enter into agreements in the organization's name. All books, records, monies, property, and premises belonging to or controlled by the organization shall be turned over to him upon his demand and he shall issue a receipt for the same. The Trustee shall carry out all orders issued to him by the General President. The Trustee shall give bond for the faithful discharge of his duties in an amount determined by the General President. He shall make monthly reports to the General President, including statements of receipts and expenditures and detailing the action taken by him as Trustee.
Section 6. Duration of Trusteeship. A trusteeship shall not extend beyond eighteen (18) months unless the General Executive Board approves the extension. The General President shall terminate all trusteeships as soon as,in his opinion, the local conditions warrant such termination.
Section 7. Procedure Upon Termination of Trusteeship.
(a) When a trusteeship is to be terminated, the Trustee shall prepare by-laws, which after approval by the General President, shall be promulgated as the by-laws of the Local Union prior to the acceptance of nominations immediately before the end of the trusteeship. Such by-laws shall provide the nomination and election procedure to be followed as a part of the trusteeship termination and shall also provide for future nominations and elections. The said by-laws promulgated by the Trustee with the approval of the General President, shall remain in effect until such time as the Local, under the procedure of this Constitution, amends the same or adopts new by-laws.
(b) When a trusteeship is to be


terminated, the Trustee shall call meetings for the purpose of receiving nominations for officers and conducting elections. He shall install such officers on the day the trusteeship is to be terminated. All properties under the trusteeship shall be turned over to the proper local officers, who shall receipt for the same. A final audit of the trusteeship shall be made and approved by the General Secretary-Treasurer.
(c) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 7(a) & (b) to the contrary, and in lieu of such procedure, the General President with the approval of the General Executive Board may merge such Local Union with another Local Union or Unions in the same manner as provided in Article V, Section 16, if in his opinion such merger would serve the best interests ofthe Local Union and its membership.
Section 8. Administrative Assistance to a Newly Chartered Local. Whenever the International Union engages in an organizing drive in a newly chartered Local Union, or when any Local Union requests administrative assistance for any purpose, the General President shall have the right to provide administrative assistance for any such Local. Where the General President provides such administrative assistance he shall have the authority, as the duly authorized agent of such Local Union, to appoint and remove any officer of such Local Union, and all formal actions of such Local Union shall be subject to his approval. Financial assistance rendered to such Local by the International Union shall be carried on the books of such Local Union as a loan from the International Union,


unless otherwise directed by the General Executive Board. Such Local Union shall enter into all contracts and financial transactions in its own name and may not obligate the International Union in any way whatsoever without specific authorization from the General Executive Board. Every action of the General President or his representative in connection with such Local shall be as an agent of the Local Union, pursuant to the authority herein stated and not as an agent of the International Union.
Section 9. Termination of Administration. Local Unions or membership which are receiving administrative assistance as provided for in the next preceding Section shall retain that status until the General Executive Board determines that stability among such members or Locals has been reached to warrant the termination of administrative assistance;void due to numerous irregularities and improprieties, and after the United States Department of Labor filed a Complaint in Federal Court, Local 5 entered into a Stipulation, and a Court Order followed on June 30, 1978, directing that an election be held under the supervision of the Department of Labor.
3. Since March, 1978, there has been complete turmoil and disruption within Local 5, caused by its officers running against one another for election to Union office. Numerous charges have been made concerning financial mismanagement, failure to sign certain documents, and the ineligibility of certain candidates, and many of these charges have been printed in local newspapers and broadcast on television and radio, contrary to the interest of Local 5 and contrary to the interest of the International Union.
4.


a Cross-Application for Adjudication in Civil Contempt against the Department of Labor, asking the Court to find the Department of Labor in Contempt of Court for violating the Court Order in the manner in which it tried to take over Local 5.
6. In the trial in the Federal District Court for the District of Hawaii, before the Honorable Judge Samuel P. King, on the Cross-Applications for Civil Contempt, evidence was introduced on August 16, 1978, showing the members of the faction supporting candidate Richard Tam have been tape recording Local 5 meetings and turning these tapes over to the United States Department of Labor, and in addition, evidence was introduced showing these same members submitted numerous affidavits to the Department of Labor concerning the internal affairs of Local5.
7. In the same trial on August 16, 1978, after listening to one full day of testimony, the Honorable Judge Samuel P. King stated, "You don't have a Union here. You have a war." Judge King went on to say that it looked like a war to him because Union members were spying on each other, secretly tape-recording each other, and making out affidavits about one another. Judge King also suggested that it seemed to him to be an ideal situation in which an International Union might well choose to put a Local Union in trusteeship.
8. Presently there is no election scheduled for Union officers in Local 5. The schedule proposed by the Department of Labor in the Stipulation signed June 30, 1978, called for an election by


Secretary of Labor against Local 5 to secure a supervised election. The specific hearing involved cross-motions for contempt of an earlier court order for a supervised election.
[12]  This subsection provides: "Every local labor organization shall elect its officers not less often than once every three years by secret ballot among the members in good standing."
[13]  Mr. Leavitt as part of his July investigation mailed copies of the newspaper stories on these charges and countercharges to General President Hanley.
[14]  Civil No. 78-0095 and Civil No. 78-0191. General President Hanley was formally notified by Plaintiff Tam on January 5, 1978, of the failure to hold elections. General President Hanley, by letter dated January 18, 1978, directed that nominations for Local 5 offices be effected in February 1978Cullen Jenkins has agreed to a three-year deal with the Giants, according to a league source. The veteran defensive lineman has drawn interest from several teams since being released by the Eagles and now remains in the NFC East.

The New York Giants have agreed to a deal with defensive tackle Cullen Jenkins, according to Kim Jones of NFL Network. CBSSports.com's Jason La Canfora has confirmed the report. Jenkins was released last month by the Eagles.

Former Philadelphia Eagles defensive lineman Cullen Jenkins reportedly has his sights set on playing for a contender in 2013. After meeting with the Giants on Friday, Jenkins is scheduled to meet with the Seahawks and 49ers next week, according to ESPN. Jenkins was released by the Eagles on Feb. 25.


Welcome Oman

Welcome Oman

Gulf nation becomes 73rd IIHF member

The Omani ice hockey team plays at the Fun Zone Ice Rink in the capital of Muscat. Photo: OISC

The 2014 IIHF Annual Congress has accepted the Oman Ice Sports Committee as its 73rd member.

Oman becomes the fourth IIHF member country from the Gulf region after the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar.

Oman was granted associate member status. The sport of ice hockey in the sultanate of over three million inhabitants dates back to 2002.

“Hockey came into existence thanks to the personal effort of a few individuals who built the Omani ice hockey team almost 12 years ago,” said Anad Al-Balushi, the President of the Oman Ice Sports Committee.

“The team practised once a week at the Al Khuwair ice skating rink,” saidAl-Balushi, who also became the team’s coach in 2009. The team has participated at several invitational events in the Gulf region.

The team now plays at a newer rink in the Qurum area of the Omani capital of Muscat sized 44.9 on 24.64 metres.

There are currently 24 senior and 15 junior players registered in Oman and 12 female players who are interested in playing hockey.

“We at the Oman Ice Sports Committee are thrilled and excited to be part of the IIHF and part of the world ice hockey community. Every hockey player in Oman had this dream of our country being a member of IIHF,” Al-Balushi said.

“This opportunity gives us the key to strive to appear outside Oman and get exposure of ice hockey around the globe in addition


This invention relates to devices known as stents which provide support to a vessel, such as a blood vessel, and in particular to stents that are both temporary and removable.
Obstructive coronary artery disease is one of most serious health problems facing our society today. This disease is the result of the deposit of fatty substances on the interior surface of the walls of the arteries. The build up or lesion of such deposits results in a narrowing of the diameter of the artery which restricts the blood flow through the artery. This condition wherein the artery is narrowed is known as stenosis. The lesion may form in any part of the artery and in some instances the deposits may form at the intersection between two arteries, that is,in the artery. In this procedure, an elastic balloon is attached to one end of a small diameter flexible catheter which includes means for inflating the balloon from the other end of the catheter. The catheter is maneuvered through the patient's vessels to the site of the lesion with the balloon in uninflated form. When the uninflated balloon is properly positioned at the lesion, the balloon is then inflated to dilatate the restricted area.
Atherectomy is a procedure in which a small cutting tool is attached to the end of a small diameter flexible catheter and maneuvered through the patient's arterial system to the site of the lesion in the diseased artery. When the cutting tool is properly positioned, the tool is used to cut and remove the deposits


city as one of the sites for a major new office.

Amazon said in September last year that it was seeking a site for a second corporate headquarters that would eventually employ up to 50,000 people. But it now plans to split its new headquarters between two sites, including Long Island City in New York, sources told Reuters.

Google, which already employs about 7,000 in the city, has its New York headquarters at 111 Eighth Avenue, one of the city’s largest buildings that it bought in 2010.

Google also plans to expand its existing property at Chelsea Market by about 300,000 square feet, WSJ said citing people briefed with the matter.

Google declined to comment on the matter.

Google closed a $2.4 billion deal to buy New York’s Chelsea Market in March, expandingpoint to put the round on target, as well as setting the fusing of the grenade in the chamber. The grenade doesn't have to strike anything to explode, so it can detonate in the air over whatever or whoever might be hiding behind a vehicle, wall, or entrenchment.

The XM25 has been in development since the middle of the last decade. It was originally developed by Alliant TechSystems, which was acquired by Orbital Sciences. In 2010, the Army's PEO Soldier program office sent prototypes of the XM25 to Afghanistan for "forward operational assessment"—use in actual combat to see how it performed. PEO Soldier's Lt. Colonel Chris Lehner said in a post about the field tests that the "introduction of the XM25 is akin to other revolutionary systems such as


The
untold story of the storming of the Red Mosque was the injustice and poverty
that people were subjected to that led them to take refuge in the mosque.
Journalism professor Robert Jensen sees the story first hand as he travels
there.

Islamabad,
Pakistan. For
my first three days in Pakistan, no conversation could go more
than a few minutes without a reference to the crisis at the Lal
Masjid (Red Mosque) compound. I had landed in Islamabad on July
8 and, by then, it seemed clear that government forces would eventually
storm the mosque and the attached women's seminary to end the
confrontation with fundamentalist clerics and their supporters.

The final
assault was finally unleashed as two companions and I drove to
Lahore as part of a lecture tour. During several hours of intense
discussion in the car, they gave me background anddetails that
explained the real tragedy of the conflict.

When the
news of the final assault came via cell phone we all fell silent,
and we all quietly cried - for those killed and for opportunities
lost, out of our grief and from our fear.

In the Western
news media and even much of the Pakistani press, the story was
framed as crazed radical Islamist forces challenging relatively
restrained government forces. Indeed, the two brothers who ran
the mosque preached an interpretation of Islam that was mostly
reactionary and sometimes violent. None of us in the car - two
Muslims and one Christian, all progressive in theological and
political thought - supported such views.

But
there was more to the story. Farid
Esack, one of the world's foremost progressive Muslim theologians
who was in Pakistan to teach and lecture, and Junaid
Ahmad, a Pakistani-American activist and


law student directing
the lecture series, both pointed out that key social/economic
aspects of the story were being overlooked.

In addition
to calls for shariah law under a fundamentalist Islamic state,
Lal Masjid imams Abdur Rashid Ghazi and Mohammed Abdul Aziz critiqued
the corruption of Pakistani political, military and economic elites,
highlighting the living conditions of the millions of Pakistanis
living in poverty. As in most Third-World societies, the inequality
gap here has widened in recent years, as those who find their
place in the U.S.-dominated neoliberal economic project prosper
while most ordinary people suffer, especially the poor.

"We can reject
the jihadist and patriarchal aspects and still recognize that
there is in this fundamentalist philosophy a call for social justice,
a challenge to the power-seeking and greed of elites," said Esack,
the author of Qur'an: Liberation and Pluralism. "When I
spoke with Ghazi, itwas clear that was an important part of his
thinking, and it's equally clear that the appeal of this theology
is magnified by the lack of meaningful calls for justice from
other sectors of society."

Esack, who
teaches at Harvard Divinity School and is a former national commissioner
for gender equality in South Africa, had been visiting the mosque
regularly and speaking to Ghazi and others inside until government
forces sealed the area a few days earlier. A native of South Africa
who was active in the struggle against apartheid, Esack spent
much of his childhood in Pakistan at a madarasah, where he was
a classmate of Aziz. Contrary to the media image of Ghazi, the
cleric had a broader agenda and wanted to learn more about how
an Islamic state could be structured to ensure economic equality,
Esack said.

"We
can reject the


jihadist and
patriarchal aspects and still recognize
that there is in this fundamentalist
philosophy a call for social justice,
a challenge to the power-seeking
and greed of elites," said Farid Esack,
the author of Qur'an: Liberation and
Pluralism. "When I spoke with
Abdur Rashid Ghazi, it was clear
that was an important part
of his thinking, and it's equally clear
that the appeal of this theology
is magnified by the lack of
meaningful calls for justice
from other sectors of society."

"My vision
of an inclusive polity influenced by progressive Islamic values
is very different than Ghazi's, of course, but his theology should
not be reduced to a caricature, as it so often was, especially
in the West," Esack said.

Ahmad emphasized
that another crucial part of the story involved economics, specifically
land. Press reports focused on the provocative activities of students
and supporters of Lal Masjid members threatening video storeowners,
raiding brothels and clashing with police, but an underlying cause
of the conflict was the existence of "unauthorized" mosques.

Many of these mosques and madrasahs had been built without permits
on unused public land in Islamabad. As the city has grown more
crowded and developers eyed that real estate for commercial building,
the government took the risky step of destroying some of those
mosques (though the many non-religious, profit-generating projects
also built without permits remain undisturbed). Clerics protested,
adding to the intensity of the Lal Masjid conflict.

Esack and
Ahmad agreed that another aspect of the crisis mostly ignored
in the press was the fact that the events played out in Islamabad,
home to the more secular/liberal and privileged elements of the
society. While those liberals might ignore such movements and
conflicts in the outer provinces, many found it offensive that
such an


embarrassing incident could happen in the capital, where
the world eventually would pay attention.

"We hear
about how this is bad for the image of Pakistan, with no comment
about the lives of ordinary Pakistanis and the substance of what
the country is about," Ahmad said. "Instead of talking about these
fundamental questions of justice, many people wanted to see the
incident ended to avoid further tarnishing of the country's image.
It's like the obsession the United States has with simply changing
its image in the Muslim world rather than recognizing the injustice
of its policies."

In the construction
of that image, the stories of the reality of the lives of people
at Lal Masjid are typically untold. As the crisis unfolded and
some of the madrasah students left the compound, the government
gave them some money and told them to go home.

"TheI felt
angry at people like Ghazi and at the same time a deep sorrow
for his death. I felt a much deeper rage at Pakistan's military
president, Pervez Musharraf, and the U.S. leaders who support
him. And I felt a kind of fear for the Muslim fundamentalism that
unleashes such violent forces, which always reminds me of the
equally frightening Christian fundamentalist theology circulating
in the United States.

I bounced
between a deep sense of despair and an equally deep sense of hope.
Once the confrontation was set in motion, perhaps the people inside
the mosque and the soldiers killed were doomed. But in the car
in that moment, I could feel hope that the work of people like
Esack and Ahmad was setting in motion other forces. Mostly I was
grateful to be in their company to share the grief.


scientific advances, but believed that these would be guided by the price system rather than central planning.

Although much less prominent these days, the old population-control and resource-depletion rhetoric is still alive and well in some of its traditional strongholds, be they some institutions dominated by the British upper classes (see, among others, recent remarks by, Jane Goodall, David Attenborough and John Sulston) or international-development bureaucracies. For instance, when asked why Indians shouldn’t aspire to the same standard of living as the Westerners, the former chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra K Pachauri, answered, ‘Gandhi was asked if he wanted India to reach the same level of prosperity as the United Kingdom. He replied: “It took Britain half the resources of the planet to reach itsnuclear testing and air pollution should also perhaps temper some of the most extreme rhetoric (7). Or else consider that, not too long ago, countless writers suggested, as the geographer William Dando did in his 1980 book The Geography of Famine, that most climatologists and even a ‘declassified Central Intelligence Agency’ report agreed that because of air pollution, the Earth was ‘entering a period of climatic change’ that had already resulted in ‘North African droughts, the lack of penetration of monsoonal rains in India and seasonal delay in the onset of spring rains in the Soviet Virgin Lands wheat area’. Global cooling, Dando told his readers, was ‘the greatest single challenge humans will face in coming years’ because it would soon trigger ‘mass migration and all-encompassing international famines’


welfare of the disabled in Japan in the future.

At the same time, moves to prevent a repeat of the deadly attack have meandered. The health ministry submitted a bill to revise the Mental Health Act to a regular session of the Diet, but due to strong resistance from those associated with the disabled, the issue has been left for further deliberation.

Uematsu carried out the attack just four months after he was released following a period of compulsory hospitalization. Because of this, officials decided to include in their draft revision consultative support from local bodies and public health centers following the release of patients, along with measures to boost information-sharing about patients among local bodies.

However, welfare services supporting community life for the disabled are lacking in Japan, and ifThe photos were released by the U.S. Department of Justice to be used as evidence in the terrorism conspiracy trial against bin Laden’s lieutenant Khald al-Fawwaz, taking place in Manhattan.

The set of photos, captured by Palestinian journalist Abdel Barri Atwan, shows bin Laden in his Tora Bora lair in Afghanistan, to which he fled after the 9/11 attacks.

Despite being a free man back then, bin Laden was already hiding in fear that the US had him targeted.

The year was 1996 and Osama bin Laden was not a household name, despite his declaration of war against the United States.

Following the publication of bin Laden’s religious decree against the U.S. in his London weekly newspaper; Atwan was invited by Al-Qaeda’s communications lieutenant al-Fawwaz to conduct the first print interview with


In other words, an aspiring fire alarm contractor in Tulsa can get to work three years sooner than his counterpart in Little Rock. Likewise, Arkansas requires three years of training for opticians before they may be licensed, though the national average is one year.

Figure 1 compares the state’s fee and experience requirements in these surveyed occupations to the national average. Though fees are on par with the rest of the country, days lost to education and experience requirements are more than double the national average.

Source: Institute for Justice, “License to Work: A National Study of Burdens from Occupational Licensing.”Recent reform efforts aim to combat heavy-handed occupational licensing regulation, but dozens of needlessly burdensome rules remain on the books. Earlier this year, Arkansas State Representative Richard Womack introduced ato purchase a small pack at my local Starbucks.
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Caramel Bundt Cake

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, and baking soda.

With an electric mixer and paddle attachment, beat the softened butter with both sugars until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time until each is well mixed. Make sure to scrape the sides of the bowl. Add vanilla and mix some more.

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Pour into the bundt pan and bake for 35-45 mins or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean (mine went for 40 mins). Cool in the pan for 20 mins before transferring to a cooling rack.

Lightly grease and flour


February of 1993, appellee was arrested and charged with the felony of sale of a controlled substance, marijuana, to an undercover police operative. Upon learning of appellee's arrest, the Board transferred appellee from his teaching position to a job at the Board office that did not involve regular contact with students.
At his trial in May of 1993, appellee successfully asserted the defense of entrapment and a jury found him not guilty. However, during his testimony appellee admitted that for a couple of years he had smoked marijuana at home in the evenings on a regular basis. He denied any use of marijuana during work hours or school activities and no such use has ever been alleged.
Shortly after appellee was acquitted, in early June of 1993, two local newspaperarticles about the appellee's case were published. Almost immediately after the two articles were published, a Hurricane area parent began to circulate petitions that opposed appellee's return to teaching at Hurricane High School.
Thereafter, during the summer of 1993 while the appellee was on summer break, the Board and its counsel exchanged correspondence about appellee's situation, debating what could and should be done about appellee's employment as a teacher, in the wake of appellee's acquittal and his admission of regular marijuana use.
This correspondence was leaked to the media, apparently by someone associated with the Board, and quotations from this correspondence appeared in several news stories in August 1993. The gist of these stories was the Board's likely intent to fire appellee.
On August 30, 1993, the Board met to consider


appellee's possible termination. The petitions opposing his teaching at Hurricane *646 (some 700 signatures) were given to the Board. However, the Board decided not to take action on a possible termination and instead directed its counsel to explore the possibility of appellee's transfer to another school. Soon thereafter appellee submitted a request for a transfer to a vacant teaching position in Winfield, another Putnam County school. Although this request was confidential, presumably the fact of the request was leaked, because a new set of petitions against appellee's employment as a school teacher began to circulate in Winfield, and these were delivered to the Board.
On September 24, 1993, the Board sent a letter to appellee regarding appellee's possible dismissal. This letter was also leaked to the press and quoted"untainted" notoriety regarding the appellee. The circuit court thus erred in reversing the ALJ's factual finding as to the existence of substantial notoriety regarding the appellee that was free of Board contribution.
Based on this (erroneous) reversal of the ALJ's factual finding, the circuit court ruled as a matter of law that there were no facts upon which the Board or the ALJ could permissibly conclude that there was a "rational nexus" between the appellee's off-duty conduct and his teaching duties, as required by Golden, supra.
However, because the circuit court's reversal of the ALJ's factual finding was erroneous, the court's legal ruling was also erroneous. The Board and the ALJ did have a basis for finding a "rational nexus," that in turn permitted the Board to terminate the appellee


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Puff described his childhood, including the moment that sparked his hunger for success and the decision he made to himself to have more and be more than he was at that moment.

Although 97% of the Bad Boy family was present in preparation for the reunion tour, there was the exception of Craig Mack who turned his life over to religion and declined to join the tour. It was the same with Shyne, after he served his 6 year prison sentence. I did appreciate the fact that we were able to listen in to the conversation between Craig Mack and a member of the Bad Boy managementtelevision news network, has been detained and imprisoned in the United States for unspecified reasons. American-born Hashemi, most famous for anchoring news programs and presenting shows for Press TV, was detained upon arrival at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri, on Sunday, her family and friends said. Press TV has learned that she was transferred by the FBI to a detention facility in Washington, D.C. The US officials have so far refused to provide any reasons for her apprehension either to


Feldman (Minneapolis Institute of Art) who focused on the issue of balancing our changing audience. Traditional museum visitors and supporters are middle class or well off and white, but within 20 years, the US white majority will become a minority-majority, with this transformation manifesting in younger generations long before it is population-wide. Museums need to serve their traditional audiences, not only because they are often our major donors, but also need to serve this new audience, not least because they will be the ones steering policy on culture in the future – but their needs are different.

These kinds of discussions aligned with other discussions around strategy, the highlight of which was ‘Getting $*it done: Implementing your Digital Strategy’ featuring Jane Alexander (Cleveland Museum of Art), John Gordy (NationalPerspectives

The St. Louis Cardinals may have struck out with LGBTQ fans by featuring Lance Berkman at their annual “Christian Day” in July, but the team is stepping up to the plate for the first official “Pride Night” at Busch Stadium on Friday, Aug. 25th featuring an historic ceremonial first pitch by transgender entertainer Tassandra Crush. Crush, who is Pride St.(…)

People tend to regard history as a stream of progress that only flows one way. The LGBTQ rights movement has experienced great success over the past 35 years passing laws and fighting court cases to make discrimination against LGBTQ people illegal. The crown jewels of these achievements are marriage equality, state and local nondiscrimination laws,(…)

The organizers of the World OutGames that were scheduled to begin in Miami May 26,


have abruptly announced the cancellation of the majority of the sporting events. The Board of Directors of World OutGames made the announcement Friday by email and on Facebook: “It is with deep regret that due to financial burdens, World OutGames(…)

Registration is well underway with sports enthusiasts from more than 40 countries ready to compete during World OutGames Miami 2017, a 10-day event that will bring to life 30 sports and 400 events across the areas of Sport, Culture and Human Rights. Making its U.S. debut, the Games will welcome thousands of athletes, participants, spectators(…)

In September 1982, I started my first job at a firm after law school, at the Los Angeles office of what was then one of the five largest firms in the United States. On FridayCultural Affairs and the Pyramid Peak Foundation, Memphis, TN.

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Collections
 Smithsonian National Museum of African American History, Washington, DC
 Oppenheimer Collection: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland, KS
 National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, GA
 de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
 BET Collection, New York, NY
 Library of Congress, Washington DC
 Sprint PCS Art Collection, Sprint Corporation, Overland, KS
 The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT
 Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC
 The Paul Jones Collection, Birmingham, AL
 High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
 King & Spalding Art Collection, Atlanta GA
 Lucinda Bunnen Photography, Atlanta, GA
 Clark Atlanta University Galleries, Atlanta, GA
 Spelman Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta,


of discontentment
Taking root where hope departs

None wish to face it alone
For the pains too great to contain
Fathoms running deep
No anchor there can reach

To want for
Yet turn about face
From the rising heat
Burning fleshes fevered waste

Like the cracked land
Scars in canyons
Parched lips where deserts waters hide
Thirsting for a smile in the wasteland wide

The fragile breath
That whispers of loves broken dream
Taken by the billowed wind
Drowned out as a scream

Shaken to foundations

Mouth wide, the drawn lips
Cried into the wilderness
Or from an islands lonely beach
Where sea reaches to contain the land
Yet in the surf our voices sink

FAME is a rich mugs game, I do not pay an agent and yet my work is well recognised. Partly due to the million plays I got in the first two years of this site and twogolden coal
The present that comes out the back
In a little plastic sack
You know her shit can kill
Why do I feel this thrill?

I give her arse a poke
That shit goes up in smoke
There's really no better fantasy
Than the shit she gives to me
I'm a coprophiliac
Cos her arse is fit for smack

Social cancer

Like the cancer
That takes root in every cell
The poison perfumes
From the flowers of hell

Belladonna dilates the eyes
The needles prick
That snuffs out all other lies
And leaves only craved release for the sick

Like a social parasite
Hidden in the network
Where the viral bites
Hacking lives they shirk

The director to the play
Finds comedy in others tragedy
Recording all they say
With a pawns advance their strategy

Chance meeting on the platform
To step onto the train
Crossing tracks in reform
A guiding hand to pain

Poison as the pen
That signs


of the cheek
And held back hair
The ear to the oyster
Smooth skin so fair
Where secrets are whispered
Into the open shell
Hot breath on the tongue
Gleaming mother of pearl
Like snow drops in spring
Petals reaching for warmth
Or the pendant chandelier
Its tears to be caught
White virgin vellum
Turning over new page
Contrasting with ink
Like tattoo fading with age
Where wine matures
Sealed lips oaken cask
The oyster her secret
As smooth as her pearls
To open her shell
And drink of the flesh

Persuasion

Persuasion
Bringing thought into line
The dialogue
In attachment to realign
Misspelled words
Try to convey
Meaning in phonemes
Anagrams missing piece
Persuasion
Concealing whips
Absent life rafts
From sinking ships
To counsel and to reconcile
With promised integration
Smoke signals in the wilderness
Where the cavalry never comes
Persuasion
Adjusting attitudes
Contradictions from divides
Where does it ever end in philosophic diatribe
Wearing out to lay to waste
An opponents war inside
Dichotomy unified
Pancake days to a flip side
Ever onbreaths
In anticipation
Before the gasped inhale
Expansion of the diaphragm
To blow birthday candles out
Hands that cradle gently
The growing child's balloon
Taste of rubber on the lips
The temptation to let go
Or burst it with a pop
Party poppers
Firing champagne cork
Bubbles up the nose
Where excitement flushes cheeks
With head rush of blood
Confetti in the hair
Streamers take to air
Like cherry blossoms subtle scent
Cotton candy melts on tongue
Sentimental for the celebrations past
Drying shoes with the first wipe
On a new door mat
Welcome home for the first time
Feet stepping over entrance
One giant moment in the stride
Soon to be lost in familiarity
To turn the back on all that's lost
Still with memory's to unpack
With a tear for what departs
Freshly wept into the new
Wondering just what else was forgot
As you cant find that box of tissues
To wipe at moistened cheeks.

Longer than life


communion wine
Where in hymn wings rise
To the angels unsheathed swords
To bow the head in shame
Present neck to the teeth
Drunk on the blood of lambs
Lost to sin in flood
Feasting upon the flesh
Torn veil of one body

Wilderness
Distance grows between
Clocks hands turning cross the face
Shadows lengthening
As the sun goes down
Lost moments held in time
Film reel celluloid its dreams
Cracks showing to the eye
Edges melting into tear
Hearts yo yo, up and down
Moods swing barely with a sound
Chest rising just to fall
No reason to it all
How long's a piece of string?
Eyes never more to meet
The hooks that sunk in side
Pain in removal hide
A distance comes between
As I look down the mountain trail
Forced march into the wilderness
Too late to retrace steps
Looking out for new horizons
The cold shoulder of the steppes
Clouds their heavy grey
Hands untouched toknees with their green beds
String chains of white petals
With jewels of yellow hearts
Perhaps to attract the bees
That dance across the scene
In flight upon the breeze
The heat haze of summer lawns
A labyrinth they weave
With joy in the lost smiles
Striving to recall
The innocence on the face
The daisy a floral crown
For the fairest folk
Where fairy make a shade
From the petaled sky's
The daisies hearts of sunburst
Poking through grass clouds
Ever held in childhood memory
Strung as jewels about the neck.

Nostalgic institution
I won't turn away from this nostalgic institution
Everything looking better in reflections
Sentimental as the fading recollections
This nostalgic institution
So the mirror may have cracked
More makeup to the mask
Off the record
In nostalgias institution
Fake a smile for the camera
Put on airs for the tape
In mind of radio days
The newest opening play
I want to join in this nostalgic


in existence
Being there
Anchored in the self
That floats upon the waves
Of the passing time
To sail into becoming
Toward the new horizon
Doubled in the sextant
Yet without duality
The knower and the known
Emergent entity
Being in the world
Is this what it means to be?
Being there
Is consciousness all it is to be?
Or in another's eyes
Is this all we seem to be?
Being there, a portrait photo
Existent entity framed by time

Chaff (writen on proposal of published book of lyrics some weeks ago)
Dead poets to the Ivy League
Publishing conspiracy to believe
Who weeds the wheat out from the chaff
Collectively their grapes of wrath
Secret society for the elites
In a handshake frats to greet
Initiates they ball and bag
Who had the photos with the one night hag?
Brethren to a poison chalice
All with heads bowed towards the palace
There's some that play with littleconcrete marked
Still fresh leaves of grass,
Show through from the fertile land
Choking clouds of smoke that masked the light
Where they burned us down to ash
Still standing, mighty oak
Where squirrels make their nest
Our centripetal dance
The spiral pattern seeks
There within the wooded womb
Life's passion just a spark
Fed by ashes work
The sower takes to the field
Where acorns find their bed
Out there in the park.

Lady Liberty (EU bill human rights)
I want you more
Than relief from the pain of grasping thorn
Or the fevered lips
Unquenched fire trembling for a kiss
The frantic fear
In loosing the memory
Last nights dream
Of laying languid in those arms
Unsated passions
Where body shakes
With the force of suppressed sighs
Wanting like a thief
Ashamed in envy
For the sought for prize
A puppet for a string
Directed by the marionette
No hands more dominant than loves
That wrenches heart with longings


romance

Magic mirror
A little magic comes back into the world
The expectant hope sown on the wind
Where seeds cotton wings let float on by
Lifting emotions back on course
The tempest whipped storms
That raged on terribly through the night
A torrent of tears for those lost to the gale
Yearning for morning to dry drenched sails ripped apart
The dance in the waves of the lonely lost keel
A bark strains in the foam of uncharted seas
The rope burning hands to tie to our course
The rudder that strains the limbs with the force.
Sighting the land, a bird flys over head
The heart skips a beat with salt to the scent
Breathing a sigh with a thrill in the chest
That rises to lips as one who is blessed
Doubts washed away in the receding flood
With warmth in the breast thatgrave
Stiff shaft of javelin
Broke by Phaedra's sin
Chariot Begs to ride the extra mile
The incestuous to defile
But ask just whose the crime
Hearts weighed by scales of time
Smothered by her embrace
The funeral hearse to grace
The glorious beauty fled
Where corpse lies moaning death
That soil may cover the head
Of they that draw there final breath
To submit to the sirens call
Moist blood betrays the fall

Leather
The smell of fresh leather
Held restrained by the wrist
In the grip of tied thongs
For freedom to long
The suede for a blindfold
To hold back the sweat
Tears wept hot, grow cold
Eyes closed, alert to heart beat
Black armour for dark knight
That strains with muscles flexed
Rising through the night
Shame from bodies wrenched
The creak of tanned hide
Taste of biting whip
Where the devil rides
The trembling of those stretched hips
The shearling soft to the pain
Sheepskin touch


beware
Heels mount the staircase with a strut so rare
The marionette, a puppets glove
To stroke at flesh and model love
The hook it's bait
They'll see too late
Freedom corrupts
Those with eyes wide shut
Sweety dear an avatar
Where hands will grip just iron bars

Artichoke
Artichoke it's hidden heart
It's bud beneath the bract
Scales stripped with the knife
The fallen thistles leaves
Spiked recollections
Tearing of the flesh
Wound around the past
The unraveling thread of fate
Scabs with dirty plaster
Now cleaning out the scars
Bled out with the memory
Blacked out by the pain
Hands breaking through the ice
Too cold to hold the gun
Sun blushed tomatoes
Who rose with embarrassment ?
Fragile petal, The slide of olive oil
Tossed salad for a beggars bowl
Lost in disassociation
Fragmented in location
The sound of knitting needles
That marked the passing time
Trembling bitten fingers
Scrubbed red with wire wool
Falling through the fiddlers roof
Memory it'slovers parted for too long, New beginings sigh their prayer and cry with joys still to come whilst those passing over reach wings into the sky, Though the cliffs crack and so slowly corode still the sands speak of rocks that stood once proud, In time all things return to her and join the dance within those waves.

VENUS FLY TRAP LYRIC- Venus in fur oh havent you heard its war of the roses looking down noses bound by disease this devil to please. Venus a fly trap oh silly old me sounds hard to swallow but just wait and see they say she's a spider to pull on a fly watch out for the gym slip its man eater style. Venus in fur oh havent you heard short


lived as a yorky plays Richard III a temple of tubeors for temperol tudors whith hearse to the wedding the kill to the bride. Just like Percys Mary could spin a fine line waxing quite lyric its Frying tonight. Venus in fur oh havent you heard put them on the map with old Queen Mab. Full of emotion the swell of her ocean with pearls to her oyster a glove in whip hand. And as Lord Byron quoth to venus in fur oh havent you heard to Seaham all dead black ball to the head, croquet on the lawn murder in rhyme for that Nursery Crime. Venus a flytrap oh cilia old me they thought her a schoolgirl but just wait and see her names realy Audrey noenjoy the ride Its electric blue calling them on no coins for those eyes just a spill of old wine. Its amontillado forever goodbye.

MINJA THE NINJA

Me minja the ninja climbing over roof silent as the wind warm breath beneath a veil. me minja the ninja shadow in the dark strokeing at those curves through windows open doors. me minja the ninja casting a dark spell feeling for a pulse within that little death. me minja the ninja a life held in these hands blade before the eyes to free them from the silk artisan to the sheets painted poems on the nails clawing at the walls to face a pillows grave. me minja the ninja cherry blossom on a cheek scents of carnal knowledge the killings we have


love arrows thats our annachi. Annarchi they call her a bull when she gives them the eye they show her a wink she gets out her bow and sticks one in it hooked to her ring half cocked to fire with a double shot thats our dyke eye bully. Annarchi shes not just a dyke on her days off she rides her bike with a ring of that bell no end to her rythm as she rides them rough shod bunny hoping off roading. Annarchi she's not just a dyke she says shes a builder but she cant find a wife once they tare down those walls theres plenty to like she thinks shes an amazon from a past life she likes her leather when shes on thethe moon the pack is called to rise there soon fear to see in blind mens eyes terror there within their cries a howel that tares the night in two they come as one do they come for you? Blood will run from off their teeth the price is life and theyre the thief. at the sign of the skull the wolves descending for the cull the moon again to run so red as their hearts on anger fed beat as one the pack will come with their deaths the deed is done Howeling there beneath dark sky the prey bad men to do or die. the lies of men the cowering flock in their eyes a curse to mock the bad man and his bitter cry for


no hope. Gonna fight till the end never leaving that ring for whatever they tell us this land we were born to forevers our own.

Miss Understanding

Miss Understanding she's their therapist, She gives a little rub with a well oiled wrist, She'll show them how to split front page personalities, When they're down on that couch she's their number one./
Miss Understood that's her alter ego, Plays the black madona to Eckharts men, Nuns down on their knees for a second coming, Their bells to that book as she blows out their candle, Detatched from loves chains in her House of Lords./
Miss Understanding, understated at the best, It's a game people play as they work up a swet, Tied to extremities, Times best left forgot, Taken to the deapths inher fantasy, depravity./
Miss Understood they share the same smile, Down in the dungeons a story of nine tales, Plays it Sheradnazeh to Arabian Knights, A dance of seven veils with her favourite strap, Whiping up a frenzy she's an Anal-Lyst./
Miss Understood beneath Understanding, When they look up her skirt old Jacob starts to dream, Take eat for this is her body, It's what they thirst for with their trembleing lips, Just Judges and Lords to her golden chalice, They leap for entertaintment facing up to those trials./
Dressing up her characters in a land best left forgot, She'll penetrate their minds, in a fantasy, depravity.

2012

Got it all worked out for 2012 We're not just in the running we're ahead of the field. Londons set to go its gold for


them the Dust of Fingerprints, Their Night Of Long Knives the Rattle of cutlery draws, His Bread broke on The Mount. With Childrens laughter cross walls that none can seeThe sound of Her Harp that the poor may rest in peace.Wether and When, We will remember ThemThe Luck Of The British, To Reconciliation Days.

Where Chaos calls-
Two nightmares ride
Pale skins inscribe
Cloak and Dagger the blind
Fiery mace call sign
On Triumph those wings
The Abyss still sings
To Lucifer riseing
Seasons mysts defying.Lucifer riseing
Fair Astrea Crying
Old battles reminding
Her lucifer rideing
Pale horse to the crying
Firey Orb to upriseing
The abyss there yawns
To hell noisome spawn
No solace they fall
The man with no name
Her finest wove chain
The quickened, the dieing
For Lucifer RiseingLucifer Riseing-
Stitch in time to the binding-
Barbed kiss for hells key
The wolf neath her tree
Judge with Scorpiosstings
Bone sawn through lost wings
Bloody Mary the timeing
To Lucifers Riseing
Seventh ring to that maid,
With her crimson of veil
White weddings for Cain,
Lord foul to his bain
Bold Lucifer Riseing
Stench flows with bones grinding
Caressing heart strings
One hope, to black wings.
Lucifers riseing.Lucifer Riseing
One peace in the finding
A silence to hearts
Those late to depart
Bloodied eye its next bowt
Whispered flame snuffing out
At Lucifers riseing
Stitch in time to the binding
No Grace to her maze
Drown in darkest of waves
The mesanger clear
eyes lowered their fear.
To Lucifers Riseing
No hate here disguising
Light bearer to bring
The sound of her wings.Lucifer riseing
Glass darkly reminding
Dispairs bloodiest tear
Loathing calous as fear
Barbed scourge for our whip
The guantlets raised fist
A rook from hells towers
Flanks the Earthly of Power
Her lucifer riseing
The crown to their blinding
Lucifer riseing
Bitter solace they're finding.
Cold Narcisus reminding
Drink a draught of hells finest
With


Hensley Paulina

Hensley Paulina (born 26 June 1993) is a Dutch sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 100 metres relay event at the 2015 World Championships in Beijing narrowly missing the final.

Competition record

1Did not finish in the final
2Disqualified in the final

Personal bests
Outdoor
100 metres – 10.26 (+1.4 m/s, Heusden-Zolder 2014)
200 metres – 21.41 (+0.7 m/s, George Town 2010)

Indoor
60 metres – 6.64 (Jablonec nad Nisou 2016)

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The delay circuit detects a charge or discharge period of the capacitor and delays the charge or discharge current pulse of the series for a delay period proportional to the detected charge or discharge period. Then, the delay circuit drives the power switching circuit to apply a next current pulse of the series in an opposite direction of the present current pulse. After the series of current pulses, a sufficient amount of energy is transferred to the firing element causing a chemical reaction which generates a gas and causes the air bag to inflate.
The method of the present invention includes the steps of receiving a firing command signal from an air bag controller indicative of the existence of a crash condition requiring deployment of an air bag.


to sever his trial from that of his co-defendant, Michael Borrelli, and defendant's trial preceded Borrelli's.
Because the evidence against both co-defendants apparently arose from the same incident, defendant's attorney and Borrelli's counsel agreed to divide the pretrial investigation between themselves, and to share the results of their individual investigations. Counsel entered into this agreement even though the trials had been severed and the defenses were antagonistic. Under this arrangement, Borrelli's counsel was to have sole control of the investigation of the prosecution's chief witness, Terry D'Prero.
Upon that investigation, Borrelli's counsel discovered that D'Prero had entered a not guilty by reason of insanity plea in a criminal action in 1972. Several medical professionals had examined him there; all described various misrepresentations he made to them concerning his childhood, collegeD'Prero testified that the next day, they entered the victim's home, where defendant allegedly shot the couple, killing the husband and wounding the wife.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the People's case, D'Prero's testimony about defendant's participation was corroborated in several respects. D'Prero testified that, on the night before the murder, he and defendant saw the victim's car at one of the victim's businesses, punctured one of its tires, and followed the victim undetected to a garage where the tire was repaired. Two witnesses testified that the victim discovered *744 his car had a flat tire and drove it to a service station for repair that night. D'Prero also testified that, later that night, he and defendant spent an hour drinking at a local lounge with two


women. Both women positively testified that defendant was present during this session.
Moreover, on the morning of the murder, one of the victim's neighbors noticed a black man fitting defendant's general description outside the victim's home shortly before the murder. Two persons testified that, later that morning, two men generally fitting the description of defendant and D'Prero hurriedly left the victim's apartment and drove away in a Buick (the same make of car D'Prero testified he used). Finally, the evidence showed that another New York City police officer signed in and out for defendant at his New York City station house the day of the murder.
Based on all the evidence, the jury convicted defendant of conspiracy to commit first degree murder, but acquitted him of first degree murder and

Do you like upsets?

Foshan foreign coach Dean Murray was asked to be Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible at the beginning of the season when he took on the role of coaching a team without a point guard and two foreign players who have no experience playing overseas. It was a surprise to nobody when the team fell to the bottom of the CBA standings.

But on the night of January 22nd, 2015, with NBA scouts in attendance to watch young Chinese prospect Zhou Qi and his then first place Xinjiang Flying Tigers, the impossible happened. After it appeared he had lost the team, coach Murray rallied the troop and put some fight in them. Foshan looked like a different team, they would come in as David and finish the


suffering from diarrhea. He wasn’t sure if it was five or six meaning it could have been the entire team, or it could have been non and the coach was just making it up after getting embarrassed by Fujian. The final score was Fujian 111, Dongguan 72.

Ref gets carried out of arena on interns back

One of the referees in the Foshan vs. Shanxi game called a foul, and his motion was so fierce that he ruptured his achilles tendon. Instead of two people grabbing a side of the referee and carefully helping him to the locker room, the ref climbed on the back of what appears to be an intern and received a piggyback out of the gym. The game continued with only two referees. Shanxi would endthe final resting place of numerous prominent Hungarians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The gay community set a new tombstone on it, and since 2002 it has been a recurring event at Hungarian gay festivals to place a wreath at his grave.

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Maisano resigns, special election to replace him April 24

WHITE PLAINS – A special election will be held April 24 to replace a longtime Westchester County lawmaker who resigned this week.

The county Board of Legislators voted to set the date at a meeting Monday, one day after Republican Jim Maisano stepped down to take a job in the administration of County Executive George Latimer, a Democrat.

The election will be held the same day as a special election for a state Senate seat that was left empty Jan. 1, when Latimer resigned from the Senate to become county executive. Republican Julie Killian and Democrat Shelley Mayer are facing off for the Senate seat.

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Holding two elections on the same day would save the county money and also mean better turnout for a race in which not many voters are expected to participate, legislature Chairman Ben Boykin said.

County law required an election for Maisano’s former seat be held within 90 days of his resignation. Maisano, a New Rochelle resident, started his new job as director of the county Department of Consumer Protection Monday.

"It's been one of the biggest honors of my life to serve as a County Legislator," Maisano wrote in his resignation letter to County Clerk Tim Idoni.

The special election for District 11, comprising New Rochelle and Pelham, makes the seat a jump ball for the first time in years. Maisano had held the seat for


Moments after former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg told supporters he's ending his presidential campaign Sunday, President Trump said it reflected the growing pressure among more moderate Democrats to consolidate in order to blunt the rise of progressive Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

Trump tweeted: "Pete Buttigieg is OUT. All of his SuperTuesday votes will to Sleepy Joe Biden. Great timing. This is the REAL beginning of the Dems taking Bernie out of play - NO NOMINATION, AGAIN!"

Buttigieg previously had said Sanders was too liberal to be elected.

Buttigieg's withdrawal came just days before voters in 14 states are set to head to the polls on Super Tuesday, where one-third of all delegates for the nomination will be at stake.

His exit likely will harm front-runner Sanders by providing a coalescingthe first openly gay candidate to seriously contend for the presidency, tried to make the case that his party thrived when it embraced candidates who offered generational change.

But, the 38-year-old Afghanistan war veteran ended up being more successful at winning older voters while Sanders, 78, captured the energy of younger voters.

"He's not going anywhere," Trump said in January. "He was a lousy mayor of a place that is not doing well -- [but] Indiana is doing unbelievably well."

He called South Bend, a city of more than 100,000 people a few miles south of the Michigan line, "badly run" under Buttigieg, while the Hoosier State on the whole had "the best year they've ever had" in 2019.

Last year, the president, known for bullying schoolyard nicknames for his political rivals,


a new gold pricing mechanism that is operated by the Shanghai Gold Exchange instead of COMEX in Chicago and New York or the LBMA in London.

It seems that slowly and surely, the major gold producing nations of Russia, China and other BRICS nations are becoming tired of the dominance of an international gold price which is determined in a synthetic trading environment which has very little to do with the physical gold market. The Shanghai Gold Exchange’s Shanghai Gold Price Benchmark which was launched in April 2016 is already a move towards physical gold price discovery, and while it does not yet influence prices in the international market, it has the infrastructure in place to do so. Source

Apparently, the UAE is already moving ton upon ton of physicalPages

Thursday, November 08, 2012

Reel Asian Review: Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings

Going into Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings, I had no prior knowledge of Jake Shimabukuro, or his particular talents. An hour later I was not only online researching Shimabukuro’s catalogue of work, but also contemplating if I should include a ukulele on my Christmas list. While the film itself plays like a traditional documentary, there is no denying that Jake Shimabukuro is an extremely talented individual whose positive attitude is rather infectious.

The film starts off during the second stop on his West Coast tour. Despite receiving both critical and commercial success, Shimabukuro still cannot believe how fortunate he is to achieve what he has. Playing the ukulele since the age of four, Shimabukuro slowly became a


household name in his native Hawaii. He even formed a band, Pure Heart, shortly after finishing high school. However, it was not until is his video “Ukulele Weeps” went viral on YouTube, one of the first viral videos on the then fledgling website, that Shimabukuro became a worldwide sensation.
From there Shimabukuro found himself performing with the likes of Yo-Yo Ma and Bette Midler. He even had people such as Bill Gates and Conan O’Brien singing his praises. This was a huge accomplishment for a man who once viewed the ukulele as a source of comfort after being deeply affected by his parents divorce as a youth. Eventually Shimabukuro found himself pushing the envelope on the perceived limitations of the ukulele. Besides being able to play at breakneck speed,Shimabukuro wrote his first two solo songs on an electric guitar first and then tried to mimic the exact sounds on his ukulele. Despite only having four strings to work with, his skills evolved to the point where he was playing everything from rock to classical music on his ukulele with the greatest of ease.

Director Tadashi Nakamura does a good job of portraying Shimabukuro as a guy who both loves creating music and enjoys teaching others the usefulness of the ukulele. As Shimabukuro points out in the film, the ukulele was viewed as a gimmick to many outside of Hawaii because of musicians like Tiny Tim. Jake Shimabukuro not only wanted to bring respectability back to instrument, but also show how the ukulele can bring people together.

If there


the lance, they have sounded the charge, and are responsible for any little skirmishing which may happen.

But, independently of any such grounds of active resistance, the subject involves interests so disproportioned to its intrinsic claims, that it is no more than an act of humanity to give it a public examination. If the new doctrine is not truth, it is a dangerous, a deadly error. If it is a mere illusion,and acquires the same degree of influence that we have often seen obtained by other illusions, there is not one of my audience who may not have occasion to deplore the fatal credulity which listened to its promises.

I shall therefore undertake a sober examination of its principles, its facts, and some points of its history. The limited time___The United States, China & the WTO
As the debate heats up in the U.S. House of Representatives over
free trade with China, President Jiang Zemin is calling for the
Communist Party to take a more powerful role in the country's
private businesses. Economic reformers have been marginalized.
Abroad, China pursues economic expansion, but at home its economic
policy is headed in the opposite direction.
http://www.stratfor.com/asia/commentary/0005170055.htm
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A Shift in Asia, As Mongolia Stirs
Summary
In a far off and often forgotten corner of the world, Mongolia is
undergoing important changes. Nationalism is rising, and the
government is considering moving the capital out of Ulan Bator to a
historic seat of power - and potentially lucrative economic center.
The government faces a problem: a distinct lack of capital with
which to make these changes. If Washington seizes the opportunity,
it may gain a valuable strategic


ally wedged between two great
powers, Russia and China.
Analysis
Times are tough in Mongolia. The economy is shaky, the country's
social welfare system has collapsed, and drought has wreaked havoc
on livestock herding - a major source of livelihood. Difficult
financial times have been mirrored by a rise in nationalist
sentiments - which had been long buried by Soviet influence.
The Mongolian government is encouraging these attitudes and
debating whether to move the capital from the city of Ulan Bator to
Kharkhorin - the ancient capital founded by Ghengis Khan. But
making the move is time-consuming and expensive for a poor nation
of only 2.4 million - and surprisingly offers an opportunity for
the United States to expand its influence on the border of both
China and Russia.
Mongolia's economy is still struggling a decade after the end of
communist rule. Privatization effortsan easy way for the government to score political points.
Of course, the move won't take place tomorrow. The South China
Morning Post reports that the parliament is talking about starting
the move in 2020.
It may take 20 years to bring Kharkhorin up to speed. It is a place
where travel writers brag about needing to cut chopsticks from
firewood. The population is only around 15,000 and much of the
ancient city was destroyed to construct the nearby Erdene Zu Hiid
Buddhist monastery in 1586. All that remains is a handful of
Soviet-era buildings. The Mongolian government would need to invest
massive amounts of resources into building infrastructure like
roads, telecommunications and an airport. This is difficult for a
country where the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is little
more than $400 a year.
On the bright side, a massive


public works project like this would
do a lot for Mongolia's economy - the government's real problem.
The only obstacle is a big one: money.
The solution might come from Washington. The U.S. government has
started to take interest in Mongolia, no doubt due to its long
borders with both China and Russia. Mongolian nationalism is by
definition opposed to Russia, which controlled the country during
much of the Cold War. Nor does nationalism improve relations with
Beijing - any respectable Mongolian historian will tell you that
Manchurian invaders from China ended the Mongol dynasty in the 14th
century.
The United States is taking small and, so far, unnoticed steps
toward filling the strategic void. The proposed defense budget for
fiscal year 2001 includes a new addition: $2 million to finance
communications equipment for Mongolia's border patrol. This would
represent half of thethat uses TFTs for constituting switching devices and active electric circuits has been developed in the electro-optical device typified by an active matrix liquid crystal display device. In the TFTs, a semiconductor film is grown over a substrate of a glass or the like by a vapor phase growth method, and the semiconductor film is used as an active layer. Silicon or a material consisting of silicon as the principal component such as silicon-germanium has been used appropriately for the semiconductor film. An amorphous silicon film and a crystalline silicon film represented by a polycrystalline silicon film can be obtained depending on the deposition method of the silicon semiconductor film.
The TFT using the amorphous silicon film for the active layer cannot essentially acquire field effect mobility of greater


example of the expanding nanny state. Fortunately the United States Supreme Court overturned the dumb law. But it seems that with President Obama and Senator Feinstein looking to bring back a proposal to ban law abiding citizens from owning assault weapons, the attention seeking Yee is back in the papers, complaining about his unconstitutional law. Idiot.

Runner Up #2 – Irvine City Councilman Larry Agran. Republicans took a 3-2 majority on the Council of this Orange County City last November, and have begun deconstructing the damage done by Larry Agran’s 12 year reign of terror. Agran, a graduate of Harvard Law School, not only complained about the new majority brining invocations back to council meetings (which they did), but Agran tried to throw out there that invocations at publicwealthy business people taking big risks, and suffering no downside because America’s middle class shouldered the burden. Good luck with that run for office, buddy.

Runner Up #3 – San Luis Obispo County Supervisor Bruce Gibson. Back in November the story broke that this Stupidvisor had been having a longtime affair with one of his staff members. When the scandal broke, the staffer was banished into the county bureaucracy. Well, until this week, when Gibson announced that, basically, after searching for a new aide, only his lover fit the bill. So while he’s busy divorcing his wife, he has decided to re-hire his girlfriend back onto his personal staff. Seriously.

Runner Up #4 – Assemblyman Roger Hernandez. No write up required, just this link. He may deserve a permanent spot


A man who doesn't believe in faith. A woman who may be losing hers. Two lost souls collide in the stillness between hope lost and found. "I think you need this more than I do. Everyone needs a little something to believe in sometimes."

A mafia tale about love, loyalty, betrayal, and family. Told in three parts: Grand Tale, Grand Vendetta, and Grand Finale. We'll begin in 1975 and follow a family through the MGM Grand fire, the Dunes implosion, and the opening of Mandalay Bay.

An unexpected event throws Bella into the hands of the Chicago mob. Can Bella accept the path her new life is taking? And how will Edward come to terms with the idea that he is responsible for Bella's safety? AH

Bella enjoys her life asa successful chauffeur. After she's offered a position as the private driver for the Cullen family, her professionalism is challenged when Edward doesn't hide his desire for her. Can she fight her own attraction to the sexy entrepreneur? Will she be able to keep her eyes off the man in the rear view mirror?

Powerful and successful, Isabella Swan held the world in the palm of her hand. Unfortunately for her, so did Edward Cullen. Written for the "Forbidden Affairs" contest and placed third. OOC, AH/AU, E/B, Rated M for Language and Lemons.

New girl Bella Swan is finally ready to start dating again, but the only boy she's interested in is too shy to even talk to her. Why are her friends convinced that the answer to her problem


is some crazy party game… with kissing? AU/AH, BPOV, COMPLETE.

The black diamond slopes of Lake Tahoe are just what Bella needs to start living her life again after a painful breakup left a hole in her heart that work couldn't fill. Will a handsome and charming skier also prove that her heart is ready for love too?

Former Congressman Edward Cullen has finally overcome the forces that tried to keep him away from Bella and their daughter, Elizabeth, and the three have settled into a life together. But when Bella becomes pregnant again, how will Edward deal with nine months of expectation, combined with a new campaign run? A short story based on The Cullen Legacy. Daily updates. Rated M.

Welcome to part 3 of the storm series. Sixteen yearswho she discovers is hiding behind an elaborate charade to maintain his secret lifestyle. Bella is determined to find out the mysteries of Edward Cullen but with what results? AU, OOC.

AWtWB's sequel. After earning her freedom, Bella now has the unalienable right to make her own decisions. Will she choose to continue down the rocky road of her past or follow Edward into a future that seems almost equally impassable? Ride along on Bella's journey as she navigates the crossroads of life knowing one wrong turn may alter her pursuit of happiness.

Bella Swan is an aspiring sports writer and her first big assignment is to interview the league's biggest, not to mention hottest, quarterback. Will Edward Cullen school her in the rules of the game or will she


he'd find himself in. She's the boss's daughter. Can he keep his hands off?

After eleven complete stories for Twilight, this is my final one, as well as the last of my rewrite of the saga. It has been an incredible, roller coaster, blessing of a time, and this fan fiction is for every reader, from I'm His Lobster to now, who has ever clicked on my stories. Thank you for the amazing support. Now go read, review, and enjoy.

Edward is Bella's best friend. He's also hopelessly in love with her. When Bella lands her dream job...in California...will he finally tell her how he feels, or will he let her go and hope that someday she'll return to him? Will Edward's Grandma take control and force them to seewhat they've been missing? A Christmas-y tale of secret love, big dreams & breaking hearts. AH, E/B, M

He's a lost traveler needing a place to spend the night. She's the owner of a bed and breakfast. What could they possibly have in common? A story about taking wrong turns and reaching destinations you never imagined.

She loves him. He loves her crazy. She's a hopeless romantic. He's just hopeless. She's afraid to let go. He won't let her. A story about a silly girl in love with a foolish boy. Here, forever is a lie. TeamBella23 - the realist and YellowGlue - the poet

One night in Vegas changes Bella's life forever. What happens when she finds that the man she met that night, Edward Cullen, is not only her


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When fate brings a jaded young doctor to the small town of Forks, he expects nothing out of his stay but a shot at redemption. Little does he know that a new patient and a mysterious young woman will turn his exile into the experience of a lifetime.

COMPLETE. Edward is a bitter, angry man, a man suffering the sins of his past. An emotional & physical recluse, he pushes everyone away. That is, until Bella, a mysterious woman with her own demons, moves in and forces him to face himself. AH.

Edward is king of a dying race, his planet torn by civil war. Bella is abducted to become his bride. From college student to Queen... Can she learn to love this strange man andgoes to Forks to bury a secret and meet the father she never knew. But what she discovers is not the quiet town she was hoping for. Some secrets can't be buried and in this case, hers just might save everyone.

Professional animator Edward worships cartoon exec Bella from afar by day and draws her in his comic book late at night. When this Daffy Duck-loving geek comes face to face with his dream girl, will his fantasy world come to life? ...Note:The primary story of Animate Me was pulled and published. Thanks for 2 great years on fan fic.

Bella sees him all the time as he mans the reserves desk at the campus library. She thinks she's got him pegged. What she doesn't know might surprise her. WINNING


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One night of passion leads to big changes for Bella as she faces the consequences. But will she fess up to their actions or keep the forbidden romance going? Is he hers to have and to hold or will he be another's before its all over? Rated M,AH,BxE

1866 Edward just home from the war. Neighbor Bella has a tragedy and Edward delivers her baby. Seeing as she's widowed, marriage makes sense. He doesn't feel worthy, but he can't step aside for her suitors. Competition amongst veterans.

Major Isabella Swan, army psychologist, is swiftly climbing the ladder of success when a confidential letter and a clandestine meeting change everything. Her newest patient proves to be the most challenging question inher new life. AU

When I walk in the spot, this is what I see. Everybody stops and they staring at me.I got passion in my pants and I ain't afraid to show it...show it...show it...show it... I'm sexy and I know it! humor/romance with crazy thrown in between!

Bella's childhood spent with her mother has left her shy, socially isolated and scared of her own shadow. Her life is turned upside down when she is sent to live with the Dad and brother that she never knew she had. Can she overcome her past?

AU and AH. Short chapters with daily updates. When Bella's boyfriend brings up the issue of her virginity with his ex, she decides to take charge of her own fate. Now complete with occasional snippets to


come.

A misunderstanding leads to a forced marriage between Bella who is caring for her ailing father after losing their home, and Edward who has recently inherited his uncle's estate and has no intention of taking a wife. All Human/Regency era fic.

Edward thinks he can convince Bella to marry him by denying her sex? The boy's got another thing coming. A story of patience, love, and baseball. 1st Place Judges' Choice and 3rd Place Readers' Choice for Pop the Question.

Alice has a vision of a girl with no vision. She will either save Edward from his life of lonely brooding, or she will destroy him with his destruction of her. Can Bella discover the Cullen family secret if she can't see? Canon vamps and couples. AU

A foul-mouth seminarian meetsparty – drinking, drugs, girls – he's completely out of control. Determined to win back his father's approval, he befriends sweet & innocent Bella. His plan backfires, but can he give up his new addiction?

Bella faces fierce competition to be crowned Ink God. Her biggest rival is the man who taught her everything about ink, not to mention love. With a lot of talent and a little luck, Bella knows she can win it all, including Edward's heart. Rated M

Edward finds himself back in the little beach town of his childhood when he inherits the local bar from his uncle. The elusive, pretty girl next door has killer legs, a sketchbook and secrets that are slowly eating her alive.

Due to a tragedy in his past, Edward is now


was thinking on their stay as she obsereved the two lovers? especially Edward.

Edward/Bella - WIP, AU, AH, OOC. When Bella goes to live with her father in Forks, things go much better than she expected. At least until a slick parking lot, a careening van, a broken arm, and her weird lab partner from biology get in the way...

After high school graduation, Edward takes advantage of Bella. Five years later, she struggles as a single mom with little help from Edward. But when Edward sees Bella moving on, how far will he go to save his relationship with his son? With Bella?

Being surrounded by loving family and friends her entire life, Bella finds herself in love with Edward just before he leaves her behind and goes off toRated M because there will be sex and it will be hot.

Bella Swan, a young registered pharmacist from New Jersey, takes a job in the Forks, WA hospital, determined to start her life over. She meets the handsome, brooding Edward Cullen, who also works in the hospital pharmacy...on the night shift, of course.

COMPLETE. In a world of night, shadows known as the Volturi reign supreme. Their word is law, unquestioned and unchallenged. A doctoral student threatens exposure, and a Volturi Prince has been unleashed to silence her forever. AU.

Arrogant British celebrity chef Edward Cullen made an impression on NYC caterer Bella Swan long before either one of them became a success. Now, armed with her cat and a devious practical joke, Bella's plan may turn up the heat


has yet to begin?

The doctors at this busy, New York City hospital all have the same goals: saving lives, setting the on-call rooms on fire, and maybe - just maybe - falling in love? Canon Couples. OOC Characters. Romance, a lot of Comedy, and a hint of drama. E&B POVs

The Cullen's come to forks but this time Bella is already there and the Cullens are the new kids, well everyone but Edward he's the new teacher. Fluffy story there will be very little angst. Original paring vamp and humans.

Post Breaking Dawn. Bella starts second semester at Dartmouth a short time after the Volturi confrontation. Edward worries he is no longer irrestible. In an effort to regain their connection, they go motorcycle hunting. EPOV, Canon, tasteful lemons.

In 1994, hewas an arrogant college student & she was dating his little brother. He was always haunted by the memory of her until fate brought them together again 16 yrs later. What happens when a forbidden attraction is no longer forbidden? EPOV, AU/AH

Edward's family hire Bella Swan to break the heartbreaker's heart in hopes to have him see the error of his womanizing ways. But she falls hard, too, at the risk of breaking her own heart when the truth is revealed. EXB-AH-OOC

Bella abandons her maker and takes a journey through the dark underbelly of the 20th century, surfacing just long enough to betray the Cullen's secret and endanger their safety. Or did she? AU, dark themes. Complete.

Bella swan is the most popular of singers in Chicago. Edward is


the drinking/ smoker/ handsome mob boss who walks into Bella's fathers club to collect a debt. There he sees Bella Swan, and he will do what ever it takes to make her his.

Bella Swan is no stranger to hard work, but everything changes when she is forced to work in Cullen Manor, the home of America's royal family. Her encounters with a certain prince cause her to wonder if the rules are worth following. MODERN DAY. AH, OOC

Edward Cullen gets an unexpected letter from his former navy base. When he leaves, his wife Bella, is left alone. After trying for years, Bella finds out she's pregnant a month after he's gone. How is she going to cope dealing with this w/o him? AH!

When Charlie moves to La Pusha Chicago mob boss. He is second-in-command, cold and dangerous. Bella Swan,18,small town girl who has just enrolled as a freshman at Northwestern. A story about how love can survive in the cruelest of worlds.Very OCC.Rated M.

The Cullen Retreat was recruiting for a new psychiatrist, and Bella found herself accepting the job. The benefactors were quite a mystery, and the most intriguing was the youngest, most irritable son, Edward. AH/ANgst/Mystery/Lemons!

Edward Cullen is Dr. Bella Swan's new patient. Despite being 107, he's still afraid of the dark. Can he be cured? Or will he be doomed to an eternity of sparkling balls? A comedic tale of getting over your fears.

Edward Cullen needs to pass Statistics. Bella Swan is his tutor. She thinks he's a flighty, arrogant albeit sexy asshole,


human devotion to Edward?

On the eve of a wedding, a chance encounter in a piano bar leads to a weekend of passion. When faced with the consequences, will Bella and Edward overcome their differences and focus on what's really important in life? AH. Rated M.

Bella is a midwife at Forks Hospital. She meets the new obstetrician Edward Cullen and the attraction is powerful and instant. Life in a maternity ward is full of ups and downs. AH/AU - Bella x Edward. Rated M for future chapters.

In ninth grade I developed a crush on him. At sixteen he kissed me. Freshman year of college I fell in love with him. On my twenty first birthday we got drunk and I lost my virginity to him. Nine months later MackenzieEzrocksangel and Angstgoddess003 for the "When Love Was New contest". AH E/B Flangst

Edward over hears a very juicy secret regarding his younger sister, Alice. The plot to blackmail Alice in order to get closer to her best friend, Bella, forms in his mind, but doesn’t exactly pane out the way he wants it to. Rated: language & lemonade

This is my version of New Moon as told from Edward's point of view. The dialogue is borrowed from New Moon when Edward and Bella are together , but the rest is my interpretation of what the story would have been like if Edward would have told it.

Bella works as a Resident Advisor at Seattle U. She meets Edward Cullen during a Halloween party & learns that he lives on her


are investigating, there's a strange human in Bella's class, and her human memories are fading. Bella's 2nd year as a vampire is full of events both amazing and horrifying. Rated M for adult material.

At long last, the epilogue story for Turning Dust into Gold. There's a marriage . . .a bun in the oven and someone waits patiently or not so patiently for a proposal. Three chapters for three couples! AH.

After college, best friends Bella, Rosalie and Alice have a run-in with their past. . .and maybe their future? All human, AU. Rated M. Nominated at the Twilight Awards, All-Human AU Incomplete, for Best Romance & Best Edward Characterization

Teddy's secret and magical childhood is lost when a family heirloom is destroyed, changing his life forever. Now an adult,of body guard, Edward Cullen. But will he do more than protect her body? She finds there's more to the SWAT officer than meeets the eye, and wants him all the more. OOC

Bella and Edward have a summer affair leaving for two different states when it is over. They end up at the same school and they must figure out how to make their love last despite all the obstacles in their way. AU AH

Bella and Charlie move back to Forks after the death of Renee. Bella meets Edward, the misunderstood jock. Will she see him for who he really is? Sorry...awful summary, but still a good story, I swear! Rated M -- ya know me...

Bella was perfectly content with life in Forks until she lost her best


bad for Bella there's no available apartments close to her job. When she runs into a guy from highschool, her luck starts to turn around and she finds something she never expected to find.

Edward is sick of disappearing into the walls at Forks High, the Girl of his dreams doesn't know he exists, tutoring kids music isn't going all that great,but when the 'IT' girl sees his notice, things start turning around for our fav piece of wall. cute

Edward Cullen has always been the nerdy boy with over sized glasses. He's been in love with Bella Swan ever since he first laid eyes on her. When Alice decides to give him a makeover, everyone in school seems to notice him, but does Bella notice him? OOC

Edward and Bellathe three finger tips reaches an island edge. At this moment facilitated dewetting transitions set in and a rim starts to grow along both sides of the finger terminus at the island edge. The formation of the rim is accompanied by a loss of C$_{60}$ molecules at the rim-free edges causing one of the two other finger tips of the dendrite to reach an island edge. A rim then starts to grow also from this finger terminus and thereafter also the third finger tip reaches the island edge with subsequent rim formation. Eventually the three growing rims move towards each other close to edge points located half way between the tip termini, where funnels form and subsequently trenches grow towards the island interior. As a result, morphology II


an AAU team with Whitehead called the Juice All-Stars before they graduated high school together in 2014. The program was led by Lincoln coach and former Seton Hall assistant coach Tiny Morton, who came with his players to South Orange for one year.

For Rodriguez, the ties to his current teammates go even deeper. In high school, Rodriguez played AAU ball with the N.J. Playaz alongside redshirt junior Michael Nzei. The forward sat out his freshman season with a hand injury playing a part, so he gets forgotten when talking about Seton Hall’s senior class, but he was involved with his Pirate teammates before he got to campus.

Along with playing on the same team as Rodriguez, Nzei also played with Myles Powell on the N.J. Playaz. Beyond that, Nzeifaced fellow big man Angel Delgado many times in high school.

If one attended the 2014 Regional Jordan Brand Classic at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., he or she would have gotten a pretty good look at what Pirate basketball was going to look like come the 2014-15 season. The home team of the Classic consisted of Carrington, Rodriguez and Ismael Sanogo, while Deglado and Nzei were teammates on the away team.

As high school stars, the future Pirates showed what they would contribute in their college careers. Carrington put up 18 points, Delgado snatched 15 rebounds and Rodriguez blocked a shot that brought the game to overtime, with his team eventually grabbing the win.

Those three players are already 1,000-point scorers with a senior season still to play.

As the Pirates


tristate area when he transferred to The Patrick School in Hillside, N.J., and became more involved on the New York Lightning AAU team.

Carrington was in Delgado’s life from the time he came to the United States. Delgado shared the floor with Carrington on the New York Lightning and their relationship and chemistry have stood the test of time.

“It’s been a long road with this guy,” Delgado said of Carrington.

Delgado also added that he has played in tournaments with Rodriguez prior to Seton Hall.

From sixth grade to AAU to the Jordan Brand Classic to Seton Hall, the roots of Seton Hall’s seniors run deep. Each player has taken a different road – some have crossed, and some have not, but they have all led the Pirates to a seniorcollege season with a lot on the line.

While the senior squad has experienced success with each other in their freshman, sophomore and junior seasons, the 2017-18 season is the one where the seniors are supposed to take their leap. The team is ranked No. 23 in the AP Top 25 and other national rankings have the Pirates even higher.

Both Delgado and Carrington have received national preseason attention, with the big man garnering multiple nominations and an AP All-American honorable mention.

With a deeper bench than ever before, now is the time for the senior class to lead the team to a deep postseason run. They have not won an NCAA Tournament game, but winning one game is not the cap on this team’s potential. A Final Four appearance could


Super League Set of Six: England advance falls on deaf ears at Sportsweek

James Graham, centre, goes over for England's third and decisive try under pressure from New Zealand's Elijah Taylor in Saturday's Four Nations win at Hull. Photograph: Anna Gowthorpe/PA

1 History beckons

That was a seriously good England performance. To demolish New Zealand, the reigning World Cup and Four Nations champions, is an achievement that should be acknowledged and celebrated. Sure, the Kiwis were under-strength, and disgracefully indisciplined. But it has gone almost unnoticed that England were without Gareth Ellis as well as Sam Burgess, the two forwards who have proved themselves to be world-class in the National Rugby League over the past couple of years.

You could make an argument that Ellis, Burgess and Sean O'Loughlin, the Wigan loosethan either us or New Zealand did." That showed the Aussies still have attacking potency that condemned England to a 46-16 defeat with a late scoring blitz in what had been a genuinely competitive 2009 Four Nations final with the likes of the brilliant Johnathan Thurston, and Darius Boyd at full-back – who looks capable of going as close as possible to replacing the irreplaceable Billy Slater – excelling.

Australia's coach Tim Sheens admitted that he was worried when Boyd went down in the last minute of the win against Wales following a clash of knees with the marvellous Lee Briers, and we'll only know for sure that he wasn't seriously injured when the teams emerge on Saturday.

Thomas Leuluai, who seems as well-qualified as anyone to comment, reckons England


best-performing official in the tournament so far, but the fact remains that his refereeing style will be much more familiar to Australia than England.

The same would go for Henry Perenara, the New Zealander who irritated England when the teams last met at Wembley, but at least his appointment – or that of Thierry Alibert, the Frenchman who has been a regular on the Super League panel for the last couple of years – would be more credible to the outside world. But that sort of thing has never bothered the Aussies, or in this case the three officials – one from England, one from Australia and one from New Zealand – who have made this decision. Put simply, it stinks.

4 They must be joking

The laughably light suspensions imposedon the Kiwis Issac Luke and Jeremy Smith for their fouls at Hull last Saturday smell no better. Luke has received a two-match suspension for a tackle which could have ended the career of Rangi Chase – his cousin, would you believe? – and Smith a one-match ban for an equally cynical challenge after dropping an elbow on a prone Sam Tomkins. Both have long disciplinary records, yet under the amateur-hour disciplinary procedures of the International Federation, they will be able to count pre-season trial matches towards their wrist-slapping bans – when they should at least have been wiped from a couple of internationals next year. Yet both players, presumably backed by the New Zealand Rugby League, have the hide to appeal. Unbelievable.

5 Thanks for the memories

Sorry to


get so worked up in what should be a good-news week. Thank goodness for Briers, and Wales. "Yeah, belting," said the Warrington captain when asked if he had enjoyed the last match of his international career. For 38 minutes, it was as much fun as the 2000 World Cup semi final, when Briers had the half of his life to inspire a preposterous 20-6 lead. More than a decade on, his kick to set up the first try for Rhys Williams, and his dummy and half-break which led to the second for Elliot Kear, showed that even at 33, he has the wit and imagination to trouble the best defences.

Dr Phil Melling, the distinguished academic who beat the drum for league in Wales from Swansea University and performeda wide range of services for the game – from managing Clive Griffiths's pioneering student teams to writing with such passion of Billy Boston in The Glory of Their Times – would have loved it. He was remembered in the minute's silence for Remembrance Sunday before kick-off, but those Briers-inspired 38 minutes were an equally fitting tribute.

Yet Wales have been much more than a one-man show in this tournament, as their captain was keen to stress. "The best thing for me tonight has been seeing the Aussies congratulating our young forwards, and telling them they really know they've been in a game," he added. In Jordan James, Craig Kopczak, Gil Dudson and Ben Flower, Wales have a quartet of props who have proved themselves capable of holding their


own at the highest level. In Kear and Williams, they have a couple of cracking young wings. Lloyd White also has high potential.

The crucial thing now is to keep digging for more young Welsh rugby talent that might be better suited to league than union, a process that will inevitably be undermined by the Crusaders' embarrassing withdrawal from the Super League.

At least it has now been confirmed that there will be two Welsh clubs in the Championship next season – the Scorpions in the south and a new Crusaders set-up in the north, who will hope to maintain the enthusiasm shown by an encouraging 5,000-plus crowd on Sunday evening. Their "derbies" next season should be intriguing, but it is the enlightened self-interest that Super League clubs such asWigan are taking in Wales that could offer more.

It is also important that Wales, like France, are guaranteed a decent international programme for 2012, to maintain their momentum in the year before the next World Cup. If England can't generate enough southern hemisphere interest to make a meaningful tour – more evidence of the myopia of Australia's clubs – might there be mileage in an eight-team competition, also including Scotland, Ireland, Italy, the Exiles and maybe some tourists from the Pacific, to build on the increased support that the national team have earned over the last couple of weeks?

6 Send for Silvio

There seems to have been a significant development in the unedifying and damaging spat between two rival factions trying to establish rugby league in Italy, with official


government recognition for the rebels in the south suggesting the balance of power is tilting their way. Paul Broadbent, the former Sheffield and Great Britain prop who spent a few weeks this autumn munching pasta in the north of the country which was the base for the team who have qualified for the 2013 World Cup, was explaining only last week at Loughborough that there is an urgent need for everybody to work together on capitalising on a real opportunity to convert more of the players who are disillusioned with Italy's rugby union set-up.

What they need is a high-profile figure with a bit of time on his hands, and a bit of clout in the local media. Any ideas? As usual, get stuck in below the line. OnlyWORDS AND MUSIC is the story of one of Broadway's iconic figures: the composer/lyricist of Hello, Dolly!, Mame and La Cage aux Folles. Jerry Herman and an all-star cast, from Carol Channing to Angela Lansbury to Michael Feinstein, chart his rise from 1950s off-Broadway through all of his smash hits. Featuring never-before-seen footage of original stage performances, and a score full of classic show tunes.

I'm grateful that Jerry Herman (1931) isalive and kicking up a memorable storm of hits such as Hello Dolly & La Cage Aux Folles. This was recently made possible when a gay pianist and his partner played and sang for us LGBT members at a Seniors luncheon gatheringin a nearby town facility called "CafeLakeview". But, they included many of Cole Porter's songs as well.


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