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Pakistani-American: Mr. Thirty Percent of Silicon Valley
Most people are familiar with the moniker of Mr. Ten Percent bestowed on Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari. Now meet Mr. Thirty Percent, Ausaf Umar Siddiqui, a Pakistani-American in Silicon Valley, who is accused of receiving illegal kickbacks of up to 31 percent from vendors of Fry's Electronics.
According to San Jose Mercury News, Siddiqui, the son of a Pakistani diplomat, was a computer salesman who rose through the ranks to help build Fry's Electronics into a giant retailer over the last twenty years. He is now facing allegations that he defrauded the San Jose company out of $65 million, much of which he used to pay off enormous gambling debts in Las Vegas.
Fry's Electronics is a specialty retailer of software, consumer electronics, computer hardware and household appliances with a chain of superstores headquartered in Silicon Valley. Starting with one store located in Sunnyvale, California, USA, the chain now boasts sales of $2.4B with 34 stores located in several Western states, two near Atlanta, Georgia, multiple locations in Texas, and one each in Illinois and Indiana. Often described as geek central, Fry's stores employ a large number of South Asians and other immigrants in various capacities throughout their stores in Silicon Valley, CA.
Siddiqui, who goes by "Omar" and was Fry's vice president of merchandising and operations, appeared in federal court in December, where prosecutors filed a complaint alleging he masterminded a "secret kickback scheme to defraud Fry's Electronics of millions of dollars."
Siddiqui persuaded Fry's that the company should eliminate sales representatives on his accounts, and instead, he would act as a middleman between vendors and Fry's. He promised that he would save the company a lot of money that way. But instead, the complaint alleges, he ended up charging exorbitant commissions — up to 31 percent, or ten times the usual amount — to the vendors, which he funneled to his own straw company, PC International, according to San Jose Mercury News.
A 42-year-old bachelor, Siddiqui has expensive tastes and a serious gambling problem. He was known around the office for driving fast cars, carrying wads of $100 bills in his pocket and boisterously rooting during sports events he watched on the four TV screens in his office. He spent $162 million in three years at the MGM Grand Casino and Las Vegas Sands Casino, according to his bank statements detailed in the complaint written by IRS Agent Andres Gonzalez. Siddiqui owns a luxury condo in Palo Alto, a Mercedes and a Ferrari, and he used to fly into Las Vegas frequently on Fry's corporate jet. He had a long list of demands for the hotel staff (who called him Mr. S) during his frequent visits to Las Vegas hotel casinos. He demanded Aramis cologne and badger hair shaving brush. Lint-free towels. Dom Perignon Rose champagne and Kurosawa Sake in the fridge. And never, under any circumstances, approach him from behind. If the hotel staff didn't want to face Mr. S's wrath, maids knew to arrange bowls of Glitterati Mentissimo peppermints adorned with a single rose throughout his suite, and to stock his shower with Nioxin shampoo for "fine and thinning hair." White vases were a no-no — he considered them bad luck.
There's a saying in America: Nothing is certain but death and taxes. No one can fool the Grim Reaper and the Tax Man. Like others before him, Siddiqui seems to have been nailed by the IRS, America's feared tax collectors who were tipped off by one of Siddiqui's colleagues at Fry's.
Allegations against Omar Siddiqui have been getting a lot of local media attention in Silicon Valley, California, since his arrest in San Jose a day after Christmas. However, with the exception of a few isolated instances of immigration and terrorism charges after 911, the news of Pakistani-Americans getting in trouble with the law is rare. There have been a few instances of white-collar crime involving alleged violations of the SEC rules. The vast majority of the estimated 500,000 Pakistanis in the United States are legal immigrants with about a half of them with citizenship status. Highly educated with many in professions such as medicine and engineering, Pakistani-Americans are a very affluent ethnic group whose median household income is 62% higher than the national average.
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Posted by Riaz Haq at 10:05 PM
Labels: Fry's, Omar Siddiqui, Pakistani-Americans, Silicon Valley
No No No... No Pakistani will do such things. It must be the CIA-RAW-Mossad evil axis trying to defame Pakistan!
Riaz - Hopefully this post makes Jadev, Ray, and many of those anonymous writers happy that you are a free writer indeed. Thanks for the post and facts.
And you made good reference to Mr. 10%. At least Mr. 30% turned an ordinary shop to a $3B business, whereas Mr. 10% is busy sucking the last drop of blood from the nation...no wonder its called the 'God Gifted State'.
Pakistani Tamil ;-)
That was an awesome story Mr Haq,I enjoyed this post what a con-artist.I respect USA, its really a conservative country, as contrary these things would have been perfectly fine and ethically ok in India and Pakistan really.Kind of a norm in Mumbai, Karachi, Dacca, Colombo, Dubai,buisness communities etc etc.
There's a saying in America: Nothing is certain but death and taxes.
No one can fool the Grim Reaper and the Tax Man.
Like others before him, Mr. S got nailed by the IRS, America's feared tax collector.
I don't know if you have heard of Al Capone. He was a Chicago gangster who was able to stay out of jail until the IRS got hold of him for not paying taxes on his income from extortion and selling moonshine. His accountant gave him away. He spent the rest of his life in jail.
Abdi said...
Well well well. it is really nice to know that commission and kickbacks can be used in something good to. Look at the company it rose from ashes to become one of the giants in US.
It was heartening to see that although he used all his money on wrong things at least he enjoyed it to the fullest.
Not like many of us who take it to their graves.
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Anil Kumar, one of the Indian-Americans accused in the insider trading case, has pleased guilty, according to media reports:
Anil Kumar, a former director of global management consulting firm McKinsey, has pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
He says he made $2.6m (£1.6m) giving inside market information to one of America's richest men, Raj Rajaratnam.
Prosecutors allege a list of crimes, including that Mr Rajaratnam paid Kumar between $1.7-$2m for his tips.
Kumar entered the plea in a US District Court in Manhattan in a co-operation deal aimed at strengthening the government case against Mr Rajaratnam.
Secret tip-offs
The billionaire hedge-fund operator is said to have made $19m from investments after Kumar, a former senior partner and director at McKinsey & Co fed him tips between March and July 2006 about the acquisition of ATI Technologies by Advanced Micro Device.
But this week, John Dowd, Mr Rajaratnam's lawyer, said: "An analyst's prediction that AMD would acquire ATI was widely reported in the press more than seven weeks before the acquisition was announced."
The government filed papers this week in Mr Rajaratnam's case to say they planned to file additional charges against him after learning about the $19m, which prosecutors say raises the amount Mr Rajaratnam made from illegal deals to at least $36m in profits.
A Pakistani-American executive Kamal Ahmed has been caught in the Galleon financial scandal. Here's an excerpt from a San Francisco Chronicle report:
.. Kamal Ahmed, a Morgan Stanley managing director in Menlo Park. According to federal prosecutors, he provided inside information about Advance Micro Devices' July 2006 takeover of a Canadian firm, ATI Technologies, information that ultimately found its way to the captain of the pirate ship hedge fund, Raj Rajaratnam.
Ahmed's alleged involvement was revealed in a government court document Friday concerning Rajaratnam's trial, scheduled for Feb. 28.
The 42-year-old banker is cooperating with investigators, said his lawyer, Douglas Tween of New York's Baker & McKenzie in a statement. He is "confident that when the investigation is completed, and all the facts are gathered, it will be shown that he did nothing illegal or unethical."
According to securities filings and other sources, Ahmed works at Morgan Stanley's investment practice in Menlo Park. He was one of 241 new managing directors named by Morgan Stanley in December 2007.
On its website, OPEN Silicon Valley, a Pakistani American business organization, Ahmed, a Los Altos resident, is described as having "led a wide variety of financing transactions and has executed numerous mergers & acquisitions" for Morgan Stanley since 1999," according to information Ahmed provided to the organization.
Prior experience included stints at Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse First Boston.
According to Institutional Investor, Ahmed was one of two Morgan Stanley managing directors advising Hewlett-Packard on its $2.7 billion takeover of 3Com last year, earning the investment bank tens of millions of dollars in fees.
He is listed on the advisory board of Folio3, a Redwood City organization with offices in Pakistan and Bulgaria, which is "focused on helping entrepreneurs and small enterprises successfully build and manage an offshore software development presence."
A Yale economics graduate and Cornell University MBA, with 383 connections according to his LinkedIn profile, Ahmed could have plenty to say if he's cooperating with the feds. Morgan Stanley advised AMD on the ATI deal, and provided a $2.5 billion loan to finance it.
Saratoga resident Anil Kumar, a McKinsey consultant since fired by the firm, pleaded guilty and was fined $2.8 million last year for providing insider information to Rajaratnam, including the planned AMD takeover of ATI.
Indian-Americans are being scrutinized by the IRS for tax evasion, according to a NY Times report:
Last July and September, the Justice Department mailed "target" letters to around 50 Indian-Americans with offshore bank accounts, telling them that they were under scrutiny for suspected offshore tax evasion through accounts in India, Mr. Horn said.
Credit Suisse and Swiss cantonal banks are also under scrutiny. Robert Katzberg, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer in New York, said that the pressure on HSBC showed that "the fallout of the UBS scandal, which still has far to go within Switzerland, has spread to other countries."
The request, made in court papers filed in the Federal District Court in San Francisco, seeks to force HSBC's main United States affiliate, HSBC Bank USA, to turn over details of accounts held by wealthy Americans from 2002 through 2010 through the bank's affiliate in India, HSBC India. Approval from a federal judge is required before the Internal Revenue Service can issue the summons.
HSBC Bank USA operated representative offices for HSBC India under the name N.R.I. Services — N.R.I. stands for Non-Resident Indian — in New York and Fremont, Calif., according to court documents. The offshore private banking services were offered to people of Indian origin living outside of India.
In a statement, HSBC said that "while we haven't seen the summons, HSBC does not condone tax evasion and fully supports the U.S. efforts to promote appropriate payment of taxes by U.S. taxpayers."
It continued, "While complying with the law in all the jurisdictions in which it operates, including India, HSBC cooperates with requests from U.S. authorities."
The statement added: "We have been engaged in a constructive dialogue with U.S. authorities. We hope any 'I.R.S. Summons' issues can be resolved expeditiously." A bank spokeswoman, Juanita Gutierrez, declined to comment further.
HSBC is one of the biggest banks for clients from India, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and elsewhere in the East, according to top tax lawyers. In 2007, the bank said in a press release announcing the opening of its N.R.I. office in Fremont, Calif., that it served more than 160,000 non-resident Indians worldwide.
The release announced a "new banking solution" for nonresident Indians "that allows the N.R.I. community to conduct cross-border banking transactions." In 2003, after the technology bubble, Merrill Lynch estimated that there were 200,000 millionaires of Indian origin in the United States alone, part of the explosion of wealth among Indians in recent years.
In January, federal prosecutors indicted a former HSBC client, Vaibhav Dahake, who was born in India and became a naturalized American citizen in 2006. Mr. Dahake, according to court papers, told prosecutors that HSBC had sought out wealthy Indian-Americans for undeclared offshore banking services through N.R.I. Services. The bank was not identified in the papers but was confirmed at the time as HSBC by people close to the matter.
Mr. Dahake, according to his indictment, told prosecutors that his banker had told him that no United States disclosure forms were required, that the account was not taxable in India and that no forms reporting the interest income would be filed with the I.R.S.
Holding a foreign or offshore account is legal, but American citizens and residents must file annual disclosures with the I.R.S. for accounts with more than $10,000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/08/business/global/08tax.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=hsbc%20india&st=cse
A disgraced former Fry's Electronics executive has pleaded guilty to two felony charges in a wide-ranging criminal Internal Revenue Service case and could face up to six years in federal prison, according to a SJ Mercury News report:
A plea agreement unsealed this week in the case of Ausaf "Omar" Siddiqui shows the Palo Alto resident, once a vice president at Fry's, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering. He is expected to be sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel on Dec. 8.
In exchange for the plea and agreeing to cooperate in any further government investigations, federal prosecutors dropped seven other felony charges against Siddiqui that were contained in the original indictment that accused him of wire fraud and money laundering totaling $6 million.
As part of the agreement, which had been under seal since February, Siddiqui admitted that from 2004 to November 2008, he set up a scheme to defraud Fry's "in order to induce Fry's vendors to pay money to me and not Fry's."
He admitted to setting up sham companies for vendors to pay kickbacks to him, and said that vendors had secret agreements to pay him kickbacks to do business with Fry's, the agreement states. Siddiqui admitted that on numerous occasions, vendors sometimes gave "loans" "amounting to millions of dollars" to his sham companies, the agreement states.
Siddiqui admitted that "as a result of the kickback scheme, Fry's overpaid for merchandise from the
vendors by at least the amount of the kickbacks paid to me" and the sham companies, the agreement states.
Fry's has repeatedly claimed no knowledge of this scheme, denied customers were ever affected negatively and fired Siddiqui shortly after his December 2008 arrest by IRS agents. Tuesday, Fry's spokesman Manuel Valerio was not immediately available for comment.
In addition to possibly receiving a maximum of six years in prison, Siddiqui also agreed to pay $65 million in restitution; he's allowed to subtract out what the government has already taken from him, including about $54,000 in bank accounts, $30,000 in cash, a 2006 Mercedes and a 2002 Ferrari.
It's unclear how he'll pay the restitution in light of his July bankruptcy filing listing $137 million in debt -- much of that owed to casinos around the world. He was once a prized "whale" in Vegas, a high roller who demanded that casino butlers and bellboys call him "Mr. S" and fill his room with golden raisins, bottles of Dom Pérignon and Glitterati Mentissimo peppermints adorned with a single rose.
Siddiqui also faces several civil lawsuits from vendors, totaling at least $10 million. The lawsuits name both Siddiqui and Fry's as co-defendants, arguing that the company was aware of what Siddiqui was doing. Fry's has denied any wrongdoing.
Much about this case has been kept private and some of it has been under seal. Siddiqui himself has refused to speak to this newspaper, as have his defense attorney, Paul Meltzer, and assistant U.S. attorney Thomas Moore.
Siddiqui's agreement in February was sealed for unknown reasons, and in a surprising turn, Moore's office requested that the judge unseal the deal in late August, which the judge did Friday.
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_18886868?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
Mrs. Pakistan defrauded homeowners in Silicon Valley, reports San Jose Mercury News:
With "almond-shaped eyes," "flawless skin" and ''full beautiful lips," Saman Hasnain easily took first place in the 2008 Mrs. Pakistan World beauty pageant, according to the group's president.
But the same physical assets that snared Hasnain that top title also helped her lure South Bay homeowners into a loan modification scam she and her husband Jawad operated from 2008 through October 2010, prosecutor Victor Chen contends.
"She was really pretty," said Korina Diaz, a Gilroy waitress who lost her ranch after paying the couple $11,500 to lower her mortgage payments. "She wore a skirt suit, high heels, nylons -- like a real good-looking professional lady."
Saman's striking appearance was crucial, Chen said, because the couple didn't know their victims and had to make a good first impression. They attracted homeowners by word-of-mouth and through fliers passed out at ethnic supermarkets after the housing market tanked, according to Chen.
Now the Santa Clara County deputy district attorney has charged them with ripping off 17 people -- just a fraction of the 80-100 families he says they defrauded. The Hasnains each face 19 felony counts of conspiracy to commit grand theft in the loan-modification scheme, and Jawad also has been charged with nine additional counts of felony grand theft for allegedly enticing victims from 2006 through July 2010 into investing in a fraudulent 10-unit condominium development in Fremont.
However, there is one big problem: Earlier this month, the couple fled with their two young sons to Lahore, Pakistan -- a country that has no extradition arrangement with the U.S.
Friends hurt, too
Jawad faces a maximum of 19 years and four months in prison, and Saman at least four years. But it is rare for white-collar criminals to serve that much time; often, they serve far less, especially if they pay their victims back.
Diaz, 38, said she and her husband were not behind in their payments when she picked up one of the couple's loan-modification fliers at a Mexican supermarket in Gilroy.
But they were worried that her husband's concrete business would drop off after the housing crash, making it difficult for them to keep up with the $6,000 a month mortgage on their 2.5 acre, $1 million ranch. Diaz said after she paid the Hasnains the $11,500, the couple advised her to stop making the mortgage payments, otherwise the bank wouldn't have an incentive to renegotiate the terms of the loan.
Diaz was so impressed by the couple that she invited about 30 friends to her house to listen to their pitch. About 20 also forked over thousands, she said, and most lost their homes.
Diaz didn't figure out she had been bilked for about 10 months -- too late to stop a Florida bank from taking their home. Now, she and her husband and three kids live in a cramped apartment.
Her advice to others to avoid being duped?
"Not to believe anybody," she said, "who comes knocking on your door, even if they look nice."
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_20284881/flawlessly-beautiful-mrs-pakistans-used-her-striking-apperance
#Pakistani-American Zafar Haider "Bling King" Pleads Guilty in Scam That Affected Miami Heat Players http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/Guilty-plea-in-10-million-Ohio-fraud-case--247612371.html via @nbc6 #Pakistan #America
#SiliconValley man from #India Vamshidhar Reddy Kotla arrested for nationwide phone #scam targeting old people in #America http://www.ktvu.com/news/fremont-man-arrested-in-connection-with-nationwide-elderly-phone-scam
A 24-year-old Fremont man was arrested Wednesday in connection with a phone scam targeting elderly residents across the country, Santa Clara police said today.
Police in Richland, Montana, contacted Santa Clara police on Wednesday to tell them a 77-year-old man had been instructed to send $20,000 in bail money for his grandson to a Santa Clara address.
Officers set up surveillance at the pickup location and saw Vamshidhar Reddy Kotla arrive and retrieve the package at 6:04 a.m., police said. Kotla was detained and later arrested.
Police identified four other victims during their investigation and retrieved $28,000 in cash from the suspect's home. Kotla is believed to be a member of a group which targets and runs scams on elderly residents.
Police said residents should be wary of calls demanding money over the phone and call police at (408) 615-4700 when in doubt.
Further information from the state attorney general about scams involving elders can be found at
https://oag.ca.gov/consumers/general/seniors.
#SiliconValley #automobile #tech firm #Tesla's ex-employee from #India has been charged with embezzling $9.3 million. Salil Parulekar, 32, was a group manager for global supply management at the electric automaker. https://qz.com/india/1463149/ via @qzindia
A former Tesla employee from India has been charged by US federal prosecutors for allegedly embezzling $9.3 million (Rs67 crore) from the company, a statement from the US department of justice (DoJ) shows.
The accused, Salil Parulekar, 32, was a group manager for global supply management and industrialisation at the electric-car maker's Palo Alto headquarters till December last year. On Nov. 08, a grand jury indicted him on charges that he fraudulently diverted payments from an existing supplier of the company to a former one.
The DoJ statement says that in January 2017, the accused learned that Tesla had ended its contract with SHW, a German automotive supplier. "Parulekar allegedly knew the termination meant that Tesla was withholding future payments to SHW and that Parulekar was not authorised to contravene this decision," the DoJ statement says. But, he allegedly diverted a series of payments meant for Taiwan-based Hota, another supplier to Tesla, and "caused them to be paid to SHW."
The indictment contends that Parulekar did so "by falsifying invoices; creating fraudulent accounts payable documents, such as bank account information and wire instructions; and impersonating Hota employees." He allegedly stole the identity of a Hota employee to deceive Tesla's accounts division into switching the bank account information of Hota and SHW.
SHW declined to comment to queries from Quartz, and an email sent to Tesla did not elicit any response.
The probe was conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The US attorney has charged Parulekar with nine counts of wire fraud (legal speak for financial fraud involving telecommunications) and one count of aggravated identity theft. If convicted, he can be awarded a maximum sentence of 20 years, along with a fine of $2.5 million, under US law.
Parulekar left India in 2008 to pursue a masters in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University. He is a graduate of Mumbai's KJ Somaiya College of Engineering. He joined Tesla in 2013, and became a group manager in October last year.


looks like ya'll had a lot of fun!
OOOHHHH….she says in a whail…..looks like too much heaven on earth…..I wish the Skrivseth clan could meet there again. That was one of our best reunion places yet.
So, shall we? the next one after the 50th anniversary.


These are the end caps used in the Kaleidoscope series of beaded kumihimo necklaces. Two of which were featured in the Winter 2016 issue of Jewelry Affaire. Cherries Jubilee and Kaleidoscope Eyes.
Blooming tulip end caps feature a vintage patina finish in antique brass and measure 11x9mm. These are the petite size.
This listing is for a 2 piece set of blooming tulip end caps.
Made in the USA and lead and nickel free.


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Maya & Marty premieres May 31 on NBC with many guests
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Sedo adds support for .ETH ethereum name trading
by Andrew Allemann — January 25, 2018 Domain Sales 10 Comments
Domain names from the Ethereum Name System can now be sold on Sedo.
Domain name marketplace Sedo is now accepting .ETH domain names for buying and selling on its marketplace.
.ETH domain names are not part of the domain name system you use to send email and visit websites. It's also not like the alt-root domain names that have popped up from time to time.
Yet they have a goal that's similar to domain names — make addresses that would be long, incomprehensible strings easier to remember. For example, a user can use a .eth domain for a wallet address.
But .eth domain names are quite complicated. It's a fairly new system that will change and evolve over time, so owners really need to know what they're buying. For example, a dispute resolution process is likely to be introduced at some point.
And those high prices you've seen for .eth domain auctions, such as exchange.eth for $600,000? Here's the thing; the buyer of that domain name can relinquish it after one year and get his money (ether) back.
There are a handful of .eth domains already listed on Sedo. Most of them are IDN domain names that mix scripts but look like names such as payments.eth and trading.eth. (This makes me think .eth domains will have their own version of phishing.)
.ETH domain names might be worth a look, but I'd advise anyone interested to spend quite a lot of time researching and understanding the space.
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Goodman Named Men's Soccer Interim Head Coach
ADRIAN, Mich. -- The Siena Heights Athletic Department has named Thomas Goodman the Interim Head Coach for the men's soccer program, to replace Aldo Zid, effective immediately. Goodman was previously an assistant coach for the program.
Goodman enters his first season on themen's soccer staff with 19 years of experience coaching soccer in England and the United States. Discussing his new position, Goodman states, "I'm excited for the opportunity to take over as interim head men's soccer coach at Siena Heights University, I am looking forward to creating a competitive and fun soccer culture going forward. I would like to thank Fred Smith and the players for trusting in my ability to lead them during this transition process."
Goodman recently moved from Eugene, Oregon, where he coached boys soccer at Willamette High School (WHS) for five years, winning the league the first time in the school's 63-year history. During his time at WHS, he was awarded 2011 and 2012 MWL Coach of the Year and 2011 Oregon State Coach of the Year. While serving as a high school coach he was also the Director of Coaching for Eugene Soccer Club and the head coach for the 2008 and 2009 u15/u16 girls State Cup Champions – Futbol Unidos ESC, he won the 2009 Oregon Club Coach of the Year Award. In Oregon, Goodman was also a Region IV ODP girls coach, and worked with the U.S. Women's National Team on several occasions while coaching in Portland.
Since moving to Michigan in 2015, he became the Assistant Director of Coaching at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and the girls' varsity soccer coach at Tecumseh High School where in 2017 he was awarded the Lenawee County Coach of the Year award. Goodman received his BA in Education Foundations from the University of Oregon and Master's Degree in Recreation and Sport Pedagogy with a focus in soccer coaching from Ohio University. He is currently working towards his Doctorate in Higher Education and Leadership at Concordia University.
In Goodman's early career, he moved to England as a fifteen-year-old and played soccer at Arsenal's Academy team and was later traded to play professional soccer with Torquay United for two seasons. Goodman was also on the Canadian Olympic Mountain bike team, during an Olympic qualifying event Goodman crashed his bike and was in the hospital for several months ending his athletic career, but starting his coaching career. Goodman has his Level 4 Certificate in Coaching (UEFA A Coaching License), USSF National B Coaching License, FA level 2 Certificate of Coaching, NSCAA Mental/Physical Player Development Special Topic Diploma, Goalkeeping Level 2 Diploma and Professional Development Certificate for High School Coaches.
The men's soccer program is currently 3-6 overall with a 1-2 Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference slate. Their next game is Wednesday, Oct. 4, with a 7 p.m. kickoff at Aquinas.
Fri, 11/01 | Men's Soccer at Lourdes (Ohio) L, 1-0 (Final) RC | BX | PH
Wed, 10/30 | Men's Soccer at Aquinas W, 2-0 (Final) RC | BX
Fri, 10/25 | Men's Soccer at Concordia L, 3-1 (Final) RC | BX | V
Wed, 10/23 | Men's Soccer at Lawrence Tech L, 4-1 (Final) RC | BX | V
Sat, 10/19 | Men's Soccer vs. Northwestern Ohio T, 0-0 (Final - 2OT) RC | BX | V


The mineral of the month is the ammonite (Ammonoid) fossil. Ammonites are an extinct group of marine invertebrate animals from the Cephalopod class. These fossilized mollusks are more closely related to living cephalopods such as octopuses and squid, than they are to the modern nautilus, which has a similarly shaped shell. Two pictures of ammonite fossils are below. I took the first photo and Tom Shearer took the other two photos (Figures 135 & 136 in the new agate book).
Ammonites are excellent index fossils. Depending on the species of ammonite found in a rock layer, geologists can specify the geologic time period for that layer.
The name ammonite was inspired by the spiral shape of the fossilized shells, which somewhat resemble tightly-coiled rams' horns. The Egyptian god, Ammon, was typically depicted wearing rams' horns.
Eight different orders of ammonites are known to have existed, ranging from 400 million to 65.5 million years ago. They ranged in size from a fraction of an inch to over 7 feet in diameter. After being born, they fed on plankton and quickly assumed a strong protective outer shell. They also grew quickly with the females growing up to 400 percent larger than the males because they needed the extra space for egg production.
Because ammonites are extinct, little is known about their way of life. Their soft body parts were very rarely preserved in any detail. It is thought that depending on the species, they lived in a variety of ocean environments. Some probably lived in open water, while others survived at the bottom of the ocean. It is also believed that ammonites may have avoided becoming a predator's dinner by squirting ink, much like modern cephalopods.
The soft body of the organism occupied the largest segment of the shell at the end of the coil. The smaller sections were walled off which allowed the animal to maintain its buoyancy by either filling the chambers with gas, or emptying the sea water out of these chambers. Thus the smaller sections of the coil would have floated above the larger sections. As it grew, it added newer and larger chambers to the open end of the coil.


In the present day's youth is exposed to digital technology to a degree previously unseen. It is also usually believed that this synergistic relationship first occurred at the daybreak of humankind with the invention of easy tools, and continues with modern applied sciences in the present day. Within the training sector computer systems are revolutionary know-how and you'll't avoid its importance in faculties.
Plainly our youth are overlooking the rose of technology and have gotten too anxious to toy with its thorns. As college students are responding to the questions on their pupil worksheets, you might find that this is their first experience with considering drawback and benefits of expertise.
Business specialists from Jobspring Partners and Workbridge Associates are available at each event to offer job search recommendation to attendees. Additional data technology has been used for practice operation, security and ticket reserving/issuing methods, should extra actively apply information technology to improve safety, consolation and comfort. You've rigorously priced the deal based upon your expectations of how the customer is going to make use of your technology – by a particular group within the buyer's large organization.
Despite backlashes and negative publicity because of sexual harassment, customer neglect experiences, sexism, and public protests that made the CEO stepped down from tech advisory board of President Trump's new cabinet, Uber still does not cease innovating to offer the following smartest thing for the shoppers.
Tech will provide you with the chance to build your model with a domain identify that truly represents your small business, your pursuits and the whole lot 'tech-y' you stand for. Individuals who use Google in these five nations (plus the US) will now have the ability to use fact-checked sources when referring to any news or articles. You work for an international VC firm with plans to open an office in France : get a French Tech Visa and profit from a quick-observe process.
Digital tech staff are helping to spice up the wider UK economic system via higher productiveness levels per worker. The development of information and technology reveals that security, efficiency and convenience have been improved within the areas of railway use, operations and upkeep.


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Donald D. Anthony, M.D., Ph.D.
Donald Anthony is a Professor of Medicine and Pathology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Section Chief of Rheumatology at the Cleveland VA Medical Center, and staff physician at University Hospitals Medical Center. He obtained his graduate degree in Biochemistry, studying the regulation of protein synthesis at the level of cap binding and RNA unwinding initiation factor activity utilized in cap independent viral translation. He believes he performed the first adaptation of toeprinting (ribosome footprinting) in a eukaryotic system and helped to elucidate the role of cap binding protein factors in cap independent Internal Ribosomal Entry Site (IRES) dependent translation, working in the laboratory of William C Merrick. Post-Doctoral work 1993-1998 with Tarique Haqqi, Peter Heeger and Paul Lehman involved evaluation of host T cell autoimmunity in a collagen induced arthritis model system. He joined the faculty at Case in 1999 as an instructor and since then he has been continuously funded at the national level to lead an investigative team continuing work with host cellular immunity, in the setting of chronic HCV infection and HCV-HIV co-infection. Themes of laboratory focus include mechanisms and markers of immune activation as they relate to immune function in the setting of HCV infection, NK cell control of HCV associated HCC, immune monitoring during chronic viral infection and during immune therapies, and immune health in the settings of chronic viral infection and autoimmunity. He participates in the national AIDS Clinical Trials Consortium as a member of the Inflammation Transformative Science Group, as Safety Monitoring committee Chair for the Hepatitis Transformative Science Group, and as Case Immunology Support laboratory co-investigator. He serves as a senior editor on the new Case journal Pathogens and Immunity, cares for HCV infected patients, and cares for patients with autoimmune disease.
Daniel Popkin, M.D., Ph.D., joined Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center in 2012. Dr. Popkin earned his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine, where he also received his Ph.D. in immunology. He was accepted into the Dermatology Residency at Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to joining Case Western Reserve University and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Dr. Popkin held a joint appointment at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, where he conducted basic science research in immunology and at The Scripps Clinic in San Diego as a clinical Dermatologist.
As a member of the Department of Dermatology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Dr. Popkin's area of special interest includes the diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer, acne, psoriasis, eczema, vitiligo and immunodermatologic disorders. Dr. Popkin is a principle author of a clinical handbook of dermatology which was published in 2009. He is also published in multiple peer reviewed journals. Dr. Popkin is committed to excellence in patient care and education, for both patients and physicians-in-training.
in clinical trial design and management, and leadership of the clinical research enterprise within the HIV group at Case helps the laboratory.
Carey Shive is a Research Health Scientist and GRECC Investigator at the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Pathology at Case Western Reserve University. Carey has been working in immunology at Case Western Reserve University since 1993. She earned her PhD in 2014 working in Dr. Michael Lederman's lab where she strove to understand the continued immune dysfunction in a group of patients who had controlled viremia with antiretroviral therapy, but were unable to reconstitute their CD4 T cell numbers; patients often referred to as "immune failures". After graduating from Dr. Lederman's lab, Carey joined the lab of Dr. Donald Anthony as a post-doctoral fellow where she studied how inflammation contributes to immune function and responsiveness to neo-antigen vaccine. Throughout her career as an immunologist she has been interested in chronic inflammation and soluble mediators that contribute to this inflammation. During her studies, she noticed many immune parallels between aging and chronic viral infection. Carey was recently awarded a Career Development Award from the Veteran's Association and will be examining the underlying mechanisms in aging and chronic viral infections (HIV and HCV) associated with elevated expression of innate cytokines, the loss of immune homeostasis, immune exhaustion and senescence, and the related co-morbidities and mortality. She is looking forward to becoming an independent investigator with the support of her outstanding mentors in LII and the Louis Stokes VA Medical Center.
Scott Sieg, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine. He is a trainer in the Departments of Pathology and Molecular and Microbiology. In addition to overseeing his own research laboratory, Dr. Sieg is the Director of the CFAR Immune Function Core Laboratory and Associate Director of the Cancer Center Imaging Core. Dr. Sieg grew up in Pittsburgh and graduated with a B.S. from La Roche College where he worked on his first science project that aimed to synthesize nucleic acid polymers under prebiotic conditions. He next graduated from Duquesne University with a M.S. in Biology. At Duquesne, he studied the effects of water acidification on crayfish pheromone communication. Dr. Sieg graduated from CWRU with his Ph.D. in 1996 from the laboratory of David Kaplan, where he studied parainfluenza virus. His current research centers on various aspects of HIV immunology and more recently, he is expanding his studies into areas of cancer immunology. Dr. Sieg has a wife, Francesca, who he met at Duquesne University and three "children," Jessica, Jacob & Jenny, who are rapidly transforming into real people (adults). Dr. Sieg likes working out, gardening and messing up home repairs. He used to read books and coach basketball. Overall, Dr. Sieg is probably the most boring member of the research group and he likes it that way.
The focus of Dr. Souheil-Antoine Younes current research is to characterize the mechanisms responsible for the natural proliferation of CD4 T and CD8 T cells in HIV-1 infection. During the past years, Dr. Younes has investigated the immunological mechanisms by which CD4 T cells proliferate in mouse models and he is currently focusing on understanding the mechanism by which T cell proliferate in humans. Dr. Younes has an extensive knowledge in T cell homeostasis and in HIV-1 pathogenesis. This was acquired in Dr. Rafick-Pierre Sekaly's laboratory in which Dr. Younes worked intensively on understanding the mechanism behind the maintenance of HIV-1 specific CD4 T cells in HIV-1 infected patients (Younes JEM '2003, Younes JI'2007). Thereafter he moved to the National Institute of Health (NIH) to investigate T cell homeostasis in mouse models under the supervision of Dr. William Paul where he preformed studies on cycling CD4 T cells in mouse models (Younes Plos. Biology '2011). Dr. Younes ongoing research regards Immunometabolism in HIV-1 infection. Dr. Younes and his coworkers found dysfunctional mitochondria in the regulatory T cells of immune failure HIV-1 infected subjects whom CD4 T cell count did not normalize even after years of anti-HIV-1 drug therapy. The current focus of Dr. Younes research is to find a mean to rescue dysfunctional mitochondria for the purpose to restore CD4 T cell count in Immune failure subjects.


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Ken Griffey, Jr. Presents: My Doomed Baseball Endeavor
Posted on July 31, 2014 by bajambi
If you were to ask most people what they look for in a sports video game, they'd probably say rich gameplay. Or maybe they prefer graphics, or depth of options.
The one thing I rarely see mentioned is the basis of games in general. "Fun." And holy smokes, there's one game that has all the rest beat. I'm going to take you through it.
Welcome to a long and wonder-awful journey, filled with dizzying highs and gut-wrenching lows. Welcome to "Ken Griffey, Jr. Presents Major League Baseball."
Here's the deal: I've tried this several times before and never once finished, but if it's chronicled here then at least I can go at my leisure and remember where we left off. It's my intent to make it through an entire 162-game season on this A+ Super Nintendo baseball game from 1994. It's going to be rough and it's going to expose me as a truly terrible player. I once took a perfect game into the 8th inning before giving up two home runs and losing 2-1. The worst part is knowing that during the course of this season, I'll top that somehow.
Just for a bit of background, the only licensed MLB player in this game is the titular Griffey. All of the team names are there, but the players have been changed. Fortunately, the publishers did that in the best possible way- by basing teams around specific pieces of pop culture. What I'm saying is, you could have Vincent Price pitching for the Rockies against Ernest Hemingway of the A's. Yes, the Colorado Rockies are all named after horror icons, while the Oakland A's are famous authors.
I am all for this change, 100%. Even better is that you can edit the names of the players yourself. So traditionalists can switch things to represent the true rosters, if they want. Although if people are that concerned with keeping things true to life, they probably should be playing a baseball game that came out this decade.
The gamplay is just plain fun. Very simplistic buttons and controls, and without all the newfangled loading screens and animations that this hula-hooping generation loves, games go by fast and frantic. Which is good because if I had to play 162 full games in, like, MLB The Show for the PS3 I'd kill myself. So I'm hoping I can get in a few games every couple of days. If not, it's not like this page is going anywhere. I'll update whenever I feel like it.
2029 World Series, here we come!
As I said, you can edit the names of the players on each team. So of course, I chose to select the San Francisco Giants and re-name all of the guys after myself and my friends. If I lose a game, I want to be able to point fingers at someone in person and blame it on his shitty fielding.
Let's meet our team.
Starting Pitchers Rotation
1) Daniel Serra
2) Sean Reynolds
3) Young Jang
4) Nick Byrne
5) Mark Rodenhizer
1B- Nick Orozco
2B- Chris Monroe
3B- Andrew Reif
SS- C-Dawg
C- Zack Havok
LF- Erick Wilson
CF- Scott Browne
RF- Eric Thomas
Steve Stairs
Sly Dogg
Cliff Huizenga
Mark Galloway
That's what we have to work with. Without further delay, let's jump into the first game. Kicking off the season vs the St Louis Cardinals!
Game 1- San Francisco Giants @ St Louis Cardinals (SF Serra vs SL Curly)
I started off with a heart attack as my own character hung the first pitch of the game over the plate, getting it got ripped to deep left, but Wilson made a crazy diving catch for the first out. I still knew we were in trouble. My fears were only confirmed by a bloop single and a grounder that rolled past my shortshop because I haven't played this game on this controller in a year and made him dive four feet in the opposite direction of the ball. Long story short, a double cleared the bases and it's 2-0 St Louis. I struck out the next two batters to get out without too much more damage.
That is, of course, until the bottom of the 5th when Buster freaking Keaton stepped up to the plate and hit a three run homer. This was the low point of the game for exactly 15 seconds, when Zeppo Marx followed up with a home run of his own to make it 7-0 : (
Things continued rolling downhill in the 7th inning when I hit a batter. I swear I didn't even know you could do that in this game because it's the first time in years of playing that I've seen it. But if there ever was a game for it to show up, it's during this one. I suspected that the next animation would be me keeling over on the mound as tiny 2D paramedics rushed out with the crowd booing me.
Top of the 8th, Reif managed to sneak a single up the middle to score ME, the PITCHER. Yeah! Oh and then we lost.
I accidentally clicked a button on the controller before I could take a picture of the box score but the numbers were not pretty. 5 strikeouts for me in a 9-inning batting practice for the Cards. Luckily, I did get a little bit of my skill back in this game once it became obvious I was going to lose. Taking that lesson into game 2, I wanted revenge.
Game 2- San Francisco Giants @ St Louis Cardinals (SF Reynolds vs SL Larry)
Sean Reynolds vs the second and my favorite of the three stooges, Larry. I showed no remorse, however, and tried a different strategy to get on the board before my opponent. With Wilson on first, I went for the bunt with Thomas to advance him. Manufactured runs! Small-ball! It worked in that Wilson made it to second (Thomas was out by a hair) but not so much in that Browne then hit a line drive to the shortshop, who jumped seven feet into the air and snagged it for the third out.
Up through the second inning Reynolds had retired the first four batters on twelve straight strikes. In fact he managed to strike out eight of the first nine batters, a bloop single by the 8-spot jerkwad tarnishing things. I took advantage of that stellar start by FIRING UP my offense with a few singles to get Orozco and Monroe on third and first, respectively before Thomas dribbled a little grounder to score Nick.
Absolutely nothing interesting happens for four innings, until Reynolds decided to stop trying in the 7th and give up a single and a game-tying double. With runners on second third, two outs, Reynolds was out and "Mean" Mark Galloway came in. One pitch later, a pop-up got us out of a huge jam.
Top of the eighth we came back with a single by Browne, followed by not one but two successful bunts! Everyone safe! Orozco singled to score a run before Monroe grounded into a double play. We're up 2-1 and I am sweating. It's July and I get nervous over tightly-contested video game baseball simulations.
Galloway pulled a Reynolds and allowed a home run by Lou Costello in the bottom of the 8th to knot things up. The Cards put the pressure on by subbing in George Burns to hit. Good lord. Luckily he grounded out, because in 1994 he was 98 years old.
Bottom of the ninth, tie game, runners on second and third. Two outs. Galloway on the mound, for some reason huffing and puffing despite only working two innings so far. Recipe for disaster, sure. Ready to unload with profanities, you bet. But a light from above broke through the clouds as a sharp grounder to third was stopped by a diving Reif, who made a long throw across the field to get the out at first. It defied physics and I could not be happier. We're going to extra innings, boys.
Obviously desperate, the Cards pulled out their ace in the hole- Bill Cosby. He rightfully stifled us in the top of the 10th, and disaster struck when Galloway allowed runners on the corners with two outs. I couldn't believe how much he was panting. I took him out and called on Sly Dogg to get us home. He proceeded to deliver the sweetest strikeout I have ever seen. Tears form in my eyes.
Cosby was done. They had one trick left up their sleeves, and his name was Charlie Chaplin. The grandfather of comedy with a wicked 12-6 curve. And it was his first pitch that Monroe absolutely crushed for a 504 foot home run. That's all we were able to do that inning, but it was enough to lift us to a 3-2 lead.
Sly Dogg worked the bottom of the 11th, getting a ground out but then giving up a double. One more pop up and we were one out away from victory. The next pitch was hit hard to third, where Reif grabbed it.
The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!
14 K's in less than seven innings! Dang son. I hope some people find this interesting. I don't think I'll be going into this much detail for every game because no one is going to want to read that, but I could give little recaps and mention any funny stuff. Let me know what you think.
And you know, I was planning on doing three games tonight but that second one was too mentally exhausting. I need to go lay down.
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Ekw on August 1, 2014 at 11:28 am said:
That K was sweeter thank a jello puddin pop
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Welcome back to part three in my exploratory series on fine art paper options and thought exercises on the importance of printing our work. You'll find previous entries here and here, where I explored a couple different matte paper choices and delved into what I enjoy about the matte finish and why I think that I generally gravitate more towards that style over a glossy option. In this piece, I'll be looking at something totally different, something with a genuine unique feel and look to it that if you match the content of the work with the style of paper, you'll have something pretty special on your hands.
Today, I'm looking at the Slickrock Metallic Pearl 260 from Moab Papers. This is a high-gloss, high-sheen, metal-like paper that instantly reminds me of printing on metal with its near;y pearl-like surface. Right out of the gate, I can picture any images with neon lights, metal (cars, bikes, or planes), nighttime cityscapes, or high-contrast monochrome images looking absolutely amazing on this paper. The unique depth created by the metallic sheen has the potential to be very captivating, as it's a look that we don't see all that often compared to a more common matte or glossy option.
With that said, and this in no way being a criticism of the paper (as I can picture it being an excellent choice for certain content), I think that the lesson here and broader point for today is that no paper is a one-size-fits-all option. With my fairy tale or fantasy-styled imagery being a bit softer to begin with, often with somewhat muted color palettes and shallow depth of field, nature-centric backgrounds, I don't feel that this paper would be the correct choice for many of my portraits. The blending of a soft fantasy look with the metallic sheen (especially in the skin tones) is a dichotomy that I would most likely not choose for my own method of presentation regarding my own portrait work.
Learning when and why to select certain papers is an invaluable lesson for anyone looking to be printing on a more frequent basis. Take the time to identify key elements about your work and look to match the strengths of your photography with the strengths of any given paper. If you have an epic highway overpass shot complete with red car trails snaking their way down the road with towering city skyscrapers in the background, a metallic paper like the Slickrock Metallic Pearl would be a powerful pairing. Or if you have a monchrome bodyscape image for an athlete with highlights and shadows in stark contrast, hell yeah, that could look amazing on a metallic paper.
As this series continues to grow and evolve and as I explore more paper and print concepts and ideas, I would really like to continue improving the quality of the photography that accompanies each entry. I've found that photographing a print presents its own unique challenges; for this piece specifically, I found capturing the pearl-like surface of the print to be very difficult. If you have any suggestions or expertise to share regarding the photographing of printed work, I would love to hear from you. Until next time, happy printing.
I use Red River's Polar Pearl Metallic which is now named 'Polar Gloss Metallic'. It's for specific images that are presented in a 'metallic' sort of way. I've attached a shot that has been printed on the metallic based paper.
I also use a satin, a baryta, and a matte from Red River as well. Not top of the line, but good quality paper.
The best end result for a shot that is special is to print it and display it....proudly!


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Make the Best of the Time We Have 1/9 (Jean Havoc, Roy Mustang, and the rest of the gang)
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Title: Make the Best of the Time We Have 1/9
Author: Seaweed_FMA
Characters: Jean Havoc, Roy Mustang, Riza Hawkeye, and the rest of the group (no pairings)
Word Count: 15,339 total (1707 this chapter)
Rating: PG-13, some adult concepts.
Summary: Jean Havoc's life changes drastically. Will he or his friends ever be the same?
Warnings: Mentions of capture and abuse.
Notes: AU, set soon after Hughes' death. I don't own the characters. The cow does.
Thank you to Emma, Heather, and everyone else who helped this behemoth FINALLY come to life.
I posted this once and it was a little too daunting to read all at one sitting, so I took a friend's advice and broke it up. It's in 8 pieces, plus the epilogue. It was originally written to be read all at once, so I apologize if the "chapter" breaks are a bit awkward. I really worked hard on this, and I would very much like some constructive feedback- what is good? What is bad?
On Monday- the first day that Jean didn't show up for work- his coworkers figured that he was hungover, mourning yet another failed date, or sick; or some combination of the three. No one was terribly worried. Lieutenant Hawkeye called Jean's apartment on her lunch break, but there was no answer. She assumed that he was either asleep or in the shower, and she didn't think there was any reason to be concerned.
By Wednesday morning, when Jean still hadn't come into work, they were all worried, and Breda offered- no, demanded- to go find his best friend.
A call came back to the office about a half hour later. Breda had found signs of a struggle inside Jean's apartment, but there was absolutely no sign of him.
When Armstrong and the Investigations group arrived at Jean's apartment and started to question his neighbors, they were surprised to find that no one had heard anything, even through the thin apartment walls. Jean had kept to himself for the most part since moving in, and little attention had ever been paid to the smoking blond.
Jean probably would have found that ironically funny if he had been there to appreciate the joke.
But he wasn't.
And the manhunt was on.
It took ten days before the investigation of dozens of people and the searching in the seediest parts of the city paid off. And it was Mustang who had the unfortunate honor of finding out what had happened to Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc.
The room reeked of blood, antiseptic, urine and feces- and death. Roy put his gloved hand up to his nose, barely able to hold back the bile that rose in his throat.
As he scanned the dingy laboratory, his breath hitched at what came into his vision. There were cages in the room, packed into every single dank corner and dirty floor space possible. Some of the cages held animals, others held things that looked... vaguely human.
Vaguely.
He made the mistake of looking into one of the cages and came face to face with something that used to be a person- though he couldn't begin to guess what the twisted mass of flesh and hair was any more. The alchemist couldn't stop the vomit this time, and he retched up bile that burned his mouth, throat and lips. "Oh, don't be here, Lieutenant." He whispered, wiping the yellow green liquid dripping from his mouth with the back of his hand.
A few more minutes of searching brought him to a cage with a dark form in the back. It looked human- at least more human than most of the things that he had seen in the other cages- though through the shadow of the bars on the front of the prison, he couldn't see any details on who or what lay inside. "Please don't be who I think you are." Roy said softly as he opened the cage, making the contents of the small cage whimper in surprise and curl into a small ball in the opposite corner.
"Hey, it's okay." Roy said in a soft voice that broke at the end of the last word. He gently held out his hand, out palm up, as a gesture of friendliness. If the other cages were any indication, most of these chimera-like beings seemed to be dog based, and he knew enough about canines to know that they need to sniff a person to gather information on them and gain their trust.
"Please, come forward a little. I just want to make sure you're okay. I'm not here to hurt you, I
promise. The one who hurt you..." he couldn't even say 'the man', "...he isn't able to do anything to you anymore."
Roy looked over his shoulder to the smoldering pile of flesh and bone that used to be Shou Tucker. It struck Roy as pathetically funny that throughout his military career, he had gotten so used to the smell of burning flesh that it hardly even registered over all of the other stenches in the room. He was so used to killing that the thought that he murdered Tucker barely upset him.
However, with what that... thing... had been doing, death was a much more merciful end than what he deserved.
"Won't... hurt?" Roy immediately snapped back from his thoughts to the form at the rear of the cage. The voice was oddly familiar, though it was low and broken and scared. But it was a voice that he knew well.
"Damn. Havoc.."
"Hav... oc."
"Yes, that's your name. Do you remember, Lieutenant?"
"Hav... oc.."
"Yes." Roy's voice wavered again, and a lump formed in his throat. How much had the man changed? Was he even human anymore? He could speak like a person, but the alchemist still hadn't yet been able to get a good look at him.
"Can you please come forward a little, Lieutenant?" He couldn't even bring himself to say the man's
name again. "I just need to make sure that you're okay."
"Not... okay." The chimera could smell the fear and anxiety of the man in front of him, but there was something familiar about him that he couldn't place. He smelled smoke and ash. Jean knew the smells from somewhere, but his mind- clouded by tranquilizers and confused with canine and human thoughts- couldn't place it.
"Please Lieu- please, Havoc. I.. need to see what you are."
Jean blinked his blue eyes as they adjusted to the low light of the lab. Roy sighed in relief as the blond moved into the light. His face was gaunt from malnourishment, and his eyes were dull and a bit sunken, but overall he didn't look like he was in terrible shape-
- Until he saw the ears that the blond had pinned back to the sides of his head in fear- two pointed canine ears above his human ones. They were almost the same color as his hair, just a few shades darker.
"Lieutenant..."
"S-s-ir..."
Roy gasped in surprise at the response. "You.. remember me?" Roy leaned in a little bit closer, and Jean panicked at the sudden movement- yelping in surprise and ducking back into the dark.
"No, please, Lieutenant. It's okay. I'm sorry. I was just surprised. Yes, I'm Colonel Mustang. You worked for me. Do you remember?"
"Mus... tang."
"Yes. Mustang." A soft, sad smile crossed his face. "Please, come back out, Lieutenant. I need to look you over, to make sure you don't need any immediate help."
"NO!" Roy almost fell backwards at the sharp, loud bark of a response. "No! No more... Leave me alone! "
Jean had almost sounded lucid at that moment, more like his human self than he had been since Roy discovered him. "It's okay, Lieutenant. I promise. If you don't want anyone else to look at you, that's fine. But please, I need to get you out of here. You don't want to stay here do you?"
"Don't... know."
"I know a place with a warm bed. You can eat food and drink water and no one will hurt you. I promise. But you'll have to come out first." Roy gently brought his hand forward again and smiled when he heard a soft snuffling noise from the dark. Roy wondered what else had changed. Could Jean smell better? See better? Hear better? How much of the Havoc that he had known was still there?
Roy cringed again when Jean came fully into view- slowly, shakily, moving into the light. The man was naked, and somewhere deep inside his mind Roy knew that should have made him uncomfortable, but he was so worried about the Lieutenant that the fact that he had no clothes on only registered for a moment, then it was gone with the millions of other questions about what had happened, and what to do next.
He was glad to see that Jean could almost pass as human, until he noticed the clicking noise on the metal cage and looked down at the man's hands. His nails looked more like small claws, rounded off to dull points. But Roy couldn't stop the gasp that came from his mouth when he saw the tail that extended from the base of Jean's spine. It was tucked tight between his legs now, and Roy knew that meant that he was scared and submissive.
"No longer a man, no longer an animal..." Roy mumbled under his breath. He gently reached towards the top of the chimera's head to try to give him a gentle, reassuring touch.
Jean felt the hair on the back of his neck stand up. A growl rose in his throat and he snapped at the
dark haired man, baring his teeth, exposing his sharpened canines. Roy retreated a step, falling back on his ass a few feet away from the entrance of the cage.
"I'm sorry, Havoc. I didn't mean to scare you." Roy sighed when he saw that the chimera had retreated back to the rear of the cage again. He wasn't sure if he was ever going to get him out of here at this rate. "Please, Lieutenant. I promise, I won't try to touch you. But you need to come out of there. You aren't safe."
"Safe..."
"No, you're not safe. Not here." Technically, Roy knew that it wasn't totally true, because Tucker- the only immediate threat to his Lieutenant- was dead. But he knew that he needed to get Jean out of there before he either starved to death, or some else found him who would see him as a threat- or even worse- a prize.
What kind of future would a chimera have, anyways? He couldn't go back to work. He was so jumpy that Roy couldn't even get within a few feet of him. It flashed in Roy's mind that there was an alternative, a way to make Jean's pain go away for good. Roy actually got as far as holding up his gloved hand in front of the cage. He pressed his fingers together, obsidian eyes fixed on the shadow. One quick move, a simple snap, and the poor man would be free of his suffering forever.
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Very positive start; Roy assessing the situation makes it more vbelievable, and I was quite worried for the poor Havoc Chimera. Roy might have more of a painful or horified reaction at the thought of killing his friend.
Well I am not sure that Tucker was ever a friend, just a colleague as far as we know, and the fact of what he was doing, and what he did to Havoc, I doubt he would feel that badly.
At least, I think you mean Tucker.
But thank you for responding. I was beginning to think that no one was reading this. I will post part 2 either tonight or tomorrow.
In the last paragraph, Roy was considering putting Havoc out of his misery; I think his thoughts on that idea would be even more painful than what was written. BTW, I was wondering who turned havoc into a Chimera, since you mentioned Tucker's death.
Oh... sorry. Yes, it was Tucker that turned him into a chimera.
I didn't really think about putting too much into that paragraph, because it was supposed to be more about Havoc, but Roy does talk about it a tiny but more at the beginning of the next chapter. :)
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GIG NEWS: Yellow Sisters. London A Cappella Festival. 31 January. Free!
YELLOW SISTERS will be performing at the LONDON A CAPPELLA FESTIVAL at Kings Place, Kings Cross, on Saturday 31 January.
The renowned all-female Czech vocal group, whose repertoire is entirely self-composed, describe themselves as 'sound illusionists' whose music floats lightly between jazz, soul, funk, RnB, reggae and world music.
Their lunchtime set starts at 12.25pm in the Kings Place foyer. Admission is free.
The group formed in 2005 and have released five albums in total. Their tight-knit vocal harmonies are often accompanied by improvisations from onstage dancers.
Yellow Sisters will also sing at the Triple Crown pub in Richmond on Sunday 1 February, where the first half of the performance starting at 6.30pm will be baby-friendly. Tickets are on sale from £9 here.
Click here for video of the band and more information from the Czech Centre London.
Further video can be seen here on Yellow Sisters' official website.
In Britain there's BBC Radio 1 for all (well, some of) the latest music. And the Czech Republic has its very own 'RADIO 1', broadcasting 24/7 from Prague. CzechHarmonies introduces you to the biggest single Czech radio station dedicated to promoting cutting edge music with an independent spirit.
There's a Radio 1 in London…and there's a Radio 1 in Prague. However, there are some important differences between the BBC's flagship new music station and its Czech namesake.
For starters, Radio 1 (or 'Radio Jedna', as they say in the ČR), is exclusively and constantly geared to innovative, experimental and independently-minded music whereas BBC Radio 1 mainly plays 'The Interesting Stuff' at night, reserving the daytime predominantly for 'The Commercial Stuff' – including the disposable Simon Cowell-type nonsense.
You could say Radio Jedna is more Huw Stephens and Benji B than Fearne Cotton and Scott Mills, in terms of pushing the creative envelope. And certainly Radio Jedna presenters would rather throw themselves off Charles Bridge into a watery grave than give so much as a second's airplay to any X-Factor-style crap.
If anything, the Czech Republic's Radio 1 – an independent radio station and not part of Český Rozhlas, the main Czech broadcasting company – is perhaps closer in spirit to BBC 6 Music, though probably with less 1980s indie on its playlist, and with a wider and more colourful palette of genres.
Although the bulk of the station's output consists of new, recent, and not-so-recent indie, alternative and generally left-field tracks hosted by a variety of presenters each with their own show, there are also a number of specialist programmes covering fields like electronica, techno, breakbeat, hip-hop, jazz, swing and dancehall.
And those looking to get their teeth into something really substantial can savour the hour-long feature CD Nonstop (Mondays to Fridays, 19:00 Czech time/18:00 UK time), in which a critically acclaimed album from recent times is played in its entirety from start to finish without interruption. Recent airings have included full albums by Vashti Bunyan, Interpol, Kasabian, Aphex Twin and the Ukelele Orchestra Of Great Britain, as well as from the Czech Republic's own Jan Burian, The Prostitutes, Vypsaná fiXa and Jasná Páka.
You won't get CDs broadcast nonstop like this on BBC Radio 1…well, apart from very, very occasionally on Zane Lowe's programme.
'But what's in the Czech Radio 1 charts?' I hear you cry. Depends which charts you mean. There are two: the 'Hitparáda Radia 1', and the 'Velká Sedma'.
The Hitparáda Radia 1 is comprised mainly of successful mainstream alternative/indie/electronic acts, many of them familiar names from the UK and US (including, at time of writing, Lamb, TV On The Radio, Thom Yorke, Submotion Orchestra, the Drums, Cathedrals, Total Science and Royal Blood) – evidence that most of the Czech music-buying public, despite the flourishing of domestic acts since the end of the Communist era in 1989, still look mainly to the West for inspiration.
The Velká Sedma, meanwhile, is a kind of Indie Chart for homegrown Czech (and a few Slovakian) acts that mainly, as yet, don't have a high enough profile to make the Hitparáda Radia 1, so it is very unusual to see the same names in both charts. 'Velká Sedma' translates as 'The Big Seven': there were seven songs when the chart started back in the early 90s, but they've kept the name despite gradually expanding the chart to 15 places. As I write, No 1 on the Velká Sedma chart is the second single from Lenka Dusilová & Baromantika's new album 'V Hodině Smrti'. Other Velká Sedma high flyers currently include Zrní, Monokino Kino, Lanugo, Bad Karma Boy, Kubatko and Tara Fuki. Genrewise, these and other names on the chart encompass everything from atmospheric acoustic dream-pop to indie guitar rock via ambient electronics, reggae-pop, lo-fi folk, punk-country and cello improvisations!
Radio 1 listeners who register with the station's website can vote (hlasovat) for their favourite tracks, thereby helping to shape the following week's charts. Currently the Hitparáda Radia 1 is featured during two-hour timeslots on Thursday evenings and Sunday mornings, while the Velká Sedma chart also gets a couple of two-hour windows, on Tuesday evenings and Saturday mornings.
If you're feeling daunted by the plethora of music emanating from the Czech Republic, or by your inabilty to understand the Czech language, Radio 1 is one good place to start exploring. On both the Hitparáda Radia 1 and the Velká Sedma web pages, clicking on the artists' names will take you either to the artists' official websites or to their Facebook/ Twitter/ YouTube/ Soundcloud/ Bandzone etc pages for more information.
The current Hitparáda Radia 1 can be viewed here.
The current Velká Sedma chart can be viewed here.
It is not Albert Černý's first time in Britain, not by a long stretch. But then, if you were Upstairs@Highbury Garage on the evening of Thursday 13 November, you will almost certainly have detected this from the impeccable English accent of the Lake Malawi singer/ guitarist/ frontman/ songwriter-in-chief, as he won over a transfixed audience.
Indeed, if you didn't know otherwise, you would have no idea that Albert Černý is not from these shores at all, but from a small village near Třinec, a steel town in the demographically nebulous region of Moravia/Silesia, near where the Czech, Slovak and Polish borders intersect, and from where his first band, Charlie Straight, emerged so triumphantly in the late 2000s to win three Anděl Awards (the Czech equivalent of the Brits or Grammies) and mark out a sizeable territorial claim on the Czech Republic's musical landscape for half a decade.
Keeping quiet about his roots?
The strange thing is this. During Lake Malawi's ecstatic nine-song set as support act to Nottingham grunge outfit Kagoule, Černý (pronounced 'Chairny') proudly informs the audience that "this is our first ever gig in London!". In fact, he tells us this four times throughout the set, just to make sure it's sunk in.
Which naturally prompts the question: so where are you from?
But at no point does he inform us of the band's country of origin. This worries me. I'm here to champion the great music currently emerging from the Czech Republic…and I'm thinking, is this guy deliberately keeping quiet about his roots? If so, why? And will I have to keep quiet too? And how do I do that…writing a blog called CzechHarmonies???
"It's not that we're keeping quiet about where we're from," explains Černý post-gig, "it's just that we don't particularly want to mouth off about it. But if people ask us, of course we'll tell them. We're not trying to hide it.
They're certainly well on the way to being successful in their homeland. Although they have only one single under their belt ('Always June'), Lake Malawi have been making some bigwigs sit up and take notice, and this summer secured a prestigious support slot with Thirty Seconds To Mars at Prague's Tipsport Arena, followed in September by a breathtaking 12-song set at Czech Radio's Studio 1 in Ostrava, streamed live over the internet. You can see this on YouTube (though the video seems to skip a bit in places). If your weakness is for swirling, perfectly crafted, head-in-the-clouds pop songs that inspire you to hitch a lift with the seagulls across the oceans to find your one true love, it is impossible not to fall for the four-piece band, which also includes Černý's erstwhile Charlie Straight bandmate Pavel Pilch on drums, as well as Jeroným Šubrt (from Brno-based band Admiral Ackbar) on guitar/bass/keys and Patrick Karpentski (commandeered from Lenka Dusilová's band Baromantika) on bass/guitar .
And while Černý sings in a uniquely hybrid English regional accent that seems to lie in some parallel universe with direct connections to Camden Market, the music has a quintessentially east-European emotional intensity that envelopes you in its measured rush, whilst also clearly rooted in the 1990s British pop tradition.
So, Albert, where did you learn to speak English so well, and what British music were you listening to at the time?
And while while Britpop might also have been an inspiration back in his Charlie Straight days, Černý has certainly moved on from such influences: "I was only at primary school when Blur, Pulp and Oasis were at their height." Bon Iver would be a more recent reference point, influence-wise: indeed, the name of the band comes from the line 'So it's storming on the lake' in the song 'Calgary'.
All these formative influences ultimately manifest themselves in the structural solidity of Černý's compositions, if not in their overt sound and style. 'Day For Finding Someone', which formed the central nucleus of Lake Malawi's Highbury Garage set, is a wonderfully accomplished pop dream, but what makes it soar is the astute use of insistent, unwavering atmospheric synth chords to accentuate throbbing bass and plaintive vocals.
And there is no let up in the creative ammunition anywhere else in the set. 'Young Blood' cranks up the tempo and the passion for a pulsating declaration of devotion (You could be my Juliet / Young blood in your veins / Age doesn't matter anyway / Be my shelter from the rain), with strummed acoustic guitar bolstered by pummelling percussion and peppered with wisps of atmospheric electric guitar and a sustained single note on the synth.
On several songs, lyrically speaking, Černý seems to have a thing about birds and oceans as symbols of freedom and emotional mobility, and 'I Swam The Sea' is a case in point (I swam the sea / Swam the ocean / I set you free / Like a bird). With its infectiously danceable rhythm and poignantly jangling guitar riff, it's a potential future hit single, but Lake Malawi are frankly spoilt for potential future hit singles.
And vying for chartbusting status are 'Chinese Trees', which will definitely be the band's second single at the beginning of December, along with – surely worthy of re-release when the band has gathered some unstoppable momentum – the aforementioned 'Always June', sporting that all-important sing-a-long chorus hook with which Černý gets the punters securely wrapped around his little finger. And further evidence of his undeniable stagecraft is the ease with which he persuades the Garage audience to shuffle forward halfway through the set to eliminate that awkward empty gap in front of the stage, not to mention a perfectly timed gymnastic leap from atop the electronic organ situated in front of Pavel's drum kit. He also embarks on an enthusiastic foray down into the audience as far as the length of his jack lead will permit him.
Albert Černý may be no School of Rock soloing virtuoso on his purple-and-white Stratocaster, but his canny instinct for what you can and can't pour into the perfect indie-pop song mould, as well as the heart-on-sleeve sincerity with which he tunefully yearns for that elusive personal utopia, is something you can't teach.
And if you missed Lake Malawi's Highbury gig, rest assured you'll get your chance to experience their rarefied brand of euphoria next year, when their debut EP is released. Meantime visit their website http://www.lakemalawimusic.com/ for further announcements.
Lake Malawi's new single 'Chinese Trees' is due out on 1st December 2014.
They are currently working on their debut EP due out in 2015.
You can visit Lake Malawi's official website here.
The band's 55-minute live set at Czech Radio's Ostrava Studio 1 can be viewed here.
DG307, one of the most significant acts in Czech counterculture history, are performing this Saturday evening at St Giles Church, Camberwell, London, as part of JazzLive at the Crypt.
Co-founded in 1973 by Plastic People Of The Universe stalwart Mejla Hlavsa and dissident poet Pavel Zajíček, the six-piece outfit are renowned for an uncompromising repertoire that encompasses tight alternative-rock song structures, jazz-influenced improvisation and dissonant, expansive soundscapes as backdrops for Zajíček's intense, evocative vocal declamations.
The London performance will feature the band's late 1970´s classics alongside more recent work and will also include excerpts from their setting of T.S. Eliot's poem The Waste Land, originally composed and recorded in Camberwell.
Zajíček will be returning to his old stomping ground in south London where he spent much of the 1980s after a period of imprisonment by the authorities in communist Czechoslovakia.
While Zajíček himself became an active participant in Camberwell's local music scene during this period before returning to his homeland in 1989 to resurrect the band, this will be DG307′s first ever gig in London – as part of the Made In Prague 2014 festival.
Aidan Andrew Dun and Lucie Rejchrtová will be making special guest appearances with the band.
To experience DG307′s arresting performance style, and in particular Pavel Zajíček's unique onstage presence, you can check out an online video of the band's 35-minute tour de force "Životy? Nebo bludné kruhy?" ("Lives? Or vicious circles?") on their Bandzone page here.
The Czech Centre London is a coorganiser of this event and tickets can be bought here.


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Le Río Iruya, encore appelé Río Coranzulí, est une rivière d'Argentine qui coule dans la province de Salta. C'est un affluent abondant du río Pescado en rive droite, donc un sous-affluent du río Paraná par le río Pescado, puis par le Bermejo et enfin par le Paraguay.

Géographie

Le Río Iruya naît sur les pentes septentrionales du Cerro Fraile (4960 m). Il coule d'abord vers le nord et baigne la petite ville d'Iruya. Peu après, il change de direction et se dirige vers l'est. Il passe au sud du parc national Baritú puis se jette en rive droite dans le río Pescado. Sur ses deux rives, il reçoit d'abondants affluents issus des yungas du rebord oriental de la Cordillère orientale des Andes.

Son bassin s'étend sur plus ou moins .

Affluents

 Le río Nazareno (rive gauche) qui draine notamment le versant sud du Cerro Azul Casa.

Hydrométrie - Mesure des débits à Anta Muerta

Le débit du río Iruya a été observé pendant 23 ans (1956-1979) à Anta Muerta (au niveau du Puente Carretero ou Pont routier), localité de la province de Salta située à 8 kilomètres en amont de sa confluence avec le río Pescado.

À Anta Muerta, le débit annuel moyen ou module observé sur cette période a été de  pour une surface étudiée de , soit la quasi-totalité du bassin versant de la rivière.

La lame d'eau écoulée dans le bassin versant atteint ainsi le chiffre de 712 millimètres par an, ce qui peut être considéré comme très élevé, surtout dans cette région souvent fort déséchée par ailleurs.

Cours d'eau issu essentiellement des pluies de l'été austral, le río Iruya est un cours d'eau très abondant qui présente deux saisons bien marquées.

Comme presque partout dans le Nord-ouest argentin, les pluies surviennent en été et se prolongent quelque peu au début de l'automne. Les hautes eaux se déroulent donc de janvier à mars, avec un maximum en février. Au mois d'avril, le débit de la rivière baisse fortement et dès le mois de mai, un long étiage débute allant jusqu'au mois de novembre. Mais la rivière ne tombe jamais à sec, le débit étant soutenu en été par la fonte des neiges des hauts sommets andins du bassin (Cerro Azul Casa : 5015 m - Cerro Fraile : 4960 m).

Le débit moyen mensuel observé en septembre (minimum d'étiage) est de , soit plus ou moins 16 fois moins que le débit moyen du mois de février (), ce qui témoigne de l'amplitude assez importante des variations saisonnières. Sur la durée d'observation de 23 ans, le débit mensuel minimal a été de  (en ), tandis que le débit mensuel maximal s'élevait à  en .

Érosion et sédimentation

Au sein du haut bassin du río Bermejo, c'est au niveau du sous-bassin du río Iruya que la dégradation des sols est maximale. On estime que 20 millions de mètres cubes d'apports solides ou sédiments sont charriés annuellement par la rivière, soit plus ou moins 40 % des sédiments totaux du río Bermejo, le système de Iruya-Pescado contribuant ainsi à près de 50 % du volume total de ces sédiments.

Tourisme

 La ville d'Iruya

Voir aussi
 Le parc national Baritú
 Le río Bermejo
 Les yungas

Liens externes
  Carte détaillée de la province de Salta
  Carte détaillée de la province de Jujuy
  Sistema Nacional de Información Hídrica - Precipitación Media Anual (mm) - Período (1965-1982) - Système National d'Information Hydrologique - Carte des précipitations moyennes en Argentine en mm (période 1965-1982) .
  OEA - Projet hydraulique d'El Portillo
  Secretaría de Obras Públicas de la Nación Argentina - Subsecretaría de Recursos Hídricos - Año 2004 : Estadística Hidrológica - Caudales Líquidos (Statistiques hydrologiques - Débits liquides)

Notes et références

Cours d'eau en Argentine
4Iruya

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


Bermuda Home To Cheerfull Ghosts?
Most Bermudians who claim to share their antique cottages with ghosts simply accept them, Cann says. Of houses built a century or more ago, "nearly all have ghost stories." He suggests reading the locally published paperback "Bermuda's Favourite Haunts" (1991) by Bermudians John Cox, Mac Musson, and Joan Skinner.
The book admittedly contains only tales of what the authors call "cheerful ghosts" as revealed in interviews with householders who have encountered them. Many ghosts seem to be little more than transparent houseguests who create cold drafts.


Lawrence "Larry" J. Laurenzi, a former U.S. Attorney, has joined Baker Donelson's Government Enforcement and Investigations Group.
Mr. Laurenzi, who joins as of counsel, brings more than 35 years of experience with the U.S. Department of Justice for the U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Tennessee, including an appointment as U.S. Attorney from 2008 to 2010. After beginning his career serving as a trial attorney, Mr. Laurenzi went on to serve as criminal chief, before becoming First Assistant U.S. Attorney. In addition to the three years he served as U.S. Attorney, Mr. Laurenzi was also named Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District on three separate occasions: 2000 – 2001, 2006 – 2007, and 2017.
As a senior trial attorney, Mr. Laurenzi was responsible for managing the litigation and regulatory affairs of the United States in Western Tennessee. He actively engaged in both civil and criminal litigation, concentrating on a variety of cases that include white collar fraud, tax fraud, public corruption, civil rights, affirmative civil enforcement, and defensive torts. He has tried more than 100 jury trials and has been recognized on numerous occasions by local law enforcement and the Department of Justice for his work.
Joe D. Whitley, chair of Baker Donelson's Government Enforcement and Investigations Group, said "Larry brings extensive experience and a stellar reputation as a career federal prosecutor who has held multiple national leadership positions within the Department of Justice. We're very pleased to welcome him to our growing team of attorneys focused on the defense of businesses and executives in domestic and international investigations and prosecutions."
Baker Donelson's Government Enforcement and Investigations Group defends businesses and executives in a wide range of domestic and international investigations and prosecutions. Led by Joe Whitley, former U.S. Attorney in the Middle and Northern Federal Districts of Georgia and former General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security, the group includes more than 30 lawyers, including a former acting associate attorney general, former U.S. attorneys in multiple districts, a former FBI agent, appointed special attorneys general for several states and many former state and federal prosecutors.