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20 August 2010The duty prosecutor orders the arrest of Julian Assange, suspected of rape and molestation.
21 August 2010The case is transferred to a prosecutor at City Public Prosecution Office in Stockholm.
25 August 2010The prosecutor takes a decision to terminate the preliminary investigation concerning suspected rape.
27 August 2010Lawyer Claes Borgström, legal representative of the women who reported Julian Assange, requests a review of the prosecutor's decision to terminate the preliminary investigation concerning rape. The review request is sent to the Prosecution Development Centre in Gothenburg.
1 September 2010Marianne Ny, Director of Public Prosecution, takes a decision to resume the preliminary investigation concerning the suspected rape. The preliminary investigation on sexual molestation is expanded to cover all the events in the crime reports.
September 2010The investigation is underway.
27 September 2010Julian Assange is arrested in his absence.
18 November 2010Marianne Ny orders the detention of Julian Assange, with probable cause, suspected of rape, three cases of sexual molestation and illegal coercion. This measure is taken as it has been impossible to interview him during the investigation.
Stockholm District Court takes a decision to detain Julian Assange in accordance with the Prosecutor's request.
In order to execute this decision, the Prosecutor takes a decision to issue an international warrant for the arrest of Julian Assange, a European Arrest Warrant.
22 November 2010Julian Assange appeals the issue of the District Court arrest warrant to Svea Court of Appeal.
24 November 2010Svea Court of Appeal refuses the appeal and takes a decision that the arrest warrant is to remain in place, with probable cause, on suspicion of rape (less serious crime), unlawful coercion and two cases of sexual molestation.
The international request and the European Arrest Warrant are confirmed in accordance with the decision of the District Court.
30 November 2010Julian Assange appeals the arrest warrant issued by Svea Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court.
2 December 2010The Supreme Court takes a decision not to grant Julian Assange leave to appeal. The decision of the Svea Court of Appeal stands.
On the request of the British police, additional information is added to the European Arrest Warrant concerning the maximum penalty in Sweden for the crimes of sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.
British proceedings
7 december 2010 Julian Assange is arrested by British police.
16 December 2010At a hearing on detention at Westminster Magistrates Court in London, the Court decides that Julian Assange should be granted bail.
7-8 February 2011Hearing in London concerning surrender according to the European Arrest Warrant.
24 February 2011
The City of Westminster Magistrates' Court makes a decision to grant the request for surrender of Mr. Julian Assange to Sweden.
March 2011Mr Assange appeals the court's decision.
12-13 July 2011Hearing in High Court in London concerning surrender according to the European Arrest Warrant.
2 November 2011The High Court dismisses the appeal by Mr. Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden.
5 December 2011The Court grants Mr. Assange the right, within 2 weeks, to request leave to appeal to the UK Supreme Court.
16 December 2011The Supreme Court grants Mr. Assange leave to appeal. The Court will sit on 1 and 2 February 2012.
1-2 February 2012Hearing in the Supreme Court of Great Britain concerning whether a prosecutor can be considered to have the legal authority to issue a European Arrest Warrant.
30 May 2012The Supreme Court decides to uphold and grant the request to surrender Julian Assange to Sweden. The Court grants the defence 14 days to make an application to re-open the appeal.
12 June 2012Assange requests the Supreme Court appeal to be re-opened.
14 June 2012The Supreme Court dismisses the application to re-open the appeal. The Court also orders that the period for extradition shall not begin for 14 days.
19 June 2012Mr Assange seeks political asylum at the Ecuadorean embassy in London.
16 August 2012Ecuador grants Assange asylum.
Swedish proceedings 2014 - 2015
24 June 2014Assange requests Stockholm District Court to review the detention order.
16 July 2014Stockholm City Court decides that Julian Assange is to remain detained.
12 September 2014Assange appeals the ruling of the District Court regarding the detention.
23 September 2014The prosecutors present a written comment over the appeal.
27 October 2014New written comment from the prosecutors to the Svea Court of Appeal.The prosecutors still contest that the Court of Appeal should annul the detention of Julian Assange.
10 November 2014The defense councils present a written comment over the prosecutors latest official letter.
20 November 2014The Svea Court of Appeal decides that Julian Assange will still be detained in his absence.
8 December 2014Assange appeals the decision from the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court.
10 March 2015The Supreme Court requests the Prosecutor-General's opinion concerning the detention.
13 March 2015The prosecutors request Assange's consent to interview him in London.
24 March 2015The Prosecutor-General submits a letter of response concerning the detention of Julian Assange to the Supreme Court.
16 April 2015Assange consents, with some reservations, to be interviewed.
17 April 2015The prosecutors ask Assange for clarifications.
11 May 2015The Supreme Court decides that Julian Assange will still be detained in his absence.
29 May 2015The prosecutors request legal assistance from the Ministry of Justice, to be able to interview Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. The request is submitted by electronic mail to the Division for Criminal Cases and International Judicial Co-operation at the Ministry of Justice (BIRS).
1 June 2015The prosecutors send the signed request for legal assistance by post. BIRS legalizes and translates the request, which is thereafter submitted to Ecuador.
16-17 June 2015The assistant prosecutor, Chief prosecutor Ingrid Isgren, travels to London with the ambition to interview Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy. However, no permission is given and the interview cannot be performed.
13 August 2015Investigation concerning Julian Assange discontinued in part
Facts about extradition and surrender
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Murray's grandfather Sir Ralph Murray was a diplomat, working at the Political< Warfare Establishment propaganda unit. And his great-great-great-grandfather was William Makepeace Thackeray.
Al wread modern history at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, where he started performing comedy.
His break came in 1994, when he was invited compere in Harry Hill's Edinburgh show Pub Internationale, and created the pub landlord character.
Nominated for the Perrier more often than anyone else, Murray was ruled out the running in 1999 for being 'too popular', until organisers relented. He was also nominated for best theatre tour in the 2008 Chortle awards.
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'I am going to reinstate your faith in censorship,' Frankie Boyle tells the audience at the Index On Censorship charity gig, foreshadowing the barrage of appalling-taste gags that provoke winces and laughs in equal measure.
And he should know about shutting down free speech, given that he's at the centre of angry protests for his Belfast show to be banned next week because of jokes he's previously made at the expense of the disabled.
At London's Union Chapel he delivers the anticipated outrageous gags – mocking the indefatigable evil of Jimmy Saville or suggesting alternatives to treatment for cancer sufferers – but he's also keen to explain himself. Jokes are a way to bring up ideas beyond the well-defined 'tramlines' in which most of polite society thinks, he argues.
It's not the only serious moment. He seems slightly out-of-sorts from fairly early on, revealing that he wasn't quite sure what he wanted to say given that he'd been so wound up by the awful dehumanising rhetoric surrounding the Calais migrants. Though 'dehumanising' is probably the word Boyle's many critics would use to describe some of his jokes. Complicated stuff this, isn't it…
Still Boyle has the temperature of the audience, winning applause breaks for sincere comments such as this, or his disgust at David Cameron's hypocrisy in vowing defence of free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, while refusing a visa to Chinese artist – and regime critic – Ai Weiwei. (A decision now reversed this afternoon).
And those jokes, however brutal, are so devastatingly effective you laugh despite your morals being challenged, or perhaps because of it.
With material still in progress Boyle did not close the night, but was the penultimate comic – a decision that surprised headliner Andrew Maxwell as much as anyone. Though the Irishman's impassioned, mischievous brand of social commentary hit the spot precisely, and maintained the energy at the end of a long but entertaining night… as benefit gigs are wot to be.
Host Al Murray kept the mood buoyant, too – helped by answers to the 'what do you do?' questions that seem too good to be true. Not the usual procession of IT experts and administrators, tonight the comedy gods gave him Greek removal man, a posh museum worker and a dentist (topical) to play with, among others. And play he did.
Opening act Shappi Khorsandi was bang on message with tales about her father Hadi, exiled from Iran for his satire. She even tracked down the death warrant the Ayatollah signed. In defiance of the humourless, he remains an inviolate prankster even in his eighth decade, as Khorsandi Jr described wonderfully – alongside stories of her own feckless life, joking about being a neglectful mother unable to hold down a relationship.
Grainne Maguire comes from a different place (and not just Ireland); she's a childless thirtysomething and society heaps a whole lot of different crap on women in that category, which she addresses deftly. And although her acute take on the tyranny of clubbing as a way of meeting people was a little verbose, the blunt ending of the rant gets a hearty laugh. Kudos too for finding a new Monica Lewinsky joke after all this time, and for an astute take on Labour's leadership woes.
Like Maguire, Doc Brown isn't afraid to slow the pace down to set a mood that's undercut with a joke. And despite his protestations that he's not cool, he has the charm and charisma to keep the audience rapt during the down beats. The rapping that made his name made only a brief appearance as he discussed how he might get away with being gangsta only in the Cotswolds – including surely the first use of the word 'doily' in a hip-hop context. Instead he used his vocal talents for a pervy cod Italian accent – and silly voices are never not funny.
Brown also spoke about being a dad, making parenting the biggest theme of the night – far more than censorship – and it was a train that Kerry Godliman was happy to join too. As well as exchanges on Mumsnet or rows with her offspring in the pasta aisles, her well-crafted observational comedy ranged from intense passive-aggressive female friendships to the ubiquity of Buddha. There's astute thinking behind her relatable 'we've all been there' vignettes, too, guaranteeing success on the night.
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Lynne - 01/01/2011
I went to see Al in Edinburgh for the 1st time and it was fantastic. I loved how he involves the audience and encourages them to take part in his act. Two hours of non stop comedy... brilliant. Can't wait till he comes back to Scotland.
Riera - 21/03/2010
Murray is a one-trick pony. His one idea has become a millstone around his neck but he seems content to plough the same, dull furrow. There is a hazy, ill-defined line between irony and the real thing. Most of the time it's hard to tell. As with Alf Garnett, he was saying things that people were already thinking.
Andrew - 10/01/2010
When is Al Murray going to open for Jim Davidson, or Roy 'Chubby' Brown? You can call 'The Pub Landlord' an ironic character all you want, but at the end of the day there is nothing between these comedians, they're all lazy bigots playing up prejudice.
Ben - 07/08/2008
Hmm, methinks John (posting here in April 2008) is being ironic and pretending not to realise that Al Murray's Pub Landlord character is, er, a character. You might just as well "hate" actors for the soap opera characters they portray. That said, I've heard that some do sometimes receive abuse from nitwits who cannot separate fantasy from reality. Sigh.
John - 10/04/2008
Al Murray is a fat English lout, a thug and he isn't funny, at all.
Sophie Walker - 11/04/2007
Al Murray is rubbish.
Dave Terry - 02/09/2006
I have seen Al live six times now and each time he was fantastic. He is a comic genius and the best comedian in modern times. He is not racist he is funny. The whole point of his character is that he is completely out of touch with reality! We've all met someone like him at the pub and disagree with all the rubbish that they spout! That is what the pub landlord is all about. We are not supposed to agree with him, we're supposed to laugh at him. It's called comedy!
Karim - 04/07/2006
What can you say? Al Murray - finger on the pulse of the nation. Urban poet. A veritable font of modern wisdom. True genius. The best thing since sliced bread - another great British invention, I might hasten to add. Laahrvely!
Martin Forrester - 30/05/2006
Just saw him in to be honest a rubbish venue in Cheltenham called the Town Hall, but the man shone above the dreadfull acoustics to provide 2 hours of non stop side splitting comedy. Even when at the start of the second half his tour manager cocked up part of his routine, Al just ad-libbed his way through it.
Jackson - 24/02/2006
Very sharp, very funny! In danger of overstaying The Pub Landlord's welcome though. Murray is intelligent and inventive enough to drop the act and move on. Don't burn out in the boozer for the sake of the coffers
Colin - 21/01/2006
The man has just given us, via a DVD, enough morale to continue our job here in the Falklands.
Alex - 28/12/2005
Have seen Al live twice now. Each time he has been on top form. His off the cuff insults to the audience get funnier and funnier as the night goes on. He is proud to be British and he talks about how the country is getting worse and worse and its not Tony Blairs fault. None of the audience are safe , espeacially if your a young attractive women sat at the front. Do not be put off by the DVDs as to me they seem to be a bit to much the same. But seening him live with a differnt set of people from your local town you cant help laughing. a must-see for anyone.
Sherry - 20/12/2005
I never actually enjoyed Time Gentlemen Please, but iI sat through one of the funniest shows I think I've ever been to at the Everyman in Cheltenham (only marred by the humilliation he put me through when he dragged me up on stage not once but twice!) Still it was worth it to be that close to the funny man himself. Glutton for punishment that I am, also got front row seats in May 06.
Miranda - 18/12/2005
Always hated him on TV, but at an actual gig he's much funnier. Worthy of the phrase "You had to be there".
Nick - 15/12/2005
I was at the Al Murray show in Leicester and it was a great laugh. We ended up on the front row and the sheer joy of someone elses agony was only matched by the comprehensive fear that you might get picked next, which eventually happened. A fantastic charicature and very quick on his feet with the hecklers and late comers. People were running to the toilet simply to avoid an harranguing. Great fun!
Mickey G - 09/12/2005
As these comments show, some people just don't "get" Al Murray, or the fact that the Pub Landlord is a caricature. Some whiney students think he's racist, and on the opposite side, some East-End wideboys fail to appreciate that Murray is taking the piss of their "Little Englishness", not glorifying it. Let them all labour on in their misapprehensions, and the rest of us can enjoy an excellent comedy innovator and cracking live performer. That said, I think he can do better than Fact Hunt.
- 08/12/2005
Saw the "And Another Thing" tour last week, and it was exceptional... the audience participation is paramount to his skill, and with the Q+A session blooming the question "What is your favourite part of a horse?" (which incidentally threw Al, until he could answer a list of parts he likes, until he explained he hates horses). A rare talent in that he doesn't have to lower intelligence, to amuse a wide range of people. Top man, and anyone that sees the character as a racist, must realise that he is purely a characature of that certain type of patriotic Brit.
Carlos The Jackal - 02/12/2005
Funny, but flawed. Murray is without doubt a real master of the put-down, but disappointingly seemed to have no real material to fall back on. And - unlike true improvisers like Noble - it didn't quite work. He'd ask audience members their name, and their job, then make several pointed insults about their choice of profession, appearance, sexual orientation etc. Over and over again; it got a little tiring, and a bit exclusive if you weren't in the front three rows. His character's xenophobia is very clearly a fine line to tread, but more often than not, it works as amusing patriotism rather than outright racism. That said, the more obviously bigoted gags got the biggest laugh from Bradford's audience. A bit of a disappointment.
Dave - 09/11/2005
He is brilliant. Clearly a very clever guy playing a unique character. I have never heard people genuinely laugh so much.Yes he takes the piss something rotten and yes 'some' people may find him offensive. I can't see why because his comedy and his character is unique - he is a brilliant actor. Go see him.
Julio Fuckert - 13/09/2005
He is a caricature of 'the old pub git', so in fact he is taking the piss out of the type of person/people he takes the roll as. But true racists seem to really look up to him. Yes I can take jokes, and I love them! But im also sensitive about some of the things that he seems to be admired for. This is not because im foreign, ive been living in England for 12 years now.
Don Moses - 02/08/2005
Al Murray makes character acting look oh so easy.
- 01/05/2005
Just started watching Time Gentlemen Please late at night on Aussie tTV - love the show. Wish it was on every night of the week.
Sam Jackson - 02/04/2005
Al is the single greatest comedian of all tim,. Every time I watch him I laugh from start to finish.
Dave - 20/03/2005
I've seen Al Murray two times now and think he is one of the best comics around today, I laughed from start to finish. As for using the rasicm card, I wonder if these idiots actually understand the word. If you watch his act he actually takes the mick out of narrow-minded people and things that have happened in British history.
Paul D - 24/01/2005
One thing I've noticed about Al Murray - after seeing him so many times I could quote his act backwards - is that his quickwitted interaction with the audience works better in a smaller, more intimate room. In a way he's a victim of his own success; playing to the front two rows of a large theatre is not going to create the same electrifying, unforgettable atmosphere as performing in a smaller space where anyone can be fair game, and everyone is involved. Another problem is that lately he seems to be relying on cheap, pun-driven rubbish like 'fact-hunt', at the expense of applying the twisted logic of the character to a topic and creating incredibly stupid-yet-sophisticated pay-offs. A class-act, but one that seems to aiming low recently.
Glen Smailes - 22/12/2004
With seats on the front row and working in IT and being a student I really got both barrels. For two hours the audience hung to his every gagg. I left the place with a saw stomach and a grin on my face which was hard to wipe. Pure comedy brilliance.
Rick - 09/12/2004
Saw Al Murray n Finchley recently. I never really liked the TV show but live he is brilliant. Blatantly non-PC - just what we need these days! Go and see him.
Natalie Allen - 24/11/2004
Racist? Come on, if you can,t take a laugh then dont go to see a comedian! Al Murray is brilliant
David Green - 22/11/2004
Seen him three times this year, and i cant find a better night. The man is absolute quality and I hope 2005 brings much the same.
Chris Walker - 10/11/2004
Al isn't racist at all, he's a characature of every grumbling old git in the country. Pure class.
James Warren - 23/10/2004
Al Murray is excellent - a very funny man who pokes fun at the PC brigade and those brits who still harp on about the glories of the 'Great Empire'. Much like Alf Garnett he is mistaken as racist, where in actuality it is the ignorance of the racists that he is highlighting. A comedic genius that has yet to be fully appreciated. I laughed until beer came out of my nose.
Nick Oughton - 12/10/2004
Laughed for three hours. Nearly had a hernia. Brilliant.
Louis - 30/11/-0001
Genius. The real deal.
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Compilation CD from the Montreal comedy festivalThe Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense
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What is the best way to get 1 million dollars ?
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Depends, There are 2 ways.
1: If you have unlocked the ability to drop cars off at the garage (i think it's in Bohan) you can just keep dropping off Cavlecades and PMP 600 (the two vehicles I've found worth a lot).
2: Steal the bank trucks and take them to a semi secluded spot. I recommend the beach by the water. Make sure nobody is near or you may get 1 or 2 wanted star. Be fast and have full health. You may catch on fire after you blow it up to try to get the cash.
3: Kill the people who try to get hookers. They usually have a lot of cash. Same goes for cabbies who have fares in the cars. Just take a heavy vehicle and head on collide with them (mostly to send them out their windshields and kill them without getting a star)
Just rinse and repeat.
They both served me very well. It took me like 3 hours (our time) to get it, but then I never used money for guns or armor. I just found those laying around.
7 years ago
Right before I started the final missions, I just reached 1 million. I have done everything besides killing every pigeon, and what really helped was Stevie's texts.
7 years ago
Vigilante missions help a lot also. Just get in a cop car and each "most wanted" usually has good money, same goes for current crimes... just find a criminal on foot, and mow him down with the car, get out and claim your money.
7 years ago
Complete the Stevie missions by finding his cars than he will allow you to drop off any car after that point. I kept spawning turismos in front of his garage and each one gave me 11,000 dollars. Within 10-20 minutes of this you could go from 0 to 1,000,000 no problem. NOTE, you must complete the game before you can do the Stevie missions, at which point he will send you a text message.
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Try using cheats.
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I was bored, had a broken controller and a half-broken optical mouse, and so with some wire cutters and tape I went ahead and firgured it out myself. Figured out how much I suck at stripping wires....
Anyway, it was really easy because all the wires were colour coded and whatnot. I just wanted to make sure PS/2 cords are the same way (colour coded), as I'd rather not go ahead and ruin a keyboard and then not know where to go from there.
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Posted 18 February 2005 - 12:02 AM
Wow I'm dumb.
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USB to PS/2, no, they are different cables.
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I have seen adapters for USB keyboards to work on PS/2 but never really looked for the opposite.
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Pearl is a city in Rankin County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 21,961 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area. Today, Pearl is a growing community across the Pearl River, for which the city was named, from Jackson. It is Mississippi's 13th largest city and the largest city in Rankin County. Pearl is a rarity in Mississippi cities in that it does not have a downtown square. Over the years the city has developed the old Pearl High School into a city administration building that houses city hall, Pearl Police Department, public works departments and city courts. A large auditorium-style community center was built next door. The city is in the process of turning this whole area into its downtown.date=July 2010 (more on Wikipedia)


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The Treaty of Surat (1775) was a treaty by which Raghunathrao, one of the claimants to the throne of the Peshwa, agreed to cede Salsette and Bassein Fort to the English, in consideration of being himself restored to Poona. The military operations that followed are known as the First Anglo-Maratha War. Warren Hastings, who in his capacity of Governor General claimed a right of control over the decisions of the Bombay Government, signed the treaty of behalf of the British.


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The last week of the Maryland General Assembly brought good news for some and bad news for others.
Those hoping the minimum wage would increase to $10.10 an hour claimed victory. For those who believe the increase will damage the states economy and business climate, however, the vote brought no reason to celebrate.
The same feelings were felt throughout many of the final votes, as lawmakers decriminalized possession of 10 grams or less of marijuana, expanded the states medical marijuana program beyond academic medical centers and delayed construction of a multi-million dollar wind farm in Somerset County.
The political television show House of Cards got a lesson in actual governance when the Senate and House of Delegates couldnt agree whether to give the show and extra $3.5 million in film industry tax credits in the final hours of Sine Die (the Latin term used to refer to Marylands end of session).
With the passage of the capital budget, the Lower Shore was approved for several capital projects, including $100,000 for YMCA of the Chesapeake, $50,000 for the Willards Lions Club, $100,000 for an oyster house project in Talbot County and $25,000 for the Choptank River Lighthouse Museum artifact acquisition project.
Maryland General Assembly by the numbers
Marylands annual lawmaking session ended Monday around midnight.
Within those 90 days, legislators introduced 1,117 bills in the Senate and 1,555 in the House of Delegates.
Here is a by-the-numbers look as what Lower Shore delegates and senators did this year.
Sen. Richard Colburn, R-37-Dorchester:
37 bills sponsored
13 bills passed
8 bills received unfavorable reports by committee
Sen. Jim Mathias, D-38-Worcester:
17 bills sponsored
6 bills passed
4 bills with unfavorable committee reports
Delegate Rudy Cane, D-37A- Wicomico:
5 bills sponsored
1 bill passed
3 bills with unfavorable reports
Delegate Addie Eckardt, R-37B-Dorchester:
6 bills sponsored
0 bills passed
4 bills with unfavorable committee reports
Delegate Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, R-37B-Talbot:
13 bills sponsored
4 bills passed
2 bills received unfavorable report from committee
Delegate Charles Otto, R-38A-Somerset:
2 bills sponsored
2 bill passed
Delegate Norm Conway, D-38B-Wicomico:
13 bills sponsored
3 bills passed
5 bills with unfavorable committee reports
Delegate Mike McDermott, R-38B-Worcester:
18 bills sponsored
0 bills passed
10 bills with an unfavorable report
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The final days of session also brought news for me Jennifer Shutt when I accepted a position at Politico, a newspaper that covers government and politics just outside Washington, D.C.
After beginning as a Daily Times intern during the summer of 2010, I started my career with the paper that fall. I was hired as a reporter in the Ocean City office. After a year, I moved to the papers Salisbury office to become the Wicomico County and Maryland reporter. These past three months, I covered the General Assembly in Annapolis a new step for Daily Times coverage.
Throughout my years on the Lower Shore, I have covered general news, crime and courts, and government and politics. One of the great reasons to begin a journalism career at a community newspaper is the variety of beats a reporter can cover before deciding on a path forward.
My final day was Friday. The paper has begun interviewing candidates to fill the spot ahead of the June primary election.
Jennifer Shutt can be followed on Twitter at @JenniferShutt. The Daily Times wishes her all the best. A rotation of reporters will continue Free State Politics in Sundays editions until her replacement is hired.


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Metso settles intellectual property lawsuit
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A lawsuit involving the protection of certain Metso intellectual property rights, Metso Minerals Industries, Inc. versus FLSmidth-Excel LLC, Excel Foundry & Machine, Inc., et al., United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, has been settled.
According to the settlement agreement, FLSmidth-Excel LLC and Excel Foundry & Machine, Inc., without admitting liability, have paid to Metso compensation in the amount of USD 25 million.
The settlement agreement is otherwise confidential.
Metso will continue to be active in protecting its intellectual property rights globally, acting with the objective to enhance fair competition, Metso Minerals said in a written press statement.
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Here's what's unfair: three wizards, each dropping a fireball-spewing Hydra, firing laser beams of death, calling meteors out of the sky and landing them on our hapless team. The Wizard is over-powered.
She's also hilarious to play. Right now, a team of three wizards are completely destroying us in Diablo III's competitive arenas – a new addition to the series. Here, your character – or 'build' – is dropped into a cage fight. It's vicious and frenetic – no round lasts more than 90 seconds. Every cooldown, every trick, every hilariously overpowered ability fires off at once.
We are PC Gamer and two friends. We're playing at Blizzcon, on the open machines that are available for attendees to test the game. Our enemies have been round the queue multiple times, fine-tuning their build, their tactics and their teamplay – discussing everything in fine detail. They really know what they're doing.
We haven't discussed our tactics much. We've pushed to the front of the queue, waving press badges and pretending we're important. We're completely outmatched.
We think a spread of skills will be fun. We have one of each of the three PvP classes: a Witch Doctor, a Barbarian and our own Wizard. Our Barbarian leaps in first, swinging his axe like a whirlwind. The Witch Doctor lobs magic Molotovs. The Warrior is a blur, punching and kicking seven shades of hell out of anything that moves. We giggle.
The three wizards on the opposite side spam meteor. They focus fire with a disintegrate beam. When we think we've got one cornered, she teleports out of the trap, her skin turning to diamond. It's bloody irritating.
Within a few moments, we're dead. All three of our enemy wizards are still standing. Shit. Try again. Same result. Again. They smash us even harder. Pause. Let's think about this.
"Barbarian, you corner one, get in their face. I'll stand back and disintegrate. Witch Doctor, you... you... God, what is it you do anyway?"
"I make zombie bears happen."
Blizzcon has been kind to Diablo III. This annual showcase of forthcoming Blizzard games has lacked a major announcement, and the Diablo III demo is reaching crush point. This compulsive, violent action-RPG is drawing crowds, and they're more than satisfied with what they're playing.
Last year, the launch of the Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft dominated the show, crowding out the drip feed of information about one of the five Diablo III character classes, the Monk. This year, the only major announcement out of the show comes from the Diablo III team: a fifth character class is on the way.
Spawned as a very, very fast RPG, the original Diablo played like a cross between D&D and such text-based dungeon crawlers as Angband. It was set in the hell-sieged world of Sanctuary, where you descended 16 levels beneath the town of Tristram, finally taking on the Lord of Terror himself, Diablo. It was fast, brutal and fun, with randomised levels, randomised loot and randomised hordes of monsters. Within seconds of starting, you could be beating up crowds of hell-spawn. Within minutes you'd be hooked – levelling up, replacing your crap jerkin with shiny armour. A million mice died at the hands of gamers clicking their way through Normal, Nightmare, and Hell difficulty dungeons. An expansion and a sequel followed. Then... silence. Many of the creative leads within Blizzard left the company to strike out on their own. Nothing. Blizzard's focus shifted almost entirely to building on and improving World of Warcraft. For nearly five years, Diablo III was no more than a rumour.
Fast-forward. It's August 1, 2008. Blizzard are hosting a party at the Porte de Versailles Exposition Centre in Paris, their Worldwide Invitational. Rumours of a Diablo III have circulated online for the past week, aided and abetted by Blizzard's own websites teasing a 'major announcement'. "It's got to be Diablo III. Surely..."
A guitarist takes to the stage. A first chord rings out. It's the opening bars of the Diablo III theme. Paris explodes.
Back to Blizzcon. You can spot the Diablo III team mingling in the crowd. There's Jay Wilson, the game director – short, slightly balding, obviously passionate. Jay has made some of the most violent PC games of all time: he's responsible for the vicious artillery bombardments in Company of Heroes and Dawn of War. That's Wyatt Cheng, technical designer, giggling about giant frogs. He's a veteran of the World of Warcraft team – now responsible for turning the mechanics of dice rolls and critical hits into fast action violence.
And there's Christian Lichtner, the lead artist. When Diablo III launched, the art design took some serious heatfrom core Diablo fans; 63,000 PC gamers signed a petition expressing "the disappointment of Diablo fans about the way Diablo III artistic design is being done." Those fans believed the game should feature dark, gothic horror, not the bright, well-lit violence we're currently being confronted with.
This has quickly become a running joke. Every panel and powerpoint at Blizzcon so far has been interrupted by a unicorn and a rainbow bouncing across the screen. It's funny. We laugh.
The final class to be revealed for Diablo III is the Demon Hunter, a fantasy gunslinger who keeps demons at bay with twin crossbows and a steady stream of grenades. The vast cheer this news provokes is a mark of the passion of this mainly American audience.
The Demon Hunter plays into the Diablo III mechanics perfectly. By making her (a male version is coming, but the Diablo III team haven't finished his looks just yet) a ranged specialist, you're forever working to kite monsters away from you, using a dash/somersault move to dart into space, then ducking back to fire a multi-shotFan of Knives at the pursuing baddies. Her Bola Shot is the coup de grace – it's a string that wraps around a single target, to which is tied two small explosives on a slight delay. Fire, skip, jump. Wait a moment. Pop.
Away from the showfloor, Jay explains some of the thinking behind the Demon Hunter. Her inspiration is "part Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld films, part Boba Fett. The idea of a kind of monster hunter was always the class on the list that we were like 'we really, really want to do this'." The problem: WoW already has plenty of Demon Hunters, and the team were nervous about repeating concepts. "We don't want people to think we're pulling stuff from that. But then we went, 'Well, if Diablo can't have a class called a Demon Hunter, no game can,' so that kind of convinced us."
The Demon Hunter makes us all the more keen to try the singleplayer/co-op demo, because for the first time, all of the game's five classes are ready to test. This playable slice of Sanctuary is devastatingly smart and seriously slick. You begin in a dungeon and within seconds you're screaming through demons. The Demon Hunter multishot skill quickly proves its worth. Demons in Diablo don't come singly, or in pairs. They come in vast hordes. Casters at the back, shackled to pets. Ranged attackers lobbing fireballs and pyroblasts in the centre, creeping up, taking a shot, then pulling back. Creepers and melee at the front. They scuttle forward, take a swipe and then pause, stupid enough to give the player a chance to kill them, vicious enough that if you're cornered, you'll need to spam a Fan of Knives.
It's clear from the demo that a Diablo monster's job isn't to be a vicious and cunning AI, or a realistic and thoughtful opponent. Their job is to die, bloodily. And so they do. Zombies explode in a mash of gore, limbs rolling across the floor. Vast bile boomers pop, leaving behind waves of snakes. Demons are sucked up into the ether. Gibs fly, ricocheting off the walls. When a caster is hooked by a Bola Shot, it keeps on coming for a moment, oblivious to its impending doom.
Then, pop, an explosion takes it out.
The demo continues. As a team, we pass slicing and dicing traps. We lead hordes of zombies into a fire pit. We find a man caught in a guillotine. We all left click, hoping to rescue him. His head flops into the bucket. Oops.
This is a dark, dark world. And to think the fans were worried that Diablo was going to be sucked into WoW's sparkle-horse fantasy land.
Away from the show floor, Christian talks about the art style – which to our eyes has deepened and darkened since the initial reveal. "Diablo II was ten years ago," he says. "We've had a lot of opportunities to improve on the tech. Visually, it's a bit more mature rated, and we use the 3D a lot. The Demon Hunter class, for instance, can bounce grenades off walls."
Yes, you can bounce grenades off walls. It takes skill and timing, but when it works, it's supremely satisfying. A puddle of claret and loot is all that's left of a group of zombie archers.
Loot is the point of Diablo. Clicking and killing is all fun, but it's the spoils, not the victory, that drives us forward. And, already, you can see that the loot systems and mechanics within Diablo III are extraordinarily compulsive. There are 18 distinct tiers of armour to collect, and you can carry each set over into a harder difficulty. You'll also want to gem your armour and optimise it for certain stats. Good luck with that. There are 14 levels of gems, but only five drop in the world. The rest are combined by artisans – you have to craft and upgrade them yourself. The perfect build is going to take time.
Speaking of which, as we exit the dungeon and head outside, we level up. There isn't a ding, or a chorus of angels. Levelling up is like being gut-punched by an upgrade. The screen explodes in white light, there's a deep bass, a crack and your health meter is suddenly refilled. It's a traumatic joy.
There's no tree of abilities in Diablo – you don't pick talents like in WoW. Instead, you just choose from a list. And they're all good options. You're going to want Fan of Knives, Grenades, Bola Shot and Entangling Shot. You can equip up to seven skills, but there are over 20 to choose from. You'll want to upgrade them to their full potential, but you can't if you want them all, too. Making that choice is hard. It's complicated by the addition of runes. Every skill can have a rune added to it – sidegrades that turn something relatively fun into something gloriously absurd. Every other level, you'll also get to upgrade some of your passive abilities. Make fire-damage more burny. Make your armourstronger. Do more damage every time you swing an axe. The interface for making these upgrades is simple, but it masks a deep complexity.
There are five types of rune, each with seven skill levels. They're grouped into themes of colour; Crimson, Indigo, Obsidian, Golden and Alabaster. Applying a rune alters the skill, and although the Diablo III team have yet to drop the full list of what they do and what each theme means, there are examples. An Indigo rune applied to the Wizard's mirror image spell means that you'll get more than one mirror image. And the higher the level rune, the higher the number of mirror images. These runes apply universally. So if you get a level four Crimson rune, you'll have to make a choice. What skill do you put it in?
The level of sheer brain-melting complexity on display is joyous. A Wizard's magic missile skill goes from a single shot to a barrage of projectiles. A plague of toads goes from a few hopping monsters to a swarm, then to a single giant toad that eats zombies and shits out loot. Runes are hilarious – by far the best part of skilling up.
The power of this system is extraordinary. Combine the different skill builds, the passive abilities, the runes and where players spend points, and you're left with a big number ofpossible builds. Over 97 billion, in fact. Wyatt starts laughing as we talk this number over. "Yeah, it's silly. But we're convinced that at least 80 billion of those will be fun. Heads are going to explode with the possibilities."
Aren't they going to be overpowered? Aren't they going to devastate your PvP? World of Warcraft has spent years trying to balance PvP powers with PvE powers. "Part of the appeal," says Wyatt, "is finding that overpowered build. So we're not worried about someone finding a really good build."
And PvP? "We're primarily a PvE game. We're not going to alter any of our PvE balance for PvP reasons."
And that gets to the heart of why our PvP encounters in the Diablo III arena are such awesome fun, and why we're not smarting from repeated losses like we normally would. Instead, we're eager to dive back in for more.
The Diablo III arena is throwaway. It's there for shits and giggles, not to be some kind of drama-filled competitive, noob-unfriendly game. "The thing we want to really try and avoid," says Jay, "is the natural instinct for everyone to turn it into a super uber hardcore e-sport. The problem is that it's never, ever, because of the nature of our game, going to be balanced for that. The point of it is to have some fun."
Yes, there will be matchmaking. Yes, you'll get experience and ranks and rewards, like it's a Meteor Spellenhanced RPG version of Call of Duty. "But we're never going to compete with arena battles in WoW or StarCraft."
As we complete our run through the Diablo III demo, the screen fades to black. The background is replaced by a black screen, over which a rainbow appears. We dance to avoid flaming meteors before, finally, we're splatted. It's hilarious. A bloody good time.
The queue is massive. But we're press. We call the attendant over.
"Can we have another go?"


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Written by Efranchisesale Staff Wednesday, 05 August 2015 00:00
Before jumping into the world of franchising, most would-be business owners want to know exactly what they're getting into. You may already be perusing the franchises for sale directories, but are you really ready for the challenges of franchising?
I will be covering the benefits of franchise ownership in a separate article, but first let's examine the challenges. Many of these challenges may not exist in all franchise systems, but they offer a good starting point for a frank discussion with your potential franchisor.


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I have an old Shogun that I turned into a fixed gear a while ago, and I took the pedals off today for the first time ever, and they'd been cross threaded on, completely stripping all the threads out of the crank arm.
The cranks were "Sakae SA"s, probably from the mid eighties. I took it into a bike shop and they had a crank that would work for my bottom bracket (apparently it's a little long) but I'd need to replace my chainring. I really like my little chainring, and I like the Sakae SA cranks, even though they're a bit generic looking I don't mind, but I can't find another set. Not on ebay or craigslist or even in a portland bike shop?! If anybody knows where I could find a set, or has any advice on what else I could replace them with, I'd so so much appreciate it.