LONDON (AP) The Boston Celtics and Philadelphia 76ers will travel to London in January for a game at The O2 arena.

The Sixers are the home team for the Jan. 11 game. Tickets for the NBA London Game 2018 game go on sale in October.

The game will mark the NBA's eighth regular-season game in London and the Celtics' second game in the capital, having played a preseason game against the Minnesota Timberwolves in 2007.

The 76ers will be playing their second game in the UK and first game in London, having previously played a preseason game in Manchester against the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2013.

Because the Sixers are the home team, season-ticket holders with automatic payment plans will not be charged for one game. Season-ticket holders who have paid inBut the British rendition of these men wasn't just a crime - it was also a mistake:

A secret UK-Libyan rendition programme in which two Libyan opposition leaders were kidnapped and flown to Tripoli along with their families had the effect of strengthening al-Qaida, according to an assessment by the UK security service, MI5.

Prior to their kidnap, Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi had ensured that their organisation, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), focused on the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi, the classified assessment says. Once handed over to the Gaddafi regime, their places at the head of the LIFG were taken by others who wanted to bring the group closer to al-Qaida.

[...]

Two years after MI5 made this assessment, Libi announced the LIFG had formally joined forces with al-Qaida.


He became a leading member of the merged organisation and is believed to have orchestrated a series of suicide bomb attacks across Afghanistan, including one in 2007 that killed 23 people at Bagram airfield north of Kabul during a visit by then US vice-president Dick Cheney. Libi was killed in a drone strike the following year.

Naturally, the British spies kept quiet about their terrible, criminal mistake. The only reason we know about it is because they gave a copy to Gaddafi's torturers, which was found after their overthrow. Also in those documents was a list of 1600 questions the British wanted the Libyan "interview team" to ask Belhaj and Saadi while they were being tortured. That should be of great interest to the police.

Russel Norman has announced hewill not be contesting the Green Party's co-leadership in May. Bugger. He's been great as co-leader, and he and Metiria have doubled the party's vote while making it clear that they lead the opposition on policy. And yet its also perfectly understandable too - Norman has just had a significant change in his family, the sort of thing which would make anyone reconsider their commitments. And he's clearly decided that his family is more important than politics, and all power to him for doing so.

(Meanwhile, the Greens are disproving Enoch Powell's famous line that all political careers end in failure. Both Norman and Fitzsimons have departed at the time of their choosing, not because they lost an election or were rolled. Its possibly a strength of the co-leadership


parliament about it. The death was posed as a suicide, but was suspicious, and the motive was pretty clear - clear enough that Argentina's president has accepted that her own spies murdered him. Unlike the US, where spies get to torture and murder with impunity, she's doing something about it: dissolving the spy-agency responsible:

Argentina’s president announced a major shakeup of her country’s intelligence network on Monday in her most combative step yet to address the fallout from the death of prosecutor Alberto Nisman.

In her first televised address since the prosecutor’s body was found at his apartment on 18 January, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner said she would support a bill to dissolve the existing structure – which employs more than 2,000 people – and replace it with a newpeople. Instead, the bankers are imposing policies that are killing people so they can extract their pound of flesh.

Today's must read: Roger Brookings. For the past few months he's been poking into the death of Jai Davis, a prisoner who died in 2011 because Corrections didn't want to spend $300 on calling a doctor on a weekend. The inquest into the death last year was scathing, with Police Detective Colin Blackie making it clear that he thought the death was due to neglect, that the prison was dysfunctional, and that corrections failed in its duty of care towards Davis. Today's revelation is something else: Blackie wanted to charge those neglectful Corrections staff, but was pulled off the case by Police management:

No one in the Corrections Department has ever


a string of malicious messages this week, including threats to rape and kill her, following the publication of her fortnightly opinion piece in Fairfax papers, among them the Manawatu Standard, on Monday.

However, the backlash to the article turned sinister, and Stewart says "sexist, standover tactics and personal slurs" were posted from accounts using pen-names and then circulated via Twitter by prominent members of New Zealand's farming community. A hand-written anonymous note saying: "See we not so DumB we Don't No where u live. Bitch.[sic]" was also delivered to Stewart's house, prompting her to lay a complaint and for police to launch an investigation.

[...]

Stewart said she was appalled that several prominent members of Federated Farmers and Dairy NZ "favourited" or retweeted crude comments. Dairy NZ did not respond toto with the likes of the United States, Australia, Britain and Canada in the intelligence alliance known as Five Eyes.

In his strongest hint yet that the Cabinet will approve a deployment of troops to train Iraqis alongside Australians, Mr Key in an interview with the BBC drew heavily on New Zealand pulling its weight as part of "a club".

"Ultimately are we going to say we are going to be part of a club like [we] are with Five Eyes intelligence?

"Are we ultimately going to be able to rely on members of those clubs to support us in our moment of need?" he said in an interview with Taranaki-born BBC journalist Lucy Hockings in London.

[...]

"Even if the contribution is small - of course it will be proportional - there


those demanding that the long overdue reckoning should be put before the voters.

Sir John Chilcot, the chairman of the inquiry, will set out his reasons for the further postponement in an exchange of letters with David Cameron on Wednesday. The inquiry was set up in 2009 and took public evidence from its last witness in 2011.

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Tony Blair, the prime minister at the time of the war, has insisted he is not the culprit behind the delay in publication; his allies have suggested the blame lies with the civil service and sensitivities about the relations between the UK and US intelligence agencies.

Blair is a self-serving little weasel and could be lying - but the alternative explanation is plausible. And so accountability is delayed and the public kept in thedark (not to mention denied the opportunity to hold involved politicians responsible at the ballot box), all in the name of a "special relationship" which looks increasingly subservient and boot-licking.

And the British Establishment wonders who no-one has any faith in their inquiries: its because their manipulation and whitewashing is so obvious.

That seems to be the message for those arriving in the country after yet another guest visiting the businessman was detained by the Customs Service for hours.

A connection to the accused copyright pirate has been linked on another occasion with a long stay in a detention room - and a lot of strange questions.

Graphic designer Sarah Torrent, 22, spent seven hours being quizzed by officials after landing in New Zealand yesterday and telling border officials she was staying


at Dotcom's house.

She had met Dotcom online and he invited her to travel to New Zealand for a holiday.

Dotcom said more than a dozen visitors have been isolated by the Customs Service after declaring his home address for their stay in New Zealand.

A particularly creepy feature: they demanded the passwords to her laptop and phone, allowing them to poke through the most private aspects of her life (and copy and store them for the future amusement of themselves and any partner organisations). Right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure? It doesn't exist if you're an enemy of the (United) State(s).

But this is what happens if you have a government body obsessed with getting "brownie points" with the FBI: people's rights get stomped on, all so somealongside hackers and terrorists. Two of those groups are really about controlling information released to the public, which really makes you wonder who they're really protecting: us, or themselves?

The problem? Fletcher has never come across as particularly principled or committed to privacy and human rights (lets face it: if he was, he would never have taken the job). And as an outsider, he's unlikely to be so committed to the future of the organisation he heads that he'd fall on his sword rather than be part of a merger. And while pride - not wanting to work for SIS Director Rebecca Kitteridge, who would presumably head a merged agency - is potentially a reason, six months before the review has even taken place is a little early to


demands of Man Haron Monis, the gunman holding 18 hostages at the Lindt cafe in Martin Place.

"And if they give him a flag he was going to exchange it for a hostage," says Ms Kay, a convert to Islam who has become a prominent community member in western Sydney.

Being a decent person, she was eager to help. But the Australian police abused that goodwill. They tapped all her phone calls (it would be fascinating to see what legal authority they had for that), then started raiding the people she called. The upshot? Further distrust, and an unwillingness to cooperate in future. The beneficiaries? The terrorists. Which really makes you wonder whose side the AFP are on...

When the New Zealand government imprisoned Ahmed Zaoui for two years without trialon the sole word of the SIS (who refused to give reasons), it was a national scandal. Eventually, after two years of imprisonment without trial he was granted bail. Three years after that the SIS withdrew their security risk certificate on the eve of its judicial review - effectively admitting they were wrong. The process was so shoddy, and the SIS so obviously jumping at shadows, that they have AFAIK never issued another risk certificate.

A group of 10 refugees assessed by ASIO as threats to national security have been freed to live in the Australian community after the agency quietly reversed its decision.

Some of the group had been held in immigration detention more than five years without having been charged with a crime under a system civil liberty


the possible prosecution of a major LNP donor for what senior bureaucrats deemed illegal river quarrying.

Emails, briefing notes and other correspondence between senior officials and Department of Natural Resources and Mines Minister Andrew Cripps show no discussion about a change to the law before Mr Seeney ordered the amendment to the Water Act in early April.

The retrospective law change allowed Karreman Quarries to continue to extract millions of dollars worth of sand and gravel from the bed of the Upper Brisbane River at Harlin, north-west of Brisbane.

Karreman Quarries gave $50,000 to the Queensland LNP in 2011-12, putting it among the party's top dozen donors. It gave $25,000 to the LNP the previous year.

There is a name for Ministers changing laws for donors: its called "bribery". And this seemshis lifetime.

Speaking to The Telegraph, the alleged victim, now aged 46, said he and his family reported Morrison to Scotland Yard in 1982, hours after the teenager had escaped the MP’s clutches.

Yet after he gave a statement and was examined by doctors, the family say they heard nothing for months.

Finally, the boy’s father says he was informed by Scotland Yard that the abuser had been sent to prison for assaulting his son, and that no further action was needed.

However it was only years later, the family claim, that they discovered the culprit's true identity. They then discovered Morrison had never in fact been jailed for any crime, and that police had apparently duped them into dropping the allegation.

How does this happen? When you have a police force whose


on his mobile phones, USBs and secret cameras installed in different parts of the school.

The accused had allegedly ‘on multiple occasions and habitually’ enticed and compelled multiple women of different ages to have illicit relations with him inside the school.

He is also charged with sexually assaulting many women after obtaining their consent through death threats.

Following his arrest last year, the accused had recorded his confessional statement with a judicial magistrate on July 19, 2017, wherein he had only admitted that he used to bring women from outside to the school for the purpose of adultery.

He had said it was his hobby to make videos of those sexual activities.

He had also admitted that 26 such videos, which he had made, were stored on his personal computer.

The issue had surfacedafter a student of the said school (name withheld) had told the police that the accused was involved in sexual exploitation of students and teachers.

He had alleged that he (accused) had sexually exploited students, teachers and some outsider women but nobody had the courage to disclosing or report the matter.

The complainant had alleged that the principal had also showed him several objectionable videos, which he had recorded secretly through cameras, and also invited him to get involved in such acts.

In the FIR, the police have said when they raided the school, the accused tried to conceal his two cellphones, which allegedly had several objectionable videos involving schoolboys.

It added that the accused used three rooms of his school for those illegal activities.

The police had recovered memory cards and USBs


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Building on the University of St. Thomas Music Department’s commitment to excellence in music education and community outreach, the University will offer private instruction to pre-college music students and non-traditional hobbyists by launching the Music Preparatory School.

The inaugural Theory, Music History and Performance class will be taught in late January 2009. The Music Preparatory School is a non-degree granting program that offers courses to students who are not seeking college credit for private lessons. However, pre-college lessons are available upon request.

Paul Krystofiak, adjunct professor of music at UST, will serve as director of the Music Preparatory School. Krystofiak has served on the faculty of the University of St. Thomas since 1986, and holds degrees in piano performance and piano pedagogy on the graduate level. Krystofiak has servedseven terms as president of the Houston Music Teachers Association and was honored by HMTA, receiving its Service Award and “Teacher of the Year” in 1993. He was also recognized as “Faculty Advisor of the Year” for his guidance with the UST chapter of the music fraternity. Every summer for the past 20 years, Krystofiak has hosted a UST piano camp for grades three extending through high school.

“These classes are affordable and students will receive a high level of instruction,” said Krystofiak. “I cannot think of a better investment than nurturing our young people. What better way to incite their intellect and sense of beauty than to support an inspiring music education.”

Walter Suhr, band leader of the successful Latin band Mango Punch!, graduated from the University of St.


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At 95, she is the oldest of the 350-member Tuolumne County Aquatic Masters, and swimming in a local meet on her 94th birthday, she set age-group records in three different events.

The first and only woman TCAM member in the 90-94 age group, she claimed records in the 50-yard freestyle, 50-yard backstroke and 50-yard breaststroke, swimming two laps of the 25-yard pool in two minutes or less in each event.

And more team records are assured: She is now the only member in the 95-99 age group.

“Sara Jane is an inspiration to swimmers of all ages,” says TCAM coach Darci Scanlin. “She loves instruction and is very coachable. She’s never afraid to try something new and does every stroke, even butterfly.”

A World War II veteran and former elementary schoolshe also met Don Clouse, a sailor from Wyoming. Shortly before the end of the war, Sara Jane – a staff sergeant by then – and Don were married. Discharged in August 1945, the couple moved to Ypsilanti, Michigan, so Don could attend Eastern Michigan University and Sara Jane could complete a master’s degree in education.

Daughter Donna Lee and son Kenneth were born in Ypsilanti before the family moved to San Jose, where their third child, Raymond, was born in 1948. Don finished his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at San Jose State.

“Our lives were characterized by the saying, ‘A rolling stone gathers no moss,’ ” Clouse says. Never staying in one district for more than a few years, the couple taught in schools all over California and even


sister Ann, who lived in Cedar Ridge, Clouse moved to Sonora.

Since she hadn’t been able to become a hairdresser after high school, she decided to do it after retirement. Clouse enrolled in Sonora High’s cosmetology program and, though she’s never used it, fulfilled a childhood goal by earning her license at age 71.

She found a spiritual home at the Sonora Seventh-day Adventist Church – “It has become a big part of my life” – and traveled much of the world with the church and on her own. She admits to slowing down a bit these days.

“For years I volunteered at the hospital, but I can’t drive anymore.” A friend who also swims now drives her to and from TCAM workouts.

Her secrets for healthy aging?

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             President Petro Poroshenko said during a Tuesday Ukrainian television interview that the threat of "full-scale war" with Russia could be imminent as tensions rise following the Russia-Ukraine incident near the Kerch Strait on Sunday.

Poroshenko condemned what he described as a rapidly increased Russian military presence on the border with Ukraine, saying, "The number of [Russian] tanks at bases located along our border has tripled," according to the AFP.

The Ukrainian president added that "the number of units that have been deployed along our border – what's more, along its full length – has grown dramatically." He ultimately concluded that the military buildup meant that the country is "under threat of full-scale war with Russia."

Tuesday's televised interview with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko

While Poroshenko didn't cite specific Russian troop numbers he


claimed that intelligence reports pointed to Moscow tripling its forces along the border since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Referencing media reports about planned Russian military exercises, he argued that “talks about possible drills do not justify these increases.”

“I don’t want anyone to think this is fun and games,” he added. Despite his sarcasm, it's doubtful that anyone sees the dramatically escalating events in the Black Sea as anything less than intensely dangerous and carrying the potential for outbreak of war.

On Tuesday Britain announced it is dispatching the HMS Echo, a UK Royal Navy survey vessel and monitoring ship to the Black Sea, following Britain's leaders condemning what it described as Russian aggressive actions in seizing Ukrainian ships and their crew off the coast of Crimea, whichthe Russian Navy described as "maneuvering dangerously". A Ministry of Defence statement said the reconnaissance ship would “demonstrate the UK’s support to ensuring freedom of navigation”.

But crucially there are already calls by former commander of the Royal Navy, Admiral Lord West, to send a much more powerful and capable Type 45 destroyer, or guided missile warship, into the Black Sea amid escalating tensions.

There's concern that should the situation escalate between Russia and Ukraine, the Royal Navy would need more serious military hardware in the vicinity.

During Tuesday's interview Ukrainian President Poroshenko also addressed his deeply controversial introduction of martial law in Ukraine. He said, according a translation by AFP:

“If Russia doesn’t carry out an invasion in the area of the Joint Forces Operation and the illegally-annexed Crimea,” the law


would not bring restrictions on the rights and freedoms of citizens.

Thus it appears Poroshenko is justifying the imposition of martial law based on the mere possibility of a future war with Russia, though he'd previously claimed "martial law doesn't mean war" upon first making the announcement.

Poroshenko's plan to impose martial law had been announced and approved Monday, and during his address on national television, the president said it will begin at 9 am local time on Nov. 28 and continue at least until late January. Ukrainians are expected to vote in a presidential election in March.

As we observed previously, while European officials have urged both sides to exercise restraint, the incident shows just how easily Russia and the West could be drawn into a military conflict over Ukraine.

ThoughBayern Munich and Juventus are tracking Manchester United goalkeeper Dean Henderson.

The 21-year-old has impressed while on loan at Sheffield United, helping the Blades put together a push for automatic promotion, and that has alerted a number of top sides.

Arsenal and Tottenham have also been keeping an eye on Henderson, according to ESPN.

Bayern Munich and Juventus are tracking Manchester United goalkeeper Dean Henderson

Henderson signed a two-year contract with United in the summer. The Old Trafford side can also extend the deal by another 12 months thanks to an option in the contract.

It followed an impressive season at Shrewsbury, where he was named in the League One team of the year and was integral as they reached the play-off final.

The England Under-21 international has settled well at Bramall Lane, with


Chris Wilder's side challenging Norwich and Leeds for automatic promotion.

The 21-year-old has impressed while on loan at Sheffield United, alerting a number of top sides

United do not want to lose the goalkeeper, who joined them when he was 14 from Carlisle.

They now face a challenge though, with Henderson on Bayern and Juventus's radar.

After Jadon Sancho's success at Borussia Dortmund, Bayern have started keeping tabs on English youngsters and made a series of bids for Chelsea winger Callum Hudson-Odoi in January.

There is a belief at United that Henderson could be their potential No 1 in the future, although he is behind David de Gea, Sergio Romero and Lee Grant in the current pecking order.eight feet below the ground surface. In order to actuate the curb stop, an extension service box must span the eight feet to the ground surface and provide a fitting which is manipulated by a wrench.
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How Grey Wolves are Getting Wiped Out by Bad Legislation, and How We Can Help Fix It

OR16 was a healthy yearling male wolf with a black coat, a dominant trait found only in wolves who have dog genes in their lineage. Known only by his radio tag designation, OR16 crossed the border from Oregon into Idaho in December, and was shot to death by a hunter. That makes him the second member of the Oregon Walla Walla Grey Wolf pack—which biologists have studied for years—killed senselessly because he crossed an invisible line in his forest home. Last year another hunter illegally killed OR9, another wolf from the Oregon Walla Walla pack, as it crossed the Snake River and into Idaho. The hunter was issued a warning.

This season alone,The state of Montana has 2,500,000 cattle, of which a mere 74 were estimated to be taken by wolves last year. Those numbers hardly sound like an epidemic out of control. 74. Out of two and a half million heads of cattle.

Yet these ranching and hunting interests have hijacked the American West to the point that last fall the U.S. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife delisted the Wyoming Grey Wolf as an endangered species. The hunter camps started popping up on the edge of Yellowstone National Park, and in December of 2012 the most photographed wolf in park history was blown away by hunters as she stepped just outside the park boundaries. She was 832F, the radio collared alpha female of the Lamar Canyon pack. It is uncertain


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• Running backs Alex Green, Hawaii; Mikel Leshoure, Illinois; Stevan Ridley, LSU; and Danieleven with voters who have qualms with certain aspects of the Obama legacy, the former president is a powerful force.

"He enjoyed support from a broad spectrum of the Democratic Party, both the progressive and moderate wings, as well as independent and Republicans," said Jarrett, who acknowledged that winning over skeptical liberals and conservatives won't be solely Obama's job.

"Yes, there might be differences of opinion among the Democratic Party, but those differences pale," Jarrett added. "And for the greater good, we cannot afford four more years of President Trump. Will he get every single supporter of Sen. Sanders or all the other candidates? No. But is he uniquely positioned as the most popular person in Democratic party to be helpful? Yes."

But even former Obama advisers -- some of whom


still talk to the former President -- believe his reach has its limits, especially with Sanders supporters who don't view his presidency with the same kind of nostalgia that older, more moderate voters do.

"Obama might help bring together some of the people who voted for Bernie and feel lukewarm on Biden, but I don't think he's the voice to bring the activists onboard. They don't see him as part of the movement," a former Obama adviser said. "Where I think Obama can be most helpful is with the infrequent Democratic voters and making sure they will vote in November."

Obama rarely spoke out during the 2020 primary, but in the brief moments that he did, the former president often lauded the excitement young organizers brought to the campaign, whilehow Obama will be deployed during the 2020 campaign. In-person events have been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic, moving everything from fundraising to organizing online.

Obama has been an active surrogate in past elections, though. He stumped regularly for Hillary Clinton in 2016, including on the fundraising circuit, and followed the lead of a range of Democratic committees in 2018 as he hit the campaign trail to help his party take back the House. Obama has said for months that he will do whatever it takes to put a Democrat in the White House in 2020 and a source close to the former president said that he is prepared to take his cues from the Biden campaign on where he should be deployed and how he could be


best used.

Obama's legacy of campaigning while his name isn't on the ballot is mixed, though.

Democrats took a "shellacking" in the 2010 midterms, with Republicans taking back the House and shrinking the Democratic majority in the Senate. The same happened in 2014, when Republicans kept control of the House and swept into the Senate majority.

And then there is 2016, where Obama forcefully endorsed Clinton and campaigned for her regularly, including the night before the she crushingly lost the election to Trump.

But 2020 is an entirely different election to Democratic activists. Trump has been president for four years, a tumultuous period where the Republican President, not a top liberal leader, has become the most unifying figure for Democratic voters.

"Here is the big difference: Donald Trump," Terry McAuliffe, the former governorCAV - KODA Works

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pounds with medium length blondish-brown hair and small brown eyes, wearing a cowboy hat. The appellant was 21 years old, 5 feet 11½ inches tall, weighed 195 pounds and had medium length blondish-brown hair.
After describing the attack and her assailant, the victim went with the police to the hospital for a medical examination. Along the way they detoured to a shopping center parking lot where the appellant was being detained as a suspect. Both the appellant and his car generally matched the descriptions given by the victim. While on the parking lot the victim remained in the police car about 20 feet away from the appellant. He had on a green cap instead of the cowboy hat worn at the laundromat. The victim was unable to identify theappellant as her assailant at this confrontation, which occurred approximately two hours after the attack and while she was described as still visibly shaken and upset.
Four days later, the victim was shown photographs of five individuals, including the appellant, whom she readily identified as her assailant. She also identified a shirt recovered from appellant which she recognized as the one worn by the man who raped her. Ms. Carolyn Thomas, with whom appellant was living at the time, testified that on April 9 the appellant left the apartment about 10:00 p.m dressed in a western shirt, cowboy hat, boots and jeans, which attire matched the description by the victim. Ms. Thomas said the shirt was the same one the appellant had worn when he left the apartment that


night. She testified the appellant admitted to her he had raped a woman in the laundromat.
On April 14 appellant was arrested in Mena, Arkansas, and returned to Fort Smith by Detective Mike Brooks of the Fort Smith Police. After being given his Miranda rights and signing a waiver form, appellant made a full confession corroborating many of the details given by Ms. Thomas and by the victim. At trial the victim's identification of the appellant as the attacker was unequivocal.
First appellant contends the trial court erred in not suppressing the victim's in-court identification of the appellant, as being tainted by the confrontation on the parking lot shortly after the attack. He also contends the identification procedure was unconstitutionally unreliable and suggestive. Following a hearing, the trial court denied(CNN) When June Bacon-Bercey graduated with a degree in meteorology in the 1950s, there were hardly any women, let alone African-American women, in her field.

The same was true when she became an on-air meteorologist for a television news station in the '70s, and in the many roles she went on to occupy in her decadeslong career.

Bacon-Bercey, a trailblazer who has been called the first American woman to become a TV meteorologist, died last summer, her family announced recently. She was 90.

Her daughter Dail St. Claire said that Bacon-Bercey died on July 3, 2019, of frontotemporal dementia, though her death had not been publicized until the news company AccuWeather reported on it last week

"My mother paved a new road for women and minorities, and she paved that road with


tenacity, integrity, diligence and community service," St. Claire told CNN. "For me and all other women, African-Americans and other minorities, her legacy is one of hope. Her legacy serves as inspiration for all and is a powerful example of our limitless capability and strength."

She had a long list of achievements

Bacon-Bercey, who was born June Esther Griffin in Wichita, Kansas, on October 23, 1928, had a long resume.

She did a stint at the National Meteorological Center. She worked as an engineer for the Sperry Rand Corporation. She studied the effects of nuclear fallout on the atmosphere for the US Atomic Energy Commission. She worked for the National Weather Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

But Bacon-Bercey was perhaps best known for her time in the '70s as atelevision meteorologist for WGR-TV (now WGRZ ), an NBC-affiliated news station in Buffalo, New York.

Bacon-Bercey was hired at the station as a reporter, after unsuccessfully applying for chief meteorologist positions around the country, St. Claire said. But when WGR-TV's meteorologist at the time was arrested for allegedly robbing a bank, she rose to the occasion.

In a profile last year, AccuWeather described Bacon-Bercey as the first American woman to become a TV meteorologist. Other women, often referred to as "weather girls," had delivered television weather reports before her, but Bacon-Bercey was the first to do so as a meteorologist, meaning that she used science and math to forecast the weather and climate.

That achievement, St. Claire said, is a testament to her life mantra, a quote from 19th century scientist


Louis Pasteur: Chance favors the prepared mind.

"There is no question that obstacles were above and below her ... and that's a large part of why she conducted her life and her career with such precision," said St. Claire, who is the chief operating officer at Park Avenue Finance.

In 1972, the American Meteorological Society awarded Bacon-Bercey with its "seal of approval" for excellence in television weathercasting, making her the first woman and first African-American to receive the honor.

She was a champion for minorities

Bacon-Bercey was always cognizant of her identity and stature as an African-American woman, which is why she was such a fierce advocate for women, St. Claire said.

"She would be advocating for women studying STEM, women in meteorology, women on television," she said. "This is at a timewhen women over 40 weren't in (those positions)."

In the '70s, Bacon-Bercey helped found the American Meteorological Society's Board on Women and Minorities in an effort to draw more people from underrepresented communities to atmospheric science, according to Physics Today

"She made personal sacrifices for those who would come after her to give them a fighting chance at success in her field," Dorothy Tucker, president of the National Association of Black Journalists, said in a statement.

During her time at NOAA, she helped establish a program at Jackson State University to encourage minorities to pursue meteorology careers, AccuWeather reported

And from 1978-1990, the June Bacon-Bercey Scholarship for Women, administered by the American Geophysical Union, helped 12 women attend college, according to St. Claire. Bacon-Bercey set up the fund using the $64,000 she


won on a quiz show called "The $128,000 Question."

"That was my plan at the beginning, and it's still my plan," she told the Washington Post in 1977. "I was discouraged (from becoming a meteorologist), and other women were discouraged. If they feel they've got some money behind them, it might be better."

Bacon-Bercey's final wish was that the scholarship be reinstated, her daughter said.

"She did not want a large service. She wanted anyone who chose to honor her to honor her by donating to her scholarship," St. Claire said.

St. Claire has been working with the AGU for the past several months to revive the scholarship.THQ Nordic has announced it's bringing back several games based on Nickelodeon properties, from Avatar: The Last Airbender to Ren & Stimpy.

THQ Nordic says that the games' availability will be detailed "in the coming months." However, today's announcement did not specify exactly which titles would be representing these shows (when applicable), nor pricing or platform.

The games are:

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Back At The Barnyard

Catscratch

Danny Phantom

El Tigre

Invader Zim

Jimmy Neutron

My Life As A Teenage Robot

Rocket Power

Rocko's Modern Life

Rugrats

SpongeBob SquarePants

Tak And The Power Of JUJU

The Fairly OddParents (US only)

The Ren & Stimpy Show

The Wild Thornberrys

Our Take

Whether you were a fan of these shows when they were on or not, some of these may still be worth a look when they come out.


that it was anything but a teenage pregnancy prevention billboard," said Bryant Wilke, environmental health director at the Sanilac County Health Department. "Not to get confused with any pro-choice movements or anything like that, this was specifically meant for teen pregnancy prevention."

Wilke noted the billboard had been in circulation for about 18 months in the county, and he was surprised it drew controversy all of a sudden.

Many mothers, who were pregnant teens in the county, and across the Thumb, shared their success stories on Facebook over the weekend, including Destiny Drain of Sandusky.

"I am a graduate of Sandusky Jr/Sr High school," Drain posted on Facebook. "I got pregnant my junior year and was still able to walk and graduate with my class. I was accepted by six collegesGaming machines, such as video slot machines, video poker machines, and the like, have been a cornerstone of the gaming industry for several years. Generally, the popularity of such machines with players is dependent upon a number of factors, including the likelihood (or perceived likelihood) of winning money at the machine or the intrinsic entertainment value of the machine relative to other available gaming options. In a modem casino, gaming machines compete with traditional styles of gaming (such as roulette, craps, and sports betting) for the attention of the player.
Gaming machines traditionally have been developed for the play of such games as slots, poker, bingo, keno, and blackjack. These genres of gaming machines are well-known to the gaming public and have sizable markets of their own. Still, there


Neglected information and opinion relative to Israel, the Middle East and the immediate world.

The least competent manager of our diplomatic portfolio in a long time.

By WALTER RUSSELL MEAD
Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College and Editor-at-Large of The American Interest magazine

The Dreamer Goes Down For The Count

I had never thought there were many similarities between the pleasure-loving Charles II of England and the more upright Barack Obama until this week. Listening to his speeches on the Middle East at the State Department, US-Israel relations at the AIPAC annual meeting and most recently his address to the British Parliament the comparison becomes irresistible.

“Here lies our sovereign king,” wrote the Earl of Rochester about King Charles: Whose word no man relies on. Who never said a foolish thingOr ever did a wise one.”

This seems to capture President Obama’s Middle East problems in a nutshell. The President’s descriptions of the situation are comprehensive and urbane. He correctly identifies the forces at work. He develops interesting policy ideas and approaches that address important political and moral elements of the complex problems we face. He crafts approaches that might, with good will and deft management, bridge the gaps between the sides. He reads thoughtful speeches full of sensible reflections.

But the last few weeks have cast him as the least competent manager of America’s Middle East diplomatic portfolio in a very long time. He has infuriated and frustrated long term friends, but made no headway in reconciling enemies. He has strained our ties with the established regimes without winning


new friends on the Arab Street . He has committed our forces in the strategically irrelevant backwater of Libya not, as he originally told us, for “days, not weeks” but for months not days.

Where he has failed so dramatically is in the arena he himself has so frequently identified as vital: the search for peace between Palestinians and Israelis. His record of grotesque, humiliating and total diplomatic failure in his dealings with Prime Minister Netanyahu has few parallels in American history. Three times he has gone up against Netanyahu; three times he has ingloriously failed. This last defeat — Netanyahu’s deadly, devastating speech to Congress in which he eviscerated President Obama’s foreign policy to prolonged and repeated standing ovations by members of both parties — may have beendeepest and most mysterious reaches of the American soul. The idea of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism is profoundly tied to the idea of American exceptionalism. The belief that God favors and protects Israel is connected to the idea that God favors and protects America .

It means more. The existence of Israel means that the God of the Bible is still watching out for the well-being of the human race. For many American Christians who are nothing like fundamentalists, the restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land and their creation of a successful, democratic state after two thousand years of oppression and exile is a clear sign that the religion of the Bible can be trusted.

Being pro-Israel matters in American mass politics because the public mind believes at


was at Vila Armindo Monteiro, which is now called Bobonaro.

The capital of Bobonaro is East Timor's fourth largest city, Maliana.  it had a population of 13,200. It sits at 9.00°S and 125.22°E, 149 km from to the southwest of the national capital, Dili. The next two largest cities in the municipality are Bobonaro City (also known as Aubá), with 6,700 people; and Lolotoi with a population of 3,800. Another village is Atabae in Atabae Administrative Post.

Administrative posts
The municipality's administrative posts (formerly sub-districts) are:
Atabae
Balibó
Bobonaro
Cailaco
Lolotoi (also spelled Lolotoe); and
Maliana.

The administrative posts are divided into 50 sucos ("villages") in total.

Infrastructure
The main road between Dili and the Indonesian border at Batugade runs through this municipality, clinging closely to the coast for almost its entire length through the municipality. It runs through Atabaebut delivered the turtles to Franco's home in Monterey Park.

A king cobra snake is seen in a container of chips in this undated handout photo released on July 25, 2017. United States Attorney's Office Central District of California/Handout via Reuters

The agents later served a search warrant there and found tanks with a live baby Morelet's crocodile, alligator snapping turtles, a common snapping turtle, and five diamond back terrapins. Prosecutors say all of the reptiles are protected under U.S. law.

The animals were found in the children's bedroom, prosecutors said.

Franco admitted to an agent from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that he had previously received 20 king cobras in two other shipments, but he said they all died in transit, according to court documents.

Federal agents also searched Franco's phone


So Armando tweeted this about an hour ago...

One of the things that make our sport great is the people you meet during your career for the rest of your life. Enjoy! Cheers — Armando Lozano (@LozanoArmando16) July 22, 2014

Unless he's waxing nostalgic about his career, the 29-year-old defender is probably leaving the Red Bulls.

The writing was kind of on the wall for the well-coiffed Spaniard. He started hot, but since the emergence of Matt Miazga, Armando hasn't been in the game day 18 since the Red Bulls' 2-2 draw with the Houston Dynamo nearly three weeks ago thanks to a suspension, but even then, Ibrahim Sekagya generally inspires more confidence at the back.

And with the team floundering and right against the salary cap, Sporting Director Andy Roxburgh andProtests threaten France shut down

Tens of thousands of people expected to take to the streets over pension plans as fears of a fuel shortage increase.

16 Oct 2010 13:38 GMT

Protesters in Nice as part of a national day of mass rallies against pension reforms [AFP]

The battle over a planned overhaul of France's pension system has intensified as rolling strikes cut the fuel pipeline to Paris airports and shut down most of the country’s oil refineries.

In an attempt to pummel the government into backing down on its controversial plans to raise the retirement age, a broad alliance of unions, leftwing political parties and students are pressing ahead with a series of nationwide protests.

Tens of thousands of people are expected to join the nationwide protests on Saturday, just days ahead of


the final government vote on the reforms on Wednesday. Unions are also promising a major strike on Tuesday in a final attempt to stop the legislation.

The protestors were to march from the Place de la Republique to the Bastille in Paris.

The country has already endured four straight days of strikes, squeezing fuel supplies, grounding flights, cutting rail services and closing schools and other key facilities.

Fuel fears

Trapil, the Paris pipeline operator, told the AFP news agency that Charles de Gaulle, the country's main airport, could run out of fuel by next week, while Orly "has stocks for 17 days".

Christine Lagarde, the economy minister, urged people not to panic over petrol supplies as the country had ample stocks for now.

"We have reserves," she told France's RTL radio, adding supply problemshad affected 230 petrol stations out of a total 13,000 in the country. "People mustn't panic."

Strikes during the week at French oil ports and twelve refineries put pressure on petrol and diesel supplies across the country, notably when supply was cut into the Paris region and international airports on Friday from a pipeline running south from Le Havre.

Police were able to break up blockades at three fuel depots in southern France, easing some of the pressure at petrol stations, but that has not eased fears of a fuel shortage.

Lorry drivers are heavyweights in the realm of French protest movements and are throwing their support behind the protests.

Maxime Dumont, the head of the CFDT union's lorry drivers' section, said drivers could block fuel depots, refineries and food warehouses and


completely irresponsible," she told Al Jazeera, referring to the outbreaks of violence between police and students.

"There is a massive mobilisation, which the government is trying to relegate to the shadows."

Members of the governing UMP party have said that the young protesters are being manipulated, but Charton said the youth mobilisation was independent and "absolutely not" linked to any political party.

Employment rights

The law is of real and immediate concern for young people in France, she said, and, by delaying retirement for the employed, will only increase the already high level of unemployment amongst the country's youth.

Unemployment among France young people has increased more rapidly than in the rest of the population since the start of the global financial crisis, according to the OCED. It reached 22.6 per cent inEast Texan reflects on life 5 years after escape from Katrina

TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Nearly five years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the city's healing continues, but scars remain. The water carried homes away, sending many families headed to East Texas for a new start.

"We were just one of hundreds of thousands of stories that were going on in New Orleans," said Lanelle Picarella, a registered nurse for Trinity Mother Frances.

Five years since the storm and 80% of the Big Easy's residents have moved back home. Picarella makes up the other 20%.

"We were thinking we'd be gone for a week," said Picarella. "We expected water but we didn't expect the damage that happened."

The Picarellas left before dawn the day Katrina arrived. The next time Picarella saw her


city was on TV.

"A lot of the images are places I'd been, people that we knew that lived in those areas," she remembered.

The Picarella home would never be lived in again, leaving a family with nothing but their faith.

"If you don't have that to hold on to and to realize there's more than just possessions and earthly places to be, then it makes it very difficult when you lose those earthly things," said Picarella.

A blessing came in the form of a job at Trinity Mother Frances Hospital.

"This opportunity gave me a chance to keep myself busy mentally and also feel like I was making a difference," said Picarella.

Today Picarella brings skills from her New Orleans hospital to East Texas - her hometown a far cry from the oneshe left behind.

"Is it the same New Orleans? Absolutely not," she said. "When you go through a trauma like that, no, but are there the friendships, the comradery, is there the multiculturalism, the togetherness we have in New Orleans? Yeah, it's still there."

It is a bond forging a new future, five years and counting.

Picarella says her time in New Orleans is limited to several visits a year. She says there are not plans to move back.

A Facebook post from a local teacher that said the Florida shooting had her so on edge she was actually considering ending her 35-year career in education had us wondering how many other teachers are having that kind of internal crisis.

A Facebook post from a local teacher that said the Florida shooting had


reactive bone in central areas of cartilage loss, a process called eburnation. Due to decreased movement because of the pain, regional muscles may atrophy, and ligaments may become more lax. OA is the most common form of arthritis, and the leading cause of chronic disability.
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a group of disorders that cause inflammation of the intestines. The inflammation lasts for a long time and usually relapses. The two major types of IBD are Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Crohn's disease occur when the lining and wall of the intestines becomes inflamed resulting in the development of ulcers. Although Crohn's disease can occur in any part of the digestive system, it often occurs in the lower part of the small intestine where it joins the colon.members of their own race. The plaintiffs have attempted to utilize this language in support of their contention that de facto segregation resulting from good faith adherence to a neighborhood school policy is unconstitutional. In paragraph 8 of their complaint, they allege:
"8. Because of defendant's enumeration of pupils to be registered in particular elementary schools of the Kenston School District, based on the home address of the child, the resulting racial separation engenders feelings and attitudes which interfere or tend to interfere with successful learning. In the minds of Negro pupils and parents and in the mind of the community as a whole, a stigma is attached to attending a school the enrollment and faculty of which are completely Negro, and this stigma results in a feeling of


that the team won a Fast Forward clue.
A  indicates that the team chose to use the Yield;  indicates the team who received it;  around a leg number indicates a leg where the Yield was available but not used.
Italicized results indicate the position of the team at the midpoint of a two-episode leg.

^Rob, Meredith and Deana decided to forfeit the Roadblock; their teams were all issued 4-hour penalties at the Roadblock site starting from the arrival of the next team.
Uchenna & Joyce initially arrived 3rd, but they didn't complete the Roadblock correctly and were forced to finish it. This did not affect their placement.
Meredith & Gretchen initially arrived 4th, but they missed their final clue at the end of the Roadblock; Lynn & Alex checked-in duringto Sankuyo Village through Maun to the Sankuyo Water Tower to find their next clue.
After the Roadblock, teams were instructed to drive themselves to the Pit Stop at the Khwai River Lodge.

Leg 8 (Botswana → India)

Airdate: April 13, 2005
 Khwai (Khwai River Airport) to Francistown (Francistown International Airport)
 Francistown (Francistown Airport) to Lucknow, India  (Amausi Airport)
Lucknow (Bara Imambara)
Lucknow (Kohinoor Steel Emporium)
Lucknow (Aishbagh – Indane Bhushan Gas Service)
 Lucknow (K.K. Jaiswal Charcoal Merchants or Sharma Tea Corner)
Lucknow (Rooftop of Charbagh Multistory Flats)

The first Roadblock of the leg required one team member to search among the 600 metal boxes in the emporium for the one that contained their next clue.

The first Detour of the leg was a choice of Solid or Liquid. In Solid, teams


Binbirdirek Cistern and find four columns using a map with coordinates. On the columns were numbers for the combination to open a padlocked box which contained their next clue. In Kilos, teams traveled to the Yeni Mosque, located at the old Jewish quarter of Eminönü, and found a man with a box of scales. Using one of the scales, teams had to weigh enough people on the street until they reached a total of . Once done, teams had to return their scale and show their weights to the man to receive their next clue.

For this Roadblock, one team member had to climb a  ladder up the side of Halil Paşa Kulesi. Once at the top, team members then climbed to the top of a tower tobus in the designated parking area to receive their next clue.

Additional task
At Sirkeci Train Station, teams had to walk through a group of whirling dervishes to find a dervish escort who would show teams  their next clue.
Upon arrival in London, teams had to find the zebra crossing made famous by The Beatles album cover – which they had to figure out was Abbey Road, named for the street where their next clue was located.
At London Eye, teams have to survey the city from the Ferris wheel to locate an Amazing Race flag and their next clue, which was at the London Marriott Hotel County Hall.

Leg 11 (United Kingdom → Jamaica)

Airdate: May 10, 2005
 London (Heathrow Airport) to Kingston, Jamaica  (Norman Manley International Airport)
Port Antonio (Frenchman's


The La Plata dolphin or Franciscana (Pontoporia blainvillei) is found in coastal Atlantic waters of southeastern South America. It is a member of the river dolphin group and the only one that actually lives in the ocean and saltwater estuaries, rather than inhabiting exclusively freshwater systems.

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The La Plata dolphin is the only species in its genus, and is often placed in its own family, the Pontoporiidae. It was first described by Paul Gervais and Alcide d'Orbigny in 1844 (the species epithet blainvillei commemorates the French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville). The La Plata dolphin is also widely known as the Franciscana - the Argentine and Uruguayan name that has been adopted internationally. Other common names are the toninha (the Brazilian name) and cachimbo.

The La Plata dolphin hasAtlantic waters of southeastern South America, including the Río de la Plataestuary. Its distribution ranges from the Tropic of Capricorn near Ubatuba, Brazil, south to Península Valdés, Argentina. It is the only member of the river dolphin group that actually lives in the ocean and saltwater estuaries, rather than freshwater. Although some members of the species do spend portions of their lives outside of river systems, many individuals live their entire lives within rivers, never venturing into the ocean proper.

The La Plata dolphin is listed as "Vulnerable" in the IUCNRed List of Threatened Species. However, the Franciscana is a particular conservation concern because of its restricted distribution and vulnerability to incidental capture in fishing gear. Large numbers are killed in gillnets. Although the largest documented catches in the


as it has an unfavourable conservation status or would benefit significantly from international co-operation organised by tailored agreements.

A young La Plata dolphin was rescued in 2011 off of Montevideo, Uruguay. Images of the infant dolphin became viral on Facebook, highlighting the plight of the species. [3]

^ abcd"Appendix I and Appendix II" of the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS). As amended by the Conference of the Parties in 1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002, 2005 and 2008. Effective: 5 March 2009.each location — scoured the buildings and carried out computers, records and other items to be used as evidence.

Assisting the task force in the search were Pennsylvania State Police, Barrett Township Police, the Monroe County District Attorney's office and the Luzerne County District Attorney's office.

The Northeast Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Task Force covers 11 northeastern Pennsylvania counties and includes Walsh, four in-house detectives, a Scranton police officer, a Wilkes-Barre police officer and a detective each from the district attorney's offices in Monroe, Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming counties. The task force also has two attorneys who prosecute cases.


2011 projections...

During a four-year period from 2005 to 2008, Jose Reyes was one of the most elite players in fantasy baseball, averaging 113 runs, 14 HRs, 66 RBI, a whopping 65 steals and a .287 batting average per season. During that four-year span, Reyes missed a total of just 15 games, and was widely regarded as a top-five pick in 2009 drafts.
Reyes has missed 155 games over the last two seasons, however, including 29 last year due to a lingering oblique injury and an overactive thyroid...Mark Maslin, professor of climatology at University College in London, was speaking at a conference here which also heard that some parts of the world were already in danger of becoming too hot for humans to inhabit.

... said humans were well suited to living in cool conditions and felt comfortable in temperatures between 20°C and 23°C because their muscles produced heat from within.

But in parts of Arizona, Australia and India temperatures were reaching – and for days staying above – the thermal maximum of endurance, which was around 37°C, the core heat of the human body. Above that temperature, and sometimes below, depending on the combination of heat, humidity and air speed, keeping cool put too much strain on the heart and people began to die.

Her researches were


and the Polish Government’s Partners in Crime.” Among them, Pascoe says, are “General Motors, known for funding climate skeptic think tanks like the Heartland Institute in the U.S.; you have BMW, which is doing equal things in Europe, trying to weaken emission standards.” LOTOS Group, the second-largest Polish petroleum corporation, has its logo emblazoned on the 11,000 tote bags handed out to delegates here.

Poland, which gets 80 percent to 90 percent of its power from coal, hosted a parallel conference with the World Coal Association, called the International Coal and Climate Summit. UNFCCC chief Christiana Figueres enraged many climate activists by dignifying the coal conference with a keynote address.

The Philippines’ chief climate-change negotiator, Yeb Sano ... on the ninth day of his fast ...

After Sano announced his fastcoming from countries and with Japan and Australia reigning back their ambition, countries were "unilaterally degrading their pledges without review." He said:

... we could be heading into a downward spiral in policies... that would push us to a warming of five degrees.... the International Energy Agency, which provides advice to major governments around the world, had reported that Australia's production of coal would rise by almost 50% between 2011 and 2035, with most of that coal being exported.

Hare said countries negotiating in Warsaw were "not denying" that the gap was there, but rather they were choosing to blame each other ...

As United Nations meetings have visited places like Kyoto, Rio and Copenhagen to sign deals and talk about climate change, the real world response according to the data


and remaining in one piece when split down the middle. The properties of the strip were discovered independently and almost simultaneously by two German mathematicians, August Ferdinand Moebius and Johann Benedict Listing, in 1858. The picture above is an example for it.In keeping with President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing the Interagency Task Force on Agriculture and Rural Prosperity, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue launched the effort on Thursday along with representatives from 22 federal agencies that are taking on the wide-ranging initiative.

The task force will work to find ways to increase jobs, housing and educational opportunities for America’s rural communities, and to remove obstacles, such as burdensome regulations, and to improve infrastructure and access to technology.

The task force held its inaugural meeting in Washington, D.C., and attendees included Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson, Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai, and other government


an executive order establishing the task force “to ensure the informed exercise of regulatory authority that impacts agriculture and rural communities.”

Regulations, in fact, were routinely mentioned as something detrimental to rural prosperity, including rules and regulations put into place by the EPA that create obstacles for farming and ranching.

The White House laid out the plan this way:

While much of the country has recovered from the recent recession, large areas of rural America have not fared as well. Nationally, 85 percent of persistently impoverished counties are in rural areas, and one in four rural children is growing up in poverty. The employment numbers continue to lag, and without connectivity and improved infrastructure widely available, the population in rural America is at its lowest point since 2010. The Task Forceprev story

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The Hotwives of Orlando Is a Summer Lunch-Break Godsend

You know those workdays when it's too hot and humid to even think about walking to your favorite falafel place? No worries—The Hotwives of Orlando is about to take all the doldrums out of staying at your desk.

The Web series stars Casey Wilson, Kristen Schaal and Angela Kinsey and is far and away the best Real Housewives parody I've ever seen (not mentioning any names, but the gals of Beverly Hills may feel like they're looking in a mirror). In episode one alone, there's a spat over who doesn't want the drama, a charity event raising money for dog high heels, and Kristen Schaal vamping in a mirror with a brush stuck in the back of her hair.


Josina Anderson reports on Everson Griffen, who is being evaluated at a hospital after an incident at a hotel last weekend where police were called. (1:49)

Everson Griffen is being evaluated at a hospital in the Minneapolis area following an incident over the weekend where police were called to the hotel at which the Minnesota Vikings defensive end has been staying, a league source told ESPN's Josina Anderson.

The source said Griffen is "getting assistance on personal matters" and that the league is "comfortable he has a good support system around him."

According to an incident report obtained by ESPN, authorities from the Minneapolis Police Department were called to Hotel Ivy on Saturday because an individual was threatening to shoot someone if he wasn't allowed in his room.

Though his name wasredacted from the incident report, sources told ESPN's Courtney Cronin that the individual in question is Griffen, the Vikings' ninth-year defensive end.

The Vikings said Monday that they are concerned about Griffen's well-being.

"We are aware of the situation involving Everson Griffen and certainly concerned by what we have heard," Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said in a statement. "We are currently focused on Everson's well-being and providing the appropriate support for him and his family."

The incident report states that hotel staff believed Griffen was possibly under the influence of alcohol or narcotics. The report states that he checked into the hotel last week and caused a disturbance "each time he walks through the lobby." On Saturday, the situation escalated to a point where Griffen allegedly threatened to assault hotel


staff.

Griffen told authorities "I'm leaving" after police arrived on the scene, according to Minneapolis Police Department Public Information Officer John Elder. Police found no gun, and no arrest was made.

A league source took issue with some of the details in the incident report, saying there are "discrepancies" between the report and what actually happened.

A number of professional athletes, including Minnesota Wild and Twins players, live at the downtown Minneapolis hotel, which was built in 2008 and renovated in 2015.

Griffen, a three-time Pro Bowler, did not play in Week 3 after being ruled out Friday with a knee injury. Sources told Anderson that a number of Vikings players and coaches were not aware of Saturday's incident, even at game time on Sunday.

Coach Mike Zimmer was asked postgame to addresswhy Griffen was not on the sideline, to which he responded, "He is having a personal matter, and I'm going to leave it at that."

Griffen, 30, was arrested twice after his rookie season, the first incident coming Jan. 28, 2011, when he was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of public intoxication. He was arrested days later for allegedly assaulting an officer during a traffic stop.

Griffen has played all nine of his seasons with the Vikings and signed a four-year extension last year.


Although deficits weren't an issue for "Next Generation," they have claimed other victims. In early 1992, 20th Television canceled its own show "Anything but Love," starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Lewis, after almost three years on the air. The outlook for rerun sales on a show of such modest appeal -- it ranked 73d for the season -- weren't promising enough for the studio's tastes.

The best chance for the studios to recoup prime-time losses are through foreign markets and, for a hit show, the sale of rerun rights to local stations. This is the famous "back end" that virtually everyone in Hollywood always seems to be angling for a piece of.

"Next Generation" was a different kind of series. Studios normally sell their series to the broadcast networks;indeed, Paramount initially developed "Next Generation" for the Fox network. But this time, Paramount decided to keep control.

The studio cut out the network middleman and sold the show directly to local stations, one city at a time. "Next Generation" looked just like a prime-time network series: it was produced with the same lofty budget, watched by the same vast audiences and sold to the same advertisers. It quickly became a mammoth hit.

But the dynamics of the television business led Paramount to kill its cash cow. The real payoff for a hit series arrives when stations buy it to run it five or seven nights a week. In agreeing to broadcast "Next Generation," stations also committed to buy all rerun rights and to broadcast each episode six or seven


protected cove by Misty Mount. But he had long practice in controlling nausea while attending Death Eater meetings, where prisoners and Muggles were routinely tortured and occasionally raped before his eyes, and he put that into play now, using his powerful will to overcome the sick feeling in his gut. He grasped his medallion and whispered a brief prayer that both his sons be safe and tried to remain calm. He wished the ship could fly, wished as well that he had never let four teenagers go out alone without adult supervision. What the hell had he been thinking?

His hands gripped the sides of the single seat below the bridge platform and he concentrated upon breathing slowly.

"You all right there, Severus?" called Ed from his place at thebeen eaten by sharks before!" Harry argued.

"When was the last time that happened?" his girlfriend asked. "Ages ago, and never in my lifetime, or even my father's. Sharks are like wolves, they have a horrible reputation as man eaters, when the truth is, most sharks only attack people because they think they're seals or injured fish. That's why I told you to remain still and not thrash about, because that's what a dying fish does."

She eyed the shark worriedly. It had been circling them for at least ten minutes now and it was odd that it hadn't come closer to investigate by now. A little warning voice in her mind was telling her that this shark was probably not hungry or it was non-aggressive. She wondered if she


should dare ducking beneath the waves and using her Sonar spell, which she could cast without a wand due to her sea witch blood. The spell would tell her how big the shark was and even what kind it was, since different sharks were shaped differently.

"I don't like the way it keeps going around and around us," Harry said nervously. "Why is it doing that?" he fought to remain perfectly still, all his nerves were on edge, and adrenaline began pumping through him, triggering the "fight or flight" reflex.

"Sharks have to swim constantly or they'll die," Katie informed him.

Harry wished this one would just commit suicide. The JAWS theme song was playing in his head over and over.

"Don't panic," Katie said suddenly. "I'm going to go below fora minute and check the shark out."

"How? You're crazy!" Harry nearly screamed. Had she lost her bloody mind?

"No. I'm a sea wizard's daughter. Trust me."

With that, she vanished beneath the waves.

Harry fought to keep from shouting at her to come back and diving after her.

"Phoenix, don't move," Draco called.

Harry checked the brief impulse. Think before you act. Severus' lesson during school rang in his head, and he remained still and quiet, despite the terror surging through his veins. Seconds felt like hours and he bit his lip, wishing he could put on his glasses so the world wasn't just a blur of colors and shapes. But he dared not trust the fickle sea.

Three minutes later, Katie surfaced smoothly. "It's okay," she cried. "That's a nurse shark out there,


of the waves against the side of the capsized Sea Treasure was almost soothing.

As if the sudden cessation of bad weather was a signal, the nurse shark suddenly broke out of its circling pattern and swam a bit closer. The four teens all froze, their breath rasping in their throats. Harry, who couldn't make out much because of his poor eyesight, asked nervously, "What is it? What's happening?"

Draco hissed, "The damn shark . . .it's coming closer . . ."

"Bloody hell!" muttered his brother, shivering.

Then the shark dissolved into a million silver sparkles, making them close their eyes against the sudden flare of light.

When they opened their eyes again, they saw a tall angular boy of about sixteen swimming where the shark had been, his blond hair plasteredagainst his head. He wore aqua trunks and his body was well-muscled and sleek. He bore a tattoo upon his right bicep of a curled wave and five stars. In his ear was a large polished green agate with a pearl suspended from it.

He had eyes the color of seaweed and he nodded and gave them a roguish smile before introducing himself. "Hello. Didn't mean to scare you, but my mistress sent me to keep an eye on you all till our ship could come in range. Mariner Will Beauregard at your service."

He gave them all credible bow, though Draco didn't know how he managed it without looking like a fool while treading water. His voice held the soft drawl of the Southern United States.

"You're a wizard!" exclaimed


never been so grateful to see anything as that proud ship in his life, except maybe his father and Sarai that time in the Deepwood when he had been trying to keep Draco alive during the Unseelie ambush.

"Aye, First Mate! All present and accounted for." Will hailed the ship.

"Well done, Mariner. Stand by to receive lifeboat," called the first officer.

A boat was lowered over the side and it magically drew alongside them and Will assisted the weary youngsters into the boat, then he climbed in himself and the boat magically propelled itself back to Amphitrite's Pearl.

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Katie was greeted by her sister, Maxine, or Max, as she preferred to be called, as soon as she set foot on the Pearl's deck. "Katie, what scrape have you gotten yourself intonow?" she scolded good-naturedly before picking her little sister up in a bear hug.

Maxine Bell was a tall willowy woman in her early twenties, her long hair was a light sunstreaked brunette that fell in a braid down her back. Like her apprentice, she also bore a Guild tattoo and an agate earring. Her skin was a warm café au lait color from exposure to the sun and wind, her eyes a merry cerulean. She was not a raving beauty, but she was attractive. She was wearing loose fitting cotton trousers tucked into knee-high boots, a sailor's blouse and a short billowy robe that came to her knees tied with a silver sash. Upon the sash were five knots, indicating she was a full Sea Mage, tested and


sworn to the Guild. All her garments were various shades of blue, from aquamarine to midnight blue. She had a large pearl ring on her third finger that served as a focus for weather conjuring.

"It wasn't my fault, Max!" Katie said, swiping tears of relief from her eyes. "The storm came out of nowhere and Treasure couldn't outrun it! Dad's gonna kick my arse from here to the Tortugas."

"Nah, kid. Captain knows how sudden a squall can blow up here." Max reassured her. "Sit down here, you and your mates, and let me get you some dry things and some broth. You all look like drowned puppies." She waved her wand and their soaking wet clothing was replaced by fluffy thick terry robes and cotton trousers and shirtssimilar to her own. "Will! Get them some broth!"

"Yes, ma'am!" her apprentice snapped to attention, managing to look presentable even in nothing but swim trunks. He made a gesture, and four steaming mugs of seaweed broth appeared before them, along with a tray of honey drizzled shortbreads.

"Relax, I'll have her seaworthy in fifteen minutes. Has anyone contacted Captain Bell?"

"I did. I called a dolphin," Katie told her.

"Good. Then he'll be here shortly." Max rolled up her sleeves. "Meantime, before Old Huff n' Puff gets here and starts bellowing, let me see to your clipper." She winked at her sister.

"Old Huff n'Puff?" queried Harry.

Katie giggled. "That's our private nickname for Dad, because he huffs and puffs like a killer storm but never really hurts you."

The Sea Mage moved over


to the rail and stretched out her arms. She chanted a phrase in Latin three times, tracing a strange pattern in the air with her wand.

Her arms began to glow and then suddenly the glow surrounded the capsized sailboat and drew it into the air.

As the young wizards watched in silent amazement, all except Katie, who had seen such magic before, the Sea Treasure righted itself and was set down gently atop the waves.

Max pursed her lips and puffed, and a soft warm breeze swirled about the small craft, drying it. The sails hung limp and torn, but she pointed her wand and said, "Mend," in Latin, and they repaired themselves.

Will joined them, sitting upon a bench off to the side, he was now wearing a pair ofblue trousers and a darker blue robe, tied with a black sash with three knots in it. He began to sip his own mug of broth, savoring the salty taste. "That's Mistress Max, she's one of the best Sea Mages there is!" Admiration and pride for his teacher shone in his eyes.

"She's a Bell, it's in her blood," Katie said proudly, saluting her sister with her mug.

Harry cautiously tasted his broth, finding it was salty and rather pleasant tasting, though an odd dark green color. But the first swallow warmed him considerably and by the third he was warm all the way down to his toes. He had shoved on his glasses just before Max had performed her charm on his clothes, and now could see everything clearly.


Their clothes were spread out neatly upon a set of trunks, drying in the brisk wind.

The four castaways sipped their broth and nibbled upon the shortbread for about ten minutes before a dolphin was seen cutting through the waves. It gave a brief whistle and a clicking noise.

"Ahoy, Waverunner!" Will jumped to his feet and greeted the dolphin with a series of squeaks and clicks in its own speech.

"Do all Sea Wizards speak fish?" asked Hermione.

"Pretty much. It's one of the first talents that comes out if you've got the gift," Katie said. "Look! Here comes Sea Lady, with my dad at the wheel."

"Is ours with him?" Harry asked, standing up, his half full mug clutched in his hand.

"Yes, look!" Katie pointed to a tall man in blacktrousers and a blue chambray shirt, his hair blowing all over his face, standing at the bow of the ship.

Captain Turner, a red bearded man in his fifties, bellowed back, "Permission granted, Captain! Mr. Stevens, lower the plank and make her fast!"

"Aye, aye, sir!" the first mate called out orders to a few more sailors, who weighed anchor and extended a plank from their ship to the Sea Lady.

Edward and Severus crossed to the frigate, and upon seeing their children, rushed over to inspect them.

Harry quickly set down his mug as Severus approached. "Harry! Are you hurt?"

"I'm fine, Dad," were all the words he managed to get out before Severus took him by the shoulders, looked him up and down, and then crushed him to his chest.

"You're sure


you're all right?" his father asked after releasing him. "I saw you in the ocean, in the middle of that damn storm . . .!"

"The boat capsized, but Katie saved us all," Harry said.

Severus released him and went to Draco, giving his blond Slytherin son the same treatment he had Harry. "Are you all right, Dragon? You look a little pale, and why is there blood on your cheek?"

"Ah, that's not mine, Dad. It's Hermione's. She hit her head when the boat flipped over and I grabbed her and she was bleeding from a cut on her forehead. But Katie healed her before too much blood went into the water."

"Thank Merlin! I nearly went into cardiac arrest when the medallion warned me the two of you were indanger." He took a handkerchief from his pocket and scrubbed Draco's cheek.

The other winced. "Not so hard, Dad." He tried to draw away, for Severus was overzealous in his ministrations. "I'm fine, Harry's fine, Hermione's fine, and so's Katie. The only thing that's not fine is our catch of crabs and fish. I think they got washed away when the boat flipped over. And we had a great catch too!" He made a mournful face.

"Who cares about the bloody fish as long as you're safe?" muttered Severus, running his hands over Draco's hair.

Then he turned to Hermione, who had watched the family reunion with something very close to amusement. "Miss Granger, are you well? Is your head hurting? I can give you a potion . . ."

"Don't worry


about me, sir. My head feels fine." She set down her mug and hugged him abruptly.

He hugged her back, patting her gently. "There now, you're safe and sound, no need to cry."

"It's just. . .I thought we were going to drown and then a shark came, only it wasn't a real shark, it was Will . . ." Hermione sniffled into his shirt.

"Excuse me? Who is Will and what do you mean a shark came?" Severus sputtered. "Sit down and explain yourself."

He gently pushed her back down on the bench and sat inbetween her and his sons. He listened while Hermione and his sons told him what had happened, the crushing weight in his chest starting to lift now that he was reunited with his family once more.

Afew feet away, Edward was simultaneously hugging and scolding his daughter, growling in one breath, "Katherine, how many times have I told you t'keep a weather eye out for thunderheads?" and then in the next, "Be you hurt, lass? You're shivering."

Katie buried her face in his thick cable knit jumper. "I'm not hurt, Dad. But my poor Treasure is going to need a refit and I lost my Mirror of Communication in the sea and I'm sorry I was such an idiot and didn't pay attention and made you worry . . ." In spite of herself, tears began to leak out of her eyes and she started to sob, more from reaction and fear of her father's disappointment than anything.

Edward picked up his lanky daughter and sat


up Katie's clipper to the stern and were heading back to Misty Mount. Katie and Draco went back on board Sea Treasure to see if any of the catch had survived, and found to their delight that the hold hatch had not unlocked. The fish and crabs were still safely stowed in their seawater compartments, and as a reward, Katie gave a bucket of fish to Waverunner for his help.

The dolphin gulped them down and whistled his thanks before leaping up in the air and then vanishing again into the waves. Farewell, little wizards! Smooth sailings!

"Well?" Harry asked as Draco climbed back onto the Captain's ship. "Was there any fish left?"

"The whole catch and the crabs too," Draco said happily. "We'll have a feast tonight, Phoenix. Crab legsand fried fish." He smacked his lips in anticipation.

"But no shark," Hermione commented, and for some reason that comment made them all laugh hysterically.

Severus looked over at them, relieved that they all seemed to be getting over their traumatic experience. He thanked Merlin that the Sea Wizards were so efficient and prompt in a crisis, the Aurors could take a few lessons from them. He rested his elbow on the rail and looked out over the water, finding the motion of the ship easier to bear if he was standing and focusing his eyes on the horizon, which was now clear and tinged with rose and gold and violet as the sun began to set. What a weekend this had turned out to be! Then again, he should


have expected the unexpected, because trouble seemed to find his sons wherever they were. He caressed his medallion and thought how glad he would be when they were finally home at Prince Manor, for though he liked the Bells, he would never warm to the sea, his heart was forever tied to the land of his ancestors.

He heaved a silent sigh when they pulled up at the dock and the kids hopped out and fetched the chests of seafood and carried them up to the house, while Katie and Edward tied up their crafts.

"Do you need any help, Edward?" he asked for politeness' sake, for he knew next to nothing about ships.

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Kigu's proving to be a fascinating character, in a very Akira Kogami sort of way. She plays the cute role, but knows beneath it that her real personality is a little different. Also, loved Kukuru's comment about switching up the cast, as she's the only one of the Joshiraku Five who retains her original self from the Drama CDs. Mary, for example, was originally played by Kana Asumi. Ayane Sakura's doing a great job, though.

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The animated experience follows the narrative of Hinata Shouyou, who, in the wake of seeing a national championship coordinate on T.V., surprisingly built up an affection for volleyball. Also, he’s certain to resemble the star of the championship.

This game anime has an outright diamond of characters that leave a gloomy, difficult yet capable Kageyama with a revile just as a gift in a mask. One will be supporting a modest Hinata whose body can not contain his energy and enthusiasm. Other than them, Tanaka, Nishinoya, Sugawara, and Sawamura are recognized for the Volleyball Team of Karasuno High School.

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Release date

Production Process I.G. Liveliness Studio Officially reported that the renowned volleyball anime would release Haikyuuu Season 5 at the end of 2020.

Cast Info

The cast of season 5 would include:

Ayumu Murase as Shoyo Hinata

Kaito Ishikawa as Tobio Kageyama

Yu Hayashi as Ryunosuke Tanaka

Satoshi Hino as Daichi Sawamura

Miyu Irino as Koshi Sugawara

Koki Uchiyama as Kei Tsukishima

Expected Story

The fans were confronted with the struggles of the Karasuno High School Volleyball Team during Season 4. Hinata pledges to vanquish Kageyama, who is the volleyball crew’s friend.

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Vulnerable to the sea as well as overland invasion, the Dutch have had to be pragmatic to stay safe.

The geography of the Netherlands is primarily defined by the confluence of the Meuse, Rhine and Scheldt Rivers, giving the small country an extended network of waterways for movement and trade — and strategic depth against invaders.

The Netherlands’ economic and political core of Holland developed around and to the north of this river delta. Today, more than half of the Dutch population lives in the area that includes the country’s four largest cities: Amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam and Utrecht, a conurbation known as the Randstad.

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Land had been reclaimed from the sea starting in the seventeenth century to protect the towns from flooding and create more arable land. The landscape of the whole northwest of the country is dominated by such polders today. The cooperation that was required between residents of the polder and various government agencies that were involved in their construction and maintenance gave its name to the Dutch version of Third Way politics: the poldermodel.

The need — and desire — for compromise is rooted in the Netherlands’ decentralized administration. Before their secession from Spain in 1581, the cities, nobles and provinces that then formed the Dutch Republic had enjoyed various liberties and privileges which King Philip II took away while centralizing his empire. Spanish attempts at Counter-Reformation in the Netherlands, which had largely taken up Protestantism, fueled popular support for an uprising that would last eighty years.

When Spain recognized Dutch independence as part of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, the Low Countries were split along religious lines. The largely Protestant north, which was enjoying its Golden Age as a major trading power and the wealthiest nation in the world, became independent. The predominantly Catholic Southern Netherlands remained part of the Habsburg Empire.


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Small and relatively defenseless, the Netherlands was a key player in Europeandiplomacy and wars into the eighteenth century, culminating in its brief occupation by France between 1795 and 1813. When diplomacy failed, its only recourse was to withdraw north of the major rivers and flood the areas southeast of Amsterdam to protect the cities of Holland from invasion. This stopped the French in 1672 but not a century later when the “Water Line” froze in winter.

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