specifically military architecture, led him in the early 1960s to collaborate with Claude Parent (successful in his own right but also the teacher of renowned architect Jean Nouvel), and the two formed an ambitious collective known as Architecture Principe.

The intersections of these early interests of Virilio—war, Catholicism, and architecture—are summarized in the construction of a church designed by Virilio and Parent, the Church Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay in Nevers, France (the site of the apparition of Mary at Lourdes). Colloquially known as the “bunker church,” the building asserts itself as a massive concrete monolith inspired not only by Virilio’s early explorations of bunkers but also the proliferating air raid shelters popping up around the world in an age of nuclear terror. “At the time I said that, in theafter the completion of the bunker church, in 1968, Paris would be the site of revolutionary energies so fervent that the year virtually controls the discourse of French philosophy in the latter half of the twentieth century (and, in cases like Alain Badiou, still today). It marked a break between Virilio and Parent, with Virilio joining those squatting the Odeon Theatre in Paris and Parent going on to design nuclear power plants. Virilio was so admired by revolutionary students that they nominated him to a professorial position at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture, where he began a career as a theorist interrogating speed and military innovation.

After working with architecture students, Virilio gave up on the architectural revolution of the function of the oblique, but not on revolutionary politics as


stuff.' Jackson had been charged with the capital murder of Jennings's cousin, Tavares Cotrell. Jennings was wearing a sweatshirt that memorialized his cousin. Jackson approached and denied committing the murder, and Jennings responded, `Man, whatever.'
"When Jennings and Davis left the mall, they saw Jackson and his girlfriend, Jerita Smith, sitting in a gray car. As they drove down Third Avenue, Davis heard bullets strike their car. She saw that a peppermint-green car with tinted windows was following them and that two people were firing from inside. Jennings attempted to elude the shooters and crashed into a fence. He fled into a nearby yard and sent Davis to find his mother. As she fled, Davis saw that Efferman was the driver of the green car, that Jackson and aman in a *1281 red toboggan hat were passengers, and that Jackson was armed with a gun. The men told Efferman to shoot Davis and put her into the car. They then stated to Jennings: `Told you you was [sic] going to get this.' Davis got a ride to the home of Jennings's mother. A few minutes earlier, a peppermint-green car with tinted windows had pulled into the driveway and had driven away. The two women went to the scene and learned that Jennings was dead.
"Sandra Meyer testified that at approximately 8:00 on the morning of December 22, 2004, she saw a brown car knock Willie Jennings down in the street. The car drove through a yard and a driveway and struck a parked car. Jennings fled, and


Jackson followed him, armed with a gun. Jackson fired three shots, and two of them struck Jennings, causing him to fall. While Jennings was on the ground, Jackson kicked him in the head. Jennings died from internal injuries caused by a gunshot wound. Mrs. Meyer said that a second man was with Jackson and that a third person drove the car away. Her husband, Louie Meyer, ran outside with a rifle when he heard the shots. He saw a brown car with a small spare tire on the right front side, coming up the street. Jackson and a companion walked out and pointed guns at Mr. Meyer; he fired three shots at them; and they fled. Mr. Meyer stated that Jackson's companion was not Efferman. Shortly after theshooting, Detective Herman Harris showed two photo spreads to the Meyers. They were not able to identify pictures of Jackson and Efferman. A few weeks later, they called him to report that they had seen a photograph of Jackson in the newspaper and had recognized him as the man who killed Jennings. The defense introduced a copy of an article that appeared in the Birmingham News on January 10, 2005, which stated that Jackson and Efferman were wanted for the Jennings killing. Next to the article were photographs of both men.
"On December 30, 2004, police arrested Christopher Parson, Ronnie Ball and Darrell Moore (`Darrell'), Efferman's brother, on a robbery charge. They recovered a Bursa [brand] pistol with a missing magazine spring. That type of spring had been found


near Willie Jennings's body. Forensic tests revealed that a shell casing found at the Jennings shooting had been fired from the recovered gun. Parson testified that Darrell and Ball came to his house on the morning of December 22, 2004, and told him that they had killed Willie Jennings. They said that they and Efferman chased Jennings because he had stolen a pound of marijuana from Efferman and his mother; that Efferman ran over Jennings; that Ball shot Jennings; and that they struck Jennings in the head with the gun. Parson told police that Darrell and Ball had arrived in Efferman's brown Honda [automobile] and that there was damage to the front. Darrell and Ball were arrested for Jennings's murder a few weeks before Jackson and Efferman wentto trial.
"Charles Mosley (`Charles') testified that Jennings and Cotrell had sold pills for Jackson and that `the word around the street' was that Cotrell had stolen the cell phone Jackson used to make drug sales. Charles said that a few days before Cotrell's death, Jackson had threatened to kill Cotrell. The State introduced a certified copy of Jackson's conviction for the capital murder of Cotrell. Charles's brother, Larles Mosley (`Larles'), testified that he had taken some marijuana from Efferman and a woman at gunpoint; that Cotrell's father *1282 told him the marijuana belonged to Jackson; and that Ladreka Davis told him that Efferman thought Willie Jennings had taken the marijuana.
"Jackson's girlfriend, Jerita Smith, testified that Jackson was with her from the time they saw Jennings at the mall


this Court stated: "In homicide cases all the surroundings and circumstances attending the killing, the declarations of the accused at and after the killing, and his conduct at or near the scene are admissible and form part of the res gestae." Although Jackson's statement to Jennings that he did not kill Cotrell may form part of "the surroundings and circumstances attending the killing," we cannot agree that Jackson's conviction for Cotrell's murder, which occurred after Jennings was killed, falls within that definition.
[*]  Justice Shaw was a member of the Court of Criminal Appeals when that court considered this case.
Story highlights The Kentucky Republican was asked about a Florida newspaper editorial calling on Rubio to resign over his poor voting record

Paul also took a shot at GOP front-runner Donald Trump

Washington (CNN) Sen. Rand Paul said Wednesday he's proud of his near-perfect voting record -- a knock on his colleague and Republican presidential rival Sen. Marco Rubio.

The Kentucky Republican was asked about a Florida newspaper editorial calling on Rubio to resign over his poor voting record by CNN's Jake Tapper on "The Lead."

"I take my voting record very, very seriously, and I've made 99% of the votes," Paul said, without explicitly criticizing Rubio's record.

Analysts have found the Florida Republican has missed the most votes this year of any of the senators running for president. Rubio has defended himself,


at 11:00 AM (#113), on the 11th day of February, 2014 the following described property as set forth in said Final Judgment, to wit:
Lot 14, ROLLING MEADOWS, according to the Plat thereof as recorded in Plat Book 3, Page(s) 96, 97, 98, 99, 100 and 101, of the Public Records of Baker County, FloridaTake Shelter

Symbol:

TAKSH

Status:

Inactive

Delist Date:

Dec 19, 2011

Genre:

Drama

MPAA Rating:

R

Phase:

Release

Release Date:

Sep 30, 2011

Release Pattern:

limited

Gross:

$1,729,969

Theaters:

1

Description

Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, Take Shelter stars Michael Shannon as a working-class husband and father who has terrifying dreams of the apocalypse. He wonders if it's real or the onset of an inherited mental illness. Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon and Kathy Baker co-star.


        Facts and Procedural History

[2]   The facts favorable to the conviction reveal that, in December 2008, thirteen-

      year-old S.W. lived with her grandmother in Tennessee. During her school

      Christmas break that year, S.W. traveled to Logansport, Indiana, to visit her

      mother. The boyfriend of S.W.’s mother had a sister named Amy Spampinato,

      who had two on-again-off-again boyfriends, Townsend and Lawrence Gill.

      Townsend worked as a truck driver and drove throughout the country, and he

      1
       Townsend does not challenge the sufficiency of the     on March 9, 2009, and during the search he located the vibrator used in the

       video, as well as the receipt showing its purchase on December 22, 2008, and he

       arrested Spampinato. About a week after Spampinato was arrested, Townsend

       called one of his friends, William Ryan, and told Ryan about the video and that

       he had “told the stupid b---- to get rid of the tape.” Id. at 152. Townsend also

       stated he was concerned because S.W. could identify him.

[13]   The State filed initial charges against Townsend on November 12,


questionable in light of her impeachable criminal

       history and the fact that she was hardly an objective witness, at the trial

       Court of Appeals of Indiana | Opinion 09A02-1407-CR-464 | February 12, 2015   Page 18 of 20
       Spampinato testified that she had taken a plea agreement and was being housed

       in the Department of Correction. She indicated that as part of the plea

       agreement she had “to come in here and testify in this case” and that she was

       telling the truth at the trial. Transcript at 215. Also, asWoman Day. Folks in Portland, Ore. can head to Excalibur Comics, while Comic Fusion hosts an event in Flemington, N.J. Both events will feature comic artists, costumed characters and silent auctions that, respectively, benefit the Bradley Angle, one of Portland’s leading domestic violence agencies, and Safe in Hunterdon, a domestic violence shelter in New Jersey.

The event, spearheaded by Andy Mangels, also has an online component — you can bid on Wonder Woman artwork on eBay, including the above piece by Chris Samnee and pieces by Ethan Van Sciver, Tom Yeates, Guy Davis, Steve Lieber and more.

In the comments section of one of our posts last week, someone pointed out that comics creator Derek Kirk Kim is selling off some of his original art from The Eternal Smile, the


today to benefit Matthew Hodge, the son of animator Tim Hodge, who was in a serious auto accident last summer:

On August 22, 2009 Matthew Hodge, the 17-year-old son of former Disney story artist and Big Idea productions director Tim Hodge, was in a serious auto accident. A train struck his car at 50mph as he was crossing the tracks. While Matt suffered neither broken bones nor any internal organ damage, he did receive severe head trauma causing him to remain in a state of coma today. Matt is a high school senior, a straight A student, and a drummer in his state championship marching band.

Many animation and comics industry folks have come together to donate items and artwork. The auction will include the above “jam” piece, which includessketches by Mike Mignola, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragonès, J. Scott Campbell, Jeff Keane and many more. Other items include a Charles Schulz drawing, a Rocketeer artist proof sculpture and a whole lot of animation art. You can find the complete list here and you can find the eBay listings here.

Every year at this time the Portland, Oregon, alternative weekly The Mercury gathers goods and services from area businesses and notable figures to auction off, with the proceeds benefiting a local charity.

The 2009 installment of The Mercury Online Charity Auction includes a couple of desirable comics packages — one from Dark Horse, and another from Oni Press, Fantagraphics Books, Top Shelf Productions, Bridge City Comics, Floating World Comics and actress Katee Sackhoff.

The Dark Horse lot contains more than $500


Gabriel Jesus has no desire to leave Manchester City despite contract extension talks being put on hold, sources have told ESPN FC.

City were keen to improve the Brazilian striker's deal, which runs until 2021, as a reward for his impressive form since completing his move from Palmeiras in January 2018.

Jesus, 20, had been expected to sign a new deal before Christmas with a two-year contract extension that would take him through until 2023.

However, ESPN FC has been told that negotiations have now been put on hold until the end of the season with no agreement yet reached over fresh terms. Both parties are believed to be relaxed that an agreement can be reached.

Gabriel Jesus joined City from Palmeiras in January 2018. Shaun Botterill/Getty Images

Jesus started the season ingood form, scoring eight goals in his first 11 games, but he has scored only three times since and missed nearly two months with a knee ligament injury.

He is set to be Brazil's first-choice striker at this summer's World Cup in Russia and scored for the Selecao in their 1-0 victory over Germany on Tuesday.

City have given new deals to David Silva, Kevin De Bruyne, Fernandinho and Nicolas Otamendi in recent months and sources have told ESPN FC they are also keen to open talks with Raheem Sterling.


Minister of Education Ruel Reid said the Government is prepared to take disruptive students from the regular school system and place them in what he is proposing as 'Time Out' facilities.

Speaking to journalists during a Gleaner Editors' Forum held at the newspaper's offices in central Kingston, the education minister said that starting with Kingston and St Andrew, serious consideration is being given to establish special facilities to treat children who display deviant behaviour.

He indicated that the moral decay that continues to plague the society has resulted in a breakdown in family structures, which then produces children with severe behavioural challenges.

"We are a bold administration and it was something I had to do at JC (Jamaica College). There have been students who required deliberate and specialised treatment, where theyeight years as a neo-Nazi, Picciolini began to question the hateful ideology he espoused. He remembers a specific incident in which he was beating a young black man. His eyes locked with his victim, and he felt a surprising empathy.

It was a turning point. He withdrew from the movement and in 2011 co-founded Life After Hate, a nonprofit that counsels members of hate groups and helps them disengage.

"Over the last 14 years I have actually helped over 100 people disengage from the same movement that I was a part of," he says. "[Neo-Nazis] know that I'm a danger to them because I understand what they understand — but I also understand the truth."

Picciolini's new memoir is called White American Youth.

Interview Highlights

On how he was recruited into believing the


the lyrics and it didn't dawn on me instantly that those were my lyrics. But when I finished, I felt sick.

Music was the vehicle for propaganda. It was the incitement to encourage people to commit acts of violence and it was a social movement. ... Still today, I believe that music is a very powerful tool that the movement uses to inspire vulnerable young people into a very hateful social movement.

On how the white supremacists of the '80s and '90s strategized to make their movement more mainstream

I do think that there were a lot of concerted strategies in the '80s and '90s that we're seeing take hold today. We recognized in the mid-'80s that our edginess, our look, even our language, was turning away the average American whiteI was importing from all over the world. In fact, I was one of the only stores in the United States that was selling this music. And I also knew that to stay in the community and get their support I would have to sell other music. So I started to sell punk-rock music and heavy metal and hip-hop and when the customers came in to buy that music, who were often African-American, or Jewish, or gay, at first I was very standoffish, but they kept coming back.

The community, even though it's Chicago, everybody knew what I was doing, everybody knew how hateful I was and how violent I was, but these customers came in despite that. And over time I started to have meaningful interactions with them,


of the team behind Counterpoint, my priority is to publish stories that just wouldn't work elsewhere. Each issue of the magazine has a different theme, and we encourage writers and illustrators to respond pretty much however they like, meaning we're often able to publish brilliant and eccentric content. For instance, our last issue had features on the use of made-up alien languages by linguists researching the evolution of speech, an investigation into the original owners of a second-hand coat, after one of our writers began finding polaroid photographs of them in the lining of a jacket she'd bought, and a look behind the scenes of volunteer-run arts festival Hidden Door. We try and pair up our contributors and facilitate partnerships between writers and illustrators as much as possible.

Counterpoint"But I've been through all this." He pushed the tablet away.

"I know, but you've also failed the test."

"Twice." He reminded me.

"Okay, twice. So you're going to go over it again, then take the sample test and we'll keep doing that until you get it right."

It took less than two stans to get through the material together. "You don't seem to be having any trouble with this."

He shrugged. "It's not the information. I practically grew up on a cargo deck."

"Okay, well, let's do the practice exam and see how it comes out."

We settled in and I breezed through the test in a few ticks. I'd done them so often, they began to look familiar to me. It approached the level of silliness. When I got to the end, I'd


much to go on, but I started thinking about Lois McKendrick, and all the people on New Edinburgh who got together to break the stranglehold that the company held on their lives. I decided I had to see the captain again. I wanted to know more about Great-grandmother McKendrick and her co-op. But first things first, I was awake, needed to pee, and I wanted my coffee.

It felt odd to step onto the mess deck just as breakfast was being served, probably because there weren't that many times in the last four months when I'd not been serving said breakfast. I took a mug from the rack, filled it with fresh Sarabanda Dark, and stood in line with a tray, grinning. Diane was in front of me.

She glancedStory highlights Other witnesses included leaders from the nonprofit Rise and from Rape Abuse Incest National Network (RAINN)

The hearing was also tied to the release of a PSA, titled "Guess Who: #MeToo Edition," from Funny or Die

Washington (CNN) In emotional testimony Tuesday on Capitol Hill, "Westworld" star Evan Rachel Wood opened up about being sexually abused.

"I thought I was the only human who experienced this, and I carried so much guilt and confusion about my response to the abuse," Wood said, before detailing two separate instances where she was raped and tortured by her attackers. "I accepted my powerlessness, and I felt I deserved it somehow."

Wood was among the handful of witnesses who shared their stories before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations


WRN #1 on Feedspot’s Top 50

World Religion News has been chosen as Feedspot‘s number one blog in its ranking of the Top 50 Religious Blogs and Websites about the World of Religion. WRN ranked above Religion News Service, a highly-respected and well-read Religion News Website, while Religion and Belief of The New York Times, equally as prestigious, came in third.

World Religion News is honored to be named the top religion blog among such strong competitors in the category of blogs on religion. Feedspot is a content reader and social network for RSS users, and they base the ranking of the Best Religious blogs using search and social metrics. In 2018, WRN ranked second, after the blog Religion on Reddit.

Here are the blogs ranked by Feedspot from 1-10:

1st: Worldof Journalism at the University of Missouri.”

3rd: Religion and Belief is on nytimes.com and contains commentary and archival information about religion and spirituality from the The New York Times.

4th: Catholic Exchange, primary geared towards the Catholic community, offers content that seeks to enrich and enlighten those in the Catholic faith. According to their website, “We publish the finest articles that explore the saints, devotions, and the everyday spiritual and practical aspects of Catholicism.”

5th: Episcopal Cafe is a voice for the Episcopal Church and the Anglican tradition. While not considered as advocacy, The Café is not a platform of advocacy, “it does aim to tell the story of the church from the perspective of Progressive Christianity.”

6th: Get Religion focuses on how the mainstream press covers religion news in politics,


Boise State football head coachannounced the hiring of Zac Alley as the Broncos' inside linebackers coach, Thursday. Harsin also announced the promotions ofto defensive coordinator, andto co-defensive coordinator.Alley, who was recently announced as the nickels coach at Charlotte, spent the previous four years (2015-18) as a graduate assistant at Clemson, his alma mater. Alley worked primarily with defensive tackles and linebackers during his tenure as a graduate assistant, and spent time as a defensive coaching intern with the Carolina Panthers.He also spent four years as a student assistant with the Tigers (2011-14), earning a bachelor's degree in business management in 2014. He went on to earn a master's degree in human resource development in 2017."We talk regularly about football being a developmental game," Harsin said. "This is sotrue in coaching, as continual development and taking advantage of staff development is critical to ongoing success. Zac has been developed at Clemson for quite some time and been part of on-field coaching there for four ACC championships, four college football playoff appearances, three national championship games and two national titles. His football IQ and coaching pedigree are extremely impressive.""When you think about the most successful college football programs in the country, Boise State is right there," Alley said. "I've been impressed from afar by the winning consistency, and then stepping foot on campus to meet with coach Harsin and staff, I was even more impressed with the incredible culture. The on-field success is a direct result of this and mirrors very closely to what I've been a


part of at Clemson and Charlotte. It made this an easy decision to become a Bronco and I can't thank coach Harsin enough for this opportunity."Schmedding, entering his first season as the Broncos' outside linebackers coach, spent the previous four seasons (2015-18) as defensive coordinator at Eastern Washington. This past season the Eagles were one of only four teams in the country with 30-or-more turnovers forced (34) and 30-or-more sacks (36). EWU was the only team to accomplish this feat in 2016 – the Eagles forced 31 turnovers and recorded 35 sacks – and no other Football Championship Subdivision school did it in two of the last three seasons.Additionally, Schmedding's defense ranked first in the Big Sky Conference in scoring defense, pass defense efficiency, interceptions, turnover margin andopponent fourth down conversions in 2018.Danielson is entering his third season as a member of the Boise State coaching staff, his second as a full-time assistant and his first as defensive line coach. This past season bothandgarnered first-team All-Mountain West accolades, each ranking in the top 10 in the league in sacks. The duo contributed to the Broncos ranking 10th nationally in the statistical category (3.00 per game).Under Danielson's guidance, Weaver was also named first-team all-conference in 2017 – the first freshman defensive player in league history to earn the honor. Weaver and Frazier combined for 17 sacks in 2017, half the team's total. Weaver's 11 led the team, were tied for the sixth-most across college football and were the most by a freshman nationally."At the same time


coach any position. Bryan (Harsin) had called me and I recommended him, and Zac went out and won the interview. It's exciting to see him get that opportunity to go out there and be a part of a big time winning program like Boise State.""Boise State just got better. Zac's a winner. He's mature beyond his years and wise beyond his years. This is a very unique opportunity for Zac and his career. He'll make the Boise State coaching staff and players and their fans, he'll make them proud. Zac will add to the value of their culture and their brand, which is as good as there is in college football. He'll bring some of what's he's learned (at Clemson) with him, and continue to build upon whatthey've already established there.""Zac's an excellent young coach with a tremendous work ethic. He did a great job of establishing relationships with our players. He's extremely knowledgeable and has been around a championship program at Clemson. He'll bring that same philosophy to Boise State."


at Florida's Tropical Park, paying those very prices. As his owner I suppose I should have been deliriously happy, and I guess I really was. The only trouble—

Let's start at the beginning.

Dr. Dubious was my own personal prize selection at a Keeneland fall yearling sale—a young son of the great Australian distance horse Bern-borough, out of a mare named Jinxy, who was the winning daughter of the winning daughter of a stakes-winning great-grandmother. He had first-class bloodlines, perfect conformation, sturdy legs and that look of champions in his eye—and he went cheap, which happens to be a requisite for my modest little stable.

Humiliated in baseball, humbled in hockey, kayoed in boxing, beaten in basketball and football, the Big Town's best is now only second-best. A mournful wail fromof chance at all. At the New York office building on which I depend for most of my living, my stable has a small but devoted group of followers—junior writers, secretaries and office boys—who express their faith by betting on every horse I send to the post.

Alas, 1959 was a sad year for Dr. Dubious, the rest of my horses, my fan club, my aunt, my wife, my son and me. I started the year with nine horses in training, all of which should, in theory, have won frequently but in practice won very rarely. They acquired ailments which baffled the best brains of veterinary science. They went lame. One of them—this is ridiculous but true—got pregnant.

When the 1959 season ended in Ohio, where my stable had gradually


been drowning in red ink all summer and fall, I had just one horse left in training: Dr. Dubious. What suffering he represented!

Early in 1959, while a groom was walking him around the barn in one of the first stages of training, the Doc got rambunctious, reared and fell backward on his rump. This taught him a useful lesson but left him scarcely able to stand.

It was October before the trainer finally got him over the injury and ready for his debut. It was humiliating. Our prospective Kentucky Derby winner was beaten 18 lengths by a field of the slowest 2-year-olds in Ohio.

Track conditions can make a horse look bad; so can the wrong post position; so can the wrong kind of ride. Dr. Dubious ran three timesat Cleveland, over a fast track, a slow track and a heavy track; from inside, middle and outside post positions; under different jockeys trying all the different skills they knew to get a horse moving. He was three times seventh.

Common sense told us that he was a bum, a dog, a beetle, a pig. But he kept looking at us with those resolute eyes. The hope that springs eternal in the horseman's breast told us that he was simply unable to get himself un-tracked in the deep cushion at ThistleDown. He just needed a hard race track like the one at Tropical Park.

Tropical is 1,250 miles from ThistleDown, and a race horse cannot travel parcel post. Oats, hay and straw, all of which Dr. Dubious requires in large


quantities, cost more in Florida than anywhere else in the world. Anybody who ships a horse to Tropical had better win himself some purses or be prepared to hock the family jewels.

The Doc looked good in his morning workouts at Tropical; that fast track really did seem to help him a lot. We got him into a six-furlong race against the cheapest 2-year-olds on the grounds and told the jockey to ride him with confidence. He ran eighth. The only encouraging thing was that he made up 10 lengths on the winner down the stretch. Though I had lost my customary bets, though I had let all my friends and followers down again, I was elated. True to his breeding, the Doc had proved himself a distance horse.

OnDecember 21 we finally sent him out against the cheapest 2-year-olds at Tropical who could even dare hope to stagger as far as a mile and 70 yards. No race was ever to be a softer touch. "What I hate about this," I told the trainer, "is that even after the Doc wins it we won't know whether he's any good or not." I sent a nice bet to the track and sat back to wait the happy news. The Doc could have made a lot of us rich that afternoon.

He was a little closer than usual during the first quarter of the race, promptly dropped back, engaged in a stirring battle for last place and finally finished 11th out of 12, beaten 19 lengths.

Beaten, nothing. He was


disgraced. The jockey, dismounting in disgust, said flatly, "This horse isn't worth a quarter." When the remark was transmitted to me by long distance phone, I said amen. Even the most optimistic owner has to quit dreaming eventually. The Doc didn't have any early foot—and he couldn't go a distance, either.

I decided to give him one more chance, and one only. In the meantime I made arrangements with another writer I know, a young woman who has a farm and some riding horses down in Maryland, to give him a home. She said she was willing to pay the Doc's van bill back from Florida and keep him in oats the rest of his life in the hopes that he might be taught to ride to the hounds.The Thoroughbred Record. The donor was, of course, my wife, but she had listed the gift, in some long-gone day of frivolous hope, in the name of Dr. Dubious. I said, "If my young lady friend changes her mind when those Martinis wear off and welshes on her promise to give the Doc a home, this will turn out to be the first Christmas present I ever got from somebody I shot."

You know the rest. The Doc ran against the same kind of horses at the same distance on New Year's Day. As young horses sometimes do, he suddenly found himself. And he proved to be the long shot of long shots at the Tropical meet. He started my stable off for the New Year with a bang.


counter-parties should be unrelated. All of them except for Only Education Holdings Limited and Maxnew Holdings Limited because above it discloses that those two companies are owned by a single PRC individual unrelated to Focus Media.

Lets go case by case:

Catchstone was purchased from Only Education Holdings and Maxnew Holdings limited on the 16th April 2007. Only Education was registered on 6 October 2006, Maxnew on 8 January 2007. Both had the same address and phone numbers:

Yes - it is the same address. And the same outcome. The company was struck off for non-payment of a fee.

Dongguan Yaya was purchased from and later given back to Sinoalpha Limited and Max Planet Limited. The acquisition date was 1 October 2007. Each of these companies was owned by a separate singlePolice in the Norway have set off a controlled explosion of a "bomb-like device" found in a busy area in Oslo's business district and also arrested a suspect.

No damage has reportedly been caused by the device, which was found in a plastic bag near the city centre.

The discovery led police to evacuate people from bars and restaurants around an area near the Groenland metro station on Saturday night.

A loud blast was heard shortly after the arrival of Oslo's bomb squad, witnesses said. The device was destroyed in a controlled explosion, news agency NTB reported citing police.

The noise suggested the device might have contained explosives, Svein Arild Jorundland, police commander, said.

The device appeared to be capable of causing only a limited amount of damage, police said.

A man who might


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prescription drugs charge. The public defender’s office is appointed as counsel. The preliminary hearing is scheduled at 1 p.m. on Jan. 2, 2018. Bond will continue as posted until the conclusion of this case.

• On Monday, Dec. 11, a car driven by Ronald Blaine Jansen, 57, of Marshalltown, was southbound on Highway 330 when it struck a deer which entered the traveled portion of the roadway. No injuries were reported. Damage to the Jansen car was estimated at $9,000.

• On Friday, Dec. 8, a minivan driven by Nancy Jean Farnsworth, 73, of Conrad, was eastbound on East Main Street Road when it collided with the rear of a vehicle driven by Janey Lynn Swartz, 69, of Marshalltown, which was decelerating. No injuries were reported. Farnsworth was cited forU.S. Soccer announced Wednesday that Phoenix Rising FC will be hosting a second-round U.S. Open Cup match.

Rising FC will be hosting fellow USL Championship side New Mexico United on either May 14 or 15. Phoenix hosted New Mexico earlier this year in Week 2 where the two sides shared a point following a dramatic 3-3 draw.

The U.S. Open Cup is a separate knockout-only competition that includes all 84 teams within U.S. Soccer, even MLS teams. It is completely separate from the USL Championship Cup playoffs that follow USL Championship’s regular season.

The difference between a USL Championship regular season game and U.S. Open Cup game is that the match cannot end in a draw. A winner must be decided. Therefore, should the game end with a level scoreline, the


match will then go into a 30-minute extra time (overtime) period followed by a penalty shootout should the two sides not be seperated after playing for 120 minutes.

The U.S. Open Cup begins with clubs from the lower tears of U.S. Soccer such as USL League One and Two, and the National Premier Soccer League playing each other in Round 1. As the competition goes on, teams from higher tiers such as USL Championship and MLS join, much like a bye in other sports’ bracket formats. These “byes” are determined by the team’s place in the standings in their respective leagues from the previous season.

There are nine total rounds in the U.S. Open Cup. Phoenix Rising joins in Round 2 after essentially getting a round-one bye. If PRFC wasGAZA/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - On Sept. 1, half a dozen Hamas security officials called at the home of Mohammed Othman, a young journalist in Gaza who had written several probing articles. They seized two laptops, two mobile phones and took Othman away for questioning.

A Palestinian man reads a newspaper outside his store in Gaza City September 19, 2016. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa

Twenty-four hours later, after what he described as an intense interrogation, the 29-year-old was released, but not before he had been asked to sign a document promising not to criticise Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gaza, or its security services. Othman says he refused.

“They were telling me things trying to scare me and influence me,” he told Reuters the day after his release, describing being slapped


looking at the road.

The prohibition is the latest in a series of actions taken by DOT to combat distracted driving since DOT Secretary Ray LaHood convened a national summit on the issue last September.

Drivers who text while driving are more than 20 times more likely to get in an accident than non-distracted drivers.

— Staff reports

Short Hauls

TRANSPORTATION IMPROVED modestly from November to early January, but overall economic activity remained low, the Federal Reserve said in its Beige Book report. Freight transport businesses saw a slight upturn in volume, but shipments remain well below year-earlier levels and margins remained depressed. Businesses expect modest gains in 2010.

A DEADLINE EXTENSION to June 30 for submission of Driver Vehicle Inspection Reports and Driver Vehicle Examination Reports was announced by the Federal Motor CarrierSafety Administration. Other provisions of the Dec. 17, 2009, compliance date remain unchanged.

THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency proposed the strictest health standards to date for smog, also known as ground-level ozone, which forms when emissions from motor vehicles, industrial facilities, power plants and landfills mix with sunlight. The agency is proposing to replace the standards set by the Bush administration with stricter levels.

TCA names finalists in driver contests

The Truckload Carriers Association named finalists for its 2009 Owner-Operator Driver of the Year and 2009 Company Equipment Driver of the Year contests.

Competing for the owner-operator title, co-sponsored by TCA and Overdrive, are Steven Recker of Warren Transport, and Larry Severson and Woodrow Walker, both of Dart Transit.

For the company equipment contest, co-sponsored by TCA and Truckers News, the contenders are


boosted the seasonally adjusted index to 106.4, its highest level in a year.

WISCONSIN has changed its CDL rules to comply with federal law. The updating occurred after the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration reviewed the state’s CDL program and found discrepancies between state and federal regulations.

NAFTA TRADE using surface transportation among the United States, Canada and Mexico dropped 15.5 percent to $61.4 billion in October, compared with a year earlier, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Air pollution dropped significantly, including a 21 percent decline in diesel particulate matters, from 2005 to 2008 at the Port of Long Beach.

Port study finds air quality gains

Air pollution from ships, locomotives, trucks and other sources at the Port of Long Beach dropped significantly from 2005 to 2008 – including a majordrop in diesel particulate matter – a new study shows. The biggest part of the improvement was due to cleaner technology, not from a slowdown in cargo.

The 2008 Air Emissions Inventory reports that while the amount of cargo moving through the port declined by 3 percent in 2008 from 2005, air pollution was cut much more due to efforts to reduce emissions from vessels and vehicles. Overall, it was the port’s best air quality report card since the studies began in 2002.

Air quality initiatives such as the Clean Trucks Program, which began in October 2008, the expanded Green Flag vessel speed reduction program, the use of low-sulfur fuel for ships, and the first use of shore power for ships at berth all have contributed to significant air improvements


leads to more than 4.2 million hours of delay annually, according to the state Department of Transportation.

VERMONT. A detour is in place indefinitely while the Lake Champlain Bridge that spanned the lake between Crown Point, N.Y, and Chimney Point, Vt., is replaced. The 100-mile detour includes U.S. 4 in New York and Vermont routes 22A and 17.

Distracted driving group formed

U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and National Safety Council President Janet Froetscher announced the creation of FocusDriven, the first national nonprofit organization devoted to raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving.

Group leader Jennifer Smith has been an advocate against distracted driving since her mother was killed by someone talking on a cell phone while driving in 2008. FocusDriven grew out of the September national Distracted Driving Summit inFrench player Adrian Mannarino has complained about Wimbledon’s famous ball boys and girls being treated with undue reverence - after he was penalised for barging into one of the youngsters during a match.

The 29-year-old was yesterday fined £7,000 after he bumped into the ball boy while walking back to his chair during his second-round victory over Japan's Yuichi Sugita.

Serbian umpire Marijana Veljovic judged the collision to be deliberate and docked Mannarino a point for “unsportsmanlike conduct”.


economic impact. In the UK, jams cost the national purse £20bn-£30bn a year. In car-addicted America, where each year the driving population cumulatively spends around 500,000 years stuck in traffic, the congestion cost is around $100bn (£65bn).

In Moscow, now regarded as the most congested business city in the world, jams cost some $12bn a year, and the city would need to build 400 more kilometres of road to ease the 650 jams that happen each day. In the face of this global gridlock, road planners and traffic controllers are increasingly turning to science for solutions.

As far back as the 1950s, mathematician Sir Michael James Lighthill was using wave theory to understand the complexities of traffic flow and interaction. Today the traffic-science sector attracts computer programmers, engineers and evenMilton Keynes an hour later.

Researchers in Japan observed a similar "wave" pattern when they put 22 vehicles on a 23-metre, single-lane circuit and asked drivers to cruise steadily at 30km an hour. Initially the traffic moved freely, but small fluctuations soon appeared in distances between cars and built into larger pockets of congestion. These clusters, which scientists call "jamitons", spread backwards through the traffic like a shock wave. Scientists studying the same phenomenon at MIT in the US discovered that "jamitons" share similar characteristics to the detonation waves created by explosions.

Of course, scientific theory is not always needed to explain gridlock. The causes of some jams, such as the recent 100km queue in China, which snared drivers for days on the main north-south motorway to Beijing, are easily


identified. That monster jam was blamed on roadworks, a broken-down car and an overload of trucks carrying coal from Mongolia to the capital. Stranded drivers struggled to travel two miles a day and the queue generated its own economy, with industrious hawkers selling provisions to motorists at vastly inflated prices.

Thanks to its breakneck development, Beijing is now one of the top global traffic hotspots along with Sao Paolo, Mexico City, Johannesburg, New Delhi, Moscow, London, New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo.

According to Tim Rees, head of traffic behaviour at research and development consultancy Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), major city road layouts have a lot to answer for. "Any city serviced by motorways which merge as they approach it will be prone to congestion," he says. "When traffic mergesM42 a "hard-shoulder running" pilot scheme, whereby the hard shoulder was opened to alleviate congestion, proved successful and greatly reduced journey times and congestion.

TRL have also looked into the possibility of sending out vehicles, like the pace cars in motor racing, to slow traffic down before congestion builds on busy motorway section. Restricting road use by banning certain motorists from driving one day a week, depending on their car registration number, is used in China. Engineers there are also developing an electric bus on stilts that will carry 1,400 people and run on rails, allowing cars to drive underneath it.

However, according to Gabor Orosz, assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan and one of the architects of the Exeter University study, the solutions lie in


Location of a transiently expressed glycoprotein in developing cerebellum delineating its possible ontogenetic roles.
The development pattern of a 31,000 mol. wt phosphatidyl inositol-anchored membrane glycoprotein was followed during development in mouse and rat cerebellum using monoclonal antibody 194-653. The epitope was developmentally regulated and particularly abundant in post mitotic precursors of granule cells, newly formed parallel fibres and unmyelinated axons of the white matter between the 5th and the 15th postnatal days. It decreased considerably thereafter. In the adult, a significant although relatively low staining was observed only in white matter. Observation at the ultrastructural level showed that most of the 31,000 mol. wt glycoprotein was very concentrated on neuronal plasma membranes. A little immunoreactivity was also found intracellularly at the perinuclear membrane of neuroblasts of the externalmany ideologies claiming to be successors to Marxism, Anti-Revisionism advocates retaining key elements of original revolutionary theory. Mainly opposing incorporation of capitalist economic elements into socialist states, the ideology is defined as much by what it isn't as what it is."

Anarchist Communism: "An ideology embracing the idea of communism as a stateless society, Anarchist Communism eschews the idea of a transitionary socialist state and favors a society based on voluntary associations and mutual aid."

National Socialism: "Rooted in extreme nationalism, National Socialism is driven by ideas of Germanic supremacy. It promotes aggressive expansionism and a totalitarian state where the people are united under a leader with absolute power, the Führer."

Fascism: "Encompassing a variety of ultra-nationalist movements, fascism typically venerates devotion to the state and uniting the people under a


Melbourne: Just days after Peter Roebuck committed suicide at a Cape Town hotel, a South African man claimed that the celebrated cricket writer "made a sort of advance" on him and also assaulted him while imparting coaching.

31-year-old Henk Lindeque narrated an occasion where he felt Roebuck had encroached on his "personal space" and "made a sort of advance" on him.

"One day, I was sitting on the couch at Peter's house, watching cricket on a Sunday afternoon. He sat down and put his arm around me. I turned around to him and said, 'Listen Peter, I do like my personal space and I don't like this'. I moved away quickly and sat on the ground. That's the only time I felt he made a sort of advance on me.

"Inthe back of my mind it was something that stuck with me (that Roebuck might be gay). It was a possibility, but he never came out, so how are we to know? He was eccentric. I wouldn't say he was harsh or indifferent, but he had a different way of communicating," Lindeque said.

"He did warn us he had hard ways and in many senses that's not a bad way to look at life, especially in cricket."

Lindeque said he was also caned on the buttocks by Roebuck along with his South African teammates Keith Whiting and Reginald Keats during his days in the Taunton Cricket Club.

Roebuck received a suspended jail sentence in 2001 for the common assault after pleading guilty to caning the three and Lindeque said he never


October or early November of 2003, Respondent began accessing his wife's OFN e-mail account without her permission or knowledge.[2] Respondent testified that the purpose of reading his wife's e-mails was to secretly monitor her activities because he believed she had become involved in an extramarital affair with an OFN client. Respondent further testified that, initially, he improperly accessed only his wife's account and later, that of another attorney, an OFN partner.[3] Eventually, however, Respondent's curiosity got the better of him, and he began accessing the e-mail accounts of seven other OFN attorneys. Obviously, Respondent did so without either the knowledge or permission of the account holders.
When an OFN attorney began to suspect that her e-mail account had been improperly accessed, OFN retained Paul Law, a computer systems engineer,an attachment to an e-mail, they could determine whether the attachment had been opened. More specifically, they were able to determine that on one occasion certain confidential OFN financial information sent by the firm's chief accountant to the firm's partners by e-mail attachment was opened by Respondent.
It is undisputed that Respondent improperly accessed the e-mail accounts of OFN attorneys on more than 150 occasions. In so doing, Respondent learned personal information about certain attorneys which had been relayed confidentially via e-mail. With regard to confidential client information that had been accessed by Respondent, Mr. Offutt was particularly concerned with the fact that OFN and Huddleston, Respondent's employer, represented co-defendants in a large mass tort case that was in litigation during the time period at issue. In March, 2006,


or early November, 2003.
In March 2006, Respondent's wife, who had been completely unaware of Respondent's misconduct, told Respondent that someone had been breaking into OFN e-mail accounts and that the firm was getting close to finding out who it was. Shortly thereafter, Respondent revealed to his wife that it was he who had been improperly accessing the OFN e-mail accounts. The following day, Mr. Offutt, who had learned from the computer expert's investigation that Respondent was responsible for the unauthorized access of the e-mail accounts, inquired of Respondent's wife if she was aware of Respondent's actions. Though she had just learned of Respondent's misconduct, she denied any knowledge of it to Mr. Offutt. Immediately thereafter, Respondent's counsel contacted Mr. Offutt and others at the firm to disclose hisinstances, deleted information contained in the e-mails, without the authorization or knowledge of the e-mail account holders. For her professional misconduct, the attorney's law license was suspended for a period of two years.
In In re Schwartz, 278 Ga. 216, 599 S.E.2d 184 (2004), the offending attorney admitted that for a 13-14 month period he "accessed, listened to, and randomly deleted voice mail messages left on the voice mail system of his former employer," a law firm which had previously discharged him. Id. Though his actions, a violation of Georgia's Rules of Professional Conduct, were punishable by disbarment, the Supreme Court of Georgia agreed to accept the attorney's petition for voluntary discipline of an 18-month suspension of his law license. The Court in Schwartz was persuaded by certain mitigating


(CNN) There's a fascinating window into how Donald Trump conceives of the presidency in a New York Times piece out this morning that details the meeting about health care between the president and Republican senators at the White House on Tuesday.

"When asked by reporters clustered on the blacktop outside the West Wing if Mr. Trump had command of the details of the negotiations, Mr. McConnell ignored the question and smiled blandly....

...A senator who supports the bill left the meeting at the White House with a sense that the president did not have a grasp of some basic elements of the Senate plan — and seemed especially confused when a moderate Republican complained that opponents of the bill would cast it as a massive tax break for the wealthy,Trump was in search of a vice presidential nominee. This passage, from a Robert Draper story in the New York Times magazine , is instructive:

"According to [an Ohio Gov. John] Kasich adviser (who spoke only under the condition that he not be named), Donald Jr. wanted to make him an offer nonetheless: Did he have any interest in being the most powerful vice president in history?

When Kasich's adviser asked how this would be the case, Donald Jr. explained that his father's vice president would be in charge of domestic and foreign policy.

Then what, the adviser asked, would Trump be in charge of?

'Making America great again' was the casual reply."

JUST WATCHED Kasich: Trump Jr. called to float VP offer Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Kasich: Trump Jr. called


to float VP offer 00:54

Even in his past life as a developer, Trump was primarily concerned with being the public face of the operation rather than the behind-the-scenes guy who got into the nitty gritty of the deal. He was the closer, swooping in when the deal was done to put his unique stamp on it -- and then talk about what a great deal it was to any and everyone who would listen.

Given all of that history, the descriptions of Trump as less interested in the policy details around health care than convincing Republican Senators to be for some sort of bill and to declare victory are entirely consistent with who we know he was before running for office. Trump is a big picture guy. He's theSearch form

Merchants denounce Main Street project

Merchants who own businesses in the historic district of Main Street are denouncing a Main Street streetscape project that they believe will hurt their businesses.

Ron Soto, owner of Soto’s Optical at 1383 Main St., has started a petition against the project. He said he has the support of more than 70% of the businesses in the historic district, which comprises Main Street from Orange Avenue to Palm Avenue.

Public workshops have been held since April 2010 to formulate a project that involves a Main Street renovation stretching from Bayfront Drive to U.S. 301; it will highlight the street’s historic district. Wider sidewalks and a narrower street with parallel parking have been proposed as ways to promote more pedestrian activity downtown. The historic district of


Main Street will likely be replaced with a brick street.
Parking spaces are being eliminated, particularly in the historic district, to make way for wider sidewalks. City officials said the argument can be made that the Palm Avenue parking garage and future State Street parking garage will make up for the reduction in 48 spaces from Bayfront Park to Orange Avenue.

But Soto and other business owners said the State Street garage needs to be built before the city considers such a project.

Soto, whose store has been in his family since 1949, said he remembers when the city installed parallel parking on the street in the 1970s.

“We did that years and years ago, and we got rid of it because it hindered traffic too long,” Soto said.
Soto said he hasA Night On The Water

onJune 24, 2012

He loved the water. He inspired us all to be kind, happy, better people. He loved all kinds of children. He brings creativity to everything. He always, always, always smiles.

These are the words of family, friends, and students describing Charles Pickles of Marion, a former junior sailing instructor at the Beverly Yacht Club and avid cook, who died in a skateboarding accident in 2005. He was not yet 30 years old.

For the last few years, his parents, Diane and Ray, have organized a boat cruise benefit, to honor the memory of their late son.

“For me, this benefits his memory in a way he would have wanted. It’s all about people coming together, having fun, and sharing time and stories about him together,”


his mother, Diane, said. “Charles would make everything fun.”

The event was attended by almost 100 people, which in itself stood as a testament to the power the young Pickles had on the people who meant most to him, from the closest members of his family to his favorite sailing students.

Everybody on the boat seemed to have a story to tell about Charles. Many of those stories were compiled by his mother into a couple hardcover memory books she brought for people to read.

The result was a tome of joy, thanks, remembrance, and sorrow, stuffed with photos, letters, poems, and drawings, each evoking special and personal memories of Charles. As the cruise continued, dozens of people sat and pored through the volumes, some together, some alone, and each personpreparing their meals. These are all small but immensely important pieces to the mosaic that was a life dedicated to happiness and fearlessness.

“He had as much fun as he possibly could at all times,” said Margaret Evans of Marion, who was a lifelong friend of Charles. “He was a gentleman. He had this amazing aura. Whenever

“The essence of it all was to have a great time,” said Paul Fathallah of Marion, who knew Charles for over 10 years. He told the story of how he and Charles were on the water when Fathallah, who has a strong aversion to jellyfish, saw a big one floating in the water near the boat. “He was looking for it and looking for it and when he finally saw it, he tried


to jump in

“He was so daring,” said Sarah Gaunt, who met Charles when they attended the International Institute of Culinary Arts in Fall River. They were partnered up for many projects together during their two years of study. “The first day I met Charles, he greeted me at the door, and even held it open for me and said, ‘My name is Charles Pickles, but my friends call me Pickles, so you can call me Pickles, too,” Gaunt said.

The proceeds of the event go to benefit the junior sailing program at the Beverly Yacht Club, as well as the Community Boating program, which provides opportunities for students from New Bedford to learn how to sail.Jonathan Frakes has spilled the beans regarding a major sub-plot in the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery series. The latest iteration of the Star Trek franchise will see the Enterprise return to CBS, bringing the decades-long property into the streaming age. CBS has made sure that storyline secrets remain hush-hush, but the actor and director — who gained fame as Commander Riker — could not control himself and recently shared a major bit of Star Trek: Discovery’s storyline.

Warning: Spoiler Alert!

Frakes shared with fans a major sub-plot involving the mirror universe in the Star Trek: Discovery timeline. This behind-the-scenes info was shared during the cast reunion at the Continuing Voyage Convention tour stop in Chicago. Once Frakes had shared the information with a handful of die-hard Trekkies and Trekkers, it


was only a matter of time before the details appeared on Twitter. It was members of the Star Trek-themed cover band 5 Year Mission who took to social media to share the news.

And Fark of 5 Year Mission confirmed to Trek Movie that Frakes had promised fans a return to the mirror universe. Frakes, still in the inner circle of Star Trek, has signed on to direct at least one episode in Season 1 of Discovery. This wouldn’t be Frakes first rodeo, as far as directing a Star Trek-related property. He has directed the films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection, and he showed up in cameo roles in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

The mirror universe has been a part of Starwrite-off losses of the six crisis countries' banks amount to about €670bn. Participating in these write-offs would put huge strain on the Eurosystem (the ECB and the central banks of the eurozone member states), which has only around €500bn in equity capital. The riskiness of the ECB's strategy of using the printing press to bail out banks, including their public and private clients, would become apparent to everyone.

Thus, it is clear how the losses incurred by the ECB's de facto regional fiscal policy are to be avoided: the write-off costs will be transferred from the ECB to the ESM. This makes no difference to taxpayers, who will have to pay for both institutions' losses in the same manner. But it has the advantage of allowing the ECB to


present itself as having a clean balance sheet, thereby enabling it to maintain its current policy.

Ultimately, this is merely a new round of the eurozone's old game of financial hide-and-seek, whereby losses are obscured by distributing them among different institutions and time horizons. The game started with the bailout fund for Greece, which was followed by the European Financial Stability Facility, the European Financial Stability Mechanism, and the International Monetary Fund, which in turn were relieved by the ESM. In each case, a major objective was to reduce the burden on the ECB, which had advanced the money by printing it and would have run into serious difficulties without help.

The entire arrangement is highly problematic from the standpoint of democracy, because the initial decisions about undercutting the capitalmarkets by means of public credit were taken by the ECB's governing council, in which large countries like France or Germany have the same voting power as Cyprus or Malta. Indeed, the national central banks' allocation of emergency liquidity assistance required approval by only one-third of the Governing Council's members, and the six crisis countries had these votes. According to the Eurogroup's proposal, these self-awarded loans, too, are now to be secured by ESM funds.

While the European Union's national parliaments must still decide on the scheme, they essentially have no option but to assent, because to do otherwise would severely harm the ECB. When they finally get to vote on the matter – years after the ECB's risky credit manoeuvres – they will have no choice but to


bail out the ECB, the true hegemon of the eurozone.

• Hans-Werner Sinn is professor of economics and public finance, University of Munich, and president of the Ifo Institute.

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2013.Dutch police detained a second suspect on Thursday after a Spanish tip-off about a possible attack caused the cancellation of a rock concert in Rotterdam a day earlier.The 22-year-old man was arrested during police raids in the southern province of Brabant early on Thursday and was being questioned about the Rotterdam attack threat, the police said. The arrest comes after police detained a Spanish driver on Wednesday night who was found near the concert venue with gas canisters in his van.He turned out to be a mechanic stopped for drunk driving with no apparent connection to the threat, although he was still being questioned on Thursday. Spanish police had tipped off the Dutch to potential danger at the Maassilo concert venue in Rotterdam where California band Allah-Las was


set to play. A judicial source in Spain said there was, however, no link to the vehicle attacks that killed 15 people in Spain last week where police also discovered a plot to make a powerful bomb out of gas canisters.The concert was cancelled at around 7 p.m., shortly before doors were to be opened for guests. Police said the man in Brabant was arrested after a search of his home: "He is in custody and being questioned about the threat in Rotterdam." Rotterdam Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb said it was not clear whether the tip-off and the detection of the van were connected. He warned against "swift conclusions" while noting the white van had Spanish licence plates and had been flagged for circling near the concert venue."It woulddefendants, Richard Johnson, Loretta Lynn Brown, Brenda Lee Brown and Gentry Lynn Stapleton, Jr., pursuant to Rule 56 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure on the grounds that as a matter of law certain defendants have no right to share in the proceeds of the policy of insurance on the decedent's life. The Court has been fully briefed on the matters herein and has heard oral argument from the respective parties on January 4, 1982.
This dispute involves the determination of the proper beneficiary under a group life insurance policy of the decedent, Gentry Stapleton, Sr. Gentry Stapleton, Sr. died *229 on June 8, 1980 a resident of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, leaving no living spouse. At the time of his death he was insured by a group life


insurance policy issued to his employer, the Whirlpool Corporation, in the sum of Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($15,000.00). Said policy of insurance is payable upon death to the surviving spouse of the decedent, or if no surviving spouse to decedent's children and if there are no surviving children, to decedent's brothers and sisters, and if no surviving brothers and sisters, to the personal representative of the decedent's estate. The defendant, Gentry Stapleton, Jr., is alleged to be a son of Gentry Stapleton, Sr. The defendants, Richard Johnson, Loretta Lynn Brown and Brenda Lee Brown, are minors; alleged to be children of Gentry Stapleton, Sr., and wards of the Vanderburgh County, Indiana Welfare Department. The defendants, Nellie Brandenburg, James Stapleton, Granville Stapleton, Mirtie Todd and Virginia Stacy, are brothers andDetroit, Michigan, black clergy and black leaders from across the county united to denounce the war and send a message to President Bush.

Among the gems of this event were those uttered by Dr. Charles Adams, pastor of Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. Marcia Louise Dyson (wife of hatemonger Professor Michael Eric Dyson, who was also in attendance at the event), and Rev. Fr. James A. Forbes Jr.

Adams proclaimed “It is insanity, injustice and indecency to start a war in Iraq when we haven’t finished in Afghanistan, we haven’t cleaned up drugs in America and now we want to attack postage stamp-sized Iraq.”

It may come as news to Dr. Adams that there was no “out-of-the-blue” start to the war – it was a necessary and appropriate response to repeated


names, dividing big methods into many smaller methods and so on. Every now and then the developer will notice new structures emerging from the code, so he adjusts his original plans about the design and extracts a new class or reorganizes some existing classes.

Steps 1-4: Design

The specification, implementation and cleanup steps all include designing the code, although in each step the focus in designing slightly different aspects of the code. As Kent Beck says in his book "Extreme Programming Explained" (2nd Ed. page 105), "far from design nothing, the XP strategy is design always."

In the specification step, the developer is first designing the behaviour of the system, what the system should do. When he is writing the specification, he is designing how the API of the code beingThe making of a postliberal: Formed and reformed

Sitting on the four corners of an intersection in the town where I grew up are the public school, the library, the town hall and my home church. Every morning an American flag is raised in front of each of the four buildings. The church, however, sits on a hill above the other public buildings, as if presiding over all of them. The church is built of stone, and its sturdy Norman architecture seems to rise out of the massive rock formations that mark the earth throughout the town. To this day, when I sing "The Church's One Foundation," or hear reference to Peter as "the rock" on which Jesus will build his church, I think of that building.

My father was


the senior minister of the church. When he looked out the window of his study, he could survey the town as if it were all his parish, and in a sense it was: the church membership included over a third of the town's population.Welcome back to Top Shelf Prospects, the daily column that brings you the next crop of professional hockey players. Each day I will bring you a new player profile or topical article in the lead-up to the 2013 NHL Draft. Be sure to bookmark the site, follow me on Twitter, and spread the word for the site that will bring you analytical and critical draft profiles and scouting reports! Last Word On Sports is your new headquarters for everything “NHL Draft”! For a Complete Listing of all our 2013 Draft Articles Click here.

Edit: Drafted 48th overall by the Detroit Red Wings.

Zach Nastasiuk is yet another prospect in this draft blessed with good athletic genes. His father, Paul Nastasiuk was a football player, a running back and first round


pick of the B.C. Lions in the CFL draft. He would go on to play 9 seasons in the league, mostly for the Toronto Argonauts and was a member of the 1991 Grey Cup winning squad. His uncles also played CIAU (now CIS) football for the Laurier Golden Hawks. Meanwhile, his mother, Sue was a CIAU basketball player for the Laurier Golden Hawks. In this way Nastasiuk comes by his raw athletic gifts naturally.

After a good, but not great start to the season, Nastasiuk really blossomed in the second half of the year. After being moved to Right Wing, his scoring really took off and he was at a near PPG pace over the last 20 games of the season or so, and into the playoffs where hethe next few years. The speed is decent when he reaches top speed, but a slow start up step, and issues with acceleration that must be improved mean that by the time he reaches that speed, the play has usually passed him by. He also needs work on his edgework and turning. However Nastasiuk is strong on the puck, and this makes him hard to knock over and allows him to protect the puck off the cycle.

Nastasiuk plays a solid defensive game. He brings the phyiscal elements of his game to his own end of the rink, where he’s known for applying good pressure on the puck career and generally backchecking to the right spots. He blocks shots, cuts down passing lanes and can be effectively used as


whereas appellant's counsel suggests in his brief "that an order for $44.00 per week would be just". The parties were married on August 31, 1940, and separated on or about April 15, 1955. The husband works at the Golden Slipper Club in New York City. He contends that he is merely an employe receiving $100.00 per week. The wife contends that her husband is one of the owners, not only of the club in New York but also of a similar club in Philadelphia. Prior to the separation, the husband gave his wife $100.00 per week and paid certain household bills. In addition the wife received $50.00 for part time work at the Philadelphia club. The wife testified that her husband told her that he was earning $400.00Space is the New Paris – If You Have Enough Money

In 2001, American businessman Dennis Tito paid $20 million to become the first ever space tourist. He was sent to the International Space Station (ISS) by the Russian Federal Space Agency. However, when Tito first arrived at the Johnson Space Center for training on the American portion of the ISS, he was sent away by NASA manager Robert D. Cabana. The reason? “We [NASA] are not willing to train with Dennis Tito.”

In late February 2018, SpaceX announced their decision to launch at least two tourists into space by the end of the year. In response, NASA said that it “commends its industry partners for reaching higher.”

Destination Mir

A 1997 NASA report claimed that the commercial space tourism market could


costs involved, suborbital transport has much higher barriers to entry. Not only do the companies have to pay for obvious costs such as rocket development, maintenance and fuel, but also for hidden costs such as docking services, launch services, medical services, training services, supplies, and a lot more.

Unsurprisingly, only a handful of private companies can afford to work in the space. In addition to this, there are a few organisations that schedule similar trips through national agencies. Space Adventures, who planned Tito’s trip with the Russians, are the only company to have successfully launched a space tourist so far.

The Space Oligarchy

According to the New Space report, the only companies the can succesfully fund human spaceflight trips are Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and XCor. The report was published twoPortsmouth Engineer Wins State Award for Drinking Water Protection Efforts

Concord, NH - The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services (DES) announced today that Thomas Cravens of Portsmouth Water Works is the 2009 recipient of DES’s Source Water Protection Award. The award recognizes a water system, municipality, organization, or person for exemplary efforts to protect drinking water sources such as groundwater, reservoirs, and streams. DES is honoring Cravens for his many years of work to protect Portsmouth’s water supply wells and Bellamy Reservoir. Cravens will retire from his position as engineering technician at the end of June.

Drinking water protection efforts spearheaded by Cravens have included inspection and education programs, groundwater monitoring, emergency planning, and negotiating with Madbury officials regarding recreational restrictions on Bellamy Reservoir, according to DES.

“New Hampshire water


Commonwealth is such for a county and city together, or for two or more cities, the aggregate population of such political subdivisions shall be the population for the purpose of arriving at the salary of such attorney for the Commonwealth under the provisions of this paragraph and such attorney for the Commonwealth shall receive as additional compensation the sum of one thousand dollars.

B. No expenditure shall be made out of this Item for the employment of investigators, clerk-investigators or other investigative personnel in the office of an attorney for the Commonwealth.

C. Consistent with the provisions of § 19.2-349, Code of Virginia, attorneys for the Commonwealth may, in addition to the options otherwise provided by law, employ individuals to assist in collection of outstanding fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, andto judges of the circuit court. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to limit the ability of localities to supplement the salaries of locally elected constitutional officers or their employees.

E. The Statewide Juvenile Justice project positions, as established under the provisions of Item 74 E, of Chapter 912, 1996 Acts of Assembly, and Chapter 924, 1997 Acts of Assembly, are continued under the provisions of this act. The Commonwealth's attorneys receiving such positions shall annually certify to the Compensation Board that the positions are used primarily, if not exclusively, for the prosecution of delinquency and domestic relations felony cases, as defined by Chapters 912 and 924. In the event the positions are not primarily or exclusively used for the prosecution of delinquency and domestic relations felony cases,


Friday, November 30, 2007

Many Dates With Judy

For having been born too late, I missed dates with Judy far greater in number than what I’d assumed was her sole appearance in the 1948 MGM musical starring Jane Powell, just released on DVD. Turns out this character had a near twenty-year run in various media, a brand name on radio and television, plus comic books and motion pictures. What started as summer replacement forBob Hope in 1941 evolved into nine seasons of home listening. Shows like A Date With Judyrevolved around teen problems at home and among school friends, with parents baffled over juve slanguage and exhibits of immaturity, but always right in the end. According to sex-deprived boys who grew up in radio's era, the girl’s voices were aYears later, foreign negatives turned up in a vault search and suddenly we were watching Laughing Gravy, Berth Marks, Chickens Come Home and several others in Spanish and French. German has remained elusive, other than snatches of Pardon Us and a recently discovered Laurel and Hardy Murder Case. Drawers are unfortunately empty on Hog Wild, for neither foreign edition is available or known to exist. The pose shown here was typical of groupings Hal Roach arranged to publicize multiple language options for his comedy shorts. As with Greenbriar’spreviously posted shot from Blotto, it was enough to surround the comedians with various players enacting the role of screen wife. Here it’sOliver Hardy flanked by a multi-national menu of shrewish spouses, each of whom will clonk him with the same


years in the offing). I have little memory of what was said, though forearmed with those 8X10 photos purchased from Blackhawk, there were at least visual aids we could hold up to the camera as it lumbered close in upon us. And yes, the program was in living color. For purposes of context, do note the line-up on the ad Channel 4 ran in that day’s newspaper. Blaze Starr coming up on Mike Douglas, then My World and Welcome To It for the evening’s start, and Bracken’s World to wrap up NBC’s primetime feast. I was, if nothing else, keeping distinguished entertainment company that day!

Friday, November 23, 2007

Greenbriar Weekend Marquee

I knew Richard Dix was the Whistler and that William Castle directed some of the better series entries, butmy acquaintance was limited to stills and a misunderstanding that this series seldom rose above "B" levels and was thus safely ignored by latter generations. Wrong was I on several counts. First off, Dix was not himself the Whistler. That character would remain unseen, except in shadow, and would at best serve as Greek chorus for principals changing with each film. Richard Dix was the only constant, but he never repeated roles within this series. Each installment would be a tour de force and provide more variation for the actor than other leading men, even in "A" parts, might hope for in whole careers. Over seven thrillers in which he starred, Dix was sympathetic here, dangerously psychotic there. Wealthy in one, down and out in the next. Had


her public and private image since Mildred Pierce and the end of World War Two. The fact she was still able to play it with name above the title after twenty years is testament to her amazing longevity. Berserk is notable for putting Crawford front and center again after less rewarding featured and "guest star" appearances in support of others (The Best Of Everything, The Caretakers). At sixty-two, she’s brandishing trim legs and a wig pulled back likeBarrymore’s Hyde hair, creeping us out with dialogue implying (mercifully offscreen) bedroom frolics with Michael Gough and Ty Hardin. Mayhem against circus backgrounds was so common as to presumably discourage post-war youngsters from wanting to leave home and join the big top. Tent shows in thrillers of limited budget were alwaysIt may have begun with mountain climbing fads among University students. They’d pass dreary hours under the stern tutelage of martinet professors, then ascend nearby Bavarian Alps on manhood ritualized weekends. Some called it a dangerous cult, especially in hindsight when writers looked around for possible origins of the Nazi rise. Those associations, and Leni Riefenstahl’s extensive involvement with the genre, weigh like anchors upon the reputation of mountain films. Writer Siegfried Kracauer was among those first to pile on. Idolatry of glaciers and rocks was symptomatic of an antirationalism on which the Nazis could capitalize, said he in what many consider the definitive work on German film, From Caligari To Hitler. Others maintain climbing reflected heroic idealism on the part of those up to the challenge. Close


interested in film as an adjunct to his obsession with mountains. Combining the two resulted in visual poetry unknown to German directors locked inside oppressive stages. Fanck got outdoors and thrilled his public with close calls often staged at the expense of terrified actors and crew. The White Hell Of Pitz Palu was shot in early to mid-1929 among the Swiss Alps. There were hopes it would break out and find an international audience. Toward that end, star Leni Riefenstahl suggested noted director G.W. Pabst to come in and punch up the human element, Fanck being frankly better with mountains than people. Both proved ruthless (and sadistic?) taskmasters. Pabst supervised interiors and drama while Fanck took charge of hazard shooting. The latter got out of hand at times.lead her out. Sheer madness much of the time, but what got on the screen amazed and still does. Riefenstahl would achieve Euro celebrity doing these nature dramas, and according to her memoirs, American stardom beckoned by way of Josef Von Sternberg’soffer of a Paramount contract. But for not having taken that fork in the road, Leni Riefenstahl might have ended up a stateside cult figure, her legacy spared the controversy it acquired for having remained in Germany to helm Triumph Of The Will and Olympia. But could she ever have become a great director over here?

Despite its having been shot silent, and at a late date, Universal committed to US distribution and scored the first booking of a German feature in New York’s deluxe Roxy Theatre. The


White Hell Of Pitz Palu were cut down to a manageable 75 minutes from the original German (over) length of 135. Universal invested $68,922.93 in its purchase of the German negative and preparation of the two domestic versions. White Hell was available for outright purchase through Universal’s Show-At-Home library during the thirties, but was otherwise little seen afterward. It seemed the critical establishment viewed it as more of a stunt thriller than legitimate classic. The Cambridge Film Society in England played White Hell as part of a G.W. Pabst series in the early forties, and New York’s Cinema 16 ran it among that group’s alternative film offerings on November 1 and 2 of 1955. The Museum Of Modern Art listed the so-called 1935 "sound" version (a doctored Germanreissue in which voices were overdubbed to create ersatz dialogue for otherwise silent players) as part of their circulating library (there was also a 1953 remake made up of stock footage and sound stage mountain mock-ups). Universal’s Heinz Roemheld scored edition meanwhile made the rounds among latter-day collectors and was for years the version shown at conventions and buff gatherings (it's availablehere). Kino’s DVD release of the full-length German version was the long awaited opportunity to at last see White Hell Of Pitz Palu intact.

Much was mined from the frozen husk of White Hell. You could build entire serial chapters out of footage spectacular as this, and on at least two occasions, Universal did. Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe was third (and last) among serial adaptations of Alex


vintage material was woven so adroitly as to suggest it was shot fresh for the serial, and since the Flash Gordons were pretty elaborate to begin with, audiences were spared obvious mis-matches between old and new. Universal’s license in the character was unfortunately limited to the general release of the serials and several feature versions derived from these. King Features Syndicate wound up with the negatives, Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe being one that would lapse into the public domain just in time to be widely sold by 8 and 16mm distributors. The three serials played television with replaced titles. Space Soldiers was an umbrella for all the chapters and stations could strip them over weekday afternoons alongside Rocky Jones andCaptain Video, though the latter space operas looked16, 2007

The Golfing Threat

Dateline:1930. The talkie novelty’s beginning to taper off. Folks are investing recreational dollars (that is, quarters and dimes) into new fads. There was, after all, some fun to be had outside of movies. The Tom Thumb Menace lamented in the trade press was another word for miniature golf, and it was the showman’s bane from Spring 1930 until that September when the craze began subsiding. In the meantime, putting greens were shellacking boxoffices across the country. Go Out and Trade Blow For Blow With Miniature Golf advises this ad forW.C. Fields’ short comedy, The Golf Specialist, and note how RKO links its product with the ongoing national craze. Undercutting admissions was the surest weapon interlopers could use against established theatres. If a movie cost fifty


Divorcee’. Others figured on luring golfers into makeshift courses put down in mezzanines and lobby corners (as shown here). Tie-ins with civic groups led to cross-pollination between putting tournaments and moviegoing (as shown in this ad). Complementary ducats went to high scorers. As the golfing craze increased beyond putting, shorts like Warners’ Bobby Jones series inspired exhibitors to stage their own How To demonstrations in the lobby, such as one here in Milwaukee. Miniature golf would peak at 30,000 links nationwide during the thirties, with 150 of these being rooftop locations in New York City alone. My hometown’s College Park Cinema was located next to a course owned as well by the theatre’s proprietor. You could play midget golf there in the early seventies, then go next doorfrom Kino. There’s a tiny few made famous by the presence of Bing Crosby orW.C. Fields, but the majority (including those directed by George Marshall) featured names best remembered by stouthearted buffs.Franklin Pangborn headlined several, as did Walter Catlett, Babe Kane, and silent holdovers Ford Sterling and Mack Swain. Even then these were two-reelers on life support, minor and past prime clowns bailing and flailing against the spectre of bankruptcy that would eventually take Sennett and his studio down.

There was a 16mm collector and Alice Faye completist named Frank Moshier who possessed the alleged only surviving print of 365 Nights In Hollywood, and it was by way of his estate that this rarity came to be used as source material for VCI’s DVD release. George Marshall directed his


sphincter dysfunction. At the same time, in order to facilitate acceptance and feasibility, several partial scales that are well established in clinical practice were incorporated into the SSPROM. For these two reasons, SSPROM may be seen as a "scoring system". The SSPROM ranged from zero (total disability) to 100 (normal) and covered the following domains: "motor disability reported" and "examined", "sphincter dysfunction", and "presence of spasticity and hyperreflexia", and of "sensory losses".

Two domains are subjective and rely on patient (or relative) information: the motor disability and the sphincter dysfunction reported. The "motor disability reported" domain was based on the queries presented by the Overall Disability Sum Score (ODSS) ([@B17]). The "sphincter dysfunction" domain was adapted from the related subscore of FSS ([@B11]).

The other domains are related to quantitativesyndicate but a couple have come from a north west club water, one came from my annual weekend at Sandhurst Lake on the Yateley complex.

The Sandhurst trip was memorable for all the wrong reasons, I had a complete disaster of a trip!. Somehow I managed to loose 4 fish on the bounce, two on the Saturday daytime were missed runs, one in the early hours of Sunday morning to a hook pull and a fourth found a snag when I played it in at range from peg 10. The fish that found a snag was particularly hard to take because I knew it was a right lump. Despite the 4 losses I still left Sandhurst feeling like I’d just scored the winning goal in the cup final. I


Photos

Rolls of labels sit on the packaging production line at the MJF Holdings Ltd's Dilmah Tea headquarters and factory in the Peliyagoda area of Colombo, Sri Lanka, on Thursday, July 23, 2015. The island nation's gross domestic product is estimated to have grown 6 percent January-March after national accounts were rebased. Photographer: Kuni Takahashi/Bloombergthat the time of the service of claimant as a cadet in the Military Academy at West Point is to be regarded as a part of the time he served in the army within the meaning of the act of July 5, 1838, and should be counted in computing his longevity pay under that act; and that he is entitled to receive so much of the amount thereon thus computed as is not barred by the Statute of Limitations.
The provisions of the acts of Congress, relied upon as the foundation of the claim of the appellee, are as follows:
Section 15, act of July 5, 1838: "Every commissioned officer of the line or staff, exclusive of general officers, shall be entitled to receive one additional ration per diem for


officers in active service."
Act of July 15, 1870, now § 1262, Rev. Stat.: "There shall be allowed and paid to each commissioned officer below the rank of brigadier-general, including chaplains and others having assimilated rank or pay, ten per centum of their current yearly pay for each term of five years of service."
That cadets at West Point were always part of the army, and that service as a cadet was always actual service in the army, has been settled by the decision of this court in the case of United States v. Morton, 112 U.S. 1, in which a question *82 almost identical with the one now before us was presented for consideration. In that case, Morton, the claimant, had entered the United States Military Academy at WestPoint as a cadet, July 1, 1865, had graduated therefrom June 15, 1869, and had served in the army as a commissioned officer from that date until March 31, 1883. In computing his service pay the accounting officers did not allow him credit for the time he had been a cadet at West Point as part of his time of service in the army; and he accordingly brought suit in the Court of Claims under the acts of February 24, 1881, and June 30, 1882, 21 Stat. 346, and 22 Stat. 118, respectively. These acts, among other things, provided that: "Additional pay to officers for length of service, to be paid with their current monthly pay, and the actual time of service in the army or navy, or


both, shall be allowed all officers in computing their pay." The Court of Claims rendered judgment in favor of the claimant, which, on an appeal prosecuted on behalf of the United States, was affirmed by this court. In the opinion of the court it was stated that "the only question for decision is, whether the time of service as a cadet is to be regarded as `actual time of service in the army.'" The court, after an elaborate examination and discussion of the laws bearing thereon and having relation thereto, answered that question in the affirmative, and said:
"From this review of the statutes, it cannot be doubted that, before the passage of the act of July 28, 1866, (now § 1094, Rev. Stat., which in so many wordsclasses the cadets at West Point as a part of the army of the United States,) as well as afterwards, the corps of cadets of the Military Academy was a part of the army of the United States, and a person serving as a cadet was serving in the army... . The practical construction of the requirement of the act of 1838, that the cadet should engage to serve for eight years, shown by the fact that the form of the engagement in this case was to `serve in the army of the United States for eight years,' is a circumstance of weight to show that the government, from the beginning, treated the plaintiff as serving in the army. The service for which he engaged began on the


Gombe has been bombed before but has never had the fighters attempt to take it over.

Witness Abdul Hassan said soldiers ran away after the checkpoint was overwhelmed. The fighters then burned down a police station on the outskirts of the town, he said.

"I crossed a river and ran into the hills," he said. "I'm still there and I can hear the fighting."

Others were staying indoors. Witness Hussaina Maji said she was unable to leave her house for fear of being caught in cross fire.

A Nigerian fighter jet encircled the city but made no attempt to attack the fighters, another witness named Kabiru Na-Gwandu said.

He said the residents had been warned to evacuate Gombe.

Gravest threat

The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Boko Haram's struggle for anIslamic state has become the gravest security threat to Africa's biggest economy and top oil producer, killing thousands, kidnapping hundreds and increasingly threatening neighbours Cameroon, Chad and Niger - all of which are now also battling the fighters.

Nigeria has postponed a presidential election that had been due on Saturday, for six weeks, citing the security threat from the armed group.

In May 2013, the government declared a state of emergency in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe provinces, but that has failed to curb the deadly violence.


roar its disapproval. Mr. Boehner announced that the rules were approved and quickly moved on to the adoption of the party’s platform.

The loudest protests on the floor came from the back of the Texas delegation, from delegates in Lone Star shirts and white cowboy hats, and from a group adjacent to them at the far end of the hall to the right of the podium.

Advisers to Mr. Romney had proposed rules that would make it harder for a candidate like Mr. Paul to amass delegates to mount a challenge to a more established candidate.

Under the compromise, delegates would be selected by the state and local level without interference or control by the party’s presidential candidate. That would allow competing voices inside the convention, both sides said.

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Ritchie Bros. shares are down again today. The company's stock has hit a speed bump in 2017, but it should still have a bright future.

What happened?

Shares of Ritchie Bros Auctioneers, Inc.(NYSE:RBA), the world's largest seller of used heavy equipment via its location and online auctions, are tumbling 9% as of 3:20 p.m. EST after the company fell short of analysts' third-quarter profit estimates.

So what

Ritchie Bros. revenue checked in at $141 million during the third quarter, a 9% increase over the prior year, topping analysts' estimates calling for $139.4 million. However, the 9% increase was largely driven by


Red City Radio

Red City Radio is an American punk rock band from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, formed in 2007.  The band's lineup consists of Garrett Dale, Ryan Donovan, Jonathan Knight and Dallas Tidwell.

History
The band has released an EP, To the Sons and Daughters of Woody Guthrie, three full-length albums, The Dangers of Standing Still, Titles (on the Paper + Plastick label), and Red City Radio, as well as two split EPs and a digital single. The band are known for their intense live shows. In 2014, one of the band's lead singers, Paul Pendley, left the band and was replaced by Ryan Donovan, formerly in the Red Scare Industries punk band Nothington. Garrett Dale is now the band's only lead singer and songwriter. Red City Radio have touredreturn are donated back to the university and the community. Ten percent of its recycling return was donated to the ISU General Scholarship Fund. An additional 10% of the return was donated to the United Way of Story County.

DOR Donates Mattresses and Beds to Hansen House

In spring 2010, the DOR partnered with Asset Recovery and Iowa Prison Industries in providing 20 beds and 10 mattresses to The Doyle Hansen House of Hospitality in Des Moines, Iowa. The Hansen House helps recently released prisoners successfully navigate the transition to productive, peaceful and fulfilling lives.


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Ferrari needs to rally around Felipe Massa in order to lift his performances in future grands prix, according to team principal Stefano Domenicali.

Massa finished only 15th in Malaysia on Sunday, more than 95 seconds adrift of his winning team-mate Fernando Alonso.

The result extended his streak without a Formula 1 podium to 23 races.

With Ferrari Academy driver Sergio Perez - who has already been linked with a race seat with the Italian team in 2013 - finishing second, the speculation surrounding Massa's future has continued to grow.

But Domenicali refused to condemn his driver, instead insisting that it was up to the team to help re-establish the Brazilian's confidence behind the wheel and to improve the F2012 car that he has to drive.

'We need toEarlier this summer, Ghoncheh Ghavami stood outside Tehran's majestic Azadi (freedom) stadium, wearing a white scarf and holding up a placard.

With Hassan Rouhani promising a more moderate stance in Iran, she wanted to enter the stadium alongside male fans, hoping that the Islamic republic's ban on women attending big sporting events would finally be over.

As Iran's volleyball team hosted Italy later that Friday, Ghavami, 25 – who holds dual British and Iranian citizenship – was arrested with a number of other female fans who were peacefully demanding to be allowed into the match. She was released after several hours in detention but re-arrested in late June when she went back to collect her mobile phone, which had been confiscated after the protest. Nearly three months on, she remains