representative of minority descent, to forbid minority-white admission ratios to the apprenticeship program once valid job-related tests have been adopted, and to extend back pay to persons who can prove by testimonial evidence that they applied to and were rejected by Local 28 and the JAC for unlawful reasons.

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So modified, the order is affirmed.

FEINBERG, Circuit Judge (concurring):

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Because Judge Smith's opinion accurately tracks the law of this circuit as it now stands, I concur in the result we are required to reach.  However, I believe it appropriate to set forth the following views.

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Judge Smith correctly describes the holding of Kirkland v. New York State Dep't of Correction Servs., 520 F.2d 420 (2d Cir. 1975), as allowing temporary quotas as a remedial measure only when there has been aImpact of Gestational Weight Gain on Trial of Labor after Cesarean Success.
Excessive gestational weight gain (GWG) has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes, including increased risk of cesarean delivery (CD). Data are limited on associations between GWG and outcomes in women undergoing trial of labor after cesarean (TOLAC). We aimed to investigate whether appropriate GWG impacts TOLAC outcomes. We performed a retrospective cohort study of women undergoing TOLAC at a single institution from May 2007 to April 2016. Women were divided into three groups based on GWG as compared with the Institute of Medicine recommendations. The primary outcome was successful vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). Secondary outcomes included various perinatal morbidity markers. A total of 614 women underwent TOLAC, of whom 444 (72.3%) had successful VBACs. When grouped


or the Cannery near Aquatic Park. In the 1960s, each of those brick-clad bastions of food production was reborn as an enclave of shops and restaurants, every bit as trendy as the Ferry Building today. But in the San Francisco of 2017, Ghirardelli Square’s main draw for locals is the ice cream. The Cannery has been colonized by the Academy of Art University.

Layer upon layer upon layer.

This week I paused on First Street near Market, where Oceanwide Center will rise — a 61-story tower designed to hold 109 ultra-luxe condominiums perched atop roughly 1 million square feet of office space.

To make way for the futuristic tower to be, three buildings were torn down. In the process, faded advertisements were exposed on the neighbor to the west, a four-storyWhere Sibelius Fell Silent

The stove, made at the local brickworks, is chunky and rustic, with a glistening green finish (Sibelius saw colours as keys: green was F major, yellow D major). I bent down and tried to open the small steel doors, to see exactly where all that potential music had turned to ash. But they were screwed shut—not, it transpired, out of any piety, rather because in the years of Aino's widowhood the stove had been converted to electricity. Electricity also powered the library's shiny walnut-cased radiogram which the head of Philips gave Sibelius in the early 1950s. This was the last of a series of such instruments on which, all through the three decades of his personal silence, music had come into Ainola from Berlin, London,


Paris and New York. Or from just 40 kilometres away. At the exact time Sibelius lay dying, on September 20th 1957, the Helsinki City Orchestra was playing his Fifth Symphony under Sir Malcolm Sargent. Naturally, the concert was being broadcast on Finnish radio, and Aino later recalled that she had been tempted to turn on the radiogram, in the hope that her husband's music might bring him back to consciousness; but in the end, she decided not to.

In his last year, Sibelius wrote in his diary:

The swans are always on my mind, and they lend magnificence to life. It is strange to note that nothing in the whole world, not in art, literature or music, has such an effect on me as these swans and cranes and beanEmmy Award nominations 2017: 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Westworld' lead "Saturday Night Live" and "Westworld" led the way with 22 total nods.

 -- The nominations for the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards were announced Thursday morning, and a handful of new shows — like "Westworld," "The Handmaid's Tale," "This Is Us," "Feud: Bette and Joan" and "Big Little Lies" — scored big.

Some nods for new shows went to Elizabeth Moss for "The Handmaid's Tale," Milo Ventimiglia for "This Is Us," Donald Glover for "Atlanta," Riz Ahmed and John Turturro for "The Night Of," Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman for "Big Little Lies" and Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange for "Feud."

Actors in familiar roles — like Jeffrey Tambor from "Transparent," Viola Davis from "How to Get Away With Murder" and


Kevin Spacey from "House of Cards" — were nominated as well.

"Saturday Night Live" and "Westworld" led the way with 22 nominations apiece, followed by "Stranger Things" and "Feud," with 18 each.

"Veep" star Anna Chlumsky and former "Criminal Minds" star Shemar Moore announced the nominations from the Wolf Theatre in the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, California.

Moore had a little surprise at the end for his co-announcer. An envelope was taken onto the stage to reveal that Chlumsky was nominated yet again, for the fifth straight year.

"So, you're like the Meryl Streep of TV," Moore joked.

Comedian Stephen Colbert is slated to host this year's Emmy Awards, which will air Sunday, Sept. 17.

The nominees in the top categories:

Lead actress in a drama series

Viola Davis, "How to Get Away Withtrue self-insert character: an awkward, faceless young man who finds himself saving Noire and becoming her secretary. Now, in addition to the normal comedic storytelling of the series, players will be able to be praised for their hard work by every CPU except for Noire, who offers up heaping helpings of tsundere on the reg.

Those are pretty big changes from the main universe, but perhaps the largest is the addition of a true self-insert character: an awkward, faceless young man who finds himself saving Noire and becoming her secretary. Now, in addition to the normal comedic storytelling of the series, players will be able to be praised for their hard work by every CPU except for Noire, who offers up heaping helpings of tsundere on the reg.

They even


from 2010, Jason Barr of Rutgers University looked at 458 skyscrapers (those at least 100 metres tall) completed in Manhattan between 1895 and 2004. The number of skyscrapers built and their average height depended in part on the growth in population and employment in office jobs. But Mr Barr's calculations suggest that the height of towers was also shaped by those nearby, especially during economic booms. In the 1920s, Mr Barr estimates, New York builders added four to six more floors per project, just to stand out in the skyline.Onchocerciasis in Ecuador: the situation in 1989.
Details are given of the prevalence rates of onchocerciasis from the most recent surveys (1989) conducted in northern Ecuador. The disease has intensified and dispersed considerably due to migration of infected individuals and the presence of a highly efficient vector. Comparison of these data with those from two previous surveys carried out in 1982/83 and 1986 and correlated with entomological findings highlight the danger of the formation of new foci of onchocerciasis in areas currently free of the disease. Recommendations are made for further entomological studies in areas either recently or likely to be affected by the disease where potential vectors are unknown or different to those registered in the Santiago focus. Ivermectin treatment with local vector control in specific areas is


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In Togo, there are conflicting laws regulating access to nationality. The 1992 Constitution provides that nationality is acquired by children who have one parent who is Togolese, whether the father or the mother. The 1978 nationality code, however, has not been amended and discriminates on the basis of gender in transmission of nationality to children (Togolese mothers can only pass on their nationality if the father is stateless or unknown). The 2007 Code de l’enfant, meanwhile, als0 provides detailed provisions on nationality, which are gender neutral. The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against women regretted this confusion in 2012.

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child reports that despite some signs of progress in the improvement in ensuring the rights of children, and adoption ofnew legislation, 50 percent of children are still not registered at birth. Without birth certificates, a child cannot later obtain an identity card.

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The flying saucer shape building is called the Buzludzha Monument, It is located in Buzludzha National Park in the Central Stara Planina, right in the middle of Bulgaria.

So what is the story of this construction exactly? In 1891 the socialists led by Dimitar Blagoev assembled secretly in the area to form an organised socialist movement. In honour of this act was built the Buzludzha Monument, one of the symbols of the socialism in Bulgaria. The building is now abandoned but still stands alone in the most beautiful landscape.

The flying saucer shape building is called the Buzludzha Monument, It is located in Buzludzha National Park in the Central Stara Planina, right in the middle of Bulgaria.So what is the story of this construction exactly? In 1891 the socialists ledchoose the oval orange tourmaline medallion pendant with diamonds or the diamond and yellow gold locket, its sure too make a statement.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Finally Shilpa Shetty got married to her British Indian beau Raj Kundra. The ubiquity of her wedding talks on television and print has been a bit much, but we still can't miss the bride's and her friends' pictures on her wedding ceremony and reception.

Shilpa Wedding's Grand Reception

Shilpa Shetty and Raj Kundra's grand wedding reception was held at Grand Hyatt, Mumbai and, it goes without saying, was attended by who who's of the business and glam world.

For the reception Shilpa wore a sequineed golden Tarun Tahiliani contemporary lehenga, inspired by a dress, while the British businessman, Raj Kundra wore a black sherwani by the duo


Shantanu and Nikhil.

I'd say I was disapponted by the bride, who didn't pay much attention to her groom. His sherwani was rather disappointing and we wish he would have worn something better. As for Shilpa, she certainly looked stunning. But considering it was her wedding, a more traditional lehenga would have been better suited for the reception. There's nothing like a demure bride. She's looking more like ready for an item number, than a bride.

Shilpa Shetty's wedding reception was a star-studded affair with bigwigs Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Hrithik Roshan attending the wedding ceremony to wish the couple a happy life ahead. Let's see who wore what at the occassion..

Shamita Shetty, certainly not the guest but family, wore a blue green Manish Malhotra saree for theStars Awards in NYC

Gwen Stefani looked absolutely stunning at 26th Annual Night of Stars Awards in New York City. She kept it short and simple and something about this look is just so perfect. Gwen gives us a refreshing change and honestly not missing the red lip look she usually dawns.

She wore a belted halter dress, a L.A.M.B. clutch, Lorraine Schwartz jewelry and patent peep-toe pumps. She took a classic LBD and added a high-gloss belt, instantly transforming it into edgy leg-baring dress with high/low hemline that perfectly suits her rock-star style and adds a touch of charm.

Gwen looks great! She looks pretty and demure..

.Eva Longoria Parker at the Rally for Kids with Cancer in Miami

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Eva Longoria Parker wore an electric-blue dress and taupe pumps at the Rally


for kids with cancer scavenger hunt at the Eden Roc Hotel in Miami Beach. The cobalt sheath does the perfect justice to her curves..

Reese Witherspoon continues to delight with her always so perfect look. She chose to wear a black and white look at the Avon Foundation's - Champions Who Change Womens Lives.

At another event Reese Witherspoon and Avon celebrate the launch of her new fragrance In Bloom by Reese Witherspoon in Times Square, NYC on Wednesday. For the occassion, she wore a gorgeous red embroidered L’Wren Scott dress from the Spring 2010 collection.

Jessica Alba looked stylish in the casual ensemble while she was out and about in Beverly Hills with her daughter. Alba wore a sleep striped cardigan, slim fit jeansand knee-high suede bots, along with aPresident Trump told Republican senators that the House health care bill is "mean" and that the Senate version should be "more generous," CBS News' John Nolen confirmed, citing a congressional source.

The remarks, first reported by the Associated Press, were a surprising critique of a Republican-written House measure whose passage Mr. Trump fought for and embraced. They also seem to undercut efforts by Senate conservatives to impose restrictions in their chamber's legislation, such as curbing the Medicaid health care program for the poor and limiting the services insurers must cover.

The sources say the president did not say what aspects of the bill he was characterizing. Mr. Trump's comments were described by people who received accounts of a White House lunch the president had Tuesday with 15 GOP senators. They


spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal a closed-door conversation.

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A White House official declined to comment to CBS News.

The report about Mr. Trump's comments emerged moments after Mr. Trump lashed out against Obamacare, and touted the future of health care during brief remarks in Wisconsin, where he landed Tuesday afternoon to discuss workforce development, the White House's theme for the week.

The president's private comments seem to fly in the face of his public ones, in which he has called the House bill, "incredibly well crafted," among other things.

Mr. Trump lauded the House's health care bill when it passed last month, hosting a celebratory event in the White House Rose Garden with GOP members of Congress.

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1875, some high-profile cases were investigated by a “special prosecutor.” Special prosecutors were simply Justice Department employees tasked with conducting a particular investigation; their “special” designation was a matter of political norms rather than a protected legal status. The public nature of these appointments and the sensitivity of the task provided a political deterrent to firing them, but the president retained that power and sometimes used it. Three of the first ten special prosecutors appointed before 1978 were fired, including the very first one, by Ulysses S. Grant. Grant fired a special prosecutor for criticizing the president in an argument to a jury; Harry Truman’s attorney general fired one for an overly intrusive investigation (Truman, who disagreed, reacted by sacking the AG); and Richard Nixon famously had Archibaldleading a Department of Public Integrity, would take an increasingly troublesome burden off the back of the Justice Department while avoiding the inherent flaws of the special prosecutor and the independent counsel.

Structurally, to give the inspector general and Department of Public Integrity a critical mass of personnel and ongoing caseload, Congress could begin by transferring into it the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department, which currently handles federal criminal investigations and prosecutions involving state and local governments. It could also include the inspectors general of each cabinet department, who already conduct civil probes but have something of a checkered record and could probably benefit as well from the institutional cohesion of a department devoted wholly to investigating the government. The department could also be given its own


The operators of a drone involved in injuring an athlete in a West Australian triathlon have been referred to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority.

The referral means the operators could be prosecuted if the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions decides that there is reasonable evidence to make a case in court.

Raija Ogden is taken away on a stretcher. Credit:Everything Geraldton

In early April, Raija Ogden was running in Geraldton's Endure Batavia Triathlon, about 420 kilometres north of Perth, when she said she was hit on the head by a drone filming participants when it crashed. Paramedics were called and a witness said a “river of blood” ran down her face.

"I have lacerations on my head from the drone and the ambulance crew tookMarea (restaurant)

Marea is an Italian and seafood restaurant located at 240 Central Park South (between Broadway and Seventh Avenue) in Manhattan in New York City, opened in May 2009 by chef Michael White.

It won the James Beard Award for best new restaurant in 2010. Marea received two stars in the Michelin guide, and was featured on the show Top Chef: All Stars.

In 2013, Zagats gave it a food rating of 28, the top rating for any Italian restaurant in Manhattan.

In July 2013, Marea was the restaurant chosen for the Financial Times column "Lunch with the FT" with the guest being Ron Perelman.

Anthony Bourdain named it as one of his favorite places to dine in New York City.

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 List of Italian restaurants

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The FINANCIAL -- Americans' approval of the U.S. Congress remains low at 18%, though the rating has recovered after dropping to 13% in July. The rating in August ties with the highest measured in 2016 so far. Approval of the institution has been below 20% in most of Gallup's monthly measures since February 2010.

Approval ratings of Congress were in the 30% range in 2009 during the honeymoon period for President Barack Obama and a newly installed Democratic majority. However, by early 2010, approval faltered and has since averaged 16%, according to Gallup.

This month's improvement in Americans' approval of Congress, recorded in an Aug. 3-7 Gallup poll, coincides with a 10-percentage-point increase in the percentage of adults who say they are satisfied with the direction of the U.S. Bothmeasures had taken a hit in July before they rebounded this month.

Over more than 15 years, Americans' approval of Congress has largely paralleled their satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. at large. In most polls between 2001 and 2012, the two measures have come within 10 points of each other. On only a few occasions -- after the attacks on 9/11, prior to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq and in the first couple of months of Obama's presidency -- did Congress' approval rating surpass that of satisfaction with the U.S. by more than 10 points.

Early in 2012, Americans' satisfaction with the direction of the U.S. improved while their approval of Congress did not. Since then, the two metrics have continued to run in


parallel, but satisfaction has consistently outpaced Congress' job approval by as much as 17 percentage points. This more negative attitude toward Congress mirrors other indicators showing that Americans are at or near record lows in their confidence in the executive and judicial branches, and the federal government in general.

Despite controlling both chambers of Congress, Republicans remain least approving of the institution, at 13%, while about one in five independents (20%) and Democrats (19%) approve of the job Congress is doing.

Bottom Line

The increase in Congress' job approval this month is a modestly positive sign for the institution, but 18% is still historically low. In addition to being the least trusted branch of government, the legislative branch's approval rating has not seen any lasting improvements in recent years.

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Betitius Perpetuus Arzygius

Betitius Perpetuus Arzygius (c. 285 - aft. 312/314) was a Corrector Provinciae of Sicilia in 312/314.

He was the son of Betitius (born c. 255) and wife Aurelia (born c. 260), daughter of Aurelius (born c. 235) and paternal granddaughter of Marcus Aurelius Cominius Arzygius, paternal grandson of Betitius (born c. 230) and wife, great-grandson of Betitius (born c. 205) and wife and great-great-grandson of Gaius Betitius Pius and wife Seia Fuscinilla, sister of Seius Sallustius, Roman usurper Emperor.

He married and had:
 Betitia (born c. 300), married to Faltonius Probus (born c. 295), son of Faltonius (born c. 260) and wife Maecia Proba (born c. 270) and paternal grandson of Faltonius Pinianus, and had issue.

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Continuité gentilice et continuité sénatoriale dans les familles sénatoriales romaines à l'époqueby the official news agency IRNA.

Arash is a mythical hero of ancient Persia. According to legend, he was instructed to shoot an arrow that would determine the country’s border. He exerted all his strength to shoot the arrow a great distance, but was destroyed in the process.

Relations between Tehran and London are at an all-time low.

London closed its embassy in Tehran after a rampage of the building by Islamist students in November 2011. Britain was one of the first European countries to adopt sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank to put pressure on the Islamic republic for its disputed nuclear programme.

And in February 2011, Iran protested to the International Olympic Committee against the official logo of the 2012 Olympics, claiming it was “racist”, an accusation the London Organising


CANADA: Underground Runaway

In the sooty town of Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia there was cheer one morning
last week. The Princess Colliery, owned by Dominion Steel & Coal Corp.
Ltd., had announced that it was putting on extra shifts so that the
miners could earn something for Christmas. Shops broke out with
holiday decorations and Sydney Mines was festive. But the cheer lasted only a day.

The Princess mine, one of the oldest in the Cape Breton area, was opened
in 1867. So many tons have been gouged from its insides that the main
shaft now runs...the giant cultural festival known as the Ichihanaransai has arrived.
At the same time, Kamijou Touma has finally returned to Academy City. After his Anti-Gremlin expedition caused by World War 3 in Russia, he has finally returned to his tender and peaceful everyday life with Index and Misaka Mikoto...or so Kamijou Touma optimistically hoped. With the appearance of an unexpected person, his hopes have vanished into thin air! Who is this ultimate rival that has appeared before him?
Hamazura runs around Academy City while acting as the guardian of Fremea who has a habit of getting herself lost, Accelerator is back to normal as he gets pissed at having to babysit Last Order, Level 5 Mugino Shizuri makes home cooked meals as part of her rehabilitation, and more. With Academy


NAT FYFE is the best player in the AFL, almost-Cat Patrick Dangerfield is second and Port Adelaide will again have three players among the 50 top shelf footballers in Australia when the first ball is bounced in 2016.

So says The Advertiser's Michelangelo Rucci, whose annual top 50 puts Robbie Gray, Chad Wingard and Travis Boak in the top 25 players in the competition.

In another telling ranking of the Power's standout trio Gray (at No. 17) and Wingard (ranked 19th) are virtually inseperable, adding weight to the possibility that the mercurial mid-forwards will lead the John Cahill Medal vote count on Friday 5 December.

Port Adelaide skipper Travis Boak was ranked 24th - still among the game's elite, but a 15-position drop on his rating in Rucci's pre-season top 50.

GrayBefore Sam Fuld appeared in 598 major league games and attracted a following as a scrappy outfielder, he earned an economics degree from Stanford. A few years ago, he would have had two choices upon retirement: Go to work for a big league organization as an outfield-baserunning coach or pursue a job at an investment banking firm on Wall Street.

Now a Plan C career path exists for Fuld. Four months ago, it took him to a conference room at Spectrum Field in Clearwater, Florida, where he spent several days explaining weighted on-base average to 63 Philadelphia Phillies in English and Spanish.

Fuld, 36, joined the Phillies in November as the team's major league player-information coordinator. His mandate is clear: to bridge the divide between the statistical and scouting worlds


and dispense knowledge to players who are receptive to new ideas.

MLB organizations are embracing a new reality: Valuable insights can be conveyed every day, and they're more likely to resonate with players when delivered by a front-office member of the uniformed fraternity than a front-office official with a statistics degree and a 2400 SAT score.

"Just having that perspective and having some dirt in my spikes, I think it helps," Fuld said.

The analytics-as-a-teaching-tool narrative took a quantum leap a year ago, when Logan Morrison, Justin Smoak and Yonder Alonso all went "launch angle" and posted the best power numbers of their careers.

In the constant quest for an edge, teams are adding a new position to help players enter the age of enlightenment. In November, the Red Sox hired RamonVazquez as "a liaison between the major league club's advance scouting and statistical analysis efforts for the purpose of presenting information to players and coaches." Alex Cora, Boston's manager, had seen how valuable Alex Cintron was in a similar role with the world champion Houston Astros.

In Anaheim, former MLB closer Andrew Bailey is an assistant to Steve Soliz, the Angels' catching and information coach. Bailey is filling a role similar to the one Brian Bannister has used to help Boston's pitchers.

Before he was an assistant to the Angels' catching and information coach, Andrew Bailey spent eight years in the majors, finishing his career in Los Angeles. John Cordes/Icon Sportswire

As the numbers evolve, front offices are making a greater effort to educate players on decisions that go into shaping


the fastball in, so go ahead and offer at it.' He's a veteran, and he has multiple years in the game, so I think it carries a little more weight."

Each year, stories emerge about players taking the initiative to improve their performance. Colorado reliever Adam Ottavino benefited from a visit to the Driveline Baseball facility in suburban Seattle and some work on his mechanics and his pitch mix. Former first-rounder Colin Moran revived a flagging career with some swing changes in Pittsburgh after it became clear his approach wasn't cutting it in Houston.

Cleveland pitcher Trevor Bauer was once considered a rogue voice when he arrived in professional ball from UCLA and shared his innovative approach to training and analytics. Now that he's relatively in the mainstream, Bauer expectscontract with San Diego after years of being pilloried for his high ground-ball rate. In his first season with the Padres, Hosmer ranks 12th among MLB first basemen with a .779 OPS and 14th with a 1.2 WAR. He's logging numbers close to his career norms, with a ground-ball rate of 60.4 percent -- third-highest in the majors.

After taking years to refine their approaches, some big leaguers are reluctant to tinker with success. Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich is a .290 career hitter with a Silver Slugger award on his résumé, but he also hears how he could benefit from getting the ball airborne more frequently.

"The FanGraphs and analytics people are always telling me, 'You need to hit more fly balls,'" Yelich said. "Every year, wherever you go, there


is that it is a great public space â€” a place where autoworkers and millionaires can come together to cheer on their team."

Yep. Autoworkers and millionaires coming togeth--

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Oops. That damn reality,it's no wonder he didn't win more. 44% of his games were against ranked teams. 23% were against teams that finished in the Top Ten. That's an average of almost 3 top ten opponents a season! A good part of this is because his tenure overlapped with FSU's glory years, and the rest probably due to the SEC being strong (as well as Florida making a lot of SEC title games and good bowl games). In this respect, he's very similar to Lou Holtz: excellent numbers but very daunting schedules.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have our good friends in the Big Twelve, Bob Stoops and Mack Brown. Stoops has played the smallest percentage of Top Ten teams; Brown barely plays more than 1 team ranked


of them made it to the endzone. Not once has a Michigan gunner flagged down one of the many opportunities Zoltan The Inconceivable has provided to pin opponents deep. More evidence of disjointed coaching on special teams, yes? ZTI ended up so disgusted that he booted a second-half punt into the endzone, saving the crowd the trouble of hoping.

At this point it looks like Michigan is going to have a bonafide tailback rotation in 2008 for the first time since Anthony Thomas took over for Clarence and Howard in 1998. (Unless you'd like to count the brief Askew-Perry here, but IIRC that was short-lived due to injury.) Grady, Minor, and Brown are all likely to receive carries, and probably for most of the year.

Another day, another disturbing inabilityto stop read option dives. At least with Mendenhall and Jonathan Stewart you could console yourself with the idea those guys would be playing in the NFL before long. This Bennett kid? Not so much. Fortunately, it looks like we're done with the damned spread option until the bowl game; unfortunately it's doubtful that Michigan's weakness against the interior rush is limited to just one particular play.

I don't know if the pass interference call on Warren was legit, but even if it was that sort of tough in-your-face defending bodes extremely well for his future. Draped on the receiver, he found the ball and made a play on it. The recruiting hype on him, at least, was 100% accurate.

Brandon Harrison has come into his own as a detonator


some point, Neanderthals learned how to use the thick, furry hides from these animals to keep themselves warm and dry. With this discovery, clothing was born. It is not certain when people first started wearing clothes, however, anthropologists give estimates that range between 100,000 to 500,000 years ago. The first clothes were made from natural elements: animal skin and furs, grasses and leaves, and bones and shells. Clothing was often draped or tied; however, simple needles made out of animal bone provide evidence of sewn leather and fur garments from at least 30,000 years ago.

When settled neolithic cultures discovered the advantages of woven fibres over animal hides, the making of cloth, drawing on basketry techniques, emerged as one of humankind’s fundamental technologies.

Cro-Magnon man considered the next stage indown. The arms stuck through the open sides, and the garment was either closed with a belt or additional ties were placed at the sides to hold the garment on the body. This tunic was the ancestor of the shirt.

One of the most important Cro-Magnon inventions was the needle. Needles were made out of slivers of animal bone; they were sharpened to a point at one end and had an eye at the other end. With a needle, Cro-Magnon man could sew carefully cut pieces of fur into better fitting garments.

Evidence suggests that Cro- Magnon people developed close-fitting pants and shirts that would protect them from the cold, as well as shawls, hoods, and long boots. Because they had not learned how to tan hides to soften them,


the animal skin would have been stiff at first, but with repeated wearings, it would become very soft and comfortable.

Much of what is known about early clothing is a patchwork of very little evidence and good guesses. Only fragments of very early clothing have survived, so archaeologists have relied on cave drawings, carved figures, and such things as the imprint of stitched together skins in a fossilized mud floor to develop their picture of early clothing. The discovery of the remains of a man who died 5,300 years ago in the mountains of Austria, near the border with Italy, helped confirm much of what these archaeologists had discovered. The body of this male hunter had been preserved in ice for over five thousand years, and many fragments ofhis clothing had survived.

Archaeologists pieced together his garments, and they found that the Iceman, as he became known, wore a complex outfit. Carefully sewn leggings covered his lower legs, and a thin leather loincloth was wrapped around his genitals and buttocks. Over his body, the man wore a long-sleeved fur coat that extended nearly to his knees. The coat was sewn from many pieces of fur, with the fur on the outside. It was likely held close by some form of a belt. On his feet the man wore animal hide short boots, stitched together with hiding and stuffed with grass, probably to keep his feet warm in the snow. On his head, the man wore a simple cap of thick fur. Though the Iceman discovered in Austria


appeared much later than the earliest Cro-Magnon man, the way his clothing was made confirmed the basic techniques and materials of early clothing. The ravages of time have destroyed most direct evidence of the clothing of early man, however.

Hand and hand with the history of clothing goes the history of textiles. Humans had to invent weaving, spinning and other techniques and the machines needed to be able to make the fabrics used for clothing

Before sewing machines, nearly all clothing was local and hand-sewn, there were tailors and seamstresses in most towns that could make individual items of clothing for customers. After the sewing machine was invented, the ready-made clothing industry took off.

ORIGIN OF COSTUMES

The word costume is derived from a Latin word “consuetudo”, which means a complete setHowie had furnished the
cabin with. Softly, almost gently, Chris took Nick's flaccid cock in his
hand, and began stroking. Nick wached cautiously. Howie had done this to
him before, and then at the moment of his orgasam, had suddenly bit him. He
still had marks on his dick from that.
Chris was stroking gently, smiling. "God Nick, You don't know how much
I've wanted to do this" he said, as Nick's arousal began to show. He then
took the head in his mouth, sucking. Nick swallowed, and there was a dry
click in his throat. Howie had once masturbated him, but never had either
of the two given him head. He was worried, that Howie would come in and
scare Chris or it was something they had planned. He knew, that if suddenly
startled a person could piss


himself, jump up, or suddenly bite down..
Chris began taking the length of his 10 inches in, slowly, but as if he
had done it before. He then began bobbin his head back and forth, trying to
take the rest in. Running his tounge along the underside of Nick's member,
and then dragging his teeth, creating a friction which made Nick gasp in
pleasure and run his hands through Chris' short hair. Suddenly aware of
what he had done, his eyes widened and he immidently. Chris seemed to take
no notice and continued to suck and lick on Nick. Chris's hands came up,
and began jacking gently what he couldn't fit in his mouth at the time.
"Chris" It was almost a plea, "Don't hurt me please I won't be able to
stop from cumming, please Chris, don'thurt me don't please" Suddenly he
felt the familar tingling in his sack, and tears began rolling themselves
down his face. He didn't make a sound, sure of his impending doom. He came
violently, making Chris' cheeks bulge out slightly. To his complete
surprise, Chris swallowed it all, and continued sucking, as if hungry for
more.
Covering his eyes with his hands, Nick continued crying softly. He felt
Chris draw away and stand up. He cringed, then heard the familar squeaking
of the chair springs as Chris sat down. He peeked through his fingers,
surprised.
"You're not gonna.. hurt me?" God, he sounded so small and scared. He
hated the way Chris and Howie had this affect on him.
"Do you want me too?"
"No!! Please no!!"
"Then I won't." Chris placidly picked up a magazine and began
reading. Nick uncovered his eyes,


huddled and
watched Chris, praying he didn't get the urge to torture him to death
before Howie got back..
A few minutes later, the sound of Howie's car's tires crunching agianst
the gravel, and Nick breathed a sigh of relief. Howie walked into the room,
grinning broadly.
"Chris, I couldn't find a girl, but, I've got the next best thing" He
said, puzzling both Chris and Nick, "Nick. Come with me"
Nick got up slowly, making his way over to Howie. Howie grabbed him by the
hair, extracting a shout, which was followed by a sharp slapping sound as
Howie smacked him.
"Shut up. C'mon" Howie dragged him to the bathroom by his hair. Biting his
lip, Nick shambled quickly, trying to keep up.
In about fifteen minutes, Chris heard shouts from the bathroom.
"I REFUSE." Nick's voice, filled with hate andanger shouted.
"You will" Howie had managed to keep his cool, although inside he was
seething.
"I POINT BLANK REFUSE TO DO IT NO WAY BUSTER." Smack. Howie had swung
all the way from his heels, and the blow nearly knocked Nick backwards. he
stood his ground, glaring down at Howie.
"You'll do it." Howie glared back at him, "Or I'll let Chris kill you."
This made Nick pause, and glare. Taking this oppertunity, Howie grabbed
Nick's arm, and threw him out the bathroom door.
Nick stumbled, almost fell and righted himself agian. Chris stood up,
laughing.
When Howie had left, he had gone directly to a clothing store. While
there, he picked up a pair of high heeled shoes, a short grey skirt, a pair
of knee high socks, a grey blazer, and a white blouse. Then, heading over
to a


Victoria Secret, he bought a lacy bra and underwear. After that, he
stopped at a Rite Aid, buying make up, and a fifty cent candy bar. Then, he
finally made his way to a sex shop, and bought a pair of fake breasts, and
a wig.
Now, the results of Howie's trip, and Howie steady hand, stood in the way
of the bathroom door way, looking about ready to cry.
Nick stood, in a makeshift Catholic School Uniform, and Covergirl make
up, his fake blonde hair streaming past his shoulders. Howie had also
bought some kind of glue, and the wig would not move until the glue wore
off, in about three days.
"Damn" Chris said, walking up to Nick and looking him over
professionally, "He looks good as a girl!"
"Thats right" Howie grinned, slapping Nick's ass, "Chris, meetNicole,
Nicole, Chris."
"I won't do it I refuse!!" Nick said, crossing his arms and glaring, "I
albsolutely ref--" He was silenced by a pair of lips on his, and a tounge
forcing its way into his mouth. He backed away, looking at Chris
disgustedly. Howie pinched his ass hard, making him jump and yelp.
Chris grabbed him agian, and then kissed him roughly. With a whimper, Nick
gave in, letting Chris do what he wanted.
Howie put his hands around Nick's waist, and pulled him away from
Chris. "Don't mess up his make up now" He laughed, then pointed at the
table, "Now, Strip for us baby" He then helped Nick up on the table, where
he stood.
"He said, strip!" Chris echoed, watching with bright eyes.
"I--" Nick paused, choking back a sob, "I need music"
"No you don't, Just


dance woman!" Howie said, slapping Nick on the ass
agian. Nick began slowly unbuttoning the blazer, rotating his hips slowly,
trying to do as they said.
Chris sat down agian, watching with an amused look. Howie sat closer,
grinning.
Nick tossed the blazer down, and began unbuttoning his blouse.
"My God" Chris said, when his breasts came into veiw, "They look so
real!"
Howie nodded, now sporting an erection. "Yeah, and I used the same kind of
cement I used on the wig, they'll be there for a couple of days"
"Thats fucking hot."
By now, Nick was in just his panties, socks, and shoes. Suddenly, Chris
got up, pulled him down, ripped off the underwear, and slammed into Nick in
one thrust.
Nick gasped in pain. He had been fucked a lot, but whenever either of them
entered him without anything, noteven spit, on their cocks, it hurt so
bad.
Chris began roughly fucking him, bringing little gasps of pain from
him. Howie's light brown cock suddenly appeared in his face, and he took it
into his mouth, and began sucking.
"Godamn!" Howie grunted, "Look at this little slut! She's just cock
hungry!!"
He wipes his eyes agian, looking at me sadly. "I was so humilated.. it
was like.. I wasn't a man anymore.. they robbed me of what little dignity I
had."
I softly kiss his cheeks, tasting the salt from his tears.
"I-- It wasn't the fact that they hurt me so bad that made me snap" He
whispers, as if explaining, "It was the fact that Howie was fuh-- doing
Chris, and they still did all that to me"
Suddenly, he seems to snap out of whatever daz he had


Amy Sinden

Amy Sinden is the James E. Beasley Professor of Law at the Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and at the Temple-Tsinghua Masters of Law program in Beijing,China. She is a member of the board of directors of the Center for Progressive Reform.

Professor Sinden has taught, lectured, and written in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, regulatory design, and cost-benefit analysis, human rights, and climate change.

Before joining the Temple Law School faculty in 2001, Professor Sinden served as senior counsel for Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, handling litigation on behalf of PennFuture and other citizens' and environmental groups. Prior to this position, she was an associate attorney for Earthjustice Legal DefenseFund (formerly the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund) in Seattle, Washington, where she represented a range of environmental, fishing, and other groups in litigation focusing on endangered species, clean water, and water conservation issues. In addition to her involvement with environmental issues, Professor Sinden was an attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, where she represented parents in civil child abuse and neglect proceedings, and advocated on behalf of welfare recipients seeking job training and education. Professor Sinden served twice as a law clerk, first for Judge John F. Gerry of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and later for Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Sinden graduated summa cum laude from the University


of Pennsylvania Law School in 1991.

Professor Sinden's recent academic writings have criticized the misuse of economic theory in environmental law, arguing against the use of cost-benefit analysis in environmental standard setting and countering claims that private property rights can solve environmental problems in the absence of government regulation. She has also written about the application of classical human rights norms to environmental conflicts. Recent publications include Formality and Informality in Cost-Benefit Analysis, 2015 Utah L. Rev. 93, The Missing Instrument: Dirty Input Limits, 33 Harv. Envtl. L. Rev. 65 (2009), with fellow CPR Member Scholar David Driesen, Cost-Benefit Analysis: New Foundationas on Shifting Sand, 3 Reg. & Governance 48 (2009), with Douglas Kysar and David Driesen, The Tragedy of the Commons and the Myth of a Private Property35, with a mean of 25. Each participant was randomly assigned to one of seventeen groups.

The protocol was approved by the Comité de Ética de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica Review Board. Before their participation in the experiment, subjects provided written informed consent that had been approved by the Comité de Ética de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica Review Board.

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The subjects were required to learn a list of five pairs of nonsense syllables presented on the monitor screen. In the first trial the List was shown and in the successive


mercenaries disguised as tax collectors. Although the Assassin kills all of the mercenaries, a thief escapes with the contents of a chest belonging to the Assassins. The thief is revealed to be Pietro de Galencia, a Borgia Agent working undercover in Monteriggioni. Pietro had captured an old man, who was the father of a Roman Assassin, and tortured him into revealing one of the secret entrances into Villa Auditore, which led Pietro to the chest. After the theft, the old man escapes and warns the citizens of Monteriggioni about Pietro's betrayal. The Assassin then hunts down and kills Pietro. However, when investigating Pietro's house, the Assassins can only find letters from Cesare Borgia, Captain General of the Papal Forces and leader of the Templars. Soon after, rumors beginThey decide to give it to Caterina Sforza, Countess of Forlí. Machiavelli then sends a message to his spy, asking him to meet him in Forlí. Machiavelli is escorted by an Assassin to meet the spy. While meeting with the spy, Machiavelli is ambushed by several Crows, who the Assassin fights off. Machiavelli then decides to eliminate the Crows. Machiavelli asks the Assassin to track down the Crows and kill them. The Assassin identifies an undercover Crow and follows him to a Crow meeting, where he kills all of the Crows. After the Assassin kills the Crows, Caterina Sforza and Machiavelli are told that the Borgia were attacking Forlí. During the attack, several of Machiavelli's spies are captured. However, the Assassin manages to free most of them before


tab, and provide stat increases to the player. Outfits can be unlocked through Achievements or bought in the shop, and gives buffs and a different visual appearance for the Assassin equipped.

In the shop, players can use the Heroic Shop, Items, Forge, Boosts, and more tabs, including IAP tabs. In the Heroic shop, player can spend Tokens to buy better Ranks. Each rank unlocks more difficult Contract missions, as well as three items, such as Outfits, new maps, new Contract modes, and the Thief class. Certain items and outfits can be bought in the shop, Boosts can be bought in the Boosts tab, and the player can make new items in the Forge tab.

Development
Assassin's Creed Identity was developed by Blue Byte, using the Unity game engine. It was initially(March 19) -- On its 100th anniversary, the Boy Scouts of America doesn't have much time to celebrate.

The scouting group is defending its name against allegations that it knew of extensive abuse within its local chapters and did nothing to stop it. For decades, the national organization has quietly amassed hundreds of claims of sexual abuse by its troop leaders and staff in a set of secret documents known within the Boy Scouts as "the perversion files."

The files were brought to light in a civil trial against Timur Dykes, a former troop leader in Oregon who has admitted to committing sexual abuse. A 37-year-old man is suing Dykes for abuse that occurred in the 1980s. And now it's clear the secret "perversion files" may soon be public.

When the


Meet Balázs Kertész, the man who allegedly handles Antal Rogán's "corrupt payments" and so much more

Translation of index.hu article entitled “Introducing the dark side of Antal Rogán, the vanishing figure of Balázs Kertész. The international development of the Rogán network in ten chapters” published on November 11th, 2016.

We have spent months investigating a secretive man, but the closer we got to him, the faster his traces disappeared, wherever they lay. Not only did it prove impossible to contact him, but his friends, colleagues and business partners made denials or cloaked themselves in silence. As we began to investigate, pictures disappeared from the internet, and a suspicious company was suddenly wound up. Luckily we were always a step ahead. We present the results of our investigation in ten chapters,Kertész’s wife.

VII. Kertész stands at the centre of the network of lawyers surrounding Rogán: from Kristóf Kosik to the District V notary, fellow students from Kertész’s law class at Pázmány [University] crop up in key positions.

VIII. Rogán brought on board a Russian affairs adviser who travelled to Kursk with his authorisation, but, once there, struck a deal for a firm jointly owned with Balázs Kertész. This would have involved money close to Rosatom, but the deal was called off in the wake of our inquiries.

IX. We also have a video showing that a former Georgian prime minister talked outside Kertész’s office about a power station project, where the name of Exim was also voiced. The Foreign Ministry also knows about a Georgian power station project, but asserts that


heart of Budapest and later went international, where the leads always converge on Rogán’s confidante, Balázs Kertész.

Antal Rogán showed up first at number 3, Aulich utca on that chilly November morning a year ago. A couple of weeks earlier he had moved from being leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group to head of the prime minister’s cabinet office. The dark-coloured ministerial minibus pulled in at about 09:50. Rogán made phone calls from the car while for some five minutes his men wandered in the street, waited at the main entrance, and scanned the passers-by. When the minister finally stepped out at 09:55, his minder made some terse remarks to bystanders while opening the door. The minister – tapping on his phone and wearing a blue body-warmer over hisjacket against the cold – was clearly not disturbed by the fact that he was not alone on the street. He went into the doorway without even looking up from his mobile, with another helper following him, clutching some kind of papers in his hand.

Second to arrive, wearing a suit and carrying his coat on his arm, was former Fidesz representative, lawyer in the Kosik practice and owner-manager of Monavis Consulting Ltd, Balázs Kertész. He knew the entry code by heart, since here at number 3, Aulich utca, the offices of Monavis are situated on the third floor. The third to arrive, at 10:00 was none other than Árpád Habony, the prime minister’s unseen not-chief-advisor, who held a less ostentatious bag in his hand. It is not by


chance that we are able to report this in such detail: we have it on video. The recording was made by a media professional using equipment designed for journalists.

The scene was not especially difficult to record. Aulich utca lies near Kossuth tér and Szabadság tér, and members of Hungary’s political and financial elite are seen daily in the area, which is in no way unusual. What is unusual, and what became news in the autumn of 2015, was that these three men would allegedly appear regularly at the doorway on Aulich utca. Recording the video was just a matter of waiting for the right moment.

The man who opened the door was an old colleague of Rogán’s, and they have appeared together in photographs taken in 2014 and May2015. The man promptly tapped in the entry code from memory. There was no need for him to ring the bell or ask the boss, and he made no mistake: they entered routinely. Of course there is no way of knowing from a video recorded in the street whether they went to the same place inside the building. However, that Rogán should arrive at number 3, Aulich utca on 10 November last year and consistently avoid his old acquaintances, Kertész and Habony, who happened to turn up at the same time and place, strikes one as an extraordinary and unrealistic scenario. However, the response of the prime minister’s cabinet office – which we will present in detail at the end of this article – was to deny that


not been issued with a parliamentary pass.

We have spoken to many Fidesz and opposition politicians over recent months to work out who Balázs Kertész is, and what his connections to Rogán might be. Only opposition politicians would speak on the record; those from the governing party requested anonymity. One of the most frequently voiced comparisons in connection with the two men was with the relationship between Viktor Orbán and Lőrinc Mészáros, and Orbán and Lajos Simicska before 2014. More often than not, a mixture of the two.

II. The 1990s: from the Cuban Embassy to Tarlós

Balázs Kertész was born in downtown Budapest in 1972 and grew up there. Before 1989, his mother was a middle manager in a state enterprise, and his photographer father worked for a long timein a hospital. After 1989, he worked at the left-liberal newspaper Kurír, then in the 2000s at Népszava. A CV suitable for a Fidesz man and dating from 2006 described Kertész as someone whose “parents raised him in a Christian, conservative spirit”. A former schoolmate said “Keba” did nothing to draw attention to himself at the Szemere utca school. Of the distinct groups of “prole kids” and “noble kids” (the children of the bureaucratic elite in the Kádár era), Kertész belonged to the latter.

Kertész subsequently found himself at the Franciscan Gymnasium in Szentendre, where a close, cohesive group of friends developed among right-wing youngsters. One of the leading figures in this high school clique was András Gyürk, who established Fidelitas in 1996. Kertész was among those who followed


him into the organisation, joining the board as a founding member, and taking part in political performances. For example in 1997, when the Fidelitas Anti-Dictatorship Action Group was still active, he read out a proclamation at a reception in the Cuban Embassy in Budapest. Kertész and his friends demanded the release of the Castro regime’s political prisoners and a boycott of the World Festival of Youth and Students in Cuba. “We dared to go to the embassy and say what we thought, then after the third speech we left the building,” Kertész would later tell a provincial newspaper.

According to party sources, it was here in Fidelitas that Kertész’s ties deepened with the group’s vice-president Antal Rogán, who was the same age, and a lasting alliance was forged, toit ultimately was. Kertész found himself in the Fidesz campaign team at the time of the 1998 elections, and from that autumn became a local councillor. András Puskás became an external committee member (his brother Péter Puskás is now deputy mayor of District III). However, according to Fidesz sources, Kertész – who was active in the financial and public procurement committee – never really got on with the then mayor of Óbuda, István Tarlós.

“Balázs Kertész had a few confrontations with Tarlós, who cannot have very nice memories of them. He threw a fit when their legal practice turned up recently around Budapest’s public procurement company.”

– a Budapest Fidesz politician told Index, referring to a recent case where Tarlós (now Mayor of Budapest) banned Fővárosi Közbeszerzési Ltd from making


a contract with the Kosik legal practice, which counts Kertész in its ranks. We have learned that Tarlós was greatly relieved when, in 2002, Rogán was recruiting people to help in his conquest of District V, Kertész chose to follow him along with Puskás.

III. Turn of the millennium: money laundering and the K&H affair

Kertész initially studied sociology from 1993 to 1995 at ELTE [university] then enrolled in the law faculty at the Pázmány Catholic University, where he got his law degree in 2000 at the age of 27. His coeval, the MSZP politician Gergely Bárándy remembered Kertész from classes and community life: despite being politically active, he was around, he showed up, he made friends. Kertész wrote his dissertation in the criminal law faculty, where his adviser wasVarga Zoltán, later the judge in the Kulcsár case and the Mór murders. Kertész began to tackle the hot topic of the time: the title of his dissertation according a downloadable database (.xls) was “On money laundering”.

The young lawyer did not begin learning his trade in just any old legal practice: he did it in László Kelemen’s, who is referred to in reports from the time as a confidante of József Torgyán, and who was president of the Hungarian National Bank’s (MNB) supervisory board as a delegate of the Smallholders Party. In 1999 Kertész became an articled clerk in Kelemen’s practice, and in 2000 and 2001 he was already working as an influential mentor and legal adviser at the central bank.

Not much later, a corruption case blew up


László Kelemen, and that László Kelemen, originally delegated by the Smallholders Party (FKgP) to the MNB’s supervisory board, was later on public record as one of the planners of FIDESZ financial operations?

28. If the reports related to Antal Rogán and Balázs Kertész are well-founded and such transactions really existed from July 2001, then what role did the London-registered IT Financials Ltd and the similarly London-registered Montrade Ltd play in them?
The embezzlement, which totalled 23 billion forints and caused 8 billion in damage, began during the first Orbán government, and although the hands of the Socialists appeared to be far dirtier, the right-wing was also up to its neck in it. The press reports about the involvement of Kertész and Rogán can be traced back to a statement thatKelemen was embroiled in the case. Indeed, Kulcsár stated that Kelemen was one of those who helped him cover up the case for a while after the spring of 2002 when K&H made a report to the police about

suspicious transactions that had been identified during internal monitoring. Kelemen became the eighth co-defendant in the case, but he was acquitted in the spring, again in the first instance, after a trial that lasted for over a decade (by a different judge, not Zoltán Varga).

IV. The 2000s: Fidelitas flies into District V

As mentioned in the mysterious deposition above, Balázs Kertész was up to this point a local councillor in District V.

“The mood was that Fidelitas had come here”

– a District V source said about Rogán’s people landing in the city


centre in 2002. The arrival of Rogán’s people caused consternation among the mainly KDNP (Christian Democrat), old-school right-wing in the city centre. They speculated that Rogán would try to establish a political existence independent of Orbán. It seemed a good opportunity, with the District V right-wing weakened by internal conflict – they had just lost the post of mayor in the autumn because of it.

“They swarmed in as a triple alliance. You could see that they stuck together. And that it was mainly party connections that tied them to the old guard, personal ones much less so”

– the then SZDSZ district president and local councillor Tamás Ónody said of Rogán, Kertész and Puskás. He has since withdrawn from politics. Their unity is striking when leafing through the FIDESZ-linkedMai Belváros newspaper. In the council chamber, Rogán always sits besides Kertész, and next to him Puskás; they appear as a trio in most of the photographs. The local right-wingers are decades older: by 2004 Rogán’s people had dealt with one group of them, and struck a compromise with the rest. Their political partners saw their relationship with the Fidelitas clique as trustworthy and friendly, but asymmetrical. According to one of them:

“Rogán was the alpha-male, Kertész and Puskás were his pack”

Photo: Mai BelvárosPhoto: Mai Belváros

“It was the end of the first era for FIDESZ, and the start of the second. The old guard still thought something about the world, but one could sense nothing behind the new ones but a rigid ideological vacuum”

– said Ónody, according to whom


the new boys radiated an arrogant belief that “from now on, the world belongs to us”, though Kertész and Puskás simply “clung to Rogán’s legs”. After the local Fidesz operation had been stabilised, in 2005 they tore up a cooperation agreement with MSZP mayor Pál Steiner that had been in place right up to that point, and with the help of a minority representative they took over a majority on the council. Ultimately it was not this minor district putsch, but rather the 2006 siege of [the studio of Magyar] television that led to Steiner’s serious downfall. Rogán, who consciously exploited the tabloid media, won the election by 1,000 votes, then led the district right up to 2014.

He had two main helpers: “Puskás took on Rogán’s official affairsas a quasi policy officer. He was a well prepared, disciplined guy who often surprised us with his knowledge. Kertész, on the other hand, was not suited to politics, and he did not take part in the political battles. He could not speak well, he was aggressive and insulting.

“I saw decidedly political and friendly relations between Antal Rogán and Balázs Kertész, as well as András Puskás. Rogán supported them unequivocally to the end”

– Steiner said of the Fidelitas clique, stressing that he could only talk in connection with Kertész during his own time as mayor, and then only subjectively. Ónody had rather different impressions. He saw Kertész as better prepared professionally, but soon added that this might have been because Kertész, whom he described as a “passionless bureaucrat”


hardly even spoke. By contrast, Puskás relished his role as “Rogán’s lieutenant, face and voice”. Puskás became the local caucus leader in 2004, and Rogán’s deputy mayor in 2006. He took part in the political deal making and poured out of the local media.

Cecilia Rogán, mayor Antal Rogán and deputy mayor András Puskás on Vértanuk tér at the District V commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1956 uprising on 25 October 2006. Photo: Zsolt Szigetváry

By contrast, on the strength of reports in Mai Belváros. Kertész almost exclusively dealt with financial and real estate issues, and was given finance-related positions in the local government. After Rogán’s victory in 2006, Kertész gradually began to shun the public eye, and his name appeared less and less often in district newsKertész had nothing to do with the 245-square metre, five-bedroom, third floor property at number 3, Aulich utca, it was among the district’s assets. According to the evaluation that can be found on the District V website, the property was worth 52 million forints in 2008. At the time it was not listed as an apartment, merely as “sundry premises”.

In October 2010, a month after Monavis was registered as a company, the “sundry premises” on Aulich utca were reclassified as a residential apartment. This would have had to be initiated by the Rogán-led local government. A real estate expert told Index: at this time, the value of the property could have doubled almost immediately. However, a year later, in November 2011, District V sold the flat for much


less than the evaluation from 2008 for a different classification. A dentist named Dr. József Fürstner paid a total of 44 million forints for it. The estate agent we spoke to said market prices of 400-500,000 forints per square metre were typical in 2011, which would represent a market value of 100-120 million forints for such an apartment. The dentist got a great deal.

Cecilia Rogán, mayor Antal Rogán and deputy mayor András Puskás on Vértanuk tér at the District V commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1956 uprising on 25 October 2006. Photo: Zsolt Szigetváry

Three months later, in February 2012, Monavis suddenly transferred its headquarters to Fürstner’s newly acquired apartment. Two years passed, then the dentist decided to transfer the 245-square metre apartment to Monavis. According toSources independent of one another told Index that he used a 2014 European Court of Justice ruling, citing human rights, to have all photos in which he appears and “irrelevant” links to his former public positions removed from internet search engines. A right-wing politician put it like this:

“Kertész gradually cocooned himself”

The voluntary withdrawal of Rogán’s right hand man in District V is a totally bizarre development. He had nothing to fear, since his party rules not only over the city centre but, since 2010, the entire country. He was a Fidelitas member, and his District V boss, Antal Rogán, went straight to becoming one of the most powerful men in the governing party. Nevertheless, Kertész chose to go incognito, and the mystery is increased by the fact that


after Kertész withdrew from politics he revived his career as a lawyer in 2011 at the place where he had begun decades earlier: the László Kelemen law practice, on whose behalf he also attended a conference in Peking in 2012. We asked Kelemen, Mészáros, Sándor and Partners Law Practice when and for how long Kertész worked at the firm, but to no avail: they refused to comment, citing the right to privacy.

Although we do not know why, Kertész left Kelemen and partners – probably around 2013 – and in place of the renowned practice that counts university professors among its staff, he chose a less well known one: the Kosik Law Practice. In October 2012, Antal Rogán tabled the parliamentary bill that would call into being the settlementinstitutions linked to Rogán such that after their university years they demonstrably came into working relationships with Balázs Kertész himself through their work as lawyers (with the exception of Sélley, who, in Vagyonkezelő, worked with Kertész in a company). But why make someone work with other lawyers when one is a lawyer oneself? According to sources acquainted with Kertész, he may have needed to collaborate in legal work with one-time classmates because, on the one hand, he himself had for a long time neglected the legal profession, while on the other, he only works with the most trustworthy people. Pál Steiner, who sat with Rogán’s confidante for four years in the District V local council and is a practising lawyer in his own right – recalled Kertész’s legal


context, not a player”. She may have found herself next to Rogan’s people – who saw the potential in Russia but were perfectly unacquainted with conditions there – for want of anyone better.

The ministerial cabinet office contracted Marie Gera for official communications (strategic) consultancy work from December 2015 to May 2016. In response to questions from Index, the cabinet office first asserted that Gera’s task was consisted entirely of monitoring the foreign, mainly Russian-language, press, and that she had done the same work between 2013 and 2015 for the Rogán-led Fidesz caucus. They wrote not a word about her consultancy work. Only after we confronted the ministry with the Russian sources who referred to her as a consultant, or chief consultant, to the Fidesz caucus and later directlyshe understood what we wanted to talk to her about. We knew up to then that the woman had a business connection with Kertész, and we had in our possessiondocuments according to which, during the course of one of her trips to Russia, it was not only for Fidesz that she could have built up “points of cooperation”.
“On 6 February 2014, a Russian delegation took part in a working dinner in Budapest at the invitation of the director of the Zsigmondy Vilmos Harkány Rehabilitation Centre. “The director of the Rosatom state enterprise trade union Valerij Kuzmin and Dr Marie Gera, Russian affairs adviser to the governing Fidesz party’s parliamentary caucus, were received by minister Zoltán Balog and the director of the National Foreign Trade Office, János Berényi” –


can be read on a summary that we found on the website of one of the largest trade unions at Rosatom, the state nuclear energy concern that controls the Russian Federation’s nuclear energy sector, and is playing a lead role in the expansion of Paks [nuclear power station].

The point of the deal brought together at the meeting was that the big men of Russia’s nuclear industry would come to relax at the very thermal spa hospital that had appointed Gera’s younger sister to handle the building of Russian contacts. The success of this meeting may immediately have set someone thinking. A few weeks later, in February 2014, the company United Medical Invest (UMC), specialising, according to company data, in medical tourism, was founded by Gera – with BalázsRogán and the Fidesz caucus, also prepared a new deal for her and Kertész’s new joint company, for which the contract was finally signed on 22 December 2015. The essence of the business was that the Kursk region’s trade union association appointed UMC to arrange for union members and their families to holiday at the thermal spa hospital in Harkány for which Gera’s sister was the representative. While the local Rosatom trade union is far from being the most important in the Kursk region, one of the owners of the thermal spa hospital in Harkány is MVM Paksi Atomerőmű Kft.

Detail from the document on which Marie Gera’s signature can be seen. Click on the picture to see the whole contract.

Thus Gera – after going as Rogán’s chief adviser,


others, planned in Aulich utca, in front of the building housing Kertész’s office.

A strange turn of events in June 2014 saw Rogán’s deputy mayor in District V, András Puskás, suddenly resign and become Eximbank’s deputy chief executive for business operations. At this time, Puskás had been a District V local politician for ten years, and everyone expected him sooner or later to be Rogán’s successor at the helm of the District. Although he also worked alongside Mihály Varga during the first Orbán government, Puskás had no professional background in banking, and his nomination would have been hard to support on professional grounds.

Speaking to Index anonymously, a high-ranking Fidesz politician well informed about the Eximbank case said that in the first half of 2014, Puskás had had to findmain sources of financing for the building of the Habony-Vajna media empire, providing financing, for example, for the acquisition of TV2.

Another video recording in our possession suggests large scale plans were afoot that, for some reason, the Rogán-Puskás-Kertész trio discussed right outside the latter’s office.

Shortly after 13:00 on 27 June 2016, three men emerged from a meeting at number 3, Aulich utca, and continued their business discussion in the open on the street. The first man was the Georgian-Israeli businessman Shabtai Michaeli, one of Habony’s settlement bond dealing acquaintances. Although Michaeli denies that he is behind the firm VolDan Investments Ltd, which distributes the bonds in the Russian and former Soviet region, he lost all his related court cases against the press, everyone from Heti Válasz to Index.

The


second participant in the conversation was the Georgian banker Irakli Rekhviashvili, the Bank of Georgia’s Hungary-based regional representative and his country’s former economy minister. Aulich utca’s highest ranking visitor was not him, but Nikoloz (Nika) Gilauri, who was minister for energy affairs (2004-2007) then finance minister (2007-2009) during the reign of the Georgia’s former president Mikheil Saakashvili, and between 2009 and 2012 led the Georgian government as prime minister. He currently works as a consultant.

We were already astonished that influential Georgian political figures would head for discussions at number 3, Aulich utca rather than the foreign ministry building on Bem tér or Eximbank. Our astonishment only increased when we finally learned what they were talking about. The discussion was in Georgian, and, unfortunately, the noise meant that onlyto official documents, is the same as that of Rekhviashvili’s mother. The company, however, has thus far not been granted a state permit for power station construction.

A day before the conversation that can be seen in the video recording, on 26 June, Rekhviashvili publicly shared a photo on his Facebook page, in which he is partying with Gilauri in a riverside location. Among those who commented on the picture was Revaz Arveladze, about whom one should note that he was the owner of a Georgian television channel during Saakashvili’s presidency. Arveladze does not only have friendly relations with Gilauri, but also appears to be well informed: in his comment, he refers to the party being for the launch of a power plant construction. However, when the Georgian journalist


position of president of the Law and Order Committee. As erstwhile mayor of District V, Antal Rogán knew Dr Balázs Kertész just as he knew any other representative. All other allegations contained in the questions – including those of a private nature related to the wedding – are groundless, so in the event that these groundless allegations should be published – just as already on several recent occasions – we will take the necessary legal steps. Yours respectfully: The Prime Minister’s Cabinet Office”

Something else happened besides the written denial.

Antal Rogán accepted his letter of commission from the president of the republic János Áder on 20 October 2015, and the investiture celebrations involved only a very small circle. Photographs of the event suggest some 15 people were invited tothe Sándor Palace. From among public figures, only Viktor Orbán and András Gyürk are recognisable in the photographs – and Balázs Kertész. He is the bespectacled man next to Gyürk in the picture, behind Orbán’s posterior, in the centre of the photograph:

On 20 October 2015, Rogán accepted his letter of commission from president of the republic János Áder. Balázs Kertész was present among the small number of guests at the celebration. He is the man in glasses in the centre of the picture. This picture was subsequently removed from Antal Rogán’s Facebook page.

We found this picture on Rogán’s official Facebook page in the album titled “At the start of a new task” [“Új feladat kezdetén]. This is the only official picture of the event in which Balázs Kertész’s


head is not hidden, and thus easily noticeable. Almost a year later, when updating the Facebook album on 6 September 2016, it was precisely this photograph that was made inaccessible (it was originally accessible via this link).

We cannot know why the album had to be altered later, after such a long time. In any event, it is an interesting coincidence that on precisely that day, 6 September, at 14:41, we received the aforementioned reply from the cabinet office that denied any present connections between Rogán and Kertész. The album was modified a mere hour later, and 15:36, at which time the photograph featuring Kertész was removed. However, traces of the modification remained on Facebook:

The Facebook album titled “At the start of a new task” about Antal Rogán’s appointment,which was uploaded on 20 October 2015. The above date shows when the album was modified: on 6 September 2016. (Index blurred the pictures of Rogán’s children)

Later the web page administrator changed the settings of the album such that the date of the last modification is no longer visible.

After the disappearance of the photo, we asked the Office of the President of the Republic (KEH) what is the protocol at investiture ceremonies, and how the guests are selected. We wanted to know whether Kertész could have turned up at the palace without Rogán’s knowledge. The response of the office rules this out entirely: the appointee suggests the guests, and their number is decided by the demands of the appointee and the details of the given celebration, they wrote.


Of course, it is also practically

impossible that Rogán would not have known with whom he would be celebrating the pinnacle of his career thus far, his appointment as a minister.

In the picture in which Rogán is talking to the János Áder, who holds a glass of sparkling wine, his loyal confidante, one of the quiet helpers in his political ascent, Balázs Kertész, is also standing there, hidden from view.

The newly appointed minister Antal Rogán in the Sándor Palace, talking to János Áder. In the centre, András Gyürk, hidden from view behind Rogán is Balázs Kertész. Photo: Antal Rogán’s official Facebook page

The article was written with the support of the Független Médiaközpont [Centre for Independent Journalism] investigative reporting award and within the framework of Transparency International Magyarország’s investigative reportingmentor programme.The Spark-Interfax system was used to collect Russian data, and Tazo Kupreishvili, the editor-in-chief of News.On.ge assisted in the Georgian investigation. The video for subtitled by Barna Szász. We would like to offer our special thanks to the producer of the video recordings.


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Welcome to the first edition of the Pittsburgh Steelers All-Time Greatest Plays Bracket. In honor of March Madness, we at BTSC have decided to select, what we thought, the top 16 Steelers plays of all-time. Once we made the selections, we ranked them in order of importance.

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Rocky Bleier is often the forgotten man on those incredible 1970's offenses. Bleier complimented Franco Harris well, and although not known for his hands, Terry Bradshaw didn't hesitate to loft a pass in Bleier's direction on the game's biggest stage. Bleier's leaping grab is a tremendous play, but the fact it was Bleier and knowing the trials and tribulations he faced just to return to the game makes it even more incredible. Take a look:

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How will history judge George Osborne's record as Britain's finance minister?

George Osborne has now returned to the back benches, a stunning fall for a man who only ever had one Cabinet post, chancellor of the Exchequer. He had been in charge of the nation's finances since 2010

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Getafe are looking forward to Japan international Gaku Shibasaki‘s value to rise during the Copa America tournament, so they can look to sell him for a higher fee in the summer transfer window, Spanish newspaper Marca reported on 26 May.

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