village youth, Gurpreet Singh alias Sunny. “Gurpreet had made a video of her with him. He shared the video with his accomplices, who started threatening them by using it as a tool. Apparently, Kulwinder was disturbed about it and there was a tiff between him and his wife in the night. In a fit of rage, Kulwinder took the extreme step,” he said.

On the basis of Mandeep’s statement, the police booked Balkar Singh, Gurpreet, his mother Satya Devi and Tirath Singh of the same village under IPC sections 306 (abetment to suicide) and 34 (common intent). All the four accused were at large, Saroya added.

Police are reflected in the window of a shop displaying traditional nesting dolls with images of Russian President Vladimir Putin (R), Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (C) and French President Francois Hollande at the sea port in St. Petersburg September 3, 2013. REUTERS/Alexander Demianchuk

By Jim Finkle

BOSTON (Reuters) - Chinese hackers eavesdropped on the computers of five European foreign ministries before last September's G20 Summit, which was dominated by the Syrian crisis, according to research by computer security firm FireEye Inc

The hackers infiltrated the ministries' computer networks by sending emails to staff containing tainted files with titles such as "US_military_options_in_Syria," said FireEye, which sells virus fighting technology to companies.

When recipients opened these documents, they loaded malicious code on to their personal computers.

For about a week in late August, California-based FireEye


said its researchers were able to monitor the "inner workings" of the main computer server used by the hackers to conduct their reconnaissance and move across compromised systems.

FireEye lost access to the hackers after they moved to another server shortly before the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia. FireEye said it believes the hackers were preparing to start stealing data just as the researchers lost access.

The U.S. company declined to identify the nations whose ministries were hacked, although it said they were all members of the European Union. FireEye said it reported the attacks to the victims through the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

A spokeswoman for the FBI, Jenny Shearer, declined to comment.

"The theme of the attacks was U.S. military intervention in Syria," said FireEye researcher Nart Villeneuve, oneU.S. surveillance of foreign countries, including China.

FireEye said it had been following the hackers behind the Syria-related attack for several years, but this is the first time the group's activities have been publicly documented. The company calls the group "Ke3chang," after the name of one of the files it uses in one of its pieces of malicious software.

FireEye said it believed the hackers dubbed the Syria-related campaign "moviestar" because that phrase was used as a tag on communications between infected computers and the hackers' command-and-control server.

In 2011, the group ran another operation dubbed "snake", which enticed victims with a file that FireEye said contained nude pictures of Carla Bruni, the Italian-French singer, songwriter and model who in 2008 married then French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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For the first time in the last couple months, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker was beaten out to the top spot on Instagram as it came in a distant second to Spider-Man: Far From Home. The web-slinger also had the top 2 posts on the week which meant that it is the first film since the inception of this column to finish in the top two of all three services and also have 6 of the 9 top posts on the week.

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In March 2009, Vinson was cast as Natalie, the female lead in Step Up 3D, the third installment of the Step Up film series. Vinson's appearance in the film was marked as her breakout role, having been her most high-profile role since relocating to America. Vinson's character is a talented and somewhat mysterious dancer, who faces a hard decision between love and family. After initially  ultimately joining her boyfriend's dance crew and helping them


Black Lives Matter Metro Phoenix is calling for the firings of Tempe police officers who repeatedly tased a black man in his own apartment while he was holding his 1-year-old baby.

The use-of-force incident from June 15, which can be seen in body camera footage posted online, followed a tense, five-minute standoff between the officers and the 31-year-old father, Ivaughn Oakry, who demanded they leave and refused to let go of his child. Oakry was later arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault for allegedly pushing the mother of his children while intoxicated, and with child endangerment for picking up his baby before he was tased. Tempe city prosecutors dropped both charges in August.

The Oakry family, Black Lives Matter Metro Phoenix, and the People's Law Firm in Phoenix held apress conference this morning to call for the firings of all the officers involved and "an immediate end to the use of force against children."

Lisa Oakry, Ivaughn Oakry's mother, said during the press event: "My son and his family had an encounter with an American monster dressed as a Tempe police officer."

Ivaugh Oakry did not speak or take questions during the press conference.

Tempe police published its own press release at about 10 a.m., denying the child was hurt. In its statement, the police department said no use-of-force violations occurred, but that it has implemented new training procedures in light of the incident. Tempe PD's full statement at the bottom of this story.

The dramatic body camera video was posted to YouTube on November 4 by Renaissance the Poet, an


artist affiliated with Black Lives Matter Metro Phoenix.

A spokesperson for the Tempe Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The People's Law Firm, which started representing Oakry in July, sent Phoenix New Times the police report and a link to the video on Monday evening, asking that it not be published until the next morning. The firm sent the call audio on Tuesday. The attorneys representing Oakry have not yet filed a notice of claim with the city of Tempe, the first legal step before filing a lawsuit against a government entity.

The incident was captured on the body camera of Officer Ronald Kerzaya:

EXPAND Ivaughn Oakry, seconds before he was repeatedly tased as he held his 1-year-old baby. City of Tempe

Prior to the tasing, Tempe officers respondedto Oakry's home in June 2019 after the mother of his children, MeKayla Brand, had called a non-emergency line to allege that "someone" had "put his hands" on her, according to audio of the call. Oakry can be heard in the background shouting at Brand to leave the home.

"Get off me" a woman's voice says in the 911 recording released by the law firm.

"Get your fucking ass out!" a man's voice yells.

As he yells for her to "get the fuck out," kids can be heard crying and screaming in the background. The caller tells the man she's getting her shoes, and to leave her alone, and he again screams at her to get out. She later tells the dispatcher the man she's fighting with is Oakry, the children's


father. She says she's outside the home, but her three children are inside.

Later in the day, Brand told police that Oakry had pushed her multiple times.

At least three officers entered the home without a warrant, according to Heather Hamel of the People's Law Firm, which is representing Oakry. The mother of the children was outside the house at the time the officers entered.

In the footage, Officer Kerzaya knocks on Oakry's door. When Oakry answers, Kerzaya says, "Okay, what’s happening?"

Oakry responds, "Nothing."

Kerzaya says, "Well that’s not what I’m being told." After Oakry says that he is in his home, the officer walks through the door without warning and orders the 31-year-old to put his hands behind his back. At least two other officers appear in the screen during theconfrontation with Oakry.

Oakry refuses Kerzaya's demands and says, "Bro, you're not allowed in here."

Ivaughn Oakry (in white) standing at a press conference. Steven Hsieh

As Kerzaya advances toward Oakry, two children can be seen and heard crying behind a couch, their faces blurred to protect their privacy. About 10 seconds after Kerzaya enters the apartment, he orders Oakry to put his hands behind his back, pulls out his taser, and trains it on the father. A red laser marker appears on the 31-year-old's t-shirt.

Oakry repeatedly pleads for the officers not to tase him in front of his children. At one point he says, "Bro, if you tase me in front of my baby." At another point, Oakry says, "What the fuck?"

About 46 seconds after Kerzaya enters Oakry's home, the


father's 1-year-old baby walks up to him and Oakry picks him up. Kerzaya orders Oakry to put his baby down and says, "Look, you're going to get tased."

Another officer walks up to Oakry and places a hand on his shoulder. She then takes the two children behind the couch and walks them out a back door.

"There's no other adult in here," Oakry says. "We're going to talk about this."

Kerzaya continues to order Oakry to put the child down, a demand that Oakry refuses. At about 3:40 in the video, Brand, the woman who called police after her altercation with Oakry, can be heard saying, "He didn't do anything." It is unclear at what point in the video Brand enters the apartment.

Shortly after Brand returns, Oakry says, "You hearit. Do it." Three officers then deploy their tasers on Oakry, causing him to scream and fall into a pile of clothes as he holds his baby. One of the officers quickly grabs the baby and hands him to Brand.

Oakry rolls over a box of clothes and lies on his side. Kerzaya orders Oakry to get on his stomach and appears to deploy his taser again. Oakry screams, "Ow. Ow. Ow." Then three officers surround him as one of them handcuffs the father.

"This is my house," Oakry shouts as he is on the ground.

"All you had to do was drop the kid. This would have been so much easier," Kerzaya responds. Kerzaya walks onto a balcony, where he appears to have a conversation with another officer. The audio


shuts off and the video runs without sound for about four minutes before ending.

Oakry was arrested and booked into Tempe city jail.

According to the report, Brand told Fernandez that she had three children with Oakry and lived with him for several years. Maricopa County Superior Court records show the couple dealt with child-support issues back in 2012.

Brand said that about a half an hour before police arrived at the apartment, she had a verbal altercation with Oakry after he returned home intoxicated in the early hours of June 15.

Brand said Oakry pushed her with two hands against their kitchen sink, causing her to land on her back. Oakry allegedly pushed Brand again in their son's bedroom and "multiple times in the living room," according to the report. Atlawful right to enter the residence to contact involved party, Ivaughn Oakry, for a domestic violence-assault investigation," the statement goes on to say. "While attempting to speak to Oakry, he became verbally combative with officers. During this time, Oakry committed endangerment by picking up his one year old child who walked up to him and refused to put the child down... Officers on scene decided to deploy their tasers on Oakry on the opposite side of his body from where he was holding his child. When officers deployed their tasers and hit Oakry, he fell onto a pile of clothing in trash bags while holding the child. Oakry continued to resist but was eventually taken into custody by several officers. Officers were able to safely retrieve the child


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2012-2013: In outdoor track, competed in the 800m at the Yale Springtime Invitational.

2011-2012: In cross country, competed in the Fordham Invitational and HYP...Sixth on the team at the New England Championship…In indoor track, seventh in the 3,000-meter run at the Yale Season Opener…Competed in the 800-meter run at HYP…In outdoor track, eighth in the 800-meter run at HY…Competed in the 1,500-meter run at the Sam Howell Invitational…Competed in the 800-meter run and the 4x400-meter relay at the UCONN Invitational.one helped hip hop make the transition across the US’s racial divide – not to mention introducing the concept of ‘sampling’ to the wider world after Ice lifted its bassline from the Queen/Bowie hit ‘Under Pressure’.

And while Vanilla Ice might not have written anything quite like The Chronic, he did inadvertently aid its release. The story goes that thug-turned-businessman Suge Knight cornered him in his hotel room and coerced him into signing over rights to ‘Ice Ice Baby’. As Ice told Rolling Stone: ‘[Suge] pushed my security guard all around the hall, slapped him ... pulled the gun, showed the gun ... [the guard] was basically just crying.’ He thought they was gonna kill him. They had him so scared. He took me out on the balcony, and


The news was first reported by FoxSports's Bruce Feldman.

In Koenning's third year running the defense, UNC finished the 2014 regular season ranked 115th nationally in total defense (495.7 ypg) and 116th in scoring defense (38.9). The Tar Heels allowed a school record 70 points and 789 total yards of offense in their loss to East Carolina in September. Half of UNC's opponents eclipsed the 500-yard threshold against Koenning's 4-2-5 defensive scheme.

UNC allowed a school record 467 points this season, topping the previous record of 459 points set in 2003. With a bowl game against Rutgers remaining, UNC is on pace to establish school single-season records in total yards of offense allowed and points per game allowed.

Koenning arrived in Chapel Hill with a resume full of results at previousLibby: Bush Authorized Plamegate Leak

APRIL 6--A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that President George W. Bush authorized him to leak information from a classified intelligence report to a New York Times reporter. Details of I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's testimony were included in a court filing made yesterday by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is prosecuting Libby for perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements in connection with the probe into the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. According to Fitzgerald's filing, an excerpt of which you'll find below, Libby, 55, testified in 2003 that he provided reporter Judith Miller with information from a classified National Intelligence Estimate after being told by Cheney that Bush 'specifically had authorized' him


to 'disclose certain information in the NIE.' Libby also testified that Cheney specifically directed him to speak to other reporters about information in the classified NIE (which addressed Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction programs) as well as a cable authored by Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson. The leaking of the classified material was apparently done in an effort to counter claims made by Wilson regarding the White House's justification for invading Iraq. The Fitzgerald filing also notes that Libby told grand jurors that he conferred with David Addington, Cheney's counsel, about the leak directive and that Addington told him 'that Presidential authorization to publicly disclose a document amounted to a declassification of the document.' While both Bush and Cheney have been interviewed by Fitzgerald, it isThe Migrant Kidnapping Epidemic Next Door

It was six in the morning when Daniela got off the overnight bus in Nuevo Laredo in early August. She was traveling with her husband and four children, and they’d spent the last nine months slowly making their way through Mexico. Back in their home country of Honduras, armed men had been hunting them down as retaliation for a court case they’d filed against 18th Street gangsters. When they shot Daniela’s husband six times as he was driving home with the family’s groceries, the family headed north.

The only step now was to walk four miles to a Laredo port of entry and ask for asylum. Daniela and her two youngest children (five and two years old) made one last stop to use the


bathroom. But when they returned a few minutes later, the rest of the family was gone. Also missing were the two bald, tattooed men that had been sitting two rows behind them in the bus station.

I met Daniela a few days later in a U.S. family detention center, and she still had no idea what had happened to her husband and two sons. But she didn’t believe the U.S. border official who told her that they’d surely been picked up by Mexico’s immigration enforcement. She had a bad feeling that they’d been kidnapped.

She was right.

Crimes against Central American migrants in Mexico—including kidnapping, rape, and murder—are one of the most systematically underreported large scale human rights violations in the Western Hemisphere. Most casual observers know that the journey isindividuals who will likely live (many with asylum or some form of legal protection) in the United States. They will carry these memories of brutality and victimization across the border and into our schools, workplaces, and communities.

Daniela and her family were exceedingly lucky in how their kidnapping story came to a close. However, when we define as "lucky" a family that was forced to abandon its home in Honduras because of murder attempts, then spent nine months on the road, and saw half the family members kidnapped and brutally beaten, something is clearly wrong. And compared to many others, Daniela and her family were, indeed, lucky. Unfortunately, widespread inaction in Mexico and the United States means that the luck of many migrants isn’t likely to improve anytime soon.

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Leutert is the Director of the Mexico Security Initiative at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes for Beyond the Border, a Strauss Center and Lawfare collaboration, and provides an in depth look at security and migration challenges in Mexico and Central America.Plaintiffs - Appellants,

           v.

CITY OF PETERSBURG; JOHN I. DIXON, III, both individually
and in his capacity as the Chief of Police for the City of
Petersburg Bureau of Police,

                Defendants - Appellees.

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, at Richmond.   James R. Spencer, Senior
District Judge. (3:14-cv-00139-JRS)

Argued:   October 27, 2016            Decided:   December 15, 2016

Before WILKINSON and TRAXLER, Circuit Judges, and Bruce          H.
HENDRICKS, United States District Judge for the District


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of sly references and in-jokes will delight genre aficionados and cinephiles, a third-act spiral from queasy dark comedy into more ambitious David Lynch-ish territory will likely leave more general audiences frustrated. The film therefore looks likely to emulate Strickland's Transylvania-set 2009 debut Katalin Varga and enjoy a lengthy festival run followed by small-scale art-house distribution and small-screen sales.

Evidently inspired by such inside-baseball predecessors as Michael Powell's Peeping Tom and Brian De Palma's Blow Out, Strickland displays intimate knowledge of the lurid Italian 1960s-80s giallo wave of violent thrillers and horrors from the likes of Dario Argento, Mario Bava, Lucio Fulci and Sergio Martini. Familiarity with these pictures isn't essential to get the gist of what's going on in Berberian Sound Studio, but it certainly helps.

Taken on its ownterms, the film works as a character-study of fortysomething, mild-mannered, workaholic Gilderoy (Jones) - first name or surname? - a fish out of water amid these tempestuous southern-Europeans. The film-within-the-film The Equestrian Vortex - directed by the flamboyant Giancarlo Santini (Antonio Mancino) and seemingly modeled on Argento's masterpiece Suspiria - of which we see only the amusingly ludicrous opening-titles. We watch Gilderoy and company, including bad-tempered producer Francesco (Cosimo Fusco), watching the movie - for which the Studio, in accordance with typical practices of the day, provides the entire soundtrack.

'PEOPLE LIKE US' COMPARED TO 'BLOW OUT'AND 'BLOW-UP', 'CONVERSATION' -- ALSO: MOVIE GEEKS' CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON 'BLOW OUT'Indiewire's Emma Bernstein begins her review of first-time director Alex Kurtzman's People Like Us by setting up the lineage from Michelangelo Antonioni's


Blow-Up, to Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, to Brian De Palma's Blow Out. Bernstein writes about how each film used cinematography to get into its main character's mind, adding, "The three films were alike in their genre and premise as well, each a crime thriller centered on a character’s discovery of something hidden within the materials associated with his line of work. Alex Kurtzman’s new film, People Like Us," she continues, "shares the technical prowess of these films, employing supreme sound and visual techniques to create subjectivity. However, an increasingly rote storyline and adherence to syrupy sweet romantic comedy tropes leaves a murky aftertaste: a schmaltzy tearjerker masquerading as a psychological thriller." Bernstein never goes into detail about a possible link with the new film regarding any kindof recordings, photos, or films that the main character might use to try and figure out a puzzle, but perhaps the image above from People Like Us involves a similar sort of link. We may have to wait and find out when the film is released this Friday (June 29).

In her closing paragraph, Bernstein states, "The films from Antonioni, Coppola, and De Palma were groundbreaking both because they were able to build their stories and their characters via technical means as well as written words, and because the techniques used were radical in and of themselves. While People Like Us honors the visual and aural achievements of its predecessors well, it never manages to align its script with its images and sounds as successfully, leaving an audience with


pleased eyes but discontented minds." Meanwhile, The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy states, "As overcranked as it is -- the film is directed as if it were an action drama, with two or three times more cuts than necessary -- People Like Us has a persuasive emotional pull at its heart that's hard to deny."

TONY MACKLIN'S CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON 'BLOW OUT' & 'THE VERDICT'Yesterday's edition of the Movie Geeks United podcast featured host Jamey DuVall and critic Tony Macklin discussing Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (including a nice lengthy discussion of screenwriter David Mamet) and De Palma's Blow Out. They discuss, among other things, De Palma's nods to American history in Blow Out's imagery, the contrast between appearance and reality that permeates the film, and the devastatingly ironic ending.

ARMOND: 'DETENTION'360-PAN IS HOMAGE TO 'BLOW OUT'JOSEPH KAHN FILM ALSO FEATURES BULLY CHARACTER NAMED BILLY NOLANMusic video and commercial director Joseph Kahn's second feature film, Detention, opens in select AMC theaters today, before moving on to other cities later on. Kahn financed the high school-set, genre-busting film himself, so that he could call all the shots without argument. Detention is aimed at today's teenagers, who Kahn believes are bored by the movies Hollywood generally gears toward them. The film, which features deliberate references to many many films, is Kahn's call for the death of genres. According to City Arts' Armond White, the film includes a 360-degree pan that is an homage to a similar pan in Brian De Palma's Blow Out:

There’s a continuous 360-degree pan through eleven years of


a throwback, but that scene shows you how fast society changes for new young people. Things change so fast, hairstyles, music, that little sequence just throws it in your face, this is a whole new world.

In what is surely a nod to Carrie (both the novel and the film), Kahn, who co-wrote the screenplay for Detention, has a character named Billy Nolan, which was also the name of the character played by John Travolta in De Palma's film adaptation of Stephen King's novel.

ZSIGMOND TALKS 'BLOW OUT'IN NOVEMBER ISSUE OF AMERICAN CINEMATOGRAPHER, ON STANDS NOWThe November 2011 issue of American Cinematographer has a nice 9-page article about Vilmos Zsigmond's work on Brian De Palma's Blow Out, which seems to have finally arrived after being released on DVD and Blu-Rayby Criterion earlier this year. "Brian is really a stylist, and he's very experimental," Zsigmond tells AC's Jon Silberg. He sticks his neck out on movies that sometimes get bad reviews because the people who write the reviews say he's concentrating too much on the visuals. But that's what I like so much about him: he knows about images. There are so many films that just consist of talking heads, and they feel more like what you think of as 'TV coverage.' Brian always wants to do something that has style."

Zsigmond talks about shooting the night scene on the bridge, and the challenges of lighting the shots properly with the slower film stocks of the day (early 1980s). He also talks about the split diopter shots in the


and worked frequently with Kiesser. "Michael and I started our careers together in animation," says Kiesser, "and we were on many crews togather. Like all great focus pullers, Michael had an uncanny knack for focus-- it was like a sixth sense. On Blow Out, he really had to multi-task, because some of those shots required zooming, focus-pulling and stop changes all at once."

ZSIGMOND: "I NEVER LIKED THE LOOK OF SOME OF THOSE SHOTS AS MUCH AS I DID IN THE BLU-RAY"The article also discusses the 360-degree shot in Jack's sound studio. "The space wasn't big enough to lay down tracks," Kiesser tells Silberg. "We had the camera in the middle of the room, and we kept panning around and zooming to keep up with the action. In thosePalma.

Silberg's article also briefly covers the heartbreaking shot of Jack cradling Sally's body as the camera seems to spin around them:

At the end of the chase, Jack cradles Sally in his arms as the camera spins 360 degrees and reveals the fireworks above them. The shot was one of the film's few optical effects. "The production couldn't possibly create real fireworks in the sky as we spun the camera," Zsigmond explains. "We put the actors and their lighting on a turntable in front of a bluescreen, and we positioned the camera on one side of the turntable facing the bluescreen, where it remained static as we turned the actors around 360 degrees. Because the lighting was moving with the actors, it looked as if the camera was circling


Blow Out begins with De Palma turning the camera on himself and criticisms against him, then ends with one of the crueller, blacker chapters in cinema.

The interview on the disc with De Palma and Noah Baumbach is a must-see too; great to hear him talk about Hitchcock, Antonioni, and Coppola and their influence on this film. Filmmakers and film students will be also fascinated to know that Brian thinks coverage is a dirty word. This is a tremendous piece of work that I am very glad Criterion has given the royal treatment.

KEY GRIP 'DICKY' DEATS HAS PASSED AWAYWORKED WITH ZSIGMOND & DE PALMA ON 'BLOW OUT' & 'THE BLACK DAHLIA'Richard "Dicky" Deats, who worked as a key grip on Brian De Palma's Blow Out and The Black Dahlia(both with cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond), passed away July 14 at the age of 66, according to Below The Line. Just prior to working on Blow Out in 1981, Deats and Zsigmond built the first portable crane, which Deats called "the Little Big Crane," because it was lightweight and could be disassembled and carried around anywhere. The pair put it to good use on Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980), and Deats later won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement in 1984 for the Little Big Crane's design and manufacture.

30 YEARS LATER, 'BLOW OUT' HAS ARRIVEDAS CRITERION DELIVERS A WOWDuring a bonus interview on Criterion's recent release of Brian De Palma's Blow Out, Nancy Allen laments that the film's original release just didn't seem to have the right timing. A


bleak movie released in the summer when everybody is looking to have some fun. Well, thanks to Criterion, thirty years later, Blow Out's time seems to have finally arrived. Widely regarded by De Palma fans and cinephiles alike as one of De Palma's best films, Blow Out currently seems to be cementing its place in the mainstream as the best representation of De Palma's cinema. The Criterion release is a big hit, introducing Blow Out to a wide new audience, and turning the heads of even some of De Palma's harshest critics.

When I was a kid, I had a friend who wrote a song (we were writing songs in the sixth grade) about some advice he had received from his dad. The hook of the song was, "Beforefilm that, commercially and (perhaps) critically, was released at the wrong time. In the last 30 years, however, it's aged remarkably well and stands as an underrated career highlight for all those involved. Combining equal parts paranoia thriller, black comedy and tragic love story, Blow Out should enthrall those new to the film and delight those that haven't seen it in years. Criterion's Blu-Ray does a perfect job of maintaining the film's tone and spirit, pairing a rock-solid technical presentation with a handful of thoughtful, appropriate bonus features. While it's a bit on the pricey side (even for a Criterion disc), Blow Out is a top-tier effort and this Blu-Ray is worth every penny. Very Highly Recommended.

Travis Crawford at Filmmaker MagazineThe ending of Brian De Palma’s Blow Out


sound to picture or opening up a Bolex to expose the camera's inner workings. In another funny joke, he has Jack slip Sally out of the hospital and into a motel room where, rather than snuggle up under the covers with her, he sits up all night with his Nagra tape deck. But the element of filmmaking that really matters here is deception, by which I mean performance. Sally, for instance, fancies herself a make-up artist, and it turns out that the face she presents to Jack isn't entirely an honest one. There's the duplicitous Manny (Dennis Franz), who uses a studio-photography business as a front for a blackmail operation. There's the murderous political operative Burke (John Lithgow, in an early rehearsal for his role on "Dexter"), whois so skilled at altering his voice that he sometimes talks as though there's a soundman inside his head, overdubbing the words in real time. De Palma even takes a moment late in the film to slyly depict the negotiation between customer and prostitute as a fundamentally phoney transaction on both sides.

Amid these actors, these practitioners of pure fiction, Jack is a documentarian. Once his boss insists that he bring new wind FX to bear on Coed Frenzy's soundmix, it's Jack's sense of professionalism that sends him wandering around in the middle of the night, recording the breeze rustling through leaves. That work ethic gets him embroiled in the mystery surrounding the governor's death. When the individual frames of a film showing McRyan's car driving into the river


are published in a newsmagazine, à la the Zapruder film, Jack finds a way to turn them into a movie he can synch with his sound recordings in order to reconstruct the accident. At one point, he tells someone on the police force that he can't simply let it go because he was there for the real events, which don't correspond with the official story. "I was there, she was there," he argues. "Who gives a damn that you were there?" comes the devastating reply. More than filmmaking, per se, Blow Out is about the tale-spinning power of modern media--the efficiency of well-told lies.

CRITERION ANNOUNCES BLOW OUTSET TO INCLUDE NEW HOUR-LONG INTERVIEW WITH DE PALMA, WHO SUPERVISED THE NEW TRANSFERCriterion today announced that it will release Brian DePalma's Blow Out on DVD and Blu-Ray April 26, 2011. The film marks its 30th anniversary this year. The restored digital transfer for the new DVD was supervised by De Palma himself. The two-disc set (the Blu-Ray is one disc) will include a new hour-long interview with De Palma, conducted by filmmaker Noah Baumbach (Greenberg), as well as a new interview with Nancy Allen. Another inspired feature: Cameraman Garrett Brown on the Steadicam shots featured in the film within the film. The set will also feature select on-set photos from photographer Louis Goldman, the original theatrical trailer, and a booklet featuring an essay by Michael Sragow, as well as Pauline Kael’s original New Yorker review. But that's not all-- the Criterion website promises that more goodies are apparently


Tom's practice covers a broad range of commercial subjects. His clients are involved in many different businesses and professions. While a significant number of Tom’s clients are involved with real estate, real estate finance and real estate development, many of Tom's clients are involved with the health care industry. Tom's clients in the real estate area include the leading single family and multi-family mortgage lenders in the State as well as a number of Indiana's most successful commercial real estate owners and developers. Tom has been involved extensively with the impact of Dodd Frank on commercial banking and mortgage banking. Tom has given webinars on this subject and will continue to be involved in the implementation of the regulations.

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Tom's practice covers a broad range of commercial subjects. His clients are involved in many


different businesses and professions. While a significant number of Tom’s clients are involved with real estate, real estate finance and real estate development, many of Tom's clients are involved with the health care industry. Tom's clients in the real estate area include the leading single family and multi-family mortgage lenders in the State as well as a number of Indiana's most successful commercial real estate owners and developers. Tom has been involved extensively with the impact of Dodd Frank on commercial banking and mortgage banking. Tom has given webinars on this subject and will continue to be involved in the implementation of the regulations.

Tom is recognized as an expert on real estate finance and has a great deal of experience with Federal and State mortgage licensing and regulation.He has represented the Indiana Mortgage Bankers Association for over thirty years, drafting some of the most important Indiana mortgage lending statutes. He was the first recipient of the Distinguished Service Award presented by the Indiana Mortgage Bankers Association and is a frequent speaker on real estate finance issues. Tom represents mortgage banking companies across the country, so his mortgage banking practice is national in scope.

Tom often is called upon to advise out of state borrowers and lenders on Indiana law and Tom also has extensive experience in construction issues and the resolution of business and financial disputes.


her forehead as “decidedly of an intellectual type.”

As patronizing as that was, it was surely a refreshing change from the “warped spinster” angle that appeared in other publications: Had she ever known romantic love? Was she a threat to her male colleagues’ marriages? Did her association with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints mean she was into polygamy? Could she be on Parliament Hill and simultaneously maintain her modesty and delicateness?

Macphail felt she was a sideshow attraction. Society columnists and male colleagues made cracks about her weight, mannish features and mannerisms, and lack of style, possibly stemming from the fact that, at least at the outset, she always wore the same blue dress. Maybe she was ahead of her time. After all, Obama went towhich was a jar containing soap stock from appellant's earthen pit. In the only point presented by appellant it is contended that such action of the court was reversible error.
The witness Patterson testified that he went to the pit during the time complained of, and put some of the soap stock from appellant's earthen pit in jars; that plaintiffs' exhibit No. 1 was one of the jars and that it contained soap stock taken from the pit; that he smelled the odor from the pit and it was an awful odor; that he had never in his life smelled anything that compared with it. He testified that the odor from the jar which was introduced in evidence was the same odor as that which came from the pit


in the 1990s, as he fought against efforts to protect gay people from discrimination.

He explained: “The great vast majority of the psychological community says homosexuality at a very minimum is a choice by the individual, and at the maximum, is a learned behaviour.”

While Pence was in charge of the Indiana Policy Review, the group attacked a job fair for gay journalists, claiming that they cannot be trusted because “gaydom” is a “pathological condition.”

The group also hit out at gay people serving in the army, claiming: “They are known to carry extremely high rates of disease brought on because of the nature of their sexual practices and the promiscuity which is a hallmark of their lifestyle.”

Pence also served on the board of the Indiana Family Institute, an anti-LGBT lobbying>> GRANT BALFOUR Latest News

Athletics closer Grant Balfour took the mound for his fourth appearance of the spring Friday night against the Giants at AT&T Park. Balfour entered the game in the eighth inning and allowed a leadoff triple to Nick Noonan before yielding up a run-scoring single to Angel Pagan. He allowed one run on two hits in an inning of work. He also struck out two as his ERA rose to 2.25 this spring.


of her neighbors’ concerns, but she continued to feed the felines.

In 2015, she was cited for feeding cats and then, two years, later Segula was cited for “various charges related to feeding cats at her residence,” police said.

In July 2017, she was convicted of having too many cats at her residence and she was placed on probation, according to the police statement.

She was then hit with another citation in August of that year for “failing to properly dispose of animal waste related to the numerous cats at her house and for continuing to feed stray cats.”

That’s when she was convicted of a “failure to dispose” charge in November 2017 and was placed on another two-year probation which required her to stop feeding the cats, Garfield Heights Police DepartmentNorth Korea launches long-range missile

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North Korea launches long-range missile

SEOUL, South Korea (CNN) — North Korea has launched a long-range “missile,” a South Korean defense ministry official told CNN Sunday.

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North Korea has moved up the launch window for a rocket by one day, the South Korean Defense Ministry said Saturday.

The new window, which was also narrowed, is February 7-14; the old window was February 8-25. The areas where debris would fall remain unchanged.

The announcement comes just days after the reclusive country’s initial launch plans came to light, which drew condemnation from South Korea and Japan. And it means blastoff


a hydrogen bomb test — a claim that was viewed skeptically by most of the international community.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe also urged North Korea to “refrain” from the launch and said his cabinet was working closely with the United States and South Korea to gather information and prepare a potential response.

“We hope (North Korea) will exercise restraint and caution in its actions. It should not act in a way that may escalate tensions on the peninsula,” Lu said Wednesday.

Japanese and South Korean airlines have altered flight paths to avoid possible falling rocket parts. Based on coordinates provided by North Korea to the IMO, the first stage and fairing of the rocket will drop off in waters between South Korea and China. Its second stage is expected towhich has an estimated range of around 5,600 miles (9,000 km).

That would put Australia, much of Western Europe, and the U.S. west coast in range of a North Korean warhead.

According to multiple experts, North Korea has at least a dozen and perhaps as many as 100 nuclear weapons, though at present it lacks sophisticated delivery mechanisms.

North Korea claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb in early January.

According to a 2015 report on Pyongyang’s space program by 38 North, testing rockets through satellite launches would provide invaluable data for potential future ICBMs.

“Even failed satellite launches would be a learning experience,” wrote aerospace engineer John Schilling.

Schilling said that a key sign to look out for in future North Korean satellite launches would be attempts to test an advanced re-entry vehicle,


(grades 6-8), and Rhetoric (grades 9-12). The objective of classical methodology is to equip students with the tools of learning and the wisdom to apply them to life situations.

Ultimately it is to instill in our children a passion for truth and a lifelong love of learning as they progress through the phases of Trivium:

PHASE ONE

Grammar

Young children learn the building blocks of knowledge or “grammar.” The fundamentals of all subjects–science, math, history, culture, the arts as well as language–are the facts, rules, and vocabulary. Young children learn these building blocks through singing, chanting, recitation, and memorization.

They learn the Great Story of the loving purposes of God as found in Holy Scripture through chanting and song, by story and verse.

Children also begin to learn Latin during the Grammar phase asGavin O'Connor, who directed Nolte in his Oscar-nominated performance in the 2011 coming-of-age mixed martial arts drama "Warrior,'' joined Nolte in speaking at the ceremony in front of the Hollywood Pacific Theatre at 6433 Hollywood Blvd., between Cahuenga Boulevard and Wilcox Avenue.

The star is the 2,623rd since the completion of the Walk of Fame in 1961 with the first 1,558 stars. The ceremony will be streamed live on www.walkoffame.com.

Nolte first gained fame for his starring role in the 1976 ABC miniseries "Rich Man, Poor Man,'' which brought him an Emmy nomination for outstanding lead actor in a limited series.

Nolte has two best actor Oscar nominations. The first came in 1992 for his portrayal of a teacher and football coach from South Carolina asked by his mother to travel


to New York to help his twin sister's psychiatrist (Barbra Streisand) after his sister's (Melinda Dillon) latest suicide attempt in "The Prince of Tides.''

The second was in 1999 for his role as a small-town New Hampshire police officer in "Affliction.''

Nolte now stars in the Epix comedy "Graves'' as a former two-term president hoping to end the wrongs of his administration 25 years after leaving the White House.

Nolte was born on Feb. 8, 1941 in Omaha, Nebraska. He moved to Southern California after graduating from high school, playing football at Pasadena City College.

In a 2015 interview with Parade, Nolte said he became interested in acting when a friend took him along as he was preparing to audition for a role on the ABC prime-time soap opera "Peyton Place.''

"His teachersaid, 'Nobody can just come and watch. You had to participate. You're going to have to read,''' Nolte told Dotson Rader. "I did. Afterward he told me, 'You don't know it, but you're an actor.' I heeded that.''

Nolte began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse, then studied briefly with Bryan O'Byrne at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting in Hollywood. He then spent several years performing in regional theaters.

Nolte's first starring film role came in 1977 as a scuba diver whose discovery of artifacts from a sunken ship sets off a series of events in "The Deep.'' His other memorable films include "Who'll Stop The Rain,'' "North Dallas Forty,'' "Heart Beat,'' "Cannery Row,'' "Down and Out in Beverly Hills'' and "48 Hours.''


was considered a modest, prayerful person; he was thought of as honest and pure by his classmates. Pampalon was devoted to Mary.

Pampalon experienced a near fatal bout of pneumonia in 1885, and attributed his recovery to the intercession of St. Anne. He made a pilgrimage, walking the twenty-one miles to the shrine of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and while there asked to join the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. His brother was already a member. In July 1886 he sailed for the Redemptorist novitiate in Saint-Trond, Belgium. He was sent to the major seminary of Saint-Jean-de-Beauplateau for two years of philosophy and four years of theology. During his years of formation and study, his classmates dubbed him "the Lamb of God," a testimony to his piety and gentleness. His fellowhistory, like Victorian England, while still acknowledging all of the–pardon my French–shitty things that were done and thought in that time period.

Jamie Frew also went to great lengths to ensure representation in his game, a bold stance against the still prevalent idea that everyone in Victorian England–or anyone of note, at least–was white, straight, and male. 50% of the historical figures that appear on cards in this game are women, and 20% of them are people of colour. He also has plans to include a cast of LGBTQ+ figures in a future expansion, which we are very eager to get our hands on. This representation doesn’t just come in the form of “some of these paintings are of women instead of men”, either–many of them are actual figures


INDONESIA has put to death a Malawian drug trafficker in the country's first execution for several years - sending a chilling signal to the two Australian Bali Nine members currently on death row.

Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are in Kerobokan Prison facing death by firing squad as Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono weighs up their bids for clemency.

The last execution in Indonesia was in late 2008, leading to a belief that the government was moving away from capital punishment.

But officials announced on Friday that a 48-year old African man convicted for drug trafficking in 2004 had been executed by firing squad.

Adami Wilson was executed in the early hours of Friday in the Thousand Islands, an archipelago popular with holidaymakers to the north of the capital Jakarta, Attorney GeneralBasrief Arief said.

He had been sentenced to death for smuggling 1kg of heroin into the country.

Attorney General Office spokesman Untung Arimuladi also said nine other convicts were to be executed this year.

The news was described by Amnesty International as a "shocking and regressive step''.

"This is really outrageous news. We oppose the death penalty in all circumstances, but Indonesia's long period without executions and the pledge to put even more people to death, makes this even more shocking,'' said Papang Hidayat, Amnesty International's Indonesia Researcher.

"What makes this so disappointing is that we have really seen the Indonesian government sending progressive signals on moving away from the death penalty in recent years.''

Sukumaran, 31, and Chan, 29, were arrested and jailed as part of the so-called Bali Nine in 2005 after


attempting to courier 8kg of heroin from Bali to Australia.

Late last year Chan said all he and Sukumaran could do was "pray and ask for a second chance''.

No one jailed on the resort island of Bali, where many foreigners are held mainly on drugs offences, is due to be executed this year as they are all pursuing legal challenges, according to Indonesia's Attorney General's Office.

This includes a British grandmother Lindsay Sandiford who was sentenced to death in January for cocaine smuggling.

The AGO said in February that there were 111 people on death row in Indonesia, 60 of whom are Indonesians, including two convicted terrorists.

Executions in Indonesia are usually carried out by firing squad in the middle of the night in isolated locations. The prisoner is notified of histo Patch on his 101st birthday. On 9 March 2009, Patch was appointed an Officer of the Légion d'honneur by the French Ambassador at his nursing home in Somerset. On 7 January 2008, Albert II, King of the Belgians, conferred upon Patch the award of Knight of the Order of Leopold. He received the award from Jean-Michel Veranneman de Watervliet, Belgium's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, at a ceremony in the Ambassador's residence in London, on 22 September 2008, which coincidentally was the 91st anniversary of the day he was wounded in action and three of his closest friends killed.

For service during the Second World War, Patch was awarded the 1939–45 Defence Medal. This was subsequently lost and on 20 September 2008, at a ceremony at Bath Fire


a few people, Patch opened a memorial on the bank of the Steenbeek, at the point where he crossed the river in 1917.

The memorial reads,

In October 2008, Patch launched the 2008 Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal in Somerset. On 11 November 2008, marking the 90th anniversary of the end of World War I, together with fellow veterans Henry Allingham and Bill Stone, Patch laid a commemorative wreath for the Act of Remembrance at The Cenotaph in London, escorted by Victoria Cross recipient Johnson Beharry.

On 9 November 2008, the Master of the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, attended the world premiere of his choral work paying tribute to Patch. The piece sets words by the Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, and was performed at Portsmouth Cathedral by the Londonthat pushed the cars through the plant starting with the Chevrolet Citations in 1979.

Floor trenches spanning 10 feet by 70 yards are being filled and central utilities are being brought back on-line.

Robin Roberts Krieger, executive vice president of economic development with the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber, said she anticipates much of the metal being hauled out will be sold to off-set the project's cost.

"GM left a whole lot of stuff behind," Robert Krieger said. "Drive by the plant and there is a mountain of metal lying outside."

She said the chamber hosted two briefings in October and November with companies interested in entering into partnerships with the Air Force at the plant.

"We walked through who could and couldn't go through the building and what the process would be," Roberts


on China for food and fuel and the vast majority of its exports go through China.

Xi, however, has yet to meet North Korea’s young leader Kim Jong Un since the Chinese president took power in 2012 and ties between the two countries have become more distant since Pyongyang began accelerating its missile and nuclear programs since Kim became leader at the end of 2011.

For over a decade, Wu led Beijing’s mostly fruitless efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula under so-called Six Party talks between China, the United States, North and South Korea, Japan and Russia. They’ve been suspended since the last round collapsed in 2008 following a failed rocket launch in North Korea.

Wu is a career diplomat and Japan expert who, according to South Korean officials, speaks littleKorean and no English.

Wu has earned a number of friends in South Korea and a reputation as a “credible” diplomat over the years, according to one Asian diplomat who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

The highlight of the Six Party era came shortly after Wu took up his position, when the sides reached an agreement for phased denuclearization of the peninsula in September 2005.

That deal was soon scuppered, however, when North Korea carried out its first nuclear test in October 2006 then pulled out of the discussions in 2009. Since then, China has been most vocal in calling for their resumption.

‘DUAL SUSPENSION’

In a rare interview with Hong Kong’s Pheonix Television that aired on Friday, Wu conveyed China’s position that Washington


California Hockey Mom Allegedly Had Sex With Son's Teammates at Sleepovers California woman, 44, allegedly had sex with teen son's hockey teammates.

Sept 20, 2011 -- The California mother of a teenage hockey player has been accused of having sex with at least two of her son's teammates at booze-fueled sleepovers she allegedly threw for the team, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department.

Katia Marie Davis, 44, is suspected of having sex and engaging in lewd acts with boys who were younger than 16 years when the alleged relationships began, police said. The boys were her son's teammates on the Beach City Lightning hockey team in upper-middle-class Laguna Niguel, Calif.

Davis threw sleepover parties for her son's team and allegedly provided alcohol to the boys, making a move on themreleased on $25,000 bail after the first arrest, but police believe that bail will be raised today as the investigation continues, Amormino said.

Other hockey moms on the team had their suspicions about Davis, police said.

"Some mothers on the team did state they had a funny feeling about her, woman's intuition or whatever," Amormino said. "There was a lot of talking about her on the team, but the suspicions turned out to be true."

Amormino said the alleged acts had been going on for three to five years.

The Beach City Lightning hockey club said Davis and her son had not been involved with the team since 2007.

Davis did not immediately return calls for comment.


males in a strike zone as combatants, according to several administration officials, unless there is explicit intelligence posthumously proving them innocent," the Times reports. "Counterterrorism officials insist this approach is one of simple logic: people in an area of known terrorist activity, or found with a top Qaeda operative, are probably up to no good."

Earlier Tuesday, Jake Tapper of ABC News pressed White House spokesman Jay Carney on the reported policy, which one former CIA official called "guilt by association." But Carney didn't directly answer the question, instead ticking off other policies he says the administration has implemented to avoid killing innocents. "[O]ur military and our broader national security team is able to pursue al-Qaida in a way that significantly reduces the potential for and the fact ofon the ground reported that the strikes killed at least 18, including six innocent civilians.

The CIA in fact said that drone strikes didn't kill a single civilian in 2011, a claim almost no one believes. In January 2011, an anonymous administration official told Bloomberg News, "The CIA since mid-2008 has executed about 200 strikes, killing roughly 1,300 militants and 30 non-combatants." According to today's Times report, another administration official put the number of civilian deaths since Obama took office "in the single digits."

Most non-government estimates put the civilian count much higher, but ascertaining even an approximate number of civilian casualties has been difficult. Pakistan forbids journalists and human rights workers from traveling to the sites of attacks, and the U.S. government, again, wavers between refusing to acknowledge the


Ginger is a key ingredient for Indian cooking

Indian spices are famous on a global scale for their medicinal and herbal properties. These noticeably colourful and vibrant spices are a value to the history of trade and culinary success within India.

While most Indian spices are essential for South Asain cuisine, many western chefs have been known to incorporate Indian spices in their classy dishes.

However, the history of Indian spices is unbelievable. Indian spices became popular as early as the 14th century through merchant trade across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

In fact, poets of that time began writing about the fragrance and wonders of these spices. Most noticeably the poet Guillaume de Loris who in his writing lists a number of the more exotic Indian spices which were notCole: I'm delighted for West Ham but I have unfinished business at Anfield

Joe Cole had just finished talking about his memorable year in France when he swiftly turned his gaze to the future.

Having seen his season long-loan in France end with him being given a standing ovation by Lille’s supporters, Cole could have been forgiven if he felt a mixture of wistfulness and anxiety. Instead there was clarity and a sense of purpose.

Though West Ham are eager to give Cole an emotional return to Upton Park and Lille would be open to taking him back for another 12 months, the Liverpool midfielder is still holding out hope he will be able to rectify the one anomaly in his career.

Revitalised: Joe Cole (right) has been a hit in France


Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos addressed a tense nation on Monday after a referendum rejected a peace deal aimed at ending the 52-year conflict between the government and far-left guerrillas known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

Anger over amnesty for former militants proved to be too much for some voters, and the peace deal was shot down by a slim majority of 50.2 percent.

In his televised speech, Santos said he had asked the government's head negotiator, Humberto de la Calle, to "begin discussions as soon as possible addressing all the necessary issues to have an agreement and realize the dream of every Colombian to end the war with the FARC.

Watch video 00:46 Colombia to begin fresh peace talks

"With the will for peace from all sides,I am sure we can reach satisfactory solutions for everyone soon," said Santos. "The country will come out winning and the process will be strengthened."

Santos' popularity took a steep nosedive after the results were announced on Sunday.

The referendum result has left the country in an uncertain limbo. Polls that had indicated the "Yes" camp, in favor of the deal, was far ahead of "No" had bestowed the public with a certain sense of security, and many of the 7,000 rebel fighters still hiding in the jungle had begun to emerge from their hideouts.

Now, both parties must scramble to save the deal before plunging the country back into war.

The "Yes" campaign was also likely hurt by the extremely low turnout, with only 37 percent of eligible voters showing up


to Sunday's poll.

Latin America's longest war

The protracted Colombian conflict, the longest in the history of Latin America, has claimed some 220,000 people, many of them civilians, since the Marxist guerrillas first declared war on a corrupt government in 1964.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that he still had faith in the Colombian government and the rebels to hold on to the cease-fire in the interest of civilians.

"We would have hoped for a different result, but I am encouraged by the commitment," Ban said of Santos and FARC leader Rodrigo Londono, also known as Timochenko. "I count on them to press ahead until they achieve secure and lasting peace.

Despite the setback, major strides at a lasting peace have been made in recent years. FARC finally admitted that they havePenal Code. The People appeal.
 All of the evidence came from Officer Chester B. Turner of the Los Angeles Police Department. On February 14, 1966, Officer Turner showed the photograph of one William Baron Woodman to the manager of a market for identification as a possible robbery suspect. The manager identified Woodman. There had been a series of robberies at this particular market. Turner had obtained Woodman's address from his parole officer. He went to the location with the parole officer. He knocked at the door which was opened by Woodman. Woodman was informed that he was under arrest for robbery. Defendant was seen by Turner and she, too, was placed under arrest for robbery. Both Woodman and defendant were then advised that they were entitled to the


later examination, turned out to be heroin.
 Marijuana was found in a bedroom closet which contained male and female garments.
 Turner had a conversation with defendant. The substance of the conversation was as follows: Defendant had been living with Woodman three or four months. She was shooting two or three caps of heroin a day. She had been doing this for two or three weeks. She did not know whether she was "hooked." Woodman supplied the heroin. She did not know where it came from and she more or less took it at his insistence. She did not know anything about the marijuana and had never seen it before.
 [1] The first issue is, of course, the legality of the search. The People concede that defendant's arrest was Hence, we affirm the convictions.

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On the dominant issue, the proof, taken on a motion to suppress, was not in dispute and, as material, it follows.  A sailing vessel, the Desiderata D, on August 29, 1977, became stranded upon a sandbar at Murrell's Inlet, a domestic waterway located along South Carolina's seacoast, near Garden City.  On the next morning, August 30 18 or 19 hours later she was boarded by three men, John Wayne Strickland, Carson Benton and Bobby Strickland, employed or residing in the vicinity, who had learned of the vessel's presence in the Inlet.  They apparently discovered marijuana stowed in the hold.  Returning ashore, Benton telephoned the County Police Department and told Detective Johnson, a law enforcement officer of eight years, that


he had information concerning marijuana aboard a sailing vessel in the Inlet.

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That afternoon Detective Johnson, accompanied by a South Carolina Law Enforcement Department agent, Anderson, met Benton at a Garden City fishing pier.  He asked if they could pay him for some information about marijuana; then he told them of the Desiderata D.  At the same time, he handed the officers a white paper napkin containing a small amount of marijuana, identified as such by Anderson and Johnson, the latter having worked with marijuana for the last eight years.  According to Johnson, Benton told them the boat was "loaded down" with it.

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plethora of constitutionals clauses, the penal code and numerous separate laws. These laws criminalize acts described with catchall phrases such as weakening of national sentiment, dissemination of false news and membership in a secret society.

Mr. Al-Assad furthermore remains head of the six-member Supreme Judicial Council, which effectively subjugates the judiciary to the control of the ruling Baath Party and the country’s 15 security services.

Moreover, the new rules governing the licensing of demonstrations are heavily slanted towards the government and designed to complicate rather than ease the organization of protests.

Implementation of the new rules was certainly put to the test on Friday. Anti-government protesters promised to organize demonstrations in scores of Syrian towns and cities and march on the capital Damascus—and they delivered on their promise.

The demonstrations would legallyin and cool off,'" he said.

Orlowski normally recommends a milk shake, a banana split or a couple of scoops of ice cream to take some of the sting out of the summer sun.

Before they head out into the furnace, he advises, "Don't catch a chill."

The humor is as dry as the heat.

Enough to melt sneakers

Death Valley, California, resident Mike Wood says he's used to the heat. But when his running shoes begin to melt, he starts to pay attention.

"The ground temperatures here can approach a hundred degrees so you're talking about pretty much boiling the shoes ... everything that kind of holds the shoe together kind of comes apart," Wood said.

The heat wave comes just a couple weeks before the 100th anniversary of what the National Weather Service


calls the "highest reliably recorded air temperature on Earth" -- 134 degrees on July 10, 1913, in Death Valley's Greenland Ranch.

The valley is consistently deemed the hottest location in the world because of its depth and shape. It has one of the world's lowest elevations and also serves as one of the driest locations in North America. Its 11,000-foot surrounding mountain range traps and radiates heat down into it.

In the desert resort city of Palm Springs, California, the heat is good for business.

"We have more work than we can handle," said Max Ghaly of Cathedral City Air Conditioning and Heating. "We're running all over the place trying to do what we can."

Worrying about tourists

Sgt. Troy Stirling, police spokesman in the Lake Havasu, Arizona, near the California state line,said he worries more about the tourists.

"I'm not worried as much about the people who have lived here a while," he said.

"It's more the tourists coming into the area, even from Southern California, who aren't used to this kind of heat."

The heat may have led to the death of an elderly man in Las Vegas. Paramedics found the man dead in his home, which did not have air conditioning, Las Vegas Fire & Rescue spokesman Tim Szymanski said.

He died of cardiac arrest and the heat may have contributed to his death, although the coroner will make the final determination, Szymanski said.

Some advice

"The No. 1 thing is to absolutely know your limitations and to stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water," Chris Stachelski, a meteorologist with the National Weather


in it for the first time against Kansas City, and the results -- really bad -- were predictable.

Then he had a bye week to soak everything in, and although that should not have been nearly enough time to pick it up, his game began to spike. He helped Detroit hold on for an elusive win in Green Bay. Then he beat Oakland with a fourth-quarter touchdown. Then he had the best game of his career against Philadelphia, completing 27-of-38 passes for 337 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions.

His passer rating was a career-best 137.8 -- which he shattered again three weeks later, hanging an astronomical 148.6 on New Orleans on Monday Night Football.

On, and on, and on.

By the time it was over, Stafford had put together the greatestto expect Stafford to maintain his torrid pace from the second half of last season, it's clear there's something to this system that agrees with his game, even if the Calvin Johnson safety net isn't at his disposal anymore.

Stafford has been sharp all week, according to players, and looked like it when practice was opened to the media on Thursday. His arm was powerful and accurate, and he had total command of the offense.

"The offense looks good," said Ebron, who did not participate Thursday due to a minor injury. "They were firing on all cylinders. Matt looked great -- he's looked great all week man. He's been huge for us. He's our leader and steps up in big ways for us, as far as making sure everyone knows


37 concurrently). The film, from filmmakers Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey, was buoyed by glowing reviews and a big-name voice cast, and earned the company’s first Oscar nomination. That generated a glut of press that is exceedingly for a part-time distributor with one real title, and proved a landmark moment. But the next year would be even more important.

GKids shocked the film world — and even its small staff — by garnering two Oscar nominations in 2012, for the Spanish movie Chico & Rita and the French film A Cat in Paris. The traditionally animated foreign-language films beat out blockbusters from Pixar and DreamWorks Animation before even beginning theatrical runs, a testament to both the lure of hand-drawn animation for Academy voters and the hunger for an alternativeis kind of a business, and those films made money for us,’” Beckman remembers, marking it as one of the major events that pushed him to focus on the company full-time, with eight to 10 releases per year. GKids has twice more earned double Oscar nominations, in 2014 (for Song of the Sea and The Tale of Princess Kayuga) and 2015 (Boy in the World and When Marnie Was There). Last year, the company was nominated for the French film My Life as a Zucchini.

That winter was a transformative one for GKids, and not just due to the awards recognition. The company also took over the theatrical rights for the Studio Ghibli catalogue, jumping at the opportunity to follow the exacting standards set out by the legendary Japanese


titles that ran at New York’s IFC Center from mid-November 2011 to January; the series drew sellout crowds and rave reviews. Disney, which had first brought the movies to the U.S. in the late '90s, had helped foster a new generation of American, and people leapt at the opportunity to see them on the big screen. The event drew national coverage as well.

Saying yes to Ghibli movies was a no-brainer; even when it was just limited theatrical rights, the association was worth its weight in film stock. A few years later, it began to pay off financially, as GKids assumed all rights to some new Ghibli releases, earning Oscar nominations and nice box-office returns for films like From Up on Poppy Hill and The Tale of the Princessthere ever was one — marks the first film from Studio Ponoc, an upstart Japanese outfit formed by Ghibli veterans when that studio went on a production hiatus several years ago. Through Fathom, GKids will put Mary in 600 theaters nationwide for one night in January, and then roll out a more narrow traditional release.

Video of Mary and The Witch's Flower Trailer #3 (Official) Studio Ponoc

The Mary game plan is sort of a modified limited release, with a big boom of screens followed by a slow expansion that will eventually return the movie to some of the markets that were part of the big opening. It represents a little bit of an experiment for the company, which is grappling, like the rest of the industry, with how to


In recent years a national discussion has raged around the role of women in American society, a discussion dominated by women from the professional upper-middle class. These spokeswomen for the women's liberation movement assume that women of all classes share their discontent with the traditional sex-related division of labor in the society. While little is known about the response of working class women to the demands of the women's liberation movement, our prior research suggests that white, working class women may value and support their traditional role in the family structure. Whether such attitudes indicate a positive assertion of a valued identity or a defensive response to a lack of alternatives is unknown. Is the rejection of the idea that liberation lies outside the home related to theLeonardo Di Vincenzo — as well as a local star of no insignificant reputation, Dogfish Head Brewery's Sam Calagione. The trio's combined efforts have produced what is sure to be the city's must-hit drinking destination of the summer (cue the "Aw man, just when the lines at Eataly were dying down" refrains).

Slated to officially open to the public this Friday, June 3rd, we got a behind-the-scenes tour and early taste of Birreria's exciting brews and rustic Italian fare. And it seems, as was the case with the opening of Eataly last September, it will have been more than worth the wait.


fairies and fantasy heroes on the road with her, turning down an uninteresting suitor (who eventually becomes the doctor who force feeds Sally in prison) in favor of the charming and posh Cyril Race.

Lady Geraldine Hill – the wife of Lord Henry Hill and a leader of the militant suffragists. She works to further the cause by speech making, political networking, and social clout until she is arrested and quickly released because of her high standing. She then disguises her appearance to be treated as a working class girl and undergoes force feeding to tell the world what horrors are being enacted on women.

Lord Henry Hill – the husband of Geraldine who supports her suffrage involvement. After her time in prison he amends his original statement that hecould only follow her 'so far', to encouraging her completely in her efforts.

Cyril Race – a handsome politician who shows romantic interest in Edith. However he cuts ties with her once she becomes a militant and eventually votes against the conciliation bill showing his true feelings.

Robbie Colquhoun – Edith’s friend from childhood who has been in love with her for years but does not earn her affection until she discovers he supports the suffrage cause.

Joe Whittle – Sally’s boyfriend who accompanies her to suffrage meetings but does not support the cause. Sally’s involvement becomes an irreconcilable difference between them, as he wants to get married and Sally does not. Sally is not overly hurt when he moves on.

Monty Cartairs – Edith’s brother who mocks the movement at first


The American family of Bledsoe is of
French extraction and has long been prominent in Virginia, where Willis
Bledsoe, Sr., the father of the subject of this sketch, was born in 1797.Early in life he settled in Kentucky, where
he married Miss Jane McDonald, a member of an early and prominent pioneer
family of that state.Their son Willis
was born in Kentucky March 22, 1841, and three other sons and a daughter were
born to them in that state.In 1846 Mr.
Bledsoe removed with his family to Missouri, where he bought a farm and became
a successful, well-to-do and highly respected citizen.Originally of the Baptist faith, Mr. Bledsoe
later became a Universalist.He died in
1870, have attained the ripe old age of seventy-four years.Their children are all living and Willis
Bledsoe is the only one of them in California.

Thesubject of this sketch was
educated in public schools in Missouri and at the end of April, 1862, when he had
just passed his twenty-first birthday, he set out for California overland with
Dr. Glenn, assisting the latter to bring out one hundred and forty-six head of
mules, and they arrived at Sacramento July 6, following.They were enabled to make this journey in
such a short time because Dr. Glenn had previous crossed the plains seven times
and therefore knew all the camping places at which water could be obtained for
the mules.Mr. Bledsoe secured his first
position in California in a garden, at twenty-five dollars a month.From there he went to Shaw’s Flat, Tuolumne
County, but remained only a week, going from there to San Joaquin County, where
he had a letter of introduction to J. W.


Jones, on whose farm he worked for
five years, beginning at thirty dollars a month and receiving additions to his
salary until he was paid six hundred dollars a year and his board.During the succeeding six years he and Mr.
Jones were partners in the sheep business, owning at times as many as fifteen
thousand sheep.Disposing of this
interest, they engaged in farming on a large tract of land which they had
acquired, Mr. Jones owning twenty-one thousand acres and Mr. Bledsoe one
thousand, two hundred and eighty acres.Since then Mr. Bledsoe has acquired three thousand and two hundred acres
more, making an aggregate of fourth thousand and four hundred and eighty acres,
which he has farmed successfully, harvesting in one year twenty thousand sacks
of wheat, which he sold at one dollar and sixty cents a hundredpounds.Of course that was an exceptional yield and
an exceptional price, but he has been continuously successful and is regarded
as one of the successful men of the county.

He is a Freemason and a Democrat,
and as a citizen is widely known and popular.In 1885 he built one of the most delightful residences in the city of
Modesto, which is surrounded by beautiful grounds that he himself planted and
improved and is an eloquent witness to his good taste and refinement.

In 1870 Mr. Bledsoe married Miss
Edna M. Jones, a daughter of his former partner, J. W. Jones, who was a
California pioneer in 1852 and arrived there a poor man with only such effects
as were hauled by one horse and bringing no other stock except a cow.His family consisted of his mother, his wife
and


four children.The present Mrs.
Bledsoe was then only three months old.Mrs. Jones was taken sick while crossing the plains and died of cholera
on the Platte River.The history of Mr.
Jones’ business success is well known in California, where by the most admirable
methods he rose from comparative poverty to
affluence.Mrs. and Mrs. Bledsoe have
had three children.Effie A. is the wife
of M. E. Leek, of Modesto, who is the official reporter of the courts of
Stanislaus County.Walter G. is a farmer
living in Merced County.Alfred L. is a
student at the University of California at Berkeley.Mr. and Mrs. Bledsoe are members of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, in which Mr. Bledsoe is holding the office of
trustee.changed somewhat. The Canucks continue to draft players from Sweden and the Q at a higher than average rate, however, in 25 picks, Gillis has only taken two players from the WHL and both of those players were picked in the late rounds of his very first draft as General Manager (2008). Those two picks were local winger Prab Rai, who is unlikely to remain in the system for much longer, and goaltender Morgan Clark who the team never signed.

It’s interesting that Gillis has avoided selecting players from the WHL, and has yet to dip into the BCHL with any picks considering his: "we’re going to try and stick with Western Canadian kids" comments in the summer of 2010. Those comments seem to have been hollow pandering, which,


was too time-consuming, since it was not an issue in previous years. He wrote that public schools are trying to “eradicate any mention of God” in the name of diversity and urged citizens to “push back.” However, he blamed the school and made only a passing reference to the unnamed parents who supposedly complained.

Both stories were based on a December 15 report by the southeastern Pennsylvania-based ABC News affiliate, ABC27-WHTM — which also focused on the alleged parental complaint as the cause of the cancellation. A town resident who was interviewed spoke of being surprised and upset that a decades-old tradition was being scrapped over “one little line.”

The canceled play had already been a subject of local controversy and rumors, which Centerville Elementary principal Tom Kramer tried toand is a relationship expert, public speaker, seminar leader, consultant, facilitator, and artist. She has appeared on many radio and TV shows, including the Oprah show. She has successfully worked with thousands of individuals, couples and business relationships and taught classes and seminars for over 42 years. Dr. Paul’s books have been distributed around the world and have been translated into many languages. After practicing traditional psychotherapy for 17 years, Margaret was discouraged by the results – both for her clients and herself. She had spent years trying to heal from her own dysfunctional and abusive background, but found herself still suffering with anxiety and relationship problems. She started to seek a process that works fast, deep, creates permanent change, loving relationships, inner peace, and joy. In 1984,


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Meanwhile, Marriott's director of loss prevention, Robert Fruchey, received a call from the front desk that a man was in the ladies' room. As Fruchey approached, he observed L.C. being dragged out of the rest room by Ott. Ott began running down the hall. Fruchey radioed for assistance and James Bufton, the night manager at the Marriott, responded to the call. As Bufton saw Ott running towards the exit,


her pants while he unbuckled his belt. When L.C. attempted to escape Ott by crawling under the rest room stall, Ott grabbed her by the legs and beat her until she again lost consciousness. Further, Pagnanelli testified that when he went to L.C.'s assistance after the attack her belt was undone, her pants were unzipped, she was semiconscious, and there was quite a bit of blood coming from her face. This evidence constitutes a substantial step toward the crime of rape, as a Class A felony, and is sufficient to sustain Ott's conviction. See Seeley v. State (1989), Ind., 547 N.E.2d 1089, 1091 (evidence that the defendant urged the victim towards her bed, forced his way into the bathroom behind her, knocked the victim to the floor, prevented3) test the predictive ability of health assessments for identifying mortality risk. The research makes use of a 15-year panel study of a sample of adult Americans participating in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey I: Epidemiological Follow-up Study. The subjects studied were first interviewed during 1971-1975 and reinterviewed in 1982-1984 and again in 1987 (N=6,931 at baseline). A prospective research design is used to evaluate how health status and change in health status affect and are affected by health assessments among Black and White Americans. In addition to racial differences, special attention is given to gender in identifying change in functional health status and health assessments.


Sukma: In one of the deadliest attacks, at least 25 CRPF personnel were killed and six wounded in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district by 300 to 400 heavily-armed Maoists, with majority of the attackers being women.

The 74th battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) came under the fierce attack at 12:30 pm on Friday in Kalapathar area of south Bastar region.

The CRPF jawans were a part of the road opening party.

The area is close to the Chintagufa-Burkapal-Bheji axis, the hotbed of Naxal violence which has seen a number of such attacks in the past resulting in high casualties.

The CRP men who survived the horror said the attackers used hand grenades, automatic rifles and rocket launchers as they launched the attack "from all sides".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the attackcinema is organized by the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts

The Sharqiah Season, the first of 11 Saudi seasons of entertainment, will run until the end of the month

Updated 21 March 2019

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DHAHRAN: As part of Sharqiah Season in the Eastern Province, the fifth Saudi Film Festival will feature Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jr. and Indian superstar Salman Khan.
The six-day celebration of cinema is organized by the Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts (SASCA) in partnership with the King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra).
Khan recently announced in a video message that he will visit Ithra on Sunday as a guest of the film festival.
“Hello Saudi Arabia, assalamu alaikum,” he said in the video. “See you at Ithra on the 24th of March,


InshaAllah.”
The actor is best known for his performances in blockbuster Hindi flicks such as “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”, “Ek Tha Tiger” and its sequel “Tiger Zinda Hai.”
In “An Evening with the Stars,” Khan will talk about his lengthy Bollywood career as both a film star and a producer.
He has starred in more than 80 Bollywood films, and has produced more than 30 via his production company Salman Khan Films.
On Monday, Gooding Jr. will take to the stage to discuss his 30 years of experience as an actor.
The American is best known for his performances in “Jerry Maguire”, “A Few Good Men” and “Men of Honor.”
Gooding Jr. has played more than 85 roles over the course of his career. He won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his role asRod Tidwell in the 1996 film “Jerry Maguire.”
Tickets to both events, as well as for the film festival as a whole, are available on Ithra’s website.
The Sharqiah Season, the first of 11 Saudi seasons of entertainment, will run until the end of the month, with more than 83 activities in nine cities.


Graduates and their families, Beijing. Photo: Embassy of the Kingdom of Tonga, China.

Nine Tongan students on study scholarships in China successfully completed their degrees this month.

According to the Tongan Embassy in China, the students graduated from universities in Beijing, Shandong, Jianxi, Wuhan and Jilin with Masters degrees and Bachelor degrees. The achievement was marked with a prayer service with the Tongan students based in Beijing and their families on Sunday, 25 June.

In a statement, Tonga's Embassy thanked the Chinese government for their continuous support and funding to enable “students from all walks of life in Tonga to pursue further studies”. Over 70 Tongan students are currently studying in China with over 20 based in Beijing during the 2016/17 academic year.

Isaiah Takau and family, Beijing. Photo: Embassy of theIt takes a perfect set of facts in a courtroom to tee up a question as esoteric but meaningful as, "What is Hollywood's definition of a movie sequel?" After a six-day trial in September over film rights to the game Dungeons & Dragons, a federal judge is now due to provide some clarity on the entertainment industry's favorite money-making vehicle.

The nominal parties in this dispute are Hasbro Inc., which now owns the company that first published Dungeons & Dragons in 1974, and Sweetpea Entertainment, which exercised an option on film rights in the 1990s and later produced three Dungeons & Dragons movies. However, the dispute is also a proxy battle between Warner Bros., which recently bought rights from Sweetpea, and Universal, which two years ago licensed rights from


Hasbro. The outcome of the case will determine which studio is authorized to go forward with a film reboot of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise.

In September, U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee presided over a bench trial where both sides brought witnesses and even came out with a few unexpected tidbits. For example, during the trial, Warners exec Jun Oh talked about the studio's Chainmail project and rumors that Guy Ritchie or Eli Roth would direct and that Russell Crowe would potentially star in the film.

Now that the trial is over, Hasbro and Sweetpea are focused on the essential issue of the case: whether Sweetpea put a proper sequel into production in a timely fashion and held on to film rights. Both sides submitted post-trial briefs this week.

Read morethe definition of "sequel" in the Writers Guild of America Basic Agreement.

Sweetpea's post-trial brief provides the alternative theory.

Peter Dekom, a transaction lawyer in the entertainment industry, testified for Sweetpea that a sequel refers to a subsequent motion picture that is linked to a prior production in the minds of consumers by taking place in the same “world” or “universe” as the prior production. Recurring characters aren't a necessity, according to him.

The discussion is further informed by at least two more elements: first, what the parties intended a "sequel" to be when they contracted with each other; and second, how Sweetpea and Hasbro interpreted those Syfy movies when they were made.

On point one, Sweetpea says that the plain language of the contract confirms reversion of rights didn't depend on


whether the sequels were distributed theatrically, nontheatrically (such as DVD) or on television. The only thing to possibly cause reversion, according to Sweetpea, is not getting a movie made in the necessary five-year window. Everything else is subordinate.

Hasbro objects to this reading of the contract by saying that the parties intended for theatrical and nontheatrical releases to operate independently of Sweetpea's rights to make television series or films. Consider it to be the rights bucket theory.

As for point two, Sweetpea says it went through all the hoops associated with a nontheatrical release — such as producing Vile Darkness independently of Syfy's control, initially releasing it on DVD in the United Kingdom and including sexual scenes and violence — but in any case, Sweetpea adds that Hasbro knew ofpatient\'s partner had normal semen analysis. Post-coital testing was reassuring with regard to mucous and presence of motile sperm.

The patient had previously undergone 3 cycles of letrozole and timed intercourse at an outside institution. She proceeded to undergo 4 cycles of letrozole and intrauterine insemination in our clinic, which were unsuccessful.

The decision was then made to move forward with IVF with embryo freezing after biopsy for aneuploidy screening. For her stimulation protocol, she began with 75 units of human menopausal gonadotropin and 125 units of recombinant follicle stimulating hormone, which was subsequently increased to 300 units. An antagonist was started on stimulation day 8. hCG trigger was administered on stimulation day 11, at which point the patient was found to have 15 follicles, 11 of which were larger


When the 81st Academy Awards aired on February 22, 2009, the ceremony took an intriguing, if time-consuming, approach to present the acting awards. Rather than have one or two presenters announce the nominees and winner, the Academy invited five previous winners in each category and assigned each a nominee to praise prior to the announcement. The announcement of the Best Supporting Actor award, for instance, found Alan Arkin, Joel Grey, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Christopher Walken delivering brief encomiums about, respectively, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Josh Brolin, Robert Downey Jr., and Michael Shannon. (The moment was undercut only slightly by Arkin apparently thinking the “actor’s actor” he’d come to praise was named “Seymour Philip Hoffman.”) Everyone looked as if they enjoyed the moment; no one looked like they expectedto win even before Kevin Kline began addressing the family of the absent fifth nominee, Heath Ledger.

That Ledger would win for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight felt like as foregone a conclusion as an Oscar outcome could be. Widely recognized as one of the most talented actors of his generation—particularly after Brokeback Mountain, for which he received a Best Actor nomination—Ledger had died the year before at the age of 28. That combination of respect and sadness can help tilt Oscar voters. But even without it, Ledger’s cryptic, unsettling turn as Batman’s archnemesis still played like an impossible-to-deny once-in-a-lifetime performance, even though it was in the sort of film the Academy tended to ignore: a superhero movie.

That Christopher Nolan’s artistically ambitious, thematically rich The


show” by breaking the blockade of “twinkly Miramax films” and “middlebrow dramas” and allowing room for a greater variety of films to pick up nominations, including animated films, science fiction, the work of untidy auteurs like Tarantino, and more films directed by women and people of color.

Nominations for superhero films, however, have continued to be a rarity even as caped heroes, masked avengers, and sorcerers supreme have come to dominate the box office. Since 2009, only two superhero movies have received a Best Picture nomination, and none until Black Panther, the highest-grossing film of 2018. That makes Black Panther an outlier in two categories. Since the expansion of the Best Picture category, only one other top-grossing film has earned a nomination, Toy Story 3 in 2011. That gapsuggesting that Malkevich was detained at Reagan National Airport by the FBI this weekend.

WASHINGTON, November 11. /TASS/. The Russian Embassy in the United States approached the US Department of State with a request regarding circumstances of an incident with detention of Russian journalist Alexander Malkevich in the Washington airport, the diplomatic mission tweeted on Sunday. “In connection with mass media reports concerning detention of Russian journalist Alexander Malkevich by FBI officers in the Washington airport, an inquiry regarding the circumstances of the event was sent to the Department of State,” the Embassy says.

Here is the tweet from the Russian Embassy twitter feed – posted at 11:18 PM.

In connection with media reports concerning detention of Russian journalist Alexander Malkevich by @FBI officers in the Washington airport, an inquiry regarding


[Psychiatric comorbidity related to children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder at schools in Sfax, Tunisia].
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a prevalent behavioral disorder particularly noticed among school children. It is often associated with other psychological troubles at the origin of an additional difficulty that has to be overcome. Our research's aim was to study the comorbidity of school-aged children diagnosed with ADHD in Sfax, Tunisia. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out from 1st April 2008 to 1st October 2008. Five hundred and thirteen pupils aged between 6 and 12, from primary arbitrarily chosen schools from Sfax were subjected to this study. Measurements were carried out in two steps: parents and teachers of each child filled in separately Conners questionnaire, then children with a score in subscalesPaul Martin, unlike Burns, could melt into a crowd. He is not necessarily the first person you spot as he walks down a street, not up for a major trophy this season (Burns is a finalist for the Norris) and the adjectives he garners are as far from flashy as he is. He is steady, stabilizing, communicative.

SAN JOSE -- It is hard to miss Brent Burns, on the ice, off the ice, anywhere. He is all hair and beard and missing teeth and colorful tattoos and plaid suit coats. He is, as they say, a character. He has enough personality and flair for two, which is handy for his understated defense partner.

He is calm.

He is also a reason, though perhaps not the most noticeable one, why the San