Rontu barks and she hears steps below her. Tutok comes out of the brush, singing as she walks toward the cave. She stops and grows quiet when she notices the beads still lying on the rock.

As she is about to leave, Karana jumps to her feet and calls the girl’s name. She...

The Aleut hunters have left many wounded otters behind them. Some float to land and die there; others Karana kills because they are obviously suffering. She finds one young otter that has not been badly hurt. It is lying in a bed of bull kelp, and she would have paddled right past it if Rontu did not bark. A strand of kelp is wound around its body, something otters do when they want to sleep; however, thisone has a deep gash across his back. The otter does not try to escape when she reaches for it, and his normally large eyes are open so wide in pain and fear that she can see herself reflected in them.

She cuts the strands of kelp and takes the animal to a sheltered tide pool by a reef. Karana catches two fish and is...

Spring on the island is beautiful once again. Tainor and Lurai build a nest in the tree where they are born, and when they hatch two ugly fledglings, Karana knows they will one day be as beautiful as their parents. She names them and clips their wings, as well, and soon they are also tame. A gull with a broken leg also becomes part of


her family, and her yard seems like a happy place. Yet she thinks about Tutok and Ulape, wondering if they have real children, so different from Karana’s children and not what she had always hoped to have.

Karana decides to start early collecting abalones in case the Aleuts come again, and one day she sees a herd of otter frolicking in the kelp bed, playing much like the Ghalas-at...

Never again do the Aleuts come to the Island of the Blue Dolphins, but every summer Karana watches for them and every spring she gathers shellfish, which she dries and stores in the cave along with her canoe. Two winters after the hunters left, she makes more weapons to store with the food and her canoe. In case they ever doreturn, she will always be ready to go to another part of the island, or even move from cave to cave if she must.

For many summers after the hunters left, the herd of otters leaves Coral Cove. The oldest otters in the herd remember the time of year when the danger comes, and they lead the herd away from the island to stay at Tall Rock until the first winter storms arrive. Sometimes Karana and Rontu...

That winter Karana does not ever go to the reef. She eats the food she has stored and leaves the house only to get water from the spring. Even if Rontu had been with her, she would not have left the house often because the winter storms and winds were strong. She does


make four snares from notched branches.

Once during the summer she saw a young dog that looked like Rontu. Though he was running with one of the packs of wild dogs, she was sure he must be Rontu’s son. He was larger than the other dogs, had heavier fur and yellow eyes, and ran gracefully like Rontu. During the winter, she makes the snares so she can catch him in the spring. Now that Rontu is gone, the wild dogs come to her house often. Once the worst of...

After the fierce winter storms come days with no wind, and it is hot and sultry on the island. On the final day of this weather, Karana takes the canoe and paddles around the reef to the sandy beach. It isof all the food and weapons Karana had stored in the caves and the loss of the canoe she had been working on and the others hidden under the south cliffs. With the scarcity of wood on the island, the canoes will be the most difficult to replace. On the first fair morning after the event, she goes to look for any wreckage washed up by the storm on the shore.

In the rocks near the island’s southern cliffs, she finds part of a canoe. She digs all morning to extricate it and must then decide whether to dismantle it and take it piece by piece back to Coral Cove (which would take her...

After two more springs have come and gone, the ship comes back. Karana sees it at


dawn from the headland on a clear, calm morning. By the time the sun is high, the ship is anchored in Coral Cove. She watches until the sun goes down while the men make camp on the shore and build a fire. She goes back to her house and tries to sleep but cannot; all she can think of is the man who once called to her. She has thought of his voice many times since that day. Every day of the spring and summer since then, she has gone to the headland and watched—always at dawn and at dusk.

In the morning she smells smoke from their fire. She goes to the ravine and bathes before putting on her otter cape and her cormorant skirt. She wears her...reported in such depth the other side of this conflict is troubling to the authorities. "Al-Jazeera has been providing some material that has been very uncomfortable," Gowing said at News World.

He believes that the western military forces are prepared to target journalists if they get in the way. He said that representatives of the British special forces had told him: "When a war is not declared, journalists are legitimate targets where they are inconvenient."

Ron McCullagh, of the independent production company Insight News, was another of those exercised by the implications of the incident. Other news organisations, by treating Al-Jazeera in a semi-detached fashion, had not helped: at the start of the war the BBC had described it as a "pro-Taliban broadcaster", McCullagh said. "This was a very dangerous


thing to do. It could be used as an excuse for bombing them."

Al-Jazeera certainly believes it was a target. Speaking on the telephone to News World from Qatar, its chief editor, Ibrahim Hilal, said he believed that its Kabul office had been on the Pentagon's list of targets since the beginning of the conflict, but that the US did not want to bomb it while the broadcaster was the only one based in the city. By last week, however, the BBC had reopened its Kabul office under Taliban supervision, with the correspondents William Reeve and Rageh Omar.

On Monday, Al-Jazeera executives in Qatar called their correspondent in Kabul and told him to leave, because they feared for his safety after the Northern Alliance took over. But after assurances fromthe Alliance that he would be safe, the reporter, Tasir Alouni, decided to stay. He did not tell Qatar of his decision - that night, his office was bombed. At the time, Reeve was being interviewed on BBC World from his bureau in the same street. Pictures of him diving under his desk to avoid fall-out from the blast have been widely shown on BBC TV.

Hilal said he believed the attack was deliberate and long-planned. US officials have criticised Al-Jazeera's coverage of the bombing campaign as inflammatory propaganda. The station reaches more than 35m Arabs, including 150,000 in the US. "I still believe the decision to exclude our office from the coverage was taken weeks before the bombing," Hilal said. "But I don't think they would do that


while we were the only office in Kabul."

He claimed that US intelligence forces routinely monitored communications between Qatar and Kabul - a recent videotape of a Bin Laden statement was played out by satellite to Qatar from Kabul, but not broadcast until seven days later. Yet, before it was shown, Washington knew of its existence and demanded the right to broadcast a response.

The US would have known, therefore, that Al-Jazeera had ordered its Kabul correspondent to leave, but would not have realised he was still in the city. If the correspondent had died, there would have been an outcry, and the disaster would have been compounded if Reeve had been seriously injured or killed.

Speaking to the conference from the US military's central command centre in Florida, spokesman ColonelBrian Hoey denied that Al-Jazeera was a target. "The US military does not and will not target media. We would not, as a policy, target news media organisations - it would not even begin to make sense." He said that the bombing of Serb television in Belgrade during the Kosovo conflict was a different issue - the targets in question "appeared to have government facilities associated with them".

Col Hoey said the Pentagon did not have the location co-ordinates of the Al-Jazeera office in Kabul even though the broadcaster said it had passed them on, several times, via its partner CNN in Washington.

The situation is still confused. Al-Jazeera has a conspiracy theory that it cannot prove, but of which it is genuinely convinced. Wars are organised chaos and, however


Survival of the Fittest (Alex Delaware #12)

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive.

Long Synopsis:

The daughter of a diplomat disappears on a school field trip--lured into the Santa Monica mountains and killed in cold blood. Her father denies the possibility of a political motive. There are no signs of struggle, no evidence of sexual assault, leaving psychologist Alex Delaware and his friend LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to pose the disturbing question: Why?Working together with Daniel Sharavi, the brilliant Israeli police inspector introduced in Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theater, Delaware and Sturgis soon find themselves ensnared in one of the darkest, most menacing cases of theirappeal to this Court.[1]
1. Harris was the former boyfriend of Winn's present girlfriend, Latrice Shelton. Harris went to Ms. Shelton's apartment where he allegedly initiated a physical assault upon her and Winn. Winn retreated to the bedroom and armed himself with a gun he kept there. When Harris, who had no weapon, entered the bedroom, Winn shot him in the shoulder. Harris turned to leave and Winn followed. After Harris left the apartment, Winn observed him turning back around. Winn then fired and shot Harris in the neck. Harris died as the result of this second shot. According to Winn, he fired the second shot only after someone opened the door to the apartment across the hallway and startled him. However, Ms. Shelton, who was an eyewitness to


September 18, 1996, the trial court entered the judgment of conviction and imposed the life sentence. Winn filed his motion for new trial on September 23, 1996 and the trial court denied that motion on September 25, 1997. Winn filed his notice of appeal on October 10, 1997. The Court of Appeals transferred the appeal on November 6, 1997 and the case was docketed in this court on November 18, 1997. The appeal was submitted for decision on January 12, 1998.
integrate themselves into Thai society.

The Hmong

The Hmong are believed to have been the original inhabitants of the Yangtze River in ancient China. The expansion of neighboring Chinese from the north forced the Hmong to migrate southwards to Laos and Vietnam. Over the centuries, many wars have been waged against the Chinese. Greatly outnumbered, the Hmong suffered heavy casualties.

Futile efforts to establish themselves as an independent people apart from the expanding Chinese led to the Hmong's exodus further south, eventually into Southeast Asia. From here, they made their way into the territories of the European colonies that later gained independence and became known as Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar.

Today, the Hmong are found in the Thai Highlands, although some are found elsewhere within the country. The Hmong are becoming


The Pleiades star cluster is one of the most noticeable of all star patterns. To most people’s unaided eyes, the cluster looks like a tiny misty dipper of six little stars. Yet the Pleiades is sometimes called the Seven Sisters. Why?

In Greek mythology, the Pleiads were the seven daughters of Atlas, a Titan who held up the sky, and the oceanid Pleione, protectress of sailing. The sisters were Maia, Electra, Alcyone, Taygete, Asterope, Celaeno and Merope. The Pleiades were sometimes said to be nymphs in the train of Artemis. They were said to be half-sisters of the seven Hyades – the Hyades pattern is another star cluster, near the Pleiades stars.

Modern-day astronomy sees the Pleiades quite differently. Astronomers say this cluster of several hundred stars condensed out ofU.S. News in a personal capacity.

Government surveillance reform also may continue as a bipartisan focus in the Senate through the continued scrutiny of Republican Sens. Rand Paul of Kentucky and Mike Lee of Utah, says Neema Singh Guliani, legislative counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union.


than one.

On opposite sides of Ukraine, two cities, each of about 1 million people, illustrate that divide.

The eastern city of Donetsk can seem like a cliche of post-Soviet grimness, a place of Stalinist-era apartment blocks, tin-roofed shacks and loyalty to Russia. In the west, Lviv has emerged as a center for Ukrainian artists and writers, a huge draw for European tourists and a city desperate for closer ties to the West. To the fiercest pessimists, as well as to extremists on both sides, the cities are already in different nations.

“The country is already separated,” said Ivan Reyko, a 30-year-old factory worker from Donetsk who joined a recent demonstration of about 100 people in the city’s main plaza, Lenin Square, where a 30-foot-tall statue of the Soviet hero gazesproudly toward the horizon. “There is no way back to a united Ukraine.”

A recent series of ominous signs has diplomats warning the region could easily stumble into widespread violence. Among them: military drills just across the border by 150,000 Russian soldiers, and the seizure of the parliament building in the Russian-speaking region of Crimea by unidentified gunmen, who flew the Russian flag and chanted “Crimea is Russia.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been long dreaming of pulling Ukraine, a sprawling country of 46 million seen as the ancient cradle of Slavic civilization, closer to Moscow.

In Lviv, a bookish, soft-spoken mayor is dreaming of something else.

Andriy Sadovyi has been a powerful symbol of resistance to Yanukovych, as well as regional powerbroker who cut ties to the central government even before


the president was forced from power. Sadovyi, who insists he only wants regional autonomy in Ukraine, has called repeatedly for unity.

“Ukraine is strong only if it is united,” he said a couple days after Yanukovych fled the presidential compound.

Modern Lviv sees itself at the core of Ukrainian hopes for a more open, democratic government. But the area, once part of neighboring Poland and long a wealthy agricultural region, also saw the rise of a series of nationalist movements in the 1930s.

When Germany invaded Ukraine during World War II, some residents cooperated with the Nazi occupiers, who were seen as liberators from the hated Soviets. Tens of thousands of the region’s Jews disappeared into Nazi camps or were gunned down in their homes by death squads.

When the war ended,Moscow exacted its revenge: nationalist fighters who fought Red Army soldiers were purged and sent to prison gulags, along with Roman Catholic and nationalist leaders who could challenge Russian authority. The city was transformed from a cosmopolitan center into a decaying backwater. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, political groups from Lviv were key in fighting for Ukraine’s independence.

For two decades, anti-Russian feelings quietly burned across the region, along with anger at Yanukovych. Even today, thousands of people in western Ukraine, a handful even wearing Nazi-themed uniforms, hold rallies every year honoring men who fought Stalin’s forces during World War II.

Fierce historical loyalties helped drive the support that has poured from Lviv into Kiev and the capital’s Independence Square, epicenter of the anti-Yanukovych protests, which began late


Drive into the village of Battir on a weekday afternoon, and among the kids playing soccer in the streets and the lush fig trees outside modest homes, you are likely to see an old man or woman walking toward the fields, an antiquated hoe in hand. They are farming in the hundreds of acres of terraces watered by a Roman-era irrigation system. On a recent Tuesday, Battir Mayor Akram Bader showed me around the village fields. Water gushed into a Roman spring at the top of the farmland and gurgled from there to a large pool that feeds a network of pipes and channels that descend the stepped land. Water is divided among the villagers by clan. Each day, an old man clambers into the pool and measuresland are weathered farmers in their sixties and seventies, undeterred by the steep stone steps they must climb to tend their tiny patches of vegetables.

For the past few years, Battir’s residents feared their 4,000-year-old farming heritage would soon hit a wall—because of the Israeli army’s plan to build a wall across their fields as part of the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank. But a coalition of Palestinian and Israeli environmental activists, helped by an unlikely partner in the Israeli government, protested the route in Israel’s High Court of Justice and earned an injunction against the plan. It was a rare win for environmental concerns in the discussions around the barrier, and it showed both the power and the limits of green ideals when facing off


against security concerns in Israel.

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Because Battir is a border community, its survival as an intact farming village is a historical anomaly. In 1949, as Israel and its Arab neighbors signed a ceasefire agreement, what became the border between Israel and Jordan ran between dozens of farming villages and their land. Nearly all the West Bank villages with land in what became Israel lost that territory. Battir, though, was different. Then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan offered Battir’s residents a deal: They would protect the train track that ran across their fields, and in exchange they could keep tending their terraces that ran in both the West Bank and Israel.

Six decades later, the train still chugs through the valley, with an Israeli jeep sweeping the tracks just ahead of it andan army watchtower overlooking from a nearby hilltop. But an official at the Defense Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said this arrangement is not enough to keep out potential hostile infiltrators, and the gaping hole in the separation barrier is a breach in security that must be fixed.

Israel began building the separation barrier in 2003 in response to a wave of deadly Palestinian attacks on Israeli cities. The barrier, part fence and part wall, snakes around the West Bank border and has been credited by some Israeli military experts with bringing down hostile attacks inside Israel. But Palestinian critics point out that the wall often diverts to include settlement blocks, and about 8.5 percent of the West Bank has been included on the “Israeli” side of


the barrier. According to Shaul Arieli, an Israeli expert on the barrier, it is about 845 kilometers long, and two-thirds has been built. Many of the unbuilt sections, including the one that would pass through Battir, are locked in legal battles.

One of the most famous cases is that of the village of Bil’in, in the northern West Bank. The fence built there initially took half the village’s land, but in 2007 the Israeli High Court ruled the fence had to be moved. Three years later, the army moved the barrier westward. Other villages are not so lucky. Walajeh, a village just south of Jerusalem, is now being surrounded by a concrete wall and fence on all sides, and Israeli courts overruled their objections. The Cremisan Monastery to Walajeh’scentury or so. Perhaps they are some other culture who swooped in to take possession after the Babylonian or Roman empires kicked the Jews out?

Battir was once known as Betar and obviously it was a Jewish village. The hill has a long and important history with a number of significant Jewish artifacts discovered during archeological work at the site. Most significantly, it was Bar Kochba’s headquarters during the revolt against Rome and apparently he chose the village because of its hilltop location and the spring that provided a constant source of water. When Bar Kochba was killed at Betar, his revolt ended.

I understand why the Palestinians want to erase this history. I don’t understand why a Jewish publication wouldn’t even mention the Jewish history of such a significant


in Jerusalem, on the Temple Mount, as the result of a hallucination, was a desecration of another, older culture!

As a Jerusalemite who can practically see the formerly Jewish village of Beitar (now Battir) from his window I concur with all those who decry the myopia and ignorance
of The Tablet when it comes to Jewish history.

It appears Israel is a country where the rules of the law applies;
this is in stark contrast to the conditions in the countries surrounding Israel.
My guess is the mohammedans living in Israel are grateful being able to live there.

One more (among others) factual distortion proffered by Cheslow, her referring to the Green Line as a “border”. The Green Line was never a “border”, let alone a recognized one; rather it was an “cease firewould only add richness and Jewish history to this story.

According to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA) court brief, available in Hebrew here (http://foeme.org/uploads/Battir_Israel_Nature_Parks_Authority_Expert_Opinion.pdf), the ancient city of Beitar is near the modern village of Battir and south of the planned security barrier. Maimonides writes that Beitar was a large city, “and there were thousands of Israel there, and they had a great king.” Jewish sages say there were 500 schools in Beitar and each had 500 students.

During the Bar Kochba revolt against Roman rule, Beitar was the Jews’ last stand. In 135 AD, the Romans sacked the city. According to the Mishnah in Masechet Ta’anit, Beitar was captured and plowed under on the ninth of Av. Blood flowed in rivers so high they reached the nostrils


I’m here because of Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs.

I don’t remember exactly when I read Chuck Klosterman’s second and most successful book, but it was sometime in the year after its 2003 release. I was a senior in college with vague plans to “move to New York” and “be a writer.” The clearest version of this blurry vision involved music journalism, so I religiously read SPIN, where Klosterman was a senior writer. (He got that gig in 2002, shortly after he turned in the Cocoa Puffs manuscript he had written during a 12-week hiatus from his previous job at The Akron Beacon Journal.) I assume I found the book through a mention in the magazine, then bought and read it on the dirty couch my roommates and ITypography

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Philly's The Food Trust: Night Market announces its food truck festivals are returning this year. A summertime favorite when the spring weather hits, and luckily, the Food Trust’s Night Market is returning this spring, summer and fall with its first event of the year in Roxborough on May 12, June 23, September 1 and TBD date in October The events will continue in Callowhill on June 23, West Philly on September 1 and a TBD location in October. The Night Market Festivals draw over 50,000 guests each and promise a roster of more than 80 food trucks, vendors and beverage makers.


building up the character database. (3) Adjusting the different position of the multination language in accordance with different strings, which would make screen more beautiful and simplify the method that adjust the position of string less complicated.
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for displaying subtitles by a multination language human-machine interface. First of all, a character database is been edited, and in accordance with the character size to edit the bitmap file for each individual character. The bitmap file is then transferred to 80c51xa assembly language and stored in the character database. Then, the xe2x80x9cstring codexe2x80x9d, the xe2x80x9cstring combination code and position shifting codexe2x80x9d, and the xe2x80x9cstring combination code of multination language and position shifting codexe2x80x9d of the controlling program are established, and the contentof the character database is been called. During a practical usage, the desired string is been called by the controlling program, then carried out the language judgement of the exercising nation. Next, in accordance with the characters included in the desired string, extracting from the character database, drawing the string and showing on the screen eventually.


At a time when booksellers everywhere appear a threatened breed, the life of Emile Edouard Moreau, who set up A H Wheeler and Co, the chain of railway bookstalls that endure to this day, appears as a fascinating example of a man with interests that spanned continents, and yet about whom there remains much that is mysterious. This story tries to piece the gaps in Moreau’s story, locating his life at the most interesting juncture in world history.

Moreau was at that time a young employee of the managing agency Bird & Company in Allahabad.

In 1877 (though the date is variously given as 1874), when he was a young man of around 20, Moreau set up what would be the first of the A H Wheeler bookstalls at theAllahabad railway station. The East Indian Railways, which had commenced operations from Calcutta northward in 1854, was then expanding its operations from Allahabad to north India. The line from Allahabad to Jabalpur had already been constructed in 1867 and so for the first time Calcutta and Bombay were connected by rail via these two cities.

Moreau was at that time a young employee of the managing agency Bird & Company in Allahabad. His two uncles, Paul and Sam Bird, brothers of Moreau’s mother, were partners in the company. Bird & Company was a leading labour contractor, supplying workmen to the railway company. It would soon have interests in coal, jute and other industrial enterprises.

Moreau had come to India a couple of years before this. His father was a Frenchman


named Auguste Moreau, and his mother was Mary Bird. Emile Moreau (not to be confused with a famous French author of the same name) was born in Oise in France, on July 11, 1856. At 15, he enrolled at the boarding school for boys Framlingham in Suffolk, and, when 17, he took a steamship to Calcutta, where his uncles were already established.

The family tradition

Moreau’s grandfather James Bird, who had died in 1839, had also been a bookseller. He was evidently a local poet of some repute in Yoxford, Sussex where he also encouraged other writers such as the Strickland Sisters who later moved to Canada. After the early 1850s, railway bookstalls were no longer a new feature, at least in Europe. As far back as 1852, Louis Hachette(whose name would go on to be used by the famous publishing house) had the idea of a railway library on trains plying from Paris to other regions in France. His railway library used an innovative colour scheme distinguishing books for different clientele and readerships.

Moreau’s familiarity with the railway station in Allahabad, where he lived as an employee of Bird and Co, meant that he soon noticed the demand for reading material, especially from first class passengers. As the story goes, when a friend of his, A H Wheeler, concluded that he had far too many books in his home library, Moreau volunteered to sell them from a wooden almirah at the station.

Encouraged by the results, he set up, with a few others, the A H Wheeler and


Co (named after his friend, who had moved to London by then), in Allahabad. According to this report from the London Gazette, the company began as a partnership Moreau set up with Arthur Henry Wheeler and also Arthur Lisle Wheeler, along with two others, W M Rudge and the Armenian Tigran Ratheus David. It had offices in Allahabad and London.

In the late 1880s, A H Wheeler and Co (or Wheeler’s) found fame and controversy in equal measure. Moreau soon developed bigger plans as well, such as publishing. The railways had expanded and Wheeler’s bookstalls were a familiar feature at railway stations across the United Provinces, the North West Provinces and beyond in the very first decade of their existence.

Publishing Rudyard Kipling in India

In 1888, still in Allahabad, Moreaumade a business proposal of sorts to Rudyard Kipling, who then wrote for The Pioneer and also the Civil and Military Gazette, or CMG (newspapers published out of the city), contributing stories and narrative sketches for its weekly editions. Kipling’s first novel, a collection of his writings called Plain Tales from The Hills, had already been published by the Calcutta-based Thacker and Sphink & Co, and, as the story goes, it was Moreau who offered to publish his stories in book form.

The Library Series also republished Kipling’s The City of Dreadful Night. These were sold for one rupee each.

Over the next couple of years, several of Kipling’s early novels formed part of Wheeler’s Indian Railway Library Series. The other books, beginning with Soldiers Three were Wee Willie Winkie,


Under the Deodars, The Story of the Gadsbys, In Black and White, The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales, which has the famous story, The Man who would be King. Later, the Library Series also republished Kipling’s The City of Dreadful Night. These were sold for one rupee each.

In the agreement signed between Wheeler’s and Kipling (March 1889), the books were published by Wheeler’s, with Kipling receiving an “advance” of £200. Other details included the promised royalty of £4 for a thousand copies, accruing after the sale of an initial 1,500 copies. It was with this £200 that Kipling set out on a “world tour” via East Asia and the US.

It was during this time, first in Japan, that he discovered, much to his consternation, some pirated editionsof his own work. In New York, he was somewhat distressed to find his early works being published in America (then under the old copyright laws, which would be changed in a few years’ time), which also entailed that an author first published elsewhere (meaning outside the country) received no royalty.

Kipling reached London and found more fame than he had bargained for. As one story goes, Moreau had sent copies of the Indian Railway Library Series publications to the British firm of Sampson Low, whose reader and editor Andrew Lang saw merit in the works. The other version is that Kipling, introduced to publishers through old acquaintances from India such as Stephen Wheeler, former editor of CMG, now had his own ideas regarding the publication of own works.

Soon


Vizetelly

By 1894-95, book and newspaper imports from Britain numbered nearly five million units, filling up 500 mailbags a week.

In 1888, the trial of the publisher Henry Vizetelly in London, according to provisions of the Obscene Publications Act of 1857, also had reverberations in British India. As one of the largest book chains in British India, Wheeler’s found themselves in some unlikely spotlight. By this time, the book trade had picked up impressively in India; around the 1880s book imports from Britain made up, as Deana Heath has written, as much as half of what was sold within India. By 1894-95, book and newspaper imports from Britain numbered nearly five million units, filling up 500 mailbags a week.

Vizetelly, a writer himself and a long-time admirer of Emile Zola, hadas the Reverend A Neut, the principal of St Xavier’s College, Calcutta, asked for suppression of sales, other officials in the Indian provinces chose to either disregard this, or else realised the futility of such suppression (since literature, as some said, in the local languages was easily available and more pernicious). When Lord Northbrook, the returning viceroy, asked that booksellers be warned, the officials in the central provinces and elsewhere pleaded that contracts between the government and the railway companies forbade such interference.

The debate, however, was interesting at several levels. In England, the NVA found nothing objectionable in the original French versions of Zola’s novels that were in wide circulation. The NVA and several others evidently believed that French was more a language of the elite, who could


be trusted, but with the spread of education guaranteed by Britain’s Education Act of 1870, they were worried about what the public at large in England was reading.

At the turn of the century, Wheeler’s became almost indispensable in the expansion of the railways, winning the sole rights for running advertisements in publications on the railways’ behalf. Publishing in regional languages grew apace—for instance, the Naval Kishore Press was set up in 1858 and published works in Hindustani and Urdu, and there were also a growing numbers of texts relating to religion and mythology in this period—and as railway travel became both popular and necessary, Wheeler’s stalls were a necessary conduit to the pastime of reading.

Moreau and British propaganda during World War I

Once World War I began, Moreau foundhimself greatly sought by British government, especially by the ministry of munitions, under which the propaganda department functioned. Britain’s war propaganda department was set up around September 1914, only after realisation dawned about the efficacy of the German propaganda department; it operated from London’s Wellington House. The department’s functioning remained largely secret, and its activities would only come to light two decades or so later, in the mid-1930s.

Moreau’s knowledge and experience of the east made him indispensable, and it was Edward E Long, the official in charge of eastern propaganda, who looked him up at Fairlie Place, the home he had built for himself in Brighton, England in 1906. Spread over vast acres, it shared its name with the headquarters of East Indian Railways, later Eastern Railway, in


Calcutta. Perhaps by now his interest as publisher had waned after the incident with Kipling, but he remained a partner at Wheeler’s in London and also at Allahabad.

The propaganda department had numerous writers working for it, including Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton, John Masefield, John Bunyan and others (there seem to have been no women in the list). The department was set up initially to disseminate propaganda to neutral countries and the British Empire, but soon it targeted the enemy too.

By June 1915, the department had distributed 2.5 million books, in at least 17 languages. In particular, the Bryce Report, written around this time, relating to German atrocities on Belgian citizens in late 1914, was translated into at least 30 languages

Among the first newspapers forthe war effort in British India was Al-Hakikat, published in Hindustani, Persian and Arabic.

Though translations into European languages came faster (depending on skills available during the period), the rise of a local bureaucracy in the Indian sub-continent and increased numbers of “natives” in the ICS perhaps helped in multilingual war propaganda in India as well. Propaganda was also effectively done by disseminating newspapers in local languages and making an endeavour to publicise the British war efforts among the more “moderate” newspapers whose editors were invited to London (in an early example of embedded journalism).

Among the first newspapers for the war effort in British India was Al-Hakikat, published in Hindustani, Persian and Arabic. This was chiefly to counteract the powerful German propaganda in west and central Asia, which also


targeted India. Later the Al-Hakikat was written in Turkish, too.

Soon after, the Satya Vani began to be published in Bengali, Hindi, Gujarati and Tamil. In still another improvisation, the Jang-i-Akbar was introduced, and this was written in Hindi, Urdu and also in the Gurmukhi script to address readers in the United Provinces and Punjab. It was the Wheeler’s bookstalls and other local distributors that ensured widespread distribution of these papers. Numbers in the space of one year reached 40,000, and soon provincial governments demanded more. It was for his services, and much of it is really not known, that Moreau was also awarded a CBE by the British government.

A global businessman

Towards the end of the war, in 1917, A H Wheeler split into two distinct branches: with ArthurH Wheeler and Co. operating in London and A H Wheeler and Co. in India. Moreau, however had numerous other interests. He travelled widely, and served as director of companies with interests in rubber, in Java and in the Malay states, and also oil (in the Trinidad Oilfields, where a road in the village of Marac is named after Moreau).

His interest in rubber technology even led Moreau to write a book himself during the time he served as director in a rubber company in Java owned by the Netherlands. It was a book published by Arthur H Wheeler (in London), comparing different ways of rubber tapping.

Despite all his travelling, Moreau lived very much in the style of the “nabobs” of old at Fairlie Place, owning, it is believed,


several limousines. He lived here till his death 1937. It remained a private residence till well after World War II, after which it became a school offering secretarial and other vocational training for women.

Little is known of his family life, but he remained devoted to this institute, Framlingham College (a residential school), till his death in 1937. Not only did he serve on the governing board for many years, but he was also its most generous individual benefactor—instrumental in setting up sports facilities for its students and instituting scholarships that carry his name and are provided to this day.

This post first appeared on Scroll.in. We welcome your comments at ideas.india@qz.com.As I am an archaeologist by profession, the vast majority of public presentations I give are related to that subject, principally my area of expertise which is conflict archaeology. It is therefore very gratifying for me to have two upcoming engagements which have arisen as a result of the Irish in the American Civil War site. I am looking forward to both of them immensely, particularly as it gives me a rare opportunity to physically speak with others interested in Irish participation during the war!

The first event forms a part of the Irish Tricolour Weekend in Waterford, where History Ireland magazine are running a Hedge School on the Irish in the American Civil War. I have been invited to participate in the panel discussion along with my former


colleague in the National Museum of Ireland Lar Joye, Professor Tom Bartlett of the University of Aberdeen, and local historian Jack Burtchill. It will take place at 3pm on Saturday 10th March, in the Tapestry Room of Waterford’s Granville Hotel (which is on the site where Thomas Francis Meagher was born). Tickets are available at the door on the day for €8.

The second event is on Tuesday 17th April, and takes the form of a lecture to the South Tipperary Military History Society on the Irish in the American Civil War. The talk will start at 8pm in the Irish United Nations Veteran Association House at Clonmel Railway Station. Admittance is €2 for members of the society and €5 for non-members. For anyone who happens to be aroundeither location at the time, I hope you will pop along for a look!

Granville Hotel, The Quays, Waterford. The site of Thomas Francis Meagher's birth

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Damian, I wish I could hear your two talks. County Tipperary is especially dear to the 90th Illinois as the colonel, Timothy O’Meara, was born and grew up in North Tipperary. Lt. William White, who wrote the great letters about Holly Springs and the March through the Carolinas was born in Ballygriffin, near Cashel. When he joined the 90th IL, he brought 9 men with him who were born in County Tipperary. Altogether, there were at least 4 officers and 26 men in the 90th IL who were born in County Tipperary. As I’ve mentioned before, of the men


born in Ireland (70% of the 90th IL), the county of birth is known for less than half of them.

As to County Waterford, at least two men from Company A, Joseph Whalen and John Fitzgerald, were born there, as were Edward Burke and Patrick Keilley of Company F. I may add more later, but gotta run now. Best, Jim.

Damian, John Fitzgerald is said to be from Cork in the muster rolls of the Illinois Attorney General, but a county history says that he was born in Waterford. He was wounded in both legs at Missionary Ridge, but came back to the regiment and mustered out with it in Washington, D.C. at the end of the war. Best, Jim

Damian, Company A (raised in Rockford, IL) of the 90th Illinoishad six men from Waterford. Thomas Conley was killed during the taking of Fort McAllister near Savannah. John and Owen McGrath were both wounded at Missionary Ridge, but came back to the regiment and mustered out at the end of the war. John was 23 y.o. when he enlisted and Owen was 19. Likely they were brothers. John Sullivan went through the entire war and, as far as we know, was not wounded. Joseph Whalen and Joseph P. Whalen (likely cousins?) both enlisted as corporals and both were promoted to sergeant. Joseph P. was discharged due to his wounds at Missionary Ridge. Joseph was also wounded at Missionary Ridge, but he came back and mustered out with those remaining in the regiment at the end of the war.


The ongoing investigation of Sherlock Holmes, reported from the Peoria, Illinois outpost of Baker Street's dirtiest half a dozen.

Monday, November 3, 2014

The odd arrival of the book that freed Sherlock Holmes.

Today a very weird thing happened.
Back in mid-June there was an appellate court ruling that put Sherlock Holmes, as a character, into the public domain. And as a celebration of that ruling, I pre-ordered the book at the center of the case on Amazon, and wrote of it in this very blog.
The book was In the Company of Sherlock Holmes: Stories Inspired by the Holmes Canon, edited by Laurie R. King and Leslie S. Klinger. It's original delivery date, according to Amazon, was going to be November 13th. Along the way, something changed and it arrived in theFor actors, physical type is often destiny: height, weight, hairline and colouring can all dictate whether they will play romantic leads, comic foils or villains. Burly and with a good line in surly looks – and with Italian-American heritage as well – James Gandolfini was always at risk of being stereotyped as a mobster or a heavy.

What was remarkable about The Sopranos, though, was that Gandolfini – and David Chase, creator of the HBO series, which ran between 1999 and 2007 – took a dramatic type that had become familiar in American popular culture, through The Godfather films and Goodfellas and other examples, and made it completely their own. They managed this despite the fact that even the variation on the Mafioso bloke that Gandolfini's Tony Soprano represented


– the gangster with neurotic doubts about his calling and his killing – already had a predecessor in the nervy murderer played by Robert De Niro in the movies Analyze This and Analyze That.

One advantage Chase and Gandolfini had, though, was that a long-form TV series permits the protagonist to be developed and challenged at a depth impossible in a film, play or novel. Chase saw in the TV serial the possibility for a sort of visual novel equivalent to thousands of pages. In his 80 or so hours of screen-time as he head of a New Jersey crime family, the actor was able to display every facet of the complex character of a man who was professionally and genetically required to be a wolf but, underneath, haddeep fears and dreams of being a pussycat.

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano: 'surprising gentleness, as if frightened of his own potential strength'. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/HBO

To carry such a concentration on a single figure – other great modern American TV shows such as The Wire, The West Wing and Six Feet Under were all ensemble pieces – Chase needed a remarkable actor – and he got one.

All the best TV actors – from Alec Guinness through Helen Mirren and David Suchet to Benedict Cumberbatch – have had two predominant skills: stillness and thinking. A small-screen role is defined in moments of repose, when the camera stops and watches. Because Tony Soprano was often sitting, in long consultations with his shrink or with family or associates over a meal, and


was frequently unable to speak the truth, the part demanded above all the ability to suggest the mental activity churning within physical inactivity.

Gandolfini could convey multitudes with a look: whether baleful, lecherous, menacing, halfsmiling, impassive. Through this flexibility of expressions, he indicated the guilt, memories, regrets and desires that enfolded Tony. And, as is often the case with big men, he often moved with surprising gentleness, as if frightened of his own potential strength, an effect intensified by a vocal range that could encompass softness as well as the growl his stature led you to expect.

The Sopranos was part of a wave of American TV dramas that finally persuaded cineastes and critics who had been snobbish and dismissive about television as a medium to accept the smaller screenas an artistic equivalent of the larger one. Although many of those who watched and wrote about TV had got this message much earlier, the remarkable and sustained range of Gandolfini's portrayal of Tony Soprano played a major part in ending any remaining inferiority complex about the medium.

That possibility dies with Gandolfini and it may be right that Tony Soprano will now remain forever a character of television, a form in which he represents one of the greatest achievements. It is a small consolation for his shockingly early loss that TV now has such a considerable after-life on archive channels and through box-sets.


Rico, formed Lone Star and assigned to it their licenses. They have conducted business through Lone Star ever since, never receiving any complaints regarding their services or trustworthiness.
Lone Star first did business with a government agency in 1993, when it placed insurance for the Puerto Rico Ports Authority. In 1994, the Government of Puerto Rico determined that public authorities and government agencies should be represented by licensed insurance brokers for the purposes of obtaining insurance. Guillemard met with then Commissioner of Insurance Juan Garcia, who advised him to affiliate with an insurance broker and suggested doing so with Urrutia. Lone Star then entered into a consortium with UVI (the "consortium"), through which they successfully obtained insurance for the Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewer Authority, the Puerto Rico ElectricalPower Agency, and the Puerto Rico Telephone Company. Lone Star and UVI shared commissions on premiums for insurance of the kind that plaintiffs were licensed to solicit. The OIC and the governmental agencies were aware at all times of the arrangement between Lone Star and UVI.
Beginning in late November 2001 and until December 17, 2001, David Castro-Anaya ("Castro"), an auditor for the OIC, reviewed Lone Star's transactions for the period between 1997 and 2001, including all documents pertaining to the insurance provided to the government agencies and the commissions shared with UVI. The Lone Star Plaintiffs gave their full cooperation to Castro, providing him with all the documents he requested and answering all his questions. Furthermore, Guillemard informed Castro that Lone Star had performed extensive work in connection


with securing and servicing the government agencies' accounts, and sent him a letter detailing these efforts. On the last day of the audit, Castro informed Guillemard that he had found no irregularities and that he would send a final report in early 2002.
The consortium between Lone Star and UVI ended in 2000. Lone Star continues to serve its business and individual clients, but has not provided insurance services to any government agency since. The Lone Star Plaintiffs' licenses have been renewed twice since the 2001 audit.
In early 2003, Guillemard learned that the OIC had ordered several banks to provide financial information pertaining to Lone Star as well as all of Guillemard's and Noble's personal and business affairs. Guillemard also learned that Contreras had made disparaging remarks regarding hishis insurance broker license on October 27, 1980. In October 1983, Urrutia organized and incorporated UVI. On January 1984, UVI obtained licenses as an insurance broker and a broker for excess lines. On July 1, 2002, UVI sold its insurance portfolio to AON B & C, Inc. UVI's licenses remained in effect until August 12, 2002. Since July 2002, Urrutia holds the position of Executive Vice-President in charge of marketing for AON Risk Services of P.R., Inc. At this time, UVI is an inactive corporation.
Between 1984 and 2002, UVI provided insurance products and services to numerous clients, establishing an excellent reputation in the process. Urrutia has been recognized as an outstanding insurance broker with an excellent reputation, and was selected as insurance broker of the year in 1985


and 1994 by Professional Insurance Agents of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, Inc.
In 1993, following a directive from the Secretary of the Treasury of Puerto Rico requiring all government agencies to engage brokers for the purpose of acquiring insurance, UVI submitted its qualifications and was selected as one of eight firms certified to provide such services. In 1994, UVI and Lone Star entered into a consortium (the "consortium"), which was fully disclosed to the Secretary of the Treasury and the OIC. From 1994 to approximately April 2001, Urrutia, acting on behalf of the consortium, negotiated insurance policies and provided related insurance services to several government agencies and public corporations.
In May 2001, after a change in government following the 2000 general elections, then Secretary of the Treasury Juan FloresGalarza ("Flores") announced an investigation of all insurance entities which had been providing insurance services to government agencies during the previous administration. Flores specifically named UVI as a target of the investigation for alleged favoritism in the awarding of insurance business. On or about November 2001, Contreras ordered an investigation of Lone Star's and UVI's operations and *157 transactions from January 1997 through September 30, 2001. Specifically, the investigation targeted the consortium's transactions with government agencies and the revenues received by Lone Star as a result of those transactions. This was the first time UVI had been investigated since its inception in 1984. The investigation was conducted by Angela Rivera Soto, who received the full cooperation of the UVI Plaintiffs. The investigation ended on or about the last


West coast of Greenland. The fastest glacier in the world, Jakobshaven Isbrae, moving at 150 feet per day, dumps ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet into Disko Bay. (Photo: Bruce Melton)

Climate science is way out in front of climate policy. Commitments at the United Nations Climate Conference in Paris pale in comparison to those from the Kyoto Protocol with its beginnings in the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. The cheap and unambiguous solution of removing CO2 directly from the sky has been discredited by the perceived debate. Previously assumed stable ice sheets are disintegrating. It is warmer than any time in the last 120,000 years. The Gulf Stream appears to be shutting down. Nearly 100 submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet tunnel warm subtropical Atlantic waternorth Atlantic allowing cold air to penetrate much farther south, which has a reverberating cooling effect around the globe.

Sediment cores across the North Atlantic show layers that are full of sand and gravel that are far too heavy to have floated there from land. These layers are called ice rafted debris, have been delivered by iceberg armadas from purging of the North American and Greenland Ice Sheets, and coincide with most of the abrupt changes found in Greenland ice cores. (12)

In the recent past when science could not identify any changes in strength in the Gulf Stream and modeling could not reliably recreate abrupt changes, these events were not as worrisome as today. After all, the North American Ice Sheet was gone.

The Gulf Stream: without it Europe and


“The Big Melt” began about 2,000 years ago. Scientists have been dating rooted plant remains from the dripping edges of the melting mini ice caps and found that the earliest that ice covered the oldest of them was at least 51,000 years ago when Earth was receiving 9 percent more incoming heat from the sun than today.

But the plants are a lot older than that, because 51,000 years ago was in the middle of the last ice age. The principal investigator, Giff Miller from the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado, Boulder, says that the youngest time interval from which summer temperatures in the Arctic were plausibly as warm as today is about 120,000 years ago. Miller is quoted in the American Geophysical Union Journal:like he was in the Strokes. That kept me amused.

The headliner Cursive was a disappointment. Ingrid pointed out that the siger was probably the drunkest person in the club. They played a quick set and then Ingrid dropped me off at the Comet Grill because Lenny, John Wicker and Bobby Donaldson were playing. Here's a picture of Lenny and John.

Wendell was there along with a few of Lenny's sisters. Wendell and I closed the place and helped Lenny load his gear into his van. Lenny was nice enough to give us a ride home and we talked a bit and had a few more beers and I showed him a couple songs from the Led Zep DVD.

I was standing at the bus stop this morning quietly chuckling to


high school and it was syndicated in the afternoon on a local station. I fell in love with in right away. Two things about the show:

1) One of the funniest sitcom episodes ever has to be the Turkey Drop episode of WKRP. Gordon Jump as the hapless station manager, known to some of his employees as the Big Guy, delivers the punchline after an almost 30 minute buildup. After dropping turkeys from a helicopter that plummet to their deaths he enters the station after escaping the chaos caused and says to his employees "As god is a my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." I dare you not fall off your couch laughing.

2) Several years ago at Officemax my friend Jeff was the dock manager. He used tofirecracker? A meteorite? No, not loud enough for a meteorite. Maybe it was a pile of two by fours exploding...

I sat there for a few minutes and watched Wendell play the video game. Dang, that was a big noise, I thought. As the clock approached one I decided to not worry about it and try to go back to sleep. Surprisingly I did.

This morning as I walked through the backyard to the bus stop I looked around for clues to last night's big bang. I saw nothing. There were only a few extra leaves on the ground that had been torn from the surrounding trees by last night's windy autumnal rain storm.

Monday, September 22, 2003

Interview Magazine

I picked up the new edition of interview today. Usually there's at least


senior year in high school: baseball season. By the time that last semester rolled around I had already signed the contract that was going to put me in the Marines and I was ready to get the hell out Northern Michigan. But I loved baseball. I loved everthing about it. The two hours of practice every day after school, taking ground balls at my position of first base, taking batting practice and just being on the field. I loved the caraderie among teammates, the foul language and the secretive use of chewing tobacco. Playing my last season of baseball is what kept me from completely losing what little interest in schoolwork I had at that point. You had to pass all your classes to play on a sportingteam and that is what I proceded to do. Pass. I took the hard classes and paid just enough attention to pass the tests. I always figured that getting a C in trigonometry was better than skating through general math.

The week before the actual baseball season started there was a big party at some state park in the area. It was one of those legendary parties where everyone from the school shows up that can only happen at a small high school like the one I attended. At some point in the night someone hooked a chain up to some of those bullet shaped wooden structures that keeps vehicles from driving into the picnic area and pulled several of them out of the ground. This brough in the


authorities and names were named and it turned out that every upperclassmen member of the baseball team was there except for me and my friend, Dennis. Dennis wasn't at the party because his car broke down on the way there and I wasn't there because I was spending the weekend in another county at my Father's home. Every other upper classmen was suspended for a quarter of the baseball season. That left our baseball team with Dennis, me and a bunch of freshmen and sophomores.

Our first game of the new season that meant anything took place at our home field. Our field was one of the better fields in the county. That was all due to our coach and his ability to get people to do what hetheir patrons — protections that were stripped away by the hastily passed Patriot Act — I find Attorney General John Ashcroft's flippant remarks about the justified concerns of America's librarians disturbing.

Librarians throughout the country are fighting hard to temper the sweeping new powers given to federal agents to gain access to Americans' reading records. Millions of Americans are grateful to librarians and to the American Library Association for defense of their basic constitutional rights.

Instead of making derisive remarks, one would hope that the country's chief law enforcement officer, who is sworn to protect the Constitution, would be working with librarians, booksellers and civil liberties groups, not against them.
BERNIE SANDERS
Member of Congress, Vermont
Washington, Sept. 16, 2003

Recently I just got a new job at a regional library here in town.


the pie is an electrified fence and a private security company. But I feel safer.

Monday, September 15, 2003

Fair and self-censored

Once again Fox News shows it isn't really news after all: "Fox News spokeswoman Irena Briganti said of Amanpour's comments: "Given the choice, it's better to be viewed as a foot soldier for Bush than a spokeswoman for al-Qaeda.""

Within six months of passing the Patriot Act, the Justice Department was conducting seminars on how to stretch the new wiretapping provisions to extend them beyond terror cases," said Dan Dodson, a spokesman for the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys.

Sunday, September 14, 2003

Dancers

I was out walking during lunch yesterday and there was an international festival going on featuring Indian dancers. I snapped this shot of some girls who had justWith my eyes sticky and half-closed I dragged my butt to the bathroom. In the hall my roommate's clock radio is playing Johnny Cash. After I shower the radio station is still playing Johnny Cash. Uh oh. I go into my room and catch the NPR obituary.

I first started listening to Cash back in my early teens. My grandmother had a few of his cassette tapes featuring his biggest hits, old and new. I borrowed them to record and never gave them back. I still feel bad about that.

I don't know what more I can say about you, Johnny Cash other than Dylan thought you was "the bomb," I try to play your songs on guitar, your first album with Rick Rubin was the album I had been


more valuable to us than the pile of refuse festering in our basement.

Reading: "Through the magic of marketing, the recording industry has made something otherwise worthless into a precious commodity, restricted public access to it by making the prices ridiculously high (have you seen what they're charging for CDs these days?!), and then screaming bloody murder when a black market develops."

Friday, September 05, 2003

The Three

In 1983 three albums were released: Swordfishtrombone by Tom Waits, Born to Laugh at Tornadoes by Was (Not Was) and Infidels by Bob Dylan. Both Swordfishtrombone and Infidels were released in the fall. I couldn't find a release date for the Was (Not Was) album. I mention these albums because they are three of the first five or six albums that I bought onstrong, and the DJ was called Dennis Sofie (Sofi?). He had a program that came on for three hours every Wednsday called "Mondo Radio Show." I used to have one or two audio tapes and I would record his shows and play them all week and then record the next show over that show the following Wednesday. I'd give anything to have a copy of one of those shows. I discovered so much music because of Dennis and his show but the most important musician he turned me on to was Tom Waits.

I remember he would play a cut or two by Tom Waits every week. Late in the summer he announced that he was going to play two whole hours of Tom Waits because the following week


Waits was coming out with a new album which he would play in its entirety the week following the two hour special.

Anticipating the two-hour special I bought extra cassette tapes and was prepared to record and save the Tom Waits two-hour special. I bought the only tapes an unemployed 16 year old could afford: the cheap kind that came three in a plastic bag. Cases were not even included. I recorded the show and naturally played it all week while waiting for the unveiling of the new Tom Waits album. Remember when playing an album from start to finish on the radio was considered risky because people might steal it with their evil tape decks? We all know how audio tapes almost killed the recording industry.

The Tom WaitsI was accustomed to (along with anyone else who cared) was the drunken piano crooner who emulated the, then unknown to me, beat poets. The album Swordfishtrombone was nothing at all like Waits' earlier material. I remember that Swordfishtrombone was the first time music ever completely surprised me and shifted the whole planet. Imagine a socially retarded (normal, I reckon, but didn't know it then) 16 year old listening to a radio at night and hearing noises come out of his radio that are totally unlike anything he has ever heard. A 45 year old man in 1955 hearing Elvis for the first time couldn't have been more shocked. It was like the landfill across the county highway had come to life and started a band. Some of


the Beatles and Hendrix at this point in my life and this was the first time I heard someone contemporary attempting such obvious poetry.

Science fiction novels had caused me to want to experience a different world but this music made me realize that there were concurrent people and things that were weirder and more interesting than what I find in a SF book. I also began seeing things under my nose that I had missed before.

I was also astonished to find that only one other person in my high school had even heard of Tom Waits. The guy that had heard of Tom Waits was one of the scary stoner guys and he had a cursory knowledge of the artist. This was the first time I had everBullying

A 14-year old Iowa boy was laid to rest this week, after family members say he was bullied online and at school. The death of Kenneth Weishuhn comes as the new film, Bully, opens in Des Moines. The documentary follows another student, Alex, who was bullied at his middle school in Sioux City. Ben talks with the filmmakers about the film, about bullying and what can be done to stop it.


experiences, but also one's beliefs formed in non-sensory ways, even those that are the result of apparently impeccable rational processes like basic arithmetic.

The evil demon error-possibility is thus an even more radical sceptical hypothesis than the dreaming hypothesis in that it doesn't just call the truth of one's beliefs in an external world into question, but also the truth of one's beliefs that aren't about such an external world. Indeed, the only belief whose truth is not called into question by the evil demon radical sceptical hypothesis seems to be the _cogito_ , which shows just how extensive the sceptical scope of this error-possibility is.

#  Are you a brain in a vat?

Descartes's 17th-century audience clearly had no problem taking the idea of such a mischievous demon seriously.Certainty_ (1969). As we noted above, Wittgenstein's contemporary Moore thought that our everyday commonsense certainties had a special role to play in our response to radical scepticism. So did Wittgenstein, but his conception of the special role they are meant to play is radically different. Whereas Moore thought that these commonsense certainties provided us with a sound epistemic basis to push back against radical sceptical doubt, Wittgenstein instead claimed that they were essentially _arational_ (i.e. neither rationally nor irrationally held). Let's try to unpack this thought, and why Wittgenstein thought that it provided us with anything constructive to say about radical scepticism. After all, on the face of it, to say that our most basic convictions are arationally held sounds an awful lot like Wittgenstein was _agreeing_ with


idealism, see the excellent 2015 survey article on 'Idealism' by Paul Guyer and Rolf-Peter Horstmann in the _Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy_ , ed. E. Zalta (<https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/idealism/>). For a general discussion of Moore's commonsense approach to scepticism, see Noah Lemos's article 'Moore and Skepticism', in the _Oxford Handbook of Skepticism_ , ed. J. Greco, 330–47 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). For a defence of the commonsense approach more generally in philosophy, including as it appears in the work of Thomas Reid, see Lemos's book, _Common Sense: A Contemporary Defense_ (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). For more on Reid's epistemology in particular, see Ryan Nichols' article, 'Thomas Reid', in the _Routledge Companion to Epistemology_ , ed. S. Bernecker and D. H. Pritchard, 717–29 (London: Routledge, 2010). If you're interested inThe Turnbull government is about to encounter a proven tactic to blunt new laws that are meant to thwart foreign interference in Australian politics.

Deny, deny, deny. That is the logical response from companies and individuals who come under suspicion for their links to foreign governments and political parties.

Chinese communications giant Huawei is a textbook case of how the new laws might work – or might not. The company denies it is an arm of the Chinese government and says it is owned by more than 80,000 employees.

Attorney-General Christian Porter and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wouldn't say whether Huawei should sign up to the proposed public register of "foreign government related entities". Credit:Alex Ellinghausen

Huawei’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, started the company in 1987 after a career as an engineer in


Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- The head coach and the assistant coach of the St. Amant High School volleyball team are sisters. Photographed on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 at St. Amant High.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- The head coach and the assistant coach of the St. Amant High School volleyball team are sisters. Photographed on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 at St. Amant High.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- The head coach and the assistant coach of the St. Amant High School volleyball team are sisters. Photographed on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 at St. Amant High.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- The head coach and the assistant coach of the St. Amant High School volleyball team are sisters. Photographed on Wednesday, Sept. 24,2014 at St. Amant High.

Advocate staff photo by HEATHER MCCLELLAND -- Five pairs of sister play on the St. Amant Gator volleyball team. Photographed on Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014 at St. Amant High.

St. Amant — Sibling rivalry has come to the volleyball court in Gatorland.

St. Amant High School varsity volleyball coach Allison Leake knew when the teams were picked that she would have five sets of sisters on the school’s three — freshman, junior varsity and varsity — volleyball teams this season, but it wasn’t until the first game that she realized “that caused a whole new dynamic on the team.”

“With two sets of sisters on the court during the varsity games, I noticed the chemistry was off,” Leake said. “It took me a while to realize that


TORONTO (CP) When Landry Fields darted along the baseline to the basket, Kyle Lowry managed to find him.

Lowry played with hustle and poise in his Raptors debut and combined with Fields like they were longtime teammates on Wednesday in Toronto's 104-101 pre-season victory over the Washington Wizards.

``(Lowry) has sea legs right now and it affected his shot, but you can see he's a rolling pin going to the basket, he gets to where he wants to go with the ball, he's heady, he sees things that other people don't see, he got Landry going, cutting moving off the ball, which was huge,'' said Raptors coach Dwane Casey. ``Those things you can't teach. He's a true leader.''

Fields scored 15 points while Lowry had 14 of his own to goalong with six assists.

Trevor Booker had 12 points to top the Wizards (1-4), while Emeka Okafor, Martell Webster, Jan Vesely and Bradley Beal had 11 apiece.

The Raptors trailed 77-73 heading into the fourth quarter of a game that had seen 15 lead changes.

Toronto managed to build a three-point lead with a minute left in the game and led by a point when Lowry drained two free throws with 13 seconds left to seal it.

Lowry started after missing the first three games of the exhibition schedule -- and a good chunk of Toronto's training camp in Halifax -- with a groin injury.

Casey had said that Lowry needed to shake off the rust. But the point guard scored the Raptors' first points off a steal and drive to the hoop,


on the floor was a big boost to the team.

``He's a fantastic player, he demands a lot out of his teammates, so when we're out there we want to give it our best,'' he said.

Who will start at point guard has been one of the storylines of training camp. Calderon came off the bench to do a decent job of running an energetic second unit, and hit a pair of big three-pointers in the fourth quarter.

Jonas Valanciunas, the Raptors' fifth pick in the 2011 draft, also continues to generate a buzz with his play just three games into his tenure in Toronto. The big Lithuanian brought his teammates on the bench to their feet with a first-quarter play that saw him pump fake twice before blowing by Okaforfor a one-handed dunk.

``He is a very strong player and very active,'' Okafor said of guarding Valanciunas. ``He is a difficult player to play against because he is high energy and is always moving, always doing something.''

Toronto's Andrea Bargnani got kicked in the left calf in the third quarter and left the game. Raptors officials said the injury isn't related to the strained calf that kept him out of 35 games last season.

Toronto has started off slowly in each of its games in the pre-season and Wednesday was no exception as the Raptors trailed 34-24 heading into the second.

``We've got to get our motors going quicker,'' Casey said. ``We don't have two or three minutes to warm up and get loose and get into the game.''

The Raptors shot


55 per cent in the second -- and held the Wizards to 24 per cent from the field -- to lead 54-49 at halftime.

A.J. Price had eight points to pace a Wizards squad that outscored Toronto 28-19 and took a 77-73 lead into the fourth quarter.

NOTES: The Raptors announced before the game they had exercised the fourth year team option on the rookie scale contract of forward Ed Davis. Toronto's 13th pick in the 2010 draft was the lone Raptor to appear in all 66 games last season. ... Raptors rookie Terrence Ross didn't play (sore knee). ... The Raptors meet the New York Knicks on Friday at Montreal's Bell Centre. They host the Indiana Pacers in their season-opener at the Air Canada Centre on Halloween.from Pakistan.”

“During partition, Pakistan and India entered into an agreement to take care of minorities and their rights, which India always honoured but Pakistan always violated . The suppression of minorities continued in Pakistan and as a result, a number of Pakistanis applied for Indian citizenship. But they were not granted this for years due to small technical issues. I called the attorney general and he helped in drafting the new citizenship and visa policy. But the bill is with the standing committee as it was not passed in Rajya Sabha. Soon we will have majority in Rajya Sabha and then the bill will be passed,” Rajnath said.

He said the bill which was passed by the Lok Sabha had invested the powers of granting citizenship in the district


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All of a sudden, @LoMoMarlins will no longer be the most active social-media member on his own team.

That honor will be held by the extroverted Ozzie, whenever the Marlins announce what multiple reports are calling a done deal -- that Florida has acquired Guillen from the White Sox for Jhan Martinez and Ozzie Marinez, signing him to a multiyear contract to be their manager heading into their new


speaks honestly, isn't afraid to confront players and has a unique way of bringing energy. The only difference is he's louder, younger and bilingual.

McKeon knows Guillen very well. He signed him to the Padres as a 16-year-old shortstop from Venezuela in 1980, traded him to the White Sox five years later, then had him as his third-base coach when the Marlins won the 2003 World Series championship.

"I did tell him one time," McKeon said of that '03 season, "I said, 'Hey, if you want to be a big league manager, cut it down just a shade.'"

Ozzie, of course, hasn't cut it down a shade. If anything, he has ramped it up a little bit. It's who he is, for better or worse.

"I was very honest with [the media],9,000 Aboriginal people live in more than 500 small outstations and homelands in some of the most remote regions of the Territory.

In 2009, the Federal Government announced it would no longer spend $20 million a year on supporting these living areas.

The Territory Government argued at the time that the move would force outstations to shut down.

In the face of criticism, Canberra kept money flowing to the communities as an interim arrangement.

The latest move to keep funding the outstations appears to be a policy about-face.

Northern Land Council chief executive Kim Hill has welcomed the Federal Government financial package.

He says the preservation of homeland communities is integral to ending Aboriginal disadvantage in the Territory.

"The last thing we want is funding ceased and Aboriginal peoples forced off their traditional lands and


Arcade Fire will celebrate the 15th anniversary of debut album 'Funeral' with a raft of bonus material.

The album was released in 2004, and became a word of mouth success, a record that truly connected with almost everyone that came into its path.

Toasting its 15th birthday on September 14th, the band will mark the occasion with a flurry of surprises.

Arcade Fire will share never-before-seen photos from the making of 'Funeral', alongside journal entries, flyers, and more.

A full Anton Corbjin shoot will be revealed, while the band will also share behind the scenes footage, plus rare live performances.

Coming digitally on September 14th, it looks well worth checking out.

Related: Spotlight Special - 10 Years Of Arcade Fire's 'Funeral'

Join us on the ad-free creative social network Vero, as we get under theClinical aspects of localized and systemic scleroderma.
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well. We added a level 150 self DPS upgrade and bumped up the power of Double Dragon. She may be viable main DPS with the right items and synergistic Crusaders now.

- "Enchanted Dual Bladed Knife" (epic) effect increased from 20% to 40%

- "Enchanted Dragonscale Gauntlets" (epic) effect increased from 200% to 400%

- "Double Dragon (Natalie)" effect increased from 150% to 200%

- Added new level 150 upgrade "Trophy Hunter" which increases Natalie's DPS by 150%

Jason, Master of Shadows:

- Jason's role was never very well defined, with a random crit click item and strange anti-taunt upgrade. He has been given a new formation ability which solidifies him as a tank-enabled DPS who excels when being placed in the same column as a tanky Crusader. His bench-mate, Pete the Carny, hasDouble Dragon. She may be viable main DPS with the right items and synergistic Crusaders now.- "Enchanted Dual Bladed Knife" (epic) effect increased from 20% to 40%- "Enchanted Dragonscale Gauntlets" (epic) effect increased from 200% to 400%- "Double Dragon (Natalie)" effect increased from 150% to 200%- Added new level 150 upgrade "Trophy Hunter" which increases Natalie's DPS by 150%- Jason's role was never very well defined, with a random crit click item and strange anti-taunt upgrade. He has been given a new formation ability which solidifies him as a tank-enabled DPS who excels when being placed in the same column as a tanky Crusader. His bench-mate, Pete the Carny, has some gold-find equipment. Jason now has equivalent equipment.- "Fifth Freedom Goggle" (epic) effect increased from 200% to 400%-


Trident" (epic) effect increased from 20% to 40%- "Great White Shark" (epic) effect increased from 200% to 400%- "Cape of Storms" (epic) effect increased from 200% to 400%- Added new level 150 upgrade "20,000 Leagues" which increases Prince Sal's DPS by 150%- Prince Sal is flagged as Royalty for the purposes of King Reginald's "Royal Family" formation ability.- We'd like to do more with the Phoenix's base philosophy of life from death, etc. We've adjusted her Vengeful Fury so that it has use outside of the Phoenix's death. We've also added a new formation ability that slows party wipes. The Phoenix's self DPS loot has been replaced by loot that buffs these two upgrades.- The "Vengeful Fury" upgrade has been redesigned. Now has a 25% chance to unleashpregnancies in this group of patients. However this issue is controversial ([@r16]). Herein we aim to describe a case of bilateral ectopic pregnancy diagnosed one week apart in a patient who performed *In Vitro* Fertilization (IVF) with donor eggs.

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October 24, 2014

BDJ Fair 2014 and My First Ever Belle de Jour Power Planner 2015

Last Oct 19 2014 I dropped by the BDJ Fair 2014 at SM MOA Music Hall, but this time around I was alone. Lol! This is because my sister Hazel, my brother's girlfiend Cess and my sister-from-another-mother Daryl Linn was not available.

Unlike the other BDJ Fairs where you need to register first via email, this mega event was open to everyone! Well, except for the talks which you need to sign up weeks or days prior and must present an email confirmation that you have been included in the list.

Upon entering the SM MOA Music Hall we saw a lot of people taking part in the activities. Not only girls were there, but also$500,000 to get her daughter accepted at the University of Southern California through the school’s rowing program despite her daughter having never participated in the sport.

The appearance by Saget, 62, on Kimmel's show was apparently just a coincidence. Saget was there to promote his new show, and Kimmel -- a friend of Saget's -- never asked him about the controversy involving Loughlin.

Kimmel did, however, address the controversy in his opening monologue. He joked that “Aunt Becky” could have been the “'Becky with the good hair' Beyoncé warned us about.”

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He also mocked Donald Trump Jr. for mocking Loughlin and Huffman on Twitter.

“As if he got into college because of his grades,” Kimmel joked. “Donald Trump Jr. went to the University of Pennsylvania,


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enthusiasm by the Academy boys.  Bruce
took the plan to his father, Samuel Clifford, and to his father's friend,
Hamilton Townsend, a well-known consulting engineer in Woodbridge.  Mr.
Townsend was delighted with the idea, and quickly consented to become the
Scoutmaster, while Mr. Clifford, to foster the interest of the lads along
mechanical lines, offered them the abandoned machine shop on the top of
Otter Creek Hill for their headquarters.

This was a real find for Bruce and his friends, for the old place had
never been dismantled.

Mr. Clifford was a builder of electrical stone cutting and polishing
machines and for a long time he had maintained his business in the little
two-story structure.  But four years previous he had erected a fine new
concrete building just across the way, and abandoned the machine shop,
intending tofew days hence.

For a week the temptation to spend the troop's thirty dollars had haunted
the lads day and night, until finally with a great effort they had laid
the ghost by a unanimous vote that the money must not be spent on the
profitless amusement.  It really was a sacrifice, for every Scout had set
his heart on a hike to St. Cloud and a day crowded full of gaiety and
glitter, not to mention a stomach crowded fuller with peanuts, popcorn
and lemonade.

"Fellows, I am just as much disappointed as the rest," said Bruce
Clifford, leader of the Owl patrol,  "but I think we decided wisely last
night.  We can all do without going to the circus, even if it is the
biggest one that has visited this neck of the woods


the
tall and short poles the scouts had erected.  These, however, had been
placed so as not to interfere with the dancing and other events scheduled
for the day.

The grandstand was filled to capacity long before the hour set for the
beginning of the ceremonies, and by the time the Mayor and various other
officials had entered their special reviewing stand hundreds of people
were massed in a semicircle about the field.

To one side of the entrance was a group of gay  tents or marquees,
about which were crowded hundreds of tiny tots, all arrayed in the gaudy
carnival dress.  Some were ladies of the French courts, some were garbed
in Colonial costumes and some were masquerading as bears or as wolves.
One group was wearing the wooden shoes and frocks of Holland, another
group wasis worth more
to me than all the money I've put into this scheme.  Now it's up to you
boys to make good my investment."

"We'll do it," shouted the scouts in unison.

"Alright, boys, that's all I ask.  I'll leave you now.  You can organize
your own patrols and select your own leaders without my help.  When you
get hungry, go to the Pine Grove Hotel I've arranged to have all your
meals served to you there.

"You can spend the rest of the afternoon becoming familiar with the
apparatus, and I guess you'll have all the time you want to practice
during the next two or three days, for while the races are on no bathers
will be allowed on the beach.  Well, good-by and good luck to you."

And the genial bath


north station.  The six remaining lads were
appointed lookouts to man the beach towers.  Three were attached to the
north station crew, of which Bud was made leader, and the other three
were appointed members of Bruce's south station crew.

Before the meeting adjourned it was decided that all ten scouts remain in
the south station for the night, since there would be very little work
for them to do next day.  Bruce also thought it wise to have all the lads
together while they were learning to use the pulmotor and becoming
familiar with their apparatus.  Then, too, the south station was better
located to afford the lads a view of the automobile races next morning,
which counted for a great deal.

By sleeping two in a bed and disregarding any slight discomforts theMr.
Ford had imparted this information to Bruce Clifford and Jiminy Gordon
that same evening and it was not long before the leader of the Owl Patrol
and his chum had discovered the possibilities of a business deal.

Accordingly after the next meeting the two lads visited Dr. Lyman and
made him a proposition to the effect that the scouts would cut his pulp
wood and take their pay in trees.   These trees, the lads explained, were
to be felled and used to construct a log cabin on the lake shore.  As
part of the bargain they asked for permission to use a section of Dr.
Lyman's land that bordered the lake as a site for their camp.

The plan struck the physician as being capital and he was particularly
pleased to find that the boys


Look at those chumps up the street shoutin'
and wavin' their arms.  That's no way to stop a horse!  Those women will
be killed.  Hi, Bud, hop in here.  Come on, we've got to stop 'em.  I'm
goin' after 'em with Blossom.  Geet_yap_ there, Blossom.  Git, now, that's
t' girl.  Go!"

There could be no mistaking the fact that the horse and cutter coming
down the street was a runaway.  The big animal was almost mad with
fright.  His eyes bulged out until the whites showed and its nostrils
were distended with fear.  And, to make matters worse, there were a dozen
men and boys shouting and waving their hands in a foolish effort to stop
the horse.  But all that they accomplished was to maketo 9:30 p.m. shift on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Ziemer took paid sick leave from District during these entire two terms until her suspension on January 17, 1985. Ziemer suffers from a permanent illness, hypocalcemia, as a result of the surgical removal of her parathyroid gland. Symptoms she experiences include bone pain, irritability, and shakiness. Ziemer also suffers from anemia and peptic ulcer disease.
*1449 District suspended Ziemer after learning in December 1984 that while she was on sick leave, she had taught adult education business classes during the 1983-1984 and 1984-1985 terms at Downey Adult School (Downey) on Mondays and Wednesdays, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., and also at Coast Community College District (Coastline) on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. District accused Ziemer of misusing her


paid sick leave benefits since she was well enough to work at two other schools in a similar capacity during the same hours she was assigned to work at District.
Ziemer's defense was that she was too ill to work at District due to stress and extra travel required by the split shift, but was well enough to work at less stressful assignments at Downey and Coastline. However, her credibility was challenged by her failure to inform her physician, who believed she was not working, that she was working at Downey and Coastline, and by her attempt in the fall of 1983 to arrange a schedule to work mornings at District and afternoons at Downey, despite having to travel from District to Downey in a very short period oftime.
Ziemer testified she had no intention of deceiving District, that she did not hide her other employment from District, and that District never inquired about her other employment. Ziemer relied on advice from Jacques Bernier, California Teachers Association field representative, and Sandy Paisley, association attorney, that nothing in the law or the collective bargaining agreement prevented her from taking paid sick leave from District while working at Downey. Paisley did not testify at the hearing, however, and Bernier admitted he knew of no other case where a teacher received sick leave pay from one district while teaching at another district during the same hours.
The three-member Commission panel unanimously found that Ziemer should be retained by District. Commission found Ziemer suffers from a painful, progressive bone disease that is


"disabling to some extent not established." Although Commission explicitly refused to decide whether it was proper for Ziemer to have taken paid sick leave while working at two other similar teaching jobs, the panel concluded Ziemer had not acted immorally, dishonestly, or with evident unfitness for service. The panel decided that Ziemer had not lied about nor concealed her employment from District and that District had never asked Ziemer about other employment. In short, the panel blamed the teachers association for failing to advise Ziemer to make "a full and complete application to the District," and blamed District for failing to provide Ziemer with a sick leave application calling for "full details of her status." The panel concluded that had these things been done, "the problem could havethe event the District obtains a final reversal of the Commission's decision to reinstate the employee, then the District, having paid its portion and the employee's portion of the expenses of the hearing, shall be entitled to reimbursement from the employee for that portion of the expenses.
Ziemer contends that if District ultimately prevails, District's cost award must be limited to half the costs of the Commission hearing, and may not include superior or appellate court costs. Ziemer argues that District's costs incurred to transcribe the hearing and to copy exhibits for transmittal to the superior court are not recoverable as Commission hearing expenses. We agree, and construe the statute to require District, should it ultimately prevail, to bear its own costs incurred at the superior and appellate court


A human case of hypoplastic external iliac artery and its collateral pathways.
During a student dissection course held at the Tokyo Women's Medical University, in a 91-year-old human female cadaver we encountered a very rare case of a hypoplastic right external iliac artery. It continued into the normal femoral artery by anastomoses formed with the enlarged obturator and deep circumflex iliac arteries. While the obturator artery originated from the anterior branch of the internal iliac artery, the deep circumflex iliac artery was supplied by the iliolumbar artery, which in turn formed a common stem to arise from the lateral sacral artery. Whether the hypoplastic external iliac artery arose developmentally or secondarily could not be discerned, but the case nevertheless provides important information regarding the arterial anlage between the pelvisEmmanuel Adebayor is being linked with several Premier League clubs this month, having been a free agent since his release by Tottenham in the summer. Although we barely played together at Spurs, mainly because I was injured, myself and Ade spent a season or so in the same squad at White Hart Lane so I got to him know him pretty well. The first thing I remember is being almost shocked by his work ethic - and not in the way some people might expect.

I was recovering from a ruptured Achilles at the time. Most mornings I'd walk into the gym at about 9am and Ade would already be in there, going at it hard. He loved to spend time doing the power work that made him such


a beast up front when he was on top of his game. And during that period, he was.

The goals were flowing, the team was playing well and you wouldn't see a more happy, smiley player in your life. He'd turn up every day grinning from ear to ear, he'd have a laugh with the lads and he was a good trainer.

That might like a surprising description to people now, because Adebayor's reputation has taken something of a battering in the years since - on and off the pitch. There's no denying he has his own particular issues, but there are two sides to every story. And in Adebayor's case, I feel the way his managers have handled him has always been a huge factor.

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During that time at Spurs, Harry Redknapp knew how to deal with Ade and the team reaped the benefits. But things changed when Andre Villas Boas came in. The club had built a state-of-the-art new training facility and AVB's attitude was that we should be using it. That meant his fitness team didn't want anyone in the gym - ever. It seemed a weird rule, but it was particularly unpalatable to Ade because he loved his gym work and AVB was essentially taking that away from him.

It may seem like a relatively small thing, but for Adebayor these are the kinds of


Adebayor falls out with the manager, it's game over. There is no reconciling that situation.

Despite this, Ade never caused problems in the changing room. He's not that type of person. But he would be very honest with the manager and the club if he wasn't happy, and that would start to show in his performances. At Tottenham he ended up being injured a lot of the time. Maybe it was legitimate, or maybe he was just downing tools. Either way, he's not a player who sees himself as someone who comes off the bench. He demands to be the top striker. You come across a lot of complex characters in the changing room with different requirements. Ade is the kind of player who needs his ego to beproperty where the marihuana had

been reported growing.

               Cowie testified that he remained at the Doss residence with the task force vehicles.

“[Q]uite a few minutes” after Moseley and Hernandez left with Mrs. Doss, Retchloff radioed Cowie

from the helicopter to report the discovery of the marihuana plot. Following directions from

Retchloff, Cowie and Investigator Jeff Stoddard began walking east down a dirt path. They

encountered appellant, who emerged from a semi-circle of abandoned mobile homes. Cowie

testified that he identified himself, “explained why we were there, and then advised him that his wife

had given us permission to be on the property.” Cowie told appellant that marihuana had been seen

growing on the property and asked him to accompany the officers