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Each room is equipped with a flat-screen TV. They feature a seating area for your convenience. Rooms are fitted with a private bathroom equipped with a walk-in shower.
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This hotel is located in the Alsatian town of Bouxwiller, near Kirrwiller. The hotel has a sauna. All guest rooms have flat-screen TV and free Wi-Fi.
The guest rooms at the Cour Du Tonnelier are also equipped with a telephone line with free national calls.
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La Ferme De Marie-Hélène is located in Ittlenheim, 20 kilometres from Strasbourg. It offers en-suite rooms and suites with a TV and free Wi-Fion the special effects for the short film prototype to Evil Dead, Within the Woods.

TS: That was mostly casting. Building an arm, doing some make-up on Bruce Campbell – a lot of scars all over him, and popping his eyes out.

DW: Within the Woods was a learning experience and essential tool for raising money for its feature length successor, Evil Dead. Sam again enlisted Tom’s artistic skills, putting him in charge of the Deadite make-ups, severed limbs, injuries like the pencil in the ankle, designing and building props like the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis and dagger, and the unforgettable stop-motion Deadite meltdown at the end of the film.

TS: Yup, I was there for all that. I joined Sam and the guys in Tennessee and helped shoot the pencil in the


ankle, Shelly chewing her hand off, and the Deadite burning in the fireplace. After shooting in Tennessee for seven weeks, all the actors and me, except Bruce, went back home. Back in Michigan, I began working on the Deadite meltdown sequence with Bart Pierce in his basement for 3 and half months, combining stop-motion and make-up effects for an ending Sam wanted to be more violent than all the rest of the film. We were left alone and allowed to go nuts, so it was a lot of fun!

DW: Those months of hard work definitely paid off, because we’re still talking about that ending over 30 years later! That same creative fire continues to be seen in your stop-motion work for the book ending sequences of Evil Deadlater, I sat next to Sam during the screening of Evil Dead for the Evil Dead 2 film cast and crew, and when the tree rape scene came up, Sam buried his head in his hands and said, ”Why did I turn it into pornography?”

DW: Without doubt, the Evil Dead fans would surely like to hear your best Bruce Campbell story.

TS: During the shooting of Evil Dead 2, we had an abandoned school for our studio. Bruce had a weight lifting room across from my art department and next to the men’s bathroom. I went to the bathroom and in came Bruce dressed up like Ash. I was chatting with him and suddenly realized why he was so quiet. It was Bruce’s body double for the mirror scene.


Whirlow Hall Farm

Whirlow Hall Farm is a working farm situated on Broad Elms Lane at Whirlow in the City of Sheffield, England. Since 1979 it has been the site of the Whirlow Hall Farm Trust, a registered charity which allows children and young people to visit a working farm. The site includes various Grade II listed buildings including Whirlow Farmhouse built on the site of the old Whirlow Hall. In the yard below the farmhouse is Whirlow Hall Cottage (sometimes called Low House) along with two ancient cruck barns and a cow shed.

History

Earlier Brigantian and Roman farms on the site
Evidence of farming taking place on the site dating back to the Bronze Age has been found. In 2011 excavations revealed remains of a substantial 1st or 2ndhas to get stronger. He has to get sharper."

After scoring 17 runs in the three-game series against Atlanta following the All-Star break, the White Sox have only managed seven in their three games against the Tigers, and are a season-high 16 games behind division-leading Detroit in the American League Central.

With the loss the White Sox (39-59) have also fallen to 20 games below .500 for the first time since Sept. 26, 2007.


say, "I learned it on YouTube."

MTV: How old were you when you got your start?

Rule: I started as a kid on a street corner back in 1948...I was either 11 or 12. I went to summer camp, and I was going to the doctor to get shots for poison ivy, and where I changed buses there was a yo-yo contest on the corner by the crusty shop. I could not put it down -- I was just obsessed with it.

MTV: When did you start winning championships?

Rule: Probably a year later in '49. I have a picture of a real nice trophy I won in '50, which was a big deal at the time. Everybody gets a trophy now -- every player on the ball team gets a trophycaramel dip, place an apple on top and wrap everything in cellophane with a ribbon bow to complete this adorable favor.

We've all known the joy of opening the mailbox and finding a Christmas card waiting for us. Just knowing that someone that you care about is thinking about you, and wishing you well during the holiday season can really brighten your day.

It turns out that the very first Christmas card was sent in the UK, way back in the year 1843 by Sir Henry Cole to one of his close friends (and artist) John Horsley.

Sir Cole worked for the British government, and was very interested in learning how ordinary citizens could make better use out of the mail system. He and his artist friend, John, got together and


Sometimes in motor racing a car, driver and sponsorship combination can become so iconic it comes to be known by a simple moniker by both fans and the media alike, and in the world of the Indianapolis 500 there are few paint schemes that would come to be more beloved then that of Johnny Rutherford’s Chaparral 2k in 1980, better known by the Indycar community as the Yellow Submarine.

The story of the Submarine can be traced back to 1957, when oil tycoon turned sports car racer Jim Hall purchased a front engine Chaparral 1 race-car from the Californian based design team of Dick Troutman and Tom Barnes, best known at the time for their work on the Scarab Formula One car of the early 1960s. After making extensivemodifications to his machine, Hall began to pursue the idea of building his own chassis based off the 1 series, and in 1963 agreed a deal with the Californian duo allowing him to continue using the Chaparral name (the name itself being a breed of ground cuckoo better known as a road-runner).

During his time as a constructor Hall became one of the most innovative designers in sports car racing, with advancements in aerodynamics and ground effects well ahead of anything seen in motor racing at the time. During the 1960s Hall introduced the concept of wings on the car designed to generate down-force, whilst his infamous 2J machine featured two suction fans positioned at the rear of the car designed to push the car to the ground, in


the process pre-empting a similar scheme used by the Brabham Formula One Team by nearly a decade.

After nine years away from motorsport Hall turned his attention to Indycar Racing, entering a Lola for Al Unser Sr. for the 1978 Indycar season, the team achieved immediate success, with Unser picking up his third Indy 500 title on his way to finishing second to Tom Sneva in the championship standings. For 1979 however Hall would introduce a new in-house chassis designed to replace the aging Lola. Designed by Briton John Barnard, the Chaparral 2K exploited ground affect technology similar to that which had been perfected by the Lotus Formula One team, with sliding skirts on the underside of the car designed to push it onto the road and increase gripat high speeds. The season also saw Hall sign oil company Pennzoil as the primary sponsor for the team seeing Hall’s traditional all-white scheme give way to the company’s corporate colours of yellow and black.

After overcoming early teething troubles with the new machine, Hall entered the 1980 Indycar season high on confidence. New driver Johnny Rutherford had dominated the opening round of the season at Ontario, and Hall was hopeful that the speed shown at the Californian circuit would translate into a strong showing at the Brickyard. His expectations were to be proven right, as Rutherford set the fastest time during time trials to claim pole position with a four lap average of 192.256mph. In the race itself Rutherford led the early stages of the race, just ahead


of the duo of Bobby Unser and Mario Andretti, whilst the hard charging Tom Sneva had charged from last place on the grid to move himself into contention for the win going into the race’s middle stages. After Unser and Andretti were both forced to drop out with turbo and engine issues respectively, the race moved into a straight fight between Rutherford and Sneva for the win, but despite the best efforts of The Gas Man to close the gap to the #4 machine Rutherford began to pull away, leading 118 laps on his way to a dominant 500 win. The win was Rutherford’s third 500 win in seven years, and the ease at which he was able to dominate the race’s later stages soon led to theYellow Submarine moniker to be applied to his machine.

Rutherford would spend two further years with Chaparral, but by 1982 the 2K chassis had begun to show its age, leading to Hall making the decision to close the outfit at the end of the 1982 championship. Pennzoil meanwhile would begin a healthy alliance with Indycar racing, sponsoring the likes of Rick Mears, John Andretti, Gil De Ferran and Sam Hornish Jr. in a relationship which would claim two 500 victories as well as two Indy Racing League championships. In February of this year it was announced that Pennzoil would return to Indianapolis, sponsoring Helio Castroneves’s #3 Penske for the 100th running of the legendary race, and raising the prospect of once again seeing the Yellow submarine return to victory


an Avatar going all out against a colossus that does not seem to care about them anymore. A huge spirit weapon scar has even ripped apart the wall of a zoo and the panicked animals are joining the soldiers in fleeing In the street they pass BOLIN and the Metal-bender cops who walk forward down the middle of this street towards the battle. A confused animal in the street disrupts their dramatic walk but it scurries off. Above, the Air Nation converges on their bison for an attack.

BOLIN and the metal benders rip apart a building with lava and metal-bending to send it tumbling down on the colossus as the Airbenders swoop and strike. The air-benders finish their attack run and turn to get away.

KAI

(on his bison)

Whoo! Jinora,at the smoking building, frantic)

Kai!

The colossus continues to stomp through the city.

EXT. NANFANG STREETS

The two trucks carrying the jury-rigged spider tanks race north through the almost deserted city. MAKO is driving one with ASAMI and HIROSHI in the back with the machine on the flatbed.

WU

(on the radio)

...another update from your friendly neighborhood Earth King, Wu Huoting. In the northern outskirts of the city the Avatar and Kuvira are fighting in a cataclysmic confrontation! Wait, Kuvira just fired off another blast of her magic weapon...

ASAMI

(leans forward to the truck cabin)

Is Wu still on the radio?

MAKO

(shrugs)

Yeah, I think he likes it. And I doubt anyone is still looking for his broadcasts so he's safer than us.

Explosions in the distance. ASAMI get back in a more secure position on the truck-bed.

VARRICK

(from


Kuvira tries to crush KORRA. KORRA ducks into hiding, panting heavily. The avatar state fades from her eyes as her body is too tired to maintain it.

The colossus continues to advance, lashing out at Korra's allies.

INT. COLLOSUSS CONTROL ROOM

KUVIRA

Load and fire again!

EXT. NANFANG OUTSKIRTS

The next beam goes wild, ripping through buildings and exploding near an Empire Army detachment watching over UR troops and a large group of evacuees. People scream as the explosions erupt.

EMPIRE ARMY CAPTAIN

That beam hit us and the civilians! Radio command! Confirm our position!

EMPIRE LIEUTENANT

The colossus is not responding to hails, sir!

Nearby a captive, the United Republic GENERAL storms forward.

EMPIRE GUARD

Prisoner, halt!

GENERAL

(pushes past)

Can it, soldier!

(continues)

Captain! Your Great Uniter is firing on prisoners of war and thousands of evacuees!

CAPTAIN

I know! We can't reach command!

(looks at thego of the controls)

What?

HIROSHI pulls the eject cord and ASAMI's seat is launched out of the spider tank. The colossus leg swings up towards the tank.

HIROSHI

(concentrating on controls)

Two, one. Cut complete!

He puts his hand down on the second eject handle. In that instant the colossus foot comes crashing down on his position, crushing the spider-tank. The remaining cutting torch fuel explodes, sending fire out from the edges of the foot. Broken machine parts rain down.

ASAMI's ejection chair flies back through the air as she watches this.

ASAMI

(anguished scream)

No!

From across the battlefield KORRA's head snaps around and she blasts off in that direction, even as the Avatar state light is fading from her eyes, Asami's parachute deploys but it catches an edge of a building and does not unfurl. ASAMI


the attack perfectly. KUVIRA is astonished at KORRA fighting blind. Toph's technique is coming in handy.

The blindfold flies off her eyes with a flex of her hands and the fight continues. KUVIRA is on the defensive.

INT. COLOSSUS REACTOR

MAKO continues the circular motions of his smooth lightning generation technique. Then he thrusts out one arm forward and one back, from his forward fingers a bolt of lighting arcs out to hit the ball of spirit vines in the generator. The dials on the generator controls climb up and then burst. The room starts going crazy but MAKO concentrates, maintaining the flow of lighting, drawing smaller thread of electricity from the metal behind him and purifying it through his body into a massive bolt. Feedback electricity from the generator blastshim, burning his firing arm but still he continues. Alarms are blaring.

Some of the downed Empire personnel are getting up, but none want to stay in this hellscape of a room and so do not mess with MAKO. Then MAKO lets his attack wink out and the generator continues to deteriorate as alarms scream. He begins to run for the door but a stray bolt of discharge from the generator strikes him and brings him down to the floor, unconscious.

The last Empire metal-bender is about to make it out of the room until he looks back at MAKO collapsed on the floor. The soldier runs back and lifts him up, dragging him out of the generator room.

INT. COLOSSUS COMAND ROOM

KORRA and KUVIRA continue to fight as warning lights


flash on every remaining console. KORRA begins to win. Then the sounds of approaching explosions begin shaking the room. KORRA reacts and quickly starts swirling air around herself.

EXT. COLOSSUS ON HILLTOP

JINORA swoops down on her bison towards the hole cut in the side of the colossus in time to grab LIN, BOLIN, and OPAL. Down below, Empire soldiers can be seen fleeing the machine.

Then, as the bison rises away, the colossus is ripped apart by powerful explosions.

The way it breaks apart, the front command portion, the spirit cannon and a few other large pieces land forward and end up sliding a bit down the hill. The rest of the pieces land on the top of the hill.

EXT. HILLTOP WRECKAGE

JINORA's bison lands nearby. On the ground off to theside, a bit of metal wreckage bends back to reveal the Empire metal-bender and unconscious MAKO shielded within. Then the Empire metal-bender collapses backwards from exhaustion and adrenaline.

EXT. FORWARD WRECKAGE

The command room stops sliding down the slope and KORRA lets her orb of swirling air die down. As she does she falls forward out the shattered front window down onto the ground. She rolls a bit, then really struggles finding the strength to even get back up on her hands and knees. Republic City is visible in the distance.

KORRA

(to herself, panting and grunting with exhaustion)

Huh. Errh. Yep, that's enough.

She manages to stagger back up to her feet. She looks around for Kuvira. Half of the broken spirit reactor lies nearby a little uphill, near a larger bit of


broken generator into the slot on the spirit cannon where the ammunition cartridges went. Instantly both the spirit cannon and the generator begin to glow. KORRA notices that the cannon landed pointed in the general direction of Republic City.

KORRA

No!

KUVIRA slams forward the firing lever, but just at the last second KORRA bends up a spike of earth under the barrel of the gun, sending the beam up into the sky. But, plugged into the generator, the beam does not stop firing. Roaring in rage, KUVIRA earth-bends as well, knocking the cannon sideways to aim the beam at KORRA who barely avoids it.

But something is seriously wrong. The cannon and the generator are reacting to each other. Newly manifested vines are now shooting out of both the spirit cannonand the broken generator, tons of them linking together. The writhing, growing mass starts twisting the still firing cannon in random directions. The beam is wrecking devastation everywhere.

KORRA

Shut it down!

KUVIRA

I can't!

(loses her grip on the controls)

Ah!

The twisting of the spirit cannon on its bed of giant growing vines throws KURVIRA off. She lands on the ground as the beam quickly swings around towards her. Lying there, KUVIRA surrenders to her fate and closes her eyes as the all-destroying beam draws near.

Then, at the last moment, KORRA lands in front of her, her eyes blazing with light. KORRA thrusts out her hands and somehow blocks the full force of the beam. Arcane patterns glow into existence across her chest and back as the ground and the air shudder with


the energy of an unstoppable force meeting an immovable object. KUVIRA watch in fear and wonder. Then they both fade into an all consuming light.

EXT. VARIOUS LOCATIONS

From that point on the hillside, a massive perfect dome of swirling purple energy swiftly grows, expanding from that one point and carrying along with it a quiet wave of destruction. It swiftly grows to envelope the hill and the ruined colossus.

JINORA quickly guides her bison down to duck behind an outcropping in the hope to be shielded by the rolling explosion. In the saddle LIN grips onto the sides with MAKO while OPAL holds her body in front of BOLIN

Elsewhere, Empire soldiers run for cover.

Down the hill ASAMI is driving a truck up the road toward the colossus fight. Then shesees the approaching explosion and ducks down behind the dash as the front window explodes.

BAATAR and WU watch out the window from Wu's broadcast point in Nanfang city.

In Republic City PRESIDENT CHANG and PEMMA watch the same slowly expanding energy explosion in the distance.

Then the energy bubble bursts into a tremendous shockwave and single bright beam of yellow light stabs up from the former center. Most of the hill where Korra and Kuvira were is now a perfect crater. The crater is covered by a bed of spirit vines. Fade out.

EXT. SPIRIT WORLD

Fade in. KUVIRA lies crumpled on the ground, resting on a bed of thick grass. Then she jerks up and looks around. She is surrounded by a fantastical landscape of amazing and surreal beauty. Then she


Spc. Hilda I. Clayton

May 21, 1991 to July 2, 2013

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Spc. Hilda I. Clayton, a visual information specialist assigned to the 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), was killed while photographing a live-fire training exercise 2 July 2013 in Laghman Province, Afghanistan. Clayton and four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers died when a mortar tube accidentally exploded during an ANA mortar validation exercise being supported by U.S. Army trainers. She was attached to the 4th Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, based at Forward Operating Base Gamberi in eastern Afghanistan.

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At the critical juncture of the war, when it was necessary for the ANA to increasingly assume responsibility for military actions, the story was not in the fighting but in the partnership that was necessary between U.S. andFort Meade, Maryland, on 13 December 2013. At Fort Meade, Clayton’s name was added to the DINFOS Hall of Heroes.

Combat Camera further honored Clayton by naming the award for the winner of its annual best combat camera competition after her. The Spc. Hilda I. Clayton Best Combat Camera (COMCAM) Competition consists of five days of events to test joint service combat camera personnel on their physical and technical skills.


English-subtitled, English-dubbed versions to be available

HIDIVE announced on Friday that it will stream the New Theatrical Movie Initial D Legend 3: Dream film beginning on September 10 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. Both the English-subtitled and English-dubbed versions will be available in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and other territories.

The first two films in the trilogy, New Theatrical Movie Initial D Legend 1: Awakening and New Theatrical Movie Initial D Legend 2: Racer , are already streaming on HIDIVE .

The first film in the trilogy opened in Japan in August 2014, the second film opened in May 2015, and the third film opened in February 2016. The three films screened in North America in February and March.

Sentai Filmworks licensed the trilogy and released all three films onhome video.

SANZIGEN Animation Studio and LIDEN FILMS animated the films with Masamitsu Hidaka as chief director, Tomohito Naka as director, Mayori Sekijima as scriptwriter, Koji Haneda as character designer, and Akio Dobashi as composer. The cast included Mamoru Miyano as Takumi Fujiwara, Daisuke Ono as Ryōsuke Takahashi, Yūichi Nakamura as Keisuke Takahashi, Maaya Uchida as Natsuki Mogi, Minoru Shiraishi as Itsuki Takeuchi, Junichi Suwabe as Takeshi Nakazato, and Hiroaki Hirata as Bunta Fujiwara.

The film trilogy retells the beginning of the story from Shuuichi Shigeno 's original car-racing manga. High school student Takumi Fujiwara works as a gas station attendant during the day and a delivery boy for his father's tofu shop during late nights. Little does he know that his precise driving skills and his father's modified Toyota


The early development of the tail and the transformation of the shape of the nucleus of the spermatid of the domestic fowl, Gallus gallus.
The differentiation of the spermatid, especially in reference to the formation of the flagellum, and transformation of the shape of the nucleus was investigated in the domestic fowl. In the early stage of the spermatid, a prominent Golgi apparatus appears around the centrioles. The Golgi vesicles then surround the axial-filament complex which develops from the distal centriole. These vesicles fuse to form continuous membrane at the earliest stage of flagellar formation, and in the succeeding stage Golgi lamellae are attached to the plasma membrane of the developing flagellum. From these observations, it is assumed that Golgi apparatus may be a source of the membrane systemof the flagellum. The microtubules distributed around the nucleus form the circular manchette. The anterior region of the nucleus with the manchette is cylindrical in shape and the posterior region without it remains irregular in shape. When the circular manchette has been completed, the whole nucleus acquires a slender cylindrical shape. The circular manchette then changes into the longitudinal manchette. The nuclei of spermatids without a longitudinal manchette are abnormal in shape. In view of these observations it is assumed that the nuclear shaping of the spermatid may be accomplished by circular manchette and the maintenance of shape of the elongated nucleus by longitudinal manchette.


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Mariners name Joe Myhra Vice President of Ballpark Operations

Joe Myhra, who served as Director of Maintenance for Safeco Field since 2008, has been named Vice President, Ballpark Operations by the Seattle Mariners.

Myhra succeeds Scott Jenkins, who left the Mariners this month to become General Manager of the new Atlanta Stadium being built by the NFL Atlanta Falcons.

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that individuals can avoid plastic. Respondents to a Guardian callout said they found it easy when it comes to using reusable water bottles and fabric tote bags. However, trying to live a completely plastic-free life can be challenging.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jenny hopes to make it easier for the average consumer in the UK to find plastic-free products.

Jenny Derry, who lives near Lichfield in Staffordshire, launched Anything But Plastic in October, an online shop selling plastic-free items in the UK. After three years of working in outdoor equipment shops, she became fed up of unwrapping items which were already individually wrapped in plastic and quit her job.

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(Reuters) - Ford Motor Co Chief Financial Officer Bob Shanks plans to retire and is expected to stay through the end of the year, CNBC reported on Thursday, citing sources.

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That’s the dream of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.

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One Indiana Oath Keeper has already deployed to a local school, even though the school district says there’s no need for him to be there.

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According to a statement recently announced by the ministry, the new procedures are being implemented at the insistence of a number of foreign bodies which have cited heightened security risks.

Up until now, the Israeli licence alone was sufficient for many countries, including the majority of European countries and the US, but the ministry has not informed


Image caption Scotland rocks: Urquhart Castle which sits on the banks of Loch Ness

Scientists have measured the way Loch Ness tilts back and forth as the whole of Scotland bends with the passing of the tides.

It is a tiny signal seen in the way the waters at the ends of the 35km-long lake rise and fall.

When combined with the direct tug from the gravity of the Moon and Sun, the loch surface goes up and down by just 1.5mm.

The study is reported in the Journal of Geophysical Research.

"If you were on a boat in the middle of the loch, you certainly wouldn't notice it," said Philip Woodworth from the UK National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Liverpool, "but a tide like this has never been observed in a western EuropeanNorth Sea to be influenced by this loading effect.

The team placed pressure sensors a few metres under the lake surface at six locations, from Fort Augustus in the far southwest to Aldourie in the far northeast. They then monitored the change in the height of the overlying water during the course of 201 days.

What the scientists saw was a clear spike in the data twice a day - the result of the gravitational pull of the Moon and Sun. But they could also tease out a second signal stemming from the way water rises and falls as a result of the tilting of the land. And, in fact, the latter effect sits on top of the first and is responsible for most of the amplitude change.

The team says


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The results of the investigation found the group omitted almost £23,000 of reportable donations from a post-poll donation report, and failed to provide all the necessary declarations and invoices.

The organisation also received two smaller fines for delays in reporting donations to it from the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association (TSSA) union, which should have been done within 30 days.

The commission said one £10,000 donation was received in July 2016, but not reported until January this year. Another sum of £8,000 was received in May 2017 but not reported until July 2018.

Louise Edwards, the head of regulation at the Electoral Commission, said: “Non-party campaigners are essential for a healthy democracy. But just as crucial is


It was a cool day here in Paris, just 16 degrees when Louis Vuitton was scheduled to start. Inside the venue – a glass box atop a hill in Parc Andre Citroen – the temperatures were reaching insanity-high points. So there we were, waiting for the show to start, waiting, waiting, sweat pouring down our faces, wishing we had our own personal cooling devices, when the reason for our heated delay arrived. Kanye West – with entourage – strolled down the catwalk and sat front row and centre next to Louis Vuitton’s president. And with Mr West in the house, we could begin. It was former Dunhill creative director Kim Jones’ first outing at Louis Vuitton, and he started crisply with a series of suits and suit separatesNorthern Mali: Key is Strengthening Bamako; ECOWAS Plan Harbors Risks

As armed groups strengthen their hold over northern Mali, the UN Security Council is set on September 17 to weigh a plan by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to support a Malian government offensive in the north. While the details of the plan remain unclear, Mali’s interim President Dioncounda Traoré has requested assistance from both ECOWAS and the UN in reforming and training the country’s army, as well as logistical assistance in a government offensive that could include ECOWAS troops to secure cities in the north. Army officers and politicians close to the leaders of the March 22 military coup have been openly critical towards the plan, particularly of the latter component.

Key Conclusions
A purely negotiated solution


to the conflict in northern Mali is unrealistic; any strategy to address the conflict will need to include a military component. But the ECOWAS approach harbors major risks. The international community–which would have to back any ECOWAS mission in Mali financially and logistically–should focus its efforts on supporting the re-establishment of an effective Malian government and army. These efforts could suffer a serious setback as a result of the current ECOWAS plan, which is fuelling political tensions in the capital Bamako.

Secondly, ECOWAS is not the right regional framework to coordinate a response to the conflict in northern Mali. Neither Algeria nor Mauritania is a member of the bloc, and both are opposed to its approach. At the regional level, the key challenge is how to integrate Algeria intoan international strategy to tackle the conflict.

Analysis
The current drive towards external military intervention is partly based on the assumption that northern Mali has fallen victim to external actors and dynamics outside its control. The conflict erupted, the story goes, when Tuareg fighters returned from Libya with heavy weapons and worsened when al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) emerged as a key force, drawing on militants from across the region.

However, although AQIM does play a central role, the majority of actors in the conflict are local. Tensions had already been on the rise in northern Mali throughout 2010 and 2011, opposing northern allies of the Malian leadership, who in some cases were deeply involved in criminal activities with groups that were excluded from the alliances built by the former


Islamist façade in order to understand who the armed groups in Mali’s north are, and what they want. Media coverage often portrays two of the main northern groups in ideological terms: the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) as a secular separatist movement, and Ansar Dine as a Salafi movement opposed to northern separatism.

But the rift between the MNLA and Ansar Dine is not primarily one of ideology. Rather, it is the same rift that opposed notables of different Tuareg tribes during the conflicts of the 1990s and 2006-09. The leadership of Ansar Dine represents part of the tribal establishment of the Ifoghas Tuareg. Many of Ansar Dine’s leading figures are pragmatists rather than ideologues, who have been pursuing their quest for power in various guisesfor the past decades. The Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) is not only an offshoot of AQIM; it is also partly run by drug traffickers who had been allied to the former Malian leadership. The same applies to the Arab militia in the Timbuktu region calling itself the Arab Movement for Azawad (MAA).

Negotiation or Conflict?
The current situation is characterized by a set of tactical alliances–most importantly, the alliances with AQIM through which Ansar Dine and MUJAO seek to strengthen their control of cities and territory. For both, the goal is to establish themselves as key players in eventual negotiations over power-sharing with the Malian government. Leading notables and businessmen in the north have started backing the two groups in order to safeguard their interests


main armed groups will do little to resolve the conflict since there are genuine grievances over governance that need to be addressed, and dialogue over these grievances needs to take place with society in the north at large, not only the armed groups. As long as the armed groups are not exposed to military pressure, and as long as their constituent elements have no incentive to revert to the Malian state, they will block any meaningful negotiations by making unworkable demands.

The key to the situation lies in Bamako–that is, in an effective government in Bamako that can both exert military pressure by deploying its troops, and win some northern groups back over to the government side. In any scenario, however, such efforts will have serious humanitarian implications. Oncethe government in Bamako begins to act, conflict in the north will escalate. To date, there has been very little fighting since government forces fled the north–for the most part, armed groups simply carved up the territory.

But once some factions move over to the government, inter-factional conflict will erupt. With this comes a serious risk of inter-communal fighting. The various armed groups, as well as the militias recruited from northern communities that are mobilizing in the south, are all based on different ethnic and tribal groups. There is a bitter legacy of conflict between these groups during the 1990s, as well as more recently. A government offensive could therefore be followed–and its success could be endangered–by major inter-communal conflict in the north.

The government in Bamako could contain these


plans for a large presence of foreign troops.

The Regional Dimension
The ECOWAS plans are even more problematic in view of regional relations. In the years before the conflict erupted, the lack of regional military and security cooperation allowed the situation in northern Mali to steadily deteriorate. The main reason was the inaction of the former Malian leadership against organized crime and AQIM, which caused tensions with Mauritania and Algeria–the two most influential regional actors in northern Mali. ATT’s fall has opened up an opportunity to put regional relations on a new footing. But clearly, ECOWAS is not the right framework to do so. Neither Algeria nor Mauritania is a member of ECOWAS; they are both opposed to military intervention by the bloc; and they also resent the mediating roleand international organizations and experts from think tanks, academia, and the media. The views expressed in the Global Observatory represent those of the contributors and not necessarily those of IPI.

The International Peace Institute is an independent, international think tank located in New York, Vienna, and Manama, dedicated to the settlement and prevention of armed conflict.


Inauguration of Horse Sculpture in Fabrica la Aurora

Alejandro Velasco

Alfredo Villasana, Xally Velasco, Coco Velasco y Joana Velasco

Andrea Chávez, Denisse Cuevas y Arturo de la Vega

Corte de listón

By Karla Ortiz

Sisal Gallery brings to the entire community a temporary exhibition by artist Alejandro Velasco, a foundry artist with an extensive career who has had exhibitions in the Hotel Rosewood, in the El Primer Deposito Gallery in Guanajuato, and in the Mendoza Galleries in Guadalajara and Los Cabos. He is currently exhibiting in Mexico City.

The rest of his works on exhibit are inside the Galería Sisal, but the largest and most eye-catching can be seen from outside, right at the entrance to the Fabrica La Aurora, alongside the sign.

Pelea de Caballos, as Velasco calls his sculpture, is about four meters wideand high. Velasco’s preferred materials are lost wax and bronze. Modeling the horses took approximately three months, and the smelting process took another two months. Velasco says it is the largest sculpture he has ever created but that he is working on an even larger one that will soon be unveiled for this year’s International Cervantino Festival in the city of Guanajuato.

Pelea de Caballos has already had several exhibitions. It was first unveiled in 2014 at the Congress of the Union in the Chamber of Deputies in Mexico City, then traveled to Toluca for two more exhibitions, and then arrived at the Festival Encuentro de las Almas in Valle de Bravo. The sculpture is to remain in San Miguel for approximately eight months and then will be taken


to a new location.

Velasco said that his love for art began as a child, when he learned the art of smelting from his father, who owned a silver foundry. Due to the change in prices of materials, they adapted to working with bronze, and in 1985 he took over the management of the foundry, later dedicating himself to working with great artists and renowned sculptors such as Leonora Carrington and Juan Soriano, who helped him forge and polish his own technique. So far, Velasco has created around 360 sculptures of different sizes.them that Mussaddi has gone far away, and the Pension Officers interpret that Mussaddi Lal has expired, and report him dead in their files. When Mussaddi returns he discovers to his utter shock that he is dead according to Government Files. He tries his heart out to make the Pension Office staff believe that he is alive, but they are not convinced at all as they want proper proof.

Mussaddi Lal bemused and dejected by the irony of the situation sets out on his mission to gather proof that he is alive while the Pension Office employees resolve that whatever proof Mussaddi brings they will not allow him to be officially alive since they have already mopped up his pension money. Mussaddi decides to revolt in his own way


and decides to take the law in his hands. Does Mussaddi finally get his justice or does he remain a dead victim of the bureaucracy? Can Mussaddi overcome the corrupt system and its officials and be triumphant, and alive, if so how?

Cast
 Pankaj Kapoor as Mussaddi Lal Tripathi
 Deven Bhojani as Patel
 Manoj Pahwa as Bhatia
 Sanjay Mishra as Shukla
 Hemant Pandey as Pandey Ji
 Asawari Joshi as Ushaji
 Gaurav Kapoor as Bunty Tripathi
 Farida Jalal in a Cameo (Shanti)
 Makrand Deshpande - Uncredited
 Mahesh Thakur as Subhash the Judge

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Category:Films based on television serieslion's head. His legs are astride its mane, and his hands clasp what could have been the lion's ears. The ear-to-ear smile of a winner lights up Shuli's face. He is almost six.

Those were his happiest years, he tells whoever happens to be looking at the photograph. Years when his parents had made him the most valuable of all their valuables, their one and only God. When she arrived, the word "fair" was admitted to the family. Whatever it originally meant, "fair" granted her the natural right to grab half of his possessions. Half the room, half the cupboard, half the carpet, half the bath, half his father, half his mother, and all cakes and sweets divided in half.

Smarties are sorted according to their different colours, each of


story from the end backwards, and once again, from beginning to end. As its name suggests, the star in _Nous-Deux_ is the couple, and all third parties must eventually leave the stage. I wonder why it is only Arabic, then, which differentiates the dual from the plural and accords to them a separate grammatical construction. My eyes close, the magazine falls from my hands. Mlle Capdevielle suddenly appears, hugging the man who was talking to Laurence's mother today. Our French teacher is getting married to him, but he is a doctor and they are sending him off to the front on the very day of their wedding. My thoughts swing between sleep and wakefulness. My daydreams are hijacked by the night. By the time I hear our guestssisters he could always pester. His shoes are browning the water which Selma has sloshed about the bathroom. Wait till mother sees the mess. Let her utter one complaint, and I will give her a piece of my mind. How many times did I tell her to ask me before sending Dudi upstairs? It is thanks to her that he has been taking liberties at our place recently. Is he the sort of person to be told "you may drop by whenever you like, this is your house"?

—You think your father owns the place? Selma snaps, and reaches out for the bottle of shampoo.

Dudi raises his hands in the air, as if in surrender.

—Listen to this piece of news: we're no longer being watched! It's been two days


considering. He holds the gown up to help her inside. No sooner has she slipped into it than she metamorphoses into one of those cloaked women who daily cross my path in the street, intimidating me with their grim exterior.

Mother calmly examines her reflection in the mirror, betraying no surprise.

—It's the right size, she says nonchalantly, focusing on her white high heels, which have escaped the totality of the shroud.

The dark silhouette in the mirror reminds me of some old sepia photograph of my grandparents, which we burned during the war. In spite of her blurred features, I recall my grandmother's girlish figure, standing beside her husband inside his shop, bundled in the black sack. The black sheep of the family, you would think.

The vendor inquisitively eyes myas you can tell that CGI was used in some scenes, it did not seem natural.

The movie is about The Pale Man (Stephen McHattie - 300, Watchmen, The Fountain) killing young girls. He eventually dies and possess the body of Lisa’s father, Bruce (Peter Outerbridge - ReGenesis, Mission to Mars, Silent Hill: Revelation 3D). He makes the father kill his family and now the ghost of his daughter, Lisa Johnson (Abigail Breslin - Signs, Zombieland, Rango) is stuck in 1985, on the same day of her death which keeps on repeating itself. She was stuck with her family in the house they were murdered in and she is the only one that knows that they are repeating the same thing every day until the middle of the movie.

Olivia


Happy St. Patrick's Day! While today is the official
holiday, there was plenty of celebrating over the weekend, from parades and
farmers markets, to running and boxing. Here's your St. Patrick's Day Weekend
Entertainment Roundup.

Easily the biggest event of the weekend, the Shamrock Run drew more
than 35,000 people to Waterfront Park downtown Sunday morning for their
annual race and St. Patrick's Day festival.

People also flocked to Kells Irish Pub on Friday night for
its amateur "Oregon vs. Ireland" boxing
match, set up in a tent in the parking lot. The event was a surreal
throwback to classic boxing match culture, with tuxedos,
ring girls and a thick haze of cigar smoke.

Music and dancing took center stage at the more
traditional celebration at the
Beaverton Farmer's Market, starring the Molly Malone dancers and flutist
Hank Araki.

Sunday was a big dayfor quadruple amputee Jim Tucker, who re-entered the yoga studio for
the first time thanks to "Yoga
for Amputees," a free weekly class offered to all area amputees.

David
Greenwald is on his way back from a whirlwind trip to the SXSW music
festival in Austin, and has
some harsh criticism for the 25-year-old event, which he says is broken and
in dire need of a makeover.

Last week's episode
of Grimm was strong, but it brought up a lot of questions. Kristi
Turnquist breaks them all down, imploring us to ponder: Is there a homicide case in Portland that doesn't
involve Wesen?

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Lots of pilots walk away from plane crashes but Fred Jackson admits he snuck away from one in Altamont, N.Y., June 14. Jackson told the Albany Times Union he was trying to keep the crash of his newly restored Piper Clipper from the FAA when he shinnied down a tree and left the expensive aircraft literally hanging. He told the owner of the property on which he'd set down the Clipper about the mishap but he didn't tell his next-door neighbor. Eugene DiCerbo found the aircraft while on his way to a shed at the back of his property and alerted the local police, who, in turn let the FAA know.

Jackson said he was test flying the Clipper after its $100,000 restoration, which included adding drooping wingextensions. The engine failed and he misjudged the approach to a nearby airstrip. He headed for the trees and escaped the crash with exactly one scratch on the bridge of his nose. He told the property owner he'd be back with equipment to recover the airplane but before he did so he went to Lock Haven, Pa., to attend Sentimental Journey, the annual fly-in of Piper aircraft at the original Piper plant. Jackson had intended to fly the Clipper there but rather than miss the event, which he attends every year, he opted to leave the aircraft where it was. He intends to fix the airplane. "It was just bad luck," he told the newspaper. "And good luck."

Question of the Week

Picture of the Week

As aviation photos go, this


Lena runs across a rooftop in nothing but her old track uniform, wind in her hair and grin on her face. She runs then leaps to the next rooftop, runs and leaps, again and again, never tiring of the cold London night air whipping against her face as she runs. And she leaps.

Then she stops, dead in her tracks. She hears a woman scream, looks down to see a crowd gathered around an open limousine. Despite being far above them, she sees in crystal clarity. An omnic garbed in monk’s clothes lies halfway inside the car.

She hears cruel laughter behind her, cold and low, and the sound causes a tingling feeling at the back of her neck and across her skin. Not unlike the feeling of spiders crawlingall over.

She turns and sees a woman standing on the rooftop across her. The woman darts away. Lena runs, and she leaps.

When she lands, she’s no longer Lena, but Tracer, the bright blue of her tracksuit replaced with orange, the glow of her chronal accelerator lighting her path. The woman turns around a corner, black hair flowing behind her, and she follows, only to run into a cloud of purple smoke.

She falls to her knees, coughs once, twice, the smell sinister and the taste bitter, assaulting her senses and causing a stinging sensation in her eyes. She sees a blurry outline in front of her, and she looks up. Long black hair accentuates a regal face.

That laughter comes back, just as cold, just as cruel, but this time


marks. Appellant denied all other allegations of appellee's notice of opposition and "leaves the opposer to its proof thereof."

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Neither party took testimony but it was stipulated by counsel for the respective parties that appellee has been in the business of manufacturing and selling work gloves from at least as early as 1919 continuously down to the present time; that appellee has continuously sold work gloves under its trade-mark since the latter part of 1927 continuously down to the present time; that such sales have been to the purchasing public, through retail stores through which work gloves are commonly sold, in large volume and nationally throughout the United States; that Trade-Mark Reg. 251,327 was granted to appellee January 21, 1929 under its former name Wells-Lamont Manufacturing Co. and isa pictorial representation plus words, and each having a pictorial representation of the head of a wild animal with wide-open mouth. A careful reading of the opinion in that case, in which one judge dissented, leads us to believe that the majority of the court placed great weight on the over-all similarity of the arbitrary and fanciful pictorial representation of the animal head used by each party, and that it regarded this to be the dominant feature of each of these marks, especially when the word "Head" was used with it in the manner discussed above. This is shown by the following statement of the court: "The fundamental idea, we think, in the adoption and use by appellee of its mark, was to convey to the purchasing public


Tanner, and Ineke de Meer for their excellent support to the study.

RN has received honoraria or funding from Bayer, Biogen, Genzyme, Merck Serono, Novartis, Roche, and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. OC receives grant support from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Department of Health Comprehensive Biomedical Centre, the International Spinal Cord Research Trust, and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; she serves as a consultant for Novartis, Biogen, and GE Healthcare; payments are made to University College London Institute of Neurology. PAM has received honoraria for speaking and travel support from Merck Serono, Biogen, Bayer, and Novartis. OM has received honoraria from Biogen, Schering, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, and Novartis for lectures and advisory panels and received travel grants for conferences from Biogen andNovartis. AHY has been a paid lecturer and served on advisory boards for all major pharmaceutical companies with drugs used in affective and related disorders. RNG is a consultant for GSK, Abbvie, UCB, and Intra-Cellular Therapies. PP has received ad hoc consultancies from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, The Michael J. Fox Foundation (United States), Cure Huntington's Disease Initiative (United States), Parkinson's UK, Network European CNS Transplantation and Restoration, Canada Research Chairs Program, and l'Association France Parkinson "Grand Appel d'Offres"; all honoraria paid for these consultancies go to Imperial College London. PMM was a part-time employee of GSK at the time of the study, he holds stock in GSK, has received research funds from Biogen and GSK, and has received consultancy/speaker fees from IXICO, GSK, Biogen, Novartis, and Adelphi Communications;


Taking his place on the roster will be right wing prospect Konstantin Pushkarev, who was assigned back to the Manchester Monarchs of the American Hockey League (Kings’ primary minor league affiliate), on Friday. This will be a “paper” transaction—Pushkarev never left Los Angeles after traveling with the Kings from Edmonton.

Roenick, the future Hall-of-Famer, has had a less-than-disappointing 2005-06 season, scoring an anemic eight goals and ten assists for eighteen points with a -8 plus/minus rating in fifty games this season, a far cry from what was expected of the Kings’ number one center, who never came close to playing like one. Read more of this post

LOS ANGELES — I hope you will indulge me for a few minutes as I get a bit personal here.

Way back in thesame time, Kings fan Stan Willis, who was in Long Beach, California at the time, was running an e-mail list (often, but inaccurately, referred to as a “listserve”) devoted to the Kings and in between all the messages from subscribers discussing the team, just as you would find today on message boards on the World Wide Web, Willis posted detailed statistics that were hard to find in those days.

I joined up and started posting my game reports to the list and they were a pretty big hit. Eventually, the list grew and moved to another server at Stanford University, courtesy of then-Stanford undergraduate Nelson Lu. After he graduated, Chuq Von Rospach gave the list a home on his servers at plaidworks.com.

It was during this period that I began


came a tough-talking, no-nonsense Scot by the name of Alex Ferguson. He vowed to “knock Liverpool off its perch,” and he did. United won 38 trophies under Ferguson between 1986 and 2013. There’s a stand named after him at Old Trafford and a statue in his honour outside the ground. Over and over again he built winning teams from scratch. Sure, he spent a few quid and made the odd mistake along the way, but United were undoubtedly for long periods of time the greatest football club in the world. Eric Cantona summed it up best for me when he said: “You may find another Beckham or Ronaldo, but never, ever will you find another Sir Alex Ferguson.” And that is essentially Manchester United’s problem today. They thoughtI'll think of something later

Thursday, 15 February 2018

Lumiere came to London for a second time to brighten a January weekend, and though what I saw only had a couple of highlights to equal the more widespread success of 2016, I'm glad I made it out on a beastly Sunday evening to see them. Westminster Abbey was again the classy zenith, with another contribution from Patrice Warriner lighting up new aspects. Then it was the 20th century saints above the west door; this time their surroundings, in a constantly shifting light-show,

and the triple north porch, a very convincing Gothic pastiche by Giles Gilbert Scott.

Possibly the best view of Hawksmoor's west facade is coming from St James's tube, and crossing the road which leads to Victoria,

though fine details without a


zoom were best seen from standing right in front of the towers,

and there was another good viewpoint further away, between London planes, from the terrace of the QEII Centre.

Scott's door, completed after his death by his son, has all the right Gothic ingredients for the same sort of illumination that 'painted' the west end saints.

Over the main entrance are figures carved by Messrs Farmer and
Brindley. Christ in Majesty blessing
the Church and the World is surrounded by angels.

Below them are seated
figures of the Apostles and underneath are figures in procession which
represent the science and the arts alongside the royal builders of the Abbey. On the
central pillar the Blessed Virgin Mary holds the Crowned Christ in
her arms.

The pillars to the side are fine, too.

The rain stopped as I walked upto the display proper, but the tree-lined avenue was free and had some pretty blooms along the way like this one behind snowdrops,

and this,

as well as an even more impressive gateway the other end.

I walked back, wheeling my bike, and snuck into the garden in front of the greenhouses which accommodate a major camellia collection.

The sounds of the distant fun-ground blended with the chatter of multiple blackbirds at sunset.

The illuminations made a fine foreground to the Palladian villa

and created another, forbidden-city palace to rival it.

As the last of the natural light began to fade, I walked back, catching a reflection in the greenhouse window

Friday, 9 February 2018

Forgive the excessive alliteration, but it seemed a neat way of conjoining this week's Dante and Bach discoveries. The latter is Richard


and knowledge' ('fatti non foste a viver come bruti, ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza'). Is this hubris? Or, more precisely, in John Took's so-eloquent phrase, how 'the word fractures communion for pure self-interest'?

The end finally comes in the whirlwind from the high mountain surmounted by Eden; it sweeps the men to destruction.

There's fabulous drama in Guido's speech. The man of arms became a Franciscan, 'believing, so girt, to make amends; and surely my belief would have been fulfilled, had it not been for the high priest, may evil take him! who put me back into my first sins' -

This is Pope Boniface VIII, Dante's deadly enemy, who asked Guido's advice in subduing the Colonna family in Praeneste/Palestrina.

I love the dark humour of the black cherubim who seizesword, from stony to fertile. 'Leichgesinnte Flattergeister' is unusual in beginning with a bass aria in which some have detected the pecking of the birds who gather up the seed on the worst soil.

There's a helpful connection to Dante and Milton with the appearance of Belial in the aria's central section.

It feels to me more like an operatic number by Handel, strengthening the notion of theatricality in the cantatas. The recitatives are highly expressive, and in the short tenor aria, I love Rilling's choice of vivid harpsichord, mirroring the thorns of the text, against the bassline - throbbing at 'höllischen Qual' ('hellish torment'). The second recitative turns us to comfort, and a chorus at last, bright with trumpet and a soprano/alto duet in the middle. Gardiner praises its


'madrigalian lightness', a good way of putting it. This is a short cantata, but as original as any.

Wednesday, 7 February 2018

Chelsea Physic Garden was advertising the first of its 'snowdrop weekends'. Though as a Friend I can pop along at any time, I thought it was a good opportunity to have lunch once more at the Physic's Tangerine Dream Cafe. Which in the end we didn't do, since I was so sidetracked by the masses of galanthi in Old Brompton Cemetery, always on my cycle route southwards, that I turned up a bit late.

They always cluster off the northern part of the great avenue which leads - in a modelling based on the approach to St Peter's Rome - to the chapel, currently under restoration.

Looking north:

Croci, too, wereA woman who decided to learn to read at 87 said she was inspired by her love of knitting.

Ursula Shepherd had spent her whole life unable to read or write, not needing the skills in her factory jobs.

She told Julia Hartley-Brewer that when she went to school she sat at the back with someone who could read so she would "watch her turn over the page" and then turn hers at the same time.

But she found inspiration from a most unlikely source.

Shepherd said that, when she was knitting, her inability to read the patterns was a big frustration - and eventually prompted her to make a big change in her life.

Now she can read and write, she told us she wants to get through a love story and


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cyclophyllumclaim and Ada Gant (and other family members) in a wrongful-death suit. These claims were pending in Louisiana, and Judge Thompson remained involved in these two matters after he was judge. His involvement later led to a complaint being filed against him with the Commission.
During the Commission's investigation of the Ford and Gant complaint, other possible Code violations unfolded. After considerable discovery and responses were exchanged between the Commission and Judge Thompson, the nine-member Commission directed that three of its members conduct a hearing regarding the formal allegations filed against Judge Thompson, and it instructed the three-member panel to make its findings and recommendations to the full Commission. The hearing commenced on October 20 and ended on October 22, and following the hearing, on November 15, 1999, the


panel made its findings and recommendations to the full Commission. The panel determined that convincing evidence showed that Judge Thompson had willfully violated the Canons of the Judicial Code, and had also violated Arkansas statutory law. The panel listed the following violations:
(1) When representing Ford in her personal injury case after January 1, 1993, Judge Thompson willfully violated Canon 4 G of the Code by practicing law after he became a full-time judge. The same canon was violated by Judge Thompson when representing Ada Gant and others after January 1, 1993, in their wrongful death litigation.
(2) In connection with Ford's claim, Ford and Judge Thompson had executed a subrogation agreement with the Southern Council of Industrial Workers (Southern Council) for medical expenses paid on Ford's behalf, and, contraryhe is elected to and assumes the bench, we now review the evidence bearing on whether Judge Thompson's activities after he took office on January 1, 1993, involved the practice of law.
Regarding the Ford case, Judge Thompson served as co-counsel with Brenda Brown, a Louisiana attorney. Thompson submits that he advised Ford concerning settlement, and she accepted a settlement offer in December 1992. He argues that all the work performed after December 1992 was "clerical" and did not fall within the proscription of "practicing law." The evidence presented to the Commission failed to support Judge Thompson's claim. For example, between January 4 and 13 of 1993, opposing defense counsel, Bruce M. Mintz, sent Judge Thompson a receipt and release for Ms. Ford and her husband to sign and


for Thompson to approve as their attorney; included, too, was a motion and order of dismissal with prejudice which Judge Thompson was requested to approve as one of the Fords' attorneys. Mintz also enclosed a check dated January 4, 1993, in the amount of $150,000.00. On January 13, 1993, Judge Thompson met with the Fords in his judge's chambers where they discussed and signed and approved the above documents, and afterwards, Thompson accompanied the Fords when they negotiated the check. On January 19, 1993, Judge Thompson faxed a letter to his Louisiana co-counsel Brenda Brown, confirming their fee arrangement, and the next day he sent Brown a cashier's check along with a letter, written on his judicial *217 stationery, wherein he directed Brown to approve the order ofdismissal and gave her directions on closing the case. Unquestionably, these activities that took place in Arkansas involved legal advice, and the documents identified him as the Fords' attorney. Judge Thompson's actions in bringing the Fords' case to a resolution easily fall within the definition of practicing law, and the Commission's decision so finding is correct.
When investigating the Ford matter, the Commission discovered Judge Thompson had also continued to represent Ada Gant and other family members concerning their wrongful-death case filed in Louisiana. While Judge Thompson disputes many of the Commission's allegations and findings that resulted in the Commission's decision that he willfully violated Canon 4 G by continuing to practice law on the Gants' behalf after January 1, 1993, there is clear and convincing evidence that he


did, indeed, represent the Gants as their co-counsel as late as November 1994one year and eleven months after being sworn in as a judge.
It is undisputed that, on December 30, 1992, Judge Thompson participated in several depositions involving the Gant case. Thompson and his Louisiana co-counsel Brenda Brown and Pamela Blankenship represented the Gants, and Louisiana attorneys David Nelson and Haynes Harkey represented the defendants. After the depositions ended, the attorneys discussed settlement. After Harkey returned to his office, he claimed, and later testified, that Judge Thompson informed Harkey that he had received "special dispensation" from a "senior judge" that would allow him to finish the Gant case. Harkey further averred that he memorialized that conversation by memorandum to associate defense counsel, Bruce Mintz, in order to summarizewhat had transpired on the day of the depositions. The Commission apparently believed Harkey's version of what was said. That being true, since Arkansas's judicial branch has no trial judge denominated as "senior judge" who could give such dispensation, the Commission could have reasonably concluded that Judge Thompson offered a false cover to give a reason why, as a newly elected judge, he intended to represent the Gants until the conclusion of their case.
Although Judge Thompson urges that he had advised opposing counsel that he would no longer be involved in the case, the evidence undermines that assertion. Judge Thompson testified that he closed his law office in December 1992, and sent his motion to withdraw as an attorney in the Gant case to his co-counsel. Nonetheless, that


his judicial office, after Ackley was unable to contact Blankenship; during the call, Ackley and Judge Thompson discussed proposed settlement of the Gant matter. Ackley sent Judge Thompson a fax setting out the settlement terms, and the fax was directed to "Judge Thompson." Ackley said that, in his conversation *218 with Thompson, Thompson never told him that he could not settle the case; nor did he refer Ackley to another attorney. Ackley said the Gant case was settled on March 24, 1993, and co-counsel Blankenship signed Thompson's name along with her own on the release documents, which the evidence shows Judge Thompson gave Blankenship authority to do. Thompson signed this signature authorization as "Judge Morris Thompson" and had mailed it to defense attorney Bruce Mintz. Prior to thesigning and approval of the March 31 release, Judge Thompson had written and disbursed checks to his clients, but he advised his clients not to negotiate the checks until he received the settlement check and it had cleared his account. These checks were written on Judge Thompson's "operating account" at Union National Bank. Although Judge Thompson argues he did not deal with these clients and disputes these findings made by the Commission, Thompson's own testimony concedes their verity when he acknowledged the clients had negotiated checks written on his account. Moreover, the operating account used by Judge Thompson contained the legend, "Morris W. Thompson P.C. Law Firm."
In April 1993, Judge Thompson received a $150,000 settlement check. He, Blankenship, and their clients endorsed the check, and Judge Thompson deposited


the check in his operating account. Judge Thompson paid the court reporters and his co-counsel their expenses and fees, and he also sent a check to the Louisiana court clerk to cover future costs in the Gant lawsuit. The record further reflects that Judge Thompson still had contact with co-counsel Blankenship and opposing counsel Nelson after the March and April activities involving the Gant matter. In this respect, Judge Thompson contacted Blankenship on about twenty occasions between August 14, 1993, and November 4, 1994, and he spoke with defense attorney Nelson on November 29, 1993. As we similarly concluded above regarding the Ford case, we believe the record also amply supports the Commission's finding that Judge Thompson practiced law when he continued to represent the Gants after heascended to the bench on January 1, 1993.
Judge Thompson argues that, even if he violated Canon 4 G, he did not do so willfully. In short, Judge Thompson submits that he made a good-faith interpretation of Canon 4 G, and, in doing so, believed he could finish his law practice after he took office. He urged before the Commission, and argues here, that he reached the opinion that he could perform clerical activities in order to complete his law practice. However, as we have already concluded, our review of the work he performed revealed he was performing more than ministerial or clerical acts, but instead, his actions constituted the active practice of law, which is clearly prohibited under Ark. Const. art. 7, § 25, and Canon 4G. In


the Council paid for the medical treatment or services Ford incurred. These monies were paid from the Council's Industrial Workers Health and Welfare Fund, and Judge Thompson and Ford agreed to reimburse the fund for any recovery. As already mentioned above, Judge Thompson settled Ford's claim in December 1992 and January 1993 for $150,000.00, but neither Judge Thompson nor Ford reimbursed Southern Council's fund. In fact, Judge Thompson kept $50,000.00 of the recovery as attorney's fees. Southern Council filed suit in federal court against Judge Thompson and Ford, and it obtained a judgment in the amount of $29,971.00. The federal court ruled that Judge Thompson had intentionally exercised control over funds inconsistent with Southern Council's rights and held that he converted the Council's funds. Judge Thompson did notto the Commission's finding, he had overdraft protection.
First, in reviewing the record, we read Judge Thompson's own testimony where he admitted on direct examination that fifty-nine checks had been returned to him as insufficient between 1993 and 1997. He also agreed that his ability to sit on cases involving "hot checks" had been compromised. Second, although he claims to have had overdraft protection, bank officials disagreed. Obviously, the best proof on this point is that fifty-nine checks were returned insufficient over a five-year period, and no overdraft protection was extended to make those checks good. Third, other evidence presented to the Commission showed what could be labeled a willfulness on Judge Thompson's part in failing to satisfy those businesses that received his insufficient checks. For example, he gave


much money was in his account at the time, that he received notice of the returned checks, and that he failed to rectify the wrongs suffered by the merchants without judicial intervention, the Commission's termination of Smith was supported by substantial evidence).
V. Whether Judge Thompson violated Canons 1 and 2 A of the Code of Judicial Conduct, by failing to pay his 1994 federal personal income tax.
The Commission found that, on October 28, 1996, Judge Thompson was assessed $86,936.91 as delinquent federal income tax for the year ending 1994, and the Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of Federal Tax Lien on Judge Thompson and his wife. The Commission found Judge Thompson's failure to pay his income taxes violated the Code because he had the money in 1994the minimum balance required for the waiver of bank charges.
It is undisputed that, sometime after January 1993, Judge Thompson allowed his attorney's trust account to elapse, but he maintained a personal or what he specifically referred to as an "operating account" in order to "clean up" his debts.
In handling the Ford and Gant settlements, Judge Thompson conceded that he deposited the settlement checks or drafts in his operating account, and disbursed checks to his clients. However, Judge Thompson suggested his failure to use a trust account to deposit the Ford and Gant funds was not his usual practice, and he only did so to complete his prior law business. On cross examination, however, Judge Thompson was shown a number of checks made out to him and other clients


discipline hearing was held before a three-person panel rather than the full nine-member Commission. Citing Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 96 S.Ct. 893, 47 L.Ed.2d 18 (1976), he argues generally that procedural due process requires a hearing before an impartial decision maker be provided at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner, prior to a governmental decision which deprives individuals of a liberty or property interest. He suggests that he was not offered a fair opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time or manner because all nine members did not hear the evidence first hand. He also claims he was somehow prejudiced because five of the nine Commission members, due to their term expirations, had departed the Commission, so their replacements on the Commission (whenis the factfinder, the full Commission may make findings of fact independent from those offered by the panel. Id. at F. Such procedure ensures that the full Commission has before it all of the record of the formal proceedings, and each member is reserved the power to review the disciplinary proceeding and reach findings separate from those made by the panel.
Judge Thompson next asserts that his due process rights were violated when the Commission considered allegations that were not part of the formal statement of charges. He argues that, after his probable cause hearing, the Commission dismissed several evidentiary issues later utilized to support some of the Commission's findings and recommendations. However, he fails to show when or where in the record these dismissals appear, and we are


matter than the case now before us. The second case was filed by Judge Thompson to prevent the Commission's discovery requests during its investigation of Thompson which led to the filing of the disciplinary proceeding now before us. Judge Bogard was appointed to the Commission after these earlier cases, but when Judge Bogard and the two other Commission panel members commenced the formal discipline hearing in this matter, Judge Thompson raised the possibility of Judge Bogard's disqualification. He suggested to Judge Bogard that, since Bogard had previously recused in other cases involving Judge Thompson, he might wish to do so in this proceeding. Judge Bogard rejected Judge Thompson's suggestion, stating that, in the earlier situations, he merely felt uncomfortable in sitting as a presiding judge on a friend'sparticipate as a panel member in the case. After Judge Bogard's declarations, Judge Thompson presented no evidence to show or prove bias on Judge Bogard's part or that Judge Bogard in any way abused his discretion in deciding not to recuse. Thus, we uphold Judge Bogard's ruling on this issue.
In disposing of Judge Thompson's due process arguments, we turn finally to Judge Thompson's last separate point where he asserts that the three-member panel erred by allowing Denny Reynaud, the Commission's investigator, to testify to what Judge Thompson argues was inadmissible hearsay evidence.
The Commission called Reynaud as a witness, and he began his testimony by saying the Commission had received a letter from an attorney named Mary Thomason, who alleged that Judge Thompson was practicing law without a license.


Thomason represented Mrs. Ford in the federal lawsuit in which Southern Council sued Ford and Judge Thompson, as co-defendants, alleging they failed to honor their *225 subrogation agreement. Judge Thompson objected to Reynaud's reference to Thomason's statements as being hearsay and that such testimony prejudiced Judge Thompson by attempting to use Reynaud's testimony to prove the matters asserted by Thomason. We do not agree. The Commission offered Reynaud's testimony to show only that it was Thomason's letter that caused the Commission to initiate an investigation into whether Judge Thompson represented Ford before and after he assumed the bench. The panel correctly overruled Judge Thompson's objection, since, contrary to Thompson's assertion, the Commission did not offer Thomason's letter or statements to prove Judge Thompson was practicing law improperly, butJudge Thompson's argument is disturbing and somewhat difficult to follow. While he denies any willful or intentional violation of the canons or laws, the record clearly shows he knowingly violated misdemeanor laws when he utilized fictitious license tags to his personal advantage and caused the prosecuting attorney's office to persuade him to pay insufficient checks. Also, while he claims his good faith attempt to comply with other Code violations with which he was charged, the evidence clearly undermines such argument. As previously stated, Arkansas constitutional law prohibits judges from "practicing law," and Arkansas case law has clearly defined that term to include the actions taken by Judge Thompson in this case. Nonetheless, Judge Thompson never sought legal advice on this point, but instead followed his own favorable view


of the law. In doing so, he not only continued to represent clients, he also conveyed an erroneous explanation to an opposing counsel that he had received special dispensation from a senior judge to finalize his law practice. It is fair to say that each time Judge Thompson had a question regarding the canons or law, he held his own counsel and decided that his actions were lawful or permissible in the circumstances.[6] As pointed out earlier, when the *226 text of the Judicial Code uses "shall" or "shall not," it is intended to impose "binding obligations." However, when Judge Thompson was confronted with Canon 4's mandate that he file a public report listing compensation from extra-judicial activities, he rejected its application to his special circumstance. Finally, wePhillyClout Team

Tomorrow is Election Day and District Attorney Seth Williams and the Committee of Seventy, a political watchdog group will be monitoring the election to enforce fair practices.

Check out the press release below:

Press Release

Date: November 7, 2011

The District Attorneys Office Will Monitor and Enforce Fair Practices at Tuesday’s General Election

Philadelphia– District Attorney Seth Williams, along with the Committee of Seventy, announced today that they will be watching Tuesday’s election closely. Members of the District Attorney’s Office will monitor action at the polls and enforce fair practices to ensure that a fair election is held on Tuesday.

“We encourage all registered voters in the city to get out and exercise the privilege of casting their votes,” said District Attorney Seth Williams. “That being said, we want to stress that we


I am on the road but trying to stay in the blogging habit so this is a bit of a throwaway. But anyway...

You probably know words like SCUBA, SNAFU, laser, lidar, and sonar are all acronyms. But here are two you might not know about:

The first word is "posh," which generally means a luxury experience (or Beckham's wife). But it was originally an acronym for ship voyages from the UK to India. Because it was a hot trip and there was no air conditioning, the best cabins were on the north side of the ship (at least above the equator) or the east side of the ship (ie facing away from the heat of the afternoon sun). This would be the port side going to India and thestarboard side coming home. So to get the best cabin you asked for port out, starboard home or "POSH".

The other word is "Pakistan" which is the name of the country that split from India in 1947. As India was approaching independence, Muslims (who were quite numerous all over in India but particularly in the northwest and the far east) proposed the new states formed form the old British Empire in India include a Muslim state. They were seeking a state made up of the Muslim-majority whole provinces of Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Indus, and Sind. This forms the acronym PAKIS-tan with the "tan" meaning "land of". The word Pakistan also means "land of the pure" in Sanskrit. It was a powerful piece of branding.

As a postscript, these 5 provinces


were all in the west. The original Pakistan also included parts of the state of Bengal in the east which formed East Pakistan. East Pakistan was actually more populous than the West but the West tended to dominate the country's leadership, leading to E. Pakistan breaking away in the early 70's to form Bangladesh. The entirety of these 5 states in the acronym were not included in the final borders of Pakistan. In particular, Kashmir was divided between Pakistan and India and has been the site of a lot of fighting between the two countries over the last 70 years (queue Led Zeppelin song).

I have made this point in the past, but very few folks on the warming-panic side of the climate debate actually are familiar with even(14 February 2017) Dr. Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender, has been unlawfully detained for over two months, held by the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) at Khartoum’s Kober Prison without charge or access to legal representation, 39 human rights groups and activists said.

On 21 September 2015 the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and International Refugee Rights Initiative (IRRI) made a stakeholder submission to the Universal Periodic Review of Sudan 2016. The submission details human rights developments in Sudan, including legal and institutional, documented by our organisations since the last Universal Periodic Review of Sudan by member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011.

(31 March 2016) The efforts of the Government of


2014, will mark the one year anniversary of the outbreak of demonstrations in cities throughout Sudan. These were sparked by the lifting of fuel subsidies the day before, and were met by Sudanese authorities with excessive force, including live ammunition, leading to the deaths of at least 185 people.

(Nairobi) – The Sudanese government should immediately charge or release recently detained political activists, and investigate all allegations that they have been subjected to torture and ill-treatment, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and REDRESS said today.

Paris, Nairobi, 18 October 2013 – The African Union (AU) held an extraordinary summit meeting in Addis Ababa on 11 and 12 October, in response to proceedings initiated byNorth and South Sudan in January 2005, said a global coalition of NGOs.

The conflict that began in Libya on 17 February 2011 with a popular revolt against Gaddafi’s regime has triggered a mass exodus of the civilian population into neighbouring countries. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled, mainly into Tunisia and Egypt, as a result of attacks by Gaddafi’s forces on civilian populations, the rebellion and NATO bombings. Migrant workers and refugees from Sub-Saharan Africa have been particular targets of violence.

FIDH Recommendations to the Ninth Session
of the Assembly of States Parties to the Statute of the International Criminal
Court, 6-10 December 2010

At the eve of the opening of the Ninth
Session of the Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to the Statute of the International
Criminal Court (ICC), FIDH is publishing


its position paper putting forward
specific recommendations to the ASP.

Significant developments have taken place
since the Eighth session of the Assembly held towards the end of 2009.
Throughout 2010, the Court continued to operate in four situations, namely:
Uganda, the …

Renewing the PledgeThe clock is ticking
fast towards what might be the most important date in modern sudanese history
- two referenda in Sudan that are likely to result in the breakup of Africa's
largest state. With six months remaining until 9 January 2011, the scheduled
date of the referenda, the run-up to, and outcome of, the vote must be
managed with extreme care.famous anecdotes of Diogenes' life, namely the moment when he was looking for a human and the moment when he asked Alexander to get out of his sun. He is also portrayed living in a barrel.

In the Suske en Wiske album De Mottenvanger Suske and Wiske travel back to ancient Greece, where they meet Diogenes.

Literature

Diogenes is referred to in Anton Chekhov's story "Ward No. 6"; William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; François Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel; Goethe's poem Genialisch Treiben; Denis Diderot's philosophical novella Rameau's Nephew; as well as in the first sentence of Søren Kierkegaard's novelistic treatise Repetition. The story of Diogenes and the lamp is referenced by the character Foma Fomitch in Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Friend of the Family" as well as "The


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In 1928 Grosz was asked by a well-known theater director to design the set for his play ''The Good Soldier Svejk''. The anWASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sarah Palin has firmly remained in the media spotlight since her bid for the vice presidency ended four months ago, but the Alaska governor embraced a decidedly lower profile when she traveled to the nation's capital this weekend.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin speaks at the meeting of the National Governor's Association in December.

The former Republican vice presidential candidate scheduled a busy itinerary of closed-door events and face time with congressional Democrats and Republicans.

She also announced earlier this week she's making the 4,500-mile trek from Alaska to Washington primarily to attend the Alfalfa Club Dinner Saturday night -- an annual closed-door roast of the nation's political elite.

But it's what's missing from Palin's schedule that is causing more than a few heads to turn. In a city that


from Palin's media strategy over the nearly 90 days since the presidential campaign ended. In that time, she granted a number of sit-down interviews with prominent television hosts, magazines and conservative journalists.

Political analysts noted that Palin appeared to adopt a largely adversarial relationship with the national media; using her interviews to criticize what she perceived as unequal and unfair coverage over the course of the presidential campaign.

Analysts speculated that a media-bashing strategy could be an attempt to drum up support from the rank-and-file conservatives with whom she was popular during the campaign.

Palin was in the national headlines to such an extent that she faced criticism from some members of her own party, both publicly and privately, who said she was overexposing herself and potentially endangering her chances ofbeing a credible presidential candidate in 2012 should she decide to run, analysts said.

"When she's out in public still, at this point, she might do more damage than good, both for the GOP and for herself," said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.

Instead, many Republicans said, Palin should retreat from the national spotlight and work on quietly strengthening her resume as a state executive while slowly building credibility among the Republican elite behind the scenes.

"She needs to demonstrate growth as a politician, as a political leader," Alex Castellanos, a Republican strategist and CNN contributor, said as Palin dominated the headlines. "You can't do that if you keep staying in front of us day after day after day as the same person."

By all


and Edmonton would brew a nice, simmering pot of hostility for one another.

Then our Western colleague Lord Bob brought me right back down to Earth: “Oh, great. Ottawa and Hamilton are applying for NASL teams that will fold and set back the second division in Canada another ten years.” Much like I usually do, he comes by his cynicism honestly, recalling past failures such as the Edmonton Aviators.

But Edmonton itself could be turning over a new leaf. FC Edmonton, the new incarnation of second-division soccer in the City of Champions will, thankfully, be plying their trade at Foote Field — not cavernous Commonwealth Stadium — when they begin league play in 2011, which is a good sign. Hell, they’re playing an exhibition season in order to build upApologia' he goes meta responding to Mark Davis's Gangland, the landmark study of the culture wars and the baby boomers who wage them.

Observing the famous William Faulkner pronouncement – 'The past is never dead. It's not even past' – history in Thorne's hands is never dusty. It's a living breathing barfly constantly bickering with a leftover newspaper. I Con contains some of the best Australian political poems of recent years. These modern tales are interwoven with their historical precedents. In the 'Mesopotamian Suite' the code of Hammurabi is evoked:

If anyone bring an accusation of any crime before the elders,
and does not prove what he has charged,
he shall, if it be a capital offence charged,
be put to death.

The logical conclusion circa 2003 is: 'GWB. WMD. QED.' In 'A Letter


to Egon Kisch', he uses the story of Kisch, a Czech Jew and Communist activist exiled from Germany in the 1930s, to lambaste the recent revival of Australian jingoism. On a visit to Australia Kitsch was declared persona non grata by the authorities, but then, while he was being deported he jumped overboard, broke his leg and had to convalesce in Australia. The poem puts a blow torch to the totems of this new nationalism including the Australian flag:

The rallying emblem of all racist shits,
surf club neo-Nazis, loser berks
One Nation airheads and like-minded dross
is that Blue Ensign with its Southern Cross

Lacking a time-honoured sobriquet, draped across the shoulders of suburban thugs, the flag becomes 'The Cronulla Cape'. Thorne gets at the 15+ rub of the Cronulla riots:

We liearound on beaches to get tanned,
but underneath the skin what makes us us
is our essential whiteness. Dinkum Aussies
get their dark skins from lying on the sand
wearing not much except the briefest cossies.
Bronzed and bonzer? You don't qualify,
if it comes naturally. You have to try.

The irony is superb – making the poem something of a salve to the modern manifestation of Australia Day as a Southern Cross tattooed celebration of 'White Australia'. It also serves another of Thorne's obsessions: resurrecting the peripheral from the dustbin of history.

Thorne mines art and literature as thoroughly as he mines history. His collective eulogy for John Forbes, Robert Harris and Andrew Hardy, 'Et in Acadia Ego', plays on an inscription found on the tomb of Daphnis in Virgil's Eclogues. It is a reference