thulth script and the delicate spiral scrollwork were first inscribed on the forged steel, then cut out with saws, drills and files.

A fragment of a 12th century stone frieze from Afghanistan bears two inscriptions. The upper in elaborately foliated Kufic says 'There is no strength and power save in God'; the lower band is part of Sura XLVIII of the Qur'an carved in a mixture of thulth and Kufic.

About the Author

David James studied fine art, art history and Arabic at the University of Durham. He worked in Omdurman, Dublin, Cairo and London before moving to Ronda in Spain where he now lives. He is the author of several works on the art of the Islamic book including: Qur’ans and Bindings from the Chester Beatty Library (1980), Islamic Treasuresof the Chester Beatty Library (1981), Qur’ans of the Mamlūks (1988), The Master Scribes (1991) and numerous articles in scholarly publications. He has published two translations of mediaeval Arabic histories of Islamic Spain: The History of Ibn al-Qūṭīya (2010) and A History of Early al-Andalus, the Akhbār Majmūʿa (2011).

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The contribution of the Muslim World to a wide range of arts, sciences and academic disciplines is often overlooked or taken for granted. This site provides a glimpse of the rich cultural heritage within the Muslim World and the significant role that Muslims have played in the advancement of knowledge. It presents the rich creativity of Islamic Arts and Architecture, traces the historical development of Islamic regions and dynasties, highlighting their diversity of artistic expression from the inception of the


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The edge of the door glass 25 is fixed between the front door frame 22 and the rear door frame 23 such that theLast updated on .From the section Aston Villa

Christian Benteke joined Villa for £7m in August 2012

Liverpool have met a £32.5m release clause for Aston Villa's Belgium striker Christian Benteke, triggering a potential transfer.

The 24-year-old scored 12 goals in 12 games in the 2014-15 season to help keep Villa in the Premier League.

The Reds have bid for the player - and met the asking price - after receiving funds from the £49m sale of Raheem Sterling to Manchester City.

Benteke still has two years left on his contract at Villa.

Christian Benteke's best goals for Aston Villa

England striker Daniel Sturridge made only 18 appearances for Liverpool last season because of a succession of injuries and is out until September with a hip problem.

Reds manager Brendan Rodgers is believed to want cover


as he seeks to re-establish his team in the Champions League, having finished sixth in the league last season.

Chief executive Ian Ayre is with Rodgers and his squad for the second leg of their pre-season tour in Brisbane, Australia, but is handling negotiations with Villa over the details of the deal.

It is understood personal terms between Benteke and Liverpool are a formality, although the Anfield club do not yet have permission to do the medical.

Rodgers said on Thursday that despite the departure of England forward Sterling, 20, Liverpool could still attract top players.

"Players are always going to want to come to Liverpool, it's such an iconic club, it's a great club," he said.

"The challenge for us is to get back in among the top teams, hopefully that continuesPrincess Tarinan von anhalt, whose late husband, Prince Jurgen von Anhalt, claimed lineage to the former German principality of Saxony, is an artist. Her work has been compared with that of expressionist Jackson Pollock, but instead of dripping paint on a canvas, she blasts it on, using the exhaust from your everyday business jet. She calls it “jet art.”

She’s painted with Gulfstreams, Citations, and Challengers. For Learjet’s 50th anniversary, she jet-arted the company colors on canvas using a brand-new Lear 45. She even jet-arts jeans.

Jet art takes months of preparation. After choosing the airport and getting approval, the princess and the royal production team cover the tarmac with drop cloth, build platforms, and arrange for the airplane and pilot. An audience of 50 to more than 300 invited


IRVINE, Calif. -- Sean McVay isn't just a first-year head coach; he's the youngest head coach in modern NFL history. He won't just be calling the Los Angeles Rams' offensive plays; he'll be looking to fix an offense that was the league's worst over the past two years. He isn't just taking over a floundering franchise; he's steering one that is still trying to establish itself in the nation's second largest media market. And now he doesn't know what to expect with his best player.

As if McVay didn't already have enough on his plate, he's also in the middle of a precarious situation with Aaron Donald, the Pro Bowl defensive tackle who wants a restructured contract and may or may not show up for the start of trainingspoken to Donald throughout the offseason and maintains that they have had "good dialogue," but wouldn't go into further detail. General manager Les Snead wouldn't, either, saying only that Donald's contract is "still a priority" and that the organization is "working to find a resolution."

McVay did a little bit of traveling during his off time. He took a family trip to Cabo San Lucas, then went to Barcelona and Paris with his girlfriend.

He tried his best to unplug.

"It was good to get away," McVay said. "But sometimes you get that playbook out ... and my family or my girlfriend's got to say, 'Hey, put that away. Why don't you relax a little bit?' But it's exciting to be able to be back and be around these players. This


in 2013 by the Harper Government as a bit of tough-on-crime virtue signalling at a time suburban voters were growing weary of the Conservatives’ counterproductive austerity and worried about their increasingly obvious hostility to science and sound environmental policy.

The target was supposedly activities like the large student demonstrations in Quebec the previous year and the G20 protests in Toronto the year before that, in which there were a few instances of violence. The large demonstrations presented, however, a much greater political threat to the kind of policies pushed by the Conservatives.

The 2011 Stanley Cup riot in Vancouver was also trotted out as an excuse, although very few participants in that violence wore masks.

With his policy emphasis on turning Canada into a petro-state, the foolishness of which is nowfully exposed, prime minister Stephen Harper was also doubtless seeking ways to suppress protests against pipeline megaprojects. He may have thought the iniquitous 10-year prison sentences included in the act might just do the trick.

A craven Liberal Party, then still the third party in Parliament and looking to shore up its appeal to soft Conservative voters in places like suburban Toronto and Montreal, went along with the charade. The New Democrats, Bloc Québécois and Parliament’s only Green stuck with democratic principles and voted no.

The law was unneeded — Section 351 of the Criminal Code includes the offence of disguise with intent to commit an indictable offence. Inconveniently from the Conservatives’ perspective, however, that law requires prosecutors to prove the masked person intended to commit a crime. In other


While standing sets have never been a big part of SUPERNATURAL, the show has had a few locations that have been used frequently over the years. Bobby’s house, of course, was one such location, before it was destroyed. In season 8, the show introduced the Men of Letters bunker, which has served as a home base for the Winchester brothers since its introduction. Originally just noted as a “concrete bunker” by the writers, the SUPERNATURAL design team created a stunning set, with two rooms serving as the focal point. Those two rooms, according to SUPERNATURAL Art Director John Marcynuk, are known as the “command center” (the room with the lit map table) and “the vault” (the room that serves as a research library).

“We got the call about aWests took a 19-7 lead into the halftime break.

Unlike the first half Wests started the second half in a hurry, showing their true potential as a 2012 John I Dent cup threat by extending their lead with relative ease.

Drew Southwell was a handful with a brace of tries on the wing, plus a Ben Coutts try only adding to Royals worries and giving Wests a commanding 26-7 lead.

Royals went back to basics by playing to their strengths in the forward pack, which paid dividends with tries to Joe Kolo and Paula Latu via their damaging pick and drive.

The scoreboard now read 26-17 and Royals were now playing with restored belief. However, when outside centre Junior Luteru sliced through the Royals defensive to score, all hopes of a comeback


in the Baltic Sea.

Sweden and India agree to deepen their innovation cooperation

Sweden and India today signed a joint innovation partnership to deepen the collaboration between the two countries and contribute to sustainable growth and new job opportunities. The partnership was signed in connection with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Stockholm.

The Prime Minister, together with the EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has invited to a social summit focusing on the promotion of Fair Jobs and growth, in Gothenburg on Friday 17 November. Heads of State and heads of Governments together with other EU-member ministers will be in place.Julian Assange has been barred from communicating with the outside world for more than three weeks. On March 27, the government of Ecuador blocked Assange’s internet access and barred him from receiving visitors other than his lawyers. Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, when Ecuador granted him asylum due to fears that his extradition to Sweden as part of a sexual assault investigation would result in his being sent to the U.S. for prosecution for his work with WikiLeaks. In January of this year, Assange formally became a citizen of Ecuador. As a result of Ecuador’s recent actions, Assange — long a prolific commentator on political debates around the world — has been silenced for more than three weeks, by a country that


why now? And why and how did the West succeed in convincing so many of its citizens that the movement for Catalan independence — which has been a source of internal conflict in Spain for years — was now suddenly fueled by a Kremlin plot with Putin as the puppet master? The answers provide a vivid example of how claims about “fake news,” Western propaganda, and disinformation can be used as a tactic for political manipulation. The circumstances leading to recent events extend beyond Julian Assange and understanding them requires background on political pressures in Spain, Ecuador, the United States, and the United Kingdom, and how these intersect with Assange’s case. The tensions between Ecuador and Assange center on the debate in Spain over Catalan independence. On Octoberarmed conflict. During peacetime, protected species from the park (predominantly elephant and buffalo) rarely appeared in the rural markets, but they comprised more than half of all bushmeat sales in the urban markets. This pattern reflected differences in the rural and urban commodity chains. Automatic weapons were urban trade. The use of such weapons was discouraged by the traditional chiefs, who administered the village markets. During wartime, the sales of protected species in the urban markets increased fivefold because the military officers fled, leaving behind an open-access system that led to a massive increase in the exploitation of protected species. In contrast, the rural markets remained relatively stable because of the continued authority of the village chiefs. Our results indicate that sociopolitical factors can be an important determinant


that individuals lose their family associations with their land, and also their connection to their history,” says Chris Brook, a lawyer for the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, which is also based in Durham.

While not all African-American land loss can be attributed to heirs’ property, it appears to be a contributing factor, according to advocacy groups and legal experts who have studied the issue. Heirs’ property is most common among people living in rural areas in the South. Moreover, about 80 percent of rural African-Americans do not have estate plans, the coalition estimates.

But the problem also crops up in other regions of the United States and in urban areas as well, according to Heather Way, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin and director ofBruce sold and purchased smaller parcels, adding more to the Freeman Beach estate before his death in 1902.

But Robert Bruce Freeman also fathered as many as 20 children—records are not clear on this—then died intestate. The children then passed their land to their heirs without the benefit of wills, resulting in multiple owners with multiple visions of what should be done with the land.

BOP CITY IN ITS HEYDAY

In the early part of the 20th century, the freeman family developed the beachfront as an oceanside tourist attraction. African-Americans traveled to Bop City from as far away as New York with their umbrellas and bathing suits in tow. In Sea Breeze, just across the Intracoastal Waterway, visitors danced in juke joints, ate in restaurants and caught ferries to Freeman Beach.

“People


that males are stranding more than females."

Harp seals breed in two regions, the northwestern Atlantic near eastern Canada, and the northwestern Atlantic near the tip of far western Russia. Pups are born on ice from late February until March and are then weaned within two weeks of birth. For the following four-week period, the babies live on the ice off their fat stores. It's only after this vulnerable ice-bound period that the seals, newly puffed with their soft white coats, are prepared to hunt on their own and migrate to summer mating grounds.

But that breeding ice is melting: Studies have projected that the Arctic’s ice may recede by as much as 20 percent by 2050, with summers being ice-free by 2037. A paper published last year in PLOSONE found that ice cover in all harp seal breeding regions is declining by as much as 6 percent per decade. As a result, since 1991 over 3,000 harp seals have been stranded along the East Coast from Maine to North Carolina, the authors report. In 2011 alone, five seals turned up in North Carolina and Virginia.

Now, scientists at Duke University have expanded previous research on seal strandings and melting ice cover to take into account biologic factors: Is one of the sexes more vulnerable to strandings than the other? Are strandings compromising genetic diversity, producing less fit seals that are in turn more susceptible to strandings?

"This is one of the first studies in this region to analyze multiple factors: sea ice, demographics, and genetics, said Kristina Cammen,


there was a significant correlation between stranding rates and both sex and age – a correlation that foretells ill for male seal pups.

During normal ice cover years, male and female seals were stranded in about equal number. In light ice years, the strandings increased for both sexes – but disproportionately so for the male seals.

That heightened rate of male seal strandings in light ice years could be related to young male seals being more exploratory than their female counterparts – less ice means that those infant explorations are more likely to go awry, said Soulen.

And young animals were also particularly vulnerable to strandings. In both normal and light ice years, younger seals were stranded at a higher rate than were adult seals, ending up tossed into the waterThe producer of this CD tells us that the music on the record was written in the 1970s and ‘80s. George Klabin, the producer, wanted to present this Brazilian music in a suitable mix of jazz and the sounds of Brazil and recruited Eddie Daniels to play clarinet, tenor sax with piano, bass, drums and a string quartet. Jazz musician Ted Nash was put in charge of arrangements on Daniels’ recommendation. Daniels plays soft focus, slightly smoky tenor sax on Agua e Vinho, a ballad that has gentle support from pianist Nelson and the strings. This tune would fit in with most jazz interpretations and is not particularly strong on Brazilian flavour. It is an attractive ballad reading though. Ciranda, which follows, is in much the same style,


lyrical tenor sax and sweeping strings.

The CD is sub-titled A Tribute To Egberto Gismonti the composer of all these tracks but he is far from a typical Brazilian writer. Not so much samba and bossa nova as music with elements of folk, classical, orchestral dance and world music. That said, Daniels’ clarinet and tenor sax excursions and the thrust of the rhythm section propel the tracks on this disc along with vigour and enthusiasm. Daniels plays improvised jazz solos, ballad styled lines over various string and straight ahead rhythm backings throughout. His playing is good throughout and the music is fascinating, slightly different to expectations but the jazz content is somewhat limited. Try Maracatu for example; this is more of a European classical recital than a jazz performance.ends.
The minute entries for the pertinent dates establish that on November 21, 2005, "evidence commenced on the Bifurcated Trial of this matter regarding Attorney Fees and Punitive Damages. Without completing introduction of evidence, this matter was laid over until Tuesday, November 22, 2005, at 9:30 a.m. for the introduction of additional evidence." On November 22, 2005, the minute entry states, "The Trial of the bifurcated case as to Attorney Fees and Punitive Damages was resumed. . . . Whereupon, by Stipulation of counsel and with the consent of the Court, telephone conference was fixed for Monday, November 28, 2005, at 9:15 a.m., at which time deadlines will be fixed for submission by either reassignment for hearing in Open Court or by way of Deposition."
On December 6, 2005, the


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We investigate complaints about fundraising where these cannot be resolved by the organisations themselves. We do so by considering whether the fundraising organisation has complied with the Code of Fundraising Practice (the code), which outlines the legal requirements and best practice expected of all charitable fundraising organisations across the UK.

We deal with complaints about fundraising in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and fundraising in Scotland where it is carried out by charities registered primarily with the Charity Commission for England and Wales or the Charity Commission for Northern Ireland.

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If a member of the public believes the fundraising organisation has made misleading or excessive requests for donations.

If a member of the public believes a fundraising organisation has been disrespectful or treated them unfairlydo,” said Ms. Hopkins, 34.

She and her husband, and the Journey Church where he is lead pastor, are part of a fast-growing evangelical Christian movement that promotes adoption as a religious and moral calling. Its supporters say a surge in adoptions by Christians has offered hope and middle-class lives to thousands of parentless or abandoned children from abroad and, increasingly, to foster children in the United States as well. Hundreds of churches have established “orphan ministries” that send aid abroad and help prospective parents raise the tens of thousands of dollars needed to adopt.


According to a report furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company made full payment of the settlement amount in June.

Although subject to court approval, the Company expressed optimism that it will receive the nod.

The suit was first filed in February 1996 against Adobe, certain of its officers and directors, certain former officers of Adobe and Frame Technology Corporation, Hambrecht Quist, LLP, investment banker for Frame, and certain employees, in connection with the drop in the price of Adobe stock following its announcement of financial results for the quarter ended December 1, 1995.

The complaint was filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of Santa Clara.

Adobe Systems, Inc. is the maker of Photoshop, Illustrator, and PageMaker, the leading desktop publishing software in the marketin the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of BSQUARE Corporation (Nasdaq: BSQR) securities during the period between October 19, 1999 and December 6, 2000, inclusive.

The complaint charges the following defendants with violations of Sections 11, 12(a) (2) and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder:

CACHEFLOW INC.: To Mount Vigorous Defense Against NY Securities Suits---------------------------------------------------------------------CacheFlow, Inc. announced recently that it would mount a vigorous defense against three securities suit currently pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

In a report to the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Company said it is a victim of a rash of lawsuits that


sleep disorder narcolepsy licensed from Laboratoire L. Lafon. It markets the drug in Australia, Ireland, the UK, and the US.

Cephalon's drug development activities focus on neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's disease and ALS (also known as Lou Gehrig's disease), as well as cancer and sleep disorders.

CHORDIANT SOFTWARE: Cauley Geller Commences Securities Suit In S.D. NY----------------------------------------------------------------------Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates, LLP filed a class action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Chordiant Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: CHRD) securities during the period between February 14, 2000 and December 6, 2000, inclusive.

The complaint charges the following defendants with violations of Sections 11, 12(a) (2) and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act ofreported.

The suit claims that the procedure violates certain constitutional rights and well-established law prohibiting strip-searches of adults charged with minor crimes, unless there is reasonable suspicion.

Lawyer Anthony Wallace, who represents the two girls who were strip-searched in the State's New Haven detention center, doesn't understand why the rules for children in the State is different.

The case is pending in the U.S. District Court in New Haven, seeking an injunction to have the practice stopped at the state's centers in New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport.

Hearing is scheduled for the fall.

CRITICAL PATH: Cauley Geller Begins Securities Suit In S.D. New York--------------------------------------------------------------------Cauley Geller Bowman & Coates, LLP filed a class action in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on behalf of purchasers of Critical Path,


to the payment of benefit contributions by retirees as a result of the cost caps implemented in the fall of 1993.

Benefit contributions had been delayed until January 1, 2000 pursuant to a moratorium negotiated with the United Rubber Workers of America (URW) and its successor, the United Steelworkers of America (USWA), as well as from savings generated by Plan sponsored networks.

A failure to pay contributions results in a termination of benefits.

The class representatives consist of three hourly retirees from theJeannette, Pennsylvania facility of OMNOVA Solutions Inc. (OMNOVA), the company spun-off from GenCorp on October 1, 1999 and one hourly retiree from GenCorp's former Akron tire plant.

The putative class encompasses all eligible hourly retirees formerly represented by the URW or USWA.

The Unions, however, are not party to the suit,(Nasdaq: INAP) between September 29, 1999 and December 6, 2000, inclusive.

The suit names as defendants InterNAP, certain of its officers and directors, and its underwriters.

The complaint alleges that defendants violated the federal securities laws by issuing and selling InterNAP common stock pursuant to the September 29, 1999 IPO without disclosing to investors that some of the underwriters in the offering, including the lead underwriters, had solicited and received excessive and undisclosed commissions from certain investors.

NETWORK PLUS: Wolf Haldenstein Files Securities Suit In S.D. New York---------------------------------------------------------------------Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of purchasers of Network Plus Corporation (Nasdaq: NPLS) between June 29, 1999 and December 6, 2000, inclusive.

The


suit names the following as defendants: Network Plus, certain of its officers and directors, and its underwriters.

The complaint alleges that defendants violated the federal securities laws by issuing and selling Network Plus common stock pursuant to the June 29, 1999 IPO without disclosing to investors that some of the underwriters in the offering, including the lead underwriters, had solicited and received excessive and undisclosed commissions from certain investors.

The case is pending in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division.

The complaint charges defendants with violations of sections 10(b) and 20(a) the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder.

For more information, contact: Linda Flood, Director of Shareholder Relations at Bernstein Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP by Mail: 10 East 40th Street, NewYork, New York 10016 by Phone: (800) 217-1522 or 212-779-1414 or by E-mail: PSSI@bernlieb.com

RHYTHMS NETCONNECTIONS: Schiffrin Barroway Commences Suit In S.D. NY--------------------------------------------------------------------Schiffrin & Barroway, LLP filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of all purchasers of the common stock of Rhythms Netconnections, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: RTHM) from April 6, 1999 through December 6, 2000, inclusive.

In a report that came out in the Class Action Reporter last Friday, five present or former customers of the Rogers@Home Internet provider filed the suit in Ontario, alleging that the Company agreed to provide unlimited access to the Internet and did not give refunds or credits when that service was interrupted.

The National Post said Rogers Cable President and CEO


class action lawsuit in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on behalf of all purchasers of Sipex Corp. (Nasdaq:SIPX) common stock between July 20, 2000 and January 11, 2001, inclusive.

The complaint charges defendants with violations of federal securities laws by, among other things, issuing a series of materially false and misleading press releases concerning Sipex's financial condition and business prospects.

SOLECTRON CORPORATION: Welcomes Dismissal Of Federal Securities Suits---------------------------------------------------------------------Solectron Corporation celebrated victory over its legal battles as a federal court in California dismissed with prejudice six federal securities suits against a subsidiary.

The Class Action Reporter learned from a latest regulatory document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that subsidiary involved was SMART Modular Technologies, Inc.

The suits had been pending in the U.S. District Court forState of California, County of Alameda.

It alleges violations of Sections 25400 and 25500 of the California Corporations Code and seeks unspecified damages on behalf of a purported class of purchasers of SMART common stock during the period from July 1, 1997 through May 21, 1998.

The factual allegations of the State complaint are nearly identical to the factual allegations contained within the federal complaint.

On February 22, 1999, the Superior Court granted SMART's motion to stay the state action pending resolution of the federal action.

SONY CORPORATION: Only 55 Of 98 Suits Opposed To FTC Deal Prospered-------------------------------------------------------------------Sony Music Entertainment, Inc. announced recently that of the 98 purported class actions arising from a May 2000 agreement reached by the Company with the Federal Trade Commission, only 55 proceeded to the federal courts.

The


handed the decision earlier last week, according to the Naples Daily News.

Along with Southwin Inc., the developer of the housing project, builder Tripp Construction, Inc. will share the burden of paying the award.

Hurricane Andrew ravaged Florida in 1992.

Following the calamity, many homes were marketed to hurricane victims. Later, buyers complained of widespread water leaks and found unbraced roofs, use of inferior lumber and loose anchor bolts that are designed to hold the walls to the foundation.

UNDERWRITERS LITIGATION: Milberg Weiss Sues Goto.com IPO Underwriters---------------------------------------------------------------------Milberg Weiss Announces Class Action Suit Against Six Underwriters in Connection with the Initial Public Offering of Goto.com, Inc.Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP filed late last week a class action lawsuit, on behalf of purchasers of the securities of Goto.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOTO) betweencertain of Westell's officers and directors in the Court of Chancery for the State of Delaware, New Castle County.

Certain of the officers and directors of Westell were also named in another derivative action filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging that the defendants made false and misleading statements and omissions, misappropriated corporate information, and breached their fiduciary duties to Westell's shareholders.

In addition, certain of the officers and directors of Westell were named in a derivative action filed in the Circuit Court of Kane County,Illinois.

Westell Technologies, through subsidiary Westell, Inc., makes equipment that bridges the gap between the newer fiber-optic infrastructure and the "last mile" of existing copper wire networks.

The company's modems, routers, and other products use DSL technology to enable high-speed


last day of work was January 19, 1995, after which she says she could no longer perform her duties because of a mental disability. With the assistance of counsel, plaintiff submitted in November 1996 a long term disability benefits application to First UNUM Life Insurance Company (First UNUM). First UNUM was under contract with defendant ChoiceCare Long Island Long Term Disability Plan (Plan) to "pay the benefits" provided in a group long term disability policy covering ChoiceCare Long Island employees.

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First UNUM denied plaintiff's claim as untimely filed. In a letter to plaintiff's counsel dated January 29, 1997 the insurance company cited the policy's proof of claim provision, which states that proof must be given "no later than 90 days after the end of the elimination period" or "asabsent such a request, the "claims decision will be final."

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By letter dated April 11, 1997 plaintiff's counsel asked for review. The parties agree this letter was ten days late. First UNUM denied the appeal in a May 29, 1997 letter, upholding its original decision with respect to the untimeliness of plaintiff's proof of claim, and noting "[a]dditionally" that the request for review was also untimely.

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Plaintiff commenced the instant litigation in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Hurley, J.) on June 29, 1998. Pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., Chapman sought in her complaint (1) a declaratory judgment that from January 19, 1995 she was continuously disabled under the Plan's provisions and


difficulties led to the delay in filing the request. As succinctly stated in the attorney affidavit, plaintiff's counsel "had significant questions as to whether or not we could effectively represent Ms. Chapman because of her inability to participate in, and cooperate with our representation of her — an inability which was caused solely by her severe psychiatric condition." Once their doubts were resolved, they "immediately requested an appeal" of the denial of benefits.

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Support for counsel's assertions is not limited solely to the attorneys' affirmations. Rather, the claims are accompanied by exhibits containing a variety of evaluations of plaintiff. In January 1997 a clinical psychologist who had been seeing plaintiff for about a year described her as "severely depressed" and "distrusting of most everyone's motives." In overwhelming situations, Chapmanis said to become paralyzed with fear that leaves her either unable to think clearly or overcome by an intense, uncontrollable anger. Prior to working for ChoiceCare Long Island, Chapman was employed by a physician for six years. In September 1996 this doctor wrote that plaintiff had been "more or less out of control" for the previous four months and claimed she was "outrageous on the phone and totally unreachable." According to other exhibits, plaintiff was hospitalized for deep depression in October 1995. She was again hospitalized in February 1996. On January 24, 1997 — five days prior to First UNUM's rejection of her claim for benefits — Chapman was admitted following an attempted suicide due to depression and high levels of frustration. Following a psychological examination in


Lake death being investigated as homicide

Police have tentatively identified the young woman found dead Tuesday in Lake Ballinger, but are not releasing her name until a scientific identification has been made.

The death is being investigated as a homicide until evidence suggests otherwise, Mountlake Terrace police detective Douglas Hansen said.

Witnesses called police about 10:35 a.m. to the Ballinger boat ramp at 23500 Lakeview Drive. At first, witnesses thought it was a mannequin. An Edmonds police dive team and firefighters helped pull the body from the water, police reported.

The woman looks to be in her teens or early 20s, with long dark hair. Her naval and skin below her lower lip were pierced, and she had a tattoo on her inner right ankle. She wore a black Russell brand hoodedRunway 9C/27C in November 2020.

A380 Service to O’HareThe committee was presented with a footprint of the A380 several years ago when the plane was put into service at other airports. O’Hare International Airport welcomed the arrival of British Airway’s Airbus A380 on May 4, 2018. It is the world’s largest passenger aircraft in operation to Chicago. It was the start of the first regularly scheduled A380 service, now offered daily between Chicago and London. The flight can accommodate 469 passengers in four cabins and two full decks. A new gate to accommodate the Group IV aircraft has been added to Terminal 5.

Tours and WorkshopsCDA staff will conduct an Airport 101 Workshop on June 15, 2018 at the administration building at 9:30 a.m. and host an O’Hare Airfield Tour


election campaign is heating up. A number of political figures have registered their candidacies, and more are expected to follow suit. Accompanying ramped up election activity in Ukraine is an increase in unwanted Russian...

In the run-up to the March 2019 Ukrainian Presidential Election, we will keep an eye on Ukrainian- and Russian-language news articles referencing reported cyber attacks that could affect political stability in Ukraine. Here are some translated highlights from recent Russian-language news articles from the Ukrainian and Russian press. From the Ukrainian press: Lithuanian President...

On December 26, 2018, at the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, President Poroshenko announced the end of martial law and confirmed that the presidential election will be held as scheduled. According to Ukrainian legislation, the presidential elections in theBritain’s Prince Andrew regaled a bevy of media heavyweights at billionaire Jeffrey Epstein‘s Upper East Side townhouse the other night when he told of the royal family’s joy over Prince William‘s upcoming wedding to Kate Middleton — and the glamorous guests asked for invitations.

Andrew was quizzed by guests including Katie Couric, George Stephanopoulos, Charlie Rose, Woody Allen and Chelsea Handler at the dinner thrown by Epstein, the disgraced former hedge fund manager who is old friends with Prince Andrew.

Our source said, “Most of the talk started off about trade and industry, but by dessert, everybody couldn’t hold back and asked him about the wedding.

“Andrew said the Queen and the royal family are delighted, Kate is a terrific girl, but they were all expecting the announcement since she and


Out of Nowhere (Lee Konitz and Paul Bley album)

Out of Nowhere is an album by American jazz saxophonist Lee Konitz and pianist Paul Bley recorded in 1997 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label.

Critical reception

Scott Yanow of Allmusic said "When Konitz solos on these seven veteran standards, Bley plays fairly straightforwardly, but when it is time for the piano solos, Bley stretches himself and shows why he was considered one of the earliest free stylists. ... Konitz was always a very open improviser, so this combination works quite well". On All About Jazz, Jim Santella noted "Konitz and Bley are unique artists with a sound few can copy, who stroll easily between avant-garde and straight-ahead standards. Recommended".

Track listing
 "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Doncurrent flows axially of the tubular member within the wall thereof so as to create a magnetic field, the lines of flux of which extend circumferentially about the tubular member in an orientation substantially perpendicular to the tubular member. The presence of structural flaws or anomalies in the wall of the tubular member, such as surface nicks or pits, cracks, voids, or various crystalline discontinuities, disturbs the uniformity of a magnetic field in the wall of the tubular member. Accordingly, the structural integrity of the tubular member and its relative freedom of such flaws may be inspected by sensing and detecting the magnetic field variations with sensors disposed closely adjacent the surface of the tubular member.
The sensing of variations in a magnetic field in a pipe wall is


the nation, requires districts to “include instruction on the political, economic, and social contributions of persons with disabilities and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, in an appropriate place in the curriculum of middle school and high school students as part of the district’s implementation of the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.”

California has had such a law on the books since 2012, though the curriculum didn’t appear in schools until the state approved teaching materials in 2017. Conservative groups attempted to stop the law, but failed to get enough signatures to force a referendum.

This year, Colorado and Illinois added laws with text similar to that of New Jersey; Colorado’s law included funding for the 2019-20 school year; Illinois’s is set to go into effect July 1. New YorkCity just implemented its own LGBTQ-inclusive curriculum this fall (where little backlash has been reported), and the state has a bill currently in committee. Six states (Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina) prohibit teachers from any discussions about LGBT issues.

In part, the New Jersey law was passed to reduce the incidence of bullying in schools. According to the 2017 National School Climate Survey, almost 80 percent of LGBTQ students feel unsafe at school due to their sexual orientation, causing them to miss school and avoid school bathrooms and locker rooms. About a third regularly hear homophobic and anti-transgender comments (both from other students and school staff) and more than half report being sexually harassed at school.

Jon Oliveira, director of communications and membership at nonprofit advocacy group


Gold Cup makes for a crowded homecoming for Galaxy's Gonzalez

Omar Gonzalez, right, celebrates with teammate Jozy Altidore following a U.S. goal against Honduras during a World Cup qualifying match on June 18.

Omar Gonzalez, right, celebrates with teammate Jozy Altidore following a U.S. goal against Honduras during a World Cup qualifying match on June 18. (George Frey / Getty Images)

Kevin Baxter

ARLINGTON, Texas — Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez was born in Dallas but he never set foot in Cowboys Stadium, the palatial $1.3-billion home of the Dallas Cowboys, until Tuesday when he arrived with the rest of the U.S. national soccer team to check out the place ahead of Wednesday's Gold Cup semifinal with Honduras.

Suffice it to say Gonzalez was impressed.

But there will be more to the homecoming than atour of the stadium. Gonzalez will be playing Wednesday in front of countless friends and family members who have never seen him in a U.S. national team jersey.

And when we say "countless friends and family members" that's not just a figure of speech. Even Gonzalez has lost track.

"I grew up here," he said. "You want me to count them for you?"

After playing in June's World Cup qualifiers, Gonzalez, along with many regulars, was left off the U.S. roster for the Gold Cup, giving Coach Juergen Klinsmann a chance to audition a new group of players. But when teams were allowed to call up four new players after the group stage, Gonzalez was summoned for the semifinals.

"I always knew that it was a maybe," Gonzalez said. "And when I


did get the call I was just really happy. It didn't take me by total surprise."

But if Wednesday's game will mark Gonzalez's first at Cowboys Stadium, it won't mark his first game in a stadium the Cowboys called home. As a teen Gonzalez played a high school football game at Texas Stadium, the Cowboys' former field.

He was, predictably, the team's kicker.

"Representing the U.S. here is going to be fantastic," he said. "I'm just here willing to do anything to get the win.

"To be able to play here, in this new stadium, with the national team, is going to be extremely special."Is Channing Tatum going for Father of the Year award or what? In an adorable photo, the White House Down actor arrived at LAX airport en route to Vancouver with wife Jenna Dewan-Tatum on Sunday, July 7, holding their newborn baby daughter, Everly, in a sling.

Wearing white flip flops, gray sweat shorts and a gray long-sleeved shirt, the first-time dad cradled little Everly, who was presumably sleeping in the sling tied around the actor's back and shoulder. He carefully shielded the newborn's face with a white and pink blanket as he waited on the airport security line.

Nearby was new mom Dewan-Tatum, wearing sunglasses and a fedora. With her hubby on dad duty, the Step Up star had her hands full with their Japanese Spitz, Meeka.

At the New York


premiere of his new movie in June, Tatum, 33, revealed just how "terrifying" fatherhood was so far.

Asked which is more terrifying -- protecting the president or being a new dad -- he laughed, then said: "Well, I've never protected the president, but I have been a new dad, and I can tell you that being a new dad is pretty terrifying. I'm pretty sure that something about the president makes the stakes a little higher, but to me as a new father, nothing is more important or scary than protecting a daughter."

The Magic Mike star and his actress wife, 32, welcomed their new bundle of joy on May 31 in London. On Father's Day, the couple posted their first family photo with Everly on their Facebook pages. "Firstunderreported due to the focus on the wall and the government shutdown.

The American Medical Association and the American College of Emergency Physicians believe gun violence should be treated as a Public Health Emergency requiring a Public Health Response. I agree with that assertion, having personally witnessed and experienced the pain and suffering of gun violence in an inner-city trauma center.

Fourteen years ago, I was shot and nearly killed walking into a television station in Michigan...a place where I was once employed. A young man with no criminal record, but a severe mental illness, pulled a stolen firearm out of his pocket and shot me point blank.

What followed was living nightmare, a nightmare I share with an estimated 200 people a day who will be shot in America. I


Bipartisan bill before Congress (H.B. 8) that would require background checks on all gun sales.

Poll after poll have demonstrated that the vast majority of Americans, including gun owners, support Criminal Background Checks on all gun sales, yet our local legislators like Representative Mark Meadows, and Senators Thom Tillis and Richard Burr seem to be more interested in their NRA rating than public sentiment. The Center for Responsive Politics found Tillis and Burr are in the top three to receive NRA donations among the 535 members in Congress.

A year ago, a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida took the lives of 17 students and staff members, the deadliest high school shooting in our country’s history. That tragic event sparked a student-led march, and a                 OPINION OF THE COURT
                           ____________

HUTCHINSON, Circuit Judge.

          Appellant, Beazer East, Inc. ("Beazer"), appeals an

order of the United States District Court for the Western

District of Pennsylvania dismissing Beazer's claims for indemnity

and contribution.   Beazer claimed appellee, The Mead Corporation

("Mead"), was bound by a promise to pay Beazer all or part of

Beazer's response costs on a Comprehensive Environmental Response

Compensation and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C.A. § 9601-9675 (West

1983 & Supp. 1994) ("CERCLA"), cleanup of a site Beazer's

predecessor had


acquired from Mead's predecessor.   Instead, the
district court granted summary judgment to Mead on Mead's

counterclaim for indemnity from Beazer against Mead's response

costs.   In doing so, the district court adopted a United States

Magistrate Judge's report and recommendation ("Magistrate Judge's

Report").   The magistrate judge had concluded that Mead was a

responsible party for purposes of CERCLA but that the asset

purchase agreement ("Agreement") under which Beazer had acquired

the site of the contaminated facility, the Woodward Facility Coke

Plant (the "Woodward Facility" or "Coke Plant"), required Beazer

to indemnify Mead against CERCLA liability.   The magistrate judge

reasoned that a provision for indemnification in a contract that

predates CERCLA's enactment will govern the responsibility of the

contracting parties inter se for payment of CERCLA cleanup costs

if the indemnification or release provision is a        Mead's predecessor, the Woodward Corporation, operated

the Woodward Facility as a coke and coke-by products

manufacturing facility from 1905 until 1968.    In 1968, the

Woodward Iron Company merged with Mead.    Mead, in turn, operated

the Coke Plant until 1974, when it sold the facility and

surrounding land to Beazer's predecessor, Koppers Company, Inc.

("KCI").    KCI purchased the Coke Plant under the Agreement in

question.    Paragraph 4 of the Agreement provides that KCI, as

buyer, or its successors, will assume certain agreements and

liabilities. It reads:
          As of the Closing Date, Buyer shall assume
          and agree to perform:


Vilvam – The Wonder Herb

Vilvam or Aegle marmelos commonly known as Bael is considered to be the most sacred plant in India. It is an inevitable part of religious rituals and has been used in ancient Indian medicines Siddha and Ayurveda from ages. Vilvam is native to India and is found throughout the country. The plant is commonly known as Bael, Bilva, Stone Apple or wood apple. Vilvam is its Tamil name.

Vilvam is a wonder plant with every single part filled with medicinal qualities. Apart from being a delicious summer fruit it is being used in ancient Indian medicines from time immemorial. Vilvam is the single known member of monotypic genus Aegle. It is a slender, aromatic gum bearing tree which grows up to 18 meters in height.It has tannins which help relieve diarrhoea, cholera and other digestive disorders.

Vilvam has anti oxidant properties as well due to which it helps remove toxins from body and improve overall metabolism.

Vilvam is anti-inflammatory in nature and hence it is highly effective in both chronic and acute inflammation. Vilvam leaf paste applied on the inflamed part provides quick relief from inflammation.

A concoction of Vilvam leaves with salt and carom is found to be highly effective in curing allergies caused by food products. The said combination is also known to relieve skin allergies.

Vilvam leaves have phytochemicals which help maintain blood pressure. It has soothing effect on body and hence a fine paste of Vilvam leaves applied on forehead relieves headache.

Vilvam is also known for its property to regulate thyroid secretion


Una ventana abierta al mundo político y social

Looking for a global growth strategy? Support refugees

Viernes, 02/Oct/2015Jim Yong KimThe Washington Post

Syrian refugees arrive at the island of Lesbos, Greece last month. (Petros Giannakouris/AP)

I am a migrant. In 1964, I came to the United States from South Korea, then an extremely poor developing country that most experts, including those at the World Bank, had written off as having little hope for economic growth.

My family moved to Texas, and later to Iowa. I was just 5 years old when we arrived, and my brother, sister and I spoke no English. Most of our neighbors and classmates had never seen an Asian before. I felt like a resident alien in every sense of the term.

Over time, my family integrated into our adoptedRepugs and the Black Vote

The Republican Party is struggling with its future. Will it be a regional, Congressional party fighting a last-gasp battle for a shrinking base in a David and Goliath war against ominously expanding federal government? Or will it become a national, presidential party capable of adapting to a new American reality of diversity and expression in which the government serves an essential function in regulating public safety, providing a safety net and serving as a safeguard against discrimination?

Senator Rand Paul is trying to find a balance between the two. The same week that a dozen defiant senators threatened to filibuster any new gun control legislation, Paul ventured across Washington to historically black Howard University and gave a speech aimed at outreach and bridge building.

The man


is mulling a presidential run after all.

The speech was a dud. It was a clipped-tail history lesson praising the civil rights record of the pre-Southern Strategy Republican Party, while slamming the concurrent record of the Democrats.

It completely ignored the past generation of egregious and willful acts of insensitivity by the G.O.P. toward the African-American community.

During the speech Paul asked, rhetorically and incredulously:

“How did the party that elected the first black U.S. Senator, the party that elected the first 20 African-American Congressmen, how did that party become a party that now loses 95 percent of the black vote? How did the Republican Party, the party of the Great Emancipator, lose the trust and faith of an entire race? From the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement, for aelectricity supply will be affected by climate change events.

In addition to vulnerability, the country's readiness to deal with climate change is assessed. Scores are given to three contributors - economic readiness, governance and social readiness. Economic readiness assesses the capability of the country's business environment to adapt to climate change. The governance score rates political stability, corruption control and the rule of law and social readiness captures factors such as social inequality, education and innovation in the country.

Using a formula devised by the Notre Dame team, the vulnerability and readiness scores are combined to give an overall score, the ND-Gain Index. The good news is that New Zealand scores spectacularly well. In 8 of the last 10 years New Zealand has ranked second best in the world. In


contributor to the vulnerability score called,"ecosystem service". This assesses the projected change in distribution of large areas to climate change – these areas are defined by soils, vegetation, marine biodiversity and ecological footprint.

New Zealand ranks a rather lowly 125th place in this and also does poorly in its human habitation score – 102nd place. Human habitation captures issues such as vulnerability to flood hazards and how urban development and transport infrastructure will be affected by the consequences of climate change.

Disturbingly, the analysis highlights the huge vulnerability and woeful readiness of the lowest scoring countries, Eritrea (179), Chad (180) and the Central African Republic (181).

These countries have a combination of factors such as geographically being located directly in the firing line of on-going desertification, dire water shortage and fractiousQueen sweat bees 'choose' the role of their daughters, according to a new study published in BioMed Central's open access journal Frontiers in Zoology. The amount of food provided for the developing larvae determines whether the daughter becomes a worker or a new queen.

The sweat bee Halictus scabiosae are a primitive eusocial insect. Eusocial insects have a hierarchical society with a division of labor between reproductive queens and males, and workers. However for H. scabiosae all the adults have retained the ability to reproduce, although their role in the nest may preclude active reproduction.

Foundresses, large queen bees which have survived the winter, set up a new nest in spring. The first generation of offspring are usually smaller bodied female workers, which then help the queen in raising the


Post-Travel Consultations in a Regional Hub City Hospital, Japan.
To clarify the characteristics of post-travel consultation services in Japan, particularly in the provinces, we analyzed our post-travel patients in the travel clinic of Kurume University Hospital located in Kurume City (a regional hub City in southwestern Japan). Sixty post-travel patients visited our clinic between April 2008 and October 2014 and participated in this study: 55 were Japanese and five were foreign. We summarized and compared the characteristics of the patients after dividing the Japanese participants into long-term travelers (>14 days) and short-term travelers (≤14 days). The foreign travelers were described in a separate analysis. Of the 55 Japanese travelers, the mean age (± standard deviation) was 37.3 ± 16.3 years, and 36 patients (65%) were men. Southeast Asia wasnew patrol boats to the Philippines is another encouraging sign that outside powers are seeking to right the regional balance of power.

Second, the United States should encourage the development of a region-wide effort to keep track of China’s maritime forces. Unmanned aerial systems, for instance, could furnish a common picture of the nautical domain on a more-or-less permanent basis to coastal states surrounding the South China Sea. By tapping into such technologies, an information sharing arrangement that make Asian waters both figuratively and literally more transparent would go a long way to shore up regional confidence and deterrence. It is worth noting that Tokyo has been doing a signal service on behalf of the region by publicly reporting detailed accounts of Chinese naval transits through international straits and


A network of players alert to Beijing’s maneuvers stands a far better chance of deterring, and, failing that, reacting more quickly to Chinese actions. The United States, for its part, would provide a strategic backstop to Southeast Asian partners with low-profile, small-footprint military assets that pack a punch and serve as potent symbols of American commitment to the region.

Raising the costs of—and risks to—Chinese assertiveness in the South China Sea would complicate Beijing’s calculus while inclining Chinese leaders to think twice before they act. Inducing Chinese caution, moreover, would apply a brake to Beijing’s momentum at sea, brightening the prospects for restoring equilibrium to the region and for retaking the strategic initiative.

Toshi Yoshihara holds the John A. van Beuren Chair of Asia-Pacific Studies at the U.S. Naval WarBrandon Knight is entering his second year with the Bucks. Credit: Gary Porter

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St. Francis — He's a workout warrior, a young player on a mission to improve.

So please excuse Milwaukee Bucks guard Brandon Knight if he isn't getting caught up in talk about a potential contract extension.

Entering his fourth year in the NBA and his second in Milwaukee, Knight is eligible to sign an extension until Oct. 31. If no agreement is reached the 6-foot-3 point guard would become a restricted free agent next summer.

Bucks general manager John Hammond indicated initial discussions are taking place between the team and Knight's agent, Arn Tellem.

Knight is emerging as a team leader before his 23rd birthday and he vows that will not change, regardless of the outcome


elite point guards and he mentioned Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook as a prime example.

"He doesn't play the game similar to any guard," Knight said. "He's at full speed and will shoot at 20 in the shot clock. He's aggressive. He might call a play, but he might still try to score."

Knight said his defense is better due to familiarity with the players he is going against and his improved strength.

He studied film for hours during the summer while also getting in top shape. In August the Bucks released a video of Knight making a 60-inch box jump, an impressive piece of athleticism.

"I don't like to broadcast what I do," Knight said. "This is an everyday thing for me."

Knight spent five or six hours in the gym on Tuesdaywhen the Bucks opened camp with a pair of practices. He said he is eager to lend guidance to some of the team's young players.

"I definitely don't have a problem being vocal," Knight said. "I know I have the respect of all the guys."

A hamstring injury hampered him in the preseason last fall, and he suffered a hamstring injury in the opposite leg in the first 2 minutes of the season opener in New York.

"All I need is 5 minutes, and that will be better than last year," Knight said of his Bucks debut. "The first time I touched the basketball, it was done. It will be better this year."

Kidd said the coaching staff "is very confident on him being the point guard" although there still may be


ECNL in Depth - Part I

AUTHOR'S NOTE: The Soccer Wire recently held wide-ranging conversations with several of the Elite Clubs National League's most prominent coaches and executives. This is the first installment in a three-part series profiling the ambitious league.

Formed just three years ago to give top girls’ club programs more high-level competition and quality versus quantity in games, the Elite Clubs National League is already, in some ways, “light years ahead” of where its organizers thought it would be when it started.

The challenge, according to ECNL president Christian Lavers, is how to continue to grow and improve the league in programming and platforms without diminishing the quality of the play, or reducing the high-level impact on the elite player.

Lavers, along with Douglas Bracken and Jason Dewhurst, satdown recently with The Soccer Wire to talk about the league’s growth and the challenges that lie ahead. Lavers is an attorney who also serves as FC Milwaukee’s technical director and ECNL director, and executive vice president at U.S. Club Soccer. Bracken is ECNL vice president and director of coaching for Ohio Elite Soccer Academy, and Dewhurst is ECNL secretary and director of coaching for FC Stars of Massachusetts.

ECNL, a nationwide league sanctioned through U.S. Club Soccer which now counts 66 member clubs, came about in earnest from a meeting of the minds with Lavers and Bracken at the 2009 NSCAA Convention in St. Louis after meetings about the previous Red Bull National League, which Bracken said had stagnated.

That project started with 12 clubs initially, and grew to


of securing the right clubs to kick off the first season began. Many of the clubs that had been involved with the Red Bull league formed the nucleus, but more were needed.

“We just started pulling in the key clubs that we knew needed to champion the cause,” Bracken said.

Shortly after, they held a meeting with invited clubs in Las Vegas, in which a five-year plan was presented, with year one being just to have league games all be competed in conjunction with existing high-end college showcase tournaments, most of which were already being hosted by ECNL member clubs.

Teams in the league showed up at the events as they might have on their own anyway, but played only other ECNL teams, and under the league's own competition rules –with "no player reentry per half" one of the major differences from traditional youth play right from the start.

Games were limited to one per day, and instead of a tournament championship being the concern – where a team that might have already qualified for the finals after two of three group games might rest their best players – every goal and every result went into a national standings table for the seasonal year across all the events.

With just nine games from three events the first year, the plan was always to expand the number of games and the competition would expand in size.

“Originally, it was [expected to take] five years to get to the full model,” Bracken said.

Forty clubs signed on for year one, the 2009-2010 season, with


the national events standing leading to a championship held in Seattle for the Under-15 through U-17 age groups.

The following year, the ECNL added 12 more clubs and extended play to the U-18 age group so the inaugural year's U-17s had a place to play, and a shot at a true national championship, before heading off to college. Now, in year three, the league is up to 66 clubs and playing a full, 30-game calendar of nothing but ECNL games, and has also added a U-14 classification.

Along the way, the league has implemented player identification tools and has been working with U.S. soccer staff to find and groom elite talent. As part of the league model, all of its clubs are required to scout league games to identify itsbest players, information which is put into a U.S. Soccer-accessible database.

Last year, that scouting lead to an all-expenses-paid ID camp in Florida, from which a select team of girls born in 1994 and 1995 was chosen to head to England – again, all expenses paid – for a series of games to test their mettle and gain experience that would help them in the future. The ECNL girls played top reserve teams from the United Kingdom’s professional women's league and the competition wasn't even close, as they scored 18 goals while allowing just three, in three dominating victories.


adidas Originals Torsion Court Strategy

We often accociate classic adidas Torsion sneakers with running, but it's been seen across categories. And while this edition may feature a Lakers-style colorway, but the shoe was made for a different type of court. The Torsion Court Strategy is the latest retro tennis silhouette, in a summer that's seen a resurgence in the category. On the heels of the success of the Stan Smith and Air Tech Challange II, can this one keep the momentum going?At least 36 people were dead and 147 others injured following a terrorist attack at an international airport in Istanbul, and all signs point to ISIS as being responsible, according to Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim.

The attack drew swift condemnation from officials in Turkey as well as the White House.

"The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms today’s heinous terrorist attack at Istanbul’s Ataturk International Airport in Turkey, which appears to have killed and injured dozens," said a statement from White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. "We remain steadfast in our support for Turkey, our NATO Ally and partner, along with all of our friends and allies around the world, as we continue to confront the threat of terrorism."

According to Yildirim, three attackers carrying weapons arrived in


a taxi to Ataturk airport, one of the world's busiest aviation hubs. Further details about the attack were not immediately available.

Foreign nationals and police officers were among the wounded, according to Yildirim. Saudi Arabia's Embassy in Turkey said at least seven Saudis were injured in the attack and all are in stable condition.

Yildirim also insisted there was no security lapse at the airport.

The airport has since been reopened, and flights between the U.S. and Istanbul have resumed. Airports in the United States have beefed up security in the wake of the attack, around 10 p.m. local time, a busy time for the airport, with flights arriving from Europe and leaving for the Persian Gulf and other parts of the region.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a statement condemningthe attack that "has no objective." The president also said the attack shows "terrorism strikes with no regard for faith and values," since it occurred during the holy month of Ramadan.

"We expect the international community, especially the Western countries including their administrations, parliaments, media organs and civil societies, to take a firm stand against terrorism," Erdogan said.

The attack comes one day after the U.S. State Department updated its travel warning for Turkey, advising that "foreign and U.S. tourists have been explicitly targeted by international and indigenous terrorist organizations" and mentioning "aviation services" along with other targets for extremists. In March the U.S. ordered the departure of family members of U.S. government personnel posted to the U.S. Consulate in Adana and family members of U.S. government civilians in Izmir


province through July 26, 2016.

Turkey is one of the main European tourist destinations for Americans. A total of 181,298 U.S. tourists have arrived in Turkey so far this year, with 60,000 arriving last month alone.

All U.S. Chief of Mission personnel have been accounted for, according to the U.S. State Department, and the government is "making every effort to account for the welfare of U.S. citizens in the city."

Video posted to Instagram shows chaos inside an airport store as people took shelter following the attack.

A photo posted to Twitter shows a deserted arrivals terminal inside the airport.

Turkey has been dealing with multiple security threats from the Kurdish separatist group the PKK, as well as ISIS.

Earlier this month, a car bomb attack on a police bus killed seven officers andfour civilians in central Istanbul. Today's attack was the fifth major one so far this year in the city, Turkey's largest.

Get real-time updates as this story unfolds. To start, just "star" this story in ABC News' phone app. Download ABC News for iPhone here or ABC News for Android here.


Jack was at home typing away at his computer. He was just going about his daily routine as he did, checking emails and his social media sites to see what was going on while he was away from them. That would be until he found himself unable to type much of...anything! As a matter of fact he didn't have fingers or hands, only hooves! Looking down he saw that he was covered in brown fur and looking up he saw antlers sticking out of the top of his head. He was suddenly a deer person.

He had no idea how it happened and he looked around, spotting his best friend Debbie holding a camera with a devious smirk. "I know how smart you are so yes, I did doLooking around, Jack curious looked at the size of it, and since it was his size, he tried it on. He had to admit she was quite cozy! That's when another thought crossed him.

Jack went over to the mirror and took a picture to see what would happen if a transformed subject was being worn and took a picture of an transformed. The answer was not pretty as Jack shrank into the sweater that had turned into a towel as a snail. The other issue? The camera was on the counter. Jack had to figure out how to get up there and get enough force to push the snap button down, all while making sure he was in frame.

He took the snail equivalent of a deep breath and


began to slow climb up the side of the counter in an attempt to get up to it. While it took getting used to, he was able to propel himself steadily though still having the sense of time as a human would it felt like forever...because that's exactly how long it took to get up there!

That took a lot out of Jack, but the relief of using an eye (which admittedly hurt) and managing to click the camera was great...the aftermath was not. He had turned into a gumball which fell down to the ground and rolled into the backside of the door. Not only that, the camera fell to the ground, but luckily snapped a picture of the napkin that was Debbie as she became a smalldevelop memories, experiments suggest a significant number of people do, and will actively defend the existence of the events, even if told they were false and deliberately implanted. Questions about the possibility of false memories created an explosion of interest in suggestibility of human memory and resulted in an enormous increase in the knowledge about how memories are encoded, stored and recalled, producing pioneering experiments such as the lost in the mall technique. In Roediger and McDermott's (1995) experiment, subjects were presented with a list of related items (such as candy, sugar, honey) to study. When asked to recall the list, participants were just as, if not more, likely to recall semantically related words (such as sweet) than items that were actually studied, thus creating false memories. This


defense and many other useful resources.
 False Memory Syndrome, Child & Woman Abuse Studies Unit of London Metropolitan University. Argues that "false memories" are real memories.
 False Memory Syndrome Foundation
 The false memory archive
  The false memory archive: did that really happen?

Category:Memory biases
Category:Memory disordersBetty Jo Shelby was entitled to have her record sealed and expunged," the attorney said. "Betty ... continues to work to try and serve her community and prays for everyone's continued healing."

A spokeswoman for the district attorney declined to comment Wednesday.

Shelby petitioned in August to have her record expunged after jurors acquitted her three months earlier in the September 2016 killing of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher.

She was on patrol last year when she encountered Crutcher, whose SUV was stopped in the middle of the street. Shelby testified at trial that she was scared because Crutcher appeared to be under the influence of drugs, didn't obey her commands and looked like he was reaching inside his vehicle.


Selected for Bornshorts Filmfestival

Nick Scott's short film "Resolve", where Ingrid plays the lead, is selected for the Bornshorts International Filmfestival, August 27.-28 in Denmark. We're very happy about it since this little film was made together with a team of curious filmmakers with big hearts.

Got more wicked ideas, Nick?

A woman in a car. A woman in a room. A woman on the underground. Before, during and after. Resolve is a portrait of a character undertaking an immensely personal and private journey.A Foodpanda deliveryman who was caught on camera removing two statues from an altar and riding away with his loot has come forward to give his side of the story.

A video of the incident, which occurred at a carpark at Woodlands Industrial Park E on Sep 21, went viral after being posted on social media. To date, it has garnered over 1,000 shares on Facebook.

Foodpanda had earlier told Stomp in a statement that it was assisting the relevant authorities in investigating the matter.

Following reports about the incident, the deliveryman in question contacted Shin Min Daily News to share his side of the story and claimed that it was a misunderstanding.

Mr Lin, 23, said he had just finished making a delivery when he noticed that the Dua Di Ya


wooden divination tools that are used in pairs to request a yes or no answer from the gods.

(Photo: myproguide)

During prayers, one poses his or her question to the gods and drops the blocks on the ground. The position of the blocks upon landing determines the gods' answer.

After news of the incident broke, Mr Lin said he went to the police station to clear the air as well as returned the Dua Di Ya Pek statues a few days later.

He hopes that people can stop making wild speculations and accusations.

Mr Lin also said that he was fired by Foodpanda following the incident and has to find a new job.

He added: "I did not know there was a CCTV camera there. After the video went viral, I realised the severityFor those bored with the one we have, there is a whole other Internet out there. And people ready to help you shop it.

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In 1991, at the age of 10, I moved back from the United States to India for a year. India was then much more closed off from the rest of the world: pre-Internet and only weeks into neoliberalism. Yet compared with the kids I’d gone to school with in Austin, Tex., my classmates at the British School in Delhi were far ahead on trends; they knew what was on offer not just at the malls of America but in Dubai, Hong Kong and London. It was either a nascent globalism or a flourish of old cosmopolitanism.

Their friends and relatives, transiting home through the bright cornucopia


added, however that EE was unable to identify at least 6,905 customers, who were overcharged a combined total of £60,000.

In October, Ofcom fined Vodafone a record £4.6m for “serious” breaches of consumer protection rules.

EE was formed in 2010, when the brands known as T-Mobile and Orange were added together and took their customers with them.

The Competition and Markets Authority has given its approval for BT’s £12.5bn takeover of mobile operator EE after six months of investigation in January.

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when De La Rue’s contract ends in July. The British firm said Gemalto was chosen only because it undercut the competition, but the UK company also admitted that it was not the cheapest choice in the tendering process. Business news: In pictures Beast from the east economic impact The Beast from the East wiped £4m off of Flybe’s revenues due to flight cancellations, airport closures and delays, according to the budget airline’s estimates. Flybe said it cancelled 994 flights in the three months to 31 March, compared to 372 in the same period last year.

In December, figures from Ofcom revealed, BT, Plusnet and EE were the most complained about broadband providers in the third quarter of 2016.

BT, which owns the Plusnet and EE brands, came top of theThe Iranian Elections and Public Diplomacy 2.0: A Tale of Untapped Potential

Iran's elections last Friday and their dramatic aftermath
provided the Obama Administration a unique opportunity to put into
action key elements of the government's public diplomacy strategy.
Unfortunately, as President Obama has carefully positioned himself
on the fence between the alleged winner, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, and the candidate supported by Iran's hundreds of
thousands of protestors, Hossein Mousavi, the message from the U.S.
government has been muted.

While Web 2.0 technology has the potential to play a role
similar to that played by fax machines in the Solidarity uprising
in Poland in the 1980s and cell phones in Ukraine's Orange
Revolution, America has done too little to support Iran's
widespread and growing democracy movement. A golden opportunity to
reach out to a population trapped in a positively medieval
political system is


being missed.

So far, U.S. government outreach has been limited to the State
Department's revelation that it requested that the social Web site
Twitter postpone its scheduled maintenance operation in the days
after the election as protesting Iranians were relying heavily on
its service to communicate--causing some to suggest that these
protests could end up being called the Twitter Revolution.
Undoubtedly, this action was important, but given the resources of
the U.S. government, it was hardly proactive.

Other U.S. Government-Funded Media

The Internet is not, of course, the only means through which the
U.S. government can reach out to foreign populations such as that
of Iran. However, the record is spotty on other fronts as well. On
the plus side, Radio Free Europe is doing yeoman's work
broadcasting 24 hours a day into Iran in Farsi through its service
surrogate Radio Farda, providingcritical information from the
outside world for embattled Iranians listening on short wave radio.
Operating as a surrogate service, Radio Farda provides a platform
for Iranian exile journalists to broadcast back into their country
with otherwise censored information.

Under severe budget constraints, Voice of America (VOA)--whose
mandate is to provide both the news and an American perspective on
world events--recently closed down its Radio Farsi service along
with a number of other critically important language services, such
as those in Russian and Georgian. Needless to say, these cuts did
not send positive signals about American engagement in countries
like Russia and Iran, where free media are under pressure.

Television in Farsi is still being broadcast from VOA
headquarters, but it is being blocked on the Internet by the
Iranian government, which clamped down on Internet access the day
after the election and has


the President's recent
speech in Cairo by means of various communication and networking
technologies. In an effort to disseminate Obama's call for improved
U.S.-Arab/Muslim relations to as large an audience as possible,
various government agencies used a variety of Internet
applications, including social networking sites, podcasts, and a
live Webcast on the White House's Web site. Additionally, updates
via text message were an extremely well-utilized tool, reaching
over 20,000 users worldwide.[3]

The focus of this particular service, which was funded by the
State Department, was clearly on the citizens of nations abroad, as
it was unavailable to U.S. citizens. The text messages themselves
were available in Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, and eight other languages,
reaching over 200 countries.[4] This effort to allow people to hear Obama
in their native tongue was not limited to text messages. Translated
versions of the speech in both textand video were available on
such sites as YouTube, Facebook, and MySpace, as well as the
popular South Asia networking site Orkut.[5]

An international discussion was created on Facebook, the social
networking site with over 20 million Arab users, by the White House
specifically for the event, and responses to the speech submitted
via text messages were compiled and later posted on
America.gov.

All of these efforts clearly have a vision and a strategy behind
them that could bear fruit in the 21st-century media environment.
Unfortunately, new media is, in its own way, as vulnerable as
traditional media to government interference in highly controlled
societies like Iran or China. Consequently, other new technologies
like cell phones and old technologies like short wave radio will
continue to play an important role.

Recommendations

The U.S. government should:

Get off the fence and propose that if President Ahmadinejad
really


In the first move of its kind, a UK university has divested from companies that supply military equipment to the Israeli army following a student campaign.

The University of Leeds on Thursday made the decision to divest from three companies which were found to be complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights: Airbus, United Technologies and Keyence Corporation. A fourth company – HSBC – is also under review by the university’s investment managers for its provision of loans to Elbit Systems, Caterpillar and BAE Systems, all of which sell weapons and military equipment to the Israeli government.

The move came after it emerged that the University of Leeds had invested £2.4 million ($3.1 million) in these companies this year alone. The sum was revealed by a Freedom of Informationrequest dating back to August, under which the British public can demand access to information held by public authorities.

Students, staff, societies and alumni of the university then published an open letter to the Vice Chancellor calling for the cessation of investment in the four firms. The letter stated that: “In summer 2014, 2,251 Palestinians were killed, including 526 children, by the Israeli Defence Force in the attacks on Gaza […] the artillery used to carry out this destruction were made by Elbit Systems, funded by HSBC. The fighter jets employed by the IDF were maintained by United Technologies. The helicopters which patrol Gaza’s sea border are supplied by Airbus. Further military activity was aided by the equipment provided by Keyence Corporation. The University of Leeds knowingly enables this


investments in companies known to assist the Israeli army have been growing in recent months. In April, activists at the University of Manchester exposed a web of connections between the university and several weapons companies, including Israel Aerospace Industries which produced drones used during Israel’s 2014 assault on the besieged Gaza Strip. The University of Manchester had previously tried to conceal its links to such companies until the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – the body regulating data protection in the UK – found the university to be in contravention of the Freedom of Information Act, the same act which enabled University of Leeds students to force their institution to divest.

READ: Denmark to suspend funding to BDS groups19th century than a much-travelled cosmopolitan.

Evelyn Miller, in a bit of gender-blind casting, is fervent missionary St John Rivers. She also plays Bessie, the one servant who takes Jane’s side in the Reed household. Hannah Bristow is consumptive Helen Burns and Rochester’s pert French ward Adèle while Lynda Rooke contrasts aunt Mrs Reed and housekeeper Mrs Fairfax.

Four and a half-star rating.

Jane Eyre runs at the Theatre Royal, Norwich until 22 July with matinées on 19 and 22 July.

This touring production based on the iconic Fellini film of 1954 has been devised by its performers with direction by Sally Cookson and writer Mike Akers. It is a Belgrade Theatre (Coventry) piece which takes advantage of the circus skills of the cast. So it could be defined as physical theatre;


in practice, it’s more theatre of physicality.

La Strada tells the story of a village girl in post-war Italy, sold (as her older sister has been) to a travelling showman to act as his assistant. Naïve Gelsomina (Audrey Brisson) doesn’t want to leave home – she’d far rather listen to the waves – but her mother has four other children to feed, no husband and scant chances of earning a living.

The showman Zampanò is played by Stuart Goodwin. He lives for the moment, is quick to quarrel and quite happy to travel Italy on his motor-bike truck earning something at each stop – and spending it almost immediately. Goodwin has the measure of this unpleasant survivor.

While Gelsomina picks up some tricks of the barker’s trade, she becomes entranced byCable-car tourists rescued after 18 hours

Almost a full day and night after a paraglider tandem crashed into the cable, 20 people have been rescued by helicopter from a cable car in Bavaria. They had been trapped 100 metres above the ground for over 18 hours. Strong winds on Tegelberg mountain where the incident occurred prevented the dramatic rescue from succeeding faster. The two people in the paraglider suffered minor injuries.The 1,880 metre-high Tegelberg is within sight of the fairytale Neuschwanstein Castle. The 19 tourists in the gondola included two children, one as young as four, and there was one cable car operator. A mountain rescue specialist was lowered inside to provide them with food and clothing while they waited to be rescued.SkyNews[pictured: View of Neuschwanstein Castle; courtesy Germany


LEADING A Life Of Adventure & Service

The Early Days

Jeff was born in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and grew up in Roanoke, Virginia. These soft and rolling hills are where his sense of adventure was developed. But his insatiable appetite for the bigger and wilder landscapes lead him to Colorado at the age of 19. Somewhere between climbing every rock in Boulder County, he earned his B.S. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Colorado with his final semester spent living abroad in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Soon after graduating from college he completed a Wilderness EMT program, fell in love with medicine and moved out to Joshua Tree, CA where he could spend less time “working” and more time climbing rocks. It was while Jeff was living inof his message for decades to come.

Jeff guided Erik to the summit of North America (Denali) in 1995 and thus began Jeff’s 5-year love affair with Denali and the Alaska Range. He would spend 5 seasons on “The Great One” guiding dozens of commercial clients as well as working Search and Rescue for the National Park Service. It was at this juncture that Jeff made the life changing decision to put his mountaineering career on hold and head off to the Medical College of Pennsylvania to pursue his love of medicine and become a Physician Assistant.

The Guide & The Message

In 2001 Jeff, Erik and their team decided to take a shot at the highest summit in the world, Mt Everest. For Jeff, this successful summit underscored the value


the ultimate team building activity, they created a therapeutic program for injured veterans called No Barriers Warriors. To date, the program has aided thousands of veterans as they struggle to rediscover a lost sense of camaraderie and fellowship.

Jeff’s love of the Himalaya and continuing desire to pay it forward sent him to Nepal with a mobile medical team following the devastating earthquake in 2015. The following year, Jeff accepted the role of Chief Medic for the highest helicopter based Search and Rescue team to ever operate on the flanks of Mt Everest. His experiences were documented on the Travel Channel series, Everest Air. In 2017, Jeff served as the medical lead for a trauma team on the front lines in the liberation of Mosul, Iraq from ISIS. Hecontinues to share his message of selfless leadership to audiences around the world and seek out the most unique challenges in the world of meaningful adventure.

Personal Life

Jeff continues to reside in Evergreen, Colorado with the most important things in his life… his wife, Merry Beth, son Jace and dog Roka.


hundreds of thousands of people and forced half the pre-war Syrian population of 23 million from their homes.

Syria signed the international treaty banning chemical weapons and allowed monitors to destroy its poison gas arsenal after an agreement reached in 2013 to avert U.S. retaliation for what Washington said was a nerve gas attack near Damascus that killed more than 1000 people. Washington again accused Syria of using nerve gas last year and struck Syrian targets.

In recent weeks, rescue workers, aid groups and the United States have accused Syria of repeatedly using chlorine gas, which it possesses legally for uses such as water purification, as a chemical weapon against civilians in Ghouta and Idlib.

France, a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, has struggled to wield influence on Syria.the New Zealand Warriors. The Wigan full-back will miss the start of the campaign and could be playing catch-up to plenty of his teammates, and with Wigan fancied for honours this term, 5/2 for the League Leaders Shield and 3/1 with BetVictor to win the 2016 Grand Final, his team-mates offer punters greater appeal at the prices.

The pair of Sean O’Loughlin and Liam Farrell look over-priced at 33/1 but it is George Williams who really catches the eye at 18/1. The local lad has always been held in high regard by the club and after successfully coming through the academy was named Super League Young Player of the Year and looks an outstanding long-term talent for the cherry and whites.

Southern Hemisphere players tend to have a poor record,


Late last year, the rappers Killer Mike, T.I., and Big Boi filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, hoping to convince the highest court in the country to hear the case of Taylor Bell. A Mississippi high school student, Bell was suspended for posting a song to YouTube in which he lashed out at two gym teachers accused of sexually harassing female students. He sued the school district on First Amendment grounds, making it all the way to the US Court of Appeals, the second-highest court in the country. The court upheld the punishment, though the decision was divided.

At the core of this particular legal issue is the question of whether or not violent rap lyrics are protected speech in a school environment. We like to thinkgod, like whom there is no other!
      Thou didst create the world according to thy desire,
      Whilst thou wert alone: All men, cattle, and wild beasts,
      Whatever is on earth, going upon (its) feet,
      And what is on high, flying with its wings.
      The countries of Syria and Nubia, the land of Egypt,
      Thou settest every man in his place,
      Thou suppliest their necessities:
      Everyone has his food, and his time of life is reckoned.
      Their tongues are separate in speech,


Dover was Murdoch’s vice-president in China. He took his orders directly from the boss. His book, which was published in February, is a fascinating study of power, and of a man who could not bring himself to believe that anyone would stand in his way(1). So why aren’t we reading about it?

Murdoch, Dover shows, began his assault on China with two strategic mistakes. The first was to pay a staggering price – US$525m – for a majority stake in Star TV, a failing satellite broadcaster based in Hong Kong. The second was to make a speech in September 1993, a few months after he had bought the business, which he had neither written nor read very carefully. New telecommunications, he said, "have proved an unambiguous threat to totalitarianregimes everywhere. … satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels."

The Chinese leaders were furious. The prime minister, Li Peng, issued a decree banning satellite dishes from China. Murdoch spent the next ten years grovelling. In the interests of business the great capitalist became the communist government’s most powerful supporter.

Within six months of Li Peng’s ban, Murdoch dropped the BBC from Star’s China signal. His publishing company, HarperCollins, paid a fortune for a tedious biography of the paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, written by Deng’s daughter. He built a website for the regime’s propaganda sheet, the People’s Daily. In 1997 he made another speech in which he tried to undo the damage he had caused four years before. "China", he


said, "is a distinctive market with distinctive social and moral values that Western companies must learn to abide by." His minions ensured, Dover reveals, that "every relevant Chinese government official received a copy".

But the satellite dishes remained banned, so he grovelled even more. He described the Dalai Lama as "a very political old monk shuffling around in Gucci shoes". His son James claimed that the Western media was "painting a falsely negative portrayal of China through their focus on controversial issues such as human rights". Rupert employed his unsalaried gopher Tony Blair to give him special access: in 1999 Blair placed him next to the Chinese president, Jiang Zemin, at a Downing Street lunch. To secure some limited cable rights in southern China, News Corporation agreed to carryNetworks
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sino-nasal malignancy. The patient underwent left frontal craniotomy, and a moderately vascular, soft tumor was seen in the basi-frontal region with invasion and extension across the dura and the cribriform plate into the ethmoidal sinus and the nasal cavity. The tumor was well-separated from the brain with an intervening pial surface on the right side, whereas the brain-parenchyma was infiltrated on the left side. The ethmoidal and nasal portions of the lesion were excised from the cranial end only. Gross total excision of the lesion was done. The frontal sinus was packed with fat graft and exteriorized using pericrania. The anterior skull base defect was reconstructed by placement of split calvarial bone graft with fascia lata and fibrin glue. Microscopic examination showed lesion compromising of cells arranged inA young woman in Kerala has alleged that she was forced to serve the ISIS as a nurse and was brutally harassed for declining it, suspected to be by a love jihad operative in Hyderabad.

The woman, aged 26, literally broke down while sharing her plight with Kerala State Police Chief, Loknath Behera at an adalat held in Pathanamthitta district on Saturday.

Hailing from Ranni in Pathanamthitta district, the woman also alleged that though she filed a complaint in this regard with the local police in Pathanamthitta earlier, there was no proper investigation. The state police chief is likely to order a high-level probe into the matter.

The incident took place while the woman was working at a hospital in Hyderabad about three years back. A love affair developed between the


woman and a staffer at the hospital who hailed from Miryalaguda, now part of Telangana.

The woman was a Hindu and the youth a Muslim. He had converted to Christianity and later reconverted to Islam, said the woman.

They started living together and she became pregnant. The youth forcibly terminated her pregnancy. As she insisted on a formal marriage, he demanded that she should convert to Islam and work at hospitals in ISIS camps so as to earn more salary.

The woman alleged that she was frequently assaulted after she rejected the youth's demands. Later he abandoned her in 2017 and the woman is now staying at Ranni.

Pathanamthitta district police chief J Jaidev told DH that he did not come across the complaint of the girl earlier. Since the woman nowdirectly gave a petition to the state police chief, the state police chief would be issuing further directives on the investigation, he said.

Over the years, scores of youths, including women, from Kerala joined the ISIS and many were also suspected to be involved in terror strikes including the Easter day strike in Sri Lanka. Many youths in Kerala are still under the surveillance of intelligence agencies for suspected links with ISIS operatives.


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