unique and we cherish that."


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Frank Gore would not stop smiling. Even when he recalled using crutches to walk into his first meeting with the 49ers‘ new coaching staff, he couldn’t keep a grin off his face for very long.

At the end of Sunday’s 26-0 rout of the Rams, he and two teammates seized the huge 49ers flags from their usual bearers and waved them furiously in Candlestick’s south end zone.

The players routinely exit the field from this part of the stadium, and for years, it was their gantlet of grief. Too often, they’d hear boos at halftime and leave with slumped shoulders after the final whistle.

So Gore and his teammates did more than stage a celebration Sunday, when the franchise clinched its first division title in nine years. They held aTomsula, he’s sitting there just looking with a blank stare,” Francois said. “And it was great seeing Mr. York walking around the stadium with a smile on his face. Now, we’ve just got to keep the smile on their faces.”

He could have meant either 49ers Chairman John York or his son Jed, the 49ers’ president. The father seemed like the better bet. He exited the locker room with a slightly dazed smile and one of the division-title caps engulfing his head. Jed York came in there later and held court with reporters, remembering that the last time the 49ers won a division title, he had to watch them on TV in South Bend, Ind. He was a junior at Notre Dame.

Head coach Jim Harbaugh’s job requires him to


winning field goal, groans ricocheted through the room.

Several players lingered longer than usual, dressed in suits and ties. Rumor had it that many of the players planned to dine together at San Francisco’s famed House of Prime Rib. They might have had something of a toast or two in mind.

“Sure, the Gatorade and um, you know, apple cider,” a coy Davis said.

In one of the more touching moments, former linebacker Derek Smith, who endured some of the harshest years with the 49ers, came in the locker room to visit after the game. He slapped backs, embraced old friends and had to utter barely a word to explain why he was there. His face said it all.

Davis explained the overall mood best when he tried to describe how heStory by Michael Buczyner / CBS 12 NEWS DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - The fight over trash and fees might be coming to an end in a South Florida City. A Palm Beach County Circuit Court judge ruled against a contract awarded to Waste Management by Delray's City Council in 2012 to haul away residents' trash. ...


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With rap shows that tend to resemble punk shows, Houston-bred Travis Scott brings his high energy rodeo to Cleveland on his Birds Eye View Tour. Scott’s compositions feel like modern art – dark, youthful, experimental, and soaked in a uniquely disorted autotune that dip-dyes his Houston aesthetics in a metallic, industrial cast. Building on the underground momentum from his first two solo mixtapes, Scott made a splash in 2015 with his debut album Rodeo and its single “Antidote,” a fluorescent trap banger with an undeniable hook. The song ended up triple platinum and catapulted him into the mainstream, cosigned by artists from Justin Bieber to Toro Y Moi to 2 Chainz. Following his 2016 release Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight,since agency regulations often implement legislative action.

Pinsky pointed out that state agencies promulgate over 400 regulations per year, and yet only one staff person was going to review them all for the advisory council.

Any proposed regulations would have to be submitted to the advisory council 15 days ahead of publication, and if they find a significant impact the regs could be held up for months at a time.

Most senators say bill is needed

Other senators, both Democrats and Republicans, argued that the legislation, which already passed the House, was needed to improve how the state interacts with business.

We need a sea change, said Sen. Bob Cassilly, R-Harford. He described his interaction with a service station owner who thought the state was trying to put him out of business.

Sen. Catherine


HB940, that would create customer service training programs for all state agencies overseen by the business ombudsman in the governors office, another commission idea.

Personal property tax

The Senate also gave preliminary approval to a Hogan administration bill, SB590, that would eliminate the personal property tax on businesses with less than $10,000 in physical assets, but delay its implementation for two years. The bill was amended to require the state Department of Assessments and Taxation to do an audit of the personal property tax to make sure businesses were complying with the law.

Rosapepe said that this bill, as opposed to the earlier measure on regulations, actually did something for small businesses, and put money back in their pockets.

Sen. Richard Madaleno, D-Montgomery, who had opposed the advisory council on regulations butThe Soul of a New Political Machine Is Hmong

BY: The New York Times, February 2, 2002, Saturday

Early on Election Day here this week, Xy Yang, a Hmong immigrant, took the
exam for United States citizenship. That night she went to the polls.

It did not matter to Ms. Yang, 43, that she could not vote yet, said her son,
John, who took her to the polls. She simply wanted to watch the lines of voters
-- many of them also Hmong refugees who fled Laos three decades ago -- come to
the immigrant-rich precincts of St. Paul's East Side neighborhood to elect one
of their own to state office.

By the end of Tuesday night, Mee Moua, a Democrat, had won handily, winning
51 percent of the vote in a four-way race for the State Senate


seat vacated by
Randy Kelly, who was elected mayor of St. Paul in November.

Ms. Moua (pronounced MOOah) became the first Hmong to be elected to an
American state legislature. And, at least in its own eyes, the Hmong community
in the United States had achieved a new status.

"After 25 years, the community is finally engaged in the mainstream political
stream," said Lee Pao Xiong, a Hmong leader in Minneapolis. "We are no longer
visitors to the country."

Ms. Moua, 32, is a lawyer and lobbyist who fled Laos with her family when she
was a child. She characterized her election as a watershed event for the Hmong,
refugees from the wars in Southeast Asia, who struggled to find a place in the
United States.

"What we've done is actually bring to life the Hmong-American identity," Ms.
Moua said. "We'vealways been viewed as refugees. As a people, we've never
really had a country."

Minnesota is a logical place for such a political first; the Hmong population
in the state has more than doubled since 1990, to nearly 41,000. More than half
of the Hmong live in St. Paul, which has the largest group of Hmong in the
country.

But fighting the image that Hmong cannot assimilate easily has been a
challenge even in St. Paul, particularly after several highly publicized violent
episodes, including the case of a Hmong mother who strangled her six children in
1998.

Such domestic conflicts dramatized the stresses on an immigrant group more
isolated and non-Western than nearly any other to come to America, said David
Zander, a cultural anthropoligist with the State Council on Asian-Pacific
Minnesotans, a legislative advisory group.

"Everything you can think about, there's


a world view that's different for
the Hmong," Mr. Zander said. Before coming to the United States, the Hmong had
virtually no contact with Western culture, and even after arriving they had
strong beliefs about spirit influence on health, arranged marriages, clan
leadership and the healing power of animal sacrifice.

But in the last three years, younger and more assimilated Hmong, like Ms.
Moua, have become active politically, in part to act as brokers between two
cultures, Mr. Zander said.

Last year, a Hmong ran for the State House of Representatives and another,
for the State Senate, but lost. Ms. Moua's victory, Mr. Zander said, was the
first signal that a Hmong can win wide support among the often divided group and
can do so in a district that is 60 percent white.

"I wouldn't have won with just theHmong vote alone," Ms. Moua said, sitting
in her modest campaign headquarters, which doubles as her husband's real estate
office. "There were non-Hmong voters who saw me as someone who would represent
them. That's even more significant to the Hmong community."

As a law student at the University of Minnesota, Ms. Moua said, she had
dreamed of creating a system to register and motivate Hmong voters.

Her campaign was helped significantly, she said, by changes in welfare laws
in 1996 requiring citizenship for eligibility and by federal laws passed two
years ago allowing Hmong men who worked with American forces in Southeast Asia,
as well as their wives, to take citizenship exams in their native language.

Ms. Moua set up an efficient and aggressive political organization, using
scores of Hmong volunteers. They found the new Hmong citizens, taught them


how
to vote, assembled drivers to give them rides to the polls and sent interpreters
when they were needed. In all, her organization was able to turn out a bloc of
800 to 1,000 Hmong voters in both the primary and general elections, her
campaign estimated.

Ms. Moua said she also worked to bridge traditional divisions among Hmong
sects, largely by ignoring the attitudes of Hmong elders, who initially resisted
the idea of a woman as a political leader in her district.

In the end, Ms. Moua's tactics produced an unprecedented Hmong vote in a
district accustomed to small turnouts, and her campaign says it provided the
difference.

In the Democratic primary on Jan. 15, she defeated Tim Mahoney, a state
representative, by 170 votes. On Tuesday, her 51 percent of the vote dwarfed the
29 percent for the runner-up, GregCopeland, a marketing consultant and a
Republican.

"If anything comes out of this, it is that we have created a political
machine, a Hmong voting bloc," said Tou Ger Xiong, a St. Paul artist and one of
Ms. Moua's campaign coordinators. "This is bigger than Minnesota."
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GRAPHIC: Photo: Mee Moua and her husband, Yee Chang, were cheered as they
approached the podium at Ms. Moua's campaign headquarters on Tuesday night, when
she was elected to the Minnesota Senate, becoming the first Hmong elected to an
American state legislature. (Carlos Gonzalez/The Star Tribune, via Associated
Press)


19 August 1999

No. 3--98--0826

IN THE

APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS

THIRD DISTRICT

A.D., 1999

JOHN DOE,					)	Appeal from the Circuit Court

)    of the 13th Judicial Circuit

Plaintiff-Appellant,	)	La Salle County, Illinois

)

)

    v.			)

)	No. 95--L--27

)

ROBERT GOFF, BOY SCOUTS OF  	)

AMERICA, and RAINBOW COUNCIL,	)

BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA		)	Honorable

)	James A. Lanuti

Defendants-Appellees.	)	Judge Presiding

_________________________________________________________________

JUSTICE HOMER delivered the opinion of the court:

_________________________________________________________________

The plaintiff filed a complaint against Robert Goff, the Boy Scouts of America (Boy Scouts), and the Rainbow Council Boy Scouts of America (Rainbow Council), after he was allegedly molested by Goff while at a Boy Scouts' camp.  The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the Boy Scouts and the Rainbow Council, and the plaintiff appealed.  Following our careful review, we affirm.

FACTS

In 1987 and 1988, the plaintiff was a member of the Rainbow Council of the Boy Scouts in Joliet, Illinois. In January 1995, the plaintiff filed a complaint against the Rainbow Council, the Boy Scouts, and Robert Goff, a Boy Scout volunteer, for damages that he incurred as a result of an alleged molestation by Goff at a Boy Scouts camping trip in the summer of either 1987 or 1988.  He contended that the Boy Scouts and Rainbow Council (the appellees) negligently failed to investigate the moral fitness of Goff, and allowed Goff to participate in scouting activities knowing that he was a pedophile who sexually abused some of the scouts.  The plaintiff also alleged that the appellees failed to implement adequate child protection programs.

The appellees filed a motion for summary judgment alleging that they did not owe the plaintiff a duty because they did not voluntarily