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 Ali Faulkner as Rose
 Caitlin Nicol-Thomas as Shelby
 Danny Vinson as Shep Jordan
 Aaron Benward as David King
 Kenda Benward as Bethany King
 Jude Ramsey as Ray King
 Gary Jenkins as Stan
 Landon Marshall as Eddie

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Although state legislators passed a budget last month after overriding the governor’s veto – the state’s first budget in more than two years – schools cannot receive funding until lawmakers pass an education-aid distribution bill.

Illinois schools are funded primarily by property taxes, and therefore CPS relies on significant additional help from the state to serve students in some of the state’s poorest neighborhoods.

The state has one of the largest gaps in the country between spending at wealthy versus poor school districts.

The bill Gov. Rauner returned to the legislature for approval eliminated extra protections for CPS and altered the school funding formula to limit its impact on property-poor areas throughout Illinois. Legislators must decide whether to accept these revisions, or


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The parent company of Cambridge Analytica interfered in Nigeria’s 2007 elections, regarded as the worst election till date, which the late President Umaru Yar’Adua also deplored as unfair and his successor Goodluck Jonathan described as a huge embarrassment.

Electoral commission head Maurice Iwu declared Yar’Adua of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) the winner with 24.6 million votes, far ahead of his closest rival, Muhammadu Buhari, with 6.6 million.

The BBC reported today that the parent of the infamous company, SCL Elections boasted about interfering in foreign elections, according to documents seen by the news organisation.

The BBC said the company claimed in its brochure that it organised rallies in Nigeria to weaken support for the opposition in 2007.

The brochure outlines how SCL Elections had apparently organised “anti-election rallies”to dissuade opposition supporters from voting in the Nigerian presidential election in 2007.

The 2007 election was described by EU monitors as one of the least credible they had observed.

Cambridge Analytica is embroiled in a storm over claims it exploited the data of millions of Facebook users. The company was also hired by the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 elections.

The UK Foreign Office said it was unaware of this alleged activity before SCL was awarded British government contracts in 2008.

Cambridge Analytica says it is looking into the allegations about SCL.

In the document, SCL Elections claimed potential clients could contact the company through “any British High Commission or Embassy”.

It also claims SCL received “List X” accreditation from the UK’s Ministry of Defence which provided “Government endorsed clearance to handle


detentions of two people. A protest was going on in the area when on May 26, Dawar and Wazir, two elected representatives from Waziristan in the Pakistani parliament, tried to join the protestors, but they were stopped at Kharqamar check post by the Pakistan Army. According to the military, the demonstrators turned violent and started intense stone pelting and gun shots at the check post. The soldiers were claimed to have opened warning shots to calm the situation. The military claimed that the clash turned fierce and as a result, casualties happened. According to the initial press release of the ISPR, three people were killed and 15 including 5 soldiers were injured. The army further claimed that the aim of PTM was to assert pressure on authorities forHigh Court overturned the first court-ordered shutdown of an operating nuclear plant in Japan. The lower court had decided last year in favor of residents living near the Takahama atomic station west of Tokyo after they had petitioned for the reactors at the plant to be shut.

Kansai Electric, Japan’s most nuclear-reliant utility before the disaster, estimates it will save 7 billion yen ($63 million) per month in fuel once it restarts both reactors.

The restart schedule for the reactors, however, is still uncertain because the utility has been conducting safety checks requested by local authorities after a large crane toppled onto another reactor building at the site due to strong winds in January, a Kansai Electric spokesman said earlier.

There are four reactors at the Takahama plant, with the earlier


When the American teenager Coco Gauff landed among the legends at Wimbledon to beat the ageing but proud former champion Venus Williams in the opening round last year, neither imagined, surely, they would resume their battle of the ages at the start of the first slam of 2020.

But here they are, 15-year-old Gauff, the youngest player in the WTA top 100, and her 39-year-old compatriot. Gauff is beginning her journey and has won one title; the latter, 55 in the world, is twice an Australian Open finalist, owner of seven slams and still defying injury, illness and the years with grace and composure.

Whoever goes through, it would be a major surprise to see her name in contention on the final weekend. However long they last, they will bringin Auckland last weekend, is in good shape to equal Margaret Court’s all-time record of 24 majors. It is likely she will play Osaka in the quarter-finals, although Johanna Konta could make life difficult for her in the fourth round. The British No 1, nursing a knee injury, starts against Ons Jabeur and may have to get past two Carolines – Garcia and Wozniacki – to get to Williams.

At the top of that side of the draw, the world No 1, Ashleigh Barty, has a fairly uncomplicated route to the quarter-finals, where Kvitova is her probable opponent – if the world No 8 is not cut down by the toxic air polluting the city and the tournament. Kvitova is an asthmatic, one of several on the Tour.

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Mikhail Kukushkin (Kaz)

Kyle Edmund (GB) v Dusan Lajovic (Ser, 24)

Daniel Evans (GB, 30) v MacKenzie McDonald (US)

Yoshihito Nishioka (Jpn) v Laslo Djere (Ser)

Tatsuma Ito (Jpn) v qualifier

Jan-Lennard Struff (Ger) v Novak Djokovic (Ser, 2)

Edmund, a semi-finalist two years ago, could be packing his bags after one match if he is not sharp from the first ball. Still, he played quite superbly in the Davis Cup Finals and seems to have buried the blues that threatened to envelop him in a run of eight consecutive defeats last year.

Parked precariously with Evans in Djokovic’s quarter of hell, he most likely will have to beat Mikhail Kukushkin and the tough Argentinian Diego Schwartzman for a fourth-round match against the rampant Serb. The Yorkshireman would relish it, though. At some point, Djokovichas to slip up early in a slam, even if there were few signs of weakness as he led Serbia to victory in the inaugural ATP Cup.

Evans, playing the tennis of his life lately, has a debut against the American Mackenzie McDonald, whom he outstrips in the rankings by 99 places, but probably would then have to beat the improving Japanese player Yoshihito Nishioka, who has won their two matches, easily in Washington last year and in a tough three-setter in Atlanta in 2016.

Cam Norrie, disappointing in two of three matches in Sydney, plays the French doubles artiste Pierre-Hugues Herbert but would do well to get past David Goffin in the second round, in the bottom half of Nadal’s side of the draw.


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 Emperor Heraclius creates a buffer zone (or no man's land) in the heartland of Asia Minor. In the mountainous terrain of Anatolia, the Byzantine forces develop a system of defensive guerrilla warfare. The strategy is known as ‘shadowing warfare’, as it avoids battle with major Muslim invaders, and instead attacks raiding parties on their return when they are laden with booty, captured livestock or prisoners.
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A refugee widow and her six-year-old son is expected to taste freedom in Australia on Thursday after ASIO dramatically reversed an assessment that she posed a threat to national security.

The decision followed an internal ASIO review into her case and is not related to an inquiry by a former federal court judge into 55 refugees trapped in indefinite detention inside Australia's immigration network.

Ragavan, 6, who has been held in immigration detention with his mother, Manokala, will be released after an adverse assessment by ASIO was reversed.

It is believed to be only the second time ASIO has rescinded an adverse security assessment of a refugee, raising the hopes of others in the group that their assessments will be reversed. Some have been held for up to four years.

Manokalo fledPolice Launch Hours-Long Attack On Dakota Access Pipeline Resistance, Injure Three Hundred

Police in North Dakota surrounded hundreds of water protectors fighting construction of the Dakota Access pipeline on a highway bridge and fired a water cannon, tear gas, concussion grenades, and rubber bullets. During the assault, which lasted for hours, the police also threatened the group with a long-range acoustic device to further disorient them. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s emergency medical services deployed to treat dozens of individuals with injuries.

For months, protests, including nonviolent direct action, have taken place with indigenous people, who will suffer the worst impact, at the forefront. An encampment called Sacred Stone Camp near the Standing Rock reservation has stood as a grand example of resistance.

On November 20, according to a press statement from


ignited “grass fires.” However, the water cannon was not specifically used to extinguish the fires. The water cannon was directed at water protectors.

Video shows the water cannon as police directed it at nonviolent water protectors. The video, shot with a drone, was at one point shot at with a water cannon presumably to knock it out of the air. The camp indicated police “shot down three media drones and targeted journalists with less lethal rounds.”

Unicorn Riot, a volunteer-operated collective of multimedia artists and journalists that has been on the ground documenting Standing Rock resistance for months, reported on the scale of the force used against water protectors as well as the impact on protectors.

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KUALA LUMPUR: HE had reportedly amassed millions of ringgit, had a lavish lifestyle and could even afford to own a factory processing drinking water.

Those are among the secrets of the Perlis Drainage and Irrigation Department (DID) director, who is at the centre of investigations over alleged graft and abuse of power.

Kedah Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) director Datuk Mohd Fauzi Mohamad said based on initial investigations, the 60-year-old man was believed to have amassed millions of ringgit in kickbacks from contractors since 2014.

He said the director, who is under remand till Monday, also allegedly owned a factory processing drinking water in Perlis from the wealth he had amassed.

“Our initial investigations showed that the director not only owns a bungalow and luxury cars, but also a factory processing drinking waterin Perlis.

“He had amassed millions of ringgit, which we suspect are kickbacks received from the contractors since assuming the post in 2014,” Fauzi said.

He said to date, the number of individuals arrested remain at three: the DID director, his son and an owner of a company.

Fauzi said MACC had obtained a new lead, but declined to elaborate as it would jeopardise investigations.

It was reported that MACC has frozen 17 bank accounts worth RM4 million belonging to the director, his children and a company owner.

Fauzi was also quoted as saying that preliminary investigations revealed that the director had allegedly accumulated kickbacks worth about RM5 million from 2014 to last year.

It was reported that the DID director had been living lavishly since 2014 from kickbacks he has received from contractors


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His famous smile, the most effective of his props, is a masterpiece of illusion, but when it vanishes Nick is left facing an "elegant young roughneck" whose manners and speech are no longer consistent with the atmosphere he has created. Page 24 Just as the illusion created by the Gatsby smile dissipates when the gesture ceases, the artificial gaiety of the party disappears when the orchestra goes home and the guests begin to depart. Husbands and wives turn on one another to the point of physical violence, and one guest manages to wreck his car in a ditch.

A Page 29 display of wealth without tradition simply is not sufficient for permanent entryinto Daisy's world. During the tea Gatsby's behavior borders on the tragi-comic; he glares soulfully, stalks about ''as if he were on a wire," and behaves in a manner that is entirely theatrical. Nick points out that he is conducting himself like a little boy, and in a sense that is precisely what Gatsby is. His romantic, adolescent quality is both the reason for his downfall and the key to his ability to maintain the purity of his vision.

J. Eckleburg, which George Wilson later identifies with God. But if these are the eyes of God, it is a God who is no longer present and who was created by the desire of an ambitious oculist to make money. Dim and shabby, the eyes brood over a world that


has become a dumping ground. A few paragraphs later they have their human counterpart in the light blue eyes of George Wilson, a shabby, spiritless denizen of the waste land. In one form or another the ashes pervade the chapter, recurring as the dust on Wilson's wrecked Ford, the ashen veil on his hair Page 21 and clothing, and the heavy white powder on Catherine's face.wanted to bring her to New York and have her experience Broadway. Today, my wish came true.

A little history of our Big Sister/Little Sister friendship:

When Fredy and I moved to Pennsylvania in 2004 — to attempt to gain custody of his then 7-year-old daughter, Anika: He and I met, as happens when you get involved with new places, some of the deaf community of Lancaster, PA.

One of the deaf women I met, at a little get-together with many other deaf people, was Michelle. Michelle is, technically and functionally, HOH (Hard-of-Hearing).

Very quickly, speaking with her, she voices a lot as she is HOH and not full deaf. This was a relief, though, as my American Sign Language was, at that time, still improving. Yes, I lived with a deaf


Tick Tock Diner. She could only stomach hot tea. I had some food.

One day belated: I need to also acknowledge someone very important to me, Nick Atonna. Yesterday was his birthday. Nick was my boyfriend, the first man I wanted to marry, really. We dated for about one year and a half in 1983-1985ish. He is an identical twin. His brother, Bryan, died in a tragic accident just over ten years ago.

Day Eighty-Eight (88): Thursday, May 27th, 2010

88) Dreamtime Of The Australian Aborigines

Alignment with the Law of Attraction, for the ancient Australian Aborigines, was alignment and access to the Dreamtime’s energetic realm where they believed all creation takes place. Australian Aborigines were groups of people who migrated from the Asian continent to settle in Australia. Their tribes hadgifts . . .

Since it is day 87, it reminded me of 1987 as that was a pivotal year for me, regarding spirituality, Law of Attraction and beginnings and endings.

Most of it began pretty early on, February 1987. My father has been ill, with cancer and a strange accident in the hospital in October or November and wasn’t expected to live. He was laying, in an open-eyed coma at the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Phoenix, AZ. I was back in Astoria (Queens), New York waiting to hear from Mom of any changes.

At Christmas, I flew home to visit with my parents. Daddy was already in the Veteran’s Hospital. A couple of months earlier, when, after a major surgery to remove his lung and part of his jaw —


etc.

All the while, one of my dearest friends from Roosevelt Island, NY, Susan “Susie” Schwartzberg, only age 19, was battling her cancer. She had a tumor in her face; a tumor that first appeared when she was 5-years-old, was treated and went into remission and re-emerged at the age of 17.

My life, at this time was Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tim Curry and my job at a fashion showroom, as an Administrative Assistant. I worked in New York’s Garment District; just above Calvin Klein. At work, on the old-fashioned man-operated elevator, I saw people such as: Joan Rivers, Calvin Klein and Angela Jagger (one of Mick’s former wives). I was also involved with a cabaret act, began by good friend, Andrew Martin Arnold. Susie and I were bothfive years of hoping, praying, imagining the day. I finally met the man: The one, the only TIM CURRY! I met him, just me and no other fans, at 1515 Broadway (now MTV Studios), which, at that time housed Minskoff Rehearsal Studios. Tim was there rehearsing the Broadway touring show ME AND MY GIRL.

On my birthday, September 28th, I turned 24-years-old; I went to see Susie in Sloane Kettering Hospital, where she stayed because her cancer (tumor) had progressed. She was legally blind now, due to the location of the tumor and going deaf in one ear. Prognosis was not good. In fact, when I arrived at the hospital, Susie was all excited to tell me about her bouquet of flowers from her favorite actor, Christopher Reeve [before


Center, or travel to New York. In fact, that’s my story!

From May 2000 through May 2004, I lived in Los Angeles, California. At the beginning of September 2001, my live-in boyfriend, Fredy Adolfo Gonzalez De Leon, had received his workers compensation after a two or so year battle. It was approximately $35,000.00.

We were living in a motel and had, with the money, finally planned to move to our own apartment. Fredy was tired of hearing me talk about New York and how much I loved it. He also was interested in seeing New York and Washington DC. Particularly the Pentagon and in New York, The World Trade Center.

September 9th, 2001 Fredy and I were sitting in our hotel room and contemplating our move . . . and havinga little fun on some of the money. We had a rough year together, financially. Fredy and I had been together from September 9, 2000. So, he told me that anniversary morning that he wanted us to go to New York the next day. He would buy us the tickets that day, the 9th, and we could leave for New York on September 10th.

I missed New York terribly and really had been talking, for months about the money and going back “home” for a visit. So, yes, I was interested in this spur of the moment plan. Yet, I had gained a lot of weight since my departure from NYC in 1997 and two weeks before, in Burbank, CA, I had just joined Weight Watchers. I thought about


New York from 1984 to 1989 and again from 1992-1997. I had recurrent dreams, nightmares, really, for all those years of being in an upper floor of the WTC, and seeing fire and I would be holding onto the carpet as the building swayed uncontrollably toward the water and the other buildings.

Since 9/11/2001, those dreams have ceased.

As for my family history:

My mother tells stories, one in particular, about her father, Norman Collins, reading the stars.

My mother was very young, obviously and was standing outside in her home of Ashland, Kentucky with her father. He was reading the stars to her.

He said to Mom, “In six weeks the President will die in the White House.”

Six weeks later, President Roosevelt died in the White House.

My mother, of course, calls herthis guy.

My ego, though, wants to clear the air about his accusatory statement that I hate anyone.

Day Eighty–Two (82): Friday, May 21st, 2010

82) How Alexander Became Great

In a discussion of the Law of Attraction, two words of Greek origin stand out: eudaimonia, meaning “human excellence and flourishing,” and anasa, meaning “new beginnings.” In ancient Greek history, a man named Alexander the Great epitomized the use of focused intention for beginning a new goal and a strong belief in one’s personal excellence to manifest great things.

Before he died, Alexander managed to conquer the vast majority of the ancient world that was known to the Greeks of that time. He remained undefeated in battle. He clearly knew what goal he wanted to manifest in life and through the power of


his thoughts, the intensity of his desire, and the Law of Attraction working with his thoughts and feelings, he became a formidable foe against his enemies.

Day Eighty–One (81): Thursday, May 20th, 2010

81) Collective Desire Creates Positive Results

When a leader and a group of people are holding a common vision for a goal, feeling expectant and joyful about the possibility of achieving it, and remaining focused while also putting energy toward accomplishing the goal every day, they are following a powerful recipe for success in manifesting their collective desire.

The Jews’ goal was to get to the Promised Land even though it meant that they had to walk for forty years in the desert. Nevertheless, their belief that God was guiding them remained strong, steady, and focused. It allowed fortheir miraculous crossing of the Red Sea, safe passage through lands owned by their enemies, and, finally, entry to the Promised Land, the culmination of their jointly held dream.

Shanghaied to Brooklyn again . . .

I was, once again, on tour sent to do the Brooklyn tour. In a way, it’s a blessing. They are less strict at the South Street Seaport stop. I can use a bathroom or get lunch without being pressured to jump on and start again.

Callbacks for TestoGenius . . . Meeting Bridgette Boucher:

Only had one actor show up tonight, a deaf actor named Mauricio Vanegas. Bridgette did a great audition with him. We had him translate some of the script. Then, Bridgette had him tell two stories to us; so we could see him


her will.  The purpose of
the codicil was to name Bigbee as the sole executrix of the estate and the sole trustee of
all of the family trusts, including the residuary trusts in which the Castleberry children and
grandchildren were designated as beneficiaries.  In all, Bigbee was appointed by May Glen
to serve as the sole trustee of the twelve different trusts.  In an effort to maintain uniformity,
May Glen also exercised her powers of appointment under Don's will and appointed
Bigbee as the sole trustee for each of the trusts under his will.
	As was the case with the wills, May Glen's codicil is silent as to any compensation
that should be paid to Bigbee for serving as the executrix and sole trustee.  May Glen died
on January 14, 2000, without makingwas not
wound up before the end of the year.  The trial court enforced the Rule 11 Agreement and
entered an "ORDER CLARIFYING RULE 11 AGREEMENT AND REMAINING CLAIMS"
on September 28, 2005. (4)
	Subsequently, on October 6, 2005, Bigbee filed a "MOTION TO DETERMINE
EXPENSE WITHHOLDING AND APPLICATION FOR PAYMENT OF EXECUTOR'S
COMMISSION."  Bigbee sought to withhold $804,041.00 from the remaining assets as
commission for serving as the executrix of the estate and as trustee of the Castleberry
trusts. (5)  Dale objected to Bigbee's attempt to seek compensation. (6)
	On February 15, 2006, the trial court held a hearing on Bigbee's motion.  The trial
court issued a letter ruling denying Bigbee's request for statutory compensation on March
9, 2006. (7)
	After the district court's letter ruling, Bigbee asked the court to reconsider its
decision


resurfaced.

The specter of email hacking may be more difficult to chase away. Sky News, part of BSkyB , admitted hacking into emails in two instances just days after James Murdoch stepped down as chairman of the company. The evidence obtained in both cases was passed on to the police in 2008, and has not led to the prosecution of Sky or the reporter involved. British regulator Ofcom is currently investigating the email hacking.

On Monday, John Ryley, head of news at Sky News, admitted to the inquiry that Ofcom guidelines don’t allow broadcastors to break criminal law.

The style of questioning is also likely to be more forensic and precise than that of the committee of MPs.

And the attitude of Rupert Murdoch in particular could be different. In July, hethe past thirty years, discussions on domestic violence have tended to cast men in the role of aggressors and women in the role of victims with the result that today, in the United Kingdom, male victims receive scant attention from both government policy-makers and the community at large. According to these reports, there are over forty-five homes for battered women and their children in England and Wales, but not a single government-funded facility for men, who have no one to turn to, even just for information. It would seem that the great majority of male victims of violence feel that, on the whole, the police and social welfare agencies are unsupportive and, in some cases, downright hostile. On 7 January 1999, a Channel 4 programme (“Dispatches”) featuring a


report on a hundred men who had suffered domestic violence revealed how 25% of these men – and not the female partner who had attacked them – had been arrested by the police when they sought help.

Only seven of the women had been arrested and of these, none were convicted. See Home Office Research Study 191 on “Domestic Violence: Findings from a new British Crime Survey self-completion questionnaire” by Catriona Mirrles-Black and “The physical aggression of women and men to their partners: A quantitative analysis” by John Archer, University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom.

OH My – the Council of Europe in 2002 pointing to the UK government for not taking male victims of DV seriously?

And the Council of Europe point everyone to HORS191 published 1999 where on pageno turn out gear was worn or, his gear was worn but got contaminated on the inside.

Arriving back home shortly before having to get up for work in the morning, he hit the couch instead of waking up his wife again. His young daughter heard him come in, got up and joined her Daddy on the couch.

The following day, his daughter presented lethargic like symptoms and was eventually hospitalized. A short period of time later, she was dead. 4 years old sticks in my mind.

It was later determined she had been poisoned by contact with a deadly chemical that was brought home on dads clothes. The concentration was harmless to adults but deadly to children. What a tragedy.

After reading that story, I became much more diligent about not


FIFA president Sepp Blatter wants to keep 32-team World Cup

ZURICH: FIFA president Sepp Blatter is opposed to proposals to expand the number of teams at the World Cup and would like to keep the number of participants to 32 if he is re-elected, he said on Friday.

He also suggested playing more intercontinental playoffs to resolve the discussion about how many places should be awarded to each region, and that a continent which hosts the World Cup should wait at least 12 years before staging it again.

Blatter is standing for a fifth mandate as FIFA president on May 29 and two of his three challengers, former Portugal forward Luis Figo and Dutch FA president Michael van Praag, want to expand the World Cup to 48 and 40 teams respectively.

"IDalai Lama Making Visit to Bloomington

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His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet will travel to Bloomington for a six-day visit this month. The visit will include a three-day educational program at the IU Auditorium and a public talk in Assembly Hall. He also will participate in an interfaith ceremony that will be broadcast live on cable television.

Bloomington, Ind. -- His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will present a public talk, "Compassion: the Source of Peace," on Oct. 27, from 2 to 4 p.m., in Assembly Hall at Indiana University Bloomington.

The public address is part of a six-day visit sponsored by the Tibetan Cultural Center and Kumbum Chamtse Ling Temple, both of


Bloomington. The visit will include a three-day educational program, scheduled for Oct. 24-26 at the IU Auditorium, during which the Dalai Lama will teach from Atisha's Lamp for the Path to Enlightenment . He also will participate in an interfaith ceremony on Oct. 23 at St. Paul's Catholic Center. The interfaith ceremony will be broadcast live on cable television and will be rebroadcast on WTIU the following week.

The winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, the Dalai Lama has been recognized worldwide for his message of compassion and tolerance, his promotion of human values and inter-religious understanding, and his focus on peace through non-violent conflict resolution. On Oct. 17, he will receive the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of his contributions to peace, nonviolence, human rights and religiousunderstanding.

"I have had the privilege of participating in four of the Dalai Lama's visits to Bloomington. Each time I have been impressed by the warmth of his personality and by his charismatic presence," said Patrick O'Meara, IU vice president for international affairs. "IU is indeed fortunate to have a world leader of this significance on the campus, and I hope that our students and faculty, as well as the broader Bloomington community, will be drawn to this man of peace. His message of compassion has never been more important."

In addition to the Tibetan Cultural Center, which was founded in 1979 by IU Professor Emeritus Thubten Norbu -- the Dalai Lama's eldest brother -- and Kumbum Chamtse Ling Temple, the public talk is being sponsored in partnership with IU's


offices of the president, vice president for international affairs and provost, the IU Foundation and the city of Bloomington.

IU President Michael A. McRobbie said it was noteworthy that the Dalai Lama will come to Bloomington immediately after receiving the Congressional Gold Medal.

"The medal is in recognition of a lifetime advocacy for peace and human understanding. It is particularly significant that he will be coming to the university because of IU's deep international connections," McRobbie said. "Indiana University has one of the preeminent centers for teaching and research on Tibetan language and culture.

"For nearly half a century, Professor Norbu -- the Dalai Lama's brother -- has been a faculty member at IU. Norbu and his colleagues have been responsible for IU's national and international preeminence in these areas. Ipersonally look forward to greeting His Holiness," McRobbie added.

The 14th Dalai Lama was born on July 6, 1935, in the Tibetan village of Taktser. In accordance with tradition, he was recognized at age two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the 13th Dalai Lama. The dalai lamas are manifestations of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, called Chenrezig, who chose to reincarnate to serve humankind. The name "dalai lama" is a combination of Tibetan and Mongolian terms meaning "Ocean of Wisdom."

For the Dalai Lama's talk, Gold Circle tickets -- located on Court Level of Assembly Hall and closest to the Dalai Lama -- will cost $60. Other general admission tickets are $30 for adults, and $15 for IU and college students and those under age 18. Children under three years


TIU2, which airs on Channel 17 on Bloomington Insight Cable. The service will air twice more on WTIU on Nov. 1 at 8 p.m. and Nov. 4 at 2:30 p.m.

The non-profit Tibetan center is located on 108 acres in Bloomington. It has a Buddhist temple -- the Kumbum Chamtse Ling -- a cultural building, two residences, four retreat cottages, and two Tibetan chortens, symbols of the enlightened mind. Its mission is to foster and preserve Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist cultures in the United States, to provide Buddhist teachings in the Bloomington area and promote interfaith harmony.Park Ridge, Ill. – The Big Ten Conference office announced the 2012 Medal of Honor winners, 24 honorees from 13 different sports. One of the most prestigious conference awards in college athletics, the Big Ten Medal of Honor was first awarded in 1915 to one student-athlete from the graduating class of each university who had “attained the greatest proficiency in athletics and scholastic work.”

The 12 institutions of the Big Ten Conference feature nearly 10,000 student-athletes, more than any other conference, and only 24 of those individuals are recognized each year with the Big Ten Medal of Honor. In the 98 years of the Medal of Honor, just over 1,300 student-athletes have earned this distinction.

This year’s list of distinguished student-athletes includes U.S. National Team members, NCAA Champions, Lowe’s Senior


swimmer Andrew Elliott received the NCAA Elite 88 Award for having the highest grade-point average among participants at the NCAA Men’s Swimming & Diving Championships.

Athletically, Medal of Honor selections led their teams to national and conference championships during the 2011-12 academic year. Schleper helped the Minnesota women’s hockey team to its third NCAA Championship and the WCHA Tournament title. Peter Konz helped the Wisconsin football team to a win in the inaugural Big Ten Football Championship Game, while Guthrie led Illinois to the men’s golf championship, Dan Madwed guided Michigan to the men’s swimming championship, Ashley Miller helped Nebraska to the women’s indoor track & field title, and Amanda Chidester led Michigan softball to its fifth consecutive conference title. Jenna Carosio, an Illinois women’s soccer player, and Rayburn,a Purdue women’s basketball player, both led their teams to conference tournament championships.

Six Medal of Honor winners garnered individual accolades for their athletic performances during the 2011-12 season. Illinois’ Carosio was named women’s soccer’s Defensive Player of the Year, while Guthrie was named the Big Ten’s Men’s Golfer of the Year. For Michigan, Madwed was the Big Ten’s Swimmer of the Year and Swimmer of the Championships, while Chidester was named the conference’s softball Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. Northwestern field hockey player Chelsea Armstrong was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year, and Ohio State’s Bianca Alvarez was named the Big Ten Women’s Diver of the Year.

The Big Ten Medal of Honor was the first award in intercollegiate athletics to demonstrate


support for the educational emphasis placed on athletics. It was acclaimed throughout the nation, and in particular by the NCAA “as one of the significant gestures yet made in college sports.” The Big Ten Medal of Honor was expanded in 1982 to include one female student-athlete from each institution. In 2014, the conference will celebrate the 100th anniversary of this prestigious award.

The complete list of 2012 Big Ten Medal of Honor winners can be found below. Go to bigten.org to read more on each student-athlete.The charge-sheet filed in the Pehlu Khan case says that Pehlu and his two sons were accused of cow smuggling. However, the media along with the opposition politicians created a fracas over the issue, with many demanding that his name be dropped from the charge-sheet as he was a victim of an onslaught by Gaurakshaks. He and his sons were accused of being cow smugglers. However, his alleged crimes were whitewashed and he was portrayed by a certain section of media and a group of self-declared intellectuals as a man of noble character who was murdered in a cold-blood by Hindutva goons and Gaurakshaks.

Such media shenanigans of calling cow smugglers as cow movers are carried out to render the actual and serious issue of cow smuggling unimportant. By


2001 in Canada

Events from the year 2001 in Canada.

Incumbents

Estimated Canadian population: 31,110,565

Crown
 Monarch – Elizabeth II

Federal government
 Governor general – Adrienne Clarkson
 Prime minister – Jean Chrétien
 Chief Justice – Beverley McLachlin (British Columbia)
 Parliament – 37th (from January 29)

Provincial governments

Lieutenant governors
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta – Lois Hole
Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia – Garde Gardom (until September 25) then Iona Campagnolo
Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba – Peter Liba
Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick – Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador – Arthur Maxwell House
Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia – Myra Freeman
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario – Hillary Weston
Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island – Gilbert Clements (until May 28) then Léonce Bernard
Lieutenant Governor of Quebec – Lisein the nation's capital.
October 7 – the 2001 Attack on Afghanistan begins. Canadian fighter pilots and ground troops are involved in the war.
November 17 – Vancouver resident Aaron Webster is killed in what many believe to be a gay bashing attack.

Full date unknown
Chris Hadfield becomes the first Canadian to perform a spacewalk.
CTV purchases The Globe and Mail.
Jean Drapeau Statue unveiled.

Arts and literature
March 4 – Bruce Cockburn is inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.

New literature
Discipline of Power: Jeffrey Simpson
Dolce Agonia: Nancy Huston
Eunoia: Christian Bök
Life of Pi: Yann Martel
Shadows: Timothy Findley
Stanley Park: Timothy Taylor
The Stone Carvers: Jane Urquhart

Literary awards
Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief wins the lucrative International Dublin Literary Award
Giller Prize for Canadian Fiction: Richard B. Wright: Clara Callan
See 2001 Governor General's Awards for a


The city is asking residents to keep their Christmas trees for at least another week before putting them out for recycling.

"Natural Christmas trees are collected in January on residents' scheduled garbage collection day," says a notice posted on the city's website.

In an average year the city says it collects about 100,000 Christmas trees. "These trees are collected by separate trucks, shredded and made into finished compost."

But other items destined for the recycling bins are already starting to pile up.

Stephanie Colbourne of Toronto says her family was "swimming" in gift-related trash and paper.

"After we opened all of our presents it was crazy," she said, "we had so much wrapping."

But the city is prepared for the all the extras.

During the holidays recycling volume goes up about 10 per cent fromSunwing Vacations passengers en route to Victoria from Mexico were rerouted to Abbotsford on Saturday night and had to make their own way back to the Island. Those who spoke to the News say they were not reimbursed for the cost of doing so, but instead were offered a $150 travel voucher for Sunwing. Sunwing.ca

Island passengers say Sunwing left them stranded in Abbotsford

Company says late arrival led to difficulties securing accommodation, transportation

A Sunwing Vacations flight scheduled to land in Victoria last Saturday was rerouted to Abbotsford, leaving close to 200 passengers stranded in a city five hours from their scheduled destination.

Stuart Salter was travelling from Los Cabos, Mexico with his wife, daughter and 10-year-old granddaughter when approximately 20 minutes before landing, the pilot of their chartered Viva Aerobus


Joe was born March 19, 1933 in York Run, Pennsylvania, son of the late Michael and Susan Bodish Valentich.

Joe was a graduate of Georges Township High School in Fairchance, Pennsylvania.

He proudly served in the United States Air Force during the Korean War, stationed in Korea and Japan. Upon returning home he attended Waynesburg University in Pennsylvania.

He was a member of St. Mark’s Lutheran Church and enjoyed traveling, cooking and playing the lottery. Joe also loved cars and passed that passion on to his children and grandchildren.

Joe was employed as an electrician at Volkswagen of America in New Stanton, Pennsylvania for 10 years where he retired in 1989 when they ceased production in North America. He was the first local union president of UAW Local # 2055 at Volkswagenand was instrumental in establishing the union at the company’s first U.S. manufacturing operation. Joe was an advocate of workers’ rights and worked with company, community and political leaders in Pennsylvania and nationally, including meeting with President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Walter Mondale on behalf of workers during his time in office. He then started working at Rouge Steel in Dearborn, Michigan where he retired in 2004. Joe had owned his own businesses in trucking and automotive body repair during his career and also worked in steel mills in the Pittsburgh and Youngstown areas.

A television tribute will air Thursday, November 10 at the following approximate times:
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address, and caching the memory type in the TLB in association with the virtual address.
In another aspect, it is a feature of the present invention to provide a method of providing a memory type for a physical address range in a microprocessor. The method includes caching a plurality of physical addresses translated from a plurality of virtual address in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) based on virtual addresses, and caching in the TLB a plurality of memory types associated with the plurality of physical addresses. The method also includes applying a virtual address to the TLB, and providing one of the plurality of memory types cached in the TLB associated with one of the plurality of physical addresses based on the virtual address applied to the TLB.
An advantageFrom an earthquake perspective, 2011 was a remarkable year. While the devastation accompanying the magnitude-9.0 Tohoku earthquake that occurred off the coast of Japan on March 11 still captures attention worldwide, the relatively stable interior of the U.S. was struck by a somewhat surprising number of small-to-moderate earthquakes that were widely felt. Most of these were natural events, the types of earthquakes that occur from time to time in all intraplate regions. For example, the magnitude 5.8 that occurred in central Virginia on Aug. 23 was felt throughout the northeast, damaged the Washington Monument, and caused the temporary shutdown of a nuclear power plant. This earthquake occurred in the Central Virginia Seismic Zone, an area known to produce relatively frequent small earthquakes.

However, a number of the small-to-moderate earthquakes


capable of producing a moderate-sized earthquake. In the case of the Arkansas triggered earthquakes, as well as a series of quakes thought to have been caused by wastewater injection in the Barnett Shale in Texas near the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area in 2008, the seismicity abated once injection in the problematic wells was terminated.

Overall, it is important for the public to recognize that the risks posed by injection of wastewater are extremely low. In addition, the risks can be minimized further through proper study and planning prior to injection, careful monitoring in areas where there is a possibility that seismicity might be triggered, and operators and regulators taking a proactive response if triggered seismicity were to occur.Toronto Mayor Rob Ford says he ordered robocalls to east-end residents to make sure they knew their councillor voted against a subway expansion.

Ford says he didn't do anything wrong since he believes it's his "responsibility to the taxpayers" to make sure constituents know how their councillors vote.

Coun. Paul Ainslie says residents in his ward were called Friday night with a minute-long recorded message from Ford -- hours after he quit the mayor's cabinet-style executive committee.

In the recording, Ford says it was "extremely unfortunate" Ainslie did not vote this week in favour of the subway extension in his ward.

Ainslie says he'll be making complaints to the city's Integrity Commissioner and the CRTC over the robocalls.

On his weekly radio show Sunday the mayor said he was puzzled as to why


he changed his mind in favour of a cheaper light rail line prior to Tuesday's vote.

Ford said the robocalls aimed to make sure his constituents knew that.

"He said he was supporting it and in the last minute he decided to switch? You've got to tell people this, and if you don't then I have to," he said, adding he was going to fire Ainslie from the executive committee before he quit.

Ainslie has said he resigned from the committee because he didn't want to be "bullied" by the mayor and told how to vote.

Ford begins the recording by introducing himself and reading out his office's phone number.

The city's code of conduct bars use of municipal equipment for non-city business. Municipal law expert John Mascarin questioned whether the calls rantime in which to file a brief; no brief has been filed.
 [1] There was evidence of the following facts. Officer John P. Jones of the Los Angeles Police Department, in company with one Peterson, encountered White on Broadway in Los Angeles; Peterson asked White if he could "score some stuff," meaning in the vernacular of narcotics users, the purchase of heroin; White said he could; he turned around, and the three walked down the street 10 or 15 feet behind a man and a woman, who were apparently Mexicans. Upon the request of White, Jones gave him a $10 bill. The five persons walked on; White overtook the Mexicans and the man took something out of his mouth and gave it to White; Jones, Peterson and White


turned into a barroom; White gave Peterson a balloon; Peterson gave it to Jones. It was proved that it contained heroin. It was developed in the cross-examination of Officer Jones that he had been seeing Peterson several times a week for several months at the Police Administration Building; he did not know where Peterson lived and denied knowing where Peterson was at the time; after White handed the balloon to Peterson White said "I didn't burn you, man," meaning that he had brought back genuine heroin. After receiving the balloon Jones gave White $1.00. He testified that he was absolutely sure of his identification of White. Defendant, testifying in his own behalf, denied having ever seen Jones before the trial or having any transaction with him.
 The appealGenève-Servette HC announces that they have signed Garrett Roe to a one-year contract. The American joins the Grenats from EHC Red Bull München and stays until the end of the 2015-16 season.

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The 27-year-old forward is a former seventh round draft pick of the Los Angeles Kings, but only ever made it to the AHL level, playing for the Adirondack Phantoms from 2011 to 2013 (66 points in 129 games). After a stint with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the 2013-14 season, he took his services to Munich last season, registering 13 goals and 38 assists in 52 games. (mso)


Drunken Mob Attacks Election Headquarters

Slate's rolling state-by-state coverage of the best polling disasters.

Drunken Mob Attacks Election Headquarters: Angry voters tried to storm the Cook County, Ill., election headquarters early Wednesday morning as a slow-going vote count extended well past midnight. According to the county clerk, drunken "hooligans" assaulted individuals carrying electronic voting data into the building, and police officers held off two dozen supporters of the Republican candidate for county board president in the lobby. One person was arrested for damaging an elevator.

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Final results in the Montana Senate race were delayed in part because of an electronic voting snafu: Yellowstone County Election Administrator Duane Winslow forgot to zero out the voting machines used to tabulate absentee ballots before they were put to general use for Tuesday's election, meaningFacebook's user base is nearly as large as the U.S. population and, for the first time, the site has turned a profit. That was the double-barreled announcement Tuesday from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who thanked the site's users for helping its online community cross the 300 million threshold. There are about 307 million people living in the United States, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.


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Vancouver Island School of Art gets new home approved

The Vancouver Island School of Art (VISA) officially has a new home after the City of Victoria approved a new development in Quadra Village.

Ross Terrace, a development by ARYZE Developments and The Purdey Group at 2566, 2570, 2580 Fifth St., will house two four-storey buildings containing 64 rental units and a new 6,000 sq. ft. campus for VISA.

VISA was evicted out of its long-term home at 2549 Quadra St. in 2018, and has temporarily been renting space at the former Blanshard Elementary School building at 950 Kings Rd.

ARYZE had already purchased the land for Ross Terrace, and had initial designs in hand when it heard that VISA was in search of a new space and put its plans on hold.

“WeDemocratic presidential candidate former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg speaks during a “United for Mike,” event held at the Aventura Turnberry Jewish Center and Tauber Academy Social Hall on January 26, 2020 in Aventura, Florida.

Doggone it, Mike Bloomberg's presidential campaign is fast at producing funny ads.

Less than 24 hours after a video showing Bloomberg bizarrely shaking a dog's snout went viral on social media, his campaign released a digital ad featuring dogs endorsing the billionaire's candidacy for the Democratic nomination.

"Dog people get me," the former New York City mayor tweeted Wednesday, with the hashtag #DogsFurMike.

The pooches in the video, purporting to speak in human voices, bark about Bloomberg's various selling points.

One pup points out, "Mike's not afraid of the NRA, not one bit," referring to Bloomberg's support


for gun control.

Another canine quips, "He does not tweet," in an apparent tweak of President Donald Trump and his compulsive Twitter habit.

And toward the end, one dog declaims simply, "I like Mike. I lick Mike."

Dog ad

The ad ends with a still image of him petting a dog — its head, not its snout.

"I'm Mike Bloomberg's dog. I approve this message," Bloomberg's purported pet dog, Cody, says (with a human voiceover).

In the video that went viral Tuesday, Bloomberg while campaigning in Burlington, Vermont, is seen approaching a seated man to shake his hand.

Bloomberg on the video then looks at a dog in front of the man, grabs the dog's snout and shakes it up and down, in the same manner people shake each others' hands.

Snoutgate

The incident — dubbed "snoutgate"breach of political courtesy and diplomatic etiquette as the event involves a visiting Head of State. There is worrisome dilemma troubling our leader", said a DMK senior, requesting anonymity.

PMO has included only a limited number of dignitaries from the state government for the Modi-Xi dinner. The list of invitees includes the Chief Minister, Deputy Chief Minister, Assembly Speaker and the Leader of Opposition.

The saffron nightmare has been disrupting Stalin's sleep in yet another issue too. Informed sources told DC that the BJP Government at the Centre had offered the position of Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker to the DMK as per the convention of the nominee of the second largest party in the House holding the post.’’

The saffron nightmare has been disrupting Stalin’s sleep in yet another issue too.


OTTAWA — A prestigious scientific journal has challenged the Harper government to explain millions of dollars worth of cuts to environmental research programs and funding.

In a new editorial, the journal Nature recognized the federal government has increased spending on science and technology in recent years, but warned that cuts to specific programs were undermining "vital sectors of Canadian science" without explanation.

"Governments come and go, but scientific expertise and experience cannot be chopped and changed as the mood suits and still be expected to function," said the editorial. "Nor can applied research thrive when basic research is struggling."

The editorial comes a week after scientists staged a mock funeral outside of Parliament to denounce what they called the "death of evidence" following government decisions to cut millions of dollars inLuminosity Gaming recently signed Magic the Gathering pro player and Hearthstone superstar StanCifka as well as Canadian player Impact and Ignite from Portugual. With this news Luminosity Gaming officially breaks into the competitive Hearthstone scene, delivering on their promise of expansion.

Luminosity Gaming starts a Hearthstone team; signs Stancifka, Impact and Ignite .

Currently Stancifka is 6th in the World and 2nd in Europe on Gosugamers while Impact is 31st in the World and 10th in North America. Ignite is 35th in the World and 14th in Europe. All three players also have backgrounds in other TCGs, which made the transition to Hearthstone seamless. Stanislav 'Stancifka' Cifka is a MTG Pro Tour Champion while Josh 'Impact' Graham is a Yu-Gi-Oh! Championship Series winner and Nuno 'Ignite' Pinho played Yu-Gi-Oh! competitively


for a few years, placing top 4 at two National Championships. Stancifka won Dreamhack Bucharest where teammate Impact also finished in the top 8. Impact was also a 3-time ESL King of the Hill champion and won the Sunshine Open, which was the largest open Hearthstone tournament to date with over 2200 registered players. Ignite also finished in the top 8 of Seatstory Cup III with one of the best finishes in the group stages, in addition to competing in ESL's Legendary Series Season 2 week 3, qualifying through the open bracket.

All three players will also be streaming on Twitch http://www.twitch.tv/team/luminosity and will be competing in the Hearthstone Dreamhack Summer 2015 Championship this weekend. Be sure to follow there progress throughout the tournament on Twitch.

About Stanislav Cifka -StanCifka (Czech Republic)

Stanislav 'StanCifka' Cifka is 27 years old and from the Czech Republic. He is most known for being a professional Magic: the Gathering player, winning a Pro Tour and being his country's national champion in 2013. He brings this experience over to Hearthstone where he has shown extreme promise by turning it into many top finishes in tournaments in such a short time frame! He is the Dreamhack Bucharest 2015 champion while also getting top 4 in the Viagame House Cup 3 tournament falling short only to the inevitable champion Lifecoach and placing in top 8 of EU vs CN Season 2, again losing only to the winner, Kolento. He also popularized the Grim Patron combo deck which has taken over the competitive Hearthstone scene ever


since his victory in Romania.

About Nuno Pinho - Ignite (Portugal)

Nuno 'Ignite' Pinho is 22 years old and has been a full time Hearthstone player since the game's release. He's performed well in many tournaments, most recently reaching top 8 of Seatstory Cup III and qualifying for ESL Legendary Series week 3 where he finished 3rd. He is very dedicated to the game and takes playing seriously whether it's on ladder or in tournaments. He finished in the top 20 in March while preparing for Seatstory Cup III. Nuno has also been a successful card player before, placing top 4 at two national championship for Yu-Gi-Oh in Portugal at the age of 14. Ignite and Impact have been friends and helped each other practice in other card game tournamentsfor the last 10 years!

About Josh Graham - Impact (Canada)

Josh 'Impact' Graham is 22 years old and is a dedicated Hearthstone player. He has helped many pro players such as Ostkaka, Chakki, RDU and others prepare for major tournaments where they have seen success due to his innovative decks and strategies. Impact, himself, is also no slouch in competitive play. He made top 8 of Dreamhack Bucharest in his first LAN appearance, with one of the toughest paths to get there. He defeated 2 players who were in the world championship, along with former Dreamhack top 8 competitor 'Skip'. In top 16 he also defeated Lifecoach, winner of Viagame House Cup 3 before falling short to Lothar. Impact also was a 3-time King of the Hill champion, defeating


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10 Things that will Happen in 2011

With the ebbs and flows of the tennis season, the upsurge of new talents, and the resurgence of veteran players, it is always difficult to predict the coming season in the tennis world. However this year, we believe the season will be slightly more predictable as a result of Rafael Nadal's dominant season last year. By this we mean, due to Nadal's point accumulation last year, it will be very hard for him to defend all his points, therefore opening the field for his fellow players. So far in 2011 the tennis world has seen a season relatively unconcerned with the likes of Nadal and Federer.

After losing to Djokovic in the semi-finals ofthe US Open last year, Roger Federer compiled a 16-2 record for the rest of the season, while capturing the title in Doha at the start of this year. Federer relinquished a 27 match win streak with his semi-final loss to Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open. Although Federer showed some vulnerability last year with his streaks of unfocused play and distracted mis-hits, Federer displayed his mental fortitude with his strong finish last year, and his strong start this year. What has impressed us most about Federer is his tenacity in sticking with his attacking game-plan devised by Coach Paul Annacone. Even though Federer will have his streaky periods within matches again this year, Federer will continue to be one of the most consistent of the top 5


players. Federer also does not have too many points to defend from March to August, allowing him a long period to regain the number one ranking.

Our main rationale behind this prediction is the mere fact that Rafael Nadal has three Grand Slam titles to defend. The only person to defend three Grand Slam titles back to back in the last ten years in Roger Federer (06 and 07 seasons), and his three Grand Slams landed throughout the calender year. Nadal won the last three Grand Slams of the year plus the clay court slam. Nadal also performed with high results for the other masters series tournaments throughout the year. As Nadal has been prone to injury in the past, we believe the succession of the major tournaments duringthe clay court swing and Wimbledon will affect him physically. And as a result, Nadal may not be able to defend all his points throughout this season, culminating in his biggest drop in the rankings since 2005.

Milos Raonic has demonstrated some incredible prowess in all areas of his game this year. He has been the surprise story of the ATP tour. Sporting one of the biggest serves on the planet, Raonic has proved his worth to the tennis world with a round of 16 showing at the Australian Open, a win in San Jose, and a final showing in Memphis. For more information on Milos Raonic, see our feature on Raonic: Young Guns: Milos Raonic. We believe his champion qualities will take him straight to the top tier


of the game this year. Do not be surprised if you see his name in the number 8 or 9 slot come December.

After succumbing to a season ending wrist injury last year, Juan Martin del Potro was unsure if and when he was going to return to tennis. The Tandil, Argentina native started the year slowly, winning only 2 matches in Sydney and the Australian Open together. However, after the Australian Open, Del Potro has been steadily returning to the form that won him the U.S. Open in 2009. Del Potro has reached the semi-finals in both San Jose and Memphis and collected the title at Delray Beach consecutively. Del Potro believes he is ahead of schedule in his return to the top of the game. We believeDel Potro will have success in the smaller level tournaments and have a consistent year in the masters this year reaching quarter-finals at best. The 6'6" giant still does not seem to possess the same crisp movement and trust-worthy serving abilities that held him steady in the top 10 two years ago. After a year away from the game, it will take Del Potro some time before he is able to constitute his practice into his match play thoroughly, therefore earning him a spot in the top 25 by the end of this year.

For the past eight years, Roger Federer has won at least one Grand Slam title during the season. Usually this would not be a topic of controversy; however, in the last couple years, people have


be a prime year for Soderling to make his push into the top 3. Djokovic may not give up his position to Soderling, but we believe Soderling will usurp this position with very strong showings at the Grand Slams this year.

Nadal has proven his legendary status on the "terre battue" of Roland Garros over the last six years. Compiling an incredible 70-1 record at the French Open, no one can deny Nadal's supremacy on the clay courts. After dominating the clay season last year without losing a single match, Nadal will be the clear favorite going into this year's French Open.

Since the 2008 Olympics, after his semi-final loss to Fernando Gonzalez, James Blake has not been the same. With each season, there has come a deterioration of playin James Blake's game. James has played less and less due to injury, coaching switches, and personal problems. His pertinacity in playing an incredibly high risk game (almost bullheaded game), has become even more "high-risk" as he as aged and as he has slowed. The time has come for James Blake to relinquish either his speculative game, or maybe even his game altogether and put away the rackets for good.

Alexandr Dolgopolov has rocked the tennis world thus far in his campaign during the 2011 tennis season. He upset Robin Soderling in a thrilling five set match at the Australian Open, and fought hard with Andy Murray before succumbing in four sets. Dolgopolov backed up this Australian Open result by reaching the semi-finals in Acapulco, and reaching the finals


regain his confidence and form, and once he did he was a force to be reckoned with. This form carried into the start of this year, carting Murray into his third Grand Slam final. However, Federer was not there to cease him. Many people thought this was the moment; surprisingly Murray crashed out in three quick sets. Murray played the follow up tournament in Rotterdam and was routed in his first match 6-4 6-1. This was not a good sign for the Scot. After three missed golden opportunities at Slam finals, the latest one will probably have the longest lingering affect. This one may take past Wimbledon to get over, but the bright side about this is that Murray does not have many points to defend up until[Polish nurses' smoking behavior and environmental tobacco smoke exposure].
The aim of the study was to evaluate the nurses' exposure to active and passive smoking. The study population consisted of 299 nurses. Among the study population detailed questionnaire was conducted incusing sociodemographic characteristic, smoking profile and environmental tobacco smoke exposure. About 18% of nurses indicated current tobacco smoking and 25% smoking in the past. Only 13% of the study population declared complete ban of tobacco smoking in their homes and 20% indicated exposure to tobacco smoke in the workplaces. The women were most frequently exposed to inhaling tobacco smoke in bars and pubs (97%), restaurants (65%) and in private cars (64%).


Julián Romero

Julián Romero de Ibarrola (Huélamo, 1518 – Cremona, 1577) was a Spanish military commander in the 16th century. He was one of the few common soldiers in the Spanish army to reach the rank of Maestre de Campo.

Romero was born in Huélamo, Province of Cuenca (Spain). Nothing more is known about his youth. He entered the Spanish army at the age of 16, and was stationed in Flanders. By 1545 he commanded a Spanish army unit as sergeant or captain in the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, as ally of the English in their war with Scotland. King Henry VIII of England was so impressed by his performance, that he made him a banneret. Shortly after, he was recalled from England, because the alliance with Spain came toMenu

Not many have grasped the importance of the Chicago martyrdom; least of every one of the ruling lessons. From the destruction of a variety of labor leaders they imagined to stem the tide of a earth-inspiring idea.

Emma Goldman soon obtained get the job done from the clothes institution from the Garson Co. The wages amounted to two as well as a fifty percent pounds per week. At the moment the factories were not offered with motor electricity, as well as inadequate sewing women needed to push the wheels by foot, from early early morning till late during the night. A really exhausting toil it was, with out a ray of sunshine, the drudgery with the extensive working day passed in entire silence — the Russian tailor made of


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The struggle of generations now happened within the Goldman family. The parents could not understand what desire their daughter could uncover in the new Thoughts, which they by themselves considered amazing utopias. They strove to influence the youthful Lady out of these chimeras, and day by day repetition of soul-racking disputes was the result.

Puritanism now not employs the thumbscrew and lash; but it surely still features a most pernicious keep to the minds and inner thoughts on the American folks. Naught else can make clear the strength of a Comstock. Much like the Torquemadas of ante-bellum times, Anthony Comstock could be the autocrat of American morals; he dictates the specifications of fine and evil,A new shuttle announced Friday will link the Greyhound station near Yellowhead Trail to Edmonton buses and LRT trains at the Kingsway transit centre.

The shuttle will allow passengers to connect between Kingsway and the Greyhound station at 12360 121st St., the city said in a news release Friday.

The Greyhound station, which opened in the VIA Rail station in May 2016, "is situated in an area that lacks the infrastructure to provide regular transit service," the city said.

The station had previously been downtown but had to move because of Ice District development plans.

In 2016, Mayor Don Iveson said the city worked with Greyhound to find a new location for the station that was easily accessible to transit, but Greyhound didn't accept.

Greyhound lots its lease to its old downtown location


Hamel, Greyhound regional vice-president for Western Canada, said the solution between Greyhound and the city benefits everyone.

"This allows passengers easy connection to all areas of the city and beyond," Hamel said in the release.

Regular bus operations at the Kingsway transit centre will not be affected by the agreement.Investment Fund III is based in the Cayman Islands. Edwards’ campaign said he opposes offshore tax havens and, “as president, he will end them.”

A mighty Fortress

Edwards has said he worked for Fortress to learn more about financial markets and their link to poverty. He is the former director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

He evidently learned a good deal because his portfolio is aggressive and slanted toward Wall Street’s most complex deals. He has accounts, including a trust for his children, with Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management and Oak Hill Capital Partners Fund. Two investments, Drawbridge Global Macro Fund and Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund, are Fortress hedge funds that specialize in what his disclosure form characterizes as


tennis was played closed-stance, as in cricket and golf. This notion was then exported to the USA, and cricket replaced by baseball, which fortified also the theory that a tennis groundstroke is a linear, forward effort. To this day, these two erroneous concepts, closed-stance and hit forward through the ball are still thought to be the most acceptable way of starting a child in tennis. Compound this with the idea that you have to prepare early, and you have three immediate barriers to the ease and naturalness of your game.

Because the USA has been regarded as the leader and model in many facets in life, celebrated American coaches and associations who promoted the linear follow-through concept, early preparation and closed stance made a wide impact, which was, ineffect, exported back to Europe and spread throughout the world. This was regardless of the fact that most major champions played the forehand topspin across the body and mostly from an open stance, including Bill Tilden, Fred Perry, Jack Kramer, Rod Laver and almost everyone else who has made a mark in the game.

In sports most players copy the best performers in the field. Why was tennis the only sport in which the amateur player should not?

I successfully argued in working with Pancho Segura at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club in 1968 and 1969, after my retirement from the international tour, that we should teach everyone to play like the pros. Pancho saw the results I was achieving and let me experiment with his student body, which included


the likes of Charlton Heston, Dinah Shore, the Kirk Douglas family, Ava Gardner, the Robert Taylor kids, and other stars, including the charming Dean Martin Jr., who looked outstanding in his Wimbledon final against Guillermo Vilas in the movie “Players”.

In the span of a decade I had the chance to compete against and practice with players spanning 3 generations, including Rod Laver, Pancho Gonzales, Lew Hoad, Pancho Segura, John Newcombe, Tony Roche, Manuel Santana, Martin Mulligan, Roger Taylor, the Flying Dutchman Tom Okker, Niki Pilic, Boro Jovanovic, Ronnie Barnes, etc, etc. It was then when I was able to observe the huge difference between the way the top pros play and the way tennis was being taught.

Unable to convince USA coaches, I then went to Spain. In 1973juniors (and the winner, of course) in the semi-finals of one of the major tournaments in Europe, eliminating from the competition the representatives from the rest of the world. Spain, which had had just a handful of top players, including Manuel Santana (one of my favorite players and a model for the modern forehand) and at the time the buddying Manuel Orantes, would within decades become a major tennis force within the world.

It was at the Orange Bowl in 1973 that I first caught the attention of Bud Collins, the famous tennis historian who would notice the marvels of the Spanish team juniors hitting with such pronounced topspin and open stance. He would later document this in my second book.

I returned to the USA and Florida in 1974


determined to convince the USTA and USPTA to adopt these outstanding techniques. I coached, supported by great results, at Aventura Country Club, The Tennis Club International and Laver’s Racquet Club, but my attempts to reform coaching from the grassroots to the upper level were being scorned by the major US entities in the game. But a former #10 player in the world player I met at Laver’s Racquet Club, Jurgen Fassbender from Germany, invited me for the spring/summer season to Weiden (Cologme) to coach both the juniors and to help him with the main team. My juniors went undefeated that year and I helped Jorgen get the main team up to the Bundesliga.

An invitation to Brazil in 1982 gave me new testing grounds. Working with a small 4-hard-courtclub owned by the local telephone company, and backed up by a great coach and supporter, Carlos Alves, we created, out of 60 kids, 40 nationally-ranked Juniors, some of them top-10 ranked in the world. Two of them, Gustavo Kuerten and Marcio Carlsson, went on to win the Sunshine Cup for Brazil (the Davis Cup for Juniors). Gustavo, “Guga” Kuerten, by then in the hands of another coach, won 3 French Opens and was #1 in the world in 2000, in a campaign culminating with wins over Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi in winning the World Cup.

What happened in Russia and Eastern Europe? My donation of my first book,Tennis in 2 Hours, to the Russian Tennis Federation in December 1989 was enthusiastically received. Moscow coaches became immediately aware


that their classical coaching style needed to be revamped. Bud Collins, the famous media dean and tennis historian, coming to his Florida winter retreat after his 1990 December first visit to Moscow’s Kremlin Cup, told me local Russian coaches had approached him asking if he knew me and for more of my books. Bud asked me to show proof of my techniques that winter with his family and I obliged, leading to his agreement to write the foreword to my 1992 sequel and on the front cover picture with me. Bud arranged, as well, a wonderful dinner event presentation to the international press in March 1992 at the Miami Lipton tournament, in which he was the MC, where my new book was formally introduced.

Interestingly, Manuel Santana was presentat that venue and I presented him with a copy of the book in which I acknowledged, with a personal note and my signature, that he had been an extraordinary influence and inspiration in my coaching in years past.

Kids at Spartak, Moscow’s renown tennis factory of champions and other Russian venues were started, as verified years later by participants, hitting forehands up and across the body and with an open stance from day one. The Real History of Tennis Instruction has pictures of the kids at Spartak in an open stance and translations of Russian coaches emphasizing more feel and more finish, basic tenets I had in my first book. Four and five year olds are seen with Western grips. Daniel Coyle visited Spartak as part of his


best seller book The Talent Code and documented that this academy, with one indoor court in a cold Moscow climate, produced more tennis champions and top tennis players by the first decade of this century from that local area than the entire United States. Furthermore, some of my teachings regarding stalking the ball and accelerating from close to the contact point to the finish over the shoulder were aptly applied and became precept and the norm.

The results were outstanding. Having the combined influence of my techniques and the dedication and focus for which Soviet athletes were famous, it was no wonder that 5 Russian women were in the top 10 in the world by 2004, conquering the French, Wimbledon and US Open titles that year.

In the USA anAmerican father got hold of my techniques via a weekly tennis television show (first called The New Tennis Magazine Show and then The Tennis Television Show, hosted by Brad Holbrook, in which Brad included me exclusively as the Instruction Editor for close to 4 years, and broadcast on Prime Network (now Fox Sports). Richard Williams, using my techniques, built two champions – Serena Williams, with over a dozen Grand Slam titles, and Venus Williams, with 7 more. A big hug and acknowledgement from Richard Williams in 1999 was one of the biggest emotional thrills of my life.

“Tennis In 2 Hours” and its 1992 sequel spread across the globe, with 10,000 copies sold by 1993. Belgrade coaches have reported having the first book in 1991. Chan Srichaphan, father/coach of


the speed of the game, ease, feel, naturalness and simplicity of movement and operation. The next changes in tennis will not only be in the technical arena but in the mental and spiritual realms as well.

Tennis has changed and is bound to change even further.

I was the leader of these changes in Barcelona (1973), Florianopolis (1980s), Moscow (1989), Belgrade (1991), South America (ESPN Latin America, 1990s), Beijing (1999) and more. The USA was exposed to these techniques in the early 1990s (Prime Network, now Fox Sports) but rejected them, fought by the USPTA and PTR.

The conventional, mostly forward concept of a tennis stroke is rapidly disappearing overseas, taking the top tennis rankings by storm. Not in the USA, where coaches still love the conventional, mostly forward way.

Today’s topwonderful 2014 and a happy and ever growing prosperity in tennis and in life,

Play Like the Pros

What is wrong with the idea, on the forehand, of turning the body and the feet sideways, taking the racquet back early, stepping into the shot, and following the line of the ball?

Simply, everything.

The reason why the modern forehand is naturally open-stance is two-fold: 1) the open stance keeps the hand closer to the ball, making it easier to find it. Imagine turning sideways similarly to shake hands with another person. You would be unbalanced and reaching uncomfortably across your body for his hand.

2) The modern forehand is circular, across the body, not in the direction of your shot. This makes the contact more of a brush, where you spin the ball


few mishaps on his forehand and regain the confidence in what was at one time the best forehand in the world.

Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Andy Murray and Juan Martin del Potro are superb performers, but Roger, technically, is still the best player that ever lived, while Serena is his female counterpart.

I had the privilege to practice or compete with several generation players, from Pancho Gonzalez, Rod Laver, to John Newcombe and more, and coach Guga Kuerten and Bjorn Borg for his second comeback. None were as complete and as gifted as Roger. He has a new dimension of efficiency and natural use of the body for every tennis task.

I would venture that if he can get rid of a few misconceptions that have impaired his timing and strokes,Evergreen State College in Washington state was abruptly closed Thursday morning after officials received a "direct threat to campus safety."

"All are asked to leave campus or return to residence halls for instructions," said a statement on the college's website.

Law enforcement thought the threat via a 911 call was credible enough to forward to Evergreen State College in Olympia, and school officials decided to close the campus, Sandra Kaiser, Evergreen's vice president for college relations, told reporters Thursday.

Campus police declined to elaborate on the nature of the threat when contacted by Fox News.

Officers were "visible and present" on campus Thursday, and school officials were waiting to hear from law enforcement when they "can give the all clear," Kaiser said. She hoped classes would resume Friday.

The Olympia school became the


center of controversy after activists asked white students to leave campus to talk about race issues. It's a reversal from the longstanding annual "Day of Absence," in which minorities traditionally attend programs off campus.

When a biology professor, Bret Weinstein, objected to the event, the activists demanded that he resign.

"They imagined that I'm a racist," Weinstein, who has taught at Evergreen for 15 years, told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" last week. "That has caused them to imagine that I have no right to speak."

Evergreen State said participation in the event has always been optional.

"White students have never been required to leave campus, for Day of Absence, or any Evergreen activity," the college said.

Advocates claim the effort helps increase social awareness, but critics have called it divisive.

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Synopsis: In a rural German farming community, a mentally retarded man in his twenties named Ben is taken care of by his parents. Ben loves sharp objects, like knives, ice cream, hunting small animals, burying things outside his house, and running out into the fields at night. After a young blonde Russian trapeze artist performs at a small circus in town and kisses him, Ben changes and he seems to discover his sexuality more and more. The young girl goes missing, and not long after so does another young blonde girl. Some of the townspeople, and even Ben's own father, suspect that Ben may have had something to do with the disappearances.

A terrifying tale about the consequences of messing with the dead, Womb Ghosts stars model-turned-actress


him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity. Written by Les Adams

Opus Dei is a documentary that goes to the heart of the most influential and secretive organization of the Catholic Church. An unprecedented journey into the world of Christian fundamentalism in which the will to "the cross in the middle of the world" is the definitive loss of the boundary between religious and temporal scope.

It's a pretty tall order to ask a six-year-old to suddenly take on responsibility for his own life. The questionsfacing Vanya are really tough: does he want to live a comfortable life as an adopted child of a loving family in Italy? After all, for an abandoned Russian child like Vanya it really doesn't sound like a bad option. Serene life under the Mediterranean sun is awaiting him. But the boy longs to find his own mother, so he decides to set off in search of her. But before he can begin, Vanya must learn to read the file that holds the information he needs to find her. He embarks on his quest—and encounters a mysterious and dangerous world. The world of children is a universe with its own laws; a realm in which sometimes one's heart speaks louder than one's intellect.

Indescribable. Zulawskis rendition of Dostojewski steps


impresario of the famed New York heterosexual Swingers club "Plato's Retreat". "American Swing" orgies its way dickimentary, I mean documentary style, in its telling of Levenson's New York sexual staple which ran from 1979-1985 and also on his obsession on being the "King of Swing". Directors Jon Hart & Matthew Kaufman do a credible job in presenting the zaniness of the Plato period by interviewing many Plato players including: managers, patrons, employees, and even celebrities that would take a swing at Plato from time to time. Their Plato philosophies & storytelling is the rouser of "American Swing"! On the negative swing of things, the doc also presents the downfall of Levenson and "Plato's Retreat". "Plato's Retreat" will never be a historic landmark but it laid (had to uselearns the murder is written off as a suicide, Carns decides the murderess shouldn't get off that easy.

The unofficial story of a killer who kidnaps and kills three girls is told through the tale of his last victim, 'Amateur Porn Star Killer' is about a girl he picks up on the street and convinces to go back to his hotel room. The girl is shy, unnerved, and yet unable to take herself out of a bad situation. The killer is a guy who seems at first nothing more than your standard, 18 year old pervert with a penchant for filming his sexual escapades. An unsettling darkness descends.

Aldo Fabrizi plays a silly, pompous, and egotistical father who makes a big mess of everything on the morning his little daughter


is to receive her first communion. After he loses the girl's communion dress, virtually half the population of Rome gets involved in getting her suitably attired and brought to the church on time. Aldo Fabrizi plays the father with immense gusto and is a wonder to behold. This Roman actor of vaudeville, stage, and screen is most familiar to non-Italian film fans as the priest in Rossellini's OPEN CITY. The movie won the first prize at the Venice Film Festival.

During the Algerian war for independence from France, a young Frenchman living in Geneva who belongs to a right-wing terrorist group and a young woman who belongs to a left-wing terrorist group meet and fall in love. Complications ensue when the man is suspected by the members of histerrorist group of being a double agent.

Review:
An independent documentary about the Motion Picture Association of America's rating system and its effect on American culture since it acts as a means of censorship, affecting distribution and the potential for advertisement. The film discusses disparities in ratings and feedback: between Hollywood and independent films, between homosexual and heterosexual sexual situations, between male and female sexual depictions, and between violence and sexual content. Furthermore, Dick used a private investigator to unmask the identities of the ratings and appeals board members, whose identity is kept secret, and showing that the composition of these boards did not comply with the public assertions of the MPAA. The MPAA gave the original cut of the film an NC-17 rating for "some graphic sexual content": scenes


that illustrated the content a film could include to garner an NC-17 rating. Kirby Dick appealed, and descriptions of the ratings deliberations and appeal were included in the documentary. The new version of the film is not rated. The film is also known for another controversy: the MPAA, a longtime bastion of anti-piracy, admitted to making unauthorised duplicates of a digital copy of the film that was provided to them for the purpose of obtaining an MPAA rating, despite having assured Dick that no copies would be made.

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The highly anticipated, comic and controversial feature documentary, "Flock of Dodos: the evolution-intelligent design circus," is the first feature film to take an even-handed look at the intelligent design vs. evolution clash that appeared on the covers of Time and Newsweekin 2005. Filmmaker, scientist, surfer and evolutionary biologist Dr. Randy Olson explores the controversy over the teaching of evolution and the recently developed alternative, intelligent design. Olson, a native of Kansas, visits his home state and the community of Dover, Pennsylvania, which attempted to introduce intelligent design in science classes. Olson draws on basic aspects of evolution as metaphors, including the extinct dodo, which he suggests symbolizes what happens to those unable to change with their environment. Featured are seven top advocates for intelligent design, including Dr. Michael Behe, author of "Darwin's Black Box," fourteen evolution Ph.D.'s, a poker game among eight evolutionists, a rabbit eating its own poop, and a flock of animated dodos playing poker, dancing, and helping the audience answer the question, "who really is


the 'flock of dodos?'"

Synopsis: The first film for writer/director/producer Elliot Greenebaum, Assisted Living chronicles a day in the life of a young nursing home janitor. Michael Bonsignore stars as Todd, the pot-smoking custodian who takes pleasure in toying with the senile residents of the retirement community. When one of the residents mistakes Todd for her son, he finds himself becoming emotionally attached to his work for the first time. In order to lend the film a realistic fly-on-the-wall quality, Greenebaum shot it in an actual nursing home, using real residents as many of the actors, and mixed in footage from a documentary he had made at the facility, blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Assisted Living won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Slamdance Film Festival.

Aftera long night of wandering, Fred wakes up in the middle of nowhere, baked by the Texas sun. Stumbling home, he finds his friends Bill and Duck are none too happy that he missed his own going away party. But something mysterious happened the night before. Fred is ready to tackle his demons and stay in town-to face the mistakes of his life and make them right. Little does he know that his announced departure has created a maelstrom of unrest amongst his friends-a breeding ground for truth. Walking into a hornet's nest of revelations, the friends he thought he knew turn Fred's world upside down. In the wake of this extraordinary day, four life-long friends say the words they've never had the courage to say, and learn


truths about themselves and each other that will change the nature of their relationships forever. "It's kind of like therapy, only with guns and booze." A story about finding truth and self-worth by any means necessary, an unusual love rectangle which takes viewers into the depths of a small town in Texas, where on the surface values appear simple. The paths of four friends overlook different, but intersecting horizons. Eyes are opened and one is left on the road to an uncertain destiny. Midlothia was shot on location in Midlothian, TX, a small town south of Dallas known as the cement capitol of Texas.

The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the young Henry V, steps up from supporting characterin several plays to the central focus of Orson Welles' Chimes at Midnight, considered by many critics the best of the director's acclaimed Shakespeare films. Welles held this film in high regard and considered it along with The Trial his best work. As he remarked in 1982: "If I wanted to get into heaven on the basis of one movie, that's the one I'd offer up." Many critics, including Peter Bogdanovich and Jonathan Rosenbaum, also consider it Welles's finest work.

Note on the Studio Canal edition: Probably due to an endless legal war over the rights of the film, Falstaff (Chimes at Midnight) has been rarely seen and exists today as bootleg or as poor quality DVD transfers. However, the film obviously underwent a complete restoration prior to 2005


and was released in France in a pristine DVD by Studio Canal. Sadly, this edition was quickly taken off the market soon after its release.

The story opens with a violent clash between cops and criminals, in one of the most visually stunning shootouts committed to film in recent years. Professional thief, Yuen (Richie Ren), and his crew are interrupted during the completion of a heist, placing them in the sights of rogue cop, Cheung (Nick Cheung). When the news crews arrive and film the long shootout in the streets of Hong Kong, the public is outraged at the lack of preparation and protection from the police, and watch as the thieves make their escape. After the crew’s suspected hideout is revealed, bold, new police commissioner, Rebecca Fong (KellyChen) proposes that the police invite the media to film what should be a smooth takedown, in order to win back public approval. The events that follow lead both sides of the law into an unpredictable finale with the cameras rolling throughout.

From the mind of Luc Moullet, the unknown genius of the original French New Wave, comes this pair of riotous comedies that capture the movements spirit of anarchy. THE SMUGGLERS is the story of two women who smuggle packages and people between two warring nations. A wacky take on the action-adventure tale, the film exploits its low-budget look to offer a digressive and aggressive slapstick comedy. Called maybe the best film not made by Godard by Jean-Marie Straub, Europes leading intellectual filmmaker, this movie about borders and


barriers sports a cameo appearance by Moullet himself, who is listed in the credits as the pompous fool. Jean-Pierre Leaud stars

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

Mutsugoro Suzuki, a low-profile, clumsy theater troop actor, sets with his troop colleagues on an oniric journey back to his hometown, marked by his quest to find the responsible of infecting him with a STD. But during this journey he will have to face all the reasons why he left his hometown in the first place, and as the puzzle behind his disease turns more andmore confusing, Matsugoro begins to realize that maybe he doesn't even know what exactly he's looking for.

Shiro’s struggle with his father’s cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it’s too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble Shiro faced connecting to his strict father who was also his teacher and soccer coach. With a consuming secret of his own, Shiro, now in his late twenties and about to get engaged, must eventually learn how to share it with his loved ones.

Summing up Sono's Love Exposure is a task I still do not think I am ready for even after two days of soaking it in after my viewing at NYAFF.


Some of the many ideas the film dealt with in the 4 hour runtime included commentary on religion, cultism, perversion, growing up and coming of age, love, and life. The film tackles many of these heavy hitting themes and ideas with a sense of humor found very little in much of the mainstream fluff produced today. The balance of subtle often crude humor and darker, heavier, more dramatic aspects of the story really works well. Sono creates a product that can appeal to a wider base of people. There is something in this film for everyone from the people who enjoy the latest Will Ferrel production to the admirers of Bergman. With a rowdy packed house at the NY premiere at the festival the first two and ahalf hours are a riot and breeze by. There are points in the latter portion which start to drag a bit but never could I say I was bored with the film. The movie was well made with good cinematography, decent acting, and a great script with fully fleshed out characters. The director is able to create an effective commentary on religion, loneliness, Japanese society all the while mixing in a lot of body humor, up-skirt shots, and a few lesbian kissing scenes for good measure. Overall highly recommended, ignore the 4 hour runtime because it is the fastest 4 hour movie you will see. Ultimately a funny, sad, uplifting, and depressing movie all at the same time. - IMDB Comment

Ekusute begins in bloody, unsettling fashion with the