for the quarter, down 3.2 percent from 2018.Miller brewing started in Milwaukee in 1855 and became MillerCoors in a joint venture with Coors Brewing Company in 2008.Mayor Tom Barrett said the move will be beneficial for Milwaukee."It's part of our heritage. It's part of our history. It's part of our presence," he said. "Milwaukee in this re-configuration that it is undergoing for Moslon Coors will come out with hundreds of additional new jobs."A Miller spokesperson said the company expects the new employees to be working in Milwaukee by July 1, 2020. Wisconsin House Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, celebrated the announcement.“I would like to thank MillerCoors for expanding its workforce in Wisconsin and its continued commitment to the state. Gov. (Tony) Evers also should be commended for following through
137 F.2d 163 (1943)
CITY OF NEW YORK
v.
JOHNSON.
No. 313.
Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.
July 26, 1943.
Thomas D. Thacher, Corporation Counsel, of New York City (Arthur A. Segall, Sol Charles Levine, and Samuel J. Warms, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellant, City of New York.
Alexander H. Rockmore, of New York City, for appellee.
Alfred A. Johnson, of New York City, as trustee in bankruptcy.
Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.
AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.
United Upholsterers Company, Inc., in April, 1938, conveyed to Maxwell Sheraton, Inc., all of its assets, consisting of office furniture, machinery and fixtures, upon the assumption by the transferee of the liabilities of the transferor. At the time of the transfer the transferor owed $718.98 to the City of New York for


and in violation of the provisions of the Bulk Sales Act, New York Personal Property Law, § 44, Consol.Laws N.Y. c. 41, and that the $404.75, obtained from the sale, was the proceeds of assets fraudulently conveyed. The referee and Judge Goddard, on a petition by the city to review the decision of the referee, each held that the city of City York had established no lien as against the trustee and the petition of the city was dismissed accordingly. We think that these decisions were right and should be affirmed.
Under Section 70, sub. c of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 110, sub. c, the trustee was vested with all the rights of a judgment-creditor of the bankrupt to which the assets of United Upholsterers had beenPromoting Timeless Excellence in Film
The Avon Theatre, featuring the best of independent, world and documentary films, foreign and Hollywood classics, and educational programming that will enhance the cultural richness of the downtown Stamford community. Once again, discerning film goers can ask: "What's on at the Avon?"
It was formed in 2003 under the name the Avon Theatre Film Center, Inc., to restore a vital downtown landmark and reopen it as a community venue for the presentation of timeless film.
A Brief History of the Avon Theatre
The Avon Theatre has been described as an eclectic and whimsical picture house, with a prevailing Neo-Colonial motif that incorporates traditional Art Deco themes. The theatre is highlighted by a strikingly original exterior facade, framed magnificently by a restored vertical "AVON" marquee that lights up


the Connecticut sky at night.

This unique artwork is one of only a handful of sculptured tributes to the African American Civil War soldier in the entire United States. Commissioned by the City of Decatur, the work was designed and created by renowned artist, Preston Jackson. Jackson created several concepts for the statue and allowed the citizens of Decatur to vote to select the final design.

Once the original reading room of Millikin University's Gorin Library, Birks Museum maintains a montage of memories: Among them, a Belleek mirror made for Queen Victoria; a life mask of Abraham Lincoln circa 1864; and 700 paperweights.

You are invited to shop the ever-changing collection of traditional crafts, folk art, candles, furniture, home accents, decorative accessories, and much more. Displayed in room design design settings.weeks in advance by mail.

"The Popcorn Shop" was opened in 1934 by John Baldwin. In 1945, Mr. Baldwin leased his business to Del and Emily Barnett. A year later the Barnett's purchased The Popcorn Shop and changed the name to "Del's Popcorn Shop". Lou Ann Jacobs purchased the Decatur business in 1978 and has added her own flare and expertise to the business taking it way beyond what anyone could have imagined. Del's always has a large variety of tempting treats, most of which can be found and ordered right here online. A package from Del's Popcorn Shop is always sure to put a smile on every face.

A Professional Actor Equity Association-affiliated theatre performing Broadway musicals and comedy. Produces five mainstage shows from mid-June to mid-August. Three theatres


for young audiences, shows, in addition to a fall, Christmas, & spring show.

This father-son operation produces a wide variety of wines with grapes imported from throughout the U.S., including Illinois, Michigan and California. The winery features a tasting room and outdoor seating.

The warm, welcoming and slightly funky Madden Arts Center is a richly renovated hub where the Decatur Area Arts Council makes its home. The building houses galleries, classrooms, an art shop, photo lab and rehearsal spaces. The Anne Lloyd Gallery showcases local exhibits as well as extraordinary traveling collections. The gallery spotlights an International Arts Experience exhibition over an 8-week period each summer.
Participating in the downtown Decatur “art walks” the gallery holds a “First Friday” reception on the first Friday evening of each month, showcasing a differentartist or artistic medium each time.

Located on Mueller Company grounds, where the accomplishments of inventor Hieronymus Mueller, Decatur's "Unsung genius" and holder of over 500 patents, are celebrated. Among the expanded facility's treasures: The seventh of only eight cars manufactured by Mueller.

Rock Springs Center is the largest park in the Macon County Conservation District properties with a total of 1,343 acres in the southwest area of Decatur, IL. The Sangamon River runs through Rock Springs and several small ponds dot the landscape. A wide range of terrain including forest, wetland, grassland, and restored Illinois prairie make Rock Springs a destination for nature lovers. Rock Springs is also home to a large nature center, a museum, a restored farmhouse, nearly nine miles of hiking trails, and a paved bike


trail. Rock Springs is a favorite for families all year round. Rooms and pavilions are available for rent for meetings and events.

A collection of Chevrolet automobiles combing various race cars, Indy 50 Pace Cars, and original unrestored vehicles, including Chevrolet memorabilia. Includes Dreamers Diner where the cars can be partially viewed while you eat a fantastic breakfast or lunch.

No trip to Scovill Zoo would be complete without a visit to Project Playground II, a community-built, ADA-accessible playground in Scovill Park. This exciting play place includes a rock wall with fossils, hands-on music station, lots of slides, and a smooth rubber surface so kids of all ability levels can swing, slide, climb and play.

Built in 1874, this Italianate mansion was the home of Richard J. Oglesby, a U.S. senatorold sand pit across the road from Lake Decatur, the city's oldest garden was extensively renovated in 1992. Its resurrected look features secluded paths leading through rocky terraces planted with unusual trees, and landscapes brimming with colorful perennials. Towering bald Cypress trees, planted in the 1920s, still reign over these delightful grounds.

Weldon Springs State Recreation Area is a 550-acre state park located near Clinton, Illinois. It centers on Salt Creek and the impoundment of a tributary, Weldon Springs, to form Weldon Spring Lake, a reservoir.

Imagine Abraham Lincoln, the 6'4" lawyer, ducking to avoid bumping his head on the entrance of Macon Country's first courthouse built in 1829, which was the only log courthouse where Lincoln practiced law. This and other period buildings, located in the Macon County History


Museum, allow visitors to travel back to different historical periods of the county. The prairie village on the museum grounds is home to such historical buildings as the log court house where Abraham Lincoln practiced in the 1830s.

The Beach House Restaurant offers wonderful American cuisine in an elegant setting. Dine inside or outside and take in an amazing view of Lake Decatur. Fresh seafood flown in daily from Florida makes this one of Decatur's treasures.

Serenity envelopes this intimate area, where visitors are welcomed by a Chinese Fu dog and flowering dogwoods, star magnolia, Japanese lilac, and rhododendron -- foliage native to the Orient. Originally commissioned by Guy and Rose Scovill in the 1920's and reconstructed in the 1980's, the gardens' soothing nature encompasses a small reflective point, sodbridge, and oriental sculptures, and surrounds a small cottage, which is available for gatherings and retreats.

This beautiful lodge is located in the woods along the shores of Lake Shelbyville. It is 50 yard walk down a forested pathway to the lake and also a short walk to the Coal Shaft Bridge public boat launch on Lake Shelbyville. The lodge is family built and operated. Located at 916 Coalshaft Bridge Rd. right off of County Highway 11 & Lakeside Villa.

This yearly festival has plenty of entertainment, food and fun. The Walleye is a feature for the festival with the fish being served daily. There will be plenty of entertainment (bands), an ice cream social, fireworks on Friday (which will be moved to Saturday if there is rain), kids games,


a farmer's market, tractor pull, car, truck, & motorcycle show, a 5K event and plenty more. A large parade starts at 10am on Saturday and there will be plenty of kids activities and games both days.

Kids can shimmy up Luckey's Climber, make a giant bubble and pretend to be whatever they can imagine, from a pilot to a scientist. The museum's permanent exhibits complement temporary exhibits and projects.

This zoo overlooking Lake Decatur is home to animals from around the world, the Z.O.&O. Express train, the Endangered Species Carousel and the Zootique Gift Shop. Family events and activities are offered regularly.

Allerton Park was the private estate of Robert Henry Allerton, who donated it to the University of Illinois in 1946. It features 1,500 acres of woodlands, formal gardens andmore than 100 sculptures. The park is open to the public for hiking, picnicking, cross-country skiing and leisurely garden strolls.

Travel throughout the city of Decatur in search of history, hauntings, crime scenes, scandals and spirits! Join us for a journey back into the history of one of America's most haunted towns and discover not only our favorite haunted places, but new locations of crime, infamy and spirits that have never been featured on the tours before. Re-invented in 2009, experience Haunted Decatur in a way that you've never done before! Popular with ghost buffs and history enthusiasts alike and includes new and favorite haunted locations! Lasts approximately 3 hours. $30 per person.


parts of the mosquito body is a dynamic process. After development of L3 larvae in the thoracic muscles is completed, infective larvae migrate predominantly to the abdomen. From day 10 to 18 after an infective blood meal, L3 larvae migrate back to the thorax and head proboscis area. Low density of microfilariae in gerbils (5 mf/20 microliters) is sufficient for good infection in any of the tested mosquito species and strains. If a laboratory model with high susceptibility of mosquitoes to Brugia filarial worms is required, the autogenous group of mosquitoes of Tonga will serve as an excellent laboratory model. High susceptibility of the autogenous mosquito species to B. malayi and B. pahangi and absence of Brugian filariasis in the Polynesian region of the South Pacific is discussed.Variety said, "The forceful [performances] of the two main divas manage to more or less blast away the moral bulwarks of this otherwise conventional coming-of-age story. The fanatic gleam in Linney's eyes as she oh-so-sweetly lays down the law is matched only by the spectacle of her shuddering attempts to control her fury when thwarted. Walters chews up scenery in grand manner, nicely teetering between drunken helplessness and zesty hedonism. Grint, maintaining puppy-dog altruism, holds his own in the matriarchal maelstrom, redheadedly adorable to the end."

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian rated the film three out of five stars and commented, "The movie looks like a lot of other things: Driving Miss Daisy, Harold and Maude, Billy Elliot, Acorn Antiques. It doesn't quite develop its own identity. And it's


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Category:Films shot in LondonAn Unlucky First... The Shootdown of Tiger #620

Near Long Island, NY

21 September 1956

The Dawn of Aviation's Silver Age...

It was a heady time in aviation... In 1956, it seemed as if every week, speed records were being broken in the quest to be the fastest. Supersonic flight, having been achieved only a decade earlier, wrought new challenges to pilots and designers, but also new perils.

In 1952, the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation funded a study to possibility of adapting the stock F9F 'Cougar' design with advancements in aerodynamic science, such as adherence to the 'Area Rule', reducing transonic drag and enabling the aircraft to achieve a supersonic performance. By 1953, the resulting aircraft design bore little resemblance to the Cougar, sporting a fully redesigned wing assembly, abandoning the use of


ailerons in favor of spoilers to control the roll of the plane, as well as the installation of leading-edge slats to improve low velocity maneuvering, and folding wing for compact storage on naval aircraft carriers. Powered by a Wright J65-W-18 turbojet engine, a British-designed Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire powerplant built under license by Curtiss-Wright Corporation, the airplane was supplied with a surprising 10,500 pounds of afterburner thrust, capable of a speed of just over Mach 1.1 at 35,000 feet.

The plane was equipped with four hardpoints for AIM-9 'Sidewinder' Air-to-Air missiles, and armed with four 20-millimeter Colt Mark-12 cannons, capable of firing 125 rounds per gun.

"Feet Wet!"

On Friday, September 21st, 1956, Grumman test pilot Thomas W. Attridge, Jr., 33, took an F11F 'Tiger', Navy Bureau number 138620, on a testflight over the Atlantic Ocean. A former Navy aviator and a father of three, Tom Attridge was used to flights over the water, and this sortie's weapons test, strafing the ocean's surface, was a relatively simple task., and a great way to end the week.

Born in 1923, and the son of a native-Irish New Jersey pastor, a young Attridge graduated from the elite Phillips Exeter Academy in 1942 amidst the war clouds of the Second World War. Going into the Navy, the young Ensign married, and was sent to the Pacific, where he flew Hellcats with Air Group 21 (Fighting Squadron 21 - VF-21), aboard the USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24). In June of 1944, the unit was engaged in air support of ground mop-up operations on Guam, followed


by initial strikes on Palau and the Philippines. In October, the unit launched strikes on Okinawa, Formosa, Luzon, and Leyte, and participated in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea, striking the northern Japanese force, consisting of four carriers, two battleships, and multiple cruisers and destroyers.

Flying over the designated gunnery range some 20 miles from shore, out over the Altantic Ocean, Attridge entered a shallow dive from an altitude of 20,000 feet, as he readied to test-fire the Tiger's cannons. He fired a short four-second burst at 13,000 feet, expending about 70 rounds in total. Advancing the engine to afterburners, he paused his fire, and entered into a steeper dive. and fired the cannons again at 7,000 feet to clear the gun belts. Having just finished firing thissecond four-second burst, the plane rattled. The Tiger had been struck, and Attridge's windshield buckled inward.

Having thought maybe he had hit a bird, a typical hazard when flying over coastal waters, Attridge throttled back the engine to 200 knots, and headed back to the field, the Grumman airbase on the Peconic River, near Calverton, New York.

He reported to the tower at the Long Island facility that he only sign of damage he could observe was damage to the cockpit glass, and a sizeable gash on the outboard side of the right engine's intake lip. More disturbing, however, was that he could get no more than 78 percent of the engine's maximum available power without the engine starting to run rough.

But with only a couple of miles to go,


at low altitude and high drag, Attridge concluded that, with his rate of descent, he could not safely reach the airfield. Every time he tried to advance the throttle passed 78 percent, the engine growled its displeasure, sounding like, as Attridge described, "a Hoover vaccum cleaner picking up gravel from a rug."

Finally, the engine gave out. A half mile short of the runway, Attridge retracted his Tiger's landing gear, and made a dead-stick crash-landing, ripping through the woods below, shearing his plane's right wing off, and gouging a path of destruction 300 feet long. Fuel ignited, unfired ammunition started poping, and Attridge, having suffered a broken leg, and three busted vertebrate in the post-impact sequence, scrambled out of the doomed craft after cutting himself free of his PK-2life raft's lanyard. A Sikorsky S-58 helicopter dispatched from the Grumman factory, and piloted by Edwin Cartoski, picked up Attridge amongst the foilage, evenly shearing his rotor blades in the process. Attridge was carried away to receive medical assistance at Central Suffolk Hospital in the nearby town of Riverhead. He later spent two weeks hospitalized after he was relocated to Manhasset, which was closer to his home and family.

The 20 mm bullet recovered from the Tiger #620's engine

A "Million-To-One Shot"...

A post-accident investigation discovered that Attridge had hit no bird. Instead, he had overtaken and run down the fire from his own guns. A inert 20-millimeter bullet, typically used in practice, had gone through his windshield. Another round had hit the right engine intake, and a third had punctured


had kept its original course, it would have passed by them, but its steepened dive path made it intersect the bullet's down-curving path. When it hit them, they must have been moving so slowly that the airplane overtook them at a good fraction of its own air speed, which was about as fast as many a newly fired bullet.

Going Public...

Naval Vice Admiral William V. Davis, deputy chief of naval operations for aviation, told the story of the strange accident at a luncheon talk before the Aviation Writers Association at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, nearly five weeks after the accident. As a result of the accident, the Navy advised pilots of its fast jets to turn off course or pull up after firing their guns, despiteclaims by them that it was a "million-to-one shot."

But Attridge disagreed. "At the speeds we're flying today, it could be duplicated any time."

Attridge continued his work with Grumman, returning to flight status less than six months later. Afterwards, he would become the project manager for LEM-3 - the first lunar module rated for human flight. It flew as "Spider" with the crew of Apollo 9. He would also go on to become vice president of Grumman Ecosystems, the company's environmental management and research venture, which resulted in advances that resulted in the digital camera. He passed away in 1997.

On June 20th, 1973, Pete Purvis, a test pilot for Grumman, was flying out of Point Mugu, California, in an F-14 Tomcat, when his plane was hit by its own


AIM‑7E 'Sparrow' missile. The missile had pitched up during launch and punctured the plane's fuel tank. After losing control of the aircraft, both Purvis and his systems officer, William Sherman, ejected successfully and survived.the coach of South Australian Amateur Football League club the Glenunga Rams. He is also the father to 2019 draft prospect Lachlan Staritski who is likely to be taken in the first round by North Melbourne as a father-son pick.

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In the pantheon of alien-oriented sci-fi movies, a qualifier for true greatness is the caliber of the extraterrestrial. The more unique and strange they are, the more likely audiences will still be talking about them decades later.

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Case in point: Galaxy Quest . Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the beloved satire of low-fi, space-exploration television shows and their egocentric human casts works for many reasons, including a brilliant script and pitch-perfect performances. But one of Galaxy Quest’s secret weapons is its wholly original alien species: the Thermians. Bi-pedal cephalopods in their true form, they spend the majority of the movie in human guise, trying to awkwardly pull offAbstract

Injury has both physical and psychological sequelae for athletes. In addition to this, psychological variables influence the nature and duration of the injury experience. Psychological research into the injury experiences of professional rugby league players is limited and fragmented. The aim of the research was to determine which psychological variables may be related to the subsequent injury experiences of professional rugby league players. During a two year prospective study, professional level rugby league players (N=53) completed psychometric scales and had their injury experiences recorded. The psychometric scales utilised consisted of the Test of Attentional and Interpersonal Style (TAIS) and the Extended Attributional Style Questionnaire (EASQ). The injury variables included the number of injuries, injury severity, and time taken to resume playing.

A comparison of playing position indicated that forwards


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United States Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth rush and A???letant Secretary of State Joseph Sieco?

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United States Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth rush and A???letant Secretary of State Joseph Sieco ended their tour of southern Asia on Friday (27 April) when they flew home to Washington from Islamabad, Pakistan.

Before leaving, Mr. Rosh told pressmen that the United States continued to endorse the Security Council resolution on the question of the repatriation of Pakistani Prisoners-of-War and also the application of the ???va Convention
The previous day Mr. Rush had dined with Pakistani President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto after to hours of "very cordial talks" with Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Affairs, Mr. Aziz Ahmed.

Mr. Rush and Mr. Sisco were accompanied on the trip by their wives. Shortly before planingout for Washington Mr. Rush told reporters that the appointment of a new US Ambassador to Pakistan could be expected very soon. He said: "We want to have a strong man in Pakistan".

SYNOPSIS: A tour of southern Asia was concluded on Friday by United States Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Rush and Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Sisco when they flew to Washington from Islamabad Airport. Together with their wives they were escorted by Mr. Aziz Ahmed, Pakistani Minister of State for Defence and Foreign Affairs and other Pakistani officials. The previous day the American envoys had dined with President Zulfiker Ali Bhutto after what were described as "very cordial talks".

Before leaving Mr. Mush ???id the United States were hopeful of an early settlement of outstanding issues between


on Lee Street. He asked the Appellant for his name and date of birth. He then asked the Appellant to exit the vehicle because the Appellant was under age and in violation of the city's curfew law. He did a pat down to check for any weapons. He did not find any weapons, but he did notice a bulge in Appellant's pant pocket. Officer Kennedy then asked Appellant's permission to search inside his pockets, and Appellant consented. He testified that the bulge was soft and he could feel a substance inside the bag. Based on his experience, he believed it was contraband. He could also hear that it was a plastic bag. He then pulled out the bag and saw that it contained marijuana. Officer Kennedy then placedthe Appellant under arrest.
On October 10, 2002, at approximately 6 a.m., Midland Police Officers Steven McNeill and Margarita Venegas were working undercover, patrolling in an unmarked white Chevrolet Astro van in an attempt to capture auto burglars. They received a call from dispatch that a male wearing dark clothing was prowling in the neighborhood of Crest and Ridgely. The individual was seen peering into the windows of parked cars, and it was reported that he could be armed. When Officers McNeill and Venegas received the call, two other marked vehicles had already been dispatched, but they went ahead and responded to the area as well.
Officer Venegas was driving the unmarked vehicle slowly through the neighborhood when they saw the Appellant wearing dark clothing riding a bicycle. Officer Venegas


exited the vehicle and approached the Appellant; she identified herself as a police officer and asked him to stop. Appellant did not stop, but instead continued to pedal faster. Officer McNeill then testified that he stood in front of the bicycle, identified himself as a police officer, and asked Appellant to stop. Appellant did not stop, but rather veered to the left and evaded Officer McNeill. Officer McNeill then pulled the Appellant off his bicycle and the Appellant tried to pull away. Officer McNeill and Officer Venegas testified that they tried to pat down the Appellant, but that he was fighting them, attempting to escape. They finally wrestled him to the ground. Appellant's pockets were bulging with approximately twenty items: a two-way radio, two cell phones, a fartevidence obtained on October 10, 2002. After hearing the testimony of Officer Steven McNeill, the trial overruled Appellant's motion. During the testimony of Officer Kennedy, Appellant's counsel also made an oral motion to suppress the evidence seized on June 7, 2002, which was also overruled by the trial court.
A jury heard the testimony of Appellant's arresting officers: Officer McNeill and Officer Venegas; of Detective Faulkenberry; of Officer Augusto Albo, who responded to a auto burglary on September 27, 2002; and of Officer Elias Hernandez, who responded to the auto burglary on October 4, 2002. There was also testimony from two victims of the auto burglaries. Identification Specialist, for the City of Midland, Karen Hare also testified as to the positive identification of Appellant's fingerprints in three of the


cases. Crime Lab Investigator Bob Wheeler also testified that the amount of marijuana found in Appellant's pocket on both June 7 and October 10 was of a usable quantity.
The jury also heard the testimony of the Appellant. He testified that he had in fact broken into some vehicles in October of 2002. He testified that he would go from block to block checking for unlocked vehicles. He would only break into a vehicle if it was unlocked, moving on to the next car if it was locked. First, he would travel one side of the block, and then the other, and then finally move on to the next block, following the same procedure. He further testified that he did this three or four times a week. He wouldsteal small items, such as CDs that would fit in his pant pockets, which he would later sell to his friends. He also testified that on June 7, he did in fact have a usable quantity of marijuana on his person, but that on October 10, the quantity was not a usable amount. He also provided testimony regarding the incident on October 10 and the other burglaries he was charged with.
At the conclusion of the trial, the jury found Appellant guilty on all counts, and assessed a punishment of confinement to the Texas Youth Commission for a period not to exceed the time when he turns twenty-one years of age. Appellant timely filed this appeal.
In Issues One, Two, and Six, Appellant challenges the denial of his motion to


with a handgun. The caller did not indicated the subject's age or height. At the time Officer McNeill received the call, two other marked units had been dispatched to the area, but he and his partner were working undercover, so they decided to proceed to the area as well.
*48 Officer Venegas drove slowly around the area looking for an individual matching the description. Officer McNeill then observed a male subject wearing dark clothing-black baggy cargo pants, and a long hooded sweatshirt-riding a bicycle. Officer McNeill's partner, stopped the unmarked vehicle, exited the vehicle and approached the subject, identifying herself as a police officer and requesting that he stop. The subject did not stop, but rather looked at Officer McNeill's partner, his eyes got big, he said "Oh shit",and began to pedal faster on his bicycle.
Officer McNeill then approached the Appellant by getting in front of the bicycle; he identified himself as a Midland Police Officer and ordered Appellant to stop. Rather than stopping, Appellant veered to the left, evading him while still riding his bicycle, forcing Officer McNeill to pull him off the bicycle. Officer McNeill asked Appellant why he was trying to escape, but the Appellant continued to try to pull away. Officer McNeill held the Appellant by his arms, but Appellant continued to pull away, until Officer McNeill put him down on the ground.
Officer Venegas, Officer McNeill's partner on the night in question, testified that as she approached the Appellant, she identified herself as a police officer and ordered the Appellant several times


to stop. She testified that she was wearing a raid jacket with writing on the back, which was legible in the dark.[2] She also had on a belt gear, her badge, a flashlight, and a radio. She testified that the Appellant did not stop when she asked him to, but continued riding his bicycle. She testified that when Officer McNeill approach the Appellant, he was fighting her, trying to get away. Appellant would not cooperate with the pat down, but rather kept fighting her by swinging his arms in an attempt to hit her, pulling away, using profanity, and not standing still, but rather pushing away from her and Officer McNeill.
Appellant also testified at the trial. Appellant testified that on the night in question, he saw a whitevan come up to a stop sign and that he stopped-for at least twenty seconds-to let it pass by, but the van did not move, so he took off on his bike. He did not recognize the van or know who was inside. Then as soon as he took off on his bike, a woman jumped out of the vehicle, but he did not hear her say anything or did not know what she said. Then he heard some noise, but he could not make out what Officer McNeill was saying. Officer McNeill then tackled him off his bike.
Appellant testified that he was thinking "What is going on, man? What is going on?" He testified that when Officer McNeill tackled him, he fell on his knees. He then


stood up and asked what was going on, but Officer McNeill threw him on the ground. He testified that he thought he was getting jumped and that he was not swinging at the officers. He was trying to get away, but only because he thought he was getting jumped. He testified that it would have been different had they had on a uniform or a badge, but he testified that they looked like civilians, so he did not know who they were. He did not see any writing on the officer's jackets to indicate to him that they were police officers.
Viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the trial court's finding, we concluded that the evidence was legally sufficient to support the trial court's finding thatHe’s also taller than Pat McCabe.

– 11 Habana – Good tackle on the little Aussie number 9 in the 2nd half. Also managed to break one himself in the first 40, something he hasn’t done in the last 8 tests. Looks better with a little stubble too. It almost makes the opposition take him seriously.

– 10 Butch – Only missed one kick AND managed not to get a yellow card. Bonus! Also managed to keep things predictably simple for his fellow back line players by doing pretty much the same thing whenever he got the ball.

– 9 FdP – Picked up from where he left off by being more interested in talking to the ref than actually playing the game. Continued in conversation with Bryce on Twitter afterwards


better than Stransky in the post match interview.

– 4 Bakkies – Didn’t get carded or cited after the game. Responded to being spear tackled early on with great restraint and only the use of his elbow.

– 3 The Good Doctor – Looked WAAAAY better than John at prop when he came back on late in the 2nd half. And people say he can’t really scrum?! Kept Bryce guessing as to who was going to ground first in the early engagements. Job done.

– 2 Gaddafi – Smit – line-out throwing was good. selflessly allowed the team to almost get going again by going off injured towards the end of the game.

– 1 The Beast – Kept the crowd interested, made a few tackles, made a few runs, looked theA Queensland Year 12 student: the injustice of abortion

A Queensland Year 12 student: the injustice of abortion

There are many occasions when justice serves only
the strong, the powerful and the rich, but for the weak, the
marginalised and those who have no voice, there is often no justice.
Every year in this country, close to 100,000 are denied justice because
they cannot speak for themselves. Yet, the very basis of our Western
civilisation demands respect for innocent human life and defends the
rights of the vulnerable and defenceless.

The 100,000 I refer to are the pre-born. They are
those who have had their lives extinguished because they were
considered an inconvenience, an emotional burden, a physical impediment
or a financial hardship. It has been said that the most dangerous place
to be alive is in the womb.

Yet our self-professed


his choice as to
whether he exterminated Jews. Slave owners believed it was their choice
to own slaves. Abraham Lincoln, who fought to end slavery in America,
once said, "People do not have a right to do wrong."

Also, in many cases, it is not the mother's choice
as she is often pressured into an abortion by others, e.g., parents,
husbands, partners, or friends.

Another argument used by pro-abortionists is that
the unborn child is a part of a woman's body and therefore may be
treated as she pleases. In fact, an unborn child is not part of a
woman's body. The child is a separate person, with a separate brain,
heart, organs and body. The genetic structure is different from the
mother's and the blood may be a different type. The unborn child is
entirely separate but dependent upon thefather) and respondent (hereinafter the mother) are the parents of the subject child (born in 2014). In March 2017, Washington County Family Court (Michelini, J.) issued an order granting the parties joint legal custody and the mother primary physical custody and ultimate decision-making power. Furthermore, the court directed that the father arrange for therapeutic parenting time and that he attend programs for substance abuse treatment and anger management. Within three months after the order was entered, the father was arrested and has remained incarcerated. In December 2017, while incarcerated, the father commenced this modification proceeding in Saratoga County Family Court, claiming that, since his incarceration, he had not had any contact with the child. The father requested that he be allowed to speak with the child on the


a robbery had occurred where eye witnesses described the suspect as a young Negro male 5'9  to 5'10  tall with a medium build who was stabbed in the stomach by the store owner with a narrow boning knife and the store owner had appeared to recognize the robber.  Appellant was admitted to the hospital less than 30 minutes later with a stomach stab wound caused by a narrow bladed knife.  Appellant fit the general description of the robber, and he lived only two blocks from the store where the robbery occurred.  He was brought to the hospital by a man who told detectives that Campbell had told him he had been stabbed by some men in an alley which was in the vicinityrelease was sent to select Tokyo journalists, but not otherwise published or uploaded to its website. A copy is available from Greenpeace Japan.

3) In January 2008, Greenpeace began an investigation into insider allegations that organised whale meat embezzlement was being conducted by crew inside Japan's so-called ’scientific‘ whaling programme, which is funded by Japanese taxpayers. The informer was previously involved in the whaling programme, and as a result of his information, Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki began an investigation, eventually discovering firm proof that cardboard boxes containing whale meat were being secretly shipped to the homes of whaling fleet crew - and then sold for personal profit. Junichi delivered a box of this whale meat to the Tokyo Prosecutors' Office in May 2008, and filed a report of


embezzlement. However, the embezzlement investigation was dropped on 20 June - the same day that both men were arrested and then held for 26 days, 23 of which were without charge. They were convicted of theft and trespass on September 6, 2010, and sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years. Unexpectedly, on December 22, 2010, the Fisheries Agency of Japan announced that it was reprimanding five of its officials, and giving formal warnings to two senior officials, for accepting whale meat gifts from the industry – further confirming Sato and Suzuki’s accusations of broad-scale corruption. The Tokyo Two, as Sato and Suzuki are known, are currently appealing their conviction, which is due to be heard in the Sendai High Court on May 24, 2011.

4) Areport from fisheries newspaper Minato Shinbun on Monday, January 24, 2011 discussed a press conference held on January 20 by Kyodo Senpaku, the Japan Whaling Association, and the Institute of Cetacean Research (ICR), where the three bodies outlined the many serious problems facing the whaling industry. Kazuo Murayama, the CEO of Kyodo Senpaku and the head of the Japan Whaling Association said "annual sales have decreased 30% during the first half of [2010] (fiscal year)" and mentioned that the JWA’s activities may be decreased as a result. The ICR announced that it has reduced the number of its executive directors to one. Yoshihiro Fujise, who was appointed as the first "proper" (he is a scientist promoted from within the ICR, not a retired FAJ executive) Executive Director of


Skull of the neotenic salamandrid amphibian Triturus alpestris and abbreviated development in the Tertiary Salamandridae.
The skull of neotenic individuals of the Alpine Newt Triturus alpestris from the locality Drakolimni (Greece) is described on the basis of models made from magnified serial frontal sections. In order to recognize features associated with neoteny and paedomorphosis, the results were compared with normal development of contemporary Triturus and of other Caudata. The neotenic larvae from Greece correspond to advanced stages of metamorphosis in normal development of Triturus alpestris. Comparison with salamandrids from the Tertiary of Europe in which the hyobranchial skeleton was preserved, namely Brachycormus noachicus, Chelotriton paradoxus, and Palaeopleurodeles hauffi, revealed that both latter taxa were completely metamorphosed adults anatomically similar to their contemporary relatives Tylototriton, Echinotriton, and Pleurodeles, whereas Brachycormus,Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as amended by the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), provides for "supplemental educational services" for disadvantaged students. Supplemental educational services (SES) are tutoring and other academic enrichment provided outside of the regular school day to eligible public school students to help improve achievement in reading, language arts, and math. To be eligible, students must be from low-income families and attend Title I public schools that State educational agencies (SEAs) have determined to be in their second year of improvement, in corrective action, or in restructuring. Parents of eligible students may obtain these services for their children free of charge from an approved SES provider of their choice. Under NCLB, private schools are eligible to become approved providers


curriculum of its choice in its SES program, provided that the curriculum is consistent with the curriculum used by the LEA and is aligned with the State's academic content and achievement standards.

State academic standards may vary, as may the extent to which an SEA's provider application form is tied to these standards. In its application to the SEA, a private school should describe the connections between its SES program and the State's academic standards and, where possible, should cite the specific standards the program addresses.

6. What are the assessment requirements for SES students? What assessment responsibilities does a provider have?

An SES provider is responsible for meeting the assessment requirements outlined in its contract with an LEA, including:

Enabling a student to attain his or her specific achievement goals (asto Federal civil rights laws, most apply generally to "recipients of Federal financial assistance." These laws include Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (discrimination on the basis of race and national origin), Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (discrimination on the basis of sex), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504) (discrimination on the basis of disability), and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975 (discrimination on the basis of age).

Also as noted above, an SES provider, merely by being a provider, is not a recipient of Federal financial assistance. The regulations that define "Federal financial assistance" do not contemplate that a school or other organization that receives a contract from an LEA procuring its services as a provider of SES


housing. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The Latest on a lawsuit over efforts to shut down a Southern California homeless encampment (all times local):

8:30 a.m.

A federal judge has been touring a Southern California homeless encampment that officials are working to shut down.

Judge David O. Carter took a brisk walk at dawn Wednesday past scores of tents surrounded by trash. He was followed by an entourage of three dozen lawyers, Orange County workers, nonprofit staff and local officials.

Carter grilled officials about how to remove syringes littered on the ground, lack of access to bathrooms for the homeless and who is and isn't willing to move to motel rooms the county will offer as the encampment is shut down.

He also stopped and spoke with homeless residents, askingBrewing as well as Mac and Jack’s Brewing.

Phil is excited to spread his wings at Burke-Gilman Brewing and says that, along with sours and barrel-aged beers, he intends to explore beer history and re-interpret some old, nearly forgotten styles, adding his own modern twist to traditional recipes. He mentioned English Mild, which historically was not mild at all, at least not in terms of alcohol strength. His vision involves recreating historic recipes with modern ingredients.

For the opening, expect to find a beer lineup that includes an excellent, semi-hazy IPA and an especially bitter Pale Ale. Also a Porter, a Saison, a Brown Ale, and a Stout. Also, a few guest taps. All of the house-brewed beers are solid. To my taste, the Pale Ale, the IPA and the


as if he's considering punching_ WILLIAM _in the face._ WILLIAM _takes a small step back. He puts on his gentlest tone of voice._

Sam, I thought it better to spare Judith these questions. But if you'd prefer, I can ask her instead, this evening.

_Pause._

SAMUEL. No. Ask me.

WILLIAM. How did Daniel die?

SAMUEL. Drowned.

WILLIAM. How?

_Pause._

SAMUEL. It was just getting dark. Jude had gone to Abe's to see Sarah. I put Dan to bed. Fell asleep in front of the fire. I woke up. I thought someone had said my name. But there was no one. I saw the door was open. I looked at the clock. My dad's clock. Ten past nine, exactly. I went upstairs. He wasn't there. I called for him. I went out... I looked everywhere.

_Pause._

WILLIAM. Samuel?

SAMUEL. FoundKuwait and Iraq, which provided vital intelligence on Iraqi operations following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. Mr. Johnson also participated in the investigation of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am 103… Mr. Johnson is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security. He taught at The American University’s School of International Service (1979-1983) while working on a Ph.D. in political science. He has a M.S. degree in Community Development from the University of Missouri (1978), where he also received his B.S. degree in Sociology, graduating Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1976.

At his blog, Johnson wrote Sept. 16 that,

In some cases Sid Blumenthal actually provided a draft piece that I would slightly modify and publish under my name. Most of the time, however, Sid provided background


Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave., may be expanding next door to 3735 N. Southport Ave. next year. View Full Caption DNAinfo files/Justin Breen

LAKEVIEW — The Music Box Theatre soon may have room for another screen.

Owner Bill Schopf plans to buy the building next door, 3735 N. Southport Ave., in January, according to the building's owner and Music Box general manager Dave Jennings.

Plans for an expansion aren't set yet, Jennings said in an email statement. But the theater will be exploring the option of adding a third screen in the new property after the sale closes, he said.

Further details on the way the building could be used will be decided after the sale, said Rob Walton, Music Box's spokesman.

The 3735 building, which is just north of MusicBox at 3733 N. Southport Ave., houses White Birch Trading Co., a furniture, gift and jewelry boutique. Preston Lavin opened the shop in 2011 after buying the building in 2010, he said.

White Birch will close in January after Music Box buys the building, he said, and the shop will not reopen elsewhere.

Earlier this year, the historic theater renovated its "little" screening room, doubling the screen size and shrinking the number of seats to 70. The theater's other screen seats 748 people.

The theater celebrates its 30th year Friday, which the city has declared "Music Box Theatre Day." There will be a Friday reception and a double feature of "North By Northwest" and "The Big Lebowski."

Music Box first opened in 1929, an "elaborate little brother" to the 3,000-seat movie palaces


built Downtown. By the late '70s and early '80s, it was only opening sporadically to show Spanish- and Arabic-language films and porn, according to the site.

It reopened in 1983 for double features and repertory films and is known for its selection of foreign, independent and cult film screenings.UTair’s compound in Kalemie in August 2010. A local NGO relayed a complaint from the teenage girl who said she had been sexually assaulted by “pilots” who worked for the UN’s mission in the country, Monusco.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Copies of the main investigative report were circulated among top officials at the UN, including, the office of the secretary general, Ban Ki-moon. Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

The complaint was passed on to the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Service – an internal investigations unit, commonly known as OIOS – which dispatched a senior investigator to the country.

The final investigation report, signed off by the then officer-in-charge of OIOS investigations, Michael Dudley, is accompanied by dozens of medical reports and witness interviews. They reveal how UN investigators focused on two UTair employees:


the site manager at the compound and a ground engineer.

However, the report paints a picture of routine sexual encounters between local women and staff at the base, and does not rule out complicity of other helicopter crew at the base.

The victim told UN investigators that she had been walking to see a friend when a man she assumed to be a security guard at the compound invited her in to meet with the site manager.

She said she was escorted to the site manager’s room, where she was offered a fizzy drink. She then became drowsy, she told investigators, and drifted out of consciousness, as a second man entered the room.

The UN report found she did not regain full consciousness until around four hours later, at about 6pm. Thegirl recalled waking up naked, being taken into a bathroom, having water poured over her and later complaining “her private parts were sore”. She recalled being escorted from the compound by a guard who helped her get dressed.

The man who escorted the girl to the site manager’s room, a cleaner, testified that he had been instructed by the UTair site manager to “find a girl he could have a ‘good time’ with”.

A security guard who worked at a church organisation neighbouring the compound, told UN investigators that he also saw the teenage girl lying naked and unconscious in the site manager’s garden that day.

He testified that the UTair ground engineer implicated in the case “took pictures of her and threw cigarettes on her”.

The report continues: “He [the guard]


was “invited” for an interview three times and failed to show up.

The OIOS is an administrative investigative office whose authority is limited to certain parts of the UN system. A UN spokesperson told the Guardian the OIOS “has no coercive authority over people who are not UN staff”.

The UN’s investigator did, however, interview several other UTair crew members, including three engineers, three pilots and two flight attendants. They all gave similar evidence about never having seen women at the base, a claim the OIOS concluded was “inconsistent with the balance of evidence”.

Although UTair’s site manager refused to be interviewed, he was confronted, two days after the rape was said to have occurred, by a local UN official. Félix Kitungwa, who was then the UN’s acting officer in chargewith local law enforcement authorities.

However, that recommendation appears to have been struck from the final draft. The UN told the Guardian it was unable to confirm or deny whether a recommendation to pass evidence to local law enforcement authorities was removed from early drafts of the report.

Prosecutors in the DRC were already aware of the case, the UN said in a statement. Once its investigation was completed, the report was shared with authorities in Russia, the UN added.

The first UN source said: “OIOS looked at other things involving the company … It is clear the problems of sexual exploitation were wider than just two individuals. We believed there was a need to change the culture of the organisation.”

In the end, the final OIOS report on the attack contained


Top target: Liverpool are chasing Will Hughes (Picture: Getty)

Liverpool are poised to win the race for highly rated Derby midfielder Will Hughes, with the club set to lodge a £6million bid this week.

Hughes is considered one of the best prospects in England, and Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers is keen to bring him to Anfield this summer.

Arsenal, Chelsea and even Manchester United have all been linked with the 18-year-old, who has already racked up nearly 50 first-team appearances.

But it is Liverpool who lead the race, with Rodgers ready to bid after sending chief scout Dave Fallows to check on Hughes during the England Under-21s’ win over Scotland last week.

MORE: Liverpool make £8million bid for PSG defender Mamadou Sakho defender

Watching brief: Liverpool scouts watched Hughes against Scotland (Picture: Getty)

The elegantwith leading advocates for both camps, plus a flock of animated dodos, Olson’s film draws laughs even as it delves into this complex and emotionally charged issue.

Our Fathers

Docudrama 2005 R 129 minutes. This powerful and timely indictment of a church in crisis stars Christopher Plummer as Cardinal Bernard Law, the high-ranking Catholic priest at the center of a far-reaching web of sexual abuse and institutionalized cover-up. Based on Newsweek journalist David France’s best-seller about the real-life scandal that rocked Boston, this Emmy-nominated drama co-stars Ted Danson, Brian Dennehy and Ellen Burstyn. See Full Review

Mea Maxima Culpa:
Silence in the House of God

Documentary 2012 NR 107 minutes. Filmmaker Alex Gibney explores the crime of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, highlighting the landmark story of five deaf men who


spoke out about a priest who molested more than 200 children between 1950 and 1974. Investigative piece about a particular catholic school for the deaf in Wisconsin that ties into the larger scandal at the Vatican itself. Father Murphy of Milwaukee allegedly raped and abused more than 200 children over a 24 year period. See Full Review

The Silence

Documentary Frontline 2011 Apr19. Tom Curran and reporter Mark Trahant examine a little-known chapter of the Catholic Church sex abuse story: decades of abuse of Native Americans by priests and church workers in Alaska. The Silence shows how the isolation of the villages and the absolute authority of the church over the Native population created an atmosphere where molestation could go unchecked and unreported. As part of the recent church settlementwho moved from parish to parish gaining trust … all the while betraying so many.

The Boys of St. Vincent

Docudrama 1992 NR. In this award-winning television drama, a group of men revisit the Catholic boys’ orphanage in Newfoundland where they were forced to endure numerous acts of sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of their priests. Based on a the true story, the film features fictionalized flashbacks of the men’s experiences from 15 years earlier; they later banded together to bring charges against their former clerics.

Doubt (2008)

Drama 2008 PG-13 104 minutes. Sister Aloysius begins to have doubts about doting priest Father Flynn, who seems to have become overly involved in the life of a young African American pupil. Is she overreacting to the situation, or is there truth


film. Streep is a harsh guardian of morality, hardly able to crack a smile, yet fiercely protective of the children in her care. This film is thought provoking as it explores repression, freedom, puritanism, modernity, hierarchy, equality, male, female, sexuality and celibacy. Doubt ends in a moral grey area. To what lengths should religious go to prevent even the appearance of child abuse? Sure to spark plenty of debate.

Son of God

Docudrama 2014 PG-13. A follow-up to the landmark 2013 miniseries The Bible, this feature follows the life of Jesus Christ from his humble birth to his resurrection. Filmed in authentic historical locales, this epic presentation brings new life to the miraculous story.

The Bible

Docudrama Miniseries 2013 NR Blu-ray and DVD. Re-creating the Bible’s vision of human and divine historyfor contemporary audiences, this sweeping miniseries incorporates key biblical stories and parables, vividly dramatizing the ancient tales — from Adam and Eve to the revelation of St. John.

C.O.G.

Docudrama 2013 R 1hr 29m. Based on a short story by David Sedaris of the same name in his book Naked. C.O.G. stands for Child Of God, which is seen on a religious pamphlet handed to the author in Oregon. This comedy follows the young author as he travels to Oregon to work on an apple farm. The journey exposes him to all sorts of culture clashes, but what awaits him at the farm is far worse. About a character who cuts himself off from the safety net of family and friends in order to experience something different. Accurately portrays the


kind of nonsensical misadventure a young person in search of new experiences might have. Consequently, when things go badly, he has to depend on the kindness of strangers, and he repeatedly learns that not all strangers are kind. This is film and a story about the difficulty of making connections. The Sedaris character is sympathetic, and that makes him interesting to watch as he navigates dilemmas as to his sexuality, his faith and the co-opting of organized religion, and just simply getting by. I thought the characters were totally believable, in part because of the superb acting, in part the great directing. When the movie ended, I was wishing that it could have kept going. This is one of the most fascinating movies that I have seen inJoe Cultrera provides a compelling inside look at the effect of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest on one family — his own — in this significant documentary. In the 1960s, Father Joseph Birmingham molested Cultrera’s brother, Paul; the family discusses the impact of this dark secret and how they survived betrayal by the church they trusted and by Birmingham, who is alleged to have molested almost 100 children. In recent decades, more than 10,000 children reportedly were sexually abused by Catholic priests in the United States. From behind the headlines, filmmaker Joe Cultrera tells the very personal story of how the crisis affected his own family in Salem, Mass. It is the intimate story of how his brother, Paul, was molested in the 1960s by Father Joseph


documentary follows seven former members of the Amish community as they reflect on their decisions to leave one of the most closed and tightly knit communities in the United States. Following up on an earlier, more general PBS film about the Amish, the writer and director Callie T. Wiser profiles seven people — young and old, male and female — who have left the community. Not all have stayed away: One man says he went back seven times before making what appears to be his final break, and one woman returns, to heartbreaking effect, during the shooting of the film. But the emphasis is overwhelmingly on the feelings and experiences that come after shunning — melancholy, doubt, halting or failed attempts to reconcile with family members who stayedLama with a look back at the spiritual leader’s history and an exploration of the small city of Dharamsala, India, where he was exiled some 50 years ago.

Dalai Lama
The Soul of Tibet

Documentary 2005 NR 60 minutes. Exiled from his Tibetan homeland since 1959, the Dalai Lama remains a tireless humanitarian and the spiritual and secular leader of Buddhism. This documentary chronicles the story of the man believed by his people to be Buddha’s reincarnation. Featuring interviews with His Holiness, activists and Chinese scholars, this A&E; “Biography” installment includes footage of some of his key life events, including his 1989 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

Ethics and the World Crisis
A Dialogue with the Dalai Lama

Documentary 2004 NR 68 minutes. This unique discussion features the Dalai Lama as the guest speaker


at an event filled with respected journalists, environmentalists, economists and politicians, as they tackle issues such as the many ethical trials we all face in this new day and age. Also included is information about the Tibet House and appearances by Dr. Helen Caldicott, Amy Goodman, Dennis Kucinich, Susan Sarandon, Rev. Al Sharpton, Russell Simmons, Robert Thurman and more.

The Passion of the Christ

Docudrama 2004 R 2hr 6m. Oscar-winning actor-director Mel Gibson helms this controversial epic that focuses on the last 12 hours of Jesus’s life — from the betrayal, trial and death of Jesus to his brutal crucifixion and resurrection from the tomb. Starring Jim Caviezel as Jesus, Maia Morgenstern as Jesus’s mother and Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene, The Passion is spoken entirely in Latin and Aramaic,inflicted on some 30,000 women in Ireland who were imprisoned into forced servitude in the Magdalene laundries of the Catholic Church. The common sins used as the pretexts of this self-righteous abuse (and exploitation) of these unfortunate women were those of their own loving acts – not violence. This film also depicts men in a sad, cowardly, subordinate role to this female-driven evil, which further reinforces the simple concept that power is about control – not gender. For these reasons, this film is a must-see for teenage boys and girls and they should see it together, and with their families.

Hell House

Documentary 2001 NR 1hr 25m. This documentary goes behind the scenes of the Hell House, a multimedia fire-and-brimstone performance designed to give its audiences a glimpse of what


Beginning

Docudrama 2000 NR 169 minutes. Covering a time span from the beginning of creation to the handing down of the Ten Commandments, this two-part television miniseries dramatizes the Bible’s first two books, Genesis and Exodus. Part One features the stories of Abraham (Martin Landau), Joseph (Eddie Cibrian), Rebeccah (Diana Rigg) and Isaac (Sean Pertwee). Part Two centers on Moses (Bill Campbell) and how he freed his people from the chains of slavery.

The Jesus Film (Jesus)

Docudrama 1979 G 120 minutes. Touted as the most historically accurate depiction of the life of Jesus, this film, shot in the Holy Land, has been translated into more than 800 languages and has been seen by more than 4.7 billion people in 236 nations. The screenplay comes directly from the Gospel of Luke— virtually every word spoken by Jesus was drawn from the biblical text. Extensive research also went into the production’s design to achieve historical authenticity.

From Jesus to Christ
The First Christians

Documentary Frontline 1998. Frontline presents the epic story of the rise of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus of Nazareth once lived and preached and challenges familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. Program 1 traces the life of Jesus of Nazareth, exploring the message that helped his ministry grow and the events that led to his crucifixion around 30 c.e. The film then turns to the period that followed Jesus’ death, examining the rise of Christianity


and concluding with the First Revolt — the bloody and violent siege of Jerusalem and the beginning of a rift between Christianity and Judaism. The broadcast explores new evidence suggesting that Jesus’ followers because of their diversity and the differences in their cultures and languages, looked at and interpreted Jesus and his teachings in many different ways. In program 2, Frontline examines the period after the First Revolt, tracing the development and impact of the Gospels and looking at the increasingly hostile relationship between the Christians and the Jews. The film looks at another bloody Jewish war against Rome, the second Revolt, assessing its impact on the Christianity movement. The broadcast documents the extraordinary events of the second and third centuries in which Christianity grew from a smallthe “Man Upstairs,” former advertising executive Morris Codman (Jonathan Penner) establishes a religion of his own, one that buys into his own precepts: greed, selfishness and looking out for Number 1. But will the love of a good woman (Sandra Bullock) shake his strange faith? Jonathan Penner, Gerald Orange, George Plimpton and Daniel Adams co-star.

Praise the Lord

Documentary Frontline 1988. Frontline traces the rise and fall of television evangelists Jim and Tammy Bakker and investigates why government agencies failed to vigorously investigate charges of corruption in the Bakker empire.

Keeping the Faith

Documentary Frontline 1987. The black church was once the soul of its community. It was a rallying point and a force for change. Now, as the black middle class grows and the church evolves, correspondent Roger Wilkins asks whom


does it serve and to what end?

The Mission (1986)

Drama 1986. The film is set in the 1750s and involves Spanish Jesuit priest Father Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) who enters the South American jungle to build a mission and convert a Guaraní community to Christianity. The Guaraní community above the perilous Iguazu Fallshas tied a priest to a cross and sent him down the falls to his death. Father Gabriel travels to the falls and plays his oboe. The Guaraní warriors, captivated by the music, allow him to live.

Catholics in America
Is Nothing Sacred?

Documentary Frontline 1985. One in four American citizens is Catholic, yet few seem to agree with-or follow-every doctrine and practice of their church. Frontline examines the conflicts within the American Catholic Church and its ongoing struggle with theone of the greatest tragedies of the latter half of the 20th century — the mass suicide in Guyana by the cultish followers of charismatic preacher Rev. Jim Jones (played by Stuart Whitman). Afraid that the CIA was closing in, Jones and his religious congregation moved to Guyana, where, under Jones’s thrall orgies, torture and violence became rampant throughout the community.

The Jesus Film (Jesus)

Docudrama 1979 G 120 minutes. Touted as the most historically accurate depiction of the life of Jesus, this film, shot in the Holy Land, has been translated into more than 800 languages and has been seen by more than 4.7 billion people in 236 nations. The screenplay comes directly from the Gospel of Luke — virtually every word spoken by Jesus was drawn from the


biblical text. Extensive research also went into the production’s design to achieve historical authenticity.

Jesus of Nazareth

Docudrama series 1977 NR 1 Season. Featuring an impressive international cast, this well-received TV miniseries respectfully and sensitively documents the life of Jesus Christ. “Jesus of Nazareth” is a superior re-telling of the story of Jesus Christ with a wonderful cast, high production values, and limited changes to the Gospel narratives. However, this version has been cut by about a third with many scenes that were a part of the story missing.

Marjoe

Documentary 1972 PG 88 mins. This Oscar-winning documentary explores the life of one-time child evangelist and faith healer Marjoe Gortner. The son of professional evangelists, Gortner was preaching on the Southern tent-revival circuit by the age of 3. Twenty-eight at the timeof the film’s release, Gortner freely admits to being a scam artist — but still maintains a compelling charisma, possibly explaining his later career as an actor in B movies and in 1974’s Earthquake.

Salesman

Documentary 1968 NR 90 minutes. Before delivering Gimme Shelter, cinema verité filmmakers Charlotte Zwerin and brothers Albert and David Maysles hatched this culturally significant documentary examining the utterly American profession of the traveling salesman. The film follows four reps of the Mid-American Bible Company as they peddle gold-embossed versions of “the Word” to families with little interest in fancy scriptures, providing a searing portrait of life on the road.

Hawaii

Docudrama 1966 NR. Domineering minister Abner Hale (Max Von Sydow) moves to Hawaii with his wife, Jerusha Bromley Hale (Julie Andrews), and assumes that the islanders will


simply modify their way of life to suit him. His portrayal as the Calvinist missionary-preacher is right-on and depicts the missionaries’ attitudes and views very well. Andrews plays his dutiful wife Jerusha, who is exactly the opposite in welcoming the people of Hawaii and attempting to learn all about their culture. Discontent with her life, she eventually finds solace in the company of a former love, Rafer Hoxworth (Richard Harris). A very credible attempt at epic making by director George Roy Hill. A very well cast film. The natives in the film are quite good and this is where Hill’s expertise shines in directing non-actors. The main character, Malama, is based on the real Queen Kaahumanu, and the actress does an excellent job — you could really seewhat Kaahumanu was like. An amazing film for its time — showing things usually taboo in film such as religious intolerance, incest, bigotry, domination over another civilization, and partial nudity (which by the way was very tame, brief, and tasteful, but extremely rare in mainstream American cinema then.) Probably why I should now read the book by James Michener! (There is a short, 161-minute version of the film, and a full version, which is about 189 minutes and is much better. It is sometimes on Turner Classic Movies, so look for the long version instead.)

Inherit the Wind

Docudrama 1960 NR 128 minutes. Spencer Tracy (in an Oscar-nominated role) and Fredric March square off as opposing attorneys Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady, respectively, in this blistering courtroom drama about


the famed 1925 “Scopes Monkey Trial,” in which a Tennessee teacher was taken to task for teaching Darwinism in the classroom. The film also earned Oscar nods for its editing, screenplay and cinematography. Gene Kelly co-stars as a newspaper reporter.

Elmer Gantry

Drama 1960 NR 147 minutes. Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster nabbed a Best Actor Oscar as glad-handing, soul-redeeming charlatan Elmer Gantry, a huckster who spins his talent for preaching into a métier behind the pulpit. Hopping aboard the barnstorming evangelical crusade of Sister Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons), Gantry moralizes his way to fame and fortune till an erstwhile ladylove (Shirley Jones) threatens to expose his shady history as a skirt-chaser and scam artist."I think most of the human race subscribe to [the tenets of good thoughts, good words, and good deeds]. So when I heard that I said, 'Hey, OK, so I'm a Zoroastrian.'"

That realization from actor Morgan Freeman during an NPR interview in April came after Freeman finished filming "The Story of God," a documentary series for the National Geographic Channel.

Freeman, who himself played God in the 2003 film "Bruce Almighty," said he was surprised to learn that his basic tenets aligned with Zoroastrianism — one of the oldest, but smallest, religions in the world.

In New York, the effort of about 1,000 Zoroastrians throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut over four years of local, national, and international fundraising secured $4.5 million to construct the Dar-e-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple, a


religious center which was completed in March. Located on Pomona Road in Suffern, New York, the temple was constructed in line with traditional Iranian architecture and draws on the fire temples constructed by Zoroastrians in India. (Fire is an important component of Zoroastrian rituals and prayers, symbolizing the divine spark or inner light of truth burning in all human hearts.)

“This temple is…a focal point…an establishment for [Zoroastrians] so we can gather around and develop our community,” Fuad Adib, a member of the Iranian Zoroastrian Association (IZA), told NBC News.

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On Thursday, the IZA, along with Iranian Zoroastrians, will recognize Tirgan, a mid-summer festival celebrating water. The day is celebrated by splashing water,reciting poetry, and dancing.

Although Tirgan is an ancient Iranian custom, Zoroastrianism also has a large following in India. Following its inception, the faith flourished as the court religion of three Persian empires from 558 B.C.E. to 652 C.E. Following, the Muslim invasion of Persia in 652 C.E., devotees fled to the western shores of India. The majority of Zoroastrians are now present in Iran and India.

Zoroastrianism is also considered to be the earliest recorded monotheistic faith. Over 3,000 years ago, the Iranian prophet Zarathustra, raised one of the deities present in Iranian theology, the Ahura Mazda, the Wise Lord, as the one supreme God. Coupled with the idea of one God, Zarathustra included the earliest mentions of a messiah, heaven and hell, and free will, all characteristics of


the Judaic, Christian, and Islamic faiths.

Man and woman praying towards a fire chalice in the The Kebla, or Fire Temple Room, at the Dar-e-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple, Suffern, NY. Mohamed Hassan / NBC News

But despite its history, followers of the faith are estimated to be 200,000 around the world — a small number, but one that has significant reach in the U.S. and abroad, from Europe to Africa to Australia. In New York, Zoroastrians preserve and share their cultural identity through ZAGNY, a nonprofit, cultural and educational organization connecting members of the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Growing up in Mumbai, Astad Clubwala, president of ZAGNY, received the religion by “osmosis” from community members and family. Today, young Zoroastrian members can learn about their faith atthe Dar-e-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple, but the sense of community Astad felt as a child is still present in ZAGNY’s actions.

ZAGNY has served as an ambassador for the Zoroastrian community at official events in the United Nations, the Persian Day Parade at New York City, and New York City Mayor’s Celebrations during Nowruz, the Iranian new year.

The Persepolis Bas Relief in the foyer of the Dar-e-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple in Suffern, NY. Mohamed Hassan / NBC News

The temple hosts four-tiers of religion classes for children as young as five years old to 14, and regularly hosts lectures for the Zoroastrian community on various aspects of living.

The Dar-e-Mehr Zoroastrian Temple, which is home to both ZAGNY and IZA, is still constantly expanding its socio-cultural programs as its community grows. Arzan Sam


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Raleigh, North Carolina(CNN) Republican and Democratic officials in North Carolina are beginning to maneuver for position in anticipation of a fierce and protracted second campaign in the state's scandal-ridden 9th Congressional District.

But as investigators examine whether election fraud was committed, there is increasing doubt over who will carry the GOP banner into the fight.

Speaking publicly for the first time in a week, Republican nominee Mark Harris confirmed to Charlotte, North Carolina's WBTV on Friday that he personally had hired Leslie McCrae Dowless, the campaign operative at the center of the fraud allegations, but said he believed the operative was following state law.

"I had no reason to think what he was doing was illegal," Harris said.

Democrats spent the week zeroing in on Harris' connection to Dowless, demanding that Harrisaddress the extent and nature of their relationship, while escalating nationwide fundraising appeals to back their own candidate, Dan McCready. Republicans took action of their own -- to nudge Harris off the stage. The GOP-controlled state Legislature passed a bill, with the support of many Democrats, that would mandate a second primary be attached to any replay of the November midterm. It is still unclear if Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who helped negotiate the measure, will ultimately sign off.

The Washington Post added to Republican worries on Thursday night, first revealing that Dowless had been brought onto the campaign at Harris' direction. On Friday, the Robeson County Republican Party called for an "immediate and open response from (the Harris) campaign."

Harris told WBTV that a local official had vouched for


"includes efforts to determine how the alleged fraudulent activity was funded and what was known by campaigns connected to this alleged activity."

For the GOP, a successful push for a new primary would mean a chance that incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger or, according to some rumors, former Gov. Pat McCrory, could win the nomination from Harris and boost the party's chances in the general election. Republican leaders have stopped short of calling on Harris to seek a legal avenue for exiting the race entirely, but one senior state GOP official told CNN the Charlotte-based pastor's odds are getting longer.

"There is a growing realization of whatever the final facts are and irrespective of their personal affection for Mr. Harris -- he is facing an insurmountable political problem that could havea major impact on the party," the official said.

Asked if he felt under attack by his own party, Harris told WBTV: "I certainly don't feel the circling of the wagons around Harris the way I see the Democrats circling the wagons around McCready."

Democrats are indeed rallying for McCready, with the Democratic National Committee, along with Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, Kamala Harris of California, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, asking supporters to donate to McCready's cause.

The GOP's campaign strategy is murkier but beginning to take shape. In interviews with CNN on Thursday, two Republican state lawmakers acknowledged the overwhelming evidence of fraud, but argued that the problems affected voters of all stripes -- and should not be


viewed through a partisan lens. The Robeson County GOP in its statement Friday cast the scandal as a bipartisan fight.

"The lack of transparency and failures extend over a decade involving multiple board of elections members, three governors administrations of both parties along with numerous agencies tasked with protecting our electoral process," Chairman Phillip Stephens wrote. "There is enough blame to go around."

There are not, however, any credible allegations of fraud or misconduct against Democrat McCready's campaign.

In response to a fundraising email sent Thursday by the North Carolina Democratic Party, which itself is seeking to frame the scandal as a swindle perpetrated by state Republicans known for "passing monstrous voter suppression laws to rigging our maps," GOP state Sen. Dan Bishop lashed out and accused Democrats of seeking toHouse Sparrows: Rapid Evolution of Races in North America.
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two games against the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets, when he was targeted a total of three times and caught all three passes for 19 yards.

But when Bills defensive back Leodis McKelvin hit Johnson on his one catch two weeks ago, Johnson crumpled to the ground immediately and left the game. Last week, Johnson had to fight off rumors that he was frustrated about his role as a decoy.

If there was a strong chance that Johnson would play this weekend against the New Orleans Saints (1 p.m., Fox) or next weekend against the Atlanta Falcons, Caldwell could have made a stronger effort to suggest that Johnson's availability was imperative.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) - Carolina Panthers owner David Tepper is doing all he can to support the West Charlotte High School basketball team to help them get to and winthe state championship.

Athletic Director John Yewicic tells FOX 46 Charlotte city councilman James Mitchell put the surprise plan into motion when he told the team this week that Tepper would be providing them with two charter buses for their trip to Raleigh as well as the team's hotel rooms Friday night.

The West Charlotte team had originally planned to drive to Raleigh Saturday morning. The Lions are scheduled to play Winterville's South Central High in the N.C. 4A State Championship game at 12 p.m. Saturday at N.C. State.

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The man being held in connection with the death of MP Jo Cox has been named as Thomas Mair, who was described as a “loner” with a history of mental health problems who had previously subscribed to a far-right magazine.

Mair, 52, who was arrested by armed officers shortly after the attack, had spoken about receiving “psychotherapy and medication”, and was described by his younger brother as having “a history of mental illness”.

Despite being born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, a decade-old website posting identified Mair as a subscriber to S. A. Patriot, a South African magazine that was published by the pro-apartheid group, the White Rhino Club.Guber Race: 2019 Is Walk-Over For Wike – Group

A political pressure group within the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Rivers State, the Forward Rivers Movement (FRM), has declared that the 2019 governorship election in the state is a walk-over for Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike.

FRM, in a statement issued in Port Harcourt on Monday by its Coordinator, Kennedy West, lauded Wike for accepting the clarion call on him by youths and entire people of the state to seek for a second term in office come 2019.

The group stated that the people of the state have absolute on the governor for transforming the state and positioning it on the path of industrialization.

The statement reads in part: “We commend Governor Nyesom Wike for accepting the clarion call of the youths and


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“Some of the laws on our books are laughable. Others have no place in a modern and democratic India,” said Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad who is leading the legislative clean-up.

Previous administrations have failed to remove obscure laws dating back to the 19th Century, either because of objections by government departments or simply a lack of will. But Modi’s officers have identified 287 obsolete laws for scrapping in a November session of parliament.

On the chopping block along with the Treasure Trove Act is an 1838 law that says property in an area of the former imperial capital of Calcutta can only be sold to the East India Company, which laid the foundations of the British Empire but ceased to exist more than 150RNC: Hillary Clinton's Book Tour a Boon for the GOP

Hillary Clinton's media blitz for her new memoir has unmasked the former secretary of state as a mediocre politician with little to offer as a presidential candidate, according to Sean Spicer, communications director for the Republican National Committee.

"I've loved this book tour. This was exactly the opposite of what they wanted,'' Spicer, referring to Clinton's tome "Hard Choices,'' said Tuesday on "The Steve Malzberg Show" on Newsmax TV.

"They thought that this was going to be a fluff tour, they get out there and talk about what a great woman she is, her accomplishments.

"What it did is it highlighted her, and it gave the American people a chance to actually see a record, or lack thereof, and the problems that


she caused, whether it's Benghazi or the various other world problems that occurred on her watch.''

Clinton has attended book signings from coast to coast and appeared on numerous TV talk shows to promote her book, which covers the years she served as President Barack Obama's secretary of state.

But Spicer believes that a lackluster performance by Clinton on that tour is a boon to Republicans

"The best thing that happened to us as Republicans, and frankly, as Americans, is that this book tour, instead of creating a positive trail for her, has actually cast a real light on the lack of accomplishment that she has as secretary of state.''

Spicer also touted the GOP's new "Fire Harry Reid'' campaign, the party hopes to use to oust the Senate majority leader.

"What isPiers says hello. He's smiling, but it's a forced smile. His eyes tell a much sadder story.

His mate was on MH17, the plane crashed in eastern Ukraine in July. 298 people died that day.

"Richard was my best friend," he begins. He takes a deep breath, then starts describing the first time he met the 20-year-old.

"I just remember this incredibly strong accent he had and this crazy chiselled jaw.''

The last time Piers saw Richard was at his 21st birthday party.

"He was sat on my right, as he wouldn't be anywhere else," he says.

"Then, I remember seeing him halfway through the night unbelievably sweaty, still looking great and throwing some serious shapes.

"I remember thinking, 'I'm going to miss this boy a lot when he goes to Australia for his year


abroad'."

The Leeds University student from Leicester was on the Malaysia Airlines flight from Amsterdam and bound for Kuala Lumpur for the start of a university placement at the University of Western Australia in Perth.

The last time Piers says he spoke to Richard was the night before he was due to leave.

"We'd been texting that week about him going and debating whether he should pack his shoes or not. He was obsessed with them," says Piers.

"It was probably the only thing I disapproved of with him, his love for his shoes.

"He hadn't packed anything at midnight that night. His dad was driving him to the airport at four that morning."

News then broke of a plane coming down over eastern Ukraine.

Piers says he was at home with his flatmates, andthe news onto all of our close friends at uni."

Piers shakes his head as he talks, still in disbelief.

"It just feels like he's forgotten to message us back, because he's too involved in making friends out there," he says.

"He's forgotten to tell us he's having such a good time.

"It's quite hard thinking that he's never going to... he's not here any more."

Richard took part in an Everest expedition in March to support a UK-based children's charity aiming to raise around £1,000. But since his death his fundraising page has received more that £14,000.

Piers is now joining some other friends to help raise money after Richard was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of eight.

Piers says they're also trying to do something which will push them to


the limit.

"I'm very disappointed I've allowed this to happen, but we've just signed up for Tough Mudder," he says.

"I am not built for that, I am tiny. Rich was built for that.

"So we've all started getting into training for that and we're going to be raising money for a diabetes charity. Richard was diabetic.

"That's why he was in Amsterdam, so he could have a stop over to monitor his diabetes and sort his injections out.

"It's horrible as diabetes never held him back. But, in the end it's one of the factors of why he's not here any more."

Richard's body was brought back to the UK on 22 August.

His funeral is taking place in Leicester on 12 September, four days after he was due to celebrate his 21st birthday.

FollowThursday, April 29, 2010

Staten Island Academy, currently celebrating its 125th Anniversary Year, is looking for a consulting project manager to undertake a modernization of the Academy’s Archives.

Primary Responsibilities would include, but may not be limited to:

o Review of archives and analysis of project need and scope

o Developing a project outline and budget

o Indexing of paper and photographic records

o Present recommendations to Academy staff for long term storage and access

o Creation / Installation of permanent storage units

o Design and creation of public display case

While the Staten Island Academy archives are not large, they do contain a wide range of materials from public and private sources, including newspapers, school publications, books, photographs and other items of historical interest.

There is a budget for this project, and volunteer assistance may be possible.

Those


interested in exploring this opportunity should contact:

Michael Barret Jones

Director of Development and Alumni Relations

Staten Island Academy

715 Todt Hill Road

Staten Island, NY 10304

mjones@statenislandacademy.org

www.statenislandacademy.org

Successful students – achieving their goals in school and in life -- are at the center of Staten Island Academy. An independent, co-ed, college prep school for Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12, the Academy provides an inspiring balance of challenge, exploration and opportunity.

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Posting Jobs onThe largest gap, which was in the middle, was a "good foot" wide, and it extended across the elevator. Photographs, including one marked as exhibit 3, showing the elevator ceiling after the incident causing Toubiana's death, were in evidence. Exhibit 3 shows a long board extending through a gap across the middle of the ceiling. The gap, as shown, could be approximately one foot wide, and *86 several metal bars adjacent to the gap appear to be bent and broken. Others appear to be bent. An employee of the defendant testified that the elevator ceiling as shown in exhibit 3 "looks like" the ceiling before the accident.
The elevator ceiling was ten feet above the floor. Toubiana and Jesdale placed a fourteen to sixteen foot long board in the


elevator. They accomplished this by putting the board up through the gap in the middle of the ceiling. They did not push aside any of the metal bars. The board was placed at an angle so that the part that protruded beyond the ceiling was directed toward a wall of the elevator shaft. In order to prevent the upper end of the board from contacting the shaft wall, Toubiana held the board away from the wall. However, as the elevator ascended, the descending elevator counterweight and the board collided. The elevator, which was automatic, was equipped with an emergency stop switch. Jesdale was on the elevator with Toubiana, but he was not stationed at the switch and, in the excitement of the moment, he did not think toemploy it. Had he done so immediately when the board and the counterweight collided, Toubiana would not have been injured. Jesdale and Toubiana, neither of whom was a licensed elevator operator, were the only persons on the elevator. The collision caused the board to bend, and then to break, with the result that Toubiana was killed by a piece of the board or a fractured piece of the elevator apparatus.
The defendant is an architect, and, as such, had some familiarity with elevators before Toubiana's accident. The defendant's office was in the building where the accident occurred and, several years earlier, the defendant had used the same elevator to move oversized timbers down from upper floors. On that occasion, he opened the elevator ceiling by removing nuts and bolts,


and then extended the timbers through the opening. The defendant knew where the counterweights on this elevator were located, and he knew that oversized timbers protruding through the center of the elevator ceiling presented a hazard and had to be carefully positioned straight up and down (at a ninety degree angle to the floor) in order to prevent them from hitting the counterweight. The defendant had used *87 freight elevators "to take things up through the ceiling" on other jobs, and he had done it carefully because he knew of the hazards.
Herbert Potter and Joseph Morrissey, called by the plaintiff, testified as expert witnesses. Potter testified that a solid elevator ceiling, which the parties stipulated would have been "feasible," is safer than grates, that an open ceiling isunsafe if improperly used, and that, as an elevator inspector, he would not have passed the elevator involved here if its ceiling had been as shown in the postaccident photographic exhibits.[3] Potter also testified that, although not legally required, at the time of the accident a "slack rope device" was available that would have prevented the accident. The elevator was not equipped with such a device.
The other expert witness, Morrissey, testified in substance as follows. Asked whether, "in a freight elevator context," he had an opinion "as to the standard of practice in the industry regarding a requirement for a roof on it," he testified over objection that it was his opinion that there "[s]hould be a solid roof, bar type, as seen in the picture on that


Britain’s first transgender family reveals son, 5, is also transitioning

Greg and Jody Rogers reveal the abuse they have received from neighbours. Picture: Daily Record

Jody and Greg Rogers have revealed the level of trolling and abuse they have received in their home town of Glasgow since they became Britain's first transgender family.

Britain's first two-generational transgender family have revealed how they have been 'shunned' since they revealed their five-year-old son is transitioning.

Jayden Rogers was born a boy and lives with step-dad Greg, 27, who was born a woman and mum, Jody, 21.

Read more: School boys to be told 'they can have periods too' in new transgender guidelines

They have suffered insults both online and at the hands of their neighbours in their home in Glasgow including even being reported to socialMusic aids development

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I’m a mother of two boys, both that have been in the Somerset band since the fourth grade. My oldest now a freshman in college at Slippery Rock University for computer science has thrived from the music program. He loved marching band! He was field conductor his senior year. He was an Honor Roll student through out all his years; I believe that music made him the young man he is today.

My youngest son is now in the eighth grade and I hope that he too can reap the benefits from the music program at Somerset. With everything going on I’m not so sure this will happen.

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Sept. 11 widow Kathy Trant has turned her Long Island home into a $2 million showcase, traveled from the Vatican to Las Vegas, blown $500,000 on shoes, and bought breast jobs for pals and even strangers.

In the 3½ years since her husband, Dan, died in the World Trade Center attacks, she has burned through nearly all the more than $5 million she received in compensation and donations. She says she treated the millions “like Monopoly money.”

The mother of three has become a self-described “shopoholic” – and her compulsive buying has left her with intense guilt, shame and sadness.

After the plane hit the north tower on Sept. 11, Dan called Kathy from the 104th floor, where the 40-year-old worked as a bond trader for Cantor Fitzgerald. He said thehot tub in the back yard.

The kitchen has white marble countertops lined with gleaming appliances she rarely uses. The floors are rich Brazilian walnut.

A red-white-and-blue den, which includes a shrine of Dan’s mementos, features four Peter Max paintings of the Statue of Liberty, which ran her $15,000. There are seven flat-screen TVs around the house. In the finished basement stands a $20,000 cherry-wood pool table.

The walls are decorated with sports memorabilia, including a Boston Celtics ball autographed by players on the team that once drafted her husband, who played professionally in Ireland.

In her master bedroom, she added a glass-enclosed fireplace that also serves the bathroom, with its claw-foot tub.

With the house makeover done, she really started to splurge.

Opening her walk-in closet, Trant said, “This is my addiction.”

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