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Larger items are of course impractical, but once they get really big, the relationship changes and you can hang the phone em on them. Otherwise, tucking in your beer money or your wound-up earbuds is a great idea.
According to Radhika Seth of Yanko Design, Koo's design has actually won a "Korean Belkin Design Award," so maybe we'll see it on stores sooner or later. In the meantime, might I suggest you get going with some oldbike inner tubes.
An early childhood open house for parents will be held Tuesday, March 5, at Morris Elementary School, 129 West St.
The preschool presentation at 6 p.m. will be followed by the kindergarten presentation at 6:30 p.m. Children are not included at this time.
Early childhood screenings for children ages 3-5 will take place March 25-27. Screenings will identify children's abilities and needs with regard to speech/language, conceptual, motor, emotional, or social development.
Preschool screening appointments can be made at the open house or by calling the Student Services Office at 413-637-5571 beginning March 6.
Kindergarten registration will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, March 8. Bring a birth certificate, immunization record and proof of residency. Kindergarten screening will be scheduled at that time.
Children must be age 3 by Sept. 1 for preschool and age 5 by Sept. 1 for kindergarten.
Information: 413-637-5571 for preschool and 413-637-5570 for kindergarten.
OPRAH WINFREY’S mother Vernita Lee passed away this thanksgiving, and the billionaire is opening up about her last days.
Speaking to PEOPLE, the mogul said: "I knew my mother was dying. I got a call from my sister (Patricia) that she thought it was the end."
The 64-year-old said she surprised her mother in Milwaukee a few days before she made her appearance at Michelle Obama’s Becoming book tour in Chicago on Nov 13.
"I sat with my mother. I said, ‘I don’t know if you’re going to make it. Do you think you’re going to make it?’ She said, ‘I don’t think I am,’ " Winfrey revealed.
Winfrey added that she struggled to express her feelings in Lee's final days.
In terms of politics, rather than substance, this is the reality of the Iraq debate. Organizations like the Victory Caucus and Freedom’s Watch have succeeding in creating a situation where few Republicans dare mount even token levels of opposition to Bush’s war policy and essentially nobody is prepared to break with the administration on it in a way that matters. Their fate has really become inextricably tied to that of the war — the real war in the real world, and not a PR war about the surge or anything else. Six months from now, Republicans are going to ask for six months’ more time, and then six months after that they’ll be heading into an election asking for . . . six months more time. And this’ll be 24 months after Republicans first started losing seats because people had had enough of this.
UPDATE: It’s worth emphasizing that pressure from the fanatically pro-war right has been one of the most undercovered stories in American politics. Here’s Rep. Jim Walsh (R-NY) taking heat from the Onondaga County Conservative Party for what amounts to merely symbolic efforts to distance himself from the endless war party.
My research group focuses on understanding and predicting functional material properties using first-principles electronic structure methods. We develop and apply these methods, which can predict, with quantitative accuracy, the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of materials from the basic laws of quantum mechanics. The goals of this research are to extract physical intuition about, and ultimately to design, new outstanding materials.
Anne Arundel County Retirement and Pension System, Annapolis, Md., committed $25 million to Lexington Capital Partners IX, a secondary private equity fund of funds managed by Lexington Partners.
The $1.9 billion pension fund previously committed $15 million to Lexington Capital Partners VIII in 2014.
As of Dec. 31, the fund's actual allocation to private markets was 6.1%.
Pension fund officials could not be immediately reached to provide further information.
Sunny skies. High 67F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph..
A mostly clear sky. Low 43F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.
Breakfast: Sweet waffle sticks, cereal, fruit.
Lunch: Popcorn chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, dinner roll, fruit.
Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, cereal, fruit.
Lunch: Pineapple glazed ham, green beans, roasted carrots, dinner roll, fruit.
Breakfast: Biscuit and gravy, cereal, fruit.
Lunch: Sour cream chicken enchilada, refried beans, chips and salsa, fruit.
Breakfast: Pancake on a stick cereal, fruit.
Lunch: Pizza bar, caesar salad, fruit.
Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon, toast and jelly, fruit.
Lunch: BBQ sandwiches, French fries, veggie sticks with ranch, fruit, chocolate chip cookie.
Breakfast: Pancake on a stick, fruit.
Lunch: Crispy beef tacos with lettuce, tomato, cheese and salsa, rice, beans, fruit.
Lunch: Lasagna, green peas, salad, garlic stick, fruit.
Breakfast: Biscuits and gravy, sausage, fruit.
Lunch: Ham, au gratin potatoes, corn, salad, roll, strawberry shortcake.
Breakfast: Biscuits and gravy, strawberries.
Lunch: Vegetable soup, grilled cheese, carrots with ranch, diced peaches.
Breakfast: Pop tart, cheese stick, apple wedges.
Lunch: Fish sticks or chicken nuggets, French fries, green beans, hot roll, pears.
Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, mixed berry cups.
Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pickle, veggie beans, orange wedges.
Breakfast: Oatmeal, cinnamon toast, blueberries.
Lunch: Cheese nachos with chicken and salsa, pinto beans, assorted fruit.
Most school breakfasts served with juice and milk. Most school lunches served with milk.
Chicken noodle casserole, stewed tomatoes, green peas, butter breadstick, brownie.
Chef salad with ham, egg, cheese and vegetables, fresh fruit, cracker, cinnamon roll.
Spaghetti with meat sauce, kernel corn, tossed salad, garlic bread, banana pudding.
Chicken pot pie, beets, broccoli, sliced bread, chocolate chip cookie.
Beef stroganoff, candied carrots, zucchini and tomatoes, dinner roll, iced cake.
Senior menus may change. Due to budget restrictions if you plan to eat at the center make a reservation by 12:30 p.m. the day before at the center or call 405-238-5892.
The Nintendo Wii supports standard widescreen resolutions. 16:9, just like most movies and TV shows. But a Wii emulator on a PC can get really wide.
These screenshots, taken using the Dolphin emulator, are 1920 pixels wide and nowhere near that many high, giving us an amazing panoramic view of some Wii games.
While the trick warps the text and heads-up displays on many games, it doesn't do a thing to fighting game Smash Bros., which conveniently means we also get a glimpse of the worlds of Zelda and Animal Crossing in super-widescreen as well, thanks to those game's Smash Bros stages.
I hope you’re prepared to dodge lightning and farm for dragon horns, as Capcom has confirmed that thunder-type Elder Dragon Kirin, will make its way into Monster Hunter: World (News via Siliconera, Game Jouhou).
The reveal comes from a recent TV ad in Japan, where get to see a glimpse of Kirin near the end of the video.
Kirin is an Elder Dragon who looks a hell of a lot like a horse who appeared in the very first Monster Hunter game. They are often farmed for their horns which are a very powerful items in game, but it is worth noting that the horn is the weak point of the dragon. So you’ll probably be looking to target the Kirin’s head.
Outside of Monster Hunter, Kirin or Qilin is a mythical hooved chimerical creature known in Chinese and other East Asian cultures, said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. It is a good omen thought to occasion prosperity or serenity.
We don’t yet know if Kirin will appear in the base game, be added as a post-release DLC, or be part of a seasonal event.
Monster Hunter: World releases on January 26th for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A PC version will arrive this fall. You can also check out our previous report for the latest from the developers in a recent interview.
A female pedestrian died Saturday after being struck on Highway 22 between the Edgewater and Rosemont exits in Salem.
A female pedestrian died Saturday after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 22 between the Edgewater and Rosemont exits in Salem.
The crash occurred around 9:45 p.m., according to Lt. Treven Upkes with Salem police.
The driver stayed on scene after the crash and is cooperating with authorities, Upkes said. No arrests have been made.
Highway 22 westbound from the Edgewater exit to the Rosemont exit has been reopened since the crash.
The story will be updated when more details are available.
In order to avoid steep fines, Glendale plans to install hundreds of storm drain screens to keep trash from getting into the Los Angeles River.
The City Council has approved spending $100,000 more, bringing the total cost for 579 screens to $150,000.
The screens are required by the state’s water quality control board, which requires cities to block trash from getting into the river. The screens prevent trash as small as 5 millimeters in diameter from entering the storm drain system.
MOSCOW — A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine — killing 298 people — there has been little official word of progress in determining what brought down Flight MH17.
One of the probes under way reportedly points toward a ground-to-air missile fired from a village held by Russia-backed separatist rebels, but the report isn't to be public for months. Another investigation trudges forward with painful slowness, and contradictory theories emerge from Moscow.
A fog of vehement allegations, macabre claims and self-serving rhetoric shrouds the tragedy.
Within hours of the July 17, 2014 crash, a crucial fact appeared clear — the wreckage was strewn over such a wide area that the plane must have broken into bits long before it fell. Most evidence points to the plane, which departed from Amsterdam en route to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, being taken down by a missile over an area controlled by pro-Russia rebels.
But whether the missile was fired from a warplane or from the ground remains unclear. As is the question of who fired: the Ukrainian army, the separatist rebels or Russian forces allegedly backing them with troops and arms. An international investigation may be able to answer the first question, but not until at least October. Another probe addressing the second is likely to take until at least next year.
The investigation led by the Dutch Safety Board aims only to determine the crash cause, not to ascribe blame. That's likely to produce a report loaded with esoteric technical detail. A preliminary report from the board in September was able to say only that the plane was destroyed by "high-energy objects" that pierced it from outside.
A draft version of the final report was circulated this month to representatives of Malaysia, Ukraine, the U.S., Russia, Britain, Australia and the Netherlands for their comments and suggested revisions. Oleg Storchevoi, a deputy chief of the Russian aviation agency, said the agency has complaints regarding both the technical data and the arguments in the report. He did not give details.
But a U.S. official told The Associated Press that the draft says the plane was destroyed by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile fired from the village of Snizhne, which was under rebel control. The official, who wasn't authorized to comment publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.
The probe is being led by The Netherlands because 196 of the victims were Dutch, and Ukraine agreed to give Holland formal responsibility for the investigation.
A probe by the Dutch national prosecutor's office aims to establishing who was responsible. This investigation includes authorities from Ukraine, Malaysia and other countries whose nationals were among the victims, but Russia is not a participant.
It is unclear whom the investigators are questioning, or the extent of the evidence they've collected. The prosecutor's office released a video calling on witnesses to come forward and indicated the probe is focusing on rebel or Russian involvement. The video asks for information about a Buk-11 missile system that was spotted moving through the rebel territory before and after the crash, then possibly heading for the Russian border. The investigative organization Bellingcat also has devoted attention to this missile-launcher, claiming it can be traced to one that was stored in the rebels' main stronghold of Donetsk.
Rebel officials at the time denied having any such missile systems, although Russian news agencies had reported rebel claims of seizing some from Ukrainian forces a few weeks earlier.
Russia is opposing a proposed UN Security Council resolution to establish an international criminal tribunal for the crash; Moscow has veto power in the security council.
A few days after the crash, the Russian Defense Ministry showed photos it said proved that Ukrainian surface-to-air systems were operating in the area before the crash. Russian officials also said they had evidence that a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet had flown "between 3 to 5 kilometers (2 to 3 miles)" from the Malaysia Airlines jet.
The latter theory was revisited a few months later when state television released a satellite photograph that it claimed showed that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down MH17. The photo purportedly came from a little-known person who identified himself as an aviation expert. Bloggers following the case quickly claimed the photo was a forgery.
In June, the Russian manufacturer of Buk systems said it had concluded the airliner was indeed brought down by a Buk, but an older model no longer in service in Russia. It said such systems were still used by the Ukrainian army, but it was not clear if the Buks reportedly seized by rebels a year earlier would have included that model.
Despite missile-maker's statement, Russia's top investigative body says it regards the warplane as its top theory and claims to be protecting a Ukrainian witness who has identified the plane's pilot.
In any case, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, Ukraine is morally responsible for the crash because it occurred in a war that Russia claims was launched by Ukraine.
One of the enduring mysteries of the tragedy is whether the rebels actually publicly admitted to downing the plane. Just minutes after the crash, a posting appeared on the social media account of then-rebel commander Igor Girkin, saying that the rebels had shot down a Ukrainian An-26 transport plane and it crashed in the same area as MH17. The rebels had shot down several Ukrainian planes in the early months of the war, but apparently with shoulder-fired missiles that could not reach the altitude at which MH17 was flying. The posting was later scrubbed from the account, with the explanation that the post was not by Girkin himself but by someone else with access to the account.
Girkin also was notorious for claiming that many of the people on MH17 were dead before the plane took off, which he said was based on witness accounts that the bodies were putrefying immediately after the crash.
Lowy reported from Washington, D.C. Mike Corder in Amsterdam contributed to this report.
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Strongly condemning the forcible seizure of power from the democratically elected Government of Mali by some elements of the Malian armed forces — which late last week took control of the country and announced the dissolution of the Government — the Security Council today called for a return to constitutional order and the holding of previously scheduled elections.
In a statement read out by Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom), whose delegation holds the Council presidency for the month, the Council condemned “the acts initiated and carried out by mutinous troops against the democratically elected Government” and demanded that those troops immediately end all violence and return to their barracks.
Today’s statement also condemned attacks initiated and carried out by rebel groups against the Government forces, and called on the rebels to cease all violence and seek a peaceful solution through appropriate political dialogue.
The Council went on to express serious concern about the insecurity and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the wider Sahel region, which, Council members said, was further complicated by the presence of armed and terrorist groups and their activities, as well as a proliferation of weapons from inside and outside that region. In light of all that, the Council called for national authorities and international, regional and subregional organizations “to take urgent steps to further their concerted efforts to address these challenges in an effective and appropriate manner”.
Noting that the 15-nation body had been closely following the humanitarian situation in the Sahel, the statement said that the Council had been informed that millions of people were suffering as a result of drought, food shortages and the return to the region of thousands of migrants, following the crisis in Libya and elsewhere. Commending joint efforts made by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and other agencies to provide assistance and draw attention to the scale of the problems in the Sahel, the Council noted that it had been informed of the proposal to appoint a Senior Regional Humanitarian Coordinator.
Welcoming the relevant emergency programmes undertaken by national authorities and the efforts of regional actors, such as the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Council encouraged the wider international community to provide support to resolve the crisis in Mali and the Sahel regional “based on an integrated strategy for immediate and long-term needs, encompassing security, development and humanitarian needs”.
The meeting began at 10:40 a.m. and ended at 10:45 a.m.

Larger items are of course impractical, but once they get really big, the relationship changes and you can hang the phone em on them. Otherwise, tucking in your beer money or your wound-up earbuds is a great idea.

According to Radhika Seth of Yanko Design, Koo's design has actually won a "Korean Belkin Design Award," so maybe we'll see it on stores sooner or later. In the meantime, might I suggest you get going with some oldbike inner tubes.

An early childhood open house for parents will be held Tuesday, March 5, at Morris Elementary School, 129 West St.

The preschool presentation at 6 p.m. will be followed by the kindergarten presentation at 6:30 p.m. Children are not included at this time.

Early childhood screenings for children ages 3-5 will take place March 25-27. Screenings will identify children's abilities and needs with regard to speech/language, conceptual, motor, emotional, or social development.

Preschool screening appointments can be made at the open house or by calling the Student Services Office at 413-637-5571 beginning March 6.

Kindergarten registration will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, March 8. Bring a birth certificate, immunization record and proof of residency. Kindergarten screening will be scheduled at that time.

Children must be age 3 by Sept. 1 for preschool and age 5 by Sept. 1 for kindergarten.

Information: 413-637-5571 for preschool and 413-637-5570 for kindergarten.

OPRAH WINFREY’S mother Vernita Lee passed away this thanksgiving, and the billionaire is opening up about her last days.

Speaking to PEOPLE, the mogul said: "I knew my mother was dying. I got a call from my sister (Patricia) that she thought it was the end."

The 64-year-old said she surprised her mother in Milwaukee a few days before she made her appearance at Michelle Obama’s Becoming book tour in Chicago on Nov 13.

"I sat with my mother. I said, ‘I don’t know if you’re going to make it. Do you think you’re going to make it?’ She said, ‘I don’t think I am,’ " Winfrey revealed.

Winfrey added that she struggled to express her feelings in Lee's final days.

In terms of politics, rather than substance, this is the reality of the Iraq debate. Organizations like the Victory Caucus and Freedom’s Watch have succeeding in creating a situation where few Republicans dare mount even token levels of opposition to Bush’s war policy and essentially nobody is prepared to break with the administration on it in a way that matters. Their fate has really become inextricably tied to that of the war — the real war in the real world, and not a PR war about the surge or anything else. Six months from now, Republicans are going to ask for six months’ more time, and then six months after that they’ll be heading into an election asking for . . . six months more time. And this’ll be 24 months after Republicans first started losing seats because people had had enough of this.

UPDATE: It’s worth emphasizing that pressure from the fanatically pro-war right has been one of the most undercovered stories in American politics. Here’s Rep. Jim Walsh (R-NY) taking heat from the Onondaga County Conservative Party for what amounts to merely symbolic efforts to distance himself from the endless war party.

My research group focuses on understanding and predicting functional material properties using first-principles electronic structure methods. We develop and apply these methods, which can predict, with quantitative accuracy, the electronic, magnetic, and structural properties of materials from the basic laws of quantum mechanics. The goals of this research are to extract physical intuition about, and ultimately to design, new outstanding materials.

Anne Arundel County Retirement and Pension System, Annapolis, Md., committed $25 million to Lexington Capital Partners IX, a secondary private equity fund of funds managed by Lexington Partners.

The $1.9 billion pension fund previously committed $15 million to Lexington Capital Partners VIII in 2014.

As of Dec. 31, the fund's actual allocation to private markets was 6.1%.

Pension fund officials could not be immediately reached to provide further information.

Sunny skies. High 67F. Winds NNW at 10 to 20 mph..

A mostly clear sky. Low 43F. Winds NW at 5 to 10 mph.

Breakfast: Sweet waffle sticks, cereal, fruit.

Lunch: Popcorn chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, dinner roll, fruit.

Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, cereal, fruit.

Lunch: Pineapple glazed ham, green beans, roasted carrots, dinner roll, fruit.

Breakfast: Biscuit and gravy, cereal, fruit.

Lunch: Sour cream chicken enchilada, refried beans, chips and salsa, fruit.

Breakfast: Pancake on a stick cereal, fruit.

Lunch: Pizza bar, caesar salad, fruit.

Breakfast: Oatmeal with cinnamon, toast and jelly, fruit.

Lunch: BBQ sandwiches, French fries, veggie sticks with ranch, fruit, chocolate chip cookie.

Breakfast: Pancake on a stick, fruit.

Lunch: Crispy beef tacos with lettuce, tomato, cheese and salsa, rice, beans, fruit.

Lunch: Lasagna, green peas, salad, garlic stick, fruit.

Breakfast: Biscuits and gravy, sausage, fruit.

Lunch: Ham, au gratin potatoes, corn, salad, roll, strawberry shortcake.

Breakfast: Biscuits and gravy, strawberries.

Lunch: Vegetable soup, grilled cheese, carrots with ranch, diced peaches.

Breakfast: Pop tart, cheese stick, apple wedges.

Lunch: Fish sticks or chicken nuggets, French fries, green beans, hot roll, pears.

Breakfast: Breakfast pizza, mixed berry cups.

Lunch: Ham and cheese sandwich with lettuce, tomato and pickle, veggie beans, orange wedges.

Breakfast: Oatmeal, cinnamon toast, blueberries.

Lunch: Cheese nachos with chicken and salsa, pinto beans, assorted fruit.

Most school breakfasts served with juice and milk. Most school lunches served with milk.

Chicken noodle casserole, stewed tomatoes, green peas, butter breadstick, brownie.

Chef salad with ham, egg, cheese and vegetables, fresh fruit, cracker, cinnamon roll.

Spaghetti with meat sauce, kernel corn, tossed salad, garlic bread, banana pudding.

Chicken pot pie, beets, broccoli, sliced bread, chocolate chip cookie.

Beef stroganoff, candied carrots, zucchini and tomatoes, dinner roll, iced cake.

Senior menus may change. Due to budget restrictions if you plan to eat at the center make a reservation by 12:30 p.m. the day before at the center or call 405-238-5892.

The Nintendo Wii supports standard widescreen resolutions. 16:9, just like most movies and TV shows. But a Wii emulator on a PC can get really wide.

These screenshots, taken using the Dolphin emulator, are 1920 pixels wide and nowhere near that many high, giving us an amazing panoramic view of some Wii games.

While the trick warps the text and heads-up displays on many games, it doesn't do a thing to fighting game Smash Bros., which conveniently means we also get a glimpse of the worlds of Zelda and Animal Crossing in super-widescreen as well, thanks to those game's Smash Bros stages.

I hope you’re prepared to dodge lightning and farm for dragon horns, as Capcom has confirmed that thunder-type Elder Dragon Kirin, will make its way into Monster Hunter: World (News via Siliconera, Game Jouhou).

The reveal comes from a recent TV ad in Japan, where get to see a glimpse of Kirin near the end of the video.

Kirin is an Elder Dragon who looks a hell of a lot like a horse who appeared in the very first Monster Hunter game. They are often farmed for their horns which are a very powerful items in game, but it is worth noting that the horn is the weak point of the dragon. So you’ll probably be looking to target the Kirin’s head.

Outside of Monster Hunter, Kirin or Qilin is a mythical hooved chimerical creature known in Chinese and other East Asian cultures, said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. It is a good omen thought to occasion prosperity or serenity.

We don’t yet know if Kirin will appear in the base game, be added as a post-release DLC, or be part of a seasonal event.

Monster Hunter: World releases on January 26th for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. A PC version will arrive this fall. You can also check out our previous report for the latest from the developers in a recent interview.

A female pedestrian died Saturday after being struck on Highway 22 between the Edgewater and Rosemont exits in Salem.

A female pedestrian died Saturday after being struck by a vehicle on Highway 22 between the Edgewater and Rosemont exits in Salem.

The crash occurred around 9:45 p.m., according to Lt. Treven Upkes with Salem police.

The driver stayed on scene after the crash and is cooperating with authorities, Upkes said. No arrests have been made.

Highway 22 westbound from the Edgewater exit to the Rosemont exit has been reopened since the crash.

The story will be updated when more details are available.

In order to avoid steep fines, Glendale plans to install hundreds of storm drain screens to keep trash from getting into the Los Angeles River.

The City Council has approved spending $100,000 more, bringing the total cost for 579 screens to $150,000.

The screens are required by the state’s water quality control board, which requires cities to block trash from getting into the river. The screens prevent trash as small as 5 millimeters in diameter from entering the storm drain system.

MOSCOW — A year since a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was blown out of the sky over war-ravaged eastern Ukraine — killing 298 people — there has been little official word of progress in determining what brought down Flight MH17.

One of the probes under way reportedly points toward a ground-to-air missile fired from a village held by Russia-backed separatist rebels, but the report isn't to be public for months. Another investigation trudges forward with painful slowness, and contradictory theories emerge from Moscow.

A fog of vehement allegations, macabre claims and self-serving rhetoric shrouds the tragedy.

Within hours of the July 17, 2014 crash, a crucial fact appeared clear — the wreckage was strewn over such a wide area that the plane must have broken into bits long before it fell. Most evidence points to the plane, which departed from Amsterdam en route to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, being taken down by a missile over an area controlled by pro-Russia rebels.

But whether the missile was fired from a warplane or from the ground remains unclear. As is the question of who fired: the Ukrainian army, the separatist rebels or Russian forces allegedly backing them with troops and arms. An international investigation may be able to answer the first question, but not until at least October. Another probe addressing the second is likely to take until at least next year.

The investigation led by the Dutch Safety Board aims only to determine the crash cause, not to ascribe blame. That's likely to produce a report loaded with esoteric technical detail. A preliminary report from the board in September was able to say only that the plane was destroyed by "high-energy objects" that pierced it from outside.

A draft version of the final report was circulated this month to representatives of Malaysia, Ukraine, the U.S., Russia, Britain, Australia and the Netherlands for their comments and suggested revisions. Oleg Storchevoi, a deputy chief of the Russian aviation agency, said the agency has complaints regarding both the technical data and the arguments in the report. He did not give details.

But a U.S. official told The Associated Press that the draft says the plane was destroyed by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile fired from the village of Snizhne, which was under rebel control. The official, who wasn't authorized to comment publicly, spoke on condition of anonymity.

The probe is being led by The Netherlands because 196 of the victims were Dutch, and Ukraine agreed to give Holland formal responsibility for the investigation.

A probe by the Dutch national prosecutor's office aims to establishing who was responsible. This investigation includes authorities from Ukraine, Malaysia and other countries whose nationals were among the victims, but Russia is not a participant.

It is unclear whom the investigators are questioning, or the extent of the evidence they've collected. The prosecutor's office released a video calling on witnesses to come forward and indicated the probe is focusing on rebel or Russian involvement. The video asks for information about a Buk-11 missile system that was spotted moving through the rebel territory before and after the crash, then possibly heading for the Russian border. The investigative organization Bellingcat also has devoted attention to this missile-launcher, claiming it can be traced to one that was stored in the rebels' main stronghold of Donetsk.

Rebel officials at the time denied having any such missile systems, although Russian news agencies had reported rebel claims of seizing some from Ukrainian forces a few weeks earlier.

Russia is opposing a proposed UN Security Council resolution to establish an international criminal tribunal for the crash; Moscow has veto power in the security council.

A few days after the crash, the Russian Defense Ministry showed photos it said proved that Ukrainian surface-to-air systems were operating in the area before the crash. Russian officials also said they had evidence that a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet had flown "between 3 to 5 kilometers (2 to 3 miles)" from the Malaysia Airlines jet.

The latter theory was revisited a few months later when state television released a satellite photograph that it claimed showed that a Ukrainian fighter jet shot down MH17. The photo purportedly came from a little-known person who identified himself as an aviation expert. Bloggers following the case quickly claimed the photo was a forgery.

In June, the Russian manufacturer of Buk systems said it had concluded the airliner was indeed brought down by a Buk, but an older model no longer in service in Russia. It said such systems were still used by the Ukrainian army, but it was not clear if the Buks reportedly seized by rebels a year earlier would have included that model.

Despite missile-maker's statement, Russia's top investigative body says it regards the warplane as its top theory and claims to be protecting a Ukrainian witness who has identified the plane's pilot.

In any case, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, Ukraine is morally responsible for the crash because it occurred in a war that Russia claims was launched by Ukraine.

One of the enduring mysteries of the tragedy is whether the rebels actually publicly admitted to downing the plane. Just minutes after the crash, a posting appeared on the social media account of then-rebel commander Igor Girkin, saying that the rebels had shot down a Ukrainian An-26 transport plane and it crashed in the same area as MH17. The rebels had shot down several Ukrainian planes in the early months of the war, but apparently with shoulder-fired missiles that could not reach the altitude at which MH17 was flying. The posting was later scrubbed from the account, with the explanation that the post was not by Girkin himself but by someone else with access to the account.

Girkin also was notorious for claiming that many of the people on MH17 were dead before the plane took off, which he said was based on witness accounts that the bodies were putrefying immediately after the crash.

Lowy reported from Washington, D.C. Mike Corder in Amsterdam contributed to this report.

HOT street in WILMORE. Tons of new construction and rehab projects going on in the immediate vicinity. Get your slice of the action. Perfect for owner occupant to make updates as they live. Home has huge potential! Deep lot with fenced in yard. Home sold as-is.

Strongly condemning the forcible seizure of power from the democratically elected Government of Mali by some elements of the Malian armed forces — which late last week took control of the country and announced the dissolution of the Government — the Security Council today called for a return to constitutional order and the holding of previously scheduled elections.

In a statement read out by Mark Lyall Grant (United Kingdom), whose delegation holds the Council presidency for the month, the Council condemned “the acts initiated and carried out by mutinous troops against the democratically elected Government” and demanded that those troops immediately end all violence and return to their barracks.

Today’s statement also condemned attacks initiated and carried out by rebel groups against the Government forces, and called on the rebels to cease all violence and seek a peaceful solution through appropriate political dialogue.

The Council went on to express serious concern about the insecurity and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian situation in the wider Sahel region, which, Council members said, was further complicated by the presence of armed and terrorist groups and their activities, as well as a proliferation of weapons from inside and outside that region. In light of all that, the Council called for national authorities and international, regional and subregional organizations “to take urgent steps to further their concerted efforts to address these challenges in an effective and appropriate manner”.

Noting that the 15-nation body had been closely following the humanitarian situation in the Sahel, the statement said that the Council had been informed that millions of people were suffering as a result of drought, food shortages and the return to the region of thousands of migrants, following the crisis in Libya and elsewhere. Commending joint efforts made by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and other agencies to provide assistance and draw attention to the scale of the problems in the Sahel, the Council noted that it had been informed of the proposal to appoint a Senior Regional Humanitarian Coordinator.

Welcoming the relevant emergency programmes undertaken by national authorities and the efforts of regional actors, such as the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Council encouraged the wider international community to provide support to resolve the crisis in Mali and the Sahel regional “based on an integrated strategy for immediate and long-term needs, encompassing security, development and humanitarian needs”.

The meeting began at 10:40 a.m. and ended at 10:45 a.m.