REFLECTIONS: "Ultimate Fantastic Four" and "X-Men" with Mike Carey

Welcome back, dear reader, to the fourth daily installment of "Reflections," CBR's resident interview column. After a summer of interning at Wizard Entertainment, the column is being relaunched with five daily installments of in-depth interviews with the best and brightest in the industry.

You've already missed three, one with Jeph Loeb, one with Bryan Fuller, and one with Simone Bianchi.

Today we've got my good-luck charm, Mike Carey. He was my final interview for the first volume of "Reflections," my first for the second and now he's helping me launch my third. What a guy!

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He's finally getting the kudos he deserves throughout the industry, as well. After years of writing low-selling Vertigo titles that were loved by everyone who read them, he'sAuthor: Daniel McAdams

Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Charter is inarguably non-binding on Member countries to use military force to defend other Members. Most Americans would not know this, as the Treaty has been consistently misrepresented by those with a stake in binding the US to go to war for foreign interests. In fact, a careful reading of Article 5 makes it clear that other NATO Members are free to do nothing at all if another Member is attacked. A NATO Member is only bound to take "such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area." It may well be deemed necessary to ignore an attack on a NATO Member in


en route to 23-13 advantage, and the guests never came closer than eight (23-15) before ultimately falling by a 10-point margin.

Billups led the hosts with 15 service points, followed by Madison VanMeter and Harley Roush with 10 points apiece. MaKinley Bumgarner was next with eight points, while Gracie VanMeter and Elizabeth Mullins also chipped in three points each.

Bumgarner, Gracie VanMeter and Emma Gibbs all led the net attack with three kills apiece, while Billups and Madison VanMeter also had a kill each for the victors. Gibbs also provided all three blocks for the Lady Falcons.

Katie Osburn paced Belpre with nine service points, followed by Ryleigh Hannah and Sydney Spencer with five points apiece. Savannah Knotts was next with four points, while Abbey LaFatch also had one point inHong Kong meaning Incense Harbour is located on China's south coast and borders Guangdong province in the north and faces the South China Sea.

Hong Kong does not have a capital city as such; it is a dependency which comes under Chinese jurisdiction.

The old administrative capital of Hong Kong was Victoria which has now been renamed Central so in reality this is the closest to a capital.

Hong Kong's long, irregular and curvaceous coastline allows the territory to produce many bays, rivers and beaches. It is mostly hilly to mountainous with steep slopes.

Hong Kong has been made a top tourist attraction is Eastern Asia for the vast tourist attractions available in the city.

These include the famous Bank of China Tower, Statute Square and the surrounding architecture, the historical Western Market,


Hong Kong’s Times Square, as well as a variety of Museums including the Hong Kong Museum of History and the Yuen Po Street Bird Garden not to mention the world’s tallest Buddha and Disneyland. Its main exports are Electrical, electronic goods and clothing.

Hong Kong’s flag red with a stylized, white, five-petal flower called the bauhinia in the middle.

Culture

Hong Kong is frequently described as a place where East meets West and a global centre of trade this can be reflected in its population with their customs, economic infrastructure, education and culture.

Although British rule ended in 1997 some Western cultures coexist with traditional philosophy and practices of Hong Kong. Martial Arts are increasingly popular due to the entertainment genre.

Hong Kong's climate is subtropical and is known for being unpredictable.

Tropical cyclones,or typhoons, generally occur between June and October.

Summer is hot and humid with occasional showers and thunderstorms.

Winter usually starts sunny and becomes colder and cloudier, with the occasional cold front bringing strong, cooling winds from the north.

The most pleasant seasons are spring and autumn, which is generally sunny and dry.

Frost occurs only once or twice a year and snow is almost unheard of.

Religion

Hong Kong has a diverse mixture of local religions 90% and Christian 10%

Sports

Footbll, cricket and Korfball are popular sports in Hong Kong. Korfball is a team ball game similar to mixed netball.

Outdoor recreation in parks is the way of life for many of the people in Hong Kong, they are used for walking, running, and martial arts, among other activities, while remoter locations are used for


kite flying, picnicking, hiking, cycling, and camping.

Hong Kong provides a superb setting for pleasure sailing, waterskiing, canoeing, and other water sports.

Hong Kong, China: At the 364th council meeting of the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China on Monday, March 2, council members agreed to accept the retirement initiated by Mr Pang Chung from the post of Hon. Se...– 1.5m gallons of water per well, on average – and the relatively modern ability to drill horizontally into shale after a vertical well has been drilled. In England, the government placed a moratorium on fracking in November 2019 after protests, legal challenges and planning rejections. A year earlier, the energy company Cuadrilla was forced to stop work at its Preston New Road site in Lancashire twice in four days due to minor earthquakes occurring while it was fracking. The tremors breached a seismic threshold imposed after fracking caused minor earthquakes at a nearby Cuadrilla site in 2011. In March 2019 the high court ruled that the government's fracking guidelines were unlawful because they had failed to sufficiently consider scientific evidence against fracking. Show Hide

There are signs the


was still working on its sites. One in South Yorkshire and one in Derbyshire have planning approval. A third, also in South Yorkshire, is waiting on a planning appeal that could take up to a year to decide.

IGas Energy, in which Ineos has a stake, failed to find the shale formation it was targeting at a site in Nottinghamshire and has abandoned it. But it said this week that drilling at Springs Road, also in the county, had “augured well for the future”.

The public remain opposed to fracking, with recent government polls finding 37% against and only 17% in favour. Photograph: Ian Francis/Alamy

Another firm, Third Energy, which wants to frack an existing well in North Yorkshire, has experienced repeated delays, and concerns over its finances triggered new governmentIs drinking water a major route of human exposure to alkylphenol and bisphenol contaminants in France?
The main objective of this study was to evaluate potential exposure of a significant part of the French population to alkylphenol and bisphenol contaminants due to water consumption. The occurrence of 11 alkylphenols and bisphenols was studied in raw water and treated water samples from public water systems. One sampling campaign was performed from October 2011 to May 2012. Sampling was equally distributed across 100 French departments. In total, 291 raw water samples and 291 treated water samples were analyzed in this study, representing approximately 20 % of the national water supply flow. The occurrence of the target compounds was also determined for 29 brands of bottled water (polyethylene terephthalate [PET] bottles, polycarbonate


on defendant's breach of duty, as a common carrier, in failing to safely carry and deliver.
To secure care, diligence and fidelity in the discharge of his important public functions, the common law charged the common carrier as an insurer; but the rigor of the rule has been relaxed so as to allow reasonable limitations upon responsibility at all events, to be imposed by contract. We have, however, uniformly held, that this concession to changed conditions of business cannot be extended so far as to permit the carrier to exempt himself, by a contract with the owner of the goods, from liability for his own negligence. And as in case of loss the presumption is against the carrier, and no attempt was made here to rebut that presumption, thefor the Detroit police department. It is not known whether they will be criminally charged, he said.

Timothy Wiley, spokesman for Detroit's FBI office, would not offer specifics on the investigation, saying only: "The FBI Detroit Area Public Corruption Task Force has an ongoing investigation. We are working together with the Detroit Police Department's internal affairs."

Mark Diaz, president of the Detroit Police Officers Association, said the officers were suspended for conduct unbecoming a police officer. He said the union has been in contact with a couple of the officers, who were not given specifics about the allegations. Diaz called the ambiguity unacceptable.

Willie Bell, chairman of the Detroit Board of Police Commissioners, said there are 20-plus companies authorized to handle towing in areas of the city. He said the companies


to decline by the end of the next decade at the latest.

The only way forwards is a rapid reduction in the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

In recognition of the global threats of climate change, world governments negotiated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, committing to preventing dangerous climate change. Five years later the convention was strengthened with a Kyoto Protocol that included binding emission caps for industrialised countries.

In Copenhagen 2009, members of the UNFCCC were expected to arrive at a new binding agreement with new emission reduction commitments. Unfortunately, these expectations were not met. Countries did, however, announce voluntary emission reduction pledges for 2020.

An evaluation of the climate pledges for 2020 by thebecause there has been decades of massive financial, political and structural support to conventional technologies. Developing renewables will therefore require strong political and economic efforts for example, through laws that guarantee stable tariffs over a period of up to 20 years. Renewable energy will also contribute to sustainable economic growth, high quality jobs, technology development, global competitiveness and industrial and research leadership.

USA climate protection and energy policy

federal policies

In June of 2013, President Obama gave a climate speech at Georgetown University where he announced a ‘climate plan’. Obama announcing a climate plan came with the realization that action by Congress seems a lost cause for the rest of his presidency. Climate denialism remains the position of the Republican Party, which controls the House of Representatives. Obama’s climate and energy


for future plants by 2014, and for existing plants by 2015. Implementation of these standards would be phased in under the next President. Despite the feeble effort by Obama to deal with coal, the threat that the utility sector regulations may force some internalization of climate pollution costs does not stand on its own. President Obama also continues to call for the elimination of fossil fuel subsidies, reflected in his budget proposal, although a policy objective also dependent on assent from Congress.

state policies

States continue to lead in implementing policies to advance renewable energy, with a variety of policies in use in all end-use sectors—power, heating and cooling, and transportation. However, the rate of new policy enactment has slowed and some incentives have been reduced in recent years dueto a combination of factors including the economic slump and falling renewable energy costs.

city and local policies

Thousands of city and local governments around the world have put in place policies, targets or plans to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency, and many of these are in the United States. For example, A growing number of U.S. cities have also enacted FITs, including Los Angeles and Sacramento in California, and Gainesville in Florida, which passed a FIT program in 2011 after the city’s Assistant General Manager Ed Regan visited Germany to evaluate their FIT model up close.The Long Island Power Authority unveiled a new feed-in tariff program that offered 20-year contracts to projects of 50 kW - 20 MW in size, with an aggregate cap of 50 MW; the


queue for applications opened in July 2012.

Other developments include the following: Ithaca in New York switched to renewable electricity in late 2011 and planned to produce 100% renewable electricity for all of the city’s consumers starting in 2012. In late 2011 or early 2012, the city of Austin, Texas became the largest local U.S. government using 100% renewable energy. San Francisco has established a public utility to provide the city with 100% renewable electricity by 2020, and Cincinnati, Ohio, has developed a power aggregation deal to provide 100% renewable electricity to all customers. Cities have also adopted policies and programs to transform their buildings and transportation systems. For example, St. Paul in Minnesota started a program in 2011 that began providing solar district heat to 80% of itsdowntown. Chicago and New York City have built solar- powered charging systems to encourage use of electric vehicles that can run on renewable electricity. As of October 1, 2012, New York City mandates the use of 2% biodiesel in all oil heat to be used in the city (although this was temporarily suspended following “super storm” Sandy and not in effect as of early December).


The escape of an estimated 56 animals – including lions, tigers, giraffes, camels, and bears – from a Zanesville, Ohio, farm is just the latest and most dramatic in a string of incidents involving exotic pets running wild in the state.

In fact, animal-rights activists tab Ohio as one of the five worst states in the country when it comes to monitoring and regulating exotic animals in residents' backyards, garages, or basements.

“Ohio continues to be a free-for-all for unqualified and inexperienced people keeping dangerous animals,” says Debbie Leahy, the captive wildlife regulatory specialist for the Humane Society of the United States.

The animals in Ohio had been kept in cages at a preserve near Zanesville owned by Terry Thompson, who apparently pried open the animals’ cages and left the farmfences open before killing himself, according to Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz.

Law enforcement officials said Wednesday afternoon they had accounted for all but two of the estimated 56 animals that escaped, 48 of which they killed. Only a wolf and a monkey were still on the loose. So far, no injuries have been reported.

But that has not been the case in the past. In total, the Humane Society documented 22 incidents involving exotic pets in Ohio since 2003, making Ohio one of the top five states for such incidents. They include:

In August last year, a man in Lorain County died after being attacked by a black bear. The owner’s federal license had been revoked, but he kept eight bears, four tigers, one lion, and 12 wolves on the


property.

In May 2009, a 10-year-old girl in Columbiana County was bitten by a mountain lion being kept as a pet. The girl had to be airlifted to a hospital for treatment.

In November 2007, a pet lion escaped in Pike County and was seen chasing cars on the street.

In August 2003, a Dayton firefighter died after being bitten by his pet, a poisonous African rhino viper.

Ohio is one of eight states that doesn’t regulate private ownership of animals, according to Humane Society figures. Ms. Leahy says the lack of regulations pose a serious threat to public safety and animal welfare.

Moreover, in this particular occurrence, unprepared and unqualified rural law-enforcement officials have been forced to deal with the escaped animals, and it’s taxpayers who are footing the bill.

“Local authorities areQ:

Who was the first Pope?

I know that Peter is the first Pope, but I do believe that he is called a bishop and is one of several including the Bishops of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Alexandria, and others. Who was the first Pope to call himself by that name? Was it Leo who increased Papal power or someone else?

A:

The first title to be used for "pope" properly was the Latin Pontifex Maximus, which was originally the title for the chief of the College of Priests (Collegium Pontificum), sort of religious priests of the city of Rome itself.
By the time Christianity came around, the Pontifex Maximus of Rome was the emperor. That changed with Gratian who renounced it. Later, Leo I (as you guessed) resumed the title.
Papa (Gk. πάππας, "pappas") from


of J & H.      In

1984, J & H created a new position of Chief Financial Officer

("CFO"), and the Board of Directors elected Sempier to that post.

          The parties dispute whether the J & H directors

criticized Sempier's performance as CFO.    Sempier avers that no

one advised him that his performance was less than satisfactory

nor did anyone bring to his attention any deficiencies in his

performance of his functions.   App. 300.   Robert Hatcher, the

firm's chairman who was Sempier's friend and had been

instrumental in Sempier being elected as CFO, states that he was

generally pleased with Sempier's work.   At the same time, he

acknowledges that other directors had criticized Sempier's

2
 . Junanimously elected Sempier to the Board of Directors in

1986.   Hatcher supported Sempier's election to the Board of

Directors because he believed that this move would assist Sempier

in improving the Finance Department's operations.      When Sempier

was elected, J & H required that he execute a letter of

resignation that would become effective upon a two-thirds vote of

the Board of Directors.

           In May 1987, J & H removed Sempier from his

responsibilities as CFO and made him Chief Administrative Officer

("CAO") in charge of Management Information Systems ("MIS"),

Human Resources, Professional Development, and Real Estate and

Facilities.    Sempier was unanimously reelected to the Board in

1989.   Both sides dispute how Sempier performed as CAO.


          In May 1989, before either Page or Carpenter had been

hired, J & H had instituted an early retirement program to retire

"redundant" and "poorly performing" employees who were 55 years

of age or older.    App. 636-37.   The firm intended to use the

program either to "pull" employees into retirement through

incentives or to "push" them into retirement through involuntary

"terminations" which were to be characterized as downsizing.

App. 637 (Exhibit 8).

           In April 1990, Hatcher, who was still the Chairman of

J & H, advised Sempier to retire early with certain enhancements

to his existing retirement package.     Hatcher stated that Sempier

had "lost credibility" with unnamed senior managers. Pertinent and direct interrogatories, that were

propounded by Sempier, sought the dates of conversations

regarding Sempier's performance and the names of the participants

in those discussions.    Those interrogatories were replaced by the

district court with a vague and general "Bill of Particulars."

Because the district court's questions were, with one exception,

general, nonspecific, and broad, the resulting answers, to the

extent that they answered the questions at all, were

uninformative and of little value.    Sempier had good reason to

draft specific interrogatories and had a right to expect

correspondingly specific answers.    The district court's

substitution of its own work product denied Sempier this

opportunity.

          We have examined the Supplemental Bill of Particulars

(App. 766-772) which contains the questions framed by the

magistrate judge


       The district court's action was unauthorized by the

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and in violation of the

principles of our jurisprudence.    The Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure, which must obtain Supreme Court and Congressional

approval, not only prescribe the procedures to be followed by

counsel, but they also prescribe the Rules under which the courts

operate.    See Umbenhauer v. Woog, 969 F.2d 25, 32 (3d Cir. 1992)

("Neither we, the Department of State, nor the Administrative

Office of the United States Courts possess the authority to

circumvent, ignore or deviate from the Federal Rules of Civil

Procedure, which were approved by the Judicial Conference of the

United States, the Supreme Court of the United States, and

Congress.")    By venturing so far outside theBerliners have expressed disbelief after a Syrian migrant who stormed a synagogue with a knife yelling “Allah hu Akbar!” was freed from jail only a day later.

The incident occurred at a synagogue in the middle of Berlin on a Friday. Syrian migrant Mohammed M., 23, climbed over a security fence armed with an eight-inch-long knife and stormed the building while yelling “Fuck Israel!” and “Allah hu Akbar!” before security guards pepper-sprayed him, Bild reports.

Police subsequently arrested the 23-year-old, but he was released the next day. According to a police spokesman, the local prosecutor did not consider the man was sincerely trying to hurt anyone, just trying to threaten them.

Antisemitic Incidents Surge in Berlin with over 1,000 Cases in 2018 https://t.co/JlkO0VBep2 — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) April 20, 2019

Berlin defence


was he who threatened policemen in Berlin. We absolutely have to ask him about it,” he said.

Berlin Antifa Assault Populist Jewish Youth at Holocaust Film Screening https://t.co/6aGwErj5zS — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) February 12, 2019

Berlin has seen a surge in antisemitic attacks in recent years. A report released earlier this year claimed that there had been at least 1,000 antisemitic incidents in the city in 2018.

Last month, two antisemitic Palestinian rappers were scheduled to give a concert at a pro-Palestinian rally at the Brandenburg gate.

Following an outcry from the Israeli embassy and American ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, organisers cancelled the performance.

Paris Police Killer was Salafist-linked 'Radical' Muslim Who Defended Terrorism https://t.co/40gIWceA8o — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) October 6, 201912 Jul

One of the great things at OpenIoT was the chance to meet people from
different companies, universities, and groups. Because we mostly work out of a
coworking office/events/makerspace in Liverpool, we're especially interested in
talking to people involved in geeky groups/spaces. As well as Laura James from
the Cambridge Makespace
and Andrew Back of OSHUG,
I got to speak to Hannah Goraya
(@yorkhannah)
about the community space she runs in Sheffield, the
GIST lab.

Hannah Goraya: The GIST foundation is a not for profit voluntary
organization that was set up in January 2010 by myself,
my husband Jag Goraya (@jagusti),
Ian Ibbotson (@ianibbo) and
Chris Murray (@chrismurray0).
It is a community of interest essentially where people who are interested in
developing their technical skills or in meeting other people who are interested
in the same kind of technology as them come in and use


is terrible!? Such is spring ball).

One of the things that the Philadelphia Eagles did well this last season was batting down opponent passes (7th in the NFL). However, the WSU defense 12th in the Pac-12 in that same category and 12th in yards per attempt. Further complicating things in this area is the departure of Daquawn Brown, who accounted for almost a third of all passes defended in 2014.

There is a lot of youth in the secondary again, but hopefully they will be helped by a good portion of experience returning along the front seven.

Who do you hope to see as the breakout star of Spring practice on the defensive side of the ball? Which players are you most excited to get a look at?

You can again useDear Reform Movement, Israeli Feminism Isn’t Enough

“NFTY takes a stand on controversial issues,” declared a rabbi and staff member at the time to a room of a thousand high schoolers and Jewish professionals at NFTY (North American Federation of Temple Youth) Convention 2011. The room erupted in cheers and applause. In that moment, I felt proud to be part of a movement that took a stance on such issues. I still feel proud of the education and advocacy NFTY does on domestic issues in the United States. However, I wish I knew then what I know now—that NFTY was not speaking about the occupation in Israel-Palestine.

Almost a year prior to that moment, I sat on the floor of a synagogue classroom during a Shabbat morning service at a


River Collective or Shirley Chisholm until my senior year of college in an African-American women’s history class. Even now, there is an endless list of women of color I have yet to learn about. Similarly, in my Jewish feminist education, I have never learned about Palestinian women. Through the neglect of my teachers as well as my own, I have never explored the contributions of and resistance lead by Palestinian women. Nor was I given the opportunity to learn about Israeli and Jewish women who stood up against the Occupation or in favor of Palestinian rights.

I respect that URJ President Rabbi Rick Jacobs has spoken out against the Occupation and continuous settlement building in the West Bank. However, how come I was never told about this in theto Climb" – 1972
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can, Harry, dear," she said gaily,
"so you'll have all the more to tell mother and me tomorrow night!"

The morning sun shone down through the golden autumn foliage of the
maple trees that lined the street, and now irradiated Henrietta's
figure and then dyed it somberly as she passed with rapid step through
open space and shadow. Isabella watched her progress down the quiet
road toward the avenue, half a dozen blocks away, whence came the
clang of street cars and the rattle of traffic. But the girl turned
now and then and cast an eager glance in the other direction.

"I'm so glad she could go tonight," Isabella was thinking. "She works
so hard and she doesn't have many pleasures--neither do I! But I don't
mind--very much!" She cast another glance up the street and caught
sight ofBut at the beginning of his career he had won a rich prize
in an architectural competition, and afterwards commissions and
rewards and honors had flowed in upon him in constantly increasing
measure. While he did not yet quite merit the adjective which Isabella
Marne had applied to him, there was every promise that he would soon
be, in truth, a "famous architect."

Although he had barely entered his third decade, certain
characteristic features of his work had already won attention, and
these had been praised so much, and had begun to exercise so evident
an influence, that many looked upon him as destined to be and as,
indeed, already becoming, the leader of a new and fruitful movement in
American architecture. A Felix Brand design, whether for a dwelling, a
church, a business building, or a civic monument, was


not until she had gone through the accumulation of mail with
him and had explained to him all that she had done during his absence
that he mentioned Hugh Gordon. Then he merely asked, with some
hesitation at the name, as though he could with difficulty bring
himself to speak it, if no letter had come from him.

"Yes," she replied, unlocking a drawer and taking out a bulky
envelope, "this came yesterday, but I guessed that it was from him and
so did not open it."

Brand's dark, handsome face turned a trifle paler and his hand
trembled as he thrust the letter quickly into his breast pocket.

When the newspapermen came to ask if there were yet any news of him
Brand saw them in his own room. He said nothing to Henrietta about the
charges made againstSociety suggesting that he
resign as president of that body.

     "We do not feel," they said, "that our society can afford to
     continue in that office a man against whom such serious
     charges of misconduct have been made and who has not asked
     for an investigation. We do not wish to have the matter
     exploited publicly any more than is absolutely necessary. To
     call a general meeting of the society for its discussion
     would be sure to result in newspaper notice that would
     doubtless be as disagreeable to you as it would be offensive


just because she is so young, so innocent and so much at
the mercy of her loving heart that I must speak plainly to you. I
don't expect you to be entirely worthy of such a wealth of pure young
love as she gives you. The man doesn't live who is clean enough in
heart and in life to be worthy of such a treasure. But I do expect you
to be, Felix, and I must assure myself that you are, clean enough and
honorable enough not to blight all the rest of her life. What is past
is past, but from now on there must be nothing that will not bear the
light of day."

Brand was moving slowly back and forth, his countenance expressive of
inward debate and hesitation. He was asking himself if it wouldit wasn't I suppose
he wouldn't do it."

But on this last point Henrietta was not without uneasiness. For
little rifts were beginning to appear in that perfect confidence she
had felt until recently in her employer. She had thought him the soul
of uprightness and honor, but in his business affairs, nearly all of
which passed through her hands, she knew that he had begun to make use
of the barest falsehoods and to practice evasions and tricks that made
her blush with shame to be the medium by which they were transmitted
to paper.

Simple, sturdy forthrightness being the backbone of Henrietta's
character, she could not help feeling as if she were an accomplice in
his shiftiness and untruths when she typed and mailed his letters.
She told herself that it was none of her affair, that she was


he was taking possession of my body
for a day or two at a time, going out and following his own affairs.
He bought a suit of gray clothes--he seemed to want everything
different from me--and when at last he was able to keep himself going
for a week or two he had my hair cut short and let a mustache grow,
and began sending his damned insolent letters through the mail to my
office.

"Now you know, Dr. Annister, why I couldn't explain my absences any
better. Each time that he pushes me down and gets possession of my
body he keeps it longer. Now he's threatening me with annihilation. He
says that the next time he comes he's going to stay. And I'm at the
end of my strength, doctor. I've fought him back, and he's foughtA man sentenced to federal prison for threatening to blow up a U.S. Air Force base in Nevada in 2010 didn’t learn his lesson.

Charles James Schuett was out of prison for only short time last June when, in the heart of Las Vegas, he claimed he had planted explosives in the Lloyd D. George U.S. Courthouse, and would kill two federal judges. Schuett confessed to that crime and was sentenced earlier this week to serve another 75 months in federal prison.

His threat to kill the federal judges emptied the courthouse for a security sweep. Even though no bombs or explosives were found, Schuett’s antigovernment threats got him charged again.

Court documents disclose that Schuett made the threats after he walked into the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field


by three years of supervision by federal parole officers.

Schuett was indicted in 2010 for one count of threatening to kill or cause damage by explosive in a case investigation by an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. In May of that year, he was sentenced to 42 months in prison.

In that case, Schuett was arrested on March 5, 2010, after he drove to the main gate at Nellis Air Force Base, in southern Nevada, where 12,000 military personnel and support staff are stationed.

When a guard asked Schuett the nature of the visit, he said he wanted to see the base’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), then added: “I’m here to blow up the base.”admitted during

the motion hearing that he did not turn himself in as ordered by the court and that he

had no excuse for not doing so.

         {¶4}   Six years later, on January 13, 2017, appellant was arrested again in

Franklin County on the warrant. The Franklin County court again released him on his

personal recognizance and ordered him to report to the Portage County Jail within five

days to clear up the warrant. This time, appellant reported to the Portage County Jail,

and resolved the warrant, which led to his arraignment on January 27, 2017, in the trial

court.

         {¶5}   Thereafter, appellant filed a motion to dismiss, arguing the state violated

his statutory and constitutional


he has established a prima facie case for dismissal. The

burden then shifts to the state to demonstrate that as a result of tolling or extension of

the statutory time limit, the right to a speedy trial has not been violated.” Kist, supra, at

¶22.

       {¶16} Here, appellant was indicted in Portage County on October 26, 2010, and

arrested in Franklin County on May 23, 2011, on the warrant issued on the indictment.

The state thus had 270 days (or nine months) from May 23, 2011 to try appellant. As

noted, on the day of his arrest, May 23, 2011, the Franklin County Court of Common

Pleas ordered him to turn himself in to the Portage County Jail within five days to

resolve the warrant. However, without any excuse, appellantArmy offensive coordinator Brent Davis has emerged as a leading candidate for the open Georgia Southern head coaching job, sources told FootballScoop Monday.

Davis, who also coaches the offensive line for the Black Knights, has an intimate knowledge of the triple option and the Georgia Southern program. Davis served as the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Georgia Southern from 2010-13 before following Eagles head coach Jeff Monken north to West Point after the ’13 season. The Eagles racked up a 38-16 record and reached three FCS semifinals during those seasons.

Davis also served as the running backs coach and offensive line coach at Georgia Southern from 1997-05, working alongside Monken for five of those seasons and under head coaches Paul Johnson and Mike Sewak.

An Athens native, Davis started


his college career as a tight end at The Citadel before transferring to Georgia and earning a spot on the Academic All-SEC Honor Roll. Davis’s wife, Jen, is a Georgia Southern graduate.

At Army, Davis has helped Army rack up a 15-7 mark over the past two seasons — the program’s best run in two decades, which includes the snapping of a 14-game losing streak to Navy. The Black Knights rushed for 4,212 yards in 13 games, the second most in program history, and are on pace to rush for a program-record 4,751 yards this season.

Army beat Air Force 21-0 on Saturday without attempting a pass.

Georgia Southern is 0-8 this season and dismissed Tyson Summers on Oct. 22 after compiling a 5-13 record in one and a half seasons.Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has praised Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp for sticking by him as he continues his recovery from a long-term knee injury.

The England international tore his anterior cruciate ligament in the 5-2 win over Roma in last season's Champions League semi-final in April and is hoping to return before the end of the season.

Oxlade-Chamberlain, who arrived at Anfield from Arsenal in a £35 million deal in January 2017, had been enjoying a regular run in the side before sustaining the injury.

But while the 25-year-old has admitted it's been tough being on the sidelines, Klopp has done everything to ensure he has been involved with the team while he recovers.

"He's been massive," Oxlade-Chamberlain told Liverpool's TV channel. "Whenever I see him he's always got a smile on his face.

"He's


positive for that reason or another, whether the child had a chronic condition that prompted the use of radiograph, and the child's sex, race, and age when the film was obtained. Of the 218 children, 132 (60.6%) received 349 sets of films in their first 5 years. There was no difference in the number of films by race or sex. Chest and posttrauma bone or joint films accounted for 315 sets of films or 90.3% of the total. Overall, 25.8% of the 267 chest films were positive; this varied by age. Only 15% of the chest films were positive in the first year compared with 29 to 49% in the second through fifth years (p less than 0.001). Cough was the respiratory symptom most reliably associated with aThe present invention relates to a new and distinct cultivar of Diascia plant, botanically known as Diascia hybrida and hereinafter referred to by the name ‘Sunjodi 042’.
The new Diascia plant is a product of a planned breeding program conducted by the Inventor in St. Brides, Netherwent, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom. The objective of the breeding program is to create new freely flowering Diascia plants with strong flowering stems and large attractive flowers.
The new Diascia plant originated from a cross-pollination conducted by the Inventor on Jun. 7, 2008 in St. Brides, Netherwent, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom of a proprietary selection of Diascia hybrida identified as code number D5768, not patented, as the female, or seed, parent and with a proprietary selection of Diascia hybrida identified as code number D899, not patented,


as the male, or pollen, parent. The new Diascia plant was discovered and selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant from within the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in St. Brides, Netherwent, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom on Aug. 20, 2008.
Asexual reproduction of the new Diascia plant by vegetative cuttings in a controlled greenhouse environment in St. Brides, Netherwent, Monmouthshire, United Kingdom since Aug. 20, 2008 has shown that the unique features of this new Diascia plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.have been in decline since 2002-3.”

Minister hope that introducing children to foreign languages at an earlier age might make it easier for them to take languages on at secondary school.

Another thing that needs to be addressed is how languages are dealt with on the whole, that langauge learning needs to be encouraged and become part of the general culture, like it is in many other European countries. The aim is to establish a society in which everyone recognises the value of languages and intercultural relationships.

Here at Europe Direct Leeds and Leeds Central Library we speak a mix of languages that include French, German, Polish, Spanish and Turkish.

Some of us are also learning new languages this year and others are thinking about learning a new language or even just


a few holiday-relted words. If you are interested in more information on languages and language learning have a look at the following links:

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1. See the entries for _sagacious, sagacity, penetration._ Literary references under _sagacious_ were, in relation to animals and scent, by Milton and Dryden; references for the same, for human thought, were by Locke.

2. An impressionistic measure of the prevalence of this term can be apprehended through a search for the exact phrase _political sagacity_ in all books published between 1800 and 1899 currently listed on books.google.com. The return of 1006 hits (as compared with 651 for _animal sagacity_ ) is telling by itself (https://books.google.com, accessed February 24, 2009; search terms: "political sagacity" date: 1800–1899; "animal sagacity" date: 1800–1899.

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meanings of which they have come to understand through sign language—including _love, hate,_ and _anger._ This level of interspecies communication was unavailable with the 1950s ape artists represented in the recent retrospective of Congo's work. None possessed the linguistic knowledge to communicate in a way that humans could understand, and so they could not be asked to paint certain things or ideas or emotions. Granted, in the case of Koko and Michael, the paintings and their titles, and the interpretations of the titles and their referential meanings, are all products of bispecies collaboration. Gorilla knowing is filtered through the medium of human concept-based communication, in the English language, as transposed into American Sign Language. In other words, the gorillas speak and understand a form of English, but thehe leaned his shoulders and head back into the water before being consoled by his teammates. Klein then listened closely to a few pointers from first-year coach Ryan Lee on how he could improve his start.

Klein has spoken highly of Lee with the work he has done with him and all of SM Northwest's swimmers. The 50-yard freestyle was one of the best individual events for the Cougars, who finished sixth in the team standings. Ben Harrell tied for eighth and Eric Gonzales followed in 12th with respective times of 24.26 and 24.58.

Klein showcased his versatility as a strong long-distance swimmer, too, by taking second in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:08.36. His second-place finish was one of two for the Cougars. Jaden Karnes was the


at the SMNW Invitational. The Indians were short-handed without one of their best sprint freestylers in James Cameron, but they showed off their depth by still swimming to a third-place finish. Clayton McMillin, Harden Boldt, Trey Smith and Luke Guthrie clocked in with a time of 1:38.00.

The Indians were in Lane 1 and went down to the wire against Lawrence High, Free State and SM East's 'B' relay that were in Lanes 4 through 6. Guthrie was able to out-touch the anchor legs for Lawrence High and Free State to help the Indians finish behind both of SM East's teams.

"I was thinking I would need to go a lot hard because I knew the competition was really steep," Guthrie said. "I knew we had a lot of competitionagainst East and Lawrence Free State, so I knew I had to give it my all towards the end there."

Guthrie also anchored the Indians' 200-yard medley relay, which included McMillin, Caleb Sostarich and Smith, to a third-place finish. The two third-place relay finishes helped the Indians take third overall behind SM East and Free State.

"We're working them together. We've had a lot of people missing and one person missing can really ruin a relay as for getting first or second," Guthrie said. "But I say we still held it together with who we had in the relays."

McMillin had the top individual finish for SM North after placing second in the 100-yard breaststroke with a time of 1:06.09. Sostarich followed in seventh with a time of 1:12.52.

The Indians also


the past 3 seasons will level out spectacularly in the upcoming seasons. I foresee CL R16 exit and 3rd place finish in La Liga.

Not to mention that from all the great coaching talent that was available and on the move in summer, they picked up the least impressive and probably worst

@futbol wrote:Madrid are in deep deep shit. All the Voodoo Zidane has used up in the past 3 seasons will level out spectacularly in the upcoming seasons. I foresee CL R16 exit and 3rd place finish in La Liga.

Not to mention that from all the great coaching talent that was available and on the move in summer, they picked up the least impressive and probably worst

Agreed. Winning 0 with Porto 2 seasons in a row is a specialsaid that there were a few kids drowned in that lake.
Gradually, rumors about the lake being haunted spread like wild fires.

I had a school playmate once, who was drowned in that lake.
According to his companions that they were playing at the lake side when
suddenly one of them yelled out as he saw a colourful small fish swimming in
the lake. No one dares to go into the water as none of them knew how to swim,
except Ah Qiang.

Well, it was said that Ah Qiang immediately took off his
cloth and jumped into the lake to chase for the fish. Everyone saw Ah Qiang
waved his hand in the water and soon they lost sight of him. No one pays any
attention as they thought Qiang was just fooling about. Stagnant lake water
under


tropic sun is full of algae and the predominant colour would be green. Losing
sight of someone in the water is pretty normal in this situation.

However, after one hour or so, Qiang still not in sight and
nowhere to be found. His companions started to panic. So, someone ran to a
primary school nearby to seek help. Eventually a police report was lodged and
shortly, a troop of search and rescue personnel were at the site. Story has it
that, even though it was a pretty small lake, it took the rescuer almost half a
day to find the body. It was later rumoured that it was the help from a Maoshan
sorcerer who has casted a spell that enabled the water spirits to ‘release’
Qiang’s body.

Again it is still based on rumours that the bodywas found soon
after the sorcerer casted the spell. After autopsy, the coroner found that
Qiang’s lungs were dry and the cause of death was strangulation. As to how
Qiang was strangled to death, no one ventured to probe further and the case was
soon forgotten.

Many years later, I unexpectedly met the sorcerer in Kangsar
wet market and remembered about his soul calling ritual; so I half enticed and
half dragged him to a coffee shop nearby in the hope to understand his soul
calling ritual.

Apparently the ritual he used is called ‘soul calling with life
fish’. This method is mainly used to summon those drowned. The ritual is
roughly as described below:

First, one must find two live fish of any sort and bring the
fish to lake or river bank. Put the fish in a water bucket.


be stored inside her body. During
emergency, this energy will be released automatically.

Another poser of this mantra is the protection from evil
spirits and black magic. The person who recites this mantra with consistency
shall be protected.

It is my hope that in this chaotic world, anyone who recites
this mantra shall be in peace, happy and lucky.

The moon is worshipped in many cultures. In the West,
witches performing the drawing down of the moon for spell casting. In ancient
China, animals and Taoists use breathing exercises to draw moon energy into
their bodies for magic work or for healing. In India making offerings to moon
may also make your wish come true.

First we need to prepare a big jar of fresh water, some
milk, some sugar and rice. It is said that for best result, it isspread from India to China, Japan,
Korea and Vietnam which is also known as the ‘Northern Tradition’. The Theravada
Buddhism spread from India down south to Sri Lanka, to Myanmar, Thailand, Laos,
Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Now comes the fun part: the arguments of which school is
authentic never ceased until today:

·Within general Buddhism, Sutrayana attacks
Mantrayana especially the Indo-Tibetan system as not Buddhism because of the
worships of Hindu deities and yab-yum deities (two deities hugged together
naked).

·Within the Sutrayana: the Mahayana said that
their teaching can achieve enlightenment while the Theravada teachings cannot.

·Indo-Tibetan systems also have many
controversies on the practice of ‘liberation by slaughtering’ and the
consumption of meat and alcohol.

Of course, time has changed now days as all Buddhist schools
are treated as one. Everyone try to be politically correct and all practices
are accepted as one


since I started bottle feeding her and stopped breastfeeding, it's miraculous. The poor girl was just hungry! First it started where she'd wake at midnight and then around 4. Not too shabby. I can do 2 wakings a night. Then she started going until 4-5 a few times. Hey, I liked that a LOT better. But last night she slept from 8:30pm until 7am without waking once!!! :) Of course, by the time 7am rolled around, I was convinced that something had happened to her and I had to go in and check on her, and there she was...on her tummy, pushing herself up on her arms. She saw me and gave me a big smile. She is still swaddled. I'd prefer that she not be, but shedoctor, she had only gained around 3oz in 3 or so months. She was waking up every 2 hours and although she was very content, I just knew she wasn't getting what she needed. She drinks about 5oz every 3 hours or so and gets very excited about her bottle. It took her a while to catch on to it and I was so concerned that she wouldn't take one at all. Her pediatrician just said, "Push solids", but she doesn't eat anything yet. She has no interest in food and I'm not going to "push" it on her, especially knowing that her body can't assimilate most of what she's eating at this point anyway. So when I found a bottle she'd take (Tommee Tippee), I was SOOOOOOO


though just the other day we were making such wonderful progress with her going to her crib awake and falling asleep with minimal fussing. I'd like to get rid of the swaddle, but she still really seems to enjoy it, so I just don't know what to do with her...but it makes it very difficult in the middle of the night when I put her back into her crib after a feed and she hears the floor squeak (her room is TERRIBLE, the floor is super squeaky right in front of the door) or she's not totally settled, she'll start crying and then flip to her tummy and freak out. So last night was a rather difficult night. It wasn't HORRIBLE, I just would have liked to haveUniversity of Versailles. “But it was very important to get it out of anonymity.” Charlier performed the reconstruction with Philippe Froesch, a visual forensic artist.

Mary Magdalene has long been a controversial figure within the Catholic church. Beginning around the fifth century, she was depicted as a prostitute, and popular but unproven theories also depict her as the wife of Jesus.

In a 2004 interview with National Geographic, Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King noted that the only conclusive evidence of Magdalene’s role points to her as a follower of Jesus. At the time, King alleged that Magdalene may have played a crucial role in developing the early foundations of Christianity.

Rumors that her remains were in the south of France gained popularity in 1279, Rebecca Lea McCarthy wrote in the


book Origins of the Magdalene Laundries. Since then, McCarthy wrote, her remains have been “found” in at least five other regions.

Despite inconclusive evidence about what became of Mary Magdalene, Froesch and Charlier wanted to put a face behind the famed Saint Maximin skull.

The two became interested in the skull three years ago when Froesch was in the south of France to work on a facial reconstruction for a different skull. He took a detour to the small town and, while touring the basilica, explored the crypt where the skull is housed behind an ornate glass case.

Since the skull was last studied in 1974, the glass case in which it’s housed has been locked. The researchers circumvented this by taking over 500 photographs that showed different angles of theweight and facial expression, were subject to Froesch and Charlier’s interpretation.

According to Froesch, their process is developed based on forensic techniques developed by the American Federal Bureau of Investigation and is typically used in crime scene investigations.

In the future, Charlier would like to conduct more research with the skull outside its glass case. Techniques such as carbon dating, which can determine the age of an artifact, can be done only by removing small portions of the skull, which the Catholic Church has not allowed.

He also hopes to one day conduct DNA tests on the remains to determine geographic origin.

Both Charlier and Froesch are adamant that the research was conducted independently of the church and as academic research, but they shared the images with religious leaders in the town,


tours

This week Kiyan and Dylan discuss The Faceless Ones, written by David Ellis and Malcolm Hulke. It aired in April and May of 1967. This episode also features our first email in 5 months, as well as a short mention of the new title theme!Story highlights "This is what 'New York values' are really all about," Trump's campaign said

The Manhattan billionaire often references 9/11 on the campaign trail

(CNN) Donald Trump made an unannounced stop at the National September 11 Museum Saturday morning in New York City.

Trump did not visit the memorial itself but the adjacent museum, which he toured with his wife, Melania, and his staff. Michael Frazier, a spokesman for the museum, later said Trump made a $100,000 donation.

After the visit, which lasted less than a half hour, Trump and his entourage headed back to Trump Tower. They declined to take questions from reporters.

A statement from Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said the Trumps "were given a tour by museum president and CEO Joe Daniels, along with other museum officials and representatives


Oliver and Sheila Lawn both worked at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, the
very secret wartime code breaking establishment. It was called the Government
Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). All the work done at Bletchley Park
remained Top Secret for some 30 years after the war, and only then were Oliver
and Sheila able to talk about their work there.

Oliver Lawn was recruited for Bletchley Park by Gordon Welchman in July 1940.
He had just completed a Mathematics Degree at Jesus College, Cambridge, and had
expected then to be called up into the Army, as many of his contemporaries were
being. Gordon Welchman, a Cambridge Mathematics Don, had been recruited for
Bletchley at the beginning of the War in September 1939, along with other
Oxford and Cambridge Dons, who included Alan Turing. In July 1940 Welchman was
recruiting other Mathematicians, andOliver was one of these.

He joined a team with Welchman in Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, which was concerned
with breaking the Enigma Codes used by the German Army and Air Force. ['The
Enigma Codes used by the German Navy were different, and were broken by a quite
different group of people, in Hut S.] He remained in Hut 6 for 5 years, until
September 1945.

The methods mostly used for breaking these Enigma Codes were by guessing
`cribs' - that is, guessing what some part of an encoded message actually said,
in German. This was of course only possible for `routine' messages such as
daily weather reports or forecasts, which often began - or ended - with a
standard phrase or a record of the time of sending (eg `Wettervorhersage' or
`nullsechsnullnull' _ `0600' hours). By aligning


days.

Sheila was recruited for Bletchley Park in July 1943 when she was in the middle
of a Modern Languages Honours Degree Course (French and German) at Aberdeen
University. She had earlier been `reserved' from call-up as a potential
teacher, but decided that she must abandon this reservation and join the War
effort. She worked in a part of the Naval Section at Bletchley Park, in Block
B. Her main work was to decode and then translate 3-letter codes used by German
Coastal Batteries and Radar Stations located around the Channel coasts. She
continued at Bletchley until the end of the War in September 1945.

Early in his time at Bletchley Oliver had joined the Scottish Reels Club, run
by Hugh Foss, who was Head of the BP Japanese Section ( though, of course, at
the time he didnot know this). In due course, after she arrived in 1943,
Sheila joined this Club. She was first attracted by Oliver's excellent dancing,
and then by Oliver himself. The attraction was mutual, and they soon started
going out together, as far as their different shift patterns permitted.

After the War, when they both left Bletchley Park, Oliver had to find a job,
and he joined the Administrative Home Civil Service in 1946. Sheila, meanwhile,
had to complete her interrupted studies. Since there was at that time no scope
for travelling abroad (and what use would a Language Degree be without it ?),
she changed her course to a General Degree at Aberdeen followed by a Social
Science Diploma at Birmingham University.

Then, in May 1948, Oliver and Sheila got married. They lived in London. Oliver
worked in several Government


the Government to rethink its plans, I will support that."

In contrast to promises made by both the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats before the election, EMA, the grant that gives 48% of all 16- to 18-year-olds for staying on at school or college, is due to be scrapped at the end of this academic year.

However, as student protests against the government's action on education continue across London today, all eyes in Westminster will be on Mr Hughes to see whether he will stick to his words.

The Lib Dem Deputy spent the week in his capacity as the government's advocate for further and higher education consulting Burnham who has drafted today's motion.

Labour will be urging as many Liberal Democrats as possible to vote against the government today, however, if suchJackets (23-13, 12-2 GMAC) had opportunities to score in the first game, but were unable to take full advantage. They had the bases loaded in each of the first three innings, but came away with just two runs. No Lady ...

by Tim Miller
The field of 64 teams that make it to the NCAA Division II Women's Basketball Tournament was released tonight, and the Cedarville Lady Jackets did not make the cut to be one of eight teams that represent the Midwest Region this March. The Lady Jackets were likely the first team out of the region, with only the top eight teams being released.
The makeup of the national tournament is divided into eight regions of eight teams. Cedarville (24-6, 18-4 G-MAC) had been ranked sixth ...

by Tim Miller
The


No. 1 seeded Cedarville Lady Jackets fell to the No. 5 seeded Hillsdale Chargers in the G-MAC Tournament semifinal on Friday night, 82-64. The hosting Lady Jackets shot just 35 percent from the field, while Hillsdale made 49 percent of its attempts.
"All the credit goes to Hillsdale," G-MAC Coach of the Year Kari Hoffman said. "They played their best and they were really, really good defensively. On the offensive end, they crashed extremely hard and got a ...

by Tim Miller
The Cedarville Lady Jackets are a step closer to winning the 2018 G-MAC Tournament after wiping out Lake Erie in the first round of the tournament on Thursday night, 80-61. The Lady Jackets completed a three-game season sweep of the Storm and never trailed in their win on Thursday.
JuniorSenators on Thursday night, 65-60.
The Lady Jackets came into the night tied in first place in the conference with Ursuline, but the Arrows lost to Malone, giving Cedarville a one-game lead with one game left. Cedarville needs to win on Saturday to clinch an outright G-MAC regular season title. Conference ...


than 40 years, and for whom their FA Cup third-round tie fell in the middle of a run of 10 wins in 16 undefeated league games. Meanwhile, between September and December, Hull had lost 10 of 12 matches, drawing the others, and if they were toiling on the field of play they were in chaos off it.

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At the start of September their player-manager, Raich Carter, had sensationally resigned for reasons never made public, and after remaining for a while in a playing capacity was told to leave the club altogether. He opened a confectioner on Hull’s George Street and turned out for non-league Leconfield until, as fans demanded his recall, a truce was agreed acouple of months later. In his absence Hull sold their other star player, Don Revie, to Manchester City, and Carter was ushered back into a weakened team in December, taking his place at Old Trafford the following month.

Carter, a brilliant inside-forward who also played three first-class cricket matches for Derbyshire, had earned his place in English football history by then, as the only man to win the FA Cup both before and after the second world war. He also captained Sunderland to the league title in 1936, was their top scorer in four of seven seasons and won 14 England caps, though the war prevented him accumulating the honours and with them the lasting acclaim his ability deserved. “Carter’s football was a concept, an ideal, a fulfilment of


ordinary men’s dreams,” David Miller wrote in the Times on the player’s 80th birthday, in 1993. “Few in the artistic field – and Carter made the game an art – created such an impression on so slim an international portfolio. A James Dean of football.”

Carter’s name would still merit inclusion on a list of England’s 20 greatest players, and as a manager he was not always popular – “He was a nice man but he loved himself” was the verdict of the great John Charles – but he still won promotions at Hull, Leeds and Mansfield. Greatness was rewarded differently then; by the mid-60s he had taken and lost a job in a branch of the Co-op in Hull, and was living off unemployment benefit.

At the time thistrite and trivial,” he wrote. “Say rather that they met their Marathon, their Arbela, their Hastings, their Pultowa, their Blenheim, their Saratoga – their anything and everything you like up to the limit of the 15 decisive battles of the world.”

Sid Gerrie scored the first, Carter playing a key part in creating the goal, and after Jack Rowley had missed a chance to equalise for United from the penalty spot Ken Harrison headed in the second. United claimed that Roger Byrne would have reached Eddie Burbanks’ cross first had he not been shoved out of the way. “There was a distinct push,” concluded Davies, enigmatically, “but only sufficient to move an empty wagon on the railway.”

United had other chances but found Joe Robinson in fine form in the


Hull goal. Robinson, who had let in four when his Blackpool side came up against United in the 1948 FA Cup final, was making his first appearance of the season in the absence of the injured Billy Bly (victim of 14 career fractures, who had played most of the teams’ previous Cup meeting, in 1949, with a broken nose, and who owned a confectioners of his own on Anlaby Road).

Sadly the result did not preface a thrilling upturn in Hull’s fortunes. They were knocked out by Blackburn, another mediocre Second Division side, in the fourth round, and avoided relegation only by winning their final three games (though after a succession of near-misses they went down four years later). Carter hung up his boots at the end of theseason, inevitably scoring the winner in his final game, but was soon to don them once again as player-manager of Cork Athletic, where he won the FAI Cup in 1953 at the age of 40. After spells managing Leeds, Mansfield and Middlesbrough he returned to live in Hull until his death in 1994, sitting on the pools panel for many years despite a growing dissatisfaction with modern football. “The game today? Rubbish,” he said in 1990. “I’d sooner watch rugby league. Now there’s a game.”

Hull also won their next meeting with United 2-0, though they had to wait more than two decades for it, and since that day in November 1974 their encounters have brought nothing but woe. They approach their latest visit to Old Trafford with a


Midtown TDR Ventures, which was originally led by Andrew S. Penson, purchased Grand Central in 2006 for roughly $80 million. The terminal itself was of little value, since it is under a long-term lease to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority at a relatively modest rent that decreases over time.

The investors were hoping to reap a fortune from the 1.2 million square feet of unused development rights, or air rights, above the terminal.

Several years ago, as the city sought to change the zoning around Grand Central to allow for much taller towers, Mr. Penson negotiated to sell a large block of those rights to SL Green. But the talks foundered, with each side describing the other in derogatory terms.

The de Blasio administration ultimately rezoned a strip of Vanderbilt Avenue, allowingwho followed him
to his self-named outfit!) and has bothered putting effort into the
songwriting!!!! This is NOT echoey noise or slowed-down punk. The songs
run through a variety of dark textures and moods, with really neat stylistic
guitar noises, light keyboard and church bell tones and the bass player
hardly ever playing the same thing the guitarist is playing, which makes a
big difference on the "intelligent-sounding" scale. A couple of the
tunes even sound like they could be on the third or fourth Danzig album!
"To Walk The Night" especially sounds like a straight Roy Orbison-type
60sish death ballad.

I still don't think it's scary, understand,
but the songs are really cool and smartly arranged, from the hardcore punk
of "In My Grip" and "Kiss Of Steel" to the ugly-yet-compelling death rock of
"Mother Of Mercy" and "Halloween II"


EP. I already told you about that one - the other
tunes sound like a more hardcore version of Danzig - you can tell it's John
Christ by the way he keeps doing those goddamned false harmonics he's so
fond of, but a few of the songs are faster than all shit, which is something
that Danzig the band never aspired to. Still trying to be evil and failing
(especially in the laugh-out-lord piece of crap ambient piece "Misery Tomb,"
which consists of three minutes of the band members trying to sound like
they're in the pits of hell when they were probably just in the pits of some
guy's apartment), but riffs galore! The John Christ material is more
metallic than you'd expect from Samhain, but again, that's probably why they
soon changed the band name, ifA White Oak High School graduate was one of three N.C. National Guard soldiers killed in Afghanistan Monday.

The bodies of Sgt. Jeremy F. Hardison, 23, of Maysville, along with Sgt. Thomas Jefferson Butler IV, of Wilmington, and Sgt. Donna R. Johnson, of Raeford, were scheduled be returned to the U.S. via Dover Air Force Base on Tuesday night, according to a press release from Dover Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operation.

Officials with the N.C. National Guard public affairs said details of how the soldiers died could not be released until later Tuesday evening.

But Hardison is believed to have been killed when a Taliban suicide bomber rammed a motorcycle packed with explosives into a joint U.S.-Afghan patrol on Monday, killing 14 people including the three Americans.

Reports indicate three other soldiers


were injured and an Afghan interpreter was killed.

The bomber struck the mixed police and military patrol shortly after they got out of their vehicles to walk through a market area in the eastern city of Khost.

Hardison attended White Oak High School and North Carolina State University, according to a Facebook page in his name. Friends took to his Facebook page to pay their respects Tuesday.

“RIP Hardison. Its crazy that our paths crossed because of this war and now our paths end because of it,” a fellow soldier posted. “You will be missed. You will be remembered as a hero and a great man. You died fighting for something that most of America will never understand. At Ease soldier your mission is complete.”

Hardison was living in Greensboro before beingdeployed. His widow, Brittni Hardison is a Greensboro native. She flew to Philadelphia on Monday to be at the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for the return of her husband's body, according to WFMY in Greensboro. He is also survived by his parents, Jerry and Teresa Hardison.

Butler, who grew up in Hampstead, is a 2006 graduate of Topsail High. He indicates on his Facebook page he attended Cape Fear Community College in 2010 for criminal justice. He and his wife Holly Gause Butler married in November 2008, according to her Facebook page. Their son, Thomas Jefferson Butler V, was born on March 12.

According to the Carolina Beach Police Department, Butler worked as staff duty personnel at the Ft. Fisher National Guard Training Center in Kure Beach.

Capt. Rick


a proposal to the National Resistance Movement members at a retreat at Kyankwanzi, indicating that KCCA would undertake a multi-billion master plan to transform the transport network in the city.

The plan encompasses construction of flyovers at Kitgum House; Mukwano and Clock Tower junctions in the next five years, which will cost $150 million (about Shs373 billion).

It will also develop an integrated public transport system with Bus Rapid Transit, Non-Motorised Transport and cable cars.

Although, in April, KCCA invited potential consultants to submit applications to carry out a feasibility study for cable cars in Kampala capital city, Mr Robert Kalumba, KCCA media monitoring specialist said the process is ongoing. fmukisa@ug.nationmedia.comreceiver would be compensated, and the specifics of the receiver's expected duties. These issues having been briefed by the parties, the Court now addresses the motion for appointment of a receiver.

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The CFTC has argued persuasively that CTC and Comvest should be treated as one corporation for the purposes of a receivership. Affidavits before the court show clearly that the two corporations have shared common premises and payroll, and have been managed by the same persons  the defendants Howe and Feeney, who have controlled the activities of both corporations. In addition, the corporations have functioned as a common enterprise of advising and soliciting customers regarding buying and selling for commodity accounts. In practical operations, the activities of the two corporations have been pervasively intermingled with substantial disregard of


of cartons into and out of the enclosure, hence through the filling station. This opening through which the cartons pass is provided with a removable cover which, when in place, renders the entire housing fluid-tight.
In a high-speed packaging machine, empty cartons are moved via a conveyor into the filling station at a location beneath one side corner of the enclosure. When so located, the bottom end of the carton is engaged by a lift arm mounted on the end of a first vertically oriented reciprocative lift rod. Substantially simultaneously, the top end of the carton is engaged by a retainer which is mounted on the end of a second vertically oriented reciprocative lift rod, thereby capturing the carton between the lift arm and the retainer. The first andsecond lift rods move upwardly from the conveyor and move the captured carton into the filling station enclosure. This action is rather dynamic and each carton must be grasped and held substantially stationary within the enclosure.
Within the enclosure, the carton is filled with product. Thereafter, the first and second lift rods are moved downwardly to redeposit the filled carton on the conveyor. Once the filled carton is deposited onto the conveyor, the lift arm and the retainer disengage from the carton and remain in position to engage and move a further empty carton into and out of the filling station enclosure. Each of these reciprocative lift rods passes through the bottom wall of the enclosure. By reason of the high speed of the packaging machine, for example, 150


cartons filled per minute, each rod moves through its reciprocatory cycle at a high rate of travel and a large number of times over a short period of operating time, thereby creating severe wear upon any type of known sealing arrangement between a lift rod and the bottom wall of the enclosure.
During the time that a carton is in the enclosure and being filled, there is no need for sealing between each of the lift rods and the bottom of the enclosure, and in fact, it is most desirable that there be minimal or no frictional drag between a lift rod and any mounting of the lift rods in the bottom wall of the enclosure when the lift rods are in motion. However, for cleaning-in-place of the fillingRon Artest is not going home to play for his beloved New York Knicks. Artest didn't get the fairy-tale trade to join his Southern California buddy Kobe Bryant, either.

He's also not complaining.

Artest was unmistakably giddy in the early hours of Wednesday morning in a phone conversation with ESPN.com as he discussed his forthcoming trade to the Houston Rockets.

"I'll be a kid in a candy store," Artest said. "I'll be a kid in a store with a lot of candy. I'm going to dance with the stars."

Instead of the trade to Hollywood to Bryant's Los Angeles Lakers, as many around the league expected, Artest is headed to Houston for a reunion with Rick Adelman, who ranks as his favorite pro coach.

In a swap first reported Tuesday night by The


Houston Chronicle, Sacramento has agreed to part with its rugged but controversial swingman in exchange for newly drafted Rockets rookie Donte Greene, Kings alumnus Bobby Jackson (and his salary cap-friendly contract) and a first-round pick in 2009.

NBA front-office sources confirmed to ESPN.com that the Kings also will receive approximately $1 million in cash considerations. But the deal can't be completed and announced before Aug. 14 because Greene is not eligible to be traded until then, per league rules, since he signed with the Rockets on July 14.

"For this trade to happen it means the Rockets have to start winning right now," Yao Ming told Houston television station KRIV from Nanjing, China.

Artest simply can't wait. He has been second-guessing his decision not to opt out of his contract andOrganizers around the world are planning a day of action to call attention to climate change on Friday, September 20.

In Nevada, a combination of schools and climate action groups are planning demonstrations and public events from Las Vegas to Reno.

"I hope that we're going to make our voices heard," said Palo Verde High School student Dexter Lim, "As members of the youth, we are going to have to be the ones who inherit this planet and we've seen time and time again that the signs of climate change are becoming more and more clear."

Lim said he hopes the action on Friday shows political leaders that action needs to be taken immediately to address climate change.

Students at seven schools in Southern Nevada are taking part in a walkout. The


is for new nations to master the game. It took India 20 years and 24 Tests before their first win, and New Zealand 26 years and 44 games. In this context, Bangladesh's wait of 16 years for a major win does not look so surprising, although no country has made anything like such an inauspicious start to Tests. Even New Zealand drew half of their first 44 Tests. And Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, the last two Test nations before Bangladesh, both toppled established Test opponents (India and Pakistan) within three years of their elevations.

Teams' first Test wins Team Debut year Number of Tests before first win Total Tests played Wins Losses Draws Australia 1877 0 791 372 211 206 England 1877 1 798 351 285 342 South Africaa four-year window beforehand where you got in place the building blocks of a four-day domestic structure, so there was a significant amount of four-day cricket played domestically, and a regular A team programme and first-class games for the national side."

All of which provide many lessons for the ICC and the leading aspiring Test nations, Afghanistan and Ireland. "They're a hell of a lot better prepared for Test cricket than Bangladesh were," says one ICC source, citing their experience playing against Test teams in limited-overs cricket. Ireland have played in eight ICC world events and Afghanistan in five, to Bangladesh's one when they were elected as a Full Member.

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Since their inclusion in the 12-team ODI


ranking structure last year, Afghanistan and Ireland have also played regular ODIs against Test nations; Bangladesh had only played 34 ODIs against Full Members before their first Test. Worse, they were an Associate nation in the years when, besides qualification for the World Cup, there was little cricket or structure for the leading countries beyond the Test world.

Afghanistan and Ireland also have one major advantage over every other Test nation in history - the Intercontinental Cup, which provides a regular programme of first-class matches with context around the world against other international sides. The creation of the tournament in 2004 provided an avenue for leading Associates to learn skills in multi-day cricket, even if the volume of matches has decreased since. While top Associates each played a totalof 13 Intercontinental matches in the group stages of the tournament from 2007 to 2010, they will only play seven during the current four-year cycle.

For new Test nations, a high-quality first-class competition and multi-day structure is "the absolute key", Eade says. He considers Zimbabwe's involvement in South African multi-day cricket, which stretched back to 1904, "a big part" of why Zimbabwe were far more successful during their early forays in Test cricket than Bangladesh. From their first Test in 1992 to the end of 1999, Zimbabwe lost only 19 of their 39 Tests, drawing 17 and winning three (two against Pakistan and one against India).

In their first decade in Test cricket Bangladesh drew three matches (two due to inclement weather) and lost 48 of their 51 Tests not


and opponents.

"I would have liked to have seen more such encounters take place for Bangladesh," says Bobby. Before any new teams play their first Test matches, "they have to play with stronger sides all the time to improve. They just can't play among themselves."

Afghanistan's three-day match against England Lions in the UAE in December is a welcome development. They hope that their new base, in Greater Noida, near Delhi, will enable them to play tourists to India - including Australia, potentially, in February - in multi-day matches.

A regular programme of A team matches in first-class cricket is also essential, Eade believes. Such games develop fringe players and emerging talent, and also push players within the side to improve. Ireland have suffered from a paucity of players breaking intotheir batting order since the 2011 World Cup, and professionalism appears to have created a chasm between those who are full-time cricketers and those who are not.

The ICC Intercontinental Cup has given Associate teams like Afghanistan and Ireland plenty of exposure to competitive long-format cricket ICC/Saleem Sanghati

Afghanistan have benefited from a far more healthy A-team programme than Ireland and hope to play Zimbabwe A again early in 2017. Ireland's lack of A-team games is a concern. They plan to beef up their A-team schedule in 2017 and beyond, including by playing against county 2nd XIs and against Full Member teams touring Ireland. They are also planning a winter tour for the A team to a Test nation in 2017-18. Ireland especially need tours of the subcontinent, and specialist


stipulation was then read into the record which stated that Dr. T.A. Kiersch, a qualified psychiatrist, would testify as in his October 14, 1977, letter to the court, that in his expert opinion the defendant at the time and place of the charged murder was suffering from a mental disease and probably was unable both to appreciate the criminality of his acts and to conform his acts to the law. Following the trial court's acceptance of this stipulation, the State rested. The defendant then also rested, without presenting any trial evidence. Defense counsel concurred with the prosecutor's suggestion that, based upon the evidence, the court should find the defendant not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. The court, thereafter, entered an order making such a finding.
A hearingJapan urged to lobby to save Mediterranean bluefin stocks

LONDON – European environmentalists are calling on Japan, the biggest consumer of Mediterranean bluefin tuna, to support a drastic reduction in annual catches to preserve the long-term future of the fish.

Turkey will host an international meeting from Friday to Nov. 18 in which conservationists are hoping participants, including Japan, will agree to a groundbreaking cut in quotas.

But the Japanese government appears reluctant to endorse the massive cuts advocated by the green lobby. Instead, it favors a crackdown on countries that take more than their quotas and further deplete already fragile stocks.

Environmentalists say the bluefin tuna population in the Mediterranean and the Eastern Atlantic is “on the verge of collapse” after years of overfishing.

Catching bluefin began in the Mediterranean about 3,000


years ago. But what was once a small-scale family industry has grown over the last few decades into a big business with many traders making small fortunes.

Since the 1980s, the demand for bluefin from Japan, where it is used in sushi and sashimi, has grown dramatically.

Most bluefin are caught in large nets that are towed to coastal ranches. The tuna are fattened up for around six months before being killed. Most of the Mediterranean catch ends up in Japan.

Last November, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, the body that regulates catches, agreed to a “recovery plan” for the depleted stocks in the two areas. It reduced the annual quota from 32,000 tons in 2006 to 29,500 tons for 2007.

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as the only speaker. "We are excited to host a truly unique commencement ceremony during this unprecedented time for our students to celebrate with family and friends their accomplishments" said WSU Tech President Sheree Utash said in a release.

The awards will be presented in virtual format, and the broadcast of the award ceremony will be done from a closed studio. The lack of diversity at the Bafta film awards in January was a major talking point, with Steve McQueen saying the awards risked becoming " irrelevant " if it continued to ignore BAME talent.

Molly said during the first two days of bringing him home, Chai was "like a normal puppy " but then he became very unwell and lethargic. In a statement to Newsbeat, though, the company thatsize let it fit a full number pad in the keyboard as well as a 3.5mm microphone jack; both S13 models have only a headphone jack. It was upgradable to the quad-core Core i7-3612QM CPU, which was not available on either of the 13.3" models, and the first quad-core processor in the S Series.  The graphics card was the same GeForce GT 640M LE found in the 13.3" models, and like the S13 Premium, the S15 had an option to upgrade to 2GB of dedicated video RAM.  The S15 was remarkably slim for its size, weighing only 4.42 lbs and keeping the 0.95" thickness of the standard S13 model. There was no carbon fiber variant of the S15.

In October 2012, VAIO had a small refresh for the


as it has been dropped from their line of laptop computers. The Sony Outlet will continue to carry refurbished models including the S, E and T series.

On June 27, 2014, the VAIO name was sold by Sony. The Sony Outlet no longer sells VAIO.

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Ralph Fiennes as Caius Martius and Gerard Butler as Tullus Aufidius in "Coriolanus."

By Christopher WallenbergGlobe Correspondent
February 12, 2012

NEW YORK - “Enough!’’ screamed the cover of the New York Post, referring to the Occupy Wall Street protesters camped out at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan. The headline and accompanying editorial, with the admonition that the protesters are “a public nuisance’’ whose “time is up,’’ caught Ralph Fiennes’s eye one early November morning during a brief stopover in Manhattan. He seized on the article’s resonance with the title character in “Coriolanus,’’ the big-screen contemporary adaptation of the Shakespeare play in which Fiennes both stars and makes his directorial debut. The film opens in the Boston area on Friday.

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Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican, has delivered a knock out punch against Sen. Marco Rubio to normalization of relations with Cuba to benefit the United States. The punch was as decisive as Muhammad Ali’s knock out of George Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle 40 years ago. Mr. Rubio’s presidential ambitions are over.

The Florida senator’s implacable hatred of Fidel Castro and Cuba’s Communist regime has driven him to anti-democratic tirades and to a policy of Cuban ostracism that sneers at Presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. His child-like immaturity and conflicting loyalties between Cuba and the United States disqualify him for the White House.

Mr. Rubio is the son of Cuban immigrants who fled under the dictatorship of Fulgencia Batista. He has apparently forgotten that as a U.S.citizen and senator, his sole allegiance is to the U.S. Constitution and to the general welfare of the people of the United States. If there is a conflict between Mr. Rubio’s sympathies for the Cuban people and the best interests of the United States, he is required to abandon the former in favor of the latter.

The United States forged an alliance with Joseph Stalin during World War II to advance the interests of the United States, not to advance the cause of human rights or democracy in the Soviet Union.

The United States forged an alliance with France during the Revolutionary War to advance the goal of independence, not to encourage a revolution against King Louis XVI.

The United States forged defense pacts with Spain’s Francisco Franco to advance the


Farewell Address.

The greatest president in the history of the United States advised: “[N]othing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. The nation which indulges towards another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.”

Mr. Rubio betrays his greater loyalty to the people of Cuba than to the people of the United States by his declination to sponsor legislation that would terminate normalized trade with Communist China to punish its Communistdictatorship and suppression of human rights and to benefit Chinese champions of democracy. In his calculus, the Chinese quest for democracy must bow to the economic and other interests of the United States, but Cuban hopes for democracy should take precedence over the interests of the American people.

Mr. Rubio may protest that he is a patriot. But philosopher Johnson warned, “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”

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Stone-tipped spear may have much earlier origin

A hominid species invented the weapon 500,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens, a study finds.

It was among early man's greatest technological feats: a fully engineered weapon that combined a wooden shaft, mixed adhesives and a stone that had been chiseled to a lethal point.

To many anthropologists, the creation of the stone-tipped, or hafted, spear was a watershed moment in human evolution. Not only did it amplify the killing power of early hunters, it also demonstrated clearly that they had developed the capacity for complex and abstract reasoning.

Pinning down this moment in prehistory has been difficult, however.

It was long held that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens first lashed stone tips to spears 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. But a study published in Friday'sedition of the journal Science contends that a third species, Homo heidelbergensis, developed the technology about 500,000 years ago.

Researchers based their findings on 13 stone artifacts uncovered in a sinkhole in South Africa's Northern Cape province.

To confirm that the triangular stones were in fact spear tips and not created through natural processes, the anthropologists created replica spears and used crossbows to fire them at animal carcasses.

For The Record Los Angeles Times Saturday, November 17, 2012 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 4 News Desk 1 inches; 45 words Type of Material: Correction Ancient spears: In the Nov. 16 Section A, an article about the discovery of 500,000-year-old stone-tipped spears that were made by ancestors of modern humans said that researchers studied 13 stone artifacts uncovered in South


Africa. They examined 210 ancient spear points and point fragments.

The chips and marks created during these simulated hunting sessions exactly matched those on the prehistoric artifacts, indicating the ancient marks could not have been caused by weathering or geologic processes.

"This changes the way we think about early human adaptations and capacities before the origin of our own species," said lead author Jayne Wilkins, a graduate student in the University of Toronto's anthropology department. "Neanderthals and humans did not independently invent the technology, but they inherited it from their last common ancestor."

Part of the difficulty in determining the precise time in which hafting was invented has to do with the limitations of dating technology. Radiocarbon dating has a range of only 50,000 years, so other, less precise methods mustsuch as Emily Warren Roebling, who completed the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when her engineer husband became too ill to work.
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Barcelona End Pursuit of Tottenham & Liverpool Target Adrien Rabiot

Barcelona have ended their pursuit of Paris Saint-Germain midfielder Adrien Rabiot due to the options already at the club.

Rabiot, 23, is out of contract at the end of the season, and hasn't featured for Thomas Tuchel's side since a brief cameo in a 4-1 win against Red Star Belgrade in the Champions League on 12 December. However, he has been included in their squad for the competition's knockout stages.

The midfielder has been previously outspoken regarding his decision to leave his boyhood club, with La Liga side Barcelona his expected destination come the end of the season. However, AS

claim that the Catalan side are no longer interested in bringing Rabiot to Camp Nou.

According to the Spanish outlet, Barça consider themselveswell-stocked in central midfield for the future, with Frenkie de Jong, 21, joining at the end of the season from Ajax after agreeing an €86m deal.

The report also claims that the recent displays of Barcelona's academy graduate Carles Alena, 21, who has impressed during his 14 appearances in La Liga, the Champions League and Copa del Rey this season, has led to Spanish side's interest in Rabiot go cold.

It's unclear however whether Barca could reignite their interest in Rabiot - who has six caps for France's national team - should Ivan Rakitic leave the club this summer, with the Croatian linked with a move to Serie A side Inter, despite both his agent and himself talking up the prospect of remaining with the reigning La Liga champions.

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Radiohead need help...from Cheryl

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Cheryl Cole, O2 Arena

Anyone who thinks popular music is too similar should have spent last Sunday and Monday at Britain’s biggest indoor venue. In the pink corner at the O2 was Cheryl Cole, singer and TV personality, famous mainly for being famous.

Her career is built on hair and beauty, style and charm, and a popular mandate: her big break, joining Girls Aloud, came in a vote.

She is the nation’s sweetheart. Many have held that office but Cheryl is both glamorous and cuddly, a combination previously achieved only by Felicity Kendal and Kylie Minogue.

Getting physical: Cheryl's show at the O2 was pacy but lacked great songs

In the grey corner were Radiohead – five blokes in their 40s who are seldom seen on the telly.Neither glamorous nor cuddly, they have built a career on intensity, musicality and the itch to innovate.

They have made eight albums in 19 years, plus umpteen solo projects. Their music is art-rock, with no hint of pop. Cheryl has made eight albums too (five with Girls Aloud, three solo), but she is a singles act. Her music is dance-pop, with not a whiff of rock.

If Cheryl had a band with her at the O2, they weren’t visible. Her set was made up of building blocks in the shape of a pyramid, a stairway to Heaven. The blocks had video projected on to them, so the stage was also a screen.

She wore four costumes (Kylie tends to have seven or eight), all sharp and different: a gold print jumpsuit;


a tight black leather skirt and top; a futuristic purple ballgown, made for a blowing in the wind machine; and a sexed-up version of her gym kit. The first three outfits showed off her curves, while the fourth revealed only her stomach, which is not curvy at all.

Her audience was half young families, half gay men. She had several dancers, and did some dancing herself, reminding us that she once did a stint at the Royal Ballet summer school as well as being named Most Attractive Girl at the Metrocentre in Gateshead.

Her show was pacy and light. Featuring lasers, fireworks, a blizzard of glitter and two guests (Will.i.am and Wretch 32), it was an exercise in putting on 75 minutes of decent entertainment without any great songs. Thetracks with the most personality were in a Girls Aloud medley.

Radiohead played for an hour longer. They do have great songs, but don’t always play them.

Of their well-loved old ballads, only Karma Police survives. The stage was cluttered with instruments including a second drum kit; at times they had four people on percussion.

The story of rock is partly the story of tunes giving way to beats, and Radiohead now cook up fiercely complicated polyrhythms, easier to admire than to enjoy. Their fans are mostly white, male, heterosexual and knowledgeable.

Their idea of a costume change is Thom Yorke taking off his jacket. With his beard and ponytail, he is like a thoughtful goblin, until he dances and turns into an electrocuted rag doll. His voice is a glorious ghostly


The world is transforming more rapidly every year, and Liberty International has spent nearly five decades bringing together a worldwide community of libertarians dedicated to fostering the ideas of a free society. This year’s Liberty International World Conference, “How to Find Freedom in Our Fast-Changing World,” is being held in Puerto Rico on Aug. 8–12, and Libertarian National Committee Chair Nicholas Sarwark will join dozens of other renowned speakers from across the globe to highlight the world’s most serious challenges to freedom.

Sarwark, who was first elected as LNC chair in 2014 and is currently serving his second term, will speak about “Promoting Open Borders in an Environment of Fear.” Immigration is an especially timely topic today, as governments in the United States, Europe, Asia, and elsewhere try toGophers

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Mo Walker scored eight points in 11 minutes in his first game for Minnesota in nearly two years, and the Gophers beat Minnesota State 81-56 Thursday in an exhibition.

Trevor Mbakwe also had four points and three rebounds in his first action since injuring his right knee last Nov. 27. Walker hurt his right knee as a freshman on Dec. 23, 2010. He took a redshirt last season.

Joe Coleman led the Gophers with 21 points.

Zach Romashko scored 18 points for the Mavericks, who reached the NCAA Division II semifinals two years ago but went 7-19 in 2011-12. Eight of the 13 players on their roster are Minnesotans, but the starting lineup for the Mankato school comprises two Wisconsinites,