master of the written word, he paints a picture (at least in the first five or so pages) or what life was like for these characters; Oliver Twist is a character who most of us know, and often finds his way into film (the film August Rush borrows a lot from Oliver Twist as well).

The 1980’s

The ’80’s, I have to admit, are dragging a little bit here. I know a lot happened, but man. There were a lot of Disney movies in the 1980s! So, today, I’m just going to mention the Cold War and some of the things that came out of that.

Quickly, the Cold War came out of WWII and was a long-standing period of suspicion and fear between the United States and the Soviet Union,mainly dealing with the threat of communism to Americans and the nuclear arms race/arsenal building.

President Reagan was not unique in his belief that communism was a threat to freedom, and particularly the United States, but he was uniquely positioned to do something about it. The Reagan Administration offered financial and military assistance to countries and groups worldwide that were fighting against communism, a position that would become known as the Reagan Doctrine.

The Iran-Contra Affair also came to light in the 1980s. In 1986, it was discovered that the Administration had sold weapons to Iran, to secure the release of US hostages held in Lebanon, then used that money to help fund a group of Nicaraguan rebels called the Contras.

The National Security Advisor (John Poindexter) and Oliver North (a


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I always say that when it comes to the NFL playoffs, throw the regular season statistics out the window because what happened during the regular season doesn’t always carry into the playoffs, and this game was a prime example of that.

Entering this game, the Philadelphia Eagles had the leading rushing attack in the NFL, not only in yards per game (160.4) but also in yards per attempt (5.1). They also had the leading rusher in the NFL in LeSean McCoy. On the defensive side of the ball, they had one of the best rushing defenses in the NFL, allowing 3.8 yards per rushing attempt which was good for 4th place.

Meanwhile, New Orleans entered this game with one of the worst rushing attacks in the NFL


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Since my coverage of the Olivia de Havilland case against FX, I’ve become quite interested in intellectual property law and its modern and historical applications in the film industry. So I found it fascinating when, a few weeks ago, the trade papers announced that a newly-formed movie studio, Magic City Studios, would cast a CGI version of James Dean in an upcoming film about the Vietnam War. It prompted a backlash online, which only seemed to embolden the filmmakers. Worldwide XR, which holds the rights to 400 celebrities, came out with a list of the next classic Hollywood stars who could be “reincarnated” via CGI technology, a list that included Bette Davis and Ingrid Bergman.

The inclusion of Bette Davis in such a list got me thinking about theethics and repercussions of this technology for actors. Bette Davis was among the most vocal advocates for actors’ rights in Hollywood. In 1937, she sued Warner Bros to get out of her contract, claiming that their contract system was an abuse of studio power over actors’ careers. She ultimately lost the case, but Olivia de Havilland picked up the torch and brought almost the same suit in 1943. De Havilland won, and it changed the industry forever, giving actors more agency over their careers.

Bette Davis leaving for a London court in 1937, where she sued Warner Bros in a contract dispute.

Most of the attention surrounding James Dean’s CGI recreation has been around the legality of using his image, rather than the legality of resurrecting a deceased actor for


within the film.

In the Roosevelt era, women were just beginning to gain a foothold in American political life. The film’s references to “96 men” when referring to the makeup of the Senate (Hawaii and Alaska were not yet states), is not an accurate picture of the Senate in 1939. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was conceived in an election year where a number of high profile races were taking place, one of which was an Arkansas race between Republican C.D. Atkinson and Democrat Hattie Caraway. Caraway, the incumbent, had been the first woman ever elected to the Senate. Much like the fictional Jefferson Smith, she had been appointed to the Senate (following her husband’s death), then was reelected in her own right the next year. In spite oftough opposition in 1938, she won another reelection with a landslide 89.6% victory over Atkinson.

Senator Hattie Caraway in her office.

Senator Caraway’s presence is ignored in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, perhaps for several reasons. While the movie was filmed in early 1939 after Caraway’s victory, the script was written prior to the election. The screenwriters, Sidney Buchman and Myles Connolly, likely did not want to predict the outcome. And even after her victory, pointing out a woman in the Senate may have felt too political, regardless of the fact that Caraway was indeed in the Senate. Or, perhaps, they were trying to create a completely unrecognizable governmental body.

Whatever the reason for leaving Senator Caraway out of the picture, a true female political force is indeed revealed in the


movie, through the character of Saunders, played to perfection by Jean Arthur.

Saunders, whose first name we learn is Clarissa, is Jefferson Smith’s fast-talking legal secretary. She is a bit cynical and jaded, a true Washington insider, but maintains a sense of humor. Whip-smart and experienced, she scoffs at the newbie Jefferson Smith, who has been appointed from some unnamed western state when the previous senator died, and she lectures him on congressional procedure when he gets too optimistic about his bill to open a boys camp at Willet Creek. Saunders is respected by men, and is considered their equal. At one point, Smith pries her first name out of her and he lets it sit for a moment, repeats it, then goes back to calling her Saunders. Whenhe mounts his famous filibuster against the Willet Creek Dam Project at the end, she coaches him from the gallery, walking him through the entire process. She is smarter than anyone else in the room, and more strategic. It is clear that in a just world, she would have been the one named replacement senator.

In Jean Arthur’s gutsy characterization of Saunders, we see a strong, intelligent woman whose gender relegates her to work as a political secretary rather than a politician, and who directs a marathon filibuster from the balcony to which she is relegated as a bystander. The characterization can be read not only as a commentary on the general situation of women in the United States, but also as a call for women to be accepted


as full and participating members of public life.

The film ends ambiguously, with Jefferson Smith taken out of the Senate chamber after fainting, and the corrupt Senator Paine confessing to his crimes. I like to think that perhaps following this ambiguous ending, for Saunders too, there is a political future.

This last midterm election, the United States elected a congressional body with the highest percentage of women in history. Somewhere, Hattie Caraway is cheering, and Saunders is finally no longer on the sidelines.

When Carole Lombard received an Oscar nomination for My Man Godfrey, she was asked where her talent for screwball comedy came from. On the surface, Carole’s own early life had been much like the one her character Irene Bullock lived. She was likely expected to answer that therole came naturally to her because of her youth. But instead she replied with a surprising answer–the character of Irene Bullock, she felt, had a sense of tragedy about her. She never specified what that tragedy was that she saw in Irene Bullock, in much the same way that Carole rarely spoke about the complexities of her childhood experiences in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Those childhood experiences, the good and the bad, served as the underlying inspiration for her portrayal of Irene Bullock and also formed the foundation of her bond with her mother, Bess Peters.

This past weekend, I attended Kimberly Truhler’s pre-code Style and Sin lecture at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood. These presentations are extremely popular, drawing crowds from the classic film world and the style world


6, 1908. She was the third and youngest child of Bess and her husband, Frederic “Fred” Peters, whose family had become wealthy selling hardware. Bess was from a prominent Fort Wayne family herself, with old money that merged with Fred’s new to provide a very comfortable home for Jane and her two older brothers, Frederick Jr. and Stuart. The three grew up climbing trees and playing sports, with Jane right alongside her older brothers and showing great promise as an athlete.

The elder Frederic Peters had suffered an elevator accident before he married Bess, and it left him with a permanent leg injury and horrendous headaches that affected him so much that his moods changed and he turned violent. While it is not known what happened inside the home,combination of the favorable climate and Fred’s headaches back in Indiana getting worse and worse, they seemed destined to stay.

Jane thrived in California, her tomboyish energy and skill in sports earning her the respect of the neighborhood boys. Her tree-climbing and fence-scaling ruined her clothes, but Bess never discouraged her from it. In a Screenland profile, Bess’ parenting style was described as “100 years ahead of her time.” She cheered her daughter on in anything she tried, and encouraged her to find her own path, wherever that might lead her. Bess’ children were the only connections she had in California, and she needed them as much as they needed her.

Jane was particularly close to her mother, and that closeness remained all their lives. Even when Jane grew up


wife. She regarded herself as Bess Peters’ child and never thought much about her father. When he died in 1935, she did not attend the funeral.

Bess was an unusual woman, exceedingly tolerant and non-judgmental of her daughter or anyone. Her family had been a bit aristocratic and stuffy, while she was always sophisticated and adventurous. She was proud of Carole’s career and what she had done for herself, having once been an aspiring actress herself. She watched her daughter rise to comedic excellence and international fame, watched her receive an Oscar nomination and become one of the most respected actresses in Hollywood–not only for her work, but also for her vivacious and loving personality. “She is satisfied with the sincere friendship and love that her children offer her,”wrote Screenland magazine about Bess, “and she refuses to block with advice, tears or commands any course they wish to follow.”

Bess Peters with Carole and Clark Gable at their wedding, 1939.

When the United States became involved in World War II, Carole immediately wanted to help. For most film stars, the way to help with the war effort was to entertain the troops and raise money, by traveling to bond rallies in various American cities. Being a native daughter of Indiana, the natural place for Carole to go was Indianapolis, and there she went in mid-January of 1942, raising over $1 million in bonds during her time there. Bess was there with her, lending her daughter support and cheering her on as always.

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mannerisms, which is no easy task. I didn’t know what to think, so I decided not to think at all. I made an active decision to go into the movie with an open mind.

The backdrop to Judy is the series of concerts that Judy Garland gave at the Talk of the Town dinner club in London shortly before she died, and the scenario is based on the off-Broadway play End of the Rainbow. It is an interesting part of Judy’s life in many ways, and the movie tells the story of her life and career through flashbacks, mostly to the set of The Wizard of Oz and events that occurred around 1939.

Interacting with the audience at Talk of the Town, January 14, 1969.

As soon as the movie started,I started noticing inaccuracies. The first I noticed was the depiction of Judy’s relationship with Louis B. Mayer. The movie showed Mayer as a seemingly regular part of the Wizard of Oz set, and while executives did visit sets on rare occasions, they generally dealt solely with administrative work and left their directors and producers alone in their work. While on the set, Judy tells Mayer that she wishes she could be a normal girl, going to movies just like others her age. Even at 16, Judy Garland was operating at an intellectual level beyond that of most adults. She knew how to interact with Mayer, and it was not to tell him that she wished she could go to the movies like other girls her age. It


is a nuance, but an important one.

In general, Judy’s staggering intelligence is missing from the movie. Friends estimated that her IQ surpassed 160–she learned astoundingly quickly and was capable of performing complex dance routines after seeing them once. She found rehearsal dull and unnecessary, and got very impatient when she was needed to rehearse anything beyond a single take. Her dislike of rehearsal is indeed shown in the movie, which I appreciated, but the reason for it–the speed and depth of her learning–was not.

This number from Summer Stock (1950) was filmed in one take after Gene Kelly had shown Judy the steps once.

At one moment, Zellweger’s Judy says that she never had time to learn to do anything but sing. Judy was, in fact, a very accomplished pianist,having learned at a young age from her mother. She played at such a high level that pianist friends who heard her play told her that she should give professional concerts. “No,” Judy would reply, “this is just for me.” She feared that if word of her skill at the piano got out, it would be exploited like the rest of her talents. She was also deeply political with a strong moral compass, and as a young person was an enthusiastic supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. She was a member of the Committee for the First Amendment, protesting the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten, and later became involved in the planning of the March on Washington and the election of John F. Kennedy.

The movie


instead they treated it lazily, as if the moment were required but not desired.

The main action takes place in 1969 and at that point, Judy’s minor children, Lorna and Joe Luft, were teenagers (Lorna was born in 1952, Joe in 1955). In the movie the children are shown far too young, which contributes to a narrative that was not the real one. In general, the timeline was way off, a jarring time bend for those of us who know it. Liza Minnelli was shown at a Los Angeles party early in the movie, but she was not in Los Angeles in 1969, having moved to New York years earlier to start her own career. Nor did she ever call her mother “Mom,” as we hear in the movie.Throughout their lives, all of Judy’s children called her “Mama,” a name by which they all still refer to their mother.

But for me, the most egregious inaccuracy had to do with the portrayal of Judy herself. The movie showed her wallowing in self-pity, going onstage drunk, and being booed offstage by the audience. Never did Judy bare her soul in interviews or feel sorry for herself, the way they showed onscreen. The closest she came was when she was interviewed by Barbara Walters in 1967, describing her difficulties with her own mother. She did have a few disastrous concerts, notably in Melbourne and Hong Kong, but the Talk of the Town concerts that provide the backdrop for the movie were nothing of the kind. Judy loved London, and


recordings. She is a constant and ever-present part of my soul.

Thanks to Tony and the San Francisco Chronicle for the podcasting opportunity, and following the podcast I will flesh out my thoughts for Backlots.

In 1973, labor organizer Crystal Lee Sutton was fired from the J.P. Stevens textile plant in Roanoke Rapids, NC. Her crime was “insubordination,” after her boss took issue with Sutton copying an anti-union letter on the bulletin board. Sutton had been organizing the workers in the plant to form a defense against unsafe working conditions and harassment from the bosses. Shortly after being fired, Sutton stood on a table with a hand-written sign reading “UNION,” workers turned off their machines, and all attention focused on her.

While Sutton was fired, her efforts worked–the textile workers votedto unionize the following year, and Sutton quickly landed a replacement job–working for the AFL-CIO as a labor organizer.

Her story gripped the nation, and the year after the workers at the plant voted to unionize, her story became Norma Rae–a low-budget movie that rose to the ranks of serious contender for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. It was nominated for 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, of which it earned 2–one for Sally Field in her first Academy Award win for Best Actress, and one for its theme song, “It Goes Like it Goes.” The film was a huge success upon its release, grossing $22 million–$17 million more than it took to make.

In the years since its release, Norma Rae has become synonymous with the


labor movement, and with Sally Field. Up to this point, Field had been best known for her roles in The Flying Nun and Gidget. Her reputation made her an unlikely choice for Norma Rae. But following her knockout performance in Sybil two years earlier, her potential as a serious actress was the buzz of the industry. After Jane Fonda turned down the role of Norma Rae, the assistant of director Martin Ritt recommended Field. Ritt took to her immediately, but he had to fight with studio executives to allow her to be cast. Fields writes in her memoir, In Pieces:

“Marty Ritt asked me to come in… He said, ‘Look, the studio doesn’t want you… and they offered it to everyone else, and luckily they turned it down, becauseone at J.P. Stevens. During the scenes at the mill, the real-life workers played extras.

Norma Rae‘s production generated great excitement among the residents in small-town Opelika. At the time, Field was the girlfriend of Burt Reynolds, whose star dwarfed hers. Residents of Opelika frequently came out to watch the shoots, hoping that Reynolds would visit Field on the set. He did several times. Guy Rhodes, associate editor of the Tuskegee News in Tuskegee, AL, wrote about the film’s effect on citizens of Opelika. “To say there was excitement in the air would be an understatement. Not only were the stars in town, numerous local residents were selected to play extra roles in the movie.”

Reynolds and Field.

When production wrapped and the film was submitted to Cannes, it was immediately


swept up in talk of the Palme d’Or and for the Best Female Performance Prize, which Field won. In subsequent ceremonies, she also won Best Actress at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, the National Board of Review, New York Film Critics Circle Awards, the Golden Globes, and the National Society of Film Critics Awards, before winning the Oscar.

The film did indeed change Sally Field’s career and reputation forever. In addition to the transformation in her professional life, she also credits Norma Rae with a personal wake-up call. “It so changed me on so many levels,” she told Oprah Winfrey. “It changed me politically, I don’t think I was ever aware politically, at all. It started me into looking at other people and how they lived, andearliest days in Radersburg, Montana where she was born Myrna Williams, she was surrounded by passionate left-wing personalities and progressive politics. After her mother moved the family to Los Angeles following the death of Myrna’s father, the young girl became involved in the film industry when Cecil B. DeMille found her dancing at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre and cast her in a small role in The Ten Commandments. Her career was rocky at first, but by the late 1920s and with the help of a name change, Myrna Loy became an established star. As she became familiar with the Hollywood landscape, she noticed the inequality afforded to black actors in Hollywood, and began to advocate for their rights within the industry. At one point, she approached her bosses at


MGM with the issue. “Why does every Negro in a film have to play a servant?” she asked. “How about just a black person walking up the steps of a courthouse with a briefcase?”

An early portrait of Myrna Loy.

In 1932, Loy was active in the election campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and remained a champion of his ABC programs throughout his presidency. Onscreen, she became known as the witty and intelligent Nora Charles in The Thin Man series and her screen image quickly became that of the “perfect wife.” But Loy never identified with that characterization and spent her time offscreen tirelessly advocating for the New Deal. She never personally met Roosevelt, something she deeply regretted, though she made many trips to the White House and developed aclose and lasting friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt. In later life, faced with Reagan’s election and the undoing of much of Roosevelt’s legacy, she wrote in her autobiography, Being and Becoming: “Can you imagine how all of us who worked for years with Mrs. Roosevelt and her socialist programs feel now, to see them wiped off the map?”

Later in life, with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Loy invoked the ire of Adolf Hitler by speaking out publicly against him in 1938, to the point that Hitler banned all her movies in Germany. Between 1941 and 1945, she worked full time for the Red Cross, entertained the troops, appeared at war bond rallies, and essentially retired from Hollywood. Loy only made one movie during the war period–The Thin Man Goes Home. She continued to


work with the Roosevelts on reforms, and in 1945 Loy was invited to the meeting to ratify the United Nations Charter in San Francisco.

The following year was an important one for her–she went back to working regularly after her wartime hiatus and made The Best Years of Our Lives, considered to be one of the greatest films of the 1940s and also the impetus for the Hollywood Reporter to accuse her of communism. Managing to stave off those accusations, that same year, she was appointed to UNESCO, the United Nations department of culture, as the US ambassador. Over the next few years she became increasingly involved, attending conferences all over the world and representing UNESCO on official radio programs, then also signing on with the American Association forthe United Nations where she spoke at conferences on behalf of women’s rights.

By the time the 1960s rolled around, Loy had been working with UNESCO for more than a decade. She had managed to balance her career in Hollywood with her political work, and begin a new chapter of her career on the stage while at the same time throwing her support behind Adlai Stevenson in his presidential campaigns. When Stevenson didn’t run in 1960, Loy worked hard to stump for Kennedy. During the Kennedy campaign, he invited her to be part of his Conference on Constitutional Rights and American Freedom, where she met Hubert Humphrey and immediately befriended him. After Kennedy’s election, her closeness with Humphrey led to Loy’s involvement with the National Council Against Discrimination in


Housing, where she worked throughout the Civil Rights Movement.

Being interviewed at the UN, 1950.

Loy made huge strides in the organization. She found that though President Kennedy had signed the Housing Act of 1961, “we had uncovered massive evidence that eighty percent of federally sponsored housing was operated on a segregated basis.” Though Kennedy was never able to fulfill the promises of the Housing Act, Loy’s work led directly to Lyndon B. Johnson addressing the matter in the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

Having finally seen some measure of success in the fight against housing discrimination, 1968 saw Loy back in Hollywood to make April Fools, and also to fight for Eugene McCarthy’s campaign. She was unable to make the Democratic National Convention because of work, but she had foughtto the end. As we live in these political tumultuous times, it is tempting to think what she would be doing today. We can be sure that she would be campaigning for the Democratic nominees, and vocally denouncing current White House policies on immigration and human rights. As an actress, she was among the best there was. But it was as an activist that Myrna Loy had her most lasting impact on the world, and I believe that it is as an activist she would like to be best remembered.

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Review: Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith: Sentinel by John Jackson Miller

I. SETTING

Sentinel is set in 3960 BBY on the planet Kesh in two principle locations, the capital city of Tahv and the area surrounding the Marisota River. The Sith have now been on Kesh for 1040 years, so their society and culture is very ingrained. What we have is a very caste based system, and in this system a fall from power has dramatic consequences.

II. DRAMATIS PERSONAE

Jelph Marrain, Male, former Jedi Knight and Jedi Covenant Secret AgentOri Kitai, Female, Lost Tribe of the SithGrand Lord Lillia Venn, Leader of Lost Tribe of the SithCandra Kitai, Mother of Ori Kitai and disgraced High Lord.Lord Flen Luzo, Male, Lost Tribe of the SithLord Sawj Luzo,to trap me. Because of who I am.”

Jelph looked down at the water. He hadn’t known why he had come all this way when so much was at risk. Not until now. “I think I know who you are, Ori.” He stepped forward and put his hand on her shoulder. She shrank at his touch.

This was a fun little romp through the LTotS, which gave us a some action, some romance, an interesting take on the Sith society/philosophy, and a bit of a twist at the end. It also did a good job tying this series of stories into John Jackson Miller's previous work on the Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic comic series by having Jelph be a former member of the Jedi Covenant. It also


Though they rarely attack humans – and had not previously killed an adult for more than 30 years – an eight-year-old boy died after being mauled in 2007 and attacks are said to be increasing as their habitat becomes restricted.

This contribution to cryptozoology is remarkable, as it concerns the prediction, from phytobiology and ecology (i.e. from circumstancial evidence only), of an unknown moth (at the level of the subspecies), the existence and the identification of which have been experimentally confirmed a posteriori.In Britain all car and truck tyres must be recovered, recycled or reused

The European landfill directive means that this type of 'waste disposal' would be illegal in the UK

The expanse of rubber is so vast that the sizeable fields are now visible from space

Gigantic holes are dug out from the sandy earth and filled with old tyres every year - there are now over 7 million

An average car tyre will travel around 20,000 miles over its lifetime, but when they have reached the end of their life in Kuwait... they are destined for the tyre graveyard.

In Kuwait City's Sulaibiya area every year gigantic holes are dug out out in the sandy earth and filled with old tyres - there are now over seven million in the ground.

The expanse


of rubber is so vast that the sizable indents on the earth are now visible from space.

The tyre graveyard: An average car tyre will travel around 20,000 miles over its lifetime, but when they have reached the end of their life in Kuwait... they are destined for the tyre graveyard

A sea of rubber: In Kuwait City's Sulaibiya area every year gigantic holes are dug out out in the sandy earth and filled with old tyres - there are now over seven million in the ground

Visible: An aerial image shows the vast amount of used tyres that are put in the ground - the patches are even visible from space

It is thought the tyres are from both Kuwait and other countries which have paid for them to be takenfield of tyres caught alight - tyre fires are difficult to extinguish- they produce a lot of smoke, which often carries toxic chemicals from the breakdown of rubber compounds while burning

Rubber roads were first built in the 1960s in the US, where today there are 20,000 miles of road made of recycled tyres.

Rubber roads are also popular in China, Brazil, Spain and Germany. The technique has been found to cut traffic noise by about 25 per cent.

The asphalt is made by breaking down used tyres into rubber ‘crumbs’ which are added to bitumen and crushed stone, which are typically used to make asphalt.

Last year a fire broke out in a Kuwait tyre dump which was so big that it could be seen from space.

The fire broke out on


April 17 at a tire dump near Al Jahrah.

It is believed that around five million tires fuelled the fire which specialists struggled to control. Hundreds of firefighters as well as soldiers and employees of the Kuwait Oil Company took part in the efforts to extinguish the blaze.

A number of MPs described the fire as an 'environmental catastrophe' and vowed to demand a debate on the issue in a special parliamentary session Some said they will demand an official probe.

A month later another fire broke out at an Amghara scrapyard and firefighters from six stations were drafted into help.

Tyre fires are difficult to extinguish - they produce a lot of smoke, which often carries toxic chemicals from the breakdown of rubber compounds while burning.

THE former medical director of the organ scandal-hit Alder Hey children's hospital in Liverpool is due to face the General Medical Council today.

Despite records being kept under wraps, it is believed that 17 doctors were implicated in the organ stock-piling affair.

Their cases were individually studied by the GMC but following the first stage of the inquiry 16 doctors are no longer facing action.

But Dr John Martin, who was in charge before the organ retention scan-dal, will today appear before the hearing in London. He is accused of serious professional misconduct by failing to take adequate steps regarding delays in the provision of post-mortem histology and a backlog in the delivery of final post-mortem reports.

Speaking from his stone farmhouse in the village of Llanasa, in Flintshire, Dr Martin declared


argument is that I should have known and done something about it. However, I simply did not know."

Alder Hey was exposed in September 1999 for storing thousands of dead children's organs without permission and more body parts were found in storage in 2000.

Dr Dick van Velzen, head of foetal and infant pathology at the hospital, was named as being at the centre of the scandal and was suspended by the GMC in February 2001.

Many bereaved families held second, third and even fourth funerals after lungs, brains, hearts, and organs were returned to them. It was only then that they discovered that organs had been taken without their knowledge.since the nineties of the last century a new interest in forgiveness has arisen, a rediscovery of its importance. This has largely been the result of the scars left by the armed conflicts, terrorism, and violations of human dignity that have occurred during recent decades. The violence has in many cases ceased, but not its effects.

Governments, international organizations and local communities have tried to repair the damage by recourse to judicial actions, principally condemnations and economic reparations. But it was soon realized that to truly cure the damage caused the responses have to reach the deepest level of the human person—the same level that the offense reached, namely the radical dignity of every human being. It is impossible to reach the deepest level of the person only with


and forgiveness. In third place, the attacks against his person that he suffered during his life, principally in the form of calumnies and misunderstandings. Here we will look at some aspects of the homily “Christian Respect for Persons and their Freedom,” which has some of his most extensive considerations on the question of misunderstandings and injustices among men. Then, taking up some testimonies of those who knew him, we will consider the attitudes he adopted towards those offenses.

He was also a man who was attentive to the historical, cultural, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century, and found himself immersed in the passions unleashed by the Spanish Civil War. To analyze the period of that conflict would go beyond the purpose of our study, as would the overallin an abundance of good.”

b) The home that I have seen

The first place where Josemaría experienced forgiveness granted and bestowed was in his family, the home where he grew up. His parents, don José and doña Dolores, formed a Christian home where forgiveness was an integral and natural part. His family was for him a school of forgiveness and mercy, where he learned how to forgive. Josemaría as a child witnessed how his parents forgave grave injustices—a forgiveness granted with naturalness and discretion. His parents strove never to speak about unjust deeds before their children, so as to prevent any lack of charity towards those responsible.

Through his parents’ example, he learned to live a charity that went beyond justice, a special openness of heart towards the most needy,


And in his identity with Christ, a priest, who has been ordained to serve everyone, has to open his arms wide to all humanity, loving, understanding and forgiving everyone. “Neither on the right nor on the left nor in the center. As a priest I strive to be with Christ. Both of his arms—not just one—were outstretched on the Cross. I freely take from every group whatever seems to me good and helps me to keep my heart and my two arms open to all mankind.” The growth of this identification in his priestly soul is the source and the ultimate reason for his love for others and the reason why all who came to him found a merciful welcome and the strength they needed.

The second aspect ishis love for the sacrament of reconciliation, both for administering it and receiving it. As Bishop Del Portillo wrote: “He had a real passion for administering the sacrament of penance... He preached incessantly on this sacrament.” He heard the confessions of thousands of people during his lifetime, and he himself went to confession each week. He insisted that priests should go to confession frequently and dedicate time to administering the sacrament of forgiveness.

The priest asks pardon from God for his own sins in confession; and he forgives in the name of Christ the sins of others when he administers the sacrament of forgiveness. He also needs to ask for forgiveness from others if he has offended them and to grant it if they have offended him. The priest


is an “expert in forgiveness,” and is the human being who touches most closely both the mercy of God and human weakness. This closeness shapes the heart and soul of the priest, configuring it to “a God who forgives.”

In conclusion we can say that St. Josemaría saw clearly, and always made it a reality in his own life, that the identity of the priestly ministry was based on two characteristics: love for the Mass and for the sacrament of forgiveness. Christ is nailed to the cross and from there, as fruit of his sacrifice, he forgives. In the Mass a priest is identified with Christ whose arms are open wide to all mankind and, in administering forgiveness, with Christ who forgives from the cross.

3. At the hear ofWednesday, 26 November 2014

Woman throws 10 year old Boy into Imo River over Witchcraft [PHOTO]

A 10-year-old boy, Usen Okon, who was thrown into the Imo River in the Ikot Abasi area of Akwa Ibom State, by his aunty over witchcraft accusation, has survived the ordeal.

According to PUNCH, Okon was under the care of his paternal aunt, identified simply as Ekaeyen, at Etebi community in the Esit Eket Local Government Area of the state as his parents had died. A few days ago, Okon was aroused from sleep by Ekaeyen who took him to her husband and asked him to confess to being a wizard. When Okon denied the witchcraft accusation, his aunt threatened to throw him into a river.
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him in the hospital for five weeks total. Eight months later it was time for Jordyn's first open heart surgery, which went perfectly. His recovery however, did not. He suffered many complications, including a stroke that led to heart failure and needing a ventilator for weeks. "We never stopped praying and we asked our friends on Facebook to pray as well," says Miesha Holloway, Jordyn's mom. After 50 days he was discharged only to be readmitted to the hospital every other week. After weeks of going in and out of the hospital, doctors scheduled Jordyn's second open heart surgery. "His recovery this time was amazing, he fought and thrived each day," said Holloway. With out a doubt, having Jordyn at home is a special milestone for his family."Jordynnational interest as justification for a discriminatory rule which would violate the Equal Protection Clause if adopted by a State, due process requires that there be a legitimate basis for presuming that the rule was actually intended to serve that interest.

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Id. at 103, 96 S.Ct. at 1905.

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In his letter of September 2, 1976 to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the President of the Senate which he published together with Executive Order No. 11935, reprinted in 41 Fed.Reg. 37303-04 (1976), President Ford stated that the executive order was being issued specifically in response to the Supreme Court's decision in Mow Sun Wong.  From the President's letter, the primary justification for Executive Order No. 11935 appears to be the maintenance of the status quo as


name Mow Sun Wong v. Hampton, 333 F.Supp. 527 (N.D.Cal.1971).  At that time, Robert E. Hampton was the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission and a named defendant therein in his official capacity.  On December 28, 1978, the Civil Service Commission was redesignated as the Office of Personnel Management ("OPM"), and the duties and functions of the Chairman transferred to the Director's position at the OPM. 44 Fed.Reg. 1055 (1978).  On July 27, 1979, Alan K. Campbell was confirmed as Director of the OPM. 125 Cong.Rec. S10790 (1979)

1
 Executive Order No. 11935 states in relevant part:
By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including Sections 3301 and 3302 of Title 5 ofthe United States Code, and as President of the United States of America, Civil Service Rule VII (5 CFR Part 7) is hereby amended by adding thereto the following new section:
"Section 7.4 Citizenship
"(a) No person shall be admitted to competitive examination unless such person is a citizen or national of the United States.
"(b) No person shall be given any appointment in the competitive service unless such person is a citizen or national of the United States.
"(c) The Commission may, as an exception to this rule and to the extent permitted by law, authorize the appointment of aliens to positions in the competitive service when necessary to promote the efficiency of the service in specific cases or for temporary appointments."

2
 As stated in 5 C.F.R. § 1.2 (1979), the


this court that the President could also rely on his powers under Article II of the Constitution.  Initially citing to Section 1, Clause 1 of Article II, the Government points out that the Constitution vests the "executive Power" in the President.  Further, under Article II, Section 2, Clause 2, the President is given the power to nominate officers of the United States, subject to the advice and consent of the Senate, but with the contingency that Congress may by law vest the appointment of inferior officers in the President alone, in the courts, or in the Heads of the Departments.  The Government contends that those express constitutional provisions give the President ample authority to set standards and qualifications (including a citizenship requirement) for those whoBy

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The American Legislative Exchange is meeting in Salt Lake this week to come up with ways for the "big guys," — American Tort Reform Association, Chemical Manufacturers Association, Americans United for Life, ExxonMobil, Koch Companies Public Sector, the NRA, etc.—to have their way with legislatures across the nation.

The little guys, including Alliance for a Better Utah, are trying to counter all that money and political clout with information. An "ALEC Exposed Workshop" at 6 p.m. will feature speakers from Common Cause, Center for Media and Democracy, the League of Women Voters, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the AFL-CIO.

The discussion will include ALEC's secrecy, it's voter registration and ID efforts and gun rights initiatives. It's obviously a left leaning


2018/19 was Zinchenko’s breakout year, but it so nearly didn’t happen.

With Mendy fit again, it was unclear what the new campaign would hold for the Ukrainian and several clubs were linked with him. Wolves came closest, agreeing a deal with City, but Zinchenko chose to stay in Manchester and fight for his place.

It was a brave decision.

Again, he was made to wait to play and didn’t feature until the end of September, but he bided his time, remained focused and took his opportunity when it arose.

It came in the midst of the Premier League’s most exciting title race.

Having been left out of the squad for five consecutive games, Zinchenko produced a fine display on his return in February, providing two assists as City swept Chelsea aside with a6-0 victory.

It was the catalyst for his best run in the side to date, missing only one game due to injury during the run in and playing the whole match in both the Carabao Cup and FA Cup final wins.

In the former, Zinchenko was magnificent as City eclipsed Chelsea on penalties and afterwards Guardiola was effusive with his praise for a player he knew had not featured as much as he would have liked.

"Incredible is the only thing I can say," said the Catalan.

"Oleks has showed me again what I thought before; the importance and the value of being a good guy, a good lad.

"And the fact he's a guy who was making a transfer - at the beginning of the season was close to going… there was


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Detectives arrested Lana Sue Clayton, 52, a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs nurse, Friday in the July 21 death of Steven Clayton at their upscale waterfront home in Clover, The Herald in Rock Hill, S.C. She was also charged with unlawful malicious tampering of food.

Steven Clayton, 64, was found in the foyer of his home after what appeared to be a fall down the stairs, the paper reported.

An autopsy determined he died of poisoning, according to the paper. She then confessed to spiking his water with a chemical found in over-the-counter eye drops to relieve redness.

BODY OF MISSING COLORADO WOMAN


FOUND AT HUSBAND'S PLACE OF WORK, POLICE SAY

She poisoned him over a three-day period until he died, the paper reported, citing arrest warrants.

“The investigation autopsy toxicology tests discovered poisonous levels of Tetrahydrozoline in the body of the victim,” the York County Sheriff’s Office said. “Lana Clayton admitted to investigators she administered the substance to Stephen Clayton without his knowledge.”

No motive has been established.

A probate judge appointed Lana Clayton personal representative of his estate.

The couple lived in a house valued at $822,000 the paper reported. The home is a copy of the famous George Washington Mount Vernon estate, that Steve Clayton lovingly restored, a friend told the paper.

ILLINOIS MAN CONVICTED - AGAIN FOR KILLING MAN WHO ANSWERED CRAIGSLIST AD FOR SEX WITH HIS PREGNANT WIFE

Steve Clayton was founder, presidenta heat dissipation device for a server, including: a fan body comprising a housing and at least a fan set, wherein the housing encompasses to form a passage; and a guide cover connected to the fan body. A top side of the housing is formed with a plurality of openings by which the fan set can be inserted into the passage of the housing, and two peripheral sides of the housing are formed with a plurality of elastic members and positioning holes for securing the fan set in position. Moreover, the guide cover is made of a material with poor thermal conductivity and formed with an opening at a side thereof connected to a heat source of the server, the opening acting as a primary inlet for directing


Q:

When did Harry get the leather coat?

In the Dresden Files books, at some point Harry trades in his canvas duster for a leather duster?  Which book did this happen in and why?

A:

He was given it by Susan in preparation for the climactic battle in Fool Moon.

I stood up, but Susan grabbed my wrist. "Harry," she said. "Wait a minute." She knelt down by the bag and drew out a heavy box, flat and broad. "I was going to give it to you for your birthday. But I thought you could use it."
I tilted my head and took the box in hand. It was heavy. "What is it?" I asked her.
"Just open it, dummy," she answered, smiling up at me. I did, and inside was the smell ofan image processing unit such as an application board. Alternatively, a conventional technology is known in which the magnification in the sub-scanning direction is adjusted by changing the rotating speed of the polygon mirror between both sides of a paper sheet and the magnification in the main-scanning direction is adjusted by performing data modulation or clock modulation using a write control unit. Still alternatively, a conventional technology is known in which the magnification in the sub-scanning direction is adjusted by the image processing performed by a write control unit without varying the rotating speed of the polygon mirror and the magnification in the main-scanning direction is adjusted by performing data modulation or clock modulation using the write control unit.
In such conventional technologies, particularly in image forming apparatuses in


that the backrest and seat tilting mechanism occupies very little space, making it suitable for installation in stackable chairs.
In some chairs of somewhat simpler design, the seat tilts about a fixed point on the chair frame. For example, many chairs are constructed such that a reclining backrest causes a simultaneous pivoting of the seat about a pivot point located under the seat front edge. In some of those designs a reclining of the backrest causes the seat back edge to rotate upwardly about the front pivot point, i.e., the seat back end rises with backrest reclining. An example of such construction may be seen in French Patent No. 2,045,120. In the chair of the French patent, a pin and slot arrangement pivotally join the backrest to the seatmost poignant of family tales

Following your team around the globe occasionally conjures wondrous stories of coincidence. Staying at the Oka hotel in Nizhny Novgorod was an England supporter whose mother, recently passed away, hailed from the once-closed city around 250 miles east of Moscow. She had left for north London in 1946 and would never return, with her son having pledged to visit her birthplace in her stead. That England’s schedule would take them back to Nizhny, formerly Gorky, was already a stroke of luck, but the fan had actually discovered, much to his amazement, that the address where his mother had lived was virtually opposite the hotel allocated to him by his travel company. And, what is more, the building is still occupied by someone bearing her


opposite of a worthless trip. Maybe it has something to do with the length of the wait to experience something like this. It has been 28 years for Egypt and 36 for Peru. Their joy at throwing themselves into the party, their emotions at singing their national anthems and waving their flags, the fervour with which they supported teams as they went out fighting, meant something in itself. Amy Lawrence

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5) Passions run high and show international game still matters

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There is a school of thought that Neymar was laying it on a bit thick when he burst into tearsXhaka are ethnic Albanians with their roots in Kosovo, where a Serbian crackdown on the Albanian population only ended with Nato military intervention in 1999. Shaqiri was born in Kosovo but his family were forced to flee to Switzerland when he was a baby due to conflict while Xhaka was born in Switzerland – his parents having also fled there from Kosovo. “My uncle’s house burned down and our house was left standing but everything had been stolen or broken and the walls were sprayed,” Shaqiri has said. Xhaka’s father had been a political prisoner for three-and-a-half years, having committed the crime of demonstrating in favour of Kosovarian democratic rights against the communist central government in Belgrade. When Shaqiri and Xhaka scored the goals against Serbia, they made


World Cup began. The Kazan parkrun began in April 2015. It features a brutal hill in the middle of each of its two laps, and attracts an average of 29 runners. On Saturday, there were 38, at least five of them British, including Simon Marland, the secretary of Bolton Wanderers, who came a highly creditable fourth. The week before, there had been around 30 Australians. The local reaction was bemused but welcoming, as the World Cup does its job of bringing different cultures of together. Jonathan Wilson

9) Will Van Marwijk resist Australia’s Cahill-craving?

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The front page of Saturday’s Herald Sun wondered “Time for Cahill?” The Australian asked “Forget Wally – where’s Timmy?” After one point and two games inthe pier. I had the tripod setup and stepped away from the camera to get a different viewpoint, and one leg of the tripod started to close up. Before I knew what was happening, it started to tip over and fell off the pier to a lower deck below. It landed lens first on a concrete section of the pier and then bounced into the ocean. The camera body went in first and I literally watched the three tripod legs descend in slow motion into the water like in a movie… A guy who was down there working on his boat ran after it and grabbed it by the very end of one of the tripod legs. So though I did retrieve the camera, it was destroyed. The


fantastic opportunity to tap the public’s goodwill and provide a significant boost to the UK’s social enterprise economy,” added Mr Dunning.

Co-operative Energy, which is part of the Midcounties Co-operative, launched in 2010 and now has over 250,000 customers. It is once again supporting the 2016 Community Energy Fortnight (3 – 18 September), organised by the Community Energy Coalition (CEC) and Community Energy England (CEE), which gives people the chance to visit community projects in their local area and organises events giving people across the UK the chance to see how they can get involved in the community energy sector.

The (CEC) was formed in 2011 by institutions and charities such as the Church of England, the Women’s Institute (WI), the National Union of Students (NUS), the National Trust, Co-operativewas supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research 20370092 (to TY), 18570219, and 20570225 (to TK) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, and in part by the research grant of the Institute for Fermentation, Osaka, Japan (to B-WY). The research was partially funded from the \'Global COE (Centers of Excellence) program\' of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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and driving away one calf, the property of Heber Wilson.
The case was first tried when Utah was a Territory, and by a jury composed of twelve persons. Both of the defendants were found guilty as charged, and were recommended to the mercy of the court. A new trial having been granted, the case was removed for trial to another county. But it was not again tried until after the admission of Utah into the Union as a State.
At the second trial the defendant was found guilty. He moved for a new trial upon the ground among others that the jury that tried him was composed of only eight jurors; whereas by the law in force at the time of the commission of the alleged offence a lawful juryin his case could not be composed of less than twelve jurors. The application for a new trial having been overruled, and the accused having been called for sentence, he renewed his objection to the composition of the jury, and moved by counsel that the verdict be set aside and another trial ordered.
This objection was overruled, the accused duly excepting to the action of the court. He was then sentenced to the state prison for the term of three years. The judgment of conviction was affirmed by the Supreme Court of Utah, the court *345 holding that the trial of the accused by a jury composed of eight persons was consistent with the Constitution of the United States.
By the statutes of the Territory of Utah in force at


the time of the commission of the alleged offence it was provided that a trial jury in a District Court should consist of twelve, and in a justice's court of six, persons, unless the parties to the action or proceeding, in other than criminal cases, agreed upon a less number; that a felony was a crime punishable with death or by imprisonment in the penitentiary, every other crime being a misdemeanor; that the stealing of a calf was grand larceny and punishable by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than ten years; that no person should be convicted of a public offence unless by the verdict of a jury, accepted and recorded by the court, or upon a plea of guilty, or uponremain the same, as if this constitution had not been adopted." Art. XXIV, Sec. 6.
As the offence of which the plaintiff in error was convicted was a felony, and as by the law in force when the crime was committed he could not have been tried by a jury of a less number than twelve jurors, the question is presented whether the provision in the constitution of Utah, providing for a jury of eight persons in courts of general jurisdiction, except in capital cases, can be made applicable to a felony committed within the limits of the State while it was a Territory, without bringing that provision into conflict with the clause of the Constitution of the United States prohibiting the passage by any State of an ex


post facto law.
The Constitution of the United States provides: "The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed, but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed." Art. III, Sec. 2. And by the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution it is declared: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature andapplied to criminal prosecutions in that territory.
In Callan v. Wilson, 127 U.S. 540, 549, 551, which was a criminal prosecution by information in the Police Court of the District of Columbia, the accused claimed that the right of trial by jury was secured to him by the Third Article of the Constitution as well as by the Fifth and Sixth Amendments. The contention of the Government was that the Constitution did not secure the right of trial by jury to the people of the District of Columbia; that the original provision, that when a crime was not committed within any State "the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed," had, probably, reference only to offences committed on the high


that mode and according to the settled rules of the common law, the enumeration, in the Sixth Amendment, of the rights of the accused in criminal prosecutions, is to be taken as a declaration of what those rules were, and is to be referred to the anxiety of the people of the States to have in the supreme law of the land, and so far as the agencies of the General Government were concerned, a full and distinct recognition of those rules, as involving the fundamental rights of life, liberty and property. This recognition was demanded and secured for the benefit of all the people of the United States, as well those permanently or temporarily residing in the District of Columbia, as those residing or being in theseveral States. There is nothing in the history of the Constitution or of the original amendments to justify the assertion that the people of this District may be lawfully deprived of the benefit of any of the constitutional guarantees of life, liberty and property  especially of the privilege of trial by jury in criminal cases." "We cannot think," the court further said, "that the people of this District have, in that regard, less rights than those accorded to the people of the Territories of the United States."
In Mormon Church v. United States, 136 U.S. 1, 44, one of the questions considered was the extent of the authority which the United States might exercise over the Territories and their inhabitants. In the opinion of Mr. Justice Bradley reference


was made to previous decisions of this court, in one of which, National Bank v. County of Yankton, 101 U.S. 129, 133, it was said that Congress, in virtue of the sovereignty of the United States, could not only abrogate the laws of the territorial legislatures, but may itself legislate directly for the local government; that it could make a void act of the Territorial legislature valid, and a valid act void; that it had full and complete legislative authority over the people of the territories and all the departments of the territorial governments; that it "may do for the Territories what the people, under the Constitution of the United States, may do for the States." Reference was also made to Murphy v. Ramsey, 114 U.S. 15, 44,in which it was said: "The people of the United States, *349 as sovereign owners of the national Territories, have supreme power over them and their inhabitants. In the exercise of this sovereign dominion, they are represented by the Government of the United States, to whom all the powers of government over that subject have been delegated, subject only to such restrictions as are expressed in the Constitution, or are necessarily implied in its terms." The opinion of the court in Mormon Church v. United States then proceeded: "Doubtless Congress, in legislating for the Territories, would be subject to those fundamental limitations in favor of personal rights which are formulated in the Constitution and its amendments; but these limitations would exist rather by inference and the general spirit


of the Constitution from which Congress derives all its powers, than by any express and direct application of its provisions. The supreme power of Congress over the Territories and over the acts of the territorial legislatures established therein, is generally expressly reserved in the organic acts establishing governments in said Territories. This is true of the Territory of Utah. In the sixth section of the act establishing a territorial government in Utah, approved September 9, 1850, it is declared `that the legislative powers of said Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act... . All the laws passed by the legislative assembly and governor shall be submitted to the Congress of the Unitedof grand larceny in the Territory of Utah  which was under the complete jurisdiction of the United States for all purposes of government and legislation  the supreme law of the land required that he should be tried by a jury composed of not less than twelve persons. And such was the requirement of the statutes of Utah while it was à Territory.
Was it then competent for the State of Utah, upon its admission into the Union, to do in respect of Thompson's crime what the United States could not have done while Utah was a Territory, namely, to provide for his trial by a jury of eight persons?
We are of opinion that the State did not acquire upon its admission into the Union the power to


sustained simply because, in a general sense, it may be said to regulate procedure. The difficulty is not so much as to the soundness of the general rule that an accused has no vested right in particular modes of procedure, as in determining whether particular statutes by their operation take from an accused any right that was regarded, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, as vital for the protection of life and liberty, and which he enjoyed at the time of the commission of the offence charged against him.
Now, Thompson's crime, when committed, was punishable by the Territory of Utah proceeding in all its legislation under the sanction of and in subordination to the authority of the United States. The court below substituted, as abasis of judgment and sentence to imprisonment in the penitentiary, the unanimous verdict of eight jurors in place of a unanimous verdict of twelve. It cannot therefore be said that the constitution of Utah, when applied to Thompson's case, did not deprive him of a substantial right involved in his liberty, and *353 did not materially alter the situation to his disadvantage. If, in respect to felonies committed in Utah while it was a Territory, it was competent for the State to prescribe a jury of eight persons, it could just as well have prescribed a jury of four or two, and, perhaps, have dispensed altogether with a jury, and provided for a trial before a single judge.
The Supreme Court of Utah held that this case came within


the principles announced by it in State v. Bates, 14 Utah, 293, 301. In the latter case no reference was made to the ex post facto clause of the Constitution of the United States. But it was held that the requirement of eight jurors in courts of general jurisdiction, except in capital cases, was not in conflict with the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States  the court saying that "if a jury of eight men is as likely to ascertain the truth as twelve, that number secures the end," and that "there can be no magic in the number twelve, though hallowed by time." But the wise men who framed the Constitution of the United States and the people who approved it were ofcourt said: "We are of opinion that it was not within the power of the accused or his counsel to dispense with the statutory requirement as to his personal presence at the trial. The argument to the contrary necessarily proceeds upon the ground that he alone is concerned as to the mode by which he may be deprived of his life or liberty, and that the chief object of the prosecution is to punish him for the crime charged. But this is a mistaken view as well of the relations which the accused holds to the public as of the end of human punishment. The natural life, says Blackstone, cannot legally be disposed of or destroyed by any individual, neither by the person himself, nor by any other


the provision in the constitution of Utah providing for the trial in courts of general jurisdiction of criminal cases, not capital, by a jury composed of eight persons, is ex post facto in its application to felonies committed before the Territory became a State, because, in respect of such crimes, the Constitution of the United States gave the accused, at the time of the commission of his offence, the right to be tried by a jury of twelve persons, and made it impossible to deprive him of his liberty except by the unanimous verdict of such a jury.
The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
MR. JUSTICE BREWER and MR. JUSTICE PECKHAM dissented.

87 A.2d 499 (1952)
CONWAY
v.
MARSH.
Ex. No. 9243.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island.
March 26, 1952.
Aram K. Berberian, Providence, for plaintiff.
Joseph T. Witherow, Pawtucket, for defendant.
CONDON, Justice.
This is an action of trespass on the case for negligence. After plaintiff by leave of the superior court had filed a second amended declaration, defendant's demurrer thereto was sustained. The plaintiff excepted to that ruling and thereupon brought the case here by his bill of exceptions containing that exception and several other exceptions to rulings on divers motions pertaining to the case as alleged *500 in his original declaration and in his first amended declaration.
The case is properly before this court only on plaintiff's exception to the superior court's ruling sustaining defendant's demurrer to the second amended declaration. All prior exceptions involving matters arising out


to plaintiff's original declaration was sustained the filing of an additional count was, in effect, the filing of a substitute count for the one in the original declaration and was thereafter the only declaration in the case. The court further stated that when plaintiff later was nonsuited it was on such amended declaration and that her bill of exceptions properly brought up for review only the exception to the decision adjudging her nonsuit on the substituted declaration.
In the case at bar plaintiff's election not to rely on either the original declaration or the first amended declaration caused both of them to drop out of the case together with all matters incidental thereto, leaving available for review in this court only the rulings on matters pertaining to the secondRJD plans to sue PM Modi for breach of trust

The Rashtriya Janta Dal (RJD) is planning to sue Prime Minister Narendra Modi for what they allege is a "breach of trust" and forgery. Ahead of the Bihar Assembly polls last year, PM Modi reportedly promised the state funds amounting to Rs 1.25 lakh crore.

Former Union Rural Development Minister and RJD national Vice-President Raghuvasnsh Prasad Yadav told a newspaper that Modi had backtracked on his promise.

"We will drag Narendra Modi to court as he has committed a breach of trust and fraud with people in the name of a special package. Modi is now backtracking from allocating 100 per cent funds to Bihar for the projects and schemes he announced under the Rs 1.25 lakh crore special package during


the 2015 assembly polls," the Times of India quoted Singh as saying.

He also alleged that the Modi government was now giving them 60 per cent of total amount spent on different PMGSY projects after they had promised a 100 per cent reimbursement.Brewers infielder Scooter Gennett admits he didn’t negotiate well before he was drafted. “I probably did everything wrong that you could have done,” he said. Credit: Getty Images

By of the

Scooter Gennett readily admits he played a significant role in his stock falling in the 2009 major-league draft.

As a highly regarded senior star at Sarasota (Fla.) High School, the diminutive shortstop had many area scouts approach him that spring to gauge what it would take to sign him. Armed with the power of a Florida State scholarship offer as well as the brashness that came naturally to an overachiever, Gennett decided to play financial hardball with interested teams.

"I threw out a big number (for a signing bonus)," recalled Gennett, now a rising young second baseman for the Milwaukee Brewers.


teams pass on him for 15 rounds. Finally, in Round 16, the Brewers called Gennett's name, knowing full well that his talent level was far beyond that stage of the draft.

"Our scouts, Tim McIlvaine and Doug Reynolds, liked Scooter," said Bruce Seid, the Brewers' director of amateur scouting. "They were telling me he was a little guy who could hit with surprising power for his size.

"One thing that is so important in scouting — we stayed with it all year — was that we knew what his desires were. His desires were to play baseball. He did have the Florida State scholarship. Tim McIlvaine knew he wanted to sign and that wouldn't prevent him from signing.

"We took him a little later. He was still on the board. Ithink other teams might have thought by then he was unsignable and was going to school. It wasn't really the round at that point as much as drafting him and trying to sign him."

What Gennett didn't tell teams prior to the draft was that he didn't have as much leverage as indicated. He arrived too late to take his required ACT and therefore didn't qualify for scholarship money for his first year at Florida State.

Gennett still winces when recalling how he missed taking that crucial ACT.

"I actually missed taking my ACT by one minute," he said. "I was in Sarasota and they made me take it in Lemon Bay, which is like an hour and half away, and you've got to go through a bunch of back streets.

"I


made sure we saved the money and had the money to pay him."

Still, the negotiating went down to the night before the signing deadline. Gennett finally said yes but the late signing date meant he wouldn't start his professional career until 2010.

"I obviously wouldn't have signed for slot," said Gennett, who soon was shifted from shortstop to second base by the Brewers because of a fringy throwing arm.

"They offered me above slot shortly after the draft, but I decided to wait it out. Then I told them I was probably going to go to JUCO at that point, and they ended up making me a pretty good offer leading to the deadline.

"The big thing for me was it was good enough money to last through the minor leaguesdidn't walk much, which placed limits on his on-base percentage, and was rough around the edges defensively at the time, no one outside of the Brewers' front office projected Gennett to be more than a backup player in Milwaukee.

"I think those were bad evaluations from people who don't have experience in signing a player and seeing what it takes to get to the big leagues," Seid said. "I could go on and on about that stuff.

"Scooter has been fun to watch. He has hit everywhere he has played. We always thought he could play defense. We weren't that concerned. He did go through some bumps in the road in the minors and is still learning, but he has saved us a lot of runs, too.

"I still think we're


just scratching the surface with him and what he can possibly do."

Actually, the 24-year-old Gennett has done more than scratch the surface since arriving in the major leagues last year. He has gouged huge holes in it while doing everything possible to prove he can be an everyday player.

The left-handed-hitting Gennett got his big chance early last August when second baseman Rickie Weeks was lost for the remainder of the season with a serious hamstring injury. Including a couple of earlier stints, he batted .324 in 69 games with a .356 on-base percentage, 11 doubles, two triples, six home runs and 21 RBI.

Better yet, Gennett fielded his position much better than advance billing indicated, prompting the Brewers to commit to him as the starter against right-handed pitchers in2014 in a lopsided platoon with Weeks. Gennett has thrived in that role, particularly since being elevated to the leadoff spot in the batting order a few weeks ago.

By hitting .404 in 13 games in the No. 1 spot, Gennett has raised his overall average to .311, which ranks among the league leaders. Despite drawing only 16 walks, he has an acceptable .352 on-base percentage as well as a .484 slugging percentage, tied with Detroit's Ian Kinsler for first place among all major league second basemen.

It all adds up to a .835 OPS, not too shabby for a 16th-round draft pick, no matter how unusual the circumstances that led to 495 players being selected before Gennett.

"It's amazing how things work out and how probably every little thing that


I did, maybe right or wrong, led me to the situation I'm in now," he said.

"Pretty awesome."

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The Brewers have scored 388 runs this season, second only to Colorado (422) in the National League. Their .733 OPS (on-base plus slugging) also is second to the Rockies (.787).Finke Theatre Marquee started

Finke Theatre Marquee started

Work began Thursday, Aug. 23, on the marquee long planned for the renovated Finke Theatre.

Construction was planned early on but was delayed by the storm sewer project extending from High Street south of the post office to Main Street on the west side of Highway 87.

Since the storm sewer improvements required drop boxes on the corners nearest the theater and a large drain pipe under the sidewalk in front of the theater, construction of the marquee had to wait. The marquee is funded by donations received for the purpose by California Progress, Inc. (CPI), some CPI funds, a donation for electric work by Ameren and Friends of the Finke Theatre.

In other business, the board discussed the April 2013 Wine Dine & Win


Puerto Rico, among other areas. Plaintiffs are duly authorized providers of payphone services in Puerto Rico.
Defendant PRTC is a Puerto Rico corporation with its principal place of business in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Defendant is a telecommunications company which operates as a local exchange carrier ("LEC"), an interexchange carrier ("IXC"), and a "PSP." LECs, such as Defendant, provide telephone lines and facilities to telephone customers in their service territories via physical connections to their local telephone network and facilities. IXCs provide long-distance telecommunications services.
In Puerto Rico, the Telecommunications Regulatory Board ("Board") regulates the provision of telecommunication services in Puerto Rico, including the provision of payphones. Prior to October 1996, Defendant was the only entity in Puerto Rico that provided payphones with combined local and long distance dialing capabilities.As a result, Defendant had a payphone services monopoly on the island. In September 1996, the Puerto Rico Legislature enacted the Puerto Rico Telecommunications Act of 1996, 27 L.P.R.A. §§ 265-272. The Act established a regulatory framework for the creation and safeguard of competition in Puerto Rico's telecommunications industry, and, in essence, required that Defendant provide fair and equitable access to competitors. Beginning in October 1996, the Board began to certify other companies to provide services in Puerto Rico.
Payphones are typically installed at public and private sites ("sites") by agreement with the site owners and/or operators ("site owners"). These agreements typically consist of a contract between the PSP and the site owner ("site contract"), pursuant to which the PSP usually agrees to pay the Site owner a commission


altogether embezzled.

American workerswill not work for free, nor can they compete on an equal basis with theslave laborwhich their bosses employ in Asia, or temporarily import as human cargo to the U.S. on the notoriouslycorrupt H-1B visa program.

What is cast by our U.S. overlords and masters as atrade war,ostensibly with China, is in reality aclass warand a grand scheme to return the United States to those institutions of involuntary servitude and slavery as existed before the Civil War, even such as were imposed on the entire British Empire from the Crown prior to the Revolutionary War.

The vicious hatred and enmity of these British elitistroundheadsand GermanNazi skinheadsis carefully cloaked in wantonmulticulturalismand gratuitousgender awareness,and they accomplish their overriding goals ofclass warfare,rapine, pillage, plunder, disarmament, population control, andmass murderby an "inevitable"erosionout three tight ends Monday — Jace Amaro, Devon Cajuste and Gavin Escobar — according to a league source.

Escobar was a 2013 second-round draft pick by the Cowboys and played four seasons in Dallas and two games with the Ravens this year. The Jets selected Amaro in the second round in 2014, and he played in 14 games before missing 2015 with a shoulder injury. He played three games with the Titans in 2016.


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Doc Marquis was raised as a child in the international, occult group known as the Illuminati. For 20 years he was trained as an Illuminist and attained the rank of Master Witch (a 3rd level Illuminati Witch). As a result of GOD's sovereignty and mercy, Doc became surrounded by Christians who presented him with the Gospel. Confronted by GOD's Word and love, he opened his heart and mind. On April 15, 1979 Doc became a Born-Again Christian, forever severing his ties with the Illuminati. He now devotes his life to traveling across the country and using public forums to expose and educate the public on the occult. Doc speaks at: seminars, lectures, conventions, conferences, workshops, churches, colleges and universities, and special interest groups. He also trains


total defense, rushing defense and pass-efficiency defense."

2010 season
As a senior in 2010, Winterswyk was slowed early in the season by a knee injury that required him to undergo surgery.  However, he remained such a dominant defensive player that opposing coaches regularly assigned two players to block him.  He started all 12 games at defensive end for Boise State and received his third consecutive first-team All-WAC honor.  Winterswyk was also a finalist for the Burlsworth Trophy, given to outstanding college football players who began their careers as a walk-on.  He was also invited to play in the annual East-West Shrine Game in January 2011 in Orlando, Florida.

Professional career
Winterswyk was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent following the 2011 NFL Draft onA total of 200 psychiatric patients have been reported missing from B.C.'s Colony Farm Forensic Hospital over a nine-year period between July of 2006 and July of 2015, according to new documents released through an access to information request.

"When violent individuals are escaping ... then they need to do a better job," said Dave Teixeira, spokesman for Darcie Clarke, whose three children were killed by the hospital's most notorious patient, Allan Schoenborn.

While the documents show a recent improvement in the number of missing patients, listing only four in 2014 compared to 64 in 2007, Teixeira is concerned about what he calls a lack of transparency at the hospital.

Dave Teixeira, the spokesman for Darcie Clarke, said he was 'shocked' there have been 200 reports to police about missing patients.


very, very scary" said Teixeira.

Neighbours rarely alerted

No recent data was provided for the last nine months, but, in February, the RCMP issued public alerts after two patients disappeared.

It was David Fomrada's second escape and he was at large for more than a month before he was arrested in Alberta.

David Fomradas was reported missing on Feb, 10, 2016 and was arrested in Lethbridge Alberta March 13, 2016. (Lethbridge police)

"They don't alert the public and we need to know first because we are right next door," said Fred Hulbert, a band councillor who is frustrated with the hospital and angry it took an access to information request to find out how often patients walk away from the forensic facility.

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The wife promised Gibbs, then eighteen, money, a leather jacket and a motorcycle or boat in exchange for his services. On the night of March 27, 1984, Gibbs accepted the offer. Accompanied by the wife and three others, he found the husband and the other guard in the housing development security office. Gibbs fired a shot, missing the husband but killing the other man.
On December 14, 1984 a jury convicted Gibbs of first degree murder, criminal attempt to commit homicide, criminal conspiracy to commit homicide and aggravated assault. At the sentencing stage of the trial, the court instructed the jury on all statutory aggravating circumstances as set forth in 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(d). The jury found as aggravating circumstances "Peace Officer; Contract for Pay; Premeditated: *30 Lethal Weapon."moved to "Preclude Death Penalty Based on Insufficient Evidence at Prior Trial" of the Commonwealth's original three grounds. On March 21, 1990 Gibbs filed a motion in opposition to the Commonwealth's notice that it would seek the death penalty based partly upon the "grave risk of harm to another" factor. After briefing and argument, on March 21, 1990, the court denied Gibbs' motions to preclude the Commonwealth from seeking as aggravating circumstances that the victim was a peace officer, that the crime was a contract killing and that the *31 act created grave risk of harm to another. By the same order the court granted the Commonwealth's request to add as an aggravating circumstance killing while perpetrating a felony.
On March 27, 1990, the trial court, in response to


sentencing statute, the trial judge, sitting as finder of fact, found the aggravating circumstance of crime committed in especially heinous manner but found that the aggravating circumstance of pecuniary gain was not present. On appeal, the Arizona Supreme Court vacated the conviction. It also held that the evidence was insufficient to support the "especially heinous" circumstance, but that the trial court erred in finding that the circumstance of pecuniary gain was not present and suggested that it could be found in the future.
Following the defendants' convictions at the second trial, the prosecution argued the circumstances of "especially heinous" and of "pecuniary gain." In addition, it presented a circumstance not argued at the first trial, previous conviction of a felony involving the threat or use of violence to anothersessions of the proper county, to employ a night watchman or night watchmen for the purpose of protecting their premises and property in the night-time and all persons so appointed, with the approval aforesaid, as night watchman shall have, exercise and enjoy all the rights, powers and privileges, now vested by law in constables or police officers duly elected or appointed in said cities or boroughs....
53 P.S. § 3704. The victim was empowered by the court and was acting in the capacity of a "peace officer." Opinion of the Honorable Harold A. Thomson, Jr., March 21, 1990 at 4. We conclude that the Commonwealth may seek the aggravating circumstance of killing a peace officer.
To summarize, we find no double jeopardy violation in the Commonwealth's seeking to prove aggravating


— Johnson called a panel of witnesses who painted a dire picture of the threat Islam poses to Western society.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former member of Dutch parliament and controversial critic of Islam who has referred to it as a “cult of death,” said, approvingly, that “Germany has closed some mosques.”

Asra Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter now known for her criticism of traditional Islam, criticized Amazon for selling a book that quotes Islamic tradition to justify domestic violence. “We aren’t doing enough to police these ideas,” she said.

John Lenczowski, now a professor, worked in Soviet affairs under Ronald Reagan in the 1980s. He raised the spectre of “civilizational jihad,” citing the risk of an impending Islamic takeover of Western society, warning of the dangers of sharialaw and of the widely debunked “no-go zones” in Europe.

“Sharia law may not have made the kind of inroads in American society that it has in other parts of the world,” said Lenczowski, “but there are plenty of enclaves in Europe where they have established a parallel society.”

“It is being done under the protection of religious freedoms,” said Lenczowski.

Johnson said that he decided to call the hearing after he read an April interview with Ali in the Wall Street Journal in which she discussed her latest report, “The Challenge of Dawa.” In that report, Ali calls for a return to Cold War-era ideological screening, surveillance of mosques, a registry for Muslim immigrants, and for the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated a foreign terrorist organization.

Ali has also previously argued


that Western democracies are hindered in their fight against terrorism due to the broad freedoms and protections that their constitutions mandate.

Many of those notions have become increasingly prevalent during and after the successful presidential campaign of President Donald Trump, who promised to ban Muslims from entering the United States, floated the creation of a Muslim registry, and selected advisors with a history of Islamophobic remarks.

But critics, including Muslim groups and plenty of Democrats on the Senate panel, argue that such measures would alienate American Muslims and play into the Islamic State’s narrative that Islam is at war with the West.

“The singling out of Muslims in this manner only breeds fear, cements a narrative of a cosmic war between Islam against the West, and flies in the face ofGet breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.

A Stanford University professor accused of ogling wrestlers in the locker room years ago was cleared Friday after a five-month internal investigation.

"While the investigation acknowledges that some conduct of the individual in the period up to 2010 may have made wrestlers uncomfortable, it concludes there is not sufficient evidence that a violation of Stanford's sexual harassment policy occurred," the university said in a statement.

Investigators from the school's Title IX office reached their conclusion after interviewing more than 30 former and currents wrestlers and coaches.

Among other things, the Stanford employee "was alleged to have showered in unnecessarily close proximity to members of the wrestling team in the locker room that was open to the


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The allegations echo the accounts of former wrestlers at The Ohio State University, whose complaints about a "sexually exploitative atmosphere" at their training center and alleged abuse by late team doctor Richard Strauss are currently under investigation.

Just as at Ohio State, some of the Stanford wrestlers claimed their coaches knew what was going on but did nothing to stop the alleged ogler.

Michael DiSabato, right, speaks with other victims of former Ohio State team doctor Dr. Richard Strauss, at the university's board of trustees meeting on Nov. 16, 2018 in Columbus. Adam Cairns / The Columbus Dispatch via AP

"I felt pretty exposed and pretty unprotected by the folks who were supposed to be" looking outoccurred,” he said. “The university opened a new investigation this summer after receiving further allegations regarding the same period of time.”

The allegations against Le emerged after a former Stanford wrestler expressed concern about him being on the board of the school’s youth team, the Cardinal Wrestling Club, from which he resigned in June, The Mercury News reported.

There have been no allegations of Le doing anything inappropriate with underage wrestlers, the university said. But the paper reported that Le has been affiliated with the Stanford wrestling program for 25 years.

Among other things, according to the paper, Le was listed as a “Friend of Stanford Wrestling” in media guides, ran fundraisers for the team, and balanced the books for the youth team.

But Le was a “running joke” with the wrestlers,


Matt Gentry, who was Stanford’s 2004 NCAA champ and a two time Canadian Olympian, told the Mercury News. He, too, did not return a call from NBC News for comment.

Former Stanford wrestling coaches interviewed by the paper, however, said they never heard any specific complaints about Le.

Mike DiSabato, the whistleblowing former Ohio State wrestler whose allegations about Strauss sparked that investigation, said he was not surprised by the Stanford story and said he expects more athletes from schools across the country to start coming forward.

"The floodgates are open," he told NBC News. "The Trojan Horse is inside the gates and we're heading to the Colosseum to free the slaves."[What Is Medical Science Liaison?]
Currently, the role of medical representative (MR) is responsible for providing information to medical doctors from pharmaceutical/medical equipment companies. In recent years, however, the newer role of medical science liaison (MSL) has been established to construct evidence and provide advanced medical and scientific information to health care professionals. This position, independent from the sales division of a pharmaceutical or medical equipment company, has already been established in Europe and the U.S. The MSL helps to combat concerns of conflicts of interest (COI) concerning the sophistication of expert information, and in support of clinical research. I will introduce the role of the MSL in Japan.


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The class of rangers is composed of those who have made the forest their home, learning and adapting the ways of nature to their own needs. Relying on their own considerable fighting prowess and their ability to survive in flourish in almost any sort of terrain, rangers often work to both protect their home as well as use it for their own ends.

Rangers are the most skilled of Avendar's archers, and dangerous hunters in their own right. Wielders of many weapons and effective with all of them, their methods trend toward the tried-and-true, favoring brutal efficiency over the rigorous training inherent to many other classes.

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A ranger is obviously most effective in the wild, and least effective in cities. When on the grasslands or within theUnder the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, the Obama Department of Justice has been on a rampage against the states, hauling them into court over a range of issues. Among the most notable attacks are against states’ voter identification laws. Texas, South Carolina, New Hampshire, Florida, Arizona and others have been sued by the chief federal law enforcement officer – charging that requiring a photo id to cast a ballot was among other things, racist, attacking the poor, the elderly, etc. The reality is far, far different. Besides multiple ballots cast by single individuals and voting by people who do not live in the state they’re voting in, illegal immigrants, dead people, felons, and others not legally entitled to vote are doing so.

Never mind that the TSA


requires government issued photo id to board an airplane. As does every state for obtaining a marriage license, driving a car, purchasing alcohol, etc. Those complaining the loudest about how Republicans are meanies trying to stop blacks and poor from voting are the Democrats – the Obama administration in particular. Oddly, the Democratic National Convention requires a photo id to obtain credentials to access the convention.

Meanwhile, Eric Holder successfully sued the state of Ohio over early voting for burdened military – a state law specifically designed to help deployed military enjoy their right to vote. The United States Department of Justice under the leadership of the Commander in Chief of the United States armed forces – President Barack Obama – fought and won to stop early voting accommodationsfor military members. A judge more recently ruled that the early voting must be opened to everyone, that there is nothing special about being in the military.

Now comes word that the 2009 law, signed by President Obama to help military voters overseas, is severely underfunded.

The Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act was passed by Congress in 2009 and signed into law by President Barack Obama and was supposed to make it easier for both soldiers deployed overseas and U.S. citizens living abroad to cast ballots back in their home states.

One of the key provisions required each military branch to create an installation voting assistance office (IVAO) for every military base outside an immediate combat zone.

But the Pentagon’s inspector general, the military’s internal watchdog, reported Tuesday it got