“I’ve always thought of rivers as alive, as live phenomena,” she said by phone from her current home, in Westchester County, N.Y. “It became very clear to me that rivers create their sound by the way they interact with the materials in their banks through friction.”

Living in England by the mid-1960s, she began assembling a “River Archive,” soliciting recordings from around the globe. She began corresponding with the like-minded composer Pauline Oliveros, who not only contributed a recording of a Massachusetts creek, but also helped Ms. Lockwood secure a teaching position at Hunter College, which brought her to New York in 1973.

Like Oliveros, who died in 2016, Ms. Lockwood’s sonic attention to the body and environment has been interwoven with her life as a feminist. Through the 1970s,Sky Ferreira has announced the name of her next album, the follow-up to 2013's Night Time, My Time. It's called Masochism, which she confirmed on Twitter after MuuMuse wrote a post speculating about the title.

Last year, Ferreira said she's working with Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and Andrew Innes on the album, in addition to Ariel Rechtshaid and Justin Raisen, her Night Time, My Time producers. Last fall, Ferreira played a new song, "Guardian", live.

Read our interview with Ferreira here.

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Shopian: Kulwant Singh, 45, has been travelling to Kashmir for over two decades. Originally from Gagomal, a small village of Amritsar in Punjab, Singh eagerly waits for October every year – the height of apple picking season in the Valley – and the most profitable time for him.

“From September to December I travel to Kashmir, load apples and dispatch them to different cities of the country,” Singh said. But what used to be the best season for trade has turned into a nightmare for him this year.

Since the last two days, Singh and about a dozen other drivers have parked their trucks near an army garrison in Hawalarea of Shopian, failing to find a single apple consignment.

In one of the world's largest apple-growing regions, a lockdown imposed after the government dramatically abolished the state's special constitutional status has cut transport links with buyers in India and abroad, plunging the industry into turmoil.

The fatal shooting of truck driver from Rajasthan in Shopian by two suspected militants on Monday evening – the first of the three civilian killings in Kashmir in less than two days – has further provoked fear and panic among the apple traders in the Valley.

In Monday night’s attack, two masked militants reportedly attacked the trader as he was loading his truck with apples in the nearby Sandoo village. The gunmen shot the driver after forcing him to drive away from the village and


towards the Shopian-Srinagar road.

According to the family of Shakeel Ahmad – the resident at whose house the truck was getting loaded – the conductor of the truck came back running. “He was drenched in tears as he told us that two masked gunmen barged into the truck and drove it away,” says Mohammad Yousuf. He, along with others immediately dashed outside to find the vehicle speeding towards the main road. “The silence was shattered by the sound of gunshots.”

The militants shot the driver, identified as Shareef Khan and then set the truck on fire.

Two days later on Wednesday, suspected militants gunned down a labourer from Chhattisgarh in Pulwama district. Hours later, another apple trader from Punjab was found shot dead in Shopian district.

The incident occurred just hours afterauthorities had restored the postpaid cellular services that were suspended along with telephone and internet connections after a communications blackout was imposed in the Valley. Khan became the first non-local civilian causality in Kashmir after the August 5 decision.

Less than 48 hours later, the second murder happened. In a cold-blooded attack, a labourer working at a brick-klin in Nehama Kakapora area of Pulwama district, was shot dead by suspected militants fuelling fears that now, the non-locals might become the prime target of militant’s campaign of threat and violence.

The deceased laborer was identified as Sethi Kumar Sagar, a resident of Chhattisgarh. According to a staffer at the factory, Kumar and others had already been warned by the owner not to venture out without permission due to the prevailing security


On 21 December 1880, the famously prolific Anthony Trollope wrote to his son Harry: "I finished on Thursday the novel I was writing, and on Friday I began another. Nothing really frightens me but enforced idleness. As long as I can write books, even though they be not published, I think I can be happy." The novel he started that week was The Fixed Period and it was published in March 1882, the last year of Trollope's life. It received mixed, somewhat baffled reviews, and sold only 877 copies, making a loss for its publisher. It has not been any more popular since then. The story is set in the future, in 1980, on an imaginary antipodean island called Britannula, and therefore lacks the subtle observation of arecognisable social world for which Trollope's fiction is cherished. It has a first-person narrator, a technique he used before only in a few short stories, and in a style very like the urbane, sympathetic authorial persona of the earlier novels. The narrator of The Fixed Period is earnest and humourless. Most disconcerting of all to Trollope aficionados is the novel's subject: the effects of a law passed by the youthful Britannula Assembly making euthanasia compulsory for everybody between the age of 67 and 68.

The Fixed Period has been largely ignored by those who go to Trollope for a superior kind of comfort reading, and dismissed as an aberrant minor work by most critics and biographers. The article on him in the New Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes


it as "worthy of mention only as being so much out of Trollope's normal line". John Sutherland has described it as "the oddest item in all Trollope's fiction". In Trollope's oeuvre it is certainly unique, but also oddly relevant to some of our own current social, economic and ethical concerns. Due to advances in medicine and public health, Britain, like many other countries, has experienced a rapid rise in life expectancy in recent decades, which means that more and more old and retired people must be supported for longer by the working population, a situation that has been exacerbated by the global credit crisis, with a consequent rise in unemployment and fall in the value of pension funds. At the same time there is increasing public controversy andprivate uncertainty about the legitimacy of assisted dying in certain circumstances. It is fascinating to see an astute Victorian mind exploring these issues in the form of fiction.

In an introductory chapter, the narrator summarises the history of Britannula, an uninhabited island that was settled by a group of young emigrants from New Zealand (a country Trollope visited in 1875). The colony prospered and was granted independence by the British government. The narrator was the first speaker of its assembly, and at the time of writing is the country's president. He is a fervent advocate of the Fixed Period for rectifying "two mistakes … made by mankind; first in allowing the world to be burdened with the continued maintenance of those whose cares should have been made to cease


… and the second, in requiring those who remain to live a useless and painful life." The aim of compulsory euthanasia is to convert death into a civic duty carried out with honour and dignity. For one year before their demise the old "would be prepared for their departure, for the benefit of their country, surrounded by all the comforts to which, at their time of life, they would be susceptible, in a college maintained at the public expense; and each, as he drew nearer to the happy day, would be treated with still increasing honour." It is a kind of utopian (or dystopian) version of the almshouses in The Warden (1855), Trollope's first successful novel. As to the expense of such a system, the narrator calculates thatus turn the inevitable into that which shall in itself be esteemed a glory to us …" To which Crasweller replies flatly: "But I am nine years older than you."

Although Neverbend is humourless, for the reader there is humour, and also pathos, in the clash of his high-flown rhetoric with the instinctive reactions of others, including his own family. Neverbend is a zealot, but not an insensitive one. As the opposition to the Fixed Period grows, he actually begins "to ask myself whether I was in all respects sane in entertaining the ideas which filled my mind", but steadies his resolution by remembering the example of great men such as Galileo and Columbus, whose radical ideas were mocked and rejected in their own time.

Halfway through the book there


is a long episode about a cricket match played between Britannula and a touring team from England, which gives Trollope an opportunity to indulge his penchant for amusing names (Lord Marylebone and Sir Kennington Oval) and to fantasise about the future development of the game. In 1980 it is played by teams of 16 players, with mechanical aids such as a "steam bowler" and a "catapult", which require the batsman to wear wicker helmets and other protective clothing. The match is won by Britannula thanks to Neverbend's son's innings of 1,275 runs obtained with his special "spring-bat". Trollope's speculations about other technological developments in the world of 1980 are sparse and rather timid. Transport in Britannula is still mainly horse-drawn, though Neverbend does have a steam tricycle capableof 25mph. Trollope is more prescient about communications: the British naval officers have a little device that works very like a mobile phone, and there is another which allows voice messages to be sent across oceans and emerge as text. But the novelist is not really interested in the science-fiction possibilities of his story. The cricket match is introduced mainly to provide some humour and narrative excitement, and to foreshadow a second visitation from Britain – a gunboat sent to forestall the implementation of the Fixed Period law.

It arrives in Britannula's harbour just as Neverbend is conducting the sullenly compliant Crasweller to take up residence in the College. The officer in charge of the landing-party intervenes and forbids the president to proceed, invoking the threat of the gunboat's


arm and exclaimed: "It's all true – I mean every word of it." Because of its first-person narrative method the import of the novel remains ambiguous, but the remark shows that Trollope wished it to be taken seriously. His letters at that time show him gloomily conscious of declining health. He had driven himself hard for years, getting up at five in the morning to write for three hours every day before beginning his work as a civil servant, and he was also a keen huntsman and enjoyed social life. This regime took its toll, and by the late 1870s he was overweight, short of breath, and probably suffering from high blood pressure. Two days before finishing The Fixed Period he wrote to a friend: "I am nowof old age: what might it be like and how would it be received?

There is more than enough irony in the presentation of John Neverbend to prevent us from identifying his views with those of the implied author, but there is sympathy too, and Trollope allows him to argue his case logically and eloquently. The reprieved Crasweller argues effectively on the other side, affirming the human instinct to cling to life, and evoking the peculiar horror of awaiting a fixed date for one's death. Interestingly Neverbend boasts proudly to the British visitors that Britannula has abolished another institutionalised form of that suffering, "the stain of capital punishment", which makes him seem inconsistent, but more humane. At the end he feels betrayed but also secretly relieved at being removed


from his invidious position, and concedes that "the Fixed Period, with all its advantages, was of such a nature that it must necessarily be postponed to an age prepared for it."

Trollope's odd novel proved, in one respect, uncannily prophetic of his own demise. Neverbend recalls that when the Fixed Period law was being framed there was a long debate about the age at which it should be applied. Eventually this was fixed at 67½, though some flexibility was later allowed. At the beginning of November 1882, the year in which The Fixed Period was published, Trollope suffered a severe stroke, which paralysed his right side and deprived him of speech, but the fate he had feared was mercifully brief. He died in a nursing home on 6 December,On Friday night lucky fans celebrated the life (and slow death) of Honest Ed's with a double bill of Canadian indie rock. The send-off for the Annex location of Sonic Boom (now re-opened on Spadina) was transformed into a Molson-branded concert venue, complete with red lighting, fencing, and portable toilets more befitting a large festival than a record store. A few elements of Sonic Boom's glory still remained, including the large chandeliers and the giant skull at the back.

The first thing I noticed going in (other than the massive bar) was how much smaller the space looked when empty. I gravitated between a charcuterie table and the servers roaming the room with appetizer trays with succulent little burgers.

The freebie-satisfied crowd greeted The New Pornographers warmly, though I think


a few people who'd just come to see DFA 1979 were a bit confused by the seven musicians taking the stage.

TNP opened with an enthusiastic version of recent single "Brill Bruisers." A.C. Newman acknowledged the sponsors sarcastically(?): "We drink Molson Canadian cider. Why? Because it works!"

Dan Bejar (Destroyer), stayed off-stage for much of the set but took lead vocals for a few songs, which were much stranger than the power-pop that characterizes most of the band's other songs. A particular highlight was slick melody "War on the East Coast."

Death from Above 1979's onslaught was a huge contrast to the polished seven-piece New Pornographers. The duo, fresh from a free-DFA-tattoo pop-up promoting their first album in a decade, were clearly the stars of the night - the band cameon to rapturous applause and a mosh pit formed within seconds.

DFA maintained a consistently brutal pace, with their bass and drum attack only pausing for breaks between songs. New song "Right On, Frankenstein" hit especially hard, confirming that their signature intensity hasn't diminished since the roar of You're a Woman, I'm a Machine.

After the set, the crowds' chant of "DFA, DFA" somehow turned into "Tina Fey, Tina Fey" like a giant game of broken telephone. The band came back on to play "Romantic Rights" and the pit was a storm again. Everyone was drenched in sweat by the time we poured out onto Bathurst, overheated but happy.

Let's hope Ed's anxious general manager Russell Lazar takes the success of the ex-Boom show to heart and allows more more pre-tear-down


the road game against the Philadelphia Union, the 23-year-old defender led the team in passes (74) and passing accuracy (93.2 percent), something unusual for a defender. One week before, when Crew SC hosted the Montreal Impact, he was third in both categories, with 53 passes and an efficiency rate of 90.4 percent.

Abubakar, who is also getting the job done on the defensive side of the ball, is averaging 51.7 passes per game this season, which is good enough for fifth best on the team, and almost double of what he had in 2017 (26.2).

“The big thing is seeing who is pressing you,” he told Massive Report. “When I get the ball, I know that definitely one of our players will be open and I need to find that25-year-old Toronto FC loanee Ryan Telfer has impressed a lot of people this year: the winger has spent the last few months on loan at York9 FC, where his speed, technical ability, and clinical finishing have established him as one of the Canadian Premier League‘s best players.

With Toronto FC head coach Greg Vanney being impressed by the Mississauga-born winger and Nine Stripes assistant coach Carmine Isacco calling him the perfect prototype of how a loan in the CPL can help a player’s development, it came as no surprise to hear that the national camps for both Canada and Trinidad and Tobago were looking at Telfer.

Telfer was aware of the speculation, and when asked by Nine Stripes podcast co-host Vincent Alvarado, he admitted that choosing between the two countries


would be a difficult choice. When Canadian national team head coach John Herdman didn’t include him on the country’s roster for this weekend’s CONCACAF Nations League match – though he said Telfer was certainly on his radar – it seems to have made the choice a bit easier: Telfer accepted a call-up with Trinidad and Tobago days later.

Yesterday, the Toronto FC loanee made his debut for The Soca Warriors, donning the Number 7 and starting the country’s CONCACAF Nations League match against Martinique. After going down a goal in the first-half, Telfer provided what will have been a familiar sight to fans of York9 FC: his impressive speed won his team a penalty, which was successfully converted by Seattle Sounders wing-back Joevin Jones.

Clawing back a draw for thewhen the talented player was plucked from relative obscurity to play with TFC2 in 2017.

Telfer isn’t the only Canadian Premier League player who’s been on international duty this weekend, either: Halifax Wanderers youngster Abd-El-Aziz Yousef made his debut for Somalia in a historic 1-0 win over Zimbabwe, while Marco Carducci has been training with the Canadian national team ahead of a match against Cuba due to play out later tonight.

Forge FC goalkeeper Quillan Roberts also received his second call-up for Guyana after having made his debut against Trinidad and Tobago in the 2019 Gold Cup. Like Telfer, he had strong ties to Canada (and had even appeared for Canada for a few minutes in a friendly match), but opted to pursue a one-time FIFA registration switch to get


MILAN — When Matteo Renzi became prime minister two years ago — three months after a resounding triumph in the primaries to choose the Democratic Party’s secretary — the 39-year-old was widely lauded as the man who could bring Italy back to economic and political sanity. Now he’s engaged in a war against the European Commission and looks like a more bourgeois cousin of Greece’s Alexis Tsipras. What happened?

Renzi is a pure-bred politician. Finding the right enemy is a big part of any politician’s success. He took over his party from a by and large hostile oligarchy, which he now fully owns. He sustained and then dashed Silvio Berlusconi’s hopes of continuing to have a say in national politics. He now plays carrot and stick with the MoVimentothat he got the ball rolling and achieved some considerable success. But the devil is in the detail. The “Jobs Act” was noble in its aim but came with complications in its fine print — it still awaits proper implementation, as do most of Renzi’s reforms.

The “Jobs Act” was noble in its aim but came with complications in its fine print — it still awaits proper implementation, as do most of Renzi’s reforms.

Nor has the government been successful in its efforts to curb spending. The reform of the civil service will yield no overall savings in the government budget. Likewise, Renzi’s much-advertised spending review was made largely ineffectual after the promised €16 billion-worth of cuts were reduced to €6 billion (out of a budget of some €700 billion).

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less with the same number of inhabitants.
• Corruption spread all over Italy, not only in the Southern part, for Public Procurement
• Low level of privatisations and competition in the local public services
• Last but not least, Justice System inadequate. There are problems due to overregulation, timing, excess number of lawyers – 250.000, 1 to 240 Italians, 1000/1500 in EU average, 2500 in Sweden), overpaid magistrates, a protected category, with a career plan based on seniority, never on capacity and productivity. A common opinion, all over the world, is that Italy is not attractive for foreign investments mainly because of our unreliable Justice system. As a confirm, a recent Report of Istituto Bruno Leoni is asking a significant question: Could Italy’s economic stagnation also be due to a failurethe race today with the sun shining all day. Two great starts, Lewis getting away from the line slightly better and going into Turn One side-by-side, but it was good to see them both emerge from the other side in one piece. Nico unfortunately lost two positions in the battle, so we faced a difficult job to get him back to the front. During the race, there were a few issues to manage with engine temperatures and a flat spot on Lewis' second set of tyres, which was through to the canvas. As always, even when you're in a position with apparent control of the race, there are always risks and worries but it was great to get both cars home, which we haven't done since Belgium. Congratulations


afternoon for us from lap one onwards. Daniel made a great start, then found himself the cheese in a sandwich between Massa and Raikkonen, resulting in a puncture, which is the worst thing that can happen on the first lap. This cost him a huge amount of time. His recovery and pace was decent after the stop for fresh tyres but with no safety cars, catching up was a tough task. For Dany, it was a busy afternoon; we elected to go onto a three-stop strategy and he endured some brake issues throughout the race which caused a few lock ups and made the car quite difficult to drive, which comprised his pace throughout the race. It was a frustrating Japanese Grand Prix for the team and ourfirst non-scoring race of the season. On another note, the boys in the garage did an incredible job on Dany's car overnight, with both sides of the garage working side-by-side to get the car ready for the race."

Matthieu Dubois, Renault

"That was a tough race to watch with both cars being virtually last after lap one with no real option to finish much higher than where we ended up, sadly out of the points. On the positive side we did not have any major problems, particularly on Daniil's car that had to be totally rebuilt from scratch overnight. I would like to take the opportunity to thank the team of mechanics who did an outstanding job there. On the plus side, both cars from our sister team managed to


driving very well. Our call on the first stop was the right one and kept us in front of Rosberg, but our second stop was too late and so we lost the position to Raikkonen. We have further solidified our third place in the Championship but leave Suzuka with the knowledge that we could have achieved more."

Force India

Nico Hulkenberg, 6th

"A great result today and realistically sixth was the maximum we could achieve when you remember that I started from P13. I made a really good start and jumped a couple of cars away from the line, and then stayed on the inside going into turn one, which turned out to be a good decision. By turn two I was up in eighth, close up behind the Lotuses andbest was not enough. It's a shame as our pace was really good, but with no safety car or any other incidents, the points were too far away. It was still a good result for the team with Nico scoring points, something that will help us with our championship battle."

Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal

"We leave Suzuka with the confidence of having a very strong car but also the feeling of disappointment for not getting both cars in the points. Nico drove a tactically brilliant race: he made another great start to regain the ground he had lost through his grid penalty and then had a fairly lonely race. He executed our strategy perfectly, leapfrogging the two Lotuses during the first pit stop window, and from then on he


worked hard to continuously increase his gap. Sixth was the maximum he could have got today and it's just the result Nico needed after a difficult run of races. Unfortunately, Sergio could do nothing to escape the incident at turn one: he moved to the right to avoid Massa, who was driving slowly, and he was hit by Sainz. Sergio avoided hitting the wall, but his race was heavily compromised by the puncture. He performed a solid comeback and showed very good pace, but the points were just out of reach. Even though we conceded two points in the battle for fifth place, we take encouragement from having such a well-executed race with Nico and the pace of the car."

Toro Rosso

Max Verstappen, 9th

"It was a great race! Ihave scored points again, it was a very good day!"

Carlos Sainz, 10th

"It was a good race until the mistake in the pit entry and I even think it was being one of my best races so far this year. It was a good first stint on the Options and an even better one on the Primes, I was really flying, catching the cars in front. Then it got to the point that it was simply impossible to overtake the Lotus on track, so we decided to go for the undercut. The team told me to do the opposite to Maldonado, and it looked like he was going to pit so I was meant to stay out on track, but he suddenly continued on track and I was so


the UK, the US, France and Germany among other countries -- a revised Family Relation Registration Act was proposed by members of the ruling Democratic Party last year and remains pending at the National Assembly Judiciary Committee.

Experts have warned that continued neglect and alienation of undocumented children while the number of foreigners continues to grow may backfire.

“If our society discriminates against undocumented children -- vulnerable to crimes -- as outcasts and deprives them of the opportunity to education, there is a possibility they may become rebel forces,” said an official at the Youth Hope Foundation.

In a more hopeful sign, the Cheongju District Court in May 2018 ruled in favor of Peber, 18, who was born and raised here undocumented, canceling his deportation.

“From a human rights, humanitarian and economicjust 15 of Iowa’s 99 counties; in five of those losses, the Democratic candidate carried fewer than 10 counties.

INTERACTIVE MAP: Turning Iowa red

During a visit last month to Corning, the seat of Iowa's smallest county by population, Boulton met Kathy Ennis, a barista at Backgrounds Coffee Bar and the wife of Tim Ennis, a two-time Democratic candidate for the Iowa House.

Tim Ennis challenged longtime incumbent Republican state Rep. Jack Drake in 2014, losing badly in a strongly GOP district, Kathy recalled as she prepared a latte for Boulton. When Drake died the following year, her husband ran — and lost — again in the special election to fill the seat.

“It’s just impossible in this district. Just impossible,” Kathy Ennis said with a sigh. “Anywhere west of I-35 is


Islamic Jew hatred – it’s a central pillar of Islam.

Palestinian Uber driver in LA boots Jews from car for attending Israel party

Taxi service calls incident ‘horrible’ after man identifying as Mustafa kicks out passengers over their participation in Independence Day event

By Marcy Oster 30 May 2019:

JTA — An Uber driver in Los Angeles who said he was Palestinian kicked two Jewish women out of his car after learning they were coming from an Israel Independence Day celebration.

The incident occurred on May 19, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal reported.

The driver, named Mustafa, asked the women where they were coming from after they sat in the back seat. The women were reluctant to say, but then told the driver after he did not start the car.

Get The Times of Israel’sBasic Deep De La Riva Guard: A BJJ Sweeps Tutorial

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Security Concerns Send Turkish Foreign Visitor Arrivals Tumbling

A Turkish police officer stands guard in front of St Antouan Church on Istiklal Street. one of Istanbul's most popular tourist destinations. March 27, 2016. REUTERS/Osman Orsal

By Nevzat Devranoglu and Can Sezer

ANKARA/ISTANBUL, March 29 – The number of foreign visitors going to Turkey fell 10 percent in February, the biggest drop in a decade, amid security concerns for a country feeling the spillover effects from the war in Syria.

Turkey has been hit by a spate a bomb attacks this year, including two in Istanbul – its biggest city and traditional tourist draw – blamed on Daesh. In January a suicide bomber blew himself up in the city’s historic heart, killing 12 German tourists.

Tourist traffic could drop further after another suicide bomber


blew himself up on Istanbul’s most popular shopping thoroughfare this month, killing three Israeli tourists and an Iranian. Israel has advised its citizens visiting Turkey to leave “as soon as possible”, predicting possible follow-up attacks.

Tourism fell 10.32 percent year-on-year in February, to 1.24 million people, tourism ministry data showed on Tuesday, the biggest drop since October 2006.

The industry is also suffering from a chill in relations with Russia, a major source of tourists to Turkey, with Russian visitors down by more than half during the month.

Turkey shot down a Russian jet over Syria last year, prompting President Vladimir Putin to impose economic sanctions on Turkey, including a ban on charter flights.

Russians have also been hit by an economic crisis that has weakened their rouble currency, driving up thethe Order of Attachment and stating that an exposition of the reasons for vacating the Order would follow. This constitutes that memorandum of reasoning.

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to the frigid wastelands of Siberia.

Then as World War II began, the armies of the Third Reich invaded her small Russian village. Amy, a tender seven-year-old child, was taken by cattle car to a slave labor camp and witnessed firsthand the horrors of Hitler’s Germany.

As the war ends, Amy and her mother make a daring escape, with execution the likely verdict if they are captured. Over the years Amy wondered about her father. Was he still alive? Would she ever see him again?

A true story, Goodbye Is Not Forever serves as a vivid confirmation of God’s never-ending grace in the lives of his children.

You began your new life in Christ with joy and peace. Then your attempts to please God and grow as a Christian brought bewilderment, frustration,YBR Promotions is approaching its 20 year anniversary as the premier Bay Area marketing agency. With its roots in street marketing, this San Francisco-based marketing agency boasts a client roster that includes heavy-hitters like Live Nation, Cirque Du Soleil, the San Francisco Giants, and the SF Museum of Modern Art to name a few. While the company does work with some of the biggest names in brands and entertainment, this Bay Area marketing agency also includes clients that are start-ups, local businesses and non-profit establishments, as well as supporting marketing initiatives for health, education, and political reform.

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Women's boxing can trace it beginnings to London in the 1720's. During the following one and a half centuries women sporadically came out to the ring for exhibition and competitive fights as well as for prize bouts. In the second half of the 19th century women's boxing got publicity in the States and outside of it – thanks to Richard Fox and his "Police Gazette".

The real history of women's boxing began in the second part of the 20th century when women started literally storming athletic associations, authorities and boxing rings. In 1950's several female fighters staged professional fights - most notably Barbara Buttrick, JoAnn Hagen (Verhaegen), and Phyllis Kugler. The sport rekindled again in the 1970s thanks to the reckless efforts of several important trailblazers.

The 1970's were highlightedstruggling to get into the "respectable" world of organized sports, but found themselves seriously constrained by dominant medical ideologies about the innate physical limitations of females and their unsuitability to take part in vigorous exercise. Whereas the development of mainstream sports for women was based upon notions of sexual difference, and male and female bodies in most sports are signifiers of those differences, the basic symbolism of women’s boxing seemed to contradict this trend. In its most pure form, it was a celebration of female muscularity, physical strength and aggression. Power was literally inscribed in the boxers’ bodies -- in their actual working muscles -- an expression of physical capital usually ascribed to men. While the battered body of the male boxer was a symbol of the defeat


of heroic masculinity, the battered body of the female boxer was the very denial of the supposed essence of femininity and a symbol of brutalization and dehumanization, at the same time creating an image of exciting and animalistic sensuality. However serious the women were about their sport, because of its low-class, disreputable image, it remained "underground," or at best marginalized. Working women who used their bodies freely and powerfully were characterized as uncivilized and vampish, in distinct contrast to the listless, weak and sexually repressed image of the well-bred middle-class Victorian lady. For that reason, women’s boxing always attracted male voyeurs -- not only working men, but also local dignitaries and businessmen. Its explicit sexuality (through bare breasts and the ripping of clothes, the scope for male fantasies,and potential as a surrogate for male brutality against the "weaker" sex) increased the entertainment value of women’s boxing into the twentieth century.

Women's boxing seemed to be in a long "hibernation" - all the way until 1970s-1990s when women’s boxing gained a real respect and received a stimulus to fast propagation. Nevertheless, female boxing always existed and was never gone, even in that quiet period. Some references remain about women participated in the sport of boxing, including photographs and films. Some active feminists engaged in public friendly “boxing matches" in order to set an example of being equal to men everywhere and to win over other women to their side.

Strange though it may seem, in those years, another reason for women to practice boxing was emphasizing femininity in


such a brutal manly activity against "non-feminine" decorations. Even now foxy/topless boxing shows serve for this purpose. In other words, unlike men's bouts on the ring where "truly men's" fighting qualities must be called, in women's matches femininity, grace and by contrast. In 1900-1970 women's boxing style was completely different from men's one, similarly it took place in other women's sports – they even didn't think of pumping strength or cultivating mannish movements. Fierce fights between female commoners had become a thing of the past. In the first part of the 20th century, women's boxing looked like a light dance with bee's stings (opposite from heavyweight Mohammed Ali who used to "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee"). In fact, women came to boxing with their ownstyle, quite feminine and even gracious.

"It is a good thing for a girl to learn to box," says an article in the beauty column of February 27, 1905 issue of the “New York Evening World." Why? Because "poise, grace and buoyancy of movement result from this exercise." Techniques that schoolgirls were told to practice with their maids included hooks to the face and solar plexus punches. According to the "New York World", young ladies attending the Madison Academy in New York City also boxed and wrestled. "Annie Lynch, the boxer, was said to hit a harder blow than the average young man. Every blow comes straight from the shoulder, not with awkwardness and lack of speed one would expect, but with the weight of the body behind it."

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part of the suffragette movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, female office workers were encouraged to box for fitness and self-defense. The image of a strong brave female boxer was very attractive for those women who fought for rights and suffrage. But there were two contradict tendencies at that time: emancipation of women forced them to burst into all former manly things; at the same time, humanization of the Western society and the way of life caused considering boxing to be too brutal and especially harmful for the female reproductive functions. Perhaps, the second tendency temporarily took over after women had gotten rights and suffrage.

It took several decades to make female boxing similar to men's one counting on keen techniques, abruptness and precision knocking outpunches. Right when women's boxing began getting mannish, it attracted negative attention and serious attempts were made in order to ban it.

Nevertheless, women's boxing never faded away during the first three quarters of the 20th century. After WWI women training in boxing was quite frequent. Boxing was popular among upper-class American women which considered it a good way to be in a good shape. Particularly, boxing was accepted as a part of the physical training of young ladies in Boston (USA).

Women's boxing along with women's wrestling was a part of popular vaudeville shows on British fairs (see "History of women's hand-to-hand combat. Beginning of 20th Century). One of the brightest middle-century female boxers, British Barbara Buttrick, began her boxing career in such fairs. Polly Burns, Belle Gordon, and


Harriet Seaback were the most known participants in such popular vaudeville acts with wrestling and boxing.

There were other female boxers from early the century included the Johnson sisters (also known as "Matchetts") who would exhibit in red velvet dresses, decorated with amber colored cuffs and gold braid, complete with boxing boots and gloves. The name "Matchetts" was a result of the showman telling the audience that he could match any fight in his booth.

The American female strongwoman Marie Ford engaged in boxing and wrestling matches against male and female volunteers when traveled all over North America. She challenged men and women to box with her but there were two conditions for the former – not to be a professional boxer and not to be much heavier than Marie.Recently, information about a female boxing champion of the beginning of XX century received publicity. An engraved champion's boxing belt was exhibited on a market in England, which was awarded to a female boxer. They told that the woman usually started exhibition boxing with her husband where he invited the audience to experience boxing with a lady. It was time when British women even didn’t have the suffrage.

The great American inventor Thomas Edison recorded a couple of films representing boxing matches including ones between women (as the famous "Gordon sisters boxing"). In fact, the Gordon-sister boxing act and the earlier Belle Gordon film provide further evidence of the popularity and notoriety of such an act on the theaters and fairgrounds. This use of lady boxers in early silent


features was not unique to Thomas Edison. Mitchell and Kenyon, a firm of cinematographers from Blackburn in England also produced a film called "Lady Boxers" in early 1900s, in which two lady boxers who are appearing at the local fair rescue a man from being attacked by a gang of thieves.

Sometimes police interrupted boxing matches if women participated in them. That's what a newspaper report as of February 29, 1916 says: "Helen Hildreth, the Lady pugilist, was having the best of it in a mixed fight with Johnny Atkinson, when police and boxing commissioner Fred Wenck jumped into the ring and ordered the fight stopped."

Contemporary accounts from 1900s reveal that women fighters were becoming a fixture on boxing shows. It also appears that many of them were connectedor associated with recognized male fighters. A report from "The Showman" in 1901 from Wishaw fair refers to a pugilistic exhibition involving Professor Ball and Rosie Danvers, "the Champion Lady Boxer of the World" from London. Professor Alf Ball in his earlier life was a bare-knuckle and glove fighter who, after retiring from the sport, concentrated on presenting shows on the fairground. (By the way, the title "professor" was common used by boxing performers.) Upon arriving, the venue the reporter from "The Showman" is greeted with the familiar spiel: "If you are lovers of genuine sport, fail not see this show. Professor Ball will box three rounds with Rosie Danvers, the champion lady boxer of the world. Come and see this grand assault at arms. One penny admits


Rosie needs no second bidding; she slogs at the professor and the professor slogs back until time is counted by the referee. The showman encouraged the audience to place money by saying "the more they get the harder they punch". The money on offer appears to suitably inspire Rosie who went on to knock her opponent down twice in the final round and was awarded the contest."

A well-known showman who promoted women fighters on his shows was William Moore who exhibits his son and two daughters on the front of his boxing booth. The family traveled extensively through England and Scotland. One of her daughter was advertised as the Champion Lady boxer. In 1912 he had a long struggle for returning the license which had been temporarily revokedfor allowing his daughters to box. Solidly built, in stylized costumes, the Moore sisters impressed a country audience. Many of female boxers who performed during that time appear to have a link to the sport through male family members who were involved in the fight games - in case of the Moore girls; it was through their father and brother. This is also true for the grandmother of Ronnie Taylor who told the story of her: "The women were used to draw the crowd but they were genuine fighters... My grandmother and grandfather used to fight each other in the ring and my grandmother told my dad that used to take her on. She also used to take on other men. She would wear chest protectors but my


grandfather said that she was so fast that nobody could ever hit her." Another instance of women fighting on the boxing booths can be found in Matt Moran's memoirs “Shamrock Gardens”, in which he recalls Jack Lace and his two smart daughters who would give ring exhibitions: "In between fights at Newcastle, Jack asked me if I would kindly give an exhibition with one of the girls and I duly obliged. If there was a challenge from outside, the girls knew how to handle themselves - they trained for the job."

This association between women boxers and a family booth is also shown in the case of Annie Hickman who fought on the front of her father's Boxing Academy in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Annie Hayes (neeHickman) was born in England into the famous Hickman boxing family in 1913. Her brother was an area boxing champion and Annie traveled with her family's boxing booth and she was taught how to box. Annie recalled her first time on the boxing show: "I must have been about fourteen when I started to work on the front of the show, but I looked older because I was quite big. I hit the punch bag twice, and missed it three times but nobody seemed to care ... I was at Worcester once and the show was full of Gypsies, and one of them said, "I'll fight her." My Dad said no, but I protested that he used to tell people that I was a champion lady boxer, so


I thought he ought to let me fight. So I got into the ring with this Gypsy and side-stepped him once or twice, I'd watched my Dad and my brother, so I knew what to do. He was bewildered, so I side-stepped him and then topped him - and he went right out the ring."

Some of these performances may have been in the form of parading and exhibition boxing before the shows, but Annie claimed that she did fights against male opponents. A contemporary of Annie Hickman was Winnie Lemm performed on the boxing shows as Winnie Davis, the Lady Boxing Champion. Winnie appeared in many exhibition bouts in the 1920s and 1930s and fought both men and women. An account of Annie's father's show can be foundin the "World's Fair" in the 1930s: "Women boxers have made an appearance in Wales. At Morristown Fair on Good Friday there was a bout between two women at Jack Lemm's booth. One of the women also tried conclusions with a man, but although the females shaped promisingly they scarcely came up to championship class." An advertisement in the local press in 1929 reveals Winnie's bouts in Wales: "Miss Winnie Davies, the Flyweight Champion Lady boxer will box with a well-known Aberdeen boxer."

Winnie reminisced about her time on the shows and her experience fighting both men and women in the ring: "On another occasion I was fighting a flyweight champion. I punched him and he got really mad. He went out to try and knock me out yet


I managed to last the three rounds without harm." Winnie participated in exhibition bouts with Len Harvey, the British Middleweight Champion.

Women were also involved in other aspects of the fight game. Although Alf Stewart never had women boxers on his show his six daughters were involved in other aspects of the booth including time-keeping, parading and building up the show. However, his mother's family the Gess's, used to exhibit lady boxers and Polly Wilson recalls hearing stories of her grandmother's sister fighting on the show. Other well-known British boxing booth proprietors who have exhibited women fighters include Ron Taylor, Tommy Wood, Sam McKeowen and Professor Boscoe.

However, despite the long history of women boxing, it was very difficult for serious women fighters to gain the respect and prize moneythat their male contemporaries were given. This is reflected in the career of Barbara Buttrick. In fact, women's boxing became really popular show after one of Buttrick's superlightweight bouts was broadcasted on TV in 1954. She is considered a pioneer of women's professional boxing. She became the first ever female world boxing champion when she took the world bantamweight and flyweight titles in America on October 8th 1957.

In the first part of the 20th century, prize fistfighting was popular in UK, USA, France and some other countries. Female fighters were not uncommon in such fights - the most of them belonged to lower classes. Female fights for prize looked more like fierce brawls rather than athletic competitions. The bouts sometimes were quite brutal and even tragedies happened sometimes


- in New Orleans, two female boxers died from injuries received while fighting a South American woman called Bellona.

In 1920s American "Countess" Jeanne La Marr (former ballet dancer) became famous in the field of prizefighting – she successfully fought against both men and women. Being very short (5'2") she had a powerful build (her weight was 170lbs) and was considered as a "world boxing champion" (even though probably she did not alone possess this title). After the boxing commissions of several states banned female boxers, La Marr retired to the mountains in California. In 1940s La Marr participated in boxing matches in Summer camps and successfully withstood male boxers.

Although from the 1880s regulations were being applied to boxing and in some contests punching or boxing with the handsonly was allowed, "Savat" fights (strikes with the feet as well as the hands) continued to be popular and sometimes girls as young as 12 years old headed the bill. Here is an extract from an article about the history of women’s boxing in the "Police Gazette" (1924). It describes a fight between a woman of 25 and a girl of 17: "One snapshot showed the woman shooting a kick at the girl’s head; the girl was warding it off with her left arm and sending in her right fist to the woman’s stomach... This fight ended in a victory for the woman. Another such fight was won by Mlle Fari, who, soon after an hour of bloody and bruising battle, broke the other girl’s jaw by a


savage kick... About 1902 Mlle. Augagnier beat Miss Pinkney of England in a savage fight. It was boxing and savate against straight boxing. Pinkney was better with her fists and looked like a winner after about one and a half hours of bloody fighting, but Mlle. A. cleverly managed to kick Pinkney in the face. This blow made a terrible scar and stunned the English girl and then the French girl shot a smashing kick to Pinkney’s stomach and knocked her out. The French girl was carried by her admirers in triumph from the ring."

However, the most of acts with women boxing in early the XX century were not brutal at all; the above mentioned bout was just a rare exception. Besides countless harmless boxing shows and punchbag trainings, some untrained women enjoyed friendly sparring with their female and male friends and partners (like they did in friendly wrestling). Such an activity allowed girls and women not only to have a lot of fun, but also to express their sexual appeal to the male audience which appreciate such a delightful show (long before such shows became commercial.)

In 1920s, Professor Andrew Newton (1888 and 1890 British amateur boxing lightweight champion) formed a Women Boxing Club in London. The Club prospered owing to the great enthusiasm shown by the London sports girl. Miss Annie Newton, Professor’s niece, was the most known boxer in the club. Annie Newton often fought exhibition bouts on the same bill as many of the professional fighters managed by Andrew Newton. In 1924


a match was made between Annie Newton and a Miss Madge Baker for the ladies world championship. The story was all over the press of the time and caused quite a stir as it was utterly unique. The fight was stopped by the Home Office about a week before it was due to take place. After World War I, Annie was a war-widow and boxed to support her daughter.

The French film studios Gaumont produced the film "London's women boxers” about the Newton’s Club and its female boxers. Professor Newton took charge of the ring craft during the film.

Following World War I, physicians and social workers complained that boxing (and football, water-polo, and various other sports) were too strenuous for girls. Nevertheless there were female boxers and promoters inWestern Europe, North America, South America, and the Indian sub-continent. For working women, the motivation was often money. One of them, Annie Newton, told a London reporter: "And really! All this talk about boxing for women being 'degrading' and 'risky’ and ‘too hard work’ strikes me as very comic. Is it any more degrading, or half as hard work, as scrubbing floors?" The new emphasis on slenderness also attracted women to the gym. According to an article published in 1928 the gym of Jack' O'Brien, located in the heart of Broadway's white light section, is now more sonorously entitled “The Flesh Reducing Institute”, and Mr. O'Brien's clients, who, a few years ago were almost 100% men, are now almost exclusively women. But, in common with other sports that


of the way in which biological arguments have been applied systematically to women's bodies in order to control cultural practices."

During the 1970s women began to take legal action in order to secure participation rights equal with men's. Between 1977 and 2000 there were lawsuits against a number of boxing’s governing bodies globally. These suits, all instigated by women, demanded a right or privilege from their national or regional governing body. Requests ranged from extending the number of rounds in female matches to establishing female events at the annual Golden Gloves tournament hosted by the United States. Through these struggles, female athletes fought for the right to legitimate and regulated bouts. In April, 1992, Gail Grandchamp won an eight year Superior Court decision in Massachusetts, which made it illegalto deny someone the chance to box based on gender. Canada followed in 1993 by settling its proceedings out of court. In October, 1993, the United States Boxing Commission was forced to recognize, implement and support female boxing and its regulations after losing a landmark court case. In 1995, the Golden Gloves tournament included women for the first time, and the first-ever fully sanctioned World Championship in professional women’s boxing was held and, in 1996, the Amateur Boxing Association of England lost in court and was also forced to license female boxers.

Since about 1975 women literally burst into the boxing rings overcoming stubborn resistance of the society and authorities. By 1990s women's boxing became so popular and spread that it surprised few.

In fact, women's boxing became world wide


popular in 1996 after TV broadcasting the famous match between Christy Martin and Deirdre Gogarty. The women fought on the undercard of the heavyweight men's bout between Mike Tyson and Frank Bruno. The women's match turned out to be much more interesting than the primary one – it had everything which makes boxing fascinating – keen techniques, fury, passion, knockdowns and even blood. The Martin-Gogarty battle was seen in an estimated 30 million homes and in over 100 countries! This match is considered as a birth day of the contemporary professional women's boxing.

Women's boxing attracted special attention in 1999-2000 when the daughters of three great boxers of the past came to the professional ring: in December 1999 - Laila Ali, 21, in February 2000 - Jackie Frazier-Lyde, 37or the owners.

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Women boxing at the World Fair in St. Louis which was combined with the Third Modern Olympic Games

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1900s. A man trains his wife in boxing

1900s. Winnie Davix boxes agains a man. Sketch

1920. Girls' training

Countess La Marr. 1927

1922: A crowd of onlookers, including English boxer Bombardier Billy Wells (between the two contestants), watching two women boxing at a garden fete in Hampstead, north London. Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images

Circa 1925. A young lady in a leotard directs her energies at a punchbag. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

1926. American boxer Joe Rivers sparring with Louise Adler, the women's lightweight champion of the world, during a training session before she defends her title. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

1935. Boxing instruction

1937. Girls try


out a little boxing on the promenade at the seaside resort of Hastings in the south of England. (Photo by William Vanderson/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

Circa 1955: Two women boxing. (Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images) by Three Lions

1990s. Contempoprary women's boxing

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The two 17-year-olds, who cannot be named, earned their infamy under the London gang tag 10/11.

Together with Micah Bedeau, 18, Yonas Girma, 21, and Isaac Marshall, 18, they associated with the '1011 West London gang' and used drill videos to taunt their rivals 'The 12 World Gang'.

Police arrested the five 1011 gang members as the planned a hit armed with weapons, masks and gloves.

This music video - titled 'No Hook' - shows the gang glorify plunging a knife into the lungs of a rival gang member

David Malone, prosecuting, said: 'These gangs are linked to geographical postcode areas. Members of the 1011 gang belong


to W10.

'These areas are perhaps best known to anyone who does not live there, as Notting Hill and Shepherd's Bush.'

Kingston Crown Court heard the show down had been sparked by a Snapchat video of the grandmother being approached and abused by a rival gang.

Four of the gang got in a black car and drove towards the postcode area of their rival's intent on revenge.

But police swooped down on them and found an armoury of deadly weapons.

Girma was driving and Isaac Marshall was also in the car with the two 17-year-olds.

Micah Bedeau, left, and Yonas Girma, right, face jail today after police arrested them while they prepared to attack another gang

Isaac Marshal, right, was also part of the gang, which made Drill videos (pictured, left, Girma in the videofor 'Next Up')

'On the back seat, officers found a large machete, and a black glove was also found from the back seat,' the prosecutor said.

'They were on their way to a 'Ride Out', to find and take violent retaliatory action against a rival gang or member.

'The defendant had weapons and the undoubtedly the attack would have resulted in serious injury and death.

'Micah Bedeau was found and detained in the communal hallway in the flats of where he lived.

'His flat was searched. In there were 23 snap bags of cannabis and other material associated with drugs were found there, but most noticeably a large machete and a small lock knife were found there.

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Micah Bedeau covers his face in the 'No Hook' video - in which the gang celebrate stabbing and shooting rivals

These machetes were recovered by police after they apprehended the thugs preparing to attack another gang

The five sat in the dock and laughed and joked as the hearing began.

Mr Malone told the court :'Isaac Marshall told police he was a tree surgeon and worked for them.

'He gave a reference to the company, but they had not heard of him.'

Mr Malone added: 'We point out the current effect gang violence is having on London and this particular community. None of the defendants are of previous good character, with all having convictions for carrying arms.

'The defendants have a total lack of remorse.'

All five of thegang members face up to five years in jail after admitting conspiring to commit violent disorder.

The hearing continues with sentencing due to take place tomorrow

The car contained weapons and it is believed that they were preparing to retaliate over threats made to a grandmother

What could the gang be banned from doing? Police are asking the court to consider imposing three or five-year Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) prohibiting the gang from making this type of music - referencing violence - again. The CBOs would also prohibit the defendants from entering certain areas and associating with other gang members, displaying gang-related 'hand gestures' and having any face coverings, such as a bandana, in a public place. A police spokesman said: 'Local officers at Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea


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Police are taking the highly unusual step of applying for a court order banning the gang members from making music that references violence.

The Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) would also ban the defendants from being certain areas, associating with other gang members, displaying gang-related 'hand gestures' and wearing face coverings public.

Officers in the boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham as well as Kensington and Chelsea gathered evidence of the gang promoting violence through music and social media in a two-year investigation.

One of their songs - 'No Hook' - included sounds of gunshotsbats. They also had masks, balaclavas and gloves.

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What is drill music and how is it fuelling London's crime wave? 'Drill' music, a hip-hop subgenre, is driving the feuding gang war in London, community leaders have warned. Hundreds of videos on YouTube feature UK rappers threatening and provoking people from rival areas. To 'drill' means to fight or scrap and the violent lyrics focus on gang life, drugs, guns and killing. In one video viewed nearly three million times, rapper Digga D boasts about having to bleach his knife


after using it to attack someone. In another, entitled 'Mummy's Kitchen', rappers Loski and Mayski, who are thought to be Londoners, boast about taking a blade from the family home. In the videos, which are filmed across the city, performers take care to ensure their faces are covered. The link with fatal attacks committed against young Londoners is made clear under the videos on YouTube, where commentators speculate about which groups were responsible. Advertisement

A large machete was found hidden down his trouser leg after he ran away when he saw police. Girma, Marshall and another youth inside were discovered inside the car.

Police found a large machete-style knife on Marshall and another on the back seat. A baseball bat was in the front passenger footwell and a second wasstored in the the boot.

After Bedeau was found and detained in the hallway of a black of flats, officers found a large machete, a small knife and a balaclava.

They had been about to launch an attack on rivals from Shepherd's Bush, possibly in retaliation for an incident involving the grandmother of two of their members, before they were arrested and charged.

A rival gang was seen threatening and abusing the grandmother because she was in their postcode area in a YouTube video of a Snapchat message.

The video concluded with the captions 'Lucky I don't rock her face' as well as 'Horrid1ComeGetYourNan'.

Horrid1 was the street name for Micah Bedeau, the court hear, with the video designed to goad the defendants into action.

But the Notting Hill gang told police their weapons


were props for a music video they were about to shoot before they were apprehended.

As well as machetes and knives, the thugs carried baseball bats in preparation for their attack

Detective Superintendent Adam Lowe, from the proactive team at the Trident and Area Crime Command, said: 'Seven music videos were shown in court as evidence of the aggressive and violent nature of the suspects.

'The lyrics referenced several real and often violent events. Their aim was purely to glorify gangs and violence.

'At Trident and across the Met we are very clear we will take decisive action to get videos of this nature removed from the internet; despite what the gangs may claim, there is a clear link, as in this case, to violence.

'And we will bring those videos before theFred Berger carried Klondike.

It was one of four districts, alongside Pelly River, Whitehorse Porter Creek and Whitehorse Riverdale, which existed only for the 1974 election; the districts were newly created in 1974 when the territorial council was expanded from seven to 12 members, but Ogilvie was redistricted back into Klondike when the new Legislative Assembly of Yukon was established.

Millard was the district's sole representative before it was redistricted.

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This paper highlights current UK recommendations for the prevention of CVD and action to improve population diet and thus population health.

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The Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), a group of independent experts, advise the UK government in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, government departments and Public Health England on nutrition issues. SACN and its predecessor group, the Committee on Medical Aspects of Nutrition Policy (COMA, prior to 2000) assess the impact of diet on health and make recommendations for dietary intake. The conclusions from SACN considerations are translated by Public Health England and relevant government departments across the UK into national recommendations and public facing advice.

SACN uses a framework approach, whenNational Diet and Nutrition Survey (NDNS); a continuous, cross-sectional survey designed as a rolling programme to collect detailed, quantitative information on the food consumption, nutrient intake and nutritional status of the general population aged 1.5 years and over living in private households in the UK, covering a representative sample of around 1000 people per year. The contribution of sugar sweetened beverages to sugar intakes remain of concern particularly for children and young people.

SACN concluded that increased intakes of total dietary fibre, and particularly cereal fibre and wholegrains, was strongly associated with a lower risk of cardio-metabolic health outcomes \[[@B13-healthcare-05-00009]\]. They also concluded that higher intake of oat bran and isolated β-glucans leads to lower total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol and triacylglycerol concentrations and lower blood pressure. As a result


to cardiovascular disease takes account of energy, saturated fat, sugar, salt, fruits, vegetables, fibre and oily fish. The UK's Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition publishes evidence reviews in these, and other areas; most recently their report on Carbohydrate and Health. Based on this advice the UK updated its national plate model represented as the Eatwell Guide. Moving the population to a diet consistent with the Eatwell Guide will help people meet UK dietary recommendations and improve health, including cardiovascular health resulting in longer and healthier lives.

The authors are employees of Public Health England and no additional funding was provided in the development of this manuscript.

Louis Levy and Alison Tedstone contributed to drafting of the paper.

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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First, Odessa is a must visit if you are attracted to Ukrainian women. The girls are absolutely amazing, but even without all of the stunning women it would still be worth the trip. The nightlife, food, and historical attractions are all amazing, and given the exchange rate it is an incredible deal for anyone from the United States or most other Western nations.

Ukraine is not exactly famous for amazing tourist attractions. Having spent a good deal of time there I am not sure that is really fair. Despite the damage from two world wars, a couple of revolutions, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster most large Ukrainian cities have more interesting architecture than the entire state of Alabama. The public parks, particularlyPotemkin Steps were made famous in by Sergei Eisenstein in the classic 1925 silent film The Battleship Potemkin, about the 1905 revolt among sailors of the Black Sea Fleet.It might be the most famous scene in movie history – at least to film buffs.

Here is director Roger Corman explaining why the scene is so important in movie history:

In reality the blood bath on the steps never occurred and today Primorsky Boulevard is mostly just an amazing place to stroll and people watch.

This is a late Sunday afternoon near the Opera House.

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The Basics of Dating Odessa Women

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The president of the National Assembly told the BBC's James Menendez that another option would be a military transition as long as it lead to free elections.

Mr Guaidó, who led a failed attempt to spark a military uprising against Mr Maduro in April, said there was still momentum for change in the country.

He has been recognised as interim leader by more than 50 nations, including the US and most in Latin America but Mr Maduro retains the loyalty of most of the military and important allies such as China and Russia.


OPEC nations' proposed "oil freeze" won't work. Here's why.

Saudi Arabia's plan to flood the market with an oversupply of oil has backfired.

The attempt was initiated to protect the Saudi market share and force rapidly growing, high cost producers out of the market, mainly those doing business in the US shale boom.

Instead of putting the fire out, the United States (which consistently touts the climate change narrative), increased production, becoming the world’s largest producer and contributing further to the oversupply of oil on the market.

(Has anyone calculated the carbon footprint on that?)

Although the deal is up to, in large part, OPEC producing countries and governments, the Democrats have remained relatively quiet. And there’s a reason for that: business is booming in the United States and they are a countryto sever tissue and to drive staples on each side of the cut. The E-beam firing bar affirmatively spaces the anvil from the elongate channel to assure properly formed closed staples, especially when an amount of tissue is clamped that is inadequate to space the end effector. In particular, an upper pin of the firing bar longitudinally moves through an anvil slot and a channel slot is captured between a lower cap and a middle pin of the firing bar to assure a minimum spacing. While this E-beam firing bar has a number of advantages, additional features are desirable to enhance manufacturability and to minimize dimensional variations.
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350 F.3d 433
James Neil TUCKER, Sr., Petitioner-Appellant,v.Jon E. OZMINT, Director, South Carolina Department of Corrections; Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General, State of South Carolina, Respondents-Appellees.
No. 03-5.
United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.
Argued: September 24, 2003.
Decided: December 1, 2003.

COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED ARGUED: Robert Edward Lominack, Center for Capital Litigation, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellant.
Donald John Zelenka, Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.
ON BRIEF: Teresa L. Norris, Center for Capital Litigation, Columbia, South Carolina; Thomas R. Haggard, Ridgeway, South Carolina, for Appellant. Henry Dargan McMaster, Attorney General, John W. McIntosh, Chief Deputy Attorney General, Columbia, South Carolina, for Appellees.
Before MICHAEL, MOTZ, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges.
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge SHEDD wrote the opinion, in which Judge MICHAEL and Judge DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ joined.
OPINION
SHEDD, Circuitof these claims. After further review, we find no error in the denial of habeas relief, and we affirm the judgment of the district court.

I.

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Dolly Oakley was in her yard at her Sumter County, South Carolina residence when Tucker pulled into her driveway on June 25, 1992.1 Tucker pulled out a gun and forced Oakley into the house and then into her bedroom. Just as Tucker was preparing to bind Oakley with tape, Joe Black rang the doorbell. Black and James Howard (who waited outside in the car) were looking for Oakley's husband. Both Tucker and Oakley went out into the driveway as Black was leaving the house. Oakley began screaming, "Don't leave me, he's going to kill me," holding Black's arm as he sat in Howard's car.


Howard panicked and drove away. Tucker dragged Oakley back into the house, took fourteen dollars from her purse, and shot her twice in the head at close range. Tucker testified that he shot her the first time when she tried to grab the gun. He shot her a second time to "put her out of her misery."

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Tucker's crime spree did not end with the murder of Dolly Oakley. Still in Sumter County, he broke into the Christian Fellowship Church and later the mobile home of Kenneth Parker. Tucker moved on to neighboring Calhoun County, where he murdered another woman, Shannon Mellon, and stole her car. Tucker then drove north, abandoned the car, and crossed the state line into North Carolina. Tucker was finally captured in Maggie Valley, Norththe Supreme Court held that counsel's failure to expand their investigation fell short of prevailing professional standards. Id. at 2536.

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Tucker's counsel, by contrast, presented a substantial mitigation case at sentencing. They presented five witnesses, including Tucker's wife, two vocational rehabilitation workers who knew Tucker, a widow whose husband Tucker had befriended while in prison, and Dr. Noelker, a clinical psychologist qualified as an expert in forensic psychology. Dr. Noelker described at length Tucker's history of abuse as a child and its connection to Tucker's antisocial personality disorder. Dr. Noelker testified that in preparation for his testimony, he (1) interviewed Tucker on four different occasions, (2) read the voluntary statement made by Tucker in this case, (3) reviewed the deposition of the doctor who testified in Tucker's Calhoun County


that Tucker was the target of sexual and physical abuse from family members until he was about eleven years old. As a result of this abuse, Dr. Noelker testified that Tucker was unable to conform his behavior to common standards. The record leaves no doubt that the jury was offered a clear, coherent mitigation case that focused on Tucker's history of abuse.

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Counsel's performance in preparing Tucker's mitigation case far surpassed the inadequate performance described in Wiggins.4 Counsel attended the previous trial, made reasoned judgments about which witnesses to call, and presented an expert psychologist who gave the jury a full picture of Tucker's disturbing social history. "Although counsel should conduct a reasonable investigation into potential defenses, Strickland does not impose a constitutional requirement that counsel uncover every scrapin mitigation, Dr. Noelker testified that Tucker suffered from antisocial personality disorder stemming from childhood physical and sexual abuse. According to Dr. Noelker, Tucker "was — was and is — a severely, if not profoundly[,] physically and sexually abused child and he carries those characteristics with him into adulthood." After recounting specific episodes of abuse from Tucker's childhood, Dr. Noelker testified that he was "convinced" and it was his "professional opinion" that Tucker was "both physically and sexually abused" from an early age. The result of this abuse, said Dr. Noelker, was an antisocial personality disorder that rendered Tucker unable to conform his behavior to common standards.

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Tucker now argues that his mitigation case would have been stronger had Dr. Noelker been able to refute the State's cross-examination with


solicitor would have maintained his charge of fabrication even if Dr. Noelker had made reference to the Utah juvenile records.

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Finally, Dr. Noelker answered the solicitor's cross-examination by stating unequivocally that his conclusions were not affected by the timing of Tucker's allegations of abuse. Based on his review of other records (including the social history prepared for the Calhoun County trial) and his own interviews with Tucker, Dr. Noelker believed that Tucker had been subject to physical and sexual abuse during his childhood. This abuse, according to Dr. Noelker, resulted in the development of a personality disorder, which caused Tucker to engage in aggressive and violent behaviors. Even after reviewing the Utah juvenile records, Dr. Noelker stated that he had not seen "any substantial differences" that would cause himin Ghana's financial system,” he added.

Declining yields

He said coming from four years of consistent high and double-digit nominal yields, investors were failing to come to terms with the new reality of a sharp decline in yields.

Consequently, some investment houses appear to be on the lookout for yield-hunting investors who fail to question the returns promised, in the light of declining benchmark yields.

The Bank of Ghana, for its part, has stepped up the clean-up of the banking system since last year and is instituting other reforms to strengthen the banking sector.

Complement BoG move

Analysts say this move by the SEC will complement the actions of the central bank to shake up the financial service industry to boost investor confidence.

In March this year, the SEC announced that it would begin a


Residents handle aftermath of hurricane with resilience, humor and spirit. Jaylyn Rosario stands on makeshift barrier to prevent flooding of her home on Avenida Esteves, piled high with sand and debris washed in from a creek.

Floodwaters seep into home of 97-year-old Margarita Maestre on Avenida Esteves. She is bedridden with respiratory issues and a feeding tube, with caregiving provided by her daughter Blanco Matos, weary from concerns about her medical needs and the inability to get her out in emergency.

Daly Montavo, born in Puerto Rico and raised in New York City, laughs at her home on Avenida Esteves after filling jugs of water from a National Guard delivery to the neighborhood. She says, "We're here and that's all that matters."

Jomar Maldonado (right) and Abigail Diaz mop up floodwatersin their home.

Carol Guzy for NPR

Originally published on October 12, 2017 11:58 am

When it rains in Puerto Rico, it rains hard and it rains fast. And this week — three weeks after Hurricane Maria — it has rained a lot.

For portions of the island – especially in the mountains and in the valleys – that rain brings a continual trauma of mudslides and flooding. Even in San Juan, highway exits pool with a foot or more of water. In restaurants with cell service, the S.O.S alarms on phones ring out in a cacophony – warning of flash floods. But the capital city has fared comparatively well — it's the rural places that are doing much, much worse.

"All the progress we make is destroyed," says Blanca Matos, who lives


in Bilbao, a neighborhood in Utuado. Her home, which backs up against a river, has flooded, and re-flooded, nearly every day this week. "The water is clogged up, and every time it rains it explodes and everything gets flooded."

Her house is tiled, with buckets scattered about. She's used those buckets to catch rainwater since they have no running water yet. In the center of the room is a large couch which she melts into — her feet barely touching the floor as leans back, resting her head on the fabric.

It's been a long three weeks, she says.

Behind her, in a back room, her mother is bedridden and thought to be in the final days of her life. "He pasado mal ratos," she says in Spanish – a commonexpression roughly meaning "I've had it rough." Her mother, "a beauty," was a teacher for 30 years. Now, "she doesn't recognize, she doesn't speak; absolutely nothing, she can't move her hands." Neighbors helped hook up a car battery to power her mother's respiratory machine. They've stockpiled materials: gauze, Pampers, pads, Ensure. Plus, Matos has special cream on hand in case her mother develops ulcers.

"I'm actually spent," she says, "But regardless of how I feel, I need to keep helping her. It has to be done."

After each rain, she mops the house, cursing the river. She grew up here, but she says she never played by the river. Now, after Maria, is the first time she "has to get her feet wet."

I ask her if it feels like she's


in the recovery phase yet. No, she says, "we're in the process still."

A nursing home persists

Across Esteves Ave., about 100 feet from Blanca Matos' house, a local pastor, and his wife Ada are caring for a group of sick and elderly – a makeshift nursing home.

Their home is right next to the "quebrada" – a small creek that feeds into the river. Before the hurricane, the river was clogged up by bamboo. Since the river can't find a way to go downstream, it overflows and floods the houses across the street. They've been lucky; the water hasn't entered their house because it's just uphill enough to be out of the path.

Ada Medina walks us through the house. In their living room, the remnants of a church service –before the hurricane came through they would hold services in their house. They haven't held one since Maria.

Medina is a nurse and takes care of the handful of patients living here. She has a generator at the house which has been essential, she says, for her work. It provides light while she gives residents their medicine. She's been working alone this week because the woman that usually helps her set off to Ponce, a city in the southern part of the island, to look for a sister whom she hasn't had any contact with since the hurricane.

In the meantime, she's hoping someone will come clean out the debris in the creek, so the neighborhood will stop flooding.

'You don't have to be an engineer'

José Ramos, 62, who lives down


the street, isn't holding his breath for help. "Where are they?" he asks to no one in particular, "Where is the mayor? It's been three weeks and the mayor is not around." While they've waited for help, he and his son built barricades with debris to route the flood waters away from the houses on Esteves.

Alongside his driveway, they've created a channel of sandbags and cinderblocks. Walking down to the river — the Vivi Arriva – behind his house, the water is about 5 feet below where we're standing. The creek up the hill runs into this river. It's not the river that floods, Ramos tells me, it's the creek up the hill that flows into the river. If a team could come and clear out the creekand dig a clear path to the river, he explains, the flooding would stop. "You don't have to be an engineer to figure this out," he says laughing.

But still, they wait.

Strong people

"The water didn't have no other place to go," says Daly Montavo Muñoz, 59, who moved here several years ago from Connecticut to take care of her mother. "There is no escaping it. It seems like the river decided to come down on us." Despite the damage to her house — there's currently a felled tree on top of her roof — she's a burst of energy, laughing and smiling and joking with neighbors. She says as soon as she gets power she's going to watch a movie – maybe The Lion King — just something to


make her laugh and feel like a kid again.

"We're strong people," she says, "we come together. We work it out as a team."

As we're visiting, a neighbor's phone catches a whisper of service, and pings: "Flash Flood Watch: ... A high risk of river and small stream flooding as well as mudslides and rockfall in areas of steep terrain both in rural and urban areas."

The sky is growing dark. The rain, and the flooding that follows, is coming, again.

"We're bracing," says Montavo Muñoz. "We're about to live the whole thing all over again."

And most likely, it won't be the last time: The forecast predicts rain through the weekend.The maker of a drone that fires pepper spray bullets says it has received its first order for the machine.

South Africa-based Desert Wolf told the BBC it had secured the sale of 25 units to a mining company after showing off the tech at a trade show in London.

It is marketing the device as a "riot control copter" that can tackle crowds "without endangering the lives of security staff".

This is going to get interesting

As my grandfather said about stuff like this..." Nothing a 303 bullet wouldn't fix". The only confrontation between a drone and a manned fighter plane saw the drone come off a very poor second. These things are sitting ducks in the sights of a determined opponent.

Two things in their favor. Silent and size. A buddy