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Alsatian Cheese Tart
French Chef Michel Bernard Platz, co-owner with Jose Sanabria of Out of Flower cooking school and specialty catering in Dallas, recommends traditional Alsatian fare. In Alsae, the Yuletide dinner starts with an onion and leek tart, followed by a hearty one-dish creation called Baeckaoffa served with walnut bread. For dessert, try an Alsatian Cheese Tart.
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Viktor Troshenkov of the Russian Academy of Sciences told the Tass news agency that the fireball could be part of a prolific meteor shower known as the Leonids, which peaks at this time of year. He said he felt Thursday's fireball likely wasn't the sole meteorite but others maybe were not seen due to thick clouds elsewhere.
Troshenkov told Tass that meteor showers can be even stronger. The Leonids reach their maximum once every 33 years -- and the last time that happened was in 1998, he said. Amateur astronomers in the Arctic then saw about 1,000 meteors, 40 meteorites and one fireball in just one night.
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your health, hence the term passive tolerance.
This is the finding of seven studies carried out over 10 years in the United States, Europe and South Africa, led by a team of social psychologists at the University of Oxford and published in the journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences. They were careful to rule out the most obvious explanation for their finding, social psychologists Miles Hewstone and Katharina Schmid explain – namely, that the higher levels of tolerance in more diverse neighbourhoods are a result of more tolerant people choosing to live there. Two of the studies were conducted over several years and tracked the same individuals, showing how attitudes changed. Even prejudiced people showed a greater degree of tolerance over time if they lived inpeople in a modern welfare state". The left faces a nasty conundrum as two of its most sacred shibboleths come into conflict: ethnic diversity and the solidarity necessary for a strong welfare state.
This new research throws these conclusions into question. Putnam's work may, after all, have been misleading. In fact, rather than hunkering down, living in a mixed neighbourhood helps you open up. In some ways this vindicates many people's anecdotal experience of their own enjoyment of diversity in their neighbourhoods, and the sense that the most pronounced fear and prejudice is found in exclusively white areas.
The research also vindicates the case for local initiatives to foster social exchange and build community relationships. From carnivals to coffee mornings, jumble sales to fun days in the park – all | {
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these are opportunities to generate passive tolerance. Sadly, however, many of these initiatives have fallen victim to local authority funding cuts. The impact of austerity has been compounded by a loss of confidence – in which Putnam's research played its part – about fostering strong diverse communities. Multiculturalism has fallen from favour, misunderstood and maligned as the set of ideas that guided community relations for a generation.
No one was more acutely aware of this danger than Putnam himself when he talked to me on the publication of his research in 2007, the timing made the danger all the more acute in the aftermath of 7/7 bombings. Since then the theme of integration has come to dominate – with its coercive and conformist overtones. The result has been ahad to fight Ahenobarbus like 4 times because he kept letting him
go.
With that, Caesar turned into an absolute master by making reasonable
calculated risks and surviving them. By the point he was clearing the last of
the Pompeans in Africa at the end of the Civil War, he didn't even leave his
tent to give commands -- so confident and expertised in warfare that he didn't
even have to see the field of battle.
This is a bit of a ramble. I really admire Julius Caesar and think there's so
much to learn by studying his life and habits.
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unFou
"By the point he was clearing the last of the Pompeans in Africa at the end of
the Civil War, he didn't even leave his tent to give commands"
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Hundreds of soul music enthusiasts from the United Kingdom plan to make their way to Detroit this month for a series of concerts.
Detroit A-Go-Go, a festival organized by DJ Phil Dick, will take place Oct. 19-22 with 26 scheduled acts.
The festival is focused on what Dick calls the northern soul movement.
"We just love Detroit soul and Motown music," Dick said. "It's been popular in England for decades. Every weekend, thousands of people go out and listen to this music in England."
Artists booked for the festival include: The Elgins, Pat Lewis, Melvin Davis, The Velvelettes, The Contours, Kim Weston, Ronnie McNeir, The Capitols, Yvonne Vernee, JJ Barnes, Gino Washington, Spyder Turner, The Adorables, Lorraine Chandler, Eddie Parker, Dusty Wilson, The Precisions, The Professionals, The Tomangoes, The Fabulous Peps andNow that’s a punishment: club vice president sent to train with the reserves!
For almost an entire year, Gabriel Bostina has been playing a double role for Universitatea Cluj. Unfortunately for him, the position acquired in the club’s board didn’t earn him any favors from the technical staff, who recently punished the central midfielder. Twice. First of all, Bostina lost the armband during one of the training camps from Antalya for some unknown disciplinary problems and now the player & vice president has suffered further embarrassment being sent to train with the reservers “for an unlimited period”.
Currently injured, he failed to show up for the weekend training sessions that were going to be supervised by the club’s medical staff, so the former Otelul, Steaua and Dinamo man is now | {
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the pride of the communist state – and she and her team are forbidden by the Stasi from publicising the disappearances, lest they tarnish the town’s flawless image.
Meanwhile, in the eerily nameless streets and tower blocks, a child snatcher lurks, and the clock is ticking to rescue the twins alive . . .
When Oberleutnant Karin Müller is called to investigate a teenage girl’s body at the foot of the Wall, she imagines she’s seen it all before. But when she arrives she realises this is a death like no other: it seems the girl was trying to escape – but from the West.
Müller is a member of the People’s Police, but in East Germany her power only stretches so far. The Stasi want her to discover the identitydocument remains unchanged.
The budget now includes money to hire a supervisor of urban forestry in the public works department to plan and oversee the city's response to the emerald ash borer — an insect with a history of devastating populations of ash trees.
The budget will also see the one-time $500,000 funding cut to the Winnipeg Arts Council's public art program, which was proposed in the initial budget, spread out over two years — a $250,000 cut in 2019 and the same in 2020.
Winnipeg plans to spend $86 million fixing its roads in 2019, down $30 million from the $116 million budgeted last year. The cut means spending on repairs for residential streets and lanes will be frozen this year.
Bowman argues the province still owes Winnipeg $40 million in | {
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road renewal funding, and says that shortfall is behind the reduction in this year's road spending.
2.33% hikes may not be sustainable: Bowman
The province's Progressive Conservative government denies any obligation to pay the $40 million and says there was a political commitment — by the previous NDP government — to fund a five-year roads plan.
"None of these political commitments bound a successor government," provincial Municipal Relations Minister Jeff Wharton said in an open letter to Bowman on Monday.
City council finance chair Scott Gillingham (St. James) argues the Tory government, by funding the third and fourth years of the five-year program, committed itself to the road renewal funding plan for its fifth year.
During the 2018 mayoral campaign, Bowman pledged to keep property tax increases to 2.33 per cent per yearShimon Peres, a former Israeli president and a towering figure who concluded the Oslo Accords during his term as Foreign minister, died Tuesday at age 93.
For many Israelis, Peres is regarded as the founding generation who assisted in the establishment of the Jewish State. The groundbreaking, first-time-ever peace agreement between Israel and Palestine was also signed under his pen.
Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas told the i24News that “Peres’ death is a great loss to humanity and the region.”
But he remains as a controversial figure among Palestinians. He was also unloved by right-wing Israelis for his trying to promote peace between two sides, which prevented him to break into the prime minister's post.
“For the Palestinians, he will be seen as the man who has not implemented the Oslo Accords,” Leila | {
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a Kevin Stallings tirade following a vandy defensive breakdown the Titans would not score the last 2:33 of the half and the Commodores would head to the locker room up 47-20.
Nolan Cressler was second on the team with 14 points, shooting 50 percent from the field with two three’s.
With 5:29 to go in the game Cressler put an exclamation point on the Vanderbilt victory with a huge dunk that put Vandy up 93-42.
Luke Kornet led the ‘Dores with 11 rebounds and five blocked shots in only 16 minutes of play.
The ‘Dores got even hotter in the second half, shooting 59.4% from the field, while hitting five of 11 three pointers.
Next up for Vanderbilt is a visit to 25th ranked Baylor on Sunday December 6.
For Vandymania.com and Scout this"Prices have started to stabilize," added Nuaimi, whose country is the world's top oil exporter.
Riyadh (AFP) Nov 26, 2005Oil giant Saudi Arabia said Saturday that global
oil inventories were at "very comfortable" levels with supply exceeding demand, but was non-committal on what OPEC would do at its next meeting in December.
Oil Minister Ali al-Nuaimi also called on leading oil consuming states to stop blaming the OPEC cartel for their "suffering" from high crude prices, which he said were due to taxes those nations were imposing.
"Global inventories today are in a very comfortable position. As a matter of fact, supply today is higher than demand," Nuaimi told reporters after a meeting of Gulf Arab oil ministers in the Saudi capital.
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Arsenal have worn in the FA Cup final, read She Wore A Yellow Ribbon.
Match details
1927 – The “Shiny Shirt” Final
23rd April 1927
Cardiff City 1 Arsenal 0
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 91,206
Dan Lewis, Tom Parker, Andy Kennedy, Alf Baker, Jack Butler, Bob John, Joe Hulme, Charlie Buchan (captain), Jimmy Brain, Billy Blyth, Sid Hoar.
Arsenal went into their first FA Cup final as slight underdogs against the Bluebirds who had reached the final only two years earlier. Despite having Charlie Buchan to bolster the ranks The Gunners could not break down Cardiff, and Hughie Ferguson scored the winner. His effort slipped under Arsenal goalkeeper Dan Lewis’ body and the cup left England for the only time in its long history.
This was the first FA Cup final to be broadcast live on BBC radio,having future Arsenal manager and experienced journalist George Allison at the microphone
1930 – The “Graf Zeppelin” Final
26th April 1930
Arsenal 2 Huddersfield Town 0
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 92,488
Charlie Preedy, Tom Parker (captain), Eddie Hapgood, Alf Baker, Bill Seddon, Bob John, Joe Hulme, David Jack, Jack Lambert, Alex James, Cliff Bastin.
Goalscorers: James (16), Lambert (88)
For their second final Arsenal were pitted against Herbert Chapman’s former team. Arsenal’s first goal had been planned on the team bus on the way to the game, Alex James taking a quick free-kick to Cliff Bastin who returned the ball to the unmarked linchpin to slot home. In the dying minutes a long through-ball found Jack Lambert who shrugged off the Huddersfield defenders to secure the game and Arsenal’s first major silverware.
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goal line. However at the time the referee allowed play to continue and the goal stood.
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1936 – The “Viewed From The Skies” Final
25th April 1936
Arsenal 1 Sheffield United 0
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 93,384
Alex Wilson, George Male, Eddie Hapgood, Jack Crayston, Herbie Roberts, Wilf Copping, Joe Hulme, Ray Bowden, Ted Drake, Alex James (captain), Cliff Bastin.
Goalscorer: Drake (74).
Arsenal’s team consisted of 10 internationals, with the only non-capped player being the goalkeeper, Alex Wilson. Consequently they were hot favourites, however Sheffield United rose to the occasion and on the day were marginally the better team. Nevertheless the Gunners quality eventually shone through and they scored the winner through the left foot of Ted Drake, who had recently returned to the team after a cartilage operation.
A dispute between Wembley and the newsreel companiesresulted in the latter not being allowed inside the stadium to film the game. They got around this by filming from autogyros that were flown over the stadium.
1950 – The “Old Gold” Final
29th April 1950
Arsenal 2 Liverpool 0
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 100,000
George Swindin, Laurie Scott, Walley Barnes, Alex Forbes, Leslie Compton, Joe Mercer (captain), Freddie Cox, Jimmy Logie, Peter Goring, Reg Lewis, Denis Compton.
Goalscorer: Lewis (18 and 63).
Resplendent in their old gold kit, specially made for the final, Arsenal dominated this final completely. Conditions were slippery following incessant rain beforehand, and Arsenal adapted the best. Reg Lewis’ first goal was a simple tap-in following a combination of passes masterminded by Logie. Lewis’ second goal was almost identical to his first and capped a great team effort.
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Cup final shown live on television. It was watched by an invited audience of 1,000 on a 20ft x 15ft screen at the Odeon Cinema in Penge.
1952 – The “About Time They Had Substitutes” Final
3rd May 1952
Newcastle United 1 Arsenal 0
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 100,000
George Swindin, Walley Barnes, Lionel Smith, Alex Forbes, Ray Daniel, Joe Mercer (captain), Freddie Cox, Jimmy Logie, Cliff Holton, Doug Lishman, Don Roper.
Walley Barnes left the pitch after half an hour with a knee injury meaning the Gunners played on with ten men for the rest of the match. The story of the match was the Herculean effort from Arsenal’s fit players who did well to guard the goal from Newcastle’s most feared forward Jackie Milburn. But cup-holders Newcastle won the closely contested game with alate headed winner from Chilean born striker Robledo.
Wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in the royal box to present the FA Cup trophy.
1971 – The “Long Haired Lover Beats Liverpool” Final
8th May 1971
Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 100,000
Bob Wilson, Pat Rice, Bob McNab, Peter Storey (Eddie Kelly), Frank McLintock (captain), Peter Simpson, George Armstrong, George Graham, John Radford, Ray Kennedy, Charlie George.
Goalscorers: Kelly (101), George (111).
Fresh from the League title win at White Hart Lane, Arsenal dominated the play in a goalless normal time. However, just into extra-time Steve Heighway scored only for Eddie Kelly, on for Peter Storey, to hit the ball goal-bound for the equaliser. In the final session of extra-time Charlie George passed the ball to Radford and got it back for George to rifle | {
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in a 20 yard scorcher. The Double was won.
Eddie Kelly became the first substitute to score in an FA Cup final.
1972 – The “Centenary Year” Final
6th May 1972
Leeds United 1 Arsenal 0
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 100,000
Geoff Barnett, Pat Rice, Bob McNab, Peter Storey, Frank McLintock (captain), Peter Simpson, George Armstrong, Alan Ball, Charlie George, John Radford (Ray Kennedy), George Graham.
Favourites Leeds outplayed Arsenal in the Centenary Cup final. Geoff Barnett continued to stand in for the injured Bob Wilson, but could do nothing to stop Leeds scoring, when a header from ‘Man of the Match’ Allan Clarke went in from a Mick Jones cross. Arsenal went looking for the equaliser but to no avail as their best chance was in the 70th minute when Charlie George hit the woodwork
Despite itbeing billed as the Centenary final it was actually the 91st final due to the intervention of the First and Second World Wars.
1978 – The “Injury List” Final
6th May 1978
Ipswich Town 1 Arsenal 0
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 100,000
Pat Jennings, Pat Rice (captain), Sammy Nelson, David Price, David O’Leary, Willie Young, Liam Brady (Graham Rix), Alan Sunderland, Malcolm Macdonald, Frank Stapleton, Alan Hudson.
The final was a disappointment for the Gunners as an injury-hit Arsenal, despite being overwhelming favourites, did not play to their undoubted talents and were beaten by Bobby Robson’s Ipswich Town, in their only appearance in an FA Cup final. The winner was scored by Roger Osborne after Ipswich had dominated the game.
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Cup winner’s medal, having broken his arm at the end of that final following some high-jinks from Tony Adams.
20th May 1993
Arsenal 2 Sheffield Wednesday 1
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 62,267
David Seaman, Lee Dixon, Andy Linighan, Tony Adams (captain), Nigel Winterburn, Paul Merson, Paul Davis, John Jensen, Kevin Campbell, Alan Smith, Ian Wright (David O’Leary).
Goalscorers: Wright (34), Linighan (119).
Arsenal, in the last ever FA Cup final replay, became the first team to win the domestic cup double with a very late headed winner from Andy Linighan at rain swept Wembley. The Gunners had taken the lead in front of a low crowd of 62,267 after Ian Wright ran onto a Alan Smith flick and shot past Chris Woods, only for Wednesday to equalise with a deflected Chris Waddle shot past David Seaman.
Davidthe first Arsenal captain to lead his side to two FA Cup final wins.
2001 – The “Why Did He Make Those Substitutions” Final
12th May 2001
Liverpool 2 Arsenal 1
Millennium Stadium
Attendance: 72,500
David Seaman, Lee Dixon (Dennis Bergkamp), Martin Keown, Tony Adams (captain), Ashley Cole, Robert Pires, Gilles Grimandi, Patrick Vieira, Freddie Ljungberg (Nwankwo Kanu), Sylvain Wiltord (Ray Parlour), Thierry Henry.
Goalscorer: Ljungberg (72).
A relatively quiet first half ended goalless, but after quarter of an hour Arsenal were inexplicably denied a penalty when a Thierry Henry goal bound shot was handled on the line by Stephane Henchoz. The Gunners dominated exchanges in the second-half and went ahead from Freddie Ljungberg, only for Michael Owen to score a late brace to deny Arsenal in the Cardiff sunshine.
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Double which was won four days later at Old Trafford.
Freddie Ljungberg became the first player in 40 years to score in successive FA Cup finals.
2003 – The “Indoors” Final
17th May 2003
Arsenal 1 Southampton 0
Millennium Stadium
Attendance: 73,726
David Seaman (captain), Lauren, Martin Keown, Oleg Luzhny, Ashley Cole, Robert Pires, Ray Parlour, Gilberto Silva, Freddie Ljungberg, Dennis Bergkamp (Sylvain Wiltord), Thierry Henry.
Goalscorer: Pires (38).
Arsenal retained the FA Cup for the first time in the club’s history, in this all-Premiership clash, with a Robert Pires shot from short range. The Gunners were hot pre-match favourites and the gulf in class on the pitch was reflected in their almost total dominance, especially shown in the form of Dennis Bergkamp and man of the match Thierry Henry.
This was the first FA Cup Final tooverwhelming superiority was even slightly reflected. An absolute stunner by Alexis Sanchez just after the break put the result beyond doubt. The rest of the game had the same lopsided feel as captain Per Mertesacker extended the lead with a header and Olivier Giroud scored right on the stroke of the final whistle.
2017 – The “Unexpected Win” Final
27th May 2017
Arsenal 2 Chelsea 1
Wembley Stadium
Attendance: 89,472
David Ospina, Rob Holding, Per Mertesacker (captain), Aaron Ramsey, Nacho Monreal, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Francis Coquelin), Hector Bellerin, Granit Xhaka, Danny Welbeck (Olivier Giroud), Mesut Ozil, Alexis Sanchez (Mohamed Elneny).
Goalscorers: Sanchez (4), Ramsey (79)
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dorm room" "like she knew this would happen, too eager, too stunned to speak." "I was so excited, I couldn't stop shaking and I dropped the key when I tried to unlock the door." "She sat on the bed and I played her a song I had written myself, then segued into one by Counting Crows." "I played it quietly and sang the lyrics slowly and softly." "She was so moved that she actually started to cry." "* I'm not ready for this sort of thing... *" "Maybe it was the Ecstasy I'm pretty sure she was on." "Maybe it was that she thought she really loved me." "But when he kissed her on the lips, he instantly went hard." "She was crying, her face was slick, butIraqi special forces on Saturday were clearing buildings in neighborhoods they entered in eastern Mosul a day earlier, after pushing out Islamic State militants in their drive to take back the city.
Fighting continued in the morning, with both sides firing mortars and automatic weapons on each other's positions, while the Iraqi troops also responded with artillery. Clashes were most intense in the al-Bakr neighborhood. Sniper duels played out from rooftops in the mostly residential areas, where the majority of buildings are two stories high.
The special forces launched a two-pronged assault deeper into Mosul's urban center on Friday, unleashing the most intense street battles against IS militants since the offensive to retake the city began nearly three weeks ago. At least seven special forces troops have been killed in | {
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the fighting.
More than 3,000 Iraqi troops took part in the assault under heavy U.S.-led coalition air support, but the pace of the fight also slowed as Iraqi forces moved from fighting in more rural areas with few civilians to the tight, narrow streets of Mosul proper. At least seven suicide attackers in explosives-laden vehicles attacked troops on Friday, five of whom were killed before nearing their targets.
The operation to retake Mosul is expected to take weeks if not months. Moving from neighborhood to neighborhood in house-to-house battles through dense warrens of booby-trapped buildings is time consuming and Iraq's military has repeatedly opted for slower operations in an effort to minimize casualties.
Some 1 million civilians still remain in the city, complicating the advance. IS militants have driven thousands ofresidents deeper into the city's built-up areas to be used as human shields, while hundreds of others have fled toward government-controlled territory and thousands have headed west into Syria.
Mosul is the last major IS stronghold in Iraq, and expelling the militant group from the city would be a major blow to the survival of its self-styled "caliphate" that stretches into Syria.
Iraqi forces have made uneven progress in closing in on the city since the operation began on Oct. 17. Advances have been slower from the south, with government troops still some 20 miles (35 kilometers) away. Kurdish fighters and Iraqi army units are deployed to the north, while government-sanctioned Shiite militias are sweeping in from the west to try to cut off any IS escape route. | {
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complexity.
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wazoox
I've visited several caves this summer (Lascaux, Combarelles, Font-de-Gaume,
Rouffignac, and a couple others) and there is a constant: the artists weren't
amateurs, they were extremely skilled. First, in many places it was impossible
at the time to see the entirety of the drawing at a glance because of the very
low height, or the wall curvature, but the proportions are right anyway (most
visited caves have been dug out; back then you had to crawl for hundreds of
meters in pitch darkness to reach the drawings). Similarly, the animals are
drawn with a very high anatomical precision. Even animals that didn't exist
locally, like mammoths (which mean that the artist had seen mammoths earlier,
very far away).
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Interesting article.
" _The first formal writing system that we know of is the 5000-year-old
cuneiform script of the ancient city ofThere are three international soccer competitions being played this summer on Canadian soil, and of the three the Pan Am games are undoubtedly the least important for both the men's and women's teams. The men will have their eye on the Gold Cup, while the women will be recovering from the World Cup.
As such, the rosters announced for both the men's and women's Pan Am teams today were not first choice. The best men's players will be up with the Gold Cup team, the best women's players don't want to do double duty.
However, there are a lot of nice surprises on both team sheets, and both give off the impression that Canada could be a difficult team to beat at Toronto 2015.
The Women's Roster
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2015 Pan Am games is very similar to that which they used at the U-20 World Cup in Toronto last summer. This is good news as Canada impressed in that competition before losing a narrow 2-0 game to the eventual champions from Germany.
There are a couple of crossovers from the Canada 2015 team, and they will likely represent the core of this squad. This includes Kadeisha Buchanan, who has likely been the country's busiest player over the last couple of years but never turns down a call to represent les rouges.
Joining her on the Pan Ams squad are recent World Cup standout Ashley Lawrence who scored Canada's lone goal against Netherlands on Monday, Jessie Fleming and Canadian third keeper Stephanie Labbe.
The team, coached by Daniel Worthington, will alsoinclude a number of the standouts from the U-20 tournament, Janine Beckie chief among them. Nichelle Prince, Emma Fletcher and Kinley McNicholl have also been included.
All this should give the Canadian team a strong chance to defend their Pan Am Games title. They kick off the tournament on July 11 and play in a group with Brazil, Costa Rica and Ecuador.
F- Janine Beckie | Littlejohn, COL, USA | USA / Texas Tech University
D- Kadeisha Buchanan | Brampton, ON | USA / West Virginia University
F- Gabrielle Carle | Lévis, QC | CAN / AS Armada Chaudière-Est
F- Nkem Ezurike | Halifax, NS | USA / Boston Breakers
M- Emma Fletcher | Victoria, BC | USA / University of California
M- Jessie Fleming | London, ON | CAN / London Nor'West SC
M- Sarah | {
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Kinzner | Calgary, AB | CAN / Calgary Foothills SC
GK- Stephanie Labbé | Stony Plain, AB | Unattached
M- Ashley Lawrence | Toronto, ON | USA / West Virginia University
F- Marie Levasseur | Stoneham, QC | CAN / CS Haute St- Charles
D- Kinley McNicholl | Oakville, ON | USA / University of Wisconsin
D- Victoria Pickett | Barrie, ON | CAN / Glen Shields Soccer Club
F- Nichelle Prince | Ajax, ON | USA / The Ohio State University
D- Rebecca Quinn | Toronto, ON | USA / Duke University
GK - Kailen Sheridan | Whitby, ON | USA / Clemson University
D- Chelsea Stewart | Highland Ranch, CO, USA | USA / Western New York Flash
M- Danica Wu | Edmonton, AB | GER / Herdorfer
D- Shelina Zadorsky | London, ON | SWE /Vittsjö
The Men's Roster
It has been no secret in Canadian soccer circles that Canada's U-22 Pan Am Games squad is being used as preparation for 2016 Olympic Qualification. That is ultimately the goal, and Toronto 2015 is just a stepping stone on the path to achieving it.
However, with the roster Canada named today there is a chance they could make some noise at the tournament. It is also no secret that this is the deepest the talent pool has been among Canadian players in their early 20s in some time. This "second choice" Pan Am Games roster serves as proof.
Kevin Aleman is the most exciting player on the team as the 21-year-old has seen plenty of success since going on loan to A.D. Belen in Costa Rica from CS | {
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Herediano. Aleman will add some attacking flair to a team that is without two of its preferred strikers: Jordan Hamilton and Cyle Larin.
Up front Canada will instead rely on Mo Babouli, the leading scorer for Toronto FC II. He will be joined by Caleb Clarke who has five goals to lead Vancouver Whitecaps II in scoring. Speedy winger Raheem Edwards, also of Toronto FC II, could be another option.
In the midfield FC Edmonton's Hanson Boakai is the headliner, as the 18-year-old has 1 assist in 23 appearances in the NASL this year. He will be joined by Toronto FC II captain Chris Mannella, Jeremy Gagnon-Lapare of the Montreal Impact and Manny Aparicio of Toronto FC II.
The men's team will be coached by Benito Floro's son Antonio, and willstart their tournament on July 12. Their group includes Peru, Panama and Brazil.
M- Kevin Aleman | Brampton, ON | CRC / CS Herediano
M- Manuel Aparicio | Toronto, ON | CAN / Toronto FC (Toronto FC II)
F- Molham Babouli | Mississauga, ON | CAN / Toronto FC II
M- Louis Béland-Goyette | Montréal, QC | CAN / FC Montréal
D- Kevon Black | Brampton, ON | CAN / Toronto FC II
F- Hanson Boakai | Edmonton, AB | CAN / FC Edmonton
D- Adam Bouchard | Oakville, ON | CAN / FC Toronto II
F- Caleb Clarke | Richmond, BC | CAN / Vancouver Whitecaps FC (VWFC2)
D- Alex Comsia | North Vancouver, BC | USA / Carolina Railhawks U-23
GK- Maxime Crépeau | Candiac, QC | CAN / Impact de Montréal (FC Montréal)
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There were actually four - three decent sized ones, of which only one is still green, and a tiny pup, which has some green in the crown still.
Here they are all potted up in well-draining potting mix, with leaves trimmed:
Intensive care for Aloes
I think the bottom two in the picture might be too far gone, but they've looked that bad before and not died. My plan now is to keep them in this container until about late March/early April, when the night are warm again. I'm actually going to move them indoors at night while they're in the container. Then, I'll plant them in one of the pipes, as part of a bit of a redo on the pipe garden. | {
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The variance sought to allow an "additional 20ft" which would "allow for the proper operation" of the turbine. Id. On September 24, 2008, the BZA held a hearing on the matter, and on October 22, 2008 it granted the variance.
On November 20, 2008,[2] Homeowners filed a Verified Petition for Writ of Certiorari, Judicial Review and Declaratory Judgment containing two counts: Count I alleged that the variance granted by the BZA was "unsupported by substantial evidence; was arbitrary and capricious; and was in all other respects contrary to Indiana law;" and Count II alleged that "a free standing wind turbine is not a permitted use under the zoning ordinance in the R-2 district." Id. at 22-23. On December 10, 2008, the BZA filed a motion to dismiss for failureThe Real Ghostbusters (above) will now get a sibling as a new Ghostbusters animated show has been announced.
The new Ghostbusters film opening next month isn’t just a single movie. It’s potentially the start of a whole new era for the franchise. And we now know the next project in that world, as Sony has announced a brand new animated Ghostbusters TV show to begin airing in 2018.
The show will be called Ghostbusters: Echo Force and, well, here’s the info from the press release:
A brand new animated television series, GHOSTBUSTERS: ECTO FORCE, will further expand the Ghostbusters cinematic universe and focus on a new generation of Ghostbusters in the year 2050 who capture ghosts around the world with help from local teams—and some very cool gear! The younger-skewing Sony | {
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John Bailey has been re-elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a second term, the Academy announced on Tuesday evening.
Bailey, a cinematographer, was first elected president last year. Although Academy presidents are permitted to serve four consecutive one-year terms, the upcoming term will be Bailey’s last. Because of term limits, he will have to leave the board next summer, which will make him ineligible for another term as president.
Bailey’s films include “Ordinary People,” “The Big Chill” and “Groundhog Day.” He is the first member of the Cinematographers Branch to serve as Academy president.
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Four additional Academy officers were re-elected to their positions on the board: Lois Burwell asfirst vice president, Jim Gianopulos as treasurer, David Rubin as secretary and Nancy Utley as vice president. Former Academy president Sid Ganis, who returned to the board this year, and Writers Branch governor Larry Karaszewski were also elected to vice presidential posts.
AMPAS presidents are almost invariably re-elected if they are eligible, and Bailey was expected to prevail in Tuesday night’s vote from the 54-member board. But the election came at stormy time for the Academy and a tricky one for its president, who in March was the subject of an AMPAS investigation over a sexual-harassment allegation.
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his supporters, especially since details of the leak suggested that it had come from inside the Academy.
In addition to that tension, the board has had a high-profile defection in recent months, when producer Bill Mechanic resigned his position in April with a scathing letter that criticized Academy CEO Dawn Hudson, the organization’s response to the #MeToo and #OscarsSoWhite movements and the financial drain of the behind-schedule, over-budget Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
Following that, several notable members of the Board of Governors, including Steven Spielberg and longtime Academy official Kathleen Kennedy, opted not to run for re-election to a board that some members feel has become too big and unwieldy and is hopelessly divided between above-the-line and below-the-line representatives.
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Over the last three years, the Academy has increased its size by more than 2,000 new members, growing by more than 25 percent. At the same time, viewership of the Oscars telecast, from which the Academy draws most of its operating income, have fallen steadily, hitting an all-time low in March, 2018.
In that climate, Bailey will face a final year in office. And if he wants to come back for more, he is free to run again for the board, and the presidency, after a one-year hiatus. | {
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Berlin attack: Tunisian fugitive 'had been under surveillance' Published duration 22 December 2016 Related Topics Berlin Christmas market attack 2016
image copyright BKA / HANDOUT image caption German federal police have released images of Anis Amri
A Europe-wide manhunt is under way for the Tunisian man wanted for the lorry attack on a Christmas market in Berlin in which 12 people were killed.
Anis Amri, 24, had been monitored earlier this year on suspicion of planning a robbery in order to pay for guns but surveillance was lifted for lack of evidence.
Before entering Germany, he had served four years for arson in Italy.
Monday evening's attack also left 49 people injured.
A European arrest warrant was issued after Amri's residence permit was found in the cab of the lorry that left a trailof carnage at the market near west Berlin's most famous shopping street, the Kurfuerstendamm.
The German authorities warn he could be armed and dangerous and are offering a reward of up to €100,000 (£84,000; $104,000) for information leading to his arrest.
It is thought Amri may have been injured in a struggle with the Polish driver of the lorry, found murdered in the cab.
On Thursday morning there were reports of police raids in the western city of Dortmund. Two apartments were searched and four people arrested, local media reported.
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Centre in November 2016," the minister said.
The Sueddeutsche Zeitung newspaper reports that the suspect moved within the circle of an Islamist preacher, Ahmad Abdelazziz A, known as Abu Walaa, who was arrested in November
image copyright German interior ministry image caption A French version of the police notice issued for Anis Amri
A police notice lists six different aliases used by Amri, born on 22 December 1992, who at times tried to pass himself off as an Egyptian or Lebanese.
The suspect was facing deportation as of June but there was a delay in receiving paperwork from Tunisia.
History of crime
A brother of the suspect in Tunisia, Abdelkader Amri, told AFP news agency he could not believe his eyes when he saw his relative's face in the media.
"I'm in shock and can'tbelieve it's him who committed this crime," he said, before adding: "If he's guilty, he deserves every condemnation."
The suspect has a history of crime:
Amri's father and security sources told a Tunisian radio station that after leaving Tunisia about seven years ago, he had served four years in an Italian prison over a fire at a school
He was also sentenced to five years in prison in Tunisia in absentia, reportedly for aggravated theft with violence
An earlier suspect, a Pakistani asylum seeker, was freed from German custody on Tuesday, after officials admitted they had the wrong man.
'Struggle with driver'
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offered no evidence.
Driver Lukasz Urban, a Polish citizen, was found dead on the passenger seat with gunshot and stab wounds.
Investigators believe the lorry was hijacked on Monday afternoon as it stood in an industrial zone in north-western Berlin, Germany's Bild tabloid reports.
Mr Urban had stopped there after the delivery of Italian steel beams he was carrying was postponed until Tuesday.
GPS data from the vehicle reportedly shows it made small movements "as if someone was learning how to drive it" before leaving for the city at 19:40 (18:40 GMT), heading for the Christmas market near the Kurfuerstendamm, Berlin's main shopping street.
Lorry attack dead, missing and injured
Details of the casualties have begun to emerge:
image copyright Opozita.com image caption An archive image has been released believed to show murdered lorry driverLukasz Urban
Polish lorry driver Lukasz Urban, who appears to have fought the attacker before dying of stab and gunshot wounds
Israeli tourist Dalia Elyakim, 60, was confirmed dead after her body was identified on Wednesday, Israel's foreign ministry said. Her husband Rami was seriously injured
Two Germans from the federal state of Brandenburg - a 32-year-old man from Brandenburg an der Havel and a 53-year-old woman from Dahme-Spreewald - were also among the dead, the state's interior ministry said
Italian expatriate Fabrizia di Lorenzo, 31, from Sulmona, near L'Aquila, is feared dead. It is understood her phone and metro pass were found at the scene
A woman from Neuss, near the west German city of Duesseldorf, is believed to be among the dead while her son, aged 40, is among the injured
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copyright AFP image caption The only suspect was released on Tuesday, adding urgency to the manhunt
There appears to be evidence that, despite being stabbed, Mr Urban wrestled his hijacker for the steering wheel.
The post-mortem examination suggests that Mr Urban survived up until the attack and was shot dead when the truck came to a halt. No gun has been recovered.
Police say they are acting on hundreds of tips from the public and are examining DNA traces from the cab of the truck.
The IS group claimed the attack through its self-styled news agency, saying it was "in response to calls to target nationals of the coalition countries".
Prosecutor Peter Frank told reporters that the style of attack and the choice of target suggested Islamic extremism.DC United 2, Atlanta United 1 | 2017 MLS Match Recap
The founding MLS club knocked off their expansion counterparts for the second time in two tries on Wednesday, riding a gloriously-struck Patrick Nyarko side volley to a 2-1 win at RFK Stadium.
The two sides traded goals in the midst of a lively first half, both keyed by their opponents' errors. First Atlanta exploited a slack back pass by Ian Harkes to race out on the break, with Julian Gressel finishing firmly at close range. Six minutes later Luciano Acosta intercepted a poor pass by Alec Kann and then compounded the goalkeeper's embarassment by beating him at the near post with a low worm-burner.
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kind of raunchy performances took place all over the island, even in the capital city of Taipei, but after authorities passed laws against it, it disappeared from urban settlements and moved to the country. The laws aren’t as easy to enforce there and people seem to enjoy going to a funeral knowing they’ll get some adult entertainment. Strippers usually arrive on the back of diesel trucks known as Electric Flower Cars, and perform in front of the dead and his mourners. The scantly-dressed girls do pole dancing, sing, and some even come down from their stage to interact with the audience (sit on their laps, give lap dances, shove their heads into their breasts, etc.).
According to Nury Vittachi, funeral stripping was born around 25 years ago, when theTaiwanese mafia who ran the country’s nightclub scene, took over an important part of the country’s mortuary business. At one point, the mafia bosses decided to somehow combine the two businesses and increase their incomes. From then on, anyone who booked a funeral through one of their parlors also got a stripper at discount price. At first, people were a bit confused, but after they were told this would attract more mourners to the funeral, thus honoring the dead even more, they were sold.
While Moskowitz didn’t see complete nudity while filming his documentary, he claims all the people he spoke with had seen Electric Flower Car girls perform in the nude. He suspects the girls didn’t want to do it in front of the camera because they were | {
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and New TNA World Heavyweight Champion, Kurt Angle
After the match, Hogan stares at the ring from the ramp looking pissed. Angle grabs his World Title belt and stares back at Hogan. Hardcore Justice goes off the air with Sting down on the mat and Hogan staring back down at the new World Heavyweight Champion.He added: ''I think he was a Jekyll and Hyde-type character who may have been driven to commit murder because his wife could not have children. He was also known to be working on a cure for his wife's problem.'' | {
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Woyo! The real story behind Bob Marley’s “Buffalo Soldier” is coming to the silver screen, in a new documentary on the life and music of the song’s original writer, Noel G. Williams aka “King Sporty.” So says a new article in the Jamaica Observer.
From working with Robert Nesta in the smoke-filled Hialeah TK studios, to selling Henry Stone the publishing rights for the platinum selling Timmy Thomas record “Why Can’t We Live Together,” Sporty led an impactful and influential life in music.
He owned his own labels, where he wrote his own music, and registered all his own copyrights in his own name and publishing company, which also represented other songwriters, and bought and sold his and their works. These are key aspects of the music business that manyfail to learn, let alone exploit. Sporty moved from Jamaica to Miami in the 1960s, loved soul, funk, and dance music, married Betty Wright, and set in motion several chains of events still unfurling through the public consciousness today.
Now, Canadian film director Noel Osborne, who has lived, worked, and recorded in Miami and is based in L.A., is bringing Sporty’s life back to light in a film called Irie The Film: Journey of a King.
According to a piece by Howard Campbell in the Jamaica Observer, the film features interviews with Betty Wright, Ken Boothe, Earl Morgan of The Heptones, Bunny Wailer, Sizzla, Albert Minott of the Jolly Boys, Inner Circle, and more.
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did every day as a commuter. Her neck slowly began to itch before she was halfway home. Shrugging it off as mosquito, she stayed calm – as the itching slowly spread across her shoulders and to her arms she began to worry. So close to home, Amy continued until she parked in her driveway. Only then did she look down and notice she was covered in pox. Realizing that this was more than just a bad reaction to a mosquito, she grabbed the box and ran to the basement – whatever she contracted had to have been from inside the box; if she could figure out what it was, she probably had the right antibiotics to combat it.
Covering the case with her jacket- she barely made it intoThis image shows the robot ants (Alices) pursuing a light trail around the constructed maze. Credit: PLOS Comput Biol 9(3): e1002903. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002903.
Scientists have successfully replicated the behaviour of a colony of ants on the move with the use of miniature robots, as reported in the journal PLOS Computational Biology.
The researchers, based at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, USA) and at the Research Centre on Animal Cognition (Toulouse, France), aimed to discover how individual ants, when part of a moving colony, orient themselves in the labyrinthine pathways that stretch from their nest to various food sources.
The study focused mainly on how Argentine ants behave and coordinate themselves in both symmetrical and asymmetrical pathways. In nature, ants do this by leaving chemical pheromone trails. This was reproduced by | {
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a swarm of sugar cube size robots, called "Alices", leaving light trails that they can detect with two light sensors mimicking the role of the ants' antennae.
In the beginning of the experiment, where branches of the maze had no light trail, the robots adopted an "exploratory behaviour" modelled on the regular insect movement pattern of moving randomly but in the same general direction. This led the robots to choose the path that deviated least from their trajectory at each bifurcation of the network. If the robots detected a light trail, they would turn to follow that path.
One outcome of the robotic model was the discovery that the robots did not need to be programmed to identify and compute the geometry of the network bifurcations. They managed to navigateHate speech in the United States
Hate speech in the United States is not regulated, in contrast to that of most other liberal democracies, due to the robust right to free speech found in the American Constitution. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that hate speech is legally protected free speech under the First Amendment. The most recent Supreme Court case on the issue was in 2017, when the justices unanimously reaffirmed that there is effectively no "hate speech" exception to the free speech rights protected by the First Amendment.
In academic circles, there has been debate over freedom of speech, hate speech and hate speech legislation.
Constitutional framework
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In this Dec. 11, 2017, photo, a tank at a Kiel Bros. facility is torn down in Indianapolis. The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized. Less known is that the state of Indiana and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois, are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells. (AP Photo/Brian Slodysko)
In this Dec. 11, 2017, photo, a tank at a Kiel Bros. facility is torn down in Indianapolis. The collapse of Kiel Bros. Oil Co. in 2004 was widely publicized. Less known is that the state of Indiana and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois, arestill on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells. (AP Photo/Brian Slodysko)
GARDEN CITY, Ind. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence turns nostalgic when he talks about growing up in small-town Columbus, Indiana, where his father helped build a Midwestern empire of more than 200 gas stations that provided an upbringing on the “front row of the American dream.”
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the three states, including underground tanks that leaked toxic chemicals into soil, streams and wells.
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Indiana alone has spent at least $21 million on the cleanup thus far, or an average of about $500,000 per site, according to an analysis of records by The Associated Press. And the work is nowhere near complete.
The federal government, meanwhile, plans to clean up a plume of cancer-causing solvent discovered beneath a former Kiel Bros. station that threatens drinking water near the Pence family’s hometown.
To assess the pollution costs, the AP reviewed thousands of pages of court documents, tax statements, business filings and federal financial disclosures, as well as federal and state environmental records for Indiana, Kentucky and Illinois. The total financial impact isn’t clear because Indiana officials have yet to release costreliable spending data for the company. That was out of more than 230 companies seeking cleanup money that year, including major gas station chains with a substantially larger presence in the state.
Founded as an oil distributor by businessman Carl Kiel in 1960, the company expanded into the gas station business. Pence’s father, Edward, joined in the early years and, by the mid-1970s, rose to corporate vice president.
Mike Pence says he worked for the business — which mostly operated under the name Tobacco Road — starting at age 14. But it was his brother who took over after Edward Pence’s 1988 death and eventually became president.
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settlement agreement with all parties.”
Many of the gas stations were sold off and are still operating. But some sites were abandoned, including a graffiti-covered storage tank facility that once towered over an Indianapolis neighborhood. Nearby residents cheered last December as a crew tore down the tank, which was sold by the company for $10 in 2005 and has been an eyesore ever since. The cleanup will cost an estimated $260,000 , according to the city.
Elsewhere in the city, business continues as usual at a gas station that has been in continuous state of cleanup since 1990. Pictures taken in 1992 show standing pools of black sludge where two underground storage tanks were removed. At the time, Greg Pence and state environmental regulators pledged to work together on theIn 2014, the UK’s top literary prize, the Man Booker award, changed its rules. It had previously only nominated novels by authors from Commonwealth countries and the Republic of Ireland. The rule change expanded nominations to include any English-language novel published in the UK.
This includes Americans, and therein lies the problem. In the four awards since the rule change, two Americans have won (George Saunders in 2017 for Lincoln in the Bardo, and Paul Beatty in 2016 for The Sellout). Richard Flanagan, an Australian, and Marlon James, a Jamaican, won the other two years.
Out of fear that the UK’s top prize for books is becoming too global, thirty UK publishers have signed a letter, The Guardian reports, which has leaked, addressed to the organization. In it, publishers say:
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File photo shows a First Folio edition of William Shakespeares' plays, dating from 1623 and considered to be one of the most important books in English literature, pictured at Sotheby's auction house in London on March 30, 2006.
A copy of William Shakespeare's First Folio, the first-ever compilation of the Bard's plays published in 1623, has been discovered in the library of a small town in northern France, a librarian said Tuesday.
One of the most valuable and coveted books in the world, the First Folio was uncovered when librarian Remy Cordonnier dusted off a book of Shakespeare's works dating to the 18th century for an exhibition on English literature in the town of Saint-Omer near Calais.
"It occurred to me that it could be an unidentified First Folio, with historicimportance and great intellectual value," he told AFP.
The copy of the book, which was published seven years after Shakespeare's death, was authenticated on Saturday by First Folio expert Eric Rasmussen from the University of Nevada.
"It is the 231st copy found in the world and the second in France," said Cordonnier.
The book, a compilation of 36 of Shakespeare's plays, is in good condition but missing about 30 pages, including the title page, which could explain how it went unnoticed for centuries.
Rasmussen wrote a book on the First Folio called "The Shakespeare Thefts" detailing his thrilling global hunt for what remains of the initial 750 copies of the book, a favourite for thieves across the centuries.
He describes "run-ins with heavily tattooed criminal street gangs in Tokyo, bizarre visits with eccentric, | {
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reclusive billionaires, and intense battles of wills with secretive librarians," according to the publisher.
Rasmussen's book speaks of several First Folios which have had pages ripped out of them, and one with a bullet lodged in it.
The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, which houses the largest collection of Shakespeare material, says on its website that the First Folio is the only source for 18 of Shakespeare's plays, including Macbeth, "which would otherwise be lost."
It is believed that the copy found in France was taken to Saint-Omer by English refugees from Anglican persecution, said Cordonnier.
Library director Francoise Ducroquet said that while First Folio copies were valued between 2.5 and five million euros, the damaged version found in his library would probably be worth less.
However she said France would not sellThis Heirloom
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is not accused of any wrongdoing.
According to a Capital Group presentation from 2011, one of its other international funds, Capital International Private Equity Funds IV – also incorporated in the Cayman Islands – had El Tejar in its portfolio in December 2010.
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Capital Group didn’t immediately respond to emails seeking comment.a bus shelter while another device exploded outside a hotel used by foreigners. No one was injured in the second attack.
In April three gunmen opened fire on a church service in Likoni, near Mombasa, killing six people and wounding 18 others, while in January 10 people were wounded in a grenade attack on a night club in Diani, a popular coastal resort area near the city.
In its advisory the Foreign Office said: “We advise against all but essential travel to Mombasa island and within 5km of the coast from Mtwapa creek in the north to Tiwi in the south.
“If you are currently in an area to which we now advise against all but essential travel, you should consider whether you have an essential reason to remain. If not, | {
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After NXT TakeOver: Phoenix finished up (full results here), Triple H took part in a media call to talk about Velveteen Dream, who appeared in a few segments, but didn't wrestle on tonight's show. He also discussed wanting to progress younger stars at a slower pace, and how some fans are expecting too much, too soon from NXT Superstars.
In regards to Dream's absence, Triple H simply put that there's not enough room to put everyone in every card, but at the same time, it's a good thing to mix it up with the talent they have.
"The dude is a star, but you can only fit so many people into a card," Triple H said. "Him not being on the showAdam Cole wasn't on the show tonight too, youAlso Triple H Addresses AEW, Why TakeOver Moved To Friday On WrestleMania Weekend
Triple H continued about Velveteen Dream's short time in the wrestling business, at only 23, his ability is off the charts. The same goes for Bianca Belair, who came to the WWE Performance Center just under three years ago. In her first crack at the title, Belair came up short against NXT Women's Champion Shayna Baszler and Triple H called out fans who were being impatient about bringing talent up through the ranks.
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your business plus your travelers.
Wernher von Braun thought that the staff creating the Room automobiles must have direct, arms-on participation inside the developing and testing from the hardware. For this, MSFC experienced services similar with the very best being located in non-public industries.
The last Saturn IB flight was launched on July 15, 1975, carrying a three-man crew over a 6-day mission to dock with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft.. known as the Apollo–Soyuz exam venture (ASTP), the primary intent was to supply engineering working experience for foreseeable future joint space flights, but each spacecraft also experienced scientific experiments. This was the final manned U.S. space mission right until April 1981.off" from fighting Isis.
The terrorist has been dubbed “jihadi John” because of his reported membership of a trio of UK-born terrorists fighting with Isis in Syria nicknamed after The Beatles.
He is believed to be one of up to 500 Britons believed to have travelled to join Islamist groups in the country’s continuing civil war.
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The British Ambassador to the United States said last month that agencies were “not far away” from naming the militant but no identification has been made.
Speaking to CNN following the beheading of Mr Foley, an American journalist being held with Mr Sotloff, Peter Westmacott said voice-recognition and intelligence was being used to track him down.
Mr Westmacott said the problem “goes beyond one horrendous criminal.”
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as 500 British subjects have gone to Syria and Iraq for this cause of jihad,” he added.
The Home Office would not comment on whether the man in the video has been identified and it is understood that, for security reasons, the knowledge would not be made public if it did exist.
A former rapper fighting with Isis in Syria is believed to be one of several British jihadists under investigation.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary pictured here in a YouTube video showcasing his rapping
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 24, was known as L Jinny or Lyricist Jinn at home in London, where his rising music career saw him appear in videos and have his singles played on BBC Radio in 2012.
He came to national attention earlier this year, when he posted a picture ofhimself holding a severed head on Twitter after resurfacing in Syria.
Bary reportedly travelled to the country last year from Maida Vale, west London, where he lived with his mother and five siblings.
His father Adel Abdul Bary, an Egyptian refugee thought to be one of Osama Bin Laden’s closest lieutenants, was extradited from Britain to the United States on charges of terrorism in 2012 for his alleged roles in the bombings of two US embassies in east Africa in 1998.
Bary’s current whereabouts in Syria is not known and his Twitter account under the name “Terrorist” @ItsLJinny has been deactivated.
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Learn MoreA conservative group has conducted opposition research into Connie Schultz, the journalist and wife of a potential 2020 presidential candidate, Sen. Sherrod Brown Sherrod Campbell BrownEmboldened Democrats haggle over 2021 agenda Hillicon Valley: Russia 'amplifying' concerns around mail-in voting to undermine election | Facebook and Twitter take steps to limit Trump remarks on voting | Facebook to block political ads ahead of election Top Democrats press Trump to sanction Russian individuals over 2020 election interference efforts MORE (D-Ohio).
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Alan Dershowitz
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz is a Brooklyn native and the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law (emeritus) at Harvard Law School. He has published more than 1000 articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and blogs such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, Huffington Post, Newsmax, Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz. He is the author of 32 fiction and non-fiction works, including six national bestsellers. His latest book is The Case Against the Iran Deal: How Can We Now Stop Iran from Getting Nukes?.
Peter Beinart, former editor of the New Republic, and Alan Dershowitz, famed lawyer and political commentator, debate the consequences of Israel preemptively attackingA new species of damselfly from the Cretaceous period has been named after the iconic naturalist and TV presenter Sir David Attenborough.
The new discovery, described in detail in Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, was made in the Hukawng Valley of Kachin Province in Myanmar. The fossil was found in a piece of mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. The full scientific name for the new species, belonging to a group more commonly known as shadowdamsels, is Mesosticta davidattenboroughi. Researchers decided to name the new species after David Attenborough because of his long-standing appreciation of dragonflies, and to celebrate his recent 90th birthday.
Co-author Professor Edmund A. Jarzembowski said, "Dragonflies in amber are extremely rare and the recent discoveries by my Chinese colleagues are a new window on the past. It is tradition in | {
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taxonomy (the naming of a new species) to contact the person concerned. Sir David was delighted because he is not only interested in the story of amber, but also a president of the British Dragonfly Society."
The fossil itself is extremely well preserved as it is encased in yellow transparent amber and includes a complete set of wings. With the aid of photo technology, researchers were able to digitally enhance and build a clear three-dimensional picture of the new species, showing that it differed from previously described fossils, notably in the shorter wing length.
Lead author Daran Zheng from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, commented, "Mesosticta davidattenboroughi is quite unique because we have uncovered a new species and it confirms the previous attribution ofMesosticta to the Platystictidae. It is the first fossil group of modern platystictid damselflies and documents the appearance of Platystictidae as early as mid-Cretaceous."
The discovery of insect remains in amber is not uncommon, however this particular family of damselflies are much less frequently found and their fossil record is poor compared to many other families making the discovery especially unusual. Mesosticta davidattenboroughi joins a long list of animals which have been named after Sir David Attenborough, including a weevil and fossil species of a plesiosaur and a fish.
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about melatonin is already pretty significant, especially for those looking to combat breast and prostate cancer. Harvard University School of Public Health researcher Itai Kloog and his group published a series of studies in the last few years explaining how our "modern urbanized sleeping habitat" (PDF) is a massive hormone-based cancer risk. "We have blotted out the night sky" with artificial light, wrote Earth Island Journal's Holly Hayworth," citing Kloog's research and noting that half that light is wasted anyway.
"We've proven beyond a doubt that it's a risk factor," Kloog told me. "Light at night has been proven on many levels, by our group and many others, to definitely contribute to higher risk of developing hormonal cancer."
Kloog's team published five studies altogether, including analyses at local and globalus
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From a small beginning, Cathy Weise of the Ron Rosner YMCA has developed an ambitious three-race series for kids for this summer, with the help of The Great Train Race, Shannon Airport, Dominion Raceway & Entertainment, the Fredericksburg Area Service League and Race Timing Unlimited.
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Coyote sightings in North Texas are not all that unusual, but attacks are rare.
Zane Weddell, 15, said he was walking out of a movie at the Cinemark Tinsletown Sunday night in Grapevine when he was bitten by a coyote.
"I was like shocked there was a coyote," he said.
Zane said he and his girlfriend walked around the back of the theater, and the coyote came around the bushes.
“It came at me, came at us, so I grabbed my shoe and I threw it at it, hit it, and it came back, came at me, so I like kicked it with my foot. And it got hold of my foot and shook me around a little bit, and it like let go and took off,” he explained.
His mother was waitingfor him at the front of the theater, so he ran to her car, where she saw blood on his foot. They then went to the emergency room, where Zane had five shots.
He is now being treated with multiple rounds of antibiotics.
“It was really scary. He was OK physically. I was really more afraid of infection or if the coyote was rabid, because of the way he was acting. I’m still kind of scared because he still has three more rounds of shots to go,” said mother Kendra Weddell.
Grapevine police confirm that animal control was notified. Their crews have been looking, but so far, have not seen the coyote.
Police also say have only had one call about a coyote.
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Pike Creek shooting suspect killed self
The suspect in a Pike Creek shooting the night of Super Bowl Sunday drove to his home near Coatesville, Pennsylvania, and killed himself after police arrived to interrogate him, The News Journal has learned.
New Castle County police said Tuesday that ballistics tests on the gun found with the dead man in Pennsylvania matched the weapon used to wound a 39-year-old man in Delaware about 10 p.m. on Feb. 1.
County police identified the dead suspect as Michael Keeshan, 50, of the 100 block of Durham Drive in Coatesville, about 25 miles from the shooting scene.
The victim, who worked with the suspect's wife, was shot in the torso through the front door in the 5000 block of East Brigantine Court. He was not seriously injuredlives near New York City, said Pennsylvania police told him in February that authorities in Delaware had alerted them late on Feb. 1 that Michael was a suspect in the Pike Creek shooting. Richard Keeshan said police told him they went to Michael Keeshan's house and he answered the door, then went to another room and shot himself to death.
Richard Keeshan said police speculated his brother took his life "because he thought he was being arrested for murder."
Michael Keeshan, who comes from a family of law enforcement officers, was a 50-year-old father of seven and a successful retail manager.
Since speaking with police in early February, Keeshan said he has been unable to get more answers from his brother's widow or police. Keeshan's widow could not be reached Tuesday.
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a blue-blood program at Penn State. Johnson went to Northern Iowa, an FCS program.
Comparing their stats from their final college seasons, while they came against vastly different levels of competition, shows even more similarities between Barkley and Johnson.
Johnson ran for 1,553 yards and 17 touchdowns on 287 carries as a senior. Barkley ran for 1,271 yards and 18 touchdowns on 217 carries as a junior in his final season with the Nittany Lions.
Both were also key cogs in their respective teams' passing games. Johnson caught 38 passes for 536 yards and two touchdowns. Barkley caught 54 passes for 632 yards and three touchdowns.
And both made a big impact on special teams.
Johnson returned 12 kicks for 438 yards and a touchdown, while Barkley returned 15 kicks for 426 yardsand two scores.
After getting passed over for more than two and a half rounds, Johnson needed one season before he became a Pro Bowler and an All-Pro in 2016, leading the NFL in all-purpose yards.
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Together with the top sim racing team of Positive SimRacing, we’re launching the PSR-Driver Development Programme. Eight drivers will join the PSR Blancpain Sprint Series team for two full seasons (2017 S2 & S3), and will receive coaching and tutoring from PSR drivers and VRS coaches. The goal is to have these eight drivers feature in the qualifiers for the 2018 iRacing Blancpain Endurance World Championship Series, under the PSR banner. The programme starts March 14th 2017.
This is an official programme, with contract and confidentiality on intellectual property belonging to the team, such as setups. The programme is subsidised by PSR to make it more affordable for talented drivers. The package costs $150 per driver for all 24 weeks, and includes:
60 minute group coaching sessions on Tuesdays (30One problem with these engines is the removal of the nitrogen oxides formed during combustion from the lean exhaust gas. Depending on the operating state of the engine, the nitrogen oxides emitted by these engines comprise from 60 to 95% by volume of nitrogen monoxide. On account of the high oxygen content of the lean exhaust gas, it is very difficult to reduce the nitrogen oxides to nitrogen and thereby to render them harmless. One possible way of removing the nitrogen oxides consists in purifying the exhaust gases with the aid of a nitrogen oxide storage catalyst.
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really understands or has a very clear grasp of what a private context online really means," said Stephanie Garboski '18, one of the student researchers. "Our research is about trying to make people comfortable with the protocols involved."
In May, Garboski and co-researcher Brooke Bullek '18 presented and published their study at the most prestigious international conference in the field of human-computer interaction, ACM-CHI, where they were among only a handful of undergraduates presenting alongside university faculty and researchers for companies like Microsoft and IBM. Bullek was also awarded an $8,000 Scholarship for Women Studying Information Security from the Computing Research Association due in large part to the project.
Another Bucknell student, Jordan Sechler '19, presented a poster at the same conference in Denver.
Professor Darakhshan Mir, computer science. Photo byThis effect makes solar minimum a terrible time to blow up satellites–although people do it anyway.
The Solar Cycle Prediction Panel is comprised of scientists representing NOAA, NASA, the International Space Environment Services, and other U.S. and international scientists. Their April 5th prediction was preliminary, and they plan to issue a refined forecast by the end of 2019. Stay tuned. | {
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Parents' motivation for seeing a physician.
To explore situations in which parents with an ill child consult a physician and to identify trigger factors for consultation. Qualitative interviews with parents of young children. Parents were asked to describe the situation in which the decision to contact the physician was made. A total of 20 families selected from a birth cohort from Frederiksborg County. The cohort numbered 194 of 389 children born between 1 and 28 February 2001. The cohort was followed prospectively from the age of 9 to 12 months by diary (January-April), and retrospectively from birth to the age of 9 months by questionnaire. Families were chosen on the basis of information provided in a questionnaire, diary illness pattern and a telephone conversation. Nine trigger factors associated withThe recently vetoed $612 billion U.S. defense budget, which Congress and the White House had argued about all year, could well be back on track after U.S. President Barack Obama and lawmakers came to a tentative agreement Monday night over the fate of the overall government budget. The 2016 National Defense Authorization Act had been held up since last week after Obama vetoed the bill presented to him by Congress that included $38 billion in extra funding from an unregulated and controversial war fund that took the defense budget far beyond cross-government budget caps agreed upon in 2011.
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The responsibilities of a food delivery driver are quite simple—pick up a customer's order at a specified location, drop the food off, then leave.
A driver in Berkeley didn't exactly stick to the script and now DoorDash says the "Dasher" is off their platform.
After the carrier completed an order Saturday night at an apartment complex in the downtown area, she was caught on camera stealing packages from the lobby, according to property management company North Berkeley Properties.
Video shows the woman, seen wearing a white shirt and blue jeans, waiting in the lobby area with the customer's food in one hand and a drink in the other.
About 27 seconds into the video, the customer appears and gets off the elevator before grabbing his food from the driver.
Instead of exiting theThe high school schedule is not designed to develop better basketball players. Intuitively, we have always known this: we lived by the adage, “Teams are made in the winter, players are made during the summer.” However, somewhere we lost sight of the difference between competition and training. I coach some relatively inexperienced high school players. Read more about High School Basketball, Periodization & Player Development[…]
When I coached in Ireland, young Irish players believed that basketball greatness was beyond their genes. They said that Irishmen were not athletic. Meanwhile, the Irish Rugby Team crushed its opponents in its preparation for the 2007 World Cup. While basketball and rugby require different skills, each features athletes who are fast, quick, agile, strong Read more about Early Specialization[…] | {
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Like many teams that only kept two quarterbacks on the 53-man roster, the Saints have added a quarterback to the practice squad.
New Orleans, which went with only Luke McCown behind Drew Brees on the regular-season depth chart, announced that Ryan Griffin, a rookie quarterback from Tulane, has made the practice squad.
Griffin signed with the Saints this year as an undrafted free agent after a college career in which he started 39 games and threw for 9,026 yards and 79 touchdowns. In the preseason Griffin completed 32 of 59 passes for 380 yards, with two touchdowns and one interception.
Also on the Saints’ practice squad are receiver Saalim Hakim, tight end Michael Higgins, fullback Austin Johnson, offensive tackle Marcel Jones and defensive back Jumal Rolle. All six were cut bythey are used, and characters grown more proficient in their Formation roles the more they are used in a particular formation.
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is not well-founded, the BIA reasoned, because he traveled openly to his family's funeral while the rebels were in power; in his one encounter with the rebels their only interest was to conscript him; the Kabbah government has returned to power; and the 2002 Country Report noted no recent reports of the RUF killing ex-combatants. Jalloh's fear of the Kabbah government is not well-founded, the BIA explained, because there is no evidence the government is retaliating against those who were forcibly conscripted by the rebels; the local militias have demobilized; and the 2002 Country Report noted the end of civil war and improving country conditions.
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On appeal, Jalloh argues that his testimony describing the politically-motivated murder of his family was proof of atrocious past persecution that established a well-foundedNazi Germany and the fascist totalitarian government ruled by Adolf Hitler that was responsible for the Holocaust and the genocide of nearly six million Jews.The winner of the contest is determined by the highest number of "likes" from members of a page on VKontakte that claims more than 7,000 Hitler-revering followers.Jewelry adorned with Nazi symbolism is offered as the prize for the contest, officially-titled "Miss Ostland 2014," named in reference to the Nazi-occupied portion of northeastern Europe where more than a million Jews were killed.The Internet media site Vocative republished a selfie allegedly submitted by Belorussian contestant Katya Shkredova donning a Nazi hat, and citing her "adoration" of Hitler because he was willing to "experiment on people."The requirements of the competition were reportedly listed as the following: | {
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speaks directly to the majority 18-to-34 male demographic that lives and breathes video online. Smosh has more than 17.7 million subscribers on YouTube, while Dyrdek has been a huge success on MTV with his shows Fantasy Factory and Ridiculousness.
This isn't the first time that YouTube influencers have helped promote the upcoming game, which will be released for most gaming platforms on May 27. The publisher tricked unsuspecting public members into thinking their phones had hacking powers in its video Amazing Street Hack. Sky Does Minecraft also rendered the game into the virtual sandbox world. And, it worked with YouTube stunt cinematographer DevinSuperTramp as well as RatedRR, who rigged a real cell phone to do what he does best: blow stuff up.
"In general as we build towards launch, we'reA former prosecutor who used false testimony and withheld evidence to send a now-exonerated man to Texas' death row has lost an appeal to overturn his disbarment.
The Dallas Morning News (http://bit.ly/1TPB1fq ) reports that the Board of Disciplinary Appeals on Monday upheld the decision of the State Bar of Texas to disbar Charles Sebesta. The board's decision is final.
The bar revoked the Burleson County district attorney's law license in June, finding he had engaged in prosecutorial misconduct in the case of Anthony Graves.
Graves was sentenced to death in 1994 in the slayings of six people in South Texas two years earlier. A federal appeals court reversed his conviction in 2006.
Graves spent 18 years in prison, including 12 on death row. He filed a complaint in January 2014.
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Better late than never. Just ask Oklahoma State.
A whopping 71 years after the program won all nine games on its schedule, the American Football Coaches Association voted Thursday to retroactively award the 1945 team with a national championship.
"After gathering all the pertinent information and doing our due diligence, it is the pleasure of our Blue Ribbon Commission of coaches to officially recognize Oklahoma State's 1945 championship season with the AFCA Coaches' Trophy," AFCA executive director Todd Berry said in a statement.
Oklahoma State, then known as Oklahoma A&M and nicknamed the Aggies instead of the Cowboys, finished the '45 campaign ranked fifth in the AP Poll, following a season-ending win over St. Mary's in the Sugar Bowl.
The team, coached by the late Jim Lookabaugh, won its games by anaverage of 23.2 points, and still holds several single-season school records.
The announcement gives Oklahoma State its first national title in football, and makes the school the first to win both a football and basketball championship in the same academic year. | {
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A Calgary Jr. A hockey club has been forced to take a leave of absence due to low ticket sales and advertising revenue.
In a statement written on behalf of the Calgary Mustangs' board of directors on Saturday, president Mike Cartney said the hockey club has voted in favour of taking a leave of absence from the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) for the upcoming season.
"Over the past two seasons our off-ice product has not equalled the success we have had on the ice. Low ticket sales, decreasing advertising revenue, and a lengthy playoff absence have left the franchise in a difficult position, financially," the statement read.
The leave of absence comes after the team had applied for relocation to Strathmore for the beginning of the 2019-2020 season, but thegovernment now gets, the media has largely begun the New Year by acceding to the Boris Johnson's greatest desire – relegating Brexit to a wonkish side-story about trade policy.
Despite the fact this is essentially the same legislation as a few months before, there were only a handful of people in the Commons Press Gallery to watch the WAB perform its farewell tour. As such, the Conservatives are being allowed to frame the election as a cathartic moment for the country. The myth that Brexit has been “done” will seemingly prevail.
Today the WAB’s parliamentary passage will continue with a third reading in the Commons before it makes its merry way to the Lords. On 31 January, as the UK formally leaves the EU, the Brexit transition period will begin. | {
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Police have charged Sebastian 'Seb' Monsour, the brother-in-law of former Queensland premier Campbell Newman, as part of a long-running investigation into a $5 million investment fraud.
Police raided his business in Spring Hill earlier today and arrested him at the Brisbane City watch house.
He is being held in custody overnight and is due to appear in the Brisbane Magistrate's Court tomorrow, charged with fraud.
The 44-year-old is the chief executive of real estate development company Majella Group.
It is alleged he accepted three significant payments from Fusheng Li, a Chinese entrepreneur, who sought to invest the money under a visa program for wealthy migrants.
Police alleged Mr Li was told his money would go into property and business funds, but these did not exist at the time.
Instead, Mr Monsour allegedly channelled themoney into other investments, including a US ski resort and an inner-Brisbane hotel redevelopment, as well as Majella Group expenses, such as debts and wages.
It also alleged he had no authority, appropriate licence or credentials to manage investments.
Mr Newman told the ABC he had never had a business relationship with Mr Monsour.
"He [Mr Mansour] is entitled to his day in court, but if he has done something wrong I urge him to search his conscience and face up fully to his responsibilities," Mr Newman said.
Mr Monsour is the brother of Campbell Newman's wife Lisa. ( ABC: Tim Leslie )
Detective Senior Constable Douglas Henderson said the money allegedly went into business accounts instead of the promised investments.
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The subject of real-world animals in the Pokémon world has always been a controversial one. It has never been made clear which kinds of animals exist in the Pokémon world, or what differences they have to Pokémon. However, there are certain instances in the Pokémon anime that show references to real-life animals, making fans speculate that at least a few species of them must exist in this world, or that they existed at some point.
A blog that belonged to Shudo Takeshi, a scriptwriter for the original Pokémon movies and the anime, contains a few entries that suggest Pokemon 3: The Movie: Entei – Spell of the Unown was originally intended to solve all of these mysteries and show the appearance of some animals, including a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The documentsThe radio veteran—known fondly to his devoted listeners as "The Morning Mayor"—will be finishing up with KRUZ-FM in November, the station announced this morning.
"While I am sad to leave my KRUZ-FM family, I am excited that my personal business, Impact Communications, continues to grow—so much so that it is becoming increasingly challenging to split my time between working at KRUZ-FM and my company," says Melnik in a release.
"Peterborough will be losing someone special on local radio but we are thrilled for Mike and the opportunity for him to focus on his media production business," adds JJ Johnston, General Manager, Corus Radio Peterborough in the release.
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private shower suites with complimentary Finnish sea-buckthorn berry cosmetics and a brand-new Finnish sauna. Two shower suites are available in the Schengen area lounge.
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Business Classsame position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Republican former Michigan governor says he's voting for Biden Maybe they just don't like cowboys: The president is successful, some just don't like his style MORE (Ariz.) all coming on board.
Under Collins's amendment, people who itemize their deductions will be able to deduct up to $10,000 in state and local property taxes. A similar provision was included in the House-passed bill to win over GOP House members from blue states such as New York and California. | {
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clones known as the Krenn, mere specks who eventually kill themselves in a horrible war; Seela, a broccoli-stalk king of the Vegetable World who sucks up the remnants of the dead Krenn, only to be poisoned by them and dies; a peer review chorus from the Trindle Journal of Medical Profundities who complete their job and disperse; a library protocol who fails to recognize it has become obsolete in its pursuit of the Moon, the Mark and all who’ve come before it to that place, and is eventually erased from lack of interest and funding; auditing particulates who arrive after no trace is left of the events on the Moon with the exception of the Mark, and whose audit takes far too long and yields nothing of significance,claims the Weinstein money was spent on supporting women and girls around the world, as well as on lowering the cost of HIV medication.
Some Democrats believe all donations from Weinstein should be re-donated. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.) has said he believes anyone who received political contributions from Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein should re-donate the money to organizations that fight sexual assault.
On Saturday, Chelsea Clinton avoided a reporter who asked about Weinstein's donations as she went into a Clinton Global Initiative event in Boston.
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Quentin Tarantino told Deadline that he believes "a war for movies got played out this last year."
Tarantino referenced "commercial products" like Marvel films, "Stars Wars," and James Bond movies.
The director said it was "a really, really strong year" for "original movies."
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Quentin Tarantino spoke to Deadline about the fight for audiences and cinemas that he and other auteur directors faced against the might of studio franchises such as the MCU, "Star Wars" and James Bond.
"I actually think a war for movies got played out this last year," Tarantino told Deadline.
"As far as I can see, the commercial product that is owned by the conglomerates, the projects everybody knows about and has in their DNA, whether it be the Marvel Comics, the 'Star Wars,' 'Godzilla'a Time in Hollywood," which grossed $372.2 million worldwide and earned 10 Oscar nominations, including one for Best Picture and a Best Director nomination for Tarantino. He's also favorite to take home a third Best Original Screenplay Oscar this year.
As Tarantino points out, there has been a slew of auteur-directed cinema in the past year, including Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," Sam Mendes' "1917," Taika Waititi's "Jojo Rabbit," Greta Gerwig's "Little Women," Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story," and Bong Joon Ho's "Parasite" — all of them fellow Best Picture nominees.
Is "Joker" the sort of film that bridges the gap between auteur cinema and mainstream movies? CJ Entertainment/Warner Bros. Pictures/Sony Pictures
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On the translation of official notices into Tok Pisin
FRANKLIN, Karl J., author. 1990. "On the translation of official notices into Tok Pisin." In Melanesian Pidgin and Tok Pisin, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Pidgins and Creoles in Melanesia, John W. M. Verhaar (ed.). pages 323-44. Studies in Language Companion Series 20. Amsterdam: Benjamins.The long, drawn-out story has finally come to an end: the Volkswagen Group has fully taken control of Porsche. With the sports-car manufacturer fully in the hands of the Volkswagen Group, that should allow more collaboration between Porsche and Volkswagen brands in the future, though the automakers promise that Porsche will still be allowed to "retain its own identity."
The story began in 2008, when Porsche announced it owned 75 percent of Volkswagen's shares and prepared to mount a takeover. But Porsche suddenly racked up huge debts as the global economy collapsed, making that planned deal impossible. Instead, Volkswagen engineered a sort of merger with Porsche in 2009 -- firing then-Porsche CEO Wendelin Wiedeking in the process.
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completed, and it remains a somewhat complicated business arrangement. A holding company called Porsche Automobil Holding SE controls 50.1 percent of Porsche shares, and transferred those to Volkswagen AG as of yesterday. That means Volkswagen now controls 100 percent of Porsche shares, via both its own stake and that of the Porsche SE holding company.
Porsche had effectively been part of the Volkswagen Group for some time -- the sports car manufacturer had long been included in the Volkswagen Group Night presentations ahead of major auto shows, for instance. This acquisition further expands the reach of the behemoth Volkswagen Group, which also controls Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Scania, Seat, Skoda, and truck and diesel equipment group MAN SE. Luxury division Audi, for its part, recently acquired Italian motorcycle manufacturer2
with parents and students, to discuss difficulties for Native American students at
Desert Vista. At that meeting, Avent stated that Desert Vista was not meeting its
educational mission to Native American students, that the students were being
mistreated, and that Dr. Joe McDonald, the principal of Desert Vista, was a poor
leader. The meeting was attended by members of the press and resulted in at least
six newspaper articles and other news media stories, according to Avent’s
application for Injunction Against Harassment discussed below.
Two weeks later, on May 10, 2005, McDonald contacted Janet Seegren,
Associate Superintendent for Human Resources for Tempe Union and indicated
that he had concerns regarding Avent’s job performance. The next day, McDonald
put his concerns in writing.2 Nonetheless, the same day, May 11, 2005, Tempe
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the government health insurance program for the poor and disabled, while also limiting federal spending for certain populations, according to a copy of the proposal.
Members of the group, which include governors from Utah, Tennessee and Michigan, are also now looking to form a bipartisan coalition of states to propose reforms for the individual insurance market, according to one source, that they hope the Senate will also use. To see a graphic, click tmsnrt.rs/2qOZScv
They have not yet met or decided on specific reforms about the individual insurance market, but the goal is to address issues such as how to make insurance more affordable and stabilize the markets.
The House of Representatives narrowly passed its national healthcare bill earlier this month, called the American Health Care Act, which would slash federalbecome key players in a federal healthcare overhaul.
A 13-member Senate panel has been tasked with writing a healthcare bill, and at least five of its senators are from states from the Republican governors’ group, including Portman, Orrin Hatch of Utah, Mike Lee of Utah and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
Other Republican senators with governors in the group - including Dean Heller of Nevada and Jeff Flake of Arizona - are up for reelection in 2018.
As Senate Republicans take up the bill, one of the most complicated policy and political issues they must grapple with is Medicaid reform.
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get to that place and surround yourself with those people?
Chevis Brooks is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker. With the absence of his father at an early age, his childhood was marked by insecurity, low self-esteem, and an extreme lack of self-confidence which all led to self-hatred. After years of searching for answers in all the wrong places and faces, he reached up instead of out and the rest is history. Now, he’s made it his mission to help others do the same. Chevis and his wife, Keri, currently live in Northwest Georgia and are blessed with a beautiful daughter named Avery.Over 40 children at a school in Jharkhand fell ill after eating Saraswati Puja prasad
Over 40 children fell severely ill after eating Saraswati Puja prasad at a school in Jharkhand's Lohardaga on Sunday. Two of them are critical, news agency ANI quoted a doctor at the local hospital.
The school was celebrating Saraswati Puja yesterday and boondis (sweets) were distributed among the children after the puja, said one of the parents. Within hours of eating the sweets the children started vomiting.
"So far 40 children have come here. One or two are in a critical condition. It is a case of food poisoning, we are treating them accordingly," said Dr SS Khalid, of the Sadar Hospital, adding that most of them are six or seven years old.
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we will take action against whoever is found guilty. We will get the food sample examined to find out the cause," said Ratan Mahwar, the District Education Officer of Lohardaga.
People who organised the Saraswati Puja claimed that the ingredients for making the boondis were bought from the local shop and nothing seemed wrong with them.
In December, over a dozen died after eating prasad at a temple in Karnataka's Chamarajnagar. Samples of the prasad sent for forensic examination were found to be laced with monocrotophos and organophosphate that are dangerous for human beings, Karnataka deputy chief minister G Parameshwara had said.
Mr Parameshwara, who holds the home portfolio, told the state assembly that seven people were taken into custody in connection with the incident. He added that some of theAlila Resorts to Debut in Oman with opening of new Alila Jabal Akhdhar hotel in 2013
The Asian hotel group, Alila Hotels and Resorts, has announced that it will be making its debut in Oman with the opening of Alila Jabal Akhdhar in 2013. The new hotel will offer luxury Oman holidays to tourists in the beautiful region of Jabal al Akhdhar which is surrounded by mountainous peaks.
Oman will receive a new boutique property after the Asian hotel group, Alila Hotels & Resorts, announced that it will be expanding its portfolio with the launch of its first Oman property in the Jabal al Akhdhar region next year.
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The rampant cruelty of this modern administration has been making great advancements in strategic, categorical oppression. With time, resource, and creative focuses helping to mature various restrictive policies (“personhood”, voter IDs, DOMA), government officials have made their idyllic yet disturbing intentions for this country more and more apparent as the months progress.
Taken from Nazi Fascism 101, the aggressive stance of SB 1070 somehow remains to be welcomed by an alarming percentage of the American population. SB 1070 is a crown jewel amongst their corrosive constellation of American colonialism.
Media attention has targeted the state of Arizona, a segregationist arena placing human rights and free will in a daily bout to the death against the gladiators of the unyielding GOP confederacy.
One of the star quarterbacks leading the(PRESS RELEASE) – Sandals Grande Saint Lucian Spa and Beach Resort recently welcomed a group of golf professionals from the United States, the United Kingdom and Trinidad on an extended golf familiarization tour, the first of its kind in Saint Lucia.
This follows extensive work that has been going on to upgrade the course at the Sandals St Lucia Golf and Country Club at Cap Estate, and a promise by Sandals Chairman the Hon. Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart to make Saint Lucia a premium golfing destination.
With 75% of the work completed, which is being spearheaded by the Greg Norman Design Company, this trip was organized to entice these golf professionals to invest in organized group (golf vacation) travel to Saint Lucia. Once complete, the Sandals Golf Course will accommodate up | {
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In Worlow's case, he contendsNicolas Hamilton will return to the BTCC grid for the 2019 season after concluding a deal to join Motorbase Performance.
The younger brother of F1 champion Lewis made his debut in the series back in 2015 when he competed in four rounds in an AmD Tuning-run Audi S3, but will now embark on his first full season in touring cars at the wheel of a Ford Focus RS.
The Focus will be specially modified to deal with the fact that Hamilton suffers from cerebral palsy, with a shakedown scheduled for the middle of the month before testing in Spain.
“I cannot actually believe that I will be back on the BTCC grid this year,” he said. “I have been in and out of different series since I started racing due to | {
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capture of the FSA bases took place only four days after the Islamic Front declared that it rejected FSA command.
Last week, the Islamic Front, estimated at 45,000 fighters, published its charter, which sets out its goals of creating an Islamic state under sharia law. Although the charter does not mention al Qaeda or its two official Syrian branches, the Al Nusrah Front for the People of the Levant and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham, the Islamic Front embraces jihad and calls the foreign fighters “our brothers.” Taken as a whole, the charter indicates that the Islamic Front is willing to cooperate with both Al Nusrah and the ISIS; most of the Islamist groups that make up the Islamic Front have fought alongside the al Qaedagroups already. [See LWJ reports, Islamic Front endorses jihad, says ‘the Muhajireen are our brothers,’ and Analysis: Formation of Islamic Front in Syria benefits jihadist groups.]
Shortly after the publication of the charter, General Salim Idriss, head of the FSA’s Supreme Military Council, congratulated the Islamic Front on its formation and pledged to cooperate with it. A few days earlier, on Nov. 24, an FSA spokesman had claimed that the Islamic Front answered to the Supreme Military Council; he also estimated that the Islamic Front controlled up to 60 percent of the rebel fighters in Syria, TIME reported.
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Syria and often out again back to their home countries.
A French jihadist who joined a brigade that consists of 8,000 fighters told the BBC that “there are thousands of us, literally from every corner of the world” and “we are all al-Qaeda.” He also claimed that his brigade had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Sham.
In a further indication of the growing strength of the Islamist forces and corresponding weakness of the Western-backed Free Syrian Army, a former rebel commander told the BBC that FSA fighters are now being targeted by jihadist forces and that he fled to Turkey after jihadists captured his unit and killed most of his men.
Are you a dedicated reader of FDD's Long War Journal? Has our research benefitted youPharrell Williams can add a line to his lengthy resume -- creative director for the American Express Platinum Card.
The Grammy winner announced the partnership Thursday. Amex (AXP) said the job could include helping design cards and picking the music for its airport lounges, in addition to developing benefits and services for cardholders.
It's the first time Amex has enlisted a creative director for the Platinum Card, though certainly not the first time a celebrity has teamed with a company in a brand ambassador role.
Intel tapped will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas to be its director of creative innovation back in 2011. And Dr. Dre is now part of team Apple after it bought his headphone maker, Beats.
But not all partnerships between Hollywood and corporate America work so well. Alicia | {
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Keys was creative director of struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry for just a year. And Lady Gaga parted ways with Polaroid after a four-year stint as its creative director.
American Express has a long history of teaming up with celebrities to promote its other cards, including Martin Scorsese, Ellen DeGeneres, Sheryl Crow, Alicia Keys, Andre Agassi, Shaun White and Tina Fey.
Related: AmEx vows to cut costs
Janey Whiteside, an Amex senior vice president, said the company chose Pharrell because he's a "creative powerhouse."
"He's traveled the world, he has an amazing and curious mind," she said. "He's so much more than just a performer."
Amex would not say what it will pay Pharrell. It has vowed to cut $1 billion in costs by the end of 2017.
"We've said quite publicly that we areat the O’Connell St event. Additionally on O’Connell Street, the I BELIEVE Christmas Village from the docklands will locate a small satellite market in front of the Clerys building. It will be opening on Sunday 29th November and run through December.
Tuesday 8th December 2015 – The Live Animal Crib opens at the Mansion House. The much loved IFA Live Animal Crib, a joint initiative between Dublin City Council and the Irish Farmers’ Association will celebrate its 21st year at the front of the Mansion House from the 8th December. Entrance is free, but donations are welcome to the Mansion House Fuel Fund, one of Dublin’s oldest charities.
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EMBED >More News Videos CHASE ENDS: Deputies take down suspected thief in driveway after high-speed chase in west Harris Co.
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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Residents are reacting in west Harris County after a high-speed chase ended in an arrest just feet from their homes.A suspected thief, accused in multiple car break-ins at a Target store on FM 529 at Highway 6, led deputies on a chase for 40 minutes before winding up at his own house, according to one neighbor.The Harris County Sheriff's Office said this all began at 4:52 p.m., when deputies spotted the suspect's vehicle.With the help of the county's helicopter, they were able to track the vehicle.From SkyEye13, we saw the drivernarrowly miss several vehicles, even coming in close proximity to a number of sheriff's cruisers.At one point, the suspect struck something, leaving damage to the front of the SUV.The suspect took the chase off road at least twice, traveling at a high rate of speed near the neighborhood retention ponds.Just before 5:20 p.m., deputies deployed a spike strip, hitting the suspect's front passenger side tire.About 10 minutes and half a mile later, the suspect pulled into the driveway of a home.A neighbor says she was speaking with the suspect's dad the moment he was arrested."I was watching the chase on TV, because my sister had heard about it," the eyewitness said. "The dad got home and realized his car was missing, and so we were basically talking to | {
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It's the kind of instant impact that New York City FC will be hoping for when their 2015 expansion season kicks off in March.
Designated Player David Villa, who's on loan with Australian A-League club Melbourne City ahead of the start of MLS training camps in January, scored a goal on his Australian debut on Saturday, netting an equalizer just 15 minutes after coming into the match against Sydney FC in the opening weekend of the new A-League season.
The 32-year-old forward came off the bench three minutes into the second half, finding the back of the net on a feed from Damien Duff in the 63rd as Melbourne City tied Sydney 1-1.Dallas 2011 season reeked of redemption for a lost 2010 season much of the way through. Despite close (and awkward) losses to the Patriots, Jets and Lions, the Cowboys rolled into December on a four-game winning streak, with a shot at closing out the NFC East. Then things absolutely fell apart: Jason Garrett iced his own kicker in an overtime loss to Arizona, Tony Romo overthrew Miles Austin in a tight Week 14 loss to the Giants, Romo was injured the next week in a meaningless game against the Eagles and Dallas got pounded by the eventual Super Bowl champs on New Years Day. Then Jerry Jones team had to watch the 9-7 Giants march to a Super Bowl victory. Not a fun couple of months for them. | {
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traveller who paid a visit to the kingdom probably a little later, speaks highly of her administrative qualities, benign rule and greatness.
Rudramadevi had no male issue out only two daughters Mummadamma and Ruyyamma. On the advice of her father, she adopted Mummadamma's son Prataparudra (II) as her son and as heir to the throne. On her demise, Prataparudra II ascended the throne of Warangal.already voiced opposition to increased payments, while Germany, the EU's wealthiest country and biggest budget contributor, has declared its willingness to pay more.
At a news conference with Oettinger, János Lázár, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's chief of staff, declared the meeting a success.
"On a Friday morning in gloomy, rainy and cloudy weather, it's probably not one of the best experiences you can get here in Budapest, still I can say it was worthwhile to meet," Lázár said. He added, "The eight countries agreed with the increasing of the GNI proportionate payment, which is a major success of the day, because eight countries opened the opportunity that the payments should increase even up to 1.1 percent."
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In March 1989, Jeb Bush arrived in Nigeria to a royal welcome. More than 100,000 American-flag waving Nigerians lined the streets of Gombe to watch as the US president’s son was honored with a 1,300-horse “durbar,” a festival typically reserved for heads of state and religious holidays. Bush later met with Nigerian dictator Ibrahim Babangida, who had come to power in a 1985 military coup. They chatted about Cuban human rights and the failed nomination of John Tower, Bush’s father’s pick for defense secretary.
But the president’s then-36-year-old son was not visiting Nigeria on a diplomatic mission. He had come to promote an industrial water pump company. The visit—and the $82 milliondeal tied to it—would form one of the more controversial episodes of Bush’s business career and dog him for years after he jumped into politics. The deal became notorious because of allegations, outlined in thousands of pages of court documents, that the transaction had been greased through massive bribes to Nigerian officials paid for by American taxpayer money loaned through the US Export-Import Bank. The deal triggered a federal criminal investigation, as well as nearly two decades of civil litigation by the US Department of Justice that in 2013 resulted in a federal jury finding that the water pump company, MWI Corp., had defrauded the federal government of millions of dollars.
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the already indebted nation further into hock to foreign creditors.
Bush did not respond to a request for comment for this story, but as he prepares to announce his bid for the presidency, questions still linger about the exact part he played in a deal that the Justice Department said took advantage of both the Nigerian people and American taxpayers.
Bush’s involvement with the Nigeria project began in 1989, the year after his father was elected president, when he formed a partnership with J. David Eller, the CEO of a family-owned Deerfield Beach, Florida, company now called MWI, short for Moving Water Industries. Eller’s father founded the outfit in 1926. It manufactures large-scale water pumps used for flood control, agriculture, mining, and other industrial projects. (Some of its pumps endedup in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.)
Asked what percentage of the MWI equipment sold to Nigeria had gone unused, a former vice president at the company replied, “Ninety percent.”
Bush and Eller had become friends through Florida GOP circles in the early 1980s. Eller was a big Broward County Republican activist and donor and had landed a slot on the state lottery commission during the administration of Republican Gov. Bob Martinez, who had tapped Bush as his commerce secretary in 1986.
An engineer known for his rumpled hair, wide ties, snakeskin boots, and Bible-thumping Southern Baptist faith, Eller had taken his father’s company global in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, the firm discovered that it could help Nigeria obtain financing from the US Export-Import Bank to buy MWI’s pumps | {
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and other equipment, and it ramped up its work in the country. (The Ex-Im Bank, a US government agency, is supposed to promote US exports by providing loans and credit guarantees to foreign countries that agree to buy products from US companies.)
During this period, Nigeria’s military leaders were borrowing extensively from the West to finance dubious projects, many of which never materialized. The money often disappeared thanks to Nigeria’s institutionalized corruption. The most egregious example was the Ajaokuta steel plant. The project was launched in 1979 and, by the mid-1990s, Nigeria had spent nearly $5 billion on the facility, which never produced a single sheet of steel.
When Ibrahim Babangida seized power in 1985, the country was virtually bankrupt. Unable to service its debt as prices plunged for itsoil exports, Nigeria’s credit dried up, and its creditors started demanding repayment of billions in loans. In 1986, most of the developed world stopped opening new lines of credit to the troubled country. That same year, Nigeria started begging for international debt relief. It won temporary reprieves, but its debt continued to grow. Under pressure from the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, Babangida implemented some economic reforms, including limits on debt-funded imports.
Yet even in this climate, the Export-Import Bank continued loaning Nigeria money, which it used mostly to purchase MWI products. By the time Bush teamed up with Eller in 1988, the Ex-Im Bank had already financed about $87 million of MWI’s sales to Nigeria.
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of several deliveries of a total of $5 million in cash. In 2009, KBR pleaded guilty to foreign bribery charges and had to pay more than $400 million in criminal fines to settle the case with the Justice Department. Halliburton and KBR, which by then had split into independent companies, together had to pay nearly $200 million to settle civil charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Several people, including KBR’s former CEO, went to jail for their involvement in the bribery scheme.
Evidence produced during the Justice Department’s lawsuit against MWI showed that the company went to unusual lengths to keep Indimi happy. The company paid for his pool boy, landscaping, housekeepers, and cable television at his Boca Raton home. And it made six-figure payments on his Americanwas determined from stop to stop codons. Each contig represents a continuous stretch of the genomic sequence of the organism. The first column lists the ORF designation. The second and third columns list the SEQ ID numbers for the nucleic acid and amino acid sequences corresponding to each ORF, respectively. The fourth and fifth columns list the length of the nucleic acid ORF and the length of the amino acid ORF, respectively. The nucleotide sequence corresponding to each ORF begins at the first nucleotide immediately following a stop codon and ends at the nucleotide immediately preceding the next downstream stop codon in the same reading frame. It will be recognized by one skilled in the art that the natural translation initiation sites will correspond to ATG, GTG, or | {
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drug war, read Reason Senior Editor Jacob Sullum's column from December.)
This program would serve as a sort of precursor to the National Security Agency surveillance enabled by the PATRIOT Act following the 9/11 terror attacks. And while Barr was no longer working in the federal government by the time the PATRIOT Act was implemented, he still defended the program, which civil liberties advocates believe violated the Fourth Amendment's protections against warrantless searches. Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee in 2003, Barr even suggested the PATRIOT Act didn't go far enough.
Paul, for his part, has always been uneasy regarding Barr's nomination. "I'm concerned that he's been a big supporter of the PATRIOT Act, which lowered the standard for spying on Americans," the Kentucky Republican told Meet the Press inOn July 18, Britain and Sweden signed a Memorandum of Understanding to partner on “future combat air.” The agreement was inked by Britain’s Defence Secretary, Penny Mordaunt, and her Swedish counterpart, Peter Hultqvist, before an announcement ceremony at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford the following day.
During this event, news of the agreement was greeted warmly by Hultqvist, the British Minister of Defence Procurement Stuart Andrew, UK Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Sir Stephen Hillier, Swedish Air Force Chief Major General Mats Helgesson, CEO of BAE Systems Charles Woodburn, and chairman of Saab AB Marcus Wallenberg.
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an analysis of alternatives. Sweden has not (so far) joined the UK’s Combat Air Acquisition Programme (led by the UK MOD), which is tasked with delivering the acquisition program that will eventually replace the RAF’s Eurofighter Typhoons, and whose work is informed by Team Tempest.
The new Anglo-Swedish partnership will initially take the form of a wider study that may or may not lead to the development of an Anglo-Swedish future combat aircraft—or that may or may not see Sweden formally join the Tempest program. For the time being, Sweden will work with Team Tempest in a new partnership, with the two nations pooling their expertise.
The Anglo-Swedish agreement has been predicted for some time, and a joint feasibility report was completed by the two governments in April 2019, followingThe economic headlines sure look better than they did a year ago. Gross domestic product (GDP) is finally growing again, rising by 2.2 percent in the third quarter of 2009, with an early estimate of 5.7 percent for the fourth. The fourth quarter number will probably be revised down, but it will still likely mark the fastest growth since 2003. The unemployment rate, after a nosedive, leveled off in the last few months of the year, and the stock market has regained 40 percent of its value after a March 2009 low. Four of the five largest bailed-out banks have either repaid the government or received permission from the Treasury Department to do so in the near future. Inflation slowed to a standstill in November after 10 months | {
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of increasing consumer prices. Construction of new homes and apartments increased in 2009 from 2008 levels, the first annual growth in housing starts since 2005.
"The Recovery Act has created jobs and spurred growth," President Barack Obama said in a December speech trumpeting the success of his economic policies. "We are in a very different place today than we were a year ago." Lawrence Summers, director of the White House National Economic Council, concurs. "Everybody agrees that the recession is over," Summers said that same month on ABC's This Week.
But a closer look reveals those appealing numbers sit on a dangerously shaky foundation. Economic growth in 2009 was largely dependent on a historic level of government spending that even the president acknowledges is unsustainable in the long term. Theroot problem of mortgage delinquencies has yet to be worked out. Bank lending is sparse amid ongoing uncertainties surrounding regulatory reform. As a result, manufacturers and small businesses continue to struggle with limited credit. All that translates into historic job losses and a bleak outlook for meaningful growth in 2010 and 2011.
Worst of all, many of the core problems in the housing, banking, manufacturing, and service sectors are being perpetuated and exacerbated by the very federal programs the president credits with jump-starting economic growth. Instead of confronting the roots of the crisis head on, as Obama has repeatedly boasted of doing, his administration and the Democratic Congress have kicked the can down the road, postponing the day of reckoning for real estate, the auto industry, and the toxic | {
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mortgage-backed securities that were at the heart of the economic meltdown. These unsolved problems will keep looming over the economy until they're finally addressed.
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The much-noted "jobless recovery" is not just a problem. It's an anomaly. Not since the post–World War II recession in 1945 has unemployment risen this quickly: five percentage points in the 24 months after the downturn began in December 2007.
To put that in perspective, it took 43 months for unemployment to hit its peak during the 1979–82 recession. In 2009 alone the economy shed a staggering 3.9 million jobs. And though the headline unemployment rate stabilized at 10 percent during the final months of the year—17.3 percent if you include part-time workers—initial jobless claims for January 2010 jumped at a rate not seenup largely by the First-Time Homebuyer Credit. The credit was first offered in 2008 as a federally backed no-interest loan of up to $7,500, paid back over 15 years. The February 2009 stimulus package extended the program to September, increased the maximum to $8,000, and eliminated the repayment requirement. With the free cash giveaway set to expire at the end of the third quarter, builders and buyers rushed to close on homes, concentrating larger than normal residential investment into third-quarter GDP. Due to the "success" of the program, the credit has been extended again until April 2010. But the program has only helped individual buyers and sellers, not the housing market as a whole.
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in which the band-aid rescue programs are delaying efforts to address the economy's deeper problems.
As Goes Housing, So Goes the Economy
Like unemployment and GDP growth, the housing market seemed to show green shoots in early 2010. Housing starts were up 22 percent from January 2009, and the Internal Revenue Service estimated that 1.4 million taxpayers used the First-Time Homebuyer Credit to buy a new house between February and September of 2009.
But there is still significant rot at the roots. Tom Zimmerman, a managing director at the commercial banking giant UBS, predicts troubles ahead. "The housing market has a lot of wood to chop to get through this cycle," Zimmerman said in October 2009 at an American Enterprise Institute event. "We're not over by any means in terms ofcounter that the trend lines are improving, since the growth in people falling behind on their mortgage was only 7.6 percent from July to September, down from 14 percent in the second quarter. But Wells Fargo's Silvia disagrees. "Delinquencies and foreclosures traditionally lag the economic cycle," he says. "We're likely to see delinquencies continue for the next three to six months. In some areas it might be nine months to a year."
A possible reason for the delayed reaction is the high concentration of delinquencies in a few areas of the country. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as of September 2009, 31 percent of homes in foreclosure are located in five states: California, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, and New Jersey. This concentration creates massive headaches for | {
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that blew up in 2007, but they bear disturbingly similar characteristics. Widespread commercial real estate losses in the coming months threaten to destroy any gains Wall Street has seen during the last year.
This threat has many analysts predicting a rise in the number of banks going belly up. More than 170 banks have failed since the beginning of the recession. To put that in perspective, only three banks failed between July 2004 and December 2007. And the bank closures show no signs of slowing down. In October the feds shut down 20 banks, the most of any month since 1994. Some analysts have predicted that as many as 1,000 banks will have imploded by the time the economy recovers.
The glass-half-full banking results that the administration has been toutingFargo's Silvia asks. "It is problematic."
Banks are aware of this problem. Interbank lending remains limited as confidence problems continue to plague the financial industry. "There is no grease in the engine in terms of bank credit or trade credit," CreditRiskMonitor.com CEO Jerry Flum told The Institutional Risk Analyst in October. The goal of the TARP capital injections was to get the lending engine going, but banks have largely been sitting on the money, holding increased excess reserves.
With so much money sitting idle, cash flow is a major concern for banks and their customers. It is unclear when the market will see stability again, and until new operational norms emerge banks are likely to remain tight with their cash. With the administration now promoting the biggest banking regulatory overhaul | {
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A teenage boy is recovering in hospital after suffering serious injuries and possible permanent damage to his eye while playing the popular “Duct tape challenge”.
Fourteen-year-old Skylar Fish suffered severe head injuries, a brain aneurysm and damage to his eye socket after his attempt at the challenge went awry. He has been recovering in hospital since 16 January.
The “challenge” involves a person wrapping someone in duct tape who is then filmed trying to escape. Some videos uploaded to YouTube showing people attempting the challenge have millions of views.
Skylar, who had played the game before with school friends, decided to undertake the challenge again while at Renton Academy in Washington.
A fall during the challenge crushed Skylar's eye socket and caused him to suffer a brain aneurysm Facebook (Siemny Kim/ Facebook)
Hismen were charged for 142 counts of possession of a firearm and were bailed by police after posting numerous photos. The craze has led to several calls for photos to be taken down, with parents fearing that children could try and create their own poses. Instagram The most controversial internet crazes Planking Originating in Australia in 2008, the trend of 'planking' swept Britain a year later. The craze, in which people form a straight figure with hands down by their sides, had thousands of participants uploading their efforts on to Facebook. While most were harmless enough, the more daring have been known to plank across railway tracks and between buildings, causing major health concerns. In 2011, a 20-year-old man died after 'planking' on a seven-story building in Australia. | {
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Twitter The most controversial internet crazes Twerking Twerking, a mixture of twisting and jerking, has been around since the late 1990s, but its popularity dramatically increased after Miley Cyrus 'twerked' at the 2013 MTV VMA awards with Robin Thicke, prompting fans to upload their own versions on Youtube - we've even had twerking stormtroopers. It's since been accused of corrupting the minds of young people and, last year, 33 students were suspended after making a video of themselves 'twerking' using school equipment. Machinima The most controversial internet crazes Happy Slap It's been almost a decade since the Happy Slap craze broke out in the UK, but what started out in as a small joke between friends in Lewisham in 2004 eventually became a nationwide phenomenon. Happy Slapping involveda victim being filmed on a camera phone getting slapped. As the craze spread, incidents became more and more vicious and it was linked to a rise in bullying in school playgrounds. In 2008, a teenage girl was sentenced to two years' detention after filming the fatal beating of a man. nydailynews.com The most controversial internet crazes Tombstoning 'Tombstoning' emerged in 2012 as a much more dangerous fad. It involved finding the highest rock to leap from, giving jumpers sufficient time to change their body position to resemble a tomb falling into the sea. It was invented initially as a way to keep cool during sizzling temperatures, but as the challenges became more daunting, some experienced horrific injuries as a result of jumping into shallow or rocky waters. | {
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increasingly popular in the US. It sees agile teenagers throw gallons of milk in the air as well as hurtling themselves on to the ground. However, with the mess, cost and inconvenience that is caused, the 'gallon smashing' craze has seen security stepped up in supermarkets. YouTube
Skylar's mother, Sarah Fish, told BuzzFeed doctors had called the incident a “freak accident” and said they usually see similar injuries in car crash victims.
Ms Fish said: “He is really lucky to be alive, he is really lucky not to have brain damage.”
Skylar is recovering but may not regain vision in his eye.
He was transferred to Seattle Children's Hospital on Monday where he will undertake the rest of his recovery. Speaking from his hospital bed, the teenager told KIRO 7: “I’m just,What will become of this massive site is not yet known. But it is an excellent example of a larger debate: public access sites to the river.
Frisbie said there is a large problem when it comes to public access on the south side versus the north side.
Two new boathouses are set to open soon on the north side, including one just north of Diversey Avenue with a state-of-the-art indoor rowing tank. In the last decade, the portion of the river that cuts through downtown has become a recreational and economic engine.
Asked if the south side of the river is treated as a forgotten stepchild, Frisbie said no but added: "It just needs more intense planning."
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they were portrayed in the media.
While her father was cast as hard-core and someone who liked to party, she said people didn’t know he was light-hearted with a fantastic sense of humor and an old-fashioned way about him. Jones and Wynette divorced in 1975, and Georgette’s time with her parents became divided.
Because of their schedules, Jones said, she never saw her dad that much when she was younger. She said it meant so much to her when she recorded “Daddy Come Home” with her father when she was 10 years old. “I really did mean every word,” she said.
As she continued to grow, Jones knew she loved music, but she’d seen the impact its touring and schedules had on her family.
“I put off a music career for myBy all accounts Demi Moore and Bruce Willis were fine, loving parents to their three daughters together: Rumer, 28, Scout, 25, and Tallulah, 23.
The one-time Hollywood power couple also kept things friendly after they divorced in 2000 and moved on to new partners. In Moore’s case, she picked up with 16-years-younger actor Ashton Kutcher, who was her husband for eight years.
As if to show their bonus family solidarity, Moore, Kutcher and Willis often turned up together at red carpet events, with all three girls in tow, everyone looking happy and accepting.
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The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has dismissed the £250,000-a-year he earns from a controversial second job as "chicken feed".
Johnson also insisted it was "wholly reasonable" for him to write newspaper columns on the side because he did them "very fast".
The comments risk infuriating millions of Londoners struggling to make ends meet amid the economic downturn.
They are also unlikely to please David Cameron, who has ordered his shadow cabinet to give up extra work in the run-up to the general election to show their "commitment".
Johnson, who is paid nearly £140,000 for his day job, was questioned over his lucrative contract with the Daily Telegraph during an interview for the BBC's HARDTalk programme.
He responded "It'sarticle as a way of relaxation."
Johnson decided to continue with his columns for the Telegraph after being elected last year, but donates £50,000 from his annual fee to charities.
Liberal Democrat frontbencher Norman Baker said: "There is nothing wrong with people writing newspaper columns but this is an enormous amount of money and for Boris Johnson to dismiss it as 'chicken feed' shows just how out of touch he and the Conservative party are from the reality of life for millions of Londoners struggling to make ends meet in the depths of a recession." | {
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ordinary Londoners, some of which are at risk of the wrecking ball. Our list demands that you get out and walk around your city, and take a look at some of its more humble buildings as well as its architectural icons.
One of the most important buildings in the city, the 15th century Silk Market, is a World Heritage Site and considered one of the most wonderful examples of non-religious Gothic architecture in Europe. The interior is meant to represent paradise, with its soaring columns symbolising palm trees reaching towards the sky – or roof – which was originally painted blue. Far less pleasant but equally fascinating are the stone gargoyles perched around the exterior, which are by turn pornographic, nausea-inducing or just completely bizarre.
Valencia is packed with stunningonly helps Kesler. He is currently leading all centers in shifts/game, has a 58 FOW% (good for 6th amongst centers with at least 50 GP), and he currently has the 3rd highest SH TOI amongst centers. Another interesting stat is he has 0 giveaways on the PK. ZERO. Kesler has been an integral part in the teams attack as well as the penalty kill which makes him my pick at this point.
Vezina
Sergei Bobrovsky – Columbus Blue Jackets
Bobrovsky has had a total career renaissance this season. Posting a .931 SV% (nearly a career high), which tops the league in goaltenders who have played > 50 games. Additionally, he has allowed a league low 2.04 goals/game for all eligible goaltenders. It is also absolutely worth mentioning that he has been | {
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the best goaltender on one of the best teams in the league this season. Bobrovsky played an integral role in the Jackets’ 16-game winning streak earlier this year, only allowing 1.64 goals/game over that stretch. The Jackets are currently sitting at 100 points, tied for the best in the NHL and have locked up a playoff spot with 11 games to go with a lot of the success being credited to this guy. He is all but a lock for the Vezina.
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Auston Matthews – Toronto Maple Leafs
This is one of the harder winners to pick because there has been so many great standout rookies this year. In making this decision, it ultimately came down to Matthews and Laine. These two have been trading blows, going back and forthOswald is Lewis's slightly shorter, dark-haired friend is the dumb one of the double-act, which tends to be his most distinguishing characteristic. Lewis described him once as a "man-child stuck in a sort of prolonged adolescence." At one point Oswald trained to be a nurse, but he proved unsuitable. Oswald was a deejay at the beginning of the first season but later on became a delivery driver for Global Parcel (a fictional package-delivery service whose uniforms are modeled after those of UPS). His name is a play on Lee Harvey Oswald. In the episode Bus-ted, it is revealed that Oswald joined the group of friends to replace Adam, a childhood friend who fell through the ice on a lake. | {
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computers - falls prey to hackers, with catastrophic results.Michael Balboni, deputy secretary for public safety in New York state, described "a huge threat out there" against everything from banking institutions to municipal water systems and dams.
Mr Henry said terrorist groups aim for an online 9/11, "inflicting the same kind of damage on our country, on all our countries, on all our networks, as they did in 2001 by flying planes into buildings".
A web attack of that scale has not yet happened in the US but computer hacking - once something of a sport for brilliant delinquents - is rapidly evolving around the world as a weapon of war.
Russian hackers allegedly mounted huge assaults on internet networks in Estonia and Georgia last year, while Palestinian sympathisers have orchestrated attacksthe most well known wine regions of Washington State and it is here that Cayuse Vineyards farms their 60 acres of vines. This biodynamic vineyard is celebrated for its Syrah and Grenache, though they also make a great Tempranillo.
Oregon:
Oregon has become famous for producing one wine extremely well and that wine is Pinot Noir. One exceptional producer of Oregon Pinot is Atticus Wine. The winery is located in the Willamette Valley, the region of Oregon consider to be the ideal location for growing Pinot Noir, and Pinot Noir is all they grow.
New York:
The Finger Lakes was the first region of New York to make great wine, but now wine is being made just as well out on Long Island’s North Fork. One of our favorite Long Island vineyards | {
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their Cherry Tree Merlot.
Ohio:
Located about an hour east of Cleveland, Markko Vineyards has been making wine in Ohio since 1968. They’re considered one of the state’s pioneering wineries and are well known for their Chardonnay.
Missouri:
Norton is a grape native to the United States that, while not used often in American wine making, is actually used quite often in Missouri, where it is also the state grape. One Missouri winery famous for making Norton wine is Mount Pleasant Estates.alive who knew what it was? As it turned out, there was. Unbeknownst to me, in March 2010, while I was writing the beginnings of this book, the British Film Institute was having a retrospective showing of two of Arnold Louis Miller’s old sexploitation films, which included a question and answer session with Arnold Miller himself (which is worth watching for its own sake), still very much alive, and very sprightly and sharp for a man of eighty-eight years old. At one point he says,
My father’s company was L Miller & Son, Ltd, and he had the rights from America to publish Captain Marvel, Young Marvel, and the Marvelman Family, and they were quite successful.
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he mentioned the Marvelman Family instead of the Marvel Family, but it was certainly an interesting slip, if it was.
It turned out that the person interviewing Arnold Miller at the BFI was a friend of a friend, and before long I had managed to actually find an address for him, and we began a postal correspondence about Marvelman that lasted for about six months, on and off, during which I found out that he had been approached by Jon Campbell with regard to Marvelman, although it did seem that, despite this, he really didn’t know too much about the modern history of the character.
This is his version of how Marvelman came to be created, and of what part Mick Anglo played in that creation, condensed from a numberof different letters:
I am in the process of two projects, one being a company in Scotland, which is interested in publishing copies of the comics previously published by L Miller and Son Ltd. The other is, I am involved in a book on my life in the publishing business, and then later in the film business. The real story as I remember is this, Mick Anglo was employed by L Miller and Son Ltd to write and draw story lines for Marvelman and the Marvelman Family comics, the rights to use the titles were given to L Miller and Son Ltd by Fawcett Publications. Mick Anglo has no copyright on the title Marvelman or Marvelman Family. Fawcett were aware of L Miller and Son Ltd publishing and using | {
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in Supreme: The Return #6 (June 2000). There are even copies of the book in the artwork here and there throughout Moore’s work on Marvelman, as well as in Watchmen, so it’s apparent he placed a good deal of importance on its role in the history of the superhero in general, and of Marvelman in particular. But Hugo Danner is a forerunner of Marvelman in only the broadest sense. There were also two comics adaptations of Gladiator itself, firstly by Marvel, when they ran the first half of an adaptation of the novel, under the name Man-God, in Marvel Preview #9 in 1976, then another one in 2005, when Howard Chaykin wrote the four-part Legend (WildStorm Productions, April – July 2005), a close retelling of the story inneither in its original incarnation in 1950s Britain, when the metaphorical distance between the two countries was far greater than it is now (and they could be forgiven for never having even heard of Marvelman), nor in its later version in the 1980s, which they definitely were aware of, as it was in great part because of his work on Marvelman that DC contacted Alan Moore in 1983 to offer him work writing Saga of the Swamp Thing. DC could presumably still claim that Marvelman was a copy of not just one, but two of their properties – Superman and Captain Marvel – but would they be allowed to proceed with a case, seeing that they had not previously raised any objection to the character’s existence? This is | {
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take over from his predecessor, even picking up the numbering of the comic Captain Marvel was vacating. Actually, Marvelman was less created than adapted, an older character made over into a newer one by the utterance of a magic word, somewhere halfway between Shazam! and Kimota! – Shimota!, perhaps, or Kazam! The name was changed, the costume was changed, the magic word was changed, but underneath all that Marvelman was still much more like than unlike Captain Marvel. However, Fawcett Publications had not objected to Marvelman in the 1950s, apparently because they were complicit in his creation, according to Arnold Miller, so again the chance to claim that Captain Marvel had been copied may now have expired. Fawcett Publications no longer exists, with various bits having been boughtlonger be supplying them with Captain Marvel material for the British market. The Millers were in a panic, and begged Anglo to help them out, as they were about to lose their most lucrative comic character. Anglo went back to his studio, gave it some thought, and came up with Marvelman, which he then supplied the Millers with for the next six years.
In a way, neither of these versions of the story is entirely satisfactory, and the truth probably lies somewhere between the two. There may, in fact, be a third version of the story. The Don Lawrence website says,
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Don is the creator of the spin-off Marvelman Family, which he had made up all by himself.
The idea that Don Lawrence was in it right from the beginning seems to be corroborated by Anglo himself, who called him ‘The first of the Marvelman artists.’ It is entirely possible that, when Mick Anglo went back to his studios in Gower Street on that day in late 1953, after being briefed by Len Miller about what he and Fawcett had decided they wanted Anglo to do, that, rather than puzzle it out on his own, he called together a few of his best people, and that they all put their heads together to see what they could come up with, and there seems to be strong anecdotal evidence from bothMiller and Son. Later on, though, circumstances would change, perhaps allowing Mick Anglo to claim the copyright for himself.
In September 1974 L Miller and Co (Hackney) Ltd was wound up, and ceased to exist. They had stopped publishing comics by 1966, and sold off a lot of their comics-related property then, some of it to Alan Class and Co Ltd, leading people to speculate that he might somehow have gained the rights to Marvelman. There is no evidence of any kind to support this speculation, however, and there has certainly never been any claim to this effect that I have ever seen on the part of Alan Class himself, who is now retired. And even though one of the directors of the Millers’ company, Arnold Miller, is still | {
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Image caption Michael Woodford said the lawsuit was "an utter and complete vindication" for his stance
The former chief executive of Japanese camera firm Olympus has said the decision to sue current and former executives is "deeply inadequate".
Michael Woodford was fired as chief executive after he questioned dubious payments made by the firm.
Olympus is now suing 19 current and former executives after a $1.7bn (£1bn) accounting cover-up.
But Mr Woodford told the BBC a complete clearout of the current Olympus board was needed to regain credibility.
"If corporate governance is to mean anything in Japan, and for those who care about the future of Olympus, the only way forward is an entirely new board of directors, which are untainted by the past scandal," Mr Woodford he said.
'Vindication'
Mr Woodford had written sixBBC.
The case will focus on current and former board members, including ex-president Tsuyoshi Kikukawa, former vice president Hisashi Mori and auditor Hideo Yamada.
The current president Shuichi Takayama will step down this month for his involvement in the scandal, reported Kyodo News.
Olympus spokesman Satoshi Ikuta also confirmed that all board members subject to the lawsuit would be stepping down in March or April.
Takeover target?
At close of trade in Japan on Monday, shares in Olympus were up 19.94% to close at 1,263 yen.
Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Michael Woodford the ex-chief executive of Olympus has called for a new board of directors
Shares were boosted by talk of Olympus becoming a takeover target and a report that the company is now unlikely to be delisted.
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