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family and counsel. During the most acute of the three incidents alleged in plaintiff's complaint, plaintiff claims that on May 15, 1987, he was detained for eleven hours, denied contact with counsel and his mother, and forced to endure a strip search and other brutal treatment for the defendant officers' amusement.
Plaintiff Maryann Washco, Mr. Washco's mother, brings a single state law claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress against Officer Galli for his alleged refusal on the night of May 15, 1987, to disclose her son's whereabouts. She avers that upon hearing of her son's arrest, she went to the Darby police station to inquire about Mr. Washco's status. At first, Officer Galli allegedly told Mrs. Washco that her son was suspected of being involved in drug dealing.losing record for the first time since its winless season in 1979. And the Gators will miss a bowl game for the first time since 1990, ending what was the longest postseason streak among FBS teams at 22 consecutive seasons.
Florida also pulled off the unenviable feat of twice occupying the not-so-coveted No. 5 spot in the Bottom 10 this season. The Gators were also No. 5 after a 34-17 loss to Vanderbilt on Nov. 9, which was their first home defeat against the Commodores since 1945.
We're guessing Georgia Southern fans played the Allman Brothers Band's classic cover of Blind Willie McTell's blues tune more than a few times in Statesboro, Ga., on Saturday night. It seems only fitting, as Duane Allman, who was killed in a motorcycle accident
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Source: Xinhua| 2017-04-14 23:41:04|Editor: An
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BEIJING, April 14 (Xinhua) -- China-France relationship is one of the most mature and stable examples of ties between major countries, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Friday.
Wang made the remarks during his talks with French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, saying that the two sides should continue to respect each other's core interests and major concerns.
Wang said that the two countries should carry out pragmatic cooperation in nuclear energy, aviation and aerospace as well as in third party markets, adding that the two countries should also explore industrial production capacity cooperation in countries along the Belt and Road.
The comprehensive strategic partnership between France and China will continuously move forward regardless of French presidential election's result, Ayrault said, noting that he visited Beijingbefore the presidential election to underscore the importance of the France-China relationship and its significance to world peace and stability.
France will enhance nuclear energy cooperations with China, and boost people-to-people exchanges in culture, tourism and sports and it will take measures to safeguard the security of Chinese citizens travelling to or living in France, said Ayrault.
Ayrault expressed France's willing to join in the implementation of the Belt and Road Initiative.
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island. There, experiments were conducted on them until an accident took place five years ago and the monsters overran the island. Now, the dome that is keeping the monsters on the island is failing. And in 48 hours they’ll be able to break free. Before the government can take action, a mercenary unit led by a scientist, Doctor Bennett, must venture in to the heart of darkness to retrieve a global changing element.
Written by Joe Tyler based on a story by Ralph Tedesco and Joe Brusha, Escape From Monster Island #1 is a fun read. While this is only the first of a six issue series, you get the same feeling as you would going up the first hill on a theme park rollercoaster. You have an ideais enough freshness to this story to keep you turning the pages.
JUSTA LOTTA REVIEW: The Death of Superman Lives, What Happened? Is More Powerful Than A Locomotive.tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d83451887569e201b7c7861cdf970b2015-05-06T14:36:07-07:002015-05-06T14:45:48-07:00JUSTA LOTTA REVIEW: The Death of Superman Lives, What Happened? Is More Powerful Than A Locomotive. Tanya Tate™
Jon Schnepp’s love letter to the unproduced film chronicles how the never ending battle, ended for Superman Lives.
In 1998 there was supposed be a new Superman movie. One that was to be a radical departure from the previous Christopher Reeve films but was somewhat based on the existing comic book arc The Death and Return of Superman. The film would have seen Superman die at the hands of the unstoppable Kryptonian creature Doomsday, then resurrected to face villains Lex Luthor and Brainiac. Batman producer Jon
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Peters spearheaded the project that would have Tim Burton direct and Nicolas Cage star as Superman. But it was never to be. 3 weeks before the movie was to start filming, it was canceled. The documentary Death of Superman Lives, What Happened? takes an in depth look at the movie that was never to be.
Director Jon Schnepp wastes no time in getting into the thick of things with interviews that span key crew members including writers, costume designers, art department and more. The movie is filled with anecdotes, visuals, and test footage from the the ill fated Superman film. Artwork depicting Doomsday, Brainiac, alien creatures and more are seen as artists explain the directives they were given.
Kevin Smith, who wrote an early draft of the movie, has infamouslya small expedition to a planet. Murderbot, as the A.I. calls itself, is plainly uncomfortable with personal attention and has little interest in anything outside its scope of concern, namely, its job and entertainment videos. I have to confess, that sounds like me during most of my adolescent years (substitute books for videos and you have me at every family event, ever).
Written as a novella, the plot takes off from page two. It isn't long before both Murderbot and the team realize they're facing multiple types of danger. Characterization is one of the outstanding parts of the story, with Murderbot's nature getting a lot of subtle build. The team never stood out to any great degree, but that's partly because until this expedition, Murderbot has had generally negative
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to read this book in a few hours. I just found out that Ms. Wells has sold a total of four (count em (4)) novellas in the Murderbot series with the second titled "Artificial Condition" (16.99 for a hardcover and 9.99 for the kindle) to appear somewhere near the beginning of 2018 and upon a bit of research found the the book here at GR ->
Book 3 is scheduled to be a hardcover titled "Rogue Protocol" (The Murderbot Diaries #3)Entry #1
I will be starting to read this book in a few hours. I just found out that Ms. Wells has sold a total of four (count em (4)) novellas in the Murderbot series with the second titled "Artificial Condition" (16.99 for a hardcover and 9.99 for the kindle)do some work, and he has to interact with humans - his two least favorite activities.
This story was short, but funny if you love depressed robots with low self-esteem.
Some heavy themes wrapped up in what is otherwise a relatively fluffy novella. The plot's straight-forward, the prose is decent, but it's charming and witty. Murderbot, who repeatedly says that she'd rather be netflixing, is surprisingly relatable. One of my favorite parts is when Murderbot is faced with the prospect of spending time with people and is (understandably) horrified. She can't control her facial reaction which in turn makes the human crew she's assigned to uncomfortable t3ish stars.
Some heavy themes wrapped up in what is otherwise a relatively fluffy novella. The plot's straight-forward, the prose is decent, but it's charming
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and witty. Murderbot, who repeatedly says that she'd rather be netflixing, is surprisingly relatable. One of my favorite parts is when Murderbot is faced with the prospect of spending time with people and is (understandably) horrified. She can't control her facial reaction which in turn makes the human crew she's assigned to uncomfortable to know that they're making Murderbot uncomfortable (and that she has feelings as human as any of them).
Also, I've just realized that I've been using female pronouns for Murderbot, when Murderbot is actually genderless and is referred to as 'it' by the crew. For some reason I naturally thought of Murderbot as being female and I'm not sure why, maybe because the author is female?
The Murderbot novella series had crossed my path a time ortwo before I finally picked it up, but it was the glowing recommendation from my book buddy TS & the convenient timing of an Audible Daily Deal that pushed my curiosity over the edge!
This was such an adorable story, which is ironic since the name of the series is Murderbot. But despite Murderbot's name for itself, it's actually a rather hilarious & relatable individual.
Being deeply invested in downloaded media & characterizThe Murderbot novella series had crossed my path a time or two before I finally picked it up, but it was the glowing recommendation from my book buddy TS & the convenient timing of an Audible Daily Deal that pushed my curiosity over the edge!
This was such an adorable story, which is ironic since the name of the
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as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction. Her most recent fantasy novel is The Harbors of the Sun in 2017, the final novel in The Books of the Martha Wells has written many fantasy novels, including The Books of the Raksura series (beginning with The Cloud Roads), the Ile-Rien series (including The Death of the Necromancer) as well as YA fantasy novels, short stories, media tie-ins (for Star Wars and Stargate: Atlantis), and non-fiction. Her most recent fantasy novel is The Harbors of the Sun in 2017, the final novel in The Books of the Raksura series. She has a new series of SF novellas, The Murderbot Diaries, published by Tor.com in 2017 and 2018. She wasalso the lead writer for the story team of Magic: the Gathering's Dominaria expansion in 2018. She has won a Nebula Award, an ALA/YALSA Alex Award, a Locus Award, and her work has appeared on the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Award ballots, the USA Today Bestseller List, and the New York Times Bestseller List. Her books have been published in eleven languages.
She has had short stories in the magazines Black Gate, Realms of Fantasy, Lone Star Stories, Lightspeed Magazine, and Stargate Magazine, and in the Tsunami Relief anthology Elemental, The Other Half of the Sky, Tales of the Emerald Serpent, Mech: Age of Steel, and The Gods of Lovecraft.
She has essays in the nonfiction anthologies Farscape Forever, Mapping the World of Harry Potter, Chicks Unravel Time,
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most of his twenties he was in a rock band called ‘The Mags’. The video below is a short vid-doc about the band that was made by film director and cinematographer Paul Bashour while the band recorded in New York City in 2006. It will give you a great flavour of the background and influences that have shaped the Academy.
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When John Roberts had trouble using his hands the doctor said he suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome.
When his vision blurred, a detached retina was blamed. When Roberts, of Eminence, had difficulties with his balance doctors diagnosed an inner ear condition. The worst was when doctors said he’d had a stroke.
Often we overlook a good thing that is right under our noses. When we decide to have a meal away from home, we automatically think going out of county, but Henry County is blessed with many restaurants that serve wonderful food at reasonable prices.
A 2008 Shelby County High School graduate is suing a former teacher and the staff of three Kentucky school districts, charging they were complicit in sexual harassment and wanton negligence.
In a lawsuit filed Nov. 6
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In case you hadn’t heard, NBA journeyman center Jason Collins has declared to the world that he is a gay man. Collins entered the NBA twelve years ago, along with his twin Jarron, after the two played collegiate basketball at Stanford. He is being hailed as the first out active male athlete in a major professional team sport in the U.S. (though some may argue that late baseball player Glenn Burke was the first).
Collins says he was inspired to come out after his former college roommate, current Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy, marched in a Boston gay pride parade:
I’m seldom jealous of others, but hearing what Joe had done filled me with envy. I was proud of him for participating but angry that as a closeted gay man Inever told that they would be more likely to drop-out and get pregnant than go on to a four-year college. These vaunted intellectuals and philosophers were certainly not seventeen year-old East L.A. girls like Paula Crisostomo, a Mexican-American Filipina activist who helped spearhead the Chicano student walkouts of 1968. As a student at Lincoln High School in East L.A. Crisostomo was influenced by social studies teacher Sal Castro, who recently passed away at the age of 79. Castro’s fierce commitment to culturally relevant education inspired generations of youth social justice activism in the LAUSD. His guidance of Crisostomo and other youth leaders helped make the 1968 walkouts the largest high school student protests in this nation’s history. Thousands of students boycotted their classes in protest over lack of
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fountains. Racism wasn’t the systematic sexual terrorism of black women in the Jim Crow South and the de facto segregationist North or the demonization of black women as welfare queen matriarchs. Then, as now, there was no room for analyses of sexism, racial apartheid, heterosexism, and patriarchy and how our lived experiences diverged from the corrupt pedagogy of the American dream.
Last year, Crisostomo came and spoke to a group of my students at Washington Prep High School in South Los Angeles. She drew parallels between the racism she’d encountered during the Vietnam War era and the de facto segregation of the Obama age. [Read more…]
To be sure, many assumptions are made about atheists. Some of the assumptions about atheists are made by atheists, and African American atheists arebe an evangelist, and no doubt evolved into a believer who apparently took no prisoners. Born in Jamaica, she arrived in NYC the divorced mother of four small children and recalls the loneliness of having no family members or friends in her newly-adopted country; she had no one but Jesus as most committed Christians would say. She recounted the endless time spent preparing her small children for the arduous journey to and from church, three times a week. Hurriedly making her way along the sidewalks, she’d push the double-stroller containing her two smallest children with one hand; and would pull along the other two children with her other hand. By the time she fought her way in and out of trains and subways stations, she’d finally arrive at
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first!”
— Anthony Pinn, author, African American Humanist Principles and The End of God Talk: An African American Humanist Theology
From Godless Americana: Race and Religious Rebels (forthcoming May 2013):
Christianity was one of the primary means by which African Americans learned the lexicon of becoming subjects through otherness. This is a uniquely American dialectic, borne of the soul-killing terrorism of slave ships, and, later, the plantation, a gulag awash in the new republic’s corrupt gospel of individual liberty. When my students traveled to the California African American museum last year, they had a chance to see and imagine the terror of these spaces. They walked through galleries with floor-to-ceiling inscriptions chronicling the birth dates, family lineages, appearances, habits, and idiosyncracies of slaves. They marveled at the relevance and medievalism ofthe notorious Willie Lynch manifesto. Their blood ran cold at the military assemblage of black bodies in the slavers’ hull. They stood mesmerized, contemplating the sheer number, weight, and scope of intertwined bodies, twinned in the endless sea voyage, hour after murderous hour. Enraged, many of them wondered how these obliterated ancestors made it out alive. How they resisted the gnashing white turbine of the sea and the urge to rise up against their savage captors.
Often did I think many of the inhabitants of the deep much more happy than myself. I envied them the freedom they enjoyed, and as often wished I could change my condition for theirs.
Olaudah Equiano, 1789
Later, in the classroom, we read Alice Walker on the spirituality of art-making. She wonders about the enslaved
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End of Time
This year's EA British Academy Children's Awards honours Bernard Cribbins. Many will know him for his reoccurring role of Wilf, Donna's granddad currently in Doctor Who (and is set to return for the upcoming specials The End of Time), though his association with Doctor Who goes back to the 1966 feature film, Daleks: Invasion of Earth 2150 AD with Peter Cushing, he can also be heard in a radio version with Paul McGann, and was in the running to succeed Jon Pertwee as the Doctor.
Happy Birthday to Who, Dreamland, Karen Gillan's 9 Year Old Cousin to Follow Footsteps, The Sarah Jane Adventures Strong Numbers, The End of Time is Coming, Jeffrey Tambor Joins David Tennant, David Tennant Has Nothing to Say, David Tennant Does Have Somethingto Say for Christmas, and more.
Doctor Who: The End of Time, Part One - this year's Christmas special starring David Tennant as the 10th Doctor will be coming to BBC America on Saturday, December 26th at 9pm Eastern / 8pm Central. See a preview below:
BBC AMERICA airs the next special, Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars on Saturday, December 19th at 9pm EST /8pm CST. The Doctor and Adelaide face terror on the red planet in one of the scariest and exciting adventures yet. It stars David Tennant and British stage and screen actress Lindsay Duncan (Rome, Langford) as Adelaide, the clever and strong-minded leader of Bowie Base One.
Three promos currently being shown on BBC America for the last few Doctor Who specials coming in December starring David
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Heatter-Quigley Productions, in 1981. The round used the same dice table as the 1978–80 version (complete with sound effects) and had the same rules, but the top award was an accumulating jackpot of prizes known as the Gambit Galaxy.
Champions stayed on the show until they were defeated or until they won five matches (seven on the 1978–80 version). On the 1987–88 version, winning five matches originally won a new car but was later dropped by the time a contestant finally retired undefeated, which led to more cars being awarded in some of the mini-games played during the main game.
Production information
Personnel
Alex Trebek and Wink Martindale served as hosts for High Rollers. Heatter-Quigley staff announcer Kenny Williams served as announcer for the Trebek versions. The 1987 series used Dean Gossamount of $22,799.43 and affirm as modified.
I. Background
In an unrelated suit, a default judgment was rendered against
appellant=s brother, the former owner of the commercial property at issue. The
court authorized a receiver to sell the property. By special warranty deed
dated November 16, 2005, the receiver conveyed the property to Plaza Centro.
On
February 28, 2006, Plaza Centro sent identical letters to Tierrablanca and
Rainbow Seafood. In the letters, Plaza Centro expressed its understanding that
Tierrablanca and Rainbow Seafood were occupying the property without a written
lease. Plaza Centro considered Tierrablanca and Rainbow Seafood to be occupying
the property as tenant-at-will or tenant-by-sufferance. The entities were
instructed that, to the extent they were paying rent, they were now to forward
all rental payments to Plaza Centro=s address.
Neither
entity paid rent to Plaza Centro for the month of
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March 2006. On March 14,
2006, Plaza Centro again sent identical letters to Tierrablanca and Rainbow
Seafood. Plaza Centro notified the entities that Plaza Centro was terminating
their tenancies and right to possession of the premises, effective March 19,
2006. Plaza Centro further demanded that the entities vacate the premises
within three days. On April 26, 2006, Plaza Centro filed separate forcible
detainer suits against Tierrablanca and Rainbow Seafood in the Justice Court of
Harris County. Plaza Centro sought possession of the property, unpaid rent,
unspecified damages, and attorney=s fees. The Justice Court awarded
possession, attorney=s fees, and costs to Plaza Centro.
Appellant
timely appealed to the Harris County Court at Law Number Two. The Honorable
Gary Michael Block conducted one trial de novo for both suits. On September 6,
2006, the trial court rendered two separate judgments. Relative to
Tierrablanca,withholding or defending possession of the premises
because there is no evidence he occupied the premises during the pendency of
the appeal.[4] In contrast,
Plaza Centro contends the evidence is legally sufficient to prove appellant
occupied the premises because (1) Plaza Centro mailed letters to the entities
at the address of the premises on February 28, 2006 and March 14, 2006 and
appellant personally signed for one March 14 letter, (2) Giorgio Lofti, Plaza
Centro=s representative, testified that
appellant did not vacate the premises, and (3) appellant believed he was
entitled to occupy and was defending his right to possession of the premises.
However, we conclude this evidence is insufficient to establish appellant
occupied the premises during the pendency of the appeal.
1. February 28 and March 14
Letters
On
February 28, 2006, Plaza Centro mailed letters to the entities at the address
of
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of any corroborative facts, either from the informants or the FBI, sufficient to subject the appellant to a lawful search. The minimum standards of Aguilar and Spinelli simply have not been met.
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Reversed.
APPENDIX TO OPINION OF THE COURT
AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF WARRANT
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Affidavit in support of an application for a United States Magistrate's arrest warrant for violation of Title 18, Section 1952, United States Code; and Title 22, Sections 1501 and 1502, District of Columbia Code of Lynwood 'Shorty' Long; and in support of a United States Magistrate's search warrant for the premise located at Apartment Number 1604, 2338 24th Street, S.W., Washington, D.C., which apartment bears the name of R. J. Cecchini on the door.
Statement of Facts
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Information was received on February 3, 1966, from a confidential informant thatFederal Bureau of Investigation.
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Information was received on August 6, 1969, from this same confidential informant that he has personal knowledge that Lynwood 'Shorty' Long, who resides in nearby Maryland, is now conducting a numbers operation at the residence of Russ Cecchini in Washington, D.C. strictly by telephone.
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The above confidential informant is well acquainted with gambling activities in the Washington, D.C. area and on numerous occasions in the past has furnished information that has been verified as correct either through independent sources or Federal Bureau of Investigation observations or has resulted in arrests.
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Another confidential informant advised on September 9, 1969, he has personal knowledge that Lynwood 'Shorty' Long has worked in numbers offices in the local area for many years and is currently working in a numbers office, location
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unknown. This latter confidential informant is also well acquainted with gambling activities in the Washington, D.C. area and has furnished information on numerous occasions in the past that was either verified as correct through independent sources or Federal Bureau of Investigation observations.
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According to the records of the Metropolitan Police Department, Russell Joseph Cecchini, 2338 24th Street, S.E., Washington, D.C., was arrested on September 17, 1968, on charges of operating a lottery, maintaining a gambling premise, and possession of numbers slips. On the latter two charges, a judgment of guilty was entered.
Observations
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At approximately 11:20 a.m., August 15, 1969, Special Agents Bernard A. De Santis and Edward N. Wills observed an automobile belonging to Lynwood 'Shorty' Long, which is a 1964 Mercury Sedan bearing District of Columbia licensein conducting this numbers operation and that the above-mentioned premise is now being used as an office for this numbers operation, in violation of the provisions of Title 18, Section 1952, United States Code; and Title 22, Section 1501 and 1502, District of Columbia Code.
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(s) Bernard A. De Santis Special Agent Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 11th day of September, 1969
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(s) John F. Doyle United States Magistrate for the District of Columbia
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Sitting by designation pursuant to 28 U.S.C. 292(c) (1964)
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the staff from Health Services for Older People at the Royal Free NHS Trust and the North Middlesex University Trust (Dr Sophie Edwards and Dr Dan Lee, Consultants in Care of the Elderly); and particularly our professional consultees Jo James, Jenny Kenward, Pippa Street, Bridget Cooney, Jane Dunne, and Dr. Ada Chime.
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It was a busy, albeit not overly exciting deadline period for the Montreal Canadiens, as they acquired several role players in various trades. While early acquisitions were met with universal praise, the latter trades left people scratching their heads.
Jordie Benn for Greg Pateryn and 2017 4th round-pick
The first trade for Marc Bergevin was out of left field to say the least, it was known that Greg Pateryn was on the market, but it was unclear what his return was. Jordie Benn however, is a great return as a good penalty killing defenceman and decent puck mover. In his debut game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, Benn played alongside Nathan Beaulieu on the third pair and on the penalty kill next to Shea Weber and performed admirably. It’s early,
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Armstrong leaves national legacy | Marcia Roth
Marcia Roth | Guest Contributor
Show Caption Hide Caption Remembering former Mayor Dave Armstrong Armstrong was the last mayor of the city of Louisville, prior to the merged city and county governments. He strived to make Louisville a vibrant place “to live, work, and play.”
The Mary Byron Project Inc., fostering innovations and strategies to end domestic violence, expresses its deepest sympathy to Carol Armstrong, and all the family of the Honorable David L. Armstrong.
Of all the accomplishments rightly attributed to Armstrong, the greatest will be the role he played in one of the biggest victims’ rights milestones in our nation’s history.
His commitment to serving victims of crime was a cornerstone of his long career in public service. As Kentucky Attorney General from 1984to 1988, his door was always open to victims’ groups, and he became attuned to the issues associated with being a victim of crime. He was responsible for the Kentucky General Assembly’s passage of the Victims’ Bill of Rights during his term, long before most other states recognized victims as being a pivotal part of the criminal justice system.
More: Former Mayor, Judge-Executive Dave Armstrong's career spanned more than four decades
More: Dave Armstrong, last mayor of the old City of Louisville, dies at 75
When Armstrong was elected Jefferson County Judge/Executive in 1990, he committed to first righting the county’s finances. His next effort was to open Kentucky’s first Office for Women in 1991. At that time Jefferson County’s elected officers were exclusively men. The mission of this office was
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to improve the status of women in the county, and its main focus was ensuring that women could be safe at home. The Office for Women Advisory Council formed with community leaders from diverse fields who met monthly with Armstrong to try to ensure a better safety net for families and victims of domestic violence.
Because of his leadership, policies were written, legislation passed, information shared and trust built among groups dealing with this epidemic crime.
But in 1993, it became apparent that there was a hole in the safety net. Mary Byron was murdered as she left work on her 21st birthday. Her killer was an ex-boyfriend who had been released from jail days earlier, even though he faced trial on charges of kidnapping and raping her a fewweeks earlier. Mary and her family asked to be notified of his release, but that request went unheeded. Many of us remained haunted by the news footage of Mary’s car filled with balloons given to her by co-workers that night.
The community was outraged, and out of that outrage grew the legacy of Mary Byron and David Armstrong.
Armstrong something needed to change. And realizing that domestic violence victims were most at risk when their perpetrator was released from jail, a system was needed to notify victims.
A year to the day after Mary’s murder, he announced that the county, along with a private company now called Appriss, had developed VINE — Victim Notification and Information Everyday. VINE delivers updates on the whereabouts and release of offenders in the criminal justice
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the U.S. now have the ability to find peace of mind and safety. He was one in a million and he will be missed.
Marcia Roth served as the first director of the Jefferson County Office for Women and is the founding and current Executive Director of the Mary Byron Project, a national non-profit that cultivates and supports efforts that extend beyond crisis management to attack the root causes of the domestic violence epidemic and help build safer healthier communities. To date, the Mary Byron Project has contributed more than $1 million to domestic violence intervention and prevention programs across the country.When the League of Nations formed from the ashes of the first world war, it was tasked with preventing another global conflict.
That was 100 years ago, and as history tells us, it failed miserably.
Al Jazeera's James Bays reports from Geneva on what the League's successor, the United Nations, can still learn from its demise.
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organizations including the FDA in the US. But there are different standards for Veterinary and pharmaceutical products within and outside of the United states. For example, in the supplement industry, the quality standards differ for both production and formulation of drugs and supplements. In example of r ALA, the american and european standard is 99% purity, where in other places it is as low as 90%. Beyond that, the production standards can be quite different. The highest quality for standards of production, packaging and compounding comes from the United States Pharmacopeia specifications (USP). USP standards have long been respected and trusted within the scientific and manufacturing community.
The standards of production for animals and humans are definitely different. One of the main examples is the purity standards for the"I was in the Golden Living Center for a week in December. The staff was very friendly, this includes both nurses and other staff members. They activities director was very kind and upbeat and kept..." More
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CAIRO — Tens of thousands of Egyptians packed into Tahrir Square in central Cairo on Friday in a spasm of last-minute concern that Egypt’s ruling generals might be trying to sabotage the promised transition to civilian democracy after the presidential election beginning next month.
The crowd was as large as any that has gathered in the square since the protests that forced out President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011. Even more unusual in the increasingly polarized political climate, Islamists, liberals and leftists all found common ground on at least one front: the demand that the generals, who took power with Mr. Mubarak’s ouster, finally give it up.
The catalysts for the protest were the military-led government’s management of the early stages of the election, and in particular the selection ofCivil servants face 50% rent hike
The government plans to raise rents for apartments built for public servants by 50 percent on average, sources said Tuesday.
The rent for public servant housing is lower than for regular apartments, and the system is often criticized as an example of favorable treatment of government workers.
In addition, the government is set to up income and residential taxes to help pay for rebuilding the Tohoku region devastated by the March 2011 quake and tsunami. In addition, the 5 percent consumption tax will be raised to 8 percent in April 2014 and to 10 percent in October 2015.
The rent hike plan will be announced later this month.
The government is cutting salaries of national civil servants by an average of 7.8 percent in fiscal 2012 and
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fiscal 2013 to help pay for the Tohoku reconstruction.
After the pay cuts, the government will raise the apartment rents in three stages starting in April 2014, aiming to achieve the 50 percent hike by April 2018 at the earliest, the sources said.
According to a 2010 government survey, the average rent for a 55- to 70-sq.-meter apartment for rank-and-file government workers was ¥18,362 a month, compared with ¥21,513 for company housing for private businesses. Higher-ranking government officials paid an average ¥32,501 for a 70- to 80-sq.-meter apartment, compared with ¥23,056 for company housing.
Last December, a team set up by the Finance Ministry announced plans to scrap 56,000 of 218,000 housing units for national civil servants, or about 25 percent, by fiscal 2016.
The plans included canceling a project to constructnew apartments for public servants in Suginami Ward, Tokyo, and Asaka, Saitama Prefecture.
In addition, the team proposed raising the rents for existing apartments and called on the government to reach a conclusion within one year.
The ministry will announce a list of housing that will be scrapped along with the rent hike plan, the sources said.
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across a set of four maps, leaving the door open for draws.
At the end of each stage there will be a playoff based on a team's record during that period (the winner will take $125,000) and then a 10-day break before the next batch of games begin. The overall league standings are based on a team's record across all stages.
Got that? Okay, because now it gets a little complicated. The League is broken into two divisions: Pacific and Atlantic. The Pacific Division is made up of West coast US teams and the two Asian sides, and the Atlantic Division consists of the East coast teams plus London Spitfire. Teams will play 20 games within their division and 20 games cross-division.
The top team in each division goes into thePhoto Gallery
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A relationship-advice guru, upon learning that her fiancé is cheating on her, decides to stay in a small town in Alaska, the most recent stop on her book tour. It's in this remote town, where the ratio of men to women is ten to one, she realizes she can truly learn about the subject she thought she knew so well -- how to find, and keep, a good man.
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the infrastructure needed for a spaceport, including one of the longest runways in the country as well as assorted ground facilities, is in place. Moreover, there is strong support by the state government, which has been the driving force behind efforts to convert the old air base into a spaceport. The question remains, though, just how much business any spaceport there could attract. A visit to Burns Flat These days, the biggest challenge can be actually getting to the spaceport itself. Despite the prominent sign on the Interstate, there are few directions leading from the exit to the facility. On a tour of the spaceport organized by the International Space Development Conference (ISDC), held Memorial Day weekend in Oklahoma City, the tour director had to stop for directionsan office building/control tower, emergency facilities, a 2,800-square-meter hangar, and storage bunkers originally designed to house nuclear weapons. A quick tour of the facility, though, shows that many of the buildings and other facilities at Burns Flat are in various stages of disrepair. At one end of the long tarmac at the base a portion of an aircraft fuselage, apparently being disassembled for scrap, is visible, listing to one side like a wrecked ship. Given that the Air Force abandoned the base over three decades ago, the state of the facility is not surprising, but anyone planning to use it realizes that considerable work will be needed to before it can support space flights. Much of the site’s history has involved unrealized potential. The Navy established the first
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airport there in 1942 to train pilots during World War Two. (The outlines of the original runways at the site are still visible in overhead photos of the current airport.) After the war the naval air station was closed and temporarily turned into a civilian airport that was also used to dispose of thousands of surplus aircraft from the war. In 1954 the military returned, converting the site into an Air Force base and building the long runway to support B-52 bombers based there. Clinton-Sherman Air Force Base was closed at the end of 1969, although the military intermittently uses the airport to this day for training purposes, such as touch-and-go landings of tankers and cargo aircraft. The base became the Clinton-Sherman Industrial Airpark, home to a limitedamount of industrial and general aviation activity. No shortage of optimism Since the Air Force left nearly 35 years ago, there have been a number of efforts to convert the base into a thriving commercial aviation facility, efforts that have generally fallen through. In the late 1990s regional and state officials seized on a new use for the base: as a spaceport. At the time Lockheed Martin was planning its VentureStar RLV, which would land horizontally; other companies at the time were also planning RLVs that would take off and/or land horizontally. For them, the former air base, located in a relatively isolated area and with its long runway, was potentially very attractive. The state established a new office, the Oklahoma Space Industry Development Authority (OSIDA), with the
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to facilities for the spaceport itself. Royce Jones, CEO of Spaceliner Corporation, described plans to use the spaceport for a more terrestrial form of space tourism: having people come out to see launches. During a talk at ISDC, Jones said that tourists visiting the spaceport to see launches could generate $34 million a year in expenditures, although he didn’t disclose how many visitors or launches that estimate was based upon. Jones said he was negotiating with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) for a $100 million loan guarantee to pay for building tourist and other facilities there; he noted that the USDA has sponsored airport projects in the past as part of its mission to support rural communities. While the remote location of the Oklahoma Spaceport serves asVolkswagen hopes to not enter production hell with I.D.
Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess and brand Board members met with more than 30 CEOs from suppliers at the MEB Supplier Event, with whom VW is carefully preparing the launch of the all-electric I.D. family.
The importance of the first model, Volkswagen I.D. hatchback, is compared to the first Beetle or the first Golf. Production will begin at the end of 2019 at the Zwickau plant in Germany, which means that the original timeline was maintained.
Currently, Volkswagen is one of the smaller manufacturers of all-electric cars, but by 2025, the brand hopes to produce 1 million BEVs annually. The all-new Modular Electric Toolkit (MEB) platform is expected to be used in 15 million cars.
Total investment in e-mobility, digitalization, autonomous driving and
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from the campaign, dropped US$4.2 million into his coffers. John Kerry and Howard Dean both raised significant amounts of cash online in 2004 (which actually helped close the funding gap between Kerry and Bush), and way back in 1998, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura was the first to show that the Internet could be used to circumvent major donors in politics.
But it was the elder Paul who showed that the Internet could be used to lift up an outsider in a presidential election. (Kerry and Dean can't be called outsiders, and Ventura's race was a gubernatorial one.) It should be noted that people who were born during that Ventura campaign will be voting for president for the first time in 2016.
Rand Paul is hoping that Bitcoin will behis version of Internet donations, providing the unexpected advantage that can rise out of new technology. Some fear, however, that the pseudonymous nature of Bitcoin could be used to hurt Paul in the primaries or the general election (if he gets that far). There are strict rules on who political candidates can take money from during a campaign, and foreign nationals without legal resident status in the United States are one group that is officially restricted from donating. This point was quickly brought up on Reddit by various users, one who mentioned that he was able to donate to the Paul campaign by generating a fake United States address.
While I would discourage foreign nationals from attempting to donate to the Paul campaign, I do not think this will
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known, which make use of a local, amplitude modulated monochromatic light source which, through an optical fiber, is conveyed to the remote area where the movable body whose position is to be determined is located. In said sensors, the modulated light exits from the free end of the optical fiber, strikes the surface of the movable body and is reflected into the optical fiber.
In this way, the light reflected by the movable body is phase displaced by an angle which is proportional to the distance between the movable body and the end of the optical fiber. The phase displaced light transits the optical fiber again and is locally compared to the modulating signal. In this way, the phase displacement of the reflected light with respect to the modulatingA person on a dirt bike came across a damaged vehicle at the bottom of a ravine in Missouri and found a critically injured man inside who had been reported missing six days earlier.
Ryan Linneman, 37, of Lee's Summit, Mo., was reported missing by his wife on Oct. 10.
Linneman was found by the dirt biker Wednesday after apparently running off the road on I-470 in Kansas City and hitting a sign, according to reports.
Initially, the dirt biker thought the car was abandoned and that Linneman was dead, KCPD Sgt. Bill Mahoney said, according to Fox 4 Kansas City
BODY FOUND ENCASED IN CONCRETE IN NEVADA DESERT BELIEVED TO BE MISSING WOMAN: REPORTS
"We think he was injured by the crash, and he couldn't get out of the car, couldn't really
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was predicted to reach Yakeshi and Elunchun in Inner Mongolia, and the western boundary would reach to Keerkezi in Xinjiang Province. Based on a global-warming scenario, the area with a potential climate suited to RTB in the next 30 years (2010-2039) may extend further to the northeast. The northern limit of the distribution could reach most parts of south Heilongjiang Province, whereas the western limit would remain unchanged. Combined with the tendency for RTB to spread, the variation in suitable habitats within the scenario of extreme climate warming and the multiple geographical elements of China led us to assume that, within the next 30 years, RTB would spread towards the northeast, northwest, and central regions of China and could be a potentially serious problem for the forests ofThursday, February 23, 2012
Red heads for Alphie?
I'd lost sight of Red for several days, but others said they had seen her, so I wasn't that worried. Then yesterday I found her in a tree just south of the fountain. She had traveled all that distance from her area over by the main entrance to PCV. Alphie lives just north of the fountain, and it looked like Red was making her way towards him, perhaps propelled by a force stronger than what her little peanut brain could understand. In another day she could reach the bushes by the orange tree, and find her destiny!
The Fountain
In the center is the fountain. On the right there's a nest, way out on the branch of the tree where I'd found Red. On
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make quantitative ultrastructural analyses of adult zebrafish muscle mitochondria in the lateral muscles of the segments S4 and S5. The area, perimeter and circularity of about 100 mitochondria in each animal were measured on electron micrographs acquired at 10500x and 13500x using ImageJ64 software.
The morphological and morphometric analyses of the NMJs at 96 hpf were made using ImageJ64 software and electron micrographs of zebrafish larvae trunk muscle acquired at 34000x. The area of synaptic boutons, the number, density and distribution of synaptic vesicles, and number and morphological features of the mitochondria were evaluated, and the area, perimeter and circularity of NMJ synaptic vesicles and mitochondria were measured[@b25]. Electron micrographs acquired at 10500x and 13500x were used for the ultrastructural analysis of zebrafish larvae muscles, in which sarcomere length wascan be crucial.
The result is a titanic and costly clash between the Republican old guard and trial lawyers, and the outcome could have implications for years in the state capital.
"Crist and former chief of staff George LeMieux -- the subjects of a federal public corruption investigation -- have been cleared of allegations that they tried to thwart a state criminal probe into a Fort Lauderdale insurance company, according to sources familiar with the ongoing case."
Crist's selection of LeMieux to replace U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez would not have been possible had LeMieux still been under scrutiny by federal prosecutors investigating alleged influence-peddling by Mutual Benefits and its former top executive.
LeMieux was in the cross-hairs of the investigation after a major Republican fundraiser working with the FBI made a secretly
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recorded phone call to LeMieux at the governor's office in 2007, trying to get LeMieux to implicate himself, sources said.
But the phone call backfired: LeMieux immediately reported it to Crist's general counsel, who called the FBI. Still, LeMieux remained under investigation through much of 2008, along with Crist and several other members of his inner circle from his tenure as Florida attorney general and then as governor.
Adam Smith: "Forget that the governor's office, a U.S. Senate seat and every other statewide office are open this election cycle. The 2010 campaign that could have the farthest-reaching implications for Florida is a redistricting ballot initiative that would change the way congressional and legislative districts are drawn." "Florida's ballot initiative to ban gerrymandering starts to draw foes".
The malleable Miami Herald editorialISTANBUL/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkish air strikes pounded a group of Kurdish fighters allied to a U.S.-backed militia in northern Syria overnight, highlighting the conflicting agendas of NATO members Ankara and Washington in an increasingly complex battlefield.
A man walks past damaged buildings in the rebel held besieged al-Sukkari neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail
The jets targeted positions of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in three villages, northeast of the city of Aleppo, that the SDF had captured from Islamic State, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said late on Wednesday.
The Turkish military confirmed its warplanes had carried out 26 strikes on areas recently taken by the Kurdish YPG militia, the strongest force in the SDF, and that it had killed between 160 and 200 combatants.
The
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counter-ISIL campaign.” ISIL is an acronym for Islamic State. “We’re working with the Turks now very successfully to help them secure their border area,” added Carter, who was due to visit Turkey on Friday.
The United States has backed the Kurdish-led forces in their fight against Islamic State, infuriating Ankara, which sees the YPG as an extension of Kurdish PKK militants who have waged a three-decade insurgency in southeastern Turkey.
Turkey fears the YPG will try to connect three de facto autonomous Kurdish cantons that have emerged during the five-year war to create a Kurdish-run enclave in northern Syria, stoking the separatist ambitions of Kurds on its own soil.
Five shells fired from the YPG-controlled Afrin region of Syria, west of where the air strikes hit, landed in empty land inTurkey’s Hatay province on Thursday, triggering retaliatory howitzer fire from Turkey, the Turkish military said.
The Turkish army bombarded villages near Afrin overnight, the pro-Kurdish Anha news agency said. Footage purportedly showed smoke billowing out from the Syrian side of the border. Anha said there were casualties from the shelling by what it described as at least 44 howitzers.
The Turkish army also said 21 PKK militants had been killed in operations in Hakkari province in Turkey’s southeast, where violence has flared since the PKK abandoned a ceasefire in 2015.
“WE WILL NOT WAIT”
The air strikes, the heaviest against the YPG since Turkey launched a military incursion into Syria two months ago, came hours after President Tayyip Erdogan warned that Ankara could act alone in rooting out its enemies abroad.
“From now
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on we will not wait for problems to come knocking on our door, we will not wait until the blade is against our bone and skin, we will not wait for terrorist organisations to come and attack us,” Erdogan said in a speech on Wednesday.
The Observatory named the bombed villages as al-Hasiya, Um al-Qura and Um Hosh. They lie around 30 km (19 miles) west of al-Bab, the last big town held by Islamic State militants in northwest Syria after a series of battlefield reverses.
Turkey, a major backer of the insurgency against President Bashar al-Assad, entered the Syrian conflict in August, using its armour and air power to help Free Syrian Army rebel groups take territory near the border held by Islamic State.
But its intervention also aimed toprevent the SDF from gaining more ground. The SDF has been moving eastwards towards al-Bab, which Turkish-backed rebel forces also want to capture from Islamic State.
The Turkish military said its air strikes had destroyed nine buildings, one armoured vehicle and four other vehicles that belonged to the YPG.
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Yukon
Dawson City
Technically a town, Dawson City (or Dawson as many refer to it) has a special provision allowing it to use the word "City" in its name for historical reasons.
The town was legally incorporated as a city in 1902, but no longer met the criteria for a city by the 1980s.Signs at the town's boundaries read "Welcome to the Town of the City of Dawson".
Tourism and Gold Mining are at the core of Dawson's economy.There are 8 National Historic Sites of Canada in Dawson including the Dawson Historical Complex, which encompasses the historic core of the town.The Visitor Information Centre should be your first stop here.The friendly staff here have information about everything there is to see and do in this eclectic town.To whet your appetite though, weYukon
Dawson City Museum. Photo: Government of Yukon
Horse and Cart in Dawson City, Yukon
Burlesque Girls, Dawson City, Yukon. Photo: Government of Yukon
Old Gold Mining Dredge Bonanza Creek near Dawson City, Yukon
Relive the Klondike Gold Rush in Dawson City
A visit to Dawson City in Canada's Yukon Territory is like stepping back in time.Buildings, both restored and in ruins, stand testimony to the towns's colourful story from the great Klondike Gold Rush.Video courtesy of Travel Yukon
Make sure you call in at the visitor centre. It's a great starting point for your visit to Dawson City. The staff are in gold rush costumes and are very helpful with information about things to do and see. Top rate.
Allen Tait
Australia
The town itself is quaint - not unlike similar gold rush towns of the era
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Officers with the Cumberland Police Department said a pedestrian was struck in the 100-block of Park Street on Tuesday just before 12:30 a.m.
When police arrived on scene, they found a man laying on the street with serious injuries from the accident. The victim was transported to Western Maryland Regional Health Center, then to Baltimore Shock Trauma after being stabilized.
Video surveillance obtained by officers led them to identify a suspect vehicle that fled the scene. That vehicle was later located by officers in the area of Baltimore Street near Altamont Terrace. Police said the vehicle had damage to the right front headlight and there was a strong odor of alcohol coming from the car.
Police located the driver of the vehicle 35-year-old Christopher Pullin, of Cumberland in the area ofPingxiangWade-Giles romanization P’ing-hsiangcity, Pinyin Pingxiang, city in southwestern Kwangsi Chuang autonomous regionsouthwestern Zhuang Autonomous Region of Guangxi, China. The city is situated on the border with Vietnam. It was founded as a military outpost under the name P’ing-hsiang Pingxiang during the Sung Song dynasty (960–1279), and under the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) it became a county and later a prefecture. It was, however, little more than an administrative outpost among non-Chinese tribesmen. The Ch’ing tribal peoples. During the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) it was made it a subprefecture. P’ing-hsiang’s modern growth stemmed from the railway from Nan-ningBecause of Pingxiang’s strategic location, it often has been a major battlefield.
Pingxiang’s modern growth dates to the arrival of a railway from Nanning (Guangxi’s capital), which provides a through route from central China to
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Vietnam, crossing . The line crosses the border a few miles to the south at Yu-i-kuanshort distance south of Pingxiang at Youyiguan. Construction of this the line was begun in 1938 by the French, who completed it as far as Ning-mingNingming; but, following the Japanese occupation of Nan-ningNanning, work was abandoned in 1943–44, and much of the track was dismantled. The line was completed in 1951 and linked with the Vietnamese rail system in 1955. After this, P’ing-hsiang Pingxiang rapidly grew into a commercial centre for international trade with Vietnam; it also developed some small-scale industries. A considerable part of Sino-Vietnamese trade passes through P’ing-hsiang Pingxiang because the rail link there is superior to the an older line that runs through Yunnan province to the west and becauseDistributors
A U.S. consumer group on Monday added its voice to the growing criticism of Google's proposed settlement with the European Union's competition authorities.
"We had been impressed with the strong position the Commission had taken in your investigation, unlike regulatory authorities in the United States," wrote John Simpson, Consumer Watchdog's Privacy Project director in a letter to the Commission on Monday. "We cannot understand what prompted this recent change in attitude."
Last Wednesday E.U. Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that he was satisfied with Google's proposals to give comparable display to specialized search services that rival its own. He added that while he would analyze responses from the 18 complainants, he didn't believe he would change his mind.
Google has been under investigation by the European Commission since November 2010 after
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fail to resonate to the overall negativity and nihilism of his world view, of the kind that meant that towards the end of his life, when he was asked (Cronin – page 590), ‘And now it’s nearly over, Sam, was there much of the journey you found worthwhile?’ he replied ‘Precious little.’
There is nonetheless something about his perspective I do appreciate.
At the very end of his book Cronin concludes (page 592):
It is doubtful if he believed in any sort of survival of consciousness, or disbelieved in it either, since belief – or disbelief – was not something he permitted himself. He thought that all the guides were poor ones and that it was better to live, and to admit to living, in complete uncertainty . . .
In TheEclipseempathy and his casual disregard for the debts he owed to people who could ill-afford to incur them. A telling late example of his oblivion to other people’s legitimate concerns comes in Ann Wroe’s account of a boating incident where he took Jane Williams, a close companion, and her two babies, out on the water in a coracle (page 177-78). He was plainly pre-occupied with death as he gazed interminably into the water. Jane did her best to distract him, but when, in the end, he said he could easily discover the meaning of death by rocking the coracle, Jane had the presence of mind to say, ‘No, thank you; not now. I should like my dinner first, and so would the children.’ When they got back safely
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on land, ‘Shelley seemed unaware that he had said, or done, anything remotely strange.’ The sad irony is that his final possible acts of recklessness in his boat killed not only Shelley himself but also her husband.
He also had great positive qualities, not least the courage to publicise his idealistic vision of society at a time when to do so was extremely dangerous, even for someone of his privileged background. His attitude towards authority had its roots both in his later fractious relationship with his father, but possibly earlier in what seems to have been his insensitive, even brutal treatment at the hands of most of his teachers.
In his personal life he was both victim, for example of bullying at school, and victimizer, for instance in his treatmentand reinforcing the Syon House pattern and reaction, there can be little doubt. Fear of society en masse, fear of enforced solitude, fear of the violence within himself and from others, fear of withdrawal of love and acceptance, all these were implanted in the centre of his personality so that it became fundamentally unstable and highly volatile.
Holmes feels that the character of the monster in Mary’s Frankenstein was drawn in part from Shelley and that expressions such as (page 333) ‘ . . . misery made me a fiend. Make me happy and I shall again be virtuous,’ from the monster, capture something of his psychodynamics.
Clairmont in 1819, painted by Amelia Curran (for source of image see link)
Claire Clairmont, to whom Shelley was closer than to anyone else
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was to harm no one.
Myers. . . . . regards Blake as an example of strong imagination insufficiently controlled by supraliminal discipline: “throughout all the work of William Blake we see the subliminal self flashing for moments into unity, then smouldering again in a lurid and scattered glow” (Human Personality, vol 1, page 73).
According to Holmes, Shelley’s emphasis on love is marred by two very major blemishes (page 207-08):
The first is his blindness to the intrinsic value of constancy in human relations… His second blindness was to the way in which children made a fundamental alteration to the direction and responsibilities of a love relationship
What he learnt from observing his impact on others may eventually have helped him mellow the initially extreme impatience of his political perspective.
For example(page 288):
In the effort to face his certain aspects of himself, his attempts and failures to set up constant and happy relations with those around him, he made a breakthrough into a new kind of reflective writing.
He was also passionately curious about many different areas of human concern, from poetry through psychology and science to philosophy and the translation of classics such as Plato’s Symposium. This seemed to be feeding the subliminal processes connected with his art. [It was during this period (page 430) that Shelley began to make systematic translations from the Greek of Plato, something that was ultimately to influence his poetry.]
In terms of what was at the time the controversial issue of his atheism, perhaps the closest we can get is the description of his
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beliefs in Romanticism, edited by Duncan Wu (page 820):
In truth, Percy’s attitude to God was more complex than the word ‘atheist’ suggests. It is not surprising that the concept was inimical to someone so opposed to an established church not merely complicit, but deeply implicated, in the social and political oppression prevalent in England at the time. On the other hand, he was tremendously attracted to the pantheist life force of Tintern Abbey, and could not resist pleading the existence of a similar power in his poetry. However, he stopped well short of believing in a benevolent deity capable of intervening in human affairs.
In spite of what his contemporaries, and perhaps even Shelley himself in his public persona, saw as his atheism, he seemed to believe (page 65)288):
In the effort to face his certain aspects of himself, his attempts and failures to set up constant and happy relations with those around him, he made a breakthrough into a new kind of reflective writing.
Holmes is referring here to ‘Oh, there are spirits of the air.’ Though the published dedication is to Coleridge, Holmes feels Shelley is talking to himself. This would not be the only example of Shelley’s choosing to distance himself from the directly personal content of his writing and disguise its relevance to him from the eyes of others by such a subterfuge.
While I find the style of the poem strained and overwrought, there are clearly moments of intense insight almost successfully captured. For instance, Shelley exclaims:
Still dost thou hope that greeting hands,
Voice, looks,
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three long non-satirical poems not marked as read. My exploration of Shelley had stalled at the earlier Revolt of Islam, after feeling moved by Ode to the West Wind, impressed by two of his sonnets – Ozymandias and England in 1819 – and finally frustrated by the strained rhetoric of Adonais. I went back to Byron for a while, before settling my affections on Wordsworth, to some extent, and on Coleridge more whole-heartedly.
Lord Byron by Richard Westall (for source of image see link)
Holmes explains the characters and impetus of the poem (page 450):
Maddalo [Byron] is a philosophic pessimist and cynic, who pretends to believe that most men are mere sheep and that all men are at the mercy of chance and circumstance and their own passions. Julian [Shelley]to events that may thrust Shelley further on. He feels that Shelley had suffered much in order to become capable of such an achievement as Julian & Maddalo, though sadly more suffering was yet to come for him and all those close to him, as the episode involving Elise and the birth of Elena, explored in an earlier post, testifies.
Abdu’l-Bahá said…: ‘All Art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies. Again, shining through the mind of a poet, it is seen in fine poetry and poetic prose. When the Light of the Sun of Truth inspires the mind of a painter, he produces marvellous pictures. These gifts are fulfilling their highest purpose,
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of bio-dirt – The Aspern Papers. Very appropriately for present purposes the short story was based on an attempt by Edward Silsbee to elicit documents about Shelley from Claire Clairmont shortly before she died (cf Richard Holmes – Shelley: the pursuit(page 733). The acid tone of the book can be sampled in the narrator’s reflection on his approach as he speaks to the niece of the lady who has the papers he longs to get his hands on: ‘I felt particularly like the reporter of a newspaper who forces his way into a house of mourning.’
Clearly, at such a remove in time and after so many relevant papers have been suppressed and destroyed, we will never be completely sure where the truth lies (can the truth lie?) inhe terms ‘the traditional approach.’
A third element is perhaps worth mentioning here. Last month, there was a programme on the BBC called Wider Horizons, which focused on the music of David Gilmour, best known as a member of the band Pink Floyd. It became very clear that his creativity was in part fostered by a network of close contemporary collaborators including Phil Manzanera, a record producer and Roxy Music guitarist, and Gilmour’s wife, Polly Samson, who writes many of his lyrics.
What is also true of Gilmour, and all other creative artists as far as I can tell, – the same mysterious element Myers strove to define – also comes across from the programme. Interviewed by Alan Yentob he attempts to describe the experience of realising a song is
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and in the wake of revolution. During his career as a poet he behaved oppressively to most of the women closest to him, one of them committing suicide partly as a result of his indifference to her suffering. He also displayed great courage in speaking out for the oppressed in his society, at the risk of imprisonment and possibly even death.
I quoted his sonnet about Ozymandias to illustrate how powerfully he understood the emptiness and vanity of power and wealth. His sonnet about the condition of England in 1819 as George III was dying, which I also quoted, showed his compassion for the poorest in his society when he wrote of ‘[a] people starved and stabbed in the untilled field,’ and looked forward in hope to the possibleredemption of his society.
After looking at his early life of privilege and, while at home, his domination of his younger sisters, tempered by his later experiences of being cruelly bullied at both his schools, I quoted the conclusion Holmes came to as his biographer (page 21):
Of the damage that the early Eton experience did to him, repeating and reinforcing the Syon House pattern and reaction, there can be little doubt. Fear of society en masse, fear of enforced solitude, fear of the violence within himself and from others, fear of withdrawal of love and acceptance, all these were implanted in the centre of his personality so that it became fundamentally unstable and highly volatile. Here to seem to lie the sources of his compensatory qualities: his daring, his
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exhibitionism, his flamboyant generosity, his instinctive and demonstrative hatred of authority.
Later years saw his continuing love of the macabre and episodes of hysterical intensity. His close relationships continued to reveal a lack of empathy and this could be exacerbated by his intense idealism. So much so, that it was tempting to conclude that he had invested a huge amount of ego in the ideals he chose to espouse. It took much suffering, his own and other people’s, to shift the tight grip of Narcissus on his thinking.
That he could be generous is shown by his consistent support for Claire Clairmont after her affair with Byron and the birth of their daughter, Allegra. His protracted negotiations with Byron on Claire’s behalf also show that he could be perceptive anddiplomatic when he saw the compelling need, as he did in this case.
Holmes’s conclusion about Shelley at this time was that he was not completely blind to his socially destructive impulses but was rarely able to curb them. Commenting on a letter Shelley wrote to William Godwin, with whom his relationship was positive at that point, Holmes writes (page 145):
It was a warm and touching letter. In the intellectual presence of one he felt he could trust, Shelley’s sense of personal inadequacy is revealing. He was rarely able to admit his own impatience and his own bitterness of feeling; more usually he was ‘unimpeached and unimpeachable.’
A key event that helped Shelley mature was the suicide of his first wife. Claire Clairmont wrote in a letter that (page 356)
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Voting at a Georgia polling location was disrupted on Tuesday after a woman reportedly killed herself in the parking lot after voting, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
According to police officials, they responded to reports of a shooting at the Lindsay Street Baptist Church, a registered polling place in Fulton County, where voters were taking part in the state’s primary on Tuesday. Responding officers found the body of an unidentified woman who suffered a gunshot wound, with a weapon discovered 100 feet from the where votes were being cast.
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An initial report from police at the scene indicated that shooting appeared to be self-inflicted, but they were still waiting for a medical examiner.
It was initially reported that the woman had not voted, but Fulton officials confirmed said she had just castDraft by the Golden State Warriors, but after a couple of stints as a benchwarmer around the NBA, he was forced to look for employment elsewhere, ending up at Fenerbache. He’s embraced the move, and the locals have embraced him.
Patrick Kingsley of the New York Times recently profiled the 30-year-old, referencing his popularity in Turkey:
“131 Americans played for Turkish clubs this past season. He can, however, lay claim to being the most popular.”
His book club has taken off. His cinema nights for fans and visits to local schools have entertained and inspired. Udoh made Turkey his home, and the Fenerbahce fans who welcomed him are already mourning his departure from the club.
Udoh isn’t a guy that’s going to move the needle in the West, but he will offer
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average North American drivers commuting in the family sedan. No steadier customer could be imaged. The fact that oil sands crude is already the most expensive to produce in the world, and climbing with each new project, is of no matter. Since there is no substitute for gasoline, soaring production costs are easily passed onto the consumer. As long as the global price of oil continues to rise faster than the cost of new synthetic crude production, the Canadian Oil Sands are golden.
Then 18 months ago a challenger arrived to provide the daily commuter with an electric escape hatch to the spiraling costs of crude production. This escape artist was spawned not by nagging environmental concerns, but by the relentless forces of technical innovation and the laws ofeconomic efficiency. Enter the first-generation mass produced plug-in electric fueled family car.
The arrival of plug-in electrified vehicles such as the extended-range electric Chevy Volt, which can be fueled by either electricity or gasoline, and the all-electric Nissan Leaf created a media super storm, particularly in America. Buried under a blizzard of misinformation including various critical editorials and attacks, hype also from the manufacturers and a putdown by a U.S. presidential candidate against the Volt is a startling fact striking at the heart of the purported value offered by oil sands:
Plug-in vehicles use less energy per mile than gas-powered cars
Plug-in vehicles can go further on electricity generated from the energy sunk into producing one gallon of oil sands-based gasoline than an average car can on the gasoline. The Chevy
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Step A, extraction: At Lindbergh Alberta, using the latest and most cost efficient in situ technique, burn 1,100 cubic feet of natural gas input energy per barrel to extract and process bitumen with a diluent into a barrel of crude feedstock called Dilbit. This process includes energy used recycling 90 percent of the waste water and chemicals used during the extraction and addsin which a mold-jointing operation and a mold-removing operation are carried out by the cooperation of the diverse removing means. When the pair of molding flasks are positioned in the first mold-forming station, a mold-forming operation including filling of molding sands into the molding flasks, squeezing or compacting of the filled molding sands, and parting of the squeezed molding sands from the patterns of the match plate, is carried out by cooperation of the match plate, the molding flasks and the squeezing devices. However, during the mold-forming operation, difficulties such as breaking of the match plate and collapsing of sand molds sometimes occur. Therefore, in order to obviate the problems encountered with the conventional match plate molding machine, it is desired to provide an appropriate means for improving
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Donald Trump boards Air Force One in the rain holding a large umbrella — wife and son trail behind pic.twitter.com/esWTEr7lvR — Jon Levine (@LevineJonathan) February 27, 2018
President Donald Trump boarded Air Force One tugging an umbrella close to protect himself from the intense wind and rain.
Barron Trump, the president’s 11-year-old son, is seen just feet behind him, unprotected by an umbrella or a raincoat. Trump, seeing his son, continues to keep the umbrella for himself.
Then, Melania Trump arrives on the scene a little behind Barron, and she, too, has nothing to shield her from the elements. The president stops for a wave to the crowd as the First Lady ducks swiftly onto the plane.
What began as a moving picture of Man vs. Nature turns, in mere seconds, intoand North Dakota -- with marijuana legalization on the ballot and there are two more states -- Michigan and Utah -- with medical marijuana initiatives on the ballot.
It's possible that all four will pass, but it's looking more likely in Michigan and Missouri than in North Dakota and Utah. In North Dakota, well-funded opposition may drown out the legalization message, while in Utah, late maneuvering by the Mormon church and state political leaders is undercutting support from what had previously appeared to be a measure cruising toward victory.
The measure would legalize the possession up to 2.5 ounces of pot for personal use and up to 10 ounces at home, as well as allowing for the personal cultivation of up to 12 plants and the fruits of that harvest.
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of thousands of dollars banked for the final push. The only ballot committee opposed to both campaigns, Citizens for Safe Medicine, was just registered last month and has reported no donations or expenditures.
North Dakota
This year, a grassroots group, Legalize ND, managed to get enough signatures to get Measure 3, the Marijuana Legalization and Automatic Expungement initiative, on the November ballot.
This is a radical initiative. It would legalize all forms of marijuana for adults by removing marijuana, THC, and hashish from the state's controlled substance schedules, and it sets no limits on the amount of marijuana people could possess or how many plants they grow. It also provides for the automatic expungement of criminal convictions for anyone convicted of a marijuana-related crime that would be legal under the measure.
Andnow truly nationwide in the Gallup poll. As recently as 2010, only the West reported a marijuana majority, but now support is at 65 percent in the West, Midwest, and South, and even two points higher in the East.
The Pew poll found a few demographic groups not reporting majorities for legalization. In addition to Republicans, only 48 percent of Hispanics, 43 percent of white evangelicals, only 39 percent of the "Silent Generation" (people over age 75) could get behind it. But all other races, age groups, religious denominations (and atheists), and educational levels reported majorities for legalization.
The poll numbers reflect an increasing acceptance of weed as the country grows accustomed to the idea of marijuana being sold in stores (and taxed!) instead of in back alleyways. Nine states,
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the District of Columbia, and the territory of the Northern Marshall Islands already have legal marijuana, and another 21 allow for medical marijuana.
Four more states are voting on marijuana next month; Michigan and North Dakota on legalization, and Missouri and Utah on medical marijuana. And pot could play a role in the congressional races, too. The Democrats are already embracing it, and Republicans risk being left in the lurch.
"There are not many issues out there that enjoy majority support among both of the major political parties and in every region of the country," said MPP's Hawkins. "This support is consistently translating into wins at the ballot box, and it should further motivate elected officials to take action at the state and federal levels. Hopefully, lawmakers are paying attentionin positive views on marijuana legalization compared to polls from 2014 and 2016.
Heroin and Prescription Opioids
New York Senate Heroin Task Force Releases Recommendations, Findings in New Report. The State Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction on Wednesday released its 2017-2018 report, including 11 recommendations on ways the state should address the opioid crisis. The committee wants the state to create "Centers for Excellence on Substance Use Disorder" as a way to improve access to treatment in rural parts of the state, as well as increasing resources to healthcare workers trained to treat substance abuse disorders. The task force also calls for reducing the cost of Naloxone, limits on opioid prescriptions, and tougher penalties for dealers whose drug sales result in fatal overdoses.
International
Russia Moves Toward Allowing Medicinal
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Opium Planting. A government commission has approved a draft law that would allow the cultivation of opium for medicinal purposes, citing the fact that most legal medicinal opium producing countries are participating in sanctions against Russia. "It is proposed to abolish the existing ban and determine the order of cultivation of plants for the production for medical purposes and veterinary medicine of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances," the government press service reported.
Arizona's attorney general backs away from arguing that hash is not medical marijuana, the Indiana legislature balks on medical marijuana, Missouri medical marijuana initiatives have raised big bucks, and more.
Arizona
Arizona Attorney General Withdraws Arguments Saying Hash Isn't Medical Marijuana. Citing fears of unintended consequences for patients, Attorney General Mark Brnovich (R) on Monday withdrew his agency's argumentsHouse to push through federal marijuana legalization by the end of 2019. In an eight-page memo to the House Democratic leadership laid out his roadmap to ending Reefer Madness.
Congressional Cannabis Caucus founder Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR)
Blumenauer isn't just any old congressman. The longtime stalwart marijuana reformer is the founder of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus and a leading voice in the fight to bring marijuana out of the shadows. And he's ready to do it once Congress gets back to work in January.
"Congress is out of step with the American people and the states on cannabis," Blumenauer wrote in the memo, citing polling showing 69% of registered voters support legalizing marijuana. "We have an opportunity to correct course if Democrats win big in November. There's no question: cannabis prohibition
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should hold hearings, bring in experts, and discuss possible policy fixes," he wrote.
Blumenauer is calling for the numerous hearings by March, including:
A House Judiciary Committee hearing on descheduling marijuana;
A House Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on safe and equal access to medical marijuana for veterans;
A House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on marijuana research;
A House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the unequal and unfair taxation of marijuana businesses; and
A House Administration Committee hearing on access to financial services for candidates who support marijuana legalization.
From April to June, Blumenauer wants relevant committees to "start marking up bills in their jurisdiction to responsibly narrow the marijuana policy gap -- the gap between federal and state marijuana laws -- before the end of the year."
Those issues would include addressing the racialinjustices of the unequal application of federal marijuana laws, protection of state marijuana laws, removal of barriers to marijuana research, civil asset forfeiture protections, job protections, access to financial services, and equal taxation for marijuana businesses, among others.
Blumenauer wants to see bills addressing these issues passed by August, and then movement to get a legalization bill through the Congress by year's end.
"With the marijuana policy gap diminished, after months of hearings and markups, the House should pass a full descheduling bill and work with Senate allies to guide the bill through Senate passage," he wrote. "Our chances in the Senate depend both on the November elections and increased public pressure following House passage. While the Senate has been slower on marijuana policy reform than the House and the
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American people, it now has almost 20 introduced bills in an effort to catch up with the House. We must build on this momentum."
If all goes well, Blumenauer predicts, "By the end of 2019, marijuana will be legal at the federal level, and states allowed to responsibly regulate its use. The federal government will not interfere in state efforts to responsibly regulate marijuana use within their borders."
All of this, though, starts with winning the House in November. As Blumenauer notes, with even Donald Trump having signaled support for a state-regulated approach to marijuana, "the only obstacle standing in our way is the Republican leadership in Congress."
This article was produced by Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Take the time to comment on how marijuana should besay.
"Canada's move to legalize marijuana is a historic rebuke to the disastrous global war on drugs, which has ruined millions of lives," said Hannah Hetzer, global marijuana policy analyst for the Drug Policy Alliance. "Many countries are searching for innovative approaches to drug policy that emphasize health and rights, rather than repression. By taking this bold and principled step, Canada will likely become an inspiration for many other countries," she said.
"The legalization of marijuana in Canada, and the likely changes we will see on drug policy in Mexico under its new government, make the United States federal government's prohibition on marijuana even more untenable. It's long past time for Congress and the administration to take action on this issue," Hetzer concluded.
"Canada is setting a strong example for how
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to end marijuana prohibition at the national level and replace it with a system of regulated production and sales that is largely governed at the local level," said Steve Hawkins, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project.
"The Canadian model is rather similar to what many envision for the US, and in many ways it mirrors what is happening here, as states have taken the lead in regulating commercial cannabis activity," Hawkins continued. "The big difference -- and it is a critical difference -- is the blessing provincial governments have received from their federal government. It is time for Congress to step up and take similar action to harmonize our nation's state and federal marijuana policies."
Indeed, Canada's full federal legalization is going to provide an edge for Canadian marijuanacompanies and researchers compared to the US. Even though nine states, including California (which has more people than Canada), the District of Columbia, and the Northern Mariana Islands have legalized marijuana, the continuing federal prohibition on marijuana and its continuing classification as a Schedule I drug continue to create a significant hurdle for US pot businesses and research efforts.
America's loss could be Canada's gain, Hawkins said.
"As just the second country and the first G7 nation to end marijuana prohibition, Canada has positioned itself as a global leader for cannabis business and development. As the US continues to face federal roadblocks to cannabis-related medical research, Canada could very well become the world leader in discovering new cannabis-based medicines. The country has already begun to experience some of the economic
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statement calling Canada's legalization of marijuana incompatible with UN international drug treaties. "The legalization by Canada of cannabis for non-medical purposes is incompatible with the legal obligations incumbent on states parties under the international drug control framework," the INCB said. INCB President Viroj Sumyai also said the body is "deeply concerned about the public health impact of these policy choices on the health and welfare of Canadians, particularly youth." The INCB said it would remain engaged with Canada and would examine the issue at its next session, set for the first half of November.
Marijuana is now legal in Canada, the Canadian government moves to allow pardons for people busted with small amounts of it, a Vermont governor's council rejects safe injection sites, and more.
Marijuana Policy
North Dakota Legalization OpponentsMonday in which it says that the risks of operating a safe injection site outweigh any potential benefits of reducing overdoses and getting more people in treatment. Safe injection sites are "not a viable option for Vermont," the report says. "They are illegal under federal law and highly controversial. Cost-effectiveness and neighborhood impacts are unknown. Most importantly, they have an unproven track record of harm reduction and for providing a pathway to treatment." Some state officials support safe injection sites, but the council concluded that more study on the sites' effectiveness is needed.
International
Canada Legalizes Marijuana Today. Legal marijuana sales and commerce began in Canada today, just four months after the parliament approved marijuana legalization legislation. The first sale was made at 12:01am in Newfoundland. Canada becomes the second
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nation to free the weed, after Uruguay, and the largest national legal marijuana market. (It's still smaller than the legal market in the US state of California.)
Like other Great Plains states, South Dakota has a methamphetamine problem. But it's becoming increasingly evident that South Dakota also has a problem with the way it deals with meth.
South Dakota women's prison in Pierre (KELO-TV screen grab)
Because of its strict drug laws, the state is seeing a dramatic spike in women being sent to prison for meth. According to a new report from the nonprofit South Dakota News Watch, the number of women in prison in the state has jumped 35 percent since 2013, while the male prison population has increased at only one-quarter of that rate. Nearly two-thirds of allwomen prisoners in the state are there for nonviolent drug offenses. The state now has the fourth-highest incarceration rate for women in the country, trailing only Oklahoma, Wyoming, and Kentucky.
Overall, about one-third of all inmates in the state are doing time for drug-related offenses, the majority of them for simple drug possession. That's a higher percentage than most other states, where drug offenders tend to make up somewhere around 20 to 25 percent of the inmate population.
The high drug-related incarceration overall and for women in particular stems less from the prevalence of drug use than from the conservative, largely rural state's reaction to it. South Dakota has not responded to decades of failed war on drug policies by reforming them, but by doubling down on them.
The state has
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not moved toward the defelonization of drug possession, as at least 16 others have. Instead, it has moved in the opposite direction. South Dakota has mandatory sentencing laws that include prison for not only for the manufacture and distribution of meth but also for simple possession.
State lawmakers and cops have long favored tough drug laws, and they are still at it. This year, state Attorney General Marty Jackley (R) guided bills through the legislature that heighten penalties for meth dealing and increase sentences for dealers whose clients overdose and die.
But the state's most notorious and contentious drug law -- bone that is sending hundreds of people to prison -- is the state's "possession by ingestion" statute. Otherwise known as an "internal possession" law, the statute allows for afelony conviction if a drug test reveals the presence of illicit drugs in a suspect's system. (The law also applies to marijuana, but the penalty for testing positive for pot is only a misdemeanor.)
The strictest in the nation, that law was upheld by the state Supreme Court in 2004. Last year, a bipartisan group of lawmakers filed a measure that would have slightly tweaked the law by removing marijuana, but that bill was killed by a unanimous vote in the first committee that heard it.
As of August, about nine percent of the male prison population and an astonishing 21 percent of the female prison population was doing time for unauthorized ingestion of a controlled substance. That's right: More than one out of five women prisoners in South Dakota
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are more likely to end up in prison themselves. He pointed to national studies showing that up to 80 percent of children who have parents behind bars will end up there themselves.
"Imprisonment in South Dakota is generational," Kaemingk said. "The females behind prison walls have experienced that as a child. The generation we have back there now as inmates experienced the same things when they were children."
Kraemingk and other relatively enlightened actors in the state are pushing for enhanced treatment opportunities and expanding drug courts, among other measures, to better deal with the situation, but nobody seems to be talking about not involving these women in the criminal justice system in the first place. A first step would be getting rid of that hideous "possession by ingestion" statute.The next step would be defelonization or outright decriminalization of drug possession in the state. Drug use absent harm to others should not be the state's business.
This article was produced by Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
The Justice Department creates a new anti-cartel task force, a California summit will address issues around chronic pain and the war on drugs, the New York Assembly holds a hearing on marijuana legalization, and more.
New York State Assembly Holds Hearing on Marijuana Legalization. Four legislative committees held a joint hearing on marijuana legalization in Albany Tuesday. The hearing covered how marijuana should be legalized, taxed, and regulated. The hearing comes ahead of next year's legislative session when lawmakers are expected to take up proposals to legalize the herb.
Medical Marijuana
New
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Jeff Sessions announced at a Washington conference Monday that the Justice Department has created a new task for aimed at breaking three Mexican drug cartels and the MS-13 street gang. Sessions described the groups, along with Hezbollah, as top transnational organized crime threats and said DOJ would "develop a plan to take each of these groups off the streets for good." The three cartels named are the Sinaloa Cartel, the New Generation Jalisco Cartel, and the Gulf Clan. All of this because the last half-century of drug prohibition has worked so well.
New Jersey Legislative Committee Advances Parole System Reform. The Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee voted 4-3 Monday to advance a bill, Assembly Bill 1986, which rewards good behavior and encourages rehabilitation by allowing for the releaseofficers. Timbs bought the vehicle with proceeds from his late father's life insurance policy -- not drug profits -- and argues that seizing the vehicle amounts to a violation of the 8th Amendment's ban on excessive fines. A state appeals court had overturned the seizure, calling it "grossly disproportional," but the state Supreme Court vacated that decision on the grounds the ban on excessive fines does not apply to the states.
Criminal Justice
Massachusetts High Court Orders Dismissal of Thousands of Cases in Drug Lab Chemist Scandal. The state's Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday ordered the dismissal of thousands of additional drug convictions due to the misconduct of Amherst drug lab chemist Sonja Farak, some dating back as far as 2004. "We conclude that Farak's widespread evidence tampering has compromised
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be included in the program of crop substitution so they have an alternative to growing coca. Farmers in Cucuta and El Zulia blocked two main local highways. They are members of the National Coordination of Cultivators of Coca, Poppy and Marijuana and the Campesino Association of Catatumbo.
The US has clarified that Canadiana marijuana workers and investors can enter the US but not engage in business here, New Jersey's governor says a vote on marijuana legalization will happen before month's end, Pennsylvania's former governor sticks up for safe injection sites, and more.
California Governor Signs Bill Banning CBD Cocktails and Beverages. Gov. Jerry Brown (D) has signed into law Assembly Bill 2914, which prohibits the sale of CBD beverages and alcoholic drinks. "This bill would prohibit an alcoholic beverage licenseefrom, at its licensed premises, selling, offering, or providing cannabis or cannabis products, including an alcoholic beverage that contains cannabis or cannabis products, and would provide that no alcoholic beverage shall be manufactured, sold, or offered for sale if it contains tetrahydrocannabinol or cannabinoids, regardless of source," says a legislative summary.
New Jersey Governor Says Legalization Coming at End of Month. Gov. Phil Murphy (D) says he and the legislature are looking at October 29 as the date the legislature will pass a bill legalizing marijuana. One issue yet to be settled, though, is how much to tax legal pot. Still, Murphy said, October 29 "feels about right."
US Clarifies Policy on Entry of Canadian Marijuana Industry Workers. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has clarified its position on whether
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Canadians involved in the legal marijuana industry can enter the US. "A Canadian citizen working in or facilitating the proliferation of the legal marijuana industry in Canada, coming to the US for reasons unrelated to the marijuana industry will generally be admissible to the US," CBP said Tuesday. But there is a big but: "[I]f a traveler is found to be coming to the US for reason related to the marijuana industry, they may be deemed inadmissible," CBD said.
Harm Reduction
Former Pennsylvania Governor Challenges DOJ on Threats to Prosecute Safe Injection Site Operators. Former Gov. Ed Rendell (D) is not backing away from supporting a Philadelphia safe injection site despite threats from Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rendell sits on the board of a nonprofit to runselective enforcement" in their arrests. Instead of allowing the proceedings to continue so a full accounting of police conduct could occur, prosecutors instead dropped the charges.
At the time, the presiding judge, US District Court Judge Edward Chen, made clear that while he was granting the dismissals because they were in the best interest of the defendants, he was concerned that doing so would prevent the allegations of police bias from being aired.
"These are serious issues, serious allegations regarding claims of discriminatory enforcement patterns," Chen said. "I think the defendants in this case have raised a very substantial prima facie case that, at the very least, raises some serious questions that would warrant a response and a full airing of the issues."
Now, a year and a half later, the
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ACLU of Northern California on Thursday filed a federal civil lawsuit on behalf of six of those rolled up in the busts. The lawsuit alleges the plaintiffs were targeted because of their race and cites a survey of Tenderloin drug users to bolster its case. That survey found racial diversity among Tenderloin drug sellers. About half were black, but 20 percent were Latino and 17 percent were white.
The lawsuit is "an opportunity to hold the actors in the San Francisco Police Department and the city itself accountable for the police department's longstanding practices of engaging in racially discriminatory law enforcement," said ACLU attorney Novella Coleman, who is representing the plaintiffs.
It's also about financial relief for the plaintiffs, Coleman allowed. "The court will determine how to monetize that," shesaid.
Not an Anomaly
Racially biased policing is nothing new in San Francisco. In fact, as Ezekiel Edwards, director of the national ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project, pointed out in a post announcing the lawsuit, the city has the dubious honor of setting precedent for the idea that law enforcement targeting people based on their race is unconstitutional. In an 1886 case, Yick Wo v. Hopkins, the city attempted to deny laundry permits to Chinese people while granting them to non-Chinese. Such an action could only be explained by the city's "hostility to the race and nationality" of the applicants, a violation of the 14th Amendment's guarantee of equal protection under the law.
Fast forward to the 21st century, and the evidence that the city's penchant for targeting non-whites for harsher
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treatment remains intact just keeps piling up. Numerous studies in the past few years have documented racially biased policing practices, including a 2002 ACLU report on SFPD racial profiling and a city-commissioned study by a national expert on biased policing.
Those studies uncovered a range of bias-related problems and made concrete recommendations for reform. Those were ignored. As the rotten policing practices festered, more reports detailing racial and ethnic disparities across the criminal justice system came out in 2013 and 2015.
Then, in 2015, as "Operation Safe Schools" was winding down, SFPD was hit by a new scandal when officers were caught exchanging racist text messages. Some used the N-word, others referenced cross burnings. Officers were caught calling black residents "savages," "wild animals," and "barbarians," and one officer told hissergeant "All n[ -- ] must fucking hang." Another officer sent a text with an image of a white man spraying a black child with a hose above the caption "Go be a n -- somewhere else."
That finally got the attention of city fathers -- as well as the Obama-era Justice Department. The city district attorney convened a Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement that documented SFPD's history of racially disparate enforcement and concluded that it was "in urgent need of important reforms." In 2016, the Justice Department weighed in with its own report finding that the department still engaged in racially biased policing, especially around traffic stops and police use of deadly force.
It's Not Just San Francisco
The ACLU's Edwards concisely makes the
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case that San Francisco is no exception when it comes to racially biased policing:
"Unequal treatment by race is commonplace among police departments large and small in cities across a range of ideological leanings. This is the reason for the racial profiling lawsuits filed in New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, and Maricopa County, Arizona. This is the motivation, prior to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, for Justice Department consent decrees seeking to end racially discriminatory police practices in Seattle, Los Angeles County, New Orleans, Baltimore, Newark, East Haven CT and Ferguson MO. This is why the ACLU has found racial disparities in marijuana possession arrests across the country, in drug possession arrests more broadly, in stops and frisks in Boston, in seatbelt enforcement in Florida, and in arrests for low-levelprison. Guard Mark Edward Jeffery went down after a fellow guard found a mysterious taped rectangle inside Jeffery's beverage container. When a supervisor opened the package, he found a glass pipe, four smartphones, four phone charges, about 190 ecstasy pills and a plastic bag with methamphetamine. It's not clear what exact charges Jeffery faces.
In Burlington, Vermont, a Northern State Correctional Facility guard was arrested last Saturday for allegedly using magic markers to hide drugs he smuggled into the prison. Corrections Officer Greg Vance and an inmate are charged with conspiracy to introduce contraband into the prison. The drug in question was buprenorphine, used to treat opioid dependence.
In Bonafay, Florida, a Bonafay police officer was arrested Monday for selling opioids out of the back of his patrol car. Officer
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Dwayne Frazier White came under scrutiny last month, and Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents then made a controlled purchase of opioid tablets from White's patrol vehicle while he was in uniform. White was last reported being held at the Walton County Jail. It's not clear what the official charges are.
Trump Administration Seeks Public Comments On Marijuana Reclassification. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking public comment about "the abuse potential, actual abuse, medical usefulness, trafficking, and impact of scheduling changes on availability for medical use" of cannabis and several other substances now under international review. Marijuana is currently Schedule I under US law and international anti-drug treaties. Public comments "will be considered in preparing a response from the United States to the World Health Organization (WHO)the International Association of Police Chiefs in Orlando Monday, President Trump called on Chicago police to embrace "stop and frisk" policing as a tool to reduce violence in the country's third-largest city. "Stop and frisk" was embraced for years by the New York City police department, but was widely criticized as overwhelmingly aimed at minority populations and ultimately ruled unconstitutional as carried out by the NYPD. "Gotta be properly applied, but stop-and-frisk works," said Trump. The city of Chicago reached an agreement with the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois in 2015 to curb stop-and-frisk procedures after the ACLU threatened to file a lawsuit over the issue. A spokesman for Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) blasted Trump for his "clueless" criticism. "Even someone as clueless as Donald Trump has
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to know stop-and-frisk is simply not the solution to crime," Matt McGrath said in an emailed statement.
International
Bangladesh Moving to Impose Death Penalty for as Little as Five Grams of Meth. The cabinet has approved in principle a draft of the Narcotics Control Act of 2018 that introduces the death penalty for anyone producing, smuggling, distributing, or using more than five grams of methamphetamine. The draft also sets life in prison as the mandatory minimum sentence for such offenses. Less than five grams of meth would merit a sentence of up to 15 years, with a mandatory minimum of five years. The new law also would mandate the death penalty for more than 25 grams of heroin or cocaine.
New Pew Poll Has Continued Strong Support for Marijuana Legalization. MoreSweet! Sales: $39 million.
This article was produced by Drug Reporter, a project of the Independent Media Institute.
Congress sends an omnibus opioids bill to the president's desk, the DEA has another Colombia scandal, the San Francisco police and Los Angeles sheriff's deputies face charges of racial profiling, and more.
Congress has sent an omnibus opioids bill to the president's desk. (Creative Commons)
Medical Marijuana
Florida Judge Blocks Medical Marijuana License Process. A Tallahassee judge Wednesday agreed to block state health officials from moving forward with the application process for medical marijuana licenses. Leon County Circuit Court Judge Charles Dodson two months ago had found the state's licensing cap "directly contradicts" the amendment legalizing medical marijuana in the state and had set a Wednesday deadline for either health officials or the legislature to
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have left in recent months amid separate investigations into alleged misconduct. One is accused of using government resources to hire prostitutes. Ironically, that agent, Robert Dobrich, the agency's top-ranking official in Latin American, was brought in in 2015 in the wake of a scandal about agents participating in sex parties with prostitutes. A former DEA agent assigned to Colombia, Jose Irizarry, is being investigated for passing information on to drug cartels. Irizarry resigned after his activities in Cartagena were curtailed earlier this year. Meanwhile, Dobrich's deputy, Jesse Garcia, is accused of having a sexual relationship with a subordinate.
ACLU Sues San Francisco Police Over Racially Motivated Drug Arrests. The ACLU of Northern California has filed a lawsuit on behalf of six black people arrested during anti-drug operations in theAngeles Times reported Thursday. The sheriff's Domestic Highway Enforcement Team seized lots of drugs, but it also searched the vehicles of more than 3,500 drivers who had no drugs or other illegal items, the overwhelming majority of them Latino. Some of the teams' drug busts have been thrown out of federal court as the credibility of deputies came under fire and judges found they violated the rights of motorists by conducting unconstitutional searches. The Times examined data from every traffic stop done by the team from 2012 through 2017 -- more than 9,000 of them -- and found that Latinos accounted for 69% of stops, and that two-thirds of Latinos had their vehicles searched, compared to less than half of other drivers. Though Latinos were much more likely
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deflection of the electron beams, electron beam pass through holes 711 and 721 formed in the first and second focusing lenses 71 and 72 at facing end surfaces 712 and 722, and a pair of burring parts 723 at an upper and a lower portions of each of the electron beam pass through holes 721 in the second focusing electrode 72 projected toward or inserted in one of the electron beam pass through holes 711 in the first focusing electrode 71. With this configuration, when the electron beams are deflected, the second focusing electrode 72 is applied of the dynamic voltage to form the dynamic four polar correcting lens between the first and second focusing lenses 71 and 72 by the voltage difference formed between them. The burringBreakthrough in Chile mine rescue Published duration 9 October 2010
Rescuers have drilled through to the underground chamber where 33 Chilean miners have been trapped since August.
The breakthrough at the San Jose mine came shortly after 0800 local time (1200 GMT), sparking celebrations.
It means efforts to remove the miners through the tunnel should begin within days.
The men were trapped when part of the mine collapsed on 5 August - their 65-day ordeal is the longest suffered by a group of miners caught underground.
They have been living in a shelter 700m (2,300ft) underground. However, the Plan B drill - the second of three which have been working simultaneously - has penetrated 624m to a workshop which can be reached by the miners.
Officials say everything needed for the rescue is now
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engineer Eugenio Eguiguren told the BBC.
"The men were really happy and excited, very emotional. The people on the surface were really happy.
"For the professional teams who work there it's an outstanding feeling."
On hearing the news, families ran up the hillside by Camp Hope waving their Chilean flags, our correspondent reports.
Relatives, many of whom have been camping near the mine since the collapse, milled around in excitement at the news. Sirens wailed in celebration.
Alicia Campos, the mother of trapped miner Daniel Herrera, said she was "very happy".
"I have a huge sense of relief because I feel I'll see my son soon," she told the BBC.
"God had his hand in this and he's going to make sure they come up safe."
It has been a long wait for the families, ourSpatiotemporal spread of grapevine red blotch-associated virus in a California vineyard.
Grapevine red blotch-associated virus (GRBaV), the causative agent of red blotch disease, is a member of the genus Grablovirus, in the family Geminiviridae and the first known geminivirus of Vitis spp. Limited information is available on the epidemiology of red blotch disease. A 2-hectare Vitis vinifera cv. 'Cabernet franc' vineyard in Napa County, California, USA was selected for monitoring GRBaV spread over a three-year period (2014-2016) based on an initially low disease incidence and an aggregation of symptomatic vines at the edge of the vineyard proximal to a wooded riparian area. The incidence of diseased plants increased by 1-2% annually. Spatial analysis of diseased plants in each year using ordinary runs analysis within rows and Spatial Analysis by
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halfway decent B film. Halfway. But then Nic Cage comes in, eats the scenery, sometimes has snakes for hands, occasionally has an eye, and tips all the cameramen over with a glance. He ruins everything in sight, but that’s just what Canadian Irish Crusader Pirates do. Is there precedent for getting someone’s salary back?
Oh, and they’ve planned a sequel.
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Gabriel is a movie critic who's been a campaign manager in Oregon, an investigative reporter in Texas, and a film producer in Massachusetts. His writing was named best North American criticism of 2014 by the Local Media Association. He's assembled a band of writers who focus on social issues in film. They have a home base.Washington (AFP) - President Barack Obama says he could have been reelected for a third term and that the nation still largely embraces his political vision despite last month's election of Donald Trump to succeed him.
The US leader's remarks were made in an interview posted on the podcast "The Axe Files," produced by CNN and the University of Chicago.
Obama, who ends his second and final term in office in just over three weeks, said he believes the American public still supports his progressive vision, despite having voted for Trump -- his political opposite.
"I am confident in this vision because I'm confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think I could've mobilized a majority of the American people to rally behind it," Obama tells the
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interviewer, his former senior adviser David Axelrod, in the most recent of several exit interviews he has been conducting.
But President-elect Donald Trump took to a favored platform, Twitter, to reject Obama's supposition.
- 'No way!' : Trump -
"President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but I say NO WAY! - jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc.," he tweeted, referring to the president's signature health care plan.
Hillary Clinton was defeated by Trump in a stunning outcome almost no one predicted, and Obama was philosophical and a little rueful in the interview regarding the Democrats' loss.
"Losing's never fun," he tells Axelrod, a political strategist who helped craft Obama's winning 2008 presidential campaign and then followed him to the White House.
"I'm proud that IDecorator wins £7m Lotto jackpot
A painter and decorator has won more than £7 million in a Lottery rollover.
The man from Edinburgh, who has not yet been named, had the winning ticket for Saturday's draw.
He is to collect £7,084,472 and will celebrate his win and discuss what he plans to spend it on in the Scottish capital tomorrow.
He joins a list of Scottish jackpot winners, including Chris and Colin Weir who won £161 million on the Euromillions lottery in 2011.
The couple displaced former postal worker Angela Kelly, from East Kilbride, who became Scotland's biggest winner in August 2007 when she won a £ 35,425,411.80 EuroMillions jackpot.
John McGuiness was the previous record winner when he won around £10 million in 1997 but lost millions of pounds investing in Livingston Football
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Club.
The Weirs have established a charitable trust and donated millions of pounds to community projects but their contribution to the Scottish independence campaign has received most attention.
The couple have given £5.5 million to the SNP and Yes Scotland since their record-breaking win, according to Electoral Commission figures.
The Euromillions winners describe themselves as "lifelong supporters of independence'' and defended their decision to donate funds to the pro-independence campaign in a rare public statement earlier this year.Washington (CNN) A Jamaican man chose the wrong person to try to extort: the only one to lead both the FBI and CIA.
William Webster, who is now 94 years old, and his wife, Lynda, were targeted four years ago by a man who peddled a lottery scam over phone calls and emails. Over multiple phone calls, Keniel Aeon Thomas of Jamaica told the Websters he'd set their house ablaze or have a sniper shoot them in the back of the head if they didn't pay him thousands of dollars, according to prosecutors' filings.
The Websters say they used their knowledge of the FBI to help send him to prison, which a federal judge did on Friday after both spoke to the court.
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ounces; 226 grams) unsalted butter, cut into chunks, at room temperature
* 1 cup (200 grams) sugar
* ⅓ cup (40 grams) confectioners' sugar
* ½ teaspoon fine sea salt
* 1 large egg
* 1 tablespoon pure peppermint oil or extract
* 4 ounces (113 grams) dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
Sift the flour and cocoa powder together or push them through a strainer.
Working with a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or in a large bowl with a hand mixer, beat the butter, both sugars and the salt together on medium speed until smooth, about 3 minutes; scrape down the bowl as needed. Add the egg and beat for 2 minutes, then beat in the peppermint oil or extract. Turn offrings in place for at least 20 minutes before lifting them off, rinsing and reusing.
Classic Jammers
## HONEY-AND-TEA JAMMERS
I made these as an Easter special for Beurre & Sel, but as spring moved into summer, and summer became fall, people still asked for them, and I couldn't take them off the menu. The base is a softish sablé flavored with honey, vanilla and crushed black tea. The jam in the center is strawberry (if you wanted to flavor it with a bit of rose extract or a splash of kirsch, Framboise or Chambord, I wouldn't stop you), and the crunch is my standard (and beloved) Use-It-for-Everything Streusel.
A word on the tea: I used Harney's Paris tea for these at Beurre & Sel. I chose it because it's
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there are in the best biscuits.
I leave it to you to enjoy these with cheese's other best friend: wine. The cookies are nice with champagne or white wine as an aperitif. Alternatively, they're great alongside soup.
A word on the cheese and chives: The best cheese for these cookies is a soft, mashable fresh goat cheese, often sold under its French name, chèvre. Chives are my first choice, but if you can't find them, you can use the pale green parts of slender scallions or even the scallions themselves. See Playing Around for other ideas.
Makes about 35 cookies
* 1 stick (8 tablespoons; 4 ounces; 113 grams) unsalted butter, cut into chunks, at room temperature
* 3 ounces (⅓ cup packed; 85 grams) soft fresh goat cheese
little piece of dough between small pieces of parchment paper until it's as thin as it can possibly be—so thin that I bake it on the sheet of parchment it was rolled on, because peeling it off borders on the impossible. You can make these aperitif size—about 4 inches long—and get about 14 of them, or you can go larger, making about 5 wafers, each big enough to stand in for the bread you might serve with a salad.
A word on the seeds: I'm partial to poppy seeds with the cheddar, but sesame seeds are nice, as are flax and chia.
Makes 5 large wafers or 14 small wafers
* ½ stick (4 tablespoons; 2 ounces; 56 grams) unsalted butter, cut into chunks, at room temperature
*
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Edmonton: Denoyer Geppert, 1967. Roller map. Includes hanging bracket. Measures 54" x 52.5". The detailed information provided on this map of Western Canada is as rich as the country's ample natural reserves, which form one focal point of many within this fascinating and vibrant depiction of the region. It covers the region from the West coast to the western border of Ontario, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territory. Along the coast, the Canadian Rockies color the..... More
Washington: the National Gallery of Art, 1990. Illustrated in color with some additional black and white images. 383 pages, 4to, pictorial wrappers. Washington: the National Gallery of Art, (1990). A very good(+) copy.More
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THANK YOU for the recent order you sent me! It arrived in perfect condition due toprevious life she was an accountant at KPMG. She entered the tech industry after being recruited to work in corporate finance for appliance manufacturer Electrohome in 1994.
She went on to become CEO of tech firm Fakespace in 1998, before selling it in 2003. She sold her last startup PostRank to Google in 2011.
Carol Leaman started her professional career as an accountant at KPMG before entering the startup scene. (Courtesy of Carol Leaman)
Leaman says there was a steep learning curve when she made the transition from corporate rules and structure to free-form startup culture. She adds that when she became the CEO of the startup Fakespace, she could sense some doubt among the board of directors.
"There was probably a measure of disbelief that I couldn’t do it, but they
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Centre, which help startups in Waterloo Region grow and become profitable.
Dave Beaton, 46, owes much of his success as a tech entrepreneur to Communitech, which shepherded his company ChangeIt through its early life.
Dave Beaton was a high school math and physics teacher for 18 years before he founded his company ChangeIt. (Matthew Kang/CBC)
Beaton left his 18-year career as a high school teacher to start the firm, which has produced a program that lets people round up their debit purchases and donate the extra change to charity. Beaton says one major benefit of being a mature tech entrepreneur is having an extensive contact list from his previous work life. And he says it helps that he’s working his dream job.
"People invest in the person as much, if not more,the dinner is Isabelle Meunier of Lavinea Wines in Oregon. Originally from Quebec, Canada, Meunier studied winemaking and viticulture at the University of Dijon in France and at Lincoln University in New Zealand before training in Burgundy, France, under Pascal Marchand at Domaine de la Vougeraie and with Blair Walter of Felton Road in New Zealand.
In 2007, Marchand referred Meunier to Dominique Lafon to oversee his new Oregon consulting project, Evening Land. Meunier quickly gained acclaim: her wines were selected for Wine Spectator’s Top 100 Wines of the Year for 2009 through 2015.
In 2014, Meunier and Evening Land’s CEO Greg Ralston left to begin their own venture.
“At some point, it became clear that making my own wine was important,” says Meunier.
They founded Lavinea in Carlton, Oregon. The winery
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the agents to search his house and two lockers he rented at Barth's Storage. The agents searched units 38 and 63, finding no drugs, and a search of the Klotz home was no more rewarding.
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Lieutenant Robert Reschke suspected that Klotz had not told the agents everything and returned to Barth's Storage to find out whether he had any other units. Perusing the records, Reschke came across a unit rented to Teresa Teigen, Klotz's wife. Barth's records showed that Teigen leased Unit No. 377 on July 18, 1989, before her marriage to Klotz, and that payments had been made regularly. (The records did not show who made the payments.) A payment in November 1989 extended the lease through February 18,1990 (five days in the future), and another payment in January 1990 ensured possession to March 18, 1990. Reschke tried one of the keys that Klotz had handed over and found that it worked the lock of Unit 377. He did not look inside but returned to Klotz's home and asked Teigen for her permission to search Unit 377. Teigen expressed surprise that the lease was current, telling Reschke that the final payment had been made in December 1989. Teigen related that Klotz told her that he had sold the waterbed they stored in Unit 377, so that they had no need of it. Nonetheless, Teigen signed a consent form. Acting on her permission the agents
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Simon Beaufoy to Adapt Len Deighton's Spy Novels for TV
British producer Clerkenwell Films has inked a deal with the Oscar-winning writer of "Slumdog Millionaire" to bring the Bernard Samson character to the small screen.
LONDON – Oscar-winning writer Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) is set to turn his hand to adapting for television Len Deighton’s classic Cold War novels featuring iconic spy Bernard Samson.
British TV production banner Clerkenwell Films, co-founded by actor John Hannah and the company behind Misfits, is developing an 18-part series based on Deighton’s books.
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With more than 40 million book sales, Deighton’s Samson novels are regarded by some as his masterwork and one of the greatest spy stories of all time.
Covering a vast array of international locations from London toBerlin to Mexico City and California, the series follows the exploits of Samson, an ex-MI6 field agent drawn back into active duty in a quest to uncover the truth about his wife’s defection to the KGB.
Beaufoy said: ?"Deighton's masterful series of novels draws the hidden political map of the late 20th century. It is all here: murders, honey-traps and spy swaps, the double-dealing and maneuvering of nations jousting for position at the height of the Cold War, with Bernard Samson, the Bond with brains, giving it an almost Chandleresque sense of cool."
STORY: MIPTV: Adaptations Are the Charm for Global Broadcasters
Deighton added: ?"Writing it took well over 10 years of my life, and it was my hope and firm belief that some day a film company would want to
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bring the entire series of books to the screen. Now it has happened."
Clerkenwell Films chief executive Murray Ferguson said the "time is ripe" to adapt the books, "with the increasing international appetite for compelling and intelligent longform serial drama," a trend which has emerged during this year's MIP TV market.
"Set in London, Berlin, America and around the world, we will be casting from the premier league of international talent," Ferguson said.particular act proceeding from the legislative body.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 78
TIME OUT: VROOM, VROOM
National Archives: “Popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 established an interstate highway system in the United States. The movement behind the construction of a transcontinental superhighway started in the 1930s when President Franklin D. Roosevelt expressed interest in the construction of a network of toll superhighways that would provide more jobs for people in need of work during the Great Depression. The resulting legislation was the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1938, which directed the chief of the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) to study the feasibility of a six-route toll network. But with America on the verge of joining the war
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in Europe, the time for a massive highway program had not arrived. At the end of the war, the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1944 funded highway improvements and established major new ground by authorizing and designating, in Section 7, the construction of 40,000 miles of a ‘National System of Interstate Highways.’”
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Trump job performance
Average approval: 41.8 percent
Average disapproval: 51.8 percent
Net Score: -10 points
Change from one week ago: down 1 point
[Average includes: Gallup: 41% approve - 55% disapprove; CNBC: 41% approve - 47% disapprove; Quinnipiac University: 43% approve - 52% disapprove; USA Today/Suffolk University: 43% approve - 51% disapprove; CNN: 41% approve - 54% disapprove.]
Control of House
Republican average: 41.6 percent
Democratic average: 48 percent
Advantage: Democrats plus 6.4 points
Changeincluding a $500,000 donation from Steyer to Gillum's political committee, Forward Florida. The political organization called the money an ‘initial investment,’ and said it's also provided 50 organizers as part of an effort to help Gillum with his field, digital and mail operations, specifically those targeting voters under the age of 40. … NextGen's relationship with Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee, goes back to Gillum's time as executive director of the Young Elected Officials Network. … Gillum already had the endorsement of George Soros, a billionaire Democratic donor…”
SATURDAY VOTE TO REPLACE DISGRACED TEXAS REP.
Texas Tribune: “Voters in the 27th Congressional District are preparing to go to the polls for a third time this year on Saturday for a sleepy special election in which both parties are working to
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rally their fatigued troops behind a single candidate in the nine-person field to replace former U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Corpus Christi. Farenthold abruptly resigned in April amid the fallout from sexual harassment allegations and an ethics investigation by the House Ethics Committee. He had announced four months earlier that he wouldn't run for re-election, creating an open race to succeed him. Saturday's election is to determine who completes Farenthold's current term, which ends in January, and it's separate from the November election, the winner of which will take over the seat for a full two-year term after that. Despite nine candidates on the ballot, Republicans are hoping their general election nominee, Michael Cloud, can win outright Saturday and avoid a runoff… Democrats, meanwhile, believe the crowded race providesan opening for their consensus candidate — Eric Holguin…”
Michigan gubernatorial candidates hash it out in last debate - Detroit Free Press: “In their last televised debate, the Republican candidates for governor tried to distinguish themselves. Three of them — Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, Sen. Patrick Colbeck and Saginaw Township physician Jim Hines — often jabbed at Attorney General Bill Schuette, trying to chip away at the consistent lead in the polls he has enjoyed since getting into the race last year. … While there was much agreement among the four candidates on issues such as guns — don’t take them away from people in the name of increasing safety in schools — or fixing the roads without raising taxes, the candidates did diverge on one key issue for
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has been running ads attacking Bright’s vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker when he was a congressional Democrat in 2009 — an especially tough hit in a Republican primary.”
Trump heads to Montana July 5 - Great Falls Tribune: “President Donald Trump will come to Montana on July 5 to bolster support for Republican candidates in the Nov. 6 midterm elections. The visit was confirmed Thursday by White House spokeswoman Lindsay Walters, but it was not immediately known whether he was coming to Great Falls. The president's official website had Great Falls listed as the location for the event for a brief time on Thursday evening, but the page was down shortly afterward. Montana Republican officials could also not confirm the location of the event as of late Thursday.more blunt, warning the 81-year-old justice that time was of the essence. There was no telling, they said, what would happen if Democrats gained control of the Senate after the November elections and had the power to block the president’s choice as his successor. There were no direct efforts to pressure or lobby Justice Kennedy to announce his resignation on Wednesday, and it was hardly the first time a president had done his best to create a court opening. … But in subtle and not so subtle ways, the White House waged a quiet campaign to ensure that Mr. Trump had a second opportunity in his administration’s first 18 months to fulfill one of his most important campaign promises to his conservative followers — that he would change
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reputation, deservedly or not, of the man in the middle, whose votes on a range of hot-button issues proved decisive over a 30-year high court career.”
White House hopes nomination will happen before Putin summit - Politico: “The White House hopes to have a Supreme Court nominee chosen by the time President Donald Trump leaves for his European trip on July 10, according to one Republican close to the White House and one person involved with the judicial selection process. The White House is expected to start interviewing candidates early next week, with the White House’s top attorney, Don McGahn, leading that process. The goal is to hold confirmation hearings in August or September, so that any confirmed justice can join the court in early October, before the nextFame
In 1987, Franklin became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Obviously, it’s a shame no woman was inducted sooner (the Hall of Fame was established in 1983) but it’s fitting that the Queen got to be first.
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Pop-culture footprint
Aside from lending Dan Aykroyd’s and John Belushi’s Blues Brothers legitimacy by appearing in their film with a fiery performance of “Think,” Franklin also popped up on Murphy Brown, and her music has appeared in everything from The Simpsons to Sneakers and School of Rock. She surely rivals James Brown for soundtrack supremacy.
Substitute opera singer
Disaster nearly struck at the 1998 Grammys. Luciano Pavarotti bowed out at the last moment, due to illness, leaving the other members of the Three tenors desperately needing a backup. Luckily,
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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow, Russia, December 17, 2015. Credit: REUTERS/Maxim Zmeyev
In 2015, Ukraine proved it wasn’t a pushover. The country united in the face of Russian aggression and Russian President Vladimir Putin learned that if he wanted his Novorossiya project, it was going to cost him more than a few little green men.
Notably, the war in Ukraine was completely absent from Putin’s December 2015 address to the Russian Federal Assembly, in contrast to the one he gave in 2014, where it was the main subject. Of course, that may be part of a plan to ensure that Ukraine disappears from the world’s attention. The fact that Putin didn’t mind admitting in his annual press conference that there was indeedOdeske natural gas field in the Black Sea, 100 kilometers east of the Ukrainian coastline. The Russian news agency TASS claimed that the deposits in the Black Sea shelf are now Russian, because of the takeover of Crimea. There may be a military logic here. As Euromaidan Press reported, Russian propaganda is already saying that Russian gas rigs in the Ukrainian maritime zone need protection from “terrorism.” The distance between the gas field and the western Ukrainian Black Sea coast is well within the range of Russian naval weapons.
West of the gas field and close to the western Ukrainian Black Sea coast is the tiny Zmiinyi Island, a former Soviet base with a population of 100. If Russia seized the island, the port of Odesa could be cut
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is complicated for Russia these days, or run it through Georgia and Turkey on land. In addition, the industry of eastern Ukraine is closely integrated with the Russian military-industrial complex in areas such as launch vehicle and carrier rocket production, production of turbines for nuclear power plants as well as production of ships and planes.
War, as the Russian writer Arkadij Babtjenko wrote, is a key pillar of Putin’s regime—together with poverty, prisons, and television. Hopefully, Ukrainians will continue to hold their ground, the West will learn from its previous mistakes, and 2016 will see Putin falter.
Aaron Korewa is former political adviser to Carl Bildt, former Foreign Minister of Sweden. He lives in Stockholm.agree. "Revisions
in Need of Revising: What Went Wrong in the Iraq War [.pdf]," by David
C. Hendrickson and Robert W. Tucker, puts it plainly:
"Though the critics have made a number of telling points against the
conduct of the war and the occupation, the basic problems faced by the United
States flowed from the enterprise itself, and not primarily from mistakes in
execution along the way. The most serious problems facing Iraq and its American
occupiers 'endemic violence, a shattered state, a nonfunctioning economy,
and a decimated society' were virtually inevitable consequences that flowed
from the breakage of the Iraqi state."
It is of interest, and a hopeful sign, that this blunt assessment was published
by the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute.
One target the study hits squarely is the American assumption, still regnant
in the
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by the U.S. military
that it performed brilliantly; it was the politicians who lost the war (the
Vietnam War claim repeated). As the authors note, this reflects an overly narrow
definition of war:
"Other lessons are that the military services must digest again that
'war is an instrument of policy.' The profound neglect given to reestablishing
order in the military's prewar planning and the facile assumption that operations
critical to the overall success of the campaign were 'somebody else's business'
reflect a shallow view of warfare. Military planners should consider the evidence
that occupation duties were carried out in a fashion with the imperatives
of 'force protection' overriding concern for Iraqi civilian casualties that
risked sacrificing the broader strategic mission of U.S. forces."
Nor could the Iraq war have been won if we had sent more troops. MoreEtymology
The name "Hadrian" comes from the Roman cognomen Hadrianus, which meant "from Hadria" in Latin. Hadria was a town in northern Italy (it gave its name to the Adriatic Sea). A famous bearer of the name was Publius Aelius Hadrianus, better known as Hadrian, a 2nd-century Roman emperor who built a wall across northern Britain.
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Contents
Wealthy Texan Big Enos Burdette and his son Little Enos seek a trucker willing to bootlegCoors beer to Georgia for their refreshment; Big Enos has sponsored a racer in Atlanta's Southern Classic and wants to celebrate in style when he wins. They find local legend Bo "Bandit" Darville at a roadeo at Lakewood Fairgrounds in Atlanta and offer him $80,000 to pick up 400 cases of Coors from Texarkana (the closest place it could be legally sold at that time), and bring it back to Atlanta in 28 hours. Bandit takes the bet and recruits his partner Cledus "Snowman" Snow to drive the truck, while Bandit drives a black Pontiac Trans Am bought on an advance from the Burdettes as a "blocker" to divert attention away from thetruck and its illegal cargo.
They arrive in Texarkana an hour ahead of schedule, load the truck and head back toward Atlanta. Immediately upon starting the second leg of the run, Bandit is stopped by a runaway bride named Carrie who hitches a ride with him, but in so doing Bandit becomes a target of Sheriff Buford T. Justice, a career Texas lawman whose son Junior was to have been Carrie's bridegroom. Ignoring his own jurisdiction, Sheriff Justice, with dimwitted Junior in tow, pursues Bandit all the way to Georgia to get Carrie back, even as various mishaps cause his cruiser to disintegrate around them.
Bandit's antics attract more attention from police throughout Dixie while Snowman barrels on toward Atlanta with the contraband beer, but they are helped along the
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way by many colorful characters via CB radio. Neither Sheriff Justice nor any other officials know of Snowman's illegal manifest, while Bandit is likewise unaware that Sheriff Justice is pursuing him because of Carrie. The chase begins to intensify when, moments after crossing back into Georgia, Snowman is narrowly rescued by Bandit after being stopped by a motorcycle patrolman, and state and local police escalate their pursuit of Bandit with more cruisers, larger roadblocks, and even a police helicopter to track his movements. Discouraged by the unexpected mounting attention, and with just four miles left to go, Bandit is about to give up, but Snowman refuses to listen and takes the lead, smashing through the roadblock at the fairgrounds' main entrance.
They make it back during the race withNeedham's friend Burt Reynolds read the script, and said he would star, that the film was aimed at a more mainstream release; Reed would now portray Bandit's friend Snowman (Reed would eventually play the Bandit in Smokey and the Bandit Part 3). At that time Reynolds was the top box office star in the world. In the original script Carrie was called Kate while Big Enos and Little Enos were called Kyle and Dickey. Bandit's car was a second generation Ford Mustang and the prize for completing the run was a new truck rather than $80,000.[4]
Burt Reynolds revealed in his autobiography that Needham had written the first draft script on legal pads. Upon showing it to his friend, Reynolds told Needham that it was the worst script he
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film, a variation of the phrase "son-of-a-bitch" that, according to Reynolds, he uttered quite often.
Jackie Gleason was given free rein to ad-lib dialogue and make suggestions. It was his idea to have Junior alongside him throughout. In particular, the scene where Sheriff Justice unknowingly encounters the Bandit in the "choke and puke" (a roadside diner) was not in the original story, but rather was Gleason's idea.
Before Gleason was cast in the film, Richard Boone was originally considered for the role of Buford T. Justice.[4]
Sally Field only accepted the part after her agent advised her that she needed a big movie role on her résumé. Reynolds actively pushed for her casting after Universal initially resisted, claiming Field was not attractive enough. Field enjoyed making the film, but remembers thatvirtually the entire project was improvised.
Reportedly, Needham had great difficulty getting any studios or producers to take his project seriously, as in the film industry, he was better known as a stuntman. He managed to obtain studio attention after his friend Reynolds agreed to portray the Bandit in the film.
The movie was primarily filmed in Georgia in the cities of McDonough, Jonesboro and Lithonia. The scenes set in Texarkana were filmed in Jonesboro and the surrounding area, and many of the chase scenes were filmed in the surrounding areas on Highway 54 between Fayetteville and Jonesboro for a majority of the driving scenes, Mundy's Mill Road, Main Street in Jonesboro, Georgia State Route 400, I-85 (Pleasant Hill exit), and in McDonough. However, the scene where they drive through
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the Shell gas station was filmed in Ojai, California on the corner of Ojai Avenue and El Paseo Road. Much of the surrounding scene comes from that immediate vicinity. The scene featuring the racetrack was filmed at Lakewood Speedway at the old Lakewood Fairgrounds on the south side of Atlanta. The roller coaster seen in the movie was the Greyhound. It had not been used for some time and was repainted for the film. It was destroyed in Smokey and the Bandit II and a flashback scene in Part 3.[5]
The film's theme song, "East Bound and Down", was written virtually overnight by Jerry Reed. He gave Needham a preview of the song, and when initially he got no reaction from the director, offered to rewrite the song. Needham,however, liked the song so much he assured Jerry not to change a word. It became one of Reed's biggest hits and his signature song.[6]
The area around Helen, Georgia was also used for some locations. The scene where Buford T. Justice's car has the door knocked off by a passing semi truck was shot on Georgia State Route 75, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Helen. The tow truck driver was a local garage owner, Berlin Wike.
The film features the custom clothing and costuming of Niver Western Wear of Fort Worth, Texas.[7] Niver provided much of the western attire worn in the film, as well as the custom-made sheriff's uniforms (waist size 64 inches) that Jackie Gleason wore throughout the film.
Reynolds and Sally Field began dating during the
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filming of Smokey and the Bandit.
While made to take advantage of the ongoing 1970s CB radio fad, the film added to the craze.[8]
Though the film Moonrunners (1975) is the precursor to the television series The Dukes of Hazzard (1979–1985), from the same creator and with many identical settings and concepts, the popularity of Smokey and the Bandit and similar films helped get the Dukes series on the air. Three actors from the main cast of The Dukes of Hazzard appear in small uncredited roles in Smokey and the Bandit: Ben Jones, John Schneider and Sonny Shroyer (who played a police officer in both). In return, Reynolds portrayed the Dukes character Boss Hogg (originally portrayed by Sorrell Booke) in the film adaptation The Dukes of Hazzard (2005). Reynolds isscoop being in liters rather than cubic inches, as had been the case in 1976. The hood scoop on these cars says "6.6 LITRE", which in 1977 would have denoted an Oldsmobile 403-equipped car or a non W-72, 180 hp version of the 400 Pontiac engine. All four of the cars were badly damaged during production,[10] one of which was all but destroyed during the jump over the dismantled bridge. The Trans Am used for the dismantled bridge jump was equipped with a booster rocket, the same type that was used by Evel Knievel during his failed Snake River Canyon jump. Needham served as the driver for the stunt (standing in for Reynolds) while Lada St. Edmund was in the same car (standing in for Sally Field during
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the jump). By the movie's ending, the final surviving Trans Am and LeMans were both barely running and the other cars had become parts donors to keep them running. The Burdettes' car is a 1974 Cadillac Eldorado convertible painted in a "Candy Red" color scheme, and is seen briefly at the beginning of the movie and as Bandit, Snowman, Fred, and Frog make their escape in the final scene.
The film also made use of three Kenworth W900A short-frame semi trucks, which Jerry Reed can be seen driving, each equipped with 38-inch sleepers. Two units were 1974 models as evidenced by standard silver Kenworth emblems on the truck grille, and one unit was a 1973 model as evidenced by the gold-painted Kenworth emblem on the truck's grille signifying Kenworth'sGerald Ford hid it in his luggage after a trip to Colorado in order to take it back to Washington. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had a steady supply airlifted to Washington by the Air Force. Carl Yastrzemski of the Boston Red Sox would bring several cases back with him on the team plane, after playing opposing teams on the west coast, by stashing it in the team's equipment trunks. The article also mentions Frederick Amon, who smuggled it from Colorado to North Carolina and sold it for four times the retail price.[12] The lack of additives and preservatives meant that Coors had the potential for spoiling in a week if it were not kept cold throughout its transportation and in storage at its destination. This explains the 28-hour
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deadline.[13]
The theme music, "East Bound and Down", was sung and co-written by Reed (credited under his birth name, Jerry Hubbard) and Dick Feller. It became Reed's signature song and is found on multiple albums, including Country Legends and his live album Jerry Reed: Live Still. In 1991 it was arranged for orchestra by Crafton Beck and recorded by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra for their album Down on the Farm. Several other groups, such as US rock band Tonic, have also covered it. Reed also penned and performed the song for the opening credits, entitled "The Legend", which tells of some of The Bandit's escapades prior to the events of the film, and the ballad "The Bandit", which features in several versions in the movie andon the soundtrack. Reed's hit notwithstanding, Bill Justis is the first name on the credits for the soundtrack as he composed and arranged original music throughout the film. Musicians such as Beegie Adair and George Tidwell played on the soundtrack as part of long careers in music. Legendary five-string banjo player Bobby Thompson is also heard prominently towards the end of "East Bound and Down." The soundtrack album was released in 1977 on vinyl, cassette and 8-track through MCA Records.[14]
Smokey and the Bandit was a sleeper hit.[15] The film premiered at Radio City Music Hall in New York City where it performed badly.[16] It then opened in just the South of the United States over the Memorial Day weekend and grossed $2,689,851 in 386 theatres. By the end
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countless rip-offs which followed."[20]Gene Siskel, in his review in the Chicago Tribune, gave the film two stars and complained that the film failed to tell the audience when the clock started on the beer run, thus removing suspense throughout the film concerning how long remained to them. He also claimed that Bandit is never made aware of Frog's leaving Junior at the altar, which is why the Bandit continually asks why a Texas sheriff is chasing him. However, this is inaccurate: within seconds of Bandit picking her up, Frog tells him "there is a wedding in search of a bride", and goes on to explain her ill-advised romance with Junior, as Bandit holds up the CB mic for Snowman to hear.
Alfred Hitchcock stated that the film was oneof his favorites.[22] Upon meeting Burt Reynolds, Billy Bob Thornton told him that the picture was not considered a "film" in the south, so much as a documentary.[23]
Smokey and the Bandit was released in the United Kingdom on August 28, 1977 and was a sizeable success there, garnering positive reviews.[24]
After the debut of the film the Trans Am became wildly popular with sales almost doubling in two years of the film's release, to the delight of General Motors; in fact, it outsold its Chevrolet Camaro counterpart for the first time ever.[25] Reynolds was given the 1977 vehicle used during promotion of the film as a gift, though the car itself never actually appeared in the film. Because of the popularity of the movie and the sales success of
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road trip from Texarkana to Jonesboro, Georgia, recreating the route taken by the characters in the film.
The Bandit Run quickly caught on and has become a fixture, most recently[when?] celebrating the 40th anniversary of the movie with a special screening of the film attended by Burt Reynolds and a recreation of the jump undertaken by Bandit and Frog across a river.[30]
In 2014, petroleum company Mobil 1 produced television commercials, featuring NASCAR star Tony Stewart, closely based on the film. Called Smoke is the Bandit playing on Stewart's nickname, the commercials featured him as the Bandit opposite Darrell Waltrip who played Snowman and Jeff Hammond as Buford T. Justice. The story replaced the Coors beer with Mobil 1 products. The adverts poked fun at the film and even featureda Pontiac Trans Am and a cover version of the song East Bound and Down. The commercials were produced after Stewart mentioned that the movie was one of his favorites.[31]
When Smokey and the Bandit first aired on American network television in the early 1980s, censors were faced with the challenge of toning down the raw language of the original film. For this purpose, they overdubbed dialogue deemed offensive, which was (and remains, to an extent) common practice. The most noted change made for network broadcast was the replacing of Buford's often-spoken phrase "sumbitch" (a contraction of "son of a bitch"; usually in reference to the Bandit) with the phrase "scum bum". This phrase achieved a level of popularity with children, and the 2007 Hot Wheels release of the
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1970s Firebird Trans Am has "scum bum" emblazoned on its tail. The TV prints of the first two Bandit films are still shown regularly on television, although a few TV stations aired the unedited version in recent years as some of the phraseology (i.e. "(son of a) bitch", "ass", etc.) became more acceptable on TV.[citation needed]
The original actors mostly redubbed their own lines for the television version, except for Gleason. Actor Henry Corden, who voiced Fred Flintstone after original performer Alan Reed died, was used to replace a considerable amount of Sheriff Justice's dialogue.
In the UK, the heavily dubbed version was shown for a number of years, particularly by the BBC. However, in more recent years, the original version has been shown (on ITV, a commercial channel), usuallywith the stronger language edited out, often quite awkwardly and noticeably.[citation needed]
The theatrical release itself had a few lines deleted, including a creative edit in which Sheriff Justice tells a state trooper to "fuck off." His expletive is obscured when a passing big rig sounds its horn. At the time, using the 'F' word would immediately require an R rating and this clever self-censorship allowed the film to avoid this rating and reach a much larger audience. However, the scene and the obscured expletive was played for comedy value and written as such, with the passing truck being the gag of the scene more than a way to avoid the censors.
In 2006, a DVD re-release was issued of Smokey and the Bandit featuring a digitally-remastered audio track with
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5.1 Dolby-compatible surround sound. It should be noted however that many of the film's original sounds were replaced. For instance, the diesel engine start and run up sequence in the opening sequence of the film was completely dubbed over with a totally new sound. A few other examples of "sound effect replacement" occur when Bandit takes off after managing to get a reluctant Cledus involved in the bet, and after he comes to a screeching halt on a roadway moments before picking up Carrie. Some of the original sound effects (such as Cledus' dog Fred's barking) and music (such as the final chase to the Southern Classic) were removed and not replaced. (Note: earlier DVD releases and the 40th Anniversary Blu-ray of the film have the original soundtrackmember for limiting the transmission torque in overloaded rotation to prevent damage to the tooth flanks are independently arranged as separate members in the power transmission mechanism for coupling the motor to the operation ring of the lens.
The following problems are posed in the above reduction gear apparatus.
In the clutch mechanism, one shaft and a gear train are added between the driving side and the driven side, and an extra space for these members is required. In addition, a clearance must be assured between the clutch gear and the shaft to allow rotation or sliding of the clutch gear. This increases the backlash together with the addition of the gear train.
On the other hand, in the torque limiter mechanism, since the sleeve is attached to the distal end
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have enough money to buy out Hardman's stake in the firm by herself, hence why they had to resort to blackmail in the first place.
When he came back in season 2, IIRC, Hardman said he had told his wife everything, so the blackmail threat was now void. He didn't need to be re-hired because he still owned half the firm and (presumably) had enough friends left on the board to overrule Pearson in the case of a vote on the matter. (I don't recall if that bit was addressed specifically in the show, but Hardman certainly had enough friends on the board to threaten Pearson's control in other issues that were raised later on.)
A:
Source: Suits Wikia
Daniel Hardman, was the co-founder of Pearson-Hardman. He is an attorneyand was the former managing partner before Jessica Pearson and Harvey Specter threatened to expose his affair to Alicia Hardman, his wife, who had cancer.
In the year 2007, Jessica had noticed someone had been stealing from the firm after looking at the accounting books. Hesitant to go to Daniel without any concrete proof, Jessica sends Harvey to investigate, promising him partnership if he succeeds. Harvey soon finds the culprit to be Louis, only to find out that the real culprit had made Louis out to be the fall guy. With Louis's help, Harvey proves that Daniel Hardman had been the one stealing from the firm. When confronted about this by Jessica, Daniel reveals that his wife has cancer and he has been stealing this money to help
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