helped his country win the 2011 IIHF World Championship.

His pro accomplishments began with Rookie of the Year honors off a 40-point season in 43 games for HIFK Helsinki of the Finnish Elite League at age 17. He then tied for a scoring title a year later, which is unthinkable for that league at his age, and capped off the season off by winning a championship with HIFK. After career highs of 20 goals and 51 points in 2011-12, he was signed by the Wild in time to avoid rules forcing him to re-entering the Draft.

"Yes, he's as advertised," assistant GM Brent Flahr told NHL.com. "Mikael's smaller in stature, but he's a dynamic player. Obviously he's highly skilled and his hockey sense is high-end. He just thinks the gameat another level. He's a pretty competitive guy."

Yeo wants to install Granlund at center in training camp, but he also could also be tried at wing with Wild captain Mikko Koivu, his teammate and close friend on two Finnish national teams. Both will be huge parts of the team's future, and Granlund's friendship with Koivu will undoubtedly help in adjusting to life and hockey in North America.

"The way [Granlund] distributes the puck and makes plays, we obviously want to put him in as many offensive situations with good offensive players as we can," Flahr said. "And we'll see how he does, but realistically, he's going to get a look there."

Added Granlund to the Wild's official web site: "I've improved a lot of things. Everything as a player; I'm


stronger and I think I'm ready to play in the NHL next season."

2. Charlie Coyle, RW: The former San Jose Sharks' first-round draft pick has everything going for him to make the jump to Minnesota in short order.

"He is a true power forward, and believe me, we could use a true power forward just like any team in the League," Fletcher told Wild TV.

Leaving Boston University during Christmas break last season, Coyle caught on with the high-powered Saint John Sea Dogs of the Quebec Major Junior League, and joined forces with fellow Wild prospect Zack Phillips to become a formidable duo. Coyle piled up 15 goals and 38 points in just 23 regular season games, and then dominated in the playoffs with a team-record 34 points (15 goalsand 19 assists) that led all scorers. He was awarded Guy Lafleur Trophy as most valuable player of the QMJHL playoffs, becoming the first American to win the honor since Hall of Fame member Pat LaFontaine did it for Verdun in 1983.

Willing to propel his 6-foot-2, 207 pound frame through or around opponents, the East Weymouth, Mass., product was the key component for Fletcher in the Wild's dealing of Brent Burns to San Jose at the 2011 Draft. Coincidentally, the deal also included a first rounder that was used to select Phillips, along with Devin Setoguchi.

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"His skill set with his size and strength, they're just so hard to come by," Flahr said. "Moving to Saint John, he was able to play with some great players and at the same time take his offensive game to another level."

With at least half of their potential 12 regular forwards standing less than six feet tall, the Wild will benefit having a big man with soft hands around the net in their lineup like Coyle.

"With the way he works off the ice, his physical strength and physical maturity has advanced to the point where he can come in and legitimately challenge for a spot," Flahr said. "We're not putting pressure on him,but at the same time, we know he's not far off."

3. Jonas Brodin, D: There are no stats produced by Brodin that are going to wow anyone. What makes the Wild excited about the Sweden native is that he possesses an uncanny brand of hockey acumen marked by superior composure, intelligence and footwork.

The first round (No. 10) of the 2011 Draft "is a very special player," according to Flahr, who even offered that Brodin was arguably one of the best skaters in the world already at age 19. "He's got great poise with the puck and very smart defensively. He's continuing to get stronger. He's pretty close to stepping in, and I think when you put him with good or better players, he's going to excel. We have


high, high expectations for him coming here in the near future."

He will need to add strength to his 6-foot-1, 168-pound frame, but as Granlund did in the Finnish Elite League, Brodin was able to thrive starting as a 17-year-old playing against men and NHL-quality players in the Swedish Elite League the past two seasons, as well as on the men's national team. Brodin notched eight assists in 49 regular-season games for Farjestads BK Karlstad this past season, and was a mainstay on the blue line for gold-medal winner Sweden at the 2012 IIHF World Junior Championship with four assists in the tournament.

"[Brodin has] great savvy, doesn't get rattled, has the ability to go back for pucks under forecheck pressure and make the right decision," Fletcher said after Brodinimpressed in the Wild's development camp this summer. "Great mobility and first pass -- and he's a really good defender. He's not a flashy player, but very effective."

That goes for both Dumba's personality and his way of introducing himself to enemy forwards on the ice, where he deftly uses his still-growing 6-foot frame to throw rattling hits whenever he gets a chance.

Compared by some observers to Dion Phaneuf and Mike Green, Dumba provides offense to his crash-and-bang game, evidenced by a 20-goal, 37-assist season in 69 games for Red Deer of the Western Hockey League in 2011-12. He was the captain of Canada's bronze medal team at Under-18 World Championships, where he earned Best Defenseman honors and recorded 12 points (five goals, seven assists) in seven games.

"Matt's a


dynamic player," Flahr said. "He's a terrific skater with very good hands and offensive instincts. He shoots the puck a ton, loves to hit and he plays just a high-energy game."

The Wild have a strong forward unit, but are in need of more impact players on the back end to support Ryan Suter. Dumba's unique blend of skill, physicality and emotional exuberance will be a welcome fit whenever he makes it.

"He's one of those players that is real exciting and should have a big impact," Flahr said. "He loves the game and plays with a lot of passion. Just the way he carries himself off the ice is very similar to the way he plays on it."

Dumba also impressed Fletcher with his leadership qualities and high fitness levelat development camp. His electricity on the ice earned him an invite to Canada's 2012 World Junior Championship camp, where he was the youngest player.

5. Zack Phillips, C: If and when Phillips makes it to Minnesota, it is a strong possibility he will see a familiar face in Saint John teammate Coyle, with whom he won a QMJHL championship last year. But he will also likely see time playing on a top-six unit or power play unit, which is where his outstanding vision for the game puts him.

For three seasons, Phillips has flexed his playmaking abilities playing on a Saint John squad loaded with already-drafted talents like Florida's Jonathan Huberdeau, Montreal's Nathan Beaulieu and Detroit's Tomas Jurco. After winning a Memorial Cup in 2011, Phillips outscored them all


this past season with 30 goals and 80 points in 60 games, and was named the team's MVP. He then tallied the most assists in the QMJHL postseason with 23 and added nine goals across 17 playoff games.

"Very few people in our organization can see the ice the way Zack can," Fletcher told Wild TV.

Phillips' established chemistry with Coyle is certainly an advantage for the Wild to envision when the time comes for both to be in the lineup creating offense together, be it in the AHL with Houston or up with the big club.

"Zach is a high-skill forward with very good hands and offensive sense. He is a terrific power play player and produces points. He's a very intelligent, competitive player, so we're excited about him," Flahrsaid.

The Wild's second first-round pick in 2011 (No. 28) -- obtained in the Burns trade on draft day -- will need to refine his all-around game to move to the next level, according to Flahr and Gallant.

"He's got great vision, he puts up numbers, I just think he's got to get stronger and work harder at his game a little bit, but his offensive instincts are just outstanding," Gallant told the Wild's PONDcast this past spring.

6. Brett Bulmer, LW: Another power forward in the making for Minnesota, Bulmer made the Wild out of training camp last season and enjoyed a nine-game cameo, where he assisted on three goals and played the body most willingly.

One of three second-round draft picks the Wild had in 2010 (No. 39), Bulmer came


to this year's development camp in tremendous shape again, bulking up to 204 pounds from 185 when he was drafted, according to Fletcher.

"Bulmer is a 6-foot-3 winger with very good speed, and a good all-around game as far as skill," Flahr said. "He knows how to play on the defensive side, but he also brings an edge, which is a big part of his game in getting under the opposition's skin, finishing checks and playing a really aggressive game."

Bulmer has increased his goal and point totals in each of the last three seasons with Kelowna of the WHL. Once the Wild returned him to the Rockets, Bulmer ripped home 34 goals and 28 assists in 53 games, tacking on 93 penalty minutes. The Wild then moved him totheir farm team in Houston afterward for their playoff run, where he contributed two goals and two assists in 10 combined regular season and playoff games.

After getting a taste of NHL life last season, Bulmer represents the good problem that the Wild deal with in having so many effective prospects to find spots for. His size and intensity are certainly intriguing.

"We're going to see where he fits, but he's certainly made his presence felt here with our team and our coaches," Flahr said. "He's coming here with the intention of making our team."

7. Jason Zucker, LW: Smallish, but elusive on the ice, Zucker is another 2010 second-round pick of the Wild (No. 59) that has already seen NHL action, recording two assists in a six-game look-see at season's


end after giving up his final two years of college eligibility to sign.

With another look at Zucker in this summer's development camp, Fletcher noted, "the one thing that separates Jason from a lot of kids in our camp is his ability to use his speed to separate himself from players and score goals. Hopefully he can continue those trends in the NHL. Jason's certainly going to push hard for a spot."

Raised in Las Vegas, Zucker earned Western Collegiate Hockey Association Freshman of the Year honors with a 45-point effort at the University of Denver. He followed up with 22 goals and 46 points in 38 games as a sophomore before joining the Wild.

"Jason brings us speed and the ability to score goals," Flahr said. "He's a little differentthan some of our other [prospects]. With the way he skates, the way he pressures the puck, and the way he shoots the puck, he gives us a presence that should help us generate offense going forward. He knows how to play the defensive game and is a good all-around player.

"He's a pretty confident kid and has played in a lot of big games throughout his career, so we're excited to get him going here."

Zucker has been fortunate enough to be part of three gold medal-winning United States teams at the 2009 and 2010 World Under-18 Championships, and at the 2010 World Junior Championship. He also served as the captain of the U.S. squad at the 2012 WJC.

8. Johan Larsson, LW: The past year could not have gone


any better for Larsson. Captaining Sweden's first gold medal-winning team at the WJC since 1981 may have been just the tip of the iceberg for the 5-foot-10, 200-pounder.

Johan Larsson captained Sweden to its first gold medal at the WJC in more than two decades in 2012. (Getty Images)

The second of the Wild's three second-round picks in 2010 (No. 56) won Rookie of the Year honors in the Swedish Elite League while skating for Brynas with 12 goals and 24 assists in 49 games. Topping that off, Larsson assisted on both Brynas goals in a 2-0 win against Skelleftea to capture the SEL Championship.

Larsson was signed to an entry-level contract by the Wild in May 2011, and the team is eager to see how he does at training camp.

"He'san underrated guy because most people [in North America] don't know him yet," Flahr said. "Johan's a very good all-around player. He plays both ways, he's a fire hydrant in terms of how he's built, and a very competitive, aggressive, passionate guy. He has very good hands and makes plays, he can play on the defensive side of the puck, whatever you need him to do, he can do. We're very confident he can become a good player here for us in the future."

9. Matt Hackett, G: An all-star season in the AHL helped Hackett make things interesting when he was first called up to the Wild for spot duty last season.

The nephew of former NHL goaltender Jeff Hackett was a revelation in going 2-0 with a 0.85


year's U.S. World Junior squad as he attends the evaluation camp in Lake Placid, N.Y.

The Plymouth, Minn., native was the 60th selection at the 2011 NHL Draft.

"He's a tall, lanky kid that's going to have to put on strength, but he is a highly-skilled kid with good hands and offensive instincts," Flahr said. "He's going to a good program where he'll continue to get stronger and work on his game. We know he's a couple of years away, but he's a talented kid we have hopes for."

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The NHL uses cookies, web beacons, and other similar technologies. By using NHL websites or other online services, you consent to the practices described in our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service, including our Cookie Policy.Whiting finally gets a 'shot' at Olympic gold

Jeneba Tarmoh (bottom) and Allyson Felix finish at exactly the same time in the women's 100 meter final on Saturday. The USATF is still determining how to break the tie. (USATF / Getty Images)

The reigning indoor world champion qualified second in the shot put and will be at the London Games.

By Elliott Denman, For The Inquirer

Posted: June 26, 2012

EUGENE, Ore. - He's already the world indoor shot-put champion.

His 72-foot, 23/4-inch toss during the world championships last March in Istanbul remains the globe's longest this Olympic year.

Now, Ryan Whiting gets his chance to go for Olympic gold.

The 6-foot-3, 295-pound graduate of Central Dauphin High and Arizona State is poised to make a major impact at the London Olympic Games after placing second


before the 200 starts its rounds Thursday.

"Just leave them alone until after they run the 200 meters, and then come up with a decision [on] how they're going to settle this," he said. "This is a situation to be dealt with later, after you give the athletes an opportunity to focus on what they need to do, what they've been waiting around to do for four years."

The 200 finals are Saturday, and the trials conclude the next day.

Tough competition in 400. Penn State sophomore Brady Gehret was the 400's biggest surprise, a lad among veterans in the eight-man 400-meter final. Running against pros, including the last two Olympic champions, the Altoona native wound up eighth in 45.48 seconds.

The race went to reigning Olympic champion LaShawn Merritt in 44.12.

"Iwas probably in the lead halfway though," said Gehret, who ran in Lane 8. "I just couldn't maintain. But just getting to the final was a big-time accomplishment."

Gay is back. After he flew down the track, not a trace of a limp in his step, this much was clear in the men's 100-meter final on Sunday night: The old Tyson Gay was back. He finished second to 2004 Olympic gold medalist Justin Gatlin, who crossed the line in 9.80 seconds. Gay was only 0.06 seconds behind, and he will be going to London.

Long jump decided. Marquise Goodwin won the long jump with a personal-best of 27-4 on his final attempt, putting him on the Olympic team.


LIKELY No.1 pick Matt Rowell admits he has started to track the lower end of the ladder as he gets his head around which club he could land at in November's NAB AFL Draft.

The Vic Metro midfielder averaged 25 disposals and five clearances in the NAB AFL Under-18 championships and is expected to be named an All Australian later this week.

After a brilliant start to the year, that followed an outstanding season in 2018 as a bottom-ager, Rowell has established himself at the top of the draft pool.

Matt Rowell and good mate Noah Anderson are expected to be the top two picks. Picture: AFL Photos

Gold Coast last week dropped to 18th on the ladder after Carlton's win over Fremantle, and is currently on a 10-game losing streak.

The Sunspair Jack Lukosius and Ben King, as well as half-forward Izak Rankine, with early selections at last year's draft.

Find Road to the Draft on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.

Rowell, who has grown up a Carlton fan and trained with the club during the pre-season, is not daunted by the possibility of the move to Queensland, particularly after being interviewed by the Suns' recruiting team.

"I think all of the clubs are great and have good support around, so Gold Coast would be a great club," he said.

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"They've done the home visit and I've met with a few of them and been very impressed by them, and they're really nice guys."

Rowell was vice-captain of Vic Metro during its disappointing carnival, where


it won just one game from four outings despite being tipped as the team to beat.

He will return to play for school side Carey Grammar in coming weeks before finishing his season with the Oakleigh Chargers, where he claimed the best-afield medal in last year's under-18 Grand Final loss.

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Although Rowell has little left to prove, he is not the type to wind things back.

"It would have been nice to get a few more wins for the Vic Metro boys but I was reasonably happy [personally]," he said.

"I've got three more school footy games and we're in the race for the premiership there so that's exciting, and I want to go back to Oakleigh and really go hard at theThe sweat, the combativeness and even the body blows feel mighty real, but the fight itself is pure fantasy in “Tyson vs. Ali,” a sleek mixed-media meditation on a boxing bout that never was, and never could have been. Currently bobbing and weaving around a simulated ring at the 3LD Art & Technology Center in Lower Manhattan, the production is conceived and directed by Reid Farrington, who deftly splices together video footage and live performance to offer a prismatic take on a theoretical matchup of Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali, two of the great names in boxing history.

Presented as part of the Coil festival, the show stars four committed actors — Dennis A. Allen II, Roger Casey, Femi Olagoke and Jonathan Swain — who take turns portraying the


ends of the first and second comparators 506, 507 are respectively coupled with the first and second reference wave generators 504, 505, which generate a first reference wave and a second reference wave, respectively. By comparing the audio signal with the reference wave, each of the first and second comparators 506, 507 outputs a PWM signal to the gate drive circuit 508 so that the gate drive circuit 508 is driven to turn on or off the output stage FET unit 509, which is typically composed of power transistors. Consequently, the audio signals are output from the positive output end OUTP and the negative output end OUTN of the filterless Class-D power amplifier 500 to a loudspeaker 512. Meantime, a feedback amplifier 5131 and feedback resistors RFB1, RFB2,at the end of the hose, and the water squirts out with higher velocity.
The energy per unit time of the water leaving the hose is the volume rate of flow multiplied by the pressure at the exit.  It is highest for a partially constricted exit, when neither the pressure nor flow is near zero.  It may seem counterintuitive that you can increase the energy of the exiting water by blocking the flow, but such is the case.  In answer to the question of where the increase in kinetic energy of the water after it leaves the hose comes from, it is from potential energy which the water in the hose has by virtue of its pressure.  As the water leaves the hose, the


The Los Angeles Rams pulled off a blockbuster trade for the first pick in the upcoming NFL Draft, but it is the Titans who will benefit the most, as it sets them up perfectly to complete the NFL's ideal three-year tanking plan.

Tanking has become a hot-button topic in professional sports as more and more teams are content to lose games now in order to strengthen the team for the future with better draft picks.

In some cases, the losing can hit extreme measures and seem never ending.

One classic example is the Philadelphia 76ers and "The Process," which has resulted in 47 wins total over the last three seasons, or one fewer than the Golden State Warriors had at the All-Star break this season.

The other is the Houston Astros, whoaveraged 108 losses from 2011 through 2013 and managed to parlay that into a playoff team in 2015.

But the NFL is a different monster. With free agency, the salary cap, and a short season, it is easier to become a playoff contender quickly, as teams often go from the scrap heap to the playoffs in as little as one season.

As a result, fewer teams are willing to commit to the tanking process, and if they do, it looks more like what the Tampa Bay Buccaneers did in 2014, when it wasn't until the end of the season when they fully embraced losing in order to secure the rights to the top pick in the draft.

But if an NFL team is going to fully commit to the tanking system,


they could do a lot worse than following the path the Titans are on right now. It takes three years of losing and two key steps: Draft a quarterback and then make a trade for a ton of picks to surround him with talent.

Season 1

Lose enough games to secure a draft pick high enough to select a franchise quarterback with the potential to become an elite quarterback.

In 2014, the Titans went 2-14 and landed the second pick in the draft.

Season 2

Draft a quarterback and make him the starter early and often. Then lose enough games to secure another top draft pick.

In 2015, the Titans drafted Marcus Mariota, who started 12 games and gained some nice in-the-trenches experience. The team went 3-13 and landed the top pick in theSunday, November 07, 2004

No doubt about it. The growth in the youth vote was substantial. More than 29% over 2000. Kerry owes the closeness of this election to that demographic. Yahoo News! :

"Under-30 voters came through in big numbers this year, with more than 20 million casting a ballot for president, researchers found. The turnout bested their 2000 showing by more than nine percentage points and heartened activists who worked to get young voters to the polls. "

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The letter below, sent by representative of the States General, Pieter Schaghen, to the directors of the WIC on November 5th, 1626, is the only written evidence of an amazing transaction: the sale of Manhattan. According to Schaghen’s letter, written upon return of the Arms of Amsterdam ship in Holland some months later, Dutch settlers — headed by Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland (17th Century New York) — gave local Native Americans goods worth 60 guilders in exchange for the island. According to Wikipedia, this equates to approximately $1000 in modern currency.

Transcript and translation follow. Image courtesy of Henry Hudson 400, the original of which now resides at the Rijksarchief in The Hague.

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Recep. 7 November 1626 Hooghe Moghende Heeren Hier is ghister t’schip t’wapen van Amsterdam aengekomenYesterday the ship the Arms of Amsterdam arrived here. It sailed from New Netherland out of the River Mauritius on the 23d of September. They report that our people are in good spirit and live in peace. The women also have borne some children there. They have purchased the Island of Manhattes from the savages for the value of 60 guilders. It is 11,000 morgens in size. They had all their grain sowed by the middle of May, and reaped by the middle of August They sent samples of these summer grains: wheat, rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, canary seed, beans and flax. The cargo of the aforesaid ship is: 7246 Beaver skins

178½ Otter skins

675 Otter skins

48 Mink skins

36 Lynx skins

33 Minks

34 Muskrat skins

Many oak timbers and nut wood.


"Sign o' the Times"
 "The Question of U" incl. "The One"
 "Let's Work"
 "U Got the Look"
 "Life 'O' The Party" 	(over "Hot Pants" (instrumental) backing), incl. "Uptown" interpolation
 "Soul Man" Chance Howard lead vox
 "Kiss"
 "Take Me with U"
 "The Everlasting Now"
 "Purple Rain"

Other songs included "Alphabet St.", "All The Critics Love U In Melbourne/Sydney", "Days of Wild", "I Want to Take You Higher", "The Jam", "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)", "How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore" and a piano medley of several songs.

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Category:2003 concert toursScores of young Roma women have been paraded before potential suitors at a Bulgarian 'bride market' where poor families are given the chance to arrange financially beneficial marriages for their children.

Here the potential brides are provocatively dressed, donning gobs of mascara and wearing flashy jewellery, towering heels and mini-skirts.

And surrounding them in the car boot-like sale event are young men whose family hope to find them a wife at a good cost.

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Roma boys and girls chat during the open-air 'bride market' in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

A girl checks her makeup using a broken mirror at the market, where girls are displayed before prospective suitors

The market, which is held four times a year, is an opportunity for parents to catch up on gossip as well as play


matchmaker for their sons and daughters

The families gathered in Stara Zagora are part of a community of about 18,000 Roma known as Kalaidzhi, who traditionally make a living as coppersmiths.

They are among the most poverty-stricken people in a deeply impoverished region and seek to forge mutually beneficial unions that will help them weather Bulgaria's economic downturn.

The 'bride market' - held four times a year on various religious holidays during the spring and summer - is a chance for the Roma's nomadic tinkers to meet and not only catch up on gossip, but also play matchmaker for their adolescent sons and daughters.

Boys and girls dance side-by-side on the cars in a rare opportunity that flouts the community's conservative values, in which youths are rarely allowed to mingle with theopposite sex.

Kalaidzhi, who are almost all devout Orthodox Christians, are known to remove girls from school at 15 or even earlier to keep them safe from temptation.

A young girl with two gold teeth grins as she interacts with other teenagers at the open-air market

A Roma woman hugs her daughter as she speaks with a boy. The event is held four times a year and is extremely popular with teenagers among the Orthodox Christian commmunity

A young Roma girl wearing a dress smiles as she wanders through the market with her friends

It starts, like a high school dance, with groups of boys and girls in separate clumps, occasionally shaking hands and checking each other out - while mothers and fathers stay discreetly in the background.

Apart from these twice-a-year bridal fairs,


boys and girls only have contact in Internet chats.

The event's reputation as a 'bridal market' goes back generations. It used to take place in a muddy open field next to a horse-trading market in a small village, where brides-to-be stood on stage with suitors competing for their hand.

But police last year moved it into a city to avoid tension with the horse traders. Still, the flirtations which occur can lead to negotiations and a possible union a few months down the road.

A group of Roma girls chat as parents (pictured far left and right) watch on

Milka Minkova, 13, poses with her husband Ivan Ankov, 17, at the event which is commonly known as the 'bride market'

If the youths warm to each other, the fair can trigger complex financialindia

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The situation in flood-hit areas of East and West Godavari districts in Andhra Pradesh continues to be grim with the Godavari River continuing to swell with heavy inflows from upstream on Thursday.

The north coastal Andhra districts of Srikakulam and Vizianagaram which have been facing a flood-like situation due to overflowing of the Vamsadhara and Nagavali rivers have returned to normalcy.

Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy on Thursday made an aerial survey of the flood-ravaged areas of East and West Godavari districts and conducted a review with his cabinet colleagues and officials on the relief measures being taken in the areas.

According to an official bulletin, the water level in Godavari at Bhadrachalam in Telangana continued to rise steadily for the last


from the SDRF to rescue people from low-lying areas of the West Godavari, while 60 members of NDRF and 156 members of SDRF were deployed in the East Godavari,” the official statement said.

According to an official release, around 74,000 people were affected by the floods in river Godavari in 280 villages of East and West Godavari districts. Of them, over 17,632 were shifted to relief camps. As per preliminary estimates, damages to roads and other infrastructure were to the tune of Rs 6.45 crore.

After conducting the review meeting, the chief minister announced a special aid of Rs 5,000 to each of the families whose dwellings were submerged in the Godavari floods. He instructed the officials to take all relief and rehabilitation measures on a war-footing and deliver.

“The reliefoperations should be taken up in all the flood-affected areas and in areas where the standing crops were washed away, seeds would be distributed free of cost along with the special aid. In the low-lying areas of Polavaram as well, the special aid will be paid along with free supply of seeds,” he said.

He instructed that steps should be taken to rehabilitate those evacuated from the submerged villages and low lying areas. The rehabilitation of Polavaram displaced persons should be taken up on a war footing, he said.

Meanwhile, there is a slight improvement in the situation in flood-hit areas of Srikakulam, due to receding water in Vamsadhara and Nagavali rivers. However, the officials continue to maintain the second-level warning. “All measures are being taken by the district administration


police officer David Jones
about wanting to get rid of the four-wheeler before it was reported stolen.

       Hogg had approached Jones to ask if he wanted the four-wheeler about a year
before it was reported stolen. Jones told Hogg that he could not afford the four-wheeler,
and in response, Hogg stated that Jones could “just come take it,” and Hogg would claim
it on his insurance. Jones believed Hogg was trying to “set him up.” Jones learned of
Hogg‟s theft report shortly after it was made. However, Jones did not inform the chief of
police, the Obion County Sheriff‟s Department, or the District Attorney‟s office about
Hogg‟s previous comments.

        Fellow officer Ashley Thompson Merrell was on duty the night the four-wheeler
was reportedat the District Attorney‟s office at
8:00 a.m. the following morning with the other officers who were involved, including
O‟Dell and Jones. Afterward, Merrell told O‟Dell and Jones that they were directed to go
to the District Attorney‟s office; however, none of the three police officers appeared at
the appointed time.

       That same week, on or about November 4, 2011, the TBI agent contacted the
assistant chief of police at the Union City Police Department, Perry Barfield, and
informed him that the TBI had contacted the District Attorney‟s office and requested an
investigation concerning allegations that Hogg falsely reported his four-wheeler stolen.
Assistant Chief Barfield notified Chief Garner and the City Manager of Union City,
Kathy Dillon. However, at the request of the TBI, and pursuant to departmental policy,
the police department‟s


internal investigation of the matter was delayed pending the TBI
investigation. The Chief, Assistant Chief, and City Manager refrained from discussing
the matter with Merrell, O‟Dell, and Jones during the TBI investigation. However, at
some point, Hogg, Merrell, O‟Dell, and Jones were placed on administrative leave with
pay pending conclusion of the investigation.

       Merrell, O‟Dell, Jones, and other officers were interviewed by TBI agents during
the investigation. The TBI kept Assistant Chief Barfield and Chief Garner informed
                                           3
throughout its investigation. They were aware that Merrell,O‟Dell, Jones, and other
officers were interviewed by the TBI as part of the investigation. Hogg was also
interviewed and confessed to the crime on December 21, 2011. Hogg was terminated
from his position with the Union City Police Department and subjected to criminal
prosecution. He pleaded guilty to making a false report and other related charges.

       At the conclusion of the TBI investigation, the TBI provided a copy of its
investigative file and report to Assistant Chief Barfield and Chief Garner. The file
included statements signed by Merrell, O‟Dell, and Jones. Assistant Chief Barfield
conducted an internal affairs investigation for the Union City Police Department and
interviewed numerous officers, including Merrell, O‟Dell, and Jones. Based on the
information received from the TBI and the internal affairs investigation, Assistant Chief
Barfield issued


information for over a year
before doing so.” In sum, Assistant Chief Barfield stated that the sole reason for his
recommendation of termination was his concern regarding Plaintiffs‟ failures to come
forward with information sooner and his honest belief that their conduct violated
department policies and ethical standards.

       Chief Garner stated in his affidavit that he conducted an independent and thorough
review of the TBI file and internal affairs file and reached the same conclusions as
Assistant Chief Barfield. He stated that he advised each of the Plaintiffs that his decision
was motivated by their failure to come forward with the information they had at or near
the time of the theft report rather than waiting until November of 2011. Both Chief
Garner and Assistant Chief Barfield stated that they neverthreatened or discouraged
Plaintiffs in any way from coming forward with information about Hogg.

       City Manager Kathy Dillon stated in her affidavit that she had final decision-
making authority to terminate regular employees of the Union City Police Department
pursuant to the city charter and personnel policy. Dillon was aware of the TBI
investigation and internal affairs investigation, and she was advised of the
recommendations of Assistant Chief Barfield and Chief Garner. Dillon stated that she
met with each of the Plaintiffs individually and conducted a thorough and independent
review of all the information in the internal affairs file, including the policy manual and
transcripts of the interview statements of the Plaintiffs and other employees. Dillon
stated she concluded that Plaintiffs should be terminated based on her honest belief that
Plaintiffs had


access to information or gut feelings that Hogg may have been involved in
criminal activity, which they withheld for over a year, in violation of departmental policy
and ethical standards. She stated her belief that the officers‟ conduct in failing to come
forward in a timely fashion violated an important public trust that is placed on an officer
of the law and compromised their integrity as officers. Dillon stated she was not upset
that Plaintiffs reported Hogg‟s criminal activity, and their report was not a factor in her
decision.
                                            11
 the suspicious activity around the time it was
reported to the TBI in November 2011, while Plaintiffs were aware of Hogg‟s comments
and the subsequent alleged theft of Hogg‟s four-wheeler for over a year by the time the
situation was reported in November 2011. The cited testimony also establishes that
Sergeant Wright was disciplined by the police department in the form of a written
reprimand because he failed to report the information he learned about Hogg‟s conduct to
the chief of police, even though Merrell reported it to the TBI. The fact that Sergeant
Wright received lesser discipline based on his circumstances does not demonstrate that
the stated reason for terminating Plaintiffs was pretextual.

        Plaintiffs also argued in their response that Officer Haskins was a similarly
situated employee who was


not terminated. Again, however, the evidence cited by
Plaintiffs in response to the motion for summary judgment does not establish that
Haskins engaged in substantially the same conduct as Plaintiffs. Haskins said in his
deposition that when he learned that Hogg‟s four-wheeler was stolen, he “automatically
assumed, yeah right,” and his first thought was, “He probably burned it.” However,
Haskins testified that he became aware of actual facts indicating that Hogg may have
committed a crime when Hogg was discussed at in-service in November 2011. Haskins
testified that he reported the situation to his lieutenant that same day and believed that
reporting the information “back up the ladder” through his lieutenant, in addition to
contacting the TBI, was sufficient. Haskins was interviewed by the TBI during its
          the Great American Songbook -- the standard repertoire of pop.

A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers

By Will Friedwald

Hardcover, 832 pages

Random House

List Price: $45.00

"That covers a very, very wide range and a very long span of time, from people who were born at the turn of the last century up until the present," Friedwald says. "The songbook, as it were, covers jazz singers as well as pop singers. ... I wanted to show [that] what we call the Great American Songbook pertains to virtually everybody, say, from Ray Charles to Ethel Merman."

The book covers plenty of greats -- Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald -- but it also talks about many of the musicians who didn't become household names. Friedwald documented how singer Helen Humes, best


known as a jazz singer with Count Basie, started her career making classic blues, and later made salacious R&B numbers, but wound up back in jazz nightclubs.

"There's certainly nobody who had a career like Helen Humes," he says. "One point, she was caught in a gambling raid in the 1950s, and the policeman who arrested her went on to become the mayor of Los Angeles -- which is a unique distinction. There's certainly nobody [else] in the book I could say that about."

Friedwald also discussed other lesser-known artists, including Jeri Southern, Joe Mooney and Bill Henderson.the vehicle (not illustrated). Pressure feed pumps 32a and 32b for supplying DME under pressure are provided respectively at the fuel tanks 31a and 31b. The fuel inside the fuel tanks 31a and 31b is supplied respectively by the pressure feed pumps 32a and 32b to a fuel pipe 33, and the pressure of the fuel is raised by a secondary pump 34. Thereupon, the fuel is supplied to a supply pump 35 provided in the engine E. A common rail 37 for accumulating pressurized fuel that is to be injected is connected to the supply pump 35, and a plurality of fuel injection valves (injectors) 36 for injecting fuel into the combustion chambers of the respective cylinders of the engine E, are connected to the common rail


pipe 38c and the pressure inside the common rail 37 is adjusted to the optimal pressure for fuel injection. The fuel recovery pipes 38a and 38b are joined to a single main fuel return pipe 39. Therefore, the surplus fuel from the secondary pump 34, the supply pump 35 and the common rail 37 is all recovered into the main fuel return pipe 39. Two subsidiary fuel return pipes 44a and 44b branch off from the downstream end of the main fuel return pipe 39, and these subsidiary fuel return pipes 44a and 44b are connected respectively to the fuel tanks 31a and 31b. The surplus fuel recovered into the main fuel return pipe 39 is divided between these subsidiary fuel return pipes 44a and 44b and returnedYears have passed since the Philippines had its first business process outsourcing (BPO) firm. Back then, the industry was only limited to a handful of call center firms. Now, it has become one of the country’s fastest growing industries. Yet, are BPO companies here to last? Therefore, why should you choose the Philippines as your outsourcing partner?

The State of BPO Companies in the Philippines

“Based on the 2022 Roadmap of the IT-Business Process Association of the Philippines (iBPAP), the BPO sector is expected to generate $40 billion in revenues; 7.6 million direct and indirect jobs; 500,000 jobs outside of the National Capital Region; and cover 15 percent of the total global outsourcing market by the end of 2022.”

Source: The Manila Times

BPO is Government-Supported

The Philippines government has always been there


murder of Rafiq Hariri Robert Fisk: Lebanon in limbo: a nation haunted by the murder of Rafiq Hariri Chaos at the scene of the car bomb blast in Beirut that killed Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri REUTERS Robert Fisk: Lebanon in limbo: a nation haunted by the murder of Rafiq Hariri Demonstrators mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Rafiq Hariri at Martyrs Square in Beirut EPA Robert Fisk: Lebanon in limbo: a nation haunted by the murder of Rafiq Hariri Rafiq Hariri, left, with Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah AP

Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk is expected to announce the official results later on Monday.

Lebanon went to the election booth at the weekend under a set of complicated new rules designed to move the country towards a proportionally representativeshooting, which left 90 people dead. Coordinated attacks from Islamist extremists at a concert hall, stadium, restaurants and bars killed 130 people and injured hundreds more on Nov. 13, 2015.

The president made very similar comments last year while speaking at the NRA conference in Dallas and was later condemned by the French government.

"France expresses its firm disapproval of the comments by President Trump about the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris and asks for respect of the memory of the victims,” French foreign ministry spokeswoman Agnes von der Muhll said of Trump’s remarks at the time.

Former French President François Hollande also denounced “the shameful comments and obscene antics of Donald Trump.”

"The friendship between our peoples will not be stained by this disrespect and outrageousness. All my thoughts


Former FBI Director James Comey and DNI James Clapper traveled to New Zealand in 2016.

New Zealand, the UK, Australia, Canada and the US are all members of the FIve Eyes Intelligence Pact.

https://twitter.com/NewshubPolitics/status/709217352928264192

For months Trump campaign volunteer George Papadopoulos has accused members of Five Eyes of spying on him and Trump campaign officials during the 2016 election.

On Wednesday Papadopolous tweeted that former DNI went back to New Zealand recently to cover his tracks.

The deep state knows the boomerang is coming!Star keyboardist Merl Saunders dies MERL SAUNDERS: 1934-2008

A giant in the Bay Area music scene, Merl Saunders died on October 24, 2008 from complications from an infection. Saunders is pictured here in a 1972 file photo. A giant in the Bay Area music scene, Merl Saunders died on October 24, 2008 from complications from an infection. Saunders is pictured here in a 1972 file photo. Photo: The Chronicle Photo: The Chronicle Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Star keyboardist Merl Saunders dies 1 / 3 Back to Gallery

Keyboardist Merl Saunders, the gentle lion of the San Francisco music scene best known as co-captain of guitarist Jerry Garcia's solo excursions outside the Grateful Dead, died Friday at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center after fighting infections.

The 74-year-old musician suffered a


debilitating stroke 6 1/2 years ago and, although he lost the ability to speak, he made numerous sentimental guest appearances at shows over those years playing with one hand.

"I never met anybody so happy who had a stroke," said Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. "In the end, the only thing that lit him up was the music. Sometimes he'd cry, but I've never seen anybody so happy in the realm of music."

The native San Franciscan attended Polytechnic High School with singer Johnny Mathis.

After serving in the Army from 1953 to 1957, he played jazz organ on the same circuit as Jimmy Smith and Brother Jack McDuff. He worked as musical director of the Billy Williams Revue and served in a similar capacity in Oscar Brown Jr.'s off-Broadway show"Big Time Buck White." He backed up Dinah Washington and jammed with Miles Davis. Mr. Saunders, who was rarely seen in public without his trademark aviator shades and black leather fisherman's cap, started playing with Garcia in 1971 at a small Fillmore Street nightclub called the Matrix, where the Grateful Dead guitarist liked to hold informal jam sessions on Dead nights off. Within months, the loose-knit band was playing to packed houses at small local clubs like the Keystone Korner in North Beach every weekend the Dead wasn't working. Members sometimes included former Creedence Clearwater rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty and former Journey rhythm guitarist George Tickner.

The Saunders-Garcia Band, as the group came to be called, backed Mr. Saunders on his 1971 solo album, "Heavy Turbulence," and recorded two


albums for Berkeley's Fantasy Records.

"Merl was an ensemble guy, a groupist," said Hart, who played with Mr. Saunders in his early '80s solo group, High Noon. "He brought those sensibilities to the Garcia band. He let Jerry have his flights of fancy."

Mr. Saunders told The Chronicle in 1972 that playing with Garcia offered them both an opportunity to experiment and explore different forms of music. "We do it just for fun," he said.

With the addition of saxophonist Martin Fierro in 1974, the group transformed into the Legion of Mary and disbanded the following year. Mr. Saunders also played in Reconstruction with Garcia in 1979 and 1980. Garcia appeared on Mr. Saunders' 1990 solo album and video, "Blues From the Rainforest," a surprise hit on the New Age musiccharts.

After Garcia fell into a diabetic coma in 1986 and lost some of his basic motor skills, Mr. Saunders spent hours daily with the stricken guitarist running scales, working him out on jazz standards such as "My Funny Valentine."

Mr. Saunders' music appeared on such soundtracks as "Fritz the Cat" and "Steelyard Blues." He worked on the TV series "Nash Bridges" and, as musical director of the 1985 TV series "The New Twilight Zone," inveigled the Grateful Dead into a new recording of the classic theme song.

He recorded numerous albums, toured constantly and earned a welcome spot in the post-Dead jam band scene. Mr. Saunders headlined the Haight Street Music Fair for 24 consecutive years.

After his stroke, Mr. Saunders' musician son, Tony Saunders, completed his final solo album, "Still


Groovin'." The album featured duets with Bonnie Raitt and Mavis Staples. Huey Lewis stepped up with a lead vocal after Mr. Saunders was disabled.

In his first public appearance following the stroke, Mr. Saunders attended the September 2004 CD release party at the Great American Music Hall, and played a handful of notes on the keyboard.

Mr. Saunders cheated death twice before. He was booked to return to San Francisco on United Flight 93 out of Newark, N.J., on Sept. 11, 2001, but decided to take an earlier flight so he could get home in time to watch the 49ers on Monday Night Football. In 2002, he underwent surgery for cancer, only weeks before his stroke.

He is survived by his longtime companion, Deborah Hall; his sons, Tony of Martinez andStatement by the President on North Korea

Washington, DCOctober 9, 2006

Diplomatic Reception Room9:58 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Last night the government of North Korea proclaimed to the world that it had conducted a nuclear test. We're working to confirm North Korea's claim. Nonetheless, such a claim itself constitutes a threat to international peace and security. The United States condemns this provocative act. Once again North Korea has defied the will of the international community, and the international community will respond.

This was confirmed this morning in conversations I had with leaders of China, and South Korea, Russia, and Japan. We reaffirmed our commitment to a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and all of us agreed that the proclaimed actions taken by North Korea are unacceptable and deserve an immediate response by the United


Nations Security Council.

The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action.

The United States remains committed to diplomacy, and we will continue to protect ourselves and our interests. I reaffirmed to our allies in the region, including South Korea and Japan, that the United States will meet the full range of our deterrent and security commitments.

Threats will not lead to a brighter future for the North Korean people, nor weaken the resolve of the United States and our alliesto achieve the de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. Today's claim by North Korea serves only to raise tensions, while depriving the North Korean people of the increased prosperity and better relations with the world offered by the implementation of the joint statement of the six-party talks. The oppressed and impoverished people of North Korea deserve that brighter future.


Tuesday, May 13, 2008

"Bush in Israel: Standing With One Side"

A few days ago, Israelis celebrated the 60th anniversary of the establishment of their state. President Bush was the exclusive quest. Sandy Tolan, the author of The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, who used to be my professor at UC Berkeley's graduate school of journalism has talked about the other side of the story, a story that must be told:

"Yet when President Bush steps off his plane to help Israel mark its 60th birthday, he will stride firmly into the past of one side. Officials of the Jewish state will sweep the president into their own powerful and compelling narrative: The birth of Israel from the ashes of the Holocaust onMay 14, 1948; the invasion of the state, a day later, from Arab armies marching from the north, south, and east; and the loss of fully one percent of the Jewish state's population, in a fierce defense that evokes Israel's unofficial motto: Never again.

What the president won't hear is the Palestinian story. He won't be told that one side's "War of Independence" is the other side's "Nakba," or Catastrophe. And no one is likely to mention that Israel's heroic survival was, to the Arabs, a dispossession in which 750,000 Palestinians fled or were driven out of their homes." (Read the rest of the story here)


Dawn reported, "Mehsud directed his subordinate to target the offices of media organisations in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and in other cities of the country especially those media organisations and media personalities who were denouncing TTP after attack on child activist Malala Yousufzai." In response, the Interior Ministry has beefed up security near media organizations. But the Taliban are still whining.

RELATED: Taliban Vow to Kill the Pakistani Girl They Shot for Going to School if She Survives

Yesterday, local paper The News International gave voice to the Taliban's pathetic complaints of bias, which offered a rare window into terrorist media criticism. TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan said his group would "continue to respect journalists" except for highly biased outlets. The spokesman for another Taliban insurgent group, Sirajuddin Ahmad of Maulanarenewable energy sources such as solar thermal systems. But after the experience of Australian mining contractor and construction group Forge, they may want to think again.

The Diamantina gas fired plant under construction near Mt Isa

This week Forge announced that it would make yet more writedowns because of massive blow-outs in costs for gas-fired generators that it is building for mining operations in Mt Isa and the Pilbara. So far it has revealed cost blow-outs of more than $150 million from the 242MW Diamantina combined cycle gas fired-plant it is building for Xstrata in Mt Isa, and the 80MW open cycle gas/oil-fired West Angelas plant it is building in the Pilbara for Rio Tinto.

It has been a painful experience for the company’s shareholders, who have seen their investment in


the reasons why the Australian Renewable Energy Agency is targeting miners in a program to encourage them to install hybrid systems. Some developers such as the US-based Solar Reserve are so sure of their solar thermal and storage technology they say they will volunteer to take the fuel risk. They – and others – have opened offices in Perth hoping that the mood has turned. The experiences of Forge might just help them along the way.

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of Renew Economy, and is also the founder of One Step Off The Grid and founder/editor of The Driven. Giles has been a journalist for 35 years and is a former business and deputy editor of the Australian Financial Review.

Giles Parkinson is founder and editor of RenewGun rights groups in Washington State have spent the last few months fighting gun control ballot initiative I-1639 which would create stricter gun laws. A Thurston County Superior Court judge on Friday, however, ruled in favor of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF). The judge ordered a writ of mandamus to prevent I-1639 from appearing on the November ballot.

SAF and the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) previously challenged the constitutionality behind the initiative because questions were raised about whether or not the petition's format complies with state law.

SAF Founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb previously told Townhall that I-1639's signature petitions "failed to underline new law and strike through removed law so that the reader could


negligence attributed to Mr. Miley, to-wit: 65%.

2
Mr. Miley asserts numerous allegations of error in asking this court to remand for a new trial.  For the reasons set forth in the following discussion, the judgment of the district court is affirmed.

3
The DELTA MARINE 8 was originally a Navy Landing Ship Tank (LST).  After the second World War it was converted into an offshore drilling tender and is presently owned by the appellee, Delta Marine Drilling Company.  As a part of the conversion process the original bow which consisted of two clamshell doors was replaced by a pointed section containing four chain bins.  The additional chains provided added stability while mooring offshore.

4
On June 18, 1969, the United States Coast Guard ordered the appellee to drydock thevessel for interim inspection.  In order to comply it was necessary to lighten her draught so she could enter the drydock.  This was accomplished by removing the anchor chains from their bins and stacking them in two piles on the bank.

5
At this time appellee decided to assemble a new crew to facilitate both the necessary repairs and also to remain aboard the vessel when it returned to location as a drilling tender.  Mr. Miley, who once previously had been in the appellee's employ, was enticed from another position he was then holding and returned to work for the appellee as a roustabout aboard the DELTA MARINE 8.

6
Upon completion of the required repairs, orders were issued to have the anchor chains brought aboard ship and stored


in their respective bins.  The DELTA MARINE 8 was equipped with self-tiering lockers, but due to the encrusted condition of the chains additional aid was necessary to store them.  In order to accomplish this on-loading procedure, Mr. Miley and another roustabout were ordered to station themselves in a chain bin to manually "tier" the chains as they were brought in.  Mr. Miley suspended himself by one hand and two feet from the toe-holds in the bulkhead while using a hook held with his free hand to tug at the chain as it descended.  Mr. Miley engaged a link of the chain with his hook and was exerting a vigorous tug at the very moment that the chain turned, causing the hook to disengage. Geoffrey Geary has been in business as a portrait artist for nearly twenty years. He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and at the Art Student's League. However, he considers his real education to have taken place in art museums and auction houses, where he studied first hand the work of portrait painters of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Among the many masters whose work continues to inspire him are Van Dyck, Winterhalter, Bouguereau, and Sargent.

Geary thinks of his portrait subjects as models for a fine art painting. An accurate likeness is essential, but a certain degree of imaginative interpretation on the part of the artist must also come into play in any good portrait. As a result, in his family portraits, Geary demonstrates a keen eye


for the endearing traits of children. In his official portraits, he strives to convey strength of character. In his portraits of women, he creates a mood that is both elegant and very feminine.

In short, he looks for ways to enhance the essential characteristics of the subject in addition to keeping the aesthetic qualities of the overall composition in balance. This approach has pleased a wide range of clients from television and cinematic personalities to sport figures and a wide range of financial and business leaders.

Finally, Mr. Geary believes that not enough is generally said about the value of portraits as heirlooms. "You hear a lot about how much portrait paintings cost, but you seldom hear about how portraits make life richer for the spirit. Many of the bigsaving time effects people psychologically because the time change forces people to acknowledge that winter and the shorter days that come with it are coming.

3. The time change in the spring also causes issues:

Health is adversely effected with an increase of heart attacks:

A study presented to the American College of Cardiology in March 2014 based on data collected from Michigan hospitals between 2010 and 2013 showing a spike of 25% for patients admitted for heart attacks after the time change in the spring.

2012 study by the University of Alabama at Birmingham found that there was a 10 percent increase in the risk of heart attack over the following 48 hours.

A Swedish study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2008 found approximately a 7 percent increase


of the incidence of heart attacks in the first three weekdays after the time change, which was attributed to a lack of sleep. This information was based on 20 years of Swedish records.

Car Accidents:

An October 2014 study by the University of Colorado (Boulder) looked at records of fatal car crashes in the United States. It noted a 17 per cent rise in traffic accident-related deaths on the Monday after clocks moved forward an hour in the spring. Research done by University of British Columbia showed similar findings.

A 1999 study released by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University analysed 21 years of fatal car crash data from the US National Highway Transportation Safety Administration and discovered a slight increase of road deaths. The number of deadly accidentsus to feel the hope of freedom in the districts. Writing from the margins rather than from the center, she mirrors the Biblical story without conjuring its religion. Dear says, “From Exodus to Isaiah, from the Gospel of Matthew to the Book of Revelation, we read about a God who takes sides with the poor in their struggle for liberation.”

THE LIMITS OF VIOLENCE

Over and again The Hunger Games conjures hope through one of the core tools of resistance movements: Symbol. Indeed, not just for plot turns, but in power, Collins’ use of symbol overshadows the usefulness of violence. We see it everywhere: subverting imperial manipulation by eating berries a la Romeo and Juliet, decorating Rue’s dead body and giving her the District 12 salute (along with District 7′s


end.

THE END OF VIOLENCE

But not until she deals one last blow to violence. In Mockingjay Katniss realizes two essential things: she was manipulated as much by District 13 as she had been by the capital; and that violence is cyclical and will continue unless someone stops it. Thus her final act of aggression is not to condemn one person among many, but the system of violence itself. In shooting the wrong President at close range, she unmasks the truth that violence only begets violence. Gene Sharp is an expert in stopping cycles of violence: “Sharp is not a moralist but a pragmatist, who bases his claims on an empirical analysis of history. He asserts that violence, even in the service of a just cause, often results in morethe corporate name of "University of Notre Dame Du Lac" by a special Act of the Indiana Legislature in 1844 and thereby empowered, inter alia, to make and execute such rules deemed necessary for its welfare, and has developed into a large university with a campus having over one hundred buildings in St. Joseph County, Indiana and with an enrollment of approximately six thousand students and alumni in excess of twenty-five thousand.
In the year 1930 the defendant had designed, and subsequently had manufactured for sale thereby, an official class ring bearing in bas-relief thereon, for all practical purposes, the defendant's corporate name, "University of Notre Dame", and certain symbols of the defendant which had become identified therewith, which it has continuously sold, from 1931 to 1941 through its


controller's office and since 1941 in its bookstore on campus, on a restricted basis, to juniors, seniors and alumni of the defendant only.
In the latter part of 1955 Robert Waugh, the secretary of the plaintiff corporation, with the knowledge and approval of John T. Waugh, the president of the plaintiff corporation, wrote a letter to the bookstore of the defendant on plain stationery which he signed as Bob Waugh with a Post Office box address, and ordered an official class ring of the defendant with a follow-up letter a few weeks later, both of which contained statements and representations admittedly false, and plaintiff received the ring pursuant thereto, took a plaster impression thereof, made the necessary dies for production and, in 1956, commenced the manufacture for sale byRoyal Hawaiian Jewelers in South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, of a Notre Dame class ring bearing in bas-relief thereon, for all practical purposes, the defendant's corporate *271 name of University of Notre Dame, and the same symbols in the same collocation as on the official class ring of the defendant, and the Royal Hawaiian Jewelers have sold some 479 thereof, of which at least 50% have been to sophomores of the defendant.
The effect of assuming a name by a corporation under the law of its creation is to exclusively appropriate it as an element of the corporation's existence and the use of the name of a corporation on merchandise manufactured by another for sale in competition with the same type of merchandise of the corporation would not


come from every State of the Union and from approximately 30 foreign countries, and alumni in excess of 25,000, and maintains colleges of liberal arts, science, commerce and engineering and also operates and maintains a law school and a graduate school and is financed through fees charged to students which amount to approximately 70% of the cost of operating the University and the balance of funds required come to the University from various sources, including supplementary income from athletics, operation of the book store and grants from foundations and industries.

7.
The defendant is primarily a boarding university and the majority of the students in attendance live in dormitories on the campus and the defendant exercises disciplinary control over the entire student body and all of its activities.

*273 8.
The defendantby hard effort and at high cost has obtained great prestige.

9.
The main building on the campus of the defendant was constructed in the year 1879 with a large dome which is gilded with gold leaf, can be seen for many miles around and is well known throughout the United States as a symbol of the defendant.

10.
The defendant has a seal which was adopted in approximately the year 1930 which is used extensively on University publications, diplomas and in connection with numerous other activities of the University and the same is well known and symbolic of the defendant.

11.
The defendant has for more than fifty years used as a symbol of the University a monogram consisting of the letter "N" and the letter "D" in a superimposed position.

12.
In the year


1930 the defendant caused to be designed and it approved for manufacture for sale by itself an official Notre Dame ring bearing the symbols of the University, including the words "University of Notre Dame", being the significant part of its corporate name and, for all practical purposes, its full corporate name, a representation of the seal, the Dome and the monogram arranged in a definite collocation.

13.
That continuously from 1931 to the present time the defendant has sold said official Notre Dame rings bearing the corporate name and symbols of the defendant in the approved collocation to alumni and selected students of the University, and during all of said period of time and until manufacture and sale of similar rings by the plaintiff, as hereinafter found, the University hascontrolled the production and sale of such Notre Dame rings bearing said name and symbols in the approved collocation and has been the sole and exclusive source thereof.

14.
The defendant has expended large sums of money and great effort in popularizing said official ring and promoting the sales thereof and has built up and now enjoys a valuable good will in the sale of said official rings.

15.
The defendant has adopted and long observed a policy of limiting the sales of its official rings to alumni of the University and juniors and seniors enrolled therein, and as a result thereof each wearer of such a ring is identified as being associated with the University as a junior, senior or an alumnus and one entitled to share in and enjoy the


prestige of the University, and as a person whose accomplishments reflect his education and training by the University.

16.
By reason of the long continued, exclusive and selected sale of said official Notre Dame ring by the defendant and by reason of the expenditure of money and great effort in promotion of the sales thereof the defendant has built up a valuable and profitable business in the sale of such rings and has created a demand for such rings which has resulted in the purchase of such official Notre Dame ring each year by the majority of the students which the University deems qualified to wear the ring

17.
In addition to the official Notre Dame ring the defendant has for many years sold for use by feminine friends and feminine membersof the families of qualified wearers of the official Notre Dame ring a miniature ring bearing the corporate name and symbols of the defendant in the same collocation in which they appear on the official ring.

18.
It has been the policy and rule of the defendant for many years to refuse permission to others to use its corporate *274 name, official seal and symbols on commercial products sold outside of the University.

19.
In the latter part of 1955 the plaintiff, by false representation, purchased from the defendant an official Notre Dame ring from which it made and took a plaster impression of the design thereof.

20.
In January, 1956 the plaintiff commenced the design and manufacture of what it termed a "new Notre Dame ring" which in truth and in fact is


an exact similitude of the official Notre Dame ring, and the said rings so manufactured by the plaintiff bear in bas-relief the name "University of Notre Dame", being the significant part of the corporate name of the defendant and, for all practical purposes, being its corporate name, the University seal, monogram and a representation of the Dome in the same collocation as appears on the official Notre Dame ring which the defendant has sold exclusively since 1930, and the plaintiff is now engaged in the manufacture and sale thereof.

21.
At the time the plaintiff made the design of its copy of the Notre Dame ring which it manufactured commencing in January of 1956 it had in its possession and used an impression of the official Notre Dame ring whichit had obtained from the defendant by fraud and deceit and in making and designing said ring it was plaintiff's intention and the plaintiff did make its said ring in the same collocation, same design and with the same symbols as used on the ring of the defendant.

22.
In February of 1956 the plaintiff obtained by and through its agent, Raymond L. Roy of South Bend, Indiana, an official miniature Notre Dame ring sold to said agent in the year 1946 by the defendant and the plaintiff used said miniature ring so obtained for the purpose of designing an identical miniature ring which the plaintiff commenced to manufacture and sell in the spring of 1956.

23.
At the time the plaintiff commenced the sale of its Notre Dame ring it had


and his wife, as agent for the sale of its copy of the official Notre Dame ring and said agent commenced the sale in its South Bend, Indiana store of its Notre Dame ring in the spring of 1956 and from such time to and including February of 1957 the plaintiff sold therein 479 of its Notre Dame rings, and subsequent to said date, through said agency, the plaintiff has sold approximately 200 additional rings, all of which said rings were manufactured by plaintiff in Norman, Oklahoma.

25.
That at the time the plaintiff commenced the sale of its copy of the Notre Dame ring plaintiff and its agent knew of the policy of defendant limiting the sale of the official Notre Dame ring to juniors, seniors and alumni, andand for the rings of the defendant.

31.
The long continued policy of the defendant of limiting the sale of the official Notre Dame class ring to junior and senior students and to alumni is widely known by large numbers of persons who recognize said official rings as a badge of scholastic accomplishment by the wearer, and the sale by plaintiff of a copy of said ring without the authority or approval of the defendant (a) deprives the defendant of control of said ring as a means of distinguishing the scholastic standing of the wearers thereof, (b) constitutes an usurpation by plaintiff of the right granted to defendant by its charter to certify and apprise the public of the qualifications and accomplishments of its students and alumni, and (c) enables


the plaintiff to offer to persons who have not qualified therefor by the standards of the defendant a means for misrepresenting themselves to the public concerning their scholastic accomplishments and their class rank or standing at the University.

32.
The plaintiff in manufacturing and in selling and offering to sell its copies of the official Notre Dame ring has placed upon its said rings the name "University of Notre Dame" which said name is the distinguishing part of the corporate name of the defendant, and, for all practical purposes, the corporate name of the defendant, a religious organization.

33.
Plaintiff sells its copy of the official Notre Dame ring in direct competition with the defendant and in the same limited and well defined market, and each sale by the plaintiff directly reducesengaged in unfair competition with the defendant.

3.
The defendant, an educational institution with high public prestige and a chartered Indiana corporation by special Act of the Indiana Legislature and given a corporate name thereby, has a cognizable interest in and has the right of preventing others, from using its corporate name, or the significant part thereof, together with its official seal and symbols connected with the corporation, without its consent, on commercial products in such a manner that suggests connection with, benefit to, or authorization of by the defendant, and the plaintiff, John Roberts Manufacturing Company, in using the name of the defendant, University of Notre Dame, such being for all practical purposes, its corporate name, together with the official seal of and symbols connected with the defendant, on


rings manufactured and offered for sale thereby in the State of Indiana, without the consent of the defendant and over its protest and objection and in direct competition with the defendant in selling its rings with its corporate name thereon, together with the official seal of and symbols connected with the defendant, has violated the rights of the defendant and has engaged in unfair competition with the defendant.

4.
The obtaining of an official Notre Dame ring from the defendant by false representation of the plaintiff for its use in designing and making copies thereof constituted a fraud on the defendant.

5.
The unauthorized use by the plaintiff of the corporate name of the defendant together with the official seal and identifying symbols connected therewith on the rings manufactured by the plaintiffwomen, in their local or preferred languages, to undergo a screening ultrasound examination to establish gestational age and subsequently enrol women if eligibility is confirmed (pregnancies between 8--19 weeks' gestation). Consent for additional procedures varies slightly across sites. In Ghana, for instance, fieldworkers obtain initial consent for the screening ultrasound. They only consent eligible women after scan and again before the gestational age assessment when the baby is born. In other sites, women are comprehensively consented at the initial contact to cover the scan and follow--up. In Zambia in case the pregnant woman is a "minor" between 15 years to 18 years, assent is first obtained from women themselves before their legal guardians provide written informed consent for their participation.

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On September 30, 1974, Smith filed an amended complaint, adding a count for rescission of the partnership and "buy out" agreements. The amended complaint was duly answered.
Subsequently, Smith filed a motion for partial summary judgment on his


an offer of judgment made by Hurley during the course of this litigation and accepted by Smith precludes the judgment entered by the court.
The facts follow. In 1961, Hurley founded the business known as Bethany Medical Center Pharmacy (Bethany Pharmacy) in a building housing several doctors' offices. Smith began working for Hurley as a relief pharmacist at Bethany Pharmacy in 1968 or 1969. In May, 1971, the parties began discussions concerning the formation of a partnership between themselves. These negotiations resulted in two agreements executed by the parties on June 1, 1971.
The first of these documents was simply entitled "Agreement" (hereinafter referred to as the "buy out" agreement), which provided in substance that Smith would buy an undivided one-half interest in Bethany Pharmacy and accept an assignment ofthe possibility of purchasing land and building their own office structure. Both Smith and Hurley were parties to these discussions, but by June 1, 1971, the date of the execution of their agreements, there were no firm plans *167 for the size, nature, or location of the new building contemplated by the doctors. On July 5, 1971, however, Smith and Hurley borrowed $5,000 to purchase a share in a partnership known as M.D. Realty. M.D. Realty then purchased land upon which the Arizona Medical Plaza was eventually constructed. Subsequently, M.D. Realty acquired additional land. Hurley participated in this purchase, but Smith elected not to acquire an additional interest.
During the summer and fall of 1971, several meetings were held concerning the development of a medical building on the M.D.


Realty property. In December, 1971, Hurley, using his own funds, paid $5,000 for an interest in the new building. Smith did not contribute to this acquisition.
On February 14, 1972, Hurley executed a lease for space in the new building to operate Arizona Pharmacy. The deposit on this lease was made by Hurley, Smith not participating. In addition, Hurley borrowed money in his own name to set up Arizona Pharmacy. Smith was not obligated on this loan.
In April, 1972, Hurley stopped working at Bethany Pharmacy, apparently because the income was insufficient to support both partners. In August, 1972, Hurley gave notice to Smith that he was exercising his option to sell the remaining one-half interest in Bethany Pharmacy and terminated the partnership agreement. Hurley began operating the new ArizonaPharmacy in October, 1972.
Smith later brought this action and sought a temporary restraining order to keep Hurley from disposing of Arizona Pharmacy. Apparently, the new Arizona Pharmacy was not a financial success and at the time this litigation arose, a sale of the business to Revco Drug Center was pending. After several court hearings, the parties stipulated on December 12, 1973, that Arizona Pharmacy could be sold to Revco with the proceeds of sale to be used to pay creditors and any excess to be held pending the outcome of the litigation.
Following the sale to Revco, early in April, 1974, Hurley moved to Colorado and obtained employment as a pharmacist with Gates Rubber Company.
Smith did not file his amended complaint for rescission until September 30, 1974.
On February 27,


1975, Hurley filed an Offer of Judgment allowing judgment to be taken against him for the sum of $7,000. On March 7, 1975, Smith accepted the offer and requested through the filing of a form of judgment that the entire litigation be dismissed, including Hurley's counterclaim upon which Hurley had previously obtained summary judgment. This was resisted by Hurley on the grounds that his offer went only to Smith's claim against him and not to his counterclaim against Smith. After a hearing, the court entered an order, finding:
"The court is of the opinion that the defendant's offer of judgment filed February 27, 1975 was conditionally accepted by the plaintiffs and that the minds of the parties have not met on the terms of the offer and acceptance and"the business currently conducted by Hurley at 2040 West Bethany Home Road," and the purchase price of an undivided one-half interest in that business was the sum of $35,000. This business was described in that agreement as the one "commonly referred to as Bethany Medical Center Pharmacy." This agreement further provided that Smith would be the sole owner of the "assets and business at Bethany Medical Center Pharmacy" upon Hurley exercising his option to sell and Smith paying an additional $35,000 for the remaining undivided one-half interest retained by Hurley. Construing this document alone, it is clear that the only thing being sold, and the only thing Smith could acquire full ownership in, was the business located at 2040 West Bethany Home Road.
While the partnership agreement designates "Bethany


promised to perform. Although the "buy out" agreement had set the stage for the creation of a partnership, it also contained the means for its termination. The issues arising under that agreement were wholly separate and apart from the conduct of the partnership business and thus could be settled, and relief granted, without regard to a partnership accounting.
Under these circumstances, the court could properly refuse to consider the equitable doctrine of "unclean hands" in granting Hurley relief on his counterclaim.
Smith next contends that the trial court improperly dismissed his count for rescission of the "buy out" agreement. The basis urged to the trial court for rescission was that at the time of the execution of the "buy out" and the partnership agreements, Hurley held an undisclosed intention notexercise his option to sell. Certainly any fraud he may have entertained concerning Smith's participation in Arizona Pharmacy would not at that point operate as grounds for rescinding the "buy out" agreement.
Second, and more importantly, Smith had knowledge of the alleged fraud of Hurley in September of 1972, when Hurley refused to allow Smith to participate in the new business. Yet Smith did not seek rescission until September of 1974, approximately two years later. In the interim, Smith continued to operate Bethany Pharmacy and receive the profits therefrom. Smith allowed the sale of Arizona Pharmacy to take place and ascertained that it was in essence a no-profit operation. Hurley, based upon these happenings, had left the State of Arizona and taken employment in Colorado.
The general rule is that


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Uruguayan literature from the second half of the twentieth century
is the special theme for this issue, edited by Lisa
Block de Behar . The works gathered here do not adhere to a strict chronology,
but rather, emphasize the decisive stages in
the country's cultural history. The contributors
include, among others, Hugo Verani, Fernando Ainsa,
Tulio Halperín Donghi, Eduardo Espina and Roberto Echavarren.position and being in immense pain, she came up with a counter attack. Genesis rolled over to side before getting slammed in the gut by Cerbera's kick causing her to bite her lip. However' she would capture Cerbera's leg in the process. Moving her hips into position, so her shin would collide with Cerbera's lower shin and her other leg's calf would slam into the back of Cerbera's knee in a scissoring motion to get Cerbera on her back. If successful, Genesis would wrap her legs around Cerbera's captured leg and put her in a knee bar!

Cerbera was not out to defend herself and found herself on her back, her leg taken by Genesis's and caught in a knee bar. Still, she didn't show despair nor shock, instead


she brought her hands down to the girl's leg and tried to sink her nails deep into the skin. She was out to hurt this girl in every way, just like she had done to Zera but even worse then that. Though Cerbera was not good at dealing with submissions, she knew her nails would bring plenty of pain to genesis to make her reconsider using the knee bar.

Genesis smiled as she manged to lock in a knee bar but, was dismayed as she felt Cerbera's finger nails dig deep in her skin. "Ahhhhh!" She cried as she instinctively let go but, would kick Cerbera in the ribcage while they were both on their backs with her heel. While kicking her, she would push away from her inthe same motion as she rolled away. If Cerbera would leave her be, the girl would hiss and clutch her thigh that had a set of 4 red lines across it, she winced. Cerbera's savage clawing drew a little bit of blood but, it left red marks across her skin. Her skin was ruptured, the clawing effect occurred when she pulled away from her.

"Y-you... " Genesis said as she got on to one knee in a crouched position with one eye open.

The kick was unexpected and it hit it's mark right in Cerbera's ribs, making her body twitch but still creating the result she personally wanted, which was for Genesis to release her. She began to get back upon her feet and looked over at Genesis, who had


marks over her leg. She began to grin wickedly over at her and made her way back at the girl, brushing her side only once, not letting her own body stop her and rushed straight towards Genesis with that lightning speed again, aiming to ram her knee straight into Genesis's face as she would pass her.

Genesis didn't have time to breathe as cerbera ran at her with that godlike speed once more. Gritting her teeth, the green eyed woman would manage to almost get to her feet and form an X with her forearms facing Cerbera to defend herself. "Ngh..." Geneses grunted as the knee slammed against her guard as her arms managed to absorb the blow. However, the momentum behind it put her right back on thering floor. "Crap!" Genesis would curl up into a little ball expecting Cerbera to rain strikes down at her as she would attemot to crawl towards the ropes.

And that was exactly was Cerbera was going to do. Genesis was going to regret ever thinking she was a match against Cerbera, that she had the power to resist her or even lure her out into this state. Genesis was in a cage with a lioness, and she was hungry for blood.

She stood besides the fallen Genesis and started to stomp down upon the girl's body, not having any specific target in mind this time just to suprise Genesis.

Genesis cried out in pain as the other girl began kicking her in the back down as she tried to get back


up. the green eyed girl's eyes watered as Cerbera's blows were many and began brusining her back and began wailing out loud as the other girl was literally bullying and beating her up. "Gahhhh!" She shrieked as she got on all fours only to be kicked back down to her stomach. She shivered as the girl would kick down at her limp body mercilessly. Whimpering in her pathetic state, she was defenseless.

That blissful moment where Genesis shrieken out in pure agony, the way she was like a limp piece of meat on the ground, showing no defense, showing no offense, not even showing the will to fight. She was tearing this girl apart and she loved it! Ever since Zera's defeat, she was driven with revenge, she wantedthis girl to suffer and made numerous connections with several people to get where she was now. She had made contact with Lukretia, requesting aid to capture Genesis like this, in turn Cerbera would have to prove herself in this match, otherwise Lukretia would eat her alive, it was a tough deal but Cerbera knew she could handle it, and now here she stood practically victorious over a girl that no longer showed hostility.

It just wasn't enough for Cerbera. She had taken a rather painful work out from Sarah Gatt to learn how to strike with her fists, to train her body and to gain a tremendous amount of strength for a kawaii to take and control. Another kick had driven the girl from her animal like state,


down onto her stomach again. It still just wasn't enough for Cerbera, she wanted her to cry, to beg, to bleed! Just that very thought drove Cerbera on with her merciless slaughter. She stepped on leg over Genesis's body so each foot was at one side of her body, then lowered herself on one knee. She took a hold of Genesis's hair, curling her hand into a tight face to keep a tight grip on the girl's hair and lifted her head up off the mat rather painfully, pulling Genesis close enough so she could whisper into her ear. " You will suffer. " She then slammed Genesis's face into the mat rather harshly, then lifted her up again. " You will cry. " And another slam, liftingher up once more. " Everything you have done to Zera. " She slammed and lifted her again. " I will double it. " Then a very hard slam, leaving Genesis's face buried in the mat.

Cerbera grit her teeth as Cerbera had kicked her harshly in the stomach one last time. Her body grew weary as shegot on all fours slowly again as her mouth coughed up some saliva as she tried to lift herself from the ground but, Cerbera had got a grip of her hair making her squeal out in horror, "Ahh!" The greeen eyed girl was frantic as if she was a rodent that just got captured by her predator's talons. "Ughh!" Before she had a chance to say anymore, her head was slammed into


the mat. The kawaii grunted as her head hit the mat, it had made her very disoriented. Much to her agony, Cerbera whispered into her ear causing her to flinch and groan as she shook her head before her head was slammed into the mat again! and again! and again! The last slam had so much force, Genesis' head nearly bounced off of it.

Wailing in agony, the green eyed kawaii was left on the ring floor putting her hands on her face and, if Cerbera would let her, she would roll around. Groaning and shrieking in pain while she kicked the mat with her feet. Genesis would then begin to crawl away for her life in her horrified and shivering state in panic.

Was this it? Was this Zerahad to face and lose against? This was so laughable! She allowed Genesis to crawl away from her, the dark kawaii rising back upon her feet, a sinister grin taking over her face as she watched the state Genesis was in. The damage done to her, her words, the utter fear in her eyes and mentality.. How she missed it! She could hear a mixture of responses from the crowd. Cheers for Cerbera getting revenge on her sister, but a lot more boos of how Cerbera was behaving, that she was giving her kawaii opponent no mercy. Why should she? This girl had ruined everything people had worked hard for, keeping Cerbera happy.

And now all the damage done, was going to hit Genesis with a lot more. She


took a single step forward, taking a few seconds to watch Genesis's expression before another soon followed, making a very slow march towards the fallen Genesis, her words coming out as deadly as a cobra's bite. " The only way you can escape.. Is by going to hell. " The grin became a crazed grin, eyes widening slightly as she soon stood a few feet from Genesis. " Allow me to guide you to that destination. "

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SEATTLE -- Second-round pick Joe DeCarlo, a high school shortstop from Pennsylvania, tops a list of 25 Draft picks whose signings were announced Wednesday by the Mariners.

The club has signed 27 of the 41 players from last week's First-Year Player Draft, including seven of its top 10 picks and 25 of its first 30.

DeCarlo joined Mariners batting practice prior to the team's game against the Padres on Wednesday. He will soon join the team's Arizona Rookie League squad.

"It's awesome," DeCarlo said. "The ball doesn't carry, but it was an awesome time I had today. I always heard it was a beautiful ballpark, and it sure is.

"Ready to go to Arizona and get crackin'. ... I'm just worried about playing ball, and


Middleweight

Middleweight is a weight class in professional boxing. Weight classes are categories in which competition is divided into to match competitors of the same size against each other. In professional boxing, middle weight boxers range from 154 pounds (70kg) to 160 pounds (73kg).

There is no exact history of this weight class, but it seems to have begun in the 1840s. During the era of bare-knuckle boxing, Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris contested for the inaugural middleweight championship in 1897. Chandler won this bout and was known as the American middleweight champion.

George Fulljames and Jack Nonpareil Dempsey were the first to contest in fight with gloves on.

The record for the most number of consecutive title defenses is held by Bernard Hopkins. He has had 20 defenses of the IBFFox's subpar coverage of 2018 World Cup leaves many fans upset

With the coronation of the France national football team as winners of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, there was a sense of loss and emptiness that the quadrennial summer carnival was coming toan end.

However, a lot of soccer viewers in the United States might feel relieved that it was finally the end of the mediocre-at-best Fox Sports broadcast of the most popular sports event in the world. Some, though, might miss the coverage provided on the written press and audio platforms.

For an average soccer content consumer using multiple media platforms, there is little to no point in watching the shoulder coverage of the World Cup matches on Fox. Podcasts, such as the popular Totally Football Show and Football


Weekly can fill fans in, aside from the actual footage of the matches — which Fox Sports did not show anyway — that provided fans with all of the needed information.

The podcasts have guests analyzing games in studio and journalists on the ground phoning in to the podcast to talk about games and goings-on in Russia.

In an episode of the Totally Football Show, journalist Sasha Goryunov told listeners about the history of Kaliningrad, one of the Russian host cities.

Though Kaliningrad was similarly razed as Gdansk, Poland, was by the Royal Air Force in World War II, the city did not experience the prosperity and recovery made at the Polish city because the Soviet Union felt that Kaliningrad, — formerly known as Königsberg and the birthplace of philosopher Immanuelpolitical and sports governance issues on ESPN when it had the rights of the
World Cup.

Richard Deitsch, the media reporter at The Athletic, noted that Fox Sports should “think about bringing in a rotation of soccer journalists into the studio to augment on-air talent” for future tournaments, especially on late-night shows.

Fernando Fiore, the original sole host and, later, the co-host of the nightly show World Cup Tonight, said on the Planet Futbol podcast that he wanted to make sports fun. That's well-intentioned, but the absence of seriousness on the show in the beginning and the lack of tactical analysis was an “insult to diehard soccer viewers.”

NBC Sports has been the Premier League rightsholder since the 2013-2014 season. Fox's failure — especially after the jubilant social media reaction when it