from a photograph that was taken in the West Bank during altercations between Israeli security forces and Palestinians over the building of the barriers. This guard tower is now abandoned by the ISF after continual attacks during the second intifada.

Jaba’a (Ramallah). Fatimah Ka'abneh (80) with her three nephews, after the Israeli military forces demolished her barrack where she used to live with her husband (87) since 16 years, even though they did not received any demolition orders before.

Hammad (12) at the Wadi Abu Hindi bedouin community. This area is not connected by electricity or running water and it's located next to the biggest rubbish dump of Jerusalem. People who live there are affected by different health diseases, especially kids, who often use to go and play in thewaste disposal.

People carrying the body of Islamic Jihad militants Muhammad Assi, shot dead a day earlier by Israeli forces near Ramallah. The funeral took place in Beit Liqya where he was wrapped in Palestinian Islamic Jihad flags. Dozens of cars followed the procession and thousands of people chanted slogans calling for revenge and resistance against Israel's occupation.Islamic Jihad confirmed Assi was one of its militants. The Israeli army confirmed the incident and claimed Assi was responsible for the November 2012 bombing of a Tel Aviv bus that wounded 29 people.


began to release Marshmallow for the Galaxy Note 5.

The Galaxy Note 5 also gradually received the Nougat (Android 7.0) update with TouchWiz Grace UX during the first and second quarters of 2017.

European release
The Galaxy Note 5 was not released in Europe, in favour of solely marketing the S6 Edge+ in the region. Samsung European Vice President of Brand and Marketing Rory O'Neill explained that the decision was based upon market research showing that consumers in the region primarily viewed large-screen phones as being oriented towards entertainment, and not productivity.

Reception
The Verge complimented the higher-quality build of the Galaxy Note 5, describing it as being a "more humane device" due to its lighter build with thinner bezels in comparison to the Galaxy Note 4, along with its display, performanceyears and led to the decline in populations of more than 400 frogs, toads and salamanders, scientists say. A global study led by the Australian National University and published in Science journal today has quantified the impact of chytridiomycosis, or chytrid fungus, a disease that eats away at the skin of amphibians. It was first discovered in 1998 by researchers at James Cook University in Queensland investigating the cause of mysterious, mass amphibian deaths. It is thought to have originated in Asia and has been spread by humans through activities such as the legal and illegal pet trade.

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Children wait to receive food at an evacuation centre in Dondo, about 35km north from Beira, Mozambique. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images

The Mozambican government failed to warn people in the areas worst


central Australia and as a long-time agricultural journalist, she reads the kind of arcane, practical publications she works into her fiction.’ Photograph: Carly Earl/The Guardian

Today, Guardian Australia launches our brand new books series, The Unmissables, in which we highlight our picks for the 12 most significant new releases of 2019. Our first featured book is Exploded View from the Stella prize-winning writer Carrie Tiffany, a concise and pungent novel that carries a great weight, writes Susan Wyndham.

In its early pages, we are introduced to an unnamed girl who is obsessed with cars. She lives with her mother, brother and stepfather, known as “father man”, and a mechanic who repairs cars, often shoddily, in his home workshop in Perth’s outer suburbs. The girl hasn’t spoken for 17 days, andJohnny Manziel has found a home in professional football again, signing with the Memphis Express of the Alliance of American Football.

A former Heisman winner is joining the Alliance of American Football. Johnny Manziel officially signed with the AAF over the weekend, and thanks to the San Antonio Commanders waiving his rights, Johnny Football is landing with the Memphis Express.

Manziel set the world on fire in his two-year career with Texas A&M football. Despite playing just two seasons, Johnny ended his career No. 2 in both passing yards and passing touchdowns in school history. Five of the other top six passers in school history played at least three seasons. Had Johnny played his true freshman season he would have rewrote the record books.

After declaring for the 2014 NFL Draft,


Manziel was selected by the Cleveland Browns with the 22nd overall pick. His NFL career was marred by off-the-field issues and the Browns released Manziel after just two seasons amid a domestic abuse case plus problems with alcohol and drug usage.

He recommitted to football after taking care of his personal life. The CFL came calling and gave Johnny hope of an NFL comeback by signing him to a two-year deal. He started with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats but then was traded to the Montreal Alouettes to a familar face. Head coach Mike Sherman, who recruited Johnny to Aggieland, started Manziel a few games to mixed results.

Then, mysteriously, the CFL forced the Alouettes to release Johnny due to violating one of the terms of his contract to play in theCFL, which has thus far not been made public information. Maybe it was a ploy for Johnny to get back to America and play in the AAF, or maybe he actually did have some issues, but the AAF claims to have done their due diligence and signed him to a contract over the weekend.

AAF Co-founder Bill Polian had the following to say on Manziel, per a statement by the league:

We are pleased to welcome Johnny Manziel to the Alliance of American Football, which we’ve always described as a league of opportunity for talented players to launch or revitalize their pro football careers. We completed extensive background work to determine whether it would be appropriate for Johnny to play this season, and after consulting with many people familiar with


his situation, we concluded that it would be good for him to resume his pro football career here at The Alliance.

Manziel has an opportunity to start right away with the Express. Former Penn State quarterback Christian Hackenberg left a lot to be desired as he started the AAF season as the guy for the Express. LSU’s Zach Mettenberger then took over in the third game after Hackenberg was benched. Mettenberger hurt his ankle on the first place of the Express’ last game, but was not replaced by Hackenberg, but rather Brandon Silvers of Troy State.

The Express are the worst team in the league at 1-5. They are in desperate need of good quarterback play and are seemingly ready to give Manziel a shot right away, as long asof gasoline. Generally, in the gasoline, fluid catalytic cracking gasoline containing olefins accounts for about less than ⅓, reformulated gasoline which contains aromatics but frees of olefins accounts for about more than ⅓, and other clean gasoline components subjected to alkylation, isomerization and etherification which contains neither aromatics nor olefins account for about ⅓. The sulfur content and the olefins content are low, and the octane number is high.
The fluid catalytic cracking gasoline is a major part of China's motor gasoline, which accounts for about 75% in a gasoline pool. Approximately 90% of olefins content and sulfur content in finished gasoline comes from the fluid catalytic cracking gasoline, resulting in that China's gasoline products are far from meeting new index requirements of sulfur content ≤10 ppm and olefins


Richard Fisk

Richard Fisk is a fictional character, a criminal appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character first appears in The Amazing Spider-Man #83 (April 1970) and was created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. He is the son of Wilson Fisk and Vanessa Fisk. Although he was originally a villain, he became an antihero.

A young version of the character appeared in the 2018 animated film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Publication history
The character Richard Fisk first appears as The Schemer in The Amazing Spider-Man #83 (April 1970), created by Stan Lee and John Romita Sr. He first appeared as The Rose in The Amazing Spider-Man #253 (June 1984), but was not revealed as the Rose until The Amazing Spider-Man #286 (March 1987).

Fictional character biography
Richard Fiskwounded in the final battle, and the Kingpin had his son placed in suspended animation, finally curing him by siphoning some life force from Spider-Man.

Rose
Several years later, Richard joined his father's organization, calling himself the Rose, a crime lord under the Kingpin's control. However, this was all a ruse to undermine the Kingpin's empire from within. Aiding Richard in this scheme were his good friend Alfredo Morelli and Ned Leeds, who was brainwashed to act as the supervillain the Hobgoblin. However, the Rose's subterfuge resulted in an explosive gang war that tore New York City apart. During a shoot-out Richard shot and killed a police officer, an act that became a turning point for him - no longer could he consider himself morally superior to his father. After


Defendants-Appellees,

and

JEFFERY SAMUEL PINO, RAY
GUTIERREZ, also known as Guero,
DOUG TIERNEY, JOHN SHERIDAN,
and MATT HILTON,

      Defendants.

                Appeal from the United States District Court
                        for the District of Colorado
                        (D.C. No. 94-CR-371-ALL)
John M. Hutchins, Assistant United States Attorney, Denver, CO, argued the
cause for the appellant. Henry L. Solano, United States Attorney, Denver, CO,
and David M. Gaouette, Assistant United States Attorney, Denver, CO, assisted
on the brief.

VirginiaGrady, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Denver, CO, argued the cause
for appellee Ismael Armendariz-Amaya. Michael G. Katz, Federal Public
Defender, Denver, CO, assisted on the brief.

Harvey A. Steinberg, Denver, CO, argued the cause for appellee Jesus Saul
Bujanda-Ibarra. Susan Fuller, Denver, CO, assisted on the brief.

                             Argued March 18, 1997.

Before PORFILIO, EBEL, and HENRY, Circuit Judges.

EBEL, Circuit Judge.

      After obtaining and executing five separate but related telephone

wiretapping orders, the government secured evidence sufficient to indict eighteen

members of an alleged drug conspiracy. In a pre-trial order, however, the district

court suppressed all evidence obtained pursuant to four of the five


de novo, we agree.

      The Fifth Wiretap, which was applied for and granted on October 21, 1994,

was directed against a telephone number subscribed to under the name of “M.

Olivas,” and allegedly used by Jaime Olivas-Sanchez to conduct drug-related

conversations with Rosario Portillo-Rodriguez. The purpose of the Fifth Wiretap

was identical to one of the purposes of the Third Wiretap: to determine where

Jaime Olivas-Sanchez was allegedly obtaining his drug supplies.

      As the district court noted, the application for the Fifth Wiretap

incorporated by reference the applications for the First and Third Wiretaps. 12 See

Castillo-Garcia, 920 F. Supp. at 1563 ¶ 30 & nn.5 & 6. For the reasons discussed

      12
       I have forged with my students and their families have impacted me greatly over my tenure. I often run into students who have now graduated college and are involved in all aspects of society developing in their own special way.

Shannon Klick

First Grade Teacher, Coopertown Elementary SchoolReason you went into education: My passion for teaching started with my younger brother. Despite struggling with a learning disability at a young age, I always knew he had great potential. Being his older sister, I naturally wanted to support him. Working together side by side, I found tapping into his strengths made me feel proud. Watching my brother become a successful business developer, husband, and father has become a feeling that extends beyond the feeling of a proud big sister. I learn


The pathogenesis of osteoarthritis of the hip. Evidence for primary osteocyte death.
Osteocyte viability was investigated in femoral head bone removed from 38 patients with chronic hip disease, with the use of a histochemical stain to demonstrate lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) activity in osteocytes. Where the osteocyte cytoplasm did not show LDH activity, the cell was considered dead; when several adjacent osteocytes were dead, the bone in that area was regarded as nonviable. The preoperative diagnoses were idiopathic osteoarthritis in 25, chondrocalcinosis in six, rheumatoid arthritis in two, Paget's disease in two, avascular necrosis in two, and congenital dislocation of the hip in one patient. In 16 of the patients with idiopathic osteoarthritis and the two with avascular necrosis, nonviable osteocytes were present in the central regions of many trabeculae,Officer for OpenTable, Inc. She’s a dining trend-spotter and an OpenTable VIP, who dines out more than she eats in and has accrued more than 10,000 Dining Rewards points. Caroline started working in restaurants as a teen and she's since tackled every front-of-the-house job, from bartender and hostess to runner and server. She trained as a chef at Manhattan’s prestigious French Culinary Institute, cooking at L’Ecole. In addition to her role at OpenTable, she has written about food from farm to table for New York City’s famed Greenmarket and Edible Brooklyn and Edible East End magazines. Caroline is also a Certified Master Gardener.


NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday brushed aside all objections from Karnataka to the proposed Cauvery Board that will oversee actual water-sharing arrangements under the Cauvery Water Tribunal Award between the riparian states and ordered the central government to notify it before the monsoons.The board will prevent day-today wrangling over the award and fresh legal tangles which have held up implementation of the award. Water disputes are adjudicated by tribunals, but are given effect to on the ground by the board packed with technical experts such as engineers. Though the award was made way back in 2007, it is yet to be implemented.Earlier this year, the court marginally revised it to make it acceptable to all sides after years and directed the Centre to set up theboard which would iron out day-today differences and work out actual division of water.The decision of the board would be binding between states. The SC had asked the central government on February 16 to frame a scheme under Section 6A of the Inter-State River Water Disputes Act, 1956, for smooth implementation of the Cauvery Tribunal Award as modified by the top court.The central government then began to work on a consensus for framing the scheme, held consultations with the riparian states and union territories, but eventually worked out a scheme only after Tamil Nadu filed a contempt petition seeking action against it for dragging its feet on the issue.Initially, the Centre stalled citing poll engagements of the PM and the Cabinet in Karnataka and sought to have it


and explained the reason for the stop.             In his police

14   report, Officer Coleman described Cuello as nervous.              Officer Coleman asked what was in the

15   black backpack that Cuello was wearing.           Cuello informed the officers that the bag contained his

16   gloves and thereafter handed the bag to the officers, who observed that it contained gloves but

17   noted and remarked that it was also unusually heavy.           At this point, Cuello pushed his bike to the

18  BAANZ

BAANZ is a New Zealand based organisation founded to support balloonists and promote the sport of hot air ballooning within New Zealand. BAANZ stands for the Balloon aviation association of New Zealand and is a non-profit organisation that is run by a small team of volunteer committee members ranging in age and expertise located throughout the country.
New Zealand hot air ballooning is a small multi-faceted community, built on a foundation of passionate recreational and commercial balloonists. BAANZ originated as a support organisation to provide a united voice for all New Zealand based balloonists especially in regard to liaising with the CAA and media. Internally BAANZ aims to provide its members with current information regarding, aviation safety, pilot and crew training and technology for the purpose of keeping New


UNITED STATES v. FISCHER

October 21, 1936

UNITED STATES
v.
FISCHER

The opinion of the court was delivered by: BYERS

BYERS, District Judge.

This is an action at common law to recover a deficiency of income taxes said to have been payable by Richard F. Fischer, deceased, for the years 1920 and 1921. The decedent died in June of 1922, and the defendant above named was appointed administrator c.t.a. by the surrogate of Nassau county on September 20, 1922.

On March 22, 1934, a summons in this action was served upon the defendant, upon which there was indorsed a brief statement that the action is to recover $5,467.74 income taxes duly assessed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, and certified to the collector for the First District, against the decedent and payable by the defendant underthe written demand therefor, and for the unreasonable neglect of the plaintiff to proceed in the action, and for want of prosecution, both pursuant to sections 181 and 257 of the Civil Practice Act of New York, and rule 28 of the General Rules of this court, and for such other, etc., relief.That cross-motion is opposed.

The facts as gleaned from the motion papers, stated chronologically, are as follows:

The decedent filed his individual income tax return for the year 1920, and disclosed a tax liability of $6,784.32, of which all but $1,985.19 was paid. As stated, he died in June of 1922.

October 10, 1925, the defendant, as administrator, filed a claim for abatement of the said balance unpaid, which resulted in a reaudit of the tax liabilities of the


decedent for the years 1920 and 1921, which was said to disclose deficiencies for those years in the sums of $2,484.23 and $998.32, respectively, or a total of $3,482.55.

April 30, 1926, the defendant was notified that the claim for abatement was rejected, and that on March 12 and 15, 1926, assessments against the estate in the last-mentioned sums had been made.

On November 24, 1925, the defendant had executed a waiver of the statute of limitations for the years 1920 and 1921, extending the time of assessment to December 31, 1926, which means that the last-mentioned assessments were timely.

As of March 28, 1926, demand was made upon the defendant for the amounts of said deficiency assessments, which was not complied with.

March 12 and 15, 1932, were the last respectiveof an initial preparation of two translations, completed by two independent Portuguese bilingual translators, one translator was a professional translator and the other was a PhD and teacher of English. Then, a consensus version was prepared by two of the authors (PLF and JPB). This consensus version was then back-translated by a native English translator. The back-translated version was evaluated by the authors PLF, JPB, and JPP to verify agreement with the original instrument and, then, a final version of the Portuguese SULCS translation was prepared. Subsequently, a Portuguese expert in the field of rehabilitation conducted a clinical review to obtain a more specialised translation, which would be easier to understand by employing language with which the patients were more familiar.

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Standardization of smallpox vaccines and the eradication programme--a WHO perspective.
Smallpox vaccine was born in 1796 and the need for it ended in 1980 with the eradication of smallpox. What was remarkable was that in its 200 years history, when the global smallpox eradication programme really needed the vaccine in 1967, it was found that, on the whole, quality was unsatisfactory and supply was short. Unconventional counter measures were taken by WHO, including an international independent testing system, provision of reference preparations in large quantity etc. They effectively solved the problems meeting the target eradication schedule of 10 years. The lessons learned would be of some value to the future eradication or effective control programme of vaccine preventable diseases.and Bosh taking turns attempting to score.

Sun Times: There is nothing wrong with crying. Speaker of the House John Boehner is an inveterate crier. People cry on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” all the time. But NBA players after a loss in March? Really?

ESPN Chicago: The days of the Bulls flying under the radar at all now are over … and Rose knows it. But that's OK. MVPs have the spotlight on them every night, and that's the way Rose wanted it in the first place, although, as usual, he deflected any MVP talk for a later date.

Blog A Bull: But after a weekend like this, the Bulls are in a position to where they won't have to see [Miami] again until the Eastern Conference Finals. There's so much


she is the elegant blend of modern and cultural values.she is an optimistic, jolly and fun loving girl.she is very simple, god loving, caring, talented, understanding, trustworthy and kind hearted human being. she believes in the motto ‘live and let live’. she love cooking, sight seeing, photographing music,and watching movies.for it: Germination. You plant a seed in the ground. Cover it with dirt and give it lots of water. First: The seed dies, It Germinates, and then life sprouts from that seed. (John 12:24)

This is also true with Animal Life: Out of the Death of Animal 1, Life is given to Animal 2! If Animal one had NOT died, Animal 2 would have no food to eat, and Animal 2 could have died! One Died, giving Life to the other!

Example: The Bear, Hibernation. He hibernates (Death-like state) and rises again in the spring! Example: Butterfly, Metamorphesis. Caterpiller spins himself into a cacoon. (Death-like state.) And becomes a Butterfly!

God says this about our own Physical Lives: We are birthed into a state of separation from God. We are


born into Spiritual Death. After a person believes, New Life begins! (Death first, then life.)

As we continue to eat and live, we grow older, and eventually we come to the end of our physical lives. This is also known as Death. What happens then? God tells us after Physical Death, we enter into a New Life! (Death first, then Life.) (Hebrews 9:27)

Are there other examples of this Principle of “Death first, then Life?” Yes,.. look at the Life of Jesus: He is born into this world, did a lot of wonderful things and then died a horrible death on the cross. But, He rose from death to New Life! (First death, then Life.)

The Death of Jesus brings to us the Hope, the Possibility of New Life in Heavenwith Him, after we have believed! His Death,.. results in Life for me! (Romans 6:8)

From Exodus (Chap. 1 & 2) we read what happened in Egypt, just before the birth of Moses. The Egyptians feared their Israelite slaves would one day turn on them, so, to limit the number of male slaves being born, all male (slave) children were put to death. The mother of Moses was afraid her son would be killed, so she put him in a basket, and set him adrift, to save his life. The Daughter of Pharoah found him and raised him as her own. The Death of other Israelite children, brought Life to Moses! (One man saved.)

Later on in Exodus, the 10th plague comes, and the first-born of every house dies. The


Robert Allison

Robert Allison may refer to:

 Bob Allison (1934–1995), professional baseball player
 Bobby Allison (born 1937), American NASCAR driver
 Bobby Allison (footballer) (1895–1948), Australian rules footballer for South Melbourne
 Robert Allison (Pennsylvania) (1777–1840), United States Representative from Pennsylvania
 Robert Allison (South Dakota) (1846–1924), South Dakota State Representative
 Robert Clay Allison (1840–1887), gunfighter and figure of the American Old West
 Robert Galbraith Allison (1897–1952), American accountant and state auditor
 Robert Allison (academic) (born 1961), British academic and current Vice-Chancellor and President of Loughborough University
 Robert Andrew Allison (1838–1926), English Liberal politician
 Robert H. Allison (1893–1959), American politician and lawyerthe patterned lesions facilitated later histologic localization of the barely visible and invisible lesions.

The clinical appearance of the laser lesions were graded by a single masked observer within 1 minute after the treatment according to the following scale: invisible, barely visible, light, moderate, intense, very intense, and rupture. The barely visible lesions were defined as a faint lightening of the fundus pigmentation. Light burns exhibited further blanching but without frank whitening. Moderate lesions exhibited definite retinal whitening without adjacent edema, and intense burns displayed central whitening and a halo of translucent edema. Very intense lesions had a more marked and complete central retinal whitening and a larger ring of edema. A rupture was assumed to have occurred if small bubbles with or without hemorrhage appeared at the lesion


month.

At four months, the lesion diameter was still approximately 36% of the original lesion and similar in appearance as at 2 months, with the exception that intraretinal pigmented cells had disappeared and the lesion largely consisted of hypocellular matrix.

Light and Moderate Lesions.

One hour after treatment the light-to-moderate lesion exhibits strong edema in the inner retina, damaged inner and outer nuclear layers, and large vacuoles in the inner segment layer (Figs. 23) . Choroidal changes are less pronounced than in the intense lesion.

At day 1, retinal edema had decreased considerably. Inner and outer segments of photoreceptors were strongly reduced, and nuclei in the ONL were small and pyknotic within the boundaries of the lesion. The INL nuclei appeared more round and enlarged, compared with the surrounding untreated retina. Thecentral defect in ONL and INL of intense lesions was absent.

At 1 week, there was no significant choroidal involvement. ONL and most of the INL were replaced by gliotic tissue and were invaded by pigmented cells. Continuous hypopigmented RPE layer can be clearly seen in Figure 3 .

At 1 month, the lesion had contracted asymmetrically and appeared larger toward the inner retina and smaller at the RPE. The INL was thickened, and its cells were enlarged in the center of the lesion. Photoreceptors filled the peripheral part of the lesion, leaving a remaining damage zone of 40% of the original width. The RPE was hyperpigmented in the lesion periphery with zones of hypopigmentation and pigmented cellular aggregates more centrally.

At 2 months, the cellular accumulation in the center of


of the lesion. The choroid appeared normal. The lesion contracted to 69% of its original size.

At 1 month, the lesion had contracted to 10% of its initial diameter. Histologic changes were localized to the outer retina and consisted of a thinned ONL and disorganized photoreceptors in the center of the lesion. Gliosis and downward displacement of the INL were notably absent. Intraretinal pigmented cells, present in more severe lesion grades, were absent as well.

At 2 months, the lesion was similar to that at 1 month. A few hyperpigmented RPE cells were evident only in the center of the lesion.

At 4 months, the lesion was distinguished from adjacent normal retina only by a few-cells-wide area of decreased density within the ONL with occasional adjacent vacuoles in the inner segments,4 months.

In the light lesions (15-ms pulse duration), initial damage was localized to the photoreceptors. The RPE layer was restored by 1 week, although the cells appeared hypopigmented. The width of the gliotic scar in the outer retina stabilized by 1 month at approximately 40% of its original size.

Figure 3.

In the light lesions (15-ms pulse duration), initial damage was localized to the photoreceptors. The RPE layer was restored by 1 week, although the cells appeared hypopigmented. The width of the gliotic scar in the outer retina stabilized by 1 month at approximately 40% of its original size.

Barely visible lesions produced at 7-ms pulse duration exhibited perfect localization of the retinal damage to photoreceptors. Gliotic replacement of the damaged photoreceptors continued to contract over time, showing an outer retina


months, a scar occupied the 36% of the initial lesion.

In the light lesions (15-ms pulse duration), initial damage was localized to the photoreceptors. The RPE layer was restored by 1 week, although the cells appeared hypopigmented. The width of the gliotic scar in the outer retina stabilized by 1 month at approximately 40% of its original size.

Figure 3.

In the light lesions (15-ms pulse duration), initial damage was localized to the photoreceptors. The RPE layer was restored by 1 week, although the cells appeared hypopigmented. The width of the gliotic scar in the outer retina stabilized by 1 month at approximately 40% of its original size.

Barely visible lesions produced at 7-ms pulse duration exhibited perfect localization of the retinal damage to photoreceptors. Gliotic replacement of the damaged photoreceptors continuedAnd you thought your circuit breaker couldn't handle the demand of the holidays.

Lucky for Paul Tudor Jones II, the reclusive hedge fund manager and philanthropist has no such worries.

The 110th richest person in the world, whose net worth is estimated at $3 billion by Forbes.com, is Jonesing to flip the switch on his latest holiday lights and musical spectacular at his sprawling Belle Haven compound.

A major tourist attraction in the notoriously hush-hush neighborhood, which has its own security force, the lights show is tentatively scheduled to begin Friday at sundown and run through Dec. 22.

Workers could be seen Tuesday night draping lights in the 40-foot-tall trees on Jones' expansive property, as well as using a cherry picker to erect a lighted archway.

The display is expected to rival those


About Acro Group

The Acro Group is a private group owned by Arbov Investments Ltd. and Virometal Investments Ltd.

In Latin acro means a summit – and the name reflects the idea on which the Group is based: to reach the summit and remain there for everything to do with innovation, design, implementation, uniqueness, prestige and quality.
The Group has two main divisions Acro Real Estate andAcro Environmental Infrastructures.

Acro Real Estate– specializes in initiating unique real estate projects of residential and business construction in Israel and the United States.
In Israel Acro Real Estate has initiated some of the most prestigious projects in the central region.Acro Environmental Infrastructures–specializes in initiating, planning, constructing and operating environmental infrastructure projects in Israel and worldwide.
The company has a number of subsidiaries that engage in a varietyQ:

Players who have won Champions League / Copa Libertadores and World Cup in the same year

This ESPN Stats & Info twitter feed states:

10 players in World Cup history have won the Champions League and World Cup in the same year.
With Real Madrid's Raphael Varanae of France, and Luka Modric & Mateo Kovavic of Croatia in the final, there is guaranteed to be an 11th.

So, who are the 10 players who have achieved this feat previously?
Also, how many and who are the players that have won Copa Libertadores and a World Cup in same year?

A:

There are 11 players who have won the Champions League (including the European Cup) and the World Cup in the same year:
1974: West Germany and Bayern Munich:

Uli Hoeness, Gerd Muller, Franz Beckenbauer, Paul Breitner, Hans-Georg


Schwarzenbeck, Sepp Maier, Jupp Kapellmann

1998: France and Real Madrid:

Christian Karembeu

2002: Brazil and Real Madrid:

Roberto Carlos

2014: Germany and Real Madrid:

Sami Khedira

2018: France and Real Madrid:

Raphaël Varane

There are 10 players who have won the Copa Libertadores and the World Cup in the same year:
1962: Brazil and Santos:

Gilmar, Mauro, Zito, Coutinho, Pelé, Pepe, Mengálvio

1986: Argentina and River Plate:

Héctor Enrique, Nery Pumpido, Oscar Ruggeri

References:
The 10 Players To Have Won The European Cup And World Cup In Same Year

A SECURITY guard who missed a break-in because of his mobile phone addiction has lost his job.

The man sued for unfair dismissal over his continuing use of his phone, but the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has deemed the decision fair and that substantial grounds existed for his dismissal.

At the time of his sacking, the man was on a written warning after missing a break-in on CCTV cameras in December 2015 as he was looking at his mobile phone at the time.

His employer, a property service support company, is family-owned and was established in 1966.

The man was stationed at a high-profile client of the firm in December 2015 along with 52 colleagues who were engaged in security or cleaning duties.

The company said there was a substantial breach of security


when the man failed to observe on CCTV and react because he was found to be on his phone at the time and not monitoring the cameras.

The company claimed that the man was fully responsible for missing this break-in and he could have lost his job at that time.

However, in an effort to try to help him and give him a second chance, it decided instead to issue a final written warning and told him of the possible future threat to his employment because of his mobile phone usage.

The man had been employed as a security guard for nine years, but six months after the December 2015, incident in June 2016, the site operations manager and a team leader came across him with his phone beside him.

The phonewas lit up as it had just received a text message.

The site operations manager asked if he was using his phone and he confirmed that he had been.

As a result, the firm took disciplinary action and the man was sacked in August 2016.

In his ruling, WRC adjudication officer James Kelly said he was satisfied that the role of a security guard requires full and concentrated attention and this is of paramount importance in the industry within which the firm operates.

Mr Kelly said he was also satisfied that the firm went to great lengths before the incident to give the security man an opportunity to change his behaviour.

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Sri Lanka: End impunity for attacks on Muslim minority

6 March 2018, 11:47 UTC

The Sri Lankan authorities must take action against those responsible for attacks on the country’s Muslim minority, Amnesty International said.

On 5 March, a mob set homes, shops and a mosque belonging to the local Muslim community ablaze in the Digana area of Kandy, in central Sri Lanka. This was the second serious incident of violence against a Muslim community in the country over the past week, following a chillingly similar attack in the eastern coastal district of Ampara on 26 February. Although several individuals have now been arrested for involvement in these recent attacks, impunity persists for previous incidents of violence against Muslim minority communities.

“The Sri Lankan authorities must put an end to the impunity enjoyedThe Damned United

Set in 1960s and 1970s England, The Damned United tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44-day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds
United.

Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived by many to represent a new aggressive and cynical style of footballan
anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Brian Clough, who had achieved astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool and Derby County building teams in his own vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor.

Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his side, with a changing room full of what in his mind were still Don's boys, would lead to an unheralded examination


and protein than locals. Many of the locals grew up subsistence farming
under Mao, mostly eating rice, and she explained that the weak nutrition of
the resulting diet resulted in less growth.

This is, of course, anecdotal. But in comparison to Dutch height gain, I
haven't heard of a similar change in Dutch nutrition or health, at least not
relative to peer countries.

~~~
Declanomous
For a large part of history human height has been limited by nutrition. This
is why the United States was the tallest country in the world at the beginning
of the 20th century.

Once everyone is everyone is fed the genetic differences become apparent.

There are plenty examples of this. For instance, the Normans who invaded
England were nearly six feet tall. However, by the mid-17th century the
average man in Europe was something like 5'3-5'6.

My great-grandfatherthe game 40-17 because of Duron Carter. He had plenty of help, including a porous offensive line that couldn’t protect either Riders quarterback or open holes for their running backs. Zach Collaros was driven from the game late in the second quarter with a suspected concussion. Redblacks quarterback Trevor Harris looked like the second coming of Russ Jackson against the Green and White defence. Bottom line: with Carter on the corner, the defence gave up 40 points.

What was Jones thinking? Perhaps Collaros might have foregone some punishment if he had been able to find an open receiver? Perhaps the presence of one of the best deep men in the league would have expedited a fourth quarter comeback. But no. Stubborn as a Missouri mule, he left Carter in


game, passing brilliantly against a pretty good defence. The game was out of reach when great veteran Ricky Ray was sandwiched by two defenders and had to be taken to the hospital, immobilized on a stretcher. As of yesterday, he had feeling in all his extremities and had cleared concussion protocol. I hope he retires soon and becomes the offensive coordinator in Edmonton.

Graham Kelly has covered the CFL for the Medicine Hat News for 46 years. Feedback for this column can be emailed to sports@medicinehatnews.com.NEW: Tornadoes’ Office Cleaned Out; More Lawsuits on the Way?

As movers removed remaining boxes and personal items from the corporate offices of the Worcester Tornadoes, owner Todd Breighner answered questions about the state of his embattled franchise.

"We have, what I call, the baseball ambulance chaser running through town," Breighner said of lawyer Margaret M. Melican, who is leading a suit for, among others, The Hitlon Garden Inn on Major Taylor Blvd. against the club. "I don't know what business in the City of Worcester doesn't have vendors and that (doesn't) have debt."

The movers, hired by Melican, moved items out the Tornadoes' corporate offices, though Breighner claims they did not have a court order and says he will look into possible legal action.

Things could get worse for Breighner as


one Massachusetts business representative intimated that a number of companies could join the suit against Worcester's minor league baseball franchise.

"We will absolutely join in the suit depending on how this proceeds," David Sears of Print Resource in Maynard said. "I want to be paid and I want to be made whole."

Print Resource, which Sears says produced posters and pocket schedules for the Tornadoes this year, is owed an alleged $7,000 by the Tornadoes. The company had never worked with the Tornadoes before, and have only been in business with the club since April.

Sears says he was unaware that other companies, and even players, were not being paid by the club, until he read about it in the media.

"We're a little late to this, obviously," Sears said. "This isa good brand, they've been here for a while, they're good for the city. You would assume that they're good for it, but we're finding out that's not the case."

Among those players alleging that the Tornadoes never paid their salaries is controversial slugger Jose Canseco. The 1988 American League MVP left the Tornadoes and filed suit against the club claiming he never received his base salary of over $80,000.

"He was paid a small amount initially, but nothing after that," Canseco's attorney Michelle Hubbard said. "Now we have a large claim in the amount of close to $80,000."

While Canseco's lawsuit may be the most high-profile against Breighner, the Tornadoes' owner is more concerned about Melican and her clients.

"The Canseco deal will get straight," Breighner said. "That's the least of


A bank robber apparently got in the holiday spirit after holding up a bank in downtown Colorado Springs on Monday just after lunchtime. "He robbed the bank, came out, threw the money all over the place," witness Dion Pascale told CBS Colorado Springs affiliate KKTV.

Police said the suspect, later identified as David Wayne Oliver, 65, walked into an Academy Bank branch, claimed to have a weapon in his pocket and took cash from a teller. Police haven't confirmed what happened after he left, but Pascale said the man "started throwing money out of the bag and then said, 'Merry Christmas!"

He was "throwing it behind him," Pascale said, "because the guy was right on his tail. What else can you do but get rid of it?" It was unclearCinémoi and Fashion Film Network Present the 1st Annual International Fashion Film Awards Hosted By Jonathan Ross & Jordin Sparks

Recording Artist Mark Ballas From Dancing With the Stars To Perform New Debut Single, “Miss Incredible”

Cinémoi North America, Ch. 236 on Verizon FiOS, presents the 1st Annual International Fashion Film Awards (IFFAs) in partnership with Cirque du Soleil, Fashion Film Network and in association with Style Fashion Week, from the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, California on July 27th, 2014. The Awards show will air on August 3rd 2014 on Cinémoi and will also be syndicated by Comcast.

Hosted by UK’s favorite talk show host Jonathan Ross and Platinum recording artist and actress Jordin Sparks, this incredible evening of international glamour will honor the world’s greatest fashion films and icons.


Icon Award for having revolutionized the way fashion is seen on television after creating, hosting, and producing Live From The Red Carpet for E! An entertainment legend, Joan is a globally known comedienne, Emmy Award-winning talk show host, Tony Award-nominated actress, bestselling author, and red-carpet fashion laureate. Executive Producer of the E! franchise Fashion Police, Melissa has redefined the way fashion is now viewed on television. Their successful WE reality show, “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?” has just wrapped its 4th season.

Gigi Lepage, costume designer extraordinaire, is being awarded as an icon for her amazing talents in Costume Design. Some of her many accomplishments include her costume designs for the film “Grace of Monaco,” as well as her designs for many Cartier and Dior commercials. Gigi isflying in from France and will be presented with the award by Olivier Dahan, director of the film, “Grace of Monaco.”

The show promises to be one of the world's most glamorous events, marrying the magic of filmmaking and the art of haute couture. “Cinémoi is proud to present the IFFAs to American and global viewers,” says Cinémoi President Daphna Ziman. “We congratulate the Fashion Icons and Hollywood Stars that have come together to deliver style and distinction to fashion and films.”

The International Fashion Film Awards Arrival Show will air on Cinémoi on August 3rd as a 30-minute special showcasing all of the glamour that this unique Parisian white carpet will bring. The White Carpet will be open for press check-in at 4:30 pm and for talent at 5:30


to roll-out on others). A 24-hour network featuring curated films from around the world and high couture festivals new to the U.S. television market, Cinémoi is nestled among AMC, FX Movie Channel, IFC, Sundance Channel and Turner Classic Movies. More than just a “movie channel,” Cinémoi is aimed at discerning viewers who aspire to enticing and elegant entertainment. It offers a lens to the world at large—acquainting American audiences with outstanding contemporary and vintage films and transporting them to the most glamorous world events and exotic destinations.

Jonathan Ross is the internationally acclaimed presenter of the U.K.'s most prestigious show “The Jonathan Ross Show,” which currently airs exclusively on Cinémoi in the U.S. He will be joined by multi-platinum recording artist and actress Jordin Sparks. Sparks, who’s next filmfashion film. Producers of the closely watched Weekly Top 10 Fashion Film chart, the FFN has become the go-to resource for brands and marketers alike to see what's trending in global fashion film production. Beauty, sensuality, fashion, and storytelling—it’s all on 24 hours a day at the Fashion Film Network.

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A young transwoman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age in the 1970s. She leaves her Irish town, in part to look for her mother and in part because her transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding. She's taken in by a rock band, falls for the lead singer, has brushes with the IRA, is arrested by the London police, works in a peep show, and poses as a survey researcher for the phone company. Throughout, her nationality and her nature put her at great risk. In her search for her mother, she makes surprising discoveries of friendship and family. But, will she survive? Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>be, perhaps, just one small metal part — a firing pin. While Wilson and his team are still designing the weapon, it won't be a reproduction of an existing firearm, but instead a custom design.

Defense Distributed has been working on this project — dubbed Wiki Weapon — since last summer, but the group initially focused on printing specific gun parts, like lower receivers and magazines. But in the last two months they have moved away from that to go after the bigger prize: printing an entire gun.

If Defense Distributed is really able to print an entire working handgun, the group will be one step closer to reaching its lofty goal of giving every citizen of the world "near-instant access to a firearm through the Internet." If they do,


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On the heels of his induction into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, Leonard Cohen announced his eagerly anticipated return to the stage for the first time in 15 years. Cohen is arguably one of the greatest singer/songwriters of modern times and his incredible body of work spans over four decades. His unique contribution to the history of music is often cited as inspiration for many of today's most influential artists among those who have covered his songs are Jeff Buckley, Judy Collins, U2, REM, Sting, Nick Cave, Rufus


A character on the show says, 'Romney’s a clown and I don’t want him standing next to him.' | REUTERS 'Mad Men' cites Romney, but not Mitt

“Mad Men” is a show set in the past, so you don’t expect much in the way of current affairs from the AMC show.

And, yet, there it was on Sunday night: A mention of Romney.

Of course, since the show, in its current season, is operating in the year 1966, that would be George Romney, the father of Mitt and the then-governor of Michigan.

Henry Francis, a character in the show who had served as director of public relations and research for New York governor Nelson Rockefeller in past seasons and now works for New York City Mayor John Lindsay, is heard on oneMonthly Archives: October 2017

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I heard myself say, 'And who's that lying over there?' I heard Espantapájaros say, 'I'm not entirely sure, sir. Shall I look into it for you?'

'No, no, please don't go to any trouble. Will you excuse me again one moment?'

'Of course, take all the time you need.' I took the short route and spoke to my protector across the black lake. 'I will pay you double what we agreed, plus a bonus, if you don't say another word.'

'Why?' Her jaw was rigid. I am tall, she is tiny. She seemed to tower over me.

Why? Because this is the culmination of my life's work. Because I went through hell to get here. Because they are the finest establishment in the Cloud. Because we've seen fewer bodies here than Ias always, I am on your side, and that I want more than anything for you to join our establishment._

_I hope this makes amends, and that you have a truly memorable birthday meal._

_Warmest regards,_

_Murial Shabazzniov,_

_Your Concierge_

The knock came as I finished reading. I ignored it. Beast could wait. Since when is returning someone's possessions a gesture of goodwill? And birthday theme or not, how can feeding your guests be regarded as a conciliatory gesture? Some of our books were in a neat pile, tied with a crimson bow, on the writing desk in the den. My horse and ponies weren't there, and nor were Gladys's journals. Not that she cares. She hadn't even looked at me on the way back from the Winter Garden. I said, 'Hunter would


Jonathan. Did you... or did you not... put something... in... my drink?'

It was a battle to the death. I towered over her. And yet it was me who felt tiny. I looked right into that terrible ocular abyss, said, 'And I will tell you one last time, Gladys, that... I put nothing... in your drink.' Which was the truth. At that point I was not entirely sure anything had gone into anyone's drink.

'Then you asked him to,' she said.

'Madam?' said Stamper.

'This man did not tamper with your drink. Did you tamper, Stamper?'

'Sir?'

'Stamper, please bring me your ice pick.'

'Madam?'

'Do it now, please, Stamper.'

'Don't give her that ice pick, Stamper.'

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'Oh, honey,' Beast finally broke in, 'for the love of all fuck, take my damned drink, I'llBond god Jeff Gundlach just hosted a call to update clients of DoubleLine Funds. And his presentation was appropriately titled "To Catch A Thief."

In September, Gundlach's home was burglarized and millions of dollars worth of art was stolen. Days later, all of his property was recovered. And we recently learned that Gundlach played a crucial role in catching the thieves.

"I have experience catching thieves," he said on the webcast today. "It's actually not hard to do."

Drawing parallels to the 1955 Hitchcock movie, Gundlach noted that since the creation of the euro, German and Italian industrial production diverged dramatically after rising hand in hand for years.

He continues to worry about the U.S. debt load, but he doesn't think interest rates will surge anytime soon.

He also argued that student debt


is a major and growing problem in America.

And as for trades, he thinks now's the time to short the yen and long the Japanese stock market as Japan proceeds to debase the dollar.

All of these themes and ideas come through in the charts in Gundlach's presentation.Bound, stripped and dumped in a corridor: Teenage Army recruit says he is desperate to quit after comrades subjected him to humiliating abuse for refusing to go DRINKING

Soldier says he was bullied at British army barracks in Paderborn, Germany

New recruit to Rifles division says he was stripped and abused by his peers

The 18-year-old then went absent without leave and now faces punishment

Ministry of Defence says it has a 'zero tolerance' approach to bullying

Tied up, stripped and pinned to the floor by his comrades who have applied sniper tape to his genitalia - these horrifying photographs show how one British soldier was bullied by his colleagues after he said he didn't want to go out drinking.

Printed with the permission of the soldier, a teenager who has not given his


name, they shed a shocking light on the brutal way he was treated at an army barracks in Germany.

The alleged victim, a new recruit who is just 18, is now back in Britain after going absent without leave after the bullying episode, and faces time in military prison.

Horrifying: The young soldier says he was pinned down, stripped and abused at a British army barracks

He says he is desperate to the leave the Army he had always dreamt of joining after bullying and abuse made his time in the Rifles division intolerable.

The recruit, who joined the Army two days after his 16th birthday, says the abuse which was photographed took place in March this year after he told his colleagues, all Riflemen of the same rank as him, thathe didn't want to go out drinking with them.

He said he sensed something was going to happen and felt there was no way around being beaten, shortly before three men charged into his room.

'They stripped me and tied me up with sniper tape, then they wrapped a load of it around my head,' he said.

He told the Sunday Mirror he was dragged into a corridor where several soldiers took his picture before going outside for a cigarette, leaving him there.

The soldier says he managed to free himself, but days later the incident resurfaced when the distressing images of him were posted on Facebook.

The young soldier says he expects to join the Rifles division for a five-month tour of Afghanistan, pictured, after serving time in a military prison for


going absent without leave

An investigation was launched after Royal Military Police officers saw the photographs online and arrested a man, but the young victim was too frightened to talk to the investigating NCO.

'Before he started to ask me about it, I told him I knew why I was there but that there was nothing in it and I wasn't pressing any charges.'

He said the officer did not push him on pressing charges, and the matter was left at that.

The soldier said he understood that the pressures of life as a soldier meant some form of banter was bound to happen, but said when his fiancee in Britain saw the Facebook photographs she was appalled.

'If blokes have a problem with each other, they are allowed to fight it out'

Allegedbullying victim, aged 18

The teenager said there were often fist fights between soldiers at 5 Rifles' base near Paderborn in Germany, and blamed officers for 'turning a blind eye'.

'If blokes have a problem with each other, they are allowed to fight it out,' he said.

He said the week he started training at Harrogate Army Foundation College, one youngster was pinned down and abused with a vacuum cleaner pipe.

Months after the attack with the sniper tape, the soldier decided he could not face the legal complexity of ending his contract with the Army early, and he fled home to the UK.

He says he knew what he was doing was serious and he knew he would be punished, but he had to get home to see his family.

The soldier says


Tidemark Launches for Primetime, and Hires a New President

It has been about 11 months since the business-analytics start-up firm Tidemark came out of stealth mode, and it turns out they were a pretty busy 11 months.

The company is announcing a bunch of important news today. The big piece is that its application is coming out of beta testing and is now ready for general availability; along with that, it is disclosing some of its customers — and one of them, at least, is kind of cool.

The second is that it has hired Phil Wilmington as its new president and COO. He has been executive chairman since January. Wilmington was President at OutlookSoft, the company that he and Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe ran together — Gheorghe was CEO CTOinstant fan.

Other customers being named today are also sort of cool. One is CEC Entertainment, which is better known as the company behind the 550-store Chuck E. Cheese pizza chain. The other is Platinum Hospitality Management, a manager and operator of mid-market hotels that works with Hilton and Marriott, among others.

Tidemark also has some strong financial backing from venture capital firms, including Greylock Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, which invested $6.3 million back when Tidemark was still a stealth start-up called Proferi. Later rounds included Redpoint Ventures with Greylock and AH also participating, and as of January, Tidemark had raised a combined $35.5 million. Ben Horowitz of AH is a director. Aneel Bhusri, the former PeopleSoft CEO turned Greylock Partner who is also co-CEO at the soon-to-be-public Workday led


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If the duo shines once again in Game 2, the problem will only multiply for the Cavs.

Meanwhile, according to ESPN Stats and Information, Golden State's 13-0 record in the postseason this campaign sees it drawing level with the 1988-89 Los Angeles Lakers and 2016-17 Cleveland Cavaliers for the longest postseason win streak in National Basketball Association history.

Golden State converted the turnovers and offensive rebounds into 39 points, allowing the Warriors to pull away despite shooting just 42.5 percent. He added that he had not informed the team but expected the players to know soon.

To start second Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue once again went to a lineup with Kyrie Irving on the floor butno LeBron or Love, and without LeBron they were a quick -9.

Kerr took over as the Warriors' head coach in 2014, leading the team to an NBA championship in his first year and to three straight NBA Finals appearances. "We're hoping that in the next week or two, whatever it is, I can sort of make a definitive realization, deduction, or feel that I'm just going to do this or I'm not".

Late in Game 2, with about 10 minutes left in the fourth quarter and his team up big over the Cleveland Cavaliers, Curry made a decision to lay down on the floor by his team's bench, put a towel over his head, and take a little cat nap.

Cleveland had worn its blue jersey on the road for


its first eight games.

Mike Brown has been serving as the Warriors' acting coach since Game 3 of the first round against the Portland Trail Blazers. Curry had six of those turnovers.

He was even seen huffing and puffing as he went to the bench at one point in the third quarter. I'm feeling better, more back to where I was during the regular season. The Cavs got within 11 at 108-97 but then got hit with a three-star combination KO punch in a 13-2 Warriors run. The Cavaliers will have plans to tackle Warriors' duo. Cleveland has had no answers for two games, and if they don't find some by Wednesday, this series could be very, very short.

Pittsburgh fires back at Trump: we stand with Paris, not you
Any delayin U.S. efforts to halt greenhouse gas emissions could cost the country and the world in the long term, scientists say. Currently, the United States has committed to reducing carbon emissions between 26 and 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

Prepared to leave EU without a Brexit deal, says Theresa May
If one party obtains a majority of seats, then that party is entitled to form the government , with its leader as prime minister. She was more confident on Brexit, winning applause when she repeated that no deal was better than a bad deal on leaving the EU.

Foreign fighters among militants in Philippines
A number of foreign militants have had a presence in the southern Philippines for decades, including some of Asia's most-wanted. Hapilon, an Arabic-speaking Islamic preacher known


for his expertise in commando assaults, pledged allegiance to ISIS in 2014.

Ariana Grande Taking Time Off After Deadly Manchester Attack
A 23-year-old man - named in reports as Abedi's older brother Ismail - was detained in Chorlton, south Manchester , on Tuesday. Officials said all of the bombing victims have been identified, but names were being withheld until autopsies were completed.

Blurry-Eye Warriors Return Home To Prepare For Finals
Durant added 29 points and 12 rebounds as the Warriors - champions in 2015 - reached the Finals for a third year in succession. Ginobili got a huge ovation from the home crowd late in the game as the Warriors pulled away and capped off the series sweep.

Putin says intimidation of North Korea must end
South Korean Defense Minister Han Min-koo told parliamentPages

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Social Disconnect from NYC to Silicon Valley

Fifty years ago this morning, a young woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed, robbed, raped, and murdered near her apartment in Kew Gardens, Queens.

At first, in a metropolis roiling from the rising crime and social turbulence being visited upon many cities in the 1960's, the attack on Genovese received scant attention. It wasn't until two weeks later, when her story was casually recounted by the city's police commissioner to an editor at the New York Times, that the public learned about Genovese, and what had happened to her five decades ago this morning.

The Times ultimately figured there was a story in this brutal crime because, according to initial police accounts relayed by the commissioner, over thirty of Genovese's neighbors


the mixed-use apartment and restaurant complex who heard the ruckus Genovese created assumed it was the result of inebriated patrons of an on-site bar, fighting or protesting last call; sounds to which they'd become somewhat accustomed. Nobody actually saw the attack, or the victim, or her attacker. One neighbor did yell out of his window for the attacker to leave her alone, but that neighbor did not have a direct line of sight to what was taking place. And eventually, another neighbor, a female, did come outside to find Genovese dying on the sidewalk outside her door.

It's also been established that Genovese was a lesbian, and living with her lover at the time, an arrangement that some of her neighbors may not have entirely embraced, especially in themid-1960's. New York City has always been a socially liberal city, but in its whiter, more middle-class districts, particularly during the upheaval of white flight in the 1960's, same-sex attraction was hardly celebrated. Nobody has been able to prove that discrimination against Genovese because she was gay played any role in her calls for help going unheeded, until it was too late. But maybe that's because nobody wants to consider it.

With our penchant for nostalgia, we don't tend to associate the America of fifty years ago with social disconnects, or alien-sounding French terminology like anomie, or even alternative sexuality. And to a certain extent, the Genovese case is more representative of New York City than it is of America as a whole. Especially then, but even today. But


was performed in Ecuador in 1964, but the patient suffered from transplant rejection after only two weeks due to the primitive nature of the immune-suppressing medications at that time.

The first short-term success in human hand transplant occurred with New Zealander Clint Hallam who had lost his hand in an accident while in prison. The operation was performed on September 23, 1998, in Lyon, France by a team assembled from different countries around the world led by French Professor Jean-Michel Dubernard, including Prof Nadey Hakim, who represented the UK. A microsurgeon on the team, Earl Owen from Australia, was privy to the detailed basic research, much of it unpublished, that had been carefully gathered by the team in Louisville. After the operation, Hallam wasn't comfortable with the idea ofhis transplanted hand and failed to follow the prescribed post-operative drug and physiotherapy regime. His inaccurate expectations became a vivid example of the necessity of a fully committed team of caregivers, including psychologists, that can correctly select and prepare the potential transplant recipients for the lengthy and difficult recovery and for the modest functional restoration of a transplanted hand to be expected. Hallam's transplanted hand was removed at his request by the transplant surgeon Nadey Hakim on February 2, 2001, following another episode of rejection.

The first hand transplant to achieve prolonged success was directed by a team of Kleinert Kutz Hand Care surgeons including Warren C. Breidenbach, Tsu-Min Tsai, Luis Scheker, Steven McCabe, Amitava Gupta, Russell Shatford, William O'Neill, Martin Favetto and Michael Moskal in cooperation with the


cost to the patients.

The UCLA Hand Transplant Program, located in Los Angeles, California, was launched July 28, 2010. At the time, it was the only one on the West Coast and one of only four in the country.

United Kingdom
In 2016 it was announced that NHS patients in England were to become some of the first in the world to benefit from publicly funded pioneering hand and upper arm transplants delivered by a specialist team at Leeds General Infirmary.

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Leaving his post as vice-president of PRG Integrated Solutions Group, Bill Groener has joined the Boston-based LED pioneer, Color Kinetics Incorporated as vice-president of Sales for North America, effective June 1, 2004. Formerly with Strand Lighting, Barbizon, and Elliptipar, Groener has been an active player in the lighting industry for three decades. He is also active with various industry associations, including IESNA, USITT, and ESTA, where he currently serves as chair of the technical ...


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The most controversial and shocking horror film of the year is Deadgirl, a dark drama about two dysfunctional teens (a confused nice guy named Rickie and his bad boy pal JT) who discover a young woman chained up in the basement of an abandoned asylum. Rather than rescue and release her, they proceed to use her as their sex slave. The Deadgirl (bravely played and endured by newcomer Jenny Spain) seems barely alive and has the ability to heal from all the abuse her body sustains, which makes Rickie and the other boys he eventually brings into the sordid affair feel justified in their actions, even though what they’re doing is vile and inhumane. Disturbing and delirious, Deadgirl touches upon issues of sexuality, power, gender and class,Poles discovered an over 8 thousand years old grain storage in Turkey

The largest so far known in the Middle East amount of grain of the Neolithic period in a perfect state of preservation has been discovered by Polish archaeologists in Çatalhöyük, a famous archaeological site in Turkey.

Çatalhöyük is one of the largest urban centers of first farmers and one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world.

"In a small room with an area of approximately 7 m2 we discovered four clay containers. Each contained barley" - explained project pleader Prof. Arkadiusz Marciniak from the Institute of Prehistory, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

In total, from each of the two studied containers archaeologists recovered almost 5 kg of grain. Such amount and such a good state of preservation is


a global scale phenomenon. In addition, a different grain cluster was discovered in the room. Archeobotanical analysis showed that it was an extinct species of wheat, popular in Neolithic times in the Middle East and Europe. The room in which the discovery was made was situated in the north-eastern part of the homestead - it belonged to a larger residential building, inhabited 8,200 years ago. It was the final period of the large settlement. According to Prof. Marciniak, only few inhabited households remained on the hill at the time.

The entire structure will be exploted in the coming research seasons. It is known already that the grain storage must have burned down: grain was charred at the temperature of several hundred degrees. Nevertheless, archaeologists were able to determine thatthe walls of the room were whitened from the inside. In addition to the grain containers, archaeologists found several ceramic vessels, also used for storage.

Çatalhöyük is located in the southern part of the Anatolian Plateau (central Turkey). So far, Polish excavations have focused in the central part of the tell - an artificial hill formed as a result of centuries of settlement. Currently, during the second season, archaeologists explore a part of the south slope.

The first excavations at Çatalhöyük were conducted in the 1960s by British archaeologists James Mellaart. The research was resumed only in 1993. International team is headed by Prof. Ian Hodder of Stanford University. Polish archaeologists joined the project in 2001.

Çatalhöyük was inhabited continuously for 1200 years between 7200 and 6000 BC. It is estimated


that during its heyday, the densely built-up settlement with an area of dozens of acres had 6000 residents. The site became famous due to the paintings which decorated the walls of houses and other plastic interior decorations. They depicted human and animal figures as well as geometric motifs. An interesting fact is that the dead were buried under the floors of houses.

Last year\'s excavations continued from June to August. The work was possible with financial support of the National Science Centre under the Harmony programme.

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Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague 1941-1968 was published first under this title by Plunkett Lake Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1986. The memoir was written by Heda Margolius Kovály and translated with Franci and Helen Epstein. It is now available in a Holmes & Meier, New York 1997 edition (), in a Plunkett Lake Press 2010 eBook edition and in a Granta, London 2012 edition (). Prague Farewell was the book title in the UK in previous editions. The memoir was originally written in Czech and published in Canada under the title Na vlastní kůži by 68 Publishers, a well-known publishing house for Czech expatriates, in Toronto in 1973. An English translation appeared in the same year as the first part of the


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This article challenges the notion that the comprehensive community initiative (CCI) is a singularly urban intervention strategy by comparing a rural comprehensive initiative with the literature on urban CCIs. Characteristics of CCIs in urban settings are discussed and compared with Warren Family Institute (WFI), a demonstration project in rural North Carolina. Findings support the thesis that the CCI has been implemented and found effective in rural settings. The author presents a comparison of the common complications faced by urban CCIs with those encountered during the planning, implementation, and evaluation of WFI. Differences between these two CCIs were rooted in demographic, geographic, and sociohistoric distinctions between rural and urban settings. Substantial similarities were seen between rural and urban CCIs, which suggests the need to


and the U.S. Park Service.

The Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management and Park Service are among 24 federal agencies employing more than 250 full-time armed officers with arrest authority, according the federal report, which is based on the 2008 Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers.

The other 16 agencies have less than 250 officers and include NOAA as well as the Library of Congress, the Federal Reserve Board and the National Institutes of Health.

The number of federal department with armed personnel climbs to 73 when adding in the 33 offices of inspector general, the government watchdogs for agencies as large as the Postal Service to the Government Printing Office, whose IG has only five full-time officers.

The EPA defended its use of armed officers, after the Alaska incident.

"Environmentalafter sending an email to Al Armendariz, the regional administrator who was video-taped saying his enforcement strategy was to "crucify" executives from big oil and gas companies.

"The charter of the EPA is to protect the environment and public, not to act as a quasi federal police department," Keller said after the brief but tense exchange with agents about whether the missive might seem suspicious.

The Department of Homeland Security employs nearly half of all federal officers, through Customs and Border Protection and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the most recent statistics show. The statistics also show the number of CBP officers increased by 33 percent from 2004 to 2008. The number for ICE was 20 percent over the same period.

Meanwhile, the four largest Interior Department agencies employed fewer officers during


A British Airways aircraft controller based in London has posed with a grenade launcher in a photo uploaded to Facebook.

Mustafa Aziz, who works at BA's air nerve centre near Heathrow, was on a trip to Iraqi Kurdistan when he took the photo.

The 40-year-old told The Sun that the photo was taken in 2008, before he started working at BA, and he only posed with the weapon to 'look hard'.

Mustafa Aziz, who works as a British Airlines aircraft controller near Heathrow in London, was on a trip to Iraqi Kurdistan when he took the photo with a grenade launcher on a family farm in 2008

The photo of Aziz with the grenade launcher was shared alongside another of a Kurdish militant holding an assault weapon

The photo of Aziz with thegrenade launcher was shared alongside another of a Kurdish militant holding an assault weapon.

Aziz has been based at BA's Waterside HQ in Harmondsworth, West London, since 2012.

When working for BA, Aziz is notified of all issues, including security and diversions, affecting planes in the region.

The married man said there is 'nothing menacing' about the photo, which was taken during a trip in 2008.

Aziz has been working for British Airways based at its Waterside HQ in Harmondsworth, West London, since 2012 (file photo)

'It was on a family farm, my uncle's land. They've got guns and stuff there, like any farmers do, and I was just posing, trying to look hard basically,' he told The Sun.

He added: 'That's just me being a Kurd, going back to the homeland, visiting family


Islamist targets inside Libya. [2]

On June 8, LNA spokesman Colonel Ahmad al-Mismari presented audio, video and documentary evidence of massive political and military interference by Qatar in Libya since the 2011 revolution, comprising a wave of assassinations (including an attempt on Haftar’s life), recruitment and transport of Libyan jihadists to Syria, funding of extremist groups and training in bombing techniques via Hamas operatives from the Khan Yunis Brigade. Much of this activity was allegedly orchestrated by Muhammad Hamad al-Hajri, chargé d’affaires at the Qatari embassy in Libya, and intelligence official General Salim Ali al-Jarboui, the military attaché (al-Arabiya, June 9; The National [Abu Dhabi], June 8).

Mismari also claimed on June 22 to have records of “secret meetings” held by the Sudan Armed Forces and attended by Sudanese presidentthe Brotherhood, resulting in terrorist attacks in Egypt (Asharq al-Awsat, June 29; al-Arabiya, June 28)

Qatar provides a home and refuge for members of the Muslim Brotherhood, but it does so on the condition that they do not involve themselves in Qatari politics. The local chapter of the Brotherhood shut itself down in 1999 after expressing approval of the emirate’s political and social direction (The National [Abu Dhabi], May 18, 2012).

The Muslim Brotherhood’s political misadventures in Egypt led to distrust of the Brothers’ agenda in Libya, especially as the movement still struggles to establish grass-roots support after decades of existence in the Gaddafi era as a movement for Libyan professionals living in European exile.

List One: The Arab States’ List

The “terrorist” list issued by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the


UAE included the following Libyan individuals:

Ali Muhammad al-Salabi – Al-Salabi, a second-generation Muslim Brother, was sentenced to eight years in prison at 18-years-of-age for his alleged connection to a plot to kill Gaddafi.

The intellectual and spiritual leader of the Libyan Brotherhood, al-Salabi consistently presents himself as a proponent of democracy and cooperation with international efforts to combat terrorism (Libya Herald, March 1, 2016). Al-Salabi developed ties with Qatar in 2009, when Qatar funded an al-Salabi headed de-radicalization initiative for imprisoned members of the al-Qaeda associated Jamaa al-Islamiya al-Muqatila bi-Libya (Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, or LIFG). When the 2011 revolution erupted, al-Salabi returned to Libya to act as a local conduit for Qatari arms, intelligence and military training. He now holds Qatari citizenship and has a close relationship toYusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood’s 91-year-old Qatar-based spiritual leader (also named on the list) (Libya Herald, October 5, 2015). Al-Salabi has close ties with Abd al-Hakim Belhaj (see below), with whom he founded the Islamist Hizb al-Watan (Homeland Party) in 2011.

Abd al-Hakim Belhaj– An allegedly reformed militant, Belhaj is chairman of Hizb al-Watan, believed to be financed by Qatar. Belhaj was amir of the LIFG and the leader of the post-revolutionary Tripoli Military Council. He is believed to have received substantial support from Qatar during the 2011 revolution and routinely defends Qatari activities in Libya against their critics.

Mahdi al-Harati – A Libyan-born Irish citizen with military experience in Kosovo and Iraq, al-Harati returned from Ireland during the 2011 revolution and took command of the Tripoli Brigade. Briefly mayor


of Tripoli before being ousted in 2015, al-Harati later led Libyan and Syrian fighters in Syria as part of the anti-government Liwa al-Ummah, a unit alleged to have included London Bridge attacker Rachid Redouane, a resident of Ireland (al-Arabiya, June 9; Libya Herald, June 9; Telegraph, June 6). The LNA alleges al-Harati is supported by Qatari intelligence (al-Arabiya, June 9).

Ismail Muhammad al-Salabi – Brother of Ali Muhammad al-Salabi, Ismail was imprisoned by Gaddafi in 1997 and released in 2004. He became a principal recipient of Qatari arms shipments during the revolution as commander of the Raffalah Sahati militia, part of a coalition of Islamist militias known as the February 17 Brigade (al-Hayat, May 19, 2014). Clashes with Hatar’s LNA began in 2014 and continue to this day, withIsmail serving a prominent member of the Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB) coalition. He is reputed to have a close relationship with Qatari intelligence chief Ghanim bin Khalifa al-Kubaisi (al-Arabiya, June 9).

Al-Sadiq Abd al-Rahman Ali al-Gharaini – The 75-year-old al-Ghariani was, until recently, the controversial Grand Mufti of Libya and the head of the Dar al-Ifta, the office responsible for issuing fatwa-s (religious rulings). The Mufti considers Haftar and those under him to be “infidels” and has called for the destruction of the HoR, which voted to sack him in November 2014. The Dar al-Ifta office in Tripoli was shut down by the GNA on June 1, 2017, and all its contents were confiscated (al-Arabiya, June 1). A strong supporter of Qatar’s involvement in Libya who commands the allegiance


occasionally corrected) descriptions. There is, however, often some overlap in these unofficial categories.

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB)

Twenty-nine members of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood made the list. The MB described the inclusion of its members on a “terrorist list” as “defamation” (Libya Herald, June 11). Many are resident in Doha, the Qatari capital, and receive Qatari funding. The most prominent of those included are:

Muhammad Sawan – Chairman of the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Hizb al-Adala wal-Tamiyya (Justice & Construction Party, or JCP), since its founding in 2012. He is a Misratan who was imprisoned during the Gaddafi era.

Ahmad al-Suqi – The head of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood, elected in October 2015.

Nizar Kawan – An Amazigh (Berber) member of the Libyan State Council and an official in thewant to fight and kill anyone who disagrees with them” (Libya Herald, June 12).

Dar al-Ifta and Associates of Sadiq al-Ghariani

The most prominent of these are:

Abd al-Basit Ghwaila – Director of the Tripoli office of the Ministry of Awqaf (religious endowments), Ghwaila is a Libyan-born Canadian citizen. He became the focus of attention when it was revealed that he was a close friend of the father of Manchester bomber Salman Abedi as well as the founder of an Islamic youth group to which Salman belonged. In 2016, his own son Awais was killed fighting alongside extremists in Benghazi. Ghwaila is an important official in al-Ghariani’s Tanasuh Foundation and a regular preacher on the Mufti’s Tanasuh TV station (Libya Herald, June 6).

Salem Jaber – A leader in the now dissolved


Dar al-Ifta, Shaykh Salem advocates jihad and is a Salafist proponent of Saudi-style Islamic education. He demands beards for men and has called for drinkers and fornicators to be whipped. The list suggests he is a spiritual leader in the BDB.

Hamza Abu Faris – A leading Libyan religious scholar and former Islamic affairs minister, he is described on the list as an associate of the BDB and “instigator of jihad.”

The Manchester/Birmingham Connection

Tahir Nasuf – A Manchester-based LIFG fundraiser and former director of the group’s main fundraising organization, the now banned UK-based al-Sanabel Relief Agency. Funds flowed from Sanabel to Abu Anas al-Libi in Afghanistan, wanted for alleged involvement in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar al-Salaam (The Guardian, May 28). Nasuf was onthe UN sanctions list from 2006 to 2011.

Khalid Tawfik Nasrat – A former LIFG leader and the father of Zuhair Nasrat, one of the detainees in the investigations of the Manchester attack. Zuhair was arrested at the south Manchester Nasrat family home where Manchester bomber Salman Abedi frequently stayed. Nasrat and his two eldest sons returned to Libya to fight in the 2011 revolution (Daily Mail, May 29).

Abd al-Basit Azzouz – After fighting in Afghanistan, LIFG member Azzouz arrived in Manchester in 1994, where he settled alongside other LIFG members. In 2006, he was arrested by British police for alleged ties to al-Qaeda and detained for over nine months before being released on bail. Azzouz left for Pakistan and was appointed head of Libyan al-Qaeda operations by al-Qaeda


leader Ayman al-Zawihiri in May 2011. An expert bomb-maker, Azzouz had some 200 recruits under his command in Libya. Suspected of involvement in the 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, he was named in 2014 by the U.S. State Department as one of ten “specially designated global terrorists” (Telegraph, September 27, 2014; Express [London], May 24). He was arrested in Turkey in 2014 in a joint Turkish/CIA operation and sent to Jordan before his expected deportation to the United States to face charges. His public trail goes cold after that (Hurriyet [Istanbul], December 4, 2014). In February 2016, the UN added him to its al-Qaeda sanctions list, implying he was again at large. [6]

Bashir Muhammad al-Faqih – He is described in the list as “the spiritualleader of al-Qaeda and the LIFG in Libya.” As a resident of Birmingham and former member of the LIFG, al-Faqih was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison in 2007 after admitting to charges under the UK’s Terrorism Act. In 2014, his appeal to the European Court of Justice resulted in an EU order to overturn his conviction and return his passport (BBC, July 17, 2007; Manchester Evening News, October 8, 2010). He was involved in al-Qaeda financing via the Sanabel Relief Agency, which put him on the UN sanctions list from 2006 to 2011.

Politicians

The most prominent of these are:

Abd al-Rahman al-Shaibani al-Suwehli – As chairman of the Libyan State Council since April 6, 2016, Suwehli has challenged the legitimacy of the HoR. A bulletin from the


State Council said that the HoR was using the term “terrorism” to vilify and denigrate their opponents through the list and threatened legal action (Libya Herald, June 12). Suwehli and Presidency Council chief Fayez Serraj were targeted for assassination when their motorcade came under heavy fire on February 20. Suwehli later accused GNS head Khalifa Ghwell of being behind the attack (Libya Herald, February 20).

Omar al-Hassi – After the formation of the elected HoR in 2014, the Islamist al-Hassi became “prime minister” of an alternative parliament formed from GNC members who had failed to be re-elected. He was dismissed in 2015 after unspecified accusations by an auditor. The list provides the unlikely description “field commander and political official in BDB.”

Benghazi Defense Brigades (BDB)

The most prominent commanders on thelist are:

Brigadier General Mustafa al-Sharkasi – A professional soldier and former air force colonel in the Gaddafi-era, al-Sharkasi has emerged as the dominant commander in the BDB. Turning against the regime, he acted as a militia commander in Misrata during the revolution. Once part of Haftar’s LNA, he is now bitterly opposed to him (Libya Herald, November 13, 2016).

Al-Saadi al-Nawfali – The leader of the Operations Room for the Liberation of the Cities of Ajdabiya and Support for the Revolutionaries of Benghazi. This group cooperates closely with the BDB, in which he also holds a leadership position. Al-Nawfali has been variously described as an al-Qaeda operative, a former Ansar al-Sharia commander in Ajdabiya and a supporter of Islamic State (IS) forces.

Anwar Sawan – A Misratan supporter of the


Zarqun (a.k.a. Abd al-Hadi al-Warfali) – Both were accused of being financiers for IS in Libya. Sanctions were imposed on the two by the U.S. Treasury Department in April.

Mahmoud al-Barasi – A former Ansar al-Sharia commander in Benghazi, now purported by the list to be an IS amir in that city. He once said Ansar’s fight was against “democracy, secularism and the French,” and labeled government members “apostates” who could be killed (Libya Herald, November 25, 2013).

Al-Qaeda Operatives

The most notable of these are:

Muhammad al-Darsi – A leading al-Qaeda figure in Libya, Darsi was given a life sentence in Jordan in 2007 for planning to blow up that nation’s main airport. He was released in 2014 in exchange for the kidnapped Jordanian ambassador to Libya, who was seized bygunmen in Tripoli (al-Jazeera, May 14, 2014).

Abd al-Moneim al-Hasnawi – Allegedly a high-ranking member of Katibat al-Muhajirin in Syria, Abd al-Moneim was recently spotted back in Sabah (Fezzan), where he was allegedly working with the Misratan Third Brigade, the BDB and the remnants of Ibrahim Jadhran’s Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) (Menastream.com, November 15, 2016). The list describes him as a representative for al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) in southern Libya.

Militia Commanders

Salah Badi – A Misratan, Badi was an officer in Gaddafi’s army but was later imprisoned. A former GNC parliamentarian, he resigned in 2014. Badi formed the Jabhat al-Samud (Steadfastness Front) in Tripoli in June 2015. Badi supports Khalifa Ghwell’s GNS and opposes both the GNA and Haftar. He was recently seen leading the Samud Front in


a pro-GNS offensive against Tripoli in early July (Libya Herald, July 7).

Tariq Durman – Leads the Ihsan Brigade in Tripoli, which is made up of supporters of Mufti al-Ghariani. He supports the GNS.

Khalid al-Sharif – A deputy amir in the LIFG, Khalid was captured in 2003 and held prisoner in a secret CIA detention center in Afghanistan for two years. He was then returned to Libya and imprisonment under Gaddafi (Christian Science Monitor, May 7, 2015). Khalid controlled Tripoli’s Hadba prison until May 26, when it was seized by Haitham Tajouri’s Tripoli Revolutionaries’ Brigade, which then destroyed al-Sharif’s home (Libya Herald, May 27). A search revealed the prison to have contained a bomb-making factory (Libya Herald, June 4). In June, the Libyan National Committee for Human Rights tiedManchester bomber Salman Abedi to Khalid al-Sharif and other former LIFG members and demanded the International Criminal Court and the UN investigate “Qatar’s role as a financier of this group” (Arab News, June 3).

Sami al-Saadi – Al-Saadi left Libya for Afghanistan in 1988, where he became a deputy amir of the LIFG. He was arrested in a joint UK/US operation in 2004 and returned to Libya, where he was tortured and spent six years in prison. The UK paid £2.2 million in compensation in 2012 but did not accept responsibility for the rendition. After the revolution, he became close to Mufti al-Ghariani, founded the Umma al-Wasat Party and was a commander in the Islamist Libya Dawn coalition. In late May, Saadi’s Tripoli home was destroyed by the Tripoli


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Claiming to be primed for civil war, a Venezuelan general issued orders to prepare for the future use of snipers against anti-government protesters, according to a secret recording of a regional command meeting held three weeks ago at a military base in the northwestern Venezuelan city of Barquisimeto, reports the Miami Herald.

The audio, which was obtained by the Herald from a Washington source that has provided information on Venezuela for previous stories, the general discusses the potential legal and physical risks of using snipers during the massive demonstrations against Venezuela’s socialist president, Nicolás Maduro.

Acording to the Herald, Venezuelan Division General José Rafael Torrealba Pérez is the man who is heard on the recording, can be heard saying: “Begin to make preparations withbeen used, in particularly with packaging medics and implied instructions to medical staff. It also covered AIDS advertising among other things. The old collection was really interesting. I took a few photos, but it included sunken heads, sex aids, a dead body from South America, birthing models, bizarre paintings of surgical procedures and births. There was also another exhibition about the human body. I took a photo of this sculpture. I was feeling rather displeased with my body at the time. Also, a library which had other weird stuff in it.

In the gift shop I bought a few items that I figured would go down well in a fan auction. I was due to conduct a fan auction at Conflux in Canberra a few days after I arrived


had a nice lunch, actually breakfast, and then went for a walk to the Botanical Gardens. We were meeting a friend in the evening. We walked through West End to get there and then had a fab dinner at the Banana Leaf, a kind of up market Malaysian place. Glasgow really is a vegan food heaven. Thanks Tash!

A few snaps from around West End Glasgow, complete with Tardis.

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Thursday 31st we took the train to Edinburgh. It was really easy to get to the station via the metro. Funny little things the metro trains. They are so small. Beans felt claustrophobic. At Buchanan Street you walk through the tunnel to Queen Street Station. It is weird but the on line instructions said to catch a bus. We could havedone but the metro was easier and more predictable.

First up we met up with Laura, who met us at the train station. Laura is a romance scholar and we started a walking tour around Edinburgh. I went to places I had never been before, Calton Hill, behind Hollyrood Castle and to the Georgian part of town. We had lunch in Hendersen’s,a vegetarian restaurant and later we made for the National Museum of Scotland. I had a fan meet up planned with Alistair but he had to call it off due to illness in the family. Lillian Edwards met us at 4.0opm. Originally I was meeting her in Glasgow but she lives in Edinburgh so it worked out really well. We had failed to meet up at Worldcon. It


up it. By then I was bone tired.

Moss covered lava. This lava was laid down in the year 1000. Apparently it is called Christian lava because after they converted to Christianity there was this massive eruption and they thought the old gods were angry. Iceland also has many kinds of sheep. This black sheep looked huge looming out of the mist but when we got closer it looked smaller. Ingimundur took these shots for me. My phone had run out of charge by this time. He took these of us in the stream. It was really close to nature as it had chunks of moss floating past. I thought we were crazy walking all that way in the cold and rain but when we got there there werewas the conversation that we forgot to take photos.

It was an English style pub and one of the bartenders was English and chatted with us. My daughter eats vegan and the vegetarian burger had cheese in the vegetable pattie. I ordered chips for her and the bar tender told me there was a vegan dish available but it wasn’t on the menu. So he very kindly made sure my daughter got a vegan bean stew. I had some potent local cider called Old Rosie.

My daughter had a really good chat with Magnus and Marten and got recommendations for what was she should do in Stockholm and surrounds. Gamla Stan, the Historica museum, a trip to Birka were our order of priority.

Next day we did the tourist thing and


a bit of a talk about features on our way to Birka. The Raven Rock, the rock where a king jumped off with his horse and lived and so many more.

Here is a collection from Birka. The ferry, the spot for a king with a hat, the guide, the view from the hillfort, the cross (Celtic instead of German), the local cows, me and replica boats, replica boats without me, replica village

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Birka is an island where the remains of an early Viking village was found. I was hoping to see archeological digs but alas, it was covered up. We saw burial mounds and where the village is currently under fields, the remains of the hill fort,a museum and a replica village. The guide was funnyand informative. He was an archeologist and so provided some useful information and tips for where to find things in the museums that had been taken from Birka. He was saying there was so much more to explore but funds being limited they will be excavated in the future some time. Only about 5 per cent of the village/city had been excavated so far. The government bought most of the island from the people who live there. Apparently seven people live there, farming etc. We saw sheep and cows.

In the museum shop I bought a Viking inspired T-shirt. Beans bought vegan soap and Thor hammer fridge magnet. We had prebooked our lunch so we were served that on the way back to Stockholm with window side seats.

After a