born and raised in Lagos, Nigeria. I lived in a smart, middle-class neighbourhood, in a house that sat in the middle of a row of terraced houses. Our neighbourhood wanted for nothing. Nearby, there was a well-equipped primary and secondary school, a church with stained-glass windows and stunning green surrounds, a supermarket that sold the best vanilla ice-cream I have ever tasted, paved driveways filled with good cars, a local beach where you could buy the best grilled meat. Pretty much all of the families who lived around us employed domestic servants, who in some cases were girls as young as eight.

I remember two girls in particular. Mariam, a maid to our neighbour, and Edna, who worked for another neighbour. It was easy to spot a house girl.Many of them had unkempt hair and were dressed in tattered, dirty clothes. They would stand behind a family of well-dressed, well-fed, well-spoken children, their heads bent, silent.

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Mariam arrived in our neighbourhood one summer when I was 13. She was 11 and small, with a shaved head. When she laughed, which was often, the house would seem to vibrate with her laughter. I had no sister, so I found a sister in Mariam. But Mariam was not like me. While I played and spent the summer visiting amusement parks and hanging out with friends in their palatial homes, she worked every day. I watched as a girl younger than me tirelessly cooked, cleaned and, even though she


was not employed by my family, washed my clothes and tended to me. I attended an all-girls boarding school in Lagos, but Mariam did not go to school. She spoke in Yoruba and broken English. She was intelligent and brilliant, and we would play together until the woman who employed her (her “madam”) would return.

Edna was older than Mariam, maybe 19 or 20. Whenever they could, Edna and Mariam would hang out together, stealing moments during a shared chore or on a trip to the local supermarket. When I returned to school at the end of that summer, I remember watching as Mariam stood behind her madam, with tears running down her face.

It was the last time I ever saw her. When I came back about six weeksfriend that year, and ever since I have found myself wondering what happened to her, and to Edna.

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In Nigeria, many of these house girls have no power, no voice of their own. In their silence, many of them suffered horrific physical and sexual abuse. There have been numerous reports of house girls being routinely raped, starved, beaten and disfigured by the families that employ them. I was haunted by an article about a 13-year-old girl who had been scalded with boiling water by her madam. Not only were her injuries horrific, but in the news story this young girl’s face was blurred out. This was presumably for privacy reasons, but it


is a global one. In London, a city I have lived and worked in for close to two decades, there was a tenfold increase in the number of victims of modern-day slavery between 2013 and 2018. As many as 136,000 people may be living in slavery in the UK, with the Modern Slavery Helpline receiving more than 7,000 calls in a year. In 2018, an estimated 40 million people were trapped in slavery globally. Approximately 70% of these are female; children account for about 25% of this number. There is a clear and desperate need to tackle these global issues.

In 2019, a Nigerian television production company, Salt & Truth, released a heart-breaking trailer for an upcoming documentary called House Girls, which highlights the experiences and abuse of houseChicago: Spring Break will now run March 30-April 12 — meaning it’s starting a week early — for students and most classes will be held remotely after that, according to an email sent out by City Colleges.

A union representing faculty and staff for City Colleges of Chicago is calling on the city to close the colleges immediately, however.

• Filming: The majority of shows filmed at CineSpace Studios in Chicago are expected to stop shooting, including “Empire” and “Chicago Fire.”

A member of the production crew for a show that films there tested positive coronavirus earlier this week.

• CPS Travel: The district has canceled school-related trips to locations it considers at risk for coronavirus and has “strongly” recommended employees not travel to those spots.

• CPS Spring Break Travel: A tour


Schools like University of Illinois at Chicago and DePaul University have all canceled events and travel or made changes to classes and spring break length due to the virus.

• Senior Centers: The city has closed senior centers, but free meals are still available for pick-up only.

• Election Day: Twenty-five polling locations will be moved due to concerns about coronavirus, according to the Sun-Times. Election Day is Tuesday.

Some of the locations being moved are nursing homes, where residents are particularly susceptible to more serious cases of coronavirus. Officials are still determining where the new polling places will be.

Officials are still working to determine where those polling places will be moved to.

Pritzker encouraged people to vote early, as all polling places will still be open, or to vote by mailJohn Grant is author of a number of books including Coopportunity, published in January 2010. His other titles include The Green Marketing Manifesto, winner of the 2008 British Book (Design & Production) Awards environmental category. His first book, The New Marketing Manifesto, was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best business books of 1999.

John is a former co-founder and planning director of socially aware ad agency St Luke's (featured in the Harvard Business Review and Fast Company). John's recent consulting clients include ACTONCO2, Design Council, IKEA, innocent drinks, Royal Mail and Unilever. John is a frequent speaker, media commentator, writer, think tanker and also a prolific blogger at greenormal.blogspot.com.

John is soon to be launching a new sustainability & strategy consultancy called Abundancy Partners, together with Jules


us Bradley and Todd's first move was to set-up a "War Room" for Buzz, where engineers and product managers could plot and push immediate changes to the product.

Then, on Friday, the team took questions at a company-wide meeting with Google employees.

With that feedback, Todd pushed Buzz into "Code Red" starting on Saturday so that all updates to Buzz code would push as soon as possible.

With the proverbial alarm bells ringing, Buzz team members decided to stay at Google until the product was fixed. A Google spokesperson told us "Some of them straight through Friday and Saturday nights and through late Sunday, making changes."

A bunch of Googlers actually slept two nights in a row at the Googleplex.

February 10 -- In a post titled "WARNING: Google Buzz Has A Majoranymore...until NBA League Pass came about. The most exciting player to watch when he was a King, he was key to turning the Grizzlies franchise around getting them to the playoffs, and the homie won a ring with Miami...which was crazy dope. I remember he did that elbow pass in the rookie sophmore game, and i tried it in a game when I was a kid...and it went out of bounds. The epic no-look passes, the flashy, the sick handle, the pull up trey ball in transition, and that number. I wore 55 in high school and as a kid because of J-Will...I Reminisce.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Every Friday until I've covered all 5 positions, I'm goingto do my top 5 at each position in the League. Starting with


the PG's. Here's my list.

1.Chris Paul(16 ppg. 10 apg.) - CP3 Might not be putting up the most spectacular numbers this season like he's done in the past, but the Hornets are a more defensive minded team this year. Quickness, one of the best handles the league has ever seen, court vision, and that trademark floater. Cp3 changes the game like nobody else. Still the best in the league; the homie defines the Point Guard position.

2.Deron Williams(22 ppg. 9 apg.) - Deron Williams has been in constant comparison with Chris Paul since they were in College and it's going to continue to happen until they both retire. Deron Williams can easily be number 1 on somebody else's list, dude has a sick handle, he's quick, strong, and canshoot it from outside and mid range. Despite the Jazz' struggles this season, he's still in the top 2 in the L.

3.Derrick Rose(25 ppg. 8 apg.) - D.Rose has a sick game period. And he's improving on his jumper which if he continues to do, will make him literally unstoppable. Speed, Quickness, and he's a freak athelete that pulls off some sick dunks and reverse lay-ups on the regular. D.Rose is having a MVP caliber season and right now he's first on my MVP list.

4.Rajon Rondo(11 ppg. 13 apg.) - Rondo has had some crazy assist games this season, including 24 dimes against the Knicks. The knock on Rondo that alot of people put on him is that he's surrounded by hall of fame talent, but either way


you look at it you can't deny his numbers man, plus he's a lock for first team All-Defense. One of the best Points in the league.

5.Russell Westbrook(22 ppg. 8 apg.)- Westbrook is arguably the most athletic guard in the league...including D.Rose. Even though he needs to work on his jump shot, he proved he's elite this past summer with team USA at the Worlds. Fast, quick, strong, and athletic Westbrook can get to the basket when ever he wants and compliments KD perfectly in OKC.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

1.Wesley Matthews(16 ppg.)- Matthews spent his rookie season with the Jazz last year and earned a reputation around the league as a very solid defender. His play got him a contract in the summer with the Blazers and since Brandon Royleague, can play the 2, 3, and the 4.*Breakout Performance* - Although he dropped 31 on the Spurs this season, I'm going to say the game against the Celtics at the garden that was on ESPN (best game of the season so far to me) in which he posted 18 points and 12 boards against KG on national TV was his breakout game.

3.Nick Young(17 ppg.) - My personal favorite on this list, Nick Young is in his fourth year out of USC and if you've ever seen him play the homie gets buckets. He's a flat out scorer. Has one of the best mid-range games in the League and can get hot from outside. He's got that Cali-Handle and some bounce to go along with it. Young can


hit some of the toughest shots and make them look easy. Although Young was sad to see his mentor Gilbert Arenas part ways with the Wizards; the departure of Arenas is what gave Young the chance to step into the starting lineup and he has been the Wizards most potent offensive weapon since.*Breakout Performance* - Despite Young going off for a career-high 43 points and hitting on 7 three's against the Kings, I'm going with his game against the Lakers at the Staples Center in front of his home town fans of LA, Young hit on 6 three's pouring in 30 points off the bench.

4.Dorell Wright(17 ppg.) - Wright is in his 7th year in the League after spending his first six in Miami where he never reallygot to showcase his offensive ability early on. His first couple of seasons Miami was a really good title contending team so as a young player he didnt crack the rotation. Then he also spent a lot of time injured. But last year was his somewhat breakout year with Miami, and after Pat Riley and Eric Spoelstra didnt want him back, he signed a deal with the Warriors. Wright has become a deadly shooter from outside and his 112 Three-Pointers Made so far this season is good for number 1 in the league.*Breakout Performance* - Wright hit on 9 three pointers against the T-Wolves and also had a 32 point game against the Atlanta Hawks.

5.Kevin Martin(23 ppg.) - Martin is in his 7th year and established himself as


one of the best scorers in the league during his stint in Sac-town and hasnt changed his game since he's been in Houston. Kevin Martin flat out gets buckets, in just about every way you can. Martin is athletic and can shoot it, he can get to the rim, and he gets to the line. Martin leads the league in made free throws(342) and is second in free throw attempts. He's a versatile and agressive scorer.*Breakout Performace* - Martin dropped 45 on Portland earlier this season, 5 short of his career high 50 points.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Here's a sick video of The Nike Real Run from last summer. Some Pro's on here gettin loose; Nick Young, Brandon Jennings, Trevor Ariza, Bobby Brown got game but he's not inthe league any more...lotta familiar faces...check it out it's dope!

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

The Clippers have been turning heads around the league ever since they turned around their 1-13 start to the season. The return of Baron Davis being in shape, of course the Monster that is Blake Griffin, and one of the best SG's in the league Eric Gordon have been the cause for the turn around. Now The Clippers suffer a huge blow losing Eric Gordon to a wrist injury until after the All-Star break. They'll miss his 24 ppg. but Randy Foye's got game, he'll have to step up big time though to keep the Clippers hovering around the 8th spot in the West.

Coach Spoelstra has finally decided to go with Chalmers at the 1 for


Junichi Hayama, Japanese Animator of Hokuto no Ken, Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, Gundam, Cobra, Drifters, Paranoïa Agent, and many more.

Patrick Borg is a French voice actor, best known as the voice of Adult Goku in Dragon Ball Z, he also plays Bardock in Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku.

The TV version and in Dragon Ball Z: Cooler’s Revenge, and Future Gohan in Dragon Ball Z: The History of Trunks, using the same voice. He also plays the French voice of Soldier 76 of Overwatch.

And on the other part, there’s Philippe Ariotti who plays the voices of Piccolo and Freezer of Dragon Ball. Unfortunately, I haven’t seen Victor Krum that day I was waiting but we have to go back home after a while.

Helios Gaming Festival

I wouldcall it the gamers zone, almost all kinds of geeky games are here especially video games, Game consoles, arcade kiosks, racing simulators, and other online games. This is also the place the event conducts their game competitions.

Other Games

Just beside is the other half of the hall filled with people playing board games, card games, puzzles, and other sorts of entertainment games. I was surprised at how many people were enthusiastic about this kind of games. As I looked at them, they were really having fun.

Pixel Museum

If you love Lego this one is a perfect place for you. There were some enormous Lego creations, these small bricks combine together forms a bigger form of creation.

The museum features a bit more of Star Wars side, a variety of Star Wars


and manufacturing some of the most advanced aerospace and defense technologies of today and the future, including missile defense systems, hypersonic missiles and space vehicles. Arizona's supportive environment for business investment and growth is an enabler of Raytheon's success.

"Our expansion supports the nation's military, the security of America's allies and the U.S., state and local economies," said Dr. Taylor W. Lawrence, Raytheon Missile Systems president. "This project validates Southern Arizona's strengths in innovation, technology and quality of life for our growing workforce, and has been made possible by the strong collaboration and support of government and private sector partners."

Raytheon's recent expansion is expected to result in billions of dollars of economic impact throughout Arizona over 10 years. Partners in the expansion include Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Arizona CommerceAuthority, Pima County, City of Tucson, Sun Corridor Inc., Tucson Airport Authority and Tucson Electric Power.

State of Arizona

"With more than 500 suppliers around Arizona and a workforce of nearly 12,000 people, Raytheon continues to have a positive economic impact throughout our state," Ducey said. "Increasing Raytheon's infrastructure and job growth in Arizona is a major win for all of us, and the result of solid partnerships statewide."

Pima County

"Pima County works with our regional partners to create an environment supportive of innovation and opportunity for Raytheon," said Pima County Supervisor Sharon Bronson. "Raytheon has been a terrific partner in boosting the economy of Pima County and we appreciate its commitment to our community. These are the high-paying, high-tech jobs every community strives to have."

"Pima County worked diligently with all


How can you not cry when Steve Martin finds out, you know what. I get tears when I know it's coming. After that, it's that little girl singing "Everytime you go away.." during the credits. Streaming down.

Simeone play-acted a bit on that one and got Beckham sent off. It was the newspapers that flew off the handle even though Diego Simeone was blatantly play-acting. Beckham was in the papers at the time with the Spice Girls so he was the easy target. If it was Southgate, nobody would have gave a toss. He was an easy target.

Really felt sorry for Murray. He literally gave it his all. I wouldn't like to have a hip replacement in the early 30s. Would be excruciating. It's amazing he's been still goingMOSCOW — The future of one of Russia's most renowned space firms is in jeopardy, with the weight of Western sanctions, economic crisis and industrial decay coming to bear.

In many ways, the Russians brought this on themselves. For nearly 20 years, NPO Energomash has produced its venerable liquid fuel RD-180 rocket engine exclusively for export to US space launch provider United Launch Alliance (ULA) to power its Atlas V rocket.

That was until last May, when Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, angered by Western sanctions against Russia for the annexation of Crimea two months earlier, declared Russia would ban exports of the engines for use in military launches.

Rogozin is the government's space industry czar, and his threats made many on Capitol Hill, already weary of Russian conduct, uneasy.


Russian Academy of Cosmonautics.

"It will most likely be near catastrophic for Energomash and quite painful for the Russian space industry," Karash said.

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Deep Dependence

Energomash did not respond to a request for comment on the RD-180 ban, but its annual financial statements reveal a company deeply dependent on a single buyer — the ULA.

The RD-180 is Energomash's hottest product, and its other engines are not in wide use by any Russian-made rockets. Of the 11 engines produced in 2013, eight were RD-180s produced for ULA.

In 2013, the company turnedalmost 185 million rubles (US $3.4 million) in profits on revenue of a little more than 7.1 billion rubles. In 2014, as Russia's economy stalled under the weight of Western sanctions and sharp declines in global oil prices, Energomash reported revenues of 4.37 billion rubles and a loss of 1.16 billion rubles.

Underscoring its difficult financial situation even before the current crisis, the company in August 2013 took out a $65 million credit from now-sanctioned Gazprombank to finance RD-180 production through the end of 2014.

Sales of the Energomash RD-171 and RD-181 engines are minuscule, and threatened by political events at home as well as abroad.

The RD-171, for example, was Energomash's second-best selling product in 2013 with two engines sold. These engines are used to power the Zenit booster, which


is built in Ukraine by defense enterprise Yuzhmash.

Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corp. provides Yuzhmash with 70 percent of the components for the Zenit, which is purchased mainly for Energia's Sea Launch project — currently on ice amid the crisis in Ukraine.

Energia and Sea Launch are moving on with the advent of the new Angara family of rockets. In February, an official with Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, said that Russia would cease purchases of Zenit, and media reports have indicated Angara may replace the Ukrainian-built rocket for Sea Launch.

Though this might look good for Energomash, which co-produces the Angara's RD-191 engine with the new rocket's builder, the Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center, the contract will not financially replace the RD-180 deal, said Pavel Luzin,are not fully known, it stipulates the purchase of 20 engines, with options for deliveries of two additional batches of 20.

But this new production line might be enough for Russia's massive space industry consolidation project launched by President Vladimir Putin earlier this year to hide Energomash's losses in a behemoth industrywide holding structure.

Under the plan, the United Rocket and Space Corp. will consolidate most of the space industry under its umbrella, Energomash included, and take the name of Roscosmos, which will be liquidated.

Another option for Energomash is to revert to bureaucratic lobbying within the Russian space industry. "The company could try to argue for the government to sacrifice the interests of other Russian space companies," such as its rival Kuznetsov, Luzin said.


and eloquent critics of the president's economic policy. The unemployment picture is worse than people understand, he explained in U.S. News & World Report. The jobless rate, officially 7.7%, is almost twice that if you include those who have stopped looking, work part time, or are only "marginally attached" to the workforce. "The labor force participation rate . . . has dropped to the lowest level since 1984," Mr. Zuckerman noted. "It is harder to find work today than it has been in any previous recession."

Meanwhile, the president is stuck in his games and his history. He should have seen unemployment entering a crisis stage four years ago, and he did not. At that time I was certain he'd go for public-works projects, which could give training tothe young and jobs to the experienced underemployed, would create jobs in the private sector and, in the end, yield up something needed—a bridge, a strengthened power grid. He instead gave his first term to health care. And now ObamaCare is being cited as a reason employers are laying people off and not hiring, according to a report from the Federal Reserve.

What a mess.

Conservative media should stop taunting the president because he spent the past month warning of catastrophe if the sequester kicks in, and the catastrophe hasn't happened. It hasn't happened yet. He can make it happen. He runs the federal agencies. He can decide on a steady drip of catastrophe—food inspectors furloughed on the 15th, long lines at the airport on the 18th, sobbing children missing


of making a deal.

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Columnist Dan Henninger on President Obama's conception of the economy and the place of government and the private sector.

The new engagement may work if in the past few days the president has changed his political style, approach and assumptions. But people don't usually change overnight. On the other hand there's plenty of reason for him to make a cosmetic reach-out in order to show that whatever happens it's not really his fault, and if the sequester causes pain at least the responsibility is shared. He didn't stiff the opposition, he treated them to lamb at the Jefferson Hotel.

It is interesting that almost at the same time as the dinner the president's people had once again begun warning of doom. A blast email from OrganizingRespondent, Glens Falls Insurance Co., McKay, McKay Black & Walker, of Columbia, for Respondent; Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. and Robinson, McFadden & Moore, of Columbia, for Respondent, The South Carolina Ins. Co..
*58 Messrs. John W. Sholenberger and Roy D. Bates, of Columbia, for Appellants, in Reply.
January 6, 1969.
LITTLEJOHN, Justice.
The appeal concerns actions brought by the four named insurance companies for refunds of amounts paid under protest as business license fees to the defendant, City of Columbia.
Prior to 1965, Section 47-407 of the South Carolina Code limited the business and professional license tax *59 which the City of Columbia and all other cities with more than 70,000 inhabitants could exact. License fees in cities with a population in excess of 70,000 persons could not exceed $2500.
The South Carolina


General Assembly amended Section 47-407 in 1965, to exclude cities with a population in excess of 90,000 persons. The single effect of this amendment was to allow the City of Columbia to remove the maximum limitation theretofore existing on the business and professional license fees charged by the city. Admittedly the only city in South Carolina having more than 90,000 inhabitants according to the latest United States census was Columbia.
In response to this amendment the City of Columbia in 1966 enacted an ordinance which contained no maximum limitation on the license tax of 2% of gross premiums imposed on casualty and fire insurers.
Based on 2% of gross premiums the license fees required of the plaintiffs-respondents herein under the 1966 ordinance were as follows: Glens Falls Insurance Company, $9,355.74the classification *60 in the statute is arbitrary and violative of the guarantees of due process and equal protection of the law; (3) the 1966 Business and Professional License Ordinance of the City of Columbia is unconstitutional under both the State and the United States Constitutions because it unreasonably discriminates against fire and casualty insurers thereby constituting a denial of equal protection of the laws; and (4) the 1966 Business and Professional License Ordinance of the City of Columbia is invalid in that it attempts to tax premiums on risks physically located outside the city if the premiums were collected through insurance agents or offices located in the city.
The Master made findings of fact and conclusions of law favorable to the plaintiffs on all of the questions enumerated


in 2019: A square copper tamagoyaki pan, different sized Yukihira pots and Shokupan pan were on my list.

The picture below – Things I brought back in 2018: Mostly from my mom and grandma’s collections and a few gifts from my friends.

The picture below – Things I brought back in 2018: These are actually from Thailand – I brought them to Japan, and then brought them back to the US.

The picture below – Things I brought back in 2018: These white plates are all from Le Baise in Kappabashi Kitchen Town in Tokyo.

The picture below – Things I brought back in 2018: Unfortunately, this happened a few times, even though I had carefully wrapped them individually.

The picture below – Things I brought back in 2017: Ceramics from my tripFelicity Jones, the star of 2016’s “Rogue One,” has signed up for animated movie “Dragon Rider,” joining an impressive voice cast that includes Patrick Stewart. The film is one of the biggest animation projects out of Europe in recent times.

Based on Cornelia Funke’s bestselling novel of the same name, the family adventure will be produced by Constantin Film’s Martin Moszkowicz and Oliver Berben. It will be directed by Tomer Eshed. Cyborn, RiseFX and Lumatic are co-producers. Johnny Smith (“Gnomeo & Juliet) wrote the movie, which will launch in the fall of 2019.

Other cast members are Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Freddie Highmore, Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Nonso Anozie.

The film follows Firedrake, a young silver dragon; Sorrel, a mountain spirit; and Ben, an orphaned boy. The unlikely band searches in the


A papercut stop-motion animated love letter to the Canadian Rockies and horror movies, it toured the world and won several awards:

Winner:

Best Animation, Media Film Festival, 2015
Best Short Film, Mirror Mountain Film Festival, 2015
Best of the Fest, Palm Springs International Shortfest, 2014
Audience Award, Austin Film Festival, 2014The Jungle: John Milton, Book 9

An assassin haunted by his past. Two young refugees out of their depth and in need of his special talents. John Milton is no stranger to the world's seedy underbelly. But when the former British Secret Service agent comes up against a ruthless human trafficking ring, he'll have to fight harder than ever to conquer the evil in his path. After Milton meets a refugee who lost a sister to people smugglers, he travels through war-torn Libya and the murkiest parts of Italy and France to get the girl back.

The Asset: An Isabella Rose Thriller, Book 2

Isabella Rose, the Angel, is used to surprises, but being abducted is an unwelcome novelty. She's relying on Michael Pope, the head of the top-secret Group Fifteen,


to get her back. When ISIS get involved, the situation becomes even bleaker. Isabella's abductors are in turn abducted, and she finds herself trapped in Raqqa, the capital of the self-styled caliphate. Meanwhile, Pope has problems of his own: a new danger has emerged from the shadows and is threatening both him and his family.

The Hong Kong Stories: A Beatrix Rose Thriller

Beatrix Rose has been betrayed. Her husband has been murdered and her daughter, Isabella, abducted. She flees to the Hong Kong underworld to plot her revenge. Those who wronged her will pay. Beatrix is the most dangerous woman you’ve ever met. She was an assassin for The Firm, the beyond top secret agency that did the dirty work for the British Secret Services. She is lethal. Ethicallyflexible. Totally ruthless. And you know what they say about payback.

Disruption

Former Naval Intelligence Officer turned secret operative Jake Pendleton finds himself in a pulse-pounding race to stop a cyber-terrorist from releasing a string of the most heinous cyber-crimes the world has ever seen. Crimes that could render the world's advanced technology useless. Jake teams with his partner, Francesca Catanzaro, to track down their only lead, a white-hat hacker in Italy known only as The Jew. A man who might hold the key to stop a group of black-hat hackers from causing worldwide chaos - tag named Disruption.

Pushing Brilliance

Framed for murder and on the run, former Olympic biathlete Kyle Achilles is also in the crosshairs of assassins' guns. Why? He has no idea. He's fighting blind against two master


strategists and one extraordinary invention - known as Brillyanc. Achilles' only ally is the other prime suspect, a beautiful Russian mathematician who is either the best or worst person to ever enter his life. Katya was engaged to Achilles' brother - before he died.

Coercion

The phone rings and the offer is made, leaving you only seconds to decide. Betray your country, or watch your family drop dead before your eyes. After the Iron Curtain's collapse, Russia appears to be finished as a superpower. But KGB general Vasily Karpov is secretly working to restore Russia's status by forcing Americans into traitorous acts of espionage and sabotage, with the aid of a new secret weapon.

Becoming Quinn: Jonathan Quinn Series Prequel

Meet Jake Oliver. The day will come when he's one of thebest cleaners in the business, a man skilled at making bodies disappear. At the moment, however, he's a 22 year old rookie cop, unaware his life is about to change. In a burning barn a body is found--and the fire isn't the cause of death. The detectives working the case have a pretty good idea about what went down. But Officer Oliver thinks it's something else entirely, and pursues a truth others would prefer remain hidden - others who will go to extreme lengths to keep him quiet.

A Time to Die: Victor the Assassin, Book 6

Now that professional assassin Victor is indentured to British Intelligence, he is tasked with eliminating the worst of the worst. One such man is Milan Rados, a former Serbian paramilitary commander wanted for


war crimes and now head of an organized criminal network in Belgrade. He has escaped justice once already, so it's Victor's job to take the justice to him.

Lone Wolf: A Noah Wolf Thriller, Book 2

When Team Camelot is handed an unusual mission to rescue the abducted daughter of a foreign president, Noah and the rest go into it with confidence, and are quickly successful. Back home, they are ready to celebrate, but something doesn't feel right. The mission was too easy, and there are indicators that someone may have discovered who they are and tracked them back to Neverland.

Hot Start: The Cordell Logan Mysteries, Book 5

A notorious, international big-game hunter and his beautiful, former dental hygienist wife are gunned down at long range late one sweltering summer night,while swimming naked on their seaside estate in opulent Rancho Bonita, California. Police investigators are convinced that the killer is a strident, outspoken animal-rights activist, with both military experience and a criminal record. The evidence against him would appear overwhelming - until rumors begin to surface that others may have had their own reasons for committing murder.

Night School: A Jack Reacher Novel, Book 21

It's 1996, and Reacher is still in the army. In the morning they give him a medal, and in the afternoon they send him back to school. That night he's off the grid. Out of sight, out of mind. Two other men are in the classroom - an FBI agent and a CIA analyst. Each is a first-rate operator, each is fresh off a big


win, and each is wondering what the hell they are doing there. Then they find out: A jihadist sleeper cell in Hamburg, Germany, has received an unexpected visitor - a Saudi courier seeking safe haven while waiting to rendezvous with persons unknown.

The Wrong Side of Goodbye: A Harry Bosch Novel, Book 21

Harry Bosch is California's newest private investigator. He doesn't advertise, he doesn't have an office, and he's picky about who he works for, but it doesn't matter. His chops from 30 years with the LAPD speak for themselves. Soon one of Southern California's biggest moguls comes calling. The reclusive billionaire has less than six months to live and a lifetime of regrets. He hires Bosch to find out whether he has an heir.

Passenger 19: A Jammer DavisThriller

Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen...but for one terrible detail, his young daughter, who was en route to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest.

No Man's Land: John Puller Series

John Puller's mother disappeared nearly 30 years ago. Despite an intensive search and investigation, she was never seen again. But new allegations have come to light suggesting that Puller's father - now suffering from dementia and living in a VA hospital - may have murdered his wife. Puller is officially barred from working on the case and faces a potential court-martial if he disobeys the order, but


he knows he can't sit this investigation out.

Ghost Sniper: A Sniper Elite Novel

Bob Pope, the director of an American secret intelligence antiterrorist program, loses contact with his most trusted operative, navy master chief Gil Shannon, fearing him dead when a mission to take out a Swiss banker who is channeling funds to Muslim extremists goes awry. But when an American politician and her convoy are assassinated in Mexico City by the Ghost Sniper - an American ex-military gunman for hire employed by Mexico's most ruthless drug cartel - Pope must turn to retired Navy SEAL Daniel Crosswhite and the newest Sniper Elite hero.

Chasing Ivan

Rumor has it there's a Russian you can turn to if you're very rich, and need dirty deeds done without a trace. The CIA callsOr, when that fails, by putting them in the ground.

American Assassin

Before he was considered a CIA superagent, before he was thought of as a terrorists worst nightmare, and before he was both loathed and admired by the politicians on Capitol Hill, Mitch Rapp was a gifted college athlete without a care in the world . . . and then tragedy struck.

Friendly Fire

It begins with a shocking act of vengeance. Barista Ethan Falk chases a customer into the parking lot and kills him. He tells police that years ago, the older man abducted and tortured him. Then Ethan's story takes an even stranger turn: He says he was rescued by a guy named Scorpion. Of course there is no record of either the kidnapping or the rescue, because Scorpion


- Jonathan Grave - operates outside the law and leaves no evidence.

Tier One

John Dempsey's life - as an elite Tier One Navy SEAL named Jack Kemper - is over. A devastating terrorist action catapults him from a world of moral certainty and decisive orders into the shadowy realm of espionage, where ambiguity is the only rule. His new mission: hunt down those responsible for the greatest tragedy in the history of the US Special Ops and bring them to justice.

Hunter: A Thriller

From its first moments, Hunter takes you on a nonstop thrill ride: from the top floor of the CIA, to the marbled corridors of Capitol Hill...from the posh hotels of downtown Washington, to the city's mean, violent streets. It introduces a colorful new hero for our timenormal.

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London, 1940: The Luftwaffe blitzes London every night for 57 nights. Houses, shops, and entire streets are wiped from the map. The underworld is in flux: The Italian criminals who dominated the West End have been interned, and now their rivals are fighting to replace them. Meanwhile, hidden in the shadows, the Black-Out Ripper sharpens his knife and sets to his grisly work.

Henry Irving is a disgraced reporter on a Fleet Street scandal rag. Genius detective sergeant Charlie Murphy is a fresh face in the Metropolitan police, hunting corrupt colleagues but blinkered by ambition and jealousy. His brother, detective inspector Frank Murphy, searches frantically for his runaway daughter, terrified that she will be the killer's next victim.

As the Ripper stalks the terrified streets, the three men discover


nicely together. Each of the characters’ threads are interesting and I quickly began wondering how all of these characters related to each other. The story moved along at the right pace as the separate parts of the story came together.

Second – the language. The story is set in World War II and Mr. Dawson did an excellent job of using language, word choice, etc. and it made me feel as though I was reading actual news accounts of what was happening in the story. In many cases I found myself enjoying how well written the story was as much as the story itself. I can’t say that about many books I read these days.

Third – The suspense, tension, and twists in the story. For a book set infound this review helpful

Norma Miles

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I was given a copy of this audio version of The Black Miles , in return for an honest review.

I was excited to receive this audio book as I had previously read and enjoyed Mark Dawson's atmospheric police thriller set in war torn London. My mother was a true born Eatender and grew up there, acting as a fire watcher when the bombs fell. I wasn't born until near the end of hostilities but grew up with the destruction very evident around me, the still vacant bomb sites, the street shelters and, of course, my parent's stories. The book catches the general feel of the period well and incorporates the street slang of the time


UN

As part of the 19th-century Zionist movement, Jews had begun settling in Palestine as early as 1820. The effort to establish a Jewish homeland received British approval in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. During the 1930s, Jews persecuted by the Hitler regime poured into Palestine. The post-World WarII acknowledgment of the Holocaust—Hitler’s genocide of 6 million Jews—increased international interest in and sympathy for the cause of Zionism. The British mandate to govern Palestine, which had been in place since 1923, ended after the war, and, in 1947, the UN voted to partition Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and a small international zone. Arabs rejected the idea, but the plan moved forward and the British officially withdrew on May 14, 1948, and the Jewish National Councilproclaimed the State of Israel.

Hostilities broke out almost immediately after the state of Israel was proclaimed. Neighboring Arab nations invaded, intent on crushing the newly declared State of Israel. Israel emerged victorious, affirming its sovereignty. By the cease-fire on Jan. 7, 1949, Israel had increased its original territory by 50%, taking western Galilee, a broad corridor through central Palestine to Jerusalem, and part of modern Jerusalem. The new border is called the Green Line. As many as 750,000 Palestinians either flee or are forced from Israel and settle in refugee camps near Israel’s border. The status of the refugees goes on to become a sticking point in further Arab-Israeli relations. The Palestinian defeat and exodus is known as the Nakba, or disaster.

The new Israel government was admitted to


the UN on May 11, 1949. The remaining areas of Palestine were divided between Transjordan (now Jordan), which annexed the West Bank, and Egypt, which gained control of the Gaza Strip. Through a series of political and social policies, Jordan sought to consolidate its control over the political future of Palestinians and to become their speaker. Jordan even extended citizenship to Palestinians in 1949.

The conflicts around Israel and Palestine continued for years. In October 2011, UNESCO admitted the “State of Palestine” as a member.

LSD known as LSD-25 or Lysergic Acid Diathylamide is a psychoactive hallucinogenic drug. It was first synthesized on November 16, 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann in Sandoz Laboratories in Basle, Switzerland. However, it was a few years before Albert Hofmann realized what he hadwould produce any effect. Hoffman got on his bicycle and rode home from the Lab and arrived in a state of panic. He felt he was losing his grip on sanity. Albert Hoffman wrote this about his LSD experience, “I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant intoxicated-like condition, characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away..”

The United


Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances requires its parties to prohibit LSD. Hence, it is illegal in all parties to the convention, which includes the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and most of Europe. Medical and scientific research with LSD in humans is permitted under the 1971 UN Convention.

Gulab Singh founded the state of Jammu and Kashmir after purchasing the entire territory along with people between the rivers of Ravi and Indus from the East India Company in 1846, for 75 lakh. Hari Singh, the great-grandson of Gulab Singh was the ruler at the time of India-Pak independence. Hari Singh, in the weeks after August 15, 1947, gave no indication of giving up his State’s independence, unlike other 570 princely states in the region. It proved to be theroot cause of present day Kashmir conflict. Md Ali Jinnah wanted to meet Hari Singh through the excuse of visiting the beautiful valley to recover his lost health. A state with such a vast muslim population makes clear point to come in Pakistan & Jinnah was over sure about this. His shock found no limit when he knew that Hari Singh does not want him in Kashmir even as a tourist. Pakistan then decided to force the issue, and a tribal invasion to drive out the Maharaja was initiated. In the early hours of October 24, 1947 the invasion began, as thousands of tribal Pathans swept into Kashmir. Their destination: the state’s capital, Srinagar, from where Hari Singh ruled. The Maharaja appealed to India for help.

On 25 October,


V. P. Menon, a civil servant considered to be close to Patel, flew to Srinagar to get Hari Singh’s nod for Kashmir’s accession to India. By signing the Instrument of Accession, on October 26, 1947, Hari Singh agreed that the State would become a part of India. On 27 October, India’s 1st Sikh battalion flew into Srinagar. Srinagar was soon secured from the Pakistani invaders but the battles in the larger region were just beginning. When Jinnah learnt of the Indian troops’ landing, he reportedly ordered his acting British commander-in-chief General Sir Douglas Gracey to move two brigades into Kashmir, who refused the request. Pakistan finally did send troops to Kashmir but by then Indian forces had taken control of nearly two thirds of the state. Gilgit andBaltistan territories were secured by Pakistani troops. Meanwhile Hari Singh fleed Srinagar with a convoy of 85 cars and wealth of 500Cr. Loaded in 8 trucks and finally settled in Mumbai. Finally, a United Nations (UN) ceasefire was arranged. After long negotiations, the cease-fire was agreed to by both countries, and came into effect at the end of 1948.

The Indian Air Force was established on 8 October 1932. During World War II, IAF personnel were awarded 22 Distinguished Flying Crosses for their achievements. Between 1945 and 1950 it was called the Royal Indian Air Force. In 1947 war with Pakistan, the Royal Indian Air Force provided air support to Indian troops and helped in transport. After India became a republic in 1950, the prefix ‘Royal’ was dropped, and


it began to be known as the Indian Air Force (IAF). The President of India is the ex-officio commander-in-chief of the IAF. The IAF’s English Electric Canberra played a major role in a United Nations operation in Congo in the early 1960s. In 1961, to drive out the Portuguese from Goa, and Daman and Diu, IAF played a major role. India’s unwillingness to use its air force against Chinese forces in the 1962 war is regarded by some military experts as one of the reasons why India suffered serious losses in the conflict.

In the 1965 India-Pakistan war, the IAF raided Pakistani bases, but also lost many aircraft, most of the losses taking place during battles over Kalaikunda and Pathankot. In the 1971 Bangladesh ‘War of Liberation’, on thewestern front, the IAF’s tasks included disruption of enemy communications, destroying fuel and ammunition reserves, and stopping mobilisation of Pakistani ground troops. On the Eastern front, the IAF’s main goal was to support Indian forces on the ground. The IAF received its first and only Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, during the 1971 war, posthumously awarded to Flying Officer Nirmal Jit Singh Sekhon of the No. 18 Squadron.

In 1987, around 70,000 sorties were flown by the IAF to support the Indian Peace Keeping Force troops in Sri Lanka. On 3 November 1988, the IAF dropped Indian paratroopers in the Maldives after the Maldivian president sought Indian help to stop a mercenary invasion in his country. The Indian military operation was swift and successful. In the 1999


Kargil conflict, the Indian Air Force targeted Pakistani intruder positions using aircraft and helicopter gunships. IAF participated in the UN peace keeping mission at Sierra Leone, Africa in year 2000. The IAF also helps in providing relief during disasters such as floods.

The second Indo-Pakistani conflict was also fought over Kashmir and started without a formal declaration of war. The war began in August 5, 1965 and was ended Sept 22, 1965. The war was initiated by Pakistan who since the defeat of India by China in 1962 had come to believe that Indian military would be unable or unwilling to defend against a quick military campaign in Kashmir, and because the Pakistani government was becoming increasingly alarmed by Indian efforts to integrate Kashmir within India. There was alsoa perception that there was widespread popular support within for Pakistani rule and that the Kashmiri people were disatisfied with Indian rule.

After Pakistan was successful in the Rann of Kutch earlier in 1965, Ayub Khan was pressured by the hawks in his cabinet (led by Z.A. Bhutto) and the army to infiltrate the ceasefire line in Kashmir. It was boasted at the time that one Pakistani soldier was equal to four Indian soldiers and so on. On August 5, 1965, 33,000 Pakistani soldiers crossed the Line of Control dressed as Kashmiri locals headed for various areas within Kashmir. Indian forces, tipped off by the local populace, crossed the cease fire line on August 15.

The initial battles between India and Pakistan were contained within Kashmir involving both infantry and


armor units with each country’s air force playing major roles. It was not until early Sept. when Pakistani forces attacked Ackhnur that the Indians escalated the conflict by attacking targets within Pakistan itself, forcing the Pakistani forces to disengage from Ackhnur to counter Indian attacks. Unfortunately the battle was indecisive. By Sept 22 both sides had agreed to a UN mandated cease-fire ending the war that had by that point reached a stalemate. Negotiations in Tashkent concluded in January 1966, with both sides giving up territorial claims, withdrawing their armies from the disputed territory.

Overall, the war was militarily inconclusive; each side held prisoners and some territory belonging to the other. Losses were relatively heavy–on the Pakistani side, twenty aircraft, 200 tanks, and 3,800 troops. Pakistan’s army had beenable to withstand Indian pressure, but a continuation of the fighting would only have led to further losses and ultimate defeat for Pakistan.

During 1971 Bangladesh independence war, Pakistan attacked at several places along India’s western border with Pakistan, but the Indian army successfully held their positions. The Indian Army quickly responded to the Pakistan Army’s movements in the west and made some initial gains, including capturing around 5,500 square miles of Pakistan territory. The war came to a temporary halt with the signing of the Shimla Agreement. In the summit, which opened on 28 June 1972 in Shimla, Mrs. India Gandhi warmly welcomed Mr. Z A Bhutto.

The agreement was the result of resolve of both the countries to “put an end to the conflict and confrontation that have


hitherto marred their relations”. It conceived the steps to be taken for further normalization of mutual relations and it also laid down the principles that should govern their future relations. The agreement converted the cease-fire line of December 17, 1971 into the Line of Control (LOC) between India and Pakistan and it was agreed that “neither side shall seek to alter it unilaterally, irrespective of mutual differences and legal interpretations”.

At the time of agreement, the victorious India had with her 90,000 prisoners of war and a large tract of Pakistani territory. In such a favourable state India could have turned a tough bargainer. However Mrs. Gandhi signed an agreement on the night of 2 July after a one-to-one meeting with Bhutto after the parties had packed their luggageKutch is endowed with unique geographical features. During a part of every year, the Rann is a dry, salt desert and for the remaining part it is flooded with water, the depth of which varies from a few feet to a few yards. How and where this water comes from has not been determined yet. The probable reason might be the Saraswati, a great river rising from the Himalayan watershed, symbolically the most important during the Vedic period, is believed to have flowed south and west through present day Haryana-Punjab, Rajasthan, and southern Pakistan to exit through what is now the Rann of Kutch marshland. The Saraswati River has long since disappeared, probably due to geological changes.

It is this strange geographical nature of the Rann which had become


a controversial issue between India and Pakistan. India maintained that the Rann is land and claimed it as Indian territory; while Pakistan stated that it was a marine feature and laid claim to the northern half of the Rann. The area was admitted by both sides to be in dispute at the time of the Indo-Pakistani border negotiations of 1960. In January 1965, Pakistani guards began patrolling areas which were controlled by India, which eventually led to attacks by both countries on each other in April. This disputed area soon saw sporadic skirmishes between both countries. In June 1965, Harold Wilson, the then Prime Minister of Britain successfully persuaded both countries to end this dispute and set up a tribunal for the same. The verdict of the tribunalsaw Pakistan get 330 square miles of the Rann of Kutch against the 3500 square miles they had originally claimed. On June 30th 1965, a ceasefire was agreed between India and Pakistan under UN auspices who signed a treaty to stop the war at the Rann of Kutch.

However Pakistan judged the pro-Pak US response in war and moved ahead crossing LOC in Kashmir in August leading to 1965 Indo-Pak war.


Juggling a double life as both a reporter and Supergirl gets tougher for Kara with a new romance, a new boss -- and a visit from her cousin, Superman.

1. The Adventures of Supergirl 42m When a commercial space shuttle suffers engine failure, Kara's cousin Clark Kent is on hand to help her save the craft and investigate the incident.

2. The Last Children of Krypton 42m Supergirl is injured by a villain using kryptonite weapons to attack National City, and Superman places the blame squarely on Hank and the DEO.

3. Welcome to Earth 42m Kara and the DEO fear that their escaped detainee is behind attacks on President Marsdin, who is visiting National City to sign an alien amnesty bill.

4. Survivors 42m The corpse of an unregistered alien leadsLena's ex-boyfriend Jack announces a groundbreaking nanobot technology, but she, Kara and Mon-El discover that Jack is under his creation's power.

19. Alex 42m A childhood friend of the Danverses who knows Kara's secret kidnaps Alex and demands that his father, a notorious criminal, be released from prison.

20. City of Lost Children 42m When an alien from a normally peaceful race attacks National City, Kara, Mon-El and James discover a transporter created by Lena and the alien Rhea.

21. Resist 42m The Daxamites invade National City, but Kara, Mon-El and their friends are able to turn the tide against Rhea, who unveils a startling secret weapon.


Gaming Gift Guide

Monday, 7 October 2013

We had a fantastic time sampling a range of exciting new video games at Activision's Christmas Gaming Event in London all of which are launching this year on the run up to Christmas 2013.The boy's had the most awesome time trying out some of the most amazing games of 2013... and after an extensive play they are more excited then ever....About the soon to be released Skylanders SwapForce which is released this October 18th 2013 " my boys can't wait".The games were awesome and I was most defiantly out performed by the boy's which was no surprise to me at all.It was great to see some amazing graphics, characters and magnificent gaming moves which made it almost impossible to leave such an amazingto understand that different frequencies will produce different effects.

Born in California, TYLER SUSSMAN attended the University of California, Santa Barbara and studied psychology in addition to music. He became fascinated with the mind/body connection and music's impact on the psyche. Tyler moved to New York City in 2008 and founded the Didge Project in collaboration with AJ Block. In 2009, Tyler produced the brainwave entrainment recording entitled “Didgeridoo Meditation: An Odyssey through Consciousness." In 2011, Didge Project released an jazz/world fusion of original music entitled "As One." Tyler's self titled original music debut with his own band "WawaAlchemy" was released in 2014. Tyler has created soundscapes in collaboration with yoga teachers in since 2008 and has performed at Wanderlust Festivals in California, Vermont and Oahu. Tyler works extensively


Toyota Motor to invest US$1bil in ride-hailing firm Grab

The investment by Toyota is the largest-ever by an automaker in the global ride-hailing sector, the six-year old startup said in a statement. — Reuters

SINGAPORE: Toyota Motor Corp has agreed to invest US$1bil (RM3.99bil) in South-East Asian ride-hailing firm Grab as a lead investor in the company's ongoing financing round, which was launched after it bought the regional business of Uber Technologies Inc.

The investment by Toyota is the largest-ever by an automaker in the global ride-hailing sector, the six-year old startup said in a statement on June 13.[DATEBOOK] Florida is no longer represented in MLS, but it remains an important state for international action. The U.S. national team will face Scotland on May
26 in Jacksonville and then return to Florida two weeks later for its World Cup 2014 qualifying opener against Antigua & Barbuda in Tampa. The Scotland game will be the first men's national team
game on NBC Sports Network.

Between the two matches, the USA will face Brazil in Landover, Md., and Canada in Toronto as it prepares for the start of Brazil '14 qualifying.

The Scotland kickoff at EverBank Field is set for 8 p.m. ET, and the match will be shown live on the NBC Sports Network in the channel's debut broadcast of a men's national team game, as well as the
Univision family of


networks.

"Jacksonville has an amazing facility and is the perfect place for us to begin our important summer schedule," said U.S. head coach Jurgen Klinsmann. "We are excited to bring the U.S. national team back to a part of the country we haven't visited in many years. It's fantastic that we can continue to give fans in
different parts of the country the chance to share in the journey."

The USA will host Antigua & Barbuda on June 8 at Raymond James Stadium, marking the first World Cup qualifier in
the state of Florida since the USA defeated Mexico 2-1 on Nov. 23, 1980, in Ft. Lauderdale. The semifinal round opener begins at 7 p.m. ET live on ESPN, ESPN3 and the Univision family of networks.

"Our focus since last summer has beenthe group seeks to convert the structure, which has been abandoned for years, into a modern office building that will include a cultural center.

A senior committee official confirmed the report to Israel Hayom, and said the group had already provided design models of the intended structure.

"[The building] is an old sports arena that was built in the late 1960s and served as a place for social and sporting events for Maccabi Haifa," a senior official representative from Maccabi Haifa's board of trustees said, confirming the purchase. [...]

Among the founders of the Arab Culture Association is former Haifa resident and Balad MK Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel after being sought by authorities for allegedly contacting Hezbollah agents during the 2006 Second Lebanon War and helping the terrorist group acquire


Flew the plane into French Alps at 400mph and killed 150 people on board

Airlines are changing procedures to ensure two crew are in the cockpit at all times following the Germanwings tragedy that killed 150 people.

It dramatically emerged today that the co-pilot of the Airbus A320 that crashed into the French Alps locked the pilot out of the cockpit and deliberately crashed the plane.

The final moments of the doomed jet were revealed by French prosecutors who said it was 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz's plan to 'destroy the plane'.

Now budget carrier EasyJet has announced the move will come into force tomorrow - and aviation insiders say there are moves to make it 'mandatory' across airlines.

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Disaster prevention: Budget airlines EasyJet and Norwegian Air Shuttle will introduce new rulesto ensure two crew members are in the cockpit at all times in the wake of the Germanwings air disaster

Tragedy: It emerged today that Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz (pictured) locked the plane's pilot out of the cockpit and 'deliberately' crashed the plane into the French Alps, killing 150 people on board

Safety: Now budget carrier EasyJet has announced the new move will come into force tomorrow and aviation insiders say there are moves to make it 'mandatory' across all airlines

Horror: After voice recordings emerged from the doomed A320 revealing how the pilot tried to kick down the cockpit door, EasyJet said a cabin crew member will enter the cockpit if the pilot or co-pilot needs the toilet

The move comes after the Civil Aviation Authority urged airlines to review their


is required to stand in the cockpit for these brief periods.'

Risk management: Pilot Europe's third largest budget carrier Norwegian Air Shuttle has also announced the same move for 'safety reasons'

Doomed: The captain of the ill-fated flight - named by local media as German father-of-two Patrick Sonderheimer - left the cockpit but found himself locked out when he tried to re-enter (file photo)

Monarch's spokeswoman added: 'We also have an 'eyes-on' rule requiring cabin crew to enter the cockpit during the cruising stage to check on the pilot and co-pilot.'

A Jet2 spokeswoman said: 'This rule has been in place for a number of years to ensure the safety and security of our customers.'

While a FlyBe spokespman said their Operations Manual 'states that two members of crew are to be presentin the cockpit at all times during flight'.

British Airways and BMI Regional declined to comment, while Ryanair were unavailable.

All UK airline pilots undergo extensive and regular medical assessments to determine their fitness to hold a licence Civil Aviation Authority spokesman

Elsewhere around Europe, the continent's third-largest budget carrier, Norwegian Air Shuttle, said it would require two people in the cockpit at all times for safety reasons.

A Civil Aviation Authority spokesman said: 'Following the details that have emerged regarding the tragic Germanwings incident, we are co-ordinating closely with colleagues at the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and have contacted all UK operators to require them to review all relevant procedures.

'All UK airline pilots undergo extensive and regular medical assessments to determine their fitness to hold a licence.

As part of this,


to change the procedure as it is already approved by the German office of federal aviation but we will look into it. So far, we trust our procedure.

It also transpired today that the Germanwings co-pilot who flew the plane into the Alps at 400mph had to stop his training because he was suffering from depression and 'burnout'.

Mr Lubitz - whose family were at the scene of the crash in Seyne today - postponed his pilot training in 2008 due to mental health issues and a friend said he was 'in depression'.

Airline bosses confirmed Lubitz had taken several months off work and had to retrain to join the firm but insisted he was '100% fit to fly'.

Raid: German police have investigated Andreas Lubitz's €500,000 family home in Montabaur inGermany as well as his apartment in Dusseldorf

Killer's home: A French prosecutor in Marseille said Mr Lubitz's breathing was normal as the plane descended rapidly before crashing into the French Alps

German police have since raided Lubitz's €500,000 family home in Montabaur in Germany as well as his apartment in Dusseldorf.

At an extraordinary press conference earlier, Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin gave a disturbing account of the cockpit voice recordings extracted from black box.

He said Lubitz locked his captain out after the senior officer left the flight deck. At that point, Lubitz used the flight managing system to put the plane into a descent, something that can only be done manually - and deliberately.

He said: 'The intention was to destroy the plane. Death was instant. The plane hit the mountain


November 04, 2016

In the middle of the change from small town to booming Dallas suburb is football. Celina could end up with more than one high school and therefore more than one football team, a division of the local talent pool that would vex some. But a more immediate question is over the future need for a new stadium to house the existing team and its swelling fanbase. The current 3,800-capacity Bobcat Stadium, regularly packed, might soon be unable to cope with demand.

These are interesting times for high school football stadiums in Texas. Nearby McKinney recently approved the construction of a new $70m, 12,000-seat stadium to be shared by the city’s three high schools. That followed hard on the heels of a $60m, 18,000-capacity venue for neighboring Allen– which has one high school – completed in 2012. Local media have called the sprouting of expensive stadiums among rival school districts in affluent suburbs an arms race. The adjacent Frisco, meanwhile, entered a partnership with the Dallas Cowboys for its schools to play in the NFL team’s new indoor practice facility built in the city. The Frisco independent school district is chipping in $30m so area kids can run out at The Ford Center at The Star, capacity 12,000.

October 27, 2016

Wingsuit flying is approximately dangerous. Eric Dossantos hit the trees at about 150 km/h sherring off a 20 cm diameter part of a trunk and leaving a trail for over 100 meters. He lived but is in serious condition with multiple broken bones and a brain


The Jehovah's Witness movement has been on a year-long drive to recruit commuters at UK train stations, shopping centres and parks. It's a change of tactics, writes Sophie Robehmed.

Everybody is familiar with the Jehovah's Witnesses' standard modus operandi. Two polite people knock at the door and try and engage a householder in conversation.

The visit is often less than welcome and there are plenty of examples of comic sketches mocking the phenomenon.

But for the last year, the Christian-based religious movement has been trying a different method in the UK.

Volunteers are targeting train stations, as well as shopping centres and other busy places, in 14 cities across Britain and Ireland - Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield.

In London alone, the movement saysit has 1,000 people giving away literature - and they get through about 6,000 brochures, 20,000 books, and 100,000 magazines every month.

The tactic was pioneered in New York three years ago and is set to expand further. At weekly congregation meetings, volunteers are encouraged to let passers-by approach rather than trying to stop them. The tactics seem the polar opposite of the doorstep approach - most of the day the volunteers stand there smiling but saying little.

At Oxford Circus, in the centre of London and the fourth busiest underground/metro station in the UK, the Jehovah's Witnesses are passed by hundreds of thousands of people every week.

Deep Singh, a coordinator for this latest street drive, who converted from Sikhism 23 years ago, stands with his arms outstretched, holding books


with the title, What does the Bible really teach?, in capital letters. His wife, Ruth, meanwhile, hovers by a stand, stocked with copies of Awake!, the Jehovah's Witnesses' flagship magazine. The couple are joined by another volunteer. And the station's other entrances and exits are manned by other groups.

Even standing by the volunteers for an hour, it seems that few passers-by stop to talk.

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Recruitment drive in London in 1966

The movement doesn't have figures for how many converts this part of its mission has produced. And it's emphasised that it's an addition rather than a departure from the door-to-door evangelism, but adherents are optimistic that the new tactic is making an impact.

The UK Jehovah's Witnesses say that the May issue of Awake!, withits cover line Stress - Keys to Managing It, was the most popular of the current drive.

"People were queuing up for a copy in the City [of London]," says Deep. "One woman asked if it was possible to take copies for her colleagues because she said her whole office was stressed."

The Singhs are both cutting back on their paid work away from the movement in order to be, as Deep states on his WhatsApp mobile messaging profile, "On the Lord's Work!!" from 7am-7pm. "I feel for people. Life is a mess, and we help to improve people morally, spiritually and emotionally," says Deep.

"This ministry is definitely better for secular people who like to be in control," he adds. "They can ignore us, ask questions or just pick up


a book to get the answers they're looking for." Ruth, who grew up with a Jehovah's Witness mother and atheist father, agrees. "It makes sense," she says. "People are so busy and this ministry conveniently fits in with their hectic schedules."

Jehovah's Witnesses at a glance

Image copyright Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society

Founded in the US towards the end of the 19th Century, under the leadership of Charles Taze Russell. Headquarters of the movement in New York

Although Christian-based, the group believes that the traditional Christian Churches have deviated from the true teachings of the Bible, and do not work in full harmony with God

The traditional Christian Church does not regard the movement as a mainstream Christian denomination because it rejects the Christian doctrine of the Trinity

Jehovah's witnesses believe thathumanity is now in the 'last days' and that the final battle between good and evil will happen soon

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But Scott Terry, a former Jehovah's Witness for 14 years and author of Cowboys, Armageddon, and The Truth: How a Gay Child Was Saved from Religion, believes that a widespread apathy towards door-to-door ministry is behind this latest approach.

"Many of the Jehovah's Witnesses I know detest door-to-door work," says Terry. "Yet they are required to turn in their time cards each month to prove that they have spent the required hours preaching. I know Jehovah's Witnesses who go to great lengths to stretch those hours by including time spent in the car, travelling to the designated neighbourhoods.

"Setting up at a train station is the easy


way out. It is less confrontational than knocking on people's doors, and it is an easier way to acquire the hours needed to remain in good standing in the congregation."

The movement regards the street drive as just another way of proselytising, says Mark O'Malley, a spokesperson at the Office of Public Information for Jehovah's Witnesses. And there have been many different tactics. "'Photo-Drama of Creation' was released in 1914. It combined moving pictures, sound recordings, and coloured glass slides to re-enact Biblical scenes. In the 1920s, we started to use the radio to spread the message from the Bible.

"Today, jw.org, which can be navigated in more than 300 languages, receives about one million individual hits each day."

Famous witnesses

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Prince (pictured) - the singer/songwriter was brought upas a Seventh Day Adventist, but became a Jehovah's Witness in 2001, shortly after the death of his parents

Venus and Serena Williams were brought up as Jehovah's Witnesses - "God and tennis are my priorities in life," said Serena in 2012

Hank Marvin is a devout Jehovah's Witness, but told one newspaper that he no longer took part in door-to-door missionary work: "Whenever I knocked on anyone's door, they thought it was Candid Camera playing a practical joke on them.

And in some senses, the current street drive is a return to previous tactics.

"There are many recorded instances of preaching in public places in the 1930s and 1940s that I am aware of but, in my opinion, the Witnesses began favouring door-to-door preaching in the 1960s," adds Terry.

"The Jehovah's Witnesses


is a proselytising religion and its members believe that aggressive ministry is essential for the inauguration of Armageddon and the subsequent New Kingdom," says Dr Andrew Holden, author of Jehovah's Witnesses: Portrait of a Contemporary Religious Movement. "At one time, it was common for the Jehovah's Witnesses to minister and to distribute their literature in busy city centres until their evangelistic activities were curtailed, both by law and by local council policy."

The Jehovah's Witnesses, with a global membership of almost eight million people, believes that we are now living in the "end times", says Holden, but that this will only be fulfilled when the "true" word of God has been ministered to the ends of the earth.

"The street drive is, in the Jehovah's Witnesses' terms, the final pushLocalized Cutaneous Cryptococcosis: Summary of Reported Cases in Japan.
A 68-year-old male plasterer with no history of trauma presented to our clinic in March 2012 with a 16×14-mm ulcer that developed following a crushed small papule on the right anterior chest. In April 2012, the patient was referred to another hospital, where cutaneous cryptococcosis was diagnosed based on discharge culture results. The patient was treated with oral itraconazole at a dose of 150 mg/day for 10 weeks; however, the ulcer remained unchanged and he discontinued the treatment. In May 2014, when he revisited our clinic, the ulcer with crust had grown to 29×13 mm. No regional lymph node swelling was noted. India ink staining showed a yeast-like fungus with a thick, clear capsule. A cream-colored, viscous yeast-like colony was


LaRouche. The LaRouche publishing house, New Benjamin Franklin House, published Jack's autobiography, Fifty Years a Democrat. Jack and LaRouche founded the Committee for a New Africa Policy, which lobbied for short term aid and long-term infrastructure development for Africa. In 1984, Jack became a founding member and board member of the LaRouche-affiliated Schiller Institute. His daughter said the association was "unfortunate".

Death
Jack died of cancer on December 19, 1986, in St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan. He belonged to the Roman Catholic church. He was 79.

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Category:NewHOBOKEN – Fourth Ward City Councilman Tim Occhipinti entered the race to become the next mayor of Hoboken on Tuesday, filing around 1,000 petition signatures with the city clerk’s office and positioning himself at the top of a slate that also includes City Council-at-Large candidates Frank Raia, Peter Biancamano, and Britney Montgomery-Cook. Raia is a longtime politico and real estate developer who once served on the school board, and Biancamano currently serves on the school board.

Under the moniker, “One Hoboken,” the slate will challenge the leadership of incumbent Mayor Dawn Zimmer and her slate of at-Large candidates, as well as state Assemblyman Ruben Ramos, a former councilman who is also running for mayor with the Vision for Hoboken slate.

Zimmer and Ramos have both put forth their own council-at-large


The New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) is planning a major 4-day conference entitled "Skeletal Biology and Medicine" to be held April 25-28, 2007 at the New York Academy of Sciences and the Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, NY. The conference is being organized by Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD, FRCP, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Director Mount Sinai Bone Program. New insights into the mechanisms of bone development including cellular and mechanical factors, receptors, and signaling pathways have contributed to our understanding of both normative and pathologic states of bone and the skeleton. Bone cells undergo dynamic processes whereby they are influenced by numerous genetic factors and cellular mediators. Recent findings are shaping therapeutic directions to focus on multiple modes of intervention involving anti-resorptive treatments and anabolicLegendary: Dark City

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There is a darkness rising in the Marvel Universe! Legendary: Dark City, the first expansion to “Legendary: A Marvel Deck Building Game,” brings an entirely new level of play to the critically-acclaimed card game. In Dark City, players use new heroes like Cable, Daredevil, Professor X, and Blade to face off against deadly, all-new Masterminds like Apocalypse, Mr. Sinister, and Kingpin!

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this year when lawmakers applauded a bill that legalized abortion up to the time of birth. While liberals are cheering, the rest of the country was not.

Gallup found that 60 percent of Americans are accepting of first trimester abortions, with only 28 percent for second-term abortions, and a further drop to only 13 percent supporting the right to third-term abortions. The city lights of New York City may glow pink in celebration of full-term abortion, but most people don’t share in the glee.

Not content with good, Democrats in NY want perfect, at least in their warped eyes. Much the same happened in Virginia, where a proposed bill allowing post-birth abortion, also known as infanticide, fortunately did not pass. Virginia Governor Ralph “Coonman” Northam, a former pediatric neurologist weighedEuropean Commission calls for comments ahead of April Codex meeting on proposed maximum levels of the potentially carcinogenic chemical contaminant 3-MCPD in hydrolysed vegetable protein and soy sauces.

Changes to Australia's food code continue, with the nation's food agency calling on companies and organisations to comment on a host of new proposals, including applications from DSM Nutritional and...

Food and drink makers developing functional, ready to drink and instant formulas could gain from European Commission approval for the slow-release carbohydrate isomaltulose supplied by German firm Palatinit.

Australia's food watchdog has abandoned its 'information on request' approach to the country of origin labelling of food, proposing instead a package of measures to provide consumers with tighter information.


The latest attempt to remove President Trump from office by Democrats rests upon the anonymous complaint of an unidentified government employee.

Having failed in their attempt to tarnish him after their bogus Russian witch hunt (hoax), they wanted desperately to find a catalyst to continue stalking the president.

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Once it was revealed that Schiff and his staff met with the leaker almost one month before the disclosure of the latest allegationLast updated on .From the section Aston Villa

Kortney Hause has made two appearances for Wolves this season

Aston Villa have signed Wolves defender Kortney Hause on loan until the end of the season.

The Championship side have an option to make the deal for the 23-year-old permanent at the end of the campaign.

Hause has made 67 league appearances for Wolves but has only featured in two Carabao Cup ties in this season.

The former England Under-21 international could make his debut for Villa in Saturday's trip to struggling Wigan.

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Fans of the PlayStation series "Gran Turismo" not only have a new game to look forward to, but now a movie as well.

Sony will reportedly make a silver screen adaptation of the popular video game series, which is already in development. Producers Mike De Luca and Dana Brunetti -- known for "Fifty Shades of Grey" -- will run the show.

Sony executives Elizabeth Cantillon, DeVon Franklin and Hannah Minghella will take hold of the movie project.

"Gran Turismo" is a series of racing simulation games that originally launched in 1997 for the original PlayStation. Subsequent titles in the series were released for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable (PSP).

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Dr. Viscott’s early ’90’s live TV show on KNBC in LA came on after Saturday Night Live, Sunday mornings…

There are a bunch of David Viscott videos on YouTube!

He came on after Saturday Night Live in LA on KNBC. Taking calls from people up after midnight in LA in the early 90s, including the nights and days of the LA riots after the Rodney King beating. The good doctor himself was carjacked and roughed up during this time, and talks about it on the show.

There are close to a hundred videos, each one consisting of one phone call, with Dr David addressing the caller directly into the TV camera…

The calls are about all kinds of things, as usual. The range is impressive: rape, incest, aliens, ghosts, and the morebalance was found between the frequency of low and highly-recommended consumption foods and the same happened considering the educational nature of the global message. When the target age and the country of origin were considered, the least educational messages predominated in those series aimed at the oldest children group and produced in North America. This study intends to contribute to the problem of childhood obesity by indicating the educational nature of the food messages that children are confronted with. As prevalence and prominence of non-supportive food placements to educational food content is high, policy makers should consider these findings when designing public policies that aim to prevent childhood obesity.


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The Japanese original of this report was released in April 2017, specifically analyzing the problems of land use regulations and Environmental Impact Assessment schemes in Japan, which are the major factors hindering the development of wind power generation in the country.

The land use regulations and Environmental Impact Assessment schemes adopted in Japan are quite different from those of Germany, the United States, and other leading countries in wind power development. This English abridgedstimulated by the ongoing process of globalization. Even though, for instance, British historian Geoffrey Barraclough (1908–84 CE) argued strongly in favor of new forms of 'universal, or general, history' as long ago as 1955 CE, until today most academic historians have not yet embraced any such accounts of the human adventure on Earth.14

In the middle of the twentieth century, however, some change began to take place. Following Toynbee's example, a few farsighted scholars took the lead, most notably US historians William H. McNeill and Leften S. Stavrianos (1913–2004 CE), while English historian John Roberts (1928–2003 CE) wrote _History of the World_. All these authors realized that for a good understanding of recent history it was important to trace the past all the way back to the origin of


shells, and look a little like the layers of an onion. The most inner shell can contain only two electrons, while the next shell can hold eight of them. After a shell is completely filled up with electrons, the next outer shell is filled up, etc. How far this goes depends on the number of protons in the nucleus. The chemical element carbon, for instance, with six protons, has its inner shell completely filled up, while its outer shell contains four out of a maximum of eight electrons.

When atoms contain only one or two electrons out of a possible eight in their outer shell, they can lose them and become positively charged. And when atoms contain six or seven atoms in their outer shell, they may gain onedifficult to assess the merits of this hypothesis, including the question of when this capacity would have emerged. Yet it remains striking, as McNeill observed, that as far as we know only humans appear to have acquired this behavior.

Early humans did not possess any natural weapons, such as large sharp teeth, antlers, strong hoofs or venom, to defend themselves against the dangers lurking on the savannas. Neither did they operate in large herds. One wonders, therefore, how early humans survived the threat of being eaten by large predators. To answer this question, Adriaan Kortlandt experimented _in situ_ with a little machine driven by an electric motor that could swing a couple of thorny branches around itself. Underneath this machine, he placed a piece of meat, which attracted a


is going to die; the Cconucuyca family weeding potatoes in January of 1986 CE near the village of Zurite, Anta, Peru.

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There has been an extensive academic discussion on the root causes of the agrarian revolution.10 Yet even today this process is not yet well understood. The agrarian revolution was preceded by a long incipient phase, during which people experimented with plants and animals in various ways. By burning the landscape at set times, for instance, hunters and gatherers would have favored plant and animal species such as wild cereals and large grazers that were later domesticated.11 Traces of such efforts as well as of other early attempts at domestication may be very difficult to find. The incipient transition to agriculture and animal husbandry may wellThe replica Viking longboat Draken Harald Hårfagre just completed a historical Atlantic crossing from Norway, Iceland, Greenland and Newfoundland. She is now in the Great Lakes and along with other training and non-commercial historical vessels where she was to visit North American ports and be honored along with other Tall Ships during the 2016 season.

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Badgers, Blue Devils set to settle national championship

Duke fans cheer outside of Lucas Oil Stadium before the NCAA Final Four college basketball tournament championship game between Wisconsin and Duke Monday, April 6, 2015, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

Darron Cummings

April 06, 2015

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) The party is sure to last far into the night back in North Carolina, where thousands of fans packed inside Cameron Indoor Stadium to watch Duke win the national championship.

In Indianapolis, too, where nobody wearing blue had left their seat. They watched in rapt attention as one by one the Blue Devils climbed up the aluminum stepladder to snip down the nets with a gold-plate pair of scissors, each one waving their piece of nylon at the crowd.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who wrapped assistant coach JeffCapel in a big bear-hug at center court, was still wearing his 2010 title ring won in the same building. Krzyzewski had it on throughout the tournament as a reminder to his team of its ultimate goal.

Now, he'll be able to give fans quite the glitzy high five: He has a ring for each finger.

The loss was devastating for a Wisconsin bunch that lost to Kentucky in last year's Final Four, and then decided to come back together for one last run at it. The Badgers avenged that defeat in the semifinals, but Frank Kaminsky and Co. couldn't finish the job.

Now, Kaminsky and fellow senior Josh Gasser are moving on. Junior forward Sam Dekker could also have played his final game with some expecting him to be a


first-round draft pick.

Several of the Blue Devils will also be faced with decisions in the coming days. Jahlil Okafor is expected to be a lottery pick, and fellow freshmen Tyus Jones and Justise Winslow are projected as first-round picks. Senior guard Quinn Cook will also be moving on.

Those decisions are for the future, though. There's a lot of celebrating to do first.

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11:35 P.M.

Duke certainly knows how to celebrate championships.

Especially in Indianapolis, where the Blue Devils have won three of their five titles.

When the clock struck zero, the kids from Durham stormed off their bench and onto the raised floor inside Lucas Oil Stadium. Players started donning black and blue T-shirts that read ''National Champions,'' and standout freshman Jahlil Okafor slipped on a black and gold championship hat -turned backward - as he clambered onto the stage and hugged his best friend, Tyus Jones.

Jones, who dominated Wisconsin when the teams met in December, spoiled the Badgers' night again. He finished with 23 points and was voted Final Four most outstanding player.

''My teammates and the coaching staff, they've given me confidence,'' Jones said as sprays of confetti covered the stage. ''They believed in me and trusted in me all year. There wasn't a moment they doubted me.''

Wisconsin players filed quietly off the floor and headed to the locker room, the goofballs from Madison having taken the Badgers' fan base on quite a ride.

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11:30 P.M.

The package deal has delivered Duke another national championship.

Tyus Jones scored 23 points, his good buddy and freshman teammate Jahlil Okafor added a couple


of key baskets in the closing minutes, and the Blue Devils beat Wisconsin 68-63 on Monday night to give coach Mike Krzyzewski his fifth national championship.

The Blue Devils took the lead for the first time since it was 29-28 on a 3-pointer by Grayson Allen, who came off the bench to score 16 points. After the Badgers regained the lead on back-to-back baskets by Frank Kaminsky and Sam Dekker, the Blue Devils stormed away.

Jones started it with a basket, and Okafor - mired in foul trouble all game - returned to the floor to score the next two hoops. By the time Jones knocked down a 3-pointer with 1:10 to go, the Blue Devils had pushed their lead to 66-58 and the celebration was starting in the stands.

Wisconsintried to foul its way back into the game in the final minute, but Jones added two more free throws with 34.9 seconds remaining to seal the victory.

Jones and Okafor have known each other since playing for USA Basketball, and decided together to attend Duke. Their goal was to win a national championship - and now they have it.

Kaminsky, the AP player of the year, finished with 21 points and 12 rebounds for the Badgers, seeking their first title since 1941. Dekker added 12 points and eight boards.

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11:11 P.M.

The tension that has been building for the last 2 hours inside Lucas Oil Stadium is reaching a crescendo as Duke leads Wisconsin 59-58 with about 3 minutes to go.

The crowd of 71,149, the fourth-largest in title game history, was


certainly being treated to a thriller: The two teams have swapped the lead 16 times, Wisconsin star Frank Kaminsky has lived up to his billing and Duke's Grayson Allen has come out of nowhere to provide a spark.

For what it's worth, there has not been an overtime title game since 2008, when Kansas knocked off Memphis in San Antonio. There has only been one championship that has gone more than one OT - North Carolina beat the Jayhawks in triple overtime in 1957.

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11:01 P.M.

Frank Kaminsky has put Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor back on the bench with four fouls.

Okafor had to take a seat with three early in the second half, and he wasn't on the floor for very long when he returned. The Badgers' senior star unleashed athe second half Monday night, forcing coach Mike Krzyzewski to give them a seat. The Badgers were leading 48-39 at that point.

Good thing the Blue Devils had another, far less-heralded freshman to bail them out.

Grayson Allen, who averages just four points per game, knocked down a big 3-pointer right in front of his own bench. Then he stripped the Badgers' Traevon Jackson of the ball at the other end, and added a three-point play moments later. Allen has 12 points in the title game. He had 12 in his previous three games.

The Badgers marching band has launched into ''Jump Around'' in Lucas Oil Stadium, but it will be Allen standing on the foul line for two more free throws when play resumes.

The Badgers are clinging to a 51-45


empty seat.

In Section 40, Row A, seat No. 13 has been left empty. The ticket next to the son of Indiana coach Tom Crean was purchased by North Carolina coach Roy Williams and donated in memory of Butch Ryan, the late father of Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan.

Butch Ryan, who helped teach his son the game, passed away in August 2013.

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10:15 P.M.

The halftime entertainment at Lucas Oil Stadium was David Garibaldi, known for his ''rhythm and hue'' act in which he speed paints portraits while accompanied by dance music.

In about 5 frenetic minutes, the fourth-place finisher on the seventh season of ''America's Got Talent'' had painted portraits of Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and Wisconsin boss Bo Ryan.

No word on where the massive canvasses, each about 6 feet tall, willend up.

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10:08 P.M.

Twenty minutes left to decide a champion - at least.

The way Duke and Wisconsin are going at it, we may need a couple of overtimes too. There were 13 lead changes in the first half.

The Blue Devils' Quinn Cook rimmed out a 3-point try and the Badgers' Sam Dekker was off on his fall-away 3 as time expired, leaving the two teams tied 31-all at the break.

Dekker and Nigel Hayes have eight points apiece to lead the Badgers, while Frank Kaminsky has seven points and seven rebounds while outplaying Duke counterpart Jahlil Okafor.

Justise Winslow has seven points to lead the Blue Devils, while Okafor has six, despite sitting the final few minutes of the first half with two fouls.

Count tennis star Caroline Wozniacki among the Wisconsin


supporters. She is sitting next to Texans star and former Wisconsin football player JJ Watt.

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9:58 P.M.

Back and forth we go in the national championship game.

The Blue Devils gained some early separation, but freshman guard Tyus Jones began settling for outside jumpers - just like the Harrison brothers did when Kentucky wilted late.

The Badgers stuck to their game plan and clawed back into the lead.

Jahlil Okafor continues to sit on the Duke bench after picking up his second foul with 4:47 left in the first half. Justise Winslow is also in trouble with two early fouls.

Wisconsin has two fouls total.

The Blue Devils are shooting 50 percent from the field early on, but they're getting pounded on the glass. Wisconsin has 17 rebounds, including eight offensive rebounds and 11 second-chancepoints, with about 3 minutes left in the half.

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9:52 P.M.

Wisconsin surged back and the crowd got really loud for a 7-0 run capped by Frank Kaminsky's three-point play to give the Badgers a 24-23 lead. The most important part of that play? The foul was the second on Jahlil Okafor, forcing the Duke big man to take a seat.

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9:50 P.M.

Duke has been winning the hustle points in the first half.

On one play, backup forward Amile Jefferson swooped in to block a shot by the Badgers' Josh Gasser, and then Blue Devils teammate Tyus Jones nearly slid off the elevated floor and onto the deck while chasing the ball out of bounds. Jones popped to his feet and was OK.

The Blue Devils are also doing a better job of


one that turned into an easy run-out and layup by Grayson Allen. But the Badgers are doing a nice job of moving the ball to free up shooters, hitting three of their first five 3-point tries.

Among those in the crowd rooting on the Badgers: Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, an adopted Wisconsinite, and former Wisconsin star J.J. Watt of the Houston Texans.

Duke has pulled ahead 13-12 at the under-12 media timeout.

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9:25 P.M.

The sexy matchup of the night is Frank Kaminsky, the Badgers' AP player of the year, against Jahlil Okafor, who many think will be the No. 1 pick in June's NBA draft.

As expected, the two centers dueled each other early on.

Kaminsky struck first when he popped to the top of the key to hit a 3-pointer, then drewa charge on Okafor at the other end. The Blue Devils' freshman star answered a minute later with an easy basket in the paint, his first of the night.

Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan had to go to his bench first when senior guard Josh Gasser appeared to lose a contact lens in the opening minutes. Traevon Jackson took his place.

Duke led 6-5 at the first media timeout. The stoppage came after a ball was tipped out of bounds, not far from where former news anchor Tom Brokaw was sitting.

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9:10 P.M.

Wisconsin was introduced first as the fourth of the No. 1 seeds, running to the floor through a wall of smoke amid rockets and fireworks. The Badgers are in their road red uniforms for Monday night's game.

Duke followed in its