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Samsung victims and SHARPS activists were attacked and verbally abused by tens of far-right thugs as they submitted a petition to the court calling for a punishment to fit the crimes of Lee Jae-yong, vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co, Ltd.

On Aug. 7, the special prosecutors demanded 12 years in jail for Lee. The heir apparent of the world’s largest technology company was arrested in Feb. 2016, on five accounts of bribery and influence-peddling. The charges center on about $37 million in bribes and gifts he paid Choi Soon-sil, the shamanic confidante of President Park Geun-hye who was impeached early this year.

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The charges largely stem from the National Pension Service’s vote in favor of a controversial merger in 2015 between two Samsung affiliates that cementedFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – November 25, 2019

WINNIPEG, MB – The Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the City of Winnipeg will host a Grey Cup championship parade Tuesday, November 26 from noon to 3:00 p.m. beginning at Hargrave and Portage Avenue heading eastbound on Portage Avenue and culminating at The Forks.

The parade will feature players, coaches and staff, Winnipeg Blue Bombers President & CEO, Wade Miller, Premier Brian Pallister, Mayor Brian Bowman, the Cheer & Dance Team, Buzz and Boomer, the Blue Bombers Drum Band, and Dancing Gabe.

Bob Irving of 680 CJOB will host the festivities, with speeches kicking off following a RCAF fly-past at 1:30 p.m.

“On behalf of all Manitobans and all Bomber fans everywhere, I thank all the players and the management and staff of the Winnipeg Blue


other jurisdictions.

Some of the other reported victims include former Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, Pueblo County District Attorney Jeff Chostler and Gilpin County Sheriff Bruce Hartman, along with numerous prosecutors, public defenders, judges and even a coroner.

In one case, a Jefferson County judge was told she owed the group $17 billion, while another document ordered the Gilpin County coroner to arrest the Gilpin County attorney. Another official was threatened with arrest on suspicion of “inland piracy.”

The group appears to follow the doctrine of the sovereign citizen’s movement. That movement holds that people are only answerable to common law and that the U.S government is illegitimate.

The FBI has said that the more extreme sovereign citizens are “domestic terrorists” and labeled them a “growing threat.”

Arrest warrants were issued for alland health problems.

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In the Spring of 2012, two cockroaches were discovered on the Highline in Chelsea. Researchers at the two universities identified the insects as non-native, or not indigenous to the U.S. They came from Japan, likely accompanying ornamental plants. They used a relatively new approach to doing rapid genetic sequencing called DNA barcoding.


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Dedicated to those who feel more at ease with a classic style of knife, the Venom is characterized by a wide main flat grinding, less suitable for combat it is best used in field and precision work, (thanks to a smaller grinding angle). It is a multipurpose knife of great usefulness in hunting and outdoor sports activity. The profile and general outline of the blade are inspired by the Italian...

This project, sponsored by the Italian C.O.F.S. (Comando Operativo Forze Speciali) and its Commander: Gen.Bertolini, was also previously suggested by many international knife collectors. A restyling of the famous "Pugnale da paracadutista assaltatore mod.1939", a masterpiece of the Italian Military History. Even if preserving the shape, structure and proportions of the original model, the knife...

Dobermann IV represents theevolution of the first and most classic Extrema Ratio model: the so called K1 Dobermann. The main features of this new model is its heavy structure and its extremely flexible use - from hunting to survival environment, as well as camping, military or defensive use. For this reason, Dobermann IV has been developed in two different versions: a tactical and a sporting...

The name MATO GROSSO recalls a famous region in South America. In Portuguese it means “dense bush”. This new knife has been developed to cut the deep bush with broad leaves which is typical of tropical forests. Free shipping. Specifications: Weight: 370g Blade Length: 280mm Total Length: 450mm Main Blade Thickness: 4mm Blade Material: Bohler Steel N690 (54HRC) Handle Material: Forprene Blade...

Probably a milestone among multipurpose knives.


Employed on a large scale in Afghanistan as standard equipment by the members of the Italian mission "Nibbio", it is part of an experimental project undertaken by the Alpine Troops Headquarters on the renewal of individual equipment. During the preparation for this mission, the Alpine Troops Headquarters coordinated a team of companies in the...

A classic and for good reason. The "kukri", a Nepalese tool made famous by the Gurkha regiment on Her Majesty's Service is also derived from the ancient Greek swords, it is simply a machete with a forward cut. The forward cutting blade allows it to work like an axe while maintaining the versatility of the long blade. This series was developed based on a fusion of modern and antique concepts. The...

Commissioned and officially adopted in2002 by the Ninth Rgt. Incursori "Col. Moschin", this model is the quintessence of a pure combat knife. Inspired by daggers with an asymmetric blade and straight but slightly orientated handle used by the Arditi, in whose footsteps the Col Moschin Regiment follows, it has been re-elaborated in a modern form, endowed with a double edged blade, (single for the...

Extrema Ratio has received many inquiries for a survival knife. It is for this reason that the company decided to develop a tool for any situation. The ONTOS (from the Greek language “the thing”) is a pure field knife, solid and heavy but still compact. A portion of the upper blade is serrated in order to always have a sharp edge ready to be used. In an emergency situaton,


modern and antique concepts. The...

An important piece of history comes back to light. This is the replica of the dagger given to the G.O.I. (Gruppo Operativo Incursori) at the end of their first training course (1952). Aesthetically held faithfull it was mechanically enhanced through the use of Cobalt reinforced N690 steel and the possibility of disassembly. Free shipping. Specifications: Weight: 284g Blade Length: 150mm Total...

Waki comes from the well known Japanese Wakizashi swords. Samurais would always bringing it with them, while the katana was used only in case of battles. The Waki blade is produced in Boehler N690 steel and hardened at 58HRC. The handle is in forprene. The knife comes with cordura sheath to safely carry the sharpened blade and to protect it from accidentally bumping which'Trilogue' discussions between the EU's two law-making bodies, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers, as well as the European Commission, which proposes new EU legislation, were supposed to take place to iron out differences between the bodies over the copyright reforms.

However, Reuters reported that preparatory talks on Friday had failed to open up enough scope for compromise, resulting in Monday's meeting being cancelled. Monday's talks were supposed to be the final in a series of trilogue talks at which it was hoped "an overall compromise" on the new copyright laws would reached to enable the reforms to be adopted before the European parliamentary elections in May.

According to proposals set out by the Romanian presidency of the Council of Ministers, a number of aspects of the proposed


reforms have still to be agreed on. These include the wording of the controversial Article 11 and Article 13, which have been the subject of significant lobbying and media coverage.

The proposals under Article 11 would require website operators and social media companies, among others, to make a 'fair and proportionate' payment in remuneration for the digital use of press publications.

Under Article 13, content creators would gain greater control over where their copyrighted material appears online and online platforms would be forced to intervene to tackle unauthorised use of the material by users.

The Romanian presidency's proposals, published by The Register, were put to the Council's Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) on 17 January with a view to enabling greater flexibility in negotiations with the Parliament and Commission. In it, compromisesenior garda would give evidence that Sgt McCabe had admitted at a meeting in Mullingar in 2008 that he only made his allegations of garda malpractice because he had a grievance against a senior officer.

However, Sgt McCabe had a tape recording of that meeting that proved this was not the case.

Fianna Fáil says Tánaiste 'should go' over McCabe email

Mícheál Lehane: Government confidence in short supply

Prime Time revealed that key pages in which Mr Justice O’Higgins confirmed to the inquiry that he had reviewed the tape of the Mullingar meeting and the remarks attributed to Sgt McCabe were not on it.

The hour that was missing was the hour in which the strategy outlined by the Garda Commissioner’s legal team collapsed.

That hour was also missing from the transcript supplied to


the McCabe legal team during the commission hearings.

There was no mention of this incident in the O’Higgins Commission report.

A spokesperson for the Department of Justice said: "The particular pages identified by GSOC were not among the records of the Commission deposited with the Department in the first place."

The Department said there was "no question of transcripts being withheld from GSOC or of the necessity for an investigation. To the extent that some pages were not among the records deposited with the Department of Justice and Equality, the transcripts were not complete."

When the department realised they were missing they had to go back to the stenographer to source them.

Prime Time has established that there was no issue with the stenographer. That hour had been transcribed and submitted as normalnumerous customers while others had received only a part of the funds they were storing in their Coinroom wallets.

Later on, Coinroom stopped responding to withdrawal requests and closed down its website, which completely disappeared from the public domain. Simultaneously, the cryptocurrency exchange deleted all of its social media handles. Coinroom’s phone number stopped working as well.

Even though he promised a resolution for the stuck deposits by April 19, customers were unable to get in contact or find any contact information for Tomasz Zbigniew Wiewior, the director of the company. According to a victim, Wiewior formed another company in Estonia, but it is unclear whether the director had left Poland to move to the Baltic country as well.

While the exact losses of the victims remain unclear, the deposits of


the testifying customers ranged between PLN 300 ($79) and PLN 60,000 ($15,660), the Polish media outlet reported.

One user stated that Coinroom failed to refund his 2.005 BTC deposit even after the customer received a withdrawal confirmation from the exchange on April 3.

Infuriated customers take steps against the exchange

Money.pl estimates the number of Coinroom exit scam victims at “several thousand” with many of them swarming cryptocurrency forums to share their grievances.

A victim took matters in his own hands and visited the Coinroom headquarters directly after the exchange failed to respond to two of his emails, but with no success.

“The lady at the reception did not want to let me in, she claimed that nobody was in the office. Instead, she called someone from the company with me. I wasAbout things bamboo, mostly

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Krabi, in southern Thailand, is famous for its natural beauty. Iconic images from Krabi province, such the one of the pier at Bamboo Island, shown here, do not tell the whole story though. Less than 40 kilometres across the sea, the fishing village of Ban Khlong Prasong is slowly being washed away.

Previously, the village was surrounded by beautiful sandy beaches and mangrove forests that offered some protection against erosion. Now, mud has replaced the clean sand. Waves have eroded more than one kilometre of coastline in some places, including much of the mangrove forest.

After the tsunami in 2004, Krabi local government authorities built a 2m-high concrete wall along the beach in an attempt to mitigate the erosion and protect houses. Instead, seawater seeps


to the beach. Small aquatic animals such as molluscs and crabs are observed now, and the mangrove forest is recovering. The roots of the mangroves help with binding the soil and in establishing micro-organisms which further assist in stabilisation. Stabilisation starts from the land side and gradually moves toward the sea.

Disclosure: I’m a great fan of mangroves. In a previous life I drove a small river cruise vessel on a river that hosts over 30 species of mangroves in only a small area. The mangroves were my favourite part of the tour and I managed to get many a sleepy visitor awake and excited (or at least interested) in the wonders of mangrove forests.

A compilation of posts on the Internet about bamboo from Google Alerts in September:

• InspiredBeyond America

Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover. After their split-up years ago, he had joined the Secret Police in order just to take her back and provide the protection she needed. Struggling to preserve her humanity, she falls in love with a young platonic dreamer, a kind of rebel without cause, whom she initiate in literature and reinvents as a character capable to meet her own desires of freedom. BEYOND AMERICA is a love story and an action drama altogether, with archetypes of an aggressive, totalitarian society.


Stand inventory data from the 10-ha forest research plot in Uholka: 15 yr of primeval beech forest development.
Forests dominated by European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) are among both the most widespread in Europe and the most intensely exploited globally. One of the largest remnants of unmanaged beech forests in Europe is the Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh forest in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, covering 8,800 ha of primeval forest. In 2000, a permanent forest plot of 10 ha has been established in the Uholka massif. All living and dead trees with a diameter at breast height (DBH) ≥ 60 mm were identified to species, DBH measured, stems tagged and mapped. Since then, the plot has been remeasured in 2005, 2010, and 2015. In total, 4,820 individual trees were measured with 14,116 individual measurementsthroughout all four inventories. In spring 2018, an Airborne Laser Scan was carried out, covering the Uholka-Shyrokyi Luh forest. This data set allows us to derive a high-resolution digital elevation model (DEM) of the plot area. European beech covers a share of ≈ 95% of the basal area (BA) of all living stems. While BA was relatively stable throughout all inventories (≈ 38 m2 /ha), the number of stems increased considerably between 2010 and 2015 from 290 to 430 stems/ha. Additionally, the proportion of beech stems decreased from 95% in 2010 to 86% in 2015. The continuity of the share of beech on BA and the decrease in number of stems can be traced back to disturbance events, which led to an increase of more light demanding species


Members of the Martins Ferry Chapter of the National Honor Society have demonstrated a commitment to the ideals of character, scholarship, leadership and service. Mr. Paul Matuska is the NHS adviser.

This year, nineteen members of the junior class were inducted into NHS. Throughout the year, these students will participate in activities including organizing blood drives, tutoring their peers, and volunteering in the community to further the NHS ideals.

For information on eligibility and the selection process, click on the options in the left menu box.post was the different representations of gender roles in the novel, and the attitudes of different characters towards them. I would also like to ask where these attitudes fall in the context of what is traditional view of masculinity vs. femininity.

The first character we meet is of course Okonkwo, and it is pretty clear where he stands on the issue of gender. According to him, masculinity equals virtue, femininity equals weakness. Everything about him screams an obsession with being masculine – an obsession for power, reputation, wealth, and the ancient ways where men were men and women were women.

Okonkwo seems to have a certain contempt for the feminine, which is mostly due to his father, who had failed in his manly role and brought shame upon the whole


on the basis of Voith's One Platform Concept.

An automation package as well as initial machine clothing, installation supervision and start-up were included in the scope of supply from Voith.

The King's Lynn mill produces newsprint for the UK market.

Palm Paper Limited, a subsidiary of privately-held Palm Group, invested about EUR 330 million in the construction of the King's Lynn mill, which is some 90 miles north of LondonNow that Andrew Garfield is Spider-Man... no more, the 32-year-old British actor can reflect upon that time period -- the good, the bad and even the ugly. "There were beautiful things about it and also privileged things about it which I struggled with and then some really disenchanting things that happened," Garfield recalled to The Independent while promoting 99 Homes.

The fame that came with playing Spider-Man took a toll on Garfield's well-being. Pressure was being placed upon him to act a certain way so that he could increase his celebrity status, and at times he felt himself separating from the real world when believing his own hype. "I feel lucky that I now have that awareness that something is damaging and can separate me from just being in


is hoping the team she saw over the final 20 minutes against the Tigers (11-6) shows up against the Blue Wave.

"When we play a disciplined game we're very strong. We're still getting into the habit of maintaining momentum," Schager said. "In the second half they did what I was asking them to do the whole game."

This was a day of firsts for the Wreckers, who earned the first No. 1 seed for the FCIAC playoffs in program history while playing the first-ever home game in the conference tournament. They also set a school record for wins (16) in one season, surpassing last year's total by one.

But Staples wasn't going to leave the field without the most important No. 1 of all, it's first-ever FCIAC playoff victory.

Staples reached thegoals, one assist), the great all-around play of Taylor Fischer (one goal, two assists) and the hustle on defense by Casey Brody.

The Tigers scored six of the final seven goals of the first half, including one by Galione with 10 seconds left, to tie it 7-7 at halftime.

Ridgefield then opened the second half with two unanswered goals by Norris and Eliza Marcus to take a 9-7 lead and started thinking upset.

"We definitely gave them a run for their money during the regular season and we were definitely looking to do the same thing tonight," said Ridgefield coach Michelle Ralph, whose team dropped a 14-10 home decision against the Wreckers in the first meeting this year. "We definitely weren't going to just show up and let them have an


more goals, including two by Ambrose, the second on a nifty underhand shot while cutting to the left with 8:36 left, to put the game out of reach.

Once the Wreckers got their offense rolling, the same Ridgefield defense that got the Tigers back in the game in the first half was powerless to stop it.

"Staples is a team that hustles 100 percent of the time," Ralph said. "We were ready to go with that hustle for a very long time, but we're a better first-half team and we had trouble keeping the momentum."

Flaherty was instrumental in the victory with her work in the faceoff circle. After having trouble with Fischer and Marcus in the middle portion of the game, Flaherty kicked her draw controls into high gear, winningthe final five of the second half to power the late-game surge.

"The same thing happened against New Canaan and Greenwich," Schager said. "I pulled her to the side and told her I needed her to start winning draws. She just tapped me on the shoulder and said, 'Okay coach.' And she was unstoppable after that."

Elizabeth Driscoll added two assists and goalie Penny Tsilfides made nine saves to post the win for Staples, which finished with a 26-24 edge in shots.


NATO Loophole: Attack On Hawaii Not Covered By Treaty

From Conservative Tribune, January 16, 2018

For 40 minutes ... the Hawaiian Islands were plunged into confusion by a genius working with the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency who clicked through a redundancy window and sent out a mass text warning informing residents of the 50th state that they were going to get hit by a missile in short order.

No missile attack took place, of course....

However, especially with tensions with North Korea at a relative high and the Kim Jong Un regime developing newer ICBMs , the text warning got many thinking about what would happen if a missile attack were to befall the Hawaiian Islands. Surely it would trigger a colossal response from both the United States and its NATO allies,right?

Well, the United States, sure. NATO, though? Not exactly.

In fact, due to an odd loophole in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s charter, an attack on Hawaii wouldn’t be covered under contingencies that would necessitate an automatic reaction from the other 28 members of the group.

How can that be? After all, Article 5 of the treaty was pretty explicit:

The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognised by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking


forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.

Pretty cut and dry, right? However, a loophole in Article 6 leaves Hawaii dangerously exposed:

For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack … on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France, on the territory of or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.

Therein lies the problem: Hawaii is in the Pacific Ocean, just a few degrees"When Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago," Obama said. "And when you think about why, in the African-American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African-American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that — that doesn't go away."

Obama recalled how before he became president, like most African-American men in this country, he was not immune to "hearing the locks click on the doors of cars" as he approached or "a woman clutching her purse nervously and holding her breath" after he'd entered the same


elevator.

It's those kinds of experiences, he said, that inform how the Black community interpreted and responded to that fatal night when Martin met Zimmerman.

African-Americans are not "naive" about the fact that young Black men are "disproportionately involved in the criminal justice system" as both "victims and perpetrators of violence," the president acknowledged, but it's also important to recognize how the nation's racial history and the resulting poverty and dysfunction have contributed to that.

"[The] fact that sometimes that's unacknowledged adds to the frustration. And the fact that a lot of African-American boys are painted with a broad brush and the excuse is given, well, there are these statistics out there that show that African-American boys are more violent — using that as an excuse to then see sons treateddiminished.  He allowed 155 hits, 16 home runs and 77 bases on balls in 153 innings pitched, with only 67 strikeouts.  In his final two starting assignments, both against the Cubs, he lasted only one full inning on September 9; then, five days later, he walked the first three batters he faced without recording an out before being relieved.  The Cardinals were embroiled in a tight pennant race against the New York Mets, and Kepshire made only two more appearances that year, both in relief. The Redbirds would win the  National League East Division and National League championships, but Kepshire did not appear on the Cards' 1985 NLCS or 1985 World Series roster.

Kepshire made only two more Major League appearances, both in April 1986.


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Category:Waterbury Reds playersMothers' names are to be added to marriage registers in England and Wales for the first time as the government addresses "another inequality in marriage" by introducing the first reforms to the system in more than 150 years, David Cameron has announced.

In a wide-ranging speech on the family, in which he toned down his "broken Britain" rhetoric by saying that divorce can sometimes be the best outcome for children, the prime minister said the current marriage register system fails to reflect modern Britain.

Speaking at the Relationships Alliance in London, he said Britain had recently sent a powerful message by legalising equal marriage, but more progress was needed to modernise marriage.

"We're going to address another inequality in marriage too. The content of marriage registers in England and Wales has


the circumstances, however difficult the decision. In addition, there are also cases of domestic violence where what matters is making sure people are safe, rather than keeping a family together."

He went out of his way to praise "inspirational single parents" in another change in tone after he was criticised in opposition for appearing to belittle single parents by criticising the "couples' penalty". This was the Tory description of the top up to benefits to help single parents.

In his speech Cameron said: "When we talk about the importance of helping couples stay together – let's also be absolutely clear about the truly inspirational single parents in our country who do an amazing job bringing up their children."

But he also warmly praised the charity Relate, as he announced a doublingof the relationship counselling budget to £19.5m.

He said: "There are thousands of children who have renewed self-esteem and hope for the future because of your support in the toughest of times. And for families where breakups have been unavoidable, time and again your support has helped to make the fallout as painless as possible."

Cameron spoke of how his family lay at the heart of his life and his politics. He made a brief reference to his late son Ivan when he spoke of his luck in having four children. Ivan, who was severely disabled, died in 2009 at the age of six.

Cameron said: "For me, nothing matters more than family. It's at the centre of my life and the heart of my politics. As a husband and a


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Awards organized by ESIC annually since 1981 as recognition for the individuals and entities that have put dedication and effort into their professional activity. Divided into 7 categories and 6 geographical areas, they are awarded by juries formed by relevant people from the political, economic and social fields in our country. Awards organized by ESIC annually since 1981 as recognition for the individuals and entities that have put dedication and effort into their professional activity. Divided into 7 categories and 6 geographical areas, they are awarded by juries formed by relevant people from the political, economic and social fields in our country.

It develops programs and activities in the field of business development to support University and former students in their businessthe fourth quarter of 2007.

Bottom Line: Due to cost savings, improved productivity and increased efficiencies achieved during the last three years, U.S. manufacturing corporations are now more profitable than ever before, and that's part of the reason for all of the "happy talk" about manufacturing's comeback. In the end, it's profitability that's the most important gauge for the health of a company or industry, not the amount of shipments, output, or employment levels.

For the manufacturing sector to have record-high profits today at a level of output 15% below the peak in 2007 is much better than the reverse - a record level of output with profits 15% below a 2007 peak. With record-high profits, American manufacturing corporations have the resources to make the very investments in research, technology


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NEW DELHI: BJP president Amit Shah on Monday batted for holding Lok Sabha and assembly polls together, saying it would check expenditure and ensure that the nation is not in "election mode" throughout the year.

In a letter to the Law Commission, he said holding simultaneous polls is not only a concept, but a principle which can be implemented.

Amit Shah said the claim that holding two sets of polls was against the federal structure of the country is a "baseless" argument.

On the contrary, he said, it would strengthen the federal structure of the country.

In his eight-page letter, the Bharatiya Janata Party chief said the opposition to simultaneous polls seems to be politically motivated.

The law panel, which is examining the feasibility of holding simultaneous polls, had soughtthe views of the political parties before finalising its report.

Both the BJP and the Congress had stayed away from consultation organised by the commission in this regard last month.

The Congress had met the Commission top brass recently where it had opposed the concept of simultaneous polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has all along supported the concept of simultaneous polls.


EXTENSIVE READING THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE/ C.S. LEWIS 9.Rewrite the book as a newspaper article.

Four brothers claim that they discovered a new universe! Four English children claim that they have found a new, magical world, Narnia.

This is the story of the four brothers - Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy.

Peter: "It all started in a rainy day, when we played hide and seek, in the house of our acquaintance. Our young sister, Lucy, were hiding in an old wardrobe, where she found Narnia, the secret land beyond the wardrobe, the earth that was known only to us, until now.

Lucy was the first to find Narnia in the wardrobe of the acquaintance old house. At first, we didn't believe her when she toldPapers essays:

... Out of the Silent Plane"t by Clive Staples Lewis Scribner Classics, New York, 1996 Ransom's Escape from Malacandra I enjoy the Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis and they are my favorite books. However, I dislike Out of the Silent Planet, because it is slow and boring. It is ...

... C.S. (Clive Staples) Lewis called The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The first sentence in the book is "Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy." This first sentence, while it those not seem like much, is an introduction to the ...


1963–64 Danish 1. division season

The 1963–64 Danish 1. division season was the seventh season of ice hockey in Denmark. Five teams participated in the league, and KSF Copenhagen won the championship.

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The big comeback of the World Champion Sara Cardin facing the rising karate star Anzhelika Terlyuga

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The World Champion, Italian ace Sara Cardin is back in the game. After winning the gold in Bremen at the last World Championship, Cardin started to lose her good form adding the injuries due to what...


Image copyright Manuel Harlan Image caption The blood-soaked stage version aimed to attract more teenagers to the theatre

The National Theatre of Scotland's hit play Let the Right One In will re-open the West End's Apollo theatre, which closed following a ceiling collapse last year.

The production will run from 26 March until 27 September.

The Apollo has been closed since 19 December after plasterwork from the ornate ceiling fell on to the audience injuring nearly 80 people.

An investigation, by Westminster City Council, into the incident is ongoing.

The collapse happened during a performance of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which is moving to the Gielgud theatre and will resume on 24 June.

Let the Right One In opened at the Royal Court Theatre in London at the endof last year.

It had its world premiere at Dundee Rep in June.

Gory scenes

Directed by John Tiffany and adapted by Jack Thorne, the play is based on the Swedish novel and cult-hit film by John Ajvide Lindqvist.

It tells the story of the relationship between Oskar, a lonely bullied schoolboy, played by Martin Quinn, and Eli (Rebecca Benson), a centuries-old vampire who befriends him.

Benson and Quinn will reprise their critically acclaimed leading roles in the thriller drama. Other cast members include Graeme Dalling, Angus Miller, Cristian Ortega and Susan Vidler.

Described as being "for adults and fearless teens aged 13+", the play contains many gory scenes.

The production won the theatre prize at this year's South Bank Awards.

It will mark the first time that a National Theatre of Scotland production has played


explosion "blew off his left hand at the wrist, blew a huge hole in the abdominal wall, allowing the abdominal contents to eviscerate," and caused "multiple shrapnel wounds of the chest, of the legs and the abdominal area," and injured "the right hand with deep lacerations."[2]
In October 1973, Saling returned to work. He obtained a job with Ketchikan Gateway Borough as a maintenance foreman at the airport.[3] Some time after Saling started work, he began experiencing severe pain in his right shoulder, which has been described as degeneration of the shoulder and osteoarthritis in the rotator cuff. On August 22, 1975, Saling had an accident at the job site when the brakes failed on the front-end loader he was driving. To stop the loader from going into thethe parties' factual dispute regarding the cause of Saling's disability.
The board's conclusion[8] that employment with the borough, the second employer, did not contribute to Saling's disability was based in part on the board's finding that Saling was permanently and totally disabled prior to his employment with the borough. The evidence the board relied on was testimony by two doctors. Dr. Shield, who had examined Saling at the city's request, testified that Saling's prior injuries were such that he should not have been working; and Dr. Wilson, Saling's personal physician, testified that prior to the loader accident he had advised Saling to stop work. Dr. Wilson also stated that he felt the job was "just too much" with Saling's *594 pain and related depression. This advice, however, went unheeded


workload borne by his right shoulder. Saling must actively use his right shoulder to operate the prosthesis he wears as a result of his first injury. Because the right shoulder is responsible for both forearms, it must work that much harder. A review of the record, however, reveals that activating the prosthesis alone would not have resulted in the degree of degeneration Saling experienced without the additional physical strain from his employment with the borough.
When Saling worked for the borough on the airport ferry system, his duties included dragging chains across the deck, an activity requiring strenuous physical exertion. He later transferred to a maintenance position at the airport where his duties included operating heavy equipment and snow removal machinery. Saling testified that he was first significantly botheredby pain in his right shoulder after he began operating this equipment. His initial visit to a doctor for treatment of the right shoulder was January 7, 1974, and since that time Saling has received periodic injections and medication for pain. In addition, Saling testified that he suffered severe discomfort on those days of heavy equipment operation, which required continuous use of his right shoulder.
Dr. Wilson repeatedly stated his opinion before the board that manual labor contributed to the degeneration:
The situation was simply that Mac was becoming increasingly disabled because of pain. He was continuing to work but he was, from his story, really not without pain.

*595 Q. [Saling's attorney] Now, the work itself, would this help the condition, the manual work help the condition or would it


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Sword Exhibition

Sword Exhibition

Swords from our collection, starting with the unique Hallstatt Sword and ending with early modern sword types, are exhibited on the 1st floor of the convent building. As it is a ‘hands-on’ exhibition, visitors may pick up the swords and try them out.

History of Swords

Bronze Swords

The first swords were made of bronze in the Mediterranean region probably about 5,000 years ago. The sword was a weapon of noblemen and rulers, a symbol of strength and power. Bronze was an alloy consisting of nine parts copper and one part tin. The oldest Estonian bronze sword (1) is about 2,700 years old and it was made in the modern day Austria during the period of Hallstatt culture.

Iron Swords

The oldest iron artefacts also come from the Mediterranean regionand are approximately 4,500 years old. These were rare and only available for the wealthiest. Smelting of iron and making of iron swords started about 3,000 years ago during the Hallstatt culture.

Swords in the Classical Period

In classical antiquity, the majority of an army’s power consisted of professional infantry that was armed with long spears – swords were secondary weapons only used in close combat. The bronze swords of Egyptians were curved (sickle-shaped), but the Greeks’ swords and the Romans’ gladiuses (2) were short, straight, and double-edged. As the Roman army was an army of numbers, the legionaires’ swords were mass-produced in national workshops by slaves and masters. The officers’ swords, however, were especially commissioned and were thus of better quality.

Swords in the Viking Era

Vikings were warriors in ancient


by his sword – the handle represented the Holy Cross, the straight blade represented honesty and straightforwardness, and the two edges represented the fight against injustice (the injustice of the strong against the weak and the injustice of the rich against the poor). During knighting, a priest gave the young nobleman a sword saying: “Accept this sword in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and use it in protection of Our Lord’s Church and against the enemies of Christianity.”

Service in the Lord’s army was also indicated by the writings on the knights’ sword blades: HOMO DEI (the Lord’s man (warrior)), IN NOMINE DOMINI AMEN (in the name of the Lord, amen), CHRISTUS IMPERAT (Christ reigns).

The most important innovation of the medieval sword wasthe balancing pommel that functioned as a counterbalance, so that the thin steel blade seemed feather-light, but still enabled to deal crushing blows.

Swords in the Modern Period

In the beginning of the 15th century, firearms took the place of cold weapons. Knights were replaced by the new professional soldier class: low-born hired footmen – landsknechtid – whose weapons were adorned with verses illustrating the new world view: Kein besser dinnk in dieser wellt den schonnen frauenn und bar gellt (There is nothing better in this world than pretty women and money). Their swords held various magical symbols – planet and zodiac signs and the lucky number 1414. Swords were often enchanted and their hilts frequently contained auspicious amulets, a vipers tongue and a bats heart tied together with red


silken thread, or a piece of wood from a wheel on which some unfortunate sinner had been executed according to a judge’s sentence.

Starting from the 16th century, sword blades became thin and narrow and crossbars developed into a “basket” covering the whole hand. The sword became light and elegant – a nobleman’s everyday accessory. The new fighting style – fencing – gave rise to the rapier whose blade was an elastic and sharp steal rod without edges.

The infantry wore swords until the mid-19th century; the cavalry used the curved sabre and the straight broadsword; and the cavalry had the boarding sabre. In the 20th century, the sword became the officers’ parade weapon.Interactive Augmented Reality Integrations Extend to 10,000 AT&T and Cricket Wireless Stores and 200+ Simon Properties Across the United States

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Genma Shiranui (不知火ゲンマ, Shiranui Genma) is a tokubetsu jōnin of Konohagakure and an elite bodyguard to the Hokage.

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Background

When Genma became a genin, he was put on a team with Might Guy and Ebisu, under the leadership of Chōza Akimichi.[4] At one point, they were confronted by a generation of Seven Ninja Swordsmen of the Mist, only to be saved by Might Duy. During part of their chūnin exams, his team confronted Team Minato.[5] Other than that, not much is known about Genma's background except for the fact that he is an elite guard to the Hokage. During his time serving under the Fourth Hokage, he was taught the Flying Thunder Formation Technique.[6]

Personality

Genma is shown to be very calm, impartial, collected, proud and casual on his actions. Heis never seen being boisterous or lost in difficult situations and is confident enough to take charge of large groups of ninja. It was also stated that he hates Orochimaru for power-playing.[1] He is also a jovial person, prone to wisecracking at times. When Shikaku Nara contacted him, he made it a point to first tell Genma not to make fun of the situation.[7]

Appearance

Genma has brown, shoulder-length hair which hangs about his face and brown eyes. He wears his forehead protector like a bandanna, and the standard jōnin outfit and always has his trademark senbon in his mouth. As a genin, he wore a dark, baggy outfit with a hooded red and black jacket. He also wore a black choker, a strap around his leg, and a senbon


in his mouth.[5][8]

Abilities

As a well noted veteran shinobi, Genma is known for taking part in difficult missions because of his skills.[2] He was able to hold his own against an elite jōnin like Baki. While physically fatigued due to a prior mission, with the assistance of Raidō Namiashi, he was able to force the Sound Four into activating the second stage of their cursed seals.[9] His abilities are further attested by the fact that he was placed in the Hokage Guard Platoon.

During the Fourth Hokage's reign, he was taught the Flying Thunder Formation Technique in order to teleport to the Hokage's side when needed. He performs this technique in collaboration with his fellow guards, Raidō and Iwashi Tatami.[6] He is also able to spit a senbon from histo the village, Genma and Aoba are assigned to announce her inauguration as the Fifth Hokage. He is later sent on a mission with Raidō, Iwashi Tatami and Shizune. As they return home after completing the mission Genma and Raidō encounter the Sound Four. He inquires about what they were carrying since they were coming from the direction of Konoha. In retaliation Sakon throws a kunai at him but Genma deflects it with his senbon. In order to defeat Raidō and Genma, the Sound Four activate level two of their cursed seals, leaving Genma and Raidō gravely injured and in serious need of medical attention. Shizune stabilises their conditions and takes them back to Konoha for further treatment.

Part II

Twelve Guardian Ninja

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anime, he is seen giving out orders to a large group of chūnin during Furido's attack on the village.

Akatsuki Suppression Mission

In the anime, Genma was present at Asuma Sarutobi's funeral, mourning his death.

Pain's Assault

He appears with Yamato and other jōnin helping to restore the village after Pain and Naruto's fight. He corrected Kotetsu Hagane telling him that the village wasn't all their forefathers left them, the people were still there.

Fourth Shinobi World War: Countdown

In the anime, Genma is present at the war council meeting that Tsunade convenes.

Fourth Shinobi World War: Confrontation

Genma along with Raidō were tasked with guarding the daimyō at their safe house during the Fourth Shinobi World War. While on duty, he and Raidō conversed about the daimyō and their medal-naming argument that was going on.He told Raidō not to make fun of them as it was their job and that without medals, they wouldn't know what was honourable and what wasn't. He then told him that if he just stood around thinking of medals, he'd never get one though, and to stay alert as they were going to relocate soon.

After Black Zetsu located the daimyō he was intercepted by Mei Terumī. Genma alongside Raidō, Chōjūrō and the rest of her team arrived shortly after. When Naruto's shadow clone arrived on the battlefield, and crashed head first into a tree after Black Zetsu sidestepped him, Genma agreed with Raidō's sentiments that Naruto had not changed much and still rushed into a fight without thinking.

Fourth Shinobi World War: Climax

While battling Black Zetsu, he marvelled


at Chōjūrō's skill with his sword. He was later contacted by Shikaku who before beginning immediately told him not to makes any jokes because they were in dire straits. However, after telling him that the real Madara Uchiha had been reincarnated to the battlefield, Genma claimed that he couldn't help himself this time. As he, Raidō and Iwashi prepared to transport Mei using Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique as per Shikaku's orders, he explained to her that he was part of the Hokage bodyguard detail and as such was taught how to use the technique by the Fourth during his rule. As soon as Tsunade — who was marked with the technique's seal — had been transported to the battlefield, they performed the technique and stood behind theother Kage as they confronted Madara.

As Mei and A engaged Madara in battle, Iwashi prematurely anticipated his defeat, Genma however, noted the extent of damage inflicted upon the surroundings by the enemy and warns his partner to stay focused while Raidō commented that there is no way to just force their way through. Dodai then enlisted their help to go after the Kabuto-controlled Mū who had began to emerge from the debris. The four men then give chase to the Tsuchikage but their target is soon slapped away by A during the Raikage's assault on Madara. As the battle between the Kage and Madara waged on, they continued to give chase to the evasive Mū.

With the Impure World Reincarnation released, Genma watched alongside his comrades as Mū was


enveloped in a light of sorts before beginning to deconstruct.

Kaguya Ōtsutsuki Strikes

In the anime, Naruto and Sasuke eventually release the Infinite Tsukuyomi, freeing Genma and the rest of the world from the genjutsu, thus ending the Fourth Shinobi World War. On the day of the Sixth Hokage's inauguration, Genma and other shinobi guard the village gate, not allowing anyone not authorised to enter the village.

In Other Media

Video Games

Genma Shiranui is a playable character in the following video games:

Trivia

"Genma" is the Japanese name of the Alpha Coronæ Borealis. "Shiranui" ( 不知火 ) means "unknown fire" or "Phosphorescent Foam". It is also a term given for will-o-wisps and is the name of a Japanese destroyer. There is also a genjutsu called Genjutsu: Unknown Fire or Genjutsu: Shiranui.

) means "unknown fire"or "Phosphorescent Foam". It is also a term given for will-o-wisps and is the name of a Japanese destroyer. There is also a genjutsu called Genjutsu: Unknown Fire or Genjutsu: Shiranui. Genma stated during the Chūnin Exams that Naruto had a mean "left hook", this might be a mistake in translation. However, Naruto was doing an uppercut at the time, not a left hook though it was the left hand which was in use. However, this most likely implies that he meant that Naruto is a heavy hitter, or packs a serious punch.

Studio Pierrot's Settei sheets of Genma show that he was 148 cm around the time of the Kannabi Bridge incident.

According to the databook(s): His favourite food is pumpkin broth and his least favourite food is spinach.


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Nicolau dos Reis Lobato (24 May 1946 – 31 December 1978) was an East-Timorese politician and national hero.

He was born in 1946 in Soibada, Portuguese Timor. Lobato was the 1st Prime Minister of East Timor from 28 November to 7 December 1975. Upon the arrival of the Indonesian military Lobato, along with other key Fretilin leaders, he fled into the Timorese hinterland to fight against the occupying forces. On the final day of 1978 Lobato was ambushed by Indonesian special forces led by Lieutenant Prabowo Subianto (later son-in-law of President Suharto). He was killed after being shot in the stomach, and his body was brought to Dili to be inspected by Indonesian press. What then happened to his body is unknown, but the East-Timorese government continues


LOUISIANA: McCain

Published: November 6, 2008

Louisiana had backed the winner in every presidential election since 1972, but that string ended this year, with Senator John McCain carrying the state.

Senator Mary L. Landrieu, the only Democratic senator who faced serious opposition this year, won a third term by defeating John Kennedy, a Republican who is the state treasurer.

Ms. Landrieu, a member of a prominent political family, firmed up her support by securing billions of dollars to help Louisiana recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Mr. Kennedy, who switched parties last year, criticized Ms. Landrieu as one of the most liberal senators in state history. She called him a ''confused politician,'' noting that in 2004 he endorsed the Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry.

Representative William J. Jefferson won a Democratic primary runoff inthe Second District, based in New Orleans, even though he has been indicted on bribery and racketeering charges. Mr. Jefferson, the state's first black congressman since Reconstruction, defeated Helena Moreno, a former television reporter. He is heavily favored to win a general election on Dec. 6.

Representative Don Cazayoux was one of only a handful of House Democrats nationwide who lost their seats. He was defeated by State Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican who is also a doctor.

In the First District, connecting parts of New Orleans and its suburbs, Representative Steve Scalise, a Republican, held on to the seat he won in May in a special election. The Democrat, Jim Harlan, a businessman, spent more than $1 million of his own money.


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Record Events for Sat Feb 6, 2010 through Fri Feb 12, 2010

Total Records: 2182

Rainfall: 662

Snowfall: 1180

High Temperatures: 9

Low Temperatures: 31

Lowest Max Temperatures: 220

Highest Min Temperatures: 80

Continuing the pattern of top ten Northern Hemisphere snow extent rankings from October, December and January, it looks like February may also be headed for the record books.

North America, Europe and Asia are all showing large positive anomalies in snow cover.

Daily Departure – February 11, 2010

Source: Rutgers University Global Snow Lab

The record February snow extent occurred in 1978 with an anomaly of more than 5 million square miles. That may be tough to beat, but from the map above it may have already happened. February will definitely be ranked in the top two.

Source: Rutgers University Global Snow Lab

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1. FC Köln suffered a disappointing 0-2 defeat in the German capital. Vedad Ibisevic struck on either side of halftime to secure the win for Hertha BSC.

Peter Stöger opted for the same eleven that took the field against Gladbach, and the opening stages were characterized by two even sides. 14 minutes into the match Cologne were lucky not to concede a penalty when it appeared as if Dominique Heintz made contact with Salomon Kalou in the FC box. This scene functioned as a wake-up call for the guests as Kevin Vogt and Leonardo Bittencourt both had promising chances. Vogt's header was saved by the goalkeeper (16'), while Bittencourt's shot came back off the post (34').

Ibisevic breaks the deadlock

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Footage has captured shocking scenes in the busy CBD area today as three people were stabbed and a car went up in flames. Police shot a knife-wielding man in the chest after he confronted officers as they arrived on the scene.

(Photo: PrintScreen/Twitter)

In a press conference, Victoria Police Superintendent David Clayton told reporters that one of the people stabbed had died at the scene.

Police say they were called to the area about 4.20pm after receiving reports of a car on fire near the corner of Swanston St.

Supt Clayton told reporters that when officers got out of the car, they were confronted by a male brandishing a knife and threatening them.

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that members of the public had been stabbed,” he said.

He said there were no known links to terrorism at this time.

Video has emerged of a man lunging at police with what appears to be a knife before being shot.

(Photo: PrintScreen/Twitter)

In an earlier statement, Victoria Police said a man was arrested at the scene and taken to hospital in critical condition. He is under police guard.

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Basel – A kosher butcher shop in Basel, Switzerland, has been vandalized four times in one month in what local Jews are condemning as an anti-Semitic campaign of intimidation.

In one of the attacks, the unidentified perpetrators removed the letter J from the German-language word for Jewish from a metal sign over the shop, as well as two of the Hebrew-language letters for the word kosher.

In the latest incident, on Sunday, the shop’s window display was shattered, the Swiss-Jewish newspaper Tachles reported Monday.

Leopold Stefansky, the president of the Basel Jewish community, called the incidents “anti-Semitic attacks,” the news website 20Min reported.

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In October 2017, I went to court to stop the Trump administration from blocking a young immigrant from obtaining an abortion. She had crossed into the United States the month before and discovered she was pregnant soon after. She never had any doubt about what she wanted to do. But the Trump administration had other plans for her.

Her plea, which I relayed to a three-judge appeals panel, was: “Please stop delaying my decision any longer.” That panel included Judge Brett Kavanaugh, and her plea went unheeded.

In the only abortion case heard by President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Kavanaugh issued a decision that would have forced Jane to further delay her abortion, almost a full month after she first sought it. Ultimately,she was staying to prevent her from going to any abortion-related appointments. While the court battle raged, the government's obstructionism pushed Doe further along in her pregnancy against her will. She always remained resolute in her decision to terminate her pregnancy. Yet day after day, she was forced to sit in the shelter, waiting to hear whether she would be able to have an abortion or whether she would be forced to carry the pregnancy to term.

By the time of Judge Kavanaugh’s ruling, the Trump administration had already delayed Doe’s abortion by almost a month. The decision allowed the government to continue to obstruct her abortion while the government looked for a sponsor for Jane, which they had been unsuccessful in finding for the prior month and a


Nearly all the stories we hear about climate change are negative. They describe how changes to the earth's weather will hurt both the animals and humans that inhabit the planet. But there are also some climate change winners.

For hundreds of years, ships have tried to sail through the Arctic, to use this route as a short cut between Asia and Europe. However, the ice covering the sea has usually stopped them.

The frozen waters have also made it harder to look for oil, and lay undersea communication cables.

But now these problems are disappearing, as global warming melts the region's sea ice.

A telecommunications company, Kodiak-Kenai Cable Co, plans to lay an underwater fibre optic cable through the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. Previously, this would have been impossible, evenduring the summer.

The route, which would link Tokyo and London, is shorter than that used by current undersea cables. According to the company, messages sent between the UK and East Asian cities, would be received in about half the time it takes at the moment.

It's good news coming from a bad situation. Shipping companies are also hoping that less ice means they can send ships through this part of the Artic rather than using the longer routes through the Panama Canal or around the tip of South America.

When I was sailing through the Arctic, I heard other similar stories. Arctic communities are very isolated, and it is expensive to import food, fuel and other goods. If there is less ice, more ships can bring supplies into the Arctic


to study for a few months before making my triumphant return to Latin America, as a stunningly handsome gringo with great Spanish speaking abilities.

Thanks to BaseLang, at least half of my goal came true.

I started taking lessons for one hour a day my first month with BaseLang. A few teachers tested my Spanish level and I was placed in the second level on the BaseLang curriculum.

After a few weeks of studying, I found one teacher I really enjoyed taking lessons with and began booking all my lessons with him.

Wilver was a Spanish professor from a smaller city in Venezuela. I loved how he was strict with pronunciation. Anytime my accent was off or my annunciation was incorrect, he immediately corrected me.

He was fluent in English, too – whichfilm, it would seem that the supernatural and the earthly horrors here stick close together all the way, with an ambiguous finale and closing scenes which won’t be to everyone’s tastes, but I think were completely in keeping with the film overall. Director David Hemmings – who worked on Profondo Rosso, and so clearly understands ambiguity and spectacle – deserves this film to be more widely-known. Apart from anything else, the director of Donnie Darko owes him a thanks as there seem to be a lot of similarities in the plot, if not the manner of plot development…

The Severin Films release comes with a number of extra features, including an extended final sequence, as well as some interesting featurettes on the legacy of James Herbert.


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Chicago White Sox's Adam Eaton (1), crosses home plate safely as Detroit Tigers catcher Bryan Holaday waits for the throw during the third inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in Chicago.

CHICAGO — Bryan Holaday saw an opening and took advantage.

Holaday drove in Austin Jackson with a two-out bunt single in the ninth, leading the Detroit Tigers to a 4-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night.

Holaday said he focused on White Sox third baseman Marcus Semien before going for the bunt hit against Ronald Belisario.

"I noticed he was staring in and then he backed up and I thought I had a good chance to lay it down," the catcher said.In February, SpaceX launched an electric car toward Mars using its newest rocket, called Falcon Heavy.

Many people, especially scientists, questioned the choice of payload and destination.

SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, recently responded to critics by saying he chose the car as the payload to inspire people.

At the annual South by Southwest festival, Musk further explained how the stunt fit into his concerns about — and vision for — humanity.

Over the weekend, the SpaceX founder Elon Musk expanded on his rationale for launching a car toward Mars last month.

After Musk said in December that he'd launch his cherry-red Tesla Roadster to the red planet, many people did not believe him. But the tech billionaire delivered.

On February 6, SpaceX launched its first Falcon Heavy rocket and shot the electric car into


deep space with a spacesuit-clad "Starman" dummy in the driver's seat. The Tesla will cross the orbit of Mars sometime in July, swing past the orbit of Earth in August 2019, and repeat this roughly nine-month cosmic loop for thousands or even millions of years (to the horror of some scientists).

Musk said this was the "silliest thing" he could imagine launching with Falcon Heavy, leading some critics to bring up his ego — after all, it was Musk's car, and one made by a car company he runs.

But Musk tweeted on Saturday that his intention was part of something much bigger.

SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy rocket blasts past a US flag at Kennedy Space Center on February 6. Dave Mosher/Business Insider

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Negative response to provincial budget

Respondents were also asked to comment on the 2017 provincial budget. The company said most of the responses were negative, and people commonly used words like disappointed, disgusted and surprised. In the word cloud image below, the larger the word, the more often it was used by respondents.

In response to the poll, Premier Brad Wall said the budget was not about trying to win popularity but "rather to do what is best for the province's finances and economy."

In the emailed statement to media, Wall noted the province capped reductions to grants-in-lieu to municipalities after the decision to nix them. He also said he is asking Education Minister Don Morgan to review the library funding issue and report back next week.

"Frankly, I am a little


plan: and so it is that the two of them leave Fairacre for the island of Crete.

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If there’s one thing that separates managers at technology companies from their counterparts at more-traditional businesses, it is this: They go their own way.

Therefore, it comes as no great surprise that the chief financial officer at the Nasdaq Stock Market Inc. — which, after all, is home to so many high-tech companies — is a bit of a maverick. In fact, David Warren, the new CFO at Nasdaq, has made a career out of going his own way.

Warren has been an investment banker. He was also deputy treasurer at the State of Connecticut. In addition, he was CFO at the Long Island Power Authority, where he helped transform the organization from a state agency into one of the largest public power authorities in the United States.polysaccharides. The duration of the study was 8 weeks. The study took place from June 2005 to April 2006 in the United States and involved the participation of a single clinical service organization center (Miami Research Associates). The study protocol was approved by the IntegReview Ethical Review Board (Austin, Texas), and was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki and its amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to enrollment in the study.

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Male and female subjects of any race, aged 40 years or over, with symptomatic osteoarthritis of the knee were eligible provided that subjects experienced pain for at least 15 of the 30 days prior to the start of the study, symptoms had been present for at least 6 months,


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Presented as poster at the 47th Annual Meeting of the American College of Nutrition, Reno, NV, October 5--8, 2006. We thank Marta Pulido, MD, for editing the manuscript and editorial assistance. This study was funded via a grant from Bioibérica to Miami Research Associates. The sponsor, Bioibérica, Barcelona, Spain, had no input into the design or execution of the study or the preparation of the manuscript.
Image copyright David Bornfriend Image caption Moonlight only took 25 days to film and is now a frontrunner for Hollywood awards

It's been hailed by critics as diverse film-making at its best, but the director of Moonlight says the film is not a response to the #OscarsSoWhite criticism of last year's award season.

Miami-born filmmaker Barry Jenkins wrote and directed the film, based on a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney, about a young African American boy named Chiron coming to terms with his sexuality as he grows up in a tough Florida neighbourhood.

However, while the shoot took only 25 days, Jenkins says he conceived the project "at least three-and-a-half years ago".

He explains: "That's fairly average because it takes a long time for a film to get made.

"So all these movies


we have this year - Birth of a Nation, A United Kingdom, Loving, Fences - which are being framed as a reply to the campaign about the lack of diversity in the system, probably began about four years ago.

"So the cry about the lack of voices and representation on our screens actually goes much further back and now films like ours are beginning to surface."

With a budget of around $5m (£4m), Moonlight has now made twice that figure at the North American box office, and has screened to almost universal acclaim at festivals including Telluride, Toronto and London.

Image copyright David Bornfriend Image caption Naomie Harris says she's been 'overwhelmed' by the response to the film

Mahershala Ali, best known for playing Captain Boggs in The Hunger Games, and Britishactress Naomie Harris both secured acting nominations from the Golden Globes.

The film is also nominated for best drama, best director, best screenplay and best original score.

Harris says she "put heart and soul into this little film - we all did".

She plays Chiron's drug addict mother and had to complete her scenes in three days.

I know a lot of wonderful directors and writers who didn't get their films made because they didn't fit the type Mahershala Ali, Actor

"It had a really small budget, and everyone did it because they were passionate about it. It's a very rare film - it speaks of a very profound love," she says.

"And the response we've had has been overwhelming - I think people are hungry for these kinds of stories."

Film critics now believe


Precious came out, about change. I hope it's a wake up call, because I know a lot of wonderful directors and writers who didn't get their films made because they didn't fit the type."

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Barry Jenkins's last film, 2008's Medicine for Melancholy, about African Americans struggling to fit in to the hipster scene of San Francisco, also featured themes of being an outsider in a community.

While many have highlighted a lack of Hollywood films giving gay characters a platform over the years, Jenkins points out that Brad Pitt's Plan B company part-produced Moonlight, and says there was "never a sense that what we were doing was unorthodox or provocative".

The film had "multiple offers of financing", he explains.

"However, I have never seen characters like this in athe nominations, beyond providing a list of their hauls.

Amazon also had a strong showing, with 47 nominations — up from 22 last year — including two in the comedy category with “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” a winner last year, and “Fleabag,” a BBC co-production from writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who is also the show’s star and was nominated for best actress. Rachel Brosnahan, who won a best actress trophy last year for “Mrs. Maisel,” was nominated again. “Fleabag” received a total of 11 nominations, while “Mrs. Maisel” received 20.

The growth of streaming television continued to put an Emmy squeeze on the broadcast networks. Last year’s leader, NBC, saw its nomination total drop from 78 to 58. CBS has 43 followed by ABC (26) and Fox (18).

ABC, CBS, NBC and


has declined to discuss specific allegations due to patient confidentiality. But he says that while all surgical procedures can result in complications, the vast majority of his operations have been successful.

Methuen-Campbell, after her operation, told the BBC she had not consented to her ovaries being removed during consultations with Dixon at The Spire Hospital in Bristol.

She said she was stunned when he told her what he had done.

"He said he thought he'd done me a favor," Methuen-Campbell said. " 'I thought you know, a woman of your age wouldn't really need her ovaries... (and) they were in the way'. My life is absolutely ruined."

Philip Chatfield, Methuen-Campbell's former partner, found her hanged in the attic of her home in the village near Swansea, 180 miles west of London.

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"The pain continued to get worse and nobody seemed able to solve the problem," Chatfield said at the inquest this week. "She had a follow-up operation which made things even worse."

Assistant coroner Aled Gruffydd concluded that the death was a suicide, finding that the operation was unsuccessful, made her pain worse and ultimately "affected her mental health."

Dixon was suspended from conducting the surgery at two hospitals in Bristol and is under investigation by the Britain's National Health Service and the General Medical Council.


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A.P. news story: "Lower enrollment means less dollars for schools"

The Associated Press - Friday, December 26, 2008ST. PAUL, Minn.

School enrollment keeps falling in Minnesota, and with it schools will have to do with fewer dollars from the state.

Educators attribute the lower numbers of students to a tough housing market, an aging population and a lower birth rate.Gwydion M. Williams

In his celebrated speech to both houses of the Russian Parliament on 18th March 2014 President Putin makes reference to Kosovo, as a precedent for what had just happened in Crimea.

What President Putin said was this:

“Moreover, the Crimean authorities referred to the well-known Kosovo precedent – a precedent our Western colleagues created with their own hands in a very similar situation, when they agreed that the unilateral separation of Kosovo from Serbia, exactly what Crimea is doing now, […]. …the UN International Court agreed with this approach […] I quote: …’General international law contains no prohibition on declarations of independence.’ Crystal clear, as they say.

“[…]. Here is a quote from another official document: the Written Statement of the United States of America […], submitted to the


way that he seems to imply. The court confined itself to the question “Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?” Its opinion says only that the declaration as such was not illegal, not that as a result of it Kosovo became independent.

To discuss President Putin’s first point on the similarity of Crimea and Kosovo, it is necessary to look at three areas of difference: the time-frame, the context, and the international process.

1. Time frames

The difference in the time-frames are striking. The developments in Crimea that led to its annexation by the Russian Federation began shortly after President Yanukovych left for Russia on 22nd February 2014. Within a few days Simferopol was seized, Crimean Prime Minister Mohyliovwas replaced in an emergency session of the parliament and Russia authorised military intervention in Ukraine. The referendum of 16 March (unmonitored by any outside body) was reported as showing 95% support for joining Russia. A Treaty of Accession to the Russian Federation was signed the following day and was ratified by the Duma two days later. The whole process took less than a month.

For Kosovo it is hard to put a date on the start of the process that led to its declaration of independence. One possibility would be the start of NATO campaign in March 1999; another is March 1989 when Kosovo lost its autonomy within Yugoslavia. According to the date chosen the process took between nine and nineteen years, quite different from the month for


has polled on the question. Similarly, a record-low number of Americans - 26 percent - said the current two major parties adequately represent Americans.

Also for the first time in the poll's history, when broken down by party, a majority of both Democrats and Republicans say a third party is needed.

ArcadianRefugee:BullBearMS: Day_Old_Dutchie: This whole "trying to blame things on the shutdown to score some points" thing is really getting far too silly.

It's part of the "who can be more petulant than a third grader" contest the two parties are having.

Thankfully, America is paying attetion.

Americans have never been more eager for a third party in American politics as the government shutdown continues to generate record levels of frustration, according to a new poll.

Sixty percent believe Democrats and Republicans are doingsuch a poor job a third party is needed, according to a Gallup poll out Friday, a record high in the 10 years Gallup has polled on the question. Similarly, a record-low number of Americans - 26 percent - said the current two major parties adequately represent Americans.

Also for the first time in the poll's history, when broken down by party, a majority of both Democrats and Republicans say a third party is needed.

ArcadianRefugee:BullBearMS: Day_Old_Dutchie: This whole "trying to blame things on the shutdown to score some points" thing is really getting far too silly.

It's part of the "who can be more petulant than a third grader" contest the two parties are having.

Thankfully, America is paying attetion.

Americans have never been more eager for a third party in American


most powerful country in the world doesn't work that way. Pick a side, or forever remain a centrist moron with no real ideals. The idea of centrism sells...after election.

Lady Indica:Having children mindlessly recite a loyalty oath is farking creepy with or without the god part.

I believe in one God,the Father almighty,maker of heaven and earth,of all things visible and invisible.I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ,the Only Begotten Son of God,born of the Father before all ages.God from God, Light from Light,true God from true God,begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father;through him all things were made.For us men and for our salvationhe came down from heaven,and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary,and became man.For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate,he suffereddeath and was buried,and rose again on the third dayin accordance with the Scriptures.He ascended into heavenand is seated at the right hand of the Father.He will come again in gloryto judge the living and the deadand his kingdom will have no end.I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,who proceeds from the Father and the Son,who with the Father and the Son is adored and glorified,who has spoken through the prophets.I believe in one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church.I confess one Baptism for the forgiveness of sinsand I look forward to the resurrection of the deadand the life of the world to come. Amen.

It's part of the "who can be more petulant than a third grader" contest the two parties are having.

Thankfully, America


is paying attetion.

Americans have never been more eager for a third party in American politics as the government shutdown continues to generate record levels of frustration, according to a new poll.

Sixty percent believe Democrats and Republicans are doing such a poor job a third party is needed, according to a Gallup poll out Friday, a record high in the 10 years Gallup has polled on the question. Similarly, a record-low number of Americans - 26 percent - said the current two major parties adequately represent Americans.

Also for the first time in the poll's history, when broken down by party, a majority of both Democrats and Republicans say a third party is needed.

Where's Perot?

Perot lost a long time ago due to having thin convictions that played the centrists perfectly,U-20 Defender Erik Hort

NewsAug 24, 2006

When Thomas Rongen released the roster for the Under-20’s trip to South Korea in late August there were the usual names, and then there was Erik Hort. You may have been surprised to see the unknown name, but you weren’t the only one as Hort himself had to re-read the U.S. Soccer email a few times before believing he was actually invited in to the national team.

Like his good friend, Johann Smith, Hort is a bit of an unknown player that is starting his professional career overseas. The N.Y. native has been with Sparta Prague for over a year playing with the reserve team and at just 19 is hoping to get a sniff with the full team sometime this season.

Before he traveled


It was a little out of nowhere.”

CC: You’ve been at Sparta Prague for over a year now, but before we get into how you were discovered by the Czech club, let’s go back. Can you tell us a little bit about you younger days playing in the New York area and being part of the Regional teams?EH: “I grew up in New York, Rockland County, Suffern to be exact. At first I played just around the New York area with some local teams and my first real big club team in America had to be PDA in New Jersey. I was with PDA Conquistadors and we were actually ranked five at one time and that was pretty much the biggest club team I’ve been on. I started playingthink of.”

CC: When you came back then and trained with an actual ball were you with the reserve team? EH: “Well, first I was with the highest youth team. It was my first season, so that half season. It splits up in the winter and in the summer. There are two seasons of 15 games. I came there in the winter in the middle of their season and we actually ended up winning the championship for the first time since 1998, which was a really big thing. After that we got a new coach because our coach went to another team. I played the first half of the season around November at right back and I played pretty well. I was showing really well and setting up goals


Venice, California, back in 2004, which he shares with his wife and their young daughter. In an act of near blasphemy for car-addicted Los Angeles, he opted to tear down the home’s two-car garage and convert it into an office for his newly formed design-build and landscape practice, Gabor + Allen. The yard located between home and office does double duty as family space and a showcase for prospective clients. It’s also, literally, fertile ground for the partners’ design ideas: Gabor and Allen enthusiastically refer to it as their laboratory.

Gabor knew he wanted a flexible space for alfresco dining, an outdoor living room with a fire pit, and a water element. He also hoped to find a way to better connect the home’s master bedroom to the garden(a goal achieved through the design of a unique space-saving system, incorporating one half-French/one half-pocket door) as well as a smart way to direct visitors from the street to the office.

California garden mythology might suggest stately palms or verdant lawns, but the truth is that most of those quintessential palms aren’t indigenous, and the era of the high-maintenance blanket of grass has passed. “The modern California garden is a conglomerate,” says Gabor, a claim he proves in his own — a vibrant mix of colors, textures, cultures, species and shapes, not to mention edibles.

The dining table, made by Gabor from old wooden fencing planks, does double duty for working lunches and family gatherings. Photo by: David Young-Wolff.

Since he was designing for himself, Gabor was able to sidestep some


opted for the unexpected option of hand watering, arguing that he is able to water certain parts of his garden less frequently and can saturate the soil in other parts. There are also plans to incorporate rain barrels, one of several storm-water management systems increasingly being encouraged through local and state incentives, grants and educational programs.

In the front garden (which used to be a lawn), curvilinear planting beds frame the perimeter of the permeable hardscaped patio with a bright palette of lime green, yellows and oranges. The chairs were a Santa Monica Airport flea market find, reupholstered with new coral Sunbrella fabric cushions. Plants include Acorus gramineus ‘Ogon’ (Japanese sweet flag), Agave desmetiana and Farfugium japonicum ‘Aureomaculatum’(leopard plant). Photo by: David Young-Wolff.

Another move toward a more sustainable gardenher husband, the Right Rev. James M. Coleman, retired Episcopal bishop of West Tennessee, bought their Hundred Oaks home six years ago. She grew up on a Pointe Coupee sugar plantation in a family of gardeners but truly found her calling on a family trip to England in 1980.

As they were driving through the countryside, they came upon the magnificent Sissinghurst Castle Garden, designed in the 1930s by Vita Sackville-West, an English poet, novelist and garden designer.

“It changed my life,” Douglass said. “Gardens are like the people who create them. Some are intimate, some are for show and some are for the public. This garden was personal. After my first visit, I felt that I knew Vita Sackville-West.”

When Douglass returned home, she began reworking the garden at her