Pontypool, Wales , during World War I he served as a Driver in the Royal Field Artillery regiment in the 410th Battery 96th Brigade unit (Service number 118613), he sustained shrapnel died at the Somme, France in the period between Operation Michael (21 March – 5 April 1918) and the Second Battle of the Somme (21 August – 2 September 1918), he is buried in the Vignacourt British Cemetery (Grave Reference: IV. A. 1.), Somme, France, and he his honoured at the Wigan Cenotaph.

Playing career

Championship Final appearances
Lewis Bradley played , i.e. number 2, and scored a try in Wigan's 5-13 defeat by Huddersfield in the Championship Final during 1911–12 season at Thrum Hall, Halifax on Saturday 4 May 1912, in front of a crowd of 15,000, and heOrganizational History:

The Division of Biological Sciences functioned from 1949 until about 1955. It was a division of the College of Sciences and Arts, the history of which is as follows.

The College of Sciences and Arts was organized in 1917, part of President Holland's introduction of the college system at WSC. For its first few years, the College was headed by Dean Walter Beach of the Department of Economic Science and History. In about 1921, Vice-president O.L. Waller became acting Dean, and continued as such for several years. In the late 1920s, C.C. Todd began his lengthy tenure as Dean, which was to last until the end of 1948.

After Todd's retirement, the College was reorganized as four separate divisions without any overall Dean.. The four divisions were: 1) the


Division of Physical Sciences (S. Towne Stephenson), 2) the Division of Biological Sciences (Winslow Hatch), the Division of Humanities (Albert Thompson) and, 4) the Division of Social Sciences (T.H. Kennedy).

Sometime about 1953, the Office of the Dean was re-established with Albert W. Thompson as Dean, and with two Associate Deans, one for Physical Sciences (Hatch) and one for Humanities (Kennedy). This arrangement remained in place until about 1965. Several persons served successively as Associate Deans.

In about 1965 or 1966, the office of Dean was again dropped and the two Associate Deans were named Deans of their respective areas. For a few years, one dean was called the Senior Dean. Once that title disappeared, the College of Science and Arts basically became two units, one for the science departmentsand the other for the humanities departments. This arrangement persisted for thirty years, until about 1995 when the two units were fully seperated, becoming the College of Science and the College of Liberal Arts.

Scope and Contents note

Records of the Division of Physical Science consist of the correspondence of the director, Winslow R. Hatch, later Associate Dean. The letters concern a variety of academic administration issues, including curriculum and personnel.

Publication Information

Conditions Governing Access note

The Collection is open for research use.

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Records of the Division of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences and Arts, were received by the Washington State University Libraries sometime before 1970, and were incorporated with publications of the College of Sciences and Arts until Oct. 1997 when they were reconstituted as a record group


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The United Nations, mainly through the UNSC and the UNGA, has played an important role in the genesis and development of the KPCS, an international control regime aimed at preventing conflict diamonds to enter into the legitimate trade. The earliest forerunner of the KPCS stems from an embargo imposed by the UNSC in June 1998 […]Evaluation of Wounds as a Factor to Infection of Cabbage by Ascospores of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum.
A semi-selective medium was used to examine the aerobiology of ascospores of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in five commercial cabbage fields in eastern North Carolina. Ascospores were present in all five fields from 26 September to 30 November. However, numbers of ascospores varied greatly depending on location, sampling date, and time. In general, peak ascospore deposition occurred between 11:00 A.M. and 1:00 P.M., with the number of colonies recovered ranging from 3 to 55/dish (9 cm in diameter). Peak ascospore numbers at all locations were found from mid- to late October, but a second, smaller peak was also evident at each location in late November. Information obtained was employed to evaluate the role of wounding in


2013-14: Placed 13th in the long jump at the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championships to earn Second-Team All-America accolades as a sophomore...set school records in the indoor 60-meter dash, 60 hurdles and long jump...clocked season-bests of 6.76 in the 60 dash, 7.86 in the 60 hurdles and 21.57 in the 200...added a 7.60 meter-performance in the long jump...also set outdoor school records in the long jump and 4x100 relay...he leaped 7.63 meters in the long and anchored the Bulls' 39.88 4x100 relay...added outdoor season-bests of 10.62 in the 100 and 21.28 in the 200 dash, as well as clocking a 14.07 in the 110 hurdles...named Second-Team All-MAC with second-place finishes in the indoor long jump and outdoor long jump and 110 hurdles.

2012-13: Claimed his first league title in the110m hurdles at the MAC Outdoor Championships in a school record of 14.05 seconds...eanred a third place finish at the MAC Outdoor Championships in the 200m dash in a time of 21.59 seconds...recorded his best 60m hurdles time of 7.93 seconds at the MAC Indoor Championships, earning a second place finish...led the 4x400m relay team to a fourth place finish at the MAC Indoor Championships in a time of 3:18.23.

High School: Won six letters and captained two seasons at Division Avenue High School. Won the New York State 110m hurdles title at the 2012 state outdoor championships. Also competed in long jump and triple jump at the state meet. Set eight school records for the Blue Dragons.

Personal: Born October 29, 1994. Son of Anthony and Jennifer Billian. Has


series at author events. On a dull, cold November morning I got up at some ungodly hour to catch a flight from Luton to Edinburgh where I was met in the 1972 white Wartburg 353W Tourist that I was planning to buy from an enthusiast near Falkirk.

The car was a runner, with an MoT, which is what I – as a total non-mechanic – needed. And its off-white, almost ivory colour was exactly the right shade for the top half of a 1970s Volkspolizei squad car (they changed to a brighter white in the 1980s). After a quick tour we did the deal for what I felt was a very fair £1650.

As I set off towards the motorway, I suddenly had my doubts. I’d been to a garagesnatcher lurks, and the clock is ticking to rescue the twins alive . . .

About the Author

David Young was born near Hull and – after dropping out of a Bristol University science degree – studied Humanities at Bristol Polytechnic specialising in Modern History. Temporary jobs cleaning ferry toilets and driving a butcher’s van were followed by a career in journalism with provincial newspapers, a London news agency, and the BBC’s international newsrooms where he led news teams for the World Service radio and World TV.

David was a student on the inaugural Crime Thriller MA at City University – winning the course prize in 2014 for his debut novel Stasi Child – and now writes full-time in his garden shed. In his spare time, he’s a keen supporter of


Hull City AFC.

Stasi Child is the first of three books in the Oberleutnant Karin Müller series – set in 1970s communist East Germany – bought by the UK arm of Swedish publisher Bonnier by former Quercus CEO Mark Smith. It reached the top 5 bestsellers on Amazon Kindle, was number one bestseller in Amazon’s Historical Fiction chart, and has been optioned for TV by Euston Films (Minder, The Sweeney etc). Translation rights have so far been sold to France.from Las Vegas to Brimley, Mich., where Continental has a development and testing center. More than 90 percent of the journey was without a hand on the wheel or a foot on a pedal, said Ibro Muharemovic, lead engineer of Continental's Advanced Engineering unit and one of three engineers riding shotgun.

A final trip is being planned to hit the 10,000 mark in the next few weeks.

Most of the technology is already on the market as safety features to avoid accidents, or at least mitigate their severity.

Google started the debate about autonomous driving when it took a Toyota Prius and attached sophisticated but expensive equipment so the car could drive itself.

Both companies are chasing the same goal: to reduce accidents, congestion and fuel consumption. With driverless cars, the age


He called for cars to communicate with one another and their surroundings.

Mercedes, BMW and Audi are among the companies developing systems that assist driving in traffic jams.

The all-new Cadillac XTS coming in May will feature a package of sensors, radar and cameras to provide 360-degree input to detect the risk of a crash and try to prevent it. Alan Taub, General Motors vice president of research and development, said in October that GM will have semiautonomous cars on the road by 2015 and fully autonomous ones by the end of the decade.

Already on the road are cars that park themselves, adjust their speed to that of the car in front, and brake, accelerate or steer when a crash is imminent.

STATES HURRY TO CATCH UP

The law also is workingto catch up with the technology.

Nevada is the first state to pass a law making driverless cars legal, and bills have been introduced in Florida, Hawaii, California and Oklahoma. Arizona introduced a bill, but it failed.

Nevada's Department of Motor Vehicles Director Bruce Breslow said the new regulations "establish requirements companies must meet to test their vehicles on Nevada's public roadways, as well as requirements for residents to legally operate them in the future."

Engineers at Continental are within weeks of completing 10,000 test miles of autonomous driving with their Passat, at which point, the car will qualify to be registered legally in Nevada and receive a special red license plate allowing it to drive on designated public roads.

In the future, production driverless cars would get a green license plate.

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The Passat has driven safely through traffic congestion and shouldered the burden on long stretches of mind-numbing highway, all of which has been carefully documented.

"I was surprised by how well it worked," said Muharemovic, who made adjustments during testing. Also in the car were software and algorithm engineers from Continental in Germany.

The test Passat has a stereo camera in the windshield that monitors the ground for speed bumps or potholes, long-range radar in the front grille that looks out about 220 yards and short-range radar sensors on corners of the car to capture details of the surroundings and command the car to steer, brake and accelerate accordingly.

The sensors detect if the car in front stops, if there is a construction barrier on the right and a(CNN) Today is Hot Dog Day . And Ice Cream Day . And Daiquiri Day . So it looks like your lunch is all set. Here's what else you need to know to Get Up to Speed and Out the Door . (You can also get "5 Things You Need to Know Today" delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up here .)

1. Presidents Trump and Putin

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had a second, previously undisclosed talk at the G20 summit earlier this month in Germany. The White House said it was a "brief" meeting, coming after dinner with other world leaders, but a senior White House official told CNN the talk lasted "nearly an hour." The President spoke with Putin through Russia's translator. No other staff members were


seven decades a choir school in Germany was reportedly a house of horrors for hundreds of students. The allegations of physical and sexual abuse at the Catholic Regensburger Domspatzen choir school emerged in a 440-page report commissioned by the Regensburg Diocese. The report says from 1945 through 2015 about 500 students said they were beaten, while 67 said they were sexually abused. Some said they endured both. Other students described the school as "a prison, hell and a concentration camp." It is not known if a criminal investigation will begin. The school's centuries-old boys choir has performed all over the world.

Pope Benedict XVI attends a concert by the Regensburger Domspatzen boys choir in October 2005.

5. Navy sailor punished

That Navy sailor who went missing last month -- only tobe found seven days later on his ship -- has been punished . Petty Officer 3rd Class Peter Mims was discovered hiding in an engineering space aboard the USS Shiloh as a massive search for him was underway in the Philippine Sea involving both US and Japanese ships. Mims admitted he hid intentionally and avoided other sailors who were looking for him. The Navy didn't offer details on his punishment, but it may not be over for Mims since additional discipline is under consideration.

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Tottenham stance unchanged after formal transfer request Chelsea have had £27m bid for Modric turned down

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Harry Redknapp, the Tottenham Hotspur manager, has reiterated that Luka Modric is not for sale after the 25-year-old lodged a formal transfer request following Chelsea's improved bid of £27m.

"We know he wants to leave and whether he writes it down on a piece of paper doesn't really make any difference to our stance," Redknapp told BBC Sport. "He's a great player and we don't want to lose him."

The playmaker is now in South Africa with his Tottenham team-mates for their pre-season tour. He agreed to travel due to his respect for Redknapp, who has repeatedly praised Modric's attitude andwho has also stated he understood why the player was keen to join Chelsea.

Modric has described Chelsea as his "dream" club, saying the move is attractive as he will be able to perform again in the Champions League next season and challenge regularly for trophies.

At the weekend Modric openly criticised the Spurs chairman Daniel Levy in an interview with a Croatian newspaper and accused him of breaking a gentleman's agreement to sell him to a bigger club this summer.

Tottenham have denied making any such agreement and have been considering whether to fine Modric for his remarks.


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The Cleveland Water Department obtains drinking water for its 1.4 million customers from Lake Erie. Among the nation's water systems serving more than 1 million customers, Cleveland's water contained the 15th highest concentration of Chromium 6, according to a study released Wednesday.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio - Drinking water tainted with a cancer-causing toxin made famous by the environmental activist Erin Brockovich was found in all but one of the 30 water systems in Northeast Ohio, according to a report released today.

The Environmental Working Group, a health research and advocacy organization, said its report marked the first time widespread contamination by Chromium 6 had been documented in the drinking water of more than 200 million Americans in every state in the U.S.

None of the levels of Chromiumthat meets and exceeds all state and federal drinking water standards."

Chromium 6 is widely used in dyes, paints, inks, and plastics. It also is used in metal plating, stainless steel production, wood preservation, and textile manufacturing, and is contained in the ash from coal-burning power plants.

California is the only state with a standard for Chromium 6. The law was passed after Erin Brockovich won a $333 million settlement in 1996 on behalf of the 600 residents of Hinkley, Calif., which has the highest level of Chromium 6 in groundwater in the country. A movie based on the case was released in 2000.

Hinkley's ground water contained concentrations as high as 580 PPB, more than 10 times California's drinking water standard of 50 PPB. The national standard is 100 PPB.

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holding excess lengths of fibers in an improved manner. Additionally, it is an object of the present invention to provide such a cabinet which can provide splice functions within the cabinet.
According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a fiber optic cabinet and fiber tray are disclosed. The cabinet includes walls defining an interior with an access opening on the front of the cabinet. The cabinet contains aligned guides disposed within the interior on opposite sides of the opening. The splice tray includes a generally planar tray base having a tray axis which is orthogonal to the base. The tray base has a peripheral edge sized for opposing portions of the edge to be slidably engaged with opposing ones of the aligned cabinet guides. The tray ishim into a massive panic attack.

I assume we will also see more about the mysterious mustachioed man featured in short snippets at the beginning of many Season 1 episodes. While not named in the series, this was likely the Kansas serial killer Dennis Rader, who worked as an ADT Security Services installer and killed 10 people between 1974 and 1991.

With the Mindhunter Season 2 August 16 release date, it will be almost two years in between seasons. It’s a long time to wait in this age of instant streaming entertainment. But if Season 2 is as good as the first, it will be worth the wait.


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Ong's Hat is a real but enigmatic location in south central New Jersey that has inspired a counterculture revolution in physics. Exotic pursuits in the Many-Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics by Princeton physicists paved the way for avant-garde experiments in quantum consciousness. Integrating meditation with biofeedback and brain machine techniques, synchronicity attractors were developed which sought out tangible states of existence beyond the bounds of Earth. Allegedly, the experimenters achieved success with the accessing of parallel universes. Up to now, the truth about the cult has been vague and indecisive, but the legends, technology and quantum theory surrounding it are more than tangible. Since Peter Moon's involvement in the Montauk investigation, he has encountered incredible synchronicities with regardreally was: God abandoning his people as his glory departed from Israel. In a series of visions, Ezekiel was first taken to the temple court in Jerusalem, where he saw "the glory of the God of Israel" (Ezek 8:4), as in his vision of the cloud described above. Through the rest of the chapter God shows Ezekiel all the wretched idolatry transpiring around the temple. The visions continue in the next chapter, which begins with God calling six armed men to execute judgment (Ezek 9:1–2). Ezekiel writes: "Now the glory of the God of Israel went up from above the cherubim, where it had been, and moved to the threshold of the temple" (Ezek 9:3). In the days of Solomon, God's glory in the cloud settled upon the


amazing to contemplate. From the beginning God wanted human beings, not angels, to rule the world to come, but now we don't see evidence of it. Yet "we do see Jesus," who became like us in our humility and is now exalted in glory. In Jesus' human flesh and blood the original destiny of the human race finds its fulfillment. As we'll marvel at in the next chapter, this exalted Jesus is also now "bringing many sons to glory" (Heb 2:10)—that is, he'll lead his people to fill the new creation with glorified human beings, with bodies raised like his. And while we wait for this final day, we have a delightful foretaste of the full banquet ahead. When Christ received the Spirit as a victory gift fromFrames #2: Planet Probability by Brian N Ball (DAW 40 – 1973)

The Frames were only a realization of the ultimate form of escape. Books, films, sensors, complete total experience – and finally the Frames. The saviors of civilization had shown the way: move the tribes of Americans to Europe, the tribes of the Germans to Spain, the tribes of the English to Switzerland and permutate the combinations endlessly. Use trains, then aircraft, then spaceships.

The Frames of the Thirtieth Century were a logical extension of the Mechanical Age’s exploitation of the means of mass travel. Now, whole populations moved to new areas of experience. New worlds – new re-created worlds – were manufactured for them.

And it had all begin on Talisker. But whatever had left the monstrous scenery on


Redskins defense will face two top 10 passing offenses in 2017

The 2017 NFL schedules have been released, and the Washington Redskins defense will face some of the leagues top 10 rushing and passing attacks of 2016.

Washington’s defense ranked 28th overall last season struggling in defending the pass and the run. The Burgundy and Gold defense ranked 25th in total passing yards allowed per game( 258.1) and 24th in total rushing yards allowed per game (119.8).

Next year, the Redskins will face two top 10 passing team’s from the 2016 season.

The Redskins will travel to California to face the AFC West’s Los Angeles Chargers in week 14.

The Chargers are led by six-time Pro Bowl quarterback Philip Rivers who last year completed 60.75 % of his passes and ranked fourth inpassing touchdowns with 33.

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Offensive coordinator, Ken Whisenhunt’s offense, ranked seventh in passing yards per game with 262.4 and ranked eighth in the league in yards per pass (7.2).

NFL West, Arizona Cardinals, Record 7-8-1

The Redskins will face the Arizona Cardinals when the NFC West team comes to FedEx Field in week 15. Last season the Cardinals passed the ball 63% of the time and averaged 6.4 yards per pass.

The Redskins faced the Cardinals in week 13 of the 2016 season. In that game, the Burgundy and Gold defense gave up 300 yards to go along with three passing touchdowns in a 31-23 loss at the University of Phoenix Stadium.

The Cardinals ranked ninth in passing yards per game with 258.5.

The Redskins defensive ranked 23rd in yards per pass giving up


indeed a picture of her with Frida Kahlo and her sister. Yes, she said, that is correct: “I am on the right of the picture, my sister Rita on the left.”

In the early 1940s, Sahgal’s entire family had been convulsed by the Indian freedom movement. Her parents were in prison. Even her elder sister Chandralekha was in prison during the Quit India agitation in 1942. The British imperialist government told the Nehru-Pandit family that none of the children would be allowed to go to university unless they promised not to take part in politics.

This was out of the question. At that time, the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong Mei-ling came to India with the express purpose of asking the British government to allow the creationof an Indian national government. It would help the war effort, they argued. Madame Chiang, as Soong Mei-ling was known, had studied at Wellesley College. Madame Chiang contacted the authorities at Wellesley who accepted the sisters.

“I had just graduated from Wellesley College in the summer of 1947,” Sahgal writes, when she went to Mexico for a visit. “We visited Frida whom our host in Mexico knew.”

The artist Frida Kahlo, by 1947, was living in La Casa Azul, her childhood home. She suffered terribly from spinal problems, and usually wore corsets to help stabilize her back.

The Pandit sisters visited Kahlo at her home. “We put her in one of our saris and she loved it,” Sahgal recalled. “Frida gave me two beautiful photos of herself, inscribed by her.”

Six years


Suspended Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun told players around baseball before spring training 2012 that the man who collected his urine that tested positive for synthetic testosterone was anti-Semitic and a Chicago Cubs fan in an effort to gather support throughout the game, sources familiar with the matter told Yahoo! Sports.

ESPN.com first reported that Braun had reached out to fellow players. While Yahoo! Sports previously reported Braun had contacted Joey Votto and Troy Tulowitzki, on Monday they denied having any conversations with Braun about test collector Dino Laurenzi Jr.

A number of players with whom Braun spoke, including Brewers teammates, believed the allegations. A source close to Laurenzi said the anti-Semitism allegation is untrue; his fan allegiance is unclear. It added to the backlash against Braun – whose fatheris Jewish but was not raised in the religion – inside the Milwaukee clubhouse as well as outside following his recent 65-game suspension for his involvement with the Biogenesis clinic. Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, with whom Braun spoke before spring training, told reporters people in the game felt “betrayed” and that he was “disappointed.”

During spring 2012, Braun avoided a 50-game suspension by winning his appeal on a chain-of-custody error due to faulty protocol in Major League Baseball's drug-testing program. In a news conference upon his arrival at spring training – one he invited non-Brewers players to, though they declined to attend – Braun impugned the league's testing policy and called the collector "very suspicious."

Earlier in the day, a member of Braun's camp had leaked Laurenzi's name in an


email to Yahoo! Sports. Laurenzi had kept the sample of Braun's urine stored in his house because there was no FedEx store within a reasonable distance that would ship the sample according to MLB's rules. Braun's lawyers argued successfully that this broke the chain of custody, even though the lab that tested the sample said it had not degraded and was valid.

Upon Braun's suspension less than a month ago for doing business with Biogenesis, which provided PEDs to more than a dozen major league players, a number of major leaguers publicly censured Braun and made calls for stiffer penalties for drug use.

Reports over the weekend indicated Braun has started apologizing to those he lied to and plans on coming clean publicly about his drug use. It is unclearitself Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), arose from the same ideological swamp as the other groups. The harsh Islamization of Pakistan, which started under Zulfikar Bhutto in the mid-1970s—when he forged tighter bonds with Saudi Arabia, declared the minority Muslim sect Ahmadis as non-Muslims, and banned the sale of alcohol, all for the political support of the religious class—only accelerated under the military rule of Zia-ul-Haq.

After the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Zia feared further Soviet aggression and worked with the United States and Saudi Arabia to bog down the Red Army, fostering the seven mujahideen groups—including what would become the Haqqani network—and encouraging the further Islamization of Pakistani society in the face of “atheistic and communist” aggression from Moscow.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union following its retreat


women wearing Western dress? Why are girls going to school?’”

Speaking of schools, Pakistan’s textbooks are full of xenophobic, anti-Western and anti-Shiite sentiments, producing generations of students open to the extremists’ hateful rhetoric. Its blasphemy law, which carries the death penalty, is frequently invoked and just as frequently misused. Many of those accused are religious minorities, and more than 62 have been murdered since 1990, including the governor of Punjab, Salman Taseer.

Haqqani says the military establishment, which can push whatever propaganda it wants through Pakistan’s media, must finally decide to change the message of victimization, threat, and paranoia.

Haqqani is hardly a disinterested observer, to be fair. In 2011-12, he was involved in a controversy when he was ambassador to the United States, in which he was accused of writinga memo to the Pentagon in the days immediately after the killing of bin Laden, asking the United States for help in staving off a military coup. The Pakistani military had been humiliated by the Abbottabad raid, and the mood in the capital, where I was working for Reuters at the time, was tense. A coup didn’t seem completely far-fetched.

In return for asking an ally for help in preserving Pakistan’s weak democracy, Haqqani was branded a traitor on every major television station, prevented from leaving the country, and confined to the prime minister’s residence out of fear for his safety. He was eventually allowed to leave, but he was forced to resign as ambassador and now lives in Washington, effectively in exile.

“Unless there’s a national narrative change, we


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About the Artists:

Julie has been a full time artist for eighteen years. She has won numerous awards both locally & nationally & has been exhibiting on a professional level since 2001.

Julie is a member of Portrait Artists Australia & has been featured in their 2012 book as well as many newpaper publications & articles in Art magazines. Drawing is a major discipline & Julie conducts Life Drawing sessions once a week & is in high demand to teach this Art.

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I think you all know which is that “yet to be released film. 🙂

So far these casting agencies proved to be pretty resourceful for small bits of info on the movie. If you haven’t seen our piece on the StarNow agency click HERE.

From the combined info from Spotlight and StarNow we now know about:

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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is what it says it is: we were wrong to use the euphemisms "circumcised" and "circumcision" in a caption to a photograph of an Indonesian girl in tears after this "procedure" – which has very little in common with male circumcision (New Review, last week, page 11).

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It's a huge and historic event - and today the acting Commissioner Chester Williams led a press conference to explain why it has been necessitated:

Jules Vasquez reporting:
This morning police and BDF swarmed the areas in and around George Street. We saw masked BDF soldiers guarding the corners, machine guns at the ready. And while we've seen that before, the sight of these jungle ready soldiers in masks is something new, and that menacing appearance told everyone on the streets that today was not business as usual. The men you see in the back of the truck are two of about 100 detained between 3:00 am and 10:00 am as a result of a period of intense house to house searches andThis is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.

Ciara Meyer stood directly behind her father as he raised a .223-caliber rifle and pointed it at the chest of a constable who’d come to serve an eviction notice at their apartment.

The constable responded with a single shot.

That bullet went through the arm of 57-year-old Donald Meyer and into his 12-year-old daughter, Ciara, killing her.

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board of directors, the sole stockholder, MSU, selects each director.  In addition, the various companies do have common or overlapping officers and directors.  The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of MSU is a member of the board of each operating company and the CEOs of the operating companies are members of the board of MSU.  Other MSU board members are also board members of individual operating companies.  Middle South Services, Inc., 30 FERC p 63,030, 65,142 (Docket No. ER82-463-000) (ALJ Head).

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Transactions among the various operating companies are governed by a System Agreement.  Over its history, MSU has filed three successive System Agreements--in 1951, 1973, and 1982.  The Commission scrutinizes the System Agreement and modifies it when necessary.  See, e.g., Middleto produce the effect of roughly equalizing the cost of investing in new capacity from the 1950's through the 1970's.  During the years in which the 1951 System Agreement was in force the cost of creating such capacity was relatively uniform and relatively constant.  See 616-R. 1332-33, I JA 14041;  30 FERC at 65,168.11   As a consequence, the System Agreement's allocation of equalization payments based on a constant dollar per kilowatt of short capacity served to equalize investment costs.  Although in the 1970's the cost of new units began to exceed that of older facilities by a substantial margin, the 1973 System Agreement balanced this development by basing equalization payments on the costs of the newest (and more expensive) units of the


"long" companies.  26 FERC at 65,100.12

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3. The shift to nuclear energy and its consequences.    In the 1950's and 1960's the MSU system tended to add new generating units in the southern part of the system to take advantage of cheap oil and gas reserves in Louisiana.  See 26 FERC at 65,100;  30 FERC at 65,143.  In the late 1960's, however, the system began a program of adding coal and nuclear generating capacity, 30 FERC at 65,144, that eventually resulted in the collapse of the investment equalization program.

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AP & L was the first operating company to make such an investment in nuclear power.  AP & L had historically been both a short company and one with insufficient capacity to meet theto AP & L.  26 FERC at 65,095.27B. The Proceedings Below

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In April 1982 MSU filed with the Commission the 1982 System Agreement, which set the general rules governing transactions between the operating companies, including capacity equalization payments and the rates governing the exchange of energy between the operating companies.  FERC set the proceeding for hearing before ALJ Head.  In June 1982 MSU filed the Unit Power Sales Agreement with the Commission, governing the sales of Grand Gulf capacity and energy by MSE to the four operating companies.  This proceeding was set for hearing before ALJ Liebman.28   ALJ Liebman issued his opinion on February 3, 1984, Middle South Energy, Inc., 26 FERC p 63,044 (1984), and ALJ Head issued his opinion a year


disputed the contention of the Arkansas parties that the allocation violated the spirit and practice of the MSU system, the System Agreement, and the intent of the parties to that Agreement.  FERC responded that the clear intent of the System Agreement was to correct major cost imbalances while moving toward a mixed fuel base including nuclear and coal-fired facilities.  The Commission insisted that it need not measure the rationality of its allocation from the vantage point of the parties at the time the UPSA was first negotiated.  Id. at 61,957-59.

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The Commission also addressed the argument of MP & L that the Commission's order had only exacerbated the discrimination it would have suffered under the original UPSA scheme.  MP & L noted that under thethe wholesale rates of electric generating facilities in interstate commerce, which includes, under the facts presented, the authority to reallocate the costs of Grand Gulf across the system.  As the statute quite plainly states, FERC's control here is exclusive.  The jurisdictional line drawn by Congress is bright, and FERC stands on the correct side of that line.

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The cases cited by the Arkansas-Missouri petitioners are inapposite.  In Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. FPC,72 the Supreme Court construed the "local distribution" exception to the Commission's jurisdiction, rather than the "generating facilities" exception, in the context of determining whether to permit regulation of an electric utility located and serving customers exclusively in the state of Connecticut.  In its decision, the Court cited the language of section


by a public utility for wholesale service in interstate commerce.

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In the Mobile case, the Mobile Gas Service Corporation ("Mobile"), a natural gas distributor, had entered into a long-term contract with the United Gas Pipe Line Company ("United") to purchase gas for resale to an industrial customer, Ideal Cement Company ("Ideal")  Ideal had a reciprocal contract to buy the gas from Mobile.  The Mobile-United agreement had been filed with the Commission and was part of United's filed schedule of rates.  Subsequently, United, acting without the consent of Mobile, altered the rates specified in its contract with Mobile by filing with the Commission a new rate schedule purporting to increase the rate on gas sold to Mobile for resale to Ideal.  Mobile challenged United's action, andMSE the same proportionate shares of the total capital and operating costs of the Grand Gulf unit.  Id.  Thus, the UPSA allocates Grand Gulf capacity and energy in identical shares.

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Meanwhile, in April 1982, MSU filed the 1982 System Agreement with FERC to create a new rate schedule for the generation and consumption of the System's energy.  A critical aspect of the 1982 System Agreement, for our purposes, is that it does not apply to Grand Gulf.  That is, it assumes the existence of the UPSA and its allocation of Grand Gulf capacity and energy.  Thus, the 1982 System Agreement may be read and applied properly only by recalling the Grand Gulf allocations fixed by the UPSA.

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Under the 1982 System Agreement, capacity and energy


court enjoined the inquiry, holding that it constituted a collateral challenge to the FERC proceedings and an intrusion into a preempted area.  On appeal, the Eighth Circuit affirmed, but rested its decision on an alternative finding that APSC's inquiry was an unwarranted burden on interstate commerce.  The Eighth Circuit's characterization of APSC's purpose is instructive and highlights the merit of federal regulation in the present case:
The APSC seeks to cancel the Grand Gulf agreements ostensibly because they have not received the necessary state regulatory approval.  Its apparent concern, which has been made abundantly plain in its orders and its arguments before the SEC and FERC, however, is the economic impact on Arkansas citizens caused by AP & L's participation in Grand Gulf.  It seeksCheers all round in Brazil

Updated: 2014-05-26 07:14

By Agence France-Presse in Rio de Janeiro (China Daily)

Beer and soccer make a powerful team in Brazil, which is bracing for a drinking bonanza when it hosts the World Cup.

The passion for soccer is well-known-it has won the World Cup five times.

Brazil is also the world's third largest beer producer-more than 13 billion liters of the stuff in 2013. Such is the country's love of the beverage that you can even buy beer-flavored ice cream.

When the sun is baking the sidewalks off Copacabana beach, the first reaction seems to be to order a beer that Brazilians always say arrives "stupidly" cold.

A recent survey commissioned by brewing giant Ambev, the country's largest company by market value, asked Brazilians to list their national passions.


Seventy-seven percent named soccer; 35 percent said beer.

Now brewers are anticipating a beer boom during the World Cup Brazil will host from June 12 to July 13.

A study released this month by Nielsen and Kantar Worldpanel, commissioned by the Sao Paulo Supermarkets Association, forecast a 37 percent increase in beer consumption during the Cup and total sales of 1.8 billion reals ($816 million) during the four weeks. During the 2010 Cup, beer sales in Brazil increased 15 percent.

As it is favorite to win again and the tournament is expected to draw 600,000 foreigners, there is plenty to celebrate.

One in four beers consumed in Brazil is linked to soccer-before the match, around the TV or in post-game celebration or mourning, according to a study by the Getulio Vargas Foundation,a Brazilian economics institute.

Soccer and beer have a powerful influence on government policy.. The government ordered a beverage-tax hike just before the World Cup, but in the face of brewers' protests, President Dilma Rousseff's government shelved the increase until after the tournament.

The government also backed off a ban on alcohol sales in stadiums,.

After a drawn-out fight, soccer's governing body, FIFA, won an exemption for the World Cup, upholding its multi-million-dollar sponsorship deal with Budweiser-a brand owned by Ab InBev, the company borne from a 2004 merger between Ambev and Belgium's Interbrew.

Ambev, which has 70 percent market share in Brazil, is seeking to deepen the links between the national drink and the national sport.

It is using the World Cup to try to convince more fans to become paying members


if they become members of their favorite clubs.

In just more than a year the "Movement for a Better Football" program has helped sign up more than 720,000 members at 49 clubs, bringing them $45 million. The goal is to reach three million members by 2020, which would mean an extra $542 million a year for clubs.

"Brazilian football is starting to discover the power of the fans to attract companies. The best stakeholders in the clubs are the fans, their most faithful consumers," said Erich Beting, an expert in soccer marketing and director of sports news site Maquina do Esporte.

Helping Brazilian clubs to keep more players at the peak of their careers could be good for Brazilian beer and soccer.

"The stronger Brazilian football is, the more moments there areto get together with friends around football, the more beer people will drink," said Pedro Trengrouse, a United Nations consultant on the World Cup.

Cakes decorated for the training camp of the German team are seen at a bakery in St. Leonhard, northern Italy, on Saturday. The side's training camp began in St. Martin on May 21. Ina Fassbender / Reuters


things, he is subject to suffering
and rebirth, but when turns his attention to the permanent aspect,
which is hidden within him, he opens a new door of possibilities
for himself to overcome impermanence and achieve liberation.

Thus, Hinduism suggests that impermanence can be overcome by
locating and uniting with the center of permanence that exists within
oneself. This center is the Soul or the self that is immortal, permanent
and ever stable.

In Hinduism, Atman is the fundamental truth that exists in every
being, while at the microcosmic level it is Brahman who is the fundamental
and supreme truth of all existence. He who realizes Atman verily
becomes Brahman and attains immortality.

The Buddha differed radically with the solution suggested in
the Vedas to overcome impermanence. He departed radically from the
established beliefs regarding Self. For him the most immediate and
pressingimpression of one continuous flow. It moves from cause to cause,
effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to
another, giving an outward impression that it is one continuous
and unified movement, where as in reality it is not. The river of
yesterday is not the same as the river of today. The river of this
moment is not going to be the same as the river of the next moment.
So does life. It changes continuously, becomes something or the
other from moment to moment.

The illusion of continuity

A wise person perceives the illusion of continuity in existence.
He knows that we are born anew each moment, and live and die each
moment. Take for example the life of an individual. It is a fallacy
to believe that a person would remain the same


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 We affirm.

I.

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On December 2, 1977, the Deputy Superintendent of Warren Consolidated Schools met with members of the Warren Police Department.  It was agreed, at the request of the Deputy Superintendent, that a policewoman would enroll at Cousino High School and act as an undercover agent.  The purported purpose of the undercover operation was to investigate the involvement of teachers and students in drug trafficking at Cousino High School.  The Superintendent of Warren Consolidated Schools approved the project a short time later.

3
On December 12, 1977, the policewoman enrolled in Cousino High School posing as a transfer student.  An assistant principal at the school learned the true identity of the undercover policewoman, but processed the false transcripts which the Deputy Superintendent had prepared.

4
The policewoman wasplaced in only two classes, a sociology class and a psychology class.  Each of the teachers had "liberal reputations" and were known to run "open" classrooms.  The undercover agent confirmed that she was stationed in those particular classrooms because they contained "liberal students and teachers."

5
The policewoman apparently performed admirably in her role as an undercover agent.  She did not, however, discover any evidence of drug sales occurring in the classrooms where she was stationed.  In fact, she uncovered no drug sales occurring at the high school.  On January 19, 1978, the policewoman requested that the covert operation terminate.  On the date the request was made, the undercover agent still had not uncovered a single drug transaction.  The operation, however did not


terminate immediately.  Covert surveillance of the classrooms continued until the end of February.

6
At the conclusion of the two and one-half month covert surveillance operation only one drug "sale" had occurred.  The sale occurred at a student's home, not at the school.  The purchase involved a single ounce of marijuana.

7
On March 2, 1978, certain high school students learned the undercover policewoman's true identity when she appeared at an arraignment.  On April 6, 1978, plaintiff teachers learned that a drug surveillance operation had been conducted in their classrooms.  When questioned, the assistant principal informed the plaintiff teachers that the Deputy Superintendent knew the details of the covert operation.  That same day, the Deputy Superintendent admitted to plaintiff teachers that an undercover agent had beenplaced in their rooms.  During the meeting, the Deputy Superintendent allegedly stated that if he felt it was necessary, he would have another undercover police operation conducted in the school.

8
News that the sociology and psychology classes at Cousino High School were the target of a covert drug trafficking investigation spread throughout the school and community.  Community newspapers reported the event.  Disclosure of the investigation allegedly dramatically altered the content and open discussion methodology which had characterized the psychology and sociology classes.  Class discussions became stilled, and certain topics were avoided, and students refused to freely express their opinions.

9
On May 10, 1979 certain teachers, students, and parents of students who attended Cousino High School1 filed the present action alleging the Warren Consolidated Board of Education,


Editor's note: In this series, CNN investigates international adoption, hearing from families, children and key experts on its decline, and whether the trend could -- or should -- be reversed.

(CNN) -- Srey Powers' earliest memories in Cambodia are "waking up each morning, climbing trees to forage for fruit and berries with my cousins, and sitting around a fire each night with the one meal provided," the 19-year-old said.

Born in a refugee camp, Powers remembers traveling at age 6 for two days by moped, car and foot "only to be left at a building with many infants and toddlers and strange adults," she said.

At the orphanage, she met her new American family -- Claudia and Patrick Powers from Long Island, New York.

"From day one, I had a bond withmy mother. Our first language was through playing soccer," recalled Powers, who was named most valuable player after leading her high school to the 2010 girls soccer state championship.

Powers was adopted from Cambodia in 1999.

Two years later, the U.S. closed Cambodia to adoptions due to allegations of corruption.

Read Srey's story: From refugee to MVP

The U.S. adoption story of another 19-year-old is different.

"When I was 13, I was sold," said Tarikuwa Lemma, who grew up in Ethiopia.

She and her two sisters were adopted by an Arizona family who were told Lemma's parents died of AIDS.

"The truth was that our mother had died as a result of complications during childbirth, and our father was alive and well," said Lemma.

Lemma's family was scammed by a man who said the girls were


being sent to the United States on a study program, she said. Only when the sisters arrived did they realize their legal rights had been signed away to new parents.

"I wanted to escape from the people I felt had kidnapped us from our homeland, our culture and our family," said Lemma, who hopped from three different U.S. adoptive homes before becoming independent after turning 18. "My sisters and I had a father, a brother and older sisters, plus a large extended family that cared for us and loved us. We were middle class by Ethiopian standards, not poor."

These tales paint the divide on which, experts say, the legal and ethical debate on international adoption rests: Do the risks of abuse in a minority of cases outweigh the largerin country after country," said David Smolin, director of the center for Children, Law and Ethics at Samford University.

International adoption: I was stolen from my family

Smolin became a legal expert on international adoption issues after he and his wife adopted two daughters from India in 1998 only to discover that the girls were stolen from their mother.

Smolin, along with many other experts and organizations -- including UNICEF and the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption -- believe that orphans being adopted from abroad should be a last-case scenario, with more emphasis placed on helping keep children in their home country, such as providing day care, foster care, better orphanages and more domestic adoption.

Asked whether abuse in a minority of adoption cases should result in the closure of entire countries,


an amazing social program that changes people at no cost to the home country. To shut that down is tragic."

Read more: The decline of international adoption

Craig Juntunen, a former quarterback in the Canadian Football League and an entrepreneur who retired at age 43, toured a Haiti orphanage in 2006.

The experience changed his life, as he watched children "climbing over each other" to get a hug.

Later that year, he and his wife adopted three children from Haiti.

"Looking into their eyes when they first came, we were filled with a happiness we had never felt before," said Juntunen, who lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. "But, I was constantly reminded of how kids living in institutions, deprived of such simple things as human contact, are robbed of the opportunity to grow intohappy, healthy people."

He wrote about his experience in a book, "Both Ends Burning," which is now the name of the international adoption advocacy group he founded.

The group produced a documentary, "Stuck," documenting the travails and successes of people attempting to adopt in Vietnam, Ethiopia and Haiti. In each case, children matched for adoption continue to spend years in institutions while adoption requests move at glacial speeds across two countries.

Juntunen's group took the film on the road, showing it in cineplexes, film festivals and churches across 60 cities in 78 days, culminating in an "empty stroller march" on Capitol Hill in Washington.

A goal of Juntunen's group is to raise international adoption in the U.S. to 50,000 children a year and cut the average time to approve adoptions to nine


months.

In 2011, fewer than 10,000 overseas children were adopted in the U.S., with an average wait time of three years.

"We have to create the social and political will to deal with these things," he said.

The boom-bust cycle

To debunk the idea that corruption is the exception in the current international adoption systems, critics point to Guatemala, which was shut down in 2007 for adoption after allegations of families being coerced and children kidnapped to feed U.S. demand.

Before Guatemala closed to U.S. adoptions, the ratio of children adopted hit one per every 100 live births, according to the Adoption Council -- more than double the rate in Latvia, the next-highest nation.

Two years later, the number of foreign adoptions from Guatemala dropped 90%.

As Guatemala closed, adoptions in Ethiopia -- now theas an adoption agency, no one is more appalled, because we all get stuck with it and have our reputation smeared."

Haiti earthquake and adoption theology

The international adoption debate played out on the world stage in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed 200,000, when a group of U.S. Christian missionaries were accused of kidnapping "orphans."

Laura Silsby led a group of 10 missionaries from Idaho that was stopped at the Dominican Republic border as they tried to cross the border with 33 children without proper legal documentation.

Silsby originally claimed the children were orphaned or abandoned, but the Haitian government and the orphans' charity SOS Children later found that all had at least one living parent.

Charges against all but Silsby were dropped; Silsby was jailed for four


months before being tried on charges of arranging illegal travel by a Haitian court and released on time served.

Some parents told CNN they placed their children in Silsby's care because that was the only way they knew to ensure a better quality of life for them.

Silsby's group, New Life Children's Refuge, said it was going to house the children in a converted hotel in the Dominican Republic and later move them to an orphanage.

According to the itinerary of Silsby's mission, part of the group's plan, in addition to providing immediate humanitarian assistance, was for the planned orphanage to "equip each child with a solid education and vocational skills as well as opportunities for adoption into a loving Christian family."

While the incident -- which some labeled "kidnapping for Jesus"limiting agencies will place more control in weak governments of developing countries.

"If you shut down private intermediaries, you shut down international adoption," she said.

Juntunen's group wants a U.S.-led effort to help developing countries with technology and training that will improve records -- such as the creation of accurate birth certificates -- and faster adoption procedures.

"I believe we have to start bringing nations together to talk about this," he said.

Tarikuwa Lemma, who seven years ago was taken from her mother in Ethiopia, is writing a book about her experiences as she's about to start college.

"I am fighting to make sure that first families and adoptive families know the truth about the possibilities of fraud and human trafficking in adoption," she said.

Meanwhile, Srey Powers is a sophomore studying accounting at


State University of New York at Oneonta. While visiting Cambodia three years ago, she found her grandmother, who spoke of the difficult choice to give Srey up for adoption.

At one point, her grandmother turned to her adoptive mother and asked in a harsh tone if she had her "working in servitude, farming the fields." Her Cambodian grandmother assumed Powers' suntan was from working outside, not playing soccer.

"Watching my mother's attempt to put my (grandmother) at ease, I had a new level of gratitude for her, my father, my siblings and my life in America," she said.Heche, McDowell star in ‘Science Fiction’

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Heche has fun as a spoiled socialite in a future given to idle hours and ridiculous hairstyles. If her dim boy toy is any clue, the legacy of Duran Duran will linger long into the new century.

McDowell plays a brilliant industrialist tormented that his genius has been wasted on devising clever, freakish playthings for the rich.

Based on a story by Robert Heinlein, and written and directed by Michael Tolkin ("The Rapture"), this clever trifle muses on people and their creations and the possibility that the artificial can be endowed with humanity.

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Robert Young Mental Health Center. Dr. Ritterhoff testified that he was on call at the hospital

on July 5,


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        it would be that he would do if he was to leave, his response has been that he

       JAMMU: Obviously replying the opposition's criticism on "PDP forging unholy alliance with BJP" in 2014 in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti today stated that the Agenda of Alliance (AoA) is the holy document in the "unholy alliance.""I have been witnessing for the past some days in the assembly that opposition, particularly Congress party is terming our alliance as unholy. I want to tell them that the AoA is a holy document in the 'unholy alliance' agreed between PDP and BJP," CM said. Replying to the discussion on Motion of Thanks on the Governor's Address in the Legislative Assembly today, the Chief Minister said, "No doubt, PDP and BJP are ideologically different. But the Agenda of Alliance (AoA) already contains what has been agreed upon by all


return back of power projects or lands from the occupation of security forces, revocation of AFSPA or initiating dialogue with all stakeholders in the State, the implementation of the same has been contained well in the Agenda of Alliance reached between PDP and BJP.She said the State's Legislative Assembly has a greater role in the resolution of issues the State is faced with because, she said, ideas can only be challenged with counter ideas and arguments.Mehbooba Mufti said the constitutional turf of the country is so wide that it can easily accommodate the aspirations and sentiments of people of the State. This, she said, would not only get the state out of its present phase of uncertainties but also strengthen the relations between the state and rest ofthe country.She, however, asked the political parties to allay the fears of each other on the issues on which they have stated positions so that the whole polity of the state moves in unison to address the burning issues confronting Jammu and Kashmir.The Chief Minister said she has consistently believed to make Jammu and Kashmir a bridge of faith between India and Pakistan as history and geography cannot be divorced from the present status of these two neighboring countries.She said whenever she met the Prime Minister, she impressed upon him the need for continuous peaceful engagement and friendship between the two countries as the people of the State have a direct bearing of the relations between the two countries. "We have to learn to live together", she said


while expressing the hope that the present phase of relations between the two countries would finally give way to an era of cooperation and amity.On the issue of rehabilitation of pandits, refugees and other victims of history, the Chief Minister said, "We have to settle these smaller issues to unbundle the bigger knot in the State." She said the communities and regions have to be brought closer, remove the fears about each other and then only can the State move ahead looking for solutions to its problems.On issuing Aadhar Cards to WPRs, she said, "It was unfortunate that opposition created mountain hills out of moles.""Nobody was issuing domicile certificates to the refugees but opposition spread a wrong wave across the state. Rather, they would have appreciated government ingiving them Aadhar Cards because since decades they were craving for identity," she said.The Chief Minister also complimented people of Jammu region for warmly accommodating the turmoil affected students of valley in Jammu and schools within the region."With this, I also appreciate our BJP leaders that whenever some elements, inimical to the peace, indulged in provocations to create tension in Jammu region, they, themselves camped in the affected areas to defuse the tension," the CM said, adding, "This is the real spirit of humanity."Legislators who took part in the discussion on Motion of Thanks on Governor's address included Muhammad Yusuf Bhat, Shah Muhammad Tantray, Ravinder Raina, Chowdhary Qamar Hussain, Raja Manzoor, Dr Krishan Lal, Abdul Rahim Rather, Daleep Singh Parihar, Jeevan Lal, Rajesh Gupta, Pawan Kumar Gupta and


Eat more fruits, veggies to reduce asthma symptoms

London, July 12: If you have asthma, switching to a healthy diet of fruits, vegetables and whole grain cereals may help in reducing the symptoms like difficulty in breathing, chest pain and coughing among many other things, according to a study.

On the other hand, those who take unhealthy diets, with high consumption of meat, salt and sugar, are likely to have the poorest relief from asthma symptoms, the study showed, suggesting the role of healthy diet in preventing the onset of asthma as well as controlling problem in adults.

"A healthy diet is mostly made up of a high intake of fruit, vegetables and fibre. These have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and are elements in a healthy diet that potentially lower symptoms,"said lead researcher Roland Andrianasolo, from University of Paris 13 in France.

"In contrast, the least healthy diets include high consumption of meat, salt, and sugar, and these are elements with pro-inflammatory capacities that may potentially worsen symptoms of asthma," he added.

The results also showed that for men and women with asthma who adhered to healthy diets, the likelihood of poorly controlled symptoms was lower by 60 per cent and 27 per cent respectively.

For the study, published in European Respiratory Journal, the team analysed data from 34,776 adults.

Overall, men who ate a healthier diet showed a 30 per cent lower chance of experiencing asthma symptoms, while in women with healthier diets, the chance of experiencing the symptoms was 20 per cent lower.

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About 193 million Indonesians are eligible to vote in a presidential election that will decide who leads a nation that's an outpost of democracy in a neighborhood of authoritarian governments.

Their choice Wednesday is between five more years of the steady progress achieved under Indonesia's first president from outside the Jakarta elite or electing a charismatic but volatile figure from the era of the Suharto military dictatorship that ended two decades ago.

In the final moves of the campaign, the front-runner, President Joko Widodo, dashed to Saudi Arabia to meet its king and perform a minor pilgrimage.

The message intended by Widodo's trip to the birthplace of Islam was obvious after a campaign in which conservative opponents tried to discredit him as insufficientlystory, Simon is already the person many of the LGBTQ community see in themselves, yet still seem to hide under crippling facades.

Friends and allies of the LGBTQ community in 2018 still reign far and few, despite the overwhelming amount of support garnered in recent years. Abby, played by beautiful Alexandra Shipp, is one of Simons close friends and the first person he feels comfortable enough to come out to. There’s no doubt that you’ve heard of Alexandra Shipp before. The 26-year-old actress has already faced roles in movies like Straight Outta Compton, Drumline: A New Beat, and even playing Storm from X-men: Apocalypse. She takes on this new role as Abby, the firey high school student who wins everyone over with her self-effacing attitude. We spoke to Alexandria


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As a vampire, Anna Strong has an immortal life…but now she’s running out of time.

Anna’s relationship with shape-shifter Daniel Frey has given her hope for a future with him and his son—especially when Frey proposes…

But just when Anna starts to think her life couldn’t be better, she must fly to France to be at the side of her dying mother. There she learns that not every vampire accepts her Chosen One status. And one such vamp is about to go rogue—by leading his followers in a fight to usurp humanity…The pop star: VV Brown

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On paper, 24-year-old VV Brown certainly has the makings of a star – beauty, a big voice and, crucially, the backing of a major record label. Add to that her penchant for retro-soul and success on a huge scale seems a foregone conclusion.

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Yet Vanessa, as VV was once known, is no mere Winehouse-a-like. Where the past few years have heralded the rise of bee-hived girls singing Dusty torch songs, Brown takes the glamour and pizzazz of Sixties girl groups (check out the retro flat-top!) and imbues it with an indie-punk edge, a sound that she has artfully described as "musical mashed potatoes". And confounding the norm of soul singers


backed by expensive writing and production teams, Brown can take credit for writing, producing and performing songs on her forthcoming debut album Travelling Like the Light.

One of six siblings born and raised in Northampton, Vanessa was weaned on a diet of Aretha Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. She studied piano from the age of five, sang in the church choir and turned down a place at the London School of Economics in order to sign her first record deal. She upped sticks and moved to LA in the process but was ill at ease with the R&B diva role the record company had carved out for her.

Two years later, after stints singing backing vocals for Madonna and the Pussycat Dolls, she returned to London to start over.She rented a flat, bought a one-stringed guitar from a second-hand shop and wrote "Crying Blood", a cheerful confection that blends the bluesy croon of La Winehouse with the barmy spirit of Bobby Pickett's novelty hit "Monster Mash".

The song is just one in a collection of deliriously upbeat, doo-wop numbers to be found on Travelling Like the Light. It is, VV says, the album she wanted to make all along. This is her second stab at success, and this time around she's taking no prisoners.

The broadcaster: Rachel Riley

by Ian Burrell

Fresh out of Oriel College, Oxford, with a masters in mathematics, 22-year-old Rachel Riley is the new Carol Vorderman, taking on the role of human calculator in the revamped Channel 4 afternoon quiz Countdown. Riley was planning on a


career in marketing but beat 1,000 rival applicants to the Countdown job where she will work alongside the dry-witted Sky Sports presenter Jeff Stelling.

If she really can get her consonants in a line and follow Vorderman's career path, then the potential rewards are immense. Vorderman was on £1m per annum, though she quit the job earlier this year after being asked to take a 90 per cent pay cut. Riley's starting salary of £100,000 a year is hefty enough for someone straight out of university. "This is the best graduate job in the world," she says. "There's only one cool maths job around and I was lucky enough to get it."

For the Countdown auditions, Rachel and other applicants were tested on their maths skills, having to answer complexsums within 30 seconds – with the Countdown clock music in the background to add to the pressure. She was then shortlisted alongside five other candidates who took part in screen tests in Leeds.

Expect Riley to become a cult figure with undergraduates – a key Countdown demographic – next year. Like most students she was an obsessive watcher of the show, formerly hosted by Richard Whiteley, Des Lynam and Des O'Connor. "I've had the Countdown theme as my mobile-phone ringtone for years," she says. "Prior to my audition I bought five Countdown puzzle books and tackled over 500 different numbers games in order to hone my skills."

If the new series is a success, expect Channel 4 to explore further television projects with Riley to broaden her profile.

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"high" and "low" culture can fall down with a single well-aimed shove. Richard Milward, a 24-year-old graduate of Central St Martins college, belongs in this anti-tradition of fence-smashing provocateurs whose aesthetics mix trash and transcendence.

Milward's debut novel, Apples, won praise from Irvine Welsh for its sink-estate Garden of Eden peopled by temptation-prone teenagers. He is now at work on the screenplay – and in February, Faber & Faber publishes his second book, a novel whose profane but touching cocktail of anarchy and artistry will surely brand it the Trainspotting of modern Middlesborough.

Apart from a brief, nightmarish trip to London, Ten Storey Love Song mostly unfolds in and around a cosmetically renovated high-rise. Here, the wasted young painter Bobby struggles to pursue his outsider art, and to rekindle hispassion for girlfriend Georgie in the face of endless drug-related distractions. His mates in Peach House, Johnnie and Ellen, struggle to keep their love alive as bad sex as well as substances and suspicions pull them apart. Elsewhere in the tower, the unsavoury truck driver Alan repels his neighbours as a sad – and maybe bad – loner but nurses secrets no one else can share. Not since Georges Perec's eccentric classic Life: A User's Manual has a block of flats given cult fiction such an engagingly offbeat home.

Comic, erotic, candid but charming, Ten Storey Love Song unspools over 280 pages in a single virtuoso paragraph. Milward gleefully slathers drugs, sex and rock'n'roll all over his canvas but a sort of innocence prevails. Repelled by the creepy London


art and media scene, Bobby flees back to Middlesbrough and reflects that fame is all about "getting lots of initial success and then a slow decline into mediocrity and backlash and paranoia". He will speak for readers whose heads may be lost in creative space but whose feet remain happily stuck on planet Earth.

The opera singer: Vuyani Mlinde

by Michael Church

When Vuyani Mlinde is on stage, you don't take your eyes off him: the timbre of voice and vividness of performance demand attention. Now recognised as a rising star among bass-baritones, this unassuming 28-year-old South African is making his mark with all the big baritone roles, from Leporello and the Commendatore in Don Giovanni to the philosopher Colline in La Bohème.

His beginnings in Bloemfontein were musically inauspicious. "When Iwas 12, the teacher in charge of the choir made us all stand up," he recalls. "And when she came to me, she suddenly said, 'You are in my choir, come at 2.30 this afternoon'. I was surprised, because football was what interested me, but for some reason she knew I would be a bass." He turned up, sang hymns and traditional songs "and when my voice broke at 15 I knew I already had a nice instrument, though I didn't know how to use it, and it never occurred to me that I could make a career from it".

An astute voice-coach offered him free lessons, after which he sang the evil Sparafucile in Rigoletto, went on a tour of Australia, landed a scholarship at London's Royal College


of Music, and the rest is history.

He's still passionately involved with his roots: he's just come back from Pretoria, where his community choir had invited him to join them as soloist for a new Zulu Mass. And he agrees that African voices are special: "They have a lot of strength. The musical talent in South Africa is huge, but most of the time people don't know they have talent – as I didn't. They can bring something different to European music." As he is doing. "I just wish that what I am doing here could be seen in my country." Hopefully one day it will.

The environmentalist: Matt Shardlow

by Michael McCarthy

The environmentalist with the most conspicuous rising reputation in Britain looks after the lowliest of wildlife. Matt Shardlow isBritain's champion of invertebrates – insects, spiders, worms, snails and the rest of "the little things that rule the world". Although Britain has a long and noble tradition of entomologists and other specialists in mini-beasts, Matt is director of a pioneering body that looks out for the interests of all of them – Buglife, the invertebrate conservation charity.

His voice is increasingly being heard, not least as concern is growing nationally about the alarming declines in populations of insects such as butterflies, moths and bees, and this year Buglife has figured in two prominent High Court challenges to the development of an insect-rich brownfield site in the Thames Estuary, West Thurrock Marshes. This appears to be the first-ever High Court case fought out over insect welfare; it is a


test case of the duty of public bodies to have regard to wildlife, but also an indication of how our view of what is important in the natural world has broadened from pandas and tigers (final judgment was still awaited at the time of our going to press).

Matt, 37, has loved all invertebrates, from ladybirds to slugs, since he was a child in Sussex. An environmental science graduate, he formerly looked after wildlife other than birds for the RSPB, but since 2004 has concentrated full time on invertebrate campaigning at Buglife's head. As he points out, they are worth fighting for as they make up the majority of living things in Britain – there are about 40,000 invertebrate species (including 28,000 insects) in the full roll-call of 70,000species in this country. He is recognised by his peers as one of the strongest green campaigning voices to emerge in years.

The artist: Petros Chrisostomou

by Michael Glover

The giant, full-colour photographs of Petros Chrisostomou put you in mind of the magical world of Alice in Wonderland as it was realised by Sir John Tenniel, the first and still the greatest of Lewis Carroll's illustrators. Tenniel plays with scale in order to alarm and amuse us, simultaneously – the Red Queen's face looms horribly out at us, disproportionately large; Alice herself drinks a potion that causes her to grow and grow until her body is squeezed up against the ceilings. Chrisostomou, who graduated with an MA in Fine Art from London's Royal Academy schools last summer after a first degree


at Central St Martins, does something similar in his photographs.

He takes objects with which we are all too familiar – a high-heeled shoe or two; some eggs; a head of blonde hair – and he plays with scale to such an extent that they look monstrously large in their contexts. The consequence of this is that they turn into the stuff of dreams – sometimes playful ones, at other times nightmarish. The perfectly ordinary object becomes wholly extraordinary. The known world, with all its paraphernalia, becomes an unreal construction, a kind of bizarre still-life. As in Alice, the objects he concentrates on – a buckled frankfurter; scraps of doner-kebab meat – suddenly seem to take on a reality of their own. Too small for the spaces they occupy,they want to disrupt them, burst out of them, shoulder them aside.

"I started making things as a child in north Finchley during the 1980s," he tells me. His mother had come to England from Cyprus in the 1970s; his father was born in Swindon. "That was before the world of computer games. It was a time when you had to invent your own imaginative worlds by putting a blanket over a couple of chairs, simple things like that." Next year already promises to be a busy one. Several group shows are under discussion, and in November he has his first solo exhibition at the Ceri Hand Gallery in Liverpool. He has also won the Royal Academy/Land Securities award for 2009, which will give him free studio space at


48 Oxford Street for a year, a bursary and an exhibition in June.

The playwright: Lucy Kirkwood

by Alice Jones

Meet Lucy Kirkwood, a young playwright with a singular – and just a little bit dark – dramatic vision. Her first play, Tinderbox, was described as "Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr Sloane as rewritten by the League of Gentleman" while her bold, rip-roaring take on Hedda Gabler, at the Gate Theatre, transposed Ibsen's classic drama to 21st-century Notting Hill where, instead of flinging Lovborg's manuscript on the fire, in a thrilling coup de théâtre, Hedda gulped down the memory chip containing his life's work.

Kirkwood was midway through a degree in English at Edinburgh when she took a surprise call from Caryl Churchill's agent, Mel Kenyon, requesting a meeting. It turned out thather short play Grady Hot Potato, having been rejected by the National Student Drama Festival, had been passed to the jury of the prestigious PMA award – and Kenyon and her fellow judges had deemed it a worthy winner. From there she received her first two professional commissions, from the National Theatre studio (a work still in progress) and the Bush, where Tinderbox opened in April.

It was while holed away "like a hermit" in Northumberland, writing the dystopian fairytale Tinderbox, that she took another surprising call, this time from the producers of Skins, asking her to join their writing team. Kirkwood didn't have a TV at the time and had never heard of the hit teen soap. "My sister, who is much younger and trendier than me, couldn't


believe it ..."

For now she's hard at work on a couple of new theatre commissions, a new episode of Skins and a TV script for Kudos. Who's her inspiration? "I like playwrights who deal with big ideas," she says. "Caryl Churchill does it with humour and delicacy but she's also kind of cut-throat. If I were to aspire to one thing, it's that quality."

The chef: Rachel Humphrey

by Madeleine Lim

There's a new face at the helm of the two-Michelin-starred French restaurant Le Gavroche in London's Mayfair – and she's a woman. Rachel Humphrey, 30, formerly senior sous chef at the restaurant, was recently named head chef; the first woman to gain such a position in the restaurant's 42-year history. But she's much too clever – and honest – tolunch menu a little less masculine, replacing some of the heavy butter sauces with delicate jus whippings." A woman's touch, perhaps? "Not really," she says. "It just depends on your personality – I know some guys who have a wonderfully delicate touch and other female chefs who are really heavy-handed. All I know is that I've got 40 years of tradition to live up to!"

The politician: Chuka Umunna

by Andrew Grice

Chuka Umunna is not a household name yet, even within his own party, but he is winning rave reviews as one of the next generation of Labour politicians. He is not an MP, but has a strong chance of becoming one at the next general election having been chosen as Labour's candidate in Streatham, south London, where he has


lived all his life.

The highly articulate 30-year-old employment lawyer is even tipped by some senior Labour figures as the man who could be the next leader to take the party to an election victory. It is not a label he would welcome, since history is littered with ex-"future leaders".

Umunna will want to be known as a "Labour MP" rather than a "black MP". He does not want to be seen as "Labour's Barack Obama", even though party colleagues see him as an inspirational figure too. He was ecstatic about Obama's election victory, saying: "Words cannot express how happy I am." He has noted that they have one thing in common – a strange name. He will try to avoid the media limelight, and is anxious to avoid thefate of David Lammy, the black Skills Minister, who struggled to live up to his billing after being tipped as a future Labour leader.

Umunna is no fan of New Labour, a brand that might well be out of fashion after an election defeat. A free-thinker, he disliked the "on message" control-freakery of the Blair era. He is on the board of Compass, the left-wing pressure group, and has urged Gordon Brown to be bold by adopting policies such as a windfall tax on energy companies. Although untested at a high level, he is seen as charming and ambitious. Friends say he is on the party's soft or pragmatic left and will gravitate towards its mainstream as he rises up the political ladder.

The comedian: Barunka O'Shaughnessy

by James Rampton

Barunka O'Shaughnessy


once worked in a jam factory in order to make ends meet. It was mind-numbing work. "My job was to pick up any jam-jars that had fallen over," she recollects, "but one only fell over every five hours. I was going mad there!"

Her professional career certainly started quietly. In 1999, she played a drugged-up girl in Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson's much-loved sitcom, Spaced, "for about a minute". She went on to take parts such as Checkout Girl in The Mighty Boosh, Woman Extra in Extras and Waitress in Absolute Power.

Such anonymity, however, seems unlikely to befall O'Shaughnessy in the future. The performer, whose unusual name reflects her Czech and Irish parentage, looks set to break through to the major leagues in the coming year.

A graduate of CambridgeUniversity, where she was friends with the double act of David Mitchell and Robert Webb, O'Shaughnessy has penned material for Jonathan Ross, Matt Lucas, Sally Phillips, Phill Jupitus and John Thomson. She is now writing for School of Comedy, a new Channel 4 series in which grown-up sketches are performed by youngsters.

But it's as a performer that O'Shaughnessy is really making her mark. After two well-received Edinburgh shows, she appeared on the Paramount Comedy Channel as an Eastern European prostitute and enjoyed a successful run in the much-lauded sketch troupe at Ealing Live!. She then landed a big break, appearing as Avid Merrion's (Leigh Francis) wife (and sister!), Sacha, on C4's cult-com Bo' Selecta.

O'Shaughnessy has since been a regular on C4's Bremner, Bird and Fortune and been reunited


with her old university pals on BBC2's That Mitchell and Webb Look. In addition, she has starred as another Eastern European prostitute in Five's brothel-set sitcom, Respectable. "I was in danger of being typecast," she laughs.

Now she is one of four performers in E4's new all-female sketch show, Beehive, which has been compared to both Smack the Pony and French and Saunders. All in all, 2008 has been quite a year for O'Shaughnessy – and 2009 promises to be even better.

The designer: Tom Price

by Clare Dwyer Hogg

When Kanye West says he likes your chair on his blog – before you've even graduated – that's probably not a bad start to your career. Tom Price's Meltdown Chair was one of his final pieces before graduating from the Royal Collegeof Art in 2007 – a month later, he landed his first major commission (he got the call when he was on the beach): the Metropolitan Works in east London wanted him to create a design around their new building.

He clad the building in 40 perforated panels – a symbol of old technology, perfectly stamped, very regimented – and liquefied them, so the holes melted. "I wanted to express the capacities of the centre, so they became swirling patterns – like a large abstract painting," he says. The project, Price says generously, was a "huge learning experience", thanks to public liability requirements: once the panels were produced, he was told the holes couldn't be larger than 10mm in diameter, with the bridges between the holes at 3mm. "Because


the holes were organically produced, that meant I had to go back and change every line, every circle – hundreds and thousands of them," he laughs.

The building will finally be unveiled in February; after this sisyphusian task, what next? There's Oliver Sweeney's shop window that he's taking over in New Bond Street to display new pieces of furniture, also in February. "I see myself lying somewhere between art and design," he says. "I am very much dealing with the three-dimensional." Keep your eyes open for his work – something tells us it won't be long before his fan base is made up of rather more than a global hip-hop star.

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The actress: Rebecca Hall

by Jonathan Romney

Last May, at the Cannes press conference for Woody Allen's new film, all thetalk was of Penelope Cruz and Scarlett Johansson, until journalists started to ask, "Who's the English actress?" That actress is Rebecca Hall, and she comprehensively steals the show in Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona. She plays an uptight American abroad, and her spiky performance has earned her a nomination in the forthcoming Golden Globes. Cannes exposure was a heady experience for 26-year-old Hall, but it wasn't her first screen success. She made her film debut in the 2006 Britcom Starter for 10, then made a strong impression in The Prestige.

The daughter of Sir Peter Hall and the opera singer Maria Ewing, Hall is sceptical about being tipped as a face of 2009: "I've been on 'next' lists for the past five years." But it's hard to imagine Hall being


in a couple of months," she laughs. "I've got no idea."

'Frost/Nixon' is released on 23 January; 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' on 6 February. The Bridge Project opens at the Old Vic in May.

The fashion designer: Nasir Mazhar

by Harriet Walker

I try to create a world for myself, but I know real life subconsciously seeps in and has its effect," declares Nasir Mazhar, currently the brightest star in London's galaxy of young designer talent, and the creator of the spiked headguard that Madonna sported on her recent Dazed & Confused cover shot. The 25-year-old headgear designer started out as a hair-stylist with Vidal Sassoon before turning to theatrical design to fulfil his desire to work in a more highly conceptualised way.

His work ethic is as idiosyncratic as his personal aesthetic, andwas evident in his spring/summer 2009 collection, showcased in an atmospheric presentation during September's London Fashion Week. Mazhar claims his main inspiration is the city he lives and works in, but he likes to weave stories for his pieces.

Mazhar's blurring of the arcane and the modern comes together in a collection that swoops from dramatically draped medieval hennins and crimson cardinal hats, to Hannibal Lecter-esque muzzle masks and nuclear decontamination hoods and visors. That presentation marked him out as part of an upsurge of creativity and methodology on the East End design scene that has eschewed the "street style" and "hipster" mentality, which has been so prominent on the Hoxton circuit, for something more fundamentally artisanal.

Mazhar rather quaintly refers to himself as a hatter – not a milliner,