are not eligible for the awards. The Mythopoeic Society does not accept or review unsolicited manuscripts.

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature is given to the fantasy novel, multi-volume novel, or single-author story collection for adults published during the previous year that best exemplifies "the spirit of the Inklings". Books not selected as finalists in the year after publication are eligible for a second year. Books from a series are eligible if they stand on their own; otherwise, the series becomes eligible the year its final volume appears.

The Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature honors books for younger readers (from "Young Adults" to picture books for beginning readers), in the tradition of The Hobbit or The Chronicles of Narnia. Rules for eligibility are otherwise the same as forthe Adult literature award. The question of which award a borderline book is best suited for will be decided by consensus of the committees.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Inklings Studies is given to books on J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and/or Charles Williams that make significant contributions to Inklings scholarship. For this award, books first published during the previous three years are eligible, including finalists for previous years.

The Mythopoeic Scholarship Award in Myth and Fantasy Studies is given to scholarly books on other specific authors in the Inklings tradition, or to more general works on the genres of myth and fantasy. The period of eligibility is three years, as for the Inklings Studies award.

Winners of the 2009 Mythopoeic Awards will be announced at the 40th Annual Mythopoeic Conference (Mythcon


The Associate of Science Degree in General Business, with an emphasis on Management, is career-oriented and designed to provide academic training in management. Students acquire knowledge of various management and business-related areas, including human resources, small business management, accounting, and economics. Students also gain basic computer skills that will assist them in managerial decision making. Positions available include management trainee, supervisor, department head, office manager, and personnel administrator.The Perfect Storm Spawns a New Era of Whistleblower Activity (Silicon Valley)

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"Classical" Chinese art tackles modern issues

Yang Yongliang

Chinese artist Yang Yongliang was classically trained in the art of Chinese calligraphy and his images evoke serene, natural landscapes. Upon closer inspection though, Yang's compositions are more complex.

One picture of modern Shanghai is stacked together and made to look like a mountain. Everything from the trees to the jagged cliffs are created from images of today's China. A rocky island upon first glance, for instance, is actually skyscrapers.

To create his images, Yang layers thousands of tiny photographs to create and comment on another world.

Yang Yongliang

Yang takes pictures in cities across China. As he snaps the photos, he doesn't know how they'll come together. Ultimately, a telephone pole might wind up resembling a tree or a house can become a rock ina river.

He says he sees human beings as fragile, and through "development" they're creating their own demise.

Credit: Yang Yongliang

Yang Yongliang

Far from the Ming Dynasty paper scrolls that were his inspiration, Yang's newest work is projected. His pieces show a Chinese landscape cluttered with skyscrapers and cranes. Yang says good art shows awaken inner emotions.

"I want to make people reflect," he said. "Modern life is comfortable and convenient, but we rarely think about what we exchange for that."


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Gannets are colonial breeders on islands and coasts, normally laying one chalky, blue egg. It takes five years for gannets to reach maturity. First-year birds are completely black, and subsequent sub-adult plumages show increasing amounts of white.

The three gannet species are now usually placed in the genus Morus, Abbott's booby in Papasula, and the remaining boobies in Sula. However, some authorities believe that all nine sulid species should be considered congeneric, in Sula. At one time, the various gannet species were considered to be a single species.

Most fossil gannets are from the Late Miocene or Pliocene, a time when the diversity of seabirds in general was much higher than today. It is not completely clear what caused the decline in species at the end of the Pleistocene; increasedcompetition due to the spread of marine mammals may have played a role.

The genus Morus is much better documented in the fossil record than Sula, though the latter is more numerous today. The reasons are not clear; it might be that boobies were better-adapted or simply "lucky" to occur in the right places for dealing with the challenges of the Late Pliocene ecological change, or it could be that many more fossil boobies still await discovery. Notably, gannets are today restricted to temperate oceans while boobies are also found in tropical waters, whereas several of the prehistoric gannet species had a more equatorial distribution than their congeners of today.

In many parts of the United Kingdom, the term "gannet" is used to refer to people who steadily eat vast


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Suzuki is the fourth-largest car company in Japan, after Toyota, Nissan and Honda.

Earlier this year, Japan's transport ministry raided the offices of Mitsubishi Motors, after the carmaker admitted to falsifying its fuel economy data.

The scandal led to the president stepping down, and rival Nissan Motor later stepped in to gain a controlling stake in the embattled company.

Last year Volkswagen admitted to cheating emissions tests in the US.

Authorities found the German carmaker was installing a cheating software in its diesel vehicles that could detect when the cars were being tested and would change emission levels accordingly to improve the results.head to the most distal part of the femoral condyle. The length of tibia was measured from the most proximal part of the tibial eminence to the midpoint of the tibial plafond.[@B7] The length of humerus was measured parallel to its long axis from the most proximal part of the humeral head to the most distal part of the trochlea on the lateral view.[@B8] Lengthening percentage (LP) was calculated by dividing the gained length by the initial length.[@B9]

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every single one of them, but 99.9 percent of the time, just about every time, they’re not credible threats.”

Maguire, who referred all questions to Techmeyer when reached by phone Saturday afternoon, asked Stratford police last September to assist with the investigation when a Stratford-based caller, later identified as Carpenter, said they planned to shoot up a school in Colorado.

Officer Matthew Corbit of Stratford police wrote in his report he went to the family’s home and spoke with Carpenter’s mother, Wendy, who suspected Carpenter was behind the call, telling police her daughter had a history of mental illness and was acting strangely after switching medications.

Carpenter allegedly admitted threatening to kill people and blamed it on her change in medication.

Chilling entries in a manifesto were found in Carpenter’s diary ather Main Street apartment at Hope House, a psychiatric facility. In them, Carpenter referred to Columbine gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as “heroes” and said she wanted to “follow in their footsteps.”

The former student of Stratford High School and Frank Scott Bunnell High School also alluded to past instances of bullying and inquired about purchasing a 12-gauge tactical shotgun from a gun store in Torrington.

The revelations, along with reports of more than three dozen run-ins Carpenter had with Stratford police, bring up questions about whether more could have been, legally or medically, to correct Carpenter’s behavior before she spiraled out of control.

In one report, an officer in the department writes of Carpenter, who is known to suffer from personality disorders, ADHD, depression and has cut herself and


By Brittany P. Anderson

Along the side of Maunakea in the Hilo Forest Reserve is an old orchard. Sitting at 6,000 feet elevation, the Keanakolu orchard, also called the Humu‘ula orchard, is a remnant of a bygone era. The twisted, weathered tree branches and verdant backdrop with birds singing overhead—it is as if you have stepped into a real-life fairy tale.

The path leading to the orchard is lined with trees and the dappled sunlight dances at our feet. At the Keanakolu orchard, cherry, apple, plum, peach, pear, and apricot trees were planted by a person unknown in the late 1800s. The koa log cabin built in 1885 serves as a strong reminder to take only what you need.

Memories recorded in a faded periodical tell a tale of 30 Hawaiians,2017) -- is one way for each coach to recognize a peer that impressed them the most. The rules and guidelines are... well, none.They can vote for someone who earned Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors, a coach who made an impression in their first year, or simply the nicest coach in the building. Once tallied, one coach earns what one would consider the ultimate show of respect, an award from their peers in the 26-sport department.In 2017-18, softball coachearned the initial honor after leading her team to the College World Series in Oklahoma City.This year's winner is a head coach of a sport that wasn't even in existence four years ago, yet advanced to the NCAA Tournament and has everyone in the hockey world buzzing about the


lead the hockey program to its first NCAA Tournament appearance after a 13-win turnaround (21-13-1) in 2018-19. The historical season under coach Powers is highlighted by becoming the fastest start-up NCAA Division I program to qualify for the postseason.Hockey broke a number of records, including first 20-win season, first victory over a top-10 opponent, first time being ranked in the USCHO or USA Hockey Magazine/USA Today poll, and highest ever ranking at No. 11 at one point during the season. Junior goaltenderalso became the program's first CCM/AHCA All-American selection and Mike Richter Finalist after a remarkable season between the pipes. He ended up becoming the first Sun Devil to sign an NHL entry-level contract on April 1, and three days later became the first player in program historyto play in an NHL game on April 4 for the Ottawa Senators.The honor follows the tradition set by outstanding Sun Devil Club members Carl and Cher Maltese, who in spring of 2018 worked with several members within Sun Devil Athletics and the Wings of Gold Committee to create, establish and award the inauguralCoach of the Year award. The Vollstedt Award was designed to be given to the ASU coach who best represents the temperaments, talents and convictions fostered by Coachand who continually strives to ensure that the young women entrusted to him/her achieve overall excellence as students, athletes and citizens.The inaugural award was presented to Sun Devil Women's Golf head coach

ABOUT FRANK KUSH

Frank Kush led the Sun Devils to six victories in seven bowl games, including the


1970 Peach Bowl and 1975 Fiesta Bowl where the team capped off two undefeated seasons. The Peach Bowl marked ASU's first bowl game in 19 years and the Fiesta Bowl win pushed the Sun Devils to second in the national rankings, the highest ever under Kush. With Kush's 1975 team finishing second in the national rankings, he was named the National Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association and the Walter Camp Foundation. Aside from producing winning teams, Kush coached nearly 40 All-Americans and more than 125 NFL players, including 10 first-round draft picks and 17 Pro Bowlers.

An Arizona State and College Football Hall of Fame inductee and the winningest coach in Sun Devil Football history, Coach Kush passed away on June 22, 2017, at88. He started his career at ASU in 1955 as an assistant under former head coach Dan Devine. Three seasons later, on Dec. 22, 1957, Kush became the 15th football coach in Arizona State history and the rest is ASU, Phoenix, college football, Tempe and state of Arizona history. He went on to win 176 games, the most in school history, across 21.5 seasons and was elected into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1995. He led his team to seven Western Athletic Conference Championships and guided the Sun Devils to winning seasons in 19 of his 22 years.


'The Beguiled': Sofia Coppola on Taking on a Genre Movie and Why It's Not a Remake (Q&A)

The Cannes veteran also tells THR of casting Colin Farrell as ‘the thinking woman’s hunk' and sticking with indies after exiting Universal's live-action 'Little Mermaid.'

Cannes could be considered a home away from home for Sofia Coppola. She first attended the festival in 1979 with her father, Francis Ford Coppola, whose seminal Apocalypse Now was in competition, and returned with him in 1996 and 2001. She brought her own films in 2006 (Marie Antoinette) and 2013 (The Bling Ring), and was on the competition jury in 2014. "I have so many memories there. My birthday is around this time of year, so I always associate it with birthdays," says Coppola, 45. "I alwaysover and over again.

The malware uses hard-coded network credentials for Olympic systems and any credentials it comes across, allowing it to attack other computers on the same network.

Changing the hard-coded credentials could then set loose another attack.

The attackers would have had to steal credentials before programming it into the malware.

Who's behind it: Adam Meyers, Vice President of Intelligence at Crowdstrike, notes that Fancy Bear, one of the believed Russian groups thought to be behind the Democratic National Committee breach, hacked a number of Olympic-affiliated systems in November and December. The malware was compiled in late December. That might hint at Russian involvement.


From Cuba To Chicago

Comments (0)Cuba's Jose Abreu will have big shoes to fill in Chicago, should he proceed to take team legend Paul Konerko's first base job. (Getty Images)

By John Perrotto

Masahiro Tanaka will be undoubtedly be the biggest story of spring training should his Japanese team, the Rakuten Golden Eagles, finally decide to submit him for posting and allow him to play in the major leagues in 2014.

The right-hander went 24-0 this year during the regular season for Rakuten, champions of Nippon Professional Baseball. Japanese media will descend en masse on the spring training base of whatever team Tanaka signs with as that country's fascination with native sons who come to play baseball in the United States remains as strong as when Hideo Nomo made his dazzling debutwith the Los Angeles Dodgers nearly two decades ago.

However, a more intriguing story will play out at the Chicago White Sox's camp at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz., to much less fanfare. Cuban expatriate first baseman Jose Dariel Abreu will be taking part in his first American spring training after signing a six-year, $68-million contract in October.

Abreu has often been called "the Barry Bonds of Cuba." And, no asteriskheads, that isn't meant as an insult.

The 26-year-old right-handed hitting Abreu showed the same traits as Bonds -- excellent power and plate discipline -- during his years playing in Serie Nacional, Cuba's major league. Some of the statistics he compiled on the island defy description, such as during the winter of 2010-11 when he hit 33 home runs in 66


of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Both have dazzled with their all-around athletic ability, Cespedes helping the Athletics win American League West titles in each of his first two seasons and winning the All-Star Home Run Derby this year at Citi Field in New York while Puig helped sparked the Dodgers to an amazing 42-8 stretch at midseason that keyed their run to the National League West championship.

The 6-foot-3, 255-pound Abreu is a pure slugger. He won't make spectacular plays in the field like Cespedes or daring baserunning attempts like Puig. However, Abreu's power is so prodigious that the White Sox were comfortable in signing him to the largest contract ever given an international player.

"The power is his loudest tool," White Sox general manager Rick Hahn said, "but Iseen a right-hander hitter's hands work down through the ball and the ball explodes of his bat but in a line-drive manner. When he hits tape-measure shots, it's almost as though he missed hitting a line drive but got backspin on the ball."

In a highly unscientific, yet revealing, poll of five scouts from other major-league organizations who watched Abreu play in various international competitions over the years, three felt he would have a successful major-league career and two thought the White Sox would regret the $68-million outlay.

Two of the scouts who believe Abreu will succeed likened him to Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Ryan Howard because of his size and ability to hit long home runs.

"It's going to be fun to see this guy hit in Chicago because the


ball flies (at U.S. Cellular Field)," said a scout from an NL club. "He's going to hit some 500-foot home runs there because he's got that proverbial light-tower power. He's a smart hitter, too. He'll take his walks if they try to pitch around him. He's going to be a force."

The two scouts who feel Abreu will be a bust believe major-league pitchers will consistently beat him with inside fastballs.

"He blocks himself off on his swing and his bat is slow," a scout from an AL team said. "He's got some big-time adjustments to make if he's going to hit in the big leagues."

The White Sox feel they have a strong support system in place to help Abreu make the transition to the major leagues, both physically andmentally, as well as the cultural adjustment to the United States.

Though he has most likely ceded his starting first baseman's job to Abreu, veteran Paul Konerko has decided to return for one more season to serve as a mentor and the right-handed-hitting half of a designated hitter platoon with Adam Dunn. Abreu also figures to be one of three Cubans in the White Sox's starting lineup along with shortstop Alexei Ramirez and left fielder Dayan Viciedo. Abreu and Ramirez are close friends.

"It's difficult for any player to first come to the major leagues and it's even more difficult when you've left your family and friends behind," Hahn said. "We want to make Jose feel as comfortable as possible because we feel he is going to be a very


from a camping trip in her Ford Windstar minivan, went the wrong way on the Taconic Parkway and crashed head-on into an SUV carrying three men. Everyone died except the woman’s five-year-old boy. At the funeral, mourners wept when the woman’s brother, the father of her nieces, sobbed, “Love your children. Cherish your children. Kiss your children.”

It appeared to be a tragic accident. This woman entered the highway from an exit ramp, and, apparently disoriented, drove 1.7 miles before the crash. She’d called her brother from a rest stop an hour before, the papers said, complaining of fatigue and sounding confused. A police officer speculated that maybe she thought she was in the slow lane on the correct side of the road; others suggested that perhaps she wasnovel, Bird in Hand. I began to tell the story of a woman, a mother, who has several drinks and gets into an accident in which a child dies. As I started writing, though, I found that it was like staring directly into the sun; I had to squint and turn away. I put the manuscript in a drawer and only came back to it after several years, when my children were older and my own fears had subsided. And I changed the focus of the novel: the accident became a catalyst for the larger story rather than the story itself.

Writing this book was a way of exploring my deepest fears around this subject. I wanted to follow my character through her grief and guilt to some place


Oklahoma would lose so the Bulldogs could take the top ranking. Now Georgia needs help, not to mention much better performances, just to get back to Atlanta for the SEC Championship Game.

"We were on an emotional peak last week," Richt said. "This week, I thought we were very business-like, and I thought we were ready to play. As it turns out, they were more ready than we were."

Richt reminded his players in the postgame locker room that LSU lost once last year and then went on to win the national title, but he wouldn't address that with the media.

"We can't even get out of the East right now," he said. "We're just going to be fighting like made to beat Vandy next week."

Tennessee is in firm control ofthe SEC's Eastern Division thanks to wins over the Bulldogs and Florida.

The Bulldogs (4-1, 2-1) benefited from a questionable fumble by the Volunteers and three missed James Wilhoit field goals, but those gifts were buried under a mountain of mistakes and missed opportunities.

At the top of the blame list was the offense. Starting quarterback David Greene was coming off a school-record five-touchdown game against LSU and was facing the nation's No. 92 passing defense against the Vols. However, he had only 41 passing yards midway through the first quarter and seven of his first eight drives ended in five or fewer plays and zero points.

"The first three quarters I felt like a non-factor in the game," said Greene, who finished 15 of 34 for 163 yards. "As much


as went our way last week, nothing went our way this week, nothing."

The Bulldogs only score in the first three quarters came when backup quarterback D.J. Shockley led a seven-play, 63-yard touchdown drive on the third series of the game, hooking up with roommate Fred Gibson on a 24-yard touchdown pass with 10:44 left in the half.

"We just didn't get anything going," Gibson said. "But this didn't have anything to do with the LSU game."

Georgia finished with 265 yards of total offense, 209 through the air and just 56 on the ground.

There were other factors, including 12 penalties for 82 yards, a questionable fake punt call in the third quarter that failed and led to Tennessee's final touchdown, and a missed 29-yard field goal by Andy Bailey.

The Volunteersthey'll be presenting before committing their time.

In addition to that focus on content, physicians are looking more carefully at educational formats. "They're evaluating how interactive the meetings and sessions are," says Koziol. "Instead of going to a meeting where they might just sit in a large audience and be lectured to, they're looking for workshops, interactive sessions and peer learning." The traditional lecture format on its own, say attendees, is less and less likely to convince them to physically attend an event.

Design with empathy
Other health-care organizations are digging deep to determine attendee preferences. One such initiative was born at PCMA's Education Conference last June in New York City. A number of associations in the health-care field partnered with the event-design team at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to embark on


keep them there.

Organizers at the American Thoracic Society found solutions that seem to work. The show's exhibit floor has grown every year for the past eight years. Last year's total attendance was 16,169, with 202 exhibiting companies and approximately 65,800 net square feet sold.

Ready to engage: HCP attendees
at the ATS 2017 Conference found
hands-on opportunities.

Various tactics keep HCPs present and engaged. Last year, Stacy McManus, CEM, the organization's director of corporate alliances and exhibition operations, launched Guru Bars -- short presentations and interactive sessions that exhibitors can hold on the show floor, led by subject-matter experts, that inspire collaborative discussion. The initiative was a hit and is expanding for this year's show.

Also, in a recent design-thinking workshop, Turenne's group built a prototype for a "Collaboration Station," an exhibit-floor hubTag Archives: Spector

Phil Spector is a well known Grammy-winning pop-music producer of the 1960â€™s who has turned a convicted killer. Philâ€™s dreadful mug shot from prison looks haunting and ghostly – a mix of Gollum and elf. The ageing and balding shot is scary with a cold and fear-inducing stare, to say the least. A judge sentencedÂ SpectorÂ to the maximum sentence for second-degree ...


CLASS WAR

Arsenal are big on class and tradition. The marble halls at Highbury? Nothing is more traditional or classy than marble. A dinosaur prancing about the place before matches and taking part in minute's silences? It certainly makes more sense than the Gunners having a mascot called Colin the Cannon. The Emirates Cup? It's the oldest, most hallowed, most sepia-toned cup competition in the world. Arsenal defenders falling over themselves to allow Didier Drogba to plunder two goals and win the trophy for his club, just for old time's sake? The work of a club with the very essence of gentlemanliness coursing through its veins. Arsène Wenger spending his every waking moment defending the absence of big-name signings and repeatedly pointing at the acquisition of Yaya Sanogo asevidence of Arsenal's super-sized ambition? You get the idea.

And perhaps all of the above is why Brendan Rodgers, qualified motivational speaker and head guru at Liverpool Football Club Football Club (LFCFC), another Football Club highly concerned with history, class and tradition, all of which are abstract concepts that cannot be bought by the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City but which can be used as a comfort blanket while the likes of Chelsea and Manchester City set about making their fans happy with trophies, is so upset with Arsenal's decidedly non-classy bid of £40m plus £1 for the classiest of guys, Luis Suárez. As far as Rodgers is concerned, such a sneaky move was definitely not a real classy touch from Arsenal and the situation is threatening to


become so critical that we could soon have a class war on our hands as both parties grapple for the moral high ground. If only the pair of them had listened more to Ron Burgundy.

"I was surprised," Rodgers sniffed, surprisingly resisting the urge to use a reflexive pronoun in the incorrect place. "I've got to say I've always associated Arsenal as a club with class and so there was a wee bit of a game there." Lessons in class from a man with a portrait of himself in his house has to hurt but luckily Suárez was spared a tongue-lashing from Rodgers after his appearance off the bench in Saturday's friendly against Olympiakos "That just showed you the class of the Liverpool supporters," he continued. "That was amessage from them, that they love him here. We all love him – the players, the manager and the fans, and Luis is still very much part of what we are doing." The Fiver's getting a bit emotional.

Whether Wayne Rooney receives a similar reception from Manchester United fans when he appears at Old Trafford next remains to be seen after news emerged this morning that Chelsea have had a second bid of £30m rejected for the striker, who might have to hand in a transfer request to force a move. In an entirely predictable twist, it was then announced that Rooney will miss United's friendly against AIK in Sweden tomorrow, citing shoulder-knack. Heavens! What rotten luck! Not to fear, though, like-a-new-signing Bébé's back in the squad. Perhaps you


BOBS

Loïc Rémy is coughing for the Newcastle doctors with a view to joining the club on loan. Meanwhile, Marseille striker André-Pierre Gignac is reasonably adamant he's not going to St James' Park: "Newcastle and the rest, it is all bull$hit," he potty-mouthed.

Roberto Soldado has already proved to the Spurs doctor he has the requisite number of arms and legs and has completed his transfer from Valencia.

Sunderland fan Liam Jones, who claimed he was "doing a chicken dance" while making a monkey gesture at Romelu Lukaku last season, has been banned from football for three years and handed an 18-month conditional discharge.

Rapid Vienna teenager Maximilian Hofmann gave away a penalty and was sent off 90 seconds into his Woodgatesque debut yesterday, although his team still managed to beat SturmGraz 4-2.

Santiago Wanderers keeper Mauricio Viana saved a last-minute penalty to seal a goalless draw against Audax Italiano, unaware that he had suffered intestine-perforation-yelp.

And Johan Cruyff reckons booze, rather than doping, was the reason the West German players in the 1974 World Cup final were bigger than the Dutch side. "They were developed better physically, but everybody always said that was because they drank more beer," he hiccuped.

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Cop Who Killed Antwon Rose Jr. Reportedly Has History Of Inflicting Harm Upon Black Children

Once again, the police see a fleeing black body as some kind of threat.

Malinda Janay

| June 28 2018,

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Update: Michael Rosfeld, the officer who shot unarmed 17-year-old Antwon Rose Jr. as he ran away, was charged with criminal homicide on Wednesday, June 27, reports ABC News. Rosfeld was sworn in just 90 minutes before killing the high school student despite having worked there for three weeks. CBS News reports the University of Pittsburgh dismissed Rosfeld for cause.

According to Lee Merritt, an attorney representing the Rose family who appeared on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Rosfeld assaulted the school's highest ranking official's black son.

The cop who murdered #AntwonRose— Michael Rosfeld— wasattempted to take the driver into custody. At that time, two other men in the vehicle exited and fled on foot," Allegheny County police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said. "The East Pittsburgh police officer fired at the fleeing suspects. One of those individuals is a 17-year-old male. He was transported to (UPMC) McKeesport Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:19 p.m."

The Post-Gazette reports Antwon's aunt, Mica Tinsley, saw the news story about the shooting, but she wasn't aware it involved Antwon until she called his mom.

"She said, 'Yes, Mica, the police killed Antwon,'" Tinsley said.

A Facebook user posted a disturbing and graphic video clip of the shooting showing the two passengers running away. Police fired three shots as the victims fall to the ground.

On Wednesday, Tinsley watched the


shot. Witnesses said they saw a car fleeing the scene. Based on the information given about the vehicle, one reportedly matching the description was stopped by police a few blocks away. As police handcuffed the 20-year-old driver, Antwone Rose Jr., and another passenger fled the scene. Officer Michael Rosfeld responded by shooting Antwon.

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"He [the officer] stopped the vehicle and attempted to take the driver into custody. At that time, two other men in the vehicle exited and fled on foot," Allegheny County police Superintendent Coleman McDonough said. "The East Pittsburgh police officer fired at the fleeing suspects. One of those individuals is a 17-year-old male. He was transported to (UPMC) McKeesport Hospital,[...]

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Jakes Addison serves its last poppyseed-bun cheeseburger

Jakes Addison serves its last poppyseed-bun cheeseburger

The Addison branch of Jakes Hamburgers, at 5500 Belt Line Rd. on the border of Dallas, shut down on June 15. A staffer said the location was closing for good, due to lease issues.

"The lease was up, and we couldn't find another place to move," she said. "We might open another location in the area, but that wouldn't be until at least next year."

The branch opened there about seven years ago in what was previously a California Pizza Kitchen. In the '80s, it was a bar called the Golden Parachute.

Jakes' signature item is a sloppy burger with the usual fast-food "PLOT" — pickles, lettuce, onion, tomato — on a poppyseed bun. Its other signature is avexing missing apostrophe; shouldn't it be Jake's?

The chain was a precursor to "better burger" trend that emerged in the past few years, with an onslaught of chains such as Liberty Burger, Hopdoddy Burger Bar, Beck's Prime and Grub Burger Bar. The category has already begun to fade, with industry watchers observing a decline that began in 2013.

Unlike some of the newer burger chains, Jakes relies on the employ of young female servers wearing tank tops and short shorts, sort of like a junior-varsity Twin Peaks.

The closure leaves four Jakes around Dallas, two in Fort Worth and one in Grapevine. But Northern-residing Jakes fans may be reassured by a forecast from the Jakes staffer who said that the company had plans for future stores, possibly in Collin County and


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Resveratrol (res-ver-a-trol)

Resveratrol is a type of polyphenol that can be found naturally in a variety of sources including grapes, Japanese knotweed (giant knotweed), berries, peanuts, dark chocolate and tea.

The French Paradox: Resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, first gained publicity in the early nineties when the CBS television show, 60-Minutes, investigated why people living in France, despite eating diets high in saturated fats, had lower rates of coronary heart disease than people living in the United States. The report concluded that a higher consumption of red wine may play a role in lowering coronary heart disease. Since then, researches have pointed to resveratrol, a substance contained in grape skins (and other plants such as Japanese knotweed), as the compound with the possibility of preventingrights, functions, duties, obligations, and benefits attendant upon the office of Chief Justice. The Montgomery Circuit Court dismissed Hornsby's declaratory judgment action as moot, on motion of the defendants, Jimmy H. Baker, who was then acting director of the Department of Finance of the State of Alabama, and Jeff Sessions, who was then attorney general of the State of Alabama. Before the action was dismissed, the parties had agreed that the sole issue in the case was whether Hornsby had de jure been Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court for the period beginning at the end of his elective term and running through October 20, 1995. We hold that Hornsby was holding the office of Chief Justice in a de jure capacity during that period; we reverse


the judgment of the trial court and render a judgment for Hornsby.
In 1988, Sonny Hornsby was elected to the office of Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. He assumed the duties of that office in January 1989. Chief Justice Hornsby sought re-election to that office in the November 1994 general election. His opponent in that race was Perry O. Hooper, Sr. As of February 1995, when this declaratory judgment action was filed, no winner had been certified in the race for the position of Chief Justice. In the interim between the election and the filing of this declaratory judgment action, actions had been filed in state and federal courts regarding the validity of certain absentee ballots cast in the November 1994 general election. In one of thoseactions, Roe v. Alabama, CV-94-0885, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama on December 5, 1994, enjoined the counting of contested absentee ballots. An appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit followed. Perry O. Hooper, Sr., was a named plaintiff in the Roe action. Sonny Hornsby was not a named defendant.
By letter of January 16, 1995, Baker, as acting director of finance, requested an opinion from the attorney general as to whether the state comptroller could legally issue state warrants to pay the salaries or expenses of Chief Justice Hornsby and state treasurer George C. Wallace, Jr., after January 16, 1995, and until the winners of the races for the offices of Chief Justice and state treasurer had been


or until he was declared the winner of the November 1994 election for Chief Justice, and declaring that during that period he had all the powers, rights, functions, duties, obligations, and benefits attendant upon the office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama; and *936 he further asked that the circuit court issue an injunction permanently enjoining Sessions and Baker from interfering or attempting to interfere with his performance of the duties of the office of Chief Justice and from attempting to withhold from him the attendant benefits of that office.
On March 9, 1995, Hornsby moved for a summary judgment. On that same day, the parties jointly stipulated that there were no material facts in dispute in this cause; that Hornsby had previously been duly electedand qualified as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, having taken the oath of office on January 17, 1989; that in the general election of November 8, 1994, Hornsby had sought reelection and had been opposed in that election by Perry O. Hooper, Sr.; that although the election took place on November 8, 1994, no winner of the race for Chief Justice had been determined; that there was then pending other litigation relating to the counting of certain absentee ballots in the November 1994 election; that the result of the election for the office of Chief Justice had not been certified; that no election contest had been filed; that no one had qualified for the office of Chief Justice; and that no one could predict with


performing the duties and functions of the Office of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama, and that all acts performed by him in that capacity are at a minimum valid and binding acts." All remaining issues were taken under advisement for disposition by further order of the court.
On May 26, 1995, Sessions and Baker filed a memorandum in opposition to Hornsby's motion for summary judgment.
On September 18, 1995, Hornsby filed a second motion for summary judgment. On October 24, 1995, Sessions and Baker filed a motion to dismiss, citing in support thereof an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, issued September 29, 1995, in the case of Roe v. Alabama; that order in Roe permanently enjoined the State ofuntil their successors are elected and qualified." Hornsby argues that even though the federal court in Roe held that Perry Hooper, Sr., was entitled to the office of Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court nunc pro tunc January 16, 1995, that decision does not invalidate the law of Alabama, under which, Hornsby says, he was the de jure Chief Justice until Hooper took the oath of office on October 20, 1995. Hornsby says that there sometimes arise situations in which two people receive pay for the same position for the same time, citing Parker v. Jefferson County Comm'n, 347 So.2d 1321 (Ala.1977).
The defendants contend that § 6.15 of Amend. No. 328, providing that "[t]he term of office of each judge of a court of the judicial system


state at the general elections as provided by law ... and who shall hold their offices for the term of six years from the first Monday after the second Tuesday in January next succeeding their election and until their successors are elected and qualified...."
Section 17-2-6 provides, in pertinent part:
"A chief justice and two associate justices of the Supreme Court shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1976, and every six years thereafter;.... The justices of the Supreme Court shall hold office for a term of six years and until their successors are elected and qualified."
Section 36-3-2 provides, in pertinent part:
"The chief justice of the supreme court and associate justices of said court, ... when not otherwise provided for by law, shall holddate of the terms of the Justices:
"A chief justice and two associate justices of the Supreme Court shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1976, and every six years thereafter; three associate justices *941 shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1978, and every six years thereafter, and three associate justices shall be elected on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, 1980, and every six years thereafter. The justices of the Supreme Court shall hold office for a term of six years and until their successors are elected and qualified." (Emphasis added.)
The defendants argue that should the holdover provisions of these statutes become applicable, then the cases of City Council of Montgomery v.


of Montgomery v. Hughes, 65 Ala. 201, 207. However, the cases cited by the defendants for the proposition that Hornsby held over for an unreasonable period of time are distinguishable. City Council of Montgomery v. Hughes was an action upon a bond executed by a city clerk who claimed that the bond he executed at the beginning of a two-year term of office did not expire until his successor was elected and qualified, four years later. It was unclear from the pleadings whether Hughes was reelected after his first term, or whether no election was held and Hughes held over in office for another two years. In determining the liability of the sureties, the Court considered two things: (1) the time period expressly stated in the bond (2ready and qualified to take office, either because they had been elected or because they had been appointed by the Governor to a vacancy in office. In the case before us, there was no successor to the office. Rather, a federal court had enjoined the counting of contested absentee ballots in this close race, thereby preventing the certification and installation of a successor.
Recently, in James v. Langford, 695 So.2d 1158 (Ala.1997), the Supreme Court addressed a case with a situation analogous to that now before us. In that case, Governor James had attempted to oust two trustees of Auburn University who were holding over in office, and to seat two persons of his choosing. The Senate, however, would not confirm the trustees chosen by the Governor; confirmation by


Hornsby to prolong his term; thus, this case did not raise the concern expressed by the Court in Hughes. The Roe litigation, which resulted in an order enjoining the secretary of state from certifying the results of the election of the Chief Justice, was initiated by Hooper and others. Moreover, Hornsby promptly sought a determination of his rights, duties, obligations, and status as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, by filing a declaratory judgment action in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County. Thereafter, he sought a resolution of the controversy concerning whether he was lawfully holding office, by filing a motion for summary judgment on March 9, 1995.
The defendants argue that in the Roe case the federal district court resolved the sole issue in this case, that beingHooper should be certified the winner and sworn in as Chief Justice, apparently decided that, in order to advance the ends of justice, Hooper should be sworn in nunc pro tunc January 16, 1995. That court also held that Hooper was entitled to "receive all of the emoluments and benefits, including all compensation, that accompany his office nunc pro tunc January 16, 1995." Roe v. Mobile Appointing Board, supra, 904 F.Supp. 1315, 1336. Our holding that after the end of his elective term Sonny Hornsby served in the office of Chief Justice de jure in no way contravenes the order of the District Court of the Southern District of Alabama in Roe. There is precedent in Alabama law for paying two different people an amount payable at law


as salary for a government position. In Parker v. Jefferson County Comm'n, 347 So.2d 1321 (Ala.1977), Horace Parker, a county treasurer, was impeached. After his impeachment, Parker was suspended from office and another person was appointed to the position of treasurer. The newly appointed treasurer, while serving in that position, was paid "an amount equal to that payable by law to the Treasurer of Jefferson County." 347 So.2d at 1324. On appeal, Parker's impeachment conviction was overturned by the Supreme Court. Thereafter, the Jefferson County commissioners did not allow Parker to assume office; he sued for a judgment declaring that he was the lawful treasurer and sought back pay and allowances for the time he was out of office because of the impeachment conviction. The Court held thatParker was entitled to pay and allowances for the period running from the date of the certificate of judgment reversing his impeachment conviction until the end of his term, but not for the period during which he was suspended pending appeal of the conviction. 347 So.2d at 1326-27.
We conclude, based on the peculiar facts of this case, that Sonny Hornsby served in a de jure capacity as Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court from the time his elective term ended until Chief Justice Perry O. Hooper, Sr., was sworn into office as Chief Justice on October 20, 1995, and that during that period, he had all the powers, rights, functions, duties, obligations, and benefits attendant upon the office of the Chief Justice. Therefore, we reverse the judgment


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In China, a cat has adopted a rat, treating it as one of her own four kittens born four weeks ago. The owner of the cat, Sun (81), says that a neighbour of hers came to see the kittens and was amazed to see a rat suckling alongside them.

"At the beginning, I thought I must have seen wrong. So I took a flashlight and had a clear look," said the neighbour.

The rat not only drinks cat's milk, but also plays with its kitten 'brothers and sisters', according to the Qilu Evening Post.

The cat reportedly treats the rat exactly the same as her natural kittens and it has become part of her family.

Now the real question is, does the cat really accept the rat, or isBritish Airways introduces new routes

Wednesday December 19, 2018

British Airways launched new routes on long- and medium-haul distances starting from 2019. The airlines introduces new routes to many destinations in the US, Durban, Osaka, Montevideo, Quito and Rio de Janeiro. Ideal for business travellers booking through VCK Travel.

From April 2019, British Airways will raise the frequency between London Heathrow and Nashville, from four times a week to daily. From April 2019 a new service between Pittsburgh from London Heathrow will be launched. Business travellers can choose from four departures a week, and the launch marks the first direct route between London and the Pennsylvanian city. Africa will be upgraded with a new route to Durban. Osaka will be served four times a week, which increases the number of daily


flights between London and Japan to 32 per week due to their Joined Business.

Charleston will be served from the 31st of March 2019. The twice weekly service will initially operate between April 4 and October 24, 2019 on Thursdays and Sundays, using a 787-8 Dreamliner. The new route will take the number of US destinations British Airways fly to from London next summer up to 29.

Iberia is also expanding its flights to the United States and South America. From July 2019, capacity will be increased with flights to Montevideo, Quito and Rio de Janeiro. The airline will fly 10 times a week to Lima in July and August next year. The Spanish airline has also announced plans to fly its new Airbus A350s to Buenos Aires and toJabotinsky’s Hebrew.

I’ve started Halkin’s Jabotinsky: A Life, which is excellent (thanks, Paul!), and I thought this passage on language was worth posting:

Jabotinsky also covered the congress for Odesskaya Novosti, in which he published four long dispatches. The first two dealt with caucuses he attended. One was held by the Mizrachi, the religiously Orthodox Zionist party; struck by its moderateness, he deemed it capable of collaborating with secular Zionists. The other was convened by a Hebraist faction that demanded Hebrew’s adoption as the official language of the Zionist movement and of a future Jewish state. (The congress itself was conducted in German, with delegates free to use Yiddish, Russian, or Hebrew if they wished.) While confessing that he did not understand spoken Hebrew well enough to follow the proceedings,


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The book contains two novellas: “Where It Hurts Most” and “A Great Deal of Impropriety”.
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Car mechanics, Deacon and Vico, are both lusting after sultry Astrid Jacobs. Her sleek chassis and curvy lines have them panting for more. And now she’sProf. Vitit Muntarbhorn (above) is the UN’s newly appointed Independent Expert on violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). GENEVA, Jan. 25, 2017 – Islamic and African nations, where violence and discrimination against the LGBTI community are most prevalent, …

On July 22, 2013, a two-week session of the controversial Ad Hoc Committee on the Collaboration of Complementary Standards commenced. The Committee, set up in accordance with Paragraph 199 of the Durban Declaration, has as its goal to identify protection gaps in the fight against racism, especially within the …

For more photos of the conference, click here. GENEVA – Nations attacked the West for wrongly associating Islam with terrorism at a June 19-21 international conference in Geneva organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, part


of the U.S.-Turkish led “Istanbul Process,” an intended …

For more photos of the conference, click here. GENEVA – Nations attacked the West for wrongly associating Islam with terrorism at a June 19-21 international conference in Geneva organized by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, part of the U.S.-Turkish led “Istanbul Process,” an intended …

PRESS RELEASE Rights group urges Hillary Clinton to speak out GENEVA, Feb. 17 – A Pakistani spokesman for the UN’s Islamic bloc sparked outrage today after telling the UN’s top rights body that its 56 member states would ignore a scheduled UN rights panel on anti-gay violence, saying they were …

Concerns about an Islamic-sponsored “combating intolerance” initiative at the United Nations are brought into sharp relief by results of a new world survey on religious persecution.Respected Shri Nanak Saheb Ji Witness of God Kabir

Brief Introduction of Guru Nanak Dev Ji

Shri Nanak Dev ji was born on Vikrami Samvat 1526 (1469 A.D.) Kartik Shukl Poornima in a Hindu family of Shri Kalu Ram Mehta (Kshatriya) from the holy womb of mother Shrimati Tripta Devi in a village named Talwandi of District Lahore in West Pakistan. He had read Farsi (Persian), Punjabi, Sanskrit languages. He used to study Shrimad Bhagavad Gita ji from Pandit Shri Brijlal. Shri Nanak Dev ji had two sons named Shri Chand and Lakhmi Chand.

Shri Nanak ji used to work in the store of the Nawab of Sutanpur by the grace of his brother-in-law Shri Jairam ji in the town of in-laws of his sister Nanaki. He had boundless love in


God because this pious soul had done holy bhakti of Brahm God (Kaal) through the ages. In Satyayug this very Nanak ji was King Ambreesh and used to do Brahm-bhakti considering Vishnu ji as his deity. Great ascetic sage like Durvasa accepting defeat had gone in his kingdom to seek forgiveness.

In Treta Yug, the soul of Shri Nanak ji became King Janak Videhi, who came to be known as Sita ji’s father. Sage Sukhdev who was son of Great sage Vedvyaas used to fly in the sky with his supernatural power, but had not taken initiation from a Guru. When Sukhdev went to the Heaven of Vishnulok, he was returned because of not having a Guru. By the order of Vishnu ji, he made King Janak his Guruand then obtained a place in Heaven. (This is evident in Bhai Bale Wali Janam Sakhi Guru Nanak Dev Ji, Pran Sangli and Kabir Sagar)

Then in Kalyug, the soul of this very King Janak took birth in a Hindu family of Shri Kaluram Mehta (Kshatriya) and was named Shri Nanak.

Entrance into River Bein

Every morning Guru ji used to go for bath in River Bein, which used to flow near the city Sultanpur. One day when you plunged into water, you did not come out. After some time, your servant, who holding clothes was sitting on the bank of the river, went home and gave the news to Jai Ram ji that Nanak ji has drowned. Then Jai Ram ji went to the river taking along the divers. They


searched a lot for you, but you were not found. After searching a lot, everybody returned to their homes.

Great concern and distress was being expressed at Brother Jai Ram ji’s house, when on the third day in the morning only, a devotee taking bath came home and told sister that your brother is sitting on the bank of the river. On hearing this, Brother Jai Ram ji ran towards Bein, and as the news spread many more people also arrived there. When in this way you were surrounded by people, you quietly reached your shop. A crowd of women and men started coming at the shop with you. On seeing the crowd, Guru ji opened the door of the store, and said whatever one needs may take it.London, East London and North London | Bins, rubbish & recycling | We are fully licensed by the Environment Agency and appreciate our environmental responsibilities and therefore aim to reuse or recycle as much as we possibly can. | See: Recycle for London | Mayor urges London to recycle, help protect the environment & save millions of pounds this Christmas | London City Hall | Areas of London we cover | Rubbish Clearance |


Rivaldo: Messi has every right in the world to be angry with Abidal Barcelona Gave his thoughts on the disagreement

Former Barcelona forward Rivaldo has offered his opinion on the public disagreement between Lionel Messi and Barcelona sporting director Eric Abidal, making clear that the Argentine was right to be angry with the Frenchman.

Abidal intimated that the reason behind Ernesto Valverde's sacking was because the players were not working hard enough, to which Messi responded by asking him to name names and to not tarnish the players' reputations.

"Messi has every right in the world to be angry with Abidal about the way he complained about the professionalism of some players in training, especially when he did not cite any specific name," Rivaldo told Betfair.

"That questioned the entire workforce.

"Messi onlyof victories will calm all this furore."

The Brazilian has also stated that Barcelona should try and bring Neymar back to the club from Paris Saint-Germain.

"The club needs a player to make the difference when necessary and, in my opinion, that player is Neymar," Rivaldo added.

"Barcelona should perhaps continue considering his signing for next summer.

"The club are not responsible for Neymar leaving a couple of years ago.

"It's been a while since that and maybe it's time for negotiations that allow his return [for him] to spend his best years at the Camp Nou."


The province's ferry corporation is pulling the plug on the NM Apollo, just weeks after the ferry acquired in January made its first crossing of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Quebec.

Stéphane Lafaut, the interim head of the Société des Traversiers du Québec (STQ), made the announcement following a series of incidents in the last month — including the vessel's collision into the wharf in Matane last Saturday.

"It seems obvious at this point that the Apollo can no longer remain in service," Lafaut said.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) declared the ship to be potentially unseaworthy after carrying out a visual inspection of the Apollo on Sunday.

TSB senior investigator François Dumont told CBC he discovered a number of problems with the 49-year-old ship which led him togo beyond the TSB's usual mandate and make a declaration that would normally be the responsibility of Transport Canada.

"We were very worried about the safety and seaworthiness of the ship, and we decided to report that immediately to our director of investigation," said Dumont.

Dumont said a simple 45-minute walk around the Apollo uncovered a number of problems, from defective watertight compartments, to exposed wires, to rusted cabinets in the main control room.

Investigators with the Transportation Safety Board of Canada arrived at the wharf in Matane on Sunday and were alarmed by the overall safety features of the Apollo. (Michel-Félix Tremblay)

The TSB's main concerns were not linked to either of the crashes, Dumont said, but were rather due to the age of the ship.

"It is just the wear and


long time.''

Ruba Ghazal, Québec Solidaire's transport critic, said the whole saga of the Apollo has raised several safety concerns. Ghazal questions if the proper inspections were carried out before passengers were allowed on board.

"It's just mistake after mistake after mistake," she said.

Fate of regular ferry still uncertain

The STQ continues to charter planes to transport passengers across the St. Lawrence for now.

As of Thursday, the corporation will be borrowing the CTMA Voyageur, which usually sails to the Magdalen Islands. Heavy trucks will have priority.

Meanwhile, the ferry corporation is negotiating the purchase of a replacement ferry that would be brought in "as soon as possible."

Lafaut said that ferry has already been inspected and would "ideally" be put into service in time for the summer season.

Repairs to the main propellers ofFlorida president Charles Young. In retirement, Young remains a member of the reform-minded Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.

Young told the newspaper: “I think there are incorruptible people. They’re few and far between, and not too many of them are football coaches or basketball coaches.”

Read the entire USA Today story, “Coaches and Power: How much is too much?” by clicking here. Also worth reading are accompanying profiles on the power exerted by Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun, Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo and LSU football coach Les Miles at their respective universities.

Duwayne Escobedo is the Director of Communications at the United States Sports Academy. Previously, he spent more than two decades as a sports writer, political columnist, investigative reporter and editor for various media outlets.

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roles have new unique soldier characters with helmets designed for operations in vehicles. Squad Leaders and riflemen can access scoped rifles at 3 players (with another scoped rifle available at 6 players) in the squad.

Projectiles now decelerate over distance. As a consequence, optic sight reticles have been tweaked to account for this change. In general, weapons have a slightly flatter trajectory for the first few hundred meters, but dramatically drop off.

Tweaked third person weapon locations for almost all weapons.

Tweaked gunshot sounds


smoke screen from the exhaust pipe that trails along with the vehicle. This can be used as a means of retreat for the vehicle or as a way to cover infantry in an advance. The engine must be turned on in order to use the smoke generator, which produces 30 seconds of continuous smoke with a full load.

are available to almost all tracked and heavy wheeled vehicles. These are available to the driver and give the ability to quickly deploy a smoke screen from the exhaust pipe that trails along with the vehicle. This can be used as a means of retreat for the vehicle or as a way to cover infantry in an advance. The engine must be turned on in order to use the smoke generator,to act as a third pair of eyes for the vehicle as well as having the ability to launch smoke grenades

The Bradley IFV gunner now has a new ballistic reticle to help aim shots over long distances.

The M2A1 Browning CROWS gunner also has a new ballistic reticle to help aim shots over long distances.

Rocket Artillery Technical has been improved with the spread of the rockets tightened significantly and the velocity increased greatly.

Desert textures have been added to all British vehicles to have them better blend into their combat environments.

Additional seats have been added to all Logistics trucks in an effort to combine the properties of the transport trucks and logistics. Their supply capacity has also been increased to 3000.

Decoration in the form of ammo boxes, ropes, infantry gear,


fragmentation projectiles. Mapping New Map: Tallil Outskirts: This map is based on Tallil Air Base and its historic role in the South Iraqi region during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war, the 1990s Gulf War, and as a joint Iraq-U.S. airfield today. The most predominant features are its massive aircraft bunkers and defensive positions surrounded by mostly open sandy desert, rocky outcrops, and villages. The map’s focus is on vehicle-based combat, but infantry squads that work in conjunction with armored units will find great success on the battlefields of Tallil. Map Update: Yehorivka: Expanded the playable area to 5×5 km, which opens up a lot of new possibilities for new gameplay layers and completely new flag areas to fight over. The Storage Site area has been replaced with smaller profileZURICH -- FIFA says the United States, Belgium-Netherlands and Japan are a "medium" risk in planning for potential World Cups because they did not fully provide guarantees of government support.

England and Spain-Portugal scored best in detailed technical evaluation reports published Friday by FIFA.

The two bids rated "medium" risk in just two of 17 categories that included stadiums, transportation, team facilities and legal guarantees from governments and host cities.

FIFA votes on Dec. 2.

According to evaluations of all nine bids published Friday, Qatar is deemed a "high" operational risk to host the monthlong tournament in 2022. Russia is rated a "medium" risk for 2018. Both bids plan to spend tens of billions of dollars on stadiums and infrastructure projects such as airports.

FIFA's technical inspection team rated seven other bidders, which


have most or all of their stadiums already in place, as "low" risks.

U.S. lawmakers passed a resolution Wednesday that encouraged federal agencies to "meet all requirements" for hosting in 2022.

The 2018 contest features England, Russia, and joint bids from Belgium-Netherlands and Spain-Portugal. The 2022 candidates are the U.S., Australia, Japan, South Korea and Qatar. The World Cup hosts will be decided in a secret-ballot vote at FIFA headquarters Dec. 2 in Zurich.

The reports were based on four-day visits by an inspection panel to bid sites between July and September. The assessments came two days after FIFA summarized the weaknesses of each bid.

That report highlighted concerns that Qatar's desert heat posed a health risk to players and officials, and that Russia would rely heavily on planes to move teamsTop Rated Models

The "Petite Piranha" as she is known in Carnipelago's Water Polo circles, Celia is a wild and reckless young woman in a tiny little package. Celia always was the smallest girl in her class or on her team and paid the price of childhood taunting for it. She eventually learned to turn the table on whoever might want to bully her, becoming both fierce and fearless, both in the school yard and in the pool, where she earned her nickname as a driver for the Carniville Academy Nymphs. Despite her diminutive stature, she could swim like a shark and squirt through coverages like a watermelon seed, often leaving defenders with a nasty little welt or bruise beneath the rippling surface.

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Oilfield service company Petrofac has announced a contract extension from South Oil Company (SOC) for its Iraq Crude Oil Expansion Project.
The 12-month extension, worth around US$99 million includes the second phase of the project and will see the Company provide an additional scope of operations and maintenance services.
The extension follows the original award made in 2012 for phase one of the project which covered operations and maintenance services on the offshore facilities including an offshore platform, metering station, two single point moorings (SPMs), subsea pipelines and tanker operations, all based 60km offshore the Al Fao Peninsula in Southern Iraq. The extension, relating to phase two, covers two additional single point moorings (SPMs) and a Central Metering and Maintenance Platform (CMMP).
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woman should have the right to choose an abortion.

So first Steele pissed off the retarded right wing of
the GOP who worship Rush Limbaugh and who see him as the GOP leader, and then he pissed off the religious right wing of the
GOP which wants abortions abolished completely.

So now it's put or shut up for Steele, if he can deliver
the 20th congressional district to the GOP in the special election on March 31 then these grumblings will fade away.

The House seat up for grabs was held by Kirsten Gillibrand
who on January 23, 2009, was appointed by Governor David Paterson to fill the Senate seat vacated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The Republican candidate is Jim Tedisco who has been
a State Assemblyman since 1982 and his Democratic opponent is Scott Murphy whois a businessman.

So, Steele has a seasoned politician in Tedisco running
against a businessman who is new to politics. The RNC Chairman has been pouring money into Tedisco’s campaign so the
cards are in favor of the republican candidate, and if he loses, Chairman Steele may lose as well.

Steele was elected on the sixth and final ballot beating
out South Carolina Republican party Chairman Katon Dawson 91 to 77.

I wonder what her thinking is on the outcome of the
election, is she hoping that Tedisco wins because another republican would be in the House, or is she thinking that if Tedisco
loses and Steele is voted out of his RNC Chair, that she might have another shot at the job.

It will be interesting to see how this all plays out.

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torture.”

So look Down Under. A decade into its worst drought in a hundred years Australia is a lesson of what the American West
could become.

Bush fires are killing people and obliterating towns. Rice exports collapsed last year and the wheat crop was halved two
years running. Water rationing is part of daily life.

"Think of that as California's future," said Heather Cooley of California water think tank the Pacific Institute.

Water raised leafy green Los Angeles from the desert and filled arid valleys with the nation's largest fruit and vegetable
crop. Each time more water was needed, another megaproject was built, from dams of the major rivers to a canal stretching
much of the length of the state.

But those methods are near their end. There is very little water left untapped and global warming,the gradual increase
of temperature as carbon dioxide and other gases retain more of the sun's heat, has created new uncertainties.

"It isn't that drought is the new norm," said Snow. "Climate change is bringing us higher highs and lower lows in terms
of water supplies."

Take Los Angeles, which had its driest year in 2006-2007, with 3 inches (7.6 cms) of rain. Only two years earlier, more
than 37 inches (94 cms) fell, barely missing the record.

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a drought emergency last month, and Los Angeles plans to ration water
for the first time in 15 years. Courts are limiting the amount of water taken from into rivers to save decimated fish populations,
which is cutting back even more to farms.

California farmers lost more than $300 million in 2008 and economic


and Spew more Fear into
the Hearts and Minds of the Weak...

And no one can explain Cheney's wawawa's better than Mr. Jon Stewart...

On Dick Cheney's TV interviews: "You know, I don't understand this.
The guy is vice president for eight years, you barely see a whiff of him. He lives in some subterranean lair, literally has
his house removed from Google Earth. Then, when he's no longer accountable to the American people, he's popping up everywhere,
can't get him off my TV. He's like the Mario Lopez of doom now." --Jon Stewart

"Speaking of which, he did not disappoint [on screen: Cheney saying that Obama's actions since he took office have made
Americans less safe]. I trust you. So, sir, is that based on you reading the intelligence reports? [on screen: Cheney saying
he doesn'tlatest cyborg model to the world?" --Jay Leno

"Big night for the network tonight. Barack Obama became the first sitting president to ever
appear on a late night show. He was on 'Leno' tonight. Of course, it doesn't count the time Thomas Jefferson was on 'Larry
King.'" --Jimmy Fallon

"Former President George W. Bush just signed a $7 million book deal, though, reportedly,
he thought it was to read one." --Jimmy Fallon

"I heard this today, a new audiotape from Osama bin Laden was released. On the tape, he
says he doesn't care what anyone says, he's not giving back his bonus money." --Jimmy Fallon

"Obama had a town hall meeting with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Unfortunately the guy running
the teleprompter screwed up and Obama wound up starting his speech by saying, 'I'll be back' and


The quality that makes a star hasn’t changed, but the attention of audiences has. Films that would have topped the box office charts two decades ago are now relegated to financial disappointments, and actors playing the superheroes in the most popular franchises struggle to translate that fan interest to other projects in the theatrical market. But that may be changing in the age of streaming as old-fashioned star power becomes a new currency.

Friday saw the release of Netflix’s latest original film, Extraction, starring Chris Hemsworth. Produced by the Russo Bros., scripted by Joe Russo, based on his graphic novel Ciudad (2014), and directed by first-time filmmaker, Sam Hargrave, Extraction boasts plenty of Marvel connections. The Russos, of course, are best known for directing Captain America: The Winter Solider(2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and, the highest-grossing movie of all time, Avengers: Endgame (2019), Hargrave served as stunt coordinator for the most recent three films, was the second unit director on Infinity War and Endgame, and doubled Chris Evans in The Winter Soldier and The Avengers (2012). Hemsworth, as everyone surely knows, is best known as the mighty Thor. And while he’s yet to appear in a Russos-directed Marvel film, David Harbour, who has a small but memorable role in Extraction, will play a supporting role in Black Widow later this year. With all of those Marvel stats, and the clout the Russos have built up over the last few years, it’s understandable for audiences to wonder, Why Netflix?

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Extraction comes


from the Russos’ production company AGBO, and is its second feature following last fall’s 21 Bridges (2019), starring Chadwick Boseman. So far, the Russos have primarily used the film side of AGBO as a chance to develop non-superhero stories with a troupe of MCU actors. With the exception of the upcoming Sundance horror hit, Relic, also produced by Jake Gyllenhaal, AGBO has placed its development attention on mid-budget action thrillers, a source of lifeblood for theatrical experiences before the superhero boom of the 2000s. The production company’s next film, Cherry, also directed by the Russo Brothers, stars Tom Holland as a bank robber with an opioid addiction. AGBO also has a remake of The Thomas Crown Affair on the docket, and it wouldn’t come as a surprise tosee a Marvel star at the front of that film as well. There is an interest at the production company, it would seem, in finding a new way to take these superhero actors who possess the kind of star power that would have made them bigger than any one character in the '90s, and pair them with old-school premises, all for a reasonable price.

Extraction revels in the kind of old-school action of the '90s, boasting crazy stunts and a surplus of gunplay. While the plot is reminiscent of Man on Fire (1987) and (2004), and Hargrave’s direction is sure to draw fair comparisons to the John Wick franchise, Extraction is even simpler than that. It eschews world building of the Keanu Reeves franchise for the kind of pure


of the latter, Hemsworth managed to push against this type of casting and poke fun at himself by entering the realm of comedy, first with Vacation (2015), and then with Ghostbusters (2016). Again, neither film was a critical or box office success, despite Hemsworth being genuinely funny, but they sharpened the tools that took him to his next venture, and allowed him to bring more of himself and comedy to Thor by the time he reached the third entry, Thor: Ragnarok (2017), which revitalized his interest in the role.

Hemsworth tapped into his dark side as a charismatic cult leader, Billy Lee, in the criminally underseen Bad Times at the El Royale (2019), arguably his best performance, and channeled Roger Moore in Men in Black: International. What’s interesting aboutThe story, as told, usually goes something like this: 1,400 years ago, during the seventh century, there was a schism among Muslims over who would succeed as leader of the faithful, and that schism led to a civil war. The two sides became known as Sunni and Shia, and they hated one another, a people divided, ever since. This ancient sectarian hatred, simmering just beneath the surface for centuries, explains the Sunni-Shia violence today in places such as Syria and Iraq, as well as the worsening tension between Saudi Arabia, which is officially Sunni, and Iran, which is officially Shia.

But this narrative could not be more wrong. Yes, it is the case that a seventh-century succession dispute led to Islam's schism between Sunni and Shia. But that is


quite literally ancient history. Today's divide between Sunni and Shia isn't primarily about religion, and it's not ancient: It's quite recent, and much of it is driven by politics, not theology.

Sunni-Shia sectarianism is indeed tearing apart the Middle East, but is largely driven by the very modern and very political rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia. They have sought to fight one another on Sunni-Shia lines not out of religious hatred but rather because they see sectarianism as a tool they can use — thus making that religious division much more violent and fraught.

Debunking the "ancient hatreds" myth

Marc Lynch, a George Washington University professor and Middle East scholar, wrote a lengthy piece on this week's uptick in Iran and Saudi Arabia's regional cold war, which is playing outlargely along Sunni-Shia lines, titled "Why Saudi Arabia escalated the Middle East’s sectarian conflict."

The piece was widely circulated by Middle East experts as authoritative and insightful. Some of the reasons Lynch discusses include: a desire to distract from Saudi foreign policy failures elsewhere, a fear that the United States is softening on Iran, and an effort to appease hard-line Islamist elements at home.

Noticeably absent from Lynch's list of factors: that Saudi Arabia hates the Shia due to theological disagreements or seventh-century succession disputes.

That's not a mistake. No one who seriously studies the Middle East considers Sunni-Shia sectarianism to be a primarily religious issue. Rather, it's a primarily political issue, which has manifested along lines that just so happen to line up with religious demographics that were historically much


woke up one day and remembered that they hated one another over a seventh-century succession dispute.

For much of the Middle East's modern history, the Sunni-Shia divide was just not that important for the region's politics. In the 1950s and '60s, the leading political movement in the Middle East was Arab nationalism, for which Sunni-Shia distinctions were largely irrelevant. And in the 1980s, for example, the biggest conflict in the Middle East was between two Shia-majority countries — Iran and Iraq — with Sunni powers backing Iraq. Shia Iran has been a major supporter of Sunni Hamas (though that has abated somewhat recently). And so on.

If the Sunni-Shia conflict isn't about religion, where did it come from?

Things first began to change in 2003, when the United States led theinvasion of Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.

Obviously, Iraqis were aware of Sunnism and Shiism before 2003, and those distinctions were not totally irrelevant to Iraqi life. But for much of Iraq's modern history, Sunni and Shia lived peacefully side by side in mixed neighborhoods and frequently intermarried. For decades after decolonization, Iraqis defined themselves first by their ethnicity as Arabs or Kurds or by their nationality as Iraqis. Religious distinctions were just not as important.

"The roots of sectarian conflict aren't that deep in Iraq," Fanar Haddad, a scholar of Iraqi history, once told my colleague Zack Beauchamp. "Sectarian identity for most of the 20th century was not particularly relevant in political terms."

The change came because of regional power politics, which the 2003 US-led invasion upset. Saddam was hostile


to both Iran and Saudi Arabia (despite Saudi support for his 1980s war against Iran), and those two countries saw him as a wild-eyed threat. He held the Middle East in a precarious sort of balance among these three regional military powers.

"Sectarian identity for most of the 20th century was not particularly relevant in political terms"

When the US toppled Saddam, it removed that balance, and opened a vacuum in Iraq that both Saudi Arabia and Iran attempted to fill so as to counter one another. Because Iraq is mostly Shia (Saddam had been Sunni), Iran tried to exploit sectarianism to its advantage, backing hard-line Shia groups that would promote Iranian interests and oppose Sunni powers like Saudi Arabia. It also put pressure on the new Iraqi government tothey can't both be the true representative of all Muslims, and that's the thing to understand here: The two countries have mutually exclusive claims to leadership of the Muslim world. The sectarian difference is largely coincidental.

This conflict began in 1979, when the Iranian revolution turned secular Iran into a hard-line Shia theocracy. My colleague Zack Beauchamp explains:

After Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled the pro-Western shah, the new Islamic Republic established an aggressive foreign policy of exporting the Iranian revolution, attempting to foment Iran-style theocratic uprisings around the Middle East. That was a threat to Saudi Arabia's heavy influence in the Middle East, and perhaps to the Saudi monarchy itself. "The fall of the shah and the establishment of the militant Islamic Republic of [founding leader] Ruhollah Khomeini came


as a particularly rude shock to the Saudi leadership," University of Virginia's William Quandt writes. It "brought to power a man who had explicitly argued that Islam and hereditary kingship were incompatible, a threatening message, to say the least, in [the Saudi capital of] Riyadh."

It's important to understand that the Saudi monarchy is deeply insecure: It knows that its hold on power is tenuous, and its claim to legitimacy comes largely from religion. The Islamic Republic of Iran, merely by existing, challenges this legitimacy — not because it is Shia but because its theocratic revolution was popular and anti-monarchist. The Saudis saw this as a declaration of war against their very monarchy and a serious threat to their rule, and indeed in some ways it was.

This rivalry hasbeen with the Middle East ever since 1979: with the Saudis supporting Saddam's war against Iran and with the two countries supporting different sides in Lebanon's civil war, for example. But it did not come to define the Middle East until the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and especially with the 2011 Arab Spring.

In 2011, when the Arab Spring began upending governments across the Middle East, both Saudi Arabia and Iran again tried to fill the vacuums, and that often meant supporting violence. It also meant deliberately amping up Sunni-Shia sectarianism to serve their interests.

In weak states, Iran and Saudi Arabia have tried to position themselves as the patrons of their respective religious clans to assert influence, and they have ginned up sectarianism to promote fear of the other


be.

Tribalism — that is, the tendency to side with your own group, however defined, especially in times of conflict — has its own internal logic and momentum that often has little or nothing to do with the demographics through which it manifests. But once a society divides along tribal lines — whether they are religious or racial or ethnic — those lines become experienced as real.

Consider Rwanda: Before colonialism, the line between Hutu and Tutsi was mostly a class distinction, and often a blurry one . But about a century ago, Belgian colonists hardened the distinction, pushing the idea that Hutus and Tutsis were completely distinct ethnic groups and entrenching Tutsis as dominant over Hutus. As such, after colonialism, political grievances fell along this ethnic line. Even thoughthe ethnic distinction was arguably in part a modern colonial invention, Rwandans began to treat it as real, which helped lead to one of the worst genocides in modern history.

Consider also the city of Baghdad. For much of its history, Sunni and Shia lived generally peacefully, side by side in mixed neighborhoods.

But when the US toppled Saddam and disbanded the Iraqi army, it opened a dangerous security vacuum. Lawlessness and street justice prevailed. Communities that happened to be Sunni or Shia formed self-defense militias, first to protect themselves, then to exact revenge killings. Sunni families and Shia families came to see one another as threats, and the militias committed massacres to drive out the other side. In just two years, Baghdad's once-mixed neighborhoods were starkly divided by religion.

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much to get the whole legislature to approve the bill, AT&T will get tremendous return on investment.

28 February 2016 (Schoolchildren face felony charges) Two Florida schoolchildren face felony charges for putting red pepper in a teacher's soda. The school should punish them, but taking it to court is incompetence on the school's part. I reject the practice of calling teenagers "children" merely because they are minors, but these are 12 years old, not even teenagers. They really are children.

28 February 2016 (Scalia's worth to corporate America) "Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was worth billions of dollars to corporate America," extrapolating from evidence that his death has denied them the chance to make off with billions more.

28 February 2016 (Growing marijuana indoors) Growing marijuana indoors uses up lots ofas to prosecute them) should itself be a crime.

27 February 2016 (Gov. Snyder) Some of Gov. Snyder's top advisers called for switching Flint's water supply back to safer water in October 2014. If Snyder did not know about this, he was incompetent at his job.

27 February 2016 (Sexting) New Mexico has legalized sexting for teenagers 14 and over. I fear 13-year-olds are still in danger of punishment. You might think it is wiser for them not to sext, or have sex, but some will do it anyway and it is wrong to jail them when they do.

26 February 2016 (Palestinian journalist released) Israel has released Palestinian journalist Mohammed al-Qiq from imprisonment without trial. However, he is too sick to leave the hospital.

26 February 2016 (Intolerance of queers) In


Indonesia (and elsewhere), Islam stands for intolerance of queers. Tradition in Java and Bali includes a lot of public cross-dressing. The forms of Islam that were common in Java in the past did not go in for repression. In the past few decades, repressive Islam has spread there. I've heard this attributed to funding from Salafi Arabia.

26 February 2016 (Manus Island) One of Australia's prisoners in Manus Island was just granted refugee status, after a long hunger strike. He can't walk or eat normal food. The Papuan government wants to move him away from the only place he can get medical care.

26 February 2016 (Blocking imports of sea food) The US will start blocking imports of sea food from Thailand where there is suspicion forced labor was used.

26problems.

26 February 2016 (Ultimate treachery) Obama is considering the ultimate treachery: nominating a Republican for the Supreme Court. With "Democrats" like that, who needs Republicans? Fortunately, the official Republicans rejected this nominee. But that doesn't mean Obama, the great weakling, won't offer them an even bigger compromise.

26 February 2016 (Tor anonymity) The US government hired CMU researchers to break Tor anonymity.

26 February 2016 (India's subsidy for solar power systems) India's subsidy for installing solar power systems it applies only to solar cells made in India. The WTO called this a barrier to trade, apparently under prodding from the US. Its logic makes sense, but its priorities are twisted.

26 February 2016 ("Bedroom tax") A disabled British woman, and her husband that cares for her, may become homeless because of


that he has not closed the Guantanamo prison, because he accepted nearly all of its injustices.

25 February 2016 ("Antisemitism" in Oxford student club) Regarding "antisemitism" in an Oxford student club. Real antisemitism was widespread in the UK in the past, and it may still exist today, but the criticism of Israel's occupation policies as "antisemitism" is a falsehood.

25 February 2016 (Treason convictions in secret trials) Russia is convicting people of treason in secret trials, apparently based on no evidence. I wish this practice were limited to Russia.

25 February 2016 (Organized crime finances illegal fishing) Organized crime now finances illegal unsustainable fishing of endangered species around the world. A group of volunteers work to catch the criminals. I do not approve of releasing tuna from a fish farm, whichFebruary 2016 (Winner of the war in Afghanistan) At every stage, the winner of the war in Afghanistan has been … opium. The suggestion at the end to put US money into rural development is, however, easier to say than to do. The US has scattered lots of cash for this, and often it only fed corruption.

23 February 2016 (Clinton's pay from big banks) Clinton ought to recuse herself from the presidential race for conflict of interest: namely, her million-plus in pay from the big banks.

23 February 2016 (Another report from Heatland Institute) The Heatland institute* has published another report denying global heating, full of falsehoods. * Its official name is "Heartland", but "Heatland" describes it more accurately.

22 February 2016 (Australian gov't attacking democracy) The Australian government is


than the actual PISSI. That is hardly an excuse.

22 February 2016 (Bernie Sanders' accomplishments) What has Bernie Sanders actually accomplished?

22 February 2016 (Sydney nightlife lockout laws) Thousands of people in Sydney protested against laws that have made bars, restaurants and music venues shut down. These laws have avoided dozens of alcohol-related injuries each year, but maybe it is possible to keep the venues open and reduce how much alcohol people can drink in them.

22 February 2016 (Urgent: Stop merger) US citizens: tell the FCC to stop Charter from merging with Time Warner Cable.

22 February 2016 (Repression in Bahrain) The UK lobbied the UN, apparently with success, to tone down its criticism of repression in Bahrain.

22 February 2016 (Attacks on indigenous tribes in Amazon) Many uncontacted indigenous tribes inthe Amazon are making contact, mainly because they have been attacked by murderous criminal gangs. There is no vaccine against the common cold — or against the flu in general.

21 February 2016 (Protesters surround Australian hospital) Large numbers of protesters surround the Australian hospital where a refugee baby is being treated. They are concerned lest the state send the baby back to the prison in Nauru, where the baby was burned.

21 February 2016 (Scalia) Scalia was no "originalist". He turned the constitution upside down to permit Republican voter suppression.

21 February 2016 (This year's US election issues) Most of the election issues in the US this year are really forms of the issue of plutocracy vs democracy.

21 February 2016 (Forced labor and business) Studying the relationship between forced labor