our environment."

In Britain the Department of Energy and Climate Change said it was "very concerned" the moves could undermine its already strong safety regime. The Oil & Gas UK industry association said it opposed the proposals.

Malcolm Webb, chief executive of the association, said: "Relinquishing regulatory control to the EU, which has no established competence in this matter and where only three out of the 27 member states have an offshore oil and gas industry of real scale, risks undermining safety and environmental performance here in the UK."

Among those hit by the proposed new licensing, inspection and liability rules would be Shell and ExxonMobil, two of the world's biggest oil companies, which often work together in the North Sea.

Shell reported it had doubled its third-quarter profits to more thanin a development that will raise its own carbon dioxide contribution from the sector to more than 3.7m tonnes a year.

Shell plans further increases in output from the tar sands in a project set to run for 40 years, despite mounting opposition from environmentalists. The company's share of tar sands production has been raised to 153,000 barrels so far – meaning it now accounts for around 5% of total corporate output.

Simon Henry, Shell's financial director, said the carbon impact would be diluted in future by Shell pressing ahead with a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project backed by both regional and national governments.

He described as a "disappointment" the company's involvement in another CCS prototype scheme – at Longannet in Scotland – which has been shelved.

Shell saw overall oil


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at navigating elite, predominantly white spaces. A lot of them have been whites who pride themselves on their diverse social circles and their enlightened views, and who indulge in their own half-ironic white-bashing to underscore that it is their achieved identity as intelligent, worldly people that counts most, not their ascribed identity as being of recognizably European descent.

Salam is writing in the aftermath of the Sarah Jeong controversy, which erupted last week after the New York Times announced her hiring. Users on Twitter discovered that Jeong had a history of bizarre anti-white bigoted tweets.

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About 200 supporters of Asaram Bapu were detained on Monday by the police as they held protests over the allegations of sexual assault against the self-styled godman who has been lodged at the Central Jail on Jodhpur in connection with the probe into the case.

Asaram's supporters kept gathering at different spots in the city and finally went on a rampage outside the jail, police said.

"In the entire day, we have detained about 200 followers of Asaram from different places," said Deputy Commissioner of Police Ajay Pal Lamba. He said police teams had now been sent out to identify the places where the supporters were putting up in order to ask them to leave the city with


immediate effect.

Hundreds of Asaram's followers assembled outside the jail on Mondau and sat on dharna chanting “Om” and shouting slogans for his release.

"We asked them to vacate the place, but as they refused to give in, we applied mild force to disperse them with a warning not to come back or assemble anywhere," Lamba added. He said that most of these supporters were outsiders who had managed to sneak into the city.

"We have deployed additional force outside the jail and have sealed all routes leading to it," the DCP said.

Monday was the third day when the supporters got into altercations with both mediapersons and police outside the jail.

On Saturday, they had attacked mediapersons outside Asaram's Jodhpur ashram, leading to police arresting 13 of them. On Sunday as well,that first read-through that summer after sophomore year on my favorite sunny spot on the deck of my college house, but upon every subsequent reread.

I can cleanly divide my life both as a reader and a greater individual into two distinct eras: before Book of the New Sun, and after. It was the gateway drug that hooked me on the author who would eventually become my favorite of all time, whose every word I would one day cherish. It was the story that convinced me villains are more interesting than heroes. It was the masterful lesson to an immature and undisciplined pupil that a writer does a far greater service to their audience when they assume that audience to be intelligent, and write their stories accordingly.

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Thanks for following our live page on the ceasefire deal agreed on 29 December 2016.

We're wrapping up now, but here are the key points:

A ceasefire agreed between the Syrian government and most rebel groups will come into force at midnight (22:00 GMT)

It will be guaranteed by Russia and Turkey, who back opposing sides in the conflict

Russia is expected to withdraw troops but keep a presence at an air base and a naval facility in Syria

The UN's special envoy for Syria says he hopes the deal will save civilian lives

Peace talks are due to take place in the next month in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana

But several groups who are fighting in the region - the Kurdish YPG militia, the jihadist group Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the so-called IslamicState - are not included in the deal

And the US has not been involved in brokering it

Previous ceasefires have fallen apart

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said European countries should "stop supporting terrorists" - meaning rebel groups in the opposition

Need more?

This multimedia story - produced in March when the conflict had been running for five years - does a good job of breaking down the three stages of the war, from shootings to mortar fire to air strikes.

Why is there a war in Syria? takes you through the causes of the conflict, the various international parties who have got involved, and some of the reasons why it has lasted so long.

And here's our main story on the ceasefire.


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"Without that answer there can be no surety that this will not occur again," Senator Xenophon told reporters in Canberra.

He says the "largely unanswered" question is why the group was arrested in Indonesia and not Australia.

He has queried an Australian Federal Police explanation of its role in the investigation that led to the executions of ringleaders Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran last week.

Federal police faced an agonising decision but they should have arrested the Bali Nine drug smugglers in Australia, independent senator Nick Xenophon has argued.attractive country because it heavily subsidized the availability of sophisticated knowledge to people who could make use of it, even people who came elsewhere from poorer societies, or who had not the money to pay. And after the second world war, in the G.I. Bill, the United States took a unique approach to the age-old problem of how to reduce social disorder after war time through the demobilization of a large number of young men trained to the efficient use of collective violence – a thing which is always worrisome to societies, and which typically produces repression movements post-war, as the society as a whole tries to get back its leverage over those young men – the G.I. Bill was a radical, and indeed productive approach to the


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ADDRESSES:

CAREER:

Writer and educator. Thurrock Technical College, Essex, England, senior lecturer, 1961-69; Hammersmith College for Further Education, London, head of general education department, 1969-75. Also served as story consultant for the television series "Rosemary & Thyme," 2003-06. Military service:Royal Air Force, 1958-61; served as education officer; became flying officer.

"The Choir That Wouldn't Sing" (for the Cribb television series), Granada Television/PBS, 1981.

"The Hand That Rocks the Cradle" (for the Cribb television series), Granada Television/PBS, 1981.

"The Last Trumpet" (for the Cribb television series), Granada Television/PBS, 1981.

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Contributor to over eighty anthologies. Contributor to periodicals, including Armchair Detective, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Harper's, and Company. Crime novels have been translated into twenty-two languages.

ADAPTATIONS:

Peter Lovesey's Goldengirl, written under the pseudonym Peter Lear, was filmed by Avco Embassy Pictures Corp. in 1979. Other Lovesey novelsare under option for feature films. The Detective WoreSilk Drawers, Wobble to Death, A Case of Spirits, Mad Hatter's Holiday: A Novel of Murder in Victorian Brighton, Invitation to a Dynamite Party, Waxwork, Swing, Swing Together, and Abracadaver, were adapted into episodes of the television series "Cribb," Granada Television/PBS, 1980-81; On the Edge, was adapted for television as Dead Gorgeous, 2002; Diamond Dust was adapted for audiobook, BBC Audiobooks America, 2002; The House Sitter was adapted for audiobook, read by Steve Hodson, BBC Audiobooks, 2003; The Last Detective was adapted for audiobook, read by Simon Prebble, BBC Audiobooks, 2006.

SIDELIGHTS:

When Peter Lovesey won the 2000 Crime Writers' Association Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, he became firmly established as one of the most respected and admired mystery writers working today. Other


Diamond Dagger Award-winners include P.D. James, John le Carre, Dick Francis, and Ed McBain. Lovesey joined their ranks by virtue of his literate thrillers—some of them set in Victorian England. In a career spanning more than thirty years, Lovesey has written novels of detective fiction as well as thrillers, short story collections, and plays. He is best known for his "Sergeant Cribb" and "Peter Diamond" series, and his work jumps continents and decades, from the 1880s to the present. According to Josh Rubins in the New York Times Book Review, Lovesey "has continued to stretch his talents" while earning the title "reigning master of the historical crime novel."

All of Lovesey's fiction is remarkable for its vivid yet offbeat historical details—a St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writerscontributor noted that readers "revel in the author's obvious love for the etiquette, finery, and hypocrisy of the Victorian times." Lovesey portrays a clear understanding of the psychology of the societies he depicts. As a Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor noted: "[Lovesey's books] are modern novels about the past, not attempts to resuscitate past forms." More recently, the author's Peter Diamond novels have proven that Lovesey is just as comfortable with the modern police procedural as he is with history-mysteries. In Booklist, Emily Melton called the writer "always appealing" and "one of the mystery genre's brightest and best." A Kirkus Reviews contributor remarked that Lovesey's novels contain "everything the cerebral puzzle-addict craves, from tempting red herrings to literary arcana to deliciously plotted surprises."

Lovesey's interest in sport led him


to write his prize-winning first novel, Wobble to Death. While researching the life of a Native American athlete, he found a description of the Victorian "wobble," a walking endurance contest. Later, while "perusing the personals columns of the [London] Times as Sherlock Holmes used to do," he stated, he discovered an advertisement for a crime novel contest. Wobble to Death was the result.

Wobble to Death is the first of a series of novels featuring Detective Sergeant Cribb and his assistant, Constable Thackeray. Critics have praised these books for their authentic evocation of Victorian atmosphere and restrained characterization. All eight novels featuring Cribb and Thackeray proved popular with the reading public. They were adapted for a television series called "Cribb" and broadcast in America on PBS's Mystery! program. Loveseylater collaborated with his wife Jacqueline to produce six more "Sergeant Cribb" stories for the series.

Lovesey certainly has not limited himself to his Cribb tales. He has also published four collections of short stories, including Do Not Exceed the Stated Dose, a volume that contains both stories and short novels. Writing shorter fiction fulfills two goals for Lovesey: the sheer enjoyment of writing stories and the chance to take risks, as the author once noted.

Yet Lovesey keeps returning to the detective novel. He left the Victorian period to experiment with places and time periods. Keystone, a mystery set in Hollywood in 1915, appeared next. It involves the Keystone Cops and many other silent film actors, such as Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Mack Sennett. A Dictionary of Literary


Biography contributor found in this novel "historically accurate" characterizations and "fascinating technical details of early moviemaking," mixed with a deeper message: that Keystone comedy masks the violence of America about to embark on World War I. In Rough Cider, a novel of psychological suspense, and On the Edge, in which two ex-WAAF plotters turn into murderesses, a St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers contributor saw a "much tougher centre … than anything the author produced before." Of the latter novel, the St. James Guide to Crime & Mystery Writers contributor noted: "The setting, style, and feel of the writing is richly authentic and the cliche ‘page-turning’ is perfectly apt."

Lovesey again returned to the Victorian era with his "Bertie" books. This time, the author features a ratherunusual detective—Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, Queen Victoria's son and heir, who later became King Edward VII of England. In the first book, Bertie and the Tinman, Bertie, as he is known to his intimates, tells the story of the apparent suicide of his favorite jockey, Fred Archer, popularly known as the Tinman. Doubting that Archer was suicidal, the Prince becomes suspicious and launches a personal investigation that takes him all over Victorian London, from the coarsest fleshpots to the most elegant salons. "The rueful, candid voice [Lovesey] gives to the fleshy prince rings true," commented Time magazine contributor William A. Henry III, and "the details of the horse-racing and music-hall worlds are vivid, and much of the tale is sweetly funny." "This is an affectionate look at


Prince Albert, a likable chap even with his pomposities and one-sided view of life," reported Newgate Callendar in the New York Times Book Review. "And the race-track scenes and backgrounds crackle with authenticity. There is a great deal of humor in the book, even a strong dash of P.G. Wodehouse. Bertie and the Tinman is a delightful romp."

Lovesey has undergone another evolution, from the written word and the page to the spoken word and the stage. In 1994, Lovesey, along with other British mystery writers Liza Cody and Michael Z. Lewin, toured eight American cities, performing a program filled with skits, dramatic readings, sound effects, and audience participation. Lovesey said in an Armchair Detective interview of the performance: "In this show we're still concerned with the craft ofwriting. There's a serious element even in something which appears to have entertainment value and laughter."

In 2001, Lovesey released a collection of sixteen tales The Sedgemoor Strangler, and Other Stories of Crime, many of which had been previously published in periodicals. David Pitt, writing for Booklist, referred to the collection as "marvelous," adding that "even those who have read them all before will want to read them again."

Lovesey's Peter Diamond books have contemporary settings—generally in and around the city of Bath, England. The Last Detective introduces Diamond, a middle-aged, overweight, and cantankerous police inspector who, while not amiss to using computers and lab analysis to solve murders, nevertheless does his best work as an old-fashioned puzzle-solver. "Diamond is a believably flawed soul, sexist and impulsive, yet essentially good-hearted,"


observed a Publishers Weekly contributor. New York Times Book Review contributor Rubins commented that The Last Detective provided "a bravura performance from a veteran showman: slyly paced, marbled with surprise and, in the end, strangely affecting."

Subsequent Diamond novels have adhered to the formula of The Last Detective. Lovesey has not forgotten his interest in the past, as some Diamond plots include allusions to Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, while others involve suspicious antiques dealers, history professors, or bibliophiles. In The Vault, for instance, Diamond investigates the discovery of a partial skeleton, unearthed from a vault underneath the house in which Shelley wrote Frankenstein. A Publishers Weekly contributor maintained that the plot of The Vault "crackles with wit and urbanity, snappy dialogue and deeper, fouler doings whispering from thewings." In 2002, Lovesey released Diamond Dust, in which Diamond learns that the victim of his newest case is his wife of almost twenty years. Stunned by the news and his swift removal from the investigation, Diamond must find a way to clear his name as he becomes the prime suspect. "Lovesey will be hard-pressed to surpass this current effort … [but] it would be no great surprise if he did," commented a contributor to Publishers Weekly. Diamond's adventures continue with 2003's The House Sitter, which Connie Fletcher referred to as a "deft turn on the classic locked-room mystery" in her review for Booklist. The book's plot involves Diamond's investigation of the murder of a crime profiler, who had been researching the homicide of a film director and


may have unearthed the identity of a serial killer. Fletcher noted: "An ingenious and complex novel, this is Lovesey at the top of his form."

Lovesey's 2005 novel The Circle features a character briefly profiled in The House Sitter, Henrietta Mallin. Not officially part of the "Diamond" series, the book may indicate Lovesey is ready to start a new series, focused on Mallin. A contributor to Publishers Weekly commented: "While there's every reason to believe Diamond has plenty of life left in him, traditional mystery fans will have no regrets if Lovesey's next few books continue to focus on Mallin." A detective chief inspector, Mallin is called in to investigate a series of murderous arson cases targeting a publisher and a writing circle he is involved with. A KirkusReviews contributor summarized: "Frazzled and almost flummoxed by the writers playing amateur detective, Hen ultimately narrows her field of suspects and sets a trap for the villain." The same critic noted that Lovesey proves he can "out-Christie Dame Agatha."

In his 2007 Peter Diamond mystery titled The Secret Hangman, Lovesey sets Diamond on an investigation involving the death of a husband and wife. First the wife is found hanging in public and then a few days later the husband is also found dead by hanging. The official ruling is that their deaths are a murder-suicide, but Diamond is not convinced and continues his investigation. When a colleague tells Diamond that there was a similar case two years earlier, Diamond is sure that both husband and wife were murdered, leading


him to a serial killer. In a subplot, Diamond meets a love interest in costume researcher Paloma Kean, but their romance is soon hindered when her son becomes a suspect in a series of robberies. "Lovesey … master of the switchback twist, has several in store here," wrote a Kirkus Reviews contributor.

Lovesey and his critics recognize the great gift of his ability to entertain. A Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor credited Lovesey's development of "rich comic characterizations within a traditional puzzle framework" which "humaniz[es] a too often sterile form" as Lovesey's chief contribution to the genre of British mystery writing. The writer continued: "At his best (and he is often at his best) Lovesey has brought a comic lightness to the mystery novel that has expanded its possibilitiesin new and unexpected ways."

Lovesey once told CA: "My first published work was sports journalism, a long series of pieces, mostly unpaid, on the history of track and field. I chose to write on sports because I wanted to participate, however remotely. I had discovered early in life that I was not cut out to be an athlete; I was pathetically inept at every kind of sport. So I cornered the market in track and field history. One magazine gave me the by-line ‘The World's Foremost Authority on the History of Athletics’; in fact, I was the world's only authority. But eventually I had enough material for a book. The Kings of Distance was published in England in 1968 (1981 in the U.S.).

"I was drawn to mystery writing


by the lure of money. In 1969 Macmillan and Panther Books announced a first crime novel competition with a thousand pound first prize. I was then a teacher, earning a salary of less than this. Using a Victorian long distance race as the background, I wrote Wobble to Death, won the prize, and was launched as a writer of historical mysteries. Seven more followed, featuring the detectives Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray. They were all adapted for the TV series ‘Sergeant Cribb,’ made by Granada, and seen in America in the Mystery! series on PBS. A further six episodes were scripted by my wife Jacqueline and me.

"I was reluctant to write only historical mysteries, so I tried a modern thriller, Goldengirl, under the pen name Peter Lear. Thiswas about a gifted American woman athlete's exploitation by various individuals as she tries to win a unique triple at the Olympics. It was filmed by Avco Embassy, starring Susan Anton and James Coburn, directed by Joseph Sargent.

"I was encouraged to venture out of the Victorian period in my mystery writing, and wrote several one-off novels set in more recent times. In recent years I have tended to alternate between Victorian and contemporary settings. The Victorian series features Bertie, the Prince of Wales, writing his detective memoirs and revealing to perceptive readers more than he intends. The modern novels are about a police sleuth, Peter Diamond, embattled against forensic scientists and computer operators, and, amazingly, coming out the winner."

Booklist, September 1, 1991, Peter Robertson, review of The Last


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Breaking stories in the Middle East, Indonesia, and Washington push softer Sunday stories to the margins. All three papers lead with the signing of the Israeli-PLO accord at an Egyptian Red Sea resort. Officials hope the agreement will develop into the framework for a peace treaty early next year. The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times front accounts of increased violence in East Timor by anti-independence militias. Both the New York Times, which rewrote almost its entire front page between editions, and the WP front Hillary Clinton's statement encouraging the president to take back his offer of clemency to 16 Puerto Rican terrorists.

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Israel will transfer to Palestinians full or partial control of 40 percent of the West Bank in three stages--Sept.13, Nov. 15, and Jan. 20. Negotiators will try to hammer out a plan for a permanent peace treaty by Feb. 15, although officials on both sides (including Arafat in his speech) said that will be a tough deadline to meet. The new agreement also addresses a water dispute and calls for Israel to release 350 Palestinian refugees. Coverage of the ceremony in the two Times eclipses Albright's stop in Damascus, where she could not resuscitate talks between Israel and Syria. The latter wants the border redrawn to its position on June 4, 1967, before Israel captured the Golan Heights. The NYT notes Israel's insistence on the 1923 boundary, which does not reach the Sea of Galilee. This point, bumped to an inside story for the late edition,


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Anti-independence militias in East Timor terrorized rural towns yesterday after voting showed that nearly 80 percent of East Timorese favor independence from Indonesia. Thousands of people rushed to Dili's airport and dock hoping to flee. The Indonesian army did little or nothing to stop the militias, and the government has not made any guarantees to foreign authorities that it will act. The LAT emphasizes that the campaign has "no logical political objective," but the WP suggests militia leaders may be trying to sweep out an anti-independence sector in thewest. Foreign troops would most likely come from Australia at first: "It's their Haiti," a U.S. diplomat told the Post. A full-page spread in the NYT "Week in Review" summarizes the Indonesian national dilemma: how to hold 13,000 islands together.

German police in Hamburg arrested Martin Frankel, the "nebbishy" (WP) financier accused of stealing about $350 million from at least half a dozen insurance companies. Frankel had eluded international investigation for four months, and it will be several months more before he is extradited.

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Friday sees another seen races on Mencap Charity Day, while Saturday sees £50,0000 contests for the Grade Three StanJames.com Supporting Greatwood Gold Cup (3.25pm) and the final race of the day, the DBS Spring Sales Bumper.

There are 24 entries for the Greatwood Gold Cup, which has been dominated by champion trainer Paul Nicholls since its inception in 2004.

He has seven wins to his credit and this year fields Art Mauresque, a winner at Cheltenham in October and a close sixth in the Paddy Power Gold Cup following month, and novice Sametegal, who was runner-up to More Of That at Cheltenham in December.

Thre will be a French challenge from trainer Emmanuel Clayeux’s Pythagore and Vicomte Du Seuil, the former a multiple winner over fences.

“Pythagore is a very nice horseAs the nation prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War, we talk to historian Eric Foner about Reconstruction and the birth of a homegrown terrorist movement led by the Ku Klux Klan.

As tens of thousands gather in Selma, Alabama, to mark the 50th anniversary of the historic voting rights marches of 1965, we go back 150 years to look at another chapter of the freedom struggle of African Americans. Between 1830 and 1860, more than 3,000 fugitive slaves reached freedom thanks to networks of anti-slavery resistance — commonly known as the underground railroad. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Columbia University...

We continue our coverage of the 50th anniversary of the historic voting rights campaign in Selma, Alabama. On this day in 1965 — the


second Tuesday of March — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a second attempt to march from Selma to Montgomery. Two days earlier on Bloody Sunday, Alabama state troopers beat peaceful marchers crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge. On what became known as Turnaround Tuesday, 2,000 protesters marched over the...

Just outside the historic Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama, Amy Goodman had a chance to speak with the civil rights pioneer C. T. Vivian, a close friend and adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Fifty years ago, Vivian was punched in the face by Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark on the courthouse steps in Selma as he tried to escort a group of African Americans inside to register to vote. The punch was so hard, Clark brokehis own hand....

As we continue our coverage of the 50th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery marches, we look at the civil rights martyrs who lost their lives in the fight to secure voting rights in Alabama. Between February and August of 1965, four civil rights activists were killed in Alabama: Jimmie Lee Jackson, Viola Liuzzo, Rev. James Reeb and Jonathan Daniels. As tens of thousands of people marked the 50th anniversary in Selma, Democracy Now!...

Up to 80,000 marched in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to mark the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of peaceful voting rights activists were brutally attacked by Alabama state troopers, crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery in a voting rights


protest. Bloody Sunday was the first of three attempted marches, finally completed under federal protection and led by Dr. Martin...

Tens of thousands of people, including President Obama and more than 100 members of Congress, traveled to Selma, Alabama, this weekend for the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of peaceful voting rights activists were brutally attacked by Alabama state troopers, crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge as they attempted to march from Selma to Montgomery. Bloody Sunday was the first of three attempted marches, finally...

Amy Goodman interviewed civil rights luminaries at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, including 103-year-old Amelia Boynton Robinson, who held President Obama’s hand as they marched on the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Robinson played a key role in organizingthe march and invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Selma in 1965. "If you are not a registered voter and you are 18 years of age, you are a hopeless people. Definitely...

Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was confronted by Alabama state troopers as he led a march across Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. This weekend, his daughter Bernice King was escorted across the bridge by an African-American state trooper. "The contrast between then and now is phenomenal, but the reality is we are at a crossroads," King says. She argues voting rights that were won in 1965 have since been gutted,...


Photo by M. Scott Mahaskey/POLITICO White nationalist leader kicked out of CPAC On his way out, Richard Spencer rebuked Milo Yiannopoulos, who was disinvited from the event earlier this week.

Richard Spencer, a leader of the white nationalist movement, said he was “glad” that disgraced Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos was disinvited from the Conservative Political Action Conference after he made controversial statements on pedophilia, while leaving the conservative conference Thursday after his own credentials had been revoked.

"I totally reject Milo and I’m glad that he was disinvited," Spencer said about Yiannopoulos, who resigned from Breitbart this week after remarks surfaced in which he praised pedophilia. The right-wing journalist was slated to be keynote speaker at CPAC but was disinvited earlier this week because of the controversy.

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Mob of flag waving Patriots, many of which are wearing Turtleboy gear, show up to protest protesters at Hampshire College.

Rich white kid from Dover named Alec Larson, who attends Hampshire College and previously posted that the police should kill themselves, immediately runs to the police because mob with American flags tells him he is welcome there.

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Traditional Palm Wine music has been losing popularity in Ghana in recent years, but an ambitious four-piece band are working hard to bring back the love.

Kwan Pa ('the right path') perform indigenous Ghanaian music and are entertaining crowds of young and old alike.

Between them the members play a wide range of traditional instruments, including the seprewa (harp-lute), frikyiwa (castanet), shekere (big rattle), gome (square bass drum), ppanlogo drums and the acoustic guitar.

The quartet, who released their first album in March 2019, told BBC Africa they have their sights firmly set on bringing Palm Wine music to the international stage.

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for me that I went into art school. Having attended City art institute, (Alexander Mackie) in Sydney and completing my Bachelor of Visual Arts degree, lead to a career in animation. Over the 25 years of working on animation my artistic skills developed and in between productions I explored other creative avenues such as sewing, knitting, printmaking, mixed media and doll making.Little Black Crow Studio has now been running as a business for 5 years.I first sold online only my art dolls and only later my paintings, and prints.Recently I was fortunate enough to have a 2 month artist residency at Clifton Pughs, Dunmoochin. It was a dream come true.The surrounding environment with its unmistakable round leaved eucalyptus polyanthemos, numerous fungi, native birds, possums and kangaroos so captivatedsteps his lawyers then took to, in the words of the DOJ, “defraud” a string of US banks into providing a safe haven for that illegally-acquired wealth.

It also provides a year-by-year rundown on the hundreds of millions of dollars that Obiang frittered away on yachts, jewellery, fast cars, and real estate, while citizens of his country lived in abject poverty, without proper roads, and with intermittent electricity and running water. His personal spending, since 2000, has ranged from $7m to $88 million a year.

As recently as last year, when the US government launched a very public bid to claw back money laundered through its financial system by crooks and corrupt foreign politicians, Obiang was able to spend some $7,620,452 on himself. Purchases chronicled by the lawsuit include a


a more southerly route so they have a line of sight to the satellites," Kunches said. "That gives them the most options for communications as they go about their flight," he added.

Satellites could be impacted by the plasma included in the ejector, Jackson said. That plasma creates different charge levels in different parts of a satellite it hits, leading to what effectively is a short-circuit between them, Jackson said. This might fry some of the electronics in the satellites.

"In the past, a couple of satellites have died when a large ejection of mass has hit them," Jackson stated. "One of them was a Japanese spacecraft."

The bigger issue, however, could be the direction of the magnetic field that was pushed outward from the sun during the flares.

"Depending on itscompleted the biggest turnaround in the Football Bowl Subdivision this season, going from 10 losses to 10 wins.

"I said at the beginning of the year, we're not sexy, we're just blue collar," coach Chad Lunsford said. "That showed tonight."

Eastern Michigan (7-6) had delivered its own big fourth-down play to take the lead for the first time.

Mike Glass threw a 5-yard touchdown pass to Arthur Jackson with 3:33 left on fourth-and-4, followed by Chad Ryland's extra point.

"It was a great football game, and they're obviously a great football program and a great football team," Eastern Michigan coach Chris Creighton said. "They got it done in the end. Much as it rips our heart out to say, we do congratulate them, and (it was) an awesome football game."

Georgia Southern took


over at its own 25 with a triple-option offense that attempted fewer passes than every FBS team but Army. Werts completed a 15-yard pass to tight end Ellis Richardson, but Georgia Southern fittingly covered most of the 52 yards with runs.

Werts ran for 79 yards and two first-half touchdowns while completing 4 of 7 passes for 33 yards to receive Most Valuable Player honors. His biggest play came on the fourth-and-10.

"I really should have thrown the ball. Ellis was wide open," Werts said. "Wesley had made a block on the linebacker. There was nobody in front of me so I just took off running."

Wesley Kennedy III gained 107 yards on nine carries.

Eastern Michigan's Glass completed 17 of 25 passes for 204 yards and three touchdowns, including a 75-yarderto Jackson on the opening play of the second half. He had missed the final two games of the regular season with a right leg injury and had only two previous starts.

Glass found Jackson in the back of the end zone to cap a 16-play, 75-yard drive that consumed more than six minutes.

"I was just going through my reads and came back to it late," Glass said. "The linebacker stepped up a little bit and I saw I could get it over their heads."

As it turns out, it left too much time on the clock.

THE TAKEAWAY

Georgia Southern: Ran for 331 yards on 58 carries. Finished the season without throwing an interception. Had its first 10-win season in FBS and second bowl win in as many tries.

Eastern Michigan: Had


eight games decided by one score. Just missed its first eight-win season since going 10-2 in 1987.

TURNOVER RECORD

Georgia Southern set an NCAA FBS record with only five turnovers this season. The previous NCAA record was eight turnovers in a season by six teams, last done by LSU in 2017. The Eagles were the only FBS team that didn't throw an interception this season.

THEY SAID IT

"When we first got here this program was in shambles." Eastern Michigan defensive lineman Jeremiah Harris.

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one of the better-off suburban enclaves of her large Sudbury-area riding and found at the door that most did not even know an election was on. Those who did, she said, were anxious to “get that guy Harper” out of office.

When people did look at the election it was only to glance, and there was so little to see that they quickly turned away. The single campaign idea that did register – Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak’s one-million jobs and 100,000 cuts – hurt Mr. Hudak far more than it helped him, even if it got him the headlines and the face time and, to some, suggested he was well on his way to victory.

Travelling around the province talking to voters reminded this aging reporter of the 2007"*Shana is 24 years old. She is eight months pregnant with her first child. After serving five years in prison, she was released one month ago and now lives with her* whanau *(family) in a household of 14 people. Her father is a traditional Māori carver and tattooist, specializing in* ta moko*. We exchange stories about growing up and living in poverty. I make an offhand remark about how at least in poor neighborhoods in Auckland the chance of witnessing gunfire is relatively low. "Oh yea," she tells me, "I've only been caught in cross fire three times".*"

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Shana's life experiences, while extreme, highlight the extent to which poverty and neighborhood violence impact the lives of individuals residing in poorer sections of Auckland, *Aotearoa*/New Zealand, a city


faster rate than in any other developed country ([@bib38]). There is a strong racial component to economic inequality, with Pacific Islanders and indigenous Māori having higher rates of material deprivation compared with other ethnicities ([@bib41]).

Auckland is the largest and most ethnically diverse city in New Zealand, with the majority of all immigrants to the country settling there. According to the 2013 Census, there were 1.4 million people in the Auckland region, with over 517,000 having been born overseas and over 220 different ethnicities being represented. Notably, one out of three residents of New Zealand live in Auckland, and one out of three in Auckland are foreign born. The diversity in languages spoken demonstrates the ethnic heterogeneity of the population; the six most common spoken languages in Auckland onAngry customer suspected in assault

STOCKTON - A man was arrested Friday after he allegedly punched a gas station clerk who told him to pay for a burrito before he microwaved it.

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STOCKTON - A man was arrested Friday after he allegedly punched a gas station clerk who told him to pay for a burrito before he microwaved it.

Albert Frazier, 34, was taken into custody after he allegedly assaulted a Chevron clerk who approached him after he started cooking the burrito at about 7:30 p.m., according to the Stockton Police Department.

Frazier became irate and hit the clerk at the Chevron station in the 8600 block of Lower Sacramento Road, police said. The clerk then locked the doors and waited for officers to take the man into custody, police said.

However,


arsenal of piercing broadsides to shape public ideology. Consider "fake news," once a post-Election Day diagnostic by disaffected liberals that's been impressively co-opted by the alt right as a tool of epistemic warfare. Despite the fact that Facebook recently told lawmakers that Russian operatives at a St. Petersburg troll farm bought 3,000 ads across 470 popular pages to deliberately damage Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and promote Donald Trump—and the fact that most Americans believe Trump tried to obstruct the subsequent investigation into foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election—the Trump ecosystem continues to seize on journalistic errors as evidence of complete narrative falsehood despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. And it's working in the White House's favor: Despite the press' adversarial role, its public standing has never beenthe Verge points out, the ban on the term may create unexpected difficulties for research surrounding the Zika virus and its characteristic symptoms of microcephaly in unborn children. But the ramifications of the ban also extend to such topics of research as toxic stress across socioeconomic groups, a phenomenon that may help explain behavioral problems and long-term economic outcomes among certain demographic groups; with the CDC's ban on "vulnerable" populations and issues involving "entitlement," the country's top health organ is effectively positing that economics don't affect public-health outcomes.

The CDC's word ban represents not just a deliberate perversion of politically charged language, but the deliberate erasure of certain concepts—and people—from the bureaucratic categories that are channels for state power. In the United States government, real power is shaped on


WHEN JURGEN KLOPP has needed to inspire his teams, he has turned to two great sporting heavyweights. Steven Gerrard and Rocky Balboa.

Jurgen Klopp hopes to use Rocky and Steven Gerrard to inspire his players and win the Europa League

The Liverpool boss was moved by his current club's greatest European night long before he arrived at Anfield in October.

Now he could lead them to their first continental trophy since the 2005 Champions League Final after staging Liverpool's most famous comeback since Gerrard delivered the miracle of Istanbul.

Klopp could focus on the second half, when his team scored four goals to beat Borussia Dortmund on their way to Wednesday's Europa League Final against Sevilla. Instead, he is still marvelling at how their predecessors fought back to shock AC Milan 11years ago.

"Being 3-0 down and coming back was maybe the biggest show of character in football history," he said. "To be 3-0 down, that kills dreams.

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''I have a lot of things in my life that help me to stay in the race, or to stay confident in the most difficult situations, but for sure this was another one. I've used this a few times in one meeting (team talk) or another. But I've used Rocky Balboa a lot of times as well."

Sylvester Stallone's fictional boxer also showed the never-say-die spirit Klopp wants in


his teams. Rocky is a favourite film of his, one he has seen 20 times. When he was Dortmund boss, he mentioned the fighter to motivate his side to land a knockout blow on German football's superpower.

"I had a whole meeting before the Bayern Munich game with Dortmund," he recalled. "I start with Ivan Drago and Rocky Balboa, and I am looking out at dead eyes. So I said, 'Sorry. Stop. Who knows Rocky Balboa?' And only two hands went up. They were too young. So I can't use it any more."

Forty-year-old films may be too old but a 70-year-old show tune is a constant in his career. The Anfield anthem was the soundtrack at Klopp's old clubs.

"In Germany, they sing it at two stadiums, Mainz and Dortmund,"he said. "I don't think it was coincidence, but another lucky decision in my life. Two clubs in Germany, 20,000 fans, 80,000 and next year 54,000 (at Anfield), all singing You'll Never Walk Alone. Maybe that's the story of my life. I never wanted to walk alone. It's a big honour."

Klopp's captain, Jordan Henderson, is set to make his comeback in today's trip to West Bromwich Albion.

The midfielder has made a rapid recovery from his knee injury and should make his first appearance for five weeks in what will otherwise be a weakened team.

The England international missed the semi-final win over Villarreal but played in the stirring home victories against Manchester United and Dortmund and believes Liverpool have made the much-derided Europa League sexy again.

"You could say that,"


Henderson said. "The type of football we're playing, the way that we're playing has been very good. I'm sure a lot more people have been watching."

Meanwhile, West Brom boss Tony Pulis has hailed skipper Darren Fletcher as the midfielder looks to complete his ever-present record.

The 32-year-old has started every league game for the Baggies this season, having been struck down with the career-threatening chronic bowel disease ulcerative colitis in 2011. "Fletcher's played 37 (league) games this season, which is fantastic,"Pulis said. "He's been my player of the year by a country mile. He's embraced the club and everything that goes with it, he's been a real ambassador."starters from this draft. The Packers? Well, this judge and jury aren't optimistic. As you might expect, the post-draft grades for the two teams were in vastly different neighborhoods.

Here's how the NFC broke down after this weekend's action.

NFC EAST

Dallas Cowboys: They did some top-notch wheeling and dealing with Cleveland and Philadelphia. When the first day was all said and done, Dallas basically slid back four spots in the first round, from 22 to 26, and gave up a third- and fifth-round pick for Cleveland's first-rounder next year. That was an "A+" maneuver. Too bad the rest of the draft class didn't live up to that move. Two seventh-rounders at cornerback? They had to do better than that. And some scouts think plodding offensive tackle James Marten could be


teams guys in linebackers Dallas Sartz and H.B. Blades and tight end Tyler Ecker. Quarterback Jordan Palmer, brother of Cincinnati's Carson Palmer, might be nothing more than a camp novelty.
Grade: D+

NFC NORTH

Chicago Bears: There were quite a few question marks after a good first choice in Miami tight end Greg Olsen. No offensive linemen on the first day? Only a seventh-round offensive tackle? Defensive end Dan Bazuin is undersized and didn't seem to be the most pressing need in the second round. Running back Garrett Wolfe is going to be more of a situational player than the next coming of Maurice Jones-Drew. Taking him in the third round might have been a slight reach. Linebacker Michael Okwo isn't an adequate future replacement for Lance Briggs, not at hissize (6-foot, 220). Josh Beekman was an odd choice since many teams liked him as a center.
Grade: C

Detroit Lions: Maneuvering to get four picks in the first 61 selections was impressive. Wide receiver Calvin Johnson wasn't the easy pick because of the franchise's recent history, but it was the right one. He'll be a star in offensive coordinator Mike Martz's offense. Drew Stanton was a good second-round choice with lots of tools for Martz to mold into a future starter. Big, long defensive end Ikaika Alama-Francis possesses a lot of raw talent and athleticism. Coach Rod Marinelli could shape him into a star or he could be a big bust. Safety Gerald Alexander was a bit of a reach at the end of the second round, but he's


got the perfect versatility for a Cover 2 defense. The Lions could have used an offensive tackle prospect somewhere in the middle rounds, too.
Grade: B

Green Bay Packers: They spent their first-round pick on Justin Harrell, a defensive tackle with an ample injury history and only three games of senior film. That's a tremendous risk for the 16th overall pick. At the very least, the Packers could have moved back to Denver's slot at 21 and picked up the extra third- and sixth-round picks that went to Jacksonville (the Broncos traded up to the Jaguars' spot at 17). Wideout James Jones sounds like another possession guy. Running back Brandon Jackson is a scary pick, too, considering his two surgically repaired shoulders. Strong safety Aaron Rouse was a good valuethe Falcons.
Grade: A

Carolina Panthers: Lots of good value in the first four picks, in linebacker Jon Beason, wideout Dwayne Jarrett, center Ryan Kalil and defensive end Charles Johnson. Beason and Kalil should push for starting time immediately. Jarrett can be groomed to take Keyshawn Johnson's spot. Charles Johnson's motor is perfect for that defense, too. Tim Shaw has some great special teams value in the fifth round and should give some depth at the linebacker spot. They could have used some safety help but didn't have a lot of top-notch options on the second day. A good, solid class.
Grade: B+

New Orleans Saints: Wideout Robert Meachem was a solid pick in the first round, but Greg Olsen seemed to make more sense and still offered a good offensive weapon.


and really shore up the interior of the offensive line. Like Joseph, Sears has some bruising nastiness to him. Safety Sabby Piscitelli was an interesting choice in Round 2 because many scouting reports didn't have him as a fit for a Cover 2. Meanwhile, fourth-round defensive back Tanard Jackson seems like a perfect fit for the scheme.
Grade: B

NFC WEST

Arizona Cardinals: Offensive tackle Levi Brown seemed like a slight reach at the fifth overall pick, but he's exactly what coach Russ Grimm wanted and you have to trust one of the best in the business. The move up to get defensive tackle Alan Branch at the top of the second round was a shrewd gamble. The interior of that defensive line is talent-rich but is going to need plentyof motivation. Linebacker Buster Davis might be a poor man's London Fletcher. Wideout Steve Breaston could add some pop to special teams, and tight end Ben Patrick was a nice value pick in the seventh round. But it was very disappointing that only five players were added with this class and that only one offensive lineman was tabbed. They didn't get any defensive end depth, either.
Grade: B-

St. Louis Rams: Defensive end Adam Carriker gives depth and flexibility to the defensive line and adds a hefty player to go along with Jimmy Kennedy to play against the run. They may regret passing on Leon Hall at this spot, though. Running back Brian Leonard is a quality pick in the second round and should provide them a good inside runner,


to be a top tackle if he's developed properly. Both wideout Jason Hill and defensive end Ray McDonald could turn out to be sleepers in the third round. Defensive tackle Joe Cohen offers good value in the fourth round and should add quality depth to the defensive line.
Grade: A

Seattle Seahawks: Deion Branch has to be considered part of this draft class since he was dealt to New England for Seattle's first-round pick. Frankly, Branch's lukewarm production last season and hefty contract don't make him a big plus at this point. Second-round cornerback Josh Wilson adds speed to the secondary and could contend for a nickel role next season, but a lot of teams had him pegged in the third round. Defensive tackle Brandon Mebane filled a need inGetty Images Copyright: Getty Images

We've heard it through the grapevine today (well Variety actually) that superstar rapper/actor/producer Dre has acquired the film rights to Marvin's music.

So we've been talking in the Music News LIVE office about who we'd like to see in the role of the late soul singer.

Here's some of the runners and riders...

Jamie Foxx won an Oscar in 2005 for his portrayal of R&B legend Ray Charles in another music biopic. If anything, his performance as Ray was so memorable that it could work against him being cast in the role of Marv too.

Foxx, like Dr Dre, bought the music rights to Gaye's back catalogue for a TV series back in 2016 but little has been heard about that project since, so he may decide to


join forces with the hip hop legend.

Not only can he act but Jamie can certainly sing too, as Kanye West fans will testify.

And if it's sex appeal you want in the role of the Sexual Healing star, then look no further...

Donald Glover - aka Childish Gambino - is the one of the most in demand entertainers in the business at the moment.

His stylishly politically-charged video for This Is America has been viewed almost 284 million -yes, MILLION - times now on YouTube.

When he's not spitting out arresting visual statements he's entertaining us with his comedy- drama series Atlanta (above).

As fictional rapper Paper Boi even points out to Donald's character, Earn, on the show, early on: "I need Malcolm [X] - and you're more Martin [Luther King Jr]."

Marvin lovedto laugh and liked to get political too, on What's Going On, so the role could be made for him.

Lenny Kravitz may claim to have been denied a role in Big Little Lies because of the colour of his skin but he was reportedly one of the first names to be approached for the role of Marvin on one of the earlier failed attempts to bring his life story to the screen.

According to TMZ in 2012 , Lenny was asked by Gaye's son and childhood friend Marvin III to walk away from the role of a lifetime after arguments over the script.

He then went on to act alongside Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games.

Is Dre going to go his way this time around?

John Boyega is best known for


his role as Finn in the 2015 Stars Wars film, The Force Awakens and 2017 sequel The Last Jedi.

The Londoner is now a household name in Hollywood, as he told Radio 1Xtra DJ Dotty (above) but it turns out he's a keen music fan too.

John's appearance in the music video for James Corden's parody of the Brandy & Monica track The Boy(ega) is Mine showed great promise.

We feel the music biopic force is strong with this one.

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What about Dr Dre himself?

As well as producing Straight Outta Compton - the tale of his band NWA - we've seen Dre appear in films like Training Day, alongside Denzel Washington.

The rights to telling Marvin's story won't come cheap so it's obviously a labour of love for therapper.

Tragically, Gaye was fatally shot by his dad aged 44 and while the rapper is a little older, 53, we think he could get away with it if he was to award himself with the lead role and the right camera angles.

John Legend and his wife Chrissy Teigen may have just welcomed another little Legend to their family but if paternity leave in showbiz is as short as is it is in reality then the singer/actor could be back to work sooner rather than later.

As well as being a world class crooner, he starred alongside Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling in the Oscar-winning La La Land.

If anyone is fitting of the name Legend, then surely it's Marvin Gaye.

Last but not least...

Our wild card entry in the form of


Kerala, is a picturesque city, embellished with scenic mountains, lush greenery and several waterways. But beyond its natural beauty, the place is known for its love for sports– football in particular. While Kolkata and Goa bicker over the title of where the heartbeat of Indian football lies, Malappuram sits back to enjoy the show with a lazy smile.

Malappuram was the 'original capital of football' in India.

The town's football history dates back to British times, when bare-foot natives took on the Britishers in countless matches at the historic Kottapadi Maidan, now the Malappuram Sports Council Stadium. Since then, the city has produced numerous players for the national team, including Malappuram Azees, former Santosh Trophy star M R C Chekku, Ali Akbar, Moideen Kutty and goalkeeper Manjakandan Aboobackar.

Almost eight yearsback, former Indian goalkeeper, Feroz Sherif, attended an inter-collegiate game at Malappuram. Among all the talented youngsters, a lanky midfielder caught his attention. After the match ended, Sherif, the then national U-17 goalkeeping coach, walked up to him and asked him to attend the trials of I-League 2nd division club Mumbai FC– an advice which turned around his world.

Anas' love for the game developed at a young age when he started out with the Malappuram U-14 team. But life is never rosy for young aspiring footballers in a state like Kerala, especially if you are the son of a car driver. Despite all the love and fervor that football generates in Kerala, the state has no representation in the I-League or the 2nd division. Football cannot be your


profession unless you make it at a club elsewhere.

So Anas, like most young footballers at Mallapuram, led a dual life. While pursuing his academics at Kondotty's EMEA College, he had to drive autos to support his family.

“I used to get something like Rs. 180 every day driving autos. It came in very handy,” Anas revealed to The Hindu, back in 2010.

Despite his struggle, Anas managed to find time for football. He continued his training and eventually joined the football team of NSS College Manjeri, which led to his discovery by Feroz Sherif.

Taking up Sherif's advice, Anas made the long journey up the west coast to the city of dreams– Mumbai.

He impressed Dave Booth, Mumbai FC's manager at the trials and was offered a one-year contract. Back then, Anas20 lakhs for a season,” Anas said back then.

Anas would represent Kerala in the Santosh Trophy, and after consistent performances for Mumbai FC over four seasons, rivals Pune FC offered him a two-year contract. He made his debut for the new club in a friendly against the EPL club Blackburn Rovers.

Anas suffered a set-back at the start of the 2012-13 season. The defender was down with malaria and missed out on pre-season training, but that could not keep him down as he bounced back to deliver the best season of his career. He produced a series of stunning performances, as Pune conceded only 26 goals- third best after champions Churchill Brothers and East Bengal. Pune reached the second spot in the I-League– their best ever finish.

Pune quickly extended


his contract to two more years and the accolades did not end with the new lucrative contract. Anas also became the first Indian to win Pune's Player of the Year award and was subsequently named as the club's captain for the 2013-14 season.

“I had never worn the captain's arm band ever. This was a first in my playing career at any level as far as my memory stretches and I am thankful to one and all for this opportunity. Initially, coach said he was taking a risk by fielding me in the playing eleven, but when he announced that I was leading the side I got the confidence I needed. I thank coach for helping me believe," an emotional Anas said after leading his side to victory inhis first match as the captain.

Football is a capricious witch. While she can take you to the heights against all odds, she can, in an instant, bring you back down to earth as well.

The defender faced severe injury problems at the start of the 2014-15 I-league season. He suffered a knee injury and was sidelined for a long time. Even after recovering, he struggled to regain form and was eventually dropped for a couple of matches. In the end, Anas featured in only 10 I-League games as Pune struggled to a fifth-place finish.

“The knee injury flared up during the pre-season training match between Pune FC and FC Pune City. Last season I played most of the I-League matches after taking painkillers. It went from bad to worse and


and questionable fitness, it was not a sane bet.

With big price tags also come big expectations. ISL seemed to have arrived at the wrong moment for Anas when his I-League club Pune FC, shut down its first team operations at around the same time.

The ISL campaign did not start on the right note for Delhi or Anas. The defender was an unused substitute in their opening game and Roberto Carlos' men stumbled to a 0-2 defeat against Goa.

The next game against Chennaiyin FC saw Anas in the starting line-up and he repaid his manager's faith with an outstanding performance. Delhi kept a clean sheet, won the match 1-0, and Anas has started in every game since.

It was the start of a wonderful partnership between John Arne Riise andAnas Edathodika at the heart of the Delhi rearguard. One a former Champions League winner, and the other an almost unheard-of name who had struggled through life– these are the kind of tales that football spins. The duo are statistically the best defensive pairing in the league, and Dynamos has conceded the least goals in the league so far– nine in 10 matches. It is on these strong defensive performances that Delhi has established itself as a prime contender for this season's title.

Anas has been the perfect foil, with his calm and assured presence, for the more aggressive Riise. When you look at Anas' statistics this season, they hardly standout– 27 tackles, 11 headers and 11 interceptions in 9 matches. Statistics can be deceiving though, as the legendary


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If you order forPIPER CITY, Ill. -- Officials say a chemical emitted a toxic gas at a Ford County soybean facility this (Thurs) morning. The unidentified chemical was smoldering after a water-reactive agent used to fumigate soybeans likely got wet during overnight storms.

Patti Thompson is a spokeswoman for the Illinois Department of Emergency Management. She reports Precision Soya officials in Piper City alerted the state this morning about the incident. The village of about 820 people took precautions, evacuating homes on the south side. The Tri-Point School District also dismissed students for the day and rerouted buses for the students return home.

Thompson says a two-block area around the plant has been evacuated and a hazardous material team from Champaign is heading to the scene. A nearby school district in Kempton canceled


all classes for the day. The district's junior high school is across the street from the plant.

Ford County Emergency Management Agency Coordinator Dennis Higgins said a pellot-product, used for poison control to control varmints, got wet from overnight rains. The moisture triggered a gas being emitted.Illinois Route 24 was also shut down from either direction leading to Piper City.

Precision Soya is headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The company operates 11 other similar facilities. The agricultural firm serves the seed industry.family of three purchased a steel fallout shelter, complete with four drop-down beds, a chemical pit toilet and a hand cranked air exchanger for refreshing their air supply, and had it installed 15 feet below their front lawn for a total of $1,800.

Neighbors watched as a crane lowered the shelter, resembling a septic tank, into a pit. A few years later, in 1961, there was reportedly more commotion, when, at about the time of the Berlin Crisis, the Andersons had the shelter reinterred. Because it had not been sufficiently anchored, with the area’s water table in mind, it had crept back up until it finally poked through the surface.

Larry Bird, a curator in the division of political history at the National Museum of American History, first heard about


the Cold War relic in 1991. Tim Howey, then-owner of the Fort Wayne home, had written a letter to the museum. He had removed some trees and shrubs that had hid the shelter’s access point and a few ventilation pipes for years, and, as a result, was fielding more and more questions from curious passers-by. While Howey was tiring of the attention, there was clearly public interest in the artifact, and he wondered if perhaps the Smithsonian would want it for its collection.

At the time, Bird was on the lookout for objects that would tell interesting stories about science in American life. Some of his colleagues at the museum were preparing an exhibition on the topic and were trying to recruit him to curate a section specifically onso pervasive in the United States during the Cold War. “If you had money and you were frightened enough, it is the kind of thing that you would have invested in,” says Bird. And, in the 1950s and ’60s, many people, like the Andersons, were investing. “The shelter business is booming like a 25-megaton blast,” Popular Science reported.

The shelter was delivered at the museum, where it was on display from the spring of 1994 to this past November, when the "Science in American Life" exhibition closed. Image courtesy of NMAH.

The National Museum of American History arranged for Martin Enterprises, the company that had originally installed the shelter, to exhume it and haul it to Washington, D.C. on a flatbed. (As it turned out, the company did it for


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Letter to the Editor

By Tom Reiss, Robert Zaretsky

AUGUST 20, 2013

To the Editors of TheLos Angeles Review of Books:

IN HIS REVIEW of The Black Count, Robert Zaretsky makes plain that he finds my style of writing history overly familiar, unorthodox, and grandstanding. He is entitled to dislike my style, but contrary to many side-swipes he makes in the course of his review, The Black Count meets the rigorous academic standards of which he believes himself a champion.

Zaretsky begins by taking issue with a handful of the thousands of historical assertions I make in the book. Some of these are hair-splitting: Crowds or mobs? Is there irony in Louis XVI’s support for the American Revolution? France did not unleash the age ofhis hot-headed manner brought him needless trouble.

The Black Count offers the most comprehensive account available of General Alexandre Dumas and the role he played in the multiracial society that briefly gained a foothold in France before Napoleon’s coup, drawing from twelve archives and two centuries’ worth of secondary sources. I wrote my book for a general audience, but I went to every length to assure that future scholars would find my work a solid foundation upon which to build their own.

[v] John G. Gallaher, General Alexandre Dumas: Soldier of the French Revolution (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1997).

Response from Robert Zaretsky:

TOM REISS makes a number of charges against my review of his book The Black Count. First, he states that I found his “style of writing overly familiar,


Benedict Cumberbatch loves to play a man of scientific genius.

From Sherlock to Doctor Strange to Alan Turing in The Imitation Game, Cumberbatch now takes on a historical figure both equally brilliant and infamous in his techniques: Thomas Edison, who developed the likes of the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and, of course, the electric light bulb.

He stars in The Current War, which takes on the peculiar moment in history which saw the greatest minds of the late 19th century battle to introduce a marketable and sustainable electricity system, the main players being Edison's own Edison Electric Light Company and Westinghouse Electric Company.

Michael Shannon will play George Westinghouse, while Nicholas Hoult will take on the role of Nikolai Tesla. Fantastic Beasts' Katherine Waterston and Spider-Man: Homecoming's Tom Holland willalso star, in a film directed by Me and Earl and the Dying Girl's Alfonso Gomez-Rejon.

Cumberbatch already has a fairly busy couple of years ahead of him; he'll be returning to the role of Doctor Strange for a cameo in Thor: Ragnarok and in Avengers: Infinity War, while also lending his voice to Shere Khan in Andy Serkis' Jungle Book and the Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

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Baker Cast:Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince Plot: A precocious 6-year-old and her friends are homeless, living in extended-stay motels, but their summer is still filled with childhood wonder and adventure. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Post Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Alison Brie, Sarah Paulson Plot: Ben Bradlee and Kay Graham of The Washington Post challenge the federal government for the right to publish classified information in 1971. Twentieth Century Fox Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Shape of Water Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Doug Jones Plot: In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-workerZelda discover a secret classified experiment. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Molly's Game Director: Aaron Sorkin Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner Plot: The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Courtesy of STXfilms Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Big Sick Director: Michael Showalter Cast: Kumail Najiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano Plot: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and his true feelings. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Mudbound Director: Dee Rees Cast: Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan,


Mary J. Blige, Garrett Hedlund Plot: This Netflix film follows two who men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Disaster Artist Director: James Franco Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Zac Efron Plot: A big screen re-enactment of the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult film The Room deemed 'the worst movie of all time.' Getty Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Phantom Thread Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps Plot: Set in 1950's London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes histhis darkly comic drama, a mother personally challenges the local authorities to solve her daughter's murder, when they fail to catch the culprit. Twentieth Century Fox Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Call Me By Your Name Director: Luca Guadagnino Cast: Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg Plot: A young man named Elio, living in Italy during the 1980s, meets Oliver, an academic who has come to stay at his parents' villa, and a passionate relationship develops between them, as they bond over their sexuality, their Jewish heritage, and the landscape. Sony Pictures Classics Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Dunkirk Director: Christopher Nolan Cast: Harry Styles, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance Plot: In May 1940, Germany advanced into France, trapping Allied troops on the beaches of


Dunkirk. Under air and ground cover from British and French forces, troops were slowly and methodically evacuated from the beach using every serviceable naval and civilian vessel that could be found. At the end of this heroic mission, 330,000 French, British, Belgian and Dutch soldiers were safely evacuated. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Get Out Director: Jordan Peele Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Catherine Keener Plot: This horror drama follows a young interracial couple who visit the girl's parents only for her boyfriend to uncover a conspiracy whereby young black adults are being captured. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Downsizing Director: Alexander Payne Cast: Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christopher Waltz, Alec Baldwin Plot: A man and his wife join a community of miniaturized peopleafter undergoing a process to shrink themselves. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Florida Project Director:Sean Baker Cast:Willem Dafoe, Bria Vinaite, Brooklynn Prince Plot: A precocious 6-year-old and her friends are homeless, living in extended-stay motels, but their summer is still filled with childhood wonder and adventure. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Post Director: Steven Spielberg Cast: Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Alison Brie, Sarah Paulson Plot: Ben Bradlee and Kay Graham of The Washington Post challenge the federal government for the right to publish classified information in 1971. Twentieth Century Fox Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Shape of Water Director: Guillermo del Toro Cast: Sally Hawkins, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Doug Jones Plot: In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely


Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Molly's Game Director: Aaron Sorkin Cast: Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner Plot: The true story of Molly Bloom, an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Courtesy of STXfilms Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Big Sick Director: Michael Showalter Cast: Kumail Najiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano Plot: Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash. When Emily contracts a mysterious illness, Kumail finds himself forced to face her feisty parents, his family's expectations, and histrue feelings. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Mudbound Director: Dee Rees Cast: Jason Clarke, Carey Mulligan, Mary J. Blige, Garrett Hedlund Plot: This Netflix film follows two who men return home from World War II to work on a farm in rural Mississippi, where they struggle to deal with racism and adjusting to life after war. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 The Disaster Artist Director: James Franco Cast: James Franco, Dave Franco, Alison Brie, Zac Efron Plot: A big screen re-enactment of the making of Tommy Wiseau's cult film The Room deemed 'the worst movie of all time.' Getty Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Phantom Thread Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Lesley Manville, Vicky Krieps Plot: Set in 1950's London, Reynolds Woodcock is


a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover. Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Lady Bird Director: Greta Gerwig Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein, Tracy Letts Plot: Gerwig's deirectorial debut is a coming-of-age story about a high-school senior (Ronan) and her turbulent relationship with her mother (Metcalf). Early Oscars Best Picture Contenders 2018 Darkest Hour Director: Joe Wright Cast: Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn Plot: The film follows Winston Churchill's early days as Prime Minister while Hitler closes in on Britain during World War II.restaurant with the remark: “I do not mind dying of overweight” and the hashtag “so many are lining up and growing fat together with me”.

> Wang Leehom is finally holding his world tour concert in Malaysia this year, Oriental Daily reported.

He revealed on Facebook that the concert would be held at Stadium Merdeka in Kuala Lumpur on March 16.

After a three-year preparation, Wang’s Descendants of the Dragon 2060 world tour kicked off in April last year in China.

A heavyweight in the Mandopop world, the Forever Love singer is noted for his individual style and creativity in the industry.

Lee said he would be “accompanying” his fans until 2060, and promised to rearrange and readapt his song, The Descendants of the Dragon, for every Year of the Dragon, one of


Who started science fairs might surprise you

I stumbled across this the other day. If I knew it earlier, I had totally forgotten.

Newspaper mogul E.W. Scripps is generally considered the father of science fairs in the United States.

The origins of the science fairs in the United States began almost
thirty years before the first National Science Fair in Philadelphia in
1950. Its beginnings can be traced back to newspaper mogul E.W. Scripps
in 1921. He fathered the Science Service, now known as Society for Science & the Public, in collaboration with The American Association for the Advancement of Science,
the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council.
Scripps created the Science Service as a nonprofit organization to
popularize science by explaining technical scientific findings in a
jargon-free manner to the American public. Under theThe Greens have scraped into the final Senate seat in Tasmania and the Australian Electoral Commission has confirmed the return to Parliament of Labor's Lisa Singh, who has been re-elected on a wave of public support after being dropped to an otherwise "unwinnable" spot on the ALP ticket.

The AEC announced the 12 elected senators on Wednesday, with Green Nick McKim's success coming at the expense of Liberal minister Richard Colbeck - another Tasmanian who fell victim to party power plays.

Nick McKim has pipped Liberal Richard Colbeck for the final Tasmanian Senate seat. Credit:Peter Mathew

Senator Colbeck fell short when One Nation candidate Kate McCulloch overtook him and very nearly toppled Senator McKim.

The difference between the Greens' success and One Nation's failure to take the 12th seat was just 141


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On Thursday, July 30, 50 Black and Latino students wearing mock bullet proof vests with stickers that stated #StudentsAintBulletProof #End1033, from the Strategy Center’s Fight for the Soul of the Cities, once again asked the Los Angeles Unified School District to give us a list of the weapons they received from the Department of Defense 1033 Program, to return 61 M 16 assault rifles we believe are still in their possession, and to apologize for being in the program in the first place. Students said, after 3 public comment testimonies, four long letters (September 2014, November 2014, May 2015, July 2015), over 3,500 petitions, appeals, and every other method of persuasion “Why is the LAUSD trying to kill us?” This campaign is part of the Strategy Center’s NoEPP has eliminated thousands of tickets and arrests in schools by decriminalizing a whole range of everyday student behaviors from schools fights, tobacco and alcohol possession and normal discipline issues. But we were also training tens and at time hundreds of students, parents, and teachers in a real-life political education process. In the process of struggle we learned how the system works, how to fight it, how to win victories, and how to keep up the political initiative. We felt we were making modest progress towards weakening, derailing, and eventually dismantling the school to prison pipeline.

And yet, in June 2014, while we were negotiating in good faith with the LAUSD and Los Angeles School Police Department, they, without consulting or even informing us or any other civil rights


Patients wait outside a mohalla clinic at Seemapuri during the lockdown on Monday. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna) Patients wait outside a mohalla clinic at Seemapuri during the lockdown on Monday. (Express photo by Praveen Khanna)

The Delhi health department has initiated contact tracing of more than 1,200 patients who visited a mohalla clinic in Babarpur between March 12 and 20, days after the 48-year-old doctor running the clinic tested positive for coronavirus. The doctor is the wife of a 49-year-old doctor who tested positive for COVID-19 on March 22 after he treated a patient in a private clinic. The woman he contracted the disease from had returned from Saudi Arabia and is a resident of Dilshad Garden, officials said. The 49-year-old, apart from practicing at a private clinic,also worked at the Maujpur mohalla clinic.

Read| Three doctors working in Delhi hospitals test positive for Covid-19

The department has put up a board outside the Babarpur mohalla clinic requesting people who visited during the period to go into home quarantine. The chain of transmission started from the 38-year-old woman from Dilshad Garden, who tested positive on March 18, almost 10 days after she returned from Saudi Arabia. Dilshad Garden is among the 10 hotspots identified by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to trace the COVID-19 cases.

“She is admitted to GTB Hospital and her 17-year-old daughter, who also tested positive, is in Safdarjung Hospital. Her daughter had appeared for the Class XII board exams this year and we are tracing 24 students who are her contacts. Both


TAMPA, Fla. – The United Soccer League (USL) – the largest Division II professional league in the world and longest standing member of the U.S. Soccer Federation – today welcomes Didier Drogba as the newest member of Phoenix Rising FC.

Drogba joins the league’s growing list of high-profile stars which include Omar Bravo, Joe Cole, Marcel Schäfer and Shaun Wright-Phillips. These veterans join a field of rising talent that includes 2016 USL 20 Under 20 No. 1 selection Victor Mansaray of FC Cincinnati, U.S. U20 National Team members Coy Craft (OKC Energy FC), Danilo Acosta (Real Monarchs SLC) and Jeremy Ebobisse (Portland Timbers 2), all of whom were part of the side that claimed the 2017 CONCACAF U20 Championship, and Canada U20 National Team members Shaan Hundal of TorontoMore than half a million expected to protest new law on education in Spain

Madrid, Spain, Nov 8, 2005 / 12:00 am (CNA).- The president of the Catholic Confederation of Parents in Spain, Luis Carbonel, announced this week more than half a million people are expected to participate in a November 12 march in protest of a new education law which ignores fundamental rights of parents.

In an internvew with the Spanish daily ABC, Carbonel said the protest is a grassroots effort and not an initiative of the conservative Popular Party or of the Spanish bishops. He noted that there are even “several Islamic organizations that have signed up to participate.”

Carbonel reiterated that opposition to the proposed law is based in part on its attack on the rights of parents


lack of due process.”

It adds: “To date the Saudi state has failed to offer public recognition of its responsibility for the killing of Mr Khashoggi, and it has failed to offer an apology to Mr Khashoggi’s family, friends and colleagues for his death and for the manner in which he was killed.

“The special rapporteur obtained information regarding a financial package offered to the children of Mr Jamal Khashoggi but it is questionable whether such a package amounts to compensation under international human rights law.”

Khashoggi, 59, was killed when he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October last year. One of the Middle East’s most important voices, he considered journalism within, about and for the region to be vital, the special rapporteur states.

Profile Who was Jamal Khashoggi?Show Jamal Khashoggi was one of the Arab world’s most prominent journalists and commentators. He was an outspoken critic of Saudi Arabia who dared to defy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. While living in Saudi Arabia, Khashoggi was told to stop writing or posting on Twitter, where he had more than 1.6 million followers. He moved to the US in June 2017, where he continued to comment on his country both in print and on television. He wrote columns for the Washington Post and the Guardian.

His message struck a nuanced tone in the US, where he tried to acknowledge the reforms undertaken by Bin Salman while also highlighting the flaws. Khashoggi previously had close links with the Saudi royal family, including having served as a media aide to


Prince Turki al-Faisal, when the latter was director general of the Saudi intelligence agency. He was also a former editor of the Saudi newspaper al-Watan and had worked with Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, a grandson of the first Saudi king. Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Photograph: Virginia Mayo/AP

The report says Khashoggi thought he was safe in Turkey and had resisted calls from the kingdom to return to Saudi Arabia from the US, where he had been in self-imposed exile since September 2017.

The special rapporteur’s report sets out how Saudi Arabia initially and repeatedly denied any knowledge of or involvement in the murder of Khashoggi, and that the idea that it might have been conducted by “rogue killers” first came fromkingcast955@icloud.com -- In the Civil Rights Justice system there are two sets of people: Those who are haters and those who fight back. These are their stories. Blink-Blink.
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Update: NYTimes op-ed "Danger's still our middle name" by Michael Cannell -- author of the forthcoming book “The Limit: Life and Death on the 1961 Grand Prix Circuit." Note that this is around the time that Roger Penske was still racing (he was 1961 SCCA Driver of the Year) when he met my father as noted below........Okay I seriously need to stop hexing these race car drivers because as a kid and adolescent there were three drivers, Niki Lauda, Mark Donohue and Ayrton Senna (a bit later)