A travel show focusing on the world's best indoor and outdoor markets and bazaars.
Every market brings a unique experience specific to its location and surrounding culture. From a relaxing foot massage in Thailand to a fun backgammon match in Jerusalem, this episode reveals the special experiences markets have to offer.
Local food is a fascinating aspect of any market . The aroma, spices and the way the food is served can reveal so much about a place and culture. In this episode, Ishai Golan takes the viewers on a culinary tour through the heart of the markets.
Mercato Central, or "Mercato di San Lorenzo," is the central market in Florence. Built in the late 19th century, today there are more than 250 stores and over 10 thousand visitors every day. The stands are known for selling Tuscany's finest products.
Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem is one of the most popular markets in Israel. The market is known for its "song birds," lively merchants who yell and call out, and has become one of the city's landmarks.
Host Ishai Golan heads off to Nice, the capital of the French Riviera, to get better acquainted with the beautiful Cours Saleya market. The market features special goods from the Provence region such as flowers, olive oil soaps, herbs and more.
Istanbul's Grand Bazaar is one of the world's largest roofed markets, with 500,000 visitors each day to its 3600 stores. The market is a shopper's heaven, where Turkish hospitality comes to the fore.
The Chatuchak weekend market is one of the largest in the world, with over 200,000 visitors passing through to browse art, clothing, antiques, electronics and even animals.Visitors can also taste Thailand's famous street foods and enjoy a foot massage.
The White Market in Acre, named for its limestone walls, is an extraordinarily vibrant market. In this market, Jewish and Arab merchants work together in harmony, and a perfect combination of curious salesmen, scents, colors and flavors can be found.
Exploring Gendarman Market, the "Christmas Magic" market, situated in the heart of Berlin. Included: stands featuring Christmas gifts, handmade crafts, foods, pastries, beverages and a live show.
The Jaffa Flea Market stays busy every day of the week. The market offers second hand clothing, antique furniture, books and records in over 100 different stands. In recent years, the market has become an artistic center and draws an eclectic crowd.
La Boqueria Market is known as the most popular food market in Spain. It is vibrant, bursting with fragrances and flavors. Over 300 stores line the market alleys employing 1500 people and catering for over 30 thousand visitors a day.
Monastiraki market is situated in the center of Athens. The name "Monastiraki " means in Greek "little monastery", but the market attracts everyone in town, not only monks. Established in the 19th century, the flea market today sells countless products.
Crawford market is one of the city's central markets. Built in 1882 as a British fortress, nowadays, with thousands of stands, it attracts 50 thousand visitors daily. Almost everything is available—from fruits and vegetables to cosmetics and saris.


Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation has been rendering an instrumental service to the young generation of the North Central province through their numerous community services projects and the latest of their CSR initiatives took place recently in Saliyawewa, bordering Anuradhapura in thePuttalam district.
An eye camp was held for the 16th consecutive time and free eye checkups and distribution of spectacles was carried out on this day.
A joint project by the Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation and ‘My Vision’ organization, the eye clinic saw the participation of 4 prominent consultant eye surgeons and 300 spectacles were distributed amongst the needy.
Incepted in the year 2008, Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation has carried out numerous CSR project in line with health and education, targeting the youth and the young generation of the North Central province making a mammoth contribution towards uplifting their living standards.
Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation to date has distributed over 7,000 spectacles and over 25,000 people have benefitted through their health clinics over the years. Furthermore, through these medical camps the foundation identifies patients with pressing health issues and directs them for furthermedical treatments to the Royal Private Hospital Anuradhapura.
The low income earners of Saliyawewa, Thanthirimale, Kekirawa, Medawachchiya, Padawiya, Kahagasdigiliya and Thiruvil have greatly benefitted from these initiatives. Being true to its motif of uplifting the talented next generation, Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation has proudly provided monetary sponsorship for Sri Lankan Karate champion Lahiru Sri Laksitha to take part in a Karate championship held in India.
By providing school bags and school equipment and providing further financial support through the annual scholarship schemes the foundation encouragesmany under privileged students to carry on and engage in their education without hindrances.
The monthly dry ration coupons they arrange for the low income families have greatly helped in uplifting their quality of lives and in meeting one of their basic needs.
Should you wish to benefit from the far reaching CSR initiatives of this foundation you are welcome to write to themat, Jayasena Dissanayake Foundation, No 198, Courts Site, Anuradhapura.


The Telecommunications Industry Group (TIG) is pursuing goals of industry improvement and the promotion of communications technology to business, seeking areas where operators can work together to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
CEO Rob Spray, speaking before CallPlus announced its withdrawal from the body, says increasingly technology is not the key differentiator between providers, rather the products they sell, service and billing and how the product is scaled are coming to the fore.
TIG, he says, is about what businesses and citizens can do with broadband to make investment a success and make sure New Zealand gets great value from fibre and other investments.
Spray says New Zealand is a country of small businesses and it is a challenge for telcos to create products, the right price and package, that work for that sector. The smaller telcos are taking the lead in doing that, he says.
The current work of TIG is half to evolve the industry to ensure it meets the needs of the market better and the other half is to push industry change, so the relationship between providers is not so adversarial.
“It should still be ‘daggers drawn’ when competing for customers, though,” he says.
Behind that there will always be a bit of tension, but some really pragmatic business decisions need to be made because New Zealand is too small to waste capital.
Spray says investment demands will continue to raise the question of when telcos will work together on one wireless network, rather than the three that operate nationwide right now.
That has real interest to “NZ Inc” he says, but is problematical from a telco perspective. One driver could be the migration to 4G services. Fast data via technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) will require 30 percent more base stations, he says.
TIG has lodged a submission on the National Infrastructure Plan, arguing that the business case for multiple networks in New Zealand doesn’t exist and that a single network is likely to be the best outcome.
The current colocation system, where providers share cell sites, is also challenged. Spray says the average site height in New Zealand is 14 metres, 10 metres lower than in Europe. When a site is shared, “no one wants to be at 10 metres”, he says. On the other hand, local communities don’t want prominent antennas.
Spray says there is clear differentiation between TIG and the Telecommunications Carriers’ Forum. The TCF is about agreeing on codes and standards and is generally a forum for regulatory heads, while TIG is a forum of provider CEOs. For that reason they have quite different boards, he says.
Spray says he welcomes moves to lay a new Pacific or Tasman cable and sees it as inevitable.
“Bring it on. Investment is good,” he says.
Further, he says, New Zealand needs to have a firm plan in place by 2020 as the Southern Cross Cable’s end-of-life is 2025 and it takes five years to lay a new cable, including securing consents.
“Someone needs to step up with $1 billion,” he says.
Given that need to raise cash, anyone going to market for capital can’t push too hard on claims of reduced pricing, he adds.
He say that investment can be either in cash or in commitment to buy services, as Kordia is trying to do with its Tasman cable plan.
Spray also says the Pacific Fibre plan may require insurance and other forms of backup arrangement, as it is only planning a single cable rather than a figure eight loop as in Southern Cross.
“That affects pricing,” he says.
Rural broadband is especially challenging, Spray says. Adoption of broadband even when its available in rural areas is “abysmal” he says. Sixty percent of New Zealand farms still use paper for accounting, for instance, he says, quoting farm accounting software provider CRS as a source.
While there are some, such as Silver Fern Farms and early adopters, trying to introduce new ways, he predicts the rural sector will convert very slowly.


Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan was trailed by a phalanx of unfamiliar faces as he stepped up to the podium to open the debate on repealing health care reform on Tuesday.
Among the parade of Republicans coming forward to deliver one-minute speeches in support of HR 2, a repeal of health care reform, were several freshmen members, including Reps. Tim Huelskamp of Kansas, James Lankford of Oklahoma, and Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina, all of whom ran on an anti-health care reform platform this fall and now sit on the budget committee.
In the beginning, it seemed that freshmen members were leading the debate. Spokesmen for Ryan’s office did not respond to requests for comment, but the presence of so many new members, at least eight, on the House floor for repeal was an purposeful attempt to keep the focus on the freshmen, whose opposition to the bill became a clarion call for conservatives and Tea Party activists this year.
For the new members it wasn’t just an important milestone of speaking on the House floor for the first time, but an early and visible opportunity to check off a key promise they made on the campaign trail.
For others it was more prosaic.
“My nine year old was listening and he said I was good, though he didn’t know what I was talking about,” Huelskamp said.
Mulvaney, who used his 90 seconds to taunt Democrats about fiscal conservatism, said he was largely riffing in his first floor speech. The presence of so many new members speaking out against health care gave each an opportunity to take a different tack in their arguments—Huelskamp talked about business and labor unions seeking waivers from the law, for example, while Lankford discussed the costs for small businesses.
Other freshmen members not on the budget committee spoke in the first few hours of debate, including Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash), Jeff Landry (R-La), and Scott Tipton (R-Col.) Two of the freshmen speakers—Nan Hayworth of New York and Renee Ellmers of North Carolina—are political newcomers from medical professions. Hayworth is an ophthalmologist and Ellmers is a nurse.
But new Republicans weren’t the only ones who took part in the debate. Rep. Terri Sewell, one of nine freshman Democrats, was among the first in her party to defend the Democrats’ health care law from repeal.


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When a campus lawn became a permaculture garden, TreeHuggers everywhere cheered. Then the UMass Amherst permaculture project got recognition from the White House, and threw a conference to discuss how similar projects might happen across the world.
In short, we like these guys.
They've just released the third in a three-part video series looking at the campus permaculture project, exploring its many successes so far. From growing over 1000lbs of produce for the cafeteria and farm stand, to educating and involving students and community alike, it's fair to say it has been a success. But it looks like this is just the beginning.
Project founder Ryan Harb explains that the group is aiming at creating a new campus garden every year, expanding across the University and shifting paradigms about what food is, and where it's grown, as they do so.
The conversion of a campus lawn into a permaculture garden at UMass Amherst has one praise from high places. But this is just the beginning.


JOSE MOURINHO should unquestionably be made the manager of the season having been credited one of his senior players for masterminding every single point that has made Chelsea league champions.
Branislav Ivanovic is more than happy to pass the credit to the Special One for the subtle influence he has had on honing the team throughout the entire season.
"There is not even a question over who the best manager is this season," he said. "When you study the games, every single one he was important in making sure we won them.
"There are a lot of things and it's every game. He has crucial things to say and crucial things to decide. He always makes the difference. When there is a big game he is always so motivated, but small games too. Inside the team, it's all about him.
"We are all so happy and appreciate the fact we get to work with a manager like him. He's developed our squad and changed the mentality. He has done a lot of things for two years and this year really is the best."
Nevertheless, Mourinho has consistently been overlooked by the manager of the month award panel for the entire season, culminating in him failing to win in even in April when Chelsea clinched the title with four wins and a draw at Arsenal.
"I don't how him not winning manager of month for April happened," Ivanovic said. "But it doesn't matter. But if he won a manager of the month award or not, for sure he is the best manager this season.
"We are 11 points clear and we won the League. There is no question he should get it. It's the normal thing that should happen."


I WOKE up several times peeping for the first sign of dawn before my phone finally rang at ten-past-six. A family friend who suspected we would be voting at the same place wanted to know if I was already at the booth because she couldn’t find it.
I missed her call. When I called back about 15 minutes later, she had found the polling booth and was number 96. This was at six-thirty when the orange shafts of the sun’s ray were just piercing the grey morning sky. I asked what it was like at the polling centre. She responded that the centre, Kado Bimko Primary School, Gwarinpa, Abuja, was already filling up. Voters had appointed an unofficial numerator to assign numbers to the early birds to avoid a rush.
When I arrived at the centre shortly afterwards, I was 142 on the list, and voters kept coming. There were no officials yet, so my luminous green vest with the “Media” tag made me look like one. For this particular voting centre, the geolocator: www.pollstats.org.ng, which was widely shared on social media, was no use. It had indicated that my location was “not available on GPS”.
It was already seven-thirty and the rising fury of the sun seemed to be telling the day’s weather that it would not tolerate the remaining vestiges of the grey sky. It was not only going to be a long day, it would also be a very hot one, too.
But there were still no officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in sight. I had been assured by a few people who had voted here before that I was in the right place – and I had also extended the same assurance to others. But I was not sure.
I called an INEC official and gave her the last three digits of the code number on my voter card. She responded that I was probably in the wrong place and promised to check and call me back. This was minutes before the polls were due to open.
Just as I was contemplating the 20-minute trek to the next polling station with the heat climbing steadily, three buses carrying corps members (corpers) wearing INEC vests, arrived. As soon as the corpers alighted, looking nervously at the crowd, most people armed with the small pieces of papers on which they had been assigned numbers and their voter cards formed a semicircle around the buses.
It was now past eight, the official opening time. Within 15 to 20 minutes of their arrival, the corpers, about 25 or so in all, set up seven polling points and stacked here and there voting materials comprising wads of ballot papers, result sheets, and stacks of ink pads, liquid gums, highlighters and stamps.
They had to improvise chairs and tables in addition to what some residents provided, because the classrooms were padlocked even though the school’s entire wire mesh fence had collapsed and what was left of the shabby school walls was covered in red dust.
It was now almost nine o’clock and the number of potential voters milling about like sheep without shepherd was well beyond 500. It was a mixed crowd. The young – those between 18 and 35 and the largest demographic in the current dispensation – were more in number, with males appearing to be slightly more than females. But older people of both sexes, and even the elderly and a few physically-challenged persons, were there, too.
I saw three nursing mothers jostling for information in the burning heat of the sun with their babies strapped to their backs, and crotchet shawls draped over them. As increasingly restless voters massed around the corpers, the presiding officer (also a corper) stepped forward to address the crowd. By this time, the number had nearly doubled. She went over the dos and don’ts, intermittently disrupted by young hecklers who mimicked her soft, barely audible voice, much to the annoyance of the older folks in the crowd.
And then, the mood changed. A collective roar of displeasure erupted when the presiding officer announced that the numbers we had improvised since morning won’t be used for voting. She pointed to a far side of the school wall where some corpers were already pasting copies of the voter roll and said we had to go and check first and then line up in alphabetical order, depending on where our names appeared.
We protested, but just as some were huffing and puffing, others slipped away to line up behind the booths, forcing the remaining mass to scramble into line. That still wasn’t much good. People were lining up without knowing if they were in the right queue. So, most had one leg in the queue and another outside as they tried to confirm from anyone that looked like an INEC official if they were in the right place.
The corpers looked confused and overwhelmed. At this point, I broke ranks and a middle-aged fellow joined me. We appealed for calm and extracted just enough respite before the corpers started writing the alphabet range on the walls facing each voting point, making it easier for voters to find their queue. Things finally got underway around nine-thirty, but just as we were thinking that the worst was over, loud protest noises broke out from one of the lines.
What was the matter? The smart card reader was not working and several attempts to get it started had failed. The crowd cried foul! Some blamed the corpers for being too slow. Some blamed INEC for not training the corpers well. Others blamed Buhari’s APC government for “buying China-made card readers”.
Meanwhile a small group was debating: when is accreditation valid? Is it when after the card reader identifies the card holder but fails to complete the process? At exactly what point can the verifying officer use the manual register?
After about 45 minutes, an INEC technical officer surfaced, and after several attempts, fixed the card reader. Determined not to take any chances, however, the crowd warned that the technician would not leave until the accreditation had gone far.
After voting, I toured 12 other centres in different parts of Abuja. At the Government Secondary School, Life Camp, the lines were like those of soldiers on a parade. Voters were strikingly orderly, relaxed and organised. Those at the Jabi Primary School found a way to tackle the noonday heat. They rented chairs and canopies and conducted themselves as if they were at a town union meeting.
It was a complete contrast to the picture at the Federal Medical Centre (Setraco Gate), Gwarinpa and the centre at the market near FCMB, Jabi, where hundreds of voters burning with frustration under the blazing heat of the sun threatened to disrupt the vote many times. A weary police officer at the latter centre told me of how he had tried in vain to get the voters to stay in line.
He said tension flared when the INEC officials said they would stop accreditation at 2.00 pm even though they did not open on time. By the time voters received assurances of an extension, no one was prepared to believe the officials anymore. The frustrated policeman watched helplessly as chaos threatened to become mayhem.
Back at my centre, kind-spirited voters had bought drinks and refreshments for the corpers and scores of the voters who insisted they would not leave until the votes were counted, stayed behind in a near-carnival atmosphere.
At about five o’clock in the evening when the defiant sun was still looking as if it would not retire, a young lady showed up. She approached a corper and told him she had been referred to the centre from Setraco Gate after she spent the whole day there standing in line.
“Let me make this clear,” she seethed, wagging a finger at the corper’s face, “I’m going to vote today. I don’t care what you people do, I’m not going home without voting! Better accredit me now!” By this time, the other corpers were crossing out unused ballots in the booklets. Not only was accreditation over; voting was done.
The more the corper tried to explain that it was late, the more agitated the young lady became. I stepped in, and with some effort and plenty of luck, managed to get her attention. She listened, but I’m not sure she heard. As she walked away angrily, I was almost certain that the vote deferred may not be cast again anytime soon.
The vote-counting threw up other issues I’m not sure were satisfactorily resolved at my centre. For example, does thumb-printing twice inside the same box for the same party amount to “double-voting?” Does any smudge on the ballot paper outside the thumb-printed box, however slight, invalidate the vote? How far over the line must the ink go to invalidate the ballot?
In judging each ballot, voters in my polling centre overwhelmed the agents and the electoral officers. They applied a standard of proof akin to the football equivalent of the VAR goal-line technology. A considerable number of ballots were invalidated at the behest of the crowd. I thought that given our rather difficult circumstances, that was harsh.
By the time the votes were counted, compiled and pasted at the centre – which was about nine-thirty at night – I wasn’t surprised at the result. But I was sure my vote counted. And that was enough.


Mark William Johnson, co-owner of Tiny Tapp & Cafe on the Chicago Riverwalk, works behind the counter Sept., 7, 2018. The business is currently the riverwalk's only minority-owned concessions vendor.
A new program on the Chicago Riverwalk could bring up to a dozen new vendors to the bustling promenade next summer, many of them possibly women- and minority-owned businesses.
The city’s goal in this latest chapter of commerce on the river is to increase the diversity of vendors in a way that reflects the flavors and textures of Chicago’s neighborhoods. To accommodate the newcomers, the city is making available three new areas previously unused by vendors that will require a mix of vendor- and city-funded upgrades. The work will be part of the $10 million in riverwalk improvements announced by the city last month. Construction is slated to begin this fall.
Some potential vendors lauded the city’s effort to address its current lack of diversity among riverwalk vendors.
“It’s an investment in its residents who are black, who are Hispanic, who are other, who are also women, to have a step ahead when they normally would not. … It’s what’s needed. It’s the responsible thing to do,” said Maya-Camille Broussard, founder of Justice of the Pies, which makes its baked goods out of a shared kitchen in the West Town neighborhood.
Earlier this year, the city awarded longer-term contracts to businesses that have the capital to invest in significant site improvements. Those businesses — including Tiny Tapp & Cafe, currently the riverwalk’s only minority-owned concessions vendor — bring in millions of dollars each summer, helping the city pay off its federal debt for the riverwalk in the process.
This program, in contrast, is less about big revenue and more about diversity, city officials say. Interested vendors will bid for shorter-term deals that require less capital investment.
Michelle Woods, center, the project manager for the Chicago Riverwalk, gives a tour of future available vendor locations to a group of business owners and others on Sept. 5, 2018, in Chicago.
Michelle Woods, the city’s project manager for the riverwalk, said she envisions a tamale vendor from Little Village next to a pierogi vendor from Jefferson Park — tastes of Chicago that may lead tourists out into the city’s neighborhoods.
At City Hall on Wednesday, Woods and her colleagues addressed a racially and culturally varied crowd of 40 or so potential applicants, many of them African-American women, and talked through the bureaucratic process that can be daunting for small businesses. Few in the room raised their hands when asked if they had previously operated concessions, though many were established food businesses.
All interested vendors have to submit the request for qualifications by Sept. 28, a first step that will allow them to eventually respond to the request for proposals that’s likely to come later this fall.
“We want you all to be successful in this endeavor. … That being said, we are a government and we do make this a little tricky and complicated. We’ll do what we can to help you,” Woods said at the meeting.
As the group left City Hall to tour the potential waterfront sites, several of the business owners were clearly excited by the prospect despite the paperwork and logistical challenges of operating on the riverwalk.
“It’s just a great location to introduce my product to a wide variety of people and not just Chicagoans,” said Kim Mesa, founder of KimmyKakes and mother of four living in the Ashburn neighborhood. KimmyKakes sells its cheesecakes in various Chicago area Whole Foods Market stores.
The would-be vendors peered into the dark and noisy ramp to Lower Wacker Drive, located just east of O’Brien’s on the riverwalk, where the city intends to build a “community marketplace” for up to 10 kiosks. As part of the project, the city plans to remove the ramp, improve the lighting and construct a sound wall to minimize the roar of traffic.
Those kiosks will be more for vendors interested in selling grab-and-go offerings with minimal investment of time and capital — a chance to get a taste of doing business on the riverwalk. The other two new locations will require more capital, but also come with greater sales potential and three-year lease deals — with two possible 12-month extensions — to allow vendors to recover their costs.
Laura Mitchell, left, founder of Pilsen-based Luxury Cake Co., talks with other business owners on a Sept. 5, 2018, tour of the Chicago Riverwalk west of Michigan Avenue that will be a future location for vendors.
One of those spots is just west of the DuSable Bridge on Michigan Avenue, a small room that has to this point been used by the city as a security and janitorial office. But with a prime view of Magnificent Mile skyscrapers and proximity to the McCormick Bridge House & Chicago River Museum, the city sees greater potential for that site, Woods said. The city plans to bring water and sewer to the the site and improve the outdoor plaza there, but the vendor would have to pay for other upgrades to the interior.
And the other location will be in the riverwalk section between Franklin and Wells streets, perhaps best known for its floating gardens. There is already a kitchen but the site would require additional capital investment from a potential vendor. Some vendors said this location was the most enticing in terms of potential revenue, in part because it’s just across the river from the Merchandise Mart, where images will be projected in the city’s “Art on the Mart” program beginning this fall.
For many of the small businesses, the viability of these locations will come down to the logistics and more exact costs, including city fees, that will be detailed later in the bidding process. That’s the case for Laura Mitchell, founder of the Pilsen-based Luxury Cake Co., who said she hopes to find a place to sell cupcakes and slices of pie on the riverwalk.
While the revenue potential for the new sites has yet to be proven, business has been booming on the riverwalk, more so each year. Last year, spending at riverwalk businesses totaled $11.6 million — the most yet for the downtown park. But more vendors and, presumably, more alcohol sales, will also mean more security and maintenance costs.
From the city’s perspective, the hope is just to break even for the first season with the new vendors, Woods said.
For the small businesses, it’s a unique opportunity to grow.
“It’s a good way to bring our chocolate downtown without Michigan Avenue rents,” said Ramona Thomas, owner of My Chocolate Soul in the Uptown neighborhood.
Not all of the businesses that attended the meeting at City Hall on Wednesday were startups. The Billy Goat Tavern, the iconic tavern that gained pop culture fame after its portrayal in a 1978 "Saturday Night Live" skit, was also in attendance. Co-owner Bill Sianis said he and his family haven’t yet decided whether they would bid for a riverwalk location.


A good judge of a person's character is how well they respond to difficult but good advice.
Europe, as a whole, and the UK in particular got that kind of advice almost 25 years ago. Then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher warned everyone who would listen about the dangerous economic perils that would come along with a unified Europe. It meant everything to her to save Britain from getting to entrenched in what would become the European Union.
The stars of European Union (EU) membership sit on a euro sign sculpture outside the headquarters of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany.
The crux of Thatcher's argument was that Europe was way too diverse an economic playing field to expect disparate nations as different as the UK and say, Greece, to effectively manage successful economies together. And she knew that would lead to a centralized, indirectly-elected body like the European parliament basically confiscating money from British citizens. And she wasn't just talking about taxes, she was alluding to something close to an outright shakedown every time the less productive EU nations would need a handout.
For all her impassioned warnings and reasoned arguments, Thatcher was branded a fossil and an obstructionist even by members of her own Tory party and some of her cabinet. They rousted her out of 10 Downing Street and relegated her to the back benches at Whitehall.
All in the name of progress and a federated Europe.
Mrs. Thatcher passed away 18 months ago, but the current UK leadership could show enormous character by responding properly to her advice this time… even if it is 25 years late.
This has all come to a head now thanks to an outrageous but predictable row between the EU and the UK. Thanks to the UK's relatively strong economic health, (and that really is a relative term, Britain is still a mess), the EU is trying to hit it up for an additional $2.65 billion dollar payment to European governing body.
For those of you who don't see this for what it is, let me spell it out for you: W-E-L-F-A-R-E.
And welfare doesn't work. Europe's pathetic economic situation as a whole is as stark an example of that as there is.
So far, UK Prime Minister David Cameron is angrily refusing to make the payment and Friday he demanded an emergency meeting of European finance ministers.
That's not a bad start. But if Cameron really wants to do the right thing and show character, he needs to look inside his own country and listen now to the ever-more-popular leaders of the one party in Britain that has been promoting Thatcher's wise advice all along.
That would be the UK Independence Party, or UKIP, which is currently at record high popularity in Britain as voters there become more and more aware of the welfare Ponzi scheme the EU truly is.
So far, Cameron has not done the right thing as he has been bashing UKIP and ignoring its Thatcheresque warnings about the EU for years. He even tacitly sits by as the Leftist establishment persists in labeling the UKIP some kind of racist organization.
Even when those UKIP warnings come true as they did late last week, Cameron's positions and ruinous attitudes concerning UKIP do not change. At some point, someone other than just the UKIP supporters will make the connection that Cameron's outrage against the EU's financial demands are totally hollow. And that's because they come from the same man who's been bashing the people warning him of this all along.
But Cameron can perhaps be excused for suffering from the same disease all of Europe and so much of America is suffering from that I call "Welfare Delusional Syndrome," or WDS. That's the deadly illness that infects everyone who doesn't realize that welfare is not a virtuous form of charity, does not lift people out of poverty, and only succeeds in adding to its rolls.
The best and easiest cure for WDS is to read two Milton Friedman books and call me in the morning. A harsher cure is the tough medicine Cameron and the majority of Britons are being forced to take right now, and we still don't know if it will work.
Europe's "conservatives" are a far cry from conservatives here in the U.S. Most of them not only accept a massive welfare state as a fact of life, they allow elections inside the UK to be mostly about the administration of entitlement programs as opposed to offering any real alternatives to state-run systems. Cameron is one of those politicos who doesn't inspire, doesn't truly lead the way his people need him to. Thatcher was the last true European conservative of her time, but the UKIP champions of liberty and independence could be the beginning of an effective new generation of smaller government advocates.
So perhaps this $2.65 billion bill/welfare shakedown will turn out to be a good thing after all for Britain and the rest of Europe's healthier economies. Perhaps it's just the form of shock therapy they need. Perhaps Cameron will shake off the illogical and unworkable coalition agreement with the Liberal Democrat Party and seek out a natural and productive partnership with UKIP.
Or perhaps Europe, the UK, and what's left of Thatcher's constituency is already too far gone.


2 Chainz was robbed at gunpoint in broad daylight during his trip to San Francisco last weekend. Surveillance footage showed the Atlanta rapper and his crew scattering when armed men approached them on the streets. Now he’s speaking out for the first time since the incident.


A tornado hits Sindian District in New Taipei City yesterday afternoon, overturning an SUV and scattering motorbikes and debris.
A tornado churned through Sindian Distict (新店) of New Taipei City (新北市) yesterday, the Central Weather Bureau said.
Footage of the rarely seen weather system was captured by several residents and was uploaded to YouTube.
In the footage, a funnel-shaped cloud moving in the distance could be seen against a dark sky at about 1:50pm yesterday.
The bureau said that its radar echo map also showed a strong convective system in the area.
Bureau forecaster Wang Chun-sian (王君賢) said the tornado was formed by the interaction between a frontal system that arrived over the country yesterday and heat convection.
Though tornadoes are mostly reported in the plains areas in central and southern regions of the country, Wang said it is also possible for tornadoes to occur in highly populated metropolitan areas.
“It [a tornado] can still form [in metropolitan areas] as long as the right conditions are met,” Wang said.
Chen Yi-liang (陳怡良), a section chief at the bureau’s weather forecast center, said the bureau has received reports of similar events occuring in Taitung and in Greater Tainan over the past three years.
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David King's suggestion that we should cut back on space research and basic physics in order to focus on more immediate issues is misguided. Of course, the scientific community should work as hard as possible to address major issues that affect our everyday lives such as climate change, infectious diseases and counterterrorism; in particular, "clean energy" research deserves far higher priority. And science and technology are the prime routes to tackling these issues.
But it is mistaken to claim that global problems will be solved more quickly if only researchers would abandon their quest to understand the universe and knuckle down to work on an agenda of public or political concerns. These are not "either/or" options – indeed, there is a positive symbiosis between them.
Also, it is, crucially, the big scientific issues that attract the best people into science – even though they end up in varied careers. David King is right that environmental issues are noble challenges, that they deserve higher priority, and that we need urgently to address global warming through science. But a prerequisite for this is an enthusiastic and inspired generation of talented scientists. And it's well documented that many are attracted by space physics and particle physics. Telling young people that many of the most interesting bits of research are off-limits – and that they would need to go abroad to pursue them – would be an "own goal". It would send a negative signal to all aspiring scientists.
High-profile, world-leading discoveries make us feel good about ourselves and boosts interest in research, just as winning armfuls of Olympic medals in Beijing boosted national morale. Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude. Just as the Apollo programme was an overall boost to the US in the 1960s, it's in our interests today – and the world's – for the UK to raise the profile and priority of science and technology across the broadest possible front.


stages for five dates in December, according to a publicist for the band.
British Columbia (Dec. 7); Seattle (Dec. 8); and Portland, Ore. (Dec. 9).
Aren't Alright" and "Why Don't You Get a Job?"


Tintoretto’s murals at the Scuola di San Rocco are about to get a little competition: Shepard Fairey is coming to Venice. The 39-year-old artist and creator of the famous Obama poster will make seven murals during the Biennale for the hotspot Campo Santa Margherita and tourist epicenter Piazza San Marco. Proceeds from the work will go to SMS Venice, which preserves the art and architecture in the city.


Oracle plans to get rid of over 350 employees in the coming months as the database giant attempts to transform itself for an enterprise world dominated by Amazon Web Services (AWS).
As reported by Bloomberg, Oracle disclosed the impending cuts in a notice filed last week with California's Employment Development Department. The company will dismiss 255 employees from its Redwood City headquarters and 97 employees from its Santa Clara offices in May.
Some of the job cuts affect workers from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) unit, the company's infrastructure-as-a-service offering for outsourced compute, storage, and network resources.
The headcount reduction is relatively small for a company that employs just under 140,000 people globally. The company says the intent is to focus resources on its cloud business.
"As our cloud business grows, we will continually balance our resources and restructure our development group to help ensure we have the right people delivering the best cloud products to our customers around the world," an Oracle spokesperson said.
Earlier this month Oracle reported that its fiscal Q3 2019 revenues were down one percent to $9.6bn.
Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison is pinning OCI's future on its Gen2 Cloud Infrastructure and Autonomous Database technology.
Ellison, who would like to see AWS burn in hell, contends that Oracle's cloud is a better deal for the slow-moving but security-conscious enterprise market.
According to a report last week by IEEE Spectrum, cuts totaling 200 have also occurred across India, Mexico, and New Hampshire.
Oracle executive vice president Don Johnson emailed staff last week informing them that current organizational restructuring within OCI "will better align with Larry's vision of the business".
"It will streamline our products and services, focus investments on our most strategic priorities, and help us to more effectively and rapidly deliver the full promise and reach of Oracle's Gen 2 Cloud," wrote Johnson.


AN encounter with the Bathurst Aquatic Centre recently had me questioning whether or not people can demonstrate common morality when faced with an unexpected situation. The pool claimed that I was unable to enter with my three sisters, (one biological and two foster) on a "family" pass because the girls were apparently not my family according to the pool's standards. The (unwritten) claim was that I was only allowed to enter as a family if these girls were on the same Medicare card as me. Foster children are legally not allowed to be transferred on to their carer’s Medicare card. The rule the pool has in place is not only discriminatory, but unjust. These children should not have to pay more at the pool as a result of their family situation. Being 2019, I am sure that many other "families" have dynamics that do not limit them to whether or not they share a Medicare card. It interests me also that no-one else is ever asked for a Medicare card - rather, it was just because I attended with children who did not "look" the same as me. My own biological father isn't even on the same Medicare card as my mother and sisters, yet has never faced a problem entering as a "family". The Bathurst Aquatic Centre not only embarrassed me in front of multiple other families, but embarrassed my sisters (four and seven) by telling them that apparently they aren't my family - these young girls that have lived with me for years. I write this with hope that people can be more flexible when approached with unfamiliar situations. Be understanding and kind before judging and making assumptions about people and families when you have no idea of their situation. Neither my sisters nor me should be punished or made to pay higher prices because they aren't my biological sisters.
AN encounter with the Bathurst Aquatic Centre recently had me questioning whether or not people can demonstrate common morality when faced with an unexpected situation.
The pool claimed that I was unable to enter with my three sisters, (one biological and two foster) on a "family" pass because the girls were apparently not my family according to the pool's standards.
The (unwritten) claim was that I was only allowed to enter as a family if these girls were on the same Medicare card as me.
Foster children are legally not allowed to be transferred on to their carer’s Medicare card.
The rule the pool has in place is not only discriminatory, but unjust.
These children should not have to pay more at the pool as a result of their family situation.
Being 2019, I am sure that many other "families" have dynamics that do not limit them to whether or not they share a Medicare card.
It interests me also that no-one else is ever asked for a Medicare card - rather, it was just because I attended with children who did not "look" the same as me.
My own biological father isn't even on the same Medicare card as my mother and sisters, yet has never faced a problem entering as a "family".
The Bathurst Aquatic Centre not only embarrassed me in front of multiple other families, but embarrassed my sisters (four and seven) by telling them that apparently they aren't my family - these young girls that have lived with me for years.
I write this with hope that people can be more flexible when approached with unfamiliar situations.
Be understanding and kind before judging and making assumptions about people and families when you have no idea of their situation.
Neither my sisters nor me should be punished or made to pay higher prices because they aren't my biological sisters.


The Good Hands-free operation; 10-channel weather radio; vibrate and power-saving modes.
The Bad Hefty; falls short of 10-mile range.
The Bottom Line The Midland GXT400 packs in some nice features, but its performance is a mixed bag.
With winter in full effect, many outdoor enthusiasts are prepping to get out and enjoy the season's snowfall. But as you're packing your skis and boots, don't forget to think about safety. Two-way radios such as Midland's X-tra Talk GXT400 ($79.95) come in handy if you get separated from your party as you're swooshing down the slopes or if you need to set up a rendezvous time to meet at the lodge. These FRS (Family Radio Service) and GMRS (General Mobile Radio Service) radios claim a range of up to 10 miles in GMRS mode; unfortunately, real-world testing proves otherwise.
Outfitted in black and silver, the GXT400 has a utilitarian look, and at 4.1 by 2.1 by 1.4 inches, it's easy to grasp in your hand. Unfortunately, with the four AA batteries in place, the radio weighs a hefty 4.4 ounces--not exactly the lightest device we've seen. You get two sturdy belt clips, though, to transport the devices when not in use. The Push To Talk (PTT) button sits on the left side, the right hosts external microphone and speaker jacks, and the power/volume-control knob and the antenna sit on top of the device. On the face of the radio, you'll find the backlit LCD, which is easy to read, and five keys: Lock/Call, Menu, Monitor/Scan, Up, and Down. The buttons are rubberized and well spaced for easy one-handed use. While the GXT400 is not waterproof, it is splashproof.
The GXT400 is chock-full of features, including 22 channels (7 FRS/GMRS, 7 FRS, and 8 GMRS), 38 privacy codes to block unwanted transmissions, a vibrating alert, a 10-channel NOAA (National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration) weather radio, and five call tones. You also get a hands-free function (a pair of over-the-ear headsets is available for $20) and two microphone-sensitivity settings, which you can switch depending on your environment. Unlike the Cobra MicroTalk PR 4250 WX, however, it doesn't have a digital compass, a stopwatch, or a clock. These aren't deal breakers, but they are nice extras that we appreciated in the Cobra. To conserve battery life, you can switch from high- to medium- or low-power settings when distances are shorter, and the radio switches to power-save mode after 5 seconds of inactivity. If you don't feel like carrying around extra AAs, Midland offers a $40 rechargeable nickel-metal-hydride battery pack that includes a pair of batteries, a dual desk charger, an AC adapter, and a DC cigarette-lighter adapter.
Typical of FRS and GMRS radios, the GXT400 has a transmission range that varies based on geographic factors and other conditions such as terrain, physical obstructions, and line of sight. We tested the GXT400 in Virginia and the San Francisco Bay Area, and performance was a bit disappointing. On FRS channels, we managed to travel only a half mile before one of the radios stopped receiving transmissions; on GMRS channels, we eked out 3 miles. On the bright side, the sound was clear. At the park and the beach, the GXT400 fared much better. We got 1.5 miles on FRS channels and about 5 miles on GMRS channels. While the GXT400 fell below its claimed range, it's common for most consumer-grade GMRS radios, especially those operating at less than 5 watts, to undershoot their optimal range.
The GXT400 fared well in our battery-drain tests, in which we disabled its power-saving mode and continuously monitored a weather channel. The radio lasted a little more than six hours, one hour longer than the Cobra.


In Pret-a-Reporter's second installment of Bites — a look at all things food — Amanda Chantal Bacon gives us a breakdown of her daily food routine (ghee and maca are involved) and the must-haves in her fridge (coconut yogurt!).
Welcome to Pret-a-Reporter's second installment of Bites, our new column that highlights the edible consumption habits of Hollywood and music's biggest tastemakers. Bon appetit.
It's a no-brainer that eating low-sugar, wholesome foods are good for your health and wellness, but what about eating specifically to rev up your brain power, balance your gut microbiome and manage hormone levels?
If you're anything like us, you're probably just as confused as to the type of foods and liquids that give you glowing skin and a flatter tummy. Fret not, because we chatted with Amanda Chantal Bacon, founder of juice bar and health food shop Moon Juice, of which Gwyneth Paltrow, Shailene Woodley and Lena Dunham are fans, to find out the science behind adaptogenic potions for breakfast, why eating fat is good for your brain, and how to make mind-altering cocktails (sans alcohol!).
I begin my day, always, with a wild and crazy Moon drink, which consists of adaptogenic herbs. It’s a pretty steady regime that I drink every day, but I do switch it up in response to the times and the seasons and biological needs. I have a little shelf that’s fully stocked and looks exactly like the little shelf in Moon Juice, which is called the Moon Pantry in the hopes that other people can start exploring. The packaging is really informative and educational, so you can just pick it up off the shelf and start to explore.
I really indulge in the alchemist vibe in the morning, which is usually a warm drink based in sprouted almond butter and water that makes the perfect almond milk, or I’ll do hemp hearts and water. And sometimes I just go crazy and do cultured ghee and water. Ghee and water mixed with adaptogenic herbs and yummy things makes a really nice milk when it’s warm. I decide upon one of those for the day, and I always add our protein, which is a sprouted raw hypoallergenic plant protein that is 98 percent similar to the amino acid profile in breast milk.
I don’t eat a lot of animal products. I have ghee and honey, or once in a while I’ll have an egg, so having that plant protein is very important to make sure you’re satiated. And not doing the vegetarian thing where you’re smoking cigarettes, eating French fries and on a good day having half an avocado.
One thing that is an internal/external beauty thing all in one jar is pearl. It’s part of fortifying my body in the practice of eating mostly plants because the amino acid profile in that pearl in incredible for the body. The nice thing about the pearl dust is I also put it on my face at night. Just dust some on with a little brush and let it soak into your skin.
So the protein and the pearl, I put maca in it, which is a Peruvian root that sort of looks like a turnip. It has a vast root system that goes deep into the ground of the Andes and it pulls all of these prehistoric minerals because the root system is so vast it can get deep down into the mountains and pull that stuff out.
It’s one of the most powerful adaptogens and also an incredible aphrodisiac and energy builder. I have watched my blood chemistry change just by having a tablespoon of maca every day. I also add cordyceps — which are great for the adrenals, great for energy — reishi and chaga.
Depends on the day. I’m a big snacker. I rarely eat meals anymore so it’s a nonstop flow of Moon Juices, cordyceps, reishi, maca, figs, raw chocolate — it’s a nonstop party!
I am always snacking on these adaptogenic herb mixes. You start your day with something that’s so heavy with these herbs that have so many minerals, aminos and adaptogens that really get into your system. The drink is loaded with good raw healthy fat, so you’re feeling great. You’re not feeling like you need to have that bagel and cream cheese or the crash after coffee. So it’s snacking but it’s a purposely potent snacking.
I eat fermented foods throughout the day, so I start with that then go into some green juices. Then mid-morning if I do some yoga or go for a little run, I’ll be a bit ravenous and want coconut yogurt, which is fermented like a regular yogurt and made with raw coconut meat. I love it and have it at least once a day. We sell it here but it’s so easy to make at home. Fermented foods are so good for culturing the gut, and you’ll immediately see the side effects in energy, brain fog, immunity and what people really like to see, which is glowing skin. They clean out your liver and your gut so you can better start to absorb other nutrients. Coconut yogurt is also loaded with good fat, which is another energy beauty vitality tool that I use.
I watched my life really change when I started to eat these healthy fats. Your brain is made of 65 percent fat, so if you start eating to that tune and you’re conscious of other things that you’re eating, I always say you can’t just start eating good fat and add that to the standard American diet because you will get fat. But you put that into a container and you will actually lose weight and have tons of energy. Your hormones are made of these fats, so when you start to think about the life experience you’re going to begin to have when your body is flush with all the hormones that it’s meant to have, your brain is fully functioning and your metabolism is on fire … I make that happen three times a day.
Also when you eat fermented foods, they kill cravings — sugar in particular.
Lunch — if I’m left to my own devices is usually a meeting of people at my house and I’m eating while standing and talking and working. Lunch usually consists of nori rolls with avocado and cultured vegetables and little spirulina crunchies and greens. Sometimes a baked sweet potato. People sometimes say, "Oh, that’s bunny food. I couldn’t eat that for lunch." But I challenge somebody else to eat two avocados for lunch. With that I have more cultured vegetables, which help to digest that.
I also have business meetings where I go out to restaurants and I love to eat for art and entertainment and don’t abstain from that.
It’s so sad that AXE closed. They were the perfect restaurant. I go to Gjusta, Farmshop in Brentwood, I like Rawvolution in Santa Monica for dessert-y kind of things. If I’m in Hollywood I love Son of a Gun.
Growing up no one taught me how to cook. I grew up in New York where there was a lot of going out and eating at restaurants. My dad was a chef, but he didn’t teach me how to cook. I spent my childhood doing this alchemist thing where I was forever making potions in the kitchen that were inedible and included everything from the spice cabinet to my mom’s products in the bathroom. I was obsessive; there was no happier place, and now it’s what I do every morning. So before the cook came out, the alchemist came out. As far as cooking I had formal training and worked with a bunch of chefs, but Suzanne Goin was a true mentor.
I absolutely love listening to mantras when I cook because I find when I get around food and start to touch it and make little potions in the blender or I soak nuts to activate them, I slip into this moving mediation, and I’ve done it for so many years that it truly is a practice. I’m sure other people have that, like when they get on the yoga mat. With the mantras, I love mentally chanting along while I do kitchen work. It’s the greatest meditative practice in the world.
9 ½ weeks (laughs). Hey, that’s breakfast every morning. I play out that scene three times a day with no one around. I love the Beetlejuice scene when they’re around the dinner table with the shrimp on the fingers.
Unsweetened green juice is incredible. I drink that all day long, all night long. I’m such a fan of heirloom stone fruit and heirloom melons. It’s a time when I try to be pretty judicious about having sweet things in my life, but when you have this heirloom, California, farmers market fruit, and it’s so juicy and hydrating and alive paired with all the good fiber in fruit, go for it. I have entire days where I’m just drinking green juice and gorging on all this ripe fruit and I feel so hydrated and energized. My skin is so glowy and polished the next day. It’s almost like an accidental cleanse. You keep eating berries, cherries and apricots and drinking more green juice and then you have some tea. It’s such a great way to reset.
Coconut yogurt, almond milk, arugula, Persian cucumbers, cultured vegetables, green juice, bee pollen and probiotics. Always and only all that stuff.
They’re all my faves, but for the summer — the ones I use multiple times a day are the Goodness Greens, and this collaboration I did with Odacity. It’s a box set that comes with a little spray made of Bulgarian organic rose and fresh aloe that you spray on your face. And then I take two to three drops of the pressed wild carrot seed oil and I spread it with my fingertips on my face. It’s like juice for your face. It’s not cut with anything. It smells like a perfume-y dirt. I put this on three times a day and it just sinks in and is on par with my advocating for us to be eating good raw fat internally, we should also be putting pure essential oil onto our face. I think that we were all taught in the '90s if you eat fat you get fat and if you put fat on your face, you get pimples. Both of those things are incorrect. Part of doing this collaboration was to get the re-education of anointing ourselves with oil.
The other thing I drink all day long is Beauty Dust, which has schisandra, pearl and goji mixed with water. I just tap it into a water bottle, though you can do it hot or cold. I love it in the summer cold. I’ll make a big carafe in the morning. Skin and hair love it. I don’t brush my hair or put anything in it. I feed my hair from the inside and the Beauty Dust keeps it shiny and lustrous throughout the summer. It’s like drinking the new-age version of Snapple iced tea all day.
I set up a huge cheese board with a shallot and soft herb cheese, which is vegan and totally delicious. Rainbow crisps, fermented crisps, beautiful olives from Peru and big bowls of activated almonds with dulse and apple cider vinegar, which are super yummy. I’ll put out juices or a special cocktail like watermelon juice with a sprinkle of Beauty Dust. For those who like a shot of vodka, that goes in. I have a juicy cocktail zone where I spike things with mood-altering herbs rather than traditional booze. However, they can go hand in hand.
In the winter months, I’ll do a huge warming spiced pot of fermented beans, usually chickpeas with cinnamon, fennel and ginger. In the summer, I love to get fresh beans and shell them and do them very easily and gently with just olive oil and tons of fresh herbs, garlic and lemon juice.
I have a salad bowl that is bigger than my child, so huge bowls of salad, and I go heavy on whatever is seasonal, so for summer: fresh fava beans, big ears of steamed corn, a big, beautiful tomato salad. It’s an overabundance of plants but because of my traditional fine-dining background, the way I treat, prepare and tease out the flavor is on par with any piece of meat. I hang out with a foodie crowd, not a bunch of raw foodists, and everyone is always over-the-moon satisfied, licking their fingers.
Then I get texts the next day going, "Thank you so much, what a lovely evening, everything was delicious and I feel great today." Because they’re not hungover and they’re not filled with food that they’re still digesting two days later.
The cookbook comes out May 2016 called In the Moon Kitchen. There is a chapter on juice, but the rest of it is on activating the live, thriving, delicious plant kitchen. It’s not a juice book. We have a bunch of products I’m testing and working with that are coming.
Moon Juice's fresh pressed organic juices, nut milks, tonics, dusts and snacks are sold at the Venice (507 Rose Ave.) and Silver Lake (2839 Sunset Blvd.) locations.


CRYSTAL PALACE mascot Kayla was punched in the face by a rival fan, a court has heard.
A Charlton Athletic fan has denied punching Kayla - a 25-year-old American bald eagle - when violence broke out between the two clubs in 2015.
Addicks fan Daniel Boylett, 36, of Eltham, south east London, has denied attempted criminal damage in the alleged attack.
Boylett appeared at Croydon Crown Court alongside Colin Kitto, 49, of Eltham, Andy McConville, 48, of Rochester, Kent, Billy Cowcher, 32, of Greenwich, south east London and Sam Donegan, 25, of Welling, south east London, who have been charged with the football violence.
Kayla's handler Chris Belsey was walking the bird of prey around the Selhurst Park pitch when a punch was thrown from the crowd, the jury heard.
Prosecutor Daniel Higgins said: "As he passed the stand he noticed three or four fans were shouting abuse and one of these three or four lent over the barrier and threw a punch directed at Kayla.
"Mr Belsey is unsure if the punch directed at the eagle had landed.
"He pulled Kayla away slightly to keep her from any further attack and then walked away."
Mr Higgins said Kayla "seemed unhurt" but added "due to her delicate bone structure if she had been hit with force, her bones could easily break".
He said there "is no dispute" Boylett threw the punch but questions may surround whether he intended worse to happen.
Boylett, Kitto and McConville each deny two counts of violent disorder.
Cowcher and Donegan each also deny a charge of violent disorder.
The derby game, which Charlton lost 4-1, had turned ugly before a ball had even been kicked.
Mr Higgins told the jury there "was disorder at the match before, during and after" the game.


You can’t build a good machine learning model without good training data. But building those training sets is hard, often manual work, that involves labeling thousand and thousands of images, for example. With SageMaker, AWS has been working on a service that makes building machine learning models a lot easier. But until today, that labeling task was still up to the user. Now, however, the company is launching SageMaker Ground Truth, a training set labeling service.
Using Ground Truth, developers can point the service at the storage buckets that hold the data and allow the service to automatically label it. What’s nifty here is that you can both set a confidence level for the fully automatic service or you can send the data to human laborers. Those human labelers, who probably have the most mind-numbing job in tech, can either be the company’s Mechanical Turk users or third-party service. If you really hate your employees, you can have them do the labeling, too.
Currently the service supports text classification, image classification, object detection and semantic segmentation. Users can also create their own tasks.
As the labeling data comes in, Ground Truth then pulls some of the objects and sends them to human labelers to build a new custom model for the user.


The opening of Kenilworth’s railway station has been delayed until December 2017 because of problems with the signalling system.
After discussions between Warwickshire County Council, Jeremy Wright MP, the Department for Transport and Network Rail, it was decided the opening date should be pushed back to Sunday December 10.
Jeremy Wright MP said: “The Secretary of State for Transport has said that although the station delivery is on track, the main delays to the introduction of the new service are being caused by issues around the signalling project.
Cllr Peter Butlin, portfolio holder for transport and planning at the council, said: “Whilst the station will be delivered by the County Council on time, Network Rail has been unable to meet the agreed dates to deliver the track and signalling works to enable the new train service at the station.
Leader of the council Cllr Izzi Seccombe has also written to Martin Frobisher, Programme Director of Network Rail, requiring an unconditional commitment from Network Rail that it will do all it can to ensure the station is open and served by trains by the new deadlines.
A spokesman for Network Rail said: “From December 2017, coinciding with the national timetable change, people in Kenilworth will benefit from a new station and direct access to the railway.
“There has been a minor delay from the original date of August 2017 as we continue to work on the latest safe and state-of-the-art signalling system.
This new delay is yet another to the station’s opening.
For a time, it was thought the station might be able to open in December 2016, but this target was not met because the Department for Transport and Network Rail insisted the council await the publication of the Hendy Report, which recommended changes to how the Government should upgrade the country’s railways.
The date was then pushed back to August 2017, but now this will not be achieved.
Once the station opens, it will have an hourly, one-carriage shuttle service between Coventry and Leamington, to be operated by London Midland.
Planning permission to start work on reopening the station was granted in 2011, but funding was initially refused by the county council.
In 2013, the Department for Transport announced a new fund to build or renovate stations, and the council successfully applied for a £5 million grant, paving the way for the project.
The cost of the new station is estimated at £12.1 million.
It is hoped the track at the station can be improved to a double-track in the future, and the station will be able to accommodate a double track should it eventually be approved.


Most countries now actively want a weak currency to make their exports more competitive. “China seems happy to let the renminbi drift lower, the Swiss are still running quantitative easing at full tilt and central bankers everywhere are actively talking down their currencies or offering only limited support," says Mr Mould.
This is a race to the bottom, and everybody wants to be a winner.
The year started with a currency "flash crash”, as the US and Australian dollars along with the Turkish lira plunged against the Japanese yen to raise the curtain on what analysts expect to be a hugely volatile 12 months.
Foreign exchange movements matter to UAE residents, as many internationally mobile individuals juggle two or three different currencies and make regular foreign exchange transfers.
Gaurav Kashyap, head of futures at EGM in Dubai, says the fear factor is back after the stock market meltdown of 2018 that saw equities slide amid trade war worries and a slowing global economy. And currencies are also feeling the heat.
Several market-moving events are coming to a head this year, notably the US-China trade war and Brexit. “The US Government shutdown, the prospect of further interest rate rises from the Federal Reserve, tighter European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy and elections in India are also adding to the uncertainty," says Mr Kashyap.
So which currencies will fare the best in 2019?
Mr Kashyap suggests US dollar strength will continue as investors seek a safe haven for their money, which would be good news for UAE residents sending dollar-linked dirhams to their home countries.
The US Federal Reserve increased interest rates four times last year and the big question is whether chair Jay Powell defies criticism from President Donald Trump and pushes for further increases. "If the Fed adopts a more dovish approach it could hinder my outlook for the greenback, which otherwise remains bullish for the first half of the year," says Mr Kashyap.
Outlook: Another good year for the greenback.
Mr Kashyap says the euro is one to watch, particularly if the ECB increases interest rates. “However, European economic data is mixed and I do not see any form of monetary tightening before the summer,” he adds.
Outlook: A bumpy year in prospect for the single currency.
After two years of vacillation, January looks like a make-or-break month for British Prime Minister Theresa May and the pound as she faces an uphill task in persuading MPs to support her deal in the rescheduled vote on January 14.
However, Mr Kashyap believes sterling could recover strongly provided a no-deal Brexit crisis is averted, rising as much as 8 per cent against the euro, from €1.11 today towards €1.20.
Many analysts have also argued that sterling is priced for disaster and could be a top performer if the UK avoids the worst.
Outlook: Sterling could move sharply, in either direction.
He says the rupee has been “hammered for years” but should now outperform. “A dovish Fed will help by reducing capital outflows from India and foreign exchange-related volatility,” Mr Mamtani adds.
Outlook: The rupee could enjoy a strong summer.
Outlook: Things are looking up for the loonie.
Dollar strength is traditionally bad news for emerging market assets and so it proved in 2018, with crises in Turkey and Argentina triggering investor flight and further pressure expected this year.
He picks the Chinese renminbi as one to watch. “President Xi Jinping has to juggle his growth plans against the country’s growing debt mountain, currency weakness and US trade war talk. If the Chinese decide to dash for growth the yuan could be sacrificed and fall even further," says Mr Mould.
Outlook: The yuan could come under sustained pressure.
Outlook: There may be dollar dismay for New Zealand.
The Australian dollar may also underperform after house prices in Sydney fell 10 per cent in a year with further drops expected, Mr Mamtani says. "This creates a negative wealth effect for households and curbs personal spending."
The slowing Chinese economy could hit demand for Australian commodities, forcing the Royal Bank of Australia to hold or even cut interest rates, hitting its currency, he adds.
Outlook: A commodity crunch threatens the Aussie.
Outlook: Nervous investors should give the yen a further boost.


Senior-level Justice Department officials pushed back heavily on an ongoing FBI investigation of the Clinton Foundation, according to a bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper laid out numerous examples, based on law enforcement sources, of senior DOJ officials intervening to quash the probe.
Prosecutors with the U.S. attorneys office in the Eastern District of New York — which Loretta Lynch led before taking over as attorney general last year — refused to allow FBI investigators probing the Clinton family charity to review emails found on devices turned over this year by two of Clinton’s lawyers during the separate investigation into the mishandling of classified information on Clinton’s private email system.
The rationale, according to The Journal, was that the devices were covered by partial immunity and limited-use agreements that the Clinton lawyers — Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson — agreed to with the DOJ. Information recovered from the laptops could only be used in the email investigation and not in others.
As part of the immunity agreement, the FBI and Justice Department agreed to destroy Mills’ and Samuelson’s devices, a revelation that sparked outrage from congressional Republicans when it was announced earlier this month.
CNN reported at around the same time that a Clinton Foundation probe was tabled by the Justice Department. Pollock’s report and the new piece from The Journal undermine CNN’s reporting.
While the investigation has gone forward, the Justice Department has stymied the investigation at several turns, according to The Journal.
The DOJ refused to grant the FBI the power to issue subpoenas or conduct formal interviews. It also refused to convene a grand jury to weigh evidence in the case.
More pushback occurred in August, when a senior DOJ official contacted the FBI’s deputy director, Andrew McCabe, to voice his displeasure that New York field office agents were continuing the investigation even though the DOJ had declined to provide investigative support.
The official was “very pissed off” that the FBI was continuing its efforts, according to The Journal.
The call occurred on Aug. 12, a day after CNN reported details of FBI-DOJ discord over whether to investigate the Clinton Foundation. It was also a day after Pollock reported that an investigation was underway.
McCabe figures prominently in The Journal’s reporting and in the overlapping Clintonworld investigations.
It was revealed last week that McCabe’s wife, Jill, received nearly $470,000 in contributions to a Virginia state senate campaign last year from Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s super PAC.
McAuliffe is a close Clinton ally and is the subject of a separate FBI investigation.
According to The Journal, McCabe refocused the Clinton Foundation investigation a week after FBI director James Comey announced in early July that he would recommend to the Justice Department that charges not be filed against Clinton for mishandling classified information in her emails.
The charity probe would be led by the FBI’s New York office with help from the Little Rock office, according to The Journal. FBI field offices in Los Angeles and Washington were also involved in the Clinton Foundation investigation.
The Los Angeles office subpoenaed bank records related to the Clinton Foundation after obtaining information during a separate public corruption case. The office in Washington was investigating McAuliffe’s financial relationships from before he joined the Clinton Foundation as a board member.
After Comey’s announcement on the Clinton email investigation in July, McCabe decided that the Washington FBI office would focus on the separate McAuliffe matter. He recused himself from that investigation because of the donations his wife received from McAuliffe’s super PAC in 2015.
While the FBI has insisted that McCabe is not compromised in any of the investigations — the email probe, the Clinton Foundation, or the McAuliffe matter — The Journal reports that some agents believe he has issued “stand down” orders in the Clinton Foundation inquiry.
That claim came from FBI agents lower on the chain of command from senior-level officials. Still other sources denied that McCabe issued a “stand down” order. They asserted that McCabe ordered investigators to continue on their investigative path.
McCabe’s Aug. 12 phone conversation with the senior DOJ official would seem to suggest that he supported the investigation.
“Are you telling me that I need to shut down a validly predicated investigation?” McCabe asked the DOJ official, according to a Journal source who was familiar with the conversation.
“Of course not,” the official reportedly said, after a brief pause.
The new report also details a presentation that FBI officials made to the Justice Department in February to lay out the case against the Clinton Foundation.
Some of the Journal’s sources said that the DOJ’s career public integrity prosecutors did not believe that the case was strong.
“Others said that from the start, the Justice Department officials were stern, icy and dismissive of the case,” The Journal reported.
DOJ officials told the FBI at the meeting additional investigative tools — subpoenas, interviews or a grand jury — would not be authorized.


Recording artist Iggy Azalea performs onstage during a 2014 "MTV Video Music Awards" concert with Sam Smith And Iggy Azalea presented by Time Warner Cable and Lifebeat at Avalon on August 22, 2014 in Hollywood, California.
Iggy Azalea tumbled off the stage during an MTV Video Music Awards benefit concert, but she appeared unharmed and posted a video of the fall on social media.
The Australian rapper fell Friday night while performing her hit "Fancy" at The Avalon in Los Angeles. Security guards quickly pulled Azalea back onto the stage, and she barely missed a beat as Charli XCX joined her for the chart-topping single.
Afterward, Azalea told the crowd she felt "very blessed" that she did not break her legs. There was no immediate word if she was injured.
Azalea appeared in good spirits, posting a video of the fall on Instagram. She wrote in the caption: "I know I laughed."
Neither Azalea's representatives nor MTV immediately responded to emails seeking comment.
Tori Kelly and Sam Smith also performed at the event benefiting Lifebeat — Music Fights HIV/AIDS.
Azalea is up for seven awards at the VMAs airing live Sunday.


Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended a campaign rally Sunday night for the Liberal party’s candidate in the critical Burnaby South byelection in B.C.
Trudeau was shouted down by a small but vocal group of anti-pipeline protesters, responding that some people will choose the politics of anger, fear and division, but Liberals will stay focused on serving Canadians, bringing people together and building a better future.
Trudeau says B.C. is a leader in environmental advocacy, specifically referencing the province’s carbon tax.
Trudeau has clashed in recent months with B.C.’s provincial government over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project on Burnaby Mountain. Ottawa recently bought out the project for 4.5 billion dollars.
Trudeau championed Richard Lee as a voice for the Burnaby South riding, throwing punches at former prime minister Stephen Harpers’s administration as an example of local MPs who would echo whatever the federal government wanted.
The February 25 byelection in Burnaby South is an important one for the Liberals and for the federal NDP, whose party leader Jagmeet Singh is running in the riding.
Singh, who moved to Burnaby last year with his wife to run in the riding, is counting on taking Burnaby South in order to solidify his status as party leader, secure a seat in the House of Commons and make a run for the prime minister’s seat in the federal election in October.


The state Legislature will choose the governor on Jan. 7 because neither candidate got at least 50 percent of the vote in November.
MONTPELIER, Vt. — The second-place finisher in last month’s election for governor announced Monday that he is staying in the race, bucking recent history of the losing candidate conceding and leaving the final say up to the state Legislature.
Speaking at the Statehouse, Republican Scott Milne criticized what he called the “pervasive incompetence” of Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin’s administration and described the state’s finances as “a disaster.” He rattled off a litany of complaints, including the lack of a plan to fund the state’s proposed single-payer health care system, the failure to implement a law requiring statewide prekindergarten and the absence of a plan to clean up Lake Champlain.
In a statement, Shumlin reiterated that he was the top vote-getter in the election and that he expected the Legislature to return him to office.
The Vermont Constitution requires the governor, and some other top offices, to receive more than 50 percent of the vote to be elected, or the Legislature gets the final say. Traditionally the losing candidate concedes, and the vote is a formality. The secret-ballot vote during a joint session of the House and Senate will be held Jan. 7, the first day of the 2015 session.
Milne, a travel agent from Pomfret, was a latecomer to the election and given little chance of winning. But Shumlin, a two-term governor, got 46.4 percent of the vote in the Nov. 4 election and Milne got 45.1 percent.
The Democratic Party controls 106 of the 180 seats of the Vermont House and Senate.
House Speaker Shap Smith, D-Morristown, said Monday that the election is required by the Constitution regardless of whether Milne participates.
“My expectation is historical precedent will be followed,” Smith said.
David Sunderland, the chairman of the Vermont Republican Party, said the party would fully support Milne but noted that the makeup of the Legislature made it difficult for him to win.
“But he’s been facing an uphill battle since the day that he announced that he was running for governor, so I would be hesitant to say that anything is out of the realm of possibility for Scott Milne,” Sunderland said.


Hunger and disease have been rife in Yemen ever since the Houthis seized power in 2015.
The situation worsened when the rebels spread their reign of terror to the port city of Hodeidah and usurped vital supplies intended for the starving masses.
Driving the Houthis from Hodeidah is vital to ending the suffering of the Yemenis – and it is this thinking that has governed the actions of the Saudi-led Arab coalition that includes the UAE, which took military steps this month to liberate the port city after all attempts at diplomacy failed.
“We are here for the long run,” Reem Al Hashimy, the UAE’s Minister of State for International Co-operation, assured Yemenis, speaking in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday.
The UAE has provided aid amounting to $4 billion to Yemen since 2015. And over the past year, the Emirates Red Crescent has delivered 35,000 tonnes of food – enough to feed two million people for a month – as well as other essential supplies.
Such giving will continue long after the Houthis are defeated, reflecting the UAE’s commitment to guaranteeing Yemen’s long-term security.
No sooner had the campaign begun to drive the Houthis out of Hodeidah than the ERC dispatched 10 vessels laden with 13,500 tonnes of food, accompanied by planes carrying more than 10,000 food parcels, on the instructions of Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
Humanitarianism is not simply an aspect of this campaign: it is the very objective of the mission.
But as the Houthis are forced out and diplomacy supplants military operations, a long-term strategy supported by a sustainable aid package will be required. Ms Al Hashimy left no room for doubt about what the UAE intends to do.
Actualising this vision of a stable and prosperous future for Yemenis will require ending Houthi misrule. The battle for Hodeidah is a battle for the future of Yemen – it will end only when those responsible for Yemen’s misery have withdrawn from the port that is the nation’s lifeline.ose responsible for Yemen’s misery have withdrawn from the port that is the nation’s lifeline.


This research service provides a detailed analysis of the global metrology probes and scanners market. This assessment includes forecasts, an overview of the competitive structure and competitors' market share as well as end-user and segment analyses. Market drivers and restraints are assessed for their impact throughout the forecast period, 2013 to 2017. End-user segments are also analyzed. The market is expected to grow consistently throughout the forecast period, with a key focus on automotive, aerospace and machines shops. Furthermore, executive summary and conclusions have been provided. The base year is 2012.
• In 2012, the total metrology probes and scanners market earned a revenue of $Xmillion with a growth rate ofX% over 2011.
• Arriving at an average industry price for metrology probes is a challenge because prices can be as low as a $X and as high as $X. Applications within the industry are very important in pricing because they influence the type, size, materials used, and the level of engineering.
• Although the economy has been experiencing growth over the past few years, its cyclical nature means that a decline in activity is imminent. Manufacturers serving end-user industries that follow the trend of the economy should look for other areas to increase their business. For example, companies are building their portfolio in the retrofit market.
• Consolidation allows companies to increase their strengths and gives them access to segments of the market that were not available to them before. Consolidation causes significant market challenges for smaller companies. Hexagon Metrology is one of the companies that believe in acquisitions and has increased its market share in the metrology probes and scanners market considerably in the recent years.
1. Greater importance is expected to be given to software capabilities.
2. Asia-Pacific is a high growth potential region, with India and China being the key growth engines.
3. Significant R&D investment is required to develop accurate roving systems.
4. With the evolving end-user technologies, simplicity in operation of the probing systems is required.
5. Pricing pressures continue to challenge. Vendors that are now implementing technological advancements in a bid to win the price war.
What are the factors driving growth in the segments?
So What ? Poor investor confidence on account of uncertain macroeconomic indicators is limiting CAPEX spending.
So What ? The off-shoring of manufacturing to emerging economies, such as India, China, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, is increasing demand for probes and scanners attached to CMMs.
So What ? OEMs have ongoing partnerships with Renishaw to integrate their probes with the OEM equipment.
So What ? Key OEMs, including Hexagon Metrology and Carl Zeiss, are expected to increase their footprint in the metrology probes and scanners market, thereby challenging Renishaw's growth.
Is the metrology probes and scanners market growing? How long will it continue to grow, and at what rate?
Are the existing competitors structured correctly to meet customer needs?
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American Varvara Lepchenko won in her Fed Cup singles debut to lift the U.S. team to a 1-1 tie against Italy on Saturday, after Sara Errani beat Jamie Hampton 6-2, 6-1.
Lepchenko rallied past Roberta Vinci 2-6, 6-4, 7-5 after the Italian struggled with a leg cramp in the final set, which featured seven breaks of serve. She had treatment on her left thigh and rallied from 5-1 down in the third to tie it 5-5.
Then Lepchenko broke back and served out the match.
"I really lost my focus and got a bit distracted, which happens a lot to a lot of players," Lepchenko said. "I just kept on fighting, said to myself it's not the end of the match, you can still win it."
The doubles on Sunday will feature Melanie Oudin and Liezel Huber against Nastassja Burnett and Karin Knapp. Lepchenko will play Errani in reverse singles.
Lepchenko, who is originally from Uzbekistan, moved to the U.S. in 2001 and claimed political asylum. She officially became a U.S. citizen in 2011 and was part of the team at the London Olympics.
"I feel amazing to be part of this team, to have so much spiritual support behind me," Lepchenko said. "There's this feeling that I can't let my team down, so I try even harder, more than if I was playing for myself. The team is really important for me.
"I wasn't that nervous, because of my experience in the Olympics, where I was super nervous. I told myself I wasn't going to let emotions ruin my chances here. I was a bit stiff at the beginning, but then I got into it."
The seventh-ranked Errani needed just over an hour to beat the 64th-ranked Hampton.
With Serena and Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens injured, Hampton and Lepchenko made their Fed Cup singles debuts. Veterans Francesca Schiavone and Flavia Pennetta, who have struggled lately, were left off Italy's squad.
Italy beat the U.S. in back-to-back Fed Cup finals in 2009 and 2010.
"We're going to try our hearts out tomorrow," U.S. captain Mary Joe Fernandez said. "I'm really proud of how (Lepchenko) approached the match and how disciplined she was. It's not easy the first time, especially when you're playing with a crowd from another country, and she did a good job blocking it out.
Italy will hope Vinci recovers for reverse singles on Sunday.
"I hope it's just a bit of cramp, but they're treating her," Italy captain Corrado Barazzutti said. "Roberta made a really great effort. She was injured, but she played the last few games with all of her heart."


While key support levels are still in place, the troops have been struggling lately, and that continued today after the monthly jobs data. Like the ADP numbers on Wednesday, the data were slightly under expectations, but still strong enough to stoke concerns about a September rate hike. If that is indeed the case, then the response in equities fits that narrative, but interest rates and the greenback both went off script.
It was an interesting dynamic, but regardless of the underlying mechanics, it was another tough day for stocks. The bulls were able to engineer another late bounce to close off the lows, but materials and energy led to the downside with notable losses, and utilities were the only major sector to show any semblance of a gain. There were a few decent bars in names like Stamps.com (STMP), 2U (TWOU), Nvidia (NVDA) and Autobytel (ABTL), but you had to be a sharpshooter to pick off any good trades today.
Most notably, the S&P 500 is back near its 200-day moving average again, which has helped bring the buyers out of hiding a few times so far this year. Can they pull yet another rabbit out of the hat? The answer so many times to that question has been, "of course," but the broader technical picture is deteriorating, particularly in the Dow and the Russell 2000. With the indices being knocked back consistently from resistance and support levels being repeatedly tested, it's hard to have the stomach to do a lot of buying at these levels.
The fat lady has yet to sing, though, and while health of the market is dubious, we still need to be open to outcomes in both directions.
·Just prepare to respond to pricing changes.
For months now, the market has been stuck in a lateral range. Just when it seemed like everyone was getting used to those endless creeper trends from the past couple years, the market gods change things up and give us a bout of streaky, choppy, whippy, directionless action that has made for an environment where it's extremely easy to get whipsawed.
That's certainly been the case this so far this week. Wednesday's session was particularly tough, as an early frenzy turned into a mad rush for the exits, and that that was followed up yesterday by a miserable session.
On the plus side, the losses weren't tremendous, a modest afternoon bounce prevented a close at lows, and key support levels remain in place. However, under the surface, there was some real damage in several individual names, which is all the more notable given the overall conditions of the charts out there right now.
As of yesterday's close, the percentage of stocks under their 200-day moving average stands at 64.9%, which is a pretty significant number. There are only three other times since the 2009 lows when that number has been above 63%: July 2010, October 2011, and October 2014. Each of those instances has marked turning points for the market, but it's by no means an indication that we're at a significant low here.
Suffice it to say that the majority of stocks out there are in bad shape, and all it takes is a stroll through a random sampling of charts to get a feel for just how bad things look right now.
All of this leads us to today's jobs report, which is all the more important since the Fed specifically said that the timing of their first rate hike would be heavily influenced by the July and August data.
I'm not the only one who's more than a little bemused by the fact that it seems like folks are freaking out over what honestly should be a positive event. Zero percent interest rates were supposed to be an emergency measure, not the "new normal", and the fact that the economy is finally back on solid enough footing to start backing away from an extreme monetary policy should be a good thing, right?
Regardless, there no telling how the market will respond if participants start thinking that a September lift-off is back on the table. That's extremely important since the indices are one really ugly session away from line-in-the-sand support levels, particularly the March lows in the S&P 500.
All we can do is be mentally prepared to respond as the pricing action develops. Right now, we're in a range, and that means being open to both bearish and bullish.
There are plenty of stocks that have sold off enough to provide upside fuel if the troops can finally manage to gain some traction, but there is still ample room to the downside for the bears to do some real damage.
At the time of publication, Jim Koford had no positions in the stocks mentioned.
The outcome of the national election that will run through mid-May likely will determine the pace of economic reform in the country.
Asia, outside China, is going to have to stand on its own two feet while China and the United States get their complicated dance partnership sorted out.
With both the Fed and PBC providing cheap capital, the market has a wind at its back.


For Thierry Meyssan, by taking to the streets, the French have become the first Western population to take personal risks to oppose financial globalisation. Although they do not realise it, and still imagine that their problems are exclusively national, their enemy is the same force that crushed the region of the African Great Lakes and a part of the Greater Middle East. In order to understand the project which inextricably unites these apparently disparate events, we have to take a step back.


Tillie Miriam Kline, 90 of Cape Coral, FL passed away on June 19, 2018. Arrangements are by Coral Ridge Funeral Home and Cemetery. Visit www.coralridgefuneralhome.com for additional information.