on its inquiry
into a private member s bill entitled the Building and Construction
Industry (Restoring Workplace Rights) Bill 2008 (the private member
s bill).[3] That bill
sought to repeal both the Building and Construction Industry
Improvement Act 2005 (BCII Act) and the Building and
Construction Industry Improvement (Consequential and Transitional)
Act 2005. In considering the terms of the private member s
bill the Senate Committee also reviewed industrial issues
pertaining to regulation of the Building and Construction
industry.

The Rudd
Government had earlier requested the Hon. Murray Wilcox QC to
consult and report on matters related to the creation of a
specialist division, called the Building and Construction Division
(BCD) of the one-stop-industrial shop , Fair Work Australia
(FWA).[4]

FWA had been
outlined in Australian Labor Party (ALP) election policy (discussed
below) as the agency to incorporate most of the industrial and
workplace regulatory agencies established since1997. FWA came into
operation on 1 July 2009, following the enactment of the Fair
Work Act 2009. Mr Wilcox presented his Discussion Paper in
October 2008 and his report on the proposed BCD of FWA (the Wilcox
Report) was released by Minister Gillard in March 2009. Its
recommendations are central to the proposed operation of this
Bill.[5]

The issues
outlined below cover: the main findings of the Cole Royal
Commission, a summary of the BCII Act, the ALP s election position
on the ABCC, the recommendations in the Wilcox Report on the
functions and powers for a proposed Building and Construction
Division of FWA (replacing the ABCC) and views of key organisations
on the BCII Act and its replacement under this Bill, including the
view of the ABC Commissioner, Mr Lloyd on the Wilcox
recommendations.

The existing BCII Act was drafted in response
to


persons working on major construction sites must
belong to an appropriate union The policy has been enshrined, at
least in the south-eastern states and the A.C.T. in the no ticket
no start agreements The policy is embraced by both employer and
employee organisations alike.[12]

What had changed between the Winneke Royal
Commission and the Cole Royal Commission were the legislative
provisions of the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (WR Act)
curbing the closed shop and milder forms of union security
agreements. In particular the freedom of association provisions
which supported non association, prohibition on strike pay,
prohibition on coercion to enter into enterprise bargaining and the
prohibition on union bargaining fees (in lieu of union
membership).

Nevertheless, the perception of the
infringement of these provisions resulted in the Cole Royal
Commission calling for cultural change in the form of:

recognition by all participants that the rulefor the building and construction
industry.[26]

the proposed Specialist Division be located within the Office of
the Fair Work Ombudsman but have:

operational autonomy under a Director, appointed by the
Minister, who would implement policies, programs and priorities
determined by an advisory board comprising the Fair Work Ombudsman,
the Director and a number of part-time members appointed by the
Minister; and

funds allocated each year against an Outcome related only to
the Specialist Division.[27]

the provisions of the Fair Work Bill governing:

the conduct

a notice to a person compulsorily to attend for interrogation
be issued only by a presidential member of the Administrative
Appeals Tribunal who is satisfied by written material, which may
include evidence on the basis of information and belief , that:

the Building and Construction Division has commenced an
investigation into a particular suspected contravention, by one or
more building industry participants, of


associations; and

penalties for contraventions of the Fair Work Bill;

apply, unchanged, to participants in the building and
construction industry.[28]

the Director of the Building and Construction Division be
invested with a power, similar to that contained in section 52 of
the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act
2005, to cause people compulsorily to attend for
interrogation, but subject to the safeguards contained in
Recommendation 4; and

the grant of this power be reviewed after five years;

in order to ensure review, the provisions in the new
legislation providing for compulsory interrogation be made subject
to a five-year sunset clause.[29]

the use of compulsory interrogation be subject to the following
safeguards:

the Director or a Deputy Director of the Building and
Construction Division preside at all compulsory
interrogations;

the Commonwealth Ombudsman monitor proceedings at all
compulsory interrogations and for that purpose the Director:

promptly notify the Commonwealth Ombudsman ofexcluding
off-site work.[32]

the Director of the Building and Construction Division have all
the functions, powers and responsibilities, in relation to the
building and construction industry , as defined in the new
legislation, that the Fair Work Ombudsman has in respect of other
industries; including, in particular, investigation of suspected
unlawful behaviour by any building industry participant (whether
employer, employee or industrial association) and the prosecution
of penalty and other legal proceedings.[33]

Except perhaps in rural and remote areas, the Building and
Construction Division have its own dedicated operational staff,
including inspectors.[34]

ACCI lodged a formal submission to the Senate
Education Employment and Workplace Relations Committee (the Senate
EEWR Committee) urging that the Bill be blocked. ACCI does not
support proposals that would, in its view:

remove existing unlawful industrial action and penalty
provisions

remove the current ability for a successful party to recoup
legal costs

automatically repeal the


the ABCC's success to date, ACCI
does not consider the case has been made to change the existing
laws.[35]

Most of the WR Act prohibitions cited earlier
have been found to run squarely against relevant International
Labour Organisation conventions.[36] Australia has been urged repeatedly by the ILO to
bring its industrial laws into conformity with the ILO conventions
which it has signed. At the 98th session of the ILO s International
Labour Conference, the Committee of Experts on the Application of
Conventions and Recommendation (CEACR) reiterated its concerns over
Australian labour law and the BCII Act 2005 specifically. The CEACR
noted, at that time, that the newly elected Rudd Government had
informed the CEACR of its commitment to address issues it has
raised with regard to the BCII Act.

Building industry. In its previous
comments, the Committee, taking note of the conclusions and
recommendationsBCII Act, as the intervention right has been
exercised frequently, in 93 AIRC cases and 15 court cases, and
courts and tribunals are sometimes unaware of the full range of
legal obligations and rights arising under labour laws.

In a joint submission
to the Senate EEWR Committee inquiry into the Bill, the combined
construction unions consisting of the CFMEU, AMWU, AWU and CEPU
maintain the view that there should be no specific industrial
regulation covering the building and construction industry.[49] The combined
construction unions urge the Senate EEWR Committee to recommend an
immediate repeal of the BCII Act, enabling the FW Act to regulate
the industry.[50]

They argue that allegations of criminal
conduct have been raised by the media, by the Federal Opposition,
by employer groups and by the federal Minister for Education
Employment and Workplace Relations to justify retention of the BCII
Act.


(the
Building Inspectorate). The staff of the Building Inspectorate
would be engaged under the Public Service Act 1999
(proposed section 26K).

The Building Inspectorate would be headed by a
Director appointed by the Minister (proposed section
9). The Director's functions are set out in
proposedsection 10 and include
the functions of promoting harmonious, productive and cooperative
workplace relations in the building industry and promoting
compliance with designated building laws[66] and the Building Code including by
providing education, assistance and advice to building industry
participants. The Director s functions are drafted broadly. Amongst
other things, he/she may:

investigate suspected contraventions of a designated building
law, a safety net contractual entitlement or the Building Code

institute court proceedings or make applications to FWA
regarding building laws or safety net contractual entitlements as
they relate to building industry participants

refer matters to other relevant authorities

provide representation to a building industrymake recommendations to
the Director on policies to guide the performance of the office's
functions and exercise of its powers, its priorities and programs,
and any other matter at the request of the Minister
(proposed section 24). The Advisory Board would be
comprised of the Director, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), and up to
five other part-time members, including one each from a union and
employer background, to be appointed by the Minister
(proposed sections 25 and 26).
Terms and conditions of appointment and the processes regarding the
Advisory Board s role are set out in proposed sections
26 to 26H. There must be at least two
meetings in each financial year and a quorum for meetings is to
consist of the Chair, the Director and the FWO.[77]

The construction unions submission supports
the introduction of an Advisory Board, noting that its constitution
of


ACCC, ATO and ASIO that have similar powers, as a justification
for their ongoing use.

Challenging this argument, the Law Institute
of Victoria and Professor George Williams share the view of the
Wilcox Report which states:

All the other Australian statutory authorities
holding powers of coercive interrogation are concerned with matters
of major public importance: national security, the management of
the national economy and national tax system, the suspected corrupt
behaviour of public officials and the suspected misconduct of
police officers. Generally speaking, although not always, the
suspected behaviour would amount to serious criminality. In
contrast, a notice may be given under section 52 of the BCII Act in
order to obtain information relevant to an investigation concerning
conduct that may not be, and usually is not, a criminal offence;
but merely a contravention of an industrial statute or industrial
instrument.[109]

The Law Institute ofwhich they can be made is anomalous and
unwieldy. They point out that large projects commencing just prior
to these amendments with a potential life of many years would be
unable to be excluded from the application of the coercive powers
even where the record of compliance was exemplary.[117]

Item 69 repeals Division 2 of
Part 2 of Chapter 7 of the Act (which deals with the appointment
and powers of ABC Inspectors) and replaces it with proposed
sections 59 to 59G which provide for the
appointment and powers of Fair Work Building Industry Inspectors
(inspectors).

Under proposed section 59,
the Director may appoint employees or office holders of the
Commonwealth, or a State or Territory as inspectors. The Director
may only appoint a person as an inspector if satisfied he/she is of
good character. The Director is also an inspector by force


around the king and blow him back to safety on top of the decimated sorceress' tower.

The shards of magic form a swirling vortex in the sky, which rips a gash in the very fabric of reality. Whoops.

King Ralph the XI stands before you in all his regal glory. "I'm sorry, adventurer," he says, "but the king is in another castle." Then he breaks into a hearty chuckle. "Well done, adventurer! You laid the smack down on that skank with admirable derring-do and panache. I am eternally in your debt."

The Sorceress' Tower (Top)

A scintillating, vibrating hole in the very fabric of reality floats just above the ruins of the sorceress' chamber. Looking at it makes your eyes hurt a little bit, and the high-pitched whistling noise coming out ofthat joined the two armies during the battle for the Nearby Plains. The symptoms described sound eerily similar to the plague that's been infecting our population in the present time.

The bad news is: the journal says that, left uncured, the Gray Plague turns those infected with it into mindless, slavering zombies. The good news is: the military doctors were able to formulate a vaccine for the Gray Plague. The other bad news is: the primary ingredient for the cure is a certain gland found in the heads of the aforementioned zombies.

However, we've been able to come up with a solution. Don't ask how, but we've managed to create a rift that leads to a temporal location of our choosing, to wit: the Seaside Town, 28 days from now,


A new species of Hisonotus (Siluriformes: Loricariidae) from Aripuanã river, Amazon basin, Brazil.
A new species of Hisonotus from rio Juma, located at the right margin of the lower rio Aripuanã, rio Madeira basin is described. The new species is distinguished from its congeners mainly by a reddish-tipped premaxillary and dentary teeth, a V-shaped spinelet, three lateral plates in abdominal series, the coloration pattern of caudal fin with three transversal dark bars, and by morphometric characters.A tree ignites as firefighters attempt to stop flames from the Pawnee fire from jumping across highway 20 near Clearlake Oaks, California on July 1, 2018.

There's no relief in sight for stubborn wildfires flaring all over the Western U.S., including one that began Saturday in northern California that forced the evacuation of hundreds of people northwest of Sacramento.

The National Weather Service also warned Monday in a tweet about a "very dangerous heat wave with elevated to potentially critical fire weather conditions" that is forecast later this week and into the weekend in portions of southern and central California. It forecast triple-digit temperatures in several areas on Friday and Saturday across several California counties, including portions of Los Angeles.

Heading into the Fourth of July holiday, authorities are preparing for


the Independence Day holiday. The Forest Service is working with its interagency partners to be prepared for potential increases in the fire activity by strategically staging smokejumpers, engines, crews and equipment to reduce response time."

As of Monday, about 60 wildfires burned throughout the U.S. on more than 504,000 acres of federal, state and private land, according to the National Interagency Fire Center. That is up about 25 percent in terms of acreage from a year ago.

In California, at least 10 wildfires are burning throughout the state.

"Right now we're over 300 fires more than we had at this time last year in California," said Cal Fire Battalion Chief Lucas Spellman. "We just didn't stop from last year, when we even had big fires in December."

Last December's Thomas fire insouthern California scorched more than 281,000 acres, a record for the state.

The largest blaze at present in the Golden State is the so-called County fire that began Saturday and as of Monday afternoon had exploded to 60,000 acres, according to Cal Fire. More than 2,115 crews are battling the blaze in three counties, Yolo, Napa and Lake, all now back in drought conditions.

The fast-moving County fire, fueled primarily by tall grass and brush, was 5 percent contained as of Monday afternoon. There's also the nearly 15,000-acre Pawnee fire burning about 40 miles away in Lake County. It started June 23 and so far has destroyed 22 structures and threatens 50 structures. As of Monday, Pawnee was 75 percent contained.

"More land has already burned in California in the first


six months of this year than during the same period last year," California Gov. Jerry Brown said in a release late Monday. "Cal Fire has already fought more than 53,000 acres of wildfire this year compared to an average of 23,000 acres over the same time in previous years.

Brown also issued a statement with legislative leaders on the formation of a wildlife preparedness and response conference committee and plans to amend legislation to "help prepare the state to deal with the increasingly extreme weather and natural disasters caused by climate change."

Meantime, at least eight wildfires are burning across Colorado and six in Utah. Crews also are battling blazes in eastern Washington and southwest Oregon.

One of the largest wildfires burning in the West is the Spring Creek fire insouthern Colorado, which has charred more than 56,000 acres and as of Monday morning was 5 percent contained. Authorities believe the blaze was human-caused and Saturday announced on Facebook a Danish man had been arrested and was being held on arson charges.

The so-called 416 fire outside Durango, Colorado, has burned more than 49,000 acres. It started June 1 and was 37 percent contained as of Monday.

So far this year, a total of 29,111 wildfires have burned a total of 2,534,701 acres of federal, state and private land nationwide, according to the NIFC. That exceeds the 10-year average number of acres of 2,285,234 burned by this date but lags in the number of fires.

Fire experts see continued danger of major wildfires throughout the summer due to heat, dry conditions


and millions of dead trees that provide added fuel for large blazes. In California alone, the Forest Service estimates there are about 129 million dead trees on nearly 9 million acres of land. Most of the dead trees are in the central and southern Sierra Nevada region of California, and insect attacks and drought are to blame for the high numbers.

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Light-induced maculopathy from the operating microscope in extracapsular cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation.
A characteristic macular lesion has been noted in six patients who underwent extracapsular cataract extraction with posterior chamber lens implantation. The lesion appeared similar to that which other investigators have produced in monkeys as a response to the coaxial illumination of the operating microscope. On the first or second postoperative day, the lesion appeared as an oval area of mild yellow-white discoloration of the retina; gradually it developed mottled pigmentation over the next few weeks. The pigmentary changes were often subtle, but fluorescein angiography revealed a characteristic sharply circumscribed lesion. In most of our patients the lesion was just above or below the foveola, so that central vision returned to normal, but a paracentral scotoma

Faiez Abed Jahwareh pictured with his son.

The mayor of Alqosh, Nineveh Plain, Faiez Abed Jahwareh was arbitrarily detained yesterday on Sunday, July 15, 2018 by Kurdistan Regional Government political police and intelligence services known as the Asayish.

Jahwareh was arrested without warrant at his office and taken to an unknown location at approximately 10:30am. This was the first time Jahwareh reported for duty after the Governor of Nineveh enforced a Federal Court order reinstating him as Mayor of Alqosh. Multiple eyewitnesses were present.

An eyewitness reported to the API that Asayish officers threatened the town hall staff, warning them against recognizing Jahwareh as the town’s mayor. An Asayish officer also reportedly declared in front of staff members that the area [Alqosh] was under the control of the Kurdistan Democratic Party


(KDP) and that they [the KDP] will “decide what happens in Alqosh.”

Jahwareh was released around 2:00pm that afternoon. Sources close to him reported to the API today that he was severely beaten. The API can confirm that this is the second time Jahwareh has been detained by Asayish since his removal from office.

Last year, on July 16, 2017, ahead of the September 2017 Kurdish referendum, Jahwareh was expelled by the Nineveh Provincial Council on the orders of KDP member Bashar al-Kiki. Currently, 31 of the 41 members of the Nineveh Provincial Council are members of the KDP . His dismissal followed an interrogation centering around baseless charges of corruption which were later entirely dismissed by the Iraqi Administrative Court of Justice.

Eleven days after his removal from office, theAlqosh District Council installed KDP member Lara Yousif to the office of mayor. Four of the six council-members are KDP members.

The residents of Alqosh staged three protests after Jahwareh’s removal and Yousif’s subsequent installment. The first took place on July 20, 2017. The second was held on August 2, 2017 following Yousif’s appointment, and the third was held on August 18, 2017. In all three protests, residents carried Iraqi flags in response to the KRG’s stated objective to conduct its upcoming independence referendum in the Nineveh Plain. A petition was also signed by thousands of Alqosh residents and delivered to the District Council and other relevant authorities.

Assyrians hold protest in Alqosh (July 2017)

On August 30, 2017, eleven residents of Alqosh received formal notices which warned against future protests,


threatening consequences.

According to the 2017 U.S. State Department Report on International Religious Freedom :

“In July, Christian civil society organizations reported the Assyrian Christian mayors in Al Qosh and Tel Kayf were replaced, reportedly due to corruption, with KDP members who were also Christian. At the direction of the mayor, security forces in Al Qosh arrested and threatened a group who publicly protested this decision. Christian groups stated this was part of a “Kurdization” of their towns.”

At an event held by the United States Institute of Peace in August 2017 , KRG Representative to the United States and member of KDP leadership Bayan Rahman responded to questions about the KRG’s role in the Nineveh Provincial Council’s decision to depose Jahwareh. Rahman denied any KRG involvement and claimed that thedecision was not politically-motivated.

Jahwareh filed an appeal with the Administrative Court in Baghdad, as the Nineveh Plain is recognized by the Iraqi Government and its residents as federal territory. A hearing was held on August 30, 2017.

On October 30, 2017, the Iraqi Administrative Court of Justice ruled his removal was unlawful, dismissing all charges and ordering his reinstatement as Mayor of Alqosh. Locals celebrated the court’s decision ordering his reinstatement as seen in this video . Jahwareh was subsequently detained by the Asayish and held for several hours. Asayish officers reportedly threatened his family, and he was warned against continuing his efforts to reassume office.

Yousif unsuccessfully appealed the court’s initial ruling, and the administrative court ratified its October 2017 decision to reinstate Jahwareh as mayor on March 28,


2018. Despite the court’s order, Jahwareh has yet to return to office.

In May 2018, the Governor of Nineveh Province, Nofal Hammadi issued a formal notice to Yousif , ordering her to turnover duties and responsibilities to Jahwareh, but she refused to comply.

He returned to work Sunday morning after receiving another order from the Governor of Nineveh dated July 10, 2018 which states:

“Based on the powers vested in us and for the public interest, it is decided:

As an implementation of the final decision of the Court of Administrative article No. 1075/2017 dated October 23, 2017, which revokes the decision of dismissing Mr. Faiez Abed [Jahwareh], director of Al-Qush district, and based on our administrative order No. 1598 on April 9, 2018 as well as ultimatum No. 2313 on MayThis series has been discontinued.
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10 F.Supp. 677 (1935)
ECHAVARRIA
v.
ATLANTIC & CARIBBEAN STEAM NAV. CO.
No. 6279.
District Court, E. D. New York.
April 3, 1935.
Leon A. Brody, of New York City (Simon Goldman, of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.
Bigham, Englar, Jones & Houston, of New York City (George S. Brengle and John L. Quinlan, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.
MOSCOWITZ, District Judge.
This is a motion by the defendant brought on pursuant to rule 107 of the Rules of Civil Practice of the state of New York for judgment dismissing the complaint herein.
The action is for damages resulting to plaintiff and his daughter through the alleged negligence of the defendant in causing the death of Sila Echavarria. In substance, the complaint alleges that the plaintiff is the duly qualified administrator of theestate of the deceased; that he is a citizen and resident of the state of New York, and the defendant is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the state of Delaware; that on the 11th day of December, 1933, the deceased was a passenger aboard defendant's steamship the steamship Carabobo, and while seated in a chair which defendant had negligently failed to secure and fasten she was thrown therefrom and received injuries which subsequently caused her death. The accident is stated to have occurred while the vessel was on the high seas bound for New York. At the time of her injury the deceased was a citizen of Puerto Rico.
Plaintiff asserts that the Delaware state death statute governs his right to recovery herein. The statute


occasioned. 13 Del. Laws, Ch. 31; 22 Del. Laws, Ch. 210."
The defendant points to the Federal Death Act of 1920 (46 USCA §§ 761 and 767) and claims that its provisions are exclusive to the extent that actions such as the present are maintainable solely in admiralty. The statute provides:
"Section 761. Right of Action; Where and by Whom Brought. Whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect, or default occurring on the high seas beyond a marine league from the shore of any State, or the District of Columbia, or the Territories or dependencies of the United States, the personal representative of the decedent may maintain a suit for damages in the district courts of *678 the United States, in admiralty, for theL. Ed. 264, it must be remembered that Congress had not then passed legislation relating to the subject of death upon the high seas. The rule announced in The Hamilton afforded some escape from the settled doctrine that the general maritime law as applied in the United States gave no right of action for the death of a human being caused by negligence. The Harrisburg, 119 U. S. 199, 7 S. Ct. 140, 30 L. Ed. 358. The fiction of ship territoriality as applied in The Hamilton "conformed the law to current conceptions of social ideality." Legal Adjustments of Personal Injury in the Maritime Industry, 44 Harvard Law Review, 223, 237. The fiction, however, attained vitality so long as Congress remained silent upon the subject.
With the enactment of


the Federal Death Act, the conclusion cannot be avoided that the death statutes of the several states were superseded so far as they had been theretofore applied to death on the high seas.
It is clear that the Congress could pass such an act under its power to regulate commerce and in pursuance of the constitutional provision extending the judicial power of the government to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction.
Section 7 of the act (46 USCA § 767) indicates a carefully devised congressional plan to leave unaffected the operation of state death statutes over waters within one league of shore. Section 1 (46 USCA § 761) makes no mention of the state statutes, and there is implied in that omission the congressional intent that their operative forceResearch on Louisiana-Pacific and Weyerhaeuser -- Lumber Industry Still Deep in the Woods

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of the states with the most severe outbreaks.

Only a handful of state laboratories were able to certify their CDC tests using all three reagents — the Illinois Departments of Public Health, for instance, told Business Insider there were no issues with the kits it received in early February.

But the Wisconsin lab got inconclusive results. The lab said it informed the CDC of the issue on February 10 — the same day the CDC told the FDA about the problem. Two days later, the CDC publicly acknowledged there was an issue with the test kits.

The agency considered sending a new batch of reagents to state labs, which would delay testing by only a few days, The New Yorker recently reported. But 11 days later, labs were still in the— five in the US — were asked to perform a verification on their second set since it didn't contain the N3 primer," a representative for the Washington State Department of Health told Business Insider.

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Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine is home to country’s only Tuberculosis Research Unit – an international leader in TB research, advocacy, and programming for almost two


decades. The creation and leadership behind “I am TB” is a major initiative of the unit to reduce discrimination of which prevents people from talking about or getting tested for TB. The campaign aims to empower those burdened by the disease.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague has spoken after reports that the Assad regime is amassing troops around the city of Aleppo.

“I am deeply concerned by reports that the Syrian Government is amassing its troops and tanks around Aleppo, and has already begun a vicious assault on the city and its civilian population.

“This utterly unacceptable escalation of the conflict could lead to a devastating loss of civilian life and a humanitarian disaster. It will add to the misery being endured by the Syrian people, and plunge the country further into catastrophic civil war.

“The Assad regime must call off this assault. I call on all countries around the world, including the Permanent Members of the Security Council,


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Some insiders believe Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law - currently the most favoured members of his chaotic administration – could be out within a year.

The couple, formerly working in real estate and retail, joined the Trump administration after his inauguration last year. While neither receives a salary, Ms Trump works as an adviser to her father and Mr Kushner as a senior aide.

Their appointments were criticised as an unprecedented display of nepotism, but the couple were seen by some liberals as a potentially moderating force in a strongly conservative White House.

Donald Trump challenges, and cherry-picks, coverage of his Charlottesville statements at rally

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FINDINGS OF FACT
1. On November 16, 1959, defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. purchased the 1958 Beechcraft Travel Air, Serial No. TD 75, Registration No. N-688T, hereinafter referred to as the subject aircraft, from Hargrove Bowles, Jr.
2. The bill of sale to Southern Flight Service, Inc. was duly filed for recordation with the Federal Aviation Agency by November 25, 1959, and recorded on December 14, 1959.
3. On November 16, 1959, defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. executed and delivered a note in the principal amount of $30,608.16, payable 90 days from date, to Aircraft Investment Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas, which note was secured by a chattel mortgage on the subject aircraft.
4. Said mortgage to Aircraft Investment Corporation was duly filed for recordation with the


Federal Aviation Agency by November 25, 1959, and recorded on December 14, 1959.
5. On November 28, 1959, plaintiff entered in a written agreement with defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. under the terms of which plaintiff agreed to purchase the subject aircraft from the defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. for the sum of $20,400 in cash and delivery by plaintiff to the defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. of a 1958 Beechcraft J-35 Bonanza, the defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. agreeing to install certain additional equipment in the subject aircraft.
6. Plaintiff did not cause a title examination of the records of the Federal Aviation Agency to be made on the subject aircraft before entering into said agreement.
7. Plaintiff paid $10,000.00 to defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. on December 10, 1959,toward the purchase price of the subject aircraft and at the same time delivered the J-35 Bonanza aircraft to the defendant Southern Flight *413 Service, Inc. together with a bill of sale thereto.
8. On January 6, 1960, defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. executed and delivered a note in the principal amount of $34,513.80, payable in 30 successive monthly installments of $1,150.46 each, to Aircraft Investment Corporation, which note was secured by a chattel mortgage on the subject aircraft.
9. Said mortgage was duly filed for recordation with the Federal Aviation Agency by January 18, 1960, and recorded on February 2, 1960.
10. On January 21, 1961, after the defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. had installed certain equipment in the subject aircraft pursuant to the aforesaid agreement, the plaintiff paid the


remaining $10,400.00 due under said agreement to the defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. and at that time first took possession of the subject aircraft.
11. At the time plaintiff took possession of the subject aircraft on January 21, 1960, he received a bill of sale thereon from the defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. and also an application for registration with the Federal Aviation Agency.
12. Plaintiff has had possession of the subject aircraft at all times since January 21, 1960.
13. At the time plaintiff took possession of the subject aircraft on January 21, 1960, he did not have personal knowledge of the two earlier mortgages of the subject aircraft to Aircraft Investment Corporation.
14. Plaintiff did not cause a title examination of the records of the Federal Aviation Agency to bemade on the subject aircraft before paying said $10,400.00 and accepting said bill of sale on January 21, 1960.
15. Plaintiff turned the application for registration of the subject aircraft with the Federal Aviation Agency and the bill of sale over to Richard R. Washburn, President of defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. on the assurance of Mr. Washburn that they would be forwarded to the Federal Aviation Agency and plaintiff retained the yellow copies of the bill of sale and application for registration in his possession and put them in the subject aircraft at that time.
16. In March 1960, a document entitled "Major Repair and Alteration Form" was filed with the Federal Aviation Agency by T. H. Lackey on which document T. H. Lackey certified that certain alterations and


liens on, the subject aircraft but were attached to the other side of the file from, and was kept separate from such title and lien documents, where they were found on March 23, 1961. It is stipulated that all documents in the file "shall be considered as having been received by said Agency on the earliest date stamped or written on such documents by said Agency. In the absence of proof to the contrary, all dates stamped or written on such documents shall be construed as having been placed there by said Agency, unless they appear in the body of the instrument itself." In the light of this stipulation, it is found that the "Major Repair and Alteration Form" was filed on March 24, 1960, and the "AircraftUse and Inspection Report" on May 19, 1960.
19. In May 1960, Richard R. Washburn, President of defendant Southern *414 Flight Service, Inc., contacted defendant Aircraft Finance Co. on behalf of his Company for the avowed purpose of obtaining a loan with which to pay off the mortgages on the subject aircraft then outstanding to Aircraft Investment Corporation.
20. At that time Richard R. Washburn advised defendant Aircraft Finance Co. that he was using the subject aircraft in his charter business.
21. On May 16, 1960, defendant Aircraft Finance Co. requested that a title and lien search of the Federal Aviation Agency records on the subject aircraft be made by Aviation Information Service, Inc., a corporation engaged in that business in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
22. On the same date, the defendant Aircraft


Finance Co. received a telegram from Aviation Information Service, Inc., advising that the Federal Aviation Agency records disclosed that the subject aircraft was registered in the name of Southern Flight Service, Inc. at that time and that two mortgages were then outstanding to Aircraft Investment Corporation, one in the amount of $30,608.16 recorded on December 14, 1959, and the other in the amount of $34,513.80 recorded on February 2, 1960.
23. The same information was subsequently confirmed as of the same date in a title abstract received by defendant Aircraft Finance Co. from Aviation Information Service, Inc.
24. Defendant Aircraft Finance Co. telephoned Aircraft Investment Corporation and, on being advised that defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. had a good credit rating with that company, arranged to honor a draft ofAircraft Investment Corporation in sufficient amount to discharge the two mortgages to Aircraft Investment Corporation.
25. On May 18, 1960, defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. executed and delivered a note in the principal amount of $33,497.28, payable in 36 successive monthly installments of $930.48 each, to Aircraft Finance Co., which note was secured by a chattel mortgage on the subject aircraft.
26. On the same date, the defendant Aircraft Finance Co. assigned said note and chattel mortgage to defendant First National Bank of Springfield.
27. In order to obtain the release of the two chattel mortgages outstanding to Aircraft Investment Corporation, the defendants Aircraft Finance Co. and First National Bank of Springfield paid a draft dated May 18, 1960, and drawn by Aircraft Investment Corporation on the defendants Aircraft Finance Co.


and First National Bank of Springfield in the amount of $29,079.68.
28. At the time of said payment, the defendants Aircraft Finance Co. and First National Bank of Springfield obtained releases from Aircraft Investment Corporation of both of the mortgages which Aircraft Investment Corporation held on the subject aircraft.
29. The chattel mortgage to defendant Aircraft Finance Co., the assignment thereof to defendant First National Bank of Springfield and the releases of the Aircraft Investment Corporation mortgages were all forwarded by Aircraft Finance Co. to Aviation Information Service, Inc. for recordation with the Federal Aviation Agency on May 20, 1960, and were recorded by the Federal Aviation Agency on May 23, 1960.
30. The defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. reimbursed the defendants Aircraft Finance Co. and First National Bank of Springfieldin the amount of $2,079.68 toward the payment of the aforesaid draft to Aircraft Investment Corporation.
31. Not until October 1960 did defendant Aircraft Finance Co. or the defendant First National Bank of Springfield have knowledge of the sale of the subject aircraft to plaintiff on January 21, 1960.
32. On October 6, 1960, after the plaintiff had learned of the mortgage outstanding to the defendants Aircraft Finance Co. and First National Bank of Springfield, the plaintiff's bill of sale *415 from defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. dated January 21, 1960, was filed for recordation with the Federal Aviation Agency and the plaintiff's application for registration of the subject aircraft was filed with said Agency on the same date.
33. The custom among title search companies which are engaged to conduct


ship mortgage, failed to disclose to the title owner and the bank that the bill for such repairs remained unpaid."
We think the same principle applies in this case, and that the investment made by the defendants on the strength of the record title should be protected against a purchaser who failed to record his bill of sale until after the defendants had relied upon the record title in another in the offices of the FAA.
The defendants contend that even if the mortgage was inoperative they are entitled to prevail by virtue of the principle of subrogation. They argue that since the loan from defendant Aircraft Finance Company was obtained by Southern Flight Service for the purpose of paying off the Aircraft Investment Corporation mortgages and the proceeds wereplaintiff's title and rights in respect to said aircraft are subject to said lien.
5. The defendant First National Bank of Springfield is the assignee of said chattel mortgage from Aircraft Finance Company and is entitled to the immediate possession of said aircraft for the purpose of foreclosing the lien of the said chattel mortgage.
6. In the alternative, the defendants Aircraft Finance Company and First National Bank of Springfield are subrogated *420 to the lien rights of Aircraft Investment Corporation under the chattel mortgage executed by the defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. to Aircraft Investment Corporation on November 16, 1959, in the principal amount of $30,608.16, and under the chattel mortgage executed by defendant Southern Flight Service, Inc. to Aircraft Investment Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas, on or about


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Recognize that director? That's right, Hyung-rae Shim was the director who brought us the reboot of Yonggary. He's learned a couple of lessons from his Yonggary reboot, but I fear, not a lot.

I don't normally include dragons as kaiju. Dragons are a known quanity, and have very different themes that kaiju. Kaiju were created for film, and are presented there best. Kaiju films, after running out of science fiction trappings, have turned to more fantastic elements. Godzilla, Mothra King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack recasts Godzilla not as a freak result of the nuclear testing, but as the physical embodiment of the rage of the dead returned to punish Japan. The Gamera series toys with Muvian superscience which is indistinguishable from magic. Pulgasari was


idea how you could possibly lose track of it.

Like Gamera vs The Legion, the Imoogi has help in the form os a swarm of smaller creatures. When the Imoogi is having trouble with attack helicopters, the smaller troops fly in and swarm them. Sadly, this is what causes the majority of the damage to Los Angeles: the military and the Army of Darkness. Which has explosives that can take out a modern tank in a single shot.

Again similar to 1998 Godzilla, a trope that goes as far back as King Kong: the evil Imoogi has climbed the Library Tower in Los Angeles, and the military gets some attack helicopters into the action. Of course, the snake can lunge far enough to take out the copters, because what's thepoint of standing off evern a hundred yeards where the snake can't strike? Which is again part of the problem with the film. It seems like a lot of the scenes were staged because they're cool or lead to explosions.

After being knocked out, our bland hero is tied to a post in front of Bara-Dur, and his medallion activates. This destroys the Army of Darkness and knocks the Imoogi senseless. Did he do anything? No, it was the medallion. Heroic agency of zero. He might as well have just given them to her, and accompanied the Big Evil to the sacrifice. Why couldn't the medallion have activated when the Army of Darkness was trashing LA?

Left face to face with the Imoogi, he is saved by... the Good Imoogi.


film, I'm cheating a little. The Host (Gwoemul, literally "Monster" in Korean) is not a kaiju film. It shares a number of attributes and ideas with kaiju film, but the monster is not large enough to wreck buildings. It's about the size of a truck. But the film is so damn good that I had to include it.

There is a truism that many monser films cleave to: don't show the monster. This comes from cheap films where the monster is not well-constructed, or later in the CG era, where CG is expensive and costs a mllion bucks every minute it's on screen. Kaiju films, with few exceptions such as Cloverfield and Monsters, do not follow this. King Kong, Godzilla, even Beast from 20,000 Fathoms are proud of theirstated. It's intereting to see America as the center of controversy in the creation of two monster films, Godzilla, and The Host.

The film establishes a dark tone very early on. Five minutes in, a man about to commit suicide by jumping off the Han river bridge sees something large and dark in the water beneath him. He jumps anyway.

The human point of view characters are not the usual pulpy combination of military, scientist, and reporter. We are shown the Park family, three disfunctional generations of food dispensers. Hie-bong is the patriarch, father of lost twenty-something Gang-doo, a successful archer Nam-joo, and Nam-il who went to college but still can't find a job drinks too much. Gang-doo has a daughter, Hyun-seo. This is the flawed, famly that witnesses the


monster's rampage. They are ordinary people, not wealthy, not prepared for emergencies. They own a food vendor on the bank of the Han river.

Thirteen minutes into the film, Gwoemul, the monster appears. In broad daylight, running across the riverbank. Its horror is not its appearance, but what it does. People run into a trailer, and the monster follows them. The other end of the trailer is chained shut, and we see a chilling shot of childrens' bloody hands reaching out of the trailer. They are being devoured.

The design of the creature is fantastic. A mutant, it is swift on the land, but it stumbles often, its bulk and mode of locomotion unfamiliar to its nervous system. It is beautifully realized, feels very organic. Behavior-wise, it seems to actmore like a crocodile than a fish. It eats, and sometimes holds things in its jaws or gullet, despoiting them in a larder for later consumption. Which is why Hyun-seo survives her captivity for so long.

The children, Hyun-seo and another child who joins her in captivity, stand as a stark contrast to the ones in the early Gamera films. The children are its victims, not its cheerleaders.

Joon-ho Bong has an excellent sence for human drama. As crowds panic and flee the creature, Gang-doo grabs his daughter's hand and runs. He slips, falls, then grabs her hand again and keeps running. A moment later, he looks back and sees that he has grabbed the wrong hand. Hyun-seo is far behind, alone, directly in the path of the creature. It's


Gang-Doo receieves a call from Hyun-seo in the middle of the night, he receicves no help from the authorities. It was a dream, he is told. The government's response is useless, trying to fog the area where the monster was last seen. The news of the disease comes from the Americans, and is swallowed wholesale by the Korean government.

Later, attempting to destroy the virus that doesn't exist, the Americans deploy "Agent Yellow" a biological deence fog, which sounds suspiciously lke Agent Orange, a defoliant used in Korea. In 1999, the Korean government failed in a lawsuit on behalf of the soldiers who were exposed to Agent Orange, but in 2006, as this film was being made, Dow Chemical and Monsanto paid $62 million in compensation due to thedetermination, spears the creature with a signpost, preventing it from reaching water to extinguish itself.

The Host is a complex film, with a little comedy to leaven the tragedy and tension. The emotional beats are a lttle bit off for me because I am an American, specifically a Nerw Englander, and long scenes of people tearing at themselves at a funeral make me uncomfortable. But the drama is excellent, every Chekov's Gun (Nam-joo's archery, the fact that the creature turns its head up in the rain) is set up well and pays off. I klove the fact that it brings fresh ideas to the genre. The monster is treated like a character, in fact director Joon-ho Bong nicknamed it Steve Buscemi. By making it a character rather than a


Brave is a move away from the darker tone of the Shûsuke Kaneko films, and neither is it in line with the silly Showa-era films. Director Ryuta Tazaki crafted a more modern film about a giant monster and the child who does not want him to die.

The film starts on a very harsh note. It's 1973 (two years after Gamera vs Zigra, so it's possible this is a continuation of the Showa series, ignoring the previously-mentioned Shûsuke Kaneko films, and the recycled footage-heavy Gamera, Super Monster, but I'll leave the fiddly parts to continuity-minded individuals. 1973 could have just as easily been a convenient date). People are running, Gamera is being attacked by his perennial enemy, the Gyaos. And he isn't winning.

This old Gamera takes a number ofattributes from the Shûsuke Kaneko vision. It shoots fireballs rather than a short-range blast of flame. It has an additional energy attack, one that comes from its chest, as seen in Attack of the Legion, but rather than projecting a powerful ray, it detonates Gamera in a suicide attack. This is particularly interesting coming from a Japanese film. During World War II, Kamikazi (or Tokko Tai) were used as a last resort against the approaching American forces. This mindset is now foreign to most Japanese, and this cultural shift is the engine which drives the plot.

The time moves to 2006, and the boy who witnessed Gamera's death now as a son himself. His wife has died, leaving him to raise his son by himself. That son, Toru, will


be our protagonist, facing the additional challenge of growing up without his mother. Then, we hear the oldest way to tell the audience a giant monster is coming: a fishing boat, it's captain, and crew go missing. This classic element of kaiju film, a trope that ranges from first Godzilla to Pacific Rim.

Toru's life is complicated but ordinary, he has two friends he hangs out with, as well as a girl next door who lets him borrow manga. But the realities of life quickly intrude. Mai needs to have a heart operation, for example. For him, the kaiju plot begins on a day when he sees a glinting light on an island. He finds a large glimmering red stone, and a turtle. After Gamera sacrificed itself, the localfor a lot of the film, made better by the fact that Toru convinces his father to help, too. This Gamers will not self-destruct. This Gamera will have something to live for.

With the giant pearl in his system, Gamera proceeds to rock house. His chest symbols glow, as did the previous Gamera's did just before he self-immolated, but it turns out to be powering up a massively explosive fireball. Zedus is annihilated in a tremendous explosion. Gamera is victorious without having to destroy himself.

Then, like Godzilla at the end of Godzilla 2014, he collapses. The government attempts to seize the opportunity to recapture Gamera, but the children save him once again, forming a human barrier between the military and the turtle. Gamera flies off, and the film ends.

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the freedom to take different approaches has paid off with excellent films.

Next up, one of the greatest monster movies ever made. It's not really a kaiju film, but it's so good, I can't not write it up here.

Thursday, January 8, 2015

By some strange law, once the Godzilla franchise goes on hiatus, it is time for another franchise to step up. This time it was Peter Jackson, who loves the 1933 Kong Kong. Jackson decided not to update the film, but expand on the original, using many of the original characters. Unlike the seldom-referenced 1976 version of the story, this is a period piece, taking place between 1931 and 1933. It does retain a few elements from the 76 version, however. Skull Island is described as being perpetually wrappedin fog, for example. But the primary text is clearly the original Willis O'Brien/Merian Cooper/Ernest B. Schoedsack film. Only expanded. A lot. The 1933 version runs a hundred and four minutes. Jackson's full remake is a full hour and forty minutes longer, clocking in at a whopping two hundred and four.

Despite the gorgeous scenery and lush color, the film features more black and white characterization than the original. Carl Denham, played by Jack Black, is a sleazy opportunist, and perfectly in character with the times. Denham was an opportunist in 1933, and the film touches only lightly on his past as a film maker. 1933 Denham is respected, freely given the money for his trip to Skull Island. In 2005, Denham is a maverick, and there are parallels


to both Orson Welles and Peter Jackson himself. He rebels against the studio system, lying to his backers, taking what should be a backlot film across the ocean and onto location without permission. Denham literally kidnaps Jack Driscoll, but the film shows his sleaziness and manipulation as a way to success. He gets away with it. When people die around him, Denham says he will donate proceeds to their widows and orphans. But we know him well enough by now to realize that follow-through is unlikely, even if the characters around him don't. Because of Denham, people die, Kong dies, and Ann's heart gets broken.

For me, the most sympathetic character, after Kong, is Hayes. Hayes shows kindness and is a father figure to Jimmy. He is brave andcares even for the strangers aboard the Venture. He has back story, he was a soldier, he reads books. He is killed by Kong for his troubles. Denham gets a lot of people killed.

Sympathy for Kong in the 1933 version is entirely the work of effects master Willis O'Brien. Given the script, Kong could have been a rampaging monster, but O'Brien's obsessive devotion to the creature he was animating allows it to project a humanity, show concern, and awareness of its own mortality. These human traits come across more strongly than any of the scripted characters. In his remake, Jackson makes no mistake that Kong is the star of the film, and therein lies its flaw. We know he's going to die. Denham is an exploiter who pulls


they show the explorers where Kong is, they become irrelevant and drop completely out of the film.

Ann Darrow has only a little more agency than she had in the 1933 film. Her Vaudeville skills entertain and charm Kong, but after that relationship is built, the inevitable Denham captures Kong, and she is then only there to witness to the tragedy of Kong's rampage and death.

Kong himself doesn't show up until 70 minutes into the film. But he's worth the wait. Jackson's King Kong won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, as well as the BAFTA, Saturn, and Las Vegas Film Critics Awards for visual effects, and it's not difficult to see why: Kong himself is incredibly detailed, scarred from many battles. His motion is fluid, his expressionsunderstandable, the virtual sets are very good, and it's all pretty seamless.

Andy Serkis makes Kong an emotionally accessible creature. The perception of apes has changed a great deal since 1933, and even 1976. Kong never puts a human in his mouth. He is portrayed as an intelligent, emotional creature who can only communicate through body language. The emotional beats that physicality makes is very good. After defeating three dinosaurs, Kong has a moment when he sags, tired from the fight. Free in New York, he has a moment of play on ice, something he's likely never seen before. When Ann tries to cheer him up with juggling, he yawns. If Jackson has learned nothing else about Kong it is this, complexity and inessential action make Kong an understandably


and therefore sympathetic character. Where Denham is painted in broad strokes, only obsessing over the film and sleazing his way through life, Kong takes a moment (from the 1933 Kong) to play with the jaw of a defeated enemy.

And there are dinosaurs. The middle section of the film owes a great deal to Jurassic Park, men fighting dinosaurs, and Jackson is not shy about whittling away the party to show how dangerous they are. In the original, of course, it was difficult to get humans and dinosaurs into the same shot, let alone interact with each other. With good CGI, it's now pretty easy. Unfortunately, Jackson ladles the dinosaurs on thick. Just having dinosaurs attack isn't enough. He has to have a stampede of sauropods come crushing downa narrow alley towards the humans. It all ends in a gigantic train-wreck pile-up of dinosaurs, having contributed nothing to the plot.

Because this is the second remake, and Kong didn't fight any dinosaurs in the 1976 version, Kong fights three Vastatosaurus rex (which look and feel like a Tyrannosaurus rex). The fight is inventive, partially because Kong has to keep Ann Darrow in one hand and out of danger. But there's a bit of repetition. Where 1933 Kong used the roll and throw once, 2005 Kong uses it three different times.

Jackson of course puts his own spin on the famous log scene, where Kong shakes the tiny humans off a log over an abyss. He also restores the spider-pit scene, a section taken out of the 1933 Kong


Role of the Workers’ Party of Kurdistan

The Workers Party of Kurdistan (PKK) has been involved in a guerrilla war against the oppressive Turkish regime since 1984. Originally defined as a Marxist-Leninist organization with the goal of an independent Kurdistan — Kurds make up 18 percent of the total 83 million people in Turkey and are a majority in the southeast — over the last decade the PKK has dropped Marxist-Leninist ideology and set its goal as autonomy within Turkey.

PKK leader Ocalan has been imprisoned since 1999. For the last few years the PKK had observed a ceasefire with the regime, while attempting to negotiate an end to the fighting.

The PKK has never used “terror” tactics directed at civilians but has carried out a war of liberation against theTurkish ruling-class oppressors. In the past year, the PKK and its sister party in the Kurdish regions of Syria have shown themselves to be effective fighters against the Islamic State. Nevertheless, the U.S. and the European Union continue to define the PKK as “terrorist.”

The Erdogan regime has purposely smashed the peace talks through its brutal attack on Kurdish organizations and Turkish leftists. The PKK called the regime’s bombing attacks “a very serious error,” implying it can retaliate. (rebelion.org, Aug. 2)

The Erdogan regime has pushed the class struggle in Turkey closer to civil war, and U.S. imperialism stands right behind it. In their struggle against the Erdogan regime, the PKK deserves the solidarity of progressive and working-class forces worldwide.


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For example, Brown was asked to coordinate the purchase and installation of an artwork that would be dedicated to the memory of Christy Landrigan, a one-time Downtown Improvement District employee.

The Homestead High School graduate had worked as a securities consultant with Lincoln Financial Advisors for four years before she was killed in a car accident in January.

Lincoln National Corp. and Landrigan’s co-workers donated more than $6,000 for the piece, which was created by local artists Alexandra Hall and Alex Mendez.

The fund includes money to maintain and insure the $3,000 artwork, which was installed this month on the side of the MKM architecture + design building, 119 W. Wayne St.

Officials hope more public art will come. They have identified an area they refer


to as "double plus" for future art installations. The name was adopted because the two intersections resemble two plus signs on Google Maps, Brown said.

Although the Downtown Improvement District doesn’t have the money to pay for public art, officials are happy to coordinate donations made by local residents and business owners.

The organization would also like to partner with property owners to buy more benches for downtown, with each paying half the cost, Brown said.

Some of those plans are shorter-term, but Brown is also looking a few years down the road at efforts to connect The Landing area on West Columbia Street to the Riverfront Development and existing downtown gathering places, including Freimann Square and the Arts United campus.

A crossing on Clinton Street might prompt more visitors to parkWomen's Volleyball

Volleyball’s Mallory McIntyre Nominated for America East Woman of the Year Award

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Volleyball senior Mallory McIntyre (Winnipeg, Manitoba/St. Mary's Academy) has been selected as UMBC's nominee for the America East's Woman of the Year award, the conference office announced on Tuesday afternoon.

McIntyre, who was selected as one of two UMBC Outstanding Female Senior Athletes at Monday's Varsity Awards Banquet, led the Retrievers to a program-best nine America East wins in 2013, and then the conference title match in November.

As a senior, McIntyre overcame a mid-season injury to dish out a career-best 1,127 assists, the tenth-most for a single season in volleyball program history. She led the conference in setting, averaging 10.34 assists per set. During the season, she was named the America East Setter of


the Week four times, and then was selected as the conference Setter of the Year at the post-season banquet, and also received a spot on the All-Conference First Team for the second year in a row.

The Retriever captain crossed the 50-assist plateau seven times this season and piloted UMBC to its first-ever win over in-state rival Maryland, a 3-0 sweep at the GW/Nike Invitational. In addition, she handed out 56 assists on Oct. 11 as the Retrievers earned their first win in program history at conference rival Albany.

McIntyre has excelled in the classroom, as well, earning a spot on the America East Honor Roll in each of her first two years, and then receiving a mention on the Commissioner's Honor Roll as a junior and as a senior.Cooper pointed out she received relatively short, concurrent sentences for the prior offenses — 6 to 23 months incarceration and two years probation — and was paroled after serving the minimum sentence.

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The District Court denied Cooper's motion. The court noted the "seriousness" of Cooper's three drug trafficking crimes and found it significant that she committed the second of the two prior offenses while on bail for the first offense. Accordingly, the court found an additional departure was not warranted "under all of the circumstances."

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Having determined the applicable advisory guidelines range, the court turned to Cooper's sentence. Cooper argued an 84-month sentence was appropriate in light of her previously asserted mitigating circumstances. The District Court rejected Cooper's argument and sentenced her to 105 months in prison. The court first


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However, the Luxembourgish government had to wait several more months before the French revealed their game. On 10 May, the French ambassador informed the Luxembourgish government that his country had no intention of forming an economic union, and advised it to turn towards Belgium. Having succeeded in concluding a military pact with Belgium, France had no further need of Luxembourg. Since the beginning of the war, the Belgian authorities had shown annexationist tendencies towards the Grand Duchy. In 1917, France renounced any ambitions with regards to Luxembourg, but kept this secret from the Luxembourgish government, in order to conceal the intentions of the French negotiators. After the war, France intended to take advantage of the Luxembourg question, by obtaining from Belgium the conclusion of a


Armando Frank, 44, refused to get off his tractor when stopped by police. He demanded to see an arrest warrant. But the cops arresting him didn't have time for that sort of legal stuff. So they attacked him, then killed him when he resisted.

A video recording of the arrest, obtained by The Advocate, shows officers growing frustrated with Frank, 44, after he refuses to step down from a tractor near a Walmart store along La. 1. A use-of-force expert who reviewed the 10-minute recording at the newspaper's request says the law officers escalated the exchange by placing Frank in a choke hold and attempting to yank him off the tractor. … A forensic pathologist hired by the parish had said in a report that manual strangulation was theprimary cause of Frank's death. The video shows Spillman mount the tractor behind Frank and apply a choke hold while another officer tries to pull him down. For a time, Frank is doubled-over while resisting. Officers had to carry Frank to a patrol car after his body went limp.

The killers' names are Brandon Spillman and Alexander Daniel, deputies in Avoyelles parish, and Marksville, La., police officer Kenneth Parnell.

It is completely reasonable to receive a calm, detailed answer when you are asked why you are being arrested, rather than being executed in the street by enraged, screaming, out-of-control cops: "There's no exigent circumstance here. He's not attempting to flee, he's not assaulting anybody, he's sitting on a tractor and he's asking reasonable questions they are refusing to answer," said


The Best of Enemies

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Based on the book THE BEST OF ENEMIES by Osha Gray DavidsonGoldman Theater

Based on a true story about the relationship between a hate-filled leader of the KKK and an African-American civil rights activist, the unlikely pair must work together during the 1971 desegregation of Durham, NC schools. A stirring new play that exposes the poison of prejudice and the beauty of friendship.

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"...under thethrough the flow duct is reflected from the geometric surfaces into the sound absorbing material lining the walls of the duct. The gas, on the other hand, flows smoothly around the baffle or deflecting body to the exhaust of the duct.
Still another muffler or silencer for a gas flow is described and illustrated in Swiss Pat. No. 254,638. The Swiss silencer incorporates a housing or shell shaped as an ellipsoid of revolution or as a cylinder of elliptical cross section. A fluid inlet pipe opens into the housing at one focal point of its elliptical cross section. At the other focal point of the elliptical cross section is a sphere of material capable of intercepting sound waves reflected toward it. Surrounding the second focal point is a partition


or baffle of semielliptical configuration which is parallel to and spaced from the housing. A narrow flow passage is thus defined between the inner surface of the housing and the outer surface of the partition, both of which surfaces are lined with sound absorbing material. The flow passage between the two surfaces leads to an outlet pipe from the housing, which is located, relative to the fluid inlet, behind the sphere of sound intercepting material and behind the partition. The silencer reduces sound levels primarily through the reflection of sound waves from and between the elliptical surfaces which are lined with sound absorbing material. By the time the fluid reaches the outlet from the silencer, the sound has had many contacts with the sound absorbing material within theThe Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a second warning this week following a house fire on October 23, 2017 in Manchester Township, Pennsylvania that destroyed one townhome and damaged four others.

More than 500,000 hoverboards have been recalled since a year ago. That changes with the CPSC's latest announcement.

So far there have been four reports fires but no injuries have been reported. CPSC first put out an alert in May, after another LayZ Board hoverboard started a fire that killed two young girls. The CPSC first issued a warning about the brand this past May, that warning itself following a house fire on March 10 in Pennsylvania.

According to CPSC, the products were manufactured in Shenzhen, China and more than 3,000 units were imported to the United States. All


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At the beginning of each block the eye-tracker was calibrated and validated with a five-point calibration. The trial started with a centrally presented black fixation cross. The fixation cross subtended 1 × 1 degree of visual angle around the center of the screen. Each trial started with a button press by the participant. Following the button press, the fixation cross was replaced by the image of a face gazing forward. Each face image subtended 3 × 4.3 degrees of visual angle centered on the center of the screen. The forward gazing face remained onscreen for a jittered interval between 750 and 1000 ms, in order to avoid a build-up of expectation for the gaze cue. Thisin excess of £600 for some seats.

The most expensive ticket available to fans via Villa's ticketing service was the Category One £98 for an adult.

That same ticket is being sold for £474.95 on ticketbis.

During the brief period BirminghamLive spent analysing prices on ticketbis, tickets were selling rapidly as desperate fans parted with huge sums of cash.

The cheapest tickets on ticketbis are selling for £124.60 - but they're in the East End, which is where the Fulham fans are housed.

A huge concern for EFL chiefs is that Villa fans, keen to be at Wembley, will end up sitting in the Fulham end.

While Villa season ticket holders are only permitted to buy one ticket, Fulham allowed their regulars to purchase as many as five.

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between work and worship in alternative religions and the more general ways that faith-based labor can create conflicting expectations.

Marion Goldman studies cults and new religious movements. Her 1999 book, Passionate Journeys, explores the lives of high achievers who followed Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to central Oregon. The American Soul Rush, published in 2012 , examines how many popular practices such as yoga, meditation, holistic healing, and humanistic psychology were Americanized and popularized at Esalen Institute, a spiritual retreat on the California coast. Her current research deals with the dynamic relationships between faith and food. She is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Oregon. She is currently a Scholar in Residence at the Portland Center for Public Humanities.

Requests for reasonable accommodations may be made toLightning kills at least 90

Lightning kills at least 85 persons

PATNA (AP):

Lightning has killed 74 persons, mostly farm labourers working in fields, across

eastern and northern India over the past 24 hours, officials said yesterday.

A majority of the deaths occurred in the eastern state of Bihar, where 57 people died after being struck by lightning, a state official said. At least 24 others were injured when thunderstorms and monsoon rains lashed 14 districts of the state.

Ten people were killed by lightning in neighbouring Jharkhand state, 17 in northern Uttar Pradesh state, and another in Maharashtra, police said.

Bihar disaster management official Vyasji said scores of cattle also perished in the state after being struck by lightning.

The dead included at least eight shepherds watching their sheep, said Vyasji, who uses only one


name. He told reporters that he expected the death toll to go up as reports come in from remote districts of the state.

Lightning strikes are common during India's monsoon season, which runs from June to September. However, the recent toll is unusually high.On December 31st, 2018, NASA and the New Horizon‘s team (plus millions of people watching the live stream at home) rang in the New Year by watching the New Horizons mission make the first rendezvous in history with a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO). About thirty minutes after the probe conducted its flyby of Ultima Thule (2014 MU69), the mission controllers were treated to the first clear images ever taken of a KBO.

Since the first approach photographs were released (which were pixilated and blurry), the New Horizons team has released new images from the spacecraft that show Ultimate Thule in color and greater detail. It’s appearance, which resembles that of a snowman, beautifully illustrates the kinds of processes that created our Solar System roughly four and a half billion


a historic achievement. Never before has any spacecraft team tracked down such a small body at such high speed so far away in the abyss of space. New Horizons has set a new bar for state-of-the-art spacecraft navigation.”

The new image also resolved the debate about the nature of Ultima Thule. Initially, the New Horizon‘s team believed that the object was a spherical chunk of ice and rock measuring 18-41 km (10-30 mi) in diameter. However, after an occultation observation that took place in Aug of 2017, the mission team revised this prediction.

From then on, the mission team was of the mind that Ultima Thule was actually a large object with a chunk taken out of it (an “extreme prolate spheroid”) or two objects orbiting very closely together orstairwell in Jules and Gédéon Naudet's and James Hanlon's documentary 9/11. To commemorate the death of the company's captain in the attacks, the section of West 43rd Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues where the company's firehouse is located was named Terence S. Hatton Way in 2005.

Members lost on September 11
Captain Terence S. Hatton, 41
Lieutenant Dennis Mojica, 50
Joseph Angelini Sr., 63
Gary Geidel, 44
William Henry, 49
Kenneth Joseph Marino, 40
Michael G. Montesi, 39
Gerard Terence Nevins, 46
Patrick J. O'Keefe, 44
Brian Edward Sweeney, 29
David M. Weiss, 41

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beat if you want to win the championship. There are lots, and I mean
lots of other teams who could beat him but they will have to be just about
perfect to do it. Allen was good all year last year but it was the Denver race, the Mopar Mile High Nationals, when he
really started to shine. Did you know
that, including the Denver
race, Allen has now been to ten final rounds at the last fifteen races and he
has won seven of those races? Now that's dominating, especially in a class as
competitive as Pro Stock. With his wins in Gainesville and Las Vegas Allen has

Johnson defeated Enders-Stevens on Saturday and Sunday.

now also won back-to-back races three times since the Denver race and that,
too, is very impressive..Allen now knows how Vincent Nobilefelt last year when he "doubled-up" by winning the K&N Horsepower Challenge on
Saturday and the national event on Sunday. And Erica Enders-Stevens knows how Jason
Line felt last year when he lost in both of the finals on Saturday and
Sunday. Did you know that
Allen became the seventh different driver to pull off the "double-up" in Pro
Stock history and it has now happened in consecutive years and both times it was
done by a Dodge?...Mike Edwards was
the top qualifier again in Pro Stock but that first national event win of the
year continues to elude him. Did you
know that when none of the number one qualifiers won in Vegas it was
the sixth time in the fourteen year history of the event that not a single
number one driver went the distance on Sunday?


It also marked the third time in
event history that a Pro Stock driver was number one, set low elapsed time and
top speed and didn't get the win. Did
you know that in the first two years of the event, 2000 and 2001, Ron Krisher and Jim Yates set all the performance marks and yet neither one came
out with a win. Like I often say, that's why we make them go out and race on
Sunday.Mike Edwards qualified number one and that's interesting for a guy who
is driving a car that says "I Am Second"
on it. This makes four consecutive races that Mike has paced the field to start
the year and did you know the

Rickie Jones

last time that happened in Pro Stock was in 2004 when Greg Anderson did it?..Rickie Joneslooked good with his car
and he checked in at the number four spot with his Camaro. Did you know that in his fifty-two races this was his
highest starting position? It's always great to see the young drivers do well
because that's good for everyone in the sport...Rickie faced another young
driver, Deric Kramer, in round one
and this was the third time this year that Deric has been in the starting
lineup. Nice job by both of those teams and I hope we see a lot of them in the
future..Greg Anderson and Jason Line
met in round one and that doesn't happen very often. Since both of them are
usually in the top half of the field an opening round match between the two Summit Racing teammates is very
unusual. Did you know that in
the


forty-six times they have faced each other this was only the third time
that it happened in round one?

I don't think anyone who follows the Top Fuel class thought
that Tony Schumacher, Mike Green and
the Army team wouldn't be factors in
the championship battle this year, and if they did they were wrong and they
were probably watching a different sport. For years now that team has been

Schumacher and crew cewlebrate second win of the season.

consistently strong and they have started off the 2013 season in fine fashion
with three final rounds and a pair of wins. Did
you know that in 2004 Tony had that kind of start to the year and he
went on to win the championship? In fact, in 2003, he won three of the first
four races and ten overall onhis way to the title. Tony's four round wins on
Sunday gave him 642 for his career and that moved him past Larry Dixon and into fourth place on the all-time NHRA win list. Did you know that only John Force, Warren Johnson and Kenny
Bernstein have won more rounds than Tony has?...It should come as no
surprise that the top three teams in the standings right now are all from Team Schumacher. Tony has the lead
followed closely by Antron Brown,
the runner-up in Vegas, with Spencer
Massey in third place. To show you how dominant Tony and Antron have been
to start the year there are 122 points between Antron and Spencer and there are
only 73 points between Spencer and the tenth place driver, Brandon Bernstein.By
the way, did you know that
Spencer started from


the bottom half of the field for the third time already
this year, and that in the entire 2012 season he was in the bottom half just
twice?..Clay Millican made a nice
showing, especially during qualifying, and he is currently in fifth place in
the points. When Clay secured the number two spot in the field did you know that equaled his
best starting position ever and that the last time he was that high in the
field was at the Norwalk

Terry McMillen

race in 2007? It looks like that partnership with Bob Vandergriff may be paying off. There are several reasons why I
miss being at the race and one of the top reasons would be that I want to be
there when Clay and Terry McMillen win
their fist NHRA events. Now that will be special..Speakingof Terry he had his
best showing in a long while and it took a very good run by Antron in the
semi-finals to take him out. Terry, who qualified in the ever popular, lucky
number thirteen spot, went on to beat Khalid
alBalooshi and David Grubnic
before losing to Antron. Did you know
that this was Terry's first semi-final since the Atlanta race in 2011 when he lost to, you
guessed it, Antron Brown. Good job by both Clay and Terry and I hope that first
win comes soon for both of them...Congrats also to Brittany Force for winning her first round of racing when she beat Doug Kalitta. Did you know that Brittany
was the seventh different woman that Doug has faced in eliminations and before
his run against her he was a combined 33-12 against


the other women? Now make
that 33-13.

Cruz Pedregon and his "no name" crew earned a name in Las Vegas and that name
is winner! The Snap-On Tools Toyota
ran well, as he has all year, but this time he managed to win four rounds on
Sunday. For the last year or so Cruz has had a good car on Friday and Saturday

Pedregon and crew celebrate win.

but putting four winning rounds together on Sunday had been a bit elusive, but
not now.He opened up with a win over Gary Densham, his second favorite
target throughout his career. Did you
know that Cruz has now beaten Gary
twenty-five times and the only driver he has beaten more than that is John
Force (28)? Cruz followed that with wins over Johnny Gray and Alexis
DeJoria before beating Courtney
Force in the finalround. The meeting between Cruz and Alexis was their
first and she became the sixth different woman that he has faced and it marked
the first time in his career that he faced two women at the same event. Did you know that the win was the
31st of his Funny Car career and that moves him past Kenny Bernstein
and into fifth place on the Funny Car win list?He also added four round wins to his career and that moved him past Ron Capps and into third place on the
Funny Car list. Sounds like a good weekend for Cruz and I'm sure it won't be
his last in 2013..Courtney Force continues to impress with her steady and solid
performances on Sunday. Gee, I wonder how many women like being described as
"steady and solid?"


Oh well, you get the idea. Anyway, she is in the lead in
the points and looks like she may have the best car in the Team Force camp this
year..While Courtney was finishing second to Cruz Alexis DeJoria had one of her
better days as a pro when she made it to the semi-finals, and when you couple

Kayla Mozeris

that with Erica Enders-Stevens good weekend (a pair of runner-up finishes on
Saturday and Sunday) and the win by Kayla
Mozeris in Stock Eliminator and you have another good day for the women at
an NHRA event. Oh, in case you didn't hear, Danica Patrick finished twelfth in her NASCAR race this weekend and I'm surprised that didn't make
headlines somewhere.

Joey Severance
loves The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and if he doesn't, he should. Didyou know that Joey has now
been to ten final rounds in his Top Alcohol Dragster career and that six of
them have come in Las Vegas?
Joey picked up his third win when he beat Chris
Demke in a great final round and he did it on a holeshot. This was the
eighth holeshot win of his career and only the second time he beat Demke in their
seven head-to-head meetings. .As far as the runner-up was concerned did you know that Chris Demke and
Jerry Mattern's Peen Rite/OSI/801
team have now been to the finals at their last six national events? Very

Dan Fletcher celebrates 42nd Super Stock win.

impressive....Tony Bartone won in
the Top Alcohol Funny Car class and it sure looks like the Rick Jackson owned team will be title contenders again this year.
In fact


it looks like the TAFC class may have the best group of cars that we
have seen in a while, and even with Frank
Manzo in the mix, I think you could see the best title race in quite some
time. Did you know that Tony's
four rounds on Sunday gave him 467 for his career and that moved him past Vern Moats and into fifth place among
drivers in the alky classes? Only Jay
Payne, Manzo, Pat Austin and Bob Newberry have competed in more
rounds in the alcohol classes than Tony has...Dan Fletcher continues to add to his legacy as one of the best
drivers ever. Dan took home Super Stock honors for the 42nd time in his career
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For now, anyhow, the starting date for highly-organised life has gained a new record, with a dig in Namibia yielding up sponge fossils dated somewhere between 100 and 150 million years earlier than anything else yet found.

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In particular, the researchers say, the Otavia examples found show pores (which allowed the sponges to feed on bacteria and algae), and are shaped in a way that would have allowed them to form raised mounds.

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February 8 will mark the 90th anniversary of the handing over of James Stephen’s barracks from the British forces who had been garrisoned there for over a century.

At the time of the hand over the Kilkenny People reported on the jubilant scenes that accompanied the hand over. “On Tuesday last, February 7th, the Kilkenny military barracks were formally handed over to representatives of the Irish Provisional Government. The historic event was marked by striking demonstrations of public rejoicing, and all classes of the citizens gave undeniable evidence of the satisfaction and pleasure occassioned by the British


garrison and subsequent occupation of the premises by a number of picked men from the Kilkenny Brigade IRA,” said a report on the events published on February 11, 1922.

An eye witness on the day who was one of the men who was picked to occupy the barracks after the British troops had vacated was, James J Comerford from Coon, Co Kilkenny. Judge Comerford went on to be a criminal court Judge in Manhattan. James J Comerford wrote his memories My Kilkenny IRA Days.

Mr Comerford recalls in his book how the local IRA brigade organised a March from St James’s Park through Kilkenny. The organisation of the marching group fell to a Brigadier O’Dwyer who decided to form a “Marching Unit” of armed IRA men with rifles for thepurpose of parading formally. Judge Comerford’s book singles out the various groups who came out on to the streets of to cheer on the IRA brigade. “We were cheered loudly by a group of Smithwick’s Brewery workers,” he said, “comrades of IRA Officer Martin Cassidy, of College Road, who had worked in Smithwicks in earlier days when he was organising the Irish Volunteers.”

The column of IRA men were cheered on by staff of the Kilkenny People and the Mayor of Kilkenny Peter DeLoughrey, who had been imprisoned with DeValera. The marching IRA soldiers were even cheered on by the Friars at the end of Friary street, who blessed the men as they passed. The Marching Unit stopped on the parade and waited to be given the all clear


was leaving the barracks heading towards the Curragh loaded with English troops who had been garrisoned in Kilkenny.

A ceremonial company of about 30 English soldiers greeted the Kilkenny IRA brigade. The English troops presented arms as a salute to the IRA troops. Judge Comerford said “a time came when the British, without bugle call or other music, lowered their flag. It was hauled down the flag pole by the two ‘Tommies’ under the direction of the Captain.” When the Irish flag was finally raised the IRA brigade broke with their orders and cheered.

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