a head coaching position there. As of now, the Wild has one vacant assistant position and one video coaching position. Veteran assistant Rick Wilson has one year left on his deal, and with his vast experience, technical expertise and solid work with the Wild last season, it would be surprising if he is not retained.

Yeo's coaching career began in the AHL at age 25 in 1999 when he became Glenn Patrick's assistant in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. In came Therrien in 2003, and the two were promoted to Pittsburgh in 2005 when Ed Olczyk was fired. Yeo was only 32.

That was Sidney Crosby's rookie year, and Yeo and Crosby grew close, Shero said, because of an immense mutual respect.

Shero believes coaching such gifted players, plus coaching players even older thanLast updated on .From the section Formula 1

The high-profile new track that will host the inaugural Indian Grand Prix on Sunday won almost universal praise after drivers experienced it on Friday.

The Buddh International Circuit, outside Delhi, has several elevation changes and a high average speed.

"The ideas are different," said Ferrari's Felipe Massa, the fastest man in practice. "I really enjoyed it."

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton added: "It's a nice, beautiful flowing circuit. I think they've done a really good job."

The track has been configured by F1's favoured architect Hermann Tilke, who has often been accused of producing uninspiring circuits, such as those in China, Valencia and Abu Dhabi.

But there were few complaints from the drivers after they sampled his newest creation for the first time.

On Friday, Massa's fastest lap was


1 corners," said the Australian, who clocked the fifth fastest time.

"There are quick left-rights, Turn Three is a unique corner, it's very slow but it's uphill and quite extreme on the elevation. Turn Four is also not straightforward, so they're both challenging."

As the drivers tested their limits on the untried asphalt on Friday many of them ran off track but only Toro Rosso's Jaime Alguersuari and Virgin's Jerome d'Ambrosio crashed out.

Hamilton, who had set the fastest time in first practice, added: "The grip level seems great.

The high-speed Buddh International Circuit was designed by Hermann Tilke

"The kerbs are some of the best we've had compared to all the circuits, nice rumble strips that you can actually drive on."

Massa finished the day as the fastest man, with a best timeof one minute 25.706 seconds and the Brazilian says his experience bodes well for Sunday's inaugural grand prix.

"The track is very nice; some uphill, some downhill, some high-speed corners," he said. "It can make the race very challenging for the drivers."

India sealed a deal to bring F1 to the world's second most populous nation four years ago and the event is being funded by private company Jaypee Group, rather than being supported by the government.

The circuit has been planned as the centrepiece of a sports complex outside Greater Noida, a new city 25 miles outside the capital Delhi, and it sits amid flat farmland - which means dust is inevitable.

quote It was not good to see animals running on the track. That can be very dangerous

"It's very dusty


2009, and after his run in first practice for Team Lotus he was proud of what had been achieved.

"I came here a year-and-a-half ago and this was an empty, barren, flat piece of land," he recalled.

"All these elevation changes were not there, and they were still excavating them, so to come here now complete the circle. It's very special."The Warriors are exactly who we thought they were. After almost eight months of trying to believe in the Houston Rockets and praising LeBron James, we’ve reached the same conclusion for the second straight year: The Warriors are world champs. They beat the Cleveland Cavaliers for the third time in the past four NBA Finals, but did so this time in only four games.

Now Golden State will head into yet another offseason with an eye toward keeping the title train rolling. But there are some questions ahead, including the most essential one: How long can the Warriors keep their Hall of Fame core together? Here are the first-world problems that front-office executives in the Bay Area will be dealing with in the not-too-distant future:

How Will the Warriors Fix


Their Depth?

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A team missing 34-year-old Andre Iguodala should not have looked as discombobulated as the Warriors did at times in the six games he missed during the final two rounds of the playoffs. The Warriors had depth problems this season that weren’t fully exposed until they faced off against a Houston team designed to beat them. The Omri Casspi signing backfired, and Quinn Cook (who replaced Casspi on the roster) had little, if any, impact against Houston. Nick Young went from a heat-check signing to a necessary backup. Golden State could also barely play David West, Zaza Pachulia, JaVale McGee, and rookie Jordan Bell against a Rockets team that found its most success with 6-foot-6 P.J.any time soon. General manager Bob Myers has a surprisingly tough task ahead for a team with four All-Stars in their primes.

Will Kevin Durant Reconsider Not Taking a Pay Cut?

ESPN reported in April that Durant would be opting out of the $26 million owed to him for next season in favor of entering free agency this summer and restructuring his deal with the Warriors. (Durant confirmed to ESPN’s Rachel Nichols this week that he is indeed staying with the Warriors.) The message was clear: Durant is not taking another pay cut. Durant, 29, took $10 million less than what he could have when he signed a two-year deal with the Warriors in 2016, which allowed the Warriors to retain key role players like Iguodala and Shaun Livingston and


out, but the middle class, and even reformists, have so far sat on the sidelines. Some fear a repeat of the brutal crackdown that ended the Green Movement, which challenged a dubious presidential election in 2009. Others worry that the protests, which lack organisation, could get out of control. Indeed, they did in a few towns, where police opened fire. Over 20 people have been killed.

Once again, the Guards have proved that they are the regime’s backbone. The authorities switched off messaging apps, such as Telegram (which has 40m Iranian subscribers and was the protesters’ main way of communicating), and VPNs, which had offered a backdoor to the internet. The Guards hope to exploit the discontent with Mr Rouhani to secure political gains. Living standards, they remind Iranians,have fallen under this president, but improved when their man, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was in office (during a time of high oil prices). When the 78-year-old supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dies, they will probably have the whiphand in determining who succeeds him.

Mr Rouhani, by contrast, has been weakened. The unrest has tarnished his image and dented his own hopes of replacing Mr Khamenei. He seems stumped by Iran’s economic problems and may try to buy his way back into the good graces of the public with increased spending. His greatest success, the nuclear deal of 2015, has brought oil-based growth, but not the kind of broad development that he promised. Under the agreement, Iran agreed to curb its nuclear programme in exchange for America and other foreign powers


'Trojan Horse' governor appeals against school ban Published duration 15 March 2017

image caption Tahir Alam has launched an appeal against the ban

A former chairman of governors has launched an appeal to overturn a ban imposed on him over an alleged "Trojan Horse" Muslim takeover plot in schools.

Tahir Alam was banned from involvement in schools by the Department for Education (DfE) in September 2015.

Officials ruled he had engaged in conduct aimed at undermining fundamental British values.

Mr Alam, the former head of governors for Park View Education Trust, has always denied any wrongdoing.

A specialist tribunal began analysing appeal evidence on Wednesday.

Lawyers representing the Education Secretary Justine Greening said the ban was "appropriate" and should not be "revoked."

Martin Chamberlain QC said Mr Alam had "espoused a conservative, intolerant and narrow faith-basedmaandag 23 april 2012

Kim Kardashian Dons Nephew Mason's Hat As She Gets a Sloppy Kiss

When not covered in flour on the red carpet, it's fair to say Kim Kardashian always looks the part.And yesterday - as the assailant behind the attack was identified as a staunch PETA activist - Kim did her best to distract herself from the unravelling furore by posing for a cute snap with her nephew.The 31-year-old reality star - who was pelted with cooking powder at a Hollywood event last week over her love of fur - tweeted a very sweet picture of herself sharing a sloppy kiss with two-year-old Mason.

Pucker up: Kim Kardashian shares a kiss with her toddler nephew Mason Disick, while donning his hat, and tweeted the picture to her fans

Wearing


a bright pink jacket, and donning his woolly hat, Kim posted the accompanying message: 'Traded his hat for a kiss!'Mason - the son of Kim's pregnant sister Kourtney - removed his dummy as his aunty leaned in to steal a kiss.

Yesterday the person who flour bombed her was identified as influential PETA member, Christina Cho who has acted up in the past.

Casual style: Kim was spotted out in Los Angeles today heading to the hair salon

It came after the animal rights charity denied having any involvement in the incident.Following the revelation, Kim's sister Khloe - who has supported anit fur campaigns for PETA in the past - severed ties with the organisation, saying she was appalled at its 'bullying' tactics. A PETA representative told MailOnline yesterday: 'We haveMy name is Mateusz Twardoch, I'm from Warsaw, Poland. I was born in 1987. Through my dreams and symbols I go from very personal feelings to a complete piece of work, the reception of which is frequently different for various people. I do not want to obtrude one meaning, or any specific meaning of my paintings. I make them for others to think, be part of my dream, to pursue a symbol. I want my art to be spiritual, calm and personal. By its means I wish to study the subconscious and the very meaning of symbols.

In my early years I learned basics of drawing from my grandfather, who was a traditional painter, a cartoonist and a mentor for me. In 1998 I started my first drawing lessons


in a local community centre, and I took some of these through my teen years, but basicly I'm a self-taught person, finding inspiration in my dreams, mythologies and women. I’ve graduated from The Jagiellonian University in Cracow, on the History of Arts Institute in 2011. My works were published in various art magazines such as The Alarmist Magazine, or Last Laugh Magazine, and via artistic social media as Beautiful Bizarre Magiazine, or Weird Tales Magazine. Besides of painting I used to work with fashion designers, and scenographers. I had seventeen exhibitions so far, including 3 idiosyncratic, complete series (Dream Frames, Fairytale of Symbols, and Pantheon of Thrills).the court found White guilty and sentenced him to the penitentiary for a term of 99 years.
On this writ of error the defendant does not question the sufficiency of the evidence to establish his guilt beyond *25 a reasonable doubt. The testimony offered by the prosecution, if believed, established that he shot and killed one policeman, and wounded another, in an effort to escape from police custody when he was arrested while attempting to cash a bad check. The defendant denied firing any shots and testified that the deceased policeman was shot accidentally while he and the policeman who had arrested him were scuffling. After the shooting the defendant stayed overnight with Green, and then the two men drove to Michigan in Green's truck. They were separately arrested


the confession was made shall be furnished to the defendant or his counsel prior to arraignment or at such later time as the court may direct. The statute relates to a confession by the defendant himself, to a "law enforcement officer or agency," and it did not require that White be furnished with a list of the persons present when Green made the statement in question.
Of more importance is the fact that officer Anderson's testimony was inadmissible against White, whether or not White had been furnished with a list of witnesses, because so far as White was concerned it was hearsay. (See People *26 v. Clark, 17 Ill.2d 486, 490.) The trial judge specifically ruled that this evidence was admissible only as to Green, and that he wouldNevertheless, White made no motion for a severance, and, so far as the record shows, he made no effort to ascertain the content of Green's statement. Under these circumstances, it was not error to admit the testimony of officer Anderson as to Green's statement.
Finally, the defendant asserts that evidence of his prior convictions should not have been introduced into evidence. He had been furnished with a copy of his own written confession, and had moved to suppress it. He testified in support of that motion, and to impeach his credibility his prior criminal record was put before the court by stipulation. Upon the trial he testified in his own defense, and again there was a stipulation as to his prior criminal record. The confession was not offered in


evidence at the trial, and the defendant now contends that because the trial judge had been made aware of his prior criminal record during the hearing on the motion to suppress, he was forced to take the witness stand upon the trial, and was thereby prejudiced. No such contention was advanced in the trial court, however, where the defendant's criminal record was twice stipulated. It is not persuasive now. The statute upon which the defendant relies in support of his other contentions required the prosecution to make known the existence of the confession. The motion to suppress and the hearing upon that motion followed. The fact that the motion to suppress was denied did not require the prosecution to offer the confession in evidence.
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The film ends with Terrier, recovered and released from prison, reuniting with Annie in the DRC.

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GOP fights to keep Texas red amid rifts

Dr. Shahid Shafi speaks before members of the State Republican Executive Committee following a vote in favor of resolution that opposes an effort by the Tarrant County Republican Party to remove him as vice chair because of his religion in 2018. Email exchanges involving county Republican leaders in Texas reveal efforts to remove Shafi, a party vice chairman because he's Muslim. (Amanda Voisard/Austin American-Statesman via AP) less Dr. Shahid Shafi speaks before members of the State Republican Executive Committee following a vote in favor of resolution that opposes an effort by the Tarrant County Republican Party to remove him as vice ... more Photo: Amanda Voisard, MBO / Associated Press Photo: Amanda Voisard, MBO / Associated Press Image 1 of /9 Caption Close GOP fights to keep Texas red amid rifts 1 / 9 Back to Gallery

SOUTHLAKE, Texas - He was called a terrorist and a stealth jihadi out to impose a system of Islamic law on the naive and unsuspecting citizens of suburban Texas.

Some days, Shahid Shafi thought about quitting, rather than enduring a campaign by ultra-right-wing conservatives to oust him from his Republican Party leadership post because he is a Muslim.

But Shafi prevailed, retaining his position as vice chairman of the Tarrant County GOP and becoming a symbol of religious freedom. He's now a sought-after speaker and a rising star in the party, with Republicans Gov. Greg Abbott and Sen. Ted Cruz among his high-profile supporters.

"To grow our party, we need to add conservative Americans of


Israel and 9/11 have stirred controversy and prompted retaliatory tweets from the president, including a video this weekend that combined footage of Omar and the twin towers - highly charged images that many view as Islamaphobic and fear could endanger Omar's life.

In Tarrant County, home to 2 million people just west of Dallas, Republicans have remained divided since the January vote on Shafi's future. Peacemaking attempts have faltered, donations have declined and each side plans to oust the other in precinct elections next year.

The fissure has only deepened the ideological fault line between traditional "big tent" Republicans and the "America First" camp, at least in this part of North Texas. Tarrant County historically has been one of the most reliably red urban counties in Texas, but its voterswent for charismatic Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke over Cruz in last year's U.S. Senate race.

"It's a civil war," said James Scott Trimm, a conservative Jewish blogger who said he opposed Shafi because of his stance on Israel, not his religion.

"We're going into an election year, and with a bunch of party leaders fighting, we risk losing House races, the Senate race and the presidency, for heaven's sake," Trimm said. "At the end of the day, we need to be worried about winning Republican elections, not fighting among ourselves."

Shafi, a trauma surgeon and Pakistani immigrant, was a relatively unknown city council member here in the tony Fort Worth suburb of Southlake - where the median income is $189,432 - in July when he was appointed vice chairman of the


Tarrant County Republican Party.

The move outraged several of the party's more conservative precinct chairs who launched a contentious effort to remove him from his post. In addition to demonizing his religion, they suspected him of supporting gun control and argued that he did not go far enough in declaring support for Israel.

In January, the precinct chairs met for a final vote on Shafi, gathering in a Pentecostal church where the windows were papered over to block the TV news cameras and protesters, including one woman who wore a burqa in a show of opposition to Shafi's appointment.

They ultimately decided to allow Shafi to keep his leadership position by a vote of 139 to 49. A beaming Shafi told reporters that the vote reaffirmed his belief "in my partyand my country."

As part of the party leadership's peacemaking effort, Trimm - one of Shafi's most vocal opponents - was appointed to the recruitment committee, a move that ignited more furor among those who wanted to move on from the headline-grabbing incident. The committee chairman quit and the group was disbanded.

Major donors avoided the county party's Lincoln Day dinner, which netted only$38,000, far less than the approximately $150,000 it made in other years, according to party officials.

Now some of the Tarrant49ers, as Shafi's opponents call themselves after the 49 votes against him, seek retribution. They have set their sights on defeating Shafi's supporters, taking control of the party and shifting it to the right.

Over iced tea at a suburban mall cafe, one of the group's leaders, Dorrie O'Brien,


said the Tarrant49ers do not oppose Shafi only because he is Muslim, but for a whole host of reasons, including that he has not strongly voiced his support of Israel or the Second Amendment.

O'Brien, a precinct chairwoman and an editor of romance and science-fiction novels, said she believes Shafi is part of a global conspiracy to impose Islam's moral code of sharia law on the United States and that he is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood - the transnational Islamist group long accused of extremist ties.

Her primary piece of evidence, she says, is that Shafi once attended an interfaith Ramadan dinner in Dallas with others she presumes are members of the Brotherhood.

"It's stealth jihad. It's soft jihad," she said. "He's never going to pull out a swordand cut my head off. He's not going to hurt anybody physically. He's an influencer. The damage he does is by normalizing this ideology, making it look good and safe, and it's not."

Shafi smiles when asked about these allegations, which he has denied.

"Listen, I'm an immigrant to this country, and I've faced far worse adversity," he said. "There was a time when I didn't have enough to eat. At the same time, I've found a lot of opportunities as well."

Shafi arrived in the United States in 1990 as a newly minted doctor. After he was rejected by the first 100 surgery programs to which he applied, he pursued a master's degree in public health at Johns Hopkins University. During those lean years, he said, he found that he


could stave off hunger with one small order of salty McDonald's french fries if he drank enough water.

He underwent surgical training at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and the University of Pennsylvania before he and his wife, Ayesha, a radio executive, moved to Texas to start a family. They joined a tide of other immigrants who have made the Dallas-Fort Worth area the nation's fourth-largest enclave of Muslims.

Shafi said he was inspired to join the Republican Party shortly after he became a U.S. citizen in 2009, drawn to its message of small government after a childhood spent in Karachi under a military rule.

When he decided to run for city council in 2011, friends and family warned him that voters in Texas would never accept a Muslim inpost-9/11 America, but "I never believed it," he said. "I've always been welcomed with open arms and warm hearts in the Republican Party."

When he finally won the seat in 2014, bigotry trailed him, even in that first flush of victory. Shortly after the election, a school board member in a nearby community wrote on her Facebook page: "YOU NOW HAVE A 'MUSLIM' on the City Council!!! What A SHAME!!!!!"

The woman later apologized.

Analysts say the Texas Republican Party is at a critical juncture heading into the 2020 presidential election, with the possibility that an increasingly diverse population will make Texas a swing state. So far the risk is remote, but the number of people of color in Texas is rising. According to the Texas Demographic Center, people of color


emboldened some of the more extreme members of the party.

"There is a tension here because President Trump has been very outspoken," said Matthew Wilson, an associate professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas and an expert in religion and politics. "I think the statewide and broader Republican leadership wanted to powerfully send the message of religious tolerance, that Islam is not a disqualifier for patriotism. It's a bad look for the party to appear hostile to that.

Shafi declined to say whether he voted for Trump - "that's between him and me" - or whether he supports the Trump administration's travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries or the $5 billion for the border wall with Mexico. He would say only that he believes in "securing the border by any meansnecessary."

Among the supporters that the Tarrant49ers have targeted for defeat is Lisa Grimaldi Abdulkareem, 42, a paralegal and a party precinct chairwoman. Abdulkareem is a Christian married to an Iraqi who served as a translator for American troops during the Iraq War.

When Abdulkareem, 42, spoke up in support of Shafi, she became the victim of an online hate campaign, with her home address leaked. Despite years working for conservative candidates, Abdulkareem was targeted by the anti-Islam website UnderstandingTheThreat.com, which described her as "another jihadi-defending Muslim working inside the Republic [sic] party. Someone wake up the GOP in Texas!!!"

Abdulkareem said she feels that the episode could become a point of change for mainstream Republicans in her state.

"For a long time, they didn't think this small group of people would


Davis made some plays inside and finished the game with five tackles and a sack.

8. Despite being a versatile backup, center Ryan Jensen had arguably the most embarrassing play of the evening when he was completely pancaked back into running back Kenneth Dixon on a third-and-goal play from the 1-yard line early in the fourth quarter. Not a good look.

9. Rookie edge rusher Matt Judon impressed for the second straight week, collecting another sack and showing a promising combination of strength and quickness. The Grand Valley State product is still raw, but you can see why the Ravens were so happy to land him in the fifth round.

10. Known for his deep-threat ability at Cincinnati, Chris Moore ran crisp routes and showed strong hands in catching three passesthird-year lineman John Urschel still the favorite to take Kelechi Osemele’s old left guard spot.

Of course, the wide receiver position is difficult to project with Smith and 2015 first-round pick Breshad Perriman still on the PUP list, but Michael Campanaro has practiced well while staying healthy so far, making a strong case to see time in the slot. Maxx Williams being listed fourth among the tight ends reflects how deep that position is.

Buck Allen is listed as the primary backup to Justin Forsett at running back, but Terrance West can further improve his case for a bigger role if he can build on an impressive training camp with good showings in the preseason.

With Suggs and Dumervil still absent, Za’Darius Smith and Albert McClellan have handled starting outside linebacker


on practice and game reps, giving fans and media a worthwhile snapshot.

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The Ravens are holding their first organized team activities this week and with them come plenty of questions as on-field preparations begin for the 2016 season.

Few conclusions can be drawn from the voluntary workouts that will be conducted without a number of veterans, but the practices will provide an early look at some players returning from injuries as well as rookies competing with established NFL talent for the first time. Thursday’s workout will be open to media to conclude the first week.

Coming off their worst season in nearly a decade, the Ravens have plenty of jobs up for grabs on both sides of the ball.

The reality:FREE AGENTS

These players have two or fewer accrued seasons in the league and own no negotiating rights. In order for the Ravens to retain the rights to these players, they must tender contracts at the league minimum based on their service time in the NFL. Though it’s not a certainty, the Ravens generally tender all exclusive-rights players since their contracts are not guaranteed for the 2016 season.

WR Jeremy Butler: STAYS Skinny: Butler was quite productive in a lost season for the Ravens, catching 31 passes for 363 yards, and is on the radar to make the 2016 roster as a reserve receiver and special-teams player.

WR Kaelin Clay: STAYS Skinny: His 82-yard punt return for a touchdown in Cleveland was a highlight, and the Utah product is a strong


candidate to serve as the Ravens’ return specialist in 2016.

OL Ryan Jensen: STAYS Skinny: The 2013 sixth-round pick held his own in six starts last season and is projected to compete with John Urschel for the starting left guard job in training camp.

RB Terrence Magee: STAYS Skinny: Given the names ahead of him on the depth chart and the Ravens’ interest in Trent Richardson, Magee figures to be a long shot to make the 53-man roster.

WR Chris Matthews: STAYS Skinny: The Super Bowl XLIX standout caught a touchdown against Pittsburgh in Week 16 and will be in the mix competing for a roster spot in training camp.

CB Sheldon Price: STAYS Skinny: Promoted to the 53-man roster in the final week of the season, the 6-foot-2 corner will competecommitment to getting better while competing for a roster spot.

DB Jermaine Whitehead: STAYS Skinny: Signed off San Francisco’s practice squad in late December, the Auburn product is just another name to throw into the secondary mix.

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Annually fielding one of the finest special-teams groups in the NFL, the Ravens have reportedly re-signed one of the key members of Jerry Rosburg’s units.

Baltimore has agreed to a multiyear deal with veteran linebacker Albert McClellan, according to The Sun. The 29-year-old was set to become an unrestricted free agent next week, but he will instead remain with the team that signed him as a rookie free agent out of Marshall in 2010.

McClellan has led the Ravens in special-teams tackles


in three of his five NFL seasons and has served as a reserve at inside and outside linebacker throughout his career. In 74 career games (13 starts), he has collected 111 tackles, two sacks, two forced fumbles, and three pass breakups.

Counting the 2010 season in which he was a member of the practice squad, McClellan is tied with long snapper Morgan Cox and tight end Dennis Pitta for having the sixth-longest active tenure with Baltimore. Only outside linebacker Terrell Suggs, punter Sam Koch, guard Marshal Yanda, quarterback Joe Flacco, and defensive back Lardarius Webb have been with the Ravens longer.

Though terms of the contract were unknown as of Tuesday afternoon, McClellan received a $1 million base salary for the 2015 season and would likely be an affordable signingDenver would give them the No. 2 seed that they covet. They could also get the second seed without beating Baltimore if the Broncos lose and Kansas City defeats Oakland at home.

The only Ravens player listed as questionable on the final injury report, reserve linebacker and special-teams standout Albert McClellan (ankle) was deactivated for the third straight game.

Rookie fourth-round cornerback Tray Walker was also inactive for the eighth time in 16 games, making it clear that this will be a big offseason for his development and standing in the organization.

The Bengals had no surprises among their inactives as starting quarterback Andy Dalton (thumb) was already ruled out at the beginning of the week. AJ McCarron will be making his third consecutive start for the AFC North champions.

These teams


Asian Ethnic Television Stations Air Ground-Breaking Public Service Announcements for LGBT Pride Month

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13.9 million viewers in 8 Asian languages and dialects

The National Queer Asian Pacific IslanderAlliance (NQAPIA) is launching a national multilingual campaign to promote acceptance of LGBT individuals in Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.

In the first media campaign of its kind, Asian parents break a tradition of silence to voice unconditional love and support for their LGBT children in a series of Public Service Announcements (PSA) scheduled for broadcast on Asian ethnic television stations throughout June for LGBT Pride Month. Airing in 8 Asian languages and dialects, the PSA’s will reach potentially 13.9 million viewers in major Asian markets across the country.

An accompanying leaflet entitled, “Family Is Still Family, Love IsStill Love” addresses fundamental questions about sexual orientation and identity. The leaflet dispels common misconceptions and is available in nineteen (19) Asian languages and scripts -- the greatest number of translations of a single LGBT document. NQAPIA collaborated with the Asian Pride Project and parents to produce culturally appropriate materials in response to an absence of role models and resources for Asian communities.

The campaign is particularly timely as the US Supreme Court weighs arguments surrounding marriage equality. According to a 2012 Asian American Legal Defense & Education Fund report, only 37% of Asian Americans polled support same-sex marriage while nearly two thirds are opposed or undecided. The strongest opposition comes from those who are older and foreign-born with limited English proficiency -- a common profile of Asian immigrant


story of love and acceptance for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children. After all, family is still family and love is still love.

Co-director Suma Reddy of Asian Pride Project states, “Our campaign not only empowers immigrant parents, but also LGBT youth struggling to come out to their families. We are raising the visibility of supportive Asian parents and family members so they can act as catalysts for acceptance within their communities.”

About the Sponsoring Organizations

The National Queer Asian Pacific IslanderAlliance (NQAPIA) is a federation of LGBT Asian American, South Asian, Southeast Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI)organizations. We seek to build the organizational capacity of local LGBT AAPIgroups, develop leadership, and expand collaborations to better challenge homophobia and racism.

Asian Pride Project (APP) recognizes the value and importance of family alliance- Stephen Bury, and I am the
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I'd like to welcome you to the third
Digital Art History Lab Lecture.
Today we are very pleased to have
as our lecturer Rick Johnson.
In 1977, Rick received a PhD in
electrical engineering
from Stanford University
along with the first PhD minor in
Art History granted by Stanford.
Following four years on the
faculty at Virginia Tech,
he joined Cornell University in 1981
where he is the Geoffrey S.M. Hedrick
Senior Professor of Engineering,
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Fellow in Computational
Art History at Cornell Tech.
In 2007, in collaboration
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He has also worked on other computational
art history projects supported by
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Museum of Modern Art,
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to have I think a big portrait for
the victory parade back in Madrid,
I'm not sure I've got all the facts right,
but anyway, the king is painted
and a courtier is painted by Velazquez.
Now he painted, he liked to paint
a courtier before he painted
one of the royal families.
Essentially they had, it turns out
at that time that the courtiers
in the 17th century court in Spain,
many of them were dwarfs
as like a jester factor.
Oddly enough, the documentation for which
dwarf it was had been burned in some
fire in the archives or
something like there.
So there had been this debate going on
for 20 years about which dwarf it was.
And I happened to be talking, where's Joe?
Maybe he had to go, JoeHundreds of Egyptians protested around the country on Tuesday, blocking roads and surrounding government offices, after a change to the way bread rations are managed raised fears that the government was cutting food subsidies by the back door.

Bread subsidies are an explosive issue in Egypt, where more than 70 million people receive state rations.

Core inflation in the country has soared above 30 percent since Egypt floated its currency in November, securing a $12 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund to support a government austerity programme.

Protests began on Monday after changes to a bread subsidy scheme left some people without their ration.

Unrest grew on Tuesday, with angry crowds gathering in the port city of Alexandria, in at least one poor Cairo neighbourhood, and several other cities across


French officials accuse US of hacking Sarkozy’s computers

“The United States used U.S.-Israeli spy software to hack into the French presidential office earlier this year, the French cyberwarfare agency has concluded, according to the newsmagazine l’Express.

The magazine reported late Tuesday that the computers of several close advisers to then-president Nicolas Sarkozy – including Chief of Staff Xavier Musca – were compromised in May by a computer virus that bears the hallmarks of Flame, which was allegedly created by a U.S.-Israeli team to target Iran’s nuclear program. Anonymous French officials pointed the finger at the United States.”

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moms who come out with their struggles brings more visibility to the challenges of motherhood. On the other hand, status and visibility can work to derail public understanding. Ann Coulter said pot makes users “retarded” in a rant at Politicon in July 2017. Around the same time, Portland mom Kayla Marlow posted an image of herself on her Facebook page smoking a bong while breastfeeding, which drew a massive backlash, even from some in the pot and parenting community.

Jenn Lauder and her husband run a pot and parenting lifestyle website, Splimm. A Wesleyan graduate and former school teacher, Lauder speaks intelligently on cannabis from a highly informed perspective. When the photo of Marlow went viral, Lauder was asked for her thoughts by a local news station covering theNVIDIA's Tesla GPUs are already mainstays in supercomputers that need specialized processing power, and they're becoming even more important now that the company is launching its first Tesla built for large-scale projects. The new K40 accelerator only has 192 more processing cores than its K20x ancestor (2,880, like the GeForce GTX 780 Ti), but it crunches analytics and science numbers up to 40 percent faster. A jump to 12GB of RAM, meanwhile, helps it handle data sets that are twice as big as before. The K40 is already available in servers from NVIDIA's partners, and the University of Texas at Austin plans to use it in Maverick, a remote visualization supercomputer that should be up and running by January.

As part of the K40 rollout, NVIDIA has also revealed


The Ajax mine was one of the more productive mines in the Cripple Creek – Victor District and one of the last significant underground operations. The headframe and other surface buildings stand on the lower slopes of Squaw Mountain just to the northwest of the center of Victor. In the mid 1970’s, after 15 years of dormancy and shortly after the price of gold was deregulated, an attempt was made to bring the Ajax Mine back into production. In the fall of 1977 this author had a chance to tour the mine, help measure some stopes and collect a few chips from a newly opened vein.

Activity at the time was focused on the 3100 foot level. On 3100 there were several old stopes that were being investigated aspotential producers. In a short drift just off one of the main haulage ways a new vein had been exposed. I was impressed by how non-descript it looked, not really sheeted but more like jointing. However, on close inspection, the surfaces of some of the fractures were coated by thin layers of gray, almost flinty silica upon which were implanted small silvery crystals of calaverite. Other surfaces were coated with small crystals of calcite, a few tiny purple fluorite cubes and sparcely scattered calaverite. Since this area was just beyond the margin of the Cripple Creek volcanic basin the country rock was granitic. There didn’t seem to be any visible alteration of the country rock.

Very near the short drift on the new vein was the terminus of the


Carlton drainage tunnel. This tunnel was driven just before WWII to enhance the drainage of the deeper workings in the Victor area. At the entrance to the tunnel were two simple, swinging metal doors with a gap of a few inches beneath their lower edges and a small amount of water running under them. Looking down the tunnel, it was so straight that it was possible to see the portal, a star-like pinpoint of light over 6 miles away.

Part of the normal equipment carried around in the Ajax Mine was a safety lamp of the type more common in the coal industry. In the Ajax Mine its purpose was not to detect methane but carbon dioxide. The day I worked underground was during a period of atmospheric highlevel, the NAACP and other groups were turning attention to state capitols in the aftermath of the Zimmerman acquittal.

Jealous, who said civil rights supporters were “outraged and heartbroken” by the jury verdict, coupled his announcement of the petition with a call for the outlawing of racial profiling and a renewed commitment to “fight for the removal of Stand Your Ground laws in every state.”

Florida passed its “stand your ground” law in 2005. Since then, at the behest of the National Rifle Association and the American Legislative Exchange Council, variations on the legislation—which allows individuals who say they believe themselves to be in imminent danger to use deadly force—have been enacted by state legislatures across the country. After the killing of Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012, as media


Qualifying on March 30 for season opener of four-race series in Baja California, Mexico

to be televised internationally; Start Draw to be held on Thursday, March 16

ENSENADA, Mexico – Celebrating another decade of excellence, seeing if one of three racers can win the overall title for the fourth time as well as starting and finishing for the first time on the Malecon in the heart of town are just three of the story lines awaiting racers from around the world as racer registration has opened for the 31st Annual SCORE San Felipe 250 in Baja California, Mexico.

The season-opening event of the four-race internationally-televised 2017 SCORE World Desert Championship will be held March 29-April 2 in San Felipe, the quaint fishing village on the Sea of Cortez, 125 miles southof the U.S. Border at Calexico, Calif.
The year of 2017 also marks the 50th anniversary celebration of the legendary season-ending SCORE Baja 1000, the iconic Granddaddy of all Desert Races to be held in mid-November. The SCORE Baja 1000 is the longest continuously held desert race in the world.

THREE DECADES-PLUS

Celebrating the 31st anniversary of the youngest of the three legendary SCORE Baja races, sometimes referred to as the SCORE ‘baby Baja’, entries are being accepted on the SCORE website (www.SCOREInternational.com) for Pro and Sportsman entries for cars, trucks, UTVs, motorcycles and quads. Pre-race festivities will be held in San Felipe on March 29, March 30 and March 31 with race day on Saturday, April 1 concluding with the post-race awards fiesta at 10 a.m. PT on Sunday, April


overall wins each in this race.

A second generation Mexican desert racer, Vildosola Jr of Mexicali has five class wins in this race including in the No. 21 Vildosola Racing Branix Ford Raptor SCORE Trophy Truck.

Vildosola Jr, with help from his father Gus Sr in 2013 won his first overall. He drove solo the next two years to tie the record in 2015 of three straight overall wins set by Las Vegas racing brothers Ed Herbst and Tim Herbst who won three straight in 1999, 2000 and 2001.

Two other Southern Nevada drivers have three overall wins in San Felipe but not three straight.

One is Las Vegas’ Brian Collins, who won his first in 1990 in Class 1 while splitting driving time with SCORE Baja motorcycle racing legend Jack Johnson,also of Las Vegas. Collins also captured two straight in SCORE Trophy Truck in 2008 and 2009.

The other three-timer in overall victories is Las Vegas’ Rob MacCachren, who has eight class wins in San Felipe and won his three overalls in the featured SCORE Trophy Truck division. MacCachren’s first was in 2007 when his split the driving with Mark Post and his most recent overalls in San Felipe were solo wins in 2011 and 2012. MacCachren, who has won three straight overall victories in the SCORE Baja 1000, drives the No. 11 MacCachren Motorsports Rockstar Ford F-150.

MOTORCYCLE MAGIC

Among the SCORE Overall motorcycles winners at the SCORE San Felipe 250 no one has done it any better than SCORE Baja legend Johnny Campbell who recorded seven overall motorcycle victories


for Honda (1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008).

History clearly shows that the SCORE San Felipe 250 has been a major building block for many of the world’s all-time greatest desert racers in addition to being the lovable baby brother of the three traditional SCORE Baja races.

Host to the biggest and brightest stars in the history of desert racing, legends like Ivan Stewart, Walker Evans, Roger Mears, Rod Hall, Larry Ragland, Brian Collins, Dan Smith, Curt LeDuc, Danny Hamel, Johnny Campbell, Juan Carlos Ibarra, Steve Hengeveld and Greg Row all are part of the foundation of this rustic race.

This is a tale of a race told in two parts. It was first run in 1982 for three years through 1984.

It wasn’t held during the first five yearsin the seven-year run of the combined HDRA/SCORE Desert Racing Series as it resumed in 1990. It almost disappeared after the 1993 race when the combined series split and the SCORE San Felipe 250 had just 82 total starters.

It bounced back though, as all good things in Baja do, climbing to 250 or more starters seven times, including twice with over 300 starters.

The largest starting field was 394 in 2007 when then SCORE President Sal Fish had to move the race to Ensenada less than two weeks before the race because of disputes between land owners and government officials. That race started in Ensenada and finished in Santo Tomas, south of Ensenada.

The largest starting field for the race when it was run in San Felipe was 2006 when


341 vehicles left the start line.

The most finishers in this shortest of the three traditional SCORE Baja races were in 2007 when 288 completed it and 2006 when 220 crossed the finish line within the time limit.

Like all of the SCORE Baja race courses, the SCORE San Felipe 250 has always featured some of the most start, dramatic and awe-inspiring terrain and scenery in the world. Infamous for its punishment to racer and vehicle, part of the courses has included a whoop section of over 25 miles virtually like driving over a washboard.

Over the years, this race has seen parts of its courses go through several of the legendary Baja washes like Matomi, Huatomote, Chanate, Azufre, Cuevitas and Amarillas.

For many years, the start and finish line area wasbeneath the fabled San Felipe Arches landmark on the outskirts of town.

MULTI WINNERS

The all-time leader in class wins in the SCORE San Felipe 250 is motorcycle age-group racer Jim O’Neal who has competed in all 30 previous races, winning his class a record 16 times.

Second in class wins is Eric Solorzano who has won 10 times in Class 11 (stock VW Sedan) while third is Donald Moss who won nine times in 10 years in Class 3 in his sturdy Ford Bronco (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013).

Tied for third in class wins with eight each are SCORE Baja motorcycle racing legend Johnny Campbell, Rob MacCachren and Dan Smith who first won in 1984 on a motorcycle and won his final one in 2002 in


SCORE Trophy Truck, teaming with David Ashley.

VIVA GANADOR MEXICANO

Juan C. Ibarra became the first Mexican national to win a SCORE Trophy Truck race when he won his class in 1998 while finishing second overall to the Class 1 team of Mark Post/Jerry Whelchel in the SCORE San Felipe 250.

EL BANCO

For three decades, the annual motorsports festival that has brought the largest economic impact of any single event held annually in this lightly-populated portion of the rugged, rough and bountifully beautiful Baja peninsula has been the SCORE San Felipe 250.

SCOREscope

The four-race 2017 SCORE World Desert Championship and for the second time all four are being held in Baja California, Mexico. Here is the 2017 SCORE World Desert Championship schedule:

For the last three years, all races in the four-race SCOREWorld Desert Championship, along with the special SEMA SCORE Baja 1000 Experience and qualifying for the SCORE Baja 1000 from Las Vegas Motor Speedway have aired in the USA and Canada on the CBS Sports Network. The spectacular shows have featured not only SCORE Trophy Truck coverage, but also top action and highlights from many other classes of trucks, cars, UTVs, motorcycles and quads.

Capping off the 2016 broadcast season, the SCORE Baja 1000 broadcast on CBS Sports Network aired as a full two-hour special for the second straight year.

CBS Sports Network is available across the country through local cable, video and telco providers and via satellite on DirecTV Channel 221 and Dish Network Channel 158. For more information, including a full programming schedule and how to get CBS


words to thank the honest driver, Quinn gave Mohammed a cash reward in an envelope marked ‘to my best friend in the world’ and has even invited him and his wife to his home for a family meal.

“He nearly had a heart attack, he was really worried!” Mohammed said.

“He came up to me and asked if I realized what was in the bag. He was very, very thankful. He had just bought a car but forgot the bag full of money.”

Honesty

This is not the first time for Nisar, who has been a self-employed taxi driver for 15 years, to find things in the back of his car.

Only two years ago one passenger left a wallet containing £150 in, but Mohammed drove straight back to the man’s home toMcIlroy left to rue late Macc attack

27 Jan 2010 14:48:32

Stewart Drummond and Will Haining put the visitors ahead after Craig Lindfield had given the Silkmen the lead, only for Ricky Sappleton to rescue the draw with a late volley.
McIlroy, returning to his former club, believed the Shrimps could have stolen it at the death when a David Artell header was cleared off the line by Carl Tremarco.
"It's always a difficult place to come here and in the first half we simply didn't put any pressure on them," he said.
"I had to have a few words at half time and they responded magnificently with two great goals.
"I felt we could have won the game and there was a big question over Artell's header at the end which was apparently


action, counsel for the defendants, the Fish and Game Commission, advised your affiant and everyone else in the courtroom that he was hurrying to catch an airplane to attend a football game. Your affiant believes that the football game in question was scheduled for the following day in Moscow, Idaho. From that time forward, your affiant did not again see counsel for the defendants, the Fish and Game Commission, anywhere on or about or near the courthouse in Caldwell, Idaho.
In the early afternoon following the submission of the case to the jury, the bailiff requested that I see the District Judge. When I arrived at the District Judge's chambers, Judge Dunlap was standing outside with a note from the jury. He was asking his bailiff, clerk and reporter,have had any effect" (emphasis in original), otherwise, the judgment must be reversed. Thereafter, the majority opinion indulges in "conjecture" and speculation regarding what impact such communication might have had on the jury.
In my judgment, the majority fashions a rule which is neither necessary nor desirable considering the circumstances of the instant case. Further, I believe it will have a broad impact in the future in unnecessarily complicating the conduct of trials and will prevent the exercise of discretion by trial judges in their supervision of juries and the jury process, which considering the nature of the process must in many respects be based on practicalities and common sense.
The fashioning of the majority's rule is based in large part on, and buttressed by extensive quotations from, the case


the part of jurors, lawyers, and a trial judge, occurring prior to the rendition of a verdict, rests largely within the discretion of a trial court.
Id. at 461.
The majority places heavy reliance upon Iverson v. Pacific American Fisheries, 73 Wash.2d 973, 442 P.2d 243 (1968). Iverson is also a far cry from the case at bar. There, after retiring to consider a verdict, a jury became deadlocked at nine to three for the defendant. They so advised the trial judge and he returned the jury into open court and gave them the Washington "dynamite" instruction (presumably in the presence of counsel). They were returned to the jury room and ten minutes later returned with an eleven to one defense verdict. An application for new trial was made andRace complaint lodged over 'comfort women' statue in Australian church

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Japanese community group in Australia has lodged a legal complaint under racial vilification laws objecting to a statue commemorating Korean "comfort women" in a Sydney church, the group's president said Thursday.

The memorial, a 1.5-metre statue imported from Korea, has been a flashpoint for tensions between Korean and Japanese communities in Sydney since it was unveiled in August.

The issue of "comfort women", those who were forced to work in Japan's wartime brothels were euphemistically known, has long plagued ties between Korea and Japan.

Scholars continue to debate the number of women exploited. Activists in South Korea say there may have been as many as 200,000 Korean victims, although only 238 women have come forward and identified themselves


humiliate or intimidate" a person on the basis of "race, colour or national or ethnic origin".

The statue in Sydney, which depicts a Korean "comfort woman" sitting beside an empty chair to symbolise the victims of the prostitution programme, was erected in Sydney's Ashfield Uniting Church after Japanese groups successfully campaigned to have it prohibited from a public park.

"It's not about denigrating any country or race, anything like that," said Reverend Bill Crews. "It's saying God help these suffering women and let's move on...you're never able to move on until you acknowledge it."

In December 2015 Japan agreed to apologise and promised about one billion yen ($8.50 million) for a fund to help victims, a deal that foreign ministers from both countries said resolved the issue.in response to pressure from special interests.

“There were many Pennsylvanians, Democrats and Republicans alike, who voted for Senator Casey because he respected many of the social conservative values of Pennsylvania — on the life issue as well as the marriage issue,” president Michael Geer said. “I think many supporters of Senator Casey hoped for more from him and today are sadly disappointed.”

Casey, a Roman Catholic from Scranton, opposes abortion rights except in cases of rape, incest or when the life of the mother is in danger.

Several other Democratic senators who, like Casey, represent swing states, have recently made similar announcements.

Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican from Ohio, announced his support for gay marriage in states that choose to allow it, saying his stance began to change in 2011, when


CAMBRIDGE, England, March 30 (UPI) -- Scientists at the University of Cambridge created the first temperature map of an exoplanet. They published the map in the journal Nature this week.

The map reveals a two-faced world -- one half almost entirely molten and the other solid. Temperatures on the hot side of the exoplanet can soar upwards of 2500 degrees Celsius. Highs on the cool side max out at 1100 degrees.

Scientists plotted the map of exoplanet 55 Cancri e using temperature data collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

The data revealed an especially hot planet -- hot enough that the atmosphere of 55 Cancri e likely burned off several million years ago.

Temperature variances revealed on the planet's surface could mark unique geological features.

"The day side could possibly have rivers ofMartyn Pert: Bielsa, Shaq and my journey in football

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sent it to different teams, including a friend of mine at Peterborough United, who gave it to their youth coach, Aidy Boothroyd. He got in contact and is the one who really helped me on my way. READ MORE: Pert in, Alvarez out as Man Utd ring changes

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I got my B Licence at 23, my A Licence at 24. The brother of my youth coach at Norwich had taken over as youth development officer at Cambridge United. His name was Dan Ashworth and he gave me my first chance as Under-14 coach.

At the same time I was working for my dad, delivering potatoes for fish and chip shops, and doing some lecturing at a college.

I’d get to Cambridge at 6pm, finish at 8 and getOn a busy freeway in Sydney, the black sedan merged into the path of an oncoming truck traveling at 90km per hour and collided with the vehicle. The driver of the sedan stupidly slammed the brakes right after the first collision, causing a second one and then failed to lift her handbrake when attempting to exit her vehicle causing her car to roll back and hit the truck again.In Australia, when you are involved in an accident and your car can still move, you must safely move your vehicle off the road so that you are not a hazard to other oncoming vehicles.When the truck driver asked the female driver to move her vehicle off the road, she refused and was insistent on getting the truck drivers details.


The Seattle Seahawks have agreed to a trade that will send wide receiver Percy Harvin to the New York Jets in exchange for a conditional draft pick, FOX Sports' Jay Glazer reports.

Seattle will receive a 2015 draft pick that, based on undisclosed conditions, will range from a second-round to a fourth-round selection, according to ESPN's John Clayton.

The move certainly comes as a surprise, as the Seahawks had acquired Harvin in a trade for first, third, and seventh-round draft picks from the Minnesota Vikings in March 2013.

While he continues to be one of the NFL's most dangerous offensive weapons, the deal was a result of the Seahawks feeling Harvin was not a fit with the team, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.

Of course, the Seahawks will be looking to signFrom the beginning of 2007 through March 2007, Brooks, Greenberg,

Dantchik, Yass, and a fifth individual, Andrew Frost (Frost), were the sole

shareholders of Susquehanna International Holdings, Inc. (SIH Inc.). SIH Inc., a

Delaware corporation incorporated in 1999, was an S corporation for Federal

income tax purposes. In March 2007 SIH Inc. redeemed Frost’s shares. On or
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after March 31, 2007, Brooks, Greenberg, Dantchik, and Yass were the remaining

shareholders of SIH Inc.

      On or after April 2, 2007, Brooks, Greenberg, Dantchik, and Yass

transferred the stock of SIH Inc. to


Explorer Corp. Following the transfer, SIH

Inc. converted to a limited liability company, which was disregarded as an entity

separate from its owner for Federal income tax purposes, and changed its name to

Susquehanna International Holdings, LLC (SIH LLC). The steps of these

transactions were treated together as a reorganization under section 368(a)(1)(F).

      On April 2, 2007, SIHP was formed as a Delaware partnership. On or about

April 3, 2007, Explorer Corp. transferred SIH LLC to SIHP in exchange for a 1%

ownership interest in SIHP. Explorer Corp. is the tax matters partner for SIHP.

      From on or about April 3, 2007, through the end of tax years 2007 and 2008

five S corporations owned the remaining 99% of SIHP in varying ownership

percentages. Brooks, Greenberg,Commission. During the tax

years in issue SIHP owned indirectly certain of SIG’s international affiliates.

      SIHL and SEHL

      From on or about January 1, 2007, to on or about April 2, 2007, SIH Inc.

owned 100% of the stock of Susquehanna Ireland Holdings Limited (SIHL), a

corporation organized under the laws of Ireland. From on or about April 3, 2007,

to on or about December 3, 2007, SIH LLC owned 100% of SIHL’s stock.

Through SIH LLC (an entity disregarded for Federal income tax purposes) SIHP

was treated as owning 100% of SIHL’s stock.

      On December 4, 2007, SIHL was acquired by Susquehanna Europe

Holdings Limited (SEHL), a corporation newly organized under the laws of

Ireland and whose tax residency was


within the meaning of section 958(a) 100% of SIHL’s stock. From its

organization and throughout tax years 2007 and 2008, SEHL was also a CFC.

SIHP was a U.S. shareholder of SEHL that owned 100% of SEHL’s stock. SEHL

is the successor to SIHL (together, SIHL/SEHL).

      STS

      From on or about January 1, 2007, to on or about April 2, 2007, SIH Inc.

owned 100% of the stock of Susquehanna Trading Services, Inc. (STS), a

company organized under the laws of the Cayman Islands that was treated as a

corporation for Federal income tax purposes. From on or about April 3, 2007,

through December 31, 2008, SIH LLC owned the stock of STS. Through SIH

LLC, SIHP was treated as owning STS’s stock.

   The remaining 37 guarantors were

either domestic entities or entities disregarded for Federal income tax purposes.

On December 8, 2007, SEHL executed a Joinder Agreement, in which SEHL

acknowledged that it was a party to and guarantor under the ARGSA. Certain SIG

affiliates under the ARGSA also pledged their assets as collateral for the SIG

notes. SIHL/SEHL and STS were neither pledgors nor pledged entities under the

ARGSA.

      Under the ARGSA each guarantor assumed joint and several liability for the

full payment of the SIG notes. The ARGSA included a “pro rata provision” under

which if any guarantor made any payment or suffered any loss pursuant to its

guaranty, then it became entitled to contribution payments from the remaining

guarantors. The provision stated that each nonpaying guarantor would be required

to contribute to the


to be reevaluated. Fantastic, meningitis was off the cards, I could stop being so emotionally unstable now. Off we went home. As soon as we walked through the door it felt like all of a sudden she became 10x more poorly, all I can say is...it was a long night.

Friday:

Waking up Friday morning nothing had improved Penelope was so uncomfortable being driven mad by severe itching. The rash had changed looking more like clustered red patches, it had risen slightly and looked much more aggravated. Seeing her rub her head frantically against the floor, pulling her hair, smacking her head and thrashing around in desperate need for the itch to stop, enough was enough. We took her back to the clinic.

We were seen by a different doctor whowhen a daddy's girl was born. Our daughter Penelope. The cutest little bundle in the world. Reese finally took her little body into his arms, and of course he loved her more than anything else in this world. I felt utterly complete at this point, the moment i had wanted for him for so long had finally came, I was so happy for him to have that moment at last. I'm sure he was secretly terrified too because the moment we had been wanting so badly had finally come, he was now to be role model for his daughter.

I always knew Reese would be a good dad, and boy is he that. He adores his little girl and she thinks the world of him also. It melts my


The Dark Knight Rises is almost sure to be Christopher Nolan's last Batman film. But one thing's for sure: Warner Bros. won't let the Dark Knight die — another Batman film series is inevitable. And Will "Dr. Batman" Brooker, author of the new book Hunting the Dark Knight, has four ideas for rebooting the Batman films, that could take Bruce Wayne to a whole new level.

People already speculating about what shape Batman's next movie after Nolan's trilogy will take — with IMDB listing an Untitled Batman Reboot for 2015, although that's probably wishful thinking.

Right now, it seems likely that Warners will try to tap the success of Marvel's cinematic universe by tying in Batman with the new Man of Steel Superman movie, rebooting the flop Green Lantern withoutPublic Enemy were still playing in cinemas. Batman hit comic book racks before the United States entered World War Two. It was a different world; a world of tommy guns, Cadillacs, suits and hats.

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So let's take the Bat-Man back there, and name the show after his first adventure, 'The Case of the Chemical Syndicate' from May 1939. Bruce Wayne is a drawling playboy who smokes the occasional pipe with his pal Commissioner Gordon. Gotham is run by mobsters and hired thugs, and Gordon and his boys are powerless to break the racket. But all that changes when a stranger appears one night — a muscular figure in a gray


leather get-up, built like a linebacker with a helmet covering his face — and starts bringing his own justice to the city.

The Syndicate is a 24-episode drama, a mosaic told through the lives of the heroes and villains, but most importantly, the ordinary people of Gotham — the institutions, the police department, the schools, the society balls, the businesses. And the real twist? We never actually see Bruce Wayne change into costume. Even dedicated fans will start wondering: is Wayne actually the Bat-Man in this show? Expect discussion boards to go crazy with speculation every time The Syndicate drops a clue.

Art: Clay Rodery.

2. The Bad Man

The pitch: 1960s Batman meets Mad Men.

Cast includes Jon Hamm (Bruce), Christina Hendricks (Barbara), Elisabeth Olsen (Kathy)

The last time a Batman TV showwas made in the 1960s, it became a high-camp classic. Let's try something very different.

Bruce and Betty Wayne are Gotham's golden couple; she's an ex-model, he's a business executive. But the gossip is that Betty's unhappy and Bruce is secretly cheating — every night he stays in town, coming back rumpled, tired, armed with elusive excuses. Art: Susan Shore, www.smuze.net

Bruce has secrets, but they're not what everyone suspects. He's investigating a series of crimes — a shower-bath murder, a gay man strangled with a rope, a flock of deadly birds, a photographer who witnessed a killing — with the help of his two secretaries, curvy Barbara and bookish Kathy. And he's keeping his double life in check, until his jealous business junior Pete decides to dress up in


a circus costume, name himself after Robin Hood and uncover Bruce's secret identity...

Art: Sarah Zaidan, http://ateliermitti.tumblr.com/

3. Gotham Heights

The pitch: Smallville, Twilight and The Hunger Games meet Batman Year One.

Cast includes Robert Pattinson (Bruce), Jennifer Lawrence (Selina), Ezra Miller (Joker)

If Batman is going to be rebooted along the lines of Amazing Spider-Man, with a younger, moodier actor in the main role, here's a way to do it right.

Bruce is 25, just returning from his self-imposed exile around the world, where he's trained, studied and travelled for the last six years. The city's turned rotten in his absence; corrupt cops run extortion schemes in league with the mafia families, and the Wayne name has almost been forgotten.

20-year old Selina Kyle lives in a rough district, and her mom's had tobargain with the local enforcers to pay rent. When she can't meet their demands, the Kyle household is torched overnight. Selina leaps from an upper window, grabbing the family pet; her mother and little sister don't make it out. Selina, driven by loss and revenge, hits back against cops and gangsters: the newspapers are soon calling this local vigilante 'Cat-girl', and Bruce finds himself drawn into her neighbourhood, out of his depth.

Meanwhile a troubled High School senior has just killed his father and little sister in a suburban home outside Gotham. He laughed in the faces of the arresting officers, telling them life was just a joke. He was christened Kevin. Now he's painting his lips red with blood in solitary and calling himself something very different...

Art: Clay


Rodery.

4. Wayne

The pitch: Gran Torino and Harry Brown meet The Dark Knight Returns

Cast includes Clint Eastwood (Bruce), Patricia Clarkson (Selina), Burt Ward (Dick), Chloe Moretz (Robin)

Twelve miles outside Gotham is Wayne Manor, the run-down mansion owned by a grouchy eccentric and patrolled by Alsatian dogs. Bruce, in his eighties, spends his days scaring punk kids off the property and his nights alone writing memoirs his youth — or are they fantasies, an old guy's confused wish-fulfilment? Former partners, male and female, implore him to sell the old pile and move to an apartment in the city: this is my home, he growls, checking the elaborate security and man-traps.

Only one thing can bring this veteran back into Gotham: the homophobic beating and murder of his old war buddy, DickGrayson, lights a fire inside Wayne. Selina Kyle, his last remaining friend, tells Bruce he's not ready to take on the new breed of criminals, begging him to leave the costume in its case. Old man Wayne brushes dust off a forgotten console, the keystrokes and passwords coming back to him. A spotlight powers on, shining down on a pristine Bat-suit. The Hell I will, he tells her.

Art: Clay Rodery.

Will Brooker is head of film and television research at Kingston University, London. His books include Batman Unmasked, Using the Force, Alice's Adventures, The Blade Runner Experience and the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars. His new book, Hunting the Dark Knight: 21st Century Batman, is published by I B Tauris in June 2012.


until he retired. He was a faithful member of Church of Christ Written in Heaven on Blackwell Street until his illness. Deacon Eason loved his church and church family.

He was preceded in death by his parents Jimmy and Elizabeth Ponder Sr.

Deacon Eason leaves to celebrate his life and cherish his memories; his wife of 35 years Gloria Eason, two children; Tiffany and Brittany Eason, of Waycross, Georgia, three granddaughters; Sha’mya Lewis, Briana and Mariah Eason of Waycross, Georgia, two brothers; Jimmy Ponder Jr. of Waycross, Georgia and Harold Ponder, of Tifton Georgia, mother-in-law; Christine Johnson of Waycross, Georgia, three brothers-n-law; Pastor Ronald (Peggy) Johnson, Willie (Dorothy) Johnson of Willacoochee, Georgia, and Jimmy Johnson of Waycross, Georgia, two sisters-n-law; Barbara (William) Tucker of Douglas Georgia, and Carol (Bishop John)Bloody funny.’TIMEOUT

Radu Isac was a professional comedian in Romania for about 9 years, he was know as Romania’s comedian comedian.

In 2015 he moved to London try his hand as an open mic comic, performing for free to get exposure. After about 18 months, 6 competition finals and a BBC World Wide appearance, Radu is still the poorest professional comedian on the UK comedy circuit but he is making progress……

Catch Radu giving it his best in an effort to be able to afford eating out, getting drunk in bars and taking cabs.

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131 U.S. 36 (1889)
UNITED STATES
v.
DAVIS.
UNITED STATES
v.
SCHOFIELD.
Nos. 1425, 1426.
Supreme Court of United States.
Submitted April 1, 1889.
Decided May 13, 1889.
APPEALS FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND.
Mr. Charles C. Lancaster for the motion.
Mr. Assistant Attorney General Howard opposing.
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.
On the 3d of March, 1887, an act of Congress was approved, entitled "An act to provide for the bringing of suits against the government of the United States," 24 Stat. 505, c. 359, of which the first, second, ninth and tenth sections are as follows:
"That the Court of Claims shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the following matters:
"First. All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions,or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, expressed or implied, with the government of the *37 United States, or for damages, liquidated or unliquidated, in cases not sounding in tort, in respect of which claims the party would be entitled to redress against the United States either in a court of law, equity, or admiralty if the United States were suable: Provided, however, That nothing in this section shall be construed as giving to either of the courts herein mentioned, jurisdiction to hear and determine claims growing out of the late civil war, and commonly known as `war claims,' or to hear and determine other claims, which have heretofore been rejected, or reported on adversely by any court, department, or commission authorized to


hear and determine the same.
"Second. All set-offs, counter-claims, claims for damages, whether liquidated or unliquidated, or other demands whatsoever on the part of the government of the United States against any claimant against the government in said court: Provided, That no suit against the government of the United States, shall be allowed under this act unless the same shall have been brought within six years after the right accrued for which the claim is made.
"SEC. 2. That the District Courts of the United States shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the Court of Claims as to all matters named in the preceding section where the amount of the claim does not exceed one thousand dollars, and the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have such concurrent jurisdiction inperfected in accordance with the terms of the statutes and rules of practice governing the same: Provided, That no appeal or writ of error shall be allowed after six months from the judgment or decree in such suit. From the date of such final judgment or decree interest shall be computed thereon, at the rate of four per centum per annum, until the time when an appropriation is made for the payment of the judgment or decree."
Under that act Schofield filed his petition against the United States in the District Court of the United States for the District of Maryland, August 20, 1887, and judgment was rendered in his favor on the 6th day of October, 1887, in the sum of twenty-five dollars and costs. On the 16th


of the United States in that behalf made."
Section 707 of the Revised Statutes reads:
"An appeal to the Supreme Court shall be allowed, on behalf of the United States, from all judgments of the Court of Claims adverse to the United States, and on behalf of the plaintiff in any case where the amount in controversy exceeds three thousand dollars, or where his claim is forfeited to the United States by the judgment of said court, as provided in section one thousand and eighty-nine."
By § 708 such appeals must be taken within ninety days after the judgment is rendered, but this period is enlarged to six months by § 10 of the act in question.
Inasmuch as the object of the latter act was to enable the District and CircuitCourts to exercise concurrent jurisdiction with the Court of Claims in respect to suits against the United States, as therein provided, in our judgment the right of appeal reserved to the government "in the statutes of the United States in that behalf made," before the enactment of this act, was the right of appeal reserved in the statutes relating to the Court of Claims, and as that right could be exercised by the United States in the instance of any judgment of the Court of Claims adverse to the United States, it follows that the same right can be exercised by the United States in any case of the prosecution of a claim in the District or Circuit Courts of the United States under said act. The result


For weeks, Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore and supporters of his Alabama campaign have attacked the journalistic integrity of The Washington Post for publishing what they say are false allegations that Moore sexually harassed teenage girls when he was in his 30s.

But in a display of poetic justice Monday, a sting operation attempting to discredit the Post’s reporting backfired and instead demonstrated that its staff takes extensive measures to verify sources’ claims.

The Post detailed the ordeal in a story on its site Monday.

Earlier this month, a woman named Jaime T. Phillips approached the paper with allegations that Moore, in his 40s at the time, had impregnated her when she was 15. After about two weeks of interviews with her, the Post confronted her about inconsistencies in her story[A case that showed an improved quality of life for rectal gastrointestinal stromal tumor patient treated with cytoreductive surgery].
A 49-year-old man was admitted to another hospital with the complaint of difficulty in defecating. He underwent laparotomy, and investigation of the biopsy revealed a huge intraperitoneal tumor. He began to take imatinib in April 2008 following a diagnosis of gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST), but the tumor increased in size. He was referred to our hospital for oral administration of sunitinib to reduce the tumor size. The tumor was 30 cm in diameter, and there were several peritoneal metastases around the liver. He began to take sunitinib in February 2009. The tumor increased in size from August 2010 but a partial remission was noted. We performed cytoreductive surgery in April


after the treatment. He was oriented in time and place. He was able to walk independently to the local shops and to pay money correctly a year after admission. He became fully independent and able to live on his own nearly 2 years after his admission, though he required frequent visits by a support worker to supervise adherence to his antiretroviral therapy (ART). His HIV RNA level became undetectable, and his CD4 count rose to 330 cells/mm^3^. He developed symptoms of peripheral neuropathy 9 months after commencing ART. Zidovudine was replaced with abacavir. He was last reviewed in October 2011 when he was 55 years old. His adherence to ART was excellent without requiring any support from health care workers. He was fully independent and living on hisis a coach who has spent 35 years at the school–as a student-athlete, an assistant coach and head coach. He loves the school like only an alumnus can. And while he never had the personality of a Steve Spurrier or the gravitas of a Joe Paterno, he always represented the university well.

The emotion in his voice today was obvious. Clearly this was not a decision he agreed with. But, as he has always done, he represented himself, and the school, with dignity and graciousness and respect.

There’s no doubt that the program will regain the prominence it once had. I just hope that the next coach loves UT half as much as Coach Fulmer does.

We still have an old VHS tape around here somewhere of the night Fulmer and


phenomenon. Malcolm Brown, a historian at the Imperial War Museum and co-author of another book on the subject, Christmas Truce, has estimated that a short peace broke out along about two-thirds of the British line. In most accounts, the initiative comes from the German side, perhaps because they were in the ascendant, and so felt more secure. On 23 December 1914, for example, halfway between Ypres and Lille, soldiers from Leipzig started putting small fir trees – tannenbaum – on the parapet of their trenches, with candles clamped on to provide a seasonal glow. With no guns firing, their British counterparts crawled from their trenches to gaze at the display. They looked, one said, “like the footlights of a theatre”.

Not everyone understood, or subscribed, to the gestures ofgoodwill being made along the line. On Christmas Eve, Muslim soldiers from Algeria on the British side, unaware of the peculiar rules that were taking hold, fired upon the German forces across from them. According to a story related by the German children’s writer James Krüss, and apparently told to him by his uncle Otto, a pastry chef from Berlin called Alfred Kornitzke was particularly enraged by this breach of decorum.

Kornitzke, or so the story goes, had been in the process of making marzipan balls for his company when he had to take cover; his blood up, his baker’s hat still on, he grabbed a tannenbaum and strode out into no-man’s-land. With the Algerians too bemused to shoot, he set the tree down and lit the candles. “Now,


hymn to the Latin words, Adeste fideles. And I thought, well, this is really a most extraordinary thing – two nations both singing the same carol in the middle of a war.” Many of the men stayed awake all night.

Not all of the music was amateur. In one section of the front, where Germans faced French soldiers, a famous operatic tenor, Walter Kirchoff, was visiting in the company of Crown Prince Wilhelm. (By and large, there were fewer truces with French troops, who were less easily persuaded of the case, fighting as they were on their own soil.) While the heir to the throne stayed back, Kirchoff made his way to the very front line. Years later, French, German and English soldiers alike all remembered hearing him. Ashe sang, he later said, enemy soldiers applauded from the parapet, and called for an encore.

The truce proper began in as many different ways, at as many different times, as there were groups of soldiers to enact it. In some places, Germans held up signs bearing a phrase in broken English: “You no shoot, we no shoot.” In others, it took remarkable faith in the forbearance of the other side. According to the memoir of Private W J Quinton of the 2nd Bedfordshires, on his stretch of the line, the peace began in the dark, with another call for an encore after a song from the enemy. At that, a German voice called out from no-man’s-land: “I am a lieutenant! Gentlemen, my life is in your hands, for


of Christmas Day not a shot was fired along our section.”

Often, communication difficulties were eased by Germans who had spent time in Britain – a feature of the day that must have made the enforced state of enmity seem stranger than any other. “Watcha cock,” a German soldier said to Graham Williams of the London Rifles, “How’s London?” The man turned out to be a “German Londoner” who had grown up in England but had been recalled for national service from his porter’s job at Victoria station.

A Londoner in the 3rd Rifles was reported to have had his hair cut in no-man’s-land by the man who had been in his barber in High Holborn. As he shaved his old acquaintance with a cut-throat razor, he underlined the peculiaritymy dug-out, which shows how complete the silence and quiet was.”

Nor was the sense of an alternative reality confined to the land forces. On Christmas Eve, the Royal Flying Corps dropped a carefully-packaged plum pudding on an enemy airfield at Lille; on Christmas Day, their German counterparts responded with a bottle of rum.

And then there was the football. While there was no organised 11-a-side match between British and German forces, there were, indeed, chaotic kick-abouts up and down the line, usually with dozens of participants and no obvious rules. A ball was variously improvised from a ration tin, a sandbag, or a woolly hat stuffed with straw. Rowan Atkinson’s Edmund Blackadder was later to protest – “Remember it? How could I forget it? I was never offside! I


the normal rules of war. At first, soldiers reluctantly followed their enraged superiors’ commands to fight by firing into the air. Sometimes a few frenzied individuals would spark a section into battle again. And, eventually, units that had established such an extraordinary bond were rotated away from the front, to be replaced by others with no such fine feeling for their opponents.

If the Christmas truce carries an almost unbearable poignancy, the postscript is perhaps the saddest aspect of all. There were no more such truces: while a few isolated moments of peace descended in later years, the Great War would never again see the phenomenon on such a widespread basis. The reasons are simple, and grim: the war got worse. The tactics became barbaric. The man across theworking constructively with North Carolina and state agencies for the past three and a half years on one of the most thorough environmental reviews of any infrastructure project in state history. In many cases, we’ve gone above and beyond regulatory requirements and adopted some of the most protective measures ever used by the industry. We fully expect to continue to work constructively to the benefit of North Carolinians.”

Duke Energy, along with Dominion Energy, are the principals in ACP, LLC, which owns the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline. The route starts in West Virginia, where tree-cutting has already occurred, and continues through Virginia before entering North Carolina in Northampton County. From there, the natural gas pipeline continues 160 miles through seven more counties: Halifax,, Nash, Wilson, Johnston, Cumberland, Sampson and


Robeson.

Environmentally sensitive areas, including major rivers and wetlands, lie along the route. The pipeline also presents environmental justice issues. It would travel through many low-income areas and communities of color, including American Indian.

ACP, LLC contends the pipeline is necessary to meet the energy demands of eastern North Carolina and to spur economic development. However, those forecasts are speculative. Most of the natural gas will go directly to Duke’s own power plants. Dominion has hinted that the pipeline would not stop in North Carolina, as originally planned, but move through South Carolina toward the coast. From there, the gas could be shipped elsewhere.

Since last fall, the NC Department of Environmental Quality has asked for more detail at least 10 times in permit applications filed by the utility. Now withwere usually single breasted, with minimal buttons, and had an overall loose appearance. Pants were held high on the waist with pleats at the top and cuffs at the bottom. In cool seasons suits were dark grey, blue or brown wile summer colors were white, ivory, pastels and occasionally pink (Gatsby wore a pink suit in novel The Great Gatsby.)

Hat- Men do not wear hats today as they did in the 1920s. Winter hats included the bowler, flat cap (also known as a cab driver hat), panama (felt), or its cousin the Fedora. Summer hats were made of straw, such as the straw Boater (aka Skimmer) or the Optimo Panama hat. Top hats were still used for formal wear.

Shoes- The final defining element of a man's dress was


(pyrite) flecks. Lapis lazuli was used in Egypt from the Predynastic Period on to make beads, amulets, and scarabs, and as inlay in jewelry, particularly in the Middle and New Kingdoms.

All kinds of famous jewelry have lapis lazuli inlays:

Many texts from ancient Egypt mention Lapis lazuli and say that it was obtained in western Asia and in Meroe and Punt. No mines are known in those areas however. Although some people maintain that Lapis lazuli was found in Egypt, it is almost certain that the only source for ancient Egypt was Badakshan in northeastern Afghanistan. The stone then reached Egypt along the trade routes.

The Egyptians appreciated Lapis Lazuli stone due to the associations they had between its dark blue color with the night of the skies and thegold pyrite flecks that reminded them of the stars. In other words, an image of the heavens.

They saw life in the deep blue color of water and the divine in the immense blue of the sky and they continuously used Lapis Lazuli to portray it all. Artists represented the Nile, the most important river of Ancient Egypt in blue. Blue was also the background color of the paintings portraying the royal graves in the Valley of the Kings. Kings used head kerchiefs painted in blue and gold. And even Tutankhamen used jewelry of gold and lapis.

Egyptian Lapis Lazuli Uses

Egyptian Lapis Lazuli Uses as a Pigment: Ultramarine Blue

Historically, blue is a “new” color, and one that was initially reserved only for royalty. It emerged about 6,000 years ago in


lapis lazuli being delivered to him as tribute.

According to Ancient Egyptian myth, the sun (Ra) rolls across the sky each day and transforms bodies and souls.

Modeled upon the Scarabaeidae family, dung beetle, which rolls dung into a ball for the purposes of eating and laying eggs that are later transformed into larva, the scarab was seen as an earthly symbol of this heavenly cycle of sun and rebirth.

Further, they were usually carved from Lapis Lazuli, as its deep, celestial blue remains the symbol of royalty and honor, gods and power, spirit and vision. It is a universal symbol of wisdom and truth.

In the dry, barren land of the Egyptians, this deep cobalt blue color was both a physical and spiritual contrast to their arid desert hues.

The gold fleckswere like stars in their night-time sky and by meditating on these colors they felt supernatural forces would transform their lives. The garments of priests and royalty were dyed with Lapis to indicate their status as gods themselves.

Blue colored hippopotamuses produced by artisans were popular as symbols for the life-giving river. Nude female figures coated with blue glaze found in Egyptian graves might have represented life and Creation.

Egyptian Lapis Lazuli Uses for Healing

Egyptian High Priests used lapis lazuli also for healing purposes. The healers grounded lapis into powder and swallowed to prevent gallstones. Egyptians also used lapis to prevent sleeplessness and melancholy or fever, as well as an ingredient for eyewash. Check our post about Lapis Lazuli Healing Properties to learn more on how lapis lazuli can benefit


lapis as a tribute.

Elaborate pectorals of Lapis Lazuli, carnelian and also gold covered the pharaohs Osorkon’s chest, while rings and bracelets of the same combination also adorned his arms and fingers. Lapis scarabs were buried in his wrappings, a large one on his heart.

A tiny but endearing group in gold and also lapis shows Osorkon as the god of the dead, Osiris, crouching on a Lapis Lazuli pillar engraved with cartouches bearing his names. With golden statues of Horus and Isis on either side.

The bulk of the treasure is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It has hundreds if not thousands of scarabs.

Egyptian Lapis Lazuli Uses in Religion

Amulets of deities inlaid with lapis lazuli were made of Osiris, Horus, Maat, Tet, Ra, Bastet and Ibis.

Goddess Isis

The Egyptiansin the chapter about Tutankhamen Tomb.

It is written in the 140th chapter of the Book of the Dead that lapis in the shape of an eye set in gold was considered an amulet of great power. Even Pharaoh Ramses listed Lapis Lazuli in his funeral items in the Book of the Dead.

The blue mineral Lapis Lazuli possessed purportedly life-giving powers. The Book of the Dead describes Horus, the hawk-like son of the God Osiris destroying all evil. After his deed he appears in the heavenly firmament in the form of a hawk and “his torso is made of blue stone”. Egyptian Blue (blue frit) was used in conjunction with lapis lazuli for painting eyes, hair and crowns of the pharaohs’ statues and sarcophagus. Nile, the most important river


of ancient Egypt, is rendered in blue color on grave paintings.

Egyptian Lapis Lazuli: Treasures

Hierakonpolis – Young Lady

One of the most exquisite of all Lapis Lazuli objects can be a young lady of about nine centimeters tall. With a head covered with tight curls. It is of an excellent deep blue Lapis Lazuli. The lady balances now on a wooden peg inserted in the shoulders. It has rounded breasts and buttocks, shapely thighs, well-marked knees.

In other words, a perfect work of art. How treasured she would have been, expensive, rare and made of a stone already regarded as sacred.

Her headless body was discovered by British archaeologists at the site of Hierakonpolis in 1897. She was found under the threshold of a temple (a sacred spot). Her unification was shortof miraculous. In 1906, nine years after body was found, a British archaeologist found the head in the earlier diggings. It is said she dates back from around 2900B.C. Now she lives in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.

Every Egyptian hoped to be reborn after death, but it was a perilous journey to the next world. A scarab would protect against its dangers. The best way to represent him was with the stone that symbolizes the sky or water, our beloved Lapis Lazuli. The most revered scarab replicas were made of Lapis Lazuli.

The Treasure of Tod

One important finding was the lapis-lazuli of the Egyptian treasure of Tôd dated from Middle Kingdom (20th c. BC)., discovered by French archaeologists in 1936 near Luxor.

According to specialists from Louvre:

Custom required that foundation


deposits be buried beneath Egyptian temples at the time of their consecration by the king. The Tod treasure is unique in that it was buried at a later date, by the successor of the founder of the Tod temple, and includes some metals that were unknown in Egypt. It is evidence of exchanges between the sovereigns of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean at the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC.

Here they found a hoard of raw Lapis Lazuli as well as quantities of lapis beads and lapis seals buried at some point. Deposited in four copper boxes, the treasure includes thousands of blocks of raw lapis lazuli, minute fragments, beads and carvings stylistically dated to various periods. Copper chests were found in the foundation sand beneaththe floor of the temple of Sesostris I (1934-1898 BC), inscribed with the name of the king’s son, Ammenemes II (1919-1865 B.C).

Royal annals mention the many offerings made by King Ammenemes II to the gods and in memory of his father King Sesostris I, shortly after his death. The texts reveal that the king buried the chests in the foundation sand of the temple built by Sesostris I as an act of filial devotion.

This discovery raises the question of the use of lapis lazuli in ancient Egypt because there is no source of lapis in this country. As it was discovered later, almost all the contents were of foreign origin, mostly the seals, Babylonian, Palestinian, Syrian and from eastern Iran.

Tutankhamun Tomb Treasures

One of the most abundant use of