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Chicago officials release videos of police shooting that killed 13-year-old Adam Toledo Chicago officials on Thursday released video footage from the fatal police shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo last month. The video shows an officer exiting his vehicle and chasing Toledo, who is running down an alley. When the officer catches up to the teen, he orders him to raise his hands and said, "Drop it, drop it." The officer fires a single shot as the teen raises his hands. Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Thursday said there was "no evidence" that the 13-year-old fired a weapon at police before he was fatally shot. Toledo, a seventh-grader at Gary Elementary School, was shot in the chest and killed by a police officer on March 29 in an alley in the Little Village neighborhood. The city's Civilian Office of Police Accountability released the video Thursday and said it had informed Toledo's family of the plan. At a bond hearing Saturday for a 21-year-old man who was with Toledo, prosecutors said Toledo had a gun in his hand when an officer shot and killed him. Prosecutors said the man, Ruben Roman, had fired the gun, and that Adam was holding it when he was shot and killed by police when Roman was already being detained, CBS Chicago reported. Protesters in Chicago on April 14, 2021. Shafkat Anowar/AP

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1. Christmas dinner 2. Decorating the Christmas tree 3. Spending more time with family and friends 4. Exchanging presents with family 5. Watching Christmas films 6. Decorating the house for Christmas 7. Listening to Christmas music 8. Eating chocolate 9. Opening an Advent calendar 10. Sending Christmas cards 11. Christmas shopping for presents 12. Seeing Christmas lights get turned on 13. Christmas shopping for food and drink 14. Playing board games 15. Family games and activities 16. Putting lights on your home 17. Wearing Christmas jumpers 18. Opening small present/stocking on Christmas eve 19. Putting a wreath on the door 20. Putting a mince pie and carrot out on Christmas eve 21. Carol singing 22. Wearing Christmas pyjamas 23. Christmas eve buffet 24. Making and drinking mulled wine 25. Cooking a Christmas day breakfast 26. Preparing a Christmas pudding or cake 27. Christmas crafts e.g. making decorations or a wreath 28. Making gifts for others 29. Taking part in secret Santa 30. Decorating baubles EastEnders' Gillian Taylforth's ex charged with five firearms offences Sky News host Kay Burley dropped from show today after breaking Covid rules London could be plunged into Tier 3 Covid rules next week as cases rise Matt Hancock cries in GMB vaccine interview & says 'I'm proud to be British' National Lottery to raise minimum age from 16 to 18 in gambling crackdown We gave half our £115m Lottery win away...but husband bought me second-hand car 1. To make other people happy 2. To show others I care about them 3. To show others I appreciate them 4. To see the reaction when the recipient opens the gift 5. To get a sense of satisfaction 6. To help keep connected to people I don't see as often as I would like The average spent on Christmas food and drink this year will be £193Credit: Alamy Mmore than one in five will plan Christmas shopping up to a month beforeCredit: Alamy Santa tells boy he WON'T get him a Nerf gun for Christmas

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"From our perspective, and from some statistics, the most significant issue is the level of violence," says Christian Visnes, regional director of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) which works with people in Honduras amid what it terms a humanitarian crisis. Donald Trump talks of "ridiculous" immigration laws ahead of announcing Mexico tariffs He says there is a multiplicity of factors, which are often hard to separate. "It's difficult sometimes to see because most of these people live in poverty or extreme poverty," he says. Another factor is corruption. In 2009, the country's left-leaning president, Manuel Zelaya, an ally of Hugo Chavez, was ousted in a military coup. The US declined to recognise it as such, partly in order not to trigger the automatic cessation of aid. The current president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, a conservative ally of the United States, was elected in 2013, and re-elected in 2017 amid widespread allegations of electoral fraud. Accusations of corruption have dogged his presidency. In 2016, his sister was forced to stand down amid protests after Hernandez made her a cabinet minister. In recent months, cities such as San Pedro Sula and Tegucigalpa have been rocked by public unrest over government plans to privatise healthcare and education. Even more damaging to the president are allegations his brother has been a major narco-trafficker, overseeing shipments of cocaine from Colombia to the United States. Antonio Hernandez Alvarado was arrested last November by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in Miami. In May, the former member of Honduras's congress appeared in court in New York where he was charged with scheming over several years to bring tonnes of cocaine into the US using planes, boats, and, on one occasion, a submarine. He admitted to agents he had accepted presents from violent drug traffickers, from groups such as the Los Valle and Los Cachiros cartels. In the indictment unsealed this spring, Hernandez says his brother, the president, warned him about the bad company he was keeping and that he was going to "wind up dead." "Tony Hernandez was involved in all stages of the trafficking through Honduras of multi-tonne loads of cocaine that were destined for the US," said prosecutor Geoffrey Berman. Support free-thinking journalism and subscribe to Independent Minds Tony Hernandez has pleaded not guilty and a trial is due to take place later this year. The president, who has admitted that he too has previously been investigated by the DEA, last year said: "No one is above the law, that's been my stance and you know it, my stance as president and as a relative." He added: "I hope that the justice system will give him the chance to defend himself." The office of the president did not immediately respond to enquiries from The Independent. Alberto Chedrani, a member of congress from the ruling National Party, says the decision by people to leave shows they are not happy. He also claims opposition parties had a hand in organising the caravans. Speaking in an office at the restaurant he owns, he says it is difficult to attract the foreign investment required to create jobs while people are damaging the nation's image. Asked if the president is not damaging its image by his association with his brother, charged with narco-trafficking, he says: "The president said if he found out anything about his brother, he would put him in jail here in Honduras." Not everyone is so forgiving. The newly elected president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, who campaigned on an anti-corruption platform, declined to invite Hernadez to his swearing in. The former Honduran president, Zeyala, whose wife, Xiomara Castro, ran against Hernandez, says people are leaving the country "in a massive way." He blamed the government's neo-liberal agenda, which he said was enforced by the military. "The people in our country have a lot of needs and are hungry so they take this decision to go," he says. "They don't have jobs, there is corruption. This is the reality for our people, and this is the economic model supported by the US." Asked what Hernandez should do to try and stop the migration, he says the government has to "start a process where human beings are the reason, the centre and the objective of the government." Read more Outside of government, plenty of people are trying to create more opportunities for young people in the country either through tourism or else in small businesses. Roger Enrique Valladares is executive vice president of the Technological University of Honduras, a private university network with 11 campuses across the country.

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Either way, that would not make it viable for outright deletion in lieu of the ability to redirect or reshape the article to me more broad or focusing articles to specific political and geographical (talk) The stereotypes in these articles do not even hold for the majority of the people described in these articles, and the articles should be deleted due to libelous information. You asked if other categorized articles exist and they do. Whether the quality is ideal is another issue. If that's the case, then proper articles should be formed assuming that the content has basis. If the content can be sourced, then they should stand rather than being deleted. There are more that exist, which you can find in the "By group" section of Stereotype. Looking through some of them, while some appear to be weak articles, others do not. I am not a judge of whether or not certain stereotypes described in these pages are legitimate, but I'm not certain you would be either. What we can go on is the sourced material and if none exists, it should be removed. If it does have a reputable source, it seems like quite a leap to call it "libelous information. "Luminum (talk) == Cleanup Needed on this Article == This article appears to have a lot of synthesis in it. Please take a look at Stereotypes of African Americans for a good example of how this page should be. Eros2250 (talk) By this I mean there needs to be Reliable Sources which are universally accepted. Right now, there is a lot of original research and synthesis going on this article. A lot of the sources are college essays written by college students. These are not reliable sources. Again please take a look to see what constitues a reliable source. Please see No original research. Again, the African American Stereotypes article is a good example to follow. Eros2250 (talk) I also find it equally concerning that much of the content is supported by only one author who may or may not be considered a reliable source. This article is below Wikipedia's standards for an encyclopedia article. Eros2250 (talk) I've begun fixing some citations, to make it the sources clearer, and potentially use them for additional material. There are a couple of sources which are op-ed/opinion pieces, which is certainly not rs. I left them in for now. Thanks Work Permit, that is very helpful as the citations had a lot of issues with them. Also thanks for spotting the opinion pieces. Eros2250 (talk) == Non-stereotype information == I removed the following paragraph because it does not address stereotypes. I believe this paragraph should be removed because it describes several notable incidents that have occured. However, it says absolutely nothing about Western attitudes toward Asians, rather it describes emprical occurences. If the paragraph showed how these events changed the stereotype of the model minority, that would be different, but that's not what is happening in the paragraph as it exists: The Asian Americans model minority construct was shaken by a string of incidents involving Asian Americans engaging in criminal or unethical behavior. In 2007, Asian Americans were implicated in cheating scandals, shooting sprees, and political corruption. Most notable is the Virginia Tech massacre by Seung-Hui Cho, which led to the deaths of 33 individuals, including Cho himself. The shooting spree, along with Cho's Korean ethnicity, stunned the Asian American community. Other scandals which made headlines were the arrests of Norman Hsu, a former campaign donor to Hillary Clinton, Ed Jew, the former San Francisco Supervisor, and Kyung Joon Kim, a former Los Angeles City Commissioner who served as a business partner to current South Korean president Lee Myung-bak. Also in 2007, 34 MBA students, primarily of East Asian descent, were caught in a major cheating scandal at Fuqua School of Business of Duke University. Of those 34 students, 9 were permanently expelled, 15 were suspended for one year, and the rest received failing grades. I'm pretty sure it does just that by stating that it damaged the image of the model minority. Onlybest12 (talk) :We cannot engage in original research or make unwarranted conclusions. We know these events occured, factually. But we have no evidence that these caused stereotypes to change, attitudinally. I changed the wording so that it is just stating the facts now. However, I must admit, a lot of this article is original or fringe research to begin with. I wonder how its only this article that has all the odd research and not the black/hispanic/non east asian/arab stereotype articles?

Stereotypes of East Asian Americans in the United States

Payroll tax cut will kick off in two weeks. Your employer isn't ready President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Yuma International Airport in Arizona on Aug. 18. Employers and payroll companies have less than two weeks to put President Donald Trump's payroll tax deferral in place. It's looking like an uphill battle. The president signed an executive order on Aug. 8 calling for a deferral of the employees' portion of the payroll tax from Sept. 1 through the end of the year. Currently, employers and employees share responsibility for a 12.4% levy that funds Social Security and a 2.9% tax to support Medicare. Social Security taxes are subject to an annually adjusted wage cap ($137,700 for 2020), but Medicare taxes are assessed beyond that threshold. The executive order applies specifically to the Social Security tax and would affect workers whose bi-weekly pay is less than $4,000 on a pretax basis. Employers and payroll companies are still awaiting final guidance from the IRS on how this will work. It's looking less likely that they'll be ready in time. "It's getting close to Sept. 1, and if [guidance] is issued any further beyond today or tonight, it'll be harder for employers to do something about it," said Pete Isberg, vice president for government relations at payroll provider ADP. To that effect, the National Payroll Reporting Consortium - of which ADP is a member - highlighted its concerns in an Aug. 20 statement. "Even if guidance were available today, the programming changes are substantial in scope," the trade association wrote. To meet the guidance, payroll companies would have to recalculate the payroll tax in the middle of a quarter and have it apply to some employers and some workers - but not others, they said. "Not all employers and payroll systems will be able to make these complex changes by Sept. 1," the consortium said. Questions linger While Trump handed down the deferral through an executive order, there's no guarantee that the employees' share of the payroll tax will be forgiven. This has created uncertainty among payroll providers and employers. For starters, employers are generally responsible for withholding and depositing payroll tax. If the employer doesn't withhold employees' share of taxes and the IRS can't collect them, then the worker is on the hook for the tax. "If this were a suspension of the payroll tax so that employees were not forced to pay it back later, implementation would be less challenging," wrote the U.S Chamber of Commerce in an Aug. 18 letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin. More from Personal Finance: Eviction protections are quickly disappearing Extra $300 in unemployment benefits not coming soon What Joe Biden plans to do for student loan borrowers "But under a simple deferral, employees would be stuck with a large tax bill in 2021," the group wrote. "Many of our members consider it unfair to employees to make a decision that would force a big tax bill on them next year." An employee earning $50,000 per year would be able to pocket $119 per paycheck if Social Security taxes were deferred. That adds up to $1,073 over nine pay periods, the Chamber said. The employee will have to fork that money over to the IRS in 2021 if there's a deferral but no forgiveness of the tax. Even the execution of the payroll tax cut on the part of the employer remains uncertain. "Do you default everyone in, so they're all deferred, or do you ask each employee if you want us to do this for you, let us know and they have to elect the deferral?" asked Isberg. "We have no idea what to expect." Saving Social Security Next year's tax bill isn't the only thing on the minds of savers. Critics of the payroll tax holiday have also raised concerns by groups such as AARP, which advocates for older Americans, that massive changes, including benefit cuts, may be ahead for Social Security if the tax deferral were made permanent. "AARP believes the payroll tax deferral established by the recent executive action must remain temporary," the group wrote in an Aug. 21 letter to Mnuchin. "Second, it is imperative the administration ensure Social Security's Trust Funds are held harmless from the loss of payroll contributions and interest due to the executive action."

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Cornell student 'beat black man and called him n*****' A white Cornell student has been arrested and is being investigated for a hate crime after he allegedly punched a black student while calling him a 'n*****'. The attack happened in the early hours of Friday morning in Ithaca, upstate New York, and left the black student in hospital being treated for a potential concussion. Police say they have arrested one man, charged him with misdemeanor assault, and are investigating 'any racially biased motivation' for the attack. The wounded student, a junior at Cornell, said he was walking home around 1am on Friday when he saw a group of four or five white men on his property. The men had already started and altercation with his friends, he told The Cornell Daily Sun, and were pushing and shouting at them. He asked the group to leave and as they walked out the driveway they uttered the racial slur. When he confronted the men, he said they up and began punching him in the head. A video taken around an hour later purports to show two members of the same group racially abusing another student in the same neighborhood. The men can be heard discussing the victim's race, before saying 'you may be sand-n***** black but you're not black.' Later in the same video they tell the man 'come fight us, n*****' before repeating the initial insult shortly before the footage cuts out. Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, said he was aware of the footage and the university is investigating. Black Students United, a student advocacy group, said: 'What eludes this campus is true equality among students of color and their white counterparts.'

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This article provides an overview of the transport infrastructure of Latvia. == Road system == It is mandatory to keep headlights on while driving, even in daylight; most cars commercially sold in Latvia are equipped to make this automatic. === Highways === === Length of the road system === == Railways == Latvian Railways is the main state-owned railway company in Latvia. Its daughter companies both carry out passengers services as well as carry a large quantity of freight cargo, and freight trains operate over the whole current passenger network, and a number of lines currently closed to passenger services. There is also a narrow gauge railway between Gulbene and Aluksne, operated by the Industrial Heritage Trust, using Russian and Polish built heritage rolling stock. Three narrow gauge trains a day operate on the 33 km route between the two towns. total: 2,347 km Russian gauge: 2,314 km gauge (270 km electrified) narrow gauge: 33 km gauge (2002) === Passenger Train === Pasažieru Vilciens is a daughter company of Latvian Railways and the only passenger-carrying company in Latvia. Domestic passenger lines with current service are: Torņakalns – Tukums II Railway Riga – Jelgava Railway Jelgava – Liepāja Railway Riga – Daugavpils Railway Krustpils – Rēzekne – Zilupe (border of Russia) Rīga – Sigulda – Cēsis – Valmiera – Valga (border of Estonia) Zemitāni – Skulte Railway Pļaviņas – Gulbene === Rail links with adjacent countries === Russia - yes Lithuania - yes Belarus - yes Estonia - yes == Airports == Riga International Airport is the only major airport in Latvia, carrying around 5 million passengers annually. It is the largest airport in the Baltic states and has direct flights to over 80 destinations in 30 countries. It is also the main hub of airBaltic. In the recent years airBaltic also operated from Liepāja International Airport as well as Ventspils International Airport but operations in both of these airports were ceased until 2017, when airBaltic relaunched flights from Riga to Liepaja. Currently there are plans for further development in several regional airports, including Jūrmala Airport, Liepāja, Ventspils as well as Daugavpils International Airport. === Airfields === As of 2003, there were a total of 51 airfields in Latvia, with 27 of them having paved runways. Airports - with paved runways total: 27 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 16 (2003) Airports - with unpaved runways total: 24 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,523 to 2,438 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 20 (2003) == Ports and harbors == Key ports are located in Riga (Freeport of Riga and Riga Passenger Terminal), Ventspils (Free port of Ventspils), and Liepāja (Port of Liepāja). Most transit traffic uses these and half the cargo is crude oil and oil products. == Waterways == 300 km (perennially navigable) == Pipelines == crude oil 412 km; refined products 421 km; natural gas 1,097 km (2003) == Merchant marine == total: 11 ships (with a volume of or over) totaling / note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Germany 1, Greece 1, Ukraine 1 (2002 est.) ships by type: cargo ship 6, petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 2, roll-on/roll-off ship 1, short-sea/passenger 1 ==References== == External links == History of railroad construction in Latvia Ministry of Transport of Republic of Latvia Transport in Latvia

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Car chase through Perth's east ends with man tasered, arrested Nine News reporter Kelly Haywood said police told her they were led on a high speed chase before the alleged stolen Subaru burst into flames. Witness Stefani Cirillo told Haywood she saw the car coming straight for her. "But then it took a turn to the car next to us," she said. "It skimmed through both of the two cars and it flipped over. "I started seeing red flames coming from the bonnet of the car, by that time the firies got there. "We're all nurses so we stopped to make sure they were okay and lucky we had water in the car." Witnesses told Haywood that the man inside the white car was tasered before being arrested by police. The alleged stolen car crashed into two other vehicles before it burst into flames Credit:Kelly Haywood The man, and sole occupant of the vehicle, was taken to Royal Perth Hospital with minor injuries. Occupants of the two cars that were caught up in the pursuit were uninjured. The 24-year-old man has been charged with steal motor vehicle and drive recklessly, reckless driving to escape pursuit by police, driver of a vehicle failed to comply with a direction to stop; and suspended licence. He is due to appear in Midland Magistrates Court on Monday.

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== Revising Draft:Gilbert Academy 2 == Dear FloridaArmy: I have incorporated your information on Gilbert Academy into my Draft:Gilbert Academy 2 article. Thank you so much! Do you need to delete yours? If there are two drafts on the same topic, I'm not sure about whether the editors will publish one until the other is deleted. Thank you again!

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The Queen has made £7.7million from her love of horse racing Revealed: The Queen has made £7.7million from her love of horse racing after winning more than 500 races over the past 31 years Her Majesty has won 534 races from 3,205 runs over time as racehorse owner Most profitable year in 2016, with her horses earning £560,274 across the flat Carlton House has been her top-earning horse with £772,815 in winnings By Joe Middleton For Mailonline The Queen has earned a staggering £7,768,448 in winnings from her horses over the last 31 years. Her Majesty has won 534 races from 3,205 runs over her career as a racehorse owner, across both the flat and jump races in the UK and Ireland, new research reveals. The most profitable year came in 2016, a record year in terms of winnings, with her horses earning £560,274 across the flat and jump seasons dating back to 1988, when records began, with Carlton House her top-earning horse across this period with £772,815 in winnings. The Royal Family are well-known for their love of horses and the Queen has demonstrated her own passion for it, securing her first win as an owner when Choir Boy won the Royal Hunt Cup in 1953. Averaging nine wins per year, the Queen has an impressive win ratio of 16.1 per cent across both flat and jump racing across the last three decades, as revealed by myracing.com Famously, she has never claimed victory at the Epsom Derby, but ahead of the prestigious event, she has already claimed £192,765 in prize money this year. However, this ranks well behind 2019's top earner Sheikh Hamdan Al Maktoum's winnings of £465,195. With six winners to her name so far this flat season, the Queen is hoping to continue her form at the meeting, while Royal Ascot, which starts June 18, has already been the scene of one of her most significant wins back in 2013 when her horse Estimate won the Gold Cup, making her the first reigning monarch to claim victory. Matthew Newman, myracing.com's racing expert, believes that the Queen has a chance of success at Epsom this year. 'This year she has a real chance,' he says. 'Sextant was an impressive winner on his debut at Ascot in May and with only four career starts, he should do better still at Epsom. 'The Queen has Sir Michael Stoute as trainer, he has had five Epsom wins to his name, so she a good chance. It will be a pretty warm order given his progressive profile and I expect it to go off as a 2/1 favourite.' However, Newman believes that the Queen's desire for victory is second to her 'genuine love' of the sport and her horses. 'She does it for fun, 100 per cent,' he says. 'There has long been a royal connection with racing that I suspect the Queen enjoys continuing. 'Her genuine love of the horses is not in question - one look at her face when her horse begins a run or gets to challenge will tell you all you need to know. 'She turns up come rain or shine at both the Epsom Derby meeting and Royal Ascot and was said to be riding at the age of 6 before inheriting horses when her father (King George VI) passed away in 1952.' She is pictured with Barber's Shop the horse at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in May 2016 Advertisement Share or comment on this article:

2019-12-31 00:00:00

Paul Heckingbottom insists he can turn Hibs' season around as Easter Road fans call for his sacking PAUL Heckingbottom tonight insisted he can turn Hibernian's season around as angry supporters gathered outside Easter Road and called for him to be sacked. Heckingbottom's team surrendered a one goal lead in the second-half of the Edinburgh derby against Hearts to lose 2-1. It is the third Ladbrokes Premiership match in a row the Leith club have been beaten in and they are now in second bottom spot in the top flight table. Heckingbottom, whose team have only won one of their opening six league games, admitted he was feeling under pressure. However, the former Barnsely and Leeds United boss is confident he can end their run of poor form and admitted he may drop some of the players who were responsible for their late collapse against their capital rivals. "I am feeling it," he said. "They are not games you want to lose whether you are on a good run or a bad run. Would I feel differently if we had won the two games before? I don't think I would. It is tough to take. "You want the win and you want to turn things around and you want to put right the things that are going wrong, but I wouldn't call it any differently. This is a sickener and it is a sickener in its own right. I understand the frustrations because the manner of the defeat is a tough one as well. "My job along with the staff and the players is to put it right on the pitch. Other things aren't our remit or our decision. We have to focus on our job, stand up, be strong, act like men and put it right. No hiding place. "Have I got confidence that I can turn it around? Yeah, no problem. I've got confidence. But there's no hiding place from what's going on. Similar to the game we played against Hearts here last year, we should have been out of sight and got punished near the end. "We need to be more clinical, more ruthless. I'm looking at the attacking players on the pitch. How many shots did they have on goal, the attacking players? How often did they really work their keeper? "Again, that's not a tactical issue in terms of getting up the pitch, getting into positions. Belief, quality, a real desire to score a goal. That's what you need. At 2-1 we changed shape and were going for it. I would have loved something to have fallen for us then, of course. But that was going a bit more gung-ho. There's got to be a conviction in both boxes." Asked if he still thought he would be able to halt their run of disappointing form, Heckingbottom said: "Yeah, a hundred per cent. I would love to see your face if I sat here and said otherwise. A hundred per cent. "Again, you will ask me those things. I can't think like that. To do your job as a manager, you can't think like that. It's pointless. What's the point in doing that? I've already been looking back at the video of the game and, straight away, I'm thinking about what I show the players tomorrow. "You've got to look at that (changing the team), without a doubt. The frustrating thing, for me, is that I'd love to be sitting here talking about Stevie Mallan's goal and some big performances. "I know, when I watch the game back, that for 75 minutes I know what I'm going to see. I'm going to be really pleased with lots of bits of the game. Then, when I get to that bit, it's the same frustrations. So we have to change. You might say the players let us down. "But it's our responsibility. It's my responsibility. I have to do that. That's why you can understand the fans, you can understand their frustrations - we go through it as well. And it's our job to make the changes. Whether they're short-term in terms of shaking it up or long-term, people have to step up. "At the minute, players have been getting opportunities. Other players might get opportunities - and then it's up to them to step up and hold the place down in the team."

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Trawling ocean floor for fish has carbon footprint equivalent to global aviation Commercial fishing vessels which drag the ocean floor produce carbon emissions on a level with global aviation, according to a groundbreaking study, which has calculated for the first time the climate impacts of the widespread practice. Bottom trawling is favoured by commercial fishing companies as the weighted nets drag up large quantities of fish in one go. It has turned the seafloor from a carbon sink to a source of emissions, pumping hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the ocean every year, a volume of emissions similar to those produced by flying. The trawling emissions are also larger than the annual carbon footprint of all countries except the world's top five emitters - China, the US, India, Russia and Japan. Oceans act as a buffer to the climate crisis, absorbing more than 90 per cent of the planet's heat trapped by human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. The alarming discovery is part of a wide-ranging ocean study, from an international team of 26 marine biologists, climate experts, and economists, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The researchers used an algorithm to identify areas where protections would be most beneficial across three overlapping goals: protecting species, seafood production and tackling the climate crisis. Sign up for news and advice on saving the planet "The ocean floor is the world's largest carbon storehouse. If we're to succeed in stopping global warming, we must leave the carbon-rich seabed undisturbed," said Dr Trisha Atwood of Utah State University, a co-author of the paper. "Yet every day, we are trawling the seafloor, depleting its biodiversity and mobilising millennia-old carbon and thus exacerbating climate change. Our findings about the climate impacts of bottom trawling will make the activities on the ocean's seabed hard to ignore in climate plans going forward." The countries which would have the greatest impact on curbing the climate crisis are the ones with both large national waters and industrial bottom trawl fisheries. Eliminating 90 per cent of the current risk of carbon disturbance due to bottom trawling would require protecting only about 4 per cent of the ocean, mostly within national waters. Currently only 7 per cent of the ocean is being protected, although analysis shows that 30 per cent is the minimum needed to provide multiple benefits to humanity. Priority locations are distributed throughout the ocean, with the vast majority within the 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZs) of coastal nations. Additional protection targets are located in the high seas, in waters governed by international law. Those areas include the Mid-Atlantic Ridge (a massive underwater mountain range), the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean, the Nazca Ridge off the west coast of South America, and the Southwest Indian Ridge, between Africa and Antarctica. The researchers say that it is a "myth" that ocean protection will cause food insecurity. Closing areas to fishing and other destructive practices leads to a sixfold increase in the biomass of fish within a decade, according to findings. Protecting the right areas will help replenish fish supplies in the surrounding areas boosting catches globally by more than 8 million tonnes (or 10 per cent of global catch in 2018). "In this study, we've pioneered a new way to identify the places that - if strongly protected - will boost food production and safeguard marine life, all while reducing carbon emissions," says Dr Enric Sala, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society and lead author. "It's clear that humanity and the economy will benefit from a healthier ocean. And we can realise those benefits quickly if countries work together to protect at least 30 per cent of the ocean by 2030." The protection "blueprint" aims to help each country decide which areas to protect depending on their national priorities. But it's also a plan that works best at the global level. If countries work together, it would take less than half of the ocean area to achieve 90 per cent of the maximum possible biodiversity benefit, according to the team. At the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference, scheduled for later this year, some 190 countries are expected to finalise an agreement to end the world's biodiversity crisis, with a goal of protecting 30 per cent of the planet's land and ocean by 2030.

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Trump will dial back his trade pressure if markets tank, UBS says President Donald Trump will change course on his policy of trade tariffs if it causes the U.S. stock market to suddenly lose value, the asset management division at UBS predicts in new research report. "We have a strong conviction that the (Trump) administration's strategy will be reflexive to economic and market impact," Erin Browne, head of asset allocation at UBS Asset Management, said in the report. "Should U.S. equities experience a meaningful drawdown, we expect the Trump administration to dial back pressure on trade to avoid undermining its ultimate priority, the strength of the U.S. economy," she said. Trump has often made public statements correlating record highs in the stock market with the health of the U.S. economy. According to the Swiss bank, Trump's top priority is the performance of the country's economy and thus, if the stock market takes a dives due to his policies, he would soon reconsider imposing new tariffs and trade barriers. In terms of what a "meaningful drawdown" would look like, UBS explained that it would be any stock market fall over 10 percent within a short-term time horizon.

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130,000 PAYE taxpayers due refunds from Revenue Revenue is writing to 130,000 PAYE taxpayers who have paid tax but have not claimed any additional tax credits or reliefs in the last five years, to remind them that there is a four-year time limit for claiming a refund of tax. Revenue has issued letters over the last few years to assist taxpayers in claiming their due entitlements and ensuring they only pay the correct amount of tax. Analysis of a previous campaign suggests that the letters have a significant positive effect on taxpayer engagement with Revenue. Pat Murphy, National PAYE Manager in Revenue's Personal Division, has timely advice for taxpayers. "You can claim a refund of tax paid if there are entitlements you are due but have yet to claim. However, there is a four-year time limit for claiming tax refunds and the deadline for 2015 claims is December 31, 2019, so now is a good time to check that you have claimed all of your entitlements." For taxpayers who want to make a claim, the quickest, easiest and most convenient way to do so is online using PAYE Services, which is available in Revenue's myAccount portal. The services in myAccount are accessible on all mobile devices. Mr Murphy said, "Even if you did not get a letter from Revenue, you can review and update your tax record online at any time, using PAYE Services in myAccount. When you submit a claim, it is processed and verified by Revenue and most online refund claims are paid within five working days. So, there is still plenty of time to submit your claim and have your refund paid into your bank account before Christmas." In summary: There is a four-year time limit for claiming tax refunds, so if you have a claim for 2015 you will need to submit it by December 31, 2019. The quickest, easiest and most convenient way to submit your claim for tax back is online using PAYE Services in myAccount, which is accessible on all mobile devices. If you are not already registered for myAccount, you can register quickly and easily on the Revenue website at revenue.ie. If you add your bank account details to your myAccount profile, any refund due can be paid directly into your bank account, usually within 5 working days.

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Jazz Scene USA was an American television program of 26 30-minute episodes recorded in 1962, which featured performances by leading jazz musicians of the time. It was produced by Jimmie Baker, directed by Steve Binder, and (except for the first episode) was presented by Oscar Brown Jr.. ==History== Jazz Scene USA was initiated by jazz fan and television personality Steve Allen, who had regularly introduced and promoted jazz performers on The Tonight Show. Allen and his company, Meadowlane Productions, provided the financing for Jazz Scene USA. An independent production, it was recorded at the CBS Television City studios in Hollywood. Allen invited Jimmie Baker to produce the show. Baker had previously produced the show Stars of Jazz, which had run between 1956 and 1958. The shows were directed by Steve Binder, who had also worked on Stars of Jazz. The first show was filmed on April 21, 1962, featured the Jazz Crusaders, and was hosted by KMLA radio DJ Vern Stevenson. Subsequent shows were hosted by jazz singer Oscar Brown Jr.. In all, 26 shows were recorded. The series was shown on selected TV stations, including KOGO-TV in San Diego, who started running the series in December 1962. It was sold on a syndication basis to stations and CATV operators. Allen had hoped to produce a second series of 26 episodes, but these were never made because of a lack of funding. Eight of the programs were subsequently issued on VHS and DVD. ==Episodes== ==References== ==External links== Interview with director Steve Binder, Television Academy Jazz television series 1960s American music television series

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No each way bets on formation of next Government In the early years of this century I was several times deployed by a newspaper to work at major race meetings. Places like Cheltenham, Galway and Listowel became familiar as I was tasked with observing and recording politicians in this milieu. Back then it was almost obligatory for an ambitious Minister or TD to be seen in these places. Little of what I saw then has any direct links with the political predicament served up by the recent general election result. But I do recall the equanimity of some people, not politicians, as the big race of the day reached its crucial stage. It was a feat made all the more remarkable given the huge amounts of money they had handed over in the betting ring moments earlier. As I listened to Micheál Martin set out his pitch with glistening clarity to Seán O'Rourke on Thursday I recalled the calmness of those who watched their horse, far from perfectly positioned, as it approached the hill on the run to the finish line in Galway. Whatever political capital Micheál Martin retains, he has staked it on a coalition with Fine Gael. Even the idea of a rotating Taoiseach is on the table. If you'll allow me one last racing metaphor, there are no each way bets here. By early Thursday afternoon those in Fianna Fáil knew that the party leader had on radio effectively set the agenda for the day's parliamentary meeting. Most heard his interview although a few spent the drive to Leinster House sorting out constituency issues on their hands-free phones. They had been given an unambiguous signal the night before at any rate. Then Michael McGrath had stated on the Six One News that the party stood ready to take the next step. The juxtaposing of that statement with Fine Gael's Paschal Donohoe's more aloof assessment of the policy meeting between the parties alarmed some Fianna Fáil TDs. "I don't know how Michael McGrath can go and speak for the whole party," said one on Wednesday evening. Phone calls flowed between TDs and many feared Fianna Fáil was beginning to look desperate. "They (FG) are not really interested," concluded one on Wednesday night. All the while a small number wondered if some sort of talks with Sinn Féin were in any way still feasible? But those in prominent positions in the party believe any move in this direction would precipitate a major split in Fianna Fáil. That does not however diminish the sense of unease felt by many in the party about this entire subject. Particularly the sustained attacks by Micheál Martin on Sinn Féin, when a number of TDs believe it was an incorrect strategy to pursue in the first place. This is made all the more relevant given the suggested surge in Sinn Féin support according to the first opinion poll since the general election. Crucially too, this is the point in the political cycle were party councillors are more influential. This is because Seanad candidates are knocking on their doors seeking votes. Therefore concerns, which at other times may get nothing more than a sympathetic ear, are now elevated to the highest echelons of the party. Hence the questioning on Thursday of the Fianna Fáil leader's stance on Sinn Féin coupled with those calls for a comprehensive review of the party's structures in the aftermath of the poor election result. This could be viewed as a veiled verdict being delivered on the party leader's tactical abilities. Up to this point some TDs were often unhappy with Micheál Martin but they believed he was a capable strategist. Many of them no longer share this view. The questions at Thursday's meeting are said to have surprised Mr Martin, he had after all repeatedly stated that his parliamentary party endorsed the decision not to talk to Sinn Féin. Despite this dissent his response was described as impressively robust. Another question arises however from all this, could it spook Fine Gael? The party is understood to have some lingering worries about what it fears is a latent desire in parts of Fianna Fáil to form a government with Sinn Féin. Generally, though, many Fine Gael TDs privately concede that a coalition involving themselves and Fianna Fáil is looking more likely. Fianna Fáil's enormous eagerness to join forces is also being viewed with no little hilarity by some in Fine Gael. The longer this feat of political alchemy takes to complete the better is the feeling among some of them. This would allow the party membership time to digest this significant change. But there is also a realisation that the fast changing circumstances trigged by spread of the Coronavirus may accelerate the process.

2020-12-31 00:00:00

Through all of Moby Grape's bad breaks, Jerry Miller never soured on the music BACK IN THE Dark Ages when I was confined to an English seaside boarding school, I often used to dream of escape. Not so much in the physical sense of the word - although that would have worked, too - but by seizing on anything that seemed to convey a spirit of social adventure. In practice, this generally involved a small transistor radio, which at night could waft in the static-ridden but thrilling sounds associated with the 1967 "Summer of Love" and the Woodstock festival two years later. Even now, I can remember the Canadian-born disc jockey Pete Brady, happily still with us today, announce mysteriously: "And now one from the fabulous new Moby Grape platter." Three minutes later, I was hooked. What was it about the Grape? For one thing, the name. Back then, it struck me as pricelessly funny, with a touch of early Monty Python to it, and even today it seems nicely anarchic. Of course, the young make their own fun whatever time and place they're in, and each generation believes theirs to be a uniquely original time. Even so, there was a kind of exhilarating freedom to much of the music crackling over the airwaves around 1967, when "Sgt. Pepper's" was followed in short order by Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced" and Cream's "Disraeli Gears," with everyone from Pink Floyd to The Monkees in between. Even in this exalted company, there was something special about Moby Grape's debut album. Their music seemed not only to catch the ear, but to tell an emotional story. You could revel in the sheer abandon of a song like "Omaha" and feel the palpable grief of "8:05." The record sounded by turns buoyant; poignant; subtle; and, above all, hopeful, just as great art should. When in later years I found myself writing books about rock music grandees such as Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney, I was struck by the way those characters generally have not only talent but also luck on their side. For the adolescent Jagger, there was the moment when Keith Richards first loomed up at him out of the fog on a suburban London train platform, thus beginning a creative partnership still intact today. For his part, Clapton joined a commercially successful band when he was just 17. And for all their other merits, the Beatles had the singular good fortune to find possibly the only completely honest manager in Britain at the time. Exactly the opposite formula applied in the case of Jerry Miller and Moby Grape. The only breaks they caught seemed to be bad ones. As described by music critic Jeff Tamarkin, "The Grape's saga is one of squandered potential, absurdly misguided decisions, ill luck, blunders and excruciating heartbreak." It might have been funny if it weren't so sad. And yet through it all, Miller somehow retained his sense of perspective, seemingly regarding each successive blow as simply one of those things bound to happen from time to time in show business. After coming to know him, I'm all the more impressed by his impeccable kindness and natural modesty, and by the way he prefers to shun the personal limelight to a degree unusual in our self-obsessed age. Miller might not be a "rock star" in the narrowly commercial sense of the term, but he still plays music because he loves to do so, and in the end you can't help but wonder if that isn't success enough. Christopher Sandford is a longtime Seattle-area resident, author of many books, including "Union Jack: John F. Kennedy's Special Relationship with Great Britain" and several biographies of subjects in the music, movie and political worlds.

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Peter Andre has sweet exchange with Katie Price's ex Kieran Hayler over throwback snap of Princess PETER Andre has shared a sweet exchange with Katie Price's ex Kieran Hayler over a throwback snap of Princess. The Mysterious Girl singer, 48, posted a snap of sweet childhood snap of his daughter - who he shares with ex Katie. Peter Andre shared a sweet throwback snap of his eldest daughter PrincessCredit: Instagram The popstar opened up his photo album to give his fans a glimpse at his daughter's natural curly locks. Princess, now 13, looked adorable in the candid pic, wearing a blue and purple sun hat and a white sleeveless top. Peter was flooded with fan comments calling his eldest daughter "beautiful" and "super cute." Kieran, 33, also posted a sweet comment, writing: "Those curls ❤️❤️." The mysterious singer shared a sweet exchange with Katie Price's ex Kieran HaylerCredit: Instagram Kieran, who was married to Katie for five-years, would have looked after Princess and Junior, the children she and Pete share. The singer hilariously responded: "Mysterious curls." Meanwhile, Peter captioned the pic: "So what do you think of your dad on The Circle?" Geordie Shore's Charlotte Crosby made a late arrival to the programme in last night's episode, and is pretending to be the Mysterious Girl hitmaker. Katie and Kieran finally signed divorce papers last weekCredit: Getty Images The singer couldn't get over how "weird" the entire thing was as he watched the show with Emily and oldest children Princess and Junior, 15. The Celebrity Circle is a Stand Up To Cancer special on Channel 4, with stars going on the show either as themselves or "catfishing" as another celeb. Peter was clearly tickled by the entire thing, and filmed his TV while laughing as he watched. His family could also be heard giggling, with Peter exclaiming: "Guys, is this weird or what?" Last week Katie finally signed the divorce papers to end her marriage with her third husband Kieran. The childhood snap looked miles apart from her current glam lookCredit: Instagram The pair officially split in March 2018 after a tumultuous relationship dogged with cheating scandals. Katie shocked fans in 2013 when she married Kieran just two months after they met. But Katie's "fairy tale" love story with her third husband didn't last long. She was heartbroken to discover Kieran had been having sex with their children's nanny saying they did it "all over the house." Peter shares Princess and son Junior with ex KatieCredit: peterandre/instagram CBBC star reveals moment she had to report Mark Speight's suicide on Newsround Chloe Ferry says 'not long now baby' in cryptic Wayne Lineker post Katie Price fuels pregnancy rumours as she promises 'exciting news' with Carl carol's catsuit Carol Vorderman, 60, shows off her curves in skin-tight leather jumpsuit rat's cute! Emily Ratajkowski has first child - but 'won't know its gender until it's 18' Danniella Westbrook says she was rejected for job at Aldi because of her fame It was the final straw following his bombshell seven-month affair with Katie's best pal of 20 years, Jane Pountney, in 2014. She and Kieran had two children together, seven-year-old Jett and six-year-old Bunny. Katie also shares Junior and Princess from her marriage to Peter, and 18-year-old Harvey - whose estranged dad is Dwight Yorke. Peter Andre's wife Emily can't stop laughing as family watch Charlotte Crosby pretend to be him on 'weird' Celebrity Circle

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June James (married name June Morey, 22 April 1925 – 1 October 1997) was an Australian cricket player. James played one women's test match for the Australia national women's cricket team in 1951. She was Western Australia's first female Test player. ==References== 1925 births Australia women Test cricketers 1997 deaths

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Tennant Creek lockdown "likely" to be extended, says NT government The Northern Territory government says it is likely the Tennant Creek lockdown will be extended after nine new cases were recorded. Health Minister Natasha Fyles said the extension is being actively considered, but a final decision is yet to be made. "We will get more information from our health teams... and that decision will be made tomorrow. But it does look likely that we will extend that lockdown."

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Narrows Inlet formerly Narrows Arm is a fjord branching east from Sechelt Inlet in British Columbia, Canada. Its companion, Salmon Inlet, another side-inlet of Sechelt Inlet, lies roughly south. About halfway up the inlet lies the Tzoonie Narrows site of Sechelt Inlets Marine Provincial Park. ==References== Fjords of British Columbia Sunshine Coast (British Columbia) Inlets of British Columbia

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July 31. Kazinform's timeline of major events NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - Kazinform's Timeline is the one-stop shop where you can learn about historical events for 31st of July. See what notable events happened throughout Kazakhstan's history on July 31. The World Ranger Day on July 31 celebrates and honours rangers around the world who dedicate their lives to protecting our planet's cultural heritage and natural treasures. 1929 - Scientist Nikolay Chernykh discovers a new planet and names it after prominent Kazakh scholar Kanysh Satpayev. The plant orbits near the Earth once in five years. 2017 - The SAK film studio's full-length animation movie Kazakh eli wins the Best Script nomination at the Festival of Children's Films "Five Continents" on the sidelines of the 13th International Film Festival Eurasia. 2017 - Nur-Sultan-based football club Astana becomes the first football club from Kazakhstan to enter the list of top 100 European clubs. 2018 - The documentary Alryn Emel by Kazakhfilm receives the prize in the Best Foreign Documentary section at the Asian Art Week on Tourism and Film in the city of Taizhou, China. 2019 -The transport cargo vehicle Progress MC-12 sets a record for the fastest flight to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

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Hansen recalls Barrett ahead of Australia clash All Blacks coach Steve Hansen has recalled fit-again lock Scott Barrett while omitting loose forward Shannon Frizell among five players cut from a trimmed-down 34-man squad for the two tests against Australia. The world champion All Blacks play their final match of the abridged Rugby Championship against the Wallabies at Perth Stadium on Aug. 10, which also doubles as the first clash of the Bledisloe Cup, the annual series contested between the trans-Tasman nations. The second Bledisloe Cup match is in Auckland on August 17. Barrett returns after being sidelined for a month with a broken finger, replacing former World Player of the Year Brodie Retallick, who dislocated his shoulder in the 16-16 draw against South Africa in Wellington last Saturday. Along with Frizell, Asafo Aumua, Josh Ioane, Dalton Papali'i and Karl Tu'inukuafe have been cut, and the five are now unlikely to feature at the World Cup unless there are injuries. "They can jump into the mix, but it's obviously getting harder, isn't it?" Hansen told reporters on Wednesday. "Because we are trying to narrow it down. We have got two big games coming up and then we will reflect and get (the squad) down to 31." Frizell's omission, after he started against South Africa in Wellington last Saturday, means Vaea Fifita remains in the race to be the starting blindside flanker in the absence of Liam Squire. Rookie loose forward Luke Jacobson has retained his place in after making his test debut off the bench in the opening Rugby Championship win over Argentina in Buenos Aires. Inside centre Sonny Bill Williams, who will turn 34 on Saturday and has struggled with injuries over the past two seasons, has been retained but will be rested for the first Wallabies match. He emerged unscathed from his return to the test arena against the Springboks but will nonetheless head back to provincial rugby with Counties Manukau for the next two weekends before returning for the Auckland clash. "We've got a lot of respect for Sonny's playing ability, obviously," Hansen said. "We know he can play at this level -- the unfortunate thing is he hasn't played much and we wanted to see him on Saturday be able to cope with the rigors of test football which he did so that's a big tick." Australia, who defeated Argentina 16-10 in Brisbane last week, meet the All Blacks in Western Australia state capital Perth for the first time. "The Bledisloe Cup is the second most important trophy for us, after the Rugby World Cup, and we're really looking forward to the next two Tests coming up," said Hansen. The defending champion All Blacks are second in the Rugby Championship standings behind South Africa ahead of the final round. Victory in Perth will see the All Blacks retain the southern hemisphere trophy for a fourth consecutive season if the Springboks lose their final match away to Argentina. Forwards - Dane Coles, Liam Coltman, Codie Taylor, Owen Franks, Nepo Laulala, Joe Moody, Atu Moli, Angus Ta'avao, Ofa Tuungafasi, Scott Barrett, Jackson Hemopo, Patrick Tuipulotu, Samuel Whitelock, Sam Cane, Vaea Fifita, Luke Jacobson, Kieran Read, Ardie Savea, Matt Todd Backs - TJ Perenara, Aaron Smith, Brad Weber, Beauden Barrett, Richie Mo'unga, Jack Goodhue, Ngani Laumape, Anton Lienert-Brown, Sonny Bill Williams, Braydon Ennor, Jordie Barrett, George Bridge, Rieko Ioane, Sevu Reece, Ben Smith

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Man acquitted of entering a home with a weapon after successful sex fantasy defence Two men hired to carry out a stranger's sexual fantasy of being tied up while clad in his underpants went to the wrong rural NSW address with machetes, but politely left after realising their mistake. One of the Sydney men, Terrence Leroy, has now been found not guilty in the NSW district court of entering the home in July 2019 intending to intimidate while armed with an offensive weapon. Describing the facts of the case as unusual, judge Sean Grant said the crown had not excluded the reasonable possibility that Leroy entered the house as part of a lawful plan to carry out a sexual fantasy. "They carried the machetes either as a prop or something to use in that fantasy," the judge said in his published reasons for the acquittal earlier this month. "The fantasy was unscripted and there was discretion as to how it would be carried out." According to statements tendered at the brief judge-alone trial, a man living in western NSW near Griffith wanted to be tied up and have a broom handle rubbed around his underwear. "He was willing to pay $5,000 if it was "really good,"" the judge said. The would-be client had a "history and proclivity for engaging the services of people," a police officer said. After making arrangements with a man on Facebook for people to engage in the role play, he sent his address, which he later updated after moving to another home. But on 14 July, a resident living in the same street as the first address noticed some light coming from his lounge room when he got up to go to the toilet. Assuming it was a friend who came daily to make a coffee, he yelled out "Bugger off, it's too early." After hearing a voice ask if his name was that of the intended client, the resident turned on his bedside light, took off his sleep apnoea mask, and saw two men standing next to his bed. They carried machetes pointed down towards the ground. They started to leave after he told them his name - which was not that of the intended client. One man apologised, saying "Sorry mate," and shook the resident's hand, while the other said "Bye" before they drove off. The resident then contacted the police. When the men and their driver arrived at the correct address, the would-be customer noticed one had a "great big knife" in his pants which he put in the car after being told not to bring it inside. They had coffee and the client made bacon, eggs and noodles before Leroy fell asleep on the couch. Police turned up soon after and found the machetes in the car. The judge said the Crown had proved Leroy was one of the men who entered the first house with a machete, but had not proved that his intention had been to intimidate. Leroy's barrister successfully submitted the entry was for a non-criminal purpose. "It was a commercial agreement to tie up and stroke a semi-naked man in his underpants with a broom," the lawyer said.

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Other scholars are of the opinion that the Gospel of John was composed in two or three stages. Most contemporary scholars consider that the Gospel was not written until the latter third of the first century AD, and with the earliest possible date of AD 75-80: “...a date of AD 75-80 as the earliest possible date of composition for this Gospel.” Other scholars think that an even later date, perhaps even the last decade of the first century AD right up to the start of the 2nd century (i.e. 90 - 100), is applicable. Nonetheless, today many theological scholars continue to accept the traditional authorship. Colin G. Kruse states that since John the Evangelist has been named consistently in the writings of early Church Fathers, “it is hard to pass by this conclusion, despite widespread reluctance to accept it by many, but by no means all, modern scholars.” The Gospel of John may have been written by an anonymous author. Regarding whether the author of the Gospel of John was an eyewitness, according to Paul N. Anderson, the gospel “contains more direct claims to eyewitness origins than any of the other Gospel traditions.” F. F. Bruce argues that 19:35 contains an “emphatic and explicit claim to eyewitness authority.” Bart D. Ehrman, however, does not think the gospel claims to have been written by direct witnesses to the reported events. ===Book of Revelation=== According to the Book of Revelation, its author was on the island of Patmos "for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus", when he was honoured with the vision contained in Revelation. The author of the Book of Revelation identifies himself as "Ἰωάννης" ("John" in standard English translation). The early 2nd century writer, Justin Martyr, was the first to equate the author of Revelation with John the Apostle. However, most biblical scholars now contend that these were separate individuals since the text was written around 100 AD, after the death of John the Apostle, although many historians have defended the identification of the Author of the Gospel of John with that of the Book of Revelation based on the similarity of the two texts. John the Presbyter, an obscure figure in the early church, has also been identified with the seer of the Book of Revelation by such authors as Eusebius in his Church History (Book III, 39) and Jerome. John is considered to have been exiled to Patmos, during the persecutions under Emperor Domitian. Revelation 1:9 says that the author wrote the book on Patmos: “I, John, both your brother and companion in tribulation,... was on the island that is called Patmos for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Adela Yarbro Collins, a biblical scholar at Yale Divinity School, writes: Some modern critical scholars have raised the possibility that John the Apostle, John the Evangelist, and John of Patmos were three separate individuals. These scholars assert that John of Patmos wrote Revelation but neither the Gospel of John nor the Epistles of John. The author of Revelation identifies himself as “John” several times, but the author of the Gospel of John never identifies himself directly. Some Catholic scholars state that "vocabulary, grammar, and style make it doubtful that the book could have been put into its present form by the same person(s) responsible for the fourth gospel." ==Extrabiblical traditions== There is no information in the Bible concerning the duration of John's activity in Judea. According to tradition, John and the other Apostles remained some 12 years in this first field of labour. The persecution of Christians under Herod Agrippa I (r. 41-44 AD) led to the scattering of the Apostles through the Roman Empire's provinces. A messianic community existed at Ephesus before Paul's first labors there (cf. "the brethren"), in addition to Priscilla and Aquila. The original community was under the leadership of Apollos (1 Corinthians 1:12). They were disciples of John the Baptist and were converted by Aquila and Priscilla. According to tradition, after the Assumption of Mary, John went to Ephesus. Irenaeus writes of "the church of Ephesus, founded by Paul, with John continuing with them until the times of Trajan." From Ephesus he wrote the three epistles attributed to him. John was allegedly banished by the Roman authorities to the Greek island of Patmos, where, according to tradition, he wrote the Book of Revelation. According to Tertullian (in The Prescription of Heretics) John was banished (presumably to Patmos) after being plunged into boiling oil in Rome and suffering nothing from it.

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Kate Garraway's emotions won't be hidden on Good Morning Britain Kate announced her return in an emotional interview last week (Picture: ITV) ITV will not hide the fact that Kate Garraway is upset whilst presenting Good Morning Britain live on-air. The news anchor has undergone a very public battle with her husband Derek's diagnosis with coronavirus and subsequent admittal to intensive care, where he was placed into a coma. Kate recently returned to work on the ITV daytime staple, but her co-host has admitted that the channel would not censor the I'm A Celebrity stars emotions to viewers. Andi Peters said that it's been "amazing" to have Kate back on set where she belongs as he prepares to take over from Lorraine Kelly as she pops off on her holidays. "It's been amazing having Kate back on the telly," the presenter, who can be seen most days presenting GMB segments from his garage, revealed. "Genuinely it has made me smile and you can see when she is doing some item, they are so close to home. "But again, the beauty of ITV Daytime, if Kate looks upset, we don't hide that." Kate's husband Derek has had a very public battle with coronavirus (Picture: Rex) He continued: "She's going through a horrific time but to come back, she's so strong. The viewers don't mind if she looks upset. We've all just loved having her back." At the time of writing, Derek is still in the hospital battling Covid-19, where he continues to recover from the disease. More: Good Morning Britain Kate however, admitted that a recent hospital visit had been "tough" since its was their son Billy's birthday. Support for the star and her family's struggle has come from up and down the country, and Kerry Katona recently urged Kate to "stay positive." Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV. Andi Peters and Christine Lampard can be seen on Lorraine weekdays from 9am on ITV. Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk Entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Pink and daughter Willow are basically carbon copies of each other in sweet selfie MORE: Greatest-ever episode of The Big Bang Theory revealed - can you guess what it is?

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Latvian official misses ECB meeting as investigation... By Associated Press RIGA, Latvia (AP) - Latvia's banking chief missed a meeting Wednesday of the European Central Bank's top council, amid a suspected corruption scandal that is rattling confidence in the Baltic state's political and financial world. Ilmars Rimsevics has been barred from performing his duties amid an investigation into suspected corruption that continued to deepen Wednesday. That left his deputy, Zoja Razmusa, to attend an ECB meeting, the Bank of Latvia's spokesman, Janis Silakalus, said. The ECB declined to comment on whether the council discussed Latvia's situation or Rimsevics' situation in particular. Besides Rimsevics' probe, a local bank, ABLV, has needed a rescue loan after the U.S. Treasury accused it of massive money laundering. Rimsevics has been barred from performing his duties by Latvia's anti-corruption agency, but cannot be fired by the government. The prime minister and president have called on Rimsevics to step down amid an AP report that he is accused of extortion and connections to money laundering from Russia. Latvia's Constitution Protection Bureau, which controls access to state secrets, says that following the AP reports it has also started an investigation into Rimsevics and cut off his access to top secret information. Rimsevics denies any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan is due to visit Latvia on Thursday. Ahead of his visit, the United States government issued a statement saying it has "full confidence" that Latvia will take "the necessary steps" to uphold the integrity of its banking and financial sector. The comments, from State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert, come after the U.S. Treasury last week accused Latvian bank ABLV of actively laundering money and breaching North Korea sanctions. Nauert said Washington would continue to support and help the Latvian government, financial regulators and its law enforcement officials "to realize our shared vision of a strong and well-regulated Latvian financial sector." She stressed that Washington and Riga have already been working together "for many years" in combatting corruption and money laundering. ABLV has denied the accusations but its finances apparently deteriorated since then, leading the European Central Bank on Monday to prohibit the bank from making any payments. ABLV needed a rescue loan from the Latvian central bank. ABLV, Latvia's third largest bank by assets, is largely focused on serving non-Latvian clients from the former Soviet republics and other regions outside the European Union. Share or comment on this article Sorry we are not currently accepting comments on this article.

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The Loneliness of the American Paralympics Reporter The point is to focus on the athlete instead of his or her impairment. Paralympians might look different from Olympians in some cases, but that doesn't mean they perceive themselves that way. To me, it's almost a journalistic disservice to highlight one athlete over another. How to choose whether to write about the Swiss champion skier paralyzed on one side of his body, the American sled hockey player whose leg was amputated a year after his Army vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Iraq, or the Australian snowboarder who lost parts of both arms after being attacked by two great white sharks? And so in the months leading up to the Paralympics, I chat with United States coaches and athletes to brainstorm ideas, whether over the phone or on reporting trips - in November I spent time with sled hockey players in Madison, Wis., and wheelchair curlers outside Utica, N.Y. - so I can position myself well once I'm on the ground. With venues scattered across a sprawling region; a vast network of buses that transport reporters among those event sites, their lodgings and the main broadcast and press centers; and news media descending from around the world, every Paralympics is nominally the same, and yet each offers its own array of trials. Covering this Winter Paralympics (which run through March 18) feels more manageable - or rather, less daunting - than covering the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, where 22 sports were contested across four clusters of competition, versus six sports across two clusters in Pyeongchang. Nonetheless, I must plan days ahead, since it's almost impossible to report on multiple events in one day. Also, I'm the only reporter in Pyeongchang from The Times. Best I can tell, I'm the only one from a major American news outlet other than NBC, which broadcasts the Games across its platforms. The International Paralympic Committee says it credentialed 801 members of the news media, an increase of 132 from Sochi. More than a quarter of that total came from South Korea. At the same time, the number of accreditations from the U.S. decreased, from 57 to 33. The Paralympic movement is gaining exposure and popularity, but the absence of the American press corps, which travel to basically every other huge international sporting festival, is jarring, and not having that camaraderie can feel isolating. Combine that with a time difference that makes it difficult to communicate with my editors, much less my family, and it's easy to lapse into a funk. Then I think about the skier whooshing down the mountain without a left leg or a left arm, and my concerns feel quite small. My experience here has been enhanced by working with our staff photographer Chang W. Lee, a native of South Korea who has taught me so much about Korean culture - and exposed me to such culinary delights as spicy catfish stew, and squid and pork belly bulgogi. Inevitably, I do make connections with people, such as the helpful language services volunteer at the Gangneung Hockey Center, who, noticing me yawning in the late morning on Sunday, said he could empathize; he too had a long flight from the U.S., where he attends college. "Where?" I asked. "Emory," he said. That's where I went. We laughed about the fortune of flying halfway across the world to chat about our freshman residence halls. I gave him a New York Times pin and waited for him and another volunteer to translate my questions for a Japanese sled hockey player first into Korean and then into Japanese. It wasn't ideal, but that's how life goes. It was a reminder that we're all different but, really, all the same, too. Continue reading the main story

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There are no provisions for adoptees to acquire nationality in the statutes and when Somalia acceded to the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 2015, they did not agree to Article 20 of the convention concerning child adoptions. Children are required to hold the same nationality as their father, unless he is stateless, in which case, they may acquire the nationality of their mother per Article 14 of the Somali Citizenship Law. However, a child who acquired nationality from its mother may renounce it upon reaching the age of majority. Besides foreigners meeting the criteria, other persons who may be naturalized include: The wife of a Somali national automatically acquires her husband's nationality upon marriage; Minor children acquire their father's nationality at the time he is naturalized; Children of Somali mothers and stateless fathers, after a residency period of two years; or Honorary nationality may be granted for exceptional service to the nation at the discretion of the President of Somalia. ==Loss of nationality== Somali nationals can renounce their nationality provided they obtain permission from the state. Nationals of origin may not be denaturalized in Somalia. Naturalized persons may lose their nationality by committing crimes against the state or state security or for fraud, misrepresentation, or concealment in a naturalization petition. Nationals who have previously lost their Somali nationality may repatriate by establishing residency for a minimum of three years and applying for naturalization. ==Dual nationality== Under the nationality law, dual nationality is forbidden in Somalia, but under the 2012 Provisional Constitution of the Federal Republic of Somalia, which overrides other laws, it is permitted. ==History== Historical reference to the Land of Punt occurs in Egyptian records from 3000 BCE. At that time, the peoples of the region included the Jiiddu of the Digil or Rahanweyn clan. By the end of the millenia, both Tunni and Garre tribes had moved into the Jubba Valley. In the first centuries of the common era, migrants from Yemen and Oman settled on the eastern coast of the region. The coastal people engaged in trade with merchants seeking frankincense and myrrh from Abyssinia, Egypt, Greece, Phoenicia, Persia, and Rome. By the sixth century, Zeila had become a major commercial center trading goods from the African interior with foreign merchants. Mogadishu arose as a center of commerce in the south brokering trade with Swahili merchants who brought goods from China, India, and Southwest Asia. In 755 the Persian Abbasid Caliphate subjugated the inhabitants of Mogadishu requiring them to pay taxes. ===Africans and outsider contact (11th-17th centuries)=== Between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, the region was converted to Islam. Intermarriage created an Islamic Arab-Somali elite, who established strong, but independent city-states, that dominated both commerce and politics along the coast. In 1300 Abyssinia made the Sultanates of Bale, Dawaro, Fatajar, Hadiya, Harar and Ifat vassal states and required their sultans to pay tribute. Zeila and the other city states, attempted to extend their authority over nomadic peoples in the interior to create a defensive buffer between their strongholds and Abyssinian invaders. In northern Somaliland, sultans had little power, and their title was mostly honorific. Without hierarchical authority, nomadic groups were bound by patrilineal kinship ties, which determined alliances and socio-political divisions. Following the Islamic system of diya, clans had a contractual alliance to pay to and receive damages from other clans, for losses sustained to persons or property. As the payments are collectively paid to the group, collaboration, cooperation, consensus among the males in the clan was necessary to provide for the group security and resolve legal issues. By the late thirteenth the Hawiye clan had expanded from the Shebelle Valley toward the coast, subjugating the area between Itala and Merca. The Ajuran Sultanate moved into the Shebelle River basin and established coastal commerce links. In the early fourteenth century, the Sultan of Ifat, seized the Abyssinian Sultanates of Bale and Harar, holding them until 1415. After the defeat of the Ifat dynasty, the Adal Sultanate rose to dominate its former territory from their capital at Zeila. Though the Sultan of Adal would remain in power until 1577, between 1445 and 1471 Adal was a vassal state of Abyssinia. In 1499, the Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama attempted but failed to capture Mogadishu, as did Portuguese attempts to secure Barawa in 1506 and Zeila in 1517.

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Donald Trump Says "We're Winning This Election" At First Post-Poll Rally Donald Trump launched into another litany of baseless claims. Valdosta, United States: Donald Trump launched into another litany of baseless claims that the US presidential election was stolen from him at his first post-poll rally on Saturday, telling the crowd he would still end up winning. "We're winning this election," Trump said at the rally in Valdosta, Georgia, adding later that "we will still win it." "It's rigged. It's a fixed deal," he said of President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Despite surging cases of Covid-19 nationwide, few masks could be seen at the rally and many in the crowd were not abiding by social-distancing measures. Trump was joined by first lady Melania Trump, who gave a short speech before the president's. The former reality show star was campaigning in Georgia on behalf of two Republican Senate candidates facing a hugely important runoff on January 5. The runoff races will decide which party controls the US Senate, and Trump continued his fear-mongering about rival Democrats. "The voters of Georgia will determine which party runs every committee, writes every piece of legislation, controls every single taxpayer dollar," he said. "Very simply, you will decide whether your children will grow up in a socialist country or whether they will grow up in a free country." There had been concerns from some Republicans over whether Trump's continuing claims of fraud would drive down voter turnout among Republicans in the upcoming election, making his appearance somewhat of a gamble. Trump made clear he was neither ready to concede to Biden nor give up on his baseless claims of fraud dismissed by a long line of courts. Biden won Georgia by just under 12,000 votes, becoming the first Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1992 to win the Republican stronghold.

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Christian Louboutin faces setback in fight to trademark red sole ECJ advocate general says combination of colour and shape may be refused trademark protection The classic red sole of a Christian Louboutin shoe was apparently invented when he painted his assistant's nail varnish on the sole. Photograph: Isa Foltin/Getty Images for Christian Loubo French shoemaker Christian Louboutin, famous for his stiletto heels, has suffered a severe setback in his battle to protect the trademark red sole. The fashion designer, whose shoes start at £500 for a classic black court and are a favourite with celebrities such as Kate Winslet, Victoria Beckham and Margot Robbie, has been in court trying to protect the signature red colour of the sole of his shoes - a look that dates back to 1992, when Louboutin painted a sole red with nail varnish borrowed from an assistant. On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice's advocate general Maciej Szpunar said the combination of a colour and a shape may be refused trademark protection. The ECJ will now issue a ruling. Sign up to the daily Business Today email or follow Guardian Business on Twitter at @BusinessDesk The French designer went to court in the Netherlands to prevent the Dutch high street shoe chain VanHaren from selling its own red-soled shoes, in a range endorsed by actor Halle Berry. VanHaren argued the existing Louboutin trademark was invalid. The case was referred to the ECJ in 2014. Sanjay Kapur, partner and trade mark attorney at intellectual property firm Potter Clarkson LLP, said: "If the ECJ follow the advocate general's opinion, then this could mean that Louboutin would not be able to stop its competitors, including haute couture fashion houses, from offering shoes with red soles. The red sole could therefore become ubiquitous, which would seriously reduce the cachet associated with the Louboutin brand." Elaine O'Hare of law firm Stevens & Bolton said the case would be of "great interest" to other luxury fashion brands seeking to protect their own signature shapes or colours.

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Alison Sudol, 33, and David Harbour, 42, look in love as they stroll wearing very casual clothes David Harbour was spotted with his girlfriend Alison Sudol in New York City on Tuesday. The 42-year-old Stranger Things star smiled as he strolled with the 33-year-old beauty who appeared to be thrilled with his company. Both wore very casual clothes as they headed out for lunch in midtown. The veteran actor had on a green baseball cap, black jacket, jeans, and trainers. Sudol stepped out in a baseball cap, down jacket, baggy jeans, and trainers. The first time they were seen together on a date was in January after dinner in West Hollywood. At 42, the 6ft3in New Yorker is nine years older than the Seattle-born, LA-raised stunner, and it was their first sighting together outside of an industry event. The Golden Globe nominee - clutching a large cigar - previously romanced his Between Us co-star Julia Stiles after ending his engagement with his State of Play co-star Maria Thayer in 2011. The dimpled blonde - who relies on stylist Leith Clark - was wearing a striking $180 white Tibi-brand cropped wool sweater featuring pom poms made of baby alpaca fur. David and Alison sat together during the Screen Actors Guild Awards at LA's Shrine Auditorium where the Netflix series lost four trophies - including supporting male. Harbour and Sudol kissed each other during the A&E-broadcast of the Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica after he won the supporting actor in a drama series prize on January 11. But before the televised PDA, the acting duo openly embraced each other during the Netflix Golden Globes afterparty at Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills on January 7. It's unknown when the relationship began, but the Dartmouth grad was first pictured canoodling with the Enough Honey songstress at the BAFTA Los Angeles Tea Party on January 6. So when Greenpeace made Alison their first-ever Antarctic Ambassador on January 16, David made up his mind to join her and crafted a social media stunt to make it official. Sudol even called on her 2.1M followers to help Harbour get 200K retweets within five hours for his South Pole plea to do the 'Hopper dance' with Emperor penguins. The environmental activists will now have to brave below freezing temperatures as Earth's southernmost spot also happens to be the driest and windiest continent. The Between Us beauty will next reprise her role as Legilimens-style psychic Queenie Goldstein in the sequel Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, which hits UK/US theaters November 16. And the Sleepless actor stars as Hawkins Police Chief Jim Hopper in Matt & Ross Duffer's eighties retro binge-watching favorite, which was renewed by Netflix for a third season on December 1.

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Newsom warns counties that they could lose coronavirus cash Gov. Gavin Newsom's administration sent a clear warning this week to rural counties defying his state's stay-at-home order to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus: Keep it up, and you'll lose disaster funding. Mark Ghilarducci, director of the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services, sent nearly identical letters dated May 7 to Yuba, Sutter and Modoc counties, where local officials lifted restrictions and allowed gyms, restaurants, shopping malls, hair salons and other businesses to open their doors again, ahead of the state's plans. Ghilarducci said disaster funding is predicated on jurisdictions needing help in extraordinary circumstances, and if the counties believe there's no emergency and choose to defy the governor's order, then they won't be able to prove they need such funds. "Further, disaster assistance programs prohibit a jurisdiction from receiving funding for a condition caused by its own negligence," he wrote in the letter to Yuba County. "Should Yuba County experience a surge in COVID-19 cases as a result of hasty and careless actions, the county may be ineligible for reimbursement." Ghilarducci directed the counties to confirm their intent to comply with the state's order and a new framework that allows some areas to move ahead of the administration's four-stage reopening plan, which gradually returns California to a sense of normalcy beginning with the return of business operations deemed to pose a lower risk of spreading coronavirus. Under Stage 2 rules, counties must submit an application declaring that the presence of the virus is limited or nonexistent in their jurisdictions and they've met certain requirements to prepare for a future surge in infections before opening additional businesses. Yuba and Sutter counties confirmed that they received the letter and said they understand the governor's directive. In a joint statement, the counties said they are "working to do what is best for the overall health of our communities and coordinating with governor's representatives on achieving balance with his order," and look forward to discussing their Stage 2 application. Modoc County did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The rebellion against the coronavirus restrictions in the Northern California counties is symbolic of the governor's struggle to convince local officials and residents across the state to adhere to his orders as the economy tanks and millions lose their jobs. His administration's ability to limit the spread of the virus in California has only added to a chorus of skeptics, particularly in rural counties with few cases or in conservative enclaves such as Orange County, where some have questioned why the state needs to remain under restrictions. But as Newsom begins to ease the order, health experts warn that moving too quickly could result in a second surge of cases. In the state of nearly 40 million, roughly 4,500 people were hospitalized with a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 diagnosis as of Thursday. The California Department of Public Health says 62,512 people have tested positive for COVID-19, which has killed 2,585 Californians so far. Modoc County, home to fewer than 10,000 people, became the first to openly defy the governor's order on May 1 by allowing all businesses, churches and schools in the northeast corner of the state to open again with modifications and a requirement to keep people six feet apart. At the time, the rural area had not reported any confirmed cases of the virus and advised residents aged 65 and older or with underlying health conditions to stay home. Days later, Yuba-Sutter Health Officer Dr. Phuong Luu cited guidance from the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security when she announced that restaurants, retail operations, shopping malls, construction, real estate, agriculture, gyms and fitness studios, hair salons and barbershops, nail salons, spas, massage therapy centers and tattoo parlors were permitted to reopen in the counties on May 4. The businesses must similarly limit the number of people inside to ensure six feet of distance between patrons and must provide hand sanitizer. The counties are also requiring people to wear face coverings in public. Luu followed up with a letter to businesses two days after the restrictions were removed, admonishing some for not taking precautions to properly protect patrons. Newsom lashed out at the counties Tuesday, calling their decision to reopen a "big mistake." "They're putting their public at risk," Newsom said. "They're putting our progress at risk. These are real exceptions. The overwhelming majority of Californians are playing by the rules, doing the right thing." At a news conference on Friday, Newsom said 33 salons that reopened in counties that moved ahead have decided to shut down in recent days when contacted by state officials. The California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control visited multiple businesses in Yuba and Sutter counties earlier this week and warned restaurants that they could lose state licensing to serve alcohol if they don't close down their dining rooms.

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Florence Easton (25 October 1882 – 13 August 1955) was a popular English dramatic soprano in the early 20th century. She was one of the most versatile singers of all time. She sang more than 100 parts, covering a wide range of styles and periods, from Mozart, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Verdi, Wagner, Puccini, Strauss, Schreker and Krenek. In Wagner she sang virtually every soprano part, large and small from Senta onwards, including the Götterdämmerung Brünnhilde. She described herself as "lyric dramatic soprano", which seems barely adequate in relation to the range of types of role in which she excelled. Her high international reputation, founded mainly in Germany and North America, was almost unique for a British singer of her time. She could move easily through all stages from the light coloratura to the Hochdramatische, from girlish romanticism to powerful Wagnerian and Straussian drama. The voice could be light and airy, gently melancholic or intensely passionate. The involvement in the character of the role was total. John Steane has suggested that "This great strength of hers was also, in a strange way, a source of weakness. She sang so many roles very well that she never quite became identified with any of these". Despite her often suspect Italian diction she was chosen by Puccini to create Lauretta in his 1917 opera Gianni Schicchi. There is no connection between Florence Easton and the singer Robert Easton, born 1898 in Sunderland. ==Biography== ===Early life=== Florence Easton was the elder daughter of John Thomas Easton and Isabella Yarrow, and niece of Fletcher Easton. Known professionally as 'the nightingale of South Bank', she was born on 25 October 1882 at 52 Napier Street, South Bank, Middlesbrough (many biographies show her birthdate incorrectly as 1884). Her parents left England when she was 5 years old and settled with Florence (then known as Flossie) and her younger brother in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Flossie sang in the choir of Parkdale Methodist Church, where her father was choirmaster and her mother was organist. Her musical talent became evident in early childhood and she had piano, organ and singing lessons with JDA Tripp and Mr Harrison. She appeared publicly as a pianist when she was 8 years old. She said "I began as a pianist, and had no thought of singing, let alone the opera, when I began the study of music". Florence was one of the first women to be made a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music on 25 March 1909. When her mother died in 1899, Florence returned with her father to Middlesbrough, where he joined a partnership in a wholesale fruit merchants business with William Henry Easton, his father and Fletcher Easton, his brother. A collection in Middlesbrough raised enough money for her to study for a year at the Royal Academy of Music in London—she lost the money on her first day in the capital, and her father had to find replacement funds. She started in May 1900 and studied singing for a year. The 1901 Census shows her as an 18-year-old student at the Royal Academy of Music, living at Hendon, Middlesex. In 1901 she went to Paris to study singing with Elliott Haslam, a friend of her father's. "But not long after this my father died, and my grandparents (who had good old-fashioned ideas that a woman's place to sing was in the home) discouraged my efforts. They even carried paternalism far enough to select a husband for me. When this point had been reached, I quietly disappeared, and once more went back to my vocal work". ===Professional career=== Florence was determined, and her debut operatic appearance was as the Shepherd boy in Tannhäuser at Newcastle upon Tyne in 1903 with the touring Moody-Manners Opera Company. On the first evening of the company's season at Covent Garden she sang Stephano in Roméo et Juliette. Her first leading role at the Covent Garden Opera House was Arline in The Bohemian Girl, and she was a success there in 1903, as the lead in Madama Butterfly. Florence married twice; in May 1904 she married Francis Maclennan (born 1873, died 1935), an American tenor with the Moody-Manners Opera Company. She made her American debut as Gilda in Rigoletto in Baltimore with Henry W. Savage's English Grand Opera Company in November 1905, and she sang a number of roles with this company in the US and Canada over the next 2 years.

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Man shares creepy story about stranger living in attic Speculation is rife over the authenticity of a US author's terrifying experience about a man living - and dying - inside the walls of his house as a small child. New York based horror author Grady Hendrix posted Wednesday a series of tweets explaining how a man was found dead after he had been living inside the vents of his house for months on end. The story has left some terrified, claiming they "will never sleep again" and dubbed, "the scariest story of things found in walls," but others doubted the legitimacy of the story. It comes days after a woman discovered a naked intruder sleeping in her bed after returning home from her 22nd birthday celebrations. RELATED: College roommates discover man living in basement RELATED: Treasure map discovered in attic is worth $600k RELATED: Inside an abandoned psychiatric ward, Building 25 "Everyone's telling scary stories for Halloween so I'll talk about something that happened to me when I was a kid because hey, trauma never gets old," Mr Hendrix wrote. We won't go through the whole story - just the juicy bits - but you can read the entire thread here. Mr Hendrix said that on one night in May, 1981, he crept downstairs as a 9-year-old in the hope of gorging on a midnight snack. "All of a sudden I heard a fork click on the counter. I froze. The microwave clock light showed the outline of a man sitting at our kitchen counter," he wrote. "He couldn't see me, but I saw him: a skinny guy, eating our leftovers, and drinking our milk from the carton." Mr Grady explained that by the time his parents got downstairs the intruder had fled and "the kitchen was empty." "Everyone said I read too many horror comics so they blew off what I said. "I started tracking the position of everything in the kitchen. One day the paper napkin holder was on the wrong side of the counter. Another day a mug was in the sink that was NOT there the night before. "My bedroom door didn't lock so I kept a steak knife under my pillow. I must've stabbed myself in the hand 1000 times checking to make sure it was there." Three months later the man returned, but in an even more terrifying ordeal. At the end of the month, the family began to notice a smell in the house. "One night, rice fell out of the vent over my bed. Maggots. The A/C people said something had probably crawled into our vents & died." It gets creepier. Mr Hendrix is a US based author of titles such as "My Best Friend's Exorcism" and as Pedestrian's Josephine Rozenberg-Clarke wrote: "Look, Grady Hendrix IS a writer, seeming to specialise in horror, so I think I might take this with a giant grain of salt and pray to the universe it isn't true". News.com.au has reached out to Mr Hendrix.

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House Democrats subpoena EU ambassador after State Department blocks testimony WASHINGTON - Democrats on Tuesday issued a subpoena to U.S. ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland hours after he failed to show up for a scheduled deposition before three House committees. The subpoena seeks Sondland's testimony as well as documents related to President Donald Trump's apparent efforts to have Ukrainian officials investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son. Issued by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., in consultation with House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the subpoena called on Sondland to produce documents by October 14. Text messages provided to Congress last week show Sondland and another ambassador worked to persuade Ukraine to publicly commit to investigating Trump's political opponents and explicitly linked the inquiry to whether Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would be granted an official White House visit. A letter from the three chairmen accompanying the subpoena also called on the U.S. diplomat to appear for a deposition on October 16 after he failed to show up on Tuesday. The chairmen warned Sondland that if he fails or refuses to comply with the subpoena, "including at the direction or behest of the president, the White House or State Department," it would "constitute further evidence of obstruction of the House's impeachment inquiry and may be used as an adverse inference against you and the president." This came after the State Department directed Sondland not to appear for a scheduled deposition to deliver closed-door testimony on Tuesday morning before lawmakers on the three committees. "In light of Secretary [Mike] Pompeo's direct intervention to block your appearance before our Committees, we are left with no choice but to compel your appearance at a deposition pursuant to the enclosed subpoena," the chairmen wrote in the letter. Some of the documents and communications Democrats have requested in the subpoena encompass meetings between Trump and Zelenskiy and phone calls between the two leaders on certain dates. They also asked for more information regarding the U.S. delegation to the Ukrainian president's inauguration in May and a potential visit of Zelensky to the U.S. for an Oval Office meeting with Trump, among other things. "Secretary Pompeo's obstruction of the House's impeachment inquiry does not alleviate you of your independent legal obligation to produce to the Committees any responsive documents in your personal possession, custody, or control," the chairmen wrote to Sondland. "There is no valid basis to withhold documents from the Committees by relying on instructions from Secretary Pompeo, who is a fact witness in this inquiry and who is currently defying his own duly issued subpoena for documents - particularly if the Department's goal is to block the Committees from gaining access to your documents prior to your testimony."

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Will the rush for gold continue? In this week's podcast, The Age's Alex Druce is joined by IG market analyst Kyle Rodda to discuss the spectre of wider lockdowns in Australia, what US reporting season might offer up, what is driving the upward price of both gold and iron ore and what this week's Australian jobs data might point to. You can find past episodes of the weekly podcast, which is produced in conjunction with IG, here. Each episode is goes for about 10 minutes and is also available through Spotify and Google Podcasts.

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Alec Reid (23 November 1878 – 18 May 1952) was a South African international rugby union player who played as a forward. He made 1 appearance for South Africa in 1903 scoring a try. ==References== 1878 births 1952 deaths South African rugby union players South Africa international rugby union players Rugby union forwards People from Swellendam

Alec Reid (rugby union)

This would be sufficient to replace approximately 20 percent of the refinery's current fossil-based hydrogen consumption, avoiding around 80,000 tonnes CO2 equivalent emissions a year - equivalent to emissions from around 45,000 cars in Germany. The project is also intended to support a longer-term ambition to build more than 500MW of renewable hydrogen capacity at Lingen. This could provide renewable hydrogen to both meet all the refinery's hydrogen demand and provide feedstock for future synthetic fuel production. The electrolyser is expected to be powered by an Ørsted North Sea offshore wind farm. Martin Neubert, Executive Vice President for Ørsted comments: "Heavy industries such as refineries use large quantities of hydrogen in their manufacturing processes. They will continue to need hydrogen, but replacing the currently fossil-based hydrogen with hydrogen produced from renewable energy can help these industries dramatically lower their CO2 footprint. "But first, renewable hydrogen has to become cost competitive with fossil-based hydrogen, and for that we need projects such as this with bp's Lingen refinery which will demonstrate the electrolyser technology at large scale and showcase real-life application of hydrogen based on offshore wind." The partners have jointly applied for funding for the project named Lingen Green Hydrogen from the EU Innovation Fund, which is currently one of the largest funding programmes for innovative low-carbon technologies focusing particularly among others on energy intensive industries.

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== Some notes == Is the Edgehill (where G.W. Anderson was born) mentioned in Dictionary of Virginia Biography article same as Edge Hill (Shadwell, Virginia)? Especially plausible since Anderson's mother, Jane Margaret Randolph Anderson was Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter and the house was built was Thomas Jefferson Randolph, oldest grandson of Thomas Jefferson. This source doesn't list Jane Margaret Randolph Anderson as Thomas Jefferson's granddaughter though, and I'm very confused by it but it may be useful. TryKid  Okay, these people shared too many names; there are like 3 people for every 3 word name. And confusion arises because of this. I've no idea about the genealogy of George Wayne Anderson but this entry on might be helpful. But note that is not considered a reliable source (see RSP entry). Regards, TryKid  this source here says that Jane Margaret Randolph (Anderson) was the great-granddaughter, not the granddaughter, of Thomas Jefferson. So, that's a inaccuracy in the Dictionary of Virginia Biography article. TryKid 

George Wayne Anderson (politician)

Zouabi is a town and commune in Souk Ahras Province in north-eastern Algeria. ==References== Communes of Souk Ahras Province

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"Rubbish" to suggest Victoria has a limited vaccine supply The Australian's Sophie Elsworth says it is "rubbish" for Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews to suggest his state has a limited vaccine supply. During a press conference, Premier Andrews said there are millions of Victorians who want to get vaccinated, but the "only limiting factor is how much we have." Ms Elsworth told Sky News host Chris Kenny there is "ample supply" of vaccine in Victoria. "Hundreds of thousands of doses that are waiting to be put in arms."

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Biker crawled up hill with broken leg to get phone signal

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Sherwood Park has a well-respected Midget "AAA" hockey program, dating back to the mid-1970s, that has produced several top calibre players including former and current National Hockey League players Gerald Diduck, Jim Ennis, Tyson Nash, Cam Ward and Daymond Langkow. The Sherwood Park Kings Athletic Club includes levels from Peewee to Midget and with the highest level being the Midget "AAA" program. Sherwood Park is a large football community. At least one Sherwood Park high school football team has been to the Alberta provincial final since the 1999 season. The bantam team, the Sherwood Park Rams, have won provincials five of the last seven seasons. The 2014 provincial championship is held by the Sherwood Park Wolverines, which is their first title. Baseball has become a popular and important sport in the community. In 2008, the Sherwood Park Dukes began their first season in Sherwood Park, playing at Centennial Park in the Western Major Baseball League. Strathcona County hosted the 2007 Western Canada Summer Games with most of the events held in Sherwood Park. The games included 2,300 athletes, coaches, and officials from the four western provinces and three northern territories. Around 2,800 volunteers helped make the games a success. == Government == Sherwood Park is governed by the Strathcona County Council. The county's mayor is Rod Frank who replaced Roxanne Carr in the 2017 Strathcona County municipal election. == Crime == According to data collected by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in 2012, crime in Sherwood Park has been on the rise especially impaired driving and domestic violence. Domestic violence reports rose by 32 percent; impaired driving went up 10 percent. Other facts released also pointed out that sexual offenses went up by 20 percent and drug trafficking charges went up 55 percent. == Education == Sherwood Park's school boards are Elk Island Public Schools Regional Division No. 14 (EIPS), Elk Island Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 41 (EICS), and the Conseil Scolaire Centre-Nord (CSCN or the Greater North Central Francophone Education Region No. 2). The public high schools are Bev Facey Community High School and Salisbury Composite High School, as well as Strathcona Christian Academy (kindergarten to grade 12), and Archbishop Jordan Catholic High School. Sherwood Park was home to Canada's first charter school: New Horizons Charter School, a public charter school that offers a gifted education program for students from kindergarten to grade 9. It is in Sherwood Park on the edge of the Village on the Lake subdivision. == Media == Sherwood Park's newspaper is the twice-weekly Sherwood Park-Strathcona County News. The Sherwood Park News and Strathcona County This Week newspapers, both owned by Bowes Publishers, in turn part of Sun Media, merged on November 6, 2007 to become Sherwood Park • Strathcona County News. Due to the community's close proximity to Edmonton, all major Edmonton media, including the daily newspapers (such as the Edmonton Sun and the Edmonton Journal) and radio and TV broadcasters, also serve Sherwood Park and immediate area. == Notable people == Sara Canning – film and TV actress Gerald Diduck – former National Hockey League (NHL) player Jim Ennis – former NHL hockey player Randy Ferbey – curler Andrew Ference – former NHL defenceman Carter Hart – NHL goaltender for the Philadelphia Flyers Sam Steel - NHL centre Anaheim Ducks Blake Dermott – radio personality and former Canadian Football League (CFL) player Ken Hitchcock – NHL coach Ryan McGill – former NHL hockey player, current NHL coaching staff Kaetlyn Osmond – Olympic figure skater Mark Pysyk – NHL defenceman for the Florida Panthers Duncan Siemens – NHL defenceman Tony Twist – former NHL hockey player Miles Holmwood - multi-platinum musician with the band, Stereos Cam Ward – NHL goaltender Nick Holden – NHL defenceman Vegas Golden Knights Brendan Guhle – NHL defenceman Anaheim Ducks Kevin Boyer - Olympic skeleton racer Chuba Hubbard - Carolina Panthers starting running back Sean Rogerson - Film and TV actor == See also == List of communities in Alberta List of hamlets in Alberta Strathcona County Transit == References == == External links == Alberta Heritage article Sherwood Park News 1955 establishments in Alberta Edmonton Metropolitan Region Urban service areas in Alberta

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== Recent addition == Is Goodwinsands' recent edit supported by its source? I tend to question additions to quoted, sourced information, and I'm not able to access The Times website to verify that the source supports the addition. carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) The text is from Atzmon's essay. Although Kamm did not quote the sentence I just added, you can see that it is part of the essay Kamm is critiquing by following the link to Atzmon's essay. Goodwinsands (talk) Okay, I fixed it up, thank you. carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) Thanks! Goodwinsands (talk) ===Removal of Kamm per WP:BLP=== I was going to immediately post this but got distracted by the ANI on the personal attack and a canvassing issue on this article. As I stated in my edit summary when I removed Kamm: (corrected) per blp you can use negative material from deadlink with thereby cherry picked primary source - that's duplicative of other negative material anyway. It's only a blog rant opinion piece, there's no independent verification, it's duplicative of other material there, the quote is cherry picked, especially because of the which removes who knows what. Goodwinsand has opened up a whole can of worms by removing neutral info, which can't help make one remove dubious negative info. BobFromBrockley has added links long ago deemed in visits to WP:RS as NOT WP:RS (and I'll correct my comments on that above next when I find them). Because this article tends to attract people who despise Atzmon, it's often necessary to go BLP noticeboard where neutral editors reside to get this kind of editing reverted. Unless people will just police their own editing. CarolMooreDC (talk) See below (here) for further discussion on this material. Goodwinsands (talk) I presume the Kamm piece to which you're referring is the one I edited last night. Is there discussion in this pages archives or at a noticeboard which I can read to verify that it ought not be included? When I looked at the BLP page it looked as though there is wiggle-room for opinion pieces in journalism, as long as it is written as "N said that..." and not as fact. carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) "Goodwinsand has opened up a whole can of worms by removing neutral info, which can't help make one remove dubious negative info." Thank you, Carolmooredc, for explicitly documenting that the motivation of your proposed edits is retaliatory. Goodwinsands (talk) Reposting this, you can not simply make an issue, have it be debated, and then try to bring up the same exact issue a year later, ignoring consensus again and again. This was already discussed previously by you, and brought to resolution. #Cohen_attack_piece_.22criticism.22_against_BLP #Sentence_by_sentence_analysis_showing_these_are_political_accusations #WP:RS_for_Cohen_allegations_of_what_Atzmon_said Drsmoo (talk) == To formalize discussion on keeping Kamm == I have just again restored the material Carolmooredc keeps blanking (). What is the editorial consensus on this material? Please respond with Accept or Reject, and state your reasons. Accept This material has been discussed many times, and the result has always been the same: everyone but one single editor accepts it, and then that single editor takes it out anyway in an exercise of IDIDNTHEARTHAT. I am not by far the only editor to restore the material. This material should remain, or be replaced by some other similar Holocaust denial statement from Atzmon (there are no shortage of these). Goodwinsands (talk) Reject: A half dozen editors who hate Atzmon and edit against WP:BLP do not consensus make. CarolMooreDC (talk) Accept The sources are all notable and reliable.

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Mother's alcohol use could soon be shown on child's medical record, prompting privacy fears A pregnant woman's alcohol consumption could soon be mentioned on their child's medical record - prompting significant privacy concerns. The record would show if a mother even had a single glass of alcohol during their first week of pregnancy, a time when they may not have realised they were expecting a child. These measures have already been adopted in Scotland - but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is now exploring whether England and Wales should follow suit. It is hoped that the policy would help identify children at risk of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder, which can cause physical and behavioural problems. But the British Pregnancy Advisory Service says the move would violate the EU's general data protection regulations - and claims there has been "no compelling research showing harm at lower levels" of alcohol consumption. Clare Murphy, the charity's spokeswoman, said: "Women do not lose their right to medical confidentiality simply because they are pregnant. "Most women report drinking very little alcohol in pregnancy if any at all, even if they may have drunk before a positive pregnancy test." BPAS pointed to new research that shows 60% of mothers feel data on alcohol consumption should not be shared without consent - and it warned that the proposal risks impacting the relationships women have with healthcare professionals. The organisation also tweeted: "The very small numbers of women in incredibly complex situations who struggle with alcohol problems during pregnancy will not be helped by this broad-brush approach. "We need better support for vulnerable women during pregnancy. This will not achieve that." Birthrights, a charity that promotes human rights in medical care, warned: "It is unacceptable to propose such measures without any assessment of the impact on women and pregnant people." Aston University's Pam Lowe said the General Medical Council guidance on confidentiality suggests sharing information without informed consent might be justified if not doing so placed others at risk of death or serious harm. However, the senior lecture in sociology added: "Although foetal alcohol spectrum disorder can have serious neurodevelopmental effects, the shared information makes no difference to the level of harm." The NICE consultation is expected to be published on 26 January.

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Is Lloyds buying a £7bn timebomb? Concern over MBNA deal The bank is set to acquire MBNA for £1.9bn, which bosses see as a milestone But consumer groups worry the deal could saddle shoppers with more debt MBNA offers some of the longest interest-free credit card periods on the market By James Burton City Correspondent For The Daily Mail Campaigners have attacked Lloyds for buying a credit card business that targets consumers aggressively with long-term offers. The bank is set to acquire MBNA for £1.9 billion in what will be its first takeover since it was rescued by taxpayers at the height of the financial crisis. But although bosses see it as a major milestone, consumer groups warned the deal could mark a return to sharp practices used to saddle shoppers with debt. MBNA - owned by Bank of America Merrill Lynch - offers some of the longest interest-free credit card periods on the market and is sitting on £7.5 billion of consumer debt, of which £923.8 million is at risk of not being repaid. It provides a rival- beating grace period on balance transfers of up to 43 months, encouraging borrowers to transfer debt from other cards, and there is a card offering 0pc interest on purchases for 29 months. James Daley of campaign group Fairer Finance said: "Zero per cent deals are a ticking timebomb. They feed our addiction to short-term credit and I worry about lenders handing out credit to anyone who asks for it. "I'm not sure that the regulators have done enough to ensure this money is being handed out to people who can afford it." MBNA had £7.5 billion of debt on its books at the end of 2016, and boasted that this was 10 per cent higher than a year earlier due to "competitive campaigns targeting new and existing customers." It lost £151 million from customers unable to pay the business back, up 21 per cent on 2015, although bosses insisted that the quality of their lending remained high. Another £772.7 million was showing some signs of trouble, accounts filed with Companies House reveal. Lloyds finance boss George Culmer will take charge of the bank if chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio quits, shareholders believe. The board is said to be planning to hand Culmer, 54, temporary control if necessary while a replacement is found. Horta-Osorio, 53, has been named as a possible replacement for HSBC head Stuart Gulliver, who retires next year. Although Horta-Osorio insists he is happy at Lloyds, there is speculation that he could seek a new job after the Government sells its final stake this month, eight years after a £20.3 billion taxpayer bailout. Last year, the company took a £164 million hit from the PPI mis-selling scandal, on top of a £211 million bill for the previous 12 months. MBNA is known for adverts featuring so-called "payment ninjas" in their 20s - although sources insist the firm doesn't target young people excessively. It also flogs branded cards through deals with football clubs including Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool, and offers rewards cards giving spenders air miles and shopping gift vouchers. MBNA has around 5 million customers and the sale will give Lloyds a 26 per cent share of the market - just 1 per cent less than Barclaycard, the biggest player. This means more than half the market will be controlled by two businesses, sparking concerns they could put the squeeze on consumers. The Competition and Markets Authority decided last week that it did not need to investigate the deal in more detail. A Lloyds spokesman said: "We are a responsible lender with strict lending criteria on all applications for credit." An MBNA spokesman said: "Our focus is always on providing the right product to the right customer to suit their needs and their personal circumstances." The tie-up comes amid growing concern over Britain's pile of debt. Families owe a record £67.3 billion on their credit cards, or around £2,500 per household. Share or comment on this article

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The Pastor at the Top of the World First it was the shamans, masters of spirits, both malevolent and benign. Then it was Hans Egede, the Danish-Norwegian missionary who strode ashore West Greenland 300 years ago this year to establish the country's first Lutheran mission. Now it's an innovative pastor from Elkton, Maryland, who has founded the country's first Baptist church in the west coast Greenland city of Ilulissat. Barely a quarter-mile from the armadas of cruise-ship-sized icebergs in the harbor, the Ilulissani Baptistit Oqaluffiat (Ilulissat Baptist Church) is a modest, dark gray building on a sloping hill near a Chinese restaurant. Scripture quotes along with seal skins are affixed to the walls of a cheery dining area inside. In a country that's increasingly visible on the world scene because of the immense amount of rare earth minerals tucked into its landscape, Chris Shull, 42, has staked a spiritual claim. "Our mission field," he said, "is the coolest place on Earth." It's also one of the prettiest. The town, population 4,670, is parked next to the world's fastest calving glacier that dumps 11 cubic miles of icebergs each year into the Ilulissat Icefjord from Greenland's fast-melting ice sheet. It is climate change in live action and a draw for thousands of tourists each year. Most of them might never know of the Baptist church, even though it's down the street from the Knud Rasmussen Museum, a huge draw for visitors wanting to view the birthplace of the famous Arctic explorer. Shull is happy to show visitors around the church, which has a roomy reception area next to a separate room for Sunday services. The latter has rows of maroon-cushioned chairs next to huge windows looking out on the town and the encircling harbor. Baptists Carole and Chris Shull in the West Greenland city of Ilulissat. Photo by Julia Duin After a four-month U.S. sabbatical this summer, Shull's seven-member family arrived back in Ilulissat last month to hopefully stage their first baptism (this has to be done in a tank; the harbor water is about 35 to 37 degrees Fahrenheit); reach out to other towns via a hoped-for new boat; engage the local spiritualists ("Shamanism is big here. Everyone I know has ghost stories," he said); and build some brand recognition around the name Baptist. Shull, a stocky man with dark hair, a mustache and a sparse beard, felt drawn to be a missionary to Greenland starting when he was 19, and in 2000 he and his wife, Carole, now 44, spent their honeymoon in Nuuk, the capital. "I asked God to send me somewhere where there weren't too many Baptist missionaries," he said. "I knew God had called me before we even went." The place that drew him most was Ilulissat, the world showplace for global warming. As the main city on the massive, iceberg-choked Disko Bay, which is surrounded by a number of smaller towns, Ilulissat was the strategic choice to reach the most people. (Larger cities, such as Nuuk and Sisimiut, are more isolated.) Getting there was a yearslong process that involved 22 months in Iceland and a chance meeting with a Danish official who helped arrange their move to Greenland in April 2007, with the proviso that they relocate within a six-week window. Carole was eight months pregnant. "When we first arrived, there was no one waiting for us at the airport," Shull said in a promotional video. "There were no believers, no veteran missionaries, no one. We had no long-term housing, nor could we speak the languages," although he'd studied Danish in Iceland. "We had 3 children under the age of 6, and my wife was expecting our fourth child in a month. We knew no one. We were alone. It was just us and God. When all you have is God, then you find that he is all you need." The family squeezed into a one-bedroom apartment and, for their first six years, got around town by foot, as cars were expensive. Fourteen years later, they have a 2,000-square-foot church, a home with plumbing, a car that fits their entire family, a boat, a children's ministry that draws 20 kids plus several adults on Wednesday nights, a prison ministry at a local minimum-security facility and Sunday services that draw up to 17 adults.

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Polish abortion law protests over woman's hospital death According to the family's lawyer, the woman's death is a consequence of the controversial Constitutional Tribunal ruling introducing a near-total abortion ban, because she alleges the patient's doctors, fearful of the consequences of performing a termination of her pregnancy, instead waited for the foetus to die.

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Coronavirus: Isle of Man ends social distancing Isle of Man ENDS social distancing rules to 'get society back to normal' after no new deaths on the island for 22 days Isle of Man announces it will drop public social distancing rules from Monday Chief Minister Howard Quayle said move was to 'get society back to normal' 24 people have died from a total of 336 confirmed coronavirus cases Here's how to help people impacted by Covid-19 By William Cole For Mailonline The Isle of Man has announced it will scrap social distancing rules for the public from Monday following a third week of no new coronavirus cases. At his daily press conference, Chief Minister Howard Quayle said the decision had been taken to 'get society back to normal'. 24 people have died from coronavirus out of 336 confirmed cases on the island, but there have been no new cases for 22 days. The changes mean that people will no longer be required to stay two metres apart, and businesses and employees can now return to offices and shops without having to implement social distancing measures. Rules on social distancing would remain in place for those working in health care and elderly care homes, the chief minister added. The island's borders will also remain closed to all non-residents until further notice. Isle of Man public health said 'local elimination' of the disease will be achieved next week, if the Island reaches 28 days with no new cases. 'The Isle of Man took decisive action at the start of the crisis, and as a result managed to limit the spread of the Coronavirus,' said Mr Quayle. 'We have constantly reviewed restrictions during this time, and as we have had no active cases for over three weeks, the time has come to announce a new set of decisions. 'We have decided that we are ready to remove any requirement for social distancing from 15th June. We know this is a bold step, but we believe it is the right one at the right time. We know that this will make a real difference to all our lives, and allow our society to come back together and our economy to thrive. 'Throughout this period we have had a clear and phased plan to lift restrictions, and we will continue to review the situation.' Mr Quayle added that the 111 helpline will remain in place, and has asked the public to be vigilant for symptoms. He adds hygiene recommendations will remain in place, like washing your hands regularly. The Government cases under fire back in April, when a single care home where 11 out of the island's 15 coronavirus deaths had occurred had its licence suspended. Its director blamed the government over a lack of personal protective equipment (PPE). Abbotswood Nursing Home in Ballasalla had its license suspended on April 13 after nearly 40 residents tested positive for coronavirus. Eleven people are now reported to have died at the home - with six confirmed within a 24 hour alone - while another resident died while being treated at Noble's Hospital. Advertisement Share or comment on this article:

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Fact check: Trump falsely claims Melania Trump has 'gotten to know Kim Jong Un' Trump made at least eight false claims, seven of which he had made before. (The new one was an odd claim about Melania Trump and Kim Jong Un.) And he made at least five claims that we'll call misleading, questionable or lacking in context. "The first lady has gotten to know Kim Jong Un, and I think she would agree with me he is a man with a country that has tremendous potential," Trump said. Facts First: Melania Trump was not present for any of Trump's three meetings with Kim Jong Un, and there is no evidence she has ever spoken to Kim. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement later Monday: "President Trump confides in his wife on many issues including the detailed elements of his strong relationship with Chairman Kim -- and while the First Lady hasn't met him, the President feels like she's gotten to know him too." We're still calling the statement false. Trump's phrasing, "gotten to know," clearly suggested some level of personal interaction between Melania Trump and Kim. The Iran deal and money Trump said, of the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, that "we gave them $150 billion." Facts First: It was not US government money in the first place, and the "$150 billion" figure is an exaggeration. Although the Iran nuclear deal allowed the country to access tens of billions in its own assets that had been frozen in foreign financial institutions because of sanctions, experts say the total was significantly lower than $150 billion. In 2015, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew put the number at $56 billion. You can read a fuller fact check on this claim here. The expiration of the Iran deal Trump said the nuclear agreement is "almost expiring, if you think about it." Facts First: While some central provisions were written to expire in the next 10 to 15 years, the deal as a whole -- including a blanket prohibition on Iran developing nuclear weapons -- was written to continue in perpetuity. The trade deficit with the European Union Trump said: "The EU is another one: we've been losing $180 billion a year for many years." Facts First: The trade deficit with the European Union was $114 billion in 2018, $101 billion in 2017, $93 billion in 2016. The trade deficit with China Trump said that China had been "taking" $500 billion from the US for "many, many years" and "every single year." Facts First: The trade deficit with China has never been $500 billion. It was $381 billion in 2018 when counting goods and services, $420 billion when counting goods alone. We'll ignore Trump's description of the trade deficit as China "taking" money out of the US, which is rejected by most economists. Revenue from tariffs on China Trump said of China: "We have billions and billions coming in." He also said: "The United States, which has never collected 10 cents from China, will in a fairly short period of time be over $100 billion in tariffs." Facts First: Americans make the actual tariff payments, not people in China, and economic studies have concluded that the overwhelming majority of the costs are being eaten by Americans. (Some Chinese exporters are also bearing some of the costs, but it's certainly not true that they are doing so alone.) It is also not true that the US has never before generated revenue from tariffs on Chinese products: the government had tariffs on China for more than two centuries. Also, while the tariffs on China might well generate more than $100 billion at some point, that will not happen immediately; the figure was $21 billion as of July, The New York Times reported. Asian American unemployment Trump claimed again that unemployment for Asian Americans is at the lowest rate "ever." Facts First: While the unemployment rate for Asian Americans hit a low earlier in Trump's term, the rate in July, 2.8%, was higher than it was in the last full month of Obama's term, 2.6%. Energy production "I feel that the United States has tremendous wealth. The wealth is under its feet. I've made that wealth come alive. We will soon be one of the -- we will soon be exporting -- in fact, we're actually doing it now. Exporting. But we are now the number one energy producer in the world and soon it will be by far, with a couple of pipelines that have not been able to get approved for many, many years," Trump said. Facts First: Contrary to Trump's suggestion here, the US has not just "now" become the world's top energy producer: It took the top spot in 2012 under Obama, according to the US government's Energy Information Administration. The US became the top producer of crude oil in particular during Trump's tenure.

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Clippers' defense locks in early in Game 4 win over Nuggets Michael Porter Jr. slid past JaMychal Green to hit a banker over Paul George's vertical arms to end the first quarter, two hard-earned points from an offensive player who was simply better than the Clippers" coverage. It was also a rarity. In the first quarter of the Clippers" 96-85 win Wednesday, they put the clamps on the Nuggets, with Porter's basket and four made shots from Nikola Jokic the only field goals for Denver in the first dozen minutes. "It was just great intensity. They really stuck to the game plan. We didn't do a lot of individual thinking," coach Doc Rivers said after the win. "But I just thought we were competitive. We competed. We played hard. We made mistakes, but we covered them up because we were playing hard. And more important than playing hard, I thought we were competitive." The effort reversed a trend from the series, with the Denver offense opening games by torching the nets before the Clippers would lock in. The 12 points Wednesday was the worst offensive quarter of the playoffs for the Nuggets, with the team making only five of 17 from the floor, with Jokic hitting four of them. In the first three games of the series, Denver hit 62.3% of its shots from the field, averaging 35.3 points. "I mean, listen, I just think it's us," Rivers said before Game 4. "Give Denver credit. They're an excellent offensive team, but we have proven through the game when we play right defensively, make the right rotations we're pretty good - so just gotta do that from the start." The Clippers" first-quarter defense Wednesday was aided by Denver's shot-making woes, but even with Denver missing on some looks, the Clippers were playing with a different level of intensity from the tip. Ivica Zubac, who has had the hardest job in the series trying to stop Jokic, set the tone with a stop on the right block. Even when Jokic spun Zubac out of his sneakers a few plays later, the Clippers didn't relent. Before George got saddled with foul trouble, his length bothered Jamal Murray and limited the high-scoring Denver guard to two shot attempts, both of which he missed. "It's just keeping him in front, using my length to bother him... just pressure him," George said. While Patrick Beverley and Kawhi Leonard earned all-defensive second team spots this week, Rivers said people shouldn't sleep on George's defense either. "I think it gets lost sometimes with PG because he is such a great shooter," Rivers said before the game. "It just seems like the better the shooter you are, the more [people] forget about how good you are defensively. For whatever reason, I think that's true. But he has been sensational. You can always tell where he's at like healthwise and mentally by the way he's playing defense." The same generally holds true for the Clippers, and in the first quarter, they looked pretty well. It wasn't as sudden as the Clippers" defensive surges in Game 3, when the team sort of floated in and out. The Clippers" performance in that game left Denver feeling confident that its offense would rebound, that some good looks that the team had would fall. But still, Denver coach Michael Malone said the Clippers could change things with their defense. "Those two crucial runs that they had [in Game 3] were huge difference-makers in the win," he said before Game 4. "They got into us and turned us over and generated easy offense for them. So yes, we did miss open looks, things that we can control. "But their defense is real."

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Several quakes rattle Myanmar's largest city, no damage seen By Associated Press By Associated Press January 11 at 8:06 PM YANGON, Myanmar - Several earthquakes caused some panic in Myanmar's largest city early Friday, but no serious injuries or major damage has yet been reported. Residents said their six-story building shook three times, with the strongest quake lasting at least a minute. "We were sleeping, but as the building was shaking pretty strong, we all woke up in a panic," Yangon resident Swe Swe Myint said. The U.S. Geological Survey said the first quake just before 1 a.m. was magnitude-6.0 and had a shallow depth of 10 kilometers (6 miles). The epicenter was about 27 kilometers (17 miles) southwest of Phyu township, about 172 kilometers (107 miles) north of Yangon. Three quakes of magnitude-5.3 and magnitude-5.2 followed within 20 minutes. Myanmar Earthquake Committee said the epicenters were close to at least two dams. But after daylight broke, no major damage or casualties had yet been reported. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Azman Ilham bin Haji Mohamed Noor (born 17 February 1984) is a Bruneian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Kota Ranger FC of the Brunei Super League. Azman played for QAF FC and NBT FC before signing for Brunei's only professional club, DPMM FC to serve as backup to Wardun Yussof. He was loaned to the Prisons Department football team for the duration of the FIFA suspension of Brunei. He was released at the end of the 2016 season. ==International career== He has played for the national team since 2006, and was called up for the 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup qualification. He was also selected for the 2014 Hassanal Bolkiah Trophy as one of the five permitted overage players. ==Honours== ===Team=== DPMM FC : 2015 Singapore League Cup (3): 2009, 2012, 2014 Kota Ranger FC Brunei FA Cup: 2018–19 Piala Sumbangsih: 2020 ==External links== ==References== 1984 births Living people Bruneian footballers Brunei international footballers Association football goalkeepers DPMM FC players

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The Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL), founded in 1973, is a voluntary bar association with members in five chapters throughout California, including Los Angeles, Northern California, Orange County, San Diego, and the San Joaquin Valley. ABTL's membership includes business litigators from both plaintiff and defense practices and judges and justices (federal and state, trial and appellate). The ABTL provides a forum in which litigators and jurists meet to address issues important to both commercial trial lawyers and the judicial bench. == Mission == ABTL's goal is to provide a forum for exchanging ideas and information regarding business litigation. From its start in 1973, it has been committed to promoting and enhancing communications between all sides of the business bar and the federal and state benches. == Programs == ABTL provides a forum for presentations on relevant legal issues, demonstrations of trial and litigation strategies, and discussion of issues faced by business litigators advocating and jurists deciding business cases. ABTL has been certified by the State Bar of California to provide continuing legal education programs and credits. == Chapters == ABTL currently has five chapters serving legal communities throughout California: Los Angeles Northern California Orange County San Diego San Joaquin Valley == Publications == === ABTL Reports === Each chapter of the ABTL produces a publication called the ABTL Report, which addresses issues of interest to business trial lawyers. Articles cover shifts in the law, summarize and analyze controlling precedent, and notify lawyers of important updates to statutes, as well as court and local rules. Other articles address litigation tips, such as advocacy suggestions and writing tools. Copies of the ABTL Reports are publicly available on ABTL's website. === Civility Guidelines === ABTL has adopted guidelines for professionalism and civility for lawyers engaged in litigation. The goal of the guidelines is to eliminate unnecessary conflict and to reduce the level of contentiousness and stress in the resolution of legal disputes. ABTL members are encouraged to adopt these guidelines in their everyday practice. ==References== ==External links== ABTL's home page Bar associations

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Batya Ouziel (בתיה עוזיאל; 1 March 1934 – 6 January 2018) was an Israeli handicrafter and television presenter. She learnt the crafts of embroidery and knitting from an early age and began doing this while serving under instructors from the Gadna in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Ouziel taught art and art history in educational institutes and became well known in Israel for broadcasting a weekly section called In Four Hands with Batya Ouziel about handicrafts over the radio in the 1960s. She broadened her reach when she presented approximately 300 editions of the educational television programme Crafts with Batya Ouziel between 1974 and 1982. ==Early life== She was born in Tel Aviv on 1 March 1934. Ouziel is the daughter of Baruch Gilon who directed, promoted and organised the Broom Theater, and her mother Sonia (who died after being run over by a British lorry in 1941) was an agronomist by training. When Tel Aviv began to be bombed by the Italians during the Second World War, Ouziel and her family relocated to Kfar Malal. Her father subsequently sent her to live in Geva for three starting when she was nine years old. Ouziel was unable to assimilate well in the city's elite society of the mid-1940s. She frequently suffered from migraines and disliked the treatment she received from the locals. Ouziel returned to Tel Aviv when her father remarried and went to be educated at New High School. She was drawn to embroidery and knitting from an early age, and was educated first at the Histadrut's Painting and Sculpture Studio in Tel Aviv from 1950 to 1951 and then at the Painting Teachers' College in the same city in 1954. While Ouziel was serving in the military, she learnt these crafts when she served under instructors from the Gadna in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and began advertising herself as a waste exploiter during military service. She served in the military from 1954 to 1956. ==Career== Following the end of her military service, Ouziel went into teaching art in schools. From 1956 to 1961, she taught painting and art history at schools in Ramat Gan and the Tel Aviv-Yafo Municipality and also did teaching of methodology and painting at IDF seminars between 1957 and 1959. She also taught paint and art history at Tel Aviv-Yafo's 11th Urban High School between 1956 and 1970. Ouziel went to become coordinator of the Department of Art at the Eleventh Urban High School in Tel Aviv-Yafo from 1971 to 1980. She became well-known in Israel during the 1960s. Ouziel had a weekly section called In Four Hands with Batya Ouziel about handicrafts on the Arabic-language radio programme Israel Housewives presented by Rivka Michaeli. From 1974 to 1982, she became better known when she appeared on approximately 300 editions of the educational television programme Crafts with Batya Ouziel which were compiled into 12-volume books. Most episodes of the programme were erased and only 25 remain in existence. Ouziel was paid little for her appearances since executives did not thought of the ratings she received. She coined the phrase "I prepared in advance" which was her common expression and made her identifiable. Ouziel often uttered the words during the programme to inform viewers before the presentation of the finishing work. She explained the phrase came from her home which was quite strict about language with the words "prepared" and "understood" often said by her father. In the 1980s, she lost a court case against the Israeli tax authorities when it ruled because her works had the mechanisms of a watch, she needed to pay a tax similar to watch sellers. In 2000, Ouziel received a telephone call from a advertising agency producer offering her a role to advertise for a diary company. She accepted and ended up doing an advertisement for a cottage. Around the same time, Ouziel and her young granddaughter took part in the Hope Channel pre-school creative television programme Grandma Batya. In 2013, a tribute exhibition to her featuring some of her works called I prepared in retrospect – a tribute exhibition to Batya Ouziel was held at the Gerstein Gallery. That same year, Ouziel did a workshop at the ecological festival The Ball in Our Hands at the Ashkelon National Park in Ashkelon. She continued to teach craft privately to students, and appeared on a sketch on the television programme The Jews are Coming. ==Personal life== She was married to the banker Shmuel Ouziel until his death in 2008.

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Arctacaridae is a small family of mites in the order Mesostigmata. These mites were discovered and described by Evans in 1955 in the arctic regions of North America. ==Species== Arctacaridae contains two genera, with six recognized species: Genus Arctacarus Evans, 1955 Genus Proarctacarus Makarova, 2003 ==References== Mesostigmata Acari families

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Roads closed into New Mexico city to mitigate 'uninhibited spread of Covid-19' The city is under emergency restrictions to control the outbreak, according to a statement from New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. All roads into the city have been closed, businesses must close between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m. and vehicles can only carry two individuals, according to the governor's order. The governor is recommending that residents remain at home except for emergency outings and those essential for health and safety. Lujan Grisham invoked the state's Riot Control Act to authorize these temporary restrictions. The move comes after the mayor requested the governor to declare a state of emergency in the city, according to a letter made public by the governor's office. "I recognize this request is unusual and constitutes a drastic measure, and the emergency powers set out under the Riot Control Act should be invoked sparingly," Gallup Mayor Louis Bonaguidi wrote in his letter. "However, the COVID-19 outbreak in the city of Gallup is a crisis of the highest order. Immediate action is necessary." Gallup is in McKinley County, which has 1,027 positive cases of Covid-19 as of Thursday. The county has more than 30% of the state's 3,411 cases and the most positive cases in the entire state, the governor's statement said. "Its infection trend has shown no sign of flattening," according to the statement. McKinley County has reported an additional 207 positive cases in the last two days, more than every other county in the state has reported total during the pandemic except for three, according to state officials. Under the Riot Control Act, anyone who fails to comply with restrictions imposed under the act is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of a second or subsequent offense is guilty of a fourth-degree felony. 'Virus is running amok' The emergency order and road closures will be enforced by Gallup city police, the McKinley County Sheriff's Department, the New Mexico State Police and state Department of Transportation. The New Mexico National Guard will provide support in a non-law enforcement capacity. "The spread of this virus in McKinley County is frightful," Lujan Grisham said. "And it shows that physical distancing has not occurred and is not occurring. The virus is running amok there. It must be stopped, and stricter measures are necessary." Any state of emergency proclaimed under the Riot Control Act ends automatically at noon on the third day after it becomes effective. The Gallup emergency is effective immediately and will expire at noon on Monday, May 4, unless the city requests an extension. The Navajo Nation has extended its state of emergency declaration and said the nation's government offices will now be closed until May 17. The Navajo Nation extends into the states of Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, covering more than 27,000 square miles. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez says he supports the governor's lockdown plan. "We have many members of the Navajo Nation that reside in Gallup and many that travel in the area and their health and safety is always our top priority," he said. Because of the extreme heightened risk of transmission in the northwestern region of the state, McKinley County -- along with neighboring San Juan and Cibola counties -- remain subject to the state's April 11 order closing nonessential businesses. Changes in the modified public health order that took effect Friday do not apply in those counties. "The imperative for all of us to remain home and physically distant has not changed. It is even more crucial for New Mexicans in the northwestern region. But what is happening in the northwest could happen in any part of our state. We must remain vigilant," Lujan Grisham said.

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Scotland fans must fork out £88 to see Peru friendly Published: 21:43 Thursday 26 April 2018 Updated: 09:10 Friday 27 April 2018 Scotland supporters are being charged £88 to attend next month's end-of-season friendly in Peru. The SFA has stepped in to offer compensation for the "inflated ticket price" by offering travelling fans free entry to September's home match against Belgium. Alex McLeish will take a squad to South America to face Peru on 29 May, before travelling to Central America for a fixture with Mexico on 2 June. Tickets for both matches go on sale today to members of the Scotland Supporters Club (SSC). Briefs for the Mexico clash are priced at £10 each, while the Peruvian FF has priced tickets at £88 each. Both Mexico and Peru will play at this summer's World Cup and the match in Lima is being billed as Peru's World Cup send-off. Reports suggest 700,000 locals will apply for tickets. "We have expressed to the Peruvian FF our concern at the price of tickets," said the SFA. "By way of compensating fans for the inflated ticket price, members who purchase a ticket for the Peru match will be eligible for a free ticket to Scotland's autumn fixture against Belgium." SSC member Neil Davidson from Peterhead, who has booked his flights and hotel already, said: "It was a complete shock when I saw the price. It's incredible."

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Nevertheless, Ronald dela Rosa is popular in the Philippines. He regularly appears on Filipino TV shows and enjoys posing for photos with the public. He even featured in a controversial iPhone game that shows him and Mr Duterte shooting criminals. The game was later removed from the Apple app store. He became a household name in the Philippines after he cried during a senate hearing into the death of a provincial mayor while in police custody over alleged illegal drug possession. Fighting back tears, he told senators he couldn't blame the public for losing trust and confidence in the police because he himself no longer knew "whom to trust." Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The death of teenager Kian delos Santos was a step too far for many in the Philippines Under his watch the war on drugs was temporarily suspended twice because of miscarriages of justice. In October 2016 a South Korean businessman was kidnapped and murdered by officers at the national police headquarters in Manila under the pretence of a drug-war arrest. Then in September 2017 a 17-year-old student was killed during an anti-drug operation. Amid huge protests, police officers later admitted they had no evidence Kian delos Santos was involved with drugs. The PNP resumed control of the drug war in November 2017, but a few months later Gen dela Rosa was moved from PNP police chief to become the director general of the Bureau of Corrections. As the head of prisons, he has made it his goal to wipe out the drug trade inside the country's main detention centre, New Bilibid Prison, home to many of the country's top drug lords. According to Gen dela Rosa, past inspections revealed inmates were "living like kings" - some cells were furnished with "jacuzzis" and "recording studios." Image copyright AFP Image caption Police have found banned items and luxury goods in New Bilibid Prison (file photo) "They can't do it any more," said Gen dela Rosa "On the very first day in office I told them: 'Right here, right now, I'm the boss. You're not the boss'." Then, referencing the Netflix series Narcos, in which Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar controlled a prison nicknamed The Cathedral, Mr dela Rosa added: "Bilibid is not your cathedral any more." 'We're not hiding anything' In February this year the International Criminal Court (ICC) said it had begun a preliminary examination of claims filed by a Filipino lawyer that the government had committed crimes against humanity during its handling of the drug war. Mr Duterte responded by saying he wants to remove the Philippines from the jurisdiction of the ICC, accusing it of violating due process. But Gen dela Rosa said he would welcome ICC investigators. "We're not hiding anything. We are open," he insisted. "What is difficult is if they are just hearing reports coming from the anti-Duterte critics who are bringing those reports to them. Then they will be blinded by false reports or 'fake news'." Such is Gen dela Rosa's popularity many are tipping him to run for senator in 2019. Recent opinion polls suggest he would stand a good chance of being elected if he were to stand. But he says he is waiting for the approval of President Duterte before he makes a decision to enter politics. If he gets the green light, he said he would campaign to introduce the death penalty for drug offenders and to bring in a nationwide ID card system. Asked if he had aspirations of becoming president himself one day he said: "I'll leave that to God. Destiny, destiny. My becoming the chief of the PNP is destiny already."

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Sisters Eagle Airport is a public airport located one mile (1.6 km) north of Sisters in Deschutes County, Oregon, USA. There are some subdivisions with direct access to the airport. It is also used for wildfire aircraft support. ==External links== Oregon Department of Aviation Fltplan Airports in Deschutes County, Oregon Sisters, Oregon

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"You just wish they'd keep some of these things to themselves," Bishop complained of those members of what she called "The School of Anguish." For Bishop, much of this frustration was directed at how the confessional, for a woman, meant hemming herself in, when poetry had always freed her. In the 1970s, when Adrienne Rich and others lobbied to include her in anthologies of woman poets, she bristled. She maintained that men and women "do not write differently... I don't like things compartmentalized like that... I like black & white, yellow & red, young & old, rich and poor, and male & female, all mixed up." Some would call this internalized misogyny. But her poetics offer an alternate interpretation of this aversion: She sought to tap into "the surrealism of everyday life, unexpected moments of empathy" in order to produce something universal, whole. She had felt most of her life that she was at odds with the world around her, and that poetry was her salve. Verse could break into the essential, crack open "the horrible and terrible world," which had given her such pain. Why bring reality back in? Marshall's characterization of the difference between Lowell's and Bishop's poetry is that, for Bishop, "keeping secrets made her poems tell more than outright confessions," as if the details behind her poetry fought against her to reveal themselves. Instead, her most beloved poem, "One Art," written about the blue-eyed Alice Methfessel, demonstrates how deliberate Bishop's choices were, how the balance between the universal and the personal is painstakingly wrought. There is a frantic anguish in the poem's famous parenthetical - " (Write it!) " - but the feeling is heightened, not diminished, by its place within the formal bounds of the villanelle rhyme scheme. Perhaps this delicate balance that Bishop achieved in her work is why the power of the poetry fades inside Marshall's chronicling, so concerned it is with finding autobiography in Bishop's poems. And where it can't be found, it is amplified by the author's own confessions from her time at Harvard: She was a student of Bishop's for one semester. The narrative that Marshall is looking for in Bishop's life is wholly too neat and sweet, and eclipses the real struggles of her subject: a writer who was not at home in the world, not comfortable with exposing herself, but who still created work of arresting beauty. "Art just isn't worth that much," Bishop once wrote to her confessional friend Robert Lowell. Her use of "worth" should be marked here as a financial one; for women writers especially, the personal can be regarded as a vessel of truth or authenticity, but it is in many ways another method of turning art into something sellable. We should understand Bishop's turn to privacy in this context. Her work endures because it defies contemporary urges to produce more and more material. Just as Alice Methfessel sold her papers to the archive at Vassar in 1998, and her heirs sold the ones she had kept in 2010, Bishop might have sold herself if she had written more of herself into her work. But she didn't.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Danaher Corporation (NYSE: DHR) announced that it will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call for the fourth quarter 2021 on Thursday, January 27, 2022 beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET and lasting approximately 1 hour. The call and an accompanying slide presentation will be webcast on the "Investors" section of Danaher's website, www.danaher.com, under the subheading "Events & Presentations." A replay of the webcast will be available shortly after the conclusion of the presentation and will remain available until the next quarterly earnings call. You can access the conference call by dialing 800-895-3361 within the U.S. or +1 785-424-1062 outside the U.S. a few minutes before 8:00 a.m. ET and notifying the operator that you are dialing in for Danaher's earnings conference call (Conference ID: DHRQ421). A replay of the conference call will be available shortly after the conclusion of the call until February 10, 2022. You can access the replay dial-in information on the "Investors" section of Danaher's website under the subheading "Events & Presentations." Danaher's earnings press release, the webcast slides and other related presentation materials will be posted to the "Investors" section of Danaher's website under the subheading "Quarterly Earnings" beginning at 6:00 a.m. ET on the date of the earnings call and will remain available following the call. Danaher is a global science and technology innovator committed to helping its customers solve complex challenges and improving quality of life around the world. Its family of world class brands has leadership positions in the demanding and attractive health care, environmental and applied end-markets. With more than 20 operating companies, Danaher's globally diverse team of approximately 69,000 associates is united by a common culture and operating system, the Danaher Business System, and its Shared Purpose, Helping Realize Life's Potential. For more information, please visit www.danaher.com. SOURCE Danaher Corporation

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Weight loss diet: Apple cider vinegar can boost metabolism and burn fat fast Weight loss can be achieved by following a healthy diet plan and exercising regularly. Sipping on apple cider vinegar could be a simple way to burn fat more quickly. How much should you have? Apple cider vinegar is an acidic fermented drink that has been shown to burn fat in the body. It is thought to have a number of benefits for those trying to lose weight, Lisa Borg, nutritionist, explained. She told Express.co.uk: "Apple cider vinegar can help a weight loss regime due to its diuretic actions that assist the elimination of excess fluids. "It's cleansing effects on the liver can improve the metabolism and thereby encourage the breakdown of excess fat." READ MORE: Top ten exercises to help you slim down revealed - which burns the most calories? Participants who had two tablespoons a day lost 3.7 pounds and reduced their body fat percentage by 0.9 percent. The expert revealed having just one tablespoon a day could be enough to give results. She added: "I recommend taking one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar mixed into a full glass of water. "You should sip this mixture throughout the first half of your meal." "I'd suggest one to three weeks depending on how much you need to lose. "Then move slowly to introducing wholegrain carbs with one meal daily. All other carbs should be vegetables origin." She also explained those hoping to lose weight should avoid processed foods in a bid to slim down. "Avoid processed foods, anything made with white flour, snacking and overeating," Lisa added. "Look at your normal size meal and remove a quarter of each ingredient before sitting at the table."

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Hecht also gave a cameo role to his soon-to-be second wife, Martine Millner, as a gypsy dancer. The production was financed by United Artists with a budget of $3,800,000. Hecht went on location in Salta, Argentina with Eastmancolor equipped Panavision cameras, and two-time Oscar nominated cinematographer, Joseph MacDonald. After a series of delays, extensive hiring of extras for the battle scenes and post-production costs at Columbia Studios, the films' budget skyrocketed to a total of $7,000,000. Taras Bulba was released in late 1962 and featured a score by Franz Waxman, who had worked with Hecht on Run Silent, Run Deep. Waxman's soundtrack was a considerable success, surpassing the fame of the film itself. It was praised by Bernard Herrmann, considered by many to be one of Hollywood's greatest composers. Waxman's score was nominated for three awards; one at the Academy Awards for Best Music Score – Substantially Original, another at the Golden Globe Awards, for Best Original Score and a last at the International Film Music Critics Association for Best Archival Re-Recording of an Existing Score. In late 1962 Hecht resumed work on Flight from Ashiya. By then Alan Pakula had dropped out to produce the drama film To Kill a Mockingbird. Waldo Salt continued his association with Hecht and co-wrote the screenplay with author Elliot Arnold. Oscar nominated director Michael Anderson (nominated for Around the World in Eighty Days) came on board with two cinematographers; Burnett Guffey, who had just been nominated at the Academy Awards for his work on Birdman of Alcatraz, and Joseph MacDonald, who had worked on Taras Bulba. The production was financed and distributed by United Artists on a much smaller budget of $1,800,000, but was still granted top-quality equipment of the era, including Panavision and Eastmancolor. The story revolved around a United States Air Force Air Rescue Service mission to save Japanese civilians stranded on a lifeboat. This time the crew traveled to Rome, Italy, where Hecht and his new bride Martine Millner were to have a limited honeymoon squeezed between the shooting schedule. Most of the filming subsequently took place in Japan, in Kyoto, Tokyo, Tachikawa and Osaka. The film starred Yul Brynner, Richard Widmark and George Chakiris, who was reluctant to take the role after winning an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in West Side Story. It also featured Suzy Parker, Shirley Knight, who had been nominated for Best Supporting Actress the year prior for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, Danielle Gaubert and Eiko Taki, whom Hecht signed to a non-exclusive, three-picture contract with Harold Hecht Productions (the other two films on her contract were never made). Flight from Ashiya was released in the spring of 1964 to limited success. Tony Curtis had been under contract to Universal Pictures since 1948 and his last film for the studio was up. Hecht teamed up with Curtis' new production company, Reynard Productions, to produce the romantic comedy, Wild and Wonderful (previously, Monsieur Cognac). Financed through a strictly budgeted, one-picture deal with Universal, Wild and Wonderful was Hecht's fourth and final collaboration with Curtis. It also starred Curtis' new wife, Christine Kaufmann, who signed a six-picture contract with Harold Hecht Productions; the other five films of her deal never materialized. Featured roles were played by Larry Storch, Marty Ingels, Marcel Dalio, Cliff Osmond, Fifi D'Orsay, Vito Scotti, Stanley Adams and Shelly Manne. Wild and Wonderful was based on Dorothy Crider's story, I Married a Dog. The comedic plot involves an alcoholic dog, named Monsieur Cognac, who one night escapes from his mansion in Paris to get a drink. He befriends a young musician (Curtis) and spends the night with him at locals taverns before sleeping it off at his apartment. Monsieur Cognac's owner, a rich and famous actress (Kaufmann), finds the two of them the next day and develops a love affair with Curtis, much to the opposition of her jealous dog and her controlling father. A number of screenwriters worked on Wild and Wonderful, including Philip Rapp, Richard Powell, Larry Markes, Michael Morris and Waldo Salt. Director Michael Anderson returned to work with Hecht for a second time after Flight from Ashiya, with seven-time Academy Award nominated cinematographer, Joseph LaShelle, who had won an Oscar for Laura in 1945.

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Silent Old Mtns (Silent Old Mountains) is an American indie rock band, formed in Frederick, Maryland in 2011 by singer songwriter Andrew Bromhal. They have released two full-length albums and are most noted for their energetic and theatrical live shows. They are also well known for their promotion of the indie music scene and DIY ethic: at one point touring the country in a repurposed school bus and averaging over 100 live performances per year despite having no corporate backing. DC Rock Live music blog's David Hintz describes their sound as "a whacked out brand of Americana folk rock that dives headlong into psyche terrain frequently." ==Formation (2010–11)== Silent Old Mtns' began in 2010 as a solo project by lead singer Andrew Bromhal. Bromhal would play various coffee shops and bars in the Baltimore-Washington area before expanding to a trio with the addition of Pat Acuña and Thom Huenger in the spring of 2011. Though the expansion was originally only intended to last one night, it was so well received that the move was made permanent and Silent Old Mtns became a band. Shortly after their first performances, local poet Samuel Whalen began to perform spoken word before and during the Mtns' sets. Eventually he was adopted as a banjo player, and became one of the most memorable aspects of their live performance, described by Trebuchet Magazine as... "Sam is the Silent Old Mtns' resident poet. Live, Sam is an IED. At first the crowd is usually confused when a madman next to the drum set starts screaming poems at them. But by his last line, the place has frozen. They've just watched a Gypsy king with shooting stars in his crown. And they're not sure what they feel, but it's enough to take their iPhones out and get the videos streaming." By mid-2011 Steve Younkins, nephew of Kix guitarist Ronnie Younkins, was added on bass guitar, creating the original lineup. ==Velvet Raccoon (2012)== Silent Old Mtns began recording their debut album,Velvet Raccoon, in August 2011 at the Key Facility in Monrovia, MD with producer Myles Vlachos. The album was named after a velvet painting of a raccoon that drummer Pat Acuña purchased at a flea market while living in Nashville, TN. Its lead single, Dead All The Time, was released along with a music video on March 22, 2012. This was followed by the release of the album on June 19, 2012. Critical response to Velvet Raccoon was generally positive, receiving an 8/10 when reviewed by Live Music Guide, calling it "...the first step of a visionary band with an honest and original sound." While Muzik Dizcovery's Casey Whitman wrote "Velvet Raccoon is hard to classify and unconventional, but the band has made an enormous leap, blowing away even my high expectations." In summer 2012 Silent Old Mtns began touring heavily to support Velvet Racoon, and were featured in a live performance and interview on The Blue Plate Special Radio Show in Knoxville TN. Between touring schedules, they were also invited to serve as the house band for the Maryland Ensemble Theatre's original production, The All New Grand Ole Hee Haw Hootenanny Howdown Jamboree. Members of the band were featured in sketches and other musical routines. The show ran for 16 performances and was well received, earning 4 out of 5 stars from. During this time Joe Jalette was added as the band's first lead guitarist. In a 2013 interview Pat Acuña was quoted as saying, "I can't believe we played this long without Joe. It's such a gaping hole in the music when we perform without him, and it blows my mind that we got to the point we have without that dynamic." In a January 2013 interview with Sweet Tea Pumpkin Pie the band confirmed they would be entering the studio to work on their second record with producer Matt Cramer. This album was ultimately never released, as the band broke up during recording. The only song from this track list ever released was the lead single "Beautiful Animal", it was recorded live and is available via Daytrotter. During a sneak preview of the track Gorilla Magazine's Andrew Bailey described the new song: "Although it isn't the final mix, the new song represents a leap forward in the method of capturing the band's live signature. The sound is fuller and the playback more closely resemble what you'd get from a stage show versus the polish of a studio." Though he is featured on Beautiful Animals, Steve Younkins announced his departure from the band during this time.

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Newly identified American saber-toothed cat species was larger than a tiger and hunted rhinos A saber-toothed cat, larger than the biggest tigers alive today, lived in North America between 5 - 9 million years ago, and used its massive forearms for hunting prey such as bison and rhinoceros, researchers have said. The previously unknown species is believed to be one of the largest cats which has ever lived, and was identified several years after a large upper arm bone specimen labelled as that of a cat was found in the collection of the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History, but which had mystified scientists. The huge bone was rediscovered by John Orcutt, assistant professor of biology at Gonzaga University, when he was a graduate student, and the find sparked a years-long effort to find out what species of cat it could be from. In all, the researchers used seven previously uncategorised fossil specimens along with other fossils and bone samples from around the world to describe the new species. The cat is an ancient relative of one of the best-known prehistoric animals - the saber-toothed cat Smilodon, although it would have been far larger and more fearsome. Recommended It would have weighed up to 900 pounds (64 stone, or 408kg), and "could have managed to kill prey weighing up to 6,000 pounds (2.7 tonnes). In comparison, a large adult male tiger will weigh up to 700 pounds (310kg). "We believe these were animals that were routinely taking down bison-sized animals," said study co-author Jonathan Calede, an assistant professor of evolution, ecology and organismal biology at Ohio State University. "This was by far the largest cat alive at that time," he said. The specimen which Dr Orcutt rediscovered was originally excavated on the traditional lands of the Cayuse, a tribe joined with the Umatilla and Walla Walla in the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. The humerus bone excavated from north central Oregon, which is now on display in the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History (John Orcutt) In recognition of the specimen's origin, the research team collaborated with the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute to name the new species Machairodus lahayishupup. Machairodus is a genus of large saber-toothed cats which lived in Africa, Eurasia and North America, and in the Old Cayuse language, Laháyis Húpup means "ancient wild cat." But the research not only revealed the previously unrecognised species, it also provides important new insights as to how cats" leg bones can indicate which species they belong to. "One of the big stories of all of this is that we ended up uncovering specimen after specimen of this giant cat in museums in western North America," Dr Orcutt said. "They were clearly big cats. We started with a few assumptions based on their age, in the 5.5 to 9 million-year-old range, and based on their size, because these things were huge. "What we didn't have then, that we have now, is the test of whether the size and anatomy of those bones tells us anything - and it turns out that yes, they do." The largest of the seven Machairodus lahayishupup humerus fossils available for the analysis was more than 18 inches (45cm) long and 1.7 inches in diameter. In comparison, the average modern adult male lion's humerus is about 13 inches long. The researchers hypothesised that if a single forearm bone could be useful in telling species apart, that would still be true among the big cat species alive today. Dr Calede and Dr Orcutt visited numerous museums in the US, Canada and France to photograph forearm specimens of lions, pumas, panthers, jaguars and tigers, as well as fossils of previously identified extinct big cats. Dr Calede used software to place landmark points on each digitised sample that, when drawn together, would create a model of each elbow. "We found we could quantify the differences on a fairly fine scale," Dr Calede said. "This told us we could use the elbow shape to tell apart species of modern big cats. "Then we took the tool to the fossil record - these giant elbows scattered in museums all had a characteristic in common. This told us they all belonged to the same species. "Their unique shape and size told us they were also very different from everything that is already known. In other words, these bones belong to one species and that species is a new species."

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==Personal== Wisdom and his wife, Caroline, welcomed their first child, a daughter named Molly, in September 2019 and second daughter named Claire in 2021. ==References== ==External links== 1991 births Living people People from Murrieta, California Baseball players from California Major League Baseball infielders St. Louis Cardinals players Texas Rangers players Chicago Cubs players Saint Mary's Gaels baseball players Gulf Coast Cardinals players Batavia Muckdogs players Peoria Chiefs players Palm Beach Cardinals players Springfield Cardinals players Surprise Saguaros players Memphis Redbirds players Nashville Sounds players

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RARELY ARE the ramifications of a four-letter word so great as in the case of Yukos, a defunct Russian oil firm. On February 18th a Dutch appeals court ruled that the Russian state owes Yukos's shareholders $50bn, one of the largest awards ever, for bankrupting the company using bogus tax-fraud charges. That reinstated a decision in 2014 by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), an international dispute-resolution court in The Hague. In 2016 a lower Dutch court had overturned the ruling, finding that the PCA lacked jurisdiction. The issue largely hinged on a single clause in an international energy treaty - specifically on how to interpret its use of the word "such." The seizure of Yukos was a turning-point in President Vladimir Putin's consolidation of power. In 2003 Mikhail Khodorkovsky, then Yukos's CEO and largest shareholder (and Russia's wealthiest man), had begun financing opposition parties and hinted at running for president. Mr Putin confronted him, and the government charged the company with $27bn in tax violations. Mr Khodorkovsky went to prison for a decade. Yukos was broken up and sold to state-controlled firms at fire-sale prices. As the company was being devoured, its owners and managers began filing lawsuits. They no longer included Mr Khodorkovsky, who during his trial had transferred his shares to a partner. The biggest case was the one launched at the PCA by a holding company called GML that represents Yukos's biggest shareholders. GML claimed that Russia's seizure had violated the Energy Charter Treaty, an international investor-protection agreement that prescribes arbitration in case of a dispute. Russia had signed the ECT in 1994 but never ratified it. But the treaty states that signatories agree to apply it provisionally until ratification, "to the extent that such provisional application is not inconsistent with [their] constitution, laws or regulations." Here things get tricky. Russian law, like that of many countries, does not normally allow arbitration between private entities and the state. Russia's lawyers thus argued that the parts of the ECT providing for arbitration did not apply, and the PCA had no jurisdiction. But the PCA ruled that it did, because "such" provisional application refers to that of the treaty as a whole, including the bits about arbitration. Russia appealed to a Dutch district court, which rejected the PCA'S interpretation because it would render the phrase "to the extent that" meaningless. But last week the appeals court found that the PCA was right. Russia plans to take the case to the Dutch Supreme Court, a lengthy process. GML's lawyers still have to recover the money. Their efforts to do so in 2015, after the initial PCA ruling, did not go well. In Belgium efforts to seize Russian embassy bank accounts ran up against diplomatic immunity. When they tried to claim a $700m French government payment to Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, French courts ruled it was a private company unconnected to state debts. Belgium and France have since passed "Yukos laws" making it harder to attach the assets of sovereign states. Russia is pushing through constitutional changes that subordinate international law to its own. Russia's low regard for international law was highlighted again last week in a report that fingered the FSB, Russia's main spy agency, in the killing of a Chechen dissident in Berlin last August. The report by Bellingcat, a cyberforensic investigative group, and journalists at the Insider and Der Spiegel used leaked mobile-phone metadata to identify an FSB associate as the likely assassin. The Yukos case will be less violent; the Kremlin has threatened tit-for-tat retaliation against any country that upholds seizures of its assets. ■ This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Much ado about "such""

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San Bernardino school shooting: Slain boy, eight, pictured AN EIGHT-YEAR-OLD boy shot dead by his teacher's estranged husband in a California classroom had survived heart surgery, a school official said. Jonathan Martinez was standing behind Karen Smith, 53, in her special-needs classroom at North Park Elementary School in San Bernardino on Monday morning when Cedric Anderson shot them dead. Anderson, 53, fatally turned the gun on himself in the horrific murder-suicide, while a nine-year-old boy shot during the attack is recovering in hospital. Jonathan had Williams syndrome, a rare disorder characterised by learning delays, mild-to-moderate intellectual disabilities and heart problems, according to Dale Marsden, superintendent of the San Bernardino City Unified School District. "By all accounts, Jonathan Martinez was a happy child," Mr Marsden said at a news conference. He said the Martinez family wanted to honour Jonathan's memory by getting the word out about Williams syndrome, as Jonathan's cousin set up a GoFundMe account to raise money for his funeral. A GoFundMe account has been set up to raise money for Jonathan Martinez's funeral expenses. Picture: GoFundMeSource:Supplied It comes as details of Anderson's abusive history emerged, with his mother-in-law describing him as a "wolf in sheep's clothing." "As soon as they married, he turned on her. The real Cedric came out," Irma Skyes, 80, told New York Daily News. "He told her he would throw her out the window. She was shocked, like "What happened?" He was so kind to her while they were dating. She had no idea." Mrs Skyes said she heard whispers of Anderson's dark side over the four years he dated her daughter. The couple married in January, but separated in the middle of March when Smith moved out of their home and stayed with family. Cedric Anderson (right) threatened his estranged wife, Karen Elaine Smith (left), after she had moved out. Picture: FacebookSource:Supplied San Bernardino police chief Jarrod Burguan told reporters on Tuesday that Anderson threatened Smith when she moved out and accused her of infidelity in the first month of their marriage. Smith's loved ones told investigators that she had said she was concerned about her husband's odd behaviour and that he had made threats against her, but not to shoot her. Chief Burguan also said Anderson had four arrests over 20 years, but none of the cases ended in a conviction. He said Anderson had faced a weapons charge, and those involving domestic violence and theft from 1982 to 2013. He said Anderson wasn't employed but previously had work as a maintenance worker and a pastor. The police chief also said a note believed to be from Anderson had been found that talked about needing closure and feeling disrespected. Cedric Anderson murdered his estranged wife, Karen Elaine Smith, in her classroom. Picture: San Bernardino Police Department via APSource:AP Counsellors have been made available at North Park Elementary after Anderson walked into the classroom with a concealed handgun and opened fire. Mrs Sykes said her daughter had taught Sunday school for years before joining North Park School. "She was a wonderful, God-fearing woman," she said. "But the bible says, "Thou shalt not kill." So I can imagine where he (Anderson) is now." A candlelight vigil was planned for the victims on Tuesday evening at the school, which will remain closed until April 16. In December 2015, a newlywed couple inspired by Islamic State opened fire on an office party in San Bernardino, killing 14 people and injuring 22 others. If you or someone you know needs help, contact Lifeline Australia on 13 11 14 or visit the website at lifeline.org.au. For domestic violence support, contact ReachOut on 1800 RESPECT or 1800 737 732, or visit the website at au.reachout.com/domestic-violence-support. If your life is in danger, call 000.

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Maldonado leads Wyoming past CSU Fullerton 79-66 FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) - Hunter Maldonado had 21 points as Wyoming topped Cal State Fullerton 79-66 on Monday night. Graham Ike had 17 points and nine rebounds for the unbeaten Cowboys (6-0). Xavier DuSell added 16 points, while Drake Jeffries scored 14. E.J. Anosike had 19 points for the Titans (3-4). Jalen Harris added 14 points. For more AP college basketball coverage: https://apnews.com/hub/college-basketball and http://twitter.com/AP_Top25 Portions of this story were generated by Automated Insights, http://www.automatedinsights.com/ap, using data from STATS LLC, https://www.stats.com

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Henry Kumler Sr. (1775–1854) was a bishop of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ in the USA, elected in 1825. He was buried in Miltonville near Trenton, Ohio. ==See also== List of bishops of the United Methodist Church ==References== American bishops Bishops of the Evangelical United Brethren Church 1775 births 1854 deaths American United Brethren in Christ Ministers of the Evangelical United Brethren Church Burials in Ohio

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Father-of-two, 42, has no fear after operation A father-of-two who was scared of heights has become a daredevil who skydives and abseils after having his adrenalin gland removed left him with no fear. Jordy Cernik, 42, has dived out of a plane from 17,000 feet, abseiled down a 418ft tower and zip wired across the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle. But he was terrified of heights until an operation left him unable to produce adrenalin, which gives the body a 'fight or flight' boost in dangerous situations. Mr Cernik suffers from ultra-rare Cushing's syndrome which causes high levels of the hormone Cortisol - a steroid that regulates the metabolism and immune system. In just three years, former Territorial Army recruit Mr Cernik, who is 5ft 8in tall, ballooned from 11st 5lb to almost 17st. To treat the condition, Mr Cernik underwent a series of brain operations and two procedures to remove his adrenal glands, which also produce adrenalin. But it wasn't until a trip to Disneyland in 2012, when the unexpected side-affect was revealed. Mr Cernik, who was scared of heights, decided to sit on a rollercoaster that would have terrified him before and realised that he felt nothing. At first he thought it was a fluke but in the years since he has dived out of a plane at 17,000ft and abseiled down a 418ft tower and felt no fear. The adrenal glands produce adrenaline, which triggers the body's 'fight or flight' response. The adrenaline prompts a massive glucose boost that offers a sudden and short-term energy boost. The effects include an increase in heart rate and blood pressure, air passages in the lungs expanding, and blood being pumped to the muscles. It can massively boost physical performance, but also leads to a nervous feeling. Early humans would have needed the boost to either fight off attacking predators or run away, or 'fight or flight,' response. Even as he dangled his legs over the edge of the Tyne Bridge - 84ft above the water - before sliding down a zip wire to the Gateshead side, he did not feel scared. Speaking about his'superhero' symptoms, he said: 'No-one really knows how I have come to feel no fear because you can't see it. 'The no fear card I have been dealt is a combination of the fact that my adrenal glands have been removed and that I've had so many procedures done which resulted in complications. 'It means that when I'm standing on top of a tower or about to jump I know I should feel fear, but the message is just not getting through from my brain.' However, Mr Cernic labels the feat as a 'double-edged sword' because he also struggles with motivation and drive. Mr Cernik's symptoms were caused by Cushing's syndrome - a condition that affects around a million Britons. The pituitary gland at the base of Jordy's brain was making too much of a hormone called adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH). This was stimulating the adrenal glands, which sit above the kidneys, to produce too much of the hormone cortisol; excessive amounts lead to an unusual type of obesity, where fat is laid down around the trunk, but not on the arms and legs. The face also becomes puffy and red. He also has to take 30 pills a day, a cocktail of painkillers and hormones, plus drugs to slow the corrosion of his bones. Mr Cernik, from Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, said: 'Sometimes I just do not have that get up and go and I cannot even go and watch my daughter in her school play. 'My "weaknesses" so to speak have rarely been reported but feeling no fear does come with a heavy price. I wouldn't recommend it. 'It's the amount of pills and my real lack of motivation which was once the main thing I had as a fleeting TV Presenter to really give me that motivation. 'Losing my drive was a big blow, and as a freelance radio producer I have to put almost triple the amount of energy into doing things than the normal person.' Mr Cernik is trying to spread awareness, to learn more about his message visit his justgiving page.

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If you have any questions please ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thank == politics/SumUpaPolitician?=cs_sumfastweb ==Final Draft== New Money F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a novel that depicts the lifestyle of the rich during the 1920’s. The protagonist, Gatsby, hosts a series of extravagant parties throughout the story. The men and women who attend his parties are the “new money.” They are the Americans who accumulated great wealth by taking advantage of the soaring stock market. Throughout the parties, the new money is portrayed to be vulgar, gaudy, rude, and careless. Fitzgerald criticizes these partygoers for putting too much emphasis on pleasure and appearance. The rich are unable to accept the hardships and realities of life. Thus, they attend Gatsby’s parties to escape from realty. Using rhetorical devices, Fitzgerald criticizes the upper-class by describing Gatsby‘s party. In the passage, Fitzgerald uses excessive language to create imagery. Nick mentions there is a “whole pit full of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums” at Gatsby’s party. Nick is awestricken by the number of instruments at the party. Showing his excitement, he lists all the instruments he sees. He has never seen so many instruments before. Similarly, the partygoers are excited too. Fitzgerald’s use of polysyndeton adds an atmosphere of excitement to the party. In addition, the excessive use of “ands” makes the sentence longer to read. The readers is influenced to believe the orchestra will play music for a long time. The severity of the polysyndeton ensures that Fitzgerald’s readers are able to hear the loudness of Gatsby’s party. Fitzgerald criticizes the new money for living carelessly. Nick notices that Gatsby’s “halls and salons and verandas are gaudy” because they are decorated with “primary colors.” The use of polysyndeton allow the readers to imagine the enormity of Gatsby’s home. The home has more than one salon, hall, and veranda. Additionally, Fitzgerald states that his home is “gaudy with primary colors.” To an artist, primary colors are valuable because other colors are derived from them. Thus, Gatsby has decorated his home with expensive and priceless decorations. However, he is “gaudy” as the primary colors are red, green, and yellow. His home is not sophisticated because it’s like an amusement park. The rich just arrive and lounge at Gatsby’s home. Then they leave when the excitement is over. Nobody cares to show respect or thanks toward Gatsby. Furthermore, the women at the party have their “hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.” Dream-like imagery is used to describe these women. They dress and have their hair styled strangely to get attention. The rich will try “strange new ways” to be seen, noticed, and different. These women and men want everybody to know that they live like royalty because Castile was a prosperous kingdom in Spain. Living in their fantasies, the rich are unable to accept the realities of life. Then, Fitzgerald describes the people who arrive at Gatsby’s party. There are swimmers who “come in from the beach” and cars from “New York.” By stating that the partygoers come from the beach and New York, Nick declares that people from all over come to Gatsby‘s party. These people do not arrive with elegance like the “old money.” They just arrive and begin socializing with each other. They do not care to know or greet the host. Then, Fitzgerald uses the partygoers to describe the environment of the party. Stating that the cars are parked “five deep in the drive,” the reader is able to imagine the mayhem at the party. There is a feeling that these people are urgent to be at Gatsby’s home. Even though there are too many people at the party, the partygoers do not care.

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==Francis Bacon== Thanks for your contribution to the Francis Bacon discussion on his importance in Philosophy! Arion Thanks for adding the section on Bacon's death - I think it was odd for the article to exclude this. Contaldo80 (talk) I also agree with your other comments about Aubrey excisions too. Straw Cat (talk) Thanks for your interesting comments about the Ascended Master material - I have been a little worried about the way some of the Bacon article has been leaning! I'm glad the fake death stuff has been removed - although I fear it's only a matter of time before someone reverts. Also worried about contributor postings under different user names - I thought this wasn't permitted under wiki rules? Contaldo80 (talk) == October 2008 == Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia, adding content without citing a reliable source is not consistent with our policy of verifiability. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. If you are familiar with Citing sources, please take this opportunity to add references to the article. —Ed 17 for President Vote for Ed == April 2009 == Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to the encyclopedia. However, talk pages are meant to be a record of a discussion; deleting or editing legitimate comments is considered bad practice, even if you meant well. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. == House Holmes == Hi, I'm sorry if I offended you when I said the info regarding Sherlock Holmes in the House article was "redundant" (I realized later that it may have been a bit mean). However, the info you added, and later re-added, is not backed up by a third-party reference (see NOR). The problem is that you compare the working methods of both characters, but there is no reference that indicates House's method is inspired by Holmes'. I have removed the info from the article, and I would very much appreciate it if you would contact me first (hopefully with a reliable source to indicate the info), before you put it back in there, to avoid a ping-pong effect. Thank you very much. == Death of Baby P == Hi, I noticed you undid my edits there. Maybe you could contribute to the discussion in talk and we could try to find a compromise. Because my edits were intended to make the article conform to NPOV, one of our most important policies. See you in talk, I hope. == Murder of Baby P == Please restore the "Murder in London" and "British Murdered Chilodren" tabs, because his death was indeed MURDER. (92.12.54.231 (talk) ) == Smith == Your addition to the Smith article has again been reverted by the suject, or what looks very like the subject and a comment of libelous, please do not replace it again. If you insist you want to add itI will open a thread for discussion at the BLP noticeboard,m please let me know if you want to readd it, thanks. Off2riorob (talk) The latest comments regarding libel are entirely false and Straw Cat and myself fully addressed all concerns regarding accuracy of the content. Just because the user said it was libellous does not make it so and I would like to commend Straw Cat for his attempts to find a compromise over the issue and the high quality of his/her editing on the page in question. I don't know if you're at all familiar with libel law in England - or even in the State of Florida where WP's servers are based - but truth is a complete defence to a libel suit. Both Smith (as a journalist - and former chair of PEN) - and MacShane (former President of the National Union of Journalists) know this well, as do I, so if the complaining editor is Smith, it's pure bluster. The expenses issue was and still is a major political and ethical issue in the UK. It involved an attempted cover-up and amazing hypocrisy by the MPs in question. The piece in the Guardian was an early contribution to that debate, clearly echoing MacShane's own comments that it was all mass hysteria; it may be now embarrassing for her, especially in the light of the Commons report about female expenses staff being disgracefully bullied as reported in the Guardian (not yet a tabloid, BTW), and the Commons Standards Committee (not the BNP, by the way) finding the charges against him serious enough to refer it to Inspector Knacker.

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On 3 June 1965 Ed White became the first American to walk in space - and enjoyed it too much. It took a demanding "the mission director says to get back in" to get the astronaut to return to Gemini IV. Two months later, on 27 August - even as Gordon Cooper and Pete Conrad, on board Gemini V, were establishing a record for longest flight - Time magazine was making Kraft the subject of that week's cover feature. This did not endear him to all his colleagues in the unfolding Apollo programme, but it did establish Kraft's place in the American public imagination. With the first manned rendezvous in orbit that December, of Gemini VII and VI-A, Kraft was focused on his remoter role as director of flight operations. "The entire flight control team... " he wrote, "was probably the best systems engineering organisation in the world." Day-to-day ground control was being delegated to others, but Kraft had become a charismatic figure within Nasa, and ultimately, as Charles Murray and Catherine Cox observed in Apollo: The Race to the Moon (1989), "the embodiment of mission control." After leaving Houston in 1982 Kraft worked as a consultant, and chaired a panel in the 1990s that produced a controversial report into the space shuttle which was accused of playing down safety issues. He received many honours, including Nasa's outstanding leadership medal, four Nasa distinguished service medals, the National Space Trophy and Nasa's ambassador of exploration award. In 2011 the Johnson Space Center named its mission control centre the Christopher C Kraft Jr Control Center. In 1950 Kraft married Betty Turnbull. She survives him, as do their children, Kristi-Anne and Gordon. • Christopher Columbus Kraft, engineer, born 28 February 1924; died 22 July 2019

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This is not Joker's, etc. If every little bit is written down this article would be huge! - Jeeny Talk The blow job remarks came out of his own mouth while on the show. 'Nuff said. He could have been joking. Or some strategy. It shouldn't be in the bio section, unless his sexuality is known for sure. - Jeeny Talk Until he disproves himself and admits he was kidding it should stay. Your tone makes it sound like his lifestyle and/or behavior is shameful. Sorry if you misinterpreted my tone. I don't not think his lifestyle, nor his behavior is shameful. This is an encyclopedia, and adding little gossipy tidbits, seems like this is the Enquirer, or worse. That's all. He gave someone a blowjob, so what? Why is this important, when we don't know for sure why he said it? Oh, it is shameful that you don't sign you posts. :p - Jeeny Talk == Danielle 20? Why is she drinking == If Danielle is 20 as it clearly states she is why was she drinking on the opening show. She did clearly state in her frist diary room she turns 21 in 2 months. Now thats understandable. If she is in the hosue after those 2 months are up I can see it but she shouldnt be drinking until then. If so I would go on saying that we are to the point where CBS or teh producers are promoting underage drinking. I thought the same thing. It's illegal to serve minors alcohol. Hmmmm. Enteresting. Although she said she would be 21 in a few months, it's still under-age. Interesting for sure. - Jeeny Talk The thing is I have tried out 2 years for that show and have yet to make yet they cast a 20 yr old and in the first episode she is drinking. The rules on the application clearly state you must be 21 at time of application. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.115.108.120 (talk • contribs) I think this was a special case because of the father. But still, you have a point. The drinking is bad as far as I'm concerned. I wonder how they are going to handle that one. - Jeeny Talk But that still doesnt make it ok for her to drink. I dont care if Dick was casted she is still underage. God, thats bullshit. Just that, if she were in Australia she wouldn't be under age. It's ridiculous that they aren't classified as "of age" until 21, here it's 18. The legal age was 18 until a law was enacted to raise it to 21 in 1984, because of so many alcohol related accidents resulting in death. Supposedly the highway death toll of alcohol related deaths has dramatically reduced since the law was enacted. Yet, 18-year-olds can enlist and be drafted in the Armed Forces, go to war, and can kill and be killed. Eighteen is the legal age for everything else, but not for drinking The legal age for smoking is 18. The major post-18 restrictions are drinking (21 years old) and renting a vehicle (25 years old). As for Michelle's drinking, some states (such as Texas) have laws which allow minors to consume alcohol if the parent is present, gives permission, and has proof of parental or guardian rights (like a birth certificate). I'm unsure if CA's laws are like this. If so, it's possible (but speculation) that Dick gave permission. -207.114.205.130 I found this online: "The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 required all of the states to change their legal drinking age, if the states refused to comply with the law, they would lose money under the Federal Aid Highway Act." I do know that a parent got in trouble with the law for allowing her son to drink underage in her home, but later, he was stopped by the police driving a motor vehicle. So that may be the difference :Found this, which is helpful: Alcohol laws of the United States by state. The third map down shows exceptions by state for under 21 drinking. For example, alcohol laws in Texas permit a minor to drink (but not order) alcohol at a restaurant if the parent is present (and can provide proof of being the parent). Note that apparently California allows drinking for underage folks.

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Allegations of sex with minors three decades ago roil Seattle mayor's race Ed Murray was supposed to cruise to an election victory this fall for a second term as Seattle mayor. Instead, allegations that he had sex with underage boys three decades ago are threatening to end his long political career. The upheaval began last week when one man filed a civil lawsuit against the mayor and the Seattle Times published similar allegations from two other men, upending the race for mayor and setting off what the paper called "the biggest political scandal in Seattle in generations." Murray, the city's first openly gay mayor, has been a vocal proponent of same-sex marriage, fighting homelessness, raising the minimum wage and fighting the Trump administration's efforts to force cities to cooperate with federal authorities to arrest immigrants in the country illegally. The allegations date to the 1980s, when Murray worked with troubled youths. The Seattle Times spoke with two accusers in 2008 but did not publish their accounts until last week, when another man, a 46-year-old identified only as D.H., filed the lawsuit. The suit claims that starting in 1986, when D.H. was a 15-year-old crack addict, and continuing for five years, Murray routinely paid him $10 to $20 for sex acts. Sex with a minor is statutory rape, though the statute of limitations has long expired. In an editorial Wednesday, the newspaper called on Murray to not seek reelection. "Regardless of whether the allegations are true, he cannot lead under this cloud," it said. The lawyer for D.H. said his client had remained silent for so long because he didn't want his father to know. But the father's recent death freed him to speak as long as his name was not publicly revealed, said the lawyer, Lincoln Beauregard. In a note to readers, the Times' managing editor explained that the newspaper had decided in 2008 that it had too little information to publish the allegations of the two other accusers. Given the similarities between those accounts and the allegations made by D.H., the paper overturned that decision, the note explained. One of the men, Jeff Simpson, 49, told the paper that in the early 1980s he lived in a Portland home for troubled teens, where Murray worked at the time. He said he was 13 the first time that Murray raped him. The other accuser, Lloyd Anderson, 51, said he was also a resident of the home and told a similar story. Simpson said he reported Murray to a Portland social worker and a police detective - an account the paper said was supported by a record from May 1984 showing that the Multnomah County district attorney considered, then rejected, filing third-degree sodomy charges against Murray. Murray soon left Portland and moved to Seattle, where he became active in local politics. A Democrat, he went on to serve in the Washington state House and Senate before being elected mayor in 2013. In a media briefing last week, Murray said the allegations were "just not true" and that "I will continue to be mayor to this city and I will continue to run for reelection." "Things have never come easy to me in life, but I have never backed down and I will not back down now," he said. Murray took no questions and left the room after a hug from his husband, Michael Shiosaki, 56, a city parks planner who has been his partner for more than 25 years. The scandal took a salacious turn this week when the mayor's lawyer, Robert Sulkin, held a news conference to announce that a doctor had examined Murray's genitals and found no trace of a mole that the lawsuit said would prove that D.H. had seen him without clothes. "This is the heart of the allegations, and they're false," Sulkin said. The accuser "has absolutely no credibility and the case should be dropped." In response, Beauregard said he may seek a second, independent examination. In liberal Seattle, the fact that the mayor is gay seems to have played little role in the public reaction to the spiraling scandal. Some commentators, however, have pointed out that the law firm where Beauregard works was founded by John Connelly, who opposes same-sex marriage and with his wife contributed $50,000 to a failed 2016 initiative to stop transgender people from using the public bathrooms of their choice. Beauregard told the Seattle weekly newspaper the Stranger that he disagrees with Connelly's politics and described himself as an African American civil rights attorney and longtime Democrat. "I would go to the mat to fight for gay civil rights," he said. "We have represented many, many gay clients. The idea that this is anti-gay is ridiculous." Gay City, Seattle's LGBTQ center, said in a news release that it "is not in a position to comment on the specifics of any particular case."

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Jake T. Weber (born 12 March 1963) is an English actor, known in film for his role as Michael in Dawn of the Dead and for his role as Drew in Meet Joe Black. In television, he is known for playing Joe DuBois, husband of psychic Allison DuBois, in the long running drama series Medium. In 2001 and 2002, Weber was a series regular in HBO's The Mind of the Married Man and made guest appearances on Criminal Intent and NYPD Blue. As of autumn 2016, Weber joined the cast, in a recurring role, of ABC's Secrets and Lies in its second season. After a recurring role on Fox's The Following, Weber has had series regular roles on Hell on Wheels and Homeland. ==Early life== Weber was born in London, England, to Susan Ann Caroline (née Coriat), a British socialite, and husband Thomas Evelyn "Tommy" Weber (originally Thomas Ejnar Arkner), a racing driver who also came from a wealthy family. His father was born in Denmark, of Danish and English descent. Weber's maternal grandfather Robert Coriat who was born in Mogador, Morocco, was of Sephardic Jewish (Moroccan-Jewish) descent. Weber's maternal grandmother Priscilla Weigall was English, from an upper-class family. Priscilla's father was Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet, while Priscilla's maternal grandfather was Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet. Weber has one sibling, his brother Charley. Through his English maternal grandmother, Weber is a great-grandson of politician Sir William Ernest George Archibald Weigall, 1st Baronet and wife Grace Emily Blundell Maple, and a great-great-grandson of business magnate Sir John Blundell Maple, 1st Baronet and wife Emily Harriet Merryweather. Weber's mother, Susan, was diagnosed with depression and LSD-induced schizophrenia, and died of a drug overdose when Weber was eight years old. His father, who sold various illegal drugs and utilized both his sons in trafficking sold drugs to numerous international destinations, struggled with substance addiction until his death in 2006. In 1971, Weber's father took him and his brother to stay for a period at Villa Nellcôte, where the Rolling Stones were recording Exile on Main St. In a 2010 article for The Times, Weber recalled that his "father used him as a drug mule to bring cocaine out for Mick and Bianca Jagger's wedding." Weber attended Summerhill School, Leiston, Suffolk. Later, he went to the United States to study at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he sang a cappella with the Dissipated Eight and majored in English literature and political science, graduating with a B.A. cum laude in 1986. He attended The Juilliard School's Drama Division as a member of Group 19 (1986–1990), which also included Laura Linney and Jeanne Tripplehorn. He also studied at Russia's famed Moscow Art Theatre. At the 2010 Cannes film festival, as part of the Directors' Fortnight at the launching of the rock 'n roll documentary, Stones in Exile, singer Mick Jagger spoke to the crowd about the months of drug-fueled recording sessions that produced the Stones' classic 1972 album Exile on Main Street. Jagger joked about the rarely seen original footage that reveals eight-year-old Weber rolling marijuana joints for them. Weber has reportedly stated that his drug-dealing father brought him to Keith Richards's rented French villa, Nellcôte, in the seaside town of Villefranche-sur-Mer near Nice, where the Stones were recording the album. ==Career== Weber's roles were often bit parts in A-list films, beginning with that of Kyra Sedgwick's character's unnamed boyfriend in the Oliver Stone-directed Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and continuing with work for such directors as Sidney Lumet (A Stranger Among Us, 1992), Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief, 1993) and Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black, 1998). Weber scored one of his premier leads as Dr. Matt Crower, a kindly physician who takes charge of a young boy and protects him from a possessed sheriff in actor-turned-producer Shaun Cassidy's short-lived, but well received, supernatural drama series American Gothic (1995) on CBS. That programme did not last long; and neither did the Mike Binder sitcom The Mind of the Married Man (2001), in which Weber signed on as one of the leads, Chicago newspaper employee Jake Berman.

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Mother goes blind in one eye after parasite creeps under contact lens A nurse has gone blind in one eye after a parasitic worm creeped under her contact lens and ate her cornea. Suzanne Dunne, a mother-of-two, from Dublin, has issued a warning to contact lens wearers after spending more than two weeks in hospital. Ms Dunne, in her late 30s, has said the parasites are 'rampant' during the hot weather. Ms Dunne said her eye became gradually worse and more irritable on July 20. By the evening, she was in severe pain and suffering from an eye infection. Recalling the trouble, she said she woke up in the middle of the in agony. Her husband Paul, a taxi driver, had just come home, and rang an ambulance. 'My sight was gone, completely gone. The whole place was black. My eye was being pushed out by the parasite. And I was so upset because the kids Mia, 5, and Max, 8, had woke up and seen me go off in the ambulance,' she told Dublin Live. Suzanne was then sent to the Mater University Hospital in Dublin for 16 days. While there, she had bleach poured into her eye every day to kill the infection. She explained: 'It can only happen a contact lens wearer because the contact lens creates a vacuum in the eye. So if anything goes in behind it it makes it cling onto it.' Once the parasite gets into the eye it causes Acanthamoeba keratitis, which can cause inflammation of the cornea. She added: 'In the winter time you're safe. In warm conditions and because we haven't had heat like this the parasite multiplies and it's rampant. Even though the parasite is dead the damage is done.' The mother and runner hopes to complete the Dublin marathon later this year.

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Michael Jackson documentary accusers Wade Robson and James Safechuck: A brief history of their abuse claims As a young boy growing up in Australia, Robson was obsessed with Michael Jackson. His mom showed him "The Making of Thriller" when he was just 2, and he instantly began trying to emulate the performer's dance moves. "Over the next few years, his fascination with [Jackson] and dancing and being like him grew into an obsession. [Jackson] became "God" to" Robson, according to the 2014 complaint he filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court. That complaint was ultimately lodged against against MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures, Jackson's business enterprises, which the suit alleges "were his co-conspirators, alter egos, aiders, abettors and agents for the childhood sexual abuse" Robson said he endured.

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Hagatha Leads an Army of Ghouls Blizzard is kicking off reveal season for the latest Hearthstone expansion "The Witchwood" with some amazing cards. From golden apples that spawn Treants to finally getting to see Hagatha The Witch, fans aren't going to be disappointed when the set releases in the next few weeks. Here's what we learned from the card reveal stream: Greetings: "Welcome to my domain." Well Played: "Well played." Thanks: "Thank you." Wow: "By the night!" Oops: "Unwise." Threaten: "The curse take you!" Keep up with this story and more by subscribing now On to the card reveals, the only thing people care about. Rotten Applebaum Blizzard Whispering Woods Blizzard Rebuke Blizzard Vivid Nightmare Blizzard Glinda Crowskin Blizzard Nightmare Amalgam Blizzard Hagatha The Witch Blizzard Witch's Apprentice Blizzard Houndmaster Shaw Blizzard Witchwood Apple Blizzard What are your favorite cards? Tell us in the comments.

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