JAKARTA, Indonesia—U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday accused Syrian President Bashar Assad of stonewalling in peace talks and called on Russia to push its ally to negotiate with opposition leaders.

"Right now, Bashar al-Assad has not engaged in the discussions along the promised and required standard that both Russia spoke up for and the regime spoke up for," Kerry said during a press conference in Jakarta with Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa.

He said Assad's team "refused to open up one moment of discussion" of a transitional government to replace Assad's regime.

"It is very clear that Bashar Assad is trying to win this on the battlefield instead of coming to the negotiating table in good faith," Kerry said

Peace talks last week in Geneva ended with no progress towardbreaking the impasse in the nearly 3-year-old conflict in Syria.

Kerry also had harsh words for Assad's allies in Moscow.

"Russia needs to be a part of the solution and not be contributing so many more weapons and so much more aid that they are in fact enabling Assad to double down," he said.

Russia has told the U.S. it was committed to helping create a transitional government, Kerry said, but has not delivered "the kind of effort to create the kind of dynamic by which that could be achieved.

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On Sunday, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem blamed the U.S. for the breakdown in negotiations, saying the U.S. tried to "create a very negative climate for dialogue in Geneva."

U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi apologized to the Syrian people for failing to reach


progress. "I am very, very sorry, and I apologize to the Syrian people that their hopes which were very, very high that something will happen here," Brahimi said.

Syria's conflict started as largely peaceful protests against Assad in March 2011 but later degenerated into a civil war in which more than 140,000 people have been killed, according to activists.

The U.N.'s human rights office said in January it has stopped updating the death toll from the war, confirming that it can no longer verify the sources of information that led to its last count of at least 100,000 in late July.

Millions have been driven out of their homes, seeking shelter in neighboring countries and in safer parts of their homeland.

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(CNN) South Korea has released the first images of debris believed to be from a long-range rocket fired by North Korea on Sunday.

The debris was pulled from the sea southwest of Jeju Island shortly after Pyongyang announced it had successfully launched the earth observation satellite Kwangmyongsong-4 into orbit. The recovered debris was being analyzed, South Korea said.

An official with South Korea's Defense Ministry said that the booster "separated from [the rocket's] main body and exploded into about 270 pieces." Officials said the large number of pieces indicated that the rocket's first-stage booster was fitted with a self-destruct device.

North Korea fired the rocket Sunday despite warnings from a number of countries who claimed the satellite launch was a front for a long-range missile test. North Korea maintains the launchis for scientific and "peaceful purposes."

The South Korean Defense Ministry released images of the debris on Tuesday, February 9.

The debris is believed to come from a long-range rocket North Korea fired on Sunday, February 7.

'Tumbling in orbit'

On Monday, a senior U.S. defense official told CNN the satellite was "tumbling in orbit" and incapable of functioning in any useful way. South Korea also said the object appeared to be in orbit and that no signal had been received.

Sunday's rocket launch triggered a wave of international condemnation and prompted strong reaction from an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council.

On Tuesday, the South Korean government said President Park Geun-hye had an "in-depth" phone discussion with U.S. President Obama.

The leaders shared the view that it was necessary to come up with


a variety of sanctions against North Korea -- on bilateral and multilateral levels -- in addition to U.N. Security Council sanctions, South Korea said.

Park also spoke with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and impressed the importance of sanctions, beyond those imposed by the United Nations.

Defiant celebration

North Koreans celebrated the country's launch of a satellite into orbit with an official fireworks display Monday night in Pyongyang, state broadcaster KCTV reported.

"We hope that the future of our space technology keeps growing and shines like these fireworks in the sky," an announcer on the North Korean broadcaster said during coverage of the celebrations in the capital.

Yoon Dong Hyun, vice director of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, struck a defiant note in a speech at the celebrations, vowing the countryKorea launches rocket U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the launch "deeply deplorable" and in violation of Security Council resolutions "despite the united plea of the international community against such an act. Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: North Korea launches rocket North Korean leader Kim Jong Un looked on as the rocket blasted off. Hide Caption 5 of 8 Photos: North Korea launches rocket State media captures a moment on the rocket at lift off. Hide Caption 6 of 8 Photos: North Korea launches rocket The United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, Britain and France, as well as the European Union and NATO, were swift to condemn the action. Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: North Korea launches rocket An official photograph shows the control room. Hide


and security continues to exist, especially in the context of the nuclear test."

It vowed to undertake punitive actions against North Korea, announcing plans to "adopt expeditiously a new Security Council resolution with such measures in response to these dangerous and serious violations," according to a statement read by Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations after the meeting.

Sanctions already in place against Pyongyang ban it from working with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, blacklist certain figures and organizations and prohibit the import of luxury goods.

Park called the launch a "challenge to world peace," while her government announced it would begin talks with the United States to deploy a defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, which can intercept missiles in flight.

A U.S. defense official told CNNcalled the lack of prosecutions from the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission "technically and morally suspect" and characterized the excuses they've given for failing to prosecute as "hollow" and "lame."

Where's the deterrence?

Adult Swim

Thanks to Judge Rakoff, who has been one of the unsung heroes of the fight for financial justice, the number of big-bank executives who have been held financially responsible for their fraud no longer stands at zero. The judge recently ordered Rebecca Steele Mairone of Countrywide and Bank of America to pay $1 million for her role in the fraudulent Countrywide scheme known as "Hustle."

As reported in The Street and elsewhere, the name "Hustle" came from the acronym for a program Countrywide called the "High Speed Swim Lane." (We apologize for The Street's


take a bet like that?

Means, Motive, and Opportunity

Yes, the settlement figures have grown larger, even after accounting for the vaporous nature of "soft money" consumer relief. That's a good thing. But the key matters of motive, means and opportunity still remain largely unaddressed.

The "High Speed Swim Lane" was designed to streamline fraud, and to reward employees for putting as much trashy business on the books as possible without regard for the consequences. In other words, it simply stated openly what has always been implicit in Wall Street's incentive packages. Those packages are changing, but far too slowly. Bankers still have the financial motivation to do wrong.

They also have the means. The ratings "agencies" that were deeply complicit in big-bank fraud are still in place. The government still reliesauthor Richard (RJ) Eskow, a consultant and writer, is a Senior Fellow with the Campaign for America's Future. This post was produced as part of the

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Richard (RJ) Eskow, a consultant and writer, is a Senior Fellow with the Campaign for America's Future. This post was produced as part of the Curbing Wall Street project. Richard blogs at:


Indonesia has lodged a formal protest with the United States government over corruption allegations against the president released by whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

Susilo Bangbang Yudhoyono won a landslide election victory in 2009 on the back of an anti-corruption campaign.

But US cables released to the Fairfax press by WikiLeaks accuse him of quashing an investigation into an allegedly corrupt political figure.

They also accuse his wife of seeking to profit from her political connections.

However Indonesia's foreign minister, Marty Natalegawa, says all of the allegations are baseless.

He summoned the US ambassador to lodge a protest and demand an explanation this morning.

The Ambassador would not comment publicly on the leaked cables but praised Mr Yudhoyono's record in office.Logan S. Shields

LOGAN S. SHIELDS, countertenor, is elated to be joining Chanticleer for his first season. A peculiarly proud Michigander, Mr. Shields studied vocal performance at Western Michigan University and Grand Valley State University. While living in Grand Rapids, he performed with St. Mark's Episcopal, Schola Choir of the Grand Diocese, and OperaGR. Most recently he sang with Audivi, a professional ensemble based in Ann Arbor under the direction of Noah Horn. Outside of the classical realm he has been featured in DownBeat Magazine's Student Music Awards, winning "Best Blues/Pop/Rock Group of 2014" for his contributions on the Aaron Garcia Band's album, Glass Girl. Other passions include craft beer, vegetarianism, philosophical banter, freestyle rap, pugs, and spending time with his partner, Gabrielle.


Tipu Sultan, a polarising figure in history, has been variously described by BJP leaders as "anti-Hindu"

Highlights President praises Tipu Sultan in Karnataka Vidhan Soudha speech

BJP alleges speech scripted by Congress, Chief Minister's office denies

BJP describes Tipu Sultan as "anti-Hindu"

The BJP alleges President Kovind's speech was scripted by the Congress

President Ramnath Kovind was dragged into a simmering political row in Karnataka today as he praised 18th century ruler Tipu Sultan while addressing a joint session to mark the 60th anniversary of the state legislature Vidhana Soudha. At a time the BJP has been protesting against the glorification of someone it deems an "anti-Hindu tyrant", the President described him as a hero."Tipu Sultan died a historic death fighting the British," the President said to loud desk-thumping in the assembly bymembers of the ruling Congress."He was also a pioneer in the development and use of Mysore rockets in warfare. This technology was later adopted by the Europeans," said Mr Kovind, who took over as President in July with the support of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah called the speech "statesman-like".The BJP alleges that President Kovind's speech was scripted by the Congress, which started the state's annual Tipu Sultan birth anniversary celebrations in 2015."They have misused the President's office," BJP legislator Arvind Limbavali told NDTV."They have invited him and they have prepared the speech also. This is an election year. They want to make it big event and they have taken the opportunity of the President's visit also and they have made the mention of Tipu


Sultan in his speech, through the President," he charged.Denying it, the Chief Minister's office said the President press secretary wrote his speech, with inputs from the "organisers" - in this case, legislators.A polarizing figure in history, Tipu Sultan was recently described as a "brutal killer, wretched fanatic and mass rapist" by union minister Anantkumar Hegde of the BJP , who asked for his name to be dropped from state government invites to this year's Tipu Sultan event.Many historians see Tipu Sultan, also known as the "Tiger of Mysore", as the first freedom fighter to take on the British and a sterling administrator.But he is not that widely admired in Kodagu district, where he is accused of persecuting the local Kodava population, as also the Roman Catholics of Mangaluru,and forcing conversions to Islam.Two years ago, when the state government decided to celebrate Tipu Sultan's birth anniversary, there were violent protests in which two people died

Dinesh Gundu Rao of the Congress said: "(The President) mentioned Basaveshwara, he mentioned great rulers like Krishna Devaraiah, Rani Kittur Rani Chennamma. In that context he mentioned Tipu Sultan. It puts it into the right perspective of what is Tipu Sultan. He is not just a historic figure but a legendary figure."The Congress leader went on: "Kings in those days would have had different situations where they had to take different steps...things we may not today consider to be right, but his contribution to the state and his heroic fight against the British, his contribution in sericulture, in science..."


Blogs from Muang Ngoi Neua, North, Laos, Asia - page 4

Yet another amusing transport story from Laos! To get from Luang Prabang to the village of Muang Ngoi Neua (known to most people as just Muang Ngoi), The Lonely Planet had recommended getting a longtail boat upriver as the view is apparantely incredible. We had booked a boat ticket with one of the travel agents in town and had been told to turn up the following day at 8am. The next morning, laden with bags, we met the travel agent who walked us down to the jetty and then told us to wait while he went to speak to the boat office. After a few minutes he came back and gave us the bad news that no boatNam Ou river. A huge stone bridge, just crying out for a bungee jump, links the village with a smaller village of tourist bungalows with fantastic views from ... read more

One hour up river from Nong Khiaw is the villade of Munag Ngoi. The boat trip was typically scenic of river trips in Laos. The banks were lined with imposing cliff faces and forested hills rolled into the horizon. The morning cloud hadn't yet lifted and it blanketed the hill tops with only the tallest peaks poking through. We passed other small riverside communities along the way where children wearing snorkling masks were diving for river weeds which they then roll into sheets, dry out and eat. The trip wasn't quite as relaxing as our trip to Nong


on for lunch and beers. On the trip we met a few more people, one Croatian who lived in South Africa for 10 years but now lives in Canada, Sasha, another couple from the UK and Ireland, a Israeli girl, a Hungarian girl and Nina, who has been with us from Sapa. While having lunch I ask the waiter where we can get some fishing line? I had bought hooks in Dien Bien Phu and was keen to fish. Chris, Sasha and I were up for fishing and ... read more

How can I describe the beauty of Muang Ngoi Neua. To reach this beautiful village in the western region of Laos you have to take a bus from Luang Prabang to Nong Khiaw and from there the journeyis completed by longtail boat. In fine contrast to the road trip to Nong Khiaw, which was completely uninspiring the boat journey on the other hand was remarkable. Not even my lethargy or the fear of rats was enough to dampen the experience. Travelling up the Nam Ou river you become lost in the beauty of the place. While the river itself is uninspiring it is the great scene around that captures you. Huge mountains appear to rise from the river itself and the trees that carpet it from top to bottom appear to defy gravity as they ... read more

Laos was under the control of Siam (Thailand) from the late 18th century until the late 19th century when it became part of French Indochina. The Franco-Siamese Treaty


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Jaspers Compete in Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival

Ten students attended the prestigious festival, boosting their own skills and the College’s reputation in the theater world.

This semester, the theatrical elites of Manhattan College traveled to West Connecticut State University to showcase their diverse talents with other performing arts enthusiasts in the region at the the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KC-ACTF).

This was the second year Manhattan College students attended the national program, through which students participate in workshops, compete for scholarships, meet industry professionals, and network with attendees from all over the region.

While Manhattan College currently only offers a theater minor, the Visual and Performing Arts department and Student Life department have been instrumental in supporting students who are passionate about performing arts. Ten students fromThe Players, Manhattan College’s campus-wide theater club, attended the five-day festival. The group this year was larger than the previous, and students performed in more diverse areas.

This year, four students received a nomination for the Irene Ryan acting scholarship for their performance in an on-campus production. This notable scholarship provides recognition, honor and financial assistance to outstanding student performers.

Sam Corby ’18, a mechanical engineering major, attended KC-ACTF for the first time, and was nominated for an Irene Ryan acting scholarship for his role in the fall production, The Dining Room. The competition for the award consisted of preparing two scenes and a monologue.

“The judges’ feedback was on how my performance was realistic, how my voice and tone were good. One thing they said was that I was a


comforting environment surrounded by other supportive students. The training and preparation at West Connecticut State landed her in the finals, where she performed two songs in front of the entire festival.

“My experience as a Maltby nominee was great! I made a lot of new friends and learned so much more in those five days than in my years of performing,” Mahood says.

While The Players are supported by an outside design team to bring their productions to life on campus, students also take on some of these behind-the-scenes roles, and were also eligible to attend the festival. Students responsible for stage management and directing in Players attended professional development workshops where they also received feedback on their work.

Carlos Perez ’16, a secondary education major, was nominated and participated inNigeria 'baby factory' raided in Imo state Published duration 10 May 2013

Seventeen pregnant teenage girls and 11 babies have been rescued from a house in Nigeria's south-eastern Imo state, police have said.

They say they are looking for a woman suspected of planning to sell the babies.

"The girls claimed they were fed once a day and were not allowed to leave the home," said spokeswoman Joy Elomoko.

It is not uncommon for such "baby factories" to be found in south-eastern Nigeria.

The rescued girls said they had all been made pregnant by a 23-year-old man, who has been arrested, reports the AFP news agency.

The European Union says Nigeria, along with China, is one of the biggest sources of people trafficked into Europe, where they are often forced into prostitution.

In 2011, the


Wollongong's secret new dining experience

By
GREG ELLIS

The Fine Spun Catering team preparing dessert at the first Covert Cuisine.

Ever thought you would like to be taken out on a mystery dinner where all you know in advance is the theme and what to wear?

A new dining experience in Wollongong offers just that.

Covert Cuisine was an idea cooked up by self-confessed foodie Alison Perizi, who operates under the name of Agent Edesia.

Mrs Perizi was inspired by a secret dining event she attended in Newcastle last year titled Underground Epicureans.

That event started her creative juices flowing and within days she was planning secret dining experiences in the Illawarra.

The former manager of the Renewable Recyclers facility in Fairy Meadow left that job to have a baby several years ago but still works forthe same company three days a week in Sydney.

Chef Greg Spain, of Fine Spun Catering, delivered the main dish with a Dracula theme.

But her passion for good food made from fresh regional produce combined with a drive to support local charities prompted her to spend the rest of the week as both a parent and an agent for secret food business.

The first Covert Cuisine dinner was an elaborate dining experience with a movie theme in June.

The aim of it and all future events is to showcase the quality and diversity of local chefs, regional provedores, venues and artists in the region to deliver something new, exciting and different to the local dining scene.

All guests knew about the first dinner was it was going to be a Silver Screen


Supper in an iconic building.

They were told on the Covert Cuisine website that they should creatively dress as their favourite star of the silver screen. They then received an SMS and email on the day of the mystery dinner telling them where they were going.

It was in the old Regent Theatre, which had returned to its historic role as a movie theatre when Gateway Church let Edesia and her other secret agents wind back the clock to a bygone era, the Golden Years of Hollywood.will feel good that he was quicker than Massa. He was cautious in the interviews as he thought last year’s Renault felt good but was not quick.

Massa – He should be pleased that he has come back into F1 after a horrific accident and is right back on the pace and was fastest for the 2 days he drove.

Sauber

They will be pleasantly pleased at their pace and rather glad they are using Ferrari engines. They were 2nd fastest each day and both experienced de la Rosa and new boy Kobayashi were able to put in consistently quick times.

Kobayashi – He seems very confident and was pleased he was able to get some testing time in to get used to the car.

De la Rosa – He will be satisfied


diffuser.

Schumacher – he will be pleased as he still has the pace and that he was 0.4secs quicker than his teammate, but maybe worried about the pace of the car compared to Ferrari.

Rosberg – He seems a tiny bit phased, although he acts confident in interviews and will want to be a match for Schumacher

Toro Rosso

The first couple of days did not go well and they had technical problems (gearbox) and reported downforce issues. Buemi was over 2 seconds off the pace on both days. However, on the final day with Alguersuari they seemed to have made some improvements as he was able to complete 97 laps and had a fastest time only just over a second behind Alonso.

Alguersuari – I think he will be pleased with hisHistoric first announced for WBBL 04

FOR the first time in Women's Big Bash League history the tournament will feature standalone finals.

Across the first three seasons of the WBBL, finals matches were played as double-headers alongside the Big Bash League, with the semi-finals and final virtual curtain-raisers for the corresponding BBL fixtures.

The change is an added incentive to finish the regular season on top of the ladder, with the top-ranked team to host both semi-finals at its homeground on January 19 before the final on January 26.

"Giving the WBBL its own window for finals is an important step for the League as we look ahead to a stand-alone fixture in the 2019-20 season," Cricket Australia's Head of Big Bash Leagues, Kim McConnie, said in a statement on Monday.

WBBL 04


will kick off with a festival weekend at Junction Oval, with all eight sides to play in St Kilda in the first week of December.

That will be the first of three weekend festivals of cricket, before fixtures are spread out across the week at the start of the summer school holidays.

Fox Sports will broadcast 23 matches of this summer's WBBL, with the remainder to be streamed on CA's website.broom hockey in Sun Valley, Idaho, with some kids and his neighbor (perhaps you’ve heard of him: Tom Hanks). Kerry broke his nose and bruised his face. Yet the secretary of state was needed in Oman. “I grabbed a pair of big black sunglasses and off I went,” he writes. Then there is his infamous bicycle accident in the French Alps in 2015, which caused him to spend the final rounds of negotiations over the Iran nuclear deal on crutches.

When Kerry was visiting Israel in 2009 as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he made it a point to visit Gaza, over the objections of the U.S. embassy in Israel. Touring a refugee camp, he just couldn’t stay in his armored car. So he got out


to talk to a little girl playing by the road. The resulting photo of Kerry “walking amid the rubble was worth more to the Palestinian people than a thousand statements,” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas later told the senator, according to the senator.

And on it goes. Some chapters in Kerry’s career, however, cannot be spun. One example is his unrequited pursuit of his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Kerry tries to retain some pride by noting that he eventually did read the Russian diplomat the riot act, in September 2016 at a meeting of the U.N. Security Council. The timing is damning: That was after Russia and Syria had put the lie to a cease-fire Lavrov and Kerry had negotiated that summer.

Kerry’s confrontation with Lavrov also happened afterNews

A trial date has been set for a 70-year-old Falmouth man accused of growing cannabis worth £13,500.

Ivan Barnett, aged 70, of Oakfield Road, Falmouth, entered no pleas at Truro’s magistrates’ court to charges of being concerned in the production of cannabis valued at £13,500 and possessing cannabis valued at £90 at Falmouth on October 30.


A child of genius is seldom duly appreciated by the world during his life, least of all by his own kindred. The parents of a man of talent may claim the honour of having given him birth, yet they commonly enjoy but little of his society.

— Thomas J. Hogg, friend of Shelley, on the poet

As a child at his family's Field Place estate, Percy Bysshe Shelley drew horned creatures and devils in the margins of a library copy of Matthew Lewis’s Tales of Terror — a macabre doodling habit that would continue throughout his adult years. “He was known as ‘Mad Shelley’,” writes an Eton classmate when describing the poet’s demeanor as a child, revealing, “... many a cruel torture was practiced upon him for his moody andsingular exclusiveness.”

Shelley’s response to bullying was legendary. Instead of submitting, young Bysshe, as he was called by his family, would “utter in his paroxysms of revengeful anger.” His outbursts unfortunately did little to deter the bullying, and a classmate described him as “a girl in boy’s clothes, fighting with open hands, and rolling on the floor when flogged….” Rather than adapt, Shelley continued “on the borders of insanity” and later wrote that it was at school when he first realized that he must work to change the injustices of the world.

At age 11, Shelley entered Eton, where he stabbed a classmate. The reason for this violent outburst was, again, an act of self-defense. “Nailing,” a popular practice among the boys at Eton, involved selecting a weaker boy from


identify the bullying he experienced with other forms of hatred and tyranny, and see himself even in school as its victim and dedicated foe, living by a higher ideal than the conforming minions of a cruel system.”

In 1810, Shelley attended Oxford, where he enjoyed a greater degree of freedom but disliked the “quasi-monastic life and intellectual conformism” he felt that the university encouraged. According to Newman White’s two-volume biography on Shelley, he was known to leave Oxford lectures only minutes after they had begun, preferring instead to read alone in his rooms. Within days at the university, Shelley met a kindred spirit in Thomas Jefferson Hogg who would become a lifelong friend. Hogg was struck by the many interests of his friend and described Shelley’s rooms at OxfordEnglish journalist, suggested that the poet was “a dangerous member of society” and that “overstudy had made him mad on religious subjects; and as on all others, his mind was fresh and vigorous, he was in the condition of a monomaniac who is incurable, because his insanity is concentrated in one faculty.”

Shelley’s father believed that Hogg was largely to blame for his son’s atheistic views and urged Bysshe to renounce the friendship. The poet refused to betray Hogg and without the regimen of school, he set forth to make his living as a writer. His next major manifesto was the Declaration of Rights, which he tucked inside dark green bottles and tossed into the ocean.

Regardless of the censure he faced in nearly all aspects of his life, Shelley


would emerge as one of the most important and critically acclaimed English poets of his generation and, perhaps, of the 19th century. In 1821, he wrote: “Man is an instrument over which a series of external and internal impressions are driven, like an Aeolian lyre, which move it by their motion to every-changing melody.”Perhaps this was poetic justice for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. Perhaps it was just cruel. Either way, the Cardiff manager now knows how he used to make opponents feel.

In his playing days, Solskjaer scored and celebrated a disproportionate number of injury-time goals. One, famously, decided the 1999 Champions League final. Should Cardiff end up in the Championship, Seamus Coleman's strike three minutes into time added on will rank among the reasons for their relegation.

It left Solskjaer bemoaning his luck. "We sit here with no points and we need points," the Norwegian said.

He was deprived of one as Coleman's dramatic decider continued a theme here, where Everton's last three league victories have been sealed in the final minutes. Neither Kevin Mirallas's wonderful free-kick against Aston Villa or Romelu Lukaku's crisp


finish to defeat West Ham were quite as late or as lucky as this, however. Gareth Barry headed Aiden McGeady's cross into the path of the on-rushing Coleman, whose skewed, miscued shot proved perfectly placed.

"The performance was outstanding," said Solskjaer. "It was a phenomenal effort. They had cojones."

It was an appropriate choice of word, if only because Spaniards scored for either side with Gerard Deulofeu and Juan Cala trading goals. Indeed, Martínez subsequently confirmed, he had two last-gasp scorers. Deulofeu had been pencilled in for an hour's action. McGeady was warming up when the on-loan Barcelona winger struck. "He tends to leave it late," said Martínez, smiling.

Accepting Leon Osman's pass, Deulofeu spun away from Gary Medel and accelerated into the box. His shot took a telling touch offSteven Caulker to beat David Marshall. "He can't do anything about the goals," said Solskjaer. "The first is a deflection, the second a mishit." It took something out of the norm to defeat the superb Scot.

"David Marshall was phenomenal," Martínez said. "It was as good an individual performance as you are going to see from a goalkeeper."

Twin saves from Lukaku, pushing a piledriver over the bar and tipping a drive past the post, were terrific. Better still was a 90th-minute block to keep Ross Barkley's header out. Whether it was the product of instinct or positioning, it was outstanding. Not that goalkeeping excellence was confined to the visitors.

Everton were in the ascendant throughout the first half yet Cardiff had the finest opening. Tim Howard repelled Fraizer Campbell's shot,


extending the Cardiff strikers' collective drought to a month and a half. A central defender compensated with a scruffy finish. Peter Whittingham's free-kick went in via Cala's knee and ribs to give the former Sevilla player his first Cardiff goal.

Fortune seemed to have favoured the visitors at that point. Kévin Théophile-Catherine was shown only a yellow card for a reprehensible tackle on Barry. "He has the studmarks," said Martínez. "Both feet are off the ground. It is a reckless, reckless challenge."

Roger East's laissez-faire approach to officiating irritated Everton then and angered Cardiff later. Wilfried Zaha's bright cameo included a winding solo run. "Wilf weaved his way through two, three, four of them," said Solskjaer. He was halted by Sylvain Distin, who did not get the ball. "It isas it does... Laleggia is one of the best puck movers in the entire NCAA (13th among all skaters in points in NCHC)... no sense in trading a maybe future Brian Rafalski...

speaking of the NCHC... goalie Lukas Hafner has a 1.86 GAA and 0.928 SV% for WMU... 22 years old... 6'1 205 lbs... could be a good goalie to sign in the summer as a free agent

Hafner could definitely be a possibility.

It's probably safe to assume someone in the organization has seen a good amount of him since I'm guessing someone is keeping tabs on Kenney Morrison who also plays for WMU.

He was the defenseman the team brought to developmental camp at the beginning of the season and basically did all but sign him.

Zona's overall negative evaluation of


Vitali Litvinov

Vitali Viktorovich Litvinov (; born 17 November 1970) is a former Russian professional footballer.

Club career
He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League in 1991 for FC Progress Chernyakhovsk.

Honours
 Russian Premier League bronze: 2000.
 Top-33 year-end best players list: 2000.

European club competitions
 UEFA Intertoto Cup 1996 with FC Uralmash Yekaterinburg: 5 games, 3 goals.
 UEFA Cup 2000–01 with FC Torpedo Moscow: 2 games, 1 goal.

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in part to the other defendants. The grounds upon which the plaintiff asked that said lease be terminated and canceled were that the defendants had violated the terms of the lease in a number of material respects and on various and divers occasions. In their several amended answers filed herein, the defendants, while not expressly admitting said acts of violation, allege that whatever acts were done or performed by them after the execution of said lease and while they were operating thereunder, were done and performed in conjunction with and by the express consent and with the active cooperation of Herbert G. Wylie, and "that at all times therein mentioned the plaintiff and one Herbert G. Wylie were, and now are, one and the same; that at allinfluenced esthetic outcomes (as measured by PES) was gender, with females having significantly superior results. The median WES was 8 and 96% of the crowns were deemed esthetically acceptable, with crowns placed by specialist prosthodontists yielding higher scores than those placed by general practitioners. Single tooth implants in the anterior maxilla showed satisfactory outcomes when measured with objective esthetic criteria. Timing of implant placement did not significantly influence the esthetic outcomes, although a trend towards better outcomes was seen with immediate implant placement as observed by higher median PES values. Single tooth implant placement in the anterior maxilla is a predictable treatment modality for achieving acceptable esthetic outcomes regardless of the timing of placement.


Supernatural Horror Stories

Summary

Edith Nesbit is best known as the author of children's classics, such as The Railway Children. She was also a renowned author of ghost stories and othertales of terror, the macabre and the supernatural. In this collection of spine-chilling narratives, Nesbit presents us with a truly masterful set of tales of love which reaches out beyond the grave, ghosts, eerie incarnations, evil deeds and uncanny happenings. Perfect bedtime listening.... if you dare!DRUG COSTS: A measure designed to reduce prescription drug costs by increasing regulation of pharmacy benefit managers passed the Assembly unanimously and is pending a Senate vote.

— CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION: A resolution calling for a convention of the states to amend the U.S. Constitution to impose term limits on members of Congress and limit federal government’s power passed the Assembly and is pending in the Senate.

— HOMELESSNESS AID: The Senate passed one of eight bills designed to fight homelessness in the state, but conservative Republicans have shown no interest in taking up the other seven that easily cleared the Assembly.

— WHAT ELSE? Numerous bills that passed the Assembly face an uncertain future in the Senate, including requiring the teaching of the Holocaust and cursive writing; banning smoking and vaping


Mythical Viking 'Sunstone' could have really worked: study

Bringing the realm of ancient myth into reality, scientists say they have found evidence that the Vikings could have used a 'sunstone' crystal to navigate from northern Europe to North America.

Researchers from the University of Rennes in France say a calcite crystal that was discovered in the wreckage of a 421-year-old ship could be the substance once thought to be no more than an ancient Viking myth.

The crystal – called an Iceland spar-- was found 30 years ago amid the wreckage of a ship that sunk off the coast of Alderney in the Channel Islands in 1592.

In a report published in The Proceedings of The Royal Society on Wednesday, the study’s authors say the crystal could be used to determine theand long-term injuries.

Still, Klingberg posted 49 points and finished the season in strong form with five goals and 18 points over his final 25 games. The Stars brought in a number of reinforcements to insulate their high-end talents, so Klingberg could be in line for a career year.

18. John Tavares recently discussed an offseason thumb surgery he underwent. Of particular note, he aggravated the thumb injury in January and played through it. Tavares said there was a multiple-week period when the injury was bothering him but it didn't seem to impact his performance. He recorded 34 points – 12 goals – through 35 games following the injury, which included a seven-game stretch with four tallies and seven assists immediately following the game in Boston when he sustained the


to let Jerabek acclimatize to the North American game – and the continent itself – in the AHL to start the season. He would then be a potential addition to the lineup if injuries struck or he proved ready for the NHL. The 26-year-old defenseman is coming off a 34-point showing through just 59 games in the KHL, so there is definitely some offensive upside. It also should not surprise if Jerabek had a stretch or two of fleeting fantasy value this year.

20. When Brad Marchand reached 37 goals in 2015-16, at first glance, it seemed like an aberration. A 27-year-old never having surpassed 30 goals, and who only managed more than 25 goals once, suddenly knocking on the door of 40 goals? Was this a one-time thing,or the next Joe Pavelski? I was skeptical, and basically wrote off Marchand at his ADP for the 2016-17 season.

And then he scored 39 goals and managed over a point-per-game.

To be clear, this was never about Marchand’s talent. The problem was that he was never, ever, given a chance to shine on the power play. Over the five seasons from 2010-15, Marchand was 34th in the NHL in goals scored with 116. Of all the players in the top-50, he had the fewest power-play goals (14) – only he, Anze Kopitar (17), and Blake Wheeler (18) had fewer than 20. He also had the highest goal total of any player given fewer than 17 minutes a game.

Marchand and Patrice Bergeron are legitimately one of the top duos in


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OF Delmon Young – signed a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training on 1/13/2014 (Contract selected on 3/30/2014)
SS Alex González – signed a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training on 1/31/2014
RHP Evan Meek – signed a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training on 2/5/2014 (Contract selected on 3/30/2014)
RHP Ubaldo Jiménez – Signed a 4-year, $50 million free agent contract on 2/14/2014
OF Nelson Cruz – Signed a 1-year,the time,” says Jonathan Thorpe, senior executive vice president and chief investment officer of Gale. “It just made sense.”

In 2001, the South Korean government approached the New York-based firm about developing a city that, by virtue of its proximity to the newly opened airport in Incheon, would attract multinational corporations and potentially turn the region into the world’s gateway to northeast Asia. “The idea was that it would be an international business district and that foreigners would find this a convenient place to set up business,” says Thomas Hubbard, who served as U.S. ambassador to South Korea when the project began. “The model was Singapore.”

Understanding the mission of attracting new Western business, Gale has built state-of-the-art, high-tech LEED-certified office buildings, apartments, shops and schools, imported elements from other


A packed church for Confirmation, people crowding in to stand at the back and up the side aisles. Children dressed in white kneel one by one before the mitered prelate to receive the anointing with oil. A choir sings, “Veni, sancte Spiritus…”

A typical Catholic parish scene. Yes, but there are subtle differences. The psalm during the first part of the Mass is the Miles Coverdale translation from the 16th century, sung to a traditional Anglican chant. The parish notices and newsletter echo with words and phrases found in the Church of England: “Sunday school,” “churchwardens.”

This is the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and the first big parish Confirmation in a church that is in ordinariate care. Some 30 children and adults are being confirmed here at theChurch of the Most Precious Blood in London, by Msgr. Keith Newton, the ordinary.

At a time when Mass attendance is dropping across the West, the ordinariate can fill churches—and bring back people who have lapsed. Precious Blood Church is on the south bank of the Thames close by London Bridge, and attracts good numbers for weekday Mass as people cross the river from the City as well as come from the Borough Market and nearby shops and offices. Sunday Masses are now well-filled, with a children’s choir—singing English Mass settings such as Merbeck, as well as Latin chant—and a thriving Sunday school. On Thursdays there is Evensong, and Mass celebrated in the Ordinariate Form, with prayers that are familiar to Anglicans brought up on the Book of Common


the Catholic Church a considerable amount of energy and talent. Anglicans who had been working hard to try to uphold doctrinal orthodoxy in the Church of England had been kept busy—meetings, conferences, parish and deanery councils, and the General Synod all meant a great deal of writing and lobbying and planning and gathering of groups and passing of resolutions. The decision to accept the Pope’s invitation naturally brought all that to an end. But these people were also often the most active and dedicated in the Anglican parish—churchwardens, Sunday school teachers, organists, choir directors. Their energy and commitment now became available to the Catholic Church.

At Precious Blood, there is a naturalness about the renewal that has taken place since the parish was given into ordinariate care with FatherChristopher Pearson as parish priest. Funds were raised to put in new heating, the church was given a wholescale and enthusiastic clean, the bells were rehung and now peal out daily for Mass and the Angelus. A Sunday school was established and in due course a children’s choir; the latter is extremely popular and involves considerable commitment and two choir practices a week.

This is a strong and lively parish. Friendships have been forged, and parish events and socializing are fun, crowded, and enjoyable. After the recent Confirmations, everyone poured out across the street to a night club, which willingly offers a room on Sunday mornings for celebrations that are too large for the parish room. Coffee and cake, speeches and snacks, a roar of talk and children tumbling


about: a mix of Londoners that includes West Indians, French-speaking Africans, Ethiopians, Poles, Filipinos—and Irish and English.

Any parish is always a work in progress. The long lists of names on the War Memorial indicate how large the parish was at the time of the 1914-18 war. In those days, this was a busy industrial neighborhood: brewing, printing, and the railway network meant large numbers of working-class families, a good many of them Irish. Today the scene is different, the social mix is different, the whole way of life is different. But the Faith is ever-new, and today the pews are filled anew.Practice patterns and family life--a survey of Melbourne medical graduates.
To investigate sex differences in the professional achievements and personal life-styles of graduates, a questionnaire survey was conducted. The sample comprised surviving female medical graduates of the University of Melbourne and an equal number of male medical graduates who were matched by year of graduation. The final response rate was 70% (1764 subjects returned questionnaires) and was representative for both age and sex. This article describes the practice patterns and family lives of graduates. Considerable sex-related differences were found in the professional achievements and personal life-styles of the surveyed medical graduates. Women's professional careers tended to be more circumscribed than were those of male colleagues. Women were less involved in areas outside clinical practice such as teaching or lecturing,


aggression, achievement (sports), and drugs. As to the sources of influence, "personal experience" ranked highest, followed by "from my mind and my imagination," while "TV" and "books" ranked third and fourth with similar percentages.Batman: Arkham Origins Season Pass Announced

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meeting of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany. The parties agreed not to take any action against Iran until March, however, after the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency has issued a formal report.

The timetable represents a compromise between the United States, France, Britain and Germany, which had pushed for immediate action against Iran, and Russia and China, which had argued for more time for diplomacy.

A Foreign Office official told United Press International Britain viewed it as "a good outcome" which maintained the international consensus while moving the process forward and increasing the pressure on Iran.

He acknowledged Europe and the United States would have been happy to move more quickly, but said they placed high importance on keeping the international players united.The difference between full referral in February and in March "wasn't seriously important," he said.

The decision was taken after talks in Brussels failed to break the impasse over Iran's nuclear programs.

European foreign ministers met with Iranian representatives on Monday in a last-minute attempt at diplomacy before Thursday's meeting of the IAEA in Vienna.

Javad Vaeedi, deputy head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said the meeting had been positive; however EU ministers said the Iranians had advanced no new ideas.

"The negotiating process has reached an impasse and the involvement of the Security Council is needed to ensure that the requests -- many times repeated -- of the agency are respected," French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said in Brussels.

He told a news briefing the talks had yielded nothing new, but


their commercial interests. Russia has a $1 billion contract to build Iran's first atomic reactor at Bushehr, while China is heavily reliant on Iranian oil exports for its energy supplies.

Moscow has offered to enrich Iranian uranium on its soil, as a safeguard against the possibility of Iran diverting its nuclear programs for military purposes.

A senior British official said Tuesday a delegation from Moscow and Beijing would be visiting Tehran later this week, when, it is understood, the Russian proposal will be discussed. However Britain was not optimistic an agreement would be reached, he said.

The United States and Britain have dismissed Iran's continued interest in the deal as posturing in order to avert U.N. referral.

"When the Iranians now advance interest in the Russian proposal one has to wonder ifthat isn't because they now face the prospect of referral to the Security Council," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told a news conference before the dinner meeting.

However she rejected suggestions of a split in the Security Council over the best way to deal with Iran.

"Differences on tactics and timings there may be, but I don't see anyone saying to the Iranians that they are on the right side of the issue. The Iranians need to hear that message," she said.

Lord Timothy Garden, a former British assistant chief of defense staff and Liberal Democrat defense spokesman, said the outcome of the talks was the best possible in the circumstances.

"Handling Iran is very tricky at the moment because of the associated problems, Iraq not least, and the difficulty of


Security Council would impose sanctions in March. d A deadline would probably be set for Iran a deadline to suspend its enrichment activities; after which the council might then give the IAEA additional authority for inspections, he said.

Fitzpatrick said Iran's threat to break off negotiations was one the world had to take seriously.

"It's a real threat," he said. "The world has to weigh that threat against the threat of taking no action, and seeing Iran move towards (weapons) capability and break one red line after another, emboldened by seeing no action from the international community."

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or in the alternative, for summary judgment will be denied in part and granted in part.

BACKGROUND
A. The November 2003 Altercation
Most of the background facts are set forth in a Stipulation of the parties contained in the Final Pretrial Order. On the morning of November 14, 2003, Kounelis was in the prison doctor's office when he was informed that he had a visitor. On receiving this information, Kounelis proceeded from the doctor's office in the North Compound of the prison to the South Compound to get a pass to meet with his visitor. In order to reach the South Compound from the North Compound, inmates are required to pass through a frisk machine located in the center of the Education Department ("E/D area"). As in other areas of theNSP, surveillance video cameras are mounted on the walls of the E/D area and two cameras in the upper northwest and upper southeast corners a the E/D area are directed towards the frisk machine in the center.
As Kounelis passed through the frisk machine, an altercation between Kounelis and members of NSP staff ensued. According to Kounelis, he was assaulted by SCO Atuncar. Kounelis submits that the assault was in retaliation for complaints that Kounelis had filed against SCO Atuncar on September 4 and September 11, 2003.
The Defendants' account differs dramatically. Defendants contend that as Kounelis was passing through the E/D area, he began shouting obscenities at SCO Schwenk and that as Kounelis passed through the frisk machine, he intentionally bumped SCO Schwenk in the chest with his right


shoulder. SCOs Schwenk and Bush then restrained Kounelis, forcing him to the ground while other officers, including Sergeant James and Lieutenant Cannon, responded to the emergency situation.
Following the altercation, Kounelis was placed in prehearing detention. Kounelis was then taken to NSP's medical facility where he was examined by the medical staff, and one of the nurses recorded his injuries. A medical report dated November 14, 2003 states that Kounelis suffered a right index finger laceration and a left check bone injury. A doctor's examination on November 19, 2003 further reports that Kounelis was suffering from a lower back sprain and had abrasions on both knees and on his left cheek.
Kounelis was issued a disciplinary infraction for assaulting any person for his alleged assault of SCO Schwenk. Sergeant Forde,acting as the Disciplinary Sergeant on November 15, 2008, was responsible for investigating the disciplinary charges lodged against inmates and gathering evidence related to the charges. He served Kounelis with a copy of the disciplinary charge and then concluded his investigation shortly thereafter.
*512 The disciplinary charge contained the statement of SCO Schwenk that Kounelis bumped into SCO Schwenk's chest as Kounelis was passing through the frisk machine in the E/D area and the statement of SCO Bush that he had witnessed the event. On receiving the disciplinary charge, Kounelis maintains that he informed Sergeant Forde that the statements contained in the charge were incorrect because it was not SCO Schwenk, but rather SCO Atuncar, who had assaulted him. Kounelis further maintains that at this time he asked Sergeant


of not guilty, Kounelis spent eleven days in administrative segregation.
Kounelis also included allegations that on March 17, 2005, two weeks after Defendants were served with summonses, Captain Sagebiel and Lieutenant Cannon ordered another search of his cell. Again, following the search, Kounelis was required to submit to a urine drug test and was placed in administrative segregation while disciplinary charges were pending against him. The charges, however, were again dismissed and Kounelis was returned to his cell after spending twelve days in administrative segregation.
Finally, Kounelis included allegations that on May 20, 2005, just over a month after Kounelis moved for a Default Judgment to be, entered against Defendants, Captain Sagebiel and Lieutenant Cannon ordered a third search of his cell. Following the May 20 search, Kounelis was againJudge explained that the imposition of sanctions is left to the discretion of the court after considering the degree of fault of the party that destroyed the evidence, the degree of prejudice suffered by the opposing party, and whether the sanction balances fairness to the opposing party and deterrence to the offending party. (Op. Tr. at 22.)
In considering the first of the three factors, the Magistrate Judge found that Defendants were to blame for the loss of the surveillance footage. (Op. Tr. at 23.) Next, the Magistrate Judge concluded that Kounelis was prejudiced by the loss of objective evidence, but not irreparably, because Kounelis was still able to testify as to his version of the events. (Op. Tr. at 25.) Finally, the Magistrate Judge determined that preventing Defendants


from offering their version of the events of November 14, 2003 at trial, as Kounelis had requested, would be too severe a sanction because it would be tantamount to denying Defendants the ability to defend against Kounelis's claims. (Op. Tr. at 26.) Therefore the Magistrate Judge denied Kounelis's request that Defendants be precluded from introducing evidence.
Having determined that exclusion of Defendants' evidence was too extreme, the Magistrate Judge then considered whether the lesser sanction of an adverse inference was appropriate. (Op. Tr. at 27.) Applying the elements of the adverse inference to the evidence in the record, the Magistrate Judge concluded that an adverse inference was not appropriate under the circumstances because it would overcompensate Kounelis for the harm caused by the spoliation. (Op. Tr. at 30.) TheMagistrate Judge reasoned that an adverse inference was tantamount to a directed verdict because it took too much from the fact-finder. (Op. Tr. at 31.) Therefore the Magistrate Judge denied Kounelis's request for an adverse inference charge.
Next, the Magistrate Judge considered whether monetary sanctions would be appropriate. (Op. Tr. at 33.) The Magistrate Judge found that a great deal of time was spent both by Kounelis in his pro se status and by his counsel chasing after the surveillance footage throughout discovery and culminating in the evidentiary hearing. (Op. Tr. at 34.) Indeed, the Magistrate Judge noted that a memorandum dated September 2, 2004, which was sent to Kounelis by the Acting Chief Investigator of the Special Investigations Division in response to Kounelis's communication to then Attorney General


discovery of the surveillance footage. As the.Magistrate Judge correctly stated, monetary sanctions are used to compensate a party for "the time and effort it was forced to expend in an effort to obtain discovery" to which it was entitled. Mosaid Tech. Inc., 348 F.Supp.2d at 339. In this litigation, an excessive and unnecessary amount of time was spent by Kounelis and, his counsel chasing Defendants on the issue of the surveillance footage.
Indeed, as the. Magistrate Judge noted, just prior to Kounelis filing his Complaint, he received a communication from the Acting Chief Investigator of the Special Investigations *522 Division, which, in its ambiguity, suggested that a tape of the altercation may have at one time been in existence. Additionally, Defendants' assertions in their reply brief submitted in supportDecember, 2007, this action had been set down for trial on January 9, 2008. On December 19, 2007, Kounelis's counsel brought to the Court's attention that they had received information that on December 18, 2007, one or more guards at NSP further retaliated against Kounelis by destroying his legal materials, beating him and filing false charges against him, and that as a part of the retaliatory measures, Kounelis had been transferred to the New Jersey State Prison in Trenton, where he was held naked in a cell and under lights for 24 hours a day.
In light of these allegations, the Court issued an order requiring that on January 4, 2008 Defendants show cause why an order should not be entered enjoining and restraining Defendants from committing any retaliatory


Here's Donny singing with an admirable little baby voice in 1972. Notice what happens, though, two years later when he banters with MJ at the 1974 Oscars.

It's like listening to a mouse and Barry White try to carry on a conversation. A few years later, while Michael was putting together his world-changing Off the Wall album, Donny was serenading Miss Universe contestants with his man-voice. (Once again, we're sorry.)

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Donny's career also suffered from constant attacks by ivory poachers.

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Well, one professor of vascular surgery thinks that Michael's consistently high voice was the key to understanding everything about his adult career. (No word if it explains the spangly military uniform phase, though.)

The Theory:

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Spurs firsthand. However, the guys that do succeed give them the benefit of the doubt when it comes to drafting and developing players. Their most recent success story, Dejounte Murray, just became the youngest player to make an All Defensive Team in NBA History and has been pegged as their next potential homegrown star.

As long as Pop and RC are at the helm in San Antonio, I think it is safe to say that the way they operate will remain as consistent as it has ever been. Kawhi Leonard is, when healthy, arguably a Top-5 player in the NBA, and he very clearly wanted out of San Antonio. His trade was all you had to see to know that the Spurs’ mentality was not about to be compromised,Starring

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Don Vito Corleone

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Michael 'Mike' Corleone

Al Pacino

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Don Vito Corleone is the head of a New York Mafia "family". Problems arise when a gangster supported by another Mafia family, Sollozzo, announces his intentions to start selling drugs all over New York. Don Vito hates the idea of drugs, and he is quite happy with the gambling/protection etc. that make him money, so an attempt is made on his life. Sollozzo then kidnaps one of Don Vitos advisors, and tries to make him force Don Vitos son to agree to sell drugs, but the plan goes wrong when Sollozzo finds out that Don Vito is still alive.

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Solid, classy, all but perfect yet not quite great What happened to the sure-footed director of this film?How did his impeccable


passage of comprehensive non-discrimination protections against gender identity and sexual orientation more than a decade ago.

Last year, Oregon passed legislation simplifying name change and gender amendment processes on birth certificates. It also became the first state to offer a third gender maker, X for not specified, on state identification cards.

ACLU of Oregon's legal director, Mat dos Santos, promised "the ACLU in Oregon and across the country will fight back against any efforts to use transgender people as political pawns and will continue to seek full equality for transgender and non binary people."

In a statement read by staffer Johnell Bell, U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said, "President Trump's effort to paint these Americans as the 'other' is a dangerous endorsement of bigotry and hate. But he has targeted the*The Walking Dead *is back. Last night, the mid-season premiere "After" aired on AMC, an episode scripted by the show's creator and executive producer Robert Kirkman. WIRED spoke with the television and comics writer about last night's big revelation about Michonne, the major format shakeup that he says will re-energize the show, and how Daryl Dixon helped create an alternate universe.

WIRED: The last time we saw the survivors of The Walking Dead the prison had fallen, which closed a major chapter of the story and also brought us full circle to one of the pivotal moments in the comic, the death of the Governor. We've seen a lot of changes and remixing of the comic plot; moving forwards, how closely should we expect the story to track with


vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center.

To address the last of these first: VMware has publicly stated that, over time, vCloud Director will be eliminated and certain features will go "down" into vCenter while others will go "up" into vCloud Automation Center. Thus, with the next release of vSphere, I expect to see some nice new functionality available in vCenter Server and through the vSphere Web Client.

In order to offer a centralized management solution that requires no Windows Server license, VMware created the vCenter Server Appliance -- a Linux-based virtual appliance that contains a local database, a Web server, and the vCenter services (as well as other VMware-oriented services). VMware has improved the database in the vCenter Server Appliance, now offering a local vPostgres database, integrated SSO server, integratedThe Republican party has nominated Donald Trump for president and Mike Pence for vice president. Current State talks with a Michigan delegate at the GOP convention in Cleveland, state Sen. Joe Hune.

The Republican National Convention in Cleveland has nominated Donald Trump for president. The party also has formally nominated Indiana Gov. Mike Pence for vice president.

The Michigan delegation delayed announcing its vote total so that Trump’s home state of New York could put the nominee over the top. When state party chair Ronna Romney McDaniel later announced Michigan’s votes, Trump received 51 of them. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz got 6 votes from Michigan, and two went to Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

On this day after the Trump nomination, Current State talks with a Michigan delegate to the GOP convention.


don't you report their names too. The chief shouldn't have reported the name, and the freeman shouldn't have printed it.
And how about reporting who called too !! Is there anything you forgot chief?? ..in spite of the chief... Great job to the Officer. "

nomercyangel wrote on Dec 19, 2010 2:15 PM:

" My heart goes out to his family. It seems like every holiday season there are some people who feel the desperation in their lives and seek ways to end it. Thank you and kudos to the officer who saved the man's life. The foiled jumper has a second chance with help from mental health proessionals. It sure doesn't help to have the man's name printed.Police might have to record the name but the Freeman could have chosenThis is a good tree [PHOTO]

Or, he admits, an especially good one. He mostly takes pictures of his kid, or "random crap" that interests him enough to produce the phone from his pocket for a quick snap.

Friday evening, Chad had that very compulsion as he and his wife sat on their deck, enjoying a pleasant evening in suburban Shoreview, about 15 miles north of St. Paul. Chad looked around, and was stopped by the beauty on display in the family home's front-yard tree.

The leaves of the tree, a sugar maple, had produced a palette of greens, pale yellows, pinks, and vivid reds. It was as if all the hues of autumn had arrived at once, and all in one man's suburban front yard. Had he made it to


which I totally get."

Second, Chad's tree's tranformation is something Minnesotans, and people who live in cold-weather states in general, come to take for granted. (See here for more evidence of how spoiled we are with fall colors.) Many of the people commenting on his photo lived in the South or the West, and observed wistfully that the trees in their warmer climates didn't ever look like this.

Not that Chad's did for long, either. By Sunday, the tree had become "considerably more yellow," Chad reports, and the previous day's wind had blown many of the bright leaves off of it... and down into Chad's front yard.

"It was gorgeous that day, on Friday," Chad says of his tree. "Now it's just a lot of work."integration schemes which brought new people into the political system slowly and in steps. Aristotle surely knew this was a possibility.

my explanation, that Aristotle is actually criticizing the idea of empires, and anything bigger than a polis

That explanation is in conflict with Aristotle's advocacy of Greeks uniting in one politeia in order to dominate the barbarians (7.1327b). Arisstotle believed in a political union of the divided Greeks which would allow them to found an Empire.

The example of Pitagora, as of a whatever single man, but also a single family, is wrong. The studies must be made on the great numbers of immigrants, not on a single case. the single one or few individuals are easy to be assimilated, not a whole people, that will have the tendency to


with the Three-Fifths Compromise, which said that slaves only counted as three-fifths of a person. President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared that slaves in rebelling states were free, but it was not until after as many as 620,000 people died in the American Civil War that states ratified the 13th Amendment, that slavery was outlawed and the three-fifths compromise was rendered moot.

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The Fourteenth Amendment later guaranteed equal protection under the law to all people. Civil rights activists maintain the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment should also prohibit government from banning same sex marriage.

Watch this video from CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight, broadcast Dec. 12, 2012.

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History rarely repeats itself. When it does, it is usually bad news. The recent violence in Nicaragua is stunning proof of this. The author of the violence, President Daniel Ortega, is reprising his role as a corrupt dictator who relies on shameless deception to gain power.

Violence in the Central American nation began in April when Ortega announced a rise in social security taxes. The resulting peaceful demonstrations were met with deadly force, recalling the worst crimes of the Communist Sandinistas. Nearly 60 people died when police attacked unarmed protestors, including a reporter who was shot in the head while doing a live broadcast over Facebook. The toll now tops 200 people killed.

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The crisis continues to escalate. Leaders in Masaya, 15 miles south of the capital of Managua anddocument showed definitively that these promises were intended to deceive Nicaraguans, as well as the United States, while brutal Leninist rule was imposed.

Yet, the myth of the Sandinistas as moderate reformers persisted. As a staffer in the White House Office of Public Liaison during the Reagan administration, I spent my days trying to make headway against a well-oiled Sandinista propaganda machine that was aided by liberal members of Congress, a compliant media, and groups such as the National Council of Churches that should have known better.

While the naive and the nefarious sang Ortega’s praises in Washington, Nicaraguans at home suffered. Young men were drafted into the Sandinista private army, Christians were persecuted, and Nicaragua became the headquarters for Cubans, Soviets and terrorists. While violence from the anti-communist contras


was magnified by the American media, victims of Sandinista violence were effectively silenced in those pre-internet days of liberal media monopoly. Ortega remained a hero to the American left until Nicaragua’s first free election in 1990, an election in which Ortega literally lost every precinct in the country.

Now, 28 years later, Ortega is back, and history is repeating itself. In 2006, he won a questionable election by presenting himself again as a moderate nationalist leader who wanted a mixed economy, a nonaligned foreign policy, and a friendly relationship with the business community. He even pretended to be a sincere Catholic. Since returning to power, he has moved to take over the media, the army, the police, the courts, the legislature, and the Supreme Electoral Council, while forging tieswith international pariahs such as Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Dissidents in Nicaragua in 2018 receive the same violent treatment that they did in the 1980s. The business community’s trust has been betrayed again, as Ortega talks about the free market but imposes government control and enriches himself, while leading Central America’s poorest nation. Rarely has there been a clearer case of past as prologue.

Yet, as the worst days of Nicaragua’s history repeat themselves, there is one hopeful similarity. As in the 1980s, the Catholic Church stands in opposition to Ortega’s violence and is using its moral authority to persuade him to negotiate with the opposition. Silvio Baéz, the bishop of Managua, has insisted that Ortega keep the promises he has made since 2006, which in reality are promises he


made in 1979.

This hope, however, is fragile. Ortega remains a wily and unscrupulous adversary, who only held a free election in 1990 under intense pressure from the United States and from the contra army. Today, the former is not paying attention and the latter does not exist. It is time for the U.S. government to step up and speak out, demanding the depoliticization of the army and police, transparency in economic policy, and the scheduling of immediate and truly free elections under international auspices. The United States must help brave Nicaraguans to peel away Ortega’s mask. As before, nothing is more threatening to Ortega than the truth.

Edward Lynch, Ph.D., is chair of political science at Hollins University, where he teaches courses on foreign policy and international affairs. HeThis monster-like creature, as archaeologists call it, was found on the vaulted ceiling of the tomb's corridor.

A blue monster, a winged horse and a nude deity known as the master of wind are just a few examples of fantastic images that archaeologists recently discovered in a 1,400-year-old tomb in China.

"The murals of this tomb had diversified motifs and rich connotations, many of which cannot be found in other tombs of the same period," a team of archaeologists wrote in an article recently published in the journal Chinese Archaeology.

The meaning of some of the imagery is not fully understood. The archaeologists did not speculate on why the master of wind is shown nearly naked while running in the general direction of a burial chamber, or what the vivid-blue, monster-like


creature (as archaeologists call it) represents. [See Photos of the Fantastical Murals and Ancient Tomb]

Robbed tomb

Archaeologists first learned of the tomb in the spring of 2013, finding that "the tomb had been recently looted," the archaeologists wrote. A team from Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology excavated the tomb, which is located in modern-day Xinzhou city, in 2013 and 2014.

The archaeologists found that the tomb's burial chamber had been heavily looted, with the bodies of the tomb occupants missing and only a few coffin fragments remaining. However, the team found that parts of a passageway and corridor had not been robbed and a number of artifacts, as well as many well-preserved murals, remained untouched.

The murals the team found included not only fantastic mythical imagery but also more grounded scenes,such as people trading horses, hunting and working in a gatehouse.

"Themes on ascending to heaven, horse trading, hunting, [a] grand gatehouse and the rich styles of costumes all provide valuable information for the [research] on the social life, history, culture and military practices," the archaeologists wrote.

Race against time

Numerous archaeologists have noted that China's hot antiquities market, in which artifacts fetch prices sometimes reaching into the millions (in USD), has fuelled an increase in the looting of ancient tombs.

To give but a few examples, in 2015 archaeologists reported finding the remains of a game board and 14-sided die in a heavily robbed 2,300-year-old tomb, while in 2013, police found a 1,500-year-old tomb just before robbers had finished stealing its murals.

Law-enforcement officers and archaeologists in China have often found themselves


in a race against time to discover and excavate ancient tombs before thieves take the artifacts and sell them on the antiquities market, many archaeologists and media outlets have reported. Large law-enforcement operations have also taken place to try to retrieve stolen artifacts. In 2015, the Xinhua News Agency reportedthat one massive law-enforcement operation resulted in the recovery of more than 1,100 artifacts and the arrest of more than 170 people allegedly involved in the looting of ancient tombs.

The archaeologists who recently excavated the 1,400-year-old tomb in Xinzhou reported their findings, in Chinese, in 2015 in the journal Kaogu. That report was translated into English and was recently published in the journal Chinese Archaeology.

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Football: Would-be Warriors QB finds a home

"McPhee, who led the Fighting Irish to the Golden Horseshoe Bowl high school championship at Rogers Centre last season, says Waterloo and Queen's were '1A and 1B' when he first scouted out universities to attend.

" '(Queen's) has tremendous athletic and academic programs, so I figured I might as well contact them. They showed interest and I'm heading there. I've been accepted.' "

"In Kingston, McPhee will be joined by running back Keith Lagace, a teammate for two Halton and two GHAC titles at Notre Dame. 'I've played football with him since I was six years old. We have a good chemistry. He decided to go there a long time ago. So it works out for both of us.' "

In other words, the Gaelsnow have a highly touted quarterback with a name ending in y coming out of a high school in Burlington who could eventually replace a highly successful quarterback with a name ending in y who came from a high school in Burlington. Justin Chapdelaine has a year's worth of exposure to Queen's offence, which probably puts him in the lead to replace Danny Brannagan.

It's best just to be happy for McPhee, a second cousin of Waterloo coach-in-limbo Dennis McPhee, and not use this to push any agenda. There is some vague irony that with all the fear-mongering in the wake of the War-roids furore about how CIS is starting to resemble NCAA, the first name player from Waterloo to find a new team lands at a very academic


National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks to reporters as he announces that the U.S. will pull out of a treaty with Iran during a news conference in the White House briefing room in Washington, October 3, 2018. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters

National security advisor John Bolton said Thursday "I knew in advance" that giant smartphone maker Huawei's global CFO Meng Wanzhou would be arrested in Vancouver, Canada, at the behest of U.S. authorities — but President Donald Trump reportedly was in the dark about the planned bust. Bolton also said in an interview with National Public Radio set to air later Thursday that Huawei is a company that American officials have been concerned about for various reasons. Bolton would not give details of the crime or crimes that U.S.federal prosecutors are alleging against Meng, the 46-year-old daughter of Huawei's founder, Ren Zhengfei, according to a transcript of the interview released by NPR.

"I'd rather not get into the specifics of law enforcement matters," said Bolton, who declined to answer whether the arrest was related to sanctions against Iran, as others claimed Thursday. "But we've had enormous concerns for years about the — in this country — about the practice of Chinese firms to use stolen American intellectual property, to engage in forced technology transfers, and to be used as arms of the Chinese government's objectives in terms of information technology in particular," he said. "So not respecting this particular arrest, but Huawei is one company we've been concerned about," he said. "There are others as well. I


think this is going to be a major subject of the negotiations that President Trump and President Xi Jinping agreed to in Buenos Aires." In April, the Pentagon stopped selling phones and modems made by Huawei and another company, ZTE, at stores on U.S. military bases because of possible security risks from the devices. Meng was arrested Saturday, the same day that Trump and Bolton dined with China's leader Xi at the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires.

Asked if Trump knew in advance that Meng's arrest was going to occur, Bolton said, "I don't know the answer to that." The Reuters news agency reported later Thursday, citing a White House official, that Trump had been unaware of the planned arrest at the time of that dinner. "I knew inBarnhill, J., in the Mills case, where he said: "The evidence in this record indicates that the trustee, in fact, acted both for himself, as trustee, and for the creditor, as chief executive officer. He, as the chief executive officer, demanded of himself, as trustee, that the property be foreclosed. As trustee, he advertised and sold. As manager of the creditor, he determined the amount to be bid and directed himself, as trustee, to place a bid in that amount. Then, as trustee, he placed the bid for the creditor and made the sale thereon. Prior to the sale he prepared a memorandum in his own handwriting, which was signed by his subordinate, at his direction, authorizing bids at five separate foreclosure sales to be made on the


Packard 12 Convertible Victoria

It’s hard to overstate the influence of Raymond Dietrich. He’s the creative mind behind iconic designs spanning genres and generations, and is responsible for establishing the design language that defined entire brands. After co-founding LeBaron and doing design work for Lincoln, Studebaker, Franklin, Erskine, and Checker Cab, he became the first head of design at Chrysler. Decades after his retirement from the auto business, he was hired by Gibson Guitars in the 1960s to design what would become one of the most iconic and recognizable instruments of all time—the Gibson Firebird. But for many, his custom Packards will remain his signature works, and the 1934 Convertible Twelve Victoria is perhaps the most coveted and respected.

The Twelve was Packard’s flagship—the car positioned to take on thewe have presented two fictional but realistic clinical case studies. The first case consists of the fictional development programme for an infliximab SBP candidate. The second case describes clinical studies proposed for a fictional rituximab SBP candidate. In the first scenario a highly similar quality profile has been taken forward into clinical studies whereas there was an important residual difference in functional attributes for the rituximab SBP candidate. These case studies were presented at the WHO implementation workshop for the WHO guidelines on evaluation of similar biotherapeutic products held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, in May 2014. The goal was to illustrate the interpretation of the clinical data arising from studies with SBP candidates and elicit knowledge gaps in clinical assessment. This paper reflects the outcome of the


that of Ralph Dodd, for a subway from Gravesend to Tilbury. Clarke had previously written on the subject in the Gentleman's Magazine.
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Boeing was awarded an engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) contract by USAF in 2011 to deliver 18 tankers(of the planned 179), nine sets of wing aerial refueling pods (WARPs) and two spare engines by August 2017. This was later extended to deliver first 18 aircraft and WARPs separately by October 2018.

The refeuling boom being installed on the aircraft Copyright Boeing

The first 18 aircraft will be equipped with refueling boom and centerline drogue refueling capabilities as well as all other contract required capability except the wing-aerial refueling pod (WARP)s.

The tanker is designed to replace the Air Force's aging KC-135 Stratotankers, which have been the military's primary refueling aircraft for more than 50 years.

The 767-2C based tanker integrate elements


A third's all pallid aspect offer'd more
       The traits of sleeping sorrow, and betray'd
  Through the heaved breast the dream of some far shore
       Belovéd and deplored; while slowly stray'd
  (As night-dew, on a cypress glittering, tinges
  The black bough) tear-drops through her eyes' dark fringes.

I immediately thought that this meant bullshit, but then I consulted dictionaries and discovered that bullshit was coined in the 20th century. Yet it clearly means "false information" here.
If not from bullshit, what does it derive from?

A:

Bull, without the attending excrement, has meant "exaggerations; lies; nonsense" since the early seventeenth century. The excrement emerged in the early twentieth, and since then bull has seemed to beto still further features in the described preferred embodiments, the at least one wildcard in a primary position is followed by a split bit.
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in the described preferred embodiments, the storing of at least one set of entries in the radix-search tree includes: (i) finding at least two split bits within the set of entries, and (ii) selecting at least one of the at least two split bits according to a minimum wildcard criterion.
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Phillies acquire Justin Bour from Miami

Justin Bour at bat during a game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park on August 2, 2018. (Photo by Hunter Martin/Getty Images)

Even with veteran Carlos Santana at first base and Rhys Hoskins as a backup for first base, the Phillies went out and acquired first baseman Justin Bour from the Miami Marlins. Bour, who has only played at first base in his major league career, was claimed off waivers by the Phillies who then worked out a deal to acquire Bour and cash from the Marlins for minor league pitcher McKenzie Mills.

In 112 games with the Marlins this season, Bour had a slash line of 19-54-.227/.347/.412 as a first baseman and designated hitter. In his career, he’s played in 478 majorpitching.

While the Phillies have been searching to upgrade their bench, adding a player who is positionally limited to playing only at first base is an odd addition.

The Phillies had acquired Mills, along with international slot pool money, from Washington last July when they traded Howie Kendrick to the Nats. Mills, 22, has spent the season with Clearwater and was 2-5 with a 3.51 ERA in 16 starts and four relief appearances with Clearwater. In 89 2/3 innings this season, the left-hander struck out 85 batters and walked 33. Over three minor league seasons, Mills was a combined 19-20, 4.01 since being drafted by the Nationals in the 18th round of the 2014 Draft.

To make room for Bour on the 40-man roster, pitcher Jake Thompson has been designated for


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Single Minded Focus and the Formula One Driver

By coming out of retirement, as he did a few years ago, Michael Schumacher could only stand to lessen his reputation. Were he dominant again, people would have no different an impression of him than from before; were he to stumble and not win endlessly to the point of monotony his reputation of peerless invincibility – whether you liked him or not – would be gone.

Being Michael, and by definition remarkable, he came back anyway, in a Mercedes no less, and the Silver Arrow has indeed become tarnished. Michael himself, now 43, seems more relaxed than ever, and offered a remarkable insight at the recent Monaco Grand Prix. He was asked about good memories of Monaco:

“We always as a raceof mind, to squeeze everything out of himself and the car for those eighty odd seconds it takes to get from the pits up the hill to the Casino, and then back down again past the Tip Top Bar, through the tunnel and around the Monte Carlo waterfront.

Michael made his comments and I drafted this piece before he put the car on pole for the 2012 Monaco Grand Prix. The Arrow may be tarnished, but that incredible, unholy ability to focus remains, and Bigad it is exciting to watch.

NB: I was delayed in watching the Monaco GP because I was busily catching up on Indianapolis 500 history, since ESPN were screening races from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Similarly exciting to watch and possessed with that same unholy


In the French film “The Other Son,” it is revealed that two boys, one who has grown up in an Israeli family and the other in a Palestinian family, were accidentally switched at birth. The two families struggle as they reconsider their respective identities and values with regards to mothers and fathers. We talked to the director, Lorraine Levy, who views the Israel-Palestinian problem from a unique standpoint, producer Virginie Lacomb, and actor Jules Sitruk, who played Joseph.

–Virginie, the project started when you received the movie treatment. What kind of potential did you see and how did you approach Ms. Levy?

Virginie Lacomb: As I read the treatment the movie was vivid in my mind, and I knew it would be good. I showed it to a good friendthe coolest models we've shot in a long time. She was ready to try anything at least once! She likes smart guys who have a sense of humor, but she likes girls as well. She also likes to get dirty in her garden and to take long walks on the beach. Her favorite fantasy is to get freaky on a tropical island. Considering that she likes to have sex as many times per day as possible, that might make surviving a shipwreck with her less of a challenge and more of a dream! In her spare time she likes to write poetry, dance, and play the piano. Her measurements are 34-24-34.