and 7–8. Kindergarten was added later. The principal also taught grades 7–8. Some children had to go home for lunch because they were near the school, while others who did not stayed in their classrooms and ate lunch. There was no gymnasium, but recess was a good time for physical education.

The original Riverview School was built in 1895 and was only one room. The sole teacher’s name is Gertrude L. Bothe. In 1912 the school established a second room. A proposal to build a new school on a new parcel of land was made at a  meeting on July 11, 1949. The construction plan, approved on August 8, 1949, was to build a three-room school on a nine-acre area. The plans were again modified to include theMedicine: Great Pox

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for rehearing.

1
The facts as found by the Master and as supported by the evidence, show that since May 7, 1945, Cobra had been a creditor of Aircraft. The indebtedness was based on book account entries from May 7, 1945 to and including April 16, 1946, then aggregating $6,254.25. The referee on May 20, 1947, found $6,254.25 was due Cobra from Aircraft. The decision was affirmed on November 5, 1947, on petition for review to the district court. Judgment in this amount was entered in favor of Cobra against Aircraft on November 5, 1947 in the records of the clerk's office.

2
In October 1945 Aircraft ceased doing war work and all contracts were cancelled. Thereafter it did nothing but "cleaning up." At the time Aircraft ceased active work it hada net worth of $20,190.51. Coffman was the dominant and controlling stockholder of Aircraft as well as its president, and had been such since January 17, 1945. Since that date and until 1949, he had been the person in charge of the affairs of Aircraft.

3
Within a matter of days after October 31, 1945, when Aircraft had a net worth of $20,190.51, Coffman began doing business as Nash Wilshire, an auto sales agency. On November 25, 1945, he opened a bank account under the name of Harry J. Coffman, doing business as Nash Wilshire. Having no funds of his own Coffman turned to the assets of Aircraft which he controlled and used these assets to establish himself in the Nash Wilshire venture.

4
From time to time Coffman drew money from


Aircraft's funds. He maintained books, including a ledger with one account listing his indebtedness to Aircraft and a separate account with Aircraft entitled "Nash Wilshire" purportedly showing moneys due him from Aircraft. The first account gradually increased in amounts due Aircraft, reflecting moneys of Aircraft, utilized by Coffman. By May 31, 1947, the month the referee made his order in favor of Cobra against Aircraft, Coffman owed Aircraft $9,082.36 but the amount allegedy due Coffman on the Nash Wilshire account had been built up to $9,259.42.

5
By Coffman's own computations, as late as September 30, 1946, he was indebted to Aircraft in the sum of $9669.94 over and above his claimed offset. Thereafter by his same computation his indebtedness to Aircraft was cut down by the Nash Wilshire offsetsuntil finally on June 30, 1948 his debt to Aircraft was completely extinguished and Aircraft owed him $2966.93.

6
Thus, the effective period of Coffman's claimed set-off was between September 30, 1946 and June 30, 1948. Cobra had been a creditor since May 7, 1945 and its total claim had fully accrued on April 16, 1946. Thus, Coffman's claimed set-off to his admitted debt to Aircraft all accrued after the debt from Aircraft to Cobra had become due.

7
The Master found and the evidence shows that Coffman appropriated at least $9240.46 of the property of Aircraft to his own use as shown by his account on the books of Aircraft, which account is unchallenged and undenied.

8
He operated Nash Wilshire from November 1945 to September 1949 when he sold the business. Nash


to place himself in the position of a preferred creditor of Aircraft Company * * *".

12
The Master was right as rain. When Coffman, as president, director and dominant shareholder of Aircraft, misappropriated the sum of $9240.46 of the funds of Aircraft as found by the Master, he then became an involuntary trustee holding that money in trust for the creditors of Aircraft, including Cobra. To permit him to setoff against these funds so impressed with such a trust, a later accruing obligation to him from Aircraft perverts all sense of justice or equity. He makes himself, by his own act, a preferred creditor of Aircraft. He takes advantage of his wrong in appropriating Aircraft's funds to have them in his possession and thus attempt to effect his claimedgatekeeper was a former student of the University of Zambia who originally comes from there and was working at the District Veterinary Office. In Lundazi district, the gatekeeper was a Veterinary Assistant who worked at the District Veterinary Office for more than five years. We initially used both gatekeepers as enumerators during a baseline survey. Constant engagement through phone call meetings with gatekeepers and their assistants helped to make the preparation a success. The modelling team also had two brief meetings to rehearse the SGMB process. The modelling team was made up of four members; a senior SD modeller, a junior SD modeller, a rapporteur, and a gatekeeper. Other researchers have recommended larger modelling teams in GMB \[[@pone.0189878.ref037]\], but the lack of available expertise constrained us with the


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Haris Suleman, who recently earned his private airplane license and instrument rating, will be the head pilot on the flight. His father said he will take the lead in emergencies.

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ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEE

Timothy J. McGinty
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor
By: Steven McIntosh
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney
The Justice Center, 9th Floor
1200 Ontario Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44113
KATHLEEN ANN KEOUGH, P.J.:

       {¶1} In 2013, defendant-appellant, Brianna Rogers, was charged with two counts

each of attempted murder, felonious assault, aggravated menacing, and improperly

handling of firearms in a motor vehicle, and one count of discharge of a firearm on or

near prohibited premises.     The attempted murder and felonious assault charges also

contained one-, three-, and five-year firearm specifications. Following discovery, Rogers

agreed to plead guilty to two amended counts of felonious assault, two counts of

aggravated menacing, one count of improperly handling of firearms in a motor vehicle,

and the charge of discharge of a firearm on or near prohibited premises.


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Detroit police officer Jerold Blanding.

The department had gone about 18 months without killing any citizens, when, in February, Officer Jerold Blanding chased 19-year-old Raynard Burton behind a house and shot him after an alleged struggle. Officers said they pursued Burton, who later turned out to be a carjacking suspect, because he'd been speeding. When Burton crashed and ran from his vehicle, Blanding eventually left his partner behind to go after him on foot. Once out of view, Detroit police said the teen "lunged" at Blanding in an attempt to grab his gun, causing him to fire the single, deadly shot.

Last week, as the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office doled out murder and misconduct charges to local law enforcement officers accused of acting inappropriately throughout the year,it declined to charge Blanding in Burton's death. With no eye witness accounts or body- or dash camera video apparently available for the Detroit police-led probe into the officer's actions, the county prosecutor described signs of a close-range bullet wound as corroborating Blanding's version of events and determined the shooting was justified.

It's the third time Blanding, a more than 20-year veteran of the Detroit Police Department, has been cleared of wrongdoing in the shooting of a citizen. The two previous off-duty and non-fatal encounters have prompted excessive-use-of-force lawsuits against the department, with one suit resulting in a six-figure payout for a victim and the other still pending. Blanding was never charged by the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office in those shootings. He was, however, found by the Detroit Police


Department to have inappropriately used force in a 2010 incident, according to a list of citizen complaints filed against him and obtained by Metro Times through a Freedom of Information Act request. He was also disciplined early in his career for shooting a pigeon with his department-issued Glock, according to a report by the Detroit News. By the time Blanding killed Burton in February, he had made his Instagram handle "FatalForce."

In the more recent non-fatal shooting at the heart of a civil rights suit against DPD, Blanding is accused of unloading more than a dozen bullets into the vehicle of an unarmed Detroit resident who was involved in a domestic dispute with the mother of his child. According to victim DeMar Parker's account of the 2015 incident, hischild's mother was dating a Detroit police officer who apparently called two of his fellow officers for help, one of whom was Blanding.

When the un-uniformed officers arrived and began to close in on him, Parker said he ran to his car and took off, driving a few blocks before turning the car around to head back in the direction of his home. He said he decided to return using the same road in an effort to get the license plate number of the vehicle in which the officers had shown up.

As Parker headed back down the street, he said one of the officers stepped into the middle of the road and pointed his gun directly at him. Parker said he swerved to avoid him when Blanding, who Parker


said had been standing on the sidewalk, suddenly opened fire.

Parker ducked as he said Blanding shot repeatedly at his vehicle, sending bullets whizzing past his head. One of the bullets hit his leg. DeMar Parker says he was shot by Officer Jerold Blanding after arguing with the girlfriend of another Detroit cop. A lawsuit says the officer unjustifiably fired approximately 15 bullets into Parker's car.

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DeMar Parker and his bullet-riddled vehicle.

Blanding, for his part, told investigators that Parker had come back down the street waving a pistol and that he feared Parker would shoot his fellow officer or hit him with his vehicle. Blanding was the only witness to claim Parker had a gun.

Others who were interviewed by detectives spoke mostly to the manner in which Parker approachedthe officers in his car. A neighbor said she saw Parker drive up slow in an attempt to "intimidate" the officers, while the grandfather of Parker's child, who was not an eye witness, said he heard a "loud engine" come up the street. The officer Parker said was standing in the middle of the road with a gun said he stepped out of the way so the vehicle could pass but that Parker accelerated and veered towards him, causing him to jump. Blanding, meanwhile, said he heard squealing tires.

The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office declined to file charges in the case, determining that Blanding had acted "in self-defense and/or the defense of others." The office also declined to charge Parker, citing insufficient evidence. The civil suit is set to


go to trial this summer.

The officer's first known near-killing of an unarmed citizen occurred 17 years earlier, and was the subject of an award-winning Metro Times cover story, "Under the Gun." In that incident, Blanding repeatedly shot a man who said he'd mistakenly walked up to the officer's vehicle at a drive-up ATM.

According to court records referenced in the report, trouble with the cash machine had compelled the victim, Johnny Crenshaw, to get out of his girlfriend's minivan to get help from a woman using another ATM. While Crenshaw was out of the minivan, his girlfriend moved to let in another SUV being driven by Blanding, who was off-duty at the time.

As the victim fussed with his cash, card, and wallet, he said he walked back to thespot where the minivan had been and accidentally opened the door of officer's SUV. The officer — who later said he thought the man was an armed robber — opened fire, but only after the victim said he’d already apologized and closed the door.

Blanding stepped out of his vehicle to shoot at Crenshaw, and continued to shoot as Crenshaw retreated to his girlfriend's car while he said he was pleading for mercy. Blanding said he thought Crenshaw had been holding a gun. He hit Crenshaw three times. No gun was recovered at the scene; Crenshaw had been holding his wallet.

The officer was cleared by the Wayne County prosecutor in that case, but elements of the preceding DPD investigation were later called into question by Crenshaw's lawyer. For example,


investigators never sought a key witness to the incident — the woman who had helped the victim at the ATM — who Crenshaw's lawyer said he was easily able to reach and who corroborated the series of events as told by the victim. Separately, an investigative report into the incident by the Detroit News found investigators offered the officer leading questions, like "The black object you saw in the complainant's hand, did you think it was a gun?" Also questioned was the length of time investigators sat on the case before handing it over to the prosecutor's office.

The case helped lead to what would eventually be 13 years of federal oversight for DPD. That oversight was lifted in 2016.

Not much has changed in the way the prosecutor's officewrongdoing by Officer Blanding, a longtime member of the Detroit Police Department.In January, while Blanding was on restricted duty and not to be carrying a gun due to last year's killing, the prosecutor's office says Detroit police found him at the scene of a car crash smelling like booze, slurring his words, and illegally carrying three guns. As officers tried to render aid to the the person hurt in the crash, the prosecutor's office says he resisted and obstructed their efforts. Blanding was off duty at the time and apparently knew the accident victim, though the prosecutor's office says he was not involved in the crash.Blanding is charged with three counts of possession of firearm while under the influence, eight counts of resisting and obstructing the police, and


October 4, 2011, Varela called Oscar and asked him whether he and his

brothers, David4 and Pizana, could pick him up. Tafich and Garcia were with Oscar at

this time. Oscar, his brothers, Tafich, and Garcia picked Varela up in San Bernardino in

Pizana's black Ford Expedition. Varela indicated that the woman they were going to pick

up in Pomona would buy gas for them. Varela told the other men not to talk to the

woman and to make sure she did not know who they were.

       The men traveled to Rosas's house in Pomona and she got into the Expedition.

Around 8:39 p.m., Rosas used her credit card to purchase $50 worth of gas at a gas

station in Pomona.

3       The prosecutionjointly charged Rosas, Varela, Oscar Zuniga, David Zuniga, Jose
Pizana, Daniel Garcia, and Yussef Tafich with murder, kidnapping and assault with a
deadly weapon. ·Because they share the same last name, we refer to Oscar Zuniga and
David Zuniga by their first names. Before Rosas and Varela's trial, Oscar pleaded guilty
to voluntary manslaughter, kidnapping, and assault causing great bodily injury. In
exchange for his truthful testimony against his codefendants, Oscar received a 22-year
prison sentence for these offenses. David and Garcia, who were both 17 years old at the
time of the crimes, pleaded guilty to assault by means of force likely to produce great
bodily injury and false imprisonment. In exchange for their truthful testimony against
their codefendants, the prosecutor agreed David and Garcia would receive a maximum of
three years in prison. Tafich and Pizana


did not testify at Rosas and Varela's trial.

4      See footnote 3, ante.
                                            4
       Varela, who had been whispering to Rosas, directed Pizana, who was driving, to

drive them to the parking lot of the Legends Burgers (Legends) where Cate worked.

Varela and Rosas got out of the Expedition, sat down on benches, and spoke to each other

for about 20 to 30 minutes.

       Varela returned to the Expedition, he and theother men drove to a liquor store

where Varela purchased some things, and then they drove to Montclair Plaza. Varela told

the men they would have to wait there until Rosas called or texted them to return to

Legends. Varela told them Rosas was going to tell Cate to give her the Buick and that if

he did not do so, Varela and and the other men would take the car by force. Varela also

said Rosas wanted them to beat up Cate, take him to Tijuana, and leave him there so he

could not come back because he did not have any "papers."

       At around 12:31 a.m. on October 5, 2011, Rosas contacted Varela by phone.5

Varela then told the men, "It's time. Let's go," and the group


returned to Legends in the

Expedition. Cate's Buick had been moved to another space in the parking lot. All of the

men got out of the Expedition and approached Cate's Buick except for Oscar, who stayed

in the Expedition. Pizana opened a back passenger seat door of the Buick and Rosas got

out. Pizana entered the backseat and repeatedly punched Cate in the back. Varela,

Tafich, Garcia and David then joined Pizana in punching Cate. Cate was wearing

underwear but no pants. When someone broke one of the windows of the Buick, Garcia

5      Both juries heard testimony from a Sprint custodian of records regarding
defendants' cell phone calls between October 1 and 5, some of which corroborated the
specific testimony of their codefendants.
                                            5
and David became scared and ran back to the Expedition. Rosas remained outside the

Buick during the assault, standing by the open passenger door and watching what was

going on inside the car as it rocked back and forth. She said nothing and did not try to

run away.

       Eventually, Rosas got into the front passenger seat of the Buick and drove with

Varela, Pizana, Tafich and Cate to a warehouse 10 to 15 minutes away. Oscar followed

them in the Expedition and then got into the driver's seat of the


Buick after it was parked.

Pizana and Tafich got back into the Expedition with David and Garcia. Varela, who was

seated in the back seat of the Buick behind Oscar Varela leaned forward and whispered to

Rosas, who was seated in the front passenger seat, before he gave Oscar directions.

       At around 1:47 a.m. on October 5, Rosas used her credit card to buy gas for the

Buick at a gas station in Murrieta. While Oscar was putting gas in the Buick, he saw

Varela sitting on the back seat and Cate lying on the floorboard with what appeared to be

a bloodstained towel over his head. When Oscar moved toward the gas pump, he noticed

the Buick was moving again, as if a struggle was going on inside.Oscar looked inside

the rear window of the Buick and saw Varela "on all fours" like he was struggling to hold

something down while the Buick was moving back and forth. Oscar testified he could

hear someone "trying to scream with something over his face." The screaming was not

coming from Varela's mouth.

       Varela told Oscar to drive him and Cate to a dark spot because the lights in the gas

station were shining inside the car. Oscar did so and then exited the Buick while Varela

remained inside the car with Cate. Oscar heard someone trying to scream for a few


                  6
minutes. After the screaming stopped, Varela told Oscar to get back in the car and drive

to the gas station, and Oscar reluctantly did so.

       The men picked Rosas up at the gas station and drove south on Interstate 15 to a

location in San Diego where Varela took over as the driver and Oscar got in the backseat

with Cate on the floorboard next to him. Varela asked Rosas, "Where do we go?'' Rosas

replied, "I don't know." Varela eventually pulled over by a brushy area and told Oscar to

help him drag Cate out of the car. Varela gave Oscar some magazine pages to put on his

handsto help drag Cate. Rosas remained in the Buick.

       Varela and Oscar dragged Cate behind a bush. Cate was not moving and did not

appear to be breathing. Oscar and Varela returned to the car. Oscar testified that Rosas,

who was still in the car, was wearing light-colored latex gloves and looking through the

glove compartment. Oscar drove Rosas and Varela back to San Bernardino. During the

drive, Rosas gave Varela a cell phone and told him to call their pastor and tell him that

Cate was leaving for Florida with his ex-girlfriend. Varela used a blocking feature on his

phone and left a voice mail message with the pastor around 2:13 a.m. that same morning

(October 5).

       During the drive, Valera and


Rosas bickered about what to do with Cate's Buick.

Valera told Rosas he had already done too much and she had to get rid of the car. Rosas

said Valera had not finished everything that she had paid him for. They discussed

burning or crushing the Buick because of the bloodstains inside the car. When Oscar

reached a point near his home, he parked and told Varela he was getting out. Two or

three days later, Tafich paid Oscar $100.

                                              7
       In the evening on October 5, Cate's girlfriend, Monica Sanchez, went to the church

that she, Cate and Rosas regularly attended. Sanchez saw Rosas there that night and told

her Cate had not come home the previous night. Sanchez was unaware of Cate's

relationship with Rosas. Rosas told Sanchez she had not seen or heard from Cate.6

Sanchez spoke to the pastor about Cate's disappearance, and the pastor played Varela's

phone message for her.

        The next day, October 6, Sanchez reported Cate's disappearance to the police. At

around 7:00 p.m. that night, authorities found Cate's Buick on fire on a dead-end street in

an unincorporated area of Muscoy. All of the fabric on the back seat of the car was

destroyed except for a bloodstained area underneath a piece


of wood and newspaper.

        Rosas's jury heard testimony that, after a church service on October 8, the pastor

told Rosas that they could not find Cate. Rosas appeared to be a little surprised by the

news.

        Both juries heard that several days later, on October 12, 2011, Rosas reported to

the police that she had been kidnapped while she was with Cate in a white car. Rosas's

jury heard translations of the statements she made to the police during her interviews on

October 12, 13, 17 and 18. The jury also viewed portions of the video recordings of the

interviews.

        During her third interview on October 17, in response to questioning by Detective

MauriceDuran of the Upland Police Department, Rosas repeatedly maintained she was

6       Only Rosas's jury heard Rosas's statement.
                                              8
kidnapped, but she admitted she put gas in the Expedition and the Buick the night she

was allegedly kidnapped (October 5). She stated that Varela told her to do it. Rosas

identified Varela, a former coworker, as one of the kidnappers and the person who likely

called the pastor. She said Varela and the other men demanded money and then beat

Cate. Rosas told


Detective Duran that she heard Cate screaming when they stopped to

put gas in the Buick. She also stated that the men drove Cate to another street and, when

they returned, Cate was no longer screaming. They then drove to a field in San Diego or

Escondido and left Cate there. Rosas also stated the men dropped her off after they drove

back. When the third interview ended, Rosas accompanied the police to San Diego to

search for Cate. They did not find him.

       The fourth interview began late that same night (October 17) when Rosas and the

detectives returned from San Diego, and it continued into the early morning hours of

October 18. At around midnight, early in the interview, Rosas admitted to Detective

Duran that she was nota kidnapping victim. She said the plan was for her and Varela to

take Cate to Tijuana and leave him there so that Cate would have to pay someone to

return to the United States. Rosas agreed to pay Varela $500 or $600 to help her. Rosas

told Detective Duran she was mad at Cate and was going to take him to Tijuana because

he was always asking her for money, he already owed her a lot of money, and he had lied

to her about his relationship with Sanchez. Throughout the interview Rosas maintained

that she did not intend for Varela and his cohorts to hurt Cate and that she told Varela not

to hurt Cate.


                          9
       Rosas also told Detective Duran during the interview that both Oscar and Varela

beat Cate in Murrieta and that Cate's face did not appear to be hurt at that time or when

they left him in San Diego. Rosas admitted it was her idea to call the pastor on the way

back to San Bernardino. She also admitted that she paid Varela $500 after the

kidnapping. Rosas stated she asked Varela the next day whether Cate was alive when

they pulled him out of the car in San Diego, and Varela replied he did not know because

he did not checkCate's pulse.

       Detective James Potts interviewed Varela later that day (October 18). A video

recording of the interview was admitted into evidence and played only for Varela's jury.

After Varela waived his Miranda rights, he told Detective Potts that Rosas was a former

coworker and that he met Cate through Rosas. Varela stated he had not heard that Cate

and Rosas had been kidnapped. When Detective Potts told Varela they had interviewed

Rosas several times and she was blaming him "for some things," Varela claimed he "was

just a tool," Rosas said Cate owed her money, and Rosas "was the one that set the whole

thing up." Varela indicated that Rosas had paid for Cate's dental work and that Rosas

wanted Cate to bring back a white Buick she had


      10
       Varela also told Detective Potts that Rosas provided the men with pieces of green

rope to tie up Cate and that he and Rosas went over the plan in the Legends parking lot.

Rosas told him she would park the Buick in the darkest place in the parking lot, and

Varela and the other men were to approach Cate, "take him down," and tie him up.

Varela also said Rosas had "staged" the crimes so she would look like a kidnapping

victim. When Varela got in the back seat with Pizana and Cate, he told Cate in

accordance with Rosas's instructions that Sanchez's father had sent him and that he (Cate)

was to stay away from Sanchez. Varela told Detective Potts thatCate was screaming

loudly during the ride to Monte Vista and that Pizana and the others hit Cate. When they

stopped for gas on the way to San Diego, Cate was screaming and bleeding from his nose

and mouth. Varela said he stuffed a blanket in Cate's mouth, drove across the street, told

Cate to be quiet, and Cate complied.

       Varela told Detective Potts that when they stopped in San Diego, Rosas put on

some blue latex gloves and shoved vodka from two pint-sized bottles into Cate's mouth.

Varela indicated that Rosas had instructed him to buy the vodka. Varela thought Cate

was unconscious at this time. Rosas then instructed him to untie Cate's arms and legs,

remove his shirt, and take his belt. Varela stated he ripped off Cate's


shirt, untied his

arms but not his legs, and left the belt by Cate's body. Varela indicated that Rosas

directed him to pour vodka on Cate to remove any evidence and that he complied.

Varela, Rosas, and Oscar then returned to San Bernardino and went their own ways.

During the drive, Rosas persuaded him to call Cate's pastor.

                                             11
       Varela also told Detective Potts that Tafich called him the next day and said he

was putting them at risk because their fingerprints wereCate was wearing a white tank top undershirt, blue boxer underwear,

a white sock, and black pants that were around his ankles. His ankles were bound with a

green nylon rope. The police found a red plastic bottle cap by Cate's hip area, a second

red bottle cap under his head, and two pieces of paper from a Spanish-language religious

pamphlet, one under his left shoulder area and the other around his right lower leg.

       An autopsy established that Cate died of "homicidal violence with head and neck

trauma." Cate's injuries included six lacerations on his scalp and a fractured thyroid

cartilage. The injuries were consistent with blunt trauma. Cate also had a large hole in

the back of his head and neck and additional smaller holes near his


ankles. The holes

could have been caused by animals or foul play.

                                            12
       On October 26 the police searched Varela's car and found multiple pairs of blue

gloves and a green rope underneath the front seat. The green rope had the same texture

and color and texture as the rope found on Cate's feet.

       B. The Defense Cases

       Neither Rosas nor Varela presented any evidence. During closing arguments,

Varela's counsel argued                              13
       Detective Duran, whose first language is Spanish, testified he first met with Rosas

on October 12, 2011, at the Montclair Police Department. Rosas reported to the police

that she and her friend Cate had been kidnapped and she had no idea what had happened

to him. After he determined that Cate had not shown up for work, Detective Duran asked

Rosas whether she would be willing to accompany him to the Upland Police Department,

and Rosas agreed to do so. Detective Duran then drove her there. Rosas was not

handcuffed or advised of her Miranda rights at


any time during the interview, and she

was free to leave at any time. Detective Duran spoke to her in Spanish during the entirety

of this first of four recorded interviews.

       On October 13, 2011, the date of the second interview, Detective Duran picked

Rosas up at her home and drove her to the Upland Police Department where Detective

Potts interviewed her in an interview room with Detective Duran acting as the translator.

The detectives went over the statements Rosas gave the previous day. Detective Duran

testified he still believed during this entire interview that Rosas was a kidnapping victim,

and he took pictures of her because of this. Rosas was not advised of her Miranda rights

during the 59-minute interview. She was not handcuffed, the door was not locked,and

she was free to leave at any time.

       Detective Duran testified that after the second interview, he went to Cate's church

and spoke with the pastor. The pastor played Varela's phone message for him. The

police also spoke to Sanchez and one of Cate's coworkers, and they obtained glass from

the Legends parking lot and video recordings of the lot.

                                             14
       The third interview started at 10:40 a.m. the following Monday, October 17, and

lasted three


hours 46 minutes. Detective Potts conducted the interview in the interview

room at the Upland Police Department, and Detective Duran translated. Detective Duran

testified that during the interview they tried to clarify some inconsistencies in Rosas's

story. Detective Duran knew Rosas was involved, but he did not know whether she was a

suspect or a victim because he did not know how she was involved. Detective Duran

testified that his main concern at that point was finding Cate, and he did not Mirandize

Rosas because he was "[s]till trying to figure out what her relationship [was] to this case."

The interview room door was unlocked during the third interview and Rosas was not

handcuffed. Rosas was free to leave during the interview, although she was not told this.

The police gave her breaks and offered her water.Rosas agreed during the interview to

accompany the detectives to San Diego to help them find Cate.

       Detective Duran further testified that he and Detective Potts drove with Rosas in

one car, and two officers followed in a second car. Rosas told the officers she was not

sure which way they drove on the night of the kidnapping because she did not know the

area. She voluntarily gave the detective her credit card and said, "You can check the card

because that will tell you which way we went." The police determined the card had been

used in Murrieta. The officers stopped at that gas station with Rosas on the way to San

Diego and purchased food and a drink for Rosas there. They also stopped so that Rosas

could


go to the bathroom. Detective Duran testified that Rosas used her cell phone

during the drive to San Diego, and the police did not confiscate her cell phone at any

point. They drove around San Diego for a couple of hours with Rosas and then drove

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back to Upland. Rosas never said she wanted to get out of the car in San Diego, and she

was free to leave. They did not talk much during the early part of the drive, but when

they reached the Escondido area,Rosas spontaneously started talking about her

relationship with Cate. She said she felt Cate had taken advantage of her, she had bought

him a car and she had given him money for a computer.

       At around 11:30 p.m. that same day (October 17, 2011), after Rosas and the

detectives arrived back at the Upland police station, Detective Duran conducted the

fourth and final interview and talked to Rosas by himself for about an hour in the

interview room. The interview continued into the early morning on October 18.

Detective Duran testified he was trying to eliminate the inconsistencies in Rosas's story

and get to the truth. Rosas discussed her relationship with Cate and told Detective Duran

she felt Cate was abusing her financially, sexually and emotionally. She said she had

complained


to Varela about this and told Varela she planned to take Cate to Tijuana and

leave him there so that Cate would have to pay to get across the border. Detective Duran

testified this was the first time Rosas had indicated she was involved in Cate's

kidnapping. Soon thereafter at around 12:35 a.m. on October 18, Detective Potts

instructed Detective Duran to Mirandize Rosas, and Detective Duran did so.

       Detective Potts, the lead investigator, testified he was brought into the case on

October 13, 2011. After he learned Cate's car had been stripped, burned and recovered in

San Bernardino, he asked Detective Duran to pick Rosas up and bring her to the Upland

Police Department that day. Detective Potts then interviewed Rosas in an interview room

at the police department.Detective Duran, who was with Detective Potts during this

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second interview, translated Detective Potts's questions and asked questions on his own.

Detective Potts testified they were trying to locate Cate and wanted to clarify Rosas's

earlier statements and see if she could remember any additional details. Detective Potts

did not tell Rosas she was free to leave during the interview because he believed she was

a victim and he does not tell victims they are free to leave. Detective Potts testified

Rosas appeared to be sincere and she was


"[v]ery cooperative." Following the standard

practice with victims, Detective Potts directed that pictures be taken of Rosas.

       Detective Potts testified that on the date of the third interview (October 17), he and

another detective drove to Rosas's house in Pomona and asked her whether she would be

willing to return to the Upland police station and talk to them. Rosas gathered her things

"within a minute" and willingly accompanied them to the police station. Detective Potts

wanted to talk to Rosas because the phone log for Varela's phone, which contained the

pastor's number, also contained Rosas's phone number. Detective Potts still believed

Rosas was a victim, but he thought there was a possibility that Rosas knew who the

suspects were and was afraid to tell the officers who they were.

      The third interview took place in the interview room at the Upland Police

Department. Once again, the interview room door was not locked and Detective Duran

assisted with translation. Detective Potts testified he asked most of the questions at the

beginning of the interview. He wanted to find out why Rosas had called Varela. During

the interview, Rosas said she used to work with Varela. She told Detective Potts she

bought gas for the kidnappers' car with her credit card on the night of her kidnapping.

Detective Potts testified that although these circumstances were unusual, he still did not


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consider Rosas a suspect because victims in past investigations had given suspects money

or put gas in their cars. Detective Potts believed the inconsistencies in Rosas's stories

were the result of her fear and that she was afraid to say what happened because she

knew at least one of the people involved. Detective Potts testified that Rosas was given

breaks before they went to San Diego, she was offered something to drink and eat, and

she used the bathroom at the station.

       Detective Potts testified that when he, Rosas, and Detective Duran drove to San

Diego, he had the other officers follow them because, if they located Cate or his body,

they would needsomeone to drive Rosas back to the station. He also testified that Rosas

did not go home when they returned to the station that night because they had asked her if

they could ask her some more questions, and "[s]he said she [was] willing to stay and talk

to [them]. She had made a phone call to her daughter letting her know she was going to

be late." Detective Potts stated they "allowed [Rosas] to keep her phone with her as we

do with all victims," and he had asked Rosas several times before this if she needed to

call her family and let them know where she was. Detective Potts testified he still

believed Rosas was a victim, and his goal at that point was still to find Cate.


 Detective Potts further testified he left Detective Duran alone in the interview

room with Rosas during the beginning of the fourth interview because he felt that she

might feel more "comfortable with somebody Spanish-speaking, of the same heritage, per

se." Detective Potts was not present when Rosas made the statement about being

involved in the kidnapping. When Detective Duran told him about it, Detective Potts

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instructed him to Mirandize Rosas in Spanish because Detective Potts knew she was

involved and not a victim.

      In addition to the testimony of Detectives Duran and Potts, the court

considered─at the request of Rosas's counsel─the video recordings and the transcripts of

the translations of Rosas's interviews. The court questioned Detective Duran's

characterization of his role as a mere translator and commented that this affected the

credibility of his testimony. The court noted that the questioning on inconsistencies in

Rosas's statements started during the second interview and stated that the tone of

questioning during the third interview became "progressively more aggressive,

confrontational." The court also noted there were threats to arrest Rosas if she was lying

and accusations that she was involved in the case, lying or changing her story.

       The court then focused on Rosas and stated that "the circumstances [were] that this

[was] not a witness


Montclair Police Department

and reported that she and her friend Cate had been kidnapped, and that she had no idea

what had happened to him. It also undisputed that throughout the first three interviews

(on October 12, 13, and 17) she maintained her story that she was a kidnapping victim.

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       The record supports the court's observation that the tone of questioning during the

third interview, which was conducted by Detectives Potts and Duran at the Upland Police

Station on October 17, becamekidnappers made her buy gas for the car with her credit card on the night of

her kidnapping.8 She also told them one of the kidnappers sitting behind her in the car

hit her in the neck and told her she was "not going anywhere," one of the kidnappers

yelled, "[D]on't let her go," and she was afraid because they told her not to "open her

mouth." She told the detectives she knew they were trying to help her.

7      Detective Duran testified that Rosas was free to leave during the third interview,
although she was not told this.

8      As previously noted, Detective Potts testified that although these circumstances
were unusual, he still did not consider Rosas a suspect because victims in past
investigations had given


suspects money or put gas in their cars.
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       Rosas agreed during the interview to accompany the detectives to San Diego to

help them find Cate. She never indicated she wanted to return home. On the way back

from San Diego, she made a phone call to her daughter and let her know she was going to

be home late. Rosas did not go home when they returned to the station that night because

the detectives had asked her whether theycould ask her some more questions, and she

told them she was willing to stay and talk to them.

       As previously discussed, the fourth interview at issue here, which was conducted

by Detective Duran, began at around 11:30 p.m. that same day (October 17, 2011) after

Rosas and the detectives arrived back at the Upland police station and continued into the

early morning on October 18. Nothing in the record suggests Rosas was subjected to any

form of coercion or "'restraint on freedom of movement' of the degree associated with a

formal arrest" (Beheler, supra, 463 U.S. at p. 1125) when the interview began.

       At around midnight, Rosas made her first self-incriminating statement when she

told Detective Duran, "The only thing I want


to say is that, like I said my intentions were

never to hurt him." After Rosas made additional self-incriminating statements, Detective

Duran again asked her whether she had been kidnapped, stating: "And the other thing I'd

like to know is, you were never kidnapped in the car, you went at your own will." Rosas

responded by again indicating she had been kidnapped. Specifically, she told Detective

Duran, "No just the guy that got the car was the one that told me, don't let that lady go,

don't let her go." She also told the detective that the man told her to give him her purse

and then he grabbed it from her and put it on the steering wheel. Faced with Rosas's

inconsistent statements, Detective Duran continued questioning her and said, "Okay you

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change the story a little bit each time." Shortly thereafter, Rosas told Detective Duran

that when the kidnappers started beating Cate, she told them not to hurt him, and one of

the men told her to be quiet.

       Not long thereafter, at around 12:35 a.m., Detective Potts instructed Detective

Duran to advise Rosas of her Miranda rights, and Detective Duran did so. Rosas waived

her Miranda rights and agreed to continue talking with Detective Duran. Rosas admitted

that she had talked to Varela about her plan


to take Cate to Tijuana, that on the night of

the kidnapping Cate did not want to go there, and that she paid Varela $500.

       We have already concluded that nothing in the record suggests Rosas was

subjected to any form of coercion or "'restraint on freedom of movement' of the degree

associated with a formal arrest" (Beheler, supra, 463 U.S. at p. 1125) when the fourth

interview began at around 11:35 p.m. on October 17. Rosas had voluntarily agreed to the

interview. Detective Duran was the only officer present during the interview.9 Nothing

in the record suggests Detective Duran placed any restrictions on her freedom of

movement after she made her first self-incriminating statement. Although Detective

Duran pressed Rosas to tell the truth and confronted her with inconsistencies inher story,

he did not use interrogation techniques designed to unduly pressure her.

9      Detective Potts testified he left Detective Duran alone in the interview room with
Rosas during the beginning of the fourth interview because he felt she might feel more
"comfortable with somebody Spanish-speaking, of the same heritage, per se." Detective
Potts also indicated he was not present when Rosas made the statement about being
involved in the kidnapping, and he did not hear her statement.
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Tijuana against his will and leave him there because she was

mad at Cate for taking advantage of her sexually and financially. Although Rosas

repeatedly claimed during the interview that she did not intend for Varela and the others

to hurt Cate and that she specifically told Varela and the others not to do so, she admitted

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she told Varela they would tie Cates's legs if he tried to run. Garcia testified he heard

Varela tell Oscar and Pizana inside Cate's Buick before the assault that "Rosaswants this

guy [(Cate)] to get beat up" and she wanted Varela to take him to Tijuana and drop him

off because he did not "have papers to come back."

       The prosecution's evidence regarding Rosas's conduct during the assault also

supports the jury's finding that she intended that Varela and his cohorts assault Cate.

Garcia testified that Pizana opened a back passenger seat door of the Buick and Rosas got

out. Pizana then entered the back seat and repeatedly punched Cate in the back. Varela,

Tafich, Garcia and David then joined Pizana in punching Cate. Oscar testified that the

doors of the Buick were open during the assault and Rosas was "[j]ust standing there"

watching what was happening inside the car as it rocked back and forth. Rosas said

nothing during


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       A. Background

       As pertinent here, over defendants' section 654 objections, the court (1) sentenced

Rosas to a determinate nine-year prison term consisting of an eight-year term for her

count 2 kidnapping conviction, plus a consecutive one-year term for her count 3 felony

assault conviction; and (2) sentenced Varela to a determinate 15-year term consisting of

an eight-year term for his count 2 kidnapping conviction, plus a consecutive one-year

term for his count 3 felony assault conviction, plus consecutive three-year terms for his

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Alberta Health deputy minister Carl Amrhein personally lobbied for funding for the private alternative health foundation of a wealthy Calgary oilman while he was official administrator of Alberta Health Services, several former civil servants have told CBC News.

The sources said they believed Amrhein was in a conflict of interest because he was openly lobbying Alberta Health for funding for Pure North S'Energy, the foundation of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. co-founder Allan Markin.

"I told him quite frankly I thought he was in a conflict," said one source, who was directly lobbied by Amrhein, adding that, "as official administrator, he should not be lobbying for money for a particular organization."

A second source also said they had been directly lobbied by Amrhein.

"I was astounded," the former senior civil servant said, addinglater: "How can people like him not recognize that this is a conflict of interest?"

A third source, another former senior civil servant, also said they directly told Amrhein he was in a conflict of interest and it was wrong for him to be lobbying for funding for Pure North.

As official administrator from November 2014 to August 2015, Amrhein was effectively Alberta Health Services' (AHS) most senior official. Alberta Health Services is the operating arm of Alberta Health and receives its funding directly from the health ministry.

Two of the sources said Amrhein's close association with, and support of, Pure North was an open secret; it was discussed privately at joint meetings between senior Alberta Health and Alberta Health Services (AHS) executives.

"He actually believed in what they were doing and


statement that did not address the lobbying and conflict of interest issues. Hoffman has repeatedly refused to answer questions about what, if anything, Amrhein disclosed to her about his relationship with Pure North and Markin.

In October 2016, Amrhein signed, on behalf of the ministry, a $4.2-million grant with Pure North for a primary-care clinic in Calgary staffed by nurse practitioners.. A health ministry spokesperson told CBC News Amrhein's involvement with Pure North was "fully disclosed" to the province's ethics commissioner when he became deputy minister in August 2015.

Some of the former civil servants agreed to speak to CBC News because they believe the full extent of Amrhein's association with, and support of, Pure North may not have been disclosed to the ethics commissioner, to Hoffman, or to governmentemployees who report to him. They requested anonymity, because generally they are bound by confidentiality rules related to their former senior positions within government.

Last month, CBC News revealed the close relationship between Amrhein and Pure North and Markin.

While provost of the University of Alberta, Amrhein twice provided letters of support for Pure North and Markin, who is a major donor to the university.

In 2012, Amrhein provided an endorsement for Pure North as part of an attempt by Markin to keep the foundation's program operating at Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. (CNRL), the giant Calgary oil and gas firm he had co-founded.

CNRL subsequently barred Pure North from directly offering its program to CNRL employees after it conducted an independent risk management assessment.

Pure North twice used one of Amrhein's support letters


to bolster funding requests to the Alberta government.

In December 2014, Pure North asked then-premier Jim Prentice for $10 million. Internal Alberta Health documents show the foundation included Amrhein's letter in the package of documents sent to Prentice. Amrhein at that time was AHS official administrator.

Minister and deputy minister won't answer questions

Internal Alberta Health documents show that while he was deputy minister, Amrhein and his wife participated in the Pure North program.

Ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler provided contradictory information to CBC News about her questioning of Amrhein. (Office of the Ethics Commissioner) Emails show that in January 2016, Amrhein agreed to meet with Markin on a Sunday evening at the Edmonton airport. Pure North offered to fly a nurse to the meeting to take the blood of Amrhein and hiswife as part of the program. Amrhein agreed.

Because Amrhein and Hoffman refuse to answer questions, it is not known if Amrhein or his wife paid to be part of the program. Nor is it known if they reimbursed Pure North for flying a nurse to Edmonton specifically to take their blood.

Ethics commissioner Marguerite Trussler told CBC News last month that when Amrhein became deputy minister, he disclosed to her office that he was a participant in Pure North's alternative health program.

She refused to say whether Amrhein had disclosed anything more about his relationship with the health foundation, saying she could only legally reveal what Amrhein had given her permission to disclose.

Trussler said she questioned Amrhein about his signing of the October 2016 grant. She said Amrhein told her


that he merely signed the agreement in his capacity as deputy minister, after the minister had signed off.

"I know the last [grant], on the nurse practitioners, the decision was made elsewhere," Trussler told CBC News last month.

Contradictory information from ethics commissioner

But Trussler provided confusing and contradictory information to CBC News about what steps she took to determine if Amrhein was in a conflict, and when she took those steps.

Trussler initially said she "investigated" whether Amrhein made the decision to fund Pure North's nurse practitioner clinic. But in the same brief interview, she said, "I didn't make an investigation, I asked some questions."

The commissioner said her questioning of Amrhein took place "recently," although she could not say whether it was after CBC News published stories on Pure North.

In asubsequent email however, her office's chief administrative officer, Kent Ziegler, suggested Trussler only questioned Amrhein about his signing of the Pure North contract after a CBC News reporter called her office seeking information about what Amrhein disclosed. Trussler called back the reporter roughly an hour after the initial call.

Against ministry advice, former health minister Fred Horne gave Pure North a $10 million grant in December 2013 to expand the foundation’s seniors program. (CBC) Internal Alberta Health documents show Pure North had received $10 million in funding in December 2013 to expand its unproven alternative health program, ultimately to several thousand seniors.

Former health minister Fred Horne approved the funding against the advice of ministry staff. They had concluded the program was not adequately supported by science, could not prove


tournament with Bo5 style matches (Best of 5 games, or First to 3 wins) experienced tournament players will actually delay a final push when they believe they have 100% chance of victory.  The purpose is to cause the losing player to exert additionally mental stress in trying to win an unwinnable game and thus have them "tired" for the next game in the series.
While this behavior is not considered bad manners and is often times a signifier that you are playing against a tournament pro, it leads many professional gamers to bow out earlier than you might normally expect.  Because they know they still have to play potentially 4 more games, top players will often quit if their opponent has gained a significant advantage at anyofficials attributed that to the crush of passengers that made boarding slower.

The day of the parade was “all hands on deck” for the agency. Even MBTA General Counsel John Englander, who usually wears a suit and tie in meetings, was out at one of the subway stations in a yellow vest assisting riders with the ticket vending machines.

Meet the Author Jack Sullivan Senior Investigative Reporter , CommonWealth About Jack Sullivan Jack Sullivan is now retired. A veteran of the Boston newspaper scene for nearly three decades. Prior to joining CommonWealth, he was editorial page editor of The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, a part of the GateHouse Media chain. Prior to that he was news editor at another GateHouse paper, The Enterprise of Brockton, and also was city edition


editor at the Ledger. Jack was an investigative and enterprise reporter and executive city editor at the Boston Herald and a reporter at The Boston Globe. He has reported stories such as the federal investigation into the Teamsters, the workings of the Yawkey Trust and sale of the Red Sox, organized crime, the church sex abuse scandal and the September 11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the State House, state and local politics, K-16 education, courts, crime, and general assignment. Jack received the New England Press Association award for investigative reporting for a series on unused properties owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and shared the association's award for business for his reporting on the sale of the Boston Red Sox. As the Ledger editorial page editor,he won second place in 2007 for editorial writing from the Inland Press Association, the nation's oldest national journalism association of nearly 900 newspapers as members. At CommonWealth, Jack and editor Bruce Mohl won first place for In-Depth Reporting from the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors for a look at special education funding in Massachusetts. The same organization also awarded first place to a unique collaboration between WFXT-TV (FOX25) and CommonWealth for a series of stories on the Boston Redevelopment Authority and city employees getting affordable housing units, written by Jack and Bruce. About Jack Sullivan Jack Sullivan is now retired. A veteran of the Boston newspaper scene for nearly three decades. Prior to joining CommonWealth, he was editorial page editor of The Patriot Ledger in Quincy,


a part of the GateHouse Media chain. Prior to that he was news editor at another GateHouse paper, The Enterprise of Brockton, and also was city edition editor at the Ledger. Jack was an investigative and enterprise reporter and executive city editor at the Boston Herald and a reporter at The Boston Globe. He has reported stories such as the federal investigation into the Teamsters, the workings of the Yawkey Trust and sale of the Red Sox, organized crime, the church sex abuse scandal and the September 11 terrorist attacks. He has covered the State House, state and local politics, K-16 education, courts, crime, and general assignment. Jack received the New England Press Association award for investigative reporting for a series on unused properties owned by the CatholicArchdiocese of Boston, and shared the association's award for business for his reporting on the sale of the Boston Red Sox. As the Ledger editorial page editor, he won second place in 2007 for editorial writing from the Inland Press Association, the nation's oldest national journalism association of nearly 900 newspapers as members. At CommonWealth, Jack and editor Bruce Mohl won first place for In-Depth Reporting from the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors for a look at special education funding in Massachusetts. The same organization also awarded first place to a unique collaboration between WFXT-TV (FOX25) and CommonWealth for a series of stories on the Boston Redevelopment Authority and city employees getting affordable housing units, written by Jack and Bruce.

Board member Steve Poftak said the round-the-clock management


On June 14, in a nail-biting 114-110 win, the NBA’s only Canadian team became the first non-U.S. contender to win the NBA championship. The city of Toronto erupted into a month-long celebration, and Canada was officially put on the map as a basketball nation. But the real leg work for that title started 10 years before.

The GTA is now one of the world’s top producers of NBA and elite basketball talent. On average, there are usually a couple of kids from the GTA who are selected in every NBA draft, which is more than most cities around the world. This dense talent pool is a result of world-class training for high performing athletes, which was non-existent in Canada only a short time ago.

The Canadian National Basketball Program, whichlaunched its Junior Academy Program less than a decade ago, was the first formal nationwide training program with the goal of guiding high-potential young athletes to a career in the NBA. Before this, young basketball talent looking for professional-level training would need to travel internationally, an opportunity that is out of reach for many young families.

Since then, the GTA has seen a massive increase in corporate investment support into youth training programs. Included in that are the Royal Crown Academic School and its Nike Basketball Program. Athletes in our program, who were scouted from across Canada, have access to a state-of-the-art health and nutrition program, world renowned sports therapists, as well as top tier education and boarding.

All of these costs are covered through scholarships totaling about $1 million


MCC Theater's annual Miscast Gala features Broadway stars performing musical numbers associated with roles they would never get cast in. This year's event, which honored MCC alum Marisa Tomei, was held Monday night at the Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center. Grease: Live's Aaron Tveit tackled the Rent duet "Take Me or Leave Me" with She Loves Me star Gavin Creel; The Color Purple's Cynthia Erivo slayed "A Piece of Sky" from Yentl; and Kimmy Schmidt breakout Tituss Burgess lured his boss Tina Fey onstage for a performance of "You're Nothing Without Me" from City of Angels.

But one of the most memorable performances was the one that opened the show: School of Rock's Luca Padovan, Les Misérables' Joshua Colley, and Kinky Boots' Douglas Baldeo took on Hamilton's "TheNepali Workers: Poverty at Home or Slavery Abroad?

KATHMANDU, Nepal— With the help of the International Organization for Migration, along with the Nepali Embassy in Egypt, 39 Nepali migrant domestic workers returned home.

For years, the women lived illegally in Lebanon after leaving abusive employers; some having been beaten and forced to endure slave-like conditions, the majority having been trafficked. With Lebanon’s strict kafala, or sponsorship system, which binds migrant staff to their bosses, the women had no means to escape without losing their legal status, passports and wages.

Nepali workers who escape an abusive employer can be arrested and deported, while the employers go mainly unpunished.

There are an estimated 12,000 Nepali migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. According to a report by Anti-Slavery International, almost half of employers never give domestic


to mind because this charming house near Scottsville has been completely renovated, decorated, and landscaped by the current owner. Almost all of the decisions seem to be good ones, transforming a place he describes as "a shambles resembling a giant bottle of Pepto-Bismol, fit only for the mice who moved in and made a home" into a graceful, bright, and thoroughly modern farmhouse.

The house sits very close to the highway, but large trees and a picket fence– and the relatively light traffic on James River Road– mean that's less of a problem than it would be on, say, Route 20. The best thing about the house is the gorgeous exposed hardwood floors in every room except the kitchen and baths. The rich copper hues of the old heartpine provide a warmth that makes the dining room, for example– while awkwardly situated far from and unconnected to the kitchen– nevertheless warm and inviting. Adding to the cozy feel is a porch swing beside a welcoming red front door, working (gas) fireplaces in the living and dining rooms, and bright two-over-two windows in all the rooms except the bathrooms, where modern glass bricks provide light with privacy.

The systems are all new. Two heat pumps– one propane powered– provide air conditioning and heat, while electric baseboard units have been left in place for back-up. The metal roof is new, as are all appliances. Ceiling fans have been installed in every room, and closets have been added to the three bedrooms (and roomy cabinets in the dining room and


master bath). For a house of this vintage, the amount of storage is a pleasant surprise. The master bath's skylight-topped whirlpool and rich cabinetry add a sleek touch of modernity to the otherwise period updates.

The owner seems to have spent as much energy and money outside as in: Several decrepit outbuildings were demolished (the best retained as a garden shed), and the original pump that provided water to the place was resuscitated to provide water for outside chores. The small .5-acre backyard has been cleared and planted with peony, hosta, and daylily beds, and a dramatic maple tree shades a new concrete patio and tiny fishpond.

The whole yard is fenced– across the back to keep a neighbor's horses at home, but on the left to shield a tranquilVernadsky

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tries from both sides and Wales winning by just a single penalty goal. The contest between the forwards was described as 'tremendous', and at the end of the match Moran was chaired from the ground by the Welsh supporters. Moran was later quoted as saying: "It was a very gruelling game; in fact, I think it was one of the hardest games I had ever played in."

Moran describes the last fifteen minutes as tremendously hard. Twice or three times the Australian backs either crossed the line or knocked down a corner post without being able to score. In the dying moments one of the Australian wingers made a break with just Bert Winfield to beat. Instead of stepping or fending him the Wallaby three-quarter attempted to barge throughand both players collapsed to the ground. The whistle blew and the Test was Wales'.

England

The match was to have been played at Twickenham but bad weather had delayed the construction of the stand and it was moved to Blackheath.

England had ten new caps, including all four three-quarters. England started well and Edgar Mobbs scored. Wallaby Norman Row kicked an up-and-under, followed up and scored to level the scores. Half-time came at 3-all. Australia dominated the second half. Boxer Russell scored the Wallabies' second and third tries.

Although the Australian team won by three tries to one, sections of the British press reported that the tourists were fortunate to win. This was typical of the press, which had unfairly compared the Australians to the All Black and Springbok teams throughout


PSU goes 5-0 in NCAA finals, runs away with title

ST. LOUIS -- Penn State sent five wrestlers into the finals at the 2017 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships at Scottrade Center in St. Louis Saturday night ... and all five came off the mat with individual titles.

The five Nittany Lions who made up something of a Murderers' Row by winning five consecutive championships: Zain Retherford at 149 pounds, Jason Nolf at 157, Vincenzo Joseph at 165, 174-pounder Mark Hall, and, in the marquee match-up, Bo Nickal at 184.

Arguably the most thrilling for Penn State fans was Joseph's pin of Illinois' Isaiah Martinez ... the only pin in the finals.

At 165, Vincenzo Joseph, the third-seed from Penn State, pinned the two-time NCAA champ and top seed from the FightingIllini in the third period to avenge two previous losses to Imar. The match went back and forth between the freshman and seasoned junior, until Joseph put the Illini onto his back for the pin.

Joseph had his praise for Martinez.

"He's a phenomenal wrestler," Joseph said of Martinez. "He's a bully on the mat. And this time I was definitely ready for that. I was coming right back at him."

At 149 pounds, defending champ Zain Retherford of Penn State held onto his title -- and a 63-match win streak (the nation's longest) -- with an18-2 technical fall over No. 3 Lavion Mayes of Missouri. The Tiger made a splash with an early takedown, but the Nittany Lion did all the rest of the scoring in the match, racking up


finals.

"It's a tough tournament," Hall said after his title win. "I've wrestled a lot of places. This is one of the tougher places. There's a lot of people out there. I've wrestled around the world, different people, different countries."

Nickal kept the Nittany Lion momentum going to close out the evening. After being a runner-up at 174 at last year's NCAA finals, Nickal moved up to 184 pounds, and took on two-time defending champ Gabe Dean of Cornell who was on a 45-match win streak. Nickal denied Dean a third title -- and snapped the streak -- with a 4-3 win in the finals.

Nickal was very respectful of Dean after his upset win. "Hats off to him, because he's a strong dude, good technique, holds good position. It wasthis is very special."

No other team with more than one finalist had the same perfect outcome as the Nittany Lions. Of Missouri's three finalists, only one left with a title... while Ohio State wrestlers were 1-1 on Saturday night.

J'den Cox of Missouri claimed his third NCAA title (Photo/Tony Rotundo, WrestlersAreWarriors.com)

While Mizzou's Lavion Mayes and Joey Lavallee came out on the losing end of their matches at 149 and 157 respectively, top-seeded J'den Cox scored a total of three takedowns to defeat second-seeded Brett Pfarr of Minnesota, 8-3, to win his third NCAA title and extend his win streak to 48 matches. Although Cox -- who won a bronze medal in freestyle at the 2016 Rio Olympics -- has concluded his collegiate mat career, he is discussing the possibility


of becoming a middle linebacker for the Missouri Tiger football team.

"I'm honored to have accomplished another great feat, not only for myself but for my school, for my teammates and for my family," said Cox after his latest championship. "And I'm very proud of the way I represented every single one of those for myself, my team and everything to the program, my family. I'm proud I represented them throughout my years wrestling in college and I'm just really proud of the outcomes."

As for the Buckeyes ... while Bo Jordan was runner-up at 174, top-seeded Kyle Snyder -- 2016 Olympic gold medalist and defending heavyweight champ -- earned a 6-3 win over No. 2 Connor Medbery of Wisconsin. The big Buckeye, who weighed in today at 226 pounds,third time was the charm for Iowa's Cory Clark. The fourth seed, in his third appearance in the finals, grabbed his first title with a 4-2 win over former Hawkeye teammate Seth Gross, the No. 2 seed who had been at Iowa until two years ago, but now at South Dakota State. Gross had led into the third period when Clark scored a reversal with one minute left. After getting that elusive championship, Clark playfully flipped assistant head coach Terry Brands onto the mat.

"It's incredible to finally get this done," said Clark in the after-match press conference. "I've had two years in a row where I spent a week … weeks in my basement just pouting, just being a baby, just not doing, not in a good spot.


DiCamillo. "He's just another opponent. After I thought about it, just going in to today, there's nothing to worry about, it's just another match. I've been here. He hasn't. I think that's why I had the upper hand."

Penn State had entered the finals already knowing it had nailed down the team title earlier on Saturday, for its sixth championship in seven years. At the end of the night, the Nittany Lions had racked up 145.5 points. Ohio State placed second with 110 points ... and Oklahoma State was third with 103 points. In fourth place in the team standings was Iowa, with 97 points, followed by Missouri with 86.5.

There were 19,657 fans in the stands for the finals, the second-largest attendance figure for Session 6 in NCAA DivisionTestimonials in Advertising.”

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His legal team had claimed that the term was "too long", but the appeal was dismissed by a panel of judges today.

Clifford, 71, was jailed in May after being convicted of a string of indecent assaults carried out between 1977 and 1984, using his celebrity connections to lure women.

The former celebrity agent, who branded his accusers "fantasists", denied the charges, but was convicted at London's Southwark Crown Court.

Announcing the court's decision, Lord Justice Treacy said that Clifford's victims were "young and vulnerable" at the time of the offences.

He said: "Each was affected in respect of confidence and relationships and was harmed by what had been done to her.

"This is


a case where it is clear that the effect of what was done to the victims was not something from which they recovered quickly."

The judge said Clifford's offending involved "an abuse of a powerful position coupled with deceit", and that he had shown "no remorse at any stage", adding that an eight-year sentence was "justified and correct".

At a recent appeal hearing, Clifford's barrister Richard Horwell QC told Lord Justice Treacy, Mr Justice Turner and Judge Michael Pert that the last offence was committed 29 years ago, "since when he has led an industrious life, and devoted a considerable part of his time to charitable works for which he has raised substantial funds".

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A woman squatted down inside a busy Cambridge supermarket and laughed while urinating, a court heard.

Rosalyn Bullman had only been released from prison in Peterborough earlier that day when security guards found her being "awkward and obstructive" in Sainsbury's in Coldham's Lane around 5pm.

The 27-year-old then pulled down her trousers and squatted down inside the store.

Bullman was quickly ushered to the store exit, when she dropped her trousers and underwear again and urinated, laughing while doing so.

At Cambridge Magistrates' Court today (April 28), she admitted a charge of outraging public decency.

Simon Rice, mitigating, said Bullman had no memory of the offence on December 5 last


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For newThis is a story about the history of economics, mischief-making, and, ultimately, political power. It concerns the economist Ronald Coase, who died on Monday at the grand old age of a hundred and two.

During his lifetime, Coase, who was born in London’s Willesden neighborhood and educated in England before moving to America in 1951, was transformed into an icon of the political right. His famous “Coase theorem” was used to justify a hands-off approach to big business on the part of politicians, regulatory agencies, and judges, leaving pollution and other economic problems to the corrective powers of the free market. During the nineteen-seventies and nineteen-eighties, when the Chicago School of economics was sweeping everything before it in Washington and in the nation’s courts, Coase’s work proved immensely influential.


left to less careful proselytizers to exploit Coase’s work in their crusades against big government. In their hands, his subtle reasoning was bowdlerized and distorted. With the aid of right-wing groups like the Olin Foundation, politicians who were doing the bidding of big businesses, and judges who thought they were applying the latest economic theory but were actually doing the same as the politicians, conservatives used Coase’s work to justify tipping the legal scales in favor of corporations, scrapping environmental regulations, and removing other restrictions on odious business behavior that had been imposed during the first three quarters of the twentieth century.

It all began in the late nineteen-fifties, when Coase was thinking about an old problem in economics: how to deal with “those actions of business firms whichalso at the Manhattan School where Hoover spent a great deal of time discovering how people perceive sounds.  Hoover had perfect pitch, so studying how other people identify with sounds was helpful as she began to compose.

Hoover's compositional style has been described as "a romantic, often pictorial atonal style" that is "clear and eloquent [with] moments of startling beauty [emerging] from her sometimes acerbic harmonies."  Three compositional elements stand out as consistent patterns in Hoover's music: 1) extra-musical references; 2) quotations and manipulations of other composers' melodies; and 3) use of abstract, original material.  Extra-musical references have proven a consistent trend throughout Hoover's compositions, and she has found inspiration in a wide variety of sources. Three of her compositions for solo flute, Kokopeli, Winter Spirits,


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Stunning images have revealed the magnificent multicoloured wings of a magpie as it glides just inches above the ground.

Snapper Richard Steel captured one of the beautiful birds showing off its vibrant feathers while it took flight in a park on the Wirral, Merseyside.

The bird showed off its green, blue, black and white plumage in the sun as it swooped with a mouthful of peanuts it had just taken from a nearby feeder.

Richard Steel captured this magpie showing off its beautiful plumage as it flew in a park on the Wirral in Merseyside

The magpie showed off its vibrant blue and green feathers dispelling the myth that they are only black and white

Despite seeing them on a daily basis, most people believe magpies' feathers are black and white - butas they are all on the back of the birds.'

Mr Steel managed to snap the birds as they took nuts from a feeder he had set up in the park

Magpies are considered an highly intelligent bird breed and can recognise their own reflection

Magpies are part of the crow family and are considered one of the most intelligent animals in the world.


With unemployment at almost 30% for the general population, 50% for those under 30, with suicides surpassing depression-era levels, with a rising neo-Nazi movement that preys on the fears of the less-educated, and with a powerless coalition government ceding national sovereignty to repay a debt that was made by the very same government partners (with the exception of the minority coalition partner, DIMAR/"Democratic Left") that are now again in power, Greece appears to be a sinking ship -- even if it's sinking into the beautiful Aegean sea.

But not so fast. Help is on the way in the form of a left progressive coalition: SYRIZA, EKM (Coalition of the Radical Left, United Social Front). Its leader, Alexis Tsipras, was here in Washington and New York with a delegation ofFund, and the European Central Bank) demands for austerity.

Modern European politics have become a kind of collusion between incompetent European Union technocrats, unaccountable bureaucracies and opportunistic national politicians that toe its line. But here is a group working on the ground (Solidarity corps), in the neighborhoods where misery resides, distributing food and medicine, protecting immigrants from neo-Nazi attacks. And this is making them popular. In fact, they are a bulwark for democracy when the politicians of austerity stand for authoritarian capitalism and order of the worse kind.

Tsipras was here in the U.S. showing himself to be the capable and energetic political leader that he is, and SYRIZA as the party that is ready, able, and willing to lead the Greek people out of their misery and the economy


out of its depression.

He was accompanied by a delegation of three university professors who are also SYRIZA's MPs. They came to meet with U.S. Government and IMF officials, with think tank analysts, U.S. citizens and Occupy Wall Street activists in an effort to open a dialogue as well as dispel a mass media manufactured image of incendiary radicals rampaging in the streets of Athens.

Just a month before the Greek elections of June 2012 the European press branded Tsipras "the most dangerous man of Europe." This cost SYRIZA the election. During his visit, Tsipras observed, "They don't call Ponta [Romania's socialist Prime Minister] the boogie man of Europe! Why me?"

It's a good question.

Perhaps because the "Radical" in SYRIZA signals a party capable of thinking for itself, of providing justsolutions to social problems and, above all, working for the Greek people instead of the Troika. And that makes the European centers of power and the international press uncomfortable.

In outlining what a SYRIZA government could do, Tsipras offered concrete steps about governing wisely and compassionately to alleviate the suffering of the Greek people. Referring to the policies of FDR, Tsipras called for "ending the austerity measures that have not worked." And he proposed a debt reduction similar to the one afforded to Germany in 1953 with debt repayment tied to a growth rate so that the country is able to survive and rebound. He called for Europe to adopt a more growth-oriented policy in the effort to arrest Greece's economic depression and address what is a growing "humanitarian


crisis facing my country."

Tsipras's sharp intelligence and quick-witted good humor were clearly appreciated by his audiences in New York, and perhaps by the officials he met here as well. In an exchange with IMF's David Lipton, who welcomed Tsipras "to the belly of the beast," the President of SYRIZA replied: "The belly of the beast is indeed spacious. But it is tougher to be in its mouth. And at this moment the overwhelming majority of the Greek people find themselves in its mouth being chewed up."

The Greek government's reaction to SYRIZA's visit to the U.S. was rather different. The leader of the centrist PASOK (Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement) partner in the current Greek government, Evangelos Venizelos, condemned Tsipras's trip and SYRIZA itself as two-faced, an unhappy reference to theThe Foxes left the Arizona desert with a point and another bitter taste in their mouths as for the second time in three matches, as Fresno FC conceded a late second-half equalizer against a 10-man side to settle for a point on the road.

Bringing back flashbacks from last week's draw against Tulsa Roughnecks FC, the Foxes were forced to settle for a 1-1 draw against host Phoenix Rising FC after Alessandro Riggi scored at the 89th minute.

The Foxes went up a man at the 26th minute after Rising's Amadou Dia was given a red card but it came at the cost of an injured Juan Pablo Caffa. Dia made a late tackle from behind on the Fresno FC captain, clipping his heel on the play forcing the 33-year-old


Argentine to be subbed off for midfielder Agustin Cazarez.

The advantage went uncapitalized the rest of the half for the Foxes, who put just two shots on goal in the first 45 minutes.

The Foxes came out firing after the break, scoring just two minutes in on Jemal Johnson's first-touch finish on the cross from Alex Cooper. The goal was Johnson's third of the season and most of any Fresno FC player.

Phoenix Rising FC nearly struck early in the match in the 12th minute on Gladson Awako's shot from 8 yards out, but goalkeeper Kyle Reynish made the low-diving save to keep things level through the first 45.

The draw is the Foxes fourth in a row, and second in which they've conceded a goal in the final minutes. Nonetheless, theOthers are writing certain recollections of that July 1939 weekend — for me there's one overshadowing event. The Act! The infamous Act! Who remembers it first hand? Fishing through my memories of Nycon (the original) seems for me like an adventure in another dimension of time and space. The year 1939 is a long time ago. Did it really happen and was I there? Me? Present with 200 others at the creation of the universe of sf fandomWorldcons? Gosh, wow, it's a fact, from a half century ago!

The highlights are obvious: the inimitable Frank R. Paul, our first guest of honor, and all those other professional heroes of mine, the youthful attendees gathering from near and far, the artifacts of artwork and manuscripts, the fannish organizers — and,


fans and pros could afford it.

The second day had less than half of the first day's attendance. Why? Well, the second day stressed science and science hobbyists, but most important, the Futurians were having their own "free convention" "for all of fandom." My greatest regret to this day is that the marvelous speech of Frank R. Paul was not heard by every true fan. The title was "Science Fiction, the Spirit of Youth." He convinced me that he was one of us, a genuine enthusiast, a true believer. And his reference to this "meeting" of "rebellious, adventurous young minds" eager to discuss freely subjects unlimited made me think of This Day of The Act. Had he, too, at that moment been thinking of The Act?

It's The Act whichI remember most vividly, probably because I was so responsible. Looking back, it seems utterly bizarre. Behind The Act was the stormy, passionate spirit of early fandom, a reflection of our times of Depression, Controversy, a world at war, and that new thing called "science fiction."

By 1939, fandom was hardly a decade old. "Readers" had become "fans" and the activists were young, very young. Teenagers were the troops and boys in their twenties were the "mature" leaders. In this cauldron of the 1930s, many young sf idealists decided that science fiction not only dreamed of brave new worlds, but offered reality. Fans, therefore, should become activists as well as dreamers. That was why conventions were created. And that was the backdrop for the clash between the Futurians and


Day in cell for man who broke rarely used law by soiling church floor

Carl Horth when he was arrested for begging in Norwich this year Picture: NORFOLK CONSTABULARY Archant

A man banned from an entire city centre for persistent begging has appeared in court for defecating on the floor of an Ipswich church.

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CCTV caught Carl Horth in the act of soiling the floor of Saint Mary at the Elms church.

The 31-year-old had already been recorded stealing an altar cloth from the same church.

With a record of 100 convictions for 214 offences, Horth appeared in custody before magistrates in Ipswich on Thursday.

After providing his parents’ Lowestoft address to the court, he admittedtheft and engaging in indecent behaviour in a church, under the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860.

Horth also admitted refusing to provide a sample to police for class A drug testing.

While he committed the offences, he was subject to the conditions of a conditional discharge imposed at Norwich Magistrates’ Court.

He also breached the conditions of post-sentence supervision after a period of imprisonment for two counts of criminal damage, and for breaching an ASBO and a Community Protection Notice by persistently begging in Norwich city centre – from which he was then banned altogether.

Prosecutor Wayne Ablett said churchwarden Hugh Pierce asked Horth to leave the building before locking up on a previous occasion.

After noticing an altar cover missing on July 17, he reviewed CCTV and watched Horth wrap the cloth


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Perhaps more than any other place, Yosemite embodies the majesty and grandeur that the national parks represent and aim to preserve.

Filmmaker Ken Burns puts it simply: "Yosemite is the most beautiful place on earth."

As co-creator of the PBS series "America's Best Idea: The National Parks," Burns and his team spent months filming in national parks across the United States.

Burns sat down with USA TODAY and shared the secrets of Yosemite and nine other National Parks for a special 10-part series, "Secrets of the National Parks."

While he speaks poetically and passionately about all the national parks, hearing Burns describe the peaks, valleys and waterfalls of Yosemite, it is clear the park holds a special place in his heart.

"It is otherworldly. It almost feels as if it's paradise. Andthe Soviet Union such as forgotten towns, factories, prisons, schools, monuments, hospitals, theatres, military complexes, asylums & death camps across the former communist countries and occupied satellite states. I even came across a Soviet submarine in the UK.

My aim with the book was to capture the crumbling empire of the former Soviet Union, before it is gone completely. The title Soviet Ghost comes from the ghosts and stories that are left behind after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The former USSR was once a living, breathing place, but with the fall of a Communism, places now lie’s derelict, uninhabited, broken shells of a forgotten time. The collapse of the Soviet Union left haunting memories of ordinary people who once lived and worked there.

Rebecca Bathory is a photographer


The PM's solar mission and Rajasthan's benign land policy allowed Robert Vadra to make a killing on hundreds of acres of land near power sub-stations

You could call him India's canniest real estate investor. Or you could suggest that he was helped by those who knew he was the son-in-law of India's most powerful politician. But whichever way to you want to see Robert Vadra, there is little doubt that he made, and is still making, his biggest killing in the deserts of Rajasthan, a state run by a Congress government under Ashok Gehlot.

Parts of this story have already been told in the media, including Firstpost. What we now bring you is the real scale of Vadra's land holdings, and the humongous profit potential embedded in owning over 10,000acres of land acquired for a song from unwary farmers. While his mother-in-law is trying to ensure that farmers get more than market prices, Vadra's caper is about skimming the cream himself with inside knowledge.

Sixty percent of the state (208,110 sq km) is low-cost desert land. It is dead land with no water or habitation in sight. The cost is often as low as Rs 20,000 an acre at some places. You can't make a killing unless you know someone would want to buy land at significantly a higher price than this.

In this desert state, Vadra picked up piece by piece of wasteland that was strategically located near power sub-stations in Bikaner and elsewhere. And from the few examples at hand, he is raking it in. A plot