George Raft and Jean-Paul Belmondo , were given top billing in the film's promotion and screen trailers despite the fact that they only appeared for a few minutes in the final scene.

Casino Royale also takes credit for the greatest number of actors in a Bond film either to have appeared or to go on to appear in the rest of the Eon series — besides Ursula Andress in Dr.

Jack Gwillim , who had a tiny role as a British army officer, played a Royal Navy officer in Thunderball. Milton Reid , who appears in a bit part as the temple guard, opening the door to Mata Bond's hall, played one of Dr.

John Hollis , who plays the temple priest in Mata Bond's hall, went on to play theunnamed figure clearly intended to be Blofeld in the pre-credits sequence of For Your Eyes Only.

Hal Galili , who appears briefly as a US army officer at the auction, had earlier played gangster Jack Strap in Goldfinger.

Well-established stars like Peter O'Toole and sporting legends like Stirling Moss took uncredited parts in the film just to be able to work with the other members of the cast.

The film also proved to be young Anjelica Huston 's first experience in the film industry as she was called upon by her father, John Huston , to cover the screen shots of Deborah Kerr 's hands.

John Le Mesurier features in the early scenes of the film as M's driver. Feldman represented Ratoff's widow and obtained the Casino Royale rights.

Broccoli , who had


a long time interest in adapting James Bond, offered to purchase the Casino Royale rights from Feldman, but he declined.

They eventually gave up once they saw the film Dr. The attempt at a co-production eventually fell through as Feldman frequently argued with Broccoli and Saltzman, specially regarding the profit divisions and when the Casino Royale adaptation would start production.

Feldman approached Sean Connery to play Bond, with Connery's offering to do the film for one million dollars being rejected.

Given Eon's series led to a spy film craze at the time, Feldman opted to make his film a spoof of the Bond series instead of a straightforward adaptation.

Ben Hecht's contribution to the project, if not the final result, was in fact substantial. The Oscar -winning writer was recruited by Feldmanto produce a screenplay for the film and wrote several drafts, with various evolutions of the story incorporating different scenes and characters.

All of his treatments were "straight" adaptations, far closer to the original source novel than the spoof which the final production became.

A draft from discovered in Hecht's papers — but which does not identify the screenwriter — is a direct adaptation of the novel, albeit with the Bond character absent, instead being replaced by a poker-playing American gangster.

Later drafts see vice made central to the plot, with the Le Chiffre character becoming head of a network of brothels as he is in the novel whose patrons are then blackmailed by Le Chiffre to fund Spectre an invention of the screenwriter.

The racy plot elements opened up by this


change of background include a chase scene through Hamburg 's red light district that results in Bond escaping whilst disguised as a female mud wrestler.

New characters appear such as Lili Wing, a brothel madam and former lover of Bond whose ultimate fate is to be crushed in the back of a garbage truck, and Gita, wife of Le Chiffre.

The beautiful Gita, whose face and throat are hideously disfigured as a result of Bond using her as a shield during a gunfight in the same sequence which sees Wing meet her fate, goes on to become the prime protagonist in the torture scene that features in the book, a role originally Le Chiffre's.

Virtually nothing from Hecht's scripts was ever filmed. He died from a heart attack in April ,two days before he was due to present it to Feldman. Time reported in that the script had been completely re-written by Billy Wilder , and by the time the film reached production only the idea that the name James Bond should be given to a number of other agents remained.

This key plot device in the finished film, in the case of Hecht's version, occurs after the demise of the original James Bond an event which happened prior to the beginning of his story which, as Hecht's M puts it "not only perpetuates his memory, but confuses the opposition.

Extensive sequences also featured London, notably Trafalgar Square and the exterior of 10 Downing Street. Mereworth Castle in Kent was used as the home of Sir James Bond, which is


blown up at the start of the film.

The production proved to be rather troubled, with five different directors helming different segments of the film and with stunt co-ordinator Richard Talmadge co-directing the final sequence.

Val Guest was given the responsibility of splicing the various "chapters" together, and was offered the unique title of "Co-ordinating Director" but declined, claiming the chaotic plot would not reflect well on him if he were so credited.

His extra credit was labelled "Additional Sequences" instead. Part of the behind-the-scenes drama of this film's production concerned the filming of the segments involving Peter Sellers.

Screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz declared that Sellers felt intimidated by Orson Welles to the extent that, except for a couple of shots, neither was in the studio simultaneously.

Other versions of the legend depict thedrama stemming from Sellers being slighted, in favour of Welles, by Princess Margaret whom Sellers knew during her visit to the set.

Welles also insisted on performing magic tricks as Le Chiffre, and the director obliged. Director Val Guest wrote that Welles did not think much of Sellers, and had refused to work with "that amateur".

Director Joseph McGrath , a personal friend of Sellers, was punched by the actor when he complained about Sellers' behavior on the set.

Some biographies of Sellers suggest that he took the role of Bond to heart, and was annoyed at the decision to make Casino Royale a comedy, as he wanted to play Bond straight.

This is illustrated in somewhat fictionalised form in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers , based on


the biography by Roger Lewis , who has claimed that Sellers kept re-writing and improvising scenes to make them play seriously.

This story is in agreement with the observation that the only parts of the film close to the book are the ones featuring Sellers and Welles.

Jean-Paul Belmondo and George Raft received major billing , even though both actors appear only briefly. Both appear during the climactic brawl at the end, Raft flipping his trademark coin and promptly shooting himself dead with a backward-firing pistol, while Belmondo appears wearing a fake moustache as the French Foreign Legion officer who requires an English phrase book to translate " merde!

At the Intercon science fiction convention held in Slough in , David Prowse commented on his part in this film, apparently hisbig-screen debut.

He claimed that he was originally asked to play "Super Pooh", a giant Winnie-the-Pooh in a superhero costume who attacks Tremble during the Torture of The Mind sequence.

This idea, as with many others in the film's script, was rapidly dropped, and Prowse was re-cast as a Frankenstein -type Monster for the closing scenes.

The final sequence was principally directed by former actor and stuntman Richard Talmadge. The story of Casino Royale is told in an episodic format.

Val Guest oversaw the assembly of the sections, although he turned down the credit of "co-ordinating director". Sellers left the production before all his scenes were shot, which is why his character, Tremble, is so abruptly captured in the film.

Whether Sellers was fired or simply walked off is unclear. Given that he


often went absent for days at a time and was involved in conflicts with Welles, either explanation is plausible.

The framing device of a beginning and ending with David Niven was invented to salvage the footage. He chose to use the original Bond and Vesper as linking characters to tie the story together.

In the originally released versions of the film, a cardboard cutout of Sellers in the background was used for the final scenes.

In later versions, this cardboard cutout was replaced by footage of Sellers in highland dress, inserted by "trick photography". Signs of missing footage from the Sellers segments are evident at various points.

Evelyn Tremble is not captured on camera; an outtake of Sellers entering a racing car was substituted. Out-takes of Sellers were also used for Tremble'sdream sequence pretending to play the piano on Ursula Andress ' torso , in the finale - blowing out the candles whilst in highland dress - and at the end of the film when all the various "James Bond doubles" are together.

In the kidnap sequence, Tremble's death is also very abruptly inserted; it consists of pre-existing footage of Tremble being rescued by Vesper, followed by a later-filmed shot of her abruptly deciding to shoot him, followed by a freeze-frame over some of the previous footage of her surrounded by bodies noticeably a zoom-in on the previous shot.

As well as this, an entire sequence involving Tremble going to the front for the underground James Bond training school which turns out to be under Harrods , of which the training


area was the lowest level was never shot, thus creating an abrupt cut from Vesper announcing that Tremble will be James Bond to Tremble exiting the lift into the training school.

So many sequences from the film were removed, that several well-known actors never appeared in the final cut, including Ian Hendry as , the agent whose body is briefly seen being disposed of by Vesper , Mona Washbourne and Arthur Mullard.

For the music, Feldman decided to bring Burt Bacharach , who had done the score for his previous production What's New Pussycat?

Bacharach worked over two years writing for Casino Royale , in the meantime composing the After the Fox score and being forced to decline participation in Luv.

Lyricist Hal David contributed with various songs, many of which appearedin just instrumental versions. The title theme was Alpert's second number one on the Easy Listening chart where it spent two weeks at the top in June and peaked at number 27 on the Billboard Hot It is played in the scene of Vesper Lynd recruiting Evelyn Tremble, seen through a man-size aquarium in a seductive walk.

It was heard again in the first Austin Powers film, which was to a degree inspired by Casino Royale. Bacharach would later rework two tracks of the score into songs: A clarinet melody would later be featured in a Cracker Jack commercial.

As an in-joke, a brief snippet of John Barry 's song " Born Free " is used in the film. The original album cover art was done by Robert McGinnis ,


based on the film poster and the original stereo vinyl release of the soundtrack Colgems COSO That record has been regarded by some music critics as the finest-sounding LP of all time, and is still highly sought after by audiophiles.

The soundtrack album became famous among audio purists for the excellence of its recording. It then became a standard "audiophile test" record for decades to come, especially the vocal performance by Dusty Springfield on "The Look of Love.

The film soundtrack has since been released by other companies in different configurations including complete score releases. The highly regarded master tapes were damaged, however, during a s remastering so none of the subsequent re-releases are considered to be as fine as the original LP release.

However, during filming the project ran intoseveral problems and the shoot ran months over schedule, with the costs also running well over.

When the film was finally completed it had doubled its original budget. The problems postponed the launch until April Casino Royale had its world premiere in London's Odeon Leicester Square on 13 April , breaking many opening records in the theatre's history.

No advance press screenings of Casino Royale were held, leading reviews to only appear after the premiere.

Writing in , Danny Peary noted, "It's hard to believe that in we actually waited in anticipation for this so-called James Bond spoof.

It was a disappointment then; it's a curio today, but just as hard to get through. In fact, I recommend you see it on television when it's in a two-hour including commercials slot.

Then you


won't expect it to make any sense. A few recent reviewers have been more impressed by the film.

Andrea LeVasseur, in the AllMovie review, called it "the original ultimate spy spoof", and opined that the "nearly impossible to follow" plot made it "a satire to the highest degree".

Further describing it as a "hideous, zany disaster" LeVasseur concluded that it was "a psychedelic, absurd masterpiece". It is the anti-auteur work of all time, a film shaped by the very zeitgeist it took on.

In his review of the film, Leonard Maltin remarked, "Money, money everywhere, but [the] film is terribly uneven — sometimes funny, often not.

The website's critical consensus states: Fox has since been responsible for the debut of the Casino Royale on Blu-ray disc in Danjaq LLC , Eon's holdingMollaka point to corrupt Greek official Alex Dimitrios.

Bond finds Dimitrios in the Bahamas and, after seducing his wife, Solange, pursues him to Miami. Bond kills Dimitrios and follows his henchman to the airport.

He thwarts the destruction of Skyfleet's airliner , costing Le Chiffre his investment. MI6 enters Bond in the tournament, believing a defeat will force Le Chiffre to seek asylum with the British government , which they will grant in exchange for information on his clients.

Bond gains the upper hand at the start of the game. During a break, Obanno, furious at the loss of his investment, ambushes Le Chiffre in his suite.

After Obanno leaves Le Chiffre's room, Bond engages him and strangles him to death. Vesper is traumatised by the encounter, but Bond comforts her. When


the tournament resumes, Bond loses his initial stake, and Vesper refuses to fund further playing.

Leiter, on the verge of losing, agrees to stake Bond on the condition that the CIA takes custody of Le Chiffre after his defeat.

Bond rapidly rebuilds his position before the next break. Le Chiffre's girlfriend, Valenka , spikes Bond's martini with digitalis poison.

Bond induces vomiting and retreats to his Aston Martin to inject himself with an antidote. MI6 instructs him to use the defibrillator , but a wire is disconnected; Vesper saves Bond by reconnecting the wire.

Bond returns to the game just as Leiter loses his last hand to Le Chiffre. Le Chiffre trumps the other players, but Bond wins with a straight flush.

Bond pursues them in his Aston Martin. He sees Vesper lyingdamaged in the struggle and begins to sink into the Grand Canal , with Vesper trapped inside. Bond kills Vesper's clients and attempts to save her, but she refuses his attempts and drowns.

White, watching nearby, walks away with the money. Bond rejoins MI6 and copes with Vesper's death by denouncing her as a traitor to M and to keep sweating Mathis.

M informs him the same organisation behind Le Chiffre had kidnapped Vesper's lover and threatened to kill him unless she became a double agent.

During the torture with Le Chiffre, Vesper made a deal: Bond discovers a text message left for him by Vesper with White's name and phone number.

At his estate in Lake Como , White receives a phone call from Bond. As he asks for the caller's


identity, Bond shoots him in the leg, then introduces himself: The cameo was cut out of the in-flight versions shown on British Airways ' in-flight entertainment systems, and the Virgin Atlantic aircraft Branson supplied had its tail fin bearing the company logo obscured.

Casino Royale had been produced as a television episode and a satirical film. He explained, "the draft that was there was very faithful to the book and there was a confession, so in the original draft the character confessed and killed herself.

She then sent Bond to chase after the villains; Bond chased the villains into the house. I don't know why but I thought that Vesper had to be in the sinking house and Bond has to want to kill her and then try and saveher.

Director Quentin Tarantino expressed interest in directing an adaptation of Casino Royale , [13] but Eon were not interested. He claims to have worked behind the scenes with the Fleming family, and believed this was the reason why filmmakers finally went ahead with Casino Royale.

In February , Martin Campbell was announced as the film's director. Eon believed that they had relied too heavily on CGI effects in the more recent films, particularly Die Another Day , and were keen to accomplish the stunts in Casino Royale "the old fashioned way".

Pierce Brosnan had signed a deal for four films when he was cast in the role of James Bond. This was fulfilled with the production of Die Another Day in At this stage, Brosnan was approaching his 50th birthday.

Brosnan


kept in mind fans and critics were not happy with Roger Moore playing Bond until he was 58 and speculation began that the producers were seeking to replace Brosnan with a younger actor.

At one point, producer Michael G. Wilson claimed there was a list of over names being considered for his replacement. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli had assured him he would get the role of Bond, and Matthew Vaughn told reporters MGM offered him the opportunity to direct the new film, but Eon Productions at that point had not approached either of them.

Craig read all of Fleming's novels to prepare for the part, and cited Mossad and British Secret Service agents who served as advisors on the set of Munich as inspiring because, "Bond has just come outof the service and he's a killer.

These guys walk into a room and very subtly they check the perimeters for an exit. That's the sort of thing I wanted. Throughout the entire production period, Internet campaigns such as "danielcraigisnotbond.

The next important casting was that of the lead Bond girl , Vesper Lynd. Principal photography for Casino Royale commenced on 3 January and concluded on 20 July The film was primarily shot at Barrandov Studios in Prague, with additional location shooting in the Bahamas , Italy and the United Kingdom.

The shoot concluded at Pinewood Studios. However, Eon Productions encountered problems in securing film locations in South Africa. In September , Martin Campbell and director of photography Phil Meheux were scouting Paradise Island in the Bahamas as a possible location


for the film.

In addition to the extensive location filming, studio work including choreography and stunt co-ordination practice was performed at the Barrandov Studios in Prague, and at Pinewood Studios, where the film used several stages, the paddock tank and the Stage.

Further shooting in the UK was scheduled for Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey, the cricket pavilion at Eton College although that scene was cut from the completed movie and the Millbrook Vehicle Proving Ground in Bedfordshire.

After Prague, the production moved to the Bahamas. Several locations around New Providence were used for filming during February and March, particularly on Paradise Island.

Other scenes in the latter half of the film were shot in late May and early June at the Villa del Balbianello on the shores of Lake Como.

A recreation ofthe Body Worlds exhibit provided a setting for one scene in the film. The exhibition's developer and promoter, German anatomist Gunther von Hagens , also has a cameo appearance in the film, [46] although only his trademark hat is actually visible on screen.

In designing the credit sequence for the film, graphic designer Daniel Kleinman was inspired by the cover of the British first edition of Casino Royale , which featured Ian Fleming's original design of a playing card bordered by eight red hearts dripping with blood.

Kleinman said, "The hearts not only represent cards but the tribulations of Bond's love story. So I took that as inspiration to use playing card graphics in different ways in the titles," like a club representing a puff of gun smoke, and slashed


arteries spurting thousands of tiny hearts.

Kleinman decided not to use the female silhouettes commonly seen throughout the Bond title sequences, considering that the women did not fit with both the film's spirit and the storyline following Bond falling in love.

For the rest of the film, Chris Corbould , the special effects and miniature effects supervisor, returned to a more realistic style of film making and significantly reduced digital effects.

According to Corbould, "CGI is a great tool and can be very useful, but I will fight to the tooth and nail to do something for real.

It's the best way to go". First on the schedule were the scenes on the Madagascar building site, shot in the Bahamas on the site of a derelict hotel which Michael G.

The stunt teamfrom eliminating a country's most valuable resource.

A cryptic message from 's past sends him pitted against a mysterious terrorist organization called Spectre, and learns of its involvement in previous events of his most dangerous missions.

James Bond teams up with the lone survivor of a destroyed Russian research center to stop the hijacking of a nuclear space weapon by a fellow Agent formerly believed to be dead.

James Bond is sent to investigate the connection between a North Korean terrorist and a diamond mogul, who is funding the development of an international space weapon.

James Bond heads to stop a media mogul's plan to induce war between China and the UK in order to obtain exclusive global media coverage.

James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot when he protects an oil heiress from


her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.

A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and suffering from amnesia, before racing to elude assassins and attempting to regain his memory.

When Jason Bourne is framed for a CIA operation gone awry, he is forced to resume his former life as a trained assassin to survive.

While investigating a gold magnate's smuggling, James Bond uncovers a plot to contaminate the Fort Knox gold reserve.

Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

Jason Bourne dodges a ruthless C. James Bond goes on his first ever mission as a Le Chiffre is a banker to the world's terrorists.

He is participatingis promoted to the head of MI6. He learns that many British agents around the world have been eliminated by enemy spies because of their inability to resist sex.

Bond is also told that the "sex maniac" who was given the name of "James Bond" when the original Bond retired has gone to work in television. He also creates a rigorous programme to train male agents to ignore the charms of women.

Moneypenny recruits "Coop", a karate expert who begins training to resist seductive women: Mata destroys the photos. Le Chiffre's only remaining option is to raise the money by playing baccarat.

Later that night, Tremble observes Le Chiffre playing at the casino and realises that he is using infrared sunglasses to cheat.

Lynd steals the sunglasses, allowing Evelyn to eventually beat


Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat. Lynd is apparently abducted outside the casino, and Tremble is also kidnapped while pursuing her.

They discover that the casino is located atop a giant underground headquarters run by the evil Dr. Jimmy reveals that he plans to use biological warfare to make all women beautiful and kill all men over 4-footinch 1.

Jimmy has already captured The Detainer, and he tries to convince her to be his partner; she agrees, but only to dupe him into swallowing one of his "atomic time pills", turning him into a "walking atomic bomb".

Sir James, Moneypenny, Mata and Coop manage to escape from their cell and fight their way back to the Casino Director's office where Sir James establishes Lynd is a double agent.

The casino isthen overrun by secret agents and a battle ensues. American and French support arrive, but just add to the chaos. Eventually, Jimmy counts down his atomic explosion.

Sir James and all of his agents then appear in heaven, and Jimmy Bond is shown descending to Hell.

Major stars , such as George Raft and Jean-Paul Belmondo , were given top billing in the film's promotion and screen trailers despite the fact that they only appeared for a few minutes in the final scene.

Casino Royale also takes credit for the greatest number of actors in a Bond film either to have appeared or to go on to appear in the rest of the Eon series — besides Ursula Andress in Dr.

Jack Gwillim , who had a tiny role as a British


army officer, played a Royal Navy officer in Thunderball.

Milton Reid , who appears in a bit part as the temple guard, opening the door to Mata Bond's hall, played one of Dr. John Hollis , who plays the temple priest in Mata Bond's hall, went on to play the unnamed figure clearly intended to be Blofeld in the pre-credits sequence of For Your Eyes Only.

Hal Galili , who appears briefly as a US army officer at the auction, had earlier played gangster Jack Strap in Goldfinger. Well-established stars like Peter O'Toole and sporting legends like Stirling Moss took uncredited parts in the film just to be able to work with the other members of the cast.

The film also proved to be young Anjelica Huston 's first experience inthe film industry as she was called upon by her father, John Huston , to cover the screen shots of Deborah Kerr 's hands.

John Le Mesurier features in the early scenes of the film as M's driver. Feldman represented Ratoff's widow and obtained the Casino Royale rights.

Broccoli , who had a long time interest in adapting James Bond, offered to purchase the Casino Royale rights from Feldman, but he declined.

They eventually gave up once they saw the film Dr. The attempt at a co-production eventually fell through as Feldman frequently argued with Broccoli and Saltzman, specially regarding the profit divisions and when the Casino Royale adaptation would start production.

Feldman approached Sean Connery to play Bond, with Connery's offering to do the film for one million dollars being rejected.


Given Eon's series led to a spy film craze at the time, Feldman opted to make his film a spoof of the Bond series instead of a straightforward adaptation.

Ben Hecht's contribution to the project, if not the final result, was in fact substantial. The Oscar -winning writer was recruited by Feldman to produce a screenplay for the film and wrote several drafts, with various evolutions of the story incorporating different scenes and characters.

All of his treatments were "straight" adaptations, far closer to the original source novel than the spoof which the final production became. A draft from discovered in Hecht's papers — but which does not identify the screenwriter — is a direct adaptation of the novel, albeit with the Bond character absent, instead being replaced by apoker-playing American gangster.

Later drafts see vice made central to the plot, with the Le Chiffre character becoming head of a network of brothels as he is in the novel whose patrons are then blackmailed by Le Chiffre to fund Spectre an invention of the screenwriter.

The racy plot elements opened up by this change of background include a chase scene through Hamburg 's red light district that results in Bond escaping whilst disguised as a female mud wrestler.

New characters appear such as Lili Wing, a brothel madam and former lover of Bond whose ultimate fate is to be crushed in the back of a garbage truck, and Gita, wife of Le Chiffre.

The beautiful Gita, whose face and throat are hideously disfigured as a result of Bond using her as


a shield during a gunfight in the same sequence which sees Wing meet her fate, goes on to become the prime protagonist in the torture scene that features in the book, a role originally Le Chiffre's.

Virtually nothing from Hecht's scripts was ever filmed. He died from a heart attack in April , two days before he was due to present it to Feldman. Time reported in that the script had been completely re-written by Billy Wilder , and by the time the film reached production only the idea that the name James Bond should be given to a number of other agents remained.

This key plot device in the finished film, in the case of Hecht's version, occurs after the demise of the original James Bond an event whichhappened prior to the beginning of his story which, as Hecht's M puts it "not only perpetuates his memory, but confuses the opposition.

Extensive sequences also featured London, notably Trafalgar Square and the exterior of 10 Downing Street. Mereworth Castle in Kent was used as the home of Sir James Bond, which is blown up at the start of the film.

The production proved to be rather troubled, with five different directors helming different segments of the film and with stunt co-ordinator Richard Talmadge co-directing the final sequence.

Val Guest was given the responsibility of splicing the various "chapters" together, and was offered the unique title of "Co-ordinating Director" but declined, claiming the chaotic plot would not reflect well on him if he were so credited.

His extra credit was labelled "Additional


Sequences" instead. Part of the behind-the-scenes drama of this film's production concerned the filming of the segments involving Peter Sellers.

Screenwriter Wolf Mankowitz declared that Sellers felt intimidated by Orson Welles to the extent that, except for a couple of shots, neither was in the studio simultaneously.

Other versions of the legend depict the drama stemming from Sellers being slighted, in favour of Welles, by Princess Margaret whom Sellers knew during her visit to the set.

Welles also insisted on performing magic tricks as Le Chiffre, and the director obliged. Director Val Guest wrote that Welles did not think much of Sellers, and had refused to work with "that amateur".

Director Joseph McGrath , a personal friend of Sellers, was punched by the actor when he complained about Sellers' behavior on theset. Some biographies of Sellers suggest that he took the role of Bond to heart, and was annoyed at the decision to make Casino Royale a comedy, as he wanted to play Bond straight.

This is illustrated in somewhat fictionalised form in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers , based on the biography by Roger Lewis , who has claimed that Sellers kept re-writing and improvising scenes to make them play seriously.

This story is in agreement with the observation that the only parts of the film close to the book are the ones featuring Sellers and Welles.

Jean-Paul Belmondo and George Raft received major billing , even though both actors appear only briefly.

Both appear during the climactic brawl at the end, Raft flipping his trademark coin and


promptly shooting himself dead with a backward-firing pistol, while Belmondo appears wearing a fake moustache as the French Foreign Legion officer who requires an English phrase book to translate " merde!

At the Intercon science fiction convention held in Slough in , David Prowse commented on his part in this film, apparently his big-screen debut.

He claimed that he was originally asked to play "Super Pooh", a giant Winnie-the-Pooh in a superhero costume who attacks Tremble during the Torture of The Mind sequence.

This idea, as with many others in the film's script, was rapidly dropped, and Prowse was re-cast as a Frankenstein -type Monster for the closing scenes.The attack on a Sikh man outside his house in Kent, Washington, was the third incident of suspected hate crime against an Indian in the United States in a span of 10 days.

In today's attack, 39-year-od Deep Rai was shot at by an unidentified person who allegedly yelled "Go Back to Your Own Country".

The attack on Rai comes barely 48 hours after an Indian store owner was shot dead outside his house in South Carolina in a suspected case of hate crime.

The string of attacks on Indians, which started with the killing of an Indian techie in Kansas, has led to more people asking the Indian government to raise the issue of security with the US at the highest level.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today tweeted: "Two


more shocking killings of Indians in the US. GoI must take this up with the US govt on an urgent basis".

HERE IS ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE ATTACKS: The 39-year-old Sikh was working on his car in front of his house in Kent city of Washington state when the gunman described as white, who had his face partially covered, opened fire at him, police said. "We're early on in our investigation," the Seattle Times quoted Kent Police chief Ken Thomas as saying. "We are treating this as a very serious incident." According to KING5 TV, the incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime and police had reached out to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for help. In the recent spate of attacks, Harnish Patelof Lancaster in South Carolina, was killed on Thursday, and Srinivas Kuchibhotla was murdered on February 22 in Olathe, Kansas. Another Indian, Alok Madasani, who was injured in the Olathe attack, survived. Satwinder Kaur, a candidate for Kent City Council, said on Facebook that Kent Mayor Suzette Cooke has reached out to the victim. "This incident is such a big deal because hate crimes to this extent do not happen in our community," Kaur said. Sikh community leader Jasmit Singh told the Times that the 39-year-old was released from the hospital."He is just very shaken up, both him and his family," Singh said. "We're all kind of at a loss in terms of what's going on right now. This is just bringing it home. The climate of hate


that has been created doesn't distinguish between anyone." According to Singh, Sikh men in area around Seattle have experienced "a kind of prejudice, a kind of xenophobia that is nothing that we've seen in the recent past". Before the Kent attack, the Sikh Coalition had released an advisory asking the community members to report instances of people "saying hateful things about your Sikh identity". In the aftermath of the Kansas attack, the coalition said: "We should not wait until someone gets hurt or killed to report hate incidents." Kent is about 30 kms from Seattle and is near the Congressional constituency of Pramila Jayapal, the Indian-origin member of the House of Representatives. Jayapal tweeted: "Thoughts and prayers to family and entire Sikh community in the wake of horrificshooting. This must be investigated as #HateCrime." On Thursday night, Patel was shot outside his house in Lancaster. Officials do not believe it was a hate crime. "I don't have any reason to believe that this was racially motivated," county Sheriff Barry Faile said on Friday. In the February 22 Kansas incident, an American, Ian Grillot, who tried to stop the shooting, was also shot and injured. A white Navy veteran Adam Purinton, 51, was arrested and charged with murder in the killing of Kuchibhotla. Purinton reportedly said that he had shot two Iranians. In his address to the joint session of the Congress, Donald Trump had said: "Last week's shooting in Kansas city reminds us that while we may be a nation divided on policies, we are


a country that stands united in condemning hate and evil in all its forms." At a news conference in Washington on Friday, Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said he had discussed the Kent incident with administration and Congressional leaders during his visit. "What we heard from very high-level, cabinet level that we should regard this as an act of an individual," he said. "The American justice system was at work, it could bring the perpetrators of this act to justice. It is being prosecuted as a hate crime," Jaishankar said. Hate crimes have been a part of the American fabric, including in the liberal state of Washington. In Auburn in 2012, a Sikh taxi driver was attacked by a man who thought he was Muslim. The attacker was sentencedto three years in prison for the crime. In 2015, Hindu place of worship in Kent, the Sanatan Dharma Temple, was attacked and had its windows smashed and the word "Fear," painted on it. Another Hindu temple in nearby Bothell was also attacked. Neither of these hate crimes were condemned by former President Barack Obama or the media.

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sides.” The very fine Nazis and very fine white nationalists and very fine members of the Ku Klux Klan were understandably grateful. Much of the rest of the country was just as understandably appalled.

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Ryan and McConnell were in the latter group. So were a parcel of esteemed corporate executives. They rebuked the president for being so considerate of Nazis, neo- or otherwise, and the president responded by disbanding the White House advisory board to which the executives belonged — once they had decided to dissolve it themselves. McConnell and Ryan, their backs up, entered the fray. “Both Republicans called some of the CEOs and privately praised them,” Woodward writes. (The italics are my own.)

There you have it. The chief executives stuck their necks out, and the leaders ofenhances confidence in the surgical technique employed.
From these objectives it can be seen that the present invention includes first a cinch suture having first and second segments and a locking mechanism joining these segments wherein the locking mechanism reacts to formations on the first segment to lock the ligature in place and prevent loosening thereafter. The locking mechanism has rows of teeth positioned to interact with engaging elements carried by the first segment as the first segment is passed through the locking mechanism to secure the first segment against removal. The locking mechanism teeth are flexible and movable and include preferably two rows of teeth that are in a face to face offset relationship. The first segment engaging elements have a spherical configuration, and the first segment passing


through the locking mechanism forms an endless loop for encircling and closing an opening form by surgical excision of an organ or vessel.
The locking mechanism has a segment receiving entrance and a segment removal exit which facilitates the positioning of the first segment into the segment receiving entrance and out of the segment removal exit. The two rows of offset teeth alternately engage spherical engaging elements thereagainst to provide minute adjustment in the tightness of the suture and place pressure on the suture to hold it firmly in place.
The invention also includes a method of applying the cinch suture which includes passing the first segment through the locking mechanism to form an endless loop, positioning the endless loop around the opening, pulling the first segment through the lockingHistory of Urology

The Division of Urology at Western University its beginning in 1954, when a young Urologist, Dr. Lloyd McAninch was appointed as Chief of the newly created subdivision of General Surgery. Dr. McAninch trained in General Surgery at Western University and Westminster Hospital and in Urology under the pioneer of Urology in Southwestern Ontario, Dr. Eldon Busby. Dr. McAninch did additional urology in Toronto and as a travelling Fellow, visited many centres in the United States.

The excitement of renal transplantation came to Western in the late 1960’s and Dr. McAninch became the leader in organizing animal research and the development of a dialysis unit at Victoria Hospital. In 1966, three human kidney transplants were performed as a team effort involving Urologists, Vascular Surgeons and Nephrologists.

In 1970 to


1972, the face of Urology was greatly altered by the construction of University Hospital on campus joining the medical school which had moved there a few years earlier. The Urology Division at the University Hospital was, from the outset, constructed as a nephron-urological unit. Renal transplantation became a major player in the Multi-Organ Transplant Program and was always performed by the Urology staff.

Dr. McAninch retired in 1974 due to ill health. Dr. McAninch’s first two residents, Dr. Jack Wyatt and Dr. Jack Sales were Chiefs of Urology Services at Victoria Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospitals respectively. On Dr. McAninch’s retirement, Dr. Wyatt became Professor and Chairman of the Western University Division of Urology. During Dr. Wyatt’s tenure as Program Director, the residency program expanded and training became moreformalized.

Dr. Joseph Chin became Chairman and Program Director in 1990 and oversaw the consolidation of the training program to two sites, St. Joseph’s Health Centre and London Health Sciences Centre – Victoria Campus. In 1993, Dr. John Denstedt became Resident Program Director and in 1998 the reigns were passed to Dr. Hassan Razvi. In 2005, Dr Razvi became Program Chairman and Dr. Jonathan Izawa took on the role of Resident Program Director. In 2009, Dr. Gerald Brock assumed the resident program directorship. The current resident Program Director is Dr. Alp Sener.

Dr. Hassan Razvi continues to hold the role of city-wide Chair of the Division of Urology, and is site-chief at both St. Joseph’s Hospital and the London Health Sciences Centre.


antidepressants (SSRIs) and serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs).

The researchers revealed that more than 18,000 people took part in the trials of these drugs. According to the researchers, they found that the drugs double the risk of suicide and aggressive behavior in people who are under the age of 18. Although a similar link was not seen in adults, the authors said misreporting of trial data could have led to a ‘serious under-estimation of the harms.’

The study, therefore, fingered pharmaceutical companies for failing to report side-effects and even deaths linked to the drugs. After comparing clinical trial information to actual patient reports, the researchers clearly found pharmaceutical companies had regularly misclassified deaths and suicidal events in people taking antidepressants, to favor their products.

Observers who looked at the findings of thestudy said it is deeply worrying, disturbing even, that the clinical trials were deliberately misreported by the pharmaceutical companies.

Telegraph reports that in the United Kingdom, the study looked at the five most common drugs prescribed for depression, including Prozac. It analyzed the published summary reports provided by pharmaceutical companies to drugs regulators and compared it with the raw data from clinical trials.

Four deaths were misreported by one unnamed pharmaceutical company, who claimed they had occurred after the trials had stopped. One patient strangled himself unexpectedly after taking venlafaxine, but because he survived for five days, he was excluded from the results because it was claimed he was no longer on the trial while he was dying in hospital from the self-inflicted injuries.

More than half of the suicide attempts


young adults, they should first be given exercise and psychotherapy.

A man from the United Kingdom, whose son committed suicide after taking Citalopram, has been monitoring suicides related to antidepressant medication for the last three years. He has set up an anonymous campaigning website AntiDepAware.

He added his voice to the study, revealing that this month, there have been at least 35 inquests with deaths linked to antidepressants. Last year, he recorded more than 450 deaths linked to antidepressants.

Statistics show that the United Kingdom has the seventh highest prescribing rate for antidepressants in the Western world. About four million British citizens consume the drugs each year, giving the pharmaceutical companies more than £200 million each year.

You want to support Anonymous Independent & Investigative News? Please, follow us on Twitter: Followan important reason for holistically understanding Dr.
King’s activism and intellectual thought, and particularly his move towards
eradicating poverty and promoting economic democracy, is that he was pushed to
these actions by his dissenters and by critiques from the Left.The young people in Watts who rejected his
prescriptions after the 1965 rebellion; the more radical elements of student
organizers that wanted him to challenge the exclusion and inequality produced
by the U.S. racial system in direct and confrontational language, not conciliatorily
and passively; and the labor leaders and intellectuals that pressed upon him
the urgency and profoundness of employment discrimination and economic
exploitation—these are the central factors that led King to
widen his scope and broaden his goals.In large part, that is how he ends up in Chicago protesting housing
discrimination in 1966, at Riverside Church speaking out against


the broad
based leadership and mass movement we need in order to actualize “the change we
can believe in.”Not solely the hands
that have touched one leader’s bible.

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Manager Koeman has a record of always including his best players for the job at hand, provided they are fit enough. Wanyama was available again to face West Bromwich, so in he came, although some fans had misgivings; there remain doubts about Pellè’s immediate fitness, so he was on the bench, where he was joined by Romeu, who has been performing particularly well; Clasie, having completed his first 90 minute game for the club in midweek, had a rest. As well as falling foul of Wanyama’s return, Romeu was also overlooked in favour of Ward-Prowse, and that proved to be a very good decision within five minutes when Mané won free kick near the edge of the box and Ward-Prowse at last converted one of theseopportunities after a number of close calls. West Brom were expected to be difficult opponents to break down, so an early lead was welcome, although Ward-Prowse was in some rare action at the Southampton end and was just about adjudged to have got enough of the ball in an awkward challenge on Gardner. Targett in midfield is a new experience for everyone, and that includes opponents who don’t know what to expect when he gets forward – Dawson was unable to cope and conceded a 35th minute penalty. Ward-Prowse is entrusted to spot kick duties in the England U21 set up, so that got him the job ahead of Mané, and as Myhill dived very early to his left, the ball was duly despatched into the other corner.


3-D printed anatomy to mark a new era for medical training

The creators of a unique kit containing anatomical body parts produced by 3-D printing say it will revolutionize medical education and training, especially in countries where cadaver use is problematic.

The “3D Printed Anatomy Series”, developed by experts from Monash University, is thought to be the first commercially available resource of its kind. The kit contains no human tissue, yet it provides all the major parts of the body required to teach anatomy of the limbs, chest, abdomen, head and neck.

Prof. Paul McMenamin, Director of the University’s Centre for Human Anatomy Education, said the simple and cost-effective anatomical kit would dramatically improve trainee doctors’ and other health professionals’ knowledge and could even contribute to the development of new surgicalIRVINE, Calif. -- It has been eight years since veteran center John Sullivan joined legendary quarterback Brett Favre on the Minnesota Vikings, the last stop in what became a Hall of Fame career.

But hearing Favre's name still makes Sullivan's right buttock sting.

"He used to smack your ass so hard," Sullivan, now the Los Angeles Rams' starting center, said after a recent practice. "You'd be standing in a walk-through and you had to keep your head on a swivel because you just knew if Brett came up behind you, you were getting one, and you were going to have a handprint on there for a couple days."

Sullivan was Favre's center in 2009, the year he made the Pro Bowl and led the Vikings to the NFC Championship Game at


the age of 40. He still laughs at all the times Favre used to make stuff up as he went along. Like that one two-minute drill in Pittsburgh, when Favre didn't bother calling plays or protections. At one point he barked instructions to one of his receivers, yelled at Sullivan to snap him the ball and completed a five-yard out. The offense and defense was so flat-footed that the linemen didn't even make contact with one another.

"He was an amazing player in terms of having a very natural feel for the game; instincts," said Sullivan, also Favre's center during his final season in 2010. "You talk about a youthful exuberance about the sport -- he was 40 years old and he was playing like he was a 10-year-oldkid in the backyard. It was refreshing for everybody. I was a 23-year-old kid fresh out of college, and even for me it was refreshing at that point in time."

Sullivan, now 32, is surrounded by youth these days. His quarterback, Jared Goff, is 22, the youngest among the 10 players Sullivan has ever snapped the ball to in an NFL game. His boss, Sean McVay, is 31, the youngest head coach in NFL history.

Sullivan played under McVay last year, when McVay was in his last of three years as the Redskins' offensive coordinator. Back issues began to plague Sullivan after a six-year run of being one of the game's better centers from 2009 to '14, a stretch when he started 93 of a possible 96 regular-season games. He


spent all of the 2015 season on injured reserve, the product of two back surgeries, then lost the starting job in 2016 and was released at the end of August.

Rams center John Sullivan on Sean McVay: "He's an incredible motivator, amazing with the X's and O's, and so far proving himself as a great head coach in terms of leading this organization and changing the culture ..." Kirby Lee/USA TODAY Sports

The Redskins picked him up on Sept. 27, shortly after starter Kory Lichtensteiger injured his calf. It was a Tuesday, heading into Week 4, the day of the Redskins' walk-through. Sullivan flew into Washington, D.C., that morning, worked out, signed his contract and went straight into an offensive meeting before even having a chance to text his wife.

There,one game during that 2016 season, then re-joined McVay with the Rams, where he will replace former starter Tim Barnes at center. McVay believes Sullivan is fully healthy now. His presence in the room, with the knowledge he has of his offense, "has helped immensely," McVay said.

"He's one of the more impressive players I've ever been around, just in terms of his above the neck and the way that he's able to translate things from the meeting room to the grass," McVay went on about Sullivan. "He truly is one of those linemen -- like we talk about with the quarterbacks -- that's an extension of the coaching staff. He's got a great grasp of what we want to get done. He knows why, so he's able to


help his teammates out. He's been a breath of fresh air."

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More than the offense, though, Sullivan knows McVay. He knows his thought process on protections, he knows the way his offenses function, and he knows how he likes to attack. McVay is trying to do for the Rams what he did for the Redskins, even though his new personnel is significantly younger and less accomplished. He's going from Jordan Reed and Vernon Davis to Tyler Higbee and Gerald Everett, two tight ends who have combined for 11 career catches. He's going from Kirk Cousins to Goff, who's coming off a disastrous rookie season. He's going from DeSean Jackson and Pierre Garcon to Sammy Watkins and Robert Woods, two formerAuthorities say the driver of a tractor and several train crew members were reported injured when an Amtrak train hit a farm tractor stopped on the tracks in Pennsylvania.

Lancaster County emergency dispatchers say the tractor was upended by the train in the crash reported at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Rapho Township. Police told WGAL-TV that the driver sustained a head injury, but the severity of the injury wasn't immediately available.

Amtrak spokeswoman Beth Toll told LNP newspaper that none of the 40 passengers were injured but three crew members were being treated for minor injuries.

Amtrak said in a Twitter post that Keystone Train 648, which runs from Harrisburg to New York City, was stopped outside of Elizabethtown and customers were being transferred to another train.


Constipated goldfish operated on by North Walsham vet Published duration 2 January 2015

image copyright Faye Bethell image caption The goldfish was kept wet throughout the operation and its heart rate monitored with a tiny probe

A goldfish lover from Norfolk paid hundreds of pounds in vets' fees when his pet became constipated.

The owner took his ailing fish to Toll Barn Veterinary Centre in North Walsham where vets told him it was constipated and an operation would cost about £300.

Vet Faye Bethell used anaesthetised water to knock out the goldfish before removing the blockages.

"At the end of the day they're all pets and everybody does have a commitment to their pet," Miss Bethell said.

"[The goldfish] was constipated because he had a lump blocking his bottom, rather than because of hisTorts for the law governing this case, we have not been unmindful of that Court's decision in Menefee v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 329 A.2d 216 (Pa. 1974). Menefee, the plaintiff, alleged that he had been a successful radio personality. His employer terminated his employment and allegedly told the press that he was "incompetent in the performance of his assigned broadcast duties." Menefee died after filing suit. Under Pennsylvania law, libel and slander causes of action abate at death but other tort claims survive. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that Menefee had a cause of action for "untruthful disparagement" of his interest in his broadcast career, which was governed by the two-year statute. It relied upon SS 624 and 633 of the Restatement (First) of Torts, the then


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between said discharge ports; and the web exit side edge parts each having a curved surface extending from the coating liquid discharge passage to the tip part of each of the dies so that a coating pressure of the coating liquid discharged from the discharge passages increases from a lower level adjacent said web entry side edge parts to a higher level adjacent the web exit side edge parts.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,174,372 discloses a coating apparatus for coating opposing sides of a web, such as an elongated web of cloth, plastic film, metal sheet, glass plate, metal sheet in a net-like shape and a porous metal sheet, traveling in a traveling direction along a transfer paths with a coating solution, comprising: dies installed on opposing sides of saidThe parents of James Bulger, the two-year-old boy murdered in Liverpool in 1993, have criticised the makers of a short film about the case, which has been shortlisted for an Oscar nomination.

Detainment, written and directed by Irish film-maker Vincent Lambe, is based on transcripts of the police interrogation of Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, who were 10 years old at the time and were subsequently convicted of the murder. It won best short film and special jury award in 2018 at the Young Director Award, a fringe event that takes place during the Cannes Lions festival (which in turn is separate from the high profile Cannes international film festival), and went on to win the grand prix at the Odense film festival in Denmark, which qualified it to


happening in the future is if we understand the cause of it.”

Thompson and Venables were both released in 2001 and given new identities. Venables was returned to prison in 2010 over child pornography offences; after being released in 2013, he pleaded guilty to child pornography offences in 2018, and is currently imprisoned.

The Oscar nominations will be announced on 22 January.

•This article was amended on 9 January 2019 to clarify that while it takes place during the Cannes Lions festival, the Young Director award is separately organised.As Pete explains in the video below, this particular Gorgosaurus was particularly interesting due to the number of severe injuries it sustained in life – and the fact that it live long enough for them to heal, showing scar tissue and unusual bone growth.

What Pete and his team from the Black Hills Institute uncovered when they were casting the original fossil is perhaps the most surprising – this Gorgosaur may have had brain cancer. Check it out in this video:

We were totally amazed and overwhelmed by the fabulous dinosaur drawings that poured through our doors throughout the contest. The creativity – and scientific understanding – of our entrants is astounding.

The contest was judged by HMNS curator of paleontology Dr. Robert T Bakker, and winners were chosen in two


him as a mummy. I decided to have the water up almost to his knee, but with enough room to let you see the details of his wound. One of my favorite parts about drawing this scene was there was a lot of splashing and action with the blood trickling down and the rain. The blood from his side oozes from his side and then splashes in the water.

I was able to show this by shading dark to light under the water ripples so it would look like it faded. I found it challenging to show the rain hitting Leonardo and sliding down his body off into the water after being blown by the wind. The part of the drawing that took me the longest was all ofa dig site for the winter weather.

In the second, we’re pleased to bring you an update from Tim Quarles. Tim was a member of the team that found and excavated Leonardo, the famous mummified dinosaur that is now on display here in Houston. He was also there for our recent trip to Malta, where Leonardo was found. So, the team was thrilled that he happened to be in Texas for a few days, and was able to stop by our dig site. In his update, Tim gives us his impressions from digging in the Permian for the first time.


ever taxed itself -- or regulated itself -- into prosperity. Even the authoritarian regime of the Chinese Communists have stumbled into modernity by freeing up the market, not through yet another disastrous and murderous Five Year Plan.

The ONLY thing that recommends collusion between Big Government and Big Business is the psychological appeal: it reassures the leftist of the high-mindedness of his oh-so-good intentions while feeding the more reptilian desire for control of other people.

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British Columbia's Climate Action Plan perpetrated by Gordon Campbell in co-operation with Arnold Schwartzenager and others a few years back is still running full-speed-ahead. It's full of junk science and climate alarmism.

... In hindsight, it was a case of identity theft, an act of historical vandalism. A quarter-century ago, 13 members ofand to prevent movement of the bicycle on the rack assembly. Furthermore, straps are often employed and attached to the cradles, which also serves to prevent movement of the bicycle on the rack assembly. Typically, the straps are secured via latches and then wrapped over a tube of the bicycle. This prevents the bicycles from falling off the rack when the vehicle is in motion.
A difficulty arises, however, with the attachment of a strap to the cradle. Latches are provided on the bicycle carrier for enabling attachment of the strap to the cradle. However, when the straps are attached to the latches to secure a bicycle in a cradle, they are typically oriented parallel with a longitudinal axis of the cradle and the rack extension arms. As a


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radio signals, the aircraft DME computes the distance from the TACAN station. The principal drawback of this system is the complexity and expense of the airborne equipment required for interrogating the TACAN station and processing the reply signal; these factors render DME practical only for relatively expensive business aircraft, and for the larger and more sophisticated military and commercial aircraft.
The Nondirectional Beacon and the Instrument Landing System represent still further parts of the existing patchwork of air traffic control systems. The Nondirectional Beacon (NDB) is essentially a "homing" transmitter usable for nonprecision navigation and approaches. The Instrument Landing System (ILS), much more sophisticated, is implemented by special radio equipment provided for certain runways at some airports. The ILS actually consists of three separate radio systems (all unrelated to"party line" basis and creating the danger that information intended for one aircraft will be erroneously acted on by another. During approach to landing, moreover, communications frequencies must often be switched manually as the aircraft passes from the jurisdiction of one ground controller to another, thus creating additional distraction for the aircraft's crew at a time when many other matters require their attention.
Various proposals have been made for supplementing or replacing the existing fragmented system of air traffic control and navigation with a unified, comprehensive system covering large areas of the earth's surface. One particularly ambitious attempt along these lines is the Navstar system, also referred to as the Global Positioning System (GPS), currently undergoing development in the United States by the Department of Defense. Military aircraft have


ranging signals to the vehicle and also directly back to the ground station. Equipment carried aboard the vehicle repeats the two ranging signals retransmitted by the satellites and relays them back to the ground station through the respective satellites. Based on the measured differences between the arrival times at the ground station of the directly and indirectly retransmitted ranging signals associated with each satellite, the ground station computes the range of the vehicle from each satellite. Alternatively, a single nonsynchronous satellite may be interrogated at two known orbital positions to obtain the two range values. In either case, if the vehicle is located on the earth's surface, these two ranges define two circles of position intersecting at two points, one of which is the vehicle's position and thethe craft and their time difference determined by craft-carried equipment to generate a hyperboloid which intersects the earth's surface (or, in the case of an aircraft having a known altitude, a spherical surface above the surface of the earth) to define a line of position for the craft. A second, intersecting position line is determined by measuring the round-trip transit time of an interrogation signal generated by the craft and relayed back to the craft by one of the satellites, thereby locating the craft position. Alternatively, the second position line is obtained by determining the sum of the round-trip transit times of the interrogation signal through the two satellites, which produces an elliptical position line that intersects the original hyperboloid-defined position line at the craft location. To prevent


collision avoidance. In a second version of the system, signals coded with aircraft-identifying addresses are transmitted by the ground station and relayed to the identified aircraft via a pair of satellites. The aircraft carries a transponder which detects these signals and transmits a return signal that is relayed back to the ground station through the two satellites. Highly directive antennas are utilized at the ground station to separate the signals from the two satellites. The return signal includes altitude information derived from a radio or barometric altimeter aboard the aircraft. Based on the transit times of the signals relayed back to the ground station through the two satellites, a ground station computer calculates the position of the aircraft using the given altitude information. The position and aircraft identificationmaximum length of a sheet. Accordingly, even when a small sheet is set (for example, B5 size) and two sheet stacks can be arranged side-by-side on the stacker tray 505, only one sheet stack is possible. Accordingly, when a small sheet is stacked, the conventional stacker apparatus has an empty space X within the stacker apparatus. Thus, the space in the conventional stacker apparatus is not efficiently used. Further, the conventional stacker apparatus has to be stopped while a user removes the sheets, thus a large number of sheets cannot be continuously stacked.
Accordingly, a conventional image-forming apparatus equipped with such a stacker apparatus is unable to continuously stack a large number of sheets and has low efficiency in image forming.


watched one NFL playoff game in the mid 80's that went to a second overtime because of that rule. Very long game, since NFL overtime is no Kansas Plan.

Here is the aforementioned game:

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The New York Jets were largely in control of this game, and after a Freeman McNeil 25 yard touchdown, giving the Jets a 20-10 lead with 4:14 left in the game, the "Dog pound" in Cleveland Stadium became a dour place. In a January 2, 1987 article, the New York Times identified Mark Gastineau as "the Jet who must make the big play on defense." On the Browns next drive, Gastineau did made the big play - a roughing the passer penalty on 3 and 24; a costly penalty, giving the Browns a valuable first down.Browns Quarterback Bernie Kosar turned that opportunity into a 68-yard scoring drive. The Jets went three-and-out in their next possession, setting up a final drive for the Browns. With seven seconds left in regulation, a 37-yard pass play from Kosar to Receiver Webster Slaughter set up the game tying field goal by Mark Moseley. After the Jets punted on their first overtime possession, the Browns drove to the Jets' 5 yard line, where despite the apparent sure victory, Moseley missed a 23-yarder wide right. After a series of punts shared between the teams, Kosar again led the Browns on a 60-yard drive, ending the game two minutes, two seconds into the second overtime on a 27-yard field goal. In that game, Kosar set post season records for completions,


attempts, and passing yards.

Besides the 2008 Baltimore Ravens, has a team ever lost in the same year to teams quarterbacked by brothers? So, a team would have to lose to the Indianapolis Colts (QB'ed by Peyton Manning) and the New York Giants (QB'ed by Eli Manning) in the same year?

Of course not! I watched one NFL playoff game in the mid 80's that went to a second overtime because of that rule. Very long game, since NFL overtime is no Kansas Plan.

Here is the aforementioned game:

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The New York Jets were largely in control of this game, and after a Freeman McNeil 25 yard touchdown, giving the Jets a 20-10 lead with 4:14 left in the game, the "Dog pound" in Cleveland Stadium became a dour place. In aJanuary 2, 1987 article, the New York Times identified Mark Gastineau as "the Jet who must make the big play on defense." On the Browns next drive, Gastineau did made the big play - a roughing the passer penalty on 3 and 24; a costly penalty, giving the Browns a valuable first down. Browns Quarterback Bernie Kosar turned that opportunity into a 68-yard scoring drive. The Jets went three-and-out in their next possession, setting up a final drive for the Browns. With seven seconds left in regulation, a 37-yard pass play from Kosar to Receiver Webster Slaughter set up the game tying field goal by Mark Moseley. After the Jets punted on their first overtime possession, the Browns drove to the Jets' 5 yard line, where despite the


apparent sure victory, Moseley missed a 23-yarder wide right. After a series of punts shared between the teams, Kosar again led the Browns on a 60-yard drive, ending the game two minutes, two seconds into the second overtime on a 27-yard field goal. In that game, Kosar set post season records for completions, attempts, and passing yards.

Besides the 2008 Baltimore Ravens, has a team ever lost in the same year to teams quarterbacked by brothers? So, a team would have to lose to the Indianapolis Colts (QB'ed by Peyton Manning) and the New York Giants (QB'ed by Eli Manning) in the same year?

When was the last time a pair of brothers QB'ed different NFL teams at the same time?

I find it interesting that the Giants ran the balldown the throats (200+ yards rushing) of the best rush defense in the NFL.

"Only six other pairs of brothers have played quarterback in the league since it formed in the 1920s, and none of those duos have even come close to matching the Detmers' combined longevity. Ty broke into the league with Green Bay in 1992 after a Heisman Trophy-winning career at BYU, and Koy joined him in Philadelphia five years later after starring at Colorado."

I find it interesting that the Giants ran the ball down the throats (200+ yards rushing) of the best rush defense in the NFL.

Ravens don't talk as much trash under their new coach and the Giants took exception to the trash coming out of Ray Lewis' mouth. He's past his prime and the


design of ‹WormUp HOME›. In the final analysis they wanted to create a product, that is not only relatively cheap to produce, but also easy to use and satisfies the aesthetic requirements of its urban target group. Luiz Schumacher, who studied Industrial Design at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), therefore designed several prototypes. The first consisted of three stackable containers made of plastic. After the initial trials, it became obvious that the material allows too little oxygen to circulate and is therefore not suitable – both from a functional and aesthetic perspective. Wood was also not very successful in the trials because it can easily become distorted with high levels of moisture. So finally Luiz tried clay: Although the material is slightly heavier than wood or plastic,HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday evening for the fatal shooting of a San Antonio convenience store owner despite pleas from some of the victim's family to spare his life.

Christopher Young, 34, was put to death by lethal injection after courts turned down appeals that the state parole board improperly rejected his clemency request because he was black.

Young never denied the slaying, which was recorded on a store surveillance camera, but he insisted that he was drunk and didn't intend to kill Hasmukh "Hash" Patel, 53, during an attempted robbery after drinking nearly two dozen beers and then doing cocaine on Nov. 21, 2004.

Christopher Young in an undated photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice on Monday. Texas Department of Criminal Justice /


Reuters

Mitesh Patel, the victim's son, said he supported Young's clemency bid because "nothing positive comes from his execution" and because carrying out the punishment would leave Young's three teenage daughters without a father.

Patel met privately with Young in prison on Monday.

"I don't agree with the state's choice to execute him," he told the San Antonio Express-News after the meeting.

Asked by the warden Tuesday whether he had a final statement, Young said he wanted to make sure that his victim's family knew he loved them "like they love me."

"Make sure the kids in the world know I'm being executed and those kids I've been mentoring keep this fight going," he added.

As the lethal dose of the sedative pentobarbital began taking effect, he twice used an obscenity to say hecould taste it and that it was burning.

As he slipped into unconsciousness, he said something unintelligible and began taking shallow breaths. He stopped moving within about 30 seconds and was pronounced dead at 6:38 p.m. (7:38 p.m. ET).

Young became the 13th prisoner put to death in the United States this year and the eighth in Texas, one more than all of 2017 in the nation's busiest capital punishment state. At least seven other Texas inmates have execution dates in the coming months.

Young's attorneys sued the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles after the panel last week rejected a clemency plea at which they argued that Young was "no longer the young man he was when he arrived" on death row, that he was "truly remorseful" and that Patel's


son didn't want the execution to take place.

In a federal civil rights suit, Young's attorneys argued that a white Texas inmate, Thomas Whitaker, received a rare commutation earlier this year as his execution was imminent for the slaying of his mother and his brother.

Young was black, and race improperly "appears to be the driving force in this case," one of the lawyers, David Dow, said in the appeal.

A federal judge in Houston dismissed the lawsuit and refused to stop the execution. Hours later on Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down an appeal of that ruling. Young's attorneys didn't take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Young and his attorneys argued that he was no longer a member of the Bloods street gang, that heLiterature, Lucidity, Black Bough, Poetry Magazine, Gareth Blackmore’s Unusual Tales, Demonground, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and others.

In 2002 she started her own publishing company, Bards and Sages. The company has gone from having two titles to over one hundred titles between their print and digital products.

In 2009, she launched the Bards and Sages Quarterly, a literary journal of speculative fiction. In 2012 and 2013, she served as a judge for the IBPA's Benjamin Franklin Awards.


Each week RideApart looks back at key milestones in motorcycle history from technical innovations to significant model introductions to racing successes and, of course, some of the disastrous things we’d rather forget. This week it’s a former 500cc Grand Prix World Champion, Marco Lucchinelli, whose life away from the track was as intense and dramatic as it was on the track.

Italian Lucchinelli began his career in 1975 with Laverda racing in endurance events. His wild, fearless racing style quickly caught the attention of Yamaha who sponsored a bike for him to compete in the Italian National Championship as well as a 350cc ride in the 1975 Nations Grand Prix.

The following season Lucchinelli moved up to the big league with Suzuki taking fourth place in the 1976 500cc WorldChampionship. He switched back to Yamaha in 1977 but with not much success before returning to Suzuki for three more years. By 1980, Lucchinelli was clearly on a roll. He finished third that year behind Kenny Roberts and Randy Mamola.

It was the 1981 500cc Grand Prix World Championship, riding a Robert Galliana-backed Suzuki RG500, that was to be Lucchinelli’s best year ever. He won the season opener – the Imola 200 in Italy – and then went on to nab five Grands Prix wins, battling with Mamola throughout the season and eventually snatching the World Championship title.

After that his racing career started to diminish. In 1983, Lucchinelli rode for Honda with the then new NS500 with Freddie Spencer as teammate but with little success. He then raced for


Cagiva in 1984 and 1985 before switching to single seater cars in Formula 3000 with a Lola-Ford.

However, motorcycle racing called him back and in 1987 he took a popular win at the Daytona Battle of the Twins on a Ducati 851. For 1988 he joined Ducati fulltime taking two wins in the World Superbike Championship before finally retiring and accepting the role as Ducati’s WSC team manager.

It was then that Lucchinelli’s life took on a whole different direction. In December 1990, just after Ducati won its first ever World Superbike Championship at Philip Island, Australia, with Raymond Roche, Lucchinelli and two Ducati mechanics were traveling across a bridge in the team’s support vehicle. As they crossed the bridge a front tire blew out causing the vehicle to veeroff the side of the bridge. It was only thanks to a steel cable that had got entangled in their car they did not plunge 75 feet into the ocean below.

The following year, things got even worse Lucchinelli. His wild off circuit life was well know within the motorcycle racing community, but it was stunned on December 9, 1991, when still working as Ducati’s team manager, Lucchinelli was arrested on suspicion of running an international drug ring.

It was alleged that along with four accomplices, Lucchinelli had been importing cocaine from South America to Bologna, Italy – the Ducati factory’s hometown. It was never proved that Lucchinelli was part of the drug cartel but he was charged and found guilty of possessing 200mg of cocaine and given a five-year


WXPN Artist To Watch For September: Gran Bel Fisher

PHILADELPHIA, PA– On Tuesday, September 5 WXPN, the nationally-recognized leader in Triple A music and noncommercial radio service of the University of Pennsylvania, will name Gran Bel Fisher the September XPN Artist To Watch . Host David Dye, will present the first of the month’s on-air segments focusing on this singer-songwriter on Tuesday during the four o’clock hour.

Fisher’s debut album Full Moon Cigarette (Hollywood Records) was released in July.

“The album is an excellent fusion of guitar driven rock, beautiful piano ballads, and pop and works on a number of levels,” said Bruce Warren, assistant general manager for programming at WXPN. "Gran Bel Fisher is a terrific new talent that deserves to reach a wider audience -- he is a greatGovernor-elect Edwards pieces together more of his cabinet

BATON ROUGE - A former congressman, a term-limited lawmaker and the current state police superintendent are among Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards' latest cabinet appointments.

Edwards Wednesday named former U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon as secretary of the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and term-limited state Rep. Karen St. Germain as commissioner of the Office of Motor Vehicles.

Col. Mike Edmonson will remain Louisiana's state police leader.

Edwards' pick for economic development secretary is Don Pierson, who currently works as senior director of business development for the agency.

The governor-elect tapped Shawn Wilson to be secretary of the transportation department. Wilson has been chief of staff to three different transportation secretaries over the past decade.

For his chief lawyer, Edwards selected Matthew Block, a Thibodaux attorney who has


of the DHS secretary truly become important.

Nielsen’s own background was well suited to these broader challenges. She was the official in charge of “prevention, preparedness, and response” in the Homeland Security Council in the Bush White House and then a senior official at the TSA. After that, she worked on cyber security issues outside of government and then was John Kelly’s chief of staff when he was Trump’s first Homeland Security secretary. In other words, her background wasn’t in immigration but in the other facets of the department’s portfolio. But coverage of her potential successors has so far focused very much on immigration.

The White House should certainly make sure that the right people are in place in the leadership of DHS’s three immigration-related agencies, and that they’re wellall shoveled away and carted off to fill the edges of the peninsula. One of the peaks, the one furthest to the east, was known as Cotton Hill in honor of an early settler. The land passed through many hands over its first 200 years, and as the town established its sea-going trade, it served as a residential estate, away from the busy commercial district near the wharves on the harbor-facing waterfront.

The 1829 map above shows the hill - then called Pemberton - surrounded by streets but still intact. The property was famous as the home of merchant Gardiner Greene and his terraced gardens, and for the view of the harbor from the estate. Greene made his money in Demerera (Guyana), and has appeared in this venue as


an investor in South Boston land grab.

Pemberton Square, 1838.

Lot plan for Phillips Place (Pemberton square) 1836 (BPL).

Gardiner Greene died in 1832, and his estate and the other that made up the hill property were bought by Patrick Tracy Jackson. Jackson then hired Wilmington teamster Asa Sheldon to level the hill. Starting in May of 1835, Sheldon used 126 oxen and 250 men to remove 65 feet of elevation off the top of the hill. Of the work crew, 60 were Yankees and 190 Irishmen, with most of the Yankees being teamsters driving wagons, and all of the Irish manning shovels. In five months, the job would be finished and new plots laid out.

Bullfinch Triangle district, 1828 (BPL).

Bullfinch Triangle district 1838 (BPL). Note the addition of land above thetop left corner of the triangle and the new Boston and Lowell train depot (shown in pink).

The two maps above show where the gravel fill was taken. Pemberton Hill had covered 4 acres, 2 1/2 of it owned by Gardiner Greene. The fill was moved by ox cart to the far side of Causeway street to create the land used for the new Boston and Lowell train depot, plus three new streets; Andover, Nashua and Lowell streets. The area covered was 8 acres, and the fill layer was 14 feet thick.

Pemberton square, 1883.

In this 1883 map, we see the final product; an enclosed central park, with housing all around, and two access roads. The development was similar to Louisburg square on the other side of Beacon Hill, and


was home to a similar class of residents.

Pemberton square, 1888.

The previous map caught the end of Pemberton square as an exclusive residential district. By 1888, the city had taken all the land along the Somerset street side of the park for a new courthouse (as shown below). With the coming of the courthouse, commercial use gradually took over in the square. Lawyers offices and law-related businesses moved in and residential owners moved out. Boston Police headquarters would also move in to one end of the square for a time.

Pemberton square - 1920. Court House on left (BPL).

Boston Police Headquarters, at the end of the square. Probably 1930s (personal collection). This building can be seen at the far end of the square in the photo above.

Pemberton square, 1938.

In the1920 photograph and 1938 map shown above, commercial buildings now line much of the square opposite the courthouse. Most of the original bow-front row houses are gone. The square survived until urban renewal took it in the 1950s/60s, and it was replaced by the Government Center project. The name, and the footprint of the park survive, with nothing but a plaque on the site to remind passers-by of the history of the once-proud site.


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But a catalogue of injuries have reduced Rossiter to a bit part role at the club, making just ten top team appearances in more than 18 months.

Rossiter suffered a calf injury at the start of his first season in Scottish football and spent the next five months on the sidelines before being sent down south for specialist treatment on a long running lower back issue which medics suspected was behind a number of recurring problems.

He returned to action under Pedro Caixinha at the start of this season only to suffer the ignominy of being dumped out of the Europa League qualifiers by minnows Progres Niedercorn.

Rossiter then played in a Betfred Cup thrashing of Dunfermline and also in a league win at Ross County beforeOpelousas, Louisiana (CNN) A suspect has been taken into custody in connection with fires at three historically black Louisiana churches in 10 days, a law enforcement official familiar with the investigation and a local elected official told CNN on Wednesday night.

Two law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the ongoing investigation tell CNN the subject arrested in connection with three church fires in Louisiana is a 21-year-old man from St. Landry Parish. CNN has been provided the name of the subject but is not reporting it until it is announced by authorities.

Meanwhile, authorities said they will announce significant updates in the case at a news conference Thursday at 10 a.m. CT at the St. Landry Parish Sheriff Public Safety Complex in Opelousas.

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards will attend


the news conference, his office said.

St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre burned on March 26, followed by Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas on April 2 and two days later, Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in the same town.Yet, entering the final week of the regular season, the Bolts had climbed all the way back into the playoff hunt and were putting serious pressure on the Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators, all three teams ultimately winning just enough down the stretch to hold off the pesky Lightning.

A popular pick in the preseason to win the Stanley Cup, the Lightning came out of the All-Star break as a playoff afterthought with over two months to go.

How could the turnaround in Tampa Bay be so drastic in such a short amount of time?

There were a myriad of reasons.

Jake Dotchin's emergence on the blue line split up the partnership of Norris Trophy candidate Victor Hedman and fellow Swede Anton Stralman, allowing for a more even distribution


of talent among the defensive pairings.

Nikita Kucherov turned in maybe the best second half to the season of any NHL player. From February 4, Kucherov scored a league-best 21 goals and tied with Edmonton's Connor McDavid for most points (40) in the league.

American Hockey League callups like Yanni Gourde, Adam Erne, Gabriel Dumont and the aforementioned Dotchin brought energy, youthful enthusiasm and fearlessness to the parent squad and provided a sooner-than-expected impact at the NHL level.

Video: TBL@MTL: Vasilevskiy uses acrobatics to deny DanaultBut perhaps the most significant development over the final couple months of the season was the continued maturation of 22-year-old goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy. The third-year pro started the season as option 1-A in head coach Jon Cooper's two-headed goalie monster with Ben Bishop, but by theend of 2016-17, Vasilevskiy had emerged as a bonafide No. 1 following the trade of Bishop to the Los Angeles Kings three days before the trade deadline and Vasilevskiy's own growth.

Since that day when the Lightning dealt their winningest goalie in franchise history -- along with their 5th round pick in 2017 -- to the Kings for veteran netminder Peter Budaj, defenseman prospect Erik Cernak, a conditional pick in the 2017 Draft and seventh round selection in 2017, Vasilevskiy was arguably the best goalie in the NHL.

Starting on February 27, when he made 39 saves (second most all season) on 40 shots in a 5-1 win over Ottawa, through the end of the regular season, Vasilevskiy collected 12 wins, tied with Anaheim's Jonathan Bernier for most in the


league. Over that stretch, Vasilevskiy faced more shots (569) and made more saves (529) than any other league goalie.

His .930 save percentage was fifth best in the NHL among goalies with 10 or more games played over the final month and a half of the season.

"The way he played down the stretch was just phenomenal," Hedman said during Tampa Bay's exit interviews. "He's got a really bright future ahead of him."

Video: TBL@TOR: Vasilevskiy stuffs Kadri's wraparound tryFor Vasilevskiy and the Lightning, the future is now.

For the first time in his professional career, Vasilevskiy, the 19th overall pick in the 2012 NHL Draft, enters the offseason as the unquestioned starter in the Lightning net. That can only bode well for his productivity. When Vasilevskiy and Bishop were splitting time,Bishop's backup were difficult to deal with. Before joining the Lightning, he was used to getting game action every couple of days. In Tampa, he could go upwards of two weeks without a start, and the long layoffs left him rusty.

Video: CHI@TBL: Vasilevskiy robs Kane with terrific pad stopWhich isn't to suggest Vasilevskiy was happy to see Bishop get traded. On the contrary, the two sat next to each other in the Lightning locker room and had a great working relationship. Bishop showed Vasilevskiy how to be a pro. Vasilevskiy appreciated the mentoring he got from the more experienced Bishop.

"I think he learned a lot from Bish," Hedman said. "I think he was a great mentor for him."

Maybe the best lesson he learned from Bishop involved how to


handle defeat. Bishop generally kept the same demeanor whether he had won or lost. If he did lose, he studied why it happened and then moved on.

There was no dwelling on defeat.

Vasilevskiy, on the other hand, would often take losses personally. You could hear the distress in his voice after a defeat, the anguish clearly visible on his face. Following the season, he said the biggest thing he would need to work on during the offseason was keeping composed and staying even keel, like Bishop.

"Don't think too much after the games, after the bad games, and just put those bad games behind and move on," he said. "Think about the next game."

Video: NYR@TBL: Vasilevskiy stones Buchnevich in frontUndoubtedly, this offseason will be unlike any other for Vasilevskiy. He'llSchuylkill County man accused of burglary, theft of tools and equipment from Lebanon County garage

Schuylkill County man accused of burglary, theft of tools and equipment from Lebanon County garage

UNION TOWNSHIP, Lebanon County — State Police have charged a 19-year-old Schuylkill County man with burglary, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property in connection to an August 30 break-in at a Lebanon County garage.

Bailey S. Miller, 19, of Pine Grove, is accused of breaking into a garage and stealing several Snap-On tools and stereo equipment.

Some of the allegedly stolen tools were located on September 1, and police responded to Miller’s residence on the first block of Lincoln Road in Tremont Township. Miller allegedly admitted he had some of the items that were reported stolen in the burglary at


Night Eating Syndrome

Topic Overview

Night eating syndrome is a condition in which people eat large amounts of food during the night. Most people with this condition do not feel hungry in the early part of the day. They may delay their first meal of the day for many hours and eat more than half of the food they eat each day after the evening meal.

People with night eating syndrome also have sleep problems, including difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep.

Night eating syndrome is different from binge eating disorder. People with binge eating disorder usually do not have episodes of binge eating during the night (10 p.m. to 6 a.m.); when they do, they eat large amounts of food in a single sitting. People with night eating syndrome tend toMP Seema’s loneliness quest to honour late friend Jo Cox

South Ribble MP Seema Kennedy is working to keep the legacy of murdered colleague Jo Cox alive, by launching a new loneliness campaign.

The two women had been working together since January on the idea of a National Commission on Loneliness and were set for a summer launch, before Mrs Cox was killed.

Now, working with Mrs Cox’s friend and fellow Yorkshire MP Rachel Reeves, Mrs Kennedy is preparing to set the wheels in motion in January.

She said: “It’s about carrying on all the great work Jo had done. When she died things took on a different magnitude. The man who killed her thought he would silence her, but instead it seems her voice has been amplified.”

She said the commission is


Monique Tillman was 15 years old when, she says, a police officer pulled her off her bicycle, slammed her to the ground and tased her after she rode through a mall parking lot in Tacoma, Wash. The arrest, in which she was accused of causing a disturbance, was caught on surveillance video. Now, the 17-year-old is suing the officer, the mall and some of its security guards.

The footage of Ms. Tillman’s arrest in 2014 by the officer, Jared Williams, is the latest video to garner national attention and spur debate over what activists have denounced as the unduly harsh treatment of youths, mostly black or Hispanic, by police officers, including recent cases in South Carolina and Texas.

The complaint accuses Officer Williams of negligence in his treatment of aBELL, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Florida man held his wife’s lover at gunpoint and cut off the man’s penis before fleeing with the flailing appendage.

News outlets report 49-year-old Alex Bonilla was arrested hours later on charges including aggravated assault.

The Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Office released a statement Tuesday that said Bonilla broke into his neighbor’s home Sunday, tied the neighbor up and mutilated his genitals with scissors. Deputies say the victim told authorities that Bonilla then took the severed penis and fled across the street to his own house.

Deputies say the motive still is under investigation, though an arrest report says Bonilla caught his wife and the victim having sex in May.

The victim was hospitalized.