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A San Antonio Police detective was shot at Friday night while investigating a Northeast Side homicide from the previous night.
SAPD Chief Anthony Trevino said a homicide detective in plainclothes was trying to obtain information about a Thursday night shooting in the 200 block of Rainbow Drive that left 30-year-old Matthew Winkelman dead.
As he was sitting in his unmarked vehicle parked in a driveway, an individual came out of a nearby residence and pointed a gun at the detective, Trevino said.
As the detective attempted to drive away, the man fired several shots at the vehicle, striking it at least once, police said.
The detective drove down the street and called for help.
As he did, two individuals fled the location, but have since been placed into custody, Trevino said.
Police said several others inside the residence exited voluntarily.
SWAT was then called in to clear the home.
"Even though we have no indication anyone else is inside the residence, we want to take all precautions," Trevino said.
The detective was not injured during the shooting.
Originally published: 2/18/2015
Location: 223 Rainbow Drive


The Association have made a quick decision in the wake of Martin O'Neill's departure.
Mick McCarthy: will sign a multi-year deal.
MICK MCCARTHY IS expected to be unveiled as Ireland manager tomorrow afternoon.
The FAI have invited the media to attend a press conference with Martin O'Neill's replacement at the Aviva Stadium.
The 59-year-old, who led Ireland to the 2002 World Cup, lands the job ahead of Dundalk's Stephen Kenny.
Long-time assistant Terry Connor is expected to be appointed Ireland No 2 with record scorer Robbie Keane part of the backroom team.
The FAI will also be using the opportunity to announce the appointment of the new Ireland U21 manager.
Noel King left the post this year after eight years at the helm to take up a position as player identification manager within the association.
Lee Carsley has been tipped to take the role, with Keane having also been linked to the vacant position.
Dublin's Convention Centre will host the draw for Euro 2020 qualification tomorrow week.
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The therapy of chronic inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) has recently been enriched by the successful launch of the anti-cytokine biologicals Etanercept (tumor necrosis factor (TNF) receptor-p75 Fc fusion protein), Infliximab (chimeric anti-human TNF-α monoclonal antibody), Adalimumab (recombinant human anti-human TNF-α monoclonal antibody) and Anakinra (recombinant form of human interleukin 1β (IL-1) receptor antagonist) [1-3]. The success of these novel treatments has impressively demonstrated the clinical benefit that can be gained from therapeutic intervention in cytokine signalling, highlighting the central role of proinflammatory cytokine systems like IL-1β and TNF-α to be validated targets  However, all of the anti-cytokine biologicals available to date are proteins, and therefore suffering to a varying degree from the general disadvantages associated with protein drugs. Therefore, small molecular, orally active anti-cytokine agents, which target specific pathways of proinflammatory cytokines, would offer an attractive alternative to anti-cytokine biologicals. A number of molecular targets have been identified for the development of such small molecular agents but p38 mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase occupies a central role in the regulation of IL-1β and TNF-α signalling network at both the transcriptional and translational level [5, 6]. Since the mid-1990s, an immense number of inhibitors of p38 MAP kinase has been characterised in vitro, and to date several compounds have been advanced into clinical trials. This review will highlight the correlation between effective inhibition of p38 MAP kinase at the molecular target and cellular activity in functional assays of cytokine, particularly TNF-α and IL-1β production. SAR will be discussed regarding activity at the enzyme target, but also with regard to properties required for efficient in vitro and in vivo activity.
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Isham Jones, the AVMA's general counsel, advised delegates during a Jan. 11 meeting to avoid considering workforce issues when mulling the future of foreign accreditation. Doing so might raise the potential for litigation or invite scrutiny from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, he said. That doesn't mean the AVMA is compelled to continue accrediting foreign schools. "I think the AVMA can stop the activity if it wants to do it. Is there a litigation risk? That depends on the reason why the AVMA chooses to stop this activity if that's what you decide to do. That's the critical issue," Jones said.
For the third time in as many years, veterinarians sought last weekend to end the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) foray into international accreditation.
Like previous attempts, their efforts were defeated. The showdown between foreign accreditation advocates and those critical of the AVMA's efforts to evaluate overseas programs occurred Jan. 10-11 in Chicago during the House of Delegates meeting.
The House — the AVMA's primary policymaking body — rejected a resolution Saturday that called on the AVMA's Council on Education (COE) to stop using its finite resources to assess veterinary education in foreign countries and instead turns its eye to domestic programs, which are proliferating at a rapid pace.
The COE is the AVMA's accrediting body, comprised of 20 volunteers. The U.S. Department of Education recognizes the COE as the nation's accreditor of colleges and schools of veterinary medicine in the United States. The federal government does not oversee the AVMA's international accreditation program; the association leadership initiated and drives the evaluations of schools abroad.
The resolution sought to stop the AVMA from accrediting internationally by the end of the decade.
Dr. Eric Bregman, a practice owner near Manhattan and member of the AVMA Task Force on Foreign Veterinary School Accreditation, spoke on behalf of the New York State Veterinary Medical Society, which sponsored the measure. He countered the AVMA's assertion that international accreditation is needed to keep an eye on emerging diseases and overseas food safety, pointing out that the AVMA accredits only preeminent foreign programs, mostly in Europe and Australia.
"We do not accredit schools in countries like India, China and Brazil," he said in a speech before delegates. "If we're talking about food supplies and global health, we should be doing it in countries (like that)."
AVMA officials countered that the COE foreign accreditation efforts have been a staple since the 1970s, starting with the accreditation of Utrecht University in the Netherlands. After that, the next accreditation of a foreign program came during the late 1990s, when the AVMA resolved to "raise the bar" of veterinary education internationally. Today, the COE recognizes 13 veterinary medical programs outside of the United States and Canada.
Dozens of veterinarians debated the resolution during committee meetings and on the House floor, with most voicing support for maintaining the foreign accreditation program.
"There's no question that through the accreditation of foreign schools, the AVMA has had a positive influence on the standards of veterinary education throughout the world," said Dr. Link Welborn, a delegate representing the American Animal Hospital Association. "We should take pride in that."
Dr. Andy Abbo, the interim alternate delegate from Massachusetts, agreed: "I feel very strongly that on a world stage, the AVMA has been the gold standard in accreditation across the board. We'd be taking a very big step backward by not allowing schools to pursue our accreditation."
The COE's foreign accreditation activity has attracted attention from AVMA members due to a surge of overseas approvals. Seven of the 13 foreign programs accredited by the AVMA earned the distinction during the past decade.
Some critics believe that the United States is becoming saturated with veterinarians due, in part, to a proliferation of domestic veterinary schools and growing numbers of accredited foreign programs that cater to American students.
AVMA General Counsel Isham Jones warned delegates during the meeting that workforce issues cannot play a role in whether foreign programs are considered by the COE. Doing so could generate legal action or be viewed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission as protectionism, he stated.
While the resolution made no mention of trying to control veterinary workforce numbers, Dr. Steven Wills said he "could see us in litigation" if it passed.
"I do believe the process does bring up standards," added Wills, Kentucky's alternate delegate.
Dr. Rick Baum, Vermont's alternate delegate, was unconvinced: "These schools that we are accrediting are the well-endowed schools. (Accreditation) does nothing to raise the bar for those who need our help the most."
Dr. Mary Beth Leininger, a COE member and former AVMA president, said the assertion of officials that the COE has been accrediting foreign schools for 30-some years is misleading.
"If you go back to Utrecht, it was accepted, not accredited," she stated before delegates. "I don't know when the change in phraseology happened."
She added, "I think every time we use the words 'gold standard' … we sound a little arrogant."
Leininger noted that overseas programs already are accredited by esteemed evaluating agencies such as the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education and the Australasian Veterinary Board Council.
"We're using our volunteer resources ... frittering them away by giving them to the foreign schools," she said, noting that five of the 12 programs to be assessed this year by the COE this year are based on foreign soil. In 2013, the ratio was 3-to-10. "I believe the educational process in the United States is so troubled right now that unless a body that has clout with schools starts addressing some of the problems … we'll be in trouble."
Leininger did not spell out her concerns for domestic veterinary education. However, it's widely acknowledged that rising tuition rates are outpacing students' ability to pay, leaving them burdened with heavy student loan debts post graduation. At the same time, U.S. veterinary institutions have been dealing with deep cuts in funding from state legislatures.
"The one body that drives change in veterinary education in the United States is the Council on Education," Leininger stated. Speaking to the idea that AVMA leaders are free to put a stop to foreign accreditation, she added: "They are the ones who got us into the process to begin with ... and they can take it away."
Before the vote, AVMA President Dr. Clark Fobian implored delegates to not believe information that discredits AVMA foreign accreditation. Much of the talk, he said, is circulating among those who don't have the right facts about foreign accreditation.
"I see our membership in a sense as being like one of our clients," he said. "They don't have the access to the information and the knowledge that we have. They do not have the insights that hopefully many of you have developed, sitting on this board. They look to us — just like our clients look to us — to make the right decision."
With that, he urged delegates to "do what's best for the members" by voting to defeat the accreditation measure.
Nearly 80 percent of the House followed his suggestion.
Another review of AVMA COE nears - March 31, 2016
Leininger wins appeal - August 5, 2015
Leininger appeal culminates without resolution - July 8, 2015
Veterinarians challenge AVMA status quo - July 3, 2015
Stakeholders urge veterinary accreditation overhaul - June 9, 2015
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Allyson M. Poska is Professor of History at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. A specialist in early modern Spain, colonial Latin America, and early modern women's history, I have taught at Mary Washington for more than 25 years. I am the author of five books, including, Gendered Crossings: Women and Migration in the Spanish Empire (New Mexico, 2016), a gendered examination of the Spanish attempt to colonize Patagonia in the 1780s that was awarded the 2016 best book prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. My earlier work, Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of Galicia (Oxford, 2005), was awarded the 2006 Roland H. Bainton Prize for best book in early modern history or theology. My research has been funded by a variety of grants including, the National Endowment for the Humanities (2000) and an ACLS/NEH/SSRC International and Area Studies Fellowship (2007). I have been a research fellow at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (2004) and the John Carter Brown Library (2011). I am the first CAS recipient of a UMW Waple professorship.
My new project "Contesting Equality: Smallpox Vaccination in the Spanish Empire (1803-1810)" examines the role of race and gender in the responses to the Spanish Crown's vaccination campaign on the peninsula and the Royal Philanthropic Expedition that carried vaccination around the globe. This project has been funded by the American Philosophical Society, an American Council of Learned Societies Project Development Grant, and a CAORC NEH Senior Fellowship.
I have served as a member of the executive council of the Sixteenth Century Society http://www.sixteenthcentury.org/ the executive board of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies http://asphs.net/ and as President of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women http://ssemw.org/.
now with University of Nebraska Press http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/series/women-and-gender-in-the-early-modern-world/ .


I'll be appearing at HallowRead 2015 in Elllicott City, Maryland on October 23 and 24. Lots of ghostly fun and information for readers and writers alike including panels, workshops, ghost tours, book signings, author chats, a haunted house, and more.
The fine folks of HallowRead have put together a great video promoting the event. Here's the video link to take a look.


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New diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis during the third trimester of pregnancy
Sana Qureshi, Mahsa Kanzali, Syed Farhan Rizvi, Niharika Joolukuntla, Barry J. Fomberstein
We report here an unusual case of rheumatoid arthritis presenting for the first time in a 32-week pregnant patient. Despite thorough evaluations from different specialties, the patient's diagnosis went undiscovered originally being attributed to orthopedic issues and then to normal symptoms of pregnancy. The patient's symptoms progressively worsened until she was no longer able to ambulate and complete her daily activities. A primary diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis is exceedingly rare during pregnancy due to changes in the body's immune system that accommodate the foreign fetus. Also physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy can often cloud the clinical picture of a patient presenting with joint pain and weakness. Nonetheless, a thorough workup should be conducted to rule out underlying rheumatologic disease.
Women's health (London, England)
Arthralgia
Qureshi, S., Kanzali, M., Rizvi, S. F., Joolukuntla, N., & Fomberstein, B. J. (2016). New diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis during the third trimester of pregnancy. Women's health (London, England), 12(4), 407-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745505716661724
New diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis during the third trimester of pregnancy. / Qureshi, Sana; Kanzali, Mahsa; Rizvi, Syed Farhan; Joolukuntla, Niharika; Fomberstein, Barry J.
In: Women's health (London, England), Vol. 12, No. 4, 01.07.2016, p. 407-411.
Qureshi, S, Kanzali, M, Rizvi, SF, Joolukuntla, N & Fomberstein, BJ 2016, 'New diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis during the third trimester of pregnancy', Women's health (London, England), vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 407-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745505716661724
Qureshi S, Kanzali M, Rizvi SF, Joolukuntla N, Fomberstein BJ. New diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis during the third trimester of pregnancy. Women's health (London, England). 2016 Jul 1;12(4):407-411. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745505716661724
Qureshi, Sana ; Kanzali, Mahsa ; Rizvi, Syed Farhan ; Joolukuntla, Niharika ; Fomberstein, Barry J. / New diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis during the third trimester of pregnancy. In: Women's health (London, England). 2016 ; Vol. 12, No. 4. pp. 407-411.
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Lambert wrote: Don't forget though that the dealer will be making hardly any money off the actual sale of the car, yet they have to pay the staff and keep the lights on somehow. I don't begrudge people making a profit and being a main dealer is not an easy way to make money.
I think they make money from making sale figure quotas. Sell so many cars and they get rewarded with ££ or equivalent. They hardly need make any on the cars themselves.
I think because they know the Jimny is in short supply, they're essentially saying if you want one badly you'll have it with all these extras too. It's the sort of sales tactic you'd see in the USA. At least they aren't asking over MSRP for the car!
SmallBlue wrote: Anyone know the cost of all the extras the dealers are selling. Had some hassle with my dealership, phoned me to tell me the car has arrived but Suzuki have added compulsory extras totalling £687. These so called factory extras where the paint treatment ( crap) mats, flaps , sill protectors, and a boot liner. Told them I didn't want the extras and I said the only ones I'd consider where the mud flaps, dealer said £200 for the flaps , I laughed and walked out. They must think I'm daft, I know they are upselling to try and get a few more pounds. I left a £1000 deposit in November , I'm paying cash's I no interest in their pocket didn't want service plan , gap insurance, ect. So they don't think they've extracted enough from me.
Update , yes I have it in writing , saying the colour and spec. They called today and my car will be delivered next week minus the crap they tried to put in it. They are still insisting they will have to take it off ( but that's them just saving face) so by the end of next week I should have it in my possession. Then sell my other for spares or repairs.
The post was about accessories which are, I think dealer fitted, so I think there's some sharp practice here.
SmallBlue wrote: Update , yes I have it in writing , saying the colour and spec. They called today and my car will be delivered next week minus the crap they tried to put in it. They are still insisting they will have to take it off ( but that's them just saving face) so by the end of next week I should have it in my possession. Then sell my other for spares or repairs.
Have a good look at the wheel arches. I saw a youtube video showing how to fit mudflaps which were the official ones I think, and the process involved cutting some of the wheel arch plastic trim away.
Wouldn't want them supplying damaged goods.
This happened to me too. However I don't think it's the dealers fault, the first cars that they will get will be March. I think it might be a geographical thing. All the dealers in East Midlands for example appear to be getting first allocation in March.
The more I read about this roll out the more I think Suzuki have really dropped the ball, I understand that there are supply constraints but even so it's like a sketch from Monty Python or the Two Ronnies only less funny. I'm feeling quite sorry for all you getting nowhere with it I really am.


Donald Trump won among Hispanic voters in Nevada, according to entrance polls released from Tuesday night's caucuses, fulfilling an oft-repeated campaign pledge.
The GOP presidential front-runner, who coasted to an easy victory in the Silver State, won 44 percent of the Hispanic vote, according to MSNBC's entrance polls, topping Marco Rubio's 29 percent and Ted Cruz's 18 percent.
Both Rubio and Cruz are Cuban-American.
Entrance polls are not always precise, but Trump used the news to bolster his claims that he's attracting a broad coalition of support as he addressed his supporters in a victory speech Tuesday night.
TM thanks for posting . This information just made my day .I wonder if the establishment -R' who spend an inordinate amount of time pandering to Hispanics will learn from this. Oh silly me of course not. The establishment never lets reality interfere with decision making.


One of the ways I get people to see beyond my disability is as an artist and painter. When I am painting, I can express myself and do not feel limited by my body. Through my painting, I feel like I connect directly with others on a deeper level that doesn't leave room for judgments based on disability. I first got interested in painting in ninth grade. My art teacher was not intimidated by my disability and was the first person to really encourage me. She also saw my potential as an artist. She started my love for painting, and I have loved it ever since.


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17 October 2019, 15:45 | Updated: 29 October 2019, 15:49
Russell Watson to tour the UK in 2020. Picture: Getty
By Sian Moore
Russell Watson, aka 'The People's Tenor', will be touring the UK in 2020 to celebrate 20 years since his debut album 'The Voice' was released. Here's everything you need to know.
Russell Watson will tour the UK in 2020 to celebrate 20 years since the release of his No. 1 album The Voice. Released in 2000, it went on to become the biggest selling classical album of that year.
The tenor will be joined on his upcoming tour by a 33-piece orchestra and choir for eight UK performances of his most loved music.
"I can't believe that next year will be my 20th anniversary, yes 20 years since my debut album The Voice reached Number 1," he said. "All of you made this and everything that followed possible, thankful to be able to celebrate with you on my Autumn 2020 tour!"
Spring 2020 tour dates
Sunday 5 April - 3.00pm - Grand Theatre - Wolverhampton - 01902 429212
Wednesday 8 April - 7.30pm - De Montfort Hall - Leicester - 0116 233 3111
Thursday 16 April - 7.30pm - Severn Theatre - Shrewsbury - 01743 281281
Sunday 19 April - 3.00pm - Town Hall - Cheltenham - 0844 576 2210
Tuesday 21 April - 7.30pm - The Anvil - Basingstoke - 01256 844244
Thursday 23 April - 7.30pm - Royal Hall - Harrogate - 01423 502 116
Sunday 26 April - 3.00pm - Town Hall - Leeds - 0113 376 0318
Tuesday 28 April - 7.30pm - Opera House - Buxton - 01298 72190
Sunday 3 May - 3.00pm - New Victoria Theatre - Woking - 0844 871 7645
Thursday 7 May - 7.30pm - Lyceum Theatre - Crewe - 01270 368242
Sunday 10 May - 3.00pm - Waterside Theatre - Aylesbury - 0844 871 7607
Friday 15 May - 7.30pm - Theatre - Milton Keynes - 0844 871 7652
Sunday 17 May - 3.00pm - Swan - Wycombe - 01494 512 000
Autumn 2020 tour dates
Saturday 19 September - 2.30pm - Royal Albert Hall, London - 020 7589 8212
Friday 2 October - 7.30pm - Bonus Arena, Hull - 0844 844 0444
Sunday 4 October - 3.00pm - Cliffs Pavilion, Southend - 01702 351135
Friday 9 October - 7.30pm - York Barbican - 0203 356 5441
Sunday 11 October - 3.00pm - Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham - 0115 989 5555
Friday 16 October - 7.30pm - Symphony Hall, Birmingham - 0121 780 3333
Sunday 18 October - 3.00pm - St David's Hall, Cardiff - 029 2087 8444
Friday 23 October - 7.30pm - The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester - 0161 907 9000
Tickets go on sale online tomorrow (18 October) in venues, and online here.
Watson has just finished touring the UK with Classic FM presenter Aled Jones for their In Harmony tour.
The pair, who have been friends for nearly 20 years, have been on tour for the past two months performing music from their two duet albums, In Harmony and Back In Harmony.
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The Great Escape 1977: Relegation's Don't Get Tougher Than This – Part One
Pete Spencer
Coventry City spent thirty-four seasons in English football's top flight. When they went down in 2001 only three other clubs had a longer unbroken spell in the top division, Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool. But their run very nearly came to an end back in 1977. This is the remarkable story of a relegation battle which went right down to the wire.
Everyone loves a good relegation battle, don't they? Oh come on, admit it. Although it's far better when your team isn't involved. But the nerves, the tension, the anticipation can be unbearable sometimes. Yet like all good disaster or horror movies you just cannot turn your eyes away, can you?
The season is 1976-77 and things are hotting up down at the foot of the First Division. Two of the promoted sides from the season before, Sunderland and Bristol City, are fighting to stay in the top flight. The other side, West Brom, are having a fantastic season and pushing for a European place.
The nine clubs involved from the beginning of this story were;
Bristol City, Coventry City, Derby County, Everton, QPR, Stoke City, Sunderland, Tottenham Hotspur, West Ham United
Sunderland won the Second Division by three points, and three years after their famous FA Cup Final win over Leeds United, finally made it out of the second tier and into the big time. Bristol City finished second and ended their sixty-five-year wait to be back amongst the elite.
Their adventure had taken on fairy-tale proportions as they arrived at Highbury on a sun-kissed Saturday in August and won their opening match of the season 1-0. Paul Cheesley scored the only goal of the game, but unfortunately for him, injury would soon rule him out for the rest of the season. Goals were hard to comevertone by but the signing of Peter Cormack from Liverpool helped.
For Sunderland, their fortunes were far worse as they failed to win any of their first ten matches, including going down 1-4 at Ashton Gate. When they came from a goal down to beat Tottenham at home, 2-1, in mid-November they'd picked up five points from a possible eight from their previous four matches. But they then went on a disastrous run of nine successive defeats. Then in February they finally turned things round thanks to goals from Mel Holden and Bob Lee. They won four in a row, including 6-1 and 6-0 wins over West Brom and West Ham, respectively.
Tottenham were the club in most trouble. They'd just missed out on a UEFA Cup place by goal average (the method used to separate sides before goal difference came in) the season before, but with Terry Neill taking over Arsenal, new boss Keith Burkinshaw was certainly having a baptism of fire. For a club the size of Tottenham relegation was unthinkable.
QPR were another club seemingly unprepared for a battle against the drop. This was their fourth season in the top flight, having finished second in Division Two in 1973. They finished runners-up to Liverpool the season before, losing out on the title by one point. But now they were staring Division Two in the face. The season before only two clubs scored more than them, but this time round by mid-April only Bristol City had scored fewer.
Derby County were in a similar position to QPR. They'd won the title in 1975 and yet two seasons later they too were struggling. Without a win away from home all season, goals from players like Kevin Hector had disappeared. They were proving hard to beat, but had the least amount of wins in the whole division.
West Ham were in the European Cup Winners' Cup Final the year before, yet now they were also deep in the mire. The 1975 FA Cup winners were another club short of goals, heavily reliant on Bryan 'Pop' Robson as Alan Taylor had been missing for most of the campaign.
Stoke City, Coventry City and Everton had all finished mid-table the season before, but were now in need of points.
Coming into this story, Coventry were ten games without a win. For some reason in Februrary and March they played seven straight away matches. This left them with seven on their final ten matches at home.
Stoke City were the lowest scorers. They had just ended a run of six games without a win. Terry Conroy was top scorer with just five goals.
Everton were the top scorers of the clubs in the bottom nine, with Bob Latchford in great form. Their league form was in stark contrast to their cup fortunes. They were into the Semi-Finals of the FA Cup where they would meet Liverpool. At the point where we pick this story up, they had just narrowly lost in the League Cup Final to Aston Villa. These were the days when replays decided the outcome and after two tedious draws, the two had produced a thriller with Villa winning 3-2 after extra time.
We start our story in mid-April. Here is the table on 13th April 1977. Don't forget this is when there were two points for a win, and forty-two matches for each side to play. Things were extremely tight with five teams locked on the same points and just five points separating nine clubs.
Pos P GD Pts
14 Stoke City 34 -15 30
15 Everton 32 -8 29
16 Derby County 33 -8 28
17 Sunderland 36 -8 27
18 QPR 31 -8 27
19 Coventry City 32 -10 27
20 West Ham 34 -20 27
21 Tottenham 36 -22 27
22 Bristol City 33 -10 25
Here is how the season panned out, game-by-game
Saturday 16th April
Birmingham City 2 : 0 Stoke City
Coventry City 2 : 3 Aston Villa
Derby County 2 : 3 Everton
Middlesbro 0 : 2 QPR
Newcastle United 3 : 0 West Ham United
Norwich City 2 : 1 Bristol City
Tottenham 1 : 1 Sunderland
Three days after their League Cup Final defeat, Everton bounced back and won a crucial game against Derby County. Two goals in the first half from Gerry Daly had put the visitors 2-0 up at the break. But Bob Latchford, Mike Pejic and Duncan McKenzie pulled the home side back for a vital victory.
QPR was the only other side in the bottom nine to win when goals from Ron Abbott and Don Masson beat Middlesbrough away at Ayresome Park.
Tottenham and Sunderland played out a 1-1 draw at White Hart Lane. The point was welcome for both sides, as Spurs were now out of the bottom three but, as with Sunderland, now only have five matches to go.
ji were 2-1 up at half-time against Aston Villa, before goals from John Deehan and Brian Little gave the visitors the points.
West Ham made the trip all the way up to Newcastle but were well beaten, 0-3. Paul Cannell, Alan Gowling and Geoff Nulty scored.
Bristol City were at Carrow Road to take on Norwich City, but eventually lost 1-2 despite Peter Cormack's goal. Martin Peters and Kevin Reeves scored for the home side.
At Birmingham, Trevor Francis and Kenny Burns formed a good partnership up front. They were both on the scoresheet as they beat Stoke City.
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Tuesday 19th April and Wednesday 20th April 1977
Aston Villa 2 : 1 Tottenham
Coventry City 1 : 1 West Brom
Derby County 1 : 1 West Ham United
Everton 3 : 1 Norwich City
QPR 4 : 0 Manchester United
Stoke City 2 : 2 Bristol City
This was a day when many of the sides picked up at least a point. Everton made it back-to-back wins when they beat Norwich City 3-1 and were now looking safe. Ken McNaught, Andy King and Jim Pearson scored the goals.
QPR also made it back-to-back wins when they thumped Manchester United 4-0 at home. Peter Eastoe scored twice, with Don Givens and Eddie Kelly also scoring. They were three points ahead of the drop.
The big game was at Victoria Ground as Stoke City took on Bristol City. Bristol struck first through Tom Ritchie, but Stoke came back with goals from defenders, Alan Bloor and Dennis Smith. and the two shared a 2-2 draw.
The Derby v West Ham match at The Baseball Ground was a game of two penalties. Gerry Daly scored the home side with Geoff Pike equalising for the visitors.
Coventry were held at home by one of their Midlands rivals, West Brom. Mick Ferguson scored for the home side but John Wile equalised to ruin any hopes of a vital win. Coventry had now gone twelve matches without a win.
Tottenham now dropped into the bottom three as they were beaten at Villa Park. Goals from John Deehan and Brian Little put the home side ahead at the break. Gerry Armstrong got a goal back for Spurs in the second half, but they were now four games without a win.
Everton were now pretty much safe, so they were now out of this story.
Saturday 23rd April 1977
Arsenal 2 : 0 Coventry City
QPR 1 : 2 Newcastle United
Stoke City 0 : 0 Tottenham
Sunderland 1 : 1 Derby County
The Saturday was FA Cup Semi-Final day, so not every club had fixtures. Nerve rackingly for both West Ham and Bristol City fans they had to sit it out and hope their rivals didn't gain a further advantage.
Two of the fixtures that day involved sides deep in trouble. Stoke entertained Tottenham at Victoria Ground, whilst Sunderland took on Derby County at Roker Park.
Pat Jennings had missed the last fourteen matches in Spurs goal, but he returned for this one and kept a clean sheet. Peter Shilton in the Stoke goal did the same as the two sides played out a 0-0 draw. A point apiece at least but Spurs now had just one win in their last seven and only five matches left. Stoke were in worse form with one win in their last ten and had only scored in three of those matches.
Steve Powell gave Derby a first-half lead at Sunderland, only to see Tony Towers convert a penalty and the points were shared there too. Sunderland were showing some fight and were unbeaten in six. Derby had drawn three of their last four.
Nobody else picked up points. Coventry travelled to Highbury and were beaten 0-2 by Arsenal. Malcolm MacDonald and Frank Stapleton scored the goals, taking their tally to thirty-four between them for the season. Thirteen games without a win now for Coventry and time was running out.
Don Givens gave QPR a first-half lead at home to Newcastle, but goals from Tommy Craig and Irving Nattrass saw them lose. The memory of their big win over Manchester United already fading.
Eight clubs separated by just four points. Join us in Part Two when the excitement really starts to build.
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A Rough Guide to Choosing Your First Bandmates
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Sometimes, the chemistry is just there.
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Dear Fan, I have almost no technical musical capabilities. However, for some reason, I have recently found myself in a situation where a few people are interested in making music with me, I suppose due to my tastes, attitude and general involvement with DIY. This would be purely for fun and I am by no means trying to "make it" beyond creating something that I think is good. I'm trying to decide who to play with. On the one hand, a couple of my best friends want to start a band. On the other hand, a friend who I don't know as well, but with whom I think I have more shared music/art tastes and band-oriented goals, also wants to start something. I know I don't have time for more than one project right now. Would you play with your best friends or the person who seems more musically compatible?
First World Music Problems in Brooklyn
Dear Firsty, Congratulations. This must be very exciting for you -- and it should be. Both of your options are promising, so there is really not a bad one between the two; also, if one doesn't work out it's not like you suddenly turn into a fallen woman -- your other friends, or maybe their friends will want to play with you. Or maybe you go solo. Or maybe you never be in a band again! WHO KNOWS! That is the excitement of it. Your first band is rarely your forever band, unless you're Michael Stipe or Salt n' Pepa.
Ultimately, the choice here is speculative -- you mostly have hunches to go on. We can indulge a half-dozen parallels and mixed metaphors about dating here -- but it comes down to this: You can have all the chemistry in the world but once you get in bed it can sometimes still be, uh, sparkless. Or vice versa: You can have great sex with someone who's dull at dinner. But even if it's good, you are not going to know if it's actually magical until a month or two in.
Being in bands with other beginner types is fun, especially if you are friends and it's not some careerist endeavor. The downfall of beginner-on-beginner bands is that sometimes it's hard to figure out the machinations of being a band, running a practice, writing a song and figuring out what is a good song. It can be slow going even if you are ambitious and practice tons. The fun of it is that you figure it out together, and it can be as bonded and as intense as family.
Being in a band with a more experienced person can also be valuable, especially if you are looking to get into motion more quickly. It can also be kind of frustrating if you're just learning an instrument and they're not entirely willing to make space for that magic. If they are smart, however, they will. Playing with established folks (especially a good drummer) can raise your game quite quickly.
I started a band with a best friend when she was just learning to play drums. It was one of the hardest but most rewarding friendship experiences I've ever had -- even at its most bitterly frustrating, when one of us would storm out of practice shouting or crying, it just made the band mean that much more to us (even though it went approximately nowhere). Starting a band with friends can also show you their previously hidden sides -- the dictator, the person who is always late and always needs a ride, the person who talks a big game, the (wo)mansplainer. It can be really agonizing to try and work around that new knowledge in the context of your day-to-day work with them.
The key is to talk to these two friends/band options and see what they are thinking. How often do they want to play? What in their dream of dreams do they want the band to become? What are their expectations on your time? Is this just a seasonal fun band?
And then you do the same: Get on the level with them about whether you can practice more than one night a week or tour at some point, or just wanna keep this on the basement show low.
From there, I would go with whoever feels more like a solid, training wheels situation. You want to work with someone who can support your ideas of what a beginner brings to the table -- the sort of magic and enthusiasm and happy accidents that established musicians spent their lives trying to recreate.
Welcome to musicianhood, Fan
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You want to work with a professional builder, one that will build a quality home in a timeframe that is reasonable and on-budget.
You want a builder that knows of legal, insurance, building, and safety rules, regulations and duties, and follows them.
You don't want a builder that hides in the shadows.
Avvio Fine Homes designs and builds quality custom homes in the Greater Toronto Area. Avvio is Tarion-registered and therefore licensed to build new homes in Ontario; Avvio-built homes for sale (Agreement of Purchase and Sale) come with a Tarion Warranty (see note below regarding Contract Homes). Avvio is also a member of BILD (The Building Industry and Land Development Association) and adheres to its Code of Ethics.
Avvio recognizes the importance in your life of building a home, and the need to ensure that the project is executed to meet that high standard. Poorly designed and managed builds can result in significant stress and frustration for the homeowner, as well as substantial risk. These include: long project turnarounds, exceeded budgets, client service issues, poor quality, warranty issues, worker injury, legal and insurance risks, and even an uninhabitable home. We work to protect you from these unwanted outcomes. And, together, we will ensure that your vision comes to life.
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Psychic Clear Angel hasn't seen or heard from her one-time lover Detective Grant since their first case wrapped up six months ago, and that is perfectly fine with her! But when he shows up on her porch in the rain and in tears, she cannot hold her ground. No matter how she feels about Grant and her "gift", she can't ignore the visions already pouring in. Grant knows that he is no good for Clear, and has respected the distance she has kept. But when his daughter goes missing and the Chicago police have no leads, he turns to Clear and her unique abilities. This next adventure puts Grant and Clear in close quarters as they find themselves once again fighting their feelings for one another. Thrust into the dark underworld of performance art, they strive to track down a ballerina who keeps taunting Clear in her visions. As they delve deeper into one studio, the grisly visions that haunt Clear may be more than she can handle. Can Clear hold it together to help find Grant's daughter before it is too late?
What others are saying about Angel's Dance
Great paranormal thriller
By Denise Gardner on December 19, 2013
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I loved this book. Part 2 in this series, but it can stand alone. The story is well written. I liked how the plot played out. The characters are well thought out. I look forward to reading more in this series. A great add to your tbr list. Recommended
By Celvia on December 8, 2013
I received this book in exchange for a honest review (LOP or Lovers of Paranormal) This is the second book of the Angel Chronicles series. I did not get to read the first book. It no way prevented me from understanding the story in this book. The story continues six months after the first book. Grant Anderson's daughter is missing. And the only one that Grant can think of to help find his daughter is Clear Angel. Throughout the investigation they are face with different problems meanwhile fighting their feelings for each other. I like how Heidi Angell describes Clear's visions. If you like a suspense romance, this is the book to read. I can't wait for the next installment.
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Grant Anderson is a small-town detective whose job was quiet and easy, until three girls end up dead. A serial killer is stalking the young ladies in his town. Without the high tech equipment of big cities at his fingers, Grant must rely on good old-fashioned police work; but with no discernible pattern and no clues to follow, the case seems to be grinding to a halt. Then Grant gets a visit from a mysterious young woman. Who is Clear Angel? What is her connection to the case? If Grant is to believer her, then he must accept that she has "seen" these things. But Grant is a professional. He cannot believe in psychics! Yet when another girl goes missing, and Grant's search is yielding nothing he is desperate enough to try. Clear Angel has always been special. Seclusion has kept the nightmares at bay. Then the nightmares begin again. Are they premonitions of events to come? Are they the sick fantasies of a madman? Then one evening she runs into a stranger and finds out that not only are they real, but they are happening here in her home town. After a lifetime of running and hiding from what she can do, she is now forced to reach out to the most unlikely person in an effort to save innocent girls and perhaps the world. Grant and Clear team up to stop a madman bent on the destruction of the world. As their feelings for one another grow, they try to deny them. But when Clear goes missing, Grant must face his feelings and save her before it is too late.
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This book is a prime example of excellent story telling by the author... A psychic heroine, a determined hero and a diabolical villain drive the plot of this page turning murder mystery. The characters are well thought out and utterly believable. The writing style is fluid and exciting which results in a fast paced and intriguing read. I was completely drawn into the suspense of his multi-faceted story. I could not put this book down, and I can't wait for the next book in this series to be released.
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Elements-of-a-Broken-Mind has a bit of everything I would say. It has your murder, mystery, suspense; along with a touch of paranormal and romance. Some books would not be able to handle having all these genres; however, the author managed to add just the right touch of it all to keep the attention of the readers from start to finish. She gives you clues to keep your mind wondering and questioning on the scene's but then keeps you wanting to keeping moving on to find out the why's and who's of the story.
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What would you do if you found your town had been infested with vampires? For Chris and his brother Lucas, the answer was simple enough: you fight back. Gathering a small band of other people in their town who have been affected by the vampires, they begin a resistance. But after a year of fighting, they have only managed to kill a handful, while the vampire leader has turned five times that many.
Then two enigmatic strangers appear, changing the groups lives even further.
Fury and Havoc. They call themselves hunters, and want no part in this little band of heroes. Ordering them to lay low, the duo vow to rid their town of vampires. When Fury is injured, Chris aides these strangers, entwining his future with theirs.
Now that the vampires know the hunters are here, and that Chris and his friends have helped them, the group is in more danger than ever before. Lucas is torn between protecting his new family from the vampires, and protecting them from these seemingly inhuman beings who say they are there to help.
After all, what beings could be so powerful as to scare a vampire?
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"I appreciate the fact that she resisted the urge to make the book about the professionals and kept it discreetly realistic. So much so that I could almost envision some of my friends reacting to the events in the story just like her characters did." Author John Harrison
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The tale of Royal Prince Vince, a spoiled little prince. His parents don't know what to do to make him happy and get him to stop throwing fits. Then help comes from the most unlikely source! A great story for children to learn the joy of hard work and pride in accomplishment.
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Protesters demanding organ transplants for immigrants who are in the country illegally have gathered outside Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
The group of about 40 includes about a dozen or so hunger strikers. They say they represent immigrants from Mexico who are being denied transplants because they can't pay for them.
The protesters showed up Sunday and say they won't leave until their demands are met. They protested previously at other Chicago-area hospitals, too.
They say hospitals will take immigrants' organs, but won't give them transplants.
Father Jose Landaverde (Hoe-ZAY Lahn-duh-VAIR'-Day) said Monday that the group is demanding justice.
Northwestern didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.


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It's not just ammunition that's dissapearing. American industry… American jobs…. are being regulated out of existence as well.
It's party of multi-pronged attack on ammunition.
And after we can no longer manufacture ammunition domestically we have the UN Arms Trade Treaty to stop the importation of ammunition.
…If you look at the multiple ways they're trying to remove all ammunition… not just certain guns they believe are dangerous… there's no question that this is about all-out gun control.
Doe Run is scheduled to layoff its workforce and close its doors before the end of the year.
With no more lead being processed in America, we are now completely dependent on our largest creditor, China, to supply the necessary base metals for ammunition production.
This will have the immediate effect of further limiting supplies, while also increasing prices, and we can expect this soon after Doe Run's closure this December.
Furthermore, in April of this year James Rawles of SurvivalBlog.com detailed new importation restrictions set forth in a Presidential Executive Action following the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, which bans the importation of military surplus items that include magazines, firearms accessories and, of course, foreign ammunition.
Couple this with the implementation of U.N. "authorized" trade restrictions set forth in the new UN Arms Trade Treaty, and you can see where this is headed.
It is not an over-exaggeration to suggest that ammunition supply lines will soon be cut, effectively making it nearly impossible to acquire.


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Transportation bill means temptation for earmarks
History is currently repeating itself.
It�??s often cliché to say that history repeats itself. But when it happens over and over again, cliché becomes reality. History is currently repeating itself when it comes to transportation funding and earmarks.
The Transportation Trust Fund is set to run out in August and some members of Congress are anxious to exploit that issue to allow the return of unfettered pork spending.
Earlier this year Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Illinois) suggested bringing back earmarks. Now former Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kansas), who is vying for his old congressional seat, has joined Sen. Durbin in publicly supporting the return of earmarks, as well. This comes as no surprise considering that Sen. Durbin and former Rep. Tiahrt were major appropriators during the heyday of runway spending. Unfortunately, the transportation bill just may be the vehicle that opens the door to allow the return of earmarks.
Pork spending, especially with regards to transportation, is popular on both sides of the aisle. Members of Congress have a soft heart when it comes to transportation earmarks, not because they keep constituents safe by building better bridges or filling those annoying potholes, but because they provide excellent photo ops. There aren�??t many pictures of elected officials holding up a piece of paper designating funds for a university research grant, but images of lawmakers holding a shovel next to a new bypass or bridge are commonplace.
Earmarks allow members of Congress to show their constituents what they�??ve done for them. The pork projects amount to taxpayer-funded campaign ads for incumbent lawmakers.
Remember the �??Bridge to Nowhere�?�? Back in 2005, this useless pork provision was slipped in while the transportation bill was being considered for reauthorization. The project, spearheaded by two powerful members of Congress, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), sought to connect the town of Ketchikan, Alaska, with Gravina Island, an island with 50 residents and the Ketchikan International Airport. The price tag for this boondoggle topped $223 million.
Unfortunately, even though strong public sentiment and common sense were against the carve-outs, the Alaska duo fought hard to keep the funding intact. When Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) tried to reassign the funds for the Bridge to Nowhere to the hard-hit Gulf Coast states following Hurricane Katrina, Sen. Stevens threatened to resign if his pork project wasn�??t funded.
The sheer stupidity of the project ultimately killed the Bridge to Nowhere. The media picked up on the story and the bridge quickly became the poster child for government waste and abuse. Sen. Stevens was forced to pull the earmark from the spending bill; a minor, but symbolic, victory for taxpayers. It is safe to say that this project helped start the anti-earmark movement, which eventually led to a moratorium on the pricey pork projects. While that moratorium applies to most federal spending, it doesn�??t manage to prevent lawmakers from sneaking earmarks into the transportation bill.
The Bridge to Nowhere isn�??t the only example of transportation earmarks gone awry; carve-outs like these have a long history of popularity. Congress spent $800,000 on a bus to connect California vacationers to destinations like Disneyland and the Anaheim Convention Center. The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky, gobbled up close to $200,000 of taxpayers�?? money thanks to an earmark in the 2009 transportation bill. Just this past year, a sinkhole swallowed eight of the museum�??s cars.
This year�??s transportation bill may prove a big temptation for even the most fiscally conservative members of Congress. In 2011, Michelle Bachmann, Tea Party favorite and self-avowed fiscal conservative, noted, �??Advocating for transportation projects for one�??s district, in my mind, does not equate to an earmark.�?� Well, actually, Rep. Bachmann, that is exactly what it equates to.
Responsible transportation funding is critical for the infrastructure of the country; bridges need to be repaired and roads need to be repaved. That�??s why it�??s vital that members of Congress spend Americans�?? tax dollars on needed infrastructure and not wasteful pork projects. Sneaking earmarks into the transportation bill would be a wrong turn for federal lawmakers and the taxpayers they are supposed to represent.
David Williams is President of Taxpayers Protection Alliance.
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Maduro Voices Solidarity with Argentina's Kirchner Amid Destabilization Effort
President Nicolas Maduro voiced support for his Argentine counterpart, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on Wednesday in the face of a destabilization effort against her government following the death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
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President Nicolas Maduro meets with Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (Credit: Aporrea).
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Caracas, February 19, 2015 (Venezuelanalysis.com) – President Nicolas Maduro voiced support for his Argentine counterpart, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, on Wednesday in the face of what the latter has denounced as a destabilization effort against her government following death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman.
"Last night I spoke with President Cristina Fernández in order to express all of the solidarity of the Homeland of Bolivar and Chavez. Have strength, Christina," the Venezuelan head of state declared via Twitter.
The Venezuelan President's statement comes in response to a request issued by the Federal Prosecutor, Gerardo Pollicita, to investigate President Cristina Fernández together with the Foreign Minister Hector Timerman over the death of Alberto Nisman.
Nisman, who was charged with investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, had claimed that the President was guilty of "conspiring" with Iran to cover up the latter's alleged role in the criminal act.
The prosecutor was discovered dead in his apartment on January 19, hours before he was to present his accusations against President Cristina Fernández, which were largely based on U.S. and Israeli intelligence sources. The circumstances surrounding Nisman's death remain unclear, and authorities have not yet ruled out the possibility of suicide.
The Argentine government, for its part, has rejected the accusations made by Pollicita, which come in the run-up to elections later this year, citing their lack of judicial motive and political character.
President Cristina Fernández also received the backing of Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa on Saturday.
"All of our support for Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who faces a new destabilization effort," stated the Ecuadorian leader on his television program.
Correa claimed that accusations against the Argentine President form part of a broader strategy to destabilize the progressive and leftist governments of the region.
"This is another chapter of the conservative restoration that today utilizes even judicial instances in order to try to destabilize the progressive governments of our America, as they are also trying to do with [Brazilian President] Dilma [Rousseff] in the case of Petrobras," he stated.
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Mahama make U-turn on new voters' register; urges all to turn up in numbers
Former President, John Dramani Mahama has asked Ghanaians to participate in any form of voter registration exercise undertaken by the Electoral Commission (EC) in the build-up to the 2020 general elections whether EC compiles a new roll or not.
Speaking during a community engagement at the Tongor area of South Dayi in the Volta Region, the NDC flagbearer says although his party, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has its own disagreements with the EC's insistence to use a new voters' register for the polls, they will not undermine the democracy of the country should the Supreme Court not rule in their favor in the case challenging the legality of the compilation of a new electoral roll.
He urged the Chiefs and people to use their influence to encourage the citizenry to register in whatever registration the Supreme Court allows the EC to conduct in order to exercise their franchise on December 7, 2020.
"I want to remind all our citizens that, this year is an election year. The Electoral Commission has decided that it wants to conduct a registration exercise. We had disagreements with the Electoral Commission on what register to use and the matter has been at the Supreme Court and we are waiting for the Supreme Court for its verdict. Whatever verdict the Supreme Court gives, we are ready to be law-abiding citizens so we shall respect the verdict of the court," he said.
Mr. Mahama added that "whatever the verdict is, there is going to be a registration exercise whether a limited registration, new registration exercise, or validation of an existing register. Whichever registration it is, I will like to plead with Togbui to beat the gong to all our people to come out and register so that in December they can register and exercise their votes."
Already, the NDC has warned that, it will not accept the results of any national poll that it deems 'flawed'.
John Mahama who made the remark said the party strives to ensure that the country remains peaceful and electoral processes go on without challenges, it will only accept the result of elections it sees as credible.
"As a party, we have participated in every election in the 4th republic and we have a history of accepting the results of elections whenever we have believed in the integrity of the poll. As the leader of the NDC, I wish to serve notice that we shall do all in our part to make sure that the country remains peaceful and that the electoral process proceeds smoothly. But, let nobody assume that we will accept the results of a flawed election," Mahama said.
Source: MyNewsGh.com / Michael Agyapong Agyapa/2020
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16-year-old coin Numismatist gets hold of a rare coin as a spare change,uncovers its worth years later
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After his return, Lutes went into Business with his father. They started a manufacturing company in the garage of their Pittsfield Home. It was known as Lutes & Son. They produced and marketed religious art products. Eventually, the business grew from their garage to a proper factory, where it flourished until the late 1970s.
Origin Of Coins
To understand the value of Lutes's finding we need to understand where the coin came from. The first circulation coin of the US was originated back in 1797 and was designed by none other than Benjamin Franklin. It was known as the Fugio cent.
Fugio Cent
The Fugio Cent was also known as The Franklin Cent. It was the first official coin that circulated in the US. It was made fully of copper which is quite different from how coins are made today, i.e. with simple metal. In fact, the first couple of coins that were circulated in the US were made of copper only. The Fugio cent displayed some interesting phrases like 'Mind your business' and 'We are one'.
The Bigger Coins
Not only were the coins made of different material back in the day but they were also large in size. Their diameters were between 1 and 1/8 inches which are significantly larger than the ones we have now nearing to 3/4 inches. By the early 1850s, the bigger coins were starting to become unpopular and proven as expensive to produce which made them almost impractical.
Flying Eagle Cent
The difference in sizes was eventually overcome by the government when they introduced The Flying Eagle Cent which as a result helped in fixing the impracticality with big coins. It was circulated in 1857 and 1858. It was made with 88% copper mixed with 12% nickel. This new issue of coins was the first use of copper-nickel by the US.
The Indian Head Cent
The Flying Eagle cent did not settle well in the economy as it began facing some production difficulties and was later replaced by the Indian Head Cent in 1859. The cent became very popular and in the present times, it is one of the most collected coins by numismatists. They do not contain any precious metals which is why their value is mostly driven by the demand from coin collectors themselves.
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Reading the online Guardian these days feels a bit like accepting a drink from someone you know is on the road to bankruptcy; behind the jovial bonhomie and the devil-may-care cameraderie lies a mess of red ink and unpaid bills. You wonder if you're doing better going along with it, to maintain morale, or whether you should icily decline with some pious words about frugality. The new censorship that has earned the paper so much opprobrium is, I'm sure, part of it; even the cost of employing comment moderators is bleeding the loss-making concern to death. Soon the paper's few remaining columnists will have to moderate their own comments.
The Mail on the other hand is going from strength to strength. Dominic Sandbrook's lengthy and considered piece this morning on the absurdity of Federast aspirations parks the paper's tanks firmly on the Telegraph's lawn. If the Telegraph is still paying Boris £250k a year for his columns, someone needs to tell them they're not getting much bang for their bucks. He's become like those castrated new Chinese fireworks that meet the noise regulations, offering a sort of muffled 'pop' instead of the air-splitting crack and blast you were hoping for.
The Guardian's headline piece supporting Assange, 'Sweet victory soured by British and Swedish rejection' declares that Assange is being 'arbitrarily detained' and offers the Guardian's full support for his position. The editors have hidden a far more sensible piece by legal correspondent Joshua Rozenberg deep in the opinion section; Rozenberg says the British and Swedish are quite right, that Assange has imprisoned himself. Some 1,600 comments support him. It's actually something of a miracle that his piece, headed 'How did the UN get it so wrong?' appears at all under the new censorious book-burning regime. I bet it's not there for long.
Make no mistake. Although he cannot openly impose a three-line whip on Conservative MPs, the threat of deselection and of time in parliament being spent in a Siberia of back bench anonymity is very much present.
And if the 'Leave' campaign is disorganised, what of the 'Stay' campaign, whose sole positive campaign point is that the global multinationals support it, much as they support TTIP and everything else that disadvantages SMEs and locally focused domestic firms.
Still. a great deal can happen over the next seventeen or eighteen weeks. The FT runs a story after someone diligently followed the AIS tracks of merchant ships to find unexplained stops and rendezvous that could have been used to load migrants, arms or even dirty bombs. We should not forget that the reason the AWE is in Aldermaston and not in the Woolwich Arsenal is that the War Office was alive to the potential of a Soviet nuke carried on a merchant vessel - and decreed that all critical weapons sites be distant from UK ports. And the last time I met the PLA's harbourmaster, he was still obsessed with banning leisure users from the river in favour of maintaining commercial traffic as far into London as possible. Just remember how much global shipping is under the control of Islamist owners.
It's pretty bloody awful, isn't it?
You can't accuse Cameron of not having front. Anyone else faced with presenting a failed deal that will achieve the square root of damn-all, leaves us at the mercy of unelected bureaucrats who despise democracy and will open our borders to millions of migrants from Africa and Asia Minor while costing us each at least £3,000 a year may have shown some reluctance in their offer. But not Cameron. He rolled up his sleeves and was soon spreading Turtle wax on that turd, polishing cloth in hand.
And no, despite now living in an EU country other than the UK, I'll be voting 'Leave' without much fear. If it succeeds there's not going to be any great mass movements of the 800,000 Poles living in the UK or the 800 Brits living in Poland or the 300,000 Kermits living in London. Not that I have any great confidence that 'Leave' will win; closer to June we'll have a lot of scaremongering of the 'Vote Leave and you'll never be allowed to have another holiday in Spain' variety. The Evening Standard will splash a 'Wine to double in price if Brexit' headline on the front page and the BBC will run a whole season of 'Panorama' with images of impoverished Brits scraping the gutter for potato peelings whilst Johnny Kermit lights his dinner table candles with a used fiver. Big business is not about to see its consumer-proles exercise any sort of democratic control.
So welcome to slavery, folk. The only reasonable option now is to make one's personal slavery as painless as possible.
In a comment of unbelievable stupidity that nonetheless reflects the failure of Cameron's governments in foreign affairs, his foreign secretary Philip Hammond has blamed Russia for prolonging the war by supporting Assad. It is of course equally true to claim that the UK is prolonging the war by failing to support Assad. And meanwhile in Brussels Europe's most senior unelected official, JC Juncker, leads a bunch of unelected headless chickens who seemingly cannot make the connection between their part in the prolongation of the Syrian civil war and the tsunami of migrants and refugees on Europe's shores. One despairs.
Meanwhile, as the Independent reports, Turkey is headed for an invasion of the Kurdish-held parts of Syria, that would put it in direct conflict with Russia. It is now accepted that a Turkish jet lurked at low level specifically to ambush the Russian aircraft that clipped Turkish airspace. Now the de facto co-operation between Russia and the Kurdish YPG forces means that Syria's border with Turkey has almost been closed to Daesh / ISIS, cutting Erdogan off from millions in earnings from illegal oil imports and cutting Daesh / ISIS off from resupply of weapons, munitions and fighters. Whether NATO can succeed in preventing Erdogan acting rashly - and illegally - is doubtful. So far he has swallowed the EU's €3bn without halting a single migrant.
Indeed, as Spiegel reports, Erdogan has halted Syrian migrants at Turkey's border (except the Daesh / ISIS ones, I suspect) but the Turkish state airline is filled to capacity on scheduled flights from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia with young men who need no visa to enter Turkey - and it is these migrants who are now forming the bulk of the lucrative smuggled traffic to Greece. Bribes paid to local Turkish police and customs officials of €3,000 a pop, according to Spiegel, are guaranteeing that the traffic continues.
And no doubt both Saint Angela and Senior Official JC Juncker (Unelected) shake their heads in wonder and bafflement at so many rough and priapic Maghrebi thugs now in their midst and wonder how it all happened when they meant so well.


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Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu on Wednesday threatened to release video clips of how his house was invaded by alleged assassins on Tuesday.
Ekweremadu said he may be forced to actualise his threat to release the video clip, if the Police fail to withdraw its claim that what happened in his house was a mere case of burglary.
The Senate resolved to ask the police to do a thorough investigation of the alleged assassination attempt on Ekweremadu, his wife and son in the early hours of Tuesday.
The upper chamber said the conclusion that the incident was a case of burglary appeared to be hasty.
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe (Abia South), who raised the issue, prayed the Senate to condemn the hasty conclusion by the Police that the invasion of Ekweremadu's residence was a mere burglary case.
Abaribe lamented that "for the police to quickly without interviewing the very person for whom this incident happened, to come out and determine that it was a burglary, actually burgles the mind. We know in this country that Bola Ige was killed in his home. We know and also it is a fact the former gubernatorial candidate, Funsho Williams was also killed in his home.
"Our fear today is why the police are engaging in a cover up? Why is the police continually at any time that it concerns people that do not have presidential oversight or cover, they quickly come out and have a report," the senator queried.
Ekweremadu said a Deputy Inspector General of Police in charge of operations visited his house with the FCT Police Commissioner on Tuesday afternoon to sympathise with him.
He also informed the Senate that he was shocked when he woke up yesterday morning to hear police saying that what happened in his house was "a mere case of burglary".
Ekweremadu said: "I am at a loss because as we speak, they have not taken any statement from my son, who was hospitalised; they have not gone to the hospital to find out what exactly happened to my son. They have invited security personnel attached to me, who reported yesterday. Some are still reporting this morning.
He noted that he has been able to figure out the correct picture of what happened and added that he now has the video clip.
"Unfortunately for them, later yesterday evening, a technician came and was able to figure out and was able to produce the CCTV footage, including how they gained entrance into my house and how they got a way into my room and the fight between them, my wife and my son and all the efforts we made to save our lives. I am happy that we have that in our custody, which the police is not aware of.
The House of Representatives also yesterday resolved to constitute an ad hoc Committee to investigate the alleged assassination attempt on Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu and members of his family.
The committee is also mandated to find out the circumstances surrounding the late response of the Police to the emergency.
The committee is to report back to the House in two weeks for further legislative action.
The chamber also urged the relevant security agencies to ensure increased security surveillance around the Deputy Senate President as well as other members of the National Assembly.


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