drought. Wet your lips and read on.

Bake it to the limit: Aiguo Dai, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado came to that conclusion after analyzing 22 computer models. He thinks that unless greenhouse-gas emissions are cut, large areas of the planet, including the U.S. Southwest, are in for some very long, very damaging dry spells within the next 30 years. Few continents would escape — Dai mentions parts of Asia, southern Europe, and much of Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East — and he believes regions bordering the Mediterranean Sea could suffer “almost unprecedented” drought conditions. Says Dai:

We are facing the possibility of widespread drought in the coming decades, but this has yet to be fully recognized by both the public andlargely unnoticed.

European environmental groups had long fretted about an aging industrial sludge pond near Ajka, Hungary, containing caustic waste from the process that converts bauxite to aluminum. The International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River included the pond on a 2006 watch list of sites “at risk” for accidents that could pollute the Danube ecosystem. WWF Hungary had pushed for the closure of the pond (large enough that it could easily be seen from space on Google Earth) and of two other bauxite sludge storage ponds in western Hungary.

But in the policy world, mining pollution is a perennial also-ran in the list of environmental concerns “” distant from where most people live, and normally out-of-sight, out-of-mind. And even many of the people who lived close to


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By Olivier Bault.

This article was originally published in March on Kurier.plus by the Felczak Institute of Polish–Hungarian Cooperation.

Central Europe – A popular view in Western Europe is that anti-Semitism is still rife in Central European countries, and that Poland and Hungary in particular, being now ruled by conservative governments, are witnessing a new surge in anti-Jewish sentiment. This view has been strengthened by Viktor Orbán’s repeated attacks directed at George Soros, an American billionaire of Hungarian Jewish origin, and also by Poland’s historical disputes with Israel in 2018 after Warsaw amended its memory law to make it punishable to assert that the Polish state or the Polish nation as a whole had some responsibility in the genocide perpetrated on its soil by Nazi Germany againstJews during World War II. The amendment was later revoked and a joint declaration signed by Polish PM Morawiecki and Israeli PM Netanyahu, butthe dispute did indeed show that prejudice between Jews and Poles still exists on both sides.However, do Jews not still feel much better and safer in both Poland and Hungary, and indeed in the whole of Central Europe, than in Western European countries? A Europe-wide study published last November by the Jewish American organisation International Center for Community Development seems to say just that, thus confirming the words of Breitbart’s Matthew Tyrmand, an American columnist whose father Leopold was a renowned Polish–Jewish novelist, writer and editor who emigrated to the United States in 1966, who stated in a piece he wrote in 2016 that “Despite


the Western narrative that suggests Polish anti-Semitism is rampant, Poland is one of the best – if not the best – nations in Europe in which to be Jewish today.”

There may be two main reasons for this situation. First, 21st-century anti-Semitism in Western Europe is mainly linked to the growing presence of a Muslim population, among whom anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are rife. Indeed, anti-Semitic attacks on the streets of countries such as Germany, France, Sweden or the United Kingdom nowadays very rarely, if ever, have links to the far-right. Most of the perpetrators are Muslims or come from a Muslim, immigrant background. Second, Central Europeans are usually much more supportive of Israel and much less pro-Palestinian than Western Europeans, and unlike the rest of Europe,their governments often takebe counted as Jews or not.One indication of the possible rise of the Jewish population is the number of Israelis being granted Polish passports. This number reached 10,820 in the three years between 2015 and 2017 – almost as many as in the six years from 2009 to 2014, and more than in the nine years between 2002 and 2010. Between 2002 and 2017 a total of 28,736 passports were issued to Israeli citizens who acquired Polish citizenship. In Hungary, however, the Jewish population, whose exact number is also unknown, seems to be slowly but steadily decreasing at a rate of 1,500–2,000 every five years, because of an ageing population and economic emigration. The overall number of Jews was estimated at somewhere between 60,000 and 110,000 in 2015.

10%


of French Jews have already fled the country since the year 2000

France is the European country with the largest Jewish population,estimated at 500 to 600 thousand. However, this population is shrinking fast, as many Jews choose to make Aliyah – to emigrate to the Land of Israel –while some emigrate to other countries such as the United States. The number of French Jews who emigrated to Israel between 2000 and 2017 is estimated at around 55,000, which means that since the beginning of the century – in less than two decades – roughly 10% of French citizens of Jewish descent have moved to Israel! There was a sharp rise in these numbers starting in 2013, and 2015 was a peak year, with almost 7,900 Jews leaving France injust one year. Since 2016 the numbers have been decreasing, to reach some 2,600 in 2018 (compared with 1,917 in 2012, before the rise). French Jews are sometimes publicly encouraged to immigrate to Israel by top Israeli government officials. This was seen last February, when Yoav Galant, the Israeli minister for immigration, condemned anti-Semitic acts in France after 80 graves had been profaned in a Jewish cemetery in Alsace, and called for Jews to seek refuge from growing anti-Semitism by moving to Israel. His words were criticised by the French government, much as when Israeli PM Benyamin Netanyahu had caused outrage while on a visit to Paris after the January 2015 attacks by Islamic terrorists against the headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket.


Netanyahu then called for French Jews to move to Israel for their own sake.

Several people brutally murdered in recent years just for being Jews

And indeed, the latest terrorist attacks were not the only tragic events to have shocked France recently.In 2006 a young Jewish man, Ilan Halimi, was abducted by a gang calling themselves The Barbarians and led by Youssouf Fofana, a young man whose Muslim family had immigrated to France from the Ivory Coast and who has since turned to radical Islam in prison. The gang members were convinced that they could obtain a large ransom from Ilan’s family because Jews were in their minds supposed all to be very wealthy. Ilan was brutally tortured for three weeks before he died from his injuries. In another caseof a brutal anti-Semitic attack, a group of three young men from Muslim backgrounds robbed a flat belonging to a young Jewish couple in Créteil near Paris in December 2014. The couple were brutally beaten, and the young woman was raped by all three attackers in front of her husband. Ladji, Yacine and Omar later explained to the police that they had chosen to rob that particular flat because they knew that the family living there was Jewish, and in their eyes also all Jews were supposed to be rich. In April 2017, another young man from a Muslim family, Kobili Traoré, tortured and killed a retired Jewish woman, Sarah Halimi, in her Parisian flat. The man lived in the same building as his victim and she knew


him. Before he threw Mrs Halimi from her balcony, police who had been called to the rescue by neighbours heard the attacker shouting “Allah Akbar”. In March 2018, Jewish Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll was stabbed with a knife on her medical bed in her flat on Avenue Philippe-Auguste in Paris (in the same 11th district where Sarah Halimi had been murdered one year earlier). According to his accomplice Alex Carrimbacus, before stabbing their victim Yacine Mihoub condemned her for being a Jew and shouted “Allah Akbar”. These are just a few cases of anti-Semitic attacks which have gained most attention from the media, and the French authorities have often been reluctant to recognise the anti-Semitic character of attacks against Jews for fear of showing that immigration and Islamcan indeed lead to renewed anti-Semitism. Despite this fact, official data for 2018 show a further rise in anti-Semitic incidents in France, up by 74% compared with 2017: there were 541 incidents in total, including 81 where Jews were the victims of physical assaults, and in some cases attempted murder. Because of several past terrorist attacks by Islamists targeting Jews (like Mohamed Merah’s shooting of a teacher and three children, aged 3 to 15, in the Ozar Hatorah Jewish school in the southern city of Toulouse in 2012, and French citizen Mehdi Nemmouche’s killing of four visitors at the Brussels Jewish Museum in 2014), 824 sites in France linked to the Jewish community (including synagogues and schools) are guarded at all times by armed soldiers. It is noteworthy


Ministry of Education.

Apart from the traditional Islamic intolerant and discriminatory approach to non-Muslims, the reason for this new kind of anti-Semitism in France as in other Western European countries is that they have imported the Israeli–Palestinian conflict together with mass immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.A blatant example of this was seen when a leftist pro-Palestinian protest was organised in Paris in July 2014 just after Israel had dropped bombs in Gaza. During that protest, where some left-wing French MPs were present, the “Death to the Jews” slogan was also heard and eight synagogues were attacked. More recently, when French Jewish philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was insulted in a Paris street last February by a group of “yellow vest” protesters, not so much as a Jew but as a supposedarrival of migrants

Unfortunately, France is no exception in Western Europe. The situation has also deteriorated in several other countries with smaller Jewish populations, including in Germany,where in early October 2015, a month after Germany had opened its border to illegal immigrants on the Balkan route (with particularly favourable treatment of self-declared Syrians), Josef Schuster, chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, expressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel his worries concerning the mass arrival of people with a culture of intolerance, anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel. Both he and the chairman of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Vienna Israelite Community) in neighbouring Austria, Oskar Deutsch, then called on their respective governments to place a restrictive ceiling on the number of immigrants allowed to arrive each year. Today Josef Schuster


recommends that Jews not wear a kippah in the streets of German cities, after in April 2018 two Jews – a 24-year-old German citizen and a 21-year-old Israeli man – were brutally beaten in Berlin, causing outrage all over the country and beyond. One of their three attackers, a 19-year-old Syrian refugee, was filmed yelling “Yahudi”, which means “Jew” in Arabic, while beating their victims. And this was not an isolated act. In 2017, 21 cases of anti-Semitic abuse in Berlin schools were reported to police, while the capital witnessed 288 anti-Semitic attacks in total during that year. The anti-Semitic abuse in Berlin schools included the shocking case of a 14-year-old Jewish boy who had to quit his school in the Friedenau neighbourhood because of persecution by otherpupils, who would choke him and threaten they were going to kill him. The total number of 288 anti-Semitic attacks in Berlin in 2017 was about twice the level seen before the massive immigration wave of 2015–16. In Germany, every Jewish school and every synagogue now requires direct police protection. As regards schools throughout the country, in early 2018 Heinz-Peter Meidinger, the President of the German Teachers’ Association, identified a clear link between the rise in anti-Semitic incidents and the high number of migrants.

There are some 250,000 Jews living in Germany, most of them (some 215,000) having emigrated from the former Soviet Union after 1991. Germany also has a rising number of Israeli expatriates living on its soil, and is host to a new wave of immigration of


which more than 16,000 Jews were polled in 12 European countries: 77% of Hungarian Jews and 85% of Polish Jews do see anti-Semitismas a problem in their country. However, it is Germany, Sweden and the UK which have the highest increase in Jews considering emigration, and this shows that the kind of anti-Semitism suffered by Jews in those countries is of a much more serious nature.

This fact is confirmed by the above-mentioned Europe-wide study published last November by the Jewish American organisation International Center for Community Development. This was the Fourth Survey of European Jewish Community Leaders and Professionals, answered in April–May 2018 by 893 respondents from 29 European countries, with the highest rates of response in France, Germany, Hungary, the UK, Poland, Italy, the Netherlands, Greece, Spain,Save Market Basket Rally, August 5, 2014. (Photo: Tim Carter)

The Market Basket situation is indeed, as many commentators have remarked, nearly unprecedented in the annals of American labor relations: When have we ever seen so many workers protest so vigorously for, rather than against, their boss! (For those new to the story, the New England supermarket chain has been wracked by massive employee protests, organized without any union involvement, after a faction of the family that owns the chain took control and ousted extremely popular CEO Arthur T. Demoulas. The mobilization in support of the former chief executive has resulted in nearly empty shelves and the mobilization of angry communities of formerly happy customers.)

But beneath the surface of the singular job action, in which workers and community have


banded together to demand the reinstatement of the former CEO, the conflict in New England points toward something much more fundamental: the need to build institutions that can sustain the kind of community- and worker-friendly business leadership that earned “good brother” Arthur T. such incredible loyalty.

Happily, such institutions already exist, here in the United States. While undoubtedly not perfect as a form of workplace democracy, the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) offers a proven template for making the interest workers have in a thriving business part of the discussions about a company’s future. As Market Basket demonstrates, lovable CEOs who treat their workers well are wonderful – until someone else takes their place. With millions of Boomer bosses set to retire in the coming years, a transition toThe pay-me girl has had enough of the bleepsSo she takes the bus into the countryAlthough she got herself rosy cheeksShe didn't leave enough money to pay the rentThe landlord says that she's out in a weekWhat a shame she was just getting comfyNow she's eating chocolate to induce sleepIn a chemical world, It's very, very, very cheap

And I don't know about youBut they're putting the holes in, yes, yesIt's been a hell of a doThey've been putting the holes in, yes, yes

Peeping Thomas has a very nice viewAcross the street at the exhibitionistThese townies they never speak to youJust stick together so they never get lonelyFeeling lead, feeling quite light-headedHad to sit down and have some sugary teaIn chemical world, in a chemical worldIt's very, very, very


order to play chess
against himself,
he needs to split his mind
into two halves:
an "I" black and an "I" white.
Now, only now, with two agents in play,
can there be true
interaction and learning.
Years later on a cruise ship,
Dr B meets the world chess champion
at the time, Mirko Czentovic.
An expert at chess, and only at chess.
In a stunning demonstration of his skills,
Dr B manages to do the impossible:

Korean:
세계 체스 챔피언을 이긴 겁니다.
80년 뒤, 슈테판 츠바이크의
소설은 현실이 됩니다.
작가 그 자신도 상상하지
못했을 방식으로요.
현대의 센토비치라 할 스탁피쉬는
2016년 컴퓨터 체스 챔피언입니다.
옛날 방식 인공 지능이죠.
체스를 두기 위한,
오직 체스만을 위한 것이죠.
현대의 'B 박사'라 할 알파제로는
인공 학습 에이전트입니다.
오로지 자기 자신을
상대로 두면서 체스를 배웠죠.
체스 뿐만이 아니라
장기나 바둑같은 어려운 게임들도요.
알파제로는 1,000번의 경기에서
스탁피쉬와 비교해서
25배가 넘는 승을 거둡니다.
전 세계 체스 챔피언
가리 카스파로프에 의하면

Hungarian:
legyőzi a sakkvilágbajnokot.
Nyolcvan év előrehaladtával
Stefan Zweig története valósággáalong
with this extortion.

Meanwhile, the rest of Daniel's family have their own issues. His wife finds out that her domineering mother still
owns their home, which leads her to further exploit her martini habit. Again, she must accept the
situation as it stands, but she has to figure out a way to turn it in her favor. Their son Adam is being kept
away from his girlfriend, the daugther of a church leader, due to some underlying racial issues. Here,
he has not accepted the situation, and vows to fight for her. Their daughter Grace, a budding young
artist, is struggling with a computer program that would bring out her talents, so she turns to a
young computer whiz nicknamed "Yoda" in order to move forward. Yoda is the epitome of an annoying
pre-teen and wants


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UPDATE: Deadline for eviction of homeless camps on Gladys Avenue

Gladys Avenue was busy on Thursday, as the area filled with people, vehicles, carts and recycling company trucks during the eviction of homeless camps along the street.

Many residents of the camps were moved items out of the area, following an eviction notice set for July 31 from BC Hydro, which owns the land.

The main camp affected is located on Gladys Avenue across from the Salvation Army. A large portion of the camp farther west, where a teepee is situated, is not on BC Hydro land and is not impacted.

The camps, which have existed on the avenue in high profile for more than a year, were ordered to leave by 9 a.m.

At that time there was little movement,but by midday, homeless residents, with assistance from volunteers, service providers, and recycling services, began to remove items from the area.

A number of citizens turned out with signs expressing support for the homeless, and at one point in the morning stopped traffic on the road by standing and singing.

Some property owners from the Gladys Avenue area watched the cleanup, expressing hope the site would actually be cleared this time, citing declining property values, an inability to sell their homes due to the presence of the camps, and increasing property crimes.

Police issued a news release last week stating that property crime in the area had more than doubled in the area and that weapons had been brandished at the camps’ residents, leading to safety concerns.

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traffic backed up along the road as vehicles attempted to navigate through throngs of people, items and other vehicles.

The site, located across from service provider Salvation Army, has been prominent since June 2013, after city crews dumped manure on the known gathering spot to move the homeless out of the area.

The camp, which at that time moved a short distance down the road, was later deemed a health hazard by Fraser Health in September. The site was vacated and the campers moved back to the original site where the manure had been dumped.

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The slowdown in FDI growth comes after the first outflow in net capital from China in four years in October, part of a recent trend of capital flight from emerging markets largely driven by Europe's festering debt crisis.

But Hua Zhongwei, an economist with Huachuang Securities in Beijing, says the long-term allure to global investors of the world's second-biggest economy remained strong and he expected a reasonably swift rebound.

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Former married couple Sally and Kevin Webster are set to share a night of passion with each other on ITV1 soap Coronation Street after Kevin's (Michael Le Vell's) father Bill (Peter Armitage) has a heart attack.

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Huffington Post politics and immigration reporter Elise Foley Tweeted on Thursday, “DHS Secretary John Kelly says a CBP officer died last night after being stabbed in the face by a cartel member.”

DHS Secretary John Kelly says a CBP officer died last night after being stabbed in the face by a cartel member. — Elise Foley (@elisefoley) May 25, 2017

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A statement from the El Paso Police Department obtained by Breitbart Texas states the incident began on May 20 when off-duty Agent Morales and his girlfriend walked to their car from a bar they attended. The suspect, later identified as Hisaias Justo Lopez, 39, walked up to the couple, and another couple they were walking with and began an unprovoked confrontation. Morales identified himself to Lopez as a Border Patrol agent. The suspect then pulled a knife and stabbed Morales, Sgt. Enrique Carrillo wrote in a statement. Lopez reportedly fled and MoralesShe questions why the Markham event went ahead when scheduled flag raisings planned for the same weekend in Richmond Hill and Vaughan were cancelled, despite pleas from residents to the contrary and advance warning protests were being planned.

Residents also feel they were duped by the city, after the event went ahead as scheduled despite emails stating it had been cancelled and flyers that the city said erroneously stated financial support via Celebrate Markham.

All three flag raisings were being conducted by the Federation of Chinese Canadians in Markham (FCCM) — the same group that also organizes and runs the “Taste of Asia” event each year in Markham.

While Toronto Mayor John Tory became one of the first Canadian mayors outside of Vancouver to weigh in on the conversation about China


access to the data without the consumers' knowledge.

The report lists a number of best practices it recommends to companies and agencies using the technology, including informing consumers when their information is used by a third party when legally possible. The recommendations come from a two-day retreat the organization held in June with attendees from consumer and privacy organizations, academia, government and business from the United States and Europe.

The CFA also urges consumers to read terms of service carefully and look for cloud services that follow the CFA's recommended practices.Their quest for a stolen sword leads them to the hostile gate-town or Ribcage, the treacherous plane of Baator, and the disciplined burg of Fortitiude - a gate-town teetering between two planes, just waiting for something to tip the scales.

Your player characters need wits as keen as their steel to brave the fires of Dis and survive!

Product History

"Fires of Dis" (1995), by Steve Perrin with additional design by Ray Vallese, is the fourth adventure for Planescape. It was published in March 1995.

Continuing the Planescape Series. "Fires of Dis" was yet another adventure for the Planescape line. It was a publishing category that had been very popular in Planescape's first year, resulting in the release of three standalone adventures and one adventure anthology. Each of the previous standalone adventures


had a very specific format: they were 32 pages long and included a DM's screen unique to the adventure. That began to change with "Fires of Dis". Its page count was instead 64 pages, and it was the next-to-last Planescape adventure that included a DM screen.

Origins. Freelancer Steve Perrin was contracted to write an introductory adventure for Planescape that involved a trip to the Nine Hells. When he asked whether he should reprint info on the Nine Hells from the Planescape Campaign Setting, he was told to do so. However, by the time the adventure arrived at TSR, the powers-that-be had changed their mind; editor Ray Vallese cut out much of the repetitive material and replaced it with new material of his own, resulting in rather unusual creditsfor "Fires of Dis": Steve Perrin is listed as "original design" while Ray Vallese is listed as "additional design".

Adventure Tropes. As with most of the Planescape adventures, "Fires of Dis" starts in Sigil, then sends players out into the planes. However, it places more emphasis on the Outlands and its gate-towns than most previous adventures — offering a way-station before players descend into Hell.

The actual adventure is a fairly typical MacGuffin quest. Though it involves town adventuring, wilderness adventuring, and a dungeon crawl through the Iron Tower of Dispater, it's all heavily plotted and focused on set encounters, making it fairly typical for an adventure of the '90s.

Expanding Planescape. The early parts of "Fires of Dis" focus on the gate-towns of the Outlands; of the previous Planescape adventures,


only "Recruiters" from Well of Worlds (1994) had given them much attention. Two gate-towns get lots of new details, including maps: Fortitude (the gate-town for Arcadia) and Ribcage (the gate-town for Baator). The idea that gate-towns can slide into their linked planes is also reiterated, following up on the same plot point from "Recruiters".

Baator (2e's name for the Nine Hells) also gets a strong focus as the setting of the latter parts of the adventure. This was particularly exciting because no official adventure had previously ventured into the Nine Hells. Avernus (layer 1) and the City of Dis (layer 2) are both detailed through maps and encounters, with chapter V of the adventure taking place in Dis' central location, the Iron Tower of Dispater.

Monsters of Note. Players getto encounter two shockingly powerful monsters, the dragon queen, Tiamat, and the lord of the second layer, Dispater. However, the encounters are carefully managed, because an outright conflict with either force would be sure to kill the PCs.

Future History. Baator would be an important part of many future Planescape supplements due to its part in the Blood War. However, the next adventure focused on the Nine Hells was a post-Planescape product, the hack-and-slash "A Paladin in Hell" (1998).

About the Creators. Perrin was a freelancer who'd been writing for TSR since his 1987 authorship of "N5: Under Illefarn" (1987) and "CM9: Legacy of Blood" (1987). This was his last publication for the company.

About the Product Historian

The history of this product was researched and written by Shannon Appelcline, the editor-in-chief


today in the lab, the small volume of lithium-ion we have already developed is closer to the level we are satisfied with, but that is only in small quality," he said. "There is a huge difference between small volume and mass production of lithium-ion."The remarks were interpreted as a response to General Motors' (GM) alliance with battery maker A123, which has so far failed to deliver mass production of lithium-ion batteries.Toyota's other planned efforts in the area of fuel efficiency include the unveiling of new hybrid-only models in 2009, increased investment in the production of ethanol from wood waste, the expansion of a joint Panasonic-Toyota batter factory, the introduction of "clean diesel" V-8 versions of the Tundra pickup and Sequoia SUV and the sale of 1 million hybridSeveral industry leaders have lauded the launch of the PRWeek Middle East Power.

PRWeek worked closely with launch partner MEPRA to produce an objective representation of some of the best creative communications talent from across the Middle East.

Sabrina De Palma, executive director of MEPRA, said: "Since it was launched in the UK in 2007, the PRWeek Power Book has become established as the Who’s Who in the communications business.

"The global and UK editions have long been regarded as the definitive guides to the brightest and most influential communications professionals, who set the bar for excellence in our community," De Palma said.

"MEPRA is thrilled to partner with PRWeek, the world’s leading communication and PR publication, to launch the first edition of the PRWeek Middle East Power Book and recognise or


region’s top industry leaders.

"The PRWeek Middle East Power Book is a chance to shine a light on the communications professionals who have played a central role in driving the industry forward in our region.

"The Middle Eastern edition is also a chance to show the rest of the world the suite of creative talent we have in the region and out our PR power players on the map."

The event was sponsored by ASDAA BCW. President Sunil John told PRWeek the Middle East is the fastest growing PR market globally and the launch of the Middle East Power Book is a marker of the maturity of the industry and the calibre of PR professionals in the region.

"As communications leaders, we have a seat at the table alongside the very highestas well as inspire and bring through the female leaders of the future."

Peter Ganney, comms director of boutique firm Performance Comms, said it meant "a great deal" to be named in PR Week's Middle East Power Book.

"The launch of the Power Book in the region is a significant development for the industry and, for me, appearing alongside so many PR luminaries is naturally a great source of pride," he said. "However, I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants. The sterling work of my brilliant team has brought me to this position so the great honour also belongs to them."

Farah Al Alami, chief comms officer at United Eastern Medical Services (UEMedical) said she was "truly honoured" to see her name listed among strong comms professionals in the region.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

This was our third year as bookseller for the small but perfectly formed Kennington Literary Festival, a fantastic little festival which springs out of the passionate and thriving community surrounding Kennington Library - given added poignancy this year by the threats to the library's existence.

This year the festival welcomed the widest possible range of authors, from first time novelists to literary legends, poets, illustrators and local celebrities.

In the main hall, Winnie The Witch illustrator extraordinaire Korky Paul sketched dinosaur portraits and read from the original Winnie book (25 years old next year). Korky also announced and presented prizes to a story and illustration competition held in the run-up to the Festival.

Science Fiction legend Brian Aldiss talked about his life in writing, and also discussed Oxfordas a centre for fantasy fiction, in conversation with fantasy author Juliet McKenna.

I was very excited to meet Brian, whose books I consumed voraciously at school and university, and felt particularly privileged to discuss his views on the future of manned spaceflight for a few minutes whilst he signed. Brian was born in 1925, won a short story competition in the Observer in 1955, and then went on to become one of the true greats of Science Fiction - and definitely the grandmaster described on his website. He is also an accomplished poet and (exhibited) artist.

He and Juliet were heading off to the Cheltenham Festival that afternoon, and had other events lined up the following day. Truly inspiring.

A change of tack in the afternoon. Local authors Margaret Pelling


all kinds of conflicts, court battles and ultimately led to a ruling from the then home secretary which has had implications for planning laws ever since.

It is frankly an incredible story, particularly concerning the court battles that Bill lost time and again (comprehensively, expensively) and yet the shark survived. Bill is a master storyteller, holding his audience rapt (albeit running out of time). The book has been beautifully produced by OxfordFolio and is a work of art itself, and of course we have signed copies in the shop...

After the authors had signed books and met fans, the local author and journalist Helen Peacocke led a local walk to tie in with her latest dog-friendly walking guide "Paws Along The Way".

Kennington has a very family-friendly reputation. The Friends ofM4A1_HWS_GL_SD_Camo: FakeWeapon {};
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	//class M4A1_HWS_GL_camo: FakeWeapon {};
	//class MP5SD: FakeWeapon {};
	//class MP5A5: FakeWeapon {};
	//class PK: FakeWeapon {};
	class PK_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	class Pecheneg: FakeWeapon {};
	//class SVD: FakeWeapon {};
	//class SVD_CAMO: FakeWeapon {};

	//class Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class ksvk: FakeWeapon {};
	class ksvk_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	class M136: FakeWeapon {};
	class Javelin: FakeWeapon {};
	class Stinger: FakeWeapon {};
	class RPG7V: FakeWeapon {};
	class Strela: FakeWeapon {};
	class Igla: FakeWeapon {};
	class MetisLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Binocular: FakeWeapon {};
	class Laserdesignator: FakeWeapon {};
	class Laserdesignator_mounted: FakeWeapon {};
	//class NVGoggles: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Throw: FakeWeapon {};
	//class HandGunBase: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Put: FakeWeapon {};
	//21sept // class TimeBomb: FakeWeapon {};
	class Mine: FakeWeapon {};
	class MineE: FakeWeapon {};
	//class PipeBomb: FakeWeapon {};
	//class SmokeLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	//class FlareLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class M134: FakeWeapon {};
	class M134_2: FakeWeapon {};
	class TwinM134: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M240_veh: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M240_veh_2: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M240_veh_MG_Nest: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKT: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKT_MG_Nest: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKT_veh: FakeWeapon {};
	class


DT_veh: FakeWeapon {};
	class TwinVickers: FakeWeapon {};
	class M2: FakeWeapon {};
	class M3P: FakeWeapon {};
	class DSHKM: FakeWeapon {};
	class KORD: FakeWeapon {};
	class KPVT: FakeWeapon {};
	class M168: FakeWeapon {};
	class M197: FakeWeapon {};
	class AZP85: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A14: FakeWeapon {};
	class GAU12: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A42: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A72: FakeWeapon {};
	class M242: FakeWeapon {};
	class YakB: FakeWeapon {};
	class GSh23L: FakeWeapon {};
	class GSh302: FakeWeapon {};
	class GAU8: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A38M: FakeWeapon {};
	class AGS30: FakeWeapon {};
	class AGS17: FakeWeapon {};
	class MK19: FakeWeapon {};
	class M119: FakeWeapon {};
	class M256: FakeWeapon {};
	class D30: FakeWeapon {};
	class D81: FakeWeapon {};
	class ZiS_S_53: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A46M: FakeWeapon {};
	class RocketPods: FakeWeapon {};
	class FFARLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class FFARLauncher_14: FakeWeapon {};
	class CamelGrenades: FakeWeapon {};
	class 57mmLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class 57mmLauncher_64: FakeWeapon {};
	class 57mmLauncher_128: FakeWeapon {};
	class 80mmLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class S8Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class MissileLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class SidewinderLaucher: FakeWeapon {};
	class SidewinderLaucher_F35: FakeWeapon {};
	class SidewinderLaucher_AH1Z: FakeWeapon {};
	class AT5Launcher: FakeWeapon{};
	class AT5LauncherSingle: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A46MRocket: FakeWeapon {};
	class AT10LauncherSingle: FakeWeapon {};
	class AT11LauncherSingle: FakeWeapon {};
	class AT13LauncherSingle: FakeWeapon {};
	class TOWLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class TOWLauncherSingle: FakeWeapon {};
	class HellfireLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class VikhrLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class BombLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class BombLauncherF35: FakeWeapon {};
	class BombLauncherA10: FakeWeapon {};

	//class SEARCHLIGHT: FakeWeapon {};
	//class CarHorn: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BikeHorn: FakeWeapon {};
	//class TruckHorn: FakeWeapon {};
	//class TruckHorn2: FakeWeapon {};
	//class SportCarHorn: FakeWeapon {};
	//class MiniCarHorn: FakeWeapon {};

	class GSh301: FakeWeapon {};
	class R73Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class R73Launcher_2: FakeWeapon {};
	class Ch29Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class Ch29Launcher_Su34: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A70Rocket: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2A70: FakeWeapon {};
	class AT6Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class AT9Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class AT2Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class HeliBombLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class AirBombLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class Mk82BombLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class Mk82BombLauncher_6: FakeWeapon {};
	class StingerLaucher: FakeWeapon {};
	class StingerLauncher_twice: FakeWeapon {};
	class AALauncher_twice: FakeWeapon {};
	class Igla_twice: FakeWeapon {};
	class MaverickLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	class 9M311Laucher: FakeWeapon {};
	class SPG9: FakeWeapon {};
	class GRAD: FakeWeapon {};
	class MLRS: FakeWeapon {};
	class WeaponExplosive:


FakeWeapon {};
	//class ItemCore: FakeWeapon {};
	class Kostey_photos: FakeWeapon {};
	class Kostey_map_case: FakeWeapon {};
	class Kostey_notebook: FakeWeapon {};
	class CDF_dogtags: FakeWeapon {};
	class Moscow_Bombing_File: FakeWeapon {};
	class Cobalt_File: FakeWeapon {};
	//class ItemWatch: FakeWeapon {};
	//class ItemCompass: FakeWeapon {};
	//class ItemGPS: FakeWeapon {};
	//class ItemRadio: FakeWeapon {};
	//class ItemMap: FakeWeapon {};
	class EvPhoto: FakeWeapon {};
	//class EvMap: FakeWeapon {};
	class EvMoscow: FakeWeapon {};
	class EvKobalt: FakeWeapon {};
	class EvMoney: FakeWeapon {};
	class EvDogTags: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_BASE: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AKS_BASE: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_107_BASE: FakeWeapon	{};
	//class AK_47_M: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_47_S: FakeWeapon {};
	class AKS_GOLD: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_74: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_74_GL: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_107_kobra: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_107_GL_kobra: FakeWeapon {};
	class AK_107_GL_pso: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_107_pso: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AKS_74_kobra: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AKS_74_pso: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AKS_74_U: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AKS_74_UN_kobra: FakeWeapon {};
	//class RPK_74: FakeWeapon {};
	class RPK_74_Large: FakeWeapon {};
	//class bizon: FakeWeapon {};
	//class bizon_silenced: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Colt1911: FakeWeapon {};
	//class DMR: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M1014: FakeWeapon {};
	class m107: FakeWeapon {}; //old.50cal
	class m107_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	class M252: FakeWeapon {};
	class 2B14: FakeWeapon {};
	class Saiga12K: FakeWeapon {};
	class VSS_vintorez: FakeWeapon {};
	class PMC_documents: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_base: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_carbine: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_carbineGL: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_compact: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_sharpshooter: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_SAW: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_SAW_Large: FakeWeapon {};
	//class huntingrifle: FakeWeapon {};
	class RPG18: FakeWeapon {};
	class SMAW: FakeWeapon {};
	//class PKT_2: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKT_3: FakeWeapon {};
	class SidewinderLaucher_AH64: FakeWeapon {};
	class M230: FakeWeapon {};

	//class BAF_L2A1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_M240_veh: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_L7A2: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_L94A1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_static_GMG: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_GMG: FakeWeapon {};

	class CTWS: FakeWeapon {};
	class CRV7_PG: FakeWeapon {};
	class CRV7_HEPD: FakeWeapon {};
	class CRV7_FAT: FakeWeapon {};
	class M621: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_AS50_scoped: FakeWeapon {}; //old .50cal
	class BAF_AS50_scoped_Large: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_AS50_TWS: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_LRR_scoped: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_LRR_scoped_W: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_NLAW_Launcher: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L17_40mm: FakeWeapon {};
	//class L85A2_base_BAF: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_L85A2_RIS_Holo: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L85A2_UGL_Holo: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_L85A2_RIS_SUSAT:


FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L85A2_UGL_SUSAT: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L85A2_RIS_ACOG: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L85A2_UGL_ACOG: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L85A2_RIS_CWS: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L86A2_ACOG: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L110A1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class BAF_L110A1_Aim: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L110A1_Aim_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_L7A2_GPMG: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_ied_v1: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_ied_v2: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_ied_v3: FakeWeapon {};
	class BAF_ied_v4: FakeWeapon {};
	class M68: FakeWeapon {};
	class D10: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKTBC: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKTBC_veh: FakeWeapon {};
	class SGMT: FakeWeapon {};
	class HellfireLauncher_AH6: FakeWeapon {};
	class StingerLaucher_4x: FakeWeapon {};
	class CMFlareLauncher: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M242BC: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M240BC_veh: FakeWeapon {};
	class M2BC: FakeWeapon {};
	class MK19BC: FakeWeapon {};
	class M120: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Sa61_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class UZI_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class UZI_SD_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class revolver_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class revolver_gold_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class glock17_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M60A4_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M60A4_EP1_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Mk_48_DES_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class Mk_48_DES_EP1_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M249_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M249_EP1_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	class M249_TWS_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M249_TWS_EP1_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	class M249_m145_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M249_m145_EP1_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	//classM24_des_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class SVD_des_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class SVD_NSPU_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Sa58P_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Sa58V_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Sa58V_RCO_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Sa58V_CCO_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M4A3_CCO_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M4A3_RCO_GL_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class Binocular_Vector: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AK_74_GL_kobra: FakeWeapon {};
	//class AKS_74: FakeWeapon {};
	class MK_12: FakeWeapon {};
	class AKS_74_NSPU: FakeWeapon {};
	class AKS_74_GOSHAWK: FakeWeapon {};
	//class FN_FAL: FakeWeapon {};
	//class FN_FAL_ANPVS4: FakeWeapon {};
	class G36C_camo: FakeWeapon {};
	class G36_C_SD_camo: FakeWeapon {};
	class G36A_camo: FakeWeapon {};
	class G36K_camo: FakeWeapon {};
	//class G36C: FakeWeapon {};
	//class G36_C_SD_eotech: FakeWeapon {};
	class G36a: FakeWeapon {};
	class G36K: FakeWeapon {};
	class MG36: FakeWeapon {};
	class MG36_camo: FakeWeapon {};
	class MG36_camo_Large: FakeWeapon {};
	class GrenadeLauncher_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M32_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M79_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class Mk13_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class LeeEnfield: FakeWeapon {};
	class m107_TWS_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M110_TWS_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class M110_NVG_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class M14_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	//class m240_scoped_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class m240_scoped_EP1_Small: FakeWeapon {};
	class M47Launcher_EP1: FakeWeapon {};
	class MAAWS: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_Base: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_Base: FakeWeapon


{};
	class SCAR_L_CQC: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_CQC_Holo: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_STD_Mk4CQT: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_STD_EGLM_RCO: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_CQC_EGLM_Holo: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_STD_EGLM_TWS: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_STD_HOLO: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_L_CQC_CCO_SD: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_H_Base: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_H_CQC_CCO: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_H_CQC_CCO_SD: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_H_STD_EGLM_Spect: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_H_LNG_Sniper: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_H_LNG_Sniper_SD: FakeWeapon {};
	class SCAR_H_STD_TWS_SD: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKT_high_AI_dispersion: FakeWeapon {};
	class PKT_high_AI_dispersion_tank: FakeWeapon {};
	class AGS30_heli: FakeWeapon {};
	class M32_heli: FakeWeapon {};
	class AA12_PMC: FakeWeapon {};
	class PMC_AS50_scoped: FakeWeapon {};
	class PMC_AS50_scoped_Large: FakeWeapon {};
	class PMC_AS50_TWS: FakeWeapon {};
	class PMC_AS50_TWS_Large: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_carbine_pmc: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_compact_pmc: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_holo_sd: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_tws_sd: FakeWeapon {};
	class m8_tws: FakeWeapon {};
	class GSh23L_L39: FakeWeapon {};

};
Cresco Labs Begins Trading in Canada, but CEO Says U.S. Cannabis Market Is Still Its Focus

Photo Credit: Jason Lowrie/BFA/Shutterstock

December 3, 2018

Updated 3mo ago

By Conor White

American cannabis company Cresco Labs begins listing its shares on the Canadian Securities Exchange on Monday, but that doesn't mean the company is shifting its focus to the north. Cresco Labs CEO Charlie Bachtell told Cheddar that his goal remains dominating the U.S. market.

With a pot supply shortage in Canada, some companies might see an opportunity to take advantage, but not Cresco Labs.

"Our goal is to be the national consumer packaged goods company of cannabis, and so until that's reached, I think we'll focus on the U.S.," Bachtell said. Going public in Canada, however, was the company's best option due to federal cannabis laws


in the U.S., he explained.

The CSE debut was not an IPO. Instead, the company has gone the route of an RTO, or reverse takeover, using a gold exploration company unrelated to the cannabis industry as its vehicle to go public.

"As opposed to going through the full IPO process, which can be longer and more expensive, it's an opportunity to utilize a company that's already publicly listed to reverse into, and become publicly traded in a more expedited timeline," Bachtell explained.

Since its launch in 2016, Cresco Labs has grown into one of the largest vertically-integrated cannabis operators in the U.S. and now employs 350 full-time workers. Roughly 300 of those have been hired in the last year.

The company recently closed a $100 million Series D round of funding, believedBay Area Theatre Writer Lily Janiak Named Next SF Chronicle Critic

We here at Theatre Bay Area recently got the wonderful news that Bay Area theatre writer, Lily Janiak, had been selected to succeed Rob Hurwitt as the San Francisco Chronicle’s lead theatre critic. That this venerable journalistic publication chose, as its voice in and for the theatre world, a writer who is female, under 40 years old, and—despite a national pool of possible candidates—local to the Bay Area indicates that it may be pursuing a new direction for its theatre coverage.

Among those who are excited by this decision is Janiak herself. She says, “My legs have been made of Jello since I got the news. I look forward to being able to walk again.”

Janiak, a Yale grad and


A $100,000 donation by the John I. Smith Foundation, a philanthropic group that claims it doesn’t have an office, website or telephone, was presented to Daily Bread Ministries today for its planned four-unit homeless rehabilitation shelter.

Greer State Bank is venturing into Clemson with a mortgage loan production office, an expansion of the company and the first time the bank has gone outside its traditional Greer/Taylors market.

Art Wray has been named Vice President and Mortgage Loan Officer for the office, which will be constructed at Town Center in Patrick Square. The office will be open in late September. More employees may be added at a later date, bank officials said.

New streetlights are being tested on Wade Hampton Boulevard between Pine Street and Morrow Street.

Greer Commission of Public Worksreported MondayEric Pressley of the Criminal Investigations Division, obtained warrants for two individuals in connection with the Allen Bennett burglary. The suspects were caught on video after police set up a surveillance camera at Allen Bennett. There was no report the suspects were arrested and charged.

Kyle Mensing, Commercial Development Director with the Greer Development Corporation, presented to City Council an online map showing the locations and the number of spaces available for public parking in the central business district Tuesday evening.

There are more than 500 public parking spaces available in Greer Station. After businesses like BB&T, Century 3, Greer Florists and CBL close, an additional 125 spaces become available.

The Sunday sale of beer and wine in Greer for off-premises consumption is one step away from being on the November


With the Winter Olympics coming to Russia for the first time in decades, the world is watching, especially thanks to the country's law barring "gay propaganda." It's now illegal to mention anything pro-gay while in the presence of minors, or face the wrath of Vladimir Putin's bigotry. On top of that, countless reports of attacks on LGBT Russians (with little being done by law enforcement to stop it) makes the climate there frightening.

Many outside of Russia have protested the country's antigay ways. We found some of the most significant examples of how icy things have gotten between Putin, the Kremlin, and the rest of the world.

American Kennel Club politely but firmly urged the organizers of the 2016 World Dog Show to move the event out of Russia, arguingDavid Paulides, author of The Missing 411 series joins me on this edition of iNTO THE FRAY. His previous works were centered in and around our National Parks. With his new book, Missing 411: A Sobering Coincidence, he takes a look at our cities and the highly unusual manner in which young college-age men are going missing and ending up dead in bodies of water. This is a fascinating group of profile points and cases that makes for terrifying and strange conversation.

You can buy David’s books directly from his website canammissing.com

They include:

Missing 411: Eastern U.S.

Missing 411: Western U.S.

Missing 411: North America and Beyond

Missing 411: The Devil’s in the Detail

Missing 411: A Sobering Coincidence

Paulides attained his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of San Francisco, after which he


decided to pursue his long-time dream of becoming a police officer. In 1977, he began working at a small municipal police department in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1980, he transferred to the San Jose Police Department. During his time as an officer, Paulides worked on street crimes, SWAT, Vice, and a variety of assignments in the detective division.

Prior to leaving the San Jose Police Department, Paulides received an offer to work in high-tech industry, where he was “tagged as an executive who could flush out businesses, go deep into their background, and perform due diligence on partnership development and acquisitions.” This was the beginning of his use of his investigative skills, after his law enforcement background, in a different station in life. Paulides retired from high-tech,been to the Division II playoffs in three decades. He won 97 games and an MIAA championship.

He inherited a Sam Houston that was averaging about five wins per year, and he won 10 a year and went to two FCS championship games.

He inherited a Georgia Southern that had stuttered to 7-4 as it was preparing to jump to FBS, and he went 9-3 and 8-4 at the FBS level. The Eagles won the Sun Belt in their first attempt.

The Green Wave had one winning season in 13 years when he arrived in New Orleans, and they were coming off of back-to-back 3-9 campaigns. He’s won four, then five, then seven games over the course of three seasons.

At the macro level, it looks like yet another Fritz building job.


with five run stuffs (a rare combo), and Lewis was one of the most active DBs in the country — his 21 passes defensed ranked fourth in FBS. He was a big reason why Tulane ranked fifth in completion rate allowed.

As I mentioned above, though, the rotation was pretty large in the back. That could pay off. Tulane still returns safeties P.J. Hall, Will Harper, Tirise Barge, and Chase Kuerschen, all of whom made at least 18.5 tackles, and while Lewis was the most active corner, they’ve still got Thakarius Keyes (12 passes defensed), Jaylon Monroe, and a potentially thrilling sophomore in Willie Langham, who was on the field long enough to make only 8.5 tackles but also broke up seven passes in that time.

Teamer and Lewis wereTags

Here is a treasure in the history of the pro-capitalist novel. Garet Garrett, author of The People's Pottage, tells the story of an upstart Wall Street speculator financier, Henry Galt, a shadowy figure who stays out of the limelight as much as possible until he unleashes a plan that had been years in the marking: he uses his extraordinary entrepreneurial talent to acquire control of a failing railroad.

Through outstanding management sense, good pricing, excellent service, and overall business savvy, he out competes all the big names in the business, while making a fortune in the process. Garrett has a way of illustrating just what it takes to be a businessman of this sort, and how his mind alone becomes the source of a fantastic revenue stream.

But his successes


breed trouble. The government conspires with envious competitors to regulate him using the Sherman Antitrust Act, calling him a monopolist who is exploiting the public.

This book tells the dramatic story of his success and his fight. A recurring literary motif through the book has people asking: "Who is Henry Galt?"

In one of many asides, this book contains one of the best explanations of the stupidity of "bi-metallism" that fixed the relationship between silver and gold. Indeed, the book is overall very sound on the money question, showing the inflationist populist movement of the late 19th century to be a pack of fools. Galt himself delivers some fantastic defenses of hard money and free markets, both in conversation and in front of the US Congress.

This book was written inThe U.S. Government and FAA Launch the LaserReport Webpage

LaserReport is a new, social media-driven tool developed by the Federal Aviation Agency in order to effectively deal with one of the most elusive, yet threatening dangers in the sky: lasers.

As increasingly powerful laser pointers continue to flood American toy markets from popular East Asian vendors, the number of criminal incidents involving a misguided teen or inebriated adult shining a beam toward an aircraft inevitably rises. In 2005, for instance, the number of reports was a steady 283, whereas that statistic increased tenfold by 2010, finally reaching 2,836 annual incidents. So in the hopes of ensuring safety above and justice below, the FAA has launched LaserReport, an innovative new tool that allows pilots, professional air-traffic controllers and civilians to immediately


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In addition, as shown in FIG. 12 and FIGS. 14A and 14B, the upper side 71 of the outlet paths 16 is bonded with adhesive 2a.
The inlet paths 14 are open on the upper side 71 and closed on the lower side 79. Meanwhile, the outlet paths 16 which are adjacent to the inlet paths 14 are closed on the upper side 71, and the lower side 79 is open.
In this filter element 1, as shown in FIG. 12, fuel 6 flows into the inlet paths 14 from the upper side 71, and the fuel 6 passes through porous filter paper 10, passing from the inlet paths 14 to the outlet paths 16. At this time, contaminants mixed in with the fueldoes work, they describe the behavior as "odd." Perhaps it's not odd at all once you realize how it works.

from the consumer-privacy dept

Remember how North Carolina was demanding that Amazon hand over pretty much all purchase info on every citizen who had ordered anything from the site? Thankfully, Amazon won that lawsuit, and was allowed to protect purchaser privacy. However, other states apparently didn't get the message. Michael Scott points us to the news that the state of Colorado, which had put in place a similar law, just got a preliminary injunction barring it from enforcing the law. While it's not a final ruling, it does mean that the companies protesting this law have established a "substantial likelihood" of prevailing. The ruling focuses on how the law violates


overseas.”

The local food movement has been growing in New Zealand, and is already in full flight around the world especially in the countries where food has become highly industrialised such as the US, UK & Australia. Rooted in the idea that farmers should get a fair deal, many people are unable to afford fruit and vegetables, and our over-reliance on cheap oil throughout food production, storage & transport, the movement sees farmers & entrepreneurs taking up the challenge to cut out the middleman and go direct to consumer.

“Whilst getting a box scheme up and running in Auckland, I started looking around at people all over the world doing the same thing, and realising how inefficient we were being by running things with spreadsheets & scraps of paper. HavingColin Kaepernick becomes the face of Nike’s ‘Just Do It’ ad campaign

Ex-NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is the face of the 30th anniversary of Nike's "Just Do It" campaign, according to ESPN Sports Business Reporter Darren Rovell.

Kaepernick filed a collusion grievance against the league in October, alleging an organized effort to keep him off a roster because of his protests during the national anthem in the 2016 season.

Kaepernick posted the advert on his Twitter account followed by #JustDoIt.

Sebastian Vettel - Lewis Hamilton didn't leave enough spaceIn what was arguably one of the most exciting races this season, title rivals Hamilton and Vettel collided on the opening lap. The former Mercedes man also said the Ferrari driver was "110% at fault" for his clash with Hamilton in Monza .

Kaepernick, who


began kneeling in protest of racial injustice during the USA national anthem in August of 2016, is entering a second National Football League season without being on a team roster.

The NFL this season has adopted a rule requiring all players to stand during the anthem, although it gave them the option of staying off the field until the ceremony was over.

"We believe Colin is one of the most inspirational athletes of this generation, who has leveraged the power of sport to help move the world forward", Gino Fisanotti, Nike's North America brand vice president, said in a statement to ESPN.

Though not as controversial, the ad was in response to a kerfuffle over the French Open's decision to bar Williams from bringing back her popular "catsuit" outfit to the2019 tournament. But he hasn't played since that year as once he turned free agent at the end of the season, he subsequently found no team interested in signing him.

The new Nike adverts, which were unveiled just days before the kick-off of the 2018 National Football League season, show a portrait of Kaepernick with the slogan: "Believe in something".

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we are doing. Before we are given a chance to respond she blasts us with some magical fire. Grim falls to the ground and I tend to him. Garruk engages her and she runs off. Just then Cole, enters the basement and helps Garruk capture the woman. After they subdue her I notice she has a pendant much like a portion of the ancient glyph on the wall. I take it from her and make it safe. Grim regains consciousness and the little girl is let out of her cage. This is without a doubt the evil my superiors sensed in this area.

The child in the cage turns out to be Bertha, the girl Cole was hired to bring back to her uncle. The woman was the redheadfrom the bar, Chandra. When Chandra regained consciousness she had no memory of the last two months. Apparently, the bard Rickie Vallish gave her the necklace and it took over her mind. She has spent the last two months conducting ancient rituals and unspeakable acts in an attempt to bring “them” back.

When I showed the pendant to the local priest and described the glyph on the wall he mentioned that long ago the miners had seen a similar shape in sector B of the mines before the collapse. There were giant metal diamonds shaped just like the pendant set into the walls of the mine and each had a hole, roughly the size of a fist in them.

My theory is that 75 years ago, the adventurers came to


prefer 409 instead, the year when the Romano-Britons expelled Roman magistrates from their cities.

The year 383 marks the end of Roman rule in northern and western Britain. In that year, Roman troops were withdrawn from those regions of Britain for the last time.

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In the late 4th and early 5th centuries, the Roman Empire could no longer defend itself against either internal rebellion or the external threat posed by expanding Germanic tribes in northeastern Europe. This situation and its consequences governed the separation of Roman Britain from the rest of the Empire.

In the late 4th century, the empire was controlled by members of a dynasty that included the EmperorTheodosius I. This family retained political power within itself and formed alliances by intermarriage with other dynasties, at the same timeengaging in internecine power struggles and fighting off outside contenders (called "usurpers") attempting to replace the ruling dynasty with one of their own. These internal machinations drained the Empire of both military and civilian resources.

The Empire's historical relationship with Germanic tribes was sometimes hostile, at other times cooperative, but ultimately fatal, as it was unable to prevent those tribes from assuming a dominant role in the relationship. By the late 4th century, the Western Roman Empire's military forces were dominated by Germanic troops, and Romanised Germans played a significant role in internal Roman politics. The Germanic tribes to the east of the Empire were able to take advantage of the Empire's weakened state, both to expand into Roman territory and, in some cases, to move their entire populations


were, they were quickly returned as soon as Maximus had won his victory in Gaul. In the De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, written c. 540, Gildas attributed an exodus of troops and senior administrators from Britain to Maximus, saying that he left not only with all of its troops, but also with all of its armed bands, governors, and the flower of its youth, never to return.[6]

Raids by Saxons, Picts, and the Scoti of Ireland had been ongoing in the late 4th century, but these increased in the years surrounding 383. There were also large-scale permanent Irish settlements made along the coasts of Wales under circumstances that remain unclear.[7][8][9][10] Maximus campaigned in Britain against both the Picts and Scoti,[11][12] with historians differing on whether this was in theyear 382 or 384 (i.e., whether the campaign was before or after he became Augustus).

With Maximus' death, Britain came back under the rule of Emperor Theodosius I until 392, when the usurper Eugenius would successfully bid for imperial power in the Western Roman Empire, surviving until 394 when he was defeated and killed by Theodosius. When Theodosius died in 395, his 10-year-old son Honorius would succeed him as Western Roman Emperor. The real power behind the throne, however, was Stilicho, the son-in-law of Theodosius' brother and the father-in-law of Honorius.

Britain was suffering raids by the Scoti, Saxons, and Picts and, sometime between 396 and 398, Stilicho ordered a campaign against the Picts,[14] likely a naval campaign intended to end their seaborne raids on the east coast of Britain.[15]


is described as having raided along the southern coast of Britain.[21]

As there was no effective Roman response, the remaining Roman military in Britain feared that a Germanic crossing of the Channel into Britain was next, and dispensed with imperial authority – an action perhaps made easier by the high probability that the troops had not been paid for some time.[4] Their intent was to choose a commander who would lead them in securing their future but their first two choices, Marcus and Gratian, did not meet their expectations and were killed. Their third choice was the soldier Constantine III.[23]

Coin of Constantine III.

In 407 Constantine rallied the remaining troops in Britain, led them across the Channel into Gaul, rallied support there, and set himself up as Western Roman Emperor.[21]The Roman Empire south of the Alps was preoccupied with fending off the Visigoths and was unable to put down the rebellion, giving Constantine the opportunity to extend his new empire to include Spain.[24][25]

In 409 Constantine's control of his empire fell apart. Part of his military forces were in Spain, making them unavailable for action in Gaul, and some of those in Gaul were swayed against him by loyalist Roman generals. The Germans living west of the Rhine River rose against him, perhaps encouraged by Roman loyalists,[26][27] and those living east of the river crossed into Gaul.[28] Britain, now without any troops for protection and having suffered particularly severe Saxon raids in 408 and 409, viewed the situation in Gaul with renewed alarm. Perhaps feeling they had no


followed the example of the Brettaniai. A later appeal for help by the British communities was, according to Zosimus, rejected by the Emperor Honorius in 410 AD. In the text called the Rescript of Honorius, the Western Emperor Honorius tells the British civitates to look to their own defence. The first reference to this rescript is written by the sixth-century Byzantine scholar Zosimus and is located randomly in the middle of a discussion of southern Italy; no further mention of Britain is made, which has led some, though not all, modern academics to suggest that the rescript does not apply to Britain, but to Bruttium in Italy.[33][34][35]

Historian Christopher Snyder wrote that protocol dictated that Honorius address his correspondences to imperial officials, and the fact that he did notimplies that the cities of Britain were now the highest Roman authority remaining on the island.[36]

At the time that the Rescript was sent, Honorius was holed up in Ravenna by the Visigoths and was unable to prevent their Sack of Rome (410).[36] He was certainly in no position to offer any relief to anyone. As for Constantine III, he was not equal to the intrigues of imperial Rome and by 411 his cause was spent. His son was killed along with those major supporters who had not turned against him, and he himself was assassinated.[37]

There are various interpretations that characterise the events in a way that supports a particular thesis without taking issue with the basic chronology.

The historian Theodor Mommsen (Britain, 1885) said that "It was not Britain


that Maximus was an unwilling usurper.

^Frere 1987:354, Britannia, The End of Roman Britain. Specifically, Frere refers to Wales, the western Pennines, and the fortress at Deva; he then goes on to suggest that the same was true north of Hadrian's Wall, referring to the lands of the Damnonii, Votadini, and the Novantae.

^Snyder 2003:62–63, The Britons. Stilicho had ordered measures for new fortifications in Britain prior to removing the troops.

^Snyder 1998:18, An Age of Tyrants. Snyder notes that the sometimes confused effort of Gildas to relate history may contain references to Stilicho's actions in Britain. In De Excidio, ch. 16-18, he talks of campaigns against the Scoti, Saxons and Picts, and then mistakenly says that that is when Hadrian's Wall was built, followed by the removal of troops.

^Snyder 1998:18,Scottish independence: Country would lose warship contracts

How would an independent Scotland defend itself? Picture: Robert Perry

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AN independent Scotland will lose all its Royal Navy contracts, UK ministers have confirmed, in a move which would put 16,000 jobs at risk along with the country’s entire shipbuilding industry.

The coalition government warned that if Scotland becomes a “foreign country”, defence contractors could no longer use Scottish yards in their bids.

No British warship has been built in a foreign country for 50 years.

Work on the new Type 26 Frigates and MARS vessels due to be built on the Clyde would be lost, along with work on the new aircraft carriers due to go to Babcock in Rosyth.

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The Backyard Committee plays the Ballroom at the Outer Space in Hamden on March 4, as part of Emerge Fest.

There's a class of musician who lives for studio time, who finds safe haven among the desktops and mixing boards, who believes take after take, edit after edit will lead to timeless, sonic perfection — and for whom live performance is, at best, a distraction.

Mike Sembos, whose floating-membership band the Backyard Committee plays the Saturday 11 p.m. slot at this year's Emerge Festival, is not a member of that class. Sembos' thing is performing live; it's what got him interested in playing music in the first place. And if his stage time suffers — either because there aren't any available players for a gig, or because he has toedit a vocal part on a recording — he gets antsy.

"Being in a studio is great, but there are so many times when nobody's really playing the song all the way through," Sembos said. "Everything can just be fixed, so nobody's performing, which is what I like about music, what people put out naturally. All your time is spent editing, not even playing full takes. It loses the fun for me. It sounds boring. It's all computer editing and not playing."

Sembos, who until recently was an employee of The Courant, is a restless musician, but he's able to commit long-term. He currently plays bass in Sun Dagger, an instrumental psych-rock outfit, and with the hockey-themed Zambonis. For 10 years, he played guitar and bass in the Alternate Routes,


a Bridgeport-based band. In 2009, he formed the Backyard Committee to give his original songs an outlet; they've since released two studio albums of swaggering, improv-heavy country rock, with Sembos' high, clear voice and nimble guitar work serving as dual focal points, on songs that recall mid-'70s Crazy Horse or later bands like the Jayhawks. Still, he insists, "It was more of a backburner thing then."

No longer: last year, Sembos played his final gig with the Alternate Routes and turned his full attention to the Backyard Committee. Now, he said, "I have enough songs and resources to do what I want. I can create different setlists every night. You need to have a back catalogue to do that."

Sembos figured if he taught enough people his songs, there mightalways be a lineup ready to play. "Everyone I know is in five different bands," Sembos said. "It was another project where I was sick of turning down gigs." When a gig pops up, he can call any one of four or five drummers, three or four lead guitar players, a keyboard player and a pedal steel player. Every position is flexible, and all the musicians know the songs — even Eric Donnelly, the Alternate Routes guitarist. "Eric has done a lot of shows, and he came on the last tour."

The added bonus: the music sounds different from show to show.

"I got sick of being in bands that play the song the same way every time," Sembos said. "The fact that you play with one player one week


on Friday night, and Winterpills, headlining Saturday.

The rest of the lineup for the Backyard Committee's Emerge Festival performance, which takes place at the Ballroom, will be drummer Nick D'Errico (his first gig with the BYC), bassist Tim Walsh (the Stepkids' drummer) and guitarist Chris Cavalier. And yes, it'll probably be recorded.

"Hard-drive space is cheap and the lifespan of bands is short," Sembos said. "I'd rather have everything on tape and then worry about it later."

THE BACKYARD COMMITTEE performs at the Ballroom at the Outer Space in Hamden on Saturday, March 7, as part of the Emerge Fest. Showtime is 11 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $20. Information: theouterspace.net.Essiet, and Pete McCann as sidemen.

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chair moves toward the stove. In the movie, it moved from the stove to the chairs.

• We learn the Tangina is 52 years old and that, as a child, she lost her parents in a train crash. She is seeking Dr. Lesh’s help because her visions are causing her to lose sleep.

• When the vortex opens up and sucks Carol Anne into the next dimension, all the objects in the room are pushed up against the closed closet door. In the movie all of the objects were inside the closet itself. In the movie, the clown was in the closet. In the book, it is in the corner.

• After Carol Anne is taken to the other side, all of the objects in the bedroom are blown toward thecloset, but the clown never moves. In the movie, the doll flies off the bed and into the closet.

• In the movie, Steve jumps into the freshly dug pool looking for Carole Anne. In the book, Steve and Diane feel around in the water with their hands.

• There is a lengthy explanation of how Tangina and Dr. Lesh meet and how they come to the service of The Freelings. Tangina attends a lecture of the Psychic Society where Dr. Lesh is speaking. Afterwards, Tangina meets up with Lesh and asks for her help with her visions so she can sleep at night. Lesh agrees to run some tests on her sleep patterns in the lab. Later, in the lab, Tangina is hooked up with electrodes so she can


slow down. Eventually, he stops, frozen in mid-run. A cluster of spiders starts crawling across the kitchen floor toward him and proceed to crawl up his pants leg, followed by rats and then worms. The vermin begin to eat his flesh until he is nothing but a skeleton. Finally, he is completely eaten away to nothing.

• The scene in which the family and the scientists see the white womanly spirit come down the stairs, it is preceded by three other spirits – the three that Tangina saw in her dream earlier. They dance around the living room and are eventually dispersed by the white womanly spirit.

• Marty returns from his nightmare in the kitchen (apparently it was all a dream). While the family watches the spirits in theliving room, Marty runs down the hall to the bathroom. There he sees his hands melting and then watches as he turns into a hideous humanoid creature. He goes insane and then returns to the living room without any clothes on. Dr. Lesh later tells Diane that he has packed up and flown home.

• After the scene in which Diane opens the bedroom door and hears the roar, she goes to her room to sleep. While in a deep sleep something foul-smelling and transparent slips into bed with her, but she doesn’t wake up.

• Just before she goes to the Freeling house to rescue Carol Anne, Tangina checks into the hospital. She talks to (and flirts with) a young intern named Dr. Berman. During the Q and A,


find that she has fallen out of bed and that the doctors are trying to revive her.

• Dr. Lesh displays the tapes of the footage that Ryan captured at the Freeling home at a meeting at the University to a room full of skeptical doctors. Because Ryan didn’t get footage of the Spinning Bedroom or the strange “dance” of the three spirits, she can only describe them, causing many of the irritated professionals in attendance to leave the room. She passes around photos of Marty’s bite mark to no great effect. When she displays the tape of the ghostly woman, many dismiss her footage as a magicians trick and also leave the meeting. Finally, the only person left is one of Lesh’s old colleagues, Dr. Anthony Farrow whowherein she kisses him. Then she visits the young candy striper and tries to comfort her about her missing brother. Tangina tells the young woman that she sees nothing, but in reality, she has seen that the brother is actually dead.

• Before Tangina arrives there is a scene in the living room in which the family attempts, with no luck, to contact Carol Anne. Instead of Carol Anne, a strange apparition appears on the screen (the woman who appeared on the stairs) calling herself “she who waits” and explains that she watches over the lost souls that The Beast is holding at bay. After this, Lesh goes out to the backyard wherein she meets up with Tangina.

• During the rescue scene, at the moment when Tangina calls out


to the dead to cross over, she lies down on the floor and puts herself in a trance.

• After Tangina “cleans” the house, there is a scene at the dinner table in which the family gets a postcard from her from her vacation in Acapulco.

• We learn that the ordeal between the time that Carol Anne disappeared and the time she was rescued occurred over four days.

• Dr. Lesh’s story ends as she returns to the University where she tells Dr. Farrow the whole story. He doesn’t believe her, but is fascinated.

• Just before Robbie is attacked by the clown there is a scene at a bar in which Teague is begging Steve not to quit his job.

• When Diane runs to the children’s bedroom, she is confrontedby a smoky mist that turns out to be The Waiting Woman. As she watches, the face reforms into that of the beast.

• When the house implodes, Steve is standing in the street watching. In the movie, the family had already driven away.

• In the movie, after the family piles into the motel room, Steve pushes the TV set out onto the balcony. In the book, he gives it a shove and it rolls down the sidewalk.


Whatever happened in the Oakland Athletics' clubhouse, no one wants to talk about it.

Teammates Danny Valencia and Billy Butler were involved in a clubhouse scuffle that left Butler injured, according to The Chronicle's Susan Slusser.

The incident reportedly happened on Friday, and when asked about it following the A's 4-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, Valencia stayed mum on the subject.

"No comment," Valencia said. "What happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse."

Manager Bob Melvin also failed to comment on the matter, though he ruled Butler out of the lineup due to nausea and vomiting. The only thing he said was Butler specifically didn't have the flu.

Valencia was also left out of the lineup on Sunday.

Butler and Valencia were teammates with the Kansas City Royals inthe hotel itself.
I had asked for a quiet room, but was given a room on the first floor overlooking a main road. No problem in Winter, but one could not sleep with an open window in Summer. Last time, I had a room facing the courtyard, which was perfect.

Anonymous

Luotio

Finland

5.4

Fair

January 4, 2015

Breakfast is great,with the keepers there,they are soul of Hotel.
and Reception girls are working really good attitude,most of the time

Aircondition is missing
carpet floors are smelling in the rooms and gangways,corridoors and lift is poor working,old DDR style.
Where is the real promised *** hotel Karlstorg,must be fake,because there is only 1 hotel named something else!

Anonymous

Nadir

Turkey

7.5

Good

January 3, 2015

Breakfast

the door of reservation desk room and the door of hotel are different. the hotel is in the 4th floor.Second and third floor


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Generally stated, the invention provides a bed safety guard for preventing a person from falling out of bed. The bed safety guard comprises a guard rail positioned along one side of a mattress of the bed, anda plurality of slats. Each slat is bent at its terminal end to create a first and second terminal end. These ends are fixed and substantially at right angles with slat sections which are distributed underneath and perpendicular to the mattress, and over the box spring. A means is provided for attaching the guard rail to the slats. In this manner, the first and the second terminal ends cooperate with the mattress to securely hold the guard rail in place along the side of the mattress.
Preferably, the guard rail is comprised of a rigid plank covered with a padded covering. Optionally, a second guard rail, positioned on the opposite side of the mattress, operates to prevent an occupant from falling off the opposite side of the bed.
Specifically, the


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selected by the Inventor as a single flowering plant with the progeny of the stated cross-pollination in a controlled greenhouse environment in Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan in May, 2009.
Asexual reproduction of the Lobelia plant by vegetative cuttings in Higashiomi, Shiga, Japan since May, 2009 has shown that the unique features of this new Lobelia plant are stable and reproduced true to type in successive generations.Deforestation and fragmentation of natural forests in the upper Changhua watershed, Hainan, China: implications for biodiversity conservation.
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In celebration of the 100th International Women’s Day, a group of women’s rights activists organized a One Million Women March this afternoon at the heart of the Egyptian capital, Tahrir Square. The turnout did not exceed a few hundred people, which Aalam Wassef, one of the organizers of the march, concedes matched their expectations.

As they convened in front of the Egyptian Museum, al-Mogama’ building and Abdel Moneim Reyad Square, men and women demanded a civil and constitutional state that is free from all forms of discrimination and the active participation of women in the ongoing reforms and shaping of the constitutional, legal and political future of the country. Other demands included canceling all discriminatory laws and combating violence against women.

Many people, nevertheless, described the demands as those ofTahrir Square on Tuesday largely due to that demand. The criticism and aggression experienced by protesters during the demonstration, which ranged from insults to assaults, suggests the democratic movement is hypocritical, explained Wassef. Unless women’s rights are clearly embedded in the new constitution, he added, discrimination against women will continue for another hundred years.

Nehal Ismail, a research analyst at the Egyptian National Competitiveness Council, who was distributing flyers at the march, supports all the demands issued by the demonstrators except that of a female presidential candidacy. Her reservations stem from her religious believes, she told Al-Masry Al-Youm.

Several people, who began discussing the demands with the protesters, stressed the same point, citing verses from the Quran. Engineer Sayed Zahran, however, stated that no religion, including Islam, discriminates against people.


SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Bernie Sanders, the winner of Utah's Democratic presidential preference caucus vote, is coming to the state to hold a rally as part of the national party's "Come Together and Fight Back" tour.

Utah Democratic Party Chairman Peter Corroon said while there are no details yet for the appearance by Sanders, who'll be joined by Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez, it could be late next week.

Corroon said organizers are still looking for a large venue for the rally. Sanders attracted thousands of Utahns when he spoke first at This Is the Place Heritage Park shortly before the March 22, 2016, caucus vote and a few days later at West High School.

The state party chairman said the tour's message is welcome in Utah, which overwhelminglyvoted for Sanders over the Democrats' eventual nominee, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the caucuses.

"I think it sends a message to the Utah Democratic Party that we're relevant in their eyes, along with other red states," Corroon said of Utah's inclusion in the tour, which includes stops in Maine, Kentucky, Florida, Nebraska, Montana, Arizona and Nevada.

The Democratic National Committee said the Vermont independent senator and the party chairman will hold rallies with party activists in so-called swing states, as well as states like Utah that vote reliably Republican in presidential races.

"The purpose of their trip is to begin the process of creating a Democratic Party which is strong and active in all 50 states, and a party which focuses on grass-roots activism and the needs of


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Keaton Simons

Keaton Simons is truly what the Los Angeles Times terms "a triple threat." He captivates audiences with an authentic voice, compelling and soul-baring songs, and a true command of both acoustic and electric guitars in every genre. The energy and passion that Keaton brings to his work (whether in the studio or performing live) are as infectious and stirring as his lyrics and melodies.
As 2013 commences,


Keaton Simons is gearing up for the release of his sophomore full-length album Beautiful Pain, co-produced with Mikal Blue (Colbie Caillat, One Republic) and mastered by Gavin Lurssen of Lurssen Mastering. Beautiful Pain also includes co-writes with friends and peers Jason Mraz, Jason Reeves, Glen Phillips (Toad The Wet Sprocket) and Mikal Blue among others. The highly-anticipated album will be released in the Spring on Keaton's newly formed label, Best Revenge Records. The label's marketing efforts will be headed up by Croshal Entertainment Group, who have assisted a number of prominent independent releases including those by Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Collective Soul, Elliot Yamin and Gnarls Barkley amongst many others.
A regular in The Hotel Café singer/songwriter circuit, Keaton Simons has been recognized by Examiner.com as achieving "cult-like" statusin his hometown of Los Angeles, CA. But as most know, Keaton is far from being just an "L.A. guy" let alone a "new artist" on the mainstream map. His debut EP Currently was released on Maverick Records in 2004 and his debut full-length album Can You Hear Me was released on CBS Records in 2008. Since then, he has toured nationally and internationally, opening for Coldplay, Train, Guster and REO Speedwagon amongst others. He has also worked as a writer, musical director, singer, bassist and guitarist with such notable acts as Gnarls Barkley, Snoop Dogg, Josh Kelley and Tre Hardson (The Pharcyde.)
In addition, Keaton's music has been heard in dozens of feature films and television shows, including Sons of Anarchy, Private Practice, NCIS, Malcolm in the Middle,


Numb3rs and Hollywood Heights. He has also performed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Last Call with Carson Daly. In 2011 Keaton appeared on VH1's Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew alongside stepfather, actor Eric Roberts, who was a patient. Keaton recently appeared acting in the David Duchovny Showtime hit, Californication. A performance of his song
"Unstoppable" on the show resulted in over 10,000 iTunes downloads in only two days.
"After bouncing between major label contracts and promises of new deals, I'm following my instincts, assembling my dream team, and hitting the launch button on the type of album I've been wanting to put out for years," says Keaton Simons. "Beautiful Pain shows who I am as anartist, a songwriter, a musician and a producer." Beautiful Pain is Keaton's most universal release to date, and maintains his high caliber of songwriting, production and musicianship. With the exception of the drums, which are played by the United Nations' Musical Director, Robin DiMaggio (Paul Simon, David Bowie, Lopez Tonight), all instruments on Beautiful Pain are played by Keaton. Additional featured artists on the record include Alex Al (bass), Lenny Castro (percussion), Zac Rae (keys), Tyler Hilton (piano, vocals), and Tower of Power's Bill Churchville (trumpet, trombone) and Sean Hill (saxophone).
Keaton Simons and Best Revenge Records have a big year planned for 2013, beginning with the release of "Beautiful Pain," the first single and title track of the new record. Fans can also expect to see Keaton back


Aisha considers herself devoted to both Islam and the game. Illustration by Ping Zhu

Aisha got her first call from the terrorists when she was fourteen. It was 2013, and she was at home, in Mogadishu, Somalia, when an unknown number appeared on her phone. She picked up. The man on the other end told her that Islam does not allow women to play sports, or to wear shirts and pants. It was immodest and indecent, he said. His voice was harsh and menacing. He told her that he was going to kill her if she didn’t stop playing basketball. The next day, another man called to say the same thing.

Aisha changed her phone number three times, but the calls kept coming, and she became convinced that someone atthe mobile-phone company was giving out her contact information. After a while, Aisha began to argue with the callers, telling them that she was going to do whatever she wanted. When they threatened to kill her, she responded that only God was permitted to be in control of people’s souls. She was just a teen-age girl, but even she knew that—unlike these supposedly pious men. Then her mother started getting calls, from men who warned that she was going to lose a daughter. Trying to appeal to her faith, they told her that basketball was haram—forbidden. Her mother was worried, and wanted Aisha to stop playing.

Aisha had first picked up a basketball only recently, but she had taken to it quickly. Her phone filled with photos and videos