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NYC in pot triangleModel, mob & Mex cartel in 'smuggle' saga
A rogues'-gallery alliance among the Canadian Mafia, outlaw bikers and a Mexican drug cartel supplied New York City with nearly a billion dollars in marijuana until the feds crashed the party, according to authorities and new court documents.
And what a party it was.
French Canadian drug kingpin Jimmy "Cosmo" Cournoyer made enough dough for a jet-set lifestyle, complete with a stunning model girlfriend and parties that drew unwitting stars, including Leonardo DiCaprio, sources told The Post.
A five-year probe by the DEA and police from Laval, Quebec, where Cournoyer once lived, revealed that his network allegedly specialized in growing and distributing potent hydroponic marijuana cultivated in British Columbia.
Cournoyer, now awaiting trial in Brooklyn federal court, organized the "vast international drug-trafficking enterprise that has been in existence for more than a decade,'' prosecutor Steven Tiscione wrote in recent court papers.
"The illegal narcotics distributed worldwide by members of the criminal enterprise have a retail value of more than $1 billion, conservatively," Tiscione wrote to a federal judge.
Until his recent bust, Cournoyer, 33, tried to stay one step ahead of the law in Quebec by garaging his astronomically expensive Bugatti Veyron and instead tooling around town in a Porsche Cayenne to throw off Canadian police surveillance teams, sources said.
The Porsche belonged to the slick drug lord's catwalk gal pal, Amelia Racine, a willowy Canadian-Brazilian brunette who has modeled in Europe, sources said.
Her jailed brother, Mario Racine, was allegedly the gang's trusted lieutenant. He is now awaiting extradition to stand trial along with Cournoyer in Brooklyn, officials said.
One of Cournoyer's biggest customers in New York City was reputed Bonanno crime-family associate John "Big Man" Venizelos, who is currently out on bail in the case, according to sources and the documents.
Looking less like an alleged mobster and more like a day trader with his Ralph Lauren pastels, nautical-flag belts, Polo loafers and horn-rimmed glasses, Venizelos keeps a downtown Manhattan pad and holds a "straight job" managing "Jaguars 3,"a Brooklyn nightspot, sources said.The club is overseen by Vincent "Vinny Green" Faraci, a reputed Bonanno soldier who formerly managed the "Crazy Horse Too" strip club in Las Vegas, the sources added.
Cournoyer was nabbed last spring after stepping off a jet in Mexico as a wanted man.
At the time, he refused to board a US-bound commercial plane to the States, throwing a series of tantrums right out of the Robert De Niro comedy "Midnight Run," in which the main character fakes a panic attack.
Cornoyer's antics forced a total of four plane changes over two days before he was eventually flown to New York City to await trial.
The pot supply under his domain was transported in motor homes and trucks across Canada with the help of the Hells Angels, officials said. The motorcycle gang and the Montreal mob then smuggled the pot from Quebec into upstate New York, authorities said. Trucks delivered it to a warehouse in Brooklyn, sources said.
Millions of dollars generated by the marijuana sales were eventually used to buy cocaine from Joaquin Guzmán Loera, the leader of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel — with the sale of the coke further financing the marijuana operation in Canada, feds say.
That coke was smuggled north into Canada where it was resold — with part of the profits underwriting the massive marijuana pipeline supplying New York City, according to sources and court documents.The enterprise relied on blood relations: Luc Cournoyer, Jimmy's cousin, is now serving time after he was caught driving a motor home filled with pot, officials and sources said. Jimmy's brother, Joey Cournoyer — seen in a Facebook photo partying with the unwitting DiCaprio in a bar in Europe — was a crew member who has not been charged yet, although the probe is ongoing, sources said. Also in the photo was Jimmy's close pal, Ultimate Fighting world champ Georges St-Pierre.
Jimmy Cournoyer's lawyer, Gerald McMahon, promises a vigorous court battle. Venizelos' lawyer, John Meringolo insisted that $100,000-plus found in his house by DEA agents isn't drug cash.
Source: nypost.com
'Don Corleone' figure who helped install Rizzuto family to top of Canadian Mafia released from U.S. prisonDomenico Manno, the uncle of Mafia boss Vito Rizzuto, was released from a U.S. prison Thursday and returned to his former city of Montreal, where the elderly mobster will be reunited in grief, and unease, with a family under attack.
Mr. Manno, 79, was instrumental in propelling the Rizzuto clan to the top of Canada's underworld in 1978, when he helped in the slaying of Paolo Violi, the reigning Mafia chieftain at the time.
That dramatic murder in a Montreal ice cream parlour signalled the changing of the guard for organized crime, from the Calabrian-led Mafia faction to a Sicilian-led faction led by Nicolo Rizzuto, Vito Rizzuto's father.
"Domenico Manno was turned over to the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement [Thursday] morning," said Ross Feinstein, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman, on Thursday. Officials "successfully removed Domenico Manno to Montreal, Canada, this afternoon."
Mr. Manno, who was serving his sentence at Fort Dix correctional institution in New Jersey, was charged in the U.S. in 1994 for a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought heroin and cocaine from South America into Canada through the U.S. After an extradition battle, he pleaded guilty in 1998.
His own lawyer, at the time, referred to him as the "Don Corleone" figure in the conspiracy, a reference to the Mafia boss in The Godfather movie.
"Manno is acting throughout this whole conspiracy, and there's a guy named Rizzuto who's on top of Manno," court was told.As part of his plea agreement, Mr. Manno agreed to forfeit $250,000. He later complained that he never planned to pay the fine because he expected to be transferred to Canada for his sentence. When a transfer never came, he appealed to have the fine reduced, claiming he was broke. His appeal was denied.
He has since quietly done his time.
Previously, Mr. Manno had received a seven-year sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to kill Paolo Violi, a defining event in mob history.
Mr. Manno was born into Mafia royalty in Cattolica Eraclea, the same village in Sicily where the Rizzuto family came from; he is the son of Antonino Manno, who was the recognized Mafia boss of a large area of Sicily's southwest.
The Manno and Rizzuto families have been entwined for generations. Mr. Manno's sister, Libertina, married Nicolo Rizzuto. Vito Rizzuto's sister, Maria, later married Mr. Manno's cousin, Paolo Renda.
Mr. Manno first tried to emigrate from Italy to the United States, arriving in New York in 1951 but was expelled, according to U.S. immigration files. He later came to Canada, settling in Montreal.
Stocky, strong and steeped in the Mafia tradition, he was a mainstay of the Sicilian mob faction as it fought to establish a strong presence in Montreal. Police long considered him a key player in underworld intrigue.
Despite being the son of the old Mafia boss in Sicily, and being older than Vito Rizzuto, he appeared to graciously accept being passed over for the top leadership position, when it was handed from Nicolo to Vito.
In October, Vito Rizzuto was released from a U.S. prison where he had served a sentence for a gangland triple murder. In Mr. Rizzuto's absence, the family had been under unprecedented attack.
Nicolo Rizzuto was shot dead in 2010, the same year Paolo Renda was kidnapped and, then, presumed dead. Also killed have been Vito Rizzuto's eldest son, Nick, and others close to Mr. Rizzuto.
What happens to Mr. Manno in Canada remains in question.
Although he was a longtime resident of Canada, he never became a Canadian citizen, according to U.S. court documents.
"Manno is not a Canadian citizen, but rather merely a "landed resident,'" a government memo entered into court says.
Further, he could well become entangled in the continuing underworld power struggle in Montreal, suggested Pierre de Champlain, a former RCMP intelligence analyst and author of books on organized crime.
Mr. Manno might well be fearful: He had plotted the Violi murder alongside Agostino Cuntrera, who in 2010 was shot down in broad Montreal daylight. Although no charges have been laid, police believe the attacks on Mr. Renda, Mr. Cuntrera and Nicolo Rizzuto were cold revenge for the Violi slaying.
"Will Domenico Manno suffer the same fate?" asked Mr. de Champlain.
Source: news.nationalpost.com
Canuck mafioso held political, economic swayMafia Inc.
The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan
By Andre Cedilot and Andre Noel,
Translated from the French by
Michael Gilson
Random House, 533 pages, $33
Thugs and buffoons they may be, but Canadian Mafia members and their associates exert unexpected influence in the nation's social, economic and political matters, this frightening book asserts.
Decades of undercover police work in Quebec and Ontario have sent many leading mobsters to jail, particularly in a big roundup in 2006. Their volatile comrades have dispatched many others to the grave.
But this detailed and convincing volume demonstrates that gangsters from traditional Italian crime families still have their hands on many daily activities, some of them legal, more of them illegal.
Quebec journalists Andre Cedilot and Andre Noel outline the blood-soaked history of the Mafia from its origins in early 19th century Sicily.
Mafia Inc. was a hit (the good kind) in Quebec when it was published in French a year ago.
It focuses on the Rizzuto family and its associates the Caruanas and the Cuntreras. This edition updates the action to include the 2010 slaying of Nicolo Rizzuto Sr., 86, shot while dining at home with his family.
The fluid and idiomatic English translation by Michael Gilson propels the story through the web of family and criminal connections that the authors admit is dizzying.
The book is careful not to tar all Canadians of Italian origin with the Mafia brush, but it does not shrink from calling out the guilty minority.
These folks may not be household names in most of Canada, but they should be.
Not only have they run gambling and prostitution and imported stupefying amounts of illegal drugs into Canada, but they have extended their influence to elected civic and provincial governments, and to Liberal and Conservative federal governments through bribery and other "illustrious relations."
Although Mafia Inc. clearly sides with the police against the bad guys and also sometimes against their foot-dragging political masters, it is refreshingly free of the cop-talk that deadens many true-crime books.
The book quotes extensively from court documents and, chillingly, from wiretaps of the Mafiosi themselves.
The writing is frequently spirited.
When mobster Paolo Violi declines to accept his boss's advice to step aside, the authors comment, "His hubris and sense of Mafia honour apparently trumped his will to live."
Describing one of the many goodfellas who sport Damon Runyon-style monikers, they write, "The 'Discount Coffin Guy' was built like a linebacker but had scarcely more judgment than a teenager, and working closely with the powerful Montreal godfather gave him a sense of impunity."
To guide readers the book includes not only an index but a chronology, glossary and bibliography.
Four pages of Mafia family trees include such notations as "is the cousin and became the son-in-law of …" and "married to his cousin."
The authors' acknowledgements section thanks colleagues at the Montreal newspaper La Presse and contains a curious statement: "We trust that none of them will be too taken aback when they notice the many passages in the book that are directly inspired by their writings."
Bearing out the book's assertions of Mafia influence, the Quebec government has just launched a public inquiry into corrupt practices in the construction industry and the awarding of public contracts.
As if to corroborate the authors' accusation that Canadian authorities have displayed "incomprehensible indolence" toward the true nature of the Mafia, Premier Jean Charest resisted granting this commission subpoena powers until public protests shamed him into doing so.
Mafia Inc. should be the first exhibit at this inquiry.
Source: winnipegfreepress.com
Italy Probes Mafia-Led Insider Trading in the U.S.
Shares of Infinex Ventures Inc., a U.S.-based mining company, were manipulated by Italians working for an organized-crime family, netting them 15 million euros ($21 million), Milan's financial police said.
The stock was manipulated in U.S. trading from 2004 to 2008, according to an e-mail distributed today by the financial police, which conducted the investigation. The shares are also traded in Germany.
While none of the 18 Italians in the probe are facing charges for involvement in organized crime, the Infinex shareholders who benefitted from the fraud were members of the Canadian Mafia clan allegedly led by Vito Rizzuto, police said. The suspects were probed for conspiracy to manipulate the market and insider trading. Police said the case is related to a 2007 investigation in which two brothers were identified as suspected members of the Rizzuto clan.
Rizzuto, referred to by Canadian police as the "godfather" of the Montreal Mafia, is currently in prison in the U.S., and he may face extradition to Italy to face charges, the Milan financial police said.
Michael De Rosa, Infinex's president and controlling shareholder, said his company has no connection to the Mafia, and he has paid a high price for agreeing to explore a property owned by the brothers.
'I'm Not Mafia'
Now he has trouble attracting investors and board members to the company, he said in a telephone interview from Montreal. Two years ago, he answered questions by the British Columbia Securities Commission about his business dealings, De Rosa said.
"I'm not Mafia," De Rosa said he told the commission. "If a rabbi sits down with the pope, does that make him Catholic?"
De Rosa isn't under investigation, the financial police in Milan said.
Organized crime flourished during the economic crisis in Italy, according to a report published last month. The country's main crime groups boosted profit by 12 percent to more than 78 billion euros from 2008 to 2009, according to Rome-based anti- racketeering group SOS Impresa's annual report.
The Infinex case is an example of "Mafia infiltration of the real economy," according to the police statement.
Infinex, based in Las Vegas, is a mineral exploration company. Infinex gave one of the brothers 100,000 shares in exchange for the rights to explore for gold on Texada Island, British Columbia, De Rosa said. No gold was found. The shares were last traded at less than one cent a share.
The company warned shareholders with a release on PR Newswire on Jan. 9, 2006, of a "pump-and-dump" scam that would be of "no benefit to the company's shareholders other than those unknown individuals attempting to make a personal gain." False e-mails were being sent "in an attempt to increase the share value, which is totally unwarranted," according to the release, which cited De Rosa.
A Milan brokerage, which wasn't named, encouraged about 100 investors to buy the shares based on insider information or false news, police said. Unidentified shareholders would then sell when the stock rose, officials said.
In 2004, investigators revealed that Italian members of the Rizzuto crime family, which has been linked to drug trafficking to North America from South America, were seeking to invest in building a bridge linking Sicily to the Italian mainland. A separate 2007 probe uncovered people tied to the clan operating in Rome, Milan, Vicenza Verona, Bologna, Florence, Bari, Reggio Calabria, Catanzaro and Agrigento, according to a statement from that investigation.
In 2007, police uncovered a plan to launder $600 million in illegal proceeds and sequestered 150 million euros in assets in Italy associated with the crime syndicate.
Source: Business Week
Firebombings may be linked to Rizzuto shooting
Investigators believe a recent rash of firebombings in Montreal may be connected to the fatal shooting of the son of the reputed head of the Canadian Mafia, police said Friday.
Police have now dedicated a squad of 16 officers to investigating the cases of arson, said Montreal police Const. Christian Émond.
"We can't afford not to look into that incident to see if it has any connection to the fires we've seen," Émond said.
"The three main leads that we're looking at right now is either an internal struggle within the Italian Mafia, a possible attempt to take over territory by street gangs or maybe a combination of both," Émond said.
Officers are also hoping to catch the culprits in the act, Émond said.
"We've increased the number of officers on the street in the concerned areas so that we have more eyes out there to help us determine if and when any other place is targeted."
Nick Rizzuto Jr. was shot several times in broad daylight in the city's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood on Dec. 28.
Rizzuto, 42, was the son of Vito Rizzuto, who is in a medium-security prison in Colorado, serving a 10-year sentence for racketeering relating to three murders in Brooklyn in 1981.
Attacks date back to November
The shooting came as police continued their investigation into a string of at least 14 Molotov cocktail attacks dating back to November.
The common thread between the targeted locations is that they are cafés owned by people of Italian descent, where police have observed known criminals or criminal activities in the past, Émond said.
Investigators do not believe the two latest attacks are related to the string of incidents, Émond said.
The casket bearing the remains of Nick Rizzuto is carried out of the church following Saturday's funeral.
Early Thursday morning, a car was set on fire at a dealership in the city's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district. Twenty minutes later, a Molotov cocktail was thrown through the window of a La Belle Province restaurant a few blocks away.
The last incident tied to the ongoing investigation was the firebombing of a café in the Saint-Michel neighbourhood Tuesday night, Émond said.
In that incident, officers said the lone employee on site was pistol-whipped and robbed by three men.
The men then poured fuel around the café before tossing Molotov cocktails through the window of the building.
In December 2008, a 46-year-old man was shot dead in the same café.
In early December, police arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the Nov. 24 firebombing of Café Ferrari on André-Ampère Avenue in Rivière-des-Prairies.
Source: CBC News http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2010/01/08/montreal-firebombings-shooting.html
Scarcella Mob label to stick
A man who ordered a hit on a Mafia mobster has lost a bid to have stripped away a prison label describing him as the boss of a crime family.
Peter Scarcella, 59, is serving nine years for a botched hit in April 2004 that left Toronto mom Louise Russo paralyzed from gunshots at California Sandwiches on Chesswood Dr.
The target was Michele Modica, a convicted heroin trafficker linked to the Sicilian Mafia.
Scarcella and three other men were convicted of the high-profile incident that sparked outrage in the city.
Scarcella went to the Federal Court of Canada to remove the Correctional Services Canada designation that he's the "boss" of the "Scarcella Traditional Organized Crime Group."
Inmates assessed by Correctional Services to have ties to organized crime are placed in that designated group because they are considered more of a threat inside the prisons.
Without the label, it's easier for inmates to get prison liberty, transfers and parole, something that Scarcella is now seeking.
"The key argument of Mr. Scarcella is that the designation is based on speculation, allegations and suspicions rather than fact," Madam Justice Judith Snider said in her decision last week. Scarcella has never been convicted of an organized crime offence.
Snider said Scarcella could have renounced his involvement with organized crime, but didn't. He came to Canada from Sicily in the '70s and started off as a driver for Paul Volpe, then considered the "don of Toronto."
Source: torontosun


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|WOLANOW: Masowieckie
Alternate names: Wolanów [Pol], Volonov [Yid], Volianuv, Волянув [Rus]. 51°23' N, 20°58' E, 8 miles W of Radom. 1900 Jewish population: 333. Gmina Wolanów is a rural administrative district in Radom powiat, Masovian Voivodeship in east-central Poland with its seat in the village of Wolanów, 12 km (7 mi) SW of Radom and 95 km (59 mi) S of Warsaw. The gmina 2006 total population is 8,291. Gmina Wolanów contains the villages and settlements of Bieniędzice, Chruślice, Franciszków, Garno, Jarosławice, Kacprowice, Kolonia Wolanów, Kowala-Duszocina, Kowalanka, Młodocin Większy, Mniszek, Podlesie, Rogowa, Sławno, Ślepowron, Strzałków, Wacławów, Waliny, Wawrzyszów, Wolanów, Wymysłów and Zabłocie. [July 2009]
Jews arrived soon after the founding of the town in 1780. In the 18th century, a wooden synagogue, mikvah, and a cemetery existed. The synagogue burned during WWI. Before WWI, a cheder also existed . In 1787, they owned 27 houses. In 1792, they received privileges from the town's owners. In 1921, there were 313 Jews in the town. Jewish history. [July 2009]
CEMETERY: The cemetery was situated near the road from Wolanów to Chronówek. [July 2009]
US Commission No. POCE0000085
The town is in Radomskie province at 51º24N 20º58E, 12 km from Radom and 143 Km from Lodz. The cemetery is agricultural near the road for Chronowek. Present population is 1000-5,000 with no Jews.
The Jewish community started in the 18th century. 1921 Jewish population was 313 (61%). The cemetery was established in the 18th century (maybe 1780) with last Orthodox or Conservative burial in 1940. The isolated rural flat land has no signs or markers. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all with no wall, fence, or gate. no stone is visible, The area before WWII and now is 0.7 ha, with no visible stones. No known mass graves or structures. Municipality owns site used for Jewish cemetery only. Adjacent property is agricultural. Private Jewish visitors rarely visit. It was vandalized during WW2 with no maintenance. Vegetation is a seasonal problem preventing access. Security, vegetation and incompatible development are slight threats.
Adam Penkalla, deceased, completed survey on August 21, 1991 after an August 2 visit.
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Up in the air
Local chapter of flight club for women offer young women solo flight scholarship
By Chris O'Neal 05/29/2014
The history of aviation is a spectacular one, filled with aviators who are solidified in history as heroes as often as they are icons, soaring into the realm of mythology. Think Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. Earhart became the icon for women around the world who wished to take to the skies and became the first president of The Ninety-Nines, an international club for women aviators. Now, the Ventura County chapter is looking for the right young woman to award a scholarship to assist with obtaining a pilot's license.
The Ventura County Ninety-Nines is one of the largest chapters, made up of more than 100 women across the county. Ventura County is unique in that it has several airports from which to depart, making it easier for prospective and veteran pilots to train and take part in flights.
Martha Phillips, president of the Ventura County chapter, has been involved with the organization for several years and is heralding the Karen Johnson Solo scholarship, a $3,000 prize for a young woman aged 16-20. The scholarship, in its second year, is given out in conjunction with the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and is named after Karen Johnson, a former chairman of The Ventura County Ninety-Nines.
Johnson was a skilled aviator who was involved in youth training and activities in Ventura County, says Phillips. On a patrol near Delano, California, in January 2013, Johnson's helicopter went down, leaving no survivors. In her memory, the scholarship was created.
Phillips says that the number of women aviators across the country is low but growing.
"In Ventura County, we have a little higher percentage than the national average of women with pilot licenses," says Phillips. The national average is around 6 percent. "In our own chapter, we have at least four airline captains."
The applicants for the Karen Johnson Solo scholarship will need to write an essay on why they wish to learn to fly. Last year's recipient was an 18-year-old flight student from Oregon. The scholarship funds students through their first solo flights.
"She finished her license within three months and went on to win another scholarship," said Phillips.
Funds for the scholarship come from a combination of the members of The Ventura County Ninety-Nines and the rest from a grant given to the chapter by Light Speed Aviation. For the past five years, the chapter has won the grant with winners chosen by the number of votes received online.
The VC Ninety-Nines also awards scholarships for pilot efficiency and emergency maneuvering courses, to name a few, which are funded from sales at the Camarillo Air Show, among other sources, says Fundraising Chair Susan Liebeler.
"There are lots of pilots everywhere, but the density is much higher out here," says Liebeler. "There is no one more active than our chapter."
Liebeler says that the Karen Johnson Solo scholarship was based on a model created by Bob Schiff, an aviation legend who lives in Ventura County. The times have changed since Liebeler trained for her license, however, and students now move more quickly toward completion.
"These scholarships really go a long way for kids," says Liebeler. "That's why we set it up just for young people."
The Karen Johnson Solo scholarship will be awarded during the WomenVenture activities at the EAA AirVenture flying convention in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in July.
The chapter gives six annual scholarships for varying ages, but the Karen Johnson Solo scholarship is a national prize. Voting for the Light Speed Aviation prize is open now.
For more information on The Ventura County Ninety-Nines and the Karen Johnson Solo scholarship, visit www.vote99s.com or www.ninety-nines.org.
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It's been a tough season for the Denver Nuggets, as they've been plagued by injuries and the loss of stars players throughout. Last night's game was the true epitome of their season as they fell to yet another playoff-bound team in form of the Los Angeles Clippers 117-105.
With key players Ty Lawson, Wilson Chandler, Javale McGee and Danilo Gallinari out, it seemed inevitable that the Nuggs would be on the wrong side of the playoff picture come mid-April. And it's too bad they couldn't stay healthy enough to redeem themselves after their best regular season in team history last year, only to garner a first round exit to the Golden State Warriors.
In last night's contest, the Nuggs were exposed for the 11th seeded team in the West that they truly are. And even though almost every player got on the board and made a contribution, their injury-riddled roster seemed to shine through their efforts. Only having nine players without injury available to play, the Nuggs looked tired. And the fresh looking Clips took advantage of their full roster by jumping out to a 13-0 lead in the first quarter. It was all downhill from there, as the three stars of the "Clip Show" demonstrated why they are the 3rd best team in the West. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and Deandre Jordan combined for a total of 58 points, 22 rebounds, 17 assists, six steals and three blocks; quite the stat-line. And although both teams got to the charity line a total of 30 times a piece, the Clips made seven more free throws than their visitors from Denver. The Nuggs did fight back though, bringing the game within eight to start the fourth quarter. But it proved to be too little, too late.
The Clips and Nuggs do have one thing in common, they'll both be facing the Golden State Warriors in the very near future. Unfortunately for the Nuggs it'll be to closeout the regular season, as the Clips will be facing off with them in a seven game series to begin this year's playoffs. Hopefully the Nuggs can muster up one final victory for the fan's at home to put an end to this very dismal season.


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Complete Results
Claire Rethmeier picked up her regional qualifier in the 5000m on Friday evening at the Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational as she ran a lifetime-best by nearly 10 seconds (16:46.12) to finish second overall.
In the invite section of the javelin, freshman Tara Ross finished sixth with a mark of 143-4.
Sophomore Nicole Leach won the 100m in a time of 11.88, while junior DeShanta Harris finished second in the 100m hurdles in a time of 14.24. Sophomore Lauren Jirges ran a lifetime-best in the 1500m, finishing fourth in a time of 4:30.62.
In the steeplechase, sophomore Ciara Viehweg finished third in a time of 10:53.13, while sophomore Gabrielle Bournes ran a season-best 2:13.63 in the 800m to finish fourth overall.
In the pole vault, freshman Lindsay Regan tied for fourth with a clearance of 11-11.75, equaling her season-best vault mark.
Competition continues on Saturday with the invitational section of the meet. One heat or flight of each event will be contested, while a special recognition ceremony for the seniors and the namesakes of the meet, Rafer Johnson and Jackie Joyner-Kersee, will also be held during the meet.


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Constance "Connie" Ray is an American film and television actress and playwright. Among her highest profile appearances are Thank You for Smoking and Stuart Little, and the television drama ER. She also appeared in Ice Princess and on George Lopez. Ray wrote the bluegrass gospel musical Smoke On The Mountain, which opened Off Broadway in 1990, "Sander's Family Christmas" and "Smoke on the Mountain Homecoming"; three of the most produced musicals in the US for the last twenty years. Connie Ray studied acting at East Carolina University. She earned an MFA from Ohio University in the early 1980s.
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Nevin Downs Passes Away Following Accident
Nevin H. Downs, MD, former Chairman of the MTSA Board of Trustees passed away Wednesday, July 18 at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, He was 69 years of age.
Dr. Downs served MTSA as a member of the Board of Trustees for 27 years and Chairman for 18 years. He was a champion of nurse anesthesia, and the MTSA mission, who taught several classes through the years. He was a founding partner of Nashville Anesthesia Services.
Funeral services are planned for Saturday, July 21, 2012 and will be held at First Baptist Church (Seventh & Broadway), Nashville, Tennessee. Visitation will be from 1-3 p.m., with the service at 3 p.m.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to: "The Next Door," P.O. Box 23336, Nashville, TN 37202; "Nashville Rescue Mission", 639 Lafayette St., Nashville, TN 37203; or, "First Baptist Church Nevin Downs Memorial Fund."
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First, this act is an act of war. ANY attack made upon the United States, terroristic or conventional, CAN AND WILL be interpreted as an ACT OF WAR, and shall be delt with accordingly.
Unless the stupid m*ther****ing ****sucker piece of dog **** responsible for plannning this comes forwards, and we string him up by his balls on the Sears Tower, and cut his balls off, sending him miles down toward the ground.
This is low folks, as low as you can get. A sneak attack on OUR LAND. It's been 50 some odd years since that's happend, and it wasn't really our land yet. (not legally, it wasn't a state untill after WWII) These people will pay, and they will pay dearly for messing up OUR SKYLINE.
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College Hockey:Spartans Edge Under-18 Team in Exhibition
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Wednesday night at Munn Ice Arena, the U.S. National Under-18 Team showed Michigan State why the majority of its roster is on their way to the college level, despite losing an exhibition contest, 2-1.
Six minutes after the Spartans took a 1-0 lead on a power play, the U.S. National Team scored a power-play goal of their own to tie the game and wouldn't surrender the game winner to the Spartans' Kevin Estrada for more than thirty minutes.
In the first five minutes of the game, the Spartans took it to the U.S. National Team, hardly allowing the visitors to get a shot while peppering U.S. National Team goalie Jordan Pearce with shots. Pearce stood tall and prevented the Spartans from taking the game away from his teammates early, then kept them in contention throughout the game.
On the other end of the ice, freshman goaltender Dominic Vicari did the same for the Spartans as the game went on, making saves that he shouldn't have been able to make and holding his own against the youngsters. He made an especially important save on Matt Kaiser when a bad turnover in the Spartan zone caused a 2-on-none as Kaiser chose to shoot instead of passing to his teammate to keep the score knotted at one.
Spartan captain Jim Slater started the scoring just over one minute into the contest when he deflected a shot from freshman A.J. Thelen past a screened Pearce to give MSU the lead.
Ironically, had Thelen not opted to attend Michigan State this fall, he would have been playing for the U.S. National Team against the Spartans.
Less than six minutes later, U.S. National player Geoff Paukovich grabbed the puck that Spartan sophomore defenseman Corey Potter fanned on and wrapped the puck around the left post to hit the right corner of the net to even the score at one apiece on the power play.
The second period was full of chances for both sides, with both goaltenders standing on their heads to keep their respective teams in the game. On the evening, Pearce made 34 saves, while his counterpart Vicari stopped 31 U.S. National shots.
But with 10:22 left in the exhibition, MSU's Estrada skated behind the right side of the net, saw Pearce shift with his movement, and wrapped the puck around the other post to give the Spartans the lead they would defend to the end of the game.
The U.S. Nationals called a time-out with just under a minute left and planned to pull Pearce, but the Spartans kept the puck in the U.S. zone for so long that when they did manage to get Pearce on the bench, they only had 18 seconds to work with, which proved to be not enough time.
Despite the loss, U.S. National Head Coach John Hynes was upbeat about his team's performance.
"I think we played very well in the first two periods, and kept in the game. Our goaltender played very well, I think our kids played our system very well. I think in the third period we didn't come out with enough killer instinct," Hynes said.
"I think when it was a tie game in the middle of the third period, it was almost like 'hopefully we're going to win', instead of going out and doing it."
Spartan Head Coach Rick Comley's biggest concern coming into the game was that his team wouldn't bring their 'A' game to the table on Wednesday night.
"The thing you're always worried about is it's an exhibition game at a difficult time of the year when exams are just over and your kids are ready to go home," said Comley.
"All in all, they were diligent, Dom [Vicari] made a lot of real good saves the first half of the game and you win a game you could lose."
The Spartans' next action is Saturday, December 27th against Michigan Tech in the Great Lakes Invitational Tournament, while the USNTDP plays this weekend at the Ann Arbor Ice Cube against the Cleveland Barons of the North American Hockey League.
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I had spent the afternoon alone while traveling (as usual, it seems) in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the middle of New York City. It sits on the Eastern edge of Central Park. It was a little cold outside, but I decided to walk across the park anyway, just as the sun was setting. As I moved through the trees, I found this little place and thought it would be fun to share.
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I have a new HyperMac Review here on the site! It's an amazing device, and even if you are not a photographer, you will probably find a reason you need one!
Basically, it is an external battery that you can use to power up your Mac laptop and your iPhone. I keep running into situations where I am running out of battery power on my iPhone and/or computer, and I just am not near a power outlet.
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• Born in Pristina, he left his homeland at the age of four, settling with his family in central Sweden and starting his career with local club Köping FF in the fourth division.
• Joined top-flight IF Elfsborg and was on their books when the Boras club won the 2006 Allsvenskan title, his contribution amounting to just one substitute appearance.
• Made gradual progress in 2007, including a European club debut in a UEFA Champions League qualifier against Debreceni VSC and a first start in a UEFA Cup group game at Villarreal CF, before cementing a regular place in 2008 and helping Elfsborg to an Allsvenskan runners-up spot.
• A steady accumulator of Swedish Under-21 caps, he won three of them while competing for his country on home soil at the 2009 UEFA European U21 Championship, which interrupted another fine season at Elfsborg, highlighted by a winning goal at SC Braga in a UEFA Europa League qualifier and six more strikes in the Allsvenskan.
• Joined FC Twente in summer 2010 and won the Dutch Cup at the end of an injury-curtailed debut season in which he made his UEFA Champions League group stage debut in a 2-2 home draw with holders FC Internazionale Milano.
• Scored his first international goal in a friendly against Scotland on 11 August 2010 and added another in the same Råsundastadion against Finland in a thumping 5-0 win that brought three vital UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying points.
• Loaned to Monaco where he helped the club seal promotion back to Ligue 1 in 2012/13 before making a permanent move to Greece with Panathinaikos, where he lifted the Greek Cup in his first season.
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March 16, 2014
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By Geoff Thurner
FRESNO, Calif. - The Fresno State softball team (14-10) gave its fans plenty of reason to stick around for its 6-4 win over New Mexico State (17-13) Saturday evening, while Cal Poly (14-11) edged the Bulldogs, 6-1, in the afternoon.
Against the Aggies, the `Dogs weathered four lead changes to top its former WAC Conference rival, while celebrating a pair of homers.
"Tonight wasn't the prettiest win but it was still important," Fresno State softball head coach Trisha Ford said. "We had to battle back, and got clutch long balls from Stesha and Michelle, and some other key hits late in great at-bats from them and Whitney. Jill kept the hitters off balance, had good velocity, and also fielded well. We also didn't commit any errors, and that was especially important in a close game like this."
In the second inning, senior first baseman Stesha Brazil drilled her fifth homer of the season - a two-run shot to left field with one out - and staked her seventh multi-RBI game of the season. The roundtripper almost hit the perimeter hedges and stood as her 21st career-wise - still the eighth-best mark all-time in school history.
Junior right fielder Michelle Solomon followed with a solo home run in the fourth inning - her third of the season and moved into a tie for most extra-base hits on the year (8) with Brazil.
In the sixth inning, the `Dogs tacked on three more runs set up by a walk by senior third baseman Vonnie Martin and bunt single by Solomon. Brazil followed with a RBI single up the middle on a 1-2 count, and sophomore second baseman Whitney Smith lined a two-run opposite field single to cap a nine-pitch at-bat that started with an 0-2 count.
Brazil's third game-winning RBI upped her team best of 2014 and broke a tie with Martin.
For the game, Solomon (2-for-3, BB, RBI) and Brazil (2-for-3, 3 RBI) claimed their fifth and fourth multi-hit games of the season, and outfielders Brenna Moss and Kapri Angotti added their 11th and third stolen bases of the year.
"The homer was nice, but I was just as excited about the bunt," Solomon said. "I had been working on that in practice, so it was nice to get it down cleanly at a key time. I was surprised that they didn't even make a throw - it must have been because of how fast I was running (smiling). Coach had told us earlier in the game to go out and pick up our pitchers, so it was rewarding to do my part in a team win."
In the circle, `Dog starter and redshirt sophomore Kiley Shae Aldridge pitched the opening inning and gave up two hits, two runs and one walk.
Sophomore Jill Compton (9-4) pitched the final six innings, struck out seven, walked three, scattered five hits, and both of her runs allowed were earned.
NMSU went ahead in the first inning, 2-0, after a walk, singles by Brennalyn Nakamura and Staci Rodriguez, a wild pitch and sacrifice fly by Lacey Rother.
New Mexico State retied the game, 3-3, in the fifth inning after an opening walk, sacrifice bunt and RBI single by Nakamura to center field.
The Aggies' final run in the seventh inning came after a lead-off single by Emma Adams, a pair of ground-outs and a double off the left field wall by Rodriguez.
A batter later with the tying run at the plate, Compton answered with a strikeout of NMSU's clean-up hitter Fiana Finau.
In the `Dogs' earlier game hours before, Cal Poly (14-11) won, 6-1, thanks to a five-run fifth inning.
In that third stanza, the Mustangs scored the second-most runs in an inning by a FS opponent in 2014, thanks to a walk, two hit by pitches, infield error, two fielder's choices and three singles.
Cal Poly's final run came in the fourth inning after three singles and a sacrifice fly. The `Dogs scored their run in the third inning after a double by junior center fielder Brenna Moss to left center field - her second in the last four games (and in her career). The All-MW returnee scored two batters later on a single by Solomon to right field.
At game's end, Moss (2-for-3) logged her team-leading 11th multi-hit effort of the season, while Solomon (1-for-3) hit safely for the third straight game.
The Bakersfield, Calif., native Moss also added a steal and now has 56 career-wise - still second-best all-time for the `Dogs.
Among the defensive highlights, the `Dogs claimed their eighth and ninth double plays of the year in the third and fifth innings, respectively, while Moss added a diving catch to start the second inning.
In the circle, sophomore Hannah Harris (3-4) pitched the opening 2.1 innings, posted no strikeouts, one walk and three hits allowed, and four of her five runs allowed were earned.
In her 12th relief appearance of the campaign, sophomore Taylor Langdon entered in the third inning with the bases loaded and one out. In her inning of work, she struck out none, walked none, and allowed four hits and one earned run.
Aldridge finished her third game of the season, and logged one strikeout and three hits allowed, and was credited with no runs allowed in the final 3.2 innings (also her third-longest stint of the year).
Cal Poly starter Sierra Hyland (11-4) pitched her 12th complete game, struck out eight, walked one, and allowed three hits and one earned run.
The Mustangs had three players with a pair of hits - Lauren Moreno (2-for-3), Sierra Hyland (2-for-4) and Kim Westlund (2-for-4).
Looking ahead, the Bulldogs play St. Mary's (11-15) on Sunday at 3:45 p.m. in the final contest of the 17-game tournament at Bulldog Diamond.
The other three games scheduled for Sunday include Ohio State-Colorado State (9 a.m.), Cal Poly-New Mexico State (11:15 a.m.) and Cal Poly-St. Mary's (1:30 p.m.).
"Today was a big win, but Sunday is equally important," Solomon said. "We have played them several times, so they're familiar with us. We also want to try and get another win at home because it's always great to play our best in front of our fans."
A complete tournament schedule with scores and starts times is available at the http://www.gobulldogs.com/sports/w-softbl/spec-rel/14-fresno-state-classic.html URL address.
Game 1 - Cal Poly 6, Fresno State 1 (Mar 15, 2014 at Fresno, Calif.)
Cal Poly 005 100 0 - 6 10 1 (14-11) Fresno State 001 000 0 - 1 3 1 (13-10)Pitchers: Cal Poly - Hyland, Sierra and Cochiolo, Mariah. Fresno State - Harris, Hannah; LANGDON, Taylor(3); ALDRIDGE, Kiley Shae(4) and Gumz, Paige. Win-Hyland, Sierra(11-4) Loss-HARRIS, Hannah(3-4) T-2:02 A-1000. Weather: 75, sunny, wind 0-3mph
Game 2 - Fresno State 6, New Mexico State 4 (Mar 15, 2014 at Fresno, Calif.)
New Mexico State 200 010 1 - 4 7 1 (17-13) Fresno State 020 103 X - 6 6 0 (14-10)Pitchers: New Mexico State - Donisthorpe, Karysta; McAdams, Makayla(4) and Reedy, Tatum. Fresno State - Aldridge, Kiley Shae; COMPTON, Jill(2) and Gumz, Paige. Win-COMPTON, Jill(9-4) Loss-McAdams, Makayla(6-2) T-2:02 A-1640. HR FS - Solomon, Michelle (3); Brazil, Stesha (5). Weather: 73, clear, wind 0-3mph. Donisthorpe faced 2 batters in the 4th.
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2013-14: Ended the season 10-2 at epee … Went 3-0 against Drew at the Philadelphia Invitational (1/25) … At the NU Duals, was 2-0 against UNC and 3-0 against Wayne State.
2012-13: Finished with a 24-18 record on the season … Accumulated seven wins at the Eric Sollee Invitational (2/3)… Compiled a 5-1 record at the Penn State Invitational (1/12) … Won bouts against Penn State and St. John's at the Temple Invitational (2/23) … Claimed four wins at the Ivy League Round-Robins, including a 3-0 mark against Yale (3/2-3) … Finished 13th at the NCAA Mid-Atlantic/South Regional (3/9).
High School: Three-year letterwinner ... Honored as first-team all-state by the Star Ledger and NJSIAA in 2010 ... Placed second in the 2010 New Jersey Cup ... Won 2009 Prep States team championship ... Placed second individually at districts in 2009 ... Finished third in epee at 2010 states and also placed fourth at Prep States ... Epee squad finished second at both Prep States and States in 2010.
Personal: Son of Amleset Teweldemedhin and Isaac Ghebre-Sellassie ... Enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences.


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Washington: Slotted into starting flanker spot entering fall camp ... 1999 season will mark his fourth year in the program ... runs solid routes and a good pass catcher. 1998: Returned to the Husky lineup after missing the 1997 season due to a knee injury he suffered during two-a-day practices ... appeared in eight games during the season ... caught 25 passes totaling 257 yards ... had touchdown catches vs. Oregon and Oregon State ... suffered bruised kidney vs. Nebraska that made him miss the Arizona, Utah State and California games ... caught five passes for 38 yards vs. Air Force in Oahu Bowl. 1997: Suffered knee injury during preseason drills that kept him out of action all season ... entered the fall as No. 3 receiver. 1996: appeared in all 11 games and made starts vs. BYU and UCLA ... caught passes in three games ... first career reception was a 67-yard TD in opener at Arizona State ... that score sparked UW from a 42-21 deficit to tie the game in just four minutes ... recorded his second touchdown catch vs. Arizona ... both TD passes thrown by Brock Huard. 1995: Redshirted the season ... impressed coaches with his skills and was tried at both wide receiver and cornerback during fall drills ... was slowed due to a hand injury ... caught two passes for 23 yards in '96 Spring Game ... had three kickoff returns for 45 yards in the intrasquad matchup.
High School and Personal: Born Sept. 23, 1977 ... caught 37 balls for 882 yards and 12 TDs as a senior ... also had five interceptions ... returned 16 punts for 160 yards and two TDs ... named to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer all-state team as a defensive back ...named the North Puget Sound League North Division defensive player of the year ... an all-league wide receiver and defensive back ... named to the Tacoma News-Tribune "All-Area" team as a defensive back ... plays basketball and runs track (hurdler) ... a sociology major.
Year G-S Rec. Yds. Avg. TD LG 1996 11-2 6 107 17.8 2 67t 1998 8-6 25 257 10.3 2 35 Totals 19-8 31 364 11.7 4 67
Career Highs
Receptions: 7 vs. USC, 1998
Reception Yards: 98 yards vs. USC, 1998
Longest Reception: 67 yards at Arizona State, 1996
Longest TD Reception: 67 yards at Arizona State, 1996
Touchdowns: One vs. Arizona State & Arizona, 1996 & Oregon State & Oregon, 1998


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By Susan Yung
Copyright 2003 Susan Yung
NEW YORK -- George Balanchine's
oeuvre looms so large in the world of dance, yet just a handful
of companies are true interpreters of his style. Suzanne Farrell
Ballet is on that list. Founded in 1995 and performing under its
current name since 2001, it evolved from a series of master classes
starting in 1993 taught by Farrell, who danced Balanchine's work
onstage for 28 years at New York City Ballet. The company skillfully
performed four Balanchine works at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing
Arts at Brooklyn College on October 12.
The dancers are technically
accomplished enough to master Balanchine's deceptively quick and
complex choreography. They relayed the numerous subtle direction
changes taken in quarter turns or the port de bras changing on each
count, in the five-part "Divertimento No. 15." In the hands of less
skilled dancers, such phrases can become muddied and frustrating
to watch, but the crystalline structure of the choreography emerged
brilliantly, like a multi-faceted diamond. The dancers stayed atop
the music, readily shifting dynamics and keeping a relaxed demeanor
while giving each phrase a high degree of polish. Farrell has succeeded
in passing along her legendary sense of musicality and the fine
details that distinguish it as Balanchine.
Two more theatrical
works followed. "Variations for Orchestra" featured Shannon Parsley
in a lipstick red dress making strident, bold moves to Stravinsky,
later to be shadowed by a backlit dancer on a scrim. A focused,
electric Natalia Magnicaballi starred with Momchil Mladenov in "Tzigane,"
performed in paprika beribboned costumes to Ravel's gypsy-influenced
music. Both dancers turned solidly (the men here seem to be encouraged
to complete one perfect double turn rather than many wild revolutions)
and showed an inner fire.
Peter Boal of New York
City Ballet guested in the title role of the restored version of
"Apollo." The inclusion of Lisa Reneau as Apollo's mother at the
beginning and end made for an earthier version than City Ballet's
rendition of this mythological parable, as Reneau, in a camisole
leotard, went shoeless and flung her legs open violently. Boal paid
undivided attention to each muse (Bonnie Pickard, Magnicaballi,
and Jennifer Fournier), and, as always, danced with an amazing combination
of humility and grandeur, appearing far larger than his size. The
several tricky quartet segments went smoothly when the four dancers
linked hands or arms and wove around one another, or when Boal reined
in the three muses in a difficult sequence of developpes. It speaks
volumes for the quality of the dance that Peter Boal did not stick
out like a rose in a moss patch.
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Mass Spectrometer, Neutral
Unflown neutral mass spectrometer tube of the type flown on Aerobee sounding rockets by the Aeronomy group at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in the 1950s and 1960s. Normally would be enclosed in a protective metal cylinder housing. Transferred to NASM by NRL in March 1986.
During the early 1950s the NRL carried out studies of the upper atmosphere by sending specialized instruments to extreme altitudes on Aerobee sounding rockets. Maximum altitude for these rockets was close to 230 kilometers. This radio frequency mass spectrometer, which was designed by Willard H. Bennett when he was at the National Bureau of Standards, was used to determine the identity of the neutral gases present in the near vacuum at extreme altitudes. The compact size and light weight of this mass spectrometer made it suitable for use in sounding rockets. It incorporates an element that ionizes gases it encounters so that they can be analyzed, leading to the term, neutral mass spectrometer. This instrument is the same as those that NRL sent aloft in the late 1950's in connection with the International Geophysical Year.
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Crude Oil's Drop Has Backed It Into a Corner
Rod David
If the pattern isn't resolving up almost immediately Friday, then it might not for a while.
The following are the latest daily summaries of my ongoing intraday coverage, providing context to interpret price action. Any prices listed are for a contract's current "front month." Their direction tends to correlate with any ETFs listed for each.
Today's Highlight:
Crude oil's bad day is trying to invalidate the confirmed breakout that had been very productive through Wednesday's close. This pattern should not only resolve one way or the other on Friday, but would also likely do so aggressively, and extend sharply into next week.
Dollar Basket
Jun Contract DX; (NYSEARCA:UUP), (NYSEARCA:UDN)
Thursday's gap down to fresh lows testing 82.15 now require that bounces hold any test of 82.45-82.50 to maintain the 81.40 target.
Jun Contract EC; (NYSEARCA:FXE)
The rally's minimum 1.3140 target was met Thursday. So long as pullbacks were to hold 1.3065, the rally can extend higher to 1.3325.
Apr Contract GC; (NYSEARCA:GLD)
Overnight weakness down to 1553.00 was recovered intraday by rallying up to 1567.00 and retesting what had been Monday's "higher prior lows," and also Wednesday afternoon's lows on the way down. It should be the bounce's peak. Recovering 1575.00 would trigger a much bigger bounce with potential up to 1597.00.
May Contract SI; (NYSEARCA:SLV)
Thursday's narrow range remained under the 27.90 bounce limit that keeps alive the drop's 27.15 target.
30-year Treasury
Mar Contract US; (NYSEARCA:TLT)
It's interesting that the recent dip didn't extend down while stocks surged to new highs. Any initial recovery attempt would be that much more credible for extending sharply higher intraday.
Crude Oil
Apr Contract CL; (NYSEARCA:USO)
Wednesday's breakout above 94.15 was retraced entirely Thursday back down to the pattern's original 93.35-93.65 pullback limit. Closing back above 94.15 Friday would be credible for resuming the rally. But delaying a recovery — whether or not extending down — would be bearish.
Natural Gas
Apr Contract NG; (NYSEARCA:UNG), (NYSEARCA:UNL)
Getting EIA out of the way allowed a recovery of Wednesday's high and for that to extend back up to Monday's 4.18 high. Any higher close Friday would trigger a breakout.
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New London — It's as if time has stood still at the Lighthouse Inn.
The menu at the hostess station in the now-shuttered inn once reminded the server that prices for brunch had changed — brunch for adults was now $29.95 and $15.95 for children. The soup of the day: lobster bisque.
Enter the main dining room and some tables still have linens on them with wine and water glasses in their proper places. A fake Christmas tree stands in the center of the room.
But the historic inn hasn't been open to the public since 2008 and, on this breezy fall day, those tables, linens, glasses and just about every piece of furniture and equipment was on the auction block. City officials, through their auction, were hoping to reclaim $125,388.51 in lost personal property taxes.
The city earlier this year took title to the historic property after a real estate tax auction failed to elicit a single bid at the minimum price of about $577,000.
At 11 a.m. Friday the doors to the inn opened to just two potential investors who had each brought a check for 25 percent of the minimum auction price — more than $30,000. They were able to see the rooms where some beds appeared to be freshly turned.
But there were a few things that investors couldn't ignore — the smell of mold, the outdated kitchen and furniture, the water damage and the layers upon layers of dust that cover almost everything.
One hour later, State Marshal Joe Heap opened the auction. There were no bidders. Tax Collector Maureen Farrell then made a bid on behalf of the city, thus making it the official owner of the once-thriving inn.
The previous owners, the Business Loan Center LLC, had defaulted on the taxes.
One potential bidder, Jim Noonan, a New London businessman, said Friday he had a small interest in the property. "It's a beautiful inn and it's going to be a big project to take on," he said.
Noonan, however, didn't rule out the possibility of investing in the property in the future.
Heap said it was probably advantageous to the city that no one bought the property since that will enable the city to now sell the inn with all of its contents. Prior to the auction, he said, he didn't believe the city would receive its asking price because the market is saturated with used hotel and restaurant items for sale.
The city legally had to conduct two separate auctions, for personal and real property, before taking complete possession of the inn and its contents, Heap said.
The 1902 Lighthouse Inn property on Guthrie Place, which had been a cherished dining spot and drinking establishment for generations and had been transformed into a resort in recent years, includes three buildings encompassing about 32,000 square feet of space and 51 guest rooms.
The city plans to make repairs to the inn, make a proposal to the new City Council in November to pass some sort of tax-abatement package, then host a general auction in which the highest bidder would become the new owner.
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Lando Frazer
Simone Newman
Maureen Frazer
The flat in Adelaide Road
Family-run drugs business is busted
A CHALK Farm council house was the centre of an international drug syndicate that brought kilos of cocaine into London using teenage "mules", a court heard on Tuesday.
The family-run ring, which police believe may have brought millions of pounds worth of drugs into the UK since the early 1990s, was organised in a large Victorian council flat in Adelaide Road.
Mother-of-four Maureen Frazer, 43, daughter Simone Newman 23, and husband Lando Frazer 32, found, trained and financed teenage drug "mules" who were sent to the Caribbean to pick up cocaine and bring it back to London.
Mrs Frazer and her family, who claimed housing benefit on their two-storey council flat, led a life of luxury on the proceeds from importing kilos of 70 per cent pure cocaine.
Mrs Frazer vetted impressionable teenagers willing to become mules through an accomplice – a nightclub doorman in Southampton. They were groomed at the Camden Lock Hotel in Chalk Farm Road where they were asked to swallow whole grapes to show they could swallow packages of cocaine, said Ben Gumpert prosecuting.
The couriers were paid £2,000 to bring back cocaine in heals of their shoes, in candles, or soaked into the fabric of their clothes as well as in their stomachs.
The operation was cracked when one of the teenagers, Nybee Snaddon 18, from Sterling, told her social workers in Scotland about what she had done.
Her testimony to the police triggered an undercover operation where the major players were recorded referring to drug mules as "the Canadians".
Mr and Mrs Frazer were arrested on December 9 last year in a hotel car park in Luton. They were caught as a courier handed over shoes that contained 250g of cocaine.
The family who ran the drug trafficking empire sentenced to a total of 28 years in prison at Luton Crown Court on Tuesday.
Judge Jeffery Burke QC said: "You took impressionable naïve teenagers and promised them money if they carried drugs back from the Caribbean for you. The drugs you have brought in to the country have caused much harm to the people who take them and those who they rob and steal to feed their habits."
Unemployed Mrs Frazer received a sentence of 14 years. Mrs Newman and Mr Frazer were both sentenced to eight years for their part in the smuggling.


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HTC Sensation headed to O2 UK, too
Yesterday, we reported that the brand new HTC Sensation Android 2.3 Gingerbread phone would be released not only by Vodafone UK, but also by Orange UK, T-Mobile UK, and Three UK.
In case you're wondering why O2 is missing from the list, well, it actually doesn't. The second largest British carrier has confirmed (via Twitter) that it, too, would be selling the Sensation. It didn't say when, but this will probably happen in June or sometime later – since Vodafone has exclusivity on the handset until the end of May.
Alongside the Evo 3D, the Sensation is HTC's most advanced smartphone to date. It features a 4.3 inch qHD (540 x 960 pixels) S-LCD screen, Sense 3.0 UI, 8MP autofocus camera with dual-LED flash, 1080p video recording, 768 MB RAM, and a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm processor.


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Michael Clarke Duncan, the actor best known for his Oscar-nominated role alongside Tom Hanks in The Green Mile, was rushed to an L.A. hospital after reportedly suffering from cardiac arrest earlier today. The star is currently in intensive care.
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"According to doctors, Michael Clarke Duncan's became non-responsive early this morning," the 54-year-old star's publicist told E! News. "He is now stable and we look forward to his full recovery."
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His girlfriend, Apprentice vet Omarosa Stallworth, performed CPR and managed to resuscitate him upon discovering Duncan in a state of cardiac arrest just before 2 a.m., TMZ reports. Reports are saying she was successful, and her quick action played a major role in 54-year-old Duncan's survival.
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Lindsay, who blogs at Lindsay & Drew, has been making over a nursery for a client. The client wanted to keep using the crib she already had, which was just a little worn. See the teeth marks?
To refresh the crib, Lindsay worked really hard to sand it down and give it a fresh coat of paint. No longer a faux-cherry stain, this crib looks like a completely different piece of furniture! I love the pale blue/gray color that Lindsay chose. It makes the crib seem almost weightless, like a cloud.
You can read more about the steps Lindsay took to get a professional paint finish on this crib at Lindsay & Drew.


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Andrew Gaze, Nicole Livingstone, Steve Moneghetti and Raelene Boyle pose with Olympic torches past. Photo: Wayne Hawkins
MOET on arrival, John Coates raising a toast to "the Queen of Australia" and 130 tables that sold for $25,000 a pop - a sporting chook raffle this certainly was not.
The Prime Minister did not even attend her namesake Olympic dinner in Melbourne last night, but it drew a who's who of sport and business (plus a couple of ex-PMs and wannabes) regardless, and gave a record $2 million boost to the London-bound national team.
At the largest fundraising event in a national drive that has generated more than $6million to exceed Australian Olympic Committee targets, AOC president Coates declared the 400-odd member team "now fully funded".
Aussie Olympians Charity Dinner
Andrew Gaze,Nicole Livingston,Steve Moneghetti and Raelene Boyle with a collection of Olympic torches. Photo: Wayne Hawkins
The black-tie event at Melbourne's Convention and Exhibition Centre was hosted by Eddie McGuire, who presumably hot-footed it from the MCG where Collingwood enjoyed a stirring victory over West Coast yesterday afternoon.
Opening what he termed "a sport's junkie's night of nights" McGuire asked the audience to "give the Olympics a big round of applause".
Choirs, Delta Goodrem, and Marina Prior performed, both verses of the national anthem were sung, and the audience could never have heard so many bagpipes.
Dawn Fraser, Tony Abbott, Kieren Perkins, Kevin Rudd, Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, Paul Keating, Shane Gould and Wayne Swan (representing the absent Prime Minister Julia Gillard) were on the long list of VIPs, and all night long an Olympic cauldron lit up a stage draped in gold.
Acknowledging the night's most notable absentee, the chairman of the event's organising committee, Peter Fox, confessed he was "a little bit taken aback" when he learnt that Ms Gillard would not be attending.
AOC boss Coates put it more bluntly in April when he told The Sunday Age: "Had this been known in the planning, we would have fiddled with the dates. It's a big deal, this prime minister's dinner. It's one of the great corporate dinners in Australia.
''We would have appreciated, and the Melbourne organisers would have appreciated, knowing sooner."
Returning home last night from the commitment that kept her away – the G20 in Mexico and the Earth Summit in Rio - Ms Gillard sent her warm wishes to the Olympic team in a video address. She will be represented in London by new federal Minister for Sport, Senator Kate Lundy; a fact that has also displeased Coates.
"I thought London would be an absolute must for Julia, so I'm disappointed," Coates said in April.
"It's a disappointment to us. It will be a disappointment to our team.''


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SexWithMiniMe.com - which was live as of Monday morning - features still images from the tape featuring Troyer - who is best known for his role of Mini-Me in the "Austin Powers" films - and his former live-in girlfriend Ranae Shrider. Additional photographs of Shrider also appear on the website's homepage. The full tape is available for download from the site for $9.95.
Neither Shrider nor Troyer could be immediately reached for comment.
A WhoIs check on the site shows it is registered to JBG Ltd. and is registered in China.
Existence of the tape was made public back in June when Shrider showed portions of it to celebrity gossip and news website TMZ.com . In an exclusive interview with AVN, Shrider confirmed the tape was made consensually during the couple's stay over Easter weekend 2008 at Raffles L'Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Shrider said the couple had been dating for several months when they decided to document their intimate moments during a romantic getaway.
"Neither of us had ever done anything like that before," she said during the interview. "We thought, 'Why not?' We were in a beautiful setting, and we thought it would be something good for our personal use."
Troyer later filed a $20 million lawsuit against TMZ, SugarDVD (who publicized a $100,000 for the rights to be able to distribute the tape in the U.S.) and celebrity sex-tape broker Kevin Blatt, who made a name for himself after he brokered the Paris Hilton sex tape.
The suit was eventually settled in July. As part of the settlement, Blatt and SugarDVD agreed not to distribute the without Troyer's permission, which he had no intention of granting, his attorneys told various news outlets.
Shrider and her manager, Holly Bannon, told the Los Angeles Times in August that they no longer had a copy of the tape. Shrider reportedly sold it to an anonymous man who approached her outside the North Hollywood home she once shared with Troyer and offered her $5,000 for the tape, which she accepted.
It is unclear if the anonymous buyer is behind the tape's distribution on the overseas website.
"All I can say is that these guys have some huge stones, releasing this tape without having signatures or approval," Blatt told AVN Online.


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Jim Zubkavich is a busy guy these days. The Skullkickers writer has just relaunched his webcomic Makeshift Miracle with a new storyline and a new artist, and last week he announced a project with a very different tone: A comic based on the soon-to-be-released Mafia Wars 2 game, illustrated by Omar Dogan.
Mafia Wars 2 is a Facebook game, and here's the rub: To read the comic you have to not only "Like" Mafia Wars 2 on Facebook but also allow MW2 to have access to your profile. Which, if you're already involved with the game, shouldn't be a problem, but it still skeeves me out a bit. So I didn't take that last step.
Game comics are not usually my thing, but I enjoyed Zubkavich and Dogan's previous collaboration, Street Fighter Legends: Ibuki, and I'd like to check this one out. I get the logic that the way to promote a Facebook game is on Facebook, but making the game accessible only from the app greatly reduces its effectiveness as a way to bring new people in. Still, if you're already there, it's probably worth checking out. As for me, I'm just going to check out the newest page of Makeshift Miracle, because even without Facebook apps, there's plenty of Zub to go around.
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How Uganda Development Bank lost Shs10 billion to internal company fraud
Posted Wednesday, September 26 2012 at 00:00
In Summary
An internal audit conducted on the bank's accounts in 2010 found that a net loss of Shs10bn had been made on only one component- trade finance, meaning the figure could rise if the other components were subjected to further investigation.
Top managers of Uganda Development Bank (UDB), who have been sacked and are now demanding for Shs580m in terminal benefits, were implicated by two separate audits over incompetence and fraud.
In one of the audits, an internal investigation found that the bank had lost Shs10b and that the figure could rise to Shs30b out of an estimated capitalisation of Shs80b.
Daily Monitor broke the story yesterday that as the Auditor General probes the "true extent of the loss" suffered by the bank, the former top managers, who the new Board of Directors sacked over the loss, are pursuing a Shs580m compensation package.
Mr Gabriel Ekou, the former chief executive officer, who is among those sacked, simply hung up once he found out that the call was from Daily Monitor.
Mr Stephen Opeitum, the former head development finance, when contacted, said he needed to first meet his lawyer before deciding on the way forward.
The other officials, who were sacked are, Ms Priscilla Mugisha (company secretary), Ms Anne Muguluma (head of finance), Ms Wilber Naigambi (head of management information systems) and Ms Florence Mirembe (head of human resource).
The investigations
In 2010, the final books of UDB had a provision for a net loss of Shs5.756b, meaning that the bank was at risk of not recovering all this money that had been lent out. To make matters worse, the Shs5.756b net loss provision was on only one component of the bank's activities - trade finance.
Given that UDB also deals in other areas like development finance, cash management, investment activity and procurement, it is safe to conclude that the loss could be much bigger.
UDB was founded in 1972, first to provide trade finance to Ugandan businessmen, who were trying to fill the void left by the expelled Indians. The bank later expanded into long term financing in such areas like agriculture and tourism. It is fully government owned.
In light of the loss, the Board of Directors ordered an internal investigation into the trade finance component, which submitted its report in January this year. The findings indicted members of the top management, whom they accused of complicity with some of the companies to which money was lent
Some top managers were accused of collusion with borrowers to give out bad loans which were unsecured and sometimes not recoverable.
Mr Etou, who was the then CEO, was accused of "single-handedly" approving variations in loan terms and conditions after the loans had been approved by management.
"He did not have any approval authority and did not have any mandate to approve loan variations," the report said.
Mr Etou was also accused of committing the bank to the tune of Shs5bn in excess loans to Karlson without the approval of management.
Along with Mr Opeitum, Mr Ekou is accused of approving a request in which the former challenged a proposal that was assessed by the current senior trade finance officer, Mr Charles Orwothun. Mr Orwothun had objected to selling off 210 drums of bitumen at $119 each instead of $148, arguing that if it were done, the bank would not fully recover its money.


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