after Khashoggi entered the consulate on Oct. 2, and it will eventually reveal that information, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday without elaborating.

"There is no point in being too hasty," he said in an indication that Turkey is prepared to maintain pressure on Saudi Arabia, even as the kingdom struggles for ways to end the crisis.

Erdogan said Saudi Arabia's chief prosecutor would arrive in Turkey on Sunday as part of the investigation and will meet with Turkish counterparts.

CIA chief briefs Trump after Turkey visit

CIA director Gina Haspel was in Turkey earlier this week to review evidence, and she briefed President Trump in Washington on Thursday.

What Trump called "one of the worst cover-ups in the history of cover-ups" was revealed to the world by Turkish leaks of information,including references to purported audio recordings of the killing, and security camera footage of the Saudi officials who were involved as they moved around Istanbul.

Officials have confirmed to CBS News that Haspel did hear audio recordings allegedly depicting the murder while she was in Turkey this week, but it remains unclear how convincing she considers the evidence presented to her.

Mysteries linger, investigation continues

Key mysteries remaining include whether the killing was carried out with the knowledge of the crown prince, who denies it, and the location of Khashoggi's body.

"It is clear that he has been killed but where is it? You have to show the body," Erdogan said Friday during an address to Turkey's ruling party leaders.

The Turkish president criticized initial Saudi statements that claimed Khashoggi had left the


a well in the garden behind the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

Turkish investigators have insisted on a thorough inspection of the well since they began scouring the consulate property on October 16, but there have been reports that the police were prevented from accessing the site in the consulate garden this week.

Meanwhile, a van was seen leaving the Saudi Consulate on Friday morning after consular staff moved three suitcases and a black plastic bag into the vehicle, according to Turkey's Anadolu news agency. The contents of the suitcases and plastic bag were unknown.

Khashoggi's son leaves for U.S.

Meanwhile, Khashoggi's son, Salah, left Saudi Arabia after the kingdom revoked a travel ban, allowing him to travel to the United States.

State Department spokesman Robert Palladino said Washington welcomes the decision to haveSalah Khashoggi and his family leave Saudi Arabia. His U.S. destination was not immediately known but his late father lived in the Washington area.

Palladino said Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had discussed Jamal Khashoggi's son during his recent visit to Riyadh and "made it clear" to Saudi leaders that Washington wanted him free to leave the kingdom.

King Salman of Saudi Arabia (right) gestures during a meeting with Salah Khashoggi (left), son of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in Riyadh, Oct. 23, 2018, in an image released by the state-run Saudi Press Agency. The king's son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, can be seen standing behind his father (second from right). HANDOUT

"We are pleased that he is now able to do so," Palladino said. Saudi media had


showed Khashoggi's son meeting Tuesday with the crown prince and his father King Salman, both of whom reportedly expressed their condolences.

The crown prince and the Saudis' changing story

The statement from Saudi prosecutors that evidence showed Khashoggi's killing was premeditated contradicted an earlier Saudi assertion that rogue officials from the kingdom had killed Khashoggi by mistake in a brawl. That assertion, in turn, backtracked from an initial statement that Saudi authorities knew nothing about what happened to the columnist for The Washington Post.

The shifting explanations indicate Saudi Arabia is scrambling for a way out of the crisis that has enveloped the world's largest oil exporter and a major U.S. ally in the Middle East. But a solution seems a long way off, partly because of deepening skepticism in Turkeyand elsewhere that the brazen crime could have been carried out without the involvement of Prince Mohammed, the kingdom's heir apparent.

At a conference in Riyadh on Wednesday, the crown prince said the killing was a "heinous crime that cannot be justified" and warned against any efforts to "manipulate" the crisis and drive a wedge between Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which are regional rivals but also diplomatic and business partners.

Khashoggi's death has derailed the powerful prince's campaign to project a modern image of the ultraconservative country, instead highlighting the brutal lengths to which some top officials in the government have gone to silence its critics. Khashoggi, who lived in self-imposed exile in the United States for nearly a year before his death, had written critically of Prince Mohammed's crackdown


Liberals build social platforms with idealistic notions of change and inclusivity. Conservatives then master them to more effectively achieve their political ambitions.This under-appreciated dynamic is THE story of social media politics today. We saw this as Donald Trump and his allies harnessed – and at times manipulated - Twitter and Facebook, both built by liberal idealists, to win the presidency.We see a similar dynamic unfolding on Reddit, a company built by liberals that pro-Trump trolls are mastering to spread misinformation, often under the guise of First Amendment freedom.The power of "The_Donald": Trump himself tweeted a meme that bubbled up on a sub-reddit channel fittingly called "The_Donald." The channel has become the staging ground for the conservative movement on Reddit since the site banned two alt-right accounts earlier thisJapanese now have one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, and at the same time, one of the highest longevity rates. As a result, the population is dropping rapidly, and becoming increasingly weighted toward older people. After peaking seven years ago, at 128 million, Japan's population has been falling — and is on a path to decline by about a million people a year. By 2060, the government estimates, there will be just 87 million people in Japan; nearly half of them will be over 65.

Do a Bing search for the term "celibacy syndrome" and you will get 564,000 results returned on the subject of sekkusu shinai shokogun. If this is the first time you have been hearing about this growing Japanese cultural phenomenon, The Week


low and unstable wage earning.

Quoting from Wikipedia:

Recognizing that this bubble was unsustainable, the Bank of Japan sharply raised interest rates in late 1989. This sharp policy caused the bursting of the bubble, and the stock market crashed. A debt crisis followed and the Japanese banks and insurances were now loaded with bad debts. The financial institutions were bailed out through capital infusions from the government, loans from the central bank and the ability to postpone the recognition of losses, ultimately turning them into zombie banks. Yalman Onaran of Salon stated that the zombie banks were one of the reasons for the following stagnation. Additionally Michael Schuman of Time magazine noted that these banks kept injecting new funds into unprofitable "zombie firms" to keep them afloat, arguing that theythe US. Millennials are withdrawing from society in droves and living as hermits in their parent's basements where they play video games because they don't see any point of becoming adults, and who can blame them? Heavy tax burdens. Huge college loan debts. Poor job prospects. A scenario of caring for an aging population. No wonder they envision a zombie apocalypse around every corner.

Of course, some sociologists assert that this growing abhorrence for the opposite sex among Millennials may be a good thing resulting in a significant breakthrough in interpersonal relationships. It is thought that Japan may be setting a trend where society might celebrate the emergence of the new secular monk and the death of the nuclear family.

"With a vast army of older people and an ever-dwindling


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As Hurricane Florence approached the East Coast of the United States, both General Motors and Tesla remotely activated features in their cars that could be of use in an evacuation.

Folks will remember that prior to Hurricane Irma making landfall last year, owners of certain models of Tesla's SUVs and sedans fleeing Florida ahead of the storm were surprised to discover their vehicles were getting 30 to 40 miles more range than expected. Tesla confirmed they can control the cars remotely.

Tesla confirmed to NBC News they were able to reprogram its vehicles remotely to increase the amount of battery capacity a motorist in the evacuation area could access.

And while there were some questions over Tesla's ability to control a customer's


still by far and away the most popular target for attacks, representing more than 57 percent of global breaches and accounting for 97 percent of all records stolen, though overall incidents are down 17 percent over the prior half. India accounts for less than one per cent of the global breaches in terms of records compromised or stolen or revealed.

With the implementation of the Notifiable Data Breaches law, the number of incidents in Australia increased dramatically from 18 to 308 as could be expected.

Europe saw 36 percent fewer incidents but a 28 percent increase in the number of records breached indicating growing severity of attacks. The United Kingdom remains the most breached country in the region. With the General Data Protection Regulation in full effect for the secondof two million Israeli shekels [$539,000] had already been transferred to the PA, he said.

Major power blackouts have plagued the Gaza Strip, disrupting the lives of many of its 1.7 million inhabitants, since February when neighbouring Egypt cracked down on fuel smuggling into the enclave.

Gaza grid

Hamas accused Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority of causing the crisis in the hope of winning political concessions from the group, which has opposed US-backed Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Officials from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement have accused Hamas of pouring revenues from smuggled fuel into the movement’s coffers.

The Palestinian Authority, led by Abbas, lost control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 in a brief civil war between Hamas and Fatah. The PA exercises limited self-rule in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The fuel crisis,


After years of working in the Middle East and North Africa, I was not that surprised by the case of Matthew Hedges, a British doctoral candidate who was arrested in the United Arab Emirates in May and accused of espionage. After almost six months in prison, a lightning-quick trial and conviction, and an international outcry, Hedges was pardoned on November 26 and allowed to travel home. (See a related article, “Spy Conviction May Chill U.A.E. Research.”)

I myself, as a journalist, have been accused of spying more than once. One time it happened while I was following a demonstration, walking down a street in Cairo with a microphone in hand. “Spy!” a by-stander hissed at me. His definition of “spying” could be done openly, alongside colleagues, at a publicevent, to be broadcast across the world. In effect, it boiled down to documenting something that he considered troubling, unflattering.

Hedges, a Ph.D. candidate at Durham University, in England, had done research on the Muslim Brotherhood; his current research focused on “the post-Arab Spring national security strategy of the U.A.E.,” according to his LinkedIn profile. These are not topics that can be discussed freely and critically by academics or indeed anyone in the Emirates today. Hedges has been clear that his interests were academic, and that he was not spying for anyone—a failure by the British government to support his statements appears to have delayed his release.

Across the region, paranoid police states have been deeply unsettled by the Arab Spring and they are on the offensive today to stamp


out any signs of dissent. They have invested massively in surveillance, and they have been emboldened by the rise of authoritarianism and by the deterioration of human rights protections worldwide.

What has changed in recent years is that the thin protection that foreign scholars used to benefit from has cracked. We had already seen this with the shocking murder of the Italian graduate student Giulio Regeni in Egypt in 2016 (for which the Italian judiciary has just indicted five Egyptian security officials).

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Of course, sometimes journalists and academics do spy. T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”) started out as an archaeologist and was recruited by British military intelligence in 1914; he carried out a survey of the Negev desert for them, under the cover of archaeological research.

American scholars acted as spiesthey do so surreptitiously (without academics’ knowledge, or when researchers interview people who are unaware of the source of the researchers’ funding or the strategic purpose of their work) that those agencies clearly cross the line into espionage, and put scholars, sources, and the integrity of academic research at risk.

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Yet what of researchers who are ethical, transparent and professional and nonetheless face the accusation of being spies?

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the anthropologist Katherine Verdery did field work in Romania. When the archives of the former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu’s secret police were declassified, she discovered a hefty dossier on herself, comprising photographs, recordings, and reports by informants who included friends and lovers. It turned out the Romanian secret police were spying on her because they believed that she


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NUSHIP Canberra arrives in Sydney

NUSHIP Canberra, the first of two LHDs being built for the Australian Defence Force entered Sydney after her first contractor trials and testing at sea.
The ship is scheduled to undertake a commercial docking in the Dry Dock in Sydney, to receive a hull clean and final paint before proceeding to sea and returning to Williamstown to commence the final phase of Contractor sea trials involving communications and combat systems.
The first set of Contractor sea trials have been focussed on tuning the propulsion system and testing and trialling the hull, mechanical and electrical systems of the vessel.navy.gov.au


that regulatory violations are "willful" or, in the alternative, that would permit a good-faith belief in the legality of one's conduct to be pleaded and proved as a defense. The former rule is already in place for our complicated tax laws — but it should also shield unwary Americans from all of the laws and regulations as well.

Gibson Guitars had every reason to presume the wood it was using was perfectly legal. The company had taken great care to stay within the confines of the laws as it understood them. Instead of being given the benefit of a doubt when the issue of legality arose (and after the wood had already cleared Customs), the company was raided as though it were cranking out black market explosives rather thanas we have done for many decades."

Makers of the legendary Les Paul guitar, Gibson became a cause celebre for US Tea Party activists after wildlife conservation agents raided two of its plants in Tennessee and took away several pallets of Indian ebony.

The firm was never formally charged, but Juszkiewicz alleged Gibson had been unfairly targeted, while globe-traveling guitarists feared their instruments might be seized at customs due to the exotic wood used to make them.

In one interview with CNN, Juszkiewicz went so far as to suggest that First Lady Michelle Obama may have broken the law when she took a Gibson guitar out of the United States to present to her French counterpart Carla Bruni."

France24.

That reads more like Gibson backed down, knowing they were pretty much fucked for


in violation of Indian export laws. No US laws were violated except perhaps the Lacey Act, and Indian authorities certified the export. No charges or civil cases were filed as a result of this raid

In 2011, the government filed a civil case regarding ebony that Gibson purchased from a German company that obtained the wood from Madagascar, making it illegally exported. Gibson at that time claimed that it was under the impression that the wood was legal, but later admitted that they had failed to act when they received information regarding the potential illegality of the wood. There was never a proven link between the ebony seized in the raid (which was seized under the premise that it was deceitfully exported from India) and the German supplier. Thethe case. A request to return the ebony was denied by the courts, and Gibson forfeited its right to the wood as a part of the settlement.

There was a pretty big outcry about the whole case, as Gibson regularly donates to conservative political candidates, several competitors (notably Martin guitars) donated heavily to the current administration. Indian ebony and rosewood from the same parts of India (which were the motivations behind the raids) are used by both companies. Gibson appears to have been singled out both for legal attention and police action. Even if the alleged political motivations are discarded, the whole affair appears to have been a fishing expedition enacted with very heavy hands. Gibson is noted for being eco-friendly, and the Rainforest Alliance certifies Gibson wood, including


The former-Attorney General Eric Holder has questioned whether Bill Barr's investigation into alleged misconduct by US agencies at the start of the Russia probe can possibly be impartial when it was ordered by Donald Trump.

Holder, 68, who served during Barack Obama's presidency, said the current attorney general risked 'paying a price' and sacrificing his credibility on Tuesday.

Barr assigned U.S. Attorney John Durham to pursue a probe into whether there was misconduct by the intelligence community at the beginning of the Russia investigation.

Speaking at an event in Fairfax, Virginia, Holder explained that Barr needed to be 'a little more sensitive to the appearance' given by having Trump involved.

He told Fox News: 'To see how the president is now involved to help the attorney general in that effort gives mepause.'

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Eric Holder, the former-Attorney General to Barack Obama, said that the probe into alleged interference could not be seen as impartial and would damage credibility

Current Attorney General Bill Barr (right) launched the probe into the misconduct during the 2016 election as ordered by President Donald Trump

Holder added: 'You have to not only be substantively neutral - you have to appear to be neutral when you are the attorney general of the United States. And I fear that he has crossed a political line'

The probe led by Durham will analyse whether there was improper government surveillance on the Trump campaign in 2016.

It will also seek to discover whether the Democrats colluded with foreign agents.

Holder added that probe was not considered 'neutral,' then it risked damaging Barr's


left the office except for Robert Kennedy, sort of melded back into the legal community - what is this guy doing?'

He accused Holder of 'leading a nationwide effort to attack Republicans' and added that he has no right to 'lecture' anyone about impartiality.

Rove alleged that during the Obama administration Holder ignored complaints of voter intimidation at the polls for the 2008 election by the Black Panther Party.

He said: 'This guy has no right whatsoever to lecture us about impartiality particularly on the part of an attorney general.'grant of leave to appeal.
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Image copyright PSNI Image caption Michael Smith was last seen in the Belfast area on Tuesday afternoon

A "dangerous" murder suspect is on the run after being released from a Northern Ireland prison by mistake.

Michael Lawrence Smith, 38, was last seen in the Finaghy area of Belfast at 12:30 GMT on Tuesday and has not returned to Maghaberry Prison.

The police said he had been "released erroneously" by the prison service and had failed to return.

Mr Smith, who is on remand for murder, had previously applied for bail, but been refused.

Det Supt Kevin Geddes said Mr Smith had "an extensive history of violence" and urged the public not to approach him.

"I would ask Mr Smith to hand himself in to the authorities without any further delay and ask anyone whoknows of his current whereabouts or who has any information to contact police on 999," he said.

In a further video message released on social media, Det Supt Geddes addressed Mr Smith's family and friends, urging them to persuade him to give himself up or contact the police with his whereabouts.

He also warned the public that Mr Smith was "dangerous".

A spokesperson for the Northern Ireland Prison Service said Mr Smith's "erroneous release" was being investigated.

He stands charged with the murder of Stephen Carson, who was shot dead in his Belfast home in front of his partner and nine-year-old son in February 2016.


Q:

Which gods were Odysseus and Penelope directly descended from?

I once read the Odysseus and Penelope were the grandchildren of two different gods. But I have had no luck finding it again.
One might have been Hermes, although I can't be sure.

A:

Ancestors of the Mother of Odysseus
Neither of Odysseus' grandparents was a deity, although the most celebrated ancestral connection between Odysseus and a god is, indeed, his descent from Hermes, who was the father of the famous thief Autolycus, the father of Anticleia, the mother of Odysseus. So Hermes was Odysseus' great-grandfather.
It then follows, obviously, that Odysseus was also descended from Hermes' father Zeus and from Hermes' great-grandparents the Titan deities Oceanus and Tethys. So the divine descent through Hermes' mother's side of the family would entail:
Gaia (goddess ofthe earth) ➜ Oceanus & Tethys ➜ Pleione ➜ Maia ➜ Hermes ➜ Autolycus ➜ Anticleia ➜ Odysseus
Through Anticleia, Odysseus was also descended from the star-god Eosphorus, who was the personification of the planet Venus, the dawn star. Through Eosphorus, therefore, Anticleia would also have been a descendant of the dawn-goddess Eos, who was Eosphorus' mother.
Anticleia's father Autolycus was the son of Hermes by Chione, the daughter of a king called Daedalion, who was a son of Eosphorus. So:
Eos ➜ Eosphorus ➜ Daedalion ➜ Chione ➜ Autolycus ➜ Anticleia ➜ Odysseus
Ancestors of the Father of Odysseus
Laertes was the father of Odysseus (although there is a later tradition in which Sisyphus was the father). There are two different versions of Laertes' parentage, in one of which he


is the son of Atticans named Cephalus and Procris, both of whom are descended from the fire-god Hephaestus, and thus Hephaestus' parents Zeus and Hera; as well as the river-gods Eridanus and Cephissus.
Erichthonius, who is king of Athens before he becomes a tutelary divinity of the city, is the son of Hephaestus and Gaia from whom Procris and Cephalus are descended.
In the other version of Laertes' parentage, he is the son of Arceisius. The most famous version of Arceisius' origin is that he is a son of Zeus. In this version, then, Laertes would be Zeus's grandson, but other accounts have Arceisius as the son of Cephalus and Procris, or of a certain Cillus or Celeus who in turn is the son of Cephalus and Procris.
Ancestors of the Mother of Penelope
There is no explicit reference to the idea that any of Penelope's grandparents was a deity. There are at least four different versions of who Penelope's mother was, her name being Polycaste, Dorodoche, Asterodeia or Periboea. Apollodorus refers to the last of these women as a Naiad, so presumably her father was a river-god. Aaron Atsma conjectures that the relevant water-body would have been the Lacedaemonian river Eurotas, in the region of Periboea's residence.
There is, though, a more explicit connection to divine ancestry with the alternative of Dorodoche, who was the daughter of Ortilochus, son of the river-god Alpheus. Telegone, the mother of Ortilochus, was a granddaughter of Hermes, and also a descendant of Zeus, of the Egyptian river Nile (Neilus), of the


Argive river Inachus and of the Oceanid Melia.
Ancestors of the Father of Penelope
Icarius of Lacedaemon was the father of Penelope. There are three different versions of his parentage, which sort of overlap. He was the son of Perieres and Gorgophone, or of Oebalus and Bateia, or of Oebalus and Gorgophone.
Once again Apollodorus tells us that a certain royal Lacedaemonian woman, this time Bateia, was a Naiad. Once again Atsma speculates that the Eurotas River is the father of this Naiad, though there is no explicit confirmation of this.
In the version in which Icarius is the son of Oebalus and Gorgophone, he would be a descendant of Zeus on both sides of his family. Gorgophone was a daughter of Perseus son of Zeus. Meanwhile Oebalus' grandfatherAmyclas was the son of Lacedaemon, the son of Zeus after whom this region of Peloponnesus was named.
Oebalus' grandmother Diomede was a daughter of Lapithes—the son of Apollo from whom the Lapithae were descended—as well as a great-granddaughter of Magnes, the son of Zeus from whom the region of Magnesia received its name. Through Lapithes, she was also descended from the river-god Peneius.


In 2009, over 300 sensitive company documents, including financial projections and office security codes, were stolen from a Twitter employee's Google Docs account. An individual named "Hacker Croll," claiming responsibility, shared the documents with TechCrunch, which published a portion of the trove online.

More recently, there was the case of Scott McClellan, HP’s chief technologist and interim vice president of engineering and cloud services. In a May update to his publicly accessible LinkedIn profile, McClellan revealed HP's planned foray into cloud computing software and solutions—well in advance of the company's official news release.

Both were costly leaks—and, from an IT perspective, veritable nightmares. After all, corporate intranets were designed with the express purpose of keeping such sensitive information internal and under control. But the rise of social platforms in theA leading global food securities expert calls Ontario's tabled Local Food Act a good first step in food — and job — security.

"This is a foundation stone that will be made more concrete in subsequent years, but right now it sounds pretty aspirational," said University of Guelph professor Evan Fraser. "This is a great piece of legislation that will be seen as a stepping stone.

Community groups and workers in the province's agriculture sector call the act a good first step.

If passed, the Liberal government says the Local Food Act would, through education, encourage the growth and development of markets for foods grown and made in Ontario. It would also provide funding for collaborative local food projects. The act would provide funding for experimentation and innovation in the agri-food


industry.

"Government needs to be a partner and to put incentives in place," Premier Kathleen Wynne said.

Wynne said that, if passed, the act would help make more local food available in markets, schools, cafeterias, grocery stores and restaurants throughout the province.

No quotas, targets

However, Wynne said the act doesn't include quotas or legislated requirements for the amount of local food sold or bought by retailers or institutions, such as schools and hospitals.

Part of the act would, though, require Ontario ministries to buy local food.

"If public dollars are being spent, we want them spent on local produce," Wynne said.

Wayne Hanley, the national president of United Food and Commercial Workers Union, called the act "a good start in acknowledging how important the sector is to our economy and to our communities."

Wynne saidPowerful explosion near UN office in Gaza City Published duration 26 June 2011

There has been a big explosion in Gaza City near a United Nations compound and Hamas offices.

The blast tore a 2m (6ft) hole through a wall surrounding the UN building.

A BBC reporter at the scene said the blast had been caused by an explosive device. There have been no reports of casualties.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the explosion. Offices of Hamas' intelligence service and a prison are also nearby.

The Israeli military said it had not been operating in the area at the time.


To Get Things Done, Washington Needs Scandals & Crises

This was quite a week in Washington, D.C. The television news buzzed with coverage of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) abusing its power to punish Obama detractors. In addition, with the White House release on Wednesday of internal emails between it, the CIA and State Department, the plot thickened on how forthcoming the Obama administration really was on the roots of the terrorist attack that killed four Americans in Libya on Sept. 11, 2012. Plus, there was the story that really stirred up the Beltway media – the revelation that the U.S. Justice Department had seized the phone records of news organizations as part of an effort to discover the source of internal leaks.

The stories about such abuses of power,Blue."

With hundreds of books, films, novels, songs, and visual art entering the public domain on January 1, we're forced to remember that the legacy of some of those artists (partly defined by their surviving family members) are in great discordance with today's political culture. Namely, Gershwin's jazz masterpiece, which debuted at a New York concert in 1924, was apparently fit to be used in (alleged sexual abuser) Woody Allen's Manhattan and even United Airlines' safety instruction videos, but the Gershwin family originally wanted to extend their copyright ownership for another 20 years in order to (aside from receive millions in royalties) maintain creative control.

Gerswin's nephew told The New York Times, "We've always licensed [Gershwin's opera] 'Porgy and Bess' for stage performances only with a black cast and chorus.


That could be debased. Or someone could turn 'Porgy and Bess' into rap music."

Aside from the cultural elitism behind that statement, it's historically nonsensical. As Smith recounts on his blog, it's obvious to anyone at all familiar with jazz that the genre largely draws from the same history as rap music: "The work of the Gershwin brothers drew on African-American musical traditions. What could be more appropriate?" In fact, "Rhapsody in Blue" draws from blues, jazz, and ragtime, as well as Jewish musical history and European impressionism. Smith points out another sharp response: "When [someone] laments that George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' will soon 'fall into the public domain,' he makes the public domain sound like a dark abyss where songs go, never to be heard again. InDin Tai Fung, the international chain of restaurants known for its superlative soup dumplings, will open its first Oregon location later this year at the Washington Square mall, the chain confirmed to The Oregonian/OregonLive.

The chain, once named among the world's 10 best restaurants by The New York Times, made news last month just by filing for an Oregon business license.

The restaurant will take over the former Gap location near the Sears. Franchise owner David Wasielewski said the new location will open around the holiday season.

Though it started in Taiwan, Din Tai Fung now has restaurants in countries throughout the world, including 11 in the United States, all on the West Coast. The Washington Square location will closely mirror those in the Seattle area, down to an identical menu.


you don't get sick of comfort food."

Wasielewski was born and raised in Taiwan before coming to America with his mom and sister at age 11. He returns frequently for vacations, to see family and now for work. Before opening Din Tai Fung's first Seattle-area location in the east-side suburb of Bellevue, where he lives, Wasielewski worked as a marketing manager for Intel, a job that brought him to Beaverton and Hillsboro for meetings.

In Seattle, Din Tai Fung steadily progressed inward, opening a University District restaurant in 2013 and a downtown Seattle location in 2017. A fourth location, in the Westfield Southcenter mall near Sea-Tac airport, opened last year. Over the years, Portland-area diners have often asked him when he plans to open in Oregon.

"Now we have four largeFinding a creature curled inside the belly of an ancient sea beast might not seem surprising at first. After all, the huge fossil belonged to a water reptile with a ridiculously long neck and a knack for swallowing its prey whole.

But when paleontologists took a closer look, they found that the extra fossil inside its body was no meal: Instead, the giant animal was a mother.

In a new paper published in the journal Nature Communications, an international team describes a 245-million-year-old Dinocephalosaurus fossil with the preserved remains of a fetus inside. (Also read "Jurassic ‘Sea Monster’ Emerges From Scottish Loch.")

Found at a fossil site in southern China, several pieces of evidence made it clear that the smaller animal was not food. Like its prehistoric parent, the fetus has


A 1983 issue of the UK Marvel anthology Daredevils featured an odd back-up story that spoofed Frank Miller's acclaimed run on Daredevil. This throwaway strip would've probably been forgotten...if it weren't written by Alan Moore.

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This strip — entitled "Grit!" — was a pitch-perfect mock-up of Miller's gritty depiction of New York City. Artist Mike Collins assiduously emulated Daredevil's style. Moore kept Miller's tone but replaced his prose with a story straight out of Cracked or Mad. Note the weirdly hostile narration directed towards the reader.

In other Alan Moore news, the author recently sent a message out to aliens on BBC Radio 6.What was Moore's message to extraterrestrials? "We're doing alright with the carbon base lifeform thing. Kids are diversifying nicely, going through a bit of a fad forFIFA Ranking: Super Eagles Now 6th in Africa, 38th In The World

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Nigeria are the 38th best team in the world and sixth in Africa, according to the latest FIFA ranking for the month of August released on Thursday.

The Super Eagles latest position is one up from last month’s 39th place in the world, while they maintained their position on the continent behind Egypt, Senegal, Congo DR, Tunisia, and Cameroon respectively.

Meanwhile, Brazil have knocked Germany off the top of the FIFA rankings.

World champions Germany dropped to second despite winning the Confederations Cup last month after some rolling historical results were devalued.

Lionel Messi’s Argentina are in third and modest Switzerland, with a 100 per cent record in World Cup qualifiers, are fourth, which is higher than they have been


its adherence to the Swedish Rite.

Große National-Mutterloge „Zu den drei Weltkugeln“

Reconstituted in 1946, but initially confined to the American sector in Berlin, the Grand National Mother Lodge, "The Three Globes" adheres to "Rectified Masonry", descended from the system developed in the Rite of Strict Observance.

Grand Lodge of British Freemasons in Germany

Originating in the British Military, the GL-BFG Grand Lodge of British Freemasons in Germany works the ritual of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement as approved by the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE). In 1959 the first three British lodges in Germany became a district within the Grand Lodge AF & AM of Germany, but soon gained provincial status in 1962. In 1970 it became autonomous and acquired the name Grand Land Lodge of British Freemasonsmasonic association To Humanity (Zur Humanität) under the protection of the Großloge der Alten Freien und Angenommenen Maurer von Deutschland. The association became an independent Grand Lodge in 1982.

Liberal and mixed lodges

Le Droit Humain - Deutsche Jurisdiktion
The oldest mixed lodge in Germany was the Droit Humain lodge Goethe zum flammenden Stern (Goethe of the Blazing Star), formed in 1921 in Frankfurt, dissolved in 1933, and reformed on 20 November 1949. This lodge played a key part in establishing a second lodge in Munich in 1956. The defection of both these lodges shifted the focus of mixed masonry to Humanitas. Droit Humain now has two lodges in Germany.

Humanitas - Freimaurergrossloge für Männer und Frauen in Deutschland
This Grand Lodge was formed when lodges of the Droit Humain felt


A person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press that Szabo may have been drunkenly knocking on auto windows before Jones allegedly confronted him. He was arraigned today on a misdemeanor assault charge and released on his own recognizance after entering his plea.

"We have just been made aware of this matter and we are gathering information", a Wake Forest spokesman said. "We will make a further statement after we learn more about the matter".

Early Sunday morning in Queens, Sandor Szabo, 35, of Boca Raton, Florida, banged on the window of Jones' vehicle because he thought Jones was his Uber driver, authorities said. Szabo, who was intoxicated at the time, hit his head on the pavement after the blow. He was treated for fractures to the left sideof his face and the rear of his skull, along with bleeding of the brain.

Police say Jones confronted Sandor Szabo on a Queens street around 1:15 a.m. Sunday. He was taken off life support Tuesday afternoon.

According to the New York Post, the charges could be upgraded. His family says he was visiting NY from Boca Raton for a wedding.

According to Jones's bio at Wake Forest's sports website, he is a Philadelphia native who attended Arkansas Tech and began his basketball coaching career in Washington, D.C., with an AAU squad named Team Takeover.

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Abe said differences between the nuclear and non-nuclear statesWith its pair of launches on Friday and Sunday, SpaceX hopes to demonstrate its rocket services can be a cost-effective, rapid-turnaround means of reaching the final frontier.

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time located in the Pacific Ocean.

In 2008, on March 13 and March 15, United Launch Alliance succeeded in blasting off one of each of its Atlas V and Delta II rockets. However, both launch vehicles were expendable systems, and were not reused.It is an unfortunate event in the world of dental sciences, as dentistry has now lost one of its most eminent and respected icons. Professor Seyyed Behrouz Mousavi passed away on 23 June 2011 following a sudden episode of cerebrovascular accident.

Respected Dr. Mousavi was a Professor of Endodontics, and the Chairman of the Torabinejad Dental Research Center at the Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, of which he was one of the main founders. He also held the license to the first English dental journal in Iran, the Dental Research Journal (DRJ). He reigned as the dean of Isfahan Dental School from 1988 to 1997. It was under his exemplary guidance, that the Isfahan School of Dentistry grew into one of the most respected sites for dental training in


Iran.

Professor Mousavi became the chairman of the Isfahan School of Dentistry Endodontic Department during the period of 1985-1988, and held the position of the president of the Iranian board of Endodontics from 1988. He has been honored by numerous national and international organizations for his contribution to Endodontic education and research. Another feather in his cap was being the head of the Isfahan Dental School Technical Committee on Stem Cell Research.

Those of us who were fortunate to meet him came away greatly impressed with his genuine and humble nature. A man of his stature and importance and having his down to earth mannerisms, is indeed a rare combination to see!

Professor S. Behrouz Mousavi has trained, mentored and befriended many Endodontists and researchers worldwide. He has added to thewomen is recommended. As asymptomatic young women in reproductive age are more eager to visit gynaecologists for periodical gynaecological examination and councelling (cervical cytology, breast examination, contraception and family planning), gynaecologist represents the only specialist able to provide early diagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis. Gynaecologists are called to play a new role in public healthcare, being ''gatekeepers'' for the early detection of the disease, emphasizing their crucial part in young women's health.


Their lawyer Nick Turner, of Russell and Co, said the case could pave the way for other children who were unborn when their parents were killed to bring compensation claims.

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He said: "I've been doing civil actions against the police for 25 years and I can't recall everA Jamaican taxi driver has been accused of raping a 12-year-old girl and then burying her alive after he thought he had strangled her to death, authorities said on Wednesday.

Garsha Wilson faces charges including rape, abduction, attempted murder and cruelty to a child, Deputy Police Superintendent Herfa Beckford said.

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Thinking she was dead, he buried her in a shallow grave and covered it with rocks, Superintendent Beckford said. The girl, who reported the alleged crime, told police she regained consciousness and dug herself out.

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days a week, selling alcoholic beverages to its members, members' family members, and members' guests.  Approximately forty percent of the Legion's gross income from all revenue activities derives from these sales.  The Legion contributes approximately fifty percent of its income over expenses to the community.  The remaining fifty percent goes toward purchasing the building in which the Legion is located.

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In June of 1990, the Estate of Richard Eric King brought suit against the Legion in state court alleging that the Legion served intoxicating beverages to patron Roger Dillon, that Dillon left the Legion intoxicated, and that while intoxicated Dillon negligently drove his vehicle into King's, causing King's death.1  Aetna denied coverage and brought this declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration of non-coverage.  TheVirginia's highest court point strongly in the direction taken by the latter courts.

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In  Adkins v. St. Francis Hospital, 143 S.E.2d 154 (W. Va. 1965), the court considered whether, as a fundamental proposition, the doctrine of charitable immunity should any longer be available to nonstock, not-for-profit organizations sued for the negligence of their agents or servants.  In abrogating the doctrine, the court focused principally on the fact that, viewed practically, such organizations are, despite their underlying "charitable" purposes, engaged in the business of providing services for monetary compensation.  In a critical passage the court said.

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What is the nature of the defendant hospital in the instant case?  As heretofore noted, it has been incorporated as a nonstock, non-profit hospital.  It has been referred to herein


in the following manner. During the preliminary stages of constructing a building, support beams, typically in the form of wooden two-by-fours, are typically erected in order to define the general room configurations of the building. With the support beams erected, a nail disposed through each tab of the wall box is driven into a support beam, thereby fixedly mounting the wall box onto an associated support beam at a desired location within a room of the building.
With the wall box mounted onto the support beam as such, electrical wiring which is coupled to the main electrical power source is run amongst the support beams and into the various rooms of the building. Particular wires of the electrical wiring are fed through the wall box and into its interioronto the support beams directly over the wall box. In fact, the sections of wall paneling typically are mounted onto the support beams so as to abut directly against the open front end of the box. Because the wall paneling abuts against the open front end of the wall box, the section of wall paneling which is disposed directly over the wall box is often slightly raised or bubbled.
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location of the wall box in order to provide a means of accessing the interior cavity of the wall box. Conventionally, a router is used to pierce through the wall panels and cut out the wall box.
Once the wall panels have been cut so as to expose the interior recess of the wall box, a worker plasters the wall panels. After the wall panels have been plastered, another worker paints the wall panels, thereby completing construction of the wall of the room. With construction of the wall having been completed, an electrician connects one or more electrical outlets to the wires which are disposed within the interior cavity of the wall box in order to electrically connect the outlets to the main power source. After electrically connecting theoutlets to the main power source, the outlets are disposed within the interior recess of the wall box and are fixedly retained in place by disposing one or more screws through openings formed in the electrical outlets and into engagement with a threaded bore formed in the wall box. A plastic cover plate is then commonly disposed over the outlets and is fixedly secured in place by one or more screws.
Although well known and widely used in commerce, electrical boxes of the type described above often suffer from some notable drawbacks.
As a first example, it has been found that disposing electrical wires within an electrical box having an open front end leaves the wires exposed during subsequent stages of construction, which is highly undesirable. Specifically, when an operator


uses a router to cut an opening in the panels in order to access the interior cavity of a new-work box, the router, on occasion, will contact the wires disposed within the box. As a consequence, it has been found that establishing contact between the router and the wires can significantly damage the wires and/or create a potentially dangerous condition, which is highly undesirable.
As a second example, it has been found that, when a plasterer plasters over the wall panels or when a router cuts out a new-work wall box, significant amounts of debris can often accumulate within the interior cavity of the wall box. As a result, an electrician is forced to clean out the debris which has collected within the wall box before installing the electricalWe've noticed something about Tom Herman. There are no two pictures of Tom Herman in which he looks like the same person.

At 40 years of age, Herman is young for a college football coach but not so young that he's immune to the physical changes that take place in the average man's mid-life. Thinning follicles and a revolving door of facial hairstyles account for some of it, but there are aspects to this that defy explanation.

There are a couple of possible explanations. Perhaps Tom Herman is a Faceless Man, trained in the House of Black and White in the free city of Braavos, assassinating football teams on a weekly basis in service of the Many-Faced God.

Another possibility is that Tom Herman is living a real-life version of the


in the forecast. Oh, and someone left an orange Fitbit behind at last week's run. Is it yours?

Tim Herman

Tim is trying to kick his Skoal habit but so many of the other highway patrolmen dip and it's hard to quit when you're around it all the time. But last week Katie, his youngest, knocked over his spit cup and she asked what it was and he didn't know what he should tell her. It's really thrown him for a loop.

Nick Herman

Nick has put his son Marcus in the starting lineup every game this season, and some of the parents are starting to complain. On the one hand, Marcus has scored 10 goals already and he's clearly the best player on the team. But at just six years old,Governor Rick Scott was at JAXPORT on Monday promising funding for the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility Project at the Dames Point Terminal.

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Times are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School. At least, that's what Gilly's heard. Rumor is that notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management from Headmistress Flora, and he's locked down the school tighter than the Pied Piper's pants. Not that this news concerns Gilly-she's been released from FTRS and is now suffering through attending Jack of All Trades School where she gets to learn about different kinds of shoe leather and ways to measure feet (truly riveting stuff!). But when Gilly's little sister Anna gets whisked off to FTRS (thanks to her troublemaking new friends Hansel and Gretel), Gilly knows she's got to get Anna out of there and that there's only one way to do it: get herself thrown back in.sponsored workshops and posters. I count only two refereed journal articles at the websites database. The website is beautiful though.

A commenter at the end of the Brisbane Times article provides a good link to The Economist. ...

Here are some scenes from the internet in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first of the 21st, in no particular order.

* The internet versus music and movies. The digitisation of audio-visual content and higher internet bandwidth enables mass downloading of music, movies and television programming entirely outside the legal copyright system. In Australia, much of it is driven by the FTA television networks’ refusal to screen foreign programs for many months after they’ve screened in the US. The response of copyright owners and media companies is to prosecute


"free riders" and "armchair critics" online. "Just let the professionals do their job" demands one on Twitter. But the editor of The Australian goes further. Angry that online critics are routinely deriding the paper’s partisanship and anti-science stance on climate change, he threatens to sue an academic over tweets made about a presentation at a journalism conference -- though not the presenter herself, a former journalist at his own paper -- and boasts about bringing his lawyers into the matter. His Media Editor then threatens to report another academic to police over a Twitter comment. The result is extensive coverage of the original presentation here and overseas.

* The internet versus the Australian Government. In response to WikiLeaks releasing US diplomatic cables, the Australian Prime Minister labels the act"illegal" and her Attorney-General talks about measures to prevent the release of national security material in the media. He writes to mainstream media editors with the goal of developing a protocol to do so. Later, Australian police advise that WikiLeaks has not broken any Australian laws, and the Prime Minister is forced to carefully parse her claim about illegality.

* The internet versus Big Retail. Australia’s major retailers, used to earning oligopoly profits, are unhappy Australians are using the internet to shop online at overseas sites. They demand the Government take "decisive action" in the form of higher taxes to deter consumers and protect their profits.

The common theme across these examples is that the gatekeepers and the privileged intermediaries of late twentieth century Western economies -- politicians, lawyers, the


other things, recycling would have to be part of the infrastructure,” he said.

Laos has officially inaugurated the 1,070-MW Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric power project, the largest hydro project in Laos.

The $1.45 billion project is co-owned by Electricite de France, the Lao government, the Electricity Generating Public Co. of Thailand and Italian-Thai Development.

After five years of construction and development costs of more than 1.4 billion dollars, the plant began supplying neighboring Thailand with power in March. Initially, the plant was expected to begin commercial operations by the end of 2009. Engineering problems delayed the project's opening.

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One of the world’s leadingcould create great uncertainty for the companies and their markets."

Australia's main media players say the federal government's reaction to the release of diplomatic correspondence by the WikiLeaks website is "deeply troubling".

The country's newspaper editors, along with television and radio directors, have written an open letter to Prime Minister Julia Gillard in support of WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange. The letter is supported by the editor-in-chief of The Sydney Morning Herald and Sun Herald, Peter Fray, whose newspapers have reported on the secret US embassy cables provided exclusively to Fairfax newspapers.

"The volume of the leaks is unprecedented, yet the leaking and publication of diplomatic correspondence is not new," the letter, initiated by the Walkley Foundation, states. "We ... believe the reaction of the US and Australian governments to


has always done - expose official secrets that governments would prefer to keep in the dark. "WikiLeaks, just four years old, is part of the media and deserves our support."

Almost 600,000 people have signed a separate online petition in support of WikiLeaks ahead of a second appearance in court in London by Mr Assange.

The petition on campaigning website Avaaz calls on the US and other nations to "stop the crackdown on WikiLeaks and its partners immediately" and to respect "the laws of freedom of expression and freedom of the press".

Crikey's Guy Rundle has another meandering, but interesting, update on the Julian Assange case - Assange’s defence team losing the PR war by winning it. If you read between the lines this is the left wing intellectual version ofof having committed a crime and then pathetically pandering to the Americans instead of standing up for an Australian citizen.

The oil giant Shell claimed it had inserted staff into all the main ministries of the Nigerian government, giving it access to politicians' every move in the oil-rich Niger Delta, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable.

The company's top executive in Nigeria told US diplomats that Shell had seconded employees to every relevant department and so knew "everything that was being done in those ministries". She boasted that the Nigerian government had "forgotten" about the extent of Shell's infiltration and was unaware of how much the company knew about its deliberations.

The cache of secret dispatches from Washington's embassies in Africa also revealed that the Anglo-Dutch oil firm swapped intelligence


with the US, in one case providing US diplomats with the names of Nigerian politicians it suspected of supporting militant activity, and requesting information from the US on whether the militants had acquired anti-aircraft missiles.

Campaigners said the revelation about Shell in Nigeria demonstrated the tangled links between the oil firm and politicians in the country where, despite billions of dollars in oil revenue, 70 per cent of people live below the poverty line.

Cables from Nigeria show how Ann Pickard, then Shell's vice-president for sub-Saharan Africa and now chairwoman of Shell in Australia, sought to share intelligence with the US government on militant activity and business competition in the contested Niger Delta – and how, with some prescience, she seemed reluctant to open up because of a suspicion thea de facto NATO alliance. Central to this is the Nordic battle group, the naval force run as a joint NATO/Swedish exercise, and a key part of the new more aggressive forward strategy of NATO in relation to Russia — as recently revealed by WikiLeaks. This is part and parcel of a gradual surrender of neutrality to US dominance — as recently revealed by WikiLeaks.

This circle closes with news tonight that Swedish and American authorities are already in discussion about co-operation to begin extradition proceedings against Assange once he is in Sweden. It comes as WikiLeaks releases a new series of cables that show that Scotland was effectively bribed by Libya to release Al-Megrahi, the man convicted (possibly wrongly) of the Lockerbie bombing.

In other words, the hits just


keep on coming. And it is faintly possible that Assange decided, once s-x crime allegations were made against him, that his project would best be served by a series of trials that convulsed the world.

nna Ardin, one of the two complainants in the rape and sexual assault case against WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, has left Sweden, and may have ceased actively co-operating with the Swedish prosecution service and her own lawyer, sources in Sweden told Crikey today.

The move comes amid a growing campaign by leading Western feminists to question the investigation, and renewed confusion as to whether Sweden has actually issued charges against Assange. Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, and the European group Women Against Rape, have all made statements questioning the nature and purpose of the prosecution.

Ardin, whoalso goes by the name Bernardin, has moved to the West Bank in the Palestinian Territories, as part of a Christian outreach group, aimed at bringing reconciliation between Palestinians and Israelis. She has moved to the small town of Yanoun, which sits close to Israel’s security/sequestration wall. Yanoun is constantly besieged by fundamentalist Jewish settlers, and international groups have frequently stationed themselves there.

Attempts by Crikey to contact Ardin by phone, fax, email and twitter were unsuccessful today.

Ardin’s blog has restarted after a fortnight hiatus, and her twitter feed has restarted after a two-month break. The twitter feed appears to be commenting on her ongoing profile in the media with the latest entry reading: “CIA agent, rabid feminist / Muslim lover, a Christian fundamentalist, frigid & fatally in love


on different sides of the debate.

Indeed, it puts one in the unusual position of saying that commentators such as Wolf are being too anti-complainant in their construction of the charges as nothing other than a couple of bad dates. It’s a strange world, and getting stranger.

The lawyer for Ardin and Wilen, the two complainants, has hit back at attacks and criticism of his clients, saying that they had been put on trial and effectively assaulted twice. He claimed to be in daily contact with the women, which suggests that he has a better reception to Yanoun than many of its inhabitants have to the outside world.

Even if the case comes to trial, the prospects of conviction look slim. Crikey asked Flinders University s-x crime law expert Dr Maryto face questioning about criminal charges he does not understand. He has said publicly that he is at a loss to know how he could be accused of sexual offences against two women with whom he had sex when they have admitted it was consensual.

Assange has always been an avid reader of books. I know this because we worked together for almost three years to create Underground, a book published in Australia in 1997 and again in an electronic version in 2001. Underground is the true story of hackers in Australia and around the globe. Assange, the former hacker, contributed exceptional technical skills and analysis, and I brought years of experience as a journalist and writer. The book has become something of a classic among computer enthusiasts and


has been translated into Czech, Chinese and Russian. Books were the basis of Assange's self-education. He attended school off and on during his childhood, but he was continually frustrated by teachers who were at a loss about what to do with him.

A geek friend of his once described Assange as having an IQ "in excess of 170". I suspect this could be true. I can only imagine how hard it must have been for a teacher in 1970s Australia to teach her class of normal children while also dealing with one small blond-haired boy who was off the charts.

So Assange largely gave up on school, finding it more efficient to educate himself by reading books. He learned to tune out if people didn't feed him information fast enough.

I'vegeek in him always gravitated towards optimisation of everything. Some people are born engineers and the desire to optimise is a good test of this.

Once, when Assange was packing boxes to move house, he complained at how long it took. Most people just throw things in boxes and tape them up. Not Assange. He approached putting his books in boxes as though he was solving a puzzle aimed at using all the space in the box most efficiently. If there was dead space in the box, the packing had not been optimal and was a failure. He would empty the box and restart the packing again.

This desire for optimisation might be dismissed as the quirky trait of a geek, but it is far more important. It is part


stop hosting the publisher. The New York Times has also released the diplomatic cables. Lieberman's office has called for an investigation but has not tried to order the paper to stop its presses. As if it could. There would be rioting in the streets of Manhattan.

In person, Assange is remarkably calm. He is sometimes dedicated to the cause of free speech in a pointed way that that affronts Americans, which is surprising, really, given their dedication to the right of free speech.

What matters is that WikiLeaks is changing the balance of power between average citizens and their governments like nothing else has this century. For the past decade the pendulum has swung towards government. WikiLeaks is pulling the pendulum back towards towards the citizens.

Crikey reports that one ofthe halfwit American politicians calling for Assange's assassination was a supporter of a terrorist organisation - Congressman who called for killing of Assange an IRA supporter. Maybe the British should be calling for his head if we are going to return to the law of the jungle, as per Republican party policy ?

Peter King, the Republican Congressman from New York, who recently called for the assassination of WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange as a “terrorist”, is a long-time supporter of the Provisional IRA, and met members of the group in the 1980s.

An energetic fund-raiser with NORAID, the US group that channelled millions of dollars to the IRA* during the 30 years of conflict, paying for its supplies of guns and Semtex, King was defending the group British well after


the Good Friday agreement, denying that there was any IRA involvement in the murder of Robert McCartney, and its cover-up in 2005.

King had broken with support for Sinn Fein and the IRA in 2004, not because of any events in Ireland, but because the party/group had come out against the Iraq War.

King will be the new chair of the Homeland Security Committee when the 112th Congress begins sitting in January. He has earlier remarked that Assange should be treated the way the US treats any enemy combatant with “drones and Gitmo” — i.e. piloted bombs and torture in Guantanamo prison camps.

He has modified his stance since, to using “legal” measures, suggesting that WikiLeaks be designated a terrorist outfit, saying that he wants to seize their funds and gowho know and perhaps can document the political pressures that were brought to bear–and the details of the hasty kowtowing by their bosses–to leak that information. They can send it to Wikileaks (now on servers outside the US), to mainstream journalists or bloggers, or perhaps to sites like antiwar.com that have now appropriately ended their book-purchasing association with Amazon.

DURING the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg released government documents now known as the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times. In response, the American government tried him for theft and conspiracy under the Espionage Act. The authorities also tried to steal Ellsberg's medical files in order to discredit him.

The Pentagon Papers exposed lies told by the US government to justify the war and their publication helped fuel opposition to the


act in concert by hiding their concerted association from outsiders, an authority that proceeds by preventing its activities from being visible enough to provoke counter-reaction. It might be something as dramatic as a loose coalition of conspirators working to start a war with Iraq, or it might simply be the banal, everyday deceptions and conspiracies of normal diplomatic procedure.

A MELBOURNE lawyer and former boss of Prime Minister Julia Gillard has criticised her government for its handling of WikiLeaks and its Australian founder, Julian Assange.

Peter Gordon, whose legal firm made Ms Gillard the first female partner of Slater and Gordon, said her comment that Mr Assange had broken the law was baseless.

He said the fact that people such as Ms Gillard and Attorney-General Robert McClelland - both of whomhe knew to be good lawyers and decent people - could be driven to behave in this way was a sobering reminder of ''the seductive and compulsive draw of power''.

Mr Gordon was speaking on Thursday night at a WikiLeaks forum attended by 250 lawyers and civil libertarians at the Law Institute of Victoria.

In today's Age opinion page, he writes: ''If the Wikileaks disclosures tell us anything, it is that no government, whatever its political colours, is going to hesitate for a nanosecond to conflate the notion of 'national security' with 'my own career security'.''

He calls for a challenge to the ''war on information … call it what it is - a growing and insidious attack on free speech''.

Mr Gordon's stance was backed by several top barristers, who said


neither official secrets nor terror laws provided any offences under which Mr Assange could be charged in Australia.

Mr Assange also received support from more than 500 people who attended a rally outside the State Library in Melbourne. The rally was one of several held around the country, with backers calling for a ban on WikiLeaks censorship and for Mr Assange to be freed.

Julian Burnside, QC, said of the government: ''I think they are trying to defend the indefensible.''

He said the state had an obligation to protect citizens who got into trouble in a foreign country. ''They ignored that obligation and instead sided with the Americans. They even went so far as to threaten to cancel his passport. That's exactly the opposite of what any self-respecting country ought towas pinpointed as a target for the document-leaking site led by Assange, who is currently under arrest.

In the US, Fox Business Network’s Charlie Gasparino detailed Bank of America's ‘war room’ after outlining concerns the bank’s mortgage creation and purchases of investment bank Merrill Lynch and Countrywide Financial Corporation during the global financial crisis would come under the spotlight.

Dr Burchill, a former political officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs, defines his role as holding the Gillard government to account. As part of his duties to date he has hunted down Swedish translators for Assange’s UK lawyers.

He says the information – to be released this month or in early 2011, and described by Assange as giving “a true and representative insight into how banks behave at the executive level”


up the Khashoggi issue while at the summit.

At a news conference in Buenos Aires, Trudeau said he had a “frank conversation” with the Saudi crown prince at the leaders’ dinner on Friday.

“I spoke to the crown prince to highlight our concerns and the need for better answers on the killing of Khashoggi and the need for cease fire in Yemen,” Trudeau said.

Western nations are calling for an end to the Saudi-led military campaign in neighboring Yemen, which was launched by Prince Mohammed, as a humanitarian crisis there worsens.

Erdogan also said Prince Mohammed had sent his chief prosecutor to Turkey to investigate the Khashoggi killing, but the prosecutor failed to share information with Turkey.

Turkey has evidence documenting that Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and a critic of the crownThe Ancient Roman gladiators were some lean, mean killing machines. Fighting was their way of life, the very essence of their being. This gave them an unwavering strength and a tremendous drive and determination. Their courage was legendary. If a gladiator wanted to be the champion, he could not let his focus waver. A single mistake, a slip up, a short lapse in his attention or a bit weaker stamina could end it all for him. His very life depended on being in peak physical condition and the master of his weapons.

Gladiators needed to be driven, not only to become the best they could be, but also to always be better than their opponent. For them, being second best could often mean only one thing: death.

Unfortunately only very


training

The most important training for any gladiator was the training done with the specific weapons that he would use in the arena. If he wanted to win in a fight, he needed to be extremely proficient in their use.

The main weapons used by the gladiators included different types of swords, knives, shields and special weapons such as the trident for the retiarius, or a spear for some other types of gladiators.

In practice, the gladiators utilized wooden replicas of these weapons. Much of the training was spent sparring with these wooden weapons against other gladiators. Part of the time, wooden weapons that were heavier than the ones the gladiators wielded in actual combat were used. The idea of training with heavier weapons was that once they got used towere based on what was developed by the Ancient Greeks.

Different ludi (gladiator schools) organized their training regimens differently, however at the time of the Roman Empire, the most popular organization of training was based on the “tetrad” system developed by the Ancient Greeks. This divided training into 4-day cycles:

Day 1 – day of preparation, which consisted of toning and short, high intensity workouts

Day 2 – day of high intensity, which consisted of long, strenuous exercise

Day 3 – day of rest (short, very light workouts were also done, but it was mostly about resting)

Day 4 – day of medium intensity

In his work “Concerning Gymnastics” (one of the earliest surviving works on sports science), Philostratus, a Greek philosopher who lived during the time of the Roman Empire, described the tetrad


different descriptions of it by various authors and it was used by the Roman army to train their soldiers, so it is possible that the gladiators used it for their training as well. Other types of equipment that we know from modern gymnastics were also known in Ancient Greece and Rome and it is very possible that they were used by the gladiators to train.

Many of the principles that we use in our training were also used in the ancient world.

There is a story that was often told of Milo of Croton. This was an Ancient Greek athlete from the Greek city-state of Croton located in what is now southern Italy. He lived in the 6th century BC and was training for the Olympics.

One of the ways thathe was training was by taking a newly born bull, hoisting it up on his shoulders and carrying it for some distance. He would do it every day. As time passed, the bull would grow larger and so Milo kept on hoisting more and more weight. This culminated with him walking into the Olympic stadium with a full grown bull on his shoulders.

So over time he was increasing the weight he was lifting. This is basically the birth of progressive overload. The ancients knew that if you want your muscles to grow and get stronger, you need to lift heavier and heavier weights.

Another principle from the ancient world is that of periodization. Many gladiator schools probably used periodization training, which is an organization of training that splits training


without speed. Examples of these include: digging, picking up any kind of heavy load and either standing still with it or walking (especially up a hill), climbing a rope, hanging from rope or beam for as long as possible, holding arms up (with or without weights) while partner tried pushing them in a downwards direction…etc. These exercises show that the Ancient Greeks and Romans had an understanding of overload (including progressive overload) and its positive effects on building strength and muscles.

Speed exercises: Here the primary objective was speed, apart from strength and force. Examples of these include: running, shadow boxing, hitting the punching bag, running around with balls, arm and leg exercises like drill stuff…etc.

A particular example of this type of exercise that was performed has the Greekused after training. For example the gladiatorial school that was recently discovered in Austria (the site used to be called Carnuntum in Roman times), included a large bath complex, among other things. Baths were a common way of relaxation and recovery in Ancient Rome and many sections of Roman society used baths regularly.

Visiting baths frequently was actually one of the main recommendations to promote good health by Celsus in his work on medicine titled “De Medicina”. These baths often resembled what we know as spas in the modern world, and included tanks of cold, warm and hot water and apart from relaxation could also be used for swimming.

Nutrition

The importance of eating in order to perform was recognized in the ancient world and great attention was paid to diet.


breakfast were the standard for many athletes. It also seems that beans and cheese were quite popular among them. Different types of fiber were also considered important.

The Ancient Greeks discovered that meat helps athletes grow strong. It became a staple in the diets of many athletes. Diogenes Laertius in his “Lives of the Philosophers” mentions how this came about:

“Pythagoras is said to have been the first to train athletes on a meat diet. The first athlete he did this with was Eurymenes. Formerly, athletes had trained on dried figs, moist cheese, and wheat.”

It should be mentioned that the Pythagoras he talks about here is not the famous philosopher, but instead an athletic trainer of the same name.

Mythology also talks about the diet of the famous Milo of Croton.Javier Sicilia is a novelist and a poet. In 2009, he was awarded Mexico's prestigious Aguascalientes National Poetry Prize. This September, he read a poem dedicated to his son, Juan Francisco, at a rally:

There is nothing else to say

The world is not worthy of the word

They drowned it, deep inside of us

As they asphyxiated you

As they ripped your lungs apart

And the pain does not leave me

All we have is a world

For the silence of the just

Only for your silence and my silence, Juanelo.

This was the last poem Sicilia wrote. His son was murdered in the central state of Morelos in March, along with six other people, by members of a drug cartel.

Javier Sicilia renounced poetry and became the leader of a national protest against the drug war. Yet


something about it. And I think, as an artist and as a human being, you're sensitive to what is happening."

Writer and performer Ruben Martinez is a professor of literature and writing at Loyola Marymount University, as well as the producer of a performance in Los Angeles about the drug war. He says that, in terms of artistic resistance to the drug war, the importance of Javier Sicilia cannot be understated.

"As a writer, the only tools I have are language and representation to render a portrait of what is happening today. And Javier Sicilia was the first voice, artistically I think, to approach this," Martinez says. "[His final poem] moved a whole nation, and now it's moved us on this side of the border too, because ultimately, the waris on both sides."

Martinez says that we may not see mutilated bodies hanging from bridges in this country, but that, according to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 22,000 people die every year in the U.S. as a result of drug overdoses.

"That number of deaths should be added to the number of deaths every year in Mexico," Martinez says. "It's all part of the same conflict."

Singer and performance artist Astrid Hadad has addressed the current situation in Mexico from a different perspective. Hadad sees the roots of the current violence in a number of problems facing Mexico. She names a few of them in the song "Tierra Misteriosa" (Mysterious Land):

Poor motherland, over you fly vultures

Army men, transnational corporations, presidents, hit men, businessmen

Yesterday they were called viceroys, today


IRGC a “cancerous cell in Iran and the Middle East” and said, “Its designation as a terror organization is good news for millions of people…. The end of the IRGC will mark the beginning of freedom in Iran and the region after the IRGC has ravaged the soil of Iran and sown destruction in the region.”

The U.S. decision to designate the IRGC as a terror organization, if ultimately adopted, will bring the United States and Iran closer to confrontation. Regime opponents – within and outside Iran who see the IRGC as the root of the regime’s evil – can take encouragement from the Trump administration’s resolve to continue the fight against the regime.

The reformist circles in Iran’s regime also quietly support this move. It could bring about theweakening of the IRGC, which has gradually become the real landlord in Iran while expropriating the revolution from its stewards.

Former Iranian President Rafsanjani, who died a little over two years ago, was the most ardent opponent of the IRGC’s deepening involvement in the Iranian economy and government. The IRGC, which took the helm of the revolution based on a broadened interpretation of article 150 of the New Iranian Constitution, could find themselves facing a challenge to their continued revolutionary endeavor at home and abroad.

Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall

IDF Lt.-Col. (ret.) Michael (Mickey) Segall, an expert on strategic issues with a focus on Iran, terrorism, and the Middle East, is a senior analyst at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and at Acumen Risk Advisors.


The Buffalo Bills moved quickly in replacing departed defensive coordinator Mike Pettine on Friday, officially bringing in former Detroit Lions head coach Jim Schwartz to coach the team's defense. The hiring has been largely praised - Schwartz, like Pettine, is known for an aggressive mindset, and his background in analytics meshes well with the team's organizational philosophy - but the Bills are looking at yet another system change on defense.

Pettine is known for mixing alignments and blending one- and two-gap techniques on any given play, with an end goal of disguise. Schwartz, who was the defensive coordinator in Tennessee for eight seasons, runs a mostly 4-3 base defense with his defensive ends lining up in a "Wide 9" technique in an effort to maximize their pass-rushing potential. Let'shurt. Projected into the Wide 9 4-3, that player becomes largely useless as a pass rusher with limited to no range in run support. The player best-suited to play that role in the Schwartz defense is probably Mario Williams, who would have to deal with a tight end chip much more often than he did under Pettine as a result.

Manny Lawson could also play that position, keeping Williams on the weak side of the formation, but he was the strong-side linebacker for the Bills, and in that same role he'd be moving further off the ball under Schwartz. Pettine used Lawson off the ball quite a bit, particularly in nickel and dime sets - where Lawson would serve as the second coverage linebacker next to Kiko Alonso -


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long ago, but we all wanted to spare you, I suppose. But now you must know the terrible truth."

"What happened, Calpurnia?"

"Your wife, Messalina...she's married."

"Aha! Of course she is. Heh-heh. Else how could I be her husband?"

"No, no. Several days ago, she...got married to...Gaius Silius."

Claudius gave Calpurnia an empty stare. She waited for him to digest the poisonous tidings, but he did not seem to comprehend.

"What do you mean, Calpurnia?" he croaked, then cleared his throat.

"Senator Gaius Silius, the consul-elect, married my lady Valeria Messalina. At his home...while you were here in Ostia. There were public vows. And witnesses. They...they," she faltered, "they also consummated the marriage." Then she broke into sobbing.

Absentmindedly, Claudius began stroking her head, but the deepening furrows on his brow showed that the news wasfright, he led her triumphantly into Agrippina's suite. Everyone had vanished. Inside there was merely candlelight and a gift of perfume for Acte.

Nero reported the change to Seneca. The philosopher was careful not to dash his hopes, but he did urge him to be wary. "Aesop said it first," he added. "'Appearances are deceptive.'" Seneca, of course, had a reason for saying that, Nero realized, for he saw clearly enough the battle lines being drawn in the palace. But what if his tutor were wrong? Agrippina was, after all, his own mother, and seemed to have recognized her proper role at last. Yes, he decided, he must do his own part to repair their relationship.

One day he inspected the imperial wardrobe, selected a jeweled turquoise robe from India,


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"The last two figures will have to be determined in the next weeks," Sabinus explained to Nero.

"But what these figures _don't_ show are the irreplaceables," Nero mused. "Romulus's temple, Numa's palace, Vesta's sanctuary..."

"Not to mention the archives."

"And my statues—Greek originals. Now we have only copies of those masterpieces." Then he stopped and smoothed his brow. "But we must look to the future, gentlemen. We must rebuild Rome. And we'll _not_ rebuild her helter-skelter as our ancestors did after the Gauls burned the city. No, no! We'll have broader streets—"

"And straighter, I trust?" Sabinus smiled.

"Yes, straighter. We'll require open spaces betweenpalm—the signal to cut. A band of praetorians rushed out at the circle of Christians and criss-crossed their skins with knife cuts so that the lions could see and smell blood. Some hissing actually boiled up from the galleries, since this was an unusual gesture and quite unsportsmanlike.

Now the lead lion raised his head and again sniffed the air, this time heading back toward the Christians with a low, graceful lope. The others followed and soon they halted in a pack to stalk the ten. Several began growling with anticipation, scratching the ground with great, tawny paws. The other lions answered with menacing snorts, panting as their manes rose.

One of the Christian men, who had a strong, baritone voice, now cupped his hands around his mouth and yelled


of cruelty, the herald added that Priscilla's husband Aquila was watching from his cross in front of the imperial box.

Sabinus grasped the railing before him. He felt nauseous. He had not known that Aquila, on the opposite side of the stadium, had already been crucified.

Several minutes later, a great white bull charged into the arena, desperately shaking its head to try to get rid of the naked woman tied tightly across its neck and horns. The bull charged wildly down the hippodrome until it came to Nero's box, where praetorians waved some brightly colored blankets to distract the beast and bring it to a halt. Wife and husband exchanged a final, meaningful glance. Then, completely maddened at the heavy load across its horns, the bull lowered its massivehis gratitude.

The Neronia festival was approaching once again. The thought of Caesar returning to the stage, always a disgrace to the state, particularly irked the Fathers in view of the political funerals that year. But Thrasea Paetus found a deft solution. He stood up in the Senate and said, "I propose that we award Caesar the victory in advance of the games—he will surely win anyway—and now he need not even compete."

_"Euge! Euge!"_ the senators agreed, and then voted it into law.

Nero was less than pleased with the news. "I _don't need_ any special favors—least of all from the Senate," he pouted. "I'll win my honors by merit alone."

Eagerly he returned to the stage, this time shod with high-soled buskins to improve his stature. In bowing to the


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And part of the reason is that slavery is connected to themes that have preoccupied Spielberg for much of his career. (It is also, more obviously, linked to the themes of social inclusion and historical change that you find in Kushner's plays). This is the second movie he has made explicitly on the topic of American slavery and the fight to abolish it. The first was Amistad, a clumsy movie in some ways but one that places a great deal of agency (and ferocious dignity) in the person of Cinque, the African slave played by Djimon Honsou. The Color Purple was not about slavery as such, but about African-American life under the heel of white supremacy, and it is worth noting that Spielberg