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Julian Schieber scored in the second half for Borussia Dortmund to beat Manchester City 1-0 in the Champions League on Tuesday, ending the English champions' chances of reaching the Europa League.
Schieber scored in the 57th minute following a perfectly timed low cross from the right by substitute Jakub Blaszczykowski. Schieber slid between City defenders Vincent Kompany and Maicon to tap the ball into the net.
Dortmund was already assured of winning Group D, while City needed a victory to qualify for European football's second-tier club competition. But City didn't win a match all season to finish one point behind Ajax, which lost 4-1 on Tuesday at Real Madrid, the group runner-up.
The German champions finished the group with 14 points, three more than Madrid. Ajax took third and entry into the Europa League.
Dortmund started the match without six regulars but still controlled the game with City displaying little fighting spirit.
"Not so bad," the rarely used Schieber said after scoring his first Champions League goal. "I am glad that we won and that we justified the confidence our coach had in us. Although we don't get to play that often, we showed that we can be relied on."
The action in a lackluster first half boiled down to several long-distance attempts.
Edin Dzeko's effort was turned away by Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller. On the other side, Marco Reus shaved the post of Joe Hart's goal. The City goalkeeper also stopped a shot by Ivan Perisic late in the first half.
City returned from the break with more ambition, and Dzeko's header from a cross by Samir Nasri was saved by Weidenfeller.
Dortmund nearly went ahead in the 49th, but Mats Hummels failed to connect with a cross from Marcel Schmelzer.
Hart then tipped over a volley from Perisic and another attempt by Kevin Grosskreutz, before Schieber found the target.
Schieber attempted a chip in the 59th but Hart caught the ball.
Mario Balotelli came on in the 65th for Dzeko, to loud jeers from Dortmund fans. The striker scored both goals for Italy in the semifinal win over Germany at the European Championships earlier this year.
Balotelli's main contribution was to earn a yellow card in injury time for protesting a decision by the referee.


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Paul Thurrot has a number of rumours up about Windows Phone 8.1. Two stand out to me.
Where GDR3 is widely expected to support 5- to 6-inch screens, 8.1 will supposedly support 7- to 10-inch screens as well. This obviously infringes on Windows RT/8.x tablets, so it's not clear what the thinking is there.
So, Windows RT will become even more pointless than it already is.
This I am not happy with. The back button is my main navigational input in both Android and Windows Phone, and I miss it dearly in iOS.
I'm just hoping on performance improvements, still my biggest issue with Windows Phone. I used my HTC 8X for a few hours today, and I was stunned by just how slow everything is compared to Android 4.3. Of course, application quality is another huge issue, but there's little Microsoft can do to convince developers that their Windows Phone applications are more than just side projects done between serious work on Android and iOS.
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But then the 8s is really a pathetic phone. I had one, it has only 512MB RAM and its internal storage is almost filled on a fresh phone (mine had ~1 GB free). The display waves if you press the 'glass' to hard.
I now have a Lumia 920, and the experience is much better and smoother than the 8s.
That said, I have mixed feelings towards Microsoft's treatment of Windows Phone. When WP7 was introduced, it was a fresh new interface. I had a Nokia 710. The hardware was great for the price and WP7 had a lot of potential, but was hampered by limitations and bugs. For instance, the built-in messaging hub is great, if it could maintain your online presence. Usually, it would lose connection after a certain amount of time and you wouldn't receive messages. Also, background tasks did not work at all. It made applications like Skype totally useless.
Rather than fixing Windows Phone 7, they left existing users out in the cold. And rebased everything on top of the Windows NT kernel. The party line was that this was necessary for multi-core CPUs, etc. However, many of the problems that plagued Windows Phone 7 aren't fixed yet. Background applications such as Skype are still hit and miss. The messages hub works fine on my Lumia, but my wife uses my old HTC 8s for her Germany SIM card, it has the same old message hub problems. There is still no proper notification support.
Windows Phone 8 has been out for a year now, there have been some minor updates, but they are just that *minor*. The only noticeable change for me in GDR2 was data sense (which you have to hand-configure).
Microsoft is mistreating not only their customers, but also Windows Phone as a platform. It could be great. Some days one wishes that Nokia's excellent hardware could be used with Android.
I'm ok with the 8S's performance, I can even live with the limited storage (afrer GDR2 it doesn't fill up by itself), but the OS and the ecosystem are severely lacking. Multitasking is also a big problem - I understand it has only 512mb of RAM and it has to resume from state quite often, but few apps restore properly. Also a lot of apps don't run properly in the background - Whatsapp, IM+ and similar - and let's not forget the fact that apps can update their tiles only every 30 minutes.
BTW, media support is awful - I constantly get duplicates for my songs and all players are crap, including Microsoft's.
Wp8 is incredibly incomplete and buggy. I hope that GDR3 and Windows 8.1 really bring something radically different to the table.


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Charade by Cambria Hebert
© 18 May 2012 by Otherworld Publications
Dying at the hands of a psycho was a shock. Having my life returned to me by an angel was incredible. Being named a Supernatural Treasure and being given Sam as my guard was pretty darn awesome. Acquiring a debt for it all—well, I should have seen it coming.
Now here we are, fighting demons from Hell, caring for a boy that I just don't trust, and traveling to faraway places to return a treasure to its rightful place. Nothing is as it seems. Everyone wears a mask; everyone puts on a charade. It's up to us to separate the truth from the lies and reality from fiction. A hard task when my new reality involves fallen angels, witches and dragons… and did I mention Hell?
Anchoring me down through it all is Sam. Sam, who must face tragedies of his own and is put to the test again and again.
If we fail in our task, life as we know it—life as you know it—will end. Forever.
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RUDNICKI, Dani. The admission of bachelors of Law in the Military Police of Rio Grande do Sul.Traduzido porMarcelo Otto Severo. Sociologias [online]. 2008, vol.4Selected edition, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1517-4522.
Since 1996, it is necessary for those aspiring to leadership positions in the Military Brigade of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to have a Bachelor's degree in Law and Social Sciences. Thus, the military brigade is the first in the country to require a bachelor's degree from its training officers. Through focal groups with students and interviews with officers, soldiers, deputies and teachers involved with the new proposal, the article intends to comprehend the reality concerning the training of the military brigade's new officers, known as "data venia". The text examines the advantages and disadvantages of this requirement to join the corporation, the problems observed during the implementation of this model, the officers' opinions about the courses and the possibility of maintaining this requirement, as well as its consequences for the future of the Military Brigade.
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BEIJING, China - Sada Jacobson '06 added to her medal count in the Beijing Olympics with a bronze medal in the women's fencing team sabre competition Thursday. Although the top-seeded United States swept the three individual medals on Saturday, they had to settle for bronze after a disappointing loss to Ukraine in the semifinals.
In team fencing, three fencers for each team rotate over nine rounds. Jacobson, the individual silver medal winner, was joined by individual gold medal winner Mariel Zagunis and individual bronze medal winner Becca Ward on the U.S. team.
In the quarterfinals, the United States defeated South Africa 45 to 8. Despite Jacobson outscoring her opponents 16-11 in the semifinals, her teammates struggled and Ukraine defeated the United States 45-39 in the semifinals. The United States bounced back in the bronze medal match to defeat France 45-38.
Jacobson will add the bronze medal to the silver medal she won in the individual sabre earlier in Beijing and the bronze medal she won in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. A native of Dunwoody, Ga., Jacobson entered Yale in the fall of 2000 as a member of the Class of 2004 and already had a list of impressive accomplishments. She was a member of the 1999 U.S. team at the first Women's Sabre Cadet/Junior World Championship in Dijon, France. Her individual wins in the NCAA sabre championship in 2001 and 2002 helped Yale finish ninth and sixth, respectively, in the country those years. Yale also won the Ivy League Championship in 2001-02. Jacobson then took a leave from Yale to prepare for the 2004 Olympics.
Jacobson claimed her first senior World Cup at the New York City Grand Prix in June of 2003, becoming the first American woman to achieve the world's top ranking. She then won the next World Cup event in Cuba. At the 2004 Olympics she defeated her first two opponents before falling to Tan Xue of China 15-12 in the second of two semifinals. She won the bronze medal by defeating Catalina Gheorhitoaia of Romania, 15-7.
Jacobson returned to Yale to complete her degree after the Olympics. Jacobson's younger sisters, Emily and Jackie, are both fencers as well. Her father, David `74, was a fencer at Yale. Despite not having any fencing experience prior to coming to New Haven, David Jacobson became the school's first All-American under the tutelage of head coach Henry Harutunian. Jacobson captained the 1974 Yale team and earned a bronze medal at the 1974 U.S. National Championships.
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I was very keen to get the handsome Petr Morava in action with another guy, and he needed money, so we set him up for a shoot with Ivan Cakovsky, to see what we could get him to do. After an interview Ivan starts things off, by reaching over and rubbing Petr's chest. Then he starts to kiss him. Petr responds to the kissing with no problem at all. Ivan then moves down and licks on Petr's nipples, while rubbing a hand of his crotch as well. Next Ivan pulls Petr's underwear off, and we see that his cock is hard. Ivan wastes no time and takes the cock in his mouth. He is a sucker par excellence and really works on Petr's rock hard cock. Petr seems to be enjoying his cock being sucked, but is a little reticent when it is suggested that he return the favor. However he does, and Ivan gets on his knees so that his cock can clide easily into Petr's mouth. Petr wanks himself as he sucks on Ivan's large cock. He does a good job with the sucking as well, and Ivan places a hand on the back of his head and begins to fuck his cock in and out of the mouth. The guys then switch to a 69 position with Ivan on top. His cock slides fits snugly in Petr's mouth as he leans over to suck as well. Ivan pulls Petr's ass high in the air and leans over to rim it. His tongue laps as the hole, wetting it very nicely. Then he starts to finger the hole as well. Petr is doing very well indeed, so Ivan moves on to the next step and slides his cock into that tight ass. In spoon position he fucks Petr nice and deep. Petr takes it very well and then he is moved onto his knees, with Ivan behind him, fucking his hot ass again. Petr moans as he feels that cock deep in his ass, and he wanks his cock hard at the same time. He loves how his ass feels and is soon shooting his load, the cum spurting out and landing on the bed. Ivan is ready to cum as well and kneels in front of Petr's face and shoots his creamy load all over his face. Petr then takes Ivan's spent cock in his mouth to drain it completely, before kissing him to end a really good first time scene.
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I'm happy to report that Aida is making rapid and steady progress in her recovery after a serious operation. Today, for the first time post-op we went to lunch together and then to Kampa Park, where she was reunited with several of her old friends. The stitches come out a week from today. Meanwhile, she's staying with Pavel at night. He's a much better nurse than I am. It's very good to have Aida on the road to recovery.
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Our lead feature today is a wonderful Broke Czech Boys shoot with Petr Morava and Ivan Cakovsky. That is followed by Nikolay Arbesov's massage and the lovely Jirka Maly's erotic video. Finally we have a very good session stills shoot with Honza Baros.
Our castings today are Robert Tano, Petr Castek, Ivan Nemcour and Lukas Somr. All the guys look good to me, but my pick for today is Petr Castek.
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Ross Ulbricht's last moments as a free man were noisy enough to draw a crowd. Employees at the Glen Park branch of the San Francisco library heard a crashing sound and rushed to the science fiction section, expecting to find a patron had hit the floor. Instead, they found a handful of federal agents surrounding a slender 29-year-old man with light brown hair and wearing a T-shirt and jeans.
The goal of the arrest, at 3:15 p.m. on Oct. 1, 2013, was not simply to apprehend Ulbricht but also to prevent him from performing the most mundane of tasks: closing his laptop. That computer, according to the FBI, was the command center of Silk Road, the world's largest and most notorious black market for drugs.
In just 2 1/2 years, the government says, Silk Road had become a hub for more than $1.2 billion worth of transactions, many of them in cocaine, heroin and LSD.
The site was like an eBay for the illicit, celebrated by drug enthusiasts, denounced by U.S. senators and stalked by four federal agencies. But because it was run on Tor, an encrypted Internet network, and because it merely connected buyers and sellers — rather than warehousing any products — it seemed to operate in a vaporous cloud. It was a business without infrastructure, other than a few servers and that laptop, which on 3:14 that October afternoon sat on a library desk, open.
Had Ulbricht seen the FBI coming and simply closed the laptop, password protections probably would have kicked in, turning the hard drive into what Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute, called "an encrypted lump" that would have been "tougher to break into than Fort Knox."
Whatever tactics were used — the FBI would not comment — they worked. Ulbricht was administering Silk Road when he was grabbed, the bureau said in a criminal complaint, and working under an alias, Dread Pirate Roberts, the name of a swashbuckling character from the novel and film "The Princess Bride."
The government later released screen photographs showing that Ulbricht was logged into a page titled "mastermind." According to the government, operational files were found, including ledgers that tallied personal revenue of 600,000 Bitcoins, the crypto-currency used for every Silk Road transaction, a stash that, at the time, was worth $80 million.
A criminal complaint laid out the charges, which included narcotics trafficking, computer hacking and money laundering. An indictment in a parallel but separate investigation, run out of Baltimore, included this startling detail: Some of Dread Pirate Roberts' booty was spent to commission killings — six killings in total, to be done by hit men whose targets were deemed by Dread Pirate Roberts to threaten Silk Road.
None of the orders resulted in actual deaths, the authorities said. One, in fact, was an elaborate fiction concocted by a federal agent posing as a drug dealer. In a scene that sounds as if it were lifted from "Breaking Bad," federal agents traveled to Utah to fake a beating and execution, sending the evidently grisly photographs to DPR, as the government calls him in its complaint.
"What's done is done," DPR would later write to the putative dealer.
News of Ulbricht's arrest, and the particulars of the crimes with which he was charged, elicited the inevitable chorus of "They've got the wrong guy" from friends and relatives, an almost clich�d feature of double-life cases. But this chorus was different. Sure, Ulbricht took his share of drugs growing up in Austin, Texas. And a high school buddy, Thomas Haney, said he could sort of imagine Ross buying from Silk Road. But running it? Ordering killings? No way.
"It'd be like they accused my mother of trying to kill someone," said Haney, who now lives in Boise, Idaho. "He's one of the most guileless and nonaggressive people I've ever met."
A man who shared a house with Ulbricht in San Francisco for two months remembers how he rushed to help an elderly homeless woman in a wheelchair.
"We were standing outside a restaurant, and he just handed me the leash to my dogs, ran into the street and said, 'Can I help you?'" said the man, who, like many people interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want his name in an article about this case. "And he didn't wait for an answer."
Far from the bloodless kingpin portrayed by the government, Ross Ulbricht, by the accounts of friends and relatives, was soulful and sensitive. In a conversation with his childhood friend Rene Pinnell, recorded in 2012 through StoryCorps, a national oral history project, and still posted on YouTube, Ulbricht said that in college he initially refused to sleep with the woman he described as his first love for fear he would wind up heartsick.
"We didn't have sex for like three months," he said. "But we'd make out and really, like, get close but never go there. And when we finally did, it was amazing."
It seems nearly impossible to reconcile the government's version of Ulbricht with the warm, compassionate person that others describe. Which leaves at least three possibilities.
One, that the government has, in fact, collared the wrong man.
Two, that Ulbricht is a sociopath who concealed a dark side from everyone for years.
Three, that Ulbricht is Dread Pirate Roberts — and that the two are not really that different.
A Trusted Emporium
By relying on Bitcoin and an encrypted Internet network, Silk Road created an anonymous bazaar where drugs could be bought from the comfort of home. No more drives to seedy parts of town, no more face-to-face encounters with shady dealers. Instead, transactions would be conducted through the mail, and, in what many academics regard as the linchpin to the business-model innovation, Dread Pirate Roberts devised a system to ensure that nobody got fleeced.
The site acted as an intermediary, hosting the online market and holding money in escrow until buyers confirmed that products had arrived. DPR would then release the payment to the seller, keeping 8 to 15 percent of the transaction.
"He had basically commoditized security," says Nicolas Christin, an assistant research professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied Silk Road. "It was a system that allowed people to buy drugs without fear that they would be ripped off."
Within months of its start in January 2011, the site was thriving. Sellers posted photographs and descriptions of their products, like "10 x 10mg OxyContin" and "5G Pure Cocaine Cristal." A guide offered tips for newcomers. Vacuum-sealed packages were recommended for anyone mailing narcotics to avoid detection by "canine or electronic sniffers," and post office boxes were urged for buyers. Reviews were posted, just as on eBay.
"Perfect stealth and perfect dope to match," gushed a customer of a merchant known as "gotsitall," who sold what was billed as high-quality heroin. "Got product in less than 24 hours! Thanks again."
A small staff was hired to respond to users and settle disputes. These employees, none of whom knew the identity of Dread Pirate Roberts, were paid between $1,000 and $2,000 a week in Bitcoins.
By June 2011, the site was attracting enough buzz to merit a post on Gawker, which called it "the underground website where you can buy any drug imaginable."
Soon, Sens. Charles E. Schumer of New York and Joe Manchin III of West Virginia were demanding that the Justice Department close Silk Road. But the site had only begun to catch on. An inventory taken by the FBI one day last September found 13,000 listings for controlled substances, in categories that included opioids, psychedelics and Ecstasy. A "services" section with 159 offerings included a tutorial on hacking automated teller machines. More than 800 listings offered "digital goods," such as hacked Netflix accounts, and 169 listings offered "forgeries," including driver's licenses and car insurance records.
Anyone with minimal computer literacy could access this superstore of criminal mischief. Users needed only to install software for Tor, a network that hides IP addresses and bundles communications in layers of encryption. Type in Silk Road's ungainly address, silkroadvb5piz3r.onion, and you have entered the market. Acquire Bitcoins, through exchanges such as Mt.Gox, and you could start shopping.
'Execute Rather Than Torture'
The system made DPR a cybermultimillionaire. But accumulating that wealth came with its share of management migraines. One of the biggest involved an employee named Curtis Clark Green, a burly man whose colorful past includes a stint as a semipro poker player and charges of prescription fraud. From his home in Spanish Fork, Utah, the government said, he sold drugs on Silk Road under the name "chronicpain," and eventually he built enough trust with DPR to become one of his lieutenants.
In early December 2012, DPR needed Green for a special task. A dealer who operated under the alias "nob" had complained that Silk Road transactions were too small to be worth his time. Green was to find someone willing to play in the same league.
"Hey, I think we have a buyer for you," DPR subsequently wrote to nob. "One of my staff is sending details."
Nob, however, was not a dealer. He was a member of Operation Marco Polo, a task force based in Baltimore that was named for the explorer who followed the Silk Road and that included agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and Homeland Security Investigations. (No one from any of the investigating agencies would comment on the case.)
When Green helped nob arrange the sale of a kilogram of cocaine, in early 2012, he did something that is hard to explain: He offered to act as a conduit and have the cocaine sent to his house. Green was soon arrested. He was quickly released and the kilogram was sent, as planned, to the buyer, presumably to prevent DPR from realizing that one of his underlings had been caught.
Dread Pirate Roberts did learn of the arrest, but he still didn't realize he was communicating with a federal agent who had arranged it. He was soon fuming to nob that Green had absconded with Bitcoins, and DPR asked for help.
"I'd like him beat up, then forced to send the Bitcoins he stole back," DPR wrote. "Like sit him down at his computer and make him do it." Soon, DPR had a change of heart. "Can you change the order to execute rather than torture?" he asked nob, explaining, "I'm afraid he'll give up info."
Nob told DPR that he knew "pros" who could get the job done. The cost was $40,000 in Bitcoins up front and $40,000 after the killing.
Dread Pirate Roberts agreed to the price but wanted "proof of death," asking nob to instruct the killers to send a video, "and if they can't do that, then pictures" of the deceased.
Only the broad outlines are known of what must have been a highly cinematic dumb show of violence. What is clear from the criminal complaint is that by Feb. 21, nob sent photos of Green doing a fine impression of a corpse. Green had "died of asphyxiation/heart rupture" while being tortured, nob explained. Dread Pirate Roberts replied that he found the images disturbing but that he did not have any other choice.
"I just wish more people had some integrity," DPR wrote.
In the months that followed, DPR would pay a supposed hit man named "redandwhite" $150,000 in Bitcoins to whack a blackmailer who was threatening to release the identities of Silk Road users and later a seller who appears to have scammed buyers en masse. When redandwhite noted that the scammer lived with three roommates, DPR was persuaded to kill all four of them, at a cost of $500,000.
The government contends that the whole enterprise was likely a swindle. Whether these targets were in cahoots with redandwhite, or were the creation of redandwhite, is not clear. But authorities in Canada, where all five killings were supposed to have taken place, found no trace of crimes that matched redandwhite's descriptions, according to federal prosecutors.
Nonetheless, DPR's willingness to underwrite killings would become an argument against bail, which was presented in November by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, where Ross Ulbricht was transferred soon after his arrest. (The FBI ran its case out of Manhattan.) Today, Ulbricht awaits trial in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
The Forgiving Kind
Lyn Ulbricht, Ulbricht's mother, sat one recent morning in the downtown Manhattan office of her son's lawyer. She had flown in from Austin a few days earlier to look for a place where she and her husband could live to be close to their son.
"I can't be somewhere else while he's in jail," she said. "We want to visit him. We believe in him, so that's what we're going to do."
Ross Ulbricht grew up in a suburb of Austin that his mother described as the poorest neighborhood in a good school district. She and her husband, Kirk, earn most of their income renting four beachside vacation houses they own in Costa Rica. Ross Ulbricht is remembered by friends as bright, though not whiz-kid bright, part of a circle that mostly avoided the football culture that dominated high school.
"He was outdoorsy," said James McFarland, who met Ulbricht in a physics class. "We played a lot of Ultimate Frisbee, hiking, swimming, that sort of thing."
McFarland and others say he was shy around girls, sweet-natured, loyal to friends and a fan of intense philosophical conversations. He was also an unusual combination of rule follower and rule breaker. He did a lot of drugs, as he explained in that StoryCorps conversation, likening his intake to a guy who jumped into the deep end of a pool and stayed underwater for as long as he could hold his breath. At the same time, he collected enough merit badges to become that emblem of teenage all-Americanness, an Eagle Scout.
By the time he went to the University of Texas at Dallas on a full academic scholarship, he was 6-foot-2, a lean guy who could have fronted an indie rock band. But he was the opposite of a Lothario. He was vulnerable and eager to find a soul mate and fell hard for that college girlfriend. The two were engaged, according to Thomas Haney, but it ended when Ross learned that she had cheated with one of his closest buddies.
"I'd have killed the guy, but Ross completely forgave him within a year of it happening," Haney said. That was Ross' style — not just willing to forgive but empathetic to the point of mushy.
At a bachelor party held in the woods two years ago for a friend named Daniel, Haney said, everyone was sitting around, stumped about what to do.
"Then Ross pipes up," Haney said, "and he said, 'Let's go around in a circle and say why we love Daniel.'"
After graduating in 2006 with a degree in physics, Ulbricht headed to Penn State, where he earned a master's degree in material sciences and engineering. His thesis, "Growth of EuO Thin Films by Molecular Beam Epitaxy," is still available in the school's online archives.
He later returned to Austin and was a co-founder of Good Wagon Books, which collected used books from around the city and sold them online, donating 10 percent of profits to charities. But the venture failed, and Ulbricht started what he described to acquaintances as a hedge fund, trading stocks and currencies, including Bitcoin. Friends had the impression that it was not going well, especially after other people started to give him money to invest, which made him overly cautious.
At the invitation of Pinnell, Ulbricht relocated to San Francisco in 2012. When Pinnell became engaged, Ulbricht moved into a group house, where he told roommates that his name was Joshua Terrey, according to an article in Forbes. In August, two months before he was arrested, he abruptly left that house for another, without explanation.
His new accommodations were hardly those of a drug lord. He paid $1,100 a month for a 12-by-14-foot room, sharing a house with three roommates. One of those roommates said that they knew him by his real name and that he told them he earned a living by building and managing websites.
Nothing about him seemed out of the ordinary, until he was arrested. That day, his roommates returned to their house to find a search warrant left by the FBI on the coffee table in the living room.
"The FBI came back a bunch of times and asked questions for hours," the roommate said. "We were in shock. It really was about a week before I felt normal."
Nine Fake IDs
How did the FBI connect Dread Pirate Roberts to Ross Ulbricht? That is still a mystery. Ulbricht certainly left more than a few digital crumbs, according to the government's complaint and a variety of online rubberneckers who followed the case. The first mention of Silk Road online, in January 2011, by someone called "altoid," was followed a few months later by a user with the same alias on a Bitcoin Talk forum. This person was searching for an IT pro for hire. Applicants were asked to email "rossulbricht at gmail dot com."
But this was only enough to make Ulbricht a person of interest. In July 2013, Customs and Border Protection intercepted a package from Canada bound for his address. The package contained nine fake IDs, each bearing a photograph of Ulbricht and a different name, with addresses in a variety of states and countries.
On July 26, agents of Homeland Security Investigations knocked on the door of Ulbricht's group house. "Josh," as he then was calling himself, refused to answer most of the agents' questions, the government would say later.
Though Ulbricht did not take the opportunity to skedaddle, he apparently had considered it. The government would say later that his laptop contained a filled-out application for "economic citizenship" in Dominica, a Caribbean island. The price was a one-time donation of $75,000 to the country's government.
The crucial breakthrough in the case occurred a few weeks after that fake ID package was intercepted. The FBI located and copied the contents of Silk Road's main servers, the computers that powered the site's operations and stored its data.
It is here that the government's otherwise detailed account gets fuzzy. The FBI has stated only that the main server was found in "a certain foreign country," one that has a mutual legal assistance treaty with the United States. Through the treaty, the FBI was given a copy of the server — a "mirror" of it, in tech terms — on July 23. The site continued to operate, so DPR would not be spooked.
What is unclear is how the feds knew where the servers were. Presumably, they were rented in some faraway corners of the globe — Iceland, Latvia and Romania are likely, according to experts who have studied the IP addresses. But the official vagueness has provoked speculation in academic circles and among security specialists. Was the National Security Agency involved? Did this process involve breaking laws or violating constitutional rights?
That issue will be at the heart of Ross Ulbricht's defense strategy, says Joshua L. Dratel, his lawyer, whose clients include a Guant�namo Bay detainee.
"It's called the fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree doctrine," Dratel explained. "If you think of the acquisitions of evidence as a chain, if you find one bad link, everything on the other side of that link is suppressible."
In other words, if Dratel can prove that the government acted improperly when it found and copied that server, all the evidence it gathered after that — including the laptop taken in that Oct. 1 arrest — could be tossed out of court.
Dratel said he would also argue that Ulbricht is not Dread Pirate Roberts. But that contention could be hard to square with a sworn statement by Ulbricht, filed with the court Dec. 12. It says the Bitcoins seized from the laptop should be returned to him, because he "has an interest as an owner/possessor" of the money.
This seems a tricky needle for Ulbricht to thread. He is denying that he is Dread Pirate Roberts but demanding what the government maintains is DPR's money. How did Ulbricht earn millions in virtual dollars, if not through Silk Road commissions?
Dratel declined to say, citing a reluctance to discuss the facts of the case.
'A Revolution of Epic Proportions'
The 2012 StoryCorps video ends with Rene Pinnell asking where Ulbricht hopes to be in 20 years.
"Twenty years, uh," says Ulbricht, tugging at his facial hair and looking sideways. After a pause, he looks directly at Pinnell and says, "I want to have had a substantial positive impact on the future of humanity by that time."
Pinnell laughs, because that sounds so ambitious that it initially comes across as a joke. But Ulbricht isn't laughing.
"Do you think you're going to live forever?" Pinnell asks, getting serious.
"I think it's a possibility," says Ulbricht, allowing a grin.
Pinnell does not pose an obvious follow-up — what are you talking about? How exactly do you plan to transition from day trader-with-a-laptop to historical figure? None of Ulbricht's friends, it seems, had an answer for that one, perhaps because they didn't know enough about his interior life.
Most grasped that he'd long been a searcher, a restless mind rummaging around for a philosophy. For years, he was fascinated by Eastern mysticism and briefly was an advocate of the Landmark Forum, a three-day seminar intended to give participants "the power to make what you're committed to into a reality," as the company's website says.
What few friends realized is where his philosophical quest had brought him. At Penn State, he was becoming a dedicated libertarian. He joined the school's Libertarian Club and wore a Ron Paul for President shirt to classes. Ulbricht was quoted in the school's newspaper, The Daily Collegian, saying of Paul, "There's a lot to learn from him and his message of what it means to be a U.S. citizen and what it means to be a free individual."
By the time Ulbricht left Penn State, his views had taken on a vehemently anti-tax tone. A friend in Austin said Ulbricht's politics at the time were more "hard core" than his own.
"I'd say 'Less government, but we need the government to build roads,'" this friend said. "But for him, even when it came to building roads, he felt there ought to be a voluntary basis for that. The point for him wasn't to abolish government. He just thought people should have the ability to opt out of paying taxes."
These views weren't a secret. Not long after graduating from Penn State, he wrote on his LinkedIn page that his interest in physics had waned.
"Now, my goals have shifted," he wrote. "I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and aggression amongst mankind."
Institutions and government were the problem, he continued. Which is why he was "creating an economic simulation to give people a firsthand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force."
Was Silk Road that economic simulation? Without question, Dread Pirate Roberts considered the site a means to "abolish the use of coercion." He routinely proclaimed so, in postings that sound like a mash-up of manifesto and infomercial.
"I walk tall, proud and free, knowing that the actions I take eat away at the infrastructure that keeps oppression alive," DPR wrote on Silk Road in March 2012. "Now it is profitable to throw off one's chains, with amazing crypto technology reducing the risk of doing so dramatically. How many niches have yet to be filled in the world of anonymous online markets? The opportunity to prosper and take part in a revolution of epic proportions is at our fingertips!"
Dread Pirate Roberts considered his work epochal because he was not just promoting the sale of illicit goods. He was reimagining the fundamentals of commerce.
For centuries, consumers have been taxed by governments or overlords of one type or another, rendering unto Caesar for as long as there have been Caesars. But if Silk Road were scalable, that era was over. Or at least imperiled. Anyone would have the option to sell goods undisturbed by regulations and without sharing a percentage of revenue with the state. And why stop at drugs? The system would work for legal products, too. The tools are there for a kind of subterranean Amazon.com.
"It could literally change the world as we know it," DPR wrote of Silk Road in an online exhortation.
A man who created a website that changed the world as we know it could believe he had a chance to live forever. At minimum, he could be a hero to anyone who thinks that government has no business in business.
Ross Ulbricht and Dread Pirate Roberts have other similarities, including a fondness for the Ludwig von Mises Institute, part of the Austrian School of Economics, which was celebrated by Ulbricht on his Google+ page and by DPR in Silk Road pep talks.
This could be a coincidence. It could also be a coincidence that neither man nor pseudonym seemed motivated by greed. Ulbricht's lifestyle was one notch above that of urban couch surfer. And the primary goal that DPR professed was to unshackle humanity from what he regarded as economic tyranny. If a handful of miscreants — and yes, a few of their unfortunate roommates — were killed along the way, that is a shame. But Silk Road was like a tunnel under the gulag, and DPR was digging for the sake of humanity.
"It needs everything we have," DPR wrote of Silk Road, urging buyers and sellers to grasp its significance. "Do it for me, do it for yourself, do it for your families and friends, and do it for mankind."
Perhaps this is where Dread Pirate Roberts, the criminal mastermind, overlaps with Ross Ulbricht, the guy who aided a homeless woman in a wheelchair. With aching sincerity, they both really wanted to help.
Roads Closed?
The success of Silk Road raised the prospect that the thuggish street drug dealer, the stock character of countless police procedurals, could be replaced by a geek in a coffee shop with a laptop. But in the months since Silk Road was shut down, several sites have tried to takes its place, and all have failed.
One of them, called the Sheep Marketplace, went dark in December, as users howled that administrators had made off with as much as $44 million in Bitcoins. Project: Black Flag lasted a few weeks in October, before its leader announced, "I was unable to cope with the stress and constant demand, so I panicked." Metta Dread Pirate Roberts, as that site's fearful leader was known, then absconded with an unknown sum of Bitcoins, according to news reports.
"I suspect that the online drug marketplace is a passing fad because it's too traceable, too vulnerable to hacking," said Weaver at the International Computer Science Institute. Once Bitcoins are converted to another currency, the government can subpoena the records of the exchange where the transaction took place and harvest all the information it needs.
"Bitcoin isn't really a 'coin' as much as a distributed, public balance ledger," Weaver added, "with every balance and transaction recorded."
Hence Bitcoin's wry new nickname in legal circles: "Prosecution Futures." The government has begun making arrests: Olivia Bolles, a Delaware doctor, was charged in November with selling oxycodone, Xanax and other drugs on Silk Road, stuffing Sour Patch and Jolly Rancher candy in the packages to thwart detection.
But the limits of technology are only part of the reason that another Silk Road is unlikely anytime soon. To function, such a site needs a leader who is dedicated to the point of fanaticism, and, more important, has a strange kind of integrity. Dread Pirate Roberts did not take the Bitcoin and run because he was a true believer first and an outlaw second. He was a rare set of contradictions, a humanitarian willing to kill, a criminal with a strict code of ethics.


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Earlier today we showed you some first exclusive images of the new Carhartt WIP flagship store that opened this week in the Marais district of Paris. We also announced and previewed in part the collaboration capsule collection with Japanese brand SOPHNET that was launched to celebrate the new store opening.
Here is now a more detailed look at the product, which includes beanies, hoodies, t-shirts and shirts, each coming in several colorways. Next to SOPH. branding, each piece also features the Carhartt logo in a tricolor version.
The to the Paris store, the line will also land at Carharttp WIP stores in New York, London, Milan, Hong Kong and Seoul.
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It's been 51 years since actor Jimmy Stewart charmed viewers as the leading man in "Anatomy of a Murder," the feature film that seemed to put Michigan's Upper Peninsula on the map. Half a century later, the movie is still drawing people to the U.P.
Sixty-four ladies came this week to Ishpeming in dozens of RVs, all part of an organization called RVing Women. Nationwide, the group is more than 2,500 strong, and its mission is simple: to attract female RV enthusiasts, and travel the country scouting out the best of the best tourist attractions. This month's event is happening right now in the Upper Peninsula, WLUC-TV, Negaunee, Mich, reported.
"The U.P. is not on the way to anywhere, and so I had to have a good hook to get people up here," says Rachel Brett Harvey, an RVing woman from the "Great Lakers" Chapter.
Rachel planned a weekend for the ladies that includes an "Anatomy Walking Tour" through Ishpeming, a meal at Mount Shasta–made famous in the movie — and a day trip to Big Bay and the infamous Thunder Bay Inn.
"I was thinking, oh well maybe we could have 15 people or 30 at the most. We've got 64 women from 12 states showing up!" Rachel says.
Sixty-four women in dozens of rigs all camping out at the Country Village RV Park in Ishpeming. It's the organization's first trip to the Upper Peninsula, and besides seeing the sites made famous in the movie, some of the ladies have other expectations of the U.P.
"I like it! I like it! Now all I need to do is see a moose!" says Judith Robinson, who's on the national board of directors, as well as a member of the Florida Chapter.
"Oh I think we're tough old broads! And we're pretty independent, and we're pretty capable, and we prefer our privacy, but we love the camaraderie of the other RVing women," says Arlene Dawson of the Florida Chapter.
The ladies will be in Michigan through Sunday.


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Chairman Wellinghoff's statement on Smart Grid Policy Statement
"The Smart Grid Policy Statement that we vote on today will help to inform and accelerate the smart grid standards development process so that proposed standards will be submitted for Commission review and approval in an expeditious manner.
I thank the team for their hard work, which has allowed the Commission to consider the thoughtful comments of more than 70 parties.
When the Commission issued our Proposed Policy Statement on the Smart Grid in March of this year, I said that I expected that the increased efficiency, reliability and flexibility of a "smart" electric system will result in long-term savings for consumers. The comments submitted by many parties share this vision.
The Policy Statement adopts the priorities that we proposed in March. The Policy Statement also protects consumers while providing cost recovery assurances to early moving utilities that invest in smart grid technologies that meet specified criteria.
I look forward to the next steps in the Commission's process of adopting smart grid standards.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Brandon Belt hit his eighth spring home run and Madison Bumgarner threw five effective innings and the San Francisco Giants wrapped up their spring training in Arizona with an 8-6 victory over the Diamondbacks on Wednesday.
Hunter Pence also homered for the Giants. Nick Noonan, trying to make the team, had a triple, double and single for the World Series champions, who open a three-game exhibition series against Oakland on Thursday night in San Francisco.
Bumgarner, the No. 2 starter in the Giants' rotation, allowed two runs on six hits, striking out six and walking one.
Belt's solo shot off Heath Bell was his fourth homer in his last four games.
Alfredo Marte and Nick Ahmed homered for Arizona, playing its final spring training home game at Salt River Fields.


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Carol and John Lengerman bought their first houseboat in 2000 which was a 1976 Kingscraft 40'. We kept it docked at Kuttawa Marina in Kentucky and would drive three hours every Friday afternoon from St. Louis to spend the weekend on it. They ended up selling it in 2004, when they relocated to Michigan. "We were drawn to houseboating because as John always said, "why be near the water, when you can be on it?"
In 2010 they purchased their current boat which is a 1986 Carver 42' Aft Cabin. A retired dentist and his wife owned it previously and had it docked at Barkley Lodge in Kentucky. A boat broker helped them find it, and Dr. Payne was very helpful to in terms of letting him know where things are and how to do them. He was a very hands-on captain and truly loved this boat. "We were very lucky to have found a boat of this age in such great condition, said. Carver is very good at producing well-designed boats that are functional, as well as, beautiful. Carol and love all the teak wood, and the generous space given to the guest suite in the bow of the boat with a full sized head that rivals that of the master stateroom.The Lengerman's love the people houseboating attracts. They are the most generous people in terms of sharing knowledge of engines, maintenance, navigating and even local restaurants. There is a camaraderie that is seldom found on land between other sets of friends. "When you add the fact that we all share a love of being on water, there's no better combination, said Carol.Gypsy Bliss is the name of their boat. Carol's mom was known as the Gypsy Queen and Carol came from a family of eleven. Whenever her family would pack all of their things to go camping they would always joke about how they must look like a pack of gypsies. The word bliss comes from the fact that the family all enjoys camping but now in luxurious accommodations like their houseboat.
Since no open flames are allowed at our marina, we choose to do Crockpot or electric skillet meals like Italian Beef, baked rigatoni, and Panini's with an assortment of deli meats and cheeses. "We've made several new friends on Alton Marina dock who've taught us so much about maintaining our own boat, and we are extremely grateful, said Carol, and John agrees. "They have also taken us on rides up the river and shown us safe routes to take when there is more than one channel available." Our children, extended family, even our staffs, have joined us for cruises.Alton Marina, is fortunately only 45 minutes from the Lengerman's house so they are on the boat every weekend from April to November. However, they have been on the boat during an ice storm on New Years Eve.
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The stories keep changing. Look at the facts. There were several prior attacks on Western facilities and our Benghazi consulate in Libya. Why did the Obama administration not increase security as requested?
The stories keep changing. Look at the facts. There were several prior attacks on Western facilities and our Benghazi consulate in Libya. Why did the Obama administration not increase security as requested?
Then the CIA's Gen. David Petreaus was involved in an affair, which was under FBI investigation for months. But Barack Obama was not notified sooner? The head of the FBI was informed of the investigation, and yet the Petreaus investigation was not mentioned to the president. And where does Attorney General Eric Holder come in? Why would he withhold this information from the president? I find this completely unbelievable. Holder is incompetent but is close to the president and most certainly should have informed him of the Petreaus issue.
How many times has this administration claimed it didn't know? It claimed no knowledge about Fast and Furious, it didn't know the real cause of the Benghazi attack, it didn't know about the Petreaus issue, and it didn't know about Iran firing on our drone over international water until after the election.
If President Obama is so poorly informed, we all should feel very uneasy about this president's ability to lead our country. And we should be very skeptical of any information coming from Holder. Look at how Obama used executive privilege to protect Holder from releasing more documents to the House Oversight Committee about Fast and Furious.
Think back to the 2008 Democratic primary race. Hillary Clinton asked the rhetorical question: What would a President Obama do when the 3 a.m. call came about a faraway crisis? Would a President Obama be able to respond appropriately?
We now have the answer to Hillary's question. Neither President Barack Obama or Secretary of State Clinton have responded appropriately or honestly. As events unfold, it appears Clint Eastwood's empty chair routine was spot on.
Andy Kelleher
Boiling Springs
The Herald-Journal should be showering my wife with flowers and chocolate at least once a month. I can assure you, if not for her, I would cancel the paper today.
As far as the paper goes, it went from tolerable to terrible since the new ownership took over. It's very sad when all you can say about your local newspaper is that it has good delivery service.
If my wife died today, I would cancel my subscription to this useless company tomorrow. I hope my wife outlives me, and the Herald-Journal should hope so, too!
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Coastal Cooking with John Shields "Fry Babies" Everything you need to know about frying but were afraid to ask. Artist and chef extraordinaire Joyce C. Scott makes her Maryland Fried Oysters Remoulade along with Church Hall fish fry-style fillets. Other recipes include Puffy Conch Fritters with Orange Dijon Sauce and a sweet-treat dessert from the Gulf coast - Beignets. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Market to Table" Joanne's day begins at the farmer's market and she shows us a fresh sugar snap pea soup. Then she works with her student Kyle to perfect his pasta techniques making a fresh fettuccine with asparagus, prosciutto, and lemon creme fraiche. Recipes: Sugar Snap Pea Soup with Mint and Meyer Lemon Oil and Fresh Fettuccine with Asparagus Ribbons and Lemon Creme Fraiche. D
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The Sports Xchange
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - The Red Sox still got the win. It just turned out to be much more complicated than it initially seemed to would be.
Daniel Nava's RBI single in the 14th inning finished off a game the Red Sox by all appearances had put away in the first inning, as Boston outlasted the Tampa Bay Rays, 10-8, at Tropicana Field on Monday.
Nava and Jarrod Saltalamacchia each had run-scoring singles in the 14th off reliever Cesar Ramos (1-2), the Rays' eighth pitcher. Franklin Morales (2-0) pitched 1 1/3 scoreless innings to earn the win.
In the longest game of the season for both teams at five hours, 24 minutes - and the second-longest in Rays history -- the American League East leaders (40-25) extended their lead over the fourth-place Rays to five games.
Saltalamacchia's two-run single with two out in the top of the 10th inning off Fernando Rodney gave Boston an 8-6 lead and appeared to bail out the Red Sox after they squandered a six-run first-inning lead.
But Tampa Bay responded again with a solo home run from Jose Lobaton and a bases-loaded walk to Kelly Johnson by closer Andrew Bailey. However, the Rays got nothing more from a bases-loaded opportunity with no outs as Evan Longoria hit into a 5-2-3 double play and pinch hitter Sam Fuld's bunt attempt was unsuccessful.
Tampa Bay fought back from a six-run first-inning its early deficit to tie the game, 6-6, in the eighth on a wild pitch from Junichi Tazawa. Yunel Escobar (2-for-3), who had doubled leading off the inning and taken third on a groundout, slid under the pitcher's tag on a relay throw from catcher Saltalamacchia. Ben Zobrist followed with a double and nearly scored with two out when Tazawa misread a pop-up over the mound, forcing second baseman Dustin Pedroia to race in for a sliding catch behind him.
The first six Red Sox batters of the game scored as Boston battered Rays starter Alex Cobb. Boston produced three doubles in the inning, the first a deflection off first baseman James Loney's glove by Shane Victorino that sent Jacoby Ellsbury - on with a lead-off single - to third. Pedroia singled home Ellsbury and Victorino for a 2-0 lead before David Ortiz walked. Daniel Nava upped the lead to 3-0 with a double high off the left-field wall and Mike Carp singled in two more for a 5-0 lead. Will Middlebrooks added another run with a single.
Cobb required 37 pitches to record the first out on an infield pop-up to short by Stephen Drew. His 38th pitch ended the inning on a double play.
Cobb settled down thereafter, but was pulled after four innings when his pitch count reached 98. One start after blanking the major league's leading scoring offense at Detroit for 7 2/3 innings, he was charged with six earned runs on six hits and three walks.
The lead didn't seem big enough for much of John Lackey's unsteady 5 2/3 innings. Tampa Bay immediately trimmed two runs from the deficit in the first as lead-off hitter Matt Joyce and Longoria each hit their 11th home runs of the season. Lackey labored with the lead again in the second, allowing three straight singles, but Tampa Bay produced just one run on a Luke Scott groundout. The first two Rays batters of the third inning singled, also, however, and Zobrist (5-for-5) narrowed the score to 6-4 with a run-scoring single. Lackey retired Longoria with the tying run on second to escape again.
Lackey cruised through the fifth to set up his decision but had an eventful sixth, being struck on the right foot by a Lobaton grounder (the putout was made nonetheless) and hitting Joyce in the back with a two-out pitch that prompted benches to clear briefly. The clubs have had an acrimonious relationship dating back several years, including a 2008 brawl at Fenway Park.
Craig Breslow entered to strike out Johnson and preserve the 6-4 lead.
Lackey was charged with four earned runs on 10 hits. He has allowed three earned runs or less in eight of 10 starts this season, the two exceptions being against the Rays.
Loney's eighth homer of the season, off Andrew Miller, cut the margin to 6-5 in the seventh.
NOTES: Tampa Bay LHP David Price, defending American League Cy Young Award winner, said he felt the best he has all year after throwing a 45-pitch bullpen session on Monday that included curveballs. He was placed on the 15-day disabled list May 16 due to triceps tightness. Manager Joe Maddon said Price would make three minor league rehab starts after throwing another bullpen session Wednesday and a simulated game Saturday. ... Middlebrooks returned from the 15-day disabled list and was inserted into the eighth spot in the lineup. Middlebrooks was batting .201 with eight homers before sustaining a lower back strain. Red Sox manager John Farrell said Jose Iglesias would remain with the team in a utility function after batting .435 and crafting a 13-game hit streak -- the longest by an American League rookie -- in Middlebrooks' absence. Pedro Ciriaco was designated for assignment. ... Pedroia extended his hitting streak to 14 games.


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Each quarter, Northern Trust's Multi-Manager Solutions group surveys approximately 100 investment managers worldwide for their outlook on the financial markets, the economy and topical issues affecting investors.
Managers positive on economic growth; data hints at plateau
Key findings from the Investment Manager Survey, third quarter 2018.
About our Quarterly Investment Manager Survey
Northern Trust polls investment firms that participate in its multi-manager investment programs and funds to examine trends in attitudes and allocations. The select group of respondents includes fixed income and equity managers across value and growth styles, with a bias toward fundamental, bottom-up stock picking strategies.
Christopher E. Vella
Christopher E. Vella, CFA, is a Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Northern Trust Multi-Manager Solutions with responsibility for manager research and portfolio construction processes across the group. He is responsible for the global manager research platform at Northern Trust, consisting of approximately $75 billion in assets under management, across more than 200 investment strategies. He manages a team of more than 25 investment professionals across all traditional asset classes. The team covers all external manager relationships on behalf of Northern Trust's private and institutional clientele.
Prior to joining Northern Trust, Christopher was a founding member of Goldman Sach's external manager business, which consists of institutional and private client assets. While at Goldman Sachs, he managed the international and emerging markets equity team. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Christopher spent close to 6 years at SEI Investments working primarily on international equity and emerging markets equity manager research. He has 20 years of manager research experience.
He received a B.S. magna cum laude in finance with a minor in applied mathematics from Lehigh University and was elected into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He is a member of the New York Society of Financial Analysts. Christopher is a CFA® charterholder and holds the FINRA Series 7 and 63 registrations.


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South Dakota man who lied to police about identity arrested because his real name was tattooed on his arm
MITCHELL, S.D. - A man who tried to lie about his identity to police here was arrested after officers noticed his real name tattooed on his arm, according to a police report.
Shane Alan Heitman, 36, was contacted by police on Nov. 7. An anonymous tip informed police that Heitman had a warrant and could be found at the residence.
Heitman initially stated he was James John Richardson, 47. Officers had Heitman's name from the tip and, after they looked it up in their computer -- and noticed the name "Shane" tattooed on his right arm -- Heitman admitted his true identity. He was arrested for impersonation with intent to deceive law enforcement and for a warrant for second-degree petty theft.
The theft charge is a Class 2 misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of 30 days in jail and a $500 fine. The impersonation charge is a Class 1 misdemeanor punishable by a maximum of one year in jail and a $2,000 fine.


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Aaahh!Real Monsters is an all-age cartoon show that was created in the early 90′s by Chris Battle and it was a successful, but not so popular that nickelodeon expected to be.The cartoon stopped after 4 seasons and nick never released a single episode ever since.The only thing released was an arcade game by sega in super mario style.
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Ill. mom of frozen baby given 50-year sentence
ROCKFORD, Ill. A northern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for leaving her newborn daughter to freeze to death in 2004.
Winnebago County Judge John Truitt on Friday handed down the sentence to 32-year-old Katie Stockton. The infant became known as Baby Crystal around the Rock River Valley after her frozen remains were found.
The Rockford Register Star reports Truitt allowed testimony about skeletal remains of two other infants found years later in the trunk of Stockton's car.
That testimony wouldn't have been allowed at trial. Stockton in February pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the infant's death.
Stockton hid her pregnancy and gave birth to the baby in secret in December 2004, then stuffed her into a shopping bag and left her along a roadway.


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Two Houston neighborhoods have some of highest incomes in nation
CNN Money has put Houston's West University neighborhood and the city of Bellaire on the short list of top-earning U.S. towns -- along with a gaggle of Connecticut 'burbs -- of where the affluent reside after they have "made it."
Just last week, the same publication included the Houston Heights in their countdown of the best big-city neighborhoods.
Topping the list is Scarsdale, N.Y., where wealthy Manhattan business people run to at the end of their work day, taking advantage of the half-hour train commute. Or at least a five minute ride in their solid-gold helicopter.
In third place is Hillsborough, Calif., just minutes away from San Francisco, Stanford, Silicon Valley, and the Facebook and Visa headquarters, and with a population just over 11,000. There are no commercial businesses within the town's limits, according to CNN, and no sidewalks in Hillsborough, making it a rural-feeling getaway. Median home prices are only $2.4 million, if you are interested.
As for West U, CNN says that 85 percent of the residents in the enclave hold a bachelor's degree or higher, making it one of the most educated communities in the south. Median home prices are reported to be $737,500, one of the cheaper areas on the list, and with the median family income at just over $225, 000, very affordable.
Coming in at No. 13, Bellaire was mentioned as being close to all the finer things in Houston, including the Galleria, the Texas Medical Center, and Reliant Stadium. Median family income in Bellaire is just under $200,000.
Rounding out the top 20:
2. Weston, Conn.
4. Potomac, Md.
5. New Canaan, Conn.
6. Winnetka, Ill.
7. Orlinda, Calif.
9. Hinsdale, Ill.
10. Rye, N.Y.
11. Wellesley, Mass.
12. Ridgewood, N.J.
14. Colts Neck, N.J.
15. Weston, Mass.
16. Town and Country, Mo.
17. Castle Pines, Colo.
18. Falls Church, Va.
19. Mountain Brook, Ala.
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A fisherman from the El Molo tribe walks back with his net at sunrise in the village of Komote, on the shores of Lake Turkana, northern Kenya on May 18, 2012. In the baking sun on the shores of Lake Turkana, the world's largest lake in a desert setting, in the far north of Kenya, only a few thousand El Molo remain in two settlements of huts made of palm leaf and pieces of plastic. Several small African tribes are at risk of becoming extinct. The El Molo for their part have fallen victim to a drop in Lake Turkana's fish stocks, cohabitation with more dominant local warrior tribes and ever tougher environmental protection laws. AFP PHOTO/CARL DE SOUZA
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By conventional logic, 2013 will be graced with The Blue Nile's 5th album
You know, if we forget the fact that Paul Joseph Moore hasn't spoken to the rest of the band since High. But look at this sequence:
1983>--6 years-->1989>--7 years-->1996>--8 years-->2004>--9 years>--2013.
We can dream. Or...just wait for the new Wild Beasts' records.