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The group also reported it had 366,000 members and received donations from roughly 53,500 donors. The group did not respond to requests for information on donors and whether the bulk came from large contributors like the effort back by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Still, the NRA is a formidable force. Since the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., the NRA’s membership has grown to a record 5 million, according to the group’s president Wayne LaPierre. The group has also built up a veritable war chest, spending $18 million on the 2012 election.

Democrats suffered a decisive defeat in the Senate even on the compromise issue of background checks. And even if the groups on the left can change some minds in the Senate,Blessthefall – Hard Feelings (Album Review)

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If you are not on-board, no hard feelings, but Blessthefall are still prepared to rise to new heights with their sixth studio release, Hard Feelings, which arrives this Friday, March 23, 2018, thanks to Rise Records.

Blessthefall have survived quite a few of the ups and downs of the music business. Formed in 2004 in Scottsdale, Arizona, Blessthefall (who are also known under the stylization of blessthefall) have seen their fair share of line-up shake-ups – perhaps most notably with the departure of original Lead Vocalist Craig Mabbitt (now of Escape the Fate). They soldiered onward and found a voice in the superbly-talented, congenial Beau Bokan, and have gone on to release five albums throughout the past fourteen years – ranging


Alex Wolff has been set to star in The Line, a thriller in the works that will be directed by Ethan Berger in his feature narrative debut. John Malkovich, Scoot McNairy, Jessica Barden and Lewis Pullman have also joined the cast of the movie.

Lije Sarki, who won the SXSW audience award for Peanut Butter Falcon, is producing with Valparaiso Pictures’ David Carrico and Adam Paulsen. Bobby Hoppey is executive producer. A fall shooting start is being eyed.

The film, co-written by Berger and Alex Russek, is being described as a coming-of-age thriller at a university that encapsulates the wild excitement of being young and the dangers of living without fear of consequences.

“The Line will be a profoundly nuanced portrait of a young man being sucked into this seemingly glamorous,of companies engaged in providing waste management services. Many of NSWMA's members participate in the movement and disposal of waste in interstate commerce. Plaintiff asserts that its members have waste collection and disposal contracts with Minnesota public entities. Defendant Charles W. Williams is the Commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency ("MPCA"), which is the state agency formed to meet "the variety and complexity of problems relating to water, air and land pollution in the areas of the state affected thereby, and to achieve a reasonable degree of purity of water, air and land resources of the state." Minn.Stat. § 116.01. Defendant Edward Garvey is the Director of the Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance ("OEA"), which provides "technical and financial assistance for development, planning and implementation of state


"flow control" ordinance which required all residential and commercial garbage to be disposed of at an incinerator. Id. at 505. Smithtown also created a residential garbage collection district and entered into a contract with private garbage haulers to pick up all household garbage in the district. Id. Under the contractual provisions, the haulers were required to take the garbage to the incinerator. *852 Id. The SSC court invalidated the ordinance, but stated that the central question in determining whether the contract constituted market participation was whether it more closely resembled Boston's local-processing requirements in White or Alaska's local-processing requirements in South-Central Timber. The Second Circuit determined that Smithtown was a participant in waste collection and waste disposal, and that the town was spending tax dollars to pay forActor Colin Farrell has become a patron for the Irish Film Festival London.

The Golden Globe-winning star joins Room director Lenny Abrahamson and esteemed casting director Ros Hubbard as patrons of the festival.

In a statement, the 42-year-old actor said: "I am delighted to support the Irish Film Festival London and the great work that they do to champion Irish filmmakers and cinematic talent in the UK.

"They give Irish talent the crucial opportunity to be seen on screen in one of the film industry’s most important cities, and I am proud to be a part of it."

Kelly O’Connor, Founder and Programming Director at Irish Film London added: "Colin is such a warmly welcomed addition to our Irish Film London family. He has inspired a generation of Irish actors who are


currently astonishing film audiences across the globe.

"His rise to Hollywood stardom, string of career successes and magnetic charisma have made him one of Ireland’s biggest icons. He is the perfect symbol of the best of the Irish abroad; hard working, discerning and still full of Irish charm!"

Irish Film London, which is now in its eighth year, supports the promotion of Irish film and animation across the UK.

This year's festival will take place from November 21-25 at the Regent Street Cinema.

To celebrate Farrell's patronage, Irish Film London is presenting the Colin Farrell Fest: Deadly Double Bill of In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths, accompanied by a Q&A with Ros Hubbard, who first discovered the young Farrell in Dublin in 1998. The event takes place on Thursday September 20.late-January.

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and test this year's uptrend line crossing near 116.81 before the
setback off Wednesday's high is complete. Longer-term March needs to
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direction in the market.

The March Swiss Franc posted an inside day with a higher close on
Friday as it rebounded of the 38% retracement level of the
late-December rally. Closes above initial trendline resistance
crossing near .6055 would confirm a bottom and likely resumption of
December's rally.

The March Canadian Dollar closed modestly higher on Friday as it
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March corn gapped up and closed higher on Friday following today's
friendly crop production and supply/demand reports. The USDA's final
corn crop estimate came in at 9.507 billion bushels versus 9.546
billion last month. Ending stocks were estimated at 1.541 billion
bushels versus 1.569 billion in December. December 1st corn stocks
came in at 8.264 billion bushels while the trade was expecting to see
8.326 billion bushels. Ending stocks for last December were 8.518
billion bushels. The combination of lower corn production and lower
ending stocks supported today's rally as it appears that March's
decline off its December highImage copyright Reuters Image caption The censor board said it had not suggested cuts to the film

India's film censor board has cleared the release of controversial Bollywood film Padmavati, reports say.

The film, which tells the story of a 14th Century Hindu queen and a Muslim ruler, has sparked nationwide protests by Hindu and caste groups.

However the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) told local media it had not recommended any cuts.

In November, India's top court rejected an appeal by a lawyer to block the film's global release.

Padmavati tells the story of a 14th Century Hindu queen belonging to the high Rajput caste and the Muslim ruler Alauddin Khilji. Bollywood stars Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh play the lead roles.

Hindu groups and a Rajput caste organisation allege that the


movie, directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, depicts an intimate romantic scene between the two characters; the producers of the film deny this.

Although a fictional character, Padmavati is deified and held as a symbol of female honour among Rajputs.

The controversy comes amid an upsurge of Hindu nationalism under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP. Muslims and members of the Dalit caste have been murdered in "beef-lynchings", the iconic Taj Mahal has been attacked over its Muslim heritage and there have been efforts to undermine Mahatma Gandhi's standing over his dream of Hindu-Muslim unity.

The censor board said it had appointed a special board to consider protesters' concerns and said these had been "discussed at length", the Press Trust of India reported.

"The film was approached with a balanced view keepingin mind both the filmmakers and the society," a statement said.

The board said it wanted a disclaimer to be shown saying that the film did not claim historical accuracy. It also called for a second disclaimer saying that the film did not promote the practice of self-immolation by widows, outlawed in the 19th Century.

It recommended changing the film's name to Padmavat, after the 16th century epic poem of the same name.

However CBFC chairman Prasoon Joshi told NDTV that no cuts had been suggested for the film.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption There have been countrywide protests against the film

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Demonstrations in support of the film have also taken place

Rumours about a scene in the film of the Muslim king dreaming of a romantic tryst with


the Hindu queen have enraged many, including the Rajput Karnik Sena, a fringe caste group that has called for the film to be banned.

The group had disrupted shooting and one member had slapped Bhansali on the set earlier this year. Others vandalised cinemas and threatened to chop off Padukone's nose, referring to an incident in another epic, Ramayana, where a character has her nose cut off as punishment.

The group also held protests against the film in several states and Rajput community members have burned effigies of Bhansali.development; and electing progressives to public office and then holding them accountable.

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process. — Rick Scott (@ScottforFlorida) November 14, 2018

The announcement comes amid a highly contested battle for the Senate seat of Nelson, the incumbent Democrat, with multiple lawsuits and a recount keeping the results of the election in limbo.

CNN has not projected a winner in the race, but Scott led Nelson by fewer than 13,000 votes in unofficial results before the recount started.

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Byiome “I-Octane” Muir is a son of Clarendon. The 22-year-old Taurus grew up in sandy bay, attended the Palmers Cross All Age, before moving on to Garvey Maceo High School. He then furthered his education at the Knox Community College.
I- Octane excelled in the sciences at school, but the pulsating and persistent call of music
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Known as a fiery deejay armed with spit-fire lyrics and cutting rhythms to fit any occasion
While being a regular feature of school concerts and barbecues at Knox, he was constantly bombarded by requests from friends to dive head-on into the music business.
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one of his
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Listening to the producer, and thinking about the words of his friends, I-Octane began to give serious thought to getting deeper with music. He assessed his strengths, and summed up that he had above average talent. With that in mind, he made the decision.
He then chose a name that would represent the high energy and consistent work which he put into his music. He then modified the “High Octane” gasoline concept to become I-Octane.
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Effects of central opiate and serotoninergic structures on heart rhythm during acute myocardial ischemia.
Electrostimulation of the central gray matter in the sylvian aqueduct and nucleus raphe magnus produced an antiarrhythmic effect during acute myocardial ischemia. Stimulation and blockade of opiate receptors in the central amygdaloid nucleus and lateral hypothalamus with dalargin and naloxone induced the same effect. Destruction of the central gray matter in the sylvian aqueduct and nucleus raphe magnus decreased electrical stability of ischemic myocardium.2019

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Southern Rail have earned some rare social media praise after letting a work experience teenager take over its official Twitter account.

The beleaguered train network, which has faced widespread criticism as strikes resulted in severe disruption and rail cancellations earlier this year, put a 15-year-old boy called Eddie in charge of its social media.

The teenager quickly became a social media sensation, after his quick witted responses won over Twitter users who began asking him questions using the hastag #AskEddie.

On Wednesday morning Southern Rail announced that Eddie was taking the reigns of the company's Twitter account once again, as they released a photograph of Eddie at work.taxes and state
expenditures; 27. rewards and punishments; 28. death.

A mere comparison of the chapters in terms of their size is revealing:
The longest chapter by far is the tenth, concerning property, followed
by the chapter on taxes and state expenditures and the chapter on
rewards and punishments. From this it is clear that the unequal
division of possessions was Bolzano's greatest concern; it was
for him the main root of evil, which was to be removed by means of a
just redistribution. Bolzano, however, does not rush in with
suggestions for redistribution, but rather carefully prepares
them.

First of all, he expounds on how his best state is divided up into
smaller societies — primarily into countries — or built up
from them. The countries again consist in an association of districts,
these in an association of communities, which are


for equal wages, especially also for heavy labor
(Bolzano 1932, 80, 103 f.), for equal distribution of profit, for
according equal legal status to illegitimate children (Bolzano 1932,
101), etc.

Bringing about a certain equality regarding the rights and duties of
citizens is an important concern for Bolzano. How little Bolzano cares
for the principle of liberty, however, becomes manifest already by the
fact that the chapter on liberty is the second shortest chapter in his
booklet (the shortest being the one on travelling). Liberty is fully
subordinated by him to his supreme moral law: The limitation of
personal liberty, according to Bolzano, is permissible always when
(though certainly only when) the general welfare is advanced more than
it is harmed thereby. In this way Bolzano gives the state all kinds of
means of limiting personal freedom in every conceivable manner.135 f.).

From these few examples it can be clearly seen what political
explosiveness there was in Bolzano's views. Bolzano was fully aware of
the fact that such views will evoke or at least intensify the
discontent and the revolutionary spirit in the population. A
revolution, however, was for Bolzano a “red flag”. He was
dismayed at the atrocities that resulted as consequences of the French
Revolution and at the unhappiness that fell upon many people due to
this revolution. (Marian Mika, who had a great influence on Bolzano
with regard to religious questions as pointed out in section 1, had
published in 1794 and 1797 two volumes with sermons in which he warned
against dangers and condemned misfortunes caused by the French
Revolution.) From fear of such consequences, Bolzano rejected
revolution of every kind and wanted to avoid everything that


might
lead to a radical overthrow or even only prepared the way for
this. Instead, he was in favor of gradual and peaceful implementation
of necessary reforms (Bolzano 1932, IV). For this reason, Bolzano did
not want his manuscript On the Best State to be published in
his lifetime, but only when the time for it was ripe. A first draft of
the work was already sketched around the year 1810 (Hoffmann 1850,
10), and the manuscript was completed at least in a preliminary
version around the year 1831. (On the question of dating the
manuscript, cf. Arnold Kowalewski in his introduction to Bolzano
1932, XXII–XXVI.) The booklet circulated subsequently during
Bolzano's lifetime only in form of the manuscript and copies of it. It
appeared in print for the first time hundred years later, namely in
1932; due to a lackVern Schillinger

played by J.K. Simmons

Character Bio

Season 6

It'a payback time for Vern when he's finally released from Solitary. He continues to treat Robson as an outcast since Robson's banishment from the brotherhood. What's worse, Winthrop has now become Vern's new disciple. Vern gives Winthrop the go-ahead to kill Beecher's father, which Vern feels he owes Beecher for ratting on him. Later, Vern signs up for Hamlet and gets the lead role. When his scene with Beecher comes up, he continues his role playing. Although Vern's prepared for the death scene, he's shocked when he realizes Beecher has used a real knife to stab him. Vern falls to the floor and dies.

Season 5

The bus accident claimed the life of Carrie Schillinger but not that of Schillinger's granddaughter Jewel. However, hope


of him ever seeing the baby again diminished when Carrie's family adopts her. When it's leaked that Robson's bad gums were replaced with those of a black person, Schillinger has Robson outcast from the Brotherhood. He also began attending interaction sessions with Beecher and Said. At first Schillinger would become defensive and evasive when the discussion would turn to him. Soon, Schillinger admits to brutalizing Beecher and asks his forgiveness. When new inmate Winthrop arrives, Schillinger returns to his old ways by immediately raping him. Schillinger then sets his sights on Winthrop's buddy Guenzel and agrees to let Beecher deliver mail to see Keller only if Beecher agrees to turn Guenzel over to Schillinger. Beecher does and Guenzel is transferred to gen pop where he's immediately brutalized bySchillinger. During one of their interaction sessions, Sister Pete attempts to get information from Schillinger, Beecher and Said about what Guenzel. When none of them responds, she angrily promises to get to the truth and this worries Schillinger. He immediately goes and pretends to help Guenzel escape only Guenzel gets electrocuted in the process. After this Beecher confesses to Sister Pete, Schillinger's reign of violence, coercion and terror on himself and Guenzel. This confession prompts a trial and Glynn has Schillinger tossed into solitary indefinitely.

Season 4 Part 2

Family ties bind Schillinger in some twisted ways. As the season unfolds, Schillinger discovers that Hank's girlfriend is pregnant. Vern's happy at the prospect of a grandchild and soon turns to Rev. Cloutier for spiritual guidance and, he begins attending victim/offender


interaction sessions with Beecher and Sister Pete. But things turn for the worse when another inmate warns him that the kid may not be Hank's. Furious Schillinger submits to blood testing to confirm the parentage. Next, he finds out that Hank's dead and he flies into a rage taking his anger out on Beecher. His daughter-in-law goes into labor while visiting Vern. As a final torment, Vern learns from Robson that Beecher's up for parole. Once he discovers that Beecher's parole's been denied, he taunts him in the library only, Said appears and stabs Schillinger.

Season 4 Part 1

Vern's happy when is son Hank appears, but he soon discovers it was Beecher who made the arrangements so now, Vern devises a plan to beat Beecher at his own game.Vern has Hank to kidnap Beecher's kids, and soon a mystery package containing a child's hand arrives for Beecher. Vern claims to know nothing about this when an investigator interrogates him. To make it worse, Vern orders to Hank kill Beecher's son. Father Mukada comes to Vern to plead with him to spare Beecher's daughter's life. Although Vern continues to claim indifference to the situation, he ends up making a secret phone call to Hank ordering him to release the girl to Beecher's parents. Meanwhile, to further upset Beecher, Vern has Rabitz tell Beecher that Keller's responsible for Beecher's son's death. When Beecher believes him, Vern's happy. However, what goes around always comes around as Beecher learns that Schillinger ordered Beecher's son murdered. Beecher pays Pancamo to have


Hank whacked. When Vern doesn't hear from Hank, he assumes that Hank has gone to Florida, only the truth is more shocking than that.

Season 3

Just plain evil! While Vern continues haunting and harassing Cyril, he also becomes the victim of an attack, but ends up okay. Vern gets a family visit when his heroin addicted son Andy ends up in Oz after being convicted for killing a black man. Vern despises his son for being an addict, but what really drives him mad is that Andy and Beecher have become friends. After Beecher suggests to Vern that he and Andy could get even closer, Vern gets livid. Vern confronts Andy during lunch and they end up in a fight that gets Andy thrown in the hole. While there,only to be rebuked by Said. Soon, Vern's dad tells him he's kicked Vern's sons out of his house, and Schillinger pleads to have them found. Schillinger conspires with Keller to manipulate Beecher into thinking that Keller's in his corner only to deliver a horrible beating to Beecher.

Season 1

Vern's an Aryan for life who uses intimidation to keep his powerful leadership in tact. Acting on new inmate Beecher's frailty, Vern convinces Beecher to move into his pod. Once done, Vern begins his reign of horrid intimidation over Beecher by forcing Beecher to submit to a host of horrible acts. Beecher, having turned to drugs to cope, lashes out at Vern by throwing a chair through the window of their pod. The glass cuts Vern's eye but infuritates him.


to vandalize the property.

Roderick allegedly used a lawn chair to smash a window, which also resulted in damage to the doorframe and its locking mechanism. The chair itself was demolished, police said.

The victim told police the SUV is registered under his name and that he allows his son-in-law and daughter to use it with the understanding that they foot the insurance bill.

Woman tries to help lost homing pigeon

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - Blown off course or lost on what was apparently a 600-mile flight, the pilot made an emergency landing on the sidewalk outside a local day spa. That's where, three days ago, Danielle Bucchieri found the aviator - a brightly colored pigeon.

Page 2 of 2 - Struck by the blue identification band around the bird's leg and its lackof fear, Bucchieri took it home.

She has since traced the bird to a Rhode Island club that races pigeons - most recently from Sandusky, Ohio, back to their homes in New England. But she's still searching for the bird's rightful owner.

"I figure we'll just keep her here until she finds her home," Bucchieri said.

Bucchieri, a day spa manager and esthetician, said the pigeon seemed depressed - slumped over, its head down.

"I was just concerned if she wandered into the parking lot or some mean-spirited kids came along ... she clearly wasn't afraid of people," she said. "She clearly wasn't a wild bird."

So Bucchieri scooped up the bird and carried it inside. Few of her co-workers batted an eye.

"I've rescued other birds and animals before," she said. "So they


City Attorney Will Not Press Charges Against Westlake Security Guard Who Pepper Sprayed Raymond Wilford

Alex Garland

Will the pepper-spraying Westlake Center security guard—the one who sprayed a black man in the face, instead of dealing with the shirtless white man who protesters said was yelling racial epithets and instigating fights on August 9 outside the downtown shopping center—be punished?

Not by the Seattle City Attorney's office, which has decided not to charge him with assault.

"He appears to have discharged the pepper spray in self-defense," said spokesperson Kimberly Mills in an e-mail on Wednesday.

Raymond Wilford, reached by phone in South Seattle, where he lives, said sarcastically: "Justice's been served, again." He added: "They say the law works for who it wants to."

Wilford said city investigators never contacted him. "I'm very disappointed,"provided by Mills via e-mail, "A pedestrian apparently not involved in the protest [Wilford] confronted the suspect [the shirtless white man] and, according to the security guard, shoulder-checked [the shirtless white man] in the back and spit on him."

Wilford, witnesses I interviewed, and Alex Garland, a local photographer who caught the incident on camera, said the opposite was true—that the shirtless white man, who everyone I interviewed agrees was picking fights and shouting racial slurs, spat at Wilford and may have bumped into him.

"I guess I'm just randomly walking through shoulder-checking people and spitting on 'em?" Wilford asked. He said he was on his way into the mall, with headphones on. "I don't see why I would do that."

According to Wilford, the shirtless white man—whom the city was


guy hadn't walked off when the pepper spray was used."

Alex Garland

According to the city attorney, with the shirtless white man gone, Wilford "directed his aggression toward the security guard by yelling profanities and advancing on him with clenched fists."

Wilford said that's not true. "You can see the difference between when I was about to fight and when I was just standing there," he told me. He said he took a step forward, but only because he couldn't hear what the security guard was saying.

Garland's photos show that Wilford was standing next to the white man, with his arms at his side, when he is sprayed in the face. The guard led Wilford into the mall, stopping briefly to handcuff him as protesters shouted, "You maced the wrong guy!"

Michaelthe quoting system by Flom for use by its mutual and distribution to its agents.
Ward's message also outlined the technical requirements for the quoting system but made no mention of marketing it to other companies.
The prototype furnished by Scott in February was met with enthusiasm by Ward but required substantial revision to meet Flom's needs. Scott reportedly made the revisions in the hope of future rewards. A version submitted in May 1997 was likewise received with enthusiasm but also found wanting in the details. According to Scott, however, he was led to believe that he and Grinnell were "close" to achieving the desired product, a milestone that prompted Scott and Ward to discuss future marketing strategies in some detail. Scott then submitted written proposals for future compensation


joint ownership of the program with fixed compensation for Scott of $120,000 plus additional bonuses depending on sales  but received no response, positive or negative, from Ward.
Despite continued work on the program over the summer, Scott was never quite able to satisfy Flom's programming needs. Scott described the situation as working on a "moving target." Ward, meanwhile, complained that the programs submitted for trial by Flom could not be successfully operated. After each unsuccessful demonstration, Ward would submit a list of needed revisions to Scott.
In August, when Ward expressed uncertainty concerning the future of the program, Scott retained legal counsel. His lawyer wrote to Ward in September, expressing Scott's desire to be fairly compensated for his time and effort. Ward replied that "[u]pon completion of the listedto expect stuff to happen, and it's happening. The curtailment of the internet, the putdown and protests.

And what we saw, the protesters in the street today are women, mostly older people who are -- a million driven out of their homes-- to make room for the plush hotels that westerners will be staying in, and athletes will be staying in.

That's what happens in a command economy, in a command society that's run by Leninists. So you have got to expect that.

But look, this is a political event. When the Olympics were given to countries like Italy, Japan, and Germany in the 60's and 70's, it was a way to welcome them back into the international community after the second World War.

It's also a way of anointing a country


558 S.E.2d 426 (2001)
253 Ga. App. 207
JOHNS
v.
The STATE.
No. A01A2192.
Court of Appeals of Georgia.
December 12, 2001.
Reconsideration Denied January 10, 2002.
*427 David A. Fowler, LaGrange, for appellant.
Peter J. Skandalakis, Dist. Atty., Rudjard M. Hayes, Robert N. Peterkin, Asst. Dist. Attys., for appellee.
JOHNSON, Presiding Judge.
A jury found Howard Johns III guilty of two counts of child molestation, one count of aggravated child molestation, and one count of cruelty to children. Because each of Johns' enumerations of error lacks merit, we affirm his convictions.
Viewed in a light most favorable to support the jury's verdict, the evidence shows that Johns, the eight-year-old victim's uncle, tried to put his penis in the victim's vagina, but was unsuccessful. He then put his penis in her mouth and ejaculated in it. On a later date, Johns"licked [the victim's] front private" and tried to put his finger in her vagina. Subsequently, the victim told her grandmother about the sexual abuse, and the grandmother reported it to the police. According to the victim, she did not report the abuse earlier because Johns told her he would "hang me up and shoot me in my head."
1. Johns contends the trial court erred in admitting his second degree rape conviction as similar transaction evidence. We disagree.
The record shows that the state offered evidence of Johns' conviction in Alabama of rape in the second degree, the equivalent of statutory rape in Georgia, to show his bent of mind and lustful disposition. The investigator of the prior crime identified Johns as the individual who engaged in sexual intercourse with


What's happening with Sony Japan's The Last Guardian?

Last we heard it was still coming out for the PlayStation 3 - the platform it was announced for launch on four years ago in 2009 - but, according to Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida, there were "certain technical issues" the development team was struggling with.

The Last Guardian's AWOL nature has sparked speculation that it has either been cancelled or shifted to the PlayStation 4, but today fresh speculation has linked it back to the PS3.

The Entertainment Software Association's official E3 website, E3 Insider, lists The Last Guardian as making an appearance at next week's show and is down as a PS3 title.

The listing may simply be the result of an administration error, and Sony poured cold water on it thisTexas Parks and Wildlife CommissionCommission Meeting

March 26, 2009

BE IT REMEMBERED, that heretofore on the 26th day of March, 2009, there came to be heard matters under the regulatory authority of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission in the Commission Hearing Room of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Headquarters Complex, to wit:

APPEARANCES:

THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE COMMISSION:

Peter M. Holt, San Antonio, Texas, Chairman

T. Dan Friedkin, Houston, Texas, Vice Chairman

Mark E. Bivins, Amarillo, Texas

J. Robert Brown, El Paso, Texas (Absent)

Ralph H. Duggins, Fort Worth, Texas

Antonio Falcon, MD, Rio Grande City, Texas

Karen J. Hixon, San Antonio, Texas

Margaret Martin, Boerne, Texas

THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT:

Carter P. Smith, Executive Director, and other personnel of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Donations of $500 or more not Previously Acknowledged by the Commission for


and for those of you who know him, you know he is an exemplary scientist and a very dedicated and accomplished outreach and education professional who puts his science skills into practice helping to introduce youth into the wonders and magic, particularly of our marine world.

He got his start there in Rockport as a Fish and Wildlife technician, and worked his way up to the project leader at San Antonio Bay. Headed up the Perry Bass Research Center, our blue crab team. Very involved in helping to put in place good solid management strategies to protect our blue crab and shrimp. He worked very closely with the legal division when the Agency was sued by the shrimping industry to help provide all of the documentation that was necessarya couple of weeks ago, we were there at an outreach deal, and he had his collection of seashells that he has collected over the decades. And the kids were just mesmerized. And so Paul is a great ambassador on behalf of this Agency.

He recently took a trip to China to help talk to folks over there about fisheries management. And so let's celebrate his 35 years of service. Paul Hammerschmidt.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: We have got another one here with three decades of service, Roger Shelton. Roger is our regional law enforcement specialist for our state parks region, which extends all the way from Government Canyon, and the Guadalupe River, all the way over to Tyler State Park. And so he has his hands full on the law enforcement


side in state parks.

He started off as a seasonal ranger there at San Jacinto. He worked at Varner-Hogg. Eventually was promoted to the assistant superintendent there at Bastrop State Park. And then when we complexed Bastrop and Buescher State Parks, he took on responsibility overseeing all of that. He and his wife raised their two kids on those two parks.

And so grew them and raised them in the parks, and is now responsible for all of our law enforcement operations in the region. And so please join me in congratulating Roger Shelton, 30 years of service to this Agency. Roger.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: The next individual we are going to recognize is Sofie Johnson. And she is a program specialist in infrastructure. Has been with us for 25 years. Startedof service to this Agency.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: The next individual that we are going to recognize for 25 years of service is Loraine Fries. And Loraine is one of our scientists in Inland Fisheries. She was responsible for setting up our genetics lab there in San Marcos, and the wildlife forensics lab there. She is a very noted scientist, has published extensively. Has really transformed that genetics lab into the envy of fisheries management agencies throughout the country.

She has been very instrumental too, in helping to develop research to address problems in largemouth bass, largemouth bass virus, golden algae issues that we face in places like the Pecos River, or at our hatcheries, which is a major problem. And she has been recognized inside this Agency several times for


her leadership, and her innovation, and we are very, very proud to have her with us. So Loraine Fries, 25 years of service.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: We have got a class of game wardens that we are going to now recognize for their 25 years of service. And we are going to start out with one who was raised in the hills of Edwards County. He is a third-generation game warden. Jay Guthrie, his grandfather was a game warden back in the '50s and '60s. He is the grandson and great-grandson, and maybe the great-great-grandson of an Edwards County ranching family.

They have got a beautiful place on the Llano River just north of Rocksprings. Jay followed in the footsteps of both his grandfather and father. When he got out ofof cake, and he was gently rebuffed, then rather firmly rebuffed, Craig marched in and introduced himself as a highly decorated veteran officer, and he thought the Executive Office owed law enforcement, in particular him, at least a piece of cake. Pete, I want you to know that.

So Craig has had a very long and distinguished career inside this Agency. And started out obviously as a cadet. The story that you hear from his classmates, apparently, the first night, they had had a long day, and they were in their bunks. And Craig had drawn the black bean and was on the top bunk. And Henry Leal who is in Laredo was on the bottom bunk.

And sometime at midnight, a couple of the wardens woke up and they


heard this rustling. And Henry turned on his flashlight, and under his bed was Craig Hunter. And Craig was sort of rooting around. You have to remember, Craig was a detective, and he had a lot of experience with Bell County, and Henry was a young cadet. And you know, he very politely asked, Mr. Hunter, what is it that you are doing under my bed? And Craig said, Hush, Henry, I am trying to find my candy bar.

He has made a very, very strong impression on all of his wardens since then. Craig, in all seriousness, Craig has had a very illustrious career with this Agency. He started out there in Conroe, worked his way up to a Lieutenant position there in Mount Pleasant, then was transferredover to Austin, in which he was promoted to Captain of Internal Affairs, and responsible for really creating the Commissioner and Executive protection team that works to help ensure your safety and security while you are here, and has just done a remarkable job with that.

Craig was our first game warden that was selected to attend the FBI National Academy by the Department of Justice, and he has been very involved in the advisory board with the National Academy, or the FBI Academy there. He is on the Governor Special Operations Group, representing the Agency. He serves on the Governor's Homeland Security Counsel.

He is also responsible for leading a very complicated multifaceted agency working with Pete and Scott and all of the rest of the team. And so,


meet. And Albert went through the academy with Craig and Jay and a few others that you will be introduced to shortly.

When he graduated, he was stationed up in Freestone County. And then came down to Houston, and then was sent up to Dallas. And very involved in a joint federal operation and a major law enforcement success, on stopping a poaching ring up there at Lake Texoma, on the Red River. Albert moved back to Houston, and then over to Beaumont, where he was promoted to captain, transferred back to Houston, where he heads up our operations there in Harris County.

And he leads a very busy team. Game wardens in urban areas are busy with a lot of different things, and Albert was just the consummate professional.Arthur. Worked hard on all of those coastal issues that you all are so familiar with, from shrimping and fishing and commercial fishing, and waterfowl hunting. He got all of the salt air that he could stand.

And ended up moving to Stephenville, in Erath County, where has been there for some time. It is his home place. He has been there now for 25 years, and says he plans to retire there. And so let's celebrate his 25 years of work on behalf of this Agency. Tony Navarro. Tony.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: The next Game Warden that we are going to recognize for 25 years of service is John Russell. Again, going to the Academy with this group. After he graduated, was stationed there in Lubbock, on the High Plains.


He transferred over to Conroe. From there, he was over in Wichita Falls, and then moved over to Breckenridge, where he has been there since 1997.

He got a law enforcement degree from Sam Houston State. He is certified by TCLEOSE which is the Commission on Law Enforcement Standards. He is an instructor on a host of different law enforcement tools. He has been a great officer on behalf of this Agency. And let's recognize him for 25 years of wonderful service to our Law Enforcement Division.

John, please come forward.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: The last one standing in this very illustrious class is Steve Whitaker. And if you ever go to West Texas, let me assure you, you want Steve Whitaker on your side. Steve is our Major in Far WestTexas. Graduate of Sul Ross.

When he got out of the Academy, he was stationed there in Van Horn where he was there for 18 years, and developed some wonderful lifelong relationships with ranchers who still speak very highly of Steve, and think the world of him. He was a Captain in Alpine and then he was transferred over to San Angelo to take the Major job in West Texas, whereas he wrote in his bio, he had to clean up the mess from the last Major. The last Major was Pete Flores, by the way.

And Steve wrote facetiously that he hopes he still has his job after that little line. Steve is a wonderful man.

Steve, please come forward. Steve Whitaker.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: We are now going to recognize Carl


Orbison out of Tyler for 25 years with our State Parks Division. And Carl started as one of our regional maintenance specialists. Very involved in helping to build a number of our East Texas parks there, including Lake Bob Sandlin and Cedar Hill, Cooper Lake, Martin Creek.

He was responsible for helping to develop kind of the first over-arching park safety program for that division. Worked on that for the Agency as a whole. I first had the chance to meet Carl when we was working on the Civilian Conservation Corp volunteers that worked on behalf of the Agency and the country, back during the Great Depression.

And Carl and Janelle Taylor have been very instrumental in working with those survivors, collecting oral histories from their times, and the CCC,hired him. Started out there at the Dundee Fish Hatchery in Electra, and was very involved in setting up our first golden algae task force. Again, a problem that has had a major impact on our hatcheries. A wonderful scientist. Again, he has been with us for 20 years. Aaron Barkoh. Aaron, please come forward.

(Applause.)

MR. SMITH: I think as all of you know, we have got eight fish hatcheries around the state. And one of them is there at Possum Kingdom, a little community in Graford. And Gerald Kurten is our manager there. Had a long history as a hatchery biologist with the Agency. While he was working on his master's at Texas State, he worked at the fish hatchery there in San Marcos. He worked at the


seasonal worker at Mission San Jose State Historical Park. She said she would do it until she found something better. Twenty years later, she hasn't left.

Leah has had a great career in the State Park System. Worked at a host of different parks; at Guadalupe River, including over here at McKinney Falls. She was our superintendent there at Goliad, very involved in a lot of the battlegrounds and the preservation of that. Very important time in our history. Recently decided to move to Mother Neff State Park there west of Waco, on the Leon River, a park that some of you may or may not know, suffered a lot of flooding from the river being backed up by the dam there at Lake Belton.

And she is going toan entertainer he was.

The National Wild Turkey Federation is proud to be represented here today in this ceremony of recognition, for some of the most important people in our outdoor industry. As Texas President of the National Wild Turkey Federation, when I think of the title, Officer of the Year, I am reminded that not only does the National Wild Turkey Federation want to recognize a most deserving Texas officer, but that officer also represents the other fine men in uniform that protect our wildlife and make sure that our game laws are observed every day.

About four weeks ago in Nashville, Tennessee, I had the privilege of spending a weekend with one of Texas' finest. The NWTF was proud to have Officer Tracy Large and his wife Carol


their sons, Adam and Alex, and Arthur, and their family who have come in from the Piney Woods and their extended family all here on the second row. As you know, Barbara was a long-standing presence by Commissioner Parker's side at every one of these Commission meetings.

And it feels awfully good to have you back in this room, I want you to know.

"Whereas in November, 2003, John D. Parker of Lufkin, Texas, was appointed by Governor Rick Perry to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission;

"And whereas Commissioner Parker served as a Texas Parks and Wildlife Commissioner, and as Chairman of the Commission's Ad Hoc Infrastructure Committee until the date of his death on January 26, 2009;

"Whereas Commissioner Parker deeply loved wildlife, the out-of-doors, and was a tireless championfor the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, and was particularly passionate about ensuring that all Texans, young and old, were given an opportunity to enjoy the out-of-doors through fishing, hunting, shooting sports, or visiting a state park;

"And whereas Commissioner Parker's devotion to the Parks and Wildlife Department was constantly on display, whether he was advocating for marine resources in the Gulf of Mexico, for additional funding for state parks, or for introducing shooting sports to Texas schools;

"Whereas among Commissioner Parker's many passions was the campaign to bring a new freshwater fish hatchery to his beloved East Texas.

"And now therefore, be it resolved that the new East Texas Fish Hatchery currently under construction in Jasper County, Texas, is hereby named the John D. Parker East Texas State Fish Hatchery."

And


been depleted in many areas of the country.

Numerous states have joined forces through the American Fisheries Society to combine their data sets, and discuss options for management to ensure the viability of the species and to help maintain these valuable fisheries. Alligator gar have been listed as a species of concern in two states, in Oklahoma and Kentucky. Populations have already been extirpated in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio.

And the species was recently listed as vulnerable by the American Fisheries Society's Endangered Fishes Committee. Several southern states have adopted fishing regulations for alligator gar. We have contacted all these states, and most states enacted these regulations in response to declining populations and shrinking range.

Some states, like the states of Oklahoma and Arkansas are concerned also aboutthat have a 16-day whitetail deer season. And this happens to overlap our mule deer season. So staff proposed to make this season consistent with the rest of the general season in Texas, excluding South Texas.

And just to clarify, this was included in the other slides, that would result in a full general season, one-buck, two-antlerless bag limit. Full season, either sex. And that was permit only in that area. We have a couple of seasons that run late in the year, after the close of the general season. There in the central part of the state, central and southern part of the state, we have a late antlerless and spike season, where hunters can take antlerless and spike deer by modern firearms.

That season begins the Monday after


years, as well as significant reduction in shrimping effort due to the license buyback program, the flounder stock has continued to decrease for decades. CCA feels that it is time to put some regulations in place that are going to make a significant impact, and help get this valuable fishery back to historical levels.

"CCA Texas board of directors unanimously voted to ask the Commission to implement and complete gigging closure for both recreational and commercial fishermen for the months of October, November and December. Additionally, we ask that the bag limits for both groups be reduced by half, with possession limits reflecting a one-day bag limit and minimum size remaining at 14 inches.

"According to the recent status of flounder, the southern flounder population in Texas report prepared byweekends in January in lieu of the wasted 10 weekdays while the kids are at school.

And about the four Doe Days proposed for Henderson and surrounding counties, you know, at first, I jumped at the thought. But the more I spoke with managers of these large hunting properties and leases, I see their arguments about small surrounding tracts bringing in their uncles and aunts and brothers and sisters all to come shoot those does. They could wipe out the population. I believe that to be true.

However, I truly believe that a landowner that has five, 10 or 15 acres in the country, and sees doe after doe crossing his back pasture every afternoon, he should be able to take one of those does to fill his freezer and


eastern Cameron County, which is right next to South Padre Island. And then the other one is a county just north of there. And both populations are likely 20 to 30 individuals.

During the 1800s one of the hobbies was collecting cat reports of jaguars and ocelots back from the 1800s. And there are a number of reports of leopard cats from 1820 to 1860 that cover throughout much of Central and East Texas particularly along the riparian areas and the rivers there. But over time, as the settlement of eastern Texas has occurred, the range constriction has reduced down to the very southern tip of Texas. And that has happened in a fairly rapid period of time.

And these are the two populations that you can see that areto Number 10. Item Number 10, briefing, National Boating Safety Advisory Council.

Major Al Campos. Al.

MR. CAMPOS: Good afternoon, Commissioners. Mr. Chairman. My briefing item is on the National Boating Safety Advisory Council commonly called BSAC for Boating Safety Advisory Council. It was established by the Federal Boat Safety Act of 1971. And the Council itself consists of 21 persons drawn equally from state officials, boating industry officials, and representatives of the general public or National Boating Safety organizations.

The Secretary of Homeland Security appoints council members. I was appointed by then Secretary Michael Chertoff in 2005. The Council generally advises or provides advice to Congress and to the U.S. Coast Guard on a broad range of boating safety issues, in an effort to reduce boating accidents and fatalities. The


At the invitation of US Secretary of State John Kerry, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will pay an official visit to the US from February 23 to 25. The two sides will discuss China-US relations as well as international and regional issues of common interest.

At the invitation of the Foreign Ministry, Secretary General Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes of the Organization of American States (OAS) will pay an official visit to China from February 28 to March 2.

Q: Can you give us more details about the visit by Foreign Minister Wang Yi? What will be discussed by the two sides during the visit? What is China's expectation for the visit?

A: During his visit to the US, Foreign Minister Wang Yi will have an in-depth exchange of views with US Secretaryissue be a key topic of discussion during Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to the US? Second, how will the Chinese side communicate with the US and the ROK about the possible deployment of the THAAD system by the US in the ROK?

A: On your first question, China and the US are in close communication and coordination on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue. It is believed that during Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to the US, the two sides will continue with their in-depth discussions on that.

China's stance on the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue is clear. We stay committed to realizing denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, upholding peace and stability there and peacefully resolving the issue through dialogues and negotiations. In response to the nuclear test and satellite


worried that the UK may leave the EU?

A: We have noted the agreement between the UK and the EU. The Chinese side supports the European integration process and would like to see Europe play a bigger role in international affairs.

Q: The US has been accusing China of pursuing militarization in the South China Sea by deploying missiles on Yongxing Dao which raised tensions there especially at the current time and stage. But we also noted that at the daily press briefing of the US State Department, the US media questioned US navy's so-called freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea. What is China's comment on that?

A: The US has recently made quite a lot of remarks about militarization. It is actually trying to confuse the public.There is no difference between China's deployment of necessary national defense facilities on its own territory and the defense installation by the US in Hawaii. US vessels and planes have long been conducting close-up surveillance against countries in the region, the frequency of which increases year by year. It has intensified tensions in the South China Sea, and is most likely to cause militarization in the South China Sea. We hope that the US would not confuse right and wrong on this issue, still less play up and create tensions in the region. We urge the US to play a constructive role for regional peace and stability.

Q: The regional election in Taiwan at the beginning of this year has led to changes of the political landscape in Taiwan.


of Jim Morrison lead singer of the celebrated 1960s rock group The Doors. It traces the groups road to success from their first rehearsal sessions through to their sell-out live ...

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This 4 foot (48) lighting board is ideal for placing on the back of cycles and other bulky objects which cover the existing lights when towing or touring.The 2 light clusters each contain a brakelight, an indicator light and a warning reflector t

Own all four action packed Bourne films in this new collection, now including Ultraviolet, so that you can grab all the action and all the thrills, anytime, anywhere. The Bourne Identity Racing to unlock the secret of his own identity, amnesiac operative Jason Bourne discovers the deadly truth: hes the governments number one target, a $30 million weapon it no longer trusts. Academy Award winner

Prince Albert started it all: the British tradition of decorating fir trees at Christmas time. In 1840 he married Victoria – well, strictly speaking she married him. Victoria was the queen, Albert a minor German prince and protocol had to be observed. But anyway, on their first Christmas together they had three huge trees in Buckingham


 At a hearing on Gay’s Plea in Intervention, Whitten acknowledged his impartiality

had been compromised and refused to issue a decision without a court order. Despite

his suggestion to use a replacement arbitrator, on April 8, 2010, the trial court orally

ordered Whitten to issue a ruling. Whitten did not rule, and on June 18, 2010, the trial

court entered a written order directing him to render a written decision on liability and

render a schedule for discovery, testimony and other matters within fourteen days. He

was ordered to render a written award within sixty days. Sims objected to the written

order on the basis the court was replacing agreements and deadlines entered into by

the parties in the Proposed Arbitration Guidelines. On August 10, 2010, approximately

nineteen months after the initial, agreed-to deadline, Whitten issuedduties on Plaintiffs' entries pursuant to an antidumping order which was invalidated, with regard to Plaintiffs, by the Court's decision in Rhodia, Inc. v. United States, 26 CIT ___, 240 F.Supp.2d 1247 (2002) ("Rhodia II"). Specifically, Commerce instructed Customs to impose antidumping duties on entries made prior to the Court's decision in Rhodia II but which remained unliquidated as of the date of the "Timken" notice of that order.[3]
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Court's decision in Rhodia II on October 14, 2003. See Stmt of Relevant Agreed-Upon Facts para. 9 ("Jt.Stmt").
The administrative background of this dispute dates to May 25, 2000, when Commerce published notice of the final determination in Bulk Aspirin from the People's Republic of China, 65 Fed.Reg. 33,805 (Dep't Commerce


of court decision and suspension of liquidation) ("the Timken notice").
In addition, during the pendency of the two Rhodia cases, Jilin participated in two administrative reviews of the dumping order on bulk aspirin from the People's Republic of China. See Jt. Stmt at para. 12. The results of the two reviews, however, were not published until after the decision in Rhodia II was issued. See Jt. Stmt at paras. 17, 30. With regard to both the first and second administrative reviews of the order, covering the periods from July 6, 2000 through June 30, 2001, and July 1, 2001 through June 30, 2002, Commerce found that Jilin's dumping margin was de minimis or zero. See Bulk Aspirin from the People's Republic of China, 68 Fed. Reg. 6,710, 6,711 (Dep'tcharacter covered by a determination of the Secretary, the administering authority, or the Commission contested under subsection (a) of this section shall be liquidated in accordance with the determination of the Secretary, the administering authority, or the Commission, if they are entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or before the date of publication in the Federal Register by the Secretary or the administering authority of a notice of a decision of the United States Court of International Trade, or of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, not in harmony with that determination. Such notice of a decision shall be published within ten days from the date of the issuance of the court decision.
19 U.S.C. § 1516a(c)(1).
Title 19 U.S.C. § 1516a(e) states:
(e) Liquidation


in accordance with final decision
If the cause of action is sustained in whole or in part by a decision of the United States Court of International Trade or of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
(1) entries of merchandise of the character covered by the published determination of the Secretary, the administering authority, or the Commission, which is entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption after the date of publication in the Federal Register by the Secretary or the administering authority of a notice of the court decision, and
(2) entries, the liquidation of which was enjoined under subsection (c)(2) of this section, shall be liquidated in accordance with the final court decision in the action. Such notice of the court decision shall be published withina relevant statute, is entitled to judicial review thereof. An action in a court of the United States seeking relief other than money damages and stating a claim that an agency or an officer or employee thereof acted or failed to act in an official capacity or under color of legal authority shall not be dismissed nor relief therein be denied on the ground that it is against the United States or that the United States is an indispensable party. The United States may be named as a defendant in any such action, and a judgment or decree may be entered against the United States: Provided, That any mandatory or injunctive decree shall specify the Federal officer or officers (by name or by title), and their successors in


the preceding six weeks.

Dominion Post political editor Tracey Watkins pointed out in her paper that The All Blacks were playing the Wallabies on Eden Park - and live on Sky - when the opening addresses screened on TV One.

Even so, the opening statements attracted an average audience of 239,000.

About 279,000 watched the closing addresses on 19 September, and even if that included all of the people who were watching the opening addresses, that was still more than one in 10 of the people who eventually cast a vote in the election.

However, TVNZ plainly wants to make more money from adverts by screening something else.

“This placed TVNZ at a serious commercial disadvantage to its competitors. Viewers who turn off during prime time generally do not turn back on laterchose not to watch on TV in the past would be channeled into online advertising that’s harder to avoid. The ads will target voters online, even if they do not want them - and even though, as a taxpayer, they paid for them.

Photo: RNZ

Claire Robinson is an expert in political communication at Massey University. She is currently in the US watching unrestrained campaigning playing out in the media there.

She told Mediawatch she argued for such a change after previous elections, but gave up "because she thought this government was not interested".

Professor Robinson said TV and radio addresses were little use to the parties and a poor use of public money. They were also unfair to minor parties whose addresses at the end of the hour-long broadcasts were only


MLS earns high marks again for diversity

Major League Soccer once again earned high marks for its racial and gender hiring.

The league received its third consecutive A for racial hiring on Tuesday from the University of Central Florida's Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport. Its gender grade improved to a B from a C-plus last year and a D-plus in 2007.

"The sport of soccer is such a diverse sport between our athletes and fan base," MLS executive vice president JoAnn Neale said. "We're really striving to make our front offices reflective of that diversity."

The league office's A-plus for gender countered a D-plus for team professional positions and a C-minus for team senior administrators.

MLS's combined race and gender grade of B-plus was the same as last year, but itspoints total increased to 86.5 from 85.7.

"A number of years ago, they made a commitment they would really address this, and they adopted a number of diversity initiatives," said Richard Lapchick, the institute's director.

White players increased from 59 percent in 2007 to 62 percent in 2008, while African-Americans dropped from 22 percent to 20 percent.

There were four minority coaches among the 15 teams in 2008 _ Denis Hamlett, Cobi Jones, Juan Carlos Osorio and Fernando Clavijo _ but only Hamlett and Osorio held onto their jobs for part of 2009. Minority assistant coaches declined from 17 percent to 9.5 percent.

Three teams had minority presidents or chief executives in 2009, the same as the previous year.

The percentage of women among the professional staff in the league office rose to


The book...is a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book. -Danny Porush, Mother Jones, December 10, 2013

Questioning the Story:

Did Jordan Belfort really meet his future business partner in a restaurant?

Jordan (left), with his then wife Nadine, was introduced to Danny Porush (right) via Danny's then wife Nancy (center right). Jordan (left), with his then wife Nadine, was introduced to Danny Porush (right) via Danny's then wife Nancy (center right).

No. In the movie, Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill) first encounters Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) at a diner after noticing Belfort's Jaguar in the parking lot. He tells Belfort that if he show's him a pay stub with $72,000 on it, he will quit his job immediately and start working for him. Inreality, the real Donnie Azoff, Danny Porush, was introduced to Jordan Belfort by his wife, who had met Belfort on the bus during her daily commute to the city. She says that Belfort always gave up his seat for her. She thought he was nice and quickly realized that he lived in their apartment building. She later introduced her husband to him, figuring that Jordan might be able to help Danny with his struggling private ambulette business. After just one conversation with Jordan, Danny came home and told his wife that he was going to take the Series 7 exam to get his stockbroker's license. The rest is history. -NYPost.com

The Wolf of Wall Street true story confirms that, like in the movie, Stratton Oakmont was the name of


abuse." Porush does admit that the firm hired little people to attend at least one party. Jordan Belfort's memoir The Wolf of Wall Street only discusses the tossing of little people as a possibility, not something that actually happened. -MotherJones.com

During what years did the events in the movie take place?

The events in The Wolf of Wall Street movie took place during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Jordan Belfort and Danny Porush founded the brokerage firm of Stratton Oakmont in the late 1980s. The securities fraud and money laundering charges brought against the firm involved companies that Stratton Oakmont helped raise money for in public stock offerings from 1990 through 1997. In 1996, Stratton Oakmont was banned from the brokerage industry, which eventually forced the company to closeits doors. -NYTimes.com

Was Jordan Belfort really known as the "wolf" of Wall Street?

No, at least not according to the former co-founder and president of the Stratton Oakmont brokerage firm, Danny Porush (portrayed by Jonah Hill in the movie). The real Porush says that he is not aware of anyone at the firm calling Jordan the "wolf." Porush says that it's just one of a number of exaggerations and inventions in both Belfort's book and the movie. -MotherJones.com

Is Matthew McConaughey's character, Mark Hanna, based on a real person?

Yes. In exploring The Wolf of Wall Street true story, we learned that Jordan Belfort claims to have met Matthew McConaughey's character's real-life counterpart, Mark Hanna, in 1987 when he was working at the old-money trading firm of L.F. Rothschild. His new


acquaintance was an uproarious senior broker at the firm and introduced Belfort to the excess and debauchery that Belfort would later make a daily staple at Stratton Oakmont. Like in the movie, the real Mark Hanna behind McConaughey's character told Belfort that the key to success was masturbation, cocaine and hookers, in addition to making your customers reinvest their winnings so you can collect the commissions. -TheDailyBeast.com

Did Jordan Belfort really abuse cocaine and other drugs?

Yes. In The Wolf of Wall Street movie, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) is shown snorting cocaine off a prostitute's backside and nearly crashing his private helicopter while high on a cocktail of prescription drugs, including Quaaludes, morphine and Xanax. In researching The Wolf of Wall Street true story, it quickly became clear that Belfortshave her head for $10,000 to pay for breast implants?

The real Jordan Belfort claims this is true in his memoir. The female employee let them shave off her blonde hair for $10,000, which she used to pay for D-cup breast implants. Co-founder Danny Porush also says that the shaving took place, "...the worst we ever did was shave somebody's head and then pay 'em ten grand for it," says Porush. -MotherJones.com

Was Jordan Belfort's Quaalude dealer in the movie, Brad Bodnick (Jon Bernthal), based on a real person?

Yes. The character in the movie, Brad Bodnick, who has a goatee and is portrayed by The Walking Dead's Jon Bernthal, is based on Jordan Belfort's real-life Quaalude supplier, Todd Garret. In his memoir, the real Jordan Belfort claims that Garret sold


him approximately 10,000 Quaaludes.

Was there ever a chimpanzee in the office?

No. According to co-founder Danny Porush (played by Jonah Hill in the movie), the scene where Leonardo DiCaprio's character pals around with a chimp is pure monkey business. "There was never a chimpanzee in the office," says Porush. "There were no animals in the office...I would also never abuse an animal in any way" (though he does admit to eating the goldfish, see below). -MotherJones.com

Did he really almost crash his helicopter in his yard?

Yes. In his memoir, Jordan Belfort writes that he was flying his private helicopter while high on Quaaludes and nearly crashed it in his yard.

According to the real Belfort (right, shirtless), he did nearly crash his private helicopter while high on drugs. Leonardo DiCaprio preparesfor takeoff in the movie (left). According to the real Belfort (right, shirtless), he did nearly crash his private helicopter while high on drugs. Leonardo DiCaprio prepares for takeoff in the movie (left).

Did Danny Porush really marry his own first cousin?

Yes. According to Jordan Belfort's memoir, the real Donnie Azoff (whose actual name is Danny Porush) did marry his first cousin Nancy "because she was a real piece of ass." After twelve years of marriage, the couple divorced in 1998 after Danny told Nancy that he was in love with another woman (NYPost.com). Danny and his ex-wife share three children together.

Did Belfort and his colleagues really have drug-addled nights and sexcapades with prostitutes on a near daily basis?

Though the movie and Belfort's memoir might seem like gross exaggerations


of the truth, depicting heavy drug use and sexcapades in the office during trading hours, they're not exaggerations at all says the F.B.I. agent who finally took Belfort into custody, "I tracked this guy for ten years, and everything he wrote is true." Kyle Chandler portrays the agent in the Martin Scorsese movie. -NYTimes.com

Was Belfort really arrested for crashing his Lamborghini while high on expired Quaaludes?

Yes, but according to Belfort the car wasn't a Lamborghini like in the movie, it was a Mercedes. He was so high in a drug daze that he couldn't remember causing several different accidents as he tried to make his way home. In real life, one of the accidents was a head-on collision that actually sent a woman to the hospital. -TheDailyBeast.com

The realPorush says (played by Jonah Hill in the movie). According to Jordan Belfort's memoir, the event did happen but his partner Porush wasn't there. -MotherJones.com

Was footwear mogul Steve Madden really involved in Belfort's scheme?

Yes. As shown in The Wolf of Wall Street movie, Steve Madden had been a childhood friend of Belfort's partner Danny Porush (renamed Donnie Azoff in the movie and portrayed by actor Jonah Hill). Their fondness for drugs and alcohol reunited the two of them. During the initial public offering of his footwear company, Steve Madden Ltd., Madden acquired a large number of shares of his company, which were actually being controlled by Belfort and his firm, Stratton Oakmont. Once shares became available to the public, Stratton Oakmont got down to the business of selling


them to unsuspecting suckers. Billing Madden's company as the hottest issue on Wall Street, Belfort's brokers in turn drove up the price. Eventually, Steve Madden was to sell off his shares when the hype was at its peak, just before the stock began its inevitable decline. Similar to what is seen in the movie, Belfort still maintains that Steve Madden tried to steal his Steve Madden shares from him. However, Jordan Belfort did make approximately $23 million in two hours as part of the deal with Steve Madden, who would later be charged as an accomplice to Belfort's scheme. -NYTimes.com

For his part, Steve Madden was sentenced to 41 months in prison and was forced to resign as CEO of Steve Madden Ltd. He also resigned from the company'sboard of directors. However, he did not leave the company entirely. He kept his foot (or shoe) in the door by giving himself the title of creative consultant, for which he was well-compensated even while he was in prison. -Slate.com

Did Jordan Belfort really name his yacht after his wife?

Yes. The real-life yacht was named "The Nadine" after Belfort's wife, who, like in the movie, he affectionately referred to as "The Duchess of Bay Ridge." In the movie, the yacht bears the name "Naomi" after the character portrayed by Margot Robbie (Belfort's wife's name was changed for the film).

In the movie (left), Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) surprises his wife (Margot Robbie) with a yacht that bears her name. Right: The real Jordan and his now ex-wife relax at sea


in the 1990s. In the movie (left), Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) surprises his wife (Margot Robbie) with a yacht that bears her name. Right: The real Jordan and his now ex-wife relax at sea in the 1990s.

Did Belfort's yacht really sink in a Mediterranean storm?

Yes. In real life, Belfort's 167-foot yacht, which was originally owned by Coco Chanel, sunk off the coast of Italy when Belfort, who was high on drugs at the time, insisted that the captain take the boat through a storm (TheDailyBeast.com). Listen to Belfort tell the story during The Room Live's Jordan Belfort interview. As he states in the interview, his helicopter didn't fall off the boat during the storm like in the movie. Instead, they had to push the helicopter off of thetop deck of the boat to make room for the rescue chopper to drop down an Italian Navy commando.

How long did FBI agent Gregory Coleman spend tracking Jordan Belfort and his firm?

FBI agent Gregory Coleman, renamed Patrick Denham for the film and portrayed by actor Kyle Chandler, made tracking Belfort and his firm, Stratton Oakmont, a top priority for six years. In an interview ( watch here ), Coleman says that the factors that drew his attention to the firm were "the flashiness, the brashness of their activities, the blatantness of the way they were soliciting people and cold calling people, and the number of victims that were complaining on a daily basis." -CNBC

Did Jordan really strike his wife?

Yes. The Wolf of Wall Street movie shows Jordan (Leonardo


DiCaprio) hitting his wife (Margot Robbie) with his hand and fist. According to his memoir, he actually kicked his wife Nadine down the stairs while he was holding his daughter. She landed on her right side with "tremendous force."

Did Belfort really endanger his 3-year-old daughter's life by crashing his car through the garage door?

Yes. In real life, he put his daughter Chandler in the front seat of the car without a seat belt on, before crashing it through the garage door and then driving full speed into a six-foot-high limestone pillar at the edge of the driveway. Like in the movie, he was high at the time.

Tommy Chong was Jordan Belfort's cellmate in prison and encouraged him to write the book. Tommy Chong was Jordan Belfort's cellmate inprison and encouraged him to write the book. What was Jordan Belfort's punishment?

When he was finally arrested in 1998 for money laundering and securities fraud, Jordan Belfort was sentenced to four years in prison. This was after agreeing to wear a wire and provide the FBI with information to help prosecute various friends and associates. In the end, the true story reveals that he served only 22 months in a California federal prison. His cellmate in prison was Tommy Chong of "Cheech and Chong" fame, who was serving a nine month sentence for selling bongs. -TheDailyBeast.com

What inspired Jordan Belfort to write his memoir?

It wasn't so much a what as it was a who. Tommy Chong (one half of "Cheech and Chong") was Jordan Belfort's cellmate in prison. After


laughing at some of Belfort's stories from his days running the firm, Chong encouraged him to write a book. -TheDailyBeast.com

Why is Jordan Belfort's memoir filled with so many exclamations?

Jordan Belfort attempted to model his writing after Hunter S. Thompson (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), who was known for using plenty of exclamation points.

What happened to Belfort's partner, Danny Porush, portrayed by Jonah Hill in the movie?

Danny Porush, renamed Donnie Azoff for the movie and played by actor Jonah Hill, served 39 months in prison for his part in the corrupt dealings of Stratton Oakmont, the firm that he co-founded with Jordan Belfort. Porush currently runs a medical supply business in Florida, where he lives with his second wife Lisa in a $4 million mansion. A 2008 ForbesWall Street movie, Porush said, "I really have no comment other than to say I would never try to profit from a crime I'm so remorseful for." -NYPost.com

I heard that Jordan Belfort is a motivational speaker, is that true?

The real Jordan Belfort became a motivational speaker and corporate consultant. The real Jordan Belfort became a motivational speaker and corporate consultant.

How much did Jordan Belfort earn from his books and the movie?

Ironically, yes. In addition to writing two books, The Wolf of Wall Street and its sequel Catching the Wolf of Wall Street , the real Jordan Belfort works as a motivational speaker and a private and corporate consultant. As a motivational speaker, he is sometimes paid more than $30,000 a speech (TheDailyBeast.com). His personal website states that he


is able to consult with companies on "business strategies, sales training, ethics in business, or how to raise venture capital."Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who portrays Jordan in the movie, cut a short video to help promote his motivational speaking business. DiCaprio ended the video by saying, "Jordan stands as a shining example of the transformative qualities of ambition and hard work, and in that regard, he is a true motivator." -Keppler Speakers

Does Jordan Belfort have a cameo in The Wolf of Wall Street movie?

Yes, the real Jordan Belfort appears at the end of the movie as the person who introduces Leonardo DiCaprio's character before he takes the stage at his Straight Line seminar.

Have any other movies been based on Jordan Belfort's story?

Yes, but only loosely. The brokerage firm inthe movie Boiler Room, released in 2000, was inspired by the illegal practices of Jordan Belfort's Stratton Oakmont firm. In the movie, actor Ben Affleck portrays Jim Young, the Belfort-esque co-founder of the firm, who, like Jordan Belfort, trains his brokers in the "pump and dump" scheme. -NYTimes.com

The Wolf of Wall Street Interviews and Related Video

Watch The Wolf of Wall Street movie trailer. Also, view Jordan Belfort interviews and home video footage of him speaking at a Stratton Oakmont party in the 1990s.

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Australia stopped using their HRT.

Professor Henry Burger, a founding director of Jean Hailes, says, "At least half of those women saw their symptoms return and that meant their quality of life significantly suffered" and "I think that was one of the worst consequences – the decreased quality of life and feeling that you couldn't do anything about it."

The WHI study looked at women who were many years older than the average age of menopause in Australia (51 years) and the study compared these older women who had been on HRT with women who had never been on HRT.

A recent comprehensive review of evidence on HRT has found HRT is an effective and safe treatment for the relief of menopause symptoms for healthy women.

Women who are at risk if5} On January 8, 2019, Allen was indicted for one count of having a weapon

while under disability, and one count of improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

At his arraignment on January 22, 2019, Allen stood mute, and the trial court entered

pleas of not guilty on his behalf.

       {¶ 6} On January 29, 2019, Allen filed a motion to suppress any physical evidence

seized and any statements made during his stop and arrest by Officer Campbell on

November 19, 2018. On March 7, 2019, a hearing was held before the trial court on said

motion. On March 19, 2019, the trial court overruled Allen’s motion to suppress from the

bench. The trial court issued a brief entry overruling Allen’s motion to suppress on March

21,


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BAKERSFIELD (AP) — A former running back for the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals was shot and killed Sunday in front of a convenience store after he allegedly hit a police officer with a bag holding two cans of beer.

David Lee “Deacon” Turner, 56, was shot and killed by a Kern County deputy.

As a student-athlete, Turner thrived, shredding defenses at Shafter High School, Bakersfield College and San Diego State University. But as an adult, after playing in the NFL from 1978 to 1980, he had trouble finding his place in civilian life.

Court records show an arrest history stretching back to 1986 for the former running back and kick return specialist. The most recent, on June 17, was for driving while his license was revoked because of a conviction forlingering
in the cornfields surrounding her office. Tensions escalated to such a point that
Bates went into hiding for three weeks and the office hired armed guards. Bates
testified that she had never worked on another case where she felt so threatened for
her own safety.

      Appellant’s ex-wife, Jessica Bell, detailed a similar history of aggression.
She testified that she was involved in several charges against appellant, including
harassment, making a terroristic threat, and violation of a protective order. Bell
described these incidents as follows:

      They started off kind of small. He would get in trouble, get a slap on
      the wrist, get back out. They just kind of kept on escalating. The more
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sheriff
ultimately seized the meth pipe, along with some illegal guns, but according to
Bell, appellant was never prosecuted.

      Appellant produced two character witnesses. His mother, Karen Bryant,
testified that appellant had been diagnosed with ADHD, and that he had suffered
from depression after his divorce. Bryant claimed that she was aware of her son’s
criminal history, though not the entirety of it. She established that appellant had

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successfully completed his community supervision in the past, and she opined that
he was likely to do so again, should heTortilla Coast will open in mid-December at the southwest corner of 15th and P Streets NW. (Borderstan file photo)

Tortilla Coast announced yesterday that they plan to open their Logan Circle restaurant at 1460 P Street NW in mid-December. They currently have a Capitol Hill location.

According to Katie Tyson, managing director of Clover Restaurant Group, the menu at the Logan Circle location embraces the unique ingredients and culinary styles of the Yucatan, Puebla, Veracruz, and Baja regions.

The Logan Circle Tortilla Coast will be open for lunch, dinner as well as offering a weekend brunch. It will seat 152 people and have a 48-seat patio area opening in the spring.

Finding a casual dining experience where seafood gets pushed to the front of the menu is hard to do in the


the time of the marriage defendant was employed in Houston, where she lived in a rented apartment. Plaintiff lived in a house which he owned in League City. Following the marriage, and the honeymoon which was spent in California, the parties made their home in plaintiff's house in League City. The evidence made it abundantly clear that defendant married plaintiff to obtain security. That is, of course, a legitimate object of marriage, particularly where the husband is of advanced years. But defendant was wholly unsatisfied to have her security rest solely on the marriage. The defendant wanted her husband to make over an undivided half of his property to her. The plaintiff, though he had grown children, was not so averse to his wife getting his property ashe was fearful that she might leave him after she had his property. Being allowed but little peace, plaintiff consulted his lawyer, and, upon his advice, proposed to make a will leaving his property to defendant upon his death. This proposal was unsatisfactory to defendant, and in fact so angered her that over her husband's opposition she abandoned him, and moved back to Houston, but not without getting some money from plaintiff. This happened in December, 1946, some three or four months after the marriage took place.
Plaintiff went to see defendant practically every week, trying to get her to come back. She finally returned to plaintiff in League City in May, 1947, and this, without *261 having succeeded in getting plaintiff to deed her his property. But she


continued determined to have plaintiff deed her his property, and daily continued her insistence on her purpose, and refused to settle for a will leaving her plaintiff's property at his death.
On December 10, 1947, defendant again abandoned plaintiff, and moved back to Houston, over plaintiff's protesting opposition. Again plaintiff gave defendant money when she left him. After defendant so left plaintiff, he continued to try to get her to return. She made it clear that she would return only if plaintiff deeded her his property.
Plaintiff testified that he gave up hope; that the constant bickering worried him, and made him feel blue; that being called "rat" and "skunk" by his wife made him feel bad; that his wife's treatment of him made him feel embarrassed, and that livingA memorial will be held on Tuesday for the long-serving member of a Twin Cities band who died on stage last week.

Doug "DJ" James, the 65-year-old drummer for the Rockin' Hollywoods, among other bands, died on Jan. 25 after suffering a heart attack while on stage at Mancini's in St. Paul.

The 65-year-old's death was announced by the band on its website, which says: "We will never forget his great sense of humor and passion for music."

James had been with the Rockin' Hollywoods for the past 18 years.

The band originally formed in 1973, since when it has won multiple awards for its live performances, and opened on two occasions for The Beach Boys.

A celebration of life is being held for James, who is survived by wife Colleen, three sons


Nick, Danny, and Tom, and granddaughter Lucy, at Mueller-Bies Funeral Home at 2130 Dale St., Roseville between 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday.

The Star Tribune reports that James died with his drumsticks in his hand after slumping over his drum kit during the Mancini's set, with bandleader Steve Ghizoni telling the newspaper: "Not only did he die doing what he loved, but it also happened in his hometown, which he loved."

A musical tribute is expected to be held for James sometime next month.

Here are The Rockin' Hollywoods in action back in 2015.next time someone will classify
this as "terrorism".

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rwallace
A virus is a piece of information that exploits a security vulnerability in an
existing complex system, tricking the system into propagating the virus to its
own detriment. Remember the word originally only applied where the target was
a living cell. The usage where the target is a digital computer might have
been considered a metaphor, but the deep structural similarity outweighs the
difference in substrate, sufficiently to merit considering the new usage a
valid extension.

Zynga 'games' are viruses that exploit security vulnerabilities in the human
mind. The extension of usage is just as defensible as the original extension
to digital computers.

~~~
propercoil
terrorism is a "systematic use of violence and intimidation to achieve some
goal" (dictionary.com). Zynga 'games' are acts of terrorism that attack the
human mind to achieve their goals.

What a bunch


have held back information from Mr Trump.

The officials emphasised that they know of no instance in which crucial information about security threats or potential plotting has been omitted. Still, the misgivings that have emerged among intelligence officials point to the fissures spreading between the White House and the US spy agencies.

Mr Trump, a Republican, asked on Monday night for the resignation of Mike Flynn, his national security adviser, after the White House said the president lost trust in him, in part, because he misstated the nature of his conversations with the Russian ambassador.

Last night, Mr Trump castigated the intelligence agencies and the news media, blaming them for Mr Flynn’s downfall.

“The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by ‘intelligence’ like candy. Very un-American!” Mrthe entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.”

Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. Whenever the Attorney General finds that a commercial airline has failed to comply with regulations of the Attorney General relating to requirements of airlines for the detection of fraudulent documents used by passengers traveling to the United States (including the training of personnel in


Johnson and presses an election year nomination the Senate Judiciary Committee should seriously consider not scheduling confirmation hearings on the nomination until ever — until after the political campaign season is over.” — Sen. Joe Biden, June 25, 1992

President George H.W. Bush was in office until January 20, 1993. So Biden didn’t even say this in a presidential election year – the way it was when our Hypocrite-in-Chief Obama demanded the divine right to replace conservative Scalia with a leftist of his choice – rather Biden said the Democrat garbage tactic applied even in the year BEFORE the election year.

Only Democrats are hypocrite enough to not be able to see what abject hypocrite roaches they are.

While Democrats in the upper chamber – including Sen. Chuck Schumer of NewYork and former Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin, both of which called for blocking former President George W. Bush’s nominations – have slammed the GOP for its decision not to consider a nominee until after a new president is elected, Democrats have not always held that stance. The Democrat-controlled Senate passed a resolution in 1960 preventing a recess appointment, much to the dismay of Republicans.

As first reported by The Washington Post – S.RES. 334, also known as Expressing the Sense of the Senate That The President Should Not Make Recess Appointments to the Supreme Court, Except to Prevent or End a Breakdown in the Administration of the Court’s Business – passed the Senate in a 48-33 vote in an attempt to prevent former President Dwight Eisenhower from filling


The Outstanding Rally Driver: Rodrigo Terpins

Rodrigo Terpins is a well-known rally driver who lives in Brazil. The incredible 41-year-old driver participates in the Prototype T1 competitions with his brother Michel Terpins. The two brothers are celebrated over the world, and they have both gained their recognition locally and internationally following their remarkable rally and driving skills and talents.

The unbeatable driver, Rodrigo Terpins also participates in the Bull Sertoes Rally Team, which is considered one of the best teams, which take part in the off-road championship competitions such as Sertoes Rally competition. Notably, Rodrigo is a co-founder of the Blue Sertoes along with his brother. The two brothers have won many uncountable races in their past championships, and they have upheld the spirit until today.

The passion of the greatRodrigo Terpins can be traced from his family. His father Jack Terpins and Michael Terpins his brother have passionate personalities in the rally sports field. However, his father used to play basketball for the Hebraica while he was young. His father was also appointed in a senior position in Jewish Sports Organization.

The two brothers participated in the 24th edition of the Sertoes rally a match where they won the second stage and were ranked in the top five categories. That was considered an incredible performance for Rodrigo Terpins and his brother aboard on the T-Rex model developed by the great MEM Sports Organization.

On the 22nd edition rally, Rodrigo Terpins was able to participate along with another renowned partner, Fabricio Manchiana. This rally covered around 2600 kilometers, which were


divided into various stages and stretched to two states. The duo racing TI prototypes finished third in their category and held the 8th position in the overall match featuring 38 teams in the entire event. This off-road edition was the largest in Brazil, and it drew attention from different rally drivers, sponsors as well as enthusiastic fans.

Talking after the race, Rodrigo Terpins stated that he and his partner were in a position to adapt to the vehicle as well as the terrain and stay vigilant during the race. He also noted that the results were beyond their expectations and a big surprise was new to them. You can visit Terra for more.

His Career Journey

Rodrigo Terpins went to the University of Sail Hilaire where he acquired some business managementskills. These skills helped him rise in his position of the president until he vacated the position in the year 2007. Rodrigo formed his company in 2008 and named it T5 Participicoes. Since then, the company has been in the front line in organizing the most outstanding racing events inside and outside Brazil.


deductibles at their current level. Also, because of the strike, we were able to ensure that a lot of bad education bills weren’t able to get passed. The charter school bill didn’t go anywhere, and additional anti-union bills like “payroll protection” all were dropped. The gains won in Oklahoma and Arizona were also impressive. In the Sooner State, teachers won a $6,000 average pay raise by forcing the government to pass its first tax hike since 1990. In Arizona, through two months of mobilizing and six school days of striking, the Red for Ed movement put sufficient pressure on the legislature to stop new proposed tax cuts, keep an anti-voucher referendum on the 2018 ballot, and win hundreds of millions of dollars in additional school funding. Teachers, moreover,still in power.

What is the source of U.S.-Chinese tensions in this region? As Patrick Cronin has explained, U.S. surveillance activities in this area clash with China’s interpretation of its territorial rights under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea:

Similarly, China and the United States have fundamentally different interpretations of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). One major difference is over whether and which type of military activities are permitted within the 200-nautical mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of a nation. China’s national interests and growing confidence lead to an expansive view of its EEZ and a narrow view of which military activities are permissible for a foreign nation to undertake within an EEZ. Such activities must be peaceful, and Chinese nationalists


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Reggie Jackson is coming up to an important cross roads in his career right about now.

The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard just rejected a contract extension from Sam Hinkie and co in October and looks set to hit restricted free agency in the summer to see how much money he can get.

And with Thunder stars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook out at the moment, Jackson is starring in place. This has lead to backing from James Harden, who is urging Jackson to do what he did and potentially leave OKC.

Harden's Backing

Back in 2012, Harden rejected multiple offers from the Thunder and ended up being traded to the Houston Rockets so that OKC wouldn't lose him for nothing. And now, two