71 children.

We went to Aleppo as part of a Human Rights Watch investigative mission. We could see no trace of any military target in the vicinity of where these missiles had struck. Nor was there any sign of the international community, which had earlier taken responsibility for protecting women and children from precisely these kinds of war crimes.

I was in the United Nations General Assembly hall in 2005, when the heads of governments, from Russia to South Africa, China to the United States, solemnly swore they would never again be passive bystanders when faced with war crimes and crimes against humanity.

All eyes will therefore be on the leaders from Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (the Brics grouping) as they meet in Durban on March 26 and27.

There is an expectation that the countries that have so far done little to come to the relief of the Syrian people and have vetoed or abstained from security council resolutions calling for action, as the Brics members have done, should implement meaningful initiatives to stop the Syrian government's violent repression, break the cycle of atrocities by all parties and assist and protect civilians.

The situation was of "deep concern" to the Brics leaders, they said in their summit declaration when they met last year. By then, 9000 Syrians had been killed. Now, the reasons to act should be increased tenfold – the death toll, according to the UN, exceeds 70 000. The Brics should break with the past and show that the international community has the will to


faced serious security constraints from all armed actors. Combined with lack of sufficient funding for humanitarian aid, Syria's prohibition of cross-border relief to opposition-held areas means that even the most basic relief is out of reach for millions of Syrians.

If the Brics' diplomats were to meet the civilians in the Syrian crossfire, they would see how schools, hospitals, bakeries and apartment houses have been targeted by grenades, rockets, missiles and aerial attacks.

They could hear the direct experience of those who live there, as we did when we spoke to one, Ghassan, at what was once his brother's house in Aleppo: "I was having evening tea with my brother, as I used to every evening in his house. Just after I had left at 6pm, the sky was litDr. Matthew Denenberg, Vice President of Medical Affairs at Helen DeVos Children's Hospital. "The children's hospital is happy to play a part in welcoming visitors to West Michigan with this fun new addition for families and children to enjoy."

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Tali Shalom-Ezer was worried lesbian dramas had lost their edge and needed higher stakes again!

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Then I chaperoned some parties and found what you described She was admitted to an intense drug treatment program at Eagleville Hospital in December In an attempt to quit drugs, she moved back to Philadelphia with her mother and stepfather in February Those in rural areas or areas with fewer LGBT people may feel less comfortable coming out, have less support from families and friends, and lack access to an LGBT community.

Nicole, when you first meet her, seems a little bit whiny just because of the way her voice is. What is currently known about LGBT health? And she said that while staying in the closet may haveSingham’s proposals for a hard Brexit were applauded by Johnson in a speech to Conservative party conference.

Singham was also invited to a committee of experts on trade by international trade secretary Liam Fox — he later resigned to join the lobbying firm Grayling - and controversially held multiple unminuted meetings with former DExEU minister and anti-EU campaigner Steve Baker.

However, his views have been rubbished by other experts and his credentials have been under scrutiny. Singham agreed to be interviewed after the Guardian challenged him over what appeared to be exaggerated descriptions of his academic and professional record.

He has been widely described as an economist though he does not have an academic degree in the subject. A Facebook profile says he studied law and economics at Oxford. However, his


degree there was in chemistry and he completed postgraduate law courses at other institutions. Singham said he did create the profile but had not used it for many years.

A biography of Singham distributed by a former employer in the US described his work as “assisting governments in the early privatisations during the Thatcher administration …” and Singham has mentioned his work on privatisations in the 1980s in a public speech.

However, Singham’s career did not begin until 1992, two years after Thatcher left power. Singham denied that this could be misinterpreted and said the privatisation was ongoing in nature. He added that he worked on UK privatisation issues, including relating to water and gas, from 1993 to 1995. He said he had not signed off the former employer’s biography.

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The director and the screenwriter behind 'The Hurt Locker' and 'Zero Dark Thirty' are developing a film about a soldier who was held by Taliban for years.

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Director Kathryn Bigelow is working to bring the true story of Bowe Bergdahl to the big screen. She collaborates with screenwriter Mark Boal, who penned her highly-notable films "The Hurt Locker" (2008) and "Zero Dark Thirty" (2012).

Bergdahl is an Army sergeant captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for five years after he left his base in Afghanistan. On May 31 this year, he was released as part of a prisoner exchange for five Taliban members who were held at Guantanamo Bay.

According to Deadline, a rival project is developed at Fox


Searchlight. Todd Field ("In the Bedroom", "Little Children") is tapped to helm the project based on "America's Last Prisoner of War", an investigative article by Michael Hastings, the late Rolling Stone reporter who died at age 33 in a car accident in Los Angeles last year.

Bigelow is also set to direct and produce "The True American" with Tom Hardy on the lead role. It's about an American named Mark Stroman who went on a killing spree during a blind mission of revenge in the charged, angry days post 9/11 incident thirteen years ago.Micaela Vázquez

Micaela Belén Vázquez (born November 24, 1986) is an Argentine actress. She is the best known for her role of Pilar Dunoff in the series Rebelde Way, and also for series Chiquititas and Floricienta — all created and produced by Cris Morena. From 2007 to 2010, Vázquez dated Real Madrid CF player Fernando Gago.

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Vázquez was only ten when she landed the role of Miki in television hit series for children and teenagers, Chiquititas, created by Cris Morena. Vázquez reprised her role on 2001 mini–series Chiquititas. However, her most famous role is Pilar Dunoff in another Cris Morena's production, Rebelde Way, co–starring Benjamin Rojas, Luisana Lopilato, Felipe Colombo and Camila Bordonaba. Vázques portrayed Pilar from 2002 to 2003, from the beginning until the very end. She was singing


into the operating theatre and, whipping out a scalpel, advances on the patient.

DR. BENWAY: “An espontaneo! Stop him before he guts my patient!”

(Espontaneo is a bull-fighting term for a member of the audience who leaps down into the ring, pulls out a concealed cape and attempts a few passes with the bull before he is dragged out of the ring.)

The orderlies scuffle with the espontaneo, who is finally ejected from the hall. The anesthetist takes advantage of the confusion to pry a large gold filling from the patient’s mouth….

Naked Lunch was originally published in 1959 by Olympia Press in Paris. The first printing in July 1959 consisted of 5,000 copies, and a second printing of 5,000 copies was done shortly thereafter. The first printing is distinguished by aWelcome to the 'New Somerset and Dorset Railway'

The original Somerset and Dorset Railway closed very controversially in 1966. It is time that decision, made in a very different world, was reversed. We now have many councillors, MPs, businesses and individuals living along the line supporting us. Even the Ministry of Transport supports our general aim. The New S&D was formed in 2009 with the aim of rebuilding as much of the route as possible, at the very least the main line from Bath (Britain's only World Heritage City) to Bournemouth (our premier seaside resort); as well as the branches to Wells, Glastonbury and Wimborne. We will achieve this through a mix of lobbying, trackbed purchase and restoration of sections of the route as they become economically viable. With


from the Food and Veterinary Administration was that the dark sticky spread was fortified with vitamins, meaning that it had to have special permission to be sold. The Danes love banning things that are foreign, and Marmite was just the latest product, along with a whole raft of others from Horlicks to Birds Eye custard. To get permission to sell Marmite would have involved a lot of red tape and cost, and the shop owner was angry because it was a best selling product.I asked The Guardian if they might be interested in this and immediatley was told that 'Yes,' they were. I said I'd write it up within four or five days, just as soon as I'd been and interviewed the owner and taken some pictures. Theyacross large parts of the Muslim world following the Mohammed Cartoon debacle (which I inadvertently almost became a victim of, but that's a story for another day).After several days, during which the Sun newspaper made the Danish ambassador in London come out and make an apology, Marmite was debated in the Danish parliament and angry groups of geographically challenged Britons called for the picketing of Ikea, the story slowly began to fade away and I began to peek out from beneath my rock. The stampeding herd had passed me by and all that was left to show was the trampled earth and a faint savoury yeast smell hanging in the air.So what did I learn from this experience? Many people congratulated me for getting a story on the


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Midford Station Appeal

The first aim of the New S&D will be to secure the station site at Midford and rebuild the station as a visitor information centre. This will only be the very first small step to restoring the route, but possibly the most important. As Paypal charges can be high it is better to make larger donations (£20+) by cheque wherever possible, but please feel free to use this facility for any amounts if easier! Cheques should be made payable to 'New Somerset and Dorset Railway' and sent tocontact. They also manage the growing Somerset and Dorset Railway ecommerce site here. They own and are currently restoring Midford station and will shortly do the same at Spetisbury, for rebuilding as information offices for the whole route. Facebook.

Somerset and Dorset Railway Heritage Trust - restoring Midsomer Norton station with plans to extend to Radstock and towards Shepton Mallet. In summer regular passnger trains are operated at this iconic S&D location. The station and area have been restored to their full pre-closure glory. There is also a museum on site.

Sturminster Rail Group - aim is to purchase strategic sections of the route particularly between Sturminster Newton and Henstridge to allow the running of trains in the future.

North Dorset Railway Trust - based at Shillingstone in Dorset has restored


Joachim Jungius was given the name Joachim Junge (or Jung)when he was born; Jungius is the Latin version of Junge which he used in all his publications. His father, Nicolaus Junge, was a teacher at the Gymnasium St Katharinen in Lübeck and his mother was Brigitte Holdmann, the daughter of Joachim Holdmann who was a minister in the Lutheran Cathedral in Lübeck. However, Nicolaus Junge was murdered when Joachim was only two years old and, in 1589, Brigitte married Martin Nordmann who was a teacher at the Gymnasium St Katharinen in Lübeck. Joachim was brought up by his mother and step-father. He attended the Gymnasium St Katharinen in Lübeck until 1605 [1]:-

... where he commented on the Dialectic of Peter Ramus, as well as writing on logic andcomposing poetry.

In May 1606 he entered the University of Rostock, rather later than one might expect due to his delicate physique, where he studied metaphysics. Hans Kangro writes [1]:-

At Rostock Jungius studied with Johann Sleker, from whom he learned metaphysics in the tradition of Francisco Suarez and his school. In general, however, he preferred to concentrate on mathematics and logic.

On leaving Rostock, Jungius matriculated at the University of Giessen in May 1608 and he was awarded an M.A. on 22 December 1608. In 1609 he was appointed as a professor of mathematics at Giessen and there he taught pure mathematics, the physical applications of mathematics to optics, harmonics, astronomy and geography, and the mechanical applications to the theory of refraction, hydrostatics and architecture. In his inaugural lecture, delivered


on taking up his appointment at Giessen, he spoke of his belief that mathematics was the basis for all scientific subjects and, as such, was of vital importance in teaching. He studied the new ideas in algebra which had been introduced a few years earlier by François Viète in his In artem analyticam isagoge. In 1612, along with his Gissen colleague Christoph Helvig, Jungius went to Frankfurt for the coronation of Matthias, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia, as the Holy Roman Emperor. While on this journey he observed sunspots; at the time Galileo (March 1612), David Fabricius and his son Johannes (1611), and Christoph Scheiner (January 1612) were all claiming priority in their discovery. (In fact unknown to all of them Thomas Harriot has priority, beginningto record sunspot observations on 8 December 1610.)

It was while on this visit to Frankfurt that Jungius met with the educational reformer Wolfgang Ratke who had developed his own system of education. Jungius was very interested in Ratke's ideas and together they discussed starting schools in Augsburg and Erfurt which would teach according to Ratke's system. In 1614 Jungius resigned his position at Giessen with the idea that he would devote himself to educational reform, but he soon decided that he wanted to increase his knowledge of medicine. He enrolled at the University of Rostock to study medicine in August 1616. After some time studying there, he went to Padua to continued medical education:-

... he must have found the atmosphere of Padua congenial, because of the school's emphasis


on a research-oriented natural philosophy, medical training, and mathematics.

He received a medical degree from the University of Padua on 1 January 1619. Thereafter Jungius practiced medicine at Lübeck from 1619 to 1623, he held the chair of mathematics at the University of Rostock from 1624 to 1625, practiced medicine at Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel in 1625 and then from 1626 to 1628 he again held the chair of mathematics at the University of Rostock. For one year in 1625 he held the chair of medicine at the University of Helmstedt in addition to practicing medicine. When giving his inaugural address on taking up the chair at Rostock, Jungius gave a similar address to the one he had given at Giessen, stressing his belief that mathematics was the basis forall scientific subjects. These years from 1619 to 1629 were ones during which he was at the height of his powers, able to use knowledge and skills in many different areas across a whole spectrum of scientific activities. Also during this period he married Catharina Havemann, the daughter of Brauers Valentin Havemann from Rostock, on 10 February 1624. Perhaps the mathematical work which occupied him most over these years was his work reconstructing Apollonius's Plane Loci which, although lost had been described by Pappus of Alexandria in Book VII of his Collection. Jan Hogendijk explains [16]:-

Jungius worked on [a reconstruction of Apollonius's Plane Loci] from 1622 to 1629, and the work was completed by his pupil Weland in the period between 1638 and his death in 1641. Around


1670 the re-construction was annotated by Johannes Muller, who evidently planned to prepare the work for the press. However, the work remained in manuscript until [it was published in 1988].

The reason that Jungius stopped working on the reconstruction in 1629 was that in that year he moved to Hamburg where he became professor of natural science at the Akademisches Gymnasium. Administrative duties prevented him from completing the reconstruction of Plane Loci. He became Rector of the Gymnasium and also of the Johanneum, a Latin school which shared the same premises as the Akademisches Gymnasium. On 19 March 1629 he gave his inaugural oration, similar to the one he had given in Giessen and Rostock, on the use of mathematics in studying liberal arts. Many professors begin their careersteaching in secondary schools, but few make the move which Jungius did and leave university education to teach in schools. It was a move made because of his desire to improve school education and he took charge of the Akademisches Gymnasium and the Johanneum, about fifteen years after it was founded, at a time when it was in difficulties. Under Jungius's leadership the school prospered and many pupils outwith Hamburg or the surrounding area, moved there to benefit from the education. However, he faced difficulties during the 1630s [1]:-

His wife, Catharina ... died on 16 June 1638. During the 1630's, too, he became subject to the envy of his colleagues and even to attacks by the clergy, despite his devout Protestantism. He was thereafter reluctant to publish his


writings and left some 75,000 pages in manuscript at the time of his death, of which two-thirds were destroyed in a fire in 1691 ...

While at the Academic Gymnasium in Hamburg, where he taught until 1640, Jungius delivered "physics" lectures which were published by Christopher Meinel in the 1980s. Owen Hannaway writes [15]:-

Copies of the course have survived in a number of manuscript recensions, some revised by Jungius himself. ... In spite of the title [physics], these are not concerned with the subject matter of Aristotle's 'Physics', nor with the new mathematised physics. Instead they concern substantial change as defined in Aristotle's 'De generatione et corruptione' and Book IV of the 'Meteorologica'.

Walter Pagel writes in [24] about the wide-ranging contributions which Jungius did publish:-

Jungius was primarily an explorercase of an even number had to be put into the subject position so that standard arguments could be used. Aristotle had also dealt with this type of logical argument.

Howard Bernstein gives the following overview of Jungius's contributions [8]:-

Joachim Jungius was a German polymath somewhat in the Leibnizian tradition of encyclopaedic range as well as originality in several domains of knowledge, including logic, mathematics, and natural philosophy. While Leibniz administered a princely library, Jungius assembled an extensive private book and manuscript collection over a long and intellectually ecumenical career. ... At different times in his career, Jungius's scholarly "centre of gravity" ... shifted: from his early training in the late scholasticism of Francisco Suarez and his like, to astronomy, logic and mathematics, educational reform, medicine, and chemical philosophy


explaining natural phenomena by adopting the natural laws that he distinguished. He differentiated three grades of knowledge: Empiricus, Epistemonicus, and Heureticus. Empiricus remained verifiable through experience, Epistemonicus is grounded in principles and rules - as are the axioms of Euclid's geometry - and Heureticus reveals new methods for the solution of problems previously insoluble. These three methods replaced the prevalent ancient form of logic based on the syllogism. In brief, Jungius transformed the relevant parts of the Peripatetic notion of physics into what was to become physical chemistry by the analysis of unique experiences and experiments and the mathematical method of synthesis.

In particular, Jungius is known for his atomic theories. Christoph Meinel [22] writes about Jungius's scientific approach:-

The closest amalgamation of the concepts of atom, element, and pureNeighbours of the singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg have received hate mail calling on them to force him out their village because of his socialist beliefs.

Up to 30 anonymous letters have been sent to the residents of Burton Bradstock in Dorset accusing Bragg of being a hypocrite for enjoying a wealthy lifestyle while espousing socialist views.

Bragg believes the letters are the work of a disgruntled BNP supporter and has urged his neighbours to bin them.

Simon Holdcroft, who runs the village post office, received one of the typed letters. "It was quite bizarre and was a racist rant at Billy Bragg," he said.

"We thought we were the only ones to have been sent it but over a few days it became clear that about 20 or 30 people


had also got one.

"A lot of the people were quite horrified by it. It wasn't overly aggressive and didn't include death threats but it wasn't nice.

"The letter claimed he was anti-British, pro-immigration and called him the village fool." Holdcroft said Bragg had done a lot of good in the village.

"Mr Bragg has been in the village for a long time and has done a lot of work here and supports activities."

Karen Broad, who also received one, said: "I think everybody was just rather shocked by the letter. It was so vindictive and terribly cowardly."

In 2001 Bragg set up a website to encourage tactical voting to oust Tory MPs in Dorset. Last year he campaigned against the BNP in Barking and Dagenham, where its leader, Nick Griffin, stood unsuccessfully.

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places under a flood watch from 7 p.m. Monday through late Tuesday night.

Ahue said metro area flooding is most likely along Johnson Creek in Clackamas and Multnomah counties.

Rain could cause overnight flooding that impacts traffic along Johnson Creek Boulevard and Foster Road, according to an advisory sent by the Portland Bureau of Transportation Monday afternoon.

“While we expect minor street flooding because of heavy rain in the area, we do not expect streets to be flooded by the creek,” the advisory states. “Flooding could affect some low-lying areas along the creek where homeless individuals camp and some private properties in the area.”

Portland park rangers and social service staff contacted people experiencing homelessness in areas near Johnson Creek to give them warnings about potential flooding, the advisory said.

The city isalso providing free sand and sandbags to those who want to take extra precautions against flooding. Bring your own shovel to fill sandbags at the following locations:

SE 88th Avenue just south of Holgate Boulevard in the parking lot at Lents Park. Enter parking lot at the bottom of the hill, and follow one-way traffic to the sand pile at the exit on the east side of SE 88th;

SE 111th Avenue and Harold Street at the southeast corner of the intersection; and

SW 42nd Avenue and Vermont Street in the lower parking lot of Gabriel Park; enter Gabriel Park from Vermont.

A flood gauge near 152nd Avenue and Foster Road had reached 5.5. feet Monday afternoon and was expected to reach 10 to 11 feet Tuesday morning.

“When the gauge reaches 11


increase by 20 per cent.

Premier David Alward has said the plan will create 500 new forestry jobs and 1,200 construction jobs.

Opponents have criticized the deal and have asked for the deal to be put on hold until the public can be involved and more research can be done on the plan.

Moose hunt set by regulation

The length of the moose hunting season is set by a regulation in the Fish and Wildlife Act.

Laurie Anderson smiles after shooting a moose on the first day of hunting season in 2013. The provincial government may extend the moose hunting season. (CBC)

With the longer hunting season, the number of licences available for New Brunswick residents will be held at 4,612, the same as in 2013.

Kevin Craig, a biologist with the Department of NaturalThe Southport Globe: Snydacker stepping down as Pequot Library director

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Snydacker stepping down as Pequot Library director

Daniel Snydacker, the Pequot Library's executive director for eight years, is beginning a new chapter in his life. Snydacker announced in an email to friends of the Southport library sent Tuesday afternoon that he is stepping down as executive director to concentrate on writing books."As it turns out, I have at least three books in me that I feel I really need to focus on to write, and some other opportunities that I just can't put off any longer and so the time has come, sooner rather than later, for me to leave," Snydacker wrote. "Stepping down as executive director will allow me to return, at long last, to these


more scholarly, academic endeavors."
John Knox of Westport, a frequent visitor to the library who was working on one of its computers Thursday morning, said he didn't know Snydacker personally but thinks the library is "run very well" and has offered more programs and activities during Snydacker's tenure. "Everybody seems to be on their toes ... which I would attribute to his leadership," Knox said. The library's staff, he added, also is reliably helpful.
The date of Snydacker's departure doesn't appear to be set, however. The Pequot Library's board of trustees has formed a search committee and plans to interview candidates this summer, and Snydacker says in his email that he will do "everything I can to ensure a smooth and successful transition." He wasn't available Thursday morning, but librarystaff said he is still the executive director.
Pequot Library, at the corner of Pequot Avenue and Westway Road in Fairfield's Southport neighborhood, is privately owned, but open to the public, and receives about 30 percent of its operating budget from the town of Fairfield.
Bill Russell, president of the library's board of trustees, said in a statement posted on the library's website that Snydacker's leadership contributed to significant accomplishments at the library, including an award from the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation for renovation work, a steady increase in library patrons and program attendees, and initiatives that increased technology in the library. "On behalf of the board, I wish Dan success in all his future initiatives, and look forward to continuing to work with him to ensure our Special


Reigning Olympic champion Michael Jung of Germany claimed victory in his $20,000 Horseware Indoor Eventing Challenge debut on Saturday night, November 5, at the Royal Horse Show, held as part of the 94th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto, ON.

Jung, who won individual gold and team silver medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, thrilled a full house in the Ricoh Coliseum by guiding Cruising Guy home in the fastest time to win the $20,000 Horseware Indoor Eventing Challenge.

Held over two rounds, riders came into Saturday’s competition carrying forward their opening phase scores from Friday night. Ranked second behind Karl Slezak of Tottenham, ON, coming into the final phase of competition, Jung shot to the top of the leaderboard with a penalty-free, two-night cumulative time of 152.13 seconds whenSlezak had two refusals riding Fernhill Wishes.

Jung’s win was especially remarkable, considering he had only ridden his winning mount, Cruising Guy, for the first time 24 hours earlier.

“I really felt more of a partnership with the horse tonight,” said Jung following his victory. “He was really concentrated, and nearly in every moment he was super to ride. He’s an experienced horse and very well prepared. I just had a good ride with a good horse. I have to say thank you to the team and to the horse.”

While Jung claimed victory, Toronto’s own Rachel McDonough placed second riding Irish Rhythm with a two-round time of 160.59 seconds. Rounding out the top three was Canadian Olympian Jessica Phoenix of Cannington, ON, riding Abbey GS, owned by Charlotte Schickedanz.

Jung made


(GBR), and the CCI4* Burghley Horse Trials (GBR) in succession.

Competition at the Royal Horse Show continues on Sunday, November 6, featuring the $15,000 Braeburn Farms Hunter Derby at 1 p.m.

Limited tickets for the Royal Horse Show can still be purchased by visiting royalfair.org or ticketmaster.ca.

For more information on the Royal Horse Show, the marquee event of The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, visit royalfair.org/horse-show. A complete horse show schedule can be accessed here.

Funding support for The Royal has been provided by the City of Toronto and the Government of Ontario.

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HorseCity.com is an all-breed, all-discipline website catering to the equine lifestyle. Each month more than 30,000 people who are passionate about their horses view more than 70,000 pages on HorseCity.com, an equine site that reflects theTORONTO — Former Canadian hostage Joshua Boyle has demanded that the Afghanistan government bring his kidnappers to justice for the “murder” of his infant daughter and the rape of his wife while they were in captivity.

A tired-looking Boyle read a brief statement to the media late Friday after arriving in Toronto with his American wife, Caitlan Coleman, and their three young children. The family was freed by Pakistani commandos on Wednesday after they and their captors crossed the border from Afghanistan.

Boyle and Coleman had been kidnapped in Afghanistan in October 2012 while on a backpacking trip. Coleman was pregnant at the time and had four children in captivity. The birth of the fourth child had not been publicly known before Boyle appeared before journalists in Toronto.

With hands trembling


as he read his statement, Boyle lambasted the “stupidity and the evil” of his kidnappers, who he said were members of the Taliban-linked Haqqani network, for abducting both him and his pregnant wife during a trip to help villagers in Afghanistan’s Taliban-controlled areas.

He said the Haqqani leadership authorized the murder of his infant daughter in retaliation for his refusal to accept an offer from the kidnappers, but did not elaborate on the offer. He also condemned his kidnappers for engaging in the brutal rape of his wife.

“Not as a lone action by one guard, but assisted by the captain of the guard and supervised by the commandant ... of the Haqqani network.” Boyle said.

“God willing, this litany of stupidity will be the epitaph of the Haqqani network.”

Boyle saidtwo seats next to her were her two elder children. In the seat beyond that was Boyle, with their youngest child in his lap.

The family was escorted off the plane five-to-10 minutes before the other passengers on the flight.

The Canadian government said in a statement that it joined the Boyle family “in rejoicing over the long-awaited return to Canada of their loved ones.”

On Thursday, officials in Pakistan said the family had been rescued in “an intelligence-based operation” after their captors moved them across the border from Afghanistan.

The couple had set off in the summer 2012 on a journey that took them to Russia, the central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, and then to Afghanistan.

Their release came nearly five years to the day after Boyle and Coleman


them for cash.

A U.S. national security official, who was not authorized to discuss operational details of the release and spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. obtained actionable information, passed it to Pakistani government officials, asked them to interdict and recover the hostages — and they did.

Boyle was once married to Zaynab Khadr, the older sister of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr and the daughter of a senior al-Qaida financier. Her father, the late Ahmed Said Khadr, and the family stayed with Osama bin Laden briefly when Omar Khadr was a boy.

The Canadian-born Omar Khadr was 15 when he was captured by U.S. troops following a firefight and was taken to the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay. Officials had discounted any link between thatTrump mocks #MeToo movement during Montana rally

President Donald Trump on Thursday mocked the #MeToo movement as he repeatedly attacked Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren over her heritage, said Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters had an I.Q. in the “mid-60s,” and made thinly-veiled swipes at fellow Republicans John McCain and George H.W. Bush, who are both in ailing health.

Trump, in an effort to attack Tester, painted Democrats as the party of open borders and crime.

But his most extended attack was aimed at Warren, a Democrat he has long targeted for claiming that she is part Native American and derisively nicknamed “Pocahontas,” after the 17th century historical figure. On Thursday, Trump mocked people who called on him to apologize for the remark and sarcastically apologized to the historic figure.

“I want to apologize.


get rid of waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government,” reads the ad.

Trump seemingly ignored the outreach, telling supporters that he would rather have people who speak ill of him and vote with him than those who speak highly of him and vote against him.

Trump dedicated considerably more of his campaign rally attacking Tester than he did uplifting Matt Rosendale, his Republican opponent, and he admitted that his beef with the Democrat stems from guilt over Dr. Ronny Jackson’s failed nomination to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, not just politics.

Tester, the top Democrat on the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, led the charge against Jackson, the White House physician who was briefly Trump’s pick to lead the embattled agency. Tester’s criticism helped lead to Jackson withdrawing histo his attacks on Warren, Trump slammed Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden, all widely considered top candidates for the Democratic nomination in 2020.

But his attacks were not limited to the opposing party, either.

Trump continued to attack, without naming him, Arizona Sen. John McCain — who is ailing with brain cancer — for voting against Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The attacks continued despite recent criticism from Meghan McCain, the senator’s daughter, and Senator Lindsey Graham, McCain’s closest friend in the Senate.

Trump also mocked President George H.W. Bush’s slogan during his rally.

“You know all of the rhetoric you see. ‘Thousands points of light.’ What the hell was that by the way?” Trump said in Montana.

Bush popularized the speech in his 1988


missed, killing an innocent bystander who was looking out a nearby window of a room she shared with her three children.

Galicia Barillas, a juvenile at the time of the murder, acknowledged that he provided the gun to the co-conspirator before the shooting and was present during the shooting. The co-conspirator previously pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to go to trial on Nov. 6, 2017.

Galicia Barillas also accepted responsibility for his role in the following: an April 2015 conspiracy to kill a MS-13 member that the gang believed was cooperating with law enforcement authorities; a May 26, 2015 stabbing and attempted murder of a rival gang member in Chelsea in which the victim survived the attack; and a September 8, 2014 stabbing and attempted murder of an individualin Chelsea.

After a three-year investigation, Galicia Barillas was one of 61 persons named in a superseding indictment targeting the criminal activities of alleged leaders, members, and associates of MS-13 in Massachusetts. According to court documents, MS-13 was identified as a violent transnational criminal organization whose branches or “cliques” operate throughout the United States, including in Massachusetts. MS-13 members are required to commit acts of violence to maintain membership and discipline within the group. Specifically, MS-13 members are required to attack and murder gang rivals whenever possible.

Galicia Barillas is the 20th defendant to plead guilty in this case.

If the Court accepts the terms of the plea agreement at the time of sentencing, Galicia Barillas will be sentenced to 22 years in prison. Galicia Barillas will also be subject to


Characteristics of the longest job for new disabled workers: findings from the New Beneficiary Survey.
This article describes the characteristics of the longest job held by new disabled-worker beneficiaries responding to questions in the 1982 New Beneficiary Survey, conducted by the Social Security Administration in October-December 1982. The characteristics include pension coverage, job duration, employer type, occupation, and industry. Many disabled workers (about half the men and two-fifths of the women) reported having been covered by a pension plan. Pension coverage, pension receipt, and job tenure all increased with age, and older disabled workers had pension coverage similar to that of retired workers. Disabled and retired workers often differed in other job characteristics, but tended to become more similar with increasing age. Disabled workers were more likely to haveMr. Sessions also said he would recuse himself from any further investigation of Hillary Clinton over her private email server or the dealings of the Clinton Foundation while she led the State Department. His strong criticisms of the F.B.I.’s handling of those matters during the campaign, he admitted, could lead people to question his objectivity.

During the hearing, Republicans were ready with lavish praise and defenses of his character against charges of racism, while Democrats rarely offered more than tepid and predictable criticisms. Meanwhile, outraged protesters repeatedly interrupted the hearing with denunciations of Mr. Sessions and Mr. Trump before being dragged out by Capitol police officers.

A large dose of outrage is certainly called for, given the damage four years of a Sessions-led Justice Department would likely inflict on the


hard-won yet fragile advances made for civil rights, racial and gender equality and humane justice. The prospect is particularly stark coming after President Obama’s Justice Department, which has aggressively defended and expanded civil rights for people and groups who were previously unprotected.

Mr. Sessions did nothing on Tuesday to dispel the understandable fears that he would stall if not reverse much of that progress. His defense against charges of racism that caused the Senate to reject him for a federal judgeship in 1986 was largely to say it hurt his feelings to be called racist, but his two decades in the Senate provide little hope that he has changed.

He focused largely on the law-and-order themes of the Trump campaign — emphasizing the need to combat a rising crime rateThe Parent Council is made possible with funding from STORYHIVE and is available for free on demand on TELUS Optik TV starting Feb 5, 2018

SYNOPSIS

Connor McPherson is a stay-at-home Dad who decides to join his daughter's elementary school Parent Council.

He has no idea what he's in for...

CAST

Patrick Creery as

Connor McPherson

Born and raised in Calgary Alberta, Patrick has worked extensively in film, television and theatre across the country, both in French and English.

Patrick is the creator, co-writer and lead actor of The Parent Council.

Patrick largest role to date was as Pete Kennedy in Dear Santa, a television movie directed by Jason Priestly and starring Amy Acker. He has also appeared on Murdoch Mysteries, Heartland and Wild Roses for the CBC.

In theatre, Patrick has appeared at the Arts Club Theatre,


Bard on the Beach, L’UniThéâtre, the Citadel, Vertigo, Lunchbox and most recently as David Cameron in The Audience at Theatre Calgary.

A graduate of LAMDA’s Post-Secondary program in Classical Theatre, Queen’s University, the Second City Conservatory Program in Toronto and the Vancouver TheatreSports Improvisor Training Program, Patrick is also active in the standup comedy scene.

Ashley Comeau is an improviser, producer, actor and writer hailing from Toronto, Canada. Ashley is a Second City alumna who wrote and starred in three revues at The Second City Toronto which garnered her a Dora nomination and a Canadian Comedy Award nomination. She was named Best Female Improviser in Toronto from NOW Magazine’s “Best Of Awards 2015”.

She performs all over the world with her comedy troupe – The Lusty Mannequins. It is comprised ofAshley and her partner, Second City alum Connor Thompson along with Karen Parker and Alastair Forbes (also Second City alumni). They've performed and taught in Ireland, Spain, Germany, England, Canada, USA, on the high seas* (*with Second City Theatricals), and they just got back from headlining the first international improv festival in South Africa (which she co-produced/co-founded).

Select improv shows include: Songbuster - An Improvised Musical (Factory Theatre, Bad Dog Theatre), Theatresports (Bad Dog Theatre), Patron's Pick Winner, Best of Fringe Winner, and the Ed Mirvish Award-winning People Suck (Toronto Fringe). She has performed with the likes of Colin Mochrie, Robin Duke, Martin Short and John Cleese. You can catch her currently on Degrassi: Next Class as Ms. Badger and on Odd Squad as the evil villain Jamie Jam!

She


living in a three room shack, in a third world country you learn quickly to speak up or be ignored” he says. That ability served him well when he traveled as an unaccompanied minor to Vancouver, Canada at the age of eight. Being the only black kid in his school, with a strange accent and no knowledge of first world culture he learned to use his wits to make friends and fit in.

Charles is the co-writer of the Pilot episode of The Parent Council.

As an Actor, he has appeared in over 140 film, television, commercial and theatre productions. Charles's writings has been featured in various publications and produced on the theatrical stage as well as television. He believes that many people forget hat the power of the mindis the most underestimated tool we have at our disposal. That is the underlying theme of his many motivational speeches where he combines his comedy and life story with an inspirational message. Charles believes that in order to move forward in life one must first tell themselves the truth about themselves and uses his comedy to illustrate his own truths about his life and experiences.

Stacy's credits include North of 60 for CBC, Dreamkeeper, Picking up the Eagle Feather, the documentary Dream Makers and the female lead in Hank Williams First Nation, for which she won Best Actress at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco.

Stacy worked with Crazy Horse Theatre for over 6 years, as well as having performed pantomime with Neo Eccentric Entertainment.

Stacy also works on


facilitating workshops that surround issues of oppression and social injustices that youth face in their communities. Stemming from her passion for pow wow fancy dance Stacy completed the Aboriginal Dance Performance Program at the Banff Center in 2003, as well as her continued training in traditional hoop dancing.

Stacy is a member of "Going Miles" which brings to light the strength and beauty of Aboriginal People and especially our youth. All my relations.

Stacy Da Silva as

Kate Williams

Filsan Dualeh as Jen

Filsan Dualeh is a Calgary actor with a BFA in Drama and English from the University of Calgary.

Acting credits include: Julius Caesar (The Shakespeare Company, Ground Zero Theatre and Hit & Myth Productions); Parched, A play by Jennifer Roberts (Chromatic Theatre, Greater Forest Lawn Playwright’s Lab); Trojan Women; The Loveof the Nightingale; and The Seagull (The University of Calgary).

She is grateful for the opportunity to be working with the talented cast and crew for the pilot web series The Parent Council.

Lydia started her love for acting from a young age. She often performed or made videos for her family and friends and knew that acting would always be a part of her life.

She studied drama and communications from the University of Calgary while also earning a diploma from SAIT's Cinema, Television, Stage and Radio program. She then went on to law school and took the skills she developed as an actor into the world of law.

Lydia is now practicing commercial real estate law, but acting remains a big part of her life.

Lydia has had small roles in


TV, theatre and voice animation. She began her acting career working in Japan (Grape Studios) in the production Meysen World.

Other film credits include Beyond The Sun, Dear Santa, and After the Storm. She voiced Rosy in the Lalaloopsy TV series, and was the original Tokoha in Vanguard Cardfight. She currently plays Kuguru in Buddy Fight. Emma’s theatre credits include A Christmas Carol, Annie, Alice in Wonderland, Barnum, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Emma Duke as Kris

Zoë Creery as
Penny McPherson

This is Zoë’s second speaking role, the first being in a previous STORYHIVE short film The Winter Song by Aubrey Arnason.

Zoë has appeared in print and in commercials for McDonald’s, EPCOR and the Alberta Chiropractic Association. She has also previously appeared in a public service announcement from the CanadianA former Republican Oklahoma state senator was found dead with a gunshot wound in his home Wednesday, the second former GOP state lawmaker found shot in as many days.

Police found former state Sen. Jonathan Nichols in his home in Norman, 20 miles south of Oklahoma City, after receiving a report of someone shot. Police said the case is under investigation.

Nichols, 53, served in the Oklahoma Senate from 2000 to 2012. He later took staff positions in the state House, Senate and the University of Oklahoma. No one has been arrested or named a suspect in Nichols death.

State Sen. Rob Standridge, a Republican who represents Nichols old district, called him "the most brilliant political, legal mind in the Oklahoma State Legislature" who "worked tirelessly as a senator and for


years on staff to help guide our state forward," in a statement.

Nichols is the second former GOP state lawmaker to be found dead this week. On Tuesday, former Arkansas state Sen. Linda Collins-Smith, 57, was reportedly found dead outside her home in Pocahontas, about 130 miles northeast of the state capital, Little Rock.

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Her former press secretary told local news media the Democrat-turned-Republican was found shot to death and wrapped in a blanket. Police are investigating the death as a homicide.

Collins-Smith represented the 19th district in Arkansas from 2014 until 2019. She lost her party's primary last year.Alejandro Villanueva, a former Army Ranger and the only Pittsburgh Steeler seen standing during the national anthem on Sunday against the Chicago Bears, told reporters he “unintentionally” threw his teammates under the bus.

In a news conference on Monday, Villanueva said it was never part of the plan to be out on the field alone and that he accidentally ran too far, according to CBS Pittsburgh.

The team had agreed, at least at first, to stay in the tunnel during the anthem.

“Unfortunately I threw my teammates under the bus, unintentionally,” Villanueva said. “Every single time I see that picture of me standing by myself I feel embarrassed.”

He told reporters that he had asked Steelers’ quarterback Ben Roethlisberger if he could lead the team out of the tunnel with the captains,


is the best course of action and thinks Kaepernick needs to “look at the big picture,” he understands the need to try to fix the injustice in the country, ESPN reported.

Villanueva, a graduate from West Point, served three tours in Afghanistan and became an Army Ranger before joining the NFL in 2014, according to the Philadelphia Eagles, who first drafted him.

After being cut by the Eagles, Villanueva joined the Steelers’ roster in August 2014 and had his first official NFL start in October 2015, according to the Steelers’ website.stage (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

Greg Van Avermaet will make his return to racing this month at the Tour of California in what will be his first outing since breaking his collarbone at the Tour of Flanders in April. The BMC rider underwent surgery on his right-collarbone and has been building his form and condition for the second half of the season.

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"It's been a long road to recovery since breaking my collarbone at the beginning of April so the Amgen Tour of California is a perfect race to use as a transition and build up my racing form again," Van Avermaet said. "At this stage it's not so much about getting a result but more getting the race days in


the legs. I'm really looking forward to racing with my teammates again!"

Runner-up in 2014, Rohan Dennis will lead the team's GC aspirations and will ride his first time trial in the colours of the Australian national champion in Folsom. Dennis, who won his last stage race on American soil at the USA Pro Challenge last August, climbed to victory on the Mount Diablo stage in 2014 but had to settle for second place behind Bradley Wiggins. While Wiggins is back with his WIGGINS team, the 2012 Tour de France champion is unlikely to challenge for the overall while Dennis is one of the favoured contenders.

Jackson Stewart is the sports director for the race and is expecting a strong showing considering the depth of talent amongst the eight riders.

"We'reState Capitol flags at half-staff to honor Hawthorne officer

Flags at the state Capitol in Sacramento are flying at half-staff Tuesday in memory of a Hawthorne police officer who died Monday after a freeway crash, according to Gov. Jerry Brown's press office.

Sgt. Leonard Luna was off duty and riding his personal motorcycle to pick up his police motorcycle when the crash occurred at around 5:30 p.m. Monday on the 105 Freeway near Lynwood. Luna was a 10-year veteran of the department, where he commanded the traffic bureau. He held previous positions in private security.

Brown's office issued a statement on Luna's death late Monday, saying the governor and his wife were "deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of Sergeant Leonard Luna. We join his family, friends, colleagues and


A Louis Prima Primer

In June 2018, Louis Prima had a hit single — setting a record for the longest break from the charts in the process. His last previous hit was “Wonderland By Night,” in February 1961, 57 years earlier. He hadn’t made a new record, of course — Prima died in 1978. But Kanye West sampled his 1936 song “What Will Santa Claus Say (When He Finds Everybody Swingin’)” for “4th Dimension,” a track from his collaborative album with KiD CuDi, Kids See Ghosts, and Prima was credited as a featured artist.

#ListenToMoreJazz

The thing is, even without this bit of chart gimmickry, Louis Prima would already have had a remarkably long and impressive career. Born in New Orleans in 1910, he formed his first band as a teenager,and made his first recordings, under the name Louis Prima and His New Orleans Gang, in 1934. That band featured legendary clarinetist Pee Wee Russell and played a combination of Dixieland and swing; they had a national hit with “The Lady In Red.” In 1936, Prima wrote and recorded “Sing, Sing, Sing,” which would become one of his signature pieces and a popular piece of repertoire for many other artists throughout the swing and big band eras, most notably Benny Goodman.

He continued working throughout the 1940s, expanding his group to a big band and becoming a headliner. Prima’s style was wild and raucous, combining jazz and blues with Italian love songs and ridiculous novelty numbers like “Please No Squeeza Da Banana” and “Felicia No Capicia.” But while his


thick accent and wise-fool, skirt-chaser persona might have made some listeners see him as a clown, his trumpet skills were no laughing matter. Prima blew red-hot solos over a hard-swinging rhythm section; like his singing and onstage demeanor, his instrumental voice was about keeping the audience in the palm of his hand from beginning to end.

By the early 1950s, though, Prima’s career was on the downward slide. An inveterate gambler and philanderer, he was paying alimony to three ex-wives and regularly hitting the track. He was in dire financial straits. But that was about to change.

In 1954, he took a desperation gig playing the lounge — the smaller of the club’s two rooms — at the Sahara casino in Las Vegas. It was rough; they did five showsmost important, though. Singer Keely Smith was the perfect foil for the wisecracking, stage-dominating Prima and Butera. A slim, sharp-featured young woman with big eyes and strikingly short bangs, she stood perfectly still by the piano when she wasn’t singing, frequently rolling her eyes at her bandmates’ antics but never allowing herself to be drawn into the chaos. She was 27, Prima was 45, and she was his fourth wife. (She’d divorce him in 1961; he’d ultimately be married five times, and have six children — five daughters and a son.)

Prima signed with Capitol Records, and as the act became more and more popular, he recorded a string of albums, many of them live and featuring his goofy, ribald banter and kitschy paisano persona alongside slamming tunes that


lines in a kind of primeval jabber) and red-hot instrumentals that blended wailing New Orleans jazz and frenzied bebop.

Prima’s 1950s and early 1960s recordings represented a remarkable comeback for a guy who’d been on the skids, professionally, at the beginning of the decade. He had a combination of raw musical talent, vulgar charisma, and an astonishing backing band — not to mention Keely Smith, whose stoicism, perfectly timed eye-rolls, and occasional full-on mockery of her husband and his buddies offered the ideal counterpoint to his huffing and puffing. At a time when rock ’n’ roll was ascendant, a man in his late forties was making some of the wildest, most over-the-top music around. And these records retain every bit of their charm and galvanic energy today.

Phil Freeman isaccountable for their use of chemical weapons, deter this kind of behavior and degrade their capacity to carry it out.

SHAPIRO: That was hardly a surprise. But what came next was a dramatic twist.

OBAMA: I've long believed that our power is rooted not just in our military might, but in our example is a government of the people, by the people and for the people. And that's why I've made a second decision. I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.

SHAPIRO: It's a political gamble for the president. Not one week ago in London, the House of Commons shot down British Prime Minister David Cameron's bid for similar approval. For Cameron, it was a humiliating defeat. White House aides say they're


confident Obama can avoid that fate. The president used his Rose Garden speech to lay out parts of the case.

OBAMA: Here's my question for every member of Congress and every member of the global community: What message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price?

SHAPIRO: Senior administration officials say this idea took shape less than 24 hours before the president made the announcement. And they say it came from Obama alone. The entire administration had been on the march towards a strike. Then, on Friday, the President had his daily wrap-up meeting with White House chief of staff Denis McDonough. They walked laps around the South Lawn of the White House. And the president told McDonoughof war. That's one reason he wants the blessing of the people's representatives in Congress.

OBAMA: We all know there are no easy options. But I wasn't elected to avoid hard decisions, and neither were the members of the House and the Senate.

SHAPIRO: The president also plans to make the case internationally. This week he leaves for the G20 summit, where he'll lobby America's allies abroad to climb aboard. Ari Shapiro, NPR News, the White House. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Join us for the 32nd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, January 25-30, 2016!

The artwork for our 2016 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Posteris from a work called Comes Back, by Oglala Lakota artist Donald F. Montileaux.

The National Cowboy Poetry Gathering is an annual celebration of the ranching and rural West. Through poetry, music and stories, ranch people express the beauty and challenges of a life deeply connected to the earth and its bounty. Every year, thousands travel to rural Elko, Nevada, in the heart of winter, to learn and share. It's been called the most honest and open-hearted festival in America, but it is also a darned good time! At the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, you can discover cowboy cultures from around the world, learn a traditional skill, dance thetwo-step, plan for the West's future with ranchers and conservationists, watch home-made films of rural life, meet new friends over a Buckaroo Brew, enjoy Basque food, listen to tall tales, dispel myths, build bridges and be inspired. Join us for an experience you will not soon forget! Use any of the links in our banner to read more about every aspect of the Gathering. Get up to date news and more on Facebook and Twitter.

For 2016, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering finds inspiration in the flowing grasslands, vast open spaces and indigo skies of the Northern Plains. From the Rocky Mountains to the Dakotas, from the sandhills of Nebraska to the grasslands of Saskatchewan, this expansive land of prairie and woodlands is one of the top cattle producing


regions in the world. It is famous for short summers and punishing winters, but also for hardy people, excellent cattle, and fine bucking horses and bronc riders. Join us in Elko, as ranchers, poets, musicians and artists from the Northern Plains share and celebrate this land of enveloping horizons and expansive hearts.

Shadd Piehl recites an original poem, "Over The Hills Like Horses," at the 2015 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering as Charis Thorsell and Paul Zarzyski share the stage in the Western Folklife Center's intimate G Three Bar Theater. This video was made possible with the generous support of Frontier Communications Corporation.

Are you planning your first Gathering? Tickets to the 32nd National Cowboy Poetry Gathering go on sale to Western Folklife Center members the day after Labor Day andSensational South Africa

South Africa: The Jewel of the Southern Hemisphere

South Africa is the southernmost country within the African continent and it also contains one of the most ethnically diverse populations on the planet. This partially stems from the fact that the nation was under UK rule for many years before it became an independent country. South Africa is now one of the most economically rich nations in Africa and its international importance continues to grow. This is partially a result of its rather temperate location when compared to the heat associated with sub-Saharan countries. Tens of thousands of tourists from the United Kingdom every year and if you have been planning a holiday here, it is a good idea to take a look at what you can expect


during your stay. Let's take a look.

South Africa: The Basics

South Africa comprises approximately 1.2 millions square kilometres of land. It is bordered on three sides by oceans and to the north by other nations such as Zimbabwe. As of th e last census, more than 54 million residents are thought to live here. As South Africa is higher in regards to latitude, the heat here is not as impressive when compared to countries in Central or Northern Africa. Snow rarely falls and this country boasts some of the most splendid beaches on the continent. While there are many native dialects spoken here, English is the official language. You will therefore not encounter problems when visiting major urban centres such as Cape Town.

The Main Attractions Here

South Africa is awill be able to experience truly unparalleled views of the nearby countryside and you will also be pleased to learn that the nearby beaches will provide a cooling refreshment once you have finished. Experienced climbers have have a go on their own while those hoping to enjoy a casual outing are recommended to join a tour.

As far as urban attractions, many prefer to visit the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront. This massive retail complex is home to thousands of well-to-do South Africans and it also offers up a host of attractions (including amusement parks) for the entire family. A large art museum displays the work of local artists and sailing adventures are always within reach thanks the presence of a large harbour. Chartering a yacht for the weekend is


drivers of these cars were in absolute agreement with the auto drivers.

Manoj had driven the son of an ITC executive in a company car for a Rs 200-shave at the mall. The son, he said, was “planning a start-up with Modiji’s Make in India”.

Manoj said he had been a driver in Delhi for 15 years, and his salary had remained at Rs 15,000 over this entire period. People like him, he said, hoped that if the government had more money, there would be more subsidies for the poor.

Ram Charan Tiwari, originally from Muzaffarpur in eastern Uttar Pradesh, said that he had been driving other people’s cars for 22 years. His salary was also Rs 15,000 a month. He was not sure if the car he was driving costthe top 10% of earning Indians, along with their employers and the prime minister, as well as most people likely to be reading this article. The majority of the rest of India subsists on between Rs 3,500 and Rs 7,500 a month.

Uncertainty about getting work, being short of cash, being in debt, standing in queues or making several trips to get their government-provided entitlements, being treated badly in banks and other public institutions are all part of the everyday experience of most working class Indians. The fallout of demonetisation is only one more such experience.

This might go some way to explain why the frustration and anger of the middle and upper middle class at having their financial freedoms curtailed is not exactly shared by their cooks and cleaners.

The


to be true by the FBI. The Bureau issued a denial that they had anyone in custody, or even had made a positive identification of the person in the video, about an hour after King’s breathless pronouncement.

CBS News in Boston reported that no suspect was in custody. Then its Bob Orr dropped the bombshell on Twitter:

JUST IN: Man sought as possible suspect is WHITE MALE, wearing white baseball cap on backwards, gray hoodie and black jacket. — CBS News (@CBSNews) April 17, 2013

The guy, he said in caps, was a WHITE MALE. Orr did not say if he spoke with an accent.

Almost nothing the experienced CNN television reporters said was true. At 2 pm you would have thought that a dark-skinned male, maybe a foreign one, was sittingsupport metal members are inserted in caulking portions of the mount metal members and caulked therein. A fitting groove of the fixing member is fitted on a locking piece of a mount plate of the yoke. The caulking portions of the mount metal members in which the start and terminal end portions of the winding of the electromagnetic coil are inserted are caulked. The caulked portions are welded by fusing the electromagnetic coil as an enameled wire, and the welded portions have a cover fixed on the yoke by an adhesive.
However, in the above connection structure of a winding of an electromagnetic coil and a lead wire which are formed in the conventional electromagnetic clutch, the start and terminal end portions of the winding of the electromagnetic coil


Adult multi-species puppet comedy. Destiny finds a knock-out strategy to win John Terry's dog. Recruited by a secret society of foxes, it's time for Nelson to kill or be killed.

Mongrels, the hilarious, award-winning, adult puppet comedy, returns. Starring Nelson, the metrosexual fox; Destiny, the pretentious pedigree bitch; Marion, the slow-brained street cat; Kali, the rude-girl pigeon; and Vince, the proper ****ing fox.

Starring the voices of Rufus Jones, Lucy Montgomery, Dan Tetsell, Katy Brand, Paul Kaye, and Ruth Bratt. Created by Adam Miller, developed by Jon Brown, Adam Miller and Daniel Peak, written by Jon Brown and Daniel Peak. Puppets created by Talk to the Hand.

Destiny finds a knock-out strategy to win her dream man - John Terry's dog. Recruited by a secret society of bloodthirsty foxes, it's timefrom a big deficit in Sunday’s home Southern Athletic Association game against Berry College to knock off...Full Story

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Birmingham-Southern athletics department announced the winners of its awards and recognized the accomplishments of the student-athletes at its 2019 Athletic Awards Dinner Monday night in the Norton Great Hall on BSC's campus.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The Birmingham-Southern men’s basketball team’s season ended on Friday afternoon, falling to the Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels 65-62 in overtime in the first round of the Southern Athletic Association Tournament.


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of them shouted, "Look at that dead bird!" Someone looked Up at the
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While looking at a house, my brother asked the real Estate
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and said, "Oh I don't keep up with all that stuff."

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At 12minutes to 4 on a Monday afternoon, 5th of May 2012, Alex Chistiakov finally arrived at a set of traffic lights near a terminal that would see his bus arrive in just under five minutes, and see him home in another forty. He had muttered obscenities under his breath every step of the way from a job interview that ended ten minutes ago. His feet ached from his quick pace and his jaw was stiff from scowling at young children, pets or anything else that caught his downcast ire as he went.

Never before in his working career had Alex encountered such an extreme level of buffoonery as he had experienced that afternoon. This man had easily spent an hour and a half talking about himself and, when


few feet beyond the pavement and then walked quickly, but coolly, across the road. Our Lenin took the form of a tall, thin commuter dressed in a slate-grey suit, with black thick-rimmed glasses and a crop of curly black hair. People fell silent as they watched him step gracefully around oncoming vehicles, neither cheering nor condemning his behaviour. Some waited for that first car horn to sound: a signal to other drivers that their prey, no matter how bold, was only human. The rest would then inevitably follow and in a horrendous cacophony of noise chase the revolutionary from the road in a humiliating display of supremacy. Remarkably this didn’t happen. Instead, with a little under halfway to go, he deftly skirted the final approaching vehicle and, dignityPresident Obama is dealing with revelations about the Justice Department's spying on journalists and other scandals by changing the subject.

In a major national security address Thursday, he announced the phaseout of the Guantanamo prison facility and the CIA's oversight of the drone program. But these are cosmetic changes that can't conceal his record on the war on terrorism, which is arguably even more Draconian than President George W. Bush's.

The question is whether liberals will protect their principles or their man.

The administration finally admitted this week that it has been using its weapon of choice -- drone strikes -- not just to kill foreign terrorists on the president's kill list, but Americans as well. As atonement, the president pledged to transfer oversight of the drone program from the CIA


that the president's efforts to move the drone program and phase out Gitmo might actually make matters worse by creating an impression that the worst excesses of the war on terrorism are over.

But to make that a reality, Friedman notes, Congress will have to take back its blanket authorization of military force to the executive and require him to obtain permission before every strike -- drone or otherwise. That won't happen on its own.

If former Vice President Dick Cheney had authored the drone program, liberals would demand his indictment as a war criminal. But Obama has made it the defining feature of his war on terrorism and they remain silent.

When Bush departed from bedrock conservative principles and started spending like a drunken sailor, he triggered a revolt thatspecies, the greater horseshoe bat, has been documented catching prey in the tip of its wing by bending the phalanges around it, then transferring it to its mouth.

They have especially small and rounded wingtips, low wing loading (meaning they lave large wings relative to body mass), and high camber. These factors give them increased agility, and they are capable of making highly maneuverable, tight turns at slow speeds. The wingspans are typical for their body sizes, and their aspect ratios, which relate wingspan to wing area, are average or lower than average. Some species, like Rüppell's horseshoe bat (R. fumigatus), Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat, Lander's horseshoe bat (R. landeri), and Swinny's horseshoe bat (R. swinnyi), have particularly large total wing area, though most horseshoe bat species have average wing


Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel broke down each position on the Green Bay Packers roster based on who he believes will survive the final roster cuts. One of the interesting names in his “on the fence” category is rookie linebacker Terrell Manning.

Manning was a personal favorite of mine entering the draft, and many were shocked when he fell to the 5th round. He could have benefited from another year at N.C. State, but his raw athleticism is difficult to ignore. He was a big play waiting to happen in college, but reportedly hasn’t shown that playmaking ability so far in Green Bay.

While he remains an intriguing developmental prospect, the Packers obviously aren’t in a position to keep him around if they believe he will be a liabilityIn the spring of 1985, 17-year-old Elizabeth Gail Tucker went missing when hitchhiking from Dartmouth to Southwestern, N.S. Tucker was the first of many murder victims, from a very diverse pool, of one of Canada’s coldest and most outspoken serial killers. From 1984 to 1998, McGray is thought to have committed between seven and 22 murders across Canada, with one suspected murder in Seattle.

He was convicted of seven murders, one of which happened after years in custody. McGray remorselessly admits to as many as 10 more murders and says that, if given the chance, he would do it again and again.

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chairman would not be selected until next year, given that Dunford is due to serve until Oct. 1, 2019.

Sources told Fox News that Dunford has no plans to end his term as chairman early. The next chairman will serve for four years, instead of two years. But a change was made in 2016 because Congress wanted continuity before and after a presidential election.

Dunford was nominated to the post in 2015 by former President Barack Obama. Trump nominated him for a second two-year term last year.

The vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs is Air Force Gen. Paul Selva, whose term expires in July 2019.

The other members of the Joint Chiefs are the heads of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force, and the head of the National Guard.

Milleyassumed duty as the chief of staff of the Army in 2015 after serving as the commander of Army Forces at Fort Bragg in North Carolina. He has served in command and leadership positions, including in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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An English alumnus in Hollywood brings an epic story to light

Many moviegoers were touched deeply by “American Beauty,” the 1999 Academy Award-winning drama about the midlife crisis of a frustrated 40-something dad named Lester Burnham. For Ryan Suffern (BA, ’99, English), now head of the documentary division at The Kennedy/Marshall Company in Santa Monica, California, the film was life-changing.

As the end credits rolled, Suffern, then living in Chicago and fresh out of college, turned to his girlfriend, Kim Garr (BA, ’98, English)—now his wife—and uttered, “I wish I could have done anything on that movie. I wish I could have carried coffee on that movie.”

It was no small impulse. Soon thereafter, Suffern quit his job to take an unpaid position on the set of a small, independentfilm. One thing kept leading to the next: The unpaid position led to a paid set position, which led him to working on major films in Los Angeles, which eventually led to a position working directly with Steven Spielberg.

Now, in a few days, Suffern will see the national release of “Finding Oscar,” a documentary he directed and produced with Frank Marshall (with Spielberg as executive producer) which Suffern calls the high point of his career. Last fall, the documentary, which tells the story of an epic search for a Guatemalan genocide survivor, premiered at the prestigious Telluride Film Festival.

“Finding Oscar”, the story of the epic search for a genocide survivor, will be screened on campus on May 4. The director and co-producer, an English alumnus, will attend for


Los Angeles, where he worked on several more large films, such as “Matchstick Men,” “Tears of the Sun,” and the “Cat in the Hat.” In 2004, he earned an even bigger break: He landed a job as Steven Spielberg’s main on-set production assistant.

His first film with Spielberg was “The Terminal” (starring Tom Hanks), followed later by “War of the Worlds” and “Munich.” Until that point, Suffern’s film career was spent directly on sets, but, working under Spielberg, Suffern learned a new side of the film industry—seeing how the studio worked as well.

One of his duties on set was carrying a small video camera with Spielberg as he worked, filming the behind-the-scenes of the movies being made.

“I found myself documenting one of the greatest filmmakers of our time, makingElizabeth Philpot was born in 1780, and moved to Lyme Regis around 1805, when her brother John, a London solicitor, rented a house in Silver Street for his four sisters. Three of them, Mary (1777-1838), Margaret (?-1845) and Elizabeth (1780-1857), settled there for life, and soon became involved in fossil collecting.

At this time, Mary Anning (1799-1847) was still a young girl, but it is clear from later letters that over the years a close and affectionate relationship developed between Mary and the Philpot sisters, transcending any barriers of age, social origins or educational background (Edmonds, 1978).

As the Philpots’ collection grew it started to become known within the geological community. One familiar visitor was William Buckland (1784-1856), Reader in Geology at Oxford. Since his student days (1801-1808) he had


often spent vacations around Lyme, and it seems that he regularly examined the Philpot collection; his earliest published reference to the Misses Philpots is in his 1829 paper on the pterosaur found at Lyme by Mary Anning.

It would be interesting to know whether Buckland usually went to Lyme Regis alone, or whether his wife, Mary, went with him. Their daughter Elizabeth records how, after the death of her 6 year old brother Adam in 1844, the whole family went by coach to Lyme for a change of air. Buckland took the children fossil hunting and introduced them to Mary Anning (Gordon, 1894). Mary also visited in 1840 to do her famous drawings of the Great Landslip to the west of the town. But might she have met thePhilpots before this?

Letters from Elizabeth Philpot to William Buckland often send greetings to his wife, and one letter from 9 December 1833 is addressed to Mary herself. The main purpose of writing is to enclose a sketch of an ichthyosaur head, painted by Elizabeth with ink from a fossil squid of the same age as the ichthyosaur (her modesty about the sketch perhaps reflects the fact that Mary was herself a geological illustrator):

But there is so much more to the letter…

First, it provides colourful news of Mary Anning:
“Yesterday she had one of her miraculous escapes in going to the beach before sun rise and was nearly killed in passing over the bridge by the wheel of a cart which threw her down and crushed her against the wall.


Fortunately the cart was stopped in time to allow of her being extricated from her most perilous situation and happily she is not prevented from pursuing her daily employment”.

Next, it sends a reminder to William Buckland, a man well-known for forgetting things:
“May I beg you to remind Dr. Buckland that he has borrowed from me some Plesiosaurus vertebre. As it is some time since I will mention that it is a section of a vertebre, one with the process, ten others, and a chain set in a box.”

Finally, it sends “best compliments” to husband and wife from her two sisters, so often forgotten in the Philpot story.

These letters from Elizabeth Philpot are now in Oxford University Museum of Natural History, along with the Philpot collection. This contains aroundSelena Gomez Writes First Statement Since Rehab Revelation

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Selena Gomez has reached out to her fans for the first time since it was revealed she went to rehab in January for exhaustion issues.

Gomez uploaded a photo of herself on a boat to Instagram with the message, "I've done everything I could to the best of my ability. Thank you for the unconditional love and cyber hugs. You inspire me."

Gomez has spoken to the media several times since her stay at Arizona's Dawn at the Meadows while promoting Rudderless at the Sundance Film Festival, but her treatment was unknown at the time.

The pop star has received plenty of support from the public, including best friend Demi Lovato. "Selena is...


Monitoring water quality in reservoirs for human supply through multi-biomarker evaluation in tropical fish.
Paraíba do Sul River is located at a very densely inhabited region of Brazil crossing the three most industrialized states of the country (São Paulo, Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro states). As a result, industrial and farming residues as well as urban sewage are frequently disposed without appropriate treatment. The current study aimed at investigating the water quality in three reservoirs along the Paraíba do Sul River (Ilha dos Pombos, Santa Cecília and Santa Branca), through physiological, morphological, biochemical, and genetic biomarkers. The bioindicator chosen was the catfish Pimelodus maculatus, sampled during the dry (June 2008) and rainy (February 2009) seasons. Also, some water physicochemical parameters were analyzed from the sampling sites, but displayedno alterations according to the Brazilian Agency for Water Quality Legislation. Branchial carbonic anhydrase activity was inhibited in the dry season, while renal carbonic anhydrase activity was inhibited in the rainy season in the Santa Branca reservoir, indicating disturbance of osmoregulatory and acid-base regulation processes. Histopathological alterations were observed in the gills (neoplasic and tissue hyperplasia processes) and liver (necrosis), indicating serious damage to the functional integrity of these organs. A high incidence of melanomacrophage centers was observed in the liver, suggesting an intense immune response in all reservoirs. Acetylcholinesterase and catalase activity showed also differences corroborating some morphological results. Likewise, the induction of the micronucleus and DNA damage indicate genotoxicity, but mainly in the Santa Branca reservoir. Thus, the health status of P. maculatus warrants caution in


Three-time Super Bowl-champion linebacker Tedy Bruschi says he’s doing “much better” after suffering a second stroke last week.

Bruschi, 46, said in an Instagram post on Monday he knew what was happening immediately last Thursday when he lost the use of his left arm, began slurring his speech and his wife noticed his face was drooping.

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Bruschi was taken to a Massachusetts hospital for treatment.

He listed warning signs of a stroke in his Instagram post. A stroke can be devastating, and lethal, if not treated immediately.

Bruschi also suffered a stroke in February 2005, just days after his New England Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX.

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The former college star at Arizona learned he had a congenital heart defect that produced a hole in his heart. He had surgery to repair the hole and retired.

But Bruschi later returned to the NFL during 2005 season, winning Comeback Player of the year, and played three more seasons with the Patriots.

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He joined ESPN as an analyst soon after.

Fox News’ Dom Calicchio and the Associated Press contributed to this report.


Artificial pre-lighted Christmas trees, where the seasonal lights are incorporated on or with the tree, have become a popular alternative to both live trees and unlighted artificial trees. These trees are usually sectional for easy storage, with some lighted trees routing power for the lights up through the trunk of the tree with electrical connectors built into the ends of each tree section to distribute power to each section. A concern with such pre-lighted Christmas trees is the use of standard electrical receptacles for powering the lights up through the trunk of the tree. The vast majority of electrical receptacles are of the type that include one or more sets of fixed-position female electrical contacts that are configured to receive prongs (male electrical contracts) of appropriately oriented cord-connected"We are very pleased to have Dr. Kenney serve in this role," said Ralph Richardson, dean of the college. "His expertise as a researcher along with his energy and passion for higher education will help move the department and college forward in contributing to K-State's 2025 goal of being a Top 50 public research university."

Kenney was previously the associate head of the anatomy and physiology department and became the interim head in 2011. He has also been serving as the college's director of the Veterinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program and the Basic Research Immersion Training Experience, or BRITE program, and co-director of the Veterinary Research Scholars Program.

Kenney received his doctorate from the University of Iowa in 1988 and completed postdoctoral training in central autonomic neurophysiology from 1988 to


1990 in the pharmacology department at the College of Medicine, Michigan State University. From 1990 to 1992, he was an assistant professor in the biology department at Rhodes College and an adjunct assistant professor in the physiology and biophysics department in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee, Memphis. He joined the anatomy and physiology department at Kansas State University as an assistant professor in 1992, was tenured and promoted to associate professor in 1996, and promoted to professor in 2002.

Kenney's research is focused on understanding regulation of the sympathetic nervous system by combining central and peripheral electrophysiological methods with molecular biological techniques to study mechanisms regulating central sympathetic outflow. He has received extensive extramural funding from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association andother funding agencies. He is currently the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on three NIH grants.

The author or co-author of more than 60 scientific articles and 50 abstracts, Kenney has served on NIH and American Heart Association study sections, is a peer reviewer for several professional journals, and is a member of the American Physiological Society and the American Heart Association. In 2000, the College of Veterinary Medicine recognized Kenney with the Pfizer Animal Health Award for Research Excellence. He was recently selected as an invited author for a chapter in the Autonomic Neuroscience portion of "Comprehensive Physiology," which will update the American Physiological Society's highly regarded "Handbook of Physiology" series.

Kenney has extensive experience teaching and coordinating courses in the professional and graduate programs in the College of


South Koreans don’t fancy footing the bill for a German-style reunification. Werner Herzog recently got into the country to film Mount Paektu for his documentary Into the Inferno and said that the North Koreans’ messianic sense of themselves is a tribal phenomenon, typical of people who live in the shadow of a live volcano. Maybe so.

Now Norwegian film-maker Morten Traavik has come up with the strangest North Korean tale yet: the true story of how last summer, for the first time ever, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea invited a western rock band to play in the country. The group chosen for this honour was the veteran Slovenian art-rock outfit Laibach, formed in the Tito era of Yugoslavia, mildly notorious for flirting satirically with fascist imagery. They hadalready recorded an arch version of the North Korean folk song We Will Go to Mount Paektu. The group were finally permitted to perform their stentorian, deadpan-declamatory cover versions of songs from The Sound of Music. For their part, the North Korean audience tacitly agreed to misunderstand or overlook the irony.

It sounds bizarre. It is bizarre. And this is especially because the North Korean government had at first specifically rejected Laibach with their tongue-in-cheek militarist chic. Traavik shows an excruciating dinner in which a Communist official gives a sorrowing but quite candid speech making it clear that Laibach’s poses were unacceptable. But Traavik himself, who was effectively promoting the gig as well as making this documentary film, had cultivated cultural links with the regime and persuaded them that


With relegation back, the basement battle is fierce and Yeovil, part-crowdfunded, hope to defy the odds against clubs with Premier League backing

It has been two years since relegation from the Women’s Super League was determined by results. Now it is back. The rejigged professional top tier and semi-professional second tier will look to rebalance, with two teams promoted, pending meeting the tier one licensing criteria, and one relegated into the Championship. The top flight will grow to 12 teams while the Championship will be reduced to 10.

Teams now have the threat of the drop and its financial implications hanging over them again. And Yeovil, for the first time since their promotion as tier two winners in 2016, having not won a game in the WSL are in thehot seat, rooted to the bottom of the table.

Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action Read more

This time, though, they are not as isolated. Brighton and West Ham, having successfully bid for WSL licences, have invested heavily and made the leap up, from the second and third tiers of the women’s football pyramid respectively, while Everton, promoted into the top flight before the 2017-18 season after the collapse of Notts County, have struggled to find a footing.

It means that, while Arsenal may seemingly be running away with the league at the top, the situation is much tighter at the bottom. In women’s football every point matters more with fewer games in the league season. So, when 10th-placed Brighton welcomed Yeovil to Broadfield on Sunday, both had


odds and stay up, the task will only get harder as their nearest rivals become more settled and strengthened.

Talking points

• Glasgow City have overcome the pain of their Scottish Women’s Cup exit and a 5-0 first-leg Champions League loss to Barcelona, to lift the SWPL title on the last day of the season. Having beaten their nearest rivals Hibernian 2-1 to give themselves a three-point cushion, a 4-2 victory against Spartans FC confirmed their 12th league title.

• Sweden’s Piteå IF were crowned champions of the Damallsvenskan following a 6-1 win over Växjö. The shock win sees the northern Sweden part-timers qualify for the Champions League, alongside second-placed Göteborg, who finished 10th the previous season. The former champions Linköping finished fifth, while FC Rosengård finished outside the UWCL placesnext Image 1 of 3

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DEVELOPING -- A person familiar with the situation says Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey during an interview Monday that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the interview is to be broadcast Thursday on Winfrey's network.

Lance Armstrong's interview with Oprah Winfrey was "emotional at times," according to a person familiar with the situation, and it followed an apology to the staff at the Livestrong Foundation that left some of them in tears.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity and would neither confirm nor deny that the disgraced cyclist confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs during the taping, which is scheduled to be broadcast Thursday night


and is supposed to remain confidential until then.

A group of about 10 close friends and advisers to Armstrong left a downtown Austin hotel about three hours after they arrived Monday afternoon for the interview. Among them were Armstrong attorneys Tim Herman and Sean Breen, along with Bill Stapleton, Armstrong's longtime agent, manager and business partner. All declined comment entering and exiting the session.

Soon afterward, Winfrey tweeted: "Just wrapped with (at)lancearmstrong More than 2 1/2 hours. He came READY!" She was scheduled to appear on "CBS This Morning" on Tuesday to discuss the interview.

Armstrong stopped at the Livestrong Foundation, which he founded, on his way to the interview and said, "I'm sorry" to staff members, some of whom broke down in tears. A person with knowledge of that sessionsaid Armstrong choked up and several employees cried during the session.

The person also said Armstrong apologized for letting the staff down and putting Livestrong at risk but he did not make a direct confession to using banned drugs. He said he would try to restore the foundation's reputation, and urged the group to continue fighting for the charity's mission of helping cancer patients and their families.

Armstrong spoke to a room full of about 100 staff members for about 20 minutes, expressing regret for everything the controversy has put them through, the person said. He told them how much the foundation means to him and that he considers the people who work there to be like members of his family. None of the people in the room challenged Armstrong


over his long denials of doping.

Winfrey and her crew had earlier said they would film Monday's session at Armstrong's home. As a result, local and international news crews were encamped near the cyclist's Spanish-style villa before dawn.

Armstrong still managed to slip away for a run despite the crowds outside his home. He returned by cutting through a neighbor's yard and hopping a fence.

During a jog on Sunday, Armstrong talked to the AP for a few minutes saying, "I'm calm, I'm at ease and ready to speak candidly." He declined to go into specifics.

Armstrong lost the Tour titles he won from 1999 to 2005 following a voluminous U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report that portrayed him as a ruthless competitor, willing to go to any lengths to win the prestigious race.USADA chief executive Travis Tygart labeled the doping regimen allegedly carried out by the U.S. Postal Service team that Armstrong once led, "The most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen."

Yet Armstrong looked like just another runner getting in his roadwork when he talked to the AP, wearing a red jersey and black shorts, sunglasses and a white baseball cap pulled down to his eyes. Leaning into a reporter's car on the shoulder of a busy Austin road, he seemed unfazed by the attention and the news crews that made stops at his home. He cracked a few jokes about all the reporters vying for his attention, then added, "but now I want to finish my run," and took off down the road.

The interview


with Winfrey was Armstrong's first public response to the USADA report. Armstrong was not expected to provide a detailed account about his involvement, nor address in depth many of the specific allegations in the more than 1,000-page USADA report.

In a text to the AP on Saturday, Armstrong said: "I told her (Winfrey) to go wherever she wants and I'll answer the questions directly, honestly and candidly. That's all I can say."

After a federal investigation of the cyclist was dropped without charges being brought last year, USADA stepped in with an investigation of its own. The agency deposed 11 former teammates and accused Armstrong of masterminding a complex and brazen drug program that included steroids, blood boosters and a range of other performance-enhancers.

Once all the information was out andhis reputation shattered, Armstrong defiantly tweeted a picture of himself on a couch at home with all seven of the yellow leader's jerseys on display in frames behind him. But the preponderance of evidence in the USADA report and pending legal challenges on several fronts apparently forced him to change tactics after more a decade of denials.

He still faces legal problems.

Former teammate Floyd Landis, who was stripped of the 2006 Tour de France title for doping, has filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit that accused Armstrong of defrauding the U.S. Postal Service. The Justice Department has yet to decide whether it will join the suit as a plaintiff.

The London-based Sunday Times also is suing Armstrong to recover about $500,000 it paid him to settle a libel lawsuit. On Sunday,


early 2018, now using the name Bonatsos, she founded her own venture capital fund, called Dream Machine, based in San Francisco and investing in technology companies.

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By many estimates, the United States is still weeks away from seeing the worst of the novel coronavirus. The illness’s rapid spread, along with expanded testing, are producing higher and more comprehensive infection counts, which currently outpace the rate increases seen in other hard-hit countries like Italy, Spain, and Iran. The death toll is climbing as hospitals become overwhelmed. Tuesday alone saw 13 COVID-19 fatalities at Elmhurst Hospital Center in New York, a city that’s become the epicenter of the U.S. outbreak. As a result, either by choice or official mandate, Americans have joined many of their counterparts the world over and shut themselves in their homes, making a common practice of stockpiling groceries and supplies and