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Robert Black
|Robert Black
(Emeritus Professor of Scots Law)
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|Justice for Megrahi
|Lockerbie Bombing
Professor Robert Black QC, FRSA, FRSE, FFCS, ILTM is Emeritus Professor of Scots Law at the University of Edinburgh. He has been an Advocate in Scotland since 1972, was in practice at the Bar and became a QC in 1987.
Having visited Libya a number of times in the 1990s and negotiated with officials and government lawyers there, Robert Black is credited with helping to persuade Colonel Gaddafi to hand over the two accused Libyans (Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Lamin Khalifah Fhimah), and is often referred to as the architect of the Lockerbie trial at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands.[1] Black recalls:
- "On 22 September 1998 we had a further meeting with the Leader of the Revolution. On this occasion the meeting took place not in Tripoli but 400 kilometres to the east in a genuine (not reinforced concrete) Bedouin tent in a desert location inland from the town of Sirte. Surrounded by sand dunes and noisily ruminating camels, Colonel Gaddafi, Dr Swire and I discussed the details of the British scheme. He accepted my assurance that at least some of the concerns that Libyan government lawyers had raised were unwarranted and that it would be worthwhile to continue to seek clarifications and reassurances through the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations regarding the remaining issues."[2][3]
- 1 Academia
- 2 Appointments
- 3 Lockerbie case
- 4 Adequately Explained by Government-fed Propaganda?
- 5 Part-time in South Africa
- 6 References
- 7 External links
Robert Black was educated at Lockerbie Academy and Dumfries Academy. He graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1964 with First Class Honours in Law in 1968 and was awarded the Lord President Cooper Memorial Prize as the most distinguished graduate in that year. Thereafter he studied at McGill University in Montreal on a Commonwealth Scholarship graduating LL.M. in 1970.
In January 1981, he was appointed to the Chair in Scots Law at Edinburgh, until he took semi-retired status as Emeritus Professor in 2005. Thereafter he continued part-time, teaching the Scots Law of Evidence. Between 1983 and 1999 he served as Head of the Department of Scots (later Private) Law. From 1984 to 2003 he was a member of every Dean's Council of the Faculty of Advocates (the Scottish Bar). In academic session 2006-7, Professor Black retired from university teaching altogether.[4]
From 1981 to 1994 he served as a temporary sheriff. Over the years he has acted as the Law Society of Scotland's examiner in Evidence; as the examiner in Civil and Criminal Procedure and Pleading, for solicitors seeking extended rights of audience; and, as the Faculty of Advocates' examiner in Private Law. He was General Editor of The Laws of Scotland : Stair Memorial Encyclopedia (25 volumes) from 1987 to 1996. He has made extensive contributions to books and to numerous legal journal articles.
Lockerbie case
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Professor Robert Black has taken a close personal and professional interest in the Lockerbie bombing of 21 December 1988, particularly because he was born and brought up in Lockerbie, Scotland. He has published a substantial number of articles on the topic in the United Kingdom and overseas. Black is often referred to as the architect of holding the non-jury Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial at the neutral venue of Camp Zeist, Netherlands, and applying Scots Law to the Lockerbie case.
At the end of the nine-month trial, on 31 January 2001, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was convicted of the murder of 259 passengers and crew of the aircraft, and of eleven people in the town of Lockerbie. Professor Black reacted to the unanimous verdict of the three judges: "I thought this was a very, very weak circumstantial case. I am absolutely astounded, astonished. I was extremely reluctant to believe that any Scottish judge would convict anyone, even a Libyan, on the basis of such evidence."[5] He warned that Megrahi stood a better-than-average chance of being acquitted on appeal.[6]
However, Megrahi's appeal against conviction was rejected on 14 March 2002. His lawyers applied in September 2003 to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), but he dropped his appeal in August 2009 and, because of terminal cancer, was released from Greenock Prison on compassionate grounds and returned to Libya on 20 August 2009.[7]
On 1 November 2007, Professor Black was invited by Mr Megrahi to visit him in prison. Black reported on this first meeting with Megrahi, as follows:
- "As a result of today's meeting, I am satisfied that not only was there a wrongful conviction, but the victim of it was an innocent man. Lawyers, and I hope others, will appreciate this distinction."[8]
Miscarriage of justice
Responding to remarks alleged to have been made by former Lord Advocate, Lord Fraser of Carmyllie, critical of main prosecution witness Tony Gauci, and reported in The Sunday Times of 23 October 2005, Professor Black described the alleged remarks as "an indication that various people who have been involved in the Lockerbie prosecution are now positioning themselves in anticipation of the SCCRC holding that there was a prima facie miscarriage of justice and sending it back for a fresh appeal."
In an interview with The Scotsman on 1 November 2005, Professor Black said Megrahi's conviction was "the most disgraceful miscarriage of justice in Scotland for 100 years." He vowed to continue his fight to have the case brought back to the appeal courts. "I have written about this and nobody is interested," Black said. "Every lawyer who has ... read the judgment says 'this is nonsense'. It is nonsense. It really distresses me; I won't let it go."[9]
Black feels partially to blame for Megrahi's situation: "I feel a measure of responsibility for having suggested this form of procedure and having played a part in persuading the Libyans to agree to it. And then this happens. My concern is not about his guilt or innocence, although I do believe him to be innocent. My concern is that on the evidence led at Zeist, he ought never to have been convicted." Despite widespread concerns about the potential for pre-trial publicity prejudicing a jury, Black now believes the accused may have fared better under the conventional procedure than in the non-jury trial that he formulated. Black says: "If they had been tried by an ordinary Scottish jury of 15, who were given standard instructions about how they must approach the evidence, standard instructions about reasonable doubt and what must happen if there is a reasonable doubt about the evidence, no Scottish jury could have convicted Megrahi on the evidence led at the trial."
Megrahi's second appeal
On 28 June 2007, the SCCRC announced that it had concluded its review and had referred Megrahi's case back to the Court of Criminal Appeal for a second appeal against conviction.[10]
After a delay of over 18 months, it was announced in January 2009 that the second appeal is scheduled to start on 27 April 2009 and that the hearing could last as long as 12 months because of the complexity of the case and volume of material to be examined.[11]
In February 2009, Professor Black proposed a number of Scots law changes so as to expedite the Lockerbie appeal verdict.[12]
Call for Public Inquiry
In September 2008, following a meeting organised by the Lockerbie Justice Group at Greshornish House on the Isle of Skye, Black and Professor Hans Köchler called for a new public inquiry into the Lockerbie bombing.[13] Black said:
- "Megrahi could go home if his appeal succeeds or if a fair appeal cannot be achieved. I am not convinced there is the political will to have the case reinvestigated, however, but one of the things we have been trying to do is to insert some backbone into those politicians who have the power to make it happen."
Letter to Malta
On 3 October 2009, Professor Black wrote to the Maltese Foreign Minister:
- The Hon Tonio Borg LLD MP
- Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
- Palazzo Parisio,
- Merchants Street,
- Valletta VLT 1171
- Dear Mr Borg,
- I write to you in order to inform you of an initiative that has recently been launched with regard to the tragic loss of Pan American Flight 103 over Lockerbie in 1988 and the subsequent trial of Mr Abdelbaset al-Megrahi and Mr Lamin Fhimah at Kamp van Zeist. I include in this text box a letter which has been submitted to the President of the General Assembly of the United Nations Organisation, and a brief background note on its development.
- Furthermore, both of these texts are contained in this mail as attachments for your convenience. I will not trouble you here by repeating what will be clear upon reading both the letter to the UN and the background details. Suffice it to say that the signatories to this initiative are of the belief that both the good reputation of Malta and Luqa Airport have been quite unjustly stained by association with this affair.
- We are informed that the General Assembly simply requires one member state to table a motion putting forward this submission and thereafter a two-thirds majority vote will be necessary in order to open such an enquiry. We, therefore, hope that the Government of Malta will use its best offices to advance this cause.
- Thank you most kindly for your time and attention.
- Yours sincerely
- Robert Black
- Professor Robert Black QC FRSE[14]
Suppressor Black
In July 2012, former British diplomat Patrick Haseldine, who is often referred to as "Emeritus Professor of Lockerbie Studies", accused Professor Black of suppressing the truth about apartheid South Africa's targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103, thus delaying justice for the 270 Lockerbie bombing victims and their families.[15] Suppressor Black angrily responded to the accusation saying it was "Another Haseldine lie".[16]
On 26 September 2013, the President of "Victims of Pan Am Flight 103, Inc", Frank Duggan, commented:
- "Interesting to see two self-promoting 'Emeritus Professors' pissing on each others legs."
In May 2014, it was reported that Robert Black - in a cynical move - had drafted an application for Jim Swire and other members of UK Families Flight 103 to send to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC) for a further appeal to Edinburgh's High Court of Justiciary, raising hopes that the Lockerbie bombing conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi might finally be overturned.[17]
Suppressor Black knows perfectly well that the odds are very heavily stacked against a successful application to the SCCRC, as explained in his April 2014 article entitled "Problems and pitfalls of new SCCRC application and appeal".[18]
Blackout of Mandela blueprint
After years of sleuthing, Emeritus Professor of Lockerbie Studies Patrick Haseldine eventually identified British mining magnate, Observer newspaper owner and MI6 operative Tiny Rowland as the UK coordinator of the Lockerbie cover-up.[19]
Haseldine alleges that Tiny Rowland recruited Emeritus Professor of Scots Law Robert Black to organise the British Blackout and to frustrate all of Nelson Mandela's plans for Lockerbie justice[20].
In January 1992, Mandela outlined his blueprint for the Lockerbie trial:
- If no extradition treaty exists between the countries concerned, the trial must be conducted in the country where the accused were arrested;
- The trial should be conducted in a neutral country by independent judges;
- The trial should be conducted at The Hague by an international court of justice.
Five years later, President Mandela emphasised at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Edinburgh that "no one nation should be complainant, prosecutor and judge" in the Lockerbie case.
By 1999, the so-called "architect of the Lockerbie trial" had managed to blackout the whole Mandela blueprint. Professor Black:
- ensured that the Lockerbie trial was not held in a neutral country. Instead, he arranged for the trial to be conducted from May 2000 to January 2001 at Camp Zeist, a former US Air Force base in the Netherlands which, for the duration of the trial, became British territory;
- decreed that Scotland's Crown Office would be the 'complainant' at the trial;
- arranged for Scotland's Lord Advocate Colin Boyd to be the 'prosecutor' at the trial; and,
- insisted that – instead of 'independent judges' at the trial – all four Judges (Lords Sutherland, Coulsfield, MacLean and Abernethy) had to be from Scotland.
Although one of the two accused Libyans was found not guilty of the Lockerbie bombing, Haseldine alleges it was thanks to Professor Black that the other Libyan, Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, was found guilty.[21]
Haseldine says:
.... so for the past 20 years, Professor Robert Black has been suppressing the truth about the Lockerbie disaster, thus delaying justice for the 270 victims of Pan Am Flight 103 and their relatives. Prof Black was supported in his attempt to blackout apartheid South Africa's targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 by inter alia these assets of British intelligence:
John Ashton (Author, producer and researcher, see: The Maltese Double Cross[22]; the 2001 book "Cover-up of Convenience" by John Ashton and Ian Ferguson[23]; the 2012 book "Megrahi; You are my Jury" by John Ashton[24]; the 2012 article "Was Libya really behind it?" with John Ashton[25]; and a new book "Scotland's Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters" that was published by Birlinn on 3 October 2013[26]);
Ian Ferguson (Author, journalist and researcher, see: The Lockerbie Trial.com website of Professor Black and Ian Ferguson; and the 2009 film Lockerbie Revisited researcher Ian Ferguson[27][28]);
Robert Forrester (Secretary of Justice for Megrahi campaign group[29]);
Andrew Fulton (former chairman of the Scottish Conservative Party)[30];
Dr Alan George (Middle East academic, recruited by solicitors Eversheds to reinforce the defence of Megrahi's co-accused Lamin Khalifah Fhimah[31]);
Dr Morag Kerr (Deputy Secretary of Justice for Megrahi campaign group, see [32], her book "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies" was published on 21 December 2013 [33]); and,
Adam Larson (Associate of Dr Kerr and owner of The Lockerbie Divide website[34]).
Double dealing
In October 2009, responding to criticism by the FBI's chief Lockerbie investigator, Richard Marquise, Prof Black wrote:[35]
"I am, of course, used to snide remarks to the effect that my stance on Lockerbie is due to my having been paid (which I have always thought a somewhat odd criticism to make of a lawyer). Here, from a forthcoming book, is the true account of how I came to become involved in the Lockerbie issue: 'I first became involved in the Lockerbie affair in January 1993. I was approached by representatives of a group of British businessmen whose desire to participate in major engineering works in Libya was being impeded by the UN sanctions. They had approached the then Dean of the Faculty of Advocates (the head of the Scottish Bar) and asked him if any of its members might be willing to provide advice to them - on an unpaid basis! - on Scottish criminal law and procedure in their attempts to unblock the logjam. The Dean of Faculty, Alan Johnston QC (later Court of Session judge Lord Johnston), recommended me. The businessmen asked if I would be prepared to provide independent advice to the government of Libya - again on an unpaid basis - on matters of Scottish criminal law, procedure and evidence with a view (it was hoped) to persuading them that their two citizens would obtain a fair trial if they were to surrender themselves to the Scottish authorities. There was, of course, never the slightest chance that surrender for trial in the United States could be contemplated by the Libyans, amongst other reasons because of the existence there of the death penalty for murder."
Blackmailing Libya
In September 2011, The Scotsman reported that Robert Black and Tory peer Lord Trefgarne had been blackmailing Libya over the "work" they claimed to have done to secure the release in August 2009 of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in January 2001 for the December 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
Details of a claim for "fees owed" for advice to the Libyans ahead of Megrahi's appeal case were reportedly uncovered in an abandoned farmhouse in the outskirts of Tripoli. The note (dated 4 June 2007 - 24 days before publication of the SCCRC report) from Lord Trefgarne said while the £940,000 fee "may seem a large sum" it covered "nine years' work".
In a joint statement, Lord Trefgarne and Prof Black said that in 1993 they began working towards unblocking the "impasse" that was preventing Megrahi's trial taking place because Libya refused to extradite him to Scotland or the United States. The statement added:
"Over the course of the next six years, Lord Trefgarne and Professor Black worked strenuously to secure acceptance of the neutral venue scheme that Professor Black formulated in early 1994.
"No payment was sought or received for these endeavours. It was only after Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi's conviction at Camp Zeist in January 2001 and Professor Black had publicly expressed the strong view that that conviction was legally unwarranted, that an agreement was entered into with his lawyer, Dr Ibrahim Legwell, that Lord Trefgarne and Professor Black should receive payment for future political and legal advice on avenues of appeal. In the event, the only sum actually paid barely covered expenses. Lord Trefgarne and Professor Black again emphasise that this was an entirely proper arrangement reflecting the circumstances of the time.
"Lord Trefgarne did declare this matter in the House of Lords Register in accordance with the rules then in force."
But Dumfries & Galloway Labour MP Russell Brown said the public would be "surprised" to hear of Lord Trefgarne's claim.
"Lord Trefgarne was one of the people who lobbied the SNP to release the Lockerbie bomber just days before Kenny MacAskill visited the terrorist in jail," he said.
"Now it seems he was in the pay of the Libyans."[36][37]
Blackballing Patrick Haseldine
On 14 January 2014, these three comments appeared on Professor Black's The Lockerbie Case blog in relation to an article by William Blum in the Foreign Policy Journal of 10 January 2014:[38]
1. pesceman said: So we know al-Megrahi was innocent. Of that there is no doubt. Why was the Heathrow break-in totally ignored from the very start - the Anti-Terrorism Police in the UK don't seem able to recall the event at all???? It is pretty obvious that the South African Civil Cooperation Bureau were wholly responsible and assisted in the cover up by UK Intelligence and UK Police.
2. Robert Black said: It is by no means obvious. And the notion that the CCB was responsible stems from Patrick Haseldine's fevered imagination. There is nothing whatever that counts as evidence to support it. No further comments giving credence to Mr Haseldine's ravings will be accepted on this blog.
3. Quincey Riddle aka Robert Forrester said: Dear Peaceman, I agree entirely with Robert Black vis-a-vis the South African theory. Mr Haseldine is frankly certifiably doolally and an extremely manipulative individual, whom I felt obliged to expel from JFM for his conduct. I would be careful too about laying too much store on the issue of the Heathrow break-in as being linked to Pan Am 103, maybe it was maybe it wasn't. In my view, the only significant factor here is that COPFS appears to have hidden a tree in a forest in terms of the evidence made available to the defence. That from my perspective is as reprehensible as the Gauci payments being denied to the court. Robert.
Lockerbie verdict dialectic
On 8 July 2014, "Dave" posted a series of comments on Robert Black's blog challenging the logic of the Lockerbie verdict. "RB" reacted by threatening to ban him from commenting:
- Dave When Attorney General Lord Goldsmith was 'pinned against the wall' and told to state the Iraq invasion was legal and he obliged days before the invasion to avoid a mutiny from British military high command (who didn't like the idea of being arrested for war crimes) was this really any different from what the Zeist Judges did (indirectly at the behest of their Lord Advocate) who had probably been 'pinned up against a wall' too to ensure a guilty verdict for geo-political (economic) reasons?
- And yet despite no WMDs which must compound the illegality of the decision (also illegal under the terms of the UK anti-terrorism Act 2000), Tony Blair continues to promote 'war for personal profit' with the backing of the US/neo-con lobby with the official title of 'Peace Envoy'.
- And this is all in the public domain, so 7 years' hard labour seeking the truth about Lockerbie, is no real surprise and will require a political voice to change. It's very naive (or something else) to pretend the State would stage a show trial and allow a not guilty verdict![39]
- RB My view on the Judges' true (if subconscious) motivation for returning one guilty verdict can be found in the article reproduced in this very post (third para of section headed "The implications for the Scottish criminal justice system") and also in the very first post on this blog ("Lockerbie: A satisfactory process but a flawed result") footnote 2 and accompanying text.[40]
- Dave There would have been considerable pressure on the Judges to do their patriotic duty and find the two suspects guilty in defence of the system and Lord Advocate.
- And they did their duty by finding Abdelbaset al-Megrahi guilty, after saying he was innocent in their summing up!
- But to salve their conscience the judges announced to the world that Zeist was a show trial by finding Lamin Khalifah Fhimah not guilty.
- Because how can you convict one without the other on a conspiracy charge?[41]
- RB Dave, the Crown withdrew the conspiracy charge. All that the Judges were required to consider (and all that they returned verdicts on) were the murder charges against Megrahi and Fhimah.[42]
- Dave When exactly was the conspiracy charge dropped, before or during the trial?[43]
- RB On 9 January 2001, which was during the trial.[44]
- Dave Thanks Professor,
- Dropping the conspiracy charge was a remarkable thing to happen because it becomes an admission about the lack of evidence despite years preparing a case based on a conspiracy to plant a bomb.
- But without the conspiracy charge being dropped the Judges would have had to find both defendants innocent or guilty.
- Thus was the conspiracy charge dropped by the Crown as a back room deal to allow the (protesting) Judges to do their patriotic duty by finding one guilty without having to go completely against their conscience and the evidence by finding both guilty?[45]
- RB I don't believe for a second that there was a backroom deal between the Crown and the Judges. The scuttlebutt within the Scottish legal profession was that two of the Judges wanted to convict both accused and one wanted to acquit both. The compromise (because anything other than a unanimous verdict in this case would have been intolerable from a PR standpoint) was to convict one and acquit the other. The scuttlebutt goes on to say that the Judge who was for acquittal has ever since regretted agreeing to the compromise. Maybe we'll find out if there is any truth in this once he dies.[46]
- Dave There was a conspiracy charge against both and no evidence against either and a guilty verdict against one but not the other, but only possible because the conspiracy charge was dropped.
- But why would a conspiracy charge be dropped when the evidence against both was so strong, unless the selected Judges were not impressed with the evidence, clearly evident in their summing up.
- Thus, a deal must have been done, normally known as a plea bargain, but with the Judges, not the defendants![47]
- RB This is utter nonsense, Dave. The Crown were as surprised as everyone else in the courtroom (and beyond) when the Judges returned a verdict of guilty against Megrahi. If you are going to continue contributing (on my blog), please stop posting comments about what "must" have happened and start concentrating on what actually did.[48]
Mickey Mouse tribunal
In September 2014, Robert Black was accused by Lockerbie campaigner Barry Walker of having created a Mickey Mouse tribunal at Camp Zeist in the Netherlands:
- "To be honest I regard you as largely responsible for Megrahi's actual conviction (through the design of the Mickey Mouse tribunal that actually convicted him) but then I regard Justice for Megrahi as an oxymoron."[49]
Adequately Explained by Government-fed Propaganda?
On 14 October 2013, BenSix posted this Tweet:
- "Imminent and intriguing book from Dr Morag "Rolfe" Kerr on the Lockerbie bombing."[50]
A long series of increasingly acrimonious Tweets between Steven Raeburn, Robert Black and Morag Kerr then ensued.
Professor Black tweeted:
- "I have always found that it's a good idea to read a book before criticising its contents."[51]
Steven Raeburn tweeted:
- "Odd that "Rolfe" gets apoplectic and abusive at these contents.[52]
- "Dangerous, suspicious Government-fed propaganda, based on the discredited Feraday/Hayes lies. Beware."
Morag Kerr tweeted:
- "Government-fed? Who do you think gave me the evidence?"[53]
Patrick Haseldine joined the conversation by tweeting:
- "Morag aka #SlimVirgin is #MI5 agent, so defo Govt-fed propaganda."[54]
On 15 October 2013, The Firm magazine tweeted:
- "Good old fashioned twitter spat between @MrStevenRaeburn @drmoragkerr and @rblackqc last night. See the RT's to follow...[55]
Patrick Haseldine tweeted:
- "Adequately Explained by Government-fed Propaganda?", which was Retweeted by The Firm to its 5,448 followers.[56]
Part-time in South Africa
In 2005 Black took 'semi retired' status, before retiring altogether in 2006. He asserts that he is one of a dying breed of legal academics: "Most academic lawyers, years ago, were like me – they had come up through the ranks of the practising profession. That's unusual these days. In many cases they have never advised a human being with a legal problem in their lives."
Professor Black spends six months each year at the guesthouse he owns in South Africa: Gannaga Lodge is situated in 20 hectares of its own ground within the Tankwa National Park. It is located in the Roggeveld Karoo, in some of the most spectacular countryside in the Northern Cape, at the summit of the breathtaking Gannaga Pass.[57]
- ↑ "Architect of the Lockerbie trial"
- ↑ "Gaddafi meets Lockerbie lawyer"
- ↑ "From Lockerbie to Zeist"
- ↑ "Biography on the Edinburgh University School of Law website"
- ↑ "Architect of Lockerbie trial attacks guilty verdict"
- ↑ "Pressure grows for explanation in Lockerbie witness dispute"
- ↑ "Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Al Megrahi released from jail on compassionate grounds"
- ↑ "A prison visit"
- ↑ Jennifer Veitch, "Architect of Lockerbie trial vows to fight for an appeal", The Scotsman, 1 November 2005.
- ↑ "Libyan jailed over Lockerbie wins right to appeal"
- ↑ "Secret talks on deal to return Megrahi to Libya"
- ↑ "Expert devises changes in law to speed Lockerbie appeal verdict"
- ↑ "Legal experts call for new public inquiry on Lockerbie bomb"
- ↑ "Letter to Malta"
- ↑ "Blackout over Lockerbie"
- ↑ "Another Haseldine lie"
- ↑ "Lockerbie bombing: Megrahi conviction review sought by families"
- ↑ "Problems and pitfalls of new SCCRC application and appeal"
- ↑ "Tiny Rowland, Lonmin and Lockerbie
- ↑ "Blackout of Mandela Blueprint for Lockerbie Justice"
- ↑ "Blackout of Mandela Blueprint for Lockerbie Justice"
- ↑ "Commentary on The Maltese Double Cross"
- ↑ "Cover-up of Convenience"
- ↑ "Megrahi: You are my Jury"
- ↑ "Was Libya really behind it?"
- ↑ "Scotland's Shame: Why Lockerbie Still Matters"
- ↑ "Lockerbie Revisited"
- ↑ "Lockerbie Cover-Upper Ian Ferguson"
- ↑ "Robert Forrester Facebook page"
- ↑ "Former MI6 spy joins Armor Group to hunt down new business"
- ↑ "Alan George libel case
- ↑ "Dr Morag Kerr should drop all this cloak and dagger 'Rolfe' nonsense"
- ↑ "Adequately Explained by Stupidity? Lockerbie, Luggage and Lies"
- ↑ "The Lockerbie Divide"
- ↑ "Responding to criticism by the FBI's Richard Marquise"
- ↑ "Tory peer and leading Scots lawyer in Megrahi cash row"
- ↑ "Ex-minister's $1.5m bill to Libya"
- ↑ "The Bombing of Pan Am Flight 103: Case closed?"
- ↑ "Pinned against the wall"
- ↑ "Motivation for returning one guilty verdict"
- ↑ "How can you convict one without the other on a conspiracy charge?"
- ↑ "The Crown withdrew the conspiracy charge"
- ↑ "When exactly was the conspiracy charge dropped, before or during the trial?"
- ↑ "Conspiracy charge dropped on 9 January 2001 which was during the trial"
- ↑ "A back room deal?"
- ↑ "Scuttlebutt was that two of the Judges wanted to convict both accused and one wanted to acquit both"
- ↑ "A deal, normally known as a plea bargain, must have been done"
- ↑ "Watch it Dave or I'll ban you from commenting"
- ↑ "Professor Black's Mickey Mouse tribunal"
- ↑ "BenSix on Twitter
- ↑ "Good idea to read the book"
- ↑ "Rolfe gets apoplectic and abusive"
- ↑ "Who do you think gave me the evidence?"
- ↑ "defo Govt-fed propaganda"
- ↑ "See the ReTweets to follow..."
- ↑ "Adequately Explained by Government-fed Propaganda? Retweeted by The Firm"
- ↑ "Gannaga Lodge in South Africa's Tankwa National Park"
External links
- "Blackout of Mandela Blueprint for Lockerbie Justice"
- "Professor Black's home page at the Law School, University of Edinburgh"
- "Robert Black's Lockerbie blog"
- The first version of this page was imported from Wikipedia on 24 March 2013. Original page source here
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It was good to hear some Beatles on Mad Men last night, if only because it was getting a little silly that it's 1966, everyone's talking about them but no one ever puts one of their songs on. So as Don kicked his shoes off after a hard day's lying on his office couch and smoking, he got to sit and have a listen to Tomorrow Never Knows, the final track off the Revolver album Megan had bought him in an attempt to make him hip.
What was he thinking as he sat and listened? Probably that this weird backwards tape-loop noise pounding his eardrums represented a world changing around him and leaving him behind, and a wife who'd just quit being by his side at Sterling Cooper all day to go off and hang out with exactly the type of pot-smoking beatniks he was powerless to influence as an advertiser. He was becoming a dinosaur, and the last thing he wanted to do was turn off his mind, relax and float downstream.
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On May 15, NOII-TO hosts a night at the movies. Join us for an evening of building resistance to immigration enforcement as we launch our latest film Migrants: Know Your Rights, a compilation of strategies that migrants can use to defend themselves against detention and deportations. With contributions from many local activist organizers and based on legal materials produced by the Immigration Legal Committee of NOII-TO and the Law Union of Ontario, this 25 minute film is grassroots filmmaking in action.
Featuring an introduction by award winning documentary film director and producer, Min Sook Lee (El Contrato, Borderless, Hogtown), and a moderated discussion with community organizers on the front-lines of the struggle for migrant justice, the event will be a space for our communities to gather, learn, and discuss strategies to take the fight to push immigration enforcement out of our lives to the next level.
Migrants: Know Your Rights materials have been developed by contributions from many organizers over a three year participatory process, designed to link our campaigns for access to services, and an end to detentions and deportations. The film presents a compilation of strategies that migrants can use to defend themselves against detentions.
Today, after a marathon nail-biting debate, Toronto City Hall strengthened its promise to provide services to residents without full immigration status or all their immigration documents. Read the exact motion here.
You called, wrote, met, and pressured your Councillors and they were forced to listen. The first step is complete, and we have a new mission for you.
We need you to go out and make sure that Toronto services are now actually accessible. Sign up here and we will get in touch with you on exactly how. There is a lot of work still to be done, and together we will make it happen.
City Hall instructed Chris Brillinger, Executive Director, Social Development, Finance and Administration to put together a report on how to improve access to services without fear including training, a complaints protocol and a communications blitz by September 2013.
That means we need to spend the next six months ensuring the right recommendations get on this report and that these recommendations actually pass at City Hall after that.
Toronto City Hall is voting to keep its promise of providing basic services to undocumented residents on February 21st. We still don't have the 23 Councillors we need to win the vote. Many Councillors will be deciding which way to vote on the day itself. That means we need you, and 99 of your best friends, sitting in City Hall letting them know they are being watched.
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For nearly 400,000+ Torontonians who don't have full immigration status or all their papers this is critical. This vote could mean feeling a little bit safer when trying to go to the community centre or getting your kid into daycare.
February 8-14, 2013
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All events free and open to the public. Accessible space.
Migration Now! is a limited-edition portfolio of handmade prints addressing migrant issues from Justseeds & CultureStrike. In addition to the members of Justseeds, participating artists include former Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party Emory Douglas, and Undocumented DREAM Act agitators, Julio Salgado and Felipe Baeza. The exhibit will also feature a selection of graphics from No One Is Illegal Toronto, Justseeds portfolios on resource extraction and prisons, and the Imaging Apartheid poster project, based in Montreal. Programming will highlight the knowledge and experiences of activists and organizers from Toronto, and how art and social justice can impact one another.
On January 17, Toronto City Hall votes on budget 2012. Though mayor Rob Ford has insisted that Toronto has over a $700 million deficit, we now know that the City actually has a $154 million surplus.
Since December 2010, when we began mobilizing against the Ford agenda, No One Is Illegal - Toronto has insisted that we need to fight against the global austerity agenda by creating more services, particularly for people without immigration status who have historically been shut out of Toronto. Those that work and use the services, we insist, must be the ones that decide what happens to them - not millionaire politicians.
On January 17, at 5:30pm, come to City Hall to demand justice for undocumented people and migrant workers in this city. Come to ensure that the workers in this city keep working and providing services to more people, not less.
Our fight against Ford's agenda
Dec 2010, Mayor Ford Respect People: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/502
Feb 2011, No Toronto money for fear and deportation: http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/node/568
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11:45am: Meet at Queen & Dufferin in Parkdale
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Since before Rob Ford lied his way into City Hall, undocumented people and migrant workers have been shut out from basic community services in Toronto. We've had to fight for access to schools and shelter, and still cannot get public housing, decent health care, social services, and often, something as basic as a library card. For years, No One Is Illegal - Toronto has fought to expand services, worked to push immigration enforcement out of our city, and dismantled the borders that shut our communities out of social services so that undocumented people and migrant workers can live with dignity and respect. Now Ford wants to reduce services even further. We cannot allow this to happen.
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Did you know that only a few days ago, Israel fired a rocket at a Syrian research building that killed 2 or 3 people and injured about as much? Or that Israel is wanting to make a "buffer zone" read as "invade" in Syria about 10 kilometres into Syrian territory so that terrorists can be kept out?
If you want a buffer zone, make it on your own side of the fucking border.
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let's see, Syria is a recognised sovereign state by the UN which has defined borders and has the ability to patrol and protect them. Is it then a good thing, regardless of whether there is a civil war or not, for another state to violate their airspace with fighter jets and then carry out a co-ordinated attack on the nation?
It was a military research centre, so there is that. Still, the fact is that citizens of Syria were killed as well as a violation of their sovereignty.
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so a foreign nation is wrong for destroying a facility used to manufacture weapons that are being used to kill their own citizens? you think they should just sit by and let them kill each other? regardless of the fact thats not their true intention their evil may serve a greater good. why is the USs involvment in libya seen as this great triumph but when israel makes a move in something that directly affects them they are seen as murderers?
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Also bad on Syria for killing many thousands of its own citizens, worse on the growing evidence of the "rebel" fighters being mercenaries. As they have carried out executions and mass killings of innocents as well as destruction of many things that otherwise serve the people i.e. a mosque, water facilities, crops, etc.
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Situated at Chuenr Road, the Holiday Inn Express in Taoyuan is close to Taoyuan County Stadium and Tiger Head Mountain. This property is within 3 kilometres from Taoyuan Night Market, Shihmen Reservoir, Taoyuan Train Station and Taoyuan Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Shopping Mall.
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The Staff was great, very helpful! The rooms were modern and clean. The rooms are a little small but not unusualy so for parts of Asia. Not a lot of places to eat Western but local food was good and people very helpfull. The Cook makes a great omeltte as part of the free breakfast on request!!
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The Staff was great, very helpful! The rooms were modern and clean. The rooms are a little small but not unusualy so for parts of Asia. Not a lot of places to eat Western but local food was good and people very helpfull. The Cook makes a great omeltte as part of the free breakfast on request!!Review by: Jensen
Date stayed October 18, 2011


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Steven LaVoie had a vision for transforming freight traffic across the country and called it ArrowStream. Within months of forming the company, he hired technology expert Tony DeFrances to help him build his dream.
Fourteen years later, former colleagues who worked with the two during the company's infancy are trying to make sense of what happened Thursday morning in LaVoie's 17th floor office on LaSalle Street in Chicago's Loop. DeFrances pulled out a 9 mm pistol, shot LaVoie in the head and the stomach and then fatally shot himself in the mouth, according to a Chicago police report. DeFrances had learned days earlier that he was going to be demoted.
The former colleagues had trouble reconciling the shocking events.
"One was a good man, and the other was a good man, and he just snapped," said Gary Davison, a marketing analyst who was one of the company's first hires. "It is something of a demonstration that everybody has their limits. I was surprised and saddened Tony reached his."
Peter Benda, who co-founded ArrowStream and now runs his own firm in Virginia, referred to both LaVoie and DeFrances as "kind people."
"It's not the Tony I -- I am shocked," he said, his voice trailing off.
Police said LaVoie was downsizing at the company and had told DeFrances late last week that he would be demoted from his post as the company's chief technology officer, one of its top executives.
DeFrances asked for a one-on-one meeting and entered LaVoie's office shortly before 10 a.m. Thursday, police said.
DeFrances pulled a gun and the two struggled before DeFrances shot LaVoie twice and then killed himself, police said. Alerted by co-workers who heard shots, officers stormed into the office, not knowing if the gunman was still alive, according to the police report. LaVoie was still breathing, but DeFrances was dead at the scene, a gun in his right hand, police said.
According to a police source, DeFrances, who did not have a firearm owner's identification card, used a German military pistol in the shooting, but Thomas Ahern, a spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said the trace of the gun has not been completed.
LaVoie remained in critical but stable condition Friday after neurosurgery at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, a family spokesman said.
The former colleagues said LaVoie and DeFrances were talented and hardworking and together built and sustained a company through difficult economic times.
"Steve had the vision and had the financial background, and Tony brought the technical part of it," said Benda, who was laid off in 2002.
LaVoie received a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master's in management from Yale University and gained experience working on Wall Street, Davison said. He came up with the idea for ArrowStream while he was president of The Sterno Group LLC, which Davison said was a logistics-heavy company.
LaVoie's goal was to make the business the FedEx for hauling freight by truck, Benda said. He hoped to create efficiencies by consolidating truckload shipments and reducing logistics costs.
"When I was introduced to Steve, I saw somebody who seemed to really know what he was talking about," Benda said. "We saw an opportunity to transform the way freight moved in the U.S."
The company started in 2000 in LaVoie's attic in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood around the time Nasdaq hit its all-time peak, Davison said. It was still refining its concept and trying to win over customers when the tech bubble burst in 2001.
"Suddenly, there was no money available. It was very challenging," Benda said.
Still, the company survived and grew, moving that year from one abandoned startup space to another, modifying its vision when necessary. Ultimately, the company focused on technology for food service companies that shipped freight.
"Steve was a very thoughtful business manager, so he was able to grow the business very far with limited resources," Benda said.


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HOUSTON The Houston Dynamo are in California getting ready Sunday s MLS Cup final against the Los Angeles Galaxy.
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- White color copy paper
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- I began by cutting one of our new die templates S4-264 Nested Eggs. Here is how I laid out the die templates on the Magnetic Spacer Plate, using all of them.
- Because I stacked the pieces, cutting them in the center was not a problem and it allowed me to just make one pass in the Wizard to cut them all. The thickness of paper will determine whether you can do this or not. You may need to take two passes. I used a sheet of color copy paper that works great with Copic markers. It was an 8 1/2 x 11″ regular sized sheet that I folded in half to cut both layers at the same time.
- I layered a large egg with four of the largest eggs and three small ones. Note that the #3 egg is used twice.
- I added the I2-1002 Butterflies Impressabilities™ template to the top along with the second White Master Mat and embossed in the Wizard.
- Next came my airbrush board (12×12″ lightweight chipboard that I use for airbrushing). I placed the I2-1002 Butterflies Impressabilities™ on top of the layered eggs and placed my Magnetic Spacer Plate underneath to help hold the template in place while airbrushing. I airbrushed small strips of color onto the two eggs.
- I layered the eggs using dimensional adhesive. I wanted to add the eggs to a basket but I couldn't find what I wanted in my house so I cut down a snack box, covered it with coordinating paper and cut S7-004 Illumination Border Grand to use as a handle.
- For the final step, I used JustRite Stampers for the stamped sentiments. The round sentiment was cut/embossed with S4-124 Classic Scalloped Circles LG (#1, the center). The "at EASTER" was cut/embossed with S4-235 Fancy Tags.
- I put it all together with my favorite adhesive, added some paper "grass", a small lotion and nail polish. It's ready for grandma, my daughter's teacher or her Sunday School Director. I guess I'll have to make two more.
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"200 Zan Libète: 200 Years of Freedom"
DEARBORN---The African and African American Studies Program at the University
of Michigan-Dearborn, in conjunction with the Art Museum Project, will
present "200 Zan Libète: 200 Years of Freedom" from Jan.
12 through Feb. 6 at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery.
The exhibition, in observance of the bicentennial of Haitian independence,
will feature drawings, paintings and sculptures as well as traditional
handcrafted objects by Haitian artists on loan from collectors and galleries
in the Detroit area.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Alfred Berkowitz Gallery
is located inside the Mardigian Library on the UM-Dearborn campus, and
is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
"It allows us to observe the successful liberation efforts led by
Toussaint Louverture two centuries ago while affirming our commitment
to critically examining the various cultures of people of African descent
around the world," according to Claude Jacobs, associate professor
of behavioral sciences. "I am excited that AAAS, with the support
of a diversity challenge grant from the Office of the Provost, is presenting
this remarkable artwork."
The Haitian exhibition offers a glimpse of the traditions and culture
of this Caribbean nation. A selection of Vodou banners and objects used
in religious practice as well as a collection of documentary photographs
taken by William McNeece, adjunct lecturer in sociology at UM-Dearborn,
also will be shown.
Jacobs is coordinating the exhibition along with visiting professor Gloria
House and an advisory committee from Detroit's Haitian and Haitian-American
Other events coinciding with the exhibit include a reception featuring
ethnic foods and a performance from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 25.
In February, anthropology Prof. Guerin Montilus of Wayne State University
will present "Ancestral Memory, Vision and Struggle in Haitian Art"
from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8 at the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery.
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I posted a selfie on Facebook that got the thumbs up, so I here's a step-by-step tutorial on how to do it!
I used Urban Decay's Naked 2 Palette which I LOVE. If you don't own the Naked 2 Palette, don't worry, I swatched the eyeshadows, and took closeups of the palette, so you can use similar colours! On the pics on Facebook I went a little heavier in Steps 5 and 7 (by applying more of the colours Busted and Blackout).
This is a look that I love and have been wearing a lot lately – it's easy to ramp up for night, or down play for day!
Have you read my review on the Naked 2 Palette? Check it out here!
Makeup used
Everything you need for this look is listed below. Note, I'd already applied foundation, concealer, bronzer, blush and I had 'my brows on'!
- Eyelid primer (optional). I used Urban Decay Primer Potion.
- Eyeshadows are all from Urban Decay's Naked 2 Palette. I've swatched the colours used so you can use whatever you have that looks similar. And see the bottom of the page for eyeshadow closeups!
- A black eyeliner. I used Urban Decay's 24/7 Glide In Eye Pencil in the colour Perversion.
- Optional – A brown eyeliner for the lower waterline. I used Raven from Mac. I love this. It's a unique bronzey/wine/plum colour.
- Mascara. I used two! Maybelline the Falsies as a base coat with Benefit's They're Real Mascara on top (this combo gives a very dramatic full-lash effect)
- A pinky/nude/coral toned lipstick of your choice. I used Inglot lippy number 167. Amazing lipstick colour, it suits everyone.
Brushes/tools used
- A flat stiff brush (for applying colour to the eyelid and for brow highlight). Mine is from Sigma
- A fluffy brush (for blending out the crease colour). Mine is from Makeup Geek
- A pencil brush with a fine end for applying colour to the outer eye corner. Mine is from Makeup Geek
- A thin blending brush for careful application of the outer v! Mine is a 10s from Inglot.
- An angled brush to line the eyes. Mine is a Mac 266 brush
- Eyelash curler
What to do!
Photo 1: If you have an eye primer, prime your eyelid so your eyeshadow lasts all day (and so it won't fade or crease). I used Urban Decay Primer Potion.
Photo 2: Apply base colour, YDK, to eyelid, using flat stiff brush, stopping at your crease. Tip: To get a rose gold colour if you don't have the Naked 2 Palette – try mixing a bronze eyeshadow with a light pink: You'll get the same colour (more or less!).
Photo 3: Crease colour and blending. Using the fluffy eyeshadow brush, swipe the colour Tease through your crease/eye socket. Blend it backwards and forwards in a window wiper-like motion, in a rainbow shape, until it's well blended. Keep blending Tease up towards your browbone. If you ease off on the pressure of the blending as you swipe your fluffy brush upwards, the colour will blend out seamlessly.
Photo 4: Using your flat stiff brush (clean the last bit of colour off with a tissue first), press Chopper just to the centre of your eyelid. This will give the eyelid a gorgeous lift by highlighting it and therefore adding a bit of dimension!
Photo 5: Using a pencil brush apply the colour Busted to the outer eye corner. Blend the colour softly in a circular motion and then once you've done that, pull the colour out to the side of your eye a little, to give it a slightly winged out effect. This makes your eyes look bigger!
Photo 6: Blend the outer corner. Clean off your fluffy brush on a tissue and now blend out Busted just on the outer eye corner. This is necessary to to get rid of any harsh lines.
Photo 7: Outer v. Using your thin blending brush apply a teeny bit of Blackout just to the outer v of your eye, on top of Busted. Move the brush in a tiny circular motion to blend it a little.
Photo 8: Using An angled eyeshadow brush apply the eyeshadow Busted to your lower lashline. Start at the outer corner and take the colour about three-quarters of the way along, stopping a quarter of the way in before the inner corner (if you run the colour all the way along to the inner corner it can make your eyes look smaller).
Photo 9: Highlight your inner eye corner. Clean your pencil brush off on a tissue and now pick up some Bootycall eyeshadow. Apply this in a small circular motion to the inner eye corner (e.g. the side closest to your nose!). This is an instant eye brightener.
Photo 10: Apply brow highlight. Clean off the flat stiff brush on a tissue and pick up some of the eyeshadow Foxy. Apply this just under your eyebrow i.e. Along your browbone.
Photo 11: Apply black eyeliner finely along top lashline (you can use gel eyeliner for this look, or even a black eyeshadow).
Photo 12: This step is optional, but when I use a black eyeliner I like to go over the top of it with black eyeshadow to slightly soften the look (the black eyeshadow I used was Blackout).
Photo 13: Curl your eyelashes. Yes, this is optional, but wow, it makes such a difference!
Photo 14: Apply two of mascara.
Photo 15: Optional! For a dramatic effect,line your lower waterline with a brown or black eyeliner. I used Raven from Mac.
Photo 16: Also optional! I love lining the top waterline (eg the rim of my eye below my top lashline) with a black eyeliner. This makes my eyelashes look super thick and gives a dramatic effect. For this step, it's best to use a waterproof eyeliner. This is because the waterline is a damp part of your eye, and therefore a normal (non waterproof) eyeliner will run and won't last long!
Done! Want to ramp this up for a sexy, dramatic evening version? Apply more Busted to the outer corner – and more Blackout. Apply black eyeliner slightly heavier around the eyes, including on the waterline – Boom. Looking hot Missus!
So, what do you think? Did you give it a go? Let me know if you did and how it worked out, I'd love to hear from you!
Lou x
PS: Where to buy… Urban Decay Primer Potion, Naked 2 eyeshadow palette and 24/7 Glide on Pencil: www.beautybay.com (there's FREE delivery to NZ!) or buy locally in NZ through Gracie Lou (great service!)
PPS: Here's a close up of the Naked Palette eyeshadows. Aren't they pretty?
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4 comments on Smokey Eye Tutorial (using the Naked 2 Palette)
Hi, I enjoy reading your blog – particularly your eye shadow tutorials. Was wondering if there are any eye shadow palettes you would recommend for a cooler skin tone? I have light brown hair & blue eyes. Tempted to shop up a storm on Beauty Bay!
Thank you
Hi, thank you so much for this tutorial!
I know it was posted a while ago so you may not see this but I absolutely loved it. I just got the Naked 2 palette from my best friend for my birthday (very exciting for an Aussie with no easy access to Urban Decay) and your easy to follow tutorial made me look fabulous!
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Natural Language Syntax
The book's clear, step-by-step exposition is presented within the Simpler Syntax framework whose development has been led by the author and Ray Jackendoff over the last fifteen years. This integrates syntactic theory with the representation of conceptual structure and casts fresh light on the interface between syntax and semantics. It also enables elegant and economical analyses of natural language phenomena without recourse to such abstract devices as functional heads and uniform binary
Peter Culicover opens his account with an overview of the nature of language and the aims of its analysis. He then divides the book into parts devoted to syntactic categories, syntactic structure and argument structure, argument realization, unbounded dependencies, and clausal structure. He provides exercises, problems, and suggestions for further reading throughout the book. -less
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One of the best book on running, it's engaging and motivating. I trained for my first 21k listening to Born to Run all the way.
Great voice and intonation, Sanders captured the excitement and thrill of running in the wild with the Tarahumara
"Fall short of "Born to Run""
I was expecting more running adventures like that in "Born to Run", but ended up discovering this book is about some kind of unhappy childhood. The title is definitely deceiving. The best part of the book is incidentally a snapshoot depiction of the Tarahumara race in "Born to Run".
The narrator was good, it is just a pity he had to tell a less-than-satisfactory story.
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- Release Date 1/3/2006
- Studio New Line Home Entertainment
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- Genre Comedy
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College buddies Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) are hungry. They decide there's only one thing that'll hit the spot: a huge order of "sliders," the notorious mini-burgers found only at White Castle! They drive to get their fix, only to find another fast-food joint has taken over the spot where White Castle used to be. Vowing to stop at nothing until they reach the burger mecca, the two begin an all-night trek through New Jersey. One thing after another starts going wrong, and the two find themselves having to overcome one ridiculous obstacle after another. Their wacky adventure wanders around the roads of Jersey and into a small-time jail, a Princeton women's room, an encounter with Doogie Howser, and beyond.
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Alternative Activities On Neilson Ski Holidays
Horse-drawn sleigh rides in Kandersteg, Switzerland
Lovers can escape the slopes, snuggle-up under the warmth of a fur blanket and listen to the soft jingling of sleigh bells as they are whisked across the Swiss countryside in a horse-drawn sleigh ride in Kandersteg, one of Switzerland's most picturesque and unspoiled resorts.
Gastronomic treats in Whistler, Canada
Those who prefer the après to the ski can look forward to the 'Finer Things' dining tour in Canada's premier ski resort, Whistler. Foodies will enjoy course after course in each of four award-winning Whistler restaurants - the Bearfoot Bistro, Hy's Steakhouse, Quattro and the Flipside Lounge. All before finishing off the superb culinary tour by learning to how to use open champagne using a saber, as they enjoy their favourite tipple in a 15,000 bottle wine cellar.With so much on offer for the 2012-3 season, savvy holidaymakers should book now to get the best ski deals. SOURCE Neilson Holidays
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