eclipsed the previous record for a quarter-final winning margin of 28 by South Africa against Western Samoa in 1995. By the end it was the most astonishing rout in knockout rugby history.

It was only a Nonu fumble - after one of the best all-round performances of his illustrious career - that prevented it from becoming the biggest score of the tournament. It wasn't just a statement performance, it was a spoiler: 'New Zealand are going to win the World Cup'.

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Another concept shot shows a parking toll covered in flora and moss, along with a parking sign about a two hour parking limit. Amazingly enough, some sleuths noticed that the signs and parking meter are exactly the same as the ones located in Seattle.

Eurogamer spots a few more shots that some people have compared, noting that one of the buildings in the Last of Us: Part II's art appears to be an old building from downtown Seattle.

It's


the hardships Joel and Ellie face attempting to trek their way across the zombie-infested United States. Also, a life-threatening injury that Joel suffers puts the two of them behind by some time and forces them to make a detour.

Based on the cinematic teaser trailer that Naughty Dog released during the PlayStation Experience last year, it looks like Ellie goes on a killing spree of sorts, and once again it could end up being a cross-country road trip for the duo. Given the detail in the concept art relating to the Seattle area, it wouldn't be surprising if it were one of the cities they visit. For those of you who remember, the end of the original game saw the duo settling in at Jackson County, Wyoming. So whateverThe Folklore Year - May

The picture on the left is of the Milk Maid's Dance, representing May Day celebrations.

Readers should always check with local Tourist Information Centres (TIC’s) that events or festivals are actually taking place before setting out to attend.

Permanent Dates in May

1st May

May Day and the Celtic Festival of Beltane.

Across Britain

In the calendar of the ancient Celts it is easy to understand the importance of the first day of summer. The ‘fire of Bel’, or Beltane as it was called, was celebrated with bonfires to welcome the new season. Known today as May Day, it has through the ages remained the most important day of the folklore year.

Despite being opposed through the centuries by both Church and State many May Day Celebrations survive today. Maypole dancing,


with its sinister hints of tree worship, was described by the Puritans as ‘a heathenish vanity’ and was accordingly banned. Dancing did not start again until after the restoration of Charles II.

Other ways to welcome the summer include the crowning of the May Queen, the mad antics of Jack-in-the-Green and the rampaging of the Hobby Horses.

At six o’clock in the morning the school choir celebrates by singing a hymn of thanksgiving Te Deum Patrem Collimus from Magdalen College Tower. The college bells sound and Morris Dancing starts in the streets below.

It is thought that this ceremony replaces a requiem held in the tower until the Reformation.

The Puritans were responsible for tearing down hundreds of village maypoles throughout England and Wales. Despite all attempts to remove these symbols ofboats in Abbotsbury, children parade the garlands through the village.

19th May

St Dunstan’s Day

Dunstan was an Anglo-Saxon saint; he was born a few miles from Glastonbury in Somerset, around 909AD. His father was a Wessex nobleman of royal blood.

When Athelstan died his successor Edmund named Dunstan as Abbot of Glastonbury.

Dunstan acted as a royal advisor. In 955 however, Dunstan argued with the young King Eadwig, who confiscated Dunstan's property and exiled the monk.

Dunstan was called back to England by Edgar, king of Northumbria and Mercia. Under Edgar's influence Dunstan became Bishop of Worcester, and when Eadwig died in 960, Dunstan was named Archbishop of Canterbury. Dunstan arranged the details of Edgar's coronation as king, which remains the basis of royal coronations today.

When he died in 988 Dunstan became the


most popular English saint of his day and his tomb became a place of pilgrimage.

These celebrations commemorate the escape of Charles II after the Battle of Worcester in 1651. He escaped his pursuers by hiding in an oak tree whilst they searched the ground below. In 1660 Charles proclaimed Arbor Day, when the trees were to be dressed.

29th May

Founder’s Day

Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London

Chelsea Pensioners parade in front of a Reviewing Officer and three cheers are given for Charles II, who established the Royal Hospital as a home for old soldiers. His statue is decorated with oak leaves in memory of his escape.

Charles’s escape from the pursuing Roundheads is remembered with a procession through the village. The Monarch astride his horse makes his way through the village to theMarket Square for some maypole dancing.

In 1603 the villagers were granted the rights to collect wood from Grovely Forest for all time. They celebrate this by marching to the forest once a year. They return with large branches of oak, chanting "Grovely, Grovely and all Grovely" and carrying a banner bearing the words "Grovely, Grovely and all Grovely. Unity is Strength!” After this there is a procession and fete.

Dating back to 1864 the current festival starts with a procession led by the Town Crier. When the crowds reach Knutsford Heath the May Queen is crowned and the festivities commence.

The origins of the festival are thought to relate back to a much earlier custom known as ‘Sanding the Streets’. This legend recalls an event in 1017, when King Canute


gained victory over the Scots. After fording a stream the king paused to shake the sand from his shoes, he blessed a newly married couple who just happened to cross his path, wishing them as many children as the grains of sand at their feet.

Walsingham became a major centre of pilgrimage in the 11th century, following a vision of the Virgin Mary to a Saxon noblewoman, Lady Richeldis de Faverches. A priory was built on the site, which grew in importance until its destruction in the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539.

The shrine was restored in 1931, and modern pilgrims continue to visit it.

Whit Sunday

Bread and Cheese Dole

St Briavels, Gloucestershire

The ‘dole’ small pieces of bread and cheese are thrown to members of the congregation leavingwas an occasion marked with civic fanfare: a 20-piece marching band, a parade which stretched as far as Powell Street, and the attendance of dignitaries from all levels of government and industry, including provincial secretary John Robson and Canadian Pacific Railway superintendent Harry Abbott.

It was a moment crystallized in city history, the park hailed as an enduring natural paradise amid the bustle of urban life. But for many at the time the land was not only a paradise: it was a home. And in the decades that followed, aspects of Stanley Park's evolution were anything but natural.

"In the late 19th century, when the park opened, a number of things would have looked very different," explains Sean Kheraj, author of Inventing Stanley Park: An Environmental History.

Including the forest itself.


Following a series of insect infestations in the early part of the 20th century, entomologists advocated the removal of blocks of hemlock and spruce, replacing them with a greater proportion of Douglas fir. The fir was considered a more resilient, more insect resistant, and more aesthetically pleasing tree.

"As a result the treeline of the park today is a lot puffier and smoother than it was in the 19th century," Kheraj says.

Lost Lagoon, so named by poet Pauline Johnson at the turn of the 20th century, is also far from natural; originally a part of Coal Harbour, it was little more than a brackish tidal flat which virtually disappeared at low tide, one which park visitors crossed via a rickety footbridge.

"The shifting tides of Lost Lagoon were problematic forthe park board," Kheraj notes, "as well as a lot of ordinary parkgoers, because it created this unsightly, and actually smelly, environment right at the entrance to the park, which was the most popular spot."

In order to solve the problem of access, and the unsightly nature of the lagoon itself, the park board created the Stanley Park Causeway in 1916, permanently sealing it off from the rest of Coal Harbour. The modifications didn't end there. By the 1930s, Lost Lagoon's salt water would be drained and replaced with fresh water, in an attempt to stock it with trout for use as a fisherman's preserve.

It was by no means the only peculiar Stanley Park improvement scheme considered by the park board. For much of the 20th century, the city


fielded all sorts of bizarre suggestions, including an electric tram line around the seawall, an elevator at Prospect Point, a Four Seasons Hotel at Devonian Harbour Park, a tunnel through Siwash Rock, a mill on Deadman's Island, and a half-acre, $600,000 artificial island in the middle of Lost Lagoon proposed as the new home of Theatre Under the Stars.

At the time, such changes were not considered unusual; they were part of the prevailing philosophy concerning the management of urban parks, which considered the wilderness something to be tamed and cultured, an "improved" version of nature manicured by human intervention.

"They were embodying ideas of 'modernity' in Canada at that time, that nature could be rationalized through science and active management," Kheraj notes.

"There was this sense that the forest wasdeficient for Vancouverites in the early 20th century, so science was applied to improve the 'deficient' qualities of the natural environment. And similarly, the Coal Harbour entrance was subject to the same kind of thinking about modernizing the wilderness."

Bargain squirrels

Not only were plant species regularly added and replaced in the Stanley Park of the early 20th century; so too were members of the peninsula's animal population. In addition to animals kept in the park zoo (including several deer and a bear notable for its repeated escapes), the park board introduced one particular creature in 1911, which has since become more widespread than any other.

"We received word this morning that one of our trappers had shipped to you one dozen of grey squirrels," reads a 1910 letter addressed to


Chairman C.E. Tisdall sending letters of inquiry to parks all over North America and Europe. Grey squirrels had proved popular in urban parks the world over (most notably in New York's Central Park), for their pleasant appearance and tourist appeal. However, Tisdall had underestimated the demand for non-native species in city parks worldwide (a demand filled by firms such as Wenz & Mackensen, whose brochure contained all manner of ordinary and exotic fauna), and as a result, none were available for purchase.

After more than 12 months of searching, the squirrels (which cost only $16, because "they were shipped to you without an order") were released in the early part of 1911, and have since spread to all corners of British Columbia. Their population within the park now numbersmore than a thousand.

Forgotten families

The acquisition of the Stanley Park lands from the federal government was viewed as a significant victory for the fledgling city of Vancouver. With urban greenspaces already a fashionable concept across Europe and North America, it was seen by many as the logical next step in the evolution of the city's character. However, there were also other more significant factors at play, chiefly land values and the CPR.

"When the railway came through, everybody wanted a piece of the action," explains Jean Barman, an expert on the history of the area and author of the award-winning Stanley Park's Secret: The Forgotten Families of Whoi-Whoi, Kanaka Ranch, and Brockton Point.

"The whole idea was to make money out of urban development, and certainly making money out of


the coming of the rail line. And the city officials of early Vancouver were very closely linked by business relationships -- and in some cases even by blood -- they were relatives of people who were very important in the CPR. So, there were various maneuverings."

Among the "maneuverings" Barman mentions was an outright attempt to acquire the park for residential development. The railway was already heavily invested in Vancouver real estate, having coerced and bullied both government and private landowners into granting them land to sell. In early January 1885, CPR vice-president W.C. Van Horne wrote the federal government to request transfer of much of the Stanley Park lands for the railway, for real estate purposes. But the Dominion of Canada still considered it necessary for national defence(in the event of an American attack), and his request was refused.

Rebuffed in its attempts to secure the land, and fearful that the release of such large portions of property would ultimately drive their own land values down, the company used its influence in civic government to ensure that the property would remain permanently off of the market.

Of little concern to the CPR was the fact that dozens of people still called the area home. According to official surveys conducted at the time, there were more than 40 people living on the land at the time it was officially designated as a park.

August Jack Khatsalano, at whose home the opening celebrations were held, had family living in the area for at least three generations. The land on which


his house stood was part of a First Nations village known as Chaythoos, one of a number of indigenous settlements scattered across the Stanley Park peninsula. The largest of these, known as Xwayxway (pronounced "Whoi Whoi"), was at one time home to more than 100 people, with potlatches held there as late as 1875 -- though habitation in the area likely went back as far as 3,000 years.

Following the land's official designation as a park, most of its inhabitants were unceremoniously removed by survey and clearing crews, without remuneration. Some, including August Jack himself, would find their gardens, fences, and properties vandalized or destroyed by survey crews.

As Sarah Avison, daughter of the city's first park ranger would recall, other families were even less fortunate.

"The Park Board ordered theChinamen to leave the park," Avison explained, in an interview with city archivist J.S. Matthews, "but the Chinamen would not go, so the Park Board told my father to set fire to the buildings... What happened to the Chinese I do not know, but the pigs were set loose and the bull untied, and they got lost in the forest of Stanley Park, and they could not track them down until the snow fell. Then my Dad tracked them down, and they shot them in the bushes, and the bull's head was cut off, and my father had it stuffed and set up in our hallway in our house, the 'Park Cottage.'"

The last of Stanley Park's families remained until the early 1930s, when, after a case that was


argued all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada, their land rights (claimed through adverse possession) were ruled invalid. The only residents who were allowed to remain were Tim and Agnes Cummings, who lived out their lives in the family's cottage near Brockton Point. They were a familiar sight in the Stanley Park of the era, Tim working in the garden and Agnes running a successful tailor shop on Granville Street.

"[The park board] said: 'Neither one of them is married, and they really look very old, and they're not going to live very long," historian Barman chuckles. "And, of course, then they lived another 20 years, until the beginning of the 1950s."

Rebirth and rejuvenation

The Stanley Park of today, while still managed, is cared for in a faruntil 2010."

While most of the city-sponsored celebrations for the park's 125th anniversary have past, the future of the most photographed place in the country has, over its long history, become irrevocably tied to the future of Vancouver itself.

"A city that has been carved out of the forest should maintain somewhere within its boundaries evidence of what it once was," declared a 1939 editorial in the Vancouver News-Herald. "And so long as Stanley Park remains unspoiled, that testimony to the giant trees which occupied the site of Vancouver in former days will remain."


Alan Sellathamby graduated from the University of Toronto four years ago. Armed with a degree in political science and philosophy, he scoured job boards in the hopes of landing an entry-level civil service job—maybe a junior policy analyst or even a position in a passport office. But in the aftermath of the Great Recession, his prospects were bleak. “Any of the positions I would look for wanted someone with experience in the field,” he says. “Even if it was an entry-level position, they would want two or three years experience.”

Fast forward to 2014 and little has changed. The economy is better, but Sellathamby still works in the same bookstore he did while attending university. And he’s one of the lucky ones. The youth unemployment rate remains stuck atpayed for him to play me for it, and all I got was an abusive tirade when I subsequently beat him. Not one of the multiple onlookers stopped him, or said anything, including the staff at the arcade. Years later in one of my MMORPGs a fellow member of my guild asked my character to marry his. When I denied his request, he verbally attacked me in PMs and on the guild chat. When I blocked him, he took to demeaning me and threatening me on the guild forums. I left the guild, and subsequently the game, as he began creating characters for the sole intention of harassing me in the game. When I went to go check out an RPG gaming hall with some friends, myself and


the commitment of U.S. ground troops. In August 1995 Clinton vetoed legislation to lift the arms embargo. (In fact, the Bosnian Muslims had been receiving arms from outside sources.) Meanwhile, although it had stated consistently that it would not send U.S. ground forces to Bosnia, in December 1994 the Clinton administration expressed willingness to commit troops to help rescue UN peacekeepers in Bosnia if they were withdrawn. In May 1995, after the Bosnian Serbs had taken about 3,000 peacekeepers hostage, the United States, France, Germany, and Russia resolved to provide a larger and better-equipped UN force.

Applying strong pressure, in November 1995 the United States persuaded the presidents of Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia to attend a conference in Dayton, Ohio, that after much contention produced a peace agreement, formallyto place kitchen accessories in a small space.

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season, Amy gets wrapped up in the proposed deportation of a Mexican mother of two; in the second season, her actions lead to a legal immigrant being fired from his job. (He, not realizing what she’s done, rails at her about how this country will never accept him.) Amy’s blissful journey through rehab in the series’ pilot is echoed in the more down-to-earth rehab journey of her ex-husband Levi (Luke Wilson, whose laconic nature is used perfectly), who goes looking for the meaning Amy found and is unable to achieve it, and instead chooses to trust in the reflections of that meaning he sees in her. And—without spoiling—Amy’s rampage that opened the series is mirrored in several small moments in Sunday’s second-season finale.

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US, Britain, France launch air strikes in Syria

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US, British and French forces hammered Syria with air strikes early Saturday Syria time in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers in Syria's civil war.
Britain's Ministry of Defence said the strike against Syria on Saturday had been aimed at a military facility where the Syrian government was assessed to have stockpiled chemicals.
US President Donald Trump announced the military action from the White House late on Friday. As he spoke, explosions rocked Damascus.
Trump said he was prepared to sustain the response until the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad stopped its use of chemical weapons.
The intervention was the biggest strike by


Western powers against Assad in the country’s seven-year-old civil war and pitted the United States and its allies against Russia, which itself intervened in the war in 2015 to back Assad.
"A short time ago, I ordered the United States Armed Forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad," Trump said in a televised address from the White House.
A US official told Reuters the strikes were aimed at multiple targets and involved Tomahawk cruise missiles.
At least six loud explosions were heard in Damascus in the early hours of Saturday and smoke was seen rising over the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said. A second witness said the Barzah district of Damascus had been hit in the strikes. Barzah isthe location of a major Syrian scientific research centre.
Speaking of Assad and his suspected role in last week's chemical weapons attack, Trump said, "These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead."
"The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons," Trump said.
The US president had sharply critical words for both Russia and Iran, which have backed Assad's government.
"To Iran and to Russia, I ask, what kind of a nation wants to be associated with the mass murder of innocent men, women and children?" Trump said.
British Prime Minister Theresa May said she had authorized British armed forces "to conduct coordinated and targeted strikes to degrade the Syrian regime's chemical weapons capability."


Swiss regulator approves Beznau 1 restart

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Swiss utility Axpo has received regulatory approval to bring unit 1 of the Beznau nuclear power plant (KKB) back into service this month after evidence it submitted last December proved aluminium oxide inclusions in the reactor pressure vessel do not affect the unit's safety.

Beznau unit 1 (Image: ENSI)

he RPV was manufactured in the Creusot Forge in France in the 1960s. According to the production guidelines at that time, aluminium was added during the casting process to facilitate oxygen bonding.

Switzerland's Federal Nuclear Safety Inspectorate (ENSI) said today: "This marks the successful completion of an extensive testing and analysis process. With the supervisory authority's approval of the safety case, Axpo can now demonstrate that the safety of the RPV of unit 1 isit was possible to prove that these were non-metallic inclusions (aluminium-oxide) that occurred during the manufacturing process, and that can also form larger conglomerations," it said.

Axpo looked for comparable base material to carry out strength tests as a basis for the structural-mechanical analyses on the integrity of the RPV, but no comparable material in sufficient quantity was available anywhere in the world, ENSI said. As a result, Axpo decided to have a replica of RPV ring C made by a forge in the UK.

"As anticipated, subsequent analyses found that this ring exhibited the same material properties as the existing ring," ENSI said. "With the replica it was possible to experimentally verify the source of the ultra-sonic detections."

The replica was also used as a basis to create material samples,


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Law, ch. 134, SLA 1953 (codified as amended at AS 34.10.010-.240 (repealed 1978)). This act was designed in part to return abandoned land to the State.
Earle Foster, the second claimant, bases his claim on a provision in the Land Registration Law that the record owner at the time of foreclosure or his assigns can repurchase the land for a nominal fee. AS 34.10.220(a). Foster maintains that he is an assign of the record owner at the time of foreclosure and that the State has wrongfully refused to allow him to repurchase the properties.
John Schnabel, the third claimant, asserts title to only one of the three parcels. His claim is by adverse possession: Schnabel's predecessor-in-interest, and then Schnabel himself, actively mined the parcel from 1954 until recently. Schnabel cannot


gain title by adverse possession against the State. However, he claims that the State's foreclosure was unconstitutional due to lack of notice, and thus was void. If the foreclosure was void, Schnabel's adverse possession was against a private owner, not the State.
The superior court found for the State. As for Foster, the court found that he has no right to repurchase, since it is not clear who the record owner was at the time of foreclosure and whether Foster is an assign of the record owner. As for Schnabel, the superior court did not reach his constitutional argument. Instead, the court held that he lacks standing to challenge the validity of the foreclosure, and furthermore, that such a challenge is barred by the doctrine of laches.
Both Foster andHe filed the complaint which initiated this suit in April, 1982, seeking to compel the State to allow him to repurchase the properties. John Schnabel and the State were among the defendants. In its answer to the complaint, the State alleged that Foster had failed to exhaust his administrative remedies.
In January of 1983, Foster pursued his administrative remedies by filing applications with the Department of Natural Resources ("DNR") to repurchase the properties. He presented evidence of the chain of title, attempting to show that he was an assign of the former record owner and eligible to repurchase under AS 34.10.220. The DNR denied his applications because he failed to clearly establish who the record owner was at the time of foreclosure, and whether Foster was an assign of


appreciate the distinction between the `record owner' and the `assign' of the record owner." Foster admits that it is unclear which of two people was the record owner at the time of foreclosure. But, he claims the uncertainty is irrelevant since he is the assign of both of them. Thus, Foster claims that he is eligible to repurchase. Furthermore, he asserts in his brief that "there is no requirement in the Land Registration Law that the `assign' of the record owner be of record."
The administrative decision does not indicate that the DNR considered only evidence from the land records. Rather, the decision indicates in great detail that Foster simply failed to establish both who the record owner was, and whether Foster is an assign (either on or offPalpation of the lateral pterygoid region in TMD--where is the evidence?
Palpation of the lower head of the lateral pterygoid muscle is included in many study protocols and examination schemes of the masticatory system. The aim of this investigation was to search the medical/dental literature to find evidence for the validity and reliability of this diagnostic procedure. A systematic search was carried out using different electronic databases (Medline Ovid, PubMed, Cochrane Library, Embase, Current Contents Connect, Science Citation Index, Web of Science, Japana Centra Revuo Medicina), supplemented by handsearch in selected journals and by examination of the bibliographies of the identified articles. As far as the palpability of the inferior head of the lateral pterygoid muscle is concerned, five publications representing four studies could be identified. According to these


UK Blames Student Newspaper For Decline In Sexual Assault Reports

LEXINGTON, KY (LEX 18) - According to a recent court filing, a University of Kentucky official blames a recent decrease in sexual harassment and assault reports on the student newspaper.

In the affidavit filed this week by the University, 59 people reported sexual assault or harassment to the Violence Intervention and Prevention Center last fall.

The University said in that same time period this year, 21 fewer people came forward. Intervention program coordinator Ashley Rouster said in the court filing that "new students to the VIP center have asked pointed questions regarding who will find out their reports and specifically fear their story might appear in the paper."

In a statement sent out to students Monday, University President Eli Capilouto made similarcontrol of their story," Kirk said.

Several journalism groups criticized the University's actions, saying they won't stand up in court. One pointed out that these students are examples of true journalism.

"They've done nothing wrong," said John Nelson of the Society of Professional Journalists Bluegrass Chapter. "What they have done right is that they have exposed the way the university handles situations."

LEX 18 asked the University of Kentucky for past statistics of reported sexual assaults. A spokesperson provided numbers from fall 2013 and 2014, which showed a decline of 28 VIP clients. The University says the decline is due to a change in how UK handled Title IX complaints and investigations.

The FBI has arrested several NCAA basketball staff members in a sports apparel corruption investigation. According to NBC News, 4


Police trooper and a road crew has surfaced, spurring an internal investigation. The video was shot Sunday night by Justin Gaddis, a member of a road crew on Dixie Highway near the Patton Museum in Hardin County. Gaddis said the man in the video ignored the slow sign, the safety light, and the cones marking the lane. A paving crew employee eventually yelled at him to slow down. "He basi...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A concerning video involving an off-duty Kentucky State Police trooper and a road crew has surfaced, spurring an internal investigation. The video was shot Sunday night by Justin Gaddis, a member of a road crew on Dixie Highway near the Patton Museum in Hardin County. Gaddis said the man in the video ignored the slowsign, the safety light, and the cones marking the lane. A paving crew employee eventually yelled at him to slow down. "He basi...

NASHVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18/Taste of Country) - Country music star and Kentucky native Eddie Montgomery has released a statement on the death of bandmate and friend Troy Gentry. Gentry was killed in a helicopter crash on September 8 hours before the group was scheduled to perform in Medford, N.J. Social media accounts belonging to the group and Montgomery have been silent since Gentry's funeral. Montgomery released a statement to Nashville outlet, Taste of Country, talking about hi...

NASHVILLE, Ky. (LEX 18/Taste of Country) - Country music star and Kentucky native Eddie Montgomery has released a statement on the death of bandmate and friend Troy Gentry. Gentry was


DELHI: There are no takers for close to 6 lakh homes in the country, forcing builders to cut prices and dole out freebies, which many hope will herald the much-awaited correction in the home market ahead of the festival season.

With the economy in a mess, the rupee caught in a whirlwind and the job scene deteriorating by the day, buyers are shying away from the market, leaving builders to grapple with an inventory of over 700 million sq ft. By end of June 2013, cumulative nationwide unsold inventory was 670 million sq ft, up 54 million sq ft in just one quarter, says property research firm Liases Foras.

According to the National Housing Bank's (NHB) residential housing index, Residex, 22 of the 26 cities it tracks have seen adecline in home prices in the April to June quarter. Prices are expected to fall further, says NHB Chairman RV Verma. "Developers are now willing to take a haircut on their margins," he says.

There are signs the bubble will finally burst. A 1,100 sq ft apartment in Noida Extension that cost around Rs 42 lakh a few months ago can today be bought for around Rs 37 lakh, as the builder is agreeing to a 10% discount.

Across town near Gurgaon's Dwarka Manesar Expressway, a 1,200 sq ft apartment can be had for Rs 77 lakh as compared to a86 lakh six months ago. gFor a first-time home buyer, this is the right time to buy as developers are under pressure and are willing to reduce prices and also


a broker, a relative or the Internet? Most urban Indians research online first these days, which is why property portals are increasingly in demand. The portals have become a key tool for research on buying, selling and leasing residential or commercial properties in many parts of the country, and the amount of information on these sites is increasing.

DELHI: The Land Bill, passed in the Lok Sabha on Thursday, may ensure transparency and fair compensation for farmers, but the slowdown-hit real estate sector feels it will add to project costs and lead to execution delays. The Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2012 replaces a 120-year-old law.

DELHI: India Inc today termed the Land Acquisition Bill passed in Lok Sabha as a "retrograde"step, saying it could have "adverse consequences" on the country's industrial and infrastructural development.

DELHI: With the passage of the land bill, cost of acquiring land will go up, Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said but dismissed as "exaggerated and overblown" the industry's fear about the measure.

DELHI: The LARR Bill is expected to majorly affect the development of large infrastructure development projects, industrial projects, integrated township projects and if they are brought under the ambit of this law.


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Kellyanne Conway, senior counselor to President-elect Donald Trump, arrives at Trump Tower in New York City earlier this week.

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By Leonard Pitts Jr.

How about if we let Jesus answer Kellyanne Conway?

Donald Trump's indefatigable apologist was at it again Monday on CNN, defending her boss against, of all people, Meryl Streep. The 19-time Oscar nominee got under Trump's famously thin skin with a speech at Sunday night's Golden Globes.

In it, she chastised him for, among other things, mocking Serge F. Kovaleski, a New York Times reporter who has arthrogryposis, a congenital condition that causes abnormal muscle development and severely restricted joint movements. Trump, lying as is his wont, has frequently denied what he did, even though the proof is as near as a Google search.

He denied it againAn all-star punk band called The Stalkers has crawled out from behind the heap of shit music and MOR. It's punk, mate, like what they used to make when punk was bloody, messy and impassioned. It's about hooks and fast tunes. It's about rock 'n roll. Up front singing is a guy rumoured to be from a long line of Samoan royalty, Raymond Lalotoa.
Next to him on sharing principal songwriting duties is guitarist and Regurgitator frontman, Mr Ben Ely. With Quan from Regurgitator interned in a Swiss rehab centre, it's been up to Ben to keep the rock flag flying. On bass, please step forward Korean Australian Ray Ahn. Bass player in bands including Nunchukka Superfly, Testicle Candy and The Hard-Ons, Ray reckons that "In Australia, if you


of professional photographers to work their magic? Nikon's done just that, handing off its just-announced D300s to noted photojournalist Ami Vitale and sports photographer Robert Bösch. The pair submitted stil...

Well well, Nikon managed to keep the big secret about the new D300s under wraps even as everything else was leaked in the past few weeks: the new $1,799.95 body will shoot 24fps 720p video with contrast-detect autofocus and offers an external mic input. That's basically every would-be DSLR videogra...

Nikon's D300s seems to be having a hard time staying out of the viewfinder of other cameras, as the DSLR has popped up both in a nondescript close-up shot and in the hands of the president of a Nikon distributor at a Nikon Club gather in the Philippines. Same observationsCoalition plan could be more suitable, considering the construction delays Labor has faced.

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Mark Gregory, senior lecturer at RMIT University's school of electrical and computer engineering, said the Coalition's policy would harm Australia's economy and not future-proof the country's internet infrastructure. ''They're going to be putting Australia behind the rest of the world,'' Dr Gregory said of the Coalition plan. ''That's going to harm the next generation of Australians. It's also going to harm Australian business.''

Steve Dalby, of internet provider iiNet, which uses Labor's NBN, said he preferred Labor's plan. ''Fibre-to-the-premises is where it needs to be,'' he said.

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sense of duty that he
was raised with. The distinction
between what is humane and what
is not is no longer obvious to him. He's
a strong warrior physically. He describes
himself as kind of flawless. Ndiaye enacts
brutal revenge on the enemy taking
severed hands as trophies. When he first
brings these back to the trenches his
comrades are cheering him on. You know
he's on their side.
He's terrifying but he's on their side.
But as it continues - so I can't remember
by what number they're scared but
like by the fourth or fifth they're
starting to go 'okay there's something
wrong here', and they're getting quite
scared of him themselves.
He sees how two-faced the army machine
is. On the one hand he's expected to rush
out onto the battlefield and mercilessly
slaughter his enemies. He's supposed to
be a killing machine. And then on the
other,addressed or examined but
there are several indicators throughout
the book that he actually feels quite
guilty about this. His mother didn't want
to go to the home. It seems that he put
her there simply because she was
becoming inconvenient to have around. He
did visit her at first but when she dies
it's actually been a long time since he
has visited her. He goes to her funeral.
He's tired and restless.
He appears emotionless to the staff and
residents. He doesn't cry. He dozes off. He
smokes in front of the body.
He has a cafe au lait which suggests
that he isn't even bothered trying to stay
awake. His apparent callous lack of [adherence to]
social convention is not meant to shock
or offend. He behaves the way that it is
comfortable for him. The world he lives
in is very hypocritical. The problem


is
not that he put the mother in a home.
It's that he doesn't behave as he should
at the funeral.
There are certain norms that one must
adhere to. Meursault does not adhere to
these norms. Not because he disagrees
with them.
He doesn't have any interior judge or
examiner. So he doesn't examine the
actions of others anymore and he would
examine the actions of himself.
This lack of examination leads to a lack
of awareness of what behavior is
required in any given situation. And at
the same time he's likable guy. He's
approachable. He doesn't judge and he is
inoffensive to all who approach him. When
he goes back to the city we see the kind
of life he leads and it's quite pleasant.
He hooks up with the girl, Marie, who he
used to work with. When she asks him if
he loves her hehim.
Later Meursault is just walking sort of
aimlessly in the burning hot midday
sun. And he happens to
find himself in front of the brother
again. Who was just on the beach
reclining, in the shade of a rock, just
smoking taking it easy. He sees Meursault.
So he grabs a hold of his knife. He
ends up flashing it at Meursault. And then
Meursault without any real intention just
being reactive to his addled senses,
they're addled by the heat and by the
light and everything and just the tense
situation. He ends up shooting the
brother. And then he fires a further four
shots into the man's body. Meursault is
arrested. He isn't very concerned, he
considers the matter very simple. The
first lawyer he has isn't worried either -
at first - and then he speaks to Meursault. It
should be simple to get Meursault
acquitted.


to
represent the society's invitation to
Meursault to welcome him back to the fold.
Meursault is an affable guy. They don't
want to execute him. They just want him
to express remorse, play by the rules of
the game, and we will grant you the
appeal and we can all move on. That's
really what they're saying to him. Meursault
who has accepted his execution as inevitable
at this stage is upset by the chaplain's
hollow-sounding words. He ends up losing
his temper and for the first time in the
novel - the first and only time in the
novel - we see strong emotion from him. He
rages at the chaplain, insulting him. The
novel ends with Meursault hoping that there
will be a large crowd at his execution
and that they will greet him with cries
of hatred. The society condemns Meursault
for the sole reasonnice
romantic elements. It's very light. It's
very sweet. The Extraordinary Journey of
the Fakir who got Trapped in an Ikea
Wardrobe.
And then the last one is L'Art de
perdre which is The Art of Losing by Alice
Zeniter. Um I have not finished reading
this yet. This is not a book to read
quickly. It's rich in detail and feelings
and thoughts. It's thought-provoking
and it's very feeling inducing as well.
It is a book to savor. It is excellent.
I'm less than a third of the way through.
I'm on chapter 19 but I already feel
like I'm reading a classic. It's life.
It's specifically about the life of
three generations of a family, an
Algerian family who moved to France, so
they
are then French-Algerian. The prologue is
about Naima a young French Algerian
woman who is dealing with a hangover and
recurring thoughts that she remembers
the


commercials are accurate. Under the law, they say, members of Congress would be removed from the federal program that provides health insurance to most federal employees and retirees. Repealing the law, they say, would restore that coverage.

Republicans say that the attacks are unfounded, and that the Democrats are misrepresenting the effect of the law on coverage for retired members of Congress.

In any event, the criticism, if it sticks, could be politically damaging. Lawmakers of both parties have often said their goal is to provide all Americans with health insurance as good as what Congress has.

In a typical ad, the campaign of Ann McLane Kuster, the Democratic candidate for Congress in the Second District of New Hampshire, says that Representative Charles Bass, the incumbent Republican, “voted to cut Medicarecaught 5 of the 7 balls thrown his way (and one that didn't count because of a phantom offensive pass interference call in the endzone - and it was awesome to hear norv "my brother is ron" turner whining about the call at halftime).

it came down to the 2 minute warning with a 3rd and 6 from the kc 10. a blitzer got a finger on the ball to knock it down. 4th and 6. ball thrown to porter in the endzone, who has a step on his receiver, but can't bring it down. chiefs win.

amazingly, they never throw the ball to randy on the final series. i mean sure kc was covering him, but they were doing that all game, he is just that good.

also in the


type in a semiconductor substrate, opposite to each other through a channel region of a first conductance type; and a two-storied gate electrode having a floating gate and a control gate, formed through a gate insulating film on the channel region of the first conductance type, the method comprising the steps of: setting the channel region of the first conductance type at a first voltage level; setting one of the first and second diffused layers at a second voltage level; setting the other of the first and second diffused layers at a third voltage level; setting the control gate at the first, second, or a fourth voltage level; injecting into the floating gate a part of charges flowing in the channel region with respect to the transistor flowingthrough a channel region of the first conductance type; a two-storied gate electrode composed of a floating gate and a control gate formed through a gate insulating film on the channel region of the first conductance type; and an electric field buffer layer of the second conductance type, formed within the first conductance region between at least one of the first and second diffused layers and the channel region, wherein the first conductance region is formed by containing the electric field buffer layer and the diffused layer adjacent thereto, and wherein the diffused layer adjacent to the electric field buffer layer does not overlap with the two-storied gate electrode.
Here, the second conductance concentration of the electric field buffer layer is lower than that of the diffused layer adjacent


the two-storied gate electrode; forming a first conductance region at a predetermined depth by an impurity injection with a higher concentration than the substrate so as to contain at least the diffused layer; forming sidewalls on the two sides of the two-storied gate by anisotropic etching after depositing an insulating film on the whole surface; and forming first and diffused layers of the second conductance within the range of the predetermined depth by an impurity injection through a mask of the two-storied gate electrode and the sidewalls, thereby forming part of the diffused layer into an electric field buffer layer.
Here, the step of forming the first conductance region may be carried out by an injection angle within thirty degrees to a normal line of the substrate.
According to anof: verifying erase or write performance of the transistor at a predetermined threshold value or less; setting the channel region of the first conductance type at a first voltage level; setting one of the first and second diffused layers at a second voltage level; setting the other of the first and second diffused layers at a third voltage level; setting the control gate at the first, second or a fourth voltage level; and injecting into the floating gate a part of charges flowing in the channel region with respect to the transistor flowing a channel current, based on a setting that a voltage difference between the first voltage level and the second voltage level is larger in absolute value than both that between the first voltage level and


COLUMBIA, Mo. – A University of Missouri researcher and his colleague have conducted a review that casts doubt on the accuracy of a popular theory that attempted to explain why there are more men than women in top levels of mathematic fields. The researchers found that numerous studies claiming that the stereotype, "men are better at math" – believed to undermine women's math performance – had major methodological flaws, utilized improper statistical techniques, and many studies had no scientific evidence of this stereotype.

This theory, called stereotype threat, was first published in 1999 in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. Essentially, the theory is that due to the stereotype that women are worse than men in math skills, females develop a poor self-image in this area, which leads tomathematics underachievement.

"The stereotype theory really was adopted by psychologists and policy makers around the world as the final word, with the idea that eliminating the stereotype could eliminate the gender gap," said David Geary, Curators Professor of Psychological Sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science. "However, even with many programs established to address the issue, the problem continued. We now believe the wrong problem is being addressed."

In the study, Geary and Giljsbert Stoet, from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, examined 20 influential replications of the original stereotype theory study. The researchers found that many subsequent studies had serious scientific flaws, including a lack of a male control group and improperly applied statistical techniques.

"We were surprised the researchers did not subject males to the


Unlike our
president, a king was completely sovereign and answered to no earthly
authority apart from himself. The king did what the king's heart desired . .
. yet, what does the verse say? God turns the kings heart like diverting a
stream of water. As a child
spent hours and hours playing in the water . . . built dams, made pools,
diverted the flow of little streams this way or that. God's controlling
the heart of the king is that
way. Proverbs 16:9 says, "
The mind of man plans his way

, But the LORD directs his
steps. We make our
plans, we seek to execute our plans, but things always turn out according to
God's plans.

Handout

What or who will determine
the outcome of election in America Tuesday?

What does the Bible have
to say about God's involvement in American politics?

Proverbsvisited various other house-orientated soundscapes.

It would appear that a line can now be drawn, however. Inspired by the acquisition of a new sampler, Baker has returned to a more European techno sound, a long-considered move that's in evidence with the release of his Chapter One EP and the birth of his BKR Projekt, a title that serves as the basis for both his new imprint and his latest production moniker. Having uncovered his sonic direction, and feeling more inspired than ever, these are exciting times for Baker. His latest release, the excellent three-track Ebony EP, provides a snippet of the stripped-back techno-orientated sound he now wishes to pursue, further supported by a second EP that's scheduled for a September release. To learn more about the inspirations behind the


Def Leppard had never played Love Bites together in the same room when it hit the top of the charts back in 1988, says guitarist Phil Collen.

The song was just one of seven smash hit singles from 1987’s Hysteria – and was their only track to make it to no.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

But in a new interview with Spotify's Under Cover podcast, Collen says they struggled to pull the song together following its release as they had recorded it piecemeal in the years before the album’s release.

He says: “We’d never played Love Bites together when we released it. It was a studio song. We did bits and pieces here, and the next year we did some in another studio and tracked crazy vocals.

“We release it andThat was an accomplishment, because the Orioles had entered Monday with 148 runs in the seventh inning or later, the most in the American League. The bullpen, which had two All-Stars in Zach Britton and Brad Brach, tends to make comebacks possible.

Britton has converted all 29 of his save chances. Only one left-hander has ever started a season with a longer streak, and he was named his league’s most valuable player: Willie Hernandez of the 1984 Tigers. Britton cited the Orioles’ late-strike ability, and the bullpen’s success in making those late runs matter, as reasons for the team’s record.

He also mentioned pitcher Chris Tillman, who has been the only reliable starter on the staff. The Orioles’ rotation has a 5.10 earned run average; through Sunday, its E.R.A. ranked


Polychrome Opens Theatrical Deal for “Red Doors”

Polychrome Opens Theatrical Deal for "Red Doors"

Writer/director Georgia Lee‘s award-winning debut feature film “Red Doors,” produced by Blanc de Chine Entertainment, will be distributed by Polychrome Pictures in association with Warner Bros. Home Video. Polychrome acquired theatrical rights to “Red Doors” and will also handle TV and home video distribution via their Warner Bros. deal. In addition, Forward Entertainment has come on board to represent the film for worldwide sales excluding North America. The deals were brokered by Ira Deutchman of Emerging Pictures; Deutchman is also executive producer on the film. The film premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, where it was awarded best feature film in the “NY, NY Competition.” “Red Doors” went on to win the special jury prizeLeaked GAME schedule hints at big dates

Call of Duty 7 and DJ Hero 2 are both due out in October, according to a leaked GAME Xbox 360 release schedule obtained by VG247.

The schedule also lists Crysis 2 and Metal Gear Solid: Rising for 24th September, Brink and Guitar Hero 6 for September, and Fallout: New Vegas, The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf and James Bond Racing for October.

Interestingly, there's also mention of "Yoga Natal" for October from Tradewest, which could be an indicator of Project Natal's release target.

In the meantime, the schedule says we'll get to play Activision's Raven Software-developed shooter Singularity on 28th June.

We're contacting the various publishers mentioned to get some reaction to the dates, most of which we imagine will take the form of


Past Programs - 2019

A Weekend in ProvidenceProvidence, RIFriday, June 21–Sunday, June 23, 2019

Providence Art Club A lunch and tour in the ca. 1790 Club House of the second-oldest art club in the country and its 1885 Fleur-de-Lys Studio nearby, led by Robert Emlen, University Curator and Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Brown University.

Gorham Company Archive, John Hay Library, Brown University View highlights from the Gorham Company Archive, featuring thousands of drawings and photographs of Gorham products.

Rhode Island School of Design Museum Elizabeth Williams, David & Peggy Rockefeller Curator of Decorative Arts and Design, will guide us through the comprehensive exhibition Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance, 1850–1970.

Clouds Hill The group will enjoy a private tour, with behind-the-scenes access, of an 1870s Gothic Revival house on the National Register of HistoricPlaces, featuring an Egyptian-themed room among its treasures.

Warren Chair Works and O&G Designer Jonathan Glatt will guide us on a tour of Warren Chairworks, a Windsor chair manufacturer carrying on the region’s handcrafted tradition, as well as his furniture studio, O&G, which provides a contemporary interpretation of the style.

Gov. Henry Lippitt House Museum for Tour Carrie Taylor, director, will guide us through this National Historic Landmark, a 30-room Italianate mansion with Renaissance Revival interiors that is one of the best-preserved examples of a Victorian-era home in the USA.

A Day Trip to New HavenNew Haven, CTSaturday, April 27, 2019

“A Nation Reflected: Stories in American Glass”Yale University Art Gallery Private curatorial tour of the exhibition led by John Stuart Gordon, Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts, YUAG.

“William


this Olympics also showed how organisations are seeking new sources of revenue through digital commercial innovation.

New York Times’ The Fine Line

The Olympics are one of those big set piece events when top news groups, start-ups and the digital platform giants have time to plan and create trail-breaking digital media experiences.

Amongst the legacy media groups, the New York Times has once again made as much of a splash with digital media watchers as Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky have made in the pool.

One of the most talked about and ground-breaking Olympics features by the Times were a series of visually-led features called, The Fine Line. In addition to the Fine Line features, the Times also created incredibly simple but effective animations to show how the swimming races played out,some incredible commercial innovation as well.

In the middle of the Fine Line features is a native advertising feature for Infiniti’s Q60 that seems right at home in the format. In addition to flowing the Infiniti ad into the middle of the stories, it is peppered throughout them, appearing both in the navigation and on the front of every Fine Line segment. The ad even fits thematically with the content: The “Making an Ironman” native advertising video shows a man training for the triathlon world championships with product placement of the Infiniti Q60.

VR, mobile, programmatic and native advertising are all part of the New York Times’ strategy to dramatically increase non-display digital ad revenue because display has shown lingering softness for many legacy print publishers in the face of


2012, I have been a faculty member for the Eurovision Academy, the training centre for the European Broadcasting Union. I have done data journalism and multi-platform newsroom management courses and am co-presenting a seminar on innovative converged newsrooms.

In 2012, I was a member of the management team of the Media Development Investment Fund, which invests in independent media in countries without a history of free media. I was the editorial lead and a on staff consultant for the Fund’s Knowledge Bridge, which was created to help clients in the portfolio transition successfully to digital.

From 2014 until recently, I was a regional local media executive with Gannett, overseeing a handful of news sites in Wisconsin. In the first year, we grew reach at the two sites I initially oversawdouble murder became Belgium's first prison inmate to be euthanized. In November 2012, the government announced plans to follow the Dutch in allowing euthanasia for Alzheimer sufferers, as well as for children "if capable of discernment or affected by an incurable illness or suffering." In an October survey by Barometre Politique, 75 percent of Belgium's 11 million inhabitants favoured allowing euthanasia for children in an irreversible coma or vegetative state, while 80 percent supported it for dementia or Alzheimer patients facing "unbearable grief." However, in their statement, religious leaders said caregivers and medical practitioners would face pressure to accept euthanasia, while freedom of conscience and consent would lack effective safeguards. The statement said all forms of suffering cause dismay, "but to prescribe euthanasia for vulnerable people radically contradicts


Past Research

Economic, Political and Social Transformations in the Middle and North Africa (MENA);

Democratization and Consolidation of Democratic Institutions;

European Union Politics and Sociology of European Integration; and

Human and Socio-Economic Security.

1. Economic, Political and Social Transformations in Sub-Saharan Africa

Economic, political and social transformations in Sub-Saharan Africa was the first strand of my research activities. The countries under investigation included: West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, South Africa. Here, I was interested in the interaction between development economics, social protection policies and democratization. In 2013, have completed to write a single-author volume for Palgrave Macmillan entitled: ‘Permanent Emergency Welfare Regimes in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Exclusive Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy’. Order available here.

2. Economic, Political and Social Transformations in the Middle and North Africa (MENA)

Economic, political and social transformations in thealso focused on European Union politics and sociology of European Integration. Here, I applied and expanded my early work on mechanisms of institutional change to the establishment of the European Union, of the European Economic and Monetary Union, as well as of the European Banking Union.

5. Human and Socio-Economic Security
Human and socio-economic security represented the final strand of my research activities. In this area, my investigations aimed at analyzing various challenges to human security in Western, as well as in transition and developing countries.


subsequent corruption of culture in the Weimar Republic and their known rapacity for financial predation and manipulation.

So he proposed a humane method of what used to be outright expulsion by encouraging the Jews to emigrate outside of Europe. He did not order all Jews expelled. For example, in order to reduce the Jewish influence on education, he would have Jewish professors retired and pensioned. He even made provisions to give preferential treatment to Jews who had won the Iron Cross.

The sufferings of the Jews were contemporaneous with the sufferings of tens of millions more Christians. Suffering is a direct consequence of war. To give special victim status to the Jews – who were never put into gas chambers or murdered en masse merely for being Jewish- is anThe meeting is expected to also include UAE, Bahrain, Turkey, Indonesia, Qatar and other countries.

ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Saudi Arabia on Saturday assured to convene a special meeting of the foreign ministers of member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on the ongoing atrocities in occupied Kashmir in Islamabad.

According to sources, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud at the request of Prime Minsiter Imran Khan assured to hold a meeting of OIC pertaining to Kashmir matter in April 2020 through Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, who toured the country on December 26.

The meeting is expected to also include the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Turkey, Indonesia, Qatar and other countries.

The foremost priority of the meeting will be the current situation


in the occupied valley, which will be followed by controversial citizenship bill in India and also to shed light on the matter about protecting the rights of Muslim countries. The OIC FM meeting has been given a special status after the Kuala Lumpur Summit which took place earlier this month in Malaysia.

Muslim countries were expressing reservations on the less active role of the OIC, due to which the KL summit was seen as an alternative platform. Saudi Arabia has decided to mobilize the OIC.

Saudi Foreign Minister visits Pakistan after KL Summit

On Dec 26, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi met with Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs where both discussed bilateral relations.

The Foreign Minister warmlywelcomed the Saudi Foreign Minister on his maiden visit to Pakistan. During the detailed deliberations, the entire gamut of bilateral relations was covered and views were exchanged on regional developments.

The Foreign Minister underscored that the relationship between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia is deep-rooted and long-standing. He recalled his earlier visit to the Kingdom on December 10 and 11, and thanked the warm hospitality extended to him.

He focused on issues of mutual interest including bilateral trade and economic cooperation, security and defence cooperation, parliamentary exchanges and increased trade relations.

The Foreign Minister also highlighted the importance of Saudi investments, particularly in the petrochemical, mining & minerals and energy sectors. He also expressed the hope that the Road-to-Makkah project to facilitate Hajis from Pakistan will be extended to other cities of


Pakistan.

Meanwhile, the Foreign Minister dilated in detail on the situation in Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K) in the aftermath of India’s unilateral and illegal actions of 5 August 2019. He also highlighted the Indian Government’s actions with regard to CAA (Citizenship Amendment Act 2019) and NRC (National Register of Citizens) and the systematic targeting of minorities in India, particularly Muslims. The Foreign Minister thanked the Kingdom’s support in OIC Contact Group on Jammu & Kashmir.

Prince Faisal also underscored the importance that Saudi Arabia attaches to its fraternal and strategic relationship with Pakistan. He conveyed the Saudi leadership’s deep appreciation for the role played by Pakistan in maintaining regional peace and stability. Adding that Saudi Arabia was committed to a strong, prosperous and successful Pakistan, he reaffirmed thecommitment of Saudi leadership in cementing ties with Pakistan in all fields. The two Foreign Ministers discussed OIC’s role in the advancement of the cause of Kashmir.

The two Foreign Ministers had earlier met in Riyadh. The visit of the Saudi Foreign Minister to Pakistan is a reflection of the growing bilateral relations and part of regular exchange of high-level visits between the two fraternal countries. Foreign Minister hosted a lunch in honour of the visiting dignitary.

Prince Faisal also called on the Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Turkish President asserts KSA pressurized Pakistan not to attend KL Summit

On Dec 21, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Saudi Arabia pressured Pakistan not to attend a summit for Muslim leaders in Malaysia this week, adding it was not the first time that Riyadh


has also used similar threatening tactics regarding the central bank case by claiming that they would withdraw their money.

Erdogan further said that due to its economic difficulties, Pakistan had to obey such threats, while implying that Indonesia has also suffered from similar problems.

Prime Minister Imran Khan had cancelled the visit after being summoned to Saudi Arabia for talks with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Leaders and senior representatives from some 20 Muslim nations have gathered in Kuala Lumpur this week to discuss issues agitating Muslims globally.

Explaining its decision to stay away, Saudi Arabia said the summit was the wrong forum for matters of importance to the world s 1.75 billion Muslims. However, some analysts suspect the kingdom feared being diplomatically isolated by regional rivals Iran, Qatar and Turkey, whoare attending.

International platform

Khan is thought to have been among the original leaders who suggested that the Kuala Lumpur summit take place, during talks with Erdogan and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad last September on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The prime minister had telephoned Mahathir to inform him of his decision not to attend.

The Kuala Lumpur summit describes itself as "an international platform for Muslim leaders, intellectuals and scholars from around the world to discuss and exchange ideas about the issues revolving in the Muslim world".

Saudi Arabia is understood to have been concerned that moves might have begun at the Malaysia summit to form a new body to replace the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which is headquartered in Jeddah.

Mahathir, at 94 the


Islamic nation, maintaining the role of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), mutual respect for their sovereignty and the independence of their decisions, which is a key feature of the well-established historical relations between them.”

Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir had shared his plans with Pakistan for holding the summit when he met Prime Minister Imran along with Erdogan on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly session in New York in September this year.

Later, PM Khan formally conveyed his acceptance of the invitation for attending the summit when Deputy Foreign Minister of Malaysia Marzuki Bin Haji Yahya called on him in Islamabad on Nov. 29.

In mid December, however, reports of PM Imran cancelling his trip to Malaysia began circulating in the media. After his visit to SaudiArabia on Saturday, the premier decided to stay away from the Kuala Lumpur summit.

According to reports, he withdrew due to pressure exerted by the kingdom, which had extended a helping hand to the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government during its early days to stave off an economic crisis.

Foreign Office breaks silence on absence of Pakistan from KL Summit

On Dec 20, Foreign Office Spokesperson Ayesha Farooqui stated that Pakistan did not participate in the KL Summit as time and efforts were needed to address the concerns of major Muslim countries regarding possible division in the Ummah.

She asserted that Pakistan will continue to work for the unity and solidarity of the Ummah, which is indispensable for effectively addressing the challenges faced by the Muslim world.


Chemical weapons used in Syria: John Kerry

Washington: Asserting that chemical weapons were used in Syria by the embattled Assad regime, US Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday termed the last week's attack that killed over 300 civilians a "moral obscenity" that should shock the conscience of the world.

While President Barack Obama is soon expected to make an informed decision, Kerry's remarks came even as a team of UN investigators on ground in Syria were gathering evidences, collecting samples and preparing report in this regard.

"While investigators are gathering additional evidence on the ground, our understanding of what has already happened in Syria is grounded in facts, informed by conscience and guided by common sense,” he said.

“The reported number of victims, the reported symptoms of those who were killedIt came down to the wire, but when the dust settled, Han "Peanut" Wang-ho decided to stay in his home of South Korea instead of moving abroad, signing with former world champion Gen.G Esports for the 2019 season last month.

After publicly announcing on social media his choice had come down to Gen.G and an unnamed organization from North America, the star jungler a few days later inked a deal to keep his talents in South Korea for the foreseeable future.

"This year, it was a very agonizing decision where I wanted to go," said the 20-year-old Peanut. "I put a lot of thought into it, but I also had a strong desire to put up really good results. Korea, as a region across the whole year, didn't have the


best results, so I wanted to join a Korean team and put up good results [next year]."

Ever since he broke out as a must-see player on the 2016 ROX Tigers, before the team broke up later that year, Peanut has been on a journey to find a home. It felt like SK Telecom T1 would be it, but his style never meshed with the core already on SKT and his stay lasted only a year. Last year, he won another domestic title, this time with KING-ZONE DragonX, but the ending felt all too familiar with Peanut failing to coordinate with his team down the stretch and having to watch the world championship from home.

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Historically, voters in the United States have been reluctant to elect young candidates. In fact, in 2016, Republican Donald J. Trump became the oldest candidate ever elected President.

The 2020 election could change this trend. If elected, Democrat Pete Buttigieg would assume office at age 39, three years younger than the current record holder, Theodore Roosevelt, who was 42 when he was sworn in. President John F. Kennedy was elected at age 43. But they are exceptions.

Known as “Mayor Pete,” Buttigieg is currently serving his second term as the mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Indiana. Prior to becoming mayor, Buttigieg earned degrees from Harvard University and Pembroke College, Oxford. He also served as an intelligence officer in theA residence in one of the Eshkol Regional Council communities suffered a direct hit during a barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip early Wednesday. No one was hurt, but damage was caused to the home.

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The council reported that two rockets fell in two communities, one of them hitting the home.

IDF footage of the strikes it carried out in Gaza overnight

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Six people suffered light contusions running to shelters due to southern region alarms, and were taken to the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon.

The rocket that hit a home in the Eshkol Regional Council (Photo: Eshkol Regional Council security)

Two people who suffered anxiety attacks were also taken to the hospital.

In total, three Sderot residents, three Netiv HaAsara residents and two Ashkelon residents were taken


to the southern city's hospital.

They were all since released, except for one person who was hospitalized due to a leg wound.

The launches occurred a little over an hour after Hamas's deputy leader Khalil al-Hayya released a statement saying the Palestinian faction will be committed to a ceasefire insofar as Israel will be committed to one.

Despite an earlier announcement of a ceasefire, Code Red alarms sounded twice through the night—first some time after midnight and then again at 2am.

Two hours later, al-Hayya issued a statement saying, "After succeeding in preventing Israel from trying to force a change to the rules of the game regarding armed conflict, several mediators interceded and agreements were reached to return to a ceasefire situation in Gaza."

Echoing his claim, Palestinian sources said the Gaza factionsfollowing the Code Red sirens, several launches were identified from Gaza towards the Sha'ar HaNegev, Eshkol and Sdot Negev regional councils.

Some of the rockets launched at Sha'ar HaNegev and Sdot Negev were intercepted by the Iron Dome, the army added. The remaining alarms triggered were false alarms.

Footage of the mortar hitting the Netivot municipal stadium (צילום: אורי דוידוביץ')

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Earlier in the night, Israel's communities on the Gaza perimeter suffered a heavy salvo of fire at around 1am, with a rocket exploding in a stadium located in the southern city of Netivot, causing damage. The mortar that landed in Netivot (Photo: Police spokesmanship)

In retaliation to the Gaza fire at Israel throughout the day Tuesday, Israeli Air Force fighter jets, helicopter and other aircrafts attacked about 25 Hamas terror targets in


the strip, starting at 11:30pm.

The IDF said that among the targets were drone storage facilities, rocket and armament manufacturing installations, training camps, military installations, advanced naval armaments and antiaircraft missile components.

The most recent strikes joined some 40 sites targeted Tuesday, totaling 65 targets since Tuesday.

The IDF's strikes in Gaza (Photo: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

The IDF explained that this was a "further wave of strikes against targets belonging to Hamas, which is responsible for all goings-on in and coming out of the Gaza Strip, including the serious assaults on Israel's citizens."

"Hamas again chose to operate against the interests of the strip's citizens, and after failing in the violent riots it orchestrated along the security fence, it chose to launch a widespread projectile attack against Israelis," the army's statement continued.

"The IDFgroup and senior Egyptian intelligence officials starting in the early afternoon Tuesday, demanding a ceasefire is reached.

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While the Islamic Jihad ostensibly agreed, it conditioned the ceasefire on the manner of the Israeli military response. The source also noted that with its own strikes on Israel, the Islamic Jihad signaled it did not seek overall escalation by making it a point to not fire long-range rockets at targets farther away in Israel.

Palestinian sources said the agreement reached was based on understandings attained at the end of Operation Protective Edge.

Shortly after midnight, the Islamic Jihad said it would retaliate to "any aggression if Israel did not remain committed to the ceasefire understating."

The United States has called to hold an emergency session of the United Nations Security Council


following the escalation in Gaza. The hearing will be held later Wednesday.

US Ambassador to the UN Haley said the Security Council should be 'outraged and respond' to the Gazan terror groups' attacks (Photo: AP)

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said that the Security Council should be "outraged and respond" to the most expansive attack on Israel since 2014, which she said was "directed at innocent Israeli civilians."

"The Palestinian leadership needs to be held accountable for what they're allowing to happen in Gaza," the American diplomat added.

Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon also commented on the situation before the Council's meeting, saying that holding the session was a "positive step. But the Council's members must take serious action, and not make do with words."

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PATRIOTS HANG ON TO ADVANCE

With the lights turned on, the Patriots held off the strong charge of the #5 Southwestern Assemblies of God University (SAGU) Lions in the first round of the 2014 Buffalo Funds NAIA National Tournament.

The SAGU Lions came into the contest with the Patriots following a 2013 run to the national championship game, where they fell against Mid-South Conference member Georgetown College 88-62. Following a charged run to open the contest by the Lions, Nick Porter (Owensboro, Ky.) and William Tolefree (Stone Mountain, Ga.) drilled a pair of three point baskets to cut the Lion lead to one at 10-9. The precision shooting, sparked a Patriot run that propelled them on a run capped off by


a steal from Omar Skinner (New Castle, Del.) that led to two free throws and a 17-14 Patriot lead.

The Patriots continued to build when Raymon Austin (Cleveland, Ohio) set a stellar screen to allow Chris Johnson (Bowling Green, Ky.) to get three the old fashioned way, taking a 20-14 lead. With 12 minutes remaining in the first half, Raymon Austin grabbed the defensive board and went coast to coast in wild fashion to split two Lions and find the bottom of the basket for a 26-14 lead. With 9:19 remaining Nick Porter picked the Lions’ pocket dishing up to Omar Skinner who slammed it home to push the lead to 30-20. Following a short Lions’ run, Stephen McCray (Baltimore, Md.) tickled the twine from behind the arc tolead to 76-67. After trading blows for several possessions, Raymon Austin would fight his way to the basket and earn two points from the strip to give the Pats an 89-79 advantage with 3:51 remaining. However, the Lions would take advantage of untimely Patriot turnovers to cut the lead to five with only 3:40 remaining. Fortunately for the Patriots, William Bailey sparked life into the purple squad pushing the lead to 93-84 with 2:31 remaining. With 2:23 remaining and the Patriots leading 94-86, William Tolefree would earn his fifth foul, giving the Lions two free throws. Fortunately for the Patriots, the Lions would commit a lane violation to erase one free throw only cutting the lead to 94-87. William Bailey would answer the call for the Patriots on


the next possession to find pay dirt and spread the gap back to eight. With under a minute remaining, the Patriots would turn the ball over once more to allow the Lions to cut the lead to 97-93. After the Lions cut the lead to two with 13 seconds remaining, the Patriots would turn the ball over on an inbound pass to allow the Lions the opportunity to take the lead. After a missed three pointer from the corner Julito Hutchinson snagged the rebound and made his way to the free throw line with the Lions trying to extend the game. Following two missed free throws from Hutchinson, Rambo took the ball coast to coast only to have Raymon Austin send his shot into the cheap seats, sealingworld’s tallest people.

We say this, of course to highlight the legacy of Phelps, who won his 22nd medal on Saturday, extending his record of most Olympic medals won all-time.

Phelps, who began swimming at age 7 to emulate his sisters, set individual world records 29 times, and he still holds records in six events.

He has wrapped up a career as the most decorated Olympian ever, perhaps the greatest ever. Some commentators will argue the cases of track and field's Carl Lewis, who missed an Olympics because of a U.S. boycott, or distance runner Paavo Nurmi, who won 12 medals. Some might argue for Bjorn Daehlie, the Norwegian cross-country skier. And there's gymnast Larisa Latynina, whose 18 medals are now second all time.

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UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Lonnie DAVIS, E-5076v.Robert L. JOHNSON, Superintendent, and the District Attorneyof PhiladelphiaCounty, Appellant.
No. 73-1545.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Argued Jan. 18, 1974.Decided March 20, 1974.

John J. Connors, Jr., Emas, Cohen & Connors, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellee.
Judith Dean, Asst. Dist. Atty., Milton M. Stein, Asst. Dist. Atty., Chief Appeals Div., Richard A. Sprague, First Asst. Dist. Atty., Arlen Specter, Dist. Atty., Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.
Before SEITZ, Chief Judge, and HASTIE and ALDISERT, Circuit Judges.
ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

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This appeal by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania requires us to decide whether late appointment of counsel in a state criminal proceeding in which appellee pleaded guilty on the second day of trial deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right of counsel.  Magistrate Naythons reviewed the


trial transcript and state post-conviction proceedings, including the state evidentiary hearing.  The district court adopted the report of the magistrate and granted federal habeas corpus relief.  No federal evidentiary hearing was held.

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These proceedings relate to a plea of guilty to three indictments of aggravated robbery entered by Lonnie Davis in the Criminal Court of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, on December 22, 1954.  Pertinent to our consideration are Bills of Indictment No. 1033, covering a robbery of an American food store (ACME) on West Hortter Street on October 23, 1954; No. 1032, a robbery of a similar store on North Front Street on October 11, 1954; and Bill No. 1038, a robbery of a similar store on West Oak Lane on September 17, 1954.  Because we'told us that he had thrown a gun on Lincoln Drive.  Officers Kelly and McPeak went with the defendant Davis to Lincoln Drive . . . whereupon Davis showed him where he threw the gun . . ..'  (Appendix 41a.)  Both a cashier and a clerk for the Hortter Street store identified Davis as a participant in the October 23, 1954, holdup.  Later a statement signed by Davis was read into evidence in which Davis gave graphic details how he participated in two of the three hold ups.2

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Co-defendant Clifford Ricks, shot by the police during the Hortter Street robbery and diagnosed as a cancer victim upon being hospitalized for the gun shot wound, pleaded guilty and testified that Davis participated with him in all


three robberies.  Describing Davis' activity at the West Hortter robbery, he said: 'Me and McCray we went and got the manager of the store and I went in and Davis went to hold some people in the car.  When he opened the safe I heard some one at the door.'  (Appendix at 33a.)  He testified that Davis was one of five participating in the Front Street robbery, stating that Davis entered the store with Ricks, Perry and McCray.  As to the West Oak Lane robbery, Ricks testified Davis participated in the hold up.

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Davis took the stand in his own behalf on the second day of trial.  He denied participation in any of the robberies and contended that his signed confession was coercedto 45 years, effective from November 10, 1954.  He was paroled on this sentence three times, and each time violated his parole.  He was last returned to Superintendent Johnson's custody as a parole violator on February 9, 1972.3

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Thus, we are confronted with a trial record in which Davis confessed to two of the three robberies, divulging specifics of the occurrences.4  Although at one point in the trial he contended that his confession was coerced by the police, on the same day he made this contention he recanted, admitting he was not beaten by the police.  Ricks, one of his co-defendants, described Davis' role in all three robberies.  McCray, another co-defendant, corroborated both Rick's description of Davis' participation in the Hortter Street robbery as


well as the details furnished the police by Davis himself.5  And two witnesses identified Davis as a participant in one of the hold ups.

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Applying the teachings of Moore v. United States, 432 F.2d 730 (3d Cir. 1970) (In banc), overruling United States ex rel. Mathis v. Rundle, 394 F.2d 748 (3d Cir. 1968),6 the magistrate found 'that relator has borne his burden of proving inadequate assistance of counsel.  The Defender was not appointed until the day and moment of trial, which in itself raises a strong inference of prejudice.  Further, relator has shown considerable actual prejudice from the late appointment.  Particularly noteworthy in this regard was counsel's inability to attempt to locate and interview witnesses relator told him to establish a defense of mistakenwas a fabrication.  Whether the Defender did or did not use the overnight recess in December, 1954 to investigate the circumstances simply cannot be gleaned from the record of the post-conviction hearing.  The brute fact is that at the time of the post-conviction hearing the defense attorney was dead; it is most difficult to conjure how an account by the lawyer as to what he did in the December, 1954 overnight recess could possibly be forthcoming at the 1971 hearing since he had been dead for three months.

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The magistrate further observed: 'Nor is there anything in the record that indicates that the Defender made any attempt to locate, investigate, and interview relator's witnesses in order to judge whether a defense of mistaken identification might be available.'


 There was no genuine mistaken identification issue as to Davis.  He was placed at the scene of two robberies by his own words.  He was placed in all three robberies by one co-defendant; at one robbery by two of his co-defendants; and at one robbery by two employees of the Hortter Street store.  This hardly presents a case of mistaken identification.9

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We have carefully examined the entire record, and even were we to assume that there was late appointment, we hold that relator has failed to prove that Mr. Hassett's performance was not at the level of normal competency.  We also disagree with the magistrate's conclusion that 'relator has shown considerable actual prejudice . . ..'But this does not end the matter.  Wehold that the district court erred in not following the procedure mandated by us in United States ex rel. Johnson v. Russell, 444 F.2d 1177 (3d Cir. 1971), cert. denied, 405 U.S. 977, 92 S.Ct. 1205, 31 L.Ed.2d 253 (1972).  There the petitioner collaterally attacked the guilty plea entered by him after completion of the Commonwealth's evidence on the grounds that he was inadequately represented by counsel at the time of entering the plea and that the plea was the product of inadequate representation by counsel during trial.  Applying the teachings of the McMann trilogy10 we held that in habeas corpus cases where the petitioner collaterally attacks the entry of his guilty plea on the advice of counsel, the threshold inquiry must be directed to the


dealt primarily if not exclusively with counsel's activities before the plea was entered.  He should have been concerned, at least initially, with the record at the date of the plea.  Was Davis denied the effective assistance of competent counsel at the time of the plea?  United States ex rel. Johnson v. Russell, 444 F.2d 1177, 1179 (3rd Cir. 1971).  Davis did not enter his plea until after the Commonwealth's case had been fully presented.  Given counsel's knowledge of the strength of the prosecution's case, I agree with Judge Aldisert that there is no basis for saying that counsel's action in recommending a guilty plea was below the standard of normal competency.

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Because Davis was adequately served by counsel when he entered his guilty plea,the following:

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'At the Commencement of the trial, the judge appointed a Voluntary Defender to represent the relator, who already with three others, was being tried for seven (7) aggravated robberies.  The Voluntary Defender promptly asked for a continuance so that he could, for the first time, interview the relator, and prepare a defense.  The request was denied.  The relator testified as to his innocence, but after the introduction of a confession containing his signature, and after a co-defendant changed his plea to guilty and implicated relator, relator likewise changed his plea to guilty . . ..'  ' '. . . the defender had no knowledge of the case prior to the day of trial, nor did he have a file containing the results of


the car and asked what was the matter.  The woman didn't say anything at the time, the man grabbed me with a gun in his hand, he told me to stand there and don't move, he walks to the drugstore at the corner, when I saw him go in I ran back to our car, got in the car and left with Parrish.
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Q. Who had the guns during this robbery, last night?
A. Ricks had the shotgun, McCray went in behind Ricks with a pistol, I had the .32 cal.
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Q. Were you involved in any other robberies, in American Stores?
A. Yes, myself, Parrish, McCray, Ned, Ricks & Meat, about a month ago.  All six of us meton Columbia Ave.  Me and Ricks were together, we met the others we got in Parrish's car went to an American Store in Oak Lane-- identified as 816 W. Oak Lane Avenue-- I was the look-out man.  Ricks and Ned went inside, I'm not sure who else went in.  I didn't hear anything that was said in the store.
(Appendix at 90-91a.)

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 The record discloses that Davis was first paroled in 1962; that he was found to be a parole violator in 1964 and was reconfined to prison until 1967; that he violated parole again in 1968 and was reconfined until 1969, when he was again paroled.  When he was last returned on February 9, 1972, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole set his