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MEXICO CITY (AP) � One of the first Mexican drug kingpins to oversee mass shipments of cocaine was extradited to the United States yesterday to face drug-trafficking charges, ending an eight-year effort by U.S. authorities to take custody of a man who once controlled one of the world�s most powerful cartels.
The cartel�s power began to wane after Arellano Felix was captured by the Mexican military in 2002 in central Mexico, ending more than a decade as a terrorizing force while his cartel moved tons of cocaine from South America to the United States.
Mexican federal agents handed Arellano Felix over to U.S. marshals at an airport on the outskirts of Mexico City yesterday, the statement said.
He is scheduled to be arraigned Monday before U.S. District Judge Larry Burns in San Diego. U.S. authorities hailed the development.
�The extradition of Benjamin Arellano Felix is one of many great victories against this criminal enterprise,� said Michele Leonhart, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Arellano Felix was the most significant of 11 people charged in a 2003 federal indictment in San Diego that alleged the cartel was behind widespread violence along California�s border with Mexico dating back to 1986.
He was the cartel�s �principal organizer and top leader� who oversaw all major decisions, including the movement of drugs across the border and their sale in the United States, according to the indictment.
John Kirby, a former federal prosecutor who co-wrote the indictment, said he was shocked that Arrellano Felix was headed to the United States.
The cartel, which gained strength in the late 1980s, got away with crimes by bribing soldiers and prosecutors to protect high-ranking cartel members and drug shipments, authorities say.
Inside Vanity Fair’s Oscar Photo Booth: Watch the Stars Pose and Pack on the P.D.A.
See everyone from best actress Brie Larson to “Blurred Lines”–video muse Emily Ratajkowski.
Ever wondered what happens behind the curtain at the annual Vanity Fair Oscar party? If so, you are in luck—a new video whisks the curious inside the party’s legendary photo booth alongside Brie Larson, Emma Roberts, Jessica Alba, Jerry Hall, Rupert Murdoch, Kerry Washington, James McEnroe, and many more as they vogue for the camera. What you will learn—aside from how Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson gets intimate when the lens is turned on her—is that there is one place on earth where everyone from Oscar winners to billionaire media moguls to models act the same.
When Wendy rang to ask me if I’d go on a date with her, my first reaction was that she’d gone completely insane’, recalled Jubril, a university lecturer. “Our relationship was great when we first got together but it ended badly and since then we’ve only seen each other occasionally.
“I was her first serious boyfriend but called the relationship off because we never agreed on anything. We were constantly rowing,then making up. We mus have worn each other out as she quickly went into another relationship and came out with a child. I’ve had two kids myself but still single, I wasn’t desperate, I’ve always believed getting back with an ex is a bad idea, and I worried we wouldn’t get on.
“I did my Higher School Certificate in a mixed school and that was how I met Gabby”, recalled Sade, an IT manager. “We were very much in love but whilst I got admitted to a university in Lagos, we went up North. I missed him like crazy the first year but whilst absence could make the heart grow fonder, with us it eventually became out of sight, out of mind.
“I was in the office when he just walked in. It was a shock to see him. I almost didn’t recognise him. He looked much better than I remembered and has spent a lot of time at the gum because he looked well built. Things were a bit awkward for about an hour but once we got over our nerves, we were our old selves! He took me to lunch and grown -up Jubril was a more intense version of the funny witty man I knew years ago.
Could you be a born flirt?
“Do decide that flirting is a positive activity that will help you meet people. Don’t think negative feelings about it. Do be yourself and emphasise all your good points. Don’t be a phony, projecting an image that’s not the real you – most people will recognise a put-on like that immediately.
Respond to a person who’s interested in you by nodding or smiling. Don’t panic when the other person responds to your flirting. Instead try to ask: “You see something you like?” Keep the conversation light and lively by bringing up topics like a person’s job, hobbies or sports they find interesting. Don’t get into heavy controversial subjects like politics.
Project a light upbeat attitude and don’t act unhappy by dredging up past romances that failed or your personal problems. Encouraged the other person to open up and talk about whatever they love and don’t just talk about yourself. Look graceful and relaxed. Don’t appear stiff. If you are tensed, walk around until your tension disappears. Accept any compliments you get on your appearance and don’t apologise or make excuse for the way you look.
Finally, keep an open mind about the type of person you want to meet. Don’t have a mental image of what kind of person you’re looking for. You might overlook a fine person who simply doesn’t meet all your requirements.
New England Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels finally broke his silence, speaking for the first time since spurning the Indianapolis Colts to continue working under Bill Belichick.
McDaniels told Jim McBride of the Boston Globe he was preparing to move on from New England before having a discussion with owner Robert Kraft and Belichick following the Super Bowl loss.
"I wasn't 100 percent sure what the future was. I just hadn't had any clarity on that," McDaniels said Monday. "So, where did I fit in? Were there any plans? I just didn't have much clarity on what my role was here moving forward."
McDaniels said the meeting with Kraft and Belichick swayed him to remain with the Patriots.
"Once I heard from Robert and Bill on that Tuesday, it just gave me reason to pause and consider this whole situation," McDaniels said.
McDaniels told McBride he was given no guarantees about future positions -- i.e. eventually taking over for Belichick -- but had his contract restructured.
"The opportunity to stay here and work for who I think is the greatest owner in sports and the best head football coach in the history of our game, to work with the best quarterback that has ever played ..." McDaniels said. "Look, I'm privileged to have the opportunity to do that and when they kind of crystallized that -- 'Hey, here's what we see going forward and here's how we would like you to fit into it' -- it gave me a reason to stop and say, 'All right, what's the best decision for me?' And certainly it was difficult. But I made the decision on my own, nobody pushed me into it."
McDaniels added that his family was ready to move to Indy with him if he went through with taking the job.
Most lambasted the OC for agreeing to take the Colts gig then backing out, and especially leaving a slew of assistant coaches in limbo. McDaniels said he called each potential assistant to apologize after he decided to remain in New England.
"And I apologize to anyone who was affected in any way," he said. "Indianapolis did a tremendous job. They have a tremendous organization and I was lucky to be considered and I just think once I found out [what my future in New England was], I made the right decision for me and my family at this time."
Owner of Wolf Creek Pass Ski area Kingsbury Pitcher looks down mountain from one of the ski runs at Wolf Creek Pass Ski area during heavy early season snows on Nov. 12, 2000.
Ski resort pioneer Kingsbury Pitcher, whose family owns southwestern Colorado’s Wolf Creek ski area, died in his sleep on Dec. 29, 2017, at his home in Santa Fe. He was 98.
They called him Pitch. Born in 1919 in southern California, he spent his youthful summers in Silverton with his grandfather, Otto Mears, the “Pathfinder of the San Juans” who forged toll roads that became railroads that connected the remote villages and mining towns in southern Colorado’s rugged San Juan mountains.
Pitcher ski raced for Stanford University, where he studied business and economics. After graduating in 1941, he college he became an instructor at Friedl Pfeifer’s ski school in Sun Valley, Idaho. In the spring of 1942, enlisted in the Army Air Corps, and after serving in World War II as a pilot and training officer, he started a flight school in Santa Fe.
“Flying and skiing became his life,” reads a statement from his son, Davey Pitcher.
He moved to Aspen in 1951 and started a cattle ranch near Woody Creek. While working the property, he would often gaze across the valley and envision skiing on the flanks of the Burnt and Baldy mountains. He eventually scouted that terrain with planes, horses and skis and proposed would become Snowmass.
The owner of Wolf Creek Pass Ski area Kingsbury Pitcher cuts turns down mountain at Wolf Creek Pass Ski area during heavy early season snows on Nov. 12, 2000.
By the late 1950s, he had started a company, Ski Surveys, that helped resorts design lifts and trails. That eventually led him to develop the Sierra Blanca ski resort near Ruidoso, N.M., which eventually became Ski Apache. He eventually moved to Santa Fe, where he remained for 57 years. In 1964, he purchased New Mexico’s Santa Fe Ski Basin.
Pitcher and his wife, Jane, raised six kids, all of whom worked in every aspect of Ski Santa Fe for more than two decades. In the mid-1980s he sold Ski Santa Fe and took over Colorado’s Wolf Creek, where his son Davey now serves as captain of the thriving, snowy ski area. Davey’s brother Peter’s family runs Discovery ski area in Montana.
In 2007, Pitcher was inducted into the New Mexico Ski Hall of Fame. Seven years later, at age 95, he was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.
He skied regularly well into his 80s and never fully gave up the reins at Wolf Creek.
Ahead of Mobile World Congress 2013, two new Nokia Windows Phone devices, the Lumia 520 and 720, appear to have been leaked by the evleaks twitter account. Rumors of the two devices have floated around all month, including recently surfaced specs.
The Lumia 720 will reportedly pack a 4.3-inch screen with a 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB memory, dual cameras and microSD card slot. The 520 is rumored to ship with a 4-inch screen, 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of built-in storage, microSD card slot and a 5-megapixel rear camera, but will not have a front-facing camera.
While leaks such as these should be taken with a grain of salt, the evleaks twitter account has proved relatively accurate in the past and is worth watching.
"To Protect our Children and women from abuse"
so her spirit will hear you speak.
joining you by heaven's gate.
shall gleam with a radiant light.
About Me I am very outgoing,honest,very blunt speak my mind caring and understanding, loyaly and faithful always, friendly and I have a very strong faith and strong morals and values.
What/who changed my life and why The One to change my life and turn it around is God. He gave me peace in my soul and hope in tomorrow for a better future with no violence, No war and time for Peace.
Then my mother changed my life when I was ten years old she was sick with cancer yet she would cook for us and take care of us my mother taught me to always be a lady, to have courage and hold my head up high, to always carry God in my heart and what others do doesn't matter for I answer for what I do.
The one movie that changed my life also is Would You Be Left Behind? I learned watching the movie the truth about how a christian should live and treat others. to have respect and honor always. to be caring and loving with understanding.To always have faith and believe in God's love for us for He gave his only begotten son that who so ever believe in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Quotation A great lover is not one who loves many, but one who loves one woman for life.
Girl Meets World Season 2 will finally return with new episodes on Friday and Movie News Guide has the spoilers on what viewers can expect to see in the next three episodes. It looks like Riley and Maya will have a crisis of conscience, Maya and Auggie will have trouble in the love department, and a familiar face from Boy Meets World will return.
According to the report, episode 6, titled “Girl Meets The Tell-Tale-Tot” will air on Disney Channel on Friday, June 5, and will feature Riley feeling pretty guilty about lying to her parents, Cory and Topanga. Riley will reportedly lie to her mom and dad so that she and her best friend forever, Maya, can attend a party. However, later Riley will feel so guilty that it’s likely we’ll see her confess her lie to her family and apologize, of course learning a big life lesson in the process.
The episode will also feature Maya’s love interest, and Cory’s much younger brother, Josh, who revealed in Girl Meets World Season 1 that he was going to be in New York much more due to classes he is taking.
Spoiler TV reports that episode 7 will be titled “Girl Meets Rules,” and will deal with something Cory’s best friend, Shawn Hunter, knows all too well about — detention. According to the report, chaos will ensue when the entire class will get out of control and become completely divided, thus Cory will be forced to issue a class wide detention, which Farkle should be thoroughly upset with.
Meanwhile, Auggie’s little girlfriend, Ava, will be back, but she’ll be changed. Ava will be better behaved and nicer to Auggie once she realizes that she may lose him to another girl. The episode will also feature janitor Harley, whom Boy Meets World fans will remember as Cory Matthews’ former school bully.
Episode 8 will be a big one as Cory’s former teacher, Mr. Johnathan Turner, will return in Girl Meets New Teacher. Other than Mr. Feeny, Mr. Turner is the one teacher that helped shaped Cory’s schooling. However, it has been a long time since fans have seen him, and it will be great to see what he’s up to now. We’re hoping Shawn Hunter will also be apart of this episode, as Mr. Turner was like a father to Shawn during his high school years.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Mr. Turner isn’t the only former character who could be returning. Ben Savage revealed that he would love to have Jennifer Love Hewitt return as her fan-favorite character Feffy, the one episode appearance by the actress was made in one of the best episodes of all time, and Ben says he’d like to have her back for a cameo.
What are your thoughts on the latest Girl Meets World spoilers?
SUFFOLK COUNTY, NY — Three New York volunteer firefighters are accused of setting fire to five homes, police said Tuesday.
Austin Lehman, Stephen Hernandez and Shawn Key, members of the Central Islip Fire Department on Long Island, allegedly set fires at abandoned homes over a four-month period, officials said. No one was injured in any of the fires. Their fires, all set in the early morning, did not result in any injuries.
They responded to all five of the fires they allegedly set.
Hernandez, 25, and Lehman, 19, were arraigned Tuesday. Key, 27, is scheduled to be arraigned. They've been charged with multiple counts of arson.
The negative and positive effects of online piracy differ greatly depending on who you listen to. Publishers say it is killing their respective industries and ability to keep producing new content. On the other hand, there have been studies that show pirates end up spending more money purchasing legal content.
Regardless of what the truth is, the UK government is considering increasing the penalty for online piracy five-fold. Today, online copyright infringement comes with a maximum two year prison term. If this current review of the penalties is successful, that will increase to ten years.
It will come as no surprise that the music and movie industries within the UK are pushing hard for this to happen. But we have to be clear that such a long prison term could only be applied to those uploading content in the first place, not downloaders. If you are caught ripping a screener for a new movie and uploading it, then you will likely face a prison sentence. Anyone downloading that movie likely won’t, and certainly not the ten year sentence.
The worst form of piracy for publishers and content owners is that which occurs before general release of a piece of work. For example, if a new movie hits P2P networks before it makes it into movie theaters, or before DVD and Blu-ray versions go on sale. It’s here where publishers should be focusing their efforts (and money) to combat piracy as well as ensuring a piece of work legally hits all markets simultaneously. HBO showed an example of this way of thinking recently by switching out review discs for secure content streams. Netflix is also being clever with its pricing depending on how high piracy is within any given market.
Focusing on pre-release piracy won’t stop piracy completely, but will remove the situation where illegally downloading content is the only way to get it. Increasing potential prison time from two to ten years on the other hand, doesn’t seem like it will do a lot to change anything.
Looking out over the industrial town of Le Creusot, in central France, stands one of those commemorative statues that companies liked to put up to honor their 19th-century founders.
This one depicts Eugene Schneider, the industrial baron whose metalworking enterprise made Le Creusot into one of the strongholds of French industry. At the foot of the statue is a figure of a mother with her hand on her son's shoulder, gesturing respectfully up at Schneider.
Of late, the atmosphere in Le Creusot has been far from the confident, successful image portrayed by the Schneider statue. Workers from the metal factories of the Creusot-Loire Company, as Schneider's enterprise is now called, have been out on the streets demonstrating. The town is sunk in gloom.
After recording mounting losses that reached $212 million on sales of $1.5 billion last year, Creusot-Loire, one of France's largest industrial companies, has declared itself bankrupt and is in receivership.
Creusot-Loire's problems are nothing new. Since 1979, it has made a profit only one year. An ambitious acquisition program brought little but losses. Unlike other French steel companies, Creusot-Loire received no government compensation for losses on its domestic steel business. In the United States it lost more than $100 million after buying Phoenix Steel. Even its profitable nuclear plant subsidiary, Framatome, has been looking less rosy recently because of a slowdown in orders.
By last year, the group obviously needed severe rationalization. Its newly installed chairman, Didier Pineau-Valencienne, set about cutting back. He also needed to raise large amounts of money. Both aims seemed to have been achieved late last year when Creusot-Loire agreed to a $700 million rescue plan with the government and got rid of some of its worst lossmaking branches.
By this spring, however, it was evident that the rescue package had not been enough. Mr. Pineau-Valencienne insisted that the government should put up more money. Ministers said they would do so only if Creusot-Loire's private shareholders did the same and if state-owned banks were allowed to take a stake in the Schneider group, which owns Creusot-Loire.
When Schneider and Creusot-Loire refused the government's terms at the end of June, bankruptcy and receivership became inevitable. This has raised major questions about the relationship between the government and private industry in France.
For decades, big French private-sector companies have worked closely with the government. Creusot-Loire had tight links with successive administrations because of its ownership of Framatome, regarded as a ''sensitive'' national company, and because much of its big export business was affected by French diplomacy.
The Mitterrand administration, which nationalized a dozen big industrial groups in 1982, might have been expected to be ready to step in to bail out a major company like Creusot-Loire. But the government has recently decided to pull back from the industrial interventionism that marked its early years in power.
The industry minister, Laurent Fabius, added that it was not the taxpayers' job to make up for deficiencies of the owners. Having refused to finance Creusot-Loire on the company's own terms, the government is now trying to keep the crisis from getting any worse.
Buyers are being sought for the component parts of Creusot-Loire. Most of the likely purchasers are French nationalized companies.
Whatever happens, the Creusot-Loire failure looks certain to add to France's rising unemployment rate. Pineau-Valencienne says 5,000 to 10,000 people could lose their jobs. That would be up to one-third of Creusot-Loire's 30,000 work force. Were he alive today, Eugene Schneider might be looking less magisterial, as he surveyed Le Creusot.
Hidden gems to hit up during the "off season"
Finding places for day tripping is easy-peasy when you live in Nova Scotia. Beaches, forests, hiking trails — you name it, it’s within easy driving distance no matter where you live. But if you include the challenge of “off season” in the mix, it becomes more difficult to add eating and shopping to your list of activities.
And I’m not referring to fast food restaurants or mall shopping in the city.
Two of my day-tripping buddies live 100 kilometres apart, so we try to come up with places where we can “meet in the middle.” Our most recent excursion had us heading to Port Williams. With the slogan “The biggest little port in the world,” the village is set in an agricultural community surrounded by the beauty of Minas Basin tides and dyke lands. We had a full afternoon planned, and started with a meal at The Noodle Guy. It’s always important to feed your stomach before heading out for an afternoon of walking and shopping.
I had heard about The Noodle Guy from several people, and we were not disappointed. Located in an old building, the restaurant has lots of character and charm. Fresh pasta made right on site, the menu was varied and the food was delicious. Also available for purchase was whole bean coffee from T.A.N. Coffee, olive oils and balsamic vinegar, fresh pasta packaged for home cooking, jams, jellies, maple syrup, and custom local sausage. My mouth is watering just thinking about it now. My only regret is that I don’t live a bit closer, but maybe my waistline is thankful.
After such a good meal, it was time for a walk and we headed to the parking lot just across the bridge so we could venture out on the trail along the dyke. I am not an historian by any means, but according to information on the Internet, the area around Port Williams and Wolfville was largely marsh before the arrival of the Acadians and the New England Planters. Much of the water was drained away with the construction of the dykes that date back hundreds of years. Overall, more than 2,000 acres of prime farmland were created with the construction of the dykes.
There is a walking path along the Bishop-Beckwith dyke that extends from Port Williams to the edge of the Wolfville Harbour, and makes great walking for people and dogs alike. We headed out shortly after high tide and there was a remarkable change in the water level by the time we returned 45 minutes later.
We could have walked for much longer, but started to head back earlier than we wanted so we would have time to do more exploring before heading back home. A quick drive down a couple of roads, and we found the Fox Hill Cheese House. While we were there, the most frequent thought that kept running through my mind was that I am glad I live an hour or so away, otherwise I would be gaining weight a lot faster than I am now. I treated myself to a waffle cone with maple gelato.
Mmmm, bliss. We learned that gelato is made with milk, not cream so no need to feel guilty about any calories. Not at all. While munching on my cone, I selected several types of cheese made right at the farm as well as some exotic chocolate made in Eastern Passage. Shopping local is getting easier, and quite tasty.
Our next stop had us looping back to Port Williams for Country Barn Antiques, situated right in town. Four — or was it five — storeys of a barn built circa 1860 filled with every type of antique and collectible you can imagine. Eye candy for a photographer, and a good source for any person interested in reducing our footprint by re-purposing all kinds of items. One of my friends was on the hunt for glass insulators to make a unique hanging light fixture. Another friend bought a very large bottle to build a terrarium. I wasn’t in search of anything, but unexpectedly stumbled across a perfect Christmas gift just before we left.
I honestly could have spent hours browsing through all the items and talking with the owner — such a gentleman filled with all sorts of information and entertaining stories. And I would just love to head back there with my tripod and camera to take interesting still life photos.
Even though it’s a small village, there are other things to see and do in Port Williams. Maybe I’ll convince my husband to visit the Wayfarers’ Ale Society or the Port Pub and Bistro. And a stop at Daisy Roots Vintage clothing store is probably in order. But that’s a focus for another day.
The Home Office's approach to mobile payment security parrots exactly what the industry is already doing: publishing guidelines for a technology that nobody wants or ever intends to use.
Never let it be said that the UK Home Office doesn't move quickly: contactless payments from mobile phones have been dead in the water for less than a year and already the department is issuing guidelines on how to prevent thieves exploiting the technology, though really it's just endorsing what the industry has been doing for years.
Contactless payments are already a reality, as anyone who's received a Barclays Connect card in the last six months will know. Transactions less than a tenner can be completed by waving the card in front of a reader, while those of more than a tenner still require a PIN to be entered, which also happens on a random basis.
The new guidelines from the Home Office recommend the same thing apply to mobile phones with contactless technology built in, adding only that customers should be encouraged to report if their phone is stolen.