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When he was pressed as to what evidence existed, Mr Spicer said that Mr Trump “has believed that for a while based on studies and information he has”. He said that Mr Trump was very pleased with the amount of support he had, which saw him win 33 of the 50 states in the electoral college.

Mr Trump surprised many top Republicans and Democrats in Congress on Monday when, during a dinner at the White House, he repeated his claim that millions of undocumented immigrants voted for Ms Clinton.

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Ulysses, N.Y. — A dog likely saved its owners from a house fire in Tompkins County early Monday morning by waking them up, according to Trumansburg Assistant Fire Chief Rod Ferrentino.

A man and a woman were sleeping in bed in a farmhouse on Cold Springs Road in the town of Ulysses a little before 4:30 a.m. when the K-9 jumped on the man’s ankle.

Roused from bed, the couple smelled something unusual coming from the stove. The man went downstairs “and, lo and behold, they had a chimney fire,” Ferrentino said.

"The dog saved their lives," Ferrentino said.

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The homeowners called 911. The Trumansburg Fire Department arrived to find that the chimney fire had spread to the second floor.

Fire crews would remain on scene until about 7:30 a.m. Both the manand the woman, as well as three dogs and “one or two” cats, made it out safely, according to Ferrentino.

The family has been displaced by the blaze, Ferrentino said. The fire damaged three rooms — on both the second and first stories — and filled the rest of the house with smoke.

Members of the Enfield and Mecklenberg fire departments also responded to help extinguish the fire. Ferrentino said there may have been other fire departments involved he couldn’t remember.

Ferrentino also highlighted the dog’s role in ensuring that there were no injuries or fatalities in the blaze. The assistant fire chief emphasized that the dog somehow knew to jump on the man’s ankle, which had already been injured, to wake him up.

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"They were sleeping; it was the middle of


the night ... and the dog woke them," Ferrentino said.

The homeowner later said that the dog "jumped on my bad leg and wouldn't stop," according to Ferrentino.

"The only way the people were woken was by the dog. The dog's a freaking hero. The dog saved their lives," Ferrentino said.

Ferrentino said he asked the couple if the house's smoke detectors had gone off. They said no — but that the dog had somehow sensed something was amiss.

There's no way the dog would wake them in the middle of the night as a coincidence, Ferrentino said.

"The dog knew something wasn't right," Ferrentino said. "The guy said, 'You could just smell something.'"

Ferrentino, a dog lover and owner himself, said the apparent rescue was a testament to the greatness of man's bestmathematical objects can be defined in the language of sets and the notion of a set is simple enough to come up with a relatively short and sharp set of axioms. This mathematicians duly did.
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(CNN) Terry Ingraham went out in the bitter Nebraska cold Saturday to try to catch some shots of eagles, but his camera malfunctioned.

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Ingraham saw the car stop, fall through the ice and begin to fill with water.

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of burden and responsibility between township, county and state." Van Gerpen v. Gemmill, 72 S.D. 265, 268, 33 N.W.2d 278, 279 (1948).
"It shall be the duty of the board of township supervisors to arrange for the construction, repair, and maintenance of all secondary roads within the township...."... We refer to this duty of the township board for the purpose of showing that the legislature has directly placed upon this board the duty and responsibility for the construction, repair and maintenance of secondary roads, in the same manner that it has placed such responsibility for the County Highway System upon the county highway superintendent and the board of county commissioners... and upon the State Highway Commission for the State Trunk Highway System ....
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The trial court based its interpretation onS J Watson’s (SJW) inspiration came from a man whose obituary he penned. The man had such bad epilepsy he had an operation to remove part of his brain which then impacted his memory to the degree that each day meant the start of production of new memories with no long term retention. M J McGrath (MJM) spent time in the high arctic in order to research her non-fiction work. Here she met a female polar bear hunter who became the inspiration for her half-white, half-Inuit protagonist Edie Kiglatuk.

Gordon Ferris (GF) took his inspiration from what became his title: The Hanging Shed. In these buildings condemned men were led from room to room to the ultimate place that delivered the end of their lives in post WWII Glasgow.


Julia Crouch (JC) runs and listens to music at the same time. As she pounded the terrain down in Brighton, a Nick Cave song – The Boatman’s Call, inspired by his relationship with P J Harvey – threw up a question in her mind: how can such passion arise in your steady-Eddy, beloved husband?

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Fancy a break from the tennis? Or the rain? (The two so often arrive together here.)

London Review Bookshop World Literature Weekend, taking place 17-19 June, is theonly UK festival to specialise in literature in translation. On the crime front there are two events that may be of interest:

Crime Fiction: Reading Scars - Behind crime fiction's gripping narratives, there often lies a more incisive portrayal of a society than can be found in more obvious commentaries; and it offers a way to confront ideas of good and evil in a shades-of-grey world, where simple moral certainties aren't so easy to find. Karin Alvtegen's psychological crime thrillers include Missing, which in 2001 won the Glass Key, the premier Nordic crime writing award, and Shadow and Betrayal. Håkan Nesser is also a Glass Key winner; his latest book to be translated into English is The Inspector and Silence, starring his detective Van Veeteren. The event will be


chaired by Jakob Stourgaard-Nielson, Lecturer in Scandinavian Literature at UCL.

For Catalonia: Place of a Language, three very different writers come together to talk about how a besieged language can offer refuge, and how place, history and identity are knitted into that language. One of the authors taking part in this event is Teresa Solana, the award-winning author of two comic noirs, Not So Perfect Crime and A Short Cut to Paradise. Solana writes in Catalan and translates them into Spanish, and her novels are a blend of humour, merciless satire and detective thriller. Joining Solana on the panel is Ramon Llull Prize-winning novelist Najat El Hatchmi and Carles Casajuana, author and Ambassador of Spain to the UK. Barcelona-based literary translator Peter Bush is chair. This event takes placeAfter three years on the road, Alabama Shakes is nearing the final four shows of their extensive touring. But their momentum is not even close to slowing down. With mention of a new record in the works, the band with many fingers in the genre bucket (including Southern rock and… Read More →


auxiliary sheet metal shield between the riser card and the source compartment. The auxiliary shield may be attached to the riser card and connected to its ground layer by fasteners, while being spaced a short distance apart from it by a plurality of spacers. The shield prevents the traces from receiving electromagnetic radiation from the source compartment.
A more complete understanding of the six-layer riser card and its applications for reducing electromagnetic radiation emanating from a computer enclosure will be afforded to those skilled in the art, as well as a realization of additional advantages and objects thereof, by a consideration of the following detailed description of the invention. Reference will be made to the appended sheets of drawings which will first be described briefly.HIGH SCHOOL: Ryane was a four year varsity letter winner in basketball and two letter varsity winner in track.She was on the honor Roll all 4 years, received the Matador Award 2007-08 , and the Outstanding Leadership Award 2008-09. Ryane was also Player of the Year 2009-10, Heart and Soul Award 2009-10, and was Team Captain 2009-10.

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Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a common kind of primary liver cancer (PLC), ranks as the sixth most common neoplasm and the third most frequent reason for cancer death^[@CR1]^. A report by the World Health Organization (WHO) showed that HCC has become a major health problem nowadays, and the incidence of HCC is increasing as time goes on^[@CR2]^. It was estimated that 748,300 new liver cancer cases and 695,900 liver cancer deaths occurred worldwide in 2008^[@CR3]^. The morbidity and mortality of HCC reached a new peak in 2012 with 782,000 new cases and 745,000 death cases all over the world^[@CR4]^. The East and South-East Asia along with the Middle and Western Africa have the highest HCC rates compared with other places around the world^[@CR5]^. Moreover, the rate of HCCcaused by chemotherapy.

Traditional insect Chinese medicine is an old ancient Chinese medical concept that is still used today in China. It can be recognized as the Chinese animal species medicines, including the dried medical animal bodies, the medical animal bodies without entrails, secretions and excretions of medical animals and the processing products of insects^[@CR13]^. Owing to the various versions of the translation for TCM, we could not even find a precise translation for traditional insect Chinese medicine from a number of Chinese-English dictionaries of TCM. As a result, we adopted the word "insect" that has the same literary meaning of "animal" to replace it. The traditional insect Chinese medicine is a broad concept, while the narrow definition of it is only confined to the insect or worm drugs. It


was conducted by order of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement^[@CR20]^.

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Literatures were extracted from the main electronic databases including PubMed, Embase, Medline, Science Direct (SD), Web of Science, ProQuest, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Springerlink, Wiley Library Online, Chinese Biological Medicine Database (CBM), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Chinese Medical Citation Index (CMCI), WanFang Database, Chinese Scientific Journal Database (VIP), and Japan Medical Abstracts Society from their inception up to May 2016. In addition, there were no language restrictions on the literature searching.

The searching terms were performed as follows: "liver cancer," "hepatocellular carcinoma," "liver neoplasm," "primary liver carcinoma," "traditional insect Chinese medicine," "insect drugs," "cinobufatalin," "huachansu," "centipede," "scorpion," "leech," "earthworm," "cantharides," "gecko," "snake venom," "grand beetle," "aspongopus," "gadfly," "honeycomb,"President Trump has reportedly told Sen. Rand Paul that U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is coming to an end.

Paul, who has long called for an end to the war in Afghanistan, has repeatedly called on President Trump to live up to his campaign promises and bring the troops home.

According to The Washington Post, Trump has told Paul that he plans on doing just that. “In general, we’re getting the hell out of there,” the president reportedly said.

The comments reportedly came from a private conversation the libertarian-leaning senator had with the president, where Paul encouraged the president to abandon the hawkish views of cabinet members like National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Paul was reportedly pleased with his conversation with the president, adding that the funds spent overseas should be concentrating on


Advisors hired for the sale of the Bills

On Wednesday the team announced that they have hired transaction counsel and an investment firm to initiate the sales process of the club.

There have been a myriad of questions and speculation about the transfer of ownership process concerning the Buffalo Bills over the last two months. Those questions are gaining some clarity as the initial step in the ownership transition process has been made. On Wednesday the team announced that they have hired legal counsel and an investment firm to initiate the sales process of the club.

In a team statement the Bills announced that they have retained Morgan Stanley as financial advisor and that Proskauer Rose has been engaged to serve as legal advisor during the sale process.

This sale process willKenny Golladay and Marvin Jones.

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Lions RB Kerryon Johnson has been placed on IR with the knee injury he suffered back in Week 11. It ends promising rookie season that saw him average 5.4 yards per carry and haul in 32 balls. We still don't have any details on Johnson's injury, but he should be fine for the offseason program. Zach Zenner, LeGarrette Blount and Theo Riddick will close out the year in Detroit's backfield. Zenner led the way with a 46% snap rate, 10 carries and 4 targets in last week's loss in Buffalo.

Injury Predictor

Johnson hurt his right shoulder late in his final Auburn season but returned for the SEC Championship game the following week. It's worth mentioning here because


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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA :
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ERIC WEISBLATT, INDIVIDUALLY AND :
ON BEHALF OF ALL OTHERS          :    Appeal from the Order of the
SIMILARLY SITUATED,              :    Commonwealth Court at No. 157 MD
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adultBasic program, which was previously administered by the Department of Insurance

and made available to certain qualifying adults in Pennsylvania.             The program

historically received the bulk of its funding from the proceeds of a 1998 multi-state

master     settlement   agreement    between     forty-seven   states   –   including   the

Commonwealth – and several major tobacco product manufacturers in the United

States.2

       The allocation and distribution of funds received annually by the Commonwealth

under this accord was initially administered outside of the Fiscal Code,


climbers, including her husband, to fall ill or suffer frostbite climbing the world’s tallest peak over the weekend.

She is also the third mountaineer to die in the first Everest climbing season since an earthquake in Nepal last year.

On Friday Dutchman Eric Arnold died in his sleep near the mountain’s summit after telling team-mates “my body has no energy left”.

Dr Strydom, a lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, was an experienced climber who had scaled peaks including Mount Ararat in Turkey.

With her husband Robert Gropel, also an experienced mountaineer, she was undertaking a bid mount the seven summits - the seven highest mountains in the world’s seven continents - in an effort to disprove claims vegans struggle with extreme activities.

In a post on her university’s website in March,Some bad ideas just won't die. In 2008, the Brazilian Senate passed a cybercrime bill that would have limited freedom of expression and threatened privacy online. Strong public opposition, including a speech by then-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in which he denounced the bill, prevented it from ever becoming law.

Now the Brazilian Cybercrime bill is back. According to the Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense, the bill would criminalize many of the common, everyday behaviors of online consumers, such as file sharing, or transferring the contents of a CD onto a computer.

Campaigns in opposition to the bill are in full force, including Mega Nao or "Big No," and Avaaz's petition to Save Brazil's Internet that has been signed by over 175,000 people. If you are in Brazil, sign


meeting of Commonwealth's directors on February 28, 1985. It was decided that CNB should *1134 retain investment banking expertise and on March 20, 1985, the Board of Directors of both Commonwealth and CNB voted to engage Goldman Sachs to evaluate the CNB situation. Goldman Sachs advised Commonwealth that it would be premature for Commonwealth to sell in the Spring of 1985 but that four prospective acquirers existed, or would exist: Mellon, Fidelcor, Pittsburgh National Corporation and Meridian. The Commonwealth Board discussed Goldman Sach's evaluation at great length on April 17, 1985 and resolved to remain independent because, inter alia, it had not fully realized its earnings potential which would make it more valuable as a potential merger partner. The Board resolved to inform McCullough of Commonwealth's decision. Itfor Meridian to revise the terms of this offer downward to reflect the effects of such offering." Id.
Regardless of how the letter is classified, the next day, Commonwealth discussed the letter's contents, among other things, with Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs, through Keefe Bruyette, requested that Meridian withdraw its "offer" because Commonwealth was still trying to remain independent.[7] On September 16, 1985, a notice was issued to Commonwealth's Executive Committee for a special meeting "to discuss an unsolicited merger offer" received from Meridian. Plaintiffs' and Defendants' Facts at ¶ 47.
After a four-to-five hour meeting of the Commonwealth Executive Committee, the Committee resolved against entering into negotiations with Meridian based on the terms and conditions set forth in the September 12th letter; it was further resolved that Commonwealth senior management


had authority to initiate discussions with Meridian and other potential merger partners for consideration by the Board. Document 26 of the Record, Appendix 43 at 3. A full Board meeting was held on September 18, 1985, at which the full Board adopted and passed the Executive Committee's resolutions.[8]
McCullough expressed his disappointment upon being advised by Merrill of the Board's decisions that day. Merrill Deposition, Document 34 of the Record, Exhibit 9 at 221b. Nevertheless, the next day, September 19th, McCullough telephoned back to inform Merrill that Meridian intended to make public the September 12th "offer." That day, Meridian issued a press release indicating the terms of the letter, Commonwealth's rejection and that the "offer remained open." Plaintiffs' Facts at ¶ 55; see Press Release dated September 19, 1985,Document 35 of the Record at Exhibit 28. Commonwealth responded by issuing a press release of its own. See Document 26 of the Record, Exhibit 49.

D. The September 25, 1985 Letter
On September 25, 1985, a second letter was sent to Commonwealth. In the letter, Meridian reaffirmed the terms of the September 12th letter and further stated: "[w]e are prepared to negotiate any aspect of Meridian's offer which led your Board to conclude that it is not in the `best interest of the shareholders of Commonwealth, employees and the communities served by the bank.'" Plaintiffs' Facts at ¶ 58 (citing Document 26 of the Record, Appendix 50). As an explanation of intent, "Meridian and Keefe Bruyette intended that sentence to *1136 mean that all terms, including price, were open


a stake-out was discussed by Merrill and Martin at greater lengths until September 27, 1985 when the feasibility of immediate merger was broached by Merrill. Plaintiff's Facts and Defendants' Facts at ¶ 68. While the litigants sharply dispute the depth and detail of the potential merger discussion, it is clear at least the subject was mentioned. It is unclear whether Meridian was aware of Mellon's entry into the picture at this point. Meanwhile, Meridian and Keefe Bruyette continued their quest of acquisition culminating in another letter addressed to the Commonwealth Board.

F. September 30, 1985 Letter
By letter dated September 30, 1985, sent to the Commonwealth Board from Meridian, Meridian amended the terms of the September 12th letter in an attempt to make the deal appear more attractive. Again, thewas confirmed in a telephone conversation between counsel for Meridian and Commonwealth as well as by letter addressed to the Commonwealth Board. After *1138 consultation with Goldman Sachs representatives and Shuff and Merrill of Commonwealth, F. John Hagele, Esq., counsel for Commonwealth, initiated the telephone call to Meridian's outside counsel, Joseph Harenza. He advised Harenza that Commonwealth was holding a Board meeting the following morning and that it "would be in everyone's best interests if the [Meridian] offer remained outstanding, and that no public announcement be made of its withdrawal." Harenza responded that he thought it was too late because Meridian had initiated a public release withdrawing the offer and expressed concern about confusing the investment public. He added that he did not know if Meridian would be


morning, the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of Mellon also approved the merger. At a later date, November 25, 1985, proxy materials were mailed to Commonwealth shareholders. The proxy statement scheduled a special meeting on December 30, 1985 for the purpose of soliciting shareholder approval of the Mellon merger. The meeting took place with 70% of the eligible voting shareholders casting their votes. Of the 70% of the votes cast, 94% voted in favor of the merger. That date of merger has been set for Wednesday, April 2, 1986.

III. Discussion
Plaintiffs seek to enjoin consummation of the Mellon-Commonwealth merger. In support of this attempt, plaintiffs advance several arguments: first, that Commonwealth's failure to disclose Meridian's offers in the proxy statement violates § 14(a) of the Securities andwithdrawn, it is difficult to understand how it could be otherwise. In attempting to force the negotiation issue, McCullough expressly stated in the September 30th letter that if Commonwealth failed to inform Meridian of its intent to negotiate before the close of business on Friday, October 4, 1985, Meridian intended to withdraw the offer. See Letter dated September 30th note 13 supra. On October 7, 1985, Meridian issued a press release formally withdrawing the offer. The deposition of Commonwealth's counsel, F. John Hagele, Esq., stated that this fact was confirmed by telephone conversation between himself and counsel for Meridian, Joseph Harenza. During the first conversation between Harenza and Hagele, Geoffrey Shuff, Esq. [Shuff] was present with Hagele. Hagele initiated the call in which he asked Harenza whether Meridian


withdrawn was not a material fact which Commonwealth directors had a duty to disclose.[25]

B. Misrepresentations of Background of Mellon Merger
Plaintiffs' next argument in support of their contention that the proxy materials issued by Commonwealth were deficient is that the "Background of Merger" section is misleading. Specifically, plaintiffs point to the section which states:
During the past several years Mellon has expressed to Commonwealth Mellon's interest in exploring possible business combinations between Mellon and Commonwealth whereby Mellon, through the combined entity, could gain access to those markets served by Commonwealth in Pennsylvania's south central counties. After another Pennsylvania bank holding company, on September 19, 1985, made a public proposal to negotiate the purchase of all of the outstanding shares of Commonwealth Common Stock, Mellon again approached Commonwealth with an expressionmerger proposals from Meridian were very familiar to the directors by the time they met on October 8, 1985.
Plaintiffs devote considerable argument to the Commonwealth Board's decision to approve the Mellon merger on Tuesday morning without requesting adjournment to review documents or to postpone the vote pending further inquiry. The court, however, finds it inappropriate to focus only upon the morning activities inasmuch as this Commonwealth Board had been discussing potential merger partners for close to a year. As early as February, 1985, merger overtures by Meridian resulted in an Executive Committee meeting. By March, 1985, Commonwealth had retained Goldman Sachs for investment banking expertise. In April, 1985, the Commonwealth Board extensively discussed Goldman Sachs' evaluation of Commonwealth's merger possibilities and concluded it was in Commonwealth's interests to


remain independent. By the time the September letters were mailed, the Commonwealth directors were fairly familiar with merger discussions and its intricacies. On September 17, 1985, the Commonwealth Executive Committee met for four-to-five hours, in consultation with Goldman Sachs and legal advisors, to discuss Meridian's September 12th letter. The next day, on September 18, 1985, the entire Board met, again with Goldman Sachs, and approved the Executive Committee's resolve to not enter into negotiations with Meridian. See Part I, supra.
A review of this history reveals that plaintiffs' argument that the Mellon merger decision should have taken longer or been postponed is unpersuasive. Indeed, under the circumstances, it appears that considerable time was spent by the Commonwealth directors contemplating the future and best interests of Commonwealth and its shareholders.
Atthe meeting itself, Merrill described the events since the last board meeting of September 19, 1985, and the negotiations over the week-end with Mellon. Mellon's offer was described, as were specifics of the offer, such as the Investment Agreement *1149 and Warrant. After Merrill's presentation, Richard Allen Sapp of Goldman Sachs addressed the Board explaining in detail aspects of the Mellon merger, including price, form of consideration, process by which shareholders would elect cash or stock, tax consequences, Board composition, and merger structure. Sapp also explained the warrant provision in detail noting that warrants are common in bank merger transactions. Additionally, he advised the directors that Mellon had insisted absolutely upon inclusion of the warrant provision and of Commonwealth's negotiation attempts to secure a higher price. Sapp cautioned


Broad Street
New York, NY 10004
Gentlemen:
On behalf of Meridian Bancorp, Inc. ("Meridian"), I am very pleased to make the following offer by which Meridian would affiliate with Commonwealth National Financial Corp. ("Commonwealth") by a merger of Commonwealth into a newly created Meridian subsidiary. It is Meridian's firm belief that such an affiliation of our corporations best serves the interests of our respective shareholder groups and the customers and communities which we each serve. Because of our belief in the prospect for continuing the improvement in Commonwealth's performance, the offer we are making represents a significant premium to Commonwealth's current market price, most recent quarter and year-end book values and an extremely generous multiple to both the historical and prospective earnings disclosed in Commonwealth's prospectus forming a part of itsletter directly to each individual Commonwealth director and to disclose the terms of this offer to the public, or at least to holders of certain of the largest blocks of shares of Commonwealth's common stock (including Commonwealth National Bank's Trust Department), if Commonwealth refuses to enter into good faith negotiations with us by the close of business on Monday, September 16, 1985.

Board Composition
Our intent would be that Commonwealth's existing Board of Directors would nominate three of its members, acceptable to Meridian, to be added to Meridian's Board of Directors. All Commonwealth Board members would, of course, continue to serve on Commonwealth National Bank's Board of Directors.

Management
Commonwealth management would continue in existing positions. Existing employment agreements would be honored, of course.

Effect on Community
Commonwealth will be operated initially as a


separate banking subsidiary of Meridian, with responsibility not only for Commonwealth branches in its trading area, but also for certain Meridian branches in Lebanon and, perhaps, Lancaster counties. With Meridian's financial and managerial resources supporting Commonwealth, the merger should benefit Commonwealth's customers and the communities which Commonwealth serves.

Anti-Competitive Effects
Based on informal conversations with the staff of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, neither the banking regulators nor the Department of Justice should raise any serious anti-trust or related objections to the combination under the DOJ's recently revised merger guidelines.

Conditions
Consummation of the transaction will require the execution of a definitive agreement containing the usual representations, warranties, access and other customary provisions, approval thereof by each of our respective Boards, the required affirmative vote of Commonwealth's and Meridian's shareholders, andnecessity for a tender offer." Loss, supra note 11 at 569-70. Plaintiffs also argue certain Commonwealth directors were demanding a Board meeting. Defendants contend that while a meeting may have been requested, it was not because of Meridian's letter but rather because some members were going on vacation and preferred to have a meeting before their departure. Defendants' Facts at ¶ 76.
[13]  The letter was written as follows:
  September 30, 1985
Board of Directors
Commonwealth National Financial
Corporation
10 South Market Square
Harrisburg, PA 17108

Gentlemen:
Please refer to the offer by Meridian Bancorp, Inc. ("Meridian") to affiliate with Commonwealth National Financial Corporation ("Commonwealth"), dated September 12, 1985 and to Meridian's correspondence with Commonwealth dated September 25, 1985. By this letter, Meridian:
 proposes to amend its September 12, 1985 offer so that each


informed Meridian counsel that it would be better if Meridian's proposal was before the Commonwealth Board on the following morning, Tuesday, October 8, 1985. In response to Meridian's ultimatum that Commonwealth sit down and negotiate, Hagele advised that it was not possible inasmuch as doing so would require authority from the Commonwealth Board. Deposition of F. John Hagele, Esq., Document 37 of the Record, Exhibit 22 at 210a. See also infra at 1140-41. Specifically, he testified:

Certainly we had no authority to accept the offer and certainly I believed it was in everyone's best interest if we had the Meridian proposal before the board on Tuesday morning. I think technically, of course, we could have sat down and negotiated with Meridian without board authority, but at that point wecalled for political openings in the region. The Brotherhood was identified by Gulf regimes as the greatest threat to their Arab allies and the only true opposition force that could one day challenge their rule at home.

These fears would only grow following the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, during which Al Jazeera was criticized for devoting a substantial amount of positive coverage to the post-revolution Muslim Brotherhood government in Egypt and to the Islamists in Tunisia and Libya – putting Qatar at odds with Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

“Officials in Riyadh and Abu Dhabi would prefer that clerics from groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood not have any Arab media outlet which can serve as their platform to deliver messages to citizens not only of Saudi Arabia and the


capacity and broadband data throughput to accommodate the maximum subscriber loading which occurs during the course of the workday and work week. Although this approach typically yields a high quality of service, the notable disadvantage of this approach is that during a major part of the time many of the base stations' capacity is being wasted. Since a typical indoor wireless network deployment involves capital and operational costs which are assessed on a per-subscriber basis for each base station, the typically high total life cycle cost for a given enterprise facility is far from optimal.
A second candidate approach involves deployment of a DAS along with a centralized group of base stations dedicated to the DAS. A conventional DAS deployment falls into one of two categories. The first typedemon, an envoy of evil, a punishment for a world that had dismissed her dreams of total autonomy as nothing more than an inhuman, unjustifiable, godless existence. I was her retribution. She believed I’d bring them all down for her but she misjudged who was master. A monster knows no master. A monster needs no master. Monster is master.Tick tock, tick tock. Monster let her believe she had control while she trained me, taught me to walk, to hunt, to appreciate the divinity of my own damnation. Monster appeared grateful to his creator and her darkness, monster acted thankful to his creator and her inventiveness until one day when monster stabbed his spikes into his creator’s feet as she leaned against the wall, smiling at the completion of


and nearby coronal loops. In their case, an X-shape structure was observed while the eruptive filaments ran into the coronal loops, and then bright current-sheet-like features were formed and bi-directional plasma ejections were produced. While analysing a solar filament eruption observed by NVST and SDO, @Xue2016NatCo observed the processes of magnetic reconnections between the filament and chromospheric fibrils. In their observations, the filaments and fibrils are approaching (inflows), and then cusp structures and elongated bright structure (current sheet) are forming. The disconnection of the cusp structure forms new loops that are moving bi-directionally (outflows).

Magnetic reconnection in the solar atmosphere has been confirmed by the previous observations, but the causes of the inflows that directly drive magnetic reconnection are rarely observed. In the present work, we present observations ofEmily Patrick

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Billy Dee Williams, who played Lando Calrissian in two of the original "Star Wars" movies, will play Tito, the band leader, in a remake of "Dirty Dancing" that will film in the Asheville area, according to Deadline.

In "Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back," Williams's Calrissian is an administrator of the Cloud City who sells out the rebels to Darth Vader. In "Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi," he helps the rebels escape from Jabba the Hutt and becomes a general in the rebel force.

Williams played Harvey Dent — the character that becomes supervillain Two-Face — in the 1989 "Batman" directed by Tim Burton, in addition to other film roles.

The new "Dirty Dancing," a three-hour TV special for ABC, will also star Abigail Breslin


as Baby, Debra Messing as her mother, Colt Prattes as Johnny, Nicole Scherzinger as Penny the dance instructor, and "Modern Family's" Sarah Hyland as Baby's sister, Lisa Houseman, according to Deadline.

High Hampton Inn & Country Club in Cashiers has confirmed the movie will shoot on its campus. Other locations have not been released.

The exact dates of filming haven't been announced, but documents from the Department of Commerce indicate principal photography in North Carolina will take place from April 11 to June 27.

Baby cast in �Dirty Dancing� remake

Debra Messing joins cast of 'Dirty Dancing' remake

'Dirty Dancing' coming back to Asheville

'Dirty Dancing' adds Hyland, Scherzinger, Cashiers locationat a sports event in the past week.

An unmanned aircraft plummeted into empty seats and caused a scare during a women's singles match Thursday night at the US Open. No one was injured, but it broke into pieces as it crashed.

A high school science teacher who had been flying the drone from a park outside the tennis venue was arrested Friday on reckless endangerment and other charges, police said.

The Federal Aviation Administration put drone and model-plane enthusiasts on notice last October that it's illegal to fly the aircraft near Major League Baseball, NFL and NCAA Division I college football games and major auto races.

The move came months after police detained people for using small drones at Carolina Panthers and University of Texas football games. This past June, police


poetry, fiction, and more by kirsten penner krymusa

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Seventeen

Illy felt buoyant as she knocked on Simon and Sally’s door. She was wearing her favourite striped cardigan—the one she had salvaged out of her dad’s thrift store bag and thought of as her portable comfort zone. June had convinced her to wear earrings, which she almost never wore because they betrayed her stance against beauty by adornment. But June had pointed out that Illy had a nose ring and wore bangle bracelets, so it was a false and hypocritical stance anyway. Illy shook her head just enough to feel the dangling wooden earrings graze her neck, invoked all of June’s confidence, and watched the door swing open.

“Hey!”

Illy froze. It was Jay. He had both his arms stretched widemoment. She realized that she already knew both June and Margaret were busy this evening and weren’t in fact involved in a grand conspiracy to leave Illy alone and helpless. She tried to imagine what they would say to her. Margaret would be proud that she was tapping her shoulders and would tell her to follow her dreams or something equally cheesy but inspiring. June would roll her eyes, tell her Jay was the one who should be feeling like an idiot and remind her that she looked gorgeous. And her mother, if Illy would call her in this moment, which she never would, would scold her for being so silly and tell her to march right back down there and make some friends. And to bring snacks.


door. “After you, Bearer of Chocolates.” Illy smiled and walked in. It was a definite step up from Spacey Lacey.

As soon as she entered the living room, Illy began presenting the truffles around the circle like she was introducing a new boyfriend at a family gathering. They were a big hit and the plate was empty before Sally even began the meeting. Beaming from the success of her Make Friends Through Snacks strategy, and determined to not repeat the bean bag chair fiasco, Illy sat down on a metal folding chair between Dave and The Whistler. The confidence she felt from such a solid and elevated position was deflated a little by the fact that she couldn’t remember The Whistler’s name. She knew she should ask as soonas she sat down, but Dave and The Whistler were in the middle of a conversation about Monarch butterflies in the area, which Illy had always been fascinated by but never actually discussed with anyone. By the time the conversation had a lull in it, Illy knew she had passed the socially permissible window for asking someone’s name. She’d have to ask Sally sometime when The Whistler wasn’t around. It was her own inability to remember people’s names that had instigated her habit of introducing herself too many times. She wanted to make sure no one else was caught in the awkward position of not being able to ask her name, so she tended to over-introduce herself. June said it made her sound ridiculous, but she did it


welcome. What had happened to the enthusiastic Frat Boy at the door? Illy willed herself to look away and focus on what Dave was saying. He had been the first volunteer and was already reading from the young adult novel he was writing about two cats journeying through Morocco.

“Quick, Rashid, follow me! I smell a fish market…”

Illy tried not to roll her eyes. She knew she should listen so that she could offer some helpful criticism but she just could not take animal fiction seriously. She’d had a boyfriend in high school who insisted that Watership Down was one of the great literary masterpieces of all time, but after three pages of talking rabbits she’d returned the book to him, insisting that The Velveteen Rabbit was the lastand only talking animal book she could take seriously and she’d leave Watership Down for pre-teen boys. Her boyfriend had just glared at her and held the book to his chest like it was in fact his beloved pet bunny, and that was the beginning of the end of that relationship.

Dave finished his excerpt and the rest of the group began discussing the setting of his novel, debating whether Casablanca was too cliche and if he should risk using a lesser known city. Illy watched Jay who still hadn’t moved. He wasn’t even trying to engage in the conversation and looked like he might be asleep. He must have had a difficult night. Or maybe he was going through some emotional crisis that his societal conditioning didn’t allow


RB Leipzig and USA midfielder Tyler Adams is no closer to making his return to full first-team training and could miss the start of the new season, according to German media reports.

Adams sat out five of Leipzig's final six games of the 2018/19 Bundesliga season with a troublesome groin injury.

He returned to face Bayern Munich in the DFB Cup final on 25 May, before a recurrence of the problem forced him to withdraw from the USMNT's 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad earlier this summer.

The 20-year-old was expected to return to action at the end of July, but is still undergoing an individual treatment programme and cannot yet partake in team training.

"Our medical department are doing everything they can, but Tyler's injury is complicated," new Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsmanntold German daily, Bild. "Suddenly you're pain-free and expect to get involved again, but it's misleading."

Adams' continued absence is a real blow to Nagelsmann as he steps up preparations for his debut season as Leipzig coach.

The former New York Red Bulls midfielder was one of the standout performers of the 2018/19 Rückrunde, despite only joining Leipzig in January.

Making a seamless transition from Major League Soccer to the Bundesliga, he went unbeaten in his first nine league appearances before the final-day loss to Werder Bremen, and ended the campaign with two assists and an impressive average of 86 per cent for passes completed.

Watch: Tyler Adams on his first impressions of RB Leipzig

With no concrete return date in mind, however, Adams will have to wait to build on those impressive


figures.

The 10-time USMNT international will almost certainly miss the pre-season friendly against English Premier League side Aston Villa on 3 August, and is unlikely to be available in time for Leipzig's DFB Cup first-round meeting with VfL Osnabrück on 11 August.

Leipzig, who finished third in last season's Bundesliga and also have UEFA Champions League group-stage football to look forward to, begin their league campaign away to promoted top-flight newcomers Union Berlin on 18 August.Local athlete advances in karate debut

Mount Airy’s Nate Jones (first from left) earned a trip to national competition in his competitive karate debut at the AAU Karate Southeast SuperRegional on May 14 in Raleigh. Jones, who travels with his father Jon to the Japan Shudokan Budo-Kai Karate School in King twice a week for training, is pictured with dojo partners Hugh Johnson, Glenn Johnson, and Zeb Mathis.

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Mount Airy’s Nate Jones made his competitive karate debut on Saturday, May 14, and has already earned his first trip to higher level competition.

Jones, who took up the sport at the Japan Shudokan Budo-Kai Karate School in King last August, was one of a number of competitors from the school who made their way to the AAU Karate Southeast SuperRegional Championship


held in Raleigh that day. Competing for the first time and entered in the 7-8 year old beginner division, Jones brought back a gold medal in Empty Hand Kata, and silvers in Kobudo (Weapons) Kata and in Kumite (Sparring).

The dojo (karate school) as a whole won six golds, the two silvers courtesy of Jones, and a bronze during the course of the day. Sensei Steven Hewett is proud of his students for all the long hours of training they put in.

Jones will compete again in July at the AAU Karate Nationals in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he will be joined by Zeb Mathis of King.

Mathis competed in the 9-year-old novice division in Raleigh. He repeated his clean sweep of gold at the AAU NC State Championships from afew months ago, coming in first in Empty Hand Kata, Kobudo Kata and Kumite. He has taken gold in every competition he has taken part in during 2016. Last year, he won several gold and silver medals during the AAU nationals and Junior Olympics, and aims to capture more golds before the year is out.

A third member of the dojo, Hugh Johnson of King, competed in the 15-17 Black Belt division, along with 14 other black belts, and claimed bronze in Weapons Kata. His father Glenn competed in the 35-and-older Adult Advanced division and won a pair of golds, in Empty Hand and Weapons Kata.

The AAU Karate SuperRegional Championship is a qualifying event for both AAU Karate Nationals and AAU Junior Olympics. It brings athletes together from the


Carolinas, Virginia and Tennessee who compete for the top three positions in their respective divisions.

Judges for these events must go through several levels of training to ensure standards are maintained in judging the athletes, not only at the state level but for national and international competitions as well. Japan Shudokan Budo-Kai is the only AAU Karate Training Facility in Stokes County. For more information, check out their Facebook page or go to www.jskd.us.

Mount Airy’s Nate Jones (first from left) earned a trip to national competition in his competitive karate debut at the AAU Karate Southeast SuperRegional on May 14 in Raleigh. Jones, who travels with his father Jon to the Japan Shudokan Budo-Kai Karate School in King twice a week for training, is pictured with dojo partners HughJohnson, Glenn Johnson, and Zeb Mathis.

http://www.mtairynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/web1_karate.jpgMount Airy’s Nate Jones (first from left) earned a trip to national competition in his competitive karate debut at the AAU Karate Southeast SuperRegional on May 14 in Raleigh. Jones, who travels with his father Jon to the Japan Shudokan Budo-Kai Karate School in King twice a week for training, is pictured with dojo partners Hugh Johnson, Glenn Johnson, and Zeb Mathis. Contributed photo


Beginning in January, transcripts will be available through the registrar's office at Oklahoma Baptist University Their phone number is (405) 585-5100. An order link will be placed on our site after January 2nd.

Fr. Donald Wolf will be the speaker at this year's Winter commencement on Friday, December 1st at 6 p.m. in the Don and Jenetta Sumner Field House. St. Gregory's will award associates, bachelor's and master's degrees to August and December 2017 graduates. A reception hosted by the Friends of the Mission of St. Gregory's will be held following in the Rockwood Center. Congratulations, Graduates!

The Baccalaureate Mass for the August and December 2017 graduates will be held Thursday, November 30th at 11 a.m. in the Abbey Chapel. Graduates and faculty will begin lining up in the basementof Benedictine Hall at 10:40 a.m. for the procession.

The evening consists of scripture readings and music that celebrates the season of Advent – the time of preparation for the yearly commemoration of the Birth of Jesus Christ. The Scriptures readings highlight Old Testament prophesies and Gospel narratives about the coming of the Messiah and the events preceding the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. The musical selections help to focus on the themes of Advent and our salvation in Christ. The concert features the St. Gregory’s University Schola Cantorum, Br.

St. Gregory’s University will suspend operations after the Fall 2017 semester. Beginning in January 2018, student records will be transferred to Oklahoma Baptist University, where students may request official transcripts as needed.

Attention Evening Students! An informational session with President Scaperlanda


CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: Australia's one of the richest countries in the world, Sydney the 7th most expensive city, yet just hours away from such privilege and wealth lies a community in turmoil and decay. The scale of the dysfunction locked inside the tiny Aboriginal mission of Toomelah is breathtaking. In recent week there's have been rumours of a government-led intervention, or of a complete relocation. Those rumours have amounted to nothing. But the people of Toomelah and the children living amidst the turmoil desperately need help. How has it come to this? Caro Meldrum-Hanna has this special report.

CARO MELDRUM-HANNA, REPORTER: It's 11pm on a Thursday night, and on the streets of this small Aboriginal community it's unusually quiet. It's bitterly cold, but a group of indigenous children isCommission, crossed the divide in 1987, and launched an investigation into the living conditions and the state of housing inside Toomelah. What he found shamed the nation, and forced the Government into action.

MARCUS EINFELD, PRESIDENT, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (1988): Well, it should have been drawn to the attention more loudly and more often and you should have stood on the steps of the buildings until they provided the services.

CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: After that, the dirt roads were paved, housing was built, a sewage system was put in place. But despite the tens of millions of dollars worth of government funding that has poured in over two decades, and the involvement of dozens of government agencies, the problems that plague the Toomelah of yesteryear are somehow still present. Children are


discover that the community's champion football team, the Toomelah Tigers, stopped playing years ago. We found the team's former captain, Michael McGrady, at the nearby pub. He recently returned to Toomelah after nine months in prison.

MICHAEL MCGRADY, TOOMELAH RESIDENT: A bit of a shock when I went out there see Toomelah like that. Breaks your heart.

CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: What did you see?

MICHAEL MCGRADY: I see a mission like no one cares.

CARO MELDRUM-HANNA: Since Michael McGrady left, the Toomelah gym has also been destroyed. Tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment torn out, dumped and left to rot.

NORMAN MCGRADY: We had over millions and millions and millions of dollars put in this community, and we've got jack shit... sorry, we've got jack... sorry, nothing to show for it, youfinished 4-8. His three interceptions led the team and he tied a school record for a true freshman with 11 pass breakups. He was named to the SEC all-freshman team, made first team all-conference and even garnered third-team All-American honors by the Associated Press.

In 2014, he continued to develop a reputation as one of the SEC’s top shutdown corners. He tallied another three interceptions while also breaking up 13 passes which was tied for 12th best nationally. A year later, he would add four more picks and finish eighth in the nation with 152 yards off interceptions. All the while, the Gators would finish in the top 20 in scoring defense both seasons. In 2015, Hargreaves was named a consensus all-American.

Strengths

elite level athleticism and acceleration.

excellent fluidity in hips


Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers

Projection: top ten pick

Bottom Line

Other than potentially Jalen Ramsey, you’re probably not going to find a more pro-ready defensive back than Hargreaves. His competitive fire and exceptional athleticism make him a highly coveted pro prospect. He lived up to all the recruiting hype and then some while at Florida. As a result, expect him to be off the board fairly early on day one of the draft.question there was coverage under the policy issued by Federal to Dale, and whether the awarding of attorney's fees and costs in the amounts allowed was appropriate. For reasons more particularly set out herein, we find that the conclusion of the trial court sitting as a jury to the effect that there was coverage at the time of the accident involved herein was correct, but that the awarding of the amount of attorney's fees and costs was *440 excessive and should be modified. For that reason the judgment of the trial court is affirmed in part and in part modified.
On January 31, 1975, an airplane owned by Dale and identified as N399T crashed while landing at the Executive-Johnson County Airport (EJCA), just south of Kansas City in Olathe,


Kansas. It was daylight at the time of the crash and the plane was being flown by Dale's employee pilot. He was alone at the time of the fatal crash, and it is admitted there was no copilot aboard the plane. It was agreed by the parties that at the time of the fatal crash weather conditions at EJCA consisted of a 400-foot ceiling and 1-mile visibility.
At approximately 1:32 p. m., CST, the pilot, then being about 7 miles from EJCA and at an altitude of 2,600 feet, received final turn and approach clearance from the Kansas City approach control. At approximately 1:33 p. m., CST, the pilot contacted EJCA's tower via radio and was given clearance to land.
Shortly prior to the time of the accident the aircrash at approximately 12:22 p. m., CST. The Dale flight log for the plane, dated January 31, 1975, showed that after stopping at EJCA the pilot planned to continue on to his final destination at Columbus, Nebraska, the home base of Dale and the airport at which the plane was kept when not otherwise in flight. The pilot had flown from Columbus, Nebraska, to Oklahoma City on January 28, 1975, for routine maintenance.
The record further reflects that the pilot had been contacted early in the day on January 31, 1975, by a Mr. Ira Gates, Dale's vice president of sales and marketing. Mr. Gates was in the Kansas City area visiting a manufacturer's sales representative of Dale at his residence in Johnson County, Kansas. The sales representative was


having some difficulty with alcohol, and Mr. Gates was trying to persuade him to be admitted to an alcoholic rehabilitation center located in Kansas. Mr. Gates had asked the pilot, who was a personal friend of the sales representative, if he might not stop at Olathe, Kansas, on his return flight to Columbus, Nebraska, so that they might discuss the sales representative's situation and see if the pilot might be able to convince him that he should have himself admitted for treatment.
Following the fatal crash, Federal denied coverage on the basis that the terms of the policy had not been met. The face of the policy provided in part as follows: "Item 5. Pilots. The coverage afforded by this policy shall not apply while the aircraft is operatedhave previously noted, the policy did not define "ferry flight" nor designate how the term was to be interpreted. It is by its very nature a term uniquely related to the flying of aircraft and not a word of common parlance.
Dale maintained that the term was an industry-defined term and offered as evidence of its meaning both the testimony of an expert witness and the Airman's Information Manual, Part I, Basic Flight Manual and ATC Procedures (1977), published by the U. S. Department of Transportation, Federal Aviation Administration.
The manual defines "ferry flight" to mean: "A flight for the purpose of: (1) returning an aircraft to base; (2) delivering an aircraft from one location to another; or (3) moving an aircraft to and from a maintenance base." As earlier


noted, but for the planned stopover at EJCA, the flight from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Columbus, Nebraska, was a ferry flight covered by the policy and required only one pilot on board.
Federal argues, however, that the pilot was flying to EJCA for the sole purpose of taking the sales representative to an alcoholic rehabilitation center.
A jury sitting as reasonable people, and in this case the trial court sitting in place of the jury, could reasonably find from the evidence that the pilot was returning the plane to its base in Columbus, Nebraska, and was therefore on a ferry flight. The momentary stopping at EJCA did not change that purpose. There was no evidence introduced that following the arrival of the plane at EJCA, the sales representative would boardMaren Morris celebrates the power of women—including her own—in the moving music video for her empowering new single, "Girl."

Released Jan. 25, the video for the melodic pop-rock-country hybrid track sees the genre-defying singer and a medley of other diverse girls navigate a series of challenges young women often face in the world, from casual sexism to assault. The powerful visual paints a broad picture of the daily trials and tribulations facing women today, as well as the hope of change just around the corner.

"I hope that fans take away a sense of hope, and that they realize everything is going to be okay—no matter the struggle they’re facing right now," she tells PopCrush about the song and its visual.

Beyond "Girl," Morris is having a power moment of her


own. Her career has taken off in incredible ways over the last year, culminating in an impressive five 2019 Grammy nominations and an upcoming performance at the award ceremony (Feb. 10) alongside some of the industry's most major artists, including Dolly Parton, Miley Cyrus and Kacey Musgraves. (Not a bad way to kick off a new year, right?)

Below, Maren Morris opens up about her Grammy nominations this year, her forthcoming album and the lasting impact of "The Middle," her hit EDM collaboration with Zedd.

"Girl" packs a powerful punch and is such a great feminist manifesto about self-worth and self-power. What led you to this topic at this particular moment?

The song came to be as I started writing a letter to another woman and addressed her on the unnecessaryUK elections, UKIP disappearance and Kremlin shadows

The UK election of June 8 is a shock result. The Tories, led by Theresa May, came out of the election with a small advantage over Labour, but they lost their absolute majority in parliament and did not get the electoral mandate they wanted to impose a hard Brexit. Coalition talks to form a majority government are underway between Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May and the DUP (Democratic Unionist Party) – Northern Ireland unionists with links to both the extreme right in Britain and loyalist paramilitary groups. During the troubles there were incidents of collusion between the British security forces (the British Army and the Royal Ulster Constabulary) which included some off-duty soldiers and police taking part in loyalist attacks, passing weapons


the Russian interference that for some time seems to infiltrate in all American and European democratic elections. Ukip has often been accused of receiving Russian support to destabilize Europe. Farage initially denied it, but then admitted to meeting Alexander Yakovenko, the Russian ambassador to the United Kingdom in 2013. Farage has never hidden his support of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is defined as the leader he admired in An interview in 2014. Farage’s links with the Kremlin do not stop at suspicion: it seems to be part of the now-worldwide network that aims to defend Russian interests within Western democracies. Farage, met Donald Trump and Stephen Bannon, Trump strategist, in the summer of 2012 when Bannon was interested in weaving the network of extreme right-wing movements inEurope. It should be noted that former FBI director Comey has just “accused” US President Trump of interference with Russia, highlighting how this has had a real impact on US presidencies last November

Russian influence was also found in the elections in the Netherlands and France. Months ago, James Clapper, director of the US National Intelligence, had been commissioned by the US Congress to conduct an investigation into Russian clandestine funding to European parties over the last decade. The link between Russia and Eurosceptic movements has been a matter of study for some time and has been busy in many, trying to rebuild the path of influence, promise and funding. In 2013, the Eurasian Intelligence Center has published a list of anti-European parties, with xenophobic and anti-liberal tendencies, who


have relations with Moscow. In the list are Ukip (United Kingdom), Democratic National Party (Germany), Jobbik (Hungary), Alba Dorata (Greece) and Front National (France).

The Economist published in February 2015 an article titled “Putin’s war against the West”. The populist party expert, Anton Shekhotsov, told the Economist that Russia has no habit of funding political parties, but politicians on whom it trusts. According to the Capital Politico website, 24 populist right-wing parties in the European Parliament, 15 have relations with Russia. For the Economist, the Kremlin will continue to invest in populist, rightist or leftist forces, provided they exert their pressure on Moscow on the institutions of the European Union. Igor Sutyagin, an expert at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), is a “hybrid war” that combines conventional militarypower with computer warfare and conditioning tactics. The objective is to weaken the Atlantic alliance and the European Union for economic and strategic or geopolitical reasons.

Jeremy Corbyn, the new Moscow target?

Not least is the news, never confirmed, that Russia has dumped their old friend Farage since he left the political scene, to switch their support to a new ally. There is great interest in Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Russia Today has given extensive and positive coverage of its electoral campaign, and for the first time in the diplomatic history of London, the Russian ambassador to the capital, Alexander Yakovenko, issued a statement after the results, greeting the success of Corbyn as a “radical turnaround”.

Personally I do not believe this operation, given the right positions so far by the


Kremlin, but whether this is true or not, at this point the problem is how to prevent Russia from interfering in the elections of Western and democratic countries. Putin has achieved his result in the United States with Trump and the United Kingdom with Brexit, but not in the Netherlands and France elections. Perhaps we have opened our eyes late, but it is time to realize that Russia’s goal is to destroy and dominate Western democracy and especially European countries and the European Union itself, which pushes for a future where the Powers do not have to be in the hands of gas and oil multinationals, but those of citizens.

Massimiliano Fanni Canelles

Massimiliano Fanni Canelles Head of CAD Nephrology and Dialysis, Health Department with University of Udine Adj. ProfessorBlack Lives Matter has been making splashes throughout news cycles since 2013. The group which originated in the United States has since spread to other countries with much different race relations and cultures. The group mostly focusses on the black people killed by police in the United States, which account for 24% of those killed. Instances where police are likely to use lethal force include calls to homicides and other violent crimes. While it is shocking that 24% of victims of lethal force are black Americans, that runs sharply contrasted with the murderers themselves which are black 52% of the time.

Some goals of Black Lives Matter or "demands" include: free education for black people (white people would still have to pay), the release of certain black criminals, guaranteed


income for black people from the government, forced education for university faculty of BLM political ideology, and caps on the maximum amount of whites allowed on campuses and in faculty.

While few demands have been met by those whom they were directed at, Black Lives Matter has seen political success in many areas, especially in Ontario, Canada. Premiere Kathleen Wynne and Mayor of Toronto, John Tory, met with Black Lives Matter Toronto. The meeting in early July 2016 came after it had been revealed that the founders in Toronto had made statements about the "genetic inferiority of white people", alongside quotes such as. "allah, give me the strength not to kill white people" and direct threats to white police officers within Toronto.

Many instances have since been caught on tapeof Black Lives Matter attempting to shut down a rally in celebration of free speech, where a Black Lives Matter founder and co-president was caught attempting to silence a black speaker by yelling "coon" (a racist term for a black person).

Around the time of the meeting of Toronto leftist elites with Black Lives Matter, the targeted murder of 5 police officers (and injury of 9 more) occurred by Black Lives Matter in Dallas Texas. While several targeted attacks, violent protests and terrorist plots have been committed or planned by the organization, Black Lives Matter is not yet listed as a terrorist organization by the RCMP or FBI.

Perhaps the most disturbing Black Lives Matter incident that has so far taken place was the abduction and torture of a disabled


white boy who was tortured on Facebook Live as the 4 black assailants chanted "Black Lives Matter" and "Fuck White People" and "Fuck Donald Trump". The footage revealed 30 minutes of torture where they cut the boy with a knife, tied him up, kicked him, made him drink toilet water and ashed their lit cigarettes into his wounds.

While the murder, torture and violent protests committed by Black Lives Matter supporters have not yet made it to Canada - other less serious actions have been taken. Blocking traffic including ambulances in congested areas downtown and shutting down Pride Parades for their celebration of police - gay relations are just some of the many minor attacks on Canada. The upcoming Pride Parade in Toronto has banned the police float despiteextreme protest from most participants. While the same action was attempted in Vancouver, it was dismissed as extremely counter-productive to the spirit of the parade.

While valid complaints exist within black communities in the United States, some of those issues also exist to a smaller extent within Canada, the destination of the underground railroad. Of the staggering amount of Black People killed in the United States each year, Black Lives Matter focusses on the 4%, which are at the hands of police officers, and not the 93% which are at the hands of blacks (non-police). *It is important to note that these statistics do not account for black police officers who are murdered in the line of duty. One unarmed black person is killed by police officers for every


better life in Manila but unfortunately the big city didn't fulfill their dream. In Smokey Mountain, everybody can live and work. But not everybody survives. Early in the morning, the residents of Smokey Mountain are waiting for the garbage trucks that drop off the waste from the city. The people are rushing towards the trucks, some people even jump on the driving trucks to be the first ones who get to scavenge the rubbish.

The people in the dumpsite are making a living from picking up garbage. They collect any recycable stuff like plastic or iron and earn about PHP100 ($2) a day. The scavengers are all dirty, their faces are covered in mud, their clothes are worn out, their arms have scratches.... I saw some people barefoot whichvideo about Smokey Mountain which can give a more authentic impression how the place really is...

Video © Jörgen Lindskog

The Smokey Mountain Tour cost PHP 750 (US$16) and all profits are donated to the local organization Bahay at Yaman ni San Martin de Porres. I can't promote them enough, Smokey Tours is doing an outstanding job at raising awareness and helping the people in the slums. Thanks thanks thanks for this powerful day. Visit www.smokeytours.com for more info, give them a like on Facebook and check out their reviews on Tripadvisor.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sabrina Iovino is the founder of JustOneWayTicket.com. She's half German, half Italian and has traveled to more than 50 countries around the globe. She feels weird to write about herself in the third person, so she'll


Brooks personifies the change in Murdoch's style of governance. Without an inner circle of elders to moderate his responses, he leant more and more on talented younger people he selected as executive material – many of them journalists, singled out principally because their instincts, their willingness to go for the jugular, approximated to his own. When she resigned on Friday, Brooks said: "Rupert's wisdom, kindness and incisive advice has guided me throughout my career." Yet what he needed in his chief executive last week was someone who would have offered him some incisive advice. A woman whose main professional experience, before she was thrust into the boardroom, was to edit two downmarket tabloids was scarcely qualified to do that. She was his creation: the Eliza Doolittle to hisWASHINGTON – Marine recruits were ordered Tuesday to evacuate their famed Parris Island training base as Hurricane Florence takes aim at the Carolinas, and preparations were ordered to evacuate sailors and other personnel from the world's largest naval base in Virginia.

Meanwhile, pilots flew their F-15 fighters and KC-135 tankers from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in South Carolina to safety in Louisiana.

Late Tuesday, the Army named Ft. Bragg in North Carolina and Ft. A. P. Hill in Virginia as staging areas for relief efforts directed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. And governors in South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland prepared to activate thousands of National Guard soldiers for relief efforts.

In South Carolina, Marine Brig. Gen. James Glynn ordered the recruits to retreat to a logistics base


in Georgia to continue their training. They will be accompanied by Marines and civilians deemed essential to their mission. Other civilians were told to move at least 100 miles inland from the base.

Parris Island lies north of Hilton Head Island near the southern tip of South Carolina. Forecasts show the region within the area where Hurricane Florence is expected to make landfall.

Farther north, in the Hampton Roads region of southeastern Virginia, the Navy Tuesday afternoon authorized the emergency evacuation of sailors, civilians and their dependents. Hampton Roads is home to the largest concentration of naval bases in the world, including the sprawling Naval Station Norfolk.

The Marine Corps’ history at Parris island dates to the Civil War when it was used as a coaling stop for the Union navy.The middle class, once the backbone of a strong American society, has been broken, beaten down, pushed further and further toward poverty levels. Here are five well-documented ways that this has happened.

1. Income Redistribution is Worse than Usually Reported

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The bankers and hedgers and hustlers have made up new rules for making money, and our government representatives don'tincomplete and intentionally misrepresented image of Che serves to marginalise Fidel’s consistent anti-imperialist narrative. By promulgating the image of the murdered revolutionary into the limelight, the imperialist narrative has also served to detract from the primary historical framework which supported and implemented the revolution – the revolutionary philosophy of José Martí and Fidel Castro.

Imperialist narratives of the Cuban revolution differ; the simplest depicting Fidel a dictator whose tenure as leader defied the objectives of democracy. However, a more intricate manipulation exists, which weaves a narration of the Cuban Revolution through a historical account disassociated from its origins. Within this narrative – a common feature within material purporting authentic history, the revolutionary history of Cuba is sidelined to portray the alleged imperial triumph culminating in the murder of Che,


intellect, he states, “At the head of this immense column, we are neither ashamed nor afraid to say it – is Fidel”. Like Martí, Fidel sought to impart revolutionary consciousness to Cubans even prior to the defeat of Batista’s tyrannical dictatorship, as is evidenced in his defence speech ‘History will absolve me’, which served as the foundation for his later anti-imperialist stance. Imperialist manipulation regarding Fidel’s role in the revolutionary process lies in relying upon tangible and concrete sources which are then divested of the meticulous chronology and ideology in order to attain a new narrative derived from the authentic – a calculated process which is also disseminated unwittingly by some purported supporters of the Cuban Revolution.

The widely-disseminated imperialist narrative, therefore, utilises and exploits fragments of the Cubanor intervention of any kind from another nation in the internal affairs of Cuba. Even stronger are the references included in the First and Second Declarations of Havana in the early years of the revolutionary process following Batista’s defeat. Denouncing imperialism in Cuba, Fidel expands his criticism to include imperialist oppression in Latin America and globally. “The movement of the dependent and colonial peoples is a phenomenon of universal character which agitates the world and marks the final crisis of imperialism.” Expounding upon the problems faced by Cuba and Latin America as direct imperialist attacks aimed at preventing liberation, Fidel declared imperialist oppression an aberration conforming to interest in exploitation: “they imagine that revolutions are born or die in the brains of individuals,” a succinct observation which partly


describes the imperialist intention to normalise the Cuban Revolution as a process which embarked upon its demise with the death of Che, despite the fact that imperialism subsequently conspired to exploit Latin America through neoliberal experiments, in an attempt to destabilise the revolutionary consciousness fomenting in the region. While the Second Declaration of Havana focuses upon imperialist intervention in Latin America, the analysis expounded upon by Fidel with regard to imperialist perception of history passively conforming to exploitation is reminiscent of later criticism directed against US imperialism and international organisations whose guise of concern serves as a platform through which subjugation is enforced under euphemisms such as humanitarian intervention. Revolution is inevitable, determined “by the development of the revolutionary consciousness of the masses, by the world crisis ofin which the premise consisted of a subordinate level category and the conclusion consisted of a basic level category; however, only two types of arguments were included in the superordinate conclusion condition: (1) Basic-Superordinate (Bas-Sup), the premise consisted of a basic level category and the conclusion consisted of a superordinate level category. (2) Subordinate-Superordinate (Sub-Sup), the premise consisted of a subordinate level category and the conclusion consisted of a superordinate level category; however, the control conditions were as follows: (1) Superordinate-Non-living (Sup-Non), the premise consisted of the superordinate level category and the conclusion consisted of a non-living object. (2) Basic- Non-living (Bas-Non), in which the premise consisted of a basic level category and the conclusion consisted of a non-living object; (3) Subordinate- non-living (Sub-Non), the premise consisted of


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The purpose of this text is to provide a concise outline and introduction to basic music theory. This page is in fact a small book, with two companions, one for for reference: the page on music theory, and one for practicing: the page with exercises. This outline is ordered sequentially by topic to facilitate a stepwise growing understanding while reading. The reference page on music theory on the contrary, contains alphabetically ordered concepts, with clear definitions and further in-depth explanation.These two pages are complementary.

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By Paddy Cosgrave

I remember when men who had murdered innocent women and children spoke at my university. Some had detonated bombs in London, others had ordered the most heinous of human acts across the island of Ireland. Some were Irish republicans, others were British loyalists.

Whatever their allegiance they shared one thing in common: All had filled their hearts with hate and drenched their hands in human blood in the name of their “political cause”.

I remember meeting many of these men, eating with them, listening to them, arguing with them, and later thanking them for speaking at my university.

I remember because I was on the committee of a student debating society that invited many of these murderers to speak at Trinity College, Dublin.

It was the mid 2000s. At thetime nobody objected. Nobody objected largely because the extremism, the violence, the hatred and the horror that had ripped apart communities in Northern Ireland for decades, claiming thousands of innocent lives, had been replaced with peace. An uneasy peace, but peace nonetheless.

That peace came about in part because people talked and people listened to all views, no matter how hate-filled. And from that process the Good Friday Agreement was born.

In the years before the Good Friday Agreement, oftentimes those with extreme viewpoints in Northern Ireland were denied a platform, including a television news ban. It seemed like a reasonable policy at the time to many.

For example, a British broadcast ban was introduced by the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in 1988. It was introduced because according to the


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LOVELL
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Supreme Court of Alabama.
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Bankhead & Skinner, Jasper, for appellee.
LAWSON, Justice.
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Demurrers of the defendant having been sustained, the plaintiff suffered a nonsuit and has appealed as authorized by statute. § 819, Title 7, Code 1940.
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Several detainees were waterboarded, a technique whereby water is poured into the nose and mouth to cause the victim to think he’s drowning. One detainee in CIA custody was tortured on the waterboard 183 times; another was waterboarded 83 times. Waterboarding has long been considered torture, which is a war crime. Indeed, the United States hung Japanese military leaders for the war crime of torture after World War II.

One of the most hideous techniques the CIA plied on detainees was called “rectal rehydration” or “rectal feeding” without medical necessity – a sanitized description of rape by a foreign object.

Other “enhanced interrogation techniques” (EIT) included being slammed into walls, hung from the ceiling, kept in total darkness,


time looking over their shoulders, lawyering up . . . “

Now we know that many of those people at the CIA were using their extraordinary talents to devise new and more horrific ways to torture, humiliate, degrade and mistreat the people under their control.

To his credit, shortly after he was inaugurated, Obama signed an executive order banning torture. But hunger strikers at Guantánamo are still force-fed, a practice that violates the Torture Convention, according to the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT).

In 2009, US Attorney General Eric Holder ordered an investigation headed by veteran prosecutor Assistant US Attorney John Durham. But, two years later, Holder announced that his office would investigate only the deaths of Gul Rahman and Manadel al-Jamadi, who died while in CIA custody. Holder said thatthe US Department of Justice had “determined that an expanded criminal investigation of the remaining matters is not warranted.” With that decision, Holder made clear that no one would be held accountable for the torture and abuse except possibly for the deaths of Rahman and al-Jamadi.

Torture is who President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are.

Ultimately, the Obama administration gave a free pass to those responsible for the two deaths. Rahman froze to death in 2002, after being stripped and shackled to a cold cement floor in the secret Afghan prison known as the Salt Pit. Al-Jamadi died after he was suspended from the ceiling by his wrists, which were bound behind his back. Military police officer


to go on living. In times of adversity, the best a human can aspire is to survive — basically to not dying. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s latest film, The Revenant, does not rebel against this idea; it rather reveres it through its main character, the real revenant, the resistant apparition and hesitant ghost that Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio, “The Wolf of Wall Street”) is — a legend inducted into the hall of folklore, the place reserved for all of history’s revenants.

Glass, a poaching authority and power behind Captain Andrew Henry’s (Domhnall Gleeson, “Ex Machina”) captainship over a party of poachers pelting pelts from animals in the wild lands of a recently purchased Louisiana, is one of the few survivors of an ambush led by the Arikara people, whose chiefWe’re only a few months away from the latest Netflix/Marvel installment. Iron Fist comes out on March 17th and will feature Finn Jones as Danny Rand. A boy who then becomes a living weapon – his show will rely heavily on martial arts and ancient teachings.

Listed below are the recently released names of 11 of the 13 episodes. Behold!

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Tom Morello at the Grammy Museum: Political activism, music biz lessons and what about another Rage album?

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Prior to Tuesday evening, when Tom Morellowas last seen on stage in Los Angeles, he was spearheading a benefit for various homeless advocacy groups at the Fonda Theater in Hollywood, performing with the likes of Wayne Krame and Slash. The one-on-one setting Tuesday night at the Grammy Museumin downtown Los Angeles was a bit more grown-up than a rock 'n' roll show, but the Rage Against the Machine member stayed on point, and even brought a little unpredictably to the recently opened nonprofit institution.

The Grammy Museum launched with a politics-in-music exhibit titled "Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom," and the discussion, led by themuseum's executive director, Robert Santelli, neatly tied in with the theme. With a nod to one of the artist's at the centerpiece of the exhibit, the night closed with Morello, who rose to prominence as one of the alt-rock era's most adventurous guitarists, leading the 200-seat theater through a determined take on Woody Guthrie's "This Land is Your Land." Disregarding the nervous glances from the small security staff, the suburban Illinois-raised artist instructed the audience stand and jump through the final verse.

Before the rousing finale, however, Santelli led an engagingly thoughtful discussion through Morello's career, focusing largely on the influence of politics and activism. Everything from schoolyard racism to the music business to Morello's thoughts on President Obama were touched on. As Morello pointed out, there's more than


one similarity between the artist and our nation's 44th president. In addition to ties to the Chicago area, both were born to a Kenyan father and white mother, and each did time at Harvard in the '80s.

Yet Morello hasn't stepped aboard the hope express, viewing all politicians with skepticism. Asked for his take on the election of Obama, Morello said he's optimistic but quickly tempered the positivity. "At the same time, you have to look at the facts on the ground," he said. "Tonight there are 75,000 homeless people on the streets of Los Angeles, and over 10,000 homeless children on the streets of the Los Angeles. And we're still talking about how much of a bailout the auto industry is going to get."

Santelli attempted to get atthe events that shaped Morello's worldview. While raised in a socially-aware, activist family -- his father was Kenya's first ambassador to the United States and his schoolteacher mother founded the anti-censorship group Parents for Rock and Rap -- Morello shared firsthand accounts that influenced his career.

Painting himself as the nerdy high schooler, Morello spoke of the moments when he realized there's a "much bigger world" than middle-class suburbia. While reading about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, he contrasted those images with the world around him "There were kids in the Libertyville High School starving themselves to make the wrestling team," he said.

His music career also began in earnest in high school, with Morello's self-described "drama-club band" the Electric Sheep becoming one of three bands at the school (the


other two: Destiny and Epitaph). Influenced equally by the Clash and "fantasy heavy metal bands," Morello said a trip to Chicago's Aragon Ballroom to see the Clash inspired him to get serious, as he noticed that lead singer/guitarist had a similar guitar/amp set-up. "The wall evaporated," he said.

Finding topics to write songs about was never challenge, and tackling socially conscious music was Morello's goal from Day One. "I didn't have limousine parties with groupies," Morello said. "I did have trouble finding a job."

-- A fan asked when Rage Against the Machine would record a new album. The answer: Not anytime soon. But fans shouldn't feel too saddened. "There may be some more Rage shows in the future," Morello said.

--Name of one of the bands Morello played in atHarvard: Bored of Education.

--Contracts in the music business are largely meaningless. Morello's pre-Rage band, Lock Up, released on album for Geffen Records in 1989 before being dropped. Morello said he went out of his way to ensure that the band's contract guaranteed that the act would be allowed to record at least two albums regardless of the results of the first. When Morello pointed this out after being cut, he said the label responded with this: " 'We know it's guaranteed but you don't have enough money to sue us.' That was my welcome to the music industry."

-- Morello noted that Rage Against the Machine was a band that didn't "pay its dues," being signed after its second show. But the band's musical personality was clear early on.


Pixar's two-time Oscar-winning director Pete Docter on Saturday revealed the voice cast and story for his next animated feature, Soul, during its D23 Expo presentation in Anaheim.

The story, which tackles the question "Why am I here?," follows Joe, a middle-school band teacher who loves to play jazz. He dreams of playing at New York's Half Note jazz club, and then, as he gets a lucky break, he finds himself at the fantastical "You Seminar" where "you" get your traits, and he has to find his way back to Earth.

Joe will be voiced by Jamie Foxx. Tina Fey plays 22, a soul-in-training that Joe meets at the "You Seminar." The voice cast also includes Questlove, Phylicia Rashad as Joe's mother and Hamilton's Daveed Diggs as Joe's nemesis, Paul. Thecast joined Docter onstage, along with co-director/writer Kemp Powers, writer Mike Jones and producer Dana Murray.

Music will play a big role in the film, and Soul will include original jazz music from Jon Batiste and a score by Oscar winners Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (The Social Network). It is set to open June 19, 2020.

Docter, who won Oscars for Up and Inside Out, was named Pixar's chief creative officer in the spring of 2018, after the studio parted ways with John Lasseter. This is his first D23 to make opening remarks on behalf of Pixar. In those remarks, he commented on his start at the studio, working on Toy Story, but didn't mention Lasseter.

The studio also unspooled an eight-minute clip from Onward, which is set to bow


March 6, 2020. The film follows two brothers — an overconfident elder brother (voiced by Chris Pratt) and shy younger brother (Tom Holland) — who reside in a suburban fantasy world where they use some magic and embark on a quest to meet their late father. It is written and directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae, who previously teamed on Monsters University.

Explained Scanlon, "It's based on my experience growing up. My brother and I lost our father at a young age, and I've always wondered who my Dad was and how I would like him. Those questions became the roadmap for this film."

Julia Louis-Dreyfus voices the mother, and on the quest, they meet a magical character, voiced by Octavia Spencer.

Another pair of siblings — AcademyJerrod Carmichael

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Jerrod Carmichael is the executive producer, writer and star of the NBC comedy "The Carmichael Show."

Carmichael is a Los Angeles-based stand-up comedian originally from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Last year, he appeared in the Nicholas Stoller-directed summer blockbuster "Neighbors," opposite Seth Rogen and Zac Efron. He recently shot his first one-hour stand-up special for HBO, entitled "Love at the Store," which was directed by Spike Lee. He's currently writing a feature for himself to star in that Gary Sanchez Productions and Point Grey Pictures will produce.

Next up, he can be seen in "The Meddler," opposite Rose Byrne, Susan Sarandon and J.K. Simmons.