proposed referendum in Crimea on whether it should rejoin Russia "as a violation of Ukraine's constitution," the White House said.

"The leaders made clear that Russia's continued violation of international law will isolate it from the international community," the White House said.

Secretary of State John Kerry phoned Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Saturday and issued a diplomatic ultimatum, according to a senior U.S. administration official.

"He made clear that continued military escalation and provocation in Crimea or elsewhere in Ukraine, along with steps to annex Crimea to Russia would close any available space for diplomacy, and he urged utmost restraint," the official said.

Kerry said the United States is ready to work with allies to facilitate a Ukraine-Russia dialogue, the official said.

French President Francois Hollande said he and Obama "discussedthe need for Russia and Ukraine to find a peaceful exit from the crisis and to fully restore the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine," Hollande's office said.

Tense in Crimea

Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials charged that pro-Russian forces comprised of 100 armed men reportedly took control of a military office in the Crimean regional capital, Simferopol.

The men, equipped with automatic weapons, say they belong to the Crimean self-defense forces, Vladislav Seleznyov, the head of the Ministry of Defense media office, said on his Facebook page.

A CNN team that visited the scene said it appeared calm. Armed, masked men were at the entrance, and Russian flags were being painted on the gates. Those questioned declined to say what was happening inside.

Amid signs that the tense standoff of the past week is


growing more volatile, Russian troops also stormed a Crimean border control point at Schelkino, near Kerch, early Saturday, seizing the armory and driving the officers' families from their living quarters, Ukraine's border service said.

Meanwhile, a light plane belonging to Ukraine's State Border Protection Service was fired upon Saturday afternoon while flying over the Crimean border from Armyansk, the service said.

"The aircraft crew recorded shooting aimed at the plane. The extremists opened fire with automatic weapons. The pilots made a sudden maneuver, descended to the minimal height and, with accelerated speed, changed the course," the border guard service said.

The plane landed at its base, with no damage and no injuries to the crew, the service said.

It blamed "Russian armed aggressors" for targeting the plane, which has no weapons.

Armed mentrying to find out if the convoy will stop there, said Vladislav Seleznev, the Crimean press secretary for the Ministry of Defense.

Poland evacuates consulate

The crisis in Crimea began about a week ago, when pro-Russian troops quietly took effective control of the region.

Since then, tensions have flared between Moscow and Kiev over the Black Sea peninsula, while the world's diplomats have urged that conflict be avoided.

Earlier Saturday, Moscow accused the OSCE, a regional advisory group, of hypocrisy.

First, condemn violence by demonstrators in Kiev that led to the ouster of Ukraine's former President Viktor Yanukovych, the foreign ministry said, according to state-run news agency RIA Novosti. Then talk about Crimea.

"Some OSCE members and executive bodies have acted in the worst traditions of double standards while dealing with the situation in


dependent on the radical nationalists who seized the power," he said. "Even our Western partners know what they are like. They visit Ukraine often. But they try to hide the facts."

The aim of dialogue would be the implementation of a deal agreed upon on February 21, Lavrov said, when Yanukovych was still in power. This envisaged fresh elections, constitutional reform and the disbanding of illegal armed groups.

Ukrainian authorities and Western powers have said there are Russian troops on the ground in Crimea, despite the Kremlin's denials.

The interim government was voted in by a large majority in Ukraine's parliament, including members of Yanukovych's own Party of Regions, after he fled the country for Russia following bloody street protests. Protesters were angry over his rebuff of a trade deal withYanukovych was pushed out of office.

Complete coverage on the Ukraine crisis

Russian fears

Anton Fedyashin, executive director of the Initiative for Russian Culture and a professor of history at American University, told CNN that Russia had nothing to gain from the current tensions in Ukraine.

"There is no advantage for Russia to stoke this instability," he said. "A lot of it is instability that is born of the great cultural, ethnic and now political divisions that are on the ground."

While most Ukrainians do not want to be allied solely with either Russia or Europe, he said, Moscow is definitely concerned by Kiev's turn toward the West.

"The great Russian fear right now is that Ukraine, in the guise of being incorporated economically into Europe, is slowly incorporated into the NATO alliance," he


said.

"Ultimately, of course, Russians are concerned about their Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. This explains their very harsh and highly risky reaction, and the presence of what seem to be Russian forces in the Crimea."

Russian speakers make up about 60% of Crimea's population of more than 2 million, but around a quarter are Ukrainian and 12% are Crimean Tatar, a predominantly Muslim minority. Neither of the latter two groups would welcome a switch to Russian control.

President Obama has proposed a potential solution to Putin that would include direct talks between Kiev and Moscow and the replacement of Russian forces with international monitors to protect the rights of ethnic Russians.

International Women's Day

Women in Ukraine are typically celebratory during International Women's Day, held Saturday, but not this year.

The military tensionsUkraine in February -- and cannot supply natural gas for free, the company's CEO Alexey Miller said, according to Russian state news agency Itar-Tass.

If Gazprom cut off gas supplies to Ukraine, as it did during a dispute in 2009, then European nations could also suffer shortages, since major gas pipelines pass through Ukraine on their way from Russia to Europe.

In Crimea: 'We will protect our land from Western extremists'

Ukraine PM: Crimea 'was, is and will be an integral part of Ukraine'

CNN's Matthew Chance reported from Simferopol, and Laura Smith-Spark wrote from London. CNN's Anna Coren in Simferopol, Kellie Morgan in Kherson, Tim Schwarz in Kiev, Alla Eshchenko in Moscow, Bharati Naik, Chelsea J. Carter, Yon Pomrenze and Michael Martinez also contributed to this report.


Who won this year's MacArthur Foundation 'genius grants'?

The 21 winners of the 2014 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants" will each receive $625,000 to spend any way they like. Winners include a cartoonist, composer, historians, scientists, and a professor who is working on police-community relations.

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Jacob Lurie, a mathematics professor at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., is one of 21 people to receive a "genius grant" from the Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation.

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A professor whose research is helping a California police department improve its strained relationship with the black community and a lawyer who advocates for victims of domestic abuse are among the 21 winners of this year's MacArthur Foundation "genius grants."

The Chicago-baseddebated nationally in the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old in Missouri. Eberhardt, who is also studying the use of body cameras by police — another topic of particular interest since Brown's shooting — said, "I hope this will show the work matters, holds value and promotes social change."

The justice system is also at the heart of Sarah Deer's work as a legal scholar and advocate for Native American women living on reservations, who suffer higher-than-average rates of domestic abuse and sexual violence.

Deer, a Native American who teaches law in Minnesota, met with women who simply stopped reporting such attacks because their tribal governments had been stripped of the authority to investigate and because federal authorities were often unwilling to do so,


she said. The foundation pointed to her instrumental role in reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act by Congress in 2013 that restored some of those abilities to tribes.

"For the first time since 1978 ... tribes (can) prosecute non-Indians who have committed acts of sexual assault and domestic violence on reservations," she said.

Like Deer, fellow recipient Jonathan Rapping has worked to improve the lives of others.

A former public defender, Rapping founded Gideon's Promise after seeing a legal system that he said valued speed over quality representation of the indigent. The organization trains, mentors and assist public defenders to help them withstand the intense pressure that can come with massive caseloads.

Today, the program that began in 2007 for 16 attorneys in two offices in Georgia and Louisiana has morethan 300 participants in 15 states.

The foundation recognized Khaled Mattawa, an associate professor at the University of Michigan, for his poetry and translations of Arab contemporary poets.

Mattawa, who said he started translating the poetry as way to teach himself to write poetry, said the work can connect people from different cultures. "The poets are bearing witness not only to the humanity of their own people but of a shared humanity," he said.

The awards, given annually since 1981, are doled out over a five-year period. This year's class brings the number of recipients to more than 900. Shrouded in secrecy, the selection process doesn't involve applications. Instead, anonymous groups make nominations and recommendations to the foundation's board of directors.

Most winners are not widely known outside their fields, but the


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ALAN JAROSLOVSKY, Bankruptcy Judge.
I. Introduction
On January 23, 1996, debtor MTC Telemanagement Corporation entered into a joint venture agreement with claimants Henk Keilman and Jan Peter Kastelein to develop and sell telecommunications service in Europe. On April 7, 1997, Keilman and Kastelein gave a notice pursuant to the agreement rescinding and terminating it. On August 1, 1997, involuntary bankruptcy petitions were filed against MTC and its affiliates. John H. Brownell was appointed Chapter 11 trustee. There were no unencumbered assets in the bankruptcy estate.However, the principal secured creditors believed that the notice given by Keilman and Kastelein was ineffective and that MTC had a valuable claim against them. They accordingly agreed to allow their collateral to be used by the trustee to pay administrative expenses. On April 20, 1998, Brownell commenced arbitration proceedings against Keilman and Kastelein. While the arbitration was pending, the bankruptcy case was converted to Chapter 7 and Jeffry Locke became trustee. Soon thereafter, the three principal secured creditors entered into a further agreement with Locke allowing him to use their cash collateral to pay Chapter 7 administrative expenses. Locke continued to prosecute the claims against Keilman and Kastelein. The result of the arbitration was a complete loss for the bankruptcy estate. The arbitrator found that MTC's claims


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A busy weekend of motorsports saw plenty of action including a milestone for one exotic car brand, namely, its first ever North American motorsports victory.

While unconfirmed, the first place finish by the Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo in the Pirelli World Challenge series is believed to be the first time the brand has ever won a major motorsports event on this side of the Atlantic.

The Number 25 Gallardo FL2 GT3 piloted by former F1 driver Tomas Enge claimed the pole position for the race, but stalled off the line during the dramatic 49 car standing start. Clawing his way back up through the field, Enge put the moves on the Cadillac CTS-V Coupe of Andy Pilgrim to take the lead in the closing stages of the 50 minute sprintCosta to Chelsea – Mourinho finally gets his man

Shortly after Chelsea FC wrapped up their end of season Player of the Year awards ceremony at Stamford Bridge last night, news emerged today that the Blues have agreed in principle to a 32 million pound deal to sign Atletico Madrid striker Diego Costa.

The fee meets the ‘buyout clause’ in the Brazil-born, Spain international forward’s contract at the Vicente Calderon, which is due to expire in June 2018, and Costa is believed to have been offered a salary in the region of 150,000 pounds a week which would more than triple his current annual earnings.

Throughout the Premier League campaign that concluded on Sunday, Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho has persistently lamented the profligacy of his current crop of strikers. Fernando Torres,


Demba Ba and Samuel Eto’o managed to find the net on only 19 occasions between them in a Blues haul of 71 goals, by contrast Liverpool scored 101 times with eventual champions Manchester City going one better.

Eden Hazard was the Blues top marksman with 14 goals, and on-loan striker Romelu Lukaku added one more to Hazard’s tally playing for Everton this season but Mourinho has made no secret of his ambition to bring a proven world class striker to the Bridge.

Costa has scored 27 times in 33 La Liga appearances for Atletico during the course of this campaign, and the 25-year-old has been a pivotal figure in Los Rojiblancos outstanding season. It's a campaign which sees the Madrid club top the league with one game remaining, against titlerivals Barcelona, in addition to reaching the final of the Champions League were they will meet city rivals Real in Lisbon on May 24th.

Currently battling to be fit for both games following a hamstring injury, Costa will be formally announced as a Chelsea player once Atletico’s season is concluded with Mourinho keen to get the deal done prior to the World Cup kicking off on June 12th.

Rumours about a possible move to Chelsea first surfaced during the January transfer window, but at the time Atleti sporting director Jose Luis Perez Caminero suggested that Costa was happy at the Vicente Calderon. However, unsavoury events which included the striker subjected to xenophobic chants by supporters of Valencia in a Copa Del Rey game at the Mestalla that month may have


changed things from the player’s perspective given it was not the first time he had been the subject of such vitriolic abuse.

Costa, who started out his career playing street football in his native Brazil, arrived in Europe in February 2006 when he signed a deal to play with Portuguese club SC Braga, but the youngster failed to make an impression and was soon on his way to Atletico in a small-time cash plus rights deal which saw him initially loaned back to Braga, and further loan deals followed to Celta and Albacete.

In July 2009, Costa was sold to Real Valladolid with a buyback clause that was activated by Atletico at the end of the following season during which the player scored 8 times in 34 appearances for theCastile and Leon outfit.
Back in Madrid, Costa found himself cast in the role of understudy to Sergio Aguero and Diego Forlan and a serious knee injury in July 2011 further hampered his chances of making progress at the Calderon. A successful loan spell at Rayo Vallecano followed and, installed as the main Atleti striker for the 2012-13 season, Costa repaid the faith put in him by manager Diego Simeone returning a haul of 20 goals from 40 appearances.

His impressive form which in August 2013 prompted the attention of Liverpool last summer, who were reputed to have tabled a €25 million bid in August for the player with the Reds also offering to double his wages. Costa elected to remain in Spain where he has enjoyed a prolific campaign


that included scoring a penalty against Chelsea in the 3-1 victory at Stamford Bridge which sealed Atletico's passage to the Champions League final.

On the international stage, Costa had represented Brazil twice in friendly internationals in 2013 before the Spanish Football Federation made a request to FIFA to call up the player, now a Spanish citizen, to the Spain national team last September. Costa made his debut in March this year in a friendly against Italy and will be a key part of national coach Vicente del Bosque’s squad when Spain bid to defend the World Cup in his native Brazil next month.

A successful tournament would likely have seen Costa’s currency rise, and in securing his services early Chelsea have avoided a potential bidding war for the player. Mourinholine. Common mode noise is interference between both the power line and the return line and ground.
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Ontario gun show wraps up in shadow of new gun control proposals

ONTARIO - Crossroads of the West Gun Show wrapped up on Sunday, drawing a much smaller crowd than it did the previous day.

The diminished attendance, however, did not signal any weakening of opinion among firearms enthusiasts.

"I love guns. I love hunting, and you are free in this country to go hunting," said David Guerra, a carpenter who lives in Ontario. "If they are going to take the guns away from us, what is next?"

Crossroads of the West hosted the latest of its many gun shows over the weekend at the Ontario Convention Center.

The city-owned venue has welcomed Crossroads of the West several times in the past, but this is the show's first time in Ontario since themass shooting at a Connecticut elementary school that has made gun policy a focus of national politics.

Leading Democrats including President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California responded to the shooting by calling for stricter gun laws.

Feinstein wants a new assault weapons ban that would outlaw more than 100 specific weapons and require owners of grandfathered arms to register their weapons and provide personal information to the government.

Also, Obama asked Biden to lead a group that has been directed to propose new gun policies by month's end. The vice president's group has yet to release a formal plan, but Biden and others in the administration are reported to be considering measures beyond Feinstein's proposal.

The Washington Post reported Biden's group is considering upgrades to


have to discuss mental health."

A major concern for law enforcement, Stanek said, is that the database officials use to process background checks lacks complete records to determine if a would-be gun buyer has a criminal record or a history of mental illness.

"These databases are overwhelmingly underpopulated because they're just not maintained," he said.

Stanek also said he and others in law enforcement are concerned about a possible correlation between explicit violence portrayed in some movies and video games and real-life crimes.

At the Ontario gun show, attendees agreed in their expectation that any gun bans would be futile when it comes to preventing criminals' access to weapons.

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Protest song will play on

You thought this sort of thing only happened in figure skating? Think again, Aristotle. Here in the cradle of democracy, we heard nothing but whining and crying, bellyaching and brouhahas.

It was rampant. It spread through the Athens Olympics like so many scalpers looking to unload their tickets. There was the great kerfuffle involving Canadian gymnast Kyle Shewfelt in the men's vault. There was the even more scandalous marking of Russian Alexei Nemov on the high bar. There was the shady scoring that awarded the all-round gymnastics gold medal to American Paul Hamm instead of South Korean Yang Tae-young.

Three judges were suspended for erroneous scoring, which caused everyone but Mary Lou Retton to send a letter to the International Gymnastics Federation demanding an explanation, alsothe Games. You never saw that before.

In the old days, the Juan Antonio Samaranch days, injustices were common, even expected. Who can forget the boxing competition at the 1988 Seoul Olympics? There was an eight-minute, sit-down protest by a South Korean boxer who lost and decided he was not going to leave the ring, even if Mike Tyson climbed in and challenged him. Soon after, there was the great shafting of American Roy Jones, who clearly won his bout over a South Korean fighter but was awarded a loss on points.

Those incidents happened, and no one from boxing or the IOC bothered to raise an eyebrow.

But the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics emboldened people, showed them you can fight city hall and win. And the IOC has learned


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and his small board make it easy for the wave to giveGunmen have broken into a policeman's house in southeastern Iran, killing two people and wounding a third.

The official IRNA news agency says the break-in happened late Monday night in the city of Zahedan, the capital of Sistan and Baluchistan province. Police occasionally clash with ethnic Baluch militants and drug traffickers in the province, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The IRNA report did not identify the victims or say who might have been behind the attack. The report did not say whether the policeman was home at the time or harmed in the attack.


means that it is not governed by anyone. An Ad Hoc working group entitled BBNJ (marine biodiversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction) is aiming to resolve issues relating to the conservation and sustainable use of marine bioresources from the high seas by 2015 and to implement a legal framework for managing biodiversity. To facilitate dialogue among the relevant stakeholders (governments, industry, research), the Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM) has drafted a Charter on ABS that would apply to parties engaging in the collection and exploitation of MGRs. It is built upon nine core values to favor marine research and development, while preventing abuses of the ocean global commons \[[@B62-marinedrugs-11-04594]\]. The Paris Appeal for the High Seas also aims to establish a legal framework for the high seas to beRamadan 2018

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In light of Rick Perry's threats to cede from the union, I feel that as a nation, we need to take swift action in a bold new direction. Presenting, the dark horse (or whatever) candidate, Clover Field.
Clover Stands at 25 stories tall, that's more than any other presidential candidate in history!

Clover has shown incredible aptitude for leadership during his (her? we're not sure) tenure as the supreme-bad-motherfucker of Manhattan, NY.

When asked about plans to lower the deficit, Clover totally killed the shit out of our cameraman.on a hundred day retreat.
He makes many demons, many gods, many animals, and many Buddhas.
One hundred days are the same as the space of one breath.
You have brushed off all dust, and have breathed in the sky and ground.
The great path is in the palm of your hand, and the great freedom is in your feet.
Spring comes, flowers are blooming everywhere.

The following talk was drawn from a question and answer session between Zen Master Seung Sahn and his students at the third annual Kwan Um School of Zen Congress. Zen Master Bo Mun (George Bowman) was the moderator for this session.

Zen Master Bo Mun: Last night we met in small groups to discuss the most important issues of our practice. The major issue was balance: how to find


sensitive in these special places. These places enable us to become one with this universal energy.

So, we check a mountain in five ways: first we check the form of the mountain; then where the mountain begins and ends; next we check it in terms of the composition of the five elements — wood, water, earth, fire, and metal; next we check the high and low points; and finally the Yin-Yang balance, the direction the mountain faces — north, south, east or west.

The basic form of the wind-water geography is a tall mountain, original turtle, which has two mountains extending in front of it like two protecting arms, white tiger to the right and blue dragon to the left. The house or temple is located at the very baseRe: Reality Steve Spoilers

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They probably won't try to hide it as much as they will try to get everyone to love and feel for Emily, thus making us feel disappointed at the end.

I don't think they'll have to try very hard to get people to love and feel for Emily. She has had a rough go of it, and she is one of the world's sweetest people. Pretty easy to get people to pull for a girl like that. (That being said, I'm glad she is F2 and not F1.)

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Chantal was married to Jason Vena, lead singer of Acceptance, a Seattle alternative rock band, from 2002 to 2009. Jason left the band in 2006 wanting to live a "normal" life. He went


will be out until after the All-Star break — Candace Buckner (@CandaceDBuckner) January 30, 2016

Adding to future games leading to All-Star break, Rodney Stuckey will miss at least 14 games w/ his right foot sprain and bone bruise injury — Candace Buckner (@CandaceDBuckner) January 30, 2016

Though Stuckey’s numbers are down from 12.6 points a game last season, he has been one of the few players coming off the bench that could drive to the basket and score. From within 8 feet of the rim, Stuckey had been around league average with a 54.5 field goal percentage. When Stuckey is driving and scoring like that, I like to refer him as Fullback Rodney Stuckey.

It will be at least 14 games missed for Stuckey, but that means there will beWednesday, October 25, 2006

Moral Muddle at Georgetown

For years I have had the special burden of knowing that I wrote a book on the dust jacket of which there appeared a glowing endorsement by Fr. Robert F. Drinan, SJ. Fr. Drinan has been the New York Times step-and-fetch-it Catholic dissident for decades. He was a Massachusetts congressman for ten long years, until he was ordered to resign by John Paul II. During his time as a congressman and since he has served as an always reliable “Catholic” proponent of abortion and just about every other feature of the libidinous-Left agenda.

Admittedly, at the time I wrote the book I had not entirely cleared my head of the (illiberal) "liberal" pieties which hung like a fog in the air, but even


pained to say that. Why do I bother to say it?

Well, because at a ceremony on October 23rd, Georgetown University Dean T. Alexander Aleinikoff announced the establishment of the Robert F. Drinan, SJ, Chair in Human Rights. Fr. Drinan has argued persistently and forcefully against the banning of partial-birth abortion, and he has taken the most un-Catholic position on the central moral issue of our time. For decades he has fought against the legal recognition of the "human rights" of millions of innocent children who have been killed in the wombs of their mothers. He is the incarnation of the crisis in American Catholicism, an insult to the Church he was ordained to serve and a special scandal to the Jesuit order, which can find no honor tooThe NFL announced today that it would team up with Twitter for a range of video content, including livestreams. First, the league will produce a 30-minute live show that will air on the social network five days a week during the 2017 season. As you might expect, it will feature NFL Network hosts running down the latest news, highlights, fantasy info and more. The NFL will also provide fans with pre-game coverage on Periscope for "each of its prime time game windows, as well as other key match-ups" throughout the season.

While a relationship between Twitter and the NFL already existed, it's not the only pro sports league streaming live shows on the social channel. Last week, Twitter announced a full slate of live video that will debut in


He must have known or suspected what was coming. He’d been hearing opposition from the very beginning. He knew about John’s run-in with Roman leaders. He himself had fielded all sorts of questions from leaders of the temple; from those who were afraid, who perhaps felt threatened, just trying to protect the people, paying the bills, putting food on their own tables. They worried, he knew. He timed his entry as a protest. Echoing the scriptures, his preparations were planned to help the people remember the words of the prophets. Remember that there was hope to stand against the mighty and the powerful who abused their power.

Think about the people on that day…

They must have known or suspected what was to come. They knew all too well thegood ways to watch the Marvel movies. So, that's why I've decided to make my own order to watch the MCU films, since I just marathoned all of them. I introduce to you—the Spaghetti Order.

WAIT! Don't click away from this article! I've coined the term, "Spaghetti Order," because of how much I love spaghetti and because I hope this term catches on with all you Marvel lovers.

So, here is the Spaghetti Order:

Iron Man (2008)

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Iron Man 2 (2010)

Thor (2011)

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

The Avengers (2012)

Iron Man 3 (2013)

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

Ant-Man (2015)

Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

Black Panther (2018)

Doctor Strange (2016)

Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

Avengers: Infinity


like Mark Ruffalo.

And in the after-credits scene of The Incredible Hulk, Tony Stark approaches Thaddeus Ross and informs him of the Avengers Initiative the same way Fury did. Seeing Stark at the end of the film brings us back to Stark's story in Iron Man 2.

Damn, this was a forgettable sequel.

In the after-credits scene of Iron Man 2, Coulson finds Thor's hammer, which, obviously, segues into Thor.

Yes, believe it or not, the after-credits scenes are connecting these movies.

So, in the after-credits scene of Thor, Fury shows Erik the Tesseract, which Erik decides to investigate further, under the control of Loki. We learn more about the Tesseract in Captain America: The First Avenger, and in the after-credits scene of THIS film, we get a post-credits scene that's essentially justand the twist in Vol. 2 ends up having much more impact when you have the original GOTG fresh in your mind.

After that, Captain America: The Winter Soldier has a mid-credits scene featuring Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver, who get fully introduced in Avengers: Age of Ultron. And after that, you get Ant-Man, which has a post-credits scene that leads directly into Captain America: Civil War.

The after-credits scene of Civil War consists of Peter Parker in his bedroom, leading us into Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Also, in Civil War, we were introduced not only to Spider-Man, but also to our next superhero, Black Panther.

After Black Panther, you chronologically have Doctor Strange, which has an after-credits scene that leads directly into Thor: Ragnarok.

Then, Thor: Ragnarok has a mid-credits scene where we see Thanos's


two the two sides then ultimately strike a confidential new programming deal. A few weeks later your cable bill sees a price hike -- potentially your second of the year.It's kind of a lose-lose scenario for consumers, who get used as public relations pinatas (call your cable operator to complain!), lose access to content they're paying for, and then get accosted with an endless series of rate hikes. For the last few years, the FCC has generally had a hands off approach to these disputes (boys will be boys, and all that), but as they've gotten uglier and consumers have increasingly been railroaded, pressure has mounted for the regulator to at least do. According to a new blog post by FCC boss Tom Wheeler , the FCC headWorkshop

S-12 / Living the Dance

In this workshop Koffi Kôkô focusses on the participant‘s relation to her/his own body, personal expression and the symbolism of the gestures used in African dances. Repetition of the dances in correlation with the music will allow for a more holistic, a lived experience of the dance.

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Unfortunately this studio is not wheelchair accessible.

Koffi Kôkô (FR/BJ) was born in Benin, West Africa, where he grew up in close contact with the animist religion of his home. In 2004 and 2005 he was curator and together with Johannes Odenthal artistic director of the festival In Transit (HKW, Berlin). With Ismael Ivo he choreographed and danced the play »The Maids« under the direction of Yoshi Oida. In addition to Koffi Kôkôs most important work u.


based on my musical tastes. After a few times, they grew on me. Again, good stuff!

If you like old school '80s Scorpions, Priest or Maiden, check these dudes out. They bring the goods!

KOKE FM in Austin is my vote for the best. The only independently owned FM station in at least Texas, plus Bob Cole and his crew that used to be on KVET here in town. The original KOKE FM was the station that started the whole red dirt radio music craze and was the one that gave so many of the country music outlaws a place to get some air-time. Listen in on them at http://kokefm.com/ . The crew is pretty conservative and since they own the station rather than a company, they can give theirand dismantle racist practices and structures, on behalf of equality and human dignity.

Among those profiled are:

John Woolman, an eighteenth-century Quaker who set out on a personal mission to persuade his fellow Quakers to renounce complicity with slavery;

Angelina Grimke, a Southerner who left the South to join the abolitionist struggle;

Clarence Jordan, a Baptist preacher who founded Koinonia Farm, an interracial community in Georgia, and faced the wrath of the KKK;

Viola Liuzzo, a mother and housewife from Detroit who was killed by the KKK while participating in the freedom march in Selma, Alabama in 1963;

Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has fought white supremacist groups in the courts.

Also included are study questions for reading clubs, college courses, and adult education and church groups making this a


A Northern California county says it has received more than 100 missing-person reports as family and friends scramble to locate loved ones while wildfires ravage the state.

Scott Alonso, communications director for Sonoma County, says the reports have come via calls to a hotline the county set up for the missing.

It is possible that many or most of the missing are safe but simply can’t be reached because of the widespread loss of cell service and other communications.

The firestorm consuming the state has killed at least 10 people, seven of whom were in Sonoma County.

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10 p.m.

More than 5,000 Southern California homes were evacuated Monday as fire crews struggled to battle a rapidly growing brush fire.

The blaze has scorched 6,000 acres and destroyed dozens of structures in Orange County.

Plumes ofsmoke were visible over Disneyland and officials issued air quality warnings for parts of Los Angeles County.

An Anaheim police spokesman says there is no containment so far.

The firestorm consuming the state has killed at least 10 people and injured at least a hundred.

(Oct. 9)

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9 p.m.

At least 100 people have been injured in wildfires burning in Northern California.

St. Joseph Health said 100 patients have been treated, most for smoke inhalation, at two of its hospitals, Santa Rosa Memorial in Santa Rosa and Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa.

Those hospitals took on the majority of patients with other hospitals in the area evacuated because of the fires.

Two of the injured are critical. One has been transferred to a burn center with significant burns. Fifteen of the injuries are


described as moderate and the rest are minor.

The number of injured is expected to climb as information comes in for all the other areas affected by the firestorm consuming the state.

The fires have also killed at least 10 people and destroyed at least 1,500 homes.

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7:15 p.m.

Former San Francisco Giants pitcher Noah Lowry and his family were among those who had to flee from the ferocious series of wildfires in Northern California.

Lowry told The Associated Press that he, his wife, his two daughters and his 2-week-old son had to leave their home in Santa Rosa in a matter of minutes as the flames approached.

Lowry says he “can’t shake hearing people scream in terror as the flames barreled down on us.”

He said he ran into a closed U.S. 101 freewaybecause the flames had jumped it. But he and his family were able to get away in time and get to a friends’ house where they are staying.

Lowry, who pitched for the Giants from 2003 and 2007, now owns an outdoor sporting goods store in Santa Rosa.

The fires have destroyed at least 1,500 homes and killed at least 10 people.

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6:45 p.m.

Vice President Mike Pence said during a visit to California that the federal government stands ready to provide any and all assistance to the state as it deals with deadly and destructive wildfires.

Pence’s remarks came at an event Monday night in the Sacramento area after Gov. Jerry Brown, who has given disaster declarations to many parts of the state, said he asked President Donald Trump to declare a


bringing the total number of fatalities to 10.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office tweeted Monday that seven fire-related deaths were reported from fires there.

California fire officials reported earlier that two people died in Napa County and one died in Mendocino County.

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3:50 p.m.

Trailer park residents in California wine country had little time to escape before flames destroyed their homes.

Nancy Cook said Monday that her dogs alerted her to the wildfire that quickly came blowing over a hill early in the morning and ignited trees in the Journey’s End trailer park in Santa Rosa.

The fire is one of the most destructive of more than a dozen in the region.

Cook says she pounded on neighbors’ doors before fleeing with her husband, dogs and medications.

She and other residents didn’t have time to roundup their cats and had to leave them behind in their haste. Some fled in their pajamas and left their wallets.

One person had to abandon a classic hotrod car that burned.

Cook says she thinks everyone in the over-55 community escaped, though most residents lost everything they owned.

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3:16 p.m.

Authorities say at least half a dozen homes have burned in a fast-moving brush fire in Southern California.

Anaheim Sgt. Daron Wyatt says the fire that broke out on Monday had stretched to about 4 square miles.

Wyatt says the blaze has been driven westward by winds toward heavily populated areas of Orange County, prompting authorities to expand evacuations.

The state’s top fire officials said Monday that firefighters have focused on evacuating residents and saving lives rather than battling the blaze and protecting buildings.

California


Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Director Ken Pimlott said fatalities are expected, but the fires are still out of control and it’s difficult for authorities to assess the damage done and the number of people hurt and killed.

He said about 50,000 people are without power.

October is typically the most dangerous time for fires in the state. He said there have been 1,500 more wildfires this year than last year at this time.

The California Highway Patrol says numerous roads are closed in the fire region, which is an eight-county swath of wine country north of San Francisco.

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12:05 p.m.

A wind-driven wildfire is sweeping along the outskirts of a Southern California subdivision.

The blaze erupted at late morning Monday in Anaheim and moved rapidly through hills and canyons in Orange County,about 45 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Authorities have ordered evacuations of neighborhoods and two elementary schools and shut down heavily traveled freeways.

City officials could not immediately say how many people are affected.

An evacuation center is being set up at a downtown community center. Authorities also are setting up a place for residents to evacuate their horses.

In Northern California, firefighters are battling blazes that have destroyed at least 1,500 homes and commercial buildings.

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11:45 a.m.

Emergency workers and staff at a state home for the severely disabled outside of Sonoma have evacuated all of about 240 patients as flames from fast-spreading wildfires approached the center and ash rained down.

Officials at the Sonoma Developmental Center, located on 900 acres, in the town of Glen Ellen said there were no known injuries during


the evacuation.

Center spokesman Jorge Fernandez says “everybody is safe so far.”

Crews got all patients from threatened buildings as flames closed within a few dozen feet of the center’s buildings.

Many of the patients were confined to beds and wheelchairs and had breathing or feeding tubes.

Vans and school buses were lining up to remove the last patients as workers in masks pushed frail residents in wheelchairs across parking lots and roads.

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11 a.m.

Another wildfire has erupted in California, this time about 45 miles (72 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles in the hill country of eastern Orange County.

The Anaheim Fire Department says the fire erupted late Monday morning and is being pushed by 25 mph winds.

An unknown number of people have been ordered to evacuate.

Much of Southern California is under red flagsays the fires are burning throughout an eight-county swath of Northern California, including Napa, Sonoma and Yuba counties.

Pimlott said most of the fires started at about 10 p.m. Sunday and their causes are under investigation. He said firefighters are concentrating on saving lives rather than battling the blazes.

He didn’t have an estimate on the number of people hurt and missing.

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10 a.m.

More than 200 people were hurriedly evacuated from two Santa Rosa hospitals threatened by wildfires that bloomed overnight.

Lisa Amador, a spokeswoman with Sutter Health, said around 9 a.m. that Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital had finished evacuating the last of more than 80 patients in surgical, labor and emergency care.

She says the hospital is sending staff home. Amador says the hospital and the medical office building next to


it are intact, but other structures are ruined.

Biermann says the fires had burned more than 68 square miles (176sq. kilometers).

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8:55 a.m.

Residents in Napa and Sonoma counties are describing their terrifying middle-of-the-night scramble to flee from raging wildfires.

Terri Ruttledge, who lives on Adobe Canyon in Kenwood, just made it out before the fire burned her house.

Ruttledge says she looked out her window and saw the mountain across the road on fire. When she couldn’t reach 911, she quickly loaded up the car and fled.

Mandatory evacuations were ordered after blazes broke out late Sunday.

Napa County Board of Supervisors chairwoman Belia Ramos says officials do not yet have a count on how many properties have been affected in the 20,000 acre (8,100 hectare) fire.

She says the wind gusts were tremendous andmade the fire unpredictable.

Fires also burned just to the east in the Napa County wine country as well as in Yuba, Butte and Nevada counties.

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6:07 a.m.

Residents of Northern California wine country are describing harrowing escapes from wind-whipped wildfires.

Marian Williams says she caravanned with neighbors through flames early Monday as one of several fires reached the vineyards and ridges of the small Sonoma County town of Kenwood.

Williams says she could feel the heat as trees turned into torches.

The fires are being fanned by strong, dry and gusty winds raking the region.

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1:53 a.m.

Firefighters are battling several wind-whipped fires that forced evacuations of rural neighborhoods in Northern California.

The Press Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/2xt7ekR ) that mandatory evacuations were ordered after a blaze broke out late Sunday near Santa Rosa, which is 54


miles (87 kilometers) north of San Francisco.

The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office says deputies were dispatched to help firefighters and California Highway Patrol officers with evacuations.

Multiple fires broke out Sunday night as strong winds buffeted the area. Emergency lines were inundated with callers reporting smoke in the area.

Downed trees were blocking parts of one rural road and fires were burning on both sides of Highway 12 as gusts reached up to 60 mph (96.5 kph).makes sticking around not necessarily helpful or productive in terms of furthering the goals of this campaign.”

Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado also dropped out of the race after poor initial returns in New Hampshire.

The Democratic field stumped Monday in the key New England state following a debate there Friday and a rally by President Donald Trump, who officially is running in New Hampshire’s primary, as well, although there are no other major Republican challengers on the state’s ballot.

ABC News and CNN projected Trump will win the Republican primary in New Hampshire.

Sanders won 12 delegates in Iowa and narrowly lost to Buttigieg, who was awarded 14. Sanders, however, is now looking to take command in the race with a win Tuesday close to his constituency.

“New Hampshire: No matter what


Interview with Hua Dong, Re-Tros: Before the Applause and Beyond

Wang Wen, 惘闻, is a Chinese Post Rock band from Dalian in the North of China and they have been around since 1999.

Wang Wen released ten full long albums so far for various Chinese and International indie label. Over the years, Wang Wen has become a band with a large following both in China and abroad.

Their predominantly instrumental sound is characterized by elaborate sound fabrics alternating with ethereal melodies, more complex musically passages, tempo changes, and musical accelerations.

Their sound reflects the gray and cold atmospheres of Dalian, their origin city, skilfully blending echoes of Sigur Ros, the sought-after sound of post-rock bands like Tortoise, and some progressive-derived musical fabrics.

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If you like this article, please helpshe yanked the trash bag up and had me take it out to join the rest in the dumpster behind the ratty apartment building we used to live in. She had been a harsh, hard woman, German on both sides. She had no time for feelings or not doing what needed to be done. Her hands, I remember, were rougher than mine are now. They cracked and had little red fissures. She covered them with cold cream and tried not to show how they hurt her. She got the flu, it turned into some kind of awful pneumonia and then days later she died. I was fifteen and became a ward of the state of Nebraska. No one wanted me, my distant relatives never responded to the state’s


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Supporters of Ron Paul are gearing up to make a strong showing in Nebraska this weekend, as the state's Republican Party gathers to pick delegates for the national convention.

What's the big deal? If the Texas congressman can get a plurality of support, then he would qualify to get his name entered into nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Tampa.

Paul stopped spending money to compete in primaries in May, but he has continued to amass presidential delegates and encouraged his supporters to have their voices heard at the convention. Mitt Romney clinched the 1,144 delegates needed for the GOP nomination in late May.

A post on The Daily Paul, a website devoted to the libertarian-thinking congressman, is urging people to show up at the Nebraska GOP meetingin Grand Island on July 14 and gives tips on how to make a difference on behalf of their candidate.

Under Rule 40, Section B in the Republican National Committee's rule book, a presidential candidate must demonstrate the support of a "plurality of the delegates from five or more states" to get his or her name entered for nomination at the convention.

Paul already has a plurality of delegates from Iowa, Maine, Minnesota and Louisiana. Nebraska is the last state that will hold its convention for delegates.

According to MSNBC's First Read blog, Nebraska's 32 delegates won't be required to match the outcome of the state's May 15 primary -- which was won by Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee.

Jesse Benton, Paul's national campaign chairman, declined to comment to USA


gone down to the place of the dead.15“ ‘This is what the Lord God says: On the day when the tree went down to the place of the dead, I made the deep springs cry loudly. I covered them and held back their rivers, and the great waters stopped flowing. I dressed Lebanon in black to show her sadness about the great tree, and all the trees in the countryside were sad about it. 16I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of the tree falling when I brought it down to the place of the dead. It went to join those who have gone down to the grave. Then all the trees of Eden and the best trees of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, werecomforted in the place of the dead below the earth. 17These trees had also gone down with the great tree to the place of the dead. They joined those who were killed in war and those among the nations who had lived under the great tree’s shade.18“ ‘So no tree in Eden is equal to you, Egypt, in greatness and honor, but you will go down to join the trees of Eden in the place below the earth. You will lie among unclean people, with those who were killed in war.“ ‘This is about the king of Egypt and all his people, says the Lord God.’ ”


they were studying of Rajyadharma. After hearing of the military advance of the Travancore under the leadership of Ramayyan Dalawa and Caption De Lannoy; the crown prince of Thekkumkur (Goda Varman) then advised king Aditya Varma Manikandan to make a friendship with Travancore kingdom by understanding the downfall of princely state Ampalapuzha (Chempakassery) and the fall of princely state Kayamkulam. Meanwhile, when Marthanda Varma seized Kayamkulam and Chempakassery, Aditya Varma realized that they were the next victims and sent his brother to Thiruvananthapuram for an unconditional peace mission and met Anizham Thirunal Marthanda Varma of Travancore and requested help. Unfortunately, Marthanda Varma asked Goda Varman, to promise that he would be in power if he helped to oust king Adithya Varman. Marthanda Varma had already heard the riftbetween the brothers. The younger king was well-received in the southern part of Thekkumkur kingdom. The self-righteous crown prince decided to return to Thekkumkur soon after the disagreement. The evil intelligence of Marthanda Varma and Ramayyan Dalawa aroused together. He sent a messenger to the younger king and told him the fake news, saying, "Departure to Kottayam immediately; the mother's health is bad". The crown prince Goda Varman decided to leave, boarded the boat and headed north; Marthanda Varma gave him some gifts for Thekkumkur king Aditya Varma Manikandan On the way, he descended on Anchuthengu Fort and received eleven ritual fire by the British authorities. From there he reached via Paravur Lake, Ashtamudi Lake, Kayamkulam Lake and Vembanadu Lake. The next day the boat of the crown


23 years ago, Mina Shum directed her first feature film, Double Happiness, starring a fresh young talent — Sandra Oh. The film tells the semi-autobiographical story of an aspiring actress who struggles with the expectations of her Chinese-Canadian parents, and it went on to win a special jury citation for Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival.

But as a young female Asian filmmaker in 1994 — and still to this day — Shum's identity as a director is sometimes challenged because she doesn't fit the perception of what some people might expect someone in her role to look like.

We're not used to seeing ~this~ as the director. - Mina Shum, filmmaker

In this clip from CBC's The Filmmakers, Shum tells the story of being stopped bysend Gov. Scott Walker legislation ending weekend voting before elections and limiting the in-person absentee ballots to a total of 45 hours per week.

Republicans say rural areas are less able to staff extensive in-person voting hours when compared to urban areas with bigger budgets.

In Milwaukee, early voting surged from from 5,000 in 2000 to 36,500 in 2012, with the highest participation rates in mostly African-American areas.

But Milwaukee officials say smaller municipalities -- many in Republican areas -- actually have higher rates of early voting. At the same time, they say, small towns can handle the demand because the raw number of early voters is smaller than in urban areas.

Despite lobbying by the city, state law limits in-person early voting to one voting site, which in Milwaukee has led


co-author with Jonathan Nagler of "Who Votes Now? Demographics, Issues, Inequality and Turnout in the United States."

But early voting is an opportunity for political parties and candidates to focus on boosting turnout, if they choose, instead of just getting core supporters out early, Leighley said.

Some voices suggest a more significant effect among certain subgroups. The U.S. Justice Department’s voting-rights lawsuit against North Carolina, for example, contends that availability of early voting helped the black turnout rate surpass that of whites in 2008 and 2012.

Most of the research has focused on what happens when early voting is introduced.

Notably, though, newer research is focusing on what happens when states pull back and limit the opportunities to vote early in person.

That’s of particular interest in the Wisconsin debate, and in statessuch as Florida, North Carolina and Ohio that recently curtailed it.

Florida reduced early voting days before the 2012 presidential election, a move that drew intense criticism when long lines in November marred voting there. In the aftermath, Republican Gov. Rick Scott reversed course and signed legislation restoring the old process.

Did the change in 2012 deflate turnout?

There’s evidence it did, at least among African-American voters who had flocked in 2008 to vote early on the final Sunday before the election, often as part of "souls to the polls" vote drives, said University of Florida political scientist Daniel Smith, who studied the elections with Dartmouth College’s Michael Herron.

Down-ballot races such as for governor and less-prominent offices have received little scholarly scrutiny.

But there’s strong anecdotal evidence from election officials that early


Wisconsin is just the latest twist on the issue.

Before 2012, Wisconsin allowed in-person absentee voting over about three weeks, three weekends and the Monday prior to the election, noted City of Milwaukee Election Commission Neil Albrecht.

As noted, the Legislature and Walker compressed that schedule in 2011.

That didn’t reduce early voting turnout in Milwaukee, which rose from about 32,500 in 2008 to 36,500 in 2012, but Albrecht says the cutback in days held the increase down and caused those long lines.

"The working poor, single parents, students, people with disabilities, or anyone else that might have an Election Day schedule conflict or concern about limited physical access to their voting site" are among those who seek out the opportunity to vote early, Albrecht said.

The Badger State historically has one ofOctomom on Welfare: Nadya Suleman Unable to Pay Bills Again (VIDEO)

According to celebrity rumor site TMZ, Nadya Suleman is unable to make ends meet and is unable to pay her bills and has gone back on welfare.

Just five months ago it was reported how Suleman had finally managed to get herself off welfare and her financial situation was improving. She had come under criticism for the way in which she was improving her finances though, and the Octomom was involved in a number of reports about sexualized ways in which to earn money, including taking part in a porn movie.

Suleman had previously stated that she would never do adult entertainment as a way to support her family, but she appeared to later change her mind and has gone


more than the average company. Accenture : Located in New York City, New York, Accenture has more than 150,000 employees. They are a consulting firm within the IT industry. Remember earlier when we said that fresh Asian graduates are prime candidates for information technology? Well this is a perfect example of a potential job opportunity you can take.

: Located in New York City, New York, Accenture has more than 150,000 employees. They are a consulting firm within the IT industry. Remember earlier when we said that fresh Asian graduates are prime candidates for information technology? Well this is a perfect example of a potential job opportunity you can take. American Express : Also located in New York City, New York, American Express has been around since 1850. Theyare a global payment company with more than 68,000 employees, and are perfect for new Asian graduates.

: Also located in New York City, New York, American Express has been around since 1850. They are a global payment company with more than 68,000 employees, and are perfect for new Asian graduates. Kaiser Permanente: One of the great thing about Kaiser Permanente is that It’s located in Oakland, California, which is considered an “Asian friendly” city.

The list could obviously go on and on. Just remember that jobs within the engineering, IT, and hospitality industries tend to be the best for fresh Asian graduates.

Asian-American Hiring Stats Within the United States

Although Asian-Americans excel in academics (representing up to 25% of Ivy League enrollment), they’re still not breaking into the Fortunate 500. In


Different kind of pound on county council's agenda

Different sort of pounds currently on the agenda at meeting after Cumbria was named fattest county in England.

One councillor says the findings should be taken 'with a pinch of salt' after reports the survey was carried out via phone with less than 1000 people.

Councillor Pat Bell who looks after Public Health and Community Services say the Copeland area, which was labelled fattest in the county, already has a range of programmes aimed at encouraging exercise but this issue needs "a range of approaches".Awesome! I just ran my party through an Appendix N hack of Lost City, in fact. Next up, Dwellers of the Forbidden City! Maybe I can incorporate this little gem in there....

Hey -- I did a little work on a Dwellers "respin." It's in 1st edition stats, but might be useful to you. I took one of the ideas at the end of the module and extrapolated it out.

Features: Bugbears are allies (this was a campaign meme -- the party had saved a "good" bugbear in a previous adventure and was surprised to find him here), a hack of the K'chain Che'malle from the Malazan series, and a re-imagined divided city of four armies

John Adams (Coleston the Cavalier) has just announced via Kickstarter that we'll have to pay


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The man responsible for, the venture which brought aboutmining to India, has apparently been arrested for scamming investors out of ₹2,000 crores. That too, within Maharashtra alone. Amit, one of the biggest names in the digital currency diaspora, was brought into the country after being in hiding for over a year. His brother, Vivek Bharadwaj was also arrested.This is the first enforcement case investigation report (ECIR) to submitted in India under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) in Mumbai. Others included in the ECIR are Ajay Bhardwaj, Rupesh Singh, Hemant Chauhan, Hemant Suryavanshi and, Kaka Ravde. And that’s not even the whole list.Action was taken jointly by the(RBI), the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Cybercrime Cell of Pune Police. It’s surprising that the casecame to light in the first place, since most the investors were reluctant to come forward, as their investments fell outside the realm for what would strictly be considered to be ‘legal’. In fact, it was Parvendra Singh, a businessman from Nanded, who first filed a complaint and came forward to address the issue.Bhardwaj allegedly used his position as a cryptocurrency entrepreneur to cheat investors out of money using Bitcoin-based Ponzi schemes. Though the figure stated for Maharashtra is ₹2,000 crores, officials told India Today that the scam could actually be anywhere between ₹5,000 crores and ₹13,000 crores.Using his connections in Bollywood, Bhardwaj got well known faces like Shilpa Shetty, Neha Dhupia and Huma Qureshi to endorse his book, Cryptocurrency for Beginners. Building his reputation from that, he


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      Appellant Susana Villalpando and appellee Armando Villalpando were
married in June 2003. They resided in Harris County and had two children during
their marriage. In February 2010, Susana moved to Dallas with the children. In
November 2012, Armando filed for divorce on the basis of insupportability.
Susana counter-petitioned for divorce on the grounds of cruel treatment.

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of the marriage. Susana testified that Armando was physically and emotionally
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kill her, have their children taken away fromreally an easy delivery.

Because he came out so fast and because his head was turned just slightly in the birth canal... he had some pretty bad bruising on his face and head. He actually cried that first day for a couple hours whenever you moved his head. The nurses finally took him to the nursery to give him another thorough exam and make sure there was nothing broken or out of place that they might have missed the first time. They didn't find anything though, which we were glad. He was just in some pain and we figured it was a headache. He would just wimper as you rocked him and it was hard to get him to nurse or anything that first day. :( Luckily by the


Oil edges up slightly in second straight day of gains

A driver pumps petrol into his car at a petrol station in Brussels March 8, 2011.
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By Anna Louie Sussman| NEW YORK

NEW YORK Brent crude oil prices closed below $100 a barrel on a second day of modest gains on Friday, after surpassing $100 earlier in the session and recovering some ground after a steep six-day decline.

Brent has fallen nearly 10 percent since the beginning of April, a decline that accelerated earlier this week after a cut in oil demand forecasts by global energy agencies and weak economic data from the United States and China, the world's two largest oil consumers.

Friday marked the second day of gains for Brent after it closed at $97.69 on Wednesday, the lowest levelback a day after the S&P 500 closed below its 50-day moving average for the first time this year, with help from some blue-chip tech names.

"This remains a market very much driven by the equity markets. They've been rebounding and we're just knocking along with that," said Kyle Cooper, managing director of research at IAF Advisors in Houston, Texas.

"Crude inventories are at an all-time high, but we're up today," he added. "There are some people who want to believe it's a physical market, but it's not. It's a financial market."

Yet worries about global demand and oversupply persist, and market participants remained cautious as to whether the recovery had legs. Front-month oil prices have fallen more than 3 percent for the week.

"Oil prices were technically oversold so we are


step was the Pioneer League, a more serious organisation. Pioneer meant “The First” so we had to show an example of good study and behaviour to all other children. Before joining we had to write, learn and say by heart the oath to ardently love our country, to live, learn and fight, as set out by Lenin and as taught by the Communist Party.

We had Pioneer rules as well. Here are just a few of them:

A Pioneer is devoted to the motherland, party, communism.

A Pioneer is the best in his/her studies, work and sport.

A Pioneer is an honest and faithful friend, always boldly standing for the truth.

The idea for this youth organization was taken from the Scout movement, with the addition of communist principles.

All Pioneers had to wearred ties and badges. On ordinary days girls were in black aprons and, for special occasions, white ones, as in our school photo. We stayed at the same school for 10 years, starting at seven years old and finishing at seventeen. Or uniform remained the same throughout.

During the last year I became a little bit rebellious so I stopped wearing an apron, as did some of my friends. In the photo below, am in the bottom row, far right. No smiles again!

Next came the Komsomol League, joining which came very close to becoming a proper Communist Party member. A few boys in the above photograph are wearing a Komsomol member badge on their jackets. By this time we understood that it was only propaganda, nobody took it seriously,


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Grocery shopping has been a familiar problem to most families for some time and although the automobile has been found convenient for carting the grocery bags home, nevertheless certain problems have arisen in connection with this practice. Simply placing bags of groceries anywhere in the motor vehicle, including the trunk compartment, was not the complete answer to the problems, because sudden stoppages, fast acceleration and quick turns quite frequently produced havoc amoung the grocery bags, which detracted considerably from this otherwise convenient use of the family car. What was needed and found lacking in the prior art was a carefully thought out plan for developing a closely related variety of grocery bag holders all foundedFFR from Locatus \[[@CR17]\], a commercial company that performs yearly audits on all retailers in the Netherlands. We considered all fast food and take away outlets available in the Locatus database as FFR. In accordance with the classification of Lake et al. \[[@CR18]\], fast food and take away outlets were defined as outlets serving hot food ordered and paid for at the till, foods cooked in bulk in advance and providing minimal table service (chain and non-chain FFR, take away and delivery outlets, grillrooms and kebab shops). We calculated the density of FFR in a 1600-m, 800-m and 400-m Euclidean buffer around the centroid of each individuals' six-digit postcode. In the Netherlands, six-digit postcodes consist of approximately 17 residential addresses, as such comprising a relatively small area. In


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Kristian Nairn is a Northern Irish Actor and Musician. He is a successful DJ, having performed alongside acts such as the Scissor Sisters. He has worked Worldwide. Game of Thrones marks Nairn's first major acting role. He plays the role of the enigmatic fan favorite character, Hodor. He also appeared as a guest on episode 37 of the comedy podcast the Yogpod, discussing his role in a Game Of Thrones with the hosts Simon Lane and Lewis Brindley.

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Neurological experts who are fans of the show have speculated that Nairn's character on Game of Thrones (2011) suffers from Expressive Aphasia, in which sufferers can be fully literate, and know & understand everythingsaid to them, but can only speak as little as one or two words, either due to a stroke, aneurysm, head trauma, or other neurological damage to a part of the brain known as Broca's Area (an alternate term for the condition is Broca's Aphasia). Ironically, considering he only repeats "Hodor" on screen, Nairn is known for being quite verbose off-screen.

A self-confessed "Comic-Con"-type nerd, he is a big fan of comic books and the genres of science-fiction, fantasy and horror in films & TV. Is also an accomplished DJ, having DJ'd at clubs and private parties all over the world.

In an interview given in 2015, Nairn admitted that when he is not playing the role of the lovable giant 'Hodor' on Game of Thrones, he is very much


MARK KEHOE Tom the cat was killed and mutilated

Ginger and white coloured Tom was killed as he strolled around a neighbour’s garden in the middle of the night in affluent Westerham, near Sevenoaks, Kent. It is thought that 13-year-old Tom was hit over the head and then, while he lay dead or dying, his tail was cut off and his throat was slit before he was ritualistically laid out on the neighbour’s lawn. Since the attack on October 20 Tom’s elderly owners, who wish to be known as Pauline and Anthony, have been traumatised and concerned for the safety of their other cat Ben.

Pauline, 74, said: “The public have little idea how dangerous and sinister this sick, horrible man is. He must be caught soon, otherwise he willHandout photo issued by the Orangutan Foundation of Aan, a critically-endangered orangutan who was blinded after being shot more than 100 times with an air rifle. Aan is to undergo an operation that could restore her sight.

The killer initially started off in Croydon, south London, but has struck in Manchester, Birmingham and London. Despite a £10,000 reward police are no nearer catching him. An animal-loving couple, Tony Jenkins, 52, and Boudicca Rising, 45, have set up SNARL, the South Norwood Animal Rescue Liberty, to try and catch him. Tony believes he is becoming even more dangerous, saying: “He is killing three to four cats a week now. He also seems to be getting bolder and is more intent on seeking a shock reaction. “At Halloween we think he


Image copyright Reuters Image caption Bump-stocks attach to semi-automatic rifles to increase the firing rate

The Trump administration has banned the use of bump stocks, devices that let rifles fire like machine guns, after promising to do so earlier this year.

The final date to destroy or turn in the devices is 21 March, said White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders.

The push to ban bump stocks followed the deadly mass shootings in Las Vegas in October 2017 and Parkland, Florida in February.

Pro-gun advocates have said they are prepared to fight the rule in court.

Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker signed the new regulation on Tuesday, and it is expected to be published in the Federal Register on Friday.

Bump stocks, or slide fire adapters, allow semi-automatic rifles to fire at a highillegal to possess in most cases.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) had previously ruled that bump stocks did not qualify as machine guns and thus would not be regulated.

What do gun advocate groups say?

The Gun Owners of America lobby issued a statement on Tuesday saying they have prepared a lawsuit against the ATF and the justice department on behalf of the "half a million bump stock owners" forced to part with their "valuable property".

"Agencies are not free to rewrite laws under the guise of 'interpretation' of a statute, especially where the law's meaning is clear," said Erich Pratt, executive director of Gun Owners of America.

The National Rifle Association (NRA), which had called for a review of bump stock devices after the Las Vegas shooting, said


Will the Sony story end in tragedy?

I threw away a pair of Sony headphones a few weeks ago, not out of disgust or carelessness, but because after nearly 15 years of hard service they had finally stopped working. That, in a nutshell, is the Sony story.

Since it was founded in 1946 – emerging literally out of the ashes of World War 2 – Sony has been at the leading edge of consumer electronics.
Innovations and brands like the Walkman, Compact Disc, PlayStation and BluRay have generated tens of billions of dollars and earned Sony a reputation for quality and reliability.

But, roughly since the turn of the century, Sony has been in slow but consistent decline. As new markets like smart phones, e-readers and tablet computers have flourished – marketsin which a younger, nimbler Sony might have been a serious player – the company has stumbled repeatedly.

You can see this clearly in the numbers. In its last financial year Sony as whole lost around $5.5-billion – its largest loss ever. The last year in which the company turned a profit was 2008. Even before that Sony spent a decade struggling to return more than a couple of percent of total revenue to its shareholders. And this when competitors like Apple and Samsung are returning more than 20% of revenue as profits year after year.

And yet, in typically stolid Japanese fashion, the company keeps cranking out beautifully finished electronics, and it keeps pushing boundaries. At a Sony event last week I played with its newest product – the


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There is a growing problem among university-centered publications where college studentsEco-sculptor Jason deCaires Taylor's latest work, "Ocean Atlas" is inspired by the ancient Greek myth of Titan Atlas who supported the weight of the heavens on his back.

This 60-ton, 16-foot-high sculpture depicts a Bahamian girl who carries the "ceiling of the ocean" on her back. It was installed earlier this month on the western shore of New Providence, Nassau, Bahamas.

It is said to be the "largest single sculpture ever to be deployed underwater," and was assembled underwater in sections "using an ambitious new technique developed and engineered" by the artist.

The sculpture commissioned by B.R.E.E.F (Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation) aims to create an underwater sculpture garden in honor of its founder Sir Nicholas Nuttall. It includes other sculptural works by local artists Willicey Tynes and Andret John and


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While waiting for a nomination to the Environmental Protection Agency, Andrew Wheeler, a coal lobbyist, cozied up with the senators who would decide upon his appointment in the most direct way possible: giving them money.

Wheeler, who was first rumored to be tapped for the EPA last March, raised funds for Republican senators on the committee that makes the preliminary decision on confirming appointments to the agency.

Fundraising documents obtained by The Intercept and the watchdog group Documented show that Wheeler hosted campaign fundraisers for two members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works – Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. – last May. Theevent for Inhofe was held at Rosa Mexicano, a Mexican restaurant in downtown Washington, D.C., and the event for Barrasso took place at Wheeler’s office on K Street in the capital. Federal Election Committee records show both senators received donations of Wheeler’s law firm PAC last year. Barrasso received $2,500 and Inhofe’s leadership PAC received $1,000.

In October, Wheeler was formally nominated to serve as the deputy administrator of the EPA, the No. 2 slot at the agency. His confirmation hearing was in November; the Senate panel approved his nomination, but it never went before the full chamber for a final vote. His nomination came back before the committee at the start of the new legislative session last month and a vote is expected Wednesday.

Wheeler manages the energy and


natural resources practice at the law firm of Faegre Baker Daniels. His lobbying energy clients have included the coal company Murray Energy, the largest privately owned coal firm in the United States, as well as Xcel Energy, a major utility interest group. Public disclosures show that Wheeler most recently lobbied for the firm in August 2017.

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Before he joined the law firm in 2009, Wheeler spent 14 years as a staffer for Inhofe, including as chief counsel for the senator on the Environment and Public Works committee. Wheeler is also a Donald Trump donor, having given $1,000 to Trump Victory, a joint campaign committee that worked to elect Trump and other Republicans in 2016.

Neither Barrasso nor Inhofe’s office responded to a request for comment. Aone of the most active users of SWIFT globally, sending hundreds of thousands of messages per day. In general, SWIFT provides a secure communication network for more than ten thousands of financial institutions around the world, approving transactions of trillions of US dollars. Earlier this month Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov expressed confidence that Russia would not be disconnected from SWIFT. In her turn, Russian Central Bank First Deputy Chair Ksenia Yudaeva called upon Russian civilians and financial institutions not to dramatize the current situation. Russian experts point to the fact that Western businesses would face severe losses if they expelled Russia from the international SWIFT system. On the other hand, the alternative system launched by Russia might reduce the negative impacts caused by measures imposed by


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The masterplan for the site also includes industrial parks capable of creating 2,000 jobs. Business leaders have recently warned that the region needs more land earmarked for employment to stop firms relocating elsewhere and moving jobs out of the area.

A new primary school is also included in the plans along with major improvements to the A46 near Walsgrave, for which Highways England has already pledged some funding.

Councils across Warwickshire have been asked to help meet a shortfall of homes in Coventry, and this development was due to help Rugby meet its target. The site falls on the border of the city - between the hospital, Coombe Country Park, Ansty Park and the M6 junction 2.

Plans for the Walsgrave Hill development (Image: Roxhill)

Charles Blake, development director for Roxhill,Food prices to rise globally as energy prices edge higher

Rising energy prices and a shift to Western consumption patterns will continue to push global food prices higher in the coming decade, according to the annual agricultural outlook issued by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.

Higher prices of crude oil are set to increase food prices, particularly in countries that import large amounts of food or those, such as the United States, that rely heavily on petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. In addition, increasing affluence and the adoption of a Western diet in Third World countries is expected to turn more land toward cultivation of animal feed and away from cultivation of staples.

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At first we thought Bollywood actor Yuvraaj Parashar was disowned by his family for starring in Dunno Y… Na Jaane Kyun, where he played a gay man in what's been dubbed India's Brokeback Mountain. But is Parashar actually a gay man IRL? In defending the single-name Indian film director Onir — whose films tackled everything from AIDS to gays to abuse — against rumors that he sexually molested Parashar, gay activist Ashok Row Kavi has outed the actor. Or is Parashar's sexuality one big open secret? And are these sexual assault claims legit?

According to the organisers, the crowd at this time's parade was much larger than the previous two as it was the first one after the Delhi High Court's historic judgment decriminalising consensual homosexual relationships.

"Notonly lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders participated, many other people also came out. The most heartening thing is that families of many members of LGBT community also came to support them. Slowly things are changing," said Mohnish Malhotra, one of the organisers.

However, he said the march was not just about celebration but a protest against discrimination faced by the LGBT community.

"We are protesting against discrimination faced by the LGBT community. The community is often subjugated to violence by police and thugs. They are blackmailed and forced into marriage by families, which leads to suicides," he said.

"It is a big celebration after the Delhi High Court judgement last year. It is the biggest turnout. By looking at it we know that things are changing. It's a great feeling to


By Tanaka Mrewa

A randy 72-year-old Bulawayo man shocked a court yesterday when he was arraigned for slapping a woman’s buttocks in a supermarket.

Michael Meki, a court heard, met the woman (55), employed by Webb, Low and Barry Legal Practitioners, at North End TM Supermarket where she usually does her shopping and they greeted each other.

Meki allegedly indecently assaulted the victim in December last year and has been stalking and harassing her ever since.

The court heard Meki asked the woman where she lived but she did not respond. She ignored him and went on with her shopping.

Meki allegedly slapped her buttocks and passed an offensive comment.

He pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and disorderly conduct.

Bulawayo Magistrate Miss Evelyn Mashavakure remanded Meki out of custody to October 7 for trial.

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545 U.S. ___ (2005)
RICKY BELL, WARDEN, PETITIONER
v.
GREGORY THOMPSON
No. 04-514.
Supreme Court of United States.
Argued April 26, 2005.
Decided June 27, 2005.
ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT.
KENNEDY, delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case requires us to consider whether, after we had denied certiorari and a petition for rehearing, the Court of Appeals had the power to withhold its mandate for more than five months without entering a formal order. We hold that, even assuming a court may withhold its man- date after the denial of certiorari in some cases, the Court of Appeals' decision to do so here was an abuse of discretion.

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In 1985, Gregory Thompson and Joanna McNamara abducted Brenda Blanton Lane from a store parking lot in Shelbyville, Tennessee.After forcing Lane to drive them to a remote location, Thompson stabbed her to death. Thompson offered no evidence during the guilt phase of trial and was convicted by a jury of first-degree murder.
Thompson's defense attorneys concentrated their efforts on persuading the sentencing jury that Thompson's posi- tive qualities and capacity to adjust to prison life provided good reasons for not imposing the death penalty. Before trial, Thompson's counsel had explored the issue of his mental condition. The trial judge referred Thompson to a state-run mental health facility for a 30-day evaluation. The resulting report indicated that Thompson was compe- tent at the time of the offense and at the time of the ex- amination. The defense team retained their own expert, Dr. George Copple, a clinical psychologist.


At sentencing Copple testified that Thompson was remorseful and still had the ability to work and contribute while in prison. Thompson presented the character testimony of a number of witnesses, including former high school teachers, his grandparents, and two siblings. Arlene Cajulao, Thomp- son's girlfriend while he was stationed with the Navy in Hawaii, also testified on his behalf. She claimed that Thompson's behavior became erratic after he suffered head injuries during an attack by three of his fellow ser- vicemen. In rebuttal the State called Dr. Glenn Watson, a clinical psychologist who led the pretrial evaluation of Thompson's competence. Watson testified that his exami- nation of Thompson revealed no significant mental illness.
The jury sentenced Thompson to death. His conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct review. Stateattached the Sultan evidence in support of his motion.
The District Court denied the Rule 60(b) motion as untimely, and the Court of Appeals denied Thompson's motion to hold his appeal in abeyance. On January 9, 2003, a divided panel of the Court of Appeals affirmed the District Court's denial of habeas relief. 315 F. 3d 566. The lead opinion, authored by Judge Suhrheinrich, rea- soned that there was no ineffective assistance of counsel because Thompson's attorneys were aware of his head injuries and made appropriate inquiries into his mental fitness. Id., at 589-592. In particular, Thompson's attor- neys had requested that the trial court order a competency evaluation. A team of experts at the Middle Tennessee Mental Health Institute, a state-run facility, found "no mental illness, mental defect,


There are ample grounds to conclude the evidence was unlikely to have altered the District Court's resolution of Thompson's ineffective-assistance-of-counsel claim. Sultan examined Thompson for the first time on August 20, 1998, App. 37, some 13 years after Thompson's crime and conviction. She relied on the deterioration in Thompson's present mental healthsomething that obvi- ously was not observable at the time of trialas evidence of his condition in 1985. (Indeed, there was a marked decline in his condition during the 6-month period be- tween Sultan's first two visits. Id., at 51-58.) Sultan's findings regarding Thompson's condition in 1985 are contradicted by the testimony of two experts who exam- ined him at the time of trial, Dr. Watson and Dr. Copple. Watson performed a battery of tests at the20 id., at 153- 154. Copple, the psychologist retained by Thompson's defense team, agreed with Watson that Thompson was not suffering from mental illness. 19 id., at 58. Had the Sultan deposition been included in the District Court record, Thompson still would have faced an uphill battle to obtaining federal habeas relief. He would have had to argue that his trial attorneys should have continued to investigate his mental health even after both Watson and Copple had opined that there was nothing to uncover.
Sultan's testimony does not negate Thompson's respon- sibility for committing the underlying offense, but it does bear upon an argument that Thompson's attorneys could have presented at sentencing. Sultan's ultimate conclu- sionthat Thompson's mental illness substantially im- paired his ability to conform his conduct to


Never- theless, Watson, whose evaluation was contemporaneous with the trial, found no evidence that Thompson was mentally ill at the time of the crime. Watson's report was unequivocal on this point:
" 'Mr. Thompson's speech and communication were coherent, rational, organized, relevant, and devoid of circumstantiality, tangentiality, looseness of associa- tions, paranoid ideation, ideas of reference, delusions, and other indicators of a thought disorder. His affect was appropriate to his thought content, and he exhib- ited no flight of ideas, manic, depressed, or bizarre behaviors, and his speech was not pressured nor rapid. He exhibited none of the signs of an affective illness. His judgment and insight are rather poor. Psychological testing revealed him to be functioning in the average range intellectually, to exhibit no signs of organicity orcomprehensive account of the nature of the "error"of the matter at stake, of the importance of the document, of the mystery of its late appearance, of the potential for a miscarriage of justice should help make apparent the difficult circumstance the panel believed it faced. It will also explain why there was no "abuse" of discretion in the panel's effort to "correct a decision that it perceived to have been mistaken."

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Judge Suhrheinrich, the panel member who investi- gated the record, is an experienced federal judge, serving since 1984 as a federal trial court judge and since 1990 as a federal appellate judge. He wrote a lengthy account of the circumstances present here. To understand this case, one must read that full account and then compare it with the


hallucinations) as a child, his mood swings and bizarre behavior as a young adult, and a wors- ening of that behavior after a serious beating to his head that he suffered while in the Navy. For example, Dr. Sultan's examination of Thompson and her interviews with Thompson's family members and others revealed that as a child Thompson would repeatedly bang his head against the wall to "knock the Devil out" after his grand- mother yelled at him, "You have the Devil in you." 373 F. 3d, at 716 (internal quotation marks omitted). These documents explain how Thompson, as a young adult, would talk to himself and scream and cry for no apparent reason. They suggest that he had bouts of paranoia.
The documents provide strong support for the conclu-sion that Thompson suffered from episodes of schizophre- nia at the time of the offense. And they thereby offer significant support for the conclusion that, had earlier testifying experts had this information, they could have countered the State's experts' conclusion that Thompson was malingering at the time of trial. Thus, the Sultan materials seriously undermined the foundation of the State's position in respect to Thompson's mental condition.
The Sultan materials also revealed that trial counsel failed to discover other mitigating evidence of importance. Interviews with family members revealed repeated inci- dents of violence in the family, including an episode in which, as a young boy, Thompson witnessed his father brutally beat and rape his mother. His grandmother, with whom Thompson and his siblings lived after their mother died, subjected


them to abuse and neglect. She would forget to feed the children, leaving them to steal money from under her bed to buy food. These and other circum- stances are detailed in sections of the Sultan report and deposition reproduced in the Appendix, infra.

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The panel also responded unanimously and affirma- tively to the second question: Would federal-court access to the Sultan documents likely have made a significant difference in respect to the federal legal question at issue in Thompson's habeas petition, namely, the failure of Thompson's trial counsel to investigate his background? Trial counsel had had important indications that some- thing was wrong. Indeed, counsel himself had sought an evaluation of Thompson's mental condition. He also was aware of Thompson's violent behavior in the military, and knew thatdirection.

APPENDIX TO OPINION OF BREYER, J.
Excerpts from the Gregory Thompson Psychological Report prepared by Dr. Faye E. Sultan at the River- bend Maximum Security Institution (RMSI) (July 22, 1999), App. 11-20.
"REFERRAL QUESTIONS:"Mr. Gregory Thompson was referred for psychological evaluation in July, 1998 by attorney Mr. Stephen M. Kissinger of the Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee Incorporated. Mr. Thompson was convicted of murder in 1985. This evaluation was requested to address the following questions:
"1. Mr. Thompson's current psychological status[.]
"2. Mr. Thompson's likely psychological status and mental state before and surrounding the time of the 1985 offense.
"3. Social, environmental, psychological, and economic factors in the life of Mr. Thompson which might have be[en] considered to be mitigating in nature at the time of his trial.
"PROCEDURE:"Psychological evaluation of Mr. Thompson


to him and appeared to be alert, watchful and interested in the interview process. His speech was sometimes tangential and rambling. Although motor behavior appeared con- trolled there was a manic quality to his verbalizations. Mr. Thompson was oriented as to person, place and time, but he repeatedly expressed his firm belief that he had written each and every song which played on the radio. "Mr. Thompson displayed symptoms of psychosis during the two subsequent meetings. The details of these ses- sions will not be reviewed here.
"FORMAL PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING:
"The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality lnventory2 (MMPI2) was administered to Mr. Thompson on 8-20- 98. It had been determined in other examination settings that Mr. Thompson's level of reading competence exceeded the necessary level of 8th grade ability required for propersiblings after his mother was killed when Mr. Thompson was approximately five years old. Mr. Thompson remained in her home until he entered the military as a young adult.
"Ms. Lamar recalls the period following her daughter's fatal automobile accident as one of tremendous strain and disruption for her. She was unable to describe the reac- tion of the three young children to their mother's death because she 'took to my bed' for approximately five or six weeks following the accident. Ms. Lamar was unable to attend to these children in any way at that time. She did not recall how they obtained food or clothing, or whether they were in any distress. Ms. Lamar reported that she was drinking alcohol quite heavily during this period and that she