was also broke, and on the verge of doing “some stupid shit” to get some cash the day before the shooting.

Witnesses described the scene that Sunday, at Eighth and Camelia streets, as the Solano Stroll was wrapping up not far away. There was a dice game going on outside “Meechie’s house,” an apartment building with a long driveway and parking area where the gambling was taking place. Williams and Medearis were there, as was Williams’ 7-year-old nephew EJ, another player named Charles Bridges, and several others, according to testimony.

Bridges said Medearis may have won a bet or taken money from the ground Williams did not think he deserved. EJ said there was an altercation between his uncle and “Tone” over some dice. Williams pulled out a gun, andthe Sept. 8 killing, and Alaysha and three others who were shot July 17: 7-year-old Amara York, her 4-year-old brother Antione and their 63-year-old grandmother, Clara Fields.

The images of Medearis and Alaysha were from the autopsy room, while the others showed the survivors when they were first injured. EJ, a blank look on his face, has a bloodied bandage under his eye. Fields is lying beneath covers in a hospital bed, seen from below the foot of the bed. Amara has a frightened look on her face; her pajamas are pulled down over her right shoulder to show a bullet hole. The photograph of “Baby Antione” (pronounced “Antwon”), swaddled in some kind of yellow hood or blanket, is perhaps the most chilling. As someone out of frame holds


killed Williams’ good friend, Jermaine Davis, in the hours before the Oakland shooting. York’s family — his children and their mother — lived in the Wilson Avenue apartment, though he was no longer in touch with them.

Billups said Davis’ cousin, Joe Carroll, actually confronted York that same night at a gas station in Antioch. If the motive was to retaliate, and if someone else was actually confronting York, what motive would there be to show up on Wilson Avenue, Billups asked. Both attorneys said authorities dropped the ball in looking for other people who may have been upset about Davis’ death who could have been responsible for the shooting on Wilson.

Police did not speak to either Nuño or Rogers until months after Alaysha’s death. Billups said that wasa problem, because details about the shooting could have made their way out into the community through another adult — Fields’ son — who was at the Wilson Avenue apartment during the shooting but was not injured. He could have told people, for example, that Fields had been shot while she was on the couch, a detail Brouhard said would have been known only to the killer.

“People are talking about this case. The streets are talking,” Billups said. “Word gets around. Things get out.”

He also played a phone call between Williams and Rogers, from Sept. 7, 2013, to undermine her assertion that she was terrified of Williams and — further — to diminish her credibility. In the phone call, she and Williams are flirtatious, and she expresses interest


by telling authorities about what she said Williams told her. When she described the confession about Alaysha, Brouhard said, Nuño had not been charged with anything, so there was no reason for her to bargain.

She ultimately was charged as an accessory after the fact to the Medearis murder, for which she agreed to testify and cooperate with the prosecution. But that deal was already established when Nuño told the DA’s office what she knew about Williams wanting to kill Medearis.

Brouhard also defended Rogers, and said she had “answered tough questions” on the stand, and been cooperative and consistent. He pointed out how, in her first interview with police — which was recorded, and which Brouhard played in court — she described a black pistol with a chrome topThe Conservatives raised 26 times as much cash from big money donors as the Labour party in the first week of the election campaign, official figures show.

Boris Johnson's party raked in a staggering £5.67 million in large donations over £7,500 in a single week, compared to just £218,500 from Labour.

Private hospital owners, the family of a Russian oligarch, and numerous property developers are among donors who flocked to fill Tory coffers in the first week of the campaign.

But the numbers do not show the full picture of the parties' election finances, because Labour says it has raised vast sums in smaller donations from ordinary supporters – which do not have to be registered with the Electoral Commission.

The Liberal Democrats and Brexit Party also both attracted more support from


large donors than Labour, taking £275,000 and £250,000 respectively in the first week.

Seven of the Tories' donors contributed more to Conservative coffers than all of Labour's large donors – which were mostly trade unions – combined. The figures related to the period from 6 to 12 November 2019.

On Thursday Jeremy Corbyn told activists that he welcome the opposition from "the super-rich, the tax dodgers, the bad bosses and the big polluters" to his party because it showed that they were scared he would change things.

"A third of Britain’s billionaires have donated to the Conservative Party," he said.

"They own the Conservative Party. But they don’t own us. They don’t own the Labour Party. The people own the Labour Party ... so I accept that the opposition and hostility ofthe rich and powerful is inevitable."

Property developers and landlords in particular showered the governing party in cash. Electoral Commission figures show Countrywide Developments Ltd donated half a million pounds in the first week, while European Land & Property Limited gave £200,000. Others included Broadland Properties Ltd and Edwardian London Management Services, which both donated £50,000 each.

Jeremy Corbyn said on Thursday that billionaires 'own the Conservative party' (PA)

Among other notable doners was Lubov Chernukhin, a banker and wife of Russian oligarch Vladimir Chernukhin, who gave the Tories £200,000. She had previously reportedly donated £135,000 to the party to have dinner with Theresa May. The single biggest donation to any party came from John E Gore, a super-rich Broadway theatre producer to gave a million pounds to the Conservatives in


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On the Labour side, Unite the Union gave five separate donations in the first week of the campaign, totalling £123,000 – making it the party's biggest donor. The biggest non-union Labour donor was Ecotricity, the renewable energy supplier.

Household names that donated to the Tories included Pets Corner, which has around 150 pet supply stories around the UK, and Harbour Hotels, which owns 13 boutique hotels,Golf - Day beats Noren at sixth extra hole in playoff

LA JOLLA, California (Reuters) - Australian Jason Day won for the first time in 20 months when he beat Alex Noren in eerie silence in a playoff at the Farmers Insurance Open on Monday.

Jan 28, 2018; San Diego, CA, USA; Jason Day putts on the 16th green on the third playoff hole during the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament at Torrey Pines Municipal Golf Course - South Co. Mandatory Credit: Orlando Ramirez-USA TODAY Sports

With the course closed to the public for logistical reasons, Day sealed victory with a birdie at the sixth extra hole after Swede Noren found a water hazard with his second shot at the par-five 18th at Torrey Pines.

It was the


shot.

Day, who laid up after driving into the rough, punched his third shot to tap-in distance for an easy birdie, pretty much ending Noren’s chances. After taking a penalty stroke, Noren had pitch in for a matching birdie, a task that proved too much.

The Swede was seeking his maiden PGA Tour victory. He has won nine times on the European Tour.

He had no regrets at going for the green from 250 yards, and was only a whisker from pulling off what would have probably set up an easy birdie. His ball landed on the bank of the pond but trickled back in.

“I thought if I hit a good one it would be back of the green,” he said.

Day, meanwhile, has set his sights on returning to world numberthe first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be registered with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child. And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth. And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in swaddling cloths and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.”

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actors in the Murder, and attack on Mr Seward, or of complicity with the assassins" and mentioned the search for Jefferson Davis, whom Taft believed was implicated in the conspiracy to assassinate Lincoln.

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…But during this period of Six or Seven months, the realy most important events have not been yet mentioned. In the midst of a desolating War, in the smoke and heat of Battle as it were, There has been a quiet Presidential Election and Inauguration, with all its usual attendant excitements. A Draft of three hundred thousand men has been ordered, and the men raised. The Government Credit has been increased at home andthis.
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Danny Noonan (Michael O'Keefe) is an underacheving 17-year-old guy who works as a caddy at the upscale Bushwood Country Club in Beverly Hills to earn enough money to go to college. Danny often caddies for Ty Webb (Chevy Chase), a suave and talented golfer and the son of one of Bushwood's co-founders. Danny decides to gain favor with Judge Elihu Smails (Ted Knight), the country club's stodgy co-founder and director of the caddy scholarship program, by caddying for him.

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months

"Jennifer" — a woman whose identity CBC has agreed to protect — was at a Montreal-area mall when she met a person she thought was becoming a friend but instead turned out to be a pimp.

Jennifer says they were friends for several months before he convinced her to try working at a strip joint.

Throughout those months, he gradually introduced her to a life of luxury, buying her expensive meals and thousands of dollars' worth of clothes and shoes. She says he took her to strip joints to make her feel more comfortable in that environment.

"I think a lot of teenagers are attracted to money and fame and luxurious things....quick money. So basically (after seeing) all of this for months and months I was telling myself, 'oh it's notthat bad, maybe I could try. I'll try one night and see if I like it,'" she said.

Jennifer says she realized she was in trouble when the man demanded she hand over the money after her first shift. The situation became violent and he would threaten to expose her life in the sex industry to her family.

"I didn't want my family to know so I was so scared and... there was a lot of stuff I was doing just for him not to go back to my family and tell them," she said.

Mensales says pimps often present the idea of stripping as temporary, when in reality, it is their way of forcing women into a life of sexual exploitation.

"The victim doesn't feel like she's being exploited at first.


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In Aleppo, nothing is as safe as the front line as the war changes course. Civilian casualties are no longer collateral damage, they are the target. "[Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad realized he cannot win on the ground, and is trying to bomb, or elsewhere to besiege and starve us into submission. It is no longer a war. You don't fight anymore, you simply die. It is murder," Firas told Al-Monitor.

This is Aleppo today. The war is so normal here, so familiar that garbage bins mark the front line of fighting on one side of a street, while on the other they’re used as goalposts for an improvised soccer match. Snipers have shifts. You can see them reaching their nest in the morning,


coffee in hand, and parking in front of the main door as if they were going to work.

ALEPPO, Syria — Its base comes from a tractor, two rusty poles and random pieces collected in a glassworks. To assemble this mortar, nothing has been wasted. It's been built by downloading instructions from Google. "For grenades, I used even the fertilizer of my wife's flowers," said Firas with a smile. He is 43, and in his previous life was a sales manager in a car dealership. Now he introduces himself as "the mortar manager."

These local rebels still refer to ISIS as al-Qaeda, despite al-Qaeda's leader Aymam al-Zawahri disavowing the group. Their latest atrocity — the crucifixion of seven alleged spies — has just been posted online. "They are on thenothing. After 10 hours of fighting, you are just a hundred meters forward. And then you run out of ammo and withdraw." Ten hours, Abdel tells Al-Monitor, "and you have got nothing more. Only more dead."

We are in Sayf al-Dawla, a frontline neighborhood in rebel-held east Aleppo, with six fighters, including Firas, Abdel and 9-year-old Ahmed. The area has largely been reduced to rubble, and the streets appear deserted. Some of the thousands of Aleppo civilians stuck in this war ravaged part of the city emerge as you enter. Many of them are orphans, like Ahmed, who are looked after by their neighbors or a rebel unit. Though they belong to the Islamic Front, an alliance of Islamist rebel brigades established in November against ISIS, Firas and Abdel


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On November 27, 2010, Berto scored a TKO victory over Freddy Hernandez. Berto successfully defended his WBC welterweight title, stopping an overmatched Freddy Hernandez at 2:07 of the first round putting himself in line for a shot at Floyd Mayweather Jr. He hammered Hernandez with a left hook, then floored him with a straight right during the co-feature fight of the Juan Manuel Márquez-Michael Katsidis lightweight championship bout.
On April 16, 2011, Berto's reign as WBC welterweight champion came to an abrupt end in a fight which proved toby Eisai Inc. Editorial assistance was provided by Oxford PharmaGenesis Inc. and was funded by Eisai Inc. The authors confirm that neither the submitted manuscript nor any similar manuscript, in whole or in part, is under consideration in press, published, or reported elsewhere.

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Josh Ritter performs at the WXPN Musicians On Call Benefit Concert at World Cafe Live on March 6. The concert raised $30,000 for the WXPN Musicians On Call program.

(Left to right): XPN Local artists Allison Taylor, Scot Sax, Suzie Brown, Lizanne Knott, Kuf Knotz and Blaqmel perform at the WXPN Musicians On Call Benefit Concert at World Cafe Live on March 6.

WXPN General Manager Roger LaMay (left) and U.S. Senator for Delaware Tom Carper at the WXPN Musicians On Call Benefit Concert.

Photo credit: David Simchock

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. – WXPN (http://www.xpn.org), the nationally-recognized leader in Triple A (Adult Album Alternative) music and noncommercial radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, raised $30,000 for the WXPN Musicians On Call program during a benefit concert at World Cafe Live on March 6.bedsides. Since 2004, the program has touched the lives of more than 30,000 patients and their families in healthcare facilities throughout the Philadelphia region. Over the past six years, 135 volunteer musicians and 38 volunteer guides have regularly participated in the program by providing weekly performances for patients at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center, the Philadelphia VA Medical Center and St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. In addition to live music, the program also provides local hospitals with CD Pharmacies featuring a CD listening library and CD players for patients’ use.

Anyone who would like to support WXPN Musicians On Call can make a donation online at anytime at ww.xpn.org/moc. For more information,


Blasio has said he was not immediately informed about a separate federal investigation, also by the United States attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, into the New York City Housing Authority, which began turning over millions of documents last year.

Likewise, the mayor said he first heard of the federal corruption investigation involving the donors, Jeremiah Reichberg and Jona S. Rechnitz, from news reports this month. The police commissioner, William J. Bratton, has said the federal authorities told him of the widening investigation in 2014. (At the time, people briefed on the matter have said, the focus was on Philip Banks III, then the highest-ranking uniformed officer, and Norman Seabrook, the head of the city correction officers’ union.)Her comments, in an address to the McGill Summer School in her native Donegal, prompted a rare public rebuke for a government minister from the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI). The institute’s director, John Graby, said the remarks showed ‘a worrying disconnect from reality’. He added: ‘As has been widely reported, 40 per cent of architects have been made redundant and the RIAI has a significant number of members on Jobseeker’s Allowance.

‘Many architects in employment have experienced pay cuts and three-day weeks. How chilly does it have to get to reach the minister’s attention?’

Coughlan, who is also the Irish Enterprise, Trade and Employment Minister, told her audience: ‘There are certain sectors where competition and the chill winds of economic reality have yet to reach. Certain


stay in good shape."A lot of her training is not just the pounding on the track," said Shelley Keeling, Ida's daughter. "She does 17 minutes on her bicycle, she has a stationary bike, she has weights in her house, she has a mat, she does squats, push-ups."It was one of many highlights of the final day of the 122nd Penn Relays. Penn's 4xMile men's team won on their home turf."The first time I was at the Relays I was running the 4x100 in the 8th grade," said Keaton Naff, University of Pennsylvania. "I never thought I'd actually come to Penn or I'd actually be back here so it's really been an honor."In between high school and college events, elite athletes ran the track, many gauging their competition for“If this was nefarious, why'd the Secret Service allow these people in?” Sekulow asked on ABC’s “This Week.”

But Sekulow suggested the Russians who attended the meeting in Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr. and other Trump campaign officials were vetted.

"The president had Secret Service protection at that point," he said. "That raised a question with me."

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Sekulow hit all five Sunday shows defending the president following the revelation of the meeting, the latest in a pattern of Trump campaign officials taking secret meetings with Russians who had possible connections to the Kremlin. Several investigations are looking into whether Russia attempted to influence the result of the 2016 election in Trump's favort.

He insisted Trump was not aware of the meeting until recently and that the meeting was not illegal.

"The president


The National Rifle Association is under fire for running an ad with the headline “Target Practice” next to a photo House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords - who was shot in the head.

Christine Pelosi, Nancy's daughter, tweeted on Saturday, "The NRA published a magazine headline “target practice” with a photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Rep Gabby Giffords. We must condemn this intentional, outrageous criminal incitement. We cannot allow this hate speech to stop common sense gun violence prevention."

Democratic lawmakers are pushing stricter gun laws in statehouses across the country, emboldened by sweeping electoral victories in 2018 and confident that public opinion is on their side over a year after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.

Last year's wins handed Democrats control of the governorshipand legislature in several more states, including New Mexico, New York, Colorado, Maine and Nevada, and lawmakers are using their new power to draft or pass gun laws.

In Colorado, Tom Sullivan spent years urging lawmakers to tackle gun violence after his 27-year-old son, Alex, was killed in the 2012 movie theater shooting there.

Now Sullivan is helping write those bills after winning a state Assembly seat, part of a Democratic wave in November that gave the party full control of Colorado's government for the first time in five years.

"People are standing up and having their voices heard," said Sullivan, who wears his son's leather jacket to the capitol. "Now they have to see me every single day."

Polls show Americans favor tougher gun laws after decades of mass shootings, including


the Feb. 14, 2018, massacre at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and staff members. But the political might of the National Rifle Association – and its deep coffers – made supporting gun restrictions a risky proposition for many officials.

That changed last year, when Democratic candidates ran on the issue of gun violence in unprecedented numbers.

At the federal level, where Democrats captured the U.S. House of Representatives after eight years of Republican control, nearly 80 percent of the 62 freshman Democrats elected in November included gun safety in their campaign platforms, a Reuters analysis found. That far outstripped the proportion of candidates who did so in 2016.

House Democrats have introduced a bill requiring criminal background checks for private and gun show firearm sales, closingPatron saint of lipstick and lavender feminism

Frida Kahlo and her husband both referred to her as ‘the great hider-away’, as if she were a mystery-maker. Fifty years after her death she is idolised for having revealed essential truths about all kinds of female experience, yet partly mythologising her life. Germaine Greer explores the life of the Patron saint of lipstick and lavender feminism

Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera both used to refer to her as ‘la gran ocultadora’. The expression is an odd one, meaning ‘the great hider-away’, as if she were a mystery-maker. Fifty years after her death, Kahlo is credited with having displayed in art for the first time the interior reality of a woman’s life. She is idolised for having revealed essential truths about


usually exaggerated – the eyebrows meet over the nose in the famous unibrow, and the upper lip is conspicuously furred with dark down. How closely this icon resembled the artist can be easily judged from photographs of Kahlo, of which there are many more than there are works by her hand. When she was aware of the camera she did her best to reproduce the slight head turn and the unsmiling stare of her painted image. She seldom allowed images of her face to express anything beyond her identity, in a version as stylised as a passport photo, showing the obligatory one ear. All the portraits say, in the same tone of voice: ‘I am Frida Kahlo’. This is her achievement – the lifelong performance of Frida Kahlo.In this too she remains part of the tradition of the female artist as outlandish phenomenon: Rosalba Carriera and Angelica Kauffmann are just two of the ‘paintresses’ (as they were called at the time) who were obliged to entertain their patrons by playing musical instruments and singing, as well as making artworks

It is no small praise to say that Kahlo was the first ever true performance artist, that the performance lasted all her life long, and that she was indefatigable in presenting it, year on year, day by day. At least as much creative energy went into dressing the part as in drawing and painting it. Fashioning herself also involved the creation of an appropriate setting with intriguing props – animals, flowers, a plaster skeleton atop her bed,


the ‘Brazilian bombshell’ Carmen Miranda, born Maria do Carmo Miranda da Cunha in provincial Portugal in 1909. Like Kahlo, Miranda was vulgar, charming, foul-mouthed, irreverent, exuberant and tiny. While Kahlo developed a variant on Tehuacan costume, Miranda adopted and exaggerated that of the fruit vendors of Bahia. Kahlo’s pictorial language was derived from popular art forms; Miranda adapted the dance music of the favelas of Salvador. Like Kahlo, Miranda found favour in the United States; in 1940 Saks brought out a line of costume jewellery based on the heavy beads and extravagant headgear that she had made her trademark. Like Kahlo, Miranda composed poems and painted. Like Kahlo, she died young and childless after years of bitter suffering. Unlike Kahlo, she was not married to a national hero;it is generally thought that her gringo husband abused her, and that years before she died she was, like Kahlo, heavily drug-dependant. Kahlo is now being honoured by retrospective exhibitions in the world’s great art houses; in Brazil Miranda’s Bahian fashions are being revived, and EMI-Odeon Brazil has remastered and issued six hours of her music. Yet the instructive parallel is never drawn. These two remarkable women, with so much in common, remain in separate worlds.

Orlan is probably not a great fan of Frida Kahlo, yet in many ways her art practice is an elaboration on the Mexican’s precedent. From the beginning of her career in the 1960s when she photographed her body as if it were sculpture, Orlan has remained fascinated by her own image and her


power to modify it, portraying herself in the guise of the Madonna and as Sainte Orlan, creating costumes by using the sheets from her own trousseau and, ultimately, by recourse to surgery. Kahlo’s biographers have been puzzled by her frequent operations, and have questioned whether they were really necessary. Orlan’s surgical performances began in 1979 when she was diagnosed as having an ectopic pregnancy necessitating an emergency procedure. By the time the artist was in the operating theatre she had arranged for a video camera to record the event, and for the tapes to be ferried as fast as they were recorded to the arts centre in Lyon, where they were immediately screened in an extraordinary updating of Kahlo’s Henry Ford Hospital of 1932. Kahlo painted herself inremodelled. In the following days she would pose, immaculately coiffed and made up, for glamour shots of her horribly bruised face. This is very reminiscent of the woman who made a personal appearance at the opening of her one-man show in Mexico City in 1953 in her hospital bed, specially transported to the gallery for the purpose. All Kahlo’s appropriations were stylish; the names she dropped were the names to drop. Just so, when Orlan went under the knife, she had Paco Rabanne and Issey Miyake design clothes for her and the surgical staff, and poets and musicians accompanied the procedure. In Orlan’s carnal art, the events portrayed actually happen, while her predecessor insisted that she was not portraying dreams as a Surrealist might, but showing her reality.

To


consider Kahlo as a painter only is to confuse one part of the performance for the whole and, moreover, to find her wanting. As a maker of two-dimensional images she is, despite the vast range of motifs she includes, deliberately unsophisticated. She does not want anyone viewing her work to be sidetracked by the paint quality or seduced by the composition. The paintings function as advertisements; they are the hoardings announcing the stages in the performance. The notion of art that Kahlo acquired along with Diego Rivera was fundamentally didactic, as were the Mexican ex-voto paintings which defined the narrative strategies that she would eventually use. The Kahlo icons are arresting without being interesting from a painterly point of view. The shock effect is not derived from theof whom were obliged to earn their living producing portraits of richer people, flattered themselves in a very different way, because they needed to persuade their patrons that they could make them look glamorous and yet recognisable as them-selves. Vigée Le Brun prefigures Kahlo in that she performed the role in which she depicted herself in real life as well as on canvas. Anxious to bring her corsetted and coiffed clientele into the rosy glow of neoclassicism, she removed her own corset and donned the robe en gaulle, the high-waisted white muslin dress that was to become the uniform of the neoclassical female on both sides of the Channel. She wore her own brown hair unpowdered and uncurled, winding scarves about her head instead of decking it with


evening gown obliquely across the canvas from upper-right corner to lower left. Kahlo produced a kit-cat portrait of a tizzy blonde in a fur coat, blankly full face and virtually neckless. Though she portrayed herself as unforgettable, she made Mrs Gelman entirely forgettable. So powerful was his wife’s version of her own image, that when Rivera painted her he gave himself no option but to reproduce a pallid version of it.

In her lifetime, though she had her following among style gurus in New York and Paris, Kahlo was famous principally as the exotic wife of the heroic muralist Diego Rivera. He believed that the world stood on the brink of socialist revolution; in fact, what was dawning was the age of individualism. Now it is Rivera’s social realismreport on matters raised by the Governments of Canada and the United States in a July 5, 2017 reference.

The Commission submitted a "Plan of Study: For the Review of the Operating Plan Contained in Annex A of the 1989 International Agreement Between the Government of Canada and the Government of the United States of America" on June 7, 2013.

The 2017 reference asks the Commission to "evaluate and make recommendations regarding the Operating Plan contained in Annex A to the 1989 Agreement, and additional flood protection measures and beneficial water supply measures."


a daytime celebration in a public school gymnasium, arranged by the principal for sixth, seventh and eighth graders.

The rapper is B SHOC. Earlier this year I received a complaint about them and immediately looked them up. I found a video on youtube made by them confirming the South Carolina event. As word got out they immediately took the video down.

Guess who had already mirrored it.

They don’t even plead ignorance. They hide. They sneak, waiting to emerge later to tell us how moral religion makes people.

Among other recent examples: ¶ At Pace High School near Pensacola, Fla., teachers cited the Bible as fact in class and one teacher preached to students with a bullhorn as they arrived at school. In litigation that ended in July, the Santa Rosa Countydistrict agreed to stop promotion of religion but said that teachers could pray in private settings and could use expressions like “God bless you.” ¶ In Sumner County, Tenn., teachers led students in prayer and Bible study, and allowed Gideons International to distribute Bibles during school hours. Officials agreed this month to end the practices. ¶ In Baltimore, under threat of a lawsuit last spring, district officials stopped a school principal from holding prayer services to help students prepare for a standardized test.

I’m at an advantage since my job is working with atheistic high school students, but I could go on for pages with cases exactly like these where Christians work to seize a captive audience in a public school. I could construct an even longer list of


times where stuff like this is happening and a plaintiff for a lawsuit cannot be found due to fear of bullying or reprisal of some kind from the religious students and their communities. Ask Damon Fowler how a religious community, including the administrators at a school, can turn and work to destroy the life of a single student who does something as sensible as ask his administrators to obey the law.

Religions do not win by the merit of their ideas. They win by being ideological bullies. They do not play fair.

Christian legal advocates counter that such plain violations are far less common than the opposite problem: overzealous officials trying to cleanse the schools of religion, punishing students for protected speech like personal prayer or handing out devotional messagesmarket share — nearly 70% of the U.S. market, compared to Lyft’s nearly 30% — and has a significantly larger international coverage map than its competitor.

On the other hand, Lyft has maintained a far cleaner reputation than Uber, which was plagued with scandal after scandal since the #DeleteUber backlash of 2017.

Beyond these notable differences, the two rideshare giants do offer extremely similar services, particularly in the United States and Canada.

Their customer acquisition marketing strategies are quite similar. When Lyft introduces a new driver promotion , Uber does the same . When Lyft offers new users huge amounts of free ride credit , Uber also gives their riders account credit on the house .

When choosing between Uber and Lyft for your next ride, the smaller differences may have a


most to you, it may even depend on the exact time of day. Of course, you always have the option to use both services, or choose another one entirely.

Brett Helling is the owner of Ridester.com. He has been a rideshare driver since early 2012, having completed hundreds of trips for companies including Uber, Lyft, and Postmates. In 2014 he acquired Ridester.com to share his experiences with other drivers. His insights are regularly quoted by publications such as Forbes, Vice, CNBC, and more. He is currently working on a book about working in the Gig Economy, expanding his skill set beyond the rideshare niche. Read more about Brett here.Cosmo has no father. His mother has lunacy fringe dependency issues, demonstrated by her constant beratement and sabotage of her son, Cosmo.
Cosmo, as a result, lives a life of self-deprecation and attention gathering, enter his desire for Wanda's company, and his inability to accept Jimmy's mortality.

Wanda is a very successful fairy who cares too much. As a result, she feels that she cannot leave the broken individuals, Cosmo and Jimmy, at her own emotional expense.

Jimmy's father is a smart man whose ambitions came to a sudden halt when his wife accidentally conceived Jimmy. As a result, he constantly strives to regain his youthful visage--hipness and success. He recognizes the success of his neighbors, that they don't have kids, and therefore constantly blames his failure on his child, while


also aiming to achieve success in greater measure than his neighbors.

There's an episode where Timmy is harrassed by a third party who continuously calls him Jimmy.

There's an episode where Jimmy catches the bitch red handed in a comic book store wearing a disguise and purchasing a comic book.

There're many episodes where she displays affection for Jimmy. A great example is when he invites many people to his house for a big party and abuses Cosmo and Wanda to get party effects. Those invited arrive at Jimmy's house to find that it is exactly that, a house. Here it is important to note that only the viewer, Jimmy, and Jimmy's godparents know that Jimmy does not have a mansion, because reasons.

It is also important to note that everybody, whenthey see that Jimmy's house is indeed just a house--not a mansion--they all leave in disappointment. That is except for one person, Jimmy's crush.

While being chauffeured to Jimmy's, Jimmy's crush was looking out the window at Jimmy's house. Even having known that Jimmy did not own a mansion, she still wanted to celebrate with Jimmy. But, when the crowd disapproves of Jimmy's living establishment, Jimmy's crush feels that she can't but follow suit and leave. And yet she is the only one to say goodbye. She, bless her bitchy heart, sneaks back to give Jimmy a kiss and verbally understate her affection for him.


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Julia’s and my friendship loosened as the years went by. Her mother fought and eventually won a protracted battle against cancer. Julia was popular in high school, with a string of serious relationships. She went to college close to home and played varsity lacrosse as a freshman. She seemed to excel, and she seemed happy, but my ignorance of her inner life could be construed as proof of her emotional struggle. Maybe inside she was corroded, desperate, permanently damaged. Maybe our friendship dissolved in part because I, at 12, was not as supportive as I should have been when she told me about that day on the couch. Or maybe she was as content and as successful as the circumstances of her life indicate. We


Kamala Harris of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey, are expected to announce in the coming weeks, joining a field that could grow to dozens. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the former vice president, has also told associates he intends to make a decision this month and has been leaning toward running.

While she has a high profile in the news media, Ms. Gillibrand is not well known among Democratic voters nationally. In a Quinnipiac University poll last month, 64 percent of Democrats said they did not yet know enough about her to form an opinion.

As a senator, Ms. Gillibrand has relied on a tightly knit team of advisers who have counseled her for years, helping her navigate her appointment to the Senate in 2009, a special election toRelated BBC sites

New MP diaries: The first three weeks

The largest number of new MPs have begun work at Westminster for a generation, but what is it really like behind the scenes? Five of them told their stories to BBC Radio 4.

RORY STEWART - Conservative MP for Penrith and the Border

Before becoming an MP, Rory Stewart has worked as an author and academic.

He was even briefly a part of the British Army in the Black Watch and then a diplomat for the Foreign Office in Montenegro in the wake of the Kosovo war.

Before the election he spent six weeks hiking though his future constituency. He was born in Hong Kong and is 37 years old.

WEEK ONE: Last night was the most dramatic event I think I've ever witnessed.

It was


in the 1922 committee room, incredible, as you can imagine, panelled oaked room with pictures of Gladstone at the back and so many Conservative MPs gathered in that room that I ended up sitting on the floor cross-legged in the middle of the aisle with all these people sitting around.

It felt a little bit like I had turned up at a dance and somehow was wearing the wrong kind of shoes

Rory Stewart

When Cameron came into the room there was this incredible clattering and thumping as people banged the tables really, really hard.

David Cameron then sat there for about an hour, talking through the options available for a coalition with the Liberal Democrats and you could see the faces of the young MPs, myself and over 100 people whoLabour side because, of course, all the Lib Dems are sitting on the same side of us.

So across the aisle are these young Labour people. I've got a friend called Tristram Hunt (MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central), who I like very much, who is sitting over there.

He was sitting next to a very glamorous looking person called Gloria De Piero (MP for Ashfield), who's a celebrity TV journalist, and I went over to talk to them afterwards. They seem to be quite young, quite informal - quite a fun group.

I actually had a very good conversation with some of them though I must confess there was a moment I thought, when I was talking to Luciana Berger (MP for Liverpool Wavertree), that when I told her I was a


Tory she didn't seem so keen on talking to me anymore.

It felt a little bit like I had turned up at a dance and somehow was wearing the wrong kind of shoes.

DAVID WARD - Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East

David Ward has been involved in politics on a local level for over 20 years.

Before becoming an MP he worked for Leeds Metropolitan University. He has lived in Bradford with his wife for over 30 years.

WEEK ONE: So today was the first day of my term as a Member of Parliament. I came down on the train this morning and I was far more nervous than I expected to be.

I woke up this morning and there were 2,466 emails from those campaigners who are trying to make sure thatwe push for PR and hold to our election commitments.

I was met at the station by Holly, who works in the Whips office, and treated as if I was a very special person - lots of staff around, men in long tails and white bow ties and shown around and it was a wonderful experience but so surreal to think that this thing had actually happened.

I had an early start with Look North doing a piece on new boys in Parliament - two Tories, two Labour and myself. We were stood around for a while waiting for a reporter to set up. I still find it easier to just go across and chat to the two Labour MPs than the Tories.

I still find it easier to just go


what tomorrow brings.

WEEK THREE: It's been quite a lively day today, the day of the Queen's Speech. For me it was a very, very extraordinary day, all from the way in which the Queen arrived to the House of Lords this morning, the pageantry, the cavalry, the horses. It was absolutely fantastic.

I'm not a great Royalist but to see this display was quite fascinating and I must say really, really enjoyable.

SARAH WOLLASTON - Conservative MP for Totnes

Before becoming an MP, Sarah Wollaston worked for many years as a GP.

She won the UK's first open primary election, with all the voters in the constituency entitled to vote for a Conservative candidate. She courted controversy when she told the Guardian that she spent a lot of time with girls whobest not to take yourself too seriously.

CHI ONWURAH - Labour MP for Newcastle Central

Chi Onwurah worked for Ofcom before she became an MP.

She was born in the UK but moved to Nigeria as a small child until, two years later, civil war broke out and she returned to the UK. She is Newcastle's first ever black MP. She is 45 years old.

WEEK ONE: Today has to be the strangest day of my life.

I got the train down from Newcastle to London and there was a little bit of a new start of term atmosphere but also some foreboding - the tweets coming through about the progress with the LibLab pack or lack of it.

Received about 500 emails asking us to support a LibLab pact and arrived in London


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Fortunately, Bouncy is doing just fine now. Her owners refer to her as the most expensive golfball can they've ever owned. And she doesn't get to chase golfballs anymore.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Dartmoor Roxey the tame barn owl, above, seemed relieved to be found after surviving for four days in the wild. When she was found by a passing motorist she hopped on to his arm and flew into his van as soon as he opened the door.

George Hedges, who has hand-reared the two-year-old bird since she was five days old, said: “I think she was saying ‘take me home’.”

The bird had no experience of hunting


for her own food or avoiding predators, but managed to travel 20 miles with leather straps still fastened round her legs.

Roxey escaped from the back of a horsebox travelling at 50mph on a motorway. Mr Hedges, who runs Devon’s Eagles, a falconry centre on Dartmoor, was forced to brake sharply, loosening the catch on the owl’s cage. She sat on the back of the horsebox for 20 miles then launched into space, narrowly avoiding being run over and crashing into a grass banking near Salisbury. Other drivers flagged down Mr Hedges.

He said: “We went back to try and find her but there was no sign. I feared the worst.”

For four days Mr Hedges heard nothing, then he had a call to say that a couple had found theowl.

He said: “When I went to pick her up she flew straight out of the cage she was in and into my hands.”

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Saturday, October 4, 2008

I walked in a room the other day to be greeted by not only the real-life representation of Cujo but also of Cletus the Slack-jawed Yokel of Simpson's fame. While digesting the irony of being faced with two caricatures in the same room, I had the more immediate problem of what to do with this case.

The presenting complaint was that "he gots the puppy mange." While essentially all I could see of Cujo was his hugely dilated eyes as he stared me down with all of his 100 lbs of 1 year old St. Bernard, I could also see the


access to some antifreeze, but the owners weren't certain. Though his kidney values stayed hugely elevated and his kidneys actually stopped working altogether despite aggressive treatment (he became almost anuric -- he didn't produce nearly the amount of urine he should have, given the liters of fluids I was giving to his through an IV) and he continued to refuse to eat, he still would walk with a wag in his tail and would greet everyone at the clinic with a happy Golden grin. On ultrasound, his kidneys were vaguely the shape they should be, but the architecture was completely destroyed. I sent his blood to another laboratory to make sure that I was getting accurate numbers. What little urine he did have even before fluids was likewho didn't watch the race know that the undefeated favorite Big Brown won the race handily while the second-place finisher, favorite filly Eight Belles suffered an ultimately life-ending injury after the race had finished. The official report is that she broke her two front "ankles" (actually called "fetlocks" or the metacarpophalangeal joint) and had to be euthanised on the track.

There are many questions about the racing industry being raised, all of which have been asked before with no good answers as yet. Questions about the safety of the track surfaces, the breeding practices that have lead to the Thoroughbred of today, the age the horses are run, the training routine, the running of fillies against colts, the relative short time between the 3 Triple Crown races are continually


as dramatic as in vet medicine.

In the past four decades, the number of women enrolled in colleges of veterinary medicine has skyrocketed from about 140 to 8,000. Women's increasing confidence in math and science is giving them a new edge in the fiercely competitive admissions process, experts say. In the mid-1970s, three-quarters of all students were male. Now the numbers are reversed.

When UC-Davis Professor Carol Cardona graduated from vet school in 1990, she drove eight hours to apply for a job at a dairy farm. "I didn't even get to be interviewed by the vet," she

said. "I was interviewed by his wife. The big question was: 'Why do I want to work with cows?'

"At the time, everyone said that a woman isn't strong enough to handle a cow.most demanding horse-related disciplines, physically and mentally. It involves dressage, cross-country jumping and stadium jumping events over the course of 3 days.

I read today about a tragedy that occurred yesterday on the event course. A horse by the name of "Frodo Baggins" was euthanized after sustaining a skull fracture and a "major lung injury" when he flipped over a jump on the cross-country course. Frodo's rider, Laine Ashker, was hospitalized, but consious and able to move all of her extremities. Frodo and Laine were ranked third in the nation in the eventing world, and were on the short-list for representing the US at the Olympics later this year.

A strange twist to this story that I found out is that Frodo, a 12-year old Thoroughbred from New Zealand, was


areas it is cheaper to get a tiger cub than a purebred dog. If some of these animals (most of whom have an unknown genetic heritage) prove genetically valuable, that could greatly help the overall health of all tigers, and may bring some of the most threatened subspecies some much-needed genetic diversity.

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

This link has some pretty neat pictures of a peregrine falcon in San Jose and a little chick. Peregrines have been released into urban environments in several areas of the country, and are thriving in high-rises. The main reason is likely fairly simple: plentiful pigeons!

Sunday, April 20, 2008

Last summer and fall, my horse Yoshi had a rough time. After moving from Ames, he dropped a lot of weight, had a nasty hoof abscess, andand (2) the healthier their species, the healthier are other species that live in their habitat.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Just an update for interested parties: Our new dachshund, Waldi (history and pictures posted here), is doing fantastic. Though he will always be smaller than the average mini dachshund, he is doing great! He turned 6 months old this month (and now weighs almost 7 pounds!), and it is amazing to compare the pictures of him from then!

Saturday, March 29, 2008

"Texas' "first free bite" rule — allowing dog owners to escape most legal liability if a previously gentle dog attacks — does not free owners from the responsibility of stopping an attack once it begins, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

The unanimous and emphatic opinion reversed two


no previous indication that the pet was potentially violent. The so-called first-free-bite rule penalizes owners who know their pet is dangerous but limits legal liability for those who reasonably believe their dog poses no risk to others."

Monday, March 24, 2008

"A man hoping to cheer up an ailing relative at Wilcox Memorial Hospital hadn't considered one of the visitation rules: No horses allowed.

The man thought the patient would enjoy seeing his stallion, said Lani Yukimura, a spokeswoman at the hospital. He and the horse entered the hospital earlier this month and rode an elevator up to the third floor, where they were met and stopped by security personnel.

Security managed to get the man and the horse out of the hospital, with "just a few scuff marks," she said.

The hospitalhas a pet visitation policy, but it's for dogs and cats, not horses.

"On Kauai, we have a very warm inviting atmosphere at Wilcox," Yukimura said. "We just hope people understand this is not a place for a horse."

The man's good intentions were further dashed when his relative was brought out to see the horse.

Saturday, March 15, 2008

The title says it all! "Don and Carol Ivey Ratcliffe, who live in Ontario, Canada, began looking for their homebred 3-year-old Paso Fino filly named Kayla at feeding time one morning, but were unable to find her. Finally they heard the filly whinny and found her trapped in a hole under a 1,200-pound metal feed bin in freezing cold temperatures. The owners exhausted their options within an hour and called in the


trays, partitioned into columns, to store the products to be vended.
Typically, after a consumer makes the requisite payment and enters the desired selection on the selector panel, the forward-most product from the selected column is ejected or dislodged and the product drops freely into a delivery hopper at the bottom of the machine. The space that the product falls through is the area between the fronts of the columns and the back of the glass front, commonly referred to as the vend space.
It is important that vending machines operate in a reliable manner and provide consumers with the selected product without the need to expend unusual effort to obtain the product. With this said, there exists various events that can compromise the reliability of vending machine operations. ForRanchi: Union minister Jayant Sinha welcomed and feted eight men convicted in the Ramgarh lynching case in Jharkhand after they were released on bail on Thursday, triggering a political storm as the opposition accused him and the BJP of fanning communal tensions deliberately.

The life sentences handed to the eight men, including BJP functionary, was suspended by the high court and they walked out of the Jai Prakash Narain Central Jail and headed straight to the residence of Sinha, where the minister garlanded them. The convicts were led by local BJP leader Amardeep Yadav, who is also the OBC Morcha president of the party.

Lashing out at the minister, Former Jharkhand CM and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren told News18 that it was a very sensitive issue and


what Sinha did was absolutely unbecoming of a union minister.

Jharkhand state Congress Chief Ajoy Kumar accused BJP of fanning communal sentiments as the Raghubar Das government in the state and Narendra Modi government at the Centre failed to deliver on their promises.

“Any kind of support to such elements is deplorable. This is the true color of BJP. They just want to win election and for that their leaders can cross any limit,” Ajoy Kumar told News18.

A mob of more than 100 cow vigilantes had on June 27 last year hacked cattle trader Alimuddin Ansari to death in broad daylight in Ramgarh area of Hazaribagh ditrict. Sinha represents the Hazaribagh seat in Lok Sabha.

The gruesome lynching had shook the nation and the case was handed over to a fast-trackOpen House Meeting at North Point Library on Wednesday, November 12 from 7pm to 8:30. The meeting will allow participants to learn and provide feedback related to striping bike lanes on Dundalk Avenue and other improvements for development of a Dundalk Bicycle Loop. Learn more at the Baltimore County Bike Project website.

Spain and Portugal Tour

BBC member Stuart Bonning recently traveled with a few fellow cyclists from around North America on a self-contained bike trip across Spain and Portugal. Pictured above is Stuart's view from his bike while leaving Toledo. Find out more about the trip in Stuart's report.

Remembering Lee Fleishman

Lee Fleishman was a regular on the Seniors rides and he and his wife, Ruth, were active cyclists and regular volunteers at various BBC events. Lee also served as


a volunteer ranger on the Northern Central Trail, as seen in the photo. This photo was taken at the dedication of the drinking fountain, etc., at the Paper Mill Road entrance to the trail Sept. 16, 2005. The BBC was a major contributor to the cost of the well and drinking fountain. In the photo Lee Fleishman is flanked by Frank Anders on the left and Russell Loy on the right.Updated at 11:58 p.m. EST, Jan. 2, 2008

A female suicide bomber struck Baquba for the second time this week and only a day after a major bombing in Baghdad. The recent surge in bombings coincides with a message from Osama bin Laden threatening an increase in such attacks against Awakening Councils. Overall, at least 67 Iraqis were killed and 55 were wounded. No Coalition deaths were reported.

In Baquba, a female suicide bomber targeted an Awakening Council checkpoint in the Naaquba al-Jadida neighborhood, killing as many as 10 people and wounding 28 others; women were among the casualties. The U.S. military said the bomber was male and gave lower casualty figures. Meanwhile, U.S. forces killed two suspects and detained seven more during security operations.

In Baghdad, police increased the toll


from yesterday’s bombing by six deaths, up from the 30 killed previously reported. An IED near Shabb Stadium in the Zayouna district left five wounded. Three suspects were killed and 28 were detained during security operations; three security personnel were killed and two more were wounded. Five children and an adult were shot to death in their minivan. Also, three dumped bodies were found.

U.S. forces in Mosul accidentally killed a woman when a missile meant for a group of people planting a roadside bomb went off-course. In the al-Baath neighborhood, a roadside bomb wounded a policeman. A police officer was killed and two were wounded during clashes in the al-Mithaq.

Gunmen killed two brothers, a soldier and a policeman, at their home in al-Hay.

A roadside bomb in Abu Saidakilled a civilian last night. Also, an Iraqi soldier was wounded during a mortar attack.

North of Basra in al-Abla, gunmen wounded two civilians.

Near Jalawla, three suspects were killed and one was wounded during security operations.

A police officer was killed and six were injured during an ambush in Salah ad Din province. Three police commandos were also injured. Among the injured was the Al Salam Iraqi Police commander. During overnight operations, 15 suspects, a policeman and two civilians were killed.

Three gunmen were captured in Hawija.

Gunmen killed six people and wounded three others in Muqdadiyah.

In Hanash, eight suspects were detained.

Across Iraq, 201 detainees were released for lack of evidence against them.

The Basra Security Committee released figures on the number of women killed last year. Of the 133 women killed in


Basra, 79 were murdered for violating Sharia law and the others died in honor killings. Separately, a mortar attack on the British base at the airport left no casualties.

Meanwhile, the International Federation of Journalists reported that 65 journalists were killed across Iraq during 2007. The figure represents nearly a third of deaths worldwide.

Compiled by Margaret GriffisHe's following in the family's hospitality footsteps as parents Franco and Kim Sanna founded the long-established Franco's restaurant in the town.

Domenico said: "Being able to take my passion for beer and now sharing that with other people is fantastic.

"I'm really excited to have opened up and I can't thank the tradespeople, my friends and family enough."

With eight craft ales on tap and an extensive beer bottles range in the fridges Domenico said he hopes it will give people something different.

Domenico Sanna behind the bar of Tap Select

The 33-year-old said: "There used to be the Ossy run as I was growing up and that's coming back now.

"I want Tap Select to stand out from everything else you have in the town and I think we're doing that.

"There's some great


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The Burundian National Health Information System (NHIS) consists of three levels: the peripheral level (SD) with HC and district hospitals (DH); the intermediate level (SP) with regional


of Afghanistan where over 35 percent of the population resides.

Taliban jihadis generate most of their funding, estimated in the hundreds of millions, from trafficking and cultivating opium and heroin. Although the United States has devoted nearly $9 billion on counternarcotics operations since the war began, Afghanistan remains the world’s top supplier of opium and heroin, a small portion of which is making its way onto U.S. streets amid the historic opioid crises.

The strength and influence of the Taliban reached unprecedented proportions under the previous administration and have continued to grow amid the peace talks to the detriment of the Afghan government.

Citing “suspicious” actions by international organizations during a vaccination drive, the Taliban on Thursday announced a “ban” on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and thecountry in October 2001.

Trump administration officials have made the negotiated reconciliation between the Taliban and Kabul the primary tenet of the president’s strategy to end the war.

Reconciliation may grant the terrorist group the opportunity to return to power. Taliban jihadis have long maintained they will only talk to Kabul after the complete withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan.

Last month, negotiations yielded two draft agreements — the withdrawal of U.S.-led foreign forces and assurances from the Taliban that it will not allow Afghanistan to serve as a sanctuary for anti-American international terrorists like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).

U.S. and Taliban negotiators are scheduled to resume peace talks in late April to try to reach an agreement on a timeline for foreign forces to exit Afghanistan in exchange for


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Piccolo is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball metaseries. He is considered both the son and reincarnation of Demon King Piccolo and was spawned to save himself from certain death at the hands of Son Goku. Like his father, he appears as a tall green humanoid creature with pointy ears. After his narrow defeat against Goku, Piccolo is soon forced to form an at first uneasy alliance with Goku and his friends against newer, more dangerous threats. Out of necessity he also takes it upon himself to train Goku's child Son Gohan, forming a powerful bond which ultimately redeems him when he(Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Mayors show their BCHL community pride and take up “The Jersey Challenge”)

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In countless instances each year, our teams partner with local and provincial charities to give back. As well, the BCHL considers public service and community service to be two of the most vital aspects in developing good players and great people.

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recommendation of the royal commissioners. They issue the same _Directions_
as before. _After_ you have obtained admission to the reading-room, you are
furnished with instructions as to the mode of obtaining it!--but you have
no guide to the numerous catalogues.

What Mr. Antonio Panizzi, the keeper of the department of printed books,
says _might be done_, Mr. Richard Sims, of the department of manuscripts,
says _shall be done_. His _Handbook to the library of the British Museum_
is a very comprehensive and instructive volume. It is a triumphant
refutation of the opinions of those who, to the vast injury of literature,
and serious inconvenience of men of letters, slight common sense and real
utility in favour of visionary schemes and pedantic elaboration.

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_The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis,
translated with Notes, and the Introduction of Guizot_, by Thomas
Forrester, M.A. Vol. I., is a new volume of the interesting Series of
Translations of the early _Church Historians of England_ publishing by Mr.
Bohn, to which we propose calling the especial attention of our readers at
some future period. The importance which our French neighbours attach to
the writings of Ordericus Vitalis is shown by the fact that the French
Historical Society, after publishing a translation, areof the
great Authors of our Literature, including especially those which at
present exist only in scarce or expensive Editions. Among the early Volumes
will be GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, with VARIORUM NOTES,
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also the Notes of Guizot, Wenck, and other Foreign Editors, as well as
whatever has been derived from the later Researches of Niebuhr, Layard, &c.
A Portrait of the Author and Plates, whenever essential as Illustrations,
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published in the STANDARD LIBRARY.

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BRITISH CLASSICS, to enable the Publisher, without farther delay, to
fructify a long cherished scheme, the Standard, Scientific, Antiquarian,
Illustrated, Classical, Philological,


to celebrate diversity.

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But the survey was not necessarily showing the whole picture. There were other groups facing systemic discrimination, he said.

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"I'm proud of New Zealand to have recognised that discrimination."

The HumanRights Commission received 573 complaints about unlawful discrimination, incitement and harassment on the grounds of race, colour, ethnicity or national origin in 2012.

A Statistics NZ report in 2012 found 6 per cent of respondents had faced racial discrimination in the previous 12 months.


to deliver results, the trust in our diplomats to bring peace, and faith in our citizens’ patience to see our Nation to victory.

LTG (Ret) Keith Kellogg is Assistant to the President, Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council. A highly decorated Vietnam War Veteran, he served over 30 years in the United States Army to include serving as Commanding General of the U.S. Army’s elite 82d Airborne Division and as the Director for Command, Control and Communications on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff. He joined the Trump Campaign as a National Security advisor in February of 2016.An earthquake measuring 5.1 in magnitude hit the US state of Oklahoma in the Midwest on Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported.

The tremor was registered just after 11 am local time (5 pm GMT). A 3.9-magnitude aftershock was reported 10 minutes later.

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There have been no immediate reports of damage or casualties.

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he has a brawl on his hands but, again, there's no gilt-edge assurance.

"It's a real honest-to-goodness grudge match," is what he says. "There's no love lost between them. Maybe it's the kind of a fight we can build on to bring the game back and put it on more of a continuing basis."

Any good promotion needs a "hook" to create interest so Elbaum endeavoring to exploit Westport (Van Kirk) vs. Lower Govans (Pettway). But that old street-corner refrain takes us back to a time when neighborhood pride was based on something so dubious as boasts of "our fighter can beat your fighter."

Buddy Ey, an investigator in the office of the State's Attorney, knows more in-depth history of Baltimore boxing than any man alive. He remembers some of thosemighty neighborhood and ethnic rivalries of yesteryear. Grudge matches, too.

"No question that's how it used to be," he said. "Where the fighters lived often reflected at the box office. Remember Irish Billy Carrigan of Canton and Charley Chaney of Fells Point? Or how about Johnny Shkor of Sparrows Point and Johnny Kapovich of Fells Point? It was the battle of the Points. Shkor scored a four-round knockout back in about 1940.

"Pete Galiano and Bucky Taylor, one Italian, the other Jewish, fought four times, the last one for the state and Southern lightweight titles. That happened all the time back then, maybe over 40, 50 years ago."

Baltimore was once regarded among the most active boxing centers of the country, with two and sometimes three pro cards a week. They


done once they left and went on their way. Not at all. Once they get into the sticky situation, he's right there, and he has tons of funny anecdotes and goofy faces, everything you'd want from a Busey flick.

People often ask me, "who's your favorite Star Wars character?" That's right, Lando Calrissian, played by one Mr. William December Williams. He's going to be 75 this year. 75! To put it in perspective, five days before he turns 75, I'll be 33, which was the same age he was when The Empire Strikes Back was released in 1980. Even in this he was closing in of fifty-- and fifty after it was released-- and he was still as cool as the other side of the pillow. As a fellowself-indulgence that seem to plague so many Film Noir efforts made after the mid-90s. Overall though, the pros outweighed the cons. The cast was pretty good; the story, when it was allowed to be told without breaks, worked; Banderas was perfect as the lead; and it had this unique inclusion of physics references mixed in. I also really liked the use of color, some of the shots were really striking. Definitely worth checking out.

Most of my Antonio Banderas experience comes in his Pedro Almodovar flicks, which are all fantastic, and which he's is great in all of. He was much younger in those of course (except the recent The Skin I Live In), and the roles are much more off-beat than what he did here in the States,


being a corporate shill, he's waxing poetic about some mythical blue collar way of life that's just dripping hypocrisy considering the big business source. Anyway, it was good that his character in this was totally full of shit. It was as if the character was based on the real him-- here's this pompous ass spouting off this "better than thou" BS, and in the end is revealed for who he is. Whatever happened to the legendary bouncer mentor from Road House? Maybe when "it was tails", it killed more than just his character, it killed his tact too.

I took physics as an undergrad when I started out as an electrical engineering major. The final didn't have partial credit, and as a freshman, I was living off of partialseen this movie and seen how the character getting angry when people didn't call him Joseph was played for laughs, would he have still insisted on the name change? One thing people don't realize about the Ricky/Rick Schroeder situation, was that that was an accident. A buddy had radio hosts Mark and Bryan give him a wake up call on his birthday, and when he answered the phone and they asked if he was Ricky Schroeder, he responded "yeah, this is Rick", and they thought he was correcting them and they made the big deal about it. Maybe that's what happened with Joey "Joseph" Lawrence too. Did Joey McIntyre ever convert to "Joe" or "Joseph" too?

I want to go back to the idea of the average guy who's


turned into a hero over a few days. It's always been silly to me, and often needlessly so. In this film, for instance, Josh Charles's character was given this crystal as his birthright from his father, and even though his father died when he was young, his mother knew all about it. How hard would it have been to have had his mom send him to the Marines so he could learn how to fight, or at the very least take a few Judo lessons. Then, when all this crap happens, instead of expecting us to believe the guy that five minutes ago was whining and freaked out actually has something legitimate to bring to the table, at least there's something in his background that makes sense. Otherwise,if we're getting an average everyday guy kind of character, keep it consistent, maybe have him whine and freak out less as the film goes on, but have the female lead, who we know can fight, continue to be the hero.

Jack Black has a small cameo as one of Josh Charles's boozing buddies. Not as cool as his appearance on Yo Gabbah Gabbah!, but still pretty sweet. He crushes a beer can on his forehead, and yells a lot, but in that funny Jack Black sort of way. When he did this one, he was only a few years away from breaking out and becoming the big star he is today. As an aside, this is not the first Jack Black film we've done at the DTVC. He


only a had a small part. She had a much bigger part here, and was even better with it. One could make the argument that she spent most of the film bound and gagged, so it's not like she did a lot of acting in those scenes, but I think that meant she had to make that much more out of the scenes where she wasn't, and she did that. Towards the end when she wasn't tied up, she manages to be coquettish and seductive, despite her hair being a mess, and having red marks on her face from the gag that make her look like she had trouble drinking Kool-Aid. Her performance was the lynch pin on which the film was held, and while it was thedirection and cinematography that made that work in the early going when we just had shots of her tied up on the bed, later, when she needed to take over, she did it in a way that picked up perfectly from what had been built earlier.

That's not to take away anything from the other performances in the film, because they were solid too. Alan Perada played what was ultimately the main character. What I didn't like about his character was that early on, the story focused more on his partner, and things would've felt more consistent if they'd focused more on him. Once his character transitions near the 45-minute mark, it worked better for me, though he was able to make both ends of his character come off,


the mysterious, perhaps sinister silent type, and then the concerned, love-struck, caring criminal. Alonzo F. Jones plays Perada's partner in crime, and while his character is kind of inconsistent too, it makes more sense with who he's supposed to be. And like Perada, he's good at playing both ends of the spectrum, and the transitions are believable. Finally, in the Monsters review I also praised Annemarie Pazmino for her small part as the make-up artist, and while she only has a small part in this too, it was good again. She just has a real natural quality to her acting, that I even noticed in a joke behind the scenes video of Trap that Jason posted on his blog.

Bondage and kidnapping fantasies have been in the news recently,had the feel of a low budget flick that can't afford a costume designer, and just has people show up in whatever and shoots the scene anyway. In the credits I saw that they did have a costume designer though, a woman named Maxi Priest (not the singer), so who knows. It was one of the few areas where the movie betrayed itself though.

SPOILER ALERT!!! SPOILER ALERT!!!I wanted to discuss an aspect of the ending, but wanted to make sure that people who wanted to see the film would have sufficient warning to avoid this paragraph so it wouldn't ruin things for them. Consider yourself warned, read on at your own risk. My issue was that Ashton's character is killed by Jones near the end. Part of it


Moon Reviews, and fan of the New York Football Giants. The bet: the fan of the winning team gets to pick a movie for the loser to review, and Fred gave me this one, a low-budget slasher flick with Teen Star Chad Allen and Joey "Joseph" Lawrence. Let the pain commence.

Do You Wanna Know a Secret? is about a group of affluent kids who attend a small Connecticut liberal arts college, and go to Florida for Spring Break to party it up. Haunting one of the girls in the group is the grisly murder of her boyfriend however many years before, and when a kid that's giving her a hard time at a rave is murdered, FBI detective Jeff Conaway thinks there's a connection. Then when the restis the late Jeff Conaway. In '01 he was probably having a tough time, probably fighting his demons and his addictions, which were all well documented. That's probably why he wasn't in the movie more-- and maybe why so much of the first hour was so boring, because Conaway was absent throughout that-- which is too bad, because he was pretty sweet as the hard boiled detective trying to crack this old case that's haunted him for years. I love Conaway, and I love seeing him in anything, so he was a welcomed addition here. Rest in peace Jeff Conaway, you were one of the good ones.

This is currently available on Watch Instantly. I don't know, it depends on how much 90s nostalgia you have a hankering for,


too and performed accordingly. Elements like the 1920s musical aesthetic blended in and enhanced the atmosphere, as opposed to standing out and being the kind of thing the movie patted itself on the back for-- which is usually what brings a film like this down, and fortunately didn't here. For me, all of this worked, and I really enjoyed it.

Woody Harrelson has always been an interesting case in Hollywood. Even when he broke out in the early 90s after his run on Cheers, his roles ran the gamut from White Men Can't Jump to Indecent Proposal to Natural Born Killers, and that was something that didn't change like you'd expect after he became one of the bigger leading men in Hollywood, which I've always liked about him. Myleading lady are past her, she isn't totally relegated to DTV-dom either, with the most recent film she was in, the ensemble piece Margin Call, nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay.

Among the other co-stars, there's Ron Perlman, who I mentioned above. He's rocking some gray dreadlocks, as if he's the older guy that works at the local record store (tell me, doesn't every decent sized town in America have that guy working at their local record store?). He's great though as the head baddie, equal parts sinister and tired warrior. His second in command is played by Kevin McKidd, who I remember as Tommy from Trainspotting, but imdb also lists as starring in Grey's Anatomy. I don't know if he's a trained martial artist, or if


they made heavy use of stunt doubles, but either way, he was an equally great baddie, a combination of swordsman and Gestapo head. Then we had Gackt, a Japanese pop singer, who played Yoshi. He looked kind of like Michael Jackson in his Dangerous days, only with a bigger nose. Again, like McKidd, I don't know what kind of martial artist he is in real life, but whether it was a stunt double or him, he was very believable as the hero. Finally, his uncle is played by Shun Sugata. He's been in things like Ichi the Killer and Tokyo Gore Police, so I'm sure for some of our readers he'd be more recognizable than he would for others.

Finally, I can't complete this review without discussing Josh Hartnett.New Daughter. You may remember, back when I did box office bomb posts, that we looked at Waterworld, so this isn't Costner's first trip at the DTVC rodeo. When I had in mind to do this week of big screen stars in DTV flicks, I was looking for a fourth film, and saw this one reviewed at Deadly Dolls House of Horror Nonsense. It was obvious that I as the Direct to Video Connoisseur hadn't been doing his due diligence, because this bad boy had totally slipped past my radar. I think I'm losing my edge.

The New Daughter has Costner as a writer/father that moves his daughter and son to a remote South Carolina town. At first he thinks his daughter's (played by Ivana Baquero from Pan's Labyrinth)


wear the number 99. Gretzky wore 99, he was the greatest of all time, so everyone else leaves it alone out of respect for what he did for the game. The same thing should be done with copping any element of the Psycho shower scene in horror films. Just lay off it, you're not doing yourself any favors.

We had a solid supporting cast in this one, including Ivana Baquero, whom I mentioned above. It was actually too bad she had to go through the whole being possessed thing, because she would've made a great, nuanced teen daughter in the family drama. In the scenes when she wasn't possessed early on, she and Costner played off each other great. We also had Samantha Mathis as a teacher at thelocal school who befriends Costner. She would've also been great as Costner's new love interest as he finally moves on after his wife dumped him, had they gone with the family drama. Then there was the woefully underused Noah Taylor as the professor that was an expert in burial mounds. Seriously, his character was an after thought, he did nothing to contribute, which is a waste of Taylor. Finally, Erik Palladino has a few scenes as the local sheriff. Gotta love Erik Palladino. I remember in the late 90s when he had long hair and worked as a VJ for MTV, holding it down at the Beach House-- does MTV still do the summer Beach House? Probably not, considering they don't show videos anymore.

It's strictly by coincidence that


Gere's rap sheet. Starred in some of the most iconic films of the last 30-35 years, including American Gigolo, An Officer and a Gentleman, Pretty Woman, and 2002's best picture winning Chicago; in the 90s, had the hottest woman in the game wearing his chain in supermodel Cindy Crawford; and for Unfaithful and The Mothman Prophecies, made $15 million each. One thing I noticed right away here, is that he's still got it. First scene, he's at a little league game talking to one of the mothers, and all the game is still there, he's still very much leading man he was back then. I don't know that this movie is more a blip than a trend for him though, because he is over 60, and leading rolesin it much, Sheen playing the head of the CIA, and Hassan playing the baddie. They both give this more of a DTV feel though, because we've seen the two of them here at the DTVC before. We also had Castle's Stana Katic as a Russian prostitute interrogated by Gere somewhat violently (I wonder, though, if that was a career highlight for her, having Richard Gere pinning her to the ground with a gun to her head and yelling at her-- it would be for me) and Christopher Marquette as Grace's partner at the FBI offices. Finally, I had to mention Odette Yustman (now Annable), who plays Grace's wife. You might remember her from The Unborn-- or rather, her butt from The Unborn. The movie was sold primarily


onto video, but close enough. The article also discussed if this meant the beginning of the end for Cage and Kidman as far as carrying a film in the modern movie market. I think this is more of a blip, at least for Cage, but we'll see.

Trespass has Cage as a very wealthy diamond dealer who lives in a very nice house with his wife, Nicole Kidman, and teenage daughter. Their world is turned upside-down when a group of thugs break in and hold the family hostage, looking for millions of dollars in diamonds they think he has. Cage is a little wilier than they expect though, and things begin to unravel as loyalties are tested and nerves are wracked. Who will get the upper hand in thiswon't make a lot of money. It's as if he does his Family Man and Knowing so he can afford to make his Bad Lieutenant and Trespass.

Nicole Kidman has a similar rap sheet. Also an Oscar winner, and up until about 2008's Australia she commanded about $15 million per picture, making her one of Hollywood's most expensive leading ladies. That year's important, because in 2007 she turned 40, and we all know Hollywood doesn't like its leading ladies north of 40. It seems then, based on her imdb bio, that she's playing the lead in films like this and Rabbit Hole-- for which she was nominated again for an Oscar, and one of my favorites of 2010--, then taking supporting parts in bigger grossing pics like the Billy


mentioning Ben Mendelsohn. He was absolutely chilling in Animal Kingdom, every scene he was in was just dripping with menace. I was a little disappointed here, not with him, but with the way his character was written, because it's kind of all over the place, and betrays a lot of what he builds up early on. I'm sure my Aussie readers are much more familiar with him than I am, but based on what I've seen, I'm a big fan. There's a couple other people I want to mention too. Dash Mihok play a member of the gang, and he's great. Just a one-note tough with a sadistic streak, but he plays it well. The other is Jordana Spiro, who plays Mendelsohn's drugged out girlfriend. You probably rememberto it after the fact? Another interesting Pyun connection here was Anthony Riparetti, who worked on the music. He's worked on a lot of Pyun's films, usually credited as "Tony" Riparetti.

I loved the Conan O'Brien action figure. How is that not awesome? He of course predates Conan's run on Late Night by about a year, but still. It's too bad Conan doesn't have the rights to all his characters, because you could have a great crossover with them and the Demonic Toys. Imagine Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, the Reverend Otis K. Dribbles, the Masturbating Bear, Pimp Bot, maybe even the Ear of Corn, all fighting the Demonic Toys, or maybe the Puppets from the Puppet Master series. A guy can dream, right?

As I mentioned above, this film