has claimed the life of an award-winning former television producer for WGBH, a family friend said today.

The friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Beth Deare, who was in her early 60s, died in the blaze. Deare lived at 56 Waverley Ave. with roommates and had been battling brain cancer, he said.

“She was a wonderful person,” the friend said. “She was an extremely dignified woman.”

He said she had won several Emmy awards for her work in television. Deare was a long-time host and associate producer of WGBH’s “Say Brother,” a public-affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, according the station’s website.

Deare produced national broadcast projects for PBS, including “Midnight Ramble,” about early race movies. She also taught at Bunker Hill Community College, according to theinjuries.

The three-alarm blaze broke out around 11 a.m. at 102 Marlborough St. and spread to the larger house at 117 Library St.

The Marlborough Street house was damaged, but it was the Library Street house that was hit hardest and destroyed. Fire officials believe the high winds yesterday contributed to the spread of the fire.

One person was initially reported missing — a father thought his daughter might be in one of the buildings — but firefighters thoroughly searched and determined no one was inside, according to Chelsea’s acting fire chief, David Lafond. Ash said authorities believe the missing resident was out on an errand.

The American Red Cross was assisting people who could not return home because of the damage, said a spokeswoman, Nancy Rowe. Two disaster relief teams responded


to help the displaced residents. An overnight shelter was opened at the Williams Middle School on Walnut Street.

A large crowd gathered and watched the scene from neighboring homes. In densely-packed Chelsea, 36,166 residents live in a city of 1.8 square miles, according to the US Census Bureau. Firefighters said that the close bunching of homes, coupled with high winds, can be a dangerous combination during a fire.

Firefighters remained on scene well into the evening, dousing hot spots and investigating. One firefighter, Captain Michael Gurska, injured his shoulder after falling on ice and was being treated at Massachusetts General Hospital yesterday, according to the Fire Department.

Firefighters from Boston, Revere, Everett, Malden, Lynn, Cambridge, Saugus, Winthrop, and Medford came to assist Chelsea during the fire.

An ambulance on the Jamaicaway hadwhat appeared to be an electrical fire at about 12:15 p.m. today, a company official said.

According to Ron Quaranto, chief operating officer of Cataldo Ambulance Service, the driver noticed some problems and called the company’s dispatcher, who then notified the supervisor and the fire department.

The cause is yet to be determined, but Quaranto said no one was injured in the incident.

The fire originated on the first floor at 172 Main St. and climbed to the the third story, the top of the building. Maguire said the damage is mostly in the front of the building and the rear is okay.

Firefighters responded to a call around 9 a.m. and stayed at the residence until about 1 p.m. The Boston, Chelsea, Somerville, Revere, Malden, and Massport fire departments helped at


Contents

Premise

The guys get jobs at the construction site of the Vampire State Building, with a hungry vampire for a boss, who will have their necks if the building is not finished before dawn.

Synopsis

Shaggy, Scooby and Scrappy are working on a high rise skeleton, and unbeknownst to them, the foreman is a vampire. Their bungling drives him "bats" (he turns into one) They install a tub, but the drain is connected to the faucet, and the faucet connected to the drain, gushing water out of the drain, carrying the foreman away.

They try to cement a floor, but everyone gets covered in cement. Lunchtime, the boss thinks about "putting the bite on them sooner", rather than later, and Shaggy is getting the creeps from him, and hardly has any appetite,but still makes a giant sandwich with horseradish sauce. Scooby eats it and denies, but then breaths fire.

They try to put up wallpaper, and what Scrappy thinks is a lump is the foreman trapped and not in the wallpaper, but the blueprints. He transfers them to the basement and tells them to have the building finished by morning, or "it'll be your necks!" (worrying Shaggy).

Scrappy fuels the construction machinery with Shaggy's horseradish mustard, giving them the power to erect the entire building in a matter of minutes. The gang is leaving before having to face the boss, but he appears and is pleased with the finished tower- the "Vampire State Building". He invites them to breakfast, and Shaggy finally realizes "He's a vampire!", and they run. "I hope


Chapter 26

Amy spent much of the night tossing and turning, thinking, crying, worrying,
praying, and then starting the cycle over. In the midst of her stroll down
the path of life, a mountain had begun to fall on her, and the rocks continued
to pound her into the dust. The plagiarism charge, the threat of failure
and expulsion from the university, the seemingly incontrovertible evidence,
the stupid comment about feminine wiles, the note tying her to exam cheating.
And then there was Tina Nicole. Poor Tina. And that horrible counselor.
What was going on? And here she had thought herself stressed last year
as a freshman by what now seemed an easy workload and a carefree existence.

She looked at the clock so often that the numbers seemed almost frozen.
Twice she wondered if digital clocks could startto run slowly as the batteries
went down. Then she noticed that the time had ever so slowly advanced into
the early hours, causing her to get upset that she had not yet fallen asleep.

At one point, she thought she heard people talking. Alarmed that she
might be hearing voices that were not there, voices that would mean for
certain that she was losing her grip on reality, Amy bolted upright in
bed and listened carefully. She could hear Markayla’s quiet breathing in
her peaceful sleep across the room. It was strangely a source of irritation
for the exhausted and now cranky girl. Then she thought she heard the voices
again. Turning her head back and forth in order to locate the direction
of the sound, she zeroed in on Tina’s bed. The nightlight shining through
the door


and one said, “Call the fire
department.” Her cell seemed to be on fire. Did she smell smoke? She heard
footsteps, pounding along the floor, approaching her cell. They were coming
for her. It was a mob with torches and pitchforks. She felt like a hated
ogre. Were they going to burn her out?

Now someone was hammering. Strong men hit the door to her cell with
sledge hammers. It would not be long until the door flew open and she was
murdered in her bed. The hammering was loud and fast. Then it slowed and
got louder. Now the men with hammers had firearms and the hammering was
gunshots. They were firing into the lock to break it. Amy ducked to the
floor to keep from being hit. She awoke from the worsening nightmare just
as the doorbuilt twenty years ago. As a result, Tina fell only
about six feet before she hit the top branches of a tree. Her body fell
snapping and crunching through the slender branches, then rolling and bouncing
onto thicker ones until the tree had no more to offer. After another short
free fall, she hit a thick hedge next to the building. Finally, she landed
on the over watered soil under the bushes with a gentle thud.

The bystanders rushed up toward her. Her body was still mostly wrapped
in the bed sheet, but spots of blood began to soak into it. Leaves and
debris and mud stuck to her arms and face and in her hair.

“Tina! Tina!” Amy was yelling, as she came up to the girl. She wanted
to take Tina’s head in her hands, but


knife apparatus.
In one embodiment, the pouch severing and transfer apparatus has a major rotary pouch knife hub cooperating with two transfer wheels. The rotary pouch knife defines two release stations where pouches are released from the hub onto the respective transfer wheels which have peripheral suction cups operably positioned proximate the periphery of the major knife hub at the respective release stations. Axes of the major knife hub and the wheels are all parallel. The first wheel is disposed at the first release station and the second transfer wheel is operably disposed adjacent to the rotary pouch knife at the second release station. The first wheel transfers pouches to one drop off area over a direct drop bucket conveyor. The second transfer wheel receives pouches at the secondtransfer wheel. In this embodiment, the rotary pouch knife is adapted to sever pouches from a pouch train and to carry separated pouches to at least one of at least two release stations located about the major rotary pouch knife hub. At least one transfer wheel is operably disposed adjacent to the rotary pouch knife hub at one of the release stations for receiving pouches at the one release station from the rotary pouch knife and transferring such received pouches to a drop off position from where it is conveyed to one downstream handling device. A second one of the release stations, which is spaced from the first release station, also comprises a drop off point and can release pouches directly from the rotary pouch knife onto a


shingled or multiple lane conveyor operating in a direction in parallel to the rotational axes of the knife for transfer to a second one of the downstream handling devices. Advantageously, the pouch severing and transfer apparatus includes two conveyors, one conveyor being a direct drop conveyor, preferably a bucket conveyor, receiving pouches from the transfer wheel and for transferring those pouches to one downstream handling device, and the other conveyor for receiving pouches directly from the rotary pouch knife (not from the transfer wheel) and transferring them downstream in another direction.
Accordingly, in each of these embodiments, the apparatus includes at least one transfer wheel and at least two pouch drop off points or areas disposed operably over at least two take away conveyors, one being a direct dropSearch

A river runs next to it

When Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers take the stage at the Gorge Amphitheater this Saturday night, kicking off the venue's 2001 season to a sold out crowd, they'll be doing it in style -- rugged and sublimely gorgeous Central Washington-style. At some point, a question is sure to tiptoe its way into their minds. A question, no doubt, pondered by just about every artist that's ever performed here.

Who the hell first decided it would be a good idea to drop an amphitheater in the middle of a desert 150 miles from just about everywhere?

"Dr. Vince Bryan owned the property and had vineyards here," recalls Gorge General Manager Bill Parsons. "He came up with the concept of putting a little platform stage down in


this natural amphitheater bowl and have folk music and let people buy bottles of wine from his winery. I think the first show was in 1986."

What may have first appeared to many as an act of folly turned out to be a stroke of pure genius. Now in its 15th season, the Gorge Amphitheater has earned the distinction of being the No. 1 outdoor amphitheater in North America for five years running (according to the concert industry authority, Pollstar magazine).

"The bands especially like it, and that's where a lot of the votes come from," says Parsons, "from their agents and managers. I've worked 12 amphitheaters around the country -- got them started, hired the staff and trained them. They all try to be different, but they're all theto MCA Concerts in 1993. Two years ago, House of Blues Concerts acquired the amphitheater.

"It's been the same management people since I've been here. It's just different ownership."

Though the amphitheater was more or less successful from the get-go, in the early days, things were a little rough around the edges. And the accommodations were anything but accommodating. Crowd management was almost non-existent. The porta-potty lines were notoriously long. Paths were unpaved and dusty. And trying to find your car in the parking lot after the show wasn't easy -- unless of course you happened to remember to pack your infrared night vision goggles.

"Lights in the parking lot," quips Parsons. "What a unique concept."

The lights for the parking lot went up soon after Parsons came on board. To celebrate


this first on a long list of improvements, the Almost Live troupe from Seattle whipped up a little Gorge parody for their skit comedy television program.

"They had a guy crawling out of the parking lot," recalls Parsons. "Pretending he had lost his car for three years and was still looking for it."

Originally designed to hold around 10,000, the amphitheater has been expanded twice. In 1988, bleachers were added along the top rim. After Parsons and his people came on board, improvements kicked into high gear and the amphitheater, as concert-goers know it today, began to take shape.

"When we bought it, we took the cliff out and made a natural bowl to tie the two pieces of property together. When the cliff was above, there was a gap betweenNew Delhi: A 22-year-old Dalit man was allegedly beaten to death by a group of men in Barmer on Tuesday over an affair with a Muslim woman, police said.

DSP Barmer Surinder Kumar said, “The man succumbed to severe injuries. Two people have been arrested so far and further investigation is underway.”

Surendra Kumar, the circle officer of Chohtan, said victim Khetaram Bheel's hands and legs were tied up before he was beaten, the Hindustan Times reported.

Bheel's body was found 500 metres away from the spot where he was attacked. Kumar said it seemed that the victim had tried to escape but died on the way.

The victim's brother told the police that they manufactured bricks on a piece of land that was rented to them by a Muslim family and


for past some time, they were involved in a dispute with the landlords.

He alleged that two members of the family asked Bheel to accompany them to the nearby fields and then attacked him. They later visited his house to inform them that they had killed the 22-year-old and thrown his body on a farm, HT reported.A Brief History Of Politicians Lifting Words From Other Sources

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The legal scholar Richard Posner points out in The Little Book Of Plagiarism that The Bard himself was a "formidable plagiarist."

In one celebrated scene in Anthony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare borrows heavily from Plutarch's Life of Mark Antony. That borrowing extends to modern literature and even the visual arts, Posner argues.

Politics, of course, is no exception. So when parts of Melania Trump's RNC speech mirrored Michelle Obama's 2008 speech at the DNC, she joined a long list of accused political plagiarists.

Here is a brief history:

Vice President Biden (1987)

When now-Vice President Biden ran for president in 1987, he seemingly took a paragraph from U.K. Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock.

Per the Telgraph,


... Is it because they didn't work hard? My ancestors who worked in the coal mines of northeast Pennsylvania and would come after 12 hours and play football for four hours? It's because they didn't have a platform on which to stand."

That year Biden was also slammed for stealing five pages from a published law review article for a paper he wrote his first year of law school. He apologized for his law school transgression but told The New York Times at the time that concern over his lifting of political speeches was "'much ado about nothing."

President Obama (2008)

In 2008, when President Obama was running against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, the Clinton camp accused Obama of plagiarizing from former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick.

Per CBS, in 2008said:

"After a brief period of independence following the Russian revolution, the Red Army forced Georgia to join the Soviet Union in 1922. As the Soviet Union crumbled at the end of the Cold War, Georgia regained its independence in 1991, but its early years were marked by instability, corruption, and economic crises."

Wikipedia had:

"After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Georgia had a brief period of independence as a Democratic Republic (1918-1921), which was terminated by the Red Army invasion of Georgia. Georgia became part of the Soviet Union in 1922 and regained its independence in 1991. Early post-Soviet years was marked by a civil unrest and economic crisis."

McCain dismissed the accusation, saying there are only so many ways to write basic historical facts.

Ben Carson (2012)

In January 2015, former Republican


presidential hopeful Ben Carson apologized for not attributing various sources in his 2012 book America the Beautiful. BuzzFeed reported that Carson lifted "nearly verbatim" from other books "a CBS News article, a Liberty Institute press release, a local newspaper article, and various internet sites."

Sen. Rand Paul (2013)

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul was first accused of lifting passages from Wikipedia for a speech he gave at Liberty University in Virginia. Following those accusations, Paul was then accused of taking from a Heritage Foundation case study for his book Government Bullies.

As NPR reported at the time, Paul reacted by challenging the "hacks and haters" to a duel.

Sen. John Walsh (2014)

The Army War College rescinded the Montana Democrat's degree after The New York Times reported that he had plagiarized a large portionof his final paper in 2007.

Walsh, who had been appointed to the Senate to fill a vacancy and was seeking election in his own right, dropped his bid for the Senate not long after the story broke.


A sinkhole has opened outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf resort in Florida.

City officials in Palm Beach tweeted that the hole had formed "directly in front of Mar-a-Lago" and was close to a newly installed water main.

Sinkhole opens at Trump's Florida retreatThe acute toxicity of the death camas (Zigadenus species) alkaloid zygacine in mice, including the effect of methyllycaconitine coadministration on zygacine toxicity.
Death camas (Zigadenus spp.) is a common poisonous plant on foothill rangelands in western North America. The steroidal alkaloid zygacine is believed to be the primary toxic component in death camas. Poisonings on rangelands generally occur in the spring when death camas is abundant, whereas other more desirable forage species are limited in availability. In most cases where livestock are poisoned by plants in a range setting, there is more than one potential poisonous plant in that area. One common poisonous plant that is often found growing simultaneously in the same area as death camas is low larkspur (Delphinium nuttallianum). Consequently, the objectives of this study were


incoming placement scores. In fall 2017, the opportunity presented itself to test the hypothesis that team-based learning environments disproportionately benefit students from underrepresented demographic backgrounds when a large introductory course for biology majors was split into two parallel lecture sections (AL1 and AL2) at the University of Illinois. Section AL1 was offered in the largest lecture hall on campus to 530 students in a front-directed configuration. Section AL2 was offered in a 90-seat scale-up room with students sitting in "research teams" at round tables. Both sections were taught by the same instructor in a flipped format and used the same learning goals, content, pre-lecture lessons, exams, and similar lecture activities. A quasi-experiment was conducted to test the impact of the team-based instructional treatment (AL2), with the parallel lecture-hallfor the three constructs as follows: knowledge gain increased from 40% to 80%, interest gain increased from 47% to 73%, and gain in skills increased from 35% to 78%. In addition, students reported significant pre-/post-gains when surveyed on their intent to pursue a career in the biosciences. This study highlights the importance of exposing high school students to engaging hands-on laboratory experiences and relatable career pathways in biotechnology.

**ASM Curriculum Guideline Concept(s):** Advancing STEM education and research

**Pedagogical Category(ies):** Student learning

A-23 Bridging the Gaps: an Innovative and Integrated Undergraduate Fermentation Science Course
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Paul M. Duffin and Kyle Schnitzenbaumer, Transylvania University

Undergraduate science is traditionally both taught and learned through disciplinary lenses. Often, students compartmentalize knowledge in courses and have difficulty making connections between disciplines. As brewing beer encompasses biology and chemistry, we


personal and interpersonal development of students and academic learning among other benefits (Astin & Sax, 1998; Driscoll, Holland, Gelmon, & Kerrigan, 1996; Giles & Eyler, 1994), and is considered a "high-impact" practice (Kuh, 2008). Despite the growing support for community engagement, and the long-standing history of robust STEM education, there is a noticeable gap in service-learning offerings in STEM fields. The work described reflects the incorporation of service-learning into an introductory microbiology laboratory course at the University of Nevada, Reno. Student groups developed and presented floor-programming activities to interact with museum visitors at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery). The project was assessed on areas including the development of learning objectives for the activity, creating interactive materials (coloring sheets, mazes, etc.), team cooperation, developing trainingexamining rarely measured longer-term outcomes that will ultimately contribute to the budding scholarship on the elements and formats for the success of integrating undergraduate research in large-enrollment introductory courses at large, diverse, public institutions such as UNCG.

**ASM Curriculum Guideline Concept(s):** Systems, Advancing STEM education and research

**Pedagogical Category(ies):** Course design, Student learning, Teaching approaches

A-39 Analyzing the Impact of Service Learning on Civic Engagement and Sustainable Practices in a Large-Enrollment Nonmajors Biology Class
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Samiksha Raut, Daniel Mendoza, Sarah Adkins, and J. Jeffrey Morris, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

National efforts to reform undergraduate education have highlighted the need to relate abstract concepts in biology to real-world examples on a regular basis. This is especially important for nonmajors, who may not otherwise realize the value of scientific processes in their day-to-day lives.


Pete Carroll ushered in a radical new era when he arrived as head coach of the New England Patriots on Feb. 3, 1997.

Under predecessor Bill Parcells, players had to be five minutes early to a meeting, otherwise they were locked out and wouldn't dare interrupt.

Abrupt. Demanding. Intolerant. Intimidating. Old-school North Jersey. That was Parcells, and for four years the Patriots and their fans ate it up.

Robert Kraft hired Pete Carroll in 1997 after Bill Parcells spurned New England for the rival Jets. AP Photo/Susan Walsh

Until early 1997, when Parcells -- famously frustrated by not being allowed to "shop for the groceries" in compiling a roster -- finalized a divorce with the Patriots after taking them to the Super Bowl. He wanted control of the roster. Patriots owner RobertKraft wasn't willing to give it to him. So in a deal brokered by then-NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the New York Jets sent the Patriots four draft picks in exchange for Kraft releasing Parcells from his contract.

Parcells became the Jets' head coach, and Kraft hired Pete Carroll to follow a legend.

Carroll was the antithesis of Parcells. Upbeat. Positive. Friendly. Encouraging. California cool. It didn't play well, not with the media and not with some of the veterans who were loyal to Parcells despite his defection to a division rival.

Carroll only had one year of NFL head coaching experience, having gone 6-10 with the Jets in 1994. Parcells had taken over a moribund New England franchise -- one that hadn't been to the playoffs since 1986 and had posted


a 14-50 record in the four seasons before his arrival -- and took it to the Super Bowl.

"I think when you look back on it, guys that were there through the bad times where the Patriots hadn't won and then with Parcells, who was rough and gruff, we went to the Super Bowl," said Drew Bledsoe, who was the Patriots' franchise quarterback from 1993 until getting injured in 2001 and losing his starting spot to Tom Brady. "They equated that demeanor with success. So from that standpoint, I could see where there could have been some veterans who had a hard time with that transition."

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Said Willie McGinest, the Patriots' first-round pick in 1994, "I think it was a little tough because Parcells drafted me. I'm sure I share the sentiment of a lot of players. We wanted him to stay. I wanted him to be our head coach.

"Some people were probably excited; some people probably not. I know a lot of people probably weren't big fans of Parcells. That's what I was used to. Some liked the other person. The one thing you


"And I'm so happy for Pete that he's been able to go on to such great success at USC and now with the Seahawks to really prove what guys that played for him back then believed. The guy's a heck of a football coach and probably deserves to be mentioned in that top echelon of coaches."

In New England, Carroll inherited a team fresh off a Super Bowl run led by Pro Bowl QB Drew Bledsoe. Frank O'Brien/The Boston Globe/Getty Images

Like most players, Lawyer Milloy didn't meet Carroll until April 1997. Carroll had served as defensive coordinator for San Francisco from 1995-96 and spent his first couple of months in New England breaking down film of the 1996 Patriots. Offense. Defense. Special teams. Every player. Strengths. Weaknesses.

In what Milloycalled "a classy move," Carroll met with every returning member of the Super Bowl team individually. For Milloy's meeting, Carroll had cued tape of his 49ers defense, which Milloy, a safety heading into his second pro season, thought was "weird."

"How did you think your year went?" Carroll asked Milloy, the Patriots' second-round pick out of Washington in 1996.

"As a rookie, it obviously took me a while to get to understand the NFL in its entirety, the lifestyle and how you play on the field," Milloy answered.

"I agree," Carroll replied. "How did you think you did?"

"I did my part," Milloy said. "I could've played better in the Super Bowl."

"Here's what I think," Carroll said, turning to the tape. CARROLL'S PATRIOTS YEARS Where Pete Carroll's New England teams ranked in


back Curtis Martin and to an extent Bledsoe, McGinest was a Parcells guy.

"The one thing you knew with Parcells is if he gave you a compliment, that meant you did something right," said McGinest, now an NFL Network analyst. "He didn't pass out compliments or pats on the back very often."

When McGinest met with Carroll, the new coach told him about the "elephant" position on his defense. Carroll wanted McGinest to roam the defensive line, play side to side and rush the passer, and McGinest said Carroll had him study film of five-time Pro Bowler Charles Haley.

"It puts you in position to make a lot of plays and cause havoc, so I was excited about it," McGinest said.

In succeeding the legendary Bill Parcells with the Pats, Carroll facedherculean standards for success. im Davis/The Boston Globe/Getty Images

Carroll's practices were crisp, fast and organized. One former assistant, Ray "Sugar Bear" Hamilton, said Carroll was one the first coaches for whom he worked that focused on situational football in practice: the two-minute drill, four-minute drill, downs and distances. A defensive tackle for the Patriots from 1973-81 and a longtime defensive line coach, Hamilton said Carroll implemented 10-10-10 practice schemes, where the team would work on one aspect of the game for 10 minutes, then another, then another.

Carroll blasted music during practice. During lunch breaks, he often played basketball with his assistants. On Saturday nights the week after a win, he would show players clips from the television broadcast of their previous game.

If the Patriots had lost the week


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Montreal Council Picks First Anglophone Mayor in a Century

Montreal’s municipal council elected an Anglophone as the French-speaking city’s interim mayor–marking the first time in a century that the city will be led by an official whose first language is English.

Michael Applebaum won a poll among 63 voting members of the city council, who convened to elevate an interim mayor after Gerald Tremblay resigned from the post amid a provincial commission into alleged corruption.

A former aide alleged to the commission that Mr. Tremblay had turned a blind eye to corruption. Mr. Tremblay has denied knowledge of any corruption, but stepped down as mayor earlier this month.

Mr. Applebaum will serve as interim mayor until 2013, when the city holds municipal elections. He becomes the first English-speaking mayor since theI go up and flow for an hour, [mess] with people, bring people up on stage. As long as they're laughing and they're into it, it's cool."

Shore points out he's not the first guy in Hollywood to float to fame on a gimmick.

"The Weasel had a good run, but now I'm in the transitional stage of my career," Shore writes. It's a career he likens to those of Tom Hanks, Steve Martin, John Travolta, even this year's Oscar-winning director.

"Look at Ron Howard," Shore says. "He was Opie."

The recent sale of You'll Never Wiez in This Town Again, a mockumentary Shore wrote, directed and starred in, has bolstered his belief that a career turnaround is possible.

The movie is a riff on Shore's life, in which he plays his declining


electrical F1 championship show that this belief is wrong and, in addition to being faster, electric cars can compete without polluting the air or noise pollution. Something that Tesla has shown, for the second consecutive year, at Alternative Energy Monte Carlo Rally.

The president of the FIA, Jean Todt, and EU Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani are in talks to take the matter forward. It has also created a committee of the electric car unit within the FIA, headed by Burkhard Goeschel, former head of BMW.

“We have, as soon as possible, with new categories with new energy,” says Jean Todt, who adds that the first season of racing electric cars could take place in 2013. In turn, Tajani expected to boost competition involves the conversion of the European automobile industry.the rest of the way to Tekontha's Valley, where they return the Golden Pine Cone, and free Ooshka and Nasookin of their crimes. Nasookin takes Bren and Lucy to Onamara, his wife, and they give her her Heart. Bren and Lucy are then safely returned to their parents.

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Imagine losing both of your parents to cancer--within the period of six months. One woman shares her amazing story, with tips on how to get through major life trauma...

Up-and-coming singer and songwriter Kelly Sweet is here to share a heartbreaking page from her past--the death of her parents to cancer--and how she's managed to carry on with her life.

"My mother passed away December 16th, 2011 from metastasized breast cancer, and just six short months later, on June 4th, 2012, my father passed away from multiple myeloma, a cancer of the blood. I took care of them both in the last months of their lives. I miss each of them very much,Planning for pharmaceutical care.
The process for planning a pharmaceutical care practice model at the University of California-San Diego Medical Center (UCSDMC) is described. Pharmaceutical care is viewed as a health care need, analogous to medical care or dental care. Provision of such care requires that pharmacists have a generalist, rather than specialist, orientation and be held responsible for the outcomes of drug therapy. The scope of pharmaceutical care encompasses all treatment settings, emphasizing continuity of care from one setting to another. Its goal is to address the total pharmaceutical care needs of all patients. A pharmaceutical care task force was appointed to develop an overall plan for the implementation of the pharmaceutical care concept at UCSDMC. Several key practice elements were identified that served as the basis for


regarded for years as one of the best spots for Thai cuisine in the area. Vang has also proved a savvy business person, having built together with her daughter Caroline Vang-Polly a successful online food brand called Thai Feast. With the opening of Bangkok 96 Street Food, a food stall within Cass Corridor’s new shipping container food hall Detroit Shipping Company, Vang has shown once again that she can evolve to find a new, extremely loyal audience. At the food stall, customers return again and again for the craveable Southeast Asian dishes at Bangkok 96 Street Food, from the morsels of semi-sweet candied beef to the snackable pork bao.

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Design of the Year

Few Detroit building transformations have been as gratifying towatch as the rehab of downtown’s Wurlitzer Building. Designed as a beacon for the famed instrument maker Wurlitzer Co., the skyscraper — like many Detroit properties — fell into disrepair. Fast-forward to 2018, and the Wurlitzer has undergone major renovations and is now home to the Siren Hotel. It houses an impressive collection of food and beverage projects, including a jewel box of a cocktail lounge off the lobby called Candy Bar. The bar, which was designed by ASH NYC and developed by chef Kate Williams and Matt Wang, has a classic sensibility that’s reminiscent of old Hollywood. Step through the velvet curtain into a sea of pink and white with plush couches, a ‘70s disco ball, and plumes of white faux palm trees bursting from the corners


like something out of the Copacabana nightclub. Sip a Bubble Rum and snack on candy bars to a jazz soundtrack, while gazing at the stunning, tiered glass chandelier.

Design of the Year Readers’ Choice Winner: Lumen

Bar of the Year

There’s something beautiful about a bar with a lot of history. Kiesling is one of those places, having over the years been home to a general store, a saloon, and a cop bar before being abandoned entirely. Under its new owners, the bar received a complete restoration that took more than two years with painstaking attention to the woodwork and a hand-painted mural, discovered under layers of paint. The result is a cocktail bar with loads of character and an outstanding team of bartenders assembled by manager Rob Wilson. The styleSWAC will drop football title game after upcoming season

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Show Caption Hide Caption Alex Anderson ASU's next 1,000-yard rusher? Alabama State coach Brian Jenkins discusses the running back situation following Saturday's game as Alex Anderson scored a touchdown in the game. Jenkins looks to replace Khalid Thomas, who rushed for 1,237 yards and nine touchdowns last season.

BIRMINGHAM — The Southwestern Athletic Conference has decided to end its annual football championship game following the 2017 season.

The winner of the SWAC's regular-season title will now go directly to the Celebration Bowl and play against the winner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. The Air Force Reserve Celebration Bowl was created in 2015.

More: The quiet history of how ASU shaped the civil rights movement

SWAC Commissioner Duer Sharp said in a release


that "by focusing on the Celebration Bowl, we can continue to grow the AFRCB as an (historically black colleges and universities) classic for the teams and fans of both conferences and for HBCU football nationally."

More: ASU sets 2017 Turkey Day Classic opponent

The SWAC championship game has been played since 1999. The conference said it will work with SWAC members to develop a tie-breaker procedure and deal with schedule changes that might arise from the new format.

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On our second-to-last night in Arizona, Beth and I decided to watch a movie in our cozy hotel room at The Saguaro after an amazing (Thai) dinner in Scottsdale. As we browsed through the in-room entertainment guide, we happened upon The Impossible, a 2012 release depicting one family’s experience of the 2004 (Thailand) tsunami.

My knowledge of the film was limited to the tidbits I had picked up during a Today Show interview with Ewan McGregor (and other assorted publicity hits). I was left with a few impressions: that the special effects were incredible, that the acting was top notch (Naomi Watts in a powerhouse performance), and that the film had received criticism for telling the (true) story of a


because it thinks that poor folks already fit in better there anyway.

– The temporary non-enforcement of the ordinance prohibiting sharing food in the park is just that– temporary. Another decision will come at the November 26 City Council meeting. It is by no means a long-term, sustainable solution to ignoring and devaluing Raleigh’s most vulnerable citizens for decades.

– By not already having installed a weekend food distribution solution, the City has shifted the burden to the private sector. Namely, nonprofits and religious groups. The City has refused to claim its most vulnerable citizens, and then it placed constraints on the very people who try to pick up its slack. Most of whom, by the way, are also citizens of Raleigh and pay the taxes to keep up Moorein which air is to be circulated, the blades being placed a distance below the ceiling of the room. Further, the present invention provides a common shaft which is driven by a squirrel cage type blower by air which flows through the duct work system of the home as force driven by a central air conditioning system. A housing is provided for attaching the apparatus to the effluent discharge of the duct work system into the room at the room register. Air entering the squirrel cage blower is diffused laterally into the room and the movement of duct work air from the duct work through the register and into the squirrel cage blower and thereafter after into the room produces rotational energy which is transferred from the squirrel


time. In males, lGnRH-I concentration increased early in the season, peaked, then declined with a subsequent increase with the final maturational stages. In comparison, lGnRH-II and -III concentrations were also elevated early in the season in males, dropped, and then peaked in mid-season with a subsequent decline of lGnRH-II or increase of lGnRH-III at spermiation. In females, lGnRH-III concentration peaked in mid-season with a drop at ovulation while lGnRH-I remained unchanged during the season. In contrast, lGnRH-II concentrations in females were elevated at the beginning of the season and then dropped and remained low during the rest of the season. The dynamics of the binding of the three lamprey GnRH receptors have not been examined through this final maturation period. However, prior to the identification of the lampreytheir excellent assistance in dissecting the lampreys. We thank the personnel at Hammond Bay Biological Station, Millersburg, MI for supplying the larval and parasitic phase lampreys. We thank Dr. David Berlinksy for the use of his facility to house the parasitic lamprey.

This work was supported by National Science Foundation Grant 0849569 (to Stacia A. Sower). Partial funding was provided by the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station. This is Scientific Contribution No. 2496.

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[^2]: Reviewed by: Steve Harvey, University of Alberta, Canada; Yoshitaka Oka, University of Tokyo, Japan; José A. Muñoz-Cueto, University of Cadiz, Spain

[^3]: This article was submitted to Frontiers in Neuroendocrine Science, a specialty of Frontiers in Neuroscience.


Polish metallers Antigama have posted online a new song, entitled "Disconnected", on their MySpace page.

The track comes off the band's forthcoming album, entitled "Warning", which is scheduled for release in North America on March 3 (March 9 internationally) via Relapse Records.

"Warning" [cover artwork] was recorded in Warsaw at Progresja Sound Studio, with producer Szymon Czech (Third Degree, Nyia, Vesania, Unsun). According to the band, the album consists of 16 tracks, some of the titles are: "Disconnected", "Jealousy", "City", "Sequenzia Dellamorte", "Empty Room", "Orange Pills", "Black Planet".

Additionally the band have just finished working on their new video for the track "Disconnected". The video was shot in Progresja Club, Warsaw, with director and producer Bartek Rogalewicz (www.rogalewicz.com) in December 2008. Premiere of the video is set for February 2009.

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The unemployment rate grew to 9 percent, up from 8.8 percent in March. The number of employees reported by businesses increased to 244,000, higher than the 185,000 that economists expected. This is still barely enough to keep up with the growth in the labor market.

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I wonder????"

It's a cry that's been repeatedly made: Where is the media? Why won't they cover the protests? Tim Arango (New York Times) thinks they have. Go to last week's snapshots, I don't want to rehash that because I don't want to pick on him. His view is the paper's view which makes them a great fit but of little interest to those trying to follow the Iraqi people. (The New York Times became the paper of record -- before Tim Arango was even born -- due to its reliance upon officials. That's why it's unable to report on actual movements. They are so rarely led by elected officials.) We've tried to cover the press silence here and also we've covered it at Third (for Third coverage, seeof the protests. Kelly McEvers has done some for NPR (NPR gets noted by Wing) but the strongest protest coverage was done by the Washington Post and specifically by Stephanie McCrummen. She did the best US coverage of the attacks on protesters and journalists who covered the protests -- attacks after the protest had ended. In addition to filing stories (plural) on that (the New York Times did a strong editorial on the subject but the reporting section of the paper never covered the detention and beating of journalists by Iraqi forces), she also contributed the first and so far only -- THE ONLY -- feature article on the protest leadership that ran in the US. (Le Monde had a nice article but that was only in French,


to step it down because they published stories that made Nouri al-Malik uncomfortable. That's not a criticism of the Los Angeles Times and certainly not one of Ned Parker. Joel Wing will no doubt have the facts down for the future but the people playing catch up now are missing a huge part of the story.

As January wound down, Ned Parker reported on the secret prisons for the Los Angeles Times and Human Rights Watch issued their report on it. Parker's January report on the secret prisons and how they were run by Nouri's security forces, the Baghdad Brigade followed up on his earlier report on how the Brigade was behind the prison that he and the paper exposed in April 2010. All the while Nouri insisted thatthere were no secret prisons in Iraq -- such as February 6th when Mohammed Tawfeeq (CNN) reported, "The Iraqi government on Sunday denied a human rights organization's allegation that it has a secret detention center in Baghdad, run by Prime Minister Nur al-Maliki's security forces." The report then quoted Nouri's spokesperson Ali al-Moussawi stating, "We don't know how such a respectable organization like Human Rights Watch is able to report such lies." Camp Honor is a prison that's under Nouri's control, staffed by people working for him. Amnesty International would also call out the use of secret prisons while Nouri continued to deny them. And of course, Nouri was wrong. But, honest, seriously, swear, it was the last time. (That's sarcasm.)

Ned Parker's article kicks off the 2011 round


of protests. Outside of Baghdad, the most pressing issue in January and early February for protesters was the issue of their family members being wrongfully detained and a lost in a hidden maze. This continues to be a key component of all the people-protests in Iraq (as opposed to the Moqtada-ordered protests or Ahmed Chalabi silly reigonal protest). And it was the impetus for this year's protests.

Having written and published that strong article -- one that truly proved the power of the press -- the Los Angeles Times followed with a lower profile which is and has been their pattern. I don't question that. Everyone knows Nouri is hostile to journalism and that he and his cronies are litigious (see many, many lawsuits but especially Nouri's defamation suitagainst England's the Guardian in 2009 which, thankfully, the newspaper won on appeal in January of this year.). A step back, a lower profile, for a bit is in keeping with the pattern the paper long ago set in their coverage of Iraq. April 12th, Amnesty International issued the report [PDF format warning] "DAYS OF RAGE: PROTESTS AND REPRESSION IN IRAQ" and it provides an overview of the protests.

I'm confused by Wing's claim that "Iraq held its first protest on January 30, 2011." That's wrong. It's incorrect. That was not the first protest in 2011 by any means. I have no idea why Joel Wing can't get the facts correct but the easiest way to prove him wrong is to quote this passage from January 20, 2011:

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on a day when protests are taking place and not note that fact?"

Violence was rising during the long period known as the "stalemate." Elections were held in March 2010. For over nine months, no progress was made. Nouri questioned vote totals, objected to this, objected to that, refused to allow Ayad Allawi have first crack at forming a government, etc. Finally in November a deal was reached that allowed the opportunity for progress.

But Nouri wasted that opportunity. He was named prime minister-designate and given more than 30 days to form a Cabinet. He never could come up with a complete Cabinet. And among the seven positions left empty were the Ministers of Interior, Defense and National Security.

Despite becoming prime minister in December, Nouri still hasn't filled those slots.of Parliament, met with trade union representatives. Al Sabaah reports that, following the meeting, al-Nujaifi issued a statement declaring that it is the workers whose fingerprints are key to the rebuilding of Iraq, they are the basis for any and all economic development and a part of the restoration of every day life. He declared that the Parliament "supports all unions and organizations."

The Legislature of the so-called 'White al-Iraqiya Bloc,' Aliya Nuseif, on Thursday demanded the U.S.forces to present a clear report on the number of their bases in Iraq, warning against the existence what it described as "underground" bases after the American withdrawal from Iraq."The number of American bases in Iraq to this day remains unclear.U.S. forces are demanded to present a report about the bases they


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Duncan, 55, died in his sleep, the day before his retirement party was set at Lake Oswego City Hall. A 25-year-veteran of the Lake Oswego Police Department, Duncan served as chief the past seven years. He was scheduled to start a new job as a lieutenant with the Baker City Police Department.

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The honor guard prepares the flag during the memorial service for Lake Oswego Police Chief Daniel Duncan held Friday at the Rolling Hills Community Church in Tualatin. Ross William Hamilton/The Oregonian

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end their lives had to go abroad.

"I think it's ridiculous and appalling that people have to go abroad to end their life instead of being able to end their life at home," she said.

"The rules that we have about who we don't prosecute allow things to happen but there's a good argument that we should be a bit more honest about it."

Assisted suicide carries a sentence of up to 14 years' imprisonment.

The highly contentious issue is in the spotlight again after Mr Nicklinson's death. His widow said today she would continue his fight to win a landmark ruling for the legal right to die.

Jane Nicklinson said she would appeal against a High Court decision made over her late husband because "nobody should have to suffer like Tony did".

MrNicklinson, 58, died a week after he lost his legal bid to end his life when he chose with a doctor's help.

The father of two had been refusing food and contracted pneumonia after he was left "crestfallen" by the court's decision. He died at his home surrounded by family on August 22.

Mrs Nicklinson, 56, said she hoped his campaign for a change in the law on assisted dying would continue in his memory.

She has decided to lodge an appeal herself as his widow and carer. The British Humanist Association has also applied to intervene in the case.

The announcement comes on the day Mr Nicklinson was required to lodge his application for permission to appeal against the court's judgment.

Mrs Nicklinson, from Melksham, Wiltshire, said: "I am delighted that I


Appeal and if necessary by the Supreme Court."

Three judges sitting at the High Court in London referred to the "terrible predicament" of Mr Nicklinson and described his case as "deeply moving and tragic".

But Lord Justice Toulson, Mr Justice Royce and Mrs Justice Macur unanimously agreed it would be wrong for the court to depart from the long-established legal position that "voluntary euthanasia is murder, however understandable the motives may be".

They said doctors and solicitors who encouraged or assisted another person to commit suicide were "at real risk of prosecution".

Mr Nicklinson had described his existence as "pure torture" and said he had been condemned to live in a state of suffering and indignity.

Following the High Court ruling on August 16 Mr Nicklinson was visibly distressed, sobbing in front ofcameras while Mrs Nicklinson told reporters the ruling had left him "heartbroken".

His family later added that after receiving a draft of the judgment "the fight seemed to go out of him".

"I think he had raised his hopes so much - probably out of proportion. He said he hadn't been prepared for the emotional side of it for him and he was absolutely devastated," Mrs Nicklinson told the BBC.

"I don't think he would have wanted to keep going for too much longer. One of the last things he said to me was 'I'm already dead - don't mourn for me'.

"And it's true, we did. I think in some respects, seven years ago was harder than this because we did lose the old Tony."

A funeral was held for Mr Nicklinson


Otakon Vegas 2018is a wrap!

A message to the attendees and supporters of Otakon Vegas --

In late 2012, Otakorp began plans for a whole new event on the other side of the country. After much excitement, the first Otakon Vegas was held in January 2014.

Otakon Vegas was always meant to be an experiment, a place to try new things and a chance to meet new people. It was a place to recapture some of the sense of a cozy hotel convention, albeit in a very different place and environment than what the volunteers had grown accustomed to.

We had our own mascots, Lyra and Ace. They had a backstory of their own, friends to Otakon's Hiroko, Hiroshi, and Crabby-chan, adventurers who set off to do their own thing in Vegas.

InPalestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah in a development which will likely complicate efforts at reconciliation with Gaza's Hamas rulers.

Abbas accepted the government’s resignation and ordered it to continue performing its duties until a new cabinet can be formed, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.

"The prime minister and his ministers welcome the Fatah Central Committee's decision to form a new government," Palestinian Authority government spokesperson Yusuf al-Mahmoud said in a statement earlier. "Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has placed his government at the disposal of the President of the Authority," he added, hinting at impending resignations within the cabinet.

We put our government at the disposal of President Mahmoud Abbas and we welcome the recommendations of the Fatah Central Committee to form a new


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And torn from the calendar where she kept her daily schedule was the month she disappeared: July 1996.

Susan Walsh, who was 36 at the time, was last seen around noon on July 16, 1996. She told her estranged husband that she was headed to a pay phone a half-block from her apartment in Nutley, New Jersey.

Walsh and her husband, Mark, had been home in their connecting apartments with their 11-year-old son, who was asleep, said Detective Lt. Steven Rogers of the Nutley Police Department.

"No one actually saw her leave the house," said Rogers, who became involved in the case in 2003 when he was assigned to command the department's detective bureau. "No one saw her on the phone."

Walsh had just written a story about immigrant strippers allegedly controlledand exploited by the Russian mob.

"This opened up a threat to her," said her father, Floyd Merchant. She believed two contracts had been issued for her murder after the story appeared in The Village Voice, said Merchant. She feared for her life, he said, and had begun drinking again after 11 years of sobriety.

Now, 13 years later, the idea that the publication of Walsh's story led to her disappearance remains just a theory.

"I don't believe at this point there's any connection," Rogers said.

Despite her passion as an aspiring journalist, Walsh struggled to escape the lure of easy money she earned working as a nightclub dancer in the New York City metro area, her father said. She had been working in clubs for four years, in part, Merchant said,


to support her son. Her dancing experience gave her access to the clubs, where she collected information for her story.

"They did believe that, at one time," Merchant said. "That she walked away on her own." He said he believed his daughter's dancing discredited her with police and detracted from the investigation.

But Walsh made no apparent preparations to leave home. She left behind nearly all of her personal belongings, including her purse, money and medication. Most important, police say, she left behind her only child, David.

"Susan was a devoted mother," Merchant said, adding that she would not have left her son voluntarily.

Rogers said Mark Walsh has never been considered a suspect.

The investigation has proven difficult because some of the people involved in Susan Walsh's life have not been located,"A thin red string wraps its way around Jennifer Gilbert's wrist, a custom from Kabbalah, a type of Jewish mysticism, worn to ward off misfortune.

Touching the string lightly with her fingers, Gilbert, the wife of billionaire businessman Dan Gilbert, says she's worn these strings only twice in her life. The first was when her son, Nick, had brain surgery. The second was when her husband suffered a stroke in late May.

"The entire family has these," says Gilbert, speaking in the lower level offices of the commercial design firm, Pophouse, she helped found in the former Dime Building in downtown Detroit. "It was a way to connect all of us."

Connection is important these days as Gilbert and her family move forward from Dan's stroke, which hospitalized him for several


days before he went to an in-patient rehab facility this summer in Chicago. Gilbert says her 57-year-old husband, now home, "is improving every day" though he still isn't back at work.

"With stroke recovery, it's a marathon, it's not a sprint," she said. "But every day he's working hard, and every day we're seeing improvements. He's encouraged. And he's up for the challenge."

Her husband's health crisis forced her to step back from her role at Pophouse (previously known as dPop). She says the summer was "definitely challenging," but it was nice to have her children home, especially the three who were away at college, so they could be there to support their dad.

The Gilberts, who live in Franklin, have five kids, four of whom have graduated from high school.good was the biggest priority."

But with her husband's health more stable, Gilbert is stepping back into her role at Pophouse, taking on the official title of creative director, as the firm expands its mission -- designing not just workplaces, but other commercial spaces. The firm has done the interior design for a large portion of her husband's Bedrock properties.

Gilbert said it makes sense why so many creative people are drawn to the city.

"Designers are part of creatives and artists are part of creatives," said Gilbert. "We're all attracted to a blank canvas, about taking something, and evolving it and solving problems. I think Detroit is just a natural place" to attract creative people.

And Gilbert knows about the power of creativity. She’s the chair of the board of governors


said. "There were pits and pools and waterfalls."

But as a student at Michigan State University, it was actually architectural engineering she planned to pursue. She wanted to transfer from MSU to the University of Michigan, but she took one interior design class in East Lansing and she was hooked. She graduated in 1990.

"I took an interior design class my freshman year and fell in love with it," she said. "The rest is history."

Design also is how she met her husband.

"I ended up designing his office," she said.

After marrying and having children, she stepped back from her career for more than a decade and a half. But when her youngest was in preschool, she "started to dip my toe back into it."

She founded a startup called Doodle Home, abusiness-to-business software platform that specialized in home and interior design. Seeing her husband's firms and how they operated, Gilbert realized how "antiquated" interior design was.

"Looking at Dan and everything he was doing with the mortgage company -- that was when he was bringing it all online, looking at it from that lens and saying, 'How can we simplify the design process through integration and technology?'" said Gilbert.

In 2015, Doodle Home was acquired by Dering Hall, an online portal giving designers, architects and consumers access to high-end home furnishings and services. The same year, Gilbert also started Amber Engine, a Detroit-based home furnishings services and solutions technology company.

Design with a purpose

But it’s at Pophouse that Gilbert has really helped play a role in reshaping workplace design. When the firm


A hometown hero if there ever was one, Nina West has blossomed from her humble beginnings to become a mini icon in the drag world thanks to her commitment to old-school camp, comedy, and charitable causes. She won the prestigious Entertainer of the Year pageant in 2008, and has since used her platform to establish a self-titled fund at the Columbus Foundation in support of LGBTQIA+ causes. To date, she has reportedly earned more than $2 million for such causes.Opportunities abound across the spectrum of precious metal equities, which remain undervalued as bullion prices continue their upward trends. That's the word according to Charles Oliver and Jamie Horvat, both senior portfolio managers at Sprott Asset Management. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Oliver and Horvat express cautious optimism about the prospects for gold stocks in 2012.

The Gold Report: When we talked in the wake of the debt ceiling crisis last fall, Charles, you expected volatility to be good for gold and forecast a continuing long-term bull market for precious metals. These days, the scary stories pertain to the European Union (EU). Will negative headlines continue to play a role in the price of gold and silver?

Charles Oliver: Absolutely. The headlines about the European Central Bank


putting that into production in the market? Companies that continue to execute and build their resources and reserves will get rewarded. Unfortunately, a lot of companies have made some missteps in the market.

TGR: Any other thoughts you would like to leave our readers with before we say goodbye?

CO: Gold equities didn't do very well in 2011. It was a tough year. The last time we had equities perform so poorly was 2008. Then 2009 and 2010 were exceptionally good years for gold stocks. That pattern makes me cautiously optimistic that 2012 will be a very good year for gold stocks.

JH: I totally agree-2011 was a lite version of 2008. Small caps were down 78.5-79% in 2008, and last year they were down 38% on average. The U.S. banksand the mortgage-backed securities issue were at the heart of the 2008 liquidity crisis, and in 2011 the issues have rolled into a European bank and sovereign debt crisis-with the U.S. opening up the swap lines again, with unlimited U.S. dollar amounts to help with liquidity to European banks through to February 2013, I believe. Taking all of that into account, I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm hoping that as in the second half of 2009 into 2010, when we had a significant recovery in the precious metal space, we will see a similar type of recovery in 2012.

TGR: Thank you, gentlemen.

Bringing more than 21 years of experience in the investment industry, Charles Oliver joined Sprott Asset Management (SAM) in January 2008 as an investment strategist with focus on the


Sprott Gold and Precious Minerals Fund (TSX:SPR300). Prior to joining SAM, he was at AGF Management Ltd., where he led the team that was awarded the Canadian Investment Awards Best Precious Metals Fund in 2004, 2006, 2007, and was a finalist for the best Canadian Small Cap Fund in 2007. At the 2007 Canadian Lipper Fund awards, the AGF Precious Metals Fund was awarded the best five-year return in the Precious Metals category, and the AGF Canadian Resources Fund was awarded the best 10-year return in the Natural Resources category. Oliver obtained his Honors Bachelor of Science degree in geology from the University of Western Ontario in 1987 and his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1998.

Jamie Horvat joined SAM in January 2008. He is co-manager of theSprott All Cap Fund, the Sprott Gold and Precious Minerals Fund, the Sprott Opportunities Hedge Fund LP and the Sprott Opportunities RSP Fund. He has more than 10 years of investment experience. Prior to joining SAM, Horvat was co-manager of the Canadian Small Cap, Global Resources, Canadian Resources and Precious Metals funds at AGF Management Ltd. He was also the associate portfolio manager of the AGF Canadian Growth Equity Fund, as well as an instrumental contributor to a number of structured products and institutional mandates while at AGF. He joined AGF in 2004 as a Canadian equity analyst with a special focus on Canadian and global resources, as well as Canadian small-cap companies. Horvat spent five years at another large Canadian mutual fund company as an investment analyst


before joining AGF. He holds a diploma in mechanical engineering technology from Mohawk College and earned an Honors Bachelor's of Commerce degree from McMaster University. He is a member of the International Research Association and a licensed international financial analyst. He is also a member of the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians & Technologists.

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BACKGROUND

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The indictment against Lee arose from sworn testimony he gave during his detention hearing before a federal magistrate judge. In an effort to convince the judge that he was a good candidate for pretrial release, Lee testified about his employment. More specifically, Lee testified that he met Jeffrey Bryant and decided to invest money in Bryant's restaurant, Buckeye Fried Chicken ("Buckeye Chicken"). Lee testified that he worked at Buckeye Chicken and had a 50% interest in the business. Lee stated that he primarily worked at Buckeye Chicken during the week, not during the weekends; that he worked from approximately 6:30 a.m. to about 11:00 a.m.; and that his duties included meeting vendors and picking up


supplies from Gordon Food Service. Lee explained that he had one office at the restaurant, and Bryant had the other.

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During cross-examination, Lee announced that he was refusing to answer any more questions. After consulting with Lee, Lee's attorney withdrew Lee's testimony. The magistrate judge indicated that he would strike Lee's testimony and not consider it in making his decision regarding Lee's bond.

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After the detention hearing, the FBI investigated Lee's statements regarding his employment at Buckeye Chicken. The results of this investigation led to Lee being charged with one count of perjury in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1623. The Indictment charged:

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At the time and place alleged, the Court was engaged in a detention hearing to determine if there were appropriate conditions of release for defendant RYAN E. LEE.responsibilities at Buckeye Chicken. Bryant also testified that Lee never had an office at Buckeye Chicken and was never given a key to the restaurant. Bryant acknowledged that Lee had lent him $33,000, and that he had signed a document in June of 2000 purporting to give Lee a 40% interest in the Buckeye Chicken. However, Bryant explained that he never formally transferred the ownership, and the document giving the 40% was used only a "stalling tactic." Bryant stated that Lee asked him to pay back the loan by issuing payroll checks to Lee from Buckeye Chicken, which Bryant did for approximately eight to ten weeks for a total of $418.00 after taxes.

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Nicole McCullar, a manager at Buckeye Chicken, testified that she and Bryant were responsible for Buckeye


Chicken's day-to-day operations. McCullar stated that she knew Lee was at least part owner, or a "silent partner" in the restaurant. McCullar testified that before the restaurant opened, Lee would run errands for Bryant and helped get the restaurant open. McCullar stated that Lee would occasionally give her money to pay for items such as letterhead, business cards, computer equipment, and tables. McCullar explained that it "wasn't like [Lee] was working but he would be in the store." McCullar testified that Lee did not direct employees, but if he did, they knew to listen to him because of Lee's connection to Bryant.

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McCullar stated that Lee never opened the store in the morning, did not have a key, and did not have an office at Buckeye Chicken. McCullar statedthat Lee may have picked up supplies once or twice. McCullar explained that Lee knew some of the vendors and would pay them, but he never placed orders with them. McCullar testified that she had never observed Lee do any work at the store at the time she was cutting paychecks for him.

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Wayne Wise testified that shortly after he began working at Buckeye Chicken in December of 2001, he was given the responsibility of opening the store. Wise explained that he would arrive at about 8:30 a.m. and only Keith "Pep" Bryant and McCullar ever opened the store with him. Wise stated he never knew of anyone with a first name of Ryan working at Buckeye Chicken.

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Lynn Bostelman of Gordon Food Service ("GFS") also testified at trial. Bostelman


of what Lee believed his role at Buckeye Chicken to be, this testimony directly contradicted his statements that he was at Buckeye Chicken "mostly" during the week, "usually" between the hours of 6:30 and 11:00, and that he was meeting vendors there; and regularly making trips to GFS.

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Viewed in the light most favorable to the government, the evidence was clearly sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find that Lee knowingly made false and material declarations under oath during his detention hearing regarding his employment status at Buckeye Chicken. Therefore, there was sufficient evidence presented at trial to sustain the jury's verdict.

B. Motion to Dismiss the Indictment

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A district court's refusal to dismiss an indictment is reviewed for an abuse of discretion. United States v. Powell, 823 F.2d(4) in a proceeding before or ancillary to any court of the United States.

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After the close of proof, the district court heard arguments regarding Lee's Rule 29 motion. Lee's counsel argued that the evidence indicated a belief on the part of Lee that he was 40% owner of Buckeye Chicken, that he had a stake in the business, and it was a place that he worked. The district judge agreed that some of the evidence could create a belief in Lee's mind that he was part owner, but pointed out that Lee testified specifically that he was "usually there between 6:30 and I'm out of there at about 11:00 when we open." The court explained that this testimony was material because it indicated that Lee would be at


Q:

Why are middlemen called “Junkets”?

Why is this definition used to refer to the specific business  shown in the extract below, and what is its literal meaning?

The island's idiosyncratic “junket” system helps to bring rich Chinese to Macau. Junkets are middlemen who lend high-rollers money, arrange accommodation and are paid around 40% of the casinos' take in return. […]  A government official who has embezzled state funds, for example, may arrange to gamble in Macau through a junket. When he arrives, his chips are waiting for him. When he cashes out, his winnings are paid in Hong Kong dollars, which he can stash in a bank in Hong Kong or take farther afield.
From The Economist

A:

Although The Economist article clearly uses junkets in the sense of “gambling tripto the casino specifically for the purpose of gaming. The travel is prearranged through a junket operator.
junket operator: The individual who is who is responsible for organizing junket trips. Usually an independent agent, who negotiates a commission for players of the junket group and is paid a commission based upon the actual mix of games.

Global Real Estate Center, Global Gaming Bulletin: 25th Anniversary Edition (2007, p. 125) corroborates Hsu’s usage as to junket, but prefers junket representative to junket operator:

Junket—A group of players who travel to a casino for the primary purpose of gambling at that casino. Often the cost of the food, lodging and transportation for these players is paid by the casino.
Junketeer—A player participating in a junket.
Junket Representative—The person responsible for organizing a junket. Also referred


most European langs.[...] App. adv. Javanese djong (occuring in
  compositions of 13th c. or earlier), 'ship, large vessel', Malay.
  adjong. The earlier English forms are from other European langs.
Some have sought the origin of the word in the Chinese ch'wan 'ship or
  sailing vessel'; but the Portuguese and Dutch were established in Java
  and the Malay Archipelago before they visited China, and found the
  Javanese and Malay word (wuch has no connexion with the Chinese)
  applied to all large native vessels as well as to the Chinese ships
  which visited those shores.]
A name for the common type of native sailing vessel in the Chinese
  seas. It is flat-bottomed, has a square prow, prominent stern, full
  stern, the rudder suspended,WAR: ANDREW CUOMO RIPS ALEXANDRIA DONKEY-CHOMPERS FOR WRECKING AMAZON DEAL Well, he doesn't rip her by name. He actually rips the New York State Senate -- but no one knows who they are. We all know who the most high-profile national figure We all know who the most high-profilefigure opposing the Amazon move was/is: 'Queens is not for sale': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York activists celebrate Amazon's decision to cancel HQ2 in Long Island City Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and progressive activists celebrated Amazon's Thursday announcement that it will not move forward with it planned second headquarters, known as HQ2, in Queens, New York. Ocasio-Cortez called retreat a win for "everyday New Yorkers" in the fight against "corporate greed ... worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man


in the world," referring to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Local activists, including the Democratic Socialists of America, spent the last few months aggressively mobilizing grassroots opposition to the deal, which would have brought 25,000 jobs to the city. But recent polling has found that the majority of Queens residents supported Amazon's HQ2 plans. And now Cuomo writes: And now Cuomo writes:

"However, a small group of politicians put their own narrow political interests above the community[,] the state's economic future, and the best interests of the people of this state. Governor Cuomo's statement re: Amazon ---> pic.twitter.com/39e2UYB7Rw — Jason Conwall (@jasonconwall) February 14, 2019

Hopefully this ignites a fight between the Smash the State socialists and Crony Capitalists who want to give government money to corporations to bribe them forSTATESVILLE, N.C. (November 27, 2018) – Bob Jenkins will expand his Front Row Motorsports team in 2019, signing Matt Tifft to drive a third Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series entry, the No. 36 Ford Mustang. Veterans Michael McDowell and David Ragan will return to drive the Nos. 34 and 38 Ford Mustangs and mentor the 22-year-old Tifft in his Cup series rookie season.

Tifft finished sixth in the NASCAR XFINITY Series championship this season, earning six top-five and 19 top-10 finishes in his 2018 campaign with Richard Childress Racing, making it to the Round of 8 in the series playoffs. In four XFINITY series seasons, the young driver has nine top-five and 38 top-10 finishes, and two poles.

“Today is a huge moment in my career, announcing my move to


program to the next level, and I’m happy I’ll be here to help the team continue to grow.”

McDowell, a 10-year veteran of the series, joins the team after four years with Leavine Family Racing. The 32-year-old Phoenix, Ariz., native raced a Front Row Motorsports entry once previously in his Cup series career, at Watkins Glen International in 2013. The former open-wheel racer was the 2004 Star Mazda Series champion and 2007 ARCA Re/MAX Series Rookie of the Year. He earned a Cup career-best fourth-place finish at Daytona International Speedway in July of this year.

“Since I first drove for Bob at Watkins Glen, we’ve kept in touch and have felt like there might be an opportunity to work together again, and the timing worked out perfectly,” McDowell said. “It’swith Front Row, both on and off the track,” Jenkins continued. “And Michael is a great addition to our team. I’ve been impressed with his talent watching him over the years and excited that he’ll be representing us and our partners next season.”

The team has not yet finalized its crew chief line-up and is evaluating possible additions to the competition staff. Additional information about the 2018 program, including team partners and driver car numbers, will also be announced in the coming weeks.

About Front Row MotorsportsFront Row Motorsports is a winning organization in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, the premier division of NASCAR competition. The team was founded in 2004 and is owned by Tennessean Bob Jenkins. FRM fields two full-time entries, the No. 34 Ford and the


What began as a bid to cover up a nasty skin condition has resulted in a Guinness World Record for an American who has been named the most tattooed woman in the world. Julia Gnuse - nicknamed the "illustrated lady" - has 95 percent of her body covered in ink, ranging from jungle scenes and cartoons to her favorite actors.

Miss Gnuse, from California, started getting tattoos on her legs after developing a skin condition called porphyria, which causes the skin to blister when exposed to sunlight.
(Source)opposed to a fixed angular radius gives essentially the same results. This method has the advantage that the correction is strictly local, and hence the variation in field counts seen in different regions of the EDSGC is correctly accounted for. For the other two methods we used the the global counts as derived from the whole of the EDSGC, and the average of the counts from the annuli from the first method described above. The first of these is similar to the procedure used in previous studies, but since our global counts actually come from the same data the LFs themselves are constructed from, we remove the possibility of errors arising from discrepancies in the calibration of the LF and the global counts. The second has the potential


Honda is facing major problems with its new dual-clutch automatic transmission, known in Japan as DCT. The brand announced on Monday, February 10th, the third consecutive recall due to a problem in the transmission.

The next edition of the Hall of Beijing only happen in April, but the Peugeot is already working to introduce a novelty during the event. This is a sports car concept, yet unnamed, which had its first teaser revealed on Monday (27).Plans to extend trolley service from downtown San Diego to University City are moving forward in the new year as the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG) continues work on environmental documents and necessary technical studies for the $1.7 billion Mid-Coast Corridor Transit Project, a proposed 11-mile extension of the Blue Line trolley from the Old Town Transit Center to University City.

City leaders boast a number of economic, environmental and commuter benefits for the extension, such as linking San Diego universities, creating a one-ride route from the international border to University City, and increasing access to jobs along the corridor.

“The trolley extension will im-prove quality of life for La Jollans by reducing area traffic congestion and gridlock, reducing vehicle emissions and supporting the viability of local employment centers,”


of the 501st Legion’s Torrent Company, CT-7567 – better known as Rex – was an exemplary clone trooper, brave under fire and dedicated to the men serving under him. As a no-nonsense, by-the-book trooper, Rex had to adjust to the maverick Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his headstrong Padawan Ahsoka Tano. Despite his lifelong training and discipline, Rex came to admire and sometimes emulate Anakin’s genius for improvisation and his willingness to bend the rules.

Over many campaigns, Rex saw too many clone troopers die fighting the Separatists’ seemingly limitless battle droids. Some of those deaths were unavoidable, but other troopers died because commanders such as the Jedi General Pong Krell saw clones as expendable, little more than living droids bred to serve and die.

Rex believed in the Republic,and he had been trained to believe that a soldier’s highest calling was doing his duty despite long odds and orders he might not understand. But as the war ground up more and more of his men, Rex began to wonder what the point of the conflict was, and what price the clones would ultimately pay.

THE DARK TIMES

Years after the completion of the Clone Wars, Captain Rex along with Commanders Wolffe and Gregor trudged the plains of Seelos hunting for joopa. It was then that they met the Ghost crew, sent by Rex’s old compatriot, Ahsoka Tano. After Kanan hesitated to give his trust, Rex revealed that the three clones removed their chips before Order 66. The crew solicited the clones’ help in finding a potential new base


The process for Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) rezones in Downtown and South Lake Union kicked off last week with a briefing before Seattle’s Planning, Land Use, and Zoning Committee. The rezones would increase overall development capacity in many Downtown and South Lake Union zones by bumping up maximum building height and floor area allowances. Benefits of the rezone could include 21,000 new market-rate homes, 53,000 new jobs, thousands for rent-restricted, income-restricted affordable housing units, and millions of dollars of investment in voluntary public amenities.

Lots of Affordable Housing

The Downtown and South Lake Union rezones would deliver a lot of affordable housing. About a third of the affordable housing units created through the city-wide MHA program would be brought to market from developments in Downtown and South Lake Union overDelayed Sleep Phase Disorder: New Study Suggests That Night Owls May Be Linked With Gene Mutation

People with delayed sleep phase disorder (DSPD) have their internal clock genetically programmed to function slowly. They stay awake late at night and hardly get up in the morning because there is a mutation in their gene called CRY1.

CRY1 changes the human circadian clock, which commands rhythmic habits such as sleep/wake cycles. According to the new study published in Cell, carriers of the gene sleep 2 to 2.5 hours late at night than non-carrier individuals.

As per clinical studies, DSPD affects up to 10 percent of the society. Night owls or evening people are many times diagnosed with this kind of sleep disorder.

According to Science Daily, the new research is the first to include


a gene mutation in the progress of DSPD. People having this condition often experience a difficult time in falling asleep at night. They also struggle in complying with early work schedules due to difficulty in waking up in the morning.

"It's as if these people have perpetual jet lag, moving eastward every day. In the morning, they're not ready for the next day to arrive," Michael Young, a research associate said.

Alina Patke who is a co-author of the study is a night owl, but she doesn’t have the CRY1 variant. This is because not all people with DSPD have a gene mutation.

In the research, Patke and Young studied the skin cells of people with DSPD and they found a mutation in CRY1 that helps in initiating the circadian clock.They also found the gene mutation in one out of 75 of non-Finnish, European ancestry in a gene database search.

The circadian clock is an essential factor of human life and animals on Erath. "It's basically the same clock from flies to humans," Young, who studied the circadian clock of the fruit fly said. Unfortunately, DSPD and other sleep disorders are reportedly linked to anxiety, depression, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.


pay a higher fee *1483 to receive the boxing match than do residential viewers because commercial establishments display the broadcast to their patrons.
On the evening of the boxing match, an investigator from KingVision entered Beettle's Place and observed the fight being displayed to the patrons. Beettle's Place is a small bar and grill located at 2342 Gordon Highway, Augusta, Georgia, and is owned and operated by Williams. Williams admits that she displayed the boxing match to about twenty-five of her patrons at Beettle's Place. It is undisputed that she did not contract with KingVision to display the boxing match at her establishment. Williams, however, states that she did not know she was required to do so. She contends that one of her employees, Chris Holland, ordered the boxingContainerSpace: A Shipping Container as Zero Carbon Art Gallery

George Mason University is home to over 40 conservative think tanks, many of which think climate change is a hoax; fortunately the School of Art is a different place, where they care about their carbon footprint. They have converted an old shipping container into "a prototype for a zero-carbon mobile exhibition gallery and community space."

It is powered by a 130 watt solar panel, a deep cycle battery and lit by two strings of LEDs.

Image credit: Evan Cantwell

They studied the container's history and determined that it was made in China and finished in Korean paint, and given its age, would have had toxic pesticides in the wood floor. So without asking George Mason's Robert Lichter whether the risk of chemicals was


The Godfather puts you into the action of the legendary films, while you relive the defining moments of the Corleone family. After a life of small-time jobs and petty thefts, you are accepted into the Corleone family -- America's most famous criminal organization. It's up to you to carry out orders, earn respect and make New York City your own. Featuring the voices of James Caan and Robert Duvall and the likeness of Marlon Brando

Features:- Presents classic moments from the movies and original missions alongside memorable characters from the film- Non-linear action-adventure gameplay -- countless choices for solving the family's problems with brutal violence, skillful diplomacy, or a cunning mixture of both- From mob hits and bank heists to drive-bys and extortion, you'll need a talent for intimidationThomas Maresca

Special for USA TODAY

South Korea’s Constitution Court ruled to uphold the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye on Friday morning, making her the first democratically elected president to be removed from office in the country’s history.

According to multiple reports, at least three people died in skirmishes that broke out following the verdict and about 30 protesters and police officers were injured in violent clashes.

Park was impeached in December on charges of receiving millions of dollars in bribes from businesses and abusing her powers in a scheme with her longtime confidante Choi Soon-sil.

With the ruling, Park is immediately removed from office and South Korea is required to hold a presidential election within 60 days. Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, who has served as interim president during the impeachment process, will


remain as acting president until the election.

"The negative effects of the president's actions and their repercussions are grave, and the benefits to defending the Constitution by removing her from office are overwhelmingly large," acting Chief Justice Lee Jung-mi said, according to Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.

An investigation into the political scandal that brought Park Geun-hye down has returned 30 indictments, including the head of Samsung, Lee Jae-yong. Lee’s trial for bribery and embezzlement began on Thursday, in a court case being billed as the trial of the century.

The investigation directly implicated Park Geun-hye. With the impeachment upheld, she has lost her presidential immunity and is now vulnerable to criminal prosecution.

Park is the daughter of former South Korean president Park Chung-hee, who led the country as dictator from 1963 untilhis assassination in 1979. Park Geun-hye began her term in February 2013, and was the first female president in South Korea. The ruling stripped her of the right to be buried next to her father at the national cemetery in Seoul and of privileges including an estimated $10,000 monthly pension.

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Millions of Koreans had taken to the streets in protest as the scandal first began brewing in October, and Park’s popularity plummeted to four percent. She had already been deeply unpopular for her handling of the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster that left almost 300 dead.

Park’s impeachment


both Park supporters and opponents held heated rallies near the courthouse. Skirmishes broke out that left two men believed to be pro-Park protesters dead and a number of others injured, police reported. A man in his 70s died from head wounds after he fell from a police bus in front of the court and a second man died after bleeding heavily, the Associated Press reported.

Thousands of Park’s supporters hit police officers with flag poles and climbed on buses following the verdict, according to the AP.

U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, applauded South Korea's actions.

"Under the most difficult circumstances, South Korea has demonstrated the strength of its democratic institutions," McCain said in a statement. "The peaceful transition of power to Acting President HwangKyo Anh and the execution of today’s Constitutional Court verdict gives me great confidence that South Korea will emerge from this moment of challenge with renewed strength."

The statement added: "The South Korean people should know that the United States remains firmly committed to our alliance. The United States and South Korea must continue to work to strengthen economic and security cooperation between our two countries, especially as it relates to defending against North Korea’s escalating nuclear and missile threats."

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to self-administering a blood transfusion.

Because Riccò tested positive for EPO during the 2008 Tour de France and was later banned for 20 months, the CONI's decision that his 2011 offense was an anti-doping violation equated to a second offense, and the CONI issued the 12-year ban, effectively ending the 29-year-old's career.

On December 11, Riccò will challenge the CONI ruling.

Should he be unsuccessful, the Italian would not be returning until close to his 40th birthday. Compatriot Mario Cipollini told Riccò earlier this year he should move on with his life.

"I said: 'Riccardo, first of all think about your son'," Cipollini later told La Gazzetta dello Sport. "'Forget competitive cycling, the team and the desire to race again. To prove what? For a sense of revenge against everyone? Sit downpositive for CERA, a variant of EPO, at the Tour de France, and received a two-year ban, which was reduced to 20 months after he co-operated with the investigation.

Riccò returned to racing, and to form, in 2010, winning the Tour of Austria and finishing second at the Giro del Trentino in the colours of Vacansoleil-DCM. The Dutch team dismissed him shortly after he was discharged from hospital after his incident in February 2011. Several months later he signed for Croatian Continental-ranked team Meridiana Kamen. He never rode for them, however, as first the Italian Cycling Federation suspended him shortly after the signing was announced, citing health concerns, and then the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) followed suit extending the ban worldwide.