He has been at the core of RTÉ Sport for over half a century and will be irreplaceable.

I would personally like to thank him for his commitment and professionalism. I know I and all of his colleagues would like to wish him well in his retirement; he is a true broadcasting legend.Ryle Nugent, Group Head of RTÉ Sport

He is a legend, the voice of the GAA and simply irreplaceable. He is the only person about whom I have never heard a bad word spoken, which is unique in Irish life. It sums Mícheál up, a true gentleman.Pat Spillane

To me he was the greatest commentator of all time. Being involved in RTÉ he was always encyclopaedic on all sport. No matter where you would meet him he would alwaysGaelic games commentary to people who might not have been huge GAA fans simply because they loved the sound of his voice, his phraseology and the way he would put things, he opened the games to a whole new audience. It is an over-used phrase to say somebody will never be replaced but in this case it is true because his style was absolutely his own and absolutely unique.Michael Lyster

The word 'legend' is thrown around these days like confetti but for me both personally and professionally there is only one real legend. Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh is an icon of Irish broadcasting and I have been privileged to work beside him in RTÉ for many years.

His beautiful voice, his effortless switching from Bearla to Gaeilge and his storytelling skills


sharing great moments with him over the past 25 years. He is always most helpful and in good humour. Micheál doesn't change, the person we know and love behind the microphone is exactly the same warm, charming, chatty person behind the scenes.

An abiding memory for me was the conclusion of the Connacht Final in 1994. Leitrim had just tasted victory for the first time since the 1920s. I walked with Micheál from the commentary boxes in Dr. Hyde Park to the dressing rooms located out near the Athlone Rd. An elderly man approached him with the greeting: 'Miceal O Muircheartaigh, you're everyone's friend' There aren't too many people you could say that about!Ger Canning

Other tributes:

Former Mayo manager and sitting Fine Gael TD John O'Mahony said: 'Micheál was asimportant to GAA matches as the football, the sliotar and the players.

'He transcended his position as a commentator. In an era when relations between the press and sports people can be an issue, it was never an issue with Micheál. His love of Gaelic football and hurling was there for all to see and hear and he was loved all over the world as well as at home.

'Every person in the GAA has their favourite memory of Micheál. Personally, I remember the final few moments of Leitrim’s victory in the 1994 Connacht final when Micheál described how not only were Leitrim people in Croke Park and Leitrim people all over the world watching this but Leitrim people were watching from the veranda of heaven. Micheál is truly the


(Mayo).

Greetings and every good wish to a wonderful man. The commentries over the years brought us so much joy even when our team lost, Michael, some way, could sooth your loss.

The 1992 All-Ireland was his finest hour but this year's hurling final ran it close.

RTÉ do the Nation a favour and go out and find new talent don't go for your own cronies to replace this great man.

Hugh Crawford

As a New Zealander I was introduced to Hurling and GAA Football in 1998 by Oliver Lee when he appeared on Radio Sport after it was rebranded from Sports Roundup. Oliver use to broadcast the finals on his own showon another station but when Radio Sport came along he decided to put it on the air since RS has widerMost were quiet funny, some hilarious and some terrible.

Probably the best ever spaeker was when we had Michael as the guest speaker. He was brilliant! His speech was along the lines that rugby came from Kerry when the balls were big heavy leather and got bent out of shape with age and the wet kerry climate....hence the oval shape!He was hilarious recalling how Kerry footballers were useless at rugby because they couldnt deliberately kick for touch, and not for a goal or a point!!

He is not just a great commentator but a great example of a true Gentle Irish Man.

Hope he has a long and happy retirement

Kind Regards

Sean Kelly

I always remember Micheál's commentary when I was younger when games weren't shown on TV until the later stages of


one feel they were actually at the match itself.

I thank you for them all, & hope your retirement will as good to you, as your commentaries were to all of us.

From Theresa in Cork

It had to end at some point and being the true gentleman he decided his own way to call it a day.

Tributes and accolades will be paid to this man who was the voice of Gaelic Games in Ireland for so long but, he has transcended the sport he brought to the listener, his commentary of the national games are one in the same.

Indeed like all legandary play by play broadcasters around the world he had his own style and grace, but for me what made him extra special was that he had the commonI asked him to give me a piece of commentary were as I was playing in an All-Ireland.

He asked what me what team did I want to be playing for so it was the Tipp team of the 1960's in Hurling and the Kerry team in 70's.

It was a memory I'll never forget. Micheal may you be continued to be blessed with good health and for all the emmigrants around the world, Go Raibh Mile Maith Agat..

Hugo Straney, Toronto

Micheál was truly the greatest link between the general population and the action in Croke Park, Thurles, Castlebar or wherever.

Two things stand out for me...his clarity and simplicity in two languages.

Two events stand out as well. An insert broadcast from Meaghers of Fairview in the lead up to some major


game and above all his description of the presentation after Leitrim's victory in Connacht.

His description of 'the hordes of Leitrim folk watching from the balustrades of heaven' as Declan Darcy received the cup in the company of 1928 captain Tom Gannon was just magical. go mairfidh se an cead.

Eamon S Davis

RTÉ Sport is losing the best with Micheal's retirement.

May he enjoy long,healthy and happy years because he deserves it all - and more!

Micheal O'Byrne.

Sad to hear of Micheal's retirement, though to realise that he is 80 certainly is some achievement as a commentator on RTÉ.

For many years he has brought the All-Irelands alive - for several years on Shortwave and in latter years either on Radio One or on Internet.

Always the voice brought Ireland alive with lots ofmy pillow in bed. In the complete darkness thousands of miles away, I closed my eyes and for the next 70 minutes I was back home and in the middle of a bright Croke Park with all the sounds and sights and smells of All Ireland Final Day!

One I particularly remember was his description of a Garda at an all Ireland, in uniform and obviously on duty, the poor man was trying hard but was really struggling to contain himself.

Interspersed in Micheal's match commentary were regular updates on how the Garda was doing; from rolling the programme in his hand, to pacing up and down the sideline, to looking at his watch, to eventually leaping three feet in the air when the final whistle went!

One good thing about


his retirement is that Micheal gets to hear directly from the people of Ireland how much of a national treasure he really is!

Martin Kelly

Over the last 20 years or so I have listened to Michael's wonderfulcommentary from Leeds, London, Stavanger, Lagos, Melbourne and for many years in Houston, TX, and now in Calgary, Alberta.

He has brought many fond memories, enlightened and enlivened many Sunday morning's and nights in all those far-flunf places, making the separation from home and family seem less distant.

To describe him as a sports commentator is to do him an injustice - call it prose, call it lyrical, call it what you want, but he has a way of bringing one there to the fieldside, to feel the weather, theexcitement and the pace of thegame as though one were playing it themselves. His interjections with topical tidbits about the players themselves, or their backgrounds, brought those players closer to you - made them seem more real than many of the other 'professional' sportsmen and woman who so often doimnate our back and front pages for all the wrong reasons.

As for his love of the game, of the Gaelic culture, there's few tosurpass him. But more than that, that love of the culture was infectious.

Go raibh maith agat, Micheál.

Lochlann Magennis

I just want to wish Micheál all the best in his retirement and thank him for the endless hours of pleaseure he's brought to generations of IrIsh people.

One memory that stands out for me is when he was commentating on a Munster football final


in Killarney during the early 90s. In the blazing summer sunshine Micheál mentioned that a cottage high in the mountains overlooking Fitgerald stadium had smoke billowing its chimney. He paused for a moment and the he added that 'they must have a bit of dampness in the house!'

Patrick Healy (Cork!)

I have with pleasure read all the tributes to this lovely man as are currently on the website. I wish to add my own tribute because it comes from another angle to most.

I first came across Micheal as a 9 year old student in his class in O'Connell's School in Dublin in 1965. Up to then he was simply a voice albeit a wonderful Gaeilgeoir.

To those who do not know - Micheal was probably a better primary school teacherwere in the middle of it with his commentaries. The best of luck to him in his retirement

Slan go fóill

Tom Shanahan (Gaborone Botswana)

One of my most treasured possessions is a recrording of Micheál doing commentary on the 2001 Comortas Peil na Gaeltachta where my own club An Clochán Liath (Dungloe, Donegal) played Baile Bhuirne in the senior final, later the following year Micheál graced us for a full weekend in Dungloe where he spoke to young and old within the club, played golf on Cruit Island Golf Course and attended our Annual Dinner Dance where he enthralled the gathering i mBearla agus i nGaeilge, people who did not speak Irish actually understood Mícheal, such was his presentation.

Adh mór a Mhícheal

Myles SweeneyChairmanDungloe GAA ClubCo Donegal

Sunday afternoons will never be


the same again. In the car going to or coming a club match up and down the country there would always be silence for the great man, only interrupted by laughter when he would reveal some amazing fact about some players relative. Enjoy your retirement and you will be sadly missed on the airwaves

John Crotty

Would like to wish Micheál the best of luck on his retirement.He was the voice of the not only the radio but the entire GAA Community. My first memory of you was when I was in the gaeltacht in Connemara about 3 years ago..I was travelling in the Car and was listening to The Cork/Waterford match in the car. It was like being at the match, you could tell the atmosphere just from yourStar.

Paul Kelly, Erin Go Bragh GAA Club

I used to always turn down the sound on the tv and turn on the radio to get Micheál's commentary it would make you feel that you were at the match and that he was just talking to you.

It will be the end of an era on Sunday. I wish you a happy retirement and the best of luck with the dogs. Come on the Rebels.

Graham

For over 20 years here in the US, Micheál has provided a unique and invaluable link for me and so many of us each summer as he brings the championship alive. I believe he has always been very conscious of his worldwide audience and has embellished his commentary with many references and stories for the great Irish


past pupil Barry Cahill when he was recently honoured with a GAA all-star award. On that day he managed to keep 300 boys of all ages totally enthralled (and quiet) with his account of Barry’s exploits on the field of play. It truly is a gift to have the ability to use words in such a way as to portray what is happening on the field of play: 'We watched it on the radio' is an oft quoted line and this is especially true when attributed to Micheál as his commentaries are as graceful and skilful as the players he was describing. The voice of sunny summer Sunday afternoons will be missed by young and old alike. John KearnsPrincipal,Scoil Bhríde BNSBlanchardstown,

First of all best wishes on your retirement.kick or puck of the ball.

Thank you sir, and may I wish you all the best for the future. It just won't be the same without you. David Sweeney, Crest, France.

A few colleagues of mine at work and I were talking about Michéal's announcement this morning of his retirement and how it had hit us all how he waiting so late to announce his retirement, and in so doing, didn't risk drawing too much attention to himself and away from the game on Sunday. He's a gentleman.

Sueanne O'Halloran

For Irish people at home and overseas, Micheal's personality and voice is THE MOST POSITIVE 'BRAND' IMAGE OF IRELAND. He really nearly belongs to the Nation. Michael Browne

I had the honour of holding an umbrella over Micheál during his commentary on


the 1993 Ulster final in Clones between Derry and Donegal. It poured from start to finish but you ploughed on regardless. If you remember the press box was on the back of a trailer in the half completed Gerry Arthurs stand. I followed you about the trailer the whole game and it seemed as if you were out there playing! You are a living legend and I wish you the best of good health and long life in your retirement. Many many thanks for years of enjoyment!!! Mark Kellett

Micheál has given me some of my earliest memories, sitting in the back of the car on the way to or from a match listening to him on the radio. One of the all time greats across any broadcasting medium,and millions of others endless hours of joy, for years. To hear its about to depart is worthy of a tear.

Sláinte agus saol chugat. Mark McNamara

Micheál O Muircheartaigh has been a sublime commentator. Fergus Lynch

It would be a great tribute to a great man if he was given thecommentary for RTE tv on his last all ireland football final. Micheal, you are a true GAA legend. go rabh maith agatDan Culloty

Long life to MichealVincent Molloy

I had the good fortune to have Micheal speak at a dinner in Dublin, we had visitors from Scotland, England and Wales, most had never heard of Micheal before.

Everyone was spellbound when he spoke to us; his very distinctive accent and his flow of stories and the history lesson he gave was brilliant.

When Micheál


Now many years on, I'm living in Copenhagen and still loving hurling, and since the evolution of the listening to radio on the internet I treasure your commentary. So now it's my turn to lock myself away from my children and listen to the vivid imagery you present. I am a tipperary woman, in Copenhagen, and our All-Ireland is now the more sweeter. I will forever treasure the podcast from his commentary of the all-Ireland 2010.Síle Kinane Simonsen

A legend, I was in Limerick for the Special Olympics and Micheál was there. The athletes were getting pictures, after a presentation, with him. One of the athletes said 'who is he'. Michael then congratulated the athletes and on hearing his voice the athlete said 'it's Micheal from the radio'. Abe sorely missed by expats all over the world for when we heard your commentary in the Irish language gave us a great feeling of pride. I will especially remember the time you visited Dubai for our 7's tournament and the great excitement of all the expats when you done the commentary on the All Stars match. Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh a true legend in his own lifetime.Frank Doyle

Just like to wish Micheál all the best in his retirement. Really enjoyed his commentaries down thru the years. My particulate favourite is from the 1992 senior final Dublin v Donegal. Commenting on the Donegal corner back Noel Hegarty. 'Noel is a sheep farmer – there is a sheep fair in Moville on Tuesday – I wonder will he be at


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unjust enrichment, affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff, a well-known chef, alleges that in 2010 he sold his concept of a fast food restaurant chain serving ramen cuisine to defendants Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., and its founder and CEO, Steven Ells [FN1]. Plaintiff was then hired as an at-will employee to bring the concept to fruition. He was compensated through an employment contract providing a base salary and the promise that after working with defendants for three years on the project, he would receive a substantial amount of equity in the form of company stock. By its terms, plaintiff was restricted from working on ramen-related projects other than with defendants.
The complaint indicates that a considerable amount of work was done over the next year and a half. At the end ofhis first year, plaintiff received a full annual bonus and additional stock grants. Defendants informed him that the plan was to open the new restaurants in 2012. A lease was signed in September 2012 for a Manhattan-based flagship store.
In October 2012 plaintiff claims he learned from other Chipotle executives that in 2008 Ells had entered into a confidential agreement with David Chang, the owner of Momofuku Noodle Bar, to develop a ramen restaurant concept. Chang worked on the design for what ultimately became defendants' Washington D.C. flagship ramen cuisine restaurant called ShopHouse. However, the Chang-Ells agreement, containing nondisclosure provisions that have remained in force, fell apart when the parties were unable to agree on financial terms. Although Chang never agreed that his design work could be used for


ShopHouse, according to the Chipotle executives, Ells "simply converted" Chang's work, without payment, to open ShopHouse. The Chipotle executives stated that Momofuku would sue Chipotle once Ells opened the ramen restaurant that plaintiff had developed.
Plaintiff confronted Ells with this information. Ells did not deny the previous business dealings. Instead, he "stunned" plaintiff by ordering him to proceed with the ramen concept, even knowing "it would end in litigation." Shortly thereafter, in November 2012, defendants terminated plaintiff's employment. Officially, he was terminated on the ground that he was engaged in outside work, which plaintiff disputes, and because Ells had lost confidence in the ramen project.
The complaint alleges two causes of action against defendants: fraudulent inducement and unjust enrichment. In sum, it alleges that defendants fraudulently induced plaintiff to workthe registered domain name "Ramen Yokocho," conceived around the existing service platform of the Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants: fast food restaurants that serve high-quality food. On November 20, 2010, plaintiff submitted his plan to Ells.
Between November 2010 and January 2011, plaintiff and Ells met and discussed the menu, the service platform, and plaintiff's ideas generally regarding a ramen restaurant, and on January 2, 2011, Ells formally extended an exclusive offer by which Chipotle would proceed with plaintiff's ramen concept. Plaintiff obtained counsel to represent him in the ensuing negotiations.
The proposal Ells conveyed was that plaintiff would be compensated for the concept through an employment contract in which he would be paid a base salary as well as equity in the form of Chipotle company stock, to be paid


right with respect to continuance of employment with the Company" and that "the right of the Company to terminate plaintiff's employment with it at any time (whether by dismissal, discharge, retirement or otherwise) is specifically reserved by the Company and acknowledged by plaintiff." Plaintiff was given the title of "Culinary Director," a new position. His name and likeness were used in marketing materials for both Chipotle and the ShopHouse brand, the name given to the anticipated ramen noodle restaurant.
Plaintiff continued developing the ramen concept for Chipotle throughout 2011. In December 2011, he and a development team toured Japan to visit ramen restaurants and ingredient suppliers to prepare for the project. In February 2012, plaintiff received his first annual review from Ells, which was "entirely positive." He received hisfull bonus, and additional stock grants. Ells told plaintiff that this was the year to open the ramen restaurants. In [*5]May 2012, plaintiff returned to Japan, along with the development team and Ells, to visit ramen restaurants and suppliers. Upon his return to the U.S., plaintiff began working more intensively on the ramen concept.
In September 2012, a lease was executed for a potential flagship ramen noodle restaurant to be located on 12th Street at University Place in Manhattan.
Plaintiff alleges that in October 2012, he first learned that Chipotle had a prior business relationship with David Chang, the owner of a restaurant called Momofuku Noodle Bar, concerning a similar ramen concept. Specifically, plaintiff alleges, some time that month he had dinner at Momofuku Noodle Bar with Mark Crumpacker, Chief


Marketing Officer of Chipotle, and Tim Wildin, Chipotle's New Concept Development Director, to taste food and meet Momofuku's outgoing head chef, whom plaintiff had proposed as a possible hire for Chipotle's ramen restaurants. During that dinner, Crumpacker confided in plaintiff that Chipotle would not hire any former Momofuku employees, and that Momofuku would sue Chipotle when it opened the ramen restaurant, but that Ells had decided to proceed with plaintiff's concept anyway.
Specifically, plaintiff learned from Crumpacker that in 2008, Ells had entered into a confidential business deal with David Chang, under which Chang agreed to develop a ramen restaurant concept like the one plaintiff was developing. In conjunction with that deal, Ells had signed a nondisclosure agreement which required him to maintain as confidential the details of Chang'sramen concept, including menus and other business development ideas. Further, Chang had worked on the design for a Dupont Circle property that later became a flagship ShopHouse restaurant, the name Chipotle gave to its ramen noodle restaurant. According to plaintiff, he was informed by Crumpacker that Chang never consented to the use of his design work for the opening of ShopHouse, and did not authorize the use of any of his confidential work with Chipotle for the purpose of opening a ramen restaurant, but that Chipotle nevertheless converted Chang's work for its own use.
After learning the foregoing information in October 2012, plaintiff confronted Ells concerning Chipotle's prior agreement with Chang. Ells did not deny the preexisting business dealings, but simply ordered plaintiff to proceed with the ramen concept.


Plaintiff was concerned that by continuing to work with Chipotle to open the ramen restaurant, he would become a party to a lawsuit that would be brought by David Chang and Momofuku.
On November 17, 2012, Ells terminated plaintiff's employment, and this action followed.
The crux of plaintiff's fraudulent inducement claim against defendants is that by failing to disclose to plaintiff Chipotle's prior business relationship with Chang before plaintiff and Ells entered into their business relationship, Ells omitted a material fact that would substantially impact plaintiff's ability to successfully implement his ramen concept. Plaintiff reasons that Ells and other Chipotle staff, while exchanging information and ideas with him during the collaborative process, had conveyed information to him that had been communicated to them by David Chang. Therefore, any implementation byto a mixture of lumbermen and railroad employees.  A post office was established there in 1861, but had been discontinued by 1880.  The land was owned by the local Burgwald family, which sold it in the 1920s to the Long Beach Land Company.

The modern-day beach community began to be developed in the 1930s, when developers Orphie Gotto and Clarence Mathias began to build it as a log cabin town for vacationers.  Many of the early residents were schoolteachers from Chicago.  The town was incorporated in 1947.

Education
Michiana Shores residents are served by the Michigan City Public Library. Michiana Shores residents may also request a free library card from any La Porte County Public Library branch.

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Israeli authorities have allowed a batch of construction material comprised of 35 cement and steel trucks to enter the Gaza strip for the first time in 5 years. The material passed through the Karam Abu Salem crossing and is to be used in 10 factories destroyed following the Israeli invasion of Gaza in 2008.

Previously, only material used for building by international aid organisations was allowed in the besieged Strip.

Raed Fetouh, member of the committee coordinating entry of goods to Gaza, said that Israel allowed the entry of 280 trucks loaded with commercial and agricultural equipment and aid, including the aforementioned 35.

A Gazan delegation of private sector representatives had previously met with Israeli crossings officials at the Beit Hanon crossing in Northern Gaza and presented them with a setstarted in 2011. It began as a series of songs by the composer Shizen no Teki-P, but has since spread to other media and exists as a manga and short novel series called Kagerou Days. An anime is also in the works.

Of course, the music has not fallen completely from popularity, and today’s upbeat Vocaloid rock songs still garner a lot of attention, but compared to the 1,800,000 books sold of Kagerou Days, the music which first facilitated creation of the series is somewhat dwarfed by the popularity of its derivative works. Vocaloid character novels have become such a large corner in Japanese bookstores, that they have been established as their own genre, separate from light novels.

For people who were introduced to Vocaloid with Hatsune Miku, it must


The Silk Road to the Throne

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Koya

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Until she passed away from natural causes just a few months ago, Madame Niska Mvashti was the oldest person in Sandpoint. No one quite knows exactly how old the Varisian seer actually was when she died (she was already old when Sandpoint was founded over 40 years ago)—but the fact that her only daughter Koya is herself an old woman is a telling fact. Koya has spent a fair amount of her life traveling Varisia with a number of caravans, serving as a healer when she was younger and more recently as a fortune-teller. For the past several years, she’s been traveling with her adopted son Sandru Vhiski on a regular caravan route that travels between Riddleport, Magnimar, and Korvosa twoOrcas thrive in a land to the north.

Why are Puget Sound's dying? BLACKFISH SOUND, QUEEN CHARLOTTE STRAIT, B.C. B igger and bigger, with a puff and a blow, the orca surfaces, supreme in his kingdom of green. igger and bigger, with a puff and a blow, the orca surfaces, supreme in his kingdom of green. Northern resident orcas like this one live primarily in the cleaner, quieter waters of northern Vancouver Island and Southeast Alaska, where there also are more fish to eat. They are the same animal as the southern residents that frequent Puget Sound, eating the same diet, and even sharing some of the same waters. They have similar family bonds and culture. The difference between them is us.

The southern residents are struggling to survive amid


a week during summer and fall all those decades — are the sounds of the northern resident whales that cruise the waters of Blackfish Sound and Johnstone Strait.

Leaning on a wooden rail of the deck overlooking the glassy water, Spong speaks softly of the life he and his wife, Helena Symonds, have lived here amid the whales. Behind him, inside his lab, an ever-changing cadre of research volunteers monitors feeds from underwater cameras Spong has placed throughout the area over the years to non-invasively document the lives of passing whales. Hydrophones — underwater microphones — also monitor the water from a listening network Spong has established over about 50 square kilometers in the orcas’ core habitat. Live webcams also bring the wonder of this place to the world.

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Before becoming the oil capital of the nation, Calgary was a nineteenth-century boomtown in the heart of Alberta. The roots of great prosperity were growing, despite the fact that politicians and the general public believed the West was best left to the trapper and trader.

Nurtured by a sense of vision and the sweat of good old-fashioned hard work, Calgary grew, and has now blossomed into a world-class cosmopolitan city noted for its burgeoning oil and gas industry, its famed Calgary Zoo, and of course, the Stampede. A Calgary Album is a sentimental journey into a cattle town that grew to be so much more. Through sixty-five glorious black and white photographs and engaging storytelling, the authors take the reader back to the time of the "real" cowboys, to


the days when the streetcar seemed like science fiction, through the Depression, the great wars, the times of boom, bust, and recovery. We revisit the movers, the shakers, and the honourable everyday people who turned this "cow town" into a city worth bragging about.When a U.S. Navy ship downed an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday it sent an important message to the mullahs who rule the Islamic Republic: aggression has consequences and America will strike back when provoked.

During the Obama administration, Iran’s leaders figured out that President Barack Obama was desperate to secure his place in history by reaching a deal to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.

So Iran took advantage of Obama’s desperation. The Iranians engaged in terrorism, supported anti-American and anti-Israel fighters, helped Syrian dictator Bashar Assad wage a civil war, and won Obama’s approval of a badly flawed nuclear deal that simply delayed Iran’s entry into the nuclear club for a few years.

TRUMP: US WARSHIP DESTROYED IRANIAN DRONE IN STRAIT OF HORMUZ

Much to the disappointment


of the mullahs, President Trump has made clear he is no pushover. Recognizing that the Iran nuclear deal was a bad bargain he withdrew the U.S. from the agreement and placed crippling economic sanctions on Iran.

Iran is now taking aggressive actions in the Persian Gulf and threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off oil shipments, to get sanctions relief. But unlike Obama, Trump is playing hardball and not giving in to Iranian threats.

In announcing the downing of the Iranian drone Thursday in a defensive action by a Navy warship appropriately named the USS Boxer, President Trump said: “The U.S. reserves the right to defend personnel, facilities, interests.” The president said the drone came within 1,000 yards of the U.S. ship and ignored several calls to standwork force reduction and wage freeze that unions agreed to a year ago.

Europe growth

"The commitment of all Renault employees enabled the group to meet its 2013 objectives in an unfavorable environment," CEO Carlos Ghosn said in the statement. "Strengthened by this result, the group can begin the second part of its strategic plan with confidence."

Renault was the only carmaker of the top five sellers in Europe to report groupwide sales growth in the region last year, according to figures from the ACEA trade group.

The increase was the result of the Dacia nameplate's 23 percent surge, which more than made up for a 1.5 percent decline at the namesake Renault brand.

Renault said last month that industrywide demand in France and across Europe will increase 1 percent in 2014, with


deliveries worldwide rising 2 percent.

Chinese venture

The French manufacturer, which owns 43 percent of Nissan, is pushing into emerging markets to make up for Europe's six-year plunge in demand for new cars to a two-decade low.

Renault outlined plans earlier this month to double its market share in India. The carmaker received approval in December from regulators in China, the world's largest auto market, to build its first plant in the country.

The Chinese factory, which will produce SUVs starting in 2016, is being set up in a joint venture with Wuhan-based Dongfeng Motor Group Co. The partner also builds vehicles with PSA/Peugeot-Citroen and is considering buying a stake in PSA.

The Dongfeng-PSA collaboration won't affect Renault's plans to work with the Chinese carmaker, Ghosn said today on a conference call withanalysts.

Iranian market

The company's global sales, including the Dacia and Samsung brands, rose 3 percent last year to 2.63 million cars and light commercial vehicles. Growth was held back as Renault stopped selling component kits for assembly in Iran in line with trade prohibitions, costing the company 64,500 deliveries versus 2012, the manufacturer said on Jan. 21.

Like French competitor PSA, Renault has said it's willing to re-enter Iran once trade sanctions against the country are eliminated. The Iranian auto market is poised to grow by at least least 50 percent, Ghosn said in an interview on Jan. 23.

Nissan contribution

Renault and Nissan raised their goal for combined savings from cooperation by 7.5 percent in January to "at least" 4.3 billion euros by 2016 by intensifying joint projects in development, manufacturing,


over the past 30 years. The wetland mainly contains fish ponds, rivers, and vegetation communities. In addition, the wetland also contains centralized villages and a few scattered areas of houses and trees^[@CR35]^. The circled squares in the map of the Xixi Wetland show the rapidly developing economic zone. The area of wetlands has gradually been reduced due to industrialization and urbanization, including building construction, reclamation, and pollution. The resources in the Xixi Wetland face combined pressures from natural and socio-economic factors that must be resolved. Therefore, the Hangzhou Xixi National Wetland Park was constructed in 2005 to protect the Xixi Wetland. In 2009, it was successfully included in the "List of Wetlands of International Importance (the Ramsar List)"^[@CR36]^.Figure 1Location of the study area. The aerial photograph was producedstatement just by using the bathroom.

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In 2001, she returned to the Senate to work in a few different
positions before transferring to the lieutenant governor’s office as a scheduler
in 2003.   In 2008, at the expiration of the lieutenant governor’s term, Brown
was transferred to the Senate in the position of Committee Assistant.    In that
capacity, she was assigned to assist four Mississippi state senators.
      During the legislative term beginning in 2008, the state-wide budget,
which includes the Senate budget, was reduced due to poor economic
conditions. This budget reduction prompted the Senate to make personnel
decisions through its Rules Committee.        The Committee was headed by
William Hewes, III, but the proposed personnel changes were put forward by
Tressa Guynes (“Guynes”), then Secretary of theremove copyrighted photos not in the public domain will be honored promptly. Comments by third parties are neither sponsored or endorsed by Bleacher Nation.

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Alan Watts Podcast

Alan Watts is one of the most widely read philosophers of the 20th century. In addition to his 28 books, Alan Watts delivered hundreds of public lectures and seminars the recordings of which have been preserved in the archives of the Electronic UniversitySliding door closing devices prevent the door from closing too fast and hitting against an external frame, side wall or frame. They prevent the hand from being crushed or damage to the door structure.
From patent description US2013167444A1, a sliding door arrangement is known, in which the force of a rapidly closing door is dampened by a gas shock absorber mounted in a guide rail. A pin is attached to the door, which, while closing, engages with a gripper attached at the end of the shock absorber.
From Polish utility model application W.120907, a sliding door closing device is known, which comprises three systems for shock absorbing and gripping, spring tension adjustment and an adjustable device mounting inside the guide rail. While sliding (opening) the door, the shock absorbing and


sliding door closing device that will brake a rapidly sliding door leaf and close it to make contact with a side edge, but would allow easy and effortless opening at the same time.
The door closing device, according to the invention, has a body. The body, in its upper part, has longitudinal holes in the side walls, located in the vicinity of the body ends. In the lower part of the body, there is a longitudinal component located in parallel to the base, which serves as a pusher, and—in the upper part of the body—above the pusher, there is a slider with lateral holes at the ends.
Inside the slider, there are two chambers. In one of them, there is a spring and a choke of the closing device, andin the other chamber, the gripper of the closing device is fixed slidably, connected with the closing device choke and which remains in contact with the closing device spring. The end part of the slider, at the side of the spring and choke, is terminated with a hooked attachment. To one of the external walls of the body, the spring and—on the opposite side—the choke of the opening device is mounted. The ends of the spring and choke of the opening device are permanently attached to the body wall and—on the other side—connected with a lateral joiner placed through holes in the body and in the slider. On one of the ends, the body is fitted with the rotary and spring mounted slider gripper, which remains in contact


with an attachment and gripper on one side, properly shaped support of the moving roller on the other side, and a pusher contacting the roller support with a slider gripper, the opening device spring, and the choke. The opening system allows for opening of the door by pushing the door on a vertical strip or on the edge. Pushing on the door moves the support on the moving roller and simultaneously moves the pusher on the support wedge and releases the pusher from the gripper. In one variant of the door closing device, according to the invention, the pusher releases the slider from the gripper by a pushing movement, and in the other variant, it does so by a pulling movement. By opening the opened door, tension isplaced on the closing device spring with the gripper of the closing device moving inside the slider. The stroke of the slider is determined by the length of longitudinal holes in the body. Preferably, the length of the holes is approx. 25 mm. When tension is placed on the spring, the gripper is locked, and the door moves freely on the guide rails. While closing, the closing device gripper is released by the door guide gripper, and the door is closed by placing tension on the opening spring and moving the slider in the body and locking it with the slider gripper at the same time. The closing spring pulls the door to the inner side of the cabinet.
The closing device, according to the invention, is provided with


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Bennett added: "That was the last record she made. It was great, she sang beautifully."

Duets II, which also features collaborations with Lady GaGa and John Mayer, is released on September 19 in the UK and September 20 in the US.

Bennett turned 85 years old today and was surprised during his interview on Today when a cake bearing an image of his new album art was presented to him. He will mark the birthday with a celebration at the Metropolitan Operareturns. Part of the kick off problem was due to poor blocking. Another failure of the special teams.

Now onto the offense.

Many were perplexed as to why Matt McGloin was “benched” in the first quarter. As Dennis Allen stated that Terrelle Pryor would be seeing play time in the remaining games, this was no surprise.

It took until our 3rd possession, the one Pryor was in at QB, for Marcel Reece to adjust being a running back and finding holes and making use of his blockers. In 3 consecutive plays he was responsible for 25 yards and 2 first downs. It could be that Pryor’s ability to run and being ill prepared to face a mobile qb that loosened up the Jets defense, but whatever it was it worked enough


Artist Statement

Marianne Watchel was born in rural Saskatchewan and studied painting at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. In the early 1980's she began painting full time. She attended the Emma Lake Artist Workshops in 1983, 1987 and 1988. Her work is in many private and corporate collections in Canada, the United States and Australia.

"Years ago, I would refer to myself as a landscape painter and my work would have easily been recognized as such. I am still influenced by the landscape and readily use the horizon line as a starting point. My definition of the landscape has been shaped by my time spent in the bush of northern Saskatchewan and Alberta every year and viewing the land by helicopter. I have found that distance often determines thefrom the location of his job or office immediately prior to the Change in Control.
The Bublitz class action litigation, in which the class of CIC Plan participants sought a declaration of their rights under the Plan, was removed to this Court from the Iowa District Court for Polk County in May, 2000. The class sought resolution of a number of issues under the CIC Plan, including 1) whether Pioneer was in breach of the CIC Plan by requiring participants to resign in order to obtain a decision as to their eligibility under the CIC Plan (the "quit first" issue); 2) whether each participant's subjective determination that he or she reasonably and in good faith cannot continue to fulfill the responsibilities for which he or she was employed was


as a Research Coordinator in the functional genomics group by Defendant Pioneer at the time of the merger, and was a participant in the CIC Plan. As a participant in the CIC Plan, Plaintiff received a Retention Proposal packet from Defendants on September 29, 2000, which included the Retention Proposal agreement, terms and conditions of the stock option grant, a copy of a transitional severance plan, and a question-and-answer sheet regarding the Retention Proposal. The summary of the Retention Proposal included in the materials received by Plaintiff informed CIC Plan participants that
[t]his proposal provides each participant with an individual choice:
 Elect the stock option grant [offered by the Retention Proposal] and coverage under the new Transitional Severance Plan by October 18, 2000 OR
 Remain under the current CICnot guaranteed; and 3) the number of options she was to receive was calculated in a manner that was disadvantageous to Plaintiff because of a recent salary increase.
As of approximately October 10, 2000, Plaintiff had made a "very firm decision" not to sign the retention proposal. Plaintiff had looked through the proposal, spoken with an attorney, had conversations with her spouse, and had come to the "very clear conclusion" that it was not in her best interests to sign the Retention Proposal. On October 13, 2000, however, Plaintiff had conversations with Tony Cavalieri, Vice President and Director of the Trait and Technology Department and Plaintiff's self-described mentor at Pioneer, and Donna Ramaeker Zahn, a research communications manager at Pioneer and friend of Plaintiff's outside of work, that resulted


members, including Plaintiff.
On September 30, 2000, Plaintiff received a notice from class counsel in the Bublitz litigation describing how to get copies of all the legal documents relating to Bublitz and how to contact the lawyers for additional information. On October 5, 2000, Plaintiff attended a meeting at the Nyemaster law firm at which the Bublitz legal team presented information related to the ongoing class action lawsuit and the Retention Proposal and fielded questions from the audience related to both items. At that meeting, the Bublitz legal team offered to submit on behalf of CIC Plan participants any specific questions to the DuPont legal team for clarification.
On October 10, 2000, Plaintiff met individually with Brent Appel, a lawyer she was referred to by a co-worker, to discuss therequirement; and
b. "[S]ubtle and berating conversations from other members of Defendants' organization," including Tony Cavalieri and Donna Ramaeker Zahn.
The undisputed evidence in the summary judgment record, however, demonstrates that, under the totality of the circumstances, these alleged misrepresentations and omissions do not suffice to render Plaintiff's waiver of claims unknowing and involuntary. Plaintiff's argument that she was tricked by Defendants' long-term and comprehensive campaign to deprive her of the knowledge she needed to determine her rights under the CIC Plan fails to take into account the critical and undisputed fact that Plaintiff knew that many of the misrepresentations she alleges Defendants made  most notably their representations regarding the "easy trigger" and "quit first" issues  were being challenged in the Bublitz litigation. As previously discussed, Plaintiff had


formally voice any concerns about the waiver, which she signed on October 15, 2000, until the middle of 2002, at approximately the time when she decided to leave her employment with Pioneer. Plaintiff began to have second thoughts about accepting the Retention Proposal, which she voiced to Ms. Ramaeker Zahn, within two days of signing it. Plaintiff's deposition testimony, which is contained in the summary judgment record, indicates that she did not take steps to rescind her acceptance at the time she began to have second thoughts, however, because she hoped that the opportunities that Mr. Cavalieri spoke of would present themselves.
This is a unique situation where the dispute between the Plaintiff, a participant in the Defendants' ERISA plan, and the Defendants offering the plan was clearly spelledlitigation because she had read the Bublitz complaint in October of 1999. Additionally, prior to signing the Retention Proposal, Plaintiff had the benefit of two distinct legal opinions as to her rights under the CIC Plan, which she received less than two weeks prior to signing and accepting the Retention Proposal. Plaintiff attended the October 5, 2000 group meeting with lawyers from the Nyemaster firm, who were representing plaintiffs in the Bublitz litigation. According to Plaintiff, most of the meeting was spent receiving an update from the Nyemaster attorneys regarding the status of the Bublitz class action. Then Plaintiff met individually with attorney Brent Appel on October 10, 2000 to discuss the Retention Proposal. Although Plaintiff did not testify at her deposition to the substance of her conversation


the Retention Plan with Plaintiff, was a research communications manager employed by Pioneer. Ms. Ramaeker Zahn was not a member of the Defendants' management team and she never attended any meetings where the Retention Proposal or the CIC Plan were discussed. If either of those subjects came up at a meeting in which Ms. Ramaeker Zahn was in attendance, she was asked to leave the room. Ms. Ramaeker Zahn, in her capacity as a research communications manager, was never asked to communicate anything to Plaintiff about the CIC Plan or Retention Proposal. Plaintiff's family and Ms. Ramaeker Zahn's family were "friends outside of Pioneer." They dined at each other's homes, their children played together, and the families even vacationed together on one occasion.
Plaintiff testified that on October 13,was the risk that conversations between the Bublitz defendants, in their capacity as employers of putative class members in that litigation, and the putative class members, would be coercive. Plaintiff has testified that Ms. Ramaeker Zahn was "very close" to the management people at Pioneer who were making decisions about the CIC Plan and Retention Plan. However, even assuming this is true, Plaintiff's conversation with Ms. Ramaeker Zahn, a co-worker and friend who was not a member of the management team, was not the type of communication the Court sought to prevent in its September 26th Order.

2. October 13, 2000 Conversation with Tony Cavalieri
Plaintiff also alleges that her conversation on October 13, 2000 with Tony Cavalieri violated the terms of the Court's Bublitz Order. Tony Cavalieri was Plaintiff's


"long-standing mentor at Pioneer" and she sought him out on October 13, 2000 for advice; specifically, she "had some questions about the direction of Pioneer's research, what [her] role in the organization might look like." Plaintiff has testified that she knew that the Retention Plan would come up before she sought Mr. Cavalieri's advice. At the time she sought the meeting, Plaintiff was aware of the Court's Order in Bublitz that Pioneer was not allowed to have oral conversations with putative class members about the Retention Plan.
During the conversation, Plaintiff asked Mr. Cavalieri what he would do in her situation. Mr. Cavalieri told Plaintiff that "for sure he would talk to a lawyer and he would focus on his long-term goals." Plaintiff also disclosed to Mr. Cavalieri herholders in 1994. While the options offered to Plaintiff in 2000 pursuant to the Retention Proposal's Special One Time Stock Option Grant were being offered under the Dupont Stock Performance Plan, which is the title of the 1994 registration statement, this only means that the Retention Proposal *935 options are derivatives of that large pool of stock that was the subject of DuPont's 1994 registration statement. In other words, while the Retention Proposal stock options offered in 2000 and the stock options offered in 1994 are derivatives from the same general pool of stock, they comprise two separate sets of option offerings. Thus, the description of stock option vesting periods found in the letter to stock optionees in 1994 does not apply to the options offered to the


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Posted on 27 January 2013

Over 300 delegates from 10 different countries and 26 different schools were at the American University in Dubai (AUD) this weekend for the Harvard Model Congress Dubai (HMCD), organized for the first time in the Middle East and one of the largest high school conferences of its kind in the region.

The event is the result of hard work and collaboration between the AUD Model United Nations organization (AUDMUN) student club and the Harvard Model Congress team in the US.

“I am pleased that AUD is able to host the Harvard Model Congress and that AUD students figure among those responsible for organizing this event,” commented Dr. Lance de Masi, President of AUD.

“The educational outcomes of the conference - knowledge ofgovernment and governance, communication skills and the art of finding the middle ground - so coincide with the capabilities citizens demand of their leaders. The opportunity to participate in such an undertaking, for both university mentors and high school novices, is nothing less than priceless. This is simply education in action,” he added.

HMCD is a government simulation conference run entirely by Harvard students who are passionate about international relations, government, and teaching. Organized by Harvard College Model Congress Middle East, a student organization at Harvard University, HMCD is committed to providing an immersive educational experience for high school students from across the globe.

Since the first Harvard Model Congress Boston conference in 1986, HMC has emerged as the leading international and government simulation programme for high school students. Attending


the closing ceremony on Saturday, January 26, 2013, were Ambassador of the United States to the UAE Michael H. Corbin and Dr. Lance E. de Masi, President of AUD, along with other members of the AUD Community.

“For me, the Harvard Model Congress, as a student-run, international initiative, highlights the important role that the United Arab Emirates, coupled with partners from the U.S. higher educational system, can play in reaching out to youth across the Middle East. I congratulate the American University in Dubai for playing such an active role in organizing and hosting the programme, which I know will be extremely useful to the students participating in it,” commented Ambassador Corbin, who answered questions from the delegates on foreign policy and the relations between the USA and theUAE.

Eric Cervini, President of HMCD said, “We are incredibly lucky to have partnered with the American University in Dubai to host the inaugural session of Harvard Model Congress Dubai. More than 300 delegates from 11 countries debated, learnt, and interacted in a dynamic government simulation run entirely by 35 Harvard undergraduate volunteers. We are thrilled to have promoted our mission of furthering international cooperation and intercultural understanding during this event - the first of its kind in the region. Additionally, this conference would not have been possible without the incredible dedication, creativity, and hospitality of the AUD Model United Nations organization.”

Delegates gained knowledge and skills crucial to confronting the global challenges of the 21st century. Students learned both from the programme curricula and from engaging with one another.


As they became more comfortable in presenting original ideas to their peers, delegates developed priceless argumentation and public speaking skills.

Topics discussed in the various committees, included Peaceful Development of Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Non-Proliferation; Child Soldiers and Achieving Millennium Development Goals; The Guinea-Bissau Political Crisis and Intervention in Syria.

Philip Apaza, President of The AUD Model United Nations organization explained, “The AUDMUN team is very excited to have hosted the HMCD staff in their inaugural conference in the Middle East. We hope that this conference helped high school students in the region recognize the opportunities laid out before them and helped them discover their true potential as the leaders of the next generation. An immense amount of work went in from the Harvard team and the AUDMUN to ensurethe best experience possible for these delegates.”

Posted on 27 February 2012

Internationally acclaimed German watchmaker A. Lange and Söhne is pleased to announce the opening of its first boutique in the Middle East at the recently opened Etihad Towers in Abu Dhabi.

Following the launch of Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Shanghai and Dresden, the boutique will be the brand’s sixth worldwide. Watch enthusiasts and collectors alike across the UAE, and neighbouring countries, will soon experience first-hand the works of art bearing Lange’s interpretation of the quality seal “Made in Germany” in the UAE capital and luxury hub.

Anyone who has visited the Lange manufactory and looked over the shoulders of master watchmakers at work understands the craftsmanship, precision, and above all passion that go into the timepieces bearing the esteemed signature


day initiative, held on the 12th and 13th of March, 2010, was organized by Pfizer Africa and Middle East and accredited as a Continuous Medical Education (CME) program by the local Dubai Health Authority (DHA).

The pain and chronic inflammatory disorders management experts - representing medical organizations from the UK, Germany, Canada, UAE and Saudi Arabia - provided workshops, presentations, panel debates and question and answer sessions with senior regional healthcare professionals. The key objective of the Pain & Inflammation Academy was to provide a platform to develop strategies aimed at improving the quality of life of pain sufferers.

Among the subjects up for discussion were neuropathic pain (nerve pain), often associated with diabetes, as well as chronic inflammatory disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and Ankylosing Spondylitis (severe inflammation ofis seven points ahead of Trump's 15%.

However, if this chart is any indication of voting intentions, the last category might be the decisive one. At the top of the chart, Trump’s low positives lag only slightly behind Clinton’s. But his high negatives in the bottom category of the chart are a lot worse than hers. While 33% think Hillary Clinton would be “terrible” as president, no less than 43% think the same about Donald Trump.

At 10%, that gap is wider than in any of the other categories. In the topsy-turvy land of negative expectations, Trump's double-digit lead over Clinton in the terrible department could spell his doom and might mean her salvation.

At least, if voters, resigned to the fact that a “great” president is unavailable, are willing to


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In its long history, St Mary's has undergone successive and opinionated reconstruction, especially in 1820 and 1870. As a Staffordshire country church placed at the convergence of several cross country tracks, St Mary's became a significant part of the largest industrial city in Britain.

In his 1851 History, Gazetteer and Directory of Staffordshire, William White records:

Handsworth Church, St Mary, is picturesquely situated on the Hamstead road, about two miles (3 km) NNW of Birmingham. It is an ancient structure, partly rebuilt and enlarged in 1820, and has a tower with six bells, which like the other remaining parts of the ancient fabric, is in


"In such dark times it can seem silly to focus on something as tiny as a chain of letters, but consider the intent behind the shift from "he" to "he/she" to "they" - the demand to be seen. It is an act of resistance; it is brave, and it is necessary."- Shannon Drury

by Shannon Drury

I am 45. Old enough to remember being taught that the pronoun "he" correctly referred to the entire human race, as in proverbs like "he who laughs last, laughs best."

She was used to indicate a single female person, not the whole. It meant my mother in this sentence: "When Nixon was re-elected in 1972, she did not laugh; she wept bitterly." She meant isolation; he was the collective. She wasn't even a woman, asAs part of our countdown to Super Bowl 50, SI.com is rolling out a series focusing on the overlooked, forgotten or just plain strange history of football's biggest game. From commercials to Super Bowl parties, we'll cover it all, with new stories published every Wednesday here.

Life flourishes in the waste places, on the peripheries, in ecosystems created without intent. The ant colony beside the discarded picnic basket. The microbe metropolis astride the deep-water volcanic jet. In September 1987, when members of the NFL Players Union walked off the job, their goal was to bring pressure on the franchise owners. When those owners, behaving in the traditional way of the factory boss, brought in scabs to break the strike, their goal was to counter that pressure. The strange, chaotic,


bumbling season of replacement football that followed was the intent of neither. As nihilists say about life, it was a rounding error, an accident, a cosmic comedy, fleeting yet utterly important, as the games played by the scab teams—the Chicago Spare Bears, the New Orleans Saint Elsewheres, the San Francisco Phony-Niners—counted. And in several cases those games would determine, when the strike finally ended, who was up and who was down. The story of the 1987 Redskins, the winners of Super Bowl XXII, is in large part the story of the Scabskins.

It was a perfect test of coaching ability. Imagine: You’ve prepared for a certain kind of season, stocked the roster with a certain kind of pro—raw-boned rookies, but veterans too; men with five or 10 years inhad played at Alabama but was out of the game when we called,” Casserly recalls. “He was working as a security guard at a 7-Eleven in southeast D.C. Now, D.C. in the ‘80s was a rough town, and the southeast was the roughest part. So, yes, this guy was out of shape, but we knew he was tough in the truest way.”

Ed Rubbert, the Scabskins’ first quarterback (before he got hurt), was teaching gym. His backup, Tony Robinson, did not arrive straight from prison, as was later reported, but he did come from a halfway house where he’d been serving the remainder of a sentence on a drug conviction. In October 1985, after he led Tennessee to an upset of No. 1 Auburn, Robinson had been on the


deadline—by NFL rules, you had to report by Wednesday if you wanted to play that week—the scabs would get one more go-round, one more game. A strange interlude of mixed emotions ensued: On the one hand, the regulars hated the scabs; on the other hand, they needed them to beat the Cowboys, with whom they were tied atop the NFC East. (“Some of the regular guys actually wished us luck,” says Cowne.) Dallas was favored. Twenty-one of their players had already crossed, including six starters and two future Hall of Famers. In that day’s roster you recognized remnants of a once-great dynasty: Tony Dorsett, Ed (Too Tall) Jones, Danny White, Randy White. ...

For the scabs, the game, broadcast on Monday Night Football, was like the last meal ofturned back into a bag-checking, coach-flying nobody. In this country, when your moment passes, you wink out like a light. He went with his brother-in-law, which is what you’d expect from a civilian with freebies. Several teammates were at the game, but Lane did not see them. The front office, perhaps fearing the power of numbers, scattered the scabs across the stadium, each in his own section.

At kickoff, Lane found himself in a state of conflict, at once rooting for his old employers and hating himself for rooting. “The team didn’t treat us exactly right,” he says, “but I had money on the Redskins, which goes a long away toward settling inner turmoil.”

It should’ve been a classic match-up. The Broncos, in their second straight Super Bowl, were led


by a 27-year-old John Elway, who—well, if you don’t remember Elway in 1988, too bad. There really had been no more physically gifted quarterback in the history of the game. As big as a linebacker, with that hair and those teeth and that nearly mystical sense of pressure, not to mention the arm, the zip he could put on a ball thrown even off his back foot. The Skins’ Doug Williams was on the other side of the equation, nearing the end of his playing days. He was the first black QB to start a Super Bowl—a lot was made of that. And though he’d have a long career, ups and downs, all kinds of personal tragedy, he’s one of those players remembered for just a few sequences,a handful of unforgettable plays. The first of those would come when, trailing by 10 in the second quarter, he found Ricky Sanders on a play called Charlie-10 hitch for 80 yards and a touchdown. It was like the single blow that opens the piñata—the candy keeps coming and coming. Williams would throw four touchdown passes in less than 12 minutes, his team scoring 35 points in that second quarter alone. And it was mop-up time after that.

Real Redskins 42, Broncos 10.

Afterward, the scabs faded into their old lives. Back to the classroom, back to the junior high gym, back to the construction crew. Robinson tried to catch on with several NFL teams before returning to semi-pro ball in the South, where he was arrested by lawmen from


Tennessee. Having violated his furlough he returned to prison, served out his sentence and was freed, got caught selling drugs again, was sent back to prison, freed again, arrested, freed—on and on. Lather, rinse, repeat. He spent his late 20s and 30s and early 40s behind bars, burning away his most vibrant years.

In 2008, he was released for (hopefully) the last time, a gaunt, gutted shell but, thank God, still alive. He does not talk to reporters about his years in prison or his great night in Dallas or his years as a college star. Past is past. Not long ago he moved back to the city of his glory, Knoxville, Tenn., where according to officials at his old school he has worked variously as a security guardTag Archives: 1960s

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An Taoiseach and Leader of Fine Gael, Leo Varadkar, arrives at Fine Gael HQ on 5 Oct. 2017, in Dublin, Ireland.

The Irish government was on the verge of collapse on Thursday after the party whose votes Prime Minister Leo Varadkar depends on to pass legislation said it would move to remove the deputy prime minister in a breach of their cooperation agreement.

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The opposition Fianna Fail party said it would put a motion of no confidence in Deputy Prime Minister Frances Fitzgerald on Tuesday over herby the Tainiste (deputy prime minister)," Coveney said.

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Drug-dealing vet pleads guilty to smuggling heroin in the bellies of puppies

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Authorities said Andres Lopez Elorez and his Colombia-based co-conspirators used various methods to sneak drugs into New York and Florida, including surgically implanting liquid heroin into the bellies of puppies. (DEA, New York Division)

This was one sick puppy.

A Colombian veterinarian pleaded guilty Friday to charges that he smuggled heroin into the U.S. in the bellies of cute little canines.

Authorities said Andres Lopez Elorez and his Colombia-based co-conspirators used various methods to sneak drugs into New York and Florida, including surgically implanting liquid heroin into the bellies of puppies.

When the little dogs arrived in the U.S. from Colombia, the heroin was surgically removed from their bodies.

Between Sept. 8, 2004 and Jan. 1, 2005, Elorez and hispartners imported one kilogram or more of heroin into the the country at a street value of about $500,000.

Elorez, 39, was extradited from Spain, where he has lived for the past 12 years

Elorez, wearing surgical scrubs, and speaking in federal court in Brooklyn through a Spanish interpreter, admitted to the horrific plot that took place “when I was studying as a vet”.

“I conspired together with another experienced veterinarian to introduce drugs into the United States of America through surgical acts on dogs,” Elorez said.

Elorez faces between seven and nine years in prison when he is sentenced next year.

Since the puppies were seized in 2005, all have apparently died, but some lived happy and interesting lives. Two became pets, one for the family of a Colombian National Police, or


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Before I begin this review, I have to declare a bias. I’m from the Scottish Borders town of Peebles and people there regard the late hellraising movie star Oliver Reed as an honorary Peeblean. In 1995, Reed was staying in the area whilst making a film called The Bruce – a sub-Braveheart effort that, like most of Reed’s late-career films, was fairly dreadful – and one day he managed to find his way to the raucous public bar of the Crown Hotel, known to locals as ‘the Croon’, on Peebles High Street. If you’re to believe the Scottish tabloid press, Reed took such a shine to the Croon, and the regulars of the Croon took such a shine to him, that he took up permanent residencyleast, was pretty impressive.

He started out as a bit-player in the late-1950s British film industry – for example, he was the leader of the teddy-boy gang who beat up Norman Wisdom in The Bulldog Breed. (Thanks for that, Ollie.) Hammer Films discovered him and began his development as a star, casting him in both their costumed swashbucklers (Pirates of Blood River, Captain Clegg, The Scarlet Blade and The Brigand of Kandahar) and their internationally famous horror movies (The Two Faces of Dr Jekyll, Paranoiac and The Curse of the Werewolf, which offered the oddly prophetic spectacle of Reed turning into a slavering, out-of-control monster whenever the sun went down).

After that, he found proper fame between the mid-1960s and early 1970s making trendy comedies like The System, The Jokers,


nobody got around to casting him as Heathcliff in a late-1960s version of Wuthering Heights.

In popular terms, his high-water mark was probably Richard Lester’s Musketeers films of the mid-1970s. The most entertaining versions of Alexandre Dumas’ novel ever made, they managed to be funny, knowing and exciting, and were packed with faces that were iconic in the cinema of the time: as well as Reed, they featured Raquel Welch, Faye Dunaway, Michael York, Christopher Lee and Charlton Heston.

Around this time, Reed got the opportunity to make it in Hollywood. He was offered the role of Quint, the Captain-Ahab-like character in Steven Spielberg’s record-breaking blockbuster Jaws, before it was given to Robert Shaw. Financially, the role would probably have set him up for life, but he passed on it.as Proximo, the weary ex-gladiator who become’s Crowe’s reluctant ally in his plot against Roman Emperor Joaquin Phoenix, is one of the best things in the film. Shrewdly, Scott gave him the best lines. (“Die to be remembered as men!”)

It probably would’ve revived Reed’s fortunes as an actor but, alas, he didn’t live to see the end of filming. While on location in Malta, Reed visited a British-style bar in Valletta called The Pub, got into a major drinking-session-cum-armwrestling-tournament with some sailors from the Royal Navy frigate HMS Cumberland, and suffered a fatal heart attack. At least how he died was consistent with how he’d lived.

Oliver Reed – Wild Thing, written by Mike Davis and Rob Crouch, and with Crouch in the title role, is set in The


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a free society even if they are not violent," says Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that supports tighter controls on immigration. Krikorian met with Trump during the campaign and backs the president's executive order as a "corrective" to the vetting system in place during the Obama years.

President Trump signed an executive order suspending the State Department's refugee assistance program for 120 days until "extreme" vetting can be put in place.

In an interview with NPR, Krikorian said he backs an ideological test that poses questions for refugees in the vetting process including, in his words, "Do you think it's okay to kill apostates? Do you think it's okay to throw gays off of buildings? Or if Islam's Prophet Muhammad isinsulted, there should be a punishment?"

If a refugee says yes to any of these questions, says Krikorian, "Then we don't want you here."

Trump's executive order on immigration appears to refer to these views by declaring the United States should keep out those with "hostile attitudes toward it and its founding principles" and "those who would place violent ideologies over American law."

This is all of intense concern for refugee advocates. The most pressing refugee need today is among Syrians — some 5 million have fled the country's civil war. The vast majority are Muslim.

"It's clearly Muslim-targeted," says Muna Jondy, a Michigan immigration lawyer of Syrian descent who's been fielding frantic calls from refugee families in the U.S. whose relatives are now barred from joining them.

She points out the refugee