Furthermore, all of the members within the church
  fellowship are to have equal voice in the governance of the church.
Baptist church governance often is termed “democratic.” In a sense it
  is. In a democracy, all of the people have equal voices in decision
  making. No individual or group of persons is in control. Such is to be
  the case in a Baptist church. One way that democratic governance is
  practiced is that each member of the church has the right to vote on
  matters at church business meetings.
To many non-Baptists, and even to some Baptists, this seems to be a
  strange way for a church to function. Putting the governance of a
  church in the hands of persons who haveWork is set to begin building a new town inspired by the writing of Yugoslavian Nobel literature laureate Ivo Andrić, following plans by film director Emir Kusturica and the Republika Srpska's government.

Andrić, who won the Nobel in 1961, is best known for his novel The Bridge on the Drina, the inspiration behind the new town of Andrićgrad. Written by the author during the second world war, it tells of the three centuries of conflict the bridge of the novel's title has witnessed, situated as it is in the small Bosnian town of Višegrad.

Work on the town of Andrićgrad, which will be located within Višegrad, is due to start this week and to be completed by 2014, reported Serbian news agency Tanjug. Kusturica, who has won the Cannes Palme


d'Or twice, told Balkan Insight that it would be "the biggest, most spectacular project of my life", with stone streets, gates and tower, encompassing a museum, library, theatre and memorial to Andrić . The project to build the 17,000-square metre town will be funded by the film director, and by the government of the Republic of Srpska.

"Here, where the Drina flows with the whole force of its green and foaming waters from the apparently closed mass of the dark steep mountains, stands a great clean-cut stone bridge with eleven wide sweeping arches," wrote Andrić in The Bridge on the Drina. "From this bridge spreads fanlike the whole rolling valley with the little oriental town of Višegrad and all its surroundings, with hamlets nestling in the folds of thehills, covered with meadows, pastures and plum-orchards, and criss-crossed with walls and fences and dotted with shaws and occasional clumps of evergreens. Looked at from a distance through the broad arches of the white bridge it seems as if one can see not only the green Drina, but all that fertile and cultivated countryside and the southern sky above."

At an event marking 50 years since Andrić won his Nobel, Republic of Srpska prime minister Aleksandar Džombić called him "the most important writer in Serbian language and in the entire South Slavic literature", and said that the government would honour him "by backing and building Andrićgrad, here in Višegrad".

"There is no doubt that, after Andrićgrad is built, Višegrad and the Republic of Srpska will acquire a new quality of


cultural content, stimulating development of tourism and promoting our only Nobel laureate in literature," he said.

According to Balkan Insight, Kusturica is planning to use the setting of Andrićgrad in his films Pancho Villa and The Bridge on the Drina. The director previously built a village, Kustendorf, above the Mokra Gora valley in western Serbia, equipped with an underground basketball arena, a library and a cinema. "One day when I was shooting I noticed a shaft of light hit the hillside. 'There I will build a village,' I thought," he told the Guardian in 2005 . "This is my Utopia. I lost my city [Sarajevo] during the war, now this is my home. I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, 10 in Paris, andand duplication syndromes.

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Our patient is a 14 year 8-month-old male with dysmorphic features and a history of developmental delay, learning difficulties and disruptive behaviors. He was born at 35 weeks gestation to a 21-year-old gravida 1, para 0 mother. The mother denied any use of medications. Fetal ultrasounds were normal. His birth weight was 2637 g. He had mild jaundice at birth and remained in the hospital for 5 days due to breathing difficulties. He sat at 1 year of age, walked between 13 or 14 months of age, and did not speak any words until 3 and a half years of age. He had some regression of learning according to the family. At the age of 8 years he was evaluated by the Child Development Unit and diagnosed with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder


(ADHD). Genetic evaluation was performed on this patient at the age of 14 years and 8 months. At the time of the genetic evaluation, his weight was 47.2 kg (20th %ile), height was 162 cm (22nd %ile), and head circumference was 53.2 cm (30th %ile). He had dolichocephaly with prominent occiput and a long and narrow face. His eyebrows were quite heavy with medial flare. His scalp hair was somewhat sparse and fine textured. He had telecanthus, with outer canthal distance (OCD) 9.6 cm (95th %ile) and inner canthal distance (ICD) 3.9 cm (\>97th %ile). The cartilage of his ears was very soft and with Darwinian tubercle bilaterally. He had esotropia, narrow and short philtrum, bifid uvula, high palate, very broad nose in the middle as well as on the tip, and receding anterior hairlineAfter not conceding a goal in the league in the month of May, there was a certain inevitability that with the turn of the calendar, Louisville City FC would be due for a bump in the road.

In Sunday night’s 4-3 victory against Orlando City B, however, the side managed being down a man and down ago with impressive aplomb, and as a result remains on top of the USL Power Rankings for a second consecutive week.

Hot on City’s heels, though, are three teams with impressive runs going of their own. There’s Colorado Springs, which moved top of the West with its fourth win in the last five games, and the New York Red Bulls II, who can apparently do no wrong away from Red Bulls Arena. And, while


it might have to make up ground in the standings with its games in hand, OKC Energy FC and its eight-game undefeated streak has the club flying high for now.

Here’s the new Top 10.

1. Louisville City FC (Previous: 1)

Last Week: W 4-3 at Orlando City B

Louisville retains the top spot for a second consecutive week after a gutsy performance that saw it rally from a goal down while down a man to win on the road for a second consecutive week. City will have been pleased to see Chandler Hoffman get back on the scoresheet for his eighth goal of the season, but Andy Lubahn’s play after coming on as a second-half substitute re-energized the team and provided the impetus for a victory at a venue where both---
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February 15, 2011

Angelo State’s exposure in the national media has enjoyed a significant upswing since the arrival of Dr. Bruce Bechtol in the university’s new Center for Security Studies (CSS).

One of the country’s foremost experts on the military and politics of the Korean Peninsula, Bechtol became a regular presence in the media when tensions escalated between North Korea and South Korea in the fall of 2010. He was quoted by numerous major publications and news outlets, including Stars and Stripes, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Air Force Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Secure Freedom Radio and even the National Post of Canada.

The exposure for ASU could not have come at a better time as Bechtol and his CSS colleagues prepare to begin offeringbecame the senior intelligence analyst for Northeast Asia in the DIA’s contingent supporting the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

By the time he left the DIA in 2003, Bechtol had picked up a bachelor’s degree from Excelsior College (1994), a master’s degree in international affairs from Catholic University (1996), a doctorate in national security studies from The Union Institute (2000) and a Master of Military Studies from the Marine Corps Command and Staff College (2001). He jumped full time into academia, becoming an assistant professor of national security studies in the Air Command and Staff College at the U.S. Air University in Montgomery, Ala. With the determination and zeal of a Marine, he went on to hold positions as an associate professor and then professor of international relations at the


be able to put the political, military and social events into any kind of context.”

Bechtol and his Korean-American wife, Jung-Eun, have been married for 20 years and have a 16-year-old daughter, Sara Beth, who now attends San Angelo Central High School. Having been previously stationed at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo and having made several other visits over the years, Bechtol also had a ready-made group of retired former colleagues to welcome him to the area. One of his old Marine buddies lives on nearby Lake Nasworthy and has promised to take him fishing. In the meantime, he will stay engrossed in his passion for Korea.

“My hobby is my research and writing,” Bechtol said. “That is what I do for fun.”found two days later backed up to the loading platform of a warehouse in Danville which had been broken into.  The truck was partly filled with stolen goods.  The officers who interrupted the crime also found in the vehicle a hat with Harris' initials on the band and a receipt for gasoline from a station in South Hill.  When Harris was arrested a few days later he was wearing a similar hat, from which he tore the band while being taken to the police station.  A witness who had sold the gasoline identified Harris as one of the men in the truck, a fact which Harris denied.  Parker testified that Harris before the trial threatened to kill him if he gave evidence against


p.m. Hyman returned with the money and Parker rented a truck from Noble in his own name.  It was an International "walk-in" type vehicle and was light green in color.  Hyman departed and returned with defendant at approximately 5 p.m. to pick up the vehicle at Parker's station.  After Parker had secured Hyman's "license number", as requested by Noble, Hyman and defendant drove off in the truck together.  Parker did not observe who was driving it.
Aubrey Toone testified that on Sunday night, May 17, he was helping at a body shop in South Hill.  At approximately 11 p.m. a green, "walk-in truck" stopped at the establishment.  There were three men in the vehicle.  Toone said, "When they come up on the*884 driveway, Hyman was driving and one of them was laying down and had a red blanket over him, laying on a jacket, and the other one was standing up."
Toone positively identified Hyman as the driver of the truck and described the clothes that he was wearing.  He was not able to identify the man standing up in the truck at the door, but he pointed out defendant in the courtroom as being one of the three occupants of the vehicle.  Before the trial he was shown photographs of Hyman and defendant which apparently aided him in making an identification of the two men.  He testified:
"Q.  Which one was the picture of the one lying down?"
"A.  Harris."
"Q.  And which one was the


18, between 4 and 5 o'clock, Officer H. R. Chaney was patroling Riverside Drive in Danville.  He stopped his automobile on a used car lot, got out of the vehicle and stretched his legs.  At that time of morning there was no traffic and "everything was perfectly quiet."  Chaney heard a noise, looked across the highway, and observed a truck backed up to the loading door at the end of a building occupied by J. W. Wyatt and Company, a wholesale food distributor.  Chaney became suspicious because he had "never seen a truck like that there before, and nobody at the building at that time."  He drove across the highway with his lights off, "cut the motor off", and "heard a noise thatsounded like somebody dropped something or somebody running, back toward the inside the building."
Chaney approached the truck, which was later positively identified as the one rented from Noble in Norfolk on the previous Saturday in the name of Parker at the instance of Hyman, Edith Mitchell and *885 defendant, and noticed that the rear doors and a sliding door on the driver's side were open.  He observed a large quantity of "cigarettes in half cartons" which appeared "to be just thrown into the truck".  Upon further inspection of the premises he also observed that the large overhanging "roll-up type door" to the building was open; that Wyatt's truck was backed up to the loading platform, and that the entrance door to the building was open.
Chaney radioed


the Danville police headquarters for assistance and three officers responded.  They made a detailed check of the premises and of the two trucks.  A hole about 3 feet in diameter had been knocked through the cinder block wall at the west corner of the building which gave access to the inside of the building.  Another hole was found at the east end of the building, but it came to a dead end.  The Wyatt company truck contained assorted merchandise. About one-half of the merchandise had been removed from the truck and placed onto the loading platform.
The rented Noble truck found just outside of the building contained, among other things, 26 half-cases of cigarettes, a blanket, a pillow, some scattered nabs, a pistol, a cashsales ticket for gasoline in the amount of $3.90 issued by the South Hill Body Shop dated May 16, and a size 7 gray hat with the initials "P H" stamped in gold on the sweatband.  Both the inner lining and the band were labelled "Diamond Hatters, Norfolk, Va".  According to Detective Boone "it appeared that someone had been sleeping and eating in the truck."
On Monday afternoon, May 18, (the day of the burglary) at approximately 3 o'clock, Hyman telephoned Benjamin Parker in Norfolk, informed him that the truck had been stolen, and told him to report the theft to the rental company. Parker promptly made the report to an employee of the company, and about 25 minutes later Hyman and Harris, the defendant, appeared at


Parker's station and asked him what the rental company had said about the truck being stolen.  Parker replied that nothing had been said.
The next day, May 19, at about 12:20 p.m. Harris, Hyman, and Garland Turner were riding in a late model Cadillac automobile and were arrested by Sergeant Hurst near the home of Edith Mitchell, defendant's girl friend, in Norfolk.  The Norfolk police had received certain information from the Danville authorities and were on the "lookout for Harris".  After Harris was placed in Hurst's police car, he asked for his hat which he had left in the Cadillac.  Hurst knew that the Danville police were looking for "a particular hat with particular initials in it".  He went to the car, secured defendant'shat *886 (brown in color), looked at it "real quick", saw that it had the initials "P H" stamped in it, and gave it to defendant.
Harris was then transferred to patrol wagon 39 and transported to police headquarters.  Upon arrival he was asked to place his hat upon a rack in the hall.  While he was in one of the rooms of the Detective Bureau, Hurst and two Danville detectives examined the hat and found that "the whole inside of the hat, the hatband and everything, had been torn out."  Harris was asked what had happened to the inside of his hat and he replied:  "I don't know what you're talking about."  He said that "nothing had happened, that he hadn't done anything


to it."
Sergeant Hurst then went back to patrol wagon 39 and found "the inside of a hat" stuffed beneath the seat in the place "where they keep the stretcher."  The sweatband of the hat was stamped in gold with the initials "P H".  The band and the inner lining each bore the name of "Diamond Hatters, Norfolk, Va."  A tag showed that the hat was a size 7.  Defendant had been transported alone in the patrol wagon, and no one else had been in the vehicle since his arrest. Sergeant Hurst showed the band and inner lining of the hat to defendant and told him that he had found them in the patrol wagon.  Defendant said, "So what, what does that prove?"
Defendant wasalso questioned about his use of the Noble truck, but he denied that he ever used the vehicle or that he knew anything about it.  He stated that he had never been in the truck; that he had never been to Benjamin Parker's service station, and that he had never been in Danville.
Benjamin Parker testified that about a week after Hyman had reported that the truck had been stolen defendant came by the service station again.  On this occasion Harris told Parker that he [Parker] "wasn't coming to Court and testify against him"; that "they was going to kill" him, and that he [Harris] "wont no small time operator that he was a big time operator."
Defendant contends,    inter alia,    that


the evidence against him was entirely circumstantial; that there was no evidence placing him at the scene of the crime; that there was no proof that he had purchased the hat found in the rented Noble truck or that the hat had ever been in his possession; that the initials "P H" were in no way peculiar to him, and that even if it was established that the hat belonged to him, he could easily have left it in the truck while it was in Norfolk.
He further argues that the evidence was not sufficient to show that he was in South Hill, "much less in Danville"; that his threat to *887 Benjamin Parker, the service station operator, could have reference to the fact that the truck for whichplace, the evidence established that defendant was present at Parker's service station when negotiations were made for the rental of the Noble truck on May 16, 1964. Although Parker told Harris and his two companions that they could rent the truck from Noble "just as good as I could", they asked Parker to make the arrangements and subsequently paid him for his services.  All they had to do was to walk across the street to make arrangements for themselves instead of persuading a third party to rent the truck.  This course of conduct was unusual and tends to indicate that the vehicle was to be used for an unlawful purpose. Edith Mitchell told Parker that Hyman needed the truck to move his wife "about two hundred


Danville.  Toone positively identified Hyman as the driver of the vehicle and named defendant as the person who was lying beneath a blanket inside the truck.  He pointed out defendant in the courtroom as being one of the three occupants of the vehicle.  It is true that he was "not real sure" about his identification of defendant, but his testimony as a whole was sufficient *889 to permit the jury to find that defendant was in fact an occupant of the truck in South Hill.  "* * * A witness need not be positive, excluding all doubt, in his statement.  He may state facts to the best of his knowledge, or his best impressions even, and the weight of his evidence is amatter for the jury."  7 M.J., Evidence, | 283, p. 672.
About 5 or 6 hours after the Noble truck was seen in South Hill, it was found abandoned at the scene of the crime in Danville.  It was partially loaded with merchandise taken from the Wyatt company.  Officer Chaney stated that he "heard a noise that sounded like somebody dropped something or somebody running," and it is obvious that he came upon the scene while the burglary was being committed.  The officers found in the truck, among other things, a blanket, the cash sales ticket for gasoline which had been issued by Toone the night before, and a size 7 gray hat containing the initials "P H" and labelled "Diamond Hatters, Norfolk, Va."
The Noble


truck was reported as stolen to Parker in Norfolk about 3 p.m. on the day of the burglary.  Harris contacted Parker in person about 25 minutes later, and he had ample time to reach Norfolk from Danville after the burglary was interrupted so as to be able to do so.
After Harris was arrested on the day following the crime and while he was being transported to police headquarters he tore the sweatband and the inner lining from the hat he was wearing and hid them in the patrol wagon.  This hat and and the hat found in the Noble truck in Danville at the scene of the crime were introduced in evidence as exhibits.  The hats are identical except for the fact that one isgray and the other is brown.  Both are size 7, contain the initials "P H", and are labelled "Diamond Hatters, Norfolk, Va."  They are the same style and shape, are creased in the same manner and bear the same unusual heavy, decorative stitching on their brims.  It is reasonable to infer that defendant tore the sweatband and inner lining from the brown hat he was wearing at the time of his arrest because he knew they were identical to the band and lining of his gray hat left in the Noble truck; that they would tend to show that he was at the scene of the crime, and that they would constitute damaging evidence against him.
It is significant that defendant denied to an investigating officer


side, 13 people have died, among them three civilians, and four soldiers accidentally killed by their own troops.

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, which is based in Gaza and has field staff across the territory, believed at least 673 civilians had been killed - about two-thirds of the total. A more accurate count of civilian deaths is difficult, with journalists and international human rights observers banned from entering Gaza.

Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, was in Cairo for talks to halt the fighting. "My call is for an immediate end to violence in Gaza, and then to the Israeli military offensive and a halt to rocket attacks by Hamas," he said. "It is intolerable that civilians bear the brunt of this conflict."

Yesterday John Holmes, the UN's humanitarian chief, toldthe security council: "The situation for the civilian population of Gaza is terrifying, and its psychological impact felt particularly by children and their parents, who feel helpless and unable to protect them."

He added that Hamas's rocket attacks on Israel violated international laws and must cease. "Yet any Israeli response must itself comply with international humanitarian law. Here, too, there is considerable and grave cause for concern."

The Israeli military pressed on with its offensive yesterday, striking 20 sites across Gaza, including what it said were rocket launching sites, three smuggling tunnels, several armed gunmen and five buildings storing weapons.

Yet despite the intense bombing and artillery, militant rocket fire from Gaza has continued every day since the war began. Yesterday at least 16 rockets were fired into southern Israel, some


reaching as far as Be'er Sheva and Ashdod.

Separately, guerrillas in southern Lebanon fired rockets into northern Israel yesterday. There were no casualties. The Israeli military fired mortars back.

The nine Israeli human rights groups, which include B'Tselem, Gisha, Amnesty International's Israel section and Physicians for Human Rights, said accounts from Gaza showed the Israeli military was "making wanton use of lethal force" and called for a halt to attacks on civilians, access for civilians to escape the fighting, medical care for the injured, access for medical and rescue teams and the proper operation of electricity, water and sewage systems. Their unusually strong criticisms stand out in a country whose Jewish population at least has been united in extraordinarily strong support for the war in Gaza.

The desperate state of healthworking in al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City in the current conflict they had "witnessed the most horrific war injuries in men, women and children of all ages in numbers almost too large to comprehend. The wounded, dying and dead have streamed into the overcrowded hospital in endless convoys of ambulances and private cars and wrapped in blankets in the caring arms of others. The endless and intense bombardments from Israeli air, ground and naval forces have missed no targets, not even the hospital."

Two Palestinian journalists working for an Iranian television station were charged in Israel yesterday with passing classified information to the enemy. They were accused of reporting the start of the ground invasion two weeks ago while the information was still under military censorship, and could face


hockey stick beside them as a memorial. Every restaurant and shop I visited solicited donations. At the crash site, drivers stopped to say silent prayers, leave something on the impromptu memorial or simply try to understand what went wrong.

We still don’t know exactly what happened, although the upcoming trial of a truck driver may shed some light. Eight months later, one Bronco remains in hospital. But in September, the team again moved to billets in Humboldt, and took to the ice for the first time since the tragic events of the spring.

—Ian Austen

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There are several moments that stand out for me in 2018: Olympian Ross Rebagliati rolling his fourth joint a few hours into my smoke-filled interview with him.

Filmmaker Xavier Dolan talking to me for nearly eight hoursIn "Echoes of the Jazz Age," Fitzgerald remarked that "gentlemen's clothes" were a "symbol of 'the power that man must hold that passes from race to race.'" Clothes may make the man, but he has to know which clothes to buy; the mark of aristocracy is the assurance of knowing the rules. For the less certain, there were manuals like Mrs. Post's bestselling _Etiquette_ , __ first published that July, offering instructions for arrivistes trying desperately to arrive, including the useful suggestion that gentlemen keep an old tuxedo suit for informal dining at home. _Etiquette_ is a shopping catalog of silverware, napkins, wineglasses, and stationery, talismans of the good life. Fitzgerald once "looked into Emily Post and [was] inspired with the idea of a play in which all


would demand whether a man still had sex with his wife, or whether a woman was a virgin when she was married, or what method of birth control a couple preferred. Edmund Wilson noted in his diaries Dos's suggestion that "Scott was by no means always so drunk as he pretended to be, but merely put on disorderly drunken acts, which gave him an excuse for clowning and outrageous behavior." Wilson thought Dos was probably right, although he acknowledged that Fitz "also had an act as Prince Charming, and I have been assured by a lady who had met him only once that in this role he was quite irresistible." Too often, however, "the sloppy boor took over," a role with which many of Fitz's acquaintances were allnovel _Simon Called Peter_. Class-consciousness and envy run through the story: people are symbolized by the homes in which they live, from poverty to grandeur. One of the suspects feels enjoined by the honor of his family to silence; another of the culprits may be a rich, aloof wife from the South. Mistakes in identity thread through the tale: they live in a world of fabulists and frauds, gossip and violence, romantics who invented the kind of past they believed they ought to have had—not just the impostor Jay Gatsby, but also the sad pretensions of Myrtle Wilson and her friends, and even the "honest" Carraways, whose family line starts with a deception, a mythical ducal ancestry that shares a name with the place where the real woman


Think and Feel at 25." _The American Magazine,_ September 1922.

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Fussell, Edwin S. "Fitzgerald's Brave New World." _ELH_ 19 (1952): 291–306.

Geismar, Maxwell. "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Orestes at the Ritz." _The Last of the Provincials_. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1943. 287–352.

Godden, Richard. "Glamor on the Turn." _Journal of American Studies_ 16.3 (1982): 343–59.

Goldleaf, Steven. "Our Local Heavens: F Scott Fitzgerald's Years on Long Island and in New York City, 1922–1924." New York: Hofstra Museum of Art, 2005.

Gross, Dalton and Mary-Jean Gross. "F. Scott Fitzgerald's American Swastika: The Prohibition Underworld and _The Great Gatsby_." _Notes and Queries,_ 41.3 (1994): 377.

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Rafa Benitez's side dug deep, with debutant goalkeeper Martin Dubravka making several great saves and his defenders clearing efforts off the line from Alexis Sanchez and Anthony Martial (twice).

"Newcastle United's players and, of course, their staff gave what they have and what they don't have and I think that's a attractive thing in football", said Mourinho, who has never presided over a Premier League -victory in seven attempts at St James' Park and saw his side undone by Matt Ritchie's -second half victor.

Jonjo Shelvey brought a fine one-handed save out of David de Gea just five minutes in, as Newcastle made a bold start against a team they last beat at home in the top flight in January 2012. "They gave everything they had and the gods offootball were with them".

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The Scottish Conservatives say that Scotland is by far the worst in UK at getting kids from the poorest families into university. The Economist note that the proportion of university students who come from the lower social classes is far lower in Scotland than in England: 27.9% compared to 31.4%. And John McDermott in his excellent pieceWritten on 10:38 AM by Sarthak K

Rejoice o Harry Potter fans like me! J.K. Rowling has done it at last; she has revealed on her website that the 7th and final installment of the Harry Potter series - "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," will be published across the world on July 21 - a time to be marked by celebrations and more than a few tears, as Rowling wraps up the magical adventures of the boy wizard, his friends and his enemies.

Potter readers have a lot to look forward to, and to fear. Rowling has said two characters die in the final book and fans are wondering whether Harry is one of them. When asked about Harry's fate, Rowling has said she could understand authors who killed


Asquith House in Edgbaston, is best known to Birmingham diners as Jessica’s, where Glynn Purnell cut his culinary teeth as head chef in the early to mid Noughties.

Now the grand old house, which was also used as serviced apartments, has been turned into nine stylish flats.

There is an event to celebrate completion of the project in July 2, but most of the apartments have already snapped up by early bird buyers, including four to Deutsche Bank staff. Five of them were sold off plan, then the show apartments were bought.

It was built in 1854 and was originally occupied by the Burt family, who had come from Gibraltar, and their servants. After 1915 it was owned by a James Jolly, who was the director of a coal mine inSmethwick and later an MD of GKN. He only lived there for a few years before he sold it to another director of the mine, Thomas Zacharay Lloyd and his wife, Gertrude.

During the 1980s it was run as a hotel owned by Lady Margaret Young (who wil be attending the launch party)

After that it was used as serviced apartments and Jessica’s restaurant.

When developers Andy and Vickie Mudie and John and Mandy Gannon bought it in 2013, the building was empty and the lead had been stripped from the roof, leaving it in a sorry state and ripe for renovation.


21st-23rd day. The chick wings were then removed and investigated macroscopically and roentgenographically. The wing buds had been examined microscopically after cauterization on the 3rd day until ray deficiencies were produced on the 5th day. Radial ray deficiencies were produced by cauterization in the distal preaxial area, and ulnar ray deficiencies by cauterization in the distal postaxial area. These results indicated a peculiarity of the longitudinal axis. However, the critical periods of the radial and the ulnar ray deficiencies were the same; from immediately after the formation of the wing bud to before the formation of the digital plate. The patterns of the combined defects in the digits and of other associated deformities were quite similar to those found in human malformations. Microscopically necrosis in the mesoderm andA suspected Russian hacking group disguised as Iranian spies attacked more than 35 countries, U.S. and U.K. security officials said Monday.

The group Turla, also known as Waterbug and VENOMOUS BEAR, used a variety of Iranian tools and infrastructure to hack into "government, military, technology, energy and commercial organizations" in order to steal intelligence from dozens of countries, the U.K. National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) and National Security Agency (NSA) said in a joint report.

The majority of the vulnerable nations were primarily in the Middle East, NCSC said.

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“Identifying those responsible for attacks can be very difficult, but the weight of evidence points towards the Turla group being behind this campaign," said NCSC Director of Operations Paul Chichester. “We


Facebook head of communications and public policy Elliot Schrage said Thursday that he is stepping down after a decade at the social media company.

"After more than a decade at Facebook, I've decided it's time to start a new chapter in my life. Leading policy and communications for hyper growth technology companies is a joy — but it's also intense and leaves little room for much else," he wrote in a post on Facebook.

Schrage wrote that he has been discussing the decision "for a while" with CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg. He will both lead the search for a new candidate and stay on during the transition. After he officially steps down, he will stay on as an advisor to help on particular projects, according to theEditorial:

Past co-Editor (American Journal of Psychology) and Associate Editor (Animal Learning and Behavior, Learning and Motivation, Hormones and Behavior); Editorial boards (several over the years; currently Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, American Journal of Psychology, Review of General
Psychology.)

Federal Grant Review Committees:

Multi-year terms as permanent member of NIDA, NIMH (Chair) and NSF (twice); ad-hoc
member for various federal agencies, 1-3 times each year.

Recent Awards:

Our laboratory has had continuous federal funding for nearly 50 years, beginning at
Rutgers in 1963. Several graduate students in the laboratory have had predoctoral
NIH fellowships during that time and several postdoctoral associates have had postdoctoral
fellowships or research grants of their own. We currently have three NIH grants, including
two 5-year RO1 grants and one RO1 equivalent as part of an NIAAA Center based on faculty
from Binghamton University and


of our lab have benefited from this in acquiring positions
in industry, particularly pharmaceutical corporations, and in academia as professors,
with several going on to become administrators as chairs or deans or vice-presidents
and one as president of a major university.

All graduate students, postdocs and research collaborators during the past 10 years
have been supported by federal grants or fellowships from the U.S. or other countries.

Selected Publications:

For further background and publications, click on Dr. Spear's curriculum vitae.women

That said, there were exceptions to the rule. While reportedly disliked for her outspoken nature, pioneering Hungarian-Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil overcame the barriers facing women in pre-war India to occupy a unique position in the country’s art history as one of its most prominent modernists.

Her work inspired a whole family of artists, including her nephew Vivan Sundaram, who is the subject of a 50-year retrospective at New Delhi’s impressive Kiran Nadar Museum of Art during India Art Fair.

The problems women face are not unique to India. But like in many other developing creative hubs, women are also playing a central role in evolving the arts ecosystem.

In the past decade, it has been thoroughly encouraging to see greater prominence given to female artists in exhibitions, museum shows and collections


CHRISTY MOORE BIOGRAPHY

The Early Years

Christy, a native of Co. Kildare, started in the music business in the mid-sixties, when his life as a bank clerk was interrupted by a bank strike, and he moved to England. There he became involved in the folk music scene at the time, and spent a few years playing pubs and clubs around the country.

His return to Ireland was marked by the album Prosperous, which proved to be a milestone in the rapprochement of Irish music to the popular mainstream. This album benefited from a collaboration of the leading talents of contemporary folk music, musicians such as Andy Irvine, Donal Lunny and Liam O'Flynn, and this one-off was to lead to the formation of Planxty, a band who were at the leading edgeof the revival of Irish traditional music.

Over the following years the musical status of Planxty became legendary both in Ireland, Britain and throughout Europe. However in 1974 the band split up to pursue solo projects. It was during this period that Christy continued to explore new ground as a solo artist recording a number of solo albums including 'The Iron Behind the Velvet' (TARACD2002) which featured Andy Irvine and 'Live in Dublin' (TARACD2005) with Donal Lunny.

The original Planxty lineup of Christy, Andy, Liam and Donal then reformed in 1979. They recorded two further albums with Tara Records 'After the Break' (TARACD3001) and 'The Woman I Loved So Well' (TARACD3005). There were several additions and changes to their lineup most notably the addition of Matt Molloy, flautist from the


Bothy Band, who later joined The Chieftains and Bill Whelan. In 1981 Planxty performed a Bill Whelan arrangement called 'Timedance' as the intermission piece for the Eurovision song contest, held that year in Ireland. Later it was released as a single and is now included on Bill's CD of 'The Seville Suite' (TARACD3030) released by Tara in 1992.

In the eighties Christy again teamed up with Donal Lunny to form Moving Hearts, another ambitious and innovative Irish band which sought to mix jazz into the folk-rock fusion. Ever the wanderer, Christy was soon breaking out on his own again, and it was in the eighties that he began to establish himself as one of Ireland's leading solo artists with a string of acclaimed albums and high profile tours. Inthe mid-ninties Christy decided to take a break from the music for a few years. In the year 2000 Christy return to live performances with a series of Dublin concerts. Over the last few years he has released a number of solo projects including a television series, a live album and a 6 CD boxset.

In 2004 Christy once again teamed up with Planxty for a series of Irish concerts and a new live CD and DVD, while at the same time performing regularly in his own right with in Ireland and the UK, with Declan Sinnott.


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plays in a 2015 game against the Steelers.

The NFL began taking Burfict’s foul play more seriously, suspending him for the first three games of the 2016 season for an illegal hit to the head against Antonio Brown in an AFC wild-card game the year before. Facing a five-game suspension to start last season, after officials ruled he hit Chiefs fullback Anthony Sherman in a defenseless position in a preseason game, Burfict appealed the ruling and got it reduced to three games.

Despite the extensive history of penalties, Burfict signed a three-year contract extension with the Bengals in September worth roughly $38 million.

Burfict, 27, has been a productive player when he’s on the field, recording 73 solo tackles and two sacks in just 11 games last season. The problem isThe United States used to debate the wars its military was fighting. But that’s not the case with the ongoing silent surge of U.S. military operations and arms sales across the Middle East.

The downing on Sunday of a Syrian warplane by an American F/A-18, along with a strike last month in Syria against a pro-Assad regime militia, were just the latest episodes in a creeping military escalation across the region that lacks well-defined strategy and goals understood by the American public.

Unlike the 2007 Iraq surge under President George W. Bush and the 2010 Afghanistan surge under President Barack Obama, this surge by the Trump administration is occurring without an engaged public discussion of the risks or about diplomacy and other tools of national power needed to protect the


United States. Although today’s surge doesn’t involve hundreds of thousands of troops occupying major urban areas, it represents an increasing military presence, particularly of Special Operations forces, that is not transparent.

In just five months, President Donald Trump has moved U.S. troops closer to the front lines in complex fights in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia. As he has recently done in Afghanistan, Trump has also delegated greater authority to the Pentagon to set force levels and hit targets from the air. The frequency of drone strikes has quadrupled compared with Obama’s average. In Yemen, U.S. aircraft hit as many targets in just one week in early March as Obama would strike in a year. In Iraq and Syria, the U.S.-led anti- Islamic State coalition released more guided munitionsdiplomacy and other tools necessary to end the fighting and produce long-term stability — including proposed drastic cuts at the State Department and leaving key diplomatic and national security posts unfilled. Trump has also placed the United States squarely on one side of the Sunni-Shiite sectarian conflict roiling the region — quite a shift from Trump’s two predecessors.

What’s to be done? Congress should do its job of providing oversight and asking tough questions in three areas.

First, safeguard against a slippery slope to war. Congress should renew the debate on a new authorization for the use of military force to replace the one passed to counter Al-Qaida and its associated forces more than 15 years ago. Across the broader Middle East, the United States has about 80,000 troops deployed


Middle East.

Lastly, invest in the complete inventory of national security tools. Congress should resist the Trump administration’s proposal to gut elements of national power essential to defeating the Islamic State, ending conflict and preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. That means fully investing in the State Department and strongly supporting efforts by international organizations such as the United Nations to address the historic refugee crisis.

The United States needs to work with partners to defeat terrorist groups and counter destabilizing policies from countries such as Iran. But in five months, the Trump administration has exposed the country to greater risks without a clear strategy. Drowned out by real concerns about Russia and the daily grind of Trump’s erratic politics at home, the United States is lurching closer to theheart of the complicated crossfire in the Middle East without sufficient scrutiny. It’s time for Congress to step up.

John Podesta, chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, served as counselor to President Barack Obama and chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and is the founder of the Center for American Progress. Brian Katulis is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. They wrote this article for the Washington Post.


star” (The New York Times), Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humor the surreal reality of contemporary Iraq.

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic FictionWinner of France’s Grand Prize for Fantasy

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Ahmed Saadawi is an Iraqi novelist, poet, screenwriter, and documentary filmmaker. He is the first Iraqi to win the International Prize for Arabic Fiction; he won in 2014 for Frankenstein in Baghdad, which also won France’s Grand Prize for Fantasy. In 2010 he was selected for Beirut39, as one of the 39 best Arab authors under the age of 39. He was born in 1973 in Baghdad, where he still lives.

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“In the 200 years since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, her monster has turned up in countless variations—but few of them have beenDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, James Mattis predicted that he would be courted to serve in a Hillary Clinton administration in the likelihood that she would win the presidency. Instead, Mattis ended up working nearly two years as Secretary of Defense for Donald Trump, a president who routinely undermined his own national security team and would mock Mattis by calling him a “Democrat” or “Moderate Dog.”

Mattis' resignation on Thursday, though abrupt, came as no surprise to those who knew him and had worked alongside him in the Pentagon.

In a series of meetings with colleagues at the beginning of the administration, Mattis said he was originally surprised to get a call from the Trump team asking him to take the post of defense secretary, according to two sources with


who attended those meetings. He told several people that had Clinton won the election, he thought he would have agreed to serve on her team.

According to three former Clinton campaign advisers, the former secretary of state and Mattis had a very positive relationship, predating the campaign. Though no final decisions were made on who would serve as the defense secretary in a Clinton administration that never happened, Mattis was still someone Team Hillary regarded highly.

Mattis and senior Clinton staffers stayed in touch during the presidential campaign, and the former advisers said they solicited his advice on foreign policy and national security matters. The 2016 Clinton team even tried to recruit Mattis to publicly endorse Hillary for president against Trump. According to two of these sources, he politely declined,The raw material may for example pellets of polyethylene used for producing insulation to an electrical cable.
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Kalceff was initially commissioned by the ABC to write, direct and produce a stand-alone pilot episode of First day as part of the ABC’s celebrations for International Day of the Girl in 2017.

The pilot episode won the MIPCOM Diversify TV Excellence Award for Kids’ Programming and the Gender Equity Prize at the prestigious Prix Jeunesse International Children’s Television Festival. It was with this success that First Day was commissioned into a short children’s TV series.

Kalceff told the Star Observer she was inspired by the story of a family friend and wanted to write a series that could help other families in similar situations. While writing First Day, Kalceff sought the advice and guidance of young transgender people and their families. It was through these discussions and collaborations thatPresident Trump threatens to close southern US border over caravan of migrants He blamed it on Democrats.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Trump is again ramping up his rhetoric on an issue he said he hopes can energize his Republican base heading into the midterms, with an all-caps threat to shut down the southern U.S. border if Mexico doesn’t stop the "onslaught" of a caravan of migrants fleeing Honduras.

The president tweeted Thursday morning that Democratic Party leaders "are doing little to stop this large flow of people INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS."

Trump also suggested that the migrants hoping to enter the U.S. are linked to crime and drugs that he said are "pouring in," and he called on Mexico to stop the "onslaught."

The president's tweets come after more than 2,000 Honduran migrants


hoping to come to the U.S. resumed their travel northward Wednesday even hours after Trump warned "anybody entering the United States illegally will be arrested and detained" in a tweet.

On Wednesday, the president also threatened to cut U.S. aid to the Northern Triangle countries -- Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador -- saying "all payments made to them will STOP (END)!.

Mexico in a statement Wednesday said that anyone who entered its country illegally would be processed and returned to their country of origin.

While Trump is threatening to eliminate aid, Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo have been pushing efforts to improve U.S. ties in Central America to reduce the flow of migrants.

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would sustain lasting damage to their lungs. In infections involving the coronavirus that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), about one-third of recovered patients had lung impairment after three years, but those symptoms had largely cleared 15 years later. And researchers found that one-third of patients who suffered Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) had scarring of the lungs — fibrosis — that was probably permanent.

In a mid-March review of a dozen COVID-19 patients discharged from a hospital in Hong Kong, two or three were described as having difficulty with activities they had done in the past.

Dr. Owen Tsang Tak-yin, director of infectious diseases at Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong, told reporters that some patients “might have around a drop of 20 to 30% in lung function” afterBethany Hamilton - Rip Curl Team profile

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Bethany Hamilton is the planet's most famous surfer and one of our world's brightest stars. The Hawaiian survived a tiger shark attack in 2003 and has since touched millions around the world with her story of recovery and surf stardom. She was always destined to do great things and will continue to make a mark of surfing and real lives around the world for years to come.


A half-eaten shark that washed up on a Florida beach Saturday raised questions about a bigger fish possibly lurking in the water.

A Volusia County Beach Safety Ocean Rescue lifeguard snapped a photo of the shark on New Smyrna Beach. Beach Safety spokeswoman Tammy Morris told News 4 Jax that the shark was “definitely” eaten by a bigger fish. She added that the shark was either a blacktip or spinner shark.

A 14-foot great white shark named Katherine was spotted off the Florida coast in January. Another great white shark was spotted in the waters on Feb. 1, Florida wildlife officials said.

Morris said half-eaten sharks do not wash up on the beach often, but she has seen it before.

Officials said the shark might have been about 5-feet long, according toAn explosive device detonated as a bomb squad robot attempted to disarm it near a train station in New Jersey.

It was one of five devices found in a backpack in a rubbish bin in the city of Elizabeth. There were no injuries.


The fad of multi starer movies is catching up good momentum in Indian cinema at the moment especially in Tollywood. There were reports earlier about the bilingual multi-starer film with ace actors like Nagarjuna and Karthi playing the lead roles. The Telugu version has been titled as ‘Oopiri’. The Tamil version has not been titled yet. The movie is directed by Vamsi Paidapally.

The first look poster of ‘Oopiri’ has been released and is gaining good response from everyone. This Telugu-Tamil bilingual directed by Vamsi Paidipally is produced under PVP Cinema banner. Tamannaah is the leading lady opposite Karthi and Anushka plays Nag’s ex-girlfriend. Gopi Sunder is the music director of the film.active threat to Pakistan.

These conflicts have been augmented by violence and tensions inside the rest of Pakistan. In south Punjab, a historical hotbed of militancy, various groups once firmly tethered to state policy have begun to splinter and migrate to the tribal areas. These groups have considerable experience in combat and knowledge of the weapons and technologies needed for asymmetric warfare. They have joined tribal militant groups, and assisted them in bringing terrorist violence into the previously insulated urban centers of the Punjab and the Sindh.

In Karachi, a key economic engine of Pakistan, ethno-sectarian violence has risen to new levels with the real danger of a slide back into the communal violence of the early 1990s. Such a reversal would be catastrophic for stability, exacerbating already chronic economic


Middle Eastern regimes. The drivers of conflict are shaped by a systemic malaise that includes weak and underdeveloped governance institutions hobbled by the omnipresent specter of a military coup that incentivize the maximization of rents instead of efficient representation.

Economic mismanagement and chronic underdevelopment in building up the human capital base have perpetuated deep inequalities and assisted in the alienation of large segments of the population. Demographics are an additional problem, and population pressures are compounded by a severe and growing “youth bulge.” Social services, including the provision of core goods such as education, employment and health are already inadequate, and integrating increasing population figures has worrying implications for future instability.

Other key underlying causes of violence and instability include a dysfunctional civilian government that is all too often miredin internecine squabbling and willing to exploit ethno-sectarian divides for political gain. Strong organizational resistance continues to impede reform. Corruption, service politics, nepotism and favoritism, power brokers, entrenched feudal interests, and a marked civil-military imbalance continue to lead Pakistani elites to give their interests priority over those of the population, and help institutionalize entrenched patronage networks, widespread corruption and significant structural distortions in tax collections.

Pakistan has made some efforts to rectify these shortfalls in governance. The 18th Amendment package of constitutional reforms passed by the new civilian government in August 2010 included dilution in the powers of the executive and an expansion in the autonomy and representation of provincial interests. A greater emphasis on human security has also led to increased allocations to critical sectors such as education


more relevance to the labor market.

The Impact of Pakistani Instability

Pakistan is a pivotal regional player, whose problems affect the security of other countries in the region, and that of the United States. It has the potential to be either a major disruptive force or a major source of stability, in assisting end to violence in Afghanistan, in assisting in the peaceful rise of India, and helping constrain Iran’s bid for Middle Eastern hegemony.

At present, Pakistan seems to be on a downward course. Its leadership is not adequately addressing either the causes of Pakistan's internal violence, or the needs of its people. Its politics are corrupt and self-serving, and far too many indicators reflect its failure to adopt policies that serve popular needs or meet popular expectations. It isis deeply resented by both the Pakistani people and its leadership elite. US military assistance has so far won only grudging and limited support and economic assistance has failed to win broad support or achieve any major objectives. Cross-border sanctuaries -- which are tolerated by at least some elements of the Pakistani security establishment -- remain significant havens for Taliban insurgents

At the same time, the US, its allies in ISAF, and the Afghan government need every bit of military, and counterterrorism cooperation from Pakistan they can get. Even limited Pakistani intelligence support is crucial in providing them with an understanding of militant dynamics. They are also dependent on a logistic tail that keeps them reliant on a transit route through Pakistan.

Pakistan’s leverage in dissuading American pressure is further


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Utah state troopers who used a drug dog as a pretense to search a car belonging to an innocent woman are in legal trouble. The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Friday ruled that the victims could sue the troopers for spending two hours rifling through their vehicle without finding anything unlawful, in violation of their constitutional rights.

Utah State Trooper Brian Bairett had been running a speed trap on Interstate 15 when a Jeep driven by Sherida Felders passed through. Bairett said he developed probable cause during the traffic stop because she was nervous, had an air freshener and her license plate


Chihuahua that was riding in the back. Deputy Malcom explained he intended to leave the door open when the teenagers got out. Dashcam footage recorded what happened.

"Nice of them to leave the door open for you," Deputy Malcom said.

"Yeah it was, wasn't it?" Trooper Bairett responded.

Then the drug dog, named Duke, walked around the car and jumped right through the open door without alerting. Once inside, the dog alerted to the center console. It had two packages of beef jerky. The dog next alerted on the driver's door, which contained nothing. The lower court found the search improper and refused to grant immunity, so Deputy Malcom appealed.

Emails revealed by the American Civil Liberties Union indicate that Florida police made an agreement with the U.S. Marshals Service to hideweapon involved and the public was exposed,” said Phillip Brewer, the mayor of Laceyville.

After this incident, the mayor of Laceyville suspended Chamberlain without pay.

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It was in the parking lot at the Dandy Mary when witnesses said that Laceyville cop was selling an AK-47 out of the back of his police cruiser. People said it was bad enough that he was selling the gun, but at one point he walked away from his vehicle and the AK-47.

A cop in Bradford County has been suspended for allegedly selling an AK-47 out of the back of the patrol car last week.

Laceyville Borough Police Officer Matt Chamberlain was on duty at the time of the apparent gun sale.

“I was shocked, I was shocked. Especially when there’s an automatic weapon involved and the


public was exposed,” said Phillip Brewer, the mayor of Laceyville.

After this incident, the mayor of Laceyville suspended Chamberlain without pay.

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It was in the parking lot at the Dandy Mary when witnesses said that Laceyville cop was selling an AK-47 out of the back of his police cruiser. People said it was bad enough that he was selling the gun, but at one point he walked away from his vehicle and the AK-47.

SAN BRUNO, CA — An innocent family was terrorized when masked, gun-wielding police officers performed a surprise pre-dawn raid on their home. One woman was flung into the front yard unclothed and a 93-year-old grandmother was so badly traumatized that she had to be hospitalized.

The intrusion resulted when the San Mateo County Narcotics Task Force performed awall with such force she lost control of her bladder.

Yeager was dragged from the home onto the front lawn where her dog had relieved himself and was restrained half naked in urine-soaked underwear for more than 15 minutes “for the whole world to see,” the suit stated.

Yeager’s adult son, Jesse, was similarly manhandled and ordered to “crawl on his knees in the dog feces to join his half-naked mother in clear view of the onlooking neighbors,” the suit states.

Once allowed back in the house after officers determined they were not in the Uribe residence, Yeager showed her bruised body and was told by an officer that “a little bit of ice and it will be OK,” the suit stated.

Apparently, after teh video ends he went back to his


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A "revolutionary" new weighing scale, invented by an NHS nurse and the first of its type in the world, will have "huge benefits" for patients, according to a member of the senior team at NHS Lanarkshire.
The Patient Transfer Scale, which will beJoyce will take a leaf out of United's book as he prepares his Wigan players for Old Trafford . After a very poor performance for most of the first half from United, they managed to get the crucial breakthrough goal just before half-time when Marouane Fellaini headed home a cross from Bastian Schweinsteiger.

The teams: The Atlantic Division won the Skills Competition, and they chose to play the Metro in the second game. The two semifinal winners will play a 20 minute game under the same rules to determine the champion of the All Star Game, and who will take home the $1 million.

The home side, as expected, mounted their comeback after the break and were level within 10 minutes. Tottenham got themselves back in the game when Son's


effort from a tight angle deflected home before Spurs were awarded a penalty in the 64th minute After Vincent Janssen was fouled in the area.

Following suit with a win in the GI Awesome Again S. October 1 prior to his second in the Breeders' Cup Classic , the 2016 champion older male and Horse of the Year prepped for the Pegasus with a facile victory in the Winter Challenge S.at his Los Alamitos home base December 17.

Warner's career-best score of 179 at Adelaide on Australia Day saw him amass 367 runs at 73.4 in the five-match ODI series against Pakistan that concluded with back-to-back hundreds in Sydney and Adelaide . The captaincy is claimed by wicketkeeper Matthew Wade while Taylor expects Peter Handscomb to play a more prominentrole with the ba...

In her suit, the accuser claims the university used the promise of sex with white women to help lure top football recruits to Baylor. Doe's lawsuit comes on the heels of an October report from the Wall Street Journal's Brad Reagan that shed light on negligence by former members of the football program.

But when the final whistle blew, it was Sutton that progressed to the fifth round for the first time in their history, where they could face the likes of Manchester United or Chelsea in the next round. They also failed to convince the referee about two strong penalty appeals either side of halftime, and in between times lost goalkeeper Costel Pan...

How would you like to see Chris Jericho end his current WWE run?


Ed was the lone Smark to Banks to win this match with Brett, Taylor and myself picking Jax to win. O'Neal and Show, both 44, scuffled when Shaq served as guest host for Monday Night Raw in Washington, D.C., in 2009. Taker, Brock Lesnar, Bill Goldberg - who have wrestled a combined s...

Georgia Tech's Tadric Jackson finished with a game-high (and his career high) 25 points and Ben Lammers added 15 and 10, while Okogie had 8, including the crucial last two points for the win. Another road game, another nail-biter for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team. "When we won those five games to start league play, every ...

The second-seeded Indo-Croatian pair won 6-4 2-6 10-5 in the semifinals, that lasted one hour and 18minutes. The opponents of Dodig and Mirza will be American Abigail Spears and Columbian Juan Sebastian Cabal who were better in semi-finals than Ukrainian Elina Svitolina and Australian Chris Guccione with 7-6 (1), 6-2.

George celebrated the occasion by turning in a 32-point effort and leading in to a 109-103 win over the Timberwolves. George also turned in a career-high 16 makes from the line during this win, which was a big reason why he went into one of those slumps.

Normally the stadium is windy and it's hard'.The soporific fare on offer reflected the score from the opening leg and the seven changes Marco Silva made, which indicated Premier League survival is the Hull manager's overriding priority.

James, Antetokounmpo, DeMar DeRozan, Kyrie Irving and Jimmy Butler will be the East's


starters, while John Wall, Isaiah Thomas, Paul George, Kevin Love , Kyle Lowry, Kemba Walker and Paul Millsap will fill out the squad. Embiid, in an effort to play on the results of this past Presidential Election, tweeted about the fact that he was snubbed. Em...

Southampton boss Claude Puel insists he will keep faith in his youngsters after injuries left him short of players ahead of their FA Cup fourth-round tie against Arsenal on Saturday. "I'm big enough to know when I do well and when I do not do well". "I said what I think I had to say publicly, and overall the rest will be a bit more discrete".

The authorities have stated that an F1 team can miss a maximum of three races before it becomesinvalid. The U.K. -based Formula One team Manor Racing , which sought the equivalent of chapter 11 bankruptcy protection earlier this month, is shutting down after failing to find a buyer.

Snodgrass, who has scored seven Premier League goals this season, has been linked with a move since December, before Hull triggered a one-year contract extension, tying him to the club until the end of next season. Snodgrass has firmly established himself as a Premier League standard of player during his time at Norwich and Hull. The Hammers ha...

In an interview on the popular local radio show Adam & Joe Thursday afternoon, associate head coach Jeff Capel said he was disappointed to hear that word of the jersey and backpack ban had reached the public's ear already. Duke, which


entered the season No. 1 in both polls, has lost three of its last four, is 15-5 overall, and 3-4 in the ACC. S...

UFC announced the light heavyweight championship fight Wednesday night as the headliner to UFC 210 in Buffalo on April 8 . Cormier was scheduled to fight rival Jon Jones at UFC 197 in April of past year, but pulled out of the fight due to a leg injury.

Federer went on to secure the next two points and, as so often occurs, the player who had the missed opportunity became slightly unhinged, as Wawrinka played a terrible service game and was broken easily, setting up a anticlimactic finish to Federer's 7-5, 6-3, 1-6, 4-6, 6-3 victory Thursday in the Australian Open semifinals.

In the following over, SureshRaina , who made a fluent 34 in his comeback match , failed to put bat to a leg stump yorker from Ben Stokes and was bowled behind his pads. Rashid is a complex player who requires careful handling, but Morgan explained his absence as a purely tactical decision based on pitch conditions.


Washington (CNN) Victorina Morales, a cleaner who spent years working at one of President Donald Trump's golf clubs, risked deportation by outing herself as an undocumented worker to the New York Times in December -- but now she's asking Congress for protection.

Along with three other former club workers, Morales arrived in Washington this week to meet with lawmakers, who they hope will launch an investigation into Trump Organization hiring practices and shield them from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the enforcement arm of the Department of Homeland Security.

The group met Tuesday with New Jersey Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Robert Menendez.

Menendez said after the meeting that he'd "raise concerns" with federal agencies about ensuring their status is not affected "negatively."

"[The workers] really speak volumes about the hypocrisy of thepresident who rails against immigrants but uses their labor and does so in a way, and an in an environment, as I understand it, that was hostile to them and threatening to them," Menendez said in remarks to reporters Tuesday.

From left, Margarita Cruz, Victorina Morales, Sandra Diaz and Gabriel Sedano speak with Sen. Bob Menendez in his office in Washington.

The Washington Post reported this past weekend that a dozen undocumented workers had been fired from the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, New York. The New York Times first reported in December that another Trump club in Bedminster, New Jersey, employed Victorina Morales , an undocumented worker originally from Guatemala.

A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization responded to a request for comment by providing a statement previously issued by


from Guatemala, worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

But an increasingly hostile environment since Trump's election, as well as what she describes as abuse by her supervisor, put her over the edge -- and as a result, inspired to share her story publicly.

"I was tired, there were many insults," Morales said. Former colleagues have since cut off contact with her, she added.

The descriptions the former employees at Trump's golf clubs gave about how they obtained their positions are similar: They came in, provided paperwork and were asked to come to work almost immediately after.

Gabriel Sedano, a former maintenance worker at Trump's golf club in Westchester, told CNN he began working for the club in 2005 and was always treated well. He was discouraged byTrump's rhetoric during the 2016 campaign, and expected there might be a wave of change after Trump was elected but nothing happened.

"[His remarks] bothered a lot of people," said Sedano, who was among those who called on Menendez. "We come to work and we work hard."

Then, on January 18, he was among about a dozen employees at the club in Westchester who were fired over their work status, he said.

"It seemed unjust that they just call you and they fire you when they knew we were good workers," he said.

Lawyer David Leopold joins the undocumented workers for their meetings on Capitol Hill.

A lawyer who joined the workers in their meetings on Capitol Hill said any effort to deport those who have come forward could amount to obstruction of


justice.

"If they get removed from the US, that is obstruction of justice because these are witnesses and that's what we're talking about on Capitol Hill and they've been very responsive," said David Leopold, a partner with Ulmer & Berne who chairs the firm's immigration practice.

"This isn't just limited to Bedminster or Westchester," he added.

The group visiting Capitol Hill also included Sandra Diaz, who was undocumented while she worked at Bedminster between 2010 and 2013, but has since become a legal resident of the United States.

Along with Booker and Menendez, they also met with Arizona Democratic Rep. Raul Grijalva and freshman New Jersey Democratic Rep. Tom Malinowski.

The claims come amid Trump's ongoing crackdown on immigration from Mexico and Central America, which triggered a historic 35-day partial government shutdown overdisband criminal networks, recognizing that many were deeply entrenched in the state. The commission began operating in September 2007. Since its inception, CICIG has successfully investigated high-impact cases such as the self-ordered assassination of lawyer Rodrigo Rosenberg, which captured international headlines. In his short tenure, Velásquez has successfully charged Vice President Roxana Baldetti, the former heads of Guatemalan equivalents to Social Security and the IRS, as well as mayors, judges and eight congressmen. Accusations include graft, fraud and money laundering. On August 21, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and CICIG charged President Otto Pérez Molina with leading a corruption scheme in which he accepted bribes in exchange for reducing or waiving taxes for imports to Guatemala. Key to CICIG’s ability to successfully pursue cases was the signing of an


(Announcer)
The Culinary Arts Program at Georgia Northwestern
Technical College offers professional culinary
experience in a beautiful gourmet restaurant
setting that exposes students to a wide array
of international influences and advanced cooking
methods.
The program is taught at the Floyd County
Campus of Georgia Northwestern Technical College
at the Woodlee Building, an early 20th century
dwelling that has been renovated and updated
to include a first-class teaching kitchen,
commercial-grade equipment, and an elegant
serving area.
(Chef Greg Paulson Director of Culinary Arts,
GNTC)
The students will hit the ground running - they
all will come into the class and they'll learn
about the history of the uniform and the
history of food and cuisine and after that
they'll start right in immediately into the
kitchen theyll start off basically learning
knife skills and knife cuts theyll go into
garde manger and do fruit and vegetable carvings
they'll learn hot food cookerygot here at GNTC.
It's been about two years but in that amount
of time I have learned more than in my 15
years of experience work in the culinary field.
(Announcer)
The Culinary Arts program is taught in the
Woodlee Building at the Floyd County Campus
of Georgia Northwestern Technical College.
This exquisite setting provides students with
both a fully equipped modern kitchen and an
elegant dining area that gives a comprehensive
experience in the culinary profession.
The Horticulture program is located beside
the Woodlee Building and Horticulture students
decorate the house, tend to the landscaping,
and supply fresh vegetables and herbs that
the chefs use to create gourmet dishes.
The teaching kitchen is a recent addition
to the main structure and was designed to
match the existing classic architecture.
(Greg Paulson)
Being here in this Woodlee facility is wonderful.
We've replicated the exterior architecture
to simulate the same architecture


For the past four years we have opened our doors, and our print lab, to the students of the University of Akron Myers School of Art for a hands-on, screen printing workshop. This two-night workshop is one of many opportunities open to design students as a part of the program’s Design Week activities. The poster that we design and print is specifically tied to their annual Fontoween event where each student is encouraged to dress up as their favorite font.

The poster-making process begins with the team at 427 Design collaborating on concepts for the new Fontoween design. A series of sketches are drawn and revised until the team agrees on the final poster concept. Then comes the creation of ink drawings, layers of textures, colorizing and finally settinggroup was "obviously ... very excited" about the jobs being restored.

But she said they remained upset that some teachers who were not laid off were shifted from one school to another, which turned out to be unnecessary with the rehirings.

The restored elementary positions are so-called "resource" teachers - music, art, drama, instructional technology and reading teachers, as well as media specialists. Those jobs were among about 450 positions eliminated in the instructional, support and administrative rolls when the board imposed budget-cutting measures in March.

Since then, the stimulus funds reduced Clay schools' expected shortfall to about $20 million, allowing the district to undo some of the budget cuts. In May, the board added back one regular education teacher position that had been cut at each elementary school.


Liverpool FC Foundation can today announce former Reds skipper Steven Gerrard will be making a special return to Anfield for the LFC Legends charity match on Saturday March 25, 2017.

The game will see the Liverpool FC Legends take on Real Madrid Legends in the ultimate rematch of the Corazon Classic encounter, which took place in June 2015 at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.

The highly-anticipated clash will be the first time Gerrard has played on Anfield’s hallowed turf since calling time on his playing career in November 2016 and subsequently joining the club as an Academy coach earlier this month.

And the former No.8 will be joined by a whole host of LFC icons, including Ian Rush, Robbie Fowler, Gary McAllister, Luis Garcia, Daniel Agger, Patrik Berger, Jerzy Dudek, Stephane Henchoz,“These four key investments mark a significant week for Durban. It signals the enormous potential for further financial and social benefits as the ripple effects extend through the region. The range of investments, foreign capital inflow, notable shift towards black owned property transactions, and the impact on the province is great for everyone,’ he said.


signature white earbuds, became a must-have mobile accessory.

Not everyone was thrilled. Record labels grumbled at being strong-armed over song prices by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Some musicians complained that they didn't earn enough royalties from digital-music sales.

But by 2010, iTunes was the largest music retailer on the planet. Today, it has 435 million registered users in 119 countries and recently served up its 25 billionth song, downloaded by a man in Germany. iTunes also now sells much more than music: Customers can download movies, TV shows, games, books, podcasts and more.

In recent months, Apple's retail juggernaut has shown signs of weakness. Recent figures show that its growth may finally be slowing down. And services such as Pandora, Spotify, Rdio and others, which allow users to stream songs forname, but you know his work: Thorgerson was a graphic artist who designed album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and 10cc, among many others.

You may also have seen Thorgerson's shrunken covers on iTunes, where they have no more heft than an app icon. The song is the thing in the iTunes world, and that means there's less importance for the kind of artwork Thorgerson did -- which, in its 12-by-12-inch LP album cover form, was sometimes more impressive than the music it housed.

Yes, iTunes offers booklets, images, videos and movies, but you can't frame those and hang them on a dorm room wall ... or use them to spread out, uh, study accessories.

It made apps mainstream

Until July 2008, apps were just something you ate before the main


course. Then came the App Store, a specialty shop inside the larger iTunes department store, and Apple's iconic "There's an app for that" campaign.

Soon, every early adopter was waving around their iPhone, boasting about all the apps they'd loaded onto it and slinging virtual birds at virtual pigs. The iPad only accelerated this trend. In January, Apple announced that more than 40 billion apps had been downloaded from its online store.

'All Together Now'

A small minority of artists have refused to sell their music on iTunes. But one group in particular was unmoved by the move to digital downloads: the Beatles. Thanks to legal disputes and sonic concerns, for more than seven years, the Fab Four (and their many representatives) resisted calls to transfer their prized catalog to iTunes,leaving music fans stuck with their old-fashioned CDs, LPs and reel-to-reel tapes

After years of legal wrangling, the Beatles finally brought their catalog to iTunes in 2010.

That finally changed in 2010, when the Beatles' Apple Corps joined with Apple's core music distribution product . (Yes, the use of the name "Apple" was another part of the dispute.) Since then, the two have "Come Together" to the benefit of both. In the first week of availability, iTunes sold 450,000 Beatles albums and more than 2 million Beatles songs.

'Curse you, iTunes!!!!!!!!'

Despite its hundreds of millions of users, iTunes has its critics. It's become one of the most unpopular programs Apple offers . It's slow to load, it's a memory hog, and it likes to update seemingly every day.

"Won't someone take iTunes


Woodruff said.

Oden was taken into custody and transported to the APC.

Oden was a basketball star at Lawrence North High School and played a year of college basketball at Ohio State University. The Portland Trailblazers selected him No. 1 overall in the 2007 NBA Draft, but injuries derailed his pro career. He most recently played for the Miami Heat.AirSpaceMag.com

A Quarter Century of "Black Wings"

A talk with the curator of the National Air and Space Museum's soon-to-be-updated exhibit on African-Americans in aviation.

In March 1945, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis was commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces 332nd Fighter Group (better known as the Tuskegee airmen) in Italy. Pilots of the 332nd flew North American P-51 Mustangs as fighter escorts for Allied bombers. After the war, Davis would become the first black general in the U.S. Air Force.
(Toni Frissell Collection/Library of Congress)

When Von Hardesty began working on the National Air and Space Museum’s exhibit Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins. Hardesty, who is currently researching the book, says it will feature a 20,000-word narrative on African-American aerospace history as well as photos of prominent figures, including the late U.S. Air Force


general U.S. airline.

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In March 1945, Colonel Benjamin O. Davis was commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces 332nd Fighter Group (better known as the Tuskegee airmen) in Italy. Pilots of the 332nd flew North American P-51 Mustangs as fighter escorts for Allied bombers. After the war, Davis would become the first black general in the U.S. Air Force.
(Toni Frissell Collection/Library of Congress)

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A&S: How did you go about preparing an exhibit on black aviation history?Hardesty: We interviewed a lot of early African-American aviation pioneers, and what’s so wonderful is that several of the people featured in the exhibit were still living. Many of these people have passed from the scene now, but they were still around in the early ’80s, so they were able toFirst truly habitable exoplanet found

Emma Woollacott, 30th September 2010

Astronomers believe they may have found a habitable planet at last, in the widely-studied Gliese 581 system 20 light years away in the constellation of Libra.

The Gliese 581 system has already yielded evidence of a number of exoplanets. This one, though, is in the 'Goldilocks zone' where the temperature could be bearable, liquid water could exist on the surface and an atmosphere be sustained.

The team that discovered it, led by astronomers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, says it's the most Earth-like exoplanet yet discovered.

"Our findings offer a very compelling case for a potentially habitable planet," said Steven Vogt, professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz. "The fact that we were


Ephesus Sightseeing

EXCAVATIONS OF EPHESUSDuring excavations
of Ephesus 6,000 year old neolithic remains were found that
going on for 101 years in Ephesus ancient city ruins at Izmir
province.Excavations of Ephesus in the Cukurca tumulus 500 meters east from
the Magnesia Gate of Ephesus were started in 1995. After an
interruption, October 2000 excavations were re-started under the supervision of
archeologist Adil Evren and prehistory expert Feride Ozen.

During the excavations of Ephesus an
instrument used in weaving, various ceramic pieces and a stone ax have been
found. Heavily damaged foundation remains and traces of a fire have also been
discovered.According to discoveries in ancient city officials have pointed
out that more detailed information about neolithic and ancient bronze eras will
be obtained.Excavations of Ephesus's
SpecialistsAccording to the specialists, these findings of ancient
city have led to the conclusion that the city isa much older city than so far
supposed.Another 100-person group of experts from Austria, led by Doc. Dr.
Stephen Karli has completed a four-month excavations of Ephesus work and
returned to Austria.Some of their most important discoveries include a
gladiators combat practice area and a marble ladder carved in the mountain,
found during exploratory excavations in the stadium area of
Ephesus.Excavations in the Church of Mary in Ephesus have brought to light
new details about the history of the church. Evidence suggests that the church
was not existing before the Third Council held in 431, and was in fact
constructed after this date. Later some changes in the building were
made.

Reconstruction of the ancient theatre, damaged during various
cultural activities, and going on for four years, is continuing. Now that
security in the theatre has been ensured, a long term


hospital staff stuck to the most rigid interpretation of Ireland’s anti-abortion law.

In the UK, the Tory Party, reeling from a 15%, seat-taking swing to Labour in the Corby by-election — after the sudden departure of alleged ex-nightclub drug dabbler and chick-lit novelist Louise Mensch — hired Lynton Crosby. He’d been responsible for the 2005 Tory campaign widely seen as the nastiest, and utterly unsuccessful, campaign in recent history, with its “are you thinking what we’re thinking?” anti-immigration ads. And coming back to the US, there was of course Mormon Mitt, telling a phone hook post-mortem for his campaign managers that Obama had won by giving “gifts” to people, simply reiterating his earlier disdain for half the population. (He also suggested that the group stay in touch, with regularhe mounted for the School of Advanced Study in the University of London. John objected to my continual running together of the aesthetic as a particular mode of judgement, as first substantially defined by Kant in his third Critique, with discourses about the essential source or nature or effect of the work of art. It is indeed a surprise for anyone who has heard so much about Kantian aesthetics in the interpretation of works of art to go to the Critique of Judgement and find that there is so little there that has to do essentially with art, or indeed, any other recognisably human activity. Kant knows too well, in fact, how crippling such an association would be for his whole argument. His argument is not psychological but


more complete forms of everyday experiences. This is the prejudice which spoils John Dewey’s otherwise generous and (to me) comfortable view, in his Art As Experience of 1934, of the continuity of aesthetic and ordinary kinds of experience and his edifying irritation with the spiritualisation of art. He begins well:

In order to understand the aesthetic in its ultimate and approved forms, one must begin with it in the raw; in the events and scenes that hold the attentive eye and ear of man, arousing his interest and affording him enjoyment as he looks and listens: the sights that hold the crowd – the fire engine rushing by; the machines excavating enormous holes in the earth; the human fly climbing the steeple-side; the men perched high in air onthoroughgoing dismissal of the idea that it was possible to provide any definition of art or the aesthetic. It is true that Weitz does bring forward some burly arguments of this kind for the first part of his essay. But then he goes and spoils it all when he provides us with his reason why the categories of art and the aesthetic can never be defined. For Weitz finds the cause of the indefinability of art in art itself. Art is indefinable, he says, not because the aesthetic does not exist; it is because it is of the essence of art to be uncontainable by definitions. Weitz concludes therefore, that the aesthetic is not a non-category, but an open category. It was on the rebound from Weitz’s essay


in Barthes’s handy pocket definition, then the aesthetic could anything that got discussed under the rubric of the aesthetic. The category of the aesthetic is what Searle calls an intentional category, one in which our judgement as to the nature or value of the things subsumed in the category is a defining component of it. The aesthetic would thus resemble the category of ‘nice weather’. This sounds more alarmingly solipsistic than it turns out to be. Though in principle according to my definition, absolutely anything could get counted as the aesthetic, in practice not everything does. So this does not mean in itself that the category of the aesthetic is an empty category, for there are indisputably plenty of things to occupy it: indeed, it is of itsaesthetic what has been called the institutional definition, as it is identified in the work particularly of Arthur Danto and George Dickie. In 1964, Arthur Danto declared that ‘To see something as art requires something the eye cannot descry – an atmosphere of artistic theory, a knowledge of art history: an artworld.’ Ten years later, in his book Art and the Aesthetic, George Dickie framed a tighter, and somewhat chillier version of this definition:

A work of art in the classificatory sense is (1) an artifact (2) a set of the aspects of which has had conferred upon it the status of candidate for appreciation by some person or persons acting on behalf of a certain social institution (the artworld).

One of the objections to the institutional definition of art