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Okay, so they didn't really dress like this. But the hit men did unleash torture tactics reminiscent of Tarantino's finest.
You're a young Israeli man named Meir Bryskman. It's a cool October night in 2010, and you've just stepped off a bus in downtown Lakewood, New Jersey. Pulling your dark overcoat across your chest, you walk northeast in the direction of the Metedeconk River. The sidewalks are empty, but you've made this journey before and have no reason to be nervous. Lakewood—at various points a railroad town, an iron town, and a resort town for claustrophobic New Yorkers—is these days known for its dense population of Orthodox Jews, who cluster there to be close to Beth Medrash Govoha, one of the largest yeshivas in the world. As a typist for Hebrew texts, that's why you're there, too. To be among your people.
Shortly before midnight, you arrive at the rambling brick home of David Wax, a prominent local rabbi who's hired you to do some work. You're greeted warmly and shown upstairs to a second-story bedroom, expecting to spend the next few hours poring over Talmudic scripture.
But no sooner have you crossed the bedroom's threshold than you catch a fist that breaks your nose. Then you feel yourself lifted from behind by two sets of big hands and driven down into the floor. Lesson learned. You lie still.
You're flat on your stomach now, blindfolded, hands cuffed behind your back, ankles tied together. As far as you can tell, there are three men—the two attackers, whose gruff voices you don't recognize, and Wax, whom you know from his nasal honk. You hear the door being shut and footsteps retreating down the hall, and for a moment it seems the worst is over. Then the door is opening again, and you feel heavy wire being wrapped around your arms. Your hands go tingly and then numb.
Before dawn breaks over Lakewood, you'll be subjected to a carnival of torture techniques. You'll be presented with a body bag—"for you to get used to the size." You'll be presented with acid and feel it burn your skin. You'll be told your next stop is the Poconos, where you'll be eaten alive by rats. You'll be told not to move, unless you want a stream of piss on your forehead.
And you'll be told that all the torment—all the crippling embarrassment—will halt only if you agree to sign what's known as a get: a document releasing your wife from marriage. The choice is simple, your captors say: "A divorce or a funeral."
In Orthodox tradition, a man and his wife enter wedlock by signing their names to the ketubah, the traditional prenuptial agreement, both knowing that only the man, the head of the household, is allowed to terminate the relationship. A husband's refusal to do so creates an agunah out of his powerless wife—she becomes, literally, a "chained" woman.
Bryskman's wife claimed to be just that. A few months earlier, she and her husband had found themselves embroiled in particularly acrimonious separation proceedings in an Israeli rabbinical court. She moved out of the house they shared, took the kids with her, and forbade her husband from seeing them. She claimed he was an unfit father. She insisted upon a divorce. He wouldn't agree.
On the advice of his rabbis, Bryskman flew from Israel to America, where he had some family—only to find on this night in Lakewood that his marital problems, far from being left behind in Israel, had followed him across the Atlantic.
Peeking through a gap in the blindfold, he caught a glimpse of Wax in a cartoonishly large white cowboy hat. "Do you like my hat?" Wax asked before delivering a few kicks to the ribs. Bryskman raised his head, revealing a spreading pool of blood.
"You ruined my carpet!" Wax squealed. Adequately terrified, Bryskman agreed to his tormentor's terms. He would grant the get—anything to save his life. Line by line, he was led through the process:
...Hereby I do release thee and send away and put thee aside that thou mayest have permission and control over thyself to go to be married to any man whom thou desirest and no man shall hinder you in my name...
At 3 A.M., Wax hustled Bryskman downstairs and into a waiting taxi. He ordered the driver to take them both toward Brooklyn. On the way, he phoned Bryskman's father, Zalman, in Israel. Wax said he had a team on the ground there; as proof, he named a fast-food spot where Zalman had recently dined. If Zalman didn't wire $100,000 to the family of Bryskman's wife, Wax would have both Bryskman and Zalman murdered. "For you, there's a special gift," he told Zalman. "It's called a bullet...in your head."
Bryskman was deposited, bloody and aching, at the doorstep of his cousin's apartment in central Brooklyn. Meanwhile, Wax turned back for Lakewood, apparently untroubled by the possibility that Bryskman might rat him out. After all, ultra-Orthodox Jews consider it blasphemous to involve secular authorities in a dispute that should be rightly settled in the community. But at this point Bryskman no longer cared.
Later that same day, lying in a bed at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, he told his story to several law-enforcement officials. A search warrant was issued; Wax was arrested; his Lakewood house was tossed. Upstairs, investigators found a large white cowboy hat and an invoice from Step on Me Carpet & Flooring for a $1,311.10 emergency carpet installation.
Wax, prosecutors would later allege, was part of a criminal syndicate "engaged in the business of kidnapping and torturing people, beating them up, tying them up, shocking them with Tasers and stun guns until they got what they wanted"—a group of hit men that had allegedly been abducting and assaulting recalcitrant husbands across the tristate area for decades, to the tune of one forced get every year.
In May, David Wax pleaded guilty to his role in the kidnapping of Meir Bryskman. But he told the court that he had done the hit on behalf of someone else, a man purported to be the mastermind of the forced-get ring, a man known as the Prodfather: a 69-year-old gray-bearded, frazzle-haired father of eight—and grandfather of forty-four—named Rabbi Mendel Epstein.
In the secular world, we enter relationships voluntarily, and we exit them the same way. Our entire modern romantic outlook is predicated on this fact. We choose our mate, and if we fuck up—or if they fuck up, or if it just doesn't work—we can wave good-bye. There are no rabbinical courts or ancient laws holding us back.
As Rabbi Epstein writes in his 1989 book, A Woman's Guide to the Get Process, outside of Orthodox circles "people often divorce casually, for mere incompatibility, immaturity or absorption with their careers or lusts. But this is not true in the religious world. In over 30 years of counseling, I have never met a frum"—pious—"couple that divorced due to incompatibility alone. When frum people divorce, it is because one spouse is abusive and the healthy one feels endangered, physically and emotionally."
For at least three decades, Epstein has been the most feared divorce lawyer in the so-called black-hat community of New York and New Jersey—a loose collection of Hasidic sects and Orthodox congregations that spills across Brooklyn and low-lying Lakewood and the rural reaches of Kiryas Joel, up near Poughkeepsie. And yet he's never gone to law school; he's not licensed to practice law in New York State or New Jersey or anywhere else.
He is a to'ein—an advocate in the three-man rabbinical court known as a beit din, or "house of justice." In Orthodox society, which can be so insular it employs its own unofficial police force, the beit din is both small-claims court and counseling service. Have trouble collecting an outstanding debt from your tightfisted neighbor? Visit a beit din. Need advice on how to bury your mother? See the beit din. Want out of a marriage? Sign a get at your local beit din for ratification.
The hitch comes when a husband refuses to participate in the process. Suddenly his wife, who may have been pressed into an arranged marriage and now has a handful of screaming kids on her hands and very little money of her own—to say nothing of education or the means to make a living, which in ultra-Orthodox circles, where men are always the breadwinners, is pretty much out of the question, anyway—is officially an agunah, chained to a marriage that is functionally dead.
Situations like this are Epstein's specialty. His reputation was founded on extricating trapped women from marriage; by his own count, he has personally supervised 2,000 divorce cases. Success, Epstein has bragged, is merely a matter of finding "the right buttons to push to aggravate the husband so that he wants out of his self-imposed predicament." Depending on how much you're willing to spend, those buttons might include harassment (in his book, Epstein recalls once following a husband into a dance club and remaining there until that meshuggener, pink-faced and utterly ashamed, put pen to paper) or, perhaps, alternate measures. To his enemies, he's a menace and a bully. To his admirers, though, he's a hero—a liberator.
As such, Epstein has scarcely tried to hide what he does. In Orthodox circles, his work isn't just an open secret—it's barely a secret at all. "For a long time," says Monty Weinstein, a New York therapist who frequently counsels Orthodox clients, "it was always his name that came up. He was beating guys up, he was giving them bloody noses, he was using cattle prods. He had a gang of thugs, and he had a van, and he'd scoop you right off the street."


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We were not impressed by the program's bland, gray interface. However, it was hardly impossible to understand, though it did take a little experimentation since there's no Help file. Freez isn't revolutionary in its functionality, but it managed to win us over by its ease of use. We simply selected our FLV file and tinkered with a few options like stereo channels and bit rate, and Freez converted the file to an MP3. The entire process took less than a minute and resulted in a crisp audio representation of the FLV video's audio content. The program is so trim that it doesn't offer any extra features, which was a bit of a disappointment since an editing option or some feature for removing unnecessary silences would have been welcome. Regardless of its flaws, this program is a winner.
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The hardcore fiscal conservatives will always vote for Ron Paul. During the final campaign he might even get more votes. He announced at the last conference that he would repeal Rove v Wade. This might also mean he lost his base of voters who demand their personal choices remain with themselves.
Sadly the majority of American voters cannot take responsibility for their own actions and will need the government to direct their choices. I am very disappointed and probably will give up voting. Why should I support any leader who feels the government has the rights to tell us how to live? I used to believe that it was my duty to keep the government out of our private lives. Now, I am beginning to feel it really doesn't matter as Americans are too damn stupid to know right from wrong.
I"m tired of waiting for a Republican candidate who respects the voters to decide for themselves. I'm just sorry the Democrats could not put up a candidate who meant what he promised in 2008. They are all liars!


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Three teenagers and two men have been arrested for alleged sectarian chanting at a Rangers' match.
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PONCHATOULA, LA (FOX44) — A 43-year old woman was arrested in Ponchatoula on Saturday, Jan. 28 for threatening people with a metal rod and then resisting arrest.
The Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff's Office responded to the call of a disturbance on Sandhill Cemetery Road Saturday evening. When they arrived, they found Rhonda Cortez of Fletcher Road armed with a metal rod. Officials say she was threatening the life of the person with whom she was engaged in argument.
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I would have been drawing as soon as SHE opened my door. At that point i guess the thug would be about to open my door so i would turn my attn to him, eliminate the threat, turn to her and let her know whats going to happen next.
This is a discussion on Damsel In Distress!...or IS she? within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I would have been drawing as soon as SHE opened my door. At that point i guess the thug would be about to open my ...
I would have been drawing as soon as SHE opened my door. At that point i guess the thug would be about to open my door so i would turn my attn to him, eliminate the threat, turn to her and let her know whats going to happen next.
I drive a wrangler with a soft top so I do not lock my doors it's pointless. My windows unzip on the outside and usually if the doors are locked and someone wants in they will either unzip the window or simply cut the plastic. However reading this post makes me think about locking my doors for a different reason. Someone in a hurry to get in like this gal was wouldn't think or have time to unzip the window and crawl in. Maybe I will start locking at least the passenger door. Heck in the summer I don't even have doors on the jeep I take them off and leave them in the shed all summer, I just learned not to leave anything of value in there. Nothing like driving 70mph with no top and doors
Vermont does not issue Permit/Licenses to Carry a Concealed firearm. Vermont allows anyone
who can legally own a firearm to carry it concealed without a permit of any kind.
I would never draw my gun while someone was already holding me up at point blank range with a gun. It's just cutting it too close and it's a lose-lose situation. If you draw and are fast and fortunate enough to stop the threat, you now have to deal with the legal and media nightmare that's going to cost you a lot more money then the change that was in your wallet. If you draw and stand off your attacker, you greatly increase the risk of being shot yourself, which is not worth any amount of money. The only possible way you don't lose this situation is if the thug runs away after you draw...but that's his decision, not yours. I'm not going to give HIM that kind of power over my life.
I don't carry cash in my wallet and hence I have nothing to lose. The fact that he didn't walk up and shoot me, but instead walked up and asked for money, means he'd rather not shoot me. Good, then he will probably leave me alone once he sees that I have none...or that I only have $5-15 dollars, which while demoralizing to have stolen, is no big loss.
If my attacker is only armed with a knife, or if he is armed with a gun but turns away from me so that I can catch him by surprise, then it becomes a different story.
"In a world of compromise, some don't." -HK
A distraction, either created by you or coincidental, is virtually mandatory against the drop.
Against an armed felon in the commision of a felony and under threat of lethal force, I'm not too concerned with the aftermath. Now, liviing in certain areas might elevate that concern.
It is not my inclination to leave my well being up to the benevolence of an armed criminal.
"I do what I do." Cpl 'coach' Bowden, "Southern Comfort".
I am looking around before I get to my truck.If by myself,I only unlock driver door.Girl beats on window and wants in?I call 911 as I am speeding away.I am no sheepdog or super hero.This world is full of people who are very good at setting up the gullible for robbery or worse.Your friend is cocky and thinks he looks like an organized crime figure?Wish him luck,he may need it.
Pain is the best teacher,but nobody wants to go to his class.
When the past smothers the present, there is only desperation. When the future absorbs the present, life stands still. In either case a decision must be made because you only live now and you are only what you are now.
Exactly what I do as well. Most remote openers only open the drivers side door with the first push, then the rest of the doors if pushed twice. I would never let a stranger in my car so this would not be a problem. I am no Sir Lancelot and not looking to be anytime soon. Damsel's can save themselves, my gun is for me and my loved ones.
Fear the man with one gun. Especially if that gun is a Glock 19.
After reading your post I looked it up. Very good read.
Fear the man with one gun. Especially if that gun is a Glock 19.
Another way to respond (if the car is started and in gear) would be to floor the accelerator! Now that would have surprised her!
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"It's time to nut up or shut up" - Woody Harrelson, "Tallahassee" in "Zombieland"
A woman's husband went up to a truck... and found a man on top of her , having sex. She began yelling RAPE RAPE .... so her husband shot and killed the guy. She was having an affair with the guy, it was not a rape. The DA and Police debated what to do. The finding eventually was , that he could not be charged because he truly thought it was a rape, and therefore justified. However, she was charged and is now in prison.
No one "quickly" approaches my car .... without me knowing it. I keep pretty good situational awareness when arriving, parking, getting out or in my car. When the door is opened to get in... my gun hand is always free.... and I lock the door as I close it ... so the instant it is closed.... that door is locked. All other doors are never unlocked.
Rule # 2 ... if someone yells at you... always do a scan .... scanning can never be under-estimated.
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Chief Justice John Roberts : "I don't see how you can read Heller and not take away from it the notion that the Second Amendment...was extremely important to the framers in their view of what liberty meant."
Yeah me too. I can't think of ANY legitimate reason for a total stranger to GET INTO my car without asking first. Kinda like I can't think of ANY legitimate reason for someone to be inside my house uninvited.
And I'm with Adkjoe, I never lock my doors either. In fact, I leave the key in the ignition too. You can usually get away with that if you drive a 20-year old beater with 300k miles on it. I think in the OP's story the guys' shiny expensive new car probably made him even more of a target. What is it they say at the feed store? The stinkiest rancher is actually the richest.....looks can be deceiving, but it probably never hurts to look plain. Beat up old trucks don't get a second glance here in redneckville, but something shiny and expensive looking will certainly get attention. Which is really backwards if you ask me. Mr shiny new car just has a big car payment and higher insurance, he probably doesn't have any money left after all that! lol But if he was walking out of the big pharmacy, maybe they thought he had drugs too? Perhaps hitting up the WalMart pharmacy isn't a bad idea, after all, for all the bad guy knows you just bought 5 quarts of oil and some drinks for the weekend, who knows if you bought drugs or not?
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Your full post was a bit contradictory, but I am using this portion as an example because I hear it so much. It is not directed at you or an attack on your position. Take it as you will.
This is the apathetic attitude with so many people both pro and anti that seem to literally condone this type of criminal behavior. "The </> $XXX.XX I have in my wallet/purse is not worth killing someone over or the legal hassles or financial problems that will come from me shooting them." - or - "Not worth killing someone over stealing my car/other item that can be replaced." Both usually end with "I carry to protect the life of me and mine". Well, guess what, the BG usually threatens to end your life if you don't comply with their demands for what they want to take.
BGs out and about looking to just plain kill someone are rare. China's Giant Panda rare (1600 left on the planet). So the odds of you running into them are, well, getting hit by lightning while buying a winning lotto ticket. And if you do happen to run into one of them, there is not a darn thing you will be able to do about it because by the time you figure it out, it is game over.
If ones attitude is to carry to only defend the life of themselves or their family, followed with compliance with the demands of the BG (who is threatening the life of you or your family) is better for everyone concerned, then why carry at all?
People get hung up on "If I have to use my weapon, it will kill the BG." Yes, that is a possibility. The idea here is to stop the threat to you and yours, not kill the aggressor. I am not saying shoot to wound, warning shot, stand off, brandish, etc. You do what you need to do to stop the threat hear and now.
If people stop complying with BGs, and respond with immediate, violent counter offers to their demands, one way or the other they [BGs] will not be out and about in the next few hours/days getting someone else. By applying this apathetic attitude of compliance, you are making somebody else a victim, lots of somebody elses.
You are not the one placing the value of life (BGs) based on what is in your wallet or what you posses. The BG is. A BG willing to use a deadly weapon and threats of GBI or death, in a place other than CA, DC, IL, WI....where the potential for their paycheck of the moment may be armed, is the one who placed the value of their life on it. They are banking on you will decide that what you have is not worth your life, because their intent is to get it either way. The sooner the BGs decide that their life is not worth the chump change they may get from these types actions, the safer we will all be.
I carry for me and mine. A BG threatens me or mine for what I have, it is nolonger about what I have or own, it is my life or that of my family that is at stake here. I will not be a victim under any circumstance, and I will not participate in potentially making someone else a victim or possibly causing the death of another innocent down the road because "It's not worth my time and money to stop the BG".
How would you feel if you got robbed in a parking lot, had the means and opportunity to stop the threat but opted to comply because "It's only $40.00 and I can cancel the credit cards when I get home.", then 2 days later you see a mugshot or composite drawing of the same BG that got you on the evening news, is being sought for murdering someone else or a family pack earlier that day (of the news broadcast) in another robbery?
Gonna get off this soap box now.
Back to the OP...In this particular situation, the guy was attached to another object by an inclined plane, wrapped helically around an axis...screwed... the moment the female got in the car with him. A skilled and trained individual may have been able to overcome the odds and stop the threat at that point, most of us [ccw people] would not. The time spent deciding if the female was a threat or telling the truth gave the partner the upper hand by flanking.
Can't say what exactly I would do as I was not there and have not been in this type of situation. I would be actively looking for an advantage.
Agreed, the guy needs to focus more on his surroundings than thinking appearance is a sufficient deterrent.
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Assuming my SA was really bad and I didn't notice her, and assuming I was an idiot and left my Jeep doors unlocked (which I'm anal about), she would have scared the crap out of me and I'd have been hand on gun as soon as I realized it was opening. This may not have ended well as BG #2 may have noticed this and just began shooting.
However, in all reality I am extremely anal about my doors being locked and remind people to lock them whenever they exit my vehicle. There's no way that handle is going to be unlocked unless someone opens up my soft top, unlocks it, then closes the soft top back. Now unless you know how to do that, it's not the easiest thing to do so chances are I'd notice something amiss when they couldn't get it back properly. I also don't have automatic locks. Come to think of it, I don't have automatic *anything*.
My point being: unless I experienced a supreme failure in my habits and precautions, this situation wouldn't have played out as described anyway.
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So a few days ago we brought Butch to the playground. He ran up one way , jumped off the other end, and landed weird. Hes been limping since so ive kept him home, but today he seen another dog and totally pushed it while playing around. H??is limp is now way worse, and hes laying there whining. Hes obviously in pain, its coming from the joint above his left paw. Where im from there is no vet, we have one that travels in once a month or so but its not currently here. Does anyone know what i can do to help him with the pain here at home??
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If I were you, I'd drive through the night to the nearest E-vet, that's all the advice I have, sorry.
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Thats exactly what I would do too..if I had a vehicle and knew how to drive :/ thanks anyway! Hes finally resting now, if its not any better tomorrow I will continue to look for a ride!
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You do need to see a vet .
The joint above the paw , the pastern, is where the radius and ulna meet . IF the dog is still in a growth state (pup - youth) and the growth plates are still growing , there may be damage to the growth plate , bruising, which will cause deformity. The foot may swing out like a seal flipper. |
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Oakland, CA (Sports Network) - Coco Crisp belted a two-run homer and singled in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth inning, as the Oakland Athletics overcame an early deficit to beat Seattle, 4-3, in the rubber match of a three-game series.
"He's very, very valuable to the team," Oakland manager Bob Geren said about Crisp.
Gio Gonzalez (14-8) gave up three runs on six hits and struck out nine over 6 2/3 innings to win his fourth straight start for Oakland, which remains seven games behind AL West-leading Texas.
Mariners starter Luke French (4-5) yielded four runs and seven hits in 5 1/3 innings.
"I keep talking about a big hit that puts the ballgame away. We didn't get it. Those things come back and bite you in the end," said Seattle manager Daren Brown.
Seattle had taken a 2-0 lead in the first inning. Chone Figgins reached on a one-out single and Russell Branyan followed with his 24th home run of the season.
Matt Tuiasosopo added a solo shot in the second to give the Mariners a three- run cushion.
Oakland got two runs back in the third on the blast by Crisp, then moved ahead in the sixth.
With one out in the inning and runners on first and second, Jamey Wright replaced French and, following a double steal by Rajai Davis and Matt Carson, walked Steven Tolleson to load the bases. The tying run scored when Cliff Pennington grounded into a fielder's choice, and Crisp put Oakland on top with a base hit to right field.
There was a missed opportunity for the Mariners in the seventh, when Oakland reliever Craig Breslow fanned Branyan to strand the tying run at second.
Breslow tossed a perfect eighth and Andrew Bailey pitched the ninth for his 22nd save.
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Trampling the property rights of beachfront landowners in the name of public access is no way to encourage beach conservation.
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Fisheries around the world are poorly managed. As Jonathan Adler explains in the UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, property-based management can conserve fisheries and maintain their value for human consumption.
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Major environmental policy reform is long overdue. PERC's Jonathan Adler outlines the foundation of a conservative alternative to the conventional environmental paradigm.
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Wildlife is a publicly owned resource, yet the majority of wildlife habitat is privately owned. This article from the Duke Environmental Law and Policy Forum examines the nature of the split wildlife estate and the potential to unify it with public-private partnerships.
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I will miss you forever, my sweet Scooter Bug. You were my best friend. 9/21/1995 - 1/23/2010
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Death thought about it.
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Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari is hoping that Ashley Cole will be fit for Sunday's Premier League showdown with Liverpool.
The England defender missed last weekend's 5-0 thrashing of Middesbrough and the midweek 1-0 Champions League success against AS Roma with a hamstring strain picked up while on international duty.
But Scolari believes the left-back could be available for the meeting of the Premier League's top two and only unbeaten sides at Stamford Bridge.
However, Ivory Coast striker Didier Drogba is still two weeks away from returning from a knee injury and will remain on the sidelines with Michael Ballack, Michael Essien and Joe Cole.
"Ashley Cole started training today and maybe he's ready," revealed Scolari.
"Didier needs a minimum of one week or ten days still."
Meanwhile, Scolari is predicting a major tussle with the Reds following their own strong start to the season.
"They have a very good team and it'll be a fantastic game on Sunday. We'll try to win, for sure," he continued.
"They are dangerous because they have a good team with good players. They are very organised. They haven't lost a game this season when, sometimes, they were losing in the last five or 10 minutes, they still managed to change those results.
"That's the best thing about Liverpool for me. They changed the results because they played as a team. That's what I want from my team.
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MARIETTA, Ga.—Cortez Lornell Carter was found guilty on April 23 of three counts of murder and two counts of robbery in the Oct. 26, 2002, death of Paul Kevin Wojcik, a 45-year-old Pizza Hut delivery driver. (See Pizza Hut worker killed for $15.)
According to the Marietta Daily Journal, Carter, who was 22 at the time of the murder, was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years. The robbery netted him $15.
On the night Wojcik was murdered, his body was found in a vacant apartment where he had been sent on a delivery. He was severely beaten before being strangled, authorities said.
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While Babylon 5 had five years to develop into a powerful saga, Crusade had its plug pulled after a mere 13 episodes (which were reordered for TNT's broadcast), and the series never really got its footing. Galen often took center stage, then disappeared for several episodes. Matheson was underutilized (other than to provide fans with clues about what happened in the Psi-Wars after B5 ended), and tough-guy Gideon bounced back and forth between his desire to save the human race and his own moral code. There were some good action scenes and intriguing concepts (developed in conjunction with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory). Special effects sometimes were impressive and sometimes showed budget constraints, and we never really saw the power and scope of the mile-and-a-half-long ship, other than the cool bullet cars used to traverse its length. But it did have its moments. If B5 was the spiritual companion to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine with its space-station setting and long story arc, Crusade was more like a traditional Star Trek setting, with mostly stand-alone episodes involving first contact with various species (even if, due to the nature of the Excalibur's quest, such species were usually extinct). And there were occasional tantalizing hints of a broader conspiracy that might have allowed the series to soar. Regardless, B5 fans will welcome even a brief opportunity to revisit this universe, especially when the Excalibur visits the station in "The Rules of the Game." John Sheridan's ex-wife Captain Elizabeth Lochley (Tracy Scoggins) even earned a spot in the opening credits for her appearance in a few episodes. --David Horiuchi


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The government had already issued an order to repair the portion of the Tiruchi-Karur National Highway 67 falling between Kudamuritti River in the city and Jeeyapuram.
The Tiruchi-Karur National Highway 67 between Kudamuritti River in the city and Jeeyapuram will soon be repaired, said Collector Jayashree Muralidharan while addressing the district planning committee meeting here on Monday. The road stretch has been badly damaged and left unattended as the National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) had taken up the development of the highway beyond Jeeyapuram.
The government had already issued an order to repair the road stretch and work would be taken up soon after fund allotment, said Ms. Muralidharan while responding to a complaint in this regard from Thangavel, a member of the committee.
The Collector also instructed the Tangedco officials to replace all damaged and weak electricity poles and list out damaged poles and prioritise repair works. She also instructed officials of the TWAD Board to take steps to ensure additional drinking water supply in Thuraiyur taluk and the Manapparai municipality.
The Forest Department was requested to supply the promised 52,000 saplings to be planted in government built houses in the district. An officer of the District Rural Development Agency informed the members that 467 farm ponds of the sanctioned 842 farm ponds have been created under MNREGS.
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New details have emerged for the next DLC release for Fallout: New Vegas, Lonesome Road.
From plugintoo.com comes news that the next DLC, titled "Lonesome Road", will be hitting next month simultaneously for the PS3, Xbox 360, and PC.
Lonesome Road will see the return of Ulysses, the original "Courier Six" who refused to deliver the platinum chip at the beginning of the main storyline portion of Fallout: New Vegas. Ulysses asks you to head to the nature-ravaged area known as the Divide. Complete the mission, and Ulysses promises to reveal his secrets to you.
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SOMERSWORTH — Getting ahead on the scoreboard in the early innings is important for a baseball team. What's even more important is focusing on playing a complete game. That's the way Somersworth High School baseball coach David Kretschmar sees it.
Zach Poisson replaced Gilford starter Beck Stecher on the mound between the first and second innings. Stecher gave up five runs on five hits and walked two batters in his inning on the mound. "We needed a few innings to catch our breath and realize we had an opportunity," Gilford coach Mike Finch said. "The good thing about giving up a crooked number or a five-spot in the first inning is that it's the first inning." That first inning turned out to be enough for the Hilltoppers. Smith scored again in the third inning off a single from Drakopolous, who was 1 for 3 with two RBIs. Paquette, who was among those to reach home in the first inning, touched the plate again in the fourth, thanks to an RBI-double from Jacques. Jacques was tagged out on the play after rounding second and finding himself caught in a pickle between second and third.
Paquette stepped back onto the mound in the second inning with a comfortable five-run cushion. The Somersworth senior, who will be heading to the University of Maine in the fall, allowed only one run through the rest of the game.
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I finished episode 2 last week and started up the game today to play through 3. When three attempts to start I get a black screen with a looping thunder track. To see what would happen, I started episode 4. It plays fine, but I have no idea who half of the characters are and would like to play through 3 first. Is there a fix for this coming?
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Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2013, 14(8), 16414-16442; doi:10.3390/ijms140816414
Liquid Crystal Phase Behaviour of Attractive Disc-Like Particles
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Abstract: We employ a generalized van der Waals-Onsager perturbation theory to construct a free energy functional capable of describing the thermodynamic properties and orientational order of the isotropic and nematic phases of attractive disc particles. The model mesogen is a hard (purely repulsive) cylindrical disc particle decorated with an anisotropic square-well attractive potential placed at the centre of mass. Even for isotropic attractive interactions, the resulting overall inter-particle potential is anisotropic, due to the orientation-dependent excluded volume of the underlying hard core. An algebraic equation of state for attractive disc particles is developed by adopting the Onsager trial function to characterize the orientational order in the nematic phase. The theory is then used to represent the fluid-phase behaviour (vapour-liquid, isotropic-nematic, and nematic-nematic) of the oblate attractive particles for varying values of the molecular aspect ratio and parameters of the attractive potential. When compared to the phase diagram of their athermal analogues, it is seen that the addition of an attractive interaction facilitates the formation of orientationally-ordered phases. Most interestingly, for certain aspect ratios, a coexistence between two anisotropic nematic phases is exhibited by the attractive disc-like fluids.
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"Since arriving to Oregon State, I have been impressed by the enormous talent of our classified and professional staff, not only in the workplace, but also in their own personal endeavors. In meetings with the Association of Office Professionals and Professional Faculty Leadership Association, I was asked to consider support for an art exhibit for staff artists. We have so few opportunities to celebrate the talents that our staff offer, and for this reason, I would like to invite you to consider this event sponsored through AOP and PFLA."
A message from President Ray sparked the first Classified and Professional Faculty Art Exhibit held in 2011.
"I was impressed with the diversity of the works, and the pure talents of all the artists who moonlight as registrars, accountants, technicians, clerical staff and administrators here at OSU. I believe when their colleagues in their respective offices see their talents, they're going to be amazed, as I was."
Comment by John Maul, Department Chair and Professor in the Department of Art after viewing the first staff art exhibit.
This project is co-sponsored by the Professional Faculty Leadership Association (PFLA) and the Association of Office Professionals (AOP), with support from the Office of the President.
Drop off date: December 8-12
Exhibit Opens: December 15, 2014
Reception: January 7, 2015 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Exhibit Closes: January 23, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
Artwork to be picked up: January 26 - 30th
Best in Show: Alder Sundown - Tony Van Vliet
President's Choice: Sunset - Karen Miller
Vice President's Choice: Ties, Squares - Shelley Curtis
Vice President's Choice: Divergent Paths - Joe Cone
Vice President's Choice: Millie in the NW Woods - Sarah Kyllo
If you have any questions or are interested in being placed on the notification list for future art exhibits please contact Shelly Signs at 541-737-0724.