the Federal Government relating to coal imports, assess the potential impact of exercising each of these authorities, and describe executive branch plans and strategies to address coal imports;

“(7) identify and characterize the coal export policies of all major coal exporting nations, including the United States, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Poland, and South Africa, with specific analysis of—

“(A) direct or indirect Government subsidies to coal exporters;

“(B) health, safety, and environmental regulations imposed on each coal producer; and

“(C) trade policies relating to coal exports;

“(8) evaluate the excess capacity of foreign producers, potential development of new export-oriented coal mines in foreign nations, operating costs of foreign coal mines, capacity of ocean vessels to transport foreign coal, and constraints on importing coal into the United States because of port and harbor availability;

“(9) identifyearly as possible for the weekend! We rely on the registration money to help fund the conference, including the many early up-front costs. UC/NCP IPC, alas, has no reserve funds and depends on you.

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Emerita Ursula Mahlendorf (Germanic & Slavic Studies, UC Santa Barbara). Ursula was an active member of UCNCPIPC, and participated in many of our annual meetings. She was also an active supporter of New Beginnings Counseling Center in Santa Barbara.

In 2009, Ursula wrote “The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood,” a powerful and moving memoir of growing up in Germany as the daughter of active Nazis. In her review of the book, Anna Kuhn writes:

“Rare are the accounts of what growing up


in the coming months, including:

The University of California – New Center for Psychoanalysis Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium (UC-NCP IPC) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Hayman Graduate Fellowship. The Hayman Fellowship aids psychoanalytically informed research on the literary, cultural and humanistic expressions of genocide, racism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, interethnic violence, and the Holocaust. Our Endowment supports studies in the psychodynamics of personal, group, and international crisis management, de-escalation, conflict resolution, and peace processes. The fellowships are intended to provide for dissertation research in scholarly resources, archives, libraries, academic contacts, and to provide support for the final writing for publication of a project whose major research has been completed.

Each of the three winners was awarded $5,000 in support of the final stages of dissertation writing:

Farzad Amoozegar-Fassie (Anthropology, UCLA)—“FleeingWe want the BBC to take action against Dreamworks for them STEALING minions from Doctor Who!!!

In the Doctor Who episode Underworld Part 4, which was in the 15th season of the popular television show, the Doctor meets a race of aliens called the Minyans. These aliens bear a striking resemblance to the Minions from Dreamworks' films Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2 and Minions despite the Doctor Who episode being released over 32 years before Despicable Me and the first cinematic appearance of Minions. The Minyans and Minions have many similarities including their yellow domed heads and their names. This is an OUTRAGE and it shows how UNIMAGINATIVE the team behind Despicable Me was. It shocks me that in this day and age a creative youtuber can have a


Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders took aim at Jamie Dimon after the JPMorgan Chase CEO criticized socialism in a public appearance on Wednesday.

Addressing a Business Roundtable event in Washington, Dimon denounced the idea of the government owning and controlling companies, saying they would be used for political reasons instead of economic reasons. The scenario over time would lead to "huge deterioration," Dimon said, adding, "The whole notion that that's somehow going to be the course for America is a huge mistake."

The banker's comments drew a quick rebuke from Sanders. The Senator from Vermont and self-described democratic socialist fired back on Twitter: "I didn't hear Jamie Dimon criticizing socialism when Wall Street begged for the largest federal bailout in American history—some $700 billion from the Treasury and even morefrom the Fed."

I didn't hear Jamie Dimon criticizing socialism when Wall Street begged for the largest federal bailout in American history—some $700 billion from the Treasury and even more from the Fed. https://t.co/mnXyKqrjq1 — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 12, 2019

The tweet came ahead of a speech by Sanders at George Washington University on Wednesday defending democratic socialism "as the only way to defeat oligarchy and authoritarianism," according to a description from his campaign.

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A spokesperson for JPMorgan Chase did not immediately return a request for comment.

Dimon has previously said that JPMorgan Chase only took bank bailout money from the U.S. government during the financial crisis because it was asked to do so by federal officials, who feared that more vulnerable Wall Street competitors


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The line between covering a major news event and capitalising on it is a fluid one, open to all manner of interpretation. But whatever way you look at it, Channel Seven's Sunday Night program appears to have crossed that line with its report on actor Hugh Sheridan's dash to Nepal to find his missing brother in the wake of a devastating earthquake that has left thousands dead and a country in ruins.

In the segment, presented by Seven's national medical editor Dr Andrew Rochford, every genuine emotion was matched by a questionable technique, every act of giving was framed by the television coverage recording it, every instinct to help a family member was contrasted by an entire community in desperate need of assistance. Hopefully, the piece raised awareness


and the urgent need for aid, but the means to that end appear poorly motivated.

With the death toll from the 7.8 earthquake in the Himalayan nation approaching 7000 people, a heavily promoted report that was focused on Sheridan's search for his missing brother Zachary, who had been trekking towards Mount Everest's base camp, appeared to make the tragedy a mere backdrop for the story of a missing Australian with a famous sibling. Such a distorted lens can trivialise immense loss.

Seven has confirmed that the program, through executive producer Steve Taylor, invited the former Packed to the Rafters star and his brother Tom to join a news crew heading for Nepal, but it remains unclear why they accepted. Did they need Seven's news credentials to get into the disasterzone? Was Nepal opposed to individuals flying into the country because they would add to the chaos?

Whatever the motivation or bargain, Hugh and Tom Sheridan learnt when their flight touched down in Kathmandu that Zachary was safe in a rural village, having made contact through social media. At that point the report becomes about assisting in the nascent recovery effort, with Nepal's emergency services overwhelmed.

I don't doubt Hugh Sheridan and Andrew Rochford, once in Nepal, did what they could to help, but the reference point of a television camera constantly distorts their motivations and actions. Even the visual language added manufactured drama where none was required, with the first shot of Sheridan a noble profile. It's the natural instinct of current affairs programs to accentuate already obvious emotion,


and that made for the queasy sensation of manufactured heroism and compassion.

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Amid scenes of bodies being stretchered away and shocked locals, Sheridan went to work helping recover valued artwork from devastated temples. "Locals joined in, backpackers, even the army," said Rochford, as if everyone had been standing around prior to that, but once they followed the "charismatic can-do" Aussie's example progress was made, even as their inspiration paused to be interviewed.

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Sheridan also claimed that the local he'd asked how he could assist said international rescue crews were stealing art from the ruins. "I don't know what countries they are," said Sheridan, and that is a damning assertion to make, one that could tarnish the entire international rescue mission. Sunday Night's reportdid not follow up the claim, or indicate if they'd even attempted to verify it.

Likewise Rochford, in a trip to rural communities west of Kathmandu, treated about 50 people in areas that hadn't received medical help in six days. The suffering was obvious, as people were carried to him for assessment. But it didn't need his commentary for the camera on their fate: "the house fell down on her," he said at one point, as distress clouded his patient's face.

"We're fine," Hugh Sheridan declared when Zach arrived in Kathmandu to reunite before the lurking camera, and it was awkward to balance that sense of resolution – the mission accomplished moment – with what remained in a state of nightmarish flux around them.

Seven can point out that the segment


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The National Writing Project (NWP) trains teachers from all walks of life to champion authentic writing instruction in their schools and communities. Teachers who attend NWP institutes at sites across the country and complete inquiry projects in writing instruction become Teacher Consultants who help their students and colleagues find purpose and voice in writing across the curriculum and across media.

NWP’s institutes provide us with a great model of self-directed professional development, and the work NWP does to publish teacher and student voices is entirely laudable and necessary to the development of democratic voices at school that be can heard as a clean, clear, honest, and passionate signal through the noise of the information age. The NWP is about teachers and students creating content together by following their passionsThe Israel Defense Forces fired a warning shot at Syria on Sunday, after an errant mortar shell landed in Israeli territory. This was the first time Israel has directed weaponry at its northern neighbor since the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

The errant shell marked the fourth time in just over a week that the infighting from Syria has spilled into Israel.

The missile fired by the IDF was a Tamuz, an anti-tank missile with a range of 25 kilometers. The IDF's use of the Tamuz was first made public last year, although it has actually been in use by the IDF since the 1980s. The Tamuz was used both in the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead in Gaza.

An Israeli security source said the military fired in the


cannot. If a shell falls, we will respond," Barak said in an interview with Army Radio, hours before the incident.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, also speaking before Sunday's mortar strike on the Golan, told his cabinet that Israel was "closely following what is happening on our border with Syria and [is] prepared for any development".

Israel last week warned Syrian President Bashar Assad to rein in attacks on rebels near the Golan Heights, a strategic plateau that Damascus lost to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day War and which had been mostly quiet for decades.

Three other Syrian mortar shells strayed in the Golan Heights last Thursday, one of which landed on the fence of an Israeli community without exploding. Just a week before that, Israel complained to the United Nations afterit accurately all the way to the point of impact.

During the Second Lebanon War in 2006, the Tamuz missile saw extensive action, with some 600 missiles of the type fired, mostly in support of ground forces. Even though the strikes were accurate, in the lessons learned after the war, it was decided that in at least half of the cases there was no operational justification for the use of this accurate but expensive missile. With the cost of every Tamuz coming to some NIS 500,000, their use in the Second Lebanon War cost NIS 300 million.

Watch: A Tamuz missile hits the window of a house during the Second Lebanon War

Open gallery view A Tamuz missile fired by the IDF last year. Credit: Ilan Assayag


software has removed password stealer threats from 859,842 machines.

In August 2013, the Malicious Software Removal Tool deleted old, vulnerable versions of the Tor client, in order to end the spread of the Sefnit botnet (which mined for bitcoins without the host owner's approval and later engaged in click fraud). Approximately two million hosts had been cleaned by October; although this was slightly less than half of the estimated infections, the rest of the suspected machines presumably did not have their automatic Windows Updates enabled or manually run.

Since support for Windows 2000 ended on July 13, 2010, Microsoft stopped distributing the tool to Windows 2000 users via Windows Update. The last version of the tool that could run on Windows 2000 was 4.20, released on May 14, 2013. Startingand rainiest Jordanian winter day.

His Majesty delivering a speech from a car megaphone to crowds in Mafraq, Jordan, July, 1974.

Remember this beautiful photo of his Majesty? This timeless picture dates back to 1978 and was taken by Zohrab at the time.

The black and white photo above may not ring a bell to many people, but it shows how compassionate His late Majesty was. He remembered people, you didn’t have to be royalty to be remembered, loved, or check upon. You just had to have a distant memory with his Majesty and he would sure remember you. The photo was when King Hussein returns to visit his old school, Victoria College. He was happy to see that the school doorman was in good health and still working at his


guard of honor before addressing Parliament

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A great leader can do wonders. The photo above also by Allan, was taken back in 1997, when King Hussein was visiting Salt during a pre-election tour of the country to encourage Jordanians to vote.

His Late Majesty King Hussein of Jordan with His Majesty (At the time of the photo price) Abduallah of Jordan

Take the time to remember King Hussein every day, below is a video that breaks my heart, yet is worth sharing. The funeral of his Late Majesty on the 7th of Feb 1999. A day where the skies broke down into tears of rain mourning his Majesty, a day where most Jordanians where either out on the streets waving their goodbyes, or glued behind their TV screens cryingout your A-game personality and we need it sooner rather than later."

I slid him a generously filled tumbler of single malt scotch. After downing a few, Harry and I headed out into the cool February night and across the way to John Henry's. Since it was '80s Night, Harry almost could have gotten away with wearing his own clothes. But he looked almost attractive in his new outfit and in the loud, dark room, he blended right in.

I will spare you all the gory details of the crash and burn attempts at John Henry's. They're too painful to recount and too numerous to tally. At one point, I thought he had hit pay dirt. I approached a tall, leggy brunette that I thought was about Harry's speed. She


had just sat down at the bar and was drinking something pink and icy cold. As the first bit hit her mouth, her eyes seemed to cross and she grabbed the side of her head (brain freeze), spilling just a bit on the front of her skirt.

"Bet you could use one of these," I said, handing her a bar napkin. She thanked me politely and we continued to talk. As I had already done repeatedly that night, I pointed Harry out at the other end of the bar and told her I had a friend that I thought she should get to know.

"Who? Yoda?" she said, laughing a bit too loudly. "Yeah, he is kinda goofy looking, but once you talk to him you'll see what a greatthe final minutes after last call, Harry, drink in hand, approached a woman who had made eye contact with him earlier. Slurred speech and clumsy dancing aside, he seemed like he was doing OK. I on the other hand was getting the spins and that freakin' disco ball was about one sparkle away from making me blow chunks.

It was then that I made the decision to leave Harry to his own devices. I had done all that a wingman is expected to do. I prepped him as best I could, dressed him up, got some booze in him and talked him up to more women than I can remember. I stumbled my way across the dance floor toward the stairs leading out of the club giving him the


on the commission of the peace for Annandale, and was involved in several of the family feuds with which the county abounded.

On 27 June 1617 Whitford signed the protestation to parliament in support of the liberties of the kirk, but he suffered himself soon after to be won over by the king, and on 15 June 1619 he was nominated a member of the court of high commission. On 30 August he was constituted minister of Failford in Ayrshire by James VI, in addition to his other charge. In March 1620 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Glasgow University; and on 4 August 1621 he was confirmed in his ministry by act of parliament. In 1623 his commission as justice of the peace was renewed,will be Le’Veon Bell’s fourth season in the league. He’s seems older than that to me, and that’s probably because of how quickly he became a prominent player in fantasy football.

Bell played in just six games last season thanks to another injury against the bitter rival Cincinnati Bengals. In those six games, however, Bell ran for 4.9 yards per carry (career best) and 3 rushing scores. He also caught 24 passes for 136 yards.

Barring injuries, Le’Veon Bell is the best running back in football. He’s a spectacular runner and possesses great hands and route running abilities for a running back. Bell was the second-highest scoring running back in fantasy in 2014. Had DeMarco Murray not blown up behind the strong Dallas o-line, Bell would’ve finished in first place


career. Now with the Jets, Forte will be relied on heavily due to the quarterback situation in the Big Apple. Although the quarterback may be a walking question mark, Forte will hold down the fort as a consistent running back and pass catcher. Each of Forte’s finishes among running backs is listed below:

2008 4th 2009 18th 2010 9th 2011 15th 2012 12th 2013 3rd 2014 4th 2015 8th

Now with the New York Jets, Forte will play under offensive coordinator Chan Gailey. Gailey has coached Emmitt Smith, Jerome Bettis, Lamar Smith (in his best career season), Larry Johnson, and C.J. Spiller (also in his best season). Although Smith and Spiller are nothing close to big names in the NFL, they even had their best seasons while under Gailey.

Chan Gaileya subpar line. Expect Lamar Miller to be a great addition in Houston, and a borderline RB1.

11. Doug Martin

Doug Martin is a muscle hamster, and that’s the best combination of two words in the history of speech. Since bursting onto the scene in his rookie season in 2012, Martin has only been able to replicate his success once. He totaled 1,454 rushing yards and 11 touchdowns in 2012, helping him to be the second best running back in fantasy football.

After two seasons filled with injuries and no production, Martin came back into his 2012 form last season. His 1,402 rushing yards was second most in the NFL behind Adrian Peterson, and nearly 300 more yards than the next best rusher. Martin was the third highest scoring running back


last season, and he’ll be just as good this season. Expect him to be a high RB2, but closer to a middling RB1 this season, pending he plays 14 games or more.

12. Eddie Lacy

Eddie Lacy used to be chunky. Eddie Lacy is now not chunky. When the Alabama product is in NFL running back condition, he is good. In his each of his first two seasons in the NFL, Lacy finished as the RB6 in fantasy football. Last season, Lacy finished with the 25th most points in fantasy football. Lacy is in great shape, and that’s what held him back last season. Expect another 1,100 yard, 9 touchdown campaign from the Alabama product.

13. LeSean McCoy

LeSean McCoy has been all over the place in terms of fantasy football production.to San Francisco, and it will benefit Carlos Hyde. The Ohio State product was on pace to rush for 1,072 yards last season, so as long as he stays healthy, Hyde is in good position to have a solid season for fantasy owners.

15. Dion Lewis

The grim reaper of running backs afflicted many stars last season, and Dion Lewis was one of them. Through seven games, Lewis ran for just 234 yards, but added 388 receiving yards on 36 catches. Lewis will be a PPR magnet for both Jimmy Garoppolo and Tom Brady, and should enjoy the featured back role in New England. However, Bill Belichick and his shenanigans are always in full swing. I refuse to trust any running back in New England as long as the Belitricks


This is the chilling moment four men are seen on CCTV carrying a drunk and 'drugged' woman out of a bar before she was allegedly gang raped and murdered.

Nong Gift, 21, had been watching the Champions League final with friends last Saturday in Chanthaburi, Thailand.

The cosmetics seller passed out inside the pub, where relatives claim she had been drugged, and was taken away at 2am in the back of a pick-up truck by four men who said they would take her home.

The men, including one who knew her, drove her to a secluded orchard where it is claimed she was repeatedly raped and then beaten to death.

Cosmetics seller Nong Gift (pictured) had been watching the Champions League final on Saturday in Chanthaburi, Thailand, when she passed out

The gang- Nattaphong Saenkraud, Patti Boonthal, Panya Chan Somdee and Suitsit Jaechim - apparently confessed their involvement to police and were taken for a crime re-enactment on Wednesday.

CCTV shows the men carrying Nong out of the bar and into the back of a truck, with the help of one of her female friends who thought the group would take her home.

Police Major General Charn Jitjunjun said: 'The victim was found dead on the same night. Four men have been arrested and confessed to their part in the crime.

'The victim was raped by four people and we believe beaten until she died.

'Her body was found with foam around her mouth, a nose bleed and part of her clothes on the floor.'

A woman who had been with Nong earlier in the


evening said she had left her with the group of men because she thought they were friends.

CCTV footage shows four men leading Nong Gift out of the bar in Thailand last Saturday

The men who led her away were helped by a woman who thought they were taking Nong home

Nong had been with three other women while watching the football match, including Airziz Opachat with whom she had been on holiday.

Airziz said: 'I'm sorry. If we knew that last night was the last time we were together I would have taken care of you better. I'm sorry I did not take care of you better.'

The other girls all left earlier in the evening and Airziz said that Nong 'didn't seem very drunk'.

She added: 'Nong already knew one of themen. She was friendly with everyone. It was normal for her to be out chatting with people.

'I thought that she had arrived with these men and was friends with them.'

Nong's body was found in the fruit processing area. The four men were arrested later on Sunday afternoon after police used CCTV to track them down.

A police re-enactment at the pub in Chanthaburi where the CCTV footage was filmed

The four men who allegedly confessed to raping Nong Gift are taken on a police re-enactment

One of the group, the man who knew her, claims he only drove her and the other men to the area where she was killed.

Police are now carrying out post-mortem examinations on Nong's body to discover whether she was drugged and the exact cause of her


For Jacques Wirtz, the Belgian landscape guru who died on Saturday at the age of 93, a landscape was not about romantic meadows or tapestry-like herbaceous borders. He did not traffic in coziness or in nostalgia; his gestures were sweeping rather than twee, and his vision was that of a sculptor rather than a mosaicist. Expansive in spirit even when the acreage is limited, his projects astonish the eye as much as they silence the tongue.

Observers have used a vocabulary rooted in awe when assessing the output of Wirtz’s firms, where he worked with two of his children and scores of employees: austere, surreal, structured, rhythmic, peaceful, hypnotic, enigmatic. As Pilar Viladas explained in a profile published in The New York Times in 2004, he had “a giftfor creating horticultural stage sets of surprising intimacy as well as surpassing elegance.” A Wirtz garden is thing of disquieting beauty, recalling Last Year at Marienbad, the iconic 1960s Alain Resnais film set in a haunting assemblage of sculptural trees and hedges all manicured into geometric sculptures, amid which the cast wanders slowly, like classical figures in a Surrealist park.

Sheets of water—sometimes curving, sometimes straight as a canal, occasionally spiked by reeds and other aquatic plants—reflect the sky and the greenery like smoky mirrors. Pillowing mounds of topiary coil and coalesce in the manner of okarikomi, the Japanese technique of packing and shaping evergreen shrubs into waves or clouds. Ornamental grasses froth, pleached trees march in formation, and hedges—like the yews at Wirtz’s Les Jardins du Carrousel in


northwestern Belgium (see AD, August 2011). Known for sculpting boxwood and yew into informal shapes throughout expansive landscapes, Wirtz crafted an allée of linden trees here that leads to a modest yet magical alfresco dining area. Photo: Jean-Pierre Gabriel

Traditional Japanese gardens had an enormous influence on Wirtz, who went into business in 1948 yet did not achieve fame until 1970, when his garden for the Belgian pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka—a project described at the time as “a bewildering blend of classical beauty and Space Age fantasy”—put him on the international stage. The Expo ’70 garden was mignon, but it possessed a monumentality and sense of order, as well as a magnificent chic, derived in part from Wirtz’s Japanese studies. Superstar clients soon followed: Catherine Deneuve, theWerder Bremen signs striker Petersen from Bayern

BREMEN, Germany (AP) — Striker Nils Petersen will remain in Bremen and not return to Bayern Munich after signing a four-year deal with Werder on Thursday.

Petersen, who spent the past season on loan to Werder, scored 11 goals in the Bundesliga last season.

Petersen says he is "very pleased that things turned out the way I had wished for."

Werder barely escaped relegation and is rebuilding after parting company with long-term coach Thomas Schaaf. The club wants to sign Robin Dutt, the director of sports with the German Football Federation.


(Reuters) - As countries and companies rush to build infrastructure on the moon, some researchers are planning to dig under its rocky soil to unlock mysteries about Earth that have eluded scientists since astronauts first stepped foot on its surface a half century ago.

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Scientists theorize that the moon, a quarter the size of Earth and weighing about 80 times less, was formed some 4.5 billion years ago from the remnants of a collision between early Earth and another planetary body, possibly as big as Mars. The pieces of the planetary body orbited the earth before eventually coalescing into the moon we know today.But the oldest rocks found on Earth date back just 4 billion years ago, leaving scientists with a 500 million-year blind spotMC Hammer is afraid of hammers. Really.

American Rapper MC Hammer photographed on December 14, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. American Rapper MC Hammer photographed on December 14, 2010 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Photo: Gallo Images, Getty Images Photo: Gallo Images, Getty Images Image 1 of / 33 Caption Close MC Hammer is afraid of hammers. Really. 1 / 33 Back to Gallery

Stop hammer time. Seriously. Stop it. MC Hammer gets nervous around hammers. It might be tough to believe, but the Bay Area rapper who became a massive star in the 1990s with hits like, "Hammer Time" is afraid of the basic household tool with which he shares a name.

In a recent interview with the Huffington Post, MC Hammer revealed, "Using hammers is always a scary proposition, man.


Executives

Born May 5, 1945, César Alierta holds a degree in law from the University of Zaragoza and an MBA from Columbia University in New York (1970).He has been Executive Chairman and CEO of Telefónica since July, 2000 and is also a member of the Boards of Directors of China Unicom and Telecom Italia.Since September, 2010, he has been an independent board member, chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Nominations Committee of the Board of Directors of International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG), the company resulting from the merger of Iberia and British Airways.Mr. Alierta is also a member of the Colombia Business School Board of Overseers and chairman of the Social Board of the UNED (Spain`s Distance Education University).Between 1970 and 1985, he was GeneralManager of the Capital Markets division at Banco Urquijo in Madrid. Subsequently, Mr. Alierta was the Chairman and founder of Beta Capital, which he combined as from 1991 with his post as Chairman of the Spanish Financial Analysts' Association. He has also been a member of the Board of Directors and Standing Committee of the Madrid Stock Exchange.In 1996, César Alierta became Chairman of Tabacalera, S.A., where he directed the cross-border merger with the French company, Seita. The result of this merger was Altadis, where he served as Chairman until July, 2000 when he was appointed Chairman of Telefónica. He has been a member of the Telefónica Board of Directors since 1997.Alierta has chaired the Business Council for Competitiveness (CEC) since its inception in February 2011. CEC is


comprised of 15 large Spanish companies and Instituto de Empresa Familiar (Family Business Institute) and was set up as a think tank that puts commitment and effort into its proposals for enhancing competitiveness, contributing to economic recovery and strengthening international confidence in Spain.

Ángel Vilá,
Chief Financial and Corporate Development Officer

Mr Vilá joined Telefónica in 1997 as Group Controller, moving on to become CFO of Telefónica Internacional, where he led the Telebras privatisation team.In 2000, he was appointed Group Head of Corporate Development. In this position, he executed landmark corporate acquisitions such as O2 plc and Brasilcel/Vivo. Other significant transactions would include Telco SpA and Cesky Telecom, as well as the disposals of Airwave and TPI.From 2010, Mr. Vilá also oversaw the Affiliates group, comprising Atento, T. Gestiona and T.Contenidos.Prior to joining Telefónica, he held positions at Citigroup, McKinsey&Co;, Ferrovial and Planeta.Ángel Vilá is member of the Boards of Directors of Telco SpA, Atento, T. Contenidos, Digital+ and Telefónica O2 Czech. He previously served on the Boards of BBVA, Endemol, CTC Chile and Terra Lycos, and the Advisory panel of Macquarie MEIF funds.Mr. Vilá graduated in Industrial Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and holds a MBA from Columbia University (New York).

Ramiro Sánchez de Lerín ,
Ramiro Sánchez de Lerín Mr. Ramiro Sánchez de Lerín García-Ovies General Secretary and Secretary to the Board of Directors

Mr. Ramiro Sánchez de Lerín serves as our General Secretary and Secretary to our Board of Directors. He is also a Member of the Executive Committee.He began his career in Arthur Andersen, first working


for its audit department and later for its tax department.In 1982, he became a Government Attorney (Abogado del Estado) and started working for the local tax authorities in Madrid (Delegación de Hacienda de Madrid). Afterwards he was assigned to the State Secretariat for the European Communities and later to the Foreign Affairs Ministry.He has been General Secretary and Secretary of the Board of Elosúa, S.A., Tabacalera, S.A., Altadis, S.A. and Xfera Móviles, S.A.He has also held teaching positions in Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ICADE), Instituto de Empresa and Escuela de Hacienda Pública.

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Latin persuasion

Campaign 2012 | Republicans hope that a young group of popular Hispanic conservatives, such as Ted Cruz of Texas, will help the party win over Hispanic voters in November. Keen on stopping them, Democrats look to make immigration reform a higher priority

HOUSTON-Ted Cruz wasn't born until 1970. But his journey to becoming a candidate for the U.S. Senate began in 1957.

That's the year his then 18-year-old father, Rafael, fled Cuba. He had spent the previous four years fighting against the reign of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Rafael endured imprisonment and torture that left him without his front teeth.

Arriving in Austin, Texas, Rafael couldn't speak English and carried only $100 sewn into his underwear. But he found a job washing dishes seven days a week, earning 50


no question that better explains why I am running for the Senate."

The Texas Republican primary to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is a crowded field: Ten candidates have filed and four are serious contenders. That's not surprising since the winner of the May 29 GOP primary will likely win the seat: It has been 18 years since a Democrat won a statewide office in Texas.

Cruz, consistently running second in the polls behind current Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, has never run for elected office before. But he has garnered a long list of endorsements from national conservative leaders including James Dobson and Tea Party Sens. Jim DeMint, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Pat Toomey. National organizations such as FreedomWorks have spent nearly $1.7 million in independent expenditures eitherto promote Cruz or attack his Republican rivals. (WORLD repeatedly tried to obtain an interview with Dewhurst, but multiple attempts through two prominent individuals in or close to the Dewhurst campaign did not lead to one.)

Supporters point to the conservative credentials Cruz displayed as solicitor general of Texas. From 2003 to 2008 Cruz authored 70 Supreme Court briefs and argued before the Supreme Court nine times. He backed the right to display the Ten Commandments on state capitol grounds and defended the Pledge of Allegiance after a federal appeals court struck it down for containing the words "under God."

But the national attention and money being devoted to Cruz-in a state that will likely remain Republican no matter who wins the primary-also is due to the desire among conservatives


members believe in faith, family, and patriotism. Their core vales of hard work and independence seem ideally suited to a Republican philosophy instead of a party promoting a big government entitlement mindset, Cruz argues.

"When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler," Cruz asks. "They work their fingers to the bone to provide for their children. There is no value that resonates more within the Hispanic community than [that] people who start out with nothing can achieve their American dreams."

Cruz grew up in a Houston-area Baptist church, making a profession of faith in Christ when he was eight years old. Today his father pastors a Spanish language church near Dallas. His father has translated dozens of Christian books into Spanish, including the Bible. During long drives Cruzlikes to listen to the voice of his father reading the New Testament on CD.

There is another written document that has captured Cruz's passion: the U.S. Constitution. At a recent luncheon for the Greater Houston Pachyderm Club about 40 people prayed and recited two pledges: one to the U.S. flag and the other, of course, to the Texas state flag. They met candidates vying for education boards and district courts while enjoying a meal of salad, chicken, and cheesecake. That's all typical fare for a Texas political gathering during election season.

But then Ted Cruz stood up, grabbed the microphone, stepped in front of the lectern, and started talking about the Greek origins of the word politics. The Pachyderm members may not have realized it yet, but they were


about to get a lesson on politics delivered without notes.

Cruz, 41, fell in love with the Constitution as a teenager with a devotion rarely found among adults. As a 13-year-old high school freshman, he joined a program sponsored by the Free Enterprise Institute that focused on the principles of liberty and the Constitution. He learned about the "pillars of economic wisdom" by reading Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek among others. Then he would write 20-minute speeches. For each of his four years in high school, Cruz was a citywide speech contest winner. He delivered roughly 80 speeches to civic clubs around the state.

Spending his teenage years speaking about economics and government to business and community leaders didn't satisfy Cruz's political fixation. He joined a group that spent hundredsof hours debating and memorizing the Constitution. The group toured the state, writing out the entire Constitution from memory on easels as a form of entertainment and inspiration during business luncheons.

"I don't really ever remember a time I wasn't interested in politics," Cruz said. "There is a passion that comes from having seen liberty stripped away, and I was raised with that passion from infancy. Having principled men and women in office is how you protect yourself from tyranny."

Cruz carried his constitutional fervor to Princeton where he won a national debate championship award his senior year and wrote his thesis on the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. Cruz next earned a Harvard law degree, where he was a founding editor of the Latino Law Review. In 1996, he began


clerking for then Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist (a Rehnquist bobblehead doll sits in Cruz's current office at a Houston law firm).

Today he tells Texas audiences that he wants to return to Washington as a U.S. senator because the Constitution is under assault by a president Cruz calls the most radical the county has ever seen.

Cruz admits that Obama's 2008 agenda of hope and change appealed to young people and Hispanics. But Cruz, like other Republicans, sees an opening in the 2012 fight over Hispanic voters. After Obama the candidate promised immigration reform, Obama the president ignored the issue. "The president delivered a fat goose egg," said Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Now in campaign mode, Obama is promising to tackle immigration reform in the firstyear of a second term.

Obama's administration angered many Hispanics by deporting about 1.06 million illegal immigrants as of last September. That is about 30 percent more than the deportations under the Bush administration. Obama announced last fall an effort to ease deportation rules, but not before his approval rating among Hispanic voters dropped more than 10 percentage points to under 50 percent in 2011.

Nelson Reyes, 47, came to Florida from Puerto Rico when he was two months old. He now lives outside of Houston where he is trying to start a small business. Most of his relatives in Florida are Democrats, but he says "they don't know which way to go" for this presidential election. "A lot of people are saying, 'Obama promised so much but delivered so


little,'" said Reyes, who came to hear Cruz speak and is frustrated with all the regulatory hurdles he faces in his new business. "The left can't seem to figure out that low taxes and low regulation work."

An unemployment rate stuck at 11 percent among Hispanics also threatens Obama's reelection. That's three percentage points above the national average. The Republican Party in April unveiled a Hispanic outreach effort in six battleground states that will focus on the economy, government spending, and the national debt. "We are going to engage Hispanics and Latinos like we never have before," pledged RNC Chairman Priebus. The GOP will dispatch field operatives aiming to capture 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Democrats still enjoy asizeable lead among Hispanic registered voters. But disappointment over high unemployment and unfulfilled promises is taking its toll.

Since 2008 the share of Hispanic registered voters who say the Democratic Party has more concern for Hispanics has declined 10 percentage points from 55 percent to 45 percent. Meanwhile the share of Hispanic registered voters who say the Republican Party has more concern for Hispanics doubled from 6 percent to 12 percent, according to a report by the Pew Hispanic Center. Another Pew study also showed that immigrants become more Republican the longer they have been in the country.

Currently nine Hispanic Republicans serve in the U.S. Congress, compared with 22 Democrats. But the six Hispanics elected to Congress in 2010 were all Republicans as were the two Hispanic governors elected


while just 8 percent of immigrant Hispanics describe themselves as "American" (as opposed to "Hispanic/Latino" or their country of origin), 35 percent of second generation and 48 percent of third generation Hispanics describe themselves as Americans.

The fact that Cruz identifies himself more with his family's adopted country than with Cuba is clearly reflected in the American history relics that decorate his Houston office. Small statues of Martin Luther King Jr. and Ronald Reagan, posing with a cowboy hat and saddle, sit on a windowsill. ("I will go to my grave with Ronald Reagan defining what it means to be president of the United States," Cruz says.)

A replica of a Texas flag that flew over the Alamo and a framed letter that Lt. Col. William Barret Travis wrote fromthe besieged Alamo hang on the wall. Cruz likes to quote from the letter at Tea Party rallies: "I am determined to sustain myself as long as possible and die like a soldier who never forgets what is due to his own honor and that of his country."

There is even a framed "chad" from the Florida presidential recount in 2000. (Cruz met his wife while they both worked on the Bush 2000 election.) Cruz worked for the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission under Bush. But, as Texas solicitor general, Cruz went against his former boss during a case in which the Bush administration tried to force Texas to submit to an international court's ruling.

Cruz, who opposes amnesty and wants to triple the number of U.S. border control


agents, ended his long day by driving an hour outside of Houston to address about 150 people inside Timber Lakes Baptist Church in The Woodlands, Texas. Flanked by an American flag and a Texas flag with two wooden crosses on the wall behind him, Cruz fired up the crowd by joking that politicians disprove the biology lesson that invertebrates can't walk upright.

"It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan," he said, turning serious. "And I am convinced the most long-lasting legacy of Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of the Republican Party standing up and fighting for liberty."was of sincere pessimism. Experiences with The New York Times, The London Times, and The Wall Street Journal have each left me with rather bitter sentiments for paywall implementations.

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The Commodity Credit Corporation brought an adversary proceeding in bankruptcy court seeking to have the balance of the restitution obligation, in the amount of $3,194.04, declared a nondischargeable debt. On May 23, 1986, the bankruptcy court held the obligation was a dischargeable debt and entered judgment dismissing the Commodity Credit Corporation's adversary complaint. The United States did not appeal.
On March 11, 1987, defendant's supervising probation officer petitioned the district court for a ruling on defendant's restitution obligation. The petition was served on defendant who then filed a motion in bankruptcy court for a temporary injunction restraining the United States Probation Office and the United States Attorney from continuing efforts to enforce defendant's restitution obligation. The bankruptcy court denied the motion for injunctive relief and ruled it was aCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit from the order of this court entered on April 10, 1987, holding that defendant's restitution obligation imposed by the June 13, 1985, judgment remained in full force and effect. Defendant has apparently retained attorneys William Kirschner, of William Kirschner & Associates, and Lowell P. Bottrell, of Crockett & Anderson, to represent him in the matter because they filed a notice of appearance on April 2, 1987, and appeared with defendant at the April 9, 1987, hearing on the probation officer's petition. They subsequently filed the notice of appeal.
On defendant's showing of indigency both counsel appear to have made a request to the Court of Appeals for an appointment to represent defendant under the Criminal Justice Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3006A. Although


Alec Huxley dabbled in painting growing up - but the rural, wooded environment on Washington state's Bainbridge Island, where he lived, didn't inspire him to pursue it seriously. Then a move to Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood in his early 20s changed everything.

"It provided me with settings that connected so strongly with me that picking up a paintbrush and experimenting was so easy," he says. "It started my painting journey. The combination of being surrounded by the history and architecture - and then suddenly having a big loft space to do large-scale projects in - was life changing."

Huxley, a self-taught painter who also studied photography and worked as a graphic designer, explored Pioneer Square and the adjacent South of Downtown neighborhood in the city's Industrial District. He photographed trains,a fine arts career in 2009. While his canvases strongly reference urban and industrial landscapes, in rich detail and with dramatic architectural elements, they also reveal other interests. "All the Go Inbetweens," his solo exhibition at the 111 Minna Gallery, conveys his penchant for diverse subjects through two dozen black-and-white, acrylic on canvas paintings.

"There were certain types of scenery that I wanted to play with, but overall my focus was on creating works that had some sort of narrative to them. Many pieces continue on with space travel and the architecture of San Francisco," Huxley says. "Some started to home in on my fascination with the history of the American West, the desert and old mining towns. And others touched on religion and references to religious artwork."

These include


Natalia Gorbunova and her husband Alexey Gorbunov. Picture: Odnoklassniki

Police are now hunting the intruders who broke into a house in Iskitim, near Novosibirsk allegedly enforcing a loan taken out by a woman last year. Natalia Gorbunova could not afford to exorbitant interest rates which turned a debt of $72 into an expected repayment of $3,480.

The intruders who broke into a house in Iskitim, near Novosibirsk allegedly enforcing a loan taken out by a woman last year. Pictures: Vesti Novosibirsk, The Siberian Times

A spokesman for the General Prosecutor's Office said the men 'beat up' the husband Alexey and 17 year old son of the owner of the flat, after that they committed sexual assault.'

The intruders will face charges of robbery, armed assault and attempted rape, say sources.No Country for Women - Humanism, Secularism, Feminism

Taslima Nasreen

Taslima Nasreen, an award-winning writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, is known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. In India, Bangladesh and abroad, Nasreen’s fiction, nonfiction, poetry and memoir have topped the best-seller’s list.

Taslima Nasreen was born in Bangladesh. She started writing when she was 13. Her writings won the hearts of people across the border and she landed with the prestigious literary award Ananda from India in 1992. Taslima won The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament in 1994. She received the Kurt Tucholsky Award from Swedish PEN, the Simone de Beauvoir Award and Human Rights Award


from Government of France, Le Prix de l' Edit de Nantes from the city of Nantes, France, Academy prize from the Royal Academy of arts, science and literature from Belgium. She is a Humanist Laureate in The International Academy for Humanism,USA. She won Distinguished Humanist Award from International Humanist and Ethical Union, Free-thought Heroine award from Freedom From Religion foundation, USA., IBKA award, Germany,and Feminist Press Award, USA . She got the UNESCO Madanjeet Singh prize for Promotion of the Tolerance and Non-violence in 2005. She received the Medal of honor of Lyon. She got honorary citizenship from Paris, Nantes, Lyon, Metz, Thionville, Esch etc. Taslima was awarded the Condorcet-Aron Prize at the “Parliament of the French Community of Belgium” in Brussels and Ananda literary award again in2000.

Bestowed with honorary doctorates from Gent University and UCL in Belgium, and American University of Paris and Paris Diderot University in France, she has addressed gatherings in major venues of the world like the European Parliament, National Assembly of France, Universities of Sorbonne, Oxford, Harvard, Yale, etc. She got fellowships as a research scholar at Harvard and New York Universities. She was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in the USA in 2009.

Taslima has written 40 books in Bengali, which includes poetry, essays, novels and autobiography series. Her works have been translated in thirty different languages. Some of her books are banned in Bangladesh. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Bangladesh and West Bengal part of India. She has


been prevented by the authorities from returning to her country since 1994, and to West Bengal since 2007.

EVENTS

I have known Kolkata since my childhood, through children’s books and stories my parents told me. I came to know it better during my youth, when I finished reading the works of as many superb Bengali writers and poets as I could gather, and also when I published the poems of many contemporary Bengali poets from the East as well as the West while editing and publishing my poetry magazine since 1978. I remember, I visited Kolkata for the first time in the late ‘80s and it was like a dream. I felt I knew and loved Kolkata more than many native Kolkatans. In the early ‘90s, I was the firstno respite for me; just a few years thereafter, the West Bengal government banned Dwikhandito, the third part of my memoir. I personally knew Buddhadev Bhattacharyya, then the Chief Minister of West Bengal under the Left Front government. He was initially very friendly towards me, and that is partly why it was so shocking to me that he had banned my book, which was about my struggle opposing religious fanatics. Upon being asked, Mr. Bhattacharyya declared that as many as 25 intellectuals had asked him to ban my book.

But that was not the end of it. What I didn’t realize in my shock and grief was that this information, involving a few authors in Bangladesh, was a secret and not supposed to come out. The late Sunil Gangopadhaya,


target of the fanatics, as well as of the governments of two countries. The West Bengal government used me for diverting the attention from the political fallouts of their dastardly actions in Nandigram and Singur, and then decided to throw me out of the state, eventually out of the country. Fanatics and fundamentalists, amongst the Muslim folks who took to the streets to protest against the killing of Muslims in Nandigram and Singur by the goons of the ruling communist party, had held up a piece of paper that said, “Taslima, go back.” This demand by the Islamic fundamentalists to deport Taslima was fulfilled with alacrity by the West Bengal government; the officials had started asking me to leave West Bengal since August, and they were desperate tomake it happen by the end of November. They did get their wish: the attention of people was diverted for a few days. Ultimately, however, the CPIM could not win the election, but they did successfully send a signal to the Muslim fanatics that they managed to throw an ‘anti-Islam’ apostate like me out of their precious state.

The CPIM party used me in order to secure the Muslim votes during the past election; the Muslim fanatics used me in order to demonstrate the strength of fundamentalist faith even in a supposedly secular country. Ms. Mamata Banerjee, the current Chief Minister of West Bengal under the Trinamool Congress government, is inexplicably walking the same path as did her predecessors, the CPIM. She might oppose everything that CPIM did in


going to put down anybody, it's not the way he comports himself. He's a member in good standing of the "man code".
SDMOM: Thanks for the info. on Kiptyn on YouTube. That was very cute, what a guy. I hope he finds his gal, so the rest of the women who will never end up with him will be saved the heartbreak, lol.

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First off, I loved the interview and I find him much more witty and far less bland than he came across on the show. Stupid editors.

Secondly, I see Kip as someone who is so self-possessed that it is going to take some incredibly special woman to get him to fall "head over heels, crazy in love". To date, I don't think heas gathering information that would raise questions about their credibility or mental stability.

I asked Wright if she was using Palladino for research on any other topics. No, she said. "I don't think I've used him for anything except bimbo eruptions," she added. And with that utterance, a new phrase entered the political vernacular.

This, I thought, was surely a new wrinkle in American politics—a paid dirt-digger whose brief was, at least in part, to smear the reputations of women romantically linked to a presidential candidate. In one case I detailed in the article, Palladino had successfully suppressed a story about Sally Perdue—a former Miss Arkansas who claimed to have had a brief fling with Clinton in the fall of 1983—by furnishing the _National Enquirer_ with signed statements from former


because the "Paula Jones case had heated up." The caller had heard that Lewinsky had viewed the screening of _Air Force One_ in the White House theater with the president, and it "raised eyebrows" among the White House staff. That was it, the caller said: that was all she knew.

Rissler immediately called Don Campbell to pass along this hot new information. But Campbell told him the Dallas lawyers were already on the case. They knew about Monica Lewinsky. In fact, they were going to subpoena her.

In the early months of 1998, there were many cover stories put out by all sides in the Lewinsky affair. One of them was that Jones's Dallas lawyers learned about Monica Lewinsky from the anonymous tipster to the Rutherford Institute. Another was thatthe circumstances, was insane. It seemed to me, I said, that this was potentially serious business she was involved in here. If she started mucking this up with talk about publishers and book deals, she was only going to screw herself. She would undermine her own credibility and the credibility of her information. And though I didn't say this to her, I was thinking something else, as well: You're also going to muck up my story, you idiot.

If you get deposed, I told Tripp that day, you will have to tell them about it—that right in the middle of your conversations with Monica Lewinsky you were trying to shop a book deal. You'll get hammered.

I wrote it off as another of Tripp's wacky ideas—like stealing the dress. But


dodging David Pyke's calls. As she would later testify, she was terrified that if the tapes ever surfaced, she could be criminally prosecuted. She was hanging out there, a sitting duck for the president's lawyers.

The issue came to a head at the end of the week. Tripp went to see her lawyer, Kirby Behre, and brought him a copy of the December 22 tape—the one that mentioned Vernon Jordan. "I am scared for my life," Tripp later testified she told Behre.

Behre was furious. "What have you done?" he asked. "That tape is illegal. I told you that was illegal."

Tripp said she made Behre listen to the tape. His reaction, she testified, was: "Oh, my God, we have to call Bob Bennett." Behre was suggesting that he call BennettSchrock was dismissed from the case. The trial court granted Markley's motion for summary judgment as to plaintiff's claims against him. Plaintiff appeals, and we reverse.

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Viewed in the light most favorable to plaintiff, who was the nonmoving party, ORCP 47 C, the facts are as follows. Reynolds was a naturopath and Schrock was one of his patients. In addition to that provider-patient relationship, they also had a business relationship, together purchasing two parcels of real estate. On one parcel was timber, which they considered harvesting and selling for profit; the other parcel was known as the "lodge property" and was held for recreational purposes. Each party had a one-half interest in each parcel. Reynolds's total investment in the parcels amounted to $500,000.
A dispute arose concerning the land,


LOS ANGELES -- One morning last year, Bob Miller got in his car and steered it toward a special place in time.

From his home in the San Fernando Valley, north of Los Angeles, Miller made his way to Inglewood, a working-class suburb near Los Angeles International airport. He drove to the corner of Manchester Boulevard and Prairie Avenue, and the Great Western Forum came into view.

Miller, the longtime television play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Kings, was there to tape a program to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the local station. It was filmed in the parking lot, but during a break Miller walked inside the building where, 19 years ago, he voiced the most magical games in the history of the franchise.

The scoreboard was removed long ago,but the seats were still orange and school-bus yellow, and the offices looked the same when Miller walked through the Greek-motif arena that housed the Kings from their inception in 1967 to 1999.

"Some of the same photos were on the walls -- hockey photos, photos of basketball, celebrities who had concerts there," Miller said. "Those were still on the wall.

"[Twenty-seven] years I worked in that building. It was the only arena that I'd known … It brought back a lot of memories of working in that building for that many years, and some of the great games."

That includes the spring of 1993, when Wayne Gretzky led an underdog Kings team to within sight of the Stanley Cup, a five-game loss to the Montreal Canadiens. It is the closest


the Kings have gotten to the Cup in their 44-year history until this season.

Miller and Jim Fox, who joined Miller as Kings' color commentator in 1990, have an appreciative perspective of the journey, having verbally documented the team in both eras.

The difference is Gretzky. His arrival in 1988 put Los Angeles on the hockey map, and 1993 was his crowning achievement as a King. He called his hat trick in Game 7 of the Western Conference Finals against the Toronto Maple Leafs to complete a comeback from a 3-2 series deficit, the greatest single game of his career.

"I don't think they expected us to make that kind of a run," Miller said. "Wayne had had an incentive, I think, in that game because he grew up in thatarea and he knew everybody in Toronto thought they were going to beat the Kings."

The Toronto series still sticks out for Fox, who was only three years removed as a Kings player. The Maple Leafs' prime antagonists were Doug Gilmour and Wendel Clark, who scored a hat trick in Game 6 and two goals in Game 7.

However, Fox remembers a different aspect.

"It's the most physical series I've ever seen," Fox said. "It started in Game 1. The Leafs were winning, [Marty] McSorley hitting Gilmour and then Clark going after McSorley. There was just so much physical contact in that series. I remember Tim Watters getting hit with a puck in the face -- the dental work and stitches and this side of his mouth was just torn apart.


up his credential, he had a very un-Canadian-like episode.

"There's a woman in the elevator and she says to me -- this is in Montreal -- 'Can you tell me what is the Stanley Cup?'" Miller said. "I'm looking around for Alan Funt because I know I'm on 'Candid Camera.' Nobody asks that question in Montreal. As we get down to the bottom of the elevator, the doors open and there's the display of the Stanley Cup and all the trophies."

Both broadcasters equate this year to 1993 in that the Kings were not expected to go this deep and they started every series on the road. But that's where the similarities end for Fox, who goes back to No. 99.

"I see more differences than parallels because the nature offirst defenseman to score a hat trick in a Final game. The Kings would lose the next two games in overtime.

But "even coming back at 1-1, on the plane, knowing it could have been 2-0, I think everybody still had that feeling that we're OK," Miller said. "We're in the games. And of course, the two overtime losses, we played well enough to win those games."

Montreal won Game 5 to capture its 24th Stanley Cup. The Kings fell off a cliff.

Los Angeles didn't qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs again until 1998 and was swept by the St. Louis Blues. It won one playoff series from 1994 to 2011. Miller can't help but laugh.

"When it's over, you think 'Well, we're on our way now,'" he said of the


Some members of the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Commission wanted an answer as to whether the department would be staying together by Tuesday night.

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Some members of the Pocono Mountain Regional Police Commission wanted an answer as to whether the department would be staying together by Tuesday night.

They didn't get it.

Neither the representatives from Coolbaugh Township officials nor Mount Pocono Borough gave a definitive answer Tuesday as to whether they fully intend to leave the department by the end of the year.

Commission Chairman John Kerrick had asked both to give an answer by Tuesday as to whether they planned to follow through with their intend-to-withdraw letters they filed inDecember that would be effective at the start of 2014.

"I'm disappointed," Kerrick said. "I was hoping there would be an answer. Now we'll try for March."

Coolbaugh Township tried to amend its intent-to-withdraw letter last week by extending the current police union contract one year and put off any township withdrawal decision to March 31, 2014.

However, Harry Coleman, the commission's solicitor, said as far as he could tell, the amendment to the letter is "meaningless" in the eyes of the commission.

He said the agreement between the department's four municipalities — Mount Pocono Borough and Coolbaugh, Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock townships — spells out exactly what the procedure is to leave, and amending the letter isn't part of the procedure.

"Either (a municipality) is leaving, or it's not leaving," he said. "It's


that simple."

Mount Pocono officials have said they plan to take until June to decide if they will stay or not.

John Adams, commission member and Coolbaugh Township Board of Supervisors Chairman, said he still believes the township can work out its differences.

Adams has asked about the possibility of a substation of the department in Coolbaugh Township since he said it could take the department "15 to 20 minutes" to get to a crime in the township from the headquarters located on Route 940 in Pocono Summit.

"And hopefully, the township will grow from this experience," he said.

The intent-to-leave letter doesn't automatically mean the municipalities will leave. They have the rest of the year to make their official decision.

However, Kerrick had asked for a more immediate answer so the commission cannegotiate with its police union, whose contract is up at the end of the year.

Meanwhile, Chief Harry Lewis brought in some reinforcements to extol the virtues of the department in Monroe County District Attorney David Christine.

While Christine said he recognized the individual challenges of the municipalities, he said losing the regional police department would send the mountain area "backwards."

He said if it is Coolbaugh Township's intent to form its own police department, it's a step back more than two decades to more simplistic police coverage that has trouble surviving in today's world.

"To go back in time to the '80s, to have a department with two, five or nine people cobbled together, you lose the specialization, and I think it's going to be a disaster," Christine said.

Christine said when


Man pleads not guilty to murdering driver on Seattle street

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Thomas Dinh Bowman is seen during his arraignment in King County Superior Court on Monday, October 8, 2012.

SEATTLE -- With the victim's friends looking on, a man accused of fatally shooting another man at a North Seattle intersection pleaded not guilty on Monday.

Thomas Dinh Bowman, 29, has been charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 43-year-old Yancy Noll.

The two were stopped at a red light on Aug. 31 when Bowman allegedly fired five shots from his car, hitting Noll in the head. Noll died at the scene while seated behind the wheel of his car at NE 75th and 15th Avenue NE.

Detectives initially investigated the case as a possible road-rage incident, but King County DeputyProsecuting Attorney Scott O'Toole said Monday that police still have not determined a motive.

"There may have been no motive at all. And that's even more chilling and disturbing," he said.

Prosecutors said Bowman tried to conceal the crime by replacing the window and tires on his BMW. Staff at a tire shop where Bowman had his tires changed told investigators that Bowman and his wife insisted on taking the four old tires with them, according to court documents.

Bowman was arrested weeks after the killing when police received an anonymous tip from someone who said Bowman matched the description of the suspect in the killing and that he drove a silver BMW like the one seen in surveillance video on the day of the killing.

Police said they also found a


so-called "gun room" during a search of Bowman's home. It was filled with bullet-making equipment, ammunition and rifles.

In court on Monday, Bowman let his attorney do the talking as friends of Noll sat in a viewing area wearing buttons that read "Cheers to Yancy Noll" in memory of the man who worked as a wine steward at QFC.

"Yancy was such an amazing person. When you spoke with Yancy you mattered, and you knew that you mattered in that moment," said Brad Kenny, who was friends with Noll for nearly 20 years. "He was compassionate, and kind and generous. He tried to look for the good in everybody, and I think he found it. He brought that out in all of us."

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Huntsville Police have arrested a man accused of shooting into an occupied dwelling. Police say they responded to a trailer park community at 4509 Triana Boulevard on Thursday, October 11th. When police arrived at the scene, they talked with the victim who had evidence bullets had entered their trailer.

The witnesses told police they thought the shots came from a neighboring trailer. Police say a person was seen leaving the neighboring lot before they arrived on the scene. Police say the door to that trailer home was left open, leading them to do a welfare check at the residence.

The resident inside the neighboring trailer was identified as 38-year-old Victor Ortiz-Castillo, and police say he admitted to shooting in the direction of the victim's trailer. According to police, the suspectPM Debate: Powerful Shorten tactic wins over crowd

Bill Shorten knew how to get that crucial audience involvement last night, at one stage making a policy point in dramatic fashion.

He had done it before and knew it would work during the Sky News people's forum in Brisbane, a debate with Scott Morrison.

The Prime Minister appeared stuck on talking to and about the bloke standing next to him.

The Labor leader's debate craft won't win the election, and Mr Morrison appealed to many with his folksier approach. But the audience involvement probably helped Mr Shorten narrowly win the night.

And then there was one emotion-packed moment.

After a question from the live audience on mental health, Mr Shorten asked those in front of him to raise their hands if they knew someone who


had taken their own life. It was a powerful demonstration of the tragedy of lives taken away too soon.

The same request and response happened at the June, 2016 Sky News election campaign forum, also in Brisbane. And the raised hands made just as powerful a point.

They were also a confronting display when Mr Shorten first used the device at a town-hall meeting on the NSW central coast the previous month in 2016.

This perhaps made the Opposition Leader more confident as he fended off Mr Morrison, who had crossed the stage to - as Mr Shorten said - be a physically intrusive "space invader".

The Opposition Leader accused the PM of being a ‘space invader’ during the Sky News/Courier-Mail face-off. Picture: Kym Smith/News Corp Australia

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Sydney Medical Program is a four-year graduate entry course with problem-based learning as the key teaching strategy. This study took place at the CCS Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, a teaching hospital for The University of Sydney, Sydney Medical School. In the last four weeks of the medical program, students enter their pre-internship term.

In September 2014, all PrInt students at CCS (n = 53) who had completed their final exams attended a three-day PrInt induction course. The course had been designed and piloted previously as a five-day course in 2011.[@b11-amep-8-111] The course described here is a three-day modification of the pilot study.

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Steen A. Rose is an elite cycling and triathlon coach. He started coaching in 2003, and has been an Elite Coach with Training Bible Coaching since 2009. Steen is also captain of the Sun & Ski/Subaru Cycling and Triathlon teams. He has been racing since 1997, holds a Category 1 license, and has 13 state championships, 3 national medals, and 4 international podiums to his credit. He can be reached at srose@trainingbible.com

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for team leadership. Although Greipel is the designated sprinter, Gilbert has the green Points jersey, and a good chance to carry it all the way to Paris. Today he sacrificed himself, and put teamwork ahead of personal glory.

So for me, today was all about the beauty of cycling. Today’s stage was massively entertaining, but also massively inspiring – courage, sacrifice, team work. Cycling can be brutal, it has a dark side, but through it all it is beautiful, and Stage 10 showed us why.

Steen A. Rose is an elite cycling and triathlon coach. He started coaching in 2003, and has been an Elite Coach with Training Bible Coaching since 2009. Steen is also captain of the Sun & Ski/Subaru Cycling and Triathlon teams. He has been racing sincestate championships, 3 national medals, and 4 international podiums to his credit. He can be reached at srose@trainingbible.com

Today Thor Hushovd hesitated, and it cost him dearly. Although he retained the yellow jersey, he lost a shot at the stage victory and precious points towards the Sprint competition.

Of course Thor is not the only rider who hesitated as the race rounded the final left hand bend, but as one of the biggest guys in the race, wearing bright yellow, and a favorite for a sprint victory, he was easy to spot!

In a normal sprint, there is a lead-out train the delivers the sprinters to about ~200m to go at absolute top speed, at or near 40mph. Today the finish was tactical because of the climb. Contador and Gilbert both


to get an invite to the Tour within 3 years,” is something I remember Jonathan Vaughters, the team director, saying.

Now, just a few years later, here they are with the yellow jersey and two stage wins. Better yet, an American rider, on an American team, won a stage of the Tour de France on Independence Day.

With a little luck, a lot of hard work, and the right people with the right attitude, anything is possible for a little pro team with big dreams. Or for a brand new country who decides to declare their independence.

Here’s to more wins for American teams, and another 235 years of the American dream.

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 Former Rep. Anthony Weiner exits federal court after pleading guilty to one count of sending obscene messages to a minor in New York City on May 19, 2017. Reuters

Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former congressman who pleaded guilty to sending sexually explicit material to a teen, has been released from federal prison ahead of the end of his 21-month sentence.

Federal records show Weiner, who was imprisoned in Massachusetts, is now being housed at a Residential Re-entry Management facility in Brooklyn, New York, ahead of his final release date of May 14. The records do not state when Weiner was transferred from the Massachusetts prison.

Weiner, 54, was sentenced to jail time after he pleaded guilty in 2017 to sending obscene material to a 15-year old girl.

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Weiner, who resigned from Congress in 2011 over another scandal involving lewd messages, began his sentence at the Federal Medical Center Devens in Massachusetts in November 2017. He was initially slated to be released on Aug. 5, 2019, but his release was moved up to May due to good behavior, according to the Bureau of Prisons.

Weiner was also sentenced to serve three years probation upon his release, and was required to register as a sex offender.

Before his sentencing, Weiner, who was previously married to former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, called himself a "sick man" and an "addict." He said he accepted full responsibility for victimizing "a young person who deserved better" and called the crime he committed his personal "rock bottom."

After the 15-year-old came forward withemails between herself and Weiner, prosecutors began an investigation into his laptop, which led to the discovery of a batch of emails from Clinton to Abedin. Former FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation in Clinton's emails in the final weeks before the 2016 election.


“Reasons To Be Cheerful,” an ongoing series he curates of hopeful writings, photos, music, and lectures.The presentation was given at New York’s New School to a live audience and also was streamed via his Facebook page. He also released the first track from the album, “Everybody’s Coming To My House”— co-written with Brian Eno, featuring contributions from TTY, Happa, Isaiah Barr Leader of the Onyx Collective, Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never), Mercury Prize winner Sampha, and others.growth of Russia," Illarionov told reporters in the Kremlin on the sidelines of Putin's meeting with European business leaders. "Of course, in its current form this protocol can't be ratified."

Earlier this fall, Putin cast deep doubts on Moscow's willingness to ratify the protocol, but he had not ruled it out entirely.

A Russian Economics Ministry spokesman, Konstantin Bogdanov, told Dow Jones News Wires on Tuesday he was unaware of any change in Russia's official position, which has been that it is still considering the protocol.

However, Illarionov said it would be unfair for Russia to curb emissions and stymie its own growth while the United States and other nations, which account for the bulk of global emissions, refuse to join the pact.

Putin laid out Russia's objections in what Illarionov called


trash in Albemarle County, which works out to $264 a year.

Restaurants are the city's biggest curbside collection customers, according to Lawson.

Jessica Wilkins, general manager at Rapture, says, "It's definitely going to be quite an increase." Rapture puts out anywhere between three to seven barrels of refuse a day. And she notes that commercial users can't buy the yearly stickers.

"I'm concerned on a business and personal level," she says. "If they're going to double them, I'd rather pay the tax." The increase, she adds, "affects everyone."

Joan Fenton, co-chair of the Downtown Business Association of Charlottesville, suggests that the fees should have had a built-in cost of living increase. "It's hard when fees double," she says.

Other businesses are unfazed by the increase. "I don't think it's going to break us,"AvMap is the Italian manufacturer of GPS solutions since 1994

In 20 years of activity, AvMap has followed the development of the GPS sector and has influenced its trends.

Established in Italy in 1994 within the C-MAP Group, the world leader in electronic chart technology, AvMap made its debut in the professional aeronautical market with the EKP (electronic kneepad), one of the most successful flight navigation systems sold worldwide.

Soon after, AvMap transfers its electronic cartography expertise from the aeronautical to the terrestrial sector, becoming a pioneer in satellite navigation solutions and fleet tracking systems.

The Geosat series (the terrestrial GPS product line) keeps evolving since1998, introducing innovative features and meeting new consumer needs.

AvMap distinguishes itself as the only example in the industry capable of controlling internally the whole production process, from


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Greek ostraka a catalogue of the collection of Greek ostraka in the National Museum of antiquities at Leiden with a chapter on the Greek ostraka in the papyrological institute of the University of Leideninvest in our education system," he said in a speech.

After a bruising budget impasse that shut down the federal government for 16 days, lawmakers on Wednesday were to begin reconciling vastly different spending plans put forward by the Democratic-controlled Senate and the Republican-led House of Representatives.

In a sign that tensions still exist over the bitter budget feud, Obama could not resist scolding Republicans.

"By the way, I just sat in on a lesson called 'Real World Math,' which got me thinking whether it's too late to send Congress here for a remedial course," he said.

The Democratic president was visiting Pathways in Technology Early College High School in Brooklyn, whose curriculum he has praised as a beacon for the future, to contrast his budget priorities with those of Republicans.

Obama spoke


in March and avoid a further $109 billion round of reductions due on January 15.

The Pathways in Technology high school earned praise from the president during his State of the Union speech this year for a six-year program that allows students to earn a community college degree as well as a chance to work with the partner company of the school, IBM.

The school, which also collaborates with the City University of New York, allows students to get an associate of arts degree in computers or engineering.

Obama praised the school as a model for efforts to compete with the education systems of countries like Germany, which he said was preparing students for technical jobs immediately after high school.

(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton in Washington; Writing by Steve Holland; Editingtable and had a nice black eye for a while. He fell off of a bar stool and landed on one front tooth--it is still hanging in there, but is a little crooked. Carsten dresses as an engineer almost everyday, or as often as I wash his overalls, Thomas shirt, and the special red shirt he wears underneath. Papa (Jim's dad) took us to ride on Thomas the Train for the boys' birthdays and Carsten enjoyed it immensely...

Reese has lost two teeth, ran a 1K race with his daddy, and is loving school. We decided to homeschool Reese this year and we are really enjoying it. Butter continues to be his good friend and still goes wherever Reese goes. Reese has grown a lot this year, not just


in size, but maturity. He just sounds older and is more independent--sad for mommy, but good for him! Reese is also taking piano lessons from Jim's cousin and he likes his time with Becky.

Jim ran a marathon in November and I do believe/hope it is his last... We took him to the mall that night and we had to wheel him around in a wheelchair--hmmmm.... He is still running, but that might have to do with the fact that his "running group" is composed of eleven women and Jim! He continues to work with his dad and now brother-in-law. He also is still with Weight Watchers teaching one meeting a week.

I am doing the same--nothing too exciting in my corner, I am busy with homeschooling Reese, cooking glutenBobby Kennedy for President, over its four-hour running time, uses its subject as a kind of microcosm for American politics itself. The first episode deals with John F. Kennedy’s presidency, which it uses to consider the tension between getting ahead and doing the right thing. Bobby, his brother’s campaign manager during JFK’s presidential run, had cut his teeth working with Senator Joseph McCarthy, a family friend, but quit when he grew disillusioned with the senator’s ruthless investigations of suspected communists. In the early days of the Kennedy administration, both brothers were slow to embrace the burgeoning civil-rights movement; Robert Kennedy, then attorney general, was publicly critical of the Freedom Riders. But he changed his mind when he “saw people suffering,” U.S. Rep. John Lewis argues in the series.

The


second episode considers Kennedy’s campaign for U.S. Senate in 1964, while he was still reeling from the assassination of his brother. It was at this point, Porter suggests, that he started to engage more passionately with issues where he felt he could make a difference. Porter interviews former Kennedy aides and activists in his orbit, who recall his trips to rural communities assailed by poverty. Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children’s Defense Fund, describes initially thinking that Kennedy was only making these visits to get some positive press coverage. But she was startled by his focus. “Robert Kennedy was not who I thought he would be,” Edelman says. “He was listening, and he was learning.”

What’s apparent throughout the film is how many of the problems Kennedynumber of affiliates declined by 5,829, or 0.04 percent.

According to the National Statistics Institute's Active Population Survey for the fourth quarter, which was released last month, unemployment fell slightly on the previous year, ending 2013 at 5.896 million. The jobless rate rose slightly to 26.03 percent.

Between 2008 and 2013, the number of people officially registered as unemployed has risen every year by over 130,000 in January, with the exception of 2010 when the increase was 125,000. The biggest recent increase in jobless claims in the first month of the year was in 2009, when the ranks of the unemployed grew by 199,000.

On an annual basis, the number of jobless claims was down 3.34 percent, the fourth consecutive month in which there has been a year-on-year fall.

In seasonally adjusted


terms, the number of people in work climbed for the fifth month in a row, with an increase in January of 35,500.

Jobless claims in January fell only in construction, where there were 3,486 fewer people out of work. The number of registered unemployed in the services sector rose by 99,519, by 3,577 in industry and by 8,110 in agriculture. The number of first-time jobseekers climbed by 5,377.

Some 1.259 million work contracts were registered in January, of which only 98,366, or 7.81 percent of the total, were permanent posts, a fall of 2.2 percent from a year earlier.U.S.

Elizabeth Smart: My Faith And 'My Story'

Elizabeth Smart says she never lost faith during her nine-month captivity.

Elizabeth Smart was just 14 years old when she was kidnapped at knifepoint from her Salt Lake City home in 2002. She was held captive for nine months and forced to act as Brian David Mitchell's second wife. He raped her nearly every day and told her that the ordeal was ordained by God.

Smart says there were moments when she felt there was no one to turn to — except God. She writes about how her Mormon faith played a key part in her survival in her new memoir, My Story.

"When I was kidnapped and he was telling me all of these things, I remember what my parents said: 'You'll know a


survivor a disservice."

The kidnapping is not the final chapter of Smart's story. She is now married and working as an advocate for children's issues. Smart says writing the book was a healing experience that helped her realize how far she has come.

"All of us have the potential inside us to reach so much further and grow so much more than any of us think we can," she says.

This is tell me more from NPR news. I'm Michel Martin. Later in the program the barbershop guys give us their take on the week's news. But first to a story that dominated the headlines back in 2002. She was just 14 years old when she was kidnapped at knife point from her own bedroom by a man who broke intoher house. She was held captive for nine months - at one point chained to a tree by a man named Brian David Mitchell who told her, and later the world, that he was a religious profit. But Elizabeth Smart eventually did escape from her attackers and today she says she is the luckiest girl in the world. She talks about all of this in a new memoir titled "My Story." And because faith played so much of a part of that story, this is our Faith Matters conversation for this week. Elizabeth Smart is with us now. Thank you so much for joining us.

ELIZABETH SMART: Thank you, Michel.

MARTIN: It's been 11 years since you were kidnapped - a decade since you regained your freedom. I think a


her home country of Pakistan - then again in her last year when she was shot in the head and neck by a Taliban gunman. But Malala made a stunning recovery and she's still speaking out. Here she is addressing the United Nations in July.

(SOUNDBITE OF SPEECH)

MALALA YOUSAFZAI: I'm not against anyone. I'm here to speak up for the right of education of every child.

(APPLAUSE)

YOUSAFZAI: I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all the terrorists and extremists. So here I stand one girl among many.

MARTIN: She had been considered a front runner for this year's Nobel Peace Prize. It was announced today that the honor would go to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for its work in Syria. But Malala'sapartment and cannot keep him as a pet. It is an incredibly emotional moment, because the tiger and I are one, we feel very closely linked and must still separate – I cry incessantly (End of dream)

The tiger cannot be yet unleashed. He must still stay behind because the new world is not yet established as to meet his need for freedom, zest, vitality, protection and truth. And yet he is already on the spot, although tied up in order to assist humanity in its crucial hours. It breaks your heart, and in fact where you stay symbolically, is where humanity is now freed from the demons, but the tiger cannot yet acquire his full force.

The tiger stands for two things:

a) For the humanity that has arrived in


simultaneously. And we shall ascend at the beginning of these events and will not personally experience them.

Well, the current budget crisis in the United States represents a pretext to declare a state of emergency in the U.S. and then introduce the NWO. The blockade of the Republicans and of their far right faction that was created by the dark elite, is too methodical and beyond any human logic, so that I can see here the beginning of the political upheavals in the U.S. and worldwide. Also the date – 17 October – as the final day is fixed and it can also come earlier. The congress speaker Boehner is a proven clone and is being mightily manipulated. It is known that Obama was dropped after his defeat inThe North Staffordshire Railway

Inception

This section is provided for anyone unfamiliar with The North Staffordshire Railway - or Knotty as it was generally known -
after the Staffordshire Knot crest initially used by the company as an heraldic device.

The Knotty was incorporated in April 1845 by amalgamation of the Staffordshire Potteries and Churnet Valley Railways.
The first section of the railway opened for goods traffic on 3rd April 1848 and for passengers a fortnight later.
This initial section extended from Stoke-on-Trent to Norton Bridge (a few miles north of Stafford on the LNWR's route).

Services

Overall Stoke-on-Trent was the centre of operations for the railway. Lines extended from Macclesfield to Norton Bridge,
and from Crewe Junction to North Stafford Junction, located between Burton-on-Trent and Derby. There was also a branch from
this line to Burton-on-Trent. Its


other major route was from North Rode, just south of Macclesfield, via the Churnet Valley,
to Uttoxeter. The Churnet Valley line was also connected to the main line at Stoke via the Leek Branch, which ran from Stoke to Leekbrook Junction.

The Biddulph Valley line diverged from the Leek branch at Milton Junction. This line ran through Black Bull and Biddulph to
Congleton (Brunswick Wharf) with a connection to the Main Line at Congleton Upper Junction.

There was also a branch line to Market Drayton which extended from Newcastle Junction (between Stoke-on-Trent and Etruria),
via Newcastle-under-Lyme, Silverdale and Pipe Gate (Woore) to Market Drayton where connection with the Great Western Railway was effected.

And finally, there was the Loop Line! This line diverged eastwards from the main line, immediately to the north of Etruria
station,and meandered through the northern reaches of the city. It served Hanley, Cobridge, Burslem, Tunstall, Pittshill,
Newchapel and Kidsgrove, before rejoining the main line to the north of Harecastle Junction station (later Kidsgrove Central), at Kidsgrove Junction.

Principal services were operated between Crewe and Derby, Manchester, Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford, Macclesfield and Derby,
through Leek - over the Churnet Valley route - and finally of course there was the frequent service over the Loop Line.

The Grouping & Nationalisation

The North Staffordshire Railway, like its much larger neighbours, the London & North Western Railway and the Midland
Railway, ceased to exist when they became constituents of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, when it came into existence on
January 1st 1923. The NSR had had an independent existence for 75 years during which time the world


had witnessed the great tumult
of the First World War. The LMS lasted just 45 years. Its independent existence came to an end soon after the Second World War
when the post-war Labour government nationalised Britain's railways from January 1st 1948.

The contraction of the passenger rail network in North Staffordshire picked up pace in the 1960s, culminating in the closure of
the Loop Line, Leek to Uttoxeter, and the line to Newcastle and Silverdale, following the publication of the Beeching Report on
March 27th 1963. Numerous freight lines have closed since then notably Audley and Biddulph. The line from Stoke to Leekbrook and Caldon
has been mothballed for many years now.

Privatisation and Today

British Railways was privatised over a protracted period between 1994 and 1997. At the time British Railways were receiving
an annual subsidyof about £350m. This was only for regional passenger railways. InterCity, Parcels and freight were not subsidised.
The subsidy to today's privatised railway is close to £3bn per annum, almost 1000 times more......

In North Staffordshire privatisation is most noticeable in the trains that operate along the routes radiating from Stoke. Currently:

Virgin Trains (express services between Manchester and Euston)

Cross Country (Arriva) between Manchester and the south and south west of England

Northern Rail (stopping services to Manchester)

East Midland Trains (Crewe to Derby)

From mid-December London Midland will operate a service from Crewe, via Stoke-on-Trent and Stone to Stafford and Euston or Birmingham.

Freight trains are operated by English, Welsh and Scottish Railways - EWS - a subsidiary of the German State Railway, andalso by Freightliner.