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Voters fill in their ballots during voting for the U.S presidential election in the Brooklyn borough of New York, U.S., November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RTX2SJEQ

“The American electoral system is very fragmented and in many places no longer meets international standards,” Michael Link, chief election observer for the 57-member Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), told the Funke Mediengruppe newspaper chain.

A report prepared by a team of OSCE observers who monitored the Nov. 8 presidential and congressional elections cited the need for steps to make the U.S. campaign finance system more


about the road at the beginning of the pics?

I'm not here

01-05-2014, 09:16 AM

The hill at the end? that was fun pushing my way through the bush :D Back up and hit it in 2nd and go abit, back up again and again etc etc

Or you talking about the road at the beginning of the pics?

The actual trail, the loop is about as much fun as hopping over curbs at the mall.a horse in races for which the horse was ineligible, without evidence the trainer acted knowingly or willfully, on the theory that the trainer was responsible for the acts of his agents.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
Stokes is a trainer licensed by the California Horse Racing Board. He trained a horse named Devil's Mistake, and entered the horse in two raceson August 15 and September 18, 1999at Los Alamitos. The rules at Los Alamitos require a horse to work out on the racetrackreferred to as a "work"at least once within the 30 days preceding a race. Stokes delegated to his brother, Heath Stokes, also a licensed trainer, the responsibility for arranging *794 the horse's workouts. However, instead of working Devil's Mistake during the 30-day period preceding each race, Heath worked


a different horse he misidentified as Devil's Mistake. Devil's Mistake ran and won the horse race at Los Alamitos on August 15. However, he fractured his knee during the September 18 race and was euthanized. A subsequent investigation and review of videotapes showed Devil's Mistake was not worked as required before either race and was therefore ineligible to run in the races.
Stokes was charged with violating several rules of the California Horse Racing Board (Board). Administrative hearings were held before the Board of Stewards (Stewards) in December 1999 and January 2000.[1] The Stewards issued a ruling on February 17, 2000, suspending Stokes for 90 days and imposing a fine of $1,000.00. The Stewards concluded that the qualifying rules for the race meeting were breached in violation of rulesustained the Stewards' ruling. The ALJ concluded "the trainer is in charge of the *795 horse and thus in charge of qualifying it for the race." The ALJ stated any other interpretation of rule 1692which requires the qualification of each horse for a racewould "result in no one being responsible for the eligibility of the horse to compete in the race, and would therefore nullify the provision of rule 1592 that `the stewards may discipline anyone responsible' for the running of an ineligible horse."[7] The ALJ found no evidence Stokes knew or approved of his brother's substitution of another horse at the workouts in place of Devil's Mistake, or knew Devil's Mistake was ineligible for the races. The ALJ observed, however, the workouts were arranged by telephone calls


Digital media company Perform Group has picked up the exclusive broadcast rights to the English Premier League in Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein.

The three-year deal kicks in at the start of the 2016/17 season and covers live and on-demand rights in all three territories. Additionally, the agreement includes non-exclusive rights in Switzerland and Luxembourg, plus clip rights in each of the five countries.

Perform replaces Sky Deutschland as the Premier League's broadcast partner in German-speaking Europe. Financial terms of the agreement have not been released.

Perform plans to air coverage of England's top flight on its new OTT service, which is set to launch in selected markets next year. So far the company has already acquired rights to Spain's La Liga, Italy's Serie A and France's Ligue 1, as well asthe National Basketball Association (NBA) and the National Football League (NFL).

“We are delighted to have secured the exclusive English Premier League rights for Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein as well as the non-exclusive rights in Switzerland and Luxembourg," said John Gleasure, the chief commercial officer at Perform OTT.

"The arrival of Bastian Schweinsteiger and Jurgen Klopp has further increased interest in the Premier League across the German-speaking markets, and it is an exciting addition to our already extensive portfolio of exclusive live and on-demand content on our upcoming OTT offering.

"We will continue to add a range of both international and local rights to the service before our 2016 launch, and look forward to announcing further acquisitions in the very near future.”

Perform is a long-term partner of the Premier League, having


1895 USFSA Football Championship

Statistics of the USFSA Football Championship in the 1895 season.

Tournament

Quarterfinals
Club Français 5-0 FC Levallois
The White Rovers 8-1 Paris Star
Stade de Neuilly 2-1 CP Asnières
Standard AC 13-0 United Sports Club

Semifinals
Standard AC 18-0 Stade de Neuilly
The White Rovers 2-1 Club Français

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Standard AC 3-1 The White Rovers

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FranceIn the end the Russian people chose--and chose decisively--to reject the past. Voting in the final round of the presidential election last week, they preferred Boris Yeltsin to his Communist rival Gennadi Zyuganov by a margin of 13 percentage points. He is far from the ideal democrat or reformer, and his lieutenants Victor Chernomyrdin and Alexander Lebed are already squabbling over power, but Yeltsin is arguably the best hope Russia has for moving toward pluralism and an open economy. By re-electing him, the Russians defied predictions that they might willingly resubmit themselves to communist rule.

The outcome was by no means inevitable. Last winter Yeltsin's approval ratings were in the single digits. There are many reasons for his change in fortune, but a crucial one has remained a secret.


For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign. Here is the inside story of how these advisers helped Yeltsin achieve the victory that will keep reform in Russia alive.

All during the long evening of Dec. 17, 1995, Felix Braynin sat transfixed before a television set in the living room of a government guest house in Moscow. He didn't like what he saw. Returns from the elections for the Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, represented a devastating setback for reform-minded parties, including the one linked to Boris Yeltsin. The Communists and their allies were on their way to controlling the body, a disturbing development because in six months Russians would vote for President. Yeltsin's standing in the polls was abysmal,a reflection of his brutal misadventure in Chechnya; his increasing authoritarianism; and his economic reform program, which has brought about corruption and widespread suffering. Considering the country's deep dislike of Yeltsin and the Communists' surge, Braynin, a close friend of some of Yeltsin's top aides, thought that something radical had to be done.

A compact, powerfully built former professional hockey and soccer player in his native Belarus, Braynin, 48, had immigrated to San Francisco in 1979. With $200 in his pocket, he began painting houses. He is now a wealthy management consultant who advises Americans interested in investing in Russia.

Most of Yeltsin's confidants believed the President would be magically re-elected despite the Duma catastrophe, but Braynin thought otherwise. The President, he reasoned, could lose without the same kind of


professional assistance U.S. office seekers employ as a matter of course. Braynin began a series of confidential discussions with Yeltsin's aides, including one with First Deputy Prime Minister Oleg Soskovets, who at the time was in charge of the President's nascent re-election effort. Finally, in early February, Braynin was instructed to "find some Americans" but to proceed discreetly. "Secrecy was paramount," says Braynin. "Everyone realized that if the Communists knew about this before the election, they would attack Yeltsin as an American tool. We badly needed the team, but having them was a big risk."

To "find some Americans," Braynin worked through Fred Lowell, a San Francisco lawyer with close ties to California's Republican Party. On Feb. 14, Lowell called Joe Shumate, a G.O.P. expert in political data analysiswho had served as deputy chief of staff to California Governor Pete Wilson. Since Wilson's drive for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination had ended almost before it began, Lowell thought Shumate and George Gorton, Wilson's longtime top strategist, might be available to help Yeltsin. They were--and they immediately enlisted Richard Dresner, a New York-based consultant who had worked with them on many of Wilson's campaigns.

Dresner had another connection that would prove useful later on. In the late 1970s and early '80s, he had joined with�Dick Morris�to help Bill Clinton get elected Governor of Arkansas. As Clinton's current political guru, Morris became the middleman on those few occasions when the Americans sought the Administration's help in Yeltsin's re-election drive. So while Clinton was uninvolved with Yeltsin's recruitment of the


American advisers, the Administration knew of their existence--and although Dresner denies dealing with Morris, three other sources have told Time that on at least two occasions the team's contacts with Morris were "helpful."

A week after the Valentine's Day call from Lowell, Dresner was in Moscow. The Yeltsin campaign was at sea. Five candidates, led by Communist Gennadi Zyuganov, were ahead of Yeltsin in some polls. The President was favored by only 6% of the electorate and was "trusted" as a competent leader by an even smaller proportion. "In the U.S.," says Dresner, "you'd advise a pol with those kinds of numbers to get another occupation."

For two days the supersecretive Yeltsin high command avoided Dresner, and none of the team ever actually met the President. "There are too manyfactions and too many leaks to risk your dealing with him directly," Braynin explained to Dresner. "You are our biggest secret."

Then, at 3 p.m. on Feb. 27, Dresner met with Soskovets. In English, the First Deputy Prime Minister asked, "How's our friend Bill doing?" Most of the hour-long session was spent discussing Clinton's re-election prospects. Dresner had prepared a five-page proposal that called for the Americans to "introduce your campaign staff to sophisticated methods of message development, polling, voter contact and campaign organization."

Soskovets had already read Dresner's paper and pointed to a calendar on his desk. The days remaining before the presidential election's first round on June 16 were highlighted in large, bold numbers. "There's not much time," he said. "You are hired. I will tell the President


other research. A week later, they were working full time, but the boss was not Soskovets.

Over the past few months, the Russian and Western press have identified six different people as Yeltsin's campaign manager. In fact, the person really in charge was Yeltsin's daughter Tatiana Dyachenko, 36, a computer engineer with no previous political experience. While those in the campaign's upper reaches have always known that Dyachenko was the key cog in the apparatus--if only because she alone saw the man she routinely calls "Papa" on a daily basis--her role has been widely misunderstood. After dodging the media for months, Dyachenko last week described her job to the Russian press: "I'm kind of involved in everything. I'm everywhere--everywhere there's a weak link."

The history of "Tatiana's emergence is reallyquite simple," explains Valentin Yumachev, Yeltsin's close friend and ghostwriter. "The President decided in February that the campaign Soskovets was running was going nowhere. He needed someone he could trust completely, and she was it." None of Yeltsin's other senior campaign officials was "what you would call pleased with Tatiana's placement," adds Pavel Borodin, Yeltsin's Minister of the Presidency, the government's general-services manager. "But because she had no personal agenda they couldn't plot against her. Her power obviously derived from that, but also from her native intelligence and the knowledge she gained from the Americans, who brought us a professionalism and dispassion none of us was really used to."

The American team hired two young men, Braynin's son Alan and Steven Moore, a public relations specialist from Washington, to


assist them, and promptly established its office in a two-room suite at the President Hotel. The Americans lived elsewhere in the hotel and were provided with a car, a former KGB agent as a driver, and two bodyguards. They were told they should assume that their phones and rooms were bugged, that they should leave the hotel only infrequently, and that they should avoid the campaign's other staff members.

The Americans managed to hide their identity for many months. In interviewing various polling and focus-group companies before hiring three, they described themselves as representing Americans eager to sell thin-screen televisions in Russia. "That story held for far longer than it ever should have," says Shumate. The Americans carried multiple-entry visas identifying them as working for the "Administration of thePresident of the Russian Federation," a bit of obviousness that constantly threatened to undermine all the supposed secrecy surrounding their real work.

The President is not a normal hotel. It is owned by the office of the President, and residence is by invitation only. A fence surrounds the property, which is patrolled by police armed with machine guns and wearing bulletproof vests. When Dyachenko moved her own office to the hotel to be near the Americans, the rest of the campaign took three floors of offices there as well. Yeltsin's badly split Russian advisers quickly set up separate fiefdoms on the eighth, ninth and 10th floors. Dyachenko worked almost exclusively on the 11th in Room 1119, directly across the hall from the Americans in 1120. She and they shared


two secretaries, a translator, and fax, copying and computer-printing machines.

By the end, the team's office resembled a typical American campaign headquarters. Soda bottles and old food shared space with computer printouts. Graphs charting Yeltsin's progress in the polls hung on the walls, and the entire scene was dominated by a color-coded map of Russia with Post-it notes describing the vote expected in the nation's various regions. A safe stood unused, and documents intended for a shredder remained intact, in plain view.

Gorton followed Dresner to Moscow and encountered in Dyachenko a shy, intelligent and idealistic young woman who for some time recoiled at even the most mild American-style dirty trick. "But it wouldn't be fair," Gorton recalls her saying when he advised that Zyuganov be trailed by heckling "truththe polling was inaccurate and unsophisticated and thus virtually useless in determining how thematically to guide the effort. "The pollsters asked mostly horse-race questions," explains Dresner. "The focus-group operators were in love with indirection and literally asked people to answer questions like, 'If Yeltsin were a tree, what kind of tree would he be?' We needed to know whether voters would move to Yeltsin if he adopted a particular policy, but for that crucial purpose the research in hand was totally uninformative. As for the TV spots used in the Duma elections, they were creative and pretty, but they were far from hard-hitting. "All of that," says Shumate, "had to be explained to a group of people who, no matter their professed commitment to democracy, were trapped in


having Yeltsin stay 'on message.'" Minister Borodin says, "Having the memos let the President consider them calmly. We had many discussions about the recommendations and in the end adopted most everything the Americans advised."

One of the team's first memos, designed to buy time for the Americans as they gave themselves a crash course on Russia, was titled "Why Bush Lost." Actually, the parallels were eerie. George Bush's complacency almost exactly resembled Yeltsin's. Like Bush's, the Yeltsin team thought the nation's economy was improving and that the President would receive credit for it; in fact, only a small segment of the population enjoys whatever progress there has been. Like Bush, Yeltsin simply refused to believe that the voters would elect his opponent. Like Bush's, the Yeltsin campaign was inthat suggestion with relish, and the press eagerly reported the boss's taking his subordinates to task.

Clever as they may have been, that and similar tactical strokes were small beer. Yeltsin's problems were too big to be solved simply by delivering what people knew was due them in the first place. Even before their polling confirmed their suspicions, the Americans intuited that Yeltsin would lose and lose badly if the election were a referendum on his stewardship. Most Russians, the polls and focus groups found, perceived Yeltsin as a friend who had betrayed them, a populist who had become imperial. "Stalin had higher positives and lower negatives than Yeltsin," says Dresner. "We actually tested the two in polls and focus groups. More than 60% of the electorate believed Yeltsin


who can't be trusted, a man surrounded by a handful of advisers who have their own agenda," the Americans explained. They also wanted a brief speech that television viewers might actually sit through. "No more than 15 minutes," they advised. And they wanted Yeltsin to enter the hall through a large and boisterous crowd that would mob him.

They got none of it. Yeltsin spoke for almost an hour. Without so much as a pat on the back, he strode to the stage to the unenthusiastic, rhythmic clapping of middle-aged guys in suits. More popular leaders did not stand beside him because his Russian aides feared his being overshadowed. He wandered across themes and left no one with a sense of confidence. He was terrible. "The factions won," hisdaughter told the team afterward. "They were scared of the kind of things you recommended."

Angry about losing the battle over the speech, and certain it represented a disastrous trend in the campaign, the Americans set out to prove their point after the fact. They replayed excerpts of the address--and some other film footage and still photographs of Yeltsin--for an audience of 40 Russians wired to a "perception analyzer," an instrument often used in the U.S. Audiences have their hands on dials and are asked to move them in different directions to indicate their degree of interest and approval of what they are seeing and hearing. An electronically produced chart records their reactions.

The results shocked Yeltsin's Russian assistants. Each time cameras panned the stiff, unsmiling audience, the dials turned


down--as they also did when the President pledged to improve people's lives. "The analyzer taught us that Yeltsin should avoid promising anything," says Shumate. "The country just didn't believe him."

Science "won the day again," says Dresner. "We showed we'd been right from the start." From then on, the American team's influence grew--and anticommunism became the central and repeated focus of the campaign and the candidate.

Having helped establish the campaign's major theme, the Americans then set out to modify it. The Americans used their focus-group coordinator, Alexei Levinson, to determine what exactly Russians most feared about the Communists. Long lines, scarce food and renationalization of property were frequently cited, but mostly people worried about civil war. "That allowed us to move beyond simple Red bashing," says Shumate. "That's whyYeltsin and his surrogates and our advertising all highlighted the possibility of unrest if Yeltsin lost. Many people felt some nostalgia for what the communists had done for Russia and no one liked the President--but they liked the possibility of riots and class warfare even less." "'Stick with Yeltsin and at least you'll have calm'--that was the line we wanted to convey," says Dresner. "So the drumbeat about unrest kept pounding right till the end of the run-off round, when the final TV spots were all about the Soviets' repressive rule."

In Video International, the advertising firm hired before the Americans arrived, Yeltsin had a first-rate team. The series of 15 one-minute spots produced for airing before the first-round balloting on June 16 was "at least as good as


most anything you could get in the West," says Dresner. "Showing average Russians grudgingly coming to the realization that they had to support Yeltsin was the only way to move people who essentially wished the President was out of their lives."

The Americans were "vital," says Mikhail Margolev, who coordinated the Yeltsin account at Video International. Margolev had worked for five years in two American advertising agencies but freely acknowledges that his methods are still influenced by his earlier tenure as a propaganda specialist for the Soviet Communist Party and as an undercover KGB agent masquerading as a journalist for TASS, the Russian news agency. "The Americans helped teach us Western political-advertising techniques," says Margolev, "and most important, they caused our work to be accepted because they were theonly ones really close to Tatiana. She was the key. The others in the campaign were like snakes, and snakes, you know, often eat each other. Putting his daughter in to get things done was Yeltsin's smartest move, and she was clearly leaning on the Americans."

The TV ad the Americans most wanted was the one the campaign made last, which had Yeltsin himself speaking. "We actually wanted him in every spot," says Gorton. "After all those great ads with average folks talking about their lives and then about Yeltsin, we wanted the President to come on and say that he understood what they were talking about, that he heard their complaints, that he felt their pain." But Yeltsin resisted--and that caused the team to reach out to Bill


Clinton's all-purpose political aide, Dick Morris.

Communicating in code--Clinton was called the Governor of California, Yeltsin the Governor of Texas--the Americans sought Morris' help. They had earlier worked together to script Clinton's summit meeting with Yeltsin in mid-April. The main goal then was to have Clinton swallow hard and say nothing as Yeltsin lectured him about Russia's great-power prerogatives. "The idea was to have Yeltsin stand up to the West, just like the Communists insisted they would do if Zyuganov won," says a Clinton Administration official. "By having Yeltsin posture during that summit without Clinton's getting bent out of shape, Yeltsin portrayed himself as a leader to be reckoned with. That helped Yeltsin in Russia, and we were for Yeltsin."

The American team wanted Clinton to call Yeltsin to urgedevoted to the job," Gorton advised.

But it was not to be. "You'd have to say we were a bit reluctant to push the President," says Margolev. So at 6 one morning, after Yeltsin had slept barely three hours, Video International taped him for about 40 minutes. The finished commercial had Yeltsin speaking for more than two minutes. He looked exhausted. "It was ridiculous," says Shumate. "Here you have a guy whose health is a major issue, and his fitness to serve is called into question by his very own television spot."

Yeltsin also had problems with his regular TV coverage, even though he essentially controlled the state-run networks. As late as March, the news shows continued to criticize the President mercilessly, a favorite target being the war in Chechnya.


"It was ludicrous to control the two major nationwide television stations and not have them bend to your will," says Dresner. In writing, the team adopted a more diplomatic tone. "Wherever an event is held," they wrote, "care should be taken to notify the state-run TV and radio stations to explain directly the event's significance and how we want it covered." Beginning in April, Russia's television became a virtual arm of the Yeltsin campaign, a crucial change that actually came fairly easily. With none of the more democratic candidates breaking through in the polls, most Russian journalists came to regard Yeltsin as the only effective bulwark against the Communists--and thus the best guarantor of their own careers.

What really caused surprise was the public's reaction to the biased reporting.heart. "When he said he was confident that he'd win the election outright in the first round by capturing 50% of the vote, it told us again that you can only lead politicians so far," says Dresner. "The only real threat to victory was a low turnout, and Yeltsin helped depress it by giving voters a reason to take the day off. If they thought Yeltsin's victory was a done deal, as he himself had indicated, why bother voting?"

The other crisis had been percolating for some time. The President's three democratic opponents had long talked of coalescing behind one or the other of them, and the speculation reached a fever pitch at the beginning of May. Had "they managed that," says Gorton, "it could really have killed us."


A good deal of time was devoted to strategizing about how Yeltsin could stop the so-called "third force" from emerging. The two key third-force players were Grigori Yavlinsky, the leading democrat in the race, and the war hero Alexander Lebed. The team advised Yeltsin to woo his opponents publicly in order to boost their already inflated egos. "We thought that once they enjoyed the limelight, neither would be willing to drop out in favor of the other," Shumate explains. "Having them all in the race prevented the rise of a single, democratic alternative to Yeltsin."

Keeping Lebed as an independent candidate was considered especially critical--unless he dropped out of the first round in favor of Yeltsin, which seemed highly unlikely. "All the data suggested that if Lebed withdrew tohis national security adviser. According to an exit poll, 56% of those who voted for Lebed in the first round voted for Yeltsin in the runoff."

June 16 was a horrific day. As the first-round vote approached, Yeltsin's support softened. It had been built up, virtually a point at a time, over three months. It was eroding now as Lebed gained. The Americans' private polls indicated only a 5-point lead for Yeltsin over Zyuganov. The two candidates who received the most votes in the first round would go to the runoff, and Yeltsin was almost certain to make the cut. Finishing second to Zyuganov would be a stunning blow to his momentum. A low turnout could produce exactly that result, and the first indications signaled a turnout below expectations.

The


team members paced nervously in Room 1120. Gorton damned Yeltsin for ever predicting outright victory in the first round. Braynin wondered if the low turnout was owing to Russians' watching the Germany-Russia soccer match, and the four argued about whether Russia's defeat would cause voters to hit the vodka bottle rather than vote during the two hours remaining before the polls closed in the country's western region. "We peaked too soon," Dresner screamed. Only Shumate seemed cool. He had long before concluded that Zyuganov would never get more than 32% of the vote in the first round--the combined total the Communists and their ideological soul mates had reached in the December 1995 Duma election. "This stinks," Dresner repeated every few minutes as he checked the turnout around thenation. "It won't fall below 65%, and our model shows we win with that," answered Shumate, who then left with his wife Joyce to attend a production of La Traviata at the Bolshoi Theatre.

A bit of relief came when a CNN correspondent reported that "the only thing voters we've spoken with like less than Yeltsin is the prospect of upheaval." Dresner howled. "It worked," he shouted. "The whole strategy worked. They're scared to death!" After months being cooped up in the President Hotel wearing blue jeans, sneakers and PETE WILSON FOR PRESIDENT T shirts, the Americans headed for the building where Russia's central election commission would be announcing the results as they came in. "The hell with security," Dresner said. "I want to see this." And there they


sat near the back of the auditorium, six guys in suits with computer projections in their hands and a lap-top computer. The place was overrun with reporters, but Yeltsin's secret American advisers were never recognized.

The final tally for the first round showed that Yeltsin had edged out Zyuganov 35% to 32% (the Communists had indeed been held to the level they reached in December). Gorton began drafting a memo designed to guide Yeltsin's remarks, and Dresner began plotting 20 emergency focus groups to determine what voters were thinking. In less than an hour, another memo was written urging the quickest possible runoff date. "We've got to try and keep Zyuganov from capitalizing" on the first round's surprise tightness, Shumate said. "July 3 would be good," said Gorton. "That'sabout as soon as possible, and it's in the middle of the week so that people will be in town rather than at their dachas." "We need turnout," Dresner said over and over. "We've got to have turnout."

Why, with unlimited funds, expert advice and the media in his pocket, did Yeltsin win the first round by only three points? The Americans identify several points:

--The continuing underlying hostility toward Yeltsin. "He never overcame the fact that most Russians can't stand him," says Dresner. "Anyone but a communist would probably have beaten him."

--Zyuganov succeeded in softening his image despite numerous self-inflicted mistakes. "He said some really scary things to appease his hard-core backers and ensure that they voted," says Gorton. "If he had moved more astutely to broaden his base


Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, and a co-winner of the LICS 2006 Test-of-Time Award. He is also the recipient of the 2008 and 2017 ACM Presidential Award, the 2008 Blaise Pascal Medal in computational science by the European Academy of Sciences, the 2010 Distinguished Service Award from the Computing Research Association, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society's 2011 Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, the 2018 ACM Special Interest Group for Logic and Computation (SIGLOG), the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS), the European Association for Computer Science Logic (EACSL), and the Kurt Goedel Society (KGS) jointly sponsored Alonzo Church Award for Outstanding Contributions to Logic and Computation (with Tomas Feder).

He holds honorary doctorates from Saarland University, Germany, the University of Orleans andattempts at discovery were unsuccessful, Marilyn served a deposition subpena for production of business records on the custodian of records of Orange Container pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 2020. The subpena sought production of a broad range of business and tax records of the corporation, including the corporate tax returns, quarterly payroll tax returns, profit and loss statements, bank activity statements, and records reflecting compensation and benefits paid to Terry. [¶] Orange Container produced its profit and loss and financial statements ... and all records relating to Terry personally.... It moved to quash the subpena for the remainder of the requested information, claiming it was "irrelevant, privileged, confidential and an invasion of privacy of the nonparty shareholder" of the corporation. Terry's declaration filed in support of


infrastructure (including the port of al-Hudayda and a key bridge at that city) and Riyadh has blown Washington off and hit them anyway. Which makes me want to ask why the US hasn’t completely dissociated itself from this bloodbath.

In mid-September, jets of the Saudis and their allies killed 25 people in their private residences when they struck the residential al-Hunoud district (they were trying to hit a governmental building in the hands of the Houthis).

The Houthis have also committed war crimes, sending rockets on civilian neighborhoods in Najran, e.g., but in the nature of the case a small guerrilla group can’t wreak the kind of havoc that an America-equipped state of the art air force can.

The Saudi war on the Houthis of north Yemen has been going onDimensions Of Leadership In A Student Cooperative.
Homans (1960) analyzed leadership phenomena in terms of four major constructs, activity, interaction, aentiment, and norm. The present study developed an instrument to represent three of Homans' constructs and tested propositions based on his theory of small group leadership. Fifteen subjects, five each at three leadership levels, were rated by close associates and also rated themselves. With one exception (norms) the propositions derived from Homans' theory were supported by the results.


Cuba's Ladies in White released after weekend arrest Published duration 19 March 2012

image caption Ladies in White are campaigning for the release of all political prisoners

Cuba has released all the members of the Ladies in White dissident group who were detained over the weekend ahead of a visit by Pope Benedict XVI.

Group member Magaly Nurvis Otero Suarez told the BBC that all of the 70 or so dissidents were now free, including their leader, Bertha Soler.

The Ladies in White campaign for the release of Cuba's political prisoners.

They say the authorities have increased pressure on them recently. The US administration condemned the arrests.

US National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said they showed "the disdain of the Cuban authorities" for people's rights.

The Ladies in White (Damas de Blanco), formed nineyears ago, usually attend Mass together every week before staging a protest march calling for the release of all political prisoners.

The Havana government says they are paid by the US to undermine Cuba's revolution.

Papal visit

Nineteen of the group's members had been detained on Saturday evening while trying to stage a march in central Havana. Three of them were subsequently released without charge.

Then on Sunday morning, police detained another 36 members of the group - including Ms Soler - as they made their way to attend Mass in Havana.

After the service, 22 women and two men were arrested as they marched to the city centre, trying to go beyond a route that has recently been tolerated by the authorities. That group was also released without charge after several hours.

Ms


orders in the morning.

'Strange grasses and sweet-scented wild flowers began to grow in the
streets, and mushrooms and straggling carrots forced a way between the
crevices of the pavements. Sprays of wild spinach hung from the
lamp-posts, and the market-place became one waving jungle of broccoli.
The very sparrows, deprived of their daily crumbs, grew thin and nervy
with the green diet they were compelled to subsist upon. Croaking and
griding, instead of chirruping musically to their young as is their
wont, they so affected the good-hearted doctor that he could never pass
them without some cheering word, and never could he withstand the
beseeching look in their eyes. Within doors the prospect was hardly more
encouraging. Strong vegetable-marrows twined their branches and their
many tendrils round the table legs and the chairs; great turnips
stoutened and burst upon thewith her and the really
pleasant way in which she had told her tale, that he lightly threw a
half-crown to her across the hall, which she very neatly caught. She
then sat down, amidst the cheers of the crowd.

'The principal witness for the defence was a young journeyman tailor,
who stated that on cleaning out the pockets of an old coat which had
been left at his house for repairs by a dark gentleman of mysterious
appearance, he had discovered an old envelope upon which he could just
trace the figures 56--6.30 A.M. The coat was never called for, and the
tailor pondered over the envelope, but could make nothing of it. He
showed it to every policeman of his acquaintance, but not one could
unravel the mystery, and, as a last resource, he procured an
introduction to


hall to see them off, the gallant band marched down
the high street towards the only gate of the town, headed by the
intelligent boy scout. From the first the King showed symptoms of being
rather unmanageable, and Bill had great difficulty in getting him past
the shops, which were now all taking down their shutters, and when they
arrived at the sweet-stuff shop there was nothing for it but to go in
and buy him some cocoanut ice.

At length they managed to get clear of the gates, which were then
closed with a bang behind them, and the last they saw of the intelligent
boy scout was with the great town keys held firmly between his teeth, in
order that he might hold with one hand the top of the wall to which he
had hastily climbed,opportunities for development, so that in the course of time I was
discharged, a fully certified and perfected char-woman.

'Since those early days my skill, my virtues, and my affections have
been devoted to the welfare of many families, some of whom were
undoubtedly good, some indifferent, while some again were undoubtedly
bad. But without any question the worst household of all was that of the
Pettigrew Leanmuffins, when first I devoted myself to the wellbeing of
its members. Afterwards, however, as you shall hear, their trials,
together with my disinterested conduct, wrought a reformation in their
natures as astounding as it was welcome to all who knew them.

'Mr. Pettigrew Leanmuffins himself, a man of some attainments, though
ill-tempered and close to a degree bordering on meanness, had little
enough to do with me, hardly ever, indeed, disguising his


the
miserable man, and cowered to his place. But, as you may suppose, there
was no turnip for him _that_ night, until he had given a satisfactory
explanation of his late return. The only excuse the frightened little
ruffian had to offer was, that he had dropped a needle on the road, and
had to return for it. So he went supperless to bed.

'The next evening, having warmed up the old turnip, I again awaited his
return. Eight o'clock struck, and, to my even greater surprise, it was
not followed by the merchant's knock, and this time it was six minutes
past before he entered, and with no better excuse for his late arrival
than that he had dropped a reel of cotton on the road, and had to return
for it. "Let this be a lesson toDavid Joseph Askenazi, University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States

[^2]: Reviewed by: Aftab S. Chishti, University of Kentucky, United States; Ahmad Kaddourah, Sidra Medicine, Qatar

[^3]: This article was submitted to Pediatric Nephrology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Pediatrics


"sex." A Lincoln protest and rally was organized by PAVE: Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment and was held on July 9 and July 11, 2007. On July 12, 2007 the Judge declared a mistrial, citing the protests as one of the reasons.

Angela Rose, PAVE's Executive Director said, "The irony of Judge Cheuvront's order for the mistrial is that yet again he is trying to ban free speech. It was his unconstitutional ruling that led the people to the streets in protest in the first place. This is causing national outrage and we must be the voice for all who have been silenced by violence." These protests will be held simultaneously across the country, and Rose is asking people from across the nation to show their support. Protesters are urgedMohammad Mostafaie, a human rights defender and lawyer of Sakineh Ashtiani, the woman whose sentence to death by stoning in Iran in June received worldwide public attention, has been arrested and detained by Turkish authorities. On 24 July 2010, his wife, Fereshteh Halimi and brother in law, Farhad Halimi, were arrested and are now detained at the infamous Evin Prison in Tehran. Prior to their arrest, Mostafaie was invited for interrogation and subsequently released by the police but was immediately ordered to be arrested again. This had prompted him to go into hiding and he eventually sought refuge in Turkey. There are strong indications that the arrest of his family were intended to pressure him to surrender to the authorities.

The Global Campaign to Stop Killing and Stoning Women


(SKSW) and the Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) International Solidarity Network are gravely concerned over:

The safety of Mr. Mostafaie given the poor and inadequate protective measures accorded by the Turkish authorities to political refugees like him.

The safety of his wife and brother in law who are still in detention in Iran.

Background

Turkey is an original signatory to the Refugee Convention. It is also a member of the Executive Committee of the United High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). According to a report issued prepared by OMID Advocates for Human Rights recently(1), there are at least 2,000 unregistered Iranian refugees who fled to Turkey between June and December 2009 – the period marked by massive crackdown on the Iranian pro-democracy movement following their post-election protests. Iranian activists who fled tounits with Large Target special rule.

ForestA forest blocks line of sight. An unit inside the forest sees normally though it. In other words, the forest does not block the line of sight of the units that are located within the woodland terrain and outside it. It means that units inside the forest are treated as if they are in the open field, and therefore are seen by the models that are outside the forest.

Models in forest has light cover.

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a turn in which the unit did not charge. Accordingly, a unit with this special rule can normally make supporting attacks with two ranks. Remember that supporting attacks cannot be made to the side or rear, but only to the front.

A horde with this rule will make supporting attacks with three ranks.

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In simple terms this allows units to fire in two ranks.

A forest blocks line of sight. An unit inside the forest sees normally though it. In other words, the forest does not block the line of sight of the units that are located within the woodland terrain and outside it. It means that units inside the forest are treated as if they are in the open field, and therefore are seen by the modelsMedical education in South Carolina, 1905-2004, as reflected in The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association.
Medical education has from meager beginnings prospered in South Carolina through the past century, with most of the key advances being captured in The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association.


                I. Factual Background
      Jesus Alejandro Osorio was alleged to be one of two middlemen in a
complicated sale of over five kilograms of cocaine from his co-defendants Juan
Antonio Escobar (“Escobar”), Leon Baldomero DeLeon (“DeLeon”), and Leonardo
Arcemio Garcia (“Garcia”) to purchasers Sugentino Percel (“Percel”), Eric
Vasquez (“Vasquez”), and German Arias (“Arias”).1 Percel and Vasquez were
tried with Osorio in a four-day jury trial in the Southern District of Texas,
Houston Division, in November of 2006.
      The Government alleged that the conspirators assembled in Houston,
Texas, on February 21, 2006, to conduct an intricate, day-long narcotics
transaction by which Escobar, DeLeon, and Garcia (“the sellers”) sold thirty-five
kilograms of cocaine toPercel, Vasquez, and Arias (“the purchasers”), who
traveled to Houston from Boston and New York. According to the Government’s
theory of the case, Osorio served as a broker of the deal because of his friendship
with purchasers Percel and Vasquez, and stood to earn between $2,000 and
$3,000 for his efforts.
      The Government submitted evidence that the cocaine was transported
from Mexico in the hidden compartment of a truck, and subsequently taken from
a “stash house” to seller Escobar’s home. Escobar retrieved Hernandez and the
purchasers to consummate the drug deal at his home, where the conspirators
packaged the cocaine for transport.
      Later that evening, Escobar picked up Osorio, who had been at work
during the day. Escobar drove Osorio to Escobar’s home, and they met with
another


  On February 23, 2006, all eight defendants were charged by complaint
with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and an indictment
was returned by a federal grand jury on March 21, 2006. The jury found Osorio,
Percel, and Vasquez guilty of both counts of the indictment, and Osorio was
sentenced to 151 months’ imprisonment.
                                 II. Analysis
      A.     Admission of Extrinsic Acts Evidence
      The district court permitted the admission of testimony of a similar
cocaine transaction that had occurred in December 2005 or Januaryevidence existed to tie Osorio to the charged conspiracy independent
of his co-conspirators’ testimony, which was challenged as suspect. Indeed,
Osorio’s defense was that there was no direct evidence of his guilt, because he
arrived at Escobar’s residence after the cocaine had been packaged, spent his
time in the house talking and watching television, and was not near the van
other than when he got into and out of it. That his visiting co-defendants
(including a complete stranger) were alleged to have conducted a lengthy
transaction which resulted in the packaging and transport of over thirty pounds
of cocaine from his apartment a few months earlier is probative of his
participation in the conspiracy and would support the testimony of DeLeon, a
cooperating defendant. Certainly, the extrinsic evidence was probative as to the
role of each conspirator, the modus


  In fact, Osorio adopted these facts, stating in opening,

               And from his mere presence being in the van when they
               eventually uncovered the drugs in the van and in the panel – you
               will hear some testimony from DEA Agent Cornelius that it was
               welded in a panel in a minivan in the back, no odors, no
             \"In the middle of the road there was a stone.

There was a stone in the middle of the road.\"

*Carlos Drummond de Andrade (Brazilian poet)*

Every year, in June, the major databases publish the impact exerted by scientific periodicals in the scientific context. While Thompson Reuters quantifies it as the journal\'s *impact factor*, SCImago database terms it *cites per doc*. However, both estimate the average number of citations of articles published in a certain periodical. The methods are very similar, with the only difference being the number of periodicals indexed in each database.

Recently, in June 2016, data on the citations made in 2015 were published. The number of citations made in 2015 for articles published in 2013 and 2014 was divided by the total number of articles published in 2013


who met her never forgot her -and she made sure of that! At the age of fifteen, she stormed out of her home state of Alabama like an April tornado, determined to gain attention and recognition. She did achieve stardom working in virtually every medium – stage, screen, radio and television – but her fame was attributed more to her outrageous antics than for her work. …loss of the season in the Joel Embiid-Karl-Anthony Towns cage match in Philly, but they bounced back to absolutely destroy the Wizards with Towns serving his suspension. After not playing much of the season, Gorgui Dieng stepped into Towns' role and had a great game, as did Robert Covington, Jeff Teague and Andrew Wiggins. It's still early, but it seems like the positive culture change Minnesota has been craving may finally be here. 6 19-45

10 Raptors Pascal Siakam is averaging 26 points per game on 49-42-96 shooting. Let that sink in. Not suggesting they're even close to the same player, but last season Kawhi Leonard averaged 26.6 points on 50-37-85 shooting. If Siakam can even approximate the numbers he's put up so far, the Raptors have another bona


the two losses Nikola Jokic had single-digit shot attempts, a disappointing sign since we thought those days were behind him. As great of a passer as Jokic is, sometimes he's unselfish to a fault. When he's aggressive looking for his own shot, it opens everything up for the Nuggets. 10 46-27

13 Jazz Utah beat the Suns by a single point, beat the Kawhi-less Clippers, then gave the Kings their first win of the season before losing to the Kawhi-led Clippers. So this week the wins weren't all that impressive and the loss to the Kings was rough. The Jazz are once again the top defense in the league, but offense has been a struggle partly due to Mike Conley's early difficulties finding his role. They'll likely get bettergive the young wing some confidence moving forward. 3 20-46

18 Nets In the Nets' loss to the Pistons on Saturday, Kyrie Irving checked out with four minutes left in the third quarter with his team up by four. When he returned with eight minutes left in the fourth, Brooklyn was down by 13. Irving proceeded to take 10 shots in the fourth quarter -- almost as many as he took in the first three quarters combined -- as he brought his team back, but it wasn't enough. You could see the frustration on Irving's face and body language, as the Nets surely aren't off to the start he hoped for. -- 35-37

19 Thunder OKC has only won two games, but actually has a positive net rating -- clearly


aided by its early 28-point win over the Warriors. This week the Thunder lost to the Rockets and Blazers before beating the Pelicans at home. They've been without Steven Adams for the last two games due to a knee contusion, and he'll help once he gets back into the lineup. -- 44-28

20 Hawks Atlanta suffered a close loss to the 76ers before Trae Young hurt his ankle, leading to back-to-back losses to the Heat. Obviously Young is a huge part of the Hawks offense (third in the NBA in usage rate, behind James Harden and Kawhi Leonard), so it makes sense that they would struggle until he's able to return. When he was healthy, however, the Hawks looked capable of making a playoff push, so we'll see ifpossessions in their first six games -- yes, even worse than the Grizzlies and Knicks. They're also last in the league in 3-point shooting at 28 percent, which could just be a cold start but isn't that surprising considering the roster makeup. Orlando has a lot of work to do offensively with the top half of the East looking solid this season. 5 33-40

23 Kings The Kings are officially out of "worst team in the league" contention after picking up their first two wins of the season against the Jazz and Knicks. Luke Walton named the team's trip to India as a cause for their early-season struggles, so we'll see whether they can keep up their winning ways now that the jetlag has finally worn off. 7 31-41

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ball out of the net in the 27th minute. An Eddie Ferns cross took a slight deflection and Nicki Paterson was on hand to fire the ball home at the back post. . Ferns, who probably had his best game in a Warriors jersey, then picked out Michael Dunlop but his header was blocked for a corner. Jamie Longworth looked to have put the home side further ahead in the 37th minute when he tucked a Ferns cross home from almost on the line but the goal was disallowed for a very marginal offside. Nevertheless the Warriors had another chance to get a second goal when Mark McGuigan picked up a through ball and descended on goal but just before he shot the ball bounced awkwardly and hedamage though the home side may have felt aggrieved that a push on Nicki Paterson wasn’t picked up to allow the ball to travel to the back post and when it got there it could be said that there was cleared high feet by Malcolm as Ross Meechan turned his head out of the way to stop getting a possible kick in the head.

With the game drawing to a close Stenhousemuir came very close to equalising when a speculative header from Colin McMenamin struck the crossbar and Jimmy Scott was unable to convert the rebound. With the last kick of the ball the Warriors captain Michael Dunlop struck a volley from the edge of the box just the wrong side of the post for what would have been


Super Bowl Opening Line and Injuries

It all comes down to this. After a long and exciting season of NFL betting, only one game remains on the betting card; the 2012 Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants. Here’s a look at the opening lines for the big game.

New England opens as a 3-point favorite at 5Dimes. Plenty of points are expected from these two talented offenses as the total is currently set at 55 points.

Both teams come into the game hot both straight up and against the spread. New England has won 10 straight games straight up and is 6-3-1 ATS over that span, while New York has won five straight games both straight up and ATS. Each team has gone in adifferent direction in totals betting; the total has gone OVER in seven of New England’s last eight games but has gone UNDER in five of New York’s last six games.

When these two teams met in New England earlier this season on November 6, the Giants won 24-20 as a 9.5-point underdog. New York also won as a big underdog the last time these two teams met in the Super Bowl, ending the Patriots’ bid at an undefeated season in 2008 with a 17-14 win in Super Bowl XLII as a 13.5-point underdog.

New England tight end Rob Gronkowski was banged up in the AFC Championship Game, but he is probable to play in the Super Bowl. Chad Ochocinco is also expected to make a return after missing the game


Not long after midnight on April 26, 1986, the world’s worst nuclear power accident began. Workers were conducting a test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine when their operations spun out of control. Unthinkably, the core of the plant’s reactor No. 4 exploded, first blowing off its giant concrete lid, then letting a massive stream of radiation into the air.

Notoriously, the Soviet Union kept news of the disaster quiet for a couple of days. By the time the outside world knew about it, 148 men who had been on the Chernobyl site — firefighters and other workers — were already being treated in the special radiation unit of a Moscow hospital. And that was just one sliver of the population that wound up seeking medicalcare after Chernobyl.

By the end of the summer of 1986, Moscow hospitals alone had treated about 15,000 people exposed to Chernobyl radiation. The Soviet republics of Ukraine and Belarus combined to treat about 40,000 patients in hospitals due to radiation exposure in the same period of time; in Belarus, about half were children.

And while 120,000 residents were hastily evacuated from the “Zone of Alienation” around Chernobyl, about 600,000 emergency workers eventually went into the area, trying to seal the reactor and make the area safe again. About 31,000 soldiers camped out near the reactor, where radioactivity reached about 1,000 times the normal levels within a week, and contaminated the drinking water.

Which leads to the question: How bad was Chernobyl? A 2006 United Nations report contends Chernobyl caused 54


deaths. But MIT Professor Kate Brown, for one, is skeptical about that figure. As a historian of science who has written extensively about both the Soviet Union and nuclear technology, she decided to explore the issue at length.

The result is her new book, “Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future,” published this month by W.W. Norton and Co. In it, Brown brings new research to bear on the issue: She is the first historian to examine certain regional archives where the medical response to Chernobyl was most extensively chronicled, and has found reports and documents casting new light on the story.

Brown does not pinpoint a death-toll number herself. Instead, through her archival research and on-the-ground reporting, she examines the full range of ways radiation has affected
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important programs. Ten years ago, the city came
close to building its own recycling plants and was developing local
markets for the materials. But it awarded the opportunity to sort
and market recyclable items to multinational conglomerates. The city
could save tens of millions of dollars with approaches like setting
up buy-back centers for recyclables in low-income areas, leaving
grass clippings on lawns and offering economic incentives to
encourage recycling and reduction of garbage.

• Landfilling is a step backward. While the city wasted time and
money on ill-conceived plans to export garbage, other cities
achieved 50 percent recycling rates without breaking the bank. They
collect and market recyclables efficiently. They buy products made
of their recyclables. Cities like San Francisco compost food waste,
which represents 15 percent of New York's garbage.

• New Yorkers want to recycle. Even though the MayorThe word is also frequently used to explain Finland’s sporting achievements and feats of physical endurance. Veikka Gustafsson became a national symbol of sisu in the 1990s, when he became the first Finn to climb Mount Everest in 1993. By 2009 he had climbed all 14 of the world’s 8,000m peaks (eight-thousanders, as they are called) without supplementary oxygen. This made him the ninth climber in the world to have achieved this. He also climbed peaks in Antarctica, naming one of them ‘Mount Sisu’.

Gustaffson not only named a mountain after Sisu; his five-year-old son is also called Sisu, and for a while (not any more) he became the face of a popular Finnish sweet called “sisu pastils”.

Having become the embodiment of sisu, who does Gustaffson admire as having


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Former pro football safety Darren Sharper was sentenced this week to 20 years in prison for drugging and raping two women he met in a West Hollywood nightclub, completing the legal downfall of the one-time Super Bowl champion and NFL ...

One of the gifts of youth sports is its ability to merge the gap between individuals who come from different walks of life. On the field or the court, only one thing exists, and that is team. For Jalen Fisher, ...

Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election looms over the race for the 2024 Summer Games as the three bid cities prepare to make their first presentations to a key gathering of global Olympic officials.

Nine-time NBA All-Star and LA Clipper Chris Paul is a game changer. Aslong as he’s on the court, teammates can expect something positive to happen. In this early NBA season, he’s again leading the team in assists. What’s even ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers this week announced their 2017 spring training schedule, with their ninth season of Cactus League play beginning on Saturday, Feb. 25 against the Chicago White Sox at Camelback Ranch – Glendale.

Before the 2016 Rio Olympic Games come to a close this weekend, a reflection is in order to acknowledge how pivotal a role Blacks/Africans around the world have played in taking home medals to their respective countries, and breaking records ...

Emmett Ashford (1914-1980) was the first African American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB). The Jefferson High School graduate broke down racial barriers much the same way


as his friend Jackie Robinson.

The world’s attention will be focused on Brazil for the next two weeks, with the opening ceremony for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games scheduled tomorrow. That will launch a two-week athletic spectacle, where the world’s fastest, strongest, and most skilled ...

Once again, the Venice Basketball League (VBL) has returned to the beachfront. Local community players as well as professional players will be competing all summer for the right to bragging rights for the next year and of course to hoist ...

The start of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio is fast approaching and it appears as though Team USA Men’s Basketball is more than ready for the challenge. On Sunday July 24, Team USA Men’s Basketball held an exhibition game ...magazine ‘Ulster’.

Duddy was an interesting and possibly obvious choice as editor of ‘An Phobcrapt’. His last job for the UDA was as its chief intelligence officer until he was replaced by Brian Nelson who was a double agent working for the British Army’s Force Research Unit, an outfit whose role in the killing of Pat Finucane (not to mention the handling of Freddie Scappaticci) is a matter of such controversy.

In an hour-long tape-recording passed on to this writer, Tommy Lyttle, the UDA’s West Belfast Brigadier and briefly Andy Tyrie’s successor as overall head of the UDA, said he believed Duddy was an informer. Duddy died in October, 2007. Tommy Lyttle died in 1995 from a massive heart attack, not from the assassin’s bullet that he feared.

UDA chief, Tommy


Reports out of Cleveland indicate that Olivier Sedra, the voice of the Cavaliers, will join the Nets this season, replacing David Diamante, who held the job for six years. He decided to focus on his other ventures, which range from boxing to his Brooklyn cigar store.

Sedra is regarded as one of the best, if the best, announcer in the NBA. He has been the Cavaliers announcer since 2006. He was also the public address announcer for FIBA games at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the NBA All-Star Game in New Orleans last season.

Here’s a sample of his work...

A native of Montreal, he speaks both English and French fluently. His hero is Montreal Canadiens public address announcer Michel Lacroix.

Although neither Sedra nor the Nets have made an officialBloomberg

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Embattled PG&E Has Long History With California's New Governor

(Bloomberg) -- With its equipment suspected of causing the deadliest wildfire in California history, PG&E Corp. may find its fate in the hands of someone familiar: Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of its home town.

Newsom, California’s governor-elect, will take office in early January, and the aftermath of Butte County’s Camp Fire will be one of the most pressing issues on his agenda.

The disaster killed at least 88 people and leveled the


Find pictures of Wickiup and discover interesting facts and information about the Wickiup.

What was a Wickiup?The Wickiup was the name of typical dome-shaped structure used as a shelter or house style that was built by many tribes of the Southwest Native American group and other tribes living in the Great Basin region.

Learn about the structure and the interior of the Wickiup with pictures and images together with facts and information about the tribes who used them, including the Southwest Apache and the

Wickiup DefinitionWhat does the word Wickiup mean? Definition: The word 'Wickiup' derives from the Algonquian word 'wikiyap' meaning "dwelling, house". The wickiup, mistakenly referred to as a wigwam or 'wetu', was a form of shelter and home used by various Native American Indian tribes, notably those wholived in the Southwest in the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas and in the Great Basin. The wikiup was a small, round, dome shape structure made using a frame of thin poles that were covered with brush, grass, reeds, mats or any other materials that were available and lashed together with tough yucca fibers. Sometimes the domed-shaped wickiups were built over a 2 - 3 foot foundation. Bark and sometimes earth was added to the covering of the wickiup to keep out the cold.

Who lived in a Wickiup?The Wickiup was generally used as a shelter by some of the nomadic Native Indian Tribes who inhabited the Southwest and the Great Basin region. The names of the tribes who lived in the Wickiup style shelter included the southern


Apache, and the Great Basin Paiute, Washoe, Goshute and Bannock.

Why was the Wickiup built as a Native Indian shelter or house style?Every tribe choose a type of housing to suit their lifestyle, the climate, the environment and the natural resources (known as biomes) that were available to them. The Wickiup was chosen as the most suitable type of shelter because it suited the lifestyle of the tribes who lived in the southwest areas, was easy to build and made use of the grasses and brush-land found in their habitat. These types of wickiup homes were used as both temporary and permanent shelters. However simple, quick and basic pyramid shaped brush shelters, made from poles that were leaned and tied together were also used for southwest hunting trips.

How wasa Southwest Wickiup built?The picture shows the frame of an Apache wickiup. To make this type of wickiup long, thin poles of flexible willow or oak saplings were gathered, cut to size and stripped of bark. Suitable flat land was selected and cleared of brush and a circle was traced indicating the position of the wikiup. A digging stick was used to create holes at regular, one foot intervals around the circle. The poles were placed firmly in the holes then bent in an arch to form the dome shape of the wikiup. The poles of the frame was lashed together with tough yucca fibers and bound together at the top. Sapling hoops (ribs) were then fastened over the frame. The frame was then covered with sagebrush, willow,


bear grass, branches, big bluestem grass, leaves, and bunches of grass (brush).

Woven mats, hides, canvas and blankets also covered the wickiup if these were available, kept in place by ropes and poles. Space was left for a doorway with an entrance flap that allowed people to creep into the wickiup. A smoke-hole at the top of the wickiup allowed smoke from the fire to escape, and fresh air to circulate. The Apache house was called a 'kowa' and the Apache words for doorways or entrances were 'dáitin' or 'chogunti'.Thomas Barwick via Getty Images An elderly black woman stands in front of porch dressed ready for church.

My grandmother had a morning ritual: She’d wake up around 6 a.m.; have some variation of coffee, crackers and sausage for breakfast; and then watch the Channel 4 news. Later, she would drive to the gas station for a few scratch-off tickets and to pick her lottery numbers. She’d always take the service road because she was afraid to drive the Dallas, Texas, freeways.

When I was in my late teens, I received a call from her in a state of panic. She was unsure where she was and knew nothing except that she’d parked in a parking lot. We were somehow able to get her home, but my family and I


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Flying the Early-Early

Launched from a solitary aircraft carrier off the west coast of Korea, a flight of four Corsairs set off in the predawn darkness on a strike against enemy targets.

During the Korean War, hundreds of U.S. air strikes were launched from nearly 900-foot-long Essex -class aircraft carriers plying the Sea of Japan off the east coast of Korea. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Korean Peninsula, a much different sea war was being waged. There, in the Yellow Sea and with China to the west,


a single escort carrier—barely half the size of those off the east coast—along with one destroyer fought a lonely war. Every 10 days, the little American flattop would head to Japan for resupply, swapping places with a small British carrier and her escort.

In late 1952, I was a pilot in Marine Corps Attack Squadron (VMA) 312 flying combat missions from the USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116). While most were flown during daylight, a number were launched in the darkness before dawn—the Early-Early missions.

Our little task unit of a single aircraft carrier and lone destroyer was appropriate for the size of the Yellow Sea. Only 507-feet long, the Badoeng Strait operated in the sea's constricted waters about halfway up the west coast of Korea. Shortly after taking off, pilots couldsee the darkened landmass of the great Shandong Peninsula of mainland China to the west and the Haeju Peninsula of North Korea to the east, each less than a half-hour's flight away.

On the day of this November l952 Early-Early launch in the bitter cold off North Korea, the Badoeng Strait and her destroyer push through the sea's dark waters. The ships are blacked out. The icy sea is frosted with white caps whipped up by a brisk wind. All night the carrier has been maneuvering to place herself as near the target area as possible for the early morning launch.

On the hangar deck, one level below the flight deck, planes are serviced and repaired. In the frigid predawn, crew members wearing heavy jackets are busy moving the F4U-4B


Corsair fighter-bombers onto giant elevators up to the flight deck. Marine crewmen check the planes for readiness. Sailors, meanwhile, man their stations on a lonely watch.

There is a clear division of labor on the carrier. The Badoeng Strait —nicknamed the Bing-Ding—has a Navy crew, which operates the ship and launches and recovers aircraft. Combat missions and aircraft maintenance are conducted by the men of VMA-312 the Checkerboard Squadron.

The crisp black outlines of the Corsair fighter-bombers, their wings folded up, stand out against the cloudy, moonless night. Snow flurries blow across the deck. The sky and the sea seem to merge as one.

Just below, under bright overhead lights on the warmer hangar deck, there is a whirl of activity as mechanics, electronics specialists, ordnance crews, and other technicians givethe Corsairs additional final checks. An implicit spirit of trust flows through all of this. The aviators know the crewmen will do every repair to keep the planes in superb flying condition. Some have been at work throughout the night. The Marine technicians take pride in their squadron and the pilots who fly their Checkerboard planes. Their job is not easy. They must make sure these World War II - era piston-engine fighters are safe.

It is now 0400 and the squadron duty officer and duty non-commissioned officer begin the other half of the predawn mission. They must awaken the aviators who will fly before the sun comes up. The duo move forward and aft to awaken pilots on the list.

The squadron comprises 32 Marine Corps aviators. On this


morning, their number includes 2 first lieutenants, 20 captains, 9 majors, and 1 lieutenant colonel. All learned to fly before or during World War II. Their average age is 32, and all but eight are fathers.

Their number is about evenly split between regular Marine Corps officers and reservists. The typical VMA-312 pilot could be a reservist recalled for war service, like Captain Alexander Watson, who was a furniture merchant in San Diego less than a year ago. Or he might be a regular Marine Corps officer like Major Bryce Howerton of Hurdland, Missouri, who trained cadets at Corpus Christi, Texas, a few months ago. He likes pictures of his growing family and writes letters at night in the ship's wardroom. He goes to bed early.

However varied their backgrounds,they have one thing in common: At one time or another, they fly the Early-Early.

Our typical pilot dresses before 0500. After donning long underwear, a wool shirt, and two pair of socks, he climbs into a thick blue quilted liner, which makes up his inner cold-weather survival apparel. Next, he laces up his high-top leather boots. Around his neck hangs his dog-tags. After checking to make sure he is carrying his Geneva Convention identification card, he washes, shaves, and heads for breakfast in the wardroom.

Duty messmen and cooks have been up since 0430, making hot coffee, opening canned fruit juices, cooking oatmeal, and scrambling eggs. While aviators eat breakfast beginning at 0530, they read news of the world from the ship's mimeographed newspaper. At the same time, on


the pitching flight deck above, ordnance crews are hard at work loading the Corsairs' guns and hanging bombs and fitting rockets under their wings.

Below, as additional readied planes are rolled from the hangar deck onto lowered elevators, blasts of icy air chill the work space. Once on the flight deck, the planes are carefully inched to their precisely assigned deck spot, preserving valuable real estate.

It is 0550 and still dark. Below, the pilots are arriving in the ready room forward, which is illuminated by red lights to acclimate their night vision. Their dressing continues. They pull heavy rubberized immersion suits resembling deep-sea diving gear from hangers. Pilots sprinkle cornstarch on their hands, wrists, and necks. This enables them to slide into the tight-fitting openings of their suits withouttearing them. (The suit is useless unless perfectly watertight.) This is followed by snapping shut all openings and zipping up the rubber overshoes which are attached to the bottom of the suit.

By now the entire crew on board ship is engaged in a thousand details that must be attended to before the launch. In the ready room, pilots strap on their web belts, which carry a bayonet, a compass, and two survival packets. Over his immersion suit, our aviator dons a cloth summer flying suit, which helps prevent tears in the rubber suit in the event of a bail out.

Next, he adds a fur-trimmed parka draped over his shoulders with the hood hanging behind his neck. Around his neck and under his left arm, he slings a leather


the engine cowlings of their aircraft.

"Pilots, man your planes!" blares from the ship's intercom. "Ready room aye," comes the answer from the Marine operations duty officer. The pilots carry with them an oxygen mask, map case, and a kneepad with target information, codes, and radio frequencies. It is 0635 as they lumber up the ladder to the flight deck in their heavy gear.

The warmed-up and checked-out Corsair engines have been shut down. These are the most powerful models of the World War II - era Pratt and Whitney Double-Wasp. They have two radial banks of nine cylinders each, producing an awesome 2,100 horsepower at 2,600 rpm. The Corsairs' fuel tanks have been topped off.

Using his flashlight, our pilot inspects his bombs' fuses. (Dropping an instant-fused bomb instead ofa delayed-action bomb on a low pass over the target could damage or destroy his plane.) He also inspects the external fuel tank.

The plane captain, a Marine sergeant, gets behind the pilot and gives him a boost up into the cockpit. No small part of the flight is the preparation and strapping in of the pilot, aided by the crewman. He stands on the wing outside the cockpit helping adjust the seat and rudder pedals to the pilot's stature. The oxygen mask is stored for ready use, and maps are placed in the case to the pilot's left. The kneepad is strapped to his thigh and the parachute harness is fitted and then tightened.

"Everything okay, sir?" asks the sergeant.

The pilot nods.

"Good luck," the crewman shouts and then drops


down off the wing.

He stands by with a fire extinguisher, awaiting the command to start engines. From the bridge comes a familiar, loud public-address command: "Check all tie-downs, chocks, and loose gear about the deck." After a few more seconds comes the order: "Stand by to start engines."

The pilot scans his red-illuminated instrument panel. He turns on the fuel pump, magneto switches, battery switch, and sets the fuel mixture to idle cut-off. Then, "Start engines!" booms down from the bridge. At 0645 the big four-bladed Hamilton-Standard propellers begin to turn, the engines are starting, and light snow swirls across the deck.

Black, noxious clouds of smoke and fumes meanwhile belch from the carrier's four smokestacks as she picks up flank speed and heads straight into the wind. The pilotshold handkerchiefs to their faces to avoid breathing the choking fumes before their takeoff.

At a flashlight signal from the deck handler, the aviators spread and lock their Corsairs' wings. Each pilot then slides out the aircraft check-off list from a shelf to the right of the cockpit panel. Even though he has done this exercise scores of times, he methodically goes down the list. Mistakes are not an option.

Another signal comes from the carrier's PA system, this one ordering the launch of the Bing-Ding's helicopter, known as "Angel" and flown by a Navy pilot. Equipped with a sling, the copter hovers just off the ship's bow to pick up a pilot if he winds up in the sea after a failed takeoff.

As the aircraft engines warm, the bridge


makes a radio call to each aircraft to check transmitters and receivers. The four-plane flight leader's call sign is "Scotchman 1." The other planes are in numerical sequence. Our pilot now has a few minutes to try the transfer switch, which pumps gas from his external auxiliary tank to the plane's internal fuel tank. A warning light flickers on the instrument panel and then goes off. That means it works.

Only Navy deck handlers wearing yellow helmets are authorized to give taxi instructions to pilots on the flight deck. Before the Early-Early flights, the handlers can only be seen as blurred beams of swirling light as they point with battery-powered wand flashlights. In the blackness, our pilot slowly taxies his plane into position astride the catapult slot. The planecaptain is just inches away from the left wheel, ready to throw a chock in place once it stops.

The catapult appears as nothing more than a two-inch-wide slit in the deck, about 90 feet long. Beneath the plane's engine, a movable lug with a steel cable, called the bridle, attached protrudes from the slot. The ends of the bridle are now fastened to hooks on the Corsair's two main landing-gear struts. A small steel ring is attached to the tail and fastened by a cable to the deck to restrain the aircraft until launch. All this is done by flashlight. The mini-hurricane blast from the whirling propeller makes the bitter cold even colder.

By this point, the carrier has turned into the wind. The catapult lug is inched forward


to put tension on the bridle and restraining cable and ring. The pilot lowers the flaps to full-down position and then locks the canopy full open - to escape quickly if the plane goes into the water on takeoff. He glances at the carrier's island, looking 25-feet upward at the officers on the bridge who probably include the ship's captain. It is nearly 0700 now. The flurries are lessening and the first glimmer of dawn contrasts with the black sea.

The catapult officer gives the "number one" engine-turn-up signal. At the "number two" windup, the aviator once more momentarily checks full-throttle operation. The plane is now ready for takeoff.

The pilot makes one last check of the instrument panel. With his right hand he switches on his wing lights—the signalto fire the catapult. His head is firmly against the rear headrest, and the artificial-horizon instrument is his only reference to the plane's flight orientation. The time is 0700.

The tremendous action of the catapult starts to move the Corsair from its stationary position, and the steel ring restraining the tail breaks open, releasing the aircraft, which jumps forward. In 90 feet the plane goes from a standstill to about 98 knots and, as the bridle detaches, flies off the carrier into the blackness. It then drops a few feet as the wheels are pulled up, the flaps remaining down to provide all possible lift. In a few seconds the pilot makes a gentle turn out of the path of the carrier. He then starts a slow, steady climb


to the rendezvous area, 4,000 feet ahead and to the left of the carrier. Meanwhile, he closes his canopy. The leader has left his wing lights on so the other pilots can see his plane. It is still dark, but the overcast has lifted to 5,000 feet.

In a matter of minutes, all the remaining planes are hurled into the air by the Badoeng Strait's mighty slingshot. At the rendezvous, the lead plane makes wide left-hand circles until all four planes are in formation. The first gray light of dawn emerges as they head to the North Korean mainland. In a minute or two, the flight is out of sight of the carrier.

The pilots pay attention to their instruments. They also turn on heater switches for the cockpit, thedown there.

The Early-Early flight continues about 90 miles inland, climbing to 12,000 feet as the dawn skies begin to clear. The newborn day is still sunless, with a high, gray overcast. The mission's task is now to find the target—a camouflaged supply area. The flight leader reviews his map for local landmarks. On first approach, the suspected area appears to be no more than a thickly wooded landscape of ridges and valleys. The leader confirms the location from map coordinates and landmarks, including the intersection of ridges and a frozen stream. Semiconcealed buildings are on the far slope of the southernmost ridge.

The flight leader orders the other pilots to orbit while he makes a reconnaissance pass over the target area. His experience flying many missions and hitting many


targets pays off. He quickly finds the target, six oblong buildings half-covered with dirt and brush. Climbing to rejoin the flight, the leader identifies the target for the others, giving reference landmarks.

"This is Scotchman 1," he announces over a predesignated tactical channel. "There are the six buildings near the bottom of the ridge, two o'clock off my right wing. I will mark the target by strafing on my bomb run. We will join up ten miles due west from the target at 8,000 feet, in a left-hand orbit."

The four pilots charge their Corsairs' 20-mm cannon. At 0815 the flight leader makes a sweeping left-hand turn and pushes into his dive. Small red bursts blossom up from the ground around the target area as antiaircraft fire erupts. Fortunately, noplane is hit. The three follow the leader at close intervals as he strafes the target during his bomb run.

Then, a big orange flash appears as bombs from the first two planes make direct hits. Number three's bombs fall short. Number four makes another direct hit, completing the destruction of the enemy supply center. As the planes retire from the scene, the target area is smothered in flames and black smoke.

The flight, in formation once again at the appointed location, begins its next task-conducting a reconnaissance patrol. They head in a southwesterly direction along an active enemy supply route. Pyongyang, North Korea's capital, is a short flight to the north, while the Haeju Peninsula is to the south. The pilots search for trucks, supply caravans, railroad cars, or


other military targets. At 0815, the flight leader spies a recently repaired bridge overpass.

"Scotchman 3 and 4, orbit this site. Scotchman 2 and I will drop wing bombs on the bridge."

One bomb hits the bridge; the other is a near miss. The span is destroyed. However, as the leader is pulling out of his bomb run, a warning arrives from the carrier's radar control center: "Scotchman flight, we have bandits in the area at 20,000 feet headed south, distance 40 miles."

This can only mean that enemy MiGs are on the way. The Corsairs head south, climbing all the while. Four pairs of eyes scan the sky looking for a sign of the enemy.

"Bandits returning north," comes the next report from the ship's radar center. The flight resumes itspatrol. As the four approach a battered town, three enemy trucks partly covered with brush and straw are sighted.

"I am going to fire rockets at the trucks," says the leader. "Follow my run with rocket attacks."

Into another dive, the pilots carefully aim their rockets. The first is fired, and a truck erupts in flame. Another rocket misses its target. The second and third trucks are destroyed by a combination of rockets and 20-mm gunfire. Time and fuel are now both becoming short. The flight is scheduled to land at 0915. At 0845, the Corsairs head back over the Yellow Sea to find their postage-stamp-sized carrier.

The four are now 35 nautical miles north of the carrier. They move into a right echelon formation. Each pilot checks the next plane


that is barely 200-feet long and 100-feet wide. Fifteen miles north of the carrier, southbound on the same course as the ship, the leader bows his head and the pilots in unison drop their tail hooks and landing gear. The planes descend to 400 feet.

Still in echelon, the formation drops to 150 feet. The Corsairs fly by the carrier, which is now plowing into the wind at top speed. Observers on the bridge check to confirm that wheels, flaps, and hooks are down as the planes pass to the right of the ship's bridge.

When well in front of the carrier, the leader peels off to the left to start his landing pattern. In a few minutes, the others follow with 180-degree turns, heading in the course opposite tothe ship's. As the leader makes his second, final 180-degree turn, he approaches in a broad left-hand turn. The plane is now turning onto the same course as the ship, which is pitching in the rough sea. The flight leader has in sight the LSO (landing signal officer) who is on a small square platform that juts out from the left rear corner of the flight deck. He holds brightly colored cloth paddles to give signals—height, speed, and attitude information—to the approaching pilot, and his back is to the gusty, unsteady 30 knots of wind now flowing over the flight deck.

Marine Captain Richard W. "Bunny" Benton of Honolulu, Hawaii, is "waving" (giving signals) for this recovery operation. He is one of three LSOs in the squadron who fly


paddle drawn across the LSO's chest beneath his throat—the signal for the "cut." The pilot pulls the throttle back, pushes the stick forward to dip the nose, and then pulls it back so that the tail of the plane hits the deck first.

In seconds, the extended tailhook catches one of six elevated arresting wires. The plane decelerates from 90 knots to zero in less than 25 feet.

Immediately, a yellow-helmeted deck handler is off the wing, giving signals to the pilot. Timing is of the essence; the deck area must be cleared in seconds to allow the other planes to land. The handler signals the pilot to release his brakes. The plane rolls back, and the hook is released and restored to its proper position. The cowl flaps areopened. The landing flaps are raised. The tail wheel is unlocked. It is now 0915.

The pilot opens the throttle with a short blast, and picks up taxi signals from another handler. The crash fence is lowered, he taxis forward to the ship's bow, and responding to another signal, folds the plane's wings. The barrier, now behind him, is quickly raised for the next plane, now in its final approach for landing. Only 43 seconds elapsed between the time the Corsair landed and when the carrier is ready for the next plane.

As our pilot's plane is taxied to its parking space, 18 inches from the forward edge of the flight deck, the next plane has already landed and is going through the same routine. The last two planes are


close behind.

After landing, the leader shuts off the engine, deplanes, and goes below to be debriefed. Six supply buildings and one road bridge were destroyed. One truck destroyed and two more damaged, he reports. Bandits were reported in the area, but no contacts were made.

Our typical pilot sits down at 0925 with a cup of coffee. His survival suit and most of his clothing will remain on for four more hours. He is scheduled for another launch just after lunch.

Today's "Early Early" is completed. Just a minor part of the history of the Korean War, these missions are flown several times during each carrier's 10-day stint on the line in the Yellow Sea. This kind of flying - from a lone, small, remote carrier-will most likely never beseen again.

Lieutenant Colonel Cooper flew combat missions in World War II and the Korean War. Later, as a newsman in print, radio, and television, he won numerous journalism awards, including two Emmys for news programs. He ended his flight duties as VMA-312's executive officer.

Rescue on the Beach

The call heard through the radio headphones was crystal clear: "I need help. I'm trapped."

At the other end of the broadcast was Marine Captain Timothy Ireland. Restrained by his shoulder harness and lap belt, he was hanging upside down in the cockpit of his F4U-4 Corsair. Unable to see anything but sand, he smelled raw aviation fuel all around him.

High above, Major James L. Cooper, a fellow pilot with Ireland in VMA-312 off the USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116), heard the plea and