Hans Dobida served as chairman of the Continental Cup until 2018.

(meta data) TITLE: IIHF - Congress approves Statutes changes

The IIHF Annual Congress concluded on Saturday in Copenhagen.

photo: Andre Ringuette / HHOF-IIHF Images

The 2018 IIHF Annual Congress approved a set of changed to the IIHF Statutes & Bylaws, to several regulations and finalized the rule change process for the 2018-2022 IIHF Rule Book.

The IIHF Statutes & Bylaws are reviewed every four years and this year also involved changes as part of the IIHF Governance Reform Group that was created two years ago by the IIHF President to ensure the IIHF structure meets the requirements of modern standards for non-profit organizations and for good governance.

The decisions regarding the new IIHF Statutes & Bylaws include:

Full membership can now also be granted to an ice sports or winter sports federation of a country where there is no governing body solely for ice hockey if they fulfil the minimum standards to play in the IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship such as the IIHF members from Italy and Spain.

The IIHF can assume the responsibility for the governance of other forms of hockey on the ice with the approval of Congress and issue governing regulations.

The IIHF can request the conduct of an independent audit by an independent external auditor of the member national association's accounts in accordance with international accounting standards to ensure governance consistency with the IIHF member national associations.

Suspensions of member national associations by the IIHF Council can be appealed according to the Disciplinary Code, which currently states the appeal goes to the Disciplinary Board (old: Congress).

An Extra-Ordinary Congress may be held electronically by any means of communication through which the members may simultaneously hear each other during the conference and ballots shall be by an electronic means approved by Council.

This to enable such a way of decision making for cases of urgency.

Reduction from a super majority (75%) to a qualified majority (two third of the votes) for following decisions: adoption or modification of a statute and appointment of an honorary member.

Election of the Council Members, Auditors, Disciplinary Board Members and Appeal Board Chair needs a simple majority (greater than 50%).

The requirements for IIHF Council nominations have been adjusted.

An IIHF Council member cannot serve longer than 12 years in total in one position (12 years as President, 12 years as a Vice President, 12 years as a Member) starting as of the 2020 elections.

A concept of separation of powers between the IIHF Council (political and strategical) and IIHF Office (operational) and the duties, roles and responsibilities of the President, Council and CEO will be worked on.

A report will be presented to the 2018 Semi-Annual Congress in September and shall be voted on within the next 12 months.

The IIHF Office may determine a player who is suspended by a member national association, league or club including non-affiliated IIHF-recognized organizations is not eligible to participate in an IIHF competition which runs concurrently to the player's suspension but it's not mandatory to do so anymore.

The Disciplinary Board chair, deputy chair and not less than four other members as well as the Appeal Board Chair shall be elected by Congress (old: Council).

The Council with the recommendation of the Competition Committee shall seed national teams in cases a new sovereign state has been established by separation from an existing sovereign state, a country is incorporated into another existing sovereign state with a member affiliated to the IIHF, two or more countries are united into a sovereign state and the member representing it is granted membership status with the IIHF or a country is divided into two or more sovereign states with members affiliated to the IIHF and the previous country does not exist anymore.

The IIHF must conduct all IIHF operational activities related to commitment of IIHF income/expenses in accordance with IIHF Procurement Guidelines, including, but not limited to, tender rules.

The IIHF Procurement Guidelines must be in accordance with all applicable laws.

This allows the IIHF to comply with good governance principles for non-profit organizations.

With these changes the IIHF makes a big step in the modernization of the IIHF Statutes & Bylaws and will continue this process during the next 12 months and beyond.

Congress made a change concerning the penalty-shot shootout as of the upcoming season.

Only the decisive goal will count in the result of the game.

New: It shall be credited to the team that scored the goal (not to the player) and charged against the team that was scored upon (but not the goaltender concerned).

Clarification was added that the ice surface between the face-off spots will be dry-scraped (no water) with one or two ice resurfacer machines prior to the shootout.

The 2018-2022 IIHF Rule Book, valid as of the upcoming season, was approved at the last Congress in autumn 2017.

However, a new rule on late hits was added today by Congress to address one of the proposals previously accepted.

A late hit in the new Rule 153 is defined as a bodycheck to a skater who is in a vulnerable position because of not being in control or possession of the puck anymore and will be sanctioned with a penalty.

It can be a minor penalty if the opponent is aware of the impending contact.

A major penalty and automatic game-misconduct penalty is assessed for a late hit against an unsuspecting opponent or a match penalty if the opponent is recklessly endangered.

An additional clause also sanctions an early hit, meaning a bodycheck before the opponent has received the puck, with an interference penalty.

Click here to read about the previously approved rule changes.

The Congress ended with the honouring of long-serving members of the international ice hockey family.

IIHF Sport Director Dave Fitzpatrick and IIHF Officiating Manager Konstantin Komissarov will leave the IIHF Office after 23 and 16 years respectively in service after reaching retirement age this year.

Their colleagues came behind the stage in special T-shirts before IIHF President René Fasel bid them farewell with a speech and present and applause from the delegates from dozens of countries who have worked with them.

Next was IIHF Life Member Hans Dobida who was given an award for his long-time contribution to the IIHF by IIHF President René Fasel.

The Austrian native was active in the international ice hockey family for over 50 years starting as a delegate for the Austrian Ice Hockey Association and later serving as IIHF Council Member for 22 years until 2008 and as IIHF Treasurer.

Despite his age of 89, Dobida has still been very active in the IIHF family.

Until recently he was chairing the IIHF Continental Cup competition where he is succeeded by former IIHF Council member Igor Nemecek.

Dobida was the chairman for about 50 tournaments and also served with his valuable experience as chairman and game supervisor in many other tournaments of the World Championship program.

IIHF Vice President Kalervo Kummola from Finland received an award from the International Olympic Committee that was handed to him by IIHF President René Fasel.

He got the Pierre de Coubertin Trophy for his outstanding merits towards the sport and the Olympic Movement.

The trophy is the singular trophy which symbolizes the IOC's Founder Baron Pierre de Coubertin and transmits the IOC's values which are Friendship, Respect and Excellence.

Click here for other Congress news from Thursday and Friday.

MVP Kane appreciates benefits of playing Worlds

Best passers, fastest skaters, hardest shooters

The Continental Cup is an ice hockey tournament for European clubs, begun in 1997 after the discontinuing of the European Cup. It was intended for teams from countries without representatives in the European Hockey League, with participating teams chosen by the countries' respective ice hockey associations.


Former governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and Fox News host Laura Ingraham are considering primary challenges to Murkowski.

(meta data) TITLE: Sarah Palin taunts Sen. Lisa Murkowski ahead of Brett Kavanaugh vote

# 'I can see 2022 from my house': Palin taunts Murkowski ahead of Kavanaugh vote

One of the key undecided senators on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court said Thursday she can't yet comment on whether the FBI's supplemental investigation is "entirely throrough" because she hasn't had an opportunity to review it.

Sarah Palin, the GOP 2008 vice presidential nominee and former governor of

Alaska.(Photo: Photo by Scott Olson, Getty Images)

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a crucial Republican swing vote in Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court, received a playful prodding from the former governor of Alaska on Twitter.

"I can see 2022 from my house," Sarah Palin tweeted on Friday afternoon, mentioning Murkowski.

The tweet was widely viewed as a thinly-veiled threat to challenge Murkowski in her 2022 reelection campaign to the Senate.

"From my house" references a 2008 Saturday Night Live sketch mocking Palin, then John McCain's running mate.

To this day, many Americans believe it was Palin that said "I can see Russia from my house" when in fact the line was delivered by Tina Fey.

Hey @LisaMurkowski - I can see 2022 from my house...

— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) October 5, 2018

Earlier this year, Palin expressed a willingness to run for public office again, according to The Hill.

The publication reported that she told Fox News host Mark Levin in April that she was glad she joined the McCain ticket and would do it again "in a heartbeat."

On Friday Morning, Murkowski was the only Republican to vote against a procedural move advancing Kavanaugh's nomination.

More: Sen. Susan Collins a 'yes' on Brett Kavanaugh, giving Republicans enough votes

"I believe that Brett Kavanaugh is a good man, I believe he is a good man.

But it just may be that in my view he's not the right man for the court at this time," she said Friday after the vote.

"This has truly been the most difficult evaluation of a decision that I've ever had to make and I've made some interesting ones in my political career."

This isn't the first time Murkowski has faced the potential consequences of her votes.

She lost the Republican primary to a Tea Party challenger in 2010, winning re-election with a write-in campaign instead.

Contributing: Eliza Collins and Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY; Dan Nowicki, Arizona Republic

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Three-term Republican incumbent Lisa Murkowski was re-elected in 2016. She will be 65 on the day of the 2022 election.


Chen was born and raised in New York and is of Chinese descent.

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# Interview with Netflix/Marvel "Iron Fist" actor James Chen

Our interview with talented actor James Chen who can currently be seen in the second season of the Netflix/Marvel series "Iron Fist," playing the role of Sam Chung.

The character Samuel Chung is known in the comics as the vigilante superhero 'Blindspot'.

Season 2 of "Iron Fist" premiered on Netflix on September 7, 2018.

In addition, James can currently be seen as recurring on the new CBS drama series "FBI".

Created by Dick Wolf, the procedural drama follows the inner workings of the New York office of the FBI, bringing to bear all the Bureau's skills, intellect and mind-blowing technology to keep New York and the country safe.

James is best known for recurring as 'Kal' in the hit AMC series "The Walking Dead."

Additional TV credits included: "Law & Order: SUV", "Seven Seconds", "Elementary", "Person Of Interest", "The Blacklist", "Blue Bloods" and "NCIS: LA".

James trained as an actor at the prestigious Yale School of Drama where upon graduation, he led the School of Acting in commencement ceremonies and was awarded the Dexter Wood Luke Memorial Prize.

He first began acting professionally in Philadelphia theater after attending the University of Pennsylvania.

Upon completing Yale, he resumed his professional career in New York City, where he quickly began working in Off Broadway theater, TV, film, commercials, and audiobooks.

Of his dozen plus narrated audiobooks, some of his favorite titles include "Prayer of the Dragon" and "Chinese Yankee", which can be found at Audible.com.

Hi James, please tell us a little about you?

I'm born and raised in the Empire State, studied and worked in Philadelphia for six years, (so did not study acting in college), but came to it later during grad school at Yale Drama.

Because of this I'm always a sucker for a good slice, cheesesteak, or bagel…

Been living the dream working and acting in NYC and LA.

Have also been known to globe trot to Asia for vacay and to refresh.

In other news…I probably do too many things… Ever reminding myself to get out of my head… Wish I played the piano more often…

I seem to be drawn to inadvisably difficult things… Am

infuriated by injustice…I buy too many books…

How did you get started in the industry?

I was still in college and auditioning for local commercials in the Philly area… my first booking was a regional commercial for AOL.

Well my very first role was playing the Sun in the 2nd grade solar system play… does that count.

When I was in college I got a chance to play the lead in a Chinese Students Association play and that was really my first role as an adult.

What is the best and worst part of being an actor?

It's always interesting, and I get to explore how humans think and behave… with other curious wonderful humans.

I'd say always having to audition for work can be not awesome… and how decisions are often based NOT on ability but rather on more commercial considerations.. hey showbiz.

That AND the state of how Asian characters were and are depicted in American theater, TV and film.

The damaging lies of these practices of omission and reduction are a painful every day reality.

If you can ever possibly imagine doing anything else other than acting with your life… do THAT.

It can be that much of a mental/emotional/spiritual obstacle course. … and make your bed first thing in the morning.

Tell us about the Netflix/Marvel series "Iron Fist".

In Iron Fist season 2, we meet Sam Chung as a community leader at the Chinatown Bayard Community Center.

He is an ally to Colleen Wing and Danny Rand as they quest for answers to their past…

he cares deeply for the people of his community and works to provide for them via clothing and for drives, reading classes for elderly, legal and business advice, and he works to protect them if they're in danger.

New characters are introduced in Alice Eve's Typhoid Mary.

Previous relationships with Joy and Ward Meachum become more complicated.

There's a satisfying increase in Asian representation this season fleshing out the Chinatown world Danny and Colleen venture in.

There are also quite a few more higher-octane action sequences that I think everyone will be thrilled by.

What has been your most memorable experience from the set so far?

I think it was my first day on set working with Jessica Henwick.

It was my first day and just the two of us, and she's such a free and generous person.

Everything was quite effortless, we had a lot of fun, and you could just feel the Sam-Colleen rapport fill the room.

Now tell us about your role in the CBS drama series "FBI?"

I play Ian Lim, who is a super smart member of the FBI's CART (Computer Analysis Response Team).

Perhaps the only reason he isn't banking millions with a start up in Silicon Valley is because there's a gritty competition and sense of challenge he gets from outsmarting terrorist.

Evidence recovery, offensive surveillance electronics… you name it, Ian has the equipment, know-how and instinct to problem solve high-stakes moments on the fly.

And about the hit AMC series "The Walking Dead" coming back for it's 9thseason.

After Rick's showdown with Negan in the season 8 finale… the world and communities have some breathing room.

They're in a rebuilding phase, and learning how to self-govern themselves in a world where they aren't under Negan's constant threat.

But as we've seen from the first few episodes that have aired so far… things are proving to be more complicated than expected.

People want different things and have differing ideas of how to move forward.

What other projects do you have coming up?

I have a great episode of Madam Secretary coming up this month in mid-November paying a billionaire.

Was glad to get my Crazy Rich Asian card before the year was out.

Also later next year I'll be on the last season of Broad City and The Last O.G. Two incredible shows with just the most talented and unique minds.

And the indie feature, Fluidity, is gearing up this Fall.

It deals with the intersection of technology and sexuality amongst millennials striving to find meaning and identity in this fast-paced world.

Who is your favorite Actor/Actress? And why?

Cate Blanchett is one of the artists that continues to capture my amazement throughout the years.

I've seen her perform on stage several times, and her facility and artistry are really inspiring.

Her presence on the screen is equally commanding and the variety of characters she's inhabited is insane.

We learned that you have narrated over a dozen audiobooks.

Thanks so much, it seems audio is back in!

I've had the pleasure to narrate fiction and non-fiction novels that usually depict Asian or Asian-American characters set in a wide variety of places: Some take place in San Francisco, others in the outer provinces of China, one in a mysterious secret cave.

So they cover a good selection of genres, with quite a few mystery-thrillers.

It's a lot of fun and really creative for me as an actor.

You can find all my recorded titles on Audible.com.

3 things you can't leave your house without?

Indie rock, r&b, Alisha Keyes, MJ, atmospheric sound tracks to set the mood if I'm doing an activity or prepping for an audition.

A good night's sleep, exercise, brunch!!, some time in the park, reading and meditating… Mmm.

I've honestly come to the conclusion that there is no "normal" day in my life, since shooting and auditions and traveling always make days unique and unpredictable.

But I'd say some constants are fresh coffee, exercise, trying to squeeze in quality time with friends over food or theater (preferably both.

Series lead in a critically acclaimed TV show, working in film during the off season, producing more content that's personally meaningful to me and promotes the Asian-American experience.

I support he ACLU and the Nature Conservancy.

Favorite Music: Depends on my mood… enjoying Ra Ra Riot lately !

Favorite Quote: "Great things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

Favorite Holiday Destination: Something tropical.

Favorite Food: Years of living in LA… Korean food has won me over from my Italian food upbringing.

Favorite Restaurant: Chuck-E-Cheese… the ball pit though.

Favorite Celebrity Crush: Cate Blanchett strikes again.

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Emilee Lindner of MTV called the video "mature, tasteful, and [...] sexy".

(meta data) TITLE: Taylor Swift's 'Style' Video Brings Out Sexy Taylor And We Love It - MTV

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# Taylor Swift's 'Style' Video Brings Out Sexy Taylor And We Love It

Take a step inside Taylor's gorgeous dreams.

It's Friday the 13th -- Taylor's lucky number -- and we have a new Taylor Swift video!

But if you're expecting the goofy dancing from "Shake It Off" or the literal insanity of "Blank Space," you're in for a big surprise.

The new "Style" video, which debuted on "Good Morning America" on Friday morning (Feb. 13), is mature, tasteful, and, dare I say... sexy?

"Style" is gorgeously shot and edited (what else would you expect from the Taylor crew?), intercutting sultry glares at the camera, foggy walks in the forest and a guy getting wet in the ocean (brr!).

And while we do get that "red lip, classic thing," the rest of the color in it is subdued, making the clip look soft and hazy, almost as if we were in Taylor's memory.

Calling the video "a walk inside Swift's dreams" wouldn't be too far off, since the 1989 song is said to be about ex-boyfriend Harry Styles of One Direction.

Throughout the visual, we see shards of broken glass, reflecting images of Taylor and her love interest, as if her memory of him comes back in bits and pieces.

Smoke billows through stills of a bare-shouldered Swift, as scene by beautiful scene passes before us -- it's almost as if we're watching the dramatic opening credits of a soap opera.

Watch the video and tell us what you think!

Before its release, Swift posted several teaser images and short clips from the video on her social media accounts. She planned to premiere the video on "Good Morning America" on the morning of February 13, 2015, but Canadian music channel Much released it at midnight. Swift uploaded the video to her Vevo account on the same day. In the video, English actor Dominic Sherwood plays Swift's love interest. Swift contacted him by text message roughly a month before the shooting; the two had known of each other through mutual friends. By the time they worked on the video, Sherwood had finished the film "Take Down", which was later renamed "Billionaire Ransom" (released in 2016).
 The video does not have a clear narrative but features disparate flashbacks of Swift and her love interest by the seashore, in the woods, and on car rides. At some points, the broken mirror pieces, through which Swift and her lover see each other, symbolize memories of a past relationship that linger on. Media publications noted and praised the video's darker, more abstract and sensual atmosphere compared to the videos for "Shake It Off" and "Blank Space". Vox's Kelsey McKinney opined that Swift embraced her sexuality using "sensual imagery" of her touching herself, which showcased her maturity as an artist.


The ditcher, a flatcar-mounted crane designed to excavate soil on either side of a railroad, was invented by Oliver Crosby in 1904.

(meta data) TITLE: Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame - Oliver Crosby - 2005 Inductee

(1855 - 1922) Crosby was the founder, president and chief engineer of American Hoist and Derrick Company (later known as AmHoist), a manufacturing company that created unique products for lifting and construction tasks.

He is the inventor or co-inventor of 36 patents issued between 1887 and 1925, primarily hoisting devises and cable enhancements.

His most well known invention is the wire rope clamp, a device to loop wire cable without losing its strength.

It was marketed and sold as the "Crosby Clip" and is still being sold today.

Crosby invented the first traveling cranes mounted on railcar type wheels.

For the railroad industry, he designed the ditcher, a flatcar-mounted crane that could scoop out dirt forming ditches on either side of the track.

For the lumber industry, he designed cranes that could move between flatbed cars to safely lift logs on and off rail cars.

For the shipping industry, he designed large traveling cranes for harbors around the world.

And he designed the boom derrick for the sugar cane industry.

Based on his designs, his company manufactured huge cranes for major construction projects, such as the Panama Canal.

His company was also a major supplier of cranes, hoists and derricks for American shipyards during World War I and World War II.

The company produced some of the largest machines ever manufactured.

Perhaps the most famous is the forty-ton traveling crane at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard near San Francisco (home of the Pacific Fleet during World War II).

It was recognized as the largest crane in the world for more than 15 years.

Crosby also invented the first crawler cranes - cranes on continuous chain treads - the forerunner of today's modern, huge crawler machines.

During Crosby's tenure as president, from 1882 until his death in 1922, his company grew to more than 1,000 employees with offices in every major city in the United States.

He created a culture and structure for the company to grow to be a Fortune 500 company, one of the nation's top 500 companies as measured by revenue.

Crosby was a leader in the St. Paul business and civic community, focusing on city planning and beautification.

Although he never ran for public office, his opinion and advice were widely sought in matters affecting municipal and civic development.

NOTE: These biographies have been compiled from information accompanying the nomination form submitted to the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame, information available on the Internet and from a variety of other sources.

History.:American Hoist & Derrick (AmHoist): 1892–1985.

In 1892 American Manufacturing Company became known as American Hoist & Derrick for the next 106 years. The first mobile crane, the Traveling Derrick, was invented in 1895. It consisted of a revolving derrick and steam hoist mounted on a rail-car like wheels.


Gauthe was later jailed for violating the Texas sex offender registration law and released in April 2010.

(meta data) TITLE: Church abuse case haunts lawyer who defended priest

# Church abuse case haunts lawyer who defended priest

Published 10:57 a.m. ET Oct. 5, 2013 | Updated 5:54 p.m. ET Oct. 5, 2013CLOSE

Evan Moore, (Opelousas, La.) Daily World city editor, talks about his interview with Ray Mouton, who was defense lawyer for pedophile priest Gilbert Gauthe in the first widely publicized Catholic Church child molestation scandal.

Bill Decker, The (Lafayette, La.) Daily Advertiser

## The Rev. Gilbert Gauthe molested at least 37 boys in 4 parishes.

A Catholic church is visible from the terrace of Ray Mouton's home in southwestern France.(Photo: Courtesy of M. Barrios)

Gilbert Gauthe was born in 1945 in the small Louisiana town of NapoleonvilleBefore he turned 30, he had become a priest and started molesting young boys in

Ray Mouton knew Gauthe was guilty, learned he wasn't the only one

On clear mornings he can see the steeple.

It rises from a little russet-stone Catholic church in the village in southern France where Ray Mouton, former Louisiana lawyer-turned-expatriate-American author, now lives.

STORY: Texas town home to pedophile priest

The view from Mouton's terrace focuses squarely on that steeple as it cuts a line through the horizon, reaching heavenward against a backdrop of the Pyrenees, a symbol of solace, hope and inspiration to man.

But Mouton has never been to Mass in that church.

Mouton no longer attends services — not since the case of the Rev. Gilbert Gauthe, whose horrific crimes against children in the Diocese of Lafayette set off a wave of scandal in 1985 that reached across the USA all the way to the Vatican; not since Mouton defended Gauthe and almost ruined his life in the process.

Now, he enters churches only to light candles, candles for the children.

Mouton is a man who had everything and lost it, a man who hit rock bottom then found a way back.

Once a lawyer, he became a wanderer who watched his home, his family and his law practice fade away in an alcoholic haze, Mouton is now an author, a man who reinvented himself.

Gauthe is a pedophile who was a priest, an unassuming man whose monstrous crimes in south Louisiana set off a worldwide avalanche of scandal in 1985 that continues to rock the Catholic Church today.

In God's House is Mouton's latest book, a work of fiction mirroring reality so closely that Gauthe almost leers from its pages.

Ray Mouton, former defense lawyer for Gilbert Gauthe and now an author, stands near his home in the Pyrenees in southwest France.

Mouton grew up wealthy, the scion of an historically prominent, staunchly Catholic, South Louisiana family.

The Moutons began their Louisiana heritage with Jean Mouton, founder of the settlement that eventually became Lafayette, La.

They count a Civil War general, a governor, a U.S. senator and other prominent Louisiana figures among their ranks.

Ray Mouton also made his mark as a star quarterback in high school.

Two years later he ran off to Mexico with the prettiest girl in his sophomore college class, married her and went on to graduate from Louisiana State University law school.

As a lawyer, Mouton poured himself into his cases with the same zeal that made him a star quarterback, sometimes going days without sleep while he was preparing for trial.

By the mid-1980s he had tried two personal injury cases that resulted in record verdicts and was involved in a number of other high profile trials.

"I had a significant media profile locally for a young lawyer," he said.

He was known as a firebrand and he lived up to the reputation.

He, his wife and their three children lived on a sprawling estate in a remote corner of Lafayette Parish.

"We had a big home that was a replica of an 1850s Acadian farmhouse, a Cajun guest cottage, a large bass pond, stables, horses, a swimming pool, and landscaping.

There were irises on the banks of the pond."

Born in 1945 into a poor farming family in Napoleonville, La., he was the eldest of eight children.

An introvert and a poor student, he more or less strayed into the priesthood.

After failing several classes at two seminaries, he was ordained in 1971.

He might have remained obscure had he not been a predatory pedophile.

As his crimes came to light and case after case was brought against him and the Lafayette Diocese, Gauthe's life was chronicled in multiple court records.

An older boy molested Gauthe around age 9.

Gauthe preyed on boys of roughly the same age, the sons of his parishioners, scores of them.

Though timid around adults, he could be a fiend with children, once telling a reluctant boy that if he told about their sexual encounters, Gauthe would kill his father and, as a priest, "make sure he goes to hell."

He told family members and others that he never felt any real commitment to the priesthood but confided to his brother Richard, another pedophile eventually arrested and jailed in Great Britain, that it offered unlimited access to young boys.

Gauthe took advantage of that access and a pattern emerged.

During a decade beginning in 1972, Gauthe moved from the Louisiana towns of Broussard to New Iberia to Abbeville to Henry, molesting boys in each location.

The late Bishop Gerard Frey, then in charge of the Diocese of Lafayette and Gauthe's supervisor, repeatedly was told of Gauthe's crimes but responded only by moving the priest every time rumors began to spread.

Frey also told victims' parents to have their sons go to confession and repent their participation in the sexual episodes.

Then, he made Gauthe chaplain of the Boy Scouts.

That year, parents of Gauthe's victims brought a number of suits against the diocese.

At first, all the plaintiffs settled out of court.

Then the late J. Minos Simon, a crusty, garrulous Lafayette lawyer, refused to settle.

Simon's suit became public, forcing the district attorney to file a criminal case against Gauthe, and Gauthe became the first Catholic priest in U.S. history to face indictment for multiple cases of child molestation.

The Diocese of Lafayette suddenly needed a criminal defense lawyer, a Catholic who would have the church's interest at heart.

"I took the case out of vanity and greed," Mouton said.

"I knew it would be a high-profile case and I knew the church had unlimited funds to defend it."

Beyond that, Mouton said he waded into his defense of Gauthe with a certain naiveté.

As a criminal defense lawyer, he thought he had seen the worst of humanity, but this was his mother church.

Gauthe must be an aberration, he reasoned.

"I honestly believed the church was a repository of goodness," Mouton said.

Judge Henry Politz in an undated file photo.

"When I decided to take that case, I destroyed my life, my family, my faith.

In three years, I lost everything I held dear."

Mouton's first meeting with his client was unnerving.

"No one would have believed this nondescript, mild-mannered, soft-spoken person could have done the things he was charged with," Mouton said.

"And then he began to speak about these things and being in that room with him was the creepiest experience of my life."

Mouton believed that he was representing a true sex maniac and his strategy was to have Gauthe admit to his crimes and plead insanity.

The list of victims had grown to 37 by then.

An insanity defense would keep the victims from having to testify and Mouton hoped to have Gauthe serve out whatever term he got in a treatment facility.

"The church fought me at every turn," Mouton said.

"They wanted me to plead him out and make it go away."

Though Gauthe first seemed fearful of prison, in the midst of the legal proceedings Mouton noticed that his client had become complacent and seemed to have few worries about his fate.

"I didn't know it then, but Gilbert had (the late) Judge Henry Politz on his side," Mouton said.

As the case progressed, Mouton's obsessive habits worked to his client's advantage but not his own.

He would work days without sleeping, self-medicate with a bottle of vodka or gin, sleep fitfully and rise to begin again.

As news of the case spread, Mouton and his family began to receive threats.

Mouton's son was embroiled in fights in school about his father, and the lawyer's long hours began taking their toll on his marriage.

His faith in the church, something he had never questioned, began to erode as well.

As he dug into the Gauthe case, he found evidence that church officials had long known that Gauthe was a child molester.

Worse, Mouton found evidence of first one and then another and another pedophile priest in the Lafayette Diocese.

And as he watched his health and his marriage slip away, Mouton began to lose something else, his unflinching faith in the church as the one institution of good.

"I felt somebody had to do something, do all in their power, to protect innocent children from bishops who covered up crimes of demented criminal priests who belonged in prison."

As the Gauthe case wound toward a close, its publicity brought forward other victims of other priests across the country.

Lawsuits against the church began to multiply.

Gauthe's crimes alone would cost the diocese at least $10 million.

Mouton joined with two priests, canon lawyer Father Thomas Doyle and the late Rev. Michael Peterson, a church psychiatrist who treated troubled priests, to write a report for the Vatican on the state of pedophilia in the U.S. church.

Working over several months and traveling the country, the trio compiled a report that concluded that the problem of pedophilia was so widespread in the Catholic clergy that the cost in dollars eventually could reach $1 billion and would be a public relations nightmare.

Gilbert Gauthe, center, is escorted to a waiting car by two Lafayette Parish Sheriff's deputies after being released from jail on Feb. 2, 2000, in Lafayette, La.

Gauthe, an ex-priest who has admitted molesting numerous children, was released after prosecutors failed to convince a judge he should be tried for an alleged 1982 rape.

(Photo: John Rowland, The (Alexandria, La.) Town Talk)

The cost to the church would be staggering, they warned.

The cost in human suffering could not be measured.

Church leaders initially appeared thankful for the report, then turned their backs on it, Mouton said.

Doyle, who served as chaplain to the U.S. Air Force until 2004, agreed.

"In the beginning, both Ray and I naively believed that when confronted with the truth that the church would do the right thing and act in accord with its teachings," Doyle said.

"At a minimum, we thought it would have the common decency and common sense to do all in its power to heal the wounds of innocent victims, and in the process remove criminal clerics from the ministry, reporting them to police authorities," Doyle said.

Mouton ended the Gauthe case and the report a ruined man.

By 1987, his law practice was gone and his marriage had ended.

The country estate sat vacant and Mouton was falling apart.

"I felt then as I do now that every bishop who has covered up a clerical crime belongs in prison with the priest," Mouton said.

"I knew no one in the church had ever done anything about this or ever would do anything about it.

"I worked, battling the diocese, the American church and the Vatican until I literally burned myself up spiritually, mentally, and physically."

Mouton was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the psychological driving wheel that can lead to great success or catastrophic failure.

And he said he had another problem: "I also was a full-blown alcoholic."

In October 1986, he pleaded guilty to 11 counts of child molestation and was sentenced to 20 years.

Under a plea bargain that Mouton worked out, he was to get psychiatric treatment and was to be required to take Depo-Provera to diminish his sex drive.

He was sent to David Wade Correctional Center in Homer, La., and the mantle of protection from Politz, at that point chief justice of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, followed him there.

Beyond the curtain of foliage is the home of Gilbert Gauthe.

He now lives as a registered sex offender in San Leon, Texas.

(Photo: Evan Moore, (Opelousas, La.) Daily World)

The bond between one of Louisiana's worst child molesters and one of its most powerful jurists was both real and puzzling.

Politz was a giant in Louisiana's legal community, a former president of the Louisiana Trial Lawyers Association, an officeholder on numerous boards and a man in whose name a scholarship has been established at the LSU law school.

From the day that Gauthe was charged, Politz became his protector.

In an interview in 1998, Politz said that it was the result of family ties that reached back to Napoleonville.

"My father and his grandfather sharecropped together in Napoleonville," Politz told the Houston Chronicle.

"When my father died at a very early age, Gilbert's grandfather befriended my mother.

"Gilbert's mother and my sister were best friends.

Largely because of Politz's intervention, Gauthe was given his own air-conditioned studio at Wade where he painted signs and portraits.

The walls of that studio were glass, so guards could observe Gauthe.

But he soon hung portraits on the walls, hiding himself and his teenage assistants from sight

He was allowed to leave the prison for extended furloughs to visit his mother.

Politz visited him regularly and, on occasion, took him and prison officials to lunch at a nearby country club.

In September 1995, Gauthe was released from prison 11 years early.

He moved to Polk County, Texas, to the tiny community of Ace where he was arrested months later and charged with molesting a 3-year-old boy.

Robert C. Bennett, a powerhouse Houston lawyer who practices primarily in federal courts, arrived in Polk County to defend Gauthe.

With Bennett's help, a lack of cooperation from Louisiana authorities and what the district attorney described as a weak case, Gauthe was allowed to plead no contest to a nonsexual charge of injury to a child.

He later moved to Waskom, Texas, on the Texas-Louisiana border, then south of Houston to Galveston County.

Politz died in 2002, and in 2008, Gauthe was arrested for failing to register in Galveston County as a sex offender.

He served two years and was released in April 2010.

As Gauthe was painting in his prison studio, Mouton was running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain.

He still had money and, with his life at a crossroads, he headed for Europe.

Instead, he found release running 2 feet in front of the horns of a 1,500-pound beast that wanted to kill him.

The running of the bulls is a tradition across Spain, but particularly in Pamplona.

There, a dozen or more fighting bulls are loosed in the streets and members of the crowd run in front of them to test their courage.

"I first attended Fiesta De San Fermin in Pamplona in July 1970 and ran with the bulls for the first time that summer," Mouton said.

He did it again after the Gauthe case and continued the practice until 1998, when he fell, breaking an arm and almost dying from a subsequent heart attack.

Mouton had always written: essays, short stories, observations.

In writing he found an outlet for the manic obsession that drove him in law, but one that did not threaten to kill him.

Mouton began spending most of his time in Europe.

In 2002, he published Pamplona, Running the bulls bars and barrios in Fiesta de San Fermin.

The book, replete with stunning photographs and vivid descriptions, has been praised as the definitive account of Pamplona's fiesta and running of the bulls.

More recently, he has written another book, In God's House, a sprawling novel about a Louisiana lawyer who defends a pedophile priest and almost loses everything in the process.

"This is a work of fiction, but, obviously, it wouldn't be the same if I hadn't lived through what I did," he said.

"It's dedicated to the victims, children around the world who are survivors of clergy abuse and those who did not survive."

The book has done well in England, Ireland and Scotland, and is available on amazon.com.

It does not yet have a U.S. publisher, and Mouton said he intends to begin searching for one this fall.

A spokesman for the Lafayette Diocese said the diocese was not aware that the novel had been published and would have no comment on it.

Now, Mouton spends most of his time at his home in southern France, where he is working on several other novels.

In the mornings, he often walks out on his terrace and looks across the valley to the little church below.

Mouton no longer considers himself a member of the Catholic Church or any organized religion.

Still, old habits die hard, and once in a while, he quietly slips into the little church alone.

"I only go into churches to light candles and pray while lighting them," Mouton said.

"To me, the perfect prayer is when one focuses all of their energy on another in the moment when a candle is lit," he said.

"I light candles for people I know who have troubles of any kind in their life, especially those who are ill.

"But I always light the first candle for all the innocent children whose names I will never know," Mouton said, "all those children who have been abused."

Evan Moore, city editor at the (Opelousas, La.) Daily World, previously covered the Gauthe case extensively for the Houston Chronicle.

The case of pedophile priest Gilbert Gauthe from 1985 to 1986 in Lafayette, La., was the first of many.

In his wake was a bevy of civil and criminal cases against priests and dioceses.

BishopAccoutability.org, a nonprofit Massachusetts organization, maintains the most extensive records on such cases.

The following facts are based on their data:

• Between 1984 and 2009 more than 3,000 civil lawsuits involving pedophile priests were filed in the United States.

• More than $3 billion in awards and settlements have been made between 1984 and 2008.

• Between 1986 and 2009, 37 civil cases went to trial.

• Between 2001 and 2010, the Vatican acknowledged that 600 priests accused of sexual abuse had been removed from the clergy worldwide, half at their own request and half by papal decree.

Of those, 325 have been identified in the USA.

• Data from the U.S. Council of Catholic Bishops includes 16,795 persons who have reported being abused as minors by priests since 2004.

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In 1974, Bishop Gerard Frey assigned Rev. Gilbert Gauthe as a Boy Scout chaplain despite the fact that Gauthe had previously come to Frey's attention for having molested altar boys. Gauthe was stripped of his priestly duties after more allegations of sexual misconduct surfaced in 1983. Bishop Frey was criticized for his handling of Gauthe's case, and in 1985 expressed his regret, saying, "I ask for the prayers and understanding of all our people and of all people of good will of every faith and belief. I deeply regret and am distressed by the suffering that has taken place because of the tragic events in the diocese over the past several years."[1][dead link ]
 In total, the diocese settled for more than $20 million in lawsuits involving Gauthe.


Mustaine congratulated the group respectfully, and honored his commitment to the European tour with Judas Priest.

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# DAVE MUSTAINE To METALLICA: 'I Am So Very Proud Of All You Have Accomplished'

MEGADETH mainman Dave Mustaine has posted the following "open letter" on the band's official web site:

"METALLICA, as you know, has been selected to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

So, it is with much respect that I say congratulations!

"I also had the nice surprise of hearing that they called to invite me to the pre-ceremony party the night before, and then to the actual ceremony.

Unfortunately, as you all know, I will be winding down our European tour with JUDAS PRIEST, so I will be unable to attend.

However, I'd like to say to Lars (Ulrich) and James (Hetfield), I am so very proud of all you have accomplished.

I will continue to pray for the very best for you and your families, as I always have.

"Thank you for the invitation and thinking of me."

MEGADETH's "Priest Feast" European tour with JUDAS PRIEST and TESTAMENT is scheduled to wrap on March 23 in Amsterdam, Holland.

METALLICA will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during an April 4 ceremony at Cleveland's Public Hall.

In a late 2008 interview with Rolling Stone magazine about the band's nomination for induction, Hetfield was asked who will be onstage with METALLICA when they get inducted.

"Everyone that played on a record should be there," he said.

"You're considered for the Hall 25 years after your first recording, not after you formed."

After being told that this would omit Dave Mustaine, Hetfield replied, "He wasn't on a record.

Jason Newsted [former METALLICA bassist] should be up there — he was in the band for 14 years and played on quite a few records.

And so should Robert [Trujillo; current METALLICA bassist]."

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Everybody wants a train wreck, like with BLONDIE onstage arguing over crap [in 2006].

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# Attorney General William Barr orders first federal executions in nearly two decades

Published Thu, Jul 25 2019 10:12 AM EDTUpdated Thu, Jul 25 2019 2:16 PM

PointsThe federal government will resume executing death row inmates after nearly two decades without doing so, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

Attorney General William Barr directed the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of five inmates convicted of murder and other crimes.

The executions have been scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020.The

The federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988, and expanded by Congress in 1994.

No federal executions took place, however, until 2001, according to to the Bureau of Prisons website.

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The department also announced a new execution protocol, replacing the three-drug cocktail previously used in federal executions with the single drug, pentobarbital.

The last federal execution was carried out in 2003.

There are 62 individuals on federal death row, according to a tracker maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center.

The Supreme Court outlawed state and federal death penalty laws in the 1972 decision Furman v. Georgia.

The ruling invalidated the laws then on the books, but did not outlaw the death penalty under all circumstances, leading states and the federal government to draft new legislation.

"Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people's representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President," Barr said in a statement.

"Under Administrations of both parties, the Department of Justice has sought the death penalty against the worst criminals, including these five murderers, each of whom was convicted by a jury of his peers after a full and fair proceeding."

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"The Justice Department upholds the rule of law—and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system," he said.

Executions have been scheduled for Daniel Lewis Lee, Lezmond Mitchell, Wesley Ira Purkey, Alfred Bourgeois and Dustin Lee Honken, according to the Justice Department.

In its release, the DOJ provided brief summaries of the crimes committed by each inmate.

In a statement, Ruth Friedman, director of the Federal Capital Habeas Project, said it was a "pervasive myth" that the federal death penalty was applied to only the worst offenders who committed a narrow class of crimes.

"In fact, the federal death penalty is arbitrary, racially-biased, and rife with poor lawyering and junk science.

Problems unique to the federal death penalty include over-federalization of traditionally state crimes and restricted judicial review," Friedman said.

"These and other concerns, including troubling questions about the new execution protocol, are why there must be additional court review before the federal government can proceed with any execution."

The Justice Department said each of the inmates had "exhausted their appellate and post-conviction remedies, and currently no legal impediments prevent their executions."

The executions will take place at the U.S. Penitentiary Terre Haute, in Terre Haute, Indiana.

The Justice Department said that additional executions will be scheduled at a later date.

The announcement comes as a number of Democrats running for president have promised to do away with the death penalty altogether.

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 On February 13, 2015, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced a moratorium on the death penalty. Wolf will issue a reprieve for every execution until a commission on capital punishment, which was established in 2011 by the Pennsylvania State Senate, produces a recommendation. Effectively there was a moratorium in place, as the state had not executed anyone since Gary M. Heidnik in 1999.
 On July 25, 2019, the Justice Department announced that Attorney General William Barr had ordered the Bureau of Prisons to schedule the execution of five inmates who had exhaused the appeals process.


Staring at the prospect of losing the team, the state agreed to fund a renovation of the Devils' arena.

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The Devils agreed yesterday to play at Byrne Meadowlands Arena at least through next season and for 11 more after that if a renegotiated lease with promises of new revenues from luxury suites and advertising is approved in September.

If the deal is not completed by Sept. 15, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority would reactivate its request in State Superior Court in Hackensack for a temporary restraining order to keep the team from terminating its current lease.

Both sides suspended their legal skirmish in court yesterday.

If the lease is not approved by Sept. 15, the Devils would not automatically leave New Jersey; rather, the tenant and the landlord, happy for now, would revert to battle stations, fighting over whether the authority had breached the lease.

Among the terms of the proposed lease is an escape clause for the Devils that would be triggered if another major league sports team were to play in the Meadowlands Sports Complex.

The clear target of this clause is the Yankees, who have flirted with the idea of moving to New Jersey.

"Absolutely, we suggested it," said Lou Lamoriello, the president and general manager of the Devils.

The focus is not on any one team, but if we're going to create new revenue from advertising and luxury suites, this area cannot sustain more competition.

There's just so much the fans and corporate sponsors can sustain."

The clause does not restrict the authority from seeking a baseball team in the Meadowlands, but losing the Devils would impose a heavy penalty.

And the Yankees, whose lease at Yankee Stadium runs through 2002, reacted angrily to the news.

"It appears the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has decided it would prefer to have a National Hockey League team over a major league baseball team playing in the Meadowlands," David Sussman, the Yankees' general counsel, said in a statement.

"However, as a legal matter, it is not clear that an owner of one team (in this case the Devils) and the sports authority can prevent other sports teams from locating in a state."

The two sides characterized the 63 days required to turn the agreement in principle into a signed lease as a period when various financial and practical assumptions -- such as ticket prices, luxury suite prices and the precise location of the new club seats -- have to be worked on.

"It's a 12-year deal and we have certain commitments along the way," said Robert Mulcahy, the president and chief executive of the authority.

The nastiness of the recent months -- during which the Devils continually wielded the threat of accepting a sweetheart deal from Nashville -- was set aside yesterday at a news conference to announce the agreement in principle, which both said was shepherded by National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman, who is believed to have removed much of the rancor between the team and the authority.

"This has been a long and difficult process."

He added that John McMullen, the Devils' owner, "could have done something else to make more money."

McMullen, a native New Jerseyan, admitted that the cash would still be greener in Nashville.

"If you did this all with your head, you wouldn't stay," he said, adding that his heart made half his decision.

Lamoriello said: "The ingredients in this lease are something we are comfortable with.

Some of the features of the agreement are these:

*A $12 million renovation, financed through authority bonds, of 25 luxury suites, plus the construction of 14 new mezzanine suites, 1,600 lower level club seats and a restaurant.

The authority has, for now, rejected as too costly building 30 or 40 new luxury suites in the arena's upper reaches.

"But if we find there's a market for 20 or 30 more, we'll think about more," said Michael Rowe, the general manager of the arena and Giants Stadium.

Club seats -- which are usually plushly cushioned and feature services such as waiters and access to a restaurant or club -- sell for a wide variety of prices around the N.H.L.

But if they sold at $5,000 a seat per season, for example, they would yield $8 million in revenues, of which the Devils would get a high percentage.

*Allowing the Devils to sell advertising in more areas of the arena, rights that are currently restricted.

*Guaranteeing the Devils a minimum revenue stream from suites, club seats and advertising in which the authority would make up for any shortfall.

"But we're not guaranteed break-even," McMullen said.

"That depends on salaries in the N.H.L."

*An annual incremental increase in the percentages the Devils get from concessions, parking and luxury suites, rising from 34.2 percent of gross revenues to somewhere between 40 and 50 percent by the end of the lease.

The two sides also agreed to share revenues from the possible sale to a corporation of the right to rename the arena.

The Capital Center in Landover, Md., did this and is called the USAir Arena.

Naming rights can fetch at least $1 million annually.

"We wanted to enhance the revenues of the Devils to make them competitive with their peers in the N.H.L. and modernize the arena to make it more competitive," aid Mulcahy.

The renovations, which will cause the elimination of 500 regular seats, will be ready for the 1996-97 season.

Despite the proposed modernization, it is not a new state-of-the-art facility, which McMullen craves.

Said Lamoriello: "This makes up for problems in an old arena.

But it still doesn't make up for a new one."

Although authority officials were not specific, they said the Nets, the Devils' co-tenants at the arena, will also benefit from revenues derived from the sale of luxury suites and club suites.

"We can't say anything until we see the agreement," said John Mertz, a Nets spokesman.

The most intriguing clause in the proposed lease is the one allowing the Devils to escape the arena before 2002 if another pro team makes the Meadowlands Sports Complex its home.

Said Michael Francis, the authority's chairman: "We are not soliciting a baseball team to breach their lease to come here."

The two sides characterized the clause as one that protects the Devils' ability to sell more suites, club seats and advertising without competing with the more popular Yankees in a nearby stadium.

"There is a concern for how many suites and club seats you can sell in one market," said Mulcahy.

The Yankees have agitated about moving to New Jersey, and the authority would like to have them.

But for now, the Yankees are still working on plans with New York City that would keep them in the Bronx.

The agreement would also shed two current lease provisions, including payment by the Devils to the authority of 5 percent of their radio and TV rights fees, and 5 percent from the sale of the team, if it exceeds $50 million.

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History.:New Jersey.:1993–2000: Championship franchise.

Going into Game 6 in New Jersey, the Devils led the series three games to two. Before the game, Rangers captain Mark Messier guaranteed that the Rangers would win Game 6. Messier led his team back, netting a natural hat-trick to help the Rangers overcome an early 2–0 Devils lead and force a decisive contest. In Game 7, the Devils' Valeri Zelepukin tied the score at 1–1 with 7.7 seconds remaining, but the Devils were defeated in double overtime on a goal by Stéphane Matteau.
 Despite the setback, the team returned to the Eastern Conference Finals during the lockout-shortened 1994–95 season and defeated the Philadelphia Flyers four games to two. They swept the heavily favored Detroit Red Wings to win New Jersey's first-ever Stanley Cup, as they brought the Cup across the Hudson River from New York, after the Rangers had won it the year before. The 1995 Devils team became the first to give the players a day with the Stanley Cup, a tradition that lives on with each Cup winner. Claude Lemieux was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoffs MVP. The success came amid constant rumors that the team would move for the third time in its history to Nashville.


Over the course of more than 140 years, 37 Nobel laureates and 1 Fields Medalist have been affiliated with Johns Hopkins.

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Twenty-seven people with ties to Johns Hopkins have received a Nobel Prize, including four Nobel laureates currently on the faculty—molecular biologists Peter Agre and Carol Greider, and astrophysicists Adam Riess and Riccardo Giacconi.

Our Nobel winners include recipients of the prize in Medicine (14), Physics (4), Chemistry (3), Economics (3), Physiology (1), and two Nobel Peace Prize honorees—among them President Woodrow Wilson, who received a doctorate from Hopkins in 1886

James Franck, Professor of Physics, 1935-38

Thomas Hunt Morgan, Ph.D. 1890 (Zoology); LL.D. 1915

George Hoyt Whipple, M.D. 1905; Associate Professor in Pathology, 1910-14

Joseph Erlanger, M.D. 1899; Assistant in Physiology, 1900-01; Instructor, 1901-03; Associate, 1903-04; Associate Professor, 1904-06; LL.D. 1947

Vincent du Vigneaud, National Research Fellow, Pharmacology 1927-28

Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Assistant in Physics, 1930-32; Associate, 1932-36

Francis Peyton Rous, A.B. 1900; M.D. 1905

Haldan Keffer Hartline, M.D. 1927; Professor of Biophysics, 1949-54

Simon Kuznets, Professor of Political Economy, 1954-60

Christian B. Anfinsen, Professor of Biology, 1982-1995

Hamilton O. Smith, M.D. 1956; Assistant Professor of Microbiology, 1967-69; Associate Professor, 1969-1973; Professor, 1973-1998; Professor Emeritus 1998-present

Daniel Nathans, Assistant Professor, 1962-65; Associate Professor, 1965-67; Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, 1967-1999; Interim President, 1995-96

David H. Hubel, Assistant Resident, Neurology, 1954-55; Fellow, Neuroscience, 1958-59

Torsten Wiesel, Fellow, Ophthalmology, 1955-58; Assistant Professor, 1958-59

Merton H. Miller, Ph.D. 1952 (and honorary doctorate 1993)

Jody Williams, M.A. Latin American Studies (SAIS) 1984

Riccardo Giacconi, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 1982-1997; Research Professor of Physics and Astronomy 1998-present

Peter Agre, M.D. 1974; Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Pharmacology, 1974-75; Research Associate/Instructor, Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Medicine, 1981-83; Assistant Professor, 1984-88; Associate Professor, 1988-93; Professor of Biological Chemistry and Medicine, 1993-2005, Malaria Institute, 2008–present

Andrew Fire, Adjunct professor of biology, 1989–2009

Carol Greider, Daniel Nathans Professor and Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics; Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine 1997–present

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 2009

Adam Riess, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, 2006–present

NOTE: International Physicians for The Prevention of Nuclear War Inc. of Boston, Mass., was the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.

Two Johns Hopkins graduates—Bernard Lown, M.D. 1945; and James E. Muller M.D. 1969—were among the six physicians (three Americans, three Soviets) who founded that organization in 1980.

Dr. Lown delivered one of the two Nobel acceptance speeches on behalf of the organization.

Over the course of several decades, the university has led all U.S. universities in annual research and development  expenditures. In fiscal year 2016, Johns Hopkins spent nearly $2.5 billion on research.
 Johns Hopkins is organized into 10 divisions on campuses in Maryland and Washington, D.C. with international centers in Italy, China, and Singapore. The two undergraduate divisions, the Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and the Whiting School of Engineering, are located on the Homewood campus in Baltimore's Charles Village neighborhood. The medical school, the nursing school, and the Bloomberg School of Public Health are located on the Medical Institutions campus in East Baltimore. The university also consists of the Peabody Institute, the Applied Physics Laboratory, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, the School of Education, the Carey Business School, and various other facilities.
 Johns Hopkins was a founding member of the American Association of Universities.


Also in 1999, he was appointed conductor of the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama chorus and he has been conductor of Bristol Choral Society since September 2000, whose principal concerts are with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

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Adrian Frederick Partington FRCO (born 1 October 1958) is an English conductor, chorus master, organist and pianist. He is director of music at Gloucester Cathedral, joint conductor of the Three Choirs Festival and artistic director for the Gloucester festival years, director of the BBC National Chorus of Wales,  conductor of Gloucester Choral Society, and former conductor of Bristol Choral Society and leader of the postgraduate choral conducting course at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.
 The son of professional musicians, he was a chorister at Worcester Cathedral under Christopher Robinson and a pupil at The King's School, Worcester, studied at the Royal College of Music under Herbert Howells, and was organ scholar at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle and King's College, Cambridge. He returned to Worcester as assistant organist from 1981 to 1991, before turning more of his attention to choral conducting.
 He was associate chorus master of the CBSO Chorus and conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Youth Chorus during the Simon Rattle years until September 2000.
 In 1999, he was appointed director of the BBC National Chorus of Wales – a position which he still holds, and has involved preparing the chorus for many concerts, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts, BBC Proms appearances and recordings under conductors such as Richard Hickox during his years as principal conductor of BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He also conducts several concerts himself each season, as well as other BBC engagements such as conducting the televised Swansea link at the Last Night of the Proms and recording the soundtrack for one series of "Doctor Who".


On 12 July, Reading announced that Jón Daði Böðvarsson had left the club to join Millwall on a permanent transfer..

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Icelander signs permanently for the Lions for undisclosed fee

Reading Football Club can announce that striker, Jón Daði Böðvarsson, has completed a permanent transfer to join fellow Championship side, Millwall, for an undisclosed fee.

The Icelandic attacker, 27, joined the Royals in the summer of 2017 from newly-promoted Wolves, scoring 10 times in his debut season for the club.

He scored seven more times for Reading in 2018-19 - last finding the net for us in a 2-2 draw at Griffin Park back in September.

In total, he made 56 appearances for the club across all competitions.

Having completed his medical earlier today Böðvarsson will now link up with the Lions, who finished a place behind the Royals in last season's Sky Bet Championship campaign.

We would like to thank Jón for his contribution in blue and white hoops and we wish him the best of luck in his future career.

### Popa departs to sign season-long loan at Steaua Bucharest

Reading Football Club can announce that midfielder Adrian Popa has agreed to join Romanian top tier side Steaua Bucharest on loan until the end of the season.

### Barrow agrees season-long loan switch to Turkey

Reading Football Club can confirm that winger Mo Barrow has agreed to a season-long loan move to Turkish top tier side Denizlispor.

### 🎥 iFollow | Rafael on joining the Royals ambitions in England

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### Ejaria returns to the Royals on loan!

Reading Football Club are delighted to announce that midfielder Ovie Ejaria has sealed a last minute season-long loan move back to the Madejski on transfer deadline day.

### 🎥 iFollow | Extended action from Hawthorns stalemate

Ovie Ejaria's stunning strike would have been a worthy match-winner against West Bromwich Albion; ultimately it was only worth a single point as Kenneth Zohore netted a late penalty for the hosts.

### Gallery | Honours even at The Hawthorns

### Team news | Boyé starts in only Royals change

Lucas Boyé starts for the Royals against West Bromwich Albion, coming in for Lucas João in Reading's only change from their 3-0 win over Cardiff City at the weekend.

### Mark Bowen appointed as Sporting Director

Reading Football Club are pleased to announce that Mark Bowen has been officially appointed to the role of Sporting Director with the Royals.

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Season review.:Pre-season.:Transfers and contracts.

On 20 June, Lewis Ward moved to Exeter City for an undisclosed fee.
On 27 June, Tyler Frost, Adam Liddle and Ramarni Medford-Smith all signed new professional deals until the end of the 2019–20 season, whilst Adam Desbois, Marcel Elva-Fountaine and Roberto Nditi signed their first professional contracts also until the end of the season.
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 On 11 July, Reading announced the season-long loan signing of João Virgínia from Everton.


On October 9, French Montana's brother Cokeboy Zack appeared on Revolt TV announcing the release of the mixtape "Coke Zoo", a collaboration between French Montana and Fetty Wap.

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# Ready For A Fetty Wap And French Montana Mixtape?

Fetty Wap is unstoppable right now, following hit after hit with his debut album shooting straight to number one.

Apparently, a mixtape with French Montana.

During an interview with Revolt, French's brother, Zack, revealed that Zoovier and the Coke Boys captain joined forces for a project called Coke Zoo that's already completed — and will be dropping in a matter of days.

The vibe was already there since they're "on a tour, chilling every day and then parlaying on the bus [with] the studio right there."

French's brother mentioned that we should be expecting around seven new tracks.

And you can get a taste of what's to come below.

Fetty's currently recovering after being hurt in a motorcycle crash, which happened just one day after his album was released.

Fetty Wap Shows Us How To Dance To 'My Way' In His New Video

A native of Grenada, a product of Brooklyn, a student of hip-hop.


In 1979 Tom Wolfe published a less sanitized version of their story in "The Right Stuff".

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THE RIGHT STUFF by Tom Wolfe; Farrar, Straus & Giroux;

May 5, 1961: the day Alan Shepard scratched his back on the edge of

space and America entered the manned space race.

there had been all those Sputniks—Mechtas and Vostoks—beeping

overhead, clockwork reminders that the heavens were in the hands of the

from feudalism was secretly lobbing what looked like customized

samovars at the free world while priapic Vanguards and Jupiters wilted

exploded prematurely for all the world to see.

The oaken voice of Walter Cronkite echoes in the memory of America's

There were resonant suspense at lift-offs

and tremolos of pride at splashdowns: America still had the right

stuff, Wolfe's buzz word for the indefinable attributes of the

His long awaited book about test pilots and the Mercury

flights recalls those years through the eyes and nerve endings of the

first astronauts, their wives and even the conditioned chimpanzees who

rode prototype capsules downrange from Cape Canaveral: The chimp's

&"heart rate shot up as he strained against the force, but he

He had been through this same sensation many

struggle, they wouldn't zap all those goddamned blue bolts into the

There were a lot worse things in this world than

g-forces ... The main thing was to keep ahead of those blue bolts in

the feet!... He started pushing the buttons and throwing the switches

like the greatest electric Wurlitzer organist who ever lived..."

The jazzy mix of facts and fictional technique, Céline's ellipses, the

gadzooks delivery and a presumptuous ape's-eye view that would have

curled Henry James' worsteds—these are unmistakable parts of Wolfe's

It is still called the New Journalism, although the form is as

old as the Beatles and the author is now 48.

has had a revolutionary impact on his field.

like dandelion fluff, and his work still stirs furious debate.

Yet even the creakiest practitioner of the inverted-pyramid style of

journalism will have to agree that behind the mannered realism of The

Right Stuff thumps the heart of a traditionalist.

principle of the book is an old-fashioned fascination with, and

admiration for, the test pilots and fighter jocks of the U.S.'s first

astronaut team: Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John Glenn, Gus

Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton.

book has a superhero, Chuck Yeager, a World War II combat veteran who

broke the sound barrier in 1947 and rewrote aviation history in

experimental rocket-powered planes of the '50s and early '60s.

 Shepard ran the Astronaut Office on a "rank has its privileges" basis. The Mercury and 1962 astronauts had their own allocated parking spaces outside Building 4 at Johnson Space Center, while astronauts from later groups had to compete for the remaining spaces allotted to astronauts. While Shepard prohibited junior astronauts from receiving gifts and consulting or teaching part-time, he remained vice president and part owner of the Baytown National Bank in Houston, and devoted much of his time to it.
 Training was always ungraded; the Mercury astronauts had nothing to gain and much to lose from being objectively compared to the newer classes, as it could threaten their privileged status, managerial control, and priority for flight assignments. The astronaut's attendance at their training events was voluntary. The character of the Astronaut Office would only change after Mercury astronauts retired in the 1970s, and control passed to George Abbey.
 The Mercury Seven wrote first-hand accounts of their selection and preparation for the Mercury missions in the 1962 book "We Seven".