who would traditionally trims hats, rather than designing or creating them. As such, any form of headgear is within his remit, and he has a passion for exploring not only the worn form, but also the space and shape surrounding the head. This is especially true of one of his most recognisable pieces, the sequinned and face-obscuring cube headdress that topped off the opening look at Gareth Pugh's spring/summer 2008 show. The piece had become famous before most of the style press even knew Mazhar's name.

It is Mazhar's innate hybridisation and re-interpretation of ideas that last season won him coveted Topshop New Generation sponsorship, a financial support that will enable him to show again at Fashion Week in February.

The photographer: Michael Grieve

by Nick Hall

A brothel in Slough, aporn-film shoot in Peterborough, a swingers' club in Sheffield – unlikely locations for some beautiful and tender photographs, but these are the sort of places featured in the 41-year-old photographer Michael Grieve's first book No Love Lost, which will be published by Images En Manoeuvres Editions next year.

Newcastle-born Grieve started working as a photographer for the music press in the 1980s before studying for an MA in photography at the University of Westminster. Among his influences he cites the American William Eggleston and the Briton Chris Killip – whose 1980s book In Flagrante, which documented the effects of the de-industrialisation of the North East, had a particularly powerful effect on him. "It's simply one of the best books ever."

"Sex is a great motivator," Grieve says. He's interested in


how people can engage in something so intimate which at the same time can mean absolutely nothing – as well as how this reflects on how we as "outsiders" (presumably!) behave and "perform" in our own private lives. He has spent the past six years travelling Britain photographing sex and the industry that surrounds it in its many forms. As well as the tender portraits, there are unsettling photographs too – disturbing in their sense of the ugliness, the emptiness and banality of some of the situations. "I wanted each photograph to be a different experience, as you go through the book you move from tender to cruel moments."

He prefers film over digital – "I can't deal with all that". Although he is a contributing editor to theonline contemporary photography magazine 1,000 Words, he believes that the book is the natural home for photography. "It's the whole experience, a place to contemplate".

The film-makers: Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor

by Jonathan Romney

The words "British cinema" and "art film" don't usually go together. But 2008 brought a surprise renaissance for idiosyncratic, highly crafted, defiantly non-mainstream UK-made films, from such names as Terence Davies (Of Time and the City), the artist Steve McQueen (Hunger) and the newcomers Joanna Hogg (Unrelated) and Duane Hopkins (Better Things). Next in line is the duo of Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor.

Their debut feature, Helen, is a mystery thriller of sorts, about a young woman who volunteers to impersonate a missing girl in a police reconstruction. Eerie and psychologically insightful, the film echoes TV


cop dramas on one hand, and Antonioni's glacial 1960s riddler Blow-Up on the other.

The duo met in Dublin in the early 1980s, and soon began operating under the banner Desperate Optimists. Since then, they have worked in a range of media, including video, theatre, internet and radio. "It's been a meandering route," Lawlor says. "We were using any methods we could to explore ideas." Ten years ago, they moved away from the stage and started to concentrate on the camera. As film-makers, Molloy and Lawlor are best known for their Civic Life project, a series of shorts, each shot in one day, using casts from community groups – notably Who Killed Brown Owl, a nine-minute single take in which an idyllic English afternoon collapses into chaos.

The team's nextproject, Mister John, concerns a man who goes to Thailand to confront his brother's demons. "It's imagining what would happen if my brother died,"says Lawlor. "My name is Joe, I have a brother named John, he does live in Thailand ... It's just using some of our biography as a springboard." They plan to shoot Mister John this summer. "It'll be more ambitious [than Helen] – that or more excessive."

'Helen' is released on 17 April

The model: Amy Greenhaugh

by Harriet Walker

I've been bombarded with fey, young-looking models for the past couple of years," says Beth Dadswell, The Independent's senior stylist, "so Amy Greenhough's intriguing beauty really made her stand out from the crowd." Twenty-two-year-old Greenhough's look combines the two classic idioms of fashion modelling: she has a natural beauty


and poise that women want to emulate, and a magnetism that ensures your total attention to any shoot you see her in.

Spotted by Select Model Management two years ago, Greenhough delayed her modelling career to concentrate on her studies. Now reading English literature and drama at Kingston University, her first shoot was with The Independent in October. "As soon as I saw the first polaroid of Amy," adds Dadswell, "I knew she had the potential to be really special." Her looks recall the quirky, gamine beauties of the Seventies, whose attractions lay in their idiosyncrasies and asymmetry; Greenhough's self-assured aesthetic chimes perfectly with the off-duty nonchalance floating around fashion right now, referenced in collections from the likes of Alexander Wang and Rick Owens, and perfected by French Vogue'swanted to taste the kind of success enjoyed by Kelly Holmes in Athens and the other British women who stood at the top of the podium." There are not so many: Holmes, Mary Rand, Ann Packer, Mary Peters, Tessa Sanderson, Sally Gunnell, Denise Lewis and Christine Ohuruogu. Dobrisky saw Ohuruogu join the pantheon and realised the depth of her ambition.

You might think at the age of 24 Dobriskey has gone beyond the circle of gilded youth. But on the track she remains almost a baby. Holmes was 30 when she gained Olympic bronze at Sydney and she went to Athens under a shadow of persistent injury. Dobriskey argues that she will bounce back stronger from her disappointment. It is a resolve that will make her one of the


Matter of Farinella (2018 NY Slip Op 03654)

Matter of Farinella

2018 NY Slip Op 03654

Decided on May 22, 2018

Appellate Division, First Department

Per Curiam

Published by New York State Law Reporting Bureau pursuant to Judiciary Law § 431.

This opinion is uncorrected and subject to revision before publication in the Official Reports.

Decided on May 22, 2018
SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION
First Judicial Department

John W. Sweeny, Jr.,Justice Presiding,
Sallie Manzanet-Daniels
Angela M. Mazzarelli
Marcy L. Kahn
Cynthia S. Kern,	Justices.

M-4465 M-5835

[*1]In the Matter of Thomas A. Farinella, an attorney and counselor-at-law: Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department, Petitioner, Thomas A. Farinella, Respondent.

Disciplinary proceedings instituted by the Attorney Grievance Committee for the First Judicial Department. Respondent, Thomas A. Farinella, was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York at a Term of the Appellate Division of theSupreme Court for the Second Judicial Department on March 13, 2002.

Jorge Dopico, Chief Attorney,
Attorney Grievance Committee, New York
(Jun H. Lee, of counsel), for petitioner.
Sarah Jo Hamilton, Esq. for respondent.

PER CURIAM

Respondent Thomas A. Farinella was admitted to the practice of law in the State of New [*2]York by the Second Judicial Department on March 13, 2002. At all times relevant herein, respondent has maintained an office for the practice of law within the First Department.
By order and per curiam dated November 17, 2011 (corrected December 9, 2011), this Court determined that respondent had provided sufficient proof that he was suffering from a mental infirmity which made it impossible for him to defend himself in disciplinary proceedings pending against him, and therefore, we immediately suspended him from the practice of


entered May 8, 2014, this Court imposed reciprocal discipline, suspended respondent from the practice of law for three months, effective nunc pro tunc to September 23, 2010, and immediately reinstated him to the practice of law (118 AD3d 95 [1st Dept 2014]).
In February 2015, the AGC filed 37 supplemental charges against respondent alleging additional misconduct between 2007 and 2011. The Referee sustained 22 of the supplemental charges, including the charge of intentional conversion. The Referee recommended that respondent be suspended for two years, effective nunc pro tunc to the date of his disability suspension (i.e., November 17, 2011), with the two-year suspension to terminate as of the date of his reinstatement (i.e., October 10, 2013).
The AGC now seeks an order, pursuant to the Rules of the Appellate Division,in her prenatal counseling model and is the author of An Easier Childbirth, Birthing Normallyand her latest book, Making Healthy Families. Her articles on family relationships appear in professional journals and she is an oft-quoted expert in popular magazines such as Woman's Day, Mothering and Parenting. . She also serves on the advisory board for Fit Pregnancy Magazine.

Dr. Gayle Peterson has written family columns for ParentsPlace.com, igrandparents.com, the Bay Area's Parents Press newspaper and the Sierra Foothill's Family Post. She has also hosted a live radio show, "Ask Dr. Gayle" on www.ivillage.com, answering questions on family relationships and parenting. Dr. Peterson has appeared on numerous radio and television interviews including Canadian broadcast as a family and communications expert in the twelve part documentary "Baby's Best Chance". She is


former clinical director of the Holistic Health Program at John F. Kennedy University in Northern California and adjunct faculty at the California Institute for Integral Studies in San Francisco. A national public speaker on women's issues and family development, Gayle Peterson practices psychotherapy in Oakland, California and Nevada City, California. She also offers an online certification training program in Prenatal Counseling and Birth Hypnosis. Gayle and is a wife, mother of two adult children and a proud grandmother of three lively boys and one sparkling granddaughter.Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney, with whom
Nelson Pérez-Sosa, Assistant United States Attorney, and Luke Cass,
Assistant United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.

                          January 20, 2012
          STAHL, Circuit Judge.               A jury convicted defendants-

appellants   Albert    I.    Díaz,   Javier     Rodríguez-Romero,        Eddie   M.

Rodríguez, and Angel O. López-Capó of conspiracy to distribute

narcotics and possession with intent to distribute narcotics as a

result of


  -4-
protect the drug point's employees, narcotics, and proceeds.

Rodríguez and Rodríguez-Romero allegedly worked as runners and

sellers, meaning that they supplied the drug point with narcotics,

collected    proceeds,   recruited    and    paid      sellers,   and    prepared

ledgers, also known as "tallies," to keep track of the drug point's

sales.      The indictment alleged that López-Capó was one of the

owners of the drugs distributed at Carioca and that he received

proceeds from the sale of crack at the drug point.

             These four defendants elected to go to trial.          Housing Project. . . . in some

abandoned houses that were located right there inside of the Public

Housing   Project."   Police   Officer   Víctor   J.   Veguilla-Figuero

testified that the drug point was located "in the area of the

staircase," in "two abandoned houses" and "in the children's play

area" within the Carioca housing project, and he identified each of

those locations in a photograph of Carioca.       Leonardo Martínez de

León, who himself dealt drugs in Carioca, identified various

locations from which the drug point operated within Carioca.        And


at 65.

                According to the indictment, this conspiracy lasted from

2006 to March 27, 2009.             Rodríguez was apparently active in the

drug point until he entered a juvenile detention facility on or

about May 4, 2007.          He turned eighteen in February of 2008,4 while

in detention, and was released on August 18, 2008.                        Thus, if

Rodríguez participated in the conspiracy as an adult, it had to

have been between August 18, 2008 and March 27,2009.

                The district court instructed the jury that it could not

consider Rodríguez's acts in furtherance of the conspiracy before

he turned eighteen unless it first found beyond a reasonable doubt

that       he   had   participated    in     the   conspiracy    after   he   turned

eighteen.         The     jury   convicted    Rodríguez    of   five   counts:    the

conspiracy        count    (Count


      first find beyond a reasonable doubt that he
          participated in the conspiracy after he
          reached the age of 18 years.            If he
          participated in the conspiracy after he became
          18 years of age, then all of his acts in
          furtherance of the conspiracy while he was a
          minor can be considered as if he was of legal
167 (1st Cir. 2011).

We thus affirm Rodríguez's conviction on the substantive count of

possession with intent to distribute crack.

              However, the government has pointed us to no evidence on

the record demonstrating that Rodríguez's co-conspirators committed

the substantive acts of possessing with intent to distribute heroin

and cocaine after Rodríguez turned eighteen.                 The government

introduced general evidence that the drug point operated in 2008

and 2009, as well as specific evidence tying Rodríguez to heroin

and cocaine before he turned eighteen, but neither of those will

suffice to support jurisdiction.          The government had the burden of

introducing at trial,


  to   introduce   the

testimony of Tomasa Colón-Pérez, David de León's mother and the

owner of the house in front of which Rodríguez-Romero was arrested.

The district court reviewed Colon-Pérez's testimony outside the

presence of the jury.     Colon-Pérez's offer of proof was that, on

the evening of October 24, 2008, she was sitting outside her house

when police officers ran into her house and arrested her son,

David.   She witnessed the officers handcuff her son, and then a

female officer escorted her into a bedroom, where Colon-Pérez

remained for a period of time.   She was allowed to exit the bedroom

and kiss her son before the officers escorted him out of the house

through the "door in the back of the room which leads to theyard."

The officers then brought Colon-Pérez back into the bedroom. About

two hours went by, according to Colon-Pérez, at which point the

officers standing in the bedroom with her said something to the

effect of, "It's about to arrive.       It's about to arrive."    A few

minutes later, the officers said, "It arrived.       The car arrived."

Colon-Pérez then heard a voice in the house say, "David, David."

From the bedroom, she could not see who was speaking, nor could she

identify the voice. Colón-Pérez was inside her home, could not see

outside, and did not witness Rodríguez-Romero's arrest.


runner of cocaine, crack, and heroin at

the drug point and said that he had personally dealt drugs with

López-Capó.       Martínez de León also testified to having seen López-

Capó   at   the    drug     point    several    times,   delivering    drugs     and

collecting    money       and    tallies.       Third,   co-conspirator         Yamil

Irizarry-Lucas identified López-Capó as the supplier of crack for

the drug point and testified that, on two occasions, he had picked

up hundreds of vials of crack from López-Capó The district court allowed the government to ask López-

Capó   two   questions    regarding     his    familial   relationship   with

Alexander Capo Trujillo during its cross-examination of López-Capó.

First, the government asked whether López-Capó knew Trujillo;

López-Capó responded that he did.             Second, the government asked

what   López-Capó's      relationship    with    Trujillo   was;    López-Capó

responded that Trujillo was his cousin.              On appeal, López-Capó

argues   that    these     questions


Chuckling at our neighbor across the street. He was putzing around out in his yard for several hours yesterday, and got a few stakes pounded into the ground. Now he's been putzing around in his yard for several hours today and he's got three 2X4's laid out next to the stakes.

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Send him to help me out with the tree that crashed into our garden early this morning.

Chuckling at our neighbor across the street. Hewas putzing around out in his yard for several hours yesterday, and got a few stakes pounded into the ground. Now he's been putzing around in his yard for several hours today and he's got three 2X4's laid out next to the stakes.

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Chuckling at our neighbor across the street. He was putzing around out in his yard for several hours yesterday, and got a few stakes pounded into the ground. Now he's been putzing around in his yard for several hours today and he's got three 2X4's laid out next


LONDON (AP) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is set to hold talks Monday with Prince Harry for the first time since he and his wife, Meghan, unveiled their controversial plan to walk away from royal roles – a dramatic family summit meant to chart a future course for the couple.

The summit reflects the queen’s desire to contain the fallout from Harry and Meghan´s decision to “step back” as senior royals, work to become financially independent and split their time between Britain and North America. The couple, also known as the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, made the announcement Wednesday without telling the queen or other senior royals first.

The meeting at the monarch’s private Sandringham estate in eastern England will also include Harry’s father Prince Charles and his brotherPrince William. It comes after days of intense news coverage, in which supporters of the royal family’s feuding factions used the British media to paint conflicting pictures of who was to blame for the rift.

William is expected to travel to Sandringham from London and Harry from his home in Windsor, west of the British capital. Charles will fly back from the Gulf nation of Oman, where he was attending a condolence ceremony Sunday following the death of Sultan Qaboos bin Said.

Meghan, who is in Canada with the couple´s baby son Archie, is likely to join the meeting by phone.

Buckingham Palace said “a range of possibilities” would be discussed, but the Queen was determined to resolve the situation within “days, not weeks.” The goal was to agree on next


for Millennium Films, though, which backed the independent project.

Another of its Shreveport-based flicks, "Mad Money," stands to rake in some weekend coin when it opens nationally in theaters Jan. 18, 2008. The trailer is pretty fun. Stars Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, and Ted Danson.

"Cloverfield" will come out Jan. 18, too, so "Mad Money" will have a tough go of it. But January always delivers box office surprises.

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A new study led by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego indicates a steady population trend for blue whales and an upward population trend for fin whales in Southern California.

Scripps marine acoustician Ana Širović and her colleagues in the Marine Bioacoustics Lab and Scripps Whale Acoustic Lab intermittently deployed 16 High-frequency Acoustic Recording Packages (HARPs)—devices that sit on the seafloor with a suspended hydrophone (an underwater microphone)—to collect acoustic data on whales off Southern California from 2006-2012.

Blue and fin whales are common inhabitants of the Southern California Bight, the curved region of California coastline with offshore waters extending from San Diego to Point Conception (near Santa Barbara, Calif.), but little is known


about their use of the area.

As described in the June 24 issue of the journal Endangered Species Research, Širović and her colleagues analyzed seven years of acoustic data (26 instrument-years) to study the call abundance of blue and fin whales in the Southern California Bight. The study, largely supported by the Office of Naval Research, provides the first detailed view into the spatial use of Southern California waters by blue and fin whales, the two largest cetacean species in the world. Both are classified as endangered species.

Širović found that blue whale calls were more commonly detected at coastal sites and near the northern Channel Islands, while fin whale calls were detected further off shore, in central and southern areas.

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The form and content of the message we could send was equally clear to Gauss. He is credited with the idea of communicating with inhabitants of the moon by clearing large swaths of the Siberian forest of its trees and in their place planting massive wheat fields in the shape of carefully arranged geometrical shapes, which would be visible from the moon. Specifically, he wanted to show Lunarians that Earthlings are familiar with the Pythagorean theorem by creating massive landscapes demonstrating that the sum of the squares of the legs of a


after a tragic plane crash, two strangers (Kate Winslet and Idris Elba) must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. Opens Oct. 6 at chain theaters.

"My Little Pony: The Movie," animated, PG. A dark force threatens Ponyville, and the Mane 6 embark on a journey to save their home. Opens Oct. 6 at chain theaters.

"Victoria and Abdul," historical drama, PG-13. Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim (Ali Fazal). Opens Oct. 6 at Carolina Cinemark and Fine Arts Theatre. Featured at 7 p.m. Oct. 16 at Asheville Movie Guys night (see box at bottom of this story).

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"American Assassin," action drama, R. Grade: C-minus. After his girlfriend is killed in aterrorist attack, Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien) joins an elite counter-terrorism team led by Stan Hurley (Michael Keaton), whose previous protege (Taylor Kitsch) is now one of the bad guys.

"American Made," action, R. Grade: C-minus. Inspired by real events. A pilot (Tom Cruise) makes a fortune working for the CIA and as a drug runner in Latin America during the 1980s. Directed by Doug Liman ("The Bourne Identity"); co-starring Domhnall Gleeson and Sarah Wright.

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"Baby Driver," drama, R. Grade: A-minus. After being coerced into working for a crime boss (Kevin Spacey), a young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) finds


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"Battle of the Sexes," historical drama, PG-13. Grade: B-plus. At the top of her game, Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) carries on a secret lesbian affair while facing off with the male tennis pro establishment and contemplating a challenge from washed-up tennis champ and gambler Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell). See the review on Page 16. At Fine Arts Theatre, Flat Rock Cinema and Carolina Cinemark.

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Movie," animated, PG. Six young ninjas are gifted warriors by night, using their skills and awesome fleet of vehicles to fight villains and monsters. By day, they're ordinary teens struggling against their greatest enemy: high school.

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Justin even asked the teacher if he could take a few penalty shots. According to Noto, the Biebs was "pretty good."

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OK, so here's how I imagine this all went down, from Justin's perspective.

Justin Bieber is staring aimlessly out the backseat window of a black SUV. The bleak scenery of the city streaks by. He doesn't register any of it.

Justin can't even remember what city this is. Each meaningless day blurs into the next one. Another city, another


long since he's heard it. But there it is again — the sounds of children laughing and shouting. It's the sound of fun.

Justin closes his eyes. Remembers a time, long ago, when he wasn't on the outside of those sounds. Before Justin Bieber, before YouTube, before Selena, when he was just Justin. When he was just a kid playing soccer with his friends, his real friends, on a shabby field in Ontario.

It's so distant it feels like a dream, or maybe like a memory someone else could have, but not him. But no, he know's it's real. That used to be him. He used to be happy, once.

"Pull over."

"What?"

Scooter looks up from his iPad, startled. "Do you feel sick?"

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The driver— Justin doesn't know his name — finally complies, and brings the SUV to the side of the road.

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Justin ignores him. He can be happy again, he knows he can, if only for half an hour. He can have this life he used to have, one more time...


Former NASCAR driver Richard Childress shot at three masked gunmen who attempted to break into his home Sunday, according to a report Thursday from a CBS’s North Carolina affiliate.

Childress and his wife were upstairs in their North Carolina home Sunday evening when intruders broke into their home, Davidson County Sheriff’s Office told reporters. Investigators said Childress grabbed his gun and fired at the three men, but the assailants got away unscathed.

Sheriff David Grice said Childress told him “the only reason he and his wife were here today was because of God and the Second Amendment.” The “Castle Doctrine” gives citizens in the state the right to defend their homes from intruders, Grice said.

Childress, who served on the National Rifle Association‘s Board of Directors, is offering a $10,000 rewardfor information leading to the arrest and prosecution of those who put his family in danger.

The 72-year-old Childress won six Cup Series championships as team owner with the late Dale Earnhardt as his team lead and was elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2017. He could face scrutiny among some who are opposed to the so-called Castle Doctrine.

There are stipulations to the law. A threat from an intruder must be real and substantial, or at least intentional forced entry — when a person kicks down a door, for instance. But mere trespassing alone is not a justification to shoot a person, even under some forms of castle doctrine law.

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"I would like to see the continuation of the progress we've seen with President Obama."

Biden, 72, has been huddling with advisers to decide whether to challenge Clinton, who has struggled to overcome fallout from her use of a private email server while working as the nation's top diplomat.

Clinton still holds a big lead in opinion polls in the race to pick a nominee for the November 2016 election, but has taken a hit on her personal favorability and trustworthiness.

Clinton and three other Democratic candidates - Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley and former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee - addressed party leaders at the meeting.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Clinton also expressed her admiration for Biden but refused to be drawn into a discussion about hisSouth Africa that I see on television, one that is free, democratic, with equal opportunities for everyone. A South Africa that hosted the FIFA world cup in 2010, one that has the most progressive constitution in the world, and its own Dalai Lama in Nelson Mandela. Then you have another South Africa, one that I seem to be a resident of; this South Africa is ravaged by crony capitalism, poverty is the order of the day, corruption is the modus operandi, freedom is an illusion, riots and protests are everywhere, and oh well... the wails carry on to about as far as the extension of pi digits after the decimal comma. Seems like this country has become Schrodinger’s cat, it is both free and not free at the


In a lengthy intro, Drake reflected on his first time meeting Rihanna--way back before he was a multiplatinum star himself.

"The first time I met Robyn Fenty was 2005," Drake said during his introduction. "She was shooting a music video at a restaurant called Avocado in Toronto. The song was 'Pon de Replay' and the director of the video was Little X. I was introduced to her as a kid who played background music at the restaurant as people ate their dinner. It’s hard to believe that 11 years later all three of us would come together for a visual for a song called 'Work.' Today, the world knows Little X as Director X. They know me as Drake and not the kid singing while you order pasta. Butwith since I was 22 years old. She's one of my best friends in the world. All my adult life, I've looked up to her even though she's younger than me. She's a living breathing legend in our industry. Ladies and gentlemen, the recipient of the Michael Jackson Vanguard Award for 2016: Rihanna."


Sunday, April 10, 2011

Official Opening of St. Panteleimon Church in London

Today we celebrated the Official Opening of the new Byzantine Style Church in Harrow, NW London. It was a unique occasion for us all, since the last time this took place in the UK was over 100 years ago when the last Greek Orthodox Church was built.

The Official Opening, Θυρανοίξια, is different to a consecration, which will eventually take place in the coming Autumn. The Official Opening symbolises the official entrance into the new Church. The ceremony was presided over by His Eminences, the Archbishop Gregorios of Thyateira and Great Britain and the Metropolitan Georgios of Paphos. Many priests, deacons and chanters took part, whilst the Church was fool of people from all over London. Also the Metropolitanbought from Cyprus relics of St. Panteleimon which also added a magical atmosphere in the celebrations.

It is moving to be present at such an event, where everyone was amazed at the progress of the New Church building of St. Panteleimon. It was also emotional to see many people enter the Church moved by this magnificent and massive project, which is still in progress.

It seems that Marx was wrong when he said " Die Religion ist das Opium des Volkes", which translates into English "Religion is the opium of the people". Religion cannot be seen, as Marx understood it, as a social reality, without taking into consideration other factors, such as spirituality, faith , God or the human nature. Also it is wrong to believe and state that religion


is going to vanish from society in the coming years, something which many sociologists believed would be the case in the first decade of the 21st century. This ofcourse is not the case. These endeavours show emphatically how both paradigms have been proven wrong by this astonishing new Church.

We can only hope that the rest of the project will continue as planned and then I am sure the beautiful icons will follow to decorate the interior and the exterior of the Church.

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Moraine Park Technical College has announced John Torinus Jr. as the keynote speaker for its 2018 Commencement Ceremony on Saturday, May 19.

Torinus has worked as a journalist, entrepreneur and business manager since leaving the U.S Marine Corps, where he served as an artillery company commander. He served for 20 years as the CEO of Serigraph Inc., a graphics parts manufacturer with plants in the U.S. and Mexico, and he continues to serve as an active chairman. Today, he also serves as chairman of West Bend Friends of Sculpture, director for Mikkelsen Cutting Tools LLC and GrandCare LLC, treasurer of the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Research Foundation, and a general partner of the Wisconsin Super-Angel Fund, an angel investing fund. He holds a baccalaureate in industrial administration frompercent per annum from May 1, 1954, until paid, the said sum being the deficiency adjudged to be due on the notes herein sued upon after application of the value of the security.
In his answer to the complaint, the defendant admits that the notes were executed on August 10, 1950, by Roberts Petroleum, Inc., and himself, and delivered to the payee, Anatel Corporation, but alleges that the notes were paid by the execution and delivery of two other notes dates December 8, 1950, and that it was the purpose and intention of the parties that the notes sued on herein would be destroyed or surrendered to Roberts Petroleum, Inc.
It is also alleged in the answer:
"The defendant would further state that at the time of the execution and delivery


of the notes on December 8, 1950, to Walter Bollenbacher and Louis L. Kelton, there was also an assignment made to them of certain oil, gas, and mineral interests which was accepted as full and complete payment of the notes of December 8, 1950, or with the full understanding that production from the assignments of the mineral interests was to be used in the retirement of the two said notes and in no wise would this defendant, Robert C. Wallingsford, be held personally responsible for the payment thereof.
"Defendant states further that the notes sued on herein should have been destroyed or returned to the defendant or Roberts Petroleum, Inc., upon the execution of the two notes of December 8, 1950, or the assignment of the oil interests."
The plaintifffiled a reply to the answer on August 29, 1955, in which it denied the allegations of the answer and stated:
"Plaintiff states that the Defendant, Robert C. Wallingsford, was a party to that certain proceeding in bankruptcy styled `In the Matter of Roberts Petroleum Inc., Bankrupt', being Civil No. 535 of this Court; that Walter Bollenbacher and Louis L. Kelton were parties thereto and that as alleged in the Complaint, the notes sued on herein were allowed in said proceeding as valid claims against the bankrupt, of which the Defendant was at all times the Vice President and principal executive officer; that the payment of said notes was an issue in said proceeding to which the Defendant was a participating party represented by counsel and a principal witness;


L. Schutter was president. The defendant at all times since the incorporation was vice president and general manager and principal executive officer. Edith Wallingsford, the wife of defendant, was at all times secretary of the corporation. The defendant and his wife owned 50 percent of the stock of the corporation, and defendant was in active charge of its affairs. Apparently the only other stockholder was Elizabeth Schutter, wife of Robert L. Schutter.
On August 10, 1950, the corporation and the defendant, Robert C. Wallingsford, executed and delivered two promissory notes, payable to the order of Anatel Corporation (a California corporation), each for the sum of $20,000. The notes are identical, and are as follows:
"$20,000.00               he and Bollenbacher being the only stockholders of the payee corporation.
On December 8, 1950, Roberts Petroleum, Inc., assigned to the said Bollenbacher and Kelton an undivided one-fourth interest in and to a certain oil and gas lease from J. R. Winn et al., lessors, to Robert C. Wallingsford, lessee, said assignment being placed of record on the same day in Record Book 583 at page 95, of the Miscellaneous Mineral records of Union County, Arkansas.
On the same day, the defendant, Robert C. Wallingsford, and wife, Edith Wallingsford, assigned to the said Bollenbacher and Kelton 7/32nds of all of the oil, produced, saved, and marketed from a 50-acre tract of land in Section 14, Township 18 South, Range 13 West, in Union County, Arkansas, subject to certain other assignments


previously made. This assignment was likewise recorded on the date of its execution, and appears of record in Book 583 at page 97 of the Miscellaneous Mineral records of Union County, Arkansas.
On May 16, 1952, the corporation filed a debtor's petition for arrangement under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Act as amended, 11 U.S.C.A. § 701 et seq. On July 31, 1952, the corporation was adjudicated a bankrupt.
On October 16, 1952, the said Bollenbacher and Kelton filed proof of their individual *606 claims as secured claims for the balance due on the notes in the sum of $19,751.47 each.
On October 27, 1952, the defendant, Robert C. Wallingsford, filed a claim as an unsecured creditor of the bankrupt corporation in the amount of $79,515.59.
In December 1952 the Harris Trustcontract dated August 28, 1950, between Robert C. Wallingsford and Roberts Petroleum, Inc., as seller, and the said Bollenbacher and Kelton as buyers for the purpose of paying or reimbursing the bankrupt for the cost of drilling certain oil wells, and for the purpose of paying the consideration for an assignment to the said Bollenbacher and Kelton of an interest in said leasehold estate rather than a loan made by the Anatel Corporation to the bankrupt.
In paragraph 26 of the petition the last known mailing address of the persons who have, or may claim to have, some right, title, interest or lien in and to the leasehold estates, the personal property located thereon, and the rents, issues, and profits were set forth. Among the persons named and whose


in the oil and gas lease held as security for the payment of same to the plaintiff, Larcon Company. The assignment transferred to plaintiff all the right, title, and interest of said Bollenbacher and Kelton to each of the notes sued on herein; the proofs of claim and the security therefor; the oil and gas lease that had been assigned to them as security for the payment of the note; and all claims and demands that they might have against the estate of the bankrupt.
On January 26, 1954, the Referee entered an order declaring the rights and equities of each and every claimant. In paragraph 1 of the Findings of Fact it is recited that Bollenbacher and Kelton appeared by their attorneys, Messrs. Crumpler and O'Connor, and thatclaims and all objections filed thereto; that it had jurisdiction of all interested parties, including the defendant Wallingsford, who was represented by counsel, and who appeared and was heard in the proceeding; that the issue of the payment of the notes sued on herein was raised by the pleadings upon the claims and objections thereto, and the court found that the notes were due and owing and unpaid in the principal sum of $39,502.94.
After the motion for summary judgment was filed, the deposition of the defendant, Robert C. Wallingsford, was taken on September 15, 1955, at El Dorado, in which he testified that he was a witness at the hearing before the Referee in Bankruptcy that began on March 16, 1953, but he did not remember hearing Mr.


Kelton testify about the notes sued upon.
It appears that the attorneys for Wallingsford had been requested to produce at the time of the taking of the deposition any letters or written memoranda that he might have had with Bollenbacher and Kelton. Accordingly, the defendant was interrogated concerning several communications, but he produced only one letter. It was stipulated by the attorneys for the respective parties at the time that the defendant Wallingsford had made a search of his records, and he was unable to find any of the letters he was questioned about in the deposition other than a letter dated December 8, 1950, written by him to Bollenbacher and Kelton. The letter, omitting the addresses, is as follows:

*609 "Dear Sirs:
"This will acknowledge receipt of $40,000.00 ($20,000.00 fromtheir signatures of some designation of agency as by signing themselves, respectively, as president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer without stating for whom or for what company they were acting. Under these circumstances, they were liable personally and could not as a defense show by parol evidence that they intended to bind a certain corporation for which they were acting.'"
Thus the notes sued upon were an obligation of the bankrupt corporation and also an obligation of the defendant Wallingsford individually.
The defendant admits he signed the notes as an individual, but contends in his original brief that he is entitled to his individual defenses to the notes; that these defenses have never been heard because this is the first action of any kind against him as an individual for


the claims.
Sec. 70, sub. c of the Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 110, provides that the trustee may have the benefit of all defenses available to the bankrupt as against third persons, including statutes of limitations, statutes of fraud, usury, and other personal defenses. After a full and complete hearing the objections of the trustee and other creditors were overruled, and the claims were allowed by the Referee. At this hearing the defendant Wallingsford was present and was represented by counsel. He participated in the hearing, but, notwithstanding the resistance on the part of the trustee, with the aid of the defendant, the notes were found to be due and payable, and the Referee found that on the date of the hearing that there was due on each ofChicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank, 308 U.S. 371, 60 S.Ct. 317, 84 L.Ed. 329, was a suit brought in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas to recover on 14 bonds of $1,000 each, which had been issued by the Drainage District. In its answer the Drainage District pleaded a decree of the same District Court in a proceeding instituted by the District to effect a plan of readjustment of its indebtedness. The decree recited that a plan of readjustment had been accepted by the holders of more than two-thirds of the outstanding indebtedness and was fair and equitable; that to consummate the plan and with the approval of the court the District had issued and sold new serial bonds to the Reconstruction


or demand, but as to any other admissible matter which might have been offered for that purpose.'" Citing cases.
The defendant seeks to escape the effect of the plea of res judicata by claiming that he was not a party to the proceeding in bankruptcy in which the issues of the validity and the payment of the notes sued on herein was determined.
It is unnecessary to repeat the facts hereinbefore set forth which establish without doubt that the defendant was an actual party by order of the Referee; that he appeared by counsel and participated in the hearing on the question of the validity and status of all the claims against the bankrupt, including the notes here sued on. The defendant was not only a party, but he wasa creditor of the bankrupt and the principal executive officer. The law required him to assist the trustee in the defense of any claim, and since he was a creditor he likewise had the right to oppose the allowance of the notes sued on herein.
A former judgment cannot be pleaded as res judicata by strangers to the action in which it was rendered, but may be pleaded by, and only by, the parties to the action and their privies, that is, by those who would have been bound by a judgment holding otherwise.
"Privies" within the meaning of this rule are persons who have mutual or successive relationships to the same right or thing, who claim through or under the parties to the former action. The plaintiff acquired the


of his own, and who does this openly, to the knowledge of the opposing party, is as much bound by the judgment and as fully entitled to avail himself of it, as an estoppel against an adversary party, as he would be if he had been a party to the record.'" Citing cases.
*617 The court further said:
"And when a party takes an active part in litigation in a federal court and its rights are there determined on the merits, `that court has power to protect its decree as against any action which such litigant may take in any other court.'"
Generally speaking, the term "parties" as used in connection with the doctrine of res judicata includes all who are directly interested in the subject matter of the suit andfrom engaging the bars of the crib frame underneath the upper barrier portion.
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A Wake County mother accused of killing her own baby says police got it all wrong. Nicole Richards spent a year in jail facing involuntary manslaughter charges for a crime she says never happened. She blames her baby's tragic death on a health issue.

From the time Autumn Rose was born, Richards says she had to be a fighter. Autumn was born two months premature and struggled with health problems until her death.

In October 2009, Richards was visiting a friend last fall at an Apex apartment complex when 3-month-old Autumn Rose, the youngest of Richards' four children, fell asleep. Richards says she laid the baby on a bed, surrounded by pillows.

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February 7, 2018

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WASHINGTON, DC– Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 1997, the Ukraine Cybersecurity Cooperation Act of 2017, introduced by Congressman Brendan F. Boyle (PA-13). This bipartisan bill encourages greater cyber security cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine and requires the U.S. State Department to report back to Congress on it efforts to establish cooperation between the two nations. In response, Congressman Boyle released the following statement:

“Today, the House took a strong step forward in the ongoing fight to counter Russia’s intensifying cyber-aggression by passing my legislation. Over the last few years, Russia has been using Ukraine as a field test for cyber attacks that endanger the national security of our great


ally Ukraine, its regional neighbors, and the United States. H.R. 1997 sends a strong signal to Russia and all those who threaten the cybersecurity of America and its allies that we are ready and able to protect ourselves against this escalating threat. Tonight, the House made important progress to protect the American people and reaffirm that the U.S. stands strong with its NATO allies in this fight. I implore the Senate to pass this legislation quickly. Time is of the essence, with American and Ukrainian elections each right around the corner.”

Ukraine has been repeatedly targeted by cyber attacks as a part of ongoing aggression from neighboring Russia. Congressman Boyle has been an outspoken advocate for robust U.S.-Ukraine relations since elected to Congress. Last year, he was awarded asa “Friend of Ukraine” for his work in Congress on behalf of a sovereign, democratic Ukraine. Congressman Boyle also serves as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Subcommittees on the Middle East and North African, and Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade.

Today, Congressman Boyle also sent a letter to Secretary of State Tillerson requesting that the Department work expeditiously to release $5 million in funding promised to Ukraine for cyber assistance. The full letter is available HERE.


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violence charge, to which the new instructions append “General Court-Martial.”

The military-specific language is likely a response to the Sutherland Spring massacre, in which an ex-US airman shot more than two dozen people in a Texas church in 2017. The perpetrator should have been in the background check system as a prohibited person after he was kicked out of the military for assaulting his wife, but the Air Force failed to submit its records to the FBI.

The new Form 4473 appears to be designed to remind both buyers and sellers that members of the military can be prohibited from owning firearms for committing the same kinds of serious crimes as civilians.

The new 4473 also includes a number of organization changes. Rather than begin with the Transferee/Buyer section, the newtalented, brilliant, creative people think they’re not, because the thing they were good at at school wasn’t valued, or was actually stigmatized. And I think we can’t afford to go on that way.

Robinson tells the thought-provoking story of Gillian Lynne, who, as a child, performed poorly academically until a doctor suggested taking her to a dance school, where she met other people like herself, “who had to move to think.” The story concludes:

She was eventually auditioned for the Royal Ballet School; she became a soloist; she had a wonderful career at the Royal Ballet. She eventually graduated from the Royal Ballet School and founded her own company — the Gillian Lynne Dance Company — met Andrew Lloyd Weber. She’s been responsible for some of the most successful musical


He presented himself as a master of the deft bureaucratic maneuver, both in his dealings with internal family rifts and with other crime clans, and in his efforts to thwart law enforcement.

He described going to the bosses of the Gambino and Colombo families — Paul Castellano and Carmine Persico, respectively — in 1981 before taking pre-emptive action against three senior Bonanno figures who were moving against his faction in a brewing power struggle. After securing approval to kill the men, Mr. Massino and several others shot them to death in an ambush in the basement of a social club.

He also testified about codes that he and his confederates worked out — to discuss murder plots and in one instance to determine if a social club had been buggedyou never talk in your house,” he testified, saying that so called walk-talks, where two or more crime figures would carry on a roving conversation as they strolled the streets, were safest.

Indeed, Mr. Massino said he discussed mob business in a walk-in refrigerator at a catering business where he worked to avoid electronic eavesdropping.

His efforts to thwart investigators, he said, were aided by at least four unnamed law officers: two New York Police Department detectives in the 1960s; an F.B.I. agent who warned him of a pending arrest in the 1980s; and a Pennsylvania state trooper who destroyed copies of his fingerprints sometime later.


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(CNSNews.com) - Fifteen years after the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan to deny al Qaeda safe haven, there are now a dozen terrorist or "extremist" groups operating in the country, according to the top U.S. military commander.

That includes the Islamic State, or Daesh, which is exporting its radical ideology from its base in Iraq and Syria to Afghanistan and other countries.

"Daesh is only one of nine U.S.-designated terrorist organizations here in Afghanistan," Gen. John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan,


told a news conference on Thursday. "Additionally there are three other violent extremist organizations.

"These groups are the principle focus of our counter-terrorism mission and the -- the purpose of helping the Afghans to build their capabilities so that they can maintain pressure on these enemy groups and prevent them from realizing their trans-national ambitions."

(In addition to Daesh and the Taliban, he mentioned Tehrik-I-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Some fighters from both of those groups have now migrated over to Daesh, he said.)

Nicholson said Daesh is committing "the same kinds of atrocities" in Afghanistan as they have done in other places, including Saturday's attack in Kabul that killed more than 80 Afghan civilians.

He also said five American servicemembers were wounded this past week as partof a major offensive against Daesh, but all are expected to recover.

Nicholson said the overall U.S. mission in Afghanistan "is on a positive trajectory."

He noted that Daesh controlled around ten districts in southern Nangarhar last December. Then in January, President Obama gave U.S. forces in Afghanistan "counter-terrorism authorities" to attack Daesh, including with air strikes.

"So, since then, U.S. and Afghan partnered forces have attacked Daesh and begun to reduce their area of control. This has included attacks by the Taliban against Daesh as well. So, now since January, their area has shrunk to...parts of three or four districts in southern Nangarhar."

The operations have been successful so far, he said. "We have helped the Afghan Security Forces to reclaim significant portions of the territory that was previously controlled by


of other terrorists groups that changed allegiance.

"And this number that originally was 3,000, we think has been roughly cut in half. We estimate them between -- now between 1,000 and 1,500 at the present time."

Meanwhile, Nicholson said the Taliban still has a "presence" in about one third of the country, but they have firm control in only 10 of Afghanistan's 400 districts.

"They're largely in rural areas -- in the villages and rural areas. But not in the district centers and in none of the provincial capitals."

The fight against the Taliban is not over, Nicholson said, but they have been unable seize and hold territory.Pictures of the Day: 15 February 2017

Skycats of the Scandinavian Aerobatic Team leave a trail of Indian national flag colored smoke as they perform during the inaugural day of the 'Aero India-2017' at the Yelahanka air base in Bangalore, India.


Brief Play Description:

GlitchHiker was a game that existed of two parts. The first part was the game itself, which you can see on the video. The second part was an online internet server that we called the SYSTEM.

In the GAME, players collected coins with the GLITCHHIKER to score points in a single screen arena. They could dash by pressing 'X', but wouldn't be able to stop dashing until they hit a solid object. Non-solid grey blocks would be introduced frequently, and if a player collected a coin near those, the grey blocks would turn into coins to score chains or combos of coins. However, if a grey block remained for a short while, it would turn black and solid.

The black blocks would frequently turn into red blocks thatwould introduce a vertical or horizontal disturbance in the game. After a short period, the disturbance would execute and kill anything within it - including the GLITCHHIKER if it happened to stand there.

The SYSTEM was the second part. When the SYSTEM started at 15:00, it had a hundred lives. Every time a player played GlitchHiker and died, a life was deducted from the system. For every hundred points a player scored in GlitchHiker, a life was added. Summarized, everyone who did not score at least a hundred lives was decreasing the amounts of lives available to the SYSTEM.

The more lives were deducted from the pool, the less healthy the game became. Graphical glitches were introduced, the audio started glitching and black blocks started shifting around, introducing distraction in


the game.

When the SYSTEM would reach zero lives, the game would shut down and go extinct. The game would no longer be playable.

Despite the valiant attempts by some players at saving the SYSTEM, which had already taken quite a hit during the GGJ event, at 21:41PM the SYSTEM executed its inevitable task and GlitchHiker shut down.

This means GlitchHiker can be downloaded but not executed anymore. Luckily, we still have a video of the game at work.George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of KedlestonKG, GCSI, GCIE, PC (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911 and as The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a British Conservative statesman.

As Viceroy of India, he is noted for the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam. As Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, he drew the Curzon Line as the proposed eastern frontier of Poland. He was passed over as Prime Minister in 1923 in favour of Stanley Baldwin. His character polarised opinion amongst his contemporaries, "sow[ing] gratitude and resentment along his path with equally lavish hands".[1] He quarrelled endlessly and his arrogance and inflexibility made even more enemies. Critics have been negative in contrasting


his enormous talents and energy on behalf of British imperialism with his mixed results and unrealized ambitions.

Lord Curzon was the eldest son and second of eleven children of Alfred Curzon, the 4th Baron Scarsdale (1831–1916), Rector of Kedleston in Derbyshire, and his wife Blanche (1837–1875), daughter of Joseph Pocklington Senhouse of Netherhall in Cumberland. He was born at Kedleston Hall, built on the site where his family, who were of Norman ancestry, had lived since the 12th century. His mother, worn out by childbirth, died when George was 16; her husband survived her by 41 years. Neither parent exerted a major influence on Curzon's life. Lord Scarsdale was an austere and unindulgent father who believed in the short-held family tradition that landowners should stay on their land andnot go "roaming about all over the world". He thus had little sympathy for those journeys across Asia between 1887 and 1895 which made his son one of the most travelled men who ever sat in a British cabinet. A more decisive presence in Curzon's childhood was that of his brutal governess, Ellen Mary Paraman, whose tyranny in the nursery stimulated his combative qualities and encouraged the obsessional side of his nature. Paraman periodically forced him to parade through the village wearing a conical hat bearing the words liar, sneak, and coward. Curzon later noted, "No children well born and well-placed ever cried so much and so justly."[2]

Curzon at Eton, 1870s.

He was educated at Wixenford School,[3]Eton College[4] and Balliol College, Oxford. At Eton he was a favourite of


Oscar Browning, an over-intimate relationship that led to his tutor's dismissal.[5][6] While at Eton, he was a controversial figure who was liked and disliked with equal intensity by large numbers of masters and other boys. This strange talent for both attraction and repulsion stayed with him all his life: few people ever felt neutral about him. At Oxford he was President of the Union and Secretary of the Oxford Canning Club. Although he failed to achieve a first class degree in Greats, he won the Lothian and Arnold Prizes, the latter for an essay on Sir Thomas More (about whom he confessed to having known almost nothing before commencing study, delivered as the clocks were chiming midnight on the day of the deadline). He was elected a prizefellow of All Souls College in 1883. Whilst at Oxford, he was a contemporary and close friend of Cecil Spring Rice and Edward Grey.[7]

A teenage spinal injury, incurred while riding, left Curzon in lifelong pain, often resulting in insomnia, and required him to wear a metal corset, contributing to an unfortunate impression of stiffness and arrogance. While at Oxford, Curzon was the inspiration for the following Balliol rhyme, a piece of doggerel which stuck with him in later life:

Curzon believed Russia to be the most likely threat to India, Britain's most valuable colony, from the 19th century through the early 20th century.[8] In 1879 Russia had begun construction of the Transcaspian Railroad along the Silk Road, officially solely to enforce local control. The line starts from the city


of Kzyzl Su (Krasnovodsk) (nowadays Turkmenbashi) (on the Caspian Sea), travels southeast along the Karakum Desert, through Ashgabat, continues along the Kopet Dagh Mountains until it reaches Tejen. Curzon dedicated an entire chapter in his book Russia in Central Asia to discussing the perceived threat to British control of India.[9] This railroad connected Russia with the most wealthy and influential cities in Central Asia at the time, including the Persian province of Khorasan,[10] and would allow the rapid deployment of Russian supplies and troops into the area. Curzon also believed that the resulting greater economic interdependence between Russia and Central Asia would be damaging to British interests.[11]

Persia and the Persian Question, written in 1892, has been considered Curzon's magnum opus and can be seen as a sequel toRussia in Central Asia.[12] Curzon was commissioned by The Times to write several articles on the Persian political environment, but while there he decided to write a book on the country as whole. This two-volume work covers Persia's history and governmental structure, as well as graphics, maps and pictures (some taken by Curzon himself). Curzon was aided by General Albert Houtum-Schindler and the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), both of which helped him gain access to material to which as a foreigner he would not have been entitled to have access. General Schindler provided Curzon with information regarding Persia's geography and resources, as well as serving as an unofficial editor. The map which accompanied the volumes was the product of RGS, but was later pointed out as inaccurate (according


to British officials) as it depicted the islands near the Straits of Hormuz (Sirri, Abu Musa, and the Tunbs) as belonging to the Persians.[13]

Curzon was appalled by his government's apathy towards Persia as a valuable defensive buffer to India from Russian encroachment.[14] Years later Curzon would lament that "Persia has alternatively advanced and receded in the estimation of British statesmen, occupying now a position of extravagant prominence, anon one of unmerited obscurity."[15]

In 1895 he married Mary Victoria Leiter, the daughter of Levi Ziegler Leiter, an American millionaire of German Mennonite origin and co-founder of the Chicago department store Field & Leiter (later Marshall Field). She had a long and nearly fatal illness near the end of summer 1904, from which she never really recovered. Falling ill again inJuly 1906, she died on the 18th of that month in her husband's arms, at the age of 36.[16] It was the greatest personal loss of his life.

She was buried in the church at Kedleston, where Curzon designed his memorial for her, a Gothic chapel added to the north side of the nave. Although he was neither a devout nor a conventional churchman, Curzon retained a simple religious faith; in later years he sometimes said that he was not afraid of death because it would enable him to join Mary in heaven.

In January 1899 he was appointed Viceroy of India. He was created a Peer of Ireland as Baron Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby,[17] on his appointment. This peerage was created in the Peerage of


Ireland (the last so created) so that he would be free, until his father's death, to re-enter the House of Commons on his return to Britain.

Reaching India shortly after the suppression of the frontier risings of 1897–98, he paid special attention to the independent tribes of the north-west frontier, inaugurated a new province called the North West Frontier Province, and pursued a policy of forceful control mingled with conciliation. The only major armed outbreak on this frontier during the period of his administration was the Mahsud–Waziri campaign of 1901.

In the context of the Great Game between the British and Russian Empires for control of Central Asia, he held deep mistrust of Russian intentions. This led him to encourage British trade in Persia, and he paid a visit tothe Persian Gulf in 1903. Curzon argued for an exclusive British presence in the Gulf, a policy originally proposed by John Malcolm. The British government was already making agreements with local sheikhs/tribal leaders along the Persian Gulf coast to this end. Curzon had convinced his government to establish Britain as the unofficial protector of Kuwait with the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899. The Lansdowne Declaration in 1903 stated that the British would counter any other European power's attempt to establish a military presence in the Gulf.[18] Only four years later this position was abandoned and the Persian Gulf declared a neutral zone in the Anglo-Russian Agreement of 1907, prompted in part by the high economic cost of defending India from Russian advances.[19]

At the end of 1903, Curzon sent a


British expedition to Tibet under Francis Younghusband, ostensibly to forestall a Russian advance. After bloody conflicts with Tibet's poorly armed defenders, the mission penetrated to Lhasa, where a treaty was signed in September 1904. No Russian presence was found in Lhasa.

During his tenure, Curzon undertook the restoration of the Taj Mahal, and expressed satisfaction that he had done so.

Within India, Curzon appointed a number of commissions to inquire into education, irrigation, police and other branches of administration, on whose reports legislation was based during his second term of office as viceroy. Reappointed Governor-General in August 1904, he presided over the 1905 partition of Bengal, which roused such bitter opposition among the people of the province that it was later revoked (1911).[20]

Curzon also took an active interest in militarymatters. In 1901, he founded the Imperial Cadet Corps, or ICC. The ICC was a corps d'elite, designed to give Indian princes and aristocrats military training, after which a few would be given officer commissions in the Indian Army. But these commissions were "special commissions" which did not empower their holders to command any troops. Predictably, this was a major stumbling block to the ICC's success, as it caused much resentment among former cadets. Though the ICC closed in 1914, it was a crucial stage in the drive to Indianise the Indian Army's officer Corps, which was haltingly begun in 1917.

Military organisation proved to be the final issue faced by Curzon in India. This was in part a clash of personalities: Curzon once wrote on a document “I


rise from the perusal of these papers filled with the sense of the ineptitude of my military advisers”, and once wrote to the Commander-in-Chief in India, Lord Kitchener, advising him that signing himself "Lord Kitchener of Khartoum" took up too much time and space, which Kitchener thought petty (Curzon simply signed himself "Curzon" as if he were an hereditary peer, although he later took to signing himself "Curzon of Kedleston").[21] A difference of opinion with Kitchener, regarding the status of the military member of the council in India (who controlled army supply and logistics, which Kitchener wanted under his own control), led to a controversy in which Curzon failed to obtain the support of the home government. He resigned in August 1905 and returned to England.

Lord and Ladycrime."[27] He also cut back rations that he characterised as "dangerously high" and stiffened relief eligibility by reinstating the Temple tests.[28]

Arthur Balfour's refusal to recommend an earldom for Curzon in 1905 was repeated by Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the Liberal Prime Minister, who formed his government the day after Curzon returned to England. In deference to the wishes of the king and the advice of his doctors, Curzon did not stand in the general election of 1906 and thus found himself excluded from public life for the first time in twenty years. It was at this time, the nadir of his career, that he suffered the greatest personal loss of his life. Mary died in 1906 and Curzon devoted himself to private matters, including establishing a new home. After


the death of Lord Goschen in 1907, the post of Chancellor of the Oxford University fell vacant. Curzon successfully became elected as Chancellor of Oxford after he won by 1001 votes to 440 against Lord Rosebery.[29] He proved to be quite an active Chancellor – "[he] threw himself so energetically into the cause of university reform that critics complained he was ruling Oxford like an Indian province."[30]

In 1908, Curzon was elected a representative peer for Ireland, and thus relinquished any idea of returning to the House of Commons. In 1909–10 he took an active part in opposing the Liberal government's proposal to abolish the legislative veto of the House of Lords, and in 1911 was created Baron Ravensdale, of Ravensdale in the County of Derby, with remainder (indefault of heirs male) to his daughters, Viscount Scarsdale, of Scarsdale in the County of Derby, with remainder (in default of heirs male) to the heirs male of his father, and Earl Curzon of Kedleston, in the County of Derby, with the normal remainder, all in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[31]

Like other politicians (e.g. Chamberlain, Arthur Balfour) Curzon favoured British Empire efforts in Mesopotamia, believing that the increase in British prestige would discourage a German-inspired Muslim revolt in India.[33]

Curzon was a member of the Dardanelles Committee and told that body (October 1915) that the recent Salonika expedition was "quixotic chivalry".[34]

Early in 1916 Curzon visited Douglas Haig (newly appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in France) at his headquarters in France. Haig was impressed by Curzon's brains and decisiveness,


considering that he had mellowed since his days as Viceroy (the then Major-General Haig had been Inspector-General of Cavalry, India, at the time) and had lost "his old pompous ways".[35]

Curzon served in Lloyd George's small War Cabinet as Leader of the House of Lords from December 1916, and he also served on the War Policy Committee. With Allied victory over Germany far from certain, Curzon wrote a paper (12 May 1917) for the War Cabinet urging that Britain seize Palestine and possibly Syria.[36] However, like other members of the War Cabinet, Curzon supported further Western Front offensives lest, with Russian commitment to the war wavering, France and Italy be tempted to make a separate peace. At the War Policy Committee (3 October 1917) Curzon objected in vain toplans to redeploy two divisions to Palestine, with a view to advancing into Syria and knocking Turkey out of the war altogether. Curzon's commitment wavered somewhat as the losses of Third Ypres mounted.[37] In the summer of 1917 the CIGSGeneral Robertson sent Haig a biting description of the members of the War Cabinet, who he said were all frightened of Lloyd George; he described Curzon as "a gasbag".

During the crisis of February 1918 Curzon was one of the few members of the government to support Robertson, threatening in vain to resign if he were removed.[38]

After a long affair with the romantic novelist Elinor Glyn, Curzon married the former Grace Elvina Hinds in January 1917. She was the wealthy Alabama-born widow of Alfredo Huberto Duggan (died 1915), a first-generation


Irish Argentinian appointed to the Argentine Legation in London in 1905. Elinor Glyn was staying with Curzon at the time of the engagement, and read about it in the morning newspapers.

Grace had three children from her first marriage, two sons, Alfred and Hubert, and a daughter, Grace Lucille. Alfred and Hubert, as Curzon's step-sons, grew up within his influential circle. Curzon had three daughters from his first marriage, but he and Grace (despite fertility-related operations and several miscarriages) did not have any children together, which put a strain on their marriage. Letters written between them in the early 1920s imply that they still lived together, and remained devoted to each other. In 1923, Curzon was passed over for the office of Prime Minister partly on the advice ofArthur Balfour, who joked that Curzon "has lost the hope of glory but he still possesses the means of Grace".

Curzon did not have David Lloyd George's support. Curzon and Lloyd George had disliked one another since the 1911 Parliament Crisis. The Prime Minister thought him overly pompous and self-important, and it was said that he used him as if he were using a Rolls-Royce to deliver a parcel to the station; Lloyd George said much later that Churchill treated his Ministers in a way that Lloyd George would never have treated his: "They were all men of substance — well, except Curzon."[40] Multiple drafts of resignation letters written at this time were found upon Curzon's death. Despite their antagonism, the two were often in agreement on government policy.[41]


Lloyd George needed the wealth of knowledge Curzon possessed so was both his biggest critic and simultaneously as his largest supporter. Likewise, Curzon was grateful for the latitude Lloyd George bestowed upon him when it came to handling affairs in the Middle East.[42]

Other cabinet ministers also respected his vast knowledge of Central Asia but disliked his arrogance and often blunt criticism. Believing that the Foreign Secretary should be non-partisan, he would objectively present all the information on a subject to the Cabinet, as if placing faith in his colleagues to reach the appropriate decision. Conversely, Curzon would take personally and respond aggressively to any criticism.[43]

It has been suggested that Curzon's defensiveness reflected institutional insecurity by the Foreign Office as a whole. During the 1920s the Foreign Office wasoften a passive participant in decisions which were mainly reactive and dominated by the Prime Minister.[44] The creation of the job of Colonial Secretary, the Cabinet Secretariat and the League of Nations added to the Foreign Office's insecurity.[45]

The territorial changes of Poland. Light blue line: Curzon Line "B" as proposed by Lord Curzon in 1919. Dark blue line: "Curzon" Line "A" as proposed by the Soviet Union in 1940. Pink: Formerly German provinces annexed by Poland after World War II. Grey: Pre-World War II Polish territory east of the Curzon Line annexed by the Soviet Union after the war.

After nine months as acting Secretary while Balfour was at the Paris Peace Conference,[46] Curzon was appointed Foreign Secretary in October 1919. He gave his name to the British government's