REVIEW: Elephante

Elephante returned to his hometown of Ann Arbor on Thursday evening, and what a homecoming he had. The club was packed upon arrival, with a line going out the door even though we arrived late. We walked in, listening to the beat of the electro music grow more intense as we ascended to the main dance area. The club was teeming with people, even though it was only the opener. Girls with LED light-up shoes, guys wearing glo-paint, people dancing to an infectious beat. This was only the warm up, and my friends and I stood on the upper level to soak in the mildly overwhelming sight before entering the fray.

When Elephante came on, we immediately rushed into the center. Tim Wu (Elephante) told us it wasway more dedicated to his music than I am, and knew almost all the words. I wasn’t that aware of all the songs, but did know enough to participate. He took many popular songs and remixed them, which made it easy for crowd involvement. Elephante himself danced around the booth, sometimes playing a song and spending a majority of it dancing. At the end, he signed off and wished us a good night. Everyone immediately started chanting the concert classic: “ONE MORE SONG!” To my surprise, Elephante appeared after about 2 minutes of this chant and told us he would play us a new song, to be released sometime in November. He said it was one he was incredibly proud of, and most of it was produced rather


than remixed. The song had a different vibe than the rest of the music he had just performed for us, but it was a good different. It was really good, actually. He played the song and came down to dance with the crowd; people closed in around him and I was swept up in the general movement toward Elephante. I saw him crowd surfing, being tossed around in the air like he was on a trampoline. Afterwards, he returned to the mic and kindly asked that his shoe be returned."Into the Dark" will release new "super-sized" standalone episodes every month, starting with a Halloween entry in October.

Let the year of Derbel McDillet continue: Seven years after Dylan McDermott’s starring role in the landmark anthology horror series “American Horror Story,” Dermot Mulroney will star in his own landmark anthology horror series, “Into the Dark.”

Hulu unveiled new details Wednesday morning about the previously announced series from Blumhouse Television, including a release date, list of cast and crew, plot summaries, and more.

Running year-round, “Into the Dark” will release new episodes on the first Friday of every month. For anyone worried about a lack of content, don’t: Each standalone entry will be feature-length, essentially turning the series into a Movie of the Month club run by Blumhouse — the production company


projections, life expectancy at the relevant ages is now projected to increase at a slightly faster rate than the increases in SPA contained in the Pensions Acts 2007 and 2011.

There are inequalities in life expectancy between social classes. The latest estimates for England and Wales show a gap of over three years in life expectancy at age 65 between the highest and lowest classes in the National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SEC). Within the UK, life expectancy at age 65 is highest in England and lowest in Scotland.

A related question is whether people will be able to enjoy their retirement in good health. In 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, UK men at age 65 had 9.9 years of healthy life expectancy compared with 17.6 yearslist of the 100 greatest record covers of all time by Q magazine.

Cover versions

Motörhead version

A cover version by the English heavy metal band Motörhead was released as a single in 2000 to promote their album, We Are Motörhead.

The cover art gives further reference to the Sex Pistols by using the same cut-out words to form the title as the Sex Pistols' single cover.

A performance of the song recorded during the band's twenty-fifth anniversary concert at Brixton Academy, on 22 October 2000, appears on their 25 & Alive Boneshaker DVD.

Single track listing
"God Save the Queen" (Paul Cook, Steve Jones, John Lydon, Glen Matlock)
"One More Fucking Time" (Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Mikkey Dee)
God Save the Queen (Enhanced Video)" (Cook, Jones, Lydon, Matlock)

Personnel
Phil "Wizzö" Campbell – guitar, vocals
Mikkey Dee – drums
Lemmy –


of olfactory and vomeronasal receptor cells and immature bulbar neurons from embryonic day 13 in the tissue fixed in Bouin's solution without acetic acid and in the immature bulbar neurons from embryonic day 11 in the tissue fixed in acetic alcohol. In some bulbar neurons, PGP 9.5 immunoreactivity was detected not only in the cytoplasm, but also in the nuclei. The pattern of immunostainings for PGP 9.5 became almost the same as in the adult at postnatal day 15. From the immunostaining for PGP 9.5, we found that the short axon cells in addition to mitral, tufted, and mitral/tufted cells were identified in the prenatal period and that the extension of the dendrites, formation of the glomeruli, and completion of the laminar organization were earlier in the mainBaseball Players Association on Friday and hold a light workout in advance of Saturday's Grapefruit League opener against the Phillies in Clearwater. Porter said the real evaluating of the players won't begin for a while.

"Right now I'm honing on guys' workouts," he said. "When you get to the beginning stages of Spring Training and you don't have the competition aspect of another team, you want to watch guys and see how they work. You watch them from a fundamental standpoint and see if anyone needs extra, extra, extra work as far as a particular fundamental."

Porter stressed fundamentals to his club again on Friday, saying that in the American League, teams don't usually bunt until they're behind late in the game. He said it's vital teams get outs on


Allen Young returned to the spot where the two spent their last moment together. At the time of the accident, the tracks were covered in snow. To the right of the tracks, snow had been plowed to make a 5-foot-high wall, Young said. To the left of the tracks is a steep precipice, with a creek below.

Chips of snow swirled around us like shrapnel as the dark train roared overhead. I remember being seized by an overwhelming blackness, but it’s the sound — not the image — that lives on in my memory: a chugging drumfire of turning wheels and screeching brakes. If I close my eyes to imagine it, my right arm begins to tingle. The collision cracked the bone below my shoulder in half.

The impact threwMom about 25 feet up the hill. I was knocked a few feet from the train, and landed face down in the snow. As the train came to a halt behind us, I tried to lift myself out of the snow but realized my right arm was useless. The skin around it felt like a jacket sleeve that I could twist around in. I let the arm fall and then noticed my right foot was also broken. I slid across the snow toward Mom with my left arm and leg. She was on her back, her body contorted. When I reached her, she slowly blinked her eyes and opened and closed her mouth. Skin around her lips was gone, exposing teeth. She looked like she was trying to


short time before taking leave, so most of my coworkers were still vague acquaintances. Out of respect, the wheelchair was ignored, as were the metal braces over my right arm and the black hospital boot covering my foot.

My job, at 24 years old, was to help write a daily newsletter about statewide education policy called the Cabinet Report. My employer, a school consulting firm named School Innovations and Advocacy, had hired journalists to produce an education news product. I was grateful to be paid to write.

Daily journalism became another pain medication in an arsenal that included hydrocodone and diazepam. The emotional distance between reporter and subject kept me numb; the act of writing provided an escape. It was addicting. You quiz people about their lives and their work,and sometimes they open up about life-altering failures or personal losses. But they rarely turn questions back on you. Reporters scavenge for conflict and despair, and rarely reciprocate. The job conditions you to greet everyone as a potential source, not a friend. This is how I learned to excel in my trade: stiff, dispassionate, ghost-like. My job was to write about the world in front of me. Nobody expected me to participate in it.

After a December 2008 accident, Allen Young was told he may not walk again. He took his first steps out of the wheelchair the following April.

In those first few months back at work, I would talk on the phone all day from my wheelchair, often cracking jokes with people on the other line. They didn’t


Equity Tennis Tournament 2013

Details

The Equity Tennis Tournament is a hugely popular and succesful annual event in aid of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. 2013 is the seventeenth year the Equity Tennis Tournament has worked with the Foundation and marks the 20th anniversary since Sir Elton John created the Foundation.

Taking place on Sunday 25th August at the Queen's Club in West London, it is open to any member of Equity the Musicians' Union or the Society of London Theatre.

The day will feature the Men's Singles and Doubles and the Ladies' Singles and Doubles and Mixed Doubles. There are still places available if you want to compete in the mixed doubles, contact Timea Oscar for the application form and return it by 2nd August.

The tournament prizegiving will take place aftersecond clamp on the housing for clamping the tape offset from its free end to the housing, a cutter on the housing for cutting the tape upstream of the second clamp, and a joiner for securing the tape to itself upstream of the second clamp. A tube shaft is pivotal on the housing adjacent the support roll about a tube-shaft axis, and a drive shaft is rotatable in the tube shaft about a drive-shaft axis parallel to and offset from the tube-shaft axis. A first drive roll on the drive shaft carries a friction layer bearing axially offset from the drive-shaft axis on the housing. Abutments carried by the housing and the tube shaft limit angular movement of the tube shaft about the tube-shaft axis between one end


drive roll replaces a complex mechanism employed in the prior art to shift this drive roll into and out of engagement with the support roll. This much simpler mechanism is extremely reliable and has a long service life.
In use the tape passes from a standard supply spool through the strapping apparatus, being spanned over the support roll. A length of the tape at the free end is looped around a package and then inserted into the first clamp by an operator of the machine. The first clamp according to the invention includes a switch connected to the controller and operable by insertion of the free tape end into the first clamp. This switch initially operates the first clamp to lock the free end in place. The controller connectedsecond drive includes a reversible electric motor connected to the second drive roll. The switch of the first clamp is connected to the controller so that it can operate the second drive to draw the tape back into the apparatus after the switch is operated. In addition, the controller operates the second drive to draw the tape back into the apparatus a predetermined time after the switch is operated. The switch is a time-delay switch. More particularly the second drive includes a second motor and the controller monitors loading of the second motor and starts the first drive when loading of the second drive motor exceeds a predetermined limit. Thus the first drive, which is the one used to pull the tape very tight around the package, only


steps into action when the tape has been snugged loosely around the package by the second drive. In fact the first drive roll does not even engage the tape until the second drive has payed it out and wound it back in.
To achieve this effect the first drive includes a first motor and the controller monitors loading of the first motor and operates the second clamp to clamp the tape when loading of the first drive motor exceeds a predetermined limit. After operating the second clamp to clamp the tape the controller operates the cutter to sever the tape upstream of the second clamp. Similarly, after operating the second clamp means to clamp the tape the controller operates the joiner to secure the tape to itself upstream offormer staffers, Kovacevic went far beyond merely being a bad boss.

Dejan Kovacevic is an innovator in sports media. He was born and worked in Pittsburgh, spending 20 years at the Post-Gazette from 1990 to 2011. He covered the Penguins and Pirates beats, and multiple people who spoke to Deadspin for this story talked about their admiration for his work at that time. He worked as a columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review from 2011–2014 before he founded DK on Pittsburgh Sports on July 23, 2014. (The “on” was later dropped.) Kovacevic’s innovation was sports news, not connected to a newspaper or a larger corporation, that would be primarily funded by reader subscriptions. (Kovacevic also acquired sponsorships from local businesses.) He launched a year and half before The Athletic, which


the clubhouse, he’s inserting video into his content, he’s taking pictures of Miller Park.”

Kovacevic also promotes access to the structure of DKPS. He interacts with commenters and uses their feedback to shape the scope of the site. Kovacevic posts updates of staffing changes (under the category “Site Stuff”) and announces planned coverage of upcoming games. There’s also a sponsored, constantly updating live map with illustrated avatars of his staffers (currently, 15 of them) to show where they’re currently located.

Ex-staffers describe Kovacevic as intensely involved with the site, and deeply invested in its success. He works long hours and seems to subsist solely on Starbucks, his drink of choice the grande vanilla latte with two-percent milk and, according to one former staffer, 12 pumps of syrup. He has hisphone set up so that it makes a cash register noise every time the site gets a new subscriber.

Because of Kovacevic’s tendency toward transparency, this level of access had an unintended consequence. Readers knew when someone took a job at DKPS, but they could also usually figure out when someone left one. It became clear to anyone paying attention that the site’s turnover was absurdly high. A Twitter account called @DK_turnover emerged in August and started to track these transactions.

Adam Flango, formerly of Cincinnati magazine, was hired in July 2017 to work on longform journalism for DKPS. He was gone by October. Hockey reporter Sara Civian’s hire was announced in June 2017. She left by November. Football writer Neal Coolong lasted from July 2015 to October of that


Kovacevic would book the hotels himself and choose cheaper accommodations relatively far from the games his writers were covering. This wasn’t considered to be as consequential an issue as a lack of health insurance, but former staffers who spoke to Deadspin said they were constantly irritated by the little things, like when Kovacevic would fly with his staffers to games and he’d upgrade his own seat, but not theirs.

Beth Mincin, a Pittsburgh-based sports blogger who has written for PensInitiative.com and SB Nation’s Behind The Steel Curtain, says she met Kovacevic in 2014 at the Riverhounds’ stadium while he was covering the team. She says that in June of 2014, Kovacevic texted her to let her know that he would soon be launching the site, and while he saidno longer has the texts, but said she was in a car with her friend Chris Gerardi when she received them. Gerardi confirmed to Deadspin that he saw the texts. “She was shocked,” he told me.

Mincin then sent the texts to a second person. When reached by Deadspin, that person requested anonymity but confirmed the contents of the texts.

“I never took him up on this,” said Mincin, who told me that Kovacevic had previously tried to get her to take part in a threesome, “but I was very upset.”

DKPS introduced Sara Civian in June 2017 on a contributing basis. She had written and edited at Penn State’s student-run news site Onward State. Civian said she thought highly of Kovacevic and took a job at DKPS because she had


the chat, it was disbanded in November after Kovacevic found out about it and threatened the jobs of any current staffer who was in it.

Alan Saunders was a writer at DKPS until April of 2016. On June 15, 2017, Saunders said he realized that someone had been opening and reading his direct messages to his personal Twitter account.

Saunders said that while he worked at DKPS, he had linked his Twitter account through Tweetdeck or a similar client, and believes that after he left, it was never unlinked. Saunders said he determined that his messages had been read since at least October of 2016.

According to former staffers, Saunders discovered the DM breach because of a conversation he had with a reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. That reporter, who didMiscues end Spartans’ World Series run

A pair of Tampa players try to come to grips with Friday's loss after the Spartans led for most of the semifinal against Colorado Mesa at the USA Baseball Training Complex. UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA

BY BRETT FRIEDLANDERTribune correspondent

Published: May 30, 2014

CARY, N.C. — A season in which virtually everything went right for the Tampa baseball team ended with an inning in which everything went wrong.

The Spartans’ hopes for a return trip to the Division II College World Series title game came crashing down Friday in a comedy of errors that included two key miscues by usually reliable shortstop Giovanny Alfonzo and the winning run scoring on a sacrifice fly that barely left the infield.

Garrett Woodward slid home with the winning run to cap a


tripped while chasing a bunt in front of the plate. The second was set up by a double that ticked off the tip of first baseman Sean O’Brien’s glove and veered into foul territory.

It was the decisive third one, however, that will be replayed over and over by Urso and his players during what promises to be a long summer and fall.

The trouble started with one out, when Woodward hit a ball into the hole between second and third. Alfonzo made the play going to his right, but his throw pulled O’Brien off the bag for an error.

The next hitter, Austin Wallingford, also hit the ball to short. This time, Alfonzo made the play going to his left. But instead of taking the sure out at first, heJun 1, 2012

The age of miracles - Karen Thompson Walker

Summary: Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.

Kirkus Reviews
In Walker's stunning debut, a young California girl coming of age in a dystopian near future confronts the inevitability of change on the most personal level as life on earth withers. Sixth-grader Julia, whose mother is a slightly neurotic former actress and whose father is an obstetrician, is living an unremarkable American middle-class childhood. She rides the school bus and takes piano lessons; she has a mild crush on a boy named Seth whose mother has cancer; she enjoys sleepovers with her best friend Hanna,


who happens to be a Mormon. Then one October morning there's a news report that scientists have discovered a slowing of the earth's rotation, adding minutes to each day and night. After initial panic, the human tendency to adapt sets in even as the extra minutes increase into hours. Most citizens go along when the government stays on a 24-hour clock, although an underground movement of those living by "real time" sprouts up. Gravity is affected; birds begin to die, and astronauts are stranded on their space station. By November, the "real time" of days has grown to 40 hours, and the actual periods of light and dark only get longer from that point. The world faces crises in communication, health, transportation and food supply. The changes inthe planet are profound, but the daily changes in Julia's life, which she might be facing even in a normal day, are equally profound. Hanna's family moves to Utah, leaving Julia without a best friend to help defend against the bullies at the bus stop. She goes through the trials and joys of first love. She begins to see cracks in her parents' marriage and must navigate the currents of loyalty and moral uncertainty. She faces sickness and death of loved ones. But she also witnesses constancy and perseverance. Julia's life is shaped by what happens in the larger world, but it is the only life she knows, and Walker captures each moment, intimate and universal, with magical precision. Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving. Copyright Kirkus 2012 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All


as an iron material, and an output shaft that outputs a driving force. An annular coil is fixed to the inner surface of a casing in a manner of surrounding the plunger and serves as an electromagnetic drive section. Two annular magnets are disposed on the corresponding axially opposite sides of the coil and magnetized symmetrically with respect to the coil. Two yokes are disposed on the corresponding opposite sides of each of the magnets. A first plate spring is disposed between the casing and one end of the output shaft; and a second plate spring, an amplitude control weight, and a third plate spring are disposed, in the order given, between the other end of the output shaft and the casing.
When no current is applied to thecoil, the plunger remains stationary at the illustrated position where a magnetic force that the magnets impose on the plunger via the yokes balances with a spring force of the first to third plate springs. When current is applied to the coil in one direction, a magnetic force that is generated by magnetic flux generated in the plunger and magnetic flux of the magnets causes the plunger to move toward one magnet against the restoration force of the first plate spring. When current is applied to the coil in the reverse direction, the plunger moves in the reverse direction against the restoration force of the first plate spring. Thus, application of alternating current to the coil causes the plunger to undergo an axially reciprocative motion.
However, the plate springs


(CNN) Fidencio Sanchez, Chicago's beloved paleta salesman whose indefatigable work ethic and generous heart charmed residents, died this week. He was 92.

His friend Joel Cervantes Macias, as well as Manny Martinez of Martinez Funeral Home, confirmed his death to CNN. Dulce Sanchez, Fidencio's granddaughter, confirmed his death to the Chicago Tribune

For years, Sanchez shuffled up and down the streets of Chicago's Little Village with a freezer cart full of popsicles. Orphaned at 6 months, he worked to support himself since he was 13, first in Morales, Mexico, and then, since 1990, in Chicago.

Images of the then-89-year-old hunched over his cart, struggling to push it, told a moving story: His wife could no longer work with him, and the daughter who cooked for them every day died in 2016.

Hesay, 'Well, what did you do?'" the senator recalled. "So I think this is that moment."Harris said her mother is the "star" of her two books being released this week, the memoir "The Truths We Hold: An American Journey" and the children's book "Superheroes Are Everywhere," and that the well-being of her family was her focus as she continues to contemplate a presidential run.During both her "Good Morning America" interview and a later appearance on "The View," Harris demurred when asked if she had reached a final decision on running, saying she wasn't quite ready to make an announcement.She did not hesitate, however, when responding to a question about whether the nation was ready for a woman of color such as herself to be president."Absolutely," Harris said, adding,


a tabletop standing on four legs, there are three independent, coequal branches of government and a free and independent press ... those other branches of government and the courts and the press will put the checks and balances on the outrageous conduct of this administration."Elected to the Senate two years ago, Harris has drawn comparisons to former President Barack Obama for her rapid rise to national prominence and her consideration of a presidential campaign after only a brief time on Capitol Hill. Prior to her Senate election, Harris served six years as California's attorney general and seven as San Francisco's district attorney.In October, ahead of last year's midterm elections, Harris traveled to Iowa to stump for Democratic candidates -- a visit widely viewed as the senator's first unofficialforay into the presidential campaign.In early polling featuring potential presidential candidates, Harris has generally landed within the top tier of contenders. Two CNN polls -- one conducted nationally and one of likely 2020 Iowa caucus-goers conducted in conjunction with the Des Moines Register and Mediacom -- showed Harris with 4 percent support and being named as the first choice candidate of 5 percent of respondents, respectively, among a crowded field.In 2018, the senator played a significant role during the closely watched confirmation hearings of now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh . A member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harris said she believed Christine Blasey Ford's testimony and called Kavanaugh "unfit" to serve on the Supreme Court."The Judge Kavanaugh the American people saw before the Judiciary Committee does not have


19, 1998. Petitioner failed to attend court appearances prior to his arraignment and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. He was arrested three years later in Nassau County on unrelated charges and was returned to Queens County on November 21, 2001 for arraignment. At petitioner's arraignment, trial counsel waived all pretrial motions and requested to proceed directly to trial. (See Arraignment Tr. at 7.) Trial counsel disputed the prosecution's statement of readiness, stating "if they can't even tell us where the identification witness is, they certainly cannot be ready to proceed to trial." (Id. at 3.) Counsel also reported that Nikia Stubbs had informed petitioner that she was not going to press charges and that she had told individuals sent by counsel's office that she was377-78.) Stubbs had been friends with Belnavis for more than ten years and had met petitioner twice previously. (Id.) A few days after Stubbs rented the car, her boyfriend, Wilson Barnes, persuaded her to retrieve the car so she could sell it. (Id. at 380-81.) Accordingly, she called Belnavis on September 18, 1998 and asked for the car to be returned. (Id. at 381.) Later that evening, when the car had not been returned, she called petitioner's cellular phone, and he told her that he was on his way. (Id. at 384.) When he did not arrive, she continued to call but failed to reach him. (Id. at 384-85.) At around 2:00 or 2:30 a.m. on the morning of September 19, 1998, Stubbs, along with Barnes and her


September 19, 1998, signed by Haron Wilson and Theophulus Brown. (See id. at A-14 to 16.) He also attached an unsworn letter by Heron Wilson, stating that he would have testified that he was with petitioner on September 19, 1998 from 1:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. and saw petitioner perform at JamRoc Club. (See id. at A-17.) Wilson further stated that defense counsel had attempted to contact him, but he had changed his telephone number so it took time to reach him. (Id.) At the sentencing hearing on January 17, 2002, petitioner moved pro se to set aside the verdict on grounds that he had insufficient time to locate alibi witnesses and did not agree with counsel's waiver of his pretrial motions. (Sentencing Tr. at 15-18, available atBrown, and Alexander each state that they would have testified that petitioner performed at the JamRoc Club from 2:30 to 3:00 a.m. on September 19, 1998 and then stayed at the club speaking with the media and other artists for approximately an hour afterwards. (See Resp't Ex. G.) Petitioner also provides affidavits from two other witnesses  Samuel Belnavis and Natascha Dockery  who state that they would have testified that they viewed the incident and it was not petitioner who fired a gun in the air. (See id.) Samuel Belnavis (Jatanya Belnavis' father) states that he would have testified that he saw Barnes (Stubbs' boyfriend) or one of two other men accompanying Barnes fire the gun in the air and did not see petitioner. (See id.) Dockery


The losers often have hard feelings after elections. But this much enmity from the winner is extraordinary. Trump, after his election-night promise to "bind the wounds of division" and be a "president for all Americans," never attempted reconciliation. A day later, he falsely condemned "professional protesters, incited by the media," and at year end he taunted opponents via Twitter: "Happy New Year to all, including to my many enemies and those who have fought me and lost so badly they just don't know what to do. Love!"Cyber Security Programs

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The Christchurch company behind the Calendar Girls strip club on Karangahape Rd (pictured) is in liquidation and receivership, owing Inland Revenue thousands.

A Christchurch company that owns one of Auckland's best known strip clubs has collapsed, owing tens of thousands of dollars to Inland Revenue.

Casino Bar (No.2), which operates the Karangahape Rd branch of Calendar Girls, was put into liquidation at the High Court in Christchurch on September 29.

It was the fourth time the company had appeared in the court list. The application for liquidation was made by Inland Revenue. A receiver was appointed later that day by secured creditor BBT Group.

Calendar Girls national general manager Scott McCormick said Casino Bar (No.2) was liquidated because Inland Revenue was "stamping its foot". The company had paid off 64 per centthe economic concept of inequality, and there are still no easy answers. In the midst of steroid-fueled social media campaigns and surface-level rants by media personalities (all working in for-profit industries disguised as objectively reporting the news), the facts of the issue tangle with emotions and anecdotes, while practical suggestions are few and far between.

Thomas Piketty undertook an extensive study to research the effects and outcomes of capitalism, as compared to European socialism, the latter of which appears to be the inspiration that drives Senator Elizabeth Warren’s economic plans. Although Piketty’s 2013 book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, investigates the root of inequality of outcome in the market economy, he implies throughout that—somehow—capitalism is doomed.

In academia, it is perennially interesting to have these debates and compare economic data.


by the gorgeous and deadly Luca, Evaine must find the strength to become who she was meant to be, while fighting the rages, hungers, and lusts that now rule her existence.

Tell us about your next release.My next release is Red the Were Hunter. The first in a series of Fantasy Romances, Fairytale Retellings, slated to be released in May 2014. It came in 2nd place in the Hook, Line and Sinker contest and I'm excited for it to be released. The second book in the series, Snow the Vampire Slayer is slated for Summer 2014 and there will also be another book in the series out in time for Thanksgiving and possibly Zelle and the Tower by New Years.

When in the day/night do you write? How long perMy kids. They're my life. I love them. They are so sweet, so hilarious and so much fun to be around. They make me truly happy.

Evaine, a struggling New York theater student, enters an unsanctioned drug trial in an effort to pay bills.She awakens in a derelict hospital, chained to a bed with no memory of who she is, or how she got there.A band of pale skinned men, led by the gorgeous Luca, burst in, whisking her away to safety.

Once at Haven House, Evaine is introduced to The Family. Like them, she has become A Deader, a reanimated Undead.

Luca is hell-bent on stopping the experimentations, and killing those responsible. He has no time for a Newborn who is struggling to control her rages, hunger, and powers. Nor


does he have the desire to deal with the feelings she's awakening within him.

Despite their best efforts, Evaine and Luca find their connection intensifying when suddenly, she remembers not only who she is, but also her fiancé, Tristan; who is still looking for her.

Torn between her first love and her new heart’s desire, Evaine runs back to Tristan putting everyone in danger. When a rogue faction of Deaders, called Feeders, attempts to kidnap her, Luca suspects Evaine is the key to the experiments.

Can everyone band together to keep Evaine off the cutting table of those she escaped from? Or will second death tear her away from everyone, for good?

Excerpt: Chapter One

Warm, thick air filled Evaine’s lungs; it was going to rain. She gazed up at the clouds rollingin. They blanketed the sky like waves of dirty cotton. Stormy weather, her favorite, but she didn’t want to get caught in the rain today. The laundromat was a luxury she could not afford right now.

Picking up her pace she headed toward the office of Mac, her fine arts adviser. The wind picked up as she crossed the quad, and the first droplet of water hit her cheek. She pulled down the long sleeves of her worn-out shirt. The thin hoodie was about as good at keeping out the chill as paper would be keeping out a charging bull.

Evaine’s mind began to drift as she fought through students rushing to get out of the drizzle. Without permission, her brain turned to her overdue bills. Trying to live on


meager grants and student loans was harder than she would have thought, considering how she’d grown up. Her rent had been due a week ago, and she wondered why her pitbull of a landlord hadn’t been banging down her door like the last million times her rent had been twenty minutes late. Not that the very small studio—hole—was worth what she paid. Maybe she would be better living on the street. She needed to come up with some cash, fast.

The voice of her mother, Phyllis, chimed in. Life would be easier if you’d let Tristan help out.

Sigh…Tristan. She absently rubbed her finger where the huge diamond ring he had gotten her rarely sat. She refused to wear it for the sheer size, not to mention that she didn’tShe wasn’t ashamed of Tristan, by any means. She just didn’t like all the attention that came from dating him.

Most girls would brag about a rich VP of marketing boyfriend and a gigantic, five-carat diamond ring. But she was still wondering what Tristan had been thinking when he’d bought that lighthouse beacon for her to wear on her hand.

About the Author:

Rebekah grew up on both the east and west coasts and currently lives in the Los Angeles area. From the Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein to The Stand by Stephen King, Rebekah immersed herself in other people's made up worlds. She began writing in junior high and then found she liked pretending to be other people's characters in high school. Lettering in drama she went on to study


theater in college as well. After college she continued acting till becoming a mom. Ultimately, she ended up going back to writing her characters down instead of acting them out, so she could stay at home with her kids.

Rebekah is a member of Romance Writers of America and is a board member of both the Fantasy, Futuristic, & Paranormal and her local Los Angeles chapters.When she isn't spending time telling the lives of the characters constantly chattering inside her head, you can find her with her husband and four children; reading comic books, gaming, at the movies or taking care of the menagerie of pets. A dog, a rabbit, two bearded dragons, and three tortoises. Wonder woman, the escaped snake, has yet to be located.

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While Zynga Slingo has already been available on Facebook for a few weeks now, it looks the cross-promotional train has finally started to take off across Zynga's catalog of other games. First off, there's a new promotion in Hidden Chronicles, asking players to earn at least 30 Medals in Zynga Slingo.

If you haven't played Zynga Slingo, Medals are earned by simply playing through game boards (which are a combination of slot machines and Bingo cards) and completing certain objectives within each game dealing with earning a specific number of points


Wednesday, October 31, 2012

The League of Women Voters of Monterey Peninsula is sponsoring a contest about the importance of voting for students in the 10, 11, and 12 grades at Carmel, Pacific Grove, and Monterey Peninsula unified school districts.

Find out all you need to know about: the importance of voting, where do I get information about voting, or how do I get my friends and family to vote. Write a 500 word essay about your investigation, and turn it in to:

Check out the programs at the private, non-profit Chartwell School, which helps prepare students in grades K-8 with dislexia or other language-based learning difficulties.

Likewise, the New High School Project serves students in grades 9-12 who may have struggled in more traditional high school settings.

The school offers open housesregularly. The next ones are coming up Nov. 3 and Nov.6 from 10:30 a.m. till noon.
At the school, 2511 Numa Watson Road, Seaside CA 93955
For more information, call 394-3468 or click here.

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Democratic party stalwarts are getting all cutsey about First Dog Sutter Brown and its tour of California, as it puts "paw to pavement" in support of Prop. 30. The measure in next week's ballot would raise sales taxes for everyone and income taxes for wealthy Californians in order to avoid cuts to education.

Sutter will be in town All Hallows Eve, first in Salinas and later in Monterey. Like its owner, Sutter B has been touring the state to bark for Prop. 30.

The dog's first appearance is scheduled at 4:30 p.m. at Teamster's Hall, 931


parents, our grandparents, our friends; eat their favorite dishes, sing their favorite songs, and for a few hours, we feel their presence again.

It's magical.

Three local celebrations are taking place:

NOVEMBER 1

CSUMB

CSU Monterey Bay hosts its 16th annual Dia de los
Muertos celebration at 6 p.m. in the University Center, on Sixth Avenue
and B Street. Free and open to the public.

Performances by Aztec dancers and musicians will highlight
the evening. Altars will be on display; pan dulce and hot chocolate will be
served.

ALISAL CENTER FOR THE FINE ARTS

Will have a procession from Closter Park on East Salinas to the Alisal Center for the Fine Arts at 6 p.m. With Aztec dancers, folklórico dancers, and more music. Free.

The Alisal Center for the Fine Arts is at 745. N. Sanborn St., Salinas.

NOVEMBER 2

STEINBECK CENTER

Dia derequired to appropriately serve the anticipated school population. Additional services that may be reasonably anticipated for the target population, such as transportation, extended school year, and alternative student placements have not been budgeted."

The advisory committee recommends the full State Board of Education hold a public hearing and reject the charter. On occasions, state trustees go against their staff recommendations and vote their way, but it's not common -- which makes an approval for CORAL unlikely.

Thursday, October 25, 2012

Aradhana Sinha and Brennan Fahselt of Salinas High were named among 16,000 students nationwide who made it to the semifinals of the National Merit Scholarship program, which recognizes the most talented students in the United States.
I've been getting really good reports about Aradhana for the last few years, so I'm not


surprised she's in this distinguished list. It's the first I hear from Brennan, but likely won't be the last.

The semifinalists have an opportunity to compete for 8,300 National Merit Scholarships that will be offered in the spring.

About 1.5 million juniors in more than 22,000 high schools entered the 2013 National Merit
Scholarship Program by taking the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying
Test, which serves as an initial screen of program entrants.

The nationwide pool
of semifinalists represent less than one percent of U.S. high school seniors, and includes the highest scoring
entrants in each state.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Monterey County Democrats are all abuzz about a rally to be held Thursday at Hartnell College, when Gov. Jerry Brown's scheduled to make an appearance and rally for Proposition 30.

Brown has been campaigning all overJr. Elementary School in Seaside will be walking to school on Wednesday, October 24th along with parents, teachers and community leaders to mark the occasion. So if you see a large contingent of little ones on Broadway and Noche Buena crossing the street, watch out!

Participants will receive a healthy snack, a small prize, and a modest amount of sweat.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Gov. Jerry Brown, California Superintendent of Schools Tom Torlakson, and hundreds of teachers and their supporters are expected to rally tomorrow in different sites throughout California.

Monterey County will join in the effort at Hartnell College, where the California Teachers Association Secretary-Treasurer Mikki Cichocki will join students and teachers at 10 a.m. in support of Prop. 30, a tax increase that would stop $6 billion in cuts, and


in small school districts, I like to believe this only happened in small, provincial places. Surely, more enlightened people would know what's best for everybody, agree to disagree, and work together toward common solutions.

Not so. Just watch Molly Munger in a mud fight with Jerry Brown. Munger, who's sponsoring a ballot measure that would increase taxes on most Californians and give it mostly to education, has begun running negative ads against Brown's Prop. 30. Munger's determined to have Brown's proposition defeated, and hers come out triumphant. The end result, Prop 30 is now sagging in the polls and not really helping Prop. 38, Munger's initiative.

This is good news for the anti-tax cruzaders, as both initiatives will likely go down in defeat. For education folks, who will see areally bad dip in their moneys come next year, it's really bad.

Even the PTA, which sided with Munger's initiative, is urging her to make peace with the governor.

Sad. Nobody seems to be talking about the issues anymore, just about who's more right than the other.

Monday, October 15, 2012

California officials handed score cards to all state schools last week, as you probably remember from this story. Many schools went up, some went down, and overall, academic performance at Monterey County public schools declined for the third year in a row.

This trend deserves further examination, something I hope to get around to in the upcoming weeks. Also, another trend that's been brought to my attention and deserves further scrutiny is the increased use of "alternative" testing for special education children


will remain open through November 10th 2012. Survey results are anonymous.

Help is needed from

• People of all ages
• People from all parts of Monterey County
• Library users
• Non-Library users
• People of all interests and backgrounds

If you don't have a computer, you can find the surveys at any of the 18 library locations throughout the county.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

No final decision has been made, MPC trustees caution, but after careful deliberation, they have scheduled a visit to....

The Wenatchee Valley College District in Central Washington to gather
more information about Walter Tribley. Tribley is currently vice president of instruction at the district, as well as the administrator of the Omak campus.

Tribley was interviewed by the MPC community last Thursday, and some believed he was the least likely to make the finalcut because of his lack of knowledge of California community college system and the Monterey region in particular. Other candidates in the running were Larry Buckley, interim president of San Bernardino Valley College; Angela Fairchilds, president of Woodland Community College; and Kathryn Jeffrey, president of Sacramento City College.

The results of the site visit will be discussed at the regular board meeting on October 24, 2012.

That one came out of left field for me. I wonder how others in the MPC communities see it.

because they were promised they'd be able to see the candidates via video, but alas, the video did not work for the first candidate, so no video was offered for any of them.

A good 90 people showed up for each forum, but many instructors were away


Varsity starts at 5pm, and Varsity at 6:30pm. At Monterey High School Randal Gym, 101 Hermann, behind the Football field.

The yearly celebration, organized and hosted by the students, features food, games,
student performances, farmers market, used book sale, and more. Proceeds benefit the private school’s student financial aid and the various activities and charitable causes of participating student clubs.

The celebration will take place from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13.

Thursday, October 4, 2012

David Clemens, English professor, coordinator of the Monterey Peninsula College Great Books Program, and blogger extraordinaire, attended the presentation of all four candidates for the job of superintendent.

I asked if he would share his impressions with me -- and the readers -- about the candidates, and he wrote a detailed analysis of each. Too goodcounty and the county, the Monterey County Board of Education invited over Roberto Melendez, chair of the media committee of the League United of Latin American Citizens to receive a resolution to the effect. Trustee David Serena was in charge of the honors. Thanks, Marci McFadden, MCOE spokeswoman extraordinaire, for sending the picture along.

Today was day three of presidential candidate forums at Monterey Peninsula College, and like Trustee Rick Johnson said "having four qualified candidates to choose from is a good problem to have."

Not to say they're all exactly alike. How could they be? Yes, they're all highly qualified. Angela Fairchilds, Kathryn Jeffery, and Larry Buckley have all shown they have strengths. They all seemed to have done their homework about MPC. Another candidate will be interviewed tomorrow,


heard some Monterey teachers wonder why a presentation about this topic wasn't given in their back yard.

Well, now it is.

The Global Majority Student Club at the Monterey
Institute of International Studies and Amnesty International will co-
host a presentation on the new Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
policy, facilitated by immigration attorney Blanca Zarazua.

The new policy, commonly referred to as "deferred action," allows
immigrants brought to this country illegally as children to obtain a work
permit as long as they meet certain requirements. This presentation
is designed to provide information about the policy and the
application process, as well as immigration in Monterey County in
general.

This event is free and open to the public. It will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. in
Room B109 of the Morse building at 426 Van Buren Street in Monterey.Cyclone Debbie: Why was aftermath deadlier than storm itself? By Phil Mercer

BBC News, Sydney Published duration 8 April 2017

image copyright Garry Youngberry/Nine image caption The cyclone damaged buildings including a marina in Queensland

In Australia, a land of wild extremes, recent flooding caused by Cyclone Debbie has killed at least six people, including a mother who drowned beside her two young children when their car veered into a swollen river.

Natural disaster consequences can be unpredictable. When Debbie, a category four system, slammed into the Queensland coast 11 days ago, remarkably there were no fatalities in its immediate aftermath and few serious injuries were reported.

Through flying debris unleashed by violent winds that wrecked homes and businesses, communities around the Whitsunday holiday region felt the full force of what was labelled


loss of life."

Each year, Australia experiences natural disasters including storms, bushfires, floods, landslides and minor earthquakes. Tropical Australia typically experiences about five cyclones, usually between November and April.

Although an accepted part of life in the nation's north, cyclones can be brutal and surprise communities.

On Christmas Day in 1974, Cyclone Tracy passed directly over Darwin. Records show about 66 people were killed, while iconic images captured a city in ruins.

At least 90% of homes in the Northern Territory capital were destroyed or badly damaged.

Of course, many lessons were learnt. Houses built in storm-prone areas of the Northern Territory since 1975 should be designed to withstand a category four cyclone.

image copyright Getty Images image caption Cyclone Tracy devastated Darwin on Christmas Day in 1974

But vulnerabilities have also been exposed morecaption Officials have warned against playing in floodwaters

"The majority of people who die in floods drive into flooded streams and rivers, so we have got to change some of that risk-taking behaviour," Mr Thornton said.

Only a day after Cyclone Debbie made landfall, Queensland's Fire and Emergency Services Commissioner, Katarina Carroll, said her "biggest concern" was people getting trapped in floodwaters.

A week later, floods had claimed at least six lives as the storm lashed a 1,200km (745 miles) stretch of coast down to northern New South Wales.

Learning from history

Preparation and information invariably save lives when fires rage, levees burst banks or a storm advances. The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience recently launched a new "knowledge hub" to help Australians prepare for the worst.

"Complacency is a killer," said John Bates,


mistake most people make," he explained.

"People make decisions based on their emotions, not on their knowledge. People will attempt to do deep-water crossings in fast-flowing water [having] never done it before, and have got no idea what they are doing and turn a mishap into a tragedy."

image copyright Getty Images image caption Locals in Billinudgel, NSW, survey the damage to their town

As flooding caused by the remnants of Cyclone Debbie continues to menace communities, including the Queensland city of Rockhampton and New Zealand's North Island , counsellors say the storm has left many people needing "psychological first aid".

Reverend Dr Stephen Robinson, the Uniting Church's national disaster recovery officer, is one person helping those left feeling vulnerable.

"One of the most important things is to be able to help toMedicare Beneficiaries' High Out-of-Pocket Costs: Cost Burdens by Income and Health Status.
ISSUE: Fifty-six million people--17 percent of the U.S. population--rely on Medicare. Yet, its benefits exclude dental, vision, hearing, and long-term services, and it contains no ceiling on out-of-pocket costs for covered services, exposing beneficiaries to high costs. GOAL: To inform discussion of possible changes to Medicare, this issue brief looks at beneficiaries’ out-of-pocket costs by income and health status. METHODS: Spending estimates based on the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey. FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION: More than one-fourth of all Medicare beneficiaries--15 million people--spend 20 percent or more of their incomes on premiums plus medical care, including cost-sharing and uncovered services. Beneficiaries with incomes below 200 percent of the poverty level (just under $24,000 for a single person) and those


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Ship Filled With Riches

When I was a child my grandma used to tell me fairy tales. My favorites were Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel but most of all Red Riding Hood. Ever since this story about a girl who meets a wolf captivated my imagination with its grim beauty. First literal mentions of Red Riding Hood are from the year 1000 from a manuscript called fecunda ratis, ship filled with riches. This was a collection of poems written by a French man called Hegbert Deliefe. His poems contained moral lessons and they were read in monasteries.

One poem especially stands out. It is a poem about a girl who receives a red dress as a baptizing gift from her godfather. When the girl is five years old she is walking


in the woods and gets kidnapped by the wolf mother. The Wolf takes the girl into their cave where the little wolves start licking her face. The girl says to the wolves "I forbid you to tear my dress. It was a gift from my godfather". The poem is based around a Christian idea of god being the creator of predator animals and he is the only one who can tame their wild nature and so the girl is safe because she is baptized.

Charles Perrault´s Red Riding Hood

This poem was believed to be one of the inspirations for Charles Perrault when he wrote his own version of Little Red Riding Hood which first appeared Perrault´s famous fairy tale collection Tales from mother goose (1697). Perrault´s fairy tale hassimilarities to the French poem but he did not include Christian elements to the fairy tale.In Perrault´s version a girl gets a beautiful red hood as a gift from her grandmother. In the beginning of the story the girl´s mother tells her to take piece of bread and jar of butter to her grandmother who is ill. Red Riding Hood meets a wolf on the road and tells him where she is going. The wolf says "I´ll go to see grandmother as well but I take the other road and I will meet you there".Grandma opens the door and wolf gets in telling that he is Red Riding Hood and after that he kills the grandmother and eats her. The Wolf goes into bed pretending to be the


the wolf has become an allegory of her being raped by a pedophile. Perrault´s fairy tale was quickly turned into a folk tale which was retold again and again. The use of the color red on her coat started to highlight femininity because of it’s connections to the menstrual cycle and so because of this the tale also depicts strict gender roles of the 17th century Europe.

Red Riding Hood of the Brothers Grimm

After its release, Perrault´s fairy tale was translated into several different languages. A writer called Ludwig Tüg translated story into German and created the character of the hunter. In his version the hunter kills the wolf but he cannot save the little girl and in the end there is only a hand left from poor Redand fairy tales of the 17th century before the arrival of industrial revolution were cautionary tales. They were warnings for children not to go too far away from home because wild animals could take them. Most of the time wild animals avoided people but predator animals such as bears and wolves did sometimes kill farm animals which caused great anger and created fear towards untamed nature.

In 18th century in Sweden, Norway and Finland Lutheran church started to pay extra for people for killing wolves. This so called "wolf hate" was part of the church process of "taming nature" and done to get rid of pagan totemic beliefs of the people. Before the spread of Christianity the wolf was not demonized but it was one of the most respected


animals of the ancient world. Among Romans, Etruscan's, several native american tribes, Slavs, Vikings and many more cultures wolves were worshiped as divine beings.In Finland the wolf was the sacred animal of Louhi- the goddess of shamans. When Christianity spread and female goddesses were demonized Louhi was turned into a representation of Christian Satan. Wolves were described to be "devil´s children". Wolf propaganda that was originally started by the church has been very harmful for wolves in Nordic countries where they are endangered species.

Meghan Ory as Ruby/Red in ABC`s Once Upon A Time

Was she a werewolf?

The story of Red Riding Hood is often connected to folk tales told about were-wolves. A person who had ability to shape shift itself into a wolf was a widely seen mythical creaturein folk tales all over Europe. Werewolves of the 16th and 17th centuries were part of the witch-hunt phenomenon (Accusations of lycanthropy however were small part of the witchcraft trials). Shape sifting from an animal to a man and back was a common part of shamanic rituals and it is likely that by demonizing the wolf which was a sacred spirit animal among several tribes was just one more way for the church to convert people from their pagan beliefs to Christianity.

Wolves generally avoid people. They live in packs and are very family-oriented animals. While writing one of his most famous fairy tales Charles Perrault unfortunately also participated on wolf hunts and suspicion which still takes place today. Within past years there have been several film adaptions made


of Red Riding Hood which show Red as a werewolf. In ABC`s Once Upon A Time character of Red goes through several physical and spiritual transformations before she can fully accept herself.

Amanda Seyfrid as Valerie in the movie Red Riding Hood.

Amanda Seyfried played the part of Red Riding Hood in a movie made in 2011. This movie is one of my personal favorite fairy tale adaptations and it is filled with hauntingly beautiful landscapes with mysterious captivating atmosphere

Little bit of Red

You might be surprised to find out that one of the reasons why the story of Red Riding Hood is still very popular is because of the color red. For centuries in Europe red was seen as an unholy color. It was connected to love, power, attention, sexAll the Saudi Shia want is for their government to respect their identity and treat them equally. Yet Saudi authorities routinely treat these people with scorn and suspicion.

Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch

(New York) - Saudi authorities should treat minority Shia Muslims as equal citizens, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The Saudi government also should create commissions to investigate arbitrary arrests of Shia and to recommend steps to end systemic state discrimination, Human Rights Watch said. The Shia are estimated to constitute between 10 and 15 percent of the Saudi population.

The 32-page report, "Denied Dignity: Systematic Discrimination and Hostility toward Saudi Shia Citizens," documents the sharpest sectarian tensions in the kingdom in years, set off by clashes


between Shia pilgrims and religious police in Medina in February 2009, followed by arbitrary arrests of Shia protesters in the Eastern Province in March. The closing of private Shia halls for communal prayer in Khobar, which began in July 2008 and the arrests of Shia religious and community leaders in Ahsa' in 2009 also have contributed to the tensions.

"All the Saudi Shia want is for their government to respect their identity and treat them equally," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "Yet Saudi authorities routinely treat these people with scorn and suspicion."

The government should also establish a commission to explore the sharing of holy places among Muslims of differing creeds, especially in Mekka and Medina, Human Rights Watch said. KingAbdullah has made some moves toward religious tolerance, but the discrimination by state institutions has not ended.

Between February 20 and 24, 2009, Shia pilgrims from the heavily Shia Eastern Province who had come to Medina for the anniversary of the prophet Muhammad's death clashed with Sunni religious police at the Baqi' cemetery over doctrinal differences concerning the rituals surrounding commemoration of the dead. Security forces shot a 15-year-old pilgrim in the chest, and an unknown civilian stabbed a Shia religious sheikh in the back with a knife, shouting "Kill the rejectionist [Shia]." The authorities denied that anyone had been wounded, and played down the ensuing arrests of Shia pilgrims. On March 5, however, King Abdullah ordered all of the Medina detainees released.

In late February and March, Shia in


the Eastern Province towns of Qatif and Safwa demonstrated to show solidarity with detainees from the Medina clashes. Shia also protested in ‘Awwamiyya to demand equal treatment following a sermon in which a Shia preacher, Nimr al-Nimr, had said, "Our dignity is more precious than the unity" of the kingdom. Security forces reacted by arresting scores of demonstrators, detaining many for months.

In May, June, and July, the police, reportedly on instructions from the Eastern Province governorate, arrested Shia in Khobar, ordering them to close private halls for communal prayers. One such Shia, Abdullah Muhanna, was held from May 25 until July 1. There are no Shia mosques in Khobar, though state-funded Sunni mosques abound.

In Ahsa', in southern Eastern Province, authorities arrested at least 20 Shia between January andJuly for their religious or cultural practices, such as Shia women's Quran studies or selling special clothing for ceremonies. Those arrested were held under extrajudicial sentences for periods ranging from a week to a month. Such religiously motivated arrests in Ahsa' date back to at least 2001.

State discrimination against Shia extends to realms other than religious freedom. The report cites discrimination in the education system, where Shia may not teach religion in class and Shia pupils learn from Sunni teachers that they are unbelievers. It also cited bias in the judiciary, where Sunni judges sometimes disqualify Shia witnesses on the basis of their religion and exclusively follow tenets of Sunni religious law. Shia are not allowed to become judges in ordinary courts.

This exclusion extends to employment as well.


There are no Shia government ministers, senior diplomats, or high-ranking military officers. Shia students generally cannot gain admission to military academies.

In 2003, then-Crown Prince Abdullah initiated the National Dialogues initiative, which in its first meeting brought senior Sunni and Shia clerics together for the first time. In 2008, Abdullah, now king, renewed his attention to religious tolerance, first by bringing Shia and Sunnis together in Mekka in June, and then by calling for tolerance between religions, in speeches in Madrid and New York in July and October of that year. However, Saudi Arabia has made no progress toward religious tolerance domestically.

"The Saudi government has long regarded its Shia citizens through the prism of Wahhabi dogma or state stability, branding them as unbelievers or suspecting their national loyalties," said[Narcotic abuse and HIV infection in prisons].
Number of drug using people in Lithuanian prisons has been growing every year: in the beginning of 2001, 1010 people in total were on a record of dispensary care, which made 8.8% of all imprisoned persons at that time. The same percent has increased in the beginning of 2002 reaching 12.25%, and growing up to 13.3% in the beginning of 2003. Drug availability and unsafe use of illegal drugs, especially sharing of needles and syringes in one of the fourteen country's penal establishments - Alytus strict regime correctional facility - resulted in a rapid HIV outbreak in spring 2002. Three hundred prisoners infected with HIV were identified during the voluntary testing. Though majority of prisoners are quite well informed about HIV, their


of his name. All of that changed on a fateful Sunday night in Tokyo, Japan. On February 11th, 1990, a 42 to 1 long shot performed a miracle. As the fight proceeded, it was clear that this was not going to be an ordinary affair, by any means! By the 5th round, the unthinkable had happened: Mike Tyson’s left eye had nearly swollen shut. That single image has changed the world as we know it…permanently. On Sunday, February 11th 1990, the concept of an unbeatable champion perished forever. The image of Mike Tyson struggling to get up in that fight after being knocked down for the first time in his career was all that I could think about when I saw the news footage of Oracle executives confidentlyif available, scheduled times if the bus is not reporting real-time data or is delayed by a number of minutes, adjusted time to depart when schedule adjustments are made, and will announce when a bus is arriving within the minute.

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a stop for a traffic violation in the City of Council Bluffs, Iowa, involving two Council Bluffs' police officers, defendants John Clark and Dan Newby, and plaintiffs Michael Lawyer, then age 17, and his 21-year-old brother Timothy Lawyer.[1] At the time in question, the Lawyers, residents of Wisconsin, were returning from a ski trip in Colorado.
On March 26, 1999, at approximately 2:15 a.m. defendant Clark was parked in the center median of Interstate 80, which runs through the City of Council Bluffs, Iowa, checking traffic speeds with a laser unit. (Def.App. at 8). The posted speed limit is 55 miles per hour. At approximately 2:24 a.m. Clark obtained a speed reading of 85 mph on an eastbouhd vehicle driven by Michael Lawyer and owned by the Lawyers' father.Timothy Lawyer was in the passenger seat. Clark stopped the vehicle, which pulled to the right shoulder off the road. (Id.) The events of the stop were captured on the video unit in Clark's patrol car. The audio component *946 of the tape is not completely discernible nor are all actions on film completely clear due to the distance between the vehicles. (Ex. A).
Clark approached the passenger side of the vehicle (away from traffic), and asked to see Michael's license, registration and proof of insurance. Clark explained he had stopped the plaintiffs for speeding. As Timothy opened the glove box to find the requested information, he withdrew and unzipped a red pouch to look inside. With his flashlight Clark saw "a small multi-colored object that I identified as


a marijuana pipe." (Def.App. at 8). Clark asked what was in the bag he had seen, commenting that it looked like drug paraphernalia, and asked to take a look at it. Timothy responded by "quickly" zipping up the bag, and putting it back in the glove box. He refused Clark's request to look inside the bag. Clark renewed his request to see inside the bag several times. Timothy would not allow Clark to see the bag. Clark asked Timothy to step out of the vehicle several times. Timothy refused to comply with this request also. Clark told Timothy he would use pepper spray if Timothy did not exit the car. Timothy then opened the car door. He reached into the glove box, took out the bag, unzipped itand dumped what turned out to be an "Altoids" container and candy into his lap. After briefly discussing the red pouch issue and the purpose of the Lawyers' trip, Clark repeated his request to see proof of insurance and registration. The Lawyers did not have proof of insurance with them. Clark accepted the Lawyers' explanation that the car belonged to their father. Clark returned to his patrol car to write a speeding ticket for Michael.
Officer Newby arrived on the scene (Clark had radioed for backup while he was engaged with Timothy's refusal to allow inspection of the red pouch) and the officers conferred about the circumstances. Newby stayed at the scene. Clark wrote the speeding citation and placed his citation book on the hood of his car behind


driver side window was open. Clark reached inside to release the door lock. The driver's window started to go up. Newby grabbed the window to prevent it from closing the last few inches and yelled to Michael he would break it. Clark grabbed his pepper spray, and as Newby held the window, sprayed pepper spray inside the vehicle at Michael. (Def.App. at 9-10). Michael turned and a burst of spray hit Timothy in the face. (Id. at 10).
When he was sprayed with the pepper spray, Michael revved the engine. The car was not in gear. After further commands to get out of the car, Michael opened the door and Timothy got out the passenger side. Both were placed on the ground and handcuffed.
Michael and Timothy were put inClark's patrol car. Clark took plaintiffs to a local hospital to have the pepper spray washed from their eyes, as Council Bluffs police policy required. On the way to the hospital Clark and the Lawyers discussed why Michael had refused to come back to the patrol car to sign the ticket. Michael said he was standing up for his rights and that the law did not require him to get out of the car to sign the ticket. (Def. Stmt, of Facts ¶ 47; Pltf. Response ¶ 47; Ex. A).
Michael was transported to the juvenile detention facility in Council Bluffs. Clark suggested, and his supervisor approved, that after processing Michael would be released to the custody of his brother, Timothy would be given a citation, and they would


it back in the glove box. When Clark asked Timothy what was in the bag, Timothy was not responsive. It was then Clark demanded to see what was in the pouch. Because Timothy refused consent to search and eventually dumped the contents of the pouch out only in response to Clark's orders and threatened use of force, the disclosure of the contents *949 was a search for Fourth Amendment purposes.
Clark's observation of what he believed to be drug paraphernalia, Timothy's apparent effort to hide the contents by promptly zipping the bag back up and putting it in the glove box, together with Timothy's avoidance of Clark's questions about the contents, gave Clark reasonable suspicion which warranted further investigation. That investigation consisted of a search of the pouch.
Passengers, likecrimes were not serious and neither Clark nor Newby could have felt their safety was threatened by plaintiffs. However, Michael was not compliant with the instructions of Clark and Newby after he was told he was under arrest. The officers could reasonably have believed Michael was resisting arrest. When Clark told Michael he was under arrest, he tried the driver's side door handle and it was locked. Clark and Newby told Michael to unlock the door at least nine times. (Def. Stmt, of Facts ¶ 35; Pltf. Response ¶ 35). Michael did not comply. Clark reached in the open window to release the door lock. Plaintiffs contend that as he did so he inadvertently caused the window to raise. There is no evidence of this, however, beyond the


Sarah Palin is suing the New York Times over an editorial that linked her to the 2011 shooting of then-Democratic Rep. Gabby Giffords.

Palin filed the lawsuit Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

"Mrs. Palin brings this action to hold The Times accountable for defaming her by publishing a statement that it knew to be false," the lawsuit alleges.

The original version of the Times editorial, which focused on the shooting this month at a congressional Republican baseball practice, said "the link to political incitement was clear" in the Giffords shooting. It noted that Palin's political action committee had "circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that put Ms. Giffords ... under stylized crosshairs."

But evidence has suggested that Jared Loughner, the shooter, wasCody was a young buck these days and knew his way around the alt.country ropes. He'd be making cosmic honky tonk like this. With as much psych as country in the mix, the message running throughout this set, from the comic book in the booklet to the sound and attitude, is that life is a big joke--enjoy the ride. We've got our ticket ready. At the very least, this is going to be a cult classic for generations to come. Check it out.
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JOHN MAYALL/Find a Way to Care: One of the original 60s Brits that carpet bagged our blues and sold it back to us atones for the past by getting into a gritty, lo fi sounding date that takes it back to before white boys had


up his shirt sleeves and get down. Killer stuff.
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JON IRABAGON/Inaction is an Action: Irabagon's chops are never held for doubt, but sometimes he likes to dare you to like him. This is one of those times. Playing a solo set on mini sax, he has turned in the acoustic version of "Metal Machine Music". To paraphrase James Brown, how you like him now?
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McCLAIN SULLIVAN/Rachel: It isn't easy to be a kid in music these days trying to work the corners of the mainstream. Competing with the history of music at everyone's fingertips without being derivative or too precious, they have an uphill fight. Sullivan comes prepared to fight. Dating mining some Rickie Lee, some Morrissette, some Ella and who knows who else, Sullivan finds the key to cookdecided to become an underground comic book mogul and gathered other young artists into a collective called the Air Pirates, whose members included Bobby London, Gary Hallgren, Shary Flenniken and Ted Richards. Their two-issue series Air Pirates Funnies included parodies of Mickey Mouse and other copyrighted characters, which led to a famous lawsuit by The Walt Disney Company. O'Neill took the lead in fighting the suit, promoting it as a free-speech case in his "Mouse Liberation Front" campaign. He and Richards were the last Air Pirates to settle with Disney after a long, highly publicized and expensive legal battle.

O'Neill sued Disney years later when it released their motion picture Who Framed Roger Rabbit, claiming that Disney had stolen his character, a drug-dealing rabbit named Roger, who appeared in


big man who has been a somewhat inconsistent player. Lotulelei has tremendous power. He uses his strong upper body and hands to waylay blockers. His get off is special. One scout questioned his instincts. "He is a really good run player, and his pass rush may be developed," a scouting director said. Another scout said he still is raw as a pass rusher, but he can play all downs. He is mostly just a power rusher. He would be best utilized in a two-gap system. A heart condition that was discovered at the NFL scouting combine apparently is a non-factor, as Lotulelei has passed subsequent tests.

3. Sheldon Richardson, Missouri, 6-3, 294: He is a good candidate for a team looking for a three technique, pass rushing defense tackle.Richardson has a quick first step and a burst to finish. He shows good hand use, and can use a variety of interior rush moves. Richardson recognizes the play quickly and can shed blocks. "He can hold the point and rush a little," a scouting director said. Richardson is a nice blend of athleticism and effort. He makes chase plays. He sometimes plays erect and loses leverage. An early draft entree, he has potential to be a better pro than he was a college player.

4. Johnathan Hankins, Ohio State, 6-3, 320: He's huge and plays with power and explosion. He is quick off the snap and can get upfield. "He is a little like Vince Wilfork, that style of player," one front office man said. Some predict the


best is yet to come with Hankins, who left school early. He is difficult to move, and subsequently is a force against the run. He has surprising quickness for his size. Hankins reads the play well. He has not played with consistent effort.

5. Kawann Short, Purdue, 6-3, 299: His talent is top shelf. "He can be dominant," one front office man said. "But he disappears at times." He will be blocked easily one-on-one on one play, and then defeat a double team on the next. If his motor ran higher, he could dominate. Short has long arms, a powerful core and he can defend both the pass and run. He has a knack for batting down passes. Short, who grew up in East Chicago, Ind., has good strength6-3, 313: He is one of the most versatile tackle prospects with upper end ability. He can play three technique, nose tackle or five technique. He uses a nice swim move to penetrate, and also can change it up with a bull rush. Williams is intense and strong. He has been productive. He shows quickness off the snap, but doesn't always finish the play. "He is solid at everything, but special at nothing," a scouting director said. Said another, "He is a full-grown man. He doesn't have a high ceiling, but he will be a consistent player from day one." Williams can improve his awareness.

8. Jesse Williams, Alabama, 6-4, 323: This Australian native grew up playing rugby. He is a huge space eater with excellent power. He is


stronger in his upper body than lower (600 pound bench press). He doesn't penetrate much. Williams tries hard, but is stiff athletically. One scout said Williams is on the ground too much, and saw him as strictly a run down player. He does not make a lot of plays. Williams still is developing and could come on as his career progresses.

9. Akeem Spence, Illinois, 6-1, 307: He does not have ideal height, but he makes up for it with long, strong arms. "He's very strong up top," one executive said. Spence can control blockers one on one. He is a productive run defender who finds the ball and gets the ball carrier on the ground. He isn't the most effective pass rusher, but he has room to develop.He left Illinois after his junior year. He has 38 career starts.

10. Bennie Logan, Louisiana State, 6-2, 309: He may not be a high end athlete, but Logan is an appealing blend of football player and intangibles. He is a "terrific leader," according to scouts. He is consistent. He is tough. He plays hard. He has a good burst off the ball. And he's strong. Scouts think he can develop over time. Logan didn't have a real productive season in 2012, and decided to leave school early.

11. Kwame Geathers, Georgia, 6-3, 342: This is a gigantic space eater who will appeal to 3-4 teams looking for a nose tackle. Geathers has natural strength. "It's hard to knock him off a spot," a college scouting director said. "He is


a monster of a man." Geathers does not make many plays, and he doesn't move laterally very well. He has only eight career starts, and scouts think he could have benefited from staying in school for his last year of eligibility. His brother (Robert Geathers Jr.) and uncle (Jumpy Geathers) both played in the NFL.

12. Brandon Williams, Missouri Southern, 6-1, 335: He is a compact, thickly built tackle with power. Williams, a nose tackle candidate, is mostly a run down player. Although he had 27 sacks in college, he probably won't be much of a pass rusher in the NFL. Williams lacks burst and explosiveness. He played against a lesser level of competition and needs to learn better technique. He gets pushed around at times, according to oneto free himself from blockers, and plays with good pad level. He has a knee injury that could affect where he is drafted.

20. Everett Dawkins, Florida State, 6-2, 292: He is a scrappy defensive end who plays with surprising strength. He has a quick first step and some pass rush savvy. His size is a limitation. Dawkins did not step up last season the way some front office men hoped he would. He probably is not a starter in the NFL.

21. Corey Grissom, South Florida, 6-2, 306: A nose tackle who can be a presence in the middle of the field, Grissom knows how to get free from a block. He is not a consistent player and does not make a lot of plays, according to one scout.


311: With his size, he could be versatile enough to play nose guard or defensive end in a three-man front. Campbell has quick feet and can be disruptive. He put himself in the discussion for being drafted with a solid performance at the East-West Shrine game. He needs work on his technique. He was not very productive.

25. Jared Smith, New Hampshire, 6-4, 302: He has a good first step and his motor runs high. Smith doesn't have special athleticism or power. Some NFL teams project him as a fourth defensive tackle. He has some kick blocking ability.

The Bears have two solid starting tackles in Henry Melton and Stephen Paea, but they could use some depth. Right now, Nick Collins is the third tackle. Three players who logged significantAdvertising Read more

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Italian President Sergio Mattarella on Monday proposed the formation of a "neutral" government to steer the country until December if bickering political parties fail to form a ruling coalition after inconclusive elections in March.

Mattarella called on the warring parties to show "responsibility" and support his as yet unnamed government, without which he said he would convene elections in July or in the autumn.

"The parties need to choose, we can't wait any longer," said Mattarella, speaking to reporters after a third round of consultations with the parties failed to break the two-month long stalemate.

However parliamentary approval for the government proposed by Mattarella looks unlikely, as the leaders of Italy's largest party, the Five Star Movement (M5S), and a right-wing coalition led by the nationalist League, which


won the most votes in March polls, have both insisted on July elections.

"It's crucial that the vote of the people is respected. So it's either a centre-right government or elections as soon as possible," said League leader Matteo Salvini after Mattarella spoke.

Luigi Di Maio, head of M5S said on Twitter: "No confidence in a 'neutral' government, which is synonymous with technical government. We should go to the polls in July."

The president outlined an administration that would help Italy maintain its international obligations and approve the 2019 budget.

The government would then dissolve at the end of the year ahead of elections to be held at the start of 2019.

Mattarella also added that should a parliamentary majority capable of governing be found in the meantime, the fill-in government would stepThe daughter of a reputed New Jersey mob figure says her late father had a longtime relationship with Donald Trump that included gambling millions of dollars at one of his casinos, flying on his helicopter and partying aboard his private yacht.

In 1991, Trump first faced questions about his dealings with Robert LiButti, a plump, balding and nationally famous horse breeder with an explosive temper who would later be banned from New Jersey casinos for his ties to Mafia boss John Gotti. At the time, New Jersey state regulators had launched an investigation into allegations by nine employees of one of Trump’s Atlantic City casinos, the Trump Plaza, that the hotel had repeatedly removed African-Americans and women from craps tables after LiButti, one of the highest-rolling gamblers in the


Attorney General Schwefel filed a motion before the Casino Control Commission to bar LiButti from all New Jersey casinos on the grounds that he was a Gotti “associate” — a request that was approved by the commission on Aug. 21, 1991.

At the time, the Casino Control Commission was also moving to fine Trump Plaza for its past efforts to placate LiButti by keeping blacks and women away from his craps tables. According to the commission’s documents on the case, LiButti flew into fits of rage whenever he lost money at the craps tables, flinging dice and gaming chips around the casino and grabbing the stick from a stickperson’s hand and breaking it in half.

He also made it clear that “he did not want women, blacks or other minoritiesenthusiasts in India. The all new Digit.in continues the legacy of Thinkdigit.com as one of the largest portals in India committed to technology users and buyers. Digit is also one of the most trusted names when it comes to technology reviews and buying advice and is home to the Digit Test Lab, India's most proficient center for testing and reviewing technology products.


A fast-moving fire swept through a historic district in the capital of Bangladesh late Wednesday evening killing at least 81 people and gutting an area that dates back more than 400 years ago, officials said.

The blaze broke out in a residential building that had flammable material stored on the ground floor and quickly leaped from building to building in the ancient district of Chawkbazar in Dhaka.

Witnesses said many gas cylinders stored in the buildings continued to explode one after another in the warren of narrow streets with apartments squeezed over shots, restaurants and industrial warehouses on the ground floors.

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Officials said firefighters struggled to reach the area because of heavy traffic and narrow alleys that were busy when thethe Mughal dynasty. It is a hub of chemical businesses and local perfume factories, though authorities banned the storage of chemical goods after a fire near Chawkbazar killed at least 123 people in 2010.

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After that fire authorities promised to bring the area into compliance with building codes and regulations, and evict chemical warehouses from buildings where people lived.

Industrial facilities can't legally exist in areas that are zoned residential, said Mohammed Manjur Morshed, an assistant professor of urban planning at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology.

"This type of thing happens, there's a big initiative to move everything out, and then after some time people forget about it and the government


is really not interested anymore. It's like that," Morshed said.

Morshed said government regulations are sufficient but are routinely flouted in Chawkbazar.

"This is a historic area with a distinct culture," he said. "They are not really abiding by the government's rules."

On Thursday afternoon, shops had opened and the streets were crowded in much of Chawkbazar, outside a police cordon where authorities continued to comb through the destruction left by the blaze.

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The fire was about 550 feet away from Dhaka's 18th-century Central Jail, a former Mughal fort where ex-Prime Minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia has been held since February last year on corruption charges. Since 2016, the jail has only been used to hold opposition figures, and Zia is currently the onlyby cooking marijuana in butter. Their child went into heavy seizures.

"We don't have any peer-reviewed, published literature to support it," Dr. Larry Wolk, the state health department's chief medical officer, said of Charlotte's Web.

Still, more than 100 families have relocated since Charlotte's story first began spreading last summer, according to Figi and her husband. The relocated families have formed a close-knit group in Colorado Springs, the law-and-order town where the dispensary selling the drug is located. They meet for lunch, support sessions and hikes.

"It's the most hope lots of us have ever had," said Holli Brown, whose 9-year-old daughter, Sydni, began speaking in sentences and laughing since moving to Colorado from Kansas City and taking the marijuana strain.

Amy Brooks-Kayal, vice president of the American Epilepsy Society, warned that


they couldn't ignore.

Charlotte is a twin, but her sister, Chase, doesn't have Dravet's syndrome, which kills kids before they reach adulthood.

In early 2012, it seemed Charlotte would be added to that grim roster. Her vital signs flat-lined three times, leading her parents to begin preparing for her death. They even signed an order for doctors not to take heroic measures to save her life again should she go into cardiac arrest.

Her father, Matt, a former Green Beret who took a job as a contractor working in Afghanistan, started looking online for ways to help his daughter and thought they should give pot a try. But there was a danger: Marijuana's psychoactive ingredient, THC, can trigger seizures.

The drug also contains another chemical known as CBD that may have seizure-fightingproperties. In October, the Food and Drug Administration approved testing a British pharmaceutical firm's marijuana-derived drug that is CBD-based and has all its THC removed.

Few dispensaries stock CBD-heavy weed that doesn't get you high. Then Paige Figi found Joel Stanley.

One of 11 siblings raised by a single mother and their grandmother in Oklahoma, Stanley and four of his brothers had found themselves in the medical marijuana business after moving to Colorado. Almost as an experiment, they bred a low-THC, high-CBD plant after hearing it could fight tumors.

Stanley went to the Figis' house with reservations about giving pot to a child.

"But she had done her homework," Stanley said of Paige Figi. "She wasn't a pot activist or a hippy, just a conservative mom."

Now, Stanley and his brothers provide the


in the family's new rental house in Colorado Springs, giving Charlotte's Web to their daughter Elizabeth, 4. The family only relocated to Colorado after neurologists told them Elizabeth's best hope — brain surgery — could only stop some of her seizures.

"It's a very big strain being away from the rest of our family," Aileen Burger said recently while waiting for her husband to return from a trip to sell their Long Island house. "But she doesn't have to have pieces of her brain removed."

Ray Mirazabegian, an optician in Glendale, Calif., brought Charlotte's Web to his state, where medical marijuana is legal. He convinced the Stanley brothers to give him some seeds he could use to treat his 9-year-old daughter Emily, who spent her days slumped on the couch.common anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) mechanism formed the entirety of the licensed biologic options available for CD. However, in recent years, the range of agents and mechanisms of action has expanded. First, in 2014, the selective leukocyte adhesion molecule inhibitor, vedolizumab (VDZ), was approved for use in ulcerative colitis (UC) as well as CD. This was followed in 2016 by the approval (for CD only) of ustekinumab (UST), a monoclonal antibody that targets the p40 subunit of interleukin-12 and interleukin-23. In addition to these new agents, the number of licensed treatments has been further expanded by the growing range of IFX and ADA biosimilar agents now available.

Whilst the large-scale registration trials by which the anti-TNF agents were granted their approvals clearly demonstrated their efficacy, it has taken many


The French campaign watchdog on Saturday began investigating the “massive and coordinated piracy action” that presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron reported just minutes before the official end of campaigning in the most heated election for the presidency that France has seen in decades.

Late Friday, the Macron campaign said in a statement that it had been the victim of a major hacking operation that saw thousands of emails and other internal communications dumped into the public domain.

At the end of a high-stakes race, the news quickly stoked fears of a targeted operation meant to destabilize the electoral process, especially after reports of Russian hacking in the U.S. presidential election.

Macron, an independent centrist, is facing off against the far-right populist and National Front leader Marine Le Pen, who for years haspersonal and professional accounts, contracts and accounting statements — were mixed in with false ones.

“The ambition of the authors of this leak is obviously to harm the movement En Marche! in the final hours before the second round of the French presidential election,” the Macron statement read. En Marche (Onward) is the centrist political movement that Macron founded a year ago with a platform that blends certain aspects of fiscal conservatism with social liberalism.

The campaign immediately filed complaints with France’s National Commission for Campaign Accounts and Political Financing.

Unlike in the United States, campaigning in France comes to a hard stop a day before voters go to the polls. The official end of campaigning was midnight Friday, and candidates may not actively campaign after that time.

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the sincerity of the election” itself.

Throughout the campaign, Le Pen has been an outspoken advocate of pivoting France’s foreign policy toward an improved alliance with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. During a March visit to Moscow, she met with the Russian president.

For years, a complex web of financial ties has also linked Le Pen to Russian lending sources. When French banks refused on principle to lend to the National Front in 2014, Le Pen sought and received the backing of a Russian lender. The bank’s lending license was ultimately revoked late last year, forcing her to seek alternate funding sources.

For months, Le Pen has also received exceedingly positive coverage in Russian state media. Meanwhile, those news outlets have pilloried Macron, accusing him of being secretly gay and of embezzling publicThe case for Planet Nine is growing. Two new findings presented at a planetary science meeting in Pasadena have uncovered hints for the existence of this distant, mysterious world in the motions of known solar system objects.

The results could help astronomers home in on their otherworldly target, which — if it really is out there — could fundamentally alter our understanding of the solar system.

The hunt for Planet Nine (also known as Planet X) began in earnest in 2014 after astronomers Scott Sheppard and Chadwick Trujillo found 2012 VP113, a planetoid nicknamed “Biden,” after the vice president. Its closest point to the sun in its orbit is 80 astronomical units — that is, 80 times the Earth-Sun distance of 93 million miles.

Objects like 2012 VP113 exist far beyond


What can you tell me about Betsy Drake, who was married to Cary Grant?—Richard McFahy, Blue Bell, Pa.

Drake, 89, was born to American expatriates in Paris, France, and grew up in the United States. She started acting in junior college, then went to New York City searching for work and became a model. Making the acquaintance of playwright Horton Foote, she began her career as an understudy in his play “Only the Heart.” She and Grant were married from 1949 to 1962 and made two films together, “Every Girl Should Be Married” and “Room for One More.” Drake, who survived the sinking of the Italian ocean liner the “SS Andrea Doria” in 1956, later became a psychotherapist and writer.a prominent New
York City law firm, engaged in a five-year insider trading
scheme in which he abused his position at the firm by
disclosing material nonpublic information to his close friend
Frank Tamayo. The pattern of Metro’s criminal activity
remained fairly constant throughout the multi-year scheme.
Between February 2009 and January 2013, he used his position
at the law firm to obtain material nonpublic information
concerning thirteen distinct corporate transactions. In each
instance, after obtaining the inside information, he would meet
with Tamayo and tell him which stocks to purchase and when.
Tamayo would then write down the stock symbols of the
companies whose stock he was about to acquire.

        After Tamayo left those meetings with Metro, he would
call his personal stockbroker, Vladimir Eydelman, and arrange
to meet him, typically at Grand Central


   The trading activity based on Metro’s inside
information did not go unnoticed by the government.
Eventually, an investigation was launched and government
agents executed a search warrant at Tamayo’s home in or
around December 2013. Tamayo promptly admitted his role
in the scheme and began cooperating with the government.
That cooperation included recording a January 28, 2014,
meeting with Metro in which Metro expressed his desire to
liquidate some of the gains that had accrued since 2009, so he
could fund a real estate transaction. Tamayo responded that he
had asked his stockbroker – who was unnamed in the
conversation – to help liquidate some of the assets held in

                          Islamists demonstrated outside Regent Park Mosque on January 24, 2014 in support of Al-Qaeda's Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Demonstrators, raising the black flag of Al-Qaeda and holding signs in favor of a caliphate in Syria, called the Free Syrian Army infidels.

Following are excerpts from footage of the demonstration, posted on the Internet on January 25:

British Islamist: Is the solution for Syria democracy?

Crowd: No!

British Islamist: Is the solution for Syria secularism?

Crowd: No!

British Islamist: Is the solution for Syria the Free Syrian Army?

Crowd: No!

British Islamist: My dear Muslim brothers, the FSA are nothing but infidels. Remember that. The Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Council are not the solution for Syria. They are going to bring heresy under the guise of democracy with the help of