Feminism makes some men very scared, others very angry. Tom Martin, who is taking legal action against the London School of Economics, risks being seen as falling into both of these categories. A former student at the LSE Gender Institute, Martin claims he had the misfortune of being subject to a torrent of anti-male discrimination during his (very brief) time there, and has cited the Gender Equality Duty to support his case. The irony of attacking feminists by invoking a piece of legislation whose existence is largely down to the energy and commitment of feminist campaigners scarcely needs pointing out.

Martin alleges that the course material he studied during his six weeks at the LSE was systematically anti-male overlooked men's issues, and ignored any research that contested a "womenthe cast of the drama pilot, about Billy Crews (Damian Lewis), an ex-cop who rejoins the force after being wrongly imprisoned for years. He'll play a former chief financial officer who befriended Crews in prison while he served time for insider trading and who now lives in a room over Crews' garage and handles his settlement money.

LIFE ON MARS (ABC) - David E. Kelley's import of the BBC series, about a detective whose girlfriend has just been kidnapped finds himself transported back to the 1970s, has formally been ordered to pilot. Kelley penned the pilot script and will executive produce alongside Stephen Garrett and Jane Featherstone for 20th Century Fox Television.

MARLOWE (ABC) - Jason O'Mara ("In Justice") is in final talks to topline the pilot, a procedural crime


drama set in present-day Los Angeles. He'll play the title role of Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler's famed noir private eye. In addition, O'Mara - who previously had signed a talent holding deal with the network and producer Touchstone Television - is also expected to receive a producer credit.

N.S.A. INNOCENT (FOX) - Stana Katic ("24") is the first to be cast in the drama pilot, about a family man who winds up recruited by the N.S.A. as a spy. She'll play Baker, who's described in the casting notice as: "Mid 30's, any ethnicity. NSA agent. Smart, sexy and tough, responsible for "recruiting" Paul against his will. Despite her outwardly calm and professional manner, she harbors a secret tragedy which is hinted at in the pilot and will be exploredduring the series. She may also find herself, against her better judgment, attracted to Paul more than she should be."

NICE GIRLS DON'T GET THE CORNER OFFICE (ABC, New!) - Josh Sternin and Jeff Ventimilia have booked a pilot commitment from the Alphabet for a small screen take on Dr. Lois Frankel's book of the same name. The comedy project, about the struggles of a "nice girl" to make it in the cutthroat corporate world, is based at Brian Grazer and David Nevins's Imagine Television with all four serving as executive producers. Frankel herself and Julie Richardson are also set to receive producing credits on the half-hour, which is set up at 20th Century Fox Television.

UNTITLED GABE SACHS/JEFF JUDAH PROJECT (ABC, New!) - Gabe Sachs and Jeff Judah ("What


About Brian") have scored a pilot order from the Alphabet for a new comedy about co-workers and friends in a top law firm who also are competing with one another to make partner. The untitled half-hour is based at Touchstone Television with the pair writing and executive producing.

UNTITLED KESSLERS/ZELMAN PROJECT (FX) - Ted Danson ("Help Me Help You") has joined the cast of the drama pilot, about Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne), a beautiful, self-possessed attorney fresh out of law school who lands her dream job working for Patty Hewes (Glenn Close), America's foremost high-stakes litigator. Danson would play Arthur Frobisher, a corporate executive involved in a class-action lawsuit brought by Hewes that will serve as the focus of the show's first season.

WORK WIFE (FOX) - Barbie Feldman Adlerand Brad Copeland's comedy project, about a female reporter and her male co-worker as they navigate the challenges that their partnership at work brings to their relationships at home, has been given a cast-contingent pilot order. The pair penned the pilot script and will executive produce for 20th Century Fox Television.


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Kemp made his announcement in the governor's office of the Georgia Capitol, standing beside the man he plans to replace in January. Republican Gov. NathanAmerican state. Kemp seeks to maintain Republican dominance in a growing, diversifying Deep South state positioned to become a presidential battleground.

The key question is how many uncounted ballots actually remain. Kemp says it's less than 21,000 - almost certainly not enough to force a runoff. The elections chief from the secretary of state's office said in a federal court hearing Thursday afternoon that the number is 21,190.

"Even if she got 100 percent of those votes, we still win," Kemp told reporters.

Abrams' campaign argues the total could be higher, and the secretary of state's office has been scant in sharing details as officials in Georgia's 159 counties keep counting.

"This is about the integrity of the election in the state of Georgia," said Abrams' campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo. "Brian Kemp


in suburban Atlanta's Cobb County added several hundred votes to that count Thursday morning from absentee ballots. That came after the secretary of state's office said all absentee and early ballots had been counted.

Abrams' lawyers also said they planned to sue officials in Dougherty County because absentee ballots were delayed after Hurricane Michael devastated parts of south Georgia. Separately, the ACLU raised concerns over 1,200 absentee ballots in Gwinnett County, northeast of Atlanta, which it said were rejected because of missing birthdate information.

"Brian Kemp owes voters an explanation," Groh-Wargo said, demanding to see lists and names. "We do not believe any of these numbers are credible."

When Kemp's campaign declared victory Wednesday, aides cited a statewide estimate of uncounted ballots from the secretary of state's office. But that officeYork at Stony Brook, who kindly provided computing facilities on his frequent visits there.

Funding for the creation and distribution of the SDSS has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, and the Max Planck Society. The SDSS Web site is [http://www.sdss.org/]{}.

The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are The University of Chicago, Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns Hopkins University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, University of Pittsburgh, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the


Vasili Pronchishchev

Vasili Vasilyevich Pronchishchev () (1702–) was a Russian explorer.

In 1718, Vasili Pronchishchev graduated from Moscow School of Mathematics and Navigation and was promoted to naval cadet. In 1733, he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and appointed head of one of the units of the Second Kamchatka Expedition, the purpose of which was to map the shores of the Arctic Ocean from the mouth of the Lena to the mouth of the Yenisey.

In 1735, Vasili Pronchishchev went down the Lena River (from Yakutsk) on his sloop Yakutsk, doubled its delta, and stopped for wintering at the mouth of the Olenek River. Many members of the crew fell ill and died, mainly owing to scurvy. Despite the difficulties, in 1736, he reached the eastern shore ofWhy Is Poverty, Inequality Growing?

The number of people living in poverty is the highest it's been since the U.S. Census Bureau started tracking poverty estimates. Plus, the gap between those earning the most and the least continues to grow. Host Michel Martin discusses the current state of poverty and income inequality with two experts on the subject, Timothy Noah and Peter Edelman.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

I'm Michel Martin, and this is TELL ME MORE, from NPR News. Later in the program, we are going to talk about a highly touted education program that's come under new scrutiny, including from a former member. We'll talk about the debate over Teach for America. That's in just a few minutes.

But first, we want to spend some time today talking about what was always


Georgetown University. He's been thinking about and writing about poverty for more than four decades, since he traveled through the Deep South with the late Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Professor Edelman also recently wrote the book "So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America."

Also with us, Timothy Noah. He is a columnist and senior editor for the New Republic. He's the author of a new book called "The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It."

Thank you both so much for speaking with us.

TIMOTHY NOAH: Thanks for having us.

PETER EDELMAN: My pleasure.

MARTIN: Peter, I'm going to start with you, because poverty is something that you've been thinking about for many, many years, as we've said. You say thatCEO pay and I would reregulate Wall Street, to some extent.

In addition to solving or addressing the income inequality problem, it would also make our economy much more secure.

MARTIN: Timothy Noah is senior editor at the New Republic. He's author of the new book, "The Great Divergence: America's Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It." He was kind enough to join us in our Washington, D.C. studio.

Peter Edelman is a professor of law and the faculty director of the Center on Poverty, Inequality and Public Policy at Georgetown University. He's the author of the new book, "So Rich, So Poor: Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America." He was kind enough to join us on the line from Boston.

Gentlemen, thank you both so


full public inquiry into the blacklisting scandal along the lines of the Leveson Inquiry into press behaviour. Only by taking strong action now can we ensure that there is no repeat of this disgraceful affair and that no further lives are ruined by the unscrupulous behaviour of unprincipled employers.

Join the day of action on Wednesday 20 November, come to one of the events below.

GLASGOW & EDINBURGH
Meet at 7.30am at John Smith House, 145- 165 West Regent Street, Glasgow G2 4RZ for a demonstration against a major blacklister, before going through to Edinburgh for meeting at the Scottish Parliament at 12 noon for a rally.Latest signing a major boost for Phoenix

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The Wellington Phoenix were due some good news and signing Carlos Hernandez on a two-year deal is a genuine coup for the beleaguered club.

The former A-League MVP is the biggest name to sign with the Phoenix in their six-season history and will put bums on seats at Westpac Stadium.

At 30, the Costa Rican playmaker is far from washed up and the Phoenix will back sports scientist Ed Baranowski to whip him into shape when he arrives for pre-season training in June.

Though the move is not without risk, the owners deserve applause for opening their cheque books, and coach Ricki Herbert for being able to pull it off.

He's not a top-name player but Hernandez would not have come cheap and his arrival


may spell bad news for some Phoenix favourites.

Among those out of contract at the end of the season are All Whites Mark Paston, Leo Bertos and Tony Lochhead and imports Dani Sanchez and Alex Smith.

Given that midfielders Sanchez and Smith have slipped out of Herbert's first-team plans they would seem surplus to requirements next season. Paston, Bertos and Lochhead may potentially have to take pay-cuts if they want to extend their stays.

While thrilled with the Hernandez capture, Herbert - whose own role at the club next season is uncertain - admitted there were some big decisions looming.

"[Hernandez] fits in the salary cap so it's always a little bit of mathematics to squeeze it in but I'm really pleased," Herbert said.

"He has such a good profile in the leaguethat it's great to have that signing here. It's a good sign from the owners, that they've supported the signing, and I think he'll be terrific."

Herbert said he had been chasing Hernandez for some time but negotiations had stalled because of the death of his father.

Hernandez is contracted to Indian club Prayag United but is currently mourning in Costa Rica.

"Right from the outset he was keen and unfortunately the issue through his family . . . we kind of backed off with respect to him," Herbert said.

"But he's done what he said he would, a couple of months ago, and he's put pen to paper."

At times during Hernandez's Victory career there were concerns about his fitness, but if he turns up in shape there is no doubt he


game and that's contagious. So you'd rather guys like that around the game than the negative ones."

Herbert said Moss would replace Paston and make his first start of the season against the Brisbane Roar at Suncorp Stadium on Sunday.

He added Ben Sigmund, Bertos and Lochhead would also return to the starting XI after missing the embarrassing 5-0 loss against Central Coast.

And young Australian striker Corey Gameiro - on loan from English Premier League club Fulham - would start in place of the suspended Jeremy Brockie.

While they have plenty of their own issues, the Phoenix have struck Brisbane at a good time.

The Roar were bounced out of the Asian Champions League in a penalty shootout loss to Buriram United in Thailand yesterday.BENGALURU: The education department has filed a case of cheating and forgery against the National Public School (NPS) for getting exception from the Right to Education RTE ) Act 2009 by allegedly submitting fake certificates.Jeevan Bima Nagar police registered a case against the school’s chairman and administrative board on Friday based on a complaint filed by Saleem Pasha, block education officer (BEO), Bengaluru south.Pasha alleged that an administrative board member of National Education Trust, which runs NPS in HAL II Stage, Indiranagar, submitted a certificate to the education department to claim RTE exception. The member claimed NPS is a linguistic minority school declared by the National Commission for Minority Educational Institutions (NCMEI), government of India. But the NCMEI secretary told the education department that the certificates furnished by


and accepted “complete accountability.” She also presented
evidence that in the years since her last conviction, she had graduated from the University
of California, Santa Cruz, been employed at a lab at the University of California, San
Francisco, graduated with honors from the City College of San Francisco with an
associate science degree in registered nursing, and volunteered as a driver for a nonprofit
organization that delivers food to the needy. She also submitted professional reference
letters and evidence that she had been offered a nursing job.
       The ALJ first considered the convictions themselves and found that the 2006 and
2009 convictions for petty theft and the 2009 conviction for vandalism were substantially
related to the practice of nursing but that the 2010 conviction for driving without a
license was not.“I’m tired of running from hurricanes,” storm evacuee Daphne Griffin says. Griffin and her family linger this Monday afternoon outside the Walnut Hill Recreation Center on Midway Road in Dallas. She's seeking shelter from Hurricane Harvey while experiencing flashbacks of her run-ins with Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Ike.

Like many of the 300 other families seeking shelter at the rec center, Griffin and her family have been here since Friday night. Most of them left the Houston and Galveston after the National Weather Service upgraded the severity of the hurricane, eventually to a Category 4. Fifty counties in southern Texas have been impacted by the storm, and more than 30,000 people are expected to seek temporary shelter.

Griffin escaped the rising floodwaters with 11 other family members, who loaded into


in front of the Walnut Hill Recreation Center.

Mikey Jackson was shooting a few hoops with other refugees from the Houston area. Like Griffin, he compared staying at the shelter to staying in prison. He says evacuees get only one bar of soap per family and that the shower situation also isn’t great.

Others at the shelter told the Observer about such conditions, but most quickly pointed out that their situations could be much worse. Many of their family members and friends who chose to remain are stuck in their homes without food or electricity.

EXPAND Gerardo Torres fled the Southeast Texas coast on Thursday night and headed to Dallas. Brian Maschino

Gerardo Torres took his family and fled the southeast Texas coast when he saw pictures of Hurricane Harvey on theNeighborhood Meeting: Proposal for 740 Jenifer Street, July 9

Please join me for a neighborhood meeting where we will discuss Michael Matty's proposal for 740 Jenifer Street.

Wednesday, July 9, 2014
6:30 p.m.
Wil-Mar Center - 953 Jenifer Street

Mr. Matty would divide the parcel and construct a new, 12-unit apartment building with six structured parking spots on the Williamson side of the parcel. The historic home on the Jenifer Street side would be renovated, including demolition of the addition on the back. The project would require rezoning from TR-V1 to PD. It will be before the Landmarks Commission on July 21 seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness for new construction and demolition.


seventh minute when Laura Weinberg drilled a left-footed shot from 25 yards out that deflected off the crossbar and out of play.

The Buckeyes then took the lead with a counter-attack in the 29th minute. Tiffany Cameron possessed just past midfield and played a nice through ball to Paige Maxwell at the top of the box. Maxwell took two dribbles and beat oncoming goalkeeper Tara Campbell with a left-footed finish from eight yards.

Duke nearly tallied the equalizer in the 41st minute when a cross from Chelsea Canepa skimmed across the top of the crossbar and was cleared out of play as Ohio State went into the half with a 1-0 lead.

The Blue Devils held an 8-2 shot advantage in the first half and both teams put one on goal.

Dukeadvantage.

The Buckeyes mustered one final chance with less than 20 seconds remaining when Lauren Granberg got her head on a long ball from Aly Walker but it was saved off the line by Duke defender Natasha Anasi as the Blue Devils came away with the victory.

The 2011 senior class wraps up their careers with 51 victories, tied for the most in Ohio State history. The group became the first class to advance to the Sweet 16 twice and played in the only College Cup in program history in 2010.


technology has achieved these proportions. It’s influence on the science of money has caused Old Money to go through a series of predictable reactions, from denial to dismissal and finally, inevitably, into exploring how they can harness the storm to their benefit and under their rules. Also, inevitably, they will fail in the long term.

Late last year, the total energy in the system increased greatly when another force of nature saw what was on the horizon and decided to get involved. John McAfee, a cybersecurity legend, saw that the technology behind Bitcoin represented the solution to many problems and the future of many industries. Fresh off of a campaign for President of the United States, McAfee burst onto the blockchain-cryptocurrency scene with the momentum of an overloaded freighttrain on a downward grade.

After joining MGT Capital Investments, a small company looking to reinvent itself to compete in the new economy, his chief imperative was to establish the company in Bitcoin mining and to begin building relationships in the community. He called for the creation of a Cryptocurrency Advisory Board, and asked industry powerhouses like Roger Ver, Erik Vorhees and Bruce Fenton to help guide MGT into the space and beyond.

At the time, people thought he was nuts. Bitcoin mining was profitable, but not that profitable, and MGT continued to struggle in the red. But McAfee wasn’t looking for instant gratification. He was planning for a future that he saw clearly, a future in which cryptocurrency was King. MGT continues to invest in the enterprise and expand


reveal itself,” McAfee told me by telephone, “but one thing is clear, I’m here to stay.”

These are exciting times we live in.

Rob Loggia

Rob Loggia is the founder of LoggiaOnFire, and has been published in the International Business Times UK, Digital Trends and on numerous online blogs and platforms. He currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Team McAfee. In 2015 he launched Vacant Minds Media as a platform for content that other publishers won't touch. He also was a member of the Core Team for John McAfee's 2016 bid for the office of President, and is working to help plan McAfee 2020, with a primary goal of bringing cryptocurrency to the forefront of national attention.

Have an article idea or a story to tell? Submit your proposal totruck and shattered the passenger-side window while

the children were in the back seat. On June 13, 2013, an ex parte order for emergency

custody was entered placing all three children in the custody of DHS. On June 18, 2013, the

court entered a supplemental ex parte order, placing D.M. in the temporary custody of his

father, Billy. On June 26, 2013, the court entered a temporary custody order placing both

D.M. and J.M. in Billy’s custody.

       On September 4, 2013, the court entered an adjudication and disposition order

finding the children dependent-neglected and setting the goal as reunification. The court

ordered Crystal to obtain and maintain stable, clean, and adequate housing; obtain and

maintain stable employment; complete parenting classes; submit to random drug screens and

test negative on all; complete


a drug assessment and follow recommendations if any tests were

positive for illegal drugs; attend and participate in individual counseling; and provide a one-

year printout of prescription drugs. Alan was ordered to complete parenting classes, complete

anger management, submit to random drug screens and test negative on all, complete a drug

assessment and follow recommendations if any tests were positive for illegal drugs, and

provide a one-year printout of prescription drugs.

       On October 29, 2013, the court placed all three children on a trial placement with

Crystal. Apparently, without DHS or court approval, Billy had placed J.M. and D.M. with

                           on the couch

with S.A. Alan claimed that Crystal had threatened to stab him with a screwdriver and

attempted to hit him with a bat while he was holding S.A. DHS placed an emergency hold

on the children, and the court entered an order on December 11, 2013, again placing all

three children in DHS custody. A review order was entered on April 9, 2014, in which the

court continued the concurrent goals of reunification with Crystal and permanent custody

of J.M. and D.M. with Billy.

       In a permanency planning hearing in June 2014, a DHS worker testified that S.A. had

been in a foster home and that J.M. and D.M. had been with Billy. She stated that Crystal

had been compliant, but that she had not timely provided certain


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endangering the welfare of a minor, and that she and Alan had attended relationship

counseling but denied that it had been helpful. The court also stated that, at the time of the

permanency planning hearing, Alan had not provided his medical documents, completed his

psychological evaluation, completed his drug assessment, or attended domestic-violence

counseling. Finally, the court found the following from Billy’s testimony at the termination

hearing:

       [Billy] testified at the last visit that his daughter had with her mother, Ms. Crystal
       Wilson, her mother told her the bruises on her were put there by Mr. Allen Allred
   the domestic incident that started the case and

the event that occurred in December 2013, causing DHS to remove the children from their

trial placement with Crystal. She contends that these events occurred before she received

domestic-violence counseling, which she claims was never provided by DHS. With regard

to S.A., Crystal argues that she was in full compliance with the case plan by the time of the

permanency planning hearing in June 2014, six months before the termination hearing. She

also cites testimony from her therapist that the therapist did not have any concerns were the

children to be returned to Crystal’s home.


This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features two stunning galaxies — the compact elliptical galaxy NGC 1510 and its colossal neighbor, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1512 — engaged in an intergalactic dance.

NGC 1512 resides in the southern constellation of Horologium and is roughly 39 million light-years away from Earth.

Also known as ESO 250-4, LEDA 14391 and IRAS 04022-4329, the galaxy spans 70,000 light years, nearly as much as our own Milky Way Galaxy.

It is classified as a barred spiral galaxy, named after the bar composed of stars, gas and dust slicing through its center.

The bar acts as a cosmic funnel, channeling the raw materials required for star formation from the outer ring into the heart of the galaxy.

This pipeline of gas and dust in NGCsee Lumia 1020 entering the TOP10.

South Africa

South Africa is the country where Spain became champions 4 years ago. Here’s how it looks in terms of Windows Phone usage.

And again Lumia 520 owns more than 50% of the market.

Russia

Next World Cup (in 2018) will be held in Russia and here is who owns the Windows Phone Cup there.

While Lumia 520 is at the top of the Russian chart, the margin is not as huge as in most other countries (still 2x of the second place). It actually shrank a bit since February. Not much has changed in the chart in 3 months, which is a troubling sign for one of the stronger Windows Phone markets.

France

Quite a few notable changes in France in just 2 months. Lumia 625 has gained


is
16 months old now. His personality is beginning to reveal itself and I'm
starting to see glimpses of the man God created him to be. He's observant and
pays close attention to detail, noticing nuts and bolts, light bulbs and wall
clocks. He's relational and playful with our friends’ kids. His greatest joy is to
pick up handfuls of dirt which he then meticulously transfers to a nearby location
only to drop the dirt, watching its granules slip slowly between his pudgy baby
fingers. He's full of life and joy and I absolutely love being his momma.

He's also full of opinions and never hesitates to tell my how he really feels. Like, when he kicks his legs at turbo speed in protest to
being carried indoors after so many outside adventures.

Even youths grow tired andit shows what he has done!–Psalm 19:1

It’s not uncommon for my son Justice, to wake up from his
nightly slumber, clapping his hands and grinning at the start of a new day.
From his crib, his baby browns scan his room, his whole face smiles as he
glances from his toys to his pictures and room décor.

Throughout each day, he’s likely to dance with gusto to his favorite Motown hits playing in our home. While running around
outside, he waves to helicopters flying overhead and behaves as a mocking bird
when the crows perch themselves in the tree above, caw-cawing along with them.
He flails his arms with excitement at the sight of food he so enjoys to eat. And he
gets the giggles when it rains.

Recently I said to a friend, “It’s in the


half, from €15,000 ($19,800) to €8,000 ($10,500), and from €30,000 ($39,500) to €20,000 ($26,300) for heavier buses.

Sources with GANVAM, the national association of dealers, service workers and vendors, criticize the new program because it does not subsidize electric bicycles and motorbikes. Registrations of electric bicycles are triple those of 4-wheeled EVs, GANVAM says, although only 203 electric bicycles were registered in Spain in the year’s first quarter.

Nissan praises the increased subsidies, even though its Leaf EV does not sell well in Spain.

The auto maker launches production of its NV200 electric light-commercial van in Barcelona next year.

Nissan also wants to install 30 rapid-recharging stations and eventually create a nationwide network managed by IBIL, a 50-50 joint venture between the Spanish oil company Repsol and the Basque Energy Agency.

The JVwhose playing career spanned two decades from the early 1960s – “a notoriously dour, risk-averse batsman who played a dead bat to many balls, but everything loose was usually hit to the boundary”.

“Boycott might have been slow to score, but he also made a lot of runs,” he writes. Howard “pitched himself as the safe, dependable pair of hands who would lead Australians back into a ‘comfortable and relaxed’ state after the turbulence of the Hawke–Keating years and the recession”.

But he queries how relaxed the nation became as a whole.

O’Brien’s analysis of Howard is not all condemnation.

He praises the swift move to tighten gun control in the wake of the 1996 Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania. He calls it courageous – “inspired” – saying Australia remains safer for


it and “nobody can take that away from John Howard”.

But in contrast, on independence for East Timor – another of the successes Howard has claimed – he says the government “pussyfooted around” for too long about intervening to back it and that people died as a result.

O’Brien singles out Australia’s Iraq engagement for particularly scathing criticism, having compared the public statements Howard and senior ministers made at the time with the truths that have emerged since.

On this and other issues, the winner of six Walkley awards for excellence in journalism concludes: “I do think that the picture that was presented to the Australian people was not entirely an honest picture by any means.”

During the 2001 so-called “children overboard” affair, Howard maintained that he was never informed that hisbe formed in the container to prevent twisting of the pump assembly relative to the container when the screw cap is tightened. The requirements of an upstanding projection and offset supply tube may result in additional manufacturing cost. Without such an upstanding projection, the torque of tightening the screw cap onto the bottle may misalign the integral dip tube from the offset supply tube.
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244 F.3d 479 (5th Cir. 2001)
ONOFRE SERNA, Plaintiff-Appellee,v.THE CITY OF SAN ANTONIO; AL PHILIPPUS, Defendants-Appellants.
No. 99-50775
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS, FIFTH CIRCUIT
March 26, 2001

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas
Before JOLLY and DAVIS, Circuit Judges, and RESTANI*, Judge.
W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

1
Onofre Serna, a police officer in the City of San Antonio, Texas, sued the City of San Antonio and its chief of police, Al Philippus, for transferring him to a different unit on the police force in retaliation for his reporting illegal orders issued by his commanding officer. The district court entered a judgment for Serna after a jury returned a verdict for Serna on both his 42 U.S.C.  1983 claims and his claim under the Texas Public Whistleblower Act,TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN.  554.001 et seq. (Vernon Supp. 2000) and awarded him $500,000 in damages. Because the evidence at trial was insufficient for a reasonable jury to conclude that Serna suffered an adverse employment action as a result of his transfer, we reverse the judgment of the district court and render judgment for the City and Chief Philippus.

I.

2
This lawsuit arises out of Serna's service in the Downtown Foot and Bike Patrol Unit of the San Antonio Police Department. Serna joined the unit in 1987, having joined the police force two years earlier. In 1995, when problems in the unit came to a head, the unit was commanded by Captain Rudy Vernon and Lieutenant Harry Griffin. The problems in the unit grew out of friction between some


members of the unit and Griffin. In particular, Griffin and several members of the evening shift, of which Serna was a part, did not get along.

3
In 1995 Griffin called for cover from other officers in his unit while he was detaining a suspect. Four officers, Serna not among them, did not cover Griffin even though they were in a position to do so. These four officers were then transferred out of the unit as a result of their failure to cover Griffin. They filed complaints with the Police Department's equal employment opportunity officer, Linda Taylor, to protest their transfer and to complain about their treatment by Griffin.

4
Taylor arranged a meeting between Griffin and the members of his unit to try to clear the air after she heard thecomplaints of the four transferred officers. The meeting, held in July of 1995, failed to settle the problems in the unit.

5
Several officers, including Serna, felt that Griffin was giving illegal orders to them. These orders were, they thought, to harass the homeless and the minority teenagers who frequented downtown, to confiscate alleged gang paraphernalia and not return it to its rightful owner, and to selectively enforce public intoxication statutes against downtown bars that catered to a minority and working class clientele. These officers, including Serna, complained about these orders at the meeting convened by Taylor in July of 1995.

6
As a result of continuing tension in the unit, Chief Philippus appointed a special committee to investigate the source of the problems. The committee interviewed every member of the unit,


including Serna, and issued a report in July of 1996. The committee concluded that a group of officers, Serna prominent among them, were disruptive and encouraged other officers to show disrespect to their supervisors. The committee also concluded that Griffin was a poor manager and unfairly denigrated the efforts of the evening shift. To solve the problems in the unit, the committee recommended, in part, that Serna be transferred out of the unit. Chief Philippus did just that, transferring Serna to a regular patrol unit in July of 1996.

II.

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In August of 1996 Serna filed suit against the City in the 37th Judicial District Court in Bexar County, Texas. Serna alleged that he had been transferred in retaliation for reporting Griffin's illegal orders in violation of the Texas PublicWhistleblower Act, TEX. GOV'T CODE ANN.  554.001 et seq. (Vernon Supp. 2000). Serna later amended his complaint to add Chief Philippus as a defendant and to add claims that he had been transferred in retaliation for exercising his rights of free speech, free association, equal protection, and due process in violation of 42 U.S.C.  1983. The City and Chief Philippus timely removed the suit to federal court.

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The district court granted summary judgment to the City and Chief Philippus on Serna's equal protection and due process  1983 claims. The remainder of Serna's claims were tried to a jury. After nine days of testimony, the jury found for Serna on his Texas Whistleblower Act claim, his free speech  1983 claim, and his free association  1983


stop criminal activity on their own. R., Vol. 7 at 79, Vol. 12 at 1239, Vol. 13 at 1526. However, these officers also testified that their preference for the tactics of the Downtown Foot and Bike Patrol Unit was only a matter of personal preference.

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Serna testified that Chief Philippus called him a "silent instigator" when he went to him to get some explanation for why he was transferred. R., Vol. 7 at 170. Serna also testified that this label followed him to his new assignment, and that this label would prevent him from ever being promoted in the department. R., Vol. 7 at 175. However, Serna produced no evidence confirming his belief that this label followed him. In particular, he never identified any officer who held this opinionSupplemental Vol. at 575.

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Serna also testified that, as a result of his transfer, his pension would be substantially reduced as he would retire from the force as soon as he would qualify for a pension. However, such a reduction in his pension would result solely from Serna's desire to retire early. R., Vol. 8 at 353. No other evidence tended to establish any obstacle to Serna's working to the usual retirement age.

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The jury was entitled to believe that Serna felt tagged as a trouble maker and stigmatized as a result of his transfer and that he sincerely did not intend to work as long as he had previously intended, even though the City and Chief Philippus introduced evidence that no stigma was intended by the transfer. However, all


Chief Philippus himself testified that he spent four years in a patrol unit before being promoted to detective. R., Vol. 9 at 735. Philippus also testified that most officers would work in a regular patrol unit for some part of their career, and Deputy Chief Richard Gleisner testified that most of the San Antonio Police Department's uniformed officers worked in patrol units. Id.; R. Vol. 10 at 931. Serna can hardly argue that he suffered a constitutional injury when he was transferred to a duty all of his fellow officers performed for some part of their careers.

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Serna's days off before he was transferred were Saturday and Sunday; for a short time immediately after his transfer, his days off were Wednesday and Thursday, but he was soon able to(DPIK), an outlawed group based in northern Iraq, claimed the attack on its Twitter page.

Iran’s northwest has repeatedly witnessed attacks by terrorist and anti-Islamic Republic elements.

In June 2017, 40 Daesh terrorists who intended to carry out acts of terror inside Iran in the holy month of Ramadan, were identified and arrested in the cities of Piranshahr, Sardasht, Mahabad, Bukan and Takab in West Azarbaijan Province.


In modern papermaking processes and machines the first part of the sheet forming operation is typically characterized by the provision of a headbox for directing a jet of papermaking slurry from the slice of the headbox and impinging it onto the upper surface of a porous wire which moves longitudinally along the production line. The wire moves over and is supported by a forming board which typically consists of a leading forming board strip followed by two or three downstream strips which are spaced from each other and spaced from the leading strip in order to permit water drainage. The slurry carries the fibers, fines and fillers onto the top of the rapidly moving wire and deposits them in a layer from which the water of the slurrycontinuing operations of $402 million for the same prior-year period, principally driven by the higher adjusted operating income. Adjusted EPS for the fourth quarter of 2015 grew 19%, to $.92, from EPS of $.77 for the same prior-year period. During the fourth quarter of 2015, weighted average shares outstanding were 474 million, down from 523 million in the prior-year period, as a result of the Company's ongoing share repurchase program.

Adjusted results for the fourth quarter of 2015 excluded restructuring charges of $26 million ($16 million, net of tax benefit), and the above-mentioned impairment charge and gain from the sale of an Internet business in China. No adjustments were made to reported results for the fourth quarter of 2014.

Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to reported results are included at the


in 2014. Weighted average shares outstanding were 489 million in 2015, down from 561 million in the prior year, as a result of the Company's ongoing share repurchase program as well as the split-off of Outdoor Americas Inc. ("Outdoor Americas") in the third quarter of 2014.

Adjusted results for 2015 excluded restructuring charges, an impairment charge, and gains from the sales of Internet businesses in China. For 2014, adjusted operating income excluded restructuring charges and an impairment charge. For 2014, adjusted net earnings from continuing operations and adjusted EPS also excluded a loss on early extinguishment of debt. Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to reported results are included at the end of this earnings release.

Net earnings per diluted share of $5.27 for 2014 included a gain of $1.56 billion, orremaining under the Company's share repurchase program at December 31, 2015. The Company expects to complete its share repurchase program by the end of 2016, subject to market conditions.

Consolidated and Segment Results (dollars in millions)

The tables below present the Company's revenues by segment and type, operating income (loss) excluding restructuring charges, impairment charges, and gain on sales of businesses by segment ("Segment Operating Income"), and depreciation and amortization by segment for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2015, and 2014.

Entertainment revenues of $2.46 billion for the fourth quarter of 2015 grew 9% from $2.26 billion for the same prior-year period. The increase was driven by 8% growth in network advertising revenues, resulting from a strong scatter market. In addition, affiliate and subscription fees were up 45%,


for the same prior-year period, driven by growth in print book sales. Digital books represented 21% of total Publishing revenues during the quarter. Bestselling titles for the quarter included The Bazaar of Bad Dreams by Stephen King and Crippled America by Donald J. Trump.

Publishing operating income for the fourth quarter of 2015 was $34 million, up from $25 million for the same prior-year period, primarily reflecting the higher revenues.

Local Broadcasting (CBS Television Stations and CBS Radio)

Local Broadcasting revenues for the fourth quarter of 2015 were $719 million compared with $785 million in the same prior-year period. CBS Television Stations revenues declined 11%, as 2014 benefited from strong political spending associated with midterm elections. Growth in affiliate and subscription fees partially offset the decline. CBS Radio revenues were down5%, reflecting continued softness in the radio advertising marketplace and lower political advertising.

Local Broadcasting operating income for the fourth quarter of 2015 was $232 million compared with $292 million for the same prior-year period, primarily reflecting the lower revenues.

Corporate

Corporate expenses for the fourth quarter of 2015 decreased 10% to $94 million from $104 million for the same prior-year period, primarily reflecting lower employee-related costs.

About CBS Corporation

CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS.A and CBS) is a mass media company that creates and distributes industry-leading content across a variety of platforms to audiences around the world. The Company has businesses with origins that date back to the dawn of the broadcasting age as well as new ventures that operate on the leading edge of media. CBS owns the most-watched television network in


the U.S. and one of the world's largest libraries of entertainment content, making its brand -"the Eye" - one of the most recognized in business. The Company's operations span virtually every field of media and entertainment, including cable, publishing, radio, local TV, film, and interactive and socially responsible media. CBS's businesses include CBS Television Network, The CW (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), CBS Television Studios, CBS Global Distribution Group (CBS Studios International and CBS Television Distribution), CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS Interactive, CBS Films, Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network, Pop (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Lionsgate), Smithsonian Networks, Simon & Schuster, CBS Television Stations, CBS Radio and CBS EcoMedia. For more information, go to www.cbscorporation.com.

Cautionary Statement Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

Thisflow from discontinued operations and including capital expenditures. The Company's calculation of free cash flow includes capital expenditures because investment in capital expenditures is a use of cash that is directly related to the Company's operations. The Company's net cash flow provided by (used for) operating activities is the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.

Management believes free cash flow provides investors with an important perspective on the cash available to the Company to service debt, make strategic acquisitions and investments, maintain its capital assets, satisfy its tax obligations, and fund ongoing operations and working capital needs. As a result, free cash flow is a significant measure of the Company's ability to generate long-term value. It is useful for investors to know whether this ability is being enhanced or


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The greatness of the Orthodox iconography is the following. It manages through the intense spirituality of the pictorial forms, to lead people to a transcendental way of worship and prayer.

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In this specific work that Father Pefkis has created, the iconographic type of Virgin Mary is adorned with a halo as well as a helical stem and white flowers. The quality silk-screen printing with its handmade finishing and the entire hagiographic composition have undergone artificial aging.

The Athonite tradition is alive in the works of Father Pefkis who has studied the art of iconography at the Athonite Ecclesiastical Academy of Mount Athos.Chrome OS On Your Box

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Unless you've been travelling the vast expanses of Siberia, the Amazonian forests, the north African desert, or a similar wasteland, you have probably heard of Google's Chrome OS. Following hot on the heals of their Google Chrome browser, the ChromeOS is designed primarily for laptops, notebooks, netbooks and will probably work on a tablet PC

To ensure, compatibility, speed and stability, Google restricted access to their OS. Primarily making it available pre-installed on new machines, to ensure a fast, stable, product for the user.

While following this line of logic, unfortunately it precludes users with existing hardware.

Ya know the scene, the machine ya bought with Windows pre-installed, which you tore off soon as you got it home, then quietly proceeded to install a Linux distro.


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An eight-year long, GBP 97 million VAT repayment claim dispute between Sportech PLC and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has come to an end with the SupremeOn February 14, 1939, Americans were celebrating Valentine’s Day. Postmen delivered sealed envelopes, and small children placed at the doorsteps of special friends folded papers containing brightly colored pictures. Each contained a greeting—a message of love. After all, Valentine’s Day is a day of love.

Far from America’s shores, in Hamburg, Germany, a public holiday also was being celebrated. However, a more somber mood prevailed. Amid fervent speeches, cheering throngs, and the playing of the national anthem, the new battleship Bismarck rumbled down into the River Elbe. This, the most powerful vessel afloat, carried not a message of love; rather, the Bismarck bristled with weapons of war.

The mighty colossus was a breathtaking spectacle of armor and machinery. Construction required more than fifty-seven thousand blueprints for the 406-millimeter, triple turret,


radar-controlled guns. The vessel featured twenty-eight thousand miles of electrical circuits, and thirty-five thousand tons of armor-plate provided maximum safety. Majestic in appearance, gigantic in size, awesome in firepower, the Bismarck was considered unsinkable.

The Bismarck’s day of destiny dawned more than two years later, when on May 24, 1941, the two most powerful warships in the British navy, the Prince of Wales and the Hood, engaged in battle the Bismarck and the German cruiser Prinz Eugen. Within four minutes, the Bismarck had sent to the depths of the Atlantic the Hood and all but 3 men of a crew of 1,419. The other British battleship, the Prince of Wales, had suffered heavy damage and turned away.

Three days later, the Bismarck was engaged again, by four British warships. Innot hear, who will not obey, who listen to the beat of a different drummer. Most prominent among their number was that son of Adam born of Eve, even Cain—a well-known name among men. Powerful in potential, but weak of will, Cain permitted greed, envy, disobedience, and even murder to jam that personal rudder which would have guided him to safety and exaltation. The downward gaze replaced the upward look; Cain fell. (See Moses 5:16–41.)

Less known, but more typical of our day, was that person of power, that cardinal of the cloth—even Wolsey. The prolific pen of William Shakespeare described the majestic heights, the pinnacle of power to which Cardinal Wolsey ascended. That same pen told how principle was eroded by vain ambition, by expediency, by a clamor


king the writing on the wall. Concerning the proffered rewards—even a royal robe and a necklace of gold—Daniel said: “Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another.” (Dan. 5:17.)

Belshazzar’s successor, King Darius, also honored Daniel, elevating him to the highest position of prominence. There followed the envy of the crowd, the jealousy of princes, and the scheming of ambitious men.

Through trickery, aided by flattery, King Darius signed a proclamation that provided that anyone who made a request of any god or man, except the king, should be thrown into the lions’ den. (See Dan. 6:7.) The law was signed, the proclamation sent forth. Prayer was forbidden. In such matters, Daniel took direction not from an earthly king but from the king of heaven andleave our sincere petition unanswered.

This lesson I learned anew some years ago as I received a rather unique and frightening assignment. Folkman D. Brown, then the Director of Mormon Relationships for the Boy Scouts of America, came to my office, having learned that I was about to depart for a lengthy assignment to New Zealand. He told me of his widowed sister, Belva Jones, who had been stricken with terminal cancer, who knew not how to tell her only son—a missionary in that far away country. Her wish, even her plea, was that he remain in the mission field and serve faithfully. She worried about his reaction; for the missionary, Elder Ryan Jones, had lost his father just a year earlier to the same dread disease.

I accepted the


responsibility. Following a missionary meeting held adjacent to the majestically beautiful New Zealand Temple, I met privately with Elder Jones and, as gently as I could, explained the situation of his mother. Naturally there were tears—not all his—but then the handclasp of assurance and the pledge: “Tell my mother I will serve, I will pray, and I will see her again.”

I returned to Salt Lake City just in time to attend a conference of the Lost River Stake at Moore, Idaho. As I sat on the stand with the stake president, my attention was drawn almost instinctively to the east side of the chapel, where the morning sunlight bathed the lone occupant of a front bench. I said to the stake president, “Who is the sister upon whomthe sunlight is resting? I feel I must speak to her today.” He replied, “Her name is Belva Jones. She has a missionary son in New Zealand. She is very ill and has requested a blessing.”

Prior to that moment, I had not known where Belva Jones lived. My assignment that weekend could have been to any one of fifty stakes. Yet the Lord, in His own way, had answered the prayer of faith of a concerned mother. We had a wonderful visit together. I reported word-for-word the reaction and the resolve of her son, Ryan. A blessing was provided, a prayer offered, a witness received. Belva Jones would live to see her son complete his mission. This privilege she enjoyed. Just one month prior to her passing, his


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We all know chameleons, especially for some of their performances, like the ability of changing color or for their special hunting technique.

While the ability of changing color is not so singular in the animal world (many fishes, cephalopods like octopuses and squids, or even other lizards have it), their technique of projecting an enormously long sticky tongue is regarded by many as very specific.

That's wrong, as exactly the same method of catching prey is employed by a group of salamanders from the Americas.

Moreover, a new research at University of South Florida found an unusual record for these animals: the giant palm salamander of Central America shoots out its tongue with the fastest speed developed by any known muscle in the animal world.

The species, Bolitoglossa dofleini, can shoot outits tongue at 18,000 watts of power per muscular kilogram, about twice more than the power output broken out by the previous record detainer, the Colorado River toad Bufo alvarius.

Bolitoglossa extends its tongue (which measures more than half of its body length) in about 7 milliseconds, 50 times faster than an eye blink. The research team employed high-speed video cameras and electrodes implanted in the salamanders' tongue muscles to check the animals' performances as they hunted live crickets.

The fact that the tongues were propelled outward much faster than by sheer muscle contraction made the researchers suppose there must be an unknown elastic tissue connected to the salamander's tongue that stores up the energy amounts required by the explosive projection.

The process can be compared to the stretching and shooting


VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A Vancouver man who was convicted after his foreign nanny complained of mistreatment has been sentenced to 18 months in jail.

A jury had found Franco Orr guilty, while his wife was acquitted. But in his sentence, the judge rejected some of the claims of a Filipina nanny, who complained of long hours, poor pay, and little freedom — all the while without proper immigration papers.

The judge found some of Leticia Sarmiento’s evidence frail and does not believe she was treated as a virtual slave.

In handing down the 18-month sentence, the judge notes the jury found Orr guilty of bringing Sarmiento into the country under false pretenses and employing her — but says the crime is on the lower end of the scale of severity.

For hismean. You could put out 110 proof, say, but that must have been rare even before the BIB Act. Perhaps it was just an arbitrary decision, one that combined quality considerations such as Pappy referred to and a consumer standard in terms of minimum alcohol content - the consumer gets half alcohol half water.

The author, Wiley, is famous in whiskey history circles. He was a government official very concerned with food and whiskey quality. He would know more than anyone the history of the BIB Act.

Note his statement that the proof had to be at least 100 to qualify under the Act, not 100 exactly. Maybe the Act did originally say that and was changed later (if it was, I have always understood too though that the proof


It's not easy to keep up with all the recreational marijuana shops licensed by the City of Denver.

Our most recent update, published on April 3, featured 65 stores that have won the blessing of officials. Now, during the lead-up to the annual 4/20 festivities, the total has reached 73.

All the licensed shops are included here, along with photos, videos, links and excerpts from reviews of the ones visited by Westword marijuana critic William Breathes. Count them down below.

Number 73: Colorado Cannabis Facility

4600 North Ironton Street Denver, CO 80239

Number 72: Nutritional Elements

2777 South Colorado Boulevard Denver, CO 80222

Number 71: High Level Health

2028 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80206

Number 70: Euflora

401 16th Street Denver, CO 80202

Number 69: Rocky Mountain High

1538 Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202

Number 68: Natures Cure III

1500 EastColfax Avenue Denver, CO 80218

An excerpt from William Breathes's December 2013 review: "Nature's Cure III is on Humboldt and East Colfax. And not the new Colfax with fancy brew pubs and shiny condos. This is still Colfax Colfax. A spot where you can see a dude rapping to himself at the bus stop, a hooker walking in heels stumbling past the furniture rental place, and a drunk pissing himself while half-passed out after bumming for change and downing a bottle of cheap gin from Scooter Liquors."

Number 67: The Green Depot

2020 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2014 review: "In every city, there are buildings known for being complete black holes for any restaurant or bar that tries to open. I can think of a


few in Denver off the top of my head, including one at the corner of 11th and Lincoln, where dance clubs, mescal bars and wanna-be hipster hangouts have burned out within a year, if not a few months. Similarly, over the last five years, I've seen the same thing happen in the medical marijuana world in Denver, at the South Broadway storefront currently occupied by the Green Depot. But this center may have finally found the formula for breaking the curse."

Number 66: RiverRock

990 West 6th Avenue Denver, CO 80204

Continue to see more of the 73 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 65: Sticky Buds

2262 South Broadway Denver, CO 80201

An excerpt from William Breathes's April 2013 review: "The dispensary is in the space formerly occupied byDelta 9 Alternative Medicine -- before that crew split and left behind a sagging banner that stayed out front for months. The new owners have changed up as much as they can, but a few things remain the same, including the shared entrance with the tattoo parlor next door. The girl working the counter of the tattoo parlor looked up from her magazine, sizing me up. I cut her glare short by making a turn to the right into the dispensary lobby instead of to the left and into her shop."

Number 64: Alameda Wellness Center

183 West Alameda Avenue Denver, CO 80223

Number 63: LivWell

432 South Broadway Denver, CO 80209

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2013 review: "The shop is clean and really, really upscale, with wide-plank hardwood floors and


clean, molding-topped tan walls uncluttered with pot posters and product advertisements. Walking in off the street puts you in the lobby and waiting area, right in front of a sharp-dressed secretary sitting behind a large computer desk. It could easily pass for a Cherry Creek real-estate office or an empty art gallery waiting to hang the next show. The dark-wood floors and high ceilings inside the old building give it an echoing, empty feeling at first, but the bright sunshine pouring in from the western-facing front windows and mellow electronic music give the place some life."

Number 62: Patients Choice of Colorado

2251 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's September 2009 review: "The establishment's surroundings are deceptive. Patients Choice has hung its shingle on an industrial stretchof South Broadway teeming with fast-food joints and auto dealers. Inside, however, it's like a whole different world, with a soothing green paint scheme, natural wood touches and tasteful floral arrangements. Like we suggested, it could pass for an admissions office -- especially since, like universities, prospects need to schedule an in-depth tour of the operation before they're allowed to become a medicated BMOC."

Number 61: Tetra Hydro Center

9206 East Hampden Avenue Denver, CO 80231

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2013 review: "Get through the locked door to the bud bar and you're hit with a wave of hot, wet air -- like getting off a plane in Florida or walking into the Denver Botanic Gardens in February. Rounding the corner, it's clear what's causing the artificial season change:


a massive closet packed with rooted clones in various stages of growth."

Number 60: Urba at MMD of Colorado

2609 Walnut Street Denver, CO 80205

An excerpt from William Breathes's April 2013 MMD of Colorado review: "Most of the time, I find dispensaries from friend suggestions. This time, it was Google maps -- more specifically, a street-view image of a hippie walking out of the dispensary and clearly being surprised to see the Googlemobile. Pan to the northeast a frame, and homie is flipping the camera the bird. That doesn't really have anything do with MMD, but it was reason enough for me to stop by -- just to get a look at where Bird Man was caught on candid Internet camera."

Number 59: RiverRock

4935 North York Street Denver, CO 80216

An excerptfrom William Breathes's September 2011 review: "The waiting room was a small, clean affair, with naturally stained bamboo floors, a neutral gray tone on the walls and smooth birch moldings around the teller window and door frame leading back to the bud bar. I handed my card to the woman behind the counter and took a seat in one of the ostrich-skinned leather chairs to fill out the three or so pages of forms. While not the first wild-game pelt I've sat on in a dispensary, ostrich is probably the most extravagant."

Number 58: Denver Patients Group

2863 Larimer Street Denver, CO 80205

An excerpt from William Breathes's June 2012 re-review: "Just walking from my parking spot across the heat-radiating pavement of Larimer Street made my T-shirt stick to my chest


with sweat. I almost turned around when I first hit the waiting room up front and found it was only slightly cooler than outside. Two people waiting for friends buying bud inside looked like half-melted snowmen lumped into the chairs lining the walls. But behind the safety glass of the window, a receptionist was sitting in temperature-controlled bliss. Cold air blew through the hole where I handed her my card."

Number 57: The Giving Tree of Denver

2707 West 38th Avenue Denver, CO 80211

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2012 re-review: "The shop entry leads to a small, slightly cramped but nicely appointed waiting room with freebie non-medicated brownies and muffins on a small coffee table outside the receptionist's window. On the other side of the small space, a liveconcert DVD of a Matisyahu concert played to nobody in particular."

Continue to see more of the 73 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 56: The Herbal Center

1346 West Cedar Avenue Denver, CO 80223

Number 55: Bud Cellar

1450 South Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80223

An excerpt from William Breathes's June 2011 review: "The shop is in a newish strip center off Santa Fe, surrounded by quick eateries and a liquor store. There's still a few vacant storefronts, so parking wasn't an issue even during rush hour. Employees should probably change the dispensaries carbon filters, because the smell of fresh cannabis being grown did more to lead me to the shop's back-corner location than the huge "Bud Cellar" sign hanging over the liquor store did."

Number 54: Botanico

3054 Larimer


Street Denver, CO 80205

An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2012 review: "The waiting room is spacious and sparsely decorated, with an L-shaped leather couch in one corner and various pieces of abstract art and photography from local artists hung around the brick and yellow-painted walls. Other touches, like leaving the wooden ceiling beams exposed and using stained concrete as flooring are in keeping with the industrial-turned-residential feel of the neighborhood."

Number 53: GM Enterprise, DBA Golden Meds

4620 North Peoria Street Denver, CO 80239

Number 52: Ivita

1660 North Pearl Street Denver, CO 80203

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2011 review: "The dispensary's building is a strange, one-story commercial job from the Sixties that's been brightened up from the outside with a coat of neutral tan paint and a spray-painted mural ofa blue, elfish creature releasing a handful of butterflies. It's across the street from the Uptown Tavern, which coincidentally has a mini-bowling alley that is ridiculously fun to play when ripped on a good sativa, not to mention a well-ventilated patio. But I digress..."

Number 51: Lightshade

11975 East 40th Avenue Denver, CO 80239

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2013 review: "I pulled up and parked between two cars that were still running, full of bodies waiting on whoever was inside to finish up their two-ounce purchases. By comparison, the three grams of medicine I eventually brought home were a drop in the bucket for the shop, which must have cleared about six of the $175 ounces during the fifteen minutes I was visiting."

Number 50: Lightshade Labs

3950 North Holly Street


Denver, CO 80207

Number 49: Medicinal Oasis

6359 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80222

An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2013 review: "Medicinal Oasis has a tiny blue lobby with a long couch taking up half the room. It felt like the cramped interior of a sailboat -- though I'm not sure if that was intentional or just a by-product of a stoned contractor misjudging waiting-room space during the build-out. In the corners of the room were tiny ship models, in case you didn't get that you're leaving Denver for a tropical oasis by the sign out front along strip-centric East Evans Avenue."

Number 48: New Broadsterdam

2568 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2013 review: "Minus the cop chopper thrown in for humor, New Broadsterdam's waiting room hadan appropriately Netherlands-esque thing going on, with pictures of windmills hung on the walls and other Dutch kitsch thrown around for good measure. There's also a huge, village-square-like white lattice pergola set up over the receptionist desk. It fits, though I'm not really sure about the Dutch connection on that one. The other pieces of heavy wooden antique furniture (and motorcycle) they've got sitting in the large, empty waiting room make it feel almost like one of the antique shops a few blocks north."

Continue to see more of the 73 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 47: Natural Remedies

1620 Market Street Denver, CO 80202

An excerpt from William Breathes's August 2011 review: "Natural Remedies is on the fifth floor of a turn-of-the-century building on Market Street


above Sonoda's Sushi. The building has a central staircase and the smell of freshly fried tempura wafts all the way up to the fifth floor, generally overpowering the faint smell of cannabis until you get to the front door of the shop."

Number 46: Wellness Center of Denver

330 South Dayton Street Denver, CO 80247

An excerpt from William Breathes's March 2013 review: "Wellness Center of Denver is probably the closest dispensary I've found to the dispensary-less wasteland that is Aurora.

Due to their proximity to A-Town, the folks there really didn't need to do much more than set up a cash register and fill some jars with warehouse buds.

Instead, they've opted for a fancy weed lounge and retreat that feels more Cherry Creek than Havana Street."

Number 45:

790 West Evans Avenue Denver,CO 80223

Number 44: Native Roots Apothecary

910 16th Street, Suite 805 Denver, CO 80202

An excerpt from William Breathes's June 2010 review: "The lobby here easily qualifies as the fanciest I've seen at a dispensary, even if technically it doesn't belong to Native Roots. To reach the dispensary, I rode a brass-adorned elevator up to the eighth floor, and stepping out into the marble foyer -- with an old-time barbershop across from the elevator doors -- was like stepping into a time warp. But that impression faded as I rounded the corner and buzzed the doorbell that let me into the Native Roots waiting room."

Number 43: iVita Wellness

3980 North Franklin Street Denver, CO 80220

Number 42: Herbs4You

An excerpt from William Breathes's August 2012 review: "Inside, Herbs4You could be the front office


for just about any small, private business. Stock office furniture and couches occupy the small, forgettable waiting room, and the only indication that you're in a medical marijuana dispensary is the name of the shop, the secured entryway, and the dozens of Amsterdam-related items hung on the otherwise bare white walls. They range from flags to T-shirts from the various world-renowned coffee shops and seed companies that call the Dutch city home."

Number 41: Amsterdam Cafe

1325 South Inca Street Denver, CO 80223

Continue to see more of the 73 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 40: Cannamart

3700 West Quincy Avenue Denver, CO 80236

Number 39: Caregivers for Life, LLC

310 North Saint Paul Street Denver, CO 80236

An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2012 review: "The shop still occupies thebuds. The center maintains a simple, mom and pop-ish feel."

Number 36: The Kind Room

1881 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's November 2011 review: "The MMC wasn't fancy, but it wasn't sketchy or thrown together-feeling, either. Just clean, simple furniture and a flat, basic gray paint job. To the left when I walked in was a cream-colored massage chair like you sit in at the mall for ten minutes but never would actually consider purchasing unless you were really, really baked. Yeah, these guys bought one. (Talk about undercover stoners.) Also on hand was a dining-room table with chairs set up in another corner and out-of-place yet appropriately funky mirrored panels in part of the lobby ceiling."

Number 35: Discount Medical Marijuana, DBA High Level Health

970 North


Lincoln Street Denver, CO 80203

Number 34:

MMJ America Uptown

2042 Arapahoe Street Denver, CO 80205

Number 33: Colorado Alternative Medicine (CAM)

2394 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's September 2012 review: "For years, Colorado Alternative Medicine has been known as the place to pick up some of the state's best-grown meds. By December 2010, when I first visited the tiny South Broadway duplex, even growers were known to shop there between harvests. And based on my latest visit, little has changed."

Number 32: Pink House Mile High

2008 North Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80211

An excerpt from Wax Jones's July 2013 post "Marijuana trimming isn't just an illegal trade anymore:" "When you first walk in to Megatron, the nickname for Pink House's grow facility, the beautiful scent of sativas and indicas canbe a bit overwhelming. There are hundreds of small plants perched beneath flourescent lights throughout the hallways and thousands of plants spread out between four different rooms. Every day, the grow house goes through the same repetitive schedule: shuffle hundreds of plants from vegetative rooms to flowering rooms, water and fertilize plants, prune and check flowering rooms, harvest what is ready and send things to the trimmers."

Number 31: Walking Raven

2001 Sout Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's November 2011 review: "Walking Raven has the distinction of being the first place I reviewed for Westword. After my last visit, I wrote that "Walking Raven feels like that hippie [sic] kid's hangout in high school." Now, two years later, the place feels like that high-school hippy has moved


on and is now in his first post-dorm house at a pot-friendly liberal arts college in Vermont."

Continue to see more of the 73 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 30: Patients Choice on Morrison Road

4000 Morrison Road Denver, CO 80219

To visit the Patients Choice on Morrison Road Facebook page, click here.

Number 29: Herb's Nest

3900 East 48th Avenue Denver, CO 80216

To visit the Herb's Nest Facebook page, click here.

Number 28: Wellspring Collective

1724 South Broadway Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's April 2010 review: "Some dispensaries along South Broadway seem to pride themselves on standing out among the antique stores and clothing shops. Wellspring Collective has taken the opposite approach and blends in with the rest of the businesses. Even with competition around almost every corner,owner Morgan Carr thinks the location is a perfect fit for the dispensary. A vocal proponent of the dispensary model, Carr has hosted numerous Denver City Council members and state legislators at his store. 'At the end of the day, I want them to see a shop that is doing it right,' he said over the phone."

Number 27: Sacred Seed

5885 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80222

To visit the Sacred Seed website, click here.

Number 26:

1301 North Marion Street Denver, CO 80218

To visit the Alternative Medicine on Capitol Hill website, click here.

Number 25: The Sanctuary

5110 North Race Street Denver, CO 80216

The Sanctuary is a Strainwise center. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.

Number 24: Starbuds

4690 North Brighton Boulevard Denver, CO 80216

To visit the Starbuds Facebook page, click here.

Number 23: Good


Chemistry

330 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80203

An excerpt from William Breathes's January 2014 review: "We first reviewed Good Chemistry nearly three years ago, in March 2011, and not much has changed since then at the thin, narrow Colfax storefront with the frosted glass and New York-style retractable metal security gate hanging above the entrance and huge front window. The tiny reception area/waiting room is a little bit more weathered, and there's a new, pretty awesome oil painting of a Cthulhu-esque octopus creature that the owners managed to match up with the red vintage theater seats they've had since day one."

Number 22: Colorado Harvest Company

1178 Sout Kalamath Street Denver, CO 80223

An excerpt from William Breathes's December 2013 review: "Other than the skunky odor wafting around the sidewalk out front,the green awning at Colorado Harvest is the only real indication that the tan building is a grow facility and dispensary. The rest of the block is equally nondescript and industrial: An auto salvage yard sits across the street, and the shop is flanked by the Talking Book warehouse on one side and a gas/fire-extinguisher-tank fabrication shop on the other. There's little drive-by traffic, let alone foot traffic, which is nice if you're still looking to be discreet about where you go for your pot."

Number 21: Timberline Herbal Clinic & Wellness

3995 East 50th Avenue Denver, CO 80216

An excerpt from William Breathes's February 2012 review: "There's no fancy decor inside. The clinic feels like the prefabbed office for a construction site, with a few hand-me-down leather office chairs lined


up around paneled walls, gray utilitarian carpet and a coffee table just big enough to hold a stack of magazines. Not grimy or anything like that, just well-used. A few pot posters and framed photographs hang on the walls, and a TV was on the early news, giving the space a casual, kick-your-feet-up living-room vibe."

Continue to see more of the 73 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Numbers 20 and 19: Altitude Dispensary West

1568 South Federal Boulevard Denver, CO 80219

Altitude Dispensary East

6858 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80224

To visit the Altitude dispensaries website, click here.

Number 18: The Clinic Colorado

3888 East Mexico Avenue Denver, CO 80210

To visit The Clinic Colorado Facebook page, click here.

Number 17: Mile High Medical Cannabis, DBA Mile High Recreational Cannabis

1705 Federal Boulevard Denver,page, click here.

Number 15: The Health Center

1736 North Downing Street Denver, CO 80218

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2012 review: "Inside, what was either a mud room or the kitchen has been turned into the small patient intake area. There's really not much to the space other than the purple walls and window into the receptionist area, but take a second to check out the old pictures of the building hanging in a frame on the wall near the door. At one time, it looked more like a crack house than the oversized dollhouse it resembles today."

Number 14: 3D Cannabis Center/3D

4305 North Brighton Boulevard Denver, CO 80216

An excerpt from William Breathes's August 2011 review: "Denver's Discreet Dispensary is anything but discreet. Though the huge, old, brown-brick industrial building


CitiMed

1640 East Evans Avenue Denver, CO 80210

An excerpt from William Breathes's October 2012 review: "The location means the store is likely to get a lot of student walk-in traffic. At least that's the impression I got after seeing the DU swag hung up on the waiting room walls -- plus I went there a few times when I was in grad school and needed a gram or two for the evening. I never found anything amazing, but neither did I ever walk out empty-handed."

Number 11: The Healing House Denver

2383 South Downing Street Denver, CO 80210

Click to visit The Healing House Denver Facebook page.

Continue to see more of the 73 recreational marijuana shops Denver has licensed so far. Number 10: The Green Solution

4400 Grape Street Denver, CO 80216

To visitBud is kept in large jars on green bookcases behind the counters, with different shelves denoting the various price ranges. The jars also are color-coded for price, but I found it easier to just ask how much each strain was selling for as I looked at it."

Number 6: Medicine Man Denver

4750 North Nome Street Denver, CO 80239

An excerpt from William Breathes's May 2012 review: "The shop is located north of I-70 in a warehouse district of Montbello -- about as far northeast as you can go in town and still find a medical marijuana shop. The center is nice, though, with large old trees on the lawns of nearby industrial buildings. Aside from the green "Medicine Man" sign out front, and the neon green cross in the barred


front windows, it's not a very obvious dispensary site."

Number 5: Lodo Wellness Center

1617 Wazee Street Denver, CO 80202

An excerpt from William Breathes's October 2013 review: "The dispensary is down a steep flight of stairs from the sidewalk to the basement of the building. The dispensary takes up the entire floor, tucking patient lounges in between massive structural columns and pushing couches up against the massive painted bricks used for the foundation of the former paper mill. Much like Boulder Wellness in Boulder, the shop has gone for an Eastern Buddhist/Zen theme with low painted chairs, squatting Buddha statues and colorful framed posters with vaguely Hindu symbols. There was also a huge, seven-foot-tall antique-looking ceramic vase painted with what looked like a life-sized crane. In my head, I couldsee a massive cannabis tree fitting in perfectly."

Number 4: DANK Colorado

3835 North Elm Street Denver, CO 80207

An excerpt from William Breathes's July 2012 review: "DANK is basically a 400 square-foot green box with a matching leather couch and chairs set up in one corner as a lounge, and a cutout window in the opposite wall that opens into the employee-only bud room. Small, hinge-top sample jars with a few buds each are kept out on display on the counter. To the left of the bud counter is a small glass case filled with inexpensive pipes, papers and assorted marijuana ephemera."

Number 3: The Shelter

4095 North Jackson Street Denver, CO 80216

The Shelter is a Strainwise center. To visit the Strainwise website, click here.

Number 2: The Haven

777 North Canosa Court Denver,


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Briana Hayes returns to the program, where she established herself as one of the best keepers in school history and will work with the Simmons netminders.

The former Shark graduated in 2016 with a degree in Physical Therapy to cap a four-year career that saw her post a lifetime 1.35 goals against average. During her tenure at Simmons, the New York native posted the top three single-season GAA marks in program annals. The goalie was named to the Great Northeast Athletic Conference First Team after recording a .882 save percentage to rank 14th in the nation as a first year to contribute to a career .840 save mark on 479 stops. Hayes started all but two of the 71 matches that she appeared in, while earning 29 victories,Man has split the atom and created the ultimate weapon. But how could he have known he would also create Them!? The terror begins when a hard-nosed patrolman (James Whitmore) discovers a dazed child wandering in the New Mexico desert near a car and house trailer destroyed by a mysterious force. Whitmore next discovers a ransacked general store; its cash drawers are full but the sugar supply is missing. And on the floor lies a battered corpse containing enough formic acid to kill 20 men.Přečíst více...

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Court on the following stipulation of facts. Taxpayer purchased a retail liquor store in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on or about May 17, 1943, which he operated under the required licenses until December 31, 1946. Persons engaged in the retail liquor business in Tennessee were required to have state, county and city retail liquor dealer's licenses, which were normally issued in the fall of the year to license a dealer to engage in the business for the following year. Taxpayer made application in the fall of 1946 for licenses authorizing him to engage in the retail liquor business for the year 1947, but because of his inability to obtain from the office of the City Commission the necessary certificate of good moral character he did not receive licenses for theyear 1947.

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During the latter part of 1946 and early part of 1947 taxpayer employed the services of an attorney and numerous unsuccessful efforts were made to obtain the necessary licenses, including the making of several trips to Nashville, Tennessee. Taxpayer applied for and received certificates of good moral character and the necessary retail liquor dealer's licenses for the year 1948 and calendar years subsequent thereto, and operated his business under them.

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During the year 1947 taxpayer maintained an inventory in his liquor store and carried insurance thereon. He also paid rent, and the charges for telephone and other utilities on the premises. He retained the services of a bookkeeper to keep a detailed account of the expenses for the year 1947. During 1947 taxpayer returned quantities of whiskey to


423, 424-425; Tatt v. Commissioner, 5 Cir., 166 F.2d 697. Under these tests the taxpayer qualified for the carry-back deduction unless the necessary continuity of his business was absent because of his inability to obtain a liquor dealer's license for the year 1947. Considering this aspect of the case, appellant argues that the business was not closed out or liquidated, there was every intention on the part of the taxpayer to continue in business, he resumed full operation of his business after the year 1947, and to the extent that the full operation of the business was affected by the failure to receive a license, such limited operation of the business was involuntary on his part. It is well known that there were businesses which as a practicalcourt held that his outlays were not expenses incurred in being a judge during the tax year but in trying to continue as judge for the next term. Here, the appellant who had been engaged in the business of a retail liquor dealer in preceding years was unable legally to operate his business in 1947 because of his inability to obtain from the City Commission a license to do so. He incurred expenses in the tax year in the hope, or even the expectation, of receiving a license for 1948 and succeeding years. His losses in 1947 were not, however, attributable to the operation of "a trade or business regularly carried on," a prerequisite for the carry back of his 1947 loss to previous years. He was not


in 1947 operating as a liquor dealer. His business was suspended for that year, and there was no assurance that he would obtain a license in 1948, even though he preserved his inventory and facilities looking to that end. He was in no better status than the judge in McDonald. Undoubtedly, the judge there had a reasonable expectation of being elected because of his advantage in being an incumbent but it was still necessary for him to submit to the hazard of a popular election. Likewise, the appellant had no assurance that the City Commission would renew his license in 1948, no matter what his expectations. I think the judgment below should be affirmed.

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Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:04 am

Rorgg

Broadway Legend

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Re: Ideal show for Sondheim first-timer

Don't bother responding. My guess is that there's no person there, it's a "bot" just attempting to build up post count in order to spam at some point.

Anyway -- ITW is thematically the obvious choice, as it takes on familiar characters and situations, then gives them a bit of a twist. The music's not exactly easy, though, though it's more tonal than some of his stuff, it's still rather rhythmically challenging in places.

ALNM is musically fairly straightforward, and with all the music being in triple time, avoidssome clips from Into The Woods and West Side Story, and decided I just really didn't like Sondheim, for all the reasons most of his detractors don't like him.

Who do you consider his detractors?

People who say that he's pretentious, that he intentionally writes his music to be unlikable, that his target audience consists of opera majors who, at the conclusion of the performance, clap lowly and softly, and say "Why, yes, Steve! That piece WAS complicated and unlikable enough that I shan't look down my nose at it!", that he is the naked emperor whose clothes are being praised.

Sun Dec 01, 2013 1:35 pm

Rorgg

Broadway Legend

Joined: Mon Dec 15, 2008 9:09 amPosts: 541
Main Role: Performer

Re: Ideal show for Sondheim first-timer

So, a bunch of ridiculous charicaturists? Ooookay.

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the San Jose average, with just 175 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, and 1,199 property crimes per 100,000 residents on average each year. So you have just a 1 in 73 chance of being the victim of crime in this San Jose neighborhood.

4. West San Jose

The westernmost neighborhoods in the city, West San Jose is bounded by the city of Santa Clara to the north, the San Tomas Expressway to the east, De Anza Boulevard to the west, and Prospect Road to the south. West San Jose is safer than almost 78 percent of the neighborhoods in the city, and has a crime index 56 percent lower than the San Jose average. You have only a 1 in 683 chance of being the victim of violent crime in(although as stated above, Star Wars: Battlefront already does a rather impressive job in the graphics department). Through these creations, Obsidian may also be angling to pick up another Star Wars game, after all, they already have history with the IP in the shape of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2…

Interestingly, the power and appeal of the Star Wars brand extends further afield too, with casino software providers licensing the franchise for use in their online and mobile slots games offerings to players. This means that players who are fans of the franchise can play the Star Wars themed games, complete with characters and often scenes from the movies for free or for real money from anywhere in the world.

Philip Thalberg has been tasked with Dota


1 Set Kroos loose

Bayern Munich clinched their fifth European Cup despite the absence of arguably their most talented footballer. Toni Kroos, out for the past two months with a groin injury, has played the majority of the campaign at the tip of Bayern's midfield triangle, drifting into deeper positions to help retain position, then scampering forward to create overloads in the final third. As Bayern struggled to get the ball past Dortmund's first-half pressing on Saturday night, they missed Kroos' positional intelligence. Kroos' technical brilliance is unquestionable, but Pep Guardiola will appreciate his movement and selflessness– and there's a feeling that the 23-year-old German playmaker can become even better. The new manager might be pleased Kroos missed the European Cup final through injury – he, more than anyone,will have the hunger to ensure Bayern reach the final in Lisbon next year, and he could become Guardiola's most important player.

2 Find the ideal role for Götze

As the injured Mario Götze cheered on Dortmund from the sidelines at Wembley, he must have wondered quite where he will fit in at Bayern when he completes his €37m transfer later this summer. It seems most likely that Guardiola will deploy the 20-year-old as a false nine – the highest attacker up the pitch, but more of a No10 than a No9. Lionel Messi's development into one of the all-time great footballers came after Guardiola moved him into that central role, and Götze has experience of playing as a false nine for Germany, showcasing his direct dribbling, but also proving


he has an eye for goal. There may be further signings, but with Götze and Kroos set to play significant roles, Guardiola's regular selection will be significantly different to the XI that started on Saturday.

3 Perfect the back-three alternative

As Dortmund pressed with intensity at the beginning of the final, Bayern were forced back. By half-time they had completed twice as many passes as Dortmund, but the vast majority were close to their own goal. In response, Bastian Schweinsteiger dropped into the centre of defence to form a back three, but this didn't help Bayern work the ball forward. Under Guardiola, Barcelona often dropped Sergio Busquets back into the centre of defence, but there was more certainty about the way the entire side shifted between the two formations.

Bayern's problemwas that Thomas Müller, the attacking midfielder, didn't drop deep to offer an easy forward passing option – under Guardiola, who experimented with a back-three starting formation during his final season at Barça, Bayern will look more fluent when a midfielder drops back, and Javi Martínez is a better fit there than Schweinsteiger.

4 When to use an orthodox No9

On Saturday, Guardiola was probably watching both his future strikers – Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski is expected to follow Götze to Bayern, to provide competition for the first goalscorer Mario Mandzukic.

While Guardiola became famous for his distrust of traditional strikers at Barcelona, he broke the club's transfer record to sign Zlatan Ibrahimovic, in the belief Barça needed a static central striker to offer variety and directness to their buildup play. His


Birla Mandir

History

Birla Mandir is a Hindu temple, dedicated to Lord Venkateshwara is built on a 280 feet high hillock called Naubath Pahad on a 13 acres plot. The temple is constructed with white marble, which is almost 2000 tonnes, was brought from Rajasthan for building this temple. The construction took 10 years and was constructed in 1976 by Swami Ranganathananda of Ramakrishna Mission. The temple was built with a combination of north and south indian temples. The statue of Lord Venkateshwara is about 11 feet in height with a carved lotus canopy above, the statue has been carved out of granite stone. The scenes from the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata are also carved on the walls and ceilings of the temple. Swami Ranganathananda wanted the temple toRai plays with his German Shepherd. (TOI file photo)On the lobbying by senior UPA functionaries to ensure that they did not figure in CAG’s reports on scams under Rai, the former federal auditor said: "Some messages we did receive, something I have spoken about in the book." However, he refused to disclose names of the emissaries or their principals.Rai, who was from the Indian Administrative Service, said UPA functionaries roped in even his colleagues to persuade him to leave out names. "My colleagues were encouraged to talk to me, my colleagues meaning bureaucrats."However, the federal auditor said it was during the meetings of the Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee that he came under tremendous pressure."But the real pressure which came to me was in Parliament, during the Public Accounts


"most likely buildings to be attacked in the U.S." were the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, claimed JFIC was told to stop tracking Bin Laden, suspected al-Qaeda terrorists, and members of the Taliban some months prior to 9/11.

In front of thousands of service members, President Obama today signed an executive order aimed at protecting veterans from for-profit educational institutions trying to "swindle" and "hoodwink" them instead of providing the education they deserve.

A nearly three-year-long investigation by Senate Intelligence Committee Democrats is expected to find there is little evidence the harsh "enhanced interrogation techniques" the CIA used on high-value prisoners produced counter-terrorism breakthroughs.

People familiar with the inquiry said committee
investigators, who have been poring over records from the administration
of President George W. Bush, believe they do not substantiate claimsby some Bush supporters that the harsh interrogations led to counter-terrorism coups.

It is pathetic that the Republicans did not join in this report, but then many of them are little Cheney's themselves.

Oft-mentioned potential VP nominee Marco Rubio is, by Republican
standards, a moderate on immigration. Perhaps in large part because of a
portion of his family's history he may not wish to dwell on. It seems
that his maternal grandfather came to the United States illegally during
the Batista Regime. Three years later when Castro came to power he saw
an opportunity and went back to Cuba to try to take advantage.

Three years later, and now disaffected, the same grandfather hopped
on to an airplane for the United States without a visa. Once here, he
was adjudicated to be in the United States illegally. However,