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Maria Varela
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Long before Maria Varela started taking photos for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), she had a philosophy around the images she wanted to create for the civil rights organization. That philosophy, she says, "was to show black people in charge of their own resistance."
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Coppola v. Smith
Coppolav.Smith
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIAApr 4, 2015
Case No.: 1:11-cv1257-AWI-BAM (E.D. Cal. Apr. 4, 2015)
Otay Land Co. v. U.E. Ltd., L.P.
On that point, we agree. (Coppola v. Smith(E.D. Cal., Apr. 6, 2015, No. 1:11-cv1257-AWI-BAM), 2015 WL 1537574…
1 Citing Case
Case No.: 1:11-cv1257-AWI-BAM
VIOLA COPPOLA, GARY COPPOLA, and THE TRUST OF ANTHONY M. COPPOLA, Plaintiff, v. GREGORY SMITH, an individual; RICHARD LASTER, an individual; and THE JANE HIGGINS NASH TRUST; JANE NASH AS EXECUTOR OF THE ESTATE OF DECATUR HIGGINS, HARLEY MILLER, an individual; CHERYL MILLER, an individual; MARTIN AND MARTIN PROPERTIES, BENART MAIN STREET PROPERTIES, CAL WATER SERVICE COMPANY, the CITY OF VISALIA and DOES 1-20, inclusive, Defendants. RELATED CROSS AND COUNTER-CLAIMS
Barbara A. McAuliffe UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE
ORDER ON THE PARTIES' CROSS MOTIONS TO COMPEL
(Doc. 256)
Plaintiffs Gary Coppola, the Trust of Anthony M. Coppola, and the Viola M. Coppola Irrevocable Trust (collectively "Coppola") and Defendant Cal Water bring cross motions to compel in this CERCLA groundwater contamination action. The Motions were heard on March 20, 2015, at 2:00 PM, before United States Magistrate Judge Barbara A. McAuliffe. Counsel Jan Greben and Brett Boon appeared in person on behalf of Plaintiffs. Counsel Patrick Schoenberg appeared in person and Counsel Noah Perch-Ahern appeared by telephone on behalf of Defendant Cal-Water. Having considered the joint statement of the parties, argument presented at the hearing, as well as the Court's file, Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel is DENIED in PART and GRANTED in PART. Cal-Water's Motion to Compel is DENIED.
II. BACKGROUND
A. Factual Background
The underlying CERCLA action arises from the chemical contamination of property surrounding a dry cleaning business in Visalia, California. Plaintiffs are owners and operators of a dry cleaning facility, commonly known as One Hour Martinizing, located at 717 West Main Street, Visalia, California 93291. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) found that Plaintiffs "are a responsible party" for the release of Tetrachloroethylene ("PCE") from Plaintiffs' Property to surrounding soil and groundwater because Plaintiffs have "been using PCE since at least 1994" and "are the current owners and operator of a facility that overlies a plume of PCE contamination." (DTSC Order, p. 2). DTSC ordered Plaintiffs to investigate and remediate the contamination caused by their dry cleaning operations.
Other defendants in this action own or did own dry cleaning facilities or property where dry cleaning facilities operated in the vicinity of the contamination.
Defendant Cal Water owns and operates public drinking water systems throughout California and the City of Visalia. At the time relevant to this action, Cal Water owned and operated well CWS 02-03 ("CWS 02-03"), a well located 20 feet east of Plaintiffs' Property. In 2000, Cal Water stopped operating CWS 02-03 because of increasing levels of PCE contamination.
In the operative sixth amended complaint, Coppola alleges that Cal Water's operation of CWS 02-03 led to the increased release and spread of PCE contamination. Coppola seeks damages from all Defendants, including contribution and indemnification, associated with soil and groundwater contamination.
B. Procedural Background
As stated above, Plaintiffs are alleged to be partly responsible for a PCE plume in the vicinity of their property. Plaintiffs brought suit against Cal Water alleging that Cal Water contributed to the spread of PCE contamination through the operation of CWS 02-03. See Sixth Amended Complaint, p. 10:23. That claim was subject to several motions to dismiss which narrowed the actionable legal theory upon which Plaintiffs may proceed against Cal-Water. District Judge Anthony W. Ishii issued an Order on Cal Water's Motion to Dismiss the Fifth Amended Complaint on May 14, 2014. (Doc. 214). That Order dismissed Plaintiffs' CERCLA "transporter claim" under Section 9607(a)(4) and its "pumping theory" claim under Section 9607(a)(2). The District Court however refused to dismiss Plaintiff's claim subjecting Cal Water to liability as a "prior owner or operator" as follows:
This Court will not address the District Court's Order Dismissing certain claims against Defendant Cal-Water in detail, but only the aspects relevant to the parties' discovery issue. For a more complete procedural background dismissal orders see generally, Docs. (119, 147, 214).
With this reading of Paragraph 69, and construing the factual allegations in the light most favorable to Coppola, the Court is satisfied that Coppola has alleged a violation of § 9607(a)(2). The allegations show that PCE contaminated water entered the Well during the pumping process. When the pumps stopped, PCE-contaminated water then exited through the Well openings. It is not entirely clear how the PCE-contaminated water exited the Well. However, given the definition of the term "disposal," it is reasonably inferred that the PCE-contaminated water either "leaked" out of the Well openings or was "discharged" out of the Well openings. See 42 U.S.C. § 9601(29); cf. Carson Harbor, 270 F.3d at 879. Therefore, the allegations indicate that a "disposal" occurred "at the Well."
(Doc. 214, p. 14:16-24) (internal citations omitted)
Based on this ruling, the primary remaining claim against Cal Water is related to water that entered and exited CWS 02-04.
Formal discovery is not yet open in this case as the parties have not participated in a Rule 26 Scheduling Conference. In an informal discovery conference on November 20, 2013, Plaintiffs expressed a need to conduct limited early discovery prior to the parties' Rule 26 (f) discovery conference. The Court agreed to allow early discovery if the parties stipulated to an agreed discovery plan. On January 3, 2014, the Court issued a Modified Stipulated Scheduling Order between Plaintiffs, Cal-Water, and the other defendants setting forth the parameters of early discovery in this case including written discovery, depositions, and investigatory field work. (Doc. 192).
The parties filed their joint discovery dispute on January 30, 2015. (Doc. 256). The Court continued the hearing to allow the resolution of a related state court motion and oral argument occurred on March 20, 2015. (Doc 259). Primarily at issue in Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel is the appropriate geographic scope of discovery in this matter. Plaintiffs' seek information pertaining to Cal Water's patterns and practices relative to its groundwater wells throughout the City of Visalia and at surface property surrounding CWS 02-03. Cal Water's competing Motion to Compel seeks responses to several interrogatories regarding the amount of PCE that entered into and was released from CWS 02-03, as well as requests for admissions related to whether Plaintiffs are a source of PCE contamination with a legal right to control tenant dry cleaning operations on their property.
III. LEGAL STANDARDS
The scope of discovery under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b) is broad: "Parties may obtain discovery regarding any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party's claim or defense." Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1). "Relevant information need not be admissible at trial if the discovery appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence." Id. As the Supreme Court reiterated in Oppenheimer Fund, Inc. v. Sanders, 437 U.S. 340 (1978), relevance "has been construed broadly to encompass any matter that bears on, or that reasonably could lead to other matter that could bear on, any issue that is or may be in the case." 437 U.S. at 351 (citing Hickman v. Taylor, 329 U.S. 495, 501 (1947)).
The party seeking to compel discovery has the initial burden of establishing that its request satisfies the relevance requirements of Rule 26(b)(1). Reece v. Basi, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 78307, 2014 WL 2565986, at *2 (E.D. Cal. 2014) (Claire, M.J.). Following that showing (or if relevance is plain from the face of the request), the party who resists discovery then has the burden to show that discovery should not be allowed, and carries the "heavy burden of clarifying, explaining, and supporting its objections." Blankenship v. Hearst Corp., 519 F.2d 418, 429 (9th Cir. 1975).
IV. DISCUSSION
A. Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel
Plaintiffs' claims against Cal-Water are based on Cal-Water's ownership and maintenance of Cal Water's Supply Well CWS 02-03. Plaintiffs move to compel written discovery related to: (1) all water wells owned by Cal-Water within the City of Visalia; (2) the property owned by Cal Water surrounding CWS 02-03, and (3) all documents related to Cal Water's PCE litigation from a separate action pending in the San Mateo County Superior Court. Cal-Water refuses to produce discovery of any material that exceeds the scope of the single well CWS 02-03 as irrelevant.
In their motion to compel, Plaintiffs also argue that Cal Water initially refused to produce documents related to CWS 02-03. At oral argument, Cal Water explained that prior to the motion to compel hearing it intentionally withheld roughly 22,000 documents directly related to CWS 02-03. Although relevant discovery, Cal Water refused to produce these admittedly relevant documents until a dispute involving a protective order in the Dow state court litigation was resolved. At the instant hearing, Cal Water indicated that the underlying protective order issue was resolved and the previously withheld documents related to CWS 02-03 were forthcoming. Plaintiffs' motion to compel the CWS 02-03 documents is therefore DENIED as MOOT.
1. Document Requests - Wells Within the City of Visalia - Set One (Nos. 59, 60, 69, 79, 83-85, 89-107, 109-111, 113-128, 131-136, 138-142).
Coppola seeks documents relative to various aspects of Cal Water's groundwater well siting, construction, operation, maintenance, repair, abandonment, testing, and related environmental concerns for all of Cal Water's wells within the City of Visalia. According to Coppola, Cal Water's "patterns and practices" within the City of Visalia are relevant to Coppola's claims, defenses, and Cal Water's liability allocation. Coppola further argues that Cal Water's patterns and practices will establish that despite Cal Water's knowledge that its wells were exacerbating the contamination plume; Cal Water failed to take reasonable measures to preclude further spread of contamination. Finally, Plaintiffs argue that their allegations cannot be contained to CWS 02-03 as Plaintiffs may assert allegations pertaining to other wells against Cal-Water at a later date.
Cal Water initially argued that Coppola has been unclear as to the geographic limitation; some discovery requests relate strictly to the well and the well property, others are within 2000 feet of the well, the well system within the City of Visalia, or no geographic restriction at all. However, Coppola states that after significant meet and confer efforts, Coppola has "geographically limited [their requests] to wells within Visalia." (Doc. 256 at 3).
Cal Water refuses to produce any discovery that does not specifically relate to well CWS-02-03 as irrelevant. According to Cal-Water, the District Court granted Cal-Water's Motion to Dismiss in part thereby limiting Coppola's claims against Cal Water to those relating specifically to CWS 02-03. Cal-Water contends that there is an absence of good cause for production of any documents regarding its other well locations within the City of Visalia.
i. Analysis
The Court agrees with Cal-Water that based on the circumstances of this case, the geographic scope of Coppola's discovery requests are overbroad and should be contained to the theory of liability defined by the pleadings and the Court's prior Orders of dismissal.
The scope of discovery is broad but it is not without limits, Republic of Ecuador v. Mackay, 742 F.3d 860, 866 (9th Cir. 2014), and the Court is vested with broad discretion to manage discovery, Dichter-Mad Family Partners, LLP v. U.S., 709 F.3d 749, 751 (9th Cir. 2013) (per curiam), cert. denied, 134 S. Ct. 117; Hunt v. Cnty. of Orange, 672 F.3d 606, 616 (9th Cir. 2012); Surfvivor Media, Inc. v. Survivor Prods., 406 F.3d 625, 635 (9th Cir. 2005); Hallett v. Morgan, 296 F.3d 732, 751 (9th Cir. 2002). "Parties may obtain discovery regarding any nonprivileged matter that is relevant to any party's claim or defense," and "[r]elevant information need not be admissible at the trial if the discovery appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence." Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1). Furthermore, "[f]or good cause, the court may order discovery of any matter relevant to the subject matter involved in the action." Id.
Cal-Water's argument that Plaintiffs' discovery requests are overly broad based on the District Court's limitation is well taken. The District Court's dismissal order narrowed the potential source of liability against Cal-Water to PCE contaminated water that "entered" and was then "released" from CWS 02-03 into a previously uncontaminated location under Section 9607(a)(2)'s "former owner/operator theory." (Doc. 214 at 14:7-10). Plaintiffs are therefore limited to recovery against Cal Water in this action based upon the remaining claim that the contamination introduced into the water table was spread by the intake and release of water from CWS 02-03.
Although not cited in Plaintiffs' briefing, Plaintiffs argued at the hearing that discovery related to all of Cal Water's wells within the City of Visalia correlates with the Gore factors. Generally, in allocating response costs among liable parties in a contribution case, a court may consider equitable "Gore factors" as the court determines are appropriate. Coppola argues the Gore factors allow a Court to consider general pattern and practices with respect to contamination. These factors, however, are neither mandatory nor exclusive. Boeing Co. v. Cascade Corp., 207 F.3d 1177, 1187 (9th Cir. 2000) (district court has "discretion to decide what factors ought to be considered" in contribution scheme).
The "Gore factors," so named as part of a 1980 House Superfund Bill sponsored by then-congressman Albert Gore, include (1) the ability of the parties to demonstrate that their contribution to a discharge, release, or disposal of a hazardous waste can be distinguished, (2) the amount of the hazardous waste involved, (3) the degree of toxicity of the hazardous waste involved, (4) the degree of involvement by the parties in the generation, transportation, treatment, storage, or disposal of the hazardous waste, (5) the degree of care exercised by the parties with respect to the hazardous waste concerned, taking into account the characteristics of such hazardous waste, and (6) the degree of cooperation by the parties with Federal, State, or local officials to prevent any harm to the public health or the environment. Kerr-McGee Chemical Corporation v. Lefton Iron & Metal Company, 14 F.3d 321, 326 & n. 4 (7th Cir. 1994) (listing equitable factors courts may consider, including so-called "Gore factors").; see also Norfolk S. Ry. Co. v. Gee Co., 2002 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18980, 2002 WL 31163777, at *32 & n. 28 (N.D. Ill. September 30, 2002).
The Court is particularly concerned with the limited scope of Cal Water's potential liability, i.e., CWS 02-03. CERCLA is a strict liability statute in that it does not require culpable conduct, and it is interpreted liberally in order to achieve the goals of cleaning up hazardous waste sites promptly and ensuring that the responsible parties pay the costs of the clean-up. Voggenthaler v. Maryland Square, LLC, 724 F.3d 1050, 1061, 1064 (9th Cir. 2013). Section 9607(a)(2) imposes liability on those who owned or operated a facility at the time of a disposal, regardless of intent. See, e.g., Carson Harbor Vill., Ltd. v. Unocal Corp, 270 F.3d 863, 881 (9th Cir. 2001).
Plaintiffs' current allegations involve claims of Cal Water's ownership and operation of CWS 02-03, a well located 20 feet from Plaintiffs' property. Pattern and practice information unrelated to CWS 02-03 lacks relevancy to Plaintiffs' current claims even in spite of Coppola's argument concerning the Gore factors. The focus of discovery is Cal Water's potential liability. Extending the scope of discovery to include all wells owned by Cal-Water in the City of Visalia would give Plaintiffs a license to embark on a fishing expedition. In light of the limited nature of Cal-Water's liability in this case and the multiple dismissal orders narrowing the scope of Cal-Water's liability to CWS 02-03, the Court DENIES Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel discovery related to all of Cal-Water's wells within the City of Visalia.
2. Cal Water's Surrounding Property (Set one) (Nos. 28-30, 61, 64-66, 71)
Coppola moves to compel discovery related to any environmental testing, environmental assessments, regulatory orders, and environmental investigations conducted on the Cal Water owned property immediately surrounding CWS 02-03 ("CWS Property"). Coppola argues this discovery is relevant to defend against Cal Water's counterclaim which alleges that Coppola "caused the spread of contaminants to surrounding properties, including but not limited to the [CWS] property." Counterclaim ¶ 10. Coppola also requests this information to establish whether Cal-Water knew that CWS 02-03 was contributing to the contamination plume and the extent of contribution. Cal Water objects that this information is irrelevant because it seeks information beyond the confines of CWS 02-03.
Rule 26 states that information is discoverable if relevant to "any party's claim or defense." Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1). Cal Water's counterclaim specifically alleges that Coppola has caused spread of contaminants "to surrounding properties, including but not limited to the [CWS] Property." The Court agrees with Plaintiffs that this information is relevant under 26(b) and in light of Cal-Water's counterclaim. See United States v. Shaw, No. 04-2503 RDR, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32648, 2005 WL 3418497, at * 1 (D. Kan. 2005) (stating that "a request for discovery should be considered relevant if there is 'any possibility' that the information sought may be relevant to the claim or defense of any party"). Thus, Coppola is entitled to information pertaining to the CWS Property to defend against Cal Water's counter claims. Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel discovery responses pertaining to the CWS Property surrounding CWS 02-03 is GRANTED.
3. Cal Water's Concurrent PCE Litigation - Set Two (Nos. 143-146)
In their third issue, Coppola moves to compel discovery from a state court action initiated by Cal Water. Coppola explains that Cal Water is a Plaintiff in related litigation in the San Mateo County Superior Court entitled Cal Water v. Dow, et al. (Dow Litigation), in which Cal Water asserted claims against companies that make PCE, manufacture dry cleaner equipment, and chemical suppliers. In the Dow litigation, Cal Water alleges that dry cleaners have released PCE, which damaged Cal Water's supply wells. Coppola argues this discovery is relevant to the instant matter because the Dow litigation involves allegations of PCE contamination as well as Coppola's dry cleaners, other named dry cleaners in this litigation, and Cal Water's wells. Plaintiffs further argue that Cal Water already has this information within its possession which minimizes the burden of production. Cal Water objects to production of the Dow litigation file because those documents relate to claims or defenses in the Dow matter, not the instant matter. (Doc. 256 at 11).
As addressed above, FRCP 26(b)(1) allows discovery of any matter that is relevant to any party's claim and defense and non-privileged. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(1). Plaintiffs' wholesale discovery request of Cal Water's state court file is unrelated to the subject matter of this litigation—CWS 02-03. These requests seek the production of an entire litigation file from a State court action in which Cal Water sought to recover for property damage to its facilities throughout the State of California. The genesis of Plaintiffs' claims against Cal Water as ordered by Judge Ishii is confined to CWS 02-03. The Dow litigation, which far exceeds the scope of CWS 02-03, involves more than twenty parties, and over five years of litigation involving allegations that are unrelated to the instant matter. In short, Plaintiffs have not met their burden to establish that this wide breadth of information is reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence in this matter. Plaintiffs' Motion to Compel Cal Water's entire Dow litigation file is DENIED.
B. Cal Water's Motion to Compel
On July 31, 2014, Cal Water propounded various written discovery on Plaintiffs. After providing initial responses, Plaintiffs provided supplemental discovery responses which Cal Water argues are insufficient. Generally, Cal Water moves to compel responses to several interrogatories regarding the amount of PCE that entered into and was released from Well 02-03, as well as requests for admissions related to whether Plaintiffs are a source of PCE contamination with a legal right to control tenant dry cleaning operations on their property.
1. Interrogatories (Nos. 3-8) - PCE Amounts and Calculations
Cal Water moves to compel complete responses to interrogatories Nos. 3 to 8 which seeks information supporting Plaintiffs' contention that water containing PCE was taken in and then released from Well 02-3 (Rog. No. 3), the total amount of such water and the amount of PCE involved (Rog. Nos. 4, 5), the methodology used to determine these amounts (Rog. Nos. 6, 7), and the sources of the PCE. (Rog No. 8). Without producing a privilege log, Coppola objects that all documents, test results, and information supporting their claim is protected as work product of their (expert) consultants. Cal Water's response is two-fold: first, Cal Water seeks existing data (such as test results) and not reports made specifically for litigation. Second, Cal Water argues that pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26(b)(4)(D), a nontestfying expert' s information is discoverable under the doctrine of unfairness. Cal Water argues that this suit is based on land conditions from 15 years ago and therefore it is impossible for Cal Water to conduct independent testing of these locations. According to Cal Water, it is unfair for Plaintiffs' to withhold information that Cal Water cannot obtain through other methods.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26 controls expert disclosures, reports, and expert discovery generally. Expert opinions are protected by the work product doctrine, which extends to litigation consultants and retained experts. Fed. R. Civ. P. 26(b)(3)(A)). The Federal Civil Procedure Rutter Guide, states "distinctions between work product and non-work product material often can be made by focusing on whether the information or document is derivative of the attorneys (or their agents) work as compared with nonderviative information. See WILLIAM SCHWARZER, ET AL., CAL. PRAC. GUIDE: FED. CIV. PRO. BEFORE TRIAL at § 11:866 (The Rutter Guide 2012).
At the outset, the Court notes that the questions call for expert testimony. The questions do not call for information within Plaintiffs' personal knowledge, or reasonably obtainable, outside of obtaining an expert. Fed.R.Evid. 602. Any expert interpretation is undiscoverable at this time as protected by the attorney-client work product doctrine. The investigation surrounding the source of the PCE contamination is ongoing, and as a result, Coppola's experts cannot develop opinions or methodologies until the data collection is complete. However, the parties do not dispute that it is improper for an interrogatory to seek the writings or the opinions of an expert prior to the exchange of expert witnesses. Fed. R. Civ. P. 33(a)(2) ("While "[a]n interrogatory is not objectionable merely because it asks for an opinion or contention that relates to fact or the application of fact to law," the court can allow a party to wait to answer such an interrogatory "until designated discovery is complete").
Acknowledging that expert opinions are privileged, Cal Water clarifies that it does not seek an expert report or expert opinions; instead Cal Water seeks the data that underlies the expert opinions. Because Coppola represents that all raw data collected to date; including testing results, water level, Cal Water's pump rates, and PCE concentrations has been produced, the Court infers that the heart of the parties' dispute is not whether the raw data is discoverable, but whether Coppola's references to the public domain or large files constitutes a satisfactory interrogatory response.
Rule 33(d) provides:
If the answer to an interrogatory may be determined by examining, auditing, compiling, abstracting, or summarizing a party's business records . . . and if the burden of deriving or ascertaining the answer will be substantially the same for either party, the responding party may answer by . . . specifying the records that must be reviewed, in sufficient detail to enable the interrogating party to locate and identify them as readily as the responding could[.]
At oral argument, Coppola explained that their interrogatory responses point to a relatively small number of documents (2,000 to 3,000), all of which arguably support a response to the broad nature of Cal Water's interrogatories. Coppola argued that they are not required to parse through their discovery responses and produce specific answers to Cal Water's interrogatories. The Court agrees.
Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 33(d) gives Coppola the option to simply specify the documents that must be reviewed to ascertain the answers sought by Cal Water. Further, because it appears that the burden of combing through these documents would be substantially the same for either party, Coppola is permitted to cause Cal Water to bear that burden. Coppola's interrogatory responses pointing Cal Water to the public domain and other documents such as the DTSC report therefore satisfies Plaintiffs' burden under Rule 33. Accordingly, as all of the raw facts, data, and testing results have already been produced by Coppola, Cal-Water's Motion to Compel Interrogatories Nos. 3-8 is DENIED.
2. Requests for Admission (Nos. 6, 7, 9).
Cal-Water challenges three of Plaintiffs' responses to requests for admission including that: Plaintiffs failure to admit that the dry cleaning businesses on their property were a source of PCE contamination in soil and groundwater (RFA Nos. 6 and 7) and that Coppola has the legal right to control the actions of their tenants (RFA No. 9). Coppola objects that Cal-Water's RFA's seek a legal conclusion, specifically that: (1) the source of the PCE contamination is heavily in dispute and (2) must be determined by an expert. According to Coppola, an admission as to the source of PCE, this early in the case, is premature.
In a request for admission, a party may seek an admission of "fact, the application of law to fact, or opinions about either." Fed. R. Civ. P. 36(a)(1)(A). Although Rule 36 allows for requests applying law to fact, "[r]equests for admissions cannot be used to compel an admission of a conclusion of law." Playboy Enters., Inc. v. Welles, 60 F. Supp. 2d 1050, 1057 (S.D. Cal 1999) (citation omitted); see also Stark-Romero v. Nat'l R.R. Passenger Corp., 275 F.R.D. 551, 554 (D.N.M. 2011) ("It is still true, however, that one party cannot demand that the other party admit the truth of a legal conclusion." (collecting cases)); Lakehead Pipe Line Co. v. Am. Home Assurance Co., 177 F.R.D. 454, 458 (D. Minn. 1997) ("[A] request for admission which involves a pure matter of law, that is, requests for admission which are related to the facts of the case, are considered inappropriate.").
Such is the case here. Plaintiffs argue that whether Coppola's property constitutes "a source" of PCE contamination in either the soil or groundwater near Coppola's Property is a legal term of art that is subject to an expert opinion. As explained by Coppola, determining a source of PCE contamination within the CERCLA context is not a straightforward determination as to which properties released PCE. CERCLA does not define "source," but it does assign the scope of liability based on "potentially responsible parties." 42 U.S.C. § 9607(a)(4)(B). CERCLA casts a wide net in bringing in responsible parties and arguably, a potentially responsible party may not be a source of contamination. While Coppola has been identified as a "responsible party" by the DTSC, this is distinct from the conclusion that Coppola is a source of PCE contamination. Plaintiffs' consultants are engaged in an ongoing investigation to determine the full delineation of the PCE plume to establish each source. Additionally, Cal Water's RFA No. 9 explicitly seeks a legal conclusion in seeking an admission that Coppola had the "legal right to control" a business. The legal right to control a business is a factor in determining whether a party may qualify as a potentially responsible party, a prerequisite to a finding of liability. Anderson Bros., Inc. v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Ins. Co., 729 F.3d 923, 929 (9th Cir. 2013) (discussing potentially responsible party and the "narrowly applicable" "innocent landowner" defense pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 9601(35), 9607(a)-(b)). As a result, this legal status is an issue of contention. Under such circumstances, Plaintiffs are not bound to answer the RFA's and have properly objected on the ground that it calls for a legal conclusion. Accordingly, Cal Water's Motion to Compel responses to RFA's 6, 7 and 9 is DENIED.
IV. CONCLUSION
Based on the foregoing, it is HEREBY ORDERED that:
1. Plaintiffs' motion to compel production of documents regarding wells within the City of Visalia (Set One, No. 59, 60, 69, 79, 83-85, 89-107, 109-111, 113-128, 131-136, 138-142) is DENIED;
2. Plaintiffs' motion to compel production of documents regarding Cal Water's Property at Issue (Set One, No. 28-30, 61, 64-66, 71) is GRANTED;
3. Plaintiffs' motion to compel Cal Water's previous PCE litigation (Set Two, No.143-146), is DENIED;
4. Cal Water's motion to compel further interrogatory responses (Interrogatories Nos. 3-8) is DENIED;
5. Cal Water's motion to compel (RFA's Nos. 6, 7 and 9) is DENIED;
6. Cal Water SHALL produce documents responsive to Plaintiffs' propounded discovery as delineated above within 30 days of the service of this order.
Dated: April 4 , 2015
/s/ Barbara A. McAuliffe
UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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One hundred years since Stonehenge was donated to the nation, a group of people who used the famous stone circle to improve their mental health share what it means to them.
"People in the late Victorian period actually took chisels up to the stones to take samples as souvenirs. Thankfully however this no longer happens or there would be nothing left!"
"It was a magical experience to walk the landscape for 10 weeks with experts treating us all as normal intelligent people, instead of our 'illness'." – Claire, Human Henge participant
This is one of Simon James Chaplin's favourite Stonehenge stories and most visitors to the famous stone circle probably share his sentiment, particularly the participants of the Human Henge project.
Human Henge, led by the Restoration Trust in partnership with English Heritage, National Trust, Richmond Fellowship and Bournemouth University, was funded by the National Lottery. It enabled Simon and others with mental health issues to improve their wellbeing using the Stonehenge landscape. They took part in singing and craft activities, learnt about archaeology or simply spent time walking and talking to each other.
For Simon it was a chance to explore a local landmark for the first time and in a way that would help him. "Oddly, although I have lived in Wiltshire since I was two and a half, I had never actually visited Stonehenge before," he says. "Ecotherapy and getting involved in craft projects and music had helped with my mental health problems in the past."
"Human Henge was an important part of my life, it allowed me to reconnect with myself and meet new people," says fellow participant Mr BPD (an alias).
For Claire it was a chance to feel normal. "It was a magical experience to walk the landscape for 10 weeks with experts treating us all as normal intelligent people, instead of our 'illness'."
Lasting impact
"For me the stories I hold most dear from the project are the ones created afterwards such as sharing my birthday with Human Henge friends playing bingo. I normally spend birthdays alone." – Mr BPD, Human Henge participant
The project has now finished, but many of the group remain friends and the lasting impact of their involvement is clear.
"I have reconnected with my love of history, prehistory and archaeology. I have got in touch with my inner child, regaining a joy at the wonder of the world and ancient landscape," says Simon, "Stonehenge and the wider landscape will always hold happy memories for me now."
Mr BPD said: "For me the stories I hold most dear from the project are the ones created afterwards, such as sharing my birthday with Human Henge friends playing bingo. I normally spend birthdays alone."
Many in the group used their experiences to make changes in their lives and to help others with mental health issues.
Simon became an unofficial spokesperson for Human Henge, sharing his experiences and the importance of the project on local television and BBC Radio 4.
Simon explains: "Such projects not only benefit the participants but also wider society. [They] are a genuine example of care in the community and are a great help in the fight against social isolation."
Since taking part in the project, Mr BPD has set up the TUG Trowbridge Service Users Group, a mental health drop-in with art classes and music therapy.
To National Lottery players, he adds: "You're not the only one that wins!"
National Lottery success for Stonehenge
As well as Human Henge, the National Lottery has invested £10million into transforming the site for visitors. 2018 marks 100 years since Cecil Chubb, a local barrister who had bought the ancient monument at an auction, gave it into public ownership.
View from the east of Stonehenge at sunrise
£10m investment from the Heritage Lottery Fund for Stonehenge
Dame Jenny Abramsky, Chair of the Heritage Lottery Fund, said: "Stonehenge is one of the archaeological wonders of the world. It demonstrates the vital role heritage plays within the UK's tourism industry as well as being a great example of our fascinating history. This Heritage Lottery Fund
Sunrise on the summer solstice at Stonehenge
How Stonehenge can improve mental health and wellbeing
An HLF-supported project has found that creative exploration of historic landscapes can have a positive impact on health and wellbeing. Human Henge, which received £63,000 in National Lottery funding, ran four programmes at Neolithic sites Stonehenge and Avebury between autumn 2016 and spring 2018
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Second versus third in the Youth Alliance as Latics travel to Bury.
Bury v Latics at the JD Stadium, 7.00pm kick off.
Second place Shakers v third place Latics in title chasing clash.
Latics with game in hand of both Bury and leaders Rochdale.
With just three league games remaining after tonight's trip to second place side Bury, Latics head to the JD Stadium third in the Football League Youth Alliance on 55 points from 26 matches.
Bury themselves sit second on 59 from 27 matches, with Rochdale (who Latics still have to play) top of the pile on 60 from 27 matches.
Bury were held to a 0-0 draw with Burnley at the weekend, and Rochdale recorded a 3-3 draw against Oldham Athletic, giving Latics the chance to close the gap at the top, extending their unbeaten league run to 20 games since 20 September 2014 with a 2-0 victory away to Port Vale.
Admission for this evening at the JD Stadium is £5.00 for adults, £2.50 for concessions and FREE for Under 16s.


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The Coach of the Season award went to Luiz Felipe Scolari.
Lucas was left out of the FIFA 2014 Brazilian squad by coach Luiz Felipe Scolari.
He was left out of the final squad for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil by Luiz Felipe Scolari.
In April 2013, Matheus was called up by Luiz Felipe Scolari for a friendly against Bolivia, despite never playing professionally before. He was an unused substitute.
In 1997, Jefferson joined Cruzeiro after a successful trial period. He was called up to the first-team three years later by Luiz Felipe Scolari.
He began his career at Grêmio in 1992, but gained prominence with the arrival of coach Luiz Felipe Scolari in 1993. He was successful at Grêmio, winning the Copa Libertadores in 1995.
On 22 May 2007, after a -year absence, Tomás was recalled to the national team by Luiz Felipe Scolari, playing in the 1–1 draw with a Kuwaiti club on 5 June in Kuwait City, and scoring the Portuguese goal.
Ex-Chelsea manager Luiz Felipe Scolari is on record as stating he would have thrown out of the team a player whom he found to be gay. He made the comments during Brazil's 2002 FIFA World Cup campaign.
On September 19, 2012, Kleina, after realizing a good work for Ponte Preta, signed with Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras, that struggle against relegation. The new coach comes to alviverde to replace Luiz Felipe Scolari, .
Matias made his debuts with Portugal in 2003, earning five caps under manager Luiz Felipe Scolari. Over the course of nine seasons in the main category, he amassed totals of 221 games and five goals.
In June 2008, it was reported that Kean was in talks with Chelsea to become assistant manager to Luiz Felipe Scolari. Kean's fluency in Portuguese from his playing days was believed to be a key reason for Chelsea's interest.
On 22 July 2014, Dunga was announced as the new manager of Brazil, replacing Luiz Felipe Scolari. He returned to the position for the first time since Brazil's exit in the 2010 World Cup.
On 30 June 2008, Chelsea signed Deco from FC Barcelona on a three-year contract for €10 million (£8 million). He was the first signing of new Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who was formerly the national coach of Portugal.
On 31 October 2013, after a hiatus of two years, Robinho was recalled to the "Seleção" by coach Luiz Felipe Scolari. He took part in two games against Honduras and Chile on 16 and 19 November respectively.


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Crest curve length when S>L (Vertical curves for highway design)
Crest vertical curves are curves which, when viewed from the side, are convex upwards. This includes vertical curves at hill crests, but it also includes locations where an uphill grade becomes less steep, or a downhill grade becomes steeper. The most important design criterion for these curves is stopping sight distance. This is the distance a driver can see over the crest of the curve. If the driver cannot see an obstruction in the roadway, such as a stalled vehicle or an animal, the driver may not be able to stop the vehicle in time to avoid a crash. The desired stopping sight distance (S) is determined by the speed of traffic on a road. By first finding the stopping sight distance (S) and then solving for the curve length (L) in each of the equations below, the correct curve length can be determined. The proper equation depends on whether the vertical curve is shorter or longer than the available sight distance. Normally, both equations are solved, then the results are compared to the curve length.
The geometric design of roads is the branch of highway engineering concerned with the positioning of the physical elements of the roadway according to standards and constraints. The basic objectives in geometric design are to optimize efficiency and safety while minimizing cost and environmental damage. Geometric design also affects an emerging fifth objective called "livability," which is defined as designing roads to foster broader community goals, including providing access to employment, schools, businesses and residences, accommodate a range of travel modes such as walking, bicycling, transit, and automobiles, and minimizing fuel use, emissions and environmental damage.
Geometric roadway design can be broken into three main parts: alignment, profile, and cross-section. Combined, they provide a three-dimensional layout for a roadway.
1) The alignment is the route of the road, defined as a series of horizontal tangents and curves. (Curve sight Distance)
2) The profile is the vertical aspect of the road, including crest and sag curves, and the straight grade lines connecting them. (Sag curves, Crest curves)
3) The cross section shows the position and number of vehicle and bicycle lanes and sidewalks, along with their cross slope or banking. Cross sections also show drainage features, pavement structure and other items outside the category of geometric design.
L curve length (along the x-axis) (dimensionless)
S headlight sight distance (dimensionless)
h1 Height of eye above roadway (dimensionless)
h2 Height of object above roadway (dimensionless)
A absolute value of the difference in grades (dimensionless)


Josh Ward at Josh Ward Designs, brought my vision to life, gave my words and fabric somewhere to sit. If you ever need an awesome website designed in under 20 seconds, he is your guy. Cliff Olle gave the best advice on so many aspects of building an online community, as did my brother, Rick Eicher, and Becki at quiltropolis. Kaitlin Olle (always and forever spelled with an i) brought our logo to life and helped begin to form a picture in my head of what all of this would look like. Cheryl Clifton, a good MIL and fabulous friend, and my sweet BIL Jason Smith, manipulated our graphics time and time again and inspired so many of the little details on this website.
Jax, Blue, Belle, Aristotle, and my 25 fish suffered for 8 months while I ignored them to build this. Sorry guys, I will make it up to you! My friends and fellow conspirators at Block Central – you supported this project from its conception, were the first ones to glimpse my often awkward ideas, and encouraged me to keep going. Thanks for being my first and so loved patrons. My handful of proofreaders – thanks for catching my misplaced modifiers and apostrophes.
My friend, my teacher, my confidant, my Mom, Nawma. You gave me wings, helped me fly, and often scraped me up off the pavement when I fell in front of a car. Lastly, my love, my life, Billy and the ruler of my world, Sammy. You guys are the ground I stand on and the reason I reach for the stars.


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Jamal Rayyan (; born 23 August 1953 in Tulkarm) is a Palestinian news television anchorman with Al Jazeera Television Network.

Professional experience

Jordan Radio and Television News
From 1974 to 1989 Jammal Rayan worked as news reporter and presenter for Jordan Radio and Television Corporation, Amman (Jordan).

Korean Broadcasting System
From 1974 to 1979 then 1979–1985 he worked as news reporter and Middle Eastern political analyst for Korean Broadcasting System, Seoul (South Korea). He also worked as a news reporter for the Arabic radio station that belongs to KBS Network.

BBC News
From 1994 to 1996 he worked as anchor for the BBC Arabic World Service, London (England).

Abu Dhabi
From 1989 to 1994 then 1997–1999 he worked as news anchor and political program moderator for Abu Dhabi Al Oula Television Network, Abu Dhabi (UAE). He is noted for the programs "The World of News Tonight" and "The Fourth Dimension".

Al Jazeera
From 1996 to 1997 he worked as a program moderator and anchorman with the newly-established Al Jazeera network in Doha, Qatar. He assisted in the channel's creation and in training and mentoring news presenters.

Rayyan participated in news coverage of Iraq, the War on terrorism, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He conducted interviews with presidents, prime ministers, and political key players.

Since 1999, he has returned to working at Al Jazeera.

See also
 List of news presenters

References

Living people
Al Jazeera people
1953 births
Palestinian journalists
Palestinian broadcasters
People from Tulkarm

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Prosecutors: Two charged with reckless endangerment after boy, 4, tossed off bridge
MONTESANO, Wash. -- Prosecutors have charged two people with reckless endangerment after a 4-year-old boy was tossed off a bridge into the Wynoochee River last week in Montesano.
The cell phone video is hard is watch, as the boy is thrown off a bridge by an unidentified man into the river below, where witnesses say his mother was watching.
"Once he hit the water and he came up, he was just screaming and then the mom comforted him as he swam back," Kaylub Fawley said Monday.
Fawley shot the now-viral video, causing outrage on social media.
His friend, Brianna Jones, said she called 911.
"I was scared because at first I thought he was going to smack his head on that lower beam," Jones said. "I thought he broke his neck because he hit his neck and he had a life jacket on, so he got sucked up really fast. When he came up, he was actually screaming and crying. It broke my heart hearing that."
Sheriff's deputies were called to the Devonshire Bridge last week after bystanders witnessed the boy being thrown off the bridge and called police.
Witnesses describe their horror when 4-year-old boy was thrown off bridge
And while the little boy survived the fall, prosecutors decided on Tuesday to charge the mother, 22, for reckless endangerment. They say they also cited the man, 35, who threw the child off the bridge with reckless endangerment and criminal trespassing in the 2nd degree. Both are from Aberdeen.
Reckless endangerment is a gross misdemeanor that can be punished by up to 364 days in jail and/or a $5,000 fine. Criminal trespass in the 2nd degree is a misdemeanor that can be punished by up to 90 days in jail and/or a $1,000 fine.
With nearly 400,000 views on Facebook, Kaylub and Brianna hope all the attention results in some sort of justice for the little boy.
"I just hope something is done about this. I don't want this to be waived over," said Fawley.
"I feel like she needs to go to jail for it or get charged, because you can't just do that to a kid and let it happen," said Jones.
WARNING: The video is graphic and contains strong language
University of Idaho murders: 10 key mysteries that need to be solved


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The PNG format is pretty versatile. It can contain bitmaps indexed with palettes in both 8-bit and 4-bit format, bitmaps in grayscale, bitmaps in 32bit color using alpha masks and so on.
The first thing you have to do is make sure that each image you use is converted to it's most efficient color format. If it's pixeled art, you can reduce the colors in an indexed palette to include just the ones needed. If it has anti-aliased edges, you must save it in 32bit color format to make use of the alpha channel (24 bit for the bitmap data, 8 bit for the alpha channel). 32bit images are always larger in byte size, but of course they look nicer. Even if you're using 32bit images, it can be good to reduce the amount of different colors used as this makes the bitmap data easier to compress. An easy way of doing this is to use the "adjust - posterize" feature in Photoshop.
I use the "save for web" option in Photoshop when I first export my images for use in J2ME games, it is really good on producing indexed images.
The PNG format has support for a lot of descriptive "chunks" that's not really needed just for drawing them in J2ME. These can be removed using PNG optimizer tools. Also, the PNG format uses the deflate algorithm for compression (just as ZIP does) so by using a tool that recompresses the data chunks using a more efficient deflate you can get even smaller PNGs. The PNG format also has support for different "filters" that varies the way the image data is stored. This can be used to optimize a PNG image for smaller size as well.
You can often reduce the total size of your images by joining them together into bigger images (that looks like film strips). The ground rule of compression is that data compresses better when the compression algorithm has more data to work with (instead of compressing images individually). However, sometimes it's better to leave the images separate, as they can be using different optimized 8-bit and 4-bit palettes. You have to try different approaches to find what combination works best for your images.


I have lived in the Cocoa Beach/Merritt Island area for nearly two decades. One of the joys of living here is the opportunity to walk the beach for exercise and to commune with nature. The frequent wave or nod from fellow beachcombers tells me that this is something so many of us share and enjoy.
That said, I have observed commerce encroaching on our beach areas and while I understand tourist economies, as a helicopter buzzed my beach walk this morning for the fourth time, I started thinking what an obnoxious intrusion it is to hear sounds akin to a military invasion overhead when what I only want to hear is the surf.
I don't know why Brevard County didn't think this helicopter tourist business would have a shoreline impact on taxpayers, but it definitely does. Offering short helicopter rides for as little as 10-minute increments that buzz the Canaveral beaches is an affront to the residents who pay dearly to live here and enjoy our natural resources in peace.
Tour companies need to divert their routes and Brevard County needs to support its major taxpaying residential community.
The recent USA TODAY article by Dr. James Proodian, "Learn the sneaky way food labels can deceive you," is nothing short of a hit job on food manufacturers and very misleading.
Proodian says consumers should be careful regarding the words organic, whole grain, sugar, fresh, fat-free, etc. Let's look at these words.
For a processed product to be labeled organic, the USDA says 95 percent of ingredients must be organic. For a processed food product, that sounds pretty darn good.
Whole grain: Since I can't assemble and bind 5,000 lentils to make bread for a sandwich I'll stick with some fantastic, organic, whole-grain breads out there.
Sugar: Proodian says companies are "most devious when they sneak sugar into the food supply." That's a rich statement considering by law food manufacturers must use the exact ingredient name, not just "sugar," for example.
Natural/all-natural: He neglects to say they are following the law because those words mean products can't contain artificial ingredients or preservatives.
Fresh: Here's something he clearly omits. Poultry does not even freeze until it hits 26 degrees Farenheit. Above 26 degrees USDA says it's fresh. 'Nuff said.
He concludes with "free." Um, that was addressed in the 1980s when SnackWell's offered fat-free products, yet still had a lot of sugar in them.
There are better ways to inform and educate consumers without demonizing companies producing food products that consumers want. Teach the masses how to interpret labels? Sure. But, don't liken these companies to a Bernie Madoff organization.
The June 9 column by retired police captain Marshall Frank severely damages the reputation he had attained. The white male supremacy infection coursing through his blood unexpectedly seeped out of his pores. Maybe he just completed some sensitivity training a la Starbucks, similar to what our military tried years ago, which resulted in the trainees having a more educated vocabulary in expressing their prejudice, racism and bigotry. The latter three diseases, he calls "neo-expletives."
He postulates that equality and appreciation of diversity have been carried too far by the LGBTQ community, the new minority group on the block. He takes a "code" shot at black pro football players, and I guess, forgot to poke at Spanish-speaking baseball players.
Love is the antidote for hate. Mr. Frank thinks we should be more worried about North Korea, ISIS, Iran, opioids, etc., than the very evils that have been created because of bullies who deplore equality and stomp down diversity.
The wonderful harmony of Peter, Paul and Mary hangs in the air: "When will we ever learn, when will we ever learn?"
Marshall Frank's June 9 column talks about why it has been necessary to alter and change things that seemed normal to bigots, who have used bigotry to keep control of the electorate and our nation's lawmakers.
If Mr. Frank were a woman, he might understand the need to change the perception of those leaders of America who do not want equality for women or any other minority. Women in America have not yet reached equal status. The Equal Rights Amendment has not been passed. And Republicans continue to keep it from passing.
Women are in a second-class status. I also note that Mr. Frank has not had to work, live or be educated as a minority of color. His years of being on Miami's police force may have gave him a jaded view of minority problems, of self-support or merely driving while black on American roads.
As a person who helped to integrate lunch counters, all-white housing blocks and supported Title IX, to give girls equal opportunities, I know that things must be changed to make America reach its promise.


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COVID-19 emergency declaration extended through year's end
She Drives Trucks Staff (TN)
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Friday, Sept. 12, announced it is extending its COVID-19 emergency declaration, which suspends hours of service regulations for certain haulers, through Dec. 31.
The declaration was issued following President Trump's declaration of national emergency in March. It has been extended several times and was most recently set to expire today, Sept. 14. The suspension of Parts 390 through 399 of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations applies to the transportation of the following:
Livestock and livestock feed
Medical supplies and equipment related to the testing, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19
Supplies and equipment necessary for community safety, sanitation and prevention of community transmission of COVID-19, such as masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, soap and disinfectants
Food, paper products and other groceries for emergency restocking of distribution centers or stores
Top rookie military veteran trucker award finalists named
Woman driver one of 3 Road Warriors honored by Pilot
FMCSA seeks comments on 18-20-year-old interstate drivers
This is what they're looking for in enforcement blitz


After speaking at the annual Tolpuddle festival yesterday, I can confirm that the spirit of the Tolpuddle Martyrs is alive and well, 179 years on. But the publication of the government's new Lobbying Bill proves that the spirit of Squire Frampton is doing pretty well too.
Squire James Frampton was a landowner who feared that trade unionism threatened the power base of the wealthy classes, and wanted to use the full power of the law to quash it. By 1834 forming a union was no longer illegal. But Frampton used an obscure law to arrest, prosecute and transport to Australia six agricultural workers from Dorset – the Tolpuddle Martyrs. The real reason for their victimisation, of course, was that these brave land workers had dared to organise against pay cuts.
The Squire would no doubt have approved of the government's new Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trades Union Administration Bill, published last week. A more honest title for it would surely be the Protection of Rich Conservative Party Donors and Gratuitous Attack on Trade Unions Bill. It offers a master class in protecting the wealthy and punishing organised labour.
The Bill contains so many loopholes it reads like a cheats' charter. It will require third-party lobbyist firms to publish client lists but not if they 'only' hold meetings with government special advisers and middle-ranking civil servants, and not if lobbying is deemed to make up a small part of the business.
But more importantly, the new Bill won't touch wealthy corporations as long as they directly employ lobbyists. Despite his links with the tobacco industry and the current controversy over the government's handling of cigarette packaging, the Conservative Party strategist, Lynton Crosby, will suffer few sleepless nights.
The biggest source of public concern, the growing grip that rich and powerful individuals and corporations hold over policy making and politicians, has been ignored entirely in the Bill. Conservative Party donors Adrian Beecroft, John Nash and Circle Health shareholders can all sleep easy too.
Instead, the government has cynically turned its fire on the largest democratic membership movement in the country – trade unions. Unions will be required to 'visibly demonstrate' that they 'know who their members are and can communicate with them'.
Unions already have to produce annual audits of membership. But despite being the most heavily regulated voluntary organisations in the country, we can expect yet more regulation to come our way.
The Bill will be debated on the floor of the House during Congress week when the unions are away in Bournemouth. As some on the Conservative backbenches bay for more red blood, watch out for how calls for tougher membership record requirements turn into demands for more stringent requirements on industrial action balloting.
Labour leader Ed Miliband dubbed David Cameron the minister for 'Benson and Hedge funds' – a reminder of where the real dirt in politics lies. And from the bedroom tax to the refusal to cap bankers' bonuses, the ascendency of the Conservative Party's Thatcherite tendency may yet prove to be its ultimate downfall.
This latest attack on shop workers, teachers, nurses, postal staff and factory workers, and their unions, offends the British people's sense of fair play. If history offers a guide to the future then the government's Bill is a major political blunder. In the battle for the public's hearts and minds, the Tolpuddle trade unionists won the day with massive meetings, petitions and demonstrations forcing the Martyrs' return after their deportation overseas.
Every year in Tolpuddle, unions celebrate the six courageous workers who stood together against the Squire. Let's also send a strong message to the government that this generation of working people are just as determined to oppose such blatant targeting of unions and the ordinary people they represent.


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A Stone in the Sea
Bleeding Stars, Book 1
By: A.L. Jackson
Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Sebastian York
Series: Bleeding Stars, Book 1
Narrated by: Andi Arndt, Joe Arden
People call me callous. Arrogant. Ruthless. I call myself tenacious. As one of the most powerful attorneys in Charleston, I don't let anyone or anything stand in my way. Until a chance encounter changes everything. One glance. One touch. One night. It only leaves me wanting more. But Grace is off limits. Most people would even say forbidden. Everyone knows an attorney can't sleep with his client. Too bad I already did. And even with the threat of losing everything, I don't know if I can stop myself from having her again.
Fight for Me, Book 1
Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Andi Arndt
Rex Gunner. As bitter as he is beautiful. The owner of the largest construction company in Gingham Lakes has been burned one too many times. His wife leaving him to raise their daughter was the last blow this single dad could take. The only woman he'll let into his heart is his little girl. When Rex meets his new neighbor, he knows he's in trouble. She's gorgeous and sweet and everything he can't trust. Until she becomes the one thing he can't resist.
By SamK on 02-04-2018
Confessions of the Heart, Volume 1
The second I saw him walk through the door, I knew he was trouble. A gorgeous rebel with a bad attitude and a huge chip on his shoulder. My heart warned me. I didn't listen. I saw something protective and good beneath the fierce, tough exterior. I fell hard and fast. He promised we'd be together forever and then left me with a broken heart. Now, 10 years later, Jace Jacobs is standing at my door. Sexier than he's ever been. Little do I know, Jace holds the key to everything I've lost and everything that threatens my future. Now, he will either save me or break me all over again....
Am a little disappointed in the ignorant female lead
By BookLover on 30-05-2019
Say You'll Stay
By: Corinne Michaels
One word. Stay. It was all he had to do. Instead, he got on that bus and took my heart with him. That was 17 years ago. I moved on. Marriage. Kids. White picket fence. Everything I ever wanted, but my husband betrayed me and I was left once again.
By Cas on 25-04-2019
By: Ava Harrison
Narrated by: Shane East, Andi Arndt
I had it all. Dream job, fancy apartment, great family. But there was one thing I didn't have. Would never have. Then he showed up. Rich. Arrogant. Condescending. He came to me with an ultimatum, and I had no choice but to agree. I needed to convince the world that I was Nathaniel Harrington's girlfriend, so his legacy would stay intact. Spending time with him would be difficult. And fooling the world would be even harder.
By: Elle Kennedy
Narrated by: Jacob Morgan, CJ Bloom
Everyone says opposites attract. And they must be right, because there's no logical reason why I'm so drawn to Colin Fitzgerald. I don't usually go for tattoo-covered, video-gaming, hockey-playing nerd-jocks who think I'm flighty and superficial. His narrow view of me is the first strike against him. It doesn't help that he's buddy-buddy with my brother. And that his best friend has a crush on me. And that I just moved in with them. Oh, did I not mention we're roommates?
Very unappealing heroine
By Claret on 09-06-2019
The Consolation Duet, Volume 1
Liam wasn't supposed to be my happily ever after. He wasn't even on my radar. He was my husband's best friend - forbidden. But my husband is dead, and I'm alone. I ache for him, and I reach for Liam. One night with Liam changed everything. Now I have to decide if I truly love him or if he's just the consolation prize.
didn't see that coming
Right Where I Want You
By: Jessica Hawkins
Bad boys? They run right over good girls like Georgina Keller. But after a confidence-shattering breakup, she's determined not to let anyone at her new workplace push her around - least of all the brooding creative director, a "bad boy of publishing". Sebastian Quinn's taste for fast cars, late nights, and beautiful women may have gotten him to the top of a leading New York magazine, but the reputation that made him is suddenly threatening to end his career. Georgina can help Modern Man shed its bad reputation, but in order to do that, she'll have to start at the top.
Dirty Rich One Night Stand
By: Lisa Renee Jones
Narrated by: Erin Mallon, Joe Arden
Dirty rich one night stand. That's all it was supposed to be. He's the powerful attorney, now world-renowned after coming off the trial of a century which was publicized across the country. And I'm one of the reporters that sat in his courtroom. I watched him, studied him, got to know him from afar which isn't hard since I know his exact brand of confidence, arrogance, and wealth. I know his type. I've dated his type. Which is why when I happen to come face to face with him, when sparks fly and heat simmers between us, I know what happens if I say yes to Reese Summer.
Great Intelligent Power Couple!
By Laura on 07-01-2019
The Dating Proposal
By: Lauren Blakely
The seven years I invested in my ex left me with nothing but scorch marks from the way he peeled out and left me at the altar. I'm not looking to put my heart into a relationship any time soon. But getting back out there? That sounds like a helluva good idea to get my groove back. Then I bump into Chris....Clever and funny, with a sexy surfer's bod and a brilliant nerd brain, he has just the right screwdriver to fix my hard drive.
Awesomeness 😍😍
Sweet Cheeks
By: K. Bromberg
Enter Hayes Whitley. Mega-movie star. The man who has captured the hearts of millions. But I gave him mine years ago. He was my first love. He was my everything. Right until he up and left to chase his dreams without so much as a simple goodbye. When he showed up out of the blue 10 years later, I should have known to steer clear. I should have rejected his offer to take me to my ex's wedding and told him he was crazy when he suggested we act like a couple to show my ex, it's true, I could do better than him.
frustration overload
Stage Dive, Book 1
By: Kylie Scott
Narrated by: Andi Arndt
Evelyn Thomas' plans for celebrating her 21st birthday in Las Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure as hell never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the Black Plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong. Now if she could just remember how it all happened. One thing is for certain: being married to rock and roll's favourite son is sure to be a wild ride.
Hot and heavy
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Getting Schooled
By: Emma Chase
Garrett Daniels has this whole life thing figured out. The cocky, charismatic former high school star quarterback is an idolized football coach and "cool" teacher in the hometown where he's not just a golden boy - he's platinum. He has good friends, a great house on the lake, and the best damn sidekick a man could ask for: Snoopy, the albino beagle. Then...Callie Carpenter comes home.
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He wanted nothing at all...until he found she had everything to give.... Sunder lead singer and guitarist Sebastian Stone has everything - fans, fame, and fortune. He also has a heart full of bitterness and a reputation for a short-fused temper. But an outward reputation rarely reveals the true man inside.
Facing assault charges after trying to protect his younger brother, Sebastian is sent to Savannah, Georgia, to lie low until the dust settles in LA. Shea Bentley is beautiful, kind, and hiding from the very lifestyle Sebastian has always embraced. When the mysterious, tattooed stranger begins hanging out at the bar where she works, Shea is quick to recognize he is nothing but trouble, but she's helpless to the way her body lights up every time his intense gray eyes tangle with hers. They both soon find themselves drowning in a sea of desire and passion that won't let them up for air.
Sebastian knows firsthand secrets never die, and he's not the only one who's hiding them. Loving someone always comes with a price. But will it be Shea's past that costs them everything?
©2015 Amy Lichtenhan (P)2015 Amy Lichtenhan
Follow Me Back
Seven Nights of Sin
Overall story great but...
Loved the narraters. Good romance and drama.
Didn't like two things. The repeating a word three times for dramatic effects all the time - irritating. Then the sex scenes dragged on with over describing each move that I was fast forward through then as got
bored.
karen grave
descriptive descriptive descriptive
congrats A L Jackson you have created a brilliant cliffhanger which I didn't see coming and wasn't going to follow with the next book, but now I am hooked without a choice. I hope I'm right and the story continues.
the 3 word repetition I can see it's meaning, the Intent to push the listener deeper to have them feel the sensual emotions between hero and heroine.
the book has a hard gritty violent story background but the words, the thread the author keeps spinning asks the listener to quieten and feel.
admittedly I felt frustrated in more places than one for the description seemed to repeat and go on forever. I was about to stop when the story picked up and away I went again.
if you like descriptive, slow paced listening with smiles and tears coexisting then this is the book for you...but
SPOILET ALERT....
In this book no FINAL HEA and one huge gut wrenching cliffhanger
book.goddess
No X Factor Here
Is there anything you would change about this book?
As with other listeners, my experience of the author's penchant for repeating phrases and words three times over really grated after a while; not only was this unnecessary, it lent an amateurish tone to the writing. There was a good story to be had here but it didn't get told. I felt the author tried too hard to turn this into a literary piece with a lot of unnecessary filler and self talk which overshadowed the storyline.
What didn't you like about Andi Arndt and Sebastian York 's performance?
I didn't enjoy Sebastian York's performance at all. I agree with other readers that he has a great voice however I think it's better suited to documentary rather than erotic fiction. Andi Arndt's performance was okay but I would've preferred a voice that sounded like less like a little girl and more like a young woman.
This story has potential but, as is, missed the mark. It reads like it got the editor's sign-off a few drafts too early.
Tracy T
It's a 9.5 hour-380 page CLIFFHANGER!
I am really sick of authors writing such long books and them being a cliffhanger! it's rude, inconsiderate and somewhat greedy IMO.
Other than that being extremely pizzed off about the cliffhanger.
The story was okay. The characters did over think things, and there was some filler nonsense.
The chemistry was good between the hero, Sebastian and our heroine, "Shea", and there is quite a bit of sex, not BDSM but somewhat erotic.
The story line and plot are good, however it seemed to drag on a bit (then the dreaded cliffhanger!). This is written in the first person from dual POV, but luckily not repetitive. (I am not usually a fan of books in the first person and this one is not that bad)
As for the narration, IT SAVED THE BOOK SO FAR (since it's not over) Sebastian York has the sexiest voice I have ever listened to. This is my first Andi Arndt and she did a great job. I feel bad for the people that only read this and did not get to enjoy the narration. They have to be even more frustrated with the cliffhanger than me.
This is the last page. "Sebastian and Shea's story continues in Drowning to Breath, Summer 2015".
So the author does leave a note that says "Leaving this book off here was a difficult decision for me...." blah blah blah..
My note to the author "Well, it was a bad decision". Just sayin....
Since the author liked to repeat words in the story like.
Drowning.
So many of them throughout the story.
Here is mine;
CLIFFHANGER.
AHHH I feel better now, a little venting always helps
157 of 171 people found this review helpful
AmazonCustomer
Reparative! Cliffhanger! Argh!
Performance was good (love how Andi reads stories). However, the book was hard to get into especially with the constant repeat of the same words over and OVER. It just lacked a background to the characters that left you lost in the beginning. I'm bummed! I
wouldn't have bought this book knowing it had another to follow.
41 of 44 people found this review helpful
Shachi
Hmmm..
Good beginning, struggled through the middle and when it was getting good again... the book ends. Found the constant repeating of words annoying.
Drea
It drags on on on!
I read the mixed reviews and figured that with Sebastian York narrating I would probably like it. Sadly even he could not rescue this book. It had potential. The plot is good. We get to know the male lead very well but there is almost no character development of the female lead. I could have been hooked for the second in the series but in the last third of the book the author starts repeating her words when she wants to make a point. It's just annoying, annoying, annoying! That said, this ones going back.
Teresa C.
Painful to get through
I have never written a review. I do read them and I took a chance anyway. The narrators are two of my favorite and that is the nicest thing I can say about this book. No story, over use of lower lip and every form of incredulous as well as predictable and absurd.
cliffhanger cliffhanger cliffhanger
A lot of "in the head" drama so that got a little old but what really got me struggling to finish was the way so many words were repeated THREE THREE THREE times. Enough, already! The story is dramatic enough!
Sebastian York-YUM!
Atlantisia
I wish I had known this author likes to write cliffhangers. I would not have purchased this book. I am not a fan of this type of writing. I prefer a series where each book is complete regarding the relationship of the main characters. However, if you like reading this type of book then you might enjoy this one. It is a little slow going but picks up the pace around half way through the book.
LilMissMolly
Unfinished book
This is a story of a young mother who works as a waitress in a bar and who reluctantly begins a relationship with a rock star. The relationship between mother and daughter is wonderful.
However, the ending is so abrupt that you are left wondering if Audible only downloaded part of the story. If you cut out 2 hours of angst and replaced it with an ending, it would be a 4 starred book, at a minimum.
Careful this book ends in a cliffhanger.
The story was okay. The narration was okay. But it ended suddenly in a cliffhanger. NO RESOLUTION AT ALL. I never buy cliffhangers if I can help it. I searched but could find no information about when book 2 will be out. I will not be buying it because by the time it comes out I will not care about this story at all.
C. Countryman
I'm really tired of the "cliffhanger" method of selling a second or third book. Yuck.
What's not to love?
I really really enjoyed this book the narration was perfect, the story well written and kept me interested all the way.
Jo&Isalovebooks
IT GRIPPED ME FROM THE GET GO.
If you could sum up A Stone in the Sea in three words, what would they be?
PERFECT, PERFECT, PERFECT
What did you like best about this story?
I can't pinpoint just one thing, I liked everything, every single chapter was as beautiful as was the next, there were so many emotions in this story, but boy things are far from over yet!
What about Andi Arndt and Sebastian York 's performance did you like?
I love both of them, they are professional to a "T" and they always produce a flawless narration. A stone in the Sea was no exception and each poured their hearts and souls into the job at hand. Regardless of having listening to them in so many other stories, every time they take on the role of the ML or FL and played it as if it was the first time you are listening to them. And come on who doesn't love these two! I melt with Sebastian's voice.
Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
It made me sigh and cry and then scream at the end when I was left in shock and bewilderment at to where the story was taken me. I was desperate to know what was going to happen next so I have downloaded the next instalment.
Amy Amy Amy, you know exactly which strings to pull and how to drive the reader into the world of your characters. Each book is so well delivered so perfectly structured, what I love is that is not rushed, all the things are happening and developing at a perfect pace and corners aren't cut, its just magically crafted producing a solid story with the right amount of passion, obsession, angst and romance.
Mrs D Rowland
Wow awesome read
Wow what a great start to a series, great storyline and wonderful characters, can't wait for the next instalment. Great narration too. Would highly recommend it
What did you like most about A Stone in the Sea?
All of it really
What was one of the most memorable moments of A Stone in the Sea?
I can't think of one, it was all good
Which scene did you most enjoy?
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
yes, her sad story and the little girl she cared for
great book. Love these two narrators
L review
Listen listen listen
I'm crying the pain from this ending is immeasurable down down down sinking like the title stone in the sea this is real real real.


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Home Press Releases Grand premieres for Ee Nagaraniki Emaindi on June 28
Grand premieres for Ee Nagaraniki Emaindi on June 28
Director Tharun Bhascker is back! After wowing the Telugu audiences with his award-winning film Pelli Choopulu, the director did take quite a long gap.
Turns out he was working on his next, another coming of age film Ee Nagaraniki Emaindi, a coming of age film that is gaining wide attention thanks to the interesting promos that have been released so far.
Just like in his debut film, the talented director has once again cast an interesting set of fresh faces. Vishwak Sen, Sushanth Reddy, Abhinav Gomatam, Venkatesh Kakumanu, Anisha Ambrose and Simran Choudary play the lead roles in the film that is a buddy film that is inspired from real incidents.
And now, with the recent announcement of the film's release on June 29, a grand release is being planned worldwide.
The audiences in the US are in for a sure treat with Weekend Cinema, the overseas distributors for the film who aim to bring the best of Indian cinema to audiences across the world, planning grand premieres for the film on June 28 and audiences across the Americas can catch a glimpse of the film, that has already received rave reviews from anyone who's seen it.
Well, looks like it's time for audiences to get set for a treat to the senses with Tharun Bhascker's amazing vision accompanied by Vivek Sagar's musical brilliance that is already being appreciated by the audiences with the recently released songs from the film's album.
For Details, Please Contact:
Prabhakar: +1 (804)-300-8759
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Click Here!! for the Trailer.
Press release by: Indian Clicks, LLC
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Barbara Desalvo (Schieferle Uhlenbrock)
Barbara Schieferle Uhlenbrock, P.D., R.Ph., age 56, of San Antonio, Texas passed away in her home on Tuesday, April 4th, after a fourteen year battle with breast cancer.
Born August 12th, 1949 in Little Rock, Arkansas, she was preceded in death by her father, Henry DeSalvo.
She is survived by her husband, John Schieferle Uhlenbrock; her three children, Brett, Todd and Kara Peterson of San Antonio; and two step-sons, Johnny and Jeff SchieferleUhlenbrock. Also surviving are her mother, Gloria DeSalvo, her brother, Stephen DeSalvo and his wife, Keeley, all of Hot Springs, Arkansas; her brother Mark DeSalvo and his wife, Dorsey of Destin, Florida; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and countless friends.
Barbara graduated from Mount St. Mary Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1967. She attended the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, graduating in 1972. Her first position as a pharmacist was with Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock. She currently worked at Northeast Methodist Hospital in San Antonio where she was a pharmacist for almost 15 years.
Barbara traveled extensively in Europe and was an avid collector of teddy bears, searching for them in all corners of the world. We think she found each and everyone her heart desired. She was also a great fan of the San Antonio Spurs. Barbara's contagious smile, hearty laugh, kind heart and genuine love for life spread happiness to every life she touched. She will be missed greatly by all who knew and loved her.
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From Across the Pond: "Afterlife"
We Americans love our supernatural television dramas. Just take a look at the consistent popularity of series like The Ghost Whisperer and Medium. But our ghostly series tend to focus on pixie cute spirit-chatters, overworked moms, or university knitting circles of eccentrics (as in NBC's tragically condensed The Others from a few years back).
Not so with the Brits, who refuse to give us a cutesy nymph of a spirit medium as a lead in BBC America's new series Afterlife, starring Lesley Sharp (Vera Drake) and Andrew Lincoln (Love Actually, This Life). Sharp's Alison Mundy is no Jennifer Love Hewitt... and that's definitely a good thing. She's a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, literally haunted by the spirits she channels... and perhaps by her own past as well, hinted at in the series premiere, which aired Stateside last week. Alison's a paradox of countering values: at once fragile and tough, she's trapped between the worlds of the living and dead, unable to find solace in either one. She's come to Bristol to start a new life, one in which she won't have to act as a spirit medium, but she's quickly driven back to her old life in no time at all, despite the fact that her hold on reality is slipping. This is one medium who clearly does not relish her "gift."
Elsewhere, Lincoln's Robert is a university psychology lecturer who teaches a course on psychology and belief. He seems to derive quite a lot of pleasure from unmasking psychics as frauds and charlatans. But he too is running from something in his own past: the death of his young son Josh (car crash perhaps?) and the loss of his wife, played by Anna Wilson-Jones of Monarch of the Glen and Hex, here beatifically pregnant and haunted. (Is Wilson-Jones never haunted or harried? She's made a cottage industry of playing shrews and haranguing harpies, but here she seems... coolly otherworldly.)
These two meet when Robert takes some of his prized students to a platform show were Alison reluctantly appears. There, she claims to see the spirit of the mother of one of Robert's student. While Alison's claims ring true (she certainly has enough concrete description of the spirit, including an overwhelming lavender scent hanging in the air), Robert quickly denounces her as a fraud... except for the fact that everything Alison says is true. But only Robert's student, Veronica (Cara Horgan) knows that. She was the sole survivor of a suicide pact that killed her entire family, plotted by her dying mother and grieving father. The scene plays out as the opening teaser of the premiere episode and it is as shocking as it is haunting.
If this were a happy-go-lucky show, Alison would have showed Veronica that she has to go on living and forgive her mother for what happened all those years earlier... but this is not that show and instead, Alison catapults Veronica back to the trauma in her past, where Veronica chooses not to live, but to die and join her mother. It's a nice twist in a show that's already been filled with quite a few unexpected ones. Alison might be the hero in this story, but to those around her she's definitely the villain of the piece: between Robert's denouncement of her gift and a hospital slap across the face from one of Veronica's friends, Alison keeps on trudging through (after)life, perhaps numbed by what seems to be a preoccupation with alcohol.
The weakest element of Afterlife is the clunky solution of keeping believer and skeptic together past the first episode. Series creator Stephen Volk achieves this end by having Robert's department head (and friend) suggest that he write a book about Alison. For Alison, she hopes that it's an opportunity to exorcise some of the demons plaguing her. It's not exactly the most elegant (or believable, even) of solutions, but it will work for now to keep these two at each other's throats.
Unlike their American counterparts, Alison and Robert seem to have not even a whiff of frisson about one another. So far, there's no hint of sexual tension here and I have to say that it's one of the things about the series that's so refreshing. These are two very damaged individuals who might just help one another find their way again but it's not going to happen in bed and there aren't going to be long looks from across crowded rooms to keep these two meeting up again and again.
No, like the spirits that haunt Alison, these two are stuck together for the time being. And for those of us at home watching this clever, dark, and at times genuinely poignant series, that's a Very Good Thing.
"Afterlife" airs Thursday nights at 10 pm ET/PT on BBC America.
8 pm: NCIS (CBS); Friday Night Lights (NBC); Gilmore Girls (CW); Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (ABC); Standoff (FOX); Desire (MyNet)
9 pm: The Unit (CBS); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC); Veronica Mars (CW); Big Day/Help Me Help You (ABC); House (FOX); Fashion House (MyNet)
10 pm: The Victoria Secret Fashion Show (CBS); Law & Order: SVU (NBC); Boston Legal (ABC)
8 pm: Gilmore Girls.
I'm really ready to give up on this show now. I miss the old Gilmore Girls, and, no, I am not talking about last season. On tonight's episode ("Merry Fisticuffs"), Luke and Lorelai share a (gasp!) tender moment together, while Chris worries that Lorelai isn't completely committed to their new marriage (gee what makes you think so?)... leading to a nasty confrontation between the two men in Lorelai's life. Yawn.
9 pm: Veronica Mars.
On tonight's episode, it's a repeat of the third season premiere ("Welcome Wagon") where Veronica, Wallace, Logan, and Mac head to Hearst College and Veronica must solve the mystery of the disappearance behind new friend Piz's belongings. Ah, memories.
10 pm: Doctor Who on BBC America.
While Sci Fi might be airing Season Two of the newest incarnation of Doctor Who (complete with another new Doctor, played by David Tennant), catch up on Season One, beginning anew tonight on BBC America as the Doctor (played by Christopher Eccleston) first meets Rose Tyler for the first time. On tonight's episode ("The Unquiet Dead"), the Doctor and Rose travel to the Victorian era, where they team up with Charles Dickens to battle an ethereal villain. What other show could boast that as an episode description?
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I was pretty impressed by Afterlife too, first by Alison's unconventional (for the American TV I'm used to) appearance, second by Veronica's suicide. That was a great twist that, as you mentioned, we probably wouldn't get on an American show. Bring on the dark!
Leave it to the Brits to breathe new life into an old genre. Being no fan of "The Ghost Whisperer" (or Jennifer Love Hewitt, for that matter) I was surprised by how much I liked "Afterlife." It was very atmospheric with enough twists and turns to keep you thoroughly engaged. While the character of Robert was a little flat, the troubled Alison was a joy to watch and will most likely bring out a more complex side to Robert...whether he likes it or not.
Jessie said…
Very refreshing and original. I was very impressed by the show, and, being a fan of the genre, was glad to see a different view of the 'gift'. It'll be interesting to see how Alison and Robert's relationship progressess too, it seems as though it has the potential to be quite platonically intimate.
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William Sorell and his connections are interesting in that here, two Wilson families about which we have a great deal of information converge with his marriage to Eliza Wilson daughter of William Borradaille Wilson and Grace Terry.
The 'Borradaille' Wilson family has been thoroughly researched by their descendants over the past 20 years. There is no connection with our Wilsons, the Borradaille line coming from Nottingham in England: their story including their alleged link to Royalty is set out in the 'Connections' page. Below is a 3 generation descendants chart for William & Eliza and beneath that is a partial pedigree chart for Eliza.


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from pymisc import VERSION, PROJECT

MODULE_NAME = 'pymisc'
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for directory in [ 'templates', 'static' ]:
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    long_description = read('README.rst'),
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    author = "Illia Polosukhin",
    author_email = "ilblackdragon@gmail.com",

    url = "http://github.com/ilblackdragon/pymisc.git",

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