within a year be the number one retailer of oil products," he
said.
Kukes said Tyumen was also interested in Eastern Europe and in talks on
projects that a included a stake in Lithuania's Mazeikiu refinery , but he
declined to elaborate.
"Eastern Europe has logistical advantages for Russian firms. We can bring in
oil easily and get a significant market share. I also see a role for us in
China, India and the Middle East." He said Tyumen, controlled by Russia's
Alfa conglomerate, saw foreign oil majors' involvement as a key to its
growth.
"We would welcome a strategic partner to take a stake in the firm and, in
fact, we are now in talks with several foreign partners, including Texaco ,"
Kukes said.
He added earlier talkswith Phillips had had no result.
Tyumen is involved in the $11 billion Kovykta project with BP and several
Russian firms to produce and ship gas to China, as well as in Transneft's
Adria pipeline project to link outlets for Russian crude in north and south
Europe.
In August Tyumen will take a key downstream step.
With Texaco in Moscow it will open Russia's first Star Mart convenience store
in a partnership expanding its 800-strong filling network by combining them
with the U.S. Star Mart brand.
Earlier this year the firms inked a deal to jointly produce lubricants at
Tyumen's LINOS refinery in Ukraine. Kukes said total investments in 2001 are
planned at $800 million, with another $1 billion earmarked for each of the
coming years.
Tyumen also


got a boost by being rated the World's Best Oil Company in 2000
by Financial Times Energy for "phenomenal growth in the past year, breaking
into the world's top 15 oil firms."
"By year end, we could jump from fourth to third place among Russian oil
producers," said the U.S.-educated Kukes, who is part of Tyumen's efforts to
boost its profile internationally.
VERTICALLY INTEGRATED
Tyumen is now eyeing natural gas, angling to up its Kovykta stake and in
Rospan, with 600 billion cubic metres in reserves.
Kukes sees gas as part of a strategy to develop Tyumen on the lines of Enron
- producing crude, gas and power.
"Gas is an essential component of a vertically-integrated oil company and in
the way we see ourselves in future," KukesNorth Field to the U.A.E.
In May, Enron Corp. (ENE) sold its 24.5% stake in Dolphin back to Offsets,
freeing up its share for another potential strategic partner. Enron's role
would have been to focus on the midstream part of the project, or gas
transportation, which requires building a 350-kilometer pipeline from a
processing plant in Ras Laffan, Qatar, to the Taweelah terminal in Abu Dhabi
and Jebel Ali terminal in Dubai.
TotalFinaElf SA (TOT) is Offsets' other strategic partner, holding a 24.5%
stake in the project. The company will operate the upstream phase of the
project, which includes developing natural gas reserves in two blocks of the
North Field.
The first wells are scheduled to be drilled in the second half of 2001 and
come onstream in


no big deal.
We could send our heating bill to the Navy as Dick Cheney has. Who knows,
maybe we could fuel up our cars and let the Energy Department pay the bill.
Cheney is making quite a shift from the advice he offered to consumers just a
few weeks ago. "If you want to leave all the lights on in your house, you
can," he counseled. "There's no law against it. But you will pay for it."
Or, in Cheney's case, the Navy may pay for it. After all, it owns his house.
The Vice President decided to dun the Navy on the very day administration
officials spread out to promote conservation as a key part of President
Bush's energy plan.
My, how the scene has changed. Infair hearing in Congress and
at the White House.
Perhaps most important, the free market has shown an ability to respond to a
so-called "crisis" in energy. This reduces the political pressure for a quick
and ill-advised political fix.
A sudden jump in electric-plant construction means supply should grow twice
as fast as demand over the next several years, according to the North
American Electric Reliability Council. More than 1,000 natural gas wells are
in production, double the number during early 2000.
Gas prices are lower than had been expected because OPEC has stopped cutting
production and oil giants jumped at the first sight of high prices, and
production is jumping.
We can't all turn to the Navy to bail us out of high energy prices. But in


Wall Street estimates of 49 to 58 cents a share. The
Charlotte-based company is one of several in the US accused of manipulating
electricity prices in California, along with its competitors Reliant Energy,
Dynergy, Williams and Enron.
California's grid managers have accused wholesalers of overcharging the state
by more than $6bn since last May - allegations the companies have denied.
Last night, a Duke Energy spokesman said that California remained a small
piece of the company's whole.
He said the result was driven by strong growth in its North American energy
trading segment, which reported earnings before interest and tax of $251m, a
128 per cent increase on the year-ago quarter.
The unit's growth was fuelled by big expansion in its wholesale energy asset
portfolio, which now hasmore than 12,600MW of merchant power generation in
operation or under construction, compared with about 8,400MW net a year ago.
Duke also has a large electric utilities operation in California.
The company's shares closed 38 cents higher at $42.03 in New York.
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Letters to the Editor: India, Pakistan and the U.S.

07/18/2001
The Wall Street Journal
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(Copyright (c) 2001, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)

Mr. Varadarajan basically asks America to abandon its traditional link to
Pakistan in favor of India. He overlooks some critical facts. First, it is
unclear whether India even wants to be closer to the U.S. Throughout the Cold
War, India was uncomfortably close to the Soviet Union in diplomatic


circles,
whereas Pakistan was a reliable U.S. ally; it was vitally important in
espionage efforts against the Soviets (Francis Gary Powers departed from
Pakistan in his ill-fated U-2 and the U.S. conducted major operations there
in the 1980s) and in offsetting pro-Soviet influence in the region.
Smearing Pakistan and it current military president with Islamic
fundamentalism is disingenuous, since the nation is practically secular when
compared to its neighbors in Iran and Afghanistan. Indeed the deposed
president's paeans to fundamentalism in response to domestic problems were
one impetus for the military takeover in the first place.
Despite talk of reform, India's economy is still generally hostile to foreign
investment. The most notable business project of the 1990s, Enron's massive
power facility in Dhabol, has been mired in bureaucracyThe Lexington woman was back in court after shooting her boyfriend in Highland Heights six years ago. Both the prosecution and defense spent about three hours Tuesday trying to convince the jury that Hubers was trying to defend herself, or that she intentionally and methodically fired six shots into Ryan Poston's body.


Jamestown Police Recover Hand Gun Following Menacing Incident

JAMESTOWN – An 18-year-old was arrested Friday on menacing and weapons charges.

Jamestown Police were called to the area of McKinley Avenue and Charles Street around 9:41 a.m. Friday morning after a report of a person threatening another person with a pistol.

The victim attempted to flee from the suspect in a vehicle, backing into a telephone pole at the location.
Officers observed the suspect attempting to flee the scene and pursued him on foot. When the suspect failed to comply, officers used a TASER to taken him into custody.

The suspect was identified as Alex K. Johnson.
According to police reports, officers recovered a 9mm pistol from him, as well as a quantity of prescription pills.

Johnson was charged with third degree criminal possession of aa charge of insubordination because of Phillips' conduct with and toward her superior who was endeavoring to get her to pay the past due bill.  When Phillips finally paid the delinquent bill, approximately seven months after it was due, the indebtedness charge was dropped, but the insubordination charge remained and she was removed from her job on that charge.  On appeal to the board, the punishment was mitigated to a 60-day suspension without pay and a reduction in grade to a budget analyst, GS-12, step 1.  Phillips filed an application with the board under the Back Pay Act for attorney fees.  After negotiation, a settlement was reached with respect to attorney fees, but the amount paid to Phillips is not shown by the record.

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Phillips


of Peter B. Broida, p. 6.

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As the statute requires, any fee award is made to the "prevailing party," not the attorney.  Thus, Phillips' attorney could not directly claim or be entitled to the award.  It had to be requested on behalf of the party.  With this predicate, we construe the fee arrangement between Phillips and her attorney to mean that if an award of attorney fees is obtained on her behalf she is obligated to turn it over to her attorney.  In this sense, Phillips incurs the attorney fees that may be awarded her.  On the other hand, if no fee award is made to her, she does not have any obligation to pay any further fees to her attorney from her ownACSM Clinician Profile.
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) is proud to feature Elizabeth A. Joy, MD, MPH, FACSM, for this issue's Clinician Profile. Dr. Joy is a family medicine and sports medicine physician at the University of Utah,where she serves as one of the team physicians and directs the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship program. She completed a Family Medicine Residency and Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. She completed her master's degree in public health at the University of Utah. Dr. Joy has served on ACSM's Board of Trustees and is currently the Vice-President for Medicine, serves on ACSM's 'Exercise is Medicine' Task Force, and is an associate editor for Current Sports Medicine Reports (CSMR). Her research interests include


Gnaeus Manlius Vulso (consul 189 BC)

Gnaeus Manlius Vulso (fl. 189 BC) was a Roman consul for the year 189 BC, together with Marcus Fulvius Nobilior. He led a victorious campaign against the Galatian Gauls of Asia Minor in 189 BC during the Galatian War. He was awarded a triumph in 187 BC.

Vulso belonged to the patrician gens Manlia, but his connection with the better known Torquatus branch is unknown.  He may have been descended from Aulus (or Gaius) Manlius Cn.f. Vulso, consul in 474 BC; or from Lucius Manlius A.f. Vulso Longus, consul in 256 and 250 BC.

A. Manlius Cn.f. Vulso, consul eleven years later in 178 BC, may have been his younger brother.

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Category:Roman patriciansDAKAR, Senegal — The Ebola outbreak ravaging West Africa is "totally out of control," according to a senior official for Doctors Without Borders, who says the medical group is stretched to the limit in responding.

The outbreak has caused more deaths than any other of the disease, said another official with the medical charity. Ebola has been linked to more than 330 deaths in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, according to the World Health Organization.

International organizations and the governments involved need to send in more health experts and increase public education messages about how to stop the spread of the disease, Bart Janssens, the director of operations for the medical group in Brussels, told The Associated Press on Friday.

"The reality is clear that the epidemic is now in a


death toll was in the first recorded Ebola outbreak in Congo in 1976, when 280 deaths were reported. Because Ebola often touches remote areas and the first cases sometimes go unrecognized, it is likely that there are deaths that go uncounted during outbreaks.

The multiple locations of the current outbreak and its movement across borders make it one of the "most challenging Ebola outbreaks ever," Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for the World Health Organization, said earlier in the week.

But Janssens' description of the Ebola outbreak was even more alarming, and he warned that the countries involved had not recognized the gravity of the situation. He criticized WHO for not doing enough to prod local leaders; the U.N. health agency did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

"There needs towire fraud, and faces up to life in prison.

The attorney who appeared in the courtroom Wednesday was not the jovial, well-tailored host who partied with national politicians, sports stars, and south Florida power brokers. He shuffled into the courtroom, dressed in tan prison garb and wearing leg irons and handcuffs. When the judge asked him to raise his right hand to swear an oath to tell the truth, Rothstein had to raise both hands since they were shackled.

Ponzi scheme of fake legal settlements

Three months ago, Rothstein fled the US for Morocco in late October after wiring $16 million dollars overseas. Federal agents were closing in on his scam, and there were suggestions he might commit suicide. But he returned to south Florida soon after.

A month after he returned,


Genetic divergence of human pathogens Nanophyetus spp. (Trematoda: Troglotrematidae) on the opposite sides of the Pacific Rim.
Human and animal nanophyetiasis is caused by intestinal flukes belonging to the genus Nanophyetus distributed on both North American and Eurasian coasts of Northern Pacific. In spite of the wide geographical distribution and medical and veterinary importance of these flukes, the intra-generic taxonomy of Nanophyetus spp. remains unresolved. The two most widely distributed nominal species, Nanophyetus salmincola and Nanophyetus schikhobalowi, both parasitizing humans and carnivorous mammals, were described from North America and eastern Eurasia, respectively. However, due to their high morphological similarity their interrelationships remained unclear and taxonomic status unstable. In this study, we explored genetic diversity of Nanophyetus spp. from the Southern Russian Far East in comparison with that of samplesNew York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony is leaning toward leaving in pursuit of immediate championship contention, and awaits the Chicago Bulls and Houston Rockets to clear the necessary salary-cap space to sign him in free agency, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

As re-signing with the Knicks continues to fade as his priority, Chicago and Houston have emerged as the clear frontrunners to acquire Anthony, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

Anthony's meeting with Knicks officials on Friday night had little impact on his state of mind, league sources said, because there remain too many uncertainties about how quickly president Phil Jackson can reshape the team into a championship contender.

Chicago and Houston front-office executives are working diligently on contingencies to clear the space to sign Anthony outright – or engage sign-and-trade scenarios


with New York, sources said.

"His heart is in New York," one source familiar with Anthony's thinking told Yahoo Sports, "but he wants a chance to win now."

View photos Carmelo Anthony averaged 27.4 points and 8.1 rebounds last season. (USA Today) More

Jackson has turned off Anthony with his public proclamations of wanting the seven-time All-Star forward to take less money to stay with New York, league sources said.

Around Anthony and the NBA, there's some doubt about whether Jackson truly wants to keep him on a five-year, $120 million-plus extension, or simply is giving the appearance for public relations' sake. Jackson has been somewhat cavalier in his public declarations of wanting Anthony to stay, and it's been noticed.

Anthony has said he's willing to take less than the maximum-allowable contract, butserved on the Warden of the New Hampshire State Prison and the Attorney General of the State of New Hampshire.[1]
Presently before the court are respondent's motion to reconsider the October 23, 1990, order and respondent's motion to dismiss the petition.

Factual Background
The facts underlying petitioner's conviction were summarized by the New Hampshire Supreme Court as follows:
On June 7, 1983, David Staples, the defendant's roommate, was stabbed to death. Abbott telephoned the police and two hours later confessed to the crime. During his interview with the police, Abbott was able to recount clearly the events surrounding the murder, although he made some statements which appeared delusional. He was indicted for first degree murder and, pursuant to an agreement with the State, agreed to waive indictment on a charge of second


degree murder and to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity to that charge.
Abbott, supra, 127 N.H. at 446, 503 A.2d at 792-93.
After raising the affirmative defense of insanity, Abbott went to trial solely on the issue of whether he was sane at the time he killed his roommate.
At his trial Abbott offered testimony regarding his long history of mental illness from a variety of lay witnesses. Two psychiatrists also testified at the trial.
Dr. Emery, who testified on behalf of the defendant, stated that the defendant suffered from schizophrenia, and was in the midst of an acute psychotic episode on June 7th, the day of the killing. Dr. Emery believed that, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, this illness caused the defendant to killDavid Staples.
The State called Dr. Drukteinis, who also testified that the defendant suffered from a serious mental illness. He diagnosed *1220 the illness as schizo-affected disorder, which differs from schizophrenia in that the former permits fairly normal functioning following a psychotic episode. Dr. Drukteinis stated that although it sounded as if the defendant was experiencing a psychotic episode on June 7th, he could find no link between the defendant's bizarre thinking and the killing. The doctor also noted that the defendant knew that he was taking a human life, and he testified to his observations of other aspects of the defendant's behavior which suggested that the defendant was not delusional at the time of the killing.
Abbott, supra, 127 N.H. at 447, 503 A.2d at 793.
In addition to much


wooden block which had been inserted into a recess in the block. The first chair for a rail is thought to have been introduced in 1797 which attached to the rail on the vertical web via bolts.[2]

By the 1820s the first shaped rolled rails had begun to be produced initially of a T shape which required a chair to hold them; the rails were held in position by iron wedges (which sometimes caused the rail to break when forced in) and later by wooden wedges, which became the standard.[3] In the 1830s Robert L. Stevens invented the flanged 'tee' rail (actually a distorted I beam), which had a flat bottom and required no chair; a similar design was the contemporary bridge rail (of inverted U section with abottom flange and laid on longitudinal sleepers); these rails were initially nailed directly to the sleeper.[4]

In North American practice the flanged T rail became the standard, later being used with tie-plates. Elsewhere T rails were replaced by bull head rails of a rounded 'I' or 'figure-8' appearance which still required a supporting chair. Eventually the flanged T rail became commonplace on all the world's railways, though differences in the fixing system still exist.

A rail spike (also known as a cut spike or crampon) is a large nail with an offset head that is used to secure rails and base plates to railroad ties in the track. Robert Livingston Stevens is credited with the invention of the railroad spike,[5] the first recorded use of which was in 1832.[6] The


outside of the rail (usually the outside).[37]

Chairs have been fixed to the sleeper using wooden spikes (trenails), screws, fang-bolts or spikes.[38]

In most of the world, flat-bottomed rail and baseplates became the standard, however in Britain, bullhead rail-and-chairs remained in use until the middle of the twentieth century.[25] They are now largely obsolete but can still be found on London Underground and sidings.[where?][when?][citation needed]

A tie plate, baseplate or sole plate is a steel plate used on rail tracks between flanged T rail and the crossties. The tie plate increases bearing area and holds the rail to correct gauge. They are fastened to wooden ties by means of spikes or bolts through holes in the plate.

The part of the plate under the rail base is tapered, setting the cant ofHundreds of snakes, many dead, found in California house

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LOS ANGELES - SANTA ANA, Calif. - Hundreds of snakes and rodents were found on Wednesday in the home of a Southern California elementary school teacher after neighbours complained of a stench from the house, police said.

The teacher, William Buchman, 53, was arrested on suspicion of felony animal cruelty, said Santa Ana police Corporal Anthony Bertagna, who added that the snakes were all believed to be pythons and many were dead.

Police said Buchman, who teaches sixth grade at a Newport Beach elementary school, had told them his intent was to breed the snakes but that his collection grew out of hand and he was unable to care properly for the reptiles.

Police called


it a case of animal hoarding.

"It's definitely a house of horrors in there," Corporal Sondra Berg, a supervisor for the police animal services branch, told Reuters at the scene. "Snakes suffer, too. It makes me sick all the way around."

Buchman lived at the house alone since his mother died in 2011, after which "he went downhill and stopped socializing," Berg said. "Unfortunately for him, he started hoarding junk and the snakes, and just kept on and on."

Video footage provided by police showed animal control officers dressed in white hazardous-materials suits and respirators raiding the home at about 7 a.m. to find rooms lined with shelves stacked floor to ceiling with plastic bins containing the snakes.

Police said they expected to find as many as 500 snakes, alive and dead,once they had finished combing through the interior of the home in a middle-class section of Santa Ana, an Orange County city about 30 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

The largest live python recovered by midday was about 6 feet long. None of the snakes was loose in the house, which was infested with rats and mice, some of which apparently had been brought in as food for the snakes, police said. A freezer packed with dead mice also was discovered.

The exterior of the house was well maintained, and the lawn was manicured, offering little evidence of anything unusual inside. The strong stench of decay, detectable from the street, was the giveaway.

Neighbours said they had seen Buchman outside his house holding a python but had no idea he kept


hundreds in his house.

One neighbor, Karen Long, told Reuters she noticed when strong winds blew several months ago that "it smelled like something was dead," and she called police asking them to check on Buchman, whom she had not seen in some time.

Berg said she visited the home and met with Buchman nine months ago, but the snakes she saw then appeared well tended. After further odour complaints, police got a warrant allowing them to raid the home.

The surviving snakes were being turned over to the Southern California Herpetology Association and Rescue, whose president, Jason Haywood, said his organization would seek to place the reptiles with nature centres, museums and schools.the night of November 28, 1973, George Brantley and Slay Boswell were shooting pool and drinking beer in the Pizza King in Meridian, Mississippi. Shortly before midnight they were joined by Ken Carmichael and Bill McCraw. Carmichael and McCraw had been drinking whiskey and beer and were described as being "fairly drunk." Brantley was characterized as "fairly sober" and Boswell "not as drunk as Bill and Ken."
When the Pizza King closed at midnight, the four young men repaired to the adjacent parking lot where they loitered while discussing what to do next. A few minutes later a silver 1968 or 1969 Chevrolet automobile with a black top pulled into the parking lot. A man, whose identity was unknown, exited the automobile and was told by one of the


young men that the restaurant was closed for the evening. The man tried the door anyway, found it locked, and as he returned to his automobile one of the young men addressed an obscenity to him; whereupon the stranger turned around, pulled a pistol from his coat and walked toward Brantley.
Brantley told him that he had not said anything, but nevertheless he was struck on the head with the butt of a pistol, causing the weapon to discharge. Immediately thereafter, when he realized that he was bleeding from the pistol blow, Brantley called the stranger a "son-of-a-bitch," whereupon the pistol was pointed toward Brantley's stomach and fired a second time, the bullet grazing his skin. As he departed to his automobile, the assailant fired twice over his shoulder,wounding Carmichael and killing McCraw.
Boswell, Brantley and Officer Sutton, who was on patrol nearby, testified that four shots were fired. Carmichael, though he told of each shot that was fired, testified on cross-examination he could not recall the number of times the pistol was fired.
Barrett's defense was an alibi. By his testimony and his witnesses he placed himself in his home or his next door neighbor's, some eight miles from the parking lot of the Pizza King, when the fatal shot was fired.
The details of the incident are undisputed. The alibi was controverted and was the primary issue in the trial court as it is in this Court.
Brantley, who was struck on the head and shot in the somach by the person who killed McCraw, came face to


face with this assailant in the parking lot. He testified *69 the appellant was the person who struck him and shot McCraw. He explained the identification was possible because the area was illuminated by a street light about forty-five yards from the scene. It should be recalled that Brantley was characterized as being "fairly sober" at the time of the fracas.
Brantley's identification of the appellant was corroborated by other testimony. On the night of November 21, 1973, Theodore Aniel, a Navy petty officer and parttime private detective, met Barrett, an acquaintance, at the wrestling matches in Meridian and purchased from him a .38-caliber "Charter Arms" pistol, Serial No. 172389, for $50.
On November 26 as the result of a conversation with an FBI agent, Aniel handed the pistol toJim Roberts, a special agent with the Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Division, for inspection. After conferring with Roberts, whose interest was the identification and recovery of stolen firearms, Aniel stopped payment on his check for the purchase of the pistol and advised Barrett that it would be returned. In the meantime Roberts inspected and photographed the weapon. He concluded it was then new since it had no powder burns or pit marks on it.
At approximately 8:30 p.m. on November 28, while again at the wrestling matches, Aniel returned the pistol to Barrett and received in turn his check therefor. On November 29 Detective Flaherty of the Meridian Police Department received a copper jacket from a .38-caliber bullet which had been removed from McCraw's body. Thereafter Aniel again had


conversation with Roberts, the treasury agent, who was still concerned with stolen weapons and it was decided that Aniel should attempt to purchase other weapons from Barrett. To this end Aniel contacted Barrett who was willing to sell the .38-caliber pistol which had previously been returned to him.
On December 12 Aniel and William Turner, another agent of the Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Division, met Barrett at the wrestling matches where the pistol was repurchased by Aniel with funds supplied by Turner. It was later examined by Turner and Roberts who discovered that since the previous examination of the weapon it had been fired from four of its five revolving chambers. From this chronology of events the pistol was given to Detective Flaherty of the Meridian Police Department.
Detective Flahertybrought the pistol and the copper jacket to John Dial, a criminalist in firearms evidence with the Mississippi Crime Laboratory. It was Dial's testimony from microscopic examination of the projectile and comparison with other projectiles from the gun that the copper jacket removed from McCraw's body was fired from the pistol purchased from Barrett. Paul McDonald, a ballistics expert with the Arkansas State Police, examined the copper jacket and the pistol and came to the same conclusion as Dial.
Mrs. Lou Aniel, wife of Petty Officer Aniel, was an employee at the concession stand on the evenings of the wrestling matches. She was acquainted with Barrett who on occasion assisted her at the concession stand. She testified that Barrett, when asked by her where he had been on the


night of November 28 following the wrestling matches, replied that he had bought a fifth and had picked up a girl. He also stated, according to Mrs. Aniel, that he and the girl drove around in her car. The girl got drunk and passed out and he got home at 2:00 the following morning.
The state's case depended upon Brantley's identification of Barrett, the connection of Barrett to the pistol, the connection of the projectile removed from McCraw's body to the pistol, as well as the opportunity for Barrett to have been at the Pizza King parking lot when the shooting occurred.
*70 Barrett's defense, as mentioned, was an alibi. In defense he testified that he left the wrestling matches at approximately 10:00 p.m. on November 28 after helping Mrs.Aniel close the concession stand. He stated his mother had attended the matches with him and that he first carried her home and then picked up his wife and children at his mother-in-law's and arrived at his home at about 10:30 that evening. He went then to Jim Bennett's home, which was next door, to deliver a pair of boots and that he, Bennett, and Bennett's wife conversed until about 12:15 when he again returned to his home.
Jimmy Bennett and his wife corroborated Barrett's presence in their home as well as the time he visited. They recalled the clothing worn by the appellant on the occasion which varied from the testimony of the young men who viewed the assailant in the parking lot.
The appellant's mother corroborated her son's


testimony as to her associations with him on the night of November 28.
The appellant's wife testified that her husband left her and the children at her mother's home when he attended the wrestling matches. She stated he returned between 10:15 and 10:30 p.m. on November 28 and they drove directly to their home. When they arrived, the lights were on in the Bennett house and her husband went over to deliver a pair of boots which he had purchased for Bennett. She was emphatic that her husband returned home at approximately 12:25 or 12:30 and recalled the time with particularity by connecting it with a movie she was observing on TV.
The witnesses above gave evidence that appellant's automobile was a red Ford with a white top. They statedthey had never seen Barrett in a gray and black Chevrolet Impala automobile. However, there is evidence that Barrett's sister owned a gray and black automobile which was sometimes repaired by Barrett and on these occasions driven by him. There is no evidence to indicate that he drove his sister's car on the evening of November 28.
Philip Kean testified that he was a contributing newspaper artist and cartoonist with the Meridian Star. He stated that he drew a composite picture of the assailant from a description given by a young man known as Boswell and that to the best of his recollection George Brantley was unable to give him anything by way of description that he could use for a composite drawing.
McNair Perry, a ballistics and weapons expert


of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, testified for the appellant. He stated that the pistol and copper jacket were submitted to him for examination by the Meridian Police Department and from his tests he could not conclude whether the bullet was or was not fired from the pistol. He stated there were insufficient marks on the copper jacket to match or identify it one way or the other as having been fired from the weapon accompanying it.
Several witnesses gave testimony to the appellant's good reputation for veracity and to his general reputation for peace in the community in which he resided.
Since the first assignment of error is that the verdict was against the overwhelming weight of the evidence, we have set out the testimony in some detail. ItNorth Korea has accused the US of preparing to invade, citing an upcoming joint military exercise with South Korean forces and saying President Donald Trump promised in 2018 to stop that activity.

"It is crystal clear that it is an actual drill and a rehearsal of war aimed at militarily occupying our Republic by surprise attack and rapid dispatch of large-scale reinforcements," North Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

After the landmark June 2018 summit between the US and North Korea, the US said it would suspend major military exercises, or "war games," with South Korea, but it continues to engage in smaller exercises.

Trump has complained that major military exercises were too expensive and called on South Korea to foot more of the bill.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last


large-scale reinforcements," North Korea's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

The US and South Korea are set to conduct the "Alliance 19-2" exercise from August 5 to 23, the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo reported last week.

A North Korean nuclear plant in June 2008. REUTERS/Kyodo

North Korea said that at the June 2018 summit in Singapore, President Donald Trump promised Kim Jong Un that joint military exercises between the US and South Korea would be suspended.

The US, while avoiding large-scale "war games," still engages in smaller exercises with South Korean troops.

By holding the exercise in August, the US would break its commitment, North Korea said.

"With the U.S. unilaterally reneging on its commitments, we are gradually losing our justifications to follow through on the commitments we made with the U.S. as well,"the statement said, alluding to the possibility of restarting nuclear tests.

North Korea last year agreed to take steps toward denuclearization and cease testing of ballistic missiles. But in May, it tested a short-range missile.

Read more: A new photo of Trump with Kim Jong Un was hung in the White House next to one of him with Queen Elizabeth

A follow-up statement on the foreign ministry's website on Tuesday said:

"The United States is going to conduct a joint military exercise 'Alliance 19-2' with south Korea in contravention of the commitments made at the highest level at a time when the working-level talks between the DPRK and the U.S. are on the agenda, which has been made possible by the DPRK-U.S. summit meeting in Panmunjom."

Kim meets US President Donald Trump at


a summit in Singapore in June 2018. Getty

Lt. Col. Dave Eastburn, a Pentagon spokesman, confirmed to CNN that the exercise would go ahead.

Eastburn said that US and Republic of Korea forces "are preparing to conduct a combined training program this fall" and that it "has been adjusted to maintain readiness and support diplomatic efforts."

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"This routine combined training demonstrates the United States' commitment to the ROK-US alliance and defense of the Korean peninsula through activities that enhance combined readiness," Eastburn said.

South Korean marines take part in a military exercise on South Korea's Baengnyeong Island on September 7, 2017. South Korean Marine Corps/Yonhap via REUTERS

In March, TrumpThe civil war that beset Somerset cricket more than 30 years ago was all the more remarkable because of the unimposing, bespectacled figure at its centre. Peter Roebuck would not have immediately struck a casual observer as a man capable of going to war. An unconventional loner, gauche even with close friends, he did not meld easily with either the old-fashioned administrators in charge of the club or the imposing superstars, Ian Botham, Viv Richards and Joel Garner, who would eventually be expunged from a Somerset dressing room that had fallen on hard times.

The conflict that took hold of the sleepy market town of Taunton throughout the summer of 1986 dominated the sports pages in a way that now is hard to imagine. Until now, it has only


been possible to hazard a guess at Roebuck's state of mind as he became the principal hate figure for rebel supporters who were campaigning against the county's decision to release their great, long-serving West Indians, Richards and Garner and, as a consequence, accept the ensuing departure of Ian Botham in protest.

Previously unpublished diaries, which were not made available to the authors of the excellent Chasing Shadows: The Life and Death of Peter Roebuck in 2015, have now revealed the full extent of Roebuck's mental anguish. Condemned by his critics, increasingly reviled by Botham in a rift that would last a lifetime, and often left to flounder by Somerset's archaic administration, he presents himself as an honourable man who made his choice and forever fretted over the consequences.

"Lots ofpeople are asking about my health," he writes as Somerset's warfare reaches its height. "I suspect they are waiting for a crack-up." Somerset comfortably won the vote to let go of Richards and Garner at an emergency meeting at Shepton Mallet in November 1986, and Roebuck took the spoils, but his life would never be the same again. Even as victory approaches, he rails at English society as "mean, narrow and vindictive" and falls out of love with the country of his birth for the rest of a life that was to end in tragic circumstances 25 years later.

"Condemned by his critics, reviled by Botham, and often left to flounder by Somerset's archaic administration, he presents himself as an honourable man who made his choice and forever fretted


over the consequences"

By the time he wrote his autobiography, Sometimes I Forgot To Laugh, in 2004, Roebuck was able to tell the Somerset story with relative calm. Not so in his diaries, typed out contemporaneously in obsessive detail, complete with scribbled adjustments. Three unseen chapters of a book called 1986 And All That have been discovered and placed on the family website. "The truth can finally be told," is how the family puts it.

Roebuck was in his first season as Somerset captain, regarding himself as a more relaxed figure, at 30, than the intense batsman who had written the self-absorbed study of life on the county circuit, It Never Rains*, a few years earlier. That self-ease soon departed. In midsummer he was informed at an emergency meeting ofthe management and cricket committee that Martin Crowe had been approached by Essex. Crowe was fast becoming an international star and he had filled in handsomely for Richards during his absence on a West Indies tour. He had long been eyed as a future signing.

Crowe, Roebuck writes, was "a man of brilliance rare in the game, a man of standards rare in the game". Roebuck's yearning to reshape a failing, ageing Somerset side has youth and work ethic at its core and encourages him to support the majority preference on the committee to sign Crowe and release Richards and Garner after many years of loyal service. One wonders how Botham will respond to Roebuck's allegation in the diaries that Botham viewed Crowe at the time as little better


than a good club player.

In Somerset, Richards and Garner were far more than overseas players. They were part of their limited-overs folklore, as much a part of Somerset as scrumpy or skittles. As Roebuck, this cricketing aesthete, frets over the implications, he writes in his diary: "Echoes in my mind kept repeating that this Somerset team could never work, could never be worthwhile unless we abandoned the past and began to build a team around Crowe. Our chemistry was wrong. It hadn't worked with Botham as captain, and it wasn't working with Roebuck as captain. We'd lose Crowe to Essex."

Ian Botham at a press conference Adrian Murrell / © Getty Images

A couple of weeks later, that course of action was confirmed. Sworn to secrecy until the end ofthe season by a Somerset management and cricket committee of 12, a body which Roebuck naively imagines is capable of confidentiality, he ludicrously seeks to maintain discretion in the height of summer in a dressing room awash with rumour. Out on the field, "smiles hid hatred". In Roebuck's version of events, all those responsible for the decision keep their heads down and often fail to tell him what is going on. Rebels soon force an emergency special meeting, and at the end of the season virtually everybody but him seems to disappear for a prolonged holiday - acts, in some cases, of breathtaking irresponsibility. He delays his return to Australia, where he spends the close season, to see the job through.

"I was bound to be forsaken by friends,"


he writes. "It was all right for them, they were amateurs, committee men, they could leave this club and this game at any moment. It was my living, much more was at stake."

A cerebral and unclubbable man, he is ill-equipped for the task - whether the art of appeasement or politics. Lost in his own thoughts, he reads cricket books, watches movies, takes long baths, and makes impromptu visits around the county in search of understanding. Some imagined friends desert him, some of them quite cruelly, and, for the first time, he is assailed by scurrilous rumours about his private life. Tabloid journalists descend upon Taunton, enquiring about his relationship with the young cricketers he houses on an annual basis. Fifteen years later, his belief in the educativelonger fit for purpose, unable to deal with the advent of the celebrity cricketer. It is no coincidence that the mid-'80s also saw county cricket's other great conflict, as Yorkshire descended into internecine strife over the future of Geoffrey Boycott.

"Somerset, a small county area with a small county cricket team is one of the battlegrounds upon which this battle is taking place. It is a battle between old-fashioned standards and celebration of stardom. It isn't really a battle between management and worker at all. Botham is not a worker, cannot pretend to be a working class hero. In this battle the management and the workers are on the same side. "

Peter Roebuck bats Getty Images

Somerset's general committee is elderly white males to a man, and when Roebuck goes


to an area committee meeting in the seaside town of Weston, where incidentally he finds warm support, he learns that a 26-strong committee has been extended to 27 just because somebody else asked to join. "We must change this old, male hegemony in charge of cricket," he writes. "A game cannot, in 1986, be run by genial, sensible pensioners. It is frightening how much cricket depends on the tireless voluntary work of old men."

Much has been made over the years about the enmity that grew from this summer onwards between Roebuck and Botham, polar opposites in character and cricketing approach, But it is Roebuck's fear of Richards' volcanic temperament that stands out most in these unseen chapters, such as an exchange during a Championship match at Worcester, afterhim," Roebuck writes. "He's shown little interest in these young cricketers on previous occasions, but he is a formidable warrior… If he can't win them over he'd certainly try to bully them into line." He even explores likenesses between Botham and Percy Chapman, an Ashes-winning captain in 1926, who "fell into decline, drinking heavily and putting on weight, ravaging his body". He questions Botham's desire to be surrounded by like-minded "chums", not stopping to reflect that he himself was also bent upon building a Somerset side in his own image.

"I am not a loner," he concludes, "rather my preferred pursuits (reading, writing, music) are solitary. I am private, it is true, and enjoy the companionship of my close friends much more than the conviviality of a loud, large


Madigan, Attorney General, Matthew Dunn, Chief, Environmental Enforcement/Asbestos Litigation Division, Ann Alexander, Assistant Attorney General, Chicago, IL and David C. Bender and Bender Law Offices, Madison, on behalf of the State of Illinois.
An amicus curiae brief was filed by Howard A. Learner, Shannon Fisk, Meleah Geertsma, and Environmental Law & Policy Center, Chicago, IL; and Bruce Nilles and Sierra Club, Madison, on behalf of Clean Air Task Force, Citizens for Responsible Power, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Lake Michigan Federation, Physicians for Social Responsibility of Madison, River Alliance of Wisconsin, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, Wisconsin Interfaith Climate and Energy Campaign, and Wisconsin Public Interest Research Group.
An amicus curiae brief was filed by Dennis P. Birke and DeWitt Ross & Stevens S.C., Madison, on behalf of theWEC's application to be complete. The PSC issued an order on April 18, 2003, rejecting the challenge and refusing to reopen its determination.
ķ20 The PSC's "completeness" determination triggered the statutory provision requiring the PSC to issue its final judgment on the application within 180 days. Wis. Stat. § 196.491(3)(g). Eventually, the PSC exercised its option to petition the Dane County Circuit Court for a 180-day extension to this time period. See id. The circuit court granted the extension on April 29, 2003. Accordingly, the PSC had until November 10, 2003, (360 days after the November 15, 2002 completeness determination) to make its final decision.
ķ21 During the PSC's evaluation, Calpine Corporation (Calpine) entered the case in opposition to the project, arguing that it could meet WEC's power generation needs


Stat. § 196.491(3)(a)3.a., as being required prior to construction of the facility.
ķ24 In a split decision, the PSC also ordered WEC to reduce the amount of its mitigation payment to the host municipality, Oak Creek, in light of increased shared revenue payments that were available to Oak Creek under 2003 Wis. Act 31. See generally Wis. Stat. § 79.04.
ķ25 S.C. Johnson & Son, joined by Clean Wisconsin (hereinafter collectively referred to as Clean Wisconsin), Calpine, and Oak Creek sought review of the PSC's decision in the Circuit Court for Dane County, pursuant to Wis. Stat. § 227.52.[19] The circuit court consolidated the actions and issued an order dated November 29, 2004, vacating the PSC's order.
ķ26 In its order, the court addressed various points of alleged error in theis without a rational basis.
ķ71 WEC's CPCN application originally contained three proposed sites that were described in the PSC's final order approving the CPCN:
The North Site is in the City of Oak Creek in Milwaukee County at the east end of Elm Road, north of the existing OCPP [Oak Creek Power Plant] units. The South Site would place the generating units on a portion of the OCPP property south of existing Units 5-8, in the town of Caledonia in Racine County. The South Siteâ  Exp is a variation on the South Site, placing the SCPC units in the same location but with the IGCC facility on a federal/state-owned shooting range (land that WEC would need to purchase).
ķ72 In its decision rejecting Clean Wisconsin's original challenge to its


is in the public interest.
ķ105 The PSC then began its analysis under the EPL by addressing the first listed priority, energy conservation and efficiency: "The applicants' and Commission staff's estimates of achievable energy efficiency do not demonstrate that energy efficiency could reliably or cost-effectively serve to substitute, or postpone, the SCPC units." However, the PSC concluded that "a moderate level of intervention in the energy efficiency market would produce at least 55 MW of cost-effective and technically feasible energy efficiency in WEPCO's service territory by 2008." Therefore, the PSC ordered WEPCO to submit a plan to the PSC for capturing at least 55 MW through energy efficiency programs.
ķ106 The PSC next discussed renewable resources and identified wind power and biomass energy as the resources most likely to bereduce emissions on the existing plants at the site. Finally, it noted that the policy preferences set forth in the EPL are actualized in "the overall pattern of decisions made by each agency," and that since its enactment, the PSC had authorized more than 6,900 MW of natural-gas fueled plants. The PSC emphasized that "[t]he total mix of energy sources that the Commission has approved over this time period shows a pattern of decisions for baseload, intermediate and peaking generating facilities that complies with the state's energy policy."
ķ110 The dispute regarding the EPL centers on the PSC's focus on the need for "baseload" capacity and its conclusion that the natural gas option was not cost-effective and technically feasible for this project. The PSC concluded that in interpreting and


used in a CPCN determination concerning a high sulfur, coal-fueled facility and that the baseload concept is contrary to the plain language of the EPL. In contrast, the PSC contends that great weight deference is appropriate, citing its "substantial experience in processing certificate applications."
ķ112 We agree with the PSC and conclude that great weight deference is appropriate. The PSC satisfies the first requirement for great weight deference because it is clearly charged by the legislature with applying the EPL in its CPCN determinations. Second, the PSC has frequently and consistently interpreted the EPL in light of its obligations under the Plant Siting Law and the particular requirements of the project being proposed.
ķ113 For example, in Application of Madison Gas & Elec. Co., No. 05-CE-121 (Wis. PSC Oct. 9,conclude Calpine fails to show the PSC's application of Wis. Stat. § 196.491(3)(d)7. was unreasonable.

d. Common Systems Approval
ķ182 As previously noted, WEC's CPCN application originally proposed two SCPC units and a single IGCC unit. Construction of these units would involve building certain "common systems" designed to service all three proposed units. The PSC ultimately approved the construction of only the two SCPC units. However, in its final decision and order, the PSC approved the construction of "common systems" capable of supporting a system output greater than that of the two SCPC units. The PSC reasoned:
In approving construction of the SCPC units for 2009 and 2010, the Commission must ascertain the appropriate costs to be placed into each Facility Lease as the "Approved Amount." ERGS includes common facilities that


coolingâ  a process that would aspirate cold water from Lake Michigan, cycle it through the plant for cooling purposes, and then dispel it back into Lake Michiganâ  and failed to analyze the impacts this would have on Lake Michigan. The once-through cooling process would draw an enormous amount of water from Lake Michigan (approximately 740,000 gallons per minute), which would possibly kill millions of aquatic organisms every year. Clean Wisconsin notes that there are alternatives to this cooling process, including cooling towers (that withdraw less water and also reuse the water) and dry cooling (that uses very little water and would have virtually no adverse aquatic impacts). Clean Wisconsin also notes that the last coal-fired power plant that was built (in Pleasant Prairie) uses cooling towers.impinged or entrained is not a measure of the significance of the impact. Rather, the losses must be evaluated relative to the sizes and productivity of the affected populations. The report concluded that, relative to the Lake Michigan fishery, the impacts of entrainment and impingement were inconsequential to aquatic life in Lake Michigan. The DNR concurred with that conclusion.
ķ199 Regarding the discharged water, the EIS also indicated that a study of once-through cooling at the OCPP site along with several other studies for large power plants on Lake Michigan conducted in the 1970's "concluded that operation of the power plants did not significantly affect fish populations in the general vicinity surrounding each facility, or in the far-field areas that were studied beyond thermal plume limits." Further, the EIS


an action are not reasonable.").
ķ211 Upon evaluating the North Oak Creek site, other possible sites near the southern end of WEPCO-owned OCPP property in Racine County were identified. All of these sites, which shared the advantages of once-through cooling and use of existing transmission and rail line infrastructure, were the sites that were eventually identified in the CPCN application:
One of the proposed sites is in the city of Oak Creek in Milwaukee County at the east end of Elm Road, north of the existing OCPP. This site is referred to as the North Site throughout this EIS. A second site, the South Site, is located south of the existing OCPP along the lakeshore. A variation of the South Site was proposed as the applicants' third site alternative. Forimpact of ERGS. Depending on the eventual site chosen, the EIS quantified the estimated wetland acres that would be filled (to create berms and for grading) and the corresponding wetland reduction percentage. Chapter 8 and chapter 10 (entitled "Land Resources") also discussed the secondary impacts on surrounding wetlands. The EIS recognized that at the time of its drafting, no mitigation plans or strategies had been proposed that would minimize the consequences of placing fill in wetlands.
ķ224 Even absent mitigation plans, and regardless of the site chosen at OCPP, the EIS considered that four of the eight wetlands would remain unaffected, while the remaining four would be reduced anywhere from 12-20 percent. Therefore, we conclude that the PSC had a rational basis to conclude the EIS was adequate with


any agreement between the owner or operator of the electric generating facility and the public utility.
(c) The commission shall only approve a mitigation payment agreement that is received by the commission before June 10, 2003, and, if the commission finds the agreement to be reasonable, shall not subsequently modify the agreement.
ķ267 The City sought review of that portion of the PSC's order modifying the mitigation payment agreement. When addressing this issue, the circuit court noted:
The parties agree that the agreement between the City of Oak Creek and WEC was submitted to the PSC before June 10, 2003 and involves a "mitigation payment" within the meaning of sec. 196.20(7), Wis. Stats., as amended by 2003 Wisconsin Act 33. The parties further agree that the treatment of the agreement byif we were to hold the PSC to any waiver regarding the retroactive application of § 196.37, the City would be precluded from arguing that the agreement at issue falls within the exclusion to the statutory definition of "mitigation agreement" in § 196.20(7)(a). The circuit court specifically stated: "The parties agree that the agreement between the City of Oak Creek and WEC was submitted to the PSC before June 10, 2003 and involves a 'mitigation payment' within the meaning of sec. 196.20(7) . . . ." (emphasis added).
ķ272 Wisconsin Stat. § 196.20(7)(c) provides: "The commission shall only approve a mitigation payment agreement that is received by the commission before June 10, 2003, and, if the commission finds the agreement to be reasonable, shall not subsequently modify the agreement."


not required while compensating shared revenue dollars for ERGS are forthcoming." The PSC further concluded that the increased money in shared revenue would "partially offset the city's costs" once the first plant is in service and once both plants were in service "the shared revenue payments will fully replace any mitigation payment under the Development Agreement[.]" The PSC further noted "the annual state shared revenue payments to the City of Oak Creek when ERGS is completed will exceed the amount the city is requesting in the form of mitigation payments from [WEC] ratepayers." Therefore, the PSC ruled that "it is appropriate to reduce the annual mitigation payment by the amount of shared revenue that the city receives for ERGS."
ķ279 The PSC, noting the City would incur costs duringthose parties who have substantial financial interests in the project. One brief, however, stands alone.
ķ299 The State of Illinois has filed a brief on behalf of its citizens because it recognizes that the project's effect would not respect state boundaries. Inevitably, any harm caused by the project to Lake Michigan and its fishery would necessarily affect Illinois residents as well.
ķ300 The State of Illinois shares my conclusion that the EIS is inadequate. Citing federal regulations, Illinois asserts that an EIS is expressly required to "present the environmental impacts of the proposal and the alternatives in comparative form, thus sharply defining the issues and providing a clear basis for choice among options by the decisionmaker and the public." 40 C.F.R. § 1502.14.
ķ301 Although voicing concerns about the failure of


The study relied on data collected from periodic samplingâ   â  89 total samples over a one-year periodâ  â  of the north pumphouse. WEPCO, Intake Monitoring Studies, at II-1 (1976). The four pumps at this site were each rated at 110,000 gpm, with the four pumps at the south pumphouse rated at 198,000 gpm. Thus, the maximum volume of water intake at the existing OCPP structure was 1,232,000 gpm, or 1.77 billion gallons per day. Id. at I-3.

The proposed water intake system would consist of three parts: the remaining OCPP units, originally the south pumphouse; the two proposed SCPC plants; and the proposed IGCC plant. The remaining OCPP units are still rated to 792,000 gpm. The proposed SCPC plants would demand an estimated 970,000On Sunday, about 200 Central Americans arrived at a border crossing near San Diego after an arduous, monthlong journey, on foot, through Mexico. The slow-moving "caravan" has been closely monitored by President Donald Trump, whose obsession with immigrants has gone into overdrive lately. In tweets and other public statements, Trump has evoked dramatic images of a mass invasion at the Southern border. He summoned National Guard troops to guard the border earlier this month, and he has repeatedly renewed his demand for a massive border wall.

"Are you watching that mess that's going on right now with the caravan coming up?" Trump asked the crowd during a rally in Michigan on Saturday night, claiming that San Diego is "being just overrun" by migrants. "Everybody pours through," Trump said to


the crowd.

But images of the migrant caravan belie the reality on the ground. The question of whether an invasion is actually occurring at the Southern border is, of course, an empirical one, and the federal government's own statistics tell a much different story than the one offered by Trump. According to data from the Department of Homeland Security, illegal crossings are now at historic lows -- about one-fifth of what they were at their peak in the late 1990s and early 2000s -- and a large proportion of the immigration flows from Mexico that once occurred illegally now occur through legal channels.

In the six months between October 2017 and March 2018, for instance, the Border Patrol says it apprehended 177,021 unauthorized border crossers. This is about 12 percentfewer than it apprehended during the same six-month period last year. In total, the Border Patrol caught 310,531 illegal border-crossers between October 2016 and October 2017. That may sound like a big number, but the previous time apprehension figures were that low was in 1971, when the Border Patrol caught 302,517 people crossing the border.

Border Patrol apprehensions increased steadily during the 1970s and 1980s, and then skyrocketed during the 1990s when millions of people, mostly from Mexico, crossed the border illegally to fill jobs during the economic boom. Apprehensions along the southwest border peaked at 1.7 million in 2000. They've been declining ever since.

Apprehension data can be an imperfect measure of unauthorized border crossings. The number of apprehensions may fluctuate not due to changes in immigration flows but


who attempted to cross the border seeking better wages. After 2008, unemployment in the U.S. rose and immigrants struggled to find jobs. Since the recession, illegal immigration has stayed relatively low, thanks in part to economic growth and lower birth rates in Mexico.

A final and often overlooked reason for the decrease in illegal border crossings is that a lot of immigration from Mexico that once occurred illegally now occurs legally through temporary worker programs. Between 2004 and 2016 (the most recent year that data are available), the number of Mexicans entering the United States on temporary work visas increased by more than 500 percent, from 137,000 to 843,000.

Trump himself seemed to endorse those increases at a rally in Michigan on Saturday night. "You know, the unemployment picture isbeen driven largely by gang violence, prolonged drought and political upheaval.

And while Trump faults Mexico for "sending" criminals to the United States, the Mexican immigration authorities have, in fact, assisted in stanching the flow of immigrants. This has been particularly helpful in reducing the inflows of Central Americans at our Southwest border, which have gone down by 30 percent since peaking in 2014. Illegal immigration from Central America would likely decrease even further if more Central Americans accessed the temporary labor programs that Mexicans now use in such large numbers.

Certainly, no amount of hard data showing that illegal immigration is at historic lows will persuade Trump to give up on his promised wall or to stop mobilizing the National Guard to defend the border. But facts still matter,


Vocal Coach Stunned By Woman's Flawless Cover Of 'Rise Up'

September 17th, 2019

By Ryan Aliapoulios

Contributor at See It Live

While there are plenty of talented singers out there, there’s always new talent to discover as well.

Though we’re familiar with all kinds of American pop stars and major musical acts, the flood of reality shows tells us that there are still plenty of people across the country (and the world) trying to follow their musical dreams.

Although she’s immensely talented, not many people in America have heard her voice before. Still, she’s had a few of her vocal performances on radio stations go viral online because they’re just that good.

One of those performances featured her singing “Rise Up” by Andra Day.

As anyone who watches American Idol or The Voice knows, “Rise Up”have to be to excuse pedophilia?William Burroughs and Naked Lunch. Brilliant book. But: That he got plastered down in Mexico and killed his common-law wife–he put a glass on top of her head and stepped back a ways to show everybody what a good shot he was by knocking it off. His aim was low. Hit her in the head.(For me, even the idea somebody would shatter a glass on top of my head shows how drunk everybody must have been. Really? Flying glass shards?)Johnny Carson took over The Tonight Show when I was in junior high. I watched him, on and off, for the thirty years he was the king of late night TV. I thought he was funny, a great interviewer, and like Stewart and Colbert


today, that was the place to get your news and be able to laugh at it, instead of crying. I read recently an unathorized bio of Carson, and while you have to take these things with a grain of salt, there was a whole bunch of stuff I did not know about the man.He was a mean drunk, and when he got lit, he beat his wives. He cheated on them all with a slew of women, both right before, and right after, "I do." He was a terrible father; not so much abusive as inattentive. He tried to fire Ed McMahon because he couldn't stand to get upstaged. Ed took the hint and dialed it back. (Apparently the bit that Gary Shandling did with his sidekick onon the road, on radio, then onto a career alone, he cranked out a series of pop hits, the best known of which was "Moon River," which became his signature song, the title of his bio, and the theater he eventually opened in Branson.

One of the kings of Easy Listening, Williams was not a writer, he made his name doing covers, movie soundtracks, and standards, but he was butter-smooth and he picked some winners:

"Music to Watch Girls By," "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You," "Charade," "Born Free," "Dear Heart," and my favorite, "Can't Get Used to Losing You," which is one I keep in my repertoire. Written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman, it's got a catchy, jazzy, syncopated flow.

On his TV show, which ran for years,


he would feature groups like The Jackson Five and The Osmonds, and he did a Christmas special for years that let you know it really was the Christmas season.

Been a couple hip-hop and rap singers who've used his stuff in mash-ups, but chances are most of my younger readers won't know who Williams was unless they happened to hear him on a visit to Grandma's house when her Victrola was going ...

He was eighty-four, and he stayed in front of the mike almost to the end.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

We went to the Chowder and Blues Fest on the coast Friday and Saturday, held in the picturesque little town of Florence. Supposed to be gray and rainy and cold the whole time, turned out to be mostly sunny andresearch. Be honest. An educated electorate is better than one that is not. Do the work.

Monday, September 17, 2012

In 1964, leading man Cary Grant was starting to get a bit long in the tooth. He wasn't far from retiring–he was only sixty, and he lived until he was in his eighties–but he knew he couldn't keep playing lead roles, he didn't want to do character parts, and so he bowed out gracefully.

The movie Father Goose, with Leslie Caron and Trevor Howard, was one of those madcap screwball romantic comedies so popular in the thirties and forties, a genre in which Grant was as good as they got.

Been almost fifty years since I saw it, so my memory is sketchy, but bear with me.

The set-up is, it's WWII, and


Grant, a beach-combing curmudgeon and hard-drinking fellow, is recruited to spy on Japanese overflies on his island in the South Pacific. He reluctantly agrees to do so. One of his scruffiest roles, no suave character here.

Pretty quick, Caron, playing a French school teacher, arrives with a gaggle of little girl students, on the run from the Japanese. Grant has no use for them, and calls on the Navy to come and fetch them, but of course, they can't, so he's stuck.Grant and Caron's characters detest each other on sight, so you know where this is going, it being a screwball romantic comedy. They are at each other constantly, calling each other names, and, of course, the Japanese are coming, so that clock starts ticking. The teacher and girlsare flat-out the scum of the Earth. Stories go places you won't see in most cop shows. I mean, really.

For the readers, the latest Reacher novel is just out, A Wanted Man. These book are fluffy, unrealistic, and one of my guilty pleasures. Fans know that there is a movie version, starring Tom Cruise. Fans also know that, Cruise's action movie abilities notwithstanding, he's the wrong guy for this role. Reacher is a big guy, tall, muscular, and this is an integral part of his make-up. No matter how good a five-eight actor is, he can't sell six-five, even wearing Karloff's Frankenstein's monster boots ...

Saturday, September 08, 2012

In August, a drift-bottle released in 1914 to check water currents was retrieved by a fishing boat. After almost ninety-eight years,


guy just this morning who'd had a mutual acquaintance back in the day, and who spotted my post about the guy when I had discovered he had passed away a few years back. Life is strange.

Friday, September 07, 2012

When we moved into this house, the yard was filthy-thick with juniper bushes. San Jose variety, I think, though I could be wrong. The front yard was completely covered, and it was under the porch overhang. There were some really big bushes in the back, some of them rising to eight feet in height. Our Chow-Chow dog Roxanne, believing she was a cat, tried to follow Stripe up a tree once, and managed to get six feet up in the juniper bush, which was pretty impressive. Eventually, we cut downhim of disorderly conduct because he was walking around naked.Officers said Russell David Persons told them he knew he was naked but didn't think it was a problem.Police first received a call about Persons about 7:13 a.m. when a school bus driver said a naked adult man was walking in front of Five Oaks Middle School on Northwest 173rd Avenue.The driver said there were children on the bus who saw the man.Five Oaks was placed in lockdown and officers were dispatched to the area. Washington County deputies found Persons near Northwest 173rd and Fieldstone. He was reportedly wearing socks, shoes and a backpack -- but nothing else.Police said Persons told them that he had just left a friend's house and had decided to go for a walk. He


caliber, and came with a .22 Magnum cylinder. Great gun. And I wish I still had it.

Because it was a small caliber, the cylinder was smaller In relation to the grip, which was standard size. I got used to those proportions, and later, when I got into center fire calibers, they looked off to me. Grips were too small, cylinder too big. Look at the .22 LR above, and the .45 Colt below.

Then there were the conversions, and the precusers to the 1873 Peacemaker–black powder guns, converted to fire metallic cartridges, and then an open-top 1871-72, which, with the Navy grips, is, to my eye, is one of the best-looking guns ever, albeit they aren't as mechanically sound as the Peacemakers. Shooting black powder is fun, but messy,Hash Partitioning, PARTITION COLUMNS:([sups].[campaignID]))
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Cahors has been called cami gasco or cami ferrat and will lead you to the Lot loop and the city of Cahors.

Day 1

Arrival in Conques. Enjoy the afternoon to visit the historical city and abbey.

Day 2

Conques – Livinhac. 23km (14 miles)- 6 hour walk.
Conques is one of the nicest places of the via Podensis
and is considered a jewel with its three tower basilica standing out of the pointed roofs. The Portal is
an unforgettable real Roman treasure. The Way of Saint James leads to the Saint Roch chapel where
the St James pilgrims can admire the Saint in pilgrim clothes.
Decazeville is a coal mining city. In the past the Lot river
enabled the transportation of coal on flat bottom boats to Bordeaux.

Day 3

Livinhac – Figeac. 25 km (15.5 miles)- 6h30 walk.
Visitconceals a lot of dolmens and Limogne is famous for its truffles market.
This walk can be split into 2 via Cajarc

Day 6

Limogne-en-Quercy - Mas de Vers. 21km (13 miles)- 5h15 walk.
Ancient windmills, wells, wash houses..mark out the way along this stage. The barren loneliness of the Causse hides a discreet life in the hamlets and fortified farms.

Day 7

Mas de Vers-Cahors- 18 km (11 miles)- 4h15 walk.
The Cami Ferrat, this ancient way between Cahors and Caylus is the way you take to reach the Valentré Bridge in Cahors. Night in Cahors.


pharmacopoeias (United States, European, and Japanese) represented by the Pharmacopoeial Discussion Group (PDG). The guidance conveys recognition of the three pharmacopoeial methods by the three ICH regulatory regions and provides specific information regarding the recognition. The guidance is intended to recognize the interchangeability between the local regional pharmacopoeias, thus avoiding redundant testing in favor of a common testing strategy in each regulatory region. The guidance is in the form of an annex to the core guidance on the Q4B process entitled ``Q4B Evaluation and Recommendation of Pharmacopoeial Texts for Use in the ICH Regions (core ICH Q4B guidance).which I do.

The Ms. Flanders to whom Mr. Hunter refers is the first of four victims of spot-on-perfect shootings. The common thread is that all the deceased were involved in the radical political-cum-antiwar movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Some more than others.

Joan Flanders, for example, is the ultraprogressive scion of a famous American acting clan. Her political consciousness was accelerated after she was photographed aboard the carriage of a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun. Reviled by millions, she subsequently married and divorced a loudmouth media mogul and made millions from a series of exercise videos. The parallel to “Hanoi Jane” Fonda and her real-life ex, “Mouth from the South” CNN founder Ted Turner, are unmistakable.

Second and third victims are Jack Strong and Mitzi Reilly, a couple of academics


from Chicago who were involved in the radical politics that included bank robbery and bombings. The real-life parallels? The Weather Underground, whose 1970s operations included bombings and a Brinks armored truck robbery. Strong and Reilly are offed in - what else? - their Volvo. The final corpse is Mitch Greene, a left-wing political comic in the Mort Sahl vein. Greene is snuffed during a book tour.

The FBI’s guilty party of choice is a former Marine Gunnery Sgt. named Carl Hitchcock, “the most famous sniper in America.” Hitchcock had 93 kills in Vietnam and for a while was regarded as that war’s pre-eminent sniper. However, Hitchcock wasn’t in fact top of the heap. Another Marine, Chuck MacKenzie, was discovered much later to have had 96 kills. The way thethe gossip columns.

Here, too, Mr. Hunter is trying to parallel history, although less successfully. The best-known sniper from the Vietnam era was a self-effacing gunnery sergeant named Carlos N. Hathcock. Carlos, with whom I spent time in the 1990s, had 93 confirmed kills in Vietnam. But he wasn’t No. 1. That honor went to another Marine, Sgt. Chuck Mawhinney, who had 103 confirmed kills.

Right up until his death in 1999 from multiple sclerosis, Gunny Hathcock devoted much of his time and depleted energy toward the inculcation of young snipers in craft and theory. He and his wife, Jo, lived in a bungalow in Virginia Beach. It was a hub for SEAL sharpshooters, SWAT cops from as far away as Richmond or Washington and Marines from just about anywhere.


All were welcome.

I know Mr. Hunter is writing fiction, but I wish he had stayed away from trying to make readers think he might be writing about Carlos Hathcock. Because in doing so, he diminishes the memory of one of the most modest, generous patriots of the 20th century.

Moreover, the book contains multiple reporting errors. Mr. Hunter should have been more diligent, especially because he is being marketed by his publisher as an expert on matters tactical.

The 7.62x51 168-grain boat tail hollow-point bullet, for example is, according to Mr. Hunter, “unanimously used in its Federal or Black Hills loading by most SWAT teams as well as nearly all Army, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Navy dedicated marksmen, combat or otherwise. It was the magic bean that terminated theKoren.

Source: The Design Chaser | Earnest Home Co | House of Hipsters | Stephanie Sterjovski

3 Play with dynamic contrasts

Rather than adding interest to the home by piling decorations onto every surface, the minimalist interior creates dramatic effects with contrast. In a home of neutral colours, incorporate a single bright colour. Contrast glass, concrete and metallic elements with the warmth of natural timber, rattan or cheerful holiday souvenirs. A simple plain white sideboard assumes a new identity with an arrangement of colourful objects displayed on top. Mix and match – the old and new, utilitarian and decorative, stone and timber – this is the recipe to creating an inspiringly vibrant home. However, this is more of an art than a science, so be brave, and follow your gut feelings.

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Google announces $1 billion expansion in New York City

Say Hello To Google Hudson Square

(NEW YORK, NY) — New York City continues to become the central hub for tech companies.

In a blog post written by Ruth porat, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Google, the company announced that it will spend $1 billion on a new campus, Google Hudson Square, in the West Village along the Hudson River.

The campus will span over 1.7 million square feet and comes nearly two decades after Google opened its first location in New York—which now employs over 7,000 people.

It’s been quite a year for Google. Back in March, the company announced its $2.4 billion purchase of Chelsea Market as well as its plans to occupy space at Pier 57.

According to thedebt is held domestically by the Japanese themselves.

Over 20% of the debt is held by Japan Post Bank, the Bank of Japan, and other government entities. Japan Post is the largest holder of domestic savings in the world, and it returns interest to its Japanese customers. Although theoretically privatized in 2007, it has been a political football, and 100% of its stock is still owned by the government. The Bank of Japan is 55% government-owned and 100% government-controlled.

Of the remaining debt, over 60% is held by Japanese banks, insurance companies and pension funds. Another chunk is held by individual Japanese savers. Only 5% is held by foreigners, mostly central banks. As noted in a September 2011 article in The New York Times:

The Japanese government is in deep debt,


decade that the Fed has conjured up and continues to call, moronically, “price stability.”

He cites as evidence the following graph from the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs:

How is that possible? It all depends on where the money generated by quantitative easing ends up. In Japan, the money borrowed by the government has found its way back into the pockets of the Japanese people in the form of social security and interest on their savings. Money in consumer bank accounts stimulates demand, stimulating the production of goods and services, increasing supply; and when supply and demand rise together, prices remain stable.

Myths About the “Lost Decade”

Japan’s finances have long been shrouded in secrecy, perhaps because when the country was more open about printing money and using it to support itsindustries, it got embroiled in World War II. In his 2008 book In the Jaws of the Dragon, Fingleton suggests that Japan feigned insolvency in the “lost decade” of the 1990s to avoid drawing the ire of protectionist Americans for its booming export trade in automobiles and other products. Belying the weak reported statistics, Japanese exports increased by 73% during that decade, foreign assets increased, and electricity use increased by 30%, a tell-tale indicator of a flourishing industrial sector. By 2006, Japan’s exports were three times what they were in 1989.

The Japanese government has maintained the façade of complying with international banking regulations by “borrowing” money rather than “printing” it outright. But borrowing money issued by the government’s own central bank is the functional equivalent of the government


A New York City elementary school teacher hopes to become the fastest woman to run all the way from Los Angeles to the Big Apple.

Keila Merino kicked off her two-month-long journey at City Hall Friday night.

Many say a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step, and the same goes for a 3,000-mile run. Add all those steps up and you may see a new world record by Merino.

Merino is hoping to finish her run in less than 69 days, which would break the women's world record for a cross-country run.

In order to reach her goal, Merino will have to run 50 to 60 miles a day, which is the equivalent of two marathons a day, every day, for two months.

"I've been training for this for thelast few months, and I've been running up to 30 miles a day for about two weeks straight," she explained.

The ambitious athlete's last tune-up race was a 100K run around New York City.

Merino said she's not just running for the record. She is a school teacher and is raising money for a children's running charity.

"I see a lot of different, negative things happening with the kids with obesity and diabetes and things that shouldn't happen but are happening because we're not making that a priority," she exclaimed.

Merino said she plans to be running from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., sleeping during the day and using an RV for bathroom duties.

It is an unusual journey of 3,000 miles one step at a time.

"I'm really excited about the sunsets and


The “Bombing” of TWA 800

by Reed Irvineon September 19, 2001

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Over five years have passed since the crash of TWA Flight 800 killed 230 people, and now, at long last, two former high ranking government officials speaking on television have implicitly disavowed the claim that a fuel-tank explosion caused the destruction of that airplane.

The government’s $40 million investigation of the crash of TWA Flight 800 ended up with the National Transportation Safety Board, the FBI and the CIA all agreeing that an explosion in the center-wing fuel tank caused it to crash. They said that after the explosion broke off the entire front end of the plane, its tail dropped and it shot up like a rocket, trailing burning fuel behind it. They said that was what hundreds ofeyewitnesses saw, mistaking it for a missile. The CIA actually produced a video showing the huge noseless jet ascending like a rocket, an aeronautical impossibility.

They got away with it because our establishment media in the Clinton era had the bad habit of believing nearly everything government agencies told them, even if it was patently ridiculous. But now, a former White House official, George Stephanopoulos, who was a senior adviser to President Clinton, has made a statement on television that indicates that the claim that a fuel-tank explosion caused the TWA 800 crash was false. On September 11, the unforgettable day of disaster, Stephanopoulos, who is now an ABC News correspondent, was talking to ABC’s Peter Jennings on camera about President Bush being flown to Offutt Air Force Base


in Nebraska and taken to the situation room on the base where he could keep in touch with Washington by teleconferencing.

Stephanopoulos, implying that this was unnecessary, made this surprising statement: “There are facilities in the White House, not the normal situation room, which everyone has seen in the past, has seen pictures of. There is a second situation room, behind the primary situation room, which has video conferencing capabilities. The director of the Pentagon, the defense chief, can speak from a national military command center at the Pentagon. The Secretary of State can speak from the State Department, the President from wherever he is, and they’ll have this capability for video conferencing throughout this crisis. In my time at the White House it was used in the aftermatha very important change in the story about TWA 800. When informed of this, Brian Ross, who heads ABC News’s investigative unit, promised to look into it.

There had to be something special about the TWA 800 crash to justify holding a meeting in the White House situation room to discuss it. That surely is not done every time one of our planes crashes. Stephanopoulos said that it was held in the “aftermath of the bombing,” but the precise date and time are important.

In his book, “The Downing of TWA Flight 800,” James Sanders says that there was a meeting in the White House situation room on the night of July 17, 1996, that began before the crash. Sanders says that he was told by a confidential source that


high officials gathered there to watch in real time a video transmission of a Navy demonstration of its ability to shoot down a missile off the shore of Long Island. They were horrified when something went wrong and they saw the missile shoot down TWA Flight 800. What Stephanopoulos should tell us is whether the meeting he described began before or after the plane crashed. If he won’t reveal that, the White House should.

The fuel-tank theory of the crash was also disavowed by James Kallstrom, who headed the FBI investigation. He said on CNN on September 11 that the attack that day was “the first act of terrorism in the U.S. since TWA 800.” He has yet to explain when he discovered that TWA 800 was brought downChanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kocchar were first questioned by the ED on May 13 for over eight hours. They were questioned again on Tuesday and Wednesday.

New Delhi: Former ICICI Bank CEO and Managing Director Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kocchar are being questioned by the Enforcement Directorate for the third consecutive day, stated news agency ANI. The case is related to the alleged bank loan fraud and money laundering case registered against them.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar appeared before the ED in connection with the ICICI-Videocon Loan Case. On Monday, they were questioned by the agency for over eight hours in Delhi.

In the month of March, they were questioned by the agency in Mumbai. The couple on Tuesday arrived at


the agency’s headquarters in Khan Market around their scheduled appearance time of 11:30 am, stated official sources. Their statement was recorded under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) by the investigating officer of the case, added the sources

The Kochhars were supposed to depose before the agency earlier this month but they had then sought an extension of time and were allowed.

Chanda Kochhar’s brother-in-law and Deepak’s brother, Rajiv Kochhar, was also grilled by the ED multiple times in the case a few days ago. The CBI had also questioned Rajiv Kochhar in the same case in the past. He is the founder of Singapore-based Avista Advisory and was questioned by the CBI about his company’s role in the restructuring of the loan, said the sources.

Rajiv Kochhar was askedby CBI sleuths about the help he had extended to Videocon in relation to the loan from ICICI Bank, which was part of a Rs 400-billion credit given by a consortium of 20 banks to the group of main promoter, Venugopal Dhoot.

The ED has registered a criminal case under the PMLA early this year against Chanda Kochhar, Deepak Kochhar, Dhoot and others to probe alleged irregularities and corrupt practices in sanctioning of Rs. 1,875-crore loans by the Bank to the corporate group.

This ED action was based on a CBI FIR. The Central Bureau of Investigation has named all the three and Dhoot’s companies – Videocon International Electronics Ltd (VIEL) and Videocon Industries Limited (VIL). The CBI also named Supreme Energy, a company founded by Dhoot, and NuPower Renewables,


from the Korean Health Technology R&D Project, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Republic of Korea (HI13C1263). This work was also supported by National Research Foundation grants (NRF-2012-M3C1A1-048860 and NRF-2014R1A2A1A10053662) and by the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) Future Systems Healthcare Project, which is funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning of Korea. This work was also supported by the Bio-Synergy Research Project (NRF-2013R63A9C4078136) of the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning through the National Research Foundation.

Design of the work: Pil Soo Sung, Eui-Cheol Shin, Seung Kew Yoon. Drafting the work or revising it: Pil Soo Sung, Eui-Cheol Shin, Seung Kew Yoon. Final approval of the version to be published: Eui-Cheol Shin, Seung Kew Yoon.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.
A group of six IIT Students, Kamil Bober (Chem), Simon Brauer (Psych), Annie Hutches (Arch), Savannah Prout (Business), Dhara Shah (BME), and Alex Stiles (ME) visited Lascahobas, Haiti on December 10 to implement the culmination of their work for IPRO 335: IIT Empowering Haiti. The team was led by Associate Professor of Political Science Laura Hosman, founder and CEO of Green Wifi Bruce Baikie, ICTD UC-Boulder graduate student Kevin McElhinney, and UIC nursing student Adriana Matos.

The team installed a solar solution in the EFACAP school to charge 400 XO laptops in August 2011 and returned this December to bring WiFi connectivity, install a server to remotely monitor the progress of the solar solution, install a separate server for the teachers to create and share lesson plans, and build


and install XO charging stations to dock the laptops in a safer, more secure manner to ensure the longevity of the laptops.

In addition to all of the installations, the team held meetings with teachers at the school to discuss their usage and familiarity of technology in the classroom and talk about next steps of the project. The team trained the teachers on how to use the internet and server—the teachers were quite amazed with the internet and expressed eagerness to use the tools in the classroom. The school had also arranged for the team to meet with parents of the school’s students to discuss their opinions of the project.

Following the installations and meetings, the team visited three other primary schools and met with the directors to interview andcomprising a few extreme right-wing associates. But any serious person would insist on the dismantling of this weird group as another condition for taking the job.

The national security adviser plays several roles. He or she chairs the Principals Committee, the interagency group of Cabinet secretaries and top military and intelligence officers who help make decisions on high matters of policy; coordinates the NSC staff, which includes a few dozen political appointees and a couple hundred professional analysts; and advises the president, to the extent the president wants to be advised. In other words, to make the job worthwhile, the adviser must have close access to the president and clear lines of authority over the national security bureaucracy.

Trump would not guarantee Harward this sort of authority, so Harward turned


the job down. The Post reported that Harward was also reluctant to accept the offer for financial reasons, worried that leaving his job as a senior executive at Lockheed Martin would hurt his family. Yet few military officers—especially retired generals and admirals—let such factors get in the way of serving the president. CNN quoted one of Harward’s friends saying that, in mulling over the decision, he was persuaded most of all by the sheer dysfunction of Trump’s presidency, describing the job he was offered as “a shit sandwich.”

Harward would have come to the job with the experience of a warrior, a commander, an analyst, and a staff officer. In his 38 years as a Navy officer, he had been a SEAL, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command,the representative of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the National Counterterrorism Center, and the director of strategy and policy on the National Security Council staff.

In other words, Trump was given a choice: cater to the loyalty and ambitions of his political operatives, who have no competence whatsoever in national security affairs, or install a professional who can build and maintain a functioning national security apparatus. He chose the former.

Harward would also have had a link to Secretary of Defense James Mattis, who was commander of U.S. Central Command when Harward was its deputy. It’s possible that some in Trump’s inner circle, especially Bannon, wouldn’t want there to be these sorts of ties, as they could be used to bypass the White House and circumvent


crowd,” (Thomas 1992: 117). It was a success. The songs were written by talented men, and performed by pop stars of the day (we’ll get to that too).

MUSIC

Music-wise, a lot of talented people were involved in the music of this film. Oliver & Company was nominated for the “Best Original Song Motion Picture Golden Globe in 1989 for the song “Why Should I Worry?” This song was written by Dan Hartman and Charlie Midnight, and performed by the voice of Dodger, Billy Joel.

The opening number, “Once Upon a Time in New York City,” comes from Barry Mann (music) and Howard Ashman (lyrics). “Streets of Gold,” by Dean Pitchford and Tom Snow, was performed by R&B singer Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters. “Good Company” was written by RobMinkoff (lyrics) and Ron Rocha (music), and performed by Myhanh Tran.

The final number that everyone recognizes, “Perfect Isn’t Easy,” was written by Barry Manilow, Jack Feldman, and Bruce Sussman, and performed by Bette Midler. The talents of the songwriters, plus the added star power of Billy Joel, Ruth Pointer, and Bette Midler, make Oliver & Company a movie with a soundtrack that is hard to forget.

The score was composed by J.A.C. Redford, who in addition to his long list of compositions, worked on the music for James Cameron’s Avatar as the orchestrator. The soundtrack is fun, upbeat and fits into the music of the day. Like older films, it takes bits from the songs in the film and weaves them together in a fun way.

It’s clear that the


family the next day, he runs into a smooth-talking dog, Dodger, who promises to teach him how to survive on the street. Dodger, being a street-wise dog, had actually just wanted to use Oliver to cause a distraction while he stole a string of hot dogs from a local vendor.

This theft and Oliver’s indignant reaction to what he sees as a betrayal lead into the song, “Why Should I Worry?” performed to perfection by Billy Joel. The number spirals to include every dog in downtown New York, with Dodger explaining his life philosophy on not worrying.

Thinking he’s lost the gullible little cat, Dodger heads home to his friends, not realizing that Oliver is following him home. Here, we meet the gang, or the “Company” in Oliver & Company.girl, was in the back of the limo and when Oliver sees the shadow in the back he accidentally turns the key. This electrocutes Tito and he is flung from the car while Oliver is trapped inside

Luckily for Oliver, Jenny, the little girl, sees Oliver and untangles him. She falls in love instantly, and, despite her caregiver Winston’s objections, she is sure her parents won’t mind her keeping the little cat.

Oliver is not the only pet in Jenny’s 5th Avenue townhouse, however. She also has a pureblood poodle, Georgette, who is less than amused at the idea of having to share her house with another pet, particularly a small cat. Jenny is sure that her four-legged friends, both so beloved by her, are going to be great friends.


looking up. However, when Jenny turns up with a piggy bank in a terrible part of town, scared and alone, Fagin pretends to find Oliver and reunites the two. Unfortunately, Sykes is watching and kidnaps Jenny, canceling his account with Fagin.

Oliver is scared for his person, but Dodger promises that they’ll save her. With Georgette, they set off to rescue Jenny from Sykes. He is, meanwhile, preparing to ransom her back to her parents (who are at a conference in Rome, so fairly well-off).

Using the street smarts that they have honed over the years through their theft, the gang’s first task is to throw Oliver into the building in a homemade catapult. This works, and he lets the rest of the gang in. They figure out where Jennyis, and develop a plan to get her out.

Using the street smarts that they have honed over the years of theft, the gang figures out where Jenny is, and develop a plan to get her out. First of all, they put Oliver in an old helmet and toss him into the building through a window. The Dobermans are sent to investigate, and Oliver sneaks around them, letting the others in through a window.

On locating Jenny, the plan develops further. With Roscoe and Desoto having caught their scent, a diversion is needed. Francis, Tito, and Einstein impersonate a pizza delivery guy, drawing Sykes out of the room where Jenny is held. This allows Oliver and Dodger to bust in and work on saving her.

Georgette and the decoys manage to


can escape, but Sykes gives chase in his car. Even trying to escape into the subway doesn’t deter him, as he just drives his car onto the track.

In the confusion of a car chasing a scooter/cart through the subway tunnels, Sykes is able to ram into the back of the scooter, causing Jenny to fall off and land on the hood of his car. Sykes grabs her, but Oliver will not let his human be hurt. He jumps onto the car and bites Sykes’ hand. Sykes lets go of Jenny, but he flings Oliver into the backseat of his car. This leaves Oliver alone with two angry and hungry Dobermans.

Seeing Oliver in trouble, Dodger jumps into the car as well. Roscoe and Dodger are thrown out the backwindow in the scuffle. Trying to take Dodger down with him, Roscoe falls off into the tunnel and is electrocuted (the car with no wheels and the subway make a dangerous combination).

Enraged, Desoto takes revenge. Although he almost succeeds in pushing Dodger off of the back of the car into the tunnel, Oliver jumps in. This pushes Desoto off the car, and the Dobermans are no more. Oliver, in the flurry, almost falls off the car himself, but Dodger catches him.

Meanwhile, Jenny is still riding on the hood of Sykes’ car. Calling for help, Fagin jumps to the back and, when Oliver and Dodger attack Sykes, she is able to jump to Fagin. Fagin’s absence from the wheel gives Tito control of the scooter, and, with Georgette behind