took part in an archery competition, the Stoke Mandeville Games expanded, taking on an international dimension in 1952 when a contingent of Dutch war veterans competed in the first international games for athletes with disabilities. In 1960, Guttmann arranged for these games to be held in Rome, in parallel with the Olympic Games; medals were awarded to disabled athletes for the first time, leading to the integration of what became the Paralympic Games with the Olympics. This, along with his unique contribution to the welfare of an entire category of medical patients, formed part of Ludwig Guttmann’s legacy.

Readers of this journal will be interested to know that Guttmann was also an active and longstanding member of the AJR, serving on its Board (then a large advisory body separatefrom the Executive Committee) for over 25 years after being co-opted onto it in 1953. On 1 April 1953, he was, alongside the historian Erich Eyck and Rabbi Dr Leo Baeck, one of three distinguished speakers at a public meeting organised by the AJR at Woburn House, on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses, the first official anti-Jewish action undertaken by the regime after Hitler’s accession to power in 1933.

Guttmann also acted as one of the distinguished patrons of the Thank-You Britain Fund, which was set up in the 1960s, under the administration of the AJR, to raise money from the Jewish refugees from Hitler to promote scholarly research, as a token of gratitude to their new homeland. He gave generously


of his expert advice to the AJR on questions relating to the homes for elderly refugees that it administered jointly with the Central British Fund. And at least one ex-serviceman and AJR member, Kenneth Fraser (Kurt Fleischmann), gravely wounded at Arnhem in September 1944, was able to cope with his injuries thanks to Guttmann’s new treatment and lived on until 1972.

But in the early days of emigration Guttmann shared the hardships and restrictions of refugee life. Admitted on a temporary permit, he was, like other refugees from Nazism, forbidden to undertake any form of employment, though he was able to continue his research on the physiology and pathology of the cerebrospinal fluid thanks to his grant from the SPSL (despite the strenuous attempts of the British Medical Associationto block the entry of refugee medical practitioners into the profession). Guttmann’s situation remained insecure, as his residence permit expired in September 1939; only after Esther Simpson of the SPSL wrote to the Home Office on his behalf in August 1939 was the permit for Guttmann and his family extended until September 1940 – by which time there could be no question of their returning to Germany.

The papers of the SPSL show how grateful Guttmann and his wife were for the permit that had enabled them to escape Germany for Britain and for the extension that allowed them to remain in Britain permanently. Britain benefited hugely from the hospitality that it had offered Guttmann, while the honours that his achievements earned him - an OBE in 1950 and


in which he lived with his family in High Wycombe was called ‘Menorah’, and he was an active member of the local synagogue. He was particularly concerned to promote the treatment of spinal injuries in Israel. He also remained a proud champion of the values and heritage of German Jewry: speaking at an anniversary banquet for former members of the Kartell-Convent in September 1976, he compared German Jewry’s fight for equal rights with his own campaign against the discrimination suffered by groups like the disabled.Biography:Sasckya Porto was born in Brazil on October 31, 1984. She is of Latin descent. She is fairly tall at 5'10". Sasckya Porto is average weight and weighs 125 lbs. She has a great pair of full round 34C boobs as well. Sasckya Porto has amazing brown hair too. She is a centerfold and does mostly solo style galleries. Sasckya Porto is ranked number 4179 on Barelist and was added on Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Feel free to check out the 7 galleries we have of Sasckya Porto, including 7 picture sets.

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could have come from the Middle Ages yet, incredibly, they took place only recently ... and the women were able to upload a video to social media.

In it, they insist the owl turns back into a woman so they know who she is ... and only then will they free her.

Witchcraft is still a potent force in Spanish-speaking countries such as Mexico where these scenes were filmed and, in rural areas, tales are still told of a strange shape-shifting witch known as La Lechusa ... The Owl.

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This particular incident happened in the town of Durango, in the north-central Mexican state of the same name, where superstitions are rife.

One of them is that women have the power to turn themselves into animals and birds which is whythis poor owl found itself on the end of a Spanish Inquisition-style interrogation.

The bird's shrieks are interpreted as an admission of guilt as the women repeatedly ask it to identify itself.

At one stage they are heard reading sections of the Bible in the belief that this will force the owl to turn back to a woman.

They also recount stories of how the owl had been seen looking through the window at the home of one villager and how another claimed that the owl had tried to curse her.

The women apparently decided to upload the video to show how they had captured the witch but it was widely condemned by online commentators who urged authorities to track them down and punish them as a warning to other superstitious people


THE new exhibition at the Keith de Lellis Gallery, “New York: A Bird’s-Eye View,” has a striking assortment of aerial views of the city. No image is more arresting than that of the Navy dirigible Los Angeles docking at the mooring post of the Empire State Building, a giant cigarlike cylinder coming nose-to-nose with the tallest building in the world.

That the photograph is a composite, a fake, is disappointing but not surprising: no airship ever docked there, and indeed the whole mooring mast concept was a bit of a stunt itself.

In late 1929, Alfred E. Smith, the leader of a group of investors erecting the Empire State Building, announced that they were increasing the height of the building to 1,250 feet from 1,050. Mr. Smith, a past governorAbout Us

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Re: Joel Sturgill (1884-1913) b. KY d. Wise Co VA

Thanks you for the terrific information regarding the parents of Joel Sturgill (1884-1913).After you listed their names, it enabled me to located them in the 1880 Wise Co VA census.

Have you ever heard any "family traditions" about the shooting of Joel by Bill Tutt?A few years ago, I interviewed my 97 year old uncle, a son-in-law of Bill Tutt, and with a clear mind he offered:Bill Tutt was in a bar in Wise Co and got into an arument with a local (Joel Sturgill).Joel left and the barkeep explained that he was leaving to get his gun.So, the bartender offered Bill Tutt his gun and when Joel returned Bill shot first.

He was eventually convicted on 2nd degree murder andreceived 6 years in a VA prison in 1913 where he served on a chain gang.( I have his prison photo and records).He later had a stroke and was pardoned by the governor.He died one year later in 1919.

Another family story claims he was with another man's wife when the incident occured.No proof to either of the above.

Bill Tutt was called "Bad Bill " Tutt in his hometown of Campton, Wolfe Co KY after he shot and killed a man known as "Bad" Bowen Rose.Thus, his name acquired the "bad" moniker.Bill was a doctor who attended what is now Louisville Med School along with his uncle - another Bill Tutt in 1890.Med school was then but a year in KY.

Bill's wife was shot and killed in 1908 by


level. Can you imagine the Packers receiving room with Butler added? Giants. Some think Butler is the best receiver in the class.

CB David Long, Michigan: Sticky, competitive and ultra-quick. He’s the best press cover cornerback in the class, with Day 1 starter traits and the kind of on-an-island coverage skills Mike Pettine loves in a corner. No one beat him in college. He could be the surprise pick at 44.

RB David Montgomery, Iowa State: The Packers once used a second-round pick on Eddie Lacy, and they were close to pulling the trigger on Dalvin Cook in the second round two years ago. Montgomery is a Kareem Hunt-like runner. Trading back in the second round and taking Montgomery later might make sense.

WR Terry McLaurin, Ohio State: This guy willper capita) in the UK.

The effect of immigration on the productivity of a country is a result of complex interactions of different factors, and is influenced by the characteristics of the migrants, industrial arrangements, whether the migrants’ skills complement those of thenatives and also natives’ responses to immigration.

Between 1997 and 2007 – during which time the UK economy grew by 2.43 per cent – the share of immigrants increased in most sectors of the UK economy.

This research investigates the relationship between immigration and labour productivity in most of the sectors in the UK during that period. In order to do so it uses a specially constructed set of data that uses two sets of official figures – the Annual Respondents’ Database and the Labour Force Survey. The main


Iran sending warships close to US borders

A senior Iranian naval commander says his country has sent several warships to the Atlantic Ocean, close to US maritime borders for the first time.

The commander of Iran's Northern Navy Fleet, Admiral Afshin Rezayee Haddad, is quoted by the official IRNA news agency as saying Saturday that the vessels have already begun the journey to the Atlantic Ocean via waters near South Africa. (AP)Towering Escape fits rain or shine

ELMONT, N.Y. - Trainer Richard Schosberg believes the seven furlongs of Wednesday's second-level allowance race for New York-bred fillies is just right for his 3-year-old filly Towering Escape. Therefore, he is not concerned about what surface the race is run on.

Scheduled for Belmont Park's Widener Turf Course, Wednesday's nominal feature could be transferred to the main track should the weather forecast prove correct. Rain is predicted for Tuesday into Wednesday morning, putting all three of Wednesday's scheduled grass races in jeopardy of being switched to the main track.

Wednesday's card, which kicks off the final week of racing at Belmont, includes a pick six carryover of $53,724 after the wager went unhit on Sunday.

On paper, Towering Escape looks better-suited to the dirt than the


Everyone in Zimbabwe knows the story of her shooting down an enemy helicopter in her country’s war of liberation. Spill Blood was her nom de guerre.

She married an even more famous freedom fighter, and the couple became political royalty after independence in 1980. She considered herself to be like a daughter of the only leader Zimbabwe has known, Robert Mugabe. She served as a vice president and was destined, it seemed, to succeed him.

But perhaps she and her husband, Solomon, were a little too eager for a succession. He was killed in 2011 in a mysterious fire that Ms. Mujuru now says was an assassination by forces loyal to the president. The president’s increasingly powerful wife, Grace, rushed to the Mujurus’ palatial estate to offer her condolences —party, as factions jostle for control once the leader keeping them together dies.

Amid the uncertainty, Ms. Mujuru sees a political opening, vowing to take power as president in the 2018 election under the banner of her own party, Zimbabwe People First.

On a recent afternoon, Ms. Mujuru greeted a stream of visitors to her home, mostly allies who had been expelled along with her from Mr. Mugabe’s party, some with military ties.

Considered a moderate while in Mr. Mugabe’s circle, she presents the biggest challenge yet to the governing party from a former insider.

“For the first time, we have people who were in government and in the ruling party now outside and in large numbers,” said Jonathan Moyo, the minister of higher education and one of ZANU-PF’s most influential officials.


recent rally at which he lashed out at the Mujurus.

Her husband, though, was more outspoken. Perhaps because of the role he had played in securing Mr. Mugabe’s leadership, Mr. Mujuru was known as the only insider who challenged Mr. Mugabe during high-level meetings. For what he said was the good of the country and the economy, he pressed Mr. Mugabe to groom a successor and retire.

In 2008, Mr. Mujuru supported a new party, Mavambo, in an indirect move to weaken Mr. Mugabe.

“He wanted Mavambo as a mere lever to force Mugabe to stand down,” said Ibbo Mandaza, an academic and businessman who was one of the party’s founders.

Three years later, Ms. Mujuru got a phone call in the middle of an August night. Her husband had been foundtraffic between the company and federal regulators. The records suggested that Monsanto had ghostwritten research that was later attributed to academics and indicated that a senior official at the Environmental Protection Agency had worked to quash a review of Roundup’s main ingredient, glyphosate, that was to have been conducted by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

The documents also revealed that there was some disagreement within the E.P.A. over its own safety assessment.

The files were unsealed by Judge Vince Chhabria, who is presiding over litigation brought by people who claim to have developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma as a result of exposure to glyphosate. The litigation was touched off by a determination made nearly two years ago by the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of


STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS BELOW
On or about May 3, 1984, Detective John Orr, an arson investigator for the Glendale Fire Department, swore out an affidavit for a search warrant. In it he stated an informant had told him on May 2, 1984, about a "fence" named Paul Baker located at 10556 Mount Gleason Avenue in Tujunga. He stated that the informant told him "there are several automobile engines kept in a garage on the north side of the property, two of which he actually helped steal. One was described as a blue engine and the other was red." Detective Orr then drove to Baker's residence and knocked on the side door. Although he heard footsteps, no one came to the door. He walked to the garage andsaw an open door. Inside the garage he saw several automobile engines including the blue and red ones on the floor.
About 9 a.m. on May 3, 1984, Paul Baker was awakened by knocks on his door. He looked out through the window and ascertained the men were police officers. He watched them looking through his vehicles and garage. Baker remained inside his house until about 2:30 or 3:30 p.m. About six to eight officers were on his premises at various times during the day.
Between 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. Baker exited his house and asked the officers what was going on. He testified the officers told him they were looking for stolen stereos and television sets. He said he was told to sit down and he remained seated for


ILLEGAL WARRANTLESS SEARCH SERVED AS A SOURCE OF PROBABLE CAUSE IN THE MAY 3, 1984, SEARCH WARRANT.
Baker first contends the May 2, 1984, search of his garage described in Detective Orr's affidavit in support of probable cause to issue the May 3, 1984, search warrant was an improper basis of the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress because it was a warrantless illegal search. Second, he argues his consent to search his house on May 3, 1984, was not free and voluntary but rather was a submission to authority because he was told a search warrant was en route. He contends any items seized from his home on May 3, 1984, pursuant to Glendale search warrant No. 688 are fruits of the poisonous tree because theymeaning to the common language used therein, is that after he talked with his informant who described the blue and red engines in defendant's garage as stolen, he drove to defendant's residence to talk to him, knocked and, receiving no answer, walked to the garage. He saw nine vehicles parked on the property. At the garage he observed an open garage door, looked inside while standing outside the garage and, through the open door, saw on the floor the two engines previously identified by the informant. I cannot conclude, as do the majority, that Detective Orr's affidavit adds up to an unlawful entry to and an invalid search of the garage; to the contrary, I can only construe the language to mean that Detective Orr did not enter


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Our own design office creates unique patterns for making comfortable outfits. We use only natural fabrics of world textile factories for sewing. The group of technologists controls the compliance with quality standards.

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Own manufacturing in Russia provides an adequate trading margin for products and minimal dependence onSeptember and will run until 30 November. Also taking place as part of Freedom City 2017, and coinciding with the exhibition at the Philip Robinson Library, a new book written by Professor Ward will be published later this month looking at Dr King’s visit and telling the largely forgotten history of connections between the region and the civil rights movement.

It shows how Dr King was one of many distinguished African American visitors to the region, including Olaudah Equiano and Frederick Douglass who addressed crowds in Newcastle in the 18th and 19th centuries, and more recently Muhammad Ali and Harry Belafonte.

Professor Ward added: “The book explains the significance of Dr King’s visit both in terms of British and US society in the 1960s and in terms of historic links


has one of the UK’s leading cohorts of American Studies scholars. If you want to learn more about the history, literature, politics, film, art and popular culture of the United States, then American Studies at Northumbria is the ideal choice. The University is recognised for world-leading research across the Humanities. Results from the 2014 Research Excellence Framework saw Northumbria ranked in the top quartile of UK universities. Our researchers have attracted major funding from Research Councils UK as well as the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust and Nuffield Foundation. Northumbria offers a range of courses in the Humanities, including American Studies. To find out more about studying at Northumbria come along to one of our upcoming Open Days on 30 September and 28 October or click here.

Northumbria is aReserve Bank India Governor Urjit Patel at the press conference to announce the monetary policy at the RBI head office in Mumbai. Express Photo by Prashant Nadkar Reserve Bank India Governor Urjit Patel at the press conference to announce the monetary policy at the RBI head office in Mumbai. Express Photo by Prashant Nadkar

Contrary to expectations, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday maintained status quo on the benchmark interest rate — Repo rate — but changed the monetary policy stance to ‘calibrated tightening’ from ‘neutral’. The financial markets which were expecting a 25-50 basis points hike in Repo rate reeled under selling pressure with the BSE Sensex plunging 792 points to end at a near six-month low of 34,376.99 after the RBI unexpectedly maintained status quo


a WSJ's examination of police documents from across China, is to double China's current DNA repository to 100 million records by 2020 - which will require that they step up their efforts and collect nearly as many records each year as the United States has in its entire national database built over two years.

The data collection has been aggressive according to the WSJ, as many of the methods used by Chinese police would be illegal in the U.S. - such as taking saliva swabs or blood samples from people detained for violations such as forgetting to carry their ID, or writing blogs critical of the state.

In the United States, regulations limit the collection of DNA samples to those who are arrested - or in some states convicted, ofsouthern manufacturing city of Shenzhen, an itinerant worker told the Journal he had his blood taken after he was unable to show a local residency card.

In Qianwei County, police decided that they couldn't reasonably test all 130,000 residents in one town to solve the double murder of the shopkeepers - fearing public outrage and high costs, so they lied - telling residents that they had to test schoolchildren from each clan in the region as part of an anti-child-trafficking campaign to trace lost children, as DNA is hereditary and would allow investigators to narrow down their investigation.

A teenage boy studying in one of the county’s high schools recalled that a policeman came into his class after lunch one day this spring and passed out the collection boxes. Male


for bribery, tied the murderer to his victims. The man confessed, and state media widely cited the case as justification for ongoing collection efforts.

Serial killer dubbed "Jack the Ripper" who was caught after police took a DNA sample from his uncle

In a police journal last year, China's chief forensic officer, Liu Shuo, wrote that the DNA database - which already has 54 million people cataloged had become "a precision-guided weapon for crime-solving."

China has no laws governing the collection of DNA outside of criminal investigations, and virtually no privacy protections. Around 500,000 DNA profiles collected in a human-trafficking case are now being lumped in with the criminal investigation database, for example.

In other parts of the country, DNA profiles have been paired with a subject's other biometric information, including fingerprints,criticism; "Just because police want to solve every case," one newspaper editorial read, "doesn't mean they can go after so many innocent people."

In 2015, China's Ministry of Public Security said that it was impractical and premature to record the DNA of all citizens, because it would create major ethics and privacy concerns. In other countries such as Kuwait, Portugal and the U.K., efforts to establish massive DNA databases have been struck down or backtracked after public opposition, along with a decision by the European Court of Human Rights - which ruled in 2008 that maintaining a database of innocent people's DNA breached the "right to respect for private life."

In China, on the other hand, anyone stopped in the street by police can be shaken down for their DNA.

Huang


When Tyron Woodley stepped into the Octagon in July to face Demian Maia, he already had his sights set on a potential showdown with Georges St-Pierre later in the year.

Woodley has been teased as St-Pierre's opponent when he returned to the UFC for the first time in four years after taking a long sabbatical from the sport.

As the defending 170-pound champion, Woodley wanted nothing more than to face St-Pierre because he is the longest reigning welterweight titleholder in UFC history. Woodley has been on a mission to become the best ever and there was no clearer path toward achieving that than by beating St-Pierre.

Unfortunately, the UFC opted to give St-Pierre a shot at middleweight champion Michael Bisping in November instead. It ultimately didn't matter for Woodley anyway becauseas primitive. However, Shinto continues to occupy the centre part of spiritual life in the highly modernised society of Japan. Shinto holds that nature has a sense of power and presence that is inescapable and beyond human control or understanding, but sensible in our encounters with it. Its respect to the mystery of nature thus presents to us an alternative way of treating our relationship with nature.

The Spiritual Power of Nature

Abrahamic religions generally believe in a supreme being or a first cause standing over and above the natural world. In contrast, Shinto does not believe in such transcendental beings. Also in contrast to Greek polytheism, Shinto is not centred on a fixed pantheon of gods. The Kojiki, which is one of the bases of Shinto beliefs and rituals,


Weather at Pinetop

Weather at Pinetop is a 1964 Australian television short which aired on ABC. Produced in Adelaide, it was written by Colin Free and was a half-hour drama, directed by Anthony Roberts. Two sets were used: a cafe interior and a cottage verandah.

Channel Nine had made The Valley of Water in Adelaide.

Plot
Birdie, the wife of a country roadside café owner, wants to leave the cafe and start a new life with Cal.

Cast
Carmel Millhouse (Birdie)
Les Dayman (Cal)
Rod Douglas (Ollie)
Myra Noblett (Gran)
Pamela Western (Noelle)

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Category:Australian filmsThe two arch-rivals are set for a blockbuster encounter on June 16 in Manchester.

In the World Cup, Sarfaraz thinks that his team will need to take every match as if they are playing against India.

Here's more.

Fact: 'We will take every match as a match against India'

"For us all nine matches are important so we will take every match as a match against India, We have beaten India in a bigger event recently so we will have that advantage," said Sarfaraz. Pakistan had thrashed India in the ICC Champions Trophy finale.

ODIs: Post ICC Champions Trophy, India have been dominating ODIs

Pakistan might have beaten India by 180 runs to lift the Champions Trophy, but since then the Men in Blue have won 10 ODI series out of 12.

India also defeated


Pakistan twice in the Asia Cup 2018.

The momentum is with India and Pakistan will need to be at their best to even have a chance to stun Virat Kohli's side.

Fact: Pakistan have faltered in ODIs since Champions Trophy victory

Pakistan have been below par since the Champions Trophy victory. They have lost series against New Zealand, South Africa and Australia. They were also swept aside in the Asia Cup. Pakistan have two series wins, under their belt, which came against Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka.

Underdogs: I think being underdogs is good for us: Sarfaraz

Sarfaraz wants his team to go in as the underdogs.

"Look, when we go as favourites, then it's a problem, but if we go as underdogs then other teams feel the danger, so I think being underdogs isUnited States Presidential Election

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seeking to create productivity gains in existing industries," he wrote.

CoinJar, based in Melbourne, was founded in May 2013 through a start-up accelerator program, with the company raising capital through angel investors.

The company provides a platform for users of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin to trade globally.

CoinJar, however, is a somewhat uncommon success story. A recent nationwide survey of the Australian start-up community by Startup Muster found that only 14 per cent of Australian start-ups who tried successfully raised funding.

"There is a growing number of VC [venture capital] funds and angel investors in Australia but, compared to other forms of capital investment, it still represents a tiny percentage," said Mr Tan.

"There needs to be an increased willingness for Australian capital to take risks on start-ups and, at the same time, localPat Bertram is the author of the suspense novels Light Bringer, Daughter Am I, More Deaths Than One, and A Spark of Heavenly Fire. Bertram is also the author of Grief: The Great Yearning, “an exquisite book, wrenching to read, and at the same time full of profound truths.”

Excerpt from “Normal For Norfolk” (The Thelonious T. Bear Chronicles) by Mitzi Szereto and Teddy Tedaloo

November 1, 2012 — Pat Bertram

Pub landlords are being murdered in Norfolk!

Thelonious T. Bear, ursine photojournalist, leaves behind the big city life of London to take an assignment in the Norfolk countryside, where he hopes to find the real England. Instead he stumbles upon gastro-pubs, crazed Audi drivers and murder. As the hapless Thelonious keeps ending up in the wrong place at the wrong time,


he attracts the attention of Detective Chief Inspector Horatio Sidebottom of Norfolk Constabulary CID, who’s determined to tie Thelonious to the crimes. Add in a pair of hoods from London’s East End, celebrity TV chef Paolo Louis Black, and plenty of oddball local characters and it all adds up to a madcap journey through England’s most quirky county, where everything is normal for Norfolk!

EXCERPT:

Little Acre was all abuzz with news about the murder of one of their native sons. Derrick Pickles, long-time proprietor of The Black Stag public house in the adjacent village of Kelton Market, had been found bludgeoned to death. Pickles had lived in the village since the day he was born, the pub having been in his family for generations. He’d taken it over fromhis father, who’d taken it over from his father, and so on and so on. The Pickles were a Norfolk institution, and Derrick was well-liked and respected in the community. Not even the taint of his only son going off to work in The City rather than positioning himself to one day take over the reins of the family business could dampen the locals’ affection for the family, though forgiveness wasn’t always as easy to come by. Feelings and memories ran deep in this part of the world, despite young Pickles defection to London taking place nearly two decades before, which, at least to the locals, might as well have been yesterday. Not even the death of his mother many years later could bring young Pickles back in


line. But old Derrick stubbornly clung on, running the pub long after most publicans would have sold up and retired to Spain or Portugal—especially a widower with no one to stay behind for.

Being the only pub in the village, The Black Stag was a magnet for the locals, not to mention tourists in search of some local colour. Kelton Market was conveniently situated in the county, what with the ruins of an old castle located just outside the village and a bustling crafts and antiques market taking place on weekends, so it was a rare day, indeed, when the pub wasn’t busy. The fact that a murder had been committed was not something the residents of this part of Norfolk were accustomed to. The most crime they evergot was of the sort involving the theft of a cockerel from a farm or some youths out joyriding on a tractor. But murder? No. Murders happened in London and Birmingham and Glasgow. They did not happen in Kelton Market.

Therefore when Thelonious heaved open the heavy glass door of Little Acre’s one and only newsagents in his quest to buy a copy of the local newspaper (or as local as he could get), he discovered quite a crowd gathered inside the cramped little shop. A trio of men representing three generations and an elderly woman who had to have been pushing the century mark were gathered in front of the till, talking animatedly and all at the same time, the garrulous din being added to by a frumpy


sixty-something woman behind the counter. She appeared to be refereeing the conversation, her heavy arms flapping and waving about as if she were attempting to direct a newly landed plane to an airport gate.

The youngest of the men was dressed in a white beekeeper’s suit, the hood of which had been pushed back behind his head. Hair the shade and texture of the round bales of hay Thelonious had seen in the fields of the surrounding landscape kept falling down over his eyes, causing him to reach up to swipe it away, whereupon the same thing happened all over again. He had the open and guileless mien of someone who’d grown up in the country and had little to no experience with big city life. The oldest ofthe trio had a pickled and world-weary look about him that could only have been achieved from a lifetime of heavy drinking. His deeply creased face was the colour of cured tobacco leaves, his overall appearance untidy and unwashed. He clutched an unlighted cigarette between the fingers of his right hand, the skin and nails stained a sickly yellow-orange from nicotine. Had it not been for his expensive-looking leather jacket, Thelonious might have mistaken him for a homeless man. The third fellow was aged somewhere between the two and, judging by his collar, appeared to be a vicar. He kept trying to get the group to quiet down, his pale palms making circles in the air as if he were washing invisible windows. Instead of having the desired


back the urge to tell her to get a new front door fitted. The one she had weighed as much as a London bus. His right shoulder was beginning to ache something awful from the impact of it against the glass when he’d pushed it open. He hoped the B&B his publisher’s UK office had booked him into had a bathtub and decent hot water system so he could have a long soak later, because he didn’t fancy looking elsewhere for accommodation, especially at the beginning of the summer tourist season. For him to be able to work, he needed a home base, a sense of order. Chaos was not Thelonious’ style.

With newspaper in hand, he made his way out of the newsagent’s, only to pause outside toexamine the cards and notices that had been placed in the shop window (which apparently cost each poster the princely sum of five pounds a week to display). He was curious as to what kinds of items and services people put on offer in these Norfolk villages and expected to see advertisements of either an agrarian nature or for church jumble sales. Not surprisingly, they were positioned too high up for him to read properly, but he did manage to make out a card for an electrician slash handyman as well as a flyer for a beekeeping school before his neck threatened to join his shoulder in protest.

Thelonious trundled back to where he’d left the Mini, climbed up onto the driver’s seat with the usual fanfare and aggro,


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type of item being auctioned.

I brought along part of a
collection of metal die cast "Corgi" toys including the
"Avengers"

and "James Bond
Goldfinger Aston Martin DB5"

and a dinner set. The 1970s
dinner set, which I had always assumed was Japanese I was told is a Chinese
copy and unfortunately there is little interest in bone china or dinner sets.

Michael Bowles was very
interested in the cars and suggested that the Avengers set might reach £250 and
the James Bond Aston Martin £120. Paul Martin came over and also had a look. He
recalled that they had auctioned "The Avenger" set which was complete
with all three of Steed's umbrellas for over £400 (it was in fact for £420 and
Steedís Bentley was red). They decided that the auction would be too
general to get the best value for theabove estimate.

On Ebay the collection of Britain's Zoo
animals went to Australia
for ten times the lower estimate and over three times what I had expected. The
military cap badges sold for £2 to £6 and the Air Cadet Corp belt for £77. The
1948 knife sold for £22 to America.

The theatre programmes had
interest but few sold. Morecambe and Wise (£15), Mike and Bernie Winters (no
bids), Peter Cook and Dudley Moore (£24), Leslie Phillips (£4.99), Sidney
James (£26) and Wendy Craig (no bids). A neighbour told me last week that he
was given a framed photograph of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore with a scrap of
paper with their autographs on it. It had cost £350. Perhaps if I cut out the
two signed photographs from the theatre programme and mounted them in a frame I
might


be back thnak you

The neighbourhood

The Lanes are a great place to shop and eat, with many independent stores not found on the high street.

The Brighton Festival is held in May with hundreds of events including the 4 week fringe and 3 day Great Escape music festival.

Brighton offers plenty of nightlife and all within a few minutes walk.

The new I360 British Airways 162 metre observation tower opens in June 16, promising to offer fantastic views over the city and far beyond.

Relax on the Brighton Pier and look back on views along the seafront. Some of the best fish and chips are served in the Palm Court restaurant or enjoy the takeaway walking along the pier but watch out for seagulls!to pick up the phone. For Safaa Al Shakarchi, this was life for more than a year. Along with his wife, Zinah, and their two small children — 2-year-old Sidrah and 6-year-old Yousif — Safaa crossed the bridge linking Reynosa, Mexico, to McAllen, Texas, on January 14, 2017. Nearly six months had passed since the family was expelled from their adopted home in the United Arab Emirates. Zinah and Safaa had been building a life in the Gulf nation since 2009, when a militia commander in Baghdad shot Zinah and murdered her colleague, prompting her to flee Iraq.

In the months that followed the expulsion, the family’s unwelcome odyssey brought them to six countries, through multiple times zones, and across numerous borders. They endured detention at the hands of


Mexican authorities, including officials who beat Safaa as his children watched, and navigated some of the most treacherous cartel-controlled territory in the Western Hemisphere. It was not the life they had planned, but the family was at the mercy of forces beyond their control. Passports in hand, the Shakarchis presented themselves before U.S. immigration officials in Texas. Invoking a right enshrined in both U.S. and international law, they applied for asylum. While his wife and children were eventually permitted to enter the country to begin the asylum process, Safaa was not. After a long and difficult experience, he ultimately found himself locked up in Laredo, accused of no crime, with deportation orders but no country willing to accept him. We met in a harshly lit, depressing waiting roomfurnished with plastic furniture, accessed via a darkened hallway. The walls were painted a yellowish beige and featured Corrections Corporation of America promotional posters highlighting the “CCA Way” and posters urging detainees to report sexual abuse. There was nobody else in the room when the lock on the heavy metal door clicked. A short guard in a shabby, two-tone blue uniform, carrying a set of jingling keys and a squawking radio, pushed it open and Safaa walked in. Of medium height and build, dressed in a dark blue prison jumpsuit with salt-and-pepper hair, he stood tall as he entered the visiting area, moving briskly over the tile floor. When we first spoke by phone, Safaa was in the midst of his second hunger strike, part of an effort


to force the U.S. government to resolve his case. He told me that he had lost 22 pounds and that his guards had forcibly placed him in isolation for his protests, in a frigid cell where air conditioning blasted over his bed. Later that night, his wife told me Safaa had started eating again. Guards had come into his cell, she said, telling him that if he did not eat, he would be sent to another facility where he would be force-fed. Safaa took his seat across from me, folded his hands on the plastic table, and smiled politely. Physically, at least, he seemed to be relatively fine. But then he began to speak. His voice was so small, so depleted, that I could barely hear it. “I’mSafaa said. “They are very fucking bad.” The interview was scheduled for 45 minutes. Before we began, I told Safaa that I had spoken with Zinah, that she sent her love, and that she wanted him to be strong. He winced at the mention of his family. We went over, again, the chronology of events that landed him Laredo. He showed me the folder where he kept the documents he had gathered along the way, a sparse collection of government papers that did little to convey what his family had been through. As we spoke, Safaa talked again and again of the dehumanizing nature of his confinement. “I want them to respect me. I’m a human. I have kids,” he said. In conversations on the phone, Yousif, who


she had reached out to every legal organization she could find to no avail. She described how her young son was in a “bad psychic condition,” crying all the time and trying to hurt himself. “He think if he will hurt himself, his father will come to see him,” she wrote. When we first spoke two days later, Zinah described how her family had ended up in their situation. In the weeks that followed, we spoke frequently as Zinah navigated the complexities of U.S. immigration law. Throughout the process, she provided every piece of paper she could find to corroborate her family’s account, including government records from Mexico, the United States, and Canada, where she and her two young children are currently living. The narrative that emerged fromthose conversations and documents reveals how a man who has never been accused, charged, or convicted of a crime in the U.S. nonetheless found himself in indefinite detention on American soil — and the remarkable lengths his family went to in order to get him back.

Photo: Michelle Siu for The Intercept

T he story begins more than eight years ago, in Baghdad. As part of a quality-control team with the Ministry of Trade, Zinah inspected food coming into the country before it was transferred to local retailers. In June 2009, she was inspecting a container of sugar when she detected the smell of gasoline. She informed her manager that the shipment could not be approved. While her decision might seem straightforward enough, little in Baghdad, by that time, was


work, the militia made good on its threat. At first, she said, she didn’t feel the gunshot. Then she noticed the blood pumping from her right arm. The wound was shallow, and Zinah managed to flee the scene and make it to a hospital. The terror, however, had not subsided. When she returned to the office two days later to check in with friends and colleagues, Zinah encountered the distressed father of one her co-workers — his daughter, a woman named Jenan, had not returned from work the previous day. Jenan had been kidnapped from the receiving area the day after Zinah’s confrontation with the militia. Her body, bearing evidence of torture, was found in a garbage bin the following day. In the aftermath of the murder, Zinahsaid her manager encouraged her to take an extended leave of absence, reminding her that she was an unmarried virgin, and that the men she was up against were capable of anything. Hiding out and nursing her injury, Zinah was visited by her second cousin Safaa. For six years, Safaa had been living in the UAE, and like Zinah, his life had been touched by violence. In 2003, after a series of clashes with powerful figures in the Baath party, Safaa said he had helped prevent the kidnapping of a Christian neighbor’s daughters by Saddam’s sadistic son Uday. He soon fled the country. In 2006, while Safaa was in the UAE, Iraqi militants kidnapped his first wife, who was an employee with the Ministry of Defense and the


daughter of an Iraqi general working with U.S. forces at the time. She escaped her captors by throwing herself out of a moving vehicle. Safaa said the brush with death left the mother of his first three children with long-lasting psychological scars. In 2009, she asked for a divorce and subsequently moved to the U.S. with the children. During his visit in Baghdad, Safaa listened as Zinah explained what had happened with the sugar shipment. When he returned home that night, he found himself unable to sleep. His mind turned to his ex-wife, what she had endured, and the toll it had taken. Zinah would not stand down, he reasoned, no matter the threat. Unfortunately, neither would the militia. When Safaa awoke the next morning, he made adecision. He called his office in Abu Dhabi and said he needed a few more days in Baghdad. He then headed back to Zinah’s home and asked her to marry him. Zinah was surprised. She asked Safaa if he was asking because he was afraid for her. No, he said, it was because she was a brave woman. Zinah liked the answer. A week later, the pair were married at Zinah’s home, her arm still bandaged, and soon after, they left to start a life together in the Emirates. “It’s a love story,” Zinah told me, quietly laughing as she remembered those early days — nothing like the hell the family was living through now. The years that followed were happy and stable, Zinah said. Safaa had a


solid job as a maintenance manager in Abu Dhabi with some 300 employees under his supervision. Zinah eventually found work as a medical lab technician. Once or twice a year, Zinah would return to Iraq to renew her leave from work. Each time, it seemed the situation on the ground had only gotten worse. During one visit, Zinah came home to find her “friends were disappearing and the honest people were being killed.” When she arranged plans for a visit in 2013, a friend informed her that the militia commander she confronted had only grown in power — and he had not forgotten the woman who yelled at him in front of his men. Safaa, too, experienced his share of troubles in visits to Iraq, including a 2012run-in with al Hakeem militia members that led to a beating and death threats. When Safaa returned the following year, those threats persisted. He was told that if he ever returned, he would be killed. In February 2016, the Shakarchis planned a 20-day visit to their home country. Safaa’s sister was getting married, and skipping her ceremony was out of the question. Four days after arriving in Iraq, Safaa walked outside to find an envelope on his car. Inside was a bullet. The message was clear: Leave Iraq now, or die. The family flew out the next day. After so many weeks preparing for the wedding, they didn’t even have the time to say goodbye to their family and friends. It was the last time the family set


foot in Iraq.

Photo: Michelle Siu for The Intercept

L eaving forever was difficult, but life was good in the UAE. Then, in the summer of 2016, everything came crashing down. It was the holy month of Ramadan and the Shakarchis were five minutes away from breaking their fast when the phone rang. The voice on the other end of the line belonged to an official from the Criminal Investigation Department in Abu Dhabi. They wanted Safaa to come to their office, with his passport. The call wasn’t exactly a surprise. The Shakarchis are Shia, and in recent years, the UAE has systematically expelled thousands of Shia Muslims from numerous countries — including Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. During his 13 years in the UAE, Safaa had done what hecould to ward off potential displacement. He stopped going to the mosque and bought alcohol with his credit card in hopes of sending a message to the UAE’s formidable surveillance state that he was not religious. All that mattered to him, he later said, was his family, his job, and “fishing sometime in the sea in the end of the week.” Safaa knew he was fighting an uphill battle. Three years earlier, his brother had been expelled from the UAE, so when Safaa visited the CID office, he left his passport behind. The office canceled Safaa’s visa electronically nonetheless, invalidating the family’s legal status in the country. They were given 24 hours to leave. The timing was terrible. Sidrah was in the hospital at the time, suffering from


was also offering 30-day stays for Iraqis from the Gulf. From Malaysia, they flew to Japan, and from there, to Mexico City, where they had valid tourist visas. The Shakarchis landed in Mexico City on August 28, 2016. Immediately after their plane touched down, Zinah and Safaa said, Mexican immigration officials confiscated their phones and passports, telling them they could not enter the country because Safaa had previously applied for a U.S. visa. The family protested, asking why, if they were not permitted to enter the country, had the government granted them tourist visas? For six days, they waited in the airport. All the while, 3-year-old Sidrah, who had been pulled out of her medical treatment early, became increasingly ill. During their search of the Shakarchis’ belongings, theMexican officials had failed to uncover a cellphone tucked away in a bag that contained Sidrah’s diapers and baby supplies. Safaa used the phone to snap a series of photos of the room where they were being held. Connecting to airport Wi-Fi, Zinah sent the photos to her brother, who in turn got the images to an Iraqi consular official in Mexico City, who began asking questions of his Mexican counterparts. That night, Mexican authorities approached Safaa, demanding that he turn over the phone and explaining that he needed to come with them. It was nearly midnight and Safaa was afraid — he’d heard about kidnappings in Mexico and people who disappeared and never came back. He refused to go. The officials punched him and kicked him as


his children looked on. The beating aggravated an old back injury, leaving Safaa paralyzed with pain on the airport floor. A doctor was called to the scene, Safaa was given an injection, and the family was relocated to an off-site immigration detention center in Mexico City, where they remained for nearly two weeks, until the arrival of a group of English-speaking human rights workers. Throughout the ordeal, Zinah had pleaded with Mexican officials, telling them her daughter’s asthma was worsening and that she needed medical care. The human rights workers agreed the Shakarchis’ detention was unlawful, and that Sidrah urgently needed medical attention. The following day, they returned with a doctor and a lawyer. The Shakarchis were told that if they signed paperwork applying for refugee status withMexico’s Commission for Refugee Assistance, known as COMAR, they could be released. They did so and were soon moved to a facility run by a resettlement organization in Mexico City. In the four months that followed, the family was provided temporary shelter by the organization as they applied for asylum in Mexico. Without authorization to work, Safaa and Zinah became desperate. In November, the family received a letter from Mexican immigration authorities, written in Spanish and laden with legal jargon, indicating that while COMAR considered them refugees, their petition to regularize their immigration status on the basis of family bonds was inadmissible. They had until early January to figure out what to do. Homelessness in Mexico was not an option, so they decided to fly north, to the


the political context Safaa, Zinah, and their children were walking into as they crossed the bridge into McAllen. As it happened, though, they weren’t turned away at the border. Instead, Safaa ultimately landed at the Laredo Processing Center. Zinah and the kids, meanwhile, were placed in the South Texas Family Residential Center, a behemoth facility in Dilley, Texas, set up by the Obama administration to house mothers and children during a surge of Central Americans to the U.S. Both facilities are operated by CoreCivic, formerly known as Corrections Corporation of America, the nation’s second-largest private prison corporation. When a person comes to the U.S. seeking asylum, the first step in the process generally involves a conversation with a Customs and Border Protection officer, who will ask the individualZinah had no complaints about the conditions at the center in Dilley, detention was difficult. It took time just to figure out where Safaa was being held. When she finally reached him by telephone, she was in tears. “Just be patient,” Safaa said, telling his wife they would be reunited soon. Zinah and the children were released on parole after 12 days in detention, their case still open. They traveled to Dallas, where Safaa’s brother lives. He helped them find a cheap apartment and a car to get around. Based on conversations with U.S. officials at the border, Zinah expected her husband would be a couple of weeks behind her in his release. Yet those weeks turned into months. The little news Zinah received about Safaa’s situation was


not good. According to the family, Immigration and Customs Enforcement denied Safaa parole in April because he could not prove that he was not a flight risk. An ICE supervisor also denied a $25,000 bond recommendation from one of his subordinates, the family says, because of Safaa’s nationality and religion. On July 26, 2017, after more than seven months in detention, Safaa had his asylum hearing before an immigration judge. In years past, Laredo detainees would have their immigration hearings via teleconference with a judge in San Antonio. That changed following Trump’s inauguration. Under the new administration, a surge of judges was sent to the border in one- to two-week stints. Laredo set up face-to-face immigration hearings, overseen by a security guard, in March. The increased number ofjudges was designed to churn through the tide of purportedly dangerous migrants streaming across the border that Trump had warned about on the campaign trail. But after Trump was elected, Border Patrol apprehensions, the metric the government uses to gauge the flow of illegal border crossings, dropped to levels not seen since the 1970s, leaving so-called detail judges in many courts with little to do. In October, while Safaa was still in detention, a pair of reporters from the Marshall Project and “This American Life” visited the court and found the disarray there was beyond anything else seen in the wake of Trump’s surge in judges. The joint report, published in January, also highlighted the work of Paola Marielle Tostado, a 25-year-old immigration attorney, two years out of


punishment for an eminently understandable act. Safaa bonded with the men in his hall, who came from all over the world. He thought a lot about private prisons, calculating how much money the whole operation must be making. But mostly, he slept. It was the only way to turn off the world around him. As time went on, his thoughts grew darker. Sitting across the table in the Laredo detention center, he told me he had no doubt that he would be killed if he were sent back to Iraq. But even that, he said, would be preferable to the unending limbo he had found himself in. The meetings with ICE were particularly difficult, Safaa said, full of raised expectations and dashed hopes. “They just lie, lie, lie,”he said. With their attorney gone and their savings dwindling, Zinah took it upon herself to become Safaa’s primary advocate and made understanding his options her full-time job — this on top of raising two young children on her own in a country she did not know. From outside the detention center walls, she struggled with the faceless bureaucrats who kept Safaa locked up. She would call his deportation officer over and over, pressing him to find a resolution in the case. She contacted every legal organization she could find. It seemed nobody had the time or the resources to help. In a country where the immigration court backlog includes more than 650,000 cases, it’s not difficult to understand why. Zinah read about a lawsuit known as Hamama


new disclosures in the Hamama litigation was of little use to Zinah. The lawsuit offered no protections for Safaa, and that was all that mattered to her. Feeling she had exhausted all of her options, Zinah decided to take the children to Canada. She hoped doing so might provide the Americans with a viable location for Safaa’s deportation, but it also meant abandoning her open asylum case in the U.S. along the way. She booked a flight to Boston, and from there she and the kids traveled to Plattsburgh, New York. Following a route that’s become popular among asylum-seekers since Trump’s inauguration, Zinah and the children crossed the border into Quebec on August 14 and applied for asylum. The family first stayed in a cluster of tents sharedwith other asylum-seekers, many of them Haitians, who had also left the U.S. Shortly after arriving, Zinah suffered an asthma attack and was hospitalized. The family was eventually moved into a shelter and later an apartment. They were provided a lawyer and financial assistance. Yousif was enrolled in school and Sidrah in day care. In October, a week before her court hearing on her asylum case, Zinah learned that her file had been transferred to Toronto. Once again, she packed up the kids. This time, they landed in Mississauga, a Toronto suburb. With the help of an Arabic Facebook group, made up of many similarly displaced Iraqis, Zinah found a basement apartment and a car to drive. In general, Zinah said, the Canadians seemed more accommodating and friendly


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Photo: Ryan Devereaux

I t was gray, overcast, and dribbling rain when Safaa landed in New York City. He wore a black fleece, a puffy winter coat, and blue jeans. His luggage was minimal, just a rolling suitcase and a small bag. The same things he carried when he, Zinah, and the kids crossed the Mexican border into the U.S. more than one year ago. Standing outside LaGuardia Airport waiting for a taxi, Safaa spoke on his cellphone. Earlier in the day, Zinah had connected with a network of American activists working along the U.S. border with Canada, who had offered to put Safaa in touch with a driver he could trust once he got into town. The driver was now on the other end of the line. SafaaI made this feature film together with my friend Rutger Lemm, WHO I KNOW FROM HIGH SCHOOL. BACK THEN We both loved THE SHORT stories OF ISRAELI WRITER ETGAR KERET and 15 years later we decided to make a documentary on him. THE END RESULT IS A MIXTURE OF documentary filmmaking, fiction and animation.The film premiered in Amsterdam in May 2017 and IN ISRAEL at THE Haifa Film Festival WHERE IT WAS VERY WELL RECEIVED BY BOTH THE AUDIENCE AND THE PRESS. IT CONTINUES TO PLAY AT FILMFESTIVALS AND IN CINEMAS OVER THE WORLD SINCE THEN.


the grant of a directed verdict in light of the holding in Moody v. Pepsi-Cola Metro. Bottling Co., 915 F.2d 201, 209 (6th Cir.1990) (noting that word "age" written next to plaintiff's name on personnel plans was some evidence that the employer's claim that a reduction-in-force caused plaintiff's discharge was a mere pretext for discrimination). The Court, therefore, ordered that Defendant put on its proofs to further develop the scope, context and results of any discussion Mr. Pollack and Mr. Siegele may have had about possible age discrimination claims arising from the termination decisions made on November 27, 1991.
With the close of all the proofs, it turned out that the conversations between Mr. Pollack and Mr. Siegele regarding possible age discrimination claims were largely innocuous. Sometime in December,Posts

The Cashier and the Envelope: A Tale of Mindful Awareness

Once upon a time (this week on Wednesday to be exact), in a city among the hills (Atlanta), a part-time cashier spotted an envelope just off the curb of the park-and-ride deck at the international terminal of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

Puzzled, the cashier picked up the envelope and found it stuffed with $7,000 in cold hard cash (that's 70 $100 bills to be exact). Unbeknownst to her, the money belonged to a foot doctor about to board a flight to an exotic land known as Costa Rica. The good doctor, who hailed from a neighboring territory called Alabama, was completely unaware of his loss.

The cashier faced a dilemma of the moral variety. She could embrace the luck life handed her


Young Libertarians Converge on DC, State Barely Survives

This weekend, about 1,500 young libertarians arrived in the beating heart of American power for the annual conference of Students for Liberty at the Grand Hyatt in Washington DC.

The event itself has grown substantially in the last four years, taking over most of the hotel with lectures on everything from Seasteading to police militarization to libertarianism’s gender imbalance, exhibitors (including The American Conservative!), and various other activities including “Pin the Drone on the Foreign Country.”

There were not one but two tapings of “Stossel” on Saturday (episode to air Thursday), the Fox Business show hosted by the former 20/20 reporter who stopped winning Emmys when he became a libertarian. The producers keep the guests–a mix of libertarian icons and statist scapegoats–secret untilthe last minute but the lineup is always interesting. The single most entertaining moment of last year’s conference was watching John Bolton face a roomful of livid hostility. Though the students missed the chance to inquire about his support for the since-delisted terrorist group MEK–what better way to illustrate Bush-era civil liberties abuses by pointing out the possibility that a former UN ambassador had violated the PATRIOT Act?–it was nice to see him get asked the sort of questions he never gets as a Fox News contributor.

This year the show opted for a whipping boy–woman, as it was–who could at least dish it out better than Bolton did. With characteristic decorum, Ann Coulter used her introductory time to call libertarians “pussies.”

She puts it more bluntly than most, but


group profiled by them, the Reaganite Young Americans for Freedom, has somewhere around 100 chapters. SFL-ers have corrected my exact number several times, but their total affiliates number somewhere between 700 and 800, and it was founded in 2008. That puts it beyond even Students for a Democratic Society in its heyday. Ron Paul ran for president twice after Binder and Wood conducted most of their research, and it’s entirely possible that the picture they sketch bears no resemblance to right-wing student activism today.

But while they may be winning the fight on campus, the limitations of the American political system and prospects for it taking root abroad have caused the liberty movement to devote more attention to the developing world in recent years. It’s there, the thinking goes,that libertarian ideas in practice can do the greatest good, as well as challenge the dominant humanitarian aid paradigm in places like Africa that assumes the barrier to economic development is simply poverty, rather than effective liberal institutions. Projects to create free cities are in the works in several countries, though the most well-known experiment in Honduras experienced a considerable setback in the Honduran supreme court late last year. Reflecting the new focus, Sunday’s keynote speaker was Senegalese serial entrepreneur Magatte Wade, wife of noted free cities advocate Michael Strong. In a deeply moving speech that ended with tears, she exhorted libertarians to spend time outside both their country and their self-imposed intellectual ghetto, and to cultivate more of a humanistic sensibility. It struck me as having more


in a 110 acre zone with terrific success. Despite the hysterical and misleading media accounts, city-scale zones featuring higher quality law and governance are not so exotic and are likely to come into being in the next few years. Moreover, we have proposed such zones in the U.S., including in Detroit and on Native American lands.

4. Finally, in the broader war of ideas, increasing clarity around the success of free markets, guided by the rule of law, in creating prosperity is a very significant nail in the coffin of the left. In military strategy it is well-known that one should go after the enemy’s weak flank and not direct all one’s force where the enemy is strongest. Global poverty is the issue on which the left has beenA new star is born: Poland teenager Kapustka lights up Northern Ireland win

The 19-year-old looks like a star of the future after a brilliant game in midfield during Poland's 1-0 win over Northern Ireland in Nice.

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Those viral stats trending across social media before football matches always whet the appetite, none more so than numbers involving Robert Lewandowski. The striker has 34 career international goals for , while ’s entire starting line-up has just 36. Yet it wasn’t Europe’s top goalscorer who stole the show for the Poles against Michael O’Neill’s men on Sunday in their Euro 2016 opener. Nor was it the game's match-winner Arkadiusz Milik.

Instead, a new name has entered the fray alongside Lewy and co.

The little-known Bartosz Kapustka was chosen in the starting line-up on the


Exhibition: Tony Lloyd

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Artist: Tony Lloyd

Tony Lloyd has worked variously as an apprentice printer, a bank teller, a designer of blackjack mats for illegal casinos, a gardener, a barman, a telemarketer, a photocopyist, a research assistant’s assistant, a teacher and an actor in Thai music videos. He is currently an Artist and shows regularly in Melbourne, Sydney and Amsterdam. He has work in public and private collections in Australia, Europe, Japan and the U.S. Tony Lloyd lives and works in Melbourne.it is known that there may be rare stuff at a yard/book sale.

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Upon investigation, I found in the sefer Mishpetei HaTorah from Dayan Tzvi Shpitz Chelek 2:26 a similar type case.
He relates that Reuvein found an old copy of the Rambam in genizah. He then sold it to an antique seller for 1000 shekalim. The antique seller then noticed after the sale that there are handwritten notes on the side of the sefer with the signature of the Rama. Now the sefer is worth 50,000 shekalim. The question he was asked was this a mekach taus. Dayan Shpitz answered that antiques, in general, do not have set prices, but fluctuate from time to time and therefore the halachos of onaa do not come into play. However, he


and continuing until her death in 1918, Strauss wrote a regular weekly column for the Indianapolis News as "The Country Contributor." Her first article in the News, "The Short and Simple Annals of the Poor," was published on November 21, 1903. Her final weekly column, "In Defense of Exaggeration," was published on May 25, 1918, two days after her death. Strauss's writing stressed the importance of a supportive home life and the joys of rural and small town life. She did not encourage women to become active in women's rights movement in the early twentieth century. Instead, Strauss was supportive of women's role in domestic life, but she also encouraged women to retain their individuality.

The Ladies' Home Journal began publishing Strauss's monthly column, "The Ideas of a PlainBelgium's king accepts Yves Leterme's resignation

Belgium's King Albert has accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Yves Leterme's government after the collapse of the ruling coalition, officials say.

A statement from the palace said Deputy Prime Minister Didier Reynders had asked to be relieved of his mission to mediate in the political crisis.

Mr Leterme offered his resignation last week after a liberal Flemish party quit the government.

It was the third time he had offered his resignation since July 2008.

The palace statement said that the king had asked Mr Leterme to stay on in a caretaker capacity.

After receiving Mr Leterme's resignation last Thursday, the king did not immediately accept it but instead asked Mr Reynders - a French speaker - to mediate. When Mr Reynders asked on Monday to be relieved


of his mission, the government's resignation was accepted.

Mr Leterme said in a statement: "I regret that the necessary dialogue to achieve a negotiated settlement did not produce the result we hoped for."

Snap elections

Analysts say elections could take place in June - just before Belgium is due to begin its six-month presidency of the EU.

The five-month-old coalition collapsed after the Open VLD party withdrew over a long-running dispute on the special voting rights of French speakers living in Dutch-speaking areas near the capital Brussels.

Differences between the Dutch-speaking Flemish majority and French-speaking Walloon minority often threaten Belgian governments, but analysts have described the current crisis as particularly acute.

This page is best viewed in an up-to-date web browser with style sheets (CSS) enabled. While you will be able to view theFIRE chiefs are planning to set up their own company to bring in funds as they try to offset £14m of spending cuts.

FIRE chiefs are planning to set up their own company to bring in funds as they try to offset £14m of spending cuts.

Tyne and Wear Fire Authority members were yesterday asked to agree a new round of potential cost-saving measures as the latest projections reveal the £4.5m of cuts already taken from the brigade are just a taste of what is to come.

The force will now look again at spending cuts including a reduction in the number of fire engines, reducing fire prevention work with teenagers and young offenders and, in an attempt to plug the funding gap, the creation of a new company selling fire


safety services.

At a meeting to discuss the moves, fire authority members also raised the possibility of station cuts, with members asking if Private Finance Initiative-built fire stations would need to have their contracts bought out ahead of any potential closure. Fire crews already raise some income through charging for services such as additional firefighting training courses.

But fire and rescue services are not allowed under law to trade, and to roll this out further they would need to set up a trading company, a move which has been tried in other areas.

Behind the move is the latest funding projections which show that by 2017 the force is likely to have seen some 30% of its grant slashed, with around £12m to £14m going.

Already the cuts have led to staffingact evidencing the continuing practice falls within the limitations period;  in such an instance, the court will grant relief for the earlier related acts that would otherwise be time barred.")  (emphasis added).

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A brief recitation of the facts in the case is necessary in order to assess whether the wrongful acts alleged by Lewis were continuous, similar, and inseparable.  The incidents began in July of 1988 when Lewis first discovered hot sauce in his thermos.  In August of 1988, Deutsche wired an electric fencer to an empty desk occasionally used by a number of employees on the second floor.  After receiving a shock from the electric fencer, Lewis reported this incident to a supervisor.  In response, U.S. West suspended Deutsche for one and


one half days without pay, warned against similar future conduct, and required him to forfeit the electric fencer.  Later in August of 1988, Deutsche placed a sign on a broken radio which said "THIS RADIO CLOSELY PARALLELS ROGAR [sic].  IT DOESN'T WORK EITHER."   In the same month, several copies of an employee suggestion form were posted at the U.S. West office, stating that U.S. West should fire Lewis for malingering and other reasons.  In November of 1988, Lewis reported to a supervisor that he believed some jumper wires had been cut and perhaps sabotaged.  U.S. West responded by holding a meeting with Lewis' fellow office technicians concerning the cutting of the jumper wires, after which there were no more immediate incidents.

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The nextalleged act of harassment occurred 35 months later, in October of 1991, when co-employee Charlie Sands purportedly placed a notice on the employee bulletin board ridiculing Lewis for having spent his vacation in constructing "Condos for Christ," a derogatory reference to his participation in a church-related activity building housing for the underprivileged in Mexico.

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Approximately thirteen months later, on November 3, 1992, the most serious incidents began.  Lewis noticed the odor of dog feces in the area of the desk he shared with Deutsche and Don Lewis.  The smell gradually faded over the next several days.  A few days later the smell became very strong again and Lewis located fresh dog feces in a magnetic key holder under the desk.  Lewis moved the holder to


another desk in the area and at the end of his shift he returned it to the desk he shared.

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On November 10, 1992, upon reporting for work between 3:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., Deutsche discovered a piece of dog feces in the desk drawer where he kept his eating utensils.  Another employee informed Deutsche that Lewis was responsible, and Deutsche retaliated by placing the piece of dog feces in Lewis' thermos.  Lewis took a drink of tea from his thermos.  Beginning the next day, Lewis began experiencing symptoms of diarrhea.  Lewis did not report the incident to his supervisor until the next day, at which time the supervisor talked with Deutsche about Lewis' claim and warned Deutsche not to harass Lewis.  Shortly afterthe dog feces incident, Deutsche wrote one note on the company bulletin board referring to a dog "shit[ting]" in a thermos and another note on the company blackboard which stated "shit happens."

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On November 16, 1992, U.S. West relocated the Alarm Center from the second to the sixth floor.  Two of the employees Lewis claimed had harassed him, Charlie Sands and Jim Brooks, remained on the second floor.  After he was moved to the sixth floor, the only harassment Lewis contends he experienced was the removal of pens and pencils from his desk on one occasion.  Lewis resigned the next month.

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Because the first set of incidents relied upon by Lewis as supporting his claims commenced and ceased in 1988, the statute of limitations for this conduct


the meaning of the worker's compensation law.

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Lewis next disputes the district court's finding that U.S. West did not provoke or authorize the wrongful conduct of its employees.  Lewis argues that because U.S. West knew of the propensities of Deutsche and others to engage in malicious horseplay, U.S. West provoked or authorized its employees' physical aggression.  This assertion is not supported by the undisputed facts in the record.  As a result of Lewis' reports of the harassing conduct by his co-employees, U.S. West took corrective actions, such as suspending Deutsche without pay and holding a meeting to reprimand the workers in order to curb the employee horseplay.  Lewis does not allege that any harassing conduct occurred for almost three years following U.S. West's remedial actionregarding the 1988 incidents.  Upon being advised by Lewis of the dog feces incident in 1992, U.S. West again addressed the problem by warning Deutsche and relocating Lewis.  Lewis did not complain of any further acts of harassment after his relocation, other than removal of pens and pencils from his desk, in his final six weeks of employment.  The record thus shows that U.S. West took corrective action each time Lewis reported an incident.  Lewis never filed a grievance nor did he request a transfer.  Accordingly, Lewis has failed to demonstrate that U.S. West provoked or authorized the wrongful conduct of its employees.

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Lewis' remaining contentions pertaining to the exclusive remedy provisions of the worker's compensation law may be dismissed without extensive discussion.


apply in any case where the injury or death is proximately caused by the wilful or unprovoked physical aggression of the employer, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, the loss of such exemption applying only to the aggressor and shall not be imputable to the employer unless provoked or authorized by the employer, or the employer was a party thereto.

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 There were two agreements between U.S. West and the Communications Workers of America.  The first was effective August 13, 1989 through August 15, 1992, and the second was effective August 16, 1992 until the time of Lewis' separation

Judo powerhouse nation Brazil will return as a host of an IJF World Judo Tour event for the first time since 2013 when it stages a new Grand Slam competition in Brasilia from 6-8 October.

The Brazilian Judo Confederation (CBJ), which last hosted the 2013 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, has a long and storied tradition in the sport as one of judo’s leading nations and are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year.

Brazil hosted the fourth edition of the World Judo Championships in 1965 and held subsequent editions in 2007 and 2013 in the same city. The South American nation also staged a Grand Slam in Rio from 2009 to 2012 and a World Team Championships in Salvador de Bahia in 2012.

Brasilia will join Paris (France), Düsseldorf (Germany),


defendant at the residence of his "ex-common-law wife," Rose Mesa Juarez. Mrs. Juarez lived in a two-story dwelling with her six children. Defendant resided with his brother a few blocks away, but visited Mrs. Juarez's nearly every day to see his two daughters.
 The record contains conflicting evidence as to the manner in which the police entered Mrs. Juarez's home and arrested defendant. Officer Jensen and Sergeants Vernon and Slagle apparently approached the dwelling from the front; the other three officers went to the rear. The officers at the front knocked on the door and, at some point, entered the premises through that door. Because of conflicting testimony, however, we cannot know exactly when and by what means they entered. Sergeant Ginder testified that he was looking throughthe screen door at the rear when Officer Jensen knocked at the front door. He said that he saw defendant "moving rapidly through the kitchen," and that he "opened the screen door and grabbed him." As to what next occurred Sergeant Ginder testified, "At that time Mr. Jensen and the officers that were at the front door were coming through the front door. ..." Sergeant Slagle testified that he watched the two officers enter the front door and that he then entered through the rear door following the other officers. Defendant testified that he was in the kitchen with Mrs. Juarez and her sister when the police suddenly *390 entered and arrested him. He said that one of the officers who came in the rear door then unlocked


hand, both Mrs. Juarez and her sister testified that the police did not ask for, and Mrs. Juarez did not give, permission to search. They both indicated that Mrs. Juarez was considerably upset at the time.
 The search resulted in the discovery of the heroin introduced against defendant at his trial. After approximately one and a half hours, the officers discovered a child's pair of trousers; in the pockets they found heroin. They confronted defendant with it; he admitted it was his. At the trial defendant testified that he told the officers the heroin belonged to him in order to protect the people in the house from arrest.
 The trial court rejected defendant's objection to the introduction into evidence of the heroin. Defendant contended that Mrs. Juarez hadparole officer went to the residence of Rose Juarez, where she was living with her six young children, and where defendant was visiting, to arrest him for a parole violation. So far as the evidence shows, the officers then knew that defendant had a narcotic conviction, was on parole, and that he had missed a Nalline test required as a condition of parole. They also had reason to believe that he was visiting Mrs. Juarez, his former common-law wife. The evidence does not show that they knew or had reason to believe that defendant was presently in possession of narcotics, or had recently associated with known narcotic addicts.
 Two officers went to the front door of the Juarez residence, and four to the rear. One of the officers


The Last Drop of Water

The Last Drop of Water  is a 1911 American short silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet. Three known prints of the film survive. It was filmed in the San Fernando desert as well as Lookout Mountain, California. The film was considered the "most ambitious film made by Griffith during the California trip of 1911" before the Biograph company moved back to New York. It was filmed on or between the 14 May and May 20, 1911. It was reissued by Biograph August 13, 1915.

Cast
 Blanche Sweet as Mary
 Charles West as Jim
 Robert Harron as In Wagon Train
 Dell Henderson as Undetermined Role
 Alfred Paget as An Indian / In Wagon Train
 Francis J. Grandon as John's FriendCiPCA was funded by the North Staffordshire Primary Care Research Consortium and the National Coordinating Centre for Research Capacity Development. Christian Mallen is funded by an Arthritis Research UK Clinician Scientist Award.

Ethical approval: Use of the CiPCA database for anonymised patient research was granted by the North Staffordshire Research Ethics Committee.

Conflict of interest: none.

The authors would like to thank The Keele GP Research Partnership and the Informatics team at the Arthritis Research UK Primary Care Centre.


Betty Alexander did not voluntarily walk away from her home. She is not living on the streets homeless, not knowing who she is or where she lives. Betty did not walk into the woods and perish from the elements in a state of dementia. She did not accept a ride from a trucker in a state of confusion.

The last confirmed sighting of Betty was around 3:00pm on Wednesday, April 10th, 2019. It’s believed she was abducted between the hours of 7:00pm that evening and Noon the following day. She was last seen at her apartment located at 6 South Center Street in Sullivan Missouri. This is not a retirement community or an assisted living facility.

Betty is 69 years old. She is a white female, 5′ 2″ tall, 145pounds, with brown hair with blonde all-over highlights and blue eyes. She wears her hair at shoulder length. It’s unknown what clothing she wore. She does not have her eyeglasses.

Betty resided at the Center Street Apartments in Sullivan. She and her husband Don moved there four years ago. Don passed on only two days before Christmas 2018 leaving Betty in a more vulnerable state as he had handled most of their affairs. Betty continued to live in the apartment after her husband’s passing and had recently made future plans to move in with her daughter.

Just prior to her husband’s passing Betty had updated her hairstyle with blonde highlights at his request. She had also lost weight as her weight does fluctuate from time to time. The photo below


unknown if Cathy also visited with her uncle Jerry that night.

When Sunday rolled around Tonya called her Mother as she drove to the apartment to pick her up for their arranged outing. Her call went unanswered. When she arrived Betty didn’t answer her knock at the door. The door was locked so Tonya used her key to enter.

There was no sign of Betty. Her eyeglasses were unfolded and rested upside down on the arm of the reclining seat of the sofa where Betty always sat and sometimes napped. She couldn’t function without those glasses. An outfit hung separately from the others in Betty’s closet. She would often choose her outfit for the following day and hang it separately for convenience. Betty’s purse was in the closet where shewas a man standing behind Betty that appeared ‘scraggly’. Who was this man? Did he drive Betty there that day? Or was he simply a stranger standing behind her? His description didn’t appear to match anyone her daughter was aware of and she wasn’t aware of anyone who took Betty to run errands. It was highly unusual for Betty to walk away from her apartment or run errands on her own. There were allegedly no cameras at City Hall or surrounding businesses.

Regardless of the stranger or her means of travel, Betty arrived home safely that afternoon.

The housekeeper arrived around Noon. She brought Betty a box of food from a local food pantry. She later noted that Betty had seemed fine and had even commented that she was sleeping


not own a vehicle. There are no surveillance cameras at the apartment complex.

The only sign of potential force was the positioning of Betty’s glasses and a long deep scratch in the glass of Betty’s storm door. The cap to a syringe was later found in the front yard but it is unknown if it’s related to the disappearance. Fingerprints were never taken. Luminal was later used with a negative result.

The only item missing, besides Betty, was the one new box of Fentanyl patches. Betty received a delivery of two boxes of Fentanyl patches and other non-opioid medications that day. The bag of medication, including the other box of Fentanyl patches, was found in the home, seemingly untouched. These two boxes would cover April and May. The empty Marchjust days before the disappearance. Allegedly, just five days or so before Betty disappeared, Cathy’s uncle Jerry saw framed family photos of Dave and Cathy in the complex’s dumpster. Believing Betty threw them away he allegedly gave the photos to his niece Cathy. Betty was sentimental when it came to photos. Why would she throw photos of her son and his family in the dumpster? Did someone else remove them from the apartment and throw them away? Was there a riff between Betty and her son and/or his wife?

Betty’s circle is small. She had no known regular visitors outside of her children and delivery workers – Meals on Wheels, a housekeeper a physical therapist and Sinks Pharmacy.

Had anyone unusual visited recently? Was anyone working in the area in


area at the time.

Sullivan investigators and the PI have not identified the ‘scraggly’ man seen standing behind Betty at City Hall the day she likely disappeared. Is this man connected to her disappearance? Who drove her to City Hall or did she walk? Did someone offer to take her out to run errands? This person may hold some insight into Betty’s disappearance.

Along with the cadaver and scent dogs investigators also used drones and helicopters equipped with infrared to search for Betty. Volunteers searched door-to-door as well as conducted searches in nearby wooded areas. Nothing was found.

The PI was able to locate two witnesses, Fidelity employees, who claim to have seen Betty around 5:00pm Thursday evening, the day after it’s speculated she disappeared. The witnesses recall that she wasone to four weeks and consists of the following:

First floor is constructed and the walls are started

Once the first-floor walls are up, construction begins on the second-floor system, (if applicable), using engineered floor joists

As the second floor is finished, roof trusses arrive at the homesite

When the rook trusses are in place, the entire roof is installed

Quality Checkpoint: During the framing stage, there are three separate checkpoints: The frame of the house is checked for correct sizing, squareness and workmanship.


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Raymond Ibrahim reported:

A man was kneeling in prayer before the statue of the revered Madonna, with the photograph of a loved one in hand, in the small chapel of St. Barnabas in Perugia (Italy), when he was attacked by five “immigrants.”

The first thing they did was rip the photo from his hands.

Next they unleashed their hatred against the image of the Virgin Mary. They broke the statue to pieces and then urinated on it.

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Don Scarda, pastor of St. Barnabas, said the event was led by five “foreigners.” By the time police arrived at the


first, that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions; and second, that the trial court erred in giving a jury instruction which allegedly comments improperly on the appellants' failure to testify.  We affirm as to Warren and Claborn and reverse as to Epperson and Easley.

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On July 29, 1972, United States Customs Agent Macias commenced a surveillance of Warren and Claborn which led him to a motel in Yuma, Arizona.  Warren and Claborn were registered in room 12, and the Chrysler they had been driving was in the parking lot in front of their room.

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The surveillance was discontinued on the morning of July 30, but resumed that evening, at which time Agent Macias discovered a Buick parked next to the Chrysler.  Later, when the doorto room 12 was left open, he observed that Easley and Epperson were in the motel room with Warren and Claborn.

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At 12:30 a. m. on the morning of July 31, a Chevrolet bearing Mexican license plates arrived at the motel parking lot.  The driver backed the Chevrolet up to the Chrysler so that the trunks of the two cars were facing each other.  The driver got out of the car and walked directly to room 12, knocked and went in.  Two minutes later Warren and Claborn exited from the room with the unidentified driver of the Chevrolet.  The trunks of the two cars were opened and Warren and Claborn transferred two burlap sacks from the trunk of the Chevrolet to the trunk of the


Chrysler.

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During the transfer, Easley was standing at the door of room 12 and looking in the direction of the cars which were approximately ten yards away.  Epperson was walking around in the room.

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After the transfer, the Chevrolet drove off and Warren and Claborn returned to the room.  Ten minutes later all four appellants, Warren and Claborn in the Chrysler and Easley and Epperson in the Buick, began to drive out of the parking lot.  At this point the cars were stopped and searched by the customs agents.

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Sixty-three pounds of marijuana were discovered in two burlap sacks in the trunk of the Chrysler and a walkie-talkie tuned to Channel 1 was found on the front seat.  No marijuana was located in the Buick, but anotherEasley, at 12:30 a. m., were at the motel room with defendants Warren and Claborn when the driver of the Chevrolet (the original car carrying the marijuana) knocked and entered the room.

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(2) Easley watched, from the door, the transfer of two burlap sacks from the Chevrolet to the Chrysler, while Epperson was walking around the room.  The door of the motel room was open at this time and approximately 30 ft. distant.

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(3) After the transfer of the marijuana into defendants' (Claborn and Warren) Chrysler, they returned to the motel room with Epperson and Easley and ten minutes thereafter all four came out of the room and began putting articles and clothes into the trunk of the Buick.

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(4) The four returned to the room several times and then


Claborn and Warren got into the Chrysler and Epperson and Easley into the Buick, with Easley driving, Easley starting out of the parking lot first and the Chrysler following immediately.

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(5) Each car had a walkie-talkie of the same make and tuned to the same channel.

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When one considers the time of night, the persons present, the activities engaged in and the close proximity of each of the participants in the criminal transaction, one can only conclude that there existed more than "mere presence" at the scene by Epperson and Easley, and there was, rather, sufficient evidence for the jury to conclude that Epperson and Easley were active participants in the commission of the crime and not merely there as spectators.

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 Honorable Samuel Conti, United States District Judge, San Francisco,of patients and their events extracted from multiple database tables from the EHR.

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The adult ED is part of a larger hospital system in Colorado and serves as an educational site nearly 1,800 nursing and medical students, residents, fellows, and allied health students at the University of Colorado Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus. The hospital and its affiliated clinics provide health care services to an ethnically diverse population located in the Rocky Mountain region. The patient volume at the adult ED consists of approximately 100,000 visits per year.

The pediatric ED consists ofs the main ED and four satellite EDs. The patient volume at the main ED consists of approximately 70,000 visits per year and the four satellite pediatric EDs account for approximately 60,000 visits per year. This pediatric ED is