killed in a gas and dash incident that occurred in Thorsby, Alta. on Friday, Oct. 6th. (RCMP) Ki Yun Jo, 54, was run over and killed when the driver of a stolen cube van sped away from his Fas Gas station without paying for a tank of fuel.

RCMP later found the van abandoned near Devon. No suspect has been located.

In August, Joshua Mitchell was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing Maryam Rashidi in a Calgary gas-and-dash theft in 2015.

The Alberta Association of Chiefs of Police estimates there were over 4,000 incidents across the province in 2015 — an average of 12 fuel thefts per day.

Edmonton police Chief Rod Knecht praised the government's move to legislate prepayment for fuel.

"In addition to saving lives, the mandatory use ofThe Air India crew had hid over two kilograms of marijuana in a meal service cart.(File photo)

A cabin crew member of national carrier Air India has been arrested by customs officers for allegedly trying to smuggle narcotic by hiding it in a meal service cart of a flight.

The officers seized nearly two kilograms of marijuana from the cart of the Air India flight from Chennai on July 19, according to a release issued by the customs department today.A detailed investigation was carried out and a member of the cabin crew was arrested, it said.


IS NO STRANGER.
AND, GOOD EVENING TO YOU AT 6.
BILL IS OFF TONIGHT.
THE 21-YEAR-OLD FORMER
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT IS NOW
FACING SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
CHARGES FOR THE GRISLY CRIME.
POLICE SAY HE OWED A LARGE
AMOUNT OF MONEY TO HIS BOSS.
HIS BOSS WAS DECAPITATED AND
DISMEMBERED IN HIS TWO MILLION-
DOLLAR APARTMENT ON THE LOWER
EAST SIDE.JOSH EINIGER IS LIVE
IN THE PRECINCT WHERE THE
SUSPECT JUST LEFT.
>> Reporter:  THAT IS THE
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT, TY REESE
HASKELL ACCORDING TO POLICE
SOURCES THAT ACCESS TO A CREDIT
CARD PAID BY HIS BOSS AND
SOURCES SAY HE USED THAT CARD
AS HE SHUFFLED AROUND CARD AS
HE WORKED TO DESTROY THE
EVIDENCE LEAVING A TRAIL OF
DIGITAL BREADCRUMBS THAT WHAT
COPS RIGHT TOHIM.
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CRIME SCENE UNIT HE WAS
SHUFFLED FROM THE SEVENTH
PRECINCT AND A TYVEK SUIT AND
SAID NOTHING AS DETECTIVES LED
HIM TO CENTRAL BOOKING.
EARLIER THIS WEEK HE EXPRESSED
HIMSELF 20 WITH A POWER SAW.
>> MR. HASKELL WAS HIS
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT AND HANDLED
HIS FINANCES AND PERSONAL
MATTERS.
IT IS ALSO BELIEVED THAT HE
OWED THE VICTIM A SIGNIFICANT
AMOUNT OF MONEY.
>> Reporter: POLICE SOURCES SAY
THE VICTIM  HAD TEXTED WITH
HASKELL ABOUT $100,000 THE 21-
YEAR-OLD PERSONAL ASSISTANT
ALLEGEDLY STOLE FROM HIS BOSS.
ON MONDAY SURVEILLANCE VIDEO
CAPTURED HASKELL USING A TASER
TO INCAPACITATE HIM AS THEY
EXITED THE ELEVATOR.
THAT IS WHEN POLICE SAY HE WAS
STABBED TO DEATH IN LATER, YOU


STAY CARD PAID BY HIS BOSS TO
TAKE A CAR SERVICE TO HOME
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SUPPLIES WITH THE SAME CARD.
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HOUSE TO DISMEMBER THE BODY BUT
WAS INTERRUPTED WHEN A MEMBER
OF THE FAMILY CAME TO CHECK ON
HIM.
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SIGHT.
AN OBVIOUS ATTEMPT TO DESTROY
THE EVIDENCE.
>> I HEARD WAILING AND
SCREAMING, AND I JUST HEARD HE
HAS NO HEAD.
I THINK PEOPLE HAVE MOMENTS OF
DISTRESS BUT I DON'T THINK
PEOPLE HAVE MOMENTS OF BRIEF
LIKE THAT.
THAT WAS REAL GRIEF.
Is this the Rob Ford of Pennsylvania?

MARCUS HOOK, Pa. — Mayor James “Jay” Schiliro was convicted Friday on all counts stemming from a wine-fueled episode at his home involving firearms in February.

A jury of nine women and three men took only about three hours to convict Schiliro on charges of reckless endangerment, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, official oppression and furnishing liquor to a minor. In all but the official oppression charge, they found a firearm had been used in the commission of the crime and that it was used in a way that threatened the victim.

“I’m very satisfied that the jury looked at all the evidence and reached the right conclusion,” said Deputy District Attorney Michael Galantino following the verdict.

Neither the victim nor Schiliro had a comment Friday.

The


Republican official is finishing a four-year term as mayor and decided not to seek re-election after the criminal charges were filed against him. He has refused to resign his office.

The victim, a Trainer, Pa. man who turned 21 earlier this month, testified during the trial this week that he had known Schiliro since he was about 12 years old and had come to admire and respect him.

Based on text messages Schiliro sent the man on the night of Feb. 21, he said the mayor appeared to need to talk. Schiliro sent a marked police car to pick up the man and bring him to his house.

Once there, the victim said Schiliro refused to talk until the other man had some wine with him. He then confessed he mightbe bisexual and allegedly indicated several times that he wanted to perform a sexual act on the young man.

As the evening wore on, Schiliro became despondent over the victim’s rejection and produced three different handguns, threatening suicide several times. The victim said he was able to talk the first two guns out of the mayor’s hands, but Schiliro had used the third to direct him around the room, telling him to sit down or stand up by pointing the barrel across his body. Schiliro then fired the gun into a box of copy paper across the room. A bullet was recovered from the wall and matched to a handgun previously owned by Schiliro, which he had sold to a gun shop following the incident.

Defense attorney Michael Malloy said


the neighborhoods hardest hit, and heard from residents and small business owners whose properties have been severely damaged. She visited with Soldiers in the Hawai’i Army National Guard in Hanalei and Wainiha who are supporting the community and county efforts. In the afternoon, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard joined Mayor Bernard Carvalho on an aerial tour of the damage, and visited Wainiha and Hāʻena, communities that are isolated due to landslides. She visited volunteers who are distributing food and grocery items to local residents, drivers delivering food to families who cannot get to the distribution point, the nurses and doctor who have just stood up an urgent care clinic to provide medical aid, and drove through the areas hardest hit. She held a meeting with community leaders to hear theirconcerns and address their questions.

Rep. Gabbard began Saturday morning at the Kauaʻi County EOC Briefing to share the feedback and concerns from residents with government officials, then visited with Megan Fox from Malama Kauaʻi at Anini Beach where they’re loading boats with food and supplies for the isolated communities. She visited the operations center set up by community volunteers, the supplies and food being distributed out of Waipa, and drove as far as possible on Kūhiō Hwy which was covered by multiple landslides, and where workers are busy around the clock trying to clear the roads.

On Sunday morning, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard joined Sustainable Coastlines Hawaiʻi’s Waimānalo Beach Cleanup and Annual Earth Day Festival, where she and nearly a thousand volunteers from across the island got to work clearing


Kemi Adeosun: Nigeria minister resigns over forged certificate Published duration 15 September 2018

image copyright Reuters image caption Ms Adeosun said she thouht the certificate was genuine

Nigeria's finance minister has resigned over allegations she used a forged certificate to avoid the country's mandatory one-year youth service scheme.

Kemi Adeosun, who lived in the UK until she was 34, said she had been told she was exempt because she was over 30.

The former investment banker said she was issued with a certificate that she thought was genuine.

But an internal investigation showed that it was forged.

Ms Adeosun's resignation follows months of speculation in local media about whether her National Youth Service Corps certificate was genuine.

The dual Nigerian and British national did not initially comment on the claims, leading to criticism from heropponents.

However in a statement, she said she felt bound to resign after the investigation result became known.

"This has come as a shock to me and I believe that in line with this administration's focus on integrity, I must do the honourable thing and resign," she said.

Ms Adeosun was appointed as finance minister by President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015. Her main policy was a bid to improve tax collection and crack down on mismanagement by government agencies.

The minister of state for budget and national planning, Zainab Ahmed, will oversee the finance ministry with immediate effect, the presidency said.

Nigerian university students have to do a year of national service upon graduation as a way of ensuring that graduates contributed to Nigeria's development.

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21st Century Fox president Peter Rice held the first of two town hall meetings on the lot today to reassure Fox Networks Group staffers amid jitters related to the pending acquisition by The Walt Disney Co. of key Fox assets, including 20th Century Fox movie studio, 20th Century Fox Television TV studio and FX Networks. There were no pressing issues on the agenda, with Rice just providing an update on the process (and also revealing his favorite Disney character — it’s Goofy).

While there had been some optimistic early estimates that the deal, announced last December, could go through regulatory approval faster, Rice told Fox employees that the transaction will most likely be completed by spring-summer 2019 and end of summer 2019 at the latest. That would fall within1980: "Call Me" — Blondie

Debbie Harry of "Blondie" at the 1999 American Music Awards.
AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian

"Call Me" was the theme song of 1980s movie "American Gigolo." Listen to it here.

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1981: "Bette Davis Eyes" — Kim Carnes

Kim Carnes in 2015.
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This was a close one because it's the same year "Endless Love" from Diana Ross and Lionel Richie also rose to the top of the Billboard charts. Carnes' version of "Bette Davis Eyes" won the Grammy for record of the year and song of the year. Listen to it here.

1998: "Too Close" — Next

"Too Close" is one of the great one-hit wonders of the '90s. It was featured on the soundtrack for "Save the Last Dance" and ended up topping Billboard's end-year chart for 1998. Watch


the music video here.

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1999: "Believe" — Cher

Cher performing at a concert in Hamburg, Germany October 1999.
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The dance-pop song was the lead single from Cher's 22nd album. It has appeared in episodes of "Friends," "Grey's Anatomy," and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

2006: "Bad Day" — Daniel Powter

Powter at the V Festival in Chelmsford, UK, in August 2006.
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The song has been parodied and used extensively in ads and TV shows. It's been used so much since its release that Powter said he felt "detached from the song" because it's essentially in the public domain. Watch the music video here.

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2007: "Irreplaceable" — Beyoncé

Beyoncé singing at the Kodak Theatre in December 2007.
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2014: "Happy" — Pharrell Williams

Pharrell delivered the perfect feel-good song of the summer in 2014. It wasrecorded for the "Despicable Me 2" soundtrack and wound up being that break-out song that just instantly puts you in a good mood and makes you want to get up and dance. Watch the music video here.

The only other song that has ever been on the Billboard Hot 100 for 16 consecutive weeks is Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men's "One Sweet Day."
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This is near toss up between Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber. Sheeran's "Shape of You" was the top Billboard single of the year; however, Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's infectious club banger with Bieber was No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart for 16 consecutive weeks throughout summer 2017. That's longer than "Shape of You's" 11 weeks at the top of the chart.

2018: "God's Plan" —


Drake

Drake performs in Concert at Aubrey & The Three Amigos Tour - Chicago, Illinois at United Center on August 17, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois.
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Drake's "God's Plan" was Billboard's year-end No. 1 single and it probably made as much impact as it did because the rapper said he took the budget for the music video, $996,631.90, and gave it all away.

The entire music video shows Drake giving out money. He surprises fans with scholarships, free groceries, toys, cars, and wads of cash on the street. You can watch the emotional video here. Drake had a second big hit in 2018 when his song "In My Feelings" became a meme.BATTLE OF THE BANS

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Another prominent Man United account posted: "First of all the United fans were singing 'you Scouse b*****d' and secondly it was sandwiched between the 'Rooney' chant and the 'white Pele' chant from the United fans!

"Bit of banter with the United fans but of course there's an overreaction!"

One more account said: "'You Scouse b*****d' is the chant from the United fans, directed at Wayne Rooney, who is United's all-time top goalscorer. Backward t***s."


"I want to be the one to tell my fans, especially the ones trekking to get there," Cyrus posted online.

"I'm so sorry, but some things are out of my control," she said, adding in another message that she was feeling "miserable."

On Tuesday, the 21-year-old cancelled a concert in Kansas City after being hospitalized for a severe allergic reaction to antibiotics. Cyrus was put on "medical rest" on the advice of doctors, according to a statement from her publicist, Meghan Prophet.

She also posted a photo of herself, gowned and posing with a toy, in a hospital bed.

Earlier this month, she cancelled her concert in Charlotte, N.C., citing the flu and doctor-ordered bed rest.

The headline-grabbing, controversial Cyrus is midway through her Bangerz tour of North America and Europe. The formergovernment since March 17.

The company normally works in the defence sector but also deals in medical supplies. The inventory of available equipment changes daily but the offer has included ventilators, personal protective equipment masks and testing kit.

A British-based contact of the supplier got in touch with Cabinet Office ministers and other officials through multiple channels, including MPs and other ministers, but the offer has not been taken up in London, leading to frustration that potentially life-saving kit which the NHS is in urgent need of, is being passed over. The contact said he was not seeking to profit from making the connection.

UK government sources say they are procuring ventilators from abroad.

As of 26 March, the government said more than 8,000 ventilators were available to NHS patients, with another


same items. There is also the concern that items might not meet the correct standards.

Some testing kits purchased by countries, including Spain, have shown low levels of accuracy, making them unusable.

But other countries are engaging in this often chaotic and fast-moving market.

Middle Eastern and North African countries have been purchasing from the Middle East-based supplier and the US has been offering to buy up large amounts of stocks at a premium over what others will pay. An Eastern European country recently upped the stakes by offering cash in advance.

Some of the companies and individuals involved in this trade operate in the arms and defence industry, acting as intermediaries between manufacturers and militaries, others are new arrivals seeking to leverage contacts in China or elsewhere.

An array of middlemen, fixers2018 Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana Pow-Wow-Reclaiming a Lost Heritage

Natchitoches’ Fort St. Jean Baptiste State Historic Site hosted the Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana’s inaugural Pow-Wow Saturday, November 3rd. About 150 people attended the event, enjoying Native American foods, watching demonstrations of Native American Dancing and enjoying the tribe’s warm hospitality. The dancers wore authentic ceremonial clothing and explained the meaning and importance of the dances and details of their clothing. The dances presented represent native dance culture common to North American tribes.

The Natchitoches Tribe of Louisiana was joined at the Pow-Wow by members of the Lipan Apache of Texas, Biloxi Chitmachia and Choctaw, Four Wind Cherokee and United Houma tribes.

The tribe has lost much of its culture over the past few centuries, a time it was not allowed to


Palo Alto Weekly

Lingering questions

Local filmmakers explore concerns about 2004 election

by Rebecca Wallace

Two documentary filmmakers knew a good story when they saw it: the 2004 presidential election and the allegations of impropriety hovering over it like a thundercloud. But that's where their paths diverged.

Pam Walton of Mountain View zoomed in close, focusing on a small group of activists. Meanwhile, Menlo Park filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman and her crew took a wide-angle view. They traveled around the country to interview Ohio voters, politicians, computer-security analysts, and others. The team is still doing research to expand the film.

Both movies cross paths again this month -- each is scheduled to screen in Palo Alto. Fadiman's "Stealing America: One Vote at a Time" has its local premiere at the Cubberley Theatre this Sunday, whileWalton's "Grassroots: Contesting Ohio" screens at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto on Oct. 21.

After President George W. Bush won re-election over U.S. Sen. John Kerry in 2004, many allegations surfaced. There were stories from people who said they had to wait hours to vote. There were concerns about exit polls being significantly different from final vote tallies. And many criticized the electronic voting machines, saying sometimes votes switched from one candidate to another or simply weren't counted.

Some dismissed the charges as paranoid or exaggerated. Others made counter-arguments, such as a pollster who said Kerry voters were more likely to take part in exit polls than those voting for Bush.

But Fadiman's curiosity -- and concern -- was piqued by the reports of "vote switching." A longtime filmmaker


who has made movies on such topics as reproductive rights and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, she volunteered at the 2004 polls in Florida. While there, she heard stories of people pushing a button on the voting machine to vote for Kerry and suddenly having their vote switch over to Bush.

"When I came home . . . everyone on the plane had stories from south Florida. I thought, 'That would make a really interesting movie,'" Fadiman says during an interview in her home studio, which is buzzing with activity. Members of her team are editing film, making phone calls and organizing screenings and mailings of the "Stealing America" DVD.

In the research done by Fadiman and her team, they found "major irregularities across the country," the great majority in favor ofBush, Fadiman said.

The 70-minute film includes a powerfully repetitive section on "vote switching," in which a string of people say voting machines switched their votes from Kerry to Bush. Many are Ohio voters.

"I pressed for Kerry and got Bush," community activist Elizabeth Jarof is shown saying. Several others echo her, including Ohio State Sen. Bob Hagan, a Democrat.

Fadiman and Luotto took road trips to many locations for interviews and research; in fact, the bulk of the film's budget -- which Fadiman says is "more than $100,000" -- went to travel and staff costs.

They also interviewed people who stood in long snaking lines, often in the rain, to vote. In the film, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says on CNN that the average wait time to vote in Ohio was


charges. It shows State Sen. Hagan saying that after his vote was flipped from Kerry to Bush, he called the Kerry campaign to warn them. But, he says, the Kerry campaign told him not to talk about it.

Why would this happen? Fadiman says, "I've heard some say they (the Democrats) don't want to be seen as sore losers."

The film also includes interviews with Republicans: former U.S. Rep. Pete McCloskey; Chuck Herrin, who's in computer security, auditing and risk management; and others.

"The facts are quite partisan. My task was to balance them," Fadiman says. "People are hungry for the truth when it's not an assault."

There's a sense of sadness through much of Fadiman's film, a disappointment all the greater because the election had had such high voter turnout.

For producer/directorPam Walton, that disillusionment was the catalyst for making her 30-minute film. She and her associate director and life partner, Ruth Carranza -- who both sport anti-Bush stickers on their cars and worked on the Kerry campaign -- wanted to channel their post-election frustration.

"Making films is a wonderful way to work that out," Carranza says on the couple's sunny patio as their two black pugs befriend a visiting reporter.

About a week after the election, the two went to a meeting at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto, where people had gathered to vent, Walton said. She and Carranza were inspired to focus on one group of concerned citizens, to show what action could be taken at the grassroots level.

As a result, where Fadiman's film feels broad-based and


and so there's a sense of tension as the group prepares.

Later, the group demonstrates outside Boxer's office. One woman who had helped at the Ohio polls speaks of voters standing on line for six or seven hours.

"We were bringing chairs, food," she says. "In one African-American church, people were still in line at midnight."

Walton remarks later, "These activists really went after Boxer."

Although they were thrilled with Boxer's stance, "We don't know how much of an effect they had," she adds.

This film was a change of pace for Walton and Carranza. Walton, a former teacher at Woodside High School, left teaching in 1988 to concentrate on filmmaking. Her projects typically cover gay and lesbian issues such as gays and lesbians on the pulpit. Carranza makes science films, including awhole series on the microchip.

What's the next step for "Grassroots"? Walton is submitting it to various film festivals, including Cinequest in San Jose. She also hopes to offer it to the League of Women Voters and other groups, who might be able to use it as an organizing tool.

"What can a handful of people do?" she asks rhetorically. Her film gives a visual example.

In contrast, Fadiman's film closes with specific actions people can take, such as organizing a town meeting and joining with others to challenge election practices in court (she lists several successful cases). All these actions can be done in groups, and that's purposeful, she says.

"The film is to give people the sense that something profoundly irregular happened," she says, but adds, "I want to give


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According to Ellen Voie, president and CEO of WIT, the magazine created the award to support WIT’s mission: To encourage the employment of women in the trucking industry, promote their accomplishments, and minimize obstacles faced by women working in the trucking industry. WIT also is an active member of TMSA.

According to Voie, there are five key features that distinguish companies recognized on this list: corporate cultures that foster gender diversity; competitive compensation and benefits; flexible hours and work requirements; professional development opportunities; and career advancement opportunities.

“This newly created award is driven by the marketplace, and the sheer number of individuals in the industry who participated in the process is incredible,” said Voie. Nearly 150 nominations were received, and more than 7,000 votes were cast to identify the companiesPassengers on a cruise ship applauded when three fishermen were rescued from a life raft drifting off England's east coast, while the coastguard searches for two more.

The Pacific Princess turned around to rescue the men, whose boat sank about 25 miles north east of Great Yarmouth four hours prior, after spotting a distress flare in the North Sea.

Passenger Teena Dowd said the captain announced there was a life raft on the ship's starboard side at around 6.30pm, and that within the hour the three men had been helped onto the boat.

Ms Dowd, who is on the vessel with her daughter, said concerned passengers lined the deck and clapped as the shaken men were helped out of their lifeboat.

The Canadian, who lives near Toronto, said: "We were on the


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DENVER — After weeks of speculation, Sen. Cory Gardner has made it official. He will not vote for additional witnesses in the impeachment trial of President Trump.

Gardner, who is seen as a vulnerable Republican nationally, is facing re-election this year. Gardner’s decision puts him on the side of Sen. Mitch McConnell and White House lawyers.

Democrats have argued for weeks that additional witnesses, such as former Ambassador John Bolton, should testify in the Senate.

Breaking: Gardner is a no on additional witnesses. #copolitics #impeachment — Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) January 29, 2020

Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that McConnell doesStudent Union

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For more information about the Student Union's operations, please contact our friendly and active Board.Bell’s being sworn in to the Legislature’s upper house just last week — helped complicate the picture.

Now, with just under a month until Election Day, the odds have narrowed. Brown and Bell have spent the past several weeks making their cases to voters, issuing attack ads, and raising considerable sums of money toward their campaigns. The two also met for the first official debate of the race in Egg Harbor last week, where they sparred along party lines over such issues as school funding, property-tax relief, and tax rates for millionaires.

Neck and neck

All that has brought them nearly neck and neck, with one recent Stockton University poll showing the two candidates in a dead heat. Though it may have gotten off to a rocky start, the contest shaped


up to be one of the most competitive — if not the most competitive — contests in the state this election year.

“The 2nd Legislative District is seen as one of the most competitive districts in the state of New Jersey, and the Senate race is living up to that billing,” said Sharon Schulman, executive director of the Hughes Center for Public Policy at Stockton.

Electoral battleground

Of course, as Shulman notes, it was always expected to be a race to watch. Democrats and Republicans hold similar clout in the Atlantic County-based district, with the former outnumbering the latter by almost 14,000 registered voters, but the rest remaining unaffiliated. Those dynamics have made it one of the only districts in the state that sends members of both major parties to Trenton,why it’s been so competitive.”

Indeed, Democrats have wasted no time in trying to gain the advantage, at least in legislative races. The state’s 2011 reapportionment was seen to have strengthened the party’s hold on the district, as it picked up Democratic Somers Point, Buena Borough, and Buena Vista Township and lost Republican Galloway Township. Involvement from outside interest groups has also ratcheted up in recent races, including those backed by George Norcross, the South Jersey power broker and political benefactor of many of the region’s elected officials.

Those changes have led to a series of Democratic victories in recent years, including Whelan’s re-election to the Senate in 2011, in what was the most expensive race in the state that cycle. Mazzeo barely beat Assemblyman John Amodeo for his post


in the poll, respectively, while Mazzeo and his running mate, Buena Vista Township Committeeman John Armato, earned 34 percent and 25 percent.

Brown’s reputation is what ultimately convinced Democratic party leaders earlier this year to swap Mazzeo, a two-term incumbent, with Bell, a comparatively little-known Freeholder from Margate. Early polling apparently showed Mazzeo faring poorly against Brown, convincing Atlantic County Democrats in March to endorse Bell for the seat.

The move initially left some observers scratching their heads, since Mazzeo was considered an obvious heir to Whelan. When the two ran together against Brown for the Assembly in 2015, Mazzeo was the second-highest vote-getter in the district, with Bell coming third. He also lost an earlier re-election for Freeholder.

And Bell’s name recognition continues to lag behind the others this cycle,Monday, September 10, was looking to be a miserable day, with torrential rain and wind. The day before, Australian tennis upstart Lleyton Hewitt had aced American Pete Sampras, and, on Saturday, Venus Williams had beaten her sister Serena in the finals of the US Open. But the city was looking forward, waking up to the first full week of school and the next day’s mayoral primary election, in which Public Advocate Mark Green was in a heated race with Bronx Borough President Freddy Ferrer for the Democratic ticket, and the few Republicans in the city were entertaining the prospect of financial services billionaire and political newbie Michael Bloomberg as mayor of New York.

Green, Ferrer, and Bloomberg raced around the city, shaking hands and slapping high fives with New


Yorkers while their staffers and volunteers filled crowds, waved signs, and shouted slogans. About 20,000 people were getting excited to see the second Michael Jackson show at Madison Square Garden that night; the king of pop was mounting a comeback, and the show was rumored to include a galaxy of special guests after his Friday-night concert, in which Marlon Brando, Whitney Houston, Britney Spears, and Elizabeth Taylor, among others, performed or spoke.

A different sort of congregation gathered at the morning rededication of fire station Engine 73, Ladder 42 in the Bronx, where Mayor Giuliani cut a ribbon and said a few words. Before the mayor spoke, Father Mychal Judge, a fire department chaplain, gave a homily.

“Good days. And bad days. Up days. Down days. Sad days. Happy days.be giving the next day on the Evening Stars stage that had been set up at the foot of the North Tower, facing the Sphere, the 25-foot-tall golden globe sculpture that had anchored the plaza since it was opened in 1971. The performance was the end to the World Trade Center’s free summer outdoor entertainment schedule, which had featured acts including Celtic dancing, Odetta, and Herman’s Hermits. But the dance rehearsal was called off when the sky unloaded buckets of rain.

Downtown, at Windows, a new beverage manager, Steve Adams, had just been promoted and was working his first day while the beverage director, Inez Holderness, was home in North Carolina for her sister’s wedding. Adams was a devotee of English ritualistic Morris dancing and came from a small


wine store in Vermont and had finally, at 51 years old, found a foothold on a career path he was proud of. He had always been the guy who was passed over. Now, here he was, entrusted to run the stocking and distribution of the wines and other beverages for the top-grossing restaurant in the world.

Managers were expecting a light night because it was a Monday and it had been raining buckets throughout the day. Lunch service was pretty quiet: several dozen guests. Captain and sommelier Paulo Villela broke down the buffet table—the same one that Joe Baum had Warren Platner design in 1976—with his supervisor Doris Eng. The two placed the trays of salads and shrimp and breads on enormous Queen Marys, the stainless steel, multi-shelved banquetcarts that roll on wheels. A lot of the food was thrown out, but staff made plates of the good stuff for themselves to eat later.

Villela had been a manager at a restaurant on the Upper East Side, but he applied for a captain position at Windows in 1996. There wasn’t one available, so he came back several times until he was offered a newly created position, a cross between a busser and runner. Villela took it.

Closer to midnight, a few parties were unwilling to let the night end.

He quickly moved up to being a captain and had been spending his time off working in the cellar and taking wine courses until he became a sommelier. He was making 130,000 dollars a year. And Villela’s 19-year-old son, Bernardo,


joined him at Windows as an assistant cellar master.

As Villela and Eng, with a couple of busboys, moved the food to the Queen Marys, they joked about her role as a manager and how he used to be one. Eng said that, to Chinese people, being a server was the highest place one could rise to before going to heaven. The conversation continued into her office.

General manager Glenn Vogt had been in a two-hour meeting with David Emil, restaurant comptroller Howard Kane, and a few others to discuss Windows’ New Year’s Eve party. It was the first meeting, so it wasn’t stressful, more exciting to be brainstorming what they hoped to do that year.

After the meeting, Vogt went to the office he shared with assistant general manager ChristineOlender to review what had been said. Michael Lomonaco wandered by and mentioned that he needed his glasses fixed but that his opthamologist was out of town. Lomonaco was going on a trip to Italy soon. Chefs can be obsessive list-makers. He wanted to get the glasses checked off his list, so he made an appointment at the LensCrafters in the concourse downstairs for noon the next day.

Lomonaco had just returned from shooting Epicurious for the Travel Channel the week before. He was getting up to speed for the busy autumn season of events and weddings, drawing up the new fall menus, and hiring people, one of the most important being a replacement for his executive pastry chef, Heather Ho, who had given her notice in August. Ho


Olender was on the phone practically every day with her parents back in Chicago. The two had gone on vacations together and had recently celebrated Eng’s 30th birthday.

Both women were tough, even if Olender was a girly-girl who wore fancy, impractical shoes. She was Vogt’s gatekeeper, so if you needed him to sign off on something, she was your best friend. But when Vogt wasn’t around, Olender was in charge, and the staff respected her.

Eng wore a jade-pig necklace—she was born in the year of the pig—and practical shoes, because she stood all day and her feet often hurt. Eng had a wry sense of humor, would joke about “the Asian way,” and would sometimes laugh about the most inappropriate things. That day, she was looking online atshoes to buy. Olender ribbed her about the shoes she had selected. Both women came to work early and left at around five in the evening. Eng could often be at her desk as early as 6 am getting ready for the opening of the club breakfast.

Because of the construction on the new wine cellar and bar, breakfast was being served in Wild Blue. Everything was a little out of sync, so Eng asked Villela if he could help her with breakfast, but he was leaving the building in a huff and said he couldn’t. Olender offered to help Eng with the morning setup before Olender had a meeting with Vogt at nine.

Jules Roinnel surprised them with the news that he wasn’t going to be coming in for


leading the classic margarita instruction and Delgado teaching the class how to make two of his own Greatest Bar tequila specialties, La Rumba and the spicy Bendito Loco. Also at the Greatest Bar that night, the new head of World Trade Center security, John O’Neill, was having a drink before heading to his favorite watering hole, Elaine’s, where writers and cops mingled with celebrities. O’Neill had recently retired from the FBI, where he had been the Bureau’s counterterrorism chief in Washington, DC, and was instrumental in the capture of the 1993 World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef.

O’Neill had had his FBI retirement party at Windows. He was just a few weeks into the much-better-paying job. That night, he told a friend that a terrorist attack was coming soon.where the tips were better.

Alvear had added a shift for the next morning, taking another staffer’s spot. After the guests finally called for the check, Feglia and Alvear changed in the locker room and went down to take the E train to Queens. As shop steward, Feglia was coming in the next day for a ten am meeting, and Alvear would have to sleep quickly; he was expected back in six hours.

After they left, the night still wasn’t over on the 107th floor. In the bar, in the booths outside the SkyBox, DeGroff and Delgado were entertaining their students with some extra credit after the class had ended at seven thirty. One of the women students was enthralled by the music DJ Penelope Tuesdae was playing, and so


they decided to stay for dinner. They had ordered small dishes, and DeGroff had ordered bottle after bottle of Veuve Clicquot for the group, tickled to be sticking Emil with the bill.

After one o’clock, Delgado suddenly remembered he didn’t have his car. It would have cost a small fortune to take another taxi back home, so he called his wife, Fran, a fellow bartender he had met working at the Greatest Bar but who no longer worked there, and asked her to put their 11-month-old baby, Genevieve, into the car seat and to take the hour-long drive to get him.

About eight people were still in their party until DeGroff asked for the check. He signed off on what was probably the last bill of the night, well northof a thousand dollars.

When Fran arrived in her Volkswagen Beetle, Delgado headed out. He saw the cleaning crews arriving and gave the security guard, Mo, short for Mohammed, a half-handshake, half-backslap on his way out before taking the elevator down to meet his family on West Street. The baby was awake, so he took her out of the car and held her in his arms and raised her slightly so that she faced the World Trade Center buildings.

“Look, Genevieve,” Delgado said, gazing at the reflection of light in her big brown eyes. “That’s where Daddy works, way up there.”

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From The Most Spectacular Restaurant in the World by Tom Roston, published by Abrams Books © 2019.


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Like serpentine waves of color undulating across the continents, the lilac hues of lavender farms weave together all that is good about us humans. For love of beauty people flock to the cascading purple terraces of Provence, New Zealand, Himachal Pradesh, California, drawn like the bees climbing through their miniature labyrinthine worlds of ultraviolet scent. Because there still lives, somewhere in our heart and soul where the artificialities of modernity are not allowed, an innate indescribable love for nature's tender expressions, the soft voice of lavender's gentle spirit is universally understood. Because there still abides beneath our hardened, agitated, aggressive,of marihuana.  A state prosecution was instituted, but was shortly dismissed when the warrant proved faulty.

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patient, the right drug, the right route, the right amount, and the right time. Systems and methods seeking to reduce ADE's and PADE's should take these five rights into consideration.
In many hospitals and clinical laboratories, a bracelet device having the patient's identification, such as his or her name printed thereon, is affixed to a patient upon admittance to the facility in order to identify the patient during his or her entire stay. Despite this safeguard, opportunities arise for patient identification error. For example, when a blood sample is taken from a patient, the blood sample must be identified by manually transcribing the patient's name and other information from the patient's identification bracelet. In transferring the patient's name, a nurse or technician may, instead of actually reading the patient'sLOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Boy, did Eight Belles hang with the boys.

All that heart and her gallant fight, however, ended in the worst of all possible ways: a breakdown, an ambulance on the track. And, with no other choice, she was euthanized by injection.

The day began with hope and pomp. Bolstered by the sentimental support from 157,770 fans and endorsed by presidential contender Hillary Clinton and cheered by daughter Chelsea, the filly finished second in the Kentucky Derby on Saturday.

She crossed the wire 4 3/4 lengths behind favorite Big Brown. Then, with the second-largest crowd in Derby history still whooping it up, Eight Belles collapsed with two broken front ankles.

The magnitude of what happened was slow to reach the fans at Churchill Downs. Not only was a horse down,


but it was the filly. And horse racing -- with the memory of Barbaro still fresh and the death of a horse coming only a day earlier on Kentucky Oaks Day -- had to confront grief one more time.

"There was no way to save her. She couldn't stand," trainer Larry Jones said. "She ran an incredible race. She ran the race of her life."

Jones' voice broke and tears glistened in his eyes as he considered his barn without Eight Belles' head poking out of her stall.

"Losing animals like this isn't fun. It's not supposed to happen," he said. "We're heartbroke. We're going to miss her, no doubt."

The field of 19 colts and the dark gray filly were galloping out around the first turn when Eight Belles suddenly wentdown on both front legs and jockey Gabriel Saez slid off.

"When we passed the wire I stood up," said a distraught Saez, a first-time Derby rider. "She started galloping funny. I tried to pull her up. That's when she went down."

Filly Eight Belles broke both front ankles after the wire in the Kentucky Derby. She was euthanized on the track while Big Brown's victory was celebrated. AP Photo/Brian Bohannon

An equine ambulance reached her near the second turn.

Eight Belles appeared to be galloping out normally around the first turn and was headed into the start of the backstretch when she dropped without warning. The crowd was busy high-fiving and celebrating and the distance from the grandstand prevented many from realizing what had happened.

"Everyone breathed a big sigh of relief


that everyone came around the track cleanly and then all of a sudden it happened," said Dr. Larry Bramlage, on-call veterinarian.

Quickly, word spread about the horse that was down in the second turn. Fans focused binoculars on the scene, using Saez's red helmet to identify the horse.

"That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen," said fan Kathleen Brower of Louisville. "We went from the high for the winner and something like this happens. It just takes the wind out of the sails."

No more so than for Jones and owner Rick Porter.

Eight Belles could have easily been the wagering favorite in Friday's Kentucky Oaks, an all-girl showcase. But Jones and Porter decided to run her against the boys despite the fact that she had never done so before.labored to the finish line and been falling farther behind Big Brown in the closing strides, then Jones said he would have "really second-guessed ourselves severely and kicked ourselves in the pants."

But she hit the wire strongly and galloped around the turn without a hitch, leaving the trainer in the white cowboy hat feeling proud. Jones also trained last year's runner-up, Hard Spun.

"We were ecstatic," he said.

For a time, anyway.

Part of Eight Belles' appeal was her status as the first filly since 1999 to run in the Derby; the last to win was Winning Colors in 1988.

Hillary Clinton didn't attend the race, but she ordered her daughter to bet the filly. Eight Belles, who went off at 13-1, repaid the fans' faith by returning $10.60 and $6.40.

Winning jockey


It must have been awesome to be Jerry Buss. The guy simply won, big time, in every aspect of life. Photo by the Associated Press

Jerry Buss was a well known playboy, and the good times kept rolling for him. But when it came to winning in the NBA, he was as focused as anybody. Photo by Jeff Lewis

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When ranking the sports team owners in American professional sports, it is not much of a contest, because Jerry Buss, who recently passed away, has every other owner beat by a mile, including New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, who passed away in 2010.

Many people say that the Yankees are the premiere teamin American sports, mostly because their history of greatness dates back to the early 1900s, but in the modern era it is not even close. The Lakers, mostly because of the vision of Buss, has been the greatest franchise in any sport.

Since Buss purchased the Lakers in 1979, the Lakers have made it to the NBA Finals 16 times, which is nearly half of the years that Buss owned the team. They won the title 10 times, more than any other American professional sports team over that time period. Under Steinbrenner, who owned the Yankees from 1973 until his passing, the ball club won seven World Series titles in 11 appearances.

Buss took a team that was one of the better teams in the NBA and turned them into


the greatest pro team in the nation. When he took over the Lakers were not even the best team in town. Los Angeles was a Dodgers town. USC football and UCLA basketball were a lot more popular, as the Lakers had lost seven times in the NBA Finals from the time that they moved to Los Angeles from Minneapolis in 1960 until Buss bought the team. All of those losses came against the Celtics, and the Lakers had only won the NBA title once over that time period, in 1972.

When Buss took over the Celtics had 13 NBA titles compared to the Lakers six (five of those won in Minneapolis), and it did not seem like any team would ever come close to catching them. But since Busstook over the Lakers have defeated the Celtics three times in the NBA Finals, won 10 overall, and now they are only behind the Celtics by one championship (17-16).

Former Laker Tommy Hawkins remembers the Dodgers receiving a parade in Downtown when they moved to Los Angeles in 1958, but when the Lakers showed up two years later, they came in on a bus through San Bernadino and nobody knew who they were.

Before Buss bought the team the Lakers were always lost in the shuffle of the Los Angeles sporting scene. But he instantly changed that.

Buss' first move was to create Showtime, and that was not just on the court. He understood that in Los Angeles, just watching a game would not be enough to captivate people who are


in the "Entertainment Capitol of the World." Buss created an environment that the Hollywood stars wanted to be at. Laker games were the place to be, not just for celebrities, but for the masses.

Buss created a show, but at the same time, that was not going to hold people's attention for long. Laker great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar pointed out that dancing girls were not going to win games. The show was not just during timeouts, or before and after the game. The main attraction was the players, and Buss stopped at nothing to get the best.

One thing that separated Buss from other owners who will stop at nothing to win was that Buss knew his role, and he let others do their jobs. Bill Sharman and Jerry West builtthe rosters that became Showtime. They surrounded Magic Johnson and Abdul-Jabbar with other star players. They took the risk on drafting James Worthy over Dominique Wilkins. They took the risk to trade Norm Nixon in order to draft Byron Scott. And to trade Vlade Divac for Kobe Bryant, who was right out of high school. That was a major risk because Shaquille O'Neal had not signed with the team at that point, and there was no telling if he would come to Los Angeles.

Buss also allowed O'Neal to be traded, and he convinced Bryant that he should be a Laker forever, which resulted into two more championships.

Buss' efforts and his visions have given Los Angeles fans the best team in the modern era of sports. The only thing


Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday took a stand against abusive politics in his party commenting on Congress leader CP Joshi's casteist attack on the prime minister. Rahul stated that Joshi's statement is against the party's ideology, asking the leader to clarify his statement.

Moments after Congress president Rahul Gandhi publicly deplored CP Joshi's casteist comments against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the former Union minister issued an unconditional apology to "any section of the society" he may have hurt.

Rahul took a stand against abusive comments of his party colleague stating that former Union minister's statement stood against the party's ideology. "While respecting the principles of Congress, the spirit of the workers, Joshi must surely realize the mistake," said Rahul.

सी पी जोशी जी का बयान कांग्रेस पार्टी के आदर्शों के(CNN)Republican Sen. John McCain said on Monday that he wasn't sure if Donald Trump would be a better president for appointing Supreme Court justices than Hillary Clinton.

Trump has released lists of 21 potential justices. He has pledged to choose from among those 21 when making Supreme Court selections, in a move that has earned him praise from conservatives, including his former rival in the Republican primary, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.

Asked on the Dom Giordano program on 1210 WPHT Philadelphia radio whether Trump was the superior candidate on issues like the Supreme Court, the Arizona senator replied, "Uh, first of all, I don't know, because I hear him saying a lot of different things."

Later in the interview, McCain used the opportunity to make the case for fellow Republican Sen.


Review: 'Earthflight' offers an astonishing bird's-eye view

'Earthflight,' a six-part series that premieres Wednesday on PBS, is an astonishing look at the flight of birds.

A brown pelican flies under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. (Michael W. Richards, BBC…)

"Earthflight," which premieres Wednesday on PBS, is a six-part documentary about birds. As often happens with big nature films, it is a rebranded BBC production (nearly 2 years old), presented domestically under the flag of the series "Nature," with rerecorded narration. Oddly, a two-hour version was broadcast here by Discovery Channel last October as "Winged Planet," its title surely meant to evoke memories of Discovery's earlier "Planet Earth" and "Frozen Planet" (also acquired from the BBC).

It will also evoke memories, should you have them, of "Winged Migration," a 2001 Oscar-nominatedof age, single, and had a ninth-grade education.

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consequences of the clash between traditional and Western social organizations ("our Ghana" is frequently reiterated, with a cynical intonation). While modernization seems to be a possibility in both industrial and political senses, the new political leaders are to be no better than the old, and industry remains essentially primary, in the sense that the value will be added to the primary product by the industrial powers. Industry, in this Ghana, will continue to depend on an exchange of gifts which, under capitalism, becomes bribery.

Vehicles are so prominent in the first novel that their presence immediately suggests a reading via a structure of travel metaphors. "The man," the anti-hero, is first discovered on a bus, and the theme of corruption is immediately introduced, in this context, with the buspassage, as the gross Koomson has to be squeezed through the hole and pulled out. A political reading of the episode involves a view of the coming into light of the new state - forcibly reborn out of the shit of the old, but not without inevitably bringing a good deal of the smell and detritus with it, and not without an abiding need for cleansing.

A bus like the one from the beginning of the novel appears again very near the end. " 'Constable,' " the driver tells the policemen, " 'my passengers. They're in a hurry.' " (In a hurry to become part of a modern state.) " 'The people inside. They want to go . . . ' " (213-4). And they do go, after the


driver hands over a one cedi bribe to get the wheels turning again, recalling the other one cedi note from the opening pages.

The second-last paragraph has the image of a bird singing happily over a latrine, and although the man cannot recall its name, the reader will remember the chichidodo bird: "The chichidodo bird hates excrement with all its soul. But the chichidodo only feeds on maggots, and you know the maggots grow best inside the lavatory. This is the chichidodo" (52). The circular movement of the chichidodo bird away from the lavatory and back again functions symbolically in the novel's spatial economy, and the trope of the return resonates in the last words of the novel, as the man "with thoughts of everything he was going backto" . . . "walked very slowly, going home."

In The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, journeys are prominent, and seem to imply the possibility of getting somewhere: trains appear to carry produce for a purpose; buses carry people to work; Koomson makes progress, getting rich; the man's wife hopes to achieve financial gain from the dishonest business deal with the boat. All these trajectories are linear, unidirectional, all the movement is at least intended to be in the direction of change and progress. But there are also metaphors of circularity: the nightman's circuit, the return of the chichidodo bird, the recurrence of political corruption, and the closed structure of the novel itself, beginning and ending with the same status quo, the same bus, the same dependence on


bribery. By the end of the novel, recursion has overwhelmed linearity, and those cyclical movements which will dominate the next three novels have become inevitable. The central character, the man, is a mediating term between these two kinds of movement, caught between progress and regress, and between hope and despair.

This first novel itself is caught between the possibility of the grand narrative of progress and change for the better, and the meaninglessness of the "senseless cycles" that bring one back to where one was. In the second novel there is a concerted attempt to make sense of the cyclical nature of some aspects of social existence. The third novel is Armah's postmodern novel, and might have had the title of the second, as it is here that thenarrative really does break down into Fragments, in various ways. But the fourth re-establishes the possibility of a meaningful story which would make sense of where its intended readers have been, and where they are going. The fifth continues this tendency even further in the direction of tradition, both in content and in form.

To go back to the second novel: in Fragments, the primary journey involves the movement of cargo, and movement through naturalistic space. [7] The journey here is bidirectional: out and back, from the colony to the metropolis and back, then into the mind, then out of it, into insanity. Becoming - as a possibility - falters and fails. The informing fiction of Baako's society, its "grand narrative," is that of the hero's going out into


losing its functors, its great hero, its great dangers, its great voyages, its great goal. It is being dispersed in clouds of narrative language elements ... [12]

In Fragments, Ayi Kwei Armah had his African protagonist Baako go to a land of whiteness, the USA, and return to go mad. In Why Are We So Blest? an American antagonist comes to Africa, with the result that an African protagonist dies. Modin, the African, goes into the heart of whiteness, the Sahara, with the woman who represents white ideology in this novel, the American/Puerto Rican psychiatrist, Juana. And there he is killed by white soldiers, by castration. In the matrix of journey structures, the contrast between this third novel and the first is the intentionality missing from the primary journey.No-one - except they themselves - expects the two would-be revolutionaries to join the revolution, and especially the third key character, Solo. His is perhaps the dominant voice in the novel, in that he is an observer who comments continually on the other two characters, without acting significantly himself - except perhaps as the editor of the journals of the other two, which make up the majority of the novel.

Having said that, however, it must be stressed that Solo's is only one of three voices. The three characters rarely speak to each other. Due to the "epistolary" nature of the narrative strategy - the novel consisting entirely of journal entries - the experience of the novel has no unity, in the sense that each of the characters is


with the principles of unity and solidarity.

The dance of selection is another use of the circle as a metaphor of these notions. Again there is an arrangement of concentric circles through which love contracts are ritually offered and accepted. The ritual is traditionally conducted so that the weaker members of the society are given the best opportunity of success, while the stronger are offered the greatest challenge. This arrangement is upset in the post-contact situation by the predator king Koranche who decrees that his son will take the best of the women without having to engage at all in the challenge of the ritual. As a result the women dance in such a way as to avoid being chosen by the prince, and take their chances as soonas possible, rather than give the customary advantage to the weaker. Also, the prince sits at the centre of the circle where only the dancers should be. In this way, the meaning of the traditional ritual is eroded. (144-6)

On the other hand, in response to the corrupting influence of the invader, a new grouping is established. Instead of splitting into the normal pairs, a group of ten young men and women escape to the central grove and to Isanusi who becomes aware that a new kind of meaning may be found in this unified group. (148) They will form the nucleus of the new order. When the group is captured, the metaphor of the circle is used once more. The group is chained together so that "[w]e made


a circle no more. They had arranged us in two lines." (189) This rearrangement may be seen as demonstrating the imposition of a linear mode of thought upon a culture in which the circle represents a collective unity.

Through the use of such spatial patterning, of a unified and panoramic representation of time and space, and a collective attitude to questions of lifestyle and ethics, the work creates a worldview which may be seen in this way as intentionally ideological, modernist.

In The Healers, the journey is into the past, once again through time, back to the modern. There is a return to History and to Modernism and its grand narrative of the progress of the spirit. The subtitle, "an historical novel," signals this both in its denotation and itswhich is simultaneously international and internal in a psychological sense. In the fourth, epic replaces realism, and the mythic is imbricated with the historical, as the interest shifts back to the colonial period. This interest is maintained in the last novel to date, but a historical approach is unrelieved by vision, and the result smacks of the didactic.

In the central novel of the five, I have tried to argue, the tendency towards atomization and self-consciousness in Armah's oeuvre is at its most pronounced. The alienated characters and fragmentary structure are aspects of a concept of a postcolonial world which has not yet succeeded in discovering a socio-political vision integrated with an artistic practice to provide a fresh and authentic basis for creativity. In the next and perhaps greatest


some grand narrative, such as the dialectics of Spirit, the hermeneutics of meaning, the emancipation of the rational or working subject, or the creation of wealth." Jean-Franois Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, trs. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 1984) xxiii.

10. Wright, 185.

11. Ayi Kwei Armah, Why Are We So Blest? (London: Heinemann, 1974). Page references in parentheses in the text are to this edition.

14. Reversing the polarities of Harvey's argument, as the temporal tendency is reversed: "The homogenization of space poses serious difficulties for the conception of place. If the latter is the site of Being (as many theorists were later to suppose), then Becoming entails a spatial politics that renders place subservient to transformations of space. Absolute spaceSun So-eun

Sun So-eun (also Seon Su-eun, ; born July 1, 1988) is a South Korean former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. She won a total of two bronze medals, as a member of the South Korean team, in the 4×100 m freestyle (3:44.81) and 4×100 m medley relay (4:13.41) at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan.

Sun teamed up with Ryu Yoon-ji, Shim Min-ji, and Kim Hyun-joo in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Swimming the lead-off leg, Sun recorded a split of 56.86, but the South Koreans missed the final by two seconds outside the top 8, in a time of 3:44.84.

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Two men killed in crash near Belsay in Northumberland Published duration 30 November 2017

Two men have died in a road crash in Northumberland.

The pair, aged 21 and 22, were travelling in a Peugeot 207 car which was in collision with a Mercedes Sprinter van on the A696, near Belsay, at 19:15 GMT on Wednesday.

The driver of the van suffered minor injuries.

The road was closed for six hours while investigators examined the scene. Police have called for witnesses to the crash to contact them.(81.2%), and 2010 (79.8%), although estimates varied by demographic subgroups (10–12). Over time, estimates of the percentage of adults being advised to exercise could be influenced by major changes in the characteristics of adults seeing a health professional. In 2010, about one in three adults (32.4%) who had seen a physician or other health professional in the past year had been advised to exercise or do other physical activity, which reflects an upward trend since 2000, moving in the direction of meeting Healthy People 2020 goals. In relative terms, there has been more than a 40% increase—from 22.6% of adults in 2000 to 32.4% in 2010. Although increases were noted for every population and health condition group studied, these increases were larger for some groups than others. The


barred by the one-year statute of limitations in 28 U.S.C. § 2244(d). In this appeal, Marcum claims that the district court erred in holding that direct review ended in 1992, when the time expired for his filing a direct appeal of his conviction to the Ohio Supreme Court, rather than when the Ohio Supreme Court, some six years thereafter, denied his motion — filed on April 20, 1998 — for delayed appeal. Marcum further assigns as error the district court's rulings that the statute of limitations was not tolled by his prior habeas petition challenging a separate conviction that had relied on the 1991 conviction for purposes of sentence enhancement, and was not tolled during the 45 day period following the state appellate court's denial — on JulyReprinted from about.com. One of the few things I read in my undergraduate years that I enjoyed greatly. Wilson Carey McWilliams had us read this before anything else in the Classical Political Thought course at Rutgers – this was prior to Aeschylus, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine. Your thoughts about the nature of criticism are appreciated: please put them in the comments.

Once upon a time an artist who had painted a small and very beautiful picture placed it so that he could see it in the mirror. He said, “This doubles the distance and softens it, and it is twice as lovely as it was before.”

The animals out in the woods heard of this through the housecat, who was greatly admired by them because he was so learned, and


was dropped for a couple of days, but in the meantime curiosity was taking a fresh start, and there was a revival of interest perceptible. Then the animals assailed the ass for spoiling what could possibly have been a pleasure to them, on a mere suspicion that the picture was not beautiful, without any evidence that such was the case. The ass was not troubled; he was calm, and said there was one way to find out who was in the right, himself or the cat: he would go and look in that hole, and come back and tell what he found there. The animals felt relieved and grateful, and asked him to go at once–which he did.

But he did not know where he ought to stand; andthe bear went. When he came back, he said:

“Both the cat and the ass have lied; there was nothing in the hole but a bear.”

Great was the surprise and puzzlement of the animals. Each was now anxious to make the test himself and get at the straight truth. The elephant sent them one at a time.

First, the cow. She found nothing in the hole but a cow.

The tiger found nothing in it but a tiger.

The lion found nothing in it but a lion.

The leopard found nothing in it but a leopard.

The camel found a camel, and nothing more.

Then Hathi was wroth, and said he would have the truth, if he had to go and fetch it himself. When he returned, he abused his whole subjectry for liars, and


in the academy. Only a person who has never bothered to attend
a meeting of the SBL or read the Journal
of Biblical Literature
or visited a Department of Religion (at, say, the University of North
Carolina where Bart Ehrman teaches) could say without their tongue
being firmly planted in their cheek that biblical studies is
dominated by some sort of faith perspective. Indeed, I would submit
for your consideration that in Colleges and Universities across the
United States where Departments of Religion exist, that the
preponderance of work is purely “a-theistic.”

The
Bible is regularly and with delight approached as nothing more than a
collection of ancient texts which hold nothing more than topics of
interest to those with arcane gazes. It is simply ridiculous to
assert that faith matters in university study of the Bible. And it
has been that wayfree movement of workers from the continent.

Under the Norway option, the UK would remain a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), without full EU membership.

When asked if she would categorically rule out this option, May implied that she would – without saying so explicitly. She said she was clear that she had negotiated the best deal available.

The people voted for Brexit. It’s, in a sense, a duty for their politicians, who asked them to make that choice, to then deliver on that choice. This is a deal that delivers on that because what people want to see is an end to free movement.

If the UK were to stay in the single market – the Norway option – free movement would continue.

She sidestepped a question about whether she


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Late rapper Tupac Shakur and 1960s protest singer Joan Baez were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday on a night where nostalgia was mixed with calls to political action.

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Former Journey frontman Steve Perry reunited on stage with his “Don’t Stop Believin’” bandmates for the first time in 25 years to screams and hugs of joy, while Roy Wood of Electric Light Orchestra turned up for the New York ceremony 45 years after leaving the English band.

But one of the strongest moments came from Baez, 76, who linked her lifelong record of social activism and non-violence with a rallying call for resistance today.

“Let us together repeal and replace brutality and make compassion a priority. Let usfrom the music industry.

Disco producer Nile Rodgers, the man behind 1970s hits like “Le Freak” and “We Are Family,” was presented with a special award for musical excellence.

Artists are eligible for induction 25 years after the release of their first recording.

Tributes were also paid on Friday to Chuck Berry, who died last month at age 90 and who was the first person ever to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986, and Prince, who died of an accidental painkiller overdose in April 2016.

The 2017 induction ceremony will be broadcast on cable channel HBO on April 29.


it funded the team for two years before releasing the operating system, he said, a strategy some decried as madness. The results have been rather good, he pointed out, and Google's willing to make a similar investment in the company that was there at the start of mobile computing.

The first stage of this is the Moto X, due to launch in the autumn. Woodside said he had it in his pocket, but refused to get it out. The new handset will be 70 per cent assembled in the US, coming from a plant in Fort Worth, Texas, and having manufacturing close at hand would allow the company to try out new manufacturing processes such as 3D printing.

Motorola is cracking a long-standing problem in mobile electronics by enabling low-powertake them, to those who look to the finale of the New Testament: The Book of Revelation – or, for you believers of the Catholic persuasion, The Apocalypse.

The text, thought to be written about 60 years after the biblical death of Christ, is regarded as either a description of the end times of humanity, a satirical pastiche on the increasingly subverted tenants of Christian bureaucracy, or a really bad mushroom trip on a Greek island. Nevertheless it contains the following warning:

It causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number


Imperium

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1h 46min

15

Directed by: Daniel Ragussis

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts

UK release: 23 September 2016

FBI agent Nate Foster (Radcliffe) goes undercover as a racist skinhead, to infiltrate white power groups. The themes are red-hot but the handling of them is by-the-numbers; even Collette's hard-boiled, gum-chewing FBI supervisor feels stale, and Radcliffe is so small and nice-looking that there are serious plausibility issues.

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Daniel Radcliffe poses as a white supremacist in Daniel Ragussis's by the numbers thriller

FBI analyst Nate Foster is frustrated by the limitations of his desk job, and dismayed by the agency's habit of framing young, impressionable Muslims in its fight against Islamic fundamentalism. So when he's given the opportunity to go undercover and…others: coming from a high-born or well-known family, being more attractive than one’s peers, and being wealthy. There are other reasons we might claim superiority, of course, from the terribly superficial to more substantial identifiers. But the Buddha cuts through any notion that being born into a particular family or with certain attributes secures our place in society. Here and in other suttas, the Buddha asserts that one is high-born if one behaves impeccably, that is, keeps the precepts – not taking life, taking only what is offered, not engaging in sexual misconduct, speaking truthfully, harmoniously, gently, and meaningfully – as well as not envying others, keeping a benevolent attitude and maintaining right view (dukkha, its arising, its ending, and the path to the end of dukkha). Our


Game of Thrones has never shied away from altering its source material, but according to George R.R. Martin, this character might be the biggest change of all.

Martin is well known for his ruthless plotting of the fantasy series in which almost everyone seems to die, and that ruthlessness led him to be interviewed for a recent BBC documentary on legendary Renaissance writer and diplomat Niccolo Machiavelli, best known today for his ruthless real-life politcical strategies. During the interview, Martin discussed both Machiavelli's influence on his own work, and which characters in his A Song of Ice and Fire novels are the most Machiavellian. He named Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish "the most Machiavellian character in Game of Thrones," but also took time to note that Baelish is the character whoseems to have changed the most from book to screen as he transitioned from a pure Martin creation to a character portrayed by Aidan Gillen on the hit HBO series.

"Book Littlefinger and television show Littlefinger are very different characters. They're probably the character that's most different from the book to the television show," Martain said. "There was a a line in a recent episode of the show where, he's not even present, but two people are talking about him and someone says 'Well, no one trusts Littlefinger' and 'Littlefinger has no friends.' And that's true of television show Littlefinger, but it's certainly not true of book Littlefinger. Book Littlefinger, in the book, everybody trusts him. Everybody trusts him because he seems powerless, and he's very friendly, and he's


very helpful. He helps Ned Stark when he comes to town, he helps Tyrion, you know, he helps the Lannisters. He's always ready to help, to raise money. He helps Robert, Robert depends on him to finance all of his banquets and tournaments and his other follies, because Littelfinger can always raise money. So, he's everybody's friend. But of course there's the Machiavellian thing. He's, you know, everybody trusts him, everybody depends on him. He's not a threat. He's just this helpful, funny guy, who you can call upon to do whatever you want, and to raise money, and he ingratiaties himself with people and rises higher and higher as a result."

In contrast, the TV version of Littlefinger has proved much more adept at setting up the downfallsgenius adn beautiful, and I'll always remember what it gave to me.
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I knew it was supposed to be a tragedy from the beginning, but it still will always haunt me. Knowing that after everything Jax went through, and all the pain he endured and all who suffered from his retaliation for Tara was because of his own mother. But I can't hate Gemma. She merely did what I feel any mother would, though maybe not to the lengths she took it. But she was protecting her family. And I solute her for, in spite of all the other caos in her life, she was always a good mother and she always did was she thought was best for her family. But I feel


Three times, United went ahead. Three times, the Red Bulls — and more specifically, Bradley Wright-Phillips — answered.

The last came in the 90th minute, three minutes after Luciano Acosta had shattered the deadlock. It was a gut-punch of a volley that deflated D.C. and silenced — except for the delirious visiting supporters — the 18,331 at Audi Field.

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“Any time you get three goals at home,” United Coach Ben Olsen said, “you should walk away with three points.”

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Instead, United (9-11-8, 35 points) made only small progress in pursuit of the fifth-place Philadelphia Union (40 points) and the sixth-place Montreal Impact (39) for one of the last two playoff slots. D.C. (6-2-3 in the past 11 outings) has played the same number of games as Philadelphia and one fewer thanMontreal and, with the next five at home, United remains well-positioned. New England (34 points) is also in the mix.

United’s next game, Sept. 29, is against the Impact.

The margin of error is narrowing, and defensive errors — namely, in tracking Wright-Phillips — cost United two points Sunday. The English striker, who in his previous visit to Washington recorded his 100th career goal in MLS, struck 16 minutes after Paul Arriola, 12 minutes after Wayne Rooney and, finally, those 180 seconds after Acosta’s gem.

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Alex Muyl crossed from the left. Steve Birnbaum lost track of Wright-Phillips for an instant, which was enough time to drive a left-footed bullet from seven yards between the near post and goalkeeper Bill Hamid for his 19th goal of the year. He has 10 goals


corner. Anticipating a cross to Rooney, defender Aaron Long stepped out, leaving a pathway for Acosta to bear down on Robles and lift the ball over the goalkeeper.

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Wright-Phillips then spoiled the afternoon.

“We were good on the night and deserved more out of the game,” Olsen said, “but that doesn’t do anything for us right now.”

United notes: Asad returned from a four-game injury layoff, replacing Ulises Segura in the 63rd minute. … Brillant made his first start since late July, replacing injured Kofi Opare. … With reserves and perhaps guest players from the second-division Richmond Kickers, United will host Honduran club Olimpia in a friendly Wednesday.Starfleet personnel, “due to the addictive qualities of the illusion technology,” possessed by the Talosians, according to a series website. But beyond that, the two-part episode dealt largely with the mental and physical effects of the wounds of war, as experienced by Capt. Christopher Pike.

Back on Earth, Karin Fones from Socom's Technical Industrial Liaison Office will speak about the TALOS project (but presumably not Talosians) during the luncheon at the 7th annual Florida Defense & Technology Showcase at Sheraton Sand Key Resort on Clearwater Beach.

She'll be speaking to an audience of defense prime contractors, subcontractors and others in the science and technology sectors about expanding partnerships among academics, industry and government in support of a bold new acquisition model, according to conference organizers.

The main goal of the conference


made the transition from Blue Star Families to Gold Star Families.

To honor those losses, Sunday, Sept. 29, is Gold Star Mothers Day, a tradition that began in 1936 and is celebrated on the last Sunday of September.

On July 16, 2011, Toni and Craig Gross became Gold Star parents when their son, Cpl. Frank R. Gross, was killed in Afghanistan.

“In honor of this day, consider flying the colors or making a donation to a local 'military service related organization such as the USO Tampa Bay, American Gold Star Mothers Inc., or 'My Warriors' Place,' “ in Ruskin,” said Toni Gross, president of Tampa Gulf Coast North chapter of Gold Star Mothers Inc. “Please join our nation in honoring our Gold Star families and remember, the next time you seeSeattle Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane allegedly told police during his DUI arrest Sunday he was “more high than anything.”

Lane, 27, was booked into the King County Jail early Sunday morning but released less than four hours later after paying a $1,000 bail.

A trooper pulled over Lane on an interstate between Seattle and Mercer Island because he was driving 80 mph in a 60 mph zone with his hazards on, a police report viewed by Q13 FOX stated. The trooper also reported the football star was changing lanes without signaling.

WASHINGTON STATE QB TYLER HILINSKI FOUND DEAD IN APPARENT SUICIDE, POLICE SAY

After the trooper went to Lane’s window, he allegedly “smelled a strong odor of burned marijuana” coming from his vehicle. Lane told the trooper he was rushing to get


even if you weren’t Persian, the Persian Empire was pretty dreamy. For one thing, the Persians ruled with a light touch, like, conquered kingdoms were allowed to keep their kings and their elites as long as they pledged allegiance to the Persian King and paid taxes, which is why the Persian king was known as The King of Kings.

Plus, taxes weren’t too high, and the Persians improved infrastructure with better roads and they had this pony express-like mail service of which Herodotus said: “...they are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.”

And the Persians embraced freedom of religion. Like they were Zoroastrian, which has a claim to being the world’s first monotheistic religion. It was really Zoroastrianismslavery, and in all of them citizenship was limited to males. Sorry ladies...

Also, each of the city-states had its own form of government, ranging from very democratic — unless you were a woman or a slave — to completely dictatorial. And the people who lived in these cities considered themselves citizens of that city, not of anything that would ever be called Greece. At least until the Persian wars.

So between 490 and 480 BCE, the Persians made war on the Greek City states. This was the war that featured the battle of Thermopylae where three hundred brave Spartans battled — if you believe Herodotus — five million Persians.

And also the battle of Marathon, which is a plain about 26.2 miles away from Athens.

The whole war started because Athens


supported those aforementioned Ionian Greeks when they were rebelling in Anatolia against the Persians. That made the Persian king Xerxes mad, so he led two major campaigns against the Athenians, and the Athenians enlisted the help of all the other Greek city-states. And in the wake of that shared Greek victory, the Greeks began to see themselves as Greeks, rather than as Spartans, or Athenians or whatever.

And then Athens emerged as the de facto capital of Greece and then got to experience a Golden Age, which is something that historians make up. But a lot of great things did happen during the Golden Age, including the Parthenon, a temple that became a church and then a mosque and then an armory until finally settling into its current gigTagged with:

Erin Ryan

Erin Ryan has joined the Lewis & Clark community as an associate professor. She is spending her first year with the Law School abroad at Ocean University in Qingdao, China, on a Fulbright grant.

As a Fulbright Scholar, Ryan will not only teach U.S. environmental and property law, but also lecture around the country and conduct research how interjurisdictional governance is negotiated between Chinese local, provincial, and central governments. “China is key to the future of environmental law worldwide, which is one reason I’m interested in learning as much as I can about Chinese environmental governance,” she says. For Ryan, who studied Chinese language and politics as part of her undergraduate degree at Harvard-Radcliffe, the trip will also be her first opportunity to visit the country. “I


miss my wonderful students [at William & Mary],” she says, “but I think the students at Lewis & Clark will quickly make up for that loss.” Ryan says the great students are one of the many reasons she is excited to join the Law School faculty. “I love that Lewis & Clark students go out and really make a difference in the world.” The environmental law program, one of the best in the country, is what initially attracted Ryan to Lewis & Clark, she says, but the welcoming nature of the faculty, staff, and other community members also made a favorable impression. Ryan, who used to perform as a professional musician, says that the chair found and played some of Ryan’s music for the selection committee during herwater issues for the public, which revolved around the intersection of the common law public trust doctrine and western water law. Ryan thought there was more she could do to contribute to land use and other conservation issues, and “the toolbox that was most useful was a legal degree.”

Ryan received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and was a Hewlett Negotiation Research Fellow at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. She went on to clerk for James R. Browning of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an associate at public-interest law firm Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger in San Francisco, which specializes in land use, environmental, and local government law. There she became even more interested in the constitutional dimensions of interjurisdictional environmental governance.


is also thrilled to be moving back to the West Coast and to Portland in particular—the first western city she visited after growing up in New York. She spent lots of time hiking, camping, and otherwise exploring the state while a forest ranger. “I love everything about Oregon! It is one of the most beautiful states in the union.”

When Ryan returns from China in the fall of 2012, she will teach property, natural resource law, negotiation, and water law.   The defendants responded by starting to proceed in the agents' direction, but Libreros stopped and only Moreno continued walking toward the agents.

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Mancini then directed his attention to Moreno, while Siegel called out to Libreros and displayed his DEA shield, asking Libreros to speak with him.  Libreros stopped, and Siegel observed him to be "visibly shaken"--fidgeting and moving the white plastic bag from hand to hand while his eyes darted about.  Stating that he was with the police or DEA, Siegel asked Libreros, "What do you have in the bag?"    Libreros replied, "comida" (the Spanish word for food), and opened the bag to show its contents to the agent.  Siegel looked in the bag and observed a brick-shaped package wrapped


in brown paper and tape which Siegel believed, based upon his experience, to contain cocaine.  Siegel took the bag and walked Libreros back to the apartment building.

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While this encounter was taking place, Mancini was speaking with Moreno in the vestibule of the building.  In response to questions by Mancini, Moreno stated that he did not live in the building and did not know anyone who did.  Moreno said that he was at the building to collect his mail, showed Mancini a key to the mailbox for apartment 3B, and opened the mailbox.  Moreno was visibly nervous, and began to shake after opening the mailbox.  His agitation increased when a beeper on his waistband sounded.  When Siegel and Libreros arrived at the vestibule,Moreno began to shake so uncontrollably that Mancini thought Moreno would pass out.  Siegel showed the package which he had seized to Mancini, who said "cocaina."    At that juncture, Moreno "jump[ed] up," pointed at Libreros and said "he no with me.  He no with me," whereupon Libreros immediately fled.  Siegel pursued Libreros and, after being injured when Libreros closed a gate in his path, apprehended him two blocks away.

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While Siegel pursued Libreros, Mancini turned Moreno around, put his chest against the wall of the vestibule and told him:  "[S]tand there and don't move."    At this juncture, Moreno volunteered that he did in fact live in the building, in apartment 3B, but continued to deny that he knew Libreros.


 After Siegel apprehended Libreros, both defendants were placed in handcuffs.  Mancini asked Moreno if there were any more packages, or persons, in his apartment, and Moreno replied in the negative.  Mancini then asked Moreno if he would allow a search of his apartment, and Moreno consented.  Minutes later, after members of a New York City Police Department backup unit had arrived, Siegel asked Moreno if he objected to a search of the apartment.  Moreno replied, "no," moving his hip in a manner indicating that the agents should take the keys from his pocket.

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The search of the apartment, which was unoccupied at the time, yielded a plastic box bearing the word "Raina," a brand name for cocaine, and approximately $400 in cash.  Mancinithereafter noticed a car key on Moreno's keychain, and asked Moreno if he owned a car.  Moreno replied that he did, and that the car was parked nearby.  In response to further inquiry, Moreno said that he had no objection to a search of the vehicle.  In the ensuing search, Siegel recovered a jacket, which Libreros said was his.  A pocket in the jacket contained immigration documents in the name of "Carlos Olivero Blanco," later identified as Libreros.

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While Siegel searched Moreno's car, Mancini attempted to advise Moreno of his constitutional rights.  Moreno, however, claimed that he could not understand Mancini, even though Moreno had up to that point appeared to have no difficulty comprehending or responding to the agents.  Shortly after the


Neither agent raised his voice, drew a weapon, touched the defendants, or physically impeded them in any way.  Moreno responded to the request by voluntarily turning around and walking in the direction of the agents.  We see no serious argument that Moreno was seized at that juncture or during the ensuing events prior to his arrest in the vestibule of the apartment building, and Moreno makes only passing reference to this contention on appeal.

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As to Libreros, although he initially took several steps away from the agents, he too stopped when Siegel identified himself as a police officer and asked to speak to him.  Siegel asked Libreros what was contained in the bag he was shifting from hand to hand, and Libreros thereupon displayed its contentsrelationship is required" to establish probable cause with respect to a companion of a suspect.  Id.

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Applying that principle to this case, we conclude that Moreno's arrest was lawful.  Moreno exhibited mounting nervousness while being questioned by Mancini, and grew even more uneasy when his beeper sounded.  When Siegel returned to the vestibule with Libreros, Moreno began shaking violently.  In addition, Moreno had made the odd claim that he neither lived in the building nor knew anyone living there, even though he displayed the mailbox key for apartment 3B and said he had come to pick up his mail.  Furthermore, Moreno excitedly declared that he was not with Libreros, who the Agents knew to a virtual certainty had been transporting cocaine, and who was


SOFIA (Reuters) - Nearly 10 years after Bulgaria joined the European Union, many of its people feel their problems are too low down the priority list in Brussels.

Rumen Radev, presidential candidate of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Sofia, Bulgaria, October 24, 2016. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov/File Photo

Many disappointed Bulgarians are now looking toward Russia, their former overlord in the Soviet era, as a more relevant neighbor.

That sentiment is likely to be reinforced in a presidential election run-off on Sunday which former air force commander General Rumen Radev, who is friendly toward the Kremlin, is expected to win.

Radev’s position that Bulgaria, a NATO member, should hedge its bets when it comes to international alliances, has hit a nerve in the Black Sea state, which alreadydepends on Russia for most of its energy, military equipment and tourism revenues.

“The West and the European Union committed many mistakes with Russia in recent years,” said Emilia Trencheva, a 48-year old accountant who was enjoying a walk in the gardens of the 1907 National Theatre in Sofia,a popular leisure spot.

“Russia is very important and they isolated it. Rumen Radev will find the right balance. He promised security and this is what people want to hear,” she said

Since it annexed Crimea in 2014, Moscow has held military exercises and conducted overflights throughout what was once Communist-ruled Southeast Europe. It has also mounted a lobbying campaign for influence, diplomats say.

Radev, who resigned from the air force to stand in the election as an independent allied to the Socialist Party,


has expressed tolerance for the Russian move in Ukraine and favors easing Western sanctions on Moscow.

“Of course there are violations of international law in Crimea,” he told BTV television after winning the election first round on Sunday. “But it is also a fact that at the moment, a Russian flag is flying over Crimea. What should we do? Close our eyes?”

Bulgaria’s relationship with its communist-era masters contrasts with much of the former Soviet bloc, which saw Moscow as an occupier, not a friend.

Bulgarians share a similar language and the Cyrillic alphabet with Russians. They also feel historical gratitude after Russia liberated Bulgaria from 500 years of Ottoman rule in late 19th century.

Unlike Hungary, Czechoslovakia or Poland, Bulgarians did not see Russian military force used against them and manywho fear backing them would put Bulgaria at a disadvantage in other economic projects with Russia.

The sanctions had an impact on tourism, which has shrunk sharply. Some 700,000 Russians visited Bulgaria in 2013 compared with less than 500,000 last year.

The trend was overturned this summer when Russian holidaymakers came back. Prime Minister Boiko Borisov said this was a result of his dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Bulgaria is almost completely reliant on Russian gas supplies. Its only oil refinery is controlled by Russia’s LUKOIL. Its nuclear power plant, which produces about 35 percent of the electricity in the country, operates on Soviet-built reactors and Russian nuclear fuel.

A study by Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and the Sofia-based Center for the Study for the Democracy, released


by the Champion would decide the fate of their world. They were either defeated or disqualified in the bout. Ben went through three rounds and was pretty much broken physically, but his never-give-up-endurance/persistence won the Champion's respect and garnered Earth's survival (The plotline got adapted into a DEXTER'S LABORATORY episode involving Monkey, with the Champion changed to a space wrestler voiced by 'Macho Man' Savage). Issue 96 has Ben convalescing- and bored out of his mind- in a hospital, not realizing that outside its WW3 as the Marvel Superheroes prevent Marvel Supervillains from getting payback on poor Ben (Dr. Doom decides not to interfere, honorably preferring not to attack a wounded foe; Sandman manages to sneak in on Ben, wishing to thank him for giving him a chanceat reforming in MTiO#86).In Roger Stern's run on DOCTOR STRANGE, the Sorcerer's relationship with Clea had become strained. Clea felt authoress Morgana Blessing's feelings for Stephen outmatched hers, and pleas from dimensional wizards to despose Umar's (regenting for an absent Dormammu) reign in the Dark Dimension convinced her to leave Earth (Stern felt the relationship was wrong in a 'teacher-student-'I-love-you,- Master-but-not-in-a-Jeannie-way' perspective), much to the doc's...D'Spayre (Stephen recovers). Rumors about a vacancy for an apprenticeship start flying everywhere without his consent. Tired of would-be seekers throwing themselves at him to take the rumored vacancy, Dr. Strange gathered them all together to inform them he had no intention of training a new disciple at the present time. This angers one applicant- Jimaine (Amanda Sefton)- causing her mother Margali Szardos