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Authorities said police from Randolph, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, were in a chase that ended in a vehicle crash at College Parkway and State Avenue Thursday.Police said the chase started in Randolph and ended in Kansas City, Kansas, at 7:50 p.m.Police said the people involved in the crash suffered minor injuries. Authorities have not said what initiated the chase in Randolph.Stay with KMBC.com for breaking news and information.
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Authorities said police from Randolph, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, were in a chase that ended in a vehicle crash at College Parkway and State Avenue Thursday.
Police said the chase started in Randolph and ended in Kansas City, Kansas, at 7:50 p.m.
Police said the people involved in the crash suffered minor injuries. Authorities have not said what initiated the chase in Randolph.
Stay with KMBC.com for breaking news and information.


The Journal of Tort Law is the only peer-reviewed journal devoted to tort law in the United States. It offers several advantages to those submitting scholarship. First, your work will be reviewed by peers. This is particularly important for more technical pieces. Second, there is no submission cycle. Articles can be submitted at any time. Third, the Journal routinely publishes high-quality articles. The two issues to be published in 2017 are great examples. Volume 10, Issue 1 will publish articles from the Torts and Compensation Systems Section's panel at the AALS Annual Meeting. Covering "Gun Regulation and Private Law," authors include Leslie Kendrick (UVa), Adam Scales (Rutgers), and Steve Sugarman (Berkeley). The issue will also contain an article by Greg Keating (USC). Volume 10, Issue 2 will feature a symposium on the Restatement of the Law Third: Intentional Torts to Persons. Reporters Ken Simons (UC Irvine) and Jonathan Cardi (Wake Forest) will respond to commentary from Anita Bernstein (Brooklyn), Ellie Bublick (Arizona), Martha Chamallas (Ohio State), Mark Geistfeld (NYU), Mike Green & Bill Powers (Wake Forest/Texas), Nancy Moore (Boston University), Tony Sebok (Cardozo), Cathy Sharkey (NYU), Steve Sugarman (Berkeley), Richard Wright (Chicago-Kent), and Ben Zipursky (Fordham).
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Diego José Erroz (Berrotarán, Córdoba, Argentina, 21 de septiembre de 1978) es un exfutbolista, y actual director técnico y mánager argentino. Jugaba de volante y su último equipo fue Tiro Federal. Actualmente se desempeña como mánager de Atlético Tucumán.

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This isn't going to be a sappy post about my little girl growing up. This is an angry post. This is a post where I lament the loss of my child care tax credit.
Because my baby's turning 13 this year. And apparently, the government thinks that makes her old enough to take care of herself. I disagree.
Yes, I trust her. Yes, I think she would follow any rules I would give her. Yes, I think she's a remarkable girl.
But she's also young. She's still immature - meaning she has not reached an age of maturity yet. And there are a whole lot of people in the world that I simply do not trust.
Do I think she would start committing juvenile crime? No. Do I think she's responsible enough to look both ways before crossing the street? Yes, but I've also seen enough crazy drivers that I don't trust that they won't be speeding through a light or on their cell phone, or, worst of all, see her as an easy target.
She means too much to me. She is my flesh and blood. She is the love of my life.
I like the situation we have now. She takes a bus to her after-school program and calls me to let me know she's on the bus safely. When she gets to her after-school program, she does homework, takes her acting or dance class, spends time with her friends, and is surrounded, always, by people that care about her. This works for me.
It is worth the cost of the program; however, I do appreciate the tax credit that I receive at the end of the year. I've pretty much been putting the program on my credit card and then paying off as much of the balance as possible with that refund.
This year, I lose that credit.
While I may look at other options for the summer, I hesitate to pull her from the program where she knows everyone and everyone knows her. She knows what to expect, and I know what to expect. The staff are our friends now and have earned our loyalty. And quite frankly, I don't think any other options would be more affordable, except to have her stay home. Alone. For 9 hours a day.
And the really scary part? At least we have a program available. 15.3 million children don't even have that.
I asked the after-school program if there any lobbying efforts to change this, to make the credit available until a child reaches the actual age of adulthood. Nope.
Yet another example of how "family values" so rarely apply to my family.
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The wild story of how America almost banned chain grocery stores
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A populist congressman took on the world's largest retailer—and lost.
By now, many realize that the continued existence of the neighborhood supermarket is not a given, and that the familiar model of food retail that dominated much of the 20th century may soon be a thing of the past. In a new article co-published with Longreads, The New Food Economy's Joe Fassler tells the story of this decline, how regional grocery chains got into the fix they're in, and how they must change if they're going to survive.
But for some historians, it's strange to see the chain supermarket cast in the role of the underdog. In the decades before World War II, these stores were Goliath, not David. Specifically, A&P—the pioneering, once ubiquitous chain that ceased operations in 2015, after 156 years in business—was seen as the great antagonist of Main Street, a company so powerful some said it threatened American prosperity. The backlash was so severe that the U.S. congress very nearly passed a law that would have accomplished what is almost unthinkable today: an effective ban on chain stores.
That backstory, detailed in Marc Levinson's book The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America (2012), is little known in 2019. And, ultimately, the measure with the power to redefine American commerce didn't pass—thanks in large part to A&P's extraordinary lobbying efforts. Through a combination of aggressive PR, political favor-mongering, market clout, and the timeless appeal of everyday low prices, A&P persevered. But the story of how the chain survived isn't just entertaining in its own right. It also provides the model for how today's titans of retail—from Walmart and Amazon to Google and Apple—work to preserve their own monopolies, ultimately convincing us that we're better off without the competition.
Between 1920 and 1940, a legitimate movement to limit the spread of chain stores gathered steam. At one point, 26 states had passed independent taxes on chains, a dozen radio stations were devoted to opposing them, and 40 newspapers had explicit anti-chain policies. Like soda taxes today, the movement bred strange political alliances—at one point, the KKK, black business owners, women's groups, progressives, Southerners, and Midwesterners were all united against the perceived Wall Street takeover of rural America. The anti-chain movement's successes were not insignificant: Congress passed two federal laws meant to limit practices that gave chain stores an advantage over independent grocers.
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The early years of A&P—the pioneering, once ubiquitous chain
The movement reached its legislative climax between 1938 and 1940. A bill that would effectively tax chain stores out of existence was introduced in the House by Representative Wright Patman, a folksy Texas cotton-farmer-turned-populist-politician who'd literally ridden a horse six miles to high school (and whose eponymous committee later played a key role in the Watergate scandal that eventually ended Richard Nixon's presidency). Patman had built his career on crusading against monopolies, and with more than 70 co-sponsors, passing a so-called "death tax" on chain stores would've been his crowning achievement. By late 1939, Patman claimed he had the support of 150 representatives and it looked like the bill would pass.
Yet between 1939 and 1940, all that support dissolved into thin air. The "death tax" never even came to a vote.
The bill's failure marked the end of the anti-chain movement. The next year, the U.S. entered World War II, which marked a turning point for the way people saw their role in the country's economy. Writing in the Iowa Law Review in 2005, legal scholar Richard C. Schragger described the period this way: "the ideology of economic citizenship that animated chain opponents had dissipated; post-war America was characterized by the full realization of the mass-consumption economy." By the time newlyweds were settling into the country's freshly constructed suburbs after the war, the chain store had cemented its place in society.
So what happened at that crucial moment when support for Patman's anti-chain legislation fell apart? The bill's implosion can be attributed, in part, to a shift in the wind: Many of Patman's progressive allies were pushed out of office in the elections that took place between the bill's introduction and its ultimate demise, and the specter of war altered the Democratic leadership's political priorities. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declined to go to bat for the chain store tax (more on that later).
But it was arguably one massive lobbying campaign that ultimately tipped the scales to kill Patman's "death tax." Financed by the A&P chain of grocery stores, it successfully neutered key support for the bill.
It's a simple concept: One by one, convince all the groups who oppose the chain stores to change their minds.
A&P, originally called the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, was the perfect Goliath to the small-town grocer's David—a comparison made by politicians and radio personalities across the country. Its owners, John Hartford and George Hartford Jr.—two brothers from New Jersey who'd inherited the business from their father, who in turn had inherited it from his father—were characterized as rich Wall Street robber barons dead-set on depriving small towns of their prosperity. "If it is right for one pair of childless brothers to own ten percent of the grocery business in America, it is likewise right that ten pairs of childless brothers be permitted to own all the grocery business in America," said Patman in a 1938 speech. "The question is … will the country's interest be promoted in a better way by the million and half retail stores being owned by more than a million local citizens, or will the country be better off if these million and a half retail stores are owned and controlled by a few childless brothers?"
Ultimately, the Hartfords helped ensure the defeat of Patman's "death tax" with a brilliant public relations strategy, one that worked to convince consumers they couldn't afford to lose chain stores. But the playbook used to engineer the fall of the chain store tax can be traced back a few years before the crafty billionaires used it to outmaneuver their overzealous congressman. The Hartfords adapted their playbook from another chain store lobbying effort, one localized to California. It's a simple concept: One by one, convince all the groups who oppose the chain stores to change their minds. More than half a century later, there's some indication the strategy has stood the test of time. Critics say Amazon is following in A&P's footsteps.
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company started out selling tea in lower Manhattan, just steps from Wall Street—the symbol of hoarded prosperity its critics would evoke more than half a century later. It expanded rapidly by pricing its product lower than the competition. By the time tea prices began to fall in the 1880s, the chain was already well-established. A&P added sugar to its roster to keep its profits up, but co-owner George Huntington Hartford, grandfather of the childless brothers, worried that trading in commodities would tie the fate of the company to their fluctuating prices. He seized on a major controversy of the day—impurities in baking powder—and began manufacturing a store brand whose purity was essentially guaranteed by the A&P reputation. It was a huge success, and the company expanded to grocery.
Starting with its promise of pure baking soda in the 1800s, A&P proved adept at giving customers what they wanted
The food industry at the time was ripe for disruption or, in the lingo of the day, "creative destruction." The average American family spent a third of its income on food, triple what we pay today. Part of the expense was due to the fact the era's grocery stores, which were mostly run by local business owners and staffed by their families, offered conveniences that seem luxurious by today's standards. Customers called in to place their orders, which were subsequently delivered and paid for at the end of the month, or whenever the money was available. The significant losses inherent in such a system—labor for delivery, customers' unpaid debts—were baked into the price of food.
Early A&P stores eliminated these expensive services. The chain's shops looked much like their independently-owned neighbors, with items displayed behind a counter and a cashier who measures bulk goods. But there was one crucial difference: If you didn't have cash on hand, you couldn't buy anything. By cutting these costs, A&Ps were able to undercut the neighborhood grocers.
By the 1920s, A&P was everywhere. That decade, it operated 300 stores in Chicago alone. Yet even as the this breathtaking growth wowed the business community, independent grocers who felt threatened by the chain's sudden proliferation were starting to get organized. A movement against the explosion of chain stores was gathering steam, and it soon set A&P in its sights.
"When he walks into a chain store he hopes that he is not seen by any of his friends or any of the local merchants," wrote Edward G. Ernst and Emil M. Hartl for The Nation in 1930. "Yet he does buy in the foreign-owned stores, and the reason he most commonly gives is: 'Money is hard to get and I must make it go as far as I possibly can.'" America was a year into the Great Depression, and anti-chain store sentiment had gone mainstream in a big way. In the series for The Nation, Hartl and Ernst reported that even high school debate teams were tackling the issue.
Some of Ernst and Hartl's arguments against the chains are quaint by today's standards: They spilled ink worrying that managers from out of town would have no investment in the local community, that men working around the clock in hopes of climbing the corporate ladder would leave "chain store widows" home alone, that employee morale would suffer when people worked for faraway corporations and had no stake in the success of the company as a whole.
A&P asked suppliers for price breaks and blacklisted them when they refused to cooperate.
Yet other arguments against chain stores ring remarkably true nearly a century later: Advocates worried that the proliferation of chains would suppress wages. They worried that chains would accrue enough market power to force farmers and manufacturers to accept lower prices. They worried about vertical integration—chain stores acquiring factories that would produce the goods that they would then distribute, closing the economic loop and shutting competitors out of the game. Perhaps most of all, they worried about money leaving rural communities, or, as Ernst and Hartl put it, "the exodus of money from the town to buy limousines for parasites in other cities."
The concern that chain stores might force independent retailers out of business was not unfounded. A&P had spent much of the 1920s consolidating its power. It purchased a milk company, then bought the country's second-largest bakery, then began canning its own products. It built out an infrastructure to move all that stuff around and used its muscle to negotiate a $60,000 annual discount with the railroads. It asked suppliers for price breaks and blacklisted them when they refused to cooperate. In the latter half of the 1920s, it slashed its prices even further by extracting advertising fees and brokerage allowances from manufacturers, then slashing its own profits to further undercut the competition. By all measurements, it was winning the race to the bottom.
Yet in the 1930s, as more and more states responded to the outcry and implemented taxes on chain stores, A&P was caught in a difficult position: It had aggressively expanded its small stores, yet people had started flocking to supermarkets on the outskirts of town. A new model for buying food was starting to catch on: big, gleaming structures with vast parking lots and the promise of one-stop shopping. A&P's earlier strategy, which relied on building tons of small stores, was particularly vulnerable to the new taxes, which were typically calculated based on the number of outlets.
So the Hartfords pivoted. In 1937 and 1938, they closed 4,000 stores and built 750 supermarkets. In doing so, they were able to accomplish two goals at once: Catching up with the competition and minimizing their own taxes. The strategy worked. The new big box stores made a lot more money per unit, and A&P's leadership was able to avoid taking a public stand against the onslaught of new taxes.
Through a combination of aggressive PR, political favor-mongering, market clout, and the timeless appeal of everyday low prices, A&P persevered
Starting with its promise of pure baking soda in the 1800s, A&P proved adept at giving customers what they wanted. It was particularly good at winning over groups outside the (largely male) business community, people who didn't see its mere existence as a threat. Female customers, tasked with feeding their families on a limited budget, appreciated its low prices. And people of color, who were vulnerable to discrimination and price-gouging at locally owned grocers, appreciated A&P's standardized pricing.
The company would later leverage political support from these groups to defeat the chain store taxes. In doing so, it seemed to learn an important lesson: If you can sell goods cheaply enough, you can become politically unassailable—even if your approach to doing business makes society less prosperous overall.
Wright Patman, the populist Texas congressman who would ultimately advance the "death tax" bill, began his federal assault on chain stores by focusing on their prices. At first, he wanted to limit the ability of muscular buyers like A&P to force wholesalers and manufacturers into giving them discounts. Doing so would be a win for wholesalers, who could preserve their sticker prices, and small businesses, who could hypothetically purchase food at the same rate as the chains and then offer competitive prices. In 1936, Congress overwhelmingly approved the Robinson-Patman Act, which made it illegal for manufacturers to give big chains preferential prices (or, if they did, they had to justify those prices under a "reasonableness" standard based on volume). It also banned buyers like A&P from asking manufacturers for side payments, like marketing fees, that were essentially discounts by another name. Another federal law, the Miller-Tydings Act, was passed in an effort to prevent chains from selling certain items like milk and eggs at a loss in order to get customers in the door.
The concern that chain stores might force independent retailers out of business was not unfounded.
Far from curbing the chain stores' vast market power, the new legislation had a mixed impact on the grocery business. Robinson-Patman actually hurt some small retailers by preventing them from joining bulk buying collectives to negotiate discounts, and chain stores were able to leverage other strategies to maintain their low prices. A&P, for its part, pretty much continued on with business as usual, openly flaunting the Robinson-Patman Act based on a legal technicality.
Yet even though the passage of the Robinson-Patman and Miller-Tydings Acts did little to slow the growth of chains (and arguably hurt the little guys in the process), Patman was not deterred. His next effort would be his crown jewel—a graduated tax so high it would effectively end chain stores. In response, the chains did all they could to make sure that never happened.
The propaganda started in California. In 1935, the Anti-Monopoly League passed a steep chain tax. Instead of responding with the grin-and-bear-it approach chain stores had relied on in other states, a coalition in California led by Safeway decided to overturn the legislation in the most public way imaginable: By organizing more than a hundred thousand voters to petition for a referendum. If successful, the referendum would overturn the tax—and prove in the court of public opinion that people wanted the chain stores to stay for good.
To steer its efforts, the newly minted California Chain Stores Association hired the advertising agency Lord & Thomas, which had made its name a decade earlier by splashing the slogan "It's Toasted" on cartons of Lucky Strike cigarettes. (Toasting was never unique to Lucky Strike.)
Lord & Thomas started by making a few token concessions to win over chain store employees: ID badges were updated to display names instead of numbers, and the agency encouraged chains to organize company picnics.
It also sought to win over farmers, who had been critical of chains' downward pressure on their prices. When a glut of peaches needed to move quickly, the chains were quick to play the hero. They organized a nationwide effort to promote peaches, ensuring that the farmers weren't stuck with rotting fruit. Lord & Thomas proposed a few other key concessions to farmers, too: the reduction of farmer-paid "advertising allowances" (forced price deductions that ostensibly paid for in-store promotion, which were technically illegal anyway) and fewer forced price cuts. Their widely publicized efforts went a long way toward weakening farm group resentment toward the chain stores.
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By cutting costs, A&Ps were able to undercut the neighborhood grocers
At its core, Lord & Thomas's strategy was simple: The agency wanted to break up the broad cross-section of groups who supported the chain-store tax. It won over farmers by handing them one huge favor and a few nebulous promises. It won over employees by treating them just a little bit better. Finally, it won over consumers by convincing them they would lose money if the system changed.
Just before the vote, the agency introduced a catchy slogan: It dubbed the chain store tax "a Tax on You." The referendum passed.
Bolstered by the success in California, the Hartfords hired Carl Byoir to help them quietly defeat a chain store tax in Brooklyn. Byoir, who had introduced the Montessori method to America (and later opened a public relations firm that promoted tourism to Nazi Germany) was extraordinarily well-connected, having met President Roosevelt many times through various clients. (Roosevelt, who seems to have found Wright Patman a bit annoying, never took a concrete stand on the chain store question.)
In 1937, Byoir successfully defeated a chain store tax in Brooklyn—and, importantly for the press-averse Hartfords, he managed to do so without the newspapers realizing A&P was involved. The brothers decided to unleash him on Patman's "death tax."
Byoir's efforts began quietly. First, one of the Hartford brothers offered a rare interview to a friendly Fortune reporter, resulting in a sympathetic profile. Then, Byoir's team took the coalition-splitting strategy pioneered by Lord & Thomas several steps further: They persuaded the Hartfords to allow A&P employees to unionize.
Unionization efforts at A&P stores had been largely unsuccessful. Perhaps most notably, in 1934, striking unions stopped deliveries to A&P stores in Cleveland. In response, A&P closed all 293 of its locations and fired 2,200 workers. At the end of the day, the Hartfords won.
If you can sell goods cheaply enough, you can become politically unassailable.
A&P's 180-degree turn was not a sudden change of heart. It was simply cheaper to work with unions who supported the existence of the chains—essentially buying a supportive constituency—than to see their stores taxed out of existence. Unions, for their part, couldn't get very far organizing independent stores three employees at a time. They, too, needed the chains to survive.
Next, Byoir went after the burgeoning consumer movement by financing writer Ada Taylor Sackett's efforts to organize housewives through her newly-minted National Consumers Tax Commission. Sackett and Byoir built out an organization of 72 staffers that organized study groups all over the country to talk about women's issues. Taxes, of course, were always on the table.
Finally, Byoir persuaded the Hartfords to take out a five-column advertisement in newspapers across the country articulating their opposition to the chain store tax. It was an unprecedented public statement from a famously private family.
Back to the bill: Remember how 75 legislators co-sponsored the chain store tax in 1938? Seven months later, the November election knocked 25 of them out of office. Once it was reintroduced in the next session, Patman's bill faced fierce opposition from A&P and its allies when it was reintroduced. By that time, Byoir's team had won over the American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Grange. They'd won over real-estate groups, too. They'd even transformed a group called the National Drainage, Levee, and Irrigation Association into an A&P front.
There's another weird wrinkle here: Just two months after the "death tax" was reintroduced to Congress, on March 29, 1939, President Roosevelt's son asked one of the Hartford brothers for a loan of $200,000 to finance the purchase of some radio stations. That loan would be worth about $3.5 million today. The president knew about the loan and approved of it, though he never disclosed it publicly. He repeatedly declined Patman's requests for public support before and after the bill was introduced.
Fast forward to today, and anti-monopoly advocates are again questioning who should be protected under antitrust law.
It seems extraordinary that a president would allow his son to borrow a significant amount of money from a prominent businessman whose interests were the subject of pending litigation. If Jeff Bezos lent Eric Trump $3.5 million today, pundits would be quick to accuse the White House of favoritism. The loan didn't come to light until after President Roosevelt's death, when The Washington Post called it, perhaps facetiously, "a highly satisfactory investment in White House good will."
The younger Roosevelt never paid off his debt, and Hartford ultimately settled it for two cents on the dollar. A subsequent investigation found no evidence that the Roosevelts did anything to support chain retailing after the money changed hands, though their silence may have been a factor in killing the "death tax."
Less than eight weeks after the loan, the hearings on the bill ground to a halt. Support had crumbled, and Patman knew his "death tax" was headed down the tubes. He filibustered a radio station in hopes of dredging up support, and later went on NBC to compare the chains to Hitler and Stalin. None of it helped. On June 18, 1939, the Ways and Means Subcommittee refused to report the bill to the full committee. It was dead.
The demise of the anti-chain movement represented a turning point in American thinking about the economy. As Schragger wrote in 2005, "it was arguably the last time that there was a serious effort to offer an account of the relationship between economic decentralization and liberty."
Infrogmation
In 2015, A&P was displaced, in part, by a comparatively new breed of company that had managed to consolidate the retail industry even further
As for A&P, it survived to see another day. In September of 1946, a federal judge ruled that the Hartfords, then aged 81 and 74, had conspired to violate the Sherman Antitrust Act. They were accused of using A&P's size and power to keep prices artificially low. The company survived until 2015, but by then its power had peaked—displaced, in part, by a comparatively new breed of company that had managed to consolidate the retail industry even further.
Fast forward to today, and anti-monopoly advocates are again questioning who should be protected under antitrust law. In 2017, lawyer Lina Khan published a paper called "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox," which argued that companies should not be allowed to engage in anticompetitive practices just because they offer low prices. The New York Times called the paper "a runaway best-seller in the world of legal treatises."
In response to Khan's paper, two former Federal Trade Commission officials published a paper that looked back at A&P and antitrust law. They argued that A&P was an innovator, that the government's efforts to regulate its power was misguided. The Times writes that the officials were explicit in their efforts to paint the demise of A&P as a cautionary tale: This was a good, innovative company, and it was unfairly targeted by the government. A&P accomplished something so simple it's accepted as fact in today's economy: It made food cheap.
In a footnote on the first page, the authors acknowledge that they approached Amazon for funding. The company generously obliged.
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Foulridge man spat blood at police trying to help him in "unexplained" outburst
Burnley Magistrates Court
Wendy Barlow
Published: 11:05 Updated: 11:15 Thursday 14 November 2019
An injured man spat blood at an officer in an unexplained outburst after police found him and tried to help him, a court heard.
Ben Upton punched the officer several times and when he was taken to the ground, he kicked out. The 20-year-old was verbally abusive, was handcuffed, and had to be put in leg restraints.
Burnley Magistrates' Court was told the defendant, who had no previous convictions, apologised but then headbutted the rear door of the police van and made threats to harm officers.
Mr Carl Gaffney, prosecuting, said: "It is completely unexplained behaviour, but serious behaviour. Spitting blood is something officers are understandably concerned about."
The prosecutor told the hearing officers had gone to Upton's aid when they discovered him with a large head wound, a cut mouth, and very drunk.
Mr Gaffney continued: "Their primary concern is his welfare. He gives a false name and is effectively a completely different person than we have in court today. He was beyond the pale out of control. It was an unprovoked assault."
The defendant, of Station Road in Foulridge, admitted assault by beating of an emergency worker on January 13th at Nelson. His case was adjourned for probation reports and he will be sentenced at Blackburn Magistrates' Court on November 19th.
District Judge James Clarke told Upton: "This is a sustained assault upon the officer. The starting point is a period of detention."
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John Cannon
Oklahoma City, OK Divorce Lawyer with 8 years experience
(405) 888-7369	600 West Sheridan
Free ConsultationDivorce, Criminal, DUI and Military
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Michelle Kay Smith
Oklahoma City, OK Divorce Attorney with 11 years experience
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Linda M. Pizzini
Yukon, OK Divorce Attorney with 11 years experience
(405) 265-2845	508 West Vandament Ave. Suite 308
Divorce, Domestic Violence, Family and Juvenile
University of Oklahoma College of Law and University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Family Law Attorney with experience in the field of Divorce, Custody, Adoption, Guardianship and Juvenile matters. Also Experienced as the Head of Investigations for OKDHS in the Office of Client Advocacy. While there our office conducted investigations of allegations of abuse, neglect or exploitation of Vulnerable Adults or Juveniles in out of home placements above foster care. This experience has given me a unique ability to represent clients in Juvenile and Family Law matters that involve allegations of abuse and neglect. I also have experience at the Juvenile Center dealing with Children who are alleged...
J. P. Hill
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Free ConsultationOklahoma City, OK Divorce Attorney with 7 years experience
Divorce, Criminal, Family and Personal Injury
Sammy Duncan
Free ConsultationOklahoma City, OK Divorce Lawyer with 4 years experience
Divorce, Criminal, DUI and Juvenile
Sammy Duncan began her career at the Oklahoma County Public Defender's Office where she dedicated herself to criminal defense. In 2018 she opened her law firm, Duncan & Hill Law. She practices criminal law throughout Oklahoma and is an experienced trial attorney. Sammy Duncan and her law partner J.P. Hill handle all criminal law matters from simple traffic tickets to homicide charges.
Tamra A. Spradlin
(405) 752-6000	4117 NW 122nd
Free ConsultationOklahoma City, OK Divorce Attorney with 26 years experience
Divorce, Criminal, Domestic Violence and Family
Tamra A. Spradlin received her B.A. in 1989 and her J. D. in 1992 from Oklahoma City University. As the youngest person ever to graduate from OCU undergraduate, the OCU Law School awarded her the Hatton W. Sumners Scholarship. She received numerous awards including the Judge Tom Brett Criminal Law Award, and American Jurisprudence Awards for Constitutional Law, Evidence, Criminal Law, Property, Bankruptcy, and Criminal Procedure. She attained the Order of the Barristers in recognition of courtroom advocacy skills. She began her legal career as an Assistant Public Defender with the Oklahoma County Public Defender's Office in 1992....
Andrew Paul Murphy
(405) 524-5155	3601 N Classen Blvd
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Andrew Murphy is licensed to practice law in the state of Oklahoma. He received his Juris Doctorate degree, from The Oklahoma City University School of Law, May 1995, graduating with honors.
He also holds:
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Associates Degree in Applied Science from the Community College of the Air Force.
Equipment Technology; Cum Laude, October 1982.
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John S. Stratton
Edmond, OK Divorce Attorney with 11 years experience
(405) 525-2766	2964 Via Esperanza
Free ConsultationDivorce, Domestic Violence, Family and Personal Injury
Michael A. Risley
(405) 265-9273	3700 Classen Blvd, suite 150
Free ConsultationDivorce, Criminal, Domestic Violence and Family
Michael Risley received his B.A. from the University of Oklahoma in 2005, where he was a Member of the Dean of Arts and Sciences Student Advisory Board and a strong extracurricular supporter of the Anthropology Department. In 2008, at the University of Tulsa College of Law, Mr. Risley was awarded the American Bar Association's Curtin Fellowship for his work in alternative sentencing for homeless defendants. Unable to refuse the call of home, Mr. Risley returned to O.U. in 2009, and received his J.D in 2010. Mr. Risley was born in Singapore to his Norwegian mother and American father, and split his...
David Keith Ratcliff
Chickasha, OK Divorce Lawyer with 28 years experience
(405) 224-1181	308 W. Choctaw Ave.
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27 years of experience.
Edward Wesley Grimes
(405) 245-1882	3555 NW 58th Street
Oklahoma City, OK Divorce Attorney with 8 years experience
Divorce, Family, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
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Dustin Gower
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Dustin Gower specializes in Family Law matters and is the owner of Gower Law Offices. Dustin earned his Bachelor's Degree in Criminal Justice from Cameron University in 2002 before graduating with his Juris Doctorate from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2005.
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Mr. H. David Hanes
Yukon, OK Divorce Lawyer
(405) 354-2833	508 W. Vandament, Suite 300
Divorce, Bankruptcy, Business and Family
Born Feb.7 1956, Oklahoma City, OK; University of Oklahoma Law School 1979-82; Law Review Board of Editors 1980-81. Practice includes Bankruptcy, Business Law, Trusts, Estates, Divorce, Personal Injury, and litigation in all of these areas. Please see haneslaw.net for more information.
Hayley Victoria Potts
(405) 236-2221	500 N. Walker, Ste B
Oklahoma City University and Manchester Metropolitan University, School of Law
Hayley Potts was born in Yeovil, a small town in southwest England. Before moving to the United States, Hayley graduated from Manchester Metropolitan University Law School with honors in 2010, and became a licensed barrister in the U.K. While in England, Hayley worked with both barristers who worked in the criminal sector and with solicitors in drafting commercial leases, wills and land registration. In September, 2010, Hayley moved to Oklahoma City as part of a pro bono exchange program called Amicus, where English law graduates assist in American capital defense teams. Hayley was placed in the Oklahoma County Public...
Mark Kendall Bailey
Oklahoma City, OK Divorce Attorney
(405) 607-1177	4811 Gaillardia Parkway
Yukon, OK Divorce Attorney
Free ConsultationDivorce, Criminal, Insurance Claims and Nursing Home
Collin Walke
(405) 752-6000	4117 N.W. 122nd St., Ste. B
Divorce, Business, Civil Rights and Family
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Steven A. Barker
Yukon, OK Divorce Lawyer with 6 years experience
Divorce, Appeals, Bankruptcy and Family
Nathan Thomas Weems
(405) 420-3616	4216 N. Portland Ave.
Divorce, Business, Domestic Violence and Family
Matthew Eisert
Oklahoma City, OK Divorce Lawyer
(405) 896-0880	1315 N Shartel Ave
Divorce, Criminal, DUI and Family
Jim Allen Lyon
(405) 843-0461	2200 NW 50th St
Divorce, Energy, Estate Planning and Family
John Weston Billingsley
(888) 742-4092	3030 NW Expressway Suite 200-342
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Christopher Allen Arledge
Mustang, OK Divorce Lawyer with 24 years experience
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Jacob L. Rowe
(405) 748-0502	1900 N.W. Expressway, Ste. 606
Divorce, Criminal and Personal Injury
Mr. Jarod Morris
(405) 812-3431	2808 N Ditmer Rd
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(405) 842-3555	2601 Northwest Classen
Mr. Lawrence Goodwin
(405) 605-7771	1315 N. Shartel Ave.
Divorce, Family and Military
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Janis Flanagan Darley
(405) 947-9000	4200 Perimeter Center Dr
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(405) 842-1994	2525 Northwest Expy
Divorce, Business and Family
Amy Lauren Howe
(405) 759-6802	9925 S. Pennsylvania Avenue
Stanley Floyd Carroll
(405) 848-2255	1900 NW Expressway St
Divorce, Business, Family and Real Estate
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Divorce, Bankruptcy, Estate Planning and Family
Alexander Necco
Divorce, Business, Estate Planning and Family
Kenneth Leslie Dominic
El Reno, OK Divorce Attorney
(405) 295-2929	100 N Rock Island Ave
El Reno, OK 73036
David Echols
Thomas Martin Wakely
(405) 685-2223	1436 SW 44th St
Divorce, Family and Personal Injury
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Yuuka's boyfriend/husband has a brother in the band "Zero Sum" as the lead singer. After a request, she and her husband Yazaki got tickets to go backstage at a concert. However afterwards, all the band members, except Keith the leader, kidnapped her and raped her on the roof top all as a scheme by Keith who is madly in love with his brother. Now she can't forget nor can she get away.
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Bruges, a city of many faces, enriched over the centuries since the Middle Ages, has always enchanted and fascinated its visitors. This book casts a new regard on the most famous sites and monuments and, at the same time, introduces the visitor to other unexpected or unusual sights. It was a long and patient endeavour to photograph the truly magical illustrations of this book which are complemented by brief historical texts in English, Dutch, French and German.
Copyright © 2017 Vincent Merckx Editions.


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Horror stories show why NYC's homeless resist shelters despite frigid temperatures
By Chauncey Alcorn , Molly Crane-Newman , Erin Durkin and Jennifer Fermino
It's enough to make anyone willing to tough it out on the streets - regardless of the temperature.
Rats, bedbugs and violence plague the city's dysfunctional and overcrowded shelter system, built to house people temporarily but now straining under the weight of an expanding crisis, according to advocates and the homeless.
Nearly every homeless person the Daily News interviewed Monday detailed stories of fighting, filth and widespread thievery at shelters. Some had even worse horror stories.
Gov. Cuomo's order would force homeless New Yorkers off the streets when the temperature dips below freezing. (Marcus Santos)
Jermaine Williams, 39, a Brooklyn native who's been homeless for a decade, said he was once awakened by a man masturbating in his face at the homeless shelter on Bedford Ave.
GREENE: UNSURPRISING NYC HOMELESS CHOOSE COLD OVER SHELTERS
Jermaine Williams, 39, was sleeping in a doorway on Atlantic Avenue near Nostrand Avenue. He said he would accept shelter if forced. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News)
"You're sleeping and somebody's standing over you, the whole dorm is there, and nobody's saying anything," he said.
"There's a guy standing over you. He's butt naked, and he's doing him(self), in front of you."
When Williams spoke to The News, he was dressed in three layers of clothing and covered in three blankets, just a few blocks from the shunned shelter. Despite Monday's frigid temps — in the mid 30s most of the day — he won't go back.
"Most of the shelters are not run like a shelter. Like, 'I want to get off the streets. ... Let's eat. Everything's OK, man.' It's ran like jail," he said.
"It's just like Rikers Island."
Outside Penn Station Monday night, Charmain, 41, swore she would never return to a shelter.
"I'm not going. They're going to have to lock me up. The streets are a lot safer. I almost got raped (in a shelter), said the woman, who's been homeless for a year.
"I'm frustrated. The community, they're doing more than the mayor," she said, adding officials "misunderstand."
"When you force people into shelters, that's a problem. You're putting all these problems together to make a bigger problem."
Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo, political enemies, agree that shelters are a problem — but disagree on the solution.
Joe, 44, has been homeless for 17 years. He lives under the Harlem River Drive in Harlem. He does not want to be taken off the streets when temperatures drop below freezing. (Michael Schwartz/for New York Daily News)
"For decades, our shelters have not been safe enough and have not been clean enough, and it's quite clear that a lot of homeless people chose not to go to them," de Blasio said.
HOMELESS REJECT FORCED WINTER SHELTERING IMPOSED BY CUOMO
He said the city is adding more security to some shelters, and pushing so-called "safe havens," which are smaller spaces less prone to problems.
Cuomo hinted that the state could be planning an audit on the city's system "If shelters are not up to code, then we are going to be very diligent in our inspection and management of the existing shelter system," said Cuomo, who promised more details next week.
Homeless couple (8th Ave. and W39 St.) Luis Diaz and Jenifer Mars asked about Gov. Cuomo's order to require homeless to be placed in a shelter when temps go below freezing. (Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News)
The governor, who often plays footsie with de Blasio's political rivals, said he planned to talk with city Controller Scott Stringer about his office's past audits of the system.
A City Hall spokesman said the state already inspected city shelters, and that the administration welcomed "any additional resources or financial assistance to improve shelter conditions."
Luis Garcia at Port Authority Bus Terminal, Monday, January 4, 2016. (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
Stringer also has an uneasy relationship with de Blasio and is a possible challenger in the next mayoral election.
Jennifer Flynn of the homeless advocacy group VOCAL-NY said the problem is shelters aren't meant to house people permanently.
Luis Garcia says he should be allowed to stay in public places like the Port Authority bus terminal (Corey Sipkin/New York Daily News)
"If the system worked the way it should, they'd be a part of the continuum of care," she said. "But they're not working that way."
BEN MAX: NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS FOR BILL DE BLASIO
De Blasio recently unveiled a plan to provide 15,000 units of supportive housing over the next 15 years, and has called on Cuomo to add more.
Luis Garcia, a 35-year-old homeless man, 9 thinks he should be allowed to stay in public places like the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
"Just let us stay inside and keep warm," he said. "OK, if I do something wrong, take me out, but how can I go out at this time in that kind of temperature?"
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Let's face it, the streetwear game, now, is driven on the opportunities and ideals of competing companies coming together for one common goal… to get money! One of the strongest of these type of companies is Crooks & Castles, who have been turning up the heat on the streetwear game by their strong showing of collaborative products. Which is why it is no surprise that this latest item, a beautiful letterman's jacket, has been designed and crafted in part by Mitchell & Ness. This Jacket will be available in 2 colorways (grey/blk & red/grn) on November 1st, but only 300 of each color will be up for grabs. Mark you calendars!
This jacket is kinda hot. I have the New York Giants throwback letterman Mitchell & Ness jacket that looks like this and it is very high quality. It was a good idea for Crooks to colloborate with Mitchell & Ness. But I think it would have been a better idea for Crooks to do a collaboration with Avirex to make a leather bomber. Back in the 90s, NOTHING was fresher than an Avirex leather.


The market for social bonds climbed 41 percent to $11.1 billion last year, according to BloombergNEF research. Individual issuances were larger than in 2017, while there was a drop in the overall number of transactions, with just 26 social bonds on offer – five fewer than the previous year.
Government was the biggest issuer, accounting for 70 percent of the bonds, followed by the financial sector, with 26 percent. Financial institutions more than doubled their issuance from 2017, helped by Groupe BPCE, which made up half the total with a 1.25 billion-euro ($1.46 billion) social bond.
Social Bonds are use-of-proceeds bonds that raise funds for projects with positive social outcomes as defined by the International Capital Market Association. In 2017, this organization published the first edition of the Social Bond Principles.
BNEF clients can access the full report, Sustainable Finance Market Outlook 1H 2019, on the Terminal or on web.


Officials: William Seeger of Eastport, 47, was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was admitted for treatment of serious injuries.
SCPD are investigating a motor vehicle crash that seriously injured a bicyclist in East Moriches.
East Moriches, NY - July 5, 2017 - Suffolk County Police Seventh Squad detectives are investigating a motor vehicle crash that seriously injured a bicyclist in East Moriches on Wednesday, July 5, 2017 at approximately 7:50 a.m.
William Seeger was riding a bicycle northbound on Locust Avenue, attempting to make a left turn onto Montauk Highway, when he was struck by a 2010 Toyota Prius that was also northbound on Locust Avenue attempting to turn left onto Montauk Highway at approximately 7:50 a.m.
Seeger, 47, of Eastport, New York, was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital where he was admitted for treatment of serious, non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Toyota, John Gannon, 52, of East Moriches, who was alone in his vehicle, was not injured.
Both the bicycle and Toyota were impounded and the investigation is continuing.
Subject: LongIsland.com - Your Name sent you Article details of "Police Investigating Crash that Seriously Injured Bicyclist in East Moriches"


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Isabel Rogé Tartarini (Andorra, 1963) és una esquiadora andorrana.

Resultats
 2001:
 3a a la cursa d'equips de Copa europea a Gavarnie (juntament amb Maria Eulàlia Gendrau Gallifa)
 6a a la cursa d'equips de Campionat europeu (juntament amb Cristina Santuré Boixadé)
 2005:
 1a a la Travessa Ransol-Pic de la Serrera-El Serrat ("classe" de veterans
 2007:
 1a a la Open Font Blanca (juntament amb Sophie Dusautoir)

Pierra Menta
 1994: 2a, juntament amb Danielle Hacquard
 1995: 3a, juntament amb Danielle Hacquard
 1996: 2a, juntament amb Danielle Hacquard
 1997: 3a, juntament amb Jana Heczková

Patrouille des Glaciers
 1994: 1a, juntament amb Marie France Troillet, Melanie Farquet

Referències

Esportistes andorranes
Esquiadores


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Q: install fcgi on windows 7 for serving erb on iis I'm trying do do the simplest setup to serve ruby .erb files on a IIS 7.5 (windows7).
This is my web.config file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <handlers>
            <add name="FastCGI" path="*.erb" verb="*" modules="FastCgiModule" scriptProcessor="C:\Ruby193\bin\ruby.exe" resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="Read" />
        </handlers>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

FastCGI is installed and activated on IIS but it seems i need to install the fcgi gem which fails.
Does someone have experience with this ? Please no suggestions for other OS, VM, frameworks like rails etc..
Ik have the developper kit installed and on the path, normally i don't have problems to install and compile native extensions..
A lot of outdated or railsspecific info on the net, can't say it helps.
C:\Ruby193\bin>gem install fcgi
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
ERROR:  Error installing fcgi:
        ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

        C:/Ruby193/bin/ruby.exe extconf.rb
checking for fcgiapp.h... no
checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no

make
make: *** No targets.  Stop.

Gem files will remain installed in C:/Ruby193/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/fcgi-0.9.2.1 for inspection.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday departed Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to participate at the 30th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the president left the Presidential Villa, Abuja, via the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport for Addis Ababa two hours after observing the weekly Friday's Juma'at prayer.
The President alongside with hundreds of other Muslim faithful performed the two Raka'at Juma'at prayer at the Aso Rock Mosque.
Femi Adesina, the President's Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, had on January 25, in a statement disclosed that the highlight of the President's engagements during the visit would be his statements under the historic theme for the AU Summit, namely: "Winning the Fight against Corruption: A Sustainable Path to Africa's Transformation".
It would be recalled that, on July 4, 2017, during the 29th Session of the AU, African leaders unanimously endorsed President Buhari to champion the fight against corruption on the continent.
On July 25, 2017, the President, in a letter to President Alpha Conde of Guinea, who is also the out-going AU Chairperson, formally accepted his nomination to lead members of the AU on this crucial crusade against a veritable socio-economic vice that is anti-development.
While thanking his colleagues for the honour, Buhari reiterated his "commitment to contribute towards our collective efforts to strengthen good governance and development on the continent''.
Adesina said that apart from anti-corruption, other issues lined for consideration by African leaders and their delegations would include peace and security (transnational terrorism) institutional reforms of the continental body and free movement of persons.
Others are climate change, trade; aviation, education, gender and development.
He said President Buhari would also hold bilateral meetings with some of his colleagues on issues of common interests.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, the Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Danbazau and the Minister of State (Aviation), Hadi Sirika, are in the President's delegation to the summit.
Others are: the National Security Adviser, Babagana Monguno, and the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu.


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Feuer, Wasser und Posaunen (Originaltitel: , Ogon, woda i… mednyje truby) ist ein sowjetischer Märchenfilm aus dem Jahr 1968, der verschiedene Figuren und Geschichten der slawischen Folklore wie Kaschtschei (Gerippe Unsterblich) und die Hexe Baba Jaga aufgreift.

Handlung
Es gibt ein russisches Sprichwort in Anlehnung an das angekündigte Geschehen in der Offenbarung des Johannes: "Man muss Feuer, Wasser und Posaunen überstehen." Das bedeutet, man muss die Herausforderungen des Lebens meistern, Erfahrungen sammeln und seinen Willen stärken.

Währenddessen möchte das Gerippe Unsterblich die Tochter der Hexe Baba-Jaga heiraten. Als er aber durch zwei magische Äpfel, ein Hochzeitsgeschenk, wieder verjüngt wird, jagt er die Braut davon. Auf der Suche nach einer Jüngeren macht ihn einer seiner Diener auf Aljonuschka aufmerksam, die er kurzerhand entführen lässt. Sie weist seine Werbungsversuche jedoch zurück und wird darauf hin ins Turmverlies gesperrt.

Aljonuschkas Liebster, der junge Köhler Wasja, und ihre Ziege Weißchen machen sich unterdessen auf den Weg, die Entführte zu befreien und kommen zufällig zum Palast des Zaren Fedul VI., der gerade in Flammen steht. Wasja kann die Zarentochter retten und soll sie deswegen heiraten. Er verzichtet, woraufhin die verkleideten Diener des Gerippes den Monarchen überreden, ihn zur Strafe ins Meer werfen zu lassen. Dort trifft Wasja auf den stets gelangweilten Meerkönig, dem zu seiner Zerstreuung jedes Jahr die schönste Jungfrau eines Küstenlandes geopfert werden muss. Wasja bringt dem Meerkönig das Lesen bei, womit er sich künftig die Zeit vertreiben kann. Dafür erringt der Köhler für sich und die Schönheiten die Rückkehr ans Land. Dort wird er vom ganzen Volk geehrt und zum künftigen Ehemann der Zarentochter erkoren. Wasja lässt sich zunächst von den "Posaunen des Ruhms" blenden und wird eitel. Als während des Verlobungsbankettes Weißchen von einem Teller springt, erinnert er sich Aljonuschkas und macht sich wieder auf den Weg.

Von Baba-Jaga erfährt er, wie das Gerippe Unsterblich besiegt werden kann. Wasja gelingt es, ihn zu überwinden und seine Geliebte zu befreien. Als die Diener des Gerippes ihn zu dessen Nachfolger ernennen möchten, flieht er mit Aljonuschka und Weißchen.

Anmerkungen
Feuer, Wasser und Posaunen hatte am 29. Dezember 1968 seine sowjetische Premiere. Am 13. Dezember 1968 wurde er in der DDR erstaufgeführt und am 27. Oktober 1989 erschien er erneut in den Kinos. Im Fernsehen lief er erstmals am 9. Dezember 1984 im 2. Programm des Fernsehens der DDR und am 4. April 1994 im bundesdeutschen Fernsehen auf ORB.

In den Credits der deutschsprachigen Fassung ist Wera Altaiskaja als Darstellerin der Baba Jaga genannt, tatsächlich spielte sie aber deren Tochter. Zudem wurde die Handlung leicht gekürzt: In der Originalfassung beginnt der Film damit, wie Aljonuschka und Weißchen von einem Wolf bedroht werden. Nachdem Wassja den Wolf verjagt hat, stellt sich heraus, dass es sich bei diesem um den Diener von Gerippe Unsterblich, Schwarzkopf, handelt. Eine weitere Szene, in der Aljonuschka im Turm singt, fehlt ebenfalls.

Die von Nikolai Budaschkin komponierte Filmmusik wurde beim vierten Allunionsfilmfestival 1970 in Minsk prämiert.

Synchronisation
Den Dialog der DEFA-Synchronisation schrieb Günter Neubert, die Regie übernahm Margot Seltmann.

Weblinks

 Feuer, Wasser und Posaunen auf kino-teatr.ru (russisch)

Einzelnachweise

Filmtitel 1968
Sowjetischer Film
Märchenfilm
Kinderfilm
Hexerei im Film


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Date Issued: Apr 30, 2019 - 4:42pm
Washoe County Sheriff's Office updates officer involved shooting investigation
Washoe County Sheriff's Office detectives continue to lead the regional investigation of an officer involved shooting that occurred late Sunday night on Abbay Way in Sparks.
As previously reported by the Sparks Police Department, officers initially responded to the 400 block of Abbay Way at approximately 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, April 28 on a report of an intoxicated suicidal subject. Officers arrived on the scene and made contact with the subject. After further investigation, it was determined that the subject was not suicidal, did not meet the criteria for a legal hold, and that no crime had been committed.
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Hanukkah ends tomorrow. I'm not Jewish, but as a Christian, Jewish holidays have significance for me. At first thought, Hanukkah may have less significance than other Jewish holidays, but after some contemplation, maybe its implication for my faith increases. Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, is a celebration of the cleansing of the Jewish temple. The Jewish people lost their independence in 586 B.C. when they were taken captive by the Babylonians. Though their subservience changed throughout the following years, they continued to be under another nations' rule until Jerusalem fell in 70 A. D., and the Jewish nation ceased to exist. They became a nation once again on May 14, 1948 when the United Nations recognized Israel's sovereignty. Even though the Jews were controlled by other countries after the exiles returned to Israel, their practices were often respected, but in 167 B.C., Antiochus Epiphanies, of the Seleucid Empire, erected a statue to Zeus in the Jewish temple and sacrificed a pig on the altar. A Jewish priest, named Mattathias, and his five sons let a revolt against Antiochus and led Israel into a period of peace. In 165 B.C. the temple was restored to the Jewish people, it was cleansed, and rededicated to God. Though the Jews really had not won their complete independence, they were able to remain fairly unmolested until the Roman Empire asserted their control and authority over Israel. Hanukkah is a celebration of the cleansing of the temple in 165 B.C., and in a sense is a celebration of Jewish independence and freedom. It is not an Old Testament festival, such as Passover, but rather it is a celebration of an event in Jewish history. It is called the "Festival of Lights" because there is a story connected to this cleansing that says when the priest went to light the menorah, he only had enough oil to last for a day. The story goes that the candles burned for eight days, therefore the festival is now celebrated for eight days.
Here's the implication of Hanukkah for me, as a Christian. It is interesting that Hanukkah is celebrated at the beginning of the Christmas season. While the brief remission of domination for the Hebrew people is important to me, the greater importance is the freedom from tyranny and domination of sin offered through Christ's redemption of humanity. The "Festival of Lights" is strategically placed around the beginning of December, and I can connect it to celebrating the real light Who came into the world, Jesus Christ. The Apostle John wrote of Christ, the Light, in the opening words to his gospel: "In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it. There came a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to testify about the Light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light, but he came to testify about the Light. There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens every man."
To my Jewish friends: Happy Hanukkah. For Christians around the world, we have a wonderful reason to celebrate as well. The greatest Light, Jesus Christ, has come into the world offering hope and forgiveness to mankind.
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It is interesting for me to note that all through the Old and New Testament, God/Jesus assures Israel that He will watch over them. John also addresses this in Revelation Chapter 21 in reference to The New Jerusalem. In verse 12 he says, "On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of Israel." Later in verse 23 John tells us that there will be no need for light because, "the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp." That will truly be a "Festival of Lights!"


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Merriman defends dismantled field hospitals as COVID-19 again dominates question period
In a question period again dominated by Opposition criticism of the Saskatchewan government's COVID-19 response, Health Minister Paul Merriman was asked to defend a decision made in June to decommission pandemic field hospitals.
"Why dismantle the field hospitals when you knew they were going to be needed?" asked Saskatchewan NDP Leader Ryan Meili in the chamber Monday, referencing June 15 COVID-19 modelling that predicted a spike in cases over the following months.
In response, Merriman said "the recommendation for dismantling" the two field hospitals came from the Saskatchewan Health Authority. He said the recent need for ICU-patient transfer to Ontario arose from a shortage of skilled health-care workers rather than beds or equipment.
"Those field hospitals were dismantled but we made sure the human resources were in the right place at the right time."
Saskatchewan Health to decommission COVID-19 field hospitals in coming weeks
Speaking to reporters following question period, Merriman said the equipment and beds set up in the field hospitals were redistributed around the province after the closures.
"The modelling we had at that time, which was the first modelling that we'd ever seen, was very scary numbers. We wanted to be prepared for that," Merriman added.
Located in Saskatoon at Merlis Belsher Place and the International Trade Centre in Regina, the field hospitals were set up to support about 300 to 650 patients combined if needed. They were set up early in the COVID-19 pandemic to deal with potential increased patient volumes.
Saskatchewan Health Authority CEO Scott Livingstone in June that "the creation of these field hospitals were an essential component of our defensive strategy. And while we continue to monitor COVID hospitalizations and ensure surge plans are in place, we believe field hospitals no longer need to be part of those plans, and are very pleased that we never had to use them."
COVID-19: Active cases lowest in over 2 months as Saskatchewan adds 3 new deaths
Meili also again used question period to suggest the government could have acted sooner to enact mask and vaccine mandates and to request federal assistance to bolster health care staffing. Merriman used his responses to thank health care workers and tout the recent activation of the Provincial Emergency Operations Centre.
"Part of their process is to reach out to other provinces and other states to see if there's help," he said, adding the province has been in constant
NDP Municipal Affairs critic Matt Love, meanwhile, asked why Government Relations Minister Don McMorris indicated to Saskatoon Mayor Charlie Clark that a proposed bylaw limiting gatherings in the city would not be supported by the province. The bylaw was eventually voted down by Saskatoon city council.
"Why is this government stopping the city of Saskatoon form taking the public health leadership that experts are calling for?" he asked
McMorris responded that "cities have the responsibility of their own facilities".
"They can determine how many people can attend a concert, for example. We have the responsibility on so many other fronts, such as health care. The city of Saskatoon knew what the response would be and I think that was reflected in their vote."
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