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Amédée Bollée
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Born: Thursday, January 11, 1844
In: Sainte-Croix, Le Mans (72) (United States)
Sun: 20°26' Capricorn
Moon: 2°13' Libra
Dominants: Aquarius, Capricorn, Pisces
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Amédée-Ernest Bollée (11 January 1844 – 20 January 1917) was a French bellfounder and inventor who specialized in steam cars. After 1867 he was known as "Amédée père" to distinguish him from his similarly named son, Amédée-Ernest-Marie Bollée (1867–1926). Bollée was the eldest son of Ernest-Sylvain Bollée, a bellfounder and inventor who moved to Le Mans in 1842.
Suzanne Manet
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Born: Friday, October 30, 1829
In: Delft (Netherlands)
Sun: 6°40' Scorpio AS: 22°58' Scorpio
Moon: 5°20' Sagittarius MC: 14°47' Virgo
Dominants: Scorpio, Sagittarius, Aries
Pluto, Jupiter, Uranus
Houses 1, 12, 2 / Fire, Water / Fixed
Biography of Suzanne Manet (excerpt)
Suzanne Manet, born Suzanne Leenhoff; 30 October 1829 – 8 March 1906) was a Dutch-born pianist and the wife of the painter Édouard Manet, for whom she frequently modeled. An excellent pianist, Leenhoff was initially hired in 1851 by Manet's father, Auguste, as a piano teacher for Édouard and his brothers.
François-Théodore Legras
Born: Friday, December 27, 1839
In: Claudon (88) (France)
Sun: 5°16' Capricorn AS: 3°52' Cancer
Moon: 4°44' Libra MC: 3°33' Pisces
Dominants: Capricorn, Libra, Pisces
Sun, Moon, Uranus
Houses 7, 4, 6 / Water, Air / Cardinal
Biography of François-Théodore Legras (excerpt)
François-Théodore Legras, born December 27, 1839 in Claudon (Vosges) and died August 2, 1916 in Paris, is a French master glassmaker. He participates in numerous national and international exhibitions where he is very often rewarded. He was also responsible for the glass and crystal section of the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris.
Born: Saturday, October 15, 1831
In: Boroughbridge (United Kingdom)
Sun: 21°24' Libra
Moon: 8°16' Aquarius
Dominants: Libra, Aquarius, Aries
Venus, Uranus, Pluto
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Isabella Lucy Bird, married name Bishop FRGS (15 October 1831 – 7 October 1904), was a nineteenth-century British explorer, writer, photographer, and naturalist. With Fanny Jane Butler she founded the John Bishop Memorial hospital in Srinagar. She was the first woman to be elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
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In: Struteles (Latvia)
Sun: 7°18' Scorpio
Moon: 11°04' Pisces
Dominants: Scorpio, Pisces, Aquarius
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Numerology: Birth Path 22
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Krišjānis Barons (October 31, 1835 – March 8, 1923) was a Latvian writer who is known as the "father of the dainas" (Latvian: "Dainu tēvs") thanks largely to his systematization of the Latvian folk songs and his labour in preparing their texts for publication in Latvju dainas.
Marcellin Desboutin
Born: Tuesday, August 26, 1823
In: Cérilly (03) (France)
Sun: 2°40' Virgo AS: 8°49' Pisces
Moon: 1°26' Taurus MC: 20°09' Sagittarius
Dominants: Virgo, Taurus, Cancer
Mercury, Neptune, Jupiter
Houses 7, 2, 10 / Earth, Water / Mutable
Biography of Marcellin Desboutin (excerpt)
Marcellin Gilbert Desboutin (Cérilly 26 August 1823 – 18 February 1902 Nice) was a French painter, printmaker, and writer. Desboutin always signed himself Baron de Rochefort. As a writer, Desboutin, besides Maurice of Saxony, is the author of a translation of Byron's Don Juan and of a drama performed in the late 1880s, Madame Roland.
Antonin Proust
Born: Saturday, March 10, 1832
In: Niort (79) (France)
Sun: 20°04' Pisces AS: 12°12' Leo
Moon: 0°34' Cancer MC: 27°48' Aries
Dominants: Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn
Uranus, Venus, Mars
Houses 8, 7, 6 / Water, Fire / Cardinal
Biography of Antonin Proust (excerpt)
Antonin Proust (10 March 1832 – 20 March 1905) was a French journalist and politician. Antonin Proust was born at Niort, Deux-Sèvres. In the 1840s, Proust attended the Collège Rollin where he met lifelong friend Édouard Manet. In September 1850, Proust and Manet joined the studio of Thomas Couture for artistic training.
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Born: Friday, March 4, 1836
In: Westerfield, Suffolk (United Kingdom)
Sun: 14°00' Pisces
Moon: 27°39' Virgo
Dominants: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries
Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury
Biography of Matilda Betham-Edwards (excerpt)
Matilda Betham-Edwards (4 March 1836, in Westerfield, Ipswich – 4 January 1919, in Hastings) was an English novelist, travel writer and Francophile, and a prolific poet, who corresponded with several well-known English male poets of the day. In addition, she wrote a number of children's books.
Maria Elise Turner Lauder
Born: Wednesday, February 20, 1833
In: Saint-Armand, Quebec (Canada)
Sun: 1°53' Pisces
Dominants: Pisces, Aries, Aquarius
Uranus, Mars, Neptune
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Biography of Maria Elise Turner Lauder (excerpt)
Maria Elise Turner Lauder (pen name Toofie Lauder, also known as Maria Elise Turner de Touffe Lauder; 20 February 1833 – 1 June 1922) was a Canadian teacher, linguist, and author who travelled extensively in Europe. She published novels and poetry, but mostly was known for writing about her travels.
Henry Bazin
Born: Tuesday, October 20, 1829
In: Nancy (54) (France)
Sun: 27°12' Libra AS: 11°45' Cancer
Moon: 11°28' Leo MC: 12°37' Pisces
Dominants: Leo, Sagittarius, Cancer
Moon, Neptune, Jupiter
Houses 5, 6, 2 / Fire, Water / Cardinal
Biography of Henry Bazin (excerpt)
Henri-Émile Bazin (20 October 1829 – 7 February 1917) was a French engineer specializing in hydraulic engineering.
Émile Amagat
Born: Saturday, January 2, 1841
In: Saint-Satur (18) (France)
Sun: 12°00' Capricorn AS: 24°09' Aries
Moon: 1°14' Taurus MC: 11°04' Capricorn
Dominants: Capricorn, Aries, Sagittarius
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Houses 10, 1, 9 / Fire, Earth / Cardinal
Biography of Émile Amagat (excerpt)
Émile Hilaire Amagat (2 January 1841, Saint-Satur – 15 February 1915) was a French physicist. His doctoral thesis, published in 1872, expanded on the work of Thomas Andrews, and included plots of the isotherms of carbon dioxide at high pressures. Amagat published a paper in 1877 that contradicted the current understanding at the time, concluding that the coefficient of compressibility of fluids decreased with increasing pressure.
Anna Brassey
Born: Monday, October 7, 1839
In: London (United Kingdom)
Moon: 12°31' Libra
Dominants: Libra, Sagittarius, Aries
Venus, Pluto, Moon
Air, Fire / Cardinal
Biography of Anna Brassey (excerpt)
Anna "Annie" Brassey (née Allnutt), Baroness Brassey (7 October 1839 – 14 September 1887) was an English traveller and writer. Her bestselling book A Voyage in the Sunbeam, our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months (1878) describes a voyage around the world.
Lucretia Garfield
Born: Thursday, April 19, 1832
In: Garrettsville (OH) (United States)
Sun: 29°38' Aries
Moon: 22°06' Sagittarius
Dominants: Aries, Aquarius, Sagittarius
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Biography of Lucretia Garfield (excerpt)
Lucretia Garfield (née Rudolph; April 19, 1832 – March 13, 1918) was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States. Born in Garrettsville, Ohio, Garfield first met her husband in 1849 at Geauga Seminary.
Constance Gordon-Cumming
Born: Friday, May 26, 1837
In: Altyre-Anwesen, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Sun: 4°58' Gemini
Moon: 28°30' Aquarius
Dominants: Gemini, Aquarius, Leo
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Biography of Constance Gordon-Cumming (excerpt)
Constance Frederica "Eka" Gordon-Cumming (26 May 1837 – 4 September 1924) was a noted Scottish travel writer and painter. Born in a wealthy family, she travelled around the world and painted described scenes and life as she saw them. She was a friend and influencer of the travel writers and artists Marianne North and Isabella Bird.
Robert Smalls
Born: Friday, April 5, 1839
In: Beaufort (SC) (United States)
Dominants: Taurus, Sagittarius, Aries
Venus, Jupiter, Mars
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Biography of Robert Smalls (excerpt)
Robert Smalls (April 5, 1839 – February 23, 1915) was an American politician, publisher, businessman, and maritime pilot. Born into slavery in Beaufort, South Carolina, he freed himself, his crew, and their families during the American Civil War by commandeering a Confederate transport ship, CSS Planter, in Charleston harbor, on May 13, 1862, and sailing it from Confederate-controlled waters of the harbor to the U.
Edmond Bouty
Born: Monday, January 12, 1846
In: Nant (12) (France)
Sun: 22°11' Capricorn AS: 26°27' Cancer
Moon: 23°26' Cancer MC: 7°27' Aries
Dominants: Aries, Cancer, Capricorn
Moon, Mars, Uranus
Houses 10, 12, 6 / Water, Fire / Cardinal
Biography of Edmond Bouty (excerpt)
Edmond Marie Léopold Bouty, born in Nant on January 12, 1846 and died in Paris on November 5, 1922, is a French physicist, professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris for 37 years. His scientific work focuses mainly on magnetism and electricity.
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet
Born: Tuesday, September 2, 1828
In: Guérigny (58) (France)
Sun: 10°07' Virgo AS: 1°44' Aquarius
Moon: 27°10' Gemini MC: 28°59' Scorpio
Dominants: Capricorn, Virgo, Aquarius
Uranus, Venus, Mercury
Houses 12, 6, 7 / Earth, Air / Cardinal
Biography of Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (excerpt)
Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet (September 2, 1828, Guérigny – December 18, 1911, Paris) was a French botanist. The standard author abbreviation Bornet is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Bornet was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1888.
Zacharie Astruc
In: Angers (49) (France)
Sun: 1°15' Pisces AS: 6°20' Sagittarius
Moon: 5°06' Pisces MC: 29°42' Virgo
Dominants: Aries, Pisces, Virgo
Jupiter, Saturn, Mars
Houses 3, 4, 7 / Fire, Air / Mutable
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Zacharie Astruc (20 February (not 23 February, a mistake from Wikipedia) 1833 in Angers – 24 May 1907 in Paris) was a French sculptor, painter, poet, and art critic. He was an important figure in the cultural life of France in the second half of the 19th century, and participated in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874 and also in the Exposition Universelle of 1900.
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Song «It's A Mistake» von Men At Work.
Veröffentlichungsdaten: 1983 04 29 (Album), 1983 06 (Single)
Label: Columbia QC 38660, CBS BA 223076
Songwriter Colin Hay
Produktion: Peter McIan
Genre: Alternativerock - Powerpop - NewWave, Alternativerock - Reggaerock
Peter McIan
[Verse 1] Jump down the shelters to get away The boys are cockin' up their guns Tell us general, is it party time? If it is, can we all come? [Pre-Chorus 1] Don't think that we don't know Don't think that we're not trying Don't think we move too slow It's no use after crying [Chorus] Saying it's a mistake It's a mistake It's a mistake It's a mistake [Verse 2] After the laughter has died away And all the boys have had their fun No surface noise now, not much to say They got the bad guys on the run [Pre-Chorus 2] Don't try to say you're sorry Don't say he drew his gun They've gone and grabbed old Ronnie He's not the only one [Chorus] Saying it's a mistake It's a mistake It's a mistake It's a mistake [Verse 3] Tell us, commander, what do you think? 'Cos we know that you love all that power Is it on then, are we on the brink? We wish you'd all throw in the towel [Pre-Chorus 3] We'll not fade out too soon Not in this finest hour Whistle your favourite tune We'll send a card and flower [Chorus] Saying it's a mistake It's a mistake It's a mistake It's a mistake, oh [Outro] It's a mistake (It's a mistake) It's a mistake (It's a mistake) It's a mistake (It's a mistake) It's a mistake (It's a mistake) It's a mistake (It's a mistake) It's a mistake (It's a mistake) It's a mistake, it's a mistake (It's a mistake)

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Blog Tour – The Good Daughter – Karin Slaughter
July 14, 2017 July 14, 2017 crimeworm2 Comments
Apologies all – this should've been up yesterday, but the eye mask I wear to bed to black out light put an eyelash or something in my left eye, rendering it unusable – it just ran tears all day, which made reading impossible. I know, sounds like a ridiculous excuse, doesn't it? However, it's worth waiting for, as I have a Q & A with one of the Queens Of Crime, Karin Slaughter. I'd actually started reading her from her very first book, Blindsighted, but was so annoyed when she killed off one of my favourite characters I took a hiatus from reading her books. However, I've eased back in with her standalones and can definitely see me catching up with the series at some point.
Anyway, it's not me you want to hear from, it's Karin, so here we go…
Slaughter is your real name, a lucky twist of fate or something that may have shaped you as a writer?
I suppose it's a good thing I didn't decide to write romances! It's my real name, and I paid a heavy price for it as a kid. I was relentlessly teased in elementary school, and then I moved up to junior high and fortunately there were more important things to worry about. When I first got published, I never understood why people kept asking me if Slaughter was really my last name. I didn't understand the connection they were making because it had just always been my name. Then, I was in the Piccadilly tube station going up one of those treacherous escalators and I saw this massive sign that said "SLAUGHTER" and I thought, "wow, that's ominous," and then I got closer and saw the tiny "Karin" above it and thought, "oohhhhh…"
What was your inspiration for The Good Daughter?
I really enjoyed writing about the sister relationship in Pretty Girls, my last standalone, and I wanted to do something more in that vein. I'm the youngest of three girls, and my parents loved me the most because I was the smartest and prettiest, but an author's job is to get in the heads of every character they write about.
The point of writing a lot of books is to do something different each time, so when I thought of Charlie and Sam, it was almost in opposition to Claire and Lydia. I wanted Charlie to be a character I haven't written about before. She's highly competent, well-liked, and she makes mistakes, sometimes really stupid mistakes, but instead of trying to weasel around them, she owns them. Actually, she almost wears them as a badge of honor. That's an interesting way to control the bad things that happen, but I don't think it's necessarily the best way. Sam, on the other hand, lives every single moment of her life in stark relief to the "what could have been." She works very hard to define herself as having moved on, but everything she does is in opposition to that goal. Both sisters try to control things in their own way, and both fail in their own way, which is always fascinating to me. You know people by how they respond to adversity.
What does your writing day look like? Where do you write best?
When I'm ready to work on a story, I drive two hours outside of Atlanta to the Blue Ridge mountains, where I have a cabin that my father built for me. I wish I could say that I have a very balanced day when I'm working, but all I do is get up in the morning, start writing, then stop writing when I can't see or think anymore. Sometimes, that can be 12 or 16 hours (with naps in between) and sometimes that can be four hours (with more naps) but I've always been better in isolation. I don't understand how people can work in coffee shops or, worse, be in the middle of a chapter and just stop. I suppose part of it is my obsessive/compulsiveness. I'm completely incapable of not finishing something I start.
Well, I hope you all enjoyed that – look out for my review, which I'll put up as soon as I've finished it, but from what I've read so far it's non-stop action. Just fantastic!
Interview with Catriona McPherson
July 12, 2017 crimeworm2 Comments
At the moment, I'm reading Dandy Gilver And A Spot Of Toil And Trouble (review to come – but I'm loving it, as I anticipated!) I absolutely adore this series, and I also love Catriona's one-off psychological thrillers. I urge you to read her as soon as you can if you haven't yet done so – she's incredibly witty, and creates wonderful characters and very clever plots. So when asked if I'd like to ask a few questions of one of my favourite authors, how could I refuse? I hope you enjoy my wee Q & A!
The Dandy Gilver books are a homage to Golden Age crime fiction. Are you a big fan of that period of crime writing, and, if so, which authors do you most admire?
Oh, a huge fan! Yes, indeed. The first curtsey has to be to Dame Agatha, of course. I'm pretty fierce about her because she gets sneered at so regularly. People sometimes forget how ground-breaking she was and, now that some of the plots have been often copied (The Moving Finger, anyone?), she doesn't get the credit she deserves. At least some of it's pure sexism, I reckon.
But I also love everything Dorothy L Sayers ever did. It was a great honour to be asked to write the introduction to one of the recent Hodder re-issues. And I got exactly the volume I would have chosen too: Striding Folly, the last collection of short stories.
I can't say I love everything Ngaio Marsh and Michael Innes wrote, but A Surfeit of Lampreys and Appleby's End are in my top five detective novels of all time.
The one I don't quite get is Josephine Tey. The Franchise Affair always struck me as snobby in a sort of pinched way (unlike DLS's glorious snootiness – that's just funny) and The Daughter of Time is one of those books that everyone else seems to love and I keep quiet because . . . well, I keep quiet.
As well as enjoying your Dandy Gilver series, I'm also a huge fan of your psychological thrillers. Do you have any preference when it comes to writing them? And do you plan to continue writing both for the foreseeable future?
Thank you. I thoroughly enjoy both and they both have highs and lows, to be honest. I come at Dandy knowing some of the characters and knowing I've got the voice, but then I need to research some bit of the 30s and try to get it right. The standalones – being contemporary – don't have that threat of anachronism hanging over them, but each one is a new world I need to kindle from scratch.
All that said, I've got no plans to stop either strand.
Personally, one of my favourite aspects of your writing is the quirkiness of your characters – it adds to their authenticity (like the "Hand Of Man"/"Hand Of Woman" – this is part of The Child Garden where the main character, who is a registrar, guesses with her colleague who dressed the babies who are in having their birth registered. It's very funny.) I also feel you and Denise Mina are the most realistic writers of ordinary working class people, especially women, in Scotland. Does it ever feel difficult to get into that "Scottish voice" when you live in California? Or is it always there, buried in your mind?
Well, that is some high praise there. I adore Denise Mina, especially her characters. I did have someone once ask why I had given a modern character such a desperate life. I didn't think her life was desperate at all! She had a job in Tesco (as an online-shop picker) and a house and pals.
As to the voice: because I didn't move to California until I was forty four I think I'm probably going to be okay. And I make a conscious effort not to assimilate linguistically in between trips home every summer. Mind you, I did just have to ask the Facebook hive mind if Scots ever called tracky bums "sweatpants" because I couldn't remember. Most of the responses came from American friends pledging to call them "tracky bums" from now on.
What have you got on the bedside table at the moment? And is there anything you've read recently that really impressed you?
Ha, I love this question. I'm taking my laptop through to my bedroom to catalogue the answer. Okay, the TBR piles (of imminent and current reading (not to be confused with four TBR shelves of maybe one day books) + two I keep by my bed always for comfort + talking books from the library in case of insomnia) left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
Audio book of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Kate Burton
Landscape with Dead Dons Robert Robinson
My Name is Lucy Barton Elizabeth Strout
The Captain's Verses Pablo Neruda
A Place Called Winter Patrick Gale
Queen Bees Sian Evans
The Fortunes Peter Ho Davies
The Bone Clocks David Mitchell
A Front Page Affair Radha Vatsal
Aunt Jane McPhipps and her Baby Blue Chips Frances V Rummel
The Other Sister Diane Dixon
Nutshell Ian McEwan
Rather be The Devil Ian Rankin
The Two-Family House Linda Cohen Loigman
All He ever Wanted Anita Shreve
Norah Webster Colm Toibin
Audiobook of A Spool of Blue Thread Anne Tyler
I'm reading the Vatsal right now and enjoying it very much. Recent crime fiction I've admired – keeping it to crime fiction for Crimeworm: I read my first Bill Crider novel (there are more than twenty) about Texas sheriff Dan Rhodes. Imagine Alexander McCall Smith writing about a small town in Texas. Marvellous stuff! Also, Deep Water by Christine Poulson was a great treat: a character-driven crime novel that was spot-on about the working of a science lab without the details ever derailing the story. And Ausma Zehannat Khan's debut, The Unquiet Dead, set in Canada but dealing with the shadow of the break-up of Yugoslavia. It's a punch to the gut but absolutely spell-binding too.
Thank you so much, Catriona. Can I just ask you what's next on the agenda, book-wise, after Dandy Gilver And A Spot Of Toil Of Trouble?
Thank you. Today, after I send this interview back, I going to start editing Dandy Gilver No. 13. The working title is Dandy Gilver and The Supposedly Happy Occasion but who knows. Then I'm coming over to launch Toil and Trouble and, later in the summer, a modern book: The Weight of Angels (UK) House.Tree.Person (US). When I get back I'll edit the modern book I've just written (no title yet) and collapse on the couch for Christmas.
Well, there's plenty of books to add to the TBR pile there! I'm actually going to be reading The Unquiet Dead very soon, but many of the rest are new to me!
I'd like to thank the lovely Jenni at Hodder and Stoughton for giving me the opportunity to question Catriona, and of course Catriona herself for answering them. And look out for my review of Toil And Trouble coming up shortly!
Blog Tour – The Killer – Susan Wilkins
BLURB: A glossy and gripping crime thriller about survival and vengeance, it puts the pedal to the metal as it hurtles through contemporary London, from the glass towers of the super-rich to the down and dirty backstreets of organized crime and blackmail.
She was a woman, so they thought she'd be easy to kill . . .
Kaz Phelps is on the run – from the past, from the legacy of her criminal family, from the haunting memories of her murdered lover. The police want her back in jail and her enemies want her dead. While standing by the grave of her gangster brother, Kaz realizes she only has one option. To fight back.
Nicci Armstrong was one of the Met's best detectives until personal tragedy forced her to quit. Now she's responsible for the security of the super-rich who use her city as a playground. She is one of the few people Kaz might trust. But Nicci's biggest mistake yet is falling in love with a man she knows is only using her.
Meanwhile, as envious rivals back home plot against him, a Russian billionaire searches for a special gift to keep the Kremlin onside, a disgraced politician dreams of revenge and a Turkish drug baron plots to purge his dishonour with blood.
I was sort of disappointed that I'd somehow missed the first two Kaz Phelps novel not long after I started this (okay, dead giveaway, I enjoyed it.) It was only when I saw their covers I realised why – they were designed in that Marina Cole/Roberta Kray-fashion, and, to be entirely honest, they aren't really my taste. (Although I would recommend Anna Smith's Rosie Gilmour series, about a reporter, although my weakness for those may be because they're set mainly in Glasgow…)
Anyway, my bad, because book 3 is a belter – which suggests 1 and 2 were as well. It begins with a shooting at a funeral, and the action doesn't let up from there.
Now it isn't essential to have read books 1 and 2, but it'd definitely help put things in clearer context. For example, we're made aware that Kaz wants revenge for the death of her lover, Helen. But I'd love to know the full details of her death. There are other bits I'm also desperate to learn more about – Wilkins tells us enough so we can understand the plot, but curious enough to hopefully investigate the earlier books – a smart move, marketing-wise.
Post-funeral, Kaz Phelps ends up on the run. However, she's fortunate enough to run into her late brother Joey's business partner (and an early boyfriend), Paul Ackroyd. He claims he's only wanting to help an old friend in need, but she's aware that Joey had money –serious money – hidden away. And she knows when it comes to these sorts of amounts, she can trust absolutely no-one. No-one, that is, apart from ex-copper, now private security operative, Nicci Armstrong. But she was brought up with it drummed into her that coppers are the enemy – retired or not. She has some tough decisions to make…
As for the remaining members of the Phelps family, there's the flaky mother, Ellie, Aunt Glynis, and Kaz's sister, Natalie, who now has a son, Finlay. Natalie has had life deal her a pretty shitty hand, despite all the family's money, and she'd rebelled by getting involved pretty deeply in the drug scene. But she's clean now, determined to be a good mum…and there's a big surprise in store for Kaz when she learns who Finlay's father is.
Wilkins seems to know every level of London life exceptionally well – from the council estates, to the luxury Belgravia mansions, mostly owned by foreigners. From drug dealers all the way to MPs, she's spins a convincing and hard-to-put-down tale. She also, when I compare her information with other nonfiction books I've read, has a good understanding of how the drugs business, money laundering, and the firearms business operate.
In total, it makes for a really enjoyable and compelling thriller, with Kaz left in a quandary over who she can and can't trust. Joey may have had the brawn, but look where that's left him? She definitely has the brains. She just needs to use them to make the right choices…but will she?
#Northern #Crime (https://northerncrime.wordpress.com), who's a wonderful blogger and great friend – she started blogging at roughly the same time as me – did a cracking trio of reviews of all these novels, if you fancy a second opinion. In my humble opinion, the writing's quite a bit superior to the majority of these "gangland" novels, and lumping Susan Wilkins in with them, with the similar covers, is doing her a disservice. This may be gritty, but it's also intelligent, compelling, and would make a perfect holiday read. I intend to read the first two, and I'll most definitely be looking out for what Susan Wilkins does next.
With thanks to MacMillan books for the review copy, and this impartial review is my thanks to them.


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Fishing circuit won't return if mayor involved
Bostedt says MWC chief upset because she insisted on payment to local club
Fishing circuit won't return if mayor involved Bostedt says MWC chief upset because she insisted on payment to local club Check out this story on greenbaypressgazette.com: http://gbpg.net/1CVHMDz
Kent Tempus, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 11:04 p.m. CT Feb. 2, 2015 | Updated 7:28 a.m. CT Feb. 3, 2015
Robert Cartlidge, pictured at the weigh-in of a fishing tournament.(Photo: MWC)
The owner/president of the Masters Walleye Circuit and several other fishing competitions has told city officials that his organization won't hold a tournament in Oconto if Mayor Victoria Bostedt has any control over the event.
Robert Cartlidge, in a letter to the city, said his organization has received "multiple inquiries" about whether one of his circuit events is coming to the city this year. That won't happen, he said, because the 2015 schedules are set.
But Cartlidge — who went on to praise several members of the Chamber of Commerce and the city tourism committee for their support — criticized Bostedt.
"Without re-hashing everything, the issue is we were burned by the city leadership there," Cartlidge wrote. "It is very difficult for us to do business with a city whose elected official we cannot trust to honor the commitments made and adds 'drama' for weeks before, during and after the event."
Bostedt said she was sorry to hear that.
"We have the facilities and we have the fish," Bostedt said. "Every person here, including myself, made every effort to welcome them."
Cartlidge, Bostedt said, is upset because she took a stand and demanded MWC pay the Oconto Sportsmen's Club the $1,000 it had been promised for assisting with the 2014 tournament.
"He's upset I wouldn't let go of it," Bostedt said. "I will always stand up for our children, our nonprofits and our people. That's what mayors do."
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The dispute spurred a series of indignant emails between them on July 22, 2014. Cartlidge accused the city of reneging on a $7,500 payment for producing and airing a video about the 2013 tournament in Oconto.
The mayor, in return, told Cartlidge that MWC didn't follow the 2013 contract by not making a $15 per boat donation to a local charity in exchange for volunteer help at the tournament, and was determined to make sure the Sportsmen's Club was compensated for its efforts at the 2014 event.
Cartlidge wrote MWC didn't pay the Sportsmen's Club in 2013 because the city never paid the $7,500, and noted that the Oconto Sportsmen's Club didn't provide all the assistance promised by the city.
However, Cartlidge relented and said the club would be paid for 2014, but expected the $5,000 site fee to be paid. City Administrator Sara Perrizo said she and Bostedt agreed the city's payment, which was sent July 31, would be held until the club received its money.
Perrizo said she did not know that the television program had been produced, and the city never received an invoice. The first time it came up, she said, was in the email exchange between Bostedt and Cartlidge.
Cartlidge said he believed the city had been billed for it that summer.
Victoria Bosedt (Photo: OCR)
The program is the final clause in the 2013 contract, which reads: "For an additional $7,500 film and produce a half-hour television segment, to be aired nationally on NBC Sports or a similar network. Oconto chamber to have access to all footage and outtakes for its promotional efforts."
Jean Feldt, president of the Tourism Committee, said that shortly after she was elected, there was a meeting at city hall with herself, Bostedt and another tourism committee member. They were having a phone discussion with two MWC representatives to review the contract.
Feldt said all three of the city representatives told MWC officials they wouldn't be able to pay that.
The reply, she said, was MWC wanted to produce the program anyway, so the city would not be charged.
"I don't know if (Cartlidge) was privy to that conversation," Feldt said. "There was a miscommunication."
Cartlidge, in a phone interview, said no one's ever brought that phone call up to him before. He also said that their contracts include clauses for television coverage when a community expresses an interest, as they only have the capacity to produce four shows each season from the 11 tourneys held.
"From my point of view, if that's the case, they shouldn't have signed the contract or should have marked it out or done something," he said.
In his Jan. 13 letter, Cartlidge noted the program was broadcast on NBC Sports four times in the fourth quarter of 2013 and on the Pursuit Channel six times in the second quarter of 2014, and still can be seen on youtube.com.
"At this point it is water under the bridge, I am not asking for the funds that were in the 2013 agreement that the mayor refused to pay, we have written it off as bad debit (sic)," Cartlidge wrote. "However, the fishing world, even as big as it is … is still a small circle when a group as large as ours owns and manages the largest collection of fishing circuits in North America under one roof. I cannot mislead other circuits when they ask, 'How was your event in Oconto?'"
However, Cartlidge still seemed sore about the $7,500 last summer, after receiving a July 11 email from Perrizo asking whether the payment to the Sportsmen's Club required by the contract had been made, noting it needs to be received before the city pays the $5,000 site fee.
"I think before you push a contract at me I would suggest that it be read as it is very specific," Cartlidge wrote on July 22, which kicked off the email exchange with Bostedt.
After citing the clause, he added, the club did not handle "ANY task assigned, which you know they refused to do. Even though the sportsmen (sic) club DID NOT follow the terms of the contract you referenced, nor did the city of Oconto fulfill the terms of last year's 2013 contract for Television Coverage Payment. … MWC will follow the spirit of the agreement."
Cartlidge emphasized the Sportsmen's Club has been great to work with, although some members did not do a few of the jobs requested by MWC. He said he only pointed that out to illustrate the mayor was "trying to nit-pick me" about the contract.
City attorney Frank Calvert also opined the city wasn't required to pay the money, Perrizo said.
"I believe this issue could have been worked out," Perrizo said. "It wasn't."
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Other concerns
Cartlidge, in the phone interview, said his concerns ran beyond the $7,500. He recalled last season, when Bostedt tried to force a change in the dates of MWC's event after it was scheduled on the same weekend as the first Nature Fest. The mayor blamed the Tourism Committee, saying the Nature Fest had long been scheduled, and tourism would be improved by having events on separate weekends.
He also said Bostedt has tried to push the tournament activities closer to the pavilion, which would have created logistical and fish care problems.
"It's just a constant flow of issues when the mayor has gotten involved with us the last couple of years. It's a much bigger deal than the non-payment of the additional contract of the television coverage," Cartlidge said. "I don't know ... she may be an excellent mayor for Oconto, but it's the tourism part she's struggling with. The tourism board seems to be doing an excellent job with what they're doing, but it seems like every time they make a decision, she overrules them, and they push back, and we're caught in the middle."
For her part, Bostedt noted that she had nothing to do with the 2013 contract, which was signed by Perrizo for the city and Ron Hayes for the Oconto Area Chamber of Commerce on March 26 of that year.
"I didn't see it, I didn't sign it," Bostedt said.
An MWC employee signed the contract on Dec. 4, 2012. Cartlidge took ownership of MWC in January 2013.
Cartlidge, of Ponca City, Okla., also wrote MWC would consider Oconto for either a MWC walleye or bass event or possibly even a championship in 2016, "as long as we do not have to deal with any part of the city of Oconto in any form or fashion that Mayor Bostedt has control over."
"Or to put it in even plainer English, Ms. Bostedt may be a great Mayor for the city of Oconto," Cartlidge concluded, "but she sucks at tourism and she should stick with what she is good at and let the tourism folks handle tourism."
Cartlidge said he wrote the letter because several Oconto area businesses had been calling to find out whether MWC was returning.
Bostedt later said she thought the timing of the letter was odd because it arrived just hours before the meeting at which the council was to consider approval or placing on the ballot of a proposed ordinance to change city government to the council-manager, which if approved would eliminate the mayor's job. The state Government Accountability Board later ruled the petition insufficient and halted the referendum.
Bostedt said she thought it best for her to read the letter aloud at the council meeting.
"If I had not read and addressed … someone else would have brought it up," she said. "I read it because it was about me. It was the right thing to do."
Bostedt said the email exchange with Cartlidge was intended to defend Oconto residents, not only to make sure the club was paid, but also against a statement by someone at the 2013 tournament that numerous walleyes brought in for weighing died because children mishandled them.
The remark, relayed to her by a parent, was not appropriate, especially when heavy rains that year made conditions difficult for both volunteers and fishermen.
"(MWC were) our guests here, we are paying (them) and we are doing everything in our power, and doing it with smiles in our faces," Bostedt said. "To be treated this way is wrong … entirely wrong."
While Bostedt insisted that the $500 per day payment be in the 2014 contract, "that's why I didn't show up last year," she said.
Cartlidge said there was no complaint by MWC about children. He believes any statement was misconstrued, and was likely related to MWC's release boat, on which the walleyes are held after weigh-in so they can be released back into the bay. In 2013, only about 70 percent of the walleyes survived instead of the normal 98 percent he said.
"The staff told me there was lots of people on the boat at same time, and we can't have that," Cartlidge said. The children are always welcome on the boat, "but I can't have 20, 30 kids standing on the boat surrounding the tank, because then we can't get the fish in."
Feldt said the dispute between Cartlidge and the mayor created "a lot of bad blood."
"We've got a lot of pro fisherman have heard that Oconto doesn't welcome them, and that's not the truth, but we've got one honcho, telling the world the state of affairs of Oconto, and the way he has been treated by the mayor, the word has gotten out," Feldt said. "I hope it doesn't damage our ability to attract these professional anglers. I'm pretty sure it's going to affect this year. We'll see about next year."
In any event, the city only set aside funds to host one professional fishing tournament this year, instead of two. Also, the Tourism Committee is no longer handling the tournaments, which have been turned over to the jurisdiction of the Harbor Commission. Feldt said the Tourism Committee would still be involved.
Cartlidge noted Oconto is an outstanding location for fishing tournaments.
"You got a great facility there, the people and businesses there have been nothing short of spectacular, the Oconto Sportsmen's Club has helped at every event, the anglers … they've been treated like kings," Cartlidge said. "Oconto's a fantastic place to come and hold an event, and we would love to come back to Oconto and host and event, if we can do it without all the drama."
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I never thought I'd say this, but lately, I've been kind of bored of buying makeup. With my skin acting up I've had to tweak my routine a bit, and I've found my focus shifting more towards skincare. Sure, I still lust after all things Charlotte Tilbury, NARS and Becca, but I feel like I don't really need them in my current makeup collection. I'm fairly happy with it as it is.
Almost out of habit I've found myself buying things in Boots for no real rhyme or reason. I'm just buying for the sake of it, and not even buying things I really like or want. I scroll through Cult Beauty, Space NK and every blog under the soon to read about new releases, but I'm just not excited about anything right now. I'm all over the latest hyaluronic acid formulations, and I'll have a bit of salicylic any day, but a new eyeshadow palette? Nah. I have a few things in a wishlist that I've wanted for a while and will eventually purchase, but right now I'm just not feeling much enthusiasm for makeup.
To stop myself idly buying things for the sake of it, I'm implementing a makeup spending ban. I have enough makeup for now, and money's pretty tight (damn you unexpected electricity bill) at the moment, so this seems like a sensible choice. I'm also saving for a family holiday to France in a few weeks (need me some spends for cheesy souvenirs – I literally mean I'm going to buy cheese btw) and an as-yet-unbooked trip to Japan with my brother.
I will admit that I snuck one last order in on the 30th of April that has yet to arrive, which I am very excited about and will no doubt feature on the blog at some point. I've decided to try and not buy anything new until August, as I figure by then I'll probably have a carefully thought out list of things I really want and will be able to avoid impulse purchases (also hoping I'll get a bit of birthday money). This might change, but impulse shopping is definitely banned until then.
I will still repurchase things that I use a lot, primarily skincare whenever I run out, but I'm going to try and "shop my stash" like all the cool bloggers are doing at the moment. Am I the only one who always misreads it as "stache" each time and has a brief moment of confusion?
I probably should be a little more optimistic than I am about this ban; while I definitely think that I can keep it up for a month, I know that it won't be long before I'm lusting after summer releases. I'm going to play it by ear, but impulse purchases are the real enemy here.
Everything pictured in this post is something I've bought on impulse in the last six weeks, and I don't even like most of it. I particularly detest the Makeup Revolution Fortune Favours the Brave palette; awesome name, looks stunning in photos, terrible quality eyeshadows. Thoroughly unimpressed, but it does make for a damn good prop so it won't be going in the bin.


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Here's a story from May 2009 that those of us in the Native media didn't catch. It's still worth looking at for what it tells us.
Thunder Bay mom wants answers after teacher's aide chops off son's hairA Thunder Bay woman is demanding an explanation after a teacher's aide at her son's school cut his long hair—an action her lawyer says is clearly assault while the Crown insists there are no grounds for charges.
CBC has agreed to the mother's request to remain anonymous.
The seven-year-old boy had chin-length hair before the incident last month. His mother said staff at McKellar Park Central Public School were aware her son was letting his hair grow so that he could take part in traditional First Nations dancing.
The mother told CBC News she was stunned when her son told her it was a teacher's assistant who lopped off 10 centimetres of his hair.
"I said, 'Why did she do this? Did she say anything?'" said the mother. "And he said, 'No, and after she cut my hair, she took me by the shoulders and forced me to stand in front of the mirror. She made me stand there and said look at you now.'"NAN calls for justice and accountability in hair-cutting incident
Nishnawbe Aski Nation is calling for a review of the decision not to lay charges in the cutting of a seven-year-old First Nation student's hair.
By Rick Garrick"Nishnawbe Aski Nation wants an explanation of the circumstances that led to their decision not to lay charges against the teacher's assistant who violated the child and traumatized him when she cut off his hair," said NAN Deputy Chief Alvin Fiddler, explaining NAN is concerned about both the processes and decisions made by the Thunder Bay Police Service in its investigations and the regional Crown attorney in their assessment of the situation, which occurred in mid-April at McKellar Park Central Public School in Thunder Bay.
"What we have now is confusion as the Thunder Bay Police say the responsibility for charges rests with the Crown and the Ministry of the Attorney General saying the responsibility rests with the Thunder Bay Police. First they claimed it wasn't in the public interest, and now for the first time, without ever having consulted with the child's parents, they say it's 'to avoid revictimizing the child.'"Thunder Bay teacher's aide crosses a cultural line
By Isha ThompsonIt was only two inches of hair cut from the head of a seven-year-old Aboriginal boy by a teaching assistant in Thunder Bay on April 16, but the significance of the act was so much more than just a school teacher stepping over the bounds of a student-teacher relationship.
The fallout from the haircut became a lesson in cultural awareness, and the message sent was clear: Tampering with the sacred and the traditional beliefs of the first peoples in Ontario will not be tolerated.
"When you've chopped off someone's hair you have taken away their pride," said traditional healing coordinator Teresa Magiskan. She works with the the Anishnawbe Mushkiki Health Centre in Thunder Bay.
"The worst thing to do to someone, historically, is to take their hair," she explained. Magiskan was reminded of past centuries where men were shamed by their enemies in battles by having their hair taken from them.
Magiskan, who has been involved with the cultural teachings program at the centre for the past five years, said even the length of hair and the way it is styled can be incredibly symbolic in Aboriginal culture. She said some traditionalists believe that the cutting of hair represents a time of mourning the loss of a loved one.
The boy's mother--who asked not to be named--was quoted in the Globe and Mail comparing the importance of hair to Aboriginal culture as the Kippot or yarmulke is to Jewish tradition. Hebrew men wear the caps on their heads as a sign of respect to their religion.
"You have to respect that," she said. "It's the same thing."
The reality is, however, most people are not aware of the symbolic nature hair has in Aboriginal culture. That was apparent in the reaction to the event after the hair cutting incident was reported to the public. A diverse range of opinions were voiced when it was reported that the teaching assistant would not face charges, but would be suspended from her job for choosing to cut another parent's child's hair without permission.
Social networking sites and comment boards were the perfect places for people to vent. More than 12,000 people joined a Facebook group that requested members sign a petition demanding "justice" and serious consequences to be faced by the teaching assistant and school board.
Many posted comments on sites that said the boy was a victim of discrimination and called for the teacher's aide to be charged criminally.
"This is outrageous! If anyone cut my child's hair without permission, I would be demanding the police to charge them. I hope that this parent does take this T.A. to court and wins," read a comment on the CBC Web site on May 26.
Others couldn't understand why there was so much anger towards a teacher, who some argued, was attempting to help the boy remove hair from his eyes.
"Some hair was cut. Big deal. Unfortunate, but it grows back," read a comment on another site.Comment: First of all, the facts of the case aren't clear. One article says the aide cut two inches; another says she cut 10 centimeters, which is close to four inches. Big difference.
Also, the articles don't say whether the aide cut the boy's hair solely across his forehead, to help him see better, or all around his head. Again, big difference. Clearing his eyes doesn't change the overall length of his hair, or its symbolic value, presumably.
The articles imply that the aide cut more than just the hair off his forehead. First, few children have four inches of hair hanging over their faces. Second, the initial article states that "the seven-year-old boy had chin-length hair before the incident." Again, cutting only the hair off the forehead wouldn't change the overall length. So the aide gave the boy a two- to four-inch trim around his head.
It seems pretty obvious she was making some sort of statement about the "inappropriateness" of the boy's long hair. Otherwise, why stand him in front of a mirror? If you're just trimming the bangs off his forehead, that doesn't require a visual inspection.
Hair-cutting = assault?
Was this an assault? Yes, I'd say it was a mild form of assault. It was akin to slapping the boy, painting a scarlet letter on his forehead, or taking off his pants to search for contraband. It had to be hugely embarrassing even if it caused no permanent physical harm.
Of course, some schools still allow corporal punishment. Naturally, I oppose this. I say keep your hands off the kids unless they're in imminent danger of harming themselves or others.
But would I prosecute the aide for the assault? No, probably not. The ignorant twit undoubtedly thought she was doing the right thing. She may not have violated an existing rule--although there should be one to cover this situation. Putting her on trial would mean delving into the subjective area of whether she harmed the boy or not. Some jurors probably would say no, making the trial a waste of time and money.
Seems to me a suspension was the correct penalty. Put a note in her file saying she violated the boy's religious or cultural rights. She shamed the boy, but she also shamed herself. From now on, locals will know her as the dummy who wrongly cut a boy's hair. Unless she goes on to greater things, this will be the lead sentence in her obituary.
Why this case matters
The stereotype here is that non-Native values are better than Native values. I.e., that short hair is better than long hair. That the child has no legitimate reason to grow his hair long, so he must be an undisciplined "wild" child who needs care. That long hair is a sign of defiance, a threat to the established order, that government agents must nip in the bud.
Well, it is a sign of defiance in terms of asserting that Native values are different but equally good. It does pose a threat to the established order in terms of noting its inflexibility and irrationality. That kind of defiance and "disorder" is what we call freedom--the freedom to be different from the white Christian norms of the US and Canada.
For more on a related case, see School Needs to Regulate Hair?
Labels: education, religion, stereotypes
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al oof said...
i can't imagine a situation in which it would be ok for a teacher (or teacher's aide) to cut a kid's hair. when does that ever happen? if his hair was in his face, a barrette would suffice.
i just can't believe there was innocence on the part of the aide. what could they possibly have thought? not only were they being ignorant, i think they were being malicious.
of course, i am speculating like crazy, but cutting a kids hair at school seems totally bizarre to me.
Chance said...
al oof,
I was thinking the same thing, this was intentionally malicious. in the article I think they say both the teacher and the aide were aware of the fact that the boys parents wanted to grow his hair out and why???
the thing I don't understand is why was she so fixed on the boys hair. its not like it was THAT long, chin length???, I've seen boys from all diff ages and grades in public school with hair long down their backs!!! it seems like she may be a bigot and racist. she knew he was growing his hair out and why, she didn't take their culture seriously AND at the same time was opposed to it.
also anyone with any sense and general knowledge would know that if a group of people have one or more OBVIOUS things in common its obviously favorable/symbolic in their culture. if you go to a synagogue with out knowing anything about jewish beliefs and you see the men all come out with yarmulkes, you are going to assume that it is either spiritually symbolic or favorable(or both) among those people, either way who are you, especially as an outsider, to say whether it should be as important to those people as it is. whether she understood the boys culture or not she obviously understood how much having long hair meant to him and his fam, she should have respected that, but most bigots and racists wouldn't.
@ Chance:
Check this one out: The 4 year old boy was suspended, clearly not racially motivated (he's White). The boy has chin length hair as well, it's just that 'longer' hair is 'for girls' and thus forbidden. Where would society end up if we didn't make sure that there are ridiculous laws regarding what is appropriate for which gender?! ;)
I say let the boy now cut the hair of the teacher aide, then make the aide stand in front of the mirror so the boys family (who will be present) can say in concert - there, look at yourself now.
Filmi Girl said...
Hi - I've been following your blog for a couple of weeks now and I find it really informative! Thank you for your hard work.
I agree with Kat that this was probably motivated out of a duel ignorance about Native beliefs and a lack of tolerance for anything that appears to violate the teacher's idea of gender norms.
I follow Indian (as in Asian) news media and this kind of racist attack happens a lot to Sikh boys.
http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/international-politics/26090-sikh-boys-hair-cut-off-racist-attack-knife-gang.html
I sometimes change the adjective "Indian" to "India" when referring to the nation of India. Such as "India News Service".
Likewise, when I refer to people from there as "India Indians", there's no confusion at all.
"East Indians" is the best term to use, because of the East Indies (a geographic area that contains Indonesia and few other countries, and is not India at all).
Rob said...
Good point about the aide's gender bias. Unless she also cut every girl's hair that was too long, she was clearly prejudiced.
Another good point about hair's symbolic value. It doesn't even matter if the boy was a Native growing his hair for religious reasons. He could've been a hippie child instead. Whatever the reason, he and his parents chose to let his hair grow.
Therefore, cutting it was as much of a statement as letting it grow was. The only exception to this would be if the boy's parents literally didn't care about his grooming. I.e., if they were letting him go "feral" like a wild animal. The number of times that happens outside of TV shows must be vanishingly small.
I like the idea of letting the boy or someone cut the teacher's hair as a public punishment. That would be extremely fitting. It would make the shaming effect of the act evident to the adults who still don't get it.
P.S. Many people call the people from India "Asian Indians" these days.
@ Rob
the gender bias makes sense, long hair on native MALES is what stands out most to outsiders. it could have been both bigotry and gender bias. if he was a hippie growing his hair even, thats still bigotry and gender bias. The fact that she disregarded his and his families culture and spirituality by cutting his hair is what crosses the line to racism. or maybe it was just bigotry, Im just having a really HARD time imagining what the heck was going on inside her mind when she decided to humiliate that boy, and WHAT was her problem that she had to go so far as to cut his hair in a class room AGAINST his parents wishes??? I just don't get it.????


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The kernel's packet filtering system would be of little use to administrators without a userspace interface to manage it. This is the purpose of iptables. When a packet reaches your server, it will be handed off to the Netfilter subsystem for acceptance, manipulation, or rejection based on the rules supplied to it from userspace via iptables. Thus, iptables is all you need to manage your firewall if you're familiar with it, but many frontends are available to simplify the task.
The default firewall configuration tool for Ubuntu is ufw. Developed to ease iptables firewall configuration, ufw provides a user friendly way to create an IPv4 or IPv6 host-based firewall.
Replace 192.168.0.2 with 192.168.0.0/24 to allow ssh access from the entire subnet.
If the port you want to open or close is defined in /etc/services, you can use the port name instead of the number. In the above examples, replace 22 with ssh.
This is a quick introduction to using ufw. Please refer to the ufw man page for more information.
Applications that open ports can include an ufw profile, which details the ports needed for the application to function properly. The profiles are kept in /etc/ufw/applications.d, and can be edited if the default ports have been changed.
Replace Samba and 192.168.0.0/24 with the application profile you are using and the IP range for your network.
There is no need to specify the protocol for the application, because that information is detailed in the profile. Also, note that theapp name replaces the port number.
Not all applications that require opening a network port come with ufw profiles, but if you have profiled an application and want the file to be included with the package, please file a bug against the package in Launchpad.
The purpose of IP Masquerading is to allow machines with private, non-routable IP addresses on your network to access the Internet through the machine doing the masquerading. Traffic from your private network destined for the Internet must be manipulated for replies to be routable back to the machine that made the request. To do this, the kernel must modify the source IP address of each packet so that replies will be routed back to it, rather than to the private IP address that made the request, which is impossible over the Internet. Linux uses Connection Tracking (conntrack) to keep track of which connections belong to which machines and reroute each return packet accordingly. Traffic leaving your private network is thus "masqueraded" as having originated from your Ubuntu gateway machine. This process is referred to in Microsoft documentation as Internet Connection Sharing.
IP Masquerading can be achieved using custom ufw rules. This is possible because the current back-end for ufw is iptables-restore with the rules files located in /etc/ufw/*.rules. These files are a great place to add legacy iptables rules used without ufw, and rules that are more network gateway or bridge related.
The rules are split into two different files, rules that should be executed before ufw command line rules, and rules that are executed after ufwcommand line rules.
For each Table a corresponding COMMIT statement is required. In these examples only the nat and filter tables are shown, but you can also add rules for the raw and mangle tables.
In the above example replace eth0, eth1, and 192.168.0.0/24 with the appropriate interfaces and IP range for your network.
IP Masquerading should now be enabled. You can also add any additional FORWARD rules to the /etc/ufw/before.rules. It is recommended that these additional rules be added to the ufw-before-forward chain.
iptables can also be used to enable Masquerading.
The above commands will allow all connections from your local network to the Internet and all traffic related to those connections to return to the machine that initiated them.
Firewall logs are essential for recognizing attacks, troubleshooting your firewall rules, and noticing unusual activity on your network. You must include logging rules in your firewall for them to be generated, though, and logging rules must come before any applicable terminating rule (a rule with a target that decides the fate of the packet, such as ACCEPT, DROP, or REJECT).
To turn logging off in ufw, simply replace on with off in the above command.
The above log will also appear in /var/log/messages, /var/log/syslog, and /var/log/kern.log. This behavior can be modified by editing /etc/syslog.conf appropriately or by installing and configuring ulogd and using the ULOG target instead of LOG. The ulogd daemon is a userspace server that listens for logging instructions from the kernel specifically for firewalls, and can log to any file you like, or even to aPostgreSQL or MySQL database. Making sense of your firewall logs can be simplified by using a log analyzing tool such as logwatch, fwanalog,fwlogwatch, or lire.
fwbuilder is very powerful and will look familiar to an administrator who has used a commercial firewall utility such as Checkpoint FireWall-1.
Shorewall is a very powerful solution to help you configure an advanced firewall for any network.
The Ubuntu Firewall wiki page contains information on the development of ufw.
Also, the ufw manual page contains some very useful information: man ufw.
See the packet-filtering-HOWTO for more information on using iptables.
The nat-HOWTO contains further details on masquerading.
The IPTables HowTo in the Ubuntu wiki is a great resource.


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NCIS: New Orleans (2014) TV Pilot Review
By Imogen Jones on October 4, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )
A spinoff from NCIS and NCIS: LA, this show focuses on an NCIS team that solve cases in New Orleans. Warning there may be spoilers ahead.
I'll start off by admitting that I've only seen the first few seasons of NCIS and I've never watched NCIS:LA so my excitement for this show was never going to be as high as other fans. However I was pleasantly surprised, and really enjoyed the latest instalment in the franchise. It's also important to note that I haven't seen the NCIS crossover introductory episodes so these characters are completely new to me.
To start with it has an awesome theme tune, very reminiscent of New Orleans. In fact the whole episode, and I suspect series, pays homage to the city almost making it a character itself within the show. I loved the use of jazz throughout and really appreciated the attention to detail paid towards the music of the show. New Orleans natives may feel differently, I'm not sure how accurate the lingo or accents are but to a Brit like me it seemed pretty impressive.
Moving onto the cast, I would say one of the best things about the show was the chemistry between them all. It felt very natural from the start, something that can be difficult to achieve when just beginning a show. I particularly loved the banter between LaSalle(Lucas Black) and Brody (Zoe McLellan), and wouldn't be surprised if the writers decided on a potential romantic storyline between the two.
Mark Harmon and Scott Bakula
The other great thing was how likeable all the characters were. Scott Bakula leads the team in top form as Agent Pride, he comes across as the heroic type but still retains a high level of humour. He treats his team well and is clearly the patriarch figure. I wasn't expecting such an emotional display from Bakula in the first episode but he delivered those scenes strongly, revealing another layer to his character. Brody, the new girl, actually comes across as quite quirky which I love, too often women in police roles are portrayed as serious and devoid of humour so it's refreshing to see someone who can actually have fun.
I'm sure Loretta (C. C. H. Pounder) will be a favourite character of many, her bubbly personality and sharp intelligence in the pilot made for great viewing, and her relationship with Pride was brilliant to watch. Rather underused in the episode was Sebastian (Rob Kerkovich), although we got a hint of his rather awkward and eccentric personality I feel as if he didn't get enough screen time to truly show us what he's capable of. I did love him attempting and failing to call Pride by his first name though.
Scott Bakula (Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride) and C. C. H. Pounder (Dr. Loretta Wade)
Lastly we have the standout performer of the episode, Lucas Black who plays Christopher LaSalle. For me he's very reminiscent of DiNozzo from the original NCIS, that cheeky manner and great sense of humour instantly made me link the two. And he just seemed to get funnier as the episode progressed, making me laugh out loud several times. In any show that deals with such serious issues as murder you need a character to bring some comedy in, otherwise it can be difficult to watch. LaSalle will for sure be that character. It'll be interesting to see how he plays the more emotional scenes but something tells me that he'll deliver those just as wekk. And that's one of the strongest things about this show, the cast seem very talented and more than capable of giving great performances, which I can't wait to see.
The only negative thing I would have to say was the case used for the episode. While I understand that making it personal for Pride allowed us to see more depth to his character it was not the most exciting story. It would've been more interesting to see a case that was more action packed or where the stakes were higher like in the case of episode 2 where the team face a plague outbreak. A pilot is meant to grab the audience and the case just didn't do that. However it mean that more time was spent on getting to know the characters which isn't a bad thing. The most interesting point of the episode for me was the introduction of Councilman Hamilton who I suspect will be a long term antagonist for Pride. The fact that he's in such a high position of power and has the law on his side makes him a dangerous enemy. I like that he's included from the very beginning and look forward to that storyline developing.
NCIS: New Orleans did well for its first episode. The use of location and cast were the particular highlights for me, as well as introducing future interesting storylines. What's great is that they catered to people who are already fans of NCIS, with an appearance of Ducky, but also didn't alienate new viewers by focusing too much on the other series. As such, I'm sure NCIS: New Orleans will attract a new audience while still retaining their old one.
Rating- 3.5/5
Categories: Reviews, TV
Tagged as: C. C. H. Pounder, CBS, CBS Television Studios, Christopher LaSalle, Dr. Loretta Wade, Dwayne Cassius "King" Pride, Lucas Black, Mark Harmon, Meredith "Merri" Brody, NCIS, NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS:LA, Rob Kerkovich, Scott Bakula, Sebastian Lund, Zoe McLellan
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Anti-Israel bigotry and bias
Dr.Manfred Gerstenfeld: Promotion of Murder and Genocide Matters…….
Anti-Israel bigotry and bias anti-Semitic attack anti-Semitism Genocide Manfred Gerstenfeld
You would think that after the Holocaust, and all the evidence that exists about it, you would never see or hear open talk of the destruction of the Jewish people ever again…
PROMOTION OF MURDER AND GENOCIDE MATTERS
Manfred Gerstenfeld
In civilized societies there is a broad consensus that all lives matter. From this it should follow that also all those who want to take lives should matter and action should be taken against them. Civilized societies should not be silent about those who have intentions to murder let alone commit genocide. A short analysis shows that this is not the case among many Western politicians and other important societal figures.
In the non-Western world there are many people who feel no inhibition to openly or indirectly say that they are in favor of committing murder and would do so if they had the occasion. This can best be seen where the potential victims are Jews. One country whose leaders have frequently expressed their desire to commit murder is Iran. Its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has found a special verbal formula for the destruction of Israel. That is something which cannot be achieved without mass murder.
Earlier this year he commented on a poster published on his website that used the words "final solution" in calling for Israel's destruction. Khamenei said: "Eliminating the Zionist regime doesn't mean eliminating Jews. We aren't against Jews. It means abolishing the imposed regime and Muslim, Christian and Jewish Palestinians choose their own government and expel thugs like [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu."1
Over the years Khamenei has spoken of Israel as a cancerous tumor. For instance in 2018 he tweeted: "Israel is a malignant cancerous tumor in the West Asian region that has to be removed and eradicated: it is possible and it will happen."2 Also other leading Iranian figures have spoken in favor of the destruction of Israel, some explicitly mentioning destroying cities.3 Nevertheless, Iran is allowed to remain an unhindered member of the United Nations.
The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas – elected as the majority party by the Palestinians in 2006– also calls for genocide against Jews. This was very clear in in its original charter which states: "Hamas has been looking forward to implementing Allah's promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: 'The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!'" 4
Occasionally, senior Hamas officials call publicly for the murder of Jews. For instance, in 2019, Fathi Hammad, a member of the Hamas Politburo urged members of the Palestinian Diaspora to kill Jews around the world. Hammad said: "You have Jews everywhere and we must attack every Jew on the globe by way of slaughter and killing if God permits."5
The Palestinian Authority (PA) provides generous financial payments to terrorists and their families. It thus creates a huge incentive for Palestinians to murder Jews in Israel. The pensions are not limited to the murderers. If these are killed in action the financial benefits go to terrorists immediate family members.6 This system, which is public, is often called 'pay for slay.'7 In other words 'promoting murder.' In 2019, the PA spent NIS570 million (about $160 million) on rewards to terror prisoners.8 By August 2019 the terrorists who in 2001 killed 15 Israeli civilians – about half of them children –and wounded many more in the Jerusalem Sbarro restaurant had received more than $900 000 from the PA..9
The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror organization, Hassan Nasrallah, said about the creation of Israel in May 2020: "The establishment of this virus of an entity, this cancerous tumor amidst our umma." He added: "Israel has no legitimacy to exist at all and must be destroyed."10
Beyond that, there are calls for the extermination of Israel or Jews by clerics and other influential figures within the Muslim world. These are not always preachers speaking at an isolated mosque. For example, in 2012 the cleric Futouh Abd Al-Nabi Mansour prayed at a nationally televised service at the Cairo el-Tenaim Mosque. It was attended by then Egyptian President the late Mohamed Morsi. The cleric said: "O Allah, destroy the Jews and their supporters – O Allah, disperse them and rend them asunder, O Allah, demonstrate your might and greatness upon them." Morsi can be seen saying Amen.11
There is also prominent support for murderers elsewhere in parts of the Muslim world. On November 18, 2014, two Muslim terrorists from East Jerusalem murdered four people in a Jerusalem synagogue and a heroic Israeli Druze policeman. The terrorists were killed.12 The next day Jordanian parliamentarians held a moment of silence for the murderers and read Koran verses aloud – "to glorify their pure souls and the souls of all the martyrs in the Arab and Muslim nations." The Jordanian Prime Minister, Abdullah Ensour, sent a condolence letter to the families of the terrorists stating; "I ask God to envelope them with mercy and to grant you with patience, comfort and recovery from your grief…"13 14
There are also neo-Nazis and other extreme rightists who publicly call for 'death to the Jews.' The possibility for them to realize their murderous wishes, however horrible, can be at most local. Yet they are dangerous as was seen in the murders in two US synagogues. In another case only a strong door stood between the Jews in the German Halle synagogue on Yom Kippur and the man who came to murder them in October 2019. Yet these murderous individuals are not in the same criminal league of danger as Muslim countries and major terrorist organizations that promote murder.
Furthermore, there are those who finance the promoters of murder. Iran and Qatar make money available to Hamas or to the Gaza population. The latter enables Hamas to use money for its own operations which it otherwise would have to make available to the population.15
Several Western and other donor countries pay money to the PA. They fund a murder promoting body. These foreign hypocrites claim that their money is not being used to pay the pensions of terrorists or their families. The availability of these funds however means that the PA can use its own funds for paying the pensions to the terrorists.
In the Western world there is a variety of attitudes of considering officially or defacto that this promotion of murder or genocide doesn't matter. One category consists of those who promote the interests of the murderers. One of these is former UK Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. He welcomed representatives of Hamas and Hezbollah to the House of Commons. Corbyn called them his "friends" and "brothers." 16
Others include former US President Jimmy Carter and Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 2014, they co-signed an op-ed in The Guardian suggesting that Europe and the US should recognize Hamas as a political movement. They failed to mention that it is a would be genocidal organization. This was a showcase of senior human rightists promoting the interests of would be genocidal murderers.17 Rock musician Roger Waters on Hamas television that Zionism is 'an ugly stain' which 'needs to be gently removed.'18
The Dutch government advisory body, Adviesraad Internationale Vraagstukken (AIV) – Advisory Council of Foreign Affairs, is in the same category. The AIV issued a report in 2013 recommending contacts between the EU, the Netherlands and Hamas.19 The Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) then wrote to Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte to disband the AIV as it recommended developing closer ties with the terror organization, Hamas, at the expense of Israel.20 21 The AIV's recommendations were not accepted, nor was the organization disbanded.
There are also those who consider that one has to live with the policy of the murderers. One of these is Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. He said in an interview: "Iran wants to wipe out Israel, nothing new about that, you have to live with it."22
Yet another category – a major one — are those who express their opinions on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and criticize Israel, but do not mention the huge criminality of the major Palestinian bodies including their promoting genocide or murder. If they criticize the Palestinians at all, they do so superficially and focus on other issues.
One important example of a person who does this is US Senator Bernie Sanders who was a leading contender in the US Democrat presidential primaries and is Jewish. When he spoke in his campaign about the Palestinians, he referred to their dignity.23 The Israeli government, though, he called "racist."24
If one were to screen parliaments of European countries, one could count the parliamentarians who look away from would be Palestinian genocide and murder while expressing criticism of Israel. In the Netherlands this is the case for at least one third of the 150 parliamentarians. In the Swedish and Norwegian governments the percentage is probably higher.
There are also people who unintentionally help the would be genocidal murderers. In 2015 then US President Barack Obama initiated the extremely flawed Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action agreement with Iran. This agreement enabled the Iranians to develop additional weaponry and undertake major terrorist activities in the Middle East.25
In the context of this analysis one should also look at what is often called 'Holocaust inversion.' These are the people who believe that Israel intends to exterminate the Palestinians and/or that Israel is like the Nazis. In 2020, the Hungarian Action and Protection League commissioned a report by Hungary's Inspira Ltd. They interviewed representative samples of the adult population between the ages of 18-75 in sixteen European countries. Twenty-four percent thought that Israelis behave like Nazis towards the Palestinians.26
The main representative study before Inspira was carried out by the University of Bielefeld on behalf of the German Social Democratic Friedrich Ebert Foundation. It was published in 2011.27 Their research was undertaken in seven European countries. The interviewers polled one thousand people per country — over the age of 16 — in the fall of 2008. One of the questions asked was whether they agreed with the assertion that Israel is carrying out a war of extermination against the Palestinians. The lowest percentages of those who agreed were in Italy and the Netherlands, with 38% and 39% respectively. Other figures were: Hungary 41%, United Kingdom 42%, Germany 48%, and Portugal 49%. In Poland, the figure was 63%.28
What is exposed above is not only an indictment of part of Europe's leaders. It also shows the profound moral decay of substantial segments of this continent's population.
1 www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-explains-final-solution-poster-i-favor-destroying-israel-not-jews/
2 www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-israel-a-cancerous-tumor-that-must-be-eradicated/
3 www.timesofisrael.com/top-iranian-general-we-can-destroy-israel-in-three-days/; www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/1588584294-top-iran-official-threatens-to-destroy-israeli-cities-amid-simmering-row-with-us
4 Raphael Israeli, Fundamentalist Islam and Israel (Lanham, MD: JCPA, University Press of America, 1994), 132-159.
5 www.timesofisrael.com/senior-hamas-official-calls-on-members-of-palestinian-diaspora-to-kill-jews/
6 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/palestinian-authority-financing-of-terrorism
7 www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/feithgerber/the-department-of-pay-for-slay/
8 www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/275660
9 www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/18-years-after-Sbarro-suicide-attack-PA-has-paid-910823-to-the-culprits-598106
10 www.jpost.com/middle-east/hezbollah-leader-hassan-nasrallah-israel-must-be-destroyed-628984
11 www.timesofisrael.com/in-morsis-presence-egyptian-preacher-urges-allah-destroy-the-jews/
12 https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Terrorism/Palestinian/Pages/Terror-attack-in-Jerusalem-synagogue-18-Nov-2014.aspx
13 www.timesofisrael.com/jordanian-mps-hold-moment-of-silence-for-two-palestinian-terrorists/
14 www.jpost.com/middle-east/jordanian-parliament-observes-moment-of-silence-for-terrorists-of-synagogue-attack-382433
15 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/07/qatar-send-480m-help-palestinians-west-bank-gaza-israel-ceasefire
16 www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-foreign-policy-antisemitism
17 www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/05/gaza-blockade-must-end-un-first-step-settlement
18 www.adl.org/blog/roger-waters-extends-his-legacy-of-antisemitic-rhetoric
19 www.adviesraadinternationalevraagstukken.nl/documenten/publicaties/2013/03/21/tussen-woord-en-daad
20 www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/172514
21 www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/simon-wiesenthal-center-urges-6.html;
22 www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/politico-brussels-playbook-hungarys-change-of-heart-us-eu-relationship-burns-fighting-words/
23 www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Bernie-Sanders-Im-pro-Israel-but-we-must-treat-Palestinians-with-dignity-608540
24 www.timesofisrael.com/sanders-you-can-support-israelis-without-backing-their-racist-government/
25 www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/iran-nuclear-history-implementation-of-the-jcpoa
26 Action and Protection League, "Number of anti-semitic incidents hate crime Incidents per Year", Report prepared by Inspira.
27 http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/do/07908-20110311.pdf
28 Ibid pg. 57
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Some grandpas have a lot of pictures of you/Some grandpas put extra money in your piggy bank/Some grandpas put extra marshmallows in your hot chocolate/All grandpas like to tell you stories.
Some grandpas model teenage girl fashions online for their granddaughter's boutique and become unlikely overnight sensations.
Because that's exactly what this uncommonly cool grandpa did! See, Liu Xianping's granddaughter (along with four friends from college) started a clothing line for teen girls in China. Xianping was helping the girls unpack inventory one day when, according to his granddaughter, "He picked up one piece and tried to give some advice on how to mix and match."
Which was really cute. But not as cute as when the svelte gentleman started trying on the outfits to demonstrate how well his choices worked. Xianping's granddaughter and her pals knew just what to do: "We thought it was fun so we started shooting," she says. And wouldn't you know it? Those pics went viral pretty much the second Xianping's granddaughter posted them on the Yuekou website. Tada! Instant fashion icon.
"Why unacceptable for someone like me to wear women's clothes? Modeling for the store is helping my granddaughter and I have nothing to lose ... We were very happy on the day of the shooting. I'm very old and all that I care about is to be happy."
Do you know any grandpas who would do something like this to help their grandchildren?


The Second Grade spends a lot of time in the Fall doing animal research. As a way to connect the classroom to the library and to encourage the understanding that the library is a place for research in addition to pleasure reading, nonfiction text features, reading strategies and note-taking skills are explored and practiced in both environments. Before the break, Second Grade students researched a variety of winter holidays in the PS/LS Library and shared it with classmates via the iPad mini.
We gave them time to leaf through a holiday nonfiction book to look for nonfiction text features. They discussed their use both in a large group and in their partnerships. They also each took two notes from their book to share with classmates – an important fact, a new idea or something interesting they found in their book. Then, they went over their discoveries with a librarian.
After the activity, students transcribed their notes (further putting the concept in their own words and main idea) onto the iPad using an app called Drawing Pad. This app is designed to be a digital art studio, but it has practical library and classroom applications as well. Students gained new insights: the library and its purpose in gathering new knowledge to share with others, the collection's depth, and using digital means to share information. Not only was this fun, but it was a great exercise in critical thinking, design and collaboration. See some samples below!


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George Foreman's Daughter Freeda Foreman Passes Away At 42
George Foreman and his daughter Freeda
Police told TMZ Saturday they are awaiting the results of an autopsy to determine the cause of death, and that no foul play is suspected. Freeda's body was found in her home near Houston, Texas by a family member. Here are five things you should know about her.
Freeda is one of George's 10 children and followed in her father's footsteps by becoming a professional boxer. She retired after the loss with a pro record of 5-1 with 3 KOs to focus on being a mother and other projects, including boxing promotion.
George, 70, is father to 12 kids, with seven daughters and five sons, the latter of whom are all named George. At the height of her boxing career, Freeda appeared as herself on an episode of Fox's King of the Hill. The young talent seemed to be studying criminal justice at Sam Houston State, according to a LinkedIn profile under her name.
LeBron James passes Michael Jordan in career points
James wears the same No. 23 worn by Jordan and recalled being 15 when he first met his idol. James finished the game with 31 points, seven assists, and seven rebounds.
She's survived by her husband and daughter, her parents and 11 siblings.
Our healing thoughts go out to all those affected by Freeda's death during this hard time.
Motorola's Foldable Cellphone is Certainly a Razr-Like Clamshell
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Michigan vs. Michigan State basketball
But it was the ninth-ranked Spartans' game in the second half of the Big Ten regular season title-deciding game Saturday night. A week earlier, Izzo granted captaincy to Winston, the Spartans' leader in points, assists, steals, and 3-pointers.
Algerians gather in huge protest against Bouteflika
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Hookah smokers inhale toxic chemicals that may harm the heart, says report
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Met Office issues snow and ice warning for north
The strong northwesterly winds are expected to strike at midnight on Wednesday and last until about 3pm. Elsewhere, a mixture of sunshine and blustery showers, some wintry.
Huawei expected to introduce two refreshed versions of its Watch GT device
The battery in the new models should outlast those found in other watches, but that is due to the devices' limited functionality. A pair of unannounced smartwatches, dubbed the Huawei Watch GT Active and Huawei Watch GT Elegant, has been leaked.
CD Projekt Red Talks Cyberpunk 2077 In New PlayStation-Published Video
This is similar to what CD Projekt Red did with The Witcher series, which is set several years after the events of the last book. CDPR has been hard at work on the game for at least seven years, and provided very little information on it.
Cohen 'Directly Asked For Pardon,' Lied To Congress
In his testimony to Congress, Cohen indicated Trump may have committed illegal acts while in office. "Mr. Cohen has become a key figure in congressional investigations since turning on his former boss.
Finland's cabinet quits over failure to deliver healthcare reform
Sipila's center-right government resigned Friday after failing to push through a planned social and health reform. He said he listened to his "inner voice".
Golovkin signs six-fight deal with DAZN; Canelo trilogy bout possible
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American Airlines grounds 14 planes to fix overhead bins
A woman puts her suitcase in an overhead luggage bin on an American Airlines plane at Miami International Airport. All passengers on the 40 flights that were canceled were quickly rebooked on new flights, Fox News reported .
Trudeau insists he didn't apply inappropriate pressure to justice minister before resignation
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer again demanded Mr Trudeau resign and accused him of trying to justify and normalise corruption. I think that's the way we should operate and it is in effect what I thought she was open to doing during this period.
USA may demand 'allies' pay 150% for privilege of hosting troops
At the National Security Council - where officials say the idea originated - officials declined to confirm or deny the proposal. Critics argue that the demand also misreads the benefits that overseas troop deployments bring to the U.S.
Canada adds 55,900 jobs in February, exceeding forecasts
For the third consecutive month, Ontario and Quebec drove the overall gains, with little marked movement in the other provinces. The encouraging numbers provided a bright spot for the economy, which has posted disappointing data in recent months.
What Brexit game is EU playing? British parliament leader Leadsom asks
However, Starmer said the party would not be seeking to secure support in parliament for a second referendum on Tuesday. The newspaper also said cabinet ministers have spoken about whether to insist she goes as early as this week.
Callum Hudson-Odoi On Bench - Chelsea Team vs Wolves Confirmed
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Airbnb to Acquire HotelTonight
Airbnb is continuing to take over the travel world, and the company's latest move is the acquisition of HotelTonight . Airbnb, for its part, has been appreciated at $31 billion at 2017 , with a $1 billion around.
Charlotte Flair and Liv Morgan Respond To Ronda Rousey Calling Wrestling Fake
A father, husband, brother, and friend, Roman Reigns could not be prouder of WWE's current women's evolution. We've been lucky enough to be on a insane roller-coaster ride over the last few years and secure ourselves.
Spain's Nursing 'House of Horrors' Reveals Deceit of Elders
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Tesla gets $708m in loans for first factory in China
Local manufacturing also will help the company sidestep any re-escalation of trade tensions between the United States and China. Tesla also amended a separate asset-backed credit agreement, increasing how much it can borrow by as much as US$700 million.
Sayyeshaa's dance at her pre-wedding ceremony goes viral
After a whirlwind romance, the couple made a decision to enter marital bliss and the wedding festivities have kickstarted already. On the occasion of Valentine's Day, Arya and Sayyeshaa took to their social media pages and announced their wedding.
Parents of young British woman (23) missing in Guatemala 'desperately worried'
The family of a British woman who disappeared in Guatemala this week have said that they are very concerned for her safety. Video appeal from the parents of Catherine Shaw, #missing in #SanPedro #Guatemala . "Please come home, sweetheart".
Green Bay Packers interested in trading for Dee Ford
Central American migrants die in Mexico accident
No Assembly Polls In J&K, Lok Sabha In 5 Phases
Cokanasiga and Hughes named in England side for Six Nations
Chelsea left 'astonished' as Federation Internationale de Football Association refuse request to delay transfer ban
Santa Anita to reopen main track for limited training
Aston Villa's Grealish attacked by fan
Second HIV Patient is in Remission, Cure May Be Discovered Soon
Lavalin loses bid to negotiate agreement to avoid criminal trial
Outrage as 'honor-killing' whistleblower shot dead in Pakistan
British banks commit to invest more in women entrepreneurs
E-cigarettes linked to depression, poor heart
Broncos propose rule change for onside kick
New York Times Columnist Thomas Friedman: Ilhan Omar Is a 'Bridge-Destroyer'
Akash Ambani-Shloka Mehta wedding: Tony Blair, Aamir Khan are among guests