TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's president issued a direct threat to the West on Tuesday, claiming his country is capable of restarting its nuclear program within hours - and quickly bringing it to even more advanced levels than in 2015, when Iran signed the nuclear deal with world powers.

Hassan Rouhani's remarks to lawmakers follow the Iranian parliament's move earlier this week to increase spending on the country's ballistic missile program and the foreign operations of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

The bill - and Rouhani's comments - are seen as a direct response to the new U.S. legislation earlier this month that imposed mandatory penalties on people involved in Iran's ballistic missile program and anyone who does business with them. The U.S. legislation also applies terrorism sanctions to the Revolutionary Guardhe and Arque became freelance mercenaries; he would not regret throwing his life away and thinks more about where and for whom he sacrifices his life for. After Arque's death, he continues to care for her dog, Pieta, who was named after the pub where he first proposed to Arque. Chris and Shizuno later become partners when Ryoko becomes the Altair's new wizard. His surname, Avenir, means "Future" in French.  He is a playable character in Zegapain XOR.

One of the Hræsvelgr's pilots (Wizard) and Chris' wife. She and Shizuno became friends when the Paris server still existed. Her memory has become severely damaged and only becomes worse each time she entangles. In the end, she sacrifices herself to force the Gards-orm to retreat back to their base


missions.

 The Oceanus class ship Larnax's commander of Gards-orm side who appears in Zegapain NOT. He holds a deep grudge against the Celebrants and humanity. The etymology of his name likely derives from Nahusa, a king from Hindu mythology who became a snake because of a curse.

 A gunner for the Gards-orm who is harsh and righteous in character. He has trouble seeing good in the world and both resists and apparently hates Naga and the origin of the Gards-orm. He has been involved in battles against the Oceanus-class ships' fleet. He appears in Zegapain NOT.

 A gunner for the Gards-orm and a member of the Gards-orm's S.D. Elite posted at Uenomiya. She holds some antipathy for Toga Dupe, who she considers a human fake, when he ison Nations' part. Accordingly, the court properly dismissed Takara's third-party action against it (see Naughton v City of New York, 94 AD3d 1, 11 [1st Dept 2012]).
THIS CONSTITUTES THE DECISION AND ORDER
OF THE SUPREME COURT, APPELLATE DIVISION, FIRST DEPARTMENT.
ENTERED: DECEMBER 29, 2016
CLERK


White Rebel: The Life and Times of TT Lewis

White Rebel has made a timely appearance at this juncture in the social history of Barbados. It is the biography of a white Barbadian, T.T. Lewis, and his role in the struggle for social justice and equality for the island's predominantly black working class during the 1940s and 1950s.
Race is a contentious Barbadian issue that surfaces from time to time from the depths of a mutually agreed upon repression. Certainly, in no other English-speaking West Indian island, with the exception of Trinidad, is the nature of the discussion so intense, with considerable amounts of intellectual and emotional energy invested in the debate. In Trinidad, the racial divide is intense because the population of East Indian descent is marginally larger thanLewis was not a member of the traditional Barbadian white elite. In this respect, he was seen by them as an upstart who had chosen to cast his lot with the blacks. As Gary Lewis shows, he was made to pay dearly for this choice, losing his job, being ostracized, and ultimately losing his family through the stress engendered by his political choices. The fact that he went to an early grave is almost certainly related to his life experiences.


like a Turrilites, but had a planar hook hanging underneath, more like an Ancyloceras.

The thin shelled heteromorphic ammonites probably lived at depths .

Classification

Suborder Ancyloceratina
 Superfamily Ancyloceratoidea
 Family Acrioceratidae
 Family Ancyloceratidae
 Family Bochianitidae
 Family Crioceratitidae
 Family Hamulinidae
 Family Hemihoplitidae
 Family Heteroceratidae
 Family Himantoceratidae
 Family Labeceratidae
 Family Macroscaphitidae
 Family Ptychoceratidae
 Superfamily Deshayesitoidea
 Family Deshayesitidae
 Family Parahoplitidae
 Superfamily Douvilleiceratoidea
 Family Astiericeratidae
 Family Douvilleiceratidae
 Family Trochleiceratidae
 Superfamily Scaphitoidea
 Family Scaphitidae
 Superfamily Turrilitoidea
 Family Anisoceratidae
 Family Baculitidae
 Family Diplomoceratidae
 Family Hamitidae
 Family Nostoceratidae
 Family Turrilitidae

Footnotes

References

 Pasch, A. D., K. C. May. 2001. Taphonomy and paleoenvironment of hadrosaur (Dinosauria) from the Matanuska Formation (Turonian) in South-Central Alaska. In: Mesozoic Vertebrate Life. Ed.s Tanke, D. H., Carpenter, K., Skrepnick, M. W. Indiana University Press. Pages 219-236.

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This blog is mainly about the spectacular train wreck at The Sacramento Bee and its parent company, the McClatchy Company. But I also post about current events, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, politics, anything else that grabs my attention. Take a look around this blog, hope you enjoy it.

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Poppy was transferred to the leading children's hospital in London for specialist care after she was born three months early on Christmas Eve last year, in Basildon, Essex.

But she died after a "domino effect" of mistakes, an inquest was told.

Rebecca Tite, a trainee nurse, who had spent just three weeks in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit, set up a machine supplying her with glucose incorrectly, flooding her body with the solution.

The levels of glucose in Poppy's blood roseforgot about him.

The man, 65, was stranded at Sharston ambulance station, Wythenshawe, after being collected by an ambulance from Manchester Royal Infirmary.

The alarm was raised when he failed to return to the care home where he lives.

The North West Ambulance Service said an inquiry had begun and a staff member "was suspended with immediate effect".

The incident happened on Tuesday when the patient was collected from the hospital at 1915 GMT.

Instead of being returned to the care home, he was driven back to the ambulance station where he was left until 0100 GMT.

“ This has never happened before and it will never happen again ” North West Ambulance Service spokesman The ambulance service said it received a call from the care home at 2030 GMT and later sent other


Deciding it needed a gap-tooth complement to the Michael Strahan/ABC empire, Turner Broadcasting announced today that your friend and mine, Jimmy Rollins, will be joining its studio analysis crew for TBS's postseason coverage this fall.

Rollins, who you may have seen in a game or two with the Phillies, played what might have been his final Major League game back on June 5 with the White Sox. He ranks in the upper echelon of nearly every single franchise leaderboard, from games played (2nd) to WAR (7th) to plate appearances (2nd) to runs scored (3rd) and hits (1st) and on and on and on. Most notably, as you also may recall, he was the 2007 NL MVP and 2008 World Series champion.

As Rollins said via press release:

"I am thrilled tobe joining the Turner family," said Rollins. "This is a fantastic crew that includes a Hall of Famer, one of the greatest all around hitters of my era and an excellent host. I am looking forward to learning from their experience and contributing the knowledge that I've gained over 17 years in a big league uniform."

Pedro Martinez, Gary Sheffield and Casey Stern are the Hall of Famer, hitter and host that Rollins refers to above.

It's long been assumed that Rollins would make a charismatic addition to a broadcast booth, whether it be in-game or in-studio. With this chance at the latter, the 37-year-old Philly icon will have his shot at laying some groundwork for his potential second career. We can only hope he's really, really awesome at this


the tax on prior transfers of property ("TPT") pursuant to Code section 2013, 26 U.S.C. § 2013.   The TPT credit represented the property John owned in joint tenancy that had been taxed in John's estate.   After a review of Ruby's estate tax return, the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service determined that the interest payments should have been deducted from John's estate as administration expenses.   Consequently, the reduced value of John's estate also reduced the amount of TPT credit that Ruby could claim under section 2013.   The result of this recalculation was an increase in Ruby's taxable estate.   The Commissioner issued a notice of deficiency to Ruby's estate in the amount of $19,584.

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The Commissioner also reasoned that evenif the interest was not an administration expense, the interest was an outstanding obligation of John's estate.   He further reasoned that because Ruby received John's share subject to the estate's obligations, the value of John's estate that transferred to Ruby should have been reduced by the value of the interest payments.

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The bank, as trustee for Ruby's estate, disagreed with the Commissioner.   The bank argued that the interest payments were not administration expenses because no "estate" was created under Illinois law for purposes of administration under the Code.   The bank cited three reasons for its argument:  1) virtually all of John's property passed to Ruby automatically as a joint tenant;  2) John's estate was not probated;  and 3) the estate


tax accrues after the decedent's death.   The interest payments were deemed to be materially different from the administration expenses.   The Richardson court reasoned that deducting interest payments from the principal would improperly reduce the value of the estate, and held that the interest should be paid from the income earned by the decedent's estate.   Those payments would not affect the value of the interest in the estate that passed to the surviving spouse and consequently would not reduce the marital deduction.   The policy supporting the decision was to preserve the value of the estate at the time of the decedent's death.  Richardson, 89 T.C. at 1200.   The Sixth Circuit followed that portion of the Richardson reasoning, andas a result of the exercise or non-exercise of a power of appointment) to the decedent by or from a person (herein designated as a "transferor") who died within 10 years before, or within 2 years after, the decedent's death....
(b) Computation of credit.--Subject to the limitation prescribed in subsection (c), the credit provided by this section shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the estate tax paid (adjusted as indicated hereinafter) with respect to the estate of the transferor as the value of the property transferred bears to the taxable estate of the transferor (determined for purposes of the estate tax) decreased by any death taxes paid with respect to such estate....  For purposes of the preceding sentence, the estate tax paid shall be


Woman charged with attempted homicide in shooting of girlfriend

A Nashville woman charged with attempted criminal homicide in the shooting of her girlfriend on Thursday had been arrested in November in connection with the shooting of a different woman.

Cealie James, 23, was arrested Thursday following the shooting earlier that morning.

Metro police say James shot her girlfriend, 21-year-old Destiny Gregory, during an argument inside their home Thursday at Haynes Garden Apartments, located at 2715 Whites Creek Pike.

James fled the scene after the shooting, but later returned and was taken into police custody.

Gregory was transported to Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where Thursday night she was in stable condition with serious injuries.

When the shooting took place on Thursday, James was already out of jail on a $20,000 bond after being charged in12 Premier League stars with amazing records

English Premier League (EPL) is the topmost tier league in English football matches. A lot of well-known players have played in it and made incredible records. This article lists 12 such football players who’ve made amazing records in the Premier League over the years. These include the highest goal scorer, the player with the most appearances, as well as the player with the maximum number of clean sheets in the English Premier League.

1. Alan Shearer
This player is the leading goal scorer of all-time in the EPL. Shearer has scored a total of 260 goals till now. He has played for Newcastle United and Blackburn Rovers clubs. Moreover, Shearer holds the record for scoring the maximum number of goals from the spot with


a total of 56 penalties.

2. Cesc Fabregas
This player holds two Guinness World Records to his name. He has made the most number of volley passes within 30 seconds with 15 successful passes by a pair. His partner was Jamie Redknapp, the former Liverpool player.

Moreover, Fabregas also has his name in the Guinness World Records Book of 2019 for scoring 100 assists in the quickest time in the Premier League within 293 games. The Spaniard was last known for his record-breaking assist on December 31, 2016, in order to set-up Willian in a Chelsea vs. Stoke City match. The former won the match with a score of 4-2.

3. Eric Cantona
The player to score the very first Premier League hat-trick is Eric Cantona. The striker hit the famous treble onAugust 25, 1992, while he was playing for Leeds United against Tottenham Hotspur who lost with a score of 5 is to 0.

4. Frank Lampard
Even being a midfielder, Lampard has managed to score 177 goals. This is a huge number of goals for a non-striker. On the second position is Dwight Yorke, who has scored 123 goals as a midfielder.

5. Gareth Barry
The player with the maximum number of appearances in the Premier League is Gareth Barry. He has appeared a total of 653 times while playing for West Bromwich Albion, Everton, Manchester City, and Aston Villa. The player debuted when he was just 17 years old. Moreover, Barry has started 589 games, which gives him the record of a player with the Most starts in the league.

6. Harry


Kane
Kane holds the record for the maximum number of goals in the EPL in a calendar year. He recorded his name in the Premier League history in 2017, when he scored 39 goals for Tottenham Hotspur.

7. Mario Balotelli
Even after 90 appearances in the league, Balotelli has only one assist to his name. However, this assist helped Sergio Aguero to win the title in the last few seconds of a match played in the 2011/12 season against QPR (Queens Parks Rangers). This goal, which is considered as one of the best assists, made Manchester City won its very first title in a span of 44 years.

8. Mohammed Salah
Salah scored the maximum number of goals in a 32 game season of the league. He scored 32 goals in the 2017/18season of the English Premier League.

9. Peter Schmeichel
Schmeichel is the first goalkeeper in the EPL who has netted a goal. He found the net’s back for Aston Villa that lost the match against Everton with a score of 3-2 in 2001. When Villa was chasing a score of 3 is to 1, Schmeichel stepped forward for a corner and hit the goal in order to minimize the defeating score deficit.

10. Petr Cech
The player who has got the maximum number of clean sheets in the league is Czech Republic stopper, Petr Cech. He has a record of holding 201 clean sheets for Chelsea (2004-2015) and Arsenal. The 34-year-old transitioned from a striker to a goalkeeper while playing in the top division of the English football.

11. Ryan Giggs
The sole player


to finish 22 seasons in the league is Ryan Giggs. Moreover, he has the record for scoring the maximum number of assists with 162 assists within 632 match appearances. Furthermore, Giggs is the player who has been substituted the maximum number of times in the English Premier League, that is, 134 times.

12. Sadio Mane
Sadio Mane has the record of making the quickest hat-trick in the history of EPL. The Senegalese forward netted three goals for Southampton club again Aston Villa in the 2014/15 football season of the EPL. The player made this hat-trick within a timeframe of two minutes and 56 seconds.

The earlier record was within four minutes and 33 seconds in 1994, which was made by Robbie Fowler who played for Liverpool against Arsenal. Mane broke theThe disciplinary and epistemological structure of paleoanthropology: one hundred and fifty years of development.
This paper aims to provide a reflection on the nature of the several disciplines that contribute to the field of human evolution or paleoanthropology. An historical approach is adopted on the grounds that the nature of their relationship is perhaps more clearly seen if a dynamic perspective is adopted; that is, if paleoanthropology is analysed as an historical entity in constant flux from 1860 to today. By following the debates over human phylogeny and various scenarios of hominization separately, I will show that paleoanthropology was in the early decades of its development only very loosely organized around a host of disciplines, disciplines that went through a unification process as the twentieth century progressed under a


The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Canada just ordered a landlord to pay a harsh $12,000 to his former tenants on the grounds that he violated their religious freedom, but some are finding that the penalty was too extreme considering the details of the case.

The landlord, John Alabi, 52, had been renting out a portion of his Brampton home for the last fifteen years to help with his mortgage payments but is now facing severe economic consequences for what the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario thought was a violation of religious rights.

In an interview with the Toronto Sun, Alabi said, "I was humiliated, I was made to feel I have no rights, I was made to feel that I'm not wanted in society."

"I feel powerless. They rented myplace for only two months. two months! It's just not fair," he continued.

According to the Toronto Sun, Alabi rented his apartment to Walid Madkour and his wife, Heba Ismail, in December 2014. After many disputes, the couple had decided to terminate the lease on February 28, only a couple months later. With the apartment spot needing to be filled, the landlord began looking for new renters to move in.

Early on Alabi let his tenants know that they would receive a 24-hour notice before he would show the apartment off to potential clients, but Madkour had requested an extra 1-hour notice of any showings. Alabi claimed to have abided by this rule but noted that because the tenants failed to respond to his messages, he entered the premises only


Toronto, the couple's previous home. After the "Welcome" comment, the couple called the police on Alabi for what they described as loud pounding on the steps. When police arrived, Alabi claimed he was only shoveling the snow, and later told the couple he was fully within his rights to show off the apartment after a 24-hour notice.

After all of this, the couple made Alabi's shoes an issue. They claimed that it was "disrespectful and an act of racism" to walk in their prayer space [the bedroom] with shoes on according to the Islamic faith. Alabi dismissed this claim saying the two never claimed it was a problem when he entered the space to make repairs, only towards the end in a move to prevent him from renting theHRD Minister Smriti Irani and her office did not respond to phone calls and SMS texts. HRD Minister Smriti Irani and her office did not respond to phone calls and SMS texts.

Days after he congratulated Smriti Irani on assuming charge as Human Resource Development Minister and sent her a job application with the reminder that he was an “RSS person” at whose Nagpur house she once had a “brief stay”, Vishram Jamdar was named chairman of the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) Nagpur.

A panel of four names recommended by the HRD ministry for the same post was set aside and Jamdar’s name was sent as the only option to the President for nomination. It was approved on September 15.

In a letter to Irani on May 28 —


of four or five drawn up by the ministry.

Prior to the enactment of the NIT Act, the chairpersons were directly selected by the HRD minister in his capacity as Chairman of the Council of NITs.

In July 2010, the ministry decided to approach the scientific community, CSIR, IITs, industrial and commercial institutions as well as industry houses to nominate persons of eminence for the posts of chairpersons of 30 NITs.

“This is with the purpose of utilizing the services of eminent persons and their expertise in channeling the available resources of the NITs in developing a pool of technical repository in the country,” the ministry said.

The ministry had received 110 names including those of industrialists, academicians, scientists and retired bureaucrats. But this list was given a miss.

When The Indian Expresssought his comments, Jamdar admitted writing to Irani. “I rendered my services since I was a board member right from the day it became VNIT in 2002 to 2012. Also because I got education from this college,” he said over phone.

He said he continued to be associated with the RSS but said his interaction with Irani was “not much” before she became minister. “I met her a few times during any BJP meet,” he said.

In the proposal to the President, Jamdar is mentioned as president of Laghu Udyog Bharti — it was the beneficiary of an institutional plot on Deendayal Upadhyaya Marg in New Delhi in early 2003 when the NDA was in power.

According to the VNIT website, Jamdar graduated in metallurgy from the college when it was


the VRCE. It says “his association with the industry started way back in 1972” and he worked with “more than 40 industries”.

He was chairman of the Dharampeth Polytechnic, Nagpur from 2010-2013. He was national president of the Laghu Udyog Bharti for three years and a member of the working group on labour formed by the PMO, the website stated.

Last month, Irani quashed the panel suggested for NITs at Calicut, Rourkela, Surat, Surathkal and Tiruchirapalli to recommend one woman executive from technology firms for appointment as chairpersons “to encourage eminent women professional leaders to envision NITs”.

Irani and her office did not respond to phone calls and SMS texts.

#Smriti Irani takes oath as Union Minister on May 26

#Jamdar writes to her on May 28, seeks post of VNIT chief

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Brendan Rodgers handed debuts to two full-backs and his £32.5m striker Christian Benteke but the focus was inevitably on the midfield, in Liverpool’s first game of the post-Steven Gerrard era.

There was a newcomer there, too, in the shape of James Milner – an excellent free transfer from Manchester City. Tired of being a jack-of-all-trades usually used out wide, Milner decided to join Liverpool partly because he was promised a run in his favoured central position, where he excelled in his Aston Villa days.

Rodgers used Milner in a right-of-centre role, with the new captain, Jordan Henderson, sitting deeper as the primary holding midfielder, in the role Gerrard became accustomed to in his last 18 months at Liverpool. Coutinho played a little higher up, with Adam Lallana drifting inside fromout to the terrifyingly quick Ibe. Henderson as the deepest midfielder might have been viable against a team such as Stoke – who, for all their technical development under Mark Hughes, did not have anything like a natural playmaker – but may be less so in Liverpool’s next away game, at Arsenal. His most promising moment came from his sole foray into the opposition box, on 71 minutes, to receive a clever chip from Milner – although his volleyed pass was wayward.

There was too much overlap between the roles of two pairs: while Henderson was restricted by Milner, Philippe Coutinho and Adam Lallana drifted around in the same zone, neither contributing much during the 63 minutes they were on the pitch together. The Brazilian came into the game


session, a day after the government and its supporters succeeded in rejecting a bid by the opposition to quiz the premier over allegations of corruption.

After the rejection, three opposition MPs filed a fresh request

to question the prime minister over allegations of fraud involving MPs and illegal overseas money transfers.

The premier, 71, has been a target of opposition criticism since he was appointed to the job in February 2006, forcing him to resign six times.

Parliament has also been dissolved three times in the same period.the kitchen and LED lights on the main floor.

Situated at the foot of Craven Rd., the home is walking distance to Jonathan Ashbridge Park, the Beach Cinema, a streetcar and bus route, bike trails, and many shops and restaurants along Queen St. E.

This home features a stucco and cedar exterior with a second-storey back balcony with a glass rail, and a back deck with a glass rail.

The main floor is open-concept with high ceilings, custom-stained wide-plank hardwood flooring, and custom-built windows and doors.

The living room is at the rear of the house and features a gas fireplace and a wall-mounted TV. It is wired for surround sound and has eight-foot-high French doors that open to the back deck.

Adjoining the kitchen is the bright dining room with task lights


and a hardwood floor and next to the dining room is a powder room.

Upstairs, the master bedroom occupies the rear of the home and features hardwood, a wall unit closet with sliding doors, pot lights and a walkout balcony.

There are two more bedroom, one L-shaped, both with hardwood. As well, the second floor has a laundry area.

The main four-piece bathroom boasts a double sink, a heated marble floor, a water closet, an oval soaker tub with a skylight above, and a light green floor-to-ceiling glass tile. The separate shower stall has head and body water jets with various features.

The finished basement has high ceilings, a separate entrance, a spacious recreation/games room and a three-piece bathroom.

Although we try to provide the most up-to-date information available, we cannot guarantee featuresMichael Kenny (1808?-1892), farmer, was born probably on 24 December 1808 at Six-Mile Bridge, County Clare, Ireland. He later claimed that in 1829, imbued with patriotism, he was involved in nominating the Liberal Daniel O'Connell for his election to the British House of Commons. On 5 November 1841 Kenny sailed in the Brankimmor, reaching Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, on 6 April 1842.

Moving to Port Phillip to meet a brother and two sisters, he stripped wattle bark in Gippsland, sailed to Hobart Town and walked back to Launceston, carrying 'a double-barrelled gun on my shoulder, always ready and willing to take any employment'. He and a brother then settled at Morphett Vale, South Australia, finding work by grubbing, fencing, reaping and threshing. Each then purchased an 80-acre (32.4 ha)


section in the hundred of Noarlunga for £80. On 22 October 1848 at Morphett Vale Catholic church Michael married Irish-born Bridget Ayrene (Herreen), née Purtle, a widow with four children. They were to have six children between 1849 and 1863. Kenny was a leading sportsman and in a race won a silver cup, which arrived from England two years later. His wife and children stayed in South Australia when he went to the Ballarat diggings for nine months in 1852. He claimed to have been involved in the Eureka rebellion.

In 1856 the Kennys moved to 600 acres (about 240 ha) at Shea-oak Log, purchased for £1 2s. 6d. per acre with the proceeds of his prospecting. They also owned and ran the Freeling Railway Hotel, which became afocus for local meetings. Kenny founded and became secretary of the Light Farmers' Club. Dissatisfied with the railway rates for the carriage of wheat, he put heavily loaded teams on the roads. The consequent damage persuaded Governor Daly to meet a deputation of 150 farmers; as a result uniform railway freight on all goods was introduced. Kenny was active in discussions leading to the South Australian Waste Lands Amendment (Strangways) Act of 1869, which encouraged closer settlement and the spread of agriculture.

About 1870 Kenny and several sons selected land in the hundred of Melville, southern Yorke Peninsula, under the Strangways Act. Crop yields began to decline with reduced soil fertility, however, and in 1876 the family sailed from Edithburgh to Waterloo Bay (Elliston), on the western coast of


South Australia. In September Kenny took up a wheat and sheep property at Colton, about 120 miles (nearly 200 km) beyond Port Lincoln; he named it Balla McKenny (home of the Kennys). Grain was shipped from Port Kenny, on Venus Bay.

Kenny and his family were staunch Catholics, associated with building the churches at Morphett Vale and Colton. His contribution to the Irish National Federation of South Australia, particularly through assisting early colonists to South Australia, was recognized by presentation of a gold medal. He died on 11 May 1892 at Colton, survived by his wife and their four sons and one daughter. His son Patrick took over Balla McKenny.

Citation details

John C. Radcliffe, 'Kenny, Michael (1808–1892)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kenny-michael-13023/text23525, publishedDietary survey of low-income, rural families in Iowa and North Carolina. I. Research procedures.
Methods used in assessing the dietary intake of selected low-income, rural families are described. The sample consisted of 668 families randomly selected from predetermined locations in Iowa and North Carolina. A 24-hr. recall method supplemented with food models was used in gathering data on family food intake. The nutritional "adequacy" of the family diets was then evaluated according to family composition and the 1968 Recommended Dietary Allowances. The adequacy of individual nutrients was also evaluated by the same criteria. Nutrients studied included: protein, calcium, iron, vitamin A, ascorbic acid, thiamin, and riboflavin. The selection of the method in relation to opinions of previous investigators is discussed.


county of San Diego, State of California; that while acting as said city manager, the said Doris Sullivan attended the official meetings of the duly elected city council of the said city and in her official capacity presented matters for consideration of, advised and made recommendations to, the said city council in matters pertaining to the official business affairs of the said city; that while she was so acting as said city manager of said city, the said Doris Sullivan, Eugene Albertini and Samuel Fishman and John J. McKenna did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously conspire, combine, confederate and agree together to use the official position of city manager of the said city for an unlawful purpose, to wit: For the purpose of having the said city manager, whilepurporting to represent the interests of the said city, to influence and persuade the said city council of the said city to officially enact a zoning variance when the enactment of said zoning variance was in fact for the private gain of the said Doris Sullivan, Eugene Albertini and Samuel Fishman and John J. McKenna.
Three overt acts were set forth in the indictment. In overt act number one it was alleged "that pursuant to said combination, confederacy, agreement and conspiracy and to carry out the objects and purposes of the same, the defendant Samuel Fishman, appeared in the vicinity of 1205 Palm Avenue, National City, California, being the residence of Doris Sullivan, on or about the 5th day of January, 1951, in and at the County of San


said check in the following language: `Balance of share in full, sale of first parcel of Cape Cottage home, $413.94.'" Overt act number three: "That pursuant to said combination, confederacy, agreement and conspiracy and to carry out the objects and purposes of the same, the defendant Doris Sullivan, appeared in the City Hall of the City of National City, on or about the 10th day of April, 1951, at and in the County of San Diego, State of California, said appearance being at a duly called meeting of the City Council of the City of National City, County of San Diego, and the said Doris Sullivan while acting in her official capacity as City Manager of the said City, did then and there urge and persuade the saidby the prosecution is summarized as follows: The principal parties involved in this proceeding are Doris Sullivan, who was the city manager of National City; Sam Fishman, who was the principal stockholder of Home Owners Mortgage and Loan Company; Eugene Albertini, a promoter, who was associated with Fishman and *515 John J. McKenna in certain enterprises; and defendant John J. McKenna, a financier, who was found not guilty by the jury. Fred Fishman was the president of Home Owners Mortgage and Loan Company and is the son of Sam Fishman. Sol Blanc is a licensed real estate broker, employed by Home Owners Mortgage and Loan Company in December, 1950.
Fred Fishman testified that he held 500 shares of the outstanding stock of the Home Owners Mortgage and Loan Company


defendants Doris Sullivan, Sam Fishman, Eugene Albertini and John J. McKenna; that he was informed that Doris Sullivan had joined the syndicate just prior to the 24th of February, 1951, and he was told that she was the fourth party for the distribution of the profits; that he kept the records and distributed the profits from the Taylor transaction; that at the instance of his father he prepared People's exhibit three which was a check drawn on the account of the mortgage and loan company on Security Trust and Savings Bank, payable to cash, for $1,000, signed by S.E. Fishman, with a notation "loan to Doris Sullivan" and endorsed to S.E. Fishman; that he also prepared People's exhibit four, a check drawn on January 15, 1951, on thethat Mr. Gordon was a buyer for an organization known as the Cape Cottage Homes Corporation; that he asked Mrs. Sullivan about the rezoning and she assured him that it would be done; that some time in January, 1951, he met Taylor, the owner of the Taylor property, at defendant Sullivan's office in National City, where she had the petition for variance of the property ready; that he later made another trip to defendant Sullivan's house and at this time defendant Fishman showed him another $1,000 which he was taking to her; that when they arrived at the house, Fishman took Mrs. Sullivan to another room and later informed Blanc that he was tired of giving her money; that it was the last time he was going to


was made to adopt it. Campbell made an objection and stated that it was necessary that there be an agreement between the subdivider and the water company before the city could accept the final map. Defendant Doris Sullivan then recommended the adoption of the final map.
Mrs. Alston, city clerk, testified that during the time Mrs. Sullivan was city manager her recommendations and proposals were generally accepted by the council and that everything that came before the council went through defendant Sullivan; that she had received instructions from Mrs. Sullivan to *518 the effect that all land transactions were to be handled in the city manager's office; that Mrs. Sullivan did not disclose to members of the city council or planning commission that she had a private interest inthe Taylor transaction.
The mayor of National city testified that he was a member of the city council prior to June, 1951; that Mrs. Sullivan appeared at numerous times before the council and gave advice concerning various administrative matters and that as to most matters the council accepted her recommendations; that as to matters of zone variances which were brought before the council, they relied on the planning commission's recommendations; that if it had been brought to his attention that Mrs. Sullivan was to make a substantial profit on the Taylor property, he would not have voted for the zoning variance.
An investigator for the district attorney testified that he had a conversation with the defendant Sam Fishman on or about September 5th in which Fishman stated that he knew


defendant Sullivan; that he was interested in obtaining land in and around National City in connection with housing projects; that he had made two loans to Mrs. Sullivan; that he did not split any moneys with Doris Sullivan and that he had not been interested with Mrs. Sullivan in any real estate transactions in National City; that he had a conversation with defendant Albertini in which he asked Albertini about the division of the profits with Mrs. Sullivan; that Albertini stated that he was interested in promoting multiple dwelling housing in National City; that he had seen Mrs. Sullivan and talked to her; that he had not offered her any money for any services that she had given in the past or would give in the future andthat as far as he was concerned, Doris Sullivan had no interest in any real property transaction in which he or Gordon were concerned.
A copy of an ordinance of National City defining the powers and duties of the city manager was introduced in evidence. The pertinent provisions of the ordinance are as follows:
"Section 2. The City Manager shall be the administrative head of the City Government under the direction and control of the Council, except as otherwise provided by Ordinance. The City Manager shall be responsible to the City Council for the efficient administration of all the affairs of the City which are under the City Manager's control. In addition to the City Manager's general powers as administrative head and *519 not as a limitation therein, it shall


Ignite a biblical imagination that lasts a lifetime—an innovative Sunday school curriculum for kids in kindergarten through grade 4. With a combination of animated videos, creative activities, and age-appropriate Bibles, Holy Moly brings the Bible to life. Every Holy Moly lesson follows a four-part sequence: Discover, Relate, Connect, and Create. Each week, kids watch an animated Bible story video, talk about the story, read their Bible Storybook or Bible, and try a creative leaflet activity. Holy Moly resources are available for kids in kindergarten through grade 4 by unit or as downloadable lessons a la carte. Learn more or view samples.Colleges of California, 661 South Burlington Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90057 by way of Treasury Check No. 83,760,968 dated September 15, 1975 and further designated on its face, "NIHA280".

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D. Any and all books, papers, documents or other objects which relate or refer to the allocation and/or payment of student funds through the National Institute of Health, College Work Study Program, National Defense Student Loan Program, National Direct Student Loan Program, Basic Educational Opportunity Grants, and/or Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants to institutions which were unaccredited at the time the allocation and/or payment was made, for the period January, 1974 to January, 1976.

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The government moved to quash the subpoena.  The trial court found that much of the material was otherwise procurable reasonably in advance of trial by the exercise


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Christian Finn holds a master's degree with distinction in exercise science, is a former personal trainer and has been featured on BBC TV and radio, as well as in Men's Health, Men's Fitness, Fit Pro, Zest, and Perfect Body magazine.nice big letters on the back that it is vegan (very good news). Dinner time rolled around and I had company, so I made us a rice noodle vegetable stir fry with packet satay sauce. I added prawns to his bowl while I had to resist and luckily it was delicious regardless, and for afters we snacked on frozen grapes – the perfect healthy ice-lolly alternative.

Day 2 was the first day at work as a vegan: My al-desko breakfast was once again porridge with peanut butter, and for lunch I enjoyed 3 crumpets with sunflower spread and marmite – all happily vegan friendly. My dinner was roasted Mediterranean vegetables & potatoes with sweet chilli sauce. Basic but delicious. I love the sweet flavours of the vegetables and the


carried out, as well as of tampering with evidence, has been sent to the Trabzon prosecutor's office.

Lawyers for the Dink family have previously demanded that the gunman, other participants and masterminds within the state should all be tried in the main murder trial in Istanbul, at the Istanbul Fourteenth Serious Crimes Court.

However, the investigations so far have been limited to a small group of mostly young men from Pelitli, a district of Trabzon, and the state connections have been ignored.

In fact, in Trabzon only gendarmerie officer Okan Simsek and sergeant Veysel Sahin are being tried for not acting despite their foreknowledge of a murder plan.

Witness Coskun Igci, who is a gendarmerie informant and the brother-in-law of murder suspect Yasin Hayal, told the Trabzon Second Criminal Court of PeaceCivil Court of Peace decided on 5 February 2008 that no legal offence was committed.

The Izmir Bar Association started an investigation of Turgut after he shouted at the murdered journalist's family, "How many Armenians there are!", when the murder trial opened on 2 July 2007. However, there has been no result. Turgut has also gained notoriety for suing "Radikal" journalist Perihan Magden and "Birgün" journalist Ahmet Tulgar, demanding a total of 20,000 YTL (approx. US$16,600) in compensation.

Dogan has also been sued by Veli Kücük, the retired general who was arrested in the operation against the Ergenekon gang recently and is now in prison.

Dogan had said, "Hrant Dink became worried when Veli Kücük wanted to join the court case against him as a co-plaintiff. Kücük is not an ordinary


person." Kücük has demanded 10,000 YTL (approx. US$8,200) in compensation. The case will continue at the Beyoglu First Civil Court of First Instance on 4 March.

After already cracking down on freedom of information in recent years, President Erdoğan has taken advantage of the abortive coup d’état and the state of emergency in effect since 20 July to silence many more of his media critics, not only Gülen movement media and journalists but also, to a lesser extent, Kurdish, secularist and left-wing media.

Authorities prosecuted a number of prominent journalists on terrorism-related charges, including the editor in chief and the Ankara bureau chief of the Cumhuriyet daily, who were arrested in connection with the paper’s coverage of alleged weapons shipments to Syria by Turkish intelligence services.

The report is a frankbumpy run, but this time, there were rocks and gravel exposed in many places. We picked our way down behind a family including some weak skiers (without helmets on) who were taking frequent tumbles on the rock sections. At one point I was marooned in a sea of rock, and had to step a couple of metres upslope to get out of the cul-de-sac. Next we tried a black run from the gondola station area back to base (Wildflower?). After 300 m I had to stop and take off my skis, then walk 30 m to avoid a sea of grass, soil and gravel. So much for the base measurement cited on the web - this would have been considered 'poor conditons' in June, and the run should


An elderly woman in the Moscow Region turned her apartment into a crypt. Police found the mummified bodies of two of her relatives lying on the floor covered with a blanket.

The chilling discovery was made in the town of Podolsk on Wednesday, the Investigative Committee said. The 77-year-old woman told officers the mummies were the bodies of her brother and sister, who passed away around eight or nine years ago.

She said she had no choice but to keep the bodies with her, as she had no money for their funeral. According to media reports, she was taken to a psychiatric hospital.

Decomposed body discovered by potential homeowner during property viewing in US https://t.co/EcF8SHHBB1 — RT (@RT_com) January 1, 2017

Preliminary data from investigators indicates that two sisters and a brotherThe Japanese Patent Application, first publication, No. Sho 61-208247 discloses an electronic apparatus having a conventional mounting structure. The electronic apparatus comprises a flat-pack IC and a printed circuit board. The flat-pack IC has a plurality of terminal leads protruding horizontally from a body of the flat-pack IC, and alignment leads formed by bending several terminal leads at right angles. The printed circuit board has a plurality of terminal pads for establishing an electrical connection and alignment holes for receiving the alignment leads. The terminal pads are made on the upper surface of the printed circuit board, corresponding to the terminal leads of the flat-pack IC, and the alignment holes corresponds to the alignment leads of flat-pack IC. In the mounting structure of the electronic apparatus, by inserting


the alignment leads of the flat-pack IC into the alignment holes on the printed circuit board, the terminal leads are properly aligned with the corresponding terminal pads.
When surface mounting electronic devices are mounted on both surfaces of the printed circuit board, a first electronic device is soldered on one surface, and a second electronic device is thereafter soldered on the underside. In the process of soldering the second electronic device, the board is turned over so that the first electronic device is positioned on the underside of the board.
However, when a heat radiating device is disposed on the upper side, corresponding to the first electronic device on the underside, the first electronic device may accidentally fall from the board, because the solder bonding the first electronic device meltsSaturday, May 9, 2009

Environmental matters in India seldom get priority. This is more so in the states where they are mostly kept on the back-burner. The central Indian province of Madhya Pradesh, for example, once thickly forested and wetter than many Indian states, has had a series of environmental mishaps because of its governments’ lackadaisical ways.

The world is aware of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, known as the world’s biggest “Industrial Disaster”, when a lethal gas leaked out from the now-defunct Union Carbide factory on a cold December night in 1984 killing hundreds and maiming thousands. The local environment was so fouled up that the affected people are still suffering from the after-effects of the poison they were exposed to. The post-mortem of the disaster had revealed that the


reduced to the size of a small pond. Having lost 90% of its water, huge expanses of its bed now lie exposed – bone-dry and looking increasingly sinister by the day. Once the lifeline for 40% of the city’s population, it has now ceased to be so, being unable to contribute to the city’s water supplies. This did not happen even in 2002 when it suffered a double whammy. Not only was the rainfall inadequate, huge leaks had developed in a dam designed to hold the water.

Although the authorities preferred to turn a blind eye, many had foreseen the oncoming calamity. Individually and collectively people of the town have been raising the issue of utter neglect of the Upper and Lower lakes, the two lakes which, together, makeup the Bhoj Wetland, a Ramsar Site. Bhopal Citizens’ Forum, a socially-conscious group of citizens, had filed a petition in 2007 with the State Human Rights Commission on the neglect and lack of effort to conserve the Wetland. The Commission got all the connected departments/agencies to respond to the petition. While the petition is still pending, the government departments/agencies, seemingly, did precious little during the interregnum.

Before that, around the turn of the Century, a World Bank-funded study conducted for economic valuation of the Wetland by an Environmental Economist of the prestigious Indian Institute of Forest Management had predicted that unless enough care was taken of it, it could die in another thirty years. It, perhaps, did not take into account the indifference of the state government to such


technologies. The audience of the conventional media, which so far had been harangued and sometime misled by partisan considerations, took it upon itself to report and project more objective news and views. In South Korea, OhmyNews founded by Oh Yeon-ho in 2000 with the motto "Every Citizen is a Reporter” became popular and even commercially successful. In this context mention must also be made of the Independent Media Centre (a.k.a Indymedia or IMC) that came into existence in 1999 during the anti-WTO protests at Seattle as a participatory network of journalists that reports on socio-political issues. Featuring as a milestone in the history of citizen journalism, Indymedia has pursued open publishing and democratic media process allowing all and sundry to contribute.

Not yet bound by any law, as perhapselectronic – having gone online, have staff blogs and also invite audience participation in actual journalism. While a new phenomenon of “Mojo” – mobile journos – is on the horizon, using fast and versatile 3G networks, a prospective citizen journo would find umpteen hosts of his choice on a web-search.Although a recent phenomenon, citizen journalism websites have become popular in India. Here, too, as elsewhere, citizen journalism was the result of “digital era’s democratisation of the media – wide access to powerful, inexpensive tools of media creation and wide access to what people created, via digital networks.” While whitedrums.com was launched in 2005, many popular sites like merinews.com, Mynews.in, Purdafash.com, Rediff.com etc. that came up around the same time seem to be flourishing. Their role-model being OhmyNews.com, they


generally report on more serious issues like climate change, health topics, science, politics, environmental or social problems.

Regardless of what the sceptics think citizens’ reportage has gathered nothing but strength. World over – in the US, Europe, South Africa, Australia and South Asia – new start-ups are appearing by the day. Yet credibility of the reportage is what the progress of citizen journalism hinges on. At a conference in Seoul in 2007, hosted by OhmyNews, the hugely successful citizen journalism medium, certain preconditions were set forth for user-created content centring on credibility, trustworthiness, influence and sustainability. Like in traditional media run by trained professionals, that, perhaps, cannot always be ensured.

Besides, the question that is raised often is whether an ordinary citizen can be a reporter. Rory O’Connor of GuardianA lawsuit against the Proviso Township High School District 209 School Board contains evidence that both the current school superintendent and the former board president signed a multi-million dollar building repairs contract without the knowledge or formal approval of the school board.

The district hired Franklin Park-based Restore Construction to clean up and renovate after a three-alarm electrical fire damaged 10 rooms of Proviso East High School at 807 N. First Ave. in Maywood on May 10, 2014. Almost a year later, the work was still not complete. Restore stopped work in April, 2015 after the school district’s insurance company raised questions about billing for the work.

Restore, run by brothers Patrick and Michael Santoro, has numerous political connections, including to former D209 Board President Emanuel “Chris” Welch and Melrose


a neighbor, had threatened to shoot Williams, to blow up the trailer park and to burn Williams' trailer.  Williams also told the officers that Al-Azzawy had threatened him with a pistol the day before, and that a third party had told Williams that he had seen Al-Azzawy in possession of hand grenades and automatic weapons some days earlier.

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Police officers then surrounded appellee's trailer with their guns drawn, and ordered appellee to come outside.  When Al-Azzawy appeared, he was ordered to get on his knees and place his hands on or above his head, which he did.  He was then frisked and questioned about the disturbance.  Appellee admitted having firearms in his trailer.

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According to the police, appellee and his wife were asked if their trailerreasonable person would conclude he was under arrest.' ").  Regarding the exact location of the arrest, the court stated:

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In this case, we are confronted with the situation where the suspect was arrested as he stood inside his home and the officers stood outside his home with drawn weapons.  In these circumstances, it is the location of the arrested person, and not the arresting agents, that determines whether an arrest occurs within a home.  Otherwise, arresting officers could avoid illegal "entry" into a home simply by remaining outside the doorway and controlling the movements of suspects within through the use of weapons that greatly extend the "reach" of the arresting officers.

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626 F.2d at 757.  The court distinguished cases upholding arrests at open doorways by noting


that Johnson had opened his door only after the agents misrepresented their identities and that he invited them inside only after the door was opened and he was subjected to the coercive effect of their brandished weapons.  Id.  Since "Johnson's initial exposure to the view and physical control of the agents [and therefore to warrantless arrest] was not consensual on his part," this court held that the arrest occurred within a residence.  Id.1

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In the case at bar, the police had completely surrounded appellee's trailer with their weapons drawn and ordered him through a bullhorn to leave the trailer and drop to his knees.  Appellee was not free to leave, his freedom of movement was totally restricted, and the officers' show of force and authoritywas overwhelming.  Any reasonable person would have believed he was under arrest in these circumstances.  Moreover, since appellee was in his trailer at the time he was surrounded by armed officers, and since he did not voluntarily expose himself to their view or control outside his trailer but only emerged under circumstances of extreme coercion, the arrest occurred while he was still inside his trailer.    United States v. Johnson, supra.

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We affirm the district court's ruling that appellee was arrested inside his residence without a warrant.

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Appellee next contends that the arrest was not supported by probable cause because the police acted on the information of only one witness who was not previously known to be reliable, they did not attempt to corroborate the information,


professional hockey team, Minnesota Wild who play home games at the Xcel Energy Center. The Xcel Energy Center is also home to the Minnesota Lynx, the WNBA basketball team, during the 2016-2017 season.

Roy Wilkins Auditorium – 9 miles from Roseville – Home to the Minnesota RollerGirls who are founding members of the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, the preeminent governing body for female, skater-owned, flat-track roller derby leagues. They love to see kids at their bouts!

For Laughs

Joke Joint Comedy Club – 13 miles from Roseville – The Joke Joint Comedy Club offers live stand up comedy Wed-Sat with nationally touring headliners and featuring the best local talent of the Twin Cities.

Breweries

Most of the breweries listed on our website are in either Minneapolis or Saint Paul. Instead of listingthem all here, check them out on our breweries website. Cheers!

Museums & Historical Sites

Alexander Ramsey House – 9 miles from Roseville – Alexander Ramsey House is a historic Victorian-era home in Saint Paul, built by Minnesota’s first territorial governor, Alexander Ramsey. The home is filled with thousands of original family items and furnishings.

Cathedral of Saint Paul – 8 miles from Roseville – The Cathedral of Saint Paul is a historical landmark and the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis. It is one of the most prominent buildings in Saint Paul and is a center of spiritual worship.

Gibbs Farm – 2 miles from Roseville – Gibbs Farm is a historic museum interpreting pioneer and Dakota life in the mid 1800s. Site contains Dakota-style


tipi, a bark lodge, a wild rice camp, and the Gibbs family’s historic farmhouse, barns and a replica of their first sod house.

Goldstein Museum of Design – 2 miles from Roseville – Goldstein Museum of Design, part of the University of Minnesota’s College of Design, advances the understanding and appreciation of design through exhibitions, research, preservation, and education.

Historic Fort Snelling – 17 miles from Roseville – Historic Fort Snelling is recognized as a national historic landmark dating back to the 1820s. It is a great place to learn about military history from before the Civil War through World War II, fur trade history, slavery in Minnesota, the US-Dakota War of 1862, and much more.

James J. Hill House – 9 miles from Roseville – James J. Hill House isrecognized as a national historic landmark. Guided tours of the James J. Hill House are offered Wednesday – Sunday. The tour brings visitors through four floors of the house and includes a 10-minute video on James J. Hill.

Landmark Center – 8 miles from Roseville – Landmark Center is a historic landmark and serves as a cultural center for music, dance, theater, exhibitions, public forums, and hosts countless special events.

Minnesota Children’s Museum – 17 miles from Roseville – Minnesota Children’s Museum brings an exciting, immersive world to children by arousing their curiosity. Through their exhibits and programs, the museum emphasizes play as a critical ingredient in every child’s development.

Minnesota History Center – 9 miles from Roseville – Minnesota History Center is an interactive museum with permanent and changing exhibits


and hosts concerts, lectures, family days and other special events throughout the year. It’s also home to the Minnesota Historical Society’s collections and provides a place for visitors to discover their connections to the past.

Minnesota Museum of American Art – 8 miles from Roseville – The Minnesota Museum of American Art showcases the unique voice of American artists from the 19th century to the present.

Minnesota State Capitol – 8 miles from Roseville – The Minnesota State Capitol is considered an architectural masterpiece and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. See the capitol restored to awe-inspiring glory! Discover its incredible history, art, and architecture on their tours.

Minnesota Transportation Museum – 7 miles from Roseville – Experience the history of Minnesota and upper-Midwest railroads through interactive displaysat the Minnesota Transportation Museum. Travel through history with in-depth exhibits featuring local and regional railway and bus history. Operate a genuine roundhouse turntable, one of the last of its kind in the country.

Twin City Model Railroad Museum – 4 miles from Roseville – Twin City Model Railroad Museum is dedicated to depicting the history of railroading through scale model railroad layouts as well as telling the story of railroad history in Minnesota. Visit the building full of train layouts and exhibits of every size imaginable. Run the Thomas the Tank Engine layout and push buttons to operate features on the layouts.

Showstopping Theatre/Music/Dance

History Theatre– 8 miles from Roseville – History Theatre offers an annual season filled with excellent plays and musicals. Their performances explore Minnesota’s past and the


diverse American experience.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts – 8 miles from Roseville – Ordway Center for the Performing Arts is home to a wide variety of performances throughout the year that encompass the finest in American musical theater, world music, dance, and vocal artists.

Palace Theatre – 8 miles from Roseville – The newly opened Palace Theatre in downtown St Paul will become every music-lover’s dream destination, hosting a wide array of contemporary music, comedy, and other live entertainment.

Park Square Theatre – 8 miles from Roseville – Park Square Theatre brings audiences professional productions in an intimate setting. They present exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.

Penumbra Theatre – 9 miles from Roseville – Penumbra Theatre creates professional productions that areartistically excellent, thought provoking, relevant, and illuminate the human condition through the prism of the African American experience.

The Fitzgerald Theater – 8 miles from Roseville – The Fitzgerald Theater serves as Minnesota Public Radio’s largest broadcast studio playing host to authors, poets, actors, musicians, journalists, and political figures.

Theatre in the Round – 7 miles from Roseville – Theatre in the Round provides quality theatre for thousands of audience members, as well as opportunities and resources for artists and performing groups throughout the region.

Tour the Town

Experience Twin Cities – 8 miles from Roseville – Experience the Twin Cities on four different tours focusing on food, breweries, distilleries and sightseeing throughout the Twin Cities.

Padelford Riverboats – 10 miles from Roseville – Padelford Riverboats operates public & private Mississippi River cruises


from Harriet Island in Saint Paul, MN. Their public cruises range from sightseeing to sunset dinners to holiday brunches.

Nice Ride – Closest station 2 miles from Roseville – Nice Ride is the Twin Cities’ bike share system. Simply take a bike when you need one and return it to any station when you arrive at your destination and check out another one for the return trip.

Saint Paul Gangster Tour – 9 miles from Roseville – Saint Paul Gangster Tour is the famous crook’s tour with the guide being a nefarious gangster hood or his moll. On the tour explore the sites of nightclubs, kidnappings, and gun battles associated with the 1930’s gangsters like John Dillinger, Ma Barker and Babyface Nelson.

Vintage Bus Tours – 7 miles from Roseville –Paul Petzoldt

Paul Petzoldt was one of America’s most accomplished mountaineers. He is perhaps best known for establishing the National Outdoor Leadership School in 1965. Paul made his first ascent of the Grand Teton in 1924 at the age of 16.


Kristian (with a K!), who looked after us throughout the evening. He was one of the friendliest guys I have ever met - brimming with positive energy and enthusiasm (well past 10 in the evening!), Kristian was faultless and made our meal at Byron memorable.

My first impressions were excellent – in addition to the excellent service, I loved the industrial look of the place, the exposed bricks painted white, the open plan kitchen, the video playing against the white wall, and the understated elegance of the decor.

Dr G ordered the Cheeseburger with Gruyere while I went for the Byron burger, as most of my friends. Byron’s burger size is just about right – I love grabbing my burger with both hands, never really getting my head round usingMedia playback is unsupported on your device Media caption First Minister Carwyn Jones says the European market is hugely important

New trade deals with countries such as the United States cannot replace the UK's current trading relationship with the EU, the Welsh Government has said.

Ministers in Cardiff accept there are "significant trading opportunities" outside the EU and support the "merits of international trade".

But they still prioritise "full and unfettered access" to the EU's single market and customs union membership.

The UK government said it is "committed to securing a good deal with the EU".

But it added the UK will leave the single market and customs union.

Wales exported £14.6bn worth of goods in 2016, with 61% of those being sold to countries within the EU. In the same year, only 41%


Hong Kong (CNN Business) Chinese tech giant Huawei is facing a new attack as it tries to persuade the UK government to let it help build super-fast 5G networks in the country.

Top British cybersecurity officials are reportedly confident they can manage any risks from Huawei's telecommunications equipment, but a report published Wednesday by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a top security think tank, said that would be a mistake.

"Allowing Huawei's participation is at best naive, at worst irresponsible," the report said, suggesting such a move could compromise the United Kingdom's communications infrastructure.

The US government is pushing allies around the world to block wireless operators from buying Huawei gear for the 5G networks they're starting to build. US officials say the company's technology could be used by Chinesewas later appointed Lieutenant General and head of the Home guard of Greater Oslo. Haukelid became a lieutenant colonel in the Army Infantry in 1959 and served as colonel and head of Greater Oslo Homeguard from 1966 until his retirement in 1974. At the time of his retirement, Haukelid was an active Lieutenant General (2 stars).

Haukelid wrote his autobiography,  in 1947 (revised edition 1953 under the name Kampen om tungtvannet). Other books such as Knut Haukelid's Skis Against the Atom and Thomas Gallagher's Assault in Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program provide accounts of the Norway raid and Haukelid's participation.

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The sabotage action against the Vemork plant was portrayed in the classic Norwegian 1948 film Kampen om tungtvannet. Haukelid played himself, as did the rest of the


is targeted at certain versions of moral realism, according to which the objectivity of moral claims consists in their sometimes truly representing mind-independent moral facts. Mackie seems to deny that there are such facts. Yet his notion of objective prescriptivity goes beyond that to include the idea of a "categorically imperative element" that applies to agents regardless of their desires and the contingent institutions in which they participate (Mackie 1977, 29ff). Thus, at least for Mackie, inescapability is an essential feature of the objective prescriptivity to which moral claims aspire. Second, objective prescriptivity might be taken to entail inescapability but not realism. Thus understood, the error theory is partly targeted at some versions of Kantian ethics, according to which the objectivity of moral claims differs from other claimsHabermas, Jurgen. (1996), "On The Cognitive Content of Morality." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 96, 335–58. Harman, Gilbert. (1977), The Nature of Morality. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Hegel, W. G. F. (1991), Elements of the Philosophy of Right, A. W. Wood (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hume, David. (1999), An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding, T. L. Beauchamp (ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Jackson, Frank. (1991), "Decision-theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection." Ethics 101, 461–82. Joyce, Richard. (2001), The Myth of Morality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -. (2006), The Evolution of Morality. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Joyce, Richard and Kirchin, Simon. (2010), "Introduction," in R. Joyce and S. Kirchin (eds.), A World Without Values: Essays on John Mackie's Moral Error Theory. New York: Springer, ix–xxiv. 9781441121752_ch03_Fpp_txt_prf.indd 74


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It will be all quiet on the Dadamoni front today. The unreservedly-adored Ashok Kumar’s 14th death anniversary on December 10 will not be commemorated with its customary annual event – be it an art exhibition, music soiree, stage play or a screening of one of his milestone films.

Reason: The legendary actor’s eldest daughter has exhausted her stamina and funds to do it alone. In her 70s now, the recently-widowed Bharati Jaffrey has had to move house from a spacious high-rise in south Mumbai to a compact apartment in the suburbs.

On the phone, the occasional film, TV and stage actress still sounds spry and spunky, her voice dipping into low octaves, as she wonders,Running youth sports programs isn't easy. In fact, working with kids of drastically different abilities from dramatically diverse backgrounds may be one of the toughest jobs in all of the athletics, fitness and recreation world.

That's why the five organizations that earned the 2004 National Alliance For Youth Sports' Excellence in Youth Sports Award deserve not only our attention and respect, but also serve as role models for thousands of similar programs around the country. Additionally, all but one of this year's winners has either claimed other state or national honors in 2004 or been tabbed by parent organizations to sponsor important pilot programs. Each winning organization also has undergone a transitional period during which its administrators implemented changes - some of them controversial - that ultimately made its


participants - including children, parents and coaches.

The 2004 winners were chosen from among 101 organizations that submitted applications for this year's competition, which was open to military bases, parks and recreation departments, YMCAs and YWCAs, Jewish Community Centers, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Catholic Youth Organizations and independent leagues and organizations. A panel of judges reviewed each application and selected the following winners, in alphabetical order:

Each winning program will receive $1,500 worth of background checks from Southeastern Security Consultants Inc., $1,000 in photography services from The Sports Section photo company, $700 in league-management services from ContactMyTeam.com, $500 in cash from GeneralSports Turf Systems, and $500 in coaches' and parents' certifications, courtesy of all awards sponsors.

Former All-Star Cal Ripken Jr., who holds the record for most consecutive MajorLeague Baseball games played, presented the awards at the Athletic Business Conference in Orlando, Fla., in November.

Congratulations to this year's winners, and thanks to all the organizations that entered the 2004 Excellence in Youth Sports Awards competition.

The challenges of running a youth sports program change on a daily basis, but those challenges often seem magnified on a military base. That's something Kevin Halligan, assistant director of the 280th Base Support Battalion Child & Youth Services at the U.S. Army base in Schweinfurt, Germany, quickly discovered when he signed on in 2002 after having been involved in adult-sports program administration while serving in the U.S. Air Force.

"Our soldiers are deployed, and many children have no father figure to ask questions about the sport that they are playing or to


of respect for coaches and referees among players, and lack of respect for referees among players and parents," Halligan says. Time will tell if the base's "Character Counts" program will foster change and create a better environment for all youth sports participants.

If it doesn't, it won't be for lack of effort. In another attempt to help build character, Halligan and his staff attempt to de-emphasize winning, especially with children younger than 9 years old. "Our primary emphasis is having the youths do their best and have fun," Halligan says, adding that scores are kept during games for older kids, but win-loss records are not tracked. "We treat each game as a practice game and there are no championship games, only jamborees, which are season-ending celebrations for all ofour sports programs. The non-competitive nature of our programs makes a jamboree a perfect tool to accomplish our goals."

In 2003, the AAU high school basketball team at the Boys & Girls Club of Green Bay won the North American Youth Sports national title -- a feat the team didn't repeat in 2004 at the Prime Sports National Tournament, where it went 1-3 in championship play. But while winning games is nice, it's not of utmost importance to either the club's administrators or the team's players.

Rather, the goal of the club's AAU program, whose team competes in Wisconsin and around the Midwest each spring and summer, is to provide both academic and athletic opportunities for kids who don't make their school's team, lack the confidence to try out for


ago, Tisch and his staff have monitored the grades and school attendance records of the club's dozen or so players and helped keep the players out of trouble and in control of their futures. "You get them to realize that even though they may have messed up before, college is still a possibility," says Tisch, who adds that he would like to implement similar team programs for other sports.

That kind of commitment to young people is one of the reasons this nonprofit organization received a Merit Award for program excellence in sports, fitness and recreation from the Boys & Girls Clubs of America earlier this year -- one of only three clubs recognized from among more than 3,500 member organizations.

Another reason for the club's success is its diversityof alliances. Two major partnerships involve the NFL's Green Bay Packers, whose players in the past have volunteered to help kids paint clubhouses and landscape their surroundings. The team also donated 1,100 tickets to Boys & Girls Clubs in Green Bay and around the state for an August intrasquad game. Another partnership, called Got Sports?, involves student-athletes from St. Norbert College in nearby De Pere teaching skills in their chosen sport to small groups of club members during four- to six-week sessions.

"There's a lot to be said about the partnerships we have," says Johanna Wicklund, director of the club's program development and evaluation. "We really try not to compete with other things that are existing in the community, so we don't duplicate services."

In March, the South Carolina Recreation


ones who are playing."

"Our Promise to Kids" is the first fruit of the South Carolina Youth Sports Task Force, made up of parks and recreation administrators from around the state to help each other better perform their jobs. As the SCRPA's 2004 agency of the year, St. Andrew's Parish Parks and Playground is one of the lead organizations on the task force, which is still mapping out future plans. Meanwhile, Orvin is simply trying to keep his department's promise to kids by: Reducing the number of players on teams in an effort to increase individual playing time. "Sometimes we even start each half in basketball for our younger kids with each player shooting a free throw," Orvin says.

Making it easier for parents to participate in the mandatory ParentsAssociation For Youth Sports (PAYS), a National Alliance For Youth Sports program that educates, motivates and holds parents accountable for their behavior on the sidelines and behind the scenes. This fall, St. Andrew's Parish Parks and Playground began allowing parents to undergo PAYS training online, rather than in an actual meeting environment. Online users view a downloadable video and click to accept the program's code of ethics. Orvin reports that the online program has been popular with busy parents and expects its usage to climb significantly.

Offering coaches more guidance in running practices and promoting team unity. The organization advocates drills involving the entire team at the same time. In basketball, for example, dribbling exercises can become a game of tag, in which the dribbler tries to steer clear


Wilson Stadium.

It is the department's recent alliance with a new program developed by the National Recreation and Park Association, however, that represents what director of recreation Martin Denecke says is "the culmination of all we've been working toward in youth sports."

Through funding from the NFL, the NRPA earlier this year designated 38 U.S. cities, including Hamburg, as Magnet Centers for Quality Sports. These "centers of excellence," as the association describes them, have held individual youth sports summits to help area administrators and volunteers focus on more effective coaching strategies, pay closer attention to skills development and expand parent-education tools. "We think we're ahead of the curve," Denecke says. "We are already doing the things that the NRPA is trying to get feedback on through the Magnet Centers program.To me, it was a natural fit."

Indeed, Hamburg is most likely one of the first municipalities in the country to hire someone like Tim Jerome, a full-time certified youth sports administrator, to oversee its programs, develop and maintain its partnerships and ensure that administrators, coaches and parents never lose sight of the department's philosophies. "We run a very busy department, and youth sports is not the only thing we do," Denecke says. "We throw a lot at Tim. This is a position that was created, so we had to convince our town board that this was a vital position and that the time was right to fill it."

Jerome is a former volunteer coach who remained involved in youth sports long after his own children stopped participating. After working


for Hamburg's recreation department in a part-time capacity, he participated in the National Alliance For Youth Sports' Academy for Youth Sports Administrators and moved into his new position in January 2004. Denecke reports the transition has been a smooth one, thanks to the groundwork laid by recreation supervisor Joe Wenzel, and Denecke encourages other communities to consider taking the same route. "I think we may see the position cropping up more often as the title gets more recognition," he says.

Having a person like Jerome has helped Hamburg recreation officials better supervise 18 independent organizations that run 14 sports leagues through Hamburg's department. The town provides start-up funds, facilities and maintenance in return for volunteers who oversee the programs. Because each independent organization has its own decision-making body, thedepartment formed the Hamburg Youth Sports Partnership earlier this year to ensure that all entities are on the same page when it comes to expectations and responsibilities. "These are youths in our community," Denecke says, "and even though they're not directly part of our programs, we want to give them as much support as possible."

Two springs ago, a baseball coach from the parks and recreation department in a nearby Florida municipality recruited eight players from Tyndall Air Force Base's Youth Activities program. "I couldn't even field a team, he took so many of them," says Bruce Mason, Tyndall's youth center sports director. "But most of the players he recruited sat on the bench. So the next year, the players came back to me, and we won the city


Engine falls off Northern Pacer

July 21, 2009

One passenger was taken to hospital with whiplash injuries when a Northern Pacer (class 142) train derailed last month at Broad Green in Liverpool. The cause of the accident has been revealed as the engine having fallen from the underside of the train.

Incredibly this is not the first time the engine has fallen from one of these trains which have long been the focus of safety concerns: in 1995 another Pacer derailment on the Cumbrian coast line was caused by exactly the same failure.

Despite their unpopularity among passengers, Pacer trains are used on around half the services through Walkden.A fossil expert has established for the first time that parrots lived in Scandinavia about 55 million years ago when the area was covered in tropical forest.

The dead parrot sketch

Dr David Waterhouse of Norwich, Norfolk, found that a fossilised wing recovered from a mine in Denmark came from a bird which belonged to the parrot family.

He said: “I specialise in bird fossils and am also a Python fan, so I have lived with jokes about dead parrots for years.

“Obviously we were dealing with a bird that is bereft of life, but the tricky bit was establishing it was a parrot.”

Dr Waterhouse, the assistant curator of Natural History at Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, believes the same species of parrot would have also flown in Norway, as the country


would have had a similar climate to Denmark at the time.

It is the first time that it has been established that parrots lived so far north, although at 55 million years old the bird is very much an 'ex-parrot’, having lived 10 million years after the dinosaurs died out.

The fossil is also much older than the remains of the next-oldest parrot found in the southern hemisphere, which are believed to date back 15 million years.

Dr Waterhouse, 29, has nicknamed the bird Danish Blue, although the species has now been given the scientific name Mopsitta Tanta.

“No Southern Hemisphere fossil parrot has been found older than about 15 million years old, so this new evidence suggests that parrots evolved right here in the Northern Hemisphere before diversifying further south inthe tropics later on.” Dr Waterhouse said.

The classic dead parrot television sketch was first screened in 1969 on Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

It featured John Cleese as angry parrot owner Eric Praline trying to convince a pet shop owner, played by Michael Palin, that the bird he had bought earlier was dead.

Cleese’s character is shown banging the lifeless bird on the counter, shouting at it, and pointing out it was nailed to the perch. He is assured by Palin that the lifeless Norwegian Blue is just resting, stunned, “tired following a prolonged squawk” or “pining for the fjords”.

It was voted Britain’s best loved alternative comedy sketch in a 2004 poll for the Radio Times.

Dr Waterhouse made his discovery three years ago in Denmark when he spotted the remains in


Report: Samsung, Under Armour to partner for wearable devices

Samsung (OTC:SSNLF) is looking to partner with Under Armour (NYSE:UA) to increase its wearable devices product line, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reports.

A meeting was stated to have taken place between Lee Jay-yong, the heir of Samsung Group, and Under Armour CEO Kelvin Plank earlier this month discussing ways to combat Apple-Nike's wearable device market share.

Apple and Nike have been connecting sports wear with smart devices since 2006.second yoke. In this way, a malfunction is solved, which is caused by electromagnetic repulsive force acting between the fixed contact points and the movable contact points in an event where an abnormal current flows in a contact point ON state.
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CLAREMONT, Bronx (WABC) -- Police have identified both the victim and a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl at a Bronx apartment Thursday evening.Zion Willis was found dead, shot in the face, around 6:15 p.m. on the fourth floor of an apartment building on East 171st and College Avenue in the Claremont section.Willis' relatives, who live in Brooklyn, were too devastated to speak and asked for privacy. The teen was visiting a friend and in 42-year-old Dale Weston's apartment when she accidentally shot and killed herself.Investigators believe Weston left his gun in the bedroom, when Willis picked it up with both hands and stared straight down the barrel before it went off. Detectives believe Weston then grabbed the gun and took off inDespite his house arrest, and 20-year ban on making films, the Iranian director has released a movie – the unclassifiable This Is Not a Film, smuggled out of the country in a cake

If one accepts Iran's ruling that Jafar Panahi is no longer a film-maker, then it follows that his latest release is an orphan, unnamed and unclassifiable; a 75-minute yawp in the darkness.

"This Is Not a Film," the opening title assures us, after which we are free to sit back and watch as the Iranian dissident pads distractedly about his Tehran apartment, testing the limits of his cage and implicitly highlighting the absurdity of his situation. The result may well be the most intriguing, quietly compelling non-movie we'll see all year.

In December 2010, Panahi was convicted by


Iran's Islamic republic of "making propaganda against the system" and placed under house arrest. He faces a 20-year ban on writing scripts, directing films, giving interviews or leaving the country.

As an added bonus, he is currently staring down the barrel of a six-year jail term – he is in a judicial phase known as "execution of the verdict", which means that his prison sentence can start at any moment.

Made in tandem with the documentary director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb (who was later arrested for his trouble), This Is Not a Film, which goes on general release on 30 March, catches the exile at play – obeying the letter of the law, if not quite the spirit.

If Panahi cannot make a film, he will simply tell us about the film hewould make if he could. So he sits in his book-lined apartment, reciting dialogue from his script and mapping fictional landscapes on a Persian rug. "You can't call 'cut!'" Mirtahmasb scolds him at one point. "It is an offence."

The director once remarked that he had spent his entire career making movies "constructed around the notion of restriction, limitation, confinement and boundaries".

In the case of This Is Not a Film, however, he finds himself tied in knots that would thwart Houdini.

Panahi, alongside Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, was a leading light of the Iranian new wave, the creator of haunting social-realist fables that were suppressed in his homeland but played well with art house audiences in the west.

He studied film at the Iran broadcasting college in Tehran, where he


became obsessed with Alfred Hitchcock and dreamed of imitating the master's icy, high-concept style. But his first short film was a disaster. "So cold and artificial that it had no soul," he admitted. "I knew I had to go another way."

Panahi's alternative route involved him first working as an assistant on Kiarostami's Through the Olive Trees and then making an acclaimed feature debut with 1995's The White Balloon, a deceptively simple folk tale about a girl's trip to buy a goldfish. If there was any political commentary in those early works (The White Balloon, 1997's charming drama The Mirror), the director kept it low in the mix; shrewdly folded amid the hurly-burly of the city streets.

"There is a sense in many films of the Iranian new wave thatthe real meaning lies in what's going on in the background," explains Geoff Andrew, the head of film programming at BFI Southbank, which is planning a retrospective of Panahi's work.

"That gives a lovely elusiveness to the narrative and pushes the audience to think. But it's also born out of necessity, in that it's what Iranian film-makers have to do. They're not allowed to put a message up front. So they have to scatter seeds to either side and hope that we're clever enough to pick them up."

Yet Panahi may have crossed the line with his subsequent work. The Circle (2000) turned out to be an impassioned criticism of the treatment of women in Iran. Crimson Gold (2003) spotlighted a crisis of masculinity in the nation's underclass, and Offside


(2006) was prompted by the experience of the director's daughter, who was refused entrance to a football stadium because of her gender. All three films won awards on the international festival circuit. All three were promptly banned in Iran.

"I don't think Panahi's a party political director, but he certainly points out that life is not a bed of roses, particularly for women," says Andrew. "Undeniably he makes films that the regime don't like. But given that they ban so many films, that seems almost inevitable."

In 2009, for good measure, Panahi became a vocal supporter of the green movement, protesting against the result of the disputed election that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power.

In March 2010, the director was arrested at his home and taken by plainclothes officers to Evinprison, a notorious holding-pen for political dissidents. Iran's culture minister later explained that this was because "he was making a film against the regime and it was about the events that followed the election", although Panahi's wife says that this is untrue.

The arrest sparked a petition signed by many high-profile actors and directors (Steven Spielberg, Robert De Niro, the Coen brothers). Later, at the Cannes film festival, Juliette Binoche broke down in tears at the podium upon hearing reports that Panahi had begun a hunger strike. He was eventually released on bail at the end of May that year.

"I think it's the duty of all film workers to oppose censorship wherever it takes place," says the British film-maker Ken Loach, who was one of the first to call


for Panahi's release. "I slightly resist the idea that we can feel smug about living in the west, because there is censorship here too. But at least artists are not being put in prison as a result of their creative decisions. Men like Panahi are suffering in a way that we are not."

In the meantime, what's the answer? Hobbled by restrictions, their every move scrutinised, Panahi's new-wave compatriots have largely decided to abandon Iran. Makhmalbaf now lives in Paris and has no plans to return, while Kiarostami shot his last film in Tuscany and remains sceptical about his chances of ever making another picture on home soil. Yet Panahi has always identified himself as an Iranian film-maker, based in Iran. It is a stance that may turn outshow, surrounded by oddball supporting characters (his pet iguana, a moonlighting art student, a neighbour's yapping dog) and railing against the sheer dumb injustice of his house arrest.

In keeping with Panahi's bizarre circumstance, the film was finally smuggled out of Iran in the form of a USB stick concealed within a birthday cake.

"I love the fact that he sent it to us in a cake," says the British-Iranian comic Omid Djalili. "It's a gift, it's a laugh; it says a lot about the spirit of the man." Djalili points out that, for all their barbed social commentary, Panahi's pictures are also very funny; gently catching the sheer absurdity of life in modern-day Iran. "I see this one as a kind of comic enterprise. Sometimes the limitations of the


enterprise overwhelm him and those scenes are very moving. But he's always fighting against that sense of futility. He never loses his sense of the ridiculous."

Panahi's attitude reminds Djalili of the tales of his own ancestors back in Iran. "They were Baha'i Iranians, which was an outlawed faith. They were poets and intellectuals and they were captured and humiliated on the streets, because they were Baha'i. The authorities put dunces' hats on their heads and forced them to walk barefoot in the snow. And their response was to look at one another and just burst out laughing. The situation was so stupid that you could only look on it as a big, silly joke.

"Panahi has the same rebellious spirit. He's turning the situation to his advantage. He's irrepressible,for his debut novel, aged 10. After graduating from Tehran's broadcasting college, was mentored by director Abbas Kiarostami and won 1995 Cannes Camera d'Or award for his first feature, The White Balloon. Feted at film festivals ever since, it is Panahi's fate to be a darling abroad and a pariah at home. Iranians are only able to view his work on pirated bootlegs.

High point His controversial drama The Circle took top prize at the 2000 Venice film festival and was named film of the year at San Sebastián.

Low point The spring of 2010, spent on hunger strike in Tehran's Evin prison.

What he says "I am an Iranian. I am staying in my country and I like to work in my country. I love my country. I have paid


An Ottawa city councillor wants the public to have a clear sign their Uber or Lyft driver is legitimate after a man allegedly posing as an Uber driver was charged with sexual assault.

At the city's community and protective services committee meeting Thursday, Coun. Riley Brockington introduced a motion to have city staff review the taxi bylaw and require personal transportation companies such as Uber and Lyft to display some type of decal on vehicles.

Earlier this month, Ottawa police charged a 37-year-old man with two counts of sexual assault after he allegedly posed as an Uber driver in the ByWard Market and assaulted women who got into his vehicle.

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