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File - Former Justice Minister Charles Rizk speaks during an interview with The Daily Star in Beirut, Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013. (The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban)
This is the second part in a series of articles leading up to the start of trial at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the court prosecuting those responsible for the Feb. 14, 2005, attack that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others. The series will explore the tribunal's creation, unsolved political assassinations, and the views of victims in the run-up to trial, which is due to begin on Jan. 16.
BEIRUT: Just a week into his term as justice minister in 2005, Charles Rizk laid a wreath of flowers in Sidon at the graves of four Lebanese judges, killed in cold blood, and whose assassins still walked free.
He was appointed to the Cabinet of Fouad Siniora, a mere few months after the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, who died along with 21 others after a suicide bomber detonated a car bomb rigged with 2,500 kg of explosives in Downtown Beirut.
Rizk, who was the tribunal's chief Lebanese architect, discussed the court's creation, some of its key features, the political atmosphere at the time, Hezbollah's attitude toward the court and the tribunal's legacy in Lebanon in a one-hour interview with The Daily Star.
Rizk led the negotiations on the STL in coordination with the U.N. Secretary-General's Office of Legal Affairs. One of the judges he appointed to the task of drafting the tribunal's founding document is Ralph Riachi, the court's Lebanese vice president.
He was initially reluctant to cede authority over the case to an international body.
"My role was to do my utmost to have this case be judged by the Lebanese judges," he said.
But the scene at the graves of the judges was a turning point.
"When I placed the flowers I thought, how can people there ask the Lebanese judges who are incapable of judging the murderers of the four judges, to prosecute the murderers of Hariri?" he asked.
As justice minister, he decided that he could not be "an accomplice to such nonsense."
"Now when I hear people saying why didn't the Lebanese judiciary take up this case, either these people are joking, which is a very unpleasant thing to do because it's no joking matter, or they believe the Lebanese public is stupid," he said.
From the start, Rizk believed in the need to have a strong Lebanese presence in the court.
The judges would be mostly international, but Lebanese judges would also be appointed.
Today the court's appeals chamber has two Lebanese judges – Riachi and Afif Chamseddine, while Micheline Braidy and Walid Akoum sit on the trial chamber.
The seat of the tribunal was to be far away from the constant upheaval of Lebanese politics, and the law that the STL would apply would be Lebanese criminal law, with a few exceptions, such as a ban on the death penalty. Lebanon would also fund 49 percent of the court's budget.
Critics have said the tribunal's financing is a heavy burden on the Lebanese state. But Rizk said the tribunal, despite nine long years of investigation, is worth it.
"Okay, it costs a lot, but it's working and now we have indictments," he said. "Did they measure the cost of this tribunal with the cost of the Lebanese judiciary which is doing almost nothing?"
"I'm not saying that the tribunal is perfect, what I'm saying is that the Lebanese judiciary is non-existent," Rizk said.
The STL will begin the trial of four Hezbollah suspects on Jan 16. The men have not been arrested, and the court will try them in absentia. Rizk said the decision to allow trials in absentia was deliberate.
"We knew in advance that if they indict people they would not show up, because who can force them? There is no Lebanese state here, no judiciary, no security," he said.
"We were not naïve, and the main reason we went international is that we doubted the very existence of a Lebanese authority," he added. "If we hadn't done so, no justice was possible to contemplate."
The negotiations over the creation of the STL, in which Rizk took a leading role, began after the assassination of journalist and intellectual Gebran Tueni. The government sent a letter to the U.N. secretary-general requesting the creation of a tribunal "of international character" to prosecute the Hariri assassination and other political killings in Lebanon.
"The people who assassinated Gebran may have accidentally triggered the tribunal's creation," Rizk said. "It created such an atmosphere that it was irresistible, it was impossible to accept more."
Rizk described an atmosphere of threats and intimidation that was particularly intense after the Lebanese request to create the court.
He said he never counted on the official Lebanese security detail of 24 guards assigned to protect him.
In addition to hiring private security, Rizk also often sent his convoy on its way and took a private taxi to his destination, saying he felt safer that way.
The Lebanese negotiators had to gain the backing of the Security Council to create the tribunal, and Rizk said that all the ambassadors of the permanent members backed its creation, including Russia and China, longtime allies of the Syrian regime.
There were also challenges within the government, despite the Cabinet and Parliament being dominated by the March 14 bloc that backed the creation of a tribunal.
The project was opposed by President Emile Lahoud, an ally of Syria, and opponents later claimed that Rizk had not consulted all concerned government officials adequately.
But he challenged such critics, saying the minutes of Cabinet meetings were available for all to peruse, and that he repeatedly briefed the Lebanese government, presided over by the president, on the details of the negotiations.
At the time, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri tried to block the ratification of the court by refusing to convene Parliament, which had a majority of March 14 deputies. This prompted the Lebanese government to seek the court's creation through the Security Council.
The council passed Resolution 1757, ordering the creation of the STL under Chapter VII, which provides the council with extraordinary powers to maintain international peace and security.
Rizk said that Berri had made a "big mistake" in carrying out the demands of his allies to block the court's ratification.
"He made irresistible the temptation to go to the Security Council by making it impossible to go the Parliament and to let the Lebanese decide," he said. "He gave the people who were for the Security Council a fantastic argument. It was a huge blunder on his part."
Rizk was also justice minister when the four pro-Syrian generals, Jamil al-Sayyed, Mustafa Hamdan, Raymond Azar and Ali al-Hajj were ordered detained by Detlev Mehlis, the head of the international investigation team.
Mehlis left weeks later, handing over the commission to Serge Brammertz, and then Daniel Bellemare.
Both Brammertz and Bellemare asked Rizk to continue detaining the four men. The first action taken by the STL when it opened its doors in March 2009 was to release them for lack of evidence.
Rizk said he was "very surprised" at the time.
"Why didn't they tell us before that they had nothing against them?" Rizk added. "We would have freed them before."
After the tribunal's opening, the accusations against the Syrian regime shifted to the four men indicted by the court, a development that was criticized including by the tribunal's supporters, who felt that those who ordered the Hariri assassination were not being held to account. But Rizk said the tribunal's responsibility was to hold individuals to account.
"The tribunal is made to judge the culprits, not the governments or states or the regime," he said. "The tribunal is not a regime changer. They are to prosecute and condemn the perpetrators."
Rizk said there had been a significant evolution in Hezbollah's stance toward the court.
When caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati formed a Hezbollah-dominated Cabinet in 2011, many of its ministers and allies in Parliament urged the government to disavow the tribunal, deny its legality and withdraw the Lebanese judges.
Hezbollah's Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has denounced the tribunal as a U.S.-Zionist conspiracy designed to undermine the resistance.
But that hostile Cabinet, Rizk said, funded the tribunal three times.
"When all the ministers, tacitly or not, participated in funding the tribunal, what does it mean? That you have recognized it," he said.
"You have all of you recognized the tribunal. Stop making fools of yourselves," he added.
Rizk said this was a "dramatic change" in the party's approach to the court that ought to be built upon because of Hezbollah's almost unanimous backing by the Shiite community in Lebanon.
"By tacitly accepting the funding of the tribunal they have shown a certain evolution and we have to work on this," he said, adding that attempts to discredit the court had been to no avail.
Whether or not the suspects are arrested, he said, depends on broader regional politics and the results of the apparent rapprochement between the West and Iran, under the initiative of Hassan Rouhani, the current president.
"The meaning of the tribunal decision in absentia is moral," he said. "Nobody is going to go to war against Iran or Syria or Hezbollah to force them to produce these five gentlemen. So let's take things calmly and prepare for the future."
The recent assassination of former Finance Minister Mohammed Shatah proves, however, the need for a tribunal and accountability for political assassinations and the "rehabilitation of the country," he said.
But Rizk refuses to point fingers at anyone for complicity in the Hariri assassination or any other political crimes, or to describe his suspicions, because of his role as head of the judiciary at the time.
"As far as the Hariri investigation is concerned, I am and will always be the minister, who cannot deal into suspicions and things like this," he said.
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This is the second part in a series of articles leading up to the start of trial at the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, the court prosecuting those responsible for the Feb. 14, 2005, attack that killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others.Rizk, who was the tribunal's chief Lebanese architect, discussed the court's creation, some of its key features, the political atmosphere at the time, Hezbollah's attitude toward the court and the tribunal's legacy in Lebanon in a one-hour interview with The Daily Star.The judges would be mostly international, but Lebanese judges would also be appointed.This prompted the Lebanese government to seek the court's creation through the Security Council.After the tribunal's opening, the accusations against the Syrian regime shifted to the four men indicted by the court, a development that was criticized including by the tribunal's supporters, who felt that those who ordered the Hariri assassination were not being held to account.That hostile Cabinet, Rizk said, funded the tribunal three times.
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A wave of bad memories and emotions wash over me whenever I think about the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time. It's like being in a bad relationship. You hope when you give it a second chance that it will be better than the last time, but it never is…it never is…
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The puzzles! Oh the puzzles. They were some of the more fiendish ones in the game, though admittedly when compared to the earlier Zelda titles they were easy. The only thing that confused me was why people thought Morpha was so hard, I beat it on my first try first time I fought him. Oddly, when I went back years later and played through again, I had difficulty.
If you knew how to use Z-target effectively, then Morpha was a cake walk. The only time I ever took damage was when accidentally backed into the spiked walls.
I found the hardest part of the water temple was just getting up the ramp to the boss because of the blades running across it and the fact you slid down if hit.
On the 3DS its easy to find the path since the 3 spots to change the water level are marked with different colors… Morpha isnt hard, too.
I like the Water Temple. :>
The only hard part is that one room everyone forgets about/doesn't see that has the one key they need to solve everything. That and changing the water level becomes tedious.
Funny how whenever I replay that damn temple, I alway forget everything I knew.
Nah, water temple was easy. Everyone forgets the spare key under the central tower. Raise the water to level 2, then drop down and there's a hole under the floating platform with another key.
The rest of it was just figuring out the solution. The ramp at the end is simple enough. Walk along the walls to the left or right. Straight is fast, walking into the wall will slow or stop you so the blades can go past.
Not sure what the big deal with the water temple was. I liked it, because its water, and I like doing water levels. Swimming around is fun (as long as you don't have to come up for air a lot – see Banjo Tooie's pirate level, and also Atlantas in KH1 (which I was really mad they made into a music mini game in KH2)). :D
First time I played OoT, I was stuck for 12 hours(!) in the Water Temple, almost overheating a first-gen N64. Until I got the "hint" while changing the water height. The hardest part in that temple was "the shadow" – after that, simple.
If they really toned that down in the 3DS version… oh well. Still an awesome game. Wish this one would be ported for the WiiU rather than Windwaker. But then again, if Windwaker get's add ons (more dungeons!!!!) and a less stupid "Tingle transcription" mode… then I'm all game and hope that there is still a port. Just remove the 3D, use the touchpad and a Pro Controller – done.
The Water temple wasn't so bad… the 12th time through the game.
"Water Temple is a nightmare."
All I hear is "Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch bitchbitchbitch biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch!"
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - Several hundred manufacturers around the country opened shop floors and invited guests inside to get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on in the industry that employs 12-million people in the U.S. But companies participating in the first National Manufacturing Day also had another purpose in mind. After bottoming out in the recent recession, manufacturing employment has started to slowly rebound nationwide. And manufacturers are eager to interest students in considering the industry as a career.
Mestek Machinery, 5480 6th St. S.W. was the only Cedar Rapids company to participate in the national recognition day for the industry. And like a lot of companies, Mestek was hit hard during the recent recession.
Company President Bruce Dewey said things bottomed out with production at about half the rate the company saw in 2007. Some jobs did disappear.
But more recently, a slow turnaround has taken hold. Dewey said sales are up about 20 percent compared to the low point and recently the company announced plans to return some production sent to China and add a handful of new jobs to the 69 employees currently working at the Cedar Rapids facility.
About 100 community college and high school students accepted the offer to look around the factory that makes machinery for the heating, cooling and ventilation industry.
One high school senior, Liam Lafferty, said he was encouraged by news that many manufacturers anticipate a return of hiring in the future. Lafferty saw several avenues that might encourage students his age. "They could either take the engineering or the manufacturing side of it. I think a lot of students who have the skills will be interested," he said.
Junior student Rick Wells agreed manufacturing opportunities should improve even more by the time he graduates. "They're always going to need people and there'll always be opportunities," Wells said.
Dewey said the manufacturing industry knows it has a perception problem to battle to entice the future workers of tomorrow. Some still think of the industry as a dirty, dying business. He thought a National Manufacturing Day was a good way to get people in the door to see for themselves.
Another battle, Dewey said, is convincing people that manufacturing jobs lost in the recession are not all gone for good.
"When most people in America are asked, they know manufacturing is in decline. But if we ask them where we stand in the world, they say 'I don't know5th or 6th.' We've been number one since 1939 and we're still number one," Dewey said.
A national manufacturing group estimated 600,000 manufacturing jobs in the U.S. are going unfilled right now because the skills of job seekers don't meet the need.
Dewey said inviting students onto the shop floor was another way to get the message acrossget the right education and training and you'll get the job.
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Check out the latest internship postings from Tailgate Clothing.
Last weekend I was in Ithaca, NY for a wedding. It just so happens that I went to Cornell, so it was a homecoming of sorts for me even though the wedding was non-Cornell people. While I was there, I went into the campus store to look at the latest Cornell gear. Red may be a hard color to wear, but I spent four years mastering it. Unfortunately, I didn't see anything that I liked. The best Cornell shirts are the ones issued to every athlete on campus (I have magically procured a few of these). Most of the stuff that you can buy is kind of lame. Tailgate Clothing is a Ankeny, IA based company that is solving this problem by bringing fashion back to collegiate apparel (here are some of their Cornell t-shirts). Apparently there was some pent up demand for this kind of merchandise (stuff that recreates "a forgotten era of timeless collegiate and classic American sportswear by incorporating vintage manufacturing methods, quality, workmanship, and an eye for details), as Tailgate Clothing has seen 1,153% three-year growth to $24.7 million in revenue (putting them at #327 on the Inc. 500).
Don't Miss This Tailgate
I want to use Tailgate Clothing to illustrate a new job/internship search trick. If you haven't already realized that lists like the Inc. 500 are a gold mine of potential employers, you need to start paying more attention. The tough part is that a lot of the companies on the list don't have Careers pages (Tailgate Clothing is included). They're all growing at crazy rates, so they're all likely to be hiring now or in the near future. But there's a way to zero in on companies with even more potential for employment growth. Look at the amount of revenue generated per employee. This number can vary widely based on industry, location, and lots of other variables, but when you see a company that is making more than a million dollars per employee and not in finance or tech, you've found a company that is probably generating a lot of profit (Tailgate Clothing is at nearly $1.5 million in revenue per employee). There's a good chance that some of those profits will go back into the company, and that usually means hiring people. Maybe I'm wrong on Tailgate Clothing. Maybe they are going to stay lean and see how much they can grow the business without growing the headcount, but there's only one way to find out. If you make a habit of finding companies with high revenue to employee ratios and reach out to them, you are going to find internship opportunities that others will never see. It's a lot of work, but it's the kind of work that pays off big time. I have a number of friends who started as interns at fast growing companies, and their careers accelerated in an amazing way.
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In a country where one in every three women is illiterate, 71 percent of women don't work and a woman is raped every 20 minutes, India appears to be in need of some major changes.
In response to these disturbing statistics, Buzzfeed asked people in India why they "want, need and deserve a more feminist India." What they had to say is pretty profound.
These bold men and women responded through photos of themselves, holding signs of their written expression.
Check out the powerful responses below, and leave a comment if you can think of a reason not listed here why India needs feminism.
See the full series at Buzzfeed.com!


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Smartphones 'growing in popularity'
22 December 2009 — 8:57 AM
Smartphones may prove to be an increasingly attractive option for consumers looking to recycle their mobile phone, if recent research is anything to go by.
Recent research by Airwide Solutions found that close to half - 44 per cent - of people surveyed ranked GPS-enabled navigation devices as the top technology innovation of the last decade.
Rosemary Hattersley, associate editor at PC Advisor, said: "Smartphones such as the iPhone or the Google Nexus are where the biggest growth market is happening, certainly. Whether they will supersede the desktop PC, though, is quite unlikely."
She added that the handheld gadget side of computing would see the biggest surge in interest in the coming months.
According to Gartner 14 per cent of total mobile devices sales in 2009 will be smartphones - an increase of 23.6 per cent from 2008. By 2013 it is anticipated that the current levels will rise by 38 per cent.
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Concerts at the Cove in West Alameda kicks off the summer 2011 season with a show tonight: From 5:30-7:30 p.m. Friday, June 10, Johnny Vegas and the High Rollers will be performing at Crab Cove, McKay and Central avenues.
The event is free and is sponsored by the West Alameda Business Association and the East Bay Regional Parks District.
"We expect a really fun, family crowd of between 2,700 and 3,000 people per show, so get there early," said Judi Friedman, director of operations for WABA.
Johnny Vegas and the High Rollers is a Bay Area group that plays "high-energy '60s, '70s and '80s tunes," Friedman says. (The July 8 concert showcases Oakland-based Foreverland, "the outrageously popular Michael Jackson cover band that packed the cove last year," she explains.)
"Both groups have a way of interacting with the crowd for a wonderful and enjoyable experience," shared Friedman. "This will be a dancing summer for all!"
In addition, there will be a variety of drinks, food and snacks for sale. In the wine and beer garden, Rock Wall Winery, R&B Cellars and Drakes Brewery will offer an assortment of libations.
Hula Hawaiian will serve shaved ice, while Miggy's Island Kettlekorn will dish out its crowd favorite. Other vendors slated to be at the event are Croll's Pizza, Calafia Tacqueria, Vesta Flatbread, Paul's Paella, Wes Café, and Frog & Fiddle.
Other sponsoring organizations are Bay Ship & Yacht, Catellus Development, Alameda County Industries, Alameda Theatre & Cineplex, Back to Health Chiropractic, Bill DeMar Office of Edward Jones, Bladium Sports Club, Perforce Software, Trans Pacific Bank, along with Rock Wall Winery, R&B Cellars and Drakes Brewery.


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Critic of U.S. reasoning has best seller
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Susan Jacoby is the author of the best seller, The Age of American Unreason.
Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, Jacoby dissects a new American phenomenon, the anti-rationalist landscape extending from pop culture to what she terms "junk thought."
In the first of a multi part interview, we spoke with Susan Jacoby earlier this week, and kidded her about the irony of her book, in which she ridicules American thought.
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Real Housewives of Atlanta
Kim Zolciak's Daughters Urged Her to Quit Real Housewives of Atlanta
We were super psyched for the premiere of Kim Zolciak's spin-off, Don't Be Tardy..., but not everyone enjoys watching Kim on TV week after week. In a recent interview with TV Guide, Kim revealed that her two girls, Brielle and Ariana, wanted her to quit Real Housewives of Atlanta.
"I was having blood pressure problems and that day I left [the show], I was hysterical. So they were like, 'Mommy please don't do the show anymore. It's not worth it,'" Kim shared, in reference to the day she stormed out of RHoA forever.
Usually, though, her daughters are on board with the cameras, filming only when they want to. "School comes first, their extracurricular activities come first. But they enjoy this," Kim assured TV Guide.
Do you think Kim made the right decision to leave RHoA?
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Over 5.4 million dead. Over 2 million displaced. Congo is home to the deadliest conflict since World War II. While the two Congo wars (1996-1997, 1998-2003) officially ended in 2003, peace remains elusive to this day. The largest and most expensive United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world, with more than 20,000 personnel and an annual budget of US$1.4 billion, has not been able to end the conflict. The Eastern part of the country, in particular, remains beset by instability, as militias continue to wreak havoc on the population.
Meanwhile, the conflict unfolds largely unnoticed by the international media and if given coverage in the press, the analysis tends to be superficial.
The conflict in Congo is notorious for serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, in particular the scourge of sexual violence and the conscription of child soldiers. By 2007, the International Rescue Committee calculated a death toll of approximately 5.4 million people.
The ongoing fighting dilapidates the country's infrastructure and prevents development, and in 2012, Congo ranked lowest on the United Nations Human Development Index.
Humanitarian Crisis
The International Rescue Committee reports that since the end of the first war in the Congo in 1998, 5.4 million people have died (more than 8 percent of the Congo's population of 66 million). Every month, 45,000 more Congolese—half of them children—die from hunger, preventable disease, and other consequences of violence and displacement. Over one million people have fled their homes within Congo as a result of the ongoing conflict. Eastern Congo right now is perhaps the worst place in the world to be a woman. Used as a weapon of war, rape in Congo exists on a scale seen nowhere else in the world. Often successful in its intent to destroy and exterminate, rape as a weapon of war is causing the near total destruction of women, their families, and their communities.
Recent Events
Rebel forces under the command of Laurent Nkunda, known as the National Congress for the Defense of People, or CNDP, have taken control of a swathe of territory in eastern Congo that remains beyond the control of the Congolese government and even the UN peacekeeping force. Nkunda claims to be acting to protect his fellow ethnic Tutsis from Rwandan Hutu militias, and he has received substantial support from neighboring Rwanda, but he has political ambitions of his own in Congo and has threatened to take the fight all the way to the capital, Kinshasa. A peace agreement between the Congolese government, the CNDP, and more than 20 other armed groups effectively collapsed late in 2008.
The current crisis in eastern Congo illustrates the historical patterns at the root of this conflict: as long as the Congolese government cannot control its territory, provide basic services or effectively protect its population, and as long as armed groups are able to prosper from illicit trade in natural resources and complex regional alliances, eastern Congo will remain a battlefield and innocent civilians will pay a tragically high cost.


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I used brown rice instead of white to add more nutrition and it turned out tasty still. It's a nice change from ordinary pilaf or boiled rice- smells delicious when cooking and it's the perfecy ...
Really easy and very delicious rice! I served it with Bobotie
we made it exactly as listed in instruction and is was very bland. It needed some kick so we added cayenne pepper to it while we were eating at the table.


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William F. Nolan Presents Logan's Run: Last Day #1Logan has been trained to kill; born and bred from conception to be the best of the best, but his time is short, hes nearing the end of his life. Age 21, when every citizen reports for Deep Sleep. But before his life ends hes got one final mission: Find and destroy Sanctuary, a fabled haven for those that chose to defy the system. William F. Nolans masterpiece of dystopian future once again races
William F. Nolan Presents Logan's Run: Last Day #2The pieces are falling into place for Deep Sleep Operative Logan-6 on his clandestine mission to find the ever-elusive Ballard and destroy his precious Sanctuary. But even the best-laid plans can go awry. When his cover is blown, not only does Logan risk being killed, but also he must make a split second decision that transforms him from the hunter to the hunted. In this heart racing continuation
William F. Nolan Presents Logan's Run: Last Day #3On the run, Logan and Jessica make their way into the depths of Cathedral, a ruined part of the Los Angeles Complex and first stop en route to Sanctuary. But Cathedral is also home of the Cubs, ruthless gangs of kids with only murder on their minds. With ex-partner Francis and Gant hot on their trail, Logan and Jessica's flight to freedom may end, before it even starts.


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Serious question: was there ever any sort of resolution between Funk Man and Punk? That program seemingly ended out of nowhere.
Haitch draws it out so much with that long-winded style of talking he has. I think he thinks it makes him sound badass, like he's measuring his words or something....but it just sounds like he forgot what the hell he was going to say.
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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: Rochelle enters playoffs 28-0, ranked No. 4 in state
ROCHELLE — Kendra Walls felt overwhelmed as a seventh-grader and water girl for the Rochelle High School girls basketball team when the Lady Hornets made their only state tournament appearance in 2008.
"It wasn't just seeing our team playing on the same floor as the Longhorns, it was the whole size of the place. I was like, 'Wow, we're actually here,' " Walls said of the 16,000-seat Frank Erwin Center, home court for the University of Texas and host site of the UIL state tournament.
"It has been a goal of mine ever since I started playing for Coach (Jym) Dennis to get back to Austin. He always said that if we can just get there, anything can happen."
Brittney Stidham was an eighth-grader when she attended the Lady Hornets' only state tournament game in 2008. "It was exciting. I always dreamed ever since then of playing on a team that would go that far," Stidham said.
Walls, now a junior all-state guard, has perhaps her best chance to help Rochelle get back to state when the Lady Hornets open the Class 1A Division II playoffs later this week after earning a bi-district bye. Stidham, a senior post despite standing only 5 foot 6, has her last chance to get Rochelle back to state.
Walls and Stidham are the leading scorers for the Lady Hornets, who head into the postseason undefeated with a 28-0 record and a No. 4 state ranking.
The Lady Hornets, despite a 30-2 record last season and the return of three starters, didn't start this season with intentions of going undefeated.
It just started happening, beginning with a 44-25 season-opening win over perennially strong Eula — the only team to beat Rochelle during the 2010-11 regular season.
"People ask us, 'Aren't y'all under a lot of pressure because you haven't lost a game?'" Walls said. "We're not under pressure. We just know if we play our hardest, and if we play good defense, there's no way we'll lose."
Dennis, 216-33 with eight playoff appearances in eight seasons as the Lady Hornets' coach, said: "We expected to be good and to win district this year. We didn't really expect to go undefeated. I'd trade for a 15-15 record if it meant we would go farther in the playoffs.
"But there were two or three games that, if we got by them, I knew going undefeated was a possibility."
Those games were Eula, a 44-20 win over Walnut Springs — a Rochelle playoff opponent last year — and a 42-31 win over Strawn.
The Lady Hornets' goals, written on paper before each season, included nothing about going undefeated.
"Our first goal was to be district champs. Our next goal was to get to the regional tournament," said Walls, who averages 14 points and three assists per game. "Then if we can just get to state, anything can happen.
"There has never been a doubt that we wouldn't make our goals or that we won't make the ones still out there since we are still going."
Rochelle's run through the regular season and District 28-1A Division II schedule wasn't an unchallenged romp.
In fact, Dennis saw his team's unbeaten season flash before his eyes on Nov. 29 when Walls went down with an ankle injury in the pregame warm-up at Panther Creek. She missed that game, plus the next three.
"I wasn't worried about going undefeated at that point," Dennis said. "I was worried about getting her back before district started. She recovered pretty quick.
"Other players like Stidham stepped up, and (reserve guard) Trisha Mitchell put in some valuable playing time. Someone always steps in and fills a spot. That's the way it has been every year. In 2009-10, we had lost four starters and everybody thought we would fall off. The kids that hadn't started, it was their time to shine, and we won 25 games that year."
During district, starting guard Haley Tinney missed three games with an injury. Mitchell filled that void, helping the Lady Hornets stay unbeaten.
There also have been close games, even in district. At Cherokee, foul-plagued Rochelle trailed most of the third quarter and some of the fourth before pulling out a 37-35 win. Against Menard, Rochelle built a 10-point lead but couldn't pull away and eventually settled for a 44-41 win.
Through the injuries and close games there was one constant — Rochelle's relentless defense.
The Lady Hornets have allowed only 25.7 points per game this season. Menard's 41 points was the only time Rochelle has allowed more than 40 all season.
The Lady Hornets' quick perimeter defense is especially tough with Walls forcing 5.3 steals per game. S
enior guard Jessica Gomez usually defends the opponents' top scorer. Tinney, 5-foot-10 junior post Dana Poe and Stidham, who averages 12.4 points and 5.5 rebounds, round out Rochelle's lineup.
"Not having much height, our speed keeps us going on defense," Stidham said. "When we play hard on defense, we get our momentum going and (opponents) can't stop us."
Perhaps because of their team-oriented focus on defense and winning, Dennis said the Lady Hornets are a pleasure to coach.
"The girls don't let any of the drama bother them. Come to think of it, we don't have a lot of drama problems," said Dennis, who also serves as Rochelle High's principal and athletic director. "The girls get along for the most part. They've been friends since junior high or even younger."
The Lady Hornets made the playoffs for six consecutive seasons before Dennis' return to his hometown as coach for the 2004-05 season. But they had trouble winning a playoff game.
"In my third year here, we won district for the first time and got a first-round bye," Dennis recalled. "I was trying to get the girls fired up and one of them said, 'Awe, Coach, we always lose when we get to the playoffs.' We had to change their mindset and get them to thinking higher."
That same season, Rochelle won its first playoff game under Dennis, advanced to the regional tournament and won 26 games. Since then, the Lady Hornets' program has taken off, logging three 30-win seasons, three regional-tournament berths and one state berth.
This season marks the 14th straight for the Lady Hornets to make the playoffs. Don't look for things to change since Dennis, a 1996 Rochelle High graduate who grew up here, has no plans of leaving.
"I have no desire to move up," he said. "I'm not saying I won't, but this is home. The girls care about basketball. The community support is great. It's not perfect, but it's about as perfect a situation as you can have in my opinion."
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Weekend Midwest storms impact towns, economies, lives
Over 100 tornadoes touched down last weekend as part of a massive storm system passing through the Midwest.
The town of Woodward, Oklahoma, was the worst hit, destroying 89 homes and 13 businesses in the community of 12,000. In Wichita, 100 homes were damaged, mostly those in trailer parks. Tornadoes touched down in many parts of Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. 37 counties in Kansas have been declared disaster areas.
While storm season is in full swing, people are speculating whether the weather this year is abnormally severe. A Time Science article suggests that due to relatively recent trend of exhaustive storm coverage it is difficult to say. The 2012 tornado death toll has already exceeded the national average - this before May, the heaviest month for storms in mid-America.
Rigorous early warning procedures had cautioned of severe weekend weather and is thought to have spared many more injuries and deaths.
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| Pyongyang, August 24 (KCNA) -- Scientists and technicians of the DPRK have of late solved lots of scientific and technological problems to make a positive contribution to the building of a great, prosperous and powerful nation.
Those of the Chollima Steel Complex renewed the refractory-laying method while producing refractory bricks to be used in purification furnace by itself, thus extending the serviceable life of the furnace from 2-3 times to more than 5 times compared with the previous one.
The Posan Iron Works increased the serviceable life of the revolving furnace three times by putting its operation on a scientific basis as against the pre-scientification and remarkably raised the efficiency of dust collection by improving the dust collection system. It is now striving to introduce a furnace-body blower into revolving furnace No. 2.
Those of the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex are directing much effort to applying a new rational ignition technology to the Juche-iron production process.
The Kim Jong Thae Electric Locomotive Complex and the railway bureaus of the country have opened a bright vista for completing at an early date important researches needed to develop a new kind of electric locomotive, increase rolling-stock production and putting railway traffic control system on a modern basis.
The Hochongang Power Station succeeded in the die casting of the water turbine bucket at the first go-off which had been done after five or six trials. Power bases across the country including the Pukchang Thermal Power Complex introduced the technology of lowering the flame center and the remote fire observation system in all the boilers and renovated the generating facilities.
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Tim Krol is a lyric baritone and Grammy-winning recording artist. His repertoire spans from early music to modern classical and opera, as well as musical theatre and jazz. For nine years, Tim performed and toured worldwide with Chanticleer, America's premier a cappella vocal ensemble. He can be heard on thirteen Chanticleer recordings, including the Grammy Award-winning "Colors of Love."
As a Bach specialist, Tim has performed many of Bach's cantatas, masses and Passions throughout the United States. He was an Adams Fellow at the Carmel Bach Festival in 2004, and has attended the festival every summer since then, singing various choral and solo roles. Tim also portrayed Pilate in the critically acclaimed staged production of Bach's "St Matthew Passion," directed by Sir Jonathan Miller, at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Tim was the featured soloist in two different productions of Leonard Bernstein's "Dybbuk" with the San Francisco Ballet. He trained with a Greek Psaltist and a Swami in order to prepare for his solo debut with Minnesota Orchestra and the world premiere of "Ikon of Eros" by Sir John Tavener. In the critically acclaimed recording of David Conte's chamber opera, "The Gift of the Magi," he played the lead role of "Jim." He performed and recorded two song cycles by Thomas Oboe Lee: Gregory Corso's"Marriage;" and Oscar Wilde's "De profundis." Tim's album of a cappella lullabies, "All Through The Night," which he produced and sang with three Los Angeles colleagues in 1989, has now reached a worldwide audience, thanks to CDBaby.com and iTunes. See the Discography page for details.
Tim performs regularly with Trinity Choir, American Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Sacred Music in a Sacred Space, Marble Choir, Musica Sacra, and The Collegiate Chorale.
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Ikon of Eros is a world premiere by the inimitable Sir John Tavener. This Minnesota Orchestra recording features Jorja Fleezanis playing solo violin (almost continuously throughout the piece!); Patricia Rozario, soprano; the Minnesota Chorale; and Tim Krol singing Greek and Sanskrit chants in the first, third and fourth movements. --Available at Amazon.
David Conte's chamber opera based on O. Henry's short story, The Gift of the Magi, libretto by Nicholas Giardini. I play Jim, the guy who sells his watch to buy combs for Della, his sweetheart --only to find out she's sold her beautiful hair to a wigmaker so she could purchase a chain for Jim's watch. --Available at Amazon.
For nine years Tim Krol sang with Chanticleer, America's premier male a cappella ensemble. --Available at Chanticleer.
Puente, Bocharova; Krol, Runyon; The San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, Paiement. English text. Arsis CD 141
The Gift of the Magi, David Conte's operatic adaptation of the famous O. Henry short story, begins rather blandly. A sweet orchestral introduction leads to the opening scene of Della singing a sweet, wordless melody while combing her hair in front of the mirror, observed by her loving husband Jim who sings a sweet, adoring counterpoint to her vocalise. The music is well orchestrated, vocally sympathetic, and pleasant to listen to, but not particularly deep or original. It was tempting to write the piece off as well-made but undistinguished.
Not so fast! By the last of the opera's four scenes, as the impoverished lovers begin to discover the sacrifices they have made for each other (he has sold his watch to buy her a coveted set of combs; she has cut her hair to buy him a gold chain for his watch), the level of musical dramatization reaches a whole new level--it becomes simultaneously delicate and intense, and free of cliché. Suddenly, this illuminates the entire beginning--the surface charm of the first scene reflected the relative superficiality of the couple's relationship. Now that they have both sold valuable possessions and are left with nothing of material worth, only love remains. The music makes it clear, however, that it's love of an altogether different variety than what they experienced before. Their final duet, accompanied by a graceful rocking figure, begins with Jim singing "I've never really seen all that you have been." The music has never been like this either.
Fortunately, things get interesting well before this dénouement. Della and Jim each have colorful scenes with their respective best friends. (The plain-spoken but lucid libretto is by Nicholas Giardini.) Maggie (Elena Bocharova), summoned urgently by Della, sings "Tell me before I explode," and it sounds like she might. Jim's scene with Henry (Chad Runyon) takes on a jazzy character, with rhythmic references to the opening of West Side Story. The duets in both scenes are absorbing and well drawn, with good blend from the pairs of singers. As the poor but happy couple, Aimée Puentes and Tim Krol both have natural, attractive voices and a winning immediacy of delivery. The student members of The San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, under Nicole Paiement, play the score confidently, as if it were a familiar repertory item. Also memorable is an excellent trio of male singers which makes two brief appearances as the Magi, reminding us in well-tuned three-part harmony what kinds of gifts are truly important. --Joshua Rosenblum
CONTE The Gift of the Magi - Nicole Paiement, cond; Aimée Puentes (Della); Tim Krol (Jim); Elena Bocharova (Maggie); Chad Runyon (Henry); Branden Smith, Aaron DiPiazza, Gary Sorenson (Magi); San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble - ARSIS CD - 141 (73:34; libretto by Nicholas Giardini included in program book).
The O. Henry short story "The Gift of the Magi" is one of the classics of American literature. It is Christmas Eve in early-20th-century New York. A young couple living in the tenements of the Lower East Side, Jim and Della, desperately poor and very much in love, both sell their most prized possessions in order to buy a Christmas present for the other. Jim sells his father's gold watch in order to buy Della expensive combs to hold her cascade of beautiful hair. Della sells her hair to buy Jim a gold chain for this watch. As the hold their beautiful but now useless gifts, they realize they have an even more precious gift-their love for each other. David Conte and his librettist, Nicholas Giardini, have turned this story into a lovely little chamber opera that should give organizations an alternative to Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors".
Conte's music is tonal and very melodic, as is appropriate for a story this is about the magic of Christmas. His word setting is really quite wonderful, and he is helped in this immeasurably by the fine performances of Aimée Puentes as Della and Tim Krol as Jim. Throughout, their singing is entirely conversational, the words flowing as easily off their tongues as speech. They are completely convincing as the young couple sure their love will conquer all, and their final realization of their much deeper love for each other is very moving. Elena Bocharova and Chad Runyon are fine as the friends who help Della and Jim in their fruitless quests...Nicole Paiement's 14-member student orchestra plays beautifully, and the recorded sound is perfect.
There are no notes on the work itself, although there are bios for all the principals, the composer, and the librettist; there is also a libretto, which for once is pretty much unnecessary, given the excellent diction of the cast. It is unfortunate that this review could not appear in the December issues, when people were especially looking for new works dealing with Christmas, but in any event Arsis has a winner here. Recommended. --John Story
Tim enjoys working with singers of all levels, from beginners to seasoned pros, and is sensitive to the unique vocal needs/abilities of each singer. He maintains studios in the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn, and in Midtown Manhattan.
Do any of these sound like you? If so, Tim can help!
Tim's teaching style is all about keeping things fresh, lesson after lesson, and as a result, students really enjoy their weekly progress, and develop their technique more solidly.
Tim has been steadily working as a NYC-based freelance professional singer since 2005. Regular venues include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Symphony Space, 92nd Street Y, and others. Throughout the 1990s, while touring and recording with the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer, Tim taught hundreds of master classes with his eleven colleagues, all over the world.
Here are some testimonials from some of Tim's current students:
"I have been working with Tim for three years now, and I really have seen wonderful improvement...in my breathing, understanding of pitch, intervals, tempo and general music delivery. Tim is great!" Ray W., Architect, NYC
"I've tried to become a better singer all of my life, studying with voice teachers from coast to coast and in between (including Indiana University), but no one opened up my voice the way Tim Krol did, and it happened in just a few lessons! He's a gifted teacher. I recommend him without reservation to anyone who loves to sing, and wants to do it better." Brian F., NYC
"Working with Tim is a blast. He is personable and sensitive to my needs as a Musical Theatre performer. Since beginning my vocal sessions with Tim, I've noticed a stronger and more supported sound, as well as a newly found confidence in my audition technique. I also appreciate that he lends his experience as a working performer. He's "in the trenches," doing hard work and keeping his perspective fresh." Anissa Felix, Singer/Dancer/Actor, Brooklyn, NY
"Tim has taught me how to BREATHE. There's no more important skill for a choral singer than that. He makes everything understandable and fun. He also helped me with problems in choral situations, like non-tonal entrances. Sue F., Science Writer, New Jersey


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Pulse avocados, onion, garlic, chile, salt and cumin in a food processor until pureed. Add yogurt and cilantro; pulse until well combined. Transfer avocado mixture to a bowl. Stir in 1/2 cup ice water and lime juice. (Thin with more water, if desired.) Cover and chill until cold, 1 hour. Divide soup among 4 bowls; garnish with chips and salsa before serving.
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YIELD: Makes 4 servings
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Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper, then 2 teaspoons marjoram. Melt 1 tablespoon butter with 1 tablespoon oil in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken to skillet and sauté until just cooked through, about 7 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to plate; tent with foil to keep warm. Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter with1 tablespoon oil in same skillet. Add mushrooms, shallots, and 2 teaspoons marjoram. Sauté until mushrooms are brown and tender, about 6 minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Transfer to bowl.
Combine broth, cream, Marsala, and remaining 2 teaspoons marjoram in same skillet; boil until thickened and reduced to 1/2 cup, about 5 minutes. Season sauce with salt and pepper.
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The Uganda National Cultural Centre whose official acronym is UNCC, is a Ugandan statutory body that was established on the 8th October 1959 by the Uganda National Cultural Centre Act, a 1959 Act of Parliament (amended 1965).
The Uganda National Cultural Centre, a semi-autonomous body was then officially inaugurated on 2nd December 1959.
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Cholvy, L; Hunter, A; (2003) Merging requirements from a set of ranked agents. KNOWL-BASED SYST , 16 (2) 113 - 126.
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Handling inconsistency is an increasingly important issue in data and knowledge engineering. A number of logic-based proposals have been made for handling aspects of inconsistency in beliefs (where we use beliefs as a general term to encompass representations of the real world) including belief revision theory, truth-maintenance, argumentation systems, and knowledgebase merging. In contrast, there are relatively few logic-based proposals for handling inconsistency in requirements (where we use requirements as a general term to encompass representations of a required world). Whilst there is a significant overlap between the issues of concern for handling inconsistency in beliefs and in requirements, there are also some significant differences. In this paper, we present a logic-based framework for merging requirements from a set of ranked agents. In the following, we will present and motivate the framework, and then compare the framework with related logic-based proposals. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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An association of German Protestant princes is formed, when the Elector John of Saxony and Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, sign the League of Gotha. This is extended by a further agreement signed at Torgau, creating the League of Torgau. Its aim was to oppose the terms of the Edict of Worms, which outlawed Martin Luther and demanded his punishment as a heretic.
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