Last Ranger trucks nearing completion at Ford Plant

Jeff Wheeler, Star TribuneWith the shutdown of Ford's Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minn. looming only days away, Ford opened the plant up for tours to retirees and the news media Thursday afternoon, December 1, 2011. Cesar Trejo installed components to the underside of pickups on the final stretch of the assembly line.

Operations at the St. Paul Ford plant may be winding down a little sooner than expected. One plant worker said Thursday morning that he'd already built his last truck by 8 a.m., and was told that a four-hour shift on Friday was voluntary.

A second person in the plant, supplier representative Terry Dinderman, said that the last 20 trucks are nearly completed and will be finished Friday morning,we all know he knows about it."

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believe in the possibility of war between North and South Korea in the near future. Deputy secretary of Russia’s supreme security body – the Security Council – said this week that no one would profit from such war and therefore it will never happen.

Yevgeniy Lukyanov told the press that North Korea’s leader Kim Chong-un was a very young politician and if he wanted his rule to be long he had to evade the unnecessary risks and threats.

Meanwhile, the North Korean authorities continue apparent preparations for war, creating anti-tank barricades near the border.

Last week Pyongyang demanded that South Korea and the USA removed all nuclear weapons from the region setting this as a condition for future dialogue. Both Seoul and Washington rejected this demand as absurd.Best Comeback Phoenix 2008 - Eddie's House

Admit it: You missed Eddie Matney. It's okay to 'fess up, because you're definitely not alone. And somehow we sense that the celebrated chef knew we were jonesing for his creative, Mediterranean-inspired cooking. After all, it had been awhile since he'd given us a taste of it. After closing his eponymous restaurant at 24th Street and Camelback a few years ago, he didn't interface with the public as much. His short-lived stint at Stoudemire's Downtown didn't turn any heads, and after that, he went to feed the elite at a private golf club. You'd see Matney's name on the roster at gala events, and you'd see his face on TV, but you'd be left with an insatiable craving if you were in


The U.S. intelligence community’s report on Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election goes beyond previous summaries. It blames the hacking of the Democratic emails, their dissemination to WikiLeaks, and the wider campaign to influence American voters not merely on the Russian government or on senior Russian officials but on Vladimir Putin personally.

An unclassified version of the report, originally due to be released next week, was suddenly put up on the website of the director of national intelligence Friday afternoon, shortly after the highly classified briefing was delivered to President-elect Donald Trump. The same briefing had been given on Thursday to President Obama, who’d ordered the report shortly after the election.

The public report states that Putin’s goals were “to undermine public faith in the US democratic process, denigrate SecretaryWarner Brothers

Just what do you think you're doing, Steve?

"Traffic" director Steven Soderbergh has opened the pod bay doors on a sacred piece of cinema, re-editing Stanley Kubrick's 1968 science fiction classic "2001: A Space Odyssey". With the original running 2 hours 41 minutes long, Soderbergh's version trims nearly an hour from the film, and, with its opening shots, links the earlier sequences to the famous trippy climax.

Since quitting making movies (or going on hiatus, anyway), Soderbergh clearly has a lot of time on his hands. Instead of directing more films like "Sex, Lies and Videotape," "Out of Sight," "Ocean's Eleven" or "Magic Mike", he's taken to tinkering with other people's flicks and posting the results on his Extension 765 blog.

Previous experiments include a mashup of the Alfred Hitchcock


Div III Profile: Sean Seid's Interpretations of Colonial American Music

Seid combined music and ethnography to study and perform 18th century music

Tuesday, May 30, 2017

By
Joshua Murray

Sean Seid’s inspiration for his Division III capstone project can be traced to a unique source: Since he was ten years old, the Virginia native has worked as a musician at Colonial Williamsburg, a living history museum in his home state.

Seid’s study, Balladeering: Interpretations of Colonial American Music, provides a 60-page thesis on balladeers, musicians who play historically accurate 18th-century popular songs in period-specific costumes. Seid 15F incorporated his seven years of experience as a professional balladeer into his ethnographic study, which covers the history of the program at Williamsburg as well as the details of the day-to-day existence of the musicians.

The notion ofsong This Is England titled CzechoslovakSong/Where Is England, a solo demo of Letsagetabitarockin recorded in 1975 on Elgin Avenue in the Maida Vale neighbourhood where Strummer squatted with the 101’ers, outtakes from Sid & Nancy featuring Clash guitarist Mick Jones and unreleased songs Rose of Erin, The Cool Impossible and London Is Burning, one of Strummer’s final recordings.

Other previously unreleased songs include US North, an unused Strummer and Jones collaboration from the soundtrack to the 1988 comedy Candy Mountain, the demo Before We Go Forward recorded with Clash bassist Paul Simonon and drummer Pete Howard, and a track titled US North Basement Demo recorded in 1986 and featuring Strummer and Jones on vocals, guitar and drum machine.

Strummer’s library of his own work was discovered after his death in


December 2002. He stored writings and tapes in his garden, many of which now live among the 20,000 items in the Joe Strummer Archive. A hardback book accompanying the new release features rarely seen and previously unpublished memorabilia plus historical press reviews and technical notes about the recordings.partnership with Sierra On-Line
and the MT-32.

I remember Scott Murphy (Space Quest co-creator) told a story about the first
time Roland came to hear how Sierra was using the MT-32. They were blown away
by the full musical scores they sequenced (Space Quest 3). He thinks they were
expecting Space Invaders like sound effects.

~~~
ewmailing
A little more context for those who don't know the history of music in PC
gaming, Sierra was the first major company to push hard on PC sound cards.
They partnered up with Roland and Adlib to promote and sell their cards so
they could take advantage of them for their games.

Wikipedia citation: King's Quest IV was the first commercially released game
for PC compatibles to support sound cards instead of only the standard built-
in speaker.

Sierra took it seriously and hired professional musicians


replays, either on 'real' drums or drum
machines. Whosampled more accurately is who borrowed

~~~
jdietrich
A novice producer was walking in the forest with Sensei Akai. The novice asked
Akai "If I extract the groove from the Amen Break using Beat Detective, then
replay it with identical-sounding samples, is it still the Amen Break?".
Sensei Akai replied "Mu". The novice was enlightened.

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itazula
I'm an idiot. I didn't even realize that Roland is a Japanese company.

~~~
ewmailing
I remember reading a story about how he picked the name "Roland". He wanted a
company name that would be pronounced and spelled the same way in any language
and country, and escape translation issues. The irony was not lost on him that
the Japanese (his home country) have trouble pronouncing the 'R'.

~~~
microcolonel
It's more the _l_ than the _r_ , the pronunciation is alsoby each and every Party organization," Xi said.

Xi stressed the importance of the Party"s political work in realizing "the absolute upholding of the authority of the CPC Central Committee and its centralized, unified leadership."

Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks at the second plenary session of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the CPC, the Party"s disciplinary watchdog.

Xi said Party members should "understand the dialectical relationship between the grand vision of Communism and socialism with Chinese characteristics."

"We cannot indulge ourselves in empty talk without working for the cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics and national rejuvenation. We can neither afford to lose the grand vision because realizing Communism is a long process," he said.


Campaigning at the best of times takes a toll on the body. Between the lack of sleep, poor diet, and stress — not to mention hand-to-hand exposure to hundreds of strangers every day — keeping a candidate healthy is always an uphill battle.

That was the case before the novel coronavirus reshaped American society and politics. Now, with a global health emergency at our door and the three main presidential candidates remaining all in the highest-risk age group (Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and President Trump are all in their 70s), the lifestyle of a politician is even more risky.

Huge amounts of a campaign present problems in the context of a pandemic — for the politician, his campaign and his supporters. Both the Biden and Sanders campaigns canceled rallies inlargest mammal migration, with 8 million straw-colored fruit bats arriving from the Congo to eat the wild musuku fruits in the park.

During the migration an overwhelming amount of bats spiral through the skies, screeching and colliding as they return each year to settle in the fruit trees, covering them until there is no longer visible bark. The most memorable time to watch is at sunset, when the bats fly out to find food, creating a thick straw blanket in the sky.

Said Jim Holden, President of African Travel, Inc., in a press release, “The annual migration of millions of bats from the Democratic Republic of the Congo across the border to Kasanka National Park is an astonishing sight. Africa is full of such natural wonders, and most of them


Hillary Clinton is moving up in the polls in two key battlegrounds as the race shifts to the general election, pulling ahead of Donald Trump in the pivotal swing state of Florida and bringing the race for Ohio to a dead heat.

The latest Quinnipiac University Poll shows Clinton leading her presumptive Republican rival 47-39 percent in the Sunshine State. That’s up from a near-draw in similar polling a month ago.

The former secretary of state also has closed Trump’s modest lead in Ohio, with the latest poll showing the candidates at a 40-40 percent tie.

The polling follows a rough patch for the Trump campaign. The billionaire businessman has been sparring with fellow Republicans over his controversial comments and proposals – including remarks about a U.S. federal judge’s Mexican heritageRome, Italy

Rome, the "Eternal City," has been a sacred place and internationally important city since ancient times. Rome's history extends nearly 2,800 years, during which time it has been the seat of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire, the Papal States, the Kingdom of Italy and the Italian Republic. The first known temple in Rome was built around 575 BC. A Jewish community was established in Rome in 161 BC and remains active today. Christians arrived in the 1st century AD, and Rome has been the center of Catholic Christianity ever since. Rome's abundance of ancient temples, synagogues, churches and shrines make it one of the best cities to explore the holy places of a variety of religious traditions.


them in operation no later than 2014.

As Motherboard noted, this concept was the brainchild of Swiss research Thomas Hinderling at the Centre Suisse dElectronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM) back around 2008. The focus then was on building an island solar thermal system, but an effort to test a prototype in the United Arab Emirates (of all places) foundered, and Hinderling turned his focus back to Switzerland with Nolaris.

A key principle appears to remain from the early vision: the platform goes on an “impermeable membrane resting on a cushion of air at a slight overpressure,” according to the Viteos press release. This makes it enables the platform to rotate “220 ° in the direction of the sun during the day and return to its initial position during the night.”universalist principles that required them to impose "liberty, equality, fraternity" not merely on France by a reign of terror, but also on the rest of Europe by force of arms.

Unlike America’s Founding Fathers, who exhorted their countrymen to cultivate their own garden, Jacobins were not content with revolutionizing France. They were driven to revolutionize the world

President Bush’s second inaugural speech is Jacobin to the core. It stands outside the American tradition. Declaring American values to be universalist principles, Bush promised to use American power to spread democracy and to end tyranny everywhere on earth. As one of Bush’s neocon puppetmasters, Robert Kagen, approvingly wrote in the Washington Post on January 23, "The goal of American foreign policy is now to spread democracy, for its own sake, for reasons


in the year 1212. The children were captured and sold into slavery.

Bush and the Republican Party have morphed into a Jacobin Party. They sincerely believe that they have a monopoly on virtue and the obligation to impose US virtue on the rest of the world. This Jacobin program requires the supremacy of executive power and is dependent on an unwarranted belief in the efficacy of force.

There is nothing American or democratic about this program. Bush speaks as Robespierre when he invokes "a fire in the minds of men" that "warms those who feel its power." Bush possesses Robespierre’s "pure conscience" as he destroys Iraqi’s infrastructure and the lives of tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, levels cities, and practices torture. American casualties (dead and wounded) have reached 10Wall Street Journal reports. Both Mnuchin and former JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon are reportedly in the mix to be Trump’s Treasury Secretary.

All this makes perfect sense from Trump's angle: He gave the speeches he needed to win. Once he won, the ideas in those speeches had done their job which was to secure him a victory. They have no further use value for him, and are thus tossed out with the garbage. Because he doesn't care about those promises at all, and neither does he care about those who voted for him.

The promises are replaced with things Trump has been persuaded to include to satisfy the arch-conservatives and Christianists among the Republican base. It looks to me that someone is influencing him.

Very very sad. Humongously sad! Sad in


its end, if necessary, for his personal comfort, and he also plans to follow the old Republican model of appointing those who hate a particular government department to run it. To the ground, that is.

Thursday, November 10, 2016

Well, it was, in a way, because this was the first election without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act. Ari Berman writes this about Wisconsin:

For example, 27,000 votes currently separate Trump and Clinton in Wisconsin, where 300,000 registered voters, according to a federal court, lacked strict forms of voter ID. Voter turnout in Wisconsin was at its lowest levels in 20 years
and decreased 13 percent in Milwaukee, where 70 percent of the state’s
African-American population lives, according to Daniel Nichanian of the
University of Chicago.

And more generally:

On Election Day, there werehis party, and that made him somewhat predictable. Trump is a loose cannon, a man with the thinnest of skins who takes umbrage at everything, whose reactions cannot be easily predicted, whose skills for the job he has won are non-existent.

No wonder the financial markets have jitters. And no wonder many of us are shell-shocked.

None of the polls I read before the election foretold the events of last night. Why was that the case?

I have been told that the white working class turned up to vote in much larger numbers (for Trump)*, that the base of the Democratic party did not turn up in sufficiently large numbers, and that something akin to the Bradley effect might have operated with those Republican voters who were going to vote for


though not still heard. Men just need to still breathe to be an acceptable age for presidency.

Susan B. Anthony's grave has become a site for pilgrimages. She worked for women's suffrage in the United States, and now her tombstone is covered with "I Voted" stickers.

The secret Facebook group Pantsuit Nation was created as a safe haven for those who support Hillary Clinton for president. That such a safe haven is needed is worth a post or two, by the way. At the present time it has over two million members.

This site, I Waited 96 Years, gives pictures of women who were born before women could vote in the US of A.

Monday, November 07, 2016

I'm sure you have come across the story already: Harvard University 2012 men's soccer teamdecided to rank the incoming members of Harvard University's women's soccer team in terms of their fuckability or lack thereof. These rankings were circulated online.

When this "scouting report" became public, Harvard suspended the men's team for the remainder of the season:

University president Drew Faust said in a statement on Thursday night that an investigation into the 2012 team found their “appalling” actions were not isolated to one year or the actions of a few, but appeared to be more widespread across the team and continued through the current season.

“The decision to cancel a season is serious and consequential, and reflects Harvard’s view that both the team’s behaviour and the failure to be forthcoming when initially questioned are completely unacceptable, have no place at Harvard, and run counter to


no one deserves more credit than Peter Schweizer, Breitbart editor-at-large and the author of Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich. The controversial, mostly discredited book has been held up by many as irrefutable proof of wrongdoing, or at least common venality, by the Clintons. It also found plenty of eager readers within the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Wall Street Journal and New York Times report, galvanizing a number of F.B.I. agents to launch an investigation into the Clinton Foundation, based mostly on assertions made by Schweizer in the book.

The argument is certainly a compelling one. Even Schweizer—whom the Journal reports was interviewed on several occasions by the F.B.I. agents interested in the Clinton Foundation—hasCAIRO, Egypt — Months after Egypt boldly announced that archaeologists had identified a mummy as the most powerful queen of her time, scientists in a museum basement are still analyzing DNA from the bald, 3,500-year-old corpse to try to back up the claim aired on TV.

Progress is slow. So far, results indicate the linen-wrapped mummy is most likely, but not conclusively, the female pharaoh Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled for 20 years in the 15th century B.C.

Running its own ancient-DNA lab is a major step forward for Egypt, which for decades has seen foreigners take most of the credit for major discoveries here.

It's time Egyptian scientists took charge, said Zahi Hawass, Egypt's antiquities chief who spearheaded the quest to find Hatshepsut and build the lab. "Egyptology, for the last


200 years, it has been led by foreigners."

But the Hatshepsut discovery also highlights the struggle to back up recent spectacular findings in Egypt, including the unearthing of ancient tombs and mummies, investigations into how King Tut died, and even the discovery in the Siwa oasis of possibly the world's oldest human footprint.

So far, the science shown in the Discovery Channel's television special "Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen" has not been published in a reputable peer-reviewed scientific journal — the gold standard of scientific research worldwide.

And some scientists, even ones working on the project, have raised concerns.

"I think the people at the Discovery Channel went way too much 'CSI,'" said biological anthropologist Angelique Corthals, referring to television's "Crime Scene Investigation" series.

"They think you can pick up evidence at 2search for the Hatshepsut mummy. Hawass said he's offering other companies a similar deal: the rights to film a highly coveted expedition — possibly the search for King Tut's family — in exchange for a second lab.

"This is how I use TVs to bring technology here," he said during an interview in his Cairo office. He added that he has had nibbles about a deal, but would not elaborate.

Hawass has ambitious plans for DNA testing in Egypt, including examining all the royal mummies and the nearly two dozen unidentified mummies stored in the Egyptian Museum. He believes DNA tests will show that some royal mummies on display are not who archaeologists thought they were.

One example is the mummy of Thutmose I, Hatshepsut's father, found in the late 19th


Syria: Children’s hospital moved to cellar

Staff remain to help sick and wounded in besieged city

Incubators for newborns have been moved to the hospital's cellar for the safety of staff and patients.

Cologne: The Malteser International supported children’s hospital in Aleppo, Syria, has moved its operations into the cellar in order to give staff and patients as much safety as possible. The decision to move the facility was made after a newborn baby was killed during an attack last week when the oxygen supply to its incubator was interrupted. Outpatient care is now limited to only the most serious emergencies.

The rebel-controlled zone in the east of the city where the hospital is located has been besieged by the Syrian army for around a week. Supply routes into the encircled partsPolicy Strategies, founded by Karl Rove, which in turn mount huge advertising campaigns on businesses' behalf. Because those groups assert their spending to be educational in nature, they are exempt from most of the donor disclosure requirements that apply to super PACs, political parties and candidates. The trade associations lining up in opposition to the rule amount to a roll call of the most politically influential -- and highly regulated -- industries in the country. They include the American Gaming Association, the National Retail Federation and the National Mining Association.

It's not the corporate boards themselves that are openly fighting this regulatory-reform effort. Corporate executives aren't doing their own dirty work in public for the same reason they don't want to have to disclose their corporation's donations in the


again most people have not studied basic anatomy, so where would such an idea come from?

20: And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 21: And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; 22: And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 23: And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out ofthe waters, covered with consolidated mud and sand, how different would be the characters of those strata from any which have preceded them! Their most striking features would be the remains of Man, and the production of human art – the domes of his temples, the columns of his palaces, the arches of his stupendous bridges of iron and stone, the ruins of his towns and cities, and the durable remains of his earthly tenement imbedded in the rocks and strata – these would be the “Medals of Creation” of the Human Epoch, and transmit to the remotest periods of time a faithful record of the present condition of the surface of the earth, and of its inhabitants.

This doesn’t mean that the remains of humans were not thought


later would come back, in new form, as the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis. In his valuable book From the Greeks to Darwin, Henry Fairfield Osborn presents Anaximander’s thesis thusly;

He conceived of the earth as first existing in a fluid state. From its gradual drying up all living creatures were produced, beginning with men. These aquatic men first appeared in the form of fishes in the water, and they emerged from this element only after they had progressed so far as to be able to further develop and sustain themselves upon land. This is rather analogous development from a simpler to a more advanced structure by a change of organs, yet a germ of the Evolution idea is found here. We find that Anaximander advanced some reasons for this view.He pointed to a man’s long helplessness after birth as one of the proofs that he cannot be in his original condition. His hypothetical ancestors of man were supposed to be first encased in horny capsules, floating and feeding in water; as soon as these ‘fish-men’ were in a condition to emerge, they came on land, the capsule burst, and they took their human form.

After evolution became established in both terms of fact and theory, the great fossil collectors of the late 19th and early 20th century began to come up with hypotheses as to from whence came Homo sapiens. In his Neo-Lamarckian 1896 treatise, Edward Drinker Cope proposed the following hypothesis;

The relation of this fact [“the high percentage of quadritubercular superior molars in the Malays, Polynesians, and


most shocking specimen was the fractured lower jaw of a 12-year-old son of a manlike ape. The lad had been killed by a violent blow delivered with calculated accuracy on the point of the chin, either by a smashing fist or a club. The bludgeon blow was so vicious that it had shattered the jaw on both sides of the face and knocked out all the front teeth. That dramatic specimen impelled me in 1948 and the seven years following to study further their murderous and cannibalistic way of life.

As Brain then notes, such was the murderous Australopithecus of R. A. Dart; brutal savages and cannibals, making their tools and weapons out of the bones and horns of the animals that they managed to kill. Examinations of thethe American Museum of Natural History

As Beard notes in his book, however, most of the hominid fossils then known were almost like bookends to a series, with the lemur-like ancestors (i.e. Notharctus from North America and Adapis from France) of later primates and the famous African and European hominids being the most well known. As countries became more open to science, however, more and more fossils came out of the ground, and Beard does note that while Africa may very well be the “cradle of humanity” in terms of hominids, if you really want to go back to the beginnings of prosimians Asia is the place to search. This somewhat vindicates those who thought that Asia would be the place to look for human ancestors, though not quite


[Pliopithecus through Oreopithecus] actually walked on all fours. Pliopithecus – Proconsul – Dryopithecus – Oreopithecus – Ramapithecus – Australopithecus africanus – Australopithecus robustus – Australopithecus boisei – Homo habilis – Homo erectus – Early Homo sapiens – Neanderthal Man – Cro-Magnon Man – Modern Man

The final part of the original “March of Progress” from F. Clark Howell’s Early Man

Skull of Proconsul from the American Museum of Natural History

The inclusion of “Early Homo sapiens” before “Neanderthal Man” is a strange one, and even on the following pages australopithecines are shown living during the same time or exhibiting variation. While the author and artists of the book may not have meant to show that all the primates in their line evolved directly from their predecessors in line, the power ofthe image overwhelmed any explanation, and the image certainly became iconic. Evolutionary scientists did not sit idly by while a fallacious notion of human evolution was promulgated, however; Stephen Jay Gould opens his 1989 book on the Cambrian fauna Wonderful Life with his astonishment that his books, translated into other languages, bear the incorrect image. Gould writes;

The march of progress is the canonical representation of evolution – the one picture immediately grasped and viscerally understood by all. This may best be appreciated by its prominent use in humor and in advertising. These professions provide our best test of public perceptions. Jokes and ads most click in the fleeting second that our attention grants them. … Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of


she turn into the Naked Ape? Of course, she did nothing of the kind. There simply wasn’t time. In the circumstances, there was only one thing she could possibly turn into, and she promptly did it. She turned into a leopard’s dinner. … With piercing squeals of terror she [a different ancestral ape] ran straight into the sea. The carnivore was a species of cat and didn’t like wetting his feet; and moreover, though he had twice her body weight, she was accustomed like most tree-dwellers to adopting an upright posture, even though she used four legs for locomotion. She was thus able to go farther into the water than he could without drowning. She went right in up to her neck and waited there clutching her babyuntil the cat got fed up with waiting and went back to the grasslands… …One idle afternoon after a good deal of trial and error she picked up a pebble – this required no luck at all because the beach was covered with thousands of pebbles – and hit one of the shells with it, and the shell cracked. She tried it again, and it worked every time. So she became a tool user, and a male watched her and imitated her (This doesn’t mean that she was any smarter than he was – only that necessity is the mother of invention. Later his necessities, and therefore his inventiveness, outstripped hers.) … She began to turn into a naked ape for the same reason as the porpoise turned


for five years after its termination. The agreement required the parties to submit disputes to binding arbitration and empowered the arbitrators to determine and award attorneys' fees and costs.
After signing the agreement, the parties began developing a high-speed circuit-testing device, the RI 7100A. The first unit was sold in 1992. As development efforts increased, appellant hired additional employees to work on the project, while respondent contributed the services of two of its employees.
Eventually, disputes arose. Among other things, the parties disagreed about control of the joint venture and about the value of their respective contributions to the project. By September 1997, the parties' relationship had irretrievably broken down. Appellant terminated the agreement and locked respondents' employees out of its facility. Respondent sought arbitration.
As contemplated by the agreement, theparties selected a panel of three arbitrators.[1]*690 The panel commenced a hearing on the parties' claims in March 1998. The following month, the panel issued an interim award, which resolved some issues while reserving others for further hearing. The arbitrators then conducted a second hearing in early July 1998. Later that month, the panel issued a tentative final award. Thereafter, the parties submitted argument in a prearranged telephone conference and by subsequent letter briefs.
The panel issued a "final award" in August 1998, which expressly recognized that the parties' agreement had been terminated in September 1997. The award directed appellant to pay respondent specified damages, attorneys' fees, royalties, inventory payments, pre-award interest, post-award interest, and costs. It also required appellant to diligently develop and market the RI 7100A, and


to make royalty payments to respondent as specified for five years from termination. In light of the award's royalty and joint-ownership provisions, the arbitrators gave each party certain audit rights. Finally, as pertinent here, the arbitrators ruled that the provisions in the agreement for arbitration and attorneys' fees would apply to any future disputes arising out of the award.[2]
After receiving the final award, appellant requested the panel to clarify, correct, and modify it in several respects. First, appellant sought clarification of a royalty provision. More significantly, appellant asked the panel to strike the provisions of the award that carried forward the contractual arbitration and attorneys' fees clauses. In support of that request, appellant argued that there was no contractual basis for ordering either party to submit to anyfuture arbitration or to pay attorneys' fees, in light of the panel's acknowledgment that the agreement had been terminated. In response to appellant's requests, the panel corrected the royalty provision but refused to delete the arbitration and fee clauses from the award. In September 1998, the arbitrators issued and served their final award, as corrected.[3]
Respondent immediately petitioned the trial court to confirm the award. In response, appellant requested the court to correct the award prior to confirmation by eliminating the arbitration and attorneys' fees clauses. In seeking correction of the award, appellant argued that inclusion of the challenged clauses exceeded the arbitrators' powers. The trial court disagreed and granted respondent's petition to confirm the award in its entirety, without correction. The court later entered its formal judgment confirming


Compulsory microchipping and desexing of dogs and cats in South Australia will be in place by the end of the year after an amendment passed through State Parliament.

The Government predicts the new laws will reduce the number of pets being euthanased.

The amendments to the Dog and Cat Management Act were discussed for many years and the latest amendment is based on the findings of a citizens' jury, which urged that more effort be made to reduce the number of animals put down annually.

Environment Minister Ian Hunter said about 10,000 animals are euthanased each year.

"From my perspective that's 10,000 too many," he said.

"That means there's an issue with supply and clamping down on illegal puppy farmers is the first place for us to start."

There will be some exemptions forkilling birds, too. Finally, big media are taking note. In recent weeks, The New York Times editorial page, NPR's generally agribiz-friendly Dan Charles, and CBS News have all weighed in with reports on the suspect pesticides and their effects on honeybees. Meanwhile, the annual bee die-offs that have come to be known as 'colony-collapse disorder' appear to be accelerating."


At the time of the sale Slaughter's debt was $9,044.71. First Franklin made a bid of $9,044.71. Kelley bid 21 silver dollars, and then protested when First Franklin was declared the high bidder.
*623 On the same day, Stockton, Whatley, Davin & Company, a Florida corporation, conducted a sale of some Henry County property belonging to Eddie and Regina Blasingame who had defaulted on their obligations to the company under a deed to secure debt. Stockton bid $33,800 and was declared the high bidder. Again, Kelley appeared at the sale, bid 21 silver dollars and protested the sale.
On January 8, 1986, Kelley filed two suits. In one, Kelley named First Franklin as defendant. In the other, he named Stockton as defendant. In both complaints, Kelley alleged the high bidsMy Sportsman: The Spanish Male Athlete

Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer.

A few years ago Nike ran an ad campaign in Spain featuring basketball star Pau Gasol and a half-dozen national team soccer players. The tagline: "Being Spanish is no longer an excuse, it's a responsibility."

Today, to be a star Spanish athlete is even more than a responsibility. It signifies nothing less than world-class sporting cred. Where once Spain would supply the occasional professional outlier -- a Manuel Orantes, a Seve Ballesteros, a Miguel Indurain -- the Spanish male pro is now a figure of worldwide dominance, style and envy, and my choice as Sportsman of the Year.

Spain's European


champion national soccer team took the world No. 1 ranking into 2009, and in Iker Casillas, Cesc Fabregas, Xavi Hernandez, Andres Iniesta,Fernando Torres and David Villa, no country has more finalists for the Ballon D'Or, awarded annually to the best player in Europe.

RogerFederer's transcendent season doesn't diminish the year that Rafael Nadal turned in, which included an Australian Open title and a lock on the No. 2 spot. Meanwhile nine of the ATP's Top 50 come from Spain, which defends its Davis Cup title next month.

The last four winners of the Tour de France hail from south of the Pyrenees, with the latest, Alberto Contador, swapping the yellow jersey with the previous champion, Carlos Sastre.

As for basketball, what began as the reigning world champs' breathtaking challenge to LeBron,Kobe & Co. at the 2008 Olympics reached another level in 2009. Gasol schooled Dwight Howard in the post to lead the Lakers past the Magic to NBA supremacy. Rudy Fernandez set a rookie record for three-pointers in his debut season with the Trail Blazers. Meanwhile Ricky Rubio waits in the wings, ready to loose on the league a charisma that simply isn't being produced Stateside anymore.

Whether it's Fernando Alonso with a steering wheel in his hands, or Sergio Garcia wrapping his around a golf club, or Julian Simon, Dani Pedrosa or JorgeLorenzo gripping the handlebars of a Grand Prix motorcycle, individual Spaniards have come to define what it means to be an international man of mastery.

What led to this? Three things:

Shrewd stewardship. Spain's ACB is the best


nation-based pro basketball league in the world, and La Liga, thanks to F.C. Barcelona's defeat of Manchester United in the Champions League, can lay plausible claim to the same in soccer. Ask around any front office in those two sports, and you'll hear rhapsodies to the Spanish clubs' approach to developing talent. No less impressive than F.C. Barcelona's winning "the treble" in 2009 is that Barca did it while starting seven products of its own youth system.

Cash money. Spanish sports are awash in it, at the grassroots and the summit alike. Public and private patrons poured pesetas into sporting facilities in conjunction with the Barcelona Games, and we're witnessing the results. And this year Real Madrid -- which rakes in more revenue than any soccer club on earth-- dropped 162 million Euros on Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Social change. Before its rebirth as a democracy in 1978, Spain hadn't had a chance to seed sport among the masses to see what might grow. But since then-- and especially since the country's accession to the E.U. -- an improved diet has helped the average Spaniard of the current sporting-age generation grow 50 percent taller than his European counterpart. Prosperity has built a leisure class, whose byproducts -- a more athletic citizen and a more affluent fan -- reinforce each other.

More than that, though, there's been a revolution in the thinking of young Spaniards born during the decade between their country's hosting of the 1982 World Cup and the 1992 Olympics. From an excuse, to a responsibility, to


crazy,” he said.

Looking out the windows, he said he saw the man put an assault rifle and a handgun on the roof of his Mitsubishi Endeavor. Customers dove under their tables, the employees scrambled to the back and Tillerson ran to the front to lock the doors as he called police.

The man then jumped into his vehicle and took off, Tillerson said.

Fewer than two miles away, at W.W. White Road and Hershey Drive, officers spotted the suspect and two patrol units pulled over the car, Benavides said. As the officers got out of their cars, the man got out of his car carrying the assault rifle in his hands and pointing it at the officers.

Police initially reported Jones exchanged fire with the officers. But on Monday, an SAPDOn February 9, 1883, the contract for the construction of the Parliament Building’s main facade was signed. Construction began the following May. The plans for the main entrance already included the motto created by Eugène-Étienne Taché: “Je me souviens” (I remember).

The lights on the Parliament Building’s central tower were installed in 1908 to mark Québec City’s Tercentennial. Since then, they have remained lit whenever the Assembly is sitting, night or day.

At the end of the 19th century, it was the enviable lot of the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly to have living quarters in the Parliament Building, a hub of social activity where political eminences regularly rubbed shoulders with the capital’s more prosperous citizens. The Speaker of the Legislative Council also had private quarters in the Parliament Building.

The


Library data bank contains the names of all the contractors who worked on the Parliament Building from 1876 to 1909 and the nature of the work they carried out. This treasure trove of information will be further enriched once archival research has been carried out covering the years 1909 to 1980.

The presence of the coats of arms of the Netherlands and Belgium, in the Parliament Building’s main hall, remains shrouded in mystery. Research has shown that they were installed sometime between 1966 and 1975, but no clues have surfaced as to exactly when or why.

Of the 22 bronze statues arrayed on the facade of the Parliament Building, 16 were installed between 1890 and 1926. The project was subsequently put on hold until 1965 when, over the next fouryears, the six remaining bronzes were cast and installed.

While the Parliament Building was still under construction, the Québec Skating Club built an impressive structure housing a skating rink close by. Given the location of the rink, right in front of the Parliament Building, Eugène-Étienne Taché repeatedly called for its demolition. The structure was finally pulled down in 1889.

In 1904, Henri Beau’s painting, The Arrival of Champlain at Quebec, was mounted on the wall above the Speaker’s throne in the Legislative Council Chamber. The Government had it removed in 1926 and replaced by Charles Huot’s The Sovereign Council. Beau’s painting is now at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.

In the fall of 1881, workers began digging the foundations for the Parliament Building’s facade. To cut costs, the government


authorized the contractor, William John Piton, to hire Québec Prison inmates who would be paid less than regular labourers.

As early as 1875, Eugène-Étienne Taché began outlining plans for a polygon-shaped library to be built in the Parliament Building courtyard. This was not to be, however, and in 1912, a power plant was erected in the courtyard to house the Assembly’s heating and electrical systems.

On June 20, 1985, the quadrangle of buildings and property bordered by what are identified today as René-Lévesque boulevard east, Honoré-Mercier avenue, Grande Allée and des Parlementaires street was declared a national historic site under the Cultural Property Act.

Le Parlementaire Restaurant was inaugurated on December 14, 1917, and was called Le Café du Parlement until 1970. It was originally a gathering place for the Membersand personnel of the National Assembly as well as the press. It opened its doors to the general public in 1968 and four years later was renamed Le Parlementaire.

In 1913, painter and illustrator Charles Huot was asked to create an historic fresco for the ceiling of the Legislative Assembly Chamber. Entitled Je me souviens (I remember), the painting represents the province of Québec in the guise of a woman handing a laurel wreath to some of Québec’s most important historical figures.

In August 1980, the Government of Québec issued an order in council to replace the names of its five parliamentary buildings. Since 1938, they had been identified simply by the letters A, B, C, D and E.

A bronze statue of Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), early explorer and discoverer of


the Mississippi, is included among the historical figures on the facade of the Parliament Building. Did you know that Eugène-Étienne Taché was related to this heroic figure of New France?

In 1875, the conservative government in power at the time decided to build a new legislative building. It is interesting to note that then Premier Charles-Eugène Boucher de Boucherville did not sit in the Legislative Assembly with the elected Members but rather in the Legislative Council, to which he was appointed in 1867 to represent the Montarville Division.

In 1885, elected Members had to sit in the Legislative Council Chamber because construction work in the Legislative Assembly Chamber was not yet finished. This meant that Legislative Council Members had to meet in the library until the “Red Room” became availableSPORTS AUTHORITY FIELD AT MILE HIGH — It was a scary moment for Broncos wide receiver Andre Caldwell when he went down after taking a hard shot to the midsection from a Seattle defender.

Caldwell ripped his helmet off as he writhed around in pain in the grass before he walked gingerly off the field with the help of Broncos trainers.

Caldwell was still moving slowly in the locker room post-game, but said X-Rays showed no broken ribs.

The Broncos need Caldwell to stay healthy. Though he worked primarily with the second-team offense Saturday night, Caldwell was the team’s first kickoff returner, and broke for a 34-yard return in the first half.


INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

The middle rung of the Mazda Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires open-wheel driver development ladder, the Pro Mazda Championship Presented by Cooper Tires, will gain a significant upgrade in 2018 with the introduction of the brand-new Tatuus PM-18. The prototype car was unveiled today during the annual Performance Racing Industry Show at the Indianapolis Convention Center by Dan Andersen, Owner/CEO of Andersen Promotions, John Doonan, Director of Motorsports for Mazda North American Operations, and Chris Pantani, Director of Event Marketing and Motorsports for Cooper Tires.

Tatuus FIA F.4

Tatuus at the end of 2013 is selected by the FIA in order to realize the new FIA F.4 car, that will debut in the Italian Championship 2014, will be the first car F.4 FIA. In 2015 also theGerman Federation Adac decide to use F.4 Tatuus cars, as well the new Championship NEZ (North European Zone). In 2016 another two Championship FIA F.4 will be added: the Spanish Championship and UAE Championship.

British F3 in back

BRDC F4 renamed as the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship. For 2016 a new car has been introduced which has elevated the performance levels of the championship to close to F3 levels. The FA-016 Tatuus-Cosworth is a significantly more powerful and sophisticated car, with a 230bhp-spec engine, upgraded brakes and substantially more downforce from the front and rear wings and a rear diffuser. The FA-016 meets all the latest FIA Formula 3 safety criteria including side i
mpact, front and rear carbon impact structures, wheel tethers and extractable seat. Impressively, during winter testing


The I-League champions have tweeted that they will take action if they are denied a spot in the proposed merged league.

Aizawl FC, a club that scripted a fairytale win in the I-League last week, is now threatening to 'fast unto death'. Why? Because they find themselves in a bizarre position where they might be relegated to the second division next season. There is a plan by the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to merge the I-League and the cash-rich Indian Super League (ISL) and its unlikely the small club from Mizoram will make the cut in the expanded league. The AIFF is planning to retain the eight ISL teams and a handful of the I-League teams in the new set-up.

Aizawl FC stated on their official Twitter handle: "AizawlFC has submitted its formal claim to AIFF to continue in the top league even after proposed merger of the existing top league with ISL."

They would approach the Prime Minister and the Asian Football Confederation if the club did not get a 'positive response' from the AIFF, they said.

"If all these steps fail, the club ... will resort to worldwide protests, sitting demonstrations near AFC/FIFA offices, picketing of AIFF Office, mass hunger strike/fast unto death protests," the club added.

AIFF secretary Kushal Das said that the reigning champions may have to play in the second division next season.

"Look, even if Aizawl FC do not play in the country's top league, it doesn't mean that the road ends for them," Das said in an interview to DNA.

"They can still play


Lazenby well regarded by peers, community

A municipal peace officer killed Aug. 10 in Alberta served as an RCMP member in Mission in the 1980s, and is being remembered as an exceptional Mountie and great friend.

Mission’s Paul Curtis worked as an RCMP officer with Rod Lazenby in the early to mid-1980s, he told The Record.

“He was very much a team player and would always have your back,” he said.

After retiring from the force, Lazenby moved to Alberta and worked for the Municipal District of Foothills. He was called to a rural property in Priddis, located north of Calgary, to investigate a report of numerous dogs on a ranch.

Police allege an altercation took place at the property and that Lazenby was physically assaulted.connection of the ground wire to the second switch in the north portion of the building is itself insufficient basis upon which to conclude that defendant's negligence was a substantial contributing factor to the property loss in building 295. Had the connection been made properly, at the main switch, fire probably would have occurred in any event, because of plaintiff's misconnection outside and defendant's use of a No. 6 ground wire inside. But such damage as was done to the computers and plotting boards housed in the north portion of the building would have been avoided. The extent of damage to these items amounted to $16,945.32. Other damage may have occurred near the main switch instead, had the ground wire been connected there. The facts are not fully


HELSINKI - Shortly after his golden goal, Finland's Kasperi Kapanen was shown a tweet from fellow Toronto Maple Leafs prospect William Nylander and, if it was possible, his smile grew even wider.

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The two are teammates on the Toronto Marlies in the American Hockey League this season and had looked forward to facing off at the World Juniors. That was before a blindside hit in Sweden's opening game forced Nylander out of the tournament.

Kapanen had two assists in Monday's 2-1 semifinal victory over Sweden, a team that was led in scoring by Alexander Nylander, William's younger brother. The Swedes were then blown out by Team USA in the bronze-medal game on Tuesday.

"That's sweet of him," said Kapanen while still gazing down at the tweet on a phone. "It'sThis little-known fact about the singer is a tremendous accomplishment!

It’s not common knowledge, but IU used to be an honorary senior police officer with the South Korean police force!

She was made an honorary member in February 2013 and in 2014 was promoted to senior officer thanks to her hard work and success as an anti-bullying ambassador.

She participated in various activities and events to help stop bullying in schools as well as to publicize the 117 call center for victims of crime.

An honorary corporate promotion ceremony was held in her honor when she rose in the ranks. Life Safety Commissioner Seo Bum Soo joked at the time, “If she gets promoted at least once a year, she will be the chief executive by the time she’s 30!”

“One word from


IU impacts Korean teenagers a lot more than the sermons of police officers.” — Life Safety Commissioner Seo Bum Soo

IU took her role very seriously, thanking the Korean Police office for the quick promotion, and vowing to work even harder in the position.

She was titled as senior police officer for two years, until 5 November, 2016.

She did a lot of good in the community during her time as a public servant, improving public relations and promoting safety in the community.1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a golf club head.
2. Description of the Related Art
A wood type, an iron type, and a utility type, for example, are known as golf club heads. In actual play, a golf club set is used. The club set includes a plurality of golf clubs. Generally, the club set includes a wood type golf club, an iron type golf club, and a putter. In these years, many golf players are likely to use a utility type golf club.
Japanese Patent No. 5181052 (US2013/0040752) discloses a club set including a plurality of golf clubs different in the overall lengths of the clubs. In the set, the golf clubs include a head in a hollow structure. The head includes a face portion. The


just huddling and hugging each other in a desperate attempt to remain together.”

Southwest Key, the nonprofit that operates several shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border including the one where Davidson worked, told NPR it has a policy of allowing hugs and comforting touches in certain circumstances. A South Texas shelter, meanwhile, told the American Academy of Pediatrics president Colleen Kraft when she visited (according to the same NPR story) that there was no federal regulation prohibiting workers from touching kids in their care. Still, what Kraft described witnessing in South Texas were staffers who believed they were not allowed to touch the kids to soothe them and behaved accordingly, and children who cried and cried yet were not physically comforted.

As anyone who’s ever witnessed a handoff to a babysitterWhile science fiction most often conjures up images of technology and the so- called ‘hard sciences’, writers in the genre also address human social relations. One of the exemplars of this tradition is Kim Stanley Robinson. In his award- winning Mars trilogy, Red,Green and Blue Mars, Robinson uses the idea of transforming Mars into a habitable planet to explore the ethics and limits of the human ability to (re)produce nature. Philosophically and theoretically, Robinson’s writing has particular relevance to the work of social ecologist Murray Bookchin. The Mars trilogy provides a fruitful exploration of what Bookchin refers to as third or free nature, a synthesis of first (bio-physical) nature and second (human social) nature wherein humans ‘co-operate’ with first nature and directly participate in the evolution of life.

This


that Bookchin develops his philosophy of nature.

As noted in the introduction, Bookchin conceives of nature as developing through three forms. Initially, there is first or bio-physical nature. In this form, nature strives for self-awareness, providing the basis for the emergence of the human species. With the human species comes second or social nature. In second nature, the development of life, as represented by the human species, and the interaction between life and its environments become self-conscious and self-directed, rather than instinctive and guided primarily by deep evolutionary memory. However, because human and non-human nature do not actually break from one another, but remain intertwined, it is necessary to bring social nature into conscious synthesis with first nature. Bookchin refers to this synthesis as third or ‘free’ nature. Here,the nonhuman world as well as the human. (1992b: xvii—xviii, italics in original)

Thus, in reaching third nature, humans realize their potential as ‘nature rendered self-conscious’ (Bookchin 1982: 315—16). In second nature, humans emerge as a species able to think and act in and for itself. This achievement lays the ground for the human species to think and act in and for the world, or nature, at large (see 1982, 1986, 1992b and 1995).

Bookchin’s account of third nature is heavily weighted towards describing human social relations and structures. His description of how first and second nature can, and will, be integrated is much less developed. This leaves his work open to the criticism that third nature is, at best, recklessly vague, and, at worst, plays to human hubris regarding


the criticism that his work fails to sufficiently elaborate on the content of third nature that Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy offers the greatest insight for Bookchin’s social ecology.

Robinson and Bookchin

Operating in the realm of social theory and philosophy, it is difficult for Bookchin to get around the largely negative history of human intervention into bio-physical nature and its environments, especially, though not exclusively, since the onset of the Industrial Revolution. Noting a lack of imagination in getting past that history on the part of critics such as Eckersley is not sufficient. By working in fiction, Robinson is able to take the question of third nature into new contexts for examination. Through the literal removal of humans from the bonds of the Earth, he presents the human speciesof rights and responsibilities, close ties to Earth versus Martian independence. In the end, the United Nations and corporate authorities that funded the Martian expedition assert their authority over the planet. Many of the First Hundred, identified with movements in favour of an independent Mars, are forced underground, including Sax and Ann. This change in circumstance sets the stage for Green Mars.

In Green Mars, Ann heads into the Martian outback. It is revealed to her that she has, reluctantly and, it seems, unknowingly, become a focal point and hero to a faction on Mars called the ‘Reds’, essentially a Martian Earth First! who practise ecotage against terraforming. Coyote, an unofficial member of the First Hundred who stowed away on the original transport, persuades her to meet with the


transition. Not satisfied with hiding out, he acquires a new identity and a new face. Fundamentally a generalist, he transforms himself into a biologist and goes to work for a Biotech company designing plants for Mars’s emerging environments. Whereas, before, Sax was the master planner, working with macro-level design and analysis of terraforming, in his new identity, Stephen Lindholm, he is involved in the ground-level work of terraforming. His observations as a field-worker have a profound affect on his awareness of the Martian influence on human endeavours to change the planet and on the ability of life to develop in unintended or unexpected ways.

In a key passage, Sax takes off on his own to explore a proto-alpine meadow. Dotted with trees and grass, he observes that the trees,general, most likely only technologically or genetically enhanced humans.

This distinction in terraforming goals illustrates the practical and ethical differences between remaining in second nature and transitioning to third nature. In the former, human knowledge and technology are employed to bend the Martian environment to serve human needs. In the latter, those same capabilities are employed for the benefit of other species and, at some level, preserving the integrity of the Martian landscape.

These differences also come into relief at an annual conference on terraforming. The push to heat and thaw the surface in all haste disturbs Sax. He begins to doubt even his own initial plans for making a fast jump to a human habitable surface. The extent to which terraforming now seemed to be driven by develop- ing


Ann in bitter alienation from Sax and what she believes he represents, and Sax expressing remorse and a desire to reach out to and understand Ann, sets the scene for Blue Mars. Ann continues to be uncomfortable with the idea of integrating the human species with the Martian environment, while Sax has undergone a significant transformation in con- sciousness, ethical awareness and judgement. No longer overwhelmingly enamoured of human capabilities, and freed from the belief that human second nature can freely bend other forms of nature to its will, Sax has moved to an understanding of the ethical and practical limits to human interventions into the production of nature. Most significantly, he has come to appreciate the value and role of the native Martian landscape in guiding the1997: 761)

Mars is forever changed, but the Mars they inherited is still there, beneath her feet, mixed with what humans have, if not fully created, then set in motion. In the end, for both Sax and Ann, the desire to inhabit this particular place leads them to overcome their original states of alienation.

Conclusion

By making Sax in particular struggle with the threat of Mars being terraformed into a tropical mining colony for Earth, Robinson does address the problematic history of human intervention into the production of (first) nature. Unlike Earth, Mars does not bear the full weight of this history. Mars represents the possibility of a different direction, one that is not marked by an attempt to subsume the rest of nature into the human fold. Sax and Ann,


Conventional wisdom would suggest that the pro wrestler known as Jinder Mahal would be the fan favourite at the WWE Raw live event in Delhi on Saturday night.

Mahal - real life Canadian Punjabi Yuvraj Dhesi - ticks the right boxes after all. He is a relatively young (semi) homegrown wrestler, who speaks the local language and who until recently held the WWE championship.

Yet, it's actually Paul Levesque - Triple H to the wrestling world - Mahal's buzz-shaved, 48-year-old, sort-of-retired opponent, who the crowd at the Indira Gandhi stadium will almost certainly be rooting for.

On social media, it's a blowout in favour of the real life Executive Vice President of Talent, Live Events, and Creative for WWE, who plays the part of the scheming, insecure, sometime sledgehammer-wielding psychotic 'Authority'only a cooler with ice. Surfaces of the trailer also were not smooth and easily cleanable.
When she arrived for the event at the fairgrounds, Anderson said he got a good look at her food stand and it was â€śeven worse than what I thought.â€ť
He said it is a difficult situation, with different food stands coming into the county periodically for different events after many having gotten licenses from elsewhere.
Typically if the local health department has concerns after inspecting a business in their own county on a mobile permit from another county, they send a letter notifying that other county of their concerns, so personnel there can follow up with the owner.
â€śIn the state of Ohio, if one county issues a mobile license, we have to accept it,â€ť Anderson


said. â€śDifferent counties allow different things.â€ť
Allen had written the Health Board in May explaining that she was new to the process of acquiring permits from different counties to apply for mobile food units and asking if the fee she paid for a temporary permit here could be refunded as she was able to get another type of permit from Fulton County, which was good for taking her business throughout the state.
She said Fulton County worked with her to fulfill all requirements needed to get the yearly permit in time to satisfy both counties, so she would like to get back the money she had paid for a one-time permit to sell in Auglaize County.
â€śI completely understand that my lack of knowledge does not constitute a refund, but itmeet their evolving needs.”

As of 6 December, 28,500 people across Fiji remain in temporary evacuation shelters because of damage to their homes caused by Cyclone Winston. Much of the 5.5 million Swiss Franc emergency appeal launched this week by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is dedicated to helping households to rebuild in the weeks and months ahead.

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of U.S. Highway 93 and Hwy. 200 sent five people to the hospital with minor injuries and slowed traffic to a crawl for an hour and a half Friday afternoon, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Terry Rosenbaum said.
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RONAN — On Sunday at approximately 2:43 p.m., Montana Highway Patrol and the Ronan Volunteer Fire Department responded to a wreck that occurred at 2:25 p.m. south of Ronan on U.S. Highway 93.
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ELMO — The 2010 Winter Olympic Games are coming on Feb. 12, and no one is more excited then the Chief Cliff Singers. The drum group will be heading to Vancouver, British Columbia, to perform at the Olympics on"Russian Officer Gorgets".

Part of the Encyclopedia of the Russian Army series, the
book is dedicated to the gorget - one of the less researched
and ostensible items of a military uniform reaching back in
its origin to knight armor of the Middle Ages.

A rare treat of a book in everything, from the luxury paper
it is printed on and abundance of illustrations and photos -
all of genuine items and actual people or battle episodes -
to the joy of finally having a comprehensive research on the
history and evolution of the Russian gorget. This subject
had received almost no coverage in all previously published
literature. The author is a well-known and highly regarded
authority on the subject of imperial military uniforms.


Julius Nyerere, the former president of Tanzania, was renowned for his political leadership. He was also an accomplished and dedicated poet, teacher, and translator. Having translated Shakespeare into his beloved Swahili language before becoming president, he took up Bible translation in his retirement. His goal was not simply to communicate his message faithfully and clearly, as any Bible translator should do, but also to engage his audience in a direct and personal way. Instead of the usual prose of the Gospels and Acts, he adopted the ancient but still popular poetic form of the tenzi as the most effective means of conveying his message. He used vocabulary that was familiar to his audience from the Arabic Islamic culture in which they live and political terminology that they associatedSavannah Marshall is convinced that she would make it two wins from two fights against Claressa Shields if the former amateur rivals were to meet again in the professional ranks.

Undefeated Hartlepool sensation Marshall, trained by Peter Fury, makes her highly-anticipated Matchroom Boxing debut this Saturday when she takes on Brazil's Daniele Basteri over eight rounds in a Super-Middleweight contest, live on Sky Sports Box Office.

The 28-year-old ‘Silent Assassin’ remains the only boxer to have inflicted a ring defeat on undisputed Middleweight World Champion Shields. Marshall outpointed the US golden girl in China on route to cementing herself as Britain's first ever female amateur World Champion in 2012.

She was last seen demolishing tough Bulgarian Borislava Goranova in one round at Victoria Warehouse in May and believes her link up


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David is the head of the Freshfields tax practice in London. His financial sector clients find that his unusual (for a tax lawyer) professional background – he is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and has worked at a senior level in investment banking – gives him a detailed insight into their thinking, an understanding of their business requirements and an appreciation of their internal approvals processes.

He works both with UK clients and with foreign-based banks and other financial sector organisations which need advice on the UK tax implications of their cross-border transactions.

He also regularly provides support on taxation issues for the firm’s corporate and finance practices in relation to complex transactions, securitisations, debt and equity markets work andBy BAYA SAMUEL

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Ms Mbeyu, who flirted with the Ruto camp briefly, has since fallen out with Ms Jumwa and trooped back to ODM.

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Deputy President William Ruto and Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) leader Raila Odinga are testing their political strength in upcoming by-election as lawmakers continue switching camps between the two.

This comes as ODM MPs who had shifted to Dr Ruto’s camp trooped back to Mr Odinga.

A civic by-election in Kilifi is set to rekindle the battle of supremacy in the Coast region between the two.

The Ganda ward seat fell vacant following a successful petition challenging the election of then-ODM candidate Abdul Omar. Mr Reuben Katana, who ran on a Kadu Asili ticket but lost, filed the petition.

Mr Omar, a close ally of Malindi MP Aisha


Jumwa, has since decamped from the Orange party and will contest for the seat as an independent candidate.

On the other hand, Mr Katana has rejoined ODM and secured its ticket to contest the seat. Mr Joseph Kiponda alias Giuseppe’s will vie on Jubilee Party ticket.

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The DP’s camp, led by ODM “rebel” Aisha Jumwa, has already suffered a blow after two of its erstwhile backers, Kilifi North MP Owen Baya and Women Representative Gertrude Mbeyu, rejoined Mr Odinga’s camp ahead of the mini poll set for October 17.

Magarini MP Michael Kingi, who is in Ruto’s camp, has also vowed to support the ODM candidate.

However, Kaloleni MP Paul Katana, a member of Tangatanga, a pro-Ruto team, told the Sunday Nation that ODM did not consult him on the Gandaa huge expanse of wild creatures surprisingly willing to share their open spaces, with each other as well as us. From the hatched-roof vehicles, designed for ultimate sightseeing, we leer, gawk, ooh, ah, jump up, sit down, jump up again, all the while snapping picture after picture, while the animals pretend to ignore us.
It’s hard to describe the wonder of a leviathan elephant whose tusks almost reach the ground, a black-maned lion baring his teeth or half-a-dozen adolescent zebras cavorting around a waterhole within feet of the jeep. Home to some 30,000 animals, I felt I had climbed into the Discovery Channel.
The highlight of the Crater is the endangered black rhino, of which only 26 are left. As in the days of Hemingway, when he and his hunting


they believe are the causes of the No. 3 U.S. airline's low customer satisfaction scores and its sagging stock, down almost 14 per cent in the past 12 months.

The funds, which together own 7.1 per cent of United, have said they support Munoz as CEO, but their doubts about United's pay policies and its plan to make him chairman could become a flashpoint as the long-running struggle over the airline's management develops.

United has refused to appoint Bethune as chairman, ending months of talks with the funds in early March, the source and two other people familiar with the matter said. That refusal led the funds to take their objections public last week, the sources said.

United declined comment on the talks.

The activist investors question whether Munoz, a former presidentat railroad operator CSX, was guided well by United's board in allowing him to spend his first weeks after starting the job in September talking to the media and workers rather than focusing on capital allocation, for example, the first source said.

The two funds called the board "underqualified" last week because it lacked what they consider experienced airline executives.

United rejected the criticism, saying Munoz was "focused on getting out on the front line to enhance the customer and employee experience at United, and the results are evident in our improved operational and financial performance."

PAR and Altimeter also believe the board's decision to give Munoz a signing bonus of US$12 million should have been tied to performance goals, the person familiar with the situation said. United declined to comment


on that criticism, though in a filing it had said the award partially accounted for pay Munoz forfeited at CSX.

The funds are set to oppose United's plan to make Munoz chairman by 2017, as specified in his employment contract signed while Munoz was on medical leave after a mid-October heart attack, the source said.

Such an arrangement has been criticized by corporate governance experts, but it is not unusual in the United States. Just over half of S&P 500 companies had the same CEO and chairman last year, down from 71 percent a decade ago, according to executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

United has tried to placate shareholders, recently doubling its forecast for stock buybacks in the first quarter to $1.5 billion, and expanding its board by three new directorslast Monday.

The two board additions with airline expertise — James Whitehurst, former chief operating officer of Delta Air Lines, and Robert Milton, former CEO of Air Canada — were previously vetted and mentioned as potential directors by PAR and Altimeter, the people familiar with the situation said.

United also offered to extend a deadline for PAR and Altimeter to propose names to be interviewed for the board, which the funds declined, and United on Feb. 18 amended its bylaws in line with shareholder interests, two of the people said.

Brad Gerstner, CEO of Altimeter Capital, called United's proposal "a cynical attempt to preserve power by this entrenched board," in a statement on Tuesday.

However, United and the hedge funds are open to a settlement that avoids a vote on the shareholder


nominees, according to the sources.

The two hedge funds' frustration with United's board stretches back to August 2015, when the airline's well-liked chief financial officer left to join PayPal Holdings, one of the sources said. United has yet to announce a permanent CFO.

Worries about succession planning and insufficient disclosures by the board escalated in September when then-CEO Jeff Smisek stepped down after an investigation into the airline's dealings with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.The family of a 32-year-old woman shot and killed by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent in Chula Vista Friday is outraged by what they believe was an unjustified shooting.

Police and family members confirmed that Chula Vista resident Valeria "Monique" Alvarado, also known as Valeria Tachiquin, was the woman killed in the agent-involved shooting around 1 p.m. Friday near Moss Street and Oaklawn Avenue.

Chula Vista officials said the shooting happened in the middle of the street in a residential area after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent was allegedly assaulted by a woman driving a vehicle.

Officials said Border Patrol agents were serving a felony warrant in the area when Alvarado allegedly intentionally tried to run over an agent. Alvarado was not the subject of the warrant.

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Chief Patrol Agent Rodney Scott said the agent was carried several hundred yards on the hood of the car before he fired his weapon at the woman.

"The suspect was armed with a vehicle, and literally ran our agent down," said Scott. “He was carried several hundred yards before he discharged his weapon through the windshield of the vehicle.”

Alvarado was killed in the shooting. The agent was hospitalized and his current condition is unknown.

But, in spite of information from Chula Vista officials, Alvarado’s family has a very different story about what happened on Moss Street Friday.

Her husband, Gilbert Alvarado, is furious about what happened to his wife – the mother of his five children. He believes the agent who shot her overreacted.

"My wife got killed for no reason," Gilberttold NBC 7 Friday night. "Show me that my wife had a gun or something that threatened the guy’s life where he had to use lethal force against her."

Alvarado’s family confirmed the warrant had nothing to do with her and the mother of five would never intentionally hurt anyone for any reason.

Alvarado’s cousin, Bernice Ratcliffe, is trying to make sense of something she believes was senseless.

"I think we're all shocked and we want answers,” said Ratcliffe. “"They didn't have to shoot her!”

Witnesses in the area at the time of the shooting told NBC 7 San Diego they saw Alvarado slowly driving in reverse as the agent opened fire on her at least six times.

"As the car was backing up the officer was in the street walking toward the


-- whoever he is – that guy needs to get shot,” he said.

Family members said Alvarado went to Chula Vista High School. The five children she leaves behind range in age from three to 17.

Officials have not yet released the name of the agent involved in the deadly shooting. The investigation is ongoing.

On Saturday, Alvarado's loved ones set up a small memorial of flowers, photos and messages near the area where Alvarado was killed. A fundraiser for the family is planned for Sunday at the Rally's on 3rd and Moss Street betwen 11 a.m. and 3 p.m.

Near the memorial, many neighbors, friends and family called Alvarado “innocent” and were still in shock by the way she was killed.

“I don't think it should have [gone] down like that. INissan has confirmed that British cycling legend Sir Chris Hoy will be racing at the Le Mans 24 Hour endurance race in June. The eleven-time world champion will race for Algarve Pro Racing in the LM P2 class.

Not content with being the most decorated Olympic cyclist of all time, and the most successful British Olympian ever, Hoy has been racing cars ever since his retirement in 2012. He will become the first ever Summer Olympic Medallist to compete in the French endurance race.

Hoy made his racing debut back in 2014 in the Radical SR1 cup, and has since competed with Nissan in the British GT Championship, graduating through the firm's driver academy. He graduated to the European Le Mans Series in the LM P3 prototype class last year.

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“No one does history-meets-the-fantastic like Morrow. The Asylum of Dr. Caligari is a great example—Impressionism versus expressionism, psychology in the asylum of ‘dreams,’ the weaponization of art, big laughs and big ideas, a wild imagination, and smooth, subtle writing.”—Jeffrey Ford, author of A Natural History of Hell

It is the summer of 1914. As the world teeters on the brink of the Great War, a callow American painter, Francis Wyndham, arrives at a renowned European insane asylum, where he begins offering art therapy under the auspices of Alessandro Caligari—sinister psychiatrist, maniacal artist, alleged sorcerer. And determined to turn the impending cataclysm to his financial advantage, Dr. Caligari will—for a price—allow governments to parade their troops past hisSeven Common Misconceptions About Atheism (1998)

Keith M. Parsons

[This lecture was originally delivered to the Houstonians for Secular Humanism on October 18, 1998.]

Atheism has long been the target of hostility. In the Laws, Plato recommended various degrees of punishment for atheists. Thomas Aquinas held that unbelievers should be "shut off from the world by death." John Locke's famous doctrine of toleration stopped short with atheists. In the Eighteenth Century, David Hume, perhaps the greatest philosopher ever to write in the English language, was denied a university post because he was suspected of atheism. As recently as the Nineteenth Century, atheists in Britain could be prosecuted for blasphemy. In the United States during the 1950's, "atheism" was practically synonymous with "communism." It is small wonder that a doctrine so despised


many Unitarians and other "liberal" Christians who would affirm belief in God, but who interpret "God" as a metaphor or some other thoroughly "demythologized" concept. In other words, the actual content of the beliefs of many who say they believe in God is probably tantamount to atheism or agnosticism.

Let us accept that only four percent of the adult U.S. population does not believe in any God or gods. This is probably an underestimate, for the reasons given above, but let us accept it for the sake of argument. According to the 1997 Statistical Abstract of the United States, the population of the United States is about 265 million. If we define "adult" as those 20 years old and older, the adult population of the United States is -aboutChinese activists, in a statement on Tuesday hours ahead of a visit by the U.S. Secretary of State, protested against American backing for Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council.
"We hold that Japan is not qualified to become a permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations," the activists said in a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, who is due to arrive in Beijing later on Tuesday for a three-day visit.
The letter, signed by 15 activists, said they opposed Japan becoming a permanent member of the Security Council because many Japanese politicians had been reluctant to apologise for its war atrocities and had tried to whitewash history.
China says more than 35 million people were killed or wounded during


Japan's invasion and occupation of most of China from the early 1930s to 1945.
"(We) strongly protest the U.S. government supporting Japan's (bid) to become a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council to draw Japan over to its side," said the letter, a copy of which was made available to Reuters.
Tong Zeng, a leader of the group, said he would forward the letter to Christopher through the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
The Chinese government, eager for more low-interest loans from Japan, has been reluctant to antagonise Tokyo and has not taken a public stance on the issue.
The United States has long supported giving Japan and Germany permanent seats on the Security Council.
The council currently consists of five permanent members that were the main victors in World War Two --the United States, Russia, Britain, China and France -- and 10 non-permanent members who serve two-year terms.
Most Chinese have been slow to forgive Japan's war past.
"U.S. backing for Japan's (bid)...will undoubtedly encourage the resurrection of Japanese militarism and bring a new threat to the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region," the letter said.
The anti-Japanese activists recounted what they said were U.S. mistakes, including not putting Emperor Hirohito on trial after the end of World War Two in 1945.
"After the end of the war, the United States harmed the feelings of the Chinese people several times...sheltering Japan's top war criminal Emperor Hirohito," the letter said. Hirohito died in 1989.
The activists also faulted the United States for "ignoring historical facts" and handing disputed islands in the East China Sea


to Japan in 1971.
Sino-Japanese ties were strained this year over the islands, which Beijing calls the Diaoyus and Tokyo the Senkakus.
A Japanese right-wing group built a makeshift lighthouse on one of the islands in July, triggering anti-Japanese demonstrations in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Taiwan's Nationalist rulers, who lost the Chinese civil war to the Communists in 1949, also claim the islands. Activists in the British colony of Hong Kong, which reverts to Chinese rule in 1997, have opposed Japan's territorial claims.
Emotions were fanned in September when a Hong Kong activist drowned after he jumped into stormy waters around the islands to demonstrate support for Chinese claims.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will face strong headwinds in asking the Supreme Court to stop prosecutors in New York from getting his tax returns.

Past Supreme Court rulings have upheld subpoenas directed at presidents, and this time the local prosecutors are seeking documents from the Trump Organization and Trump's accountants — not directly from the president himself.

For those reasons, among others, the Supreme Court might simply decline to hear the president's appeal, which would leave the appeals court ruling intact and require the tax returns to be turned over.

The Manhattan district attorney, Cyrus Vance, is investigating whether any state laws were broken in the payment of hush money to two women who claimed they had a sexual relationship with Trump, allegations he has denied. The prosecutors are also


looking into the claim by Michael Cohen, the former Trump lawyer and confidante, that Trump sometimes misstated his financial situation in order to pay lower taxes.

Trump's lawyers have fought back, arguing that because a sitting president cannot be indicted, he likewise cannot be subject to any steps in a criminal investigation. In rejecting that claim, a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York said Monday that presidential immunity "does not bar the enforcement of a state grand jury subpoena directing a third party to produce nonprivileged material, even when the subject matter under investigation pertains to the president."

No court has ever ruled that a sitting president cannot be charged with a crime, but that has been the consistent position of the Justice Departmentunder both Republican and Democratic administrations. The logic behind that position can be summarized simply: The president can't run the country from jail.

The Supreme Court has never ruled that sitting presidents are beyond the reach of criminal investigations, though. In 1974, the court ruled that President Richard Nixon was required to comply with a subpoena directing him to turn over tape recordings of conversations in the White House. In 1975, President Gerald Ford complied with an order to give a deposition in the trial of a woman charged with trying to shoot him. In 1996, President Bill Clinton gave videotaped testimony in two criminal trials.

And in 1807, Chief Justice John Marshall, presiding over the criminal trial of Aaron Burr, approved the issuance of a subpoena to President Thomas


the past two years, Cummings said.

Newbold also was targeted for retaliation after declining to approve applications based on national security concerns, Cummings said.

Newbold filed a whistleblower complaint seeking protection earlier this year after she was suspended without pay for defying her supervisor, Carl Kline, who had ordered her to OK the clearances despite the objections of career staffers.

In April 2018, she also filed an Equal Employment Opportunity complaint alleging that Kline discriminated against her because of her height.

Newbold, who has a rare form of dwarfism, said that Kline had moved files she needed to a place that was too high for her to reach and told her that she could ask colleagues to get the files if she needed them.

The White House has the authority to overrule careerAnd do it in style.

Today was an especially dark and dreary day in Pallet town. Nurse Fiona is stuck in the Pokemon Center left with nothing to do. Of course she has nothing to do because Pallet town has become a very boring place once Pokemon Trainer Merv left.

“I hope he goes out there and catches them all. He was all about that.” said Nurse Fiona as she sits at the counter playing with her Chansey.

She’s about to doze off when suddenly she hears the sound of the entrance doors sliding open. In a very autonomous response she beings to ask ‘How may I…’ until she realizes who it is.

Pokemon Trainer Merv takes a cool step into the Pokemon Center. He closes his eyes and takes in the


After 15 years as Death Cab for Cutie frontman, Benjamin Gibbard has finally released his first solo album. Former Lives often goes beyond the indie pop confines of Death Cab for Cutie, touching on genres including Latin, alt-country, and ‘70s power pop.

Former Lives largely consists of songs written in the last eight years that never fit the themes of past Death Cab records. As a result, Gibbard’s solo debut finds him branching out on countrified “Teardrop Windows” and bubblegum -flavored “Duncan, Where You Have Gone?”

But this is hardly Gibbard’s first project outside of Death Cab. He is also known for his side project All-Time Quarterback, electronic duo The Postal Service with producer Jimmy Tamborello, and 2009 album with Jay Farrar One Fast Move or I’m Gone based onWednesday, June 1, 2011

fun. Interview with front man Nate Ruess(former lead singer of The Format)

With summer in full swing, one of my favorite groups to play on a perfect sunny day(or a day when you need a pick-me-up), is fun.. The super group comprised of front man Nate Ruess former lead vocalist of The Format, Andrew Dost, previously in Anthallo, and Jack Antonoff, current vocalist/guitarist of American indie rock band, Steel Train. It has been nearly two years since their debut LP, Aim and Ignite, introduced their energetic sound filled with infectious melodies, fun-loving lyrics and epic Queen-like harmonies. They are currently touring the nation with Panic At the Disco, are are planning to drop their sophomore LP later this summer on Fueled By Ramen. I had chance


Demand for handouts from emergency foodbanks has tripled in the West Midlands in the past year, new figures have revealed.

Anti-poverty charity The Trussell Trust said more than 41,000 people in the region received at least three days-worth of emergency food from its foodbanks in the previous 12 months, up from 12,948 in 2011-12.

And it laid bare a rising crisis in child hunger, with youngsters accounting for more than a third of those it fed in 2012-13.

The Trust blamed the huge rise – the biggest since it was formed in 2000 – on the rising cost of living, static incomes, changes to benefits and unemployment.

Executive chairman Chris Mould said: “The sheer volume of people turning to foodbanks because they can’t afford food is a wake-up call to the nationThe ViewLondon Review

Emotionally engaging and laugh-out-loud funny, this is an utterly delightful Spanish comedy with a sharply written script, strong location work and a wonderful central performance from Javier Camera.

What's it all about?
Written and directed by David Trueba (the younger brother of Belle Epoque's Fernando), Living is Easy with Eyes Closed is based on a true story and stars Javier Camera as Antonio, a Spanish English teacher who uses Beatles lyrics in his classes. When he learns that John Lennon is shooting Richard Lester's How I Won The War in Almeria, he decides to drive down the country in the hopes of meeting his idol.

Along the way, Antonio picks up two young hitch-hikers: Belen (Natalia de Molina), a pregnant 20-year-old who is reluctantly returning home to her family,


and Juanjo (Francesc Colomer), a teenage boy who has run away from his bullying father after he disapproved of his Beatles haircut. Once in Almeria, the trio set up residence together in a local farmhouse and forge a lasting bond while Antonio attempts to fulfil his quest.

The Good
Javier Camera (Talk To Her) has long been a mainstay of Spanish cinema and he delivers one of his best performances as Antonio, radiating warmth and generating touching chemistry with both his co-stars. The supporting cast are equally good, particularly Colomer, whose heavily bullied character, we suspect, is about to face a pretty tough time in Franco's Spain (as will unwed mother Belen).

The script is excellent, especially the scenes in which Antonio talks passionately about the messages of the Beatles' lyrics.However, Trueba also layers in darker moments (such as both Antonio and Juanjo encountering hostile locals, scenes that don't quite play out the way you might expect) that reflect life in Franco's Spain and go some way to illuminating just how powerful and resonant the Beatles' songs might have been at that time.

The Great
The film looks gorgeous throughout thanks to Daniel Vilar's sun-drenched cinematography and Trueba makes strong use of his southern landscapes. He also orchestrates a number of wonderful
scenes, such as a tiny punch-the-air moment of triumph and a terrific, feelgood final sequence involving a Beatles song (the title is from the opening lines to Strawberry Fields Forever).

Worth seeing?
Superbly written and brilliantly acted, Living is Easy with Eyes Close is a hugely entertaining Spanish comedy that will


Honda will end production of its boxy Element small crossover at the end of the 2011 model year.

The quirky utility with the hose-it-out interior first appeared as a concept at the 2001 Detroit auto show and rolled out in December 2002 as a 2003 model. Element found a loyal niche, but sales peaked in the first year at about 80,000 and have declined each year since -- to about 15,000 last year and tracking about 5% less this year.

The huge step-through openings (thanks to the suicide rear doors), multi-function cargo fittings and hose-out vinyl floor were aimed to attract a young, hip buyer with an active lifestyle. But its buyers turned out to be middle-aged and beyond.

"This vehicle was positioned as a 'dorm room on wheels,' but itMeyer could bolster image of Hudson deal

Don't write off the wisdom of the trade of Tim Hudson just yet. The A's still have one piece left from the deal that sent Hudson to Atlanta after the 2004 season, and after struggling with injuries the past two years, Dan Meyer is coming on strong.

Meyer, who won for Sacramento at Fresno on Monday night, has struck out 24 batters, total, in his last three starts, covering 16 innings. He has given up six runs and seven walks in those three outings.

"Comeback player of the year," A's director of player development Keith Lieppman said. "He's been just wild enough to put up great strikeout numbers. Dan's velocity is back and he's healthy. He's able to do what he wants."

Meyer, 25, was


brought along slowly to start the season after having surgery to remove bone chips from his left shoulder last year, and he is still having some trouble getting deep into games; he went five innings Monday and his longest outing is six innings. Meyer had made it over the 100-pitch mark his past several times out before lasting 90 on Monday.

"His arm is all the way back and his stuff is there," minor-league pitching instructor Ron Romanick said. "But he's just excited about his general health and how well he's bouncing back between starts."

Should the A's need another starter at some point, Meyer is beginning to look like a viable option. With Juan Cruz and Charles Thomas both gone from the Hudson trade, a healthy Meyer could helpmake that deal appear at least a little less lopsided.

Briefly: Jay Witasick, who was designated for assignment nine days ago, is expected to sign with Tampa Bay today and the veteran right-hander said by phone he believes that it's a good fit for him. Witasick sought his release from the A's because he was looking for an opportunity to go to a team where he could contribute more. The A's will be responsible for the bulk of his $1.5 million salary. ... According to Lieppman, lefty Brad Halsey, who had shoulder discomfort in April, is following a throwing program and doing well with it. "He's on the right path," Lieppman said. "He's just going to go as far as he can go without surgery." Halsey's agent, Tom O'Connell,


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Bruce Houdek was tagging inventory in ThyseenKrupp Materials warehouse in Cuyahoga Heights, Ohio, on Oct. 14, 2008, when a co-worker, driving a forklift, failed to see him in the aisle. Houdek was pinned against a scissor lift that was parked in the aisle, his leg and ankle crushed and his pelvis broken. He would never fully recover.

In Ohio, like many other states, laws discourage employees from seeking any compensation for workplace injuries beyond what is offered through workers’ compensation. In the case of Houdek, whose recovery stretched over years,Coalition, Call On Newsom To Allow Theme Parks To ReopenDesperate to reopen, a coalition of city leaders from around Orange County is hoping to get Gov. Gavin Newsom's attention with a new commercial calling for the reopening of theme parks.

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Defensive back Jordyn Peters went down with a lower body injury during the first rep of the pace drill. He walked off with a limp.

Tashawn Manning has moved to offensive guard. He was with the second-team unit during pace and first team during pre-practice drills.

Nate Craig-Myers was in an orange non-contact jersey and no helmet. Will Hastings and Ryan Davis (shoulder) were also in orange jerseys. Walk-on H-back Alex Medary was also in an orange jersey and had a walking boot on his right foot, which was on a scooter.

"I think he's taking it well, so I think he's just trying to get coached up," Horton said of the 6-foot-3, 320-pound Manning. "(Offensive line coach J.B.)