illness to pick them off. Some have responded with among the few defenses left at their disposal: protests, strikes, riots, and escape attempts.

The result has been a global surge in dissent. Two weeks ago, nearly 1,000 prisoners escaped detention in the Brazilian state of São Paolo after authorities canceled furloughs and visits in an effort to stop the coronavirus from spreading. Rather than live under lockdown in de facto petri dishes, many decided their best option was to bolt; facilities that saw breakouts included prisons in Tremembé, Porto Feliz, Mirandópolis, and Mongaguá, according to the Guardian. Riots fueled by virus fears have similarly been reported in Peru and Chile, and resulted in five prisoners being killed by guards in Venezuela last week, according to the Washington Post. Thedeadliest so far have occurred in Colombia. At least 23 inmates were killed in clashes with prison authorities over the weekend, according to the New York Times. People locked inside La Modelo, a prison in the capital city of Bogotá, had been complaining about unhygienic conditions and inadequate measures taken by officials to protect them. Authorities denied the charges and characterized the violence as stemming from a “criminal” mass escape attempt. One inmate, Oscar Sanchez, described the crackdown that greeted them as “a massacre that until now has taken more lives than coronavirus in [this country].” (Columbia has 491 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and six deaths, but none inside La Modelo as of this writing.)

Since last week in France, more than two dozen prisoners have refused to


the order of the

BIA, and remand for reconsideration.

                                      I.

     The following are the factual assertions made in Curumi’s

asylum application.1    Curumi is a native of Albania and grew up in

the city of Luzii Vogel.    His family was classified by the ruling

communist regime as “kulak”--enemies of the government. Curumi was

a member of the Democratic Party and was involved in a student

group in the Albanian capital of Tirana (approximately 40 miles

from Luzii Vogel), where he took correspondence courses.             In 1991,

he was arrested following a protest in Tirana and was held for 24

hours, during which time he was beaten by the police.                 Upon his

     1
      At the time of the immigration proceedings, Curumi spoke
little or no English. Accordingly, all filings, interviews, and
testimony were facilitated by interpreters.

                                      2
return to Luzii Vogel, he was arrested and held for three days,

during


which time he was again beaten by police.

     The Democratic Party came to power in 1992, and Curumi was

rewarded for his loyalty with a small store, which he converted

into a billiards parlor.     As it became clear to Curumi that the new

regime was corrupt, he began to speak out against it.           As a result,

police harassed Curumi’s customers, and he was arrested twice in

1992.    He was beaten during both arrests; during the first, his arm

was broken.

     Curumi went to Italy in 1993 and spent a year working there.

When his employment contract ended, he returned to Albania and

opened another business.      next day in exchange for his father’s

release.     He was held for three days, during which time he was

beaten.     The ostensible reason for the arrest was the fact that

Curumi’s automobile had been found abandoned; however, no charges

                                       3
were filed. Shortly after this incident the Curumi family moved to

Durres, Albania, in an effort to escape harassment.

        Curumi ultimately became disaffected with the Democratic Party

and became loyal to a faction of the party headed by Azem Hajdari.

He attended


meetings in Kavaje, Albania, where he participated in

protests.    In July 2000, he was arrested after one such protest and

jailed for three days.      He was then transferred to a prison in

Durres, where he was held for 25 days.        During this detention,

Curumi was beaten, and he witnessed the torture of other prisoners

through extraction of teeth with a rifle barrel and forced sexual

acts.

     In August 2000, having been warned by a cousin on the police

force that his murder was being planned, Curumi entered the United

States on a false passport.     Upon arrival in Chicago, Curumi told

immigration officials that his passport was false and that he

wished to obtain asylum.                  Id.      She noted

inconsistencies in the following specific areas:

       1991 arrest in Tirana:            Curumi’s asylum application states

       that he was arrested in February 1991 and detained for 24

       hours.    During the asylum hearing, however, he testified that

       the detention lasted only six hours; he further stated that he

       could    not     recall   when


that he was arrested in Luzii Vogel almost

       immediately after the Tirana detention, he testified at the

       asylum hearing that he had no further contact with the police

       in 1991.       But, he also testified that he was again arrested

       near “the end of 1991 or the beginning of 1992” and that

                                           8
      testified that he was called to talk with the chief of police,

     but not imprisoned, between the breaking of his arm in 1991-92

     and when he went to Italy in 1993.

     Detention after Hajdari meeting:        In his asylum application,

     Curumi stated that he was arrested after a July 2000 meeting

     of the Hajdari faction.      According to the asylum application,

     Curumi was detained for three days in Kavaje, then transferred

     to a prison in Durres, where he was detained for 25 days.

     During


                                9
     Democratic Party membership:               In his asylum application,

Curumi stated that he “never officially renounced” his party

membership but that he “grew disenchanted” with the party and

became a part of Hajdari’s faction.          Id. at 65.       During the asylum

hearing, however, Curumi testified that he resigned his membership

from the Democratic Party, stopped paying his dues, and turned in

his party identification.       In London, Horse Barns Reborn as Trophy Homes

Once upon a time, London ran on horsepower. And behind the city's great townhouses were mews—rows of urban stables to accommodate carriage horses and their grooms.

Over the past 100 or so years these humble quarters have had to adapt to survive—being used initially as garages for early motorcars and later as quaint pied-à-terres. Now, amid the boom in prime areas of London, developers are transforming mews into luxury homes.


Image caption More than half of women offenders are given short custodial sentences

Women offenders are being ignored in plans to overhaul rehabilitation services, a committee of MPs has said.

The Justice Select Committee said the women's prison population was not falling fast enough and more than half received ineffective short jail terms.

This is despite the 2007 Corston report which recommended jailing only the most serious or violent female offenders.

MPs said women were "an afterthought" in recent plans but ministers said they were committed to cutting reoffending.

In January, the Transforming Rehabilitation consultation paper set out proposals to extend payment by results to independent providers of rehabilitative services in the community.

It is part of Justice Secretary Chris Grayling's promised "rehabilitation revolution" to stop former prisoners committing crimes, which the National AuditOffice estimates costs up to £13bn every year.

'Slow' progress

But the committee found the government's focus on cutting reoffending was likely to lead to a further loss of funding for women's community centres.

The MPs said there was a case for commissioning services for women offenders separately.

Committee chairman Sir Alan Beith said: "This is not about treating women more favourably or implying that they are less culpable.

It is about recognising that women face very different hurdles from men in their journey towards a law-abiding life Sir Alan Beith, Committee chairman

"It is about recognising that women face very different hurdles from men in their journey towards a law-abiding life.

"Prison is an expensive and ineffective way of dealing with many women offenders who do not pose a significant risk of harm to


public safety."

Women's centres and other community provision offered a route for diverting vulnerable women and girls away from crime, he added.

He acknowledged steps had been taken towards this goal but it had been at a "disappointingly slow pace", calling for a "systematic change" in approach and "strong ministerial leadership" on the issue.

Baroness Corston was commissioned in 2006 to examine how to avoid vulnerable women ending up in prison after six women died at Styal prison in Cheshire.

Her report, published a year later, recommended using community sentences as the norm and developing a network of community provision for women at risk of offending.

The Labour peer said progress on the issue "has not only stalled but is in danger of going into reverse".

She said current policy was "perfectly tailored forthere should be more emphasis on courts having alternatives to custody suitable for women.

The "custodial estate" for women needed to be gradually reconfigured with serious offenders held in smaller, more dispersed units, the MPs added.

Andrew Neilson, from the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: "Handing over probation to big private security firms is being given greater priority than making sure women in the justice system have the specialist support they need."

Kay, who was jailed after being convicted of drugs offences but now works for the St Giles Trust charity which works with offenders, said money spent on jailing women and putting their children into care would be better spent on offering courses or training.

"Still pay a debt to society, but do it in a community pay-back way, rather


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Planning Department Takes a Serious Look at Highway 280 Teardown

The idea of tearing down a section of highway 280, north of 16th Street, is taking a firm step forward with the launch of a new study by the Planning Department. Although the department has already released a study of the option in December 2012, the new initiative would take a deeper, more comprehensive look at the “spiderweb” of interconnected transportation infrastructure plans in the area, said the Planning Department’s Susan Gygi.

Altogether, plans for the area include the conversion of the 280 stub into a boulevard and housing, the Caltrain railyard redevelopment, and the planned rail electrification and downtown extension of Caltrain and CA High-Speed Rail to the Transbay Transit Center. “Once you touch one, it radiates throughout theAbout 66 per cent of the actionable complaints received through the Swachh Delhi app had been addressed as of Monday evening, when the joint sanitation drive of the Delhi Government and civic bodies came to a close.

The sanitation drive from November 22 to 30 was targeted at clearing the garbage and malba that Delhiites complained about through the app, which was launched on November 16.

The plan was to collect photos, with GPS coordinates, of trash across the city via the app, and then divide the work of cleaning to various government agencies and civic bodies. The government’s Public Works Department was supposed to lift construction waste or malba, while garbage was the civic bodies’ responsibility.

According to the Urban Development Department, which operated the central control room for the


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_Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind._

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If you seriously want to overcome your anxiety problem, you need to approach it from every possible angle. I have carefully reviewed the literature on the effectiveness of various types of treatment and, while anxiety sufferers differ in their response to different treatments, one consistently effective strategy seems to work across the board. Several researchers have highlighted its importanceand save for a comfortable retirement. But we go beyond this. We also fill our days with so much adventure and excitement that most of us never find time to rest. Resting is not a high priority, so we never set aside time for it. Nothing in our society reinforces the need for rest, so it simply doesn't happen. We are so determined to get to our destination (success, fame, recognition, wealth) that we never take time to reflect on the journey of life, enjoy the scenery, or be grateful that we are on a journey at all.

Sure, when we are delayed at the airport and fail to bring along some work or when the kids are playing a soccer tournament and we have to sit there making


your stomach muscles._ If you pay attention, you will notice that you often tense your stomach as if to prepare for a blow. Too often, we live on the defensive, constantly prepared for someone to attack us. The brain receives these protective signals from the stomach and prepares the body for counterattack. But the attack almost never comes, so why not just relax? Don't always pull your stomach in. Forget about your posture and your figure occasionally and just relax.

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his hand was a purse and watch, made of white gold "take them, please…"

I look up at him, pondering why he would do such a thing, make such a sacrifice. His eye was swollen, jaw bruised and lip bloody. I raise a clawed hand and tenderly trace the outlines of his face, dedicating it to memory as her voice questions "who are you…"

A small and gallant smile graces his lips "my name is Henry, and I'm a friend… now please, go free, while you can"

With one final nod I head of into the night, not knowing what path I follow, only that I am free, we are free, no more cages and pain… he saved our lives, Henry…

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At his stunned wisp of a smile the corners ofKa’aihue ignites Carp in Game 1 triumph

NISHINOMIYA, HYOGO PREF. – Kila Ka’aihue came through big time with a tiebreaking three-run homer and Kenta Maeda went seven innings on one-run ball as the Hiroshima Carp pounded the Hanshin Tigers 8-1 in Game 1 of the Central League Climax Series First Stage on Saturday.

The third-place Carp took a 1-0 lead against the second-place Tigers in the best-of-three series. Hiroshima can book a spot in the final stage of the CLCS with a win on Sunday.

Maeda and Tigers rookie Shintaro Fujinami held their own over the first three innings until an RBI single by Ryuhei Matsuyama with none out in the fourth at Koshien Stadium.

Eishin Soyogi and Ka’aihue hit back-to-back singles leading off the inning to put runners at first and


punch in the ninth inning.

Maeda, who went 15-7 with a league-best 2.10 ERA in 26 starts this season, scattered five hits, all singles, struck out five and walked two.

“Maeda really set the tone of the game. (Ki’aihue) really came through for us too. We played some good baseball. It was a huge confidence boost,” said Carp manager Kentaro Nomura.

The 19-year-old Fujinami, who gave up four runs and seven hits in five innings, is the first rookie to enter the league out of high school to start in the postseason since the Central League’s Climax Series began in 2007.

The winner of the first stage will face the Yomiuri Giants in the final stage of the CLCS starting Oct. 16. The Giants get an automatic one-win advantage in the six-gamekiss.

The Orlando Sentinel and other news organizations quoted regular customers at the gay bar as saying they had seen Mateen there a number of times.

“Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent,” said Ty Smith. Smith said he saw the killer inside at least a dozen times.

Wielding an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle and a handgun, Mateen opened fire at Pulse Orlando early Sunday in a three-hour shooting rampage and hostage siege that ended with a SWAT team killing him. During the attack, he called 911 to profess allegiance to the Islamic State group.

At the White House, President Barack Obama said there is no clear evidence so far that Mateen was


and held their hands to their faces while passing through the growing collection of flowers, candles and signs about a mile from the site of the massacre.

About 300 employees of the Red Lobster restaurant chain — some in business suits, some in chef’s uniforms — emerged from the company’s corporate headquarters and walked two-by-two across the street to the memorial, each carrying a red or white carnation.

“We will not be defined by the act of a cowardly hater,” vowed Mayor Buddy Dyer, whose city of a quarter-million people is known around the globe as the home of Walt Disney World and other theme parks.

The tragedy hit the city’s gay and Hispanic communities especially hard. It was Latino Night at the club when the attack occurred.

“As the names comeout, they are overwhelmingly Latino and Hispanic names,” said Christina Hernandez, a Hispanic activist. “These were not just victims of the LBGT community, but of the Hispanic community, as well. This was senseless bloodshed.”

Mateen’s grasp of the differences between Islamic extremist groups appeared shaky.

During three calls with 911 dispatchers, Mateen not only professed allegiance to ISIS but also expressed solidarity with a suicide bomber from the Syrian rebel group Nusra Front, and a few years ago he claimed connections to Hezbollah, too – both ISIS enemies, according to Comey.

The FBI became aware of Mateen in 2013 when co-workers reported that the private security guard claimed to have family connections to al-Qaida and to be a member of Hezbollah, too, Comey said. He was also quoted as saying he


hoped that law enforcement would raid his apartment and assault his wife and child so that he could martyr himself.

The FBI launched a 10-month preliminary investigation, following Mateen, reviewing his communications and questioning him, the FBI chief said. Mateen claimed he made the remarks in anger because co-workers were teasing him and discriminating against him as a Muslim, and the FBI eventually closed the case, Comey said.

His name surfaced again as part of another investigation into the Nusra Front bomber. The FBI found Mateen and the man had attended the same mosque and knew each other casually, but the investigation turned up “no ties of any consequence,” Comey said.

Mateen was added to a terror watch list in 2013 when he was investigated, but was taken off it soonafter the matter was closed, according to Comey.

People who are in that database are not automatically barred from buying guns, and in any case Mateen purchased his weapons in June, long after he was removed from the list.

On Sunday, the bloodshed started after Mateen approached the club around 2 a.m., exchanged fire with an off-duty officer working security, and then went inside and started gunning people down, police said.

After two other officers arrived and exchanged gunfire with Mateen, the gunman holed up in a restroom with about five club-goers. An additional 15 to 20 were in another nearby bathroom, authorities said.

Hostage negotiators began talking to Mateen.

After Mateen began to talk about explosives, Mina made the decision around 5 a.m. to blow open a wall to the bathroom. The


Facebook started on desktop computers and fought its way onto smartphones. Now it wants to own your television too.

Facebook (FB) said Tuesday it plans to launch apps for Apple (AAPL) TV, Amazon (AMZN) Fire TV and Samsung (SSNLF) Smart TV. They will bring videos shared on the social network into the living room.

The video app is expected to roll out "soon" to these three TV platforms, with others to come later, according to the company.

The launch could position Facebook to grab a share of lucrative TV advertising budgets at a time when the company is hitting a ceiling for the number of online ads it can put it in front of users.

Facebook has invested in live video, made it easier to search for videos and has begun dippingThose who have repeatedly tried to dispell the myth—popular in some circles—that White House chief of staff John Kelly is somehow a "moderating force" on President Donald Trump are being widely vindicated after his appearance Monday night on the show of right-wing firebrand Laura Ingraham in which the former U.S. Marine general argued that it was "lack of ability to compromise" that led to the Civil War as he praised Robert E. Lee as a "noble man" and offered a very Trumpian "both sides" argument about the conflict that erupted centrally over the nation's institution of slavery.

Kelly praises Robert E Lee as "honorable man" says "lack of an ability 2 compromise led 2 the civil war" not slavery pic.twitter.com/nKG2Q2YqsK — #ComeyHearings (@ComeyHearing) October 31, 2017

As the New York


Times observed, reaction to the comments was "swift and unforgiving, with many commenters ridiculing Mr. Kelly for suggesting that slavery was an issue on which a compromise could or should have been reached."

Chief of Staff John Kelly pushing white supremacist talking points around Confederate statues. https://t.co/CwbFv33Iq7 — ColorOfChange.org (@ColorOfChange) October 31, 2017

For another example, a forthright and unapologetic Eleanor Sheehan put it for Splinter News, "Gen. John Kelly, President Trump's current chief of staff and onetime media hopeful to steer the sinking ship that is the White House, continues to suck."

Walter Shaub, who served as the director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics before resigning in protest this summer, wrote on Twitter that, "It appears John Kelly is going as a racist for Halloween. I suspect he'sAs the nation mourned, President Donald Trump kept largely silent about the Florida school shooting victims and the escalating gun control debate, instead raging at the FBI for what he perceived to be a fixation on the Russia investigation at the cost of failing to deter the attack.

I would think the AP, the rest of the media, Democrats, and everyone should be fuming at the FBI for focusing on a fictional Russian investigation and failing to block the shooting of kids and teachers at a Florida school. But nope, they are complaining that Trump is tweeting about it.

The media have not cared a lick about the FBI, the Obama administration, and intelligence agencies clearly targeting Trump and people surrounding him with illegal spying and leaks. Instead of holding


government officials to account for their clear malfeasance and violations of law, they also target Trump.

Mueller charged 13 Russian nationals and three companies for spending a few million dollars spreading propaganda before and after the election.

The American people should question why Mueller doesn't charge Steele, Hillary, the DNC, and Obama administration officials collaborating with foreign entities and persons to spread misinformation about Trump before and after the election. All these entities and people have been spreading more discord in America than anything the Russians did. It continues to this day.

It has been clear almost since the investigation started in July of 2017 that there was never any actual basis to spy on Trump and his team, but the media and Democrats have run with the story ever since.president of international committees and councils.

ERA board member Richard Stacey, president/CEO of Northern Response International Ltd., took it a step further: "Either consumers are going to pay with their pocket, or they're going to pay with their jobs."

Bill McClellan, director of government affairs at the ERA, was pleased with how the day went.

"We had great participation from ERA's membership who visited with over 26 legislators on net neutrality, data security and streamlined sales tax," Mr. McClellan said. "Without a doubt members of Congress listen far more carefully to the messenger when they are also a constituent. The day was a win for the industry by any standard."


Iggy Pop is here to talk pictures. It is 40 years since the British photographer Mick Rock shot the images that adorned the front and back covers of the legendary performer's stop-you-in-your-tracks album Raw Power. And Iggy is here to talk about them. He is, his people have insisted, not to mention either David Bowie's recent comeback or the new record he has been working on. But Iggy is Iggy and within 15 minutes he has brought up both. Even now, just a few months shy of his 66th birthday, Iggy Pop is not a man who can be constrained.

He greets you with a Joey-from-Friends-style "How you doin'?" and – unusual this from a bona-fide rock star – actually waits for an answer. It is a bright winter'sBowie that he met Iggy Pop and Lou Reed. "It all happened so quickly," he says from his home in Staten Island, New York. "I met Bowie in March [1972], 'Starman' was released in April, Ziggy came out in June and I met Iggy in July."

Rock and Pop's (and yes, that might be considered contrived if Rock didn't happen to be the photographer's real name) first encounter was at a vegetarian restaurant in west London where Bowie's management had organised a dinner reception for the visiting American. The restaurant was, the photographer remembers, "mostly frequented by people who had over-experimented".

Bowie had encountered Pop and Lou Reed the previous autumn/winter in New York, but their work – with the Stooges and the Velvet Underground respectively – was not then


widely known. "There was this thing back then called the underground," says Rock, "and only those people who thought of themselves as hip knew about Iggy and Lou."

Which means that when Rock shot the cover of Raw Power and, soon after, the cover of Reed's breakthough album Transformer at the same London venue, there were only a few hundred people in the audience. So how did Rock come to know about them? "At university I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire and I was steeped in the crazy poets and I came to view my early subjects through that prism."

Although Pop is on record as saying that he wrote the lyrics to Raw Power's opening track, "Search and Destroy", while sitting undera tree in Kensington Gardens snorting rocks of Chinese heroin, Rock never saw what he calls "the death drug" in any of the time he spent with the singer. "My understanding was that he'd come to England to dry out," he says, "and he certainly wasn't doing heroin when I spent time with him. It wasn't quite as easy to get hold of in England then and I think he was more articulate and cerebral than people appreciated. But he did have a fury in him. He was very physical on stage and he had a dark undertow. All the punk bands that came after paled compared with what Iggy was doing in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He defined and owned punk rock and I think


By Liga.net

09.14.2014

Translated and edited by Voices of Ukraine

Colonel Yevhen Sydorenko broke out of the encirclement near Ilovaisk on the captured Russian tank.

Chief of the Armored Weapons Service at the Operational Command “South,” Colonel Yevhen Sydorenko, who came out of the encirclement near Ilovaisk on a Russian T-72 tank, will be presented with the title of Hero of Ukraine. Ukrainian Defense Minister Valeriy Heletey announced this at a press briefing.

At the briefing, Yevhen Sydorenko complained that while Ukrainian media carefully cover the problems faced by volunteer battalions, at the same time they barely highlight the problems of the regular military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who carry out principal combat work at the frontlines.

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Rating agency Moody’s has reaffirmed its negative outlook on the credit ratings of Tata Steel and Tata Steel UK Holdings. It had assigned the negative outlook to thetook home Canada's esteemed Polaris Music Prize, was behind the boards on the track. "Kaytranada produced it a minute ago for the third mixtape in its early stages," he said. "He's gonna release it soon."

Chance had a few more interesting questions from fans, including one which asked how his daughter was, and one who asked who his favorite rapper of all time would be. Chance answered the latter with the first verse of Lil Wayne's "La La." View the videos below.

"They Say" will be released soon.

If you're a Chance The Rapper stance, you're already aware of the existence of "They Say," a record the Chicago emcee first performed with The Social Experiment at Austin City Limits in October 2015. Becoming quite legendary among his fanbase, the song came


up in a Q&A Chance did in a Twitter in advance of his Magnificent Coloring Day festival happening today.

"I'm so glad you asked," he said, answering a question about whether the song would ever be properly released. "'They Say,' will be released for sure. I'm glad you know what that song is.

He confirmed that Montreal producer Kaytranada, who just released his 0.001% mixtape and took home Canada's esteemed Polaris Music Prize, was behind the boards on the track. "Kaytranada produced it a minute ago for the third mixtape in its early stages," he said. "He's gonna release it soon."

Chance had a few more interesting questions from fans, including one which asked how his daughter was, and one who asked who his favorite rapper of all time would be.crates. And those who die will return to battle in a dropship, and can rain down damage during the flight.

Respawn showed off some new Titan types in Frontier Defense. Arc Titans are Striders equipped with Arc Cannons, and they're also surrounded by a ball of electricity that quickly drops the shields of any opposing Titan — and of the Harvester. Mortar Titans sit back on the outskirts of the map and fire shells at the Harvester. They're joined by plenty of grunts and Spectres, including Suicide Spectres, which rush players and explode. Teams will get a rating from one to three stars depending on how well they do.

Frontier Defense, the first of three new modes, will arrive in Content Update 8. The others are Deadly Ground (Nov. 5)


Seattle was the capital of the 1990s. A relatively small, out-of-the-way city, it managed to provide some of the most powerful cultural images of the decade: the Starbucks sophistication of Frasier Crane, the heartbreak houseboat of Sleepless in Seattle and – most unforgettable for people my age – the dirty, long hair, flannel and thrift-store sweaters of grunge.

Today, as the children of the 1990s grow into the yuppies of the 2010s, Seattle is fast becoming the first city of nineties nostalgia. With some travel cash and vacation days to spare, thirtysomethings such as myself can't resist the Pacific Northwest's promise of recapturing a slice of our youth. The era of Kurt Cobain cruises and Pearl Jam pilgrimages is upon us.

Most such trips, alas, are doomed to end indisappointment. The combined force of the twin tech booms of Microsoft and Amazon have turned greater Seattle into one of the fastest-growing regions in the United States. Rapid sprawl and lightning-fast gentrification have mostly wiped 1990s Seattle off the map. Yesterday's ragged rock club has become today's Whole Foods.

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But if you're willing to venture beyond Seattle's city limits, one nostalgia trip remains gloriously attainable. David Lynch's cult TV series Twin Peaks is currently riding high on the mighty wave of 1990s revival, its popularity spurred by its rerelease on Netflix and the imminent 2017 arrival of a rebooted series. Twin Peaks offered something different from the mainstream vision of urban Seattle, presenting a foreboding and off-kilter look at small-town life through the lens of Douglas


firs and cherry pie, jukeboxes and the supernatural. Set and filmed in the outskirts of greater Seattle, the world of Twin Peaks remains largely intact, surprisingly accessible and still majestically creepy.

A visitor lies next to the log at Kiana Lodge where the body of high school homecoming queen Laura Palmer is discovered in Twin Peaks. Marta Balcewicz

My first target was the Kiana Lodge – a short drive from the postcard-perfect fishing village of Poulsbo on the western shores of Puget Sound. Now a venue for weddings and corporate events, the lodge provided the iconic interiors for Twin Peaks' Great Northern Hotel. While its pine-heavy interior with aboriginal formline art is beautifully preserved, the real attraction is out back: the massive tethered log by which Laura Palmer's body isdiscovered. Lying on a quiet, rocky beach, with Bainbridge Island in the distance, the log (taller than a person) is an unmissable, unforgettable sight. From the instant I set eyes on it, the spell was cast. I knew I'd entered Lynch Country.

The Twin Peaks location scouts were adventurous folks, venturing far and wide in search of the perfectly eerie setting. My next destination, Laura Palmer's house, was a ferry ride and an hour's drive away. My GPS guided me to a series of increasingly narrow highways, through misty valleys and foggy forests lit up silver by the occasional flash of sunlight. Eventually, I arrived in the small town of Monroe, an innocent, quiet place sequestered from all evidence of the past two decades, with not a big box


store or a commuter's Porsche in sight.

On the isolated edge of this already lonely place was the Palmer residence, the scene of untold horrors, a noble and slightly dilapidated white house with a twisted apple tree out front. A chill passed through me as I took it in from the roadside – then a light turned on inside, a reminder that someone calls this melancholy place home.

This house in Monroe, Wash., was the Palmer home in the show. Marta Balcewicz

A half-hour's rainy drive south of Monroe is Fall City, home of the Roadhouse, site of smoky bar fights and secret rendezvous, now repainted an unfamiliar green but with its rough charm intact. A little farther south is the most spectacular sight of the tour. The Twin Peaks titleobsessive or a supernatural demon in sight. Only the inescapable white noise of the falls reminds you that you're deep in the land of Lynch.

A Dale Cooper cocktail at Salish Lodge & Spa. Kip Beelman/Salish Lodge & Spa

After a night at the Salish Lodge, I set out to explore the town of Snoqualmie, the epicentre of Twin Peaks locations. I snapped some photos at the site of the "Welcome to Twin Peaks" sign and the nearby railway bridge that Ronette Pulaski crosses in a daze in the series' first episode.

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I experienced some of the region's famous small-town friendliness at the DirtFish Rally School – a rally car training ground that occupies the former grounds of the of the now-defunct Packard mill and the Twin Peaks


efficiently supply the assist gas into the recess and perform a good piercing in a stable manner. It is also described that, in the second step, the surface of the workpiece is irradiated with the laser beam under the laser power output and the assist gas pressure, which are set lower than those in the first step to the extent that an explosion is prevented from occurring on the surface of the workpiece, while a gap size is gradually reduced.
Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication (Kokai) No. 2007-75878 (JP2007-75878A) describes a laser processing method including a first step of irradiating a workpiece with a laser beam under a first piercing condition so as to start a piercing process, a second step of halting the irradiation with the laser beam for0.5 seconds or more after the first step, and a third step of irradiating a point processed in the first step with a laser beam under a second piercing condition after the second step so as to complete the piercing process. It is described that, since a beam irradiation is temporarily halted in the second step after a pierced hole is partially formed to the middle of the thickness of the workpiece under the first piercing condition selected in the first step, a partially progressing oxidation/combustion reaction is interrupted, and a pierced hole with a reduced diameter can be formed by the subsequent irradiation with the laser beam in the third step since there is no excess heat input, so that the amount of spatter can be reduced


Jawed Habib salon vandalised in UP

Lucknow: An angry mob on Saturday attacked a Jawed Habib salon in Uttar Pradesh‘s Unnao district and vandalised the property over the use of Hindu gods’ caricature in one of his advertisements.

Police said the mob was led by workers of the Hindu Jagran Manch, who attacked the beauty salon in Motinagar in the district neighbouring the state capital.

As the mob vent its ire on the salon, some customers were trapped inside.

The activists of the Hindu outfit also threatened the owner to wind up his business or face consequences, following which a police complaint was filed.

A police team visited the salon and took some eyewitness account of the attack.

Regional Secretary of the Hindu Jagran Manch Vimal Dwivedi said sacrilege of Hindu gods would notEdmonton, AB - The Edmonton Oilers will begin the 2018-19 season with a seven-game pre-season schedule.

The Oilers open their 2018 pre-season schedule with a set of back-to-back games on the road. The road trip begins on September 17 against the Calgary Flames and concludes in Vancouver on September 18.

Following those back-to-back games, the Oilers return to Rogers Place to face the Winnipeg Jets on September 20, then head to Winnipeg on September 23, as a part of a home-and-home series of games versus the Jets. The Oilers will conclude the pre-season schedule with three games at home, facing Vancouver (September 25), Arizona (September 27) and Calgary (September 29).

The Oilers will also play an exhibition game in Cologne, Germany on October 3 against the Deutsche Eishockey Liga's (DEL) Cologne


the H-bomb were 100 per cent domestically made”.

Pictures showed Mr. Kim in black suit examining a metal casing, with a shape akin to a peanut shell.

North Korea triggered a new escalation of tensions in July, when it carried out two successful tests of an ICBM, the Hwasong-14, which apparently brought much of the US mainland within range.

It has since threatened to send a salvo of rockets towards the US territory of Guam, and last week fired a missile over Japan and into the Pacific, the first time time it has ever acknowledged doing so.

US President Donald Trump has warned Pyongyang that it faces "fire and fury", and that Washington's weapons are "locked and loaded".

Mr. Trump spoke by telephone to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss the needto "maximize pressure on North Korea" in the face of the "growing threat" it presented, according to a White House readout of the call, without specifying when it took place.

The North has repeatedly claimed that it has a thermonuclear weapon, which can be far more powerful than other nuclear devices.

When it carried out its fourth nuclear test, in January 2016, it said it was a miniaturised H-bomb, but scientists said the six-kiloton yield achieved then was far too low.

When it carried out its fifth test, in September 2016, it did not say it was a hydrogen bomb.

Yang Moo-Jin of the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul, told AFP the latest KCNA report "carries a strategic message" that Pyongyang "will push for a nuclear face-off with the US


from an aggressive United States.

It has been subjected to seven rounds of United Nations Security Council sanctions over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes, but always insists it will continue to pursue them.

Its first nuclear test was in 2006, and successive blasts are believed to have been aimed at refining designs and reliability as well as increasing yield.

The most recent detonation, in September last year, was its "most powerful to date" according to Seoul, with a 10-kiloton yield — still less than the 15-kiloton US device which destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.

Atomic or "A-bombs" work on the principle of nuclear fission, where energy is released by splitting atoms of enriched uranium or plutonium encased in the warhead.

Hydrogen or H-bombs, also known as thermonuclear weapons, work on fusion and areRevolution”
was the United States selling its expansionist policies as non-violent
struggles against “supposed communist totalitarianism.”

The tactic was denominated
“the soft coup” (according to the article the term was invented by Gene Sharp),
and continues to be used today by the United States against “countries opposed
to the interests of Washington: Syria, Libya, China, Ecuador, Georgia, and Ukraine
among others.”

“Venezuela is also in the list of targets of
the Washington recipe,” ends the article, “Venezuela is one of the richest
nations in bio-diversity, oil, minerals, and water. This is why in the last years,
facing a sobering and independent State, the United States has used the Venezuelan
right-wing to put an end to the Bolivarian Revolution through different means.
Coups d’état, economic and media wars, and ‘non-violent and color protests’ – such as the one in Czechoslovakia
– are all


workers, as well as hindered the right of free
passage with mortal devices such as wires in major roads.

AVN also links the
plan to the “Economic War” denounced repeatedly by Maduro:

The plan was carried
out between February and June 2014 simultaneously with an economic war
characterized by smuggling, hoarding and overpricing of staple goods, with the
open target of overthrowing the Nicolas Maduro Administration.

The article ends with
the assertion that López was forced to hand himself to the authorities seeking
protection from a plan by “right-wing leaders to attempt” against his life:

Simultaneously to
"The Exit," intelligence corps found out a plan devised within
right-wing leaders to attempt against Lopez, situation that made him surrender
to the Public Ministry.

Thursday, November 13, 2014

For the President of
the National Assembly and vice-president of PSUV, Diosdado
Cabello, “[i]t has become evident that the rightscarcity of Christmas
products and thus generate chaos during month of December in the insular
territory [Margarita island in Nueva Esparta State], by paralyzing transport
and commerce.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

President Nicolás
Maduro has
announced that 2015 is “set to become the year in which the victory of the
people over the Economic War, expressed in speculation, scarcity, and hoarding,
will be consolidated.”

“2014 will be remembered
as the year the guarimba was
defeated, and 2015 will be the year of the definite defeat of the Economic War
and its sequels, [an Economic War] waged by the international bilateral
anti-Venezuelan capital,” said the president.

He added that in
spite of all the measures taken by the government “the oligarchy still insists
on benefiting from the Economic War that is being faced by our people,”
therefore the government will soon take new measures “to protect the


people.”

The people, according
to Maduro, will punish that oligarchy by casting a protest vote against it
in next year’s parliamentary elections: “Not only will the people vote for the
revolutionary path, the legacy of the Comandante
Chávez, of peace and stability for the country; the people will cast a protest
vote against the evils of the right wing, against the guarimba, against the Economic War, it will be a full swing protest
vote,” Maduro said.

Tuesday, November 4, 2014

The president of the
National Assembly and vice-president of the PSUV, Diosdado Cabello, denounced yesterday that a new “terrorist
group” is being formed by Venezuelan exiles in Miami.

The “destabilizing group”
is, according to Cabello, led by Iván Carratú Molina, chief of the Military House
under ex-president Carlos Andrés Pérez.

Cabello said that
Carratú Molina has been posting videos on Youtube calling for amilitary
uprising in Venezuela. He also remained listeners
that he had already revealed in February this year a recording of what he
claimed was a conversation of Carratú Molina with the Venezuelan ex-ambassador
to Colombia, Fernando Gerbasi, in which they spoke of making preparations for “something
similar to April 11” (the day of the coup against Chávez in 2002).

Here is one of the
videos of Carratú Molina that Cabello could be referring to:

Sunday, November 2, 2014

The Inter-American
Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States is
holding its 153rd hearings session in Washington.

On 28 October the Commission
heard the case of Venezuela. Local NGOs, among them COFAVIC and PROVEA, made
a detailed presentation of 892 cases of human rights violations in
Venezuela.

Germán Saltrón
responded for the Venezuelan State that all
human rights NGOs operating in the country are


“financed by the United States,”
and that they are in cahoots with “90% of the local and international media” in
a plot to “attack and play down the historical importance of the victories of
the Venezuelan government.”

"In order to achieve
social justice the eternal president Hugo Chávez Frías decreed the
nationalization of our oil industry and strengthened the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries for the defense of a fair price for oil. As a consequence
of these actions of sovereignty, the government of the United States, together
with the Venezuelan opposition, initiated since 1999 an internal and external
campaign of discredit, falsely presenting president Chávez as a dictator and a
human rights violator.

"To accomplish this
they have used Venezuelan and foreign NGOs to present reckless, unfounded, and
false denunciations [of human rights violations]."Broadcast Stations Increase in Number

When the results with totals from June 30, 2008 and June 30, 2009 are compared some interesting trends are apparent.

One thing that stands out is that the total number of all broadcast stations is increasing--from 29,690 in 2008 to 30,855 in the latest total. This is an increase of almost four percent.

During that period, full power TV stations lost channels 52 through 69, but the total number of stations increased from 1,758 to 1,784. The only major category where the station count went down was with Class A TV operations. These dropped in number from 550 to 523. (Class A stations are required to comply with many of the same requirements as full power stations and must broadcast a minimum amount of locally produced


episode. A whole new set -- the interior of a grandiose manor -- was built for this episode alone. Those of you who remember the movie Clue (and if you don't, shame on you -- go watch it now!) will be happy to know that there is a chandelier as part of the set design.

The Clue homage doesn't stop there. Psych has brought three members of the original cast of Clue in to guest-star in the episode. Christopher Lloyd (Professor Plum), Martin Mull (Colonel Mustard) and Lesley Ann Warren (Miss Scarlet) all have important parts to play on Psych -- although they will not be reprising their Clue roles exactly.

Alas, Tim Curry -- Wadsworth the Butler in Clue and a previous Psych guest star (in season 2's "American30 Cats That Are Spying On You

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was drawn from records of twin births between the years of 1913 and 1975 from 23 vital statistics offices in North Carolina counties, U.S.A. The 23 counties selected represented over 50% of the population and 50% of births in North Carolina. All records of twin births were entered into a computer database. Potential interviewees were located through North Carolina voter registries and telephone directory searches. Interviewees were recruited and all in-person interviews were conducted between March 1999 and June 2003. A total of 706 interviews were conducted. Siblings of the twin pairs (31 pairs, 62 individuals) and surviving members of non-intact twin pairs (72 individuals) comprised approximately 19% of the interviews. All participants gave informed consent, and the study was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of theUniversity of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Pennsylvania State University.

In 2017, public records on criminal conviction in North Carolina, maintained by the North Carolina Department of Public Safety (NCDPS) were searched for members of the CAATSA Study. The NCDPS maintains all records of criminal conviction for offenders sentenced to state prison, jail, and probation in North Carolina since 1972. The age of criminal responsibility in North Carolina is 16 years. Offenses committed prior to 16 years of age are tried in juvenile court. Juvenile court is distinct from criminal court. Juvenile offenders found guilty of an offense are considered "delinquent," which does not result in a record of criminal conviction. Offenders younger than 16 years of age can, in cases of serious crime, have their offense transferred to


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ICICI has a total asset value of $100 billion while Fairfax has a net worth of $37 billion. ICICI Lombard is the largest insurance company in the private sector and deals in general insurance, investment management, insurance claims management and general insurance. The company offers insurance through its 257 branches, thousands of intermediaries and its online website.

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Written several books and comics

Attended several book shows, fairs, including the famous Comic-con in San Diego.

Experienced in preparing and setting up for book shows etc.

Presented numerous workshops on publishing and writing

Multimedia expert including making videos, music, podcasting, developing a radio station and music


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A YouTube prankster who was convicted of a hate crime after filming a pet dog giving Nazi salutes and putting the footage on the internet has been fined £800.

Mark Meechan, 30, recorded his girlfriend's pug, Buddha, responding to statements such as 'gas the Jews' and 'Sieg Heil' by raising its paw.

But after complaints about the content, police were called in and he was arrested for allegedly committing a hate crime by uploading the footage on to the popular video sharing website in April 2016.

Meechan, of Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, insisted he made the video to annoy his girlfriend Suzanne Kelly, 29, but was convicted under the Communications Act after a trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court.

Sheriff Derek O'Carroll found him guilty of posting a video on social media and YouTube whichwas grossly offensive because it was 'anti-semitic and racist in nature' and was aggravated by religious prejudice.

The original clip had been viewed more than three million times on YouTube and sparked debate over free speech with comedians Ricky Gervais and David Baddiel defending Meechan.

But Meechan has now walked free after being fined by Sheriff O'Carroll.


to May 2, 1996, Michael Pavel submitted two petitions to the Board of Zoning Appeals of the Town of Beverly Shores ("Board") concerning Lot 6one seeking a variance from an ordinance so that the Pavels could construct an addition to the home located on the lot and the other seeking a variance from an ordinance regarding well location and setback requirements. Sometime prior to June 6, *784 1996, Michael Pavel and Diane Hale jointly submitted a third petition to the Board requesting a variance from a setback ordinance governing Lot 11.
The Board conducted a series of public hearings at which people spoke both in favor of and in opposition to the variance petitions. On May 2, 1996, the Board unanimously granted Michael Pavel's petition to construct an additionto the Pavel home located on Lot 6[2] ("variance number one"); on June 6, 1996, the Board unanimously granted his petition for a setback requirement variance on Lot 11[3] ("variance number two"); and on August 1, 1996, the Board unanimously granted Pavel's petition regarding a well location on Lot 6[4] ("variance number three").
Upon the granting of each variance, the Bagnalls filed with the trial court a timely petition for writ of certiorari. In each petition, the Bagnalls named as party defendants the Town of Beverly Shores, the Board, and the Board members in their official capacities. Michael Pavel was named as a party defendant in his capacity as a member of the Board, but the petitions did not name Deborah Pavel or Michael Pavel as party defendants in


earth was that man?"

"That was our landlord," Riley finally said, struggling to process everything that had happened in the last few minutes. For one thing, she needed to present this new development to her friends in a way that wouldn't send them running for the hills. For another, she had to sort through her feelings for Boone. Their conversation had been so strange she didn't know what to believe.

Had she really just gotten her first proposal?

What a proposal it was. Trading marriage for a chance to stay at Westfield? That was ridiculous.

Except it was Boone making the offer.

She had to at least think it over.

She'd read and heard enough about Martin Fulsom to know the demands he'd made of Boone weren't that unusual. No one else would tieShe was struggling out of her wet dress when Savannah found her.

"Need help?" She asked with a laugh.

"Yes. Hurry!"

"Why?" She helped tug the dress over Riley's head.

Riley bit her lip. She didn't want to say, but Savannah went on. "Let me guess. Boone's coming?"

"I'm not doing this for Boone."

"Of course not."

Riley knew she wasn't fooling anyone. She appreciated that Savannah didn't tease her about it. She fetched the dress she wanted from the closet and Savannah helped pull it over her head. She did up the fastenings and patted Riley's shoulder. "Do your hair, quick. I'll run down and greet him."

"He's bringing friends home from the airport."

"More Navy SEALs? I'm on my way!"

## Chapter Ten

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"Now, that's a house. I'd forgotten how big Westfield is," Clay said when


they moved. They were coming fast. Boone straightened.

Another of the men whistled. "She's hot."

"She's pissed, you mean," Angus said, laying on his thick Scottish accent. "I think we're in trouble, lads."

"Goddamn you, Boone Rudman," Avery yelled as she marched right in among them, "you are a stupid, low-life, pond-scum-sucking, dirty old goddamn ass and I hate you!" She gave Boone a shove that actually managed to knock him off balance, mostly because he was surprised.

"Avery—"

Avery wasn't done. "You've ruined everything, you shitfucking butthead—you and your stupid band of merry frogmen. I hope you rot in hell!"

"Avery—"

"I've waited years for the chance to live with my friends and quit my asinine job so I could actually do something I loved and now you want to steal it all awaythe old-fashioned ring Boone had chosen. "Now I need to plan our wedding."

"No, you don't." He kissed her on the nose. "Leave it up to me. I've got it covered."

When Riley stood up, Boone knew she wanted to get back to help prepare for Andrea's wedding, but he wasn't done with her yet. "Uh-uh, not so fast."

"It's been fifteen minutes."

"It's been ten at the most."

"Boone."

He pulled her close. "It's been far too long since we've been together."

"It's been five hours."

"Seven. At least." He slid his hands to her waist and then lower still, curving them over her bottom.

"We don't have time for that."

"We still have five minutes."

"Even you couldn't be that fast."

"Ouch." He kneaded her skin through the layers of her clothing. "I can be fast. What about


Kansas joins a lawsuit challenging a perceived overreach of new federal rules that broadly expand the definition of "critical habitat" for endangered species."

A news release from the Kansas Attorney General's Office explains that the new rules effectively declare than any area currently unoccupied by an endangered species, but could potentially host an endangered species, could be classified as a critical habitat and be subject to stringent regulations.

The lawsuit says that under the expanded rules, the federal government "could designate entire states, or even multiple states as habitat for certain species."

“This is yet another example of a federal agency regulating without regard to the interests of states and landowners,” Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says. “Even as the current presidential administration winds down, we remain vigilant for new, illegalthe right shoes. There were also a couple of steep hills that were a mix of gravel and packed dirt to climb up and walk down, in order to move from one area of the event to the other. Without proper traction these hills could potentially cause a slip. We ended up walking more than five miles in the rugged terrain and I was able to maneuver in my Tevas without slipping or feeling any discomfort in my feet, legs or back. The leather was easy to wipe down after we got back to the hotel and the boots looked good as new for the next day of work.

SHOT Show 2014

Total walking time around the convention center each day of SHOT Show varied from the just over four


LONDON (Reuters) - Rona Jeff loved her job as a PR consultant for an education charity in central London. But last month she quit. Her train commute had become so unbearable it was ruining her health.

FILE PHOTO: Boards advising passengers of industrial action by Southern railway workers are displayed at Victoria station in London, Britain December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Neil Hall/File Photo

“It became untenable to try to go to work,” said Jeff, whose journey into London from Brighton on England’s south coast should have taken just over an hour, but was regularly taking 4 1/2 hours because of cancellations, slow-downs and strikes.

She rarely saw her husband, gave up a photography class, repeatedly canceled plans with friends, missed a theater performance after saving up for tickets. Finally, the stress was            United States of America

                       lllllllllllllllllllllDefendant - Appellee

    John Clark; Walter R. Bradley, in his official capacity as the United States
  Marshal for the District of Kansas; Sean Franklin, in his official capacity as a
Deputy United States Marshal and in his individual capacity; Deputy United States
Marshals 1 - 10, in their official and individual capacities (names unknown at this
   time); Stacia A. Hylton, in her official capacity; Christopher Wallace, in his
official capacity as a Deputy United States Marshal and in his individual capacity


                              I. Background

       In 2008, Deputy U.S. Marshals with the U.S. Marshals Service in the District
of Kansas began an investigation to locate and arrest Vinol Wilson (“Wilson”), who
had been indicted by a grand jury in Kansas for conspiracy to manufacture, to possess
with intent to distribute, and to distribute cocaine base and to possess with intent to
distribute cocaine. The Marshals had an arrest warrant for Wilson, and after learning
that he was involved in a local Kansas City, Missouri basketball league, they planned
to arrest him during one of the games. Sources told the Marshals thatat 6:30 p.m. on
August 15, 2009, Wilson would be playing basketball at the Grandview Community
Center and that he would be wearing an orange jersey with the number 23. The
Marshals also knew that Wilson was a black male body builder born in 1974. That
evening around 6:45 p.m., the Marshals entered the gym in plain clothes and
interrupted the game. With their weapons drawn, they approached a black male who
was on the court wearing an orange jersey with the number 23 and told him to get on
the ground. That man was Wright, not Wilson.

      1
       The Honorable Sarah H. Hays, United States Magistrate Judge for the Western
District of Missouri.


her wish, leaves the room, and never meets the owner again.

Her friend asks her if her wish came true and if she would have wished for something else in hindsight. She says that time will determine if her wish came true and semi-deflects the second question by asking the friend what she would wish for if she was in the woman's position; the friend is unsure and the woman says that is because "you've already made your wish."

Analysis
The setting creates an intense mood for the story. The incessant rain creates an atmosphere that disrupts the ordinary, mundane circumstances of serving tables on your 20th birthday. Like most Murakami tales, there is a story within a story, which adds to the magic.

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Category:Tokyo inthe district court.

2
The conduct of the prosecutor, an Assistant United States Attorney, in ignoring the court's discovery orders was contumacious by any standard.  Sanctions certainly were called for.  The first discovery order the prosecutor ignored was the "standing discovery order" of the Southern District of Florida entered by the magistrate at the defendants' arraignment on December 5, 1979.  The trial was scheduled for the district court's two-week trial term beginning February 11, 1980, and the magistrate instructed the parties to complete all discovery by December 14.

3
Twice during the discovery period defense counsel contacted the prosecutor to arrange a discovery conference; on each occasion the prosecutor stated that she was having difficulty contacting the DEA case agent and would be unable to produce the discoverable items


until she located him.  On December 20, six days after the discovery deadline had passed, the prosecutor again informed counsel that she could not locate the DEA agent, and that she would notify counsel when discovery could be made.  On the same day, the defense moved the court for a rule 16(d)(2) order compelling the government to comply with the standing discovery order.  On January 15, 1980, the magistrate granted the motion and ordered the government to complete discovery by January 19.  The magistrate also scheduled a suppression hearing, which involved some of the items the government was to produce, for January 24.  The prosecutor failed to comply with the magistrate's January 15 order, so on January 22 the defense moved the courtto dismiss the indictment or to suppress the evidence subject to the magistrate's discovery orders.

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When the January 24 hearing convened, defense counsel advised the magistrate that the government still had not complied with the magistrate's January 15 discovery order.  Counsel also represented that they had been prejudiced by the prosecutor's conduct and therefore were not prepared to go forward with the hearing on their motions to suppress.  They urged the magistrate to recommend that the district court dismiss the indictment.  The magistrate asked the prosecutor (an Assistant United States Attorney who was standing in for the prosecutor who had been handling the case) the reason for the government's refusal to comply with the magistrate's previous discovery orders, and she offered no lawful reasons.  The


A History Charlestown Parish and St Paul's Church

Creation of the Parish of Charlestown

The development of mining and industrial activity during the first half of the nineteenth century created rapid popluation growth in the area that was to become Charestown Parish. It became
home to nearly 3,000 souls by the 1840s (but in far fewer houses than today). The Diocese of Exeter (the Diocese for Truro was not created until 1877) recognised this and created two new
parishes from the overlarge St Austell Parish, which hitherto has stretched from Pentewan to Bugle. The parish of Treverbyn was established to the north in china clay country in 1845 and the
parish of Charlestown in the east in 1846.

Building of St Paul's Church

Initially, during the period 1846-1851, the congregation held services in a roomnear the present Pier House Hotel. The Lectern Bible preserved in the Church is a relic from those days.
However, moves to build a Parish Church for Charlestown were soon afoot. Victorian Cornwall was a periodf of exceptional Church building, arising from new parishes being created as a
result of rapid population movements. The land on which the church is built, alongside Church Road, was given by Augustus Crowder QC, Managing Director of Charlestown Estate, in 1848. The
church was designed by the London Architect Christopher Eales FRIBA (1809-1903), and built by Messrs Drew and Kitt of St Austell. The foundation stone was laid by Sir Charles Graves Sawle of
Penrice House on 27th November 1849.

There is an air of mystery surrounding the building of the Church. In 1897 Canon Hammond wrote


in his book 'An Account of St Austell'; "the Church, which, alas, has never been
wholly paid for; some say that is why it has not prospered more. It is a melancholy story, but it can do no good to repeat it here".

It appears that the building fund ran out of money in 1851, which may have had something to do with a serious downturn in the properity of the local mines, including the closure of Charlestown
United Mine in 1849. By early 1851, when services commenced, the Church must have been a barely completed shell, with the planned spire missing; a situation which would remain for 120 years.
The Church was consecrated by the Bishop of Exeter, Hnery Philpotts, on 30th May 1851.

The collapse of mining in this area, between1850 and 1870 caused many people to leave the area. The Parish became a quiet backwater, which is reflected in the fact that so few improvements
in the church were made until well into the 20th century.

Recent Developments

Housing developments at Carlyon bay, Duporth, Holmbush and Sandy Bottom, through the decades after 1960, together with industrial developments at Holmbush, brought much needed vitality to the
Parish and the population soared to levels not seen since the mid 1800s. In 1993, in response to rapid population growth in the Boscoppa and Phernyssick areas, a further new Parish, St Lukes,
was created from the northern part of the original Charlestown Parish. Since the 1930s, with an active congregation at St Paul's, many additions have been made to the Church, using funds raised
by clergy, parishioners


to get the action going on a mild evening in suburban Denver. Tyrone Marshall’s first minute long ball found a streaking Cascio, who fired off the goalpost just 50 seconds after the opening whistle. But less than five minutes later, the Rapids got on the scoreboard.

Right back Drew Moor’s cross into the box was met by Cascio, who deflected it right into the path of Akpan. The third-year forward easily fired home for his first MLS goal of the season and the second of his career.

After Moor’s 21st minute header was spectacularly saved by Timbers ‘keeper Donovan Ricketts, the Rapids doubled their advantage just a few minutes later. While breaking on a counter-attack, Rapids Castrillon crossed for Cascio, whose sliding shot was initially saved by Ricketts, but afterJ.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin (the "Properties"). The Plaintiffs seek a declaration that the only owner of the copyright to The White Hotel is Thomas and his current licensee, Night Hawk, and that the only owner of the copyright to J.M. Barrie and the Lost Boys is The Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and its licensee, Andrew Birkin, the biography's author, and that the rights previously granted by Thomas to The White Hotel in 1986 to Geisler/Roberdeau were assigned to Monty Montgomery, from him for valid consideration in 1994 by Samuel Myers' group, and were now owned by Geisler/Roberdeau or any affiliate in October 1999 when the State Court judgment against Geisler/Roberdeau was entered.
The Plaintiffs seek also to prohibit Defendants from interfering


with production and screenwriting contracts.
All the motions were garnered, heard on the papers, and marked fully submitted on April 2, 2003.

The Controversy
This action is the latest of at least eleven (and possibly more) actions or proceedings which evolve from an investment made by Rubin in Briarpatch, an entity created by Robert Geisler ("Geisler") and John Roberdeau ("Roberdeau") who, according to Rubin, swindled him, Briarpatch, and its affiliated enterprises. The instant litigation against Geisler and Roberdeau in the State Court was resolved by a judgment in Rubin's favor, and the remainder of the litigation is the effluvia of that judgment, exacerbated by the ill will of the parties and excessive and occasionally misguided zeal of their lawyers.
Fortunately for the purposes of the disposition of the pending motions it isNight Hawk's portfolio of film rights where Geisler has been engaged as the work-for-hire producer." (Lozano Aff., ¶ 15,16,19) (Mar. 20, 2003).
On the subject of the principal place of business of Night Hawk, the Lozano affidavit raises more questions than answers. There is no quantitative description of the business of Night Hawk, other properties of the company, the existence of bank accounts, officers or directors. Given the Geisler history as established in the State Court and the proceedings, removals, and bankruptcies, a sufficient challenge has been raised to permit discovery on jurisdictional facts and depending on such discovery, a further hearing.
Night Hawk has also urged federal question jurisdiction arising out of the challenged ownership of the copyrights. That issue has been resolved by this Court in the related


of 30,000 users without any attempt to secure their consent. The government had been involved in the deployment of the technology used but crucially, it was later dragged to the steps of the European Court of Justice and privacy laws were later amended to stop such an event happening again.

Europe should also note that technological progress is very difficult to regulate in the public interest when private market forces are pushing hard to censor content in the interests of making a profit. In the UK, BT and Vodafone want to charge content companies to carry video, claiming they will be able roll out fixed and mobile high speed internet more quickly if they are granted the ability to put a toll lane on the internet.

Broken promises

Recent events alsoshow that electoral promises are hard to keep in the US when Congress does not support legislation. Just as Obama failed to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as he had explicitly promised to do in his first presidential campaign, so the failure on net neutrality breaks his main technology policy promise from 2007.

This was a policy first developed by his friend Lawrence Lessig, his junior professorial colleague at Chicago when they both taught constitutional law in the early 1990s, and Lessig's brilliant protege Tim Wu, who first coined the term net neutrality. Lessig warned in 2010 that Obama was cooling on net neutrality because of political opposition from telecoms lobbyists and their sponsored congressmen.

The messages come from European policymakers are equally mixed. Ed Vaizey, the UK minister


in charge of internet policy, has declared himself in favour of net neutrality but also in favour of higher speed toll lanes, which is contradictory. Similarly, European Commissioner Neelie Kroes began her term by declaring her love for net neutrality and has subsequently failed to do much to enforce it.

But Europe is not the United States and the litigation and congressional deadlock that has characterised the net neutrality debate does not apply. A pan-European proposal for enforcing net neutrality was set in motion by national legislation in the Netherlands and Slovenia and may become law this year, though a new Commission and Parliament may delay or even derail the process.

The United States has failed to enforce net neutrality properly because it has tried to deregulate carriers with anON THE PAGE

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Sunday, March 11, 2018, 13:09By Xinhua

Premier Li Keqiang delivers the Government Work Report at the opening meeting of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday. (XU JINGXING / CHINA DAILY)

BEIJING - China will enhance strength in science and technology in the coming years to create more opportunities for itself and the world.

"China will do more to implement the innovation-driven development strategy", Premier Li Keqiang said Monday when delivering a government work report at the first session of the 13th National People's Congress.

Li said that application-oriented basic research would be strengthened, a number of science and technology innovation


programs be launched, and a number of top national laboratories be set up this year.

During the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China in October, President Xi Jinping said innovation was the primary driving force behind development and the strategic underpinning for building a modernized economy.

China aims to make itself a country of innovators, according to Xi.

At a press conference held Saturday on the sidelines of the session, Wan Gang, minister of science and technology, said China is taking a leading position in strategic hi-tech sectors.

Major achievements include the launch of the Tiangong-2 space lab, the Jiaolong deep-sea manned submersible, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), launch of dark matter probe satellite Wukong and the quantum science satellite Mozi, and the test flight for airlinerC919.

China has also been the world leader in applications for invention patents for seven consecutive years. China's mainland held about 1.36 million such patents by the end of 2017, meaning on average 9.8 invention patents per 10,000 people, according to the State Intellectual Property Office.

Technological innovation has provided strong support for the nation's supply-side structural reform and significantly improved people's lives, Wan said, citing its role in mobile communication, pharmaceuticals, epidemic prevention, new energy vehicles as well as air pollution control and poverty alleviation.

China will enhance strength in science and technology in the coming years to create more opportunities for itself and the world

In addition, hi-tech will be applied to judicial organs.

"China will speed up the construction of smart courts," said Chief Justice Zhou Qiang when delivering a


system is expected to provide navigation and positioning services to countries along the Belt and Road by late 2018.

Named after the Chinese term for the Big Dipper, the BeiDou project was formally launched in 1994, and began to serve China in 2000 and the Asia-Pacific region in 2012.

"The BeiDou system not only belongs to China, but the whole world," Yang said, noting that China has been promoting cooperation with Asia-Pacific nations, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the Arab League in the construction of BeiDou system.

The system plays an important role in telecommunications, transport, forest fire prevention and disaster prevention and relief. "We've been improving our services for our global users," Yang said, adding that they are promoting the system in international organizations.

Wang Shoujun, chairperson of ChinaNational Nuclear Cooperation (CNNC), a leading nuclear power company, said its nuclear projects in Pakistan had reached 4.63 million kilowatts, while installed capacity in operation exceeded 1.3 million kilowatts.

"These projects have effectively alleviated local power shortages, boosted the country's economic development, and improved the locals' living quality," said Wang, also a member of the National Committee of the CPPCC.

China's utility giant State Grid has already built up power supply facilities in countries along the Belt and Road routes, and exported advanced electricity supply equipment to 83 countries and regions across the world.

In December 2017, an ultra-high voltage power transmission project of the State Grid was put into operation in Brazil. The project helps transmit clean energy to southeastern load regions from northern Brazil, meeting the power demands of


of interrogation used in the Kiecker and Perzával case seem cut out from archives of Mexico's 1970s dirty war. In plain sight, a group of men in civilian clothing poured out of a white truck on the afternoon of May 31, 2003, and _levantaron_ , literally "lifted" or kidnapped, one of the witnesses from downtown Chihuahua, where he worked selling street sketches. The kidnappers were state police officers who, insulting the man, forced him into their truck and took him to the Chihuahua Police Academy.

"That was where they tortured me with a bath towel," the victim, who didn't want to reveal his name, described to me. "They tried to strangle me, and they were asking me if I knew Ulises and I told them that I did. Theneditorial arguing that even though federal troops had arrested the man identified as the leader of the Juárez Cartel (José Antonio Acosta, alias "El Diego"), and even if this man was responsible for more than 1,000 murders, as prosecutors alleged (with no proof aside from a videotaped confession), the city still had to deal with the opposing cartel (the Sinaloa Cartel), locally led by S.G.E. Meanwhile, the threats to our editors warned: "Don't mention those names."

This is how S.G.E., the unmentionable man we suspected was connected to Armando's murder, who owned a business across the street from the stadium where thousands applauded Juan Gabriel in celebration of the city's "recovery," became my personal symbol for deception. What could "recovery" possibly mean for a city drowning in 10,000 uninvestigated


Australia's First Official Illicit Pill Testing at Canberra's Groovin' the Moo Music Festival: Legal Hurdles and Future Prospects.
The first official pill testing at an Australian music festival was conducted at Groovin' The Moo in Canberra on 29 April 2018. As the trial was the first of its kind in Australia, it was not without legal hurdles and uncertainty. Primarily, there was concern over the legal consequences for patrons participating in the pill testing, as well as the legal liability of those facilitating and conducting the testing. This article will discuss the legal hurdles that were overcome in order to facilitate the trial, and the future consequences and position of pill testing at Australian festivals.DoD News

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Cooperation Needed in Terror Fight, Myers Says

By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service

BUENOS AIRES, March 13, 2004  It is still too soon to say definitively who launched the terrorist attacks in Spain March 11 that killed almost 200 people and wounded more than 1,400, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a press conference here March 12.

Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, on a visit to the region to improve military- to-military ties, said the "heinous terrorist attacks" reinforce the need to combat the scourge of terrorism around the world. He said the United States stands "shoulder-to-shoulder" with Spain in the war on terrorism.

Myers said Spanish officials must perform more investigations before they can determine who launched the attack. Spanish officials said initially


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forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for
the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power and
antiwar movements."--Jacketand Peas! Banana Karenina! - but it seemed forced. Prince lyrics, however, can never be forced.)

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These blocks are currently WonderBaby's very favorite thing in the world. If she catches the slightest glimpse of them, or even hears the clack of wood block on wood block as Mommy's foot knocks by them (because, yes, I am lax, lax, with the tidying), she will hoot and whoot until she is within grasping distance. Preferably sitting up, with the box at hand to pull the blocks out of, but propped up on elbows on tummy will sometimes do. And she will sit and play with them for loooong stretches of minutes. And Mommy sits on the floor and plays with her for a while and then brings laptop and coffee to


Matildas star Chloe Logarzo will undergo further assessment by medical staff before her availability for the Cup of Nations is determined. The 24-year-old rolled her ankle during the second-half of Sydney FC's 4-2 W-League grand final win over Perth Glory last Saturday. While Logarzo is in no danger of missing out on Australia's Women's World Cup campaign in France later this year, the injury could prevent her taking part in the Cup of Nations which starts next week. Scans have cleared her of any fracture but there are soft tissue injuries which will need further analysis. Logarzo played a starring role in the Sky Blues' W-League triumph, scoring a thumping second-half strike to seal the win. New Matildas coach Ante Milicic is expected to name his squad forat Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis in a program dedicated to the honorees' works. Joining the orchestra will be several of the honorees performing, including Mr. Liebman, Mr. Laws, and the Marsalis Family. The evening also will feature video tributes to each of the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters.

For those unable to attend in person, the awards ceremony and concert will be broadcast live on WBGO Jazz 88.3FM based in Newark, New Jersey, and Sirius/XM Satellite Radio's Real Jazz Channel 70. WBGO also will audio stream the event live on their website at wbgo.org.

Prior to the concert, the 2011 NEA Jazz Masters and their fellow NEA Jazz Masters will gather for a group photo opportunity. Members of the press who want to attend the concert or who would


our broadcast-to connect these Americans legends with the broad audiences they deserve."

"Jazz at Lincoln Center is honored to once again produce the concert to celebrate the great American Jazz Masters with the National Endowment for the Arts," said Adrian Ellis, Executive Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. "The 2011 NEA Jazz Masters have made invaluable contributions to America's first art form and we hope that jazz fans and newcomers alike will join us in celebrating their dedication to its legacy."

The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts - both new and established - bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, theEndowment is the largest national annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases.

About NEA Jazz Masters: NEA Jazz Masters are selected from nominations submitted by the public and receive a one-time fellowship award of $25,000, are honored at a public awards ceremony, and may participate in NEA-sponsored promotional, performance, and educational activities. Only living musicians or jazz advocates may be nominated for the NEA Jazz Masters honor.

The National Endowment for the Arts has supported jazz artists and organizations since 1969, providing millions of dollars in grants and awards. In 2004, the NEA significantly expanded its NEA Jazz Masters program and in 2005 created the NEA Jazz Masters Initiative, a comprehensive program of jazz support that includes


the NEA Jazz Masters Award; NEA Jazz Masters Live, a series of multiple performance and educational engagements in selected communities, featuring NEA Jazz Masters; radio programming featuring NEA Jazz Masters; educational resources through the NEA Jazz in the Schools program produced by the Arts Endowment in partnership with Jazz at Lincoln Center; and publications and reports. For more information on NEA Jazz Masters, the public is invited to visit the website, at neajazzmasters.org.

Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring and growing audiences for jazz. With the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the continued development of the art of jazz by producing a year-round schedule of performance, education, and broadcast eventsfor audiences of all ages. These productions include concerts, national and international tours, residencies, yearly hall of fame inductions, weekly national radio and television programs, recordings, publications, an annual high school jazz band competition and festival, a band director academy, jazz appreciation curriculum for students, music publishing, children's concerts, lectures, adult education courses, student and educator workshops, and interactive websites. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, Chairman Lisa Schiff, and Executive Director Adrian Ellis, Jazz at Lincoln Center produces thousands of events each season in its home in New York City, Frederick P. Rose Hall, and around the world. For more information visit jalc.org.


a gun, cruelty to animals, and possession of firearms in

violation of a DVPO. The matter came on for trial before a jury during the 7 August

2017 session of Macon County Superior Court, the Honorable Robert T. Sumner,

Judge presiding.

      The evidence at trial tended to show that on 4 June 2015 at 4:40 a.m., a

resident who lived on Union School Road heard several gunshots. Shortly thereafter,

the resident observed two people walking down his driveway toward Union School

Road. Law enforcement officers responded to the resident’s address and searched the

area, but no person, gun, bullets, or shell casings were found.

      At 5:00 a.m. that same morning, Alice Bradley was at South Macon

Elementary School to prepare her school bus for the morningroute. Using her car,

Bradley picked up her sister who was parked in the teacher’s lot and drove to the

school building, where they turned on inside lights and conducted a safety check. At

5:15 a.m., Bradley drove back to her school bus, parked, and noted the presence of

two people in the parking lot about twenty yards away. Bradley later identified the

two people as defendant and Kathryn Jeter. Defendant pointed a silver handgun at

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Indie developer Vertigo Games has today unveiled its latest project, Adam’s Venture Chronicles, an old-school puzzle adventure exclusive to the PlayStation Network.

"While studying ancient relics in an old Templar church, young explorer Adam Venture comes across the memoirs of Charles L’Heureux, a knight who joined the Third Crusade with Richard the Lionheart. The memoirs mention an ancient scroll that points Adam to the location of the Garden of Eden. The Garden of Eden seems near, but Adam finds that his search for paradise is more than he bargained for…’’, reads the press statement.

"Join Adam Venture in this epic journey set in the 1920s. Together with Evelyn he is on a quest to find ancient artefacts in this exhilarating adventure game. Solve ingenious puzzles and embark on breathtaking platformA particularly attractive and spacious period home with an abundance of features to include sash windows, exposed floorboards, fireplaces, cornices etc. The property also has modern conveniences such as a fitted kitchen, gas central heating and is presented in excellent order. The property is approximately a ten minute stroll to the town centre and River Dart where there are comprehensive facilities available. Steet parking nearby. An early viewing is highly recommended to avoid disappointment. EPC E

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Former Camden (Ark.) Fairview and Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College 247Sports 4-star wide receiver Dominique Reed has cleared all his academic requirements and will enroll at Arkansas in the next summer session.

Reed chose Arkansas over Arizona State, Texas and Auburn. He played his high school football at Camden Fairview, but then went to Coffeyville where he played in 2012 and 2014. This past season, he caught 56 passes for 979 yards and 16 touchdowns while also returning 10 kickoffs for 231 yards.

Reed has a grade of 90 with 247Sports. He is a 3-star with the 247Composite. Reed brings a vertical threat to Arkansas' group of receivers.Contents

The Númenóreans' power and knowledge had grown throughout the course of the Second Age, and became increasingly preoccupied with the limits placed on their happiness—and eventually their power—by mortality, the purpose of which they began to question. They started fearing the Gift of Men and attempted to delay it or recall life.

This growing wish to escape death, made most of the Númenoreans envious of the immortal Eldar, who they had come to physically resemble. The Eldar sought ever to remind the men of Númenor however, that death was a gift of the One God, Ilúvatar, to all men, and the will of Ilúvatar could not be gainsaid.

Nevertheless, after S.A.2221, when Tar-Ancalimon became King of Númenor, the Númenóreans became divided. The King's Men who turned away from the Valar


and the Eldar, and eventually became vulnerable to the corruption of Sauron, who dominated the minds and wills of most of the Númenóreans with the One Ring.[1] The powerful and elderly King Ar-Pharazôn, had become frightened of old age[2] was persuaded by Sauron that Ilúvatar was a lie invented by the Valar, and seduced him.

Some indigenous people of Middle-earth were afraid of those Númenóreans, whom they called "Go-hilleg" in their language. The "Go-hilleg" terrified those people with their ships and intended at some point to conquer the land of Agar and slay its people.[3]

Three of the Ringwraiths can be considered among the first and most powerful Númenóreans who were corrupted by Sauron,[4] 1000 years before the Downfall: they served Sauron, being enslaved to his will, having become sobecause of their lust for power or knowledge.

Even the colonists who had settled on the shores and seaward regions of the Westlands, turned to evil, the Darkness and the black arts. These evil lords made their fortresses and dwellings in the South, because of the power of Gil-galad.[5][6]

For many centuries after the Downfall, these descendants of the King's Men held onto the haven of Umbar, the most northerly and famous of their realms.

When the surviving Faithful Numenoreans founded Gondor and Arnor, they saw their southern counterparts as renegades, calling them the Black Númenóreans.[7] The Black Númenóreans held a similar hatred of Gondor after generations.[8]

Two early Black Númenórean lords from the late Second Age were Herumor and Fuinur who desired power over men of other, lesser races, and they