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LSU's Allysha Chapman Will Have To Be At Her All-Action Best For LSU to Top Memphis on Saturday
(Friday's review will be posted some time later today. Meanwhile, here's a preview of a big match tonight.)
Memphis vs LSU (8:00 PM EST)
A funny thing happened roughly a year ago. An LSU team with experience, talent, and sky high expectations were set to face a Memphis team big on potential but generally though of as nothing more than an "opponent" for the Bayou Bengals in Baton Rouge. A home win was almost a given.
The Tigers won 2-0. The Memphis Tigers.
It was a result that furrowed a few brows and caused some to question if they had overrated LSU. As it turned out, both teams turned out just fine in the end. Memphis went from strength to strength, winning the Conference USA Tournament while beating Central Florida twice. LSU finished second in the SEC and reached the SEC Tournament final and the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
Now, close to a calendar year later, the tables have been turned. Memphis have returned their 2009 side nearly intact and may be the best mid-major team east of the Mississippi. Brooks Monaghan's team should be the favorites in Conference USA and could make a run past the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament. LSU lost much of their offense and rearguard to graduation but added a new wave of recruits who could eventually grow into a new Golden Generation.
In other words, it'll be the young raiders of LSU coming into Memphis on Saturday night, hoping to upset the apple cart and steal a smash and grab win to help justify the claims that the future is now. They square off against a gritty, experienced Memphis team with high hopes and most likely a rabid crowd behind them, urging them on to a second successive win over their opponents. It all adds up to a fascinating non-conference clash on a hot Saturday night.


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I own a clock radio that has been by my side for over 27 of my 37 years on this planet. I hate it. It is, without a doubt, one of the most annoying assholes I have ever met. Not only that, it's an ugly fucker, too.
As far back as I can remember, I have disliked my clock radio. It has disturbed me so many times over the years. I realize it has a job to do by waking me up, but I do not care. I still hate it for what it has done to me. All it has to do is play music at a set time, but it's gotta be the worst way to wake up. Well, having cold water dumped on your head would be worse, but that wouldn't be tolerated for 27 years like a clock radio. Just before the music starts to play, it makes a loud click sound or something. It's like a jolt of electricity that punches the speaker immediately upon playing the music. It scares the shit out of me.
I hate my alarm clock so much that I can recall waking up to it from time to time and automatically flipping it the middle finger. It laughs at me. It sits there laughing with its early morning numbers glowing red pain into my eyes. Fucking menace. It wakes me up, then gets to sit there for the rest of the day while I have to get up to get off to do whatever I have to do. What kind of sick asshole does that? It sits on my bedside table like a stalker pervert watching me sleep all night, just counting down the minutes until the time it gets to shit on my life, forcing me up earlier than I'd like by playing horrible music. And then it completely gets away with it! It even takes punches and doesn't go away. Bully. In fact, that initial jolt sound it makes just before playing the music is so offensive to me that I usually become conditioned to waking up before the alarm can get me. Actually, I hate it so much that if I know I have the alarm set, I will wake up 3 or 4 times during the night to see how much longer I have before the dreadful wakeup call arrives. Such a horrible way to live.
Plans are being set, though. I have plans that are in development for when I will no longer need a clock radio. Either I will retire, become financially secure and work on my own terms, get cancer or whatever, then it will be time to unleash my fury on that prick clock. I'm going to tie it to the back of my truck and drag it by its own cord through the streets. It's going to be sorry it ever pissed me off. I'm going to pour ketchup on it (I did this to a VCR once, so I am experienced) and throw it off a bridge. Then I will retrieve it and light it on fire. I might even go so far as to bury what's left in the cat's litter box.
Below: Here are the menacing red numbers glowing hatred at me in the morning. Red lasers of dreadful pain while I innocently sleep. Heartless bastard clock.
Below: Here is an afternoon shot of the prick. Notice the dusty fake woodgrain of the 1980s styling. What an ugly piece of shit. It's a waste of electricity. The only good thing about it is the number that it is showing in the picture. 454 is a magical number for fans of muscle cars.

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When I looked at my ticket for all the way, I noticed that Bryan Cranston's name was in type over twice as large as that used for the title of the play. In the program, the name of the playwright, Robert Schenkkan, is printed in type less than half the size of that used for Cranston's name. A lover of drama would say that the playwright is a heck of a lot more important than the actor playing the leading role, but Broadway is now and has always been about show business. ALL THE WAY got to Broadway and is filling a 1300 seat theatre because of Bryan Cranston and the popularity he gained from his tv show BREAKING BAD. I must admit I have never seen BREAKING BAD and only know Cranston from his years playing the father on MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE. I went to ALL THE WAY because I am fascinated with Lyndon Johnson's presidency, the last gasp of New Deal politics.
ALL THE WAY is an old-fashioned, large scale historical drama, the sort of play that was often found on Broadway in the Good Old Days -- over twenty actors in a dramatic chronicle of the year between John F. Kennedy's assassination and Johnson's election to the presidency. The focus in a relatively unfocused play, is Johnson's campaign for a civil rights bill and the subsequent loss of the South for the Democrats. This was a momentous change for the Democratic Party and for the country. Racism gave the South to the Republicans who continue to be the party of white straight male privilege.
Vietnam is barely mentioned, but that is the focus of the sequel to this play. At the center, of course, is Lyndon Johnson, a complex character who becomes less sympathetic as the three-hour play progresses. He's a total political animal who lives to wheedle, cajole and bully opponents into submission. He is also self-indulgent, self-pitying and a bit paranoid, sort of a more charming precursor to the more monstrous Richard Nixon.
There are two major weaknesses in Schenkaan's play.
First, there are too many discussions without much dramatic focus or momentum. ALL THE WAY is like a weak doctoral dissertation by a graduate student who just had to thrown in every piece of information he collected in his research. This is a play, not a history book -- we have Robert Caro's brilliant books on LBJ for that -- but Schenkaan has to give us repeated conversations between Martin Luther King and his cohort, Johnson and the congressman and senators he is pushing toward his bill, Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover, and Johnson and his devoted aide, Walter Jenkins. There isn't a lot of forward momentum or of dramatic focus. Schenkaan wants us to see how the events of 1964 have had lasting consequences, but more selection would have helped.
Second, the play depicts the last era of congressional eloquence -- the last moment when congressmen had to be great orators. Who of us who were sentient back then can forget figures like Everett Dirksen or Robert Byrd? We may not agree at all with the politics of these men, but they were voices. Even Johnson had a unique folksy eloquence. ALL THE WAY does capture Johnson's style, but in general the play is anything but eloquent. It's prosaic. Great playwrights like Shakespeare and Schiller found poetry in history. Schenkaan's play is the dramatic equivalent of journalism. The language is flat and, other than Johnson and occasionally King, the characters all sound the same. This may work on television -- all Aaron Sorkin's characters sound the same -- but plays are about language. They depend on eloquence, rhetoric. ALL THE WAY is flat.
Yes, Bryan Cranston does capture a version of Johnson, warts and all. It is a performance worth seeing. He's not as tall as LBJ, but he stoops over as if he was literally larger than anyone else around him. Bill Rauch has staged the play effectively on a simple unit set. The other actors are pretty faceless, but that's the play's fault more than the actors'.
It's great to have something as big as ALL THE WAY on Broadway. I wish it had been better written.
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What is it to murder?
Have you ever murdered someone with your words?
In the Old Testament, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and in them He included a prohibition against murder. Simply stated, God said:
"You shall not murder" (Ex. 20:13)(ESV).
Pretty simple, right?
Well, not so much. Because aside from the fact that the world has a particularly poor record with respect to keeping this commandment in the physical sense, Jesus came along and clarified just what it truly means for us to not murder.
In Matthew 5:21-22 (ESV), He says, "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.' But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, 'You fool!' will be liable to the hell of fire."
Jesus points out that murder begins in the heart. He says that anger is at the root of murder. He said that it is not enough that we not commit the physical act of murder, but that we must transform our hearts (which actually means He must transform our hearts) so that the seed of anger is not sown, that which bears the fruit of murder.
So, I return to my original question: Have you ever murdered someone with your words?
You might think, "Really?" "Do my words really have the power to kill?"
Consider this. Every one of us was made in God's image and we bear his likeness. It was God's "Word" that created the universe and everything in it. John 1:3 (ESV) says, "all things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made."
Think about that for a moment.
God's Word is mighty powerful, right?
So, being made in his image, it would also make sense that our words carry significant power.
And I think we can all agree that, looking back across history, people's choice of words has resulted in…
War and Peace
Love and Hate
Death and Life…
Yeah, I'd say our words are pretty darn powerful.
So, once again, have you ever used your words to murder someone?
Do you have enemies? Do you want to make someone pay for what they've done? Do you say things for the purpose of hurting others?
Have you ever laughed at someone's hope?
Have you ever mocked someone's ambition?
Have you ever told a child they are stupid or worthless or good for nothing?
Have you ever said as much to your spouse?
Words like these can destroy a person's life, even if they continue to live. There are thousands of examples of adults today who carry the scars of the deep cuts made by the words of their friends and family members from many years ago.
Words are powerful. Words can kill.
They can be used for good or for evil and they will be used for one or the other. There is no in between.
Please choose them very, very carefully.
Ephesians 4:29 (ESV): "Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear."


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On Friday 29 November Sutton for Peace and Justice will be hosting a rare opportunity to see a film about North Korea and hear from a North Korean army defector.
The film Crossing (Keurosing) details the tragic plight of Kim Yong Soo, a well-known ex-footballer who leaves North Korea and crosses illegally into China to buy medicine for his pregnant wife who has tuberculosis. The film plots his attempts to evade capture by the Chinese authorities and to get back to his wife and young son during a famine which ravaged North Korea in the 1990s. It is directed by Kim Tae-gyun.
There is a trailer for the film on YouTube.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with Kim Joo-il – born in 1973 in North Korea, whilst serving in the North Korean Army he defected in August 2005, now lives in the UK and is the Director of the North Korean Residents Society. Mr Kim runs a North Korean language news website from his base in New Malden.
Kim Joo-il spoke to BBC World Service in 2010 – see the report here – and was interviewed by the Independent earlier this year.
Mr Kim recently said of the film Crossing – 'of all the films I've seen, 'Crossing' is the one that I feel most accurately depicts day-to-life in North Korea, in fact not only daily lives but also values and the way North Koreans actually think. I think that a film like 'Crossing' is incredibly important in raising awareness of the plight of North Koreans and I highly recommend people to see it.'
This fascinating insight into this secretive and repressive country will take place at Friends House, Cedar Road Sutton, SM2 5DA, starting at 7pm (doors open 6.30). No entry charge, donations will be taken.
Please book your place by email to email@example.com or text to 07740 594496.
See a flyer/poster for the event here.
The film is produced by PSALT (Prayer Service Action Love Truth for North Korea) – a non-profit ministry in the US dedicated to raising awareness about the plight of North Korean refugees and mobilising resources and action to aid those who are suffering.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's United Internet AG said it may float its business offering web-hosting and other online services to corporate customers to fund an acquisition drive, positively surprising investors on Friday.
The announcement pushed shares in United Internet as much as 6 percent higher in early trade, as it raised prospects of a growth drive by the Internet service provider.
"The web-hosting spin-off is great news," Commerzbank analyst Heike Pauls said.
"First it will draw attention to low implied valuation of web-hosting assets. Second, it will provide a 'cleaner' acquisition currency for additional web-hosting takeovers," she added, sticking with her "buy" recommendation on the stock.
By 0820 GMT, shares in United Internet were trading 5.8 percent higher at 41.78 euros.
United Internet has been investing in consumer Internet and technology businesses, buying stakes in companies like venture capital group Rocket Internet and cable group Versatel.
It has also taken over web-hosting groups like InterNetX, Sedo and fasthosts in recent years.
Underlining its appetite for further takeovers, it also announced on Friday that it agreed to buy Polish web-hosting firm home.pl from investors led by private equity fund V4C Eastern Europe for 135 million euros ($150 million) in cash.
Some analysts said the takeover was not cheap, with United Internet paying 15.5 times estimated 2015 operating profit, but found that home.pl was a good strategic fit offering growth prospects that should make it worth its money.
If United Internet decides to go ahead with an initial public offering (IPO) of the Business Applications division, it would launch the flotation in about two years, the company said.
It said it expects the division to generate about 600 million euros of sales this year. By comparison, it sees group sales reaching around 3.7 billion euros.
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Topological insulators open up a path to room-temperature spintronics
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Strong three dimensional topological insulators — experimentally discovered just a few years ago — are driving new vistas in condensed matter physics research. Topical insulators can be imagined as being insulators in their interiors, but having a conductive thin shell at the surface. But there is more to it than that. The direction and spin of the surface electrons are locked together and change in concert. The mobile electrons cannot be scattered by defects or other perturbations, and they meet little to no resistance as they travel. A recent angle-resolved photoemission spectrometry study of Bi
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Movie Night
So after school today there was a movie showing of this movie called "Agora." It was about a female scientist and philosopher in Alexandria Egypt. It was really interesting to watch, sad, but also thought provoking. Afterwards, I stayed and worked on some school stuff before Laura and Jake persuaded me to go to karaoke night at the Lion's Fountain. It was fun, although I don't think I was drunk enough (nor would I want to be) to enjoy it as much as everyone else. I'm a party pooper like that. It was nice though that I didn't have to pay for anything. The first shot was on the house (and Laura toasted it to me which made me happy) and the second one (hours later) was bought by a friend from school (it was peach vodka and something else and actually tasted decent — for a shot). I'm sure my parents are glad to hear all these things that I'm doing; it's pretty out of character for me, but I'll let them know that I'm being responsible, and NEVER drink more than I should — just enough to make it feel like my eyeballs spin.


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BBC sitcom following the bitter internal politics of a walking club. Walking clubs are normally associated with the quietness and sedateness of weekend rambles in the country, but for the Mid-Bucks Walking Club things rarely run smoothly. This is largely down to the leader of the group, Bob (Mark Heap), whose hopeless vanity and love of command lead them into all sorts of scrapes. When new member Christine (Ruth Jones) begins to evidence leadership skills and to push for a role in upper echelons of the club, she and Bob inevitably clash. The other members of the group, including Bob's close friend Tom (Steve Edge), find themselves caught in the middle as a titanic power struggle gets underway.
Director: Catherine Morshead
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Huckleberries: A cage match to decide schools' direction?
Sun., Jan. 8, 2012
Huckleberries knows how to settle the fight over the radical online education plan forced on Idaho's schoolchildren by Superintendent of Schools Tom Luna and legislative accomplices last year – and subject to a November referendum. Stage a winner-take-all cage match between Luna and Post Falls instructor Ann Rosenbaum. In one corner, we'd have Luna, a former school board member who got his college degree online. In the other corner, Rosenbaum, a former Marine military police officer who escaped a car bomb in Iraq. New York Times reporter Matt Richtel featured Rosenbaum and two other teachers in an article about the controversy Tuesday. Rosenbaum told the Times: "This technology is being thrown on us. It's being thrown on parents and thrown on kids." In letters to see-hear-no-evil Luna and Gov. Butch Otter, Rosenbaum noted that she's a Republican and a Marine, because, she says, it has become fashionable around the country to dismiss complaining teachers as union-happy liberals. "I fought for my country," she said. "Now I'm fighting for my kids." Put your money on Rosenbaum.
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There's a back story involving those bloody eyeglasses found along Prairie Avenue and Wayne Drive in Hayden Wednesday. HucksOnline learned of the tale after reporting the discovery on the blog's Scanner Traffic. Seems the glasses flew off instructor Chris Pickens' face during a bike crash en route to Canfield Middle School Tuesday. According to sister-in-law Stacy Perry, Pickens was knocked unconscious and suffered a broken nose and other facial injuries in the crash. Perry figured the found glasses belonged to her brother-in-law when she read about them on Scanner Traffic. Later, a deputy delivered the spectacles to Canfield Middle School. As badly as Pickens was hurt, Perry tells Huckleberries, he was more concerned about the lost glasses.
Huckleberries is still wondering about that guy in the San Diego Chargers jacket on the corner of Highway 95 & Appleway in Coeur d'Alene Christmas Eve day – you know, the one holding a handwritten sign near Bank of America that said: "Bank of America robbed me. The bank stole my Christmas" … Yes, Bridgette Helstrom Lowry, that was your Coeur d'Alene neighbor mowing his lawn Thursday – on the fifth day of the new year. You're correct in thinking "This is so not right" … Kindergarten teacher Jen Rude enjoyed the sunshine Thursday, too – even during playground duty. She blogs: "The kids were running and chasing and playing soccer. I walked around the playground five times and enjoyed the activity of it. It was lovely – well, as lovely as a walk in the sunshine can be while supervising 45 children … Quotable Quote: "Mitt's winning percentage: .013%. My percentage .079%. He's a piker compared to my titanic margin" – Coeur d'Alene Council President Mike Kennedy, who was re-elected to his council seat in 2009 by three votes after a court battle.
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Coeur d'Alene City Administrator Wendy Gabriel admitted a billing mistake caused some utility bills mailed Dec. 30 to double and phones to ring off the hook at City Hall on Tuesday. Tongue firmly cheeked, Wendy said: "We apologize for the energy created and can confirm that the City's phone system works very well." Read: Yeah, she can hear you now.


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I was really transfixed by the trailer of the movie, "A United Kingdom", which is only being released in Singapore end of February. The Mister knows, I don't watch any movies that is violent or profane and more than anything, I don't watch any movies that is sad. There's enough sadness in reality, I really don't need my movies to remind me of it. Even if there is a predictable happy ending, I do not watch sadness for as long as I can avoid it.
While there seems to be hard pain in this movie, the triumphant strength of love seems to be overwhelmingly more so than sadness itself, so I'm feeling well compelled to give this movie a watch!


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The Blame Game
October 1, 2007 / Posted by: Michael K
Ben Affleck blamed his relationship on JLo as the reason why he's been in a few shitty movies including the ones he starred with her.
Ben told Details Magazine i n their November issue, "It was probably bad for my career (dating JLo). What happens is this sort of bleed-over from the tabloids across your movie work. You go to a movie, you only go once. But the tabloids and Internet are everywhere. You can really subsume the public image of somebody. I ended up in an unfortunate crosshair position where I was in a relationship and [the media] mostly lied and inflated a bunch of salacious stuff for the sake of selling magazines. And I paid a certain price for that. Then, in concert with some movies that didn't work…"
Ben is right. He sure did a lot of shitty movies after he broke up with JLo:
Jersey Girl
Surviving Christmas
Man About Town
Turkey after turkey! JLo's booty scent probably clouded up his better judgement. Either that or Ben is just a moron that doesn't know how to pick good movies and likes to blame things on others. I'll go with the latter.
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Hi all ! Today we are going to talk about the Festival de teatro Aficionado de Dos Hermanas. This festival started Thursday 19th April in the county of Sevilla and will end the 5th of May by the awards. This festival is an amateur theater festival, this is open to regionnal or national troup, each group presents to contest a single work, which lasts approximately not be less than 50 minutes, or more than 110 minutes.
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The Warrior's Cast: Kate Bosworth And Danny Huston
For The Warrior's Way co-star Danny Huston, working in New Zealand on a production that combined green-screen technology with partial sets was like "clinging to the edge of the world."
"I didn't really know how it was going to come out until all of the effects were done," the actor, who plays the villainous Colonel, told Spinoff Online.
Considering that writer/director Sngmoo Lee's martial arts/Western mash-up contains a circus town, carnies, ninjas and Huston's character, who wears a leather mask reminiscent of The Phantom of the Opera, it's no surprise the actor describes the film as "Felini-esque." But even with all of those seemingly disparate elements in play, he felt the cast developed into a tight-knit group.
"In a way all actors are kind of gypsies or tinkerers or a traveling circus," said Huston, who played Col. William Stryker in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. "So here we all were in New Zealand working on this extraordinary film, so it was easy for us to feel a sort of kinship."
In The Warrior's Way, Huston and co-star Kate Bosworth play two Old West figures locked in a lifelong battle that borders on obsession. Bosworth's character Lynne, a knife-thrower in training, looks for help from town newcomer Yang (Dong-gun Jang) to learn how to kill Huston's Colonel, the man who altered her life.
"Sometimes we would just look around at these crazy costumes and this empty stage and go like, 'Well, we're here together. We know we're here together,'" laughed Bosworth, who starred as Lois Lane in Superman Returns.
The group spirit on set was important to her. "You [could] spiral into a little bit of a madness sometimes," she confessed. "I know I did."
Both actors came to the project because of the film's unusual premise. "I had never read anything like it," Bosworth recalled. "It was incredibly original and really a collision of different genres all mixed into one."
In the movie, the assassin Yang flees his native land after refusing to kill the last child of an enemy clan. Finding his way to the American West, he becomes a laundry man and butts heads with Huston's character.
"[It] is a real kaleidoscope of many different elements," Bosworth said, "but there's a very strong through-line of good versus evil and that love conquers all. So the kind of dichotomy, the complexity on one hand, and then the simplicity on the other — a real kind of beautiful poetry interwoven through the whole project was what was most attractive."
Realizing the script was first-time writer/director Lee, who developed the story for 11 years. Huston said Lee had a curious way of directing him in the often completely imaginary environment. "He was saying, 'I want you to take the gun and shoot up at the sky.' And I said, 'Right, but what am I shooting at?' And he said, 'Light 26'," Huston recalled, referring to one of the soundstage's high-power lights. With nothing but the lights, crew, and camera to consider, Huston needed more motivation. "I was like, 'Yes, but what's the light?'" he laughed. "And he's goes, 'It's a ninja! Hundreds of ninjas! All around you, they're ninjas!"
Although Lee is fluent in English, Bosworth noticed a more subtle barrier when discussing the film with her director. "It was sort of like an umbrella of an emotion and finding the tentacles of exactly what it was that he was specifically looking for," she said.
The director and actress massaged the performance until Lee found the right words to express his desired tone. "He would say to me, 'I think she's very angry in this scene.' And I'd say, 'Oh, wow. That's quite an intense notion.' And I'd play it." When the director found the performance too angry, Bosworth countered with, "Frustrated?" Lee agreed with the pitch.
She and Lee also initially disagreed on Lynne's hair color. "I thought, how could you have this fierce, fiery, crazy, feral woman in the middle of the desert with jet-black hair?" Bosworth said. "I love jet-black hair, but she has to be a redhead! So I fought tooth and nail with that, but I won that battle." Although that may seem like a small point, Bosworth believes it helped her find the character. "I had this romantic kind of idea of her. It really helped define her for me," she said of the choice. "I know that sounds strange, but sometimes the physicality [is key]."
The physical elements like hair and costuming proved important for surviving the green-screen shooting. "The costume really gave us some kind of visual aid as to where we were in terms of character development and physically what will be around us because it was literally a blank canvas," she recalled.
"All my guys — my cowboy guys — full of grit and dirt and everything, when they came on stage, it was astonishing," Huston added. "A stage packed with horses!"
Although both actors trained with stunt performers for their fight scenes, their first real chance to rehearse with each other arrived on stage.
"We were challenging each other for the first time," Huston said. "We knew more or less what the dance would be like, but there's a lot of trust involved, especially when you have someone like me with a big mask on, not able to see out of one eye swinging a large sword at you."
According to the actor, 95 percent of the fights seen in the finished film are their own performances, with only the occasional cutaway to stunt people.
"I feel like it had to be us because it was so essential to their development," Bosworth said. Generally, those scenes would be in the hands of the stunt performers, with the actors shot in tight close-up. However, Bosworth said each fight between Lynne and the Colonel carried an emotional undercurrent that had been brewing since her character was a child.
Asked whether they were injured while shooting the fight scenes, Bosworth looked to Huston and asked, "You lost a finger, right?"
"It's back," Huston laughed.
Neither he nor Bosworth recall any noteworthy injuries, but Huston mentioned bruises and soreness discovered only when filming wrapped for the day. "When you go back home, [you feel it] and you're like, 'Oh my God!'" he exclaimed. But in the end, they became badges of honor: "You'll kind of wear the wounds — or bruises I should say — with a certain amount of pride."
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Qatar: First woman Colonel in the Qatar Armed Forces
She said she was happy that the Armed Forces have expressed their confidence in her abilities and treated her as equal to her male counterparts.
"I reached this position through my dedication and hard work," said Sumayya.
Before 20 years she joined the Armed Forces as an Officer and that was the last year of her study at the medicine faculty of the King Saud University in Riyadh. Then she graduated and was promoted to Second Lieutenant in 1998 and to First Lieutenant in 1991.
In 2003 Sumayya was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and finally became Colonel on August 1 this year.
Asked how her family responded to her career, Sumayya said, "I am from a military family and most of the family members are working in the army. I got tremendous support and encouragement from my father as well as brothers."
"The relatives were also not a problem to me at all. I joined the Hamad Medical Corporation for training and then joined the medical services unit. The situation in the country is changing in favour of women. Society's perception about women has changed a lot. I have noticed this personally. When I took part in my first military exercise in 2002, I was the only woman participant. I felt as a stranger in that environment. In the exercise that took place ahead of Asian Games in 2006, I was in a very prominent position and I led the entire medical team."
She added that the medical services unit at Qatar Armed Forces has been witnessing a steady growth and development under the guidance and support of the Chief of Staff of the Qatari Armed Forces H E Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Atiyyah.
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Father Judge High School will be closed on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 due to the situation that led some attendees at Sunday's cheerleading competition at the school to seek medical attention for eye and skin irritations.
The school was closed today because of a previously scheduled in-service for teachers. Health and safety officials spent the day inspecting the school's gym but could not determine the source of the irritant.
The school will remain closed tomorrow out of an abundance of caution and so that officials can do additional testing. Parents are being informed at this hour of tomorrow's closure. No decisions regarding any day beyond tomorrow have been made.
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Barney & Barney Annual Survey Finds That General Counsel Compensation Rose by 4.7% In 2011 at California Companies
Annual compensation for General Counsels rose 4.7% in 2011 to $802,000 at publicly traded companies in California's major coastal markets, according to a survey by the Compensation Consulting Practice of Barney & Barney.
While total direct compensation increased, General Counsels earned, on median, less than the target allocation budgeted by California companies. Total direct compensation was, on median, 10%, or $89,000 less, than target total direct pay in 2011.
"Publicly traded firms in California contained compensation costs for General Counsels by limiting total pay increases to 4.7% in 2011," said Matt Ward, National Practice Leader of Barney & Barney's Compensation Consulting Practice. "Total pay was 10% less than target pay for General Counsels, which may suggest that a recovery is underway in several, but not all sectors of the California economy."
The annual State-of-Pay Reports by Barney & Barney focused on General Counsels primarily at mid-sized firms in San Diego, Orange County/Los Angeles and the San Francisco-Bay Area. Earlier in October, Barney & Barney released a report on compensation for Board Directors and Chief Financial Officers for publicly traded firms in San Diego, as well as Orange County/Los Angeles technology companies, and life sciences firms and technology firms in the San Francisco-Bay Area.
Other key findings:
- 50% of General Counsels received a merit increase in 2011, which was, on median, 4.9%.
- 82% of General Counsels received cash bonuses in 2011. A total of 49% received a mix of options and full-value shares.
- 89% of General Counsels received a long-term incentive last year (excluding new hires).
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Disney-Pixar's "Ratatouille" just can't stop dishing up coin overseas.
Fun-loving toon easily remained the market leader at the international box office over the Oct. 26-28 frame, with a hefty haul of $22.5 million, nearly double that of its closest competitor. That bumped up the international cume to $348.2 million, bringing the pic's worldwide total to $553.4 million.
"Ratatouille" served up top spot finishes in its U.K. and Italo holdovers. Pic also topped charts in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Poland and Switzerland. It's so popular with tykes that sales of rats are said to booming in European pet shops.
Toon might even have enough fuel left to cross the $400 million mark internationally, outpacing even the Mouse House's own expectations.
Local offerings "Lissi," "The Orphanage," and "Le Coeur des hommes 2" topped the charts in Germany, Spain and France at the European box office this weekend. But Hollywood fare remains just as tasty to Europeans.
Coming in second internationally over the Oct. 26-28 weekend was horror title "Saw IV." The latest installment in the lucrative franchise grossed $12.3 million in its initial rollout in 15 territories, a solid day-and-date launch that was in the same range as "Saw III" numbers.
"Saw IV" made the most of pre-Halloween bloodlust, debuting menacingly in the U.K., where it scared up $5.2 million, and Spain, where it grossed $2.7 million. It also finished first it Australia with $1.8 million and in Turkey with $1.2 million.
Stateside, "Saw IV" grossed $32.1 million in its debut over the Oct. 26-28, becoming the highest opener of the fall to date.
Horror can be a tough sell overseas, but "Saw" has proven itself a boffo performer, particularly considering the four films combined cost just under $25 million to produce. With the launch of "Saw IV" domestically and overseas, the franchise should have crossed the $500 million mark heading into the Nov. 2-4 frame.
Two other horror pics also made a solid showing; Warners' Spanish chiller-thriller "The Orphanage," which came in No. 4 overall for the frame, and Summit-Sony's "Resident Evil: Extinction," which came in No. 8.
Playing only in Spain, "Orphanage," directed by Juan Antonio Bayona, continued with boss biz in its third frame. Dipping just 22%, the pic took in $4 million for an impressive $20.7 million cume.
The hit supernatural thriller has local exhibitors upbeat about overall biz.
"This is good for everybody. If moviegoers are happy, they come back soon. This is what's happening right now," says one exhib.
"Not only is 'Orphanage' performing superbly, the other movies are also (doing well)," another exhibitor says.
Bookers say "Orphanage" is already beginning to outperform expectations, and that there is both a great marketing campaign and strong word-of-mouth.
At this rate "Orphanage" could approach the numbers posted by the best cumes of the year in Spain: "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" ($31.4 million), "Shrek the Third" ($30.2 million) and "The Simpsons Movie" ($25.5 million).
In Germany, Michael Herbig's animated laffer "Lissi" was able to knock "Ratatouille" off the top spot with the second-best start of the year for a German film after "The Wild Soccer Bunch 4," which opened in February.
Garnering $5 million from 790, "Lissi" was nevertheless below initial expectations and well under the opening takes of Herbig's previous hits, "Dreamship Surprise" and "Manitou's Shoe."
Like those films, "Lissi," Herbig's first CGI laffer, is a genre spoof — a parody of Ernst Marischka's hugely popular "Sissi" trilogy from the 1950s, which starred Romy Schneider as the 19th-century Bavarian princess who became empress of Austria.
Local bookers attributed the Constantin pic's less-than-spectacular opening to the fact it is targeted more specifically at tyke auds than Herbig's previous films.
"We definitely were expecting more from the film," notes one exhib. "In the end, the big winners this weekend were the kids. 'Lissi' is very much a children's film, and with 'Ratatouille' still going strong, there are two strong movies out there for the little ones."
In Gaul, "Le Coeur des hommes 2," Marc Esposito's laffer about four buddies in their 40s, is bringing home the bacon for BAC. Making $3.8 million on 517 in its first five days, it has outperformed the 2003 bow of the original by 35%. Film came in No. 7 overall internationally for the Oct. 26-28 frame.
American entry "Stardust" continued to do solid business over the frame, coming in No. 3 with a haul of $10.9 million, bumping up the film's international take to a healthy $60.5 million. From the outset, Paramount has been looking for international biz to make up for the pic's disappointing performance Stateside. Film's domestic cume is $38.8 million.
Sony's toon "Surf's Up" came in No. 4 for the Oct. 24-26 weekend with a cume of $4.3 million and a new international cume of $64 million, outpacing the domestic cume of $58.9 million.
Fox's "The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising" came in No. 10 for the weekend, grossing $3.1 million for a foreign cume of $11.1, besting the domestic cume of $8.5 million.
Ed Meza in Germany, Nick Vivarelli in Italy, David Hayhurst in France and Emilio Mayorga in Spain contributed to this report.


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Oxford University Innovation Ltd (OUI) is the highly successful technology transfer company owned by the University of Oxford, commercialising the research generated by the University. Working with over four thousand of the world's brightest minds, OUI helps translate their ideas and expertise into projects that make a tangible difference to businesses and governments through technology licensing and the formation of spin-out companies.
We now have an exciting opportunity for a charismatic and motivated Assistant Technology Transfer Manager to support the highly qualified and driven team within the Licensing & Ventures Group to deliver on a range of their objectives including:
- Defining commercial strategies for new technologies
- Analysis of technologies, patents, markets and data
- Writing marketing materials, and supporting OUI's commercial and marketing activities.
The role will report into the Deputy Head of Technology Transfer and has an emphasis on project management, marketing and analysis. The Assistant Technology Transfer Manager will obtain a broad introduction into technology transfer activities.
Often working as part of a team on high-priority, complex technology transfer projects, the key responsibilities of the Assistant Technology Transfer Manager will be to support the Licensing & Ventures Group in:
- Managing projects a successful conclusion
- Managing project administration and supporting the relevant project manager in project work
- Undertaking market research and analysis to enable commercially viable deals to be completed
- Supporting the marketing of technologies to potential end-users in industry
- Creating a strong team within the Group.
The successful candidate will have a Chemistry, Chemical Engineering or Materials Science degree (or equivalent), and ideally have some experience of progressing projects in either academia or industry. They will also possess enthusiasm, positivity and an appetite for learning and personal development alongside a desire to achieve results. Post-graduate qualifications, a demonstrated ability to cross scientific disciplines and/or engineering, software and ICT experience would be advantageous.
The successful candidate will also need to demonstrate proven competence in:
- Communicating effectively with a wide range of people and organisations
- Excellent interpersonal skills and very strong communication skills, both verbally and in writing
- Managing relationships through challenging situations with tact and diplomacy
- Grasping technical concepts quickly, and understanding how these can be developed into marketable and commercially viable ideas
- Making considered decisions that demonstrate sound judgement and good analysis
- Learning quickly, accepting constructive feedback and putting it into practice.
How to apply: If you are interested in applying for this role, please download the application form from the Oxford University Innovation website (www.innovation.ox.ac.uk) and send together with a copy of your CV and covering letter to Sarah Barton.
Salary for this 12-month fixed term role is commensurate with experience and will be in the range of £24,000-£26,000.
The closing date is midday on Tuesday, 31 October 2017.
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Big Spring ISD trustees will discuss the option of outsourcing the district's food service program to a management company when they meet Thursday night at the high school board room.
"In an effort to evaluate the efficiency of its overall operations, the Big Spring Independent School District has requested proposals from food service vendors," said Superintendent Chris Wigington in a press release. "There is a possibility that the district will contract out its food service; however, at this time, no decision has been made. Ultimately, the Big Spring ISD will do what is in the best interest of our students."
Discussion on the matter is listed at the top of the agenda for Thursday's meeting scheduled for 5:15 p.m. in the high school board room, 707 11th Place. Anyone in the public who wishes to address trustees on this or other matters concerning the school district, should fill out a form before the beginning of the meeting. Forms are available by the door of the board room.


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The trees come down and the billboards go up. LSK is suffering at present from what is a ridiculous invasion of billboards. It's ugly, unsafe and ridiculous. When I drive to school today I'm going to count the number along the 2.5 km stretch of road between our residential neighbourhood and the turn off to school. (wait for it!) Counted. From the roundabout on the main road (two lanes going each direction with a median strip in between which has become "billboard row") to the turn off to school there are 78 commercial billboards that I could spot from the driver's seat. O counted even more than I could safely see -- this is completely absurd, isn't it?
I sometimes drive with the camera in the car and I never regret having it; there's always something odd, beautiful, unbelievable, annoying but interesting that "would make a good photo." I wish that the camera I have was a little more, uh, subtle -- there's no mistaking when you are in my sights. For that reason, I don't take a lot of photos like this.
This scene above struck me as very funny. The guys noticed me down below and the rest of the photos (that I took while I was driving past the police checkpoint. totally safe, totally legal, right?) all have the guys waving at me. I wish that when YOU look at this photo you could enjoy the absurdity of the moment...the kids in the car screaming at me, the guys waving and shouting (E-WAY! ALLoOOOO MADAMEEEE!) and me laughing hysterically.
As we left town on Friday, we drove under this huge pedestrian overpass which hardly ever has a single person on it. There was one boy on it that day -- a goatherder, and about 150 little goats! It was one of those scenes....I didn't get a photo but we'll all remember that moment anyway....just wish I could share it.


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All Political Violence In America Comes From The Left
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RUSH: I have this story, ladies and gentlemen, from The Daily Caller on July 2nd. "Media Horrified After Trump Tweets Video Body Slamming CNN — Journalists reacted in horror Sunday…" In horror, folks! Imagine their faces. They "reacted in horror." They were in terror. Oh, my God! There's a video, and it's got Trump body slamming a logo! The fear, the horror. "While many of the president's supporters online reacted to the video with humor, the consensus among [reporters] seemed to be that Trump was inciting violence against the media."
These same reporters also reached the consensus that Donald Trump being murdered every night on a stage in Central Park was not an incitement of violence. That was art. Donald Trump as Julius Caesar, Shakespeare in the Park getting murdered every night? "That's just art. Trump needs to develop a thick skin!" Trump didn't complain about it. Trump supporters did. CNN and their statement said: "It is a sad day," a very, very, very sad day, "when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters."
Wait a minute. Didn't CNN's parent company, Time Warner, proudly announce they're gonna continue to sponsor the Trump assassination play? See how this one-way street works in the media? They can report things that cause deranged, insane lunatic leftists to pick up guns and start shooting at Republicans — and barely even condemn it, by the way. "ABC News' chief political analyst Matthew Dowd" former Bush administration official, George W. Bush, said that "Trump is 'advocating violence against media…'" No, he's not. He's laughing at you people! He's not advocating violence.
How many of you people on the left think wrestling is real, for crying out loud? How many of you really think a logo got body slammed at WrestleMania? How many of you believe that garbage is real? Well, not garbage. It's actually stellar entertainment. But why in the world…? You people tell me it's fake every day, and yet here's a video with an icon, a logo being body slammed, and it's "advocating violence against the media." Dowd "demanded Republican leaders 'put country over party' in response to the fake video of fake wrestling." People are awfully upset about "fake," and yet the "real" that they are inspiring doesn't seem to bother them.
Don't We All Know Someone Who Can't Take A Joke?
Here's a montage of CNN reporters in horror going crazy over the Trump tweet…
DON LEMON: What the president did today was just flat out gross and disgusting.
ANA NAVARRO: It is an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the media.
CARL BERNSTEIN: (background noise) It's not just anti-CNN. It's anti-freedom of the press. It's anti-freedom of speech. … Visually it's very disturbing. There's nothing lighthearted about it whatsoever.
RUSH: Gee whiz!
BRIAN STELTER: It's scary, and it's scary for CNN colleagues who have already faced threats.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: …violence against journalists…
JOHN KIRBY: He's sending a message that this kind of violence is okay.
SALLY KOHN: …this is how the president of United States behaves and we shouldn't defend this! At all! It's not funny! It's scary!
RUSH: It's unbelievable. I mean, you hear the hysteria. Here are the names Don Lemon was first up, then Ana Navarro — who is supposedly a Republican strategist. (interruption) Well, I know she's a Never Trumper. I know that. She shows up at the cigar dinners I attend every April now and then. I know. Carl Bernstein: "It's not just anti-CNN. It's anti-freedom of the press. It's anti…" Anti-freedom of the press? How about anti-freedom of speech that CNN is, tracking down private citizens, bullying them, intimidating them into shutting up and apologizing or else they will dox them. By the way, I've run into a lot of people who don't know what that term means, "dox." I'll explain it in a minute.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah. They've got no sense of humor. But it's beyond that, the modern-day American left. It's beyond the fact they don't have any sense of humor. It is this arrogant condescension authoritarianism that they are running around with. Just to illustrate how things have changed — and, by the way, folks, for those of you who weren't around at the beginning: When this program began and to this day, what it was known for was making fun of liberals. Telling jokes about liberals. Making fun of everything they believe. Making fun of climate change. Making fun of the spotted owl. Making fun of environmentalist wackos.
Making fun of practically everything they believed, it was not done. There was no joking about liberalism in American comedy. TV shows didn't do it. Late-night comics didn't. And I was hated, I was despised, and you did not do this. They are the serious people. They're the future. They are everything. You do not laugh at them. You're not permitted to laugh at them. They can laugh you at all day long. They can destroy you all day long. You cannot laugh at them. They have no sense of humor. To show you how things have changed, I mean, it wasn't that long ago, take your pick, slapstick comedy, nobody ever associated with violence.
Take the Road Runner and Coyote. You know, it's one of my all-time favorite cartoons. Did PETA ever complain that the Coyote routinely fell off cliffs and got beat up and bruised? People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals never complained about what happened to Road Runner and Coyote, and nobody ever worried the violence the Road Runner perpetrated on the Coyote. Coyote was running into mountainsides. The Coyote was falling off of 300-foot-tall cliffs. The Coyote was launching himself on a rocket and landing in dirt, living through all of it.
It was slapstick funny.
Everybody laughed at it, and that's what this was! Did the CNN logo bleed? Did it get a concussion? Did the CNN logo complain and whine and shriek and scream in pain and terror? No. And yet "violence" was perpetrated against the CNN logo! Violence was perpetrated against the logo on a fake (laughing) sporting event! They cannot laugh at themselves. They'll never be able to. They take themselves way too seriously, folks. I cannot describe to you how much and how serious it is. It's an affliction. It is a dangerous ego affliction to take oneself as seriously as most of your modern-day members of the media do — and in some cases, both sides of the aisle. But particularly on the left.
Here's Alisyn Camerota. This is from this morning. CNN's New Day is the name of the program, talking about the Reddit user who created… Oh, the term "dox." CNN threatened to dox the guy. What that means… D-O-X is actually a new hip word for what should be spelled D-O-C-S. To "dox" somebody is to reveal everything private about them — their name, address, Social Security number, phone number, all of that kind of stuff. That's what you are doing if you dox somebody. You publicize their "docs" or documents, and the hipsters just spell it with an X. That's what CNN threatened to do to this poor guy, and Alisyn Camerota is on CNN today bragging about blackmailing this Reddit user who posted the video that Trump tweeted.
It's Alisyn Camerota.
CAMEROTA: It was remarkable that CNN found the Reddit user who created the gif of Donald Trump and the wrestling video and where he punches CNN. So the investigative team went back and found the guy who first created this — he took credit for it — and then here comes the remarkable part! He apologized. He has also asked that we not reveal his name or whereabouts — and we at CNN are honoring that because he's apologized and he thinks that he would then be in danger and at risk if other people knew his name.
RUSH: But they've told him that if he does it again, they are gonna dox him. Now, who are they? Is CNN law enforcement? Is CNN in charge of this guy's constitutional rights? Is CNN this poor guy's gateway to freedom and the First Amendment? Does CNN have the right to tell this guy what he can and cannot do? Does CNN have the right to bully and demand this guy apologize, and then further hold over his head the threat to publicly humiliate him if he does it again?


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Struggling United to lay off 2,700 flight attendants
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- United Airlines will lay off 2,700 flight attendants in January because of the financially struggling carrier's decreased flight schedule, the company announced Friday.
The latest round of cutbacks brings the number of layoffs by United to nearly 4,000 in just the last three weeks, on top of 2,100 flight attendants already on voluntary furlough.
"United sincerely regrets the necessity of making this decision because of the impact it will have on our employees, their families and their communities," Larry De Shon, United's senior vice president for onboard service, said in a statement.
"As part of our recovery plan, United has previously announced it will reduce capacity, and that, unfortunately, means we will need fewer flight attendants."
The layoffs, which will take effect January 31, are in addition to 2,100 flight attendants currently on voluntary furlough, according to the Association of Flight Attendants. Chicago-based United, the No. 2 U.S. carrier, has 24,000 flight attendants.
United has been negotiating with five of its labor unions, including the flight attendants, on a package of cost reductions designed to save $5.8 billion over five and a half years and secure $1.8 billion in federal loan guarantees under a program set up after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The airline has already won concessions from its pilots, including an 18 percent pay cut.
A spokeswoman for the Association of Flight Attendants, Sara Dela Cruz, said the new cuts were not discussed during negotiations.
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Last month, the struggling airline announced it was laying off 1,250 maintenance, customer service and reservations employees, as well as closing three reservations centers and shifting service in five cities to its affiliated commuter airlines.
The airline industry has been hemorrhaging money since the terrorist attacks. Demand for air travel has not fully bounced back, and airlines are also bearing the costs of additional security measures that have also discouraged some Americans from flying.
In October, United announced a third-quarter loss of more than $500 million. The company warned in August that without aggressive cost-cutting measures, it could be forced into bankruptcy.


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Russia is fully aware that Yury Martyshev that the US had a warrant out for him for cyber fraud, yet did nothing. Later, when he is legally arrested elsewhere, Russia objects.
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Russia's embassy in Washington has accused the U.S. of wrongfully arresting and detaining a Russian national accused of cyber fraud.
The Russian Embassy to the U.S. officially commented Wednesday on the case of Yury Martyshev, a Russian who was reportedly arrested in Latvia and extradited to the U.S. for allegedly illegally gaining access to the private financial information of bank card holders, according to reports by The Moscow Times and the state-run TASS Russian News Agency. The embassy said it had provided Martyshev with "necessary consular assistance" and had contacted the suspect via telephone at a prison in Alexandria, Virginia. The embassy also stated it had requested to visit Martyshev as soon as possible, denouncing his arrest as a breach of bilateral cooperation on crime.
"We consider this arrest as another case of kidnapping of a Russian citizen by the U.S. authorities in violation of the current bilateral agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters as of 1999. The Embassy demands from the American side unconditional observance of the legitimate rights and interests of the Russian citizen," the embassy wrote in a Facebook post.
The embassy's remarks come amid a highly politicized dispute between Moscow and Washington over international policy and accusations that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. After pledging to restore U.S.-Russia ties that were damaged during the administration of President Barack Obama, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin—former political allies—had a falling out in April over their differing stances on the conflict in Syria. Trump has since expressed stronger support of the Western military alliance NATO and of Ukraine, both of which accuse Russia of pursuing aggressive policies in Europe. Russia denies this, and has fortified its positions in Europe and the Middle East both politically and militarily.
In the final weeks of the Obama administration, Russia's diplomatic assets in the U.S. were brought into the mounting political feud between the countries. In December, the U.S. seized Russian diplomatic properties in Maryland and Long Island and expelled 35 diplomats after intelligence reports suggested Moscow had sponsored hacks intended to influence the presidential race in favor of Trump. More than six months later, Putin's foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Monday that, despite his government showing "unusual flexibility," Moscow "has its limits" and would "take retaliatory measures" if Trump did not reverse his predecessor's decision, according to the Associated Press.
Russia has long criticized the U.S. for what it calls "the unacceptable practice of 'hunting' for Russian citizens around the world," according to a travel warning posted in February by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The statement urged Russians to exercise caution when traveling in foreign countries where the U.S. was thought to have strong influence, and it cited 30 incidents of authorities detaining or arresting Russian citizens at the behest of the U.S. In April, Spanish authorities arrested Peter Levashov, a Russian national accused of hacking, in his hotel room in Barcelona at the request of U.S. authorities.
The latest diplomatic spat involving the Russian embassy comes just ahead of Trump and Putin's first meeting, set to take place Friday at the G-20 summit in Hamburg, Germany. The leaders are expected to face off over Syria and Ukraine, among other issues, and address their pledges to improve relations between the two nations.
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/russia-accuse-us-hunt-kidnap-citizens-latest-arrest-632818?piano_t=1