resolution to use the site as a multi-purpose venue.”

The Club would like to take this opportunity to thank the many volunteers who contributed over the years assisting on game days and providing valuable help wherever needed. In particular groundsmen John Owens, Steve Lloyd and their team who, with a limited budget have prepared the surface to the best standard possible, a standard that has seen the Wallabies, Socceroos, the Asia Cup, Sydney FC and Everton FC choose the ground as a training facility over the past six years. These people are passionate Rugby League and Balmain Tigers supporters, who would do anything for the benefit of the Club. Money cannot buy the kind of support that these people bring to the community and the venue will not bereticence has begun to strike me as strained and pedantic. After all, during the last two years of his life, when I was living in Washington, I dined with him twice a week; no one else, I think, saw him with quite this regularity. At the time, he had just completed his Autobiographical Notes, which, he told me, he never intended for publication. Their belated appearance suggests that the moment has come for me to write on so delicate and difficult a topic, more particularly since the bare record my grandfather left behind him seems to call for a personal interpretation.

There is a further reason for finally trying to put down my thoughts: it is no longer true that I come from a prominent family. To the American


public the name Hughes now stands for an eccentric and fabulously wealthy recluse. Most people, especially the young, know almost nothing of Charles Evans Hughes. Diplomats remember him as a skillful, no-nonsense secretary of state who appreciated the work of the career foreign service. Lawyers recall a thoroughly professional chief justice who gave firm but tactful leadership to his colleagues. In 1960 the press briefly evoked his presidential race of 1916 as the closest of the century. And that is about all.

Such is the riddle Hughes presents. How could a figure who loomed so large in his own day have become so misty in current memory? Initially one may hazard the guess that our contemporaries find something unbelievable about a man who looked like God, to whom integrityFurlong, who came all the way from London. Shortly after, the Stairwell Books and their guest Alice Tomlinson will tell us about – thankfully long abandoned – practices such as Twilight Birth!

Between 2-3pm Fasil Desmash‘s show Black York will focus on issues relating to the BAME community in York and celebrate York\’s growing cultural diversity.

3pm will bring Mr. Paul Coull – the Soul Man – to us for an hour of best classics and soothing #Soul Music.

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HJS demands a CBI special team to investigate nationwide serial killing of Hindus in India.

A CBI special team should be formed to investigate into nationwide serial killing of Hindus: HJS.

Ramesh Deshmukh | HENB | Mumbai | April 12, 2019:: The serial killings of Hindu leaders and activists by anti-Hindu Jihadi, Naxal and Christian terror groups in India has created a sensation in the mind of majority people of India, obviously. Recent killings of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leader Chandrakant Sharma (52) and his personal security officer in Jammu by Jihadi terror group, and the murder of BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi (47) in Chhatisgarh by naxal militants hit the headlines of newspapers. Even in the past, Hindus have been systematically identified and killed in states like Kerala, Tamil Nadu,Karnataka, J&K, Andhra Pradesh, West Bengal, Punjab and Madhya Pradesh that are ruled by Congress, Communists, Trinamool and sometimes by BJP also. Whenever Hindus are murdered, from the experience till now, the Congress and Left-leaning administration shies away from conducting an impartial and thorough investigation into the murders. This has only instilled more confidence in Jihadi organisations such as the Popular Front and other radical ultra leftist organisations, that has led to the on-going serial murders. The terrorised Hindus in these states are living in constant fear. It is clearly evident that the nationwide killings of Hindu leaders, is a part of an extensive well-planned conspiracy. Therefore, the Centre should look into the matter and uncover the ‘mastermind’ behind the nationwide murders of Hindus, and establish a special


added Hassan.

"We'll find who is behind this conspiracy."

The players are demanding the salaries in first-class cricket are raised to 100,000 Bangladeshi Taka (£912) per match - an increase of about 300%.

They also want the BCB to increase the salaries of groundsmen, local coaches, umpires, physios and trainers as well as investing more money to improve grounds, indoor nets, gyms and equipment throughout the country.

The demands include several proposed changes to domestic competitions, with the players wanting the Twenty20 Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) to return to a franchise-based model and the 50-over Dhaka Premier League (DPL) to allow players to choose their team and negotiate salaries again.

The group also want the leadership of the Cricketers' Welfare Association to step down, with players permitted to vote to elect the nextcommittee.

The international players' union Fica released a statement on Tuesday in support of the striking players.

"Fica commends the players in Bangladesh for their unity and for taking a stand together in order to secure fair conditions applicable to them as professional cricketers," said executive chairman Tony Irish.

"This has happened despite the challenging environment for players to collectivise in Bangladesh and it is a clear indication of the need for change in the way players are treated in what we regard as an important cricket country."

Shakib also raised the issue of corruption at lower levels of cricket in the country.

The BPL was suspended in 2014 after an investigation into match-fixing in the tournament, which led to administrators and players, including former Bangladesh captain Mohammad Ashraful, being banned.

"The players sometimes


A video posted to social media Tuesday claimed to show the beheading of an American journalist by the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, who have been the targets of US airstrikes in Iraq over recent weeks.

Officials Saturday carried out a third round of U.S. airstrikes against Islamic state militants, leaving many people across Southern California concerned for family members in Iraq as the violence continues.

More than 57,000 U.S. military veterans have been waiting 90 days or more for their first VA medical appointments, and an additional 64,000 appear to have fallen through the cracks, never getting appointments after enrolling, the government said Monday in a report newly demonstrating how deep and widespread the problem is.them are "Bruce Wayne, playboy billionaire orphan who becomes Batman at night

2) DC would not use Batman as much.

Jesus Christ!

DC likes Batman. He makes them a lot of money, and money's where it's at. Batman's in movies. Batman's on television. Batman's on cartoons. Batman's on videogames. Batman's on lunchboxes and sweaters and sweatshirts.

However, if someone else can make Batman, that's no fun anymore. WB, overwhelmed by greed, would probably begin promoting "their" characters a lot more, if Batman was usable by anyone. They'd probably promote some silver age character to Batman's spot of importance, if they could at all.

This would not be all bad. If Batman's as overexposed in the 2030s as he is now, a little winding down might not be as bad as it sounds. The


Joseph Arthur and the Lonely Astronauts for July 2009 UK tour

Joseph Arthur

Singer-songwriter, artist and poet Joseph Arthur has announced that he and his band The Lonely Astronauts will play a short UK tour in July, following a string of French dates.

The five-date tour will start in Bristol on Sunday 19th July, before Joseph heads to Leeds on 20th July, Manchester on 21st July, Nottingham on 22nd July, before finishing the series at London's Bush Hall on 23rd July. The dates will see Joseph Arthur in more intimate settings, compared to usual haunts of the Shepherds Bush Empire and the like.

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In the two months since the first report of four cases of atypical pneumonia in Wuhan, Hubei, China on December 27, 2019,^[@R1]^ the cumulative number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the city has risen to 49,122, with 2,195 deaths from the disease by the end of February, 2020.^[@R2]^ On January 23, Wuhan city shut down in response to the fast-evolving epidemic. All public transportation within, to and from the city was suspended, and residents were barred from leaving. An estimated nine million people remained in the city after the lockdown.^[@R3]^ Strict social distancing measures were also implemented, including the compulsory wearing of face-masks in public.

During the early phase of the response in Wuhan, the number of patients overwhelmed local fever clinics and hospitals designated to receive


which waited.^[@R16],[@R17]^ Our comparison of Wuhan and Guangzhou, although it is only two cities, dramatically illustrates the same relationship of early intervention leading to lower epidemic sizes and peaks. The future course of these epidemics and others around the world, of course, depends on the ability to maintain burdensome control measures over an extended period.

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This work was in part supported by Award Number U54GM088558 from the National Institute Of General Medicalthe FBI and the DOJ, including Comey's breaks with protocol, tended to harm Clinton, not Trump; and, perhaps most important, concludes that the methodology of the Clinton investigation — and the decision not to prosecute her — was sound.

The most compelling finding, one marbled throughout the 568-page report and which gives a sense of vindication to both sides, is that Comey repeatedly substituted his own judgment for department policy in making highly sensitive decisions to publicly reveal information about the Clinton probe.

"The IG Report is a total disaster for Comey, his minions and sadly, the FBI," Trump wrote in a tweetstorm on the IG report Friday morning. "Comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the FBI. I did a


'Glee' Recap: A Tribute Worthy of a King

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Blaine leads the rest of the glee club during a performance on 'Glee.'Adam Rose/FOX

It was almost a year ago that Glee first tackled the King of Pop, featuring a mash-up of "Thriller" with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll" in its super-sized post-Super Bowl episode. Last fall, Michael Jackson's family finally gave the blessing for a full-fledged tribute. Despite the initial whiff of product placement and forced timing (Blaine mentions Cirque du Soleil's "The Immortal World Tour" less than five minutes into the episode), "Michael" proved to be Glee's most effortless tribute episode yet: the song selections seamlessly wove into the hour's plots, while also paying tribute to the creative and musical talents of Michael Jackson. And "Michael" alsofor lead vocals. He starts strutting down the hallway, followed by Brittany and Santana in Cheerios outfits, Mercedes in all black and Kurt in all black with an overwhelming fur hat. And thus, the New Directions' sassiest members kick off the highly caffeinated number, shooting the episode out of a proverbial cannon. They recruit Tina, Rachel and Quinn in the library and meet up with the the rest of the glee club in the auditorium, where the big dance number doubles as a fashion show of Jackson's most famous ensembles.

"Bad":Sebastian makes his evil return at the local coffee house, mixing insults in with the reveal of his devious planning: he got Blaine to spill the New Directions' plan to sing Michael Jackson at regionals, except the Warblers go


first and wouldn't it be grand if they one-upped the New Directions with some MJ of their own? The New Directions are still miffed at the next glee club session, when Mr. Schue devotes the week to prepping for regionals by asking the New Directions "WWMJD?" (What Would Michael Jackson Do?). After a brief history of all the ways that Jackson fought back against his haters, Blaine decrees that Jackson would "take it to the streets."

The New Directions, at least, literally do this, meeting the Warblers in a shady underground parking lot, à la the "Bad" video. In the episode's first homage to Jackson's legendary videos, "Bad" is as much a dance battle as it is a vocal one, and the winner gets the rights to sing MichaelJackson tunes at regionals. The arrangement gets an interesting twist thanks to the Warblers' penchant for a cappella, and Artie and Santana begin the battle for vocal MVP of the episode. He once again proves an innate ability for a spot-on pop vocal, while her dynamic power adds an edge to otherwise straightforward melodies. It's not all fun and games though: the number ends with Sebastian tossing a slushie at Blaine, one so powerful it sends him to the ground and tears his cornea.

"Scream":The New Directions are still reeling from the parking lot showdown, and Kurt tells everyone that Blaine is out of commission while he has surgery (also conveniently providing an out for Darren Criss to make his Broadway debut while the episode was being filmed). The


the original.

"Never Can Say Goodbye": Despite her self-imposed deadline of three days having passed and additional persuasion from Finn, Rachel still hasn't been able to decide whether she wants to say "yes" to last episode's proposal. She seeks advice from Quinn in the ladies' bathroom (the site of many a high school TV drama advice session). Newly mature Miss Fabray reveals that she's been accepted early decision to Yale on the strength of her essay about teen pregnancy, and advises Rachel to reject Finn's proposal: "I'm all for making the most of the next few months, but I'd hate the idea of dragging an anchor from my past into the bright lights of my future." She further proves her point in song, launching into the Jackson 5's 1971single – a tune well-suited for Quinn's sultry voice and the flipped meaning she gives the lyrics. Instead of feeling remorse over her three high school loves – Finn, Puck and Sam – Quinn uses her performance in a slinky black sequined dress to make peace with saying good-bye, successfully reminding us of her evolution from the most annoying to the most level-headed character since the season's start.

"Human Nature":Sam invites Mercedes to the auditorium for a duet, because they've never actually sung together. She refuses, but then the music starts, and it's totally impossible for her not to sing over Sam's bare-bones guitar intro to the Thriller cut. Their voices are great together and separately: hers restrained and soulful, his rock-tinged and raw. It's a crisp, well-executed cover


that ends with an appropriately timed kiss. The song is called "Human Nature," so we'd have been fools to expect anything less for the setting of Sam and Mercedes' reunion.

"Ben":Burt pulls Kurt out of class: the letter came from NYADA! After walking from room to room, they wind up in the choir room, where Kurt finally opens the letter, reads that he's a finalist and Burt reaffirms his stance as TV dad of the year. "You are unstoppable, Kurt," he tells his son. "I am so proud to be your dad. They can never take this away from you." Things aren't going so well for Rachel, who hasn't gotten a letter. "I knew it, I had this weird feeling in my stomach all week long," she tells Kurtas she breaks down because all of her plans (correction: her one plan) have fallen apart and she has no idea what her future holds.

The emotional roller coaster continues at Blaine's house. Blaine hasn't had surgery yet, so he's wearing an eye patch, while Kurt is reading a Broadway article to him and Rachel and Finn show up with chicken noodle soup and eye patch-friendly DVDs (Pirates of the Caribbean, etc.). After toasting Kurt's good fortune, Kurt, Finn and Rachel try to make Blaine feel better about missing Michael Week by singing "Ben." The song about a rat. The good news is that Kurt, naturally, does well in the high range, Rachel sings sweetly to complement and Finn comes in with a rich verse of his own. But


it's still a little creepy to sing a song about a rat around a bed, however much about friendship it really is about. Maybe they could have changed "Ben" to "Blaine" and it would have been a tiny bit less uncomfortable.

"Smooth Criminal": Santana, in a female-friendly take on the "Smooth Criminal" video ensemble, goes to the Warblers' rehearsal space (somewhere far, far away from the polished library of Dalton) to rip the Warblers a new one for tossing the slushie at Blaine. Turns, out it was intended for Kurt. Sebastian still won't 'fess up to what he put in it, so he and Santana settle the duel the best way they know how: with song. Sebastian, Santana and some furious (and furiously awesome) cellos take on "Smooth Criminal"in an empty ballroom – the high school glee club version of the bar the original video took place in, we suppose. It's the perfect soundtrack for the show's slickest villains: Santana wails, Sebastian channels his Chuck Bass and we are sold. The only other thing we could have asked for is some of the video's trademark leaning in the choreography.

The song ends in a draw (though we'd hand it to Santana), but Santana gets Sebastian to admit he put rock salt in the slushie, and she secretly gets it on tape. Back at McKinley, Kurt puts the kibosh on seeking payback. "If Michael went after all the haters, he would never have had any time to do that amazing music. so we're not going to punish the


doubted it for a second, the song does the job: she says yes! He's overwhelmed. She's crying. It's adorable, if not completely impractical. And only the awkward back-up musicians are there to witness it. We're not sure where, exactly, Rachel turned from career-focused Broadway diva wannabe into only having eyes for her boyfriend, but she's so happy that we don't want to break her spirit.

"Black or White": Kurt's lesson involves inviting the Warblers to the McKinley auditorium, where the New Directions proceed to give a moral speech and Puck has a line (Hi, Puck. Where have you been all episode? How's Shelby?). Then, in true episode finale spirit, they launch into a triumphant number in which almost everyone has a solo and there's lots of dancing on thedid!

Santana and Kurt tell Sebastian about their recorded proof of his evil doings. But they take the high road and opt to give the tape back to him, claiming victory will be sweeter when they beat the Warblers – including Sebastian – at regionals. The drama isn't over yet, however: Rachel meets Kurt by the lockers, envelope in hand. She's also a NYADA finalist. But has she told Finn? No idea, 'cause it's another Finchel cliffhanger.

Bottom Line:Our one gripe would have to be that there wasn't enough Brittany: she's one of the show's best dancers, so where was she during a Michael Jackson tribute? But, that aside, this is exactly the kind of episode we wish Glee did every week: plot-relevant tunes, actual significant movement in storylines and


BEIRUT (AP) — The young Syrian woman walked on stage and began telling the story of her brother's abduction in the early years of her country's civil war, wiping away tears as she recalled the 2013 incident that changed her life.

The woman, who identified herself as Mae from a government stronghold in the central city of Homs, said Ihsan's disappearance in 2013 turned her into a more tolerant person, despite the eight-year conflict that has killed more than 400,000 people and displaced half the country's population.

Inside the theater in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, Syrians from other parts of the country who support rival factions listened carefully to what she said.

Once she was done, 10 Syrian actors dressed in black began re-enacting what Mae had just said, oneof them screaming: "Ihsan, I miss you a lot!" Another walked on stage and said: "No matter what our religion or ethnicity is, we are all Syrians."

The group of seven men and three women has been training for three months to do "playback theater" during which members of the audience tell their stories and then see them re-enacted on stage — an initiative to get war victims to talk through their trauma, initiate dialogue and help forge reconciliation.

The training was organized by Fighters for Peace, which was founded in 2014 by former Lebanese militia members who took part in their country's destructive 1975-90 civil war and are now peace activists. They have been using playback theater for years as part of their campaign to promote peace and try


to prevent another breakout of war in Lebanon.

Despite the mostly friendly atmosphere in the hall on the on the top floor of a building in Beirut, tensions boiled over at one point, reflecting the bitterness and hate that nearly eight years of war has created in Syria.

Once they were done reacting, a young man in the audience stood up angrily and shouted at Mae, screaming that the government was to blame for everything that happened over the past years in Syria in a tone that showed he did not care about her brother's fate.

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"You are hurting me," the woman replied, to which he responded: "I want to hurt you," before he burst out of the theater.

Syria's conflict began in March 2011 with largely peaceful protests against PresidentBashar Assad's rule but eventually turned into an armed insurgency and civil war after a violent crackdown on the protest movement. It has occasionally spilled over to neighboring Lebanon, where the country's population is divided between supporters of the Syrian government and others who support the opposition. Related fighting in Lebanon between rival groups in recent years has left dozens of people dead or wounded, mostly in the northern city of Tripoli.

"By reacting to what the members of the audience say, we are supporting them morally and helping them heal," said Maher Sheikh Khodor, 28, a freelance photographer and graphic designer from Syria who has been living in Lebanon since 2014.

Khodor, who is from the central Syrian town of Salamiyeh and has been training in playback theater for


months added that the work helped participants meet Syrians from other ethnicities and sects. "We are Syrians from all parts of Syria and all of its sects," he said.

Another team member, Hassan Aqoul, 28, said the training "broke the ice between us." Aqoul, who has been living in Lebanon since 2012, said those who trained them are experienced and a few days after the training started "we started feeling as if we have been friends for a long time."

"They have good ideas. They were fighters and now reconciled and discovered that they were wrong," he said.

Asaad Chaftari, a former commander with the Lebanese Christian right-wing militia, the Lebanese Forces, confessed and publicly apologized years ago for his role in atrocities committed during Lebanon's civil war that killed 150,000Patsy Ann Smith, 83 of Purdon, passed away Tuesday, January 22, 2019 in Corsicana. She was born January 20, 1936 in Navarro County to A.D. and Cora Green Farmer. She married William L. "Bill" Smith on July 5, 1957.
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for a red light on Broadway. Ms. McDonald told the officer that she was being followed by someone in a lime green SUV and then she drove away. Officer Clinton heard a crash, looked back and saw that a green SUV had struck Ms. McDonald's car. Officer Clinton made a U-turn, activated his emergency lights and sirens, radioed for assistance, and pursued.
Officer Clinton witnessed the green SUV push Ms. McDonald's car into a pole. Ms. McDonald's car caught fire and she ran across the street to where Officer Clinton had stopped, shouting that defendant had a gun. Officer Clinton, who had exited *873 his vehicle, testified that Ms. McDonald was hysterical and was "glued" to his body. Defendant walked to Ms. McDonald's burning car. Defendant was armed witha .410 gauge single shot sawed-off shotgun. When defendant saw Ms. McDonald and Officer Clinton across the street, he pointed the shotgun directly at both of them and fired. Officer Clinton testified that he heard shotgun pellets go by his head. Officer Clinton returned fire while at the same time pulling Ms. McDonald around the rear of his police vehicle to take cover on the passenger side. Defendant reloaded his shotgun and moved to the driver's side of Officer Clinton's marked unit. A second police vehicle driven by Officer Josh Feliciano arrived and stopped behind Officer Clinton's unit. The video from this second police vehicle showed that the door on the driver's side of Officer Clinton's squad car was open and that defendant alternately pointed the weapon through


the door and then over the hood of the police car attempting to get a clear shot.
Officer Clinton returned fire with his pistol over the hood of his police car. Realizing that Officer Clinton had emptied his magazine, defendant ran around the front of the patrol unit and pointed his shotgun at both Officer Clinton and Ms. McDonald as they started to run away. Defendant shot at close range striking Ms. McDonald in the backside, rear upper thigh area. Ms. McDonald was only a step behind Officer Clinton at the moment defendant fired. Defendant then proceeded to hit Ms. McDonald in the head with his shotgun. Officer Feliciano fired several shots at defendant, one of which struck him in the chest and knocked him to the ground. Atsanity commission was granted without first ruling on the issue of defendant's competency to stand trial and without conducting a contradictory hearing on the issue.
On July 31, 2006, defendant pled not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. On August 2, 2006, the state filed a motion for appointment of a sanity commission as a result of defendant's plea. The trial court granted the motion, and appointed Dr. Charles Armistead and Dr. George Seiden to the sanity commission to make an examination as to defendant's mental condition at the time of the offense and his present mental capacity to proceed.
On August 18, 2006, Dr. Armistead filed his written report, wherein he found that defendant was competent to stand trial, but noted that a finding regarding defendant's sanity


witnesses and defendant also made an oral statement.
At the conclusion of the hearing, the trial court recited the facts of the offenses in detail, noting the viciousness of the attack and how defendant placed more than one person at significant risk of death or great bodily harm. The court noted defendant's anger at being directed to pay child support. Defendant's own letters (introduced at the sentencing hearing) revealed that he was so angry that he made his own pre-need funeral arrangements the same day as the attempted murders. Defendant clearly intended to kill Ms. McDonald and anyone that got in his way.
Defendant's prior criminal history revealed a disturbing pattern of criminal conduct and repeated harassment directed at Ms. McDonald, including an arrest for aggravated rape in 2004 anda guilty plea to a reduced charge of false imprisonment while armed with a dangerous weapon. Defendant made repeated threats to kill Ms. McDonald in 2005 and had been ordered by the Fourth Judicial District Court in Monroe to cease all contact with Ms. McDonald. Defendant was also banned from St. Vincent Mall in Shreveport (where Ms. McDonald worked) and her apartment in Monroe. In 2006, defendant was arrested for improper telephone communications and harassment. The record also discloses that defendant was arrested in 2002 for simple assault and resisting an officer. In mitigation, the trial court considered defendant's age, family ties, and employment record. The court also took into account defendant's mental state, including his purported depression.
Considering the nature of the crimes, the harm done to the


This story was originally published in March. Photo: Sarah Walker

Trust us, you have not seen anyone like Ryan O’Connell on TV before. The star and writer-creator of Netflix’s Special is a gay man with cerebral palsy, who, after getting hit by a car at the age of 20, decided to “rewrite” his identity and spent years pretending that he wasn’t disabled because friends and colleagues assumed his limp was the result of the accident. He finally confronted the truth in his 2015 memoir I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves, a book that caught the attention of Jim Parsons and led to his big break.

O’Connell, who is warm, chatty, and funny as hell, began his TV writing career on MTV’s Awkward, worked on Will & Grace, andjust started a new gig earlier this month on the 90210 reboot. Special is based on his own life, and O’Connell wrote the entire debut season: The lead character, also named Ryan, is a 20-something gay, disabled man grappling with his sexuality and independence. The show is hilarious with a touch of darkness — and, in a Netflix first, each episode is only about 15-minutes long. It also features standout performances by Jessica Hecht (who plays Ryan’s mom, Karen), Marla Mindelle (who plays his boss, Olivia), and Punam Patel (who plays his work BFF, Kim).

Over breakfast in Los Angeles ahead of Special’s April 12 premiere, O’Connell opened up about how he broke into show business through blogging, his lifelong struggle with self-acceptance, what it’s like to star in


A marijuana plantation discovered in a Lleida warehouse in March. CNP

Europe produces marijuana on an industrial scale. It does so in sufficient quantities to satisfy a significant part of internal demand (60 percent, say some sources) and reduce its dependence on other continents. Over the last five years, a silent drug-trafficking revolution has taken root, fostering an internal European market with its own flow of imports and exports.

Spain has not remained untouched by this phenomenon. Spanish marijuana production has increased at least fivefold in the last five years, while the number of cannabis plants confiscated grew 532 percent between 2009 and 2013, according to Interior Ministry data. In the five provinces most affected – Murcia, Málaga, Granada, Alicante and Valencia, in that order – more than 105,000 plantsdata has not been standardized, and interior plantations coexist with exterior ones, with the latter more widespread in southern European countries such as Spain, where they are sometimes hidden among corn or other agricultural crops.

Experts agree that the two biggest marijuana producers are the Netherlands and the UK, where the biggest numbers of plants have been found. Behind them are Poland and Belgium, where between 1,200 and 1,500 production centers were discovered in 2012. The Belgian case has a particular explanation: legislative changes that criminalize marijuana growing have led Dutch producers to move some of their plants across the border to later import their produce for their coffee shops.

The new market has also brought it with some curious setups. The marijuana consumed in Hungary comes from Vietnamese distributors


Hunters found unconscious in tent

HELENA — Beaverhead County officials say three hunters were
found unconscious in a wall tent at a campground near Lima and were
being treated at a Salt Lake City hospital.

A spokeswoman at Barrett Hospital & Healthcare in Dillon says
the men were in critical condition when they left the hospital
Monday.

Sheriff Jay Hansen says a hunter called at 8:21 a.m. Monday to
report that three other members of his hunting party were breathing
but unconscious. Hansen says the hunters were two 50-year-old men
and a 65-year-old man.

The men were taken by ambulance to Barrett Hospital and a hospital
spokeswoman says they were flown to a Level 1 trauma hospital in
Salt Lake City for further treatment.

Hospital officials cited federal privacy laws in not saying what
was wrong with the men.

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* Iknocking out power and cooling systems at the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex.

The toll from Japan's triple catastrophe is rising. More than 13,000 people have been confirmed dead, and on Wednesday the government cut its outlook for the economy, in deflation for almost 15 years, for the first time in six months.

Fighting criticism
TEPCO unveiled a phased road map for ending the crisis at a news conference, including plans to cover the damaged reactor buildings to contain the radiation and eventually remove the nuclear fuel.

The plan was unveiled as Japan's prime minister also apologized for the nuclear crisis and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visited to show American solidarity with the Japanese people.

Prime Minister Naoto Kan, fighting criticism at home over his own handling of the aftermath of the quake


had been forced to flee their homes because of the crisis could go back, but Trade Minister Banri Kaieda said some could return home within six to nine months.

"Of course, some people will be unable to return home, but we will keep everyone informed," he said, adding that the government hoped TEPCO could contain the radiation sooner than the schedule announced Sunday.

The company is focusing on cooling the reactors and spent fuel pools, decontaminating water that has been contaminated by radiation, mitigating the release of radiation into the atmosphere and soil, and measuring and reducing the amount of radiation affecting the evacuation area, he said.

Calls for resignation
As Japan has begun planning for reconstruction and mulling how to pay for it, Kan's political opponents have resumed calls for hisresignation after refraining from criticism in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

Thanking the international community for its support, Kan vowed to rebuild a country "highly resistant to national disasters."

"I pledge that the Japanese government will promptly and thoroughly verify the cause of this incident, as well as share information and the lessons learned with the rest of the world to help prevent such accidents in the future," he said in the commentary, which also appeared in the New York Times and Washington Post.

Government officials fanned out across the affected areas during the weekend seeking to explain evacuation decisions and calm nerves. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano met Sunday with the governor of Fukushima, who has vigorously protested the predicament the nuclear crisis poses for his prefecture.

"The safety of


roar into a seaside village near the mouth of Hei River on March 11 as the tsunami generated by the massive earthquake hits shore.
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An aerial photo shows Sendai Airport being inundated by a tsunami on March 11. Later reports said the first wave hit 26 minutes after the quake struck at 2:46 p.m. local time.
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A swirling pattern is evident in this aerial photo of the tsunami as it hit a port in Oarai, Ibaraki prefecture on March 11.
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Toya Chiba, a reporter for local newspaper Iwate Tokai Shimbun, is swept away while taking pictures at the mouth of the Owatari River during the tsunami at Kamaishi port, Iwate prefecture. Chiba managedto survive in the rush of water by grabbing a dangling rope and climbing onto a coal heap around 30 feet high after being swept away for about 100 feet, Kyodo News reports.
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A line of residents seeking water snakes across the playground of a school in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture, on March 13, two days after the earthquake.
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An explosion at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant sends a plume of smoke skyward on March 14. The blast was believed to have been caused by a buildup of hydrogen inside the reactor building, caused by the partial meltdown of nuclear fuel inside. The plant was crippled after the earthquake cutShare this:

18-year-old Philadelphia Union youth product Brenden Aaronson bagged his first MLS goal as they went to Mercedes-Benz Stadium and earned a 1-1 draw with Atlanta United.

Frank De Boer, new boss of the defending champions, has come under fire for the team’s poor start to the season, and Sunday’s result will only serve to feed the critics with new ammunition. Atlanta held upwards of 70% possession through the match, but generated just two total shots on target.

The best chance of the opening half for the home side came in the 37th minute as Pity Martinez burst down the left and fed Josef Martinez who made a run down the middle splitting the center-backs. Martinez stretched to reach it, but it was just too far. His slide took him


into Andre Blake and left last year’s MVP in a heap, but he came back on after a lengthy treatment.

Philadelphia had its own chance down the other end moments later as Fabrice-Jean Picault got free down the center, one-on-one with the goalkeeper Brad Guzan who he shook with a touch to the right. He had an open goal to shoot at from a tight angle to the right, but Miles Robinson made it back to clear off the line.

The opener came just two minutes after the halftime break, Aaronson created his own chance out of nothing, not closed down at the top of the box and shooting past a rooted Brad Guzan. Frank de Boer would make a 67th minute substitution to bring on Ezequiel Barco, and thatwould pay dividends just three minutes later as Atlanta equalized on a blistering Barco header.

Philadelphia thought it would go a man up in the 92nd minute, but the referee gave only a yellow card to Leandro Gonzalez after taking down Corey Burke who was free on goal. The ensuing free-kick sailed just agonizing inches over the bar off the foot of Haris Medunjanin. The shared points moved Atlanta to just two points on the season through the first three matches, five off the Eastern Conference leaders already. Philadelphia, meanwhile, earned its first point of the campaign with the draw.

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Under heavy disapproval of a poor start to his tenure in charge of Atlanta United, head coach Frank De Boer has looked to rebuff critics by telling fans they


Europa League competitions, which led to his firing on Nov. 1 with the club mired in 12th place.

His tenure lasted just 85 days.

The following summer, de Boer was hired by Crystal Palace. Despite modest expectations – the team was coming off a 15th-place showing the previous season, finishing just five points above the relegation zone – the coach was quickly fired again after Crystal became the first team in 93 years to lose its first four matches in the top flight without scoring a goal.

Atlanta United is in a much different position, having quickly become MLS’ flagship franchise on and off the field. The team has a clear power structure led by owner Arthur Blank, team president Darren Eales and technical director Carlos Bocanegra – a setup thatappearance in the CONCACAF Champions League. The team opens with a home-and-home series against Costa Rican club Herediano late next month, just ahead of the MLS season opener.

Atlanta United is eager to become the first MLS club to win the continental championship since the league format began in 2008. Mexican teams have won 10 straight titles, including Chivas’ thrilling victory over Toronto FC last year that came down to penalty kicks.

“We need to have an MLS club win it,” Eales said. “It would be great if that could be Atlanta United.”

But pulling off a CONCACAF title, while also maintaining success in league play, presents a daunting challenge for the new coach. Toronto put its emphasis on winning the Champions League and wound up missing the MLS playoffs.

“We’re not


coach. All of this combined, makes that I am really excited to be a part of it.”

The Dutchman has been out of management since a short-lived stint running Crystal Palace in 2017, and has also led Ajax and Inter Milan. He won four Eredivisie titles as Ajax boss, and was assistant manager for the Netherlands when the Dutch finished runners-up at the 2010 World Cup.

De Boer is better known as a defender, earning 112 caps and scoring 14 goals for the Netherlands in a career that saw him win the Champions League with Ajax and several domestic titles between the Dutch club and Barcelona.

De Boer has been out of management since his disastrous stint in charge of Crystal Palace, where he was sacked after just 450 minutes incharge of the club, the shortest managerial stint in Premier League history as measured by matches in charge.

De Boer made 112 appearances for the Dutch national team as a player, and spent most of his time at the club level with Dutch giants Ajax. He achieved legendary status with fans of both entities by reaching a World Cup semifinal as national team captain and winning a Champions League title with Ajax. He also played three seasons at Barcelona where he achieved a La Liga title.

After his playing days, De Boer entered into management, but it has been rocky throughout. He led the Ajax youth team for three seasons before joining the national team senior side as an assistant, helping the national team to the finals of the 2010


World Cup. His first senior managerial position came with Ajax, where he spent six seasons and won four straight Eredivisie league titles before moving to Italian club Inter in 2016. With Inter in the middle of a rebuild, De Boer lasted just three months in Serie A before he was fired. The next summer, he was hired by Crystal Palace and made it just five matches before he was let go, with five losses and zero goals scored in that span.

De Boer will have massive expectations at Atlanta United, where he will follow Martino’s championship-winning season, achieving an MLS title in just the club’s second season of existence. Martino has reportedly departed to lead the Mexican national team, but reports say they are waiting until the new year2011 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards. The Henry Ford Health System No Harm Campaign: a comprehensive model to reduce harm and save lives. innovation in patient safety and quality at the local level.
In 2008 Henry Ford Health System launched its "No Harm Campaign," designed to integrate harm-reduction interventions into a systemwide initiative and, ultimately, to eliminate harm from the health care experience. The No Harm Campaign aims to decrease harm events through enhancing the system's culture of safety by reporting and studying harm events, researching causality, identifying priorities, and redesigning care to eliminate harm. The campaign uses a comprehensive set of 27 measures for harm reduction, covering infection-, medication-, and procedure-related harm, as well as other types of harm, all of which are combined to


comprise a unique global harm score. The campaign's objective is to reduce all-cause harm events systemwide by 50% by 2013. A wide range of communication processes, from systemwide leadership retreats to daily e-mail news sent to all employees and physicians, is used to promote the campaign. In addition, the campaign is on the intranet "Knowledge Wall," where monthly dashboards, meeting minutes, and best practices and the work of our teams and collaboratives are documented and shared. From 2008 through 2011, a 31% reduction in harm events and an 18% reduction in inpatient mortality occurred systemwide. Building infrastructure, creating a culture of safety, providing employee training and education, and improving work process design are critical to systemwide implementation of harm-reduction efforts. Key actions for ongoing success focus on leadership,Prime Minister David Cameron was on Friday confronted by an angry victim of the floods and storms that have blighted Christmas celebrations for thousands of people in Britain.

Cameron was visiting the village of Yalding in Kent, southeast England, which has been badly flooded, when the unnamed woman told him in a heated on-camera exchange that she had been left stranded in her home without electricity.

She said: "We still have no electric. We need electric. As I say, the council, from Monday, we have been trying to contact them, but they have all decided to go on their holidays. Nothing."

The prime minister appeared rattled and tried to defuse the situation by promising to contact the local council himself.

Days of heavy rain have caused many rivers in southern England to


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At the time of the charged crimes, defendant was married, the father of two children, and an employee of a religious publishing company in Bend. He also was having extramarital affairs with two women and sexually abusing his daughter.[1] At some point, his employment tasks stopped filling his work hours, so he began to spend much of each day on the Internet. All told, he visited up to 80 different chat rooms. In some of them, anonymous participants engaged in role-playing, and some of the roles were deranged murderers and torturers. At first, defendant only observed; ultimately, he began to participate. Among other roles, he portrayed people who killed their wives and other family members.
At around the same time, defendant met B through anInternet dating service and they began an affair. In an e-mail to her, he confided that he wished that his wife could be killed in what would look like an accident with another car. He told B that, in his vision of the event, his wife would be a passenger in his car and B would be driving the other vehicle. B did not take defendant's musings to be in earnest, and she did not report them to police.
As the end of his relationship with B was approaching, defendant met Killingsworth in a public Internet chat room. Soon, they began "chatting" through private instant messaging. Transcripts of several of their chats, saved by Killingsworth after she became alarmed at some of defendant's ideas, were exhibits at trial. They


therefore, he concluded that he could escape his marriage only by having his wife killed. He discussed the possibility of torturing her, but decided that shooting her to death would suffice. He described his house plan and mentioned that the sliding glass doorway to his wife's bedroom was not lockable. Further, he stated that it would be easy to continue down a hallway to shoot his daughter. Finally, he asked Killingsworth to visit him on a date when his wife would be out of town so that she could see the house and they could finalize a plan. A quid pro quo was discussed; once the plan was completed, defendant stated, Killingsworth would "never want for anything."
None of this discussion by telephone was qualified by references to dreamsthat: defendant wanted his wife dead so he could avoid the financial consequences of a divorce; he wanted his daughter dead because his sexual involvement with her could "cause trouble"; he thought Killingsworth was able to do the killing; he made overtures concerning that possibility; he told Killingsworth that it would be a "bonus" if his daughter were present when his wife was killed; he described to Killingsworth the house plan (including the location of his wife's and daughter's bedrooms) and access to the house; he suggested a date for the killings; he invited Killingsworth to visit the house and finalize the plans; and, Killingsworth's dealings with defendant led her to conclude that he wanted her to kill them both. That testimony could permit a finder of fact


No war on Syria - the people claim a victory!For the first time in recent memory, a U.S. war was derailed!Tampa, FL - Sept. 14,
2013 - For three Saturdays in a row, activists from the Tampa Bay area
engaged in passionate protests demanding the United States keep its
hands off Syria. The protests peaked on Sept. 7 when 175 people
participated in Tampa at the corners of Dale Mabry Hwy. and Gandy
Blvd. At the end of the protest, a call was made to Sen. Bill
Nelson (D-FL) who has strongly pushed for attacks on Syria. Don't miss this video, where at the end, the large crowd leaves an enthusiastic message for Sen. Nelson.

The Obama administration's rush to war was slowed, if not stopped by
people across the world, including the British Parliament, Russia,Florida and The Refuge.

Here were some talking points:

There's no real proof Assad used chemical weapons, it's more likely it was the al-Qaeda rebels. Even conservative former White House advisor Pat Buchanan said
the chemical weapons used were not from the Assad government. "I would
not understand or comprehend that Bashar al-Assad, no matter how bad a
man he may be, would be so stupid as to order a chemical weapons attack
on civilians in his own country when the immediate consequence... might
be that he would be at war with the United States. So this reeks of a
false flag operation."

U.S. has used chemical weapons (in Iraq and Vietnam) and its ally, Israel used white phosphorous on civilians in Gaza in 2009.

U.S. supports dictators and violence against protesters in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and


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In the Matter of Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Respondent,
v.
Walter Hoffman et al., Constituting the Zoning Board of Appeals of the Village of Buchanan, Appellants. Hudson River Fishermen's Association, Intervenor-Respondent.
Court of Appeals of the State of New York.
Argued January 5, 1978.
Decided February 14, 1978.
Carl R. D'Alvia, Village Attorney (Henry J. Smith and Gerald Nolan of counsel), for appellants.
Edward J. Sack for Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., respondent.
Ross Sandler for Hudson River Fishermen's Association, intervenor-respondent.
Lewis R. Bennett, Scott B. Lilly, Vito J. Cassan, John R. Davison and Amelia C. Anzalone for the Power Authority of the State of New York, amicus curiae.
Peter H. Schiff for the Public Service Commission of the State of New York, amicus curiae.
Chief Judge BREITEL and Judges JASEN,GABRIELLI, JONES, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur.
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Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., operates a nuclear generating plant, known as Indian Point Unit No. 2, in the Village of Buchanan, in Westchester County. The facility's cooling system, up to now, has been a "once-through" system by which water is taken from the Hudson River to cool *604 the condensors and then returned to the river. This method of cooling uses high quantities of water and, according to concerned citizens and organizations, is extremely destructive of fish and plant life in the river.
An alternative to the once-through cooling system is a "closed-cycle" system which recirculates the water used to cool the condensor, requiring replenishment at times from the river in a limited amount to replace that which is lost


“Madame Deradicalization,” Dounia Bouzar, and dedicated to helping young people lured by ISIS, had already illustrated the failure of the program in November 2015, Le Parisien reported.

The head of the counter-terrorism coordination unit in France, Loic Garnier, told Le Figaro in January that around 700 French citizens are currently in Syria or Iraq.A Northwestern University dorm in Evanston, Ill., on Wednesday was put into lockdown over reports of a gunman on campus, the same day students across the country walked out of their classes to protest gun violence.

As of 4:50 p.m. Wednesday, the lockdown was still in place and police were investigating the incident, according to the university's Twitter account.

There is a report of a person with a gun in Engelhart Hall at the corner of Emerson Street and Maple Avenue. Evanston and Northwestern University police are on the scene. Seek shelter if in the area. — Northwestern (@NorthwesternU) March 14, 2018

But police later announced that "no evidence of a victim, scene or gunman" had been found, not long after reports that shots had been fired.

Evanston and NUPD in the


area of Emerson and Maple. Report of gunman and shots fired in a residential building. Area checked no evidence of a victim, scene, or gunman found. — Evanston, IL Police (@EvanstonPD) March 14, 2018

A school official had told the newspaper that shots were reported at Engelhart Hall, which contains dorms for graduate students and their family members.

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The report comes exactly one month after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where former student Nikolas Cruz allegedly opened first with an AR-15 rifle that he bought legally the year before.

Students called on lawmakers in school walkouts across the country on Wednesday to enact stricter gun control laws.

Updated: 4:52 p.m.A woman has taken to social media to take up the 'fight' to 'manspreading' by posting an image claiming a man is taking up too much of the seat.

The Sydney woman posted the image to Twitter accusing the man of hogging the two-person seat on a bus on Tuesday afternoon.

She claims she can 'barely fit' on the seat and nearly falls off every time the vehicle turns.

'(Can barely sit and fall when the bus is turning) I've decided to fight manspreading in the bus by putting these people in the open #manspreading #bus381 #leavingbondijuctionat1350' the disgruntled passenger wrote.

A woman has taken to social media to take up the 'fight' to 'manspreading' by posting an image claiming a man is taking up too much of the seat

The alleged 'manspreading'


occurred on the 381 bus between Bondi Junction and Bondi Beach at about 1:50pm

The alleged 'manspreading' occurred on the 381 bus between Bondi Junction and Bondi Beach at about 1:50pm.

The woman received dozens of replies, with some supporting her crusade.

'I don't know why other men often feel the need to do this, didn't know it had a name. Not sure the post will help but it's definitely real and definitely annoying,' a man agreed.

The woman received dozens of replies, with some supporting her crusade

However, many disagreed with the post saying the woman overreacted

However, many disagreed with the post saying the woman overreacted.

'Instead of b***hing over FB why not ask him to move,' one person wrote.

'Have you tried to ask him to sit properly,' another Facebook user asked.

'Fighting manspreadingof actions. First, a tear is made in a first direction running in between the blister packs. A second tear is made perpendicular to the first tear, also in a direction running in between the blister packs. The second tear intersects the first tear and isolates a single blister pack. A third tear is made, again in a direction that does not lead directly to the blister pack. The third tear exposes an unsealed area at a corner of the isolated blister pack, thereby allowing a bottom packaging layer to be peeled from an upper layer to expose the medication in the blister pack.
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I understand that in some quarters the appointment wins applause on grounds the guy at least brings some knowledge to the subject of national security. But in Bolton's case what he primarily brings to the subject is more gasoline -- and an inclination to use it.

On the record, he's a war monger. He has spoken approvingly of a first-strike military attack on North Korea (despite the destruction the North could quickly visit on South Korea and its 30,000-plus U.S. troops). And while we're at it, why not drop some big ones on Iran?

Like Trump himself, Bolton's a big fan of battle, so long as he's not in it. He


escaped service during Vietnam as a Yale student and later by enlisting in the National Guard to, as he once inelegantly put it, avoid "dying in a Southeast Asian rice paddy."

Nothing wrong with the National Guard; it's a grand institution. In my day though, it improved one's chances of avoiding active service in Korea during that unpleasantness. It evidently served a similar purpose in the Vietnam Era.

Bolton is a familiar figure in Washington, usually on the ultra-conservative fringe for GOP politics. The capstone of his career, until now, was brief service as United Nations ambassador under President George W. Bush.

He got a lot of notice in that job, not much of it praiseworthy. Nor did he get much favorable notice during his service in secondary jobs in theState Department. If his critics have it right, Bolton brooks no opinions that differ with his own, hardly the personality you'd look for in a diplomat. But then Bolton routinely disparages diplomats.

His tenure in Washington and the UN was marked by confrontation, not just with foreign emissaries but with his own subordinates -- a "kiss up, kick down" sort of guy, some said. Others accused him of twisting American intelligence findings to bolster his hard-right political views. Sound familiar?

He was a big believer in the Iraq war, for example, never doubting the wildly erroneous claim that Saddam Hussein was sitting on a pile of weapons of mass destruction -- a claim that was a weapon of mass deception.

It should be no surprise that Bolton never won Senate confirmation


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A unit of CCRC, China's largest train maker, has signed a deal to help build a high-speed bullet train railway linking Las Vegas and Los Angeles.

China Railway International USA inked an accord for the project with XpressWest, a venture set up by Las Vegas-based hotel and casino developer Marnell Companies.

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XpressWest and the Chinese firm said in a joint statement that the agreement would accelerate the plan for a 230-mile high-speed line between the two cities, with construction expected to start in September 2016. Finer details andfinancial terms weren't disclosed, though the statement said the project had initial capital of $100 million. No completion date was announced.

The high-speed railway project would have stations in Las Vegas, Nevada, Victorville and Palmdale, California, and service throughout Los Angeles.

XpressWest said the trains would travel at speeds of up to 150 mph, getting passengers from Las Vegas to Los Angeles (and vice versa) in one hour and 20 minutes, versus about four hours by car. The deal was announced just days before China President Xi Jinping’s visit to the U.S.

"With the environmental review process complete, all required federal right-of-way approvals in place, and having received the necessary licensing and approvals to construct and operate, XpressWest will provide a foundation for high-speed rail infrastructure in the Southwest Corridor," XpressWest


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Bradford became the first fourth-tier side in over 50 years to reach the League Cup final as they secured a 4-3 aggregate victory over Aston Villa.

The Bantams bridged the gap between the bottom division of English league football and the Premier League to secure a place at Wembley, despite a 2-1 second-leg defeat.

Another chapter will now be written in one of the most remarkable football stories of recent times as Phil Parkinson's League Two side will face either Swansea City or Chelsea on 24 February.

Bradford may have lost on the night but they stubbornly protected a 3-1 first-leg advantage to emulate a feat last achieved by Rochdale in 1962.

Christian Benteke's first-half goal was just reward for Villa's undoubted superiority but Bradford managed to survive without further damage untilhalf-time, before scoring the goal that takes them to Wembley for the first time since 1996.

James Hanson, the striker who used to stack shelves in a supermarket, flashed a superb header past Shay Given from Gary Jones's corner 10 minutes after the break.

Bradford go bonkers at final whistle

The Bantams could have wrapped up matters earlier as Hanson missed an open goal and substitute Garry Thompson hit the woodwork - before Andreas Weimann set up a nerve-shredding four minutes of stoppage time with a late goal for Villa.

It was their winner on the night but nothing could stop an explosion of joy in the top tier of Villa Park's North Stand when referee Phil Dowd blew the final whistle that sent Bradford City to Wembley.

Villa may have won this


game but there was nothing in the way of solace for the home side's fans as they turned furiously on manager Paul Lambert and his players at the final whistle.

Bradford's players and staff celebrated in front of their ecstatic fans, who have now seen their side beat Premier League opposition in Wigan Athletic, Arsenal and Villa on the way to Wembley.

In an era when prizes so often go to clubs with the biggest budgets, Bradford's progress to a major cup final - having last won one when they claimed the FA Cup in 1911 - provides a gloriously unpredictable sub-plot to the season.

Bradford would have been braced for an early assault from Villa as they tried to cut the deficit - and so it proved as they struggledto control the physical presence and aerial threat of Benteke, who headed straight at Bradford keeper Matt Duke when he should have done better.

Analysis Mark Lawrenson Football Analyst "Bradford dared to dream. They were helped by Villa, who were very naive in the second half, but don't take anything away from the Bantams. They played very good football and were brilliant at set-pieces. My words aren't good enough for them. As for Villa, there will be questions about Paul Lambert's future, but Randy Lerner understands the job he is doing."

Duke saved from Gabriel Agbonlahor on the turn before Benteke finally made the breakthrough after 24 minutes. He made a difficult finish look easy as he flicked Joe Bennett's cross high past Duke.

The goalkeeper distinguished himself with two more


saves from Charles N'Zogbia and Stephen Ireland, Bradford's only response a curling 20-yard effort from Nahki Wells that flew wide.

For all their toils of the first half, Bradford were still protecting a precious advantage at the start of the second half. They were soon to extend it over the two ties.

Bradford had preyed on Villa's inability to defend set pieces, corners in particular, in their first-leg win and took advantage of the weakness again as Hanson equalised to restore their two-goal aggregate lead.

Ron Vlaar's presence was supposed to help cure Villa's Achilles heel but he lost Hanson at Gary Jones's corner, allowing the striker to power a header past Shay Given.

Bradford reaction to 'unbelievable' win

As Villa reeled from the blow, Hanson wasted a wonderful chance to push BradfordFidel Castro altered the course of individual lives, families, and of the Cuban nation. History will record and judge the enormous impact of this singular figure on the people and world around him. “

This crafty doublespeak is typical of President Obama’s world view that sees states like Cuba as victims of unjust and exploitative policies by the United States. In his heart, our radical president sympathized with Castro just like he sympathized and appeased the mullahs of Iran. Obama saw Castro as a freedom fighter, not a genocidal dictator and an enemy of the United States.

By contrast, President-elect Trump’s statement about Castro’s passing got it exactly right. Trump said: “Today, the world marks the passing of a brutal dictator who oppressed his own people for nearly six decades.


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The inquiries will focus on media practices and also an inqury into the police handling of the original hacking investigation.

Cameron also faced embarrassment from Milband over his employment of Andy Coulson, who was Brooks’ deputy at News of the World and who succeeded her as editor in 2003.

Miliband described Coulson’s recruitment by Cameron as a "catastrophic error of judgement".

Cameron employed Coulson as a close communications aide after he resigned from News of the World in 2007 following the conviction of royal reporter Clive Goodman and private detective Glenn Mulcaire on phone hacking charges.

Coulson resigned earlier this year after the hacking allegations refused to die down. News International said today it had passed documents to the police showing


Virtual Life Versus Real Life

The 9th Circuit recently decided a suit brought by a real life strip club in East Los Angeles against the makers of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for trademark infringement, trade dress infringement, and unfair competition over the real life strip club's logo and trade dress (E.S.S. Entertainment 2000, Inc. v. Rock Star Videos, Inc). The defendants claimed two defenses: fair use and First Amendment free speech and won the on the free speech defense.

The facts of the case were fairly simple. Grand Theft Auto designed a series of virtual video games located in different cities. Each of the cities were to represent the "seedy-underbelly" of large cities in the U.S. Here, the defendants conceded that San Andreas was meant torepresent East Los Angeles and the game designers actually used photographs and pictures of the real city to protray fictionally in the video game. Defendants also conceded that the plaintiff's real life strip club inspired them to make the their virtual world strip club in the video game which uses a very similar logo. Plaintiff's mark is "PlayPen" while the defendant's mark is "Pig Pen." The court granted summary judgement for the video game maker by first rejecting fair use as inapplicable since the defendant's mark was not identical to the plaintiff's. The court, however, accepted the first amendment defense, using the Mattel test. The Mattel said that the artistic use of a mark is not infringement unless the mark has no artistic relevance or unless the use


it, and I got to be a postdoc there. Just a few years earlier, I was a dropout freelance programmer, but had become a mathematician, and was uninterested in computers. I was told, however, that Abramsky had constructed some categories that no one had seen before, so I came to listen to his talk. I also had a talk to give later that day, but for some reason, I do not recall how that went. At the end of Abramsky’s plenary lecture, Saunders Mac Lane stood up, one of the two fathers of category theory, high up near the ceiling of the amphitheater, and spoke for a long time. He criticized computer science in general. After that, Bill Lawvere stood up, and provided some friendly comments, suggesting directionsDuring the operating condition for anaesthesia, oxygen and laughing gas, properly metered and mixed, flow through the evaporator and there pick up the anaesthetic vapors. The fresh gas thus prepared then flows through the check valve, which prevents flow reversal, via the second part, and towards the patient. During respiratory resuscitation, proper dosages of oxygen bypass the isolated evaporator and flows toward the patient. Additional operating conditions, resulting from combinations of the two foregoing arrangements are possible.
An emergency feed supply of oxygen may be made directly through the remaining line circuit, without the reagent feeder. Disadvantages occur during this operating condition because of continuously flowing gases, in that an ill-defined oxygen supply occurs, and in that, it is necessary to turn off the evaporator. Precise oxygen supply demandes


identity theft.

The official said he cannot confirm if the woman is Lewthwaite herself. Police are working closely with Scotland Yard on the case, he said.

Lewthwaite's father, a builder from the town of Aylesbury near London, said that he and the wider family had not heard "for some time" from his daughter.

"I just wish she would get in touch with us," Andy Lewthwaite, 57, told The Sun newspaper. "Samantha would not be involved in anything to do with terrorism. She was badly affected by what happened before and would have nothing to do with it. I am sure of that."

The police official said the woman is suspected to be part of a cell that had been planning to bomb the Kenyan coast in December in retaliation for the Kenyanof planning an attack.

The police official said they suspect the British woman is a member of the cell that was planning the attack. Other members allegedly include a British man, Jermaine Grant, sentenced to three years in prison for immigration offenses and lying to a government official about his identity. Grant is also charged with conspiring to commit a felony and possessing explosive materials.

Prosecutors say Grant is linked to al-Shabab but his lawyer Chacha Mwita dismissed the allegations and said his client has not told him anything about "a European woman".

The other suspected member of cell, according to the police official, is Aboud Rogo, an Islamic preacher who was arrested in January during a raid at his coastal home. Police say they recovered a cache of guns, ammunition


beginning of the first movie, or died at the end of it, or came back to life in the end of the 2nd, etc. It's purposefully muddy and unclear, since, as Barbossa said to Elizabeth Swann when they first met, "[we'd] best start believing in ghost stories."
What would be a better statement to make is that the Kraken dragged Sparrow to Davy Jones' Locker (a term used in pirate narratives to represent the depths of the sea). Certainly, that might be interpreted as death (which is what you'd normally expect when heading to the bottom of the sea), and so the rest of the gang's traveling to rescue him might be a form of bringing him back to life. But it's much more mythical than that ... it'sThe position is impregnable; and the
Archdeacon is only asserting that two and two make
four when he goes on to confess that, “with the
best will in the world to profit by the criticisms
of his books, he has never profited in the least by
any of them.”

Now, Mr. Leonard has at least this much in common
with Archdeacon Farrar, that before him criticism
must sit down with folded hands. In the lightness
of his heart he accepts every fresh argument against
such and such a course as an added reason for following
it:—


the Art Gallery of Hamilton.

Mitchell is an ODSP recipient who has volunteered with numerous social service agencies, including Dundas Community Services.

Kevin Norton is a recent Wilfrid Laurier University graduate and educational assistant at the Lee Academy in Flamborough.

Risdale is an engineer and cycling advocate who is vice-president of the Hamilton Cycling Club.

Scime operates Mizener’s Antiques and Flea Market Ltd. She’s had numerous education-related volunteer positions and once headed the Brain Tumour Foundation after her husband died of one when she was 30.

VanderBeek is a business owner and prolific community volunteer who chairs the Dundas division of the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, the same organization that hosted Monday’s event.

Yull is an interior designer with many years experience as an independent business owner. She has written extensively on design, urbanMarcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was one of the most well known Roman Emperors, holding power from 161 to his death in 180. He was the last of the "Five Good Emperors" (named as such by 18th-century British historian Edward Gibbon), and is also considered one of the most important Stoic philosophers.

His tenure was marked by wars in Asia against a revitalized Parthian Empire, and with Germanic tribes into Gaul and across the Danube River. Marcus Aurelius' work Meditations, written in Greek while on campaign between 170 and 180, is still revered as a literary monument to a government of service and duty.

During his campaign against the Germanic tribes, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius expelled the tribes people which for some time


occupied the frontier city of Carnuntum, and for several weeks afterwards had his headquarters there. In that time, the Emperor's aide drew his attention to the remarkable case of a local woman tavern-keeper who complained of having been raped by a Roman soldier during the restoration of Imperial rule to the city (after having successfully avoided molestation by the Germanic invaders during their occupation). The woman set her demand for compensations in writing, presenting cogent legal arguments and showing a considerable grasp of the principles of jurisprudence. This was highly unusual for a woman in the Roman society - and a provincial woman, at that - where practice of the law was a strict male preserve. The Emperor, like his aide, found it very interesting and held along personal conversation with her.

Marcus Aurelius could not know, of course, that in fact the woman was a traveler from the future and that in her own society women could and did practice as lawyers. He informed her that under Roman law the government was not legally liable for the misdeeds of its civilian or military employees. Nevertheless, he was impressed enough by her demeanor to give her a generous compensation from his private purse, though careful to do it in a way which would not create a general precedent.

In Nicole Gunther's opinion, Marcus Aurelius was better leader of people than most politicians of her century. At the start of her meeting, Gunther expected to despise the Emperor for having dictatorial powers but found herself respecting him for


national politics, 43 from the music industry and seven from the sporting world.

"This investigation is massive and a testimony to how the attitude to victims is changing," said Sheila Taylor, chief executive of the National Working Group Network, a charity which tackles child sexual exploitation.

The issue of child abuse came to widespread prominence in 2012 when the late BBC TV presenter Jimmy Savile was shown to have abused hundreds of victims for decades.

Since then, other household names have been convicted, allegations have been made against a number of former or deceased politicians, while detectives are also looking into claims powerful figures forced police to drop inquiries into paedophile rings involving high-profile people.

Bailey said that 666 of the offenders being investigated were alleged to have carried out abuse atsaying they were investigating a clown threat made against Lehman High School, finding it to be a hoax. The district doesn’t believe there is any credible threat to the school, even if a threatening message was posted. Hays Public Information Officer Tim Savoy says the district is always on guard to protect their students and staff, but no operational changes have been made at this time.

On Thursday, Manor ISD, after receiving student reports of a clown walking around Manor High School, investigated the claims. The district tweeted they found no evidence of a clown on campus, but their school resource officers would continue to monitor the school.

Del Valle High School also sent a letter home to parents indicating they were aware of a rumor about clowns threatening the


Restoration Heaven

No detail was too small to be overlooked in the complete renovation of this stunning Palm Springs estate.

Built in 1948, this Old Las Palmas home in Palm Springs was recently restored to its early-midcentury style by designer Michael Koski.

PHOTOGRAPHS COURTESY BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY HOME SERVICES

No detail was too small to be overlooked in the complete renovation of this stunning estate in Old Las Palmas. Built in 1948, the entire property was recently restored to its early-midcentury style by designer Michael Koski. (Photographs of the house taken in 1952 helped guide the meticulous restoration.)

The classic U-shaped floor plan has a generous-size living room at its center that features tall, pitched ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace with an elegant limestone surround and a custom, wood-panelled over mantel. The voluminous, openapprehending suspected offenders, enforcing criminal and traffic laws, conducting preliminary investigations, and working with the community to solve neighborhood crime problems. The division is overseen by an assistant chief.  The officers are assigned to one of four geographical areas (known as zones), each of which is commanded by a captain. The officers assigned to each zone are further divided into squads (supervised by a sergeant) that cover rotating 12-hour shifts. The four patrol zones are:
 Zone 1 - the northwestern part of Gaston County, covering an area of  with a population of over 20,000 residents.
 Zone 2 - the northeastern part of the County, covering  with more than 30,000 residents.
 Zone 3 - the southern unincorporated areas of Gaston County, covering over  with nearly


Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Ariana Grande recently released her comeback single No Tears Left To Cry

Ariana Grande has said she wants to "bring light" to our lives with her new album in her first interview since last year's Manchester attack.

She didn't address the bombing directly but became emotional when US TV host Jimmy Fallon discussed it.

The pop star did announce her new album Sweetener, which is due this summer.

She said it is "about bringing light to a situation, or to someone's life, or somebody else who brings light to your life, or sweetening the situation".

Speaking on Fallon's NBC talk show, the 24-year-old singer did not say any more about the inspirations behind it.

It was the host who addressed the events of last May, when 22 peoplein the days after the attack: "We won't let hate win. Our response to this violence must be to come closer together, to help each other, to love more, to sing louder, and to live more kindly and generously than we did before."

Fallon added: "Thank you, pal."

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The star staged the One Love concert less than two weeks after the attack

Ariana and Manchester

Ian Youngs, arts & entertainment reporter

Ariana Grande wants to carry on being a "normal" pop star - on Fallon's show, she performed her new single, she took part in zany sketches, she talked about her new album to cheers from the excitable crowd.

And she is a brilliant pop star. But she will always be inextricably linked with the events of 22


May 2017. She is also only human.

I don't think the reason she didn't talk directly about Manchester is because she wants to distance herself from it - if that was the case, she would have asked Fallon not to mention it either. His comments would have been planned in advance.

Perhaps having him talk about it was a way of addressing the subject without having to discuss it herself. From the look on her face when he made his comments, perhaps it is just still too painful.

Six other things we learned from Ariana Grande's interview

This is a new chapter

Ariana said she didn't enjoy the process of making the face masks that are seen in the video for No Tears Left To Cry, the first single from the new album.

"Theywrap you up and they bandage you for like 30 or 40 minutes and you can't see. All of your senses are completely cut off," she said.

But she did add the meaning was "very deep - taking off one chapter and putting on another".

The album's coming in July or August

She said she's going to do "something special" on the 20th of every month until the album comes out. The first "something" is performing at the Billboard Music Awards on 20 May.

She then said there are only three 20ths until the release - putting the big day perhaps at 20 July, and certainly before 19 August.

We know who she's worked with

Namely Pharrell and Nas, and songwriters and producers Ilya and Savan Kotecha.

God is a woman

That, at least, is the


title of one of her songs.

And Ariana's grandmother prefers it to No Tears Left To Cry.

"She loves God Is A Woman," Ariana said. "I'll ask her, 'Hey Nonna, what do you think of my single? Do you like No Tears Left To Cry?' She was like, 'I love it... but you know Ariana, can we listen to God Is A Woman again?'"

She also revealed other song titles including The Light Is Coming (a religious theme, perhaps?), REM and Raindrops.

A family link with the past

Raindrops is "kind of like an intro" to the album, which is "a cover of a small part of a song from the '50s". That song is An Angel Cried by The Four Seasons.

"We were really close to finishing the album and I woke upRockefeller University's Jeffrey M. Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., a molecular geneticist whose discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has changed our understanding of the causes of human obesity, has received two prestigious awards for this work: the Gairdner Foundation International Award and the Passano Foundation Award.

Prior to his groundbreaking research, little was known about the components of the biologic system that controls weight, with many scientists questioning the very existence of such a homeostatic system. With leptin and Friedman's subsequent studies, the logic of an entirely new physiologic system has been established with direct implications for the pathophysiology of human obesity.

Friedman, Marilyn M. Simpson Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at Rockefeller and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical


Institute, received the Gairdner Award and gave a talk on the genetic roots of obesity on Tues., April 5 in Toronto, Canada. On Tues., April 19, he will receive the Passano Award at the Center Club in Baltimore, Md., and give the Passsano Foundation Award lecture at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

Discovery of leptin and its role in regulating body weight

In December 1994, Friedman and his colleagues published a landmark paper in the journal Nature, in which they identified a gene in mice and humans called obese (ob) that codes for a hormone he later named leptin, after the Greek word leptos, for thin. Friedman and colleagues showed that leptin is a hormonal signal made by the body's fat cells that regulates food intake and energy expenditure.genetic causes of a cluster of health problems called Syndrome X -- obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure and high blood cholesterol -- in a remote population of over 3,000 people on the Micronesian island Kosrae.

The Rockefeller scientists have turned to the people of Kosrae for two reasons. One, most Kosraeans can trace their heritage to a relatively small "founder " population of about 50 people who came from Polynesia about 1,000 years ago. Later, in the mid- to late-19th century, Caucasian whalers visited and in many cases settled on the island, and so today many Kosraeans can trace their ancestry to both groups.

The second reason the Kosraeans are ideal for studies of Syndrome X involves the more recent "westernization" of their lifestyles. For most of their thousand-year history,


Morphological changes of the TMJ condyles of 100 patients treated with the Herbst appliance in the period of puberty to adulthood: a long-term radiographic study.
One hundred consecutive patients were treated with the Herbst appliance in the period of puberty to adulthood. The orthopaedic effects on the morphology of the condyles were described from orthopantomographic and transpharyngeal radiographs. The orthopaedic treatment effect was, in most cases, visible as a change in morphology of the condyle, a double contour in the distocranial part of the condyle and sometimes also at the distal surface of the ramus. In patients at the peak of puberty, the double contour was distinct for a short time. In patients in late puberty, the double contour could be seen several months after treatment. At adulthood, malesshowed, in most cases, double contours, while females showed in most cases nearly unchanged condyles. When double contours were seen, these persisted for a few months to several years after Herbst treatment. The newly formed bone was stable and no TMJ problems were observed. The change in morphology and the double contour of the condyle can be interpreted as bone modelling. The newly formed bone on the posterior part of the condyle can be explained as a response to hypertropic chondrocytes, and that on the posterior part of the ramus as a response of resting osteoblasts to mechanically induced changes in the condyle (adaptive bone growth). In two cases, remodelling resorption was found in the anterior part of the condyle after Herbst treatment, again as a sign of


When Morris Beckman returned to Hackney after the Second World War, he - like other British Jewish servicemen - must have hoped his work was done in snuffing out fascism and the anti-semitism that drove the Holocaust.

It did not take him long to realise that it was not. After arriving at his parents’ East London home after six years of service as a merchant seaman, during which he had been twice torpedoed, Mr Beckman sensed an unease. His father told him: “The Blackshirts are back, the fascists are back.”

Against a backdrop of smashed windows and anti-Jewish graffiti, Oswald Mosley and his supporters had re-named themselves the “British League of Ex-Servicemen and Women”. By early 1946, they were once more holding outdoor meetings and seeking to regain the pre-warex-services personnel attended the meeting and so the 43 Group was born with the unvarnished intent of, quite literally, beating British anti-semitic activists into submission. Among these soldiers, sailors and airmen would be a teenage former British Army private who was serving an apprenticeship as a hairdresser and went by the name of Vidal Sassoon.

The resulting conflict, fought out in London’s Jewish suburbs and beyond by what became a force of more than 1,000 Jews and non-Jews, has largely fallen from popular memory.

But as its participants dwindle in number, it was announced this week that the story of their campaign is to be re-told in a six-part television drama for the BBC and the American network NBC, written by the Emmy-winning creator of Band of Brothers.

The Anglo-American producers


of the series announced that the project was in its “advanced stages” after spending three years researching the activities of the 43 Group and interviewing its remaining members.

Vidal Sassoon in 1959 (Getty)

What they will have uncovered is the uncompromising story of how a group of British Jews, hardened by experiences in the front line which saw them awarded battle honours including the Victoria Cross, felt morally obliged and politically compelled to break the law in the tatty, war-weary surroundings of late 1940s Britain to protect their families and community.

Having watched the Nazis rise from a small fringe party to become the authors of the Holocaust and after encountering official indifference (James Chuter Ede, the Home Secretary in Labour’s post-war reforming government, conspicuously failed to order a crackdown), herewere individuals who took the view that fire had to be fought with fire. As Sassoon later put it from his Hollywood mansion: “After Auschwitz, there were no laws.”

Where Mosleyites turned up to bait and persecute Jewish tailors in Hackney or Dalston, they found themselves confronted by former Commandos and Royal Marines well versed in mortal combat.

Julius Konopinsky, one of the 43 Group’s founding members, had more reason than many to see the virtues of such an approach. Having arrived in Hackney from Poland in 1939, he learnt in 1945 that his nine maternal uncles and aunts had been murdered by the Nazis. A year later, another uncle, who had survived Auschwitz, came to live with him.

Now 85, Mr Konopinsky said: “Call them fascists, call them Nazis, they


of every other note.
Dynamic keying circuitry permits duplication of the effects of tracker keying in a pipe organ.
Musical intervals which generate no beats are sometimes characterized as "perfect", or "pure". Early Western peoples had little liking for musical dissonance, and employed in their music, diatonic "just-temperament" scales having a small number of simple, interdependent numerical relations between their tone frequencies, no dissonances within the few commonly used musical intervals, excessive dissonances in uncommonly used intervals, few or no playable chords, and playability in only a single key. As cultural tolerance for dissonances increased, slight mistuning of several musical scale notes produced chromatic "mean-tone temperament" scales having perfect thirds, near-perfect fifths, reduced dissonances in other intervals, playable chords, playability in any musical key through employment of several extra keyboardChart 1. Total number of deaths and leading causes of death: by sex and age group, 2009 England and Wales Source: Office for National Statistics Download chart data XLS format

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Around half a million people, representing less than one per cent of the total population, died in England and Wales in 2009.1,2,3 The vast majority of deaths occurred at older ages, with almost eight out of ten men and nearly nine out of ten women dying at age 65 or above.

Approximately 500, or one in every 1,000 deaths, occurred in children between the ages of one and four years. In this age group the leading cause of death, accounting for around one in six male deaths, and one in seven


female deaths, was due to congenital anomalies; conditions present from birth.

External causes of death such as land transport accidents and suicide4 were the leading causes of death between the ages of five and 34 years. There were more than twice as many deaths among young males than young females, demonstrating the susceptibility of young males to death by external causes.

From the age of 35 onwards, the leading causes of death for men and women are dominated by chronic diseases and conditions, some of which may be linked to lifestyle.

Coronary heart disease, breast cancer and lung cancer were among the leading causes of death for men and women between the ages of 35 and 79 years. Over a third of all male deaths and a quarter of all femaledeaths occurred between the ages of 65 and 79 years.

For those aged 80 years and above coronary heart disease and stroke were the leading causes of death for both men and women. For men, influenza and pneumonia appear amongst the top three leading causes of death; these illnesses also appeared as a leading cause of death for males in the youngest age-group, one to four years. For women, dementia was prominent among the leading causes of death in this oldest age group and it is notable that the total number of deaths for women aged 80 years and above exceeded the combined total of all deaths amongst females at younger ages.

Source: Office for National Statistics

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption RAF Tornadoes have been bombing so-called Islamic State in Syria since 2 December

Russian air strikes in Syria are "giving advantage" to so-called Islamic State, the UK foreign secretary says.

Philip Hammond told MPs "the majority" of Russian strikes were targeting Syrian opposition forces rather than IS, thereby helping the extremist group "they claim to be engaged against".

The RAF has carried out more than 1,600 missions and 400 strikes on IS targets in Iraq and Syria, Mr Hammond said.

He said there had been no reports of civilian casualties due to UK action.

The UK has been conducting strikes against IS - also known as Isis, Isil or Daesh - in Iraq since August 2014.

The action, involving RAF Tornadoes and Reaper drones, was extended to Syriafollowing a Commons vote earlier this month.

Russia began air strikes in Syria in September, saying this had been requested by President Bashar al-Assad.

The Kremlin says it is targeting "all terrorists", but Syrian activists say that at least some Russian air strikes have hit civilians and Western-backed rebels opposed to President Assad.

Syria air strikes: What you need to know

Battle for Iraq and Syria in maps

Islamic State crisis: Coalition weaponry

Updating MPs on operations, the foreign secretary said 75% of Russian strikes had been on opposition groups fighting against IS.

"In the last two weeks, the Russians have attacked opposition forces between Homs and Aleppo and in the far north of Syria and, in doing so, have allowed Daesh to seek advantage on the ground.

"With our coalition partners - including the United


States - we will continue to urge the Russians at every opportunity to focus their fire solely on Daesh.

"It is unacceptable that Russian action is weakening the opposition and thus giving advantage to the very Daesh forces that they claim to be engaged against."

Mr Hammond said he would be attending a meeting on Friday of the International Syria Support Group in New York, and it was the clear intention of US Secretary of State John Kerry to try to get agreement for a ceasefire.

"Frankly, that will be highly challenging, but I commend him for his ambition," he said.

Image copyright EVN Image caption Russia has released stills it says show its cruise missiles hitting IS targets in Raqqa

Mr Hammond said steps would also be taken in New York tofurther strengthen the UN sanctions regime against IS.

And he announced that the UK had created "a coalition communications cell" which was working "to combat and undermine the Daesh brand" and counteract its propaganda

He said he could not provide details about the cell for security reasons, but added: "It's already having a visible and measurable effect on Daesh's communication channels."

Diplomatic push

Replying for Labour, shadow foreign minister Diana Johnson asked about talks to help end the Syrian civil war and remove President Assad from power.

"Of course, as the Opposition has consistently argued, military action could only ever be part of the package of measures needed to defeat Daesh and end the Syrian civil war," she told the Commons.

"The UK's overriding priority has to be supporting a diplomatic agreement which unites