to strength. That was a nice dream. But while Elop and his golden tongue spin lovely stories, the tongue is in fact forked. He is a palefaced serial liar. He is 100% untrustworthy. He says anything he thinks you want to hear, and his words have no correlation with reality. He is the modern business equivalent of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, if you remember, before the Iraq War. Now that wonderful fairy tale has turned into a nightmare. It is time to wake up. The Windows Phone road with Lumia is.. A Certain Road to Death. When the reseller channel refuses to sell your product, you die.

Nokia. You Die.

This road is a Certain Road to Death. It does not matter what all factors led Nokia to thisto sell tablets, they were disasters and drained much-needed resources and pushed their companies into greater losses !!!!

The Road lead by Elop is a Certain Road to Death. If Elop knew what he was doing, when the reseller revolt started last year, he would have acted to end it. Instead, he made things worse. He fired many sales staff (or they left 'for personal reasons') like in China and the USA. Now look at the latest news. Again, Nokia top Lumia sales guy, a 20 year veteran, who personally achieved 77% market share for Nokia in China in smartphones - the biggest smartphone market where the iPhone used to be an afterthought and Blackberry is not even recognized. This guy who knew everybody in the Chinese market, failed


think even if they fired Elop now, but tried to move to Android, Nokia could survive. But they could do MeeGo as a close cousin of Android and try to gain that kind of kinship benefits.

I moved on from my Symbian devices to Android, and I now work with Android every day. It is a nice system to develop on, mostly due to the Linux base, but I am afraid that as a rough finger in the air it would probably take a good 6 months to a year to develop a UI skin with enough eye candy and features for today's markets regardless of the size of the team. In my estimate, unless there was a secret skunkworks team which have continued Nokia-izing Android since 2011 italready been referenced in over 100 books by his peers. Rated the most influential expert in mobile by Forbes in December 2011, Tomi speaks regularly at conferences doing about 20 public speakerships annually. With over 250 public speaking engagements, Tomi been seen by a cumulative audience of over 100,000 people on all six inhabited continents. The former Nokia executive has run a consulting practise on digital convergence, interactive media, engagement marketing, high tech and next generation mobile. Tomi is currently based out of Hong Kong but supports Fortune 500 sized companies across the globe. His reference client list includes Axiata, Bank of America, BBC, BNP Paribas, China Mobile, Emap, Ericsson, Google, Hewlett-Packard, HSBC, IBM, Intel, LG, MTS, Nokia, NTT DoCoMo, Ogilvy, Orange, RIM, Sanomamedia, Telenor, TeliaSonera, Three, Tigo,


households are supplied, water supply pipes, sources, and reservoirs, and water quality according to the monitoring program. Population groups exposed to risks were located and quantified using spatial operations among these layers and adopting different risk criteria. The main problems related to water supply are located on the northern slope of the Tijuca Mountain Range (involving the absence or poor quality of water) and in the western area of the city of Rio, where the population relies on alternative water supply sources. The different origins, objectives, and structures of data have to be analyzed critically, and GIS can be used as a data validation tool as well as an instrument for detailed identification of inconsistencies.reliable tools that can be used directly by diagnostic laboratories and should have important implications for the prevention and epidemiological investigation of *C. irritans* infections in marine fish.

Project support was provided in part by grants from Key Projects in the National Science & Technology Pillar Program in the Eleventh Five-year Plan Period (2007BAD29B05) and the Agricultural Science and Technology Programs from Guangdong Province (grant no. 2007B080701009) to AXL. The authors are grateful to Prof. Zheng Shouyi (Academician) and Prof. Xu Kuidong (Marine Biological Specimen Museum, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Prof. Song Weibo (Aquaculture Research Laboratory, China Ocean University), Prof. Harry W. Dickerson (Departments of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Georgia), and Dr. Huang Jianrong (State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun


Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed seven new senators Friday, including an elected senator from Alberta and Ottawa's police chief. (Sheryl Nadler/Canadian Press)

Ottawa police Chief Vern White is among seven new senators appointed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Friday.

The list also includes Betty Unger, who ran for "election" to the Senate and is the first woman elected to the post. Bert Brown, who's in the Senate now, was also selected through a vote.

The first elected senator to sit in Parliament was Stan Waters, who was appointed by then-prime minister Brian Mulroney in 1990.

There are no Senate elections in Canada, but Alberta has allowed people to cast ballots for whom they want to represent them as senators.

Also appointed:

JoAnne Buth — Manitoba.

Norman Doyle — Newfoundland and Labrador.

Ghislain Maltais — Quebec.

AshaSeth — Ontario.

Jean-Guy Dagenais — Quebec.

Most of the appointments are effective immediately. White's appointment will take effect on Feb. 20. Dagenais must still pass the requirement that senators own property in their home province or territory before he can officially assume the role.

"I am pleased to announce the addition of seven remarkable Canadians to the Senate of Canada," Harper said in a statement. "All appointees have distinguished themselves in their fields of endeavour and in their service to fellow citizens."

The seven appointments fill the Senate, which now will sit with 61 Conservatives and 41 Liberals. One senator sits as a Progressive Conservative and two sit as independents.

PM rewarding party faithful, NDP says

NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus said Harper uses the Senate to reward the party faithful, override the


election, losing to NDP MP Marie-Claude Morin. Doyle, a former Progressive Conservative MP, served as president of the Conservative Party.

Maltais worked as a contractor for the Conservative Party of Canada from 2006 to 2007, and has been the director of the Quebec wing of the party since 2009.

Seth is an obstetrician and gynecologist and won an award from the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons in 2010.

White and Dagenais are both career police officers, and will likely play big roles in the government's justice agenda.

Senate reform stalled

The statement from Harper's office says all new appointees have pledged to support the government in its efforts to make the Senate more democratic and accountable, including legislation to limit senators' terms and encouraging the provinces and territories to hold elections forSenate nominees.

The government introduced Senate reform legislation last spring, but it hasn't been debated. Some premiers, including Ontario's Dalton McGuinty and Saskatchewan's Brad Wall, are opposed to it or have expressed ambivalence.

Unger was elected as one of Alberta's senators-in-waiting in 2004, along with Brown, Link Byfield and Cliff Breitkreuz. The elections were supposed to be good for six years, but in 2010 then-premier Ed Stelmach extended the terms for another three years. Byfield said that was equivalent to an appointment and resigned.

Alberta Premier Alison Redford has promised to hold a Senate election along with the next provincial election, which could come as early as March 2012.


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The Avida Topaz is constructed from the ground up using Avida's revolutionary hot dipped galvanised chassis, with Cruisemaster CRS independent suspension with shock absorbers and AL-KO 10" electric brakes on a tandem axle. The walls, floor and roof are made from Avida's unique sandwich panel construction and unique interlocking roof / wall radius and interlocking wall / floor as well. The ceiling is formed of one piece white fibreglass. The caravan is hail and dent resistant and has a stylish front aerodynamic fibreglass cap and rear bumper bar.

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Inside the Topaz caravan you will find that it has been finished to the highest specificationsGreen Day's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is finally being aired tonight on HBO. For those in the US, you can watch the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony using the following services from HBO when it airs at 8pm EST:
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HBO has posted a new video preview of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony telecast. This preview has short features on each artist/group inducted, which of course includes Green Day.
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In celebration of late night TV host David Letterman's retirement, Alternative Press has counted down the top 10 bands "who totally rocked Letterman."
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Billie Joe


and his wife Adrienne were recently visited by GAC's show Junk Gypsies to renovate Billie Joe's old airstream trailer.
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Late last night it wasannounced that Billie Joe will be performing along side country artist Miranda Lambert at this Sunday's Grammy Awards. According to Examiner.com, the duo will be part of a segment to honor the late Phil Everly of the ... read story

Green Day won "Best Rock" band at the European Music Awards in Amsterdam on Sunday night. They were up against Kings of Leon, The Killers, Queens of the Stone Age and Black Sabbath! They are back to getting hardware, yay! Here's Billie Joe' ... read story

In anticipation of Green Day's recently announced tour in Australia, FasterLouder.com, an Australian music website, has gathered a list of the band's 10 best pop culture moments.
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BBC has announced that Green Day's upcoming


McLaren Foundation in rude health

The charitable company honouring the inspirational legacy of legendary rugby commentator Bill McLaren goes from strength to strength.

Despite “difficult” times for fund-raising, the annual group accounts of the Hawick-based Bill McLaren Foundation (BMF), signed off earlier this month, reveal that it paid grants of more than £57,000 to 17 institutions and made further charitable donations of £62,000 in the year to June 30.

The largesse reflects the founding commitment of trustees to develop and promote rugby union and sporting opportunities of all kinds in “Scotland and elsewhere”.

True to that maxim, the accounts show that BMF, set up in 2010, more than doubled its financial support – from £5,000 to £10,850 – to the Bhubesi Pride Foundation which supports rugby coaching in schools and community centresBMF accounts reveal that the group generated total income of £555,237 over the year, up from £448,247 in 2014. This included income from its commercial subsidiary The Voice of Rugby Ltd which holds fund-raising events, including an annual dinner in Edinburgh, and sells merchandise to help BMF meet its objectives.

Notable profile-raising activities over the year included the Guinness television advertisement promoting the values of rugby in the four home nations, which evoked the commentator’s irrepressible spirit in fighting the tuberculosis he contracted in 1947.

The accounts confirm that the foundation has agreed to make an unsecured loan of £10,000 to Bill McLaren Park Ltd for the planned redevelopment of Volunteer Park, where a 3G pitch is due to be installed next summer.


Dubai: Case was registered against man for abusing her girlfriend in hotel room. According to the hotel administration, Man booked the room just before an hour of abusing her. Unemployed man called the girl on dinner and then asked for sexuality, but the woman refused.

Person got angry at her and tortured his Lebanese girlfriend, drag his hair and abused. According to the public prosecution record, this incident was registered at the Albashera Police Station on March 26. Investigation is in progress. In next Tuesday's hearing, the court has asked the CCTV footage of the hotel room. The next hearing will be on August 15.out any information ahead of time. It is the story of Andrew Bagby, who is a medical student on his way to becoming a family doctor. He is a jovial, gregarious late-20-something that is the ultimate best friend and good guy. However, one day Andrew is brutally gunned down in a park outside the city he is living. Shortly after his death, his girlfriend Shirley discovers that she is pregnant with Andrew’s child, who would later be named Zachary.

Andrew Bagby and Kurt Kuenne

One of Andrew’s childhood best friends is Kurt Kuenne, who is an amateur filmmaker and makes it his mission to put together a movie about Andrew and his life for his unborn child to show Zachary what an amazing guy his dad was. Kurt packs up


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We need to see Lance Bass more often. I do hope he gets married. Bing, the dog, is a heartbreaker. We gave our son his first dog last March for his fifth birthday and it was gift for the whole family. Skipper walks Steven to Kindergarten and goes on with my husband to his office. Four hours later Skipper and me are there when Steven gets out of school and the little kids love to dance and jump and play with him. He's the sweetest puppy (Jack Russell) and always at Steven's side. All kids should have a dog.

Sweet story about Cole and his dying dog,Bing. I still think about my family's dog that died when I was 10 and have his dog collar and license hanging ona wall.

Posted by: ratbastard | Sep 18, 2012 10:00:33 PM

Why is Lance Bass still in the news? He has no career anymore (unless you count that lame radio show) and if all he has to talk about is who his favorite Kartrashian is, then that says a lot about how his career is going.

@YAWN The Wendy Williams show is a news program? He's not in the news. He has a show on Sirius XM he is promoting and it's protocol to go on talk shows to talk about the things you're doing. I think you're jealous of his life. He's clearly got a lot of things going for him and you hate that.

Anyway, I really hope he does well. Good luck to him in his new career and


assessment of how a certain policy may negatively affect women and gender minorities.

A longtime champion for LGBTQ rights and feminist causes, DiNovo said that applying a gender lens to the provincial budget is embarrassingly overdue.

Joining her on stage was Toronto City Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam (Ward 27, Toronto Centre-Rosedale), who recently moved two similar motions that were passed by City Council. Also on the panel was Leila Sarangi, manager and community researcher from the Etobicoke Women’s Habitat, and former Toronto Senator Nancy Ruth.

All speakers highlighted the reality that women and gender minorities currently face deep inequities within the provincial budget, programs and services—issues that can have serious impacts on their quality of life. For example, according to Statistics Canada, Ontario has the highest cost of full-time child care, withDEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. – Four people were hospitalized after being shot at a Deerfield Beach nightclub.

The shooting happened about 2:30 a.m. Monday at Tropicante, 4251 N. Dixie Highway.

According to the Broward Sheriff's Office, deputies found three men and one woman with gunshot wounds.

All four victims were taken to Broward Health North with non-life-threatening injuries.

"I hit the ground and start praying instantly," club patron Miya Hall told Local 10 News.

Hall said the shooting started after the gunman was punched in the face.

"After that he pulled out a gun and just started shooting," she said.

It's not the first time there has been a shooting at the nightclub. Three people were shot in the parking lot in 2015.

Vincent Piantosi, who works at a nearby business, said shootings are a regular occurrence


per layer—arranged with layers of two cartons placed on the pallets in an end-to-end relationship beside three cartons placed side to side with their long axes being perpendicular to those of the first two cartons. While the exact sizes of the stacks of cartons may vary depending on the true dimensions of the cartons, stacks of cartons and layers of such stacks will be referred to as having a longer side of 48 inches (122 cm) (called length “L”) and a shorter side of 40 inches (102 cm) (called width “W”). These dimensions are approximate, and may vary depending on box dimensions along with factors such as bulging of the cartons and irregularities in the stacking pattern. In general, however, the cartons have a relatively low aspect ratioroom to work around the hold.
Many of the ships transporting cartons of frozen animal products internationally are older vessels having ship's gear (e.g., union purchases and/or cranes) with a three-ton (metric) rated capacities. This permits the ship's gear to lift up to three stacks of cartons at a time, depending on the weight of the stacks, along with the weight of the ship's gear used to lift the stacks. However, other ships may have cranes with capacities of five or more tons. Because of structural concerns, the weight of a lifting robot or carrier used to hoist two stacks of cartons can approach one ton. Accordingly, with three-ton ship's cranes or union purchases, generally only two stacks of cartons at a time can be lifted into the hold


bought a peice of junk, I had overpaid by more than 200%

Yeah, I sold the mini-system/player to someone in 2001 (a bigger fool then me?), kept a few discs and went to Japan, to teach English, where the mini-disc actually lived on. Ended up buying a portable recorder/player, renting CDs (yet, legally available at the video store) and copying them to mini-disc on my PS2.

Yeah, I sold the mini-system/player to someone in 2001 (a bigger fool then me?), kept a few discs and went to Japan, to teach English, where the mini-disc actually lived on. Ended up buying a portable recorder/player, renting CDs (yet, legally available at the video store) and copying them to mini-disc on my PS2.

FYI: There was a specific tax on Minidisc devices that hadthe record function, the tax was paid into some Japanese music industry slush fund - that's why it was legal to rent and copy CDs

But the Palm wasn't a fail. As a product it defined a entire new generation of products, made PDAs popular, introduced new ways of doing things. It was a success. Every PDA and Smartphone today has its roots in the PalmPilot.

I got my first PalmPilot 1000 in 1997 when first released. It was still US Robotics back then.

Did you know PayPal came out on a Palm first so you could transfer money to your friends, then put the PDA in its cradle, press the Hotsync button and have the money sent out?

Poll: Two of those early mp3 players, the usb flash drive sized ones


teeth. These forces act against the teeth in the patient's mouth to move the teeth gradually toward the positions desired by the orthodontist.
The braces are generally formed by brackets and an arch wire supported in a slot or groove in each of the brackets. Each bracket is adhered to an individual tooth by a pad forming a part of the bracket. The arch wire extends between the brackets on adjacent teeth and applies a force to the teeth to move the teeth toward the positions determined by the patient's orthodontist. Until now, the grooves on the different brackets have been substantially uniform. Because of this, the forces of the arch wire on the teeth have had to be adjusted by bending or otherwise distorting the wires.
The techniques discussedGirls und Panzer is a popular anime, manga and light novel series following a group of girls who live in an alternate universe where women participate in “the art of battling tanks” and young girls attend schools where they learn to operate WWII-era tanks as a martial art. The series is extremely popular in Japan as well as abroad and will soon be turned into a video game for PS Vita.

Details are still being kept a secret (with a promise of more information on November 28), but for now we know that the Girls und Panzer video game will arrive in Spring 2014. It will be released by Namco Bandai Games for the PlayStation Vita (no word on any other gaming systems being supported). The game is being


so why did he dump her on the side of the road on the way to the gun shop?" "Well, Carrie was dumped at the apex of a hairpin turn." "And a piece of the quilt was in the passenger door latch, which could have prevented the door from fully closing." "(tires screeching)" "I mean, an accident would explain why he wrapped her in a quilt." "Nothing was going according to plan." "She's dead, he's not." "He's probably feeling left behind." "Yeah, and now he really needs to get to that gun shop." "So when the car runs out of gas, he just walks the rest of the way." "Suicidal guy enters a gun shop, desperate for another bullet to pop into his Tokarev." "If they're not goingConan Acheronian Edition

Ditrius Bartol the Redeemed Cutthroat

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Bio:

Ditrius never told much about his past prior to Stygia. He served in the various mercenary regiments on the southern border for several years. During the time there, he befriended the blind priest Selcides, as they both hailed from Nemedia. Ditrius had never been a religious man, but Selcides convinced him of the importance of faith. Perhaps it could redeem even the most vile cutthroat.

On their way back home to Nemedia, Ditrius left the others with an impression of complete fearlessness. Even eldtrich horrors, such as byakhee, failed to even excite him. Ditrius faced creatures from beyond with little reaction but a small smile, as if he lived for those moments. His skill with sword and a shield was remarkable.


Ditrius had as well learned how to use a Stygian bow in the long years spent in that dark land. Despite his unschooled nature, the Nemedian seemed to know much about the arcane and eldtrich.

The others saw Ditrius for the last time as they arrived to Belverus. He bid them farewell, before escorting Selcides and the two other travelers to the temple district. When the heroes investigated death of Selcides, they found no trace of Ditrius. It was as if he had disappeared to the thin air, together with the Shemite girl and the mute Darfar. High Inquisitor Demetrio claimed that Ditrius was in fact a fugitive, wanted for decade-old case of rape and murder.

Perhaps he is still at large or perhaps he was assassinated by those whothe neighbourhood, and repeated assurances of his carriage being always at their service, the independence of Mrs. Dashwood’s spirit overcame the wish of society for her children; and she was resolute in declining to visit any family beyond the distance of a walk. There were but few who could be so classed; and it was not all of them that were attainable. About a mile and a half from the cottage, along the narrow winding valley of Allenham, which issued from that of Barton, as formerly described, the girls had, in one of their earliest walks, discovered an ancient respectable looking mansion which, by reminding them a little of Norland, interested their imagination and made them wish to be better acquainted with it. But they learnt, on enquiry,


that its possessor, an elderly lady of very good character, was unfortunately too infirm to mix with the world, and never stirred from home.

The whole country about them abounded in beautiful walks. The high downs which invited them from almost every window of the cottage to seek the exquisite enjoyment of air on their summits, were a happy alternative when the dirt of the valleys beneath shut up their superior beauties; and towards one of these hills did Marianne and Margaret one memorable morning direct their steps, attracted by the partial sunshine of a showery sky, and unable longer to bear the confinement which the settled rain of the two preceding days had occasioned. The weather was not tempting enough to draw the two others from their pencildriving rain set full in their face. Chagrined and surprised, they were obliged, though unwillingly, to turn back, for no shelter was nearer than their own house. One consolation however remained for them, to which the exigence of the moment gave more than usual propriety,—it was that of running with all possible speed down the steep side of the hill which led immediately to their garden gate.

They set off. Marianne had at first the advantage, but a false step brought her suddenly to the ground; and Margaret, unable to stop herself to assist her, was involuntarily hurried along, and reached the bottom in safety.

A gentleman carrying a gun, with two pointers playing round him, was passing up the hill and within a few yards of Marianne, when her


accident happened. He put down his gun and ran to her assistance. She had raised herself from the ground, but her foot had been twisted in her fall, and she was scarcely able to stand. The gentleman offered his services; and perceiving that her modesty declined what her situation rendered necessary, took her up in his arms without farther delay, and carried her down the hill. Then passing through the garden, the gate of which had been left open by Margaret, he bore her directly into the house, whither Margaret was just arrived, and quitted not his hold till he had seated her in a chair in the parlour.

Elinor and her mother rose up in amazement at their entrance, and while the eyes of both were fixed onhim with an evident wonder and a secret admiration which equally sprung from his appearance, he apologized for his intrusion by relating its cause, in a manner so frank and so graceful that his person, which was uncommonly handsome, received additional charms from his voice and expression. Had he been even old, ugly, and vulgar, the gratitude and kindness of Mrs. Dashwood would have been secured by any act of attention to her child; but the influence of youth, beauty, and elegance, gave an interest to the action which came home to her feelings.

She thanked him again and again; and, with a sweetness of address which always attended her, invited him to be seated. But this he declined, as he was dirty and wet. Mrs. Dashwood then begged


to know to whom she was obliged. His name, he replied, was Willoughby, and his present home was at Allenham, from whence he hoped she would allow him the honour of calling tomorrow to enquire after Miss Dashwood. The honour was readily granted, and he then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain.

His manly beauty and more than common gracefulness were instantly the theme of general admiration, and the laugh which his gallantry raised against Marianne received particular spirit from his exterior attractions. Marianne herself had seen less of his person than the rest, for the confusion which crimsoned over her face, on his lifting her up, had robbed her of the power of regarding him after their entering the house.But she had seen enough of him to join in all the admiration of the others, and with an energy which always adorned her praise. His person and air were equal to what her fancy had ever drawn for the hero of a favourite story; and in his carrying her into the house with so little previous formality, there was a rapidity of thought which particularly recommended the action to her. Every circumstance belonging to him was interesting. His name was good, his residence was in their favourite village, and she soon found out that of all manly dresses a shooting-jacket was the most becoming. Her imagination was busy, her reflections were pleasant, and the pain of a sprained ankle was disregarded.

Sir John called on them as soon


Trump poses no major dilemma for genuine conservatives

Trump has been ruled by compulsions, obsessions and vindictiveness, expressed nearly daily on Twitter. He has demonstrated an egotism that borders on solipsism. His political skills as president have been close to nonexistent. His White House is divided, incompetent and chaotic, and key administration jobs remain unfilled. His legislative agenda has gone nowhere. He has told constant, childish, refuted, uncorrected lies, and demanded and habituated deception among his underlings. He has humiliated and undercut his staff while requiring and rewarding flattery. He has promoted self-serving conspiracy theories. He has displayed pathetic, even frightening, ignorance on policy matters foreign and domestic. He has inflicted his ethically challenged associates on the nation. He is dead to the poetry of language and to thenobility of the political enterprise, viewing politics as conquest rather than as service.

That’s not all:

Trump has made consistent appeals to prejudice based on religion and ethnicity, and associated the Republican Party with bias. He has stoked tribal hostilities. He has carelessly fractured our national unity. He has attempted to undermine respect for any institution that opposes or limits him — be it the responsible press, the courts or the intelligence community. He has invited criminal investigation through his secrecy and carelessness. He has publicly attempted to intimidate law enforcement. He has systematically alarmed our allies and given comfort to authoritarians. He promised to emancipate the world from American moral leadership — and has kept that pledge.

Some of these charges are both true and important. But did you notice


Hamlet
By
William Shakespeare
Character Analysis
Claudius

Shakespeare's villains are complex. Unlike the earlier antiheroes of the revenge or morality plays that were popular in Elizabethan and Jacobean culture, Shakespearean criminals lack the simple clarity of absolute evil. Claudius is a perfect example of a quintessential Shakespearean antagonist.

Claudius is socially adept, and his charm is genuine. He can exhibit deep distress over his "dear brother's death" and admiration for his wife, "Th'imperial jointress to this warlike state." He knows the value of a great funeral, but quickly turns mourning into celebration and moves on "With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage" to whatever lies ahead. He is a decisive man, fair in his politics and commanding — if Gertrude's allegiance is any indication — in his bedroom.

The Queen has chosen tomarry Claudius, and she defends him even to her son. In fact, she never opposes Claudius in anything. Were he dark and sinister in all things, she would fear and despise him; she follows him willingly even when he arranges to send her beloved son into the jaws of death. He must be sincere in his love for her. He explains his feelings for her at the end of Act IV, but he has proven these feelings consistently throughout the play

The Queen his mother
Lives almost by his looks, and for myself,
My virtue or my plague, be it either which,
She's so conjunctive to my life and soul
That as the star moves not but in his sphere,
I could not by her.

A character who loves is not merely a cold-blooded killer.


Like Hamlet, his conflicting imperatives tear him apart.

Whereas he recognizes that he his "offense is rank" and "smells to heaven," he also admits that he will not make amends with God because he refuses to give up what his crime has bought him. He is willing to take the consequences of his actions.

In some ways, Claudius exhibits more heroism than Hamlet. He manipulates fortune and takes what is not rightfully his, but remains unapologetic for his actions; he possesses enough strength to admit that he would do the same again. Hamlet, torn by conscience to smite the morally deficient Claudius, causes the death of six innocent people before he accomplishes his goal. By taking full responsibility for his actions, Claudius mitigates his evil nature.

The mark of a greatTuesday, February 28, 2012

BILL FRANCE Jr. HONORED: The late NASCAR president had a statue unveiled last week outside Daytona International Speedway. Jim France (left), Betty Jane France, Brian France and Lesa France Kennedy are in front.

UPDATE: I'll be on SiriusXM NASCAR radio Thursday at 1 p.m. ET with Rick Benjamin and Chocolate Myers.

As Trevor Bayne proved last year, there's a certain appeal to surprise winners.

With all due respect to John King and James Buescher, however, that didn't apply to their Truck and Nationwide victories at Daytona International Speedway. Not, at least, as it pertains to what I wrote here last week -- NASCAR's need to launch its season in the boffo way it did in 2011. At first glance, the Daytona 500's first-ever rainout and delay to Monday


with a humble, God-fearing personality. Toss in Michael Waltrip's 10-year anniversary of his D500 win with a Truck series checkered flag and Tony Stewart's Nationwide series triumph. Then, onto Phoenix where Jeff Gordon got back on track with an ultra-popular victory over Kyle Busch.

Taken as a whole, Brian France couldn't have planned it much better. Or paid anyone to orchestrate it. And that rocket launch beginning provided momentum that carried through the long, LONG season. Add in five first-time winners, Tony Stewart's Chase glory, the end of the Jimmie Johnson era, and a Homestead for the ages and it wasn't surprising some key TV numbers showed a much needed boost.

One year later, France and NASCAR and the sport and the industry need it all to happen again.

One yearCup season, Brian France E-mailed a note of thanks and appreciation to the news media. That's the kind of gesture that is remembered.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

This past weekend marked the annual transition on the American sports scene. The NFL -- the dominant U.S. sports league -- wasn't playing after a record-setting Super Bowl. What to fill the void?

Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods and Pebble Beach stepped forward. If all you paid attention to was ESPN, well, you would have thought the only game in town was the NBA. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The "Association" is the most over-covered sports league in this country. The fact that an unknown New York Knicks' player -- and it meant everything it was a New York guy --


Throttle series on her own shoulders. The print version of the all-important media guide was discontinued without consulting with the media and now we find out the live streaming on ESPN3 ain't happenin'. It does not bode well for a successful NHRA season, despite John Force's win to open the campaign.

NASCAR was on the sidelines, having moved Daytona back to avoid a potential Super Bowl conflict if the NFL had gone to an 18-game schedule. That changes this week as pre-Daytona 500 activities rev-up. Brian France is hoping something as headline-making as Dale Earnhardt Jr. winning the pole will happen again this year.

Good News (for a change): A print version of National Speed Sport News will return March 23 as Speed Sport Magazine. The rights have been acquiredInterview: Interest in pain and palliative care: an African perspective.
Olaitan A Soyannwo speaks to Roshaine Gunawardana, Commissioning Editor: Olaitan Soyannwo is a Professor of Anesthesia, Consultant and former Dean of Clinical Sciences of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She is currently the head of the first hospice and palliative care unit established in Nigeria, at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, in 2007.


MINNEAPOLIS — New England Patriots cornerback Malcolm Butler stayed on the sideline for the entire first drive of Super Bowl LII.

The Patriots started cornerback Eric Rowe over Butler to begin the game. The Philadelphia Eagles marched down the field while quarterback Nick Foles completed two passes on three targets at Rowe for 32 yards. Rowe broke up a pass intended for wide receiver Alshon Jeffery on third and goal to force a field goal.

Butler, the Patriots’ Super Bowl XLIX hero, missed Super Bowl LII Opening Night on Monday with an illness. He was limited in practice Wednesday.

Butler is an undersized cornerback, while Rowe is 6-foot-1. The Eagles mostly use three receivers over 6 feet.

Butler started 15 of 16 regular season games and both postseason matchups.to an analysis by flot.com, a Russian defense Web site [English translation here]. This is down from 47 percent in 2017 and 52 percent in 2014.

Exactly how these metrics were calculated isn’t clear, but it appears the United States is ahead in the rankings because it is building bigger ships than Russia is. In theory, 2018 should have been a good year for the Russian Navy, which received seven ships, including the powerful frigate Admiral Gorshkov. “Compared to the almost failed year of 2017, when the Russian Navy received two warships and an icebreaker, the past year was productive for domestic shipbuilding,” flot.com noted.

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The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary and other officials removed dozens of cats from a Corner Brook house Thursday night after receiving complaints that well over a hundred animals had been crowded into the small bungalow.

Keith Cormier said he has complained about the cats at a neighbour's house for years. (CBC )

The move came a night after police and others — animal control officers, the SPCA, a local cat rescue group and the city's fire department — were called to the home, following a complaint about the scene.

The city received the owner's permission Thursday to enter the home, and began removing animals to be inspected by a vet.

"An authority said to me [Wednesday] night, there is probably a biohazard with all the animal waste that has been accumulating on thatproperty," said neighbour Keith Cormier, who filed complaints about the house and a cat colony that had gotten out of control.

Cormier, who is allergic to cats, had been complaining about the house for years, but was frustrated by what he saw as a lack of action.

Earlier this week, he posted a video to YouTube that shows the exterior grounds of the home being overrun with dozens of cats. The video is posted above.

"[There were] Probably 50 or 60 cats in the driveway, not counting the ones that were in doorway of the house. My guess is that there is somewhere between 100 and 200 cats in that house," he said.

Corner Brook officials, though, say they responded to all of Cormier's complaints.

After the animals are examined, the city will


Gone are the Prince's time-manipulation powers (which makes sense, given how The Two Thrones ended) and the dark art styles which dominated the past two games. Instead, the game's visuals will feature a highly-detailed style of cel-shading and will feature a Prince who happens to look like something out of a Final Fantasy game. The game's plot is significantly different than that of the previous games, too: gone are the tales of time being warped by the immature actions of a young prince; instead, the story follows the journey of a thief who accidentally releases an evil god and then has to rescue the world from the deity's corrupting influences.

The game will be a mix of open-world exploration and linear missions, with far fewer (though much more difficult)— This year's budget technical corrections bill sets aside $500,000 to defend North Carolina against lawsuits over the controversial House Bill 2.

The Senate has already passed the $22.34 billion budget, and House members are poised to give their approval Thursday and Friday. However, every year, lawmakers write a "technical corrections" bill to clean up typos, fix bad legal references and pay for small, last-minute items that didn't make it into the main budget.

Those budget technical corrections were tacked onto an unrelated bill, House Bill 805, Thursday morning in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Among the dozens of provisions, it transfers $500,000 from the state's Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund to Gov. Pat McCrory's office in order to handle litigation over House Bill 2.

"The governor asked for it," Senate Budget


been put out there. You will see the lies by the
guys from the top. You will see how they were contradicted but they would
go back and lie again as to what they were doing and how they just rounded up
people in marketplaces in Afghanistan and Iraq and so on – who just happened to
be shopping at the time; wrong place, wrong time – to fill their quotas.
They really tortured the hell out of these people. Lots of them
died. They were murdered in fact. Some of them were murdered, like one,
the guy that it’s named after, the taxi driver. He was actually murdered
by security forces. He was hanging, for maybe 12 hours, with his
handcuffs chained above his head to a grill and his feet were chained to the
floor, ina farce too, “baby boomers”.) Pandora' s open box
darkening the air with moral malignancies. Free love would lead to sexual
anarchy, women's and gay rights to the destruction of the family, marijuana was
the precursor to heroin, and together with rock 'n' roll they would all breed a
race of young punks subversive to both Queen and country.

(A: Then
eventually the punks and the Sex Pistols were in photographs with the Queen and
the radical ideology kind of fell down the trap, in the sewage; it became sort
of mainstream. Remember, jump back to Bertrand Russell. He says
these people fought for nothing for themselves; everything was given to them,
including the promiscuity that was all from the top down. Along with the
Pill that science supplied them with, and the National Health Service made
sure they could


has shown so far."

Perry now leads the Panthers with six goals on the season after back-to-back hat tricks. She also grabbed two draw controls and a ground ball. Sophomore attacker Kendyl Gardner scored twice and the Panthers also got goals from senior Grace Gaeng and junior Sara Kuhlman. Juniors Christie Dougherty and Jasmine Jordan both posted four ground balls and two caused turnovers for the Panthers.

The Gators were led offensively by Shannon Gilroy, who took most of Florida's draws, won a game-high seven draw controls and scored three goals. Senior Caroline Chesterman also scored three goals and sophomore Nicole Graziano scored twice. Midfielder Brittany Dashiell had a goal, two assists, four ground balls and two draw controls.

High Point fell to 1-1 overall while Florida improved to 3-0.

High Pointgot on the board quick when Gardner scored her first goal with 28:03 left in the first half. She beat her defender in front of the goal and shot the ball over the shoulder of Florida goalie Mikey Meagher. Florida came back with three consecutive goals and led the rest of the way. Kitty Cullen collected a pass from Gabi Weigand for the Gators first goal with 26:28 remaining in the half. Gilroy added a free-position shot and Chesterman scored coming around the cage to make it 3-1.

Gaeng got the Panthers back within a goal on her first score of the season with 17:45 left in the first half. She took a pass from Gardner and went down the right side with a sidearm shot. Florida was able


13 minutes. The first came from Chesterman when she curled around the net and shot it inside the left post. Florida led 8-4 when Gilroy went up the middle, spun and shot from her left for the goal with 21:32 remaining. It was 13-4 when Sam Darcangelo scored from the right side despite pressure from three defenders.

High Point came back with the last three goals of the game in less than three minutes. Gardner scored her second goal from the right side with 3:18 to go. Perry added another score off the ensuing draw, winning the draw and going straight in for the score. She finished her hat trick with 52 seconds on the clock, making the final 13-7.

Senior Anna Wallingford started in goal for High Point, makingriders entered the mist. With poor visibility, the remaining distance was difficult to determine until the grade relented. There the road rose above the fog layer for a fast run to the finish line.

It was a small-group start this week and the first to go was Hybrid-Electric super-champion Bill Bushnell, who soloed to the finish in a characteristically amazing time of 14:32.

Next off was the pair of tandems. Dan and Winnie Brenner took the win here, ahead of the super team of Will and Lynn Van Kaenel.

There were eight men's start groups, seeded by scores so far (or from 2011 if none were available yet this year). Not surprisingly, the top scores came from the first group, with Clark Foy dropping his companions on the steep portion of


the climb to reach the finish alone. Carl Nielson was second, also solo, while a group of four sprinted for places 3-6. From the second group, Andy Crews just outsprinted James Porter, Brian Schuster, and Rich Hill in that order.

The women had their own group or had the option of starting with a compatible men's group. Brown Zoners Lisa Penzel and Lynn Sestak both started with men's group 4, to take the top two places in the women's standings this week. Amy Cameron was the first from the women's start group, ahead of Laura Hipp and a super-impressive Lisa Emmerich, Lisa having gained a lot of fitness the past two seasons.

In the team competition, Brown Zone came out on top for the week after starting the minimum threeriders, the two women joined by Joe Fant in the men's rankings. Western Wheelers, with recruit Clark Foy leading the way, was a close second, with Sisters and Misters of No Mercy, with second-place Carl Nielson leading, was third.

Results

Strava T-shirt qualifiers indicated with orange background.
Note riders can only qualify once per series, so may not be listed even if they beat the target time for this week.


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Organizations, such as corporations, businesses, educational institutions, and government entities, often employ UC systems to enable internal communication among its members in a uniform and generally cost-efficient manner. In addition, organizations may employ UC systems for communicating with trusted external entities.
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw both deny any wrongdoing

Sir Malcolm Rifkind is coming under pressure to step down as chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee over "cash-for-access" claims.

His predecessor, ex-Labour MP Kim Howells, said the reputation of the committee - which meets on Tuesday morning - must not be "dragged down".

Sir Malcolm was secretly filmed apparently offering his services to a private firm for cash.

Sir Malcolm and the other MP in the affair, Jack Straw, deny wrongdoing.

BBC assistant political editor Norman Smith said there was "no disguising" the concern the investigations into Sir Malcolm were causing to some members of the intelligence and security committee.

He said that while Sir Malcolm's future "may well hinge" on the pre-scheduled meeting, a formalmove to oust him was unlikely, with members expected to voice their views and leave it to Sir Malcolm to decide his fate.

'Sting operation'

Further claims about Labour's Jack Straw have been made in Tuesday's Daily Telegraph. The paper said he was set to take job with Lancashire-based furniture company Senator International, which it said won a £75m government contract after he privately lobbied a minister on its behalf.

Mr Straw told the Telegraph he had not been paid by Senator but acknowledged he had discussed joining its board when he stands down as an MP.

Senator chairman Colin Mustoe said Mr Straw had not assisted him in securing government contracts, adding: "As far as I'm concerned, he just acted well as a local MP, working with one of the biggest


employers in his constituency."

Sir Malcolm and Mr Straw were filmed holding discussions over paid employment by reporters for the Daily Telegraph and Channel 4's Dispatches, who were posing as staff of a fake Chinese firm.

Both MPs have referred themselves to Parliament's standards watchdog and both deny breaching House of Commons rules.

Image copyright Channel 4 Dispatches / Daily Telegraph

Sir Malcolm, who is MP for Kensington, has said he would not stand down as security committee chairman, unless his colleagues wanted him to.

He pointed out that none of the matters raised in the newspaper sting was to do with intelligence or security.

However, in an interview with the BBC's Newsnight, Mr Howells said the committee - which oversees the work of Britain's intelligence and security agencies - cannot afford to bematerial comes across the desks of the ISC, and you have to read it in the offices of the ISC".

Potential loophole

Mr Straw has suspended himself from the Labour Party and the Tory whip has been withdrawn from Sir Malcolm, also a former foreign secretary.

Sir Malcolm is reported to have claimed he could arrange "useful access" to every British ambassador in the world.

He was recorded as saying: "I am self-employed - so nobody pays me a salary. I have to earn my income."

He said his usual fee for half a day's work was "somewhere in the region of £5,000 to £8,000".

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Sir Malcolm Rifkind: "My conscience is entirely clear"

He said he had never accepted an offer from the fake firm, saying


it was a "preliminary" discussion "about what they had in mind".

He is paid £67,000 a year as an MP and he said telling the reporters he was not paid a salary was a "silly thing to say" although it was a reference "to my business interests, from none of which I receive a salary".

Blackburn MP Mr Straw, who has already announced his intention to stand down from Parliament in May, said he was "mortified" that he had fallen into the reporters' "trap" but that he had said nothing "improper".

During his 36 years as an MP he had been "absolutely scrupulous" about observing the rules, he said, adding that the entire discussion had been around what he would do after leaving Parliament.

It is claimed he was recorded describing howdinner by a Romani family you are sure to arrive always too late or too early. In addition, the Roma seem to be positively jealous of their language and won't provide much help for your attempts to learn it. All these features do bring some advantage to the Roma even today, although not in terms of endearing them very much to the Gadje. It is, however, part of being Roma.

6. A man's family is his refuge.A Rom man becomes really a man
only when he is married and has children, and the same is true for a Romni, a
woman. But the family for the Rom is best seen as a "clan" that includes a large number of relatives in a maze of relationships and obligations. It is on this


instance, one of the traditional activities of the Roma was collecting scrap metal for recycling, something that they saw (and still see) as a perfectly legitimate activity. However, governments started creating laws and regulations that transformed this kind of waste collection into an illegal activity. That pushed most of the Roma who specialize in this field into the shadow world of the "parallel economy," where they still manage to collect metals by exploiting their creativity and adaptability; but under much more difficult conditions.

9. Be jealous of your identity. The Roma stubbornly refuse to be
integrated in the society of the Gadje and they jealously guard their language and their traditions. That seems to to be a common attitude still today, despite the fact that many Romani children go toconvenient target for that fraction of Gadje who are inclined toward racism and ethnic hatred; of which there seem to be plenty today, just as there were in the past. During the second world war, the Roma suffered an attempt of extermination similar to
that of the Jews at the hands of the
Nazis. Today, pogrom-like attacks against the Roma seem to be rare, but they still occur at times. Anyhow, if the Roma managed to survive the Nazis, they can probably survive anything.

10. Be a free spirit. In old times, the Roma's preferred occupation was as musicians and their famed ability with musical instruments was not just a way to make a living; it was also a way to celebrate the fleeting beauty of the world. Today, only a


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Purdue University’s College of Education was awarded $2 million in grant funding from the National Science Foundation for the project “Using Principles of Design to Advance Teacher Education.”

As part of the project, faculty from the colleges of Education, Engineering and Science will work directly with 240 undergraduate students studying elementary education over five years to broaden the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) learning landscape by integrating engineering design principles across five required undergraduate science courses. The intent is to establish a new generation of high-quality, exemplary elementary STEM educators while redesigning an existing elementary science teacher preparation model.

The NSF gave $1.5 million of the grant funds initially. The project will receive the remaining funding three years into the project. Professor Brenda Capobianco from theCollege of Education is the primary investigator on the grant.

Congratulations to ISI trainer and STEM education advocate Mrs. Kristen Poindexter, named by President Obama as a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Mrs. Poindexter teaches Kindergarten at Spring Mill Elementary and will travel to the White House to be honored in September. https://recognition.paemst.org/

INDIANAPOLIS (Tuesday, August 16, 2016/National FFA Organization) | In today’s world, students are always looking for ways to get a jumpstart on the competition, and employers are looking for employees who are a cut above the rest. It’s for this reason that the National FFA Organization, Discovery Education and AgCareers.com have partnered to create AgExplorer.

AgExplorer.com is a new career exploration website that is a robust, comprehensive career resource to


the world.” The museum says, as part of the partnership, the center will research and develop new science programs for teachers, school groups, children and families. The attraction is already working on new life sciences initiatives including the recently-premiered Beyond Spaceship Earth exhibit and a growing partnership with former NASA astronaut David Wolf and paleontologists Phil Manning and Victoria Egerton.

The Smithsonian Science Education Center (SSEC), South Carolina’s Coalition for Mathematics & Science (SCCMS), and the South Carolina Afterschool Alliance (SCAA) are facilitating a new opportunity for networking, dialog and information to learners and leaders from across the nation. See the event announcement here.

During the three-day program participants attend pathways of concurrent sessions, each addressing a critical STEM education issue in-depth. This pathway approach reflects the idea that changeat most.

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Arafat died in a French military hospital on November 11, 2004, a month after falling ill at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, where he spent the last three years of his life under Israeli siege.

French doctors have said he died of a massive stroke and suffered from a blood condition known as disseminated intravascular coagulation.

The records were inconclusive about what brought about the condition, which has numerous possible causes.

The Palestinians, who from the start claimed Arafat was killed, launched an investigation that went nowhere and was dormant for years until last month’s developments.

Several senior Palestinian officials, including Arafat nephew Nasser al-Kidwa, have claimed Arafat was poisoned by Israel, without presenting evidence. Israel


successor to the Keystone XL pipeline, which President Barack Obama thwarted — and, like its predecessor, is a flashpoint for green groups who oppose fossil fuel infrastructure projects in the name of combating climate change. But Dakota Access is as much a symbol for Republicans bent on promoting fossil fuel interests and undoing much of what they see as the Obama administration's regulatory overreach.

After the U.S. Army Corps' announcement on Sunday, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) — an early Trump supporter and a contender to be named Energy secretary — issued a blistering statement that called Obama "lawless" and all but promised that Trump would ride into Washington next month and toss the paper on which the decision was written into the Potomac River.

“I hoped even a lawless presidentthese risky and unnecessary pipelines," said Jane Kleeb, president of the Bold Alliance. "The Great Sioux Nation put out the unifying call 'Water is Life' and the country answered.”

But the celebrations may be short-lived, as Trump seems likely to reverse the Army Corps and approve the easement for the lake crossing. Talking points that emerged from the Trump camp on Friday said the president-elect would "cut the red tape" that blocked key energy projects.

Trump has been an investor in Energy Transfer Partners, the project's developer, and his May financial disclosure said he has investments with Phillips 66, which owns a quarter of the pipe. The talking points also said: "His support for this project has nothing to do with his personal investments and everything to do with promoting


and beam into her face.

Harry winced himself this time. He wanted to have what they had with Ginny, but at the moment, that felt so distant and far-away.

You're tired, he told himself firmly, and then climbed up the stairs to Gryffindor Tower, hesitating before he opened the door. He didn't know how much things would have changed under the Carrows, and he didn't think he could bear it if the common room furniture was all overturned and slashed up, or if the room was empty.

But instead, it looked relatively normal. Harry could feel a tingle against his skin that probably came from nasty enchantments, but they were already fading away. He slogged his way across the room, through carpet that felt as thick as grass against his feet,and mounted the stairs that led to the seventh-year boys' bedroom.

It was short by two beds, probably because he and Ron had left before the start of the year. Harry frankly didn't care. He cast a Vanishing Spell to get rid of some crumbs and dirt on the bed nearest the door, which looked to be Seamus's, and then crawled in and pulled the sheets over him.

He shut his eyes. It felt as though he hadn't slept for years, and he wondered how long it would take him to get there.

Not long, as it turned out. Harry found himself drifting off at once, despite the fact that he ached all over and his head hurt and he still had the slender shapes of two wands awkwardly clutched in


his hands.

Shit, I forgot to put the Elder Wand back in Dumbledore's tomb, he realized muzzily. Oh, well, I can do it later.

Everything was "later" right now, he realized with a vast sense of contentment. And "later" was large.

"What are we going to tell him?"

Harry frowned. Why were people talking right next to his head? He'd assumed that Ron and Hermione would be the only ones who'd know where he was, and they'd at least have the courtesy to knock first. He rolled over, grunting, and tried to sit up.

"Shit, that was fast. I've never seen any of the others recover from the spell that quickly." This voice sounded familiar, teasing and tugging at Harry's mind, while the first voice hadn't. But the reference to "the spell" madehim shoot up in bed immediately, grabbing for his wands, instead of trying to figure out who it was.

He banged his head, and dropped down again, hissing. When he opened his eyes, he saw a length of steel above him that looked like the bottom of a stacked bed, and when he turned his head, he saw bars marching down the length of the front of the room.

Beyond the bars stood a whole bunch of people, staring at him, and two of them made him roll to the floor and cast as strong an Expelliarmus as he could straight through the bars.

Two Expelliarmuses, actually. The Elder Wand hummed in response to his touch, though Harry was sure that he had only told the holly wand what to do,


all the people. Harry watched them, counting them and trying to recognize the ones he could see.

Sirius, or the person Polyjuiced as Sirius, whom he wouldn't look at. Snape. Malfoy. A blur behind Malfoy that might have been Draco. McGonagall. Ron. Hermione, though Hermione with an unfamiliar scar around her mouth and brilliant, intense eyes.

And Dumbledore, standing in front of the group and looking at Harry anxiously. Harry stared back and swallowed.

"This is a dream, then," he said, seizing the first explanation that made sense to him. "It has to be."

"No, it is not," Dumbledore said, gently. Harry thought he was waiting for something more, and realized a moment later that it was "dear boy." He wasn't used to a Dumbledore who didn't show him a sign ofthis elaborate practical joke on him, someone pushed his way forwards to the front of the crowd. It was Draco Malfoy, who looked at Harry in a weird way, as if he was the answer to all his prayers and his worst nightmare at once.

"He looks mostly like him," he announced to his audience. Harry had to assume that didn't include Harry himself. "But not exactly. I think my Harry was sharper and had suffered more. You could see it in his eyes."

"The fuck?" Harry told him, ignoring the way that McGonagall winced at the word. "What are you talking about?"

"The Harry Potter who was born here," Malfoy said, his voice lowering as he leaned forwards until he touched the bars. "My Harry. We were dating when the


head fiercely. He was thinking as though he believed them. "I was wearing my tie during some of those battles."

Hermione gave a short, violent laugh. Ron didn't move away from her, which increased Harry's huge, sinking conviction that these weren't his friends playing a joke. "The Dream Mirror moves very quickly," she said. "You only get to watch each scene once, and I was far too busy taking notes on the important things, such as the battle skills you displayed, to see something that irrelevant."

Harry bared his teeth. "Fine, then," he said. "Gryffindor."

The noises that they made were not at all what he expected. Sirius whooped, leaping in the air with his clasped fist above his head. Snape flinched, and Malfoy made a sound like a kicked dog,causing his father to step forwards and grip his shoulder. Hermione said, "What?" with Ron right behind her, and Dumbledore sucked in a breath. McGonagall was the only one who gave him a normal smile.

"What?" Harry demanded.

Malfoy-Draco-was the one who answered him, voice so soft that Harry couldn't hear the emotion in it. "My Harry was Slytherin."

Harry rolled his eyes. "Well, there's the problem with your bloody universe right there, then."

Malfoy acted as if he would try to attack, but his father laid a hand on his shoulder and restrained him. Harry shifted uneasily at the current look he was receiving from Lucius. Cool and—something else. Well, maybe Lucius was glad that his son's boyfriend was dead, or glad that Draco wouldn't be dating him. Harry had no


retrieve the dead, in your world?"

Oh. Harry shook his head. Maybe Snape hadn't hated this version of Harry quite so much if he was in Slytherin, or maybe he wanted him back because he seemed to favor Draco and Draco had been this Harry's—boyfriend.

Which was still strange to think about. Yuck.

"No," he said. "I came back because I had the choice to come back. If he had the same choice, he must have picked a different option."

Snape lowered his eyes to the ground and appeared to be thinking. But Malfoy—Draco, whatever, Harry was unused to having two Malfoys in the room and thus having to differentiate—took a step forwards and hissed, "Are you saying that my boyfriend was a coward?"

"It's like you to think that I was," Harryopened in the middle of Harry's throat. He swallowed against it and demanded, "Am I the first one you've summoned?"

Dumbledore's eyes shot to him, widening, and Harry realized that the man hadn't expected him to ask that question. And, of course, that meant he probably wouldn't like the answer.

"Well?" he asked, when the silence went on, and on, and on.

"No," Hermione said at last in a small voice. Ron put his arm around her shoulders and leaned in to whisper something in her ear. Hermione closed her eyes, as though he hadn't comforted her, and continued, "There were two others. One was very close to our own Harry, one very different, but the first one died in battle. Voldemort tortured the second one to death."

Harry snorted. He didn't


know what would happen to the sound, but eventually it opened out into hysterical laughter. He leaned back against the hard pillow on his bed and laughed so hard his stomach hurt.

"Mr. Potter." Snape, his voice cool. "Do you need a Calming Draught?"

"I m-might—augh!" The laughter conquered Harry again, and he went back to choking and gagging on it. He could feel everyone staring at him in freezing silence. That only made him laugh harder, until he felt tears creeping down his face, thought of the picture he must present, and managed to sit up with a last, hard whoop.

"The fuck?" he asked them. "Three other versions of me have failed to win out over this Voldemort you've got, and you think I will? I survived because ofis the room that you slept in."

Harry looked around in resigned distaste. The Slytherin common room had looked much the way it had the one time he'd seen it in his own Hogwarts, but the bedrooms were—well, the only word Harry could come up with for them was poncey. There was lace on the dark green curtains that framed the beds, for God's sake. There was a pillow on each that looked like it was made of silk. Portrait frames lined the walls, all empty right now, but each one made of a dark wood that Malfoy indentified as mahogany, ebony, aged oak, and so on, taking it for granted that Harry wouldn't know what they were.

And he didn't. But he disliked having it assumed.

The same way he


being Harry Potter. I can't take his place. I can't be whatever he was to you." It still struck him as so strange that this Harry had been Malfoy's boyfriend that he wasn't sure what to feel, if he had to feel anything, but he believed what he was saying. "Stop trying to make me into him."

Malfoy fell back a step, flushing and raising one hand as though to hold away a blow. "I wasn't!" he protested.

"You're trying." Harry regarded Malfoy for a moment, wondering if he was more likely to talk truth and sense without his father looming over his shoulder. "How long ago did he die?"

He couldn't really soften his voice, but as he'd thought, Malfoy was too grateful for a chance to talk to carehad been right nearby and found him while he was still dying, we couldn't have saved his life." His voice fell even lower.

"Did you find his body?" Harry asked.

Malfoy nodded, not looking up.

"I'm sorry," Harry said, and then turned away to study the bed again. "Did he die here?"

"No, outside near the lake," Malfoy murmured, relieving Harry's mind a great deal. "He left a note pinned to his robe that said something about wanting to die in sunlight and air, and—that he was sorry, but he had to go."

Harry frowned and cocked his head. That didn't fit with the tale of despair and fear he'd already heard. "Do you think he killed himself because he was afraid of Voldemort?"

Malfoy flinched back so hard that he banged his shoulders


against a bedpost. "Don't say that!" he whispered. "My father says that he can hear you and fixate on you when you say that."

Harry snorted. "If you've brought two of me over already and he's killed them, I won't be a surprise. Answer the question."

Malfoy stared at him as if he had never seen anyone so strange as Harry, but answered in a murmur. "I think that he was afraid, yes. He tried several times to kill him after he understood what he had to do, and each time the Dark Lord emerged stronger. He was drinking up Harry's power. I think he was drinking up his will, too. Father says that no one can do that, but I doubt it. He's the Dark Lord; he can doanything he wants."

That was spoken so simply that it reminded Harry of some of the students at Hogwarts who had believed that he could do anything to them because he was the Heir of Slytherin. On the other hand, that hadn't kept them from telling stories and jeering at him behind his back. Maybe he would find someone here who hadn't let their fear destroy their desire to stand up to Voldemort. "Do you think I'll win?"

Malfoy gave him a deep, cow-like glance. "Of course not," he said. "The others didn't, and they were all Slytherin. They'd learned more about Defense and cunning, and they made strong friends with the people of the Order of the Phoenix who were here. You said yourself that you don't have many


thoughts wandered and dived and circled around the series of unpleasant facts he'd been presented with.

To never see Ron and Hermione again…

To have to stay here, in a world where everyone wanted someone who wasn't him…

To be apparently fated to die, since three versions of himself had struggled against Voldemort and hadn't managed to kill him…

But what his mind returned to again and again was the oddity of Harry Potter from this universe killing himself. It just made no sense to Harry. There had to be some larger goal that he'd accomplished. Perhaps he was the only one who knew about the Horcrux in him and that he had to die, Harry thought drowsily, and then he'd chosen to leave King's Cross. That made the most sense.

Except thatDumbledore isn't dead here, so who was there to meet him in the train station?

Harry sighed and finally let his mind slip towards darkness. He might know more than anyone else in the world about what that Harry's mental state and experiences when he was dead might have been, but it would do him little good right now.

"Wake up."

Snape's voice. Harry's eyes snapped open and he sat up, heart hammering and mind full of the Shrieking Shack and Nagini, before he remembered where he was. Stolen to, he thought, rubbing the back of his mouth as he looked at Snape, who was standing at the foot of the bed. Condemned to.

"You have news for me, sir?" His voice was a croak. He cleared his throat and wondered when


the last time was that he'd had something to drink or eat. He couldn't remember, despite the testimony of his pounding head and stomach.

Snape nodded minutely, but stood there giving him such an utterly blank look that Harry thought he'd changed his mind about speaking it. Finally he turned away with a sneer and said, "You are to attend a strategy meeting in the Headmaster's office to explain the past and present of the war."

"All right," Harry said. "I'll be along in a little while."

Snape whipped around to stare at him. "You are summoned now," he said, each word dripping with ice. "Not in an hour, not in a day. The Order of the Phoenix is waiting for you."

Harry laughed, which seemed to upset Snape more than allHarry studied it closely, but it didn't look like either Dobby or Winky. "Master Harry is needing something to eat? What can faithful Burny bring Master Harry?"

Harry smiled at the elf. "A peanut butter sandwich and a glass of pumpkin juice would be fine, Burny. Thank you," he added, when it looked like the elf was on the verge of vanishing before he could say it.

The elf stopped, stared at him with tears trembling in its eyes, and then burst into loud sobs. Harry winced and cast an appealing glance at Snape. Snape folded his arms and raised his lip at him.

"You must be prepared for such antics," he said, voice dry, "if you thank one of them."

"Yeah, I reckon," Harry said, and settled back to wait for


the food, which was there less than a minute later. There were several biscuits and slices of fruit on the plate with the sandwich. Harry shrugged when he saw them and started eating.

"Another student whom I know," Snape remarked to the ceiling, "had better manners than to eat like a starving wolf."

"I bet he didn't," Harry said, swallowing an orange slice. "He just did it when you weren't around."

Snape surged a step closer to him this time. Harry reached out and put his hand on his wand—well, a wand. He couldn't tell just by touching them whether it was the holly or the Elder Wand he held, though he didn't think the Elder Wand would react like this one did, warm and friendly to the touch.

"Do not mockme in my mourning," Snape said, words stark as crows. "I cannot kill or wound you while we need you for this battle, but what I do afterwards would make you beg for the Dark Lord's mercy."

Harry seriously doubted that, but since both Snape and Malfoy were sensitive about this other Harry, he decided he might as well learn to keep quiet around both of them. He shrugged. "Sorry," he said, and returned to eating.

Snape let him finish the sandwich and the pumpkin juice as well as most of the fruit and one biscuit before he waved his wand. The rest disappeared. Harry jumped up, but Snape only gave him a smug look, daring him to react.

Harry took a long, deep breath. He didn't know if Snape had


tormented this universe's Harry this way or whether it was specially reserved for him because he was the replacement, but either way, he needed Snape's help, and he didn't need another feud. He just exhaled and turned to make sure both wands were close to him.

Snape stared at him. Harry knew what that freezing look felt like, but he still didn't look up as he moved towards the door of the Slytherin common room. Snape followed, staring so hard that Harry was amazed he didn't stumble.

I hope the bastard realizes that he has to work with me, too.

"Please come in, Harry."

One part of Harry wanted to say that he hadn't given this Dumbledore permission to call him by his first name, but then he decided that it wasprobably better than "Mr. Potter"—as long as no one else started acting like he should be a dead bloke. He nodded and walked into the office, glancing guardedly around to see who else was there.

It looked like everyone who had been outside his prison cell, with the addition of a tall woman, the tallest Harry had ever seen, with long dark hair and intense blue eyes. She glanced at him, nodded once, and then looked back at Dumbledore. "I hope you know what you are doing, Albus," she murmured.

"Prophecy speaks true, Evelina," said Dumbledore, and his eyes did the twinkling thing at her, giving Harry an unexpected sense of homecoming. "We need Harry Potter to defeat Voldemort. It did not say which Harry Potter we needed."

Harry scowled, then


rolled his eyes. Well, he had known all that already. Why else would these people from a different universe be interested in him? He was only one more meaningless name and face from all the universes in the world—no, wait, all the universes in existence—to them otherwise. He sat down in the empty chair that had been left, vaguely noticing that Snape didn't sit anywhere but leaned against the wall and stared at him.

Probably to keep an eye on me, Harry thought, and nodded to Dumbledore. "Professor Snape said that you were going to tell me about the history of the war, sir."

"Yes." The Headmaster's twinkle was gone again, and he leaned forwards, his hands folded on his desk as he studied Harry carefully. "I suppose you knowfrom our conversation already that Voldemort is extraordinarily powerful."

Everyone in the room flinched, Harry noticed from the corner of his eye, except Hermione, Sirius, and the woman Evelina. He wondered if Dumbledore just didn't care or thought they should get used to the name. He nodded. "Yeah, but he was in my world, too, and it only took one of me to kill him."

Malfoy—Draco—made a soft sound. Harry could feel intensified glares coming his way, but he ignored them. He didn't know why they expected him to be so sensitive and gentle around people where he didn't know them and would step on their toes anyway, through sheer ignorance.

"Yes, but I believe there was a difference, based on the glimpses that I had of your world in the


Dream Mirror," said Dumbledore soberly. "I believe that the Voldemort you fought was insane."

Harry blinked and nodded. "Well, yeah."

"The one you have to fight here is not," Dumbledore said. "As far as we can tell, he did make Horcruxes in the past, but then destroyed them and somehow managed to reunite his soul. He did not, I think, drink unicorn blood as he did in your world. He has people who would fight to the death for him and whom he only occasionally tortures. He has made allies among the magical creatures."

"Sounds like you're fucked," Harry muttered, and once again had to endure glares. He shook his head, suppressed the impulse to tell them all that they were stupid, and said, "But the prophecy's still in force?"

"Yes," Dumbledoremuch more careless and stupid than the Harry Potter he had known.

"It was an accident!" Harry protested, but from the wintry glare that Snape gave him in return, Harry didn't think that excused it, at least for him. He shook his head and turned back to Dumbledore. "What's important about how prophecies work, and why does it explain why you can't destroy him?"

Dumbledore fetched up a sigh from the depths of his gut. He did that a lot, Harry thought, and tried for a moment to think if his own Dumbledore had done that, but he couldn't remember.

"A prophecy acts like a magical barrier around the people it concerns," Dumbledore explained. "It seals them off from the rest of the wizarding world, at least as far as the


they disrupted doing it.

They reminded Harry so much of the people who had blamed him for being imperfect and then turned back and implored him to be their savior that his disgust threatened to overwhelm him.

But then he closed his eyes and thought about the other people, outside the school, who probably knew nothing about this and just thought that Harry Potter was unusually resilient. He would fight for their sake, if he couldn't fight for Dumbledore and the rest of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Yes," Dumbledore said, voice flat as if he didn't like being questioned. Too fucking bad, Harry thought in his general direction. "And nothing happens. My spells are deflected from him if they are mortal. The ones that are not can pass through theblinked. The searing contempt in her voice was something he hadn't expected, and it might mean that she shared his opinion of the people who would put up a seventeen-year-old as a hero and expect him to save them. It was something he resented a lot more here than he ever had back home.

She might help me to return home where the others would put off the investigation, he thought.

"Were you an Auror, madam?" he asked.

"Madam." Evelina laughed, but the sound had honesty rather than mockery in it, as had her voice when she told him about her attempts to cast spells on Voldemort. "Yes, I was," she said. "But I was never the kind of person who would be addressed by that title, I think."

"You're too young?"


Harry asked, although he found it hard to tell how old she was. There were no wrinkles on her face or grey in her hair, but on the other hand, her face had a kind of stillness that didn't match up with people like his yearmates.

"No, it's too respectful." Evelina chortled again. "And in the end, that's why I had to leave the Ministry: a lack of respect." She closed one eye in a slow wink at Harry. "For the rules, for the regulations, for the kind of injustice that seems inevitable in a system reliant on enforcing the laws, for pretty much everything."

Harry grinned back at her. It sounded like she might not respect what Dumbledore had told him were fundamental magical rules, either. That made ithe would get along better. And no matter how he tried to slice it in his mind, he knew that there were people here who needed him. He couldn't turn his back on them, although he resented the Order of the Phoenix for dragging him into this mess.

"Good." Dumbledore slumped back in his seat with a sigh. "Then we'll begin your training immediately."

Harry nodded, and jumped as he felt a hand squeezing his shoulder. When he looked back, Sirius stood there, his eyes brilliant and proud.

Harry swallowed around the clench in his throat. This might be workable after all.


A woman is dead, a teenager is dead, five men are hurt and another is paralyzed as violence rose along with the temperature in Philadelphia.

No one has been arrested for the five shootings that occurred in five different sections of the city last night.

The first shooting left Amanda Martinez, 20, dead and three men -- ages 18, 21 and 35 -- injured after gunshots rang out just before 6 p.m. at Somerset and N Lee Streets in the Kensington section of the city.

Investigators say there were up to 100 people outside when a brawl between two women escalated. Anywhere up to 20 total people got involved and a man began shooting into the crowd. Martinez, an innocent bystander who lived nearby, was hit by a stray bullet. Shewould have turned 21-years-old on Thursday.

"We lost a loved one," said Marisol Fresses, Martinez's mother. "She was my baby. She was my only one."

While Fresses wants the shooter to be found, she also believes the girl involved in the initial fight should be held responsible as well.

"The person that pulled the trigger, they have to find them," said Fresses. "But I want to press charges on the girl who came to the block to fight the other girl."

The violent night was just beginning.

Just after 7 p.m. a man was shot in the arm on the 100 block of Raymond Street in Hunting Park. His condition wasn’t released.

Less than an hour later, just before 8 p.m. a 47-year-old man was shot in the thigh at W Girard Avenue and


N Taney Street in Strawberry Mansion. He was taken to the hospital in stable condition.

Just after 11 p.m. an 18-year-old man riding his bike around 54th and Chestnut Streets in West Philly was shot.

Police arrived to find Marquis Battle, of the 100 block of S 54th Street, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and leg. He died a short time later at the hospital.

Police questioned a person in that case. Small also said investigators would look into surveillance footage from area businesses.

Then, just before midnight, a group of five men chased down and shot a man at 34th and Mount Vernon Streets in Mantua.

Police say the victim was possibly targeted. He suffered at least two gunshot wounds to the face and one in the arm. Hehow to swim.”

The tight-knitted trio (drummer Simen Vangen left the band in mid-February) have come a long way since the band first got together in Stokmarknes in Northern Norway in the early nineties. The band relocated to Oslo in 1995, gigged relentlessly all over town and subsequently landed a deal with Virgin in 1999. The band’s debut ‘Industrial Silence’ catapulted Madrugada into the mainstream with platinum sales and sold out tours in Norway. The band managed the transition to the international stage well and has built up a loyal following in Europe and a steadily growing audience in the US. Madrugada have sold in excess of 400 000 copies of their three previous albums, have toured extensively across Europe, UK and US and scored a major hit with


Arizona State linebacker Davon Durant remains suspended indefinitely following an arrest on allegations of aggravated assault and domestic violence, but the alleged victim, his girlfriend of a year and a half, told ESPN she lied to police and was not assaulted by Durant.

ASU student Kelsi Langley, who wished to be identified, said on March 7, the day of the incident, she was upset with Durant after she found messages from other girls on his phone and said she purposefully made a scene outside her apartment. Police were called by "a witness who reported observing a male hit a female while each were seated in a black Chevrolet SUV," according to the arrest report from the Tempe Police Department.

When police arrived, Langley told officers Durant hit her once inthe face and grabbed her around the neck, which affected her ability to breathe, according to the report. At the scene, police identified a "small contusion and red mark beneath her left eye and several abrasions and bruising around her neck consistent with finger marks from being grabbed around the neck." She refused medical treatment.

"When I lied to the police, it was out of spite," said Langely, who attended Butler Community College in El Dorado, Kansas, with Durant before transferring to ASU to remain near him. "I wasn't thinking. It was a very vengeful and spiteful thing to do."

Langely bailed Durant out of jail March 8 but has not spoken with him since the incident, as per the conditions of his release. The next day, Langely said she


to an ASU spokesman.

Durant was removed from the team's roster but remains enrolled at Arizona State and is expected to continue attending classes while the legal process plays out. Durant has a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Maricopa County Superior Court.

He was not present for the Sun Devils' first day of spring practice Monday.

In a version of Durant's official Arizona State bio -- which has been removed from the school's website -- he was lauded as being "unanimously regarded as the nation's top junior college linebacker." He was ESPN.com's No. 1 junior college outside linebacker in the Class of 2015. The Greenwood, South Carolina, native transferred to Arizona State with the intent of participating in spring practice.The government paid more than $1,000 for an official to stay at President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, The Washington Post reports.

The payment of $1,092 was made to reserve two nights at the resort in March. The club charged the discount-free "rack rate" of $546 per night.

The receipt for the payment was first obtained by the watchdog group Property of the People, which filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the Coast Guard seeking records related to Trump's properties.

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The official who stayed at the resort is not named on the invoice;


a note at the top simply reads "National Security Council."

This transaction is a concrete instance of a Trump-owned business profiting from taxpayer money, according to Property of the People, which argues the transaction is a violation of the Domestic Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.

While President Trump revoked his direct stakes in his family companies upon taking office, he is still the recipient of a trust fund that receives the company's profits.

Trump has long faced scrutiny over his connections to his family businesses. Three lawsuits have been filed against him alleging that he has violated the Foreign Emoluments Clause by unfairly profiting from his connections to foreign leaders.

His lawyers have denied those charges. The Post notes that Sheri Dillon, an attorney for Trump, has said financial transactions at "arm'sa tightrope that is 30 feet off the ground. "How difficult is your walk?" asks one master who has climbed up, strolled along the cable, and climbed back down again. "My ten foot staff really helps to focus." replies another master who has climbed up with the staff, who used the staff as a balance pole to aid his balance as he walked along the cable, and then climbed back down again.

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efficiency ratings. With Big Blue fighting for their season, this matchup was a tossup game in disguise. Now, not so much.

Due to his unsportsmanlike actions against Carolina, the NFL suspended Odell Beckham Jr. for Sunday night's game. NFL on ESPN shared the league's official statement explaining their decision:

Per the New York Daily News' Ralph Vacchiano, Beckham will appeal:

The star wide receiver has found the end zone nine times over New York's last seven games, averaging 110.3 yards in the process. He accounts for 1,396 (35.8 percent) of Eli Manning's 3,900 passing yards. Unless Beckham wins his appeal, the Giants are in big trouble.

Even after two promising games from Rashad Jennings, the Giants rank No. 24 in rushing offense and average 3.8 yards per carry. Against a top-10 Vikingspassing defense, Manning has no vertical threat and no steady running back to back him up.

Minnesota, on the other hand, should have its offensive star. According to ESPN's Josina Anderson, the Vikings expect Adrian Peterson to suit up despite spraining his ankle during their 38-17 victory over the Chicago Bears:

Along with the NFL's leading rusher doing his thing, look for Teddy Bridgewater to stay hot against the league's worst defense. The second-year quarterback has completed three-quarters of his passes (42-of-56) over the past two games, securing five touchdowns and 10.11 yards per pass attempt. As a result, the Vikings will stamp their postseason ticket while the Giants get officially eliminated.

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The Steelers have averaged 35.0 points over their last six games, and the Ravens have registered 16.5 points per contest since losing Joe Flacco. Finally ending their series of single-score losses, Baltimore lost by 29 to the Seattle Seahawks and 20 to the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Facing the NFL's No. 2 offense represents more cruelty from the scheduling gods. Antonio Brown and Martavis Bryant, possibly the league's best wide receiver duo, will welcome a defense which has allowed an NFL-high 25 touchdowns to opposing wideouts, per NFL.com.

An increasingly popular title pick, the Steelers still need to wrangle a playoff spot from the Kansas City Chiefs or New York Jets. Since


The city of Spokane has finished removing all lead pipes in its water system.

The $3 million lead elimination program – which was launched two years ago – replaced more than 486 lead connections with new copper pipe.

Spokane had a long-standing policy to remove lead pipes during work on the water system, but officials opted in 2016 to speed up its replacement of lead pipes in the aftermath of the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. Flint’s water corroded lead pipes after it switched its source of water without adding proper chemicals, increasing lead in the water to unsafe levels.

Spokane’s lead lines were installed in the early- to mid-1940s during World War II, when other materials were scarce, the city said in a news release.

The city originally had more thanjet ski and throttled it out fast to where everyone was in the water.

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Crissy Gibson, 42, whose great-grandfather Ernest Chatfield built the camp on Morrill Pond out of logs in 1949, said she has been coming to Morrill Pond her entire life, just as her kids have every summer.

Her son, Ty Gibson, 15, who was in the boat, said the fire happened in the blink of an eye. He said all the


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Martin Jol could be edging towards the Fulham exit door as his relationship with the club reaches breaking point, Goal.com understands.

The Dutchman is at loggerheads with senior officials over his contract negotiations and the club’s recruitment strategy amid concern they could get sucked into a relegation battle.

Schalke have targeted Jol to take over as their new manager in the summer after dismissing Huub Stevens last month and appointing youth-team coach Jens Keller in an interim capacity until the end of the season.

The former Tottenham, Ajax and Hamburg manager, whose current deal expires in June, has said publicly that Fulham have approached him about activating the clause in his contract that would extend his stay at Craven Cottage until the summer of 2014.

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