A variety of aircraft was on show at Ohakea as the New Zealand air force celebrated 80 years.

Singaporean officials are in talks with the New Zealand Government to set up a pilots' training base at the Ohakea air base.

Minister of Defence Gerry Brownlee, who was among tens of thousands of people at Ohakea's Air Tattoo celebrations in the weekend, confirmed early discussions have taken place and Singapore could chip in money to bolster facilities if the plan gets the go-ahead.

"A feasibility study is under way," he said.

1 of 11 DAVID UNWIN/FAIRFAX NZ Royal New Zealand Air Force aircraft fly in formation overhead. 2 of 11 David Unwin/Fairfax NZ Richard Smeeding, F-16 demo pilot in the American Air Force, stands on the wing of an F-16. 3 of 11engaged, as they have done in other parts of the world where they undertake training, including Australia and the United States."

David Unwin/Fairfax NZ Richard Smeeding, F-16 demo pilot in the American Air Force, stands on the wing of an F-16.

Chief of the air force Tony Davies said the Defence Force was always looking at ways to build on international relationships.

"This is just another one of those initiatives that we are exploring. It's right in its infancy stage."

Manawatu District mayor Helen Worboys said up to 500 personnel could come to the region, but it was not clear yet whether this number included air force families.

David Unwin/Fairfax NZ Rebeca Lee, Royal Air Force pilot of the A400.

"We don't know the numbers yet. It's very early days."

The Manawatu, Palmerston North and


Rangitikei councils were supportive of the idea, she said.

"We will roll out the red carpet – we will welcome them."

DAVID UNWIN/FAIRFAX NZ From left, Sean Kelly, Sarah Lewis and Mike Debney look skyward at the Air Tattoo, Ohakea.

She understood it was the third time such talks had taken place between Singapore and New Zealand. A positive result seemed more likely this time, she said.

The region's economy could benefit and there could be impacts on jobs, housing and schooling, she said.

OHAKEA'S SKY ABUZZ: THE PILOTS

LEILANI HAYES/ FAIRFAX NZ. Lines of traffic wait near Sanson for the air force 75th birthday at Ohakea. Traffic was handled better this time.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force celebrated its 80th anniversary with the 2017 Air Tattoo.

As an American F-16 fighter jet soared, swivelled,and swerved through the air, the ant-like crowd below it gasped, clapped and cheered.

But few people realised the significance of the display.

F-16 demo pilot Richard Smeeding is one of two people in the American Air Force able to perform that F-16 display.

Smeeding was given glasses as a child and assumed his dream of becoming a jet pilot was over. But surgery mended his eyesight and his dream, giving him a decade's worth of flights among the clouds.

The F-16 is his favourite aircraft and is like riding a rocket ship, he says.

"The only way I can describe [flying] it is going back to a childhood memory – I used to like getting in the dryer all the time as a kid and my dad one day closed the lid


and turned it on for one second, one spin – that's what it's like. There's a lot of spinning involved."

Royal Air Force A400 pilot Rebeca Lee said New Zealand was the farthest they had taken her team's large A400 aircraft from Britain.

The squadron captain said it was great to see such "infectious enthusiasm" from people who viewed flying as more than just a job.

OHAKEA'S SKY ABUZZ: CROWD REACTION

For retired Wairarapa top dressing pilot Mike Baker, the F-16 display was the most polished flying performance he had seen.

Baker was eager to see the "raw power" of the aircraft, especially after the Wings Over Wairarapa event had been canned the previous weekend due to poor weather.

The F-16 display was also a favourite for 13-year-old Whanganui boy Blair Gowan, who saidthe speed and sound of the jet was incredible.

For 11-year-old Hayden Edgecombe, the turns of the Spitfire aircraft were his favourite.

Jacob Houghton, an aviation pilot in training, said the celebrations were awesome.

"You don't see the jets very often – the F-16 – I've never seen that in real life. Pictures and video don't really do it justice but when you see it in real life and see what it's actually doing – yeah, that's amazing."

The 80th celebrations were the first time many people attended an air force Air Tattoo, and got to see the planes up close.

OHAKEA'S SKY ABUZZ: TRAFFIC HANDLED WELL

At the 75th Air Tattoo event held five years ago, Wairarapa resident Helen Woodcock said the traffic was "horrendous".

"Last time we were still in the traffic and


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Army Ranger Cory Remsburg was thrown like a rag doll into an Afghanistan canal Oct. 1 by the blast from a 500-pound roadside bomb, the right side of his head caved in by shrapnel. After a medical evacuation and six surgeries at military hospitals in Afghanistan, Germany and Bethesda, Md., Remsburg arrived at [Tampa's] James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in November in a vegetative state.

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

TBI Warrior Wants to Make a Difference

Jack received a very nice note today from the wife of "TBI Warrior", a soldier who is recovering from a traumatic brain injury. She thanked Jack for his blog and for his advocacy on behalf of TBI survivors and their families.

Her husband, an Afghanistan Campaign Veteran and an Iraq Campaign Veteran, started a blog in April called TBI Warrior. He plans to chronicle his recovery process, and so far I think he's doing a very


prevent players from suffering concussions. The study, which was conducted by two independent laboratories, was supported by the NFL Players Association, which prepared a written summary of the testing results jointly with the league.

"We thought there was a substantial reason to believe this was valuable data, and the players' association felt this was important and should be shared with the players," said Jeff Pash, the NFL's executive vice president of labor. But "this is not the final word or anything close to the final word on helmets."

NFL Sets New Return-to-Play Standards to Beat Concussions

The NFL is serious about brain injuries and continues searching for ways to protect NFL players from concussions. From The Washington Post:

Last year, Commissioner Roger Goodell required a player who suffers a concussion to becleared by an outside neurologist before participating in another game or practice. Goodell also notified teams that a player no longer could return to a game or a practice if he was showing any symptoms of a concussion.

Protections have been extended for "defenseless" players during games. A runner whose forward progress has been stopped and a receiver who has made a catch but hasn't yet gathered himself cannot be hit in the head by an opponent's head, shoulder or forearm. Another new rule ends any play immediately when a ball carrier loses his helmet.

In addition to these changes, "the league and union are discussing a reduction in the number of offseason practices and restrictions on hitting in practices during training camp and the regular season." Also in the


works is new helmet technology and the possible elimination of the three-point stance.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

My Journey Through The Maze of Head Injury

This post is by Mary Burgess-Smith, who has a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Center for Humanistic Studies and is the mother of a child with a traumatic brain injury. She is the author of T and Me: Road Without a Map. Mary resides with her husband and daughter in Birmingham, Michigan. We welcome her to Jack's TBI Blog, and hope she'll be a frequent contributor.

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My journey through the maze of my daughter’s head injury is a continuing process. In reflecting back through the years, we found the greatest lack to be in rehabilitation centers. The people who had the most interaction with my daughterout” at least once a month. Seeing Tania in Gems class is truly amazing. She looks up and seems transfixed. Her face is full of light and peace.

When I read to her from a novel of an Amish family, fear of death came up and Tania shook her head no. I remember that she had a near death experience following her accident. I also puzzle about her nine months in a coma, and I wonder what was going on within her.

I have recently been reminded of the changing nature of brain injury. Tania had a seizure, the only one she has had. Her motor skills are not as good as before, and her swallowing necessitates the use of thickening for liquids like the Diet Pepsi she so loves.


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Dept. of Defense Opens Brain Injury Center in Maryland

The Defense Department opened a $65 million medical center [a few weeks ago] to serve as a research and treatment hub for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, the unseen "signature wounds" of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The National Intrepid Center of Excellence at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda aims to destigmatize psychological and neurological problems among war veterans and instead cast their mental ailments as badges of honor, said New York real-estate magnate Arnold Fisher. His Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund raised the money to build and equip the curvy, two-story, glass-and-concrete structure.

"The work that will be done here will remove the profound veil that has fallen over these afflictions," said Fisher, speaking from a stagewith 21 brain-injured or psychologically damaged service members seated behind him.

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Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn said studies indicate that more than 10 percent of returning troops have suffered concussions and at least 12 percent have exhibited symptoms of combat stress, depression or other mental problems that can mimic brain injuries.

DeGraba said one of the center's goals is to better distinguish the source of such symptoms and treat them accordingly.

According to their Web site,

the National Intrepid Center for Excellence (NICoE) is a 72,000 square foot, two-story facility located on the Navy campus at Bethesda, Maryland, adjacent to the new Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, with close access to the Uniformed Services University, the National Institutes of Health, and the Veterans Health Administration. NICoE is designed to provide the


feet into the air, slamming her head onto the street. The brain injury left her paralyzed. For the next two years, Beame had to relearn everything, including walking and talking.

"I was 17 years old wearing diapers,'' she said.

She turned to art to communicate.

"It gave me the outlet for all of my emotions. I was just so tense, [had] so much anger,'' she said. "After I painted a picture, I was feeling relieved.''

Her recovery ignited a love for therapy. Now Beame, 40, of Coral Springs, is a certified mental health therapist specializing in art therapy.

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Traces of the accident remain. Faint scars are etched on Beame's neck from her tracheotomy. She occasionally slurs her speech and stumbles. "I still walk funny,'' Beame said, laughing.

But it doesn't stop her from climbingstudy of touch and its application in science and medicine. The TRI distinguished team of researchers, representing Duke, Harvard, Maryland, and other universities, strive to better define touch as it promotes health and contributes to the treatment of disease. Research efforts that began in 1982 and continue today have shown that touch therapy has numerous beneficial effects on health and well-being.

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More Funding for Preventive Treatments for Secondary Brain Damage

Edge Therapeutics, Inc. announced today that it has received $100,000 in financing from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) to supplement an Edison Innovation R&D Grant of $500,000 awarded to Edge in November 2009. Edge will


sudden brain injury are limited and minimally effective, largely due to the inability to deliver adequate doses of protective drugs to the specific site of injury in the brain.

Edge Therapeutics is a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company located at the Enterprise Development Center Incubator on the campus of New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, NJ. The company was founded in 2009 and is supported by private investors, the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Edge Therapeutics seeks to revolutionize treatment to prevent secondary brain damage after hemorrhagic stroke or TBI, by taking today's minimally effective off-patent drugs and delivering them directly to the brain via proprietary sustained-release formulations. The most advanced product, NimoGel™, consists of the generic calcium channelcommunities a better place to live ... today and tomorrow. The service focus of Pilot International is brain-related disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease, chemical dependency, traumatic brain injuries, developmental, emotional, and mental disabilities."

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The Pilot Club of Tallahassee is a part of Pilot International, a worldwide service organization founded in 1921. The Tallahassee club was chartered in 1935 and is still


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Emergency authorization of medical products: regulatory challenges from the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic in Japan.
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In Hamilton, local officials say their dispute with the mail service has broad implications.

"This really is a national debate," said Hamilton councillor Terry Whitehead, who has been dealing with a slew of resident concerns over the mailboxes. "Do municipalities, who are basically the government of the grassroots, have the right to create standards in the communities that Canada Post and utilities must follow?"

In the face of declining traditional mail volumes, Canada Post announced a plan in December 2013 to end door-to-door delivery and gave itself five years to implement the move to community mailboxes. About 100,000 made the transition in 2014, and another 900,000 households are


each mailbox's location to ensure it meets city standards before granting the permit.

"We are the stewards of those right of ways," said Whitehead, who has written to federal Transport Minister Lisa Raitt asking her to direct Canada Post to obey the rules of local municipalities.

Canada Post, however, ignored the bylaw, saying that under the federal Canada Post Act, it has the exclusive jurisdiction over postal services and the legal authority to install community mailboxes on municipally owned property.

When the city issued an order in late April for the mail service to stop installing the community mailboxes until it complied with the bylaw, Canada Post filed a notice in Ontario Superior Court asking for the bylaw to be declared invalid. The issue will be heard before a court laterthis month.

In the meantime, however, some Hamilton residents continue to clash with the Crown corporation.

"They have a responsibility to treat people properly and respectfully," said Richard Massie, who is trying to stop Canada Post from installing a mailbox next to where he plans to build a new driveway, blocking a key sightline.

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Massie's case is pointed to as a perfect example of how having Canada Post follow the city bylaw would have prevented headaches. Massie already has a permit to build the new driveway – he said his old one isn't in a safe location – but the community mailbox is ruining his plans.

"This is something we had planned long before we knew Canada Post was putting a mailbox there," he said. "They hadn't done any


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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- President Obama's budget for 2012 takes a sharp knife to government spending, with proposed cuts that will reduce deficits by hundreds of billions of dollars over 10 years.

The cuts hit far and wide: airports, heat subsidies for the poor, water treatment plants and Pell grants are just some of the targets. In total, half of all government agencies would see their funding reduced from 2010 levels.

The bulk of the cuts are needed to support Obama's proposed five-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending, for $400 billion in savings. It's a small part of the federal budget, but one that is responsible for many popular government activities.

The president's budget, which is expected to meet tough resistance in Congress, would eliminate


or reduce funding to a total of 200 government programs for savings of $33 billion in 2012 alone.

It was a "very difficult" budget, said White House budget chief Jacob Lew on State of the Union with Candy Crowley. "We have to make tough trade-offs."

In a move that is sure to anger Democrats from cold-weather states, the administration will propose cutting $2.5 billion from a program that helps low-income people pay their energy bills during periods of extreme weather.

The American Gas Association, an industry group that represents natural gas companies, predicts 3.2 million households, and 9 million individuals, would be affected.

Some parts of the Pell grant program are also on the chopping block. The budget will propose eliminating Pell grants for summer school, and making interest on federal loansfor graduate students build up during school; currently, the interest tab doesn't start running until after graduation. The administration said that those cuts would help preserve the maximum Pell grant of $5,500.

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Dr. Abu Wassim was working inside the East Aleppo hospital that was hit by airstrikes on November 17, 2016. Here, in an interview recorded a week later, he tells the story of that day:

“We started hearing shells raining down on the buildings at the end of the street, about 500 meters away from the hospital. We heard 40 or more shells exploding, with the noise moving closer and closer towards the hospital. That’s when all the staff—technicians, nurses and doctors—evacuated all the patients down to the basement.

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when the bench was informed that court's 2005 order were not complied by the state government.

At the outset, counsel for Mr Kumar said that in 2005, the top court had directed to fill up all the vacancies in the agriculture boards and marketing committees but till now nothing has been done.

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But if we're looking for the game that might have the best combination of importance and watchability, it kicks off at 7:30 p.m. ET on Saturday night. Kansas State at TCU will tell us who the Big 12's favorite is. It will also offer some fascinating tactics-and-personnel matchups.

TCU vs. good health vs. efficiency

TCU's offensive turnaround has been stunning. After ranking in the Off. F/+ top 20 for three straight years from 2009-11, the Horned Frogs fell to 70th in 2012 and 94th in 2013.

But new offensive co-coordinators Doug Meacham and Sonny Cumbie have been able to not only stem the bleeding, but completely turn things around. Trevone Boykin, an athletic, inefficient quarterback for the last


two years, has been the head of an impressive offense in 2014.

He's had help. His own legs have brought efficiency to the run game, and he's had some solid possession receivers in guys like Deante' Gray (67 percent catch rate, 16.8 yards per catch), Ty Slanina, and David Porter (combined: 12.5 targets per game, 69 percent catch rate, 13.7 yards per catch). But he's also been surrounded by three home run threats: running back B.J. Catalon and his two favorite receivers, Josh Doctson and Kolby Listenbee.

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On the evening of March 2, 1986, a police officer found Kennedy Stevens lying by the side of the road on the San Carlos Indian Reservation.  He had been severely beaten about the head.  Later he could not remember who had attacked him.  His memory loss was due perhaps to the beating and perhaps to his intoxication at the time of the beating.

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When the police officer found Stevens at the roadside, the officer noticed a small car traveling towards him and Stevens.  The car suddenly made a u-turn and sped off


then elected to make his opening statement before voir dire.  The parties delivered their opening statements, voir dire was conducted, and challenges were exercised, after which the jury was impaneled.

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The evidence presented by the government pointing to appellant's guilt included testimony by appellant's "girlfriend," Michelle Carroll, that appellant had beaten Stevens.  Appellant raised some question at trial as to Carroll's credibility.  Several other witnesses corroborated Carroll's story implicating appellant.

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After the close of the government's case, appellant moved for a judgment of acquittal based on insufficiency of the evidence.  The court denied the motion.  Appellant renewed this motion after he had presented his defense.  The court once again denied the motion.  After deliberating, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of assaultto calls for better regulation of the news media and embarrassed Britain's political elite by revealing close relations between ruling politicians and newspaper editors and owners.

The issue is still a potentially dangerous one for Prime Minister David Cameron who had close ties to editors at the News of the World.

On Thursday he abruptly ended cross-party talks on press oversight and tabled a vote on light-touch rules, rather than the stronger legislation which some experts say is needed to curb media abuse - prompting allegations he is in thrall to the press barons.

Officers from the police's hacking inquiry - known as Operation Weeting - arrested the Mirror Group journalists at their London homes on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept telephone communications.

Mirror Group Newspapers includes three national titles: the Daily


Mirror, the Sunday Mirror and the Sunday People.

Those arrested on Thursday were: the People's current editor James Scott and his deputy Nick Buckley, former Sunday Mirror editor Tina Weaver and former People editor Mark Thomas, Trinity Mirror Chief Executive Simon Fox told staff in an email, a source told Reuters.

Scott and Thomas are former deputy editors of the Sunday Mirror and Buckley was previously the paper's head of news. Weaver left the company last May when the group merged its Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror tabloids into a 7-day operation.

"We take any allegation against employees very seriously and are co-operating with the police on this matter," Trinity Mirror said in a statement.

Trinity Mirror has previously said there was no evidence its journalists had hacked any phones.

But the group'sshares lost around 17 million pounds in value in October when a lawyer who handled many of the original phone-hacking cases filed legal claims against Trinity Mirror on behalf of four people, including the former England football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Tens of people from Murdoch's British tabloids have been arrested for hacking voice messages and for conspiring to make payments to public officials.

March
14 2013 - 5 Of Piers Morgan's Ex-Colleagues At The Mirror Have Now Been Arrested In Phone Hacking Scandal

Five employees who worked at The Trinity Mirror newspaper group have now been arrested in connection with the celebrity phone-hacking scandal, Bloomberg reports.
CNN host Piers Morgan is a former editor of The Mirror, and of the News of the World, the Rupert Murdoch paper that was shuttered when the


story obtained from the hacking of a phone."

But that denial will take some explaining in the light of these previously reported events:
Former NOTW reporter Paul McMullan officially linked Morgan's name to Lord Justice Leveson's probe of tabloid phone hacking. Here's exactly what McMullan said: "My first editor, Piers Morgan, very much set the trend. He was, 'I want that story at all costs. I don't care what you had to do to get that story.'"

Morgan and the 13th person arrested in the scandal, James Desborough, both worked at News Corp.'s News of the World and both worked on the story of Paul McCartney's divorce from Heather Mills, which is said to be based on voicemails.
Morgan has denied listening to Mills' voicemails even though in 2006 he relished retailingan anecdote in which he was somehow able to listen to Mill's voicemails of McCartney pleading with her to come back to him.

James Hipwell, a financial journalist under Morgan at The Mirror, said at the time that hacking was regarded as "a bit of a wheeze."

Hipwell said in 2006 that he hacked the phone of the Spice Girls and other stars.

Mirror showbiz reporter James "Scottie" Scott said earlier this year that he assisted on one of the biggest scoops the Mirror published under Morgan's tenure
- the voicemails of England football coach Sven-Goran Ericksson's affair with a TV presenter.

Morgan boasted of this in the Daily Mail in 2009.

The same year, Morgan told the BBC that he knew of hacking going on.

In 2011, he told Naomi Campbell, in GQ magazine,


the same thing.

In 2005, he wrote in his autobiography that he knew how to hack a phone.

In 2007, he told the U.K. Press Gazette that "everyone" in London's newspaper business knew hacking was going on.

Morgan is alleged to have close ties with the Rupert Murdoch family and defended them in the media against suggestions that they were more involved in the News International phone hacking scandal than they claimed.

During Morgan's tenure as editor, the Daily Mirror was advised by Steven Nott that voicemail interception was possible by means of a standard PIN code. Despite staff initially expressing enthusiasm for the story it did not appear in the paper, although it did subsequently feature in a South Wales Argus article and on BBC Radio 5 Live in October 1999.On 18 July 2011 Nott was visited by officers of Operation Weeting.

On 13 July 2011 the political blogger Paul Staines alleged that Morgan published a story while knowing it to have been obtained by phone hacking while editor of the Daily Mirror in 2002.

Morgan described in a 2006 article he wrote for the Daily Mail how he had heard tapes of messages that Paul McCartney had left for his wife, Heather Mills, on her mobile phone. Morgan wrote that "Stories soon emerged that the marriage was in trouble – at one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading


with her to come back. He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang "We Can Work It Out" into the answerphone." He came under criticism for his "boasting" about phone hacking from Conservative MP Louise Mensch, who has since apologised for these accusations.

On 20 December 2011 Morgan was a witness by satellite link from the United States at the Leveson Inquiry. While he did "not believe to the best of my recollection" that phone hacking had occurred at the Mirror, he admitted to listening to the voice mail left by Paul McCartney for Heather Mills, but refused to "discuss where he was played that tape or who played it – it would compromise a source." Appearing as a witness at the same Inquiry on 9 February 2012,Mills was asked under oath if she had ever made a recording of Paul McCartney's phonecalls or answerphone messages and had ever played it to Piers Morgan or "anybody else", she replied: "Never". Mills told the inquiry that Morgan was "a man that has written nothing but awful things about me for years and would have relished telling the inquiry if I had played a personal voicemail message to him".

On 23 May 2012, the Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman was a witness at the Leveson Inquiry. He recalled a lunch with the Mirror editor in September 2002 at which Morgan outlined the means of hacking into a mobile phone.

On 28 November 2012 the Channel 4 documentary Taking on the Tabloids, fronted by actor and phone-hacking victim Hugh Grant, showed


footage from a 2003 interview with Morgan by the singer and phone-hacking victim Charlotte Church, during which he explained to her how to avoid anwserphone messages being listened to by journalists. He said: “You can access voicemails by typing in a number. Now, are you really telling me that journalists aren’t going to do that?"

The following day (29 November 2012) the official findings of the Leveson Inquiry were released, in which Lord Justice Leveson said Morgan's testimony under oath on phone hacking was "utterly unpersuasive. This was not, in any sense at all, a convincing answer" and "What it does, however, clearly prove is that he was aware that it was taking place in the press as a whole and that he was sufficiently unembarrassed by what wascriminal behaviour that he was prepared to joke about it."

PHONE HACKING ALLEGATIONS

Morgan is alleged to have close ties with the Rupert Murdoch family and defended them in the media against suggestions that they were more involved in the News International phone hacking scandal than they claimed.

During Morgan's tenure as editor, the Daily Mirror was advised by Steven Nott that voicemail interception was possible by means of a standard PIN code. Despite staff initially expressing enthusiasm for the story it did not appear in the paper, although it did subsequently feature in a South Wales Argus article and on BBC Radio 5 Live in October 1999. On 18 July 2011 Nott was visited by officers of Operation Weeting.

On 13 July 2011 the political blogger Paul Staines alleged that Morgan


published a story while knowing it to have been obtained by phone hacking while editor of the Daily Mirror in 2002.

Morgan described in a 2006 article he wrote for the Daily Mail how he had heard tapes of messages that Paul McCartney had left for his wife, Heather Mills, on her mobile phone. Morgan wrote that "Stories soon emerged that the marriage was in trouble – at one stage I was played a tape of a message Paul had left for Heather on her mobile phone. It was heartbreaking. The couple had clearly had a tiff, Heather had fled to India, and Paul was pleading with her to come back. He sounded lonely, miserable and desperate, and even sang "We Can Work It Out" into the answerphone." Hecame under criticism for his "boasting" about phone hacking from Conservative MP Louise Mensch, who has since apologised for these accusations.

On 20 December 2011 Morgan was a witness by satellite link from the United States at the Leveson Inquiry. While he did "not believe to the best of my recollection" that phone hacking had occurred at the Mirror, he admitted to listening to the voice mail left by Paul McCartney for Heather Mills, but refused to "discuss where he was played that tape or who played it – it would compromise a source." Appearing as a witness at the same Inquiry on 9 February 2012, Mills was asked under oath if she had ever made a recording of Paul McCartney's phonecalls or answerphone messages and had ever played


it to Piers Morgan or "anybody else", she replied: "Never". Mills told the inquiry that Morgan was "a man that has written nothing but awful things about me for years and would have relished telling the inquiry if I had played a personal voicemail message to him".

On 23 May 2012, the Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman was a witness at the Leveson Inquiry. He recalled a lunch with the Mirror editor in September 2002 at which Morgan outlined the means of hacking into a mobile phone.

On 28 November 2012 the Channel 4 documentary Taking on the Tabloids, fronted by actor and phone-hacking victim Hugh Grant, showed footage from a 2003 interview with Morgan by the singer and phone-hacking victim Charlotte Church, during which he explained to her how toof the new company, to
be named Thomson-Reuters. The new head of Thomson-Reuters will be
Tom Glocer, the current head of Reuters.

Journalists

Reuters
has a team of several thousand journalists, who, over the years, have
covered every big news event, sometimes at the cost of their lives. In May
2000 Kurt Schork, an American
reporter, was killed in an ambush while on assignment in Sierra Leone. In
April and August 2003, news cameramen Taras Protsyuk and Mazen Dana were
lost at the hands of the US forces in Iraq.
During 2004, the company lost cameramen Adlan Khasanov in Chechnya and
Dhia Najim in Iraq.

The
first Reuters journalist to be taken hostage in action was Anthony Grey.
Detained while covering the Cultural Revolution in Peking in the late
1960s, said to be in response to the jailing of several Chinese terrorists
by the colonial


British Government in Hong
Kong. He was considered to be the first political hostage of the
modern age and was eventually released after almost 2 years solitary
confinement. Awarded an OBE
by the British Government in recognition of this, he went on to become a
best selling author.

His
barrister didn't challenge the so-called scientific evidence produced at
trial. He should have. It was junk science. [Junk science is bogus
forensic information that the police use to gain a conviction, where they
have a weak case.] His barrister didn't show the jury the accused'
diaries, he should have, because the girl's mother reminded the accused to
send Valentines cards every year - which she, err, seems to have forgotten
to mention to the court. She also forgot to tell the prosecution
about the existence of her own diaries. These diaries reveal thatthe American Veterinary Association for use in killing animals. And, that the drug is banned for putting down pets in 12 states. Veterinarians today, use high doses of barbiturates, that have the double effect of killing pain and shutting down organs. Again, lawyer Donald Verrilli.

Mr. VERRILLI: That's one of the approaches that's being advocated, for around the country, because it would eliminate the need to use the drugs that inflict the risk of horrible pain.

TOTENBERG: In the past, state officials have rejected the use of barbiturates, but Joshua Marquis, vice president of the National District Attorneys' Association, concedes that states may now have to abandon the three-drug cocktail in favor of a strong dose of barbiturates.

Mr. JOSHUA MARQUIS (Vice President, National District Attorneys' Association): That is one of


death row inmates to challenge their convictions in federal court based on new DNA evidence.

The ruling came in the case of Paul Gregory House, convicted 20 years ago for the murder of a neighbor in rural Tennessee. At trial, the prosecution told the jury that the motive for the killing was rape and that the physical evidence, both semen and blood, tied House to the crime.

But yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that new DNA evidence, developed in the last decades, directly contradicted that trial evidence. The semen on the victim's body belonged, not to House, but to the victim's husband. And the blood evidence, the court said, was in such disarray that no conclusions could be drawn.

All of this, the court suggested strongly, should lead to a newRoger Daltrey and Pete Townshend will play a two-leg, 38-concert 2015 North American tour in celebration of the Who's 50th anniversary. Seventeen initial stops are set for the spring, followed by another 21 shows across the U.S. and Canada.

The Who Hits 50 tour kicks off on April 15, 2015, in Tampa, concluding in May in Forest Hills, N.Y. The fall leg launches on Sept. 14 at San Diego, and ends on Nov. 4 in Philadelphia. The complete list of announced dates and cities is below.

Unlike the Who's most recent tour, which focused on 'Quadrophenia,' the 2015 set list will expand to include highlights from throughout their five decades of music making. Featured songs are promised from classic albums like 'My Generation,' 'Live at Leeds,' 'Tommy' and 'Who's Next,'


Oregon ArtsWatch

Tuesday notes: Profile’s new artistic director, Oregon Book Awards, more

The Oregon Book Awards and the announcement of both a new season and a new artistic director at Profile Theatre made for a busy Monday night.

We’ll start with Profile. Jane Unger started the company in 1997, dedicating each season to the work of a single playwright, until this 15th season, which honored ALL of the previous playwrights in one season. The company has always punched above its weight, attracting some of the cream of the city’s theater community to a succession of small performance spaces, most recently Theater! Theatre! on Southeast Belmont.

It would have been easy enough for the company to call it quits when Unger was ready to leave, but instead the company is transitioning to aEye: Down Syndrome, Family, and the Stories We Inherit”); Carl Adamshick won for Poetry (“Curses and Wishes”); Lidia Yuknavitch won the Readers Choice Award (“The Chronology of Water”); and Dr. Ulrich Hardt received the Walt Morey Young Readers Literary Legacy Award. There was no playwrighting award this year.

Sarah Jessica Parker to the rescue! King School in Portland is one of eight schools in the nation participating in the Turnaround Arts Initiative, a federal/private program that is experimenting with providing a healthy dose of arts education to schools that need help, and Parker will be one of the helpers. Naturally, this is a program that is close to the heart of ArtsWatch so we’ll be following it closely.

The Eugene Symphony has a new executive director, Scott Freck, and arts


Lazy Magnolia's amber-colored Timber Beast IPA is one of the first craft beers produced in Mississippi since the state loosened its liquor laws.

For a century, Mississippi and other Southern states had Prohibition-era laws on the books that kept alcohol-by-volume (ABV) levels so low that many craft breweries were prevented from setting up shop.

When Mark Henderson and his wife Leslie founded Lazy Magnolia in 2003, it was the first brewery to open in Mississippi since 1907. And it was the state's only brewery until the laws changed nine years later.

"We got started and it was all very challenging," said Henderson, who could only make and distribute beer below 6% ABV. This meant no gourmet Belgian ales, IPAs, or barrel-aged beers, which are all made with more alcohol (and arelimits are not a barrier to entry into the market, but it's clearly a barrier to innovation," said Bart Watson, an economist at the Brewers Association. "The different regulatory environments in the Southeast tend to [be stacked] against small brewers. But these states are coming to recognize the [economic] value of having local brewers."

North Carolina was one of the first Southern states to loosen its laws accordingly -- raising beer's ABV limit from 5% to 15% in 2005. Before then, the state had around 30 breweries. Today, there are 120, according to the North Carolina Craft Breweries Guild.

"North Carolina has clearly been the most dynamic state in the South, and we're seeing a lot of production growth," said Watson, noting the state is the largest beer producer in


and he plans to distribute there by the end of the year.

"It's still a young market compared to us," Doble said. "The next five years are the golden years because of the amount of breweries that are opening."

In 2009, there was just one brewery in the Cotton State; today, there are 29, according to the Alabama Brewers Guild.

This directly translates into jobs and economic stimulus.

"These are high-value manufacturing jobs," said Watson. "And there are numerous service jobs that indirectly support the industry, such as agricultural jobs."

Meanwhile in Mississippi, craft beer's success is evident at the Whole Foods (WFM) in Jackson, where only local beers are sold from the store's growler poles.

"If there had only been one brewery in Mississippi, then they could not have done it," Mark HendersonOlivia Rosenman (MJ, 2013) and Sophie Brown (MJ, 2013) at TEDxVictoriaHarbor where they filmed the talks with three other JMSC students.

Five JMSC students recently got the chance to work on an international project that has an audience in the millions when they interned at TEDxVictoriaHarbour, an annual travel and tourism conference in Hong Kong. The conference operates under license from TED, a nonprofit that promotes such events around the world.

Sherry Zhang (MJ, 2013), Sophie Brown (MJ, 2013), Olivia Rosenman (MJ, 2013), Justine Tai (BJ, 2013) and Linn Schjerven (BJ, 2013) were hired through the JMSC’s internship programme to record this year’s conference, whose theme was “E-Motion: the how and why we travel, and how it will evolve in the future.”

Tai and Schjerven worked as still photographers during the


and practice. And the internships that the JMSC can provide are pretty impressive.”

The internships allow students to connect with working members of the international media and to receive training from them. One of the speakers at the conference was Dean Head, an Australian filmmaker whose documentaries have been on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic. “He helped us set up and took the time to advise us on lighting and how to get the best shots,” said Rosenman, who is also from Australia.

Five JMSC students recently got the chance to work on an international project that has an audience in the millions when they interned at TEDxVictoriaHarbour, an annual travel and tourism conference in Hong Kong. The conference […]energy (and total cost of ownership) savings over traditional data center designs.

Keppel Data Centres, one of the three largest data center providers in Singapore, is a division of Keppel Telecommunications and Transportation, a subsidiary of the giant Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Corporation. In addition to Singapore, Keppel operates data centers in Malaysia, Hong Kong, Australia, Germany, The Netherlands, UK, and Ireland.


gate led to the hills. Some of the maples were red even now in the summer, flames among the green. Stepping-stones were scattered easily over the lawn, and wild carnations bloomed shyly among them. In a corner to the left were a well and a well wheel. A celadon stool on the lawn seemed so hot in the sun that it would surely burn anyone who tried to sit on it. Summer clouds ranged their dizzying shoulders over the green hills.

It was a bright, quiet garden, without striking features. Like a rosary rubbed between the hands, the shrilling of cicadas held sway.

There was no other sound. The garden was empty. He had come, thought Honda, to a place that had no memories, nothing.

The noontide of summer flowed overconcluded that many youth skipped school out of fear of violence, and more students were likely “to be threatened on school property with a weapon one or more times” than anywhere else. Altogether, thirty-six children died in Detroit as a result of violence in 2010.

While there is a concerted effort to expand medical services to youth, as hospitals and private organizations develop strategies to improve child health, Detroit’s economic chaos may foil those plans. Last year, Detroit became the largest city to file for bankruptcy — planting the seeds for 24,000 retirees to lose health benefits on March 1. The Motor City is far from economically secure enough to overhaul the systemic problems exacerbating child mortality. Nevertheless, 500,000 people throughout Michigan will be eligible for Medicaid in April,


Robert P. Finkelstein, D.O., P.A.

Robert P. Finkelstein, D.O., is a licensed physician with board certification in dermatology as well as family medicine. After graduating from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1990, he spent a year at a rotating internship at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine.

Upon completing his training in family medicine and dermatology, he worked in private practice in the Philadelphia area as both a clinical dermatologist and associate clinical professor at UMDNJ. In 2002, Dr. Robert Finkelstein relocated to Florida where he spent two years in practice with Advanced Dermatology and Cosmetic Surgery Group, servicing areas from Tampa to Sarasota. He then started the Center for Skin Wellness, in Sarasota, where he continues today. Dr. Finkelstein residesin Bradenton with his wife, Nancy, and their dog Lola.

Dr. Finkelstein enjoys teaching as well as practicing general and cosmetic dermatology. He maintains an avid interest in medical technology and medical informatics and incorporates these into his practice, streamlining his office and patient care with the use of cutting edge technologies. In addition, Dr. Finkelstein’s osteopathic background and training provide you with a well-rounded, holistic approach to patient care.


and CEO of Chief Oil & Gas in Dallas, Texas; Bruce Kovner, chairman of Caxton Alternative Management in New York; and Mary Sue Shannon, who listed herself as a Milwaukee homemaker.

Walker received $51,000 from Marcus Hiles, who is in the real estate business in Texas. Three others gave him $50,000 each: Jere Fabick, president of the Fabco Equipment of Milwaukee; Rex Sinquefield, a Missouri retiree; and Robert Kerbell, president of Lorman Education Services in Eau Claire.

He received $30,000 from John Templeton Jr. of Pennsylvania a physician who heads the John Templeton Foundation established by his investor father. Templeton and Humphreys, one of the $250,000 donors, also gave large amounts to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser for his recount last year.

Thirteen people gave him $25,000 each. They were:E. Brett McMahon, president of Miller & Long in Washington D.C.; C. Boyden Gray, a Washington, D.C. attorney; John D. Bryan, listed as a retiree from Oswego, Oregon; Marcus Bernard, listed as a retiree from Atlanta; Howard Jenkins, listed as a Tampa retiree; Bruce Hendry, listed as a Minneapolis retiree; Sam Fox, founder of the Harbour Group in Saint Louis; John Fischer, an executive with Pisces Inc. from San Francisco; Robert Cummins, president of Primera Technology in suburban Minneapolis; Gerald Couri, an executive with Couri Insurance in Waukesha; Jim Click, president of Jim Click Automotive Team in Tucson, Ariz.; Rick Carlson, a developer from Nashville; and Michael J. Bidwell, an Arizona Cardinals executive.

Houston developer Richard Weekley gave him $24,000. Giving him $20,000 each were Thomas W. Smith, an


other droplets." "The entire web, in that reflection and so on, to infinity." "Indra's web could be described as a holographic universe, where even the smallest stream of light contains the complete pattern of the whole." "The Serbian-American scientist, Nikola Tesla, is sometimes referred to as the man who invented the" "20th century." "Tesla was responsible for discovering alternating current electricity and many other creations that are now part of every-day life." "Because of his interest in the ancient Vedic traditions," "Tesla was in a unique position to understand science through both an eastern and western model." "Like all great scientists, Tesla looked deeply into the mysteries of the outer world, but he also looked deeply within himself." "Like the ancient yogis, Tesla used the term Akasha to"When consciousness becomes perfectly still, the illusion is understood because it is consciousness itself that drives the illusion." "In the ancient traditions of the East, it has been understood for thousands of years that all is vibration." ""Nada Brahma" - the universe is sound." "The word "nada" means sound or vibration and "Brahma" is the name for God." "Brahma, simultaneously IS the universe and IS the creator." "The artist and the art are inseparable." "In the Upanishads, one of the oldest humans records in ancient India, it is said "Brahma the creator, sitting on a lotus, opens his eyes and a world comes into being." "Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being."" "Ancient mystics, yogis and seers have maintained that there is a field


"Shakti." "In the Bible, the gospel of John usually reads," ""in the beginning was the word"" "but in the original text the term used was" ""Logos"." "The Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who lived around 500 years before Christ, referred to the Logos as something fundamentally unknowable." "The origin of all repetition, pattern and form." "The Stoic philosophers who followed the teachings of Heraclitus identified the term with the divine animating principle pervading the universe." "In Sufism the Logos is everywhere and in all things." "It is THAT out of which the unmanifest becomes manifest." "In the Hindu tradition Shiva Nataraja literally means" ""lord of the dance"." "The whole cosmos dances to Shiva's drum." "All is imbued or ensouled with the pulsation." "Only as long as Shiva is dancing canODOT Region 1 Highway Division, located in beautiful Portland, Oregon, is recruiting for a transportation project leader. This position is responsible for leading multiple teams through the project delivery process, and ensures that projects are delivered within scope, schedule, and budget. Assigned projects are typically complex, span multiple years, and engage diverse stakeholders.

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participants\' personal reports about their youth years (between 20 and 30 years old). A family member of each participant previously selected two important events in the participant\'s life (one to be used in conditions A and B and the other for condition C). Family members were sent a confidential letter containing instructions on how to select pictures and create sentences to be used in the study.

Youth years were established based on studies demonstrating special focus on autobiographical memory during this period, which is known as the memory bump for older adults.^[@r17]^ The pictures and sentences provided by family members were reviewed and selected to decide which event would be told during the experiment. The same event was used in conditions A and B to keep memory differences fromof the overall design, not the focal point. Stand in the room needing the rug and make note of its one, two or three predominant colors. Then determine the room’s style or period (French Country, Modern, Early American, etc).

Wolfie (Thomas Jane), a gun slinging policeman uses it to justify his actions in the face of right and wrong. Dominic (David O’Hare) is a career thief who annoys his partner by preaching the book, until deciding that he no longer wants to take part in this life of crime. And then there’s Roger (Kevin Connolly) , a journalist who has been tasked with finding the mysterious Teddy Raymond by his editor Gerald (Sylvester Stallone).

A 21 year old woman was charged with driving while impaired and assault on a law


enforcement officer after she allegedly scratched a police officer face as she struggled with the officer, according to a weekly review of Pitt County court records. On Sept. 27 at Fourth and Summit streets by the East Carolina University Police Department..

The restaurant wasn’t so much a breakfast stop as it was a staging area for the day to come. There were plenty of people saying that it would finally be Rory McIlroy’s time. Two of the teenagers there were hoping for Rickie Fowler make a charge. Of the retailer Nordstrom Rewards program account for 44 per cent of sales at the department store chain, and typically spend three to four times more than non rewards customers.When Nordstrom opened its first Canadian location in 2014 it debuted a loyaltyIn fact, we are leading a tremendous part of our life. Not to be outdone, the veteran sitting next to me of the same age as the other, chipped in by saying that he too led a very busy and hectic life and all thanks to his hobbies of playing hockey and horse riding till the age of 50, he has been able to maintain his health..

Pyramus and Thisbe were lovers, but were forbidden to marry by their parents. (Who knows? Maybe it went back to an old family feud.) The two talked secretly through a tiny hole in the wall between their houses. Their love for each other grew, and they decided that they had to rendezvous and make a break for it.

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He is then blamed for the dissapearance of Zeus’s mighty lightning bolt. If the lightning bolt is not returned by the summer solstice a war will break out between Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades which would create massive distruction. Percy and his new friends, Grover and Annabeth, must now embark on a journey to find Zeus’s bolt before a war is started between Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades..

She had a group of friends and was on the popular side and was never picked on for her weight or anything like that. Al (no one called him Albie except his family) was definitely notkeep in mind that kids who were too young last year to understand what was happening may now be cognitively able to grasp some aspect of it. Seeing the anniversary story on the news this week, many children of all ages may well think this is happening now, for real..

NEWARK One day after a young child was shot in the city, community members will gather on the streets to rally against Newark’s gun violence. On the corner of Central Avenue and 3rd Street. On the corner of Central Avenue and 3rd Street, where numerous cop cars lined the street the previous night..

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So he moved on to the Valsalva maneuver, which meant holding his breath and pushing.. He was in and out of hospital during those months, but we were not unduly worried. The complete course for the chemotherapy was supposed to be for six sessions. By the fifth session, his coughs were getting worse.

And so there I was, hunkered down in the Bohemian’s smoky office on the afternoon of Oct. 9, shocked at the damage and struggling to crank out some copy about the fires. The phones didn’t work and the internet was down, and you could practically feel the panic still coming off the scorched nearby streets.

(It worth noting, since the 77th annual Academy Awards are being held tonight, that Bacall, who has made more than 50 feature films, has never won an Oscar. She was nominated only once, in 1997, for


Xi’an

Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi Province, China. A sub-provincial city on the Guanzhong Plain in northwestern China, it is one of the oldest cities in China, and the oldest of the Four Great Ancient Capitals, having held the position under several of the most important dynasties in Chinese history, including Western Zhou, Qin, Western Han, Sui, and Tang. Xi'an is the starting point of the Silk Road and home to the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

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The Crowells failed to pay their mortgage payments and on September 12, 1986, Farm Credit Services commenced foreclosure proceedings on the property. On November 25, 1987, the Crowells' right to redeem the property expired. However, the Crowells, with the acquiescence of Farm Credit Services, remained on the property while securing financing to buy the property pursuant to their right of first refusal under Minn.Stat. § 500.24, subd. 6.
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Calimero(カリメロ,Karimero?) is an Italian/Japanese cartoon about a charming, but hapless anthropomorphizedcartoonchicken; the only black one in a family of yellow chickens. He wears half of his egg shell still on his head. Calimero originally appeared on the Italian television show Carosello on July 14, 1963, and soon became a popular icon in Italy.

The characters were created by the animation studio Organizzazione Pagot and originated as a series of animated advertisements for Miralanza AVA soap products shown throughout Italy. The creators of the main character were Nino Pagot, Toni Pagot and Ignazio Colnaghi. [1] At the end of each episode, it turns out that Calimero is not actually black, but only very dirty, and becomes white after being washed by the advertised soap products.

The characters were later licensed inJapan as an anime series, twice. The first was made by Toei Animation and ran from October 15, 1972 to September 30, 1975, and the second, with new settings and characters, was made in 1992. Altogether, 99 Japanese episodes were made (47 in the 1972 Toei series, and 52 in the 1992 Toei series). The series mostly consists of the many adventures of Calimero and his friends as they solve mysteries and make documentaries. However, their adventures usually get them into quite a bit of trouble. The first series was also broadcast on European networks such as TROS (Netherlands and Belgium), ZDF and RTL II (Germany) or TVE (Spain).

A third animation series about the character, in Computer animation, has premiered in TF1 in 2014. The production team includes


Philippine President Asks for Extension of Martial Law in Mindanao

Philippine Army Scout Rangers crouch in a classroom during a mission to flush out Islamist militant snipers in Marawi, on the southern island of Mindanao, June 6, 2017.

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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has asked Congress to extend martial law until December in the southern island of Mindanao, where the military has been fighting a bloody two-month insurgency by Islamic militants.

More than 500 people have been killed in the conflict, which began after a failed attempt by security forces to capture Isnilon Hapilon, a top Islamic State-linked militant leader. The insurgents burned down several buildings, including a church, and took several people hostage, prompting Duterte to impose a 60-day period of martiala high luminance among the input images and displays the relevant area in a bright manner. On the other hand, by setting a low light transmittance for an area having a low luminance in the input image, the light control unit interrupts excess light and displays the relevant area in a dark manner. As the light irradiation unit and the light control unit operate in this manner, even when the area having the high luminance and the having the low luminance exist in a mixed manner in the input image, it is possible to appropriately display the input image in accordance with the respective luminances.
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On a still, at times rather slow-burn night in Dortmund England did enough to win, ended up losing, but still looked in patches like a team feeling away at the edges of its new shape, exploring with interest some new post‑Rooney attacking gears.

By the end they had also received a lesson in how to win, in the importance of cold hard edge in between the grace notes. Lukas Podolski hadn’t really done much by the 69th minute of this match. He touched the ball 30 times in all, chugged about eagerly, perhaps looked a little puffed towards the end. But when the ball did finally arrive at his feet in just the right spot he took the game away from England, looking up, seeing the space in fronta finish when a clear chance came his way.

Signal Park is a huge reverberating space. At kick-off its steeply banked stands were already rolling with waves of noise from all sides. England’s fans had been vigorously present in the city centre all day, running through their repertoire of ironical second world war references. Here they were crammed into a distant corner slice of the Park, but still bouncing and dancing and serenading the Queen, Jermain Defoe, the Pope.

Alli was sparky and cute in the early moments, often moving from inside to out and enjoying the willing, supercharged, rather wild movement of Jamie Vardy ahead of him.

Twice Alli was fouled holding the ball up in between the lines with his back to goal, spooking Antonio Rudiger into dragging him


A new competitive series is coming to “The ELEAGUE Showdown” this fall featuring competitive play via MTG Arena.

Beginning Sept. 4 at 7pm CT on Twitch, Wizards of the Coast (WotC) and ELEAGUE are launching a new Showdown series via MTG Arena. The series will run through Dec. 18, featuring competitive play from popular MTG community influencers and emerging star players.

Individuals competing in the new series will be chosen through personal invitations and player applications. Each week, players will compete in one single-elimination match at a time via MTGA in the Standard format. Only the last winner left standing will receive prize money each week and move on to the following week’s matches as the “player to defeat.”

Some details still remain unknown, such as the prize pool and howto apply as a competitor. But ELEAGUE has announced that a rulebook for the series will become available on its website in the coming days.

The partnership between ELEAGUE and WotC is setting a new precedent for MTG in the world of esports. Most MTGA competitions occur in-house, with the exception of streaming events hosted by Fandom Legends. In conjunction with the recent esports path announced by WotC for tabletop and digital play, partnering with ELEAGUE has the potential to broaden viewership and increase the popularity of MTGA even further.

Launching in 2016, ELEAGUE has established itself in esports by hosting a variety of games from Overwatch and CS:GO to FIFA and Rocket League. Adding MTG Arena to the roster is a smart play considering the growth its seen within


a church leader said.

“When the bombs went off, I saw the dead body of one girl and four other members of our church who were injured,” said Yakubu Dutse, director of finance at COCIN headquarters, which is located in the same building.

Dutse said one of the bombers was shot dead and one was injured by soldiers posted as security guards before the bombs went off, killing the second assailant as well.

“When they were stopped at the gate of the church, they refused to stop, hence the soldiers posted to the church shot at the car,” he said.

Church member Felix Apollos rushed to the scene of the attack minutes after the bombs went off; he told Compass that he saw the bodies of five people killed in the attack,Compass.

The COCIN church holds two worship services on Sunday mornings, one at 7 and one at 10. The second service was cancelled, as were most church services throughout Jos.

The car used in the attack was blown to pieces, and seven other cars were also destroyed.

Boko Haram, the name given to the Islamic extremist group officially called Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad – “The People Committed to the Propagation of the Prophet’s Teachings and Jihad” – seeks to impose a strict version of sharia (Islamic law) on Nigeria. The name Boko Haram translates loosely as “Western education is forbidden.”

Nigeria’s population of more than 158.2 million is divided between Christians, who make up 51.3 percent of the population and live mainly in the south, and Muslims, who account for 45


percent of the population and live mainly in the north. The percentages may be less, however, as those practicing indigenous religions may be as high as 10 percent of the total population, according to Operation World.

Jos, often described as a religious fault line between the north and the south, has been the site of numerous large-scale and isolated incidents of violence containing a religious component.

COCIN is one of the largest evangelical Christian denominations in Nigeria, with a large concentration in northern Nigeria. COCIN was established in Nigeria in 1904 by the Sudan United Mission by the leadership of Dr. Karl Kunn.

A number of COCIN congregations and other churches have come under attack by Boko Haram recently in northern Nigeria. In Borno state last year, the Rev. David Usmanof the COCIN church in Maiduguri was murdered by Boko Haram. The denomination’s church buildings in Geidam, Damaturu, and Potiskum, all in Yobe state, also have been bombed.

COCIN church members have also been attacked in Tafawa Balewa and Bogoro Local Government Areas of Bauchi state. Early morning attacks in Tafawa Balewa, on Jan. 22 left at least seven Christians dead and a church building destroyed. The attack on the Evangelical Church Winning All Church 2, residents of Tafawa Balewa said, was carried out by area Islamic extremists alongside members of the Boko Haram sect, with the church building and surrounding houses bombed.

Suspected Islamic extremists detonated a bomb outside a church building in Suleja, Niger state, on Feb. 19, two months after Boko Haram Islamists killed 44 Christians and


blinded seven in a church bombing in nearby Madalla. The Feb. 19 blast injured at five Christians.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Washington, DC, February 24 (C-FAM) A new study by an
independent group of researchers shows that the World Health Organization (WHO)
has significantly underestimated malaria mortality figures in its 2011 Malaria Report. This is another blow to the credibility
of the top global health organization in just two years.

A paper published in The Lancet medical journal this month by
researchers from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the
University of Washington in Seattle found that 1.238 million deaths worldwide
were directly attributable to malaria – almost twice the 655,000 deaths reported
by WHO.

The report also delivered surprising news about the real causes of global
child mortality. Malaria mortality was 1.3 times more than theto further consideration of
the draft legislation on women bishops.

We are hugely grateful to the
Venerable Cherry Vann, Archdeacon of Rochdale, for introducing the Diocesan
Synod Motion on behalf of the Diocese of Manchester, and for the gracious and
generous way in which she did so. This motion invited the House of Bishops to
consider amending the legislation, in order to introduce provisions for those
unable to accept the ordination of women to the episcopate along the lines of
those contained in the amendment proposed by the Archbishops of Canterbury and
York, which was very narrowly defeated in July 2010.

While the Manchester motion was not
passed in the form proposed, the debate was a helpful one. Many members of
Synod, including those from the Catholic Group, but by no means only them, spoke
eloquently and forcefully in favour of


arrangements whereby those unable to
accept women in the episcopate, on theological grounds, would be able to
continue in the Church of England with integrity and a real opportunity to
flourish. It was enormously encouraging to hear the speeches of younger lay
people, women and men, and younger priests, putting our case.

It was encouraging, too, that a third
of the House of Clergy and well over 40% of the House of Laity voted against any
amendment to the Manchester motion, indicating significant dissatisfaction with
the legislation in its present form. In the House of Bishops, 16 bishops voted
against amending the Manchester motion, among them the Archbishop of York, the
Bishops of London and Durham, and a number of other senior diocesan bishops. A
further 5 members of the House of Bishops, including the Archbishop of
Canterbury and theBishop of Winchester,
abstained.

The motion which was passed in its
final form still gives the House of Bishops room to take a fresh look at the
legislation; and, of course, it remains true that the House of Bishops has the
discretion to amend the legislation in any way its sees fit, irrespective of the
voting on this particular motion in the General Synod.

We shall be praying hard now for fresh
wisdom at the meeting of the House of Bishops in May, and for a willingness to
listen to those many voices in Synod which urged that, for the sake of the
Church of England as a whole, and her unity and mission, a way forward may be
found to enable supporters of women in the episcopate and those who cannot
assent to the development to move forward together.


We are not there yet.
Forward in Faith continues to stand ready to help in any way, that such a
solution may indeed be found.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

(IFJ/IFEX) - February 21, 2012 - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is shocked and horrified at the brutal murder of senior journalist Chandrika Rai, his wife and two young children, in Umaria district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Chandrika Rai, 43, a freelance journalist who was published frequently in newspapers in the state capital of Bhopal, was found dead at his home on the evening of Saturday, February 18. His 39-year old wife, 19-year old son and 17-year old daughter, were also found dead in different rooms of the house. All four bodies bore injuries inflicted by a sharp weapon.

Mediareports from India suggest that Rai could have been targeted for revenge by elements involved in local coal mining activities. Rai had recently written articles exposing numerous illegalities in the coal trade in the region.

Other reports hint at a connection with the recent abduction of the son of a government official. Rai is believed to have expressed his scepticism over police claims that the boy was rescued without any ransom changing hands. This may have attracted the anger of an organised kidnapping racket in the area.

"The IFJ is deeply shocked and saddened at the brutality of this murder, and the loss of a brave journalist and his entire family", said the IFJ Asia-Pacific.

"Violence committed against journalists, whatever its motive, has a chilling effect on good investigative journalism carried


out in the public interest.

"We call upon the authorities in the state of Madhya Pradesh to utilise all necessary resources and efforts to investigate this matter, and ensure that those responsible for this murder are brought to justice for their crimes".

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Bill C-30 , also known as the Protecting Children from Internet Predators Act, introduced in the House of Commons on 14 February 2012 by Canada's minister for public safety, Vic Toews.

"The fight against online child pornography is a legitimate aim, but it should not be waged at the expense of protecting rights and freedoms on the Internet," the press freedom organization said.

"By rubber stamping excessive monitoring of all Web users and allowing the authorities to obtain information about users without a warrant, Bill C-30 goesas Obamacare, which consist so largely of open-ended grants of authority, virtually invite Administrations to issue rules that make new laws under the guise of executing existing ones. Once upon a time, the courts ruled that this sort of thing is the very negation of law.

Under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act constituted boards to regulate various parts of the economy. They set prices and working conditions for everything from poultry to pants, and ended up fining a tailor for pressing pants for 35 cents instead of 40 cents, and a producer of kosher chickens of selling too cheap.

In 1935, in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, the Supreme Court unanimously struck down the NIRA because Congress could not give legal force to rules


Administration had been serious about such a promise, why not have written it into the law rather than trust that rule-makers – unelected legislators – would abide by it? In short, the delegation of legislative power turned out to be a ruse for achieving by decree what could not be achieved by honest legislation.

While the substance of the ruse is not justiciable, the use of laws as screens for executive power not bound to law and even contrary to law should remind the Justices of the reason why non-delegation has been a principle of law for 2,000 years, why they learned it in law school, and why it might be a good idea to steer the ship America back in its direction.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Afghan President Hamidusing Pakistani soil for attacks against Afghanistan.

“He asked us to assist him in his peace efforts and emphasised that forces creating problems should be controlled,” ANP’s Haji Adeel said after the meeting.

Maulana Samiul Haq, from whose seminary most of the Taliban leaders have graduated, said Mr Karzai asked him to mediate. He said he asked him to put up concrete plan and serious agenda for peace.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

MEXICO CITY — When U.S. special agent Jaime Zapata was shot dead one year ago on a notorious stretch of highway in central Mexico, he was driving a $160,000 armored Chevy Suburban, built to exacting government standards, designed to defeat high-velocity gunfire, fragmentation grenades and land mines.

But the vehicle had a basic, fatal flaw.

Forced off the road in a well-coordinated


ambush, surrounded by drug cartel gunmen brandishing AK-47s, Zapata and his partner, Victor Avila, rolled to a stop. Zapata put the vehicle in park.

The door locks popped open.

That terrifying sound — a quiet click — set into motion events that remain under investigation. When Zapata needed it most, the Suburban’s elaborate armoring was rendered worthless by a consumer-friendly automatic setting useful for family vacations and hurried commuters but not for U.S. agents driving through a red zone in Mexico.

Friday, February 17, 2012

Federal authorities on Friday arrested a 29-year-old Moroccan man in an alleged plot to carry out a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol, the latest in a series of terrorism-related arrests resulting from undercover sting operations.

For more than a year, Amine El Khalifi, of Alexandria, considered attackingtargets including a synagogue, an Alexandria building with military offices and a Washington restaurant frequented by military officials, authorities said. When arrested a few blocks from the Capitol around lunchtime on Friday, he was carrying what he believed to be a loaded automatic weapon and a suicide vest ready for detonation.

The gun and vest were provided not by al-Qaeda, as Khalifi had been told, but by undercover FBI agents who rendered them inoperable, authorities said.

They said Khalifi had been the subject of a lengthy investigation and never posed a threat to the public. On Friday afternoon, he made an initial court appearance in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, where he was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal property. He faces life in


planning, was no unwitting victim.

Khalifi arrived in the United States when he was 16 and was living as an illegal immigrant in Northern Virginia, having overstayed his visitor’s visa for years, officials said. In 2010, he was evicted from an Arlington apartment after having failed to pay rent.

The landlord of that apartment, Frank Dynda, a retired patent lawyer, said, “He was getting mysterious packages labeled ‘books,’ but I didn’t think there were books in them.”

Dynda said he thought Khalifi was “suspicious and hostile,” and Dynda reported Khalifi to Arlington police. Two officers visited Dynda’s apartment building soon after the report but told him there was no reason to pursue the matter, he said.

It was unclear how Khalifi came to the attention of federal authorities. According to the criminalcomplaint filed in court Friday, a confidential source reported to the FBI in January 2011 that Khalifi had met at a residence in Arlington with individuals, one of whom produced what appeared to be an AK-47 assault rifle, two revolvers and ammunition.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

"It's quite clear that a very well-trained person has committed this attack," he said. "One has to proceed on the basis that it was a terrorist attack."

The attack was carried out in one of New Delhi's most secure districts -- only a few blocks from the residence of the prime minister himself.

"It appears that a motorcycle rider, a single person, came from behind and the person attached a device to the trunk's door of the Innova," he explained. "The explosion, according to the eyewitness...happened


any particular group or any particular organization. But whoever did it, we condemn it in the strongest terms," he said.

Separately, police in the former Soviet republic of Georgia defused a car bomb in an Israeli embassy vehicle, raising questions about whether the two attacks are connected.

There are apparent similarities between Monday's magnet bomb strike and attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists for which Iran blames Israel. Many Indians are now wondering whether their country will become a new front for a covert conflict between Israel and Iran because of the latter's nuclear program.

India has strong historical ties to Iran and depends heavily on it for imported fuel. India has resisted calls from Western nations to sanction the country for its nuclear program and is planning to send a massivequality of its reporting. Despite frequent attempts to intimidate its staff, it is one of the very few independent sources of news about Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan, the victims of a low intensity civil war. Its website is often the target of DDoS attacks, the latest of which was during Russia's disputed parliamentary elections on 4 December 2011. The site's content and all of its files were completed deleted in 2010.

lankaenews.com
Lanka-e-News is one of the few independent news outlets in Sri Lanka, where a government licence is needed to publish news online. As Lanka-e-News does not have a licence, the site has been blocked since October 2011. Its headquarters in a Colombo suburb were badly damaged by an arson attack in January 2011.

Either install website copying software on


your server and run it at regular intervals in order to have an updated version of the mirrored site (we recommend copying the content of the existing mirror rather than the original site in order not to overload the original)

Or download a compressed file of the mirrored site (available for all the Reporters Without Borders mirrors at http://mirroradress/archive.tar ), decompress it and use ftp to transfer all the files to your server.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

The biggest bioethics story this week is President Obama's efforts to soften anger over his Administration's decision to force religious institutions to pay for insurance plans offering "free" contraception. The New York Times argued that this is "a phony crisis over 'religious liberty' engendered by the right."

Seeking to allay the concerns of Catholic leaders,interventions that prevent or terminate life. However, the Presidential Policy Maker is neither an ethicist nor a medical practitioner.

Last year Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, told a pro-choice gathering, "We are in a war." The religiously conservative are trying to "roll back the last 50 years in progress women have made in comprehensive health care in America."

Now the religiously conservative must agree. "The religious truce is officially over," writes Dr Jennifer Roback Morse in MercatorNet. "The Established Church of Secular Hedonism has declared war on the rest of us, enlisting the might of the United States government on their side."

Dr Roback argues that hedonism has become America's official religion under President Obama. Yet another edict from the Obama administration has ended the American experiment