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WARREN COUNTY, Ohio (FOX19) - The public had the chance to hear from Brooke "Skylar" Richardson for the first time Thursday when a two hour police interrogation tape was played by the prosecutors.
The Carlisle teen is accused of killing her newborn baby girl, burning her, and burying her in the backyard of her parents' house in May 2017.
Richardson, who is now 20, is charged with aggravated murder, involuntary manslaughter, gross abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and child endangering.
If convicted on all charges she could be sentenced to life in prison.
Dr. Susan Brown, forensic pathologist, at the Montgomery County Coroner's Office, was the first witness to take the stand on Friday.
Brown said she received skeletal remains with just a small amount of soft tissue attached and no internal organs.
No internal examination was able to be done and the autopsy included an external examination and photographs.
"In order to determine both cause and manner of death all of the information leading up to the death at the scene, during the autopsy, if toxicology can be performed... all of those things can bring a complete picture," she said.
Brown said she used her exam of the bones, information from the burial site and Richardson's police interview to determine her opinion on the cause of death.
She stated there are three fractures on both the right and left skull bones, but could not be certain if they were pre or postmortem.
She concluded the cause of death was "homicidal violence of undetermined etiology," which means the exact cause of death cannot be determined.
When asked by defense attorney Charlie Rittgers if she was able to tell by her examination baby Annabelle suffered injury prior to death, Dr. Brown responded "I cannot."
Rittgers said Brown didn't do enough evaluation before making her opinion.
"I did not ignore facts," she said.
Rittgers also pointed out the states's forensic anthropologist, Dr. Latham, said there were no signs of homicidal trauma. According to Dr. Latham, the fractures are postmortem.
Dr. Brown told Assistant Prosecutor Julie Kraft that even if the injuries are postmortem this baby still died of homicidal violence.
"Based on just the autopsy alone, I can't determine if it was a live birth," she said.
Kraft: Based on what you had left of baby Richardson, can you offer an opinion on whether or not she was suffocated?
Dr. Brown: No.
Kraft: Based on what we have of baby Richardson can you make any determination she was drowned?
Dr. Brown: No.
When prosecution called Dr. William 'Kim' Brady to the stand, a maternal fetal medicine specialist, they used his expertise to contend that Richardson's baby was alive when it was born.
Brady testified that blood work that Richardson had done on April 26 was normal, as was the baby's fetal heart rate.
"If we have a healthy baby on April 26, 2017 would you expect to have a significant change in the outcome of that child in one and a half weeks," Assistant Prosecutor Julie Kraft asked.
"I would expect the baby to still be alive," Dr. Brady said.
During an interrogation, Richardson told police about the sounds the baby made, gurgling, crying and also movement. She also added Annabelle was alive for five minutes and she may have squeezed her baby too hard.
Her attorneys have disputed that she delivered a stillborn child and buried her in the backyard because she didn't know what to do.
Rittgers said her stillbirth could've been caused by intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) or from her history of eating disorders.
Dr. Brady said there was no sufficient evidence to support Richardson had IUGR.
The prosecution claims that Richardson tried burn the newborn's body and pointed to what Richardson said to her father in one of the police interviews when he first walked into the room.
"And the first thing she utters to her father is, 'I tried to cremate the baby,'" Kraft said.
However, Rittgers also said all three anthropologists hired on the case agreed the remains were not burned, and Dr. Brown said he was correct.
Dr. Brown confirmed an initial determination that the remains were burned led to a second search of the Richardson home, gravesite, plus a second police interrogation of Richardson.
The second police interrogation video is expected to be played in court on Monday.
FULL COVERAGE | Skylar Richardson Trial
On Thursday, Richardson told Warren Co. Sheriff Lt. John Faine and her parents that she never meant to hurt or kill her baby.
Richardson apologized multiple times asked several times if she was in trouble or going to jail.
Her dad asked if she thought she would get away with this.
"I had the baby and it wasn't breathing. I didn't kill it. I held it really tight... it's the only thing I can think of," Richardson said.
Richardson asked her parents several times if they still loved her and they replied that they did, but she found little comfort from her mom and dad on what she had just been through.
"There's nothing we can do now. It's in the papers. We're in the news. The neighbors are already calling me," her mom said after learning of the allegations.
On Wednesday, opening arguments began and several witnesses took the stand including the baby's father, Trey Johnson, two OBGYN's from Hilltop OBGYN, deputies from the Warren County Sheriff's Office and Coroner Dr. Russell Uptegrove.
Seven women and five men sit on the jury. Three alternates of two women and one man were selected.
The trial is expected to last two weeks.
It unknown if Richardson will testify in her own defense.
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Super Shakib joins elite list of T20 greats
Bangladesh star claimed his 300th wicket to enter the T20 record books as one of the great allrounders
Cricket Network
25 April 2018, 05:44 PM AEST
Bangladesh allrounder Shakib al Hasan has become just the second person in history to reach the Twenty20 milestone of 4,000 runs and 300 wickets.
Shakib achieved the feat with the wicket of Rohit Sharma in the Sunrisers Hyderabad victory against the Mumbai Indians in Tuesday night's IPL clash.
Only Caribbean T20 star Dwayne Bravo has previously reached that impressive double. The 34-year-old Bravo – who is playing for the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL – has 5,607 career runs in the 20-over format, to go with 417 wickets from his 380 games.
Shakib, who is 31, now has 4,069 runs and 300 wickets, reaching the mark in his 260th T20 match. He has played forged a global T20 career, including stints in the Big Bash with the Adelaide Strikers, and in T20 leagues in the West Indies, Pakistan, India and his native Bangladesh.
Shakib is now just one of five players to record 300 T20 wickets, and the first left-armer to achieve the feat.
Along with Bravo and Shakib, Sri Lanka seamer Lasith Malinga (348), West Indies spinner Sunil Narine (324) and Pakistan legend Shahid Afridi (300) have reached the bowling milestone.
West Indies legend Chris Gayle is the 20-over format's all-time leading run-scorer, with 11,297 to his name from 326 matches. Gayle is the only man to have passed 10,000 T20 runs.
Only 10 men in the history of the game have reached the 2,000 runs and 200 wickets double.
Fellow Caribbean king Kieron Pollard has 8,111 T20 runs and 251 wickets, while Pakistan legend Shahid Afridi has 300 wickets and 3,893 runs.
It was another tough day on the field but feeling great for @Sah75official bhai as he becomes the first ever left arm spinner to take 300 T20 wickets & for reaching in unique feat for scoring 4,000 runs & picking as the second all-rounder. Keep it up. #Blessed pic.twitter.com/7I3ARXjqpM— Mustafizur Rahman (@Mustafiz90) April 24, 2018
The Bangladesh star had closed in on the milestone earlier in the IPL, passing the 4,000 run barrier against his former team, the Kolkata Knight Riders, last week.
However, he went wicketless in the next two matches before Rohit edged an attempted drive to Shikhar Dhawan at first slip.
The wicket came off his second ball in the match and left Mumbai perilously placed at 3-21. They were eventually bowled out for just 87, having lost their last six wickets for just 14 runs in less than six overs.
Last August, in his first Test against Australia and 50th overall, Shakib became just the fourth man to claim a five-wicket haul against each of the other nine Test-playing nations (excluding newcomers Afghanistan or Ireland).
In taking 5-85 in Dhaka, Shakib joined South Africa pace ace Dale Steyn and Sri Lanka spin wizards Muttiah Muralidaran and Rangana Herath on another exclusive list.
Shakib will next month feature in a World XI squad that will face the West Indies in a one-off T20 at Lord's to raise funds for the reconstruction of Caribbean cricket facilities damaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017.
T20's elite allrounders
Dwayne Bravo 5,607 runs, 417 wickets
Shakib al Hasan 4,069 runs, 300 wickets
Shahid Afridi 3,893 runs, 300 wickets
Kieron Pollard 8,103 runs, 251 wickets
Shane Watson 6,640 runs, 215 wickets
Azhar Mahmood 4,091 runs, 258 wickets
Albie Morkel 4,058 runs, 245 wickets
Andre Russell 3,671 runs, 214 wickets
Tissara Perera 2,782 runs, 214 wickets
Sohail Tanvir 2,108 runs, 289 wickets
Australian viewers can watch the 2018 season of the IPL exclusively on Fox Sports


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PS4 to finally get the piece of hardware it needs
We should all be thanking PDP for sneakily (not) announcing a new remote control for the PS4 so we can carry on binge watching Netflix without using a DualShock controller.
With the meager amount of games on the PlayStation, it seems like the console ends up as machine for streaming, or used as a Blu-ray player anyway.
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Islamic State (IS) militants have captured al-Qaryatain town, in the province of Homs, from pro-government forces, reports say.
The militants launched the attack with suicide bombings at the town's checkpoints, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitoring group.
It said the capture of the town links IS-held Palmyra with the Qalamun area.
Separately, the US launched its first drone strike against IS from Turkey.
A Pentagon spokesman did not give any further details about the strike, which reportedly took place on Monday.
Turkey last month said it would allow US aircraft to use its southern Incirlik airbase to attack IS in Syria, potentially speeding up air strikes against the militants.
Al-Qaryatain was captured in the militants' first major offensive since May, when they seized the historic town of Palmyra, famed for its Roman-style ruins.
The town is thought to have a mixed population of around 40,000 people, including Sunni Muslims and Christians, as well as thousands of people who have fled fighting elsewhere in the country.
According to the SOHR, the capture of the town could help IS move fighters and material between Palmyra and territory that it controls in Qalamun, to the west.
Scores of pro-government and IS fighters are said to have been killed in the battle for the town.
More than 230,000 Syrians have died in the civil war, which began after anti-government protests in March 2011.
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Easy Maintenance Tips for Getting Your Grill Ready for Spring Season
9th Mar 2017
Get ready, get grilling!
Easy maintenance tips for getting your grill ready for spring season.
The sunny weather gets the people going. Spring is regarded as the season of rebirth and it seems that other than all the plants and crops, even we humans experience rebirth as spring arrives. People like to be out and about, sun bathing, on the beaches and the most popular activity: have barbecue parties.
Whether with family or with friends, barbecue and out door grilling has always been a fun filled activity that announces the arrival of spring.
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When done with the basic cleaning or the grates and scrubbing of the grill, take apart everything from the knobs to gas pipes to the rocks inside. And clean and check. Remove the heat tamers or plates too and clean them up. Take a look at the burners and burner tubes beneath them, these things tend to wear out quickly so you should better check it in advance. All in all take a good thorough look from the exterior to the interior of your barbecue so that you know it's in a good shape for use and if not then it might need to be replaced.
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Romper: Dress Up (sold out) | Straw Tote: Loft | Earrings: BaubleBar
Vacation recap part one:
I am officially back from vacation! And to be honest, I am so happy to be home and back to some routine. These four days of rest and relaxation have done me good. I'm tanner, plumper, and happier :).
Vacations with my family usually involve more eating and swimming then resting and relaxing. We're usually cramped together, sleeping several people to a bed, and staying up late watching movies or crab catching, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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***It's sold out online but I'm sure you can find it in stores.
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Boat owners who put their boats into storage for the winter can use those months to get some maintenance done that may be hard to get to during the sailing season. Have any holes or tears in your dodger, sail cover, or other marine canvas? Winter's a good time to take on such projects - and save some money by doing it yourself.
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A running gag for the new book is that every night, the protagonist, Oliver, tries to make love to his girlfriend, Effie, but there's always something that either interrupts them or prevents their getting to it in the first place. To add to the piquancy, Oliver's frustrated yearnings are deepened by incidents and appearances that only intensify Effie's attractiveness -- catching her unexpectedly half-dressed, for example.
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Syrian Kurds almost burned a convoy with Russian troops.
A few hours ago, Syrian Kurds carried out a massive attack on a convoy of Russian and Turkish military, this time using not only stones and other heavy objects, but also Molotov cocktails, as a result of which several Russian vehicles were engulfed in fire.
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The Montgomery County Intermediate Unit has been monitoring the evolving COVID-19 situation and received notification that the Montgomery County Commissioners have now signed a Declaration of Disaster Emergency. MCIU is acting in an abundance of caution and is cancelling PA Media and Design competition scheduled for Tuesday, March 10th. We apologize for the inconvenience. Further information will be forthcoming regarding the process for selecting projects to move on to the state competition in May.
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- Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2020
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Information for students, faculty and staff regarding COVID-19. (Updated: 29 October 2020)
The Department of Sociology annually welcomes students from all over the world. We offer a number of courses taught in English. On this page you will find further information for both students and partner universities. We hope this information will be helpful, and we look forward to meeting new students at the department.
Hi future students! We are happy that you are interested in spending your exchange period at the Department of Sociology. We hope the information we give on these pages will be helpful as you embark on this new and exciting journey.
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Do you want to challenge yourself and gain invaluable experiences? Get to know a new country, culture and make new friends? Strengthen your CV with international qualifications? The Department of Sociology has a wide range of high-quality options for exchange studies. Take the opportunity to study abroad!
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Malcolm C. Nolen, Chair of The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum Board of Trustees, today announced the recent election of four new trustees: Maximilian Coreth, of New York City and Alta, Utah; Sarah Wendell Sherrill, of San Francisco; Sundaram Tagore, of New York City, and Kulapat Yantrasast, of Los Angeles.
Mr. Nolen says, "The Board of Trustees is delighted to welcome four new members to its ranks. With their diverse interests and areas of expertise, they will bring valued perspectives and skills to The Noguchi Museum as we embark on our next phase. Many thanks to Museum Director Brett Littman for assembling such a strong group of people to add to our board."
Mr. Littman adds, "I am thrilled that these four accomplished individuals have joined our dedicated Board of Trustees. From Maximilian Coreth's experience in finance and real estate, which will be particularly relevant as we embark upon our campus expansion; to Sundaram Tagore's commitment to East-West dialogue, echoing Noguchi's own commitment to cultural exchange; Sarah Wendell Sherrill's extensive and diverse experience in visual art, as well as her enthusiastic work as a West Coast ambassador for the Museum; and Kulapat Yantrasast's deep experience and leadership role in international architecture and design, they bring exceptional skills and vision to the Museum."
Maximilian Coreth worked in finance for most of his professional life, including at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. In 2011 he co-founded Timberlane Partners, an investment firm focused on multi-family real estate that is active in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City. Since retiring from Wall Street in 2015, he has focused exclusively on real estate development in Utah.
Sarah Wendell Sherrill has extensive experience in art and in the art market. She began her career at Christie's, over time rising through the company to manage the Post-War & Contemporary Art department in New York during a critical period of growth for the company and the overall industry, and overseeing record-breaking sales by artists such as Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Jeff Koons, and others. Following her time at Christie's, Sarah returned to the West Coast and served as President of Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco. She is co-founder of Lobus, a technology company serving the art industry.
Sundaram Tagore is an art historian, gallerist, and award-winning filmmaker. Before opening his own gallery in 2000, he was a director at Pace Wildenstein Gallery, in New York. He has advised and worked with many international organizations, including the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the United Nations, all in New York. His scholarly work, focusing on Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan, and on Louis Kahn's work in Bangladesh, among other topics, cemented his passion for cross-cultural exchange.
Bangkok-born architect Kulapat Yantrasast, one of the great thinkers in design, is the founding partner and creative director of the Los Angeles and New York-based wHY Architecture, which has designed a broad array of museum projects, from the expansion of the Speed Art Museum, in Louisville, Kentucky, to the expansion of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, as well as the Rockefeller Wing of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He is a frequent public speaker at leading institutions around the world and has served on the Artists' Committee of the Americans for the Arts and of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and as a trustee of the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis. In 2009, Kulapat received the Silpathorn Award from Thai Government for his contribution to contemporary culture in Thailand. He is the first architect to receive the prestigious award.
Founded in 1985 by Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), one of the leading sculptors and designers of the twentieth century, The Noguchi Museum was the first museum in America to be established, designed, and installed by a living artist to show their own work. Widely viewed as among the artist's greatest achievements, the Museum comprises ten indoor galleries in a converted factory building, as well as an internationally acclaimed outdoor sculpture garden. Since its founding, it has served as an international hub for Noguchi research and appreciation. In addition to housing the artist's archives and catalogue raisonné, the Museum exhibits a comprehensive selection of sculpture, models for public projects and gardens, dance sets, and his Akari light sculptures. Provocative, frequently-changing installations drawn from the permanent collection, together with diverse special exhibitions related to Noguchi and the milieu in which he worked, offer a rich, contextualized view of Noguchi's art and illuminate his enduring influence as a category-defying, multicultural, cross-disciplinary innovator. noguchi.org | @noguchimuseum


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In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Texas educators learn the value of community.
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This is actually true — Islamic Jew-hatred is a central tenet of Islam. So if you are not a Jew-hater, you are challenging a very basic premise of Islamic texts and teachings. That is islamophobic, is it not?
The problem here is that the professor is teaching this as if it's a good thing, a correct hate, much like Nazi intellectuals did in the 30s.
SFSU professor says that it is Islamophobic to NOT hate Zionists
By Elder of Ziyon, March 22, 2018:
San Francisco State University president Leslie Wong clarified his earlier position about Zionism on campus, by issuing an apology and statement that read in part:
My comments about Zionists and whether or not they are welcomed at San Francisco State University caused a lot of anguish and deeply hurt feelings. I am responsible for those words and, after study and reflection, I have come to understand how flawed my comments were.
Thus, I want to sincerely apologize for the hurt feelings and anguish my words have caused. Let me be clear: Zionists are welcome on our campus.
I know this apology alone may not be enough. But I am committed to a new course of dialogue and actions to ensure that my own awareness and learning will move this great university forward. Admitting fault and desiring a path forward based upon mutual respect motivates me. Making peace is hard work. And hard work has long inspired me. I hope you will join me.
In response Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies, wrote what would be considered an astounding statement anywhere outside of academia:
I consider the statement below from President Wong, welcoming Zionists to campus, equating Jewishness with Zionism, and giving Hillel ownership of campus Jewishness, to be a declaration of war against Arabs, Muslims, Palestinians and all those who are committed to an indivisible sense of justice on and off campus….
I am ashamed to be affiliated with SFSU administration and demand the immediate retraction of this racist, Islamophobic and colonialist statement, and the restoration of SFSU social justice mission.
At a time when we are marking 50 years since the 1968 SFSU student strike and the quest to decolonize the curriculum, it is embarrassing to have our campus leadership cater to donor pressures and the Israeli lobby.
The dear academic is saying that the statement "Zionists are welcome on our campus" to be a declaration of war, Islamophobic, racist and colonialist.
Oh, and the only reason anyone would say that a campus can welcome pro-Israel opinions is because they are getting money from the "Israeli lobby" (wink, wink.)
A fun postscript: Leslie Wong addressed Abdulhadi's group in 2015, and described her as a "first-rate scholar, the model of the kind of person that I want around young people." (16:53 of video.) Already at that time the professor had been known to meet with real, honest to goodness terrorists.
That's what universities have become.
Amcha Initiative has issued a press release about Abdulhadi's hate.
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The left's identity politics are finally turning in on itself.
A "Women's March" event in California was cancelled… after organizers feared the attendees would be overwhelmingly white.
The event's organizers will, instead, focus on a different event in March… after, presumably, doing more to ensure that comparatively fewer white people attend their event.
In a statement posted to Facebook, event organizers wrote:
"The organizers of the Eureka Women's March in Humboldt County, California, are moving the focus towards an event date on March 9th, in conjunction with International Women's Day, to ensure that the people most impacted by systems of oppression have an opportunity to participate in planning," they wrote.
"We failed to have the type of collaboration needed to be inclusive of some of the most underrepresented voices in our community, namely, women of color and people who are gender non-conforming," they added.
"Our intention with this march is to affect real social change by raising the voices of all women within our community," the post continued. "We recognize the majority of our current leadership team is white, and planning for this event has been centered around our experiences. In recognizing our failure to put enough effort into being more inclusive, we are attempting to make things right by taking this time to create a more balanced leadership team. Our goal moving forward is to ensure the voices of women of color are heard and centered when we come together for the furtherance of the rights and protection of women."
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Simon Hodson has been Executive Director of CODATA since August 2013. CODATA exists to promote international collaboration for Open scientific data. Supporting the mission of ICSU, the International Council for Science, CODATA aims to strengthen international science for the benefit of society by promoting improved scientific and technical data management and use.
Related to this role, he sits on numerous project Steering Boards and strategic Working Groups in the area of research data. These include the GEO Data Sharing Working Group, the GEO Data Management Principles Task Force and theScientific Advisory Board of CESSDA, the European data infrastructure for the social sciences. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Dryad Data Repository, a not-for-profit initiative to make the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and citable.
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Apr 19, 2019
SD Europe attends FPF SLO workshop
At the end of March, SD Europe took part in a workshop in Portugal at the Cidade do Futebol in Caxias, Lisbon, hosted by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The workshop focused on the role of the supporter liaison officer (SLO) and the disability access officer (DAO). The workshop was organised by the FPF as part of the training activities related to UEFA club licensing.
The opening remarks were made by Paulo Lourenço, Secretary General of the FPF, and responsible for…
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Safety, Security and Service experts gather in Sofia for third LIAISE workshop
Participants from ten countries and organisations came together to discuss the new Council of Europe Convention on an Integrated Safety Security and Service Approach.
Project partners Svenska Footballsupporterunionen (SFSU), Association Nationale des Supporters (ANS), Football Supporters Europe (FSE), Czech Football League (LFA), Polish Football Association (PZPN), Portuguese Football Association (FPF), Swedish Football League (SEF), contributing partners French Football League (LFP), guests Italian Football Federation (FIGC), Football Union of Russia (RFU), international experts from the Council of Europe (Adrian Dinca, chair of…
Oct 03, 2018
Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) named as LIAISE contributing organisation
SD Europe is delighted to confirm that Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP) has formally become a contributing organisation to our LIAISE project.
LIAISE is unique Erasmus+ collaborative partnership that has brought together a range of stakeholders to focus on the development of the supporter liaison officer (SLO) role in Europe for the first time. These stakeholders include supporters organisations, football associations, football leagues, Uefa and the European Think Tank of Football Safety and Security Experts.
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May 31, 2018
LFA travels to Bulgaria as LIAISE exchange visits get underway
The recent visit of representatives of the Czech Football League (LFA) to the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) was the first of 12 exchange visits scheduled to take place as part of SD Europe's, Liaison-based Integrated Approach to Improving Supporter Engagement (LIAISE) project, which is funded by EU's Erasmus+ programme and co-financed by Uefa.
As part of the visit, Tomáš Čarnogurský, supporter liaison officer (SLO) coordinator for the LFA, and Svatoslav Batá, SLO at Bohemians Praha 1905, had the opportunity to meet with…
May 22, 2018
DFL visits Premier League to exchange ideas around SLO role
Representatives from the German Football League's (DFL) Fan Affairs department travelled to London back in April to attend a meeting of Premier League supporter liaison officers (SLOs).
Ben Kandler, who was also involved with SD Europe's recent LIAISE workshop in Stockholm, and his colleague Eric Roda Gracia were in England for three days, and attended one of the Premier League's regular SLO meetings as part of their schedule.
Both leagues made a presentation about their ongoing efforts around their respective SLO programmes,…
Apr 26, 2018
LIAISE partners enjoy packed agenda on supporter liaison in Stockholm
A blend of on-site visits, discussion panels, presentations and group work saw participants in our first LIAISE workshop develop a deeper understanding of the supporter liaison officer (SLO) role from in April.
Representatives from the Erasmus+ project's 10 partners and 11 additional organisations (from 12 countries) were involved in activities over a three-day training event in Stockholm, hosted by Svensk Elitfotbol (SEF) from April 15th to 17th. (See Partners)
The workshop followed on from the project's opening meeting in Prague in March…
Apr 13, 2018
First LIAISE workshop in Sweden to focus on supporter liaison
Establishing best practice around the supporter liaison officer (SLO) role will be the key objective of a three-day conference organised by SD Europe and Svensk Elitfotboll (SEF) from April 15 to 17.
LIAISE is a unique collaborative partnership that brings together supporters, football associations, football leagues, as well as stakeholders including Uefa and the EU Think Tank of Football Safety and Security Experts to drive the development of the SLO role over a two-year period. It is funded by the Erasmus+…
Mar 22, 2018
LIAISE partners meet for the first time in Prague
Football bodies, clubs and national supporters organisations from six European countries met in Prague last week for the launch meeting of SD Europe's latest Erasmus+ project, LIAISE.
Focusing on the development of the supporter liaison officer (SLO) role, the project brings together football authorities and supporters in a unique collaborative partnership that will work together until December 31st, 2019. LIAISE is funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union and is co-financed by Uefa.
Seven football associations and leagues, two…
Feb 21, 2018
Erasmus+ project LIAISE is officially underway
SD Europe is delighted to announce that preparations for our new Erasmus+ project have kicked off and will bring together supporters, football associations, leagues and other stakeholders for the first time in Prague next month.
LIAISE stands for Liaison-based Integrated Approach to Improving Supporter Engagement and will further improve the positive impact of supporter liaison officers (SLOs) in partner countries and beyond.
Football associations and leagues will work alongside supporter organisations, other relevant football authorities from across Europe and Uefa to highlight…
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Mouvement Azur et Or organise 'Toulon Europe Supporters' event
"Toulon Europe Supporters" took place on September 23rd in Toulon, France
Among the participants were members of Mouvement Azur et Or, organised and individual supporters of SC Toulon, representatives of the city, representatives of the French national supporters' organisation "Association Nationale des Supporters (ANS)", sociologist Nicolas Hourcade, CAFE partners Handifan Club and SD Europe.
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Department of Media Studies
Media Studies offers an undergraduate program that leads to a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Studies with specialization in one of the following tracks:
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The Department's interdisciplinary curriculum is designed to prepare students to become professional communicators and artisans from an academic, business, executive, management, and performance perspective.
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Journalism The journalism sequence specializes in preparing students for communications industry careers as news journalists. The coursework is research, writing, and reporting intensive.
Radio-Television Majors selecting a degree plan in radio-television are focused on proficiency in three categories of concentration:
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Public Relations The public relations track prepares students to creatively design, implement, and manage multimedia communication programs of public, corporate, and private organizations.
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The significance of Wednesday's Veterans Day remains profound. Americans still fight and die abroad, and those who return bear the physical and emotional costs of their work. Truly honoring these Americans is at times obscured by stumping and jingoist pageantry, as well as misplaced protest. It is clarifying to recognize that at its essence, the day is about America's proudest sacrifices, about its people—as well the weight of our most dreadful political errors, our worst scars. This season's tug-of-war over health care shows, again, that Americans do not agree on details, nor did we ever. We cannot expect to. But there is a unifying idea behind Veterans Day: improving the quality of life for all Americans must inspire our actions.
Earlier this week, Governor Don Carcieri vetoed a bill that would have granted Rhode Island's same-sex "domestic partners" the right to arrange each other's funerals, a right currently reserved for heterosexual married couples. Made so close to Veterans Day, the denial of basic family rights to a group of this state's citizens seems all the less patriotic. On the same day of Carcieri's veto, the Harvard Medical School released a study that calculated that 2,266 veterans under 65 years of age died in 2008 because they did not have health insurance. The study reports that this figure is "more than 14 times the number of deaths (155) suffered by US troops in Afghanistan in 2008, and more than twice as many as have died (911)...since the war began in 2001." That translates to an average of six deaths each day as a result of reduced access to health care.
To honor—and justify—veterans' enormous contributions to each American's wellbeing, our politics must be guided by improving each citizen's quality of life. That quality of life hinges on two fundamental issues: the right to health and the right to family. These rights are not fundamental for a select few, but for all of us. —KSO


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Mercury is a defenseless and barren world. With no atmosphere to speak of nothing protects it from the onslaught of cosmic debris that bombards its surface constantly. NASA's Mariner probe has provided detailed maps of Mercury's surface and the images of countless craters within craters within craters are visual evidence of the onslaught of asteroids and comets that have bombarded Mercury throughout its 4.6 billion years of existence.
Venus is also known as Earth's sister planet or Earth's twin because of their similarities. They are similar in size, mass and diameter and Venus is the closest planet to Earth, but there are huge differences too.
For most of humanity's existence we have gazed at the stars and dreamt of the worlds beyond our own. But we now live in a time when science and dreams have combined to literally blast us from Earth and launch us towards the stars. We will never be the same again.
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Jupiter is the largest planet in our Solar System and the largest of the four Gas Giants. Visible to the naked eye it has, since ancient times, been imbued with power, yet it is only recently that we have come to appreciate the true influence Jupiter exerts on our Solar System.
Saturn is most well known for its spectacular rings. Saturn is a planet of beauty and mystery and a place where we can still see the processes that built our Solar System in action today.
Uranus is the first planet to be discovered in modern history, with the use of a telescope. It was discovered in 1781 by Sir William Herschel.
Neptune has the distinction of being the first planet to have been discovered by mathematical prediction rather than observation. Alexis Bouvard, a French astronomer, hypothesized its existence because of irregularities in Uranus' orbit.
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Conviction Upheld in Animal Cruelty Case
HOUSTON (CN) – A Texas woman was reckless when she hired only a single employee to care for over 200 cats at her cat sanctuary, a state appeals panel ruled.
A trial jury convicted Wyndell Dixon on four charges of animal cruelty after animal control officers discovered 27 dead cats and "filth everywhere" following complaints about Dixon's cat sanctuary – Whiskerville – in Texas City.
Dixon claimed during her trial that she had not visited the sanctuary for months when the alleged cruelty had occurred, and that her single employee, Kimberly Paskert, lied to her about the conditions at the shelter.
She argued that because she trusted Paskert, who had worked at the sanctuary for over six years, she cannot be held responsible for conditions there.
The cats at Dixon's facility were not up for adoption, since most were older cats, nor were they euthanized. They were meant to live out the remainder of their days until they passed from old age, wrote Chief Justice Sherry Radack for the three-judge appellate panel.
Paskert, 48, testified that she was "overwhelmed" by her daily tasks, which included cleaning up messes the cat made, emptying out four big litter pans and carrying 40-pound bags of cat food. A former Whiskerville employee, Dixon's daughter, described the work as "back breaking." Paskert had arthritis in her hands and worked at the sanctuary 10 to 12 hours a day, in addition to another job cleaning houses. Dixon paid Paskert $30 a day when she started.
In early January, 2012, animal control and peace officers responded to a complaint about Whiskerville. When they peered through the sanctuary's windows, court documents say, they saw dead cats, feces and urine on the walls, and large water and food bowls that were empty and overturned.
The cats that were still alive were clawing at the windows and "screaming like they wanted to get out," Corporal Derrick Grandstaff, animal control supervisor for the Texas City Police, testified.
He said the stench inside was so powerful that officers standing outside could smell it. One officer, the first to enter the building, came back out and vomited from the smell. Officials had to wait for respirators to re-enter the building.
Inside, feces and urine covered every surface, even the windows. Live cats ran about, terrified, and when an officer set down a fresh bowl of water the cats "fought and climbed over each other, desperate," court documents say.
There was a dead cat in every room. Though some of the live cats were emaciated, others were obese and there was evidence the live cats had cannibalized the dead according to Kim Schoolcraft, animal services manager for the Galveston County Health District.
Paskert claimed she had arranged to have a volunteer, Karen Tibbets, take care of the cats so she could have a week off for Christmas. She had not told Dixon about the arrangement and told her "the kitties were fine." Police could not find Tibbets and concluded she didn't exist.
Before the appeals court, Dixon argued that because she believed Paskert, there was no evidence to show she recklessly endangered the cats. Recklessness, under Texas law, exists if there is evidence to show a person consciously disregarded a dangerous situation.
Paskert testified at trial that she had asked Dixon, several times, to hire help, but that Dixon had put her off by saying she was "working on it." Schoolcraft testified that at her facility, which cared for 275 animals, she had between 10 and 12 employees.
Donna Jones, a former Whiskerville employee, came to the shelter a few months before the cats were seized. There she found Paskert, upset and crying. Paskert told Jones she was tired, her hands hurt from all the cleaning and she needed help to care for the cats.
The appeals panel upheld Dixon's conviction.


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The Thameslink editorial by Fraser Whieldon last week, where does one start following a piece written post a paid trip to Germany? Impartiality may be suspect, accuracy certainly is.
When did our trains last go to Moorgate? Trains or artifacts as they were described that used to go to Moorgate, are happily working elsewhere, even from Brighton.
The 1970s are not old in train terms, the HST 125s introduced from 1975 onwards and running to Sheffield are considered the finest trains ever produced and in-house too by BR.
They are still classified as the fastest diesels in the world.
When finally replaced on our line they go to Scotland to continue service. Some artifacts?
Mild rebuke towards Govia but the gist of the article was to suggest renationalisation was no solution.
Not sure if your staffer knows but the Thameslink route was initiated by BR in 1988 with funding from the GLC.
It ran very well, on trains also built by themselves and it became a success story. The difference then was BR was one organisation. There was a direct chain of command not upwards of 100 disparate sections all wanting a slice of the ticket revenue. We went from the best value railway in the world to the most expensive.
Siemens may have given their visitors an enjoyable time but it is their trains that are less than 100 per cent reliable. It only takes one to delay all those behind. Siemens incidentally promised to supply trains for German railways to run from St Pancras for a valuable new service. Then they discovered they were too busy to actually supply them. What a tease.
Let's go back to Thameslink, when BR introduced any new service there were always sufficient timetables, printed in-house, distributed to stations often off the same trains. Unlike the shortage experienced last week. Blame? The extended supply chain?
Sensibly a Sunday was chosen to start the new service rather a Monday.
But the line was blocked south of West Hampstead till 9.15 for maintenance work.
A single organisation via internal communications would have ensured that did not happen and sorted it. AND staff would have known there was to be a delay, many did not.
Sufficient train crews would have gained route knowledge in advance rather than have them announce to puzzled station staff at St Pancras that they did not know the way (route) and would go no further.
Senior management would also have been in attendance in case things went adrift, none were visible at St Pancras.
This project is billed as RailPlan2020, originally Thameslink 2000.
It has therefore been a long time coming, but all under a privatised rail industry.
Ironically previous franchise operators on the same routes have had patchy performance. So much so that the current arrangement is micromanaged by civil servants including new train specification.
It is they who must admit some responsibility for mere details like no wifi, preventing one from finding out what was going wrong.
The decision not to have power sockets on an electric train must be the icing on the cake!
But even the seat cushions is on the list of micro management. Not to save money but to reduce passenger boarding and leaving time, passengers mustn't be too comfortable and cause a micro delay to disembarking.
There are far more comfortable trains elsewhere, the HST 125s for example!
BR withstood lots of music hall jokes, but under them we had cheaper fares, comfortable seats and accountability rather than a chain of responsibility of indeterminate length.
Cravells Road, Harpenden
I wonder how many people have contacted the council to say how good the verges look now they have been cut. Personally I think they look awful, very scruffy and worst of all are the piles of brown dead grass left to rot.
My friend in St Albans says the same contractors have cut her verge and made it more messy that it was before.
Leaving the grass cuttings means that the soil will be enriched and become useless for wild flowers which need poor soil. The only things that will grow will be brambles, nettles and docks.
Check out the charity Plant Life and write to the council about the ideas they are promoting. Our insect life, bird and animal life and eventually our own lives depend on a healthy natural wild life environment.
MAGGIE CARTMELL West Common, Harpenden
I am sorry to read the lengthy tale of nonagerian woe in a recent letter. I rarely seek to enter your columns as I have never wished to tread on the toes of my successors but feel in this case a measure of response is required.
First possibly we should all accept human failings from which of course councillors are by no means free, but equally please allow that of whatever political persuasion and whether we agree with their views or not, those who put themselves forward do so because they wish to service the community.
Secondly, and to me the most valuable, the really uplifting thing to counterbalance the deficits is the scope and depth of voluntary and charitable work which is thriving in the area.
Hours of personal service and dedication are the best evidence of the humanity which motivates so many and is such an enrichment of our society - for all of this we should be very grateful.
Of the many lessons and pleasures that I retain from my years in office, none is more powerful and lasting memory than these - let us not be downcast! IAN FULTON Chairman Harpenden UDC 1972-74 Mayor of the city and district of St Albans 1974-75 Southdown Road, Harpenden
Residents living in the towns and villages of St Albans district council are sleepwalking into a nightmare through apathy. The district is under attack by proposed industrial developments in the south and north..
News that 'Rail freight depot is one step closer to becoming a reality' (Herts Ad May 12) and that Luton Airport, the fifth busiest airport and one of the fastest growing in the UK, has ambitions to more than double in size, should be a wake-up call.
Traffic pollution in some parts of St Albans city already breaks EU rules.
Add to that hundreds of container trucks pouring off the MI and M25 onto the A5 to enter the proposed Park Street freight depot and any fool can see that noise and pollution will only get worse.
St Albans MP Anne Main has campaigned tirelessly to stop the freight depot but was stabbed in the back by former Communities Secretary Eric Pickles when he approval the proposal in 2014.
Let us pray she is not stabbed in the chest by Herts county council which owns the land yet sat on the fence when St Albans district council wasted more than half a million pounds of local taxpayers money in legal fees appealing against the project.
Ironically, SADC's own councillors who also sit on the county council could have lobbied their Conservative colleagues at County Hall to block the freight depot and instead sell the land for much-needed housing. Watch this space.
At a recent meeting called by the Harpenden Society at Rothamsted Conference Centre a PR team from Luton Council and Luton Airport outlined their plans to increase traffic at the airport from the current 16 million passenger a year to between 36 and 38 million over the next 20 to 30 years.
They estimate growth of up to 240,000 aircraft movements a year (around 50 runway movements per hour) up from the current 135,000 movements a year.
At present, most passengers travel to the airport by road. When questioned about the increased noise and air pollution the expansion would bring, Robin Porter, chief operations officer at London Luton Airport Ltd, admitted that airports were dirty noisy places.
Will the government rubber stamp the plans? Watch this space.
Whether or not these assaults on our environment go ahead, it might make potential house hunters think twice about snapping up £1 million semis in an area already suffering from overcrowded schools, a worsening commuter rail service and congested pot-holed roads.
The district faces becoming a Slough in the south and a Hounslow in the north.
Goodbye leafy St Albans and Harpenden.
What a legacy to leave our children and grandchildren. If you care about the future, write to your MP and councillors while you can still breathe and hear yourself think.
In 2016 my wife and I returned to St Albans having lived in South Devon for the last 20 years.
We discovered that only a short walk away from our new home was Townsend Bowls and Tennis Club.
Tennis was a non starter as the knees no longer allow me to play but bowls struck me as a sport I would love to try.
It was a bit of a leap into the dark but I sent an email enquiring about joining, and from the really nice response we received we could not have been made more welcome from everybody connected with the club.
The club has two qualified coaches where their patience and expertise were invaluable, not only from how to deliver your bowl towards the jack but also the tactics, rules and etiquette involved.
We were encouraged to enter competitions but there are plenty of less serious events which are great fun.
The green is kept in magnificent condition, looked after by a professional green keeper and is surrounded on two sides by well tended flower beds which in summer are a riot of colour.
The third side is a magnificent yew hedge and the fourth side is the club house, which is a great facility for numerous reasons. On a sunny day I cannot think of anywhere I would rather be.
Next year is the centenary of the founding of the club and in 1919 the winner of the men's championship was a Mr G P Skeet.
I wonder whose name will appear in 2019 and will remain for the next 100 years? You have got to have a dream!
St Albans
I have met my MP Bim Afolami three times, he is always polite, sound understanding and at first seems to want to help. Yet after these meetings, the last one of which was in early March of this year, I am still awaiting a reply.
I have sent follow up emails, receiving a reply confirming that I will receive a reply in 10 days, if only this were true.
I then contacted his office where the senior parliamentary assistant promised certain details would follow shortly, this was several weeks ago and still nothing.
So, I have gone back to Mr Afolami's office and suggested that maybe a letter to the local press may help?
Has anyone else suffered the same problems with Mr Afolami since he took office?
MARK WARD Leasey Bridge Lane, Wheathampstead
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NHTSA Announces Model Year 2013 Vehicles to be Rated Under Government 5-Star Safety Ratings Program
Vehicles represent 85 percent of all MY 2013 vehicles sold in the U.S., to be tested as part of tougher safety ratings program
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today announced the lineup of model year 2013 passenger vehicles that will be tested as part of the agency's 5-star safety ratings program. The ratings provide car buyers with comprehensive safety information when shopping for a new or used vehicle.
"Safety is a major factor for consumers shopping for a new or used vehicle," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "For American car buyers, our 5-star safety ratings program serves as one of the most trusted and reliable resources to help them select the safest vehicles in the marketplace."
Every year, NHTSA tests vehicles with the highest sales volumes and compares them, using star ratings, to highlight which vehicles go above and beyond what is federally required. Under the updated ratings program – More Stars. Safer Cars. – one star represents the lowest score and five stars represents the highest. Starting with model year 2011, the agency updated its program, adding an overall rating, a new pole test for side crashes and improved crash test dummies including small-statured female crash test dummies.
The program encourages automakers to improve crash protection and develop even safer vehicles in order to achieve a coveted government 5-star safety rating. It also highlights advanced safety features, including forward collision warning and lane departure warning systems, which manufacturers are voluntarily installing in vehicles to help prevent crashes. The program recently received international acclaim, with NHTSA earning a Global NCAP Safety Award in May 2012 for establishing the world's first consumer-driven auto safety ratings program in 1978.
"For more than 30 years, NHTSA's 5-star safety ratings program has not only served as a guide for safety-conscious consumers, it has encouraged auto makers to strive for ever-greater safety improvements with each succeeding model year," said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland. "The selection of model year 2013 vehicles announced today represents a major milestone for the revamped program, ensuring that our test again covers approximately 85 percent of the new model year vehicles available for sale in the U.S."
NHTSA will rate 54 vehicles for the 2013 model year, including 33 passenger cars, 16 sport utility vehicles, one van, and four pickups. The program's crash tests will provide consumer safety information on approximately 85 percent of model year 2013 vehicles sold in the United States, while rollover tests will provide information on 92 percent of the 2013 fleet.
As the vehicles are tested, the results will beposted online. In addition, a number of model year 2013 vehicles had carry-over designs from the previous model year or have already been tested, and these ratings are currently posted online at the agency's dedicated auto safety web site, www.safercar.gov.


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Ahem. And now, on with my usual business of hyperlinking to deeply upsetting news stories that will totally ruin your happy mood. Maybe that's what prompted someone out there to seek revenge by inflicting similarly upsetting reading on me in return.
"The Envoy Who Said Too Much" tells the story of torture in Uzbekistan: "People come to me very often after being tortured. Normally this includes homosexual and heterosexual rape of close relatives in front of the victim; rape with objects such as broken bottles; asphyxiation; pulling out of fingernails; smashing of limbs with blunt objects; and use of boiling liquids including complete immersion of the body. This is not uncommon. Thousands of people a year suffer from this torture at the hands of the authorities."
Meanwhile, over in Sudan, a Sudanese refugee woman interviewed by Amnesty International tells her own story: "Five to six men would rape us, one after the other, for hours during six days, every night. My husband could not forgive me after this, he disowned me."
And right here on LiveJournal, a post about sexual violence by misia is receiving nearly as many responses from creepy people saying things like "Rape is fun!" and "I rape people all the time!" and "Please rape me!" and "People who get raped were asking for it!" as responses from people with hearts who actually care.
On a sort-of-related topic, "Mistaken Identity" is a quite long but well worthwhile article about four MTF transsexuals who regret their sex changes, plus one who doesn't regret it. Some of them regretted it because they made the decision too fast, but some of them regretted it because creepy Christian fundamentalists "s[ought] to reconcile transsexuals with the bodies they were born with" - after those transsexuals no longer had those bodies anymore, when the only thing that "reconciling" them could accomplish was to make them more unhappy and pressure them into having all remaining genital tissue removed from their bodies completely! Aieeee! You know, I do worry that the people who make their money off the sex change industry (or the plastic surgery industry in general) are sometimes excessively inclined to present unhappiness with one's body as having only one possible solution (to change one's body) rather than two possible solutions (to change one's body or one's mind) which each have different pros and cons in different cases and which may not be equally fast or equally easy but they should still both at least be considered before coming to that conclusion - so if the fundies were to come up with a way to spare some pre-op pre-hormones tranny somewhere the expense and social difficulty of transitioning by just making them happy the way they are, I would say good for them. But to go around "reconciling" people to bodies that they don't actually have anymore - to deliberately make people dislike and be more uncomfortable inhabiting the bodies that they actually do have now! I have no words for how evil these people are. How do fundies ever manage to sleep at night?
Have I depressed you enough yet? Okay then. I'll leave you with one article that's actually sort of encouraging, though only by way of lots of discouragingness first. Have you been worrying about how to stop the U.S. government from bullying other countries? Well, worry no longer! "The Unbearable Costs of Empire" argues that the world won't really need to worry about the U.S. government bullying other countries for much longer, because sometime within the next two to ten years the national debt is going to catch up to the U.S. government and it won't be able to borrow any more money to finance more bullying. Which is good. I think. Except that if you're American, it might hurt your pocketbook a little. But for most of the world it's good, and if you're an American living near a prime terrorism target, it might increase your life expectancy, which is also good, unless of course you're a horrible person who the world is better off without, but since you're reading my journal I'm assuming you're not. So it's mostly good. There, see? I actually posted an optimism-inspiring hyperlink! now you can kindly refrain from recommending any more Poppy Z. Brite books to me.


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Scarlett Johansson jogging with Sean Penn, rep denies baby rumors
HollywoodNews.com: Scarlett Johansson and Sean Penn seem to not be hiding their relationship anymore, but they are also not fast-tracking it.
Pictures were taken of them out jogging together and that quickly spurred on pregnancy rumors, states UsMagazine.com. Her rep has denied that she is expecting.
"She's outside running and it's simply the placement of her shirt that is misleading," Johansson's rep said about the picture and baby bump claims.
Her rep also commented that the actress is training for 'The Avengers' and is in the best shape of her life right now.
Do you Scarlett Johansson will have a kid with Sean Penn at some point?
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