Dubai International traffic up eight per cent

Dubai International airport recorded an 8.1 per cent increase in traffic numbers in November 2015 compared with the previous year.

Just over six million passengers (6,013,911) travelled through the airport during the month, up from 5,565,509 in November 2014.

The figures also pushed Dubai International closer to the 80 million annual passenger mark, with 70,961,598 having passed through the airport up to the end of November – up 10.9 per cent on the previous year.

Dubai International surpassed London’s Heathrow airport as the world’s busiest airport for international traffic in 2014.

It is currently the third busiest airport for all passenger traffic, behind Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International and Beijing Capital International.

The airport's new Concourse D is expected to open early this year, and will feature a BritishThere's a happy ending to a Lexington woman's search for something very special to her. On Saturday, Arlene Cooper made a post on Facebook asking for help locating her lost locket. The locket holds the ashes of her son, Michael, who died just a couple of months ago.

"It means everything to me because it's like losing him all over again," Cooper said. "My daughter-in-law has got the urn, but even if I got more from her it wouldn't be the same 'cause there's still a piece of him out there somewhere."

Her post went viral with more than 16,000 shares. WKYT checked with Cooper on Monday to see how the search was going. She said her husband found the locket while going to check the mail. It was on


of his down swing of the golf club as well as at the through swing and the end of the follow-through swing. By achieving proper rotation and hinge of the club as well as the correct hand positions, the golf club would ideally stay on its proper swing plane, thereby enabling the golfer to achieve a well-executed shot.
Certain prior art devices caused the wrist to be held in a flat or bowed position through the entire swing, which was somewhat helpful, but this did not allow for achieving a square club face at the time of impact with the ball. In other words, the holding of the wrist in the flat position does not guarantee that the club face will be square in order that erratic ball flightIraq’s death squads

“Standing in a large family house in the Hurriya district of Baghdad a little boy, no more than ten years old, with huge round eyes silently points out the bullet holes in each of the bedrooms.”

Deborah Davies reports from inside Baghdad

Standing in a large family house in the Hurriya district of Baghdad a little boy, no more than ten years old, with huge round eyes silently points out the bullet holes in each of the bedrooms. He goes from room to room, pointing out the marks in the wardrobe door, in the bed-frame, in the wall – he knows where they all are. It’s the kind of knowledge no child should be burdened with.

Downstairs, six almost identical figures in black robes, sit in a row holding


large pictures of their murdered men-folk, with a clutter of children on their laps.

These six women – all of them members of the same family, all of them recently widowed – have not been back into their bedrooms since last November, when a convoy of police cars drew up outside their home in the early hours and dozens of uniformed men burst in.

Another of the children, Hanin, was asleep in her parents’ bed. She’s almost matter of fact as she describes what happened next. ‘I heard a gunshot so I cuddled my Dad. They came into our room and I told them not to kill my Daddy but the man threatened to shoot me. They shot Daddy and then they shot my Uncle.’

Five men were shot dead thatnight – a sixth had been killed in the street three weeks earlier. Their crime? The head of the family, Sheik Khadem Sarheed, was leader of a well-known Sunni tribe. Now he’s dead, along with four of his adult sons and one son-in-law. One of the sons was a policeman and recognised the killers. ‘He told them he was a policemen like them’, says his widow, ‘But they shot him in the neck and in the stomach’.

Neighbours saw the police cars parked outside the house and recognised the uniforms of the notorious police commandos. They’re highly trained, heavily armed officers, more like soldiers than ordinary policemen. And they report directly to the Ministry of the Interior. Over the last eighteen months these commandos – who are almost exclusively


we traced how these commando units have been deliberately infiltrated and taken over by one of the most militant Islamic groups, the Badr Brigade. They’re the military wing of an Iraqi political party, The Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq. SCIRI was set up in the early 80′s in exile in Iran and its aim was always to overthrow Saddam and his Sunni government and replace them with a Shia government. Now, very helpfully, the Americans have done that for them.

Return of the Badr Brigade

Immediately after Saddam was toppled in the Spring of 2003 thousands of Badr Brigade militiamen flooded back across the border from Iran, along with their political leaders who’d spent years waiting for this moment. They wanted the new Iraq to become agraduation parades, to have them in new uniforms’, Douglas Brand told us. ‘Nobody was too interested in what happened when they actually went out on the streets’.

Douglas Brand says he voiced his concerns, ‘Probably ten times a day to whoever would listen, usually two star Generals and above.’ He even spoke directly to the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, ‘But I sensed the subtleties were not understood and if there were consequences down the road, that’s something the Iraqis were going to have to handle themselves’.

Those consequences became clear very quickly. In June 2004 an American soldier, Kevin Maries, was looking through his sights of his sniper rifle from his usual position on the top floor of the Ministry of the Interior building when he saw Iraqi police


commandos bring hundreds of prisoners into a Ministry compound directly below him.

He took a series of astonishing photographs through his rifle sight showing what happened. ‘They were forced onto their knees, beaten with rubber hoses,’ he remembers, ‘The beatings got more severe, a metal bar was used and they were beating the soles of their feet’. When he thought some of the prisoners might die, Kevin alerted his unit and American troops turned up to stop the torture. But an hour later US Headquarters ordered them to withdraw and leave the prisoners to the mercy of their captors. As far as Kevin knows, most of the prisoners were later moved to an official prison but only after they were beaten again.

US reluctance to intervene

From the start the USauthorities have been reluctant to interfere and that became even more marked when a controversial appointment was made to the Iraqi government. In May 2005, a man named Bayan Jabr was made Minister of the Interior – and thus the man in charge of the police. He was one of SCIRI’s most senior figures.

Suddenly huge numbers of his own exclusively Shia militiamen from the Badr Brigade were recruited into the police. Gerry Burke witnessed that first hand. A senior Massachusetts policeman, seconded as a police adviser to Baghdad, Burke saw a memo from the new Minister authorising the recruitment of one group of 1,300 men into the Commandos without any obvious qualifications for the job. ‘These were men without any police training, without any background checks’, Gerry Burke


told us, ‘It was just changing uniforms from the Badr Brigade to the police’.

A few months later, when groups of Sunni men began to be kidnapped, murdered and their bodies dumped in the same spots every day, Gerry Burke tried to organise a surveillance operation to catch the killers. But the ordinary Iraqi police officers he was working with were too terrified to co-operate. ‘They believed the perpetrators were members of the police who would have killed them in retaliation for investigating it’.

But that is by no means the only evidence that Iraq’s Minsiter for the Interior is involved in a covert campaign of terror. One Iraqi MP, accuses Mr Jabr of being behind a network of secret prisons were Sunnis were held without charge and tortured. Ofdescribed how an elderly woman was rushed in very ill. When the hospital guards realised she was the wife of a well known Sunni man they shot her.

There was more to come. When we reached Mohammed Al Dini’s office, he handed over several CD’s full of horrific images of corpses – victims, he claimed, of the death squads. ‘Bullet holes?’ I asked pointing to a picture of two round wounds. Mohammed Al Dini corrected me. ‘No – electric drill holes’.

Then he fished out a five page document from his briefcase. It was a top secret report from Military Intelligence describing how they had caught eighteen policemen in the act of kidnapping two Sunni civilians. The police had confessed that they’d been ordered to pick up the men by


Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, scrapped his proposal to make the Holy Bible the official state book before it could go to a full vote of the state House of Representatives Monday evening. The bill had become a distraction, he said.

In introducing the legislation, Carmody always maintained he was not taking steps to establish a state religion, but rather to educate people. Critics have accused him of foisting faith inappropriately into the government sphere. Others thought such a designation would trivialize the Bible and its importance.

Initially, Carmody had just been intending to designate a specific, historic copy of the Bible, which he thought could be found in the Louisiana State Museum, as the official state book. But lawmakers amended Carmody's legislation two weeks ago to propose making any copyevoking God's name in his State of the Union address or putting the phrase "In God we trust" on U.S. money, according to Werhan. "Throughout history, the Supreme Court has not gotten worked about these types of things," he said.

Douglas Laycock, a nationally-recognized expert on religious liberty, agreed with Werhan. "Judges are likely to think that this is de minimis - to minor to care about. They don't tell the president that he can't issue Thanksgiving proclamations or host a national prayer breakfast, and judges are likely to view this the same way," said Laycock, who teaches at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Both Werhan and Laycock also said it would have been difficult to find someone who would have standing to sue over such a law,


After his "mong" controversy on Twitter, about the whether or not the word is still used pejoratively against people with Down's syndrome, and his recent spat with American fundamentalists when he posed as Christ crucified on the cover of New Humanist magazine, Ricky Gervais might seem set on yet another collision course with his new Channel 4 comedy, Derek. Gervais plays the eponymous Derek Noakes, a kindly but simple helper at a nursing home, who appears to have learning difficulties. Perhaps understandably, Gervais isn't in a diagnostic mood and doesn't specify Derek's condition – if "condition" is indeed what it is.

"I've never thought of him as disabled," is how Gervais puts it more bluntly when we catch up after a screening of Derek at Bafta (quite a showcasefor what is essentially a sitcom pilot). "He's not that bright but he's cleverer than Baldrick, he's clever than Father Dougal (Ardal O'Hanlon's character in Father Ted)... he hasn't got as big a problem as Mr Bean.

"When I portray a disabled person I get a disabled person to play them – the woman who was wheelchair-bound in The Office, the guy in Extras with Down's syndrome was a Down's syndrome actor. If it was autism I'd get Dustin Hoffman..."

Gervais started developing Derek for his stand-up act more than 12 years ago – long before The Office catapulted him to stardom and, it sometimes seems, ceaseless controversy.

"Originally the character was an excuse to see the world differently," he says. "He lived with his mum but I thought that was


quite restricting for a sitcom – and the change to the old people's home was after I watched The Secret Millionaire (the Channel 4 reality show about anonymous philanthropists) – it was always these people with huge problems who were helping other people. I thought about having Derek help old people because no one cares about old people in this country... I think it's perfect for now." Indeed, Derek might shock some viewers, albeit not for the expected reasons. What's surprising is that it's a remarkably tender, even slightly mawkish at times, sitcom, in which the title character is an innocent who loves Rolf Harris, Jesus ("because he's nice"), Britain's Got Talent, and clipping the toenails of the elderly residents – the tone flowing between nuanced comedy andare no celebrity cameos, as there were in Extras and Life is Short, in Derek. "I think it's time to have an antidote to fame – I just want to do normal people again," says Gervais, who nevertheless persuaded his old friend and acolyte, Karl Pilkington, fresh from his success as a kind of anti-Alan Whicker in Sky1's An Idiot Abroad, to don a comedy wig and make his acting debut, playing caretaker Dougie (a bemused northerner, so no great stretch there). "I knew if he did what I said he'd be great," says Gervais. "I don't mean that arrogantly. It's written for him and some of the things I've written for him to say he could well say, although you can never predict him."

Gervais illustrates the point


anywhere. I don't make it for the public, I make it for me."

As for his Twitter spats – Gervais said that the so-called "mong-gate" was blown out of all proportion. "That's gone into myth and legend," is how he puts it. "I said at the time I never used that word to mean Down's syndrome – never would, never have – and then when I was contacted by the Down's Syndrome Society and they said it's still used, I went, 'okay, I won't use it again'." An atheist since boyhood, Gervais could still mend a few bridges with his Christian fundamentalist critics with his next project, although I wouldn't bet on it.

"It's about an atheist who dies and goes to heaven and he's not so smug," he says."I play God... it's a stretch." And then there's the continued preparation for the film of his Flanimals children's books ("it's taking forever"), as well as European and American, Michael McIntyre-sized arena tours for his stand-up act.

"And we've just started writing a one-hour special for Life's Too Short, which at the moment is turning into a spin-off series with Les Dennis, Barry off EastEnders and Cheggers [Keith Chegwin]... we couldn't resist it."

"We", it almost goes without saying, are Gervais and his regular writing partner, Stephen Merchant, and it's striking that he wrote Derek without Merchant, as well as directing and starring in it. "It's fun collaborating but it's still a compromise," he says.

"Two people is still a compromise. That's why I like live [comedy].... you can say anything


in fact Gervais is already busy writing it. "It's certainly got legs because there's lots of stories to explore," he says. "It's essentially an ensemble piece like The Office and Extras. It still adheres to the sitcom format – it's a family against the world, which all the best sitcoms are."

He goes on to describe how Derek is trapped in this nursing home in the same way that Harold Steptoe is trapped by his father, and Ronnie Barker's character is literally incarcerated in Porridge. "It's already quite a melancholy place, an old people's home." Ah, yes, the old people – will his portrayal of the elderly provide another stick for his detractors?

"They're not quirky as in, 'don't old people say the funniest thing,'" he says. "They're from alldifferent walks of life and have real fears and real issues. They're not props, they're not a backdrop – I really want to develop them as real characters."

Indeed, after a couple of opening gags, in which two residents of the nursing home are depicted as deaf and senile, that had you fearing the worst, Gervais opens up a rather moving storyline involved an old lady whom Derek treats as a mother substitute, particularly liking it when she strokes his hair.

"The difference with this and other sitcoms, and certainly other sitcoms that I've done, is that there's no real vein of irony," he says.

"People are saying exactly what they mean. Derek's certainly not delusional like David Brent, and there's nothing more fun than playing a delusional character. There are


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From extras to stars: How Ricky makes careers

Martin Freeman

Freeman was doing the usual rounds of 'Casualty' and 'The Bill' until his portrayal of Tim, the lovelorn, prank-playing worker in 'The Office' in 2001. After roles in 'Love Actually', 'Hot Fuzz' and as Arthur Dent in the movie of 'The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy', his star status was confirmed BBC1's 'Sherlock', in which he plays Dr Watson. See him next as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson's 'The Hobbit'.

Ashley Jensen

Scottish actress Jensen's career had been steady but unspectacular for 15 years when she co-starred in 'Extras', playing fellow supporting artist Maggie. Since 'Extras' finished in 2005, Jensen has played best friend Christina in three seasons of 'Ugly Betty', and co-stared in another US sitcom, 'Accidentally on Purpose'. Hearher next alongside Hugh Grant as one of the voices in the Aardman animation, 'The Pirates! Band of Misfits'.

Lucy Davis

Comedian Jasper Carrott's daughter, Lucy Davis, was finding it hard to graduate from guest parts in shows like 'Holby City', 'Doctors' and 'The Bill'. Since 'The Office', in which she played receptionist Dawn, and a starring role in 'Shaun of the Dead', Davis still does regular guest spots, but this time in more rewarding US shows such as 'Ugly Betty', 'Californication' and 'The Mentalist'. See her next headlining the British thriller 'Nitrate'.

Mackenzie Crook

The former stand-up comedian has turned into a surprisingly versatile actor since his star-making portrayal of the nerdish Gareth in 'The Office' , from the Royal Court production of 'Jerusalem' and a sadistic soldier in BBC1's 'The


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On 1 May 1982, the Royal Air Force bombed the airport in Operation Black Buck and several other raids were carried out by embarked Harriers. Through the conflict, the airport installations were attacked with 237 bombs, 1,200 shells by deployed Royal Navy ships and 16 missiles. The 42 1,000-lb bombs dropped by the two Black Buck missions left twin strings of craters which are still visible on satellite photos of the airport today. However, none of these attacks ever put the airfield out of action entirely, and even both


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Join “The People’s Procession” for Jack Layton Today

The People’s Procession has been officially recognized as part of the Jack Layton funeral entourage. We have been welcomed to join by the organizers of the journey from City Hall to the service at Roy Thomson Hall.

Anyone who wants to come and join the People’s Procession is encouraged to do so. Bikes, feet, wheelchairs, mobility scooters, kick scooters, skate boards. However you power yourself, feel empowered to play a part in honouring Jack.

12–12:30
We will meet at the southbound sidewalk – then the curb lane – of University, north of Queen (the north-west corner).

1:15 (ROUGHLY)
The bike police at the end of the formal procession will welcome us into the tail end of the cortege once it has turned south on University.

1:59
1-minute 21-bellsalute at David Pecaut Square and elsewhere

ROUTE (subject to change)

From University, we will follow behind the funeral cortege to Roy Thomson Hall.

The full route from City Hall is as follows:

– west on Queen Street West
– south on University Avenue
– west on King Street West
– south on Simcoe Street and arriving at Roy Thomson Hall

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS ROUTE HAS BEEN CONFIRMED WITH THE POLICE COORDINATOR RESPONSIBLE FOR IT.

Streets in the area will be closed to traffic at noon approximately.

MUSIC

There will be a giant band as part of this procession, members of Samba Elegua, Rambunctious and more. If you play a horn or a drum or something you can walk with, please join in.

THE SERVICE

Saturday’s state funeral starts at 2 p.m. at Roy Thomson Hall. With limited seating available


for the general public, organizers will give bracelets to the first 600 people in line.

Four large video screens will be set up in David Pecaut Square, to the west of Roy Thomson Hall, for overflow crowds.

As well, the CBC Broadcasting Centre will be open for people who can’t get into Roy Thomson Hall but would like to see the funeral on the large television located in the Barbara Frum Atrium.

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church will be used for additional seating – with a live video feed – for people who would like to attend the state funeral for Jack Layton, which will take place across the street at Roy Thomson Hall on Saturday afternoon. All are welcome.Moses Joseph of West Haven, CT, dresses festively as he joins the hundreds of thousands of revelers gathering in Times Square to celebrate New Year's Eve on December 31, 2012 in New York City. (Credit: Monika Graff/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 31: Moses Joseph of West Haven, CT, dresses festively as he joins the hundreds of thousands of revelers gathering in Times Square to celebrate New Year's Eve on December 31, 2012 in New York City. Approximately one million people are expected to ring in the new year in Times Square. (Photo by Monika Graff/Getty Images)

Revelers Celebrate The New Year In NYC's Times Square

Revelers gather to celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square on December 31, 2012. (Credit: Monika Graff/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 31: Revelers


gather to celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City. Approximately one million people are expected to ring in the new year in Times Square. (Photo by Monika Graff/Getty Images)

Revelers Celebrate The New Year In NYC's Times Square

Revelers gather to celebrate New Year's Eve in Times Square on December 31, 2012. (Credit: Monika Graff/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 31: Revelers gather in Times Square to celebrate New Year's Eve on December 31, 2012 in New York City. Approximately one million people are expected to ring in the new year in Times Square. (Photo by Monika Graff/Getty Images)

New Year's In Times Square

Revelers gather on Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City, where as many as a million peopleare expected to celebrate New Year's by viewing the traditional drop of a giant crystal ball -- and a billion more watching on TV around the world. With just a few hours to go before 2013, huge crowds assembled under the Manhattan neighborhood's famous neon advertising hoardings. (Credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Singer Tyler Glenn of the Neon Trees performs onstage at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013 in Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City, New York. (Credit: Stephen Lovekin/DCNYRE2013/Getty Images for DCP)

<> at Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City.

New Year's Eve 2013 In Times Square: The Neon Trees

Singer Tyler Glenn of the Neon Trees performs onstage at Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2013


in Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City, New York. (Credit: Stephen Lovekin/DCNYRE2013/Getty Images for DCP)

Patrick Monahan of Train performs 'Mermaid' on the NIVEA Kiss Stage in Times Square on New Year's Eve 2013 at Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City. (Credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images for NIVEA)

Mario And Courtney Lopez Ring In 2013 On The NIVEA Kiss Stage In Times Square

London Celebrates New Year's Eve

Fireworks light up the London skyline and Big Ben just after midnight on January 1, 2013 in London, England. Thousands of people are lining the banks of the River Thames near Parliament in central London to herald the start of 2013. (Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

New Year's In Colonge, Germany

Fireworks light up the Dom church on the Rhineriver in Cologne, western Germany after midnight on January 1, 2013, as part of the New Year celebrations. (Credit: PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks light up the Dom church on the Rhine river in Cologne, western Germany after midnight on January 1, 2013, as part of the New Year celebrations.
AFP PHOTO / PATRIK STOLLARZ (Photo credit should read PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

New Year's In Berlin

Fireworks erupt over the Brandenburg Gate on January 1, 2013 in Berlin as part of the New Year's celebrations. (Credit: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)

Fireworks erupt over the Brandenburg Gate on January 1, 2013 in Berlin as part of the New Year's celebrations.
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New Year's In Tokyo

People take pictures of themselves with the sunrise on New Year's Day at


the open-air Sky Deck of Roppongi Hills, some 238 metres (780 ft.) above ground level in Tokyo on January 1, 2013. Asian capital cities brought in the New Year in spectacular style after Sydney set off a global wave of fireworks, with long-isolated Yangon joining the pyrotechnic partying for the first time. (Credit: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)

People take pictures of themselves with the sunrise on New Year's Day at the open-air Sky Deck of Roppongi Hills, some 238 metres (780 ft.) above ground level in Tokyo on January 1, 2013. Asian capital cities brought in the New Year in spectacular style after Sydney set off a global wave of fireworks, with long-isolated Yangon joining the pyrotechnic partying for the first time. AFP PHOTO / KAZUHIRO NOGI (Photo credit shouldread KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images)

London Celebrates New Year's Eve

Crowds gather to celebrate New Year's Eve on the Embankment on December 31, 2012 in London, England. Thousands of people are lining the banks of the River Thames near Parliament in central London. A fireworks display at midnight will herald the start of 2013. (Credit: Scarff/Getty Images)

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New Year's 2013 In Times Square

South Korean singer PSY performs with US singer MC Hammer (R) during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square (Credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Revelers Celebrate The New Year In Times Square

Revelers celebrate as hundreds of thousands of people gather in Times Square on New Year's Eve on December 31, 2012 in New York City. Approximately one million people are expected to ring in the new year in Times Square.


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New Year's 2013 In Times Square: Tiffany Alvord

Musical artist Tiffany Alvord performs on the NIVEA Kiss Stage in Times Square on New Year's Eve 2013 on December 31, 2012 in New York City. (Credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images for NIVEA)

New Year's 2013 In Times Square: The Liberty Bells

The USO's Liberty Bells perform their popular A Military Salute to honor our Armed Forces on the NIVEA Kiss Stage on New Year's Eve 2013 at Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City. (Credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images for NIVEA)

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New Year's 2013 In Times Square: 'Million Dollar Quartet'

Cast members from 'Million Dollar Quartet' perform on the NIVEA Kiss Stage in Times Square on New Year's Eve 2013on December 31, 2012 in New York City. (Credit: Brad Barket/Getty Images for NIVEA)

New Year's 2013 In Times Square

People celebrate the New Year on Times Square in New York, January 1, 2013. (Credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

New Year's 2013 In Times Square: Taylor Swift

Singer Taylor Swift performs during New Year's Eve 2013 In Times Square at Times Square on December 31, 2012 in New York City. (Credit: Mike Coppola/Getty Images)

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New Year's 2013 In Times Square

People celebrate the New Year on Times Square in New York, January 1, 2013. (Credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

People celebrate the New Year on Times Square in New York, January 1, 2013. A million people cheered in New York's Times Square as the traditional crystal


ball dropped to mark the start of 2013, bringing a rolling global New Year's party that kicked off in Australia to US shores. AFP PHOTO/EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

Revelers Celebrate The New Year In Times Square

Fireworks explode at the stroke of midnight in Times Square on January 1, 2013 in New York City. Approximately one million people are expected to ring in the new year in Times Square. (Credit: Monika Graff/Getty Images)

NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 1: Fireworks explode at the stroke of midnight in Times Square on January 1, 2013 in New York City. Approximately one million people are expected to ring in the new year in Times Square. (Photo by Monika Graff/Getty Images)

New Year's 2013 In Times Square: Mayor Bloomberg With TheRockettes

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Rockettes celebrate the New Year on Times Square in New York, January 1, 2013. (Credit: EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Rockettes celebrate the New Year on Times Square in New York, January 1, 2013. A million people cheered in New York's Times Square as the traditional crystal ball dropped to mark the start of 2013, bringing a rolling global New Year's party that kicked off in Australia to US shores. AFP PHOTO/EMMANUEL DUNAND (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)


lot of spare space. However the use of curtains on the beds was effective in giving everyone their own space.
Nice location. Very close to the tube station and a nice enough atmosphere in the surrounding area.

I was staying in 9 bed dorm. Which in hindsight should have made me question why it was an odd number but I didn't think of it at the time. The room I was in had triple bunk beds which meant that I was sleeping at a height that was about 1 and a half times my own. As the last person to check into that room I had no choice in bed which is fair enough and didn't have too much difficulty climbing the ladder but it was rather unexpected. It wasdeserves complete blame for that shambles this year at SC.

Barkley had almost the same TD's as last year. He had a few more picks, but then had a similar volume increase in sacks playing behind a much weaker offensive line. He wasn't faultless and had bad games. But some of the stuff written about him is silly. Ultimately you know what you're going to bet from Matt Barkley. What he lacks physically he'll make up for technically.

I became a fan pretty late to college football, how did Kiffin even get the HC job at USC when Pete left? I remember he was a big deal when he went to Tennessee, but Tennessee wasn't even any good when he was the coach for that one year... Why was he


considered such a great coach? What program did he build his name with?

Basically his reputation goes before him. He was part of the USC powerhouse Carroll built and his dad is Monte Kiffin. That's about it. He was a failure in Oakland (not the first, mind), spent a year pissing off other coaches in the SEC with Tennessee talking smack, all while winning nothing. And now at USC he's wasted a year of incredible offensive talent. They really should be looking for a new HC.

Barkley will do well for a team like KC. They can give him run support and have some talent to work with around that roster. They are almost as fraudulent a 2-14 team as Indy was last year.

In terms of the mental side of(a) maintaining a "B" average, (b) interning each summer at a Knight-Ridder company, and (c), upon graduation, working at a Knight-Ridder company for at least one year.
In 1988, a Knight-Ridder minority scholarship was awarded to Ya-Sin Shabazz, a resident of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, who attended Yale University.
In 1989, a scholarship was offered to the plaintiff, Riva R. Brown, a resident of Picayune, Mississippi, who attended the University of Southern Mississippi.
During the summers of 1989 and 1990, both Ms. Brown and Mr. Shabazz worked as interns at The Sun Herald; however, after their graduations in 1993 and 1992 respectively, she began working for The Sun Herald and he was placed with The Miami Herald.
Mr. Shabazz's employment with The Miami Herald ceased in the fall of 1993 and even


though he and Ms. Brown had previously enjoyed a friendly platonic relationship, upon returning to the coast, he became hostile towards her. Shabazz even reportedly broke into the plaintiff's apartment prior to the shooting incident; leading her to report her concerns regarding him to her employer.
On July 18, 1994, at approximately 6:30 p.m., Ms. Brown exited The Sun Herald's Biloxi, Mississippi, office building and proceeded to the said employer's parking lot which is located adjacent to said office building. Upon entering the parking lot Ms. Brown observed Mr. Shabazz sitting in a car behind hers and, notwithstanding her expressed fear of him, she walked toward his car. He initially avoided her by maneuvering his car in the parking lot, whereupon she returned her to car for the purposeof leaving the premises. Shabazz continued maneuvering his car in such a way as to prohibit her from driving away. Subsequently he exited his car and approached hers; whereupon she lowered her window to inquire about his intentions. At this time, Mr. Shabazz produced a shot gun which he fired at her; causing serious injuries to her arm and internal organs. She escaped further injury by exiting the car and running to The Sun Herald building where she received assistance from her co-workers. The incident occurred during daylight hours and at no time preceding the shooting did Ms. Brown attempt to alert security personnel of a possible problem.
Prior to the incident, Ms. Brown had been at work at The Sun Herald and had gone to the parking lot


Carmelo Anthony said he thinks his decision to re-sign with the New York Knicks influenced LeBron James' decision to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers. Anthony signed a five-year, $124 million contract with the Knicks in July. James left the Miami Heat after four trips to the NBA Finals to return to the Cavaliers.

Carmelo Anthony said he thinks his 2011 move to the New York Knicks influenced LeBron James' decision to return to the Cleveland Cavaliers, he told Michael Strahan in a Q&A between the two in Adweek.

Anthony signed a five-year, $124 million contract with the Knicks in July after originally returning to his hometown in a 2011 trade. Anthony was born in Red Hook, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

James decided to sign withA video of Miley Cyrus performing Nirvana's breakthrough hit, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," in Ecuador in April was spreading around the Internet in the days that followed — and inevitably, the performance was widely criticized and declared blasphemous by rock fans who have no love for the teen pop icon.

But Cyrus is hardly the first pop singer to take on the grunge classic. As it turns out, "Teen Spirit" isn't just one of the most frequently covered rock songs of the past 20 years. It's practically become a cornerstone of mainstream pop.

Here are the 12 most unlikely covers of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" — and as it turns out, Miley's is hardly the most objectionable.

Miley Cyrus

Miley introduces her rendition of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by telling her fans


that it's a song that inspired her to become a performer. This isn't hard to imagine once it gets going. Sure, she might not be perfectly suited to this type of high-intensity rocking, and she seems a bit physically awkward at times, but she looks like she's having a ball up there. Also, it should be noted that she actually has a family connection to Kurt Cobain: Her father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, was actually friends with the late Nirvana frontman.

British boy band Take That have long specialized in syrupy soft pop, but they took to performing a genuinely rocking version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as a tribute to Kurt Cobain on their 1995 tour, including this stop at London's Earl's Court arena.

Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars hasbeen featuring this mash-up of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" at most of his recent concerts, including this one at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas last year. As if playing two of the most instantly recognizable and crowd-pleasing hits in the world wasn't enough, Mars tosses in a bit of the White Stripes' "Seven Nation Army" at the end for good measure.

Taio Cruz

Much like Bruno Mars, Cruz is a shameless crowd-pleaser – after a rowdy round of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," he leads the audience into a bit of Justin Timberlake's smash hit "SexyBack." This camera phone footage was shot at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire in November 2008, back before Cruz broke big internationally with "Dynamite."

When contestants sing rock songs on "American


Idol," it's usually pretty tame. But Casey Abrams' version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from a recent episode is genuinely unhinged, with the bearded singer making intense eyes while screaming the words. This may have scared off a lot of voters – he was eliminated only a few weeks later

Magni

"American Idol's" Casey Abrams wasn't the first guy to perform "Smells Like Teen Spirit" on a televised singing competition. In this performance from the "Rock Star: Supernova" contest from 2006 — a show in which a bunch of singers were trying out for a short-lived supergroup including Metallica's Jason Newstead, Mötley Crüe's Tommy Lee and Guns N' Roses' Gilby Clarke — some Icelandic guy called Magni sang the song, and inadvertantly made it sound more like the band Live.

OfMontreal with MGMT

Of Montreal teamed up with members of MGMT for this very well executed cover of "Teen Spirit" during the encore of a show in New York City in October of 2008. If you watch the audience's response, you get a sense of why so many different acts put the song in their show — the song has a primal power that causes people to totally flip out. The crowd at this gig at Manhattan's cavernous Roseland Ballroom respond to the song as if they are actually watching a resurrected Kurt Cobain.

R&B queen Kelis' version of "Teen Spirit" from a concert at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire circa 2000 is surprisingly brutal, with her honeyed vocals giving way to full-bodied shouts. This yet more evidence of the song's


undeniable power — her fans may have come out to dance, but here they come much closer to moshing.

Tori Amos

Tori Amos' version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit," which appears as the B-side of her 1992 single "Crucify," is one of the earliest known covers of the song. Cobain was a fan – he once described her pretty solo piano cover as "a great breakfast cereal version." This performance of the song was filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland in 1992.

Paul Anka

Paul Anka turned "Smells Like Teen Spirit" into a swing jazz tune on his 2005 album "Rock Swings," which he was promoting in this appearance on the "Late Show with David Letterman." Anka takes out some of the most questionable lyrics and sings the "here weare now, entertain us!" line with zero irony, thus making this the most ironic possible version of the song.

Justin Timberlake performed a bit of the Nirvana hit at a number of shows back in 2006. Unfortunately, only crappy camera phone footage from his show at the House of Blues in Los Angeles in August of 2006 is available online. Still, you can get a sense in this clip of the former N'Sync singer's glee in playing the song's iconic riff.

Kathleen Hanna

Le Tigre and Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna brings everything full circle in this cabaret performance at Manhattan's Joe's Pub last year in which she performs a monologue — accompanied by twinkling piano! — about how she inspired "Smells Like Teen Spirit." She also tosses in a bit


of her classic Bikini Kill tune "Rebel Girl."

Here we are now, entertain us ...

The members of Nirvana, from left, singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain, bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl are photographed backstage at England's Reading Festival on Aug. 23, 1991. Originally from Aberdeen, Wash., the band was on the cusp of a worldwide explosion in popularity as part of the grunge explosion out of Seattle.
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The almighty dollar

Nirvana released "Nevermind," its second studio album, on Sept. 24, 1991. Driven by the popularity of the first single, "Smells Like Teen Spirit," the hard-driving album went on to sell over 30 million copies worldwide.

Spencer Elden, the baby who appeared on the "Nevermind" cover, told MTV as a 17-year-old in 2008, "It's kind of creepy [to think] thatwanted to play a newer song -- "Rape Me." The two sides agreed that the band would play "Lithium" but Cobain opened the performance with the first few lines of "Rape Me" before changing gears.

Also at the event, Cobain got into it with Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose, who challenged the Nirvana singer to a fight backstage after exhchanging words with Cobain's wife Courtney Love.
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Where did you sleep last night?

Nirvana taped an episode of MTV's "Unplugged" series at Sony Studios in New York on Nov. 18, 1993. The band's set included six covers, including David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold the World," as well as an appearance by the Meat Puppets for three songs.

Cobain died on April 5, 1994, of


a self-inflicted shotgun wound. He was 27.

The album for the session was released in the wake of Cobain's suicide and debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200.
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Always loud

Cobain and Nirvana perform during the taping of MTV's "Live and Loud" production in Seattle on Dec. 13, 1993.

The band had by then released its third studio album, "In Utero," and embarked on its first American tour in two years.

Rolling Stone reviewer David Fricke gave the album four-and-a-half out of five stars and wrote, "In Utero is a lot of things -- brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it's a triumph of the will."
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A band of his own

FormerNirvana drummer Dave Grohl, performing at the MTV Movie Awards on June 5, 2011, has gone on to find success of his own as the frontman for the band Foo Fighters. The band has released seven studio albums since forming in 1994.
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Bucking the trends

Novoselic, left, and Grohl, center, pose with Butch Vig, the producer of the Nirvana's "Nevermind," in Los Angeles on Sept. 6, 2011.

After 20 years, "The album holds up really well. It's timeless," Vig told The Associated Press. "I think part of that is because the songs are really good. The production isn't gimmicky. It's just bass, drums and guitar. There's not any sort of trendy sound."
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Pieces of rock history

Nirvana artifacts are seen


at the opening of "In Bloom: The Nirvana Exhibition," marking the 20th anniversary of the release of "Nevermind," at the Loading Bay Gallery in London on Sept. 13, 2011.
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ShareBack to slideshow navigationone of the world’s best central bank chiefs by Global Finance Magazine in 2009 and several times since, and a Bloomberg columnist picked her as one of his favorites to head the International Monetary Fund after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was arrested on sexual assault charges in 2011.

According to one political analyst, Rosmah is believed to have been behind the dramatic ouster of cabinet members earlier this week, including attorney general Gani Patail and Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, replacing him with uber-loyalist Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the home minister. To replace fired cabinet members, who were involved in an investigation of 1MDB, Najib appointed members of a parliamentary committee probing 1MDB. Critics say that committee was designed to nullify the cabinet-level investigation, which is now presumably neutralized.

Rosmah is also supposedly


Financial Daily and its sister publications, which played a major role in exposing 1MDB irregularities. He has also blocked access to the UK-based site Sarawak Report, written by persistent critic Clare Rewcastle Brown. He has blocked several opposition members and activists from leaving the country and the Inspector General of Police has threatened charges against organizers of a planned rally this weekend.

That led the Malaysian branch of Transparency International to charge that there is deep concern over whether the 1MDB investigation can ever be completed. Gani Patail, the ousted attorney general, was said by insiders to be about to charge the prime minister with corruption when he was booted out.Ireland Under-20 Team (sponsored by PwC) to Play Wales-20

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ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE IRFU The Ireland Under-20 team (Sponsored by PwC) has been named today by Head Coach Mike Ruddock for this Friday's opening game in the Under-20 RBS Six Nations Championship against Wales, at Eirias, Colwyn Bay.

Ruddock has named a new look side with just two players from last year's squad included in the starting XV - full back Stuart Olding and scrum half Luke McGrath who will also captain the side.

Speaking ahead of the game, Ruddock said

"The Panel have prepared well and have had some good results in our warm up matches."

After losing their Under-20s Six Nations crown to England Under-20s in a thrilling final round, France Under-20s lock Tristan Labouteley insists his


public appearance since prison, stepping out with then fiancée Tameka "Tiny" Cottle in support of her Alzheimer's research fundraiser "For the Love of Our Fathers" at Atlanta's Opera venue. "I am very well, very happy to be seen," said T.I., who joined Cottle onstage at the end of the benefit. T.I. released a new promotional single titled "I'm Back" on March 8, 2010. The single peaked at #44 on Billboard's Hot 100 charts. Around this time, he made a featured guest appearance on Diddy-Dirty Money's single "Hello Good Morning", the single peaked at #27 in US and charted internationally in eight other countries.

He also made a guest appearance on Larry King Live on May 13, to discuss with Larry King about his nine-month prison term on federal gun"Me gettin' beat down? / That's ludicrous." Young Buck spoke to Ludacris about the verse, to maintain his neutrality in the controversy. Ludacris then recorded the verse that can be found on the album. T.I's record company wanted Ludacris to change his verse before they sanctioned it but Ludacris refused and T.I. was therefore replaced by The Game on the album version.

On June 24, 2007, at the Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood, California, T.I. was involved in a brawl during a luncheon held by Kevin Liles of Warner Music Group (parent company of T.I.'s label, Atlantic Records) with Ludacris' manager Chaka Zulu. According to witnesses, T.I. punched Zulu in the face and choked him and a brief melee ensued. While accepting the award for Best Hip-Hop Artist


among the lowest priced units in Metro Vancouver. They are also a five-minute walk to one of five SkyTrain stations in the city.

Good also notes that they are a particularly good buy, given that it is hard to find a concrete building with units below the market price of $400 a square foot.

Both price and the buzz of new development are what drew Nicole Colby, a 26-year-old Richmond resident, who is poised — with help from her parents — to purchase an 880-square foot two-bedroom condo in Elliot Street for about $320,000.

“The price attracted me — and the whole rebirth of New Westminster with lots of cranes around the city,” Colby says. Her parents were so surprised at the pricing that they decided the two-bedroom unit was anfit with the neighbourhood and are a bridge between some of the smaller-scale walk-ups and the towers now there and going in,” he said.

The tower features terra cotta-coloured vertical metal panels that are complemented by the combination of brick, concrete and more liberal use of glazing than in earlier designs. It also was configured to fit seven units on each floor, five of them with southern views of the Fraser River, the Pattullo and SkyTrain bridges and two with views of the North Shore mountains through oversized windows overlooking liberally spaced balconies. Albert Crescent Park to the southeast — connected to the building by a public walkway — ensures the view corridor will not be lost to future construction.

Schroeder says a major strength for New Westminster is its


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Coyotes vs. Stars November 27, 2009

GLENDALE, AZ - NOVEMBER 27: Stephane Robidas #3 of the Dallas Stars warms up before the NHL game against the Phoenix Coyotes at Jobing.com Arena on November 27, 2009 in Glendale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

He's only 17 but he can see the ice so well and he moves the puck and goes to the open ice all the time, so I just think he's a player that is ready to play in the NHL. I'm really looking forward to coaching someone like this.

— U.S. National Junior Team coach Ron Wilson on Auston Matthews, the projected No. 1 pick of the 2016 NHL DraftThis 'Sailor Moon' Attraction At Universal Studios Is Everything You Wanted As A Child

Japan is the dreamland of every fan of Sailor Moon. Themed cafes, exclusive stores dedicated to the series and now, a 4D tour with wands and more! Of course, it had to be in Universal Studios that's located in the Land of the Rising Sun.

Universal Cool Japan 2018 is the project of this theme park in which many attractions were inspired by some of the most emblematic Japanese characters: Final Fantasy, Detective Conan, Monster Hunter and Sailor Moon.

The Sailor Moon attraction kicked off on March 16 and will run until June 24. It is a 4D feature in which you will find yourself watching a Sailor Moon film in a movie theater until a sinister


The union representing teachers in Alberta is calling on the province to hire 2,000 more teachers by the fall as part of an effort to reduce class sizes.

"We're asking for 2,000 teachers for September," said Alberta Teachers' Association president Greg Jeffery.

"This is the number one issue for teachers in Alberta. We just completed a member survey and far and away class size was the number one issue for teachers across Alberta."

Jeffrey made the comments at the ATA's 85th annual Representative Assembly in Calgary on Saturday.

More than 425 delegates attended the event, voting on more than 155 resolutions covering curriculum, teacher education and certification, professional development, working conditions, pensions, education finance, administration of schools, political involvement, and students with special needs.

"The class size resolution has to do with aGrowth cannot be monopoly of the privileged: President

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New Delhi, Jan 25 (IANS) India must ensure that its economic growth does not become the "monopoly of the privileged" but instead is used to combat the "evil of hunger, deprivation and marginal subsistence" among the growing population, President Pranab Mukherjee said Friday.

He also cautioned against problems of a "market-dependent economy" and underlined that statistics only meant nothing to those who did not benefit from them, citing the situation in Maoist insurgency-affected areas.

"We must ensure that the fruits of economic growth do not become the monopoly of the privileged at the peak of a pyramid," said Mukherjee, delivering his first address to the nation on the eve of the 64th Republic Day.

"The primary


Ms Lodin's persecution of her ex-husband included threatening in a letter to "make what was left" of his "wretched life not worth living" and told him he would "feel the wrath of Allah". Ms Lodin, who lived with her former husband for 19 months before their separation in 1990, also made allegations of sexual misconduct by Dr Lodin to the police and the NSW Health Department Complaints Unit. Justice Sackville also said the allegations made by Ms Lodin against her ex-husband had not been proven, apart from the claims of professional misconduct. He said Ms Lodin's vindictive behaviour towards Dr Lodin should count against her entitlement for money from his estate because there was no evidence it was a result of psychiatric illness or caused by the deceased'sconduct. Justice Sackville said a matrimonial financial settlement made by the Family Court in 1992 was "an important consideration counting against her claim".

"The starting point is that the marriage effectively ended a quarter of a century before the hearing of [Ms Lodin's] claim," he said. "The relationship between the deceased and [Ms Lodin] lasted for less than six years and the marriage itself lasted only 19 months." He also said Dr Lodin had "meticulously complied" with his obligations to provide financial support for his daughter while his ex-wife "was not entirely honest in her claims for support". Ms Lodin's financial needs were, in part, the result of legal action taken against her ex-husband, who also was not to blame for the injuries she had suffered in a series


law does give the right to a former spouse to make a family provision claim, there needs to be compelling reasons for the claim to succeed as society expects there to be finality in financial property settlements and a 'clean break' between the former spouses." Melissa Lammers, the solicitor director of Shire Legal, said: "There was a lot of uproar earlier this year when the initial decision was handed down. "In our own experience, estate planning clients, fearful of claims being made by former spouses, were more inclined to insert statements into their wills as to why their former spouses were excluded from the will. "However, the appellant court's decision is now in line with the commonly held understanding by (and expectations of) divorcing spouses (and the communityThe university will kick off the academic year. Top faculty and professional personnel will be honored during the awards ceremony. Then, President Mearns will reflect on where he believes the institution is today and talk a bit about plans for the university's second century.

Are you ready for the total solar eclipse of 2017? Although Muncie is not in the path of totality, the city will see the Moon block roughly 93% of the Sun’s surface. Come learn how to safely watch an eclipse, and about scientific discoveries that have been supported by total solar eclipses. This show also uses beautiful visuals to explore the historical and cultural view of solar and lunar eclipses, and explains the geometry that creates these awe-inspiring sights.

Sesame Street’s Big Bird and Elmo explore


formally welcomes freshmen to the beginning of their academic career and introduces them to Ball State's community involvement and its student-centered commitment. In assembling with faculty, staff, and administrators, the freshmen connect to each other and to the university.

Guest artists Matthew Nelson, Paul York, and Sayá Sangidorj present solo and chamber music works by Frédéric Chopin, Choigiv Sangidorj, Robert Schumann, and Mikhail Glinka. Free and open to the public.

Learn how to use a star chart as we take a tour of the late summer sky in the Brown Planetarium. You will learn how to find constellations, planets, and more. Come learn how to navigate the sky by using bright stars and constellations, and discover what fascinating objects exist deep in space.

Learn how to use a star chart asnever lost sight of those same streets. During a veritable hot streak, the Louisiana MC unleashed game-changers alongside Webbie like Ghetto Stories in 2003 and Gangsta Musik the following year, culminating with the Top 10 breakthrough Superbad: The Return of Boosie in 2009. However, 2010 saw him go to prison for 52 months at Angola Louisiana State Penitentiary. Recorded and released his fifth album Incarcerated truly touched the hearts of fans everywhere. That's the moment he saw the vision for his long-awaited 2015 opus, Touch Down 2 Cause Hell [Trill Entertainment/Atlantic Records].

The Faculty Artist Series allows School of Music faculty to share their talent and passion for music with the campus and community. Katrin Meidell and Elizabeth Crawford's viola-clarinet duo is Violet. Free and open to the public.


New Delhi: This video has gone massively viral on social media platforms.

The viral video allegedly shows a Pakistani father teaching his young daughter how to fire AK 47.

In the video, the little girl can been seen allegedly threatening PM Narendra Modi. Obviously, she is a small girl, hence it can easily be understood that she has been taught to threaten PM Modi.

The video has taken internet by storm. People on internet are slamming her the man in the video for such a shameful act.

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Russia Regain Lead In WTC

With just one round remaining of the World Team Championships, the Russian team swept back into the lead with a crushing win against Egypt.

The US team narrowly lost to Armenia, with Hikaru Nakamura losing to world #5 ranked Lev Aronian (pictured). Nakamura tried the King's Indian that had previously proved so devastating against Boris Gelfand, but Aronian did not suffer the same fate.

Russia will take on Israel in the final round, with the USA facing Azerbaijan. The gold medal is still up for grabs!A woman who sued Skrillex, alleging the DJ, record producer and musician leapt on top of her from a downtown Los Angeles stage in 2012, suffered a stroke 16 days later, a radiologist testified Wednesday.

Dr. Stephen Hetts also testified that 18 hours after the Feb. 11, 2012, incident at the Belasco Theatre, Jennifer Fraissl, then 24, texted her then-boyfriend that she had suffered neck pain and whiplash.

Using slides containing images of Fraissl's injuries, Hetts said the plaintiff had an ischemic stroke, which occur when the arteries to the brain become narrowed or blocked, causing severely reduced blood flow.

Hetts said it is unusual for someone as young as Fraissl to have a stroke.

Fraissal, of Pleasant Hill in Contra Costa County, sued Skrillex, whose real name is Sonny John Moore,


and Lost Boys Touring Inc., in February 2014, alleging battery and negligence. Trial of her suit is taking place before a Los Angeles Superior Court jury.

Fraissl says she was standing near the front of the crowd when Skrillex beckoned fans forward, making it hard for her to leave or protect herself. She says Skrillex unexpectedly jumped from his table several feet above the stage and landed on the back of her head.

In their court papers, attorneys for Skrillex and Lost Boys state that Fraissl went to a Skrillex show in June 2011, where the DJ also jumped from the stage. The plaintiff stood near the front of the stage at the Belasco and assumed the risk she could be injured, according to the defense lawyers.

Skrillex, who testified Tuesday,Karnataka, India - Farmers have worked the land of southern India for more than 10,000 years, making use of its fertile soil and abundant rains.

Mahatma Gandhi placed Indian farmers at the centre of his vision for independence. In his 1909 book about Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule), he argued that farmers had "managed with the same kind of plough as existed thousands of years ago" and that rural India remained untouched by the corruptions of modernity.

India achieved its independence in 1947 and in the 1960s, in order to feed its growing population, it embraced the Green Revolution and introduced modern technologies, chemical fertilisers and pesticides to its agriculture.

In the 1990s, the country embarked on a series of neoliberal economic reforms, deregulating the markets and opening them up to


international trade. Free from foreign domination and working in a modern, developing country, it seemed as if the farmers of India could finally work for themselves, and enjoy the fruits of their labour.

Yet millions of Indian farmers barely make a living, and many are choosing to end their lives: hundreds of thousands have committed suicide in the past three decades.

In the southern state of Karnataka, more than 1,000 farmers killed themselves in 2015. About 90 of them were from the sugarcane-growing district of Mandya. While the data for 2016 is still unavailable, some 200 suicides had already been reported by the month of July.

There is no single explanation for this wave of suicides, but there are several common elements. The growing level of personal debt is one ofthem.

Alongside countless other farmers throughout India, sugarcane growers are struggling to earn enough to survive and are being forced to borrow money to continue farming. The crisis doesn't just affect the farmers, but the widows and children they leave behind, as well as relatives and fellow farmers, who also fall into the cycle of debt.

It's part of being a sugarcane grower, they say.

Sugarcane was once one of the most profitable crops, they explain. But, things have changed.

IN PICTURES: Stories of survival - Widows of India's farmer suicides

Shivanna's story

The Mandya district appears as an expanse of lush, tilled plains where sugarcane fields stretch as far as the eye can see.

Shivanna was a 35-year-old sugarcane farmer from the village of Sadolalu, a few kilometres from the town of Mandya.

He was


the sole breadwinner in his family and supported seven people: his parents, his wife who suffers from thyroid problems, his two children and his sick brother and his wife.

One day in July 2015, after dropping his son off at school, he drove into town and bought a bottle of alcohol and some pesticide.

After lunch, he went off to his fields as usual. At 5pm, he called his niece, telling her that he had drunk the pesticide and that he wanted to see her one last time. The whole family rushed to the field, but by the time they arrived and took him to the hospital, he had died.

No one knew, but Shivanna was heavily in debt.

His debts amounted to six lakhs (about $9,240), and it would have takenhim six harvests on the five acres (about two hectares) of land he owned and leased, with an average profit of 20,000 rupees ($308) an acre, just to break even.

"He would not share his troubles with anyone," Shivanna's mother Savithriamma says.

He was a responsible person who didn't drink alcohol, she says.

"He was very happy that his second child was a girl. He did all the work, took her to the temple, the astrologer, everything," his mother recalls. "That's why he bought the liquor, to bring himself to do what he did."

The family learned about the extent of his debt after his death. They were left in financial ruin, and now face years of poverty to pay back the money owed. To make matters worse, they had to borrow


more to organise his funeral. Shivanna's wife was forced to sell her jewellery, including her thaali, the golden necklace Shivanna had tied around her neck at their wedding.

Now, all they have left is a single female buffalo. They get by selling the milk it produces.

"Only to plant the fields, it would cost him 25,000 rupees ($385) per acre, for the seedlings and the labour," his father Kempegowda says, explaining that Shivanna had no relatives who could help him in the field and was therefore forced to hire labourers to help with the work.

He used expensive NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) chemical fertilisers, such as urea and "Suphala", the mainstays of the Green Revolution. These cost tens of thousands of rupees an acre and are known to deplete theto be paid for his January harvest.

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Rathnamma's house is located in the village of Chalegowdan Doddi, a short motorbike ride from Shivanna's home. Her husband, Mariappa, committed suicide at the age of 45, after accumulating more than seven lakhs ($10,781) in debt.

"He said he was going to have a coffee at someone's house," she remembers, "and then he left and never came back. We found his body in his barren field. There had been no water because of drought, so he hadn't been able to plant any sugarcane."

Now Rathnamma works as a labourer, harvesting sugarcane for other farmers, and so does her son who was in his final year of college, but had to drop out after his


water.

With only about 42 percent of the Mandya district irrigated by the Krishna Raja Sagara dam, farmers are largely at the mercy of increasingly unreliable weather patterns, and many decide to dig their own wells.

Prasana is a 32-year-old sugarcane grower from the village of Hulivana.

His grandfather had dug a small water cistern which has helped his family survive the unexpected droughts. Prasana's brother also helps on the land, making the work much faster and the costs lower.

Prasana tries to not use chemicals. Instead, he saves on costs by using his cows to plough the land and produce manure for fertiliser.

"I managed so far only because there is a water cistern here," he says, "otherwise, it would have all dried up. I was always scared of taking loans, butWorld Trade Organisation members such as the European Union and Brazil objected on the grounds that such subsidies distort the global sugar market.

"By subsidising exports, India reduces its domestic sugar stocks and helps local producers by propping up local prices above global levels. But that forces sugar producers in countries like Thailand, Australia, Colombia, Guatemala and Brazil to reduce their own output and adjust exports in future harvests, or face even deeper losses because of depressed prices," said Elizabeth Farina, president of the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association, in a statement in 2014.

The Indian sugarcane farmers have, in the words of KJS activist Vashu Hu, been "left to subsidise agriculture out of their own pocket, or with their debts".

With official forecasts predicting that 600 million Indians - 40 percent


of the country's population - will live in cities by the year 2031, activists say that farmers are being abandoned.

"In the past, farmers worked with their relatives and their cows," Hu says, "which even gave them manure to fertilise the fields - those families had an organic relationship with agriculture."

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Wieland, K.M. & Fitzgerald, J.C. (2010, March). Quantifying the contextual vocabulary acquisition (CVA) outcomes of college-age readers. Paper presented at the Council of Graduate Students in Education 16th Annual Student Research Conference 2010. University of Pittsburgh School of Education, Pittsburgh, PA.

Wieland, K. (2004, April). The contextual vocabulary acquisition processes of adolescent readers: An analysis of think-aloud protocols. Paper presented at the meeting of the University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Conference, Amherst, NY.

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GMB Members In Councils And Schools Vote 3-To-1 To Strike On 10 July

Friday, June 27, 2014

With other unions involved too, the 10 July looks like being the second biggest dispute ever with up to 2 million workers on strike says GMB.

GMB has announced an official strike in local authorities and schools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. This follows a ballot of members that saw a 73% vote in favour of going on strike. The strike is for 24 hours on 10 July.

The ballot was conducted by the Electoral Reform Society and they reported 26,281 votes in favour of strike action, 9,799 against and 51 spoilt papers. Turnout was 23% which is slightly above average.

GMB National Secretary, Brian Strutton, said "Our members have


Agents of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have discovered the sum of N2.5 billion in a bank account opened in the name of a housemaid to former Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah, who is now a senator representing Anambra State in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Two senior EFCC sources told our correspondent that the bank account and its huge deposits had been opened and operated without the knowledge of the former minister’s housemaid. “Senator Oduah apparently opened the account with her housemaid’s name, image, and details without the housemaid knowing about it,” said one EFCC agent familiar with the scandal.

Another EFCC source told SaharaReporters that Ms. Oduah had been going around to some top officials of the Muhammadu Buhari administration seeking their help to scuttle hermeant that the former minister must have stolen as much as N5.6 billion so far from the Aviation Ministry’s funds during her ministerial term.

SaharaReporters had revealed in earlier reports that EFCC investigators had so far determined that Ms. Oduah split N3.6 billion that she acquired illegally among eight companies.

In August 2015, Ms. Oduah filed an application at a Federal High Court to stop the EFCC from investigating allegations that she bought two ostensibly bulletproof BMW cars at $1.6 million, or $800,000 apiece. A controversial judge, Justice Mohammed Yunusa, initially granted the order sought by Senator Oduah. However, in February 2016, after Justice Yunusa was transferred out of Lagos, another federal high court judge vacated the order, permitting the EFCC to carry on with its investigation.

SaharaReporters had broken the


The first Just Cause game, released by Square Enix and Avalanche Studios in 2006, follows Agency black ops agent Rico Rodriquez as he works to overthrow a dangerous dictator on a fictional South American island. The sequel, Just Cause 2, released for Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2010, grew to six million players.

Two more Just Cause games have been released since then, but the hype behind the franchise seems to have faded. The most recent game, Just Cause 4, released last December for Windows, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, was a complete flop for Square Enix. But if the upcoming film franchise turns out to be a success at the box office, future installments could do a little better.The Rivals for Catan is a reimplementation of Catan Card Game. The Rivals for Catan was released in German in September of 2010, on the 15th anniversary of the original card game. An English edition is due out in the fourth quarter of the year. The designer of the game, Klaus Teuber, has stated that he completely reworked many of the original card game's mechanics to make it easier for newcomers to play the game.


predict, it will be in a strong position to influence South African politics, possibly pulling the ruling African National Congress onto a more populist trajectory.

Mr Malema, who formed the party after he was expelled from the ANC in 2013, has built his support base on a simple message: the end of apartheid may have brought black South Africans political liberty but it has not brought them “economic freedom”.

In a country ranked in some studies as the most unequal in the world, most of the country’s wealth and much of its privately owned farmland is still under white control. That distortion, he says, is mostly the fault of the whites, who must be forced to surrender wealth because they are not willing to share it.

EFF supporters hold a mock2014.

The EFF is unlikely to form the official opposition, with the pro-market Democratic Alliance (DA) likely to come close to the 22 percent it polled in 2014.

In Mmusi Maimane, the DA has a black leader for the first time in its history, the party is still seen as representing the interests of South Africa’s white, Asian and mixed-race minorities and some analysts believe it has reached a “glass ceiling”.

The EFF, however, is far more dangerous to the ANC because it can peel off black South African voters.

Should Wednesday’s election give it momentum, Mr Ramaphosa could be vulnerable to his ANC foes, both from the left of the party, where sympathy for the EFF runs deep, and from Zuma-era holdovers who fear prosecution.

At the very least, they will press


last. Back in the early 80s, he auditioned to become a member of the Saturday Night Live cast. Surprisingly, he was rejected, only to be asked to host the show in 1996. He returned to host again 15 years later in January 2011.

Jim’s upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live will happen just three weeks before he returns to the big screen as Lloyd Christmas in the movie, Dumb and Dumber To. The movie is set to release in theaters across the nation on Nov. 14, with Jeff Daniels returning as Carrey’s goofy pal, Harry Dunne.

“20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.”

The L.A. Times reportswe
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There's not much reason for mainlanders to pay attention the race in Hawaii's second Congressional district, since Democratic incumbent Tulsi Gabbard is a relative lock to win the position. But Angela Aulani Kaaihue, Gabbard's Republican opponent, is making things interesting—by being such a nasty racist that her own party just denounced her and her candidacy.

Kaaihue, an "aspiring Hawaii real estate developer" whose campaign website looks like a MySpace page—complete with autoplaying music—drew headlines for a Facebook post that on Firday state GOP Chair Fritz Rohlfing called "vulgar, racially-bigoted, and religiously-intolerant... offensive, shameful, and unacceptable in public discourse."

Facebook screencap via Hawaii News Now

In a deleted Facebook post—now only available in the heavily censored version you see above—she said Japanese people were


Deutsche Telekom presents high-performance networks and digital applications at "Magenta Tech Talk”

Deutsche Telekom and Korean SK Telecom bring 5G into the building

Bonn-based Group puts fourth campus network into operation

5G premiere: World's first end-to-end data transmission in two network layers

Technology partnership with Nreal

Claudia Nemat, Board member for Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom, presents high-performance networks and digital applications at "Magenta Tech Talk”.

The digital change in the telecommunications and IT industry is progressing at a rapid pace. Deutsche Telekom is playing an active role in shaping this change, putting people at the center of attention. "Connectivity has become a key requirement in modern societies," said Claudia Nemat, member of the Board of Management responsible for Technology and Innovation at Deutsche Telekom, on Wednesday at the "Magenta Tech Talk" inand 4G repeater. Physically, the higher the frequency of the radio waves used, the less they reach the devices inside buildings. With the high frequency bands of the new 5G standard, this challenge grows. SK Telecom already successfully offers its customers in its home market 5G and 4G solutions for indoor use. With the introduction of the repeater in Germany, Deutsche Telekom will be the first European provider to offer improved indoor 5G coverage. Telekom is looking for up to 200 business and residential customers who want to test the new offering extensively today. "A positive customer experience has a lot to do with optimum reception in buildings," emphasizes Claudia Nemat.

Telekom Campus Network in Leipzig

Customer satisfaction is also a key focus for Deutsche Telekom when building the campus


in mobile communications. The new platform increases flexibility for LTE and 5G networks. At the same time, it makes the technical infrastructure independent of specific hardware. The solution is currently undergoing extensive laboratory testing.

The new virtual radio network architecture is based on software and cloud solutions with open standards and interfaces. This makes it possible for the first time to use optimization software for the wireless network. The first tests show: This software doubles the efficiency of an LTE radio network. In addition, the software-based platform is scalable. For example, if the number of antennas is increased from two to four, the efficiency of the virtual RAN is also doubled.

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Nreal and Deutsche Telekom have agreed on a technology partnership to develop the topic "Mixed Reality" for theEdinburgh, protesting the city’s tram system.

The form of protest is being called “yarn-bombing,” which involves crafty individuals knitting signs of protest, rather than the traditional picket signs or graffiti. Not all yarn-bombing is done in protest, however, some people add their knittings to benches and other public areas to spruce up the local scenery.

Open Culture compiles Eisenhower Answers America, the ad campaign that lead to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s victory in the 1952 presidential election. Eisenhower was an American war hero, and the use of television only solidified his legendary status with American voters, proving televised advertisements an invaluable resource for political campaigns.

In commemoration of Banned Books Week (September 30th – October 6th), Guernica will be posting interviews with authors whose work was deemed too controversial. The site will


to make it look smooth and sparkly.

The site will be traveling up and down the west coast to Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. In each city, there will be a pop-up shop featuring goodies from local San Francisco stores, an art show curated by Dan Johnson Lake, Berlin Style Ping-Pong, and much more!

mental_floss presents brief histories of five spy tunnels. Tunnels were a major spy tool through World War II, but most of these underground projects ended up compromised by double agents, or being abandoned all together due to the difficulty and price involved in their construction.

The Smithsonian delves into the history of nylon stockings in their recent “Stocking Series.”

Although these accessories may seem everyday and even out of fashion to us, the Smithsonian covers the mayhem surroundingthe product’s introduction in the first installment of the series, a mayhem that only intensified as nylon was monopolized for army use during World War II:

“When the war was over and rations were eased, nylon stockings returned to stores and sold quickly.

September is a big month for the Friends of the San Francisco Public Library. Currently, they are looking for local poets to submit their work for Poets 11, the fourth annual poetry contest that aims to find poetry from all 11 of San Francisco’s districts:

Jowita Bydlowska muses about how authors can bear to write about jerks, for Hazlitt.

Assholes are necessary to a story in the sense that their baffling behavior makes for a better story. However, getting into the mind frame of these characters can cause distress


in the mind of an author.

Distraught, a fan took to comedian Chris Gethard’s Tumblr, asking if Gethard had ever had suicidal thoughts. Despite asking anonymously, the fan made it more than clear that they are dealing with depression. In response, Gethard posted an extremely sensitive and heartfelt answer that details his history of depression – starting with planning suicide as a high school freshman, to attempting to cut his wrists while in college.

Gawker reports on a London movie theater’s new tactic to keep moviegoers well behaved. The Prince Charles theater offers free movies to those who agree to don a black leotard, covering their entire body, and maintain order throughout the screening. If audience members begin to talk, use their phones, or behave in any other distracting manner,St. Lucie inlet are commonly referred to as Hobe Sound and Jupiter Sound. Due to its long narrow morphology, more than two thirds of the IRL lies beyond the greatest tidal excursion distance, suggesting limited direct exchange between the IRL and the Atlantic (Woodward and Clyde, 1994).

There is significant exchange of water between the three lagoons. In the Banana River and Mosquito Lagoons, evaporation and seepage through the porous sands of the barrier island into the Atlantic exceed inputs from surface flow and rainfall. This indicates that the Banana River Lagoon acts as a sink for water from the Indian River Lagoon, and Mosquito Lagoon acts as a sink for the Indian River Lagoon through the Banana River Lagoon (Woodward and Clyde, 1994). This large exchange with the


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Joelle Murray is part of the Scotland Women’s football team; a team that are guiding the country – and the sport – to new levels of success and inspiring the next generation of young female players at the same time.

Having signed for Hibernian Ladies Football Club at the age of just 12, Joelle has played her entire professional career for the Edinburgh team and is literally living her childhood dream. Born and raised in a small village called Chirnside, in the Scottish Borders, Joelle has been a die-hard Hibernian fan since she was a child. It’s fair to say that she has come a long way from the five-year-old girl who used to kick a football around


her local park.

This dream life was kicked up another notch this summer, as Joelle experienced a couple of months that she will probably never forget. Now captain of Hibernian Ladies, she led the team to its fourth straight Scottish Women’s Premier League Cup in May and then – just a few days later – she was selected to be part of the historic Scottish Women’s National Team that took part in their first-ever Women’s World Cup in France this summer.

But what is an incredible few months looking back, was a completely different story in the lead up to those two events. While trying to prepare for one of the biggest games of her career, Joelle still wasn’t even sure if she would be in the squad heading toFrance.

“When I found out when the squad announcement was, I knew it could be the best week ever or the worst. The cup final was being played on the Friday and the squad announcement was being made the following Wednesday. After the elation of winning the cup again, I knew I had an anxious few days ahead of me, so I just waited patiently for my phone to ring. The call eventually came and after a tense 4 or 5 minutes, Shelley (the Scotland manager) said the words I longed to hear "you're going to the World Cup". I was absolutely delighted and very proud”.

Over the last few years, the rise of women’s football in Scotland – and around the world – has been meteoric. Once overshadowed by


in charge, removing non-violent illegals was discouraged so he was allowed to stay. Now that Trump is in charge, things are much different. He’s working with Attorney General (AG) Jeff Sessions to make sure deportation orders are enforced.

Hannan was arrested back in 2006 with 32 other people for allegedly filling out fake applications in order to get a religious workers’ visa. At the time, he was living in Massachusetts, where he was the leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Lowell in Chelmsford. He also served as a chaplain for the Middlesex House of Correction in Billerica. The Islamic community he was a member of while living there claimed it was simply an “administrative error.”

Federal authorities ignored their excuses and concluded that he needed to be removed. Whenregular season. He missed every game in that stretch with the exception of the regular-season finale against Minnesota, when he played 12 minutes.

Ginobili played 19 minutes Sunday, going 6 for 13 from the field and 3 for 5 on 3-pointers in scoring 18 points to help the Spurs win the series opener. He helped San Antonio's reserves outscore the Lakers' backups 40-10.

"It's just his basketball IQ," Duncan said. "Just him being on the floor brings a different energy, a different movement to the entire team."

Ginobili scored eight straight points in the final 90 seconds of the third quarter, including a pair of 3s, to extend San Antonio's lead to 70-57.

The scoring outburst surprised Ginobili, who cautioned not to expect much from him offensively in Game 1 after a


Riverside Drive

The Riverside Drive local historic district was designated by ordinance in 1985. The district boundaries include the residences located on Riverside Drive from Leeper Park to Hudson Avenue, and a few home located on the intersecting side streets: Golden, Vassar, and Hudson. The eastern third of the district, between Leland Avenue and Leeper Park is part of the Chapin Park National Register Historic District, which was listed in 1982.

Riverside Drive is an example of a turn-of-the-century and early 20th century middle class residential development. Located northwest of the original town of South Bend, it remained undeveloped into the latter half of the 19th century. Development began when Horatio Chapin`s children, Mary Chapin Anderson and Edward Chapin, platted the Chapin Place Addition in 1890 on land that hadbeen the family estate.

The eastern third of the district was part of the old Chapin estate, which was further subdivided in 1902 and 1910. In 1890 and 1891, three Shetterly Place Additions were platted directly to the west. The middle third of the district, between Golden and Leland lies within the Shetterly Place Third Addition platted by Christina Shetterly, George and Mary Rockstroh, and Annie P. Miller in 1891. The western third of the district beyond Golden lies within the Portage Park Addition, which the Portage Land Company, under its President H.G. Miller, subdivided in 1902.

After 1910, several streets in the Chapin Park neighborhood were linked to Leeper Park by a new street - Riverside Drive, for which the district is named. The neighborhood grew most rapidly from


1902 to 1918 when over eighty percent of the residences were constructed. The district`s growth was greatly attributed to its location near the streetcar line on Portage Avenue and proximity to downtown South Bend, its quiet and picturesque environment, and the scenic attractions of the Saint Joseph River and Leeper Park.

Early residents of the district represented a cross section of the community including professionals, business owners, and skilled workers and political leaders. George Cutter, the owner of the Cutter Lighting Co., also lived on Riverside Drive. Many houses were designed by locally prominent architects: W.W. Schneider, Ernest Young, Norman Roy Schambleau and Ennis Austin. The district also contains several historic streetlights, a strand of historic White Oak trees, a foot-worn trail above the riverbank, and mature trees liningthe street.

The two oldest buildings (circa 1898) are located in the eastern portion of the district on the old Chapin Estate where Park Avenue meets Riverside Drive. The Queen Anne structure at 1007 Riverside Drive was built in 1890 and moved to its present location in 1912.


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Cantor penned an editorial in his hometown Richmond paper explaining why he believes military action is needed.

"America has a compelling national security interest to prevent and respond to the use of weapons of mass destruction, especially by a terrorist state, and to prevent further instability in a region of vital interest to the United States," he said.

But rank and file House GOP members have frequently ignored their leaders and the vote in favor of action is stalled in the single digits, including the support expressed by senior leadership, a CNN tally showed.

One senior GOP House aide said prospectsfor meaningful additional Republican support is "bad" and "momentum is with the 'nay' vote."

Congress is ending its summer recess and members formally get back to work next week.

In a memo to House Republicans outlining the fall schedule, Cantor suggested the timetable for the vote, which Boehner initially planned for next week, could slip a week.

"Members should expect a robust debate and vote on an authorization of use of military force pertaining to Syria in the next two weeks" Cantor wrote.

But House GOP leaders are leaving open the possibility the House will not bring up the resolution if it fails in the Senate.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted on Friday that the necessary votes were in the Democratic-led chamber to pass a resolution calling for limited force.

The House plans


to wait to see if something passes the Senate before making final decisions on the language or timing of any House vote, according to multiple Republican sources.

One undecided GOP member, Rep Richard Hudson, a North Carolina Republican, returned for a briefing on Friday. He told CNN that he came back to hear details about the military objectives directly from the administration instead of through the media.

Although his constituents are "very opposed" to military action, Hudson said he would base his vote on what he thought was best for the country and "let the politics sort itself out later."

The lack of GOP support places enormous pressure on House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who was one of the chief critics of the Iraq war, and Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer.

The twowill need to persuade well over a majority of the 200 House Democrats to stand behind Obama, also a Democrat.

Top House Democratic aides counter that it's too soon to predict defeat because most Democrats are reserving judgment until they hear details in a classified briefing on Monday evening.

The administration is dispatching top officials to make a final push before Obama's speech.

Secretary of State John Kerry; Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, National Security Adviser Susan Rice, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Martin Dempsey will conduct the joint House-Senate session in the Capitol.

"We're not going to know until our members get back into town. A lot of people haven't had access to the briefings or the classified documents," one of Democratic aide noted.

But for many