it on the mound despite a lack of command. Over 5.1 innings, Raymond walked five and hit three before handing the ball to Plourde, who shut SLU down over the remainder of the game, setting the stage for Rogers’ heroics.

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Los Angeles Times. Stewart's character could still make an appearance in that film.

Universal has not attached a writer or director to the film, the L.A. Times reported. "Snow White" was the first major film Sanders directed. It took in $380 million worldwide.

Stewart and Sanders were caught by photographers kissing in July. The director is married to British model Liberty Ross and the couple has two children. Stewart and Sanders both issued public apologies.

In an op-ed for the Daily Beast Wednesday, actress Jodie Foster, who starred alongside Stewart in 2002's "Panic Room," had some kind words for the young actress for how to deal with the media frenzy.

"Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away," Foster wrote. "And, yes, you are changed by the awfulRBI approved a record payout of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore to centre.

The central government now "usurps a huge windfall" from the Reserve Bank of India, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said after the central bank approved a record payout of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore to the government from its surplus and reserves.

"Urjit Patel and Viral Acharya held the fort. They were forced to leave. The fort was breached. The Govt of India now usurps a huge windfall from the RBI going contrary to what the central bank's own think tank CAFRAL had said. Fiscal breathing space but at what and whose cost?" Mr Ramesh tweeted.

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Amos Magee appears set to leave his D.C. United coaching role to join Minnesota United. Tony Quinn/IconSportswire

Minnesota United's manager for next season is still to be determined, but the team is zeroing in on support staff to help sporting director Manny Lagos prepare for the team's first campaign in MLS.

Multiple sources have told ESPN FC that current D.C. United under-23 manager Amos Magee is the leading candidate to be Minnesota United's director of player personnel, and barring a last minute snag he will be hired by the team.

His primary responsibility will be to provide guidance to Lagos on MLS players as the team tries to build its roster through the expansion draft and other player acquisition mechanisms.

Other candidates include New England Revolution assistant Tom Soehn -- who isalso on the preliminary shortlist for the head coaching position -- and Real Salt Lake assistant and former Ft. Lauderdale Strikers manager Daryl Shore.

Magee and Lagos are longtime friends and played together for five seasons with the second-tier Minnesota Thunder, one of the forerunners of Minnesota United. Staring in 2006, Lagos and Magee worked together with the Thunder when Lagos was the team's director of soccer operations and Magee was the head coach.

Magee resigned that position in 2008, and later took up a director of player development role with the Portland Timbers when they were still operating in the second tier league known as USL-1. Magee later served as head coach of the Timbers' reserve team from 2011-13 when the club moved to MLS. He has been with


D.C. United since 2014, where he has also served as an assistant with the first team.

As a player, Magee played for the Thunder from 1992-2003, and was the team's all-time leading scorer with 64 goals. He was inducted into the USL Hall of Fame in 2008.

During the latter portion of that period he had two loan stints with MLS teams, playing for the Tampa Bay Mutiny in 2000 and with the Chicago Fire from 2001-02.EverDream Studio Unveiling Roll n Rock Mascot and Items

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Besides the cute mascot, the Dev Team also unveiled the abundant items available in Roll n Rock. As a highlight of Roll n Rock, these items will make Roll n Rock more diverse and interesting and greatly


Not long after Jackie Bradley Jr.'s grand slam rose into glorious heights of righteousness and unbridled joy before leaving the ballfields Tuesday, I switched over to the debate in Texas between Congressman Beto O'Rourke and Senator Tailgunner Ted Cruz. On the level of pure personality, it was a fascinating exchange. O'Rourke's appeal was broad and warm. Make no mistake: This is a guy with some serious chops. Meanwhile, Cruz was so thickly enfolded in his basic ideological exoskeleton that the two men seemed to be talking to different electorates in different dimensions.

One of them was clearly inviting people into something bigger than the candidate and the campaign, and the other seemed to be offering himself up as a stalwart barrier against whatever it was that his voters thoughtDEFICIT AND DEBT, AND IT CARE PASSIONATELY ABOUT THE DEFICIT AND DEBT, IF YOU WANT TO DO IT, THE ONLY WAY THAT IS STRONG TO DO THAT IS ECONOMIC GROWTH. IN THE 1960'S, JOHN F. KENNEDY, A DEMOCRAT, CAMPAIGNED ON TAX CUTS. HEADING THE CORPORATE TAX RATE. HE SAID THAT A RISING TIDE WOULD LIFT ALL BOATS, AND HE PASSED IT AND THE ECONOMY BOOMED. IN THE 1980'S, RONALD REAGAN CAMPAIGNED ON CUTTING TAXES TO GET THE ECONOMY GROWING. HE PASSED IT AND FEDERAL TAX REVENUES WENT UP.

This is old and tired. As has been said over and over again, since before Ted Cruz came to the Senate, when Kennedy got his tax-cut passed, the top rate was at 91 percent. After the cut, it was 70 percent.


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Political developments since 1943

Since the emergence of the post-1943 state and after the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate, national policy has been determined largely by a relatively restricted group of traditional regional and sectarian leaders. The 1943 National Pact, an unwritten agreement that established the political foundations of modern Lebanon, allocated political power on an essentially confessional system based on the 1932 census. Seats


called for a reform of the political system.

Some Christians favor political and administrative decentralization of the government, with separate Muslim and Christian sectors operating within the framework of a confederation. Muslims, for the most part, prefer a unified, central government with an enhanced share of power commensurate with their larger share of the population. The reforms of the Ta'if agreement moved in this direction but have not been fully realized.

Palestinian refugees, predominantly Sunni Muslims, whose numbers are estimated at between 160,000–225,000, are not active on the domestic political scene.

On September 3, 2004, the Lebanese Parliament voted 96–29 to amend the constitution to extend President Émile Lahoud's six-year term (which was about to expire) by another three years. The move was supported by Syria, which maintained a large militarysingle party has ever won more than 12.5 percent of the seats in the Parliament, and no coalition of parties has won more than 35 percent.

Especially outside of the major cities, elections tend to focus more on local than national issues, and it is not unusual for a party to join an electoral ticket in one constituency while aligned with a rival party – even an ideologically opposite party – in another constituency.

Judicial branch
Lebanon is a civil law country.
Its judicial branch is composed of:
Ordinary Courts:
One Court of Cassation composed of nine chambers
Courts of Appeal (in the centre of every governorate)
Courts of First Instance
Special Courts:
The Constitutional Council (called for in the Ta'if Accord) rules on constitutionality of laws
The Supreme Council hears charges against the president and


its conference opponents in the fashion it did last season, but the Seminoles were still the best team in the league and feature nine first-team selections on Athlon’s All-ACC team for 2014. ...

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Rivalry week is usually reserved for the last full Saturday of action in November, but three intriguing rivalry matchups in the ACC headline a slate with national and conference title implications.Florida State travels to Miami, and with a win over...

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After a disappointing loss to the Jazz in the first-round of the NBA playoffs, the Thunder face a lot of uncertainty this upcoming summer. Paul George is entering free agency and is already facing rumors that he could join his hometown team, the Los Angeles Lakers. Carmelo Anthony has already debunked any situations that would lead him to a bench role. Then there is the reigning MVP, Russell Westbrook.

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Hawaii European Cinema film festival president Patrick Gey has lured film icon Catherine Deneuve to its red carpet awards gala

Patrick Gey could be the leading man in an international film. The Frenchman is handsome, debonair and charming to the core. Although not an actor, his connection to films is very real.

Cast in an ambitious role, Gey (“jay”) is president of the rebranded Hawaii European Cinema (HEC) film festival, happening in Honolulu Oct. 16-24. As a newly independent event, formerly known as EuroCinema Hawaii, will it earn acclaim?

“It is our hope to win the eyes and hearts of the community,” says Gey.

That shouldn’t be difficult with the stellar events starting this week. Not only are there nine outstanding European films being shown, but also the festival


has Europe’s most iconic star, Catherine Deneuve, as special guest.

C’est magnifique!

The 2015 Hawaii European Cinema (HEC) film festival has all the makings of a sellout based on its five-year track record as part of Hawaii

International Film Festival. The popularity of EuroCinema and its accelerated growth gave impetus to the need for independence. It now has its own sponsors, led by Luxury Row, a new board of directors and a vision as a premier cultural event in Hawaii.

“It was the dream of Princess Dialta Alliata di Montereale to establish a Hawaii event that showcases European arts and culture,” Gey explains.

The film festival founder lamented that islanders only associate Europe with high fashion and not the rich heritage of arts and craftsmanship in other fields. To reflect the essence ofEurope through films was, in Gey’s view, “brilliant.”

European films previously were screened in private homes for gatherings of 20-30 friends. Those salon showings grew to larger theater venues and eventually integrated into Hawaii International Film Festival.

The organizations outgrew each other and now, with a new identity and structure, HEC aspires to be Cannes of the Pacific with a European accent.

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The National Front in France has suspended a politician who called Christiane Taubira, the country’s black justice minister, a “monkey” who she would “rather see in the trees than in the government”.

The apparently racist outburst by Anne-Sophie Leclere, a mayoral candidate in Rethel, in the Ardennes, north-eastern France, is an embarrassing blow to Marine Le Pen, the leader of the party, who has threatened to sue anyone who describes them as “extreme Right”.

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On her Facebook page, Miss Leclere, 33, who runs a fishing shop, posted a montageEven if you don't know his name, chances are strong that you've heard the story of Daniel Craft. You probably know his name because he was the 'Star Trek' fan who was granted his final wish of seeing 'Star Trek Into Darkness' after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, but he was also a member of New York's Subway Cinema and helped organize the city's increasingly popular Asian Film Festival. Last night, he passed away.

His death was announced on the New York Asian Film Festival's Facebook page with the following message:

"Last night around 10:15pm, Dan Craft, who has been a member of Subway Cinema since 2004, passed away. His wife and brother were with him when he went, and he wasn't in any pain. He'd been a bit loopy


for a few days as his liver failed and toxins built up in his blood, and on Thursday his wife asked him if he needed to go to the bathroom. "I'm going..." he proclaimed, "Into the future." See you there, Dan. Dan Craft: 1971 - 2013 We miss you."

As sad as his final moments must have been for his friends and family, his final words certainly reflect his Trekkie nature. Boundless optimism in the face of the unknown has always been a signature theme of the 'Star Trek' universe, after all.

Earlier this morning, a friend of Dan's took to Reddit to thank everyone who helped spread the news of his story. After all, this began as a simple post from his wife, but with Reddit's help, it soonspiraled into a massive internet campaign. Here's an excerpt from the post, complete with the details of how Dan's screening of the latest 'Star Trek' adventure went over:

"A day or so after the thread began, Paige, Dan's wife, got a voicemail from JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof that was very nice and very straightforward: a producer for the movie would get in touch with them. The next day, one of the film's producers showed up at the door of their apartment with a DVD containing a very rough cut of Star Trek: Into Darkness in his hands. Paige had made popcorn, Dan had spent the previous day resting so he could sit through the movie, and after signing about 200 non-disclosure agreements they watched the film and had


for a couple of hours. It doesn't sound like much, but in this case it was."

This is a difficult story to write about without getting sappy, sacharine or insensitive, but to those of us who didn't know him, Dan now stands as a symbol of the power of film. Here's a man who spent his days helping to cultivate one of the best film festivals in the country and when the end was near, he took solace in cinema. "Dying Man Gets to See New 'Star Trek' Movie" is flashy headline, but this story is a powerful reminder of why we love cinema. Movies are capable of transporting us to new worlds, of helping us forget our pain for two hours -- it's comforting to know that aHeight and weight in relation to breast cancer morbidity and mortality. A prospective study of 570,000 women in Norway.
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were found walking down a county highway early one frosty morning. Freeman was carrying a box of shotgun shells and Primeaux was carrying a cassette player with earphones. Primeaux waved down Officer Evanson as he drove past. Freeman and Primeaux were cold and wanted a ride to town. They told Officer Evanson that they had been sleeping in a car down the road. They told him the car had run out of gas and the driver had caught a ride back to Yankton. Officer Evanson drove down the road and found the car. Officer Evanson's car left tracks on the frost covered road. Officer Evanson noticed that similar tracks had been left by the abandoned car. He did not observe any other automobile tracks in the vicinity. OfficerEvanson testified that the manifold on the car was extremely hot. He concluded that the car had stopped very recently.
A convenience store clerk testified that Primeaux came into the store very early that same morning. He was agitated and told her he had stolen a car. It was clear from the testimony at trial that Primeaux has below average mental functioning. The convenience store clerk testified that Primeaux went out and got into a car in the parking lot. Her description of the car matches the car Freeman and Primeaux were accused of stealing. She testified that she thought Primeaux got in the driver's seat, but she could not say for certain. She testified that she did not see anyone accompanying Primeaux.
Freeman's defense was that he was not


involved in the car theft. He did not attempt to dispute that he was in the stolen car. He did not attempt to dispute that the shotgun shells he was carrying came from the stolen car. Instead, his defense counsel argued that he was merely a passenger in the car and was too drunk to realize what was going on. Yet, the car's keys were recovered from his pocket. Moreover, other testimony at trial indicated that Primeaux did not know how to drive a car.
The evidence against Freeman was overwhelming. Even the flawless Perry Mason would have found it impossible to present a compelling defense. Even though there were errors on the part of defense counsel, they did not deny Freeman a fair trial. Any prejudice caused byDavid Moyes: Manchester United boss is finding the job a tough challenge

The former Everton manager, who has endured a difficult first season with United, suffered another setback on Sunday with a resounding 3-0 reverse to north west rivals Liverpool at Old Trafford.

And the latest setback has inflicted further damage on the club's hopes of finishing in the top four of the Premier League this season.

Other than a 1-0 victory against Arsenal early in the campaign, United have not beaten any of the top nine sides in the league.

Moyes expected it would be tough emulating the achievements of his fellow Scot, but he has found the task daunting.

"The job was always going to be hard," Moyes said. "Harder? Yes I would say so yes."

The United fans have stuck by


Mysterious monster sighted in county

By Raymond Castile

Illustrator Hal D. Crawford drew this image for the 1970 book "The Aliens"
by Crawford, Hayden Hewes and Kietha Hewes. It depicts a creature
associated with 1950s UFO landings. Momo eyewitnesses in Louisiana, Mo.,
claimed the illustration looked almost exactly like the creature they saw
during the summer of 1972.Used with permission.

Does a real-life monster roam the Missouri wilderness?

Witnesses claim to have seen a huge, hairy, hulking creature stalking the
woods and lonely country roads. The creature is similar to the well-known
Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest, only more otherworldly. It has glowing
orange eyes, a pumpkin-shaped head, three-fingered hands and leaves three-toed
footprints. Unlike the shy Bigfoot, this aggressive creature is known to
kill animals and antagonize humans.

Its name is Momo  the Missouri Monster.

Momo sightings have been reported throughoutMissouri, even in St. Charles
County. But the most famous sightings occurred in Louisiana, Mo., a town
of fewer than 4,000 people. Located in Pike County, Louisiana lies 75 miles
northwest of St. Charles County.

Bigfoot-like creatures have been reported in the Louisiana area since the
1940s, but it was not until the early 1970s that Momo attracted serious interest.

Bigfoot researcher Loren Coleman describes the now-legendary Momo scare in
his book, "Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America."

According to Coleman, the Momo saga began in July, 1971. Joan Mills and Mary
Ryan were driving along Highway 79, north of Louisiana, when they allegedly
saw a hairy creature that made disturbing gurgling noises. The women described
the thing as "half ape and half man."

The most notorious sighting took place one year later. On the afternoon of
July 11,


1972, 8-year-old Terry Harrison and his 5-year-old brother, Wally,
were playing in their backyard at the foot of Marzolf Hill on the outskirts
of Louisiana. Their older sister, Doris, was inside the house. Doris heard
her brothers scream. She looked out the bathroom window and saw a black,
hairy manlike creature, standing by a tree.

The thing appeared to be six or seven feet tall. Its head sat directly atop
its shoulders, with no visible neck. The face was likewise invisible, completely
covered by a mass of hair.

The youths reported a chilling detail  the creature, streaked with
blood, carried a dead dog under its arm.

A local farmer reported his dog had disappeared. A neighbor reported hearing
terrible growling sounds that afternoon.

Edgar Harrison, the children's father, also heard loud growls the evening
of July 14. He and severalother people smelled a strong, unpleasant odor
as they investigated the area around Marzolf Hill. Investigators later reported
smelling a similar stench, like rotting flesh.

On July 21 Momo revealed itself to Ellis Minor outside his home on River
Road. It was around 10 p.m. when Minor heard his dogs barking. He grabbed
a flashlight and stepped outside, expecting to see an intruding dog.

Instead, he saw a 6-foot-tall monster standing in his yard. The black, hairy
creature turned and ran.

According to a July 23, 1972 story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, police
sealed off a 200-acre wooded area while a team of 25 hunters searched for
the creature, which many believed to be a black bear. Police received reports
of a creature crossing the highway with a dog or sheep in its mouth. Another
witness told police that


nation descended on the small town.

"I did close to 75 television and newspaper interviews," Hewes said. "They
flew me to Chicago to do some television there. There were people around
us shooting documentaries. We haven't had a case that well-documented since."

Sasquatch Investigations of Mid America is an offshoot of the International
UFO Bureau, an organization Hewes founded in 1957.

"We researched Bigfoot sightings in eight states, mainly to see if there
was any connection with UFO sightings," he said. "With Momo, we found there
was no correlation whatsoever with UFOs."

Hewes said his investigations suggest there are families of nocturnal Bigfoot
creatures that continuously migrate across the nation from the Pacific Northwest
to the southeast.

"The path begins around Oregon and Washington state," he said. "It crosses
Oklahoma around the first week of September, then finishes in Florida."

When heis not conducting paranormal investigations, Hewes runs a talent
agency and works in warehouse distribution in Oklahoma City. Hewes has a
degree in aeronautical and space engineering from the University of Oklahoma.

While Hewes and other researchers concentrated on Louisiana, one team of
investigators focused on sightings in the St. Charles County vicinity.

John Schuessler was living in O'Fallon during the Momo scare. Schuessler
worked for McDonnell Douglas as a group engineer for life support systems
on the Sky Lab space station, then later as director of flight operations
for the Johnson Space Center in Houston.

In 1969, Schuessler helped establish the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), an
international collective of UFO researchers. The 71-year-old Schuessler still
directs the organization from its headquarters in Colorado.

The Momo scare coincided with a rash of UFO sightings, including reports
near his home in O'Fallon.


The possible UFO connection intrigued Schuessler,
so he joined the Momo investigation. Schuessler found no connection between
Momo and UFO activity, but he did investigate two incidents that corroborated
the presence of Bigfoot creatures in the region.

On June 30, 1972, a month before the Harrison sighting in Louisiana, two
young men from Troy were fishing on a secluded bank of the Cuivre River near
Cuivre River State Park in Lincoln County. The fishermen, named Vaughn and
Tim, stood atop a high bank overlooking an unusually low bank on the river's
opposite side.

According to Schuessler, Vaughn noticed a splash and looked up.

"They said they saw something wading across the river  a big, hairy
thing. They didn't know what it was," Schuessler said. "Vaughn said, `Hey
Tim, look at that silly hippie wading across the river.' Then theyrealized
it was not a hippie."

The men described the creature as standing taller than a normal man and hairy
all over, Schuessler said. Like the Louisiana creature, the Troy monster's
hair completely covered its face. Its head looked like a dome resting on
its shoulders.

Tim scrambled up a hillside while Vaughn held his ground. The creature continued
its deliberate march toward him. Vaughn finally panicked and ran. The men
found a conservation officer and returned to the scene.

"All they found were fresh, three-toed footprints where the creature came
out of the water," Schuessler said.

Schuessler inspected the area the next day and found the prints.

"They were large prints, but I couldn't tell what made them," he said. "We
looked for hair, but found nothing but tracks."

Schuessler said Vaughn and Tim seemed honest and genuinely frightened. Schuessler
also interviewed


the conservation officer.

"He said he'd gotten a lot of weird reports out of the park, but he didn't
pay attention to them. I think he wanted to stay at arm's length from it
all," he said.

An illustration depicting the Troy creature wading across the Cuivre
River. Courtesy of MUFON.

Another Momo sighting took place July 24 near O'Fallon, just after the final
Louisiana sighting. Two teenage girls reported seeing a hairy creature at
sunset walking along the edge of a wooded area. The O'Fallon incident is
mentioned in "The Bigfoot Casebook" by Janet and Colin Bord, but Schuessler
does not remember the details.

"It was not as vivid as the Troy sighting," he said.

Momo must have enjoyed his sojourn in St. Charles County, because the creature
apparently passed through town again four years later.

The "Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization"Web site lists Momo sightings
in 29 Missouri counties, including a 1976 report from St. Charles County.
According to the report, two people were in a boat on the Missouri River
near Highway 40-61 when they saw what appeared to be a 6-to-7-foot tall creature
covered in dark brown hair. The creature was drinking from the river when
it saw the boat, stood up and ran into the trees.

Another local story is posted on the "Bigfoot Encounters" Web site. Mark
Richardson, of Modesto, Calif., claims to have seen the creature in 1979
when he was living in St. Peters.

According to Richardson, he and a friend were on a railroad bridge over Dardenne
Creek one night. Richardson saw shadows moving and assumed it was his friend.

To his shock, he discovered it was an 8-to-9-foot-tall creature with long,
matted


code-enforcement spokeswoman described as an "improvement plan for a special event."

Now, they can follow through on their concept of staging a series of four concerts at the 67-year-old club. They had to cancel a Nov. 16 Braata show when someone apparently alerted county officials to the missing permit.

Which was weird, because they've been holding events - from quinceañeras to day-long summer rock music shows - at the club for a long time.

Rumors - that the Stockton reggae-rock group's show was going to be a "rave" or some kind of five-band "battle" - apparently concerned law-enforcement folks.

It cost Tsarnas $500 for the permit. He'll also spend between $500 and $700 to hire five additional security guards.

Flores, 27, whose Tunelift.com is organizing the concert, had to negotiate the county bureaucracy.Eight department officials - from environmental health to community development, the Highway Patrol and Sheriff's Department - had to sign the live-music permission slip.

"We're not trying to stir anything up," said Flores, who did a lot of driving around, including two trips to the San Joaquin County Jail. "We'll do whatever needs to get done. We've got it (the permit) now and we're gearing up."

A Linden High School, San Joaquin Delta College and California State University, Chico, graduate, Flores even was asked, "Do I have another job?"

He had to find new bands to support Braata, which released its recording on the Internet in November.

"I really won't know until Friday," Flores said about the delayed Braata release's visibility. "I don't feel we necessarily have the momentum for this show


that we did for that show."

Now, his plan - to make the Gun & Bocci Club at least a semi-regular venue for varieties of live pop-rock music - includes shows scheduled for March 15 (Braata and Chico's Brass Hysteria) April 26 and June 7.

Ben "Kaos" Lichter's last big video exposure on YouTube tried to capture a gritty glimpse of the "street-level" Stockton.

"In It 2 Win It," big on the Internet in 2011, used Nick Diaz, a friend and champion kick-boxer from Stockton, as a metaphoric focus.

Now, Lichter's turned the lens more directly on himself in "Closure," which begins its YouTubing ride today.

"It's about love, loss and that moment of loss," he said of a song he first released on CD in 2009.

"That kind of depressive moment I thinkis a basic thing. It's very introspective for the viewer and listener."

It was filmed by friend Phillip Affluence in a Stockton apartment.

"He really captured the emotion of the song," said Lichter, 32, a Lincoln High School graduate. "I was tentative about doing this song for a long time. I wanted to make sure the visuals lived up to the music. It did. He really captured the emotion of my life. I'm sure other people have been in that moment, too."

He's hoping "Closure" gets as much exposure as "In It 2 Win It," though he's not really sure exactly how wide that was.

"They say as many as 40,000," he said. "But you never really know because of embedding in things like Zamzar. A lot of people did see it.


According to Kurdish sources, the SDF began storming Al-Batani district north of the industrial zone. In the western part of Raqqa city, the SDF continued its advance in Al-Bared district and seized 25% of the area.

According to Kurdish sources, the SDF advanced from Al-Sahl village towards the Raqqa bridge and the Corniche district in southern Raqqah.

Clashes between ISIS and SDF fighters are taking place right now around the Al-Sahl pumping station. So far, fighters of the Manbij Military Council captured a VBIED and a number of ISIS fighters.

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A number of SDF fighters was killed in Al-Sahal village after being targeted with an ATGM by ISIS militants.

The ISIS-linked News Agency Amaaq published photos of clashes between ISIS and SDF fighters in the outskirts ofof hate preachers, but treats the charity as a victim of such extremism, rather than an instigator.

On November 4, the British charity regulator, the Charity Commission, published a report of its inquiry into the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA), a British Salafist group and religious training organisation. The inquiry was initially welcomed by moderate Muslim groups and counter-extremism analysts, but many will be disappointed with the Charity Commission's recommendations.

More than a dozen pieces have been written for the Gatestone Institute examining the iERA's links to extremism, as well as the failure of government, media and even Jewish organisations to tackle this fast-growing Salafist group. In 2014, one of these articles exclusively revealed that the "Portsmouth Five," a notorious group of ISIS recruits from southern England, were all


members of an iERA youth group.

In 2014, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain published their own comprehensive report, which looked even more closely at the officials, preachers and extremist links of the iERA. In the wake of significant media coverage, the Charity Commission launched their investigation. The "inquiry's scope," the Charity Commission claims, was to look at the iERA's extremist links, as well as its "financial management."

There was no shortage of evidence. The head of the iERA, Abdur Raheem Green, is a former jihadist who warns Muslims of a Jewish "stench," encourages the death penalty as a "suitable and effective" punishment for homosexuality and adultery, and has ruled that wife-beating "is allowed."

Other iERA officials have included Zakir Naik, an Islamic preacher whose NGO has just been raided anddesignated "unlawful" by Indian law enforcement; and Abdullah Hakim Quick, who has called upon God to "clean and purify al-Aqsa from the filth of the Yahood [Jews]" and "clean all of the lands from the filth of the Kuffar [non-believers]."

In its report, the Charity Commission makes note of the iERA's promotion of hate preachers, but -- as it has done in the past -- treats the charity as a victim of such extremism, rather than an instigator. According to the Commission, bureaucracy is the solution: the iERA's extremism will be solved by more "adequate procedures... to prevent abuse of the charity, its status, facilities or assets." External speakers, the Charity Commission advises, should "sign the charity's Anti-Extremism, Data Protection and Equal Opportunities disclaimers." The iERA, concludes the Charity


organisation were displayed on the walls of the charity's offices. We also identified that the charity had organised marches at which supporters of the proscribed organisation were present."

Was this charity, evidently dedicated to the support of a banned terrorist organisation, shut down? No. Instead, the Charity Commission decided to "instruct the trustees to develop and implement robust controls to manage the charity's activities and the use of its premises."

Also in 2013, the Charity Commission opened an investigation into International Islamic Link, a taxpayer-funded Shi'ite charity that previously described itself as "the office of ... Ayatullah Nasir Makarem Shirazi." Aytollah Shirazi is one of the Iranian's regime most hardline clerics. He is known for issuing a fatwa for the murder of Iranian pro-democracy activist Roozbeh Farahanipour. He is alsoknown for his unwavering commitment to Holocaust denial and his support for killing adulterers and homosexuals.

Once the Charity Commission opened an investigation into International Islamic Link, the organisation told the Charity Commission that they had no link with this Iranian cleric. Nevertheless, the Charity Commission, despite clear evidence to the contrary, declared that they were "satisfied" with the charity's response.

The Charity Commission treats the claims made by trustees of extremist charities as irrevocable truth, and responds to evidence of extremism merely by urging more stringent bureaucratic oversight.

In 2014, Gatestone Institute published information about the Islamic Network. This extremist group's website advocated the murder of apostates, encouraged Muslims to hate non-Muslims and claimed "The Jews scheme and crave after possessing the Muslim lands, as well as the lands of


Saturday, October 28, 2006

I've always known that Rush Limbaugh was an arrogant ass who believes anyone that disagrees with him is an idiot. He makes fun of environmentalists and global warming despite the growing evidence. He has attacked drug users and cut them no slack until of course he was the abuser with his oxycontin scandal. He supports the agenda of the Right even when it's wrong. He acts as if he is holier-than-thou as most of his right-wing buddies do. But now he has really shown his true colors. Accusing Michael J. Fox of not taking his medications or of 'faking' his Parkinson's in a recent TV ad. Limbaugh not only made the accusation but he also imitated Fox's Parkinson's ticks. Rush Limbaugh has no respect foranyone but himself. If his actions are supposed to be representative of the Conservative Christian Republicans, then their claims of moral superiority are obviously a pile of shit.

Monday, October 16, 2006

We’ve all heard in recent news that the United States is losing its edge with regard to science education. Part of the problem has been identified as a shortage of qualified science teachers which results in teachers without a scientific background being required to teach some science classes. Without sufficient exposure to science and mathematics, many students are not equipped to handle the challenges of a science major in college. I submit that there are two other educational issues that also are influencing the decline in science education.One is the current focus on passing standardized tests, particularly those


SIDCO, any damages he suffered from the alleged malpractice are too speculative to permit recovery. By presenting these arguments in their first and third grounds, Goins was effectively asking the court to recognize the validity of the settlement agreement to the extent it relieves Goins' liability to Tate. Conversely, as their second ground for summary judgment, Goins argued Tate assigned his legal malpractice claim to SIDCO, SIDCO was the real plaintiff, and the assignment is against public policy and thus unenforceable through Tate by SIDCO as the real party in interest. In effect, by urging their second ground, Goins sought to invalidate the settlement agreement.
Because the trial court did not state the reason for which it granted summary judgment, and because all three issues framed by Goins' firstreal party in interest.
In his fourth point of error, which also relates to Goins' second ground for summary judgment, Tate asserts the trial court erred in granting summary judgment for Goins because Tate's right to bring the legal malpractice claim in his own name would not be affected by any invalid assignment of his malpractice claim to SIDCO. Tate emphasizes he sued in his own name and, therefore, summary judgment was improper because it completely abrogated his right to bring a malpractice claim.
In this respect, Tate is correct. In Mallios, the Texas Supreme Court held that when there is a purported partial assignment of a legal malpractice claim, the plaintiff's right to bring his own cause of action for malpractice is not vitiated by the invalid assignment. Mallios,


on either of these grounds, it must have rejected Goins' second ground for summary judgment to the effect the agreement was an invalid assignment and SIDCO was the real party in interest. Goins argued it was entitled to summary judgment because, as a result of Tate's settlement of the underlying case, Goins' actions could not be a proximate cause of Tate's damages, or stated differently, Tate's decision to settle with SIDCO was an intervening cause of his damages. Goins characterizes Tate's settlement of the underlying suit as "voluntary" and contends Tate's settlement, as a matter of law, severed any causative link between Goins' alleged actions and any damages suffered by Tate. However, in his response to Goins' summary judgment motion, Tate produced his own affidavit in which hewas improper because a fact issue was created on the issue of why a verified plea in abatement was not filed in the underlying lawsuit. We agree a fact issue exists on why the verified plea was not filed. The affidavit of John Sheedy was attached to Goins' motion for summary judgment. In his affidavit, Sheedy stated in that October 1992, he made at least two telephone calls to Tate requesting Tate return the affidavit in support of the plea in abatement. Attached as an exhibit to Sheedy's affidavit is a copy of a letter from Sheedy to Tate dated October 7, 1992 in which Sheedy asked Tate to sign and return the affidavit.
In his response to Goins' motion for summary judgment, Tate attached his affidavit stating he


set aside the default judgment. Tate filed this suit on October 25, 1994, less than two years later.
Goins responds that the discovery rule applies and Tate should have discovered the malpractice on September 18, 1992 when he was present at a SIDCO representative's deposition. During the deposition, SIDCO's counsel requested Sheedy file an answer in the Bexar County suit. Sheedy replied he would get to it. Goins argues that Tate became aware of his alleged claim on September 18, 1992 and because the case was not filed until October 25, 1994, the two-year statute of limitations had run.
We disagree with both parties as to the date the cause of action accrued. We conclude Tate's legal malpractice claim accrued on October 26, 1992 when the Bexar County trial courtYou might not guess it, but Nebraska took in more refugees per capita than any other state last year. For one particular group, Lincoln has become its de facto capital in the U.S., a safe place for people displaced by religious and ethnic persecution. Now, several thousand Yazidi refugees see Nebraska as a second home.

MIDDLE EASTERNERS IN THE MIDDLE WEST AN NET NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: Iraqis A Fast-Growing Group In Nebraska

Lebanese Blazed A Path For Middle Easterners In Nebraska

Yazidis From Iraq Find Welcome Refuge In Nebraska

A small classroom down a hall at St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Lincoln is a long way from Iraq, but this is where a group of Yazidi women find themselves. They’re part of a class led by volunteer Terri Hensley, a former teacher


has furnished all required proofs for such Other Income Benefits. Birzon Aff., Ex. H and I, at 7.
The Plan further provided that:
Successive periods of total disability separated by less than three consecutive months of continuous active work on full-time shall be considered one period of total disability unless the subsequent total disability is due to an injury or sickness entirely unrelated to the cause of the previous total disability and commences after return to active work on full-time.
For the purposes of the insurance under this Part, all injuries sustained in connection with any one accident shall be considered as one injury and the same and all related sickness shall be considered as one sickness.
Birzon Aff., Ex. H and I, at 10 (emphasis added).
In addition, Plan participants were giventhis litigation began. The Court finds, therefore, that because Camarda failed to satisfy his disclosure obligations under the Plan, Centennial acted within the terms of the Plan in suspending or even terminating Camarda's benefits until a full investigation of the Social Security award and repayment of the nearly five years of benefit overpayments made by Centennial.

3. The Plan Language Also Permits a Setoff

Even if guided by the language in the Plan itself, the Court finds that the Plan language also required Camarda to notify Centennial of the Social Security award. A review of the actual policy is also merited to address plaintiff's arguments regarding the priority of the language in the summary. First, regardless of the alleged language conflict between the documents, plaintiff asserts that to be consistent


foot, hip and back, just as he had before. Camarda Dep. at 90. The decision of the ALJ also reflects this fact. See ALJ Decision, at 2. Second, although the ALJ was precluded from finding a disability based on the initial impairments from the hip, foot and back injuries,[5] the ALJ could consider evidence of disability from these injuries beginning from the day after the first denial of Social Security benefits. ALJ Decision, at 3. Reviewing the evidence presented of injury since 1983, therefore, the ALJ noted that Camarda had pain in the hip and the back, and that later back scans revealed spine damage that had gone undetected prior to 1983. Id. at 4. In addition, the ALJ noted that Camarda's doctors had found he suffered fromin the summary plan description. See Matthews Aff., Ex. 2. Furthermore, at a minimum, Camarda's mental impairments relate to his disability to the extent they arose from his inability to work and function as he did prior to his accidents. As a consequence, the Court concludes that the award of Social Security disability benefits was "on account of the Employee's disability," that Centennial was entitled to deduct the award from Camarda's benefits, and that Camarda should have reported to Centennial that he received the award so that it could offset such benefits from the benefits it was distributing to the Camarda family.
In addition, the Court rejects plaintiff's arguments that Centennial could not suspend his benefits because of his refusal to supply the Social Security authorizations. As noted above,


coming-of-age story by Alex Gino, topped this year's list. The award-winning, young-adult novel is about a transgender girl coming to terms with her gender identity. This is the third consecutive year "George" made the ALA's "Most Challenged Books" list, which is part of the association's annual “State of America’s Libraries Report."

According to the report, "George" has been repeatedly "banned, challenged, and relocated" because it's "believed to encourage children to clear browser history and change their bodies using hormones." The ALA also noted there were complaints about the book for "mentioning 'dirty magazines,' describing male anatomy, 'creating confusion,' and including a transgender character."

"A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo," John Oliver's parody book about Vice President Mike Pence's fictional pet gay rabbit, came in second on the list.Written by Jill Twiss, a staff writer on Oliver’s "Last Week Tonight" show, the bestselling kids book is a parody of “Marlon Bundo's Day in the Life of the Vice President,” authored by Pence’s daughter, Charlotte.

Charlotte Pence has revealed that she purchased a copy of the parody book, noting that all proceeds are donated to The Trevor Project and AIDS United. Though neither she nor her father have publicly objected to "A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo," others have banned and challenged the book "for including LGBTQIA+ content, and for political and religious viewpoints," according to the ALA.

Other books on this year's top 11 list that were challenged or banned due to LGBTQ content include the “Captain Underpants” series, "Drama," "This Day in June" and "Two


donated to Orange City library in the wake of the book burning, and thousands of dollars were raised to replace library books.”

The release of the ALA's banned books list coincides with National Library Week, which is from April 7-13.

FOLLOW NBC OUT ON TWITTER, FACEBOOK & INSTAGRAMThe list of sanctuary cities has grown to more than 340, and they shielded an average of 1,000 immigrants a month from deportation last year — and more than 2,000 of those released have been arrested for yet more crimes, according to a report released Thursday by the Center for Immigration Studies.

Among those released are illegal immigrants accused of murder and brutal assaults, said Jessica Vaughan, the report’s author.

The report was released just as the Senate was poised to begin debating legislation to crack down on sanctuary jurisdictions.

Indeed, hours after the report was released, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, set up an early test vote this month on a bill that would crack down on sanctuaries. The proposed legislation would take away some federal grant money


and distribute it to counties and cities that cooperate with federal authorities.

Sanctuary cities exploded onto front pages in July, when a Kathryn Steinle, a 32-year-old woman, was killed while walking with her father in San Francisco, and an illegal immigrant released by the county was charged with the shooting.

Ms. Vaughan said San Francisco ranked eighth worst on the list of offenders after releasing 252 immigrants last year whom federal officials asked to be held.

Worst of all was the Santa Clara County Jail in California, which released 1,349 immigrants that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had asked to be held for custody transfer. Los Angeles and Santa Rita jails were tied for second worst, with 572 releases each.

“Our elected officials must not sit back and watch these sanctuaryadded nine names to its list. They include Prince George’s County and Montgomery County in Maryland and Chesterfield County in Virginia. The map is available at CIS.org/Sanctuary-Cities-Map.

Immigrant rights advocates defend sanctuary cities, saying deportation is a job for the federal government, not local jurisdictions. The advocates also say that when local police do cooperate with ICE, it strains relationships with Hispanic communities in particular, whose members then fear reporting serious crimes.

The conflict has left Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson in the middle. Bowing to legal challenges, he scrapped the Secure Communities program that mandated state and local prisons and jails to hold illegal immigrants.

Instead, he has taken a voluntary approach through the Priority Enforcement Program, which asks communities to cooperate and promises to ask for only the most


FRISCO, Texas – With freezing rain and sleet once again in the forecast this week, FC Dallas has decided to postpone its annual Foundation fundraiser Cocktails and Cleats, presented by Chase.

The event, which was originally slated for Thursday evening at Fashion Institute Gallery in Dallas, will be rescheduled for a date yet to be determined.

After similar weather led to terrible road conditions in Dallas-Fort Worth last week and the cancelation of the Footy 5K presented by VAZATA, club President Dan Hunt expressed concerns about conditions for fans, players and staff traveling to attend the event. FC Dallas still plans to unveil the new 2015 AdvoCare away kit later this week.

FC Dallas is scheduled to open the 2015 season at home versus San Jose on March 7. The match,Radiologists have said that, contrary to recent claims by the government, there is a potential risk to cancer treatments as a result of Brexit.

The Royal College of Radiologists said radioactive isotopes used in medical devices such as X-ray machines and radiotherapy devices are covered by the Euratom treaty, which regulates the movement of nuclear materials into and around Europe, and that leaving the treaty could therefore jeopardise our access to components of the devices.

Damian Green, the minister of state for the Cabinet Office, attempting to allay fears yesterday, told the House of Commons that radiologists were "scaremongering" by saying medical isotopes were covered by the treaty.

Standing in for Theresa May during Prime Minister's Questions, he told MPs: “Euratom places no restrictions on the export of medical isotopes to


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Lawrence Sager is one of the nation's preeminent constitutional theorists and scholars. Professor Sager came to Texas from New York University School of Law, where he was the Robert B. McKay Professor and Co-Founder of the Program in Law, Philosophy & Social Theory. He has also taught at Harvard, Princeton, Boston University, UCLA, and the University of Michigan. Professor Sager is the author or co-author of dozens of articles, many now classics in the canon of legal scholarship. Sager is the author of two books: Justice in Plainclothes: a Theory of American Constitutional Practice (Yale Univ. Press), and Religious Freedom and the Constitution (co-authored with Christopher Eisgruber) (Harvard Univ. Press).

Recent Publications

Fidelity to the Best Version of Ourselves, 31 Constitutional
Commentary 479 (2016) (reviewing Fidelity to OurAccording to legend, in 1989 a team of Russian scientists who were operating under the direction of Dr. Azzacove drilled a hole that was nine miles deep in an unnamed place in Siberia before breaking through into a cavity. Intrigued by this unexpected discovery, they lowered an extremely heat tolerant microphone, along with other sensory equipment, into the well. They listened and recorded (purportedly) the tormented screams of desperate people. The second surprise was the high temperature that they discovered at the earth's center, which was over 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The conclusion was that they had opened a hole into Hell.

The story was first published in 1990 by the Finnish newspaper Ammennusatia, a journal published by a group of Christians from Leväsjoki, a town in Western Finland.

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tabloids soon ran the story, and sound files—recordings of those alleged supplications from the damned—began appearing on various sites across the Internet. Immediately, the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TNB) discussed the sound clip on its evangelical channels, proclaiming that the clip was the ultimate proof of the existence of Hell.

Age Rendalen, a Norwegian teacher, heard the story on TBN while visiting the United States. Disgusted with what he perceived to be mass gullibility, Rendalen decided to augment the tale at TBN's expense. Rendalen wrote to the network, originally claiming that he disbelieved the tale but, upon his return to Norway, supposedly read a "factual account" of the story. According to Rendalen, the "story" claimed not only that the cursed well was real, but that a bat-like apparition (a commonpictorial representation of demons, such as in Michelangelo's The Torment of Saint Anthony) had risen out of it before blazing a trail across the Russian sky. To perpetuate his hoax, Rendalen deliberately mistranslated a trivial Norwegian article about a local building inspector and submitted both the original Norwegian article and the English "translation" to TBN. Rendalen also included his real name, phone number, and address, as well as those of a pastor friend who knew about the hoax and had agreed to expose it to anyone who called seeking verification.

Unfortunately, the Trinity Broadcasting Network ran the story without contacting Renalden or the Californian pastor, and the false story of "Well to Hell hoax" appeared on television, radio, and in a large number of publications.

The real story is that


of the century.”

A reference, stuck deep inside the five-page opus, said, “Some of the most critical technical intelligence on Russia came from another country, officials said. Because of the source of the material, the NSA was reluctant to view it with high confidence.”

Though the Post did not identify the country, this reference suggests that more than one key element of the case for Russian culpability was based not on direct investigations by the U.S. intelligence agencies, but on the work of external organizations.

Earlier, the Democratic National Committee denied the FBI access to its supposedly hacked computers, forcing the investigators to rely on a DNC contractor called CrowdStrike, which has a checkered record of getting this sort of analytics right and whose chief technology officer, Dmitri Alperovitch, is anas the process threw millions of average Russian into poverty.

But the U.S. mainstream media’s contempt for Putin reached new heights after he helped President Obama head off neoconservative (and liberal interventionist) demands for a full-scale U.S. military assault on Syria in August 2013 and helped bring Iran into a restrictive nuclear agreement when the neocons wanted to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran.

The neocons delivered their payback to Putin in early 2014 by supporting a violent coup in Ukraine, overthrowing elected President Viktor Yanukovych and installing a fiercely anti-Russian regime. The U.S. operation was spearheaded by neocon National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman and neocon Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, with enthusiastic support from neocon Sen. John McCain.

Nuland was heard in an intercepted pre-coup phone call with


subsequently sought to recover from him an alleged $80,000 overpayment. While this claim was pending, Hayden sold its brokerage business to a firm known as Walston & Co. In March of 1971, the plaintiff reached an agreement with Walston & Co. whereby Walston sold some $150,000 worth of his stock, retained approximately $81,000 of the proceeds to satisfy the overpayment, and sent him a check for the remainder. While this transaction satisfied the original indebtedness, it did not eliminate approximately $14,000 in interest charges which has accrued on the debt. According to the plaintiff, part of his agreement with Walston & Co. was that these interest charges would be eliminated and that he would not be held responsible for them. However, Walston continued to show the amount asa debit balance in his account and continued to charge additional interest on it.
In 1973, Walston & Co. was acquired by the firm of duPont Glore Forgan, Inc., which subsequently became known as duPont Walston, Inc. In February of 1974, the duPont Walston office holding the plaintiff's account was acquired by E. F. Hutton. Hutton obtained the stocks being held in the account and also purchased the debit balance, which by that time totalled $17,274.85. This $17,274.85 debit balance was shown on the first monthly statement sent to the plaintiff by Hutton.
The plaintiff testified that beginning in 1974 he made repeated demands on Hutton for his stock but that Hutton put him off with assurances that the stock would be returned as soon as the confusion regarding the


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The first time Seattle-native Camille Willemain, 26, touched down in Puerto Viejo in Costa Rica, she had plans to settle down in a cabin and finish her graduate school applications. Two years later and she’s still traveling, but Puerto Viejo isthe wind, and in heavy rain conditions the traditional system may prove unreliable. Further more, with the traditional aerosol propellant system one often has to use a “Pray and Spray” technique as many of the traditional systems will lack in the areas of accuracy and reach. This new system offered by Piexon in the JPX offers reliable function in any weather, accuracy due to narrow spray pattern and built in laser sight, significant reach ( up to 23 feet at 270 mph), offers two shots to stop an attacker, and is small enough for easy concealment. Since the OC spray is delivered so fast and with such force it easily penetrates face masks. Since the JPX isn’t classified as a firearm most states will allow you to carry


Teacher Caught on Tape: Kindergartner 'Ignorant, Pathetic, Self-Absorbed' Parents sent 5-year-old son to school with tape recorder in his pocket.

May 27, 2008  -- Ignorant. Pathetic. Self-absorbed.

Those are some of the harsh names an Indiana kindergarten teacher called one of her students, and the boy's parents captured it all on tape.

Five-year-old Gabriel Ross complained over the school year that his teacher, Kristen Woodward, was being mean to him, said his mother Tabitha McMahan and stepfather J.R. Edwards. Gabriel told them other kids didn't like him because he was "bad and stupid."

When he began acting out at home, they decided to take action and try to find out what was going on in the classroom. So in mid-April, McMahan and Edwards sent Gabriel to school with a tape recordera teacher do?" Mooney said to the newspaper.

Woodward did not respond to phone messages from ABC News.

The New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. issued a statement saying, "Privacy issues and policy prohibit school officials from discussing ongoing investigations of employee misconduct."

Parents Worry About Long-Term Effect

Gabriel's stepfather, J.R. Edwards, told ABCNEWS.com that all the children in the class are given weekly progress reports and have frequent meetings with the teacher. He said Gabriel's reports had both "smiley faces" for good behavior and "frown faces," which indicates the student needs help in a certain area.

Gabriel's reports said he was sometimes "disruptive" and didn't keep his hands to himself.

Two weeks into the school year, Edwards said Woodward talked about setting up a "behavioral plan" for Gabriel, but when he approached Woodward


to discuss the plan, she allegedly said, "I don't have time for this."

Edwards also said that Gabriel's behavior at home didn't make them think he was acting up at school.

"He's not perfect, but he's not out of control," Edwards said.

After hearing the tape, Edwards and McMahan pulled Gabriel out of school and are trying to figure out which school to send him to next year.

They are also exploring the possibility of pursuing a civil or criminal action against Woodward and the school district.

But Edwards said they are most concerned about the psychological impact the entire situation has had on Gabriel.

"I hope this doesn't affect him long-term, in his feelings about school or teachers," Edwards said. "We're going to seek some kind of help for him."Sacking of FUNAI chief comes as President Bolsonaro pursues opening up reservation lands for commercial activity.

The head of Brazil‘s indigenous affairs agency said he was fired after being pressured as President Jair Bolsonaro pushes to open up reservation lands to commercial activity.

Franklimberg Ribeiro de Freitas, head of the National Indigenous Affairs agency (FUNAI), was removed from the post by the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, it confirmed.

Under a decree signed by Bolsonaro after he came to office in January, the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights oversees FUNAI. It is headed by an evangelical pastor who wants to Christianise indigenous people.

In remarks to agency employees, de Freitas blamed Luiz Antonio Nabhan Garcia, secretary of land affairs in the Ministry of Agriculture, for his dismissal, Reuters


While the E3 2019 trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 might not deliver great story insights, the exciting and optically outstanding scenes really wet one's appetite for more - in addition to the appearance of Hollywood legend Keanu Reeves as legendary rockerboy Johnny Silverhand. The actor did not only enter the stage after the trailer at Microsoft's E3 presentation, but also announced the game's release date, being the 16th April 2020. The game takes place in the fictitious Night City, where players slip into the role of V, a mercenary who is looking for a unique implant said to be the key technology for immortality.

In the trailer, Mercenary V and his colleague Jackie Welles have apparently attracted a lot of attention in obtaining such chip. Dexter DeShawn, an underworld bossenters the fight. She blocks V's blades but doesn't manage to do so with his gun. The trailer ends in a shooting whose outcome seems somewhat confusing. After a reboot, V wakes up at a kind of scrap yard and is greeted by Keanu Reeves alias Johnny Silverhand, who asks to join him in destroying the Night City. Almost certain at this point is, that the character played by Reeves will take on a central role in the game - he was also mentioned in an in-game radio show reporting his supposed death in last years gameplay demo by CD Projekt Red.

Keanu Reeves as Johnny Silverhand in Cyberpunk 2077 Image: CD Projekt Red

Who is Johnny Silverhand?

Fans of the tabletop role-playing game Cyberpunk 2020 already know him: Johnny Silverhand


is a legendary character within the game world who is notorious for his private war against the mega-corporation Araska. The Rockerboys of the Pen&Paper template Cyberpunk 2020 are the so-called poets of the street, rebels against the powers of the big corporations and were inspired by the real punks of the 90s. The Rockerboy class is characterized above all by its high charisma and its musical talent.

However, Johnny Silverhand appearing at the end of the latest trailer also raises some questions: Whoever still has the story of Cyberpunk 2020 in his mind knows, that Johnny Silverhand dies in 2024. This is in contrast to the last gameplay demo, where it was established that Johnny Silverhand did, in fact, do his last ride a year ago - in 2076.Hold onto your wigs and secure your false eyelashes because production has begun on Hurricane Bianca. The film, starring RuPaul’s Drag Race season 6 winner Bianca Del Rio, tells the story of a high school teacher in a small town in Texas who loses his job once it’s discover he is gay. So what’s a gay guy to do when something like this happens? Get dressed up in drag and return disguised as a mean lady to get revenge on everyone in the town, of course. Currently shooting on location in Dallas, the cast includes Saturday Night Live alum Rachel Dratch and stage and screen star Alan Cumming.

The indie film, which was funded through a crowdsourcing campaign, was written and is being directed by Matt Kugelman. When Kugelman


NFL Week 3: Where Do the Chicago Bears Stand on the Bear-ometer?

An ugly preseason has not lingered into the opening weeks of the 2010 NFL season, but the Chicago Bears face their biggest test of the season this Monday night when they host their bitter rivals, the Green Bay Packers.

The Packers are playing great football in the early-going, ranking third in the NFL in scoring while allowing the seventh-fewest points of any team in the league.

They will be missing a key component of their offense, however, as tailback Ryan Grant will not suit up Monday night at Soldier Field; he is lost for the rest of the 2010-11 season.

In his place, Brandon Jackson will get the bulk of the carries for Green Bay, who figure to utilize theirrepeatedly at it’s climax.

Moments before the band took the stage, artificial smoke started to fill the room at Death Valley Girls’ record release party at The Echo on Thursday night. Beams of light shot up from the floor of the stage and smoke dulled the bright incandescence as Charlie Manson’s “Always is Always Forever” rang out in an eerie foreshadowing of the Death Valley Girls cult we were all about to join. Pickle, The Kid, Larry and Bonnie took the stage in their leather anti-hero uni’s, with images of capes and neon blonde hair illuminated by black light. The loop of the chanting Manson girls gave way to the opening bars of Glow in the Dark and the phased out, delay rich chords that make up the opening


moments of the new album’s title track. The glowing red demon behind the band sneered at all the teeny boppers who weren’t used to this much concentrated evil incorporated into the acts of the indie bands they love. It served as fair warning for the growing complexity of the Death Valley Girls live performance. There was a real Alice Cooper/Kiss element in the movements and imagery and this performance marked a departure from the minimalism of your typical garage band live show.

The band plowed through the tracks on Glow in the Dark and played a select number of songs from their debut album, Street Venom but the evolution of the band from their debut effort to present day is massive. Not so much in the music itself butTravel influencers Cora and Jay Smith recently attracted headlines – and haters – for reiterating the "dangerous" side of their of their three-month trip to the Dominican Republic in 2018.

Cora claimed she narrowly avoided being kidnapped and sexually assaulted on the Caribbean island.

In an Instagram post published Thursday, the Florida couple, who document their adventures on their Great Escape blog and Instagram account, answered critics who slammed them for only opening up now about their experience, as the island makes headlines over the recent deaths of U.S. tourists.

In a video accompanying the post, Jay once again called the country dangerous and decried the backlash the pair had received for speaking out.

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multiple deaths

Jay noted the pair detailed their "bad" experiences in an April 6, 2019, post – published nearly two months before Tammy Lawrence-Daley detailed her January assault at a Punta Cana resort.

In the post, Cora wrote a man catcalled her and pulled over his car, motioning for her to get in.

According to that post, two weeks later, she and Jay were riding bikes when a pair of Dominican men turned their scooter around to follow her.

"The man on the back of the scooter reaches out and grabs my butt," she wrote. "I was completely shocked and furious. He started to laugh at me in my face. I tried to create a little distance as they were so close to me our legs were touching. I pulled back outthis writ of error his sole contention is that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress certain evidence which he contends was the product of an illegal search.
Only two witnesses testified at the hearing on the motion to suppress. The defendant testified that he and three friends were listening to the radio in his apartment on the afternoon of November 11, 1960. "A knock comes to the door and I goes to the door and asked who was it and somebody said `Janitor,' and I put the safety chain to open the door and a terrific force came against the door and three officers rushed in the room with pistols drawn."
Officer Thomas King testified that on the morning of November 11, 1960, he had talked


should have been granted because the heroin which was admitted in evidence was the product of an illegal search. We do not so appraise the record. The testimony of the police officer was that there was no entry into the defendant's apartment until after the officer had seen the hypodermic needle and syringe. Possession of those articles, except by physicians and other designated persons, is prohibited by statute. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1961, chap. 38, par. 22-50.) Apart from anything that had theretofore occurred, the officer had personal knowledge that an offense was being committed in his presence at the time that he entered the apartment. This appears to have been the view of the trial judge, who stated that in his opinion there had not been an unlawfulMore Topics

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Perham schools receive $100,000 donation

The Perham Community Scholarship Program May 6 was not only a $50,000-plus bonanza for the Class of 2009. The Class of 2010, and beyond, received a $100,000 boost in their education.

In a surprise announcement, which brought a crowd of nearly 400 to their feet with a standing ovation, KLN Enterprises president Kenny Nelson donated $100,000 to the Perham Dent School system.

"This is a way to thank the community for everything it has done to make our businesses as successful as they are," said Nelson, himself a graduate of Perham High School. KLN is the maker of Barrel O' Fun snacks, Tuffy's pet foods and Kenny's Candies.

The announcement of the donation came at the 23rd annual scholarship program, where Perham High School students


school year.

The "More Than Nothing" campaign was launched by school supporters after the levy referendum was defeated last fall. With the defeat at the polls, the Perham-Dent schools got nothing in the way of new revenue--so the campaign is intended to bring in "More Than Nothing."

"What an awesome and generous gift to the community and school," said Jo Strege, director,, 549 Foundation. "What an incredible banner to wave for Perham."don’t they. Snow--I smile. Snow when I was born. Snow when I married John outside, by the lake, in March, in a blizzard! Snow the day he died. Snow that anyone might think is the bringer of death, in all these times became a glorious celebration of new life.

I’ll find the picture Krista took that April day he died, image of yet another conjunction of opposites. The hope, the beauty, the promise of a wild flower in the snow.

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U.S. Pat. No. 5,692,861, issued to Stottmann, overcomes many of the problems encountered in the prior art, and is incorporated herein by reference. The Stottmann device is a single planar member having a pair of sides in which the member defines first and second pluralities of elongated openings. The first plurality of elongated openings is positioned adjacent one of the sides of the member, each of said elongated openings extending between oppositely disposed first and second circular ends. These openings further have opposing parallel sides spaced a predetermined distance apart. The first circular ends have diameters substantially equal to this distance, while the second circular ends have diameters larger than this


distance.
The second plurality of openings in the Stottmann template is positioned adjacent the other side of the planar member. A first portion of the second openings has spaced opposing sides that are parallel, while a second portion of the second openings has opposing sides that converge toward one another and away from the first portion. The convergence of the sides of the second openings defines an angle substantially equal to the slope angle of the preselected dovetail cutter bit.
In using this template, the template is preferably first positioned over a rectangular form, comprised of inexpensive, but cuttable material. Starter holes are also drilled into the underlying form. A starter bit is passed through the enlarged diameter holes of selected openings of the plurality of first openings, and then"Land of the Dinosaurs" is the twenty-seventh episode of the animated series The Little Mermaid TV series, originally aired on October 8, 1994.

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Ariel finds a map to the Island of Prehistoria and decides to ask her father if she can go. Meanwhile, King Triton is too tense to do anything these days because Sebastian is being very annoying. Ariel and her family go on a vacation in the summer pole where it is cold, but relaxing.

Ariel and Flounder see dinosaurs trapped in ice. Flounder was also frozen in ice, but he was then released and caught a cold. Ariel wanted to share the same kindness to the poor creatures. Flounder just wanted some of the dinosaurs to look like the carnivore. Ariel thinks that the meat eating dinosaur


can't be that bad (she thinks he's smiling). Ariel releases them. The ice melts and out comes a family of Apatosaurus (mother and baby), a Tyrannosaurus Rex (big male), a Triceratops (huge adult), and a Stegosaurus (large male). The juvenile Apatosaurus cuddles with its mother Apatosaurus. Ariel was happy that the dinosaurs feel so good, but Flounder knows that they're good and hungry. The Tyrannosaurus Rex becomes hungry. He sees the Stegosaurus and licks his lips and battles the herbivore. The Tyrannosaurus whacks the trident with his tail and the trident falls into a trench and the dinosaur spots Ariel and Flounder. Ariel and Flounder think that the Tyrannosaurus can't swim so he will drown. However, something worse happens, the Tyrannosaurus becomes land breathing and aquatic. He isable to breathe in water and swim. The Tyrannosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Triceratops are able to breathe in water (the trident blast must have gave the dinosaurs powers after they were released). The Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus all go on a rampage and one of Ariel's sisters tells Triton that Ariel had the trident. Sebastian almost got crushed by the Tyrannosaurus Rex. All the merpeople swim, until a family of Humpback Whales arrived. The Stegosaurus and Triceratops were frightened so they leave and go back to land. The Tyrannosaurus fights the bull whale, but he hits the dinosaur with his tail. Ariel thanks the whale for saving everyone. The Tyrannosaurus had enough so he leaves and heads back to land. Triton gets his trident and he sees the Apatosaurus,


Tyrannosaurs, Triceratops, and Stegosaurus walking back on land. Triton realized Ariel has found the Lost Land of Prehistoria. Triton melts the ice and the dinosaurs all become happy where there was water and trees on their island home. Ariel takes cares of Flounder and Triton and the turtle have to deal with Sebastian. Sebastian told Triton to read him a story and get him more snowcones. Dudley asks King Trition if Sebastian is driving him crazy again, which Trition confirms. However, Trition also states he wouldn't have it any other way.

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The four main dinosaurs that were seen in thisUntil now, UFC brass has claimed that the expense of such a program would be prohibitive, and the promotion has left much of the drug-testing responsibility in the hands of local athletic commissions, only supporting random testing on an occasional basis. But with the PED epidemic growing worse in MMA, the sport’s leading promotion will be making the financial investment necessary to combat the problem, and UFC officials hope to have the new drug-screening system in place by the end of the year. From the ESPN report:

According to UFC vice president of regulatory affairs Marc Ratner, the promotion is in discussion with “four to five” independent drug-testing agencies and is hopeful to officially partner with one by the end of 2014.

The end goal is unannounced, year-round blood and


Post UTME: UNIZIK apprehends 167 impersonators

Awka – NO fewer than 167 persons,, who were alleged to be impersonators were apprehended during the just concluded Post University Matriculation Examination, Post- UTME, of the institution.

It was gathered that the arrested persons have been handed over to security operatives .ion.

The university’s director of information, Dr. Emma Ojukwu said the affected persons would be charged to court soon.

Meanwhile, of the 30, 477 candidates who made the university their first choice institution and who were invited for the Post –UME, only 28,233 candidates turned up for the examination.

According to Ojukwu, it was noticed that following the stringent measures adopted by the University for the examination, many fraudulent candidates did not turn up for the screening for fear of being detected.

“There was also physicalArchive for March, 2014

Sir Garry Sobers – the Right Excellent Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, to accord him his full title as a knight of the realm and the only living national hero of his native Barbados – is not the type who makes a fuss over his achievements as, in the words of the 1965 calypso, “the greatest cricketer on Earth or Mars”. If he is inclined to play down his two coincidentally simultaneous anniversaries on Sunday, he is sure to have been reminded of their significance several times in the past few days. They mark the start and the end of his celebrated Test career. Read the rest of this entry ?

MIRPUR, a suburb to the north east of Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka, is home


Aravinda de Silva. For much of his career, Aravinda was not recognized abroad. The World Cup victory changed that, but not enough.

The Indian cricket historian Ramachandra Guha has argued that Sunil Gavaskar was a superior batsman to Viv Richards. Though Viv Richards was much more destructive, he never had to face his own bowlers. Gavaskar not only faced Garner, Marshall and Holding, but he mastered them. He scored a scarcely believable 13 centuries against the feared West Indian bowlers. That is by far the highest number of centuries against the Windies, which was the leading attack of that era.

By the same token, Aravinda was a superior batsman to Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar. Not many are aware that Aravinda is the top century scorer against Pakistan, the leadingteam of his time. As the scorer of eight centuries against Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Abdul Qadir, Aravinda should be placed on a pedestal. Read the rest of this entry ?

“Four World Cup finals, four heartbreaks, but this is what it feels like to finally win something,” one Sri Lanka fan was overheard saying, as
the open-top bus carrying Sri Lanka’s cricketers came into view near SLC headquarters. She was one of thousands who lined the streets, waving flags, decked in blue, tooting horns, and occasionally breaking out in a baila-flavoured jig as they awaited the Asia Cup-winners.

Cricket lovers in Sri Lanka are an apathetic bunch by South Asian standards, and on Sunday even the beaming players appeared surprised by the masses that had turned out


for them, on 18 hours’ notice. The joy in the whoops, the whistles and the waves could not be mistaken, but equally palpable was the relief. Sri Lanka’s public had waited a long time to shower adulation on their players like this. The players, many of them accustomed to a relatively throng-free existence, lapped up the attention. Read the rest of this entry ?

Shortly after Raki Weerasundara‘s third birthday, his family called time in Colombo and started a new life in Wellington. The year was 1998, and with Sri Lanka plunged in civil war, the political and security situation had compelled several of its citizens to relocate to countries with friendly immigration laws. There had been mass emigration in the 1980s, when the ethnic conflict boiled over, andLibyans say clashes resolved, but firing goes on

Despite continued gunfire and explosions near Tripoli on Sunday, Libyan officials and fighters said a bloody local dispute that has strained nerves in the city for three days was being resolved.

Compared to exchanges of rockets and machinegun fire on Saturday, in which medics said at least seven fighters were killed, clashes were limited -- a result, officials said, of a deal among leaders from the capital and rival communities from the town of Zawiyah and clan leaders of the Wershifanna tribe.

We think that we are getting to some kind of stability, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, chairman of the National Transitional Council (NTC) said, blaming irresponsible former rebels for violence which has fanned fears that thousands of fighters who helped topple Muammar Gaddafi


may turn on each other.

We are working on this and we hope to achieve something soon, said Abdul Jalil, who NTC members said personally took part in lengthy negotiations since Friday to try to end the clashes between men from Zawiyah and the neighbouring tribe.

There are many accusations from both sides. We don't know how many of the accusations are true, he told a news conference, referring notably to accusations from Zawiyah, strenuously denied by the Wershifanna, that Gaddafi loyalists had attacked NTC fighters around the Imaya military base.

At Imaya, Reuters journalists found the compound, a key component of Tripoli's defences under Gaddafi, occupied by an organised force from the NTC that is the closest Libya has to a national security service until it forms a government thatcan set about establishing a new army and other defence forces.

NTC troops were also in charge of a bridge over the main road that runs from Tripoli to Zawiyah and west to Tunisia. The bridge has been a bone of contention since Thursday, when rival groups clashed over rights to man checkpoints on the highway.

ALL BROTHERS

Mohammed al-Wershifanni, a tribal sheikh of the Wershifanna in the area, told Reuters both sides had agreed to pull back from the bridge and from the military base and to allow in a peacekeeping force sent by the NTC in Tripoli.

Speaking to Reuters nearby, dressed in traditional robes and skullcap, Wershifanni said: We are all brothers ... All the attention on this will only cause trouble.

At the military base, NTC fighter Ibrahim al-Ftasi,


dressed in military fatigues and carrying credentials from the NTC's 17th February Brigade, said: There's been an agreement between the Wershifanna and Zawiyah.

He blamed continued firing on a fifth column of Gaddafi loyalists. But NTC troops kept reporters away from the area of the shooting and it was not possible to determine its source.

In a mark of the embarrassment the NTC has felt over the violence, as it seeks to reassure its international backers that it can form a government this month and establish order, an officer in the NTC force at Imaya told journalists he would make trouble if they published photographs of the clashes.

The fighting has caused a surge in comment on social media sites, with critics of the NATO-backed rebellion quick to see it asproof that Gaddafi's enemies were allowing anarchy and supporters of the uprising blaming it on pro-Gaddafi diehards.

In central Tripoli overnight, residents appeared more reluctant than of late to drive around.

Among other signs of tension as the country waits for prime minister-designate Abdurrahim El-Keib to form a government -- within the week, according to Abdul Jalil -- doctors at Tripoli Central Hospital said hundreds of colleagues had stayed away from work since Saturday. They complained of assaults on medical staff by armed men and were demanding NTC protection.

CONFLICTING CLAIMS

Fighters from Zawiyah, about 50 km (30 miles) west of Tripoli and an early centre of revolt against Gaddafi this year, had alleged that diehard Gaddafi supporters in the tribal lands of the Wershifanna had attacked them late on Thursday.

Representatives of


Post-traumatic stress disorder in Australian World War II veterans attending a psychiatric outpatient clinic.
To ascertain the frequency of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in World War II veterans attending a psychiatric outpatient clinic in an Australian veterans' hospital and to compare veterans with and without PTSD according to certain psychological variables. Over a three-month period veterans were assessed at their next appointment by their treating doctors (psychiatrists or psychiatric registrars) for PTSD according to the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-III-R). At the same time they completed two questionnaires and provided information about their war experiences. The psychiatric outpatient department at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital, Melbourne. One hundred and twenty World War II veterans attended during the three-month period and 108 (90%) agreedPrime Minister Jacinda Ardern is seeking urgent advice on whether two large events should go ahead.

The March 15 anniversary event and Pasifika Festival can go ahead after the Ministry of Health gave them a tick.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern had sought urgent advice on whether the two large events planned for this weekend, as many other events around the world have been canned for fear of spreading coronavirus.

That advice said the events could go ahead as there had been no community spread of the virus so far in New Zealand.

Iain McGregor/Stuff Linwood Mosque general secretary and Islamic centre trustee Faisal Sayed says he would understood if the March 15 commemorations was cancelled due Coronavirus.

The Ministry warned that anyone who felt sick should stay home however.

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at the Pasifika festival.

Talk of cancelling the commemorations of those lost in the terrorist attack has been met with understanding within the Christchurch Muslim community.

Linwood Mosque general secretary and Islamic centre trustee Faisal Sayed told Stuff while the anniversary event offered the chance to send a message of solidarity and remembrance, he understood the importance of community wellbeing.

"It's unfortunate there's five confirmed cases in Auckland. Personally, I wouldn't want that to be travelling to Christchurch.

"In the support of due diligence, if that's the decision that will be taken, I think it's a rational decision."

He would be discussing the potential cancellation of the event with leaders, and whether another event could occur "once everything is contained".

Muslim Association of Canterbury general secretary Muhommed Feroze Ditta was not disappointed in theevent's potential cancellation.

"If there is a public health concern, then that should be taken in to account.

"Really it's up to the Christchurch City Council to make that call."

A Christchurch City Council spokesman said the council was following Ministry of Health advice, which did not propose altering arrangements for public events.

It advised event organisers to focus on reminding the public to stay home if unwell, and not attend events if they have travelled from mainland China, Iran, northern Italy or the Republic of Korea, or been in close contact with someone confirmed with COVID-19 in the past 14 days.

Ardern herself joined thousands of people at Newtown Festival in Wellington on Sunday.

Around the world hundreds of large events have been cancelled because of fears around COVID-19 spreading, particularly in the