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Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, during World War II, the Allied invasion of western Europe, which was launched on June 6, 1944 (the most celebrated D-Day of the war), with the simultaneous landing of U.S., British, and Canadian forces on five separate beachheads in Normandy, France. By the end of August 1944 all of northern France was liberated, and the invading forces reorganized for the drive into Germany, where they would eventually meet with Soviet forces advancing from the east to bring an end to the Nazi Reich.
Planning, 1941–43
Hitler's Reich, east and west
In midsummer 1943, a year before the Anglo-American invasion of Normandy that would lead to the liberation of western Europe, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht ("Armed Forces") still occupied all the territory it had gained in the blitzkrieg campaigns of 1939–41 and most of its Russian conquests of 1941–42. It also retained its foothold on the coast of North Africa, acquired when it had gone to the aid of its Italian ally in 1941. The Russian counteroffensives at the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Kursk had pushed back the perimeter of Hitler's Europe in the east. Yet he or his allies still controlled the whole of mainland Europe, except for neutral Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, and Sweden. The Nazi war economy, though overshadowed by the growing power of America's, outmatched both that of Britain and that of the Soviet Union except in the key areas of tank and aircraft production. Without direct intervention by the western Allies on the Continent—an intervention that would centre on the commitment of a large American army—Hitler could count on prolonging his military dominance for years to come.
The second front
Since 1942, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had been pressing his allies, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to mount a second front in the west. It was impossible in the circumstances. America's army was still forming, while the landing craft necessary to bring such an army across the English Channel had not yet been built. Nevertheless, Britain had begun to prepare theoretical plans for a return to the continental mainland soon after the retreat from Dunkirk, France, in 1940, and the Americans, immediately after Hitler declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941, had started to frame their own timetable. Less inhibited than the British by perceived technical difficulties, the Americans pressed from the start for an early invasion—desirably in 1943, perhaps even in 1942. To that end George C. Marshall, Roosevelt's chief of staff, appointed a protégé, Dwight D. Eisenhower, to the U.S. Army's war plans division in December 1941 and commissioned him to design an operational scheme for Allied victory.
Operations Roundup and Sledgehammer
Swiftly convincing himself that the priority of "Germany first" agreed to by Roosevelt and Churchill in the Atlantic Charter was correct, Eisenhower framed proposals for a 1943 invasion (Operation Roundup) and another for 1942 (Operation Sledgehammer) in the event of a Russian collapse or a sudden weakening of Germany's position. Both plans were presented to the British in London in April 1942, and Roundup was adopted. The British, nevertheless, reserved objective doubts, and at subsequent Anglo-American conferences—in Washington in June, in London in July—they first quashed all thought of Sledgehammer and then succeeded in persuading the Americans to agree to a North African landing as the principal operation of 1942. Operation Torch, as the landing in North Africa was to be code-named, effectively postponed Roundup again, while subsequent operations in Sicily and the Italian mainland delayed preparations for the cross-Channel invasion through 1943 as well. The postponements were a principal cause of concern at inter-Allied conferences at Washington (code-named Trident, May 1943), Quebec (Quadrant, August 1943), Cairo (Sextant, November 1943), and Tehrān (Eureka, November–December 1943). At the last gathering, Roosevelt and Stalin combined against Churchill to insist on the adoption of May 1944 as an unalterable date for the invasion. In return, Stalin agreed to mount a simultaneous offensive in eastern Europe and to join in the war against Japan once Germany had been defeated.
Operation Overlord
The decision taken at Tehrān was a final indication of American determination to stage the cross-Channel invasion; it was also a defeat for Alan Brooke, Churchill's chief of staff and the principal opponent of premature action. Yet despite Brooke's procrastination, the British had in fact been proceeding with structural plans, coordinated by Lieutenant General Frederick Morgan, who had been appointed COSSAC (chief of staff to the supreme Allied commander [designate]) at the Anglo-American Casablanca Conference in January 1943. His staff's first plan for Operation Overlord (as the invasion was henceforth to be known) was for a landing in Normandy between Caen and the Cotentin Peninsula in a strength of three divisions, with two brigades to be air-dropped. Another 11 divisions were to be landed within the first two weeks through two artificial harbours that would be towed across the Channel. Once a foothold had been established, a force of a hundred divisions, the majority shipped directly from the United States, were to be assembled in France for a final assault on Germany. In January 1944 Eisenhower became supreme Allied commander, and the COSSAC staff was redesignated SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force).
Fortress Europe
Hitler had long been aware that the Anglo-American allies would eventually mount a cross-Channel invasion, but, as long as they dissipated their forces in the Mediterranean and as long as the campaign in the east demanded the commitment of all available German forces, he downplayed the threat. By November 1943, however, he accepted that it could be ignored no longer, and in his Directive Number 51 he announced that France would be reinforced. To oversee defensive preparations, Hitler appointed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, former commander of the Afrika Korps, as inspector of coastal defenses and then as commander of Army Group B, occupying the threatened Channel coast. As army group commander, Rommel officially reported to the longer-serving Commander in Chief West Gerd von Rundstedt, though the entire structure was locked into a rigid chain of command that deferred many operational decisions to the Führer himself.
Buildup, 1943–44
The Allied commanders
In January 1944 the Allies appointed an invasion commander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and placed him within a flexible, fully binational Anglo-American chain of command. Bernard Law Montgomery, Rommel's desert opponent in North Africa, was nominated, under Eisenhower, as commander of the ground invasion forces. Walter Bedell Smith, an American, continued as Eisenhower's chief of staff, but his other principal subordinates were British: Air Chief Marshal Arthur Tedder as his deputy, Admiral Bertram Ramsay as naval commander, and Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh-Mallory as head of the expeditionary air forces. A Free French delegate, Marie-Pierre Koenig, served as liaison between SHAEF and the president of the French Committee of National Liberation, Charles de Gaulle.
Montgomery's first acts were (1) to demand and get five divisions to make the initial landing and (2) to widen the landing area to include the Orne River estuary and the base of the Cotentin Peninsula. As finally constituted in the so-called Montgomery plan, the invasion force was to consist of five infantry divisions—two U.S., two British, and one Canadian—assigned to beaches code-named (from west to east) Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno, and Sword. On D-Day (the projected first day of the invasion), two American airborne divisions were to land behind the western end of the assault area and one British at the eastern, while amphibious armour was to swim ashore with the leading waves. The Americans constituted the U.S. First Army under Major General Omar Bradley, the British and Canadians the British Second Army under General Miles Dempsey. The British divisions had been under intensive training since 1942, the U.S. since 1943. Meanwhile, intensive logistics preparations organized by Lieutenant General J.C.H. Lee provided, by May 1944, almost 6,500 ships and landing craft, which would land nearly 200,000 vehicles and 600,000 tons of supplies in the first three weeks of the operation.
The air campaign
The invasion would be supported by more than 13,000 fighter, bomber, and transport aircraft, against which the Luftwaffe (the German air force) was able to deploy fewer than 400 on D-Day. Between April 1 and June 5, 1944, the British and American strategic air forces deployed 11,000 aircraft, flew 200,000 sorties, and dropped 195,000 tons of bombs on French rail centres and road networks as well as German airfields, radar installations, military bases, and coastal artillery batteries. Two thousand Allied aircraft were lost in these preliminaries, but the air campaign succeeded in breaking all the bridges across the Seine and Loire rivers and thus isolating the invasion area from the rest of France. The Luftwaffe staff was forced to concede that "the outstanding factor both before and during the invasion was the overwhelming air superiority of the enemy."
Decryption and deception
The air campaign was designed not only to disrupt German anti-invasion preparations but also to serve as a deception operation. Two-thirds of the bombs were dropped outside the invasion area in an attempt to persuade the enemy that the landings would be made northeast of the Seine—in particular, the Pas-de-Calais area, directly opposite Dover, England—rather than in Normandy. At the same time, through the top-secret Ultra operation, the Allies were able to decode encrypted German transmissions, thus providing the Overlord forces with a clear picture of where the German counterattack forces were deployed.
By spurious radio transmissions, the Allies created an entire phantom army, "based" in southeast England (opposite Pas-de-Calais) and alleged to be commanded by the American general George S. Patton. (Patton would later materialize on the Normandy battlefield to lead the armoured breakout into Brittany.) In addition, on the night of the invasion itself, airborne radar deception presented to German radar stations a "phantom" picture of an invasion fleet crossing the Channel narrows, while a radar blackout disguised the real transit to Normandy.
Mines at the beach, tanks in reserve
The Germans were not altogether deluded. Hitler himself declared a last-minute premonition of a Normandy landing. By then, however, the dispositions had been made. Rommel, in his brief period of responsibility for the Atlantic Wall, had been able to decuple mine laying, so that by June 5 some four million more mines had been laid on the beaches. He had not, however, been able to position the German tank divisions as he wanted. Rundstedt wished to hold them back from the coast as a reserve. Rommel, warning that Allied aircraft would destroy them as they advanced, wished to place them near the beaches. Hitler, adjudicating in the dispute, worsened the situation by allotting some divisions to Rommel and some to Rundstedt, keeping others under his own command. The rest of Rommel's Army Group B was made up of the infantry divisions of the Seventh Army (under Friedrich Dollmann) in Normandy and Brittany and of the Fifteenth Army (under Hans von Salmuth) in Pas-de-Calais and eastward. The reserve tank forces, given the name Panzer Group West and commanded by Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, came nominally under Rundstedt's direct command.
D-Day, June 6, 1944
The decision to go
May 1944 had been chosen at the conference in Washington in May 1943 as the time for the invasion. Difficulties in assembling landing craft forced a postponement until June, but June 5 was fixed as the unalterable date by Eisenhower on May 17. As the day approached and troops began to embark for the crossing, bad weather set in, threatening dangerous landing conditions. After tense debate, Eisenhower and his subordinates decided on a 24-hour delay, requiring the recall of some ships already at sea. Eventually, on the morning of June 5, Eisenhower, assured by chief meteorologist James Martin Stagg of a break in the weather, announced, "O.K. We'll go." Within hours an armada of 3,000 landing craft, 2,500 other ships, and 500 naval vessels—escorts and bombardment ships—began to leave English ports. That night 822 aircraft, carrying parachutists or towing gliders, roared overhead to the Normandy landing zones. They were a fraction of the air armada of 13,000 aircraft that would support D-Day.
The landings
The airborne troops were the vanguard, and their landings were a heartening success. The American 82nd and 101st airborne divisions, dropping into a deliberately inundated zone at the base of the Cotentin Peninsula, suffered many casualties by drowning but nevertheless secured their objective. The British 6th Airborne Division seized its unflooded objectives at the eastern end more easily, and its special task force also captured key bridges over the Caen Canal and Orne River. When the seaborne units began to land about 6:30 am on June 6, the British and Canadians on Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches overcame light opposition. So did the Americans at Utah. The U.S. 1st Division at Omaha Beach, however, confronted the best of the German coast divisions, the 352nd, and was roughly handled by machine gunners as the troops waded ashore. During the morning, the landing at Omaha threatened to fail. Only dedicated local leadership eventually got the troops inland—though at a cost of more than 2,000 casualties.
The German response
Meanwhile, the German high command—in the absence of Rommel, who was home on leave—began to respond. Hitler was initially unwilling to release the armoured divisions for a counterattack. When he relented after midday, elements of the 21st Panzer Division drove into the gap between the British 3rd and Canadian 3rd divisions at Sword Beach and Juno Beach and almost reached the sea. Had they done so, the landings might have failed. Fierce resistance by British antitank gunners at Périers-sur-le-Dan turned the tide in late evening.
The lodgment area established
On June 7 the beachhead consisted of three separate sectors: that of the British and Canadians, between Caen (not taken) and Bayeux; that of the U.S. V Corps, between Port-en-Bessin and Saint-Pierre-du-Mont; and that of the U.S. VII Corps, west of the Vire River behind Utah Beach. The narrow gap between Gold and Omaha at Port-en-Bessin was quickly closed, but it was not until June 12 that the American corps were able to join hands after a bitter battle to capture Carentan. The beachhead then formed a continuous zone, its deepest point being southwest of Bayeux, where the V Corps had driven nearly 15 miles (25 km) inland.
Meanwhile, work had been proceeding pell-mell to complete two artificial harbours, known by their code name, Mulberry, that were intended to off-load vehicles and supplies until the port of Cherbourg was secured. An outer breakwater of sunken ships for each harbour was in place by June 11. Floating piers, designed to rise and fall with the tides, were half-finished by June 19, when a heavy storm destroyed much of the material. The Americans then decided to abandon their Mulberry, while the British harbour was not in use until July. Most supplies meanwhile had to be beach-landed by assorted landing craft, landing ships, and amphibious trucks (DUKWs).
Stalemate, June–July 1944
Fighting in the bocage
Fighting inshore, the Allies also encountered difficulty in the dense hedgerow country known to the French as the bocage. Thanks to the success of the airborne landings, the flanks of the beachhead were firmly held, but efforts to break out of the centre were frustrated by fierce German resistance and counterattacks, particularly around Caen in the British-Canadian sector. A British armoured thrust at Villers-Bocage was defeated on June 13. A large-scale infantry offensive west of Caen, called Operation Epsom, was also defeated on June 25–29. There was gloom at SHAEF; it seemed that stalemate was descending. The gloom was deepened by Montgomery's strategy. His plan was to draw German armour toward the British front and win a battle of attrition between tank forces. The successful German defense, however, led the Americans to doubt the plan's viability.
In fact, the Germans were also depressed, for their bitter defense was using up men and equipment that could not be replaced. Moreover, the Americans were now able to profit from the deployment of most of the enemy's armour against the British and break into the base of the Cotentin Peninsula and advance on Cherbourg. The last bastion in the heavily fortified city fell on June 28, and clearance of the port began at once.
Crisis in the German command
The setbacks brought about a crisis in the German high command, which in any case now suffered unforeseeable casualties. Dollmann, commander of the Seventh Army, died suddenly on June 28, just after the surrender of the main garrison in Cherbourg; his death was blamed on a heart attack, though it is quite likely he committed suicide. Rommel was severely injured when his car was strafed by a British fighter on July 17. Worst of all, Rundstedt confessed defeatism to Hitler, urged him to make peace, and was dismissed on July 2 along with Geyr, the commander of Panzer Group West. Geyr was replaced by the capable veteran Heinrich Eberbach. Rundstedt himself was replaced by Günther von Kluge, who soon came round to sharing Rundstedt's doubts. On July 20 a conspiracy of officers (including former army chief of staff Ludwig Beck and reserve army chief of staff Claus, Count Schenk von Stauffenberg) who believed the only hope of securing a peace lay in Hitler's removal made an attempt on his life at his East Prussian headquarters, Rastenburg. The failure of the July Plot led to Hitler's taking draconian powers over the army and exacting terrible revenge on those suspected of complicity. Rommel was forced to commit suicide in October, and Kluge did so on August 18.
The German defense of Normandy had by then taken a turn for the worse. Though a large British armoured offensive west of Caen, Operation Goodwood, failed on July 18–19, the U.S. First Army conducted a bitter battle of attrition around Saint-Lô in the second and third weeks of July. Its success was to lay the basis for the long-awaited breakout.
Breakout, August 1944
Operation Cobra
By July 25, with most of the German tanks drawn westward by the British Goodwood offensive, the Americans faced a front almost denuded of armour. Reinforcement gave them a clear superiority in tank and infantry divisions, while the Allied Expeditionary Force had the bombardment power to devastate the Germans in their path. Operation Cobra, scheduled for July 25, opened with a devastating air attack (some of which fell on the waiting GIs). Through the gap thus opened, the U.S. First Army sped toward Avranches, taken on July 30. At this point George S. Patton's newly formed Third Army joined in the advance. A massive American spearhead now threatened to drive into Brittany and, by a left turn, to encircle the Germans in Normandy from the rear.
The German counterattack and the Falaise pocket
Hitler saw the breakout as an opportunity to restore the front. Bringing the 2nd, 116th, and 1st and 2nd Panzer SS divisions hastily westward, he issued orders for Operation Lüttich, designed to drive behind the point of the American spearhead and reach the sea at Avranches. However, Ultra interceptions of German cipher traffic alerted the Americans to the danger, and, when Lüttich opened on August 7, heavy antitank defenses were in place. The offensive was stopped and defeated in its tracks.
Meanwhile, as the American encirclement eastward from Brittany developed, the British and Americans began a strong advance west of Caen toward Falaise. On August 16, the day after a Franco-American force had landed on the Riviera (Operation Dragoon), Hitler at last recognized the inevitable and gave permission for a withdrawal from Normandy. The only route of escape lay through a gap between the converging American and British spearheads at Falaise. The position was held by the recently arrived Polish 1st Armoured Division. Despite its heroic efforts, the remnants of the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army—the latter now led by one of Hitler's top tank commanders, Josef ("Sepp") Dietrich—succeeded in breaking through between August 16 and 19. Some 240,000 men, bereft of equipment, eventually reached the Seine River. They left behind in Normandy some 50,000 dead and 200,000 taken prisoner.
Crossing the Seine
By 1944 the Germans, after two years of withdrawals in Russia, were expert at organizing retreats. They showed their expertise in the Seine River crossings. Though all bridges had been destroyed by Allied air attack, they improvised pontoons and ferries and conducted skillful rearguard actions to hold off the Anglo-American advance between August 19 and 31, when all survivors were rescued. By then the Allies commanded the west bank of the Seine from the sea to Fontainebleau, while their spearheads were on the Meuse River, 186 miles (299 km) farther on. The architect of the German withdrawal was Field Marshal Walther Model, the "Führer's fireman," a veteran of the Eastern Front who had succeeded Kluge on August 17.
Liberation of Paris
As Model drew the retreating Germans back across northern France at breakneck speed into Belgium, Resistance forces in Paris rose against what remained of the German garrison there on August 19. Fighting broke out, and, as news of the struggle reached the public in America and Britain, Eisenhower reversed his earlier decision to bypass the capital. The recently arrived Free French 2nd Armoured Division was ordered to liberate the city. Its vanguards arrived on August 24. Next morning the German city commander, Dietrich von Choltitz, surrendered to the Resistance and to Jacques-Philippe Leclerc, the 2nd Armoured commander. On August 26, General Charles de Gaulle, head of the Free French, made a triumphal parade down the Champs-Élysées to Notre-Dame Cathedral, where a mass of victory was celebrated.
Liberation had come at a high cost: more than 200,000 dead, wounded, and missing from the Allied armies, more than 300,000 from the German. French civilian losses numbered more than 12,000. Still, the Normandy campaign had been a stunning success. By early September 1944 all but a fraction of France had been liberated. The U.S., British, and Canadian forces had occupied Belgium and part of the Netherlands and had reached the German frontier. They had, however, outrun their logistical support and lacked the strength to launch a culminating offensive. The coming winter would see much hard fighting—and a German counteroffensive in the Belgian Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge—before the German army in the west was finally to be beaten.
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I've been working on my next Adventure game for the last few months, and I think it's gotten to the point where it's actually kind of fun to play. Created with the DPC+ kernel (you'll need the latest version of Stella to play), it's preliminarily called "Epic Adventure".
It's an entirely new Adventure game built from the ground-up featuring 32 rooms / mazes with all-new items and enemies (see picture below). It's kind of a mixture of Adventure and Lord of the Rings. The goal of the game is "the usual" - get the golden chalice back to your home castle. But first, you must kill the Dragon in order for the chalice to appear in one of three places - the Wizard's Castle, the Dragon's Castle, or the Troll's Cave.
Some new features:
• upgraded graphics
• new torch lighting effect
• one skeleton key to open all castles
• staff for long-range attacks
• amulet makes you invisible to enemies
• you can make the hawk drop objects by sniping him with the staff (if you're quick enough)
• the hawk will sometimes pick you up if you don't have any items, and you can control his x-axis while flying.
• when you're in the same room as the palintir, you'll move at half-speed.
Still to be done:
If anyone has any special interest in doing the above, please feel free to contribute!
The demo is Level 1 of the game, with all of the items nonrandomized and easy to find in or near your home castle. Test it out and let me know what you think!
epicadv1.bin 32KB 750 downloads
Latest version (Levels 1-3) as of 9/25/11:
epicadv22.bin 32KB 1394 downloads
Special thanks:
Pac-Man-Red - nice Canadian who created all of the graphics.
RevEng - another nice Canadian who helped me figure out DPC+.
Random Terrain - batari Basic games would not be possible without his manual!
batari - all hail The Creator!
Edited by Byte Knight, Sun Sep 25, 2011 9:58 PM.

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To stand in the newly renovated Montauk Medical Practice you'd never believe it was the same place. Though the exterior of the building has not changed, the interior seems somehow larger and brighter. The walls are painted a pale blue with wainscoting, the floors are a dark wood, and the 12 chairs in the waiting area are also of a dark wood with a pale blue floral print on the cushions. The reception area is less cluttered and more spacious. The building now has four examination rooms and an urgent-care unit.
Dr. Anthony Knott gave a tour to members of the press on Friday, its opening day, but sat down on Tuesday to talk about what the new office means to him. He's particularly happy about joining forces with Meeting House Lane Associates of Southampton Hospital. "It's the structure with the hospital that I like; it's very positive," he said, explaining that if one his employees becomes ill or cannot make it in, the Southampton group will send a replacement.
He also said he appreciates the urgent-care unit at the back of the building that will allow ambulances to pull right up to the backdoor. To make the point, Dr. Knott held up a framed print filled with fishhooks that he's had to remove from fingers, feet, and other body parts over the eight years he's practiced in Montauk, first under Dr. Gavino Mapula and then on his own. Dr. Knott said he would now be able to treat various wounds, lacerations, and shoulder injuries at the center, as well as other conditions that would previously require a ride to the hospital.
If he can hire the proper staff, he would like to offer on-site osteopathic and holistic medicine, since he now has the space for those treatments. A program at Southampton Hospital, he said, is now offering doctors a chance to train in neuromusculoskeletal medicine, or, as he called it, manipulative medicine.
Since the important phase of the project is now complete, a fund-raising project has begun that will aid in the purchase of better equipment and a fetal heart monitor and enable him to hire more staff for the practice.
"I have an extensive wish list," said the doctor, who was seen smiling as he walked down the freshly painted corridor.


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TORONTO — Luka Magnotta, accused of killing and dismembering a Chinese student, was treated for paranoid schizophrenia, though his doctor said he didn't always take his medication.
A letter from Magnotta's psychiatrist was attached to the court file of his 2005 conviction for fraud in Toronto and offers a glimpse into the mind of the man now accused in the gruesome slaying and dismemberment of 33-year-old Lin Jun.
Magnotta, 30, then known by his birth name, Eric Newman, suffered from paranoid schizophrenia since at least 2000 and was hospitalized several times, Dr. Thuraisamy Sooriabalan wrote.
"The treatment consists of taking antipsychotic medications and attending (the) outpatient department for supportive psychotherapy and health education," wrote the doctor based at the Rouge Valley Health System's Centenary site in Toronto.
"Unfortunately Mr. Newman is not very regular in attending the outpatient department and as a result he misses his medications."
At the time of the letter, written in May 2005, Magnotta had not seen his psychiatrist since February, despite being told to return in a month for continuation of his medication, Sooriabalan wrote.
The psychiatrist assessed Magnotta's prognosis as "fair," as long as he took his medication. If he didn't, he would be prone to a relapse of his symptoms, which include paranoia, auditory hallucinations and fear of the unknown, Sooriabalan wrote.
The letter was released Wednesday after several media outlets fought for it to be made public.
A Globe and Mail reporter had been trying to obtain the letter, a public document, since July, but was rebuffed in several attempts. Various media outlets then joined together to hire counsel to make arguments to a judge for the letter's release.
Magnotta's lawyer Luc Leclair tried to stop the letter from becoming public, but Ontario Court Judge Fergus O'Donnell ruled Tuesday afternoon that it should be released.
It does contain sensitive and personal medical information, O'Donnell said in his ruling, but any privacy interest was foregone when the letter was filed in open court.
"Without access to the letter, the public is not in a position to engage in a meaningful assessment or debate over the appropriateness of what happened to Mr. Newman in 2005 in what is supposed to be an open and transparent court process," O'Donnell wrote.
The letter was tendered in court after Magnotta pleaded guilty to four fraud-related charges in 2005. The judge read the letter before she imposed a nine-month conditional sentence. She said she could only order him to take his medication for the nine-month period, but hoped he would continue taking it after that.
"Sir, you have got a medical problem and you need to always take medication," Judge Lauren Marshall said, the transcript shows.
"If you do not, your life is going to get messed up."
Magnotta admitted to taking advantage of a young woman with a diminished mental capacity whom he had met online. He admitted that he got her to apply for credit in her name at stores such as Sears and The Brick then used it to get various merchandise. The stores were out thousands of dollars. He also got a credit card in the woman's name.
A preliminary hearing for Magnotta is underway in Montreal, where he faces several criminal charges, including first-degree murder.


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Kirk, Merkley urge Consumer Agency to act on problem of Medical Debt on Credit Reports
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) urged the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to investigate the issue of medical debt in credit reports, a leading cause of costly errors and delinquencies. Due to the complexity of medical billing systems, many consumers do not discover that they owe money until they check their credit reports to apply for a home or car loan or a credit card.
"The inclusion of medical debt in credit scoring practices can have severe negative effects on consumers,†the Senators wrote. "What begins as an unpredictable medical hardship or even an error that is not the fault of the consumer, can lead to long-lasting damage to a consumer's ability to buy a home, obtain a credit card, and fully participate in our economy.â€
Medical debt is unlike other types of debt in that it often occurs unexpectedly as the result of an unplanned illness or emergency. Additionally, due to complex billing processes and disputes between consumers, providers and insurance companies, consumers frequently do not even know they are responsible for medical debts before they are sent to collections.
More than one in five consumers have errors on their credit reports, and 80 percent of consumers with medical debt data on their credit reports would have experienced an increase in scores were that data removed from credit scores. Credit bureaus and lenders have testified to Congress that medical debt is a poor predictor of creditworthiness and that it would not harm the predictive value of credit reports to remove medical debt data.
The CFPB has begun to look into medical debt in credit scoring and the Senators urged them to complete their work quickly and release their report.
The full letter follows below.
October 18, 2013
The Honorable Richard Cordray
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
1700 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20552
Dear Director Cordray:
We write to express our continuing interest in addressing the challenge of medical debt in credit reports, and we are pleased to hear that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is looking into this issue. Â Medical debt is different from other types of debt as it is an unplanned expense, often resulting from an unforeseen illness or emergency. Additionally, due to the medical billing process in which billing disputes and errors can spur the incurrence of medical debt, consumers often do not even know that they are responsible for a medical debt before it has been reported to collections.
The inclusion of medical debt in credit scoring practices can have severe negative effects on consumers. Â According to the Commonwealth Fund, nearly 73 million adults faced difficulties paying medical bills in 2010. Â Additionally, a study on credit report accuracy published in the Federal Reserve Bulletin found that approximately 80 percent of those with medical collection data on their credit reports would have experienced an increase in scores if the medical debt was not factored in to the scoring algorithm.
Furthermore, lowered credit scores resulting from medical debt are often reported in error. In February 2013, the Federal Trade Commission released the results of a comprehensive study of credit reporting errors, finding 21 percent of American consumers had an error on a credit report from at least one of the three major credit reporting companies.  Thirteen percent of consumers had errors serious enough to change their credit scores.  Unlike with other industries, when an error is made on a consumer's credit report the consumer does not have the ability to switch companies, as all consumers are beholden to the major credit reporting agencies. In this way, what begins as an unpredictable medical hardship or even an error that is not the fault of the consumer, can lead to long-lasting damage to a consumer's ability to buy a home, obtain a credit card, and fully participate in our economy.
Moreover, medical debt is such a poor predictor of creditworthiness that credit bureaus and lenders have testified to Congress that removing medical debt from consideration would not harm the predictive value of consumer credit reports.
Many consumers mistakenly believe that unpaid medical bills have no influence over one's credit score.  However, without changes, medical debt will continue to negatively impact consumers' lives.  We welcome and encourage efforts by the CFPB to investigate and examine medical debt in order to further inform the discussion regarding how best to address its effects on consumer credit.
We urge the CFPB to move quickly to examine these issues and share its conclusions. We look forward to a speedy response.


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Inbox: Too early to be concerned about offense?
Should we be worried about the offense? The pitching has been doing its job, but so far they haven't been getting any run support.
-- Jeremy W., Toronto
The offense is definitely off to a slow start, but it's far too early for the club to be overly concerned about the results. The Blue Jays are only seven games into the year, so they aren't about to start panicking about a lineup that's supposed to be a major strength for the team. If Toronto stays relatively healthy, it should be able to score a lot of runs when everything is all said and done.
Should we be worried about the offense? The pitching has been doing its job, but so far they haven't been getting any run support.
-- Jeremy W., Toronto
The offense is definitely off to a slow start, but it's far too early for the club to be overly concerned about the results. The Blue Jays are only seven games into the year, so they aren't about to start panicking about a lineup that's supposed to be a major strength for the team. If Toronto stays relatively healthy, it should be able to score a lot of runs when everything is all said and done.
The only real issue is that the Blue Jays still appear to be a team that heavily relies on the home run. In a lot of cases, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but the Blue Jays do need to find a way to increase their on-base percentage and capitalize on scoring opportunities when they arise. Through the first week of the season, Toronto ranks 25th in the Major Leagues with a .277 OBP and is hitting just .196 (9-for-46) with runners in scoring position.
Third baseman Brett Lawrie has three hits, centre fielder Colby Rasmus has two and second baseman Ryan Goins has just one. Lawrie and Rasmus are major components of the lineup and will be heavily relied upon this year, but it's a little too early for major concerns about either player.
Do you think it's time to make Maicer Izturis the everyday second baseman and end this experiment with Goins? Izturis has been playing great so far.
-- Heather B., Waterloo, Ontario
Izturis has been one of the biggest surprises so far. He has multiple hits in all but one of his five games this season and is showing flashes of the talent he had during his nine seasons with the Angels. Izturis is never going to be a player who hits for any kind of power, but in the past, he has been able to hit for a respectable average and on-base percentage.
Throughout the course of his 11 seasons in the big leagues, Izturis has posted almost identical numbers against right-handed and left-handed pitching. He hits .270 from both sides of the plate and his career .712 OPS vs righties is just slightly higher than his mark against left-handers. Even so, the Blue Jays appear content to use him as part of a platoon with Goins, and it appears as though most of Izturis' starts will come against lefties.
The main reason for the platoon at second base is that Toronto is still putting a lot of emphasis on its defense up the middle. The club likes the range of Jonathan Diaz at shortstop and Goins at second, and feels it goes a long way in helping the pitching staff. That's true, but if Izturis continues his current production, it also makes sense to give him a little bit more time at second base during the hot streak, especially considering Goins has just one hit in 16 at-bats.
When is Jose Reyes going to be back? Should we be getting concerned about his hamstring? Those injuries never seem to go away.
-- Wesley C., Kingston, Ontario
The biggest question mark surrounding Reyes is whether his strained left hamstring will linger throughout the season. He's still relatively optimistic about making his return at some point in the second half of April, but it's difficult to imagine a scenario where Reyes will be able to play without any kind of restrictions by that point.
The injury is very similar to the one that Reyes suffered in 2011 with the Mets. In that case, he went on the 15-day disabled list in early July and missed a total of 12 games. Reyes returned later that month, but he only played for a couple of weeks before he reinjured the hamstring and required another stint on the DL. That has to be a concern for the Blue Jays, and it is one reason why the club should take a very cautious approach to his rehab.
The biggest impact that the injury will have on Reyes likely can be found on the basepaths. His stolen-base attempts will probably be down in an effort not to aggravate his left leg, but even still, there's an awful lot of value in Reyes' bat. The four-time All-Star is a career .292 hitter with a .342 on-base percentage, and Reyes is someone who needs to get on base for the likes of Melky Cabrera, Jose Bautista and Edwin Encarnacion.
Are the Blue Jays using a closer-by-committee situation? I thought Sergio Santos was going to be the closer with Casey Janssen on the DL, but he got a quick hook last week.
-- Joel T., New York
Santos will get most of the save opportunities during Janssen's absence, but Blue Jays manager John Gibbons is also expected to play the matchups from time to time. If there's a scenario where a couple of very tough left-handed hitters are due up in the ninth inning, that's when Gibbons could turn to Brett Cecil.
It's not a closer-by-committee in the traditional sense because Cecil won't get that many chances, but it does give Gibbons another option at the back end of his bullpen. There also might not be a lot of freedom for Santos to pitch out of jams in the ninth, and it's possible that Cecil would be brought in to face a batter or two during those situations just like he did against Tampa Bay by striking out Matt Joyce to end the game with a pair of runners on.
Despite all of that, Santos will get most of the work, and he's someone who has proven capable of the role in the past. He recorded 30 saves for the White Sox in 2011 and possesses an overpowering fastball with an absolutely devastating slider that leads to a lot of strikeouts. Santos' main issue is command, and he will need to cut down on the walks in order to secure his role even further during Janssen's absence.
Is this version of Cabrera for real? He looks like he's going to have a great season.
-- Tim F., Ottawa, Ontario
There's always a great deal of skepticism about whether certain players actually had a down year because of injuries or if that is just being used as a convenient excuse. Cabrera's situation was different, though, and it was pretty much impossible to argue against the fact that a tumor growing on his spine had devastating consequences. For Cabrera, it wasn't even just about baseball, it was a potentially life-threatening condition that was thankfully taken care of during a surgical procedure last September.
The end result of that surgery and the ensuing rehab during the offseason has resulted in a completely different player on the field. Last year, Cabrera could barely move in the outfield and struggled to generate any type of power with his legs at the plate. This season has been an entirely different story, as Cabrera is moving relatively well and already has three homers, which ties his total from 2013.
The current rate of home runs for Cabrera won't be sustained, but his average certainly could. Cabrera is hitting .323 this season, and that's the type of production Toronto needs in front of the heart of its batting order.
When are the Blue Jays going to start playing Adam Lind every day? They need his bat in the lineup, and sitting him against lefties seems like a wasted opportunity to me.
-- Bill C., Mississauga, Ontario
This seems to be a rather hot topic of conversation this week, but in terms of the Blue Jays' perspective, nothing has changed. Lind has struggled vs left-handers throughout the course of his career, and there's very little reason to believe that won't be the case in the near future.
It's not like Lind is a young rookie who is looking for an opportunity to prove he can hit lefties. Over the years, Lind has received 797 at-bats vs left-handers and has hit just .220 with a .263 on-base percentage and a .606 OPS. Those numbers don't inspire a lot of confidence, and that is the main reason Lind has been locked into a platoon role for several years now.
Toronto's bench isn't as strong as it has been in the past, and perhaps that's why the Lind vs. lefties debate has once again been renewed. Still, using someone like Moises Sierra or Dioner Navarro at designated hitter makes a lot more sense when a lefty is on the mound.
Gregor Chisholm is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, North of the Border, and follow him on Twitter @gregorMLB.


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There are some "newbies" out there that would probably welcome our help and guidance and have lots of questions that maybe they are too shy to ask, or they may not know how to ask about certain things, for fear that they will be considered "dumb questions".
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The Minnesota Wild released their schedule on June 22 for the upcoming 2010-2011 season. The Wild will open their season on October 7th against the Carolina Hurricanes. It is neither in Minnesota nor Carolina. The game will be played in Finland. Yes, Finland. Actually, the first 2 games of the season will be played in Finland against the Hurricanes. The Minnesota Wild feature Finnish cover boy Mikko Koivu, Antii Miettinen, and goaltender Niklas Backstrom. Not to mention the Wild just drafted Finland star Mikael Granlund. This will be the first international game for the Wild.
Of course there are 80 other games on the Minnesota Wild's 2010-2011 schedule. Here are some notes and games I am looking forward to on the schedule:
-40 home games, 40 away games, 2 games in Finland
-The Wild will play each team in the Northwest Division 6 times (24 games total)
-Will play Western Conference's Pacific and Central Division teams 4 times each (totalling 40 games)
-18 games against the Eastern Conference
-vs. Chicago Blackhawks Oct. 30, Feb. 28
-vs. New York Rangers Nov. 20 (Gaborik may actually play this time around, who knows)
-vs. Nashville Predators Dec. 31 (Friday, New Year's Eve game)
-vs. Dallas April 10 (last game of the season)


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Essential to Know about Shipping Products from Shenzhen, China to USAAmerican companies have now started to increasingly look for the far eastern countries for product purchase to enjoy the real cost reduction benefits. China is a leading manufacturing nation, which is into wholesale of products at the cheapest rates than any other parts of the world. In the past few years, it was Shenzhen in China, which had grown rapidly as one of the top five container ports in the world. This itself shows the demand of Chinese products globally. At olden times, the Chinese wholesale business to US was a bit dull, but lately there has been a growing demand for the Chinese wholesale imports to the United States and the shipping process has got much simplified.
Even those who are not having much knowledge about international shipments to US can also make use of a large number of shipping consultants to carry out these affairs. If you are a retailer in US and want to purchase wholesale products at a cheaper rate to increase your profit margin, then there is no better place to buy than China. The concern initially was of the quality of the products, but that doubt also got eradicated now and businesses all over the world largely depend on Chinese products to meet their needs. From electronic equipment to clothing, there is a wide range of products on offer with the China manufacturers. You can simply search for the wholesale merchants online and can view the product descriptions and prices through these websites. There is also an option to have some good bargains on the wholesale deals.
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Through interactive exhibits, the DNAtrium showcases how new scientific approaches and collaborations are propelling progress in biology and medicine. Visitors can hear from scientists about their groundbreaking work at the Broad Institute, peer into the laboratory machines that yield torrents of biological information, take a virtual tour of the Broad Institute, explore historical biomedical discoveries and events, and connect with recent scientific discoveries from around the world.
The DNAtrium lies at the intersection of science, technology, art, and community. This unique space is located in the lobby of the Broad Institute's 415 Main St. building, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Short Film Successful In Getting Men to Ignore a Mercedes-Benz [VIDEO]
A new film for Mercedes-Benz by director Alex Prager features one of their hottest cars and one of the Netherlands' hottest fashion models.
The film titled 'American Fairytale' features the voluptuous Lara Stone seated behind the equally stunning Mercedes-Benz SL Roadster along a deserted stretch of Kansas cornfield. A tornado slowly approaches in the distance and literally whisks the model off of her feet.
We're sure there's some kind of deep subtext or symbolism behind the film, but we were too busy hoping the tornado would tear away her dress and turn the whole film into an ad for Victoria's Secret.
Check out the YouTube version below or watch the larger version at Nowness.com.
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- Have a cumulative GPA of at least 2.75 at the time of application*
- Have completed at least 2 semesters of study at SJSU before the study abroad program begins.
- Not be on academic or disciplinary probation at the beginning of the program.**
Some programs have additional requirements. These may include a higher GPA for more competitive universities, or certain language or coursework prerequisites for particular courses of study. Be sure to check the individual requirements listed for each program before applying.
*If your GPA is close to 2.75, but doesn't quite make the cutoff, please contact a study abroad advisor to discuss your particular situation.
**If you are currently on academic or disciplinary probation you are eligible to apply, but the probation must end by the time your program begins. If you have concerns here, please contact a study abroad advisor to discuss your particular situation.
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Students from other CSU campuses may participate in SJSU study abroad programs through the Intra-System Visitor Program. Students should complete the appropriate form through the Admissions and Records Office at their home campus and get the appropriate department signatures. If the student is eligible for financial aid, the home campus will process the aid.
Upon completion of an SJSU study abroad program, the host institution transcript for intra-system visitors will be forwarded to the Study Abroad Coordinator at their home campus. Students should complete academic approval forms and follow equivalency procedures for their home campus.
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Nope, there isn't any leftward tilt at MSNBC, is there? How could there be when MSNBC was introducing a John McCain clip during a "news" story and instead of the video of John McCain, up popped Heath Ledger as "The Joker."
Our old pal Johnnydollar captured the video.
Of course, it is equally as possible that it was just plain incompetence in the control room, but anyone would be excused for thinking it is an Obamaidiot in the control room instead of just an average, everyday idiot!
And with the Obama clan's famously thin skin, who doesn't think he'd be "outraged" over this were it an Obama intoduction followed by a Joker video clip?
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VICTORIA – Despite an overall national drop in employment, primarily in full-time positions, British Columbia's economy remains stable. As British Columbia starts the new year, most of its regions are recording steady job gains over this time in January 2012.
Employment is up from a year ago in the Vancouver Island and Coast region by 11,200; Lower Mainland/Southwest by 10,600; Kootenay by 1,800; Cariboo by 1,100; and the Northeast by 1,100. Declines are recorded in the Thompson Okanagan and the North Coast Nechako regions.
B.C.'s average hourly wage rate in January was up by 2.2 per cent compared with January 2012, moving B.C. to third in Canada behind Alberta and Saskatchewan. The average hourly wage in the province now stands at $24.28.
Employment among youth (aged 15-24) increased in January by 1,700 jobs. Men (over 24 years old) also fared well by adding 4,400 positions.
The forestry, fishing, mining and gas-extraction sector continues to experience steady growth over this time last year showing a growth of 5,100 jobs. In addition, the professional, scientific and technical services are up 11,400 from last year.
Since January 2012, B.C. has added 1,800 jobs, as a result of a gain of 31,900 full-time positions combined with a loss of 30,100 part-time positions.
Pat Bell, Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour –
"It is always difficult to see job losses in British Columbia. But we have a plan and we are sticking with that plan. We continue to see investment, and with that investment will come jobs."
"Last year, we recorded seven months where full-time employment increased in B.C. and there were improved labour market conditions across the province. I have no doubt that, despite continued economic volatility, B.C. will continue to attract investment, and create jobs for British Columbians."
2012 Year in Review:
* The British Columbia economy added 27,700 full-time positions in 2012, increasing overall employment by 17,700. Part-time positions declined by 10,100 over the same period (December 2011 to December 2012).
* B.C. ranked fourth in Canada for full-time job creation behind Quebec, Ontario, and Alberta from December 2011 to December 2012.
* Of all the job gains made between December 2011 and December 2012, women account for the majority. Employment for women climbed by 14,700 while employment amongst males increased by only 3,000 over
the same period.
* The downward trend in the provincial unemployment rate continued in 2012, ending the year at 6.4 per cent, down from 7.0 per cent in December 2011.
* At year's end, there were 14,300 fewer unemployed people in the province than there were in December 2011.
* Improved labour market conditions were not just concentrated in one area of the province. In 2012, only one region of the province ended the year with an unemployment rate higher than it started (the Kootenay region saw a slight increase of 0.2 per cent over its
December 2011 level of 6.8 per cent).
* Regions boasting the strongest growth in employment from December 2011 to December 2012 were the Northeast (an employment increase of 2,900 or 7.7 per cent), Cariboo (an employment increase of 3,500 or
4.3 per cent), and Vancouver Island/Coast (an employment increase of 12,400 or 3.5 per cent).
* Both the goods-producing sectors and the service-producing sectors added jobs between December 2011 and December 2012, up 1.4 per cent and 0.6 per cent respectively. Major job gains were seen in utilities (up 57 per cent or 5,900 jobs), educational services (up 15 per cent or 24,600 jobs), and business, building and other support services (up 13 per cent or 10,600 jobs). Sectors that declined in 2012 were professional, scientific, and technical services (down 10 per cent, or 19,600 jobs) and transportation and warehousing (down seven per cent or 8,300 jobs).
* B.C.'s average hourly wage rate increased by 2.2 per cent in 2012. For B.C. youth under 25, the average hourly wage was up by 5.8 per cent in December 2012 from December 2011. The increase in youth wages was helped, in part, by an increase in the provincial minimum wage in
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The process behind the storm, - rapid cyclogenesis, known colloquially as a 'weather bomb' - is a deep low pressure system moving slowly eastwards between Scotland and Iceland.
In layman's terms it is just a lot of wet and windy weather.
While the weather is expected to get rough it will be nothing on the scale of the powerful storms which battered the country before Christmas last year, causing severe flooding across the country.
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Delay in mine project shadows hopes for Afghan economy
The giant copper mine that the Afghan government has made the centerpiece of its plans for building an economy nearly from scratch is at least five years behind schedule and the state-owned Chinese company that won the bidding has missed key deadlines in its still-secret contract with the Afghan government and is trying to renegotiate the deal, according to several officials and observers inside and outside the Mining Ministry.
The Mes Aynak mine in Logar province, about 25 miles south of Kabul, was celebrated as the biggest investment in Afghan history when it was announced in 2007. China Metallurgical Group Corp., a Beijing-based conglomerate, signed a deal valued at about $3 billion for 30-year rights to mine the site, which is thought to contain the second-richest unexploited copper deposit in the world, an amount equal to more than one-third of the copper reserves in all of China.
China Metallurgical Group was supposed to begin mining this year, but it's done hardly any of the preliminary work required, including basic planning and a major feasibility study that's now overdue, said several people familiar with the contract, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of the delicate politics surrounding the mine.
With the construction of required infrastructure awaiting the approval of those studies and other paperwork, mining is at least five years in the future, and probably much farther off, mining experts say.
China Metallurgical Group's failure to proceed with developing the mine is a major blow to Afghan and U.S. hopes that Afghanistan can become a self-sustaining nation once the U.S. and other international militaries have departed. Afghanistan produces huge amounts of opium, but it has almost no legal economy of its own, beyond donations from other countries.
Two years ago, a U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, citing a World Bank estimate, said that 97 percent of Afghanistan's gross domestic product was derived from spending related to the presence of the NATO-led foreign troops and international donors. A report April 30 by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction added to that, finding that the Afghan government can raise enough money on its own to cover only 10 percent of its public spending.
All this means that if foreign contributions dry up before Afghanistan can create a sustainable economy, it will struggle to operate its government properly and to field the 350,000 members of its national security forces, who are supposed to keep the Taliban insurgency at bay.
Javed Noorani, an expert on mining issues with the Kabul-based watchdog group Integrity Watch Afghanistan, said he thought the Chinese now wanted a five-year deferment on the requirement to begin mining by later this year. That would formalize the delays, and mean it would be at least eight years before the mine will produce enough to begin generating serious revenue for the Afghan government, he said.
Estimates of the royalty payments to the government when production hits its stride range from $250 million to more than $500 million a year. That would be a significant addition to the government's income, which was about $2 billion in 2011.
For years, the Afghan government has touted the nation's mineral wealth as the heart of its economic plans. U.S. officials have estimated the value of mineral deposits at perhaps $1 trillion, and the Afghan government has claimed they're worth $3 trillion, but no one really knows. It's clear, though, that the resources are significant, and include additional deposits of copper, as well as iron, gold, lithium, chromite and gems. There also are reserves of oil and gas.
The frustrating delays and potential changes in the contract by the Chinese also may create political problems for the minister of mining and petroleum, Wahidullah Shahrani, and the Karzai government generally. The deal is so large and symbolic and was so widely publicized that they risk a backlash if it falls apart or they're forced to retool with major concessions to China Metallurgical Group.
The deal has been controversial from the beginning. Shahrani's predecessor, Mohammad Ibrahim Adel, left under a cloud after being accused of taking a $30 million bribe to give China Metallurgical Group the contract, something Adel repeatedly denied.
The group's bid was worth $1 billion more than that of any of its rivals, and it included significantly more infrastructure improvements.
Both sides in the Mes Aynak deal are reluctant to talk about it. China Metallurgical Group didn't respond to emails seeking comment. Several officials at the Mining Ministry turned down requests for interviews, and the ministry's chief of staff, Assad Zamir, didn't respond to an email seeking comment on the mine's status.
China Metallurgical Group is citing a number of issues as cause for changing the terms, several people familiar with the discussions said. One is the sprawling set of ancient ruins on the site now being documented and excavated by a team of archaeologists and more than 400 local laborers, paid for by $8 million from the World Bank, making it one of the larges archaeological projects in the world.
China Metallurgical Group claims the dig has slowed progress. It's also claiming that clearing land mines from the site, laid during the Soviet occupation, has been a hindrance and that no proper deposit of phosphates has been found. Phosphates are used in the smelting process.
Noorani and others say these are mainly excuses, though the issue with phosphates is real. Geologists are still looking for them.
It's unclear when the Afghan government will come to any new terms with China Metallurgical Group. In response to a question during an April 17 meeting of a group created to ensure transparency in Afghanistan's mineral and oil industry, Shahrani said the option of canceling the contract was on the table, according to minutes of the meeting.
Under the terms of the contract, according to several people who've seen it, the Chinese were supposed to build a railroad, a 400-megawatt power plant to run the mine's machinery and provide power for use by others, a smelter and a coal mine to fuel the power plant.
But now, citing "technical issues" such as the lack of phosphates, the company wants several concessions, including dropping the requirements for the power plant, smelter and coal mine. So far, the ministry has agreed only to allow China Metallurgical Group to delay the power station, smelter and coal mine.
An official in the ministry who spoke only on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject said canceling the contract wasn't likely, but that the ministry might not cave in easily on the various demands. It's already played hardball with the Chinese on some issues, such as forcing it to accept a location different from the one it wanted for dumping "tailings," the waste material from digging, because the location China Metallurgical Group wanted was atop porous limestone, which could have polluted a nearby river.
The delays have had one positive effect: They've given foreign donors more time to bring Afghanistan's approach to governing its mining sector up to higher standards.
The international community is eager for Mes Aynak – and mining generally – to work here. The World Bank has given $92 million in grants for projects to support a sustainable mining industry here, and the U.S. Agency for International Development has just started a four-year $87 million program called Mining Investment and Development for Afghan Sustainability aimed at helping the Afghan government strengthen its mining sector.
Two foreign mining experts, who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject, said the delay had allowed them to work on programs that would ensure that the Mining Ministry could handle such megadeals properly. One of the experts said that while Mes Aynak was large and symbolic, there were a host of other projects coming, including nearly half a dozen that were imminent and perhaps a dozen more in the next few years.
"If you just talk to the geologists, they can't believe all the stuff that's here," he said.
Another clear winner from the delay are the archaeologists who've been working to document and remove hundreds of statues of the Buddha and other figures that date to the era more than 1,000 years ago when miners using crude methods dug Aynak's ore and a small city sprang up nearby.
The delays mean the archaeologists have the time to finish their work. They count the mining project as a blessing. Without it, there would have been no funding for the work, and without the delay they wouldn't have had the time to complete the work, leaving the statues and ruins to be looted by robbers and destroyed by weather.
Clarification: An earlier version of this story provided an incomplete citation for the assertion that 97 percent of the Afghanistan economy is derived from foreign military spending and international aid. The claim was made in a 2011 Senate Foreign Relations Committee report, citing information from the World Bank.


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Cars were thrown from Interstate 55 and one person died after a tornado touched down in Perryville, Missouri, Tuesday night.
Perryville police said one person is dead, 10 others injured, and everyone else is accounted for after the storm. They say about 10 homes were damaged in the Perryville city limits.
According to the National Weather service, the tornado was reported by emergency management crews in Perryville, Missouri, at around 8:10 p.m. The emergency manager reported cars thrown off I-55 near mile marker 133.
Photos: Daylight shows damage from Perryville tornado
The report on the NWS website said a death and considerable damage were reported in the area.
Travis Koenig, a 24-year-old Perryville resident, was killed while driving on Interstate 55. He and a passenger were both thrown from the vehicle, but the passenger was not injured.
A spokesperson with the Missouri State Highway Patrol said the highway was closed in both directions due to the damage.
WATCH: Aerial view of tornado damage in Perryville
The tornado was first radar-indicated then reported by a trained weather spotter at around 8:20 p.m.
The Perry County Sheriff said many of the cars on the highway were not on the highway at the time. He said the cars were thrown from a garage of junk yard of some kind onto the road.
Perryville's mayor tells 5 On Your Side he knows of at least 15 houses wiped clean from their foundations, which is why it's pretty amazing only about a dozen people were hurt with only minor injuries.
Photos: Deadly tornado touches down in Perryville, MO
The Perry County fire chief said some houses were completely collapsed by the storm.
I-55 is now open after being shut down for a majority of the night so crews could clean debris from the roadway.
Update from Perryville police: 1 person Killed, 10 others injured.no one unaccounted for.about 10 homes in city limits damaged. @ksdknews— Ryan Dean (@RyanDeanKSDK) March 1, 2017
The Deputy Director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety said search and rescue teams were being dispatched to the area.
*Regarding #Perryville tornado.*
3 strike teams of State & regional Fire, Search & Rescue & EMS have been activated & are enroute. #MoWx— Gregg Favre (@GreggFavre) March 1, 2017
Perry County School District 32 canceled classes for March 1 due to the extensive damage in the area.


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A New York man who died hours after a parole hearing admitted for the first time during that proceeding that he had "inappropriately touched" a 10-year-old New York girl he had kidnapped.
For more than 20 years, John Esposito said he kidnapped Katie Beers in 1992 on Long Island. But he had always denied sexually abusing her while he kept her for more than two weeks in a dungeon in his Bay Shore home.
He said he had previously relied on legal advice to deny the accusations.
Esposito died of heart failure in prison last week. He was not told of the decision denying him parole before he died.
Beers, who wrote of the abuse in a book this year, has said she wants to move on with her life.


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My family and I recently went on the best kind of adventure, a Disney adventure! Mickey and his pals guided us through a magical show full of fun, songs and ice skating fun at the Oracle Arena, in Oakland, CA.
The show starts with a familiar song, "Can you feel the Love Tonight", from the feature film and one of my MOST favorites, The Lion King. I couldn't of picked a better way to open the show and story to start off with. The music matches the story perfectly and in this scene we are able to watch Simba grow and dance with his pals Timon and Pumbaa. Rafiki is one of my favorites and played the part well. While I was not allowed to bring in my fancy lens, I was thankfully still able to get decent photos to share.
We made a stop under the sea for our next adventure, where we sang familiar songs with Ariel and friends. My children were at awe with the dancing starfish and GIANT inflatable Ursula. My son said, "it's not scary at all". He is a little scared of the Ursula at Disneyland, so this was a great surprise.
After intermission was one of our favorites! Peter Pan!!! Flying through the air or as we can say, gliding on the ice, he makes his away from Neverland looking for Wendy. The characters actually did fly, which was pretty spectacular.
It was quite spectacular to watch Peter Pan and Tink skate together. The skaters worked so perfectly together and Capitan Hooks huge ship and crocodile were amazing. Both of my children's faces lit up when the ship came in.
Disney saved the best for last, and that was of course, FROZEN!!!!
As soon as the snow started we knew what was to come. My kids absolute favorite is Frozen and when the music started, they couldn't stop watching and signing along. We love the effects of the snow and bubbles throughout the show.
The show concludes as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and the rest of the disney characters as they finish their journey to various magical Disney worlds that we have all enjoyed in our favorite Disney films. Passport to Adventure was everything we thought it would be. Even my son loved everything and I personally was happy that it was not geared toward little girls with all the princesses. It was exciting to see the other Disney characters involved in the show equally and even my favorite as I grew up.
Our entire family enjoyed Passport to Disney and I think it maybe our favorite Disney On Ice show yet. You can check out Disney On Ice Passport To Adventure for future shows and keep an eye out on the blog for up and coming discounts. Disney on Ice is a fun show for the entire family and what I love is its much closer to us than Disneyland. If you are having Disneyland withdraws like I do daily, then Disney On Ice really brings this magic right to you.
*My family received tickets to Disney On Ice in exchanged for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions expressed in this article are 100% my own.


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Justin Bieber strolled into a fancy formal party in Cannes ... but he was dressed for a backyard barbecue on the Florida panhandle.
Bieber was a guest at Roberto Cavalli's (see below) annual Cannes yacht party, where everyone was dressed for a high-end evening ... except for the Biebs.
While John Travolta showed up in a tux, Bieber opted for a denim vest with a jersey, a pair of baggy shorts, super casual slippers, and no socks.
On a positive note ... he was wearing a shirt.
On a different note -- Justin offered this review of his outfit ... "I know I look fly but s***."
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ADDISON – Catching perennial conference powers Downers Grove South and Hinsdale South will be tough, but Addison Trail has a young team that will hope to show its potential throughout the season.
The Blazers have two key seniors in Christina Capuani, who led the team in assists and aces last season, and outside hitter Juliana Selvaggi, who is moving to the outside after playing in the middle last fall. Sophomore Nina Capuani is another returner. She was second on the team in kills in 2012.
Defensive specialist Abby Meinen is another senior who makes for three on the roster. Four underclassmen join the roster including sophomore Jessica Mell, who joined the varsity team in the second half of her freshman year.
Freshman Sarah Petrbok and sophomore Nicole Pudlo are part of the potential that has head coach Dan Styler excited about the future of this group.
"We have a dynamic group of attackers that jump well and are athletic," Styler said. "It helps having multiple setters on our team that have experience running the offense."
The young Blazers are struggling to settle in so far this season. So far AT is 0-3 with losses to Lake Park, Glenbard South and St. Charles North.
Addison Trail at a glance
Conference: West Suburban Gold
Home court: 213 N. Lombard Rd, Addison
2012 record: 20-14 overall, 4-2 WSG
Coach: Dan Styler
Top returners:
Christina Capuani sr. S/DS
Nina Capuani so. S/OH
Juliana Selvaggi sr. OH
Promising newcomers:
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Midsize Insider hosting my WebCast on Storage Management
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Mark your calendars! Next month, IBM's Midsize Insider is hosting me as a speaker for a Webcast: [Storage Management with IBM], on August 7th, 12pm EDT. Midsize Insider is a valuable repository of expert content tailored for small-to-midsized business owners and IT decision makers.
The problems that used to keep storage managers awake at night -- power, cooling and physical footprint -- are being successfully addressed by technology, but a more vexing issue still remains: How to get more out of the limited supply of skilled storage management professionals.
Demand for storage capacity continues to grow far faster than the pool of people to manage it. With no end in sight to data growth, businesses need to apply technology and practices that distribute management responsibility to the people who need storage, and multiply the volumes of storage that skilled professionals can handle.In this presentation, in this session, I will cover best practices and new tools that are enabling leaps in productivity, in three main areas:
To sign up for this event, go to the [IBM WebCast Registration Page]!
Update: This event has been re-scheduled to September 25, 2012. Here is the [Registration Page]
Robert LeBlanc Keynote Session at Red Hat Summit
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Robert LeBlanc, IBM Senior Vice President for Middleware, gave a keynote presentation at the Red Hat Summit. Here is the [26-minute YouTube video]:
I am running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.2 as my primary laptop operating system. Most of IBM's products, like Lotus Notes for email, run natively on Linux for the desktop. I have a Windows XP running as a Linux KVM guest to run a few third-party software that we are still using.
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Happy Fourth of July everyone! For my readers outside the U.S.A, this Wednesday marks America's [Independence Day]. Celebrations include parades during the day, and fireworks at night.
A long time ago, the IBM Tucson lab decided to close down the entire week, forcing everyone to take a week of their allotted vacation, so as to perform maintenance on the air conditioners and other equipment. Since then, many IBMers in Tucson have adopted this week as a good time to get out of town.
Most years, I head over to San Diego, California. This year, however, I will be taking a cruise on the Caribbean.