Keisha Hill, Gleaner Writer

After 14 months of working assiduously to meet rigorous regulatory aviation requirements, Fly Jamaica Airways will officially take to the skies on Friday, January 25, with its inaugural flight scheduled to depart for the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.

Fly Jamaica Airways received its air operating certificate in September 2012 from the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA). The certificate is its licence to operate as an airline. In late December 2011, the airline received clearance from authorities in the United States, which determined that the airline has the capital to operate and just two weeks ago, Fly Jamaica finalised its operating schedules out of JFK.

Chief Operating Officer Captain Lloyd Tai said the response to the new airline has been overwhelming. "We have completedall the technical and commercial requirements. We are new and had to get accustomed to interfacing with the American system. The United States had to ensure that we were 100 per cent compliant," Tai said.

Tai said the airline will offer convenient and reliable service aimed at meeting the needs of its clients, especially those in the Jamaican diaspora. Fly Jamaica Airways will operate four flights weekly from Kingston and services will include two checked bags, free meals on all flights and service in all cabins.

Plans for Toronto, Guyana flights

"Initially, we will fly to New York; however, plans are in the pipeline to also fly to Toronto and also Guyana. Full service will also be offered, especially on our long flights when passengers will get a full meal. We


are also competitive in terms of our prices," Tai said.

Tai revealed plans to to acquire an additional aircraft by year-end to bring its fleet to two. The company, which already owns a Boeing 757 aircraft, came under heavy scrutiny and was thoroughly inspected by the JCAA to ensure that the required support systems and services were in place. Fly Jamaica currently employs more than 60 Jamaicans and will look to expand its crew complement with the additional aircraft.

Fly Jamaica Airways has created history as it is the first airline in Jamaica that has gone through the detailed regulations from scratch. Normally, an airline would take three to five years to meet these requirements. However, the airline has accomplished this feat in a relatively short time.

Speaking at the launchWeek 14 Fastest 2 minutes. We recap every game from Sunday (2:31 - 9:04). The Rams big win, the Bills fall short against the Dominant Ravens (9:04 - 22:04). Freddie Kitchens is a big dumb dumb (22:04 - 29:21). The Packers offense is weird (29:21 - 36:11). The Vikings bounce back, the 49ers win a shootout and George Kittle is a Beast. Dolphins try to win with only Field Goals, Jameis Winston's Mona Lisa. Drew Lock is for real, the Jaguars quit, and the Titans are the hottest team in the NFL. We finish up the recap with the Patriots vs the Chiefs and Duck's win in the desert. Who's back of the week (99:21 - 104:12). College Football Playoff break down and the Badgers broke Big Cat's


a ring-shaped cold-cathode tube, a dial 16 with a hole 16a, having almost the same diameter as that of the pointer 10, in the center thereof, and a light leakproof ring 17 fitted in the hole 16a.
The light leakproof ring 17 has a center slot formed all around its circumference, thereby making the section thereof concave. The rim-like peripheral edge portion 20a of the disk portion 20 of the pointer 10 is just fitted in the concave portion.
When the light source 15 is lighted in this state, light of the light source 15 directly, or after being reflected by the reflector 14, makes characters and graduations on the dial 16 appear. The light is also directed to the pointer 10 through the light receiving opening portion 22 ofCourt declared that the finding of negligence by the trial judge could not be disturbed. The Court ruled:

 The intention of the parties to be gathered from the whole of the document was that, as between the lessor and the lessee, the lessor should be exempt under both clauses 7 and 17 from liability founded on negligence (Locke J dissenting as to clause 7).
 The conduct of the Crown's employees did not amount to faute lourde.

CSL appealed the ruling to the Privy Council.

Privy Council
Appeal was allowed against the SCC judgment. Lord Morton of Henryton said that clause 7 did not exclude negligence liability in clear enough terms and clause 17 was ambiguous and would be construed against the Crown. The Crown could realistically be said to have been


... if this tank contained air.
He fainted, as he had fainted so often before, never knowing whether this was
death.

Page 15Since he was already wearing the patched spacesuit he might just as well run the
gantlet of vacuum again and replenish his supplies. He flooded his spacesuit
with air from the tank, resealed his helmet and sailed out into the frost and light ...

Page 16He could not remain conscious for more than a few more moments without
refilling his space- suit. He gave the approaching spaceship one pleading look,
then shot down to the tool locker and pumped his suit full. He mounted to the
control ...

Review: The Stars My Destination

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This book was published in 1956 – a time when traveling to the moon would still be science fictionwill immediately kick off and so they will be forced to pay for another go round for the other child as well. Win-win for the carousel-owner.

Went to see my first film in a French cinema today – no subtitles, all in French.

It was a harrowing tale of an illegal immigrant who has made his way to England, and settled in with a family, only to have his life turned upside-down when he is wrongfully accused of burglary.

The film then follows his life as it further deteriorates after he is imprisoned.

All hope is not lost though and, with the help of his heretofore under-utilised culinary skills, he manages to charm the other prisoners, and is accepted as one of them, despite his strange mannerisms and foreign ways.

The community where


caused.

So we come, at last, to the final day of the festival celebrating the Auld Alliance. As you read this the people who came to entertain and enthral the crowds will be packing up their kilts, deflating their bagpipes and making sure there’s enough fuel in their cars to make the long journey back to Scotland.

Except for the people who actually live here that is – they’ll just walk 100 yards to their house.

The festival co-coordinators have been lucky in their timing – the weather has been glorious throughout – which has brought the crowds and, crucially, made the crowds thirsty. My plan for next year’s festival is simple – buy lots and lots and lots of alcohol and fizzy pop and then sell it. Then the followingand critics who have been in the Irish music scene since the 1970s. Professor Michael Murphy of the Dun Laoghaire Institue of Art, Design and Technology, a historian of Irish popular music who previously worked for 20 years in the music industry, compiled the book with Niall McGuirk and is giving all proceeds to the Irish Red Cross fund for helping displaced Syrians.

The book will be released for sale on January 24 at an event at Liberty Hall, Dublin, at 7 p.m., with readings and performances from some of the musicians featured in it. Only a limited edition printing of 1000 copies are available, and some are ready now for online purchase for 15 Euros (the price includes postage). Retail sales in Dublin starts on February 1.

I previewed


an advance copy (and then later purchased one), and the contributions cover a wide range of acts playing in and outside of Ireland, from the 1970s – 2015, from David Bowie to Kings X to Sufjan Stevens.

Murphy notes that for U2 fans, In Concert has reflections on seeing U2 live from 1976 – 1992 by:

Neil McCormick

Cait O’Riordan (The Pogues)

Rory Stokes (The Sussed) on early opening shows for U2

Andrew Bass (Reveille) on opening for U2

Sean Campbell, author

Billy McGrath (TV producer, former manager of The Atrix)

Colm O’Dwyer

And there are many related pieces of interest, such as:

On The Clash gig at Trinity College Dublin that Bono saw

On the Virgin Prunes

Writings from U2’s early contemporaries, such as DC Nien, The Blades and Stiff Little Fingers

Contributions from members of In Tua Nua andPark (1983) and running in and out of radio, press and TV interviews it was good to get to spend time with them as people. They are a grounded and solidly interesting group of individuals. Couple of years later I joined RTE as a producer/director with music top of the list. Our paths crossed again. U2 were generous enough to allow me to produce & direct two TV docs – one in 1985 based around their Croke Park sold out show and the second a couple of years later – a half-hour special from their live show from Modena near Bologna in Italy. The first was a one off mad filming challenge and I probably caught the band for a couple of songs. Dave Fanning was the host


The value of geriatric care enhancement training for direct service workers.
This study reports on the evaluation of a skills-enhancement training series for direct service providers in home care that was part of a federally funded state-level initiative to improve employee recruitment and retention. The gerontological training curriculum included content to improve problem-solving, communication, and stress management skills in order to increase professionalism and self-efficacy. While the first year of training utilized a network of "real-time" compressed video-teleconferencing broadcast to satellite sites statewide, these broadcasts were videotaped and accompanied by trained moderator-led scripted case study discussions at each of the sites during the second year. As the training series progressed, there was a linear increase in the likelihood that training would change the way participants performed their jobs inChavira, who was working at Appellant's consumer loan office as an assistant manager,[1] to share the house. Chavira paid for a room of his own and a half share of the utilities. Appellee, however, had problems getting Chavira to pay his rent and bills in a timely fashion. Therefore, beginning in 1988, Appellee allowed Chavira to deposit checks into his personal bank account. When Chavira needed money, Appellee would either write him a check, withdraw money from an ATM, or give Chavira his ATM card to withdraw a specific amount.
Appellant is engaged in the business of consumer lending nationwide and had several branches in El Paso. Appellant employed approximately a dozen auditors who conducted periodic branch audits pursuant to a program encompassing 250 areas of office operation. The


El Paso Number One Branch ("the Branch"), where Chavira worked, was audited (the "250-point audit") in December 1987, and it received an above average "C+" rating, meaning that the Branch was running generally within company guidelines.[2] It is undisputed that this auditing program was not designed to detect fraud.
The Branch was not audited again until 1992. According to Appellant's former audit supervisor, a branch receiving a "C" grade would generally be audited again within approximately two years after the previous audit.[3]
In addition to the 250-point audits, Appellant employed regional managers, each responsible for eight to twelve branches, who were required to audit the branches in their region every 120 days by taking a statistical sampling of loans made since the previous 120 day audit. The sample loans werehim about the underlying fraudulent loans. Appellee examined twelve of the embezzled checks and confirmed his account number which appeared on each of the checks below the endorsement in Appellee's name. Appellee again denied knowledge of the checks and stated that the endorsements in his name were forgeries. Appellee stated that he did not have any roommates who might have access to his account without his knowledge.[4]
Chavira was arrested on December 29, 1991. Appellee bailed him out of jail the next day and took him to see an attorney. At this point, Appellee was informed about the fraud and the money being laundered through his account.
On May 15, 1990, Chavez and Klein gave the El Paso Police Department their investigative report entitled "Statement Regarding Embezzlement." This report provided,


his employer, ITT Financial Services. Chavira's actions, supported by his admissions, indicate that he acted intentionally, fully understanding the outcome of his acts and knowing that he had no legal basis for engaging in these fraudulent activities. His deceptive actions were accomplished without the effective knowledge or consent of ITT Financial Services.
The case was assigned to Dempsey Gunaca, Chief Investigator of the District Attorney's White Collar Crime Unit. Gunaca subpoenaed bank records in an effort to determine the disposition of the embezzled funds. He also hired a handwriting expert to determine whether the endorsements in Tovar's name were forgeries. Regarding the prosecution of Appellee, Gunaca testified as follows:
Q. Who made the decision to indict Daniel Tovar?
A. I made thatto indict him? The grand jury did. To present itAppellee saw a clinical social worker, a psychologist and a psychiatrist. He was diagnosed as suffering from major depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Thereafter, he was hospitalized as an outpatient for psychiatric treatment for two months at Sun Valley Behavioral Health Center.
On August 4, 1992, Appellee filed this action against Appellant alleging malicious prosecution, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence and gross negligence. At the close of Appellee's case-in-chief, the trial court directed a verdict in favor of Appellant on Appellee's malicious prosecution and defamation claims. The trial judge, who also heard Appellee's criminal case, ruled as follows on Appellant's motion for directed verdict:
With regards (sic) to the motion for directed verdict on the malicious prosecution claim, the Court finds that the Defendant ITT did not initiate


took statements from three employees who were working the day of the alleged theft.
Sweet provided the District Attorney for Aransas County with the results of his investigation. He signed an affidavit implicating Medina and two others in the thefts. Arrest warrants were sworn out against all three and theft charges were filed against them. After further investigation, however, the District Attorney's office dropped all charges against Medina.
Medina brought suit against Wal-Mart to recover for malicious prosecution and negligence in connection with Wal-Mart's institution of the theft prosecution. The charge included the following question: "Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the prosecution of Plaintiff, Esther Medina, for the offense of theft was instituted maliciously and without probable cause?" The jury responded negatively to this question.devised a scheme to defraud him. Although Dilling was aware that McMillon had served time in federal prison for bank fraud, he nevertheless made an initial investment in MEL.
In furtherance of the scheme to defraud Dilling, Price took a number of actions that NationsBank did not authorize. Price accepted an MEL check from McMillon against which she issued several cashier's checks in amounts exceeding the value of the MEL check. She fabricated deposit slips reflecting amounts deposited in MEL's account. Although NationsBank's internal policy required employees to obtain supervisory approval before issuing cashier's checks in amounts greater than $2,500, she did not seek approval.
McMillon presented Dilling the Nations-Bank deposit slips as evidence that MEL was a legitimate company. McMillon repaid Dilling's initial investment plus a return on that


Both Klein and Chavez continued to talk with the DA and urged the prosecution to go forward. Klein, apparently under pressure to see some results, expressed great frustration to his superiors concerning the lack of haste with which the DA was proceeding. The jury could have reasonably concluded that Tovar was his, and ITT's, best hope for recovering some money.
Klein left ADA Meraz with the impression he did not believe Tovar's story. Klein also told ADA McDonald, after Tovar was indicted, that Klein thought Tovar was an accomplice. His actions, when examined in the context in which they occurred, are factually sufficient evidence that Klein went beyond "all possible bounds of decency" and ensured that Tovar would be tried.
We find nothing extreme or outrageous in the conduct ofEchoes of Africa in the words of an American master.

One of the few things I remember from my graduate school days in English is the distinction to be made between internal and external evidence. Internal evidence is collected from the texts themselves, external from biographies and works of history. So I have been surprised, whenever I have picked up a volume of literary criticism in recent years, to see that this distinction is not as rigorously applied as in the past.

Sterling Stuckey, professor emeritus of history at the University of California at Riverside, gives only a passing nod to the distinction in the footnotes of this fascinatingbook, newly released in paperback. In the second chapter he writes that, in Benito Cereno, the story of a slave uprising on


Cereno and Moby Dick, noted in this chapter, would not be recognized for more than 150 years after their publication.

Personally, I think Melville was probably more concerned with the financial failure of his writing and his having to go to work in the Custom House of New York. Which is not to say that Melville was not deeply influenced by African culture in the writing of Benito Cereno and Moby Dick. Stuckey makes a strong case that Melville was intimately familiar with black music and dance in his childhood through the recurrent parades of black musicians in New York streets, and through the proximity of his family’s neighborhood in Albany with Pinkster Hill, where blacks and whites would gather for festivals featuring much black music and dancing. AndNEW YORK — Donald Trump said he sees ambulances as the ideal vehicles for his proposed policy to deport more than 11 million people living illegally in the United States.

The Republican presidential candidate, increasingly being pressed to give details on his ideas, mentioned ambulances when a supporter at a Central Park rally yelled, "By planes, trains or automobiles."

Trump, seen in several photos gazing at an ambulance on standby when the supporter yelled, quickly added to the remarks.

The proposed policy will deport more than 11 million people living illegally in the United States.

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"You are right. America's got great, just tremendous mass infrastructure transit and


those ambulances could be used for putting people to work and getting our country back," Trump said.

At least two ambulances from a local EMS agency are on Secret Service standby during the candidates' increasingly violent events.

"Ambulances are big. Big enough for an entire family. Not my family, though – we travel in a gold Gulfstream. But definitely for immigrant families," Trump said.

The crowd roared in approval of Trump's goal to keep families together, an oft-repeated refrain by the candidate.

"In the ambulance Grandma can ride on the bed stretcher with her air tank and all the kids can pile on the bench seat, just like a day in the park, and we'll put mom back there," Trump said.

"And they can play games and sing and maybe even deal someDe Bello Gallico, but De Bello Civili, De Bello Alexandrino, De Bello Africo, and De Bello Hispaniensi, always in that order. The oldest manuscript in this class is MS Paris lat. 3864, written at Corbie in the last quarter of the ninth century. For De Bello Gallico, the readings of α are considered better than β.

The editio princeps was published by Giovanni Andrea Bussi at Rome in 1469.

See also
 Roman Army
 Commentarii de Bello Civili
 De Bello Alexandrino
 De Bello Africo
 De Bello Hispaniensi
Treatise on War

References

External links

 At Perseus Project: Caesar's Gallic War—De Bello Gallico, English translation by W. A. MacDevitt and W. S. Bohn (1869); Latin text edition.
 At Gutenberg Project:
 Caesar's Commentaries (The War in Gaul – The Civil War), English translation by W. A. MacDevitt,


his single appearance on the first-team bench, and for Jacques Maghoma, who opened the scoring after Wes Thomas intercepted an attempted back pass. Rovers soon equalised, but Andy Shinnie secured the win with a low shot from . Victory came rather more easily in the second round at home to League One club Gillingham, as two goals from Thomas earned Birmingham a trip to Villa Park in the third round.

Because of the history of trouble at recent fixtures against Aston Villa, Birmingham's allocation of tickets was set at 2,800, less than the 10% of capacity required under the rules of the competition, and far fewer than the 6,500 given to another local team, West Bromwich Albion, in the 2014–15 FA Cup. Rowett selected a full-strength team, and Skyports in Russia’s North West and a deep-water sea port in Arkhangelsk are currently under development, and a Chinese investor is interested in joining.

The Murmansk and Arkhangelsk regions are major logistical hubs, connecting the Northeast Passage with Europe and internal Russian transport arteries, says Sergei Shinkarev, head of the business council at the state commission for Arctic development issues. “The transport opportunities are the drivers of growth for the regions’ economies, despite the strong mineral resources extraction sector,” he says.

According to Shinkarev, major projects aimed at the development of the region include the shipbuilding cluster in Arkhangelsk and new transport solutions in Murmansk. On March 27, Russian independent gas producer Novatek said it will invest more than RUB25bn (€405mn) in a shipyard in Murmansk for its Arctic projects.

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the sanctions. Overall, the US company scaled down nine out of ten joint projects with Rosneft since 2014, including exploration and potential production in the offshore area in the Arctic, Black Sea, and Western Siberia.

But with Moscow and Washington anticipating more ‘pragmatic’ cooperation under US President Donald Trump, the oil companies are again looking at possibilities when the sanctions are eventually eased or lifted. The appointment of former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State is expected to facilitate cooperation in the energy sphere in particular.

On March 17, the current head of ExxonMobil Darren Woods confirmed at a meeting in Moscow his interest in participating in projects in Russia, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said.Abstract: The apparent complexity of the laser‐plasma coupling in laser fusion target irradiation has stimulated the need for carefully controlled experimental studies of the laser‐plasma interaction at the critical surface. A helium Z pinch has been constructed which produces a high density plasma, independent of the laser, enabling the separation of the laser‐plasma interaction physics from the plasma formation mechanism. Its peak electron density (4×1019 cm−3), critical density scale length (70–200 μ), and temperature (∼25 eV) make it suitable for simulating and studying laser‐pellet interaction mechanisms at CO2 laser wavelengths. Detailed numerical modelling of these experiments was employed as a check against our diagnostics, as well as providing physical insight in those ranges of experimental parameters where measurements were not made.


Terry Logan

Terry Logan is a singer/songwriter and guitarist from Hebden Bridge. With life-affirming lyrics, and soulful sound, her songs remind us of the importance of happiness and kindness.

Terry has supported legends such as Donn Letts (BBC Radio 6 Music) and American R&B singer Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band. She was also asked to join Lee Scratch Perry on stage at The Trades Club as part of his 80th Birthday Tour. Following a number of successful years gigging with a band, Terry launched her solo career at the Hebden Bridge Folk Roots Festival in May 2016, supporting Chris Helme. The video of one of her original songs live on BBC Radio Leeds quickly clocked up thousands of views.

At Festival 23 Terry, along with the sensational Chris Manleyon guitar, will showcase songs from her debut album due for release Spring 2017.

“Singing and making music is Terry’s Dharma.” Tony Rigg, The Laboratory Project entrepreneur and former Ministry of Sound Operations Director

“A star on the rise.” Hebden Bridge Times

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the specificity required by the

Association (the Second Application). The only portion of the Second Application that

appears in the appellate record is an engineer's drawing, which is much more detailed

than the contractor's drawing that was originally submitted with the Application. Among

other things, the drawing shows that several portions of Scarvaci's fence and some trees

will be relocated. The fence and trees will be removed from a strip on the northwest

portion of the 15-foot-wide easement where a four-foot-wide decomposed granite trail

will be placed next to an 11-foot-wide paved road. We infer from the parties' comments

that this four-foot-wide strip is to be used as a horse trail as an alternative to the

pavement. The engineer's drawing attached to the Second Application did not include the

drainage berms shown in the contractor's drawing for theApplication.

        Freis sought to submit the Second Application to the Association. The

Association required Scarvaci's signature on the Second Application before it would act

upon the Second Application, but Scarvaci refused to sign it. Scarvaci objected to the

Second Application because the construction plans (1) included the removal of her trees

and fence, which she contended were not located within the easement area; (2) did not

show the construction of berms needed for drainage; and (3) located the decomposed

granite horse trail on the northwest side of the paved road instead of on the southeast

side.

        Freis brought a motion to enforce the settlement. Specifically, Freis sought an

order requiring Scarvaci to sign the Second Application or appointing an elisor to sign


position of
the Association. As shown in their declaration, both of the declarants were involved in
                                              6
       In July and August 2013, while the motion to enforce the settlement was pending,

the parties — through counsel — engaged in discussions to try to come to an agreement

on those items in the Second Application to which Scarvaci objected, but they failed to

reach an agreement.

       On August 26, 2013, the trial court granted the motion     10
explain, we find nothing in the settlement agreement indicating Scarvaci's agreement to

approve a different construction plan.

       First, Scarvaci's agreement to sign the Application attached to the settlement

agreement cannot reasonably be interpreted as an agreement to the different construction

plans reflected in the engineer's drawing attached to the Second Application. Rather than

merely adding a level of specificity not present in the original contractor's drawing, the

engineer's drawing attached to the Second Application is materially different. The

construction plans set forth in the Second Application require the removal of several

portions of Scarvaci's fence, the removal of some of Scarvaci's trees, and the creation of a

four-foot-wide decomposed granite horse trail. It also fails to include the berms for

drainage purposes included in the original


after receiving the Association's feedback on the Application —

Scarvaci does not consent to Freis's attempt to pave the easement and therefore will not

sign the Second Application. Scarvaci's refusal to consent to the Second Application has

resulted in the cessation of the process of obtaining the Association's approval to pave the

easement, effectively serving as a denial of a permit to pave the easement due to

Scarvaci's refusal to participate in the process.

       As Scarvaci's lack of consent to Freis's application to pave the driveway has

resulted in the Association's refusal to issue a permit, paragraph 7 of the settlement

agreement applies. Accordingly, upon remand, the case must be removed from the

dismissal track and reactivated so that Freis may pursue his lawsuit seeking relief from

Scarvaci's refusal to allowlease to say she was running late. She told the apartment manager that she planned to arrive around 2:10 p.m., according to the criminal complaint.

Surveillance video showed Zhang boarding a university bus around 1:35 p.m. and getting off about 1:52 p.m. Four minutes later, she tried to flag down another bus, but the bus did not stop, the complaint said, so Zhang walked to another bus stop.

At 2 p.m., a car passed Zhang at the bus stop and circled the block, coming back to her, the complaint said. Authorities allege that Christensen was the driver.

Three minutes later, the car slowed and pulled over to her, and Zhang was seen speaking with the driver through the passenger window for about a minute, the complaint said. At 2:04 p.m., Zhang


got in to passenger seat and the car drove away, according to the complaint.

When the apartment manager texted Zhang around 2:38 p.m., she didn’t respond, the complaint said. That night, an associate professor reported Zhang missing and authorities -- including the FBI, the university police and the Illinois state police -- launched a search for her.

The investigation

Christensen, who authorities allege was behind the wheel of the car that picked up Zhang, initially said he could not remember his whereabouts on June 9, the complaint said. Christensen later said he must have been sleeping or playing video games at home all day, according to the complaint. He had received a master's degree in physics from the University of Illinois earlier this year, according to the Associated Press.

Later, during aninterview at the FBI's Champaign office, Christensen "admitted to driving around the UI campus when he observed an Asian female with a backpack standing at a corner appearing distressed," the complaint said. Christensen then claimed that he drove up to her and she said she was late to an appointment and that he offered her a ride. He said she got into his car and tried to show him where she needed to go, the complaint said.

According to the complaint, "Christensen claimed that he believed he made a wrong turn, because the female became panicked, at which point Christensen claimed that he let her out of the vehicle in a residential area a few blocks away from where he picked her up."

But on June 29, Christensen allegedly was


"captured on audio recording while under law enforcement surveillance explaining how he kidnapped" Zhang. The complaint said Christensen admitted to bringing her back to his apartment and holding her there against her will.

The criminal complaint, filed June 30, said that law enforcement does not believe Zhang is still alive.

According to the complaint, Christensen's phone was used in April to visit a sexual fetish networking website called FetLife.com. The complaint said Christensen’s phone accessed a forum on the site called “'Abduction 101,' to include sub-threads 'Perfect abduction fantasy' and 'planning a kidnapping.'"

Suspect appears in court as Zhang's supporters rally outside

This morning, several hundred students, faculty members and members of the Chinese community were outside the federal courthouse in Urbana to support the Zhang family as Christensen made his initialThe Soapbox Derby Hit the Skids. Hey, Maybe There's a Movie in That!

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rates by the Federal Reserve in response to the current economic climate to the lowest levels we have seen in years, the interest rates offered by high yield savings accounts and high interest certificate of deposits are now simply not as attractive as they once were, only a few years ago. With the stock market still suffering from unstable price swings and massive volatility across all sectors, it makes present day sense to look towards alternative investment ideas to make some money.

While I have been a quiet Lending Club member for a few years now since the online company opens its doors to loan investors, I haven't felt the need to review the program until now. Until recently, the top high yield savings account and best CD ratesThe state officials are set to meet the representatives of ELN in Ecuador in late October, both sides confirmed on Monday.

The Colombian ELN or National Liberation Front is estimated to have between 1,500 and 2,000 fighters, putting its force at around one-quarter of the more influential FARC.

"Peace won't slip through our fingers," President Juan Manuel Santos said after the Monday announcement. "On the contrary, it will be stronger, and now that we will advance with the ELN, it will be complete."

Earlier on Monday, ELN handed one of their hostages to the International Red Cross, marking a third such instance in the last two weeks. The group still holds at least two people, including a prominent politician Odin Sanchez who handed himself over to the group in April. In


doing so, Sanchez secured the release of his brother Patrocinio Sanchez, a former governor whose health was failing after spending years in ELN captivity.

The leftist group largely raises money by extortion and kidnapping. The fate of hostages has proven to be major stumbling block since the government first opened the peace talks in 2014. According to some sources, the guerilla group is now planning on liberating all of its captives.

President Santos adressing the nation after the ELN announcement

Uribe pushes for tougher deal

The talks with the ELN, however, took a back seat with the government's bid to end the decades-long war with FARC. Although both sides managed to sign a peace deal two weeks ago, the public narrowly rejected the accord in a shock vote several days later. Theopponents of the deal claim it was too lenient to the guerilla faction.

Former president Alvaro Uribe, who led the "no" campaign, urged the government on Monday to change the deal and set harsher terms for surrendering FARC leaders.

The original deal envisioned the group handing over their weapons and confessing their crimes, and restraining the movement of more serious offenders to designated areas for the next eight years. The deal would also give the group seats in the parliament and declare immunity from traditional jail sentences. Some members would still receive unconventional punishments, like clearing landmines.

Time 'biggest enemy'

Uribe, however, wants the criminals locked up for a minimum of five years, although the place of internment could be an agricultural farm. He also called for FARC representatives to be barred


from holding public office, and for thousands of militia members to help destroy cocoa crops.

In response, the current president Santos urged Uribe's camp to be realistic in mending the accord, which is almost 300-pages long and took nearly four years to negotiate.

"We have to work with speed and promptness because our biggest enemy now is time," Santos said. "The eyes of the world are upon us and they expect the best."

Latin America's longest armed conflict comes to an end How the insurgency started In 1948, the assassination of populist leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan sparked political chaos in Colombia known as "the violence." Tens of thousands died and peasant groups joined with communists to arm themselves. Later in 1964, a military attack on the insurgency's main encampment led tothe creation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia or FARC.

Latin America's longest armed conflict comes to an end What the rebels wanted FARC's political ideology has never been well defined. Initially, it sought to weaken the oligarchy's grip on power. The rebels also wanted land reforms in a country where more than 5 million people have been forcibly displaced, mostly by far-right militias. However, the group lost popularity as it turned to kidnapping and illegal gold mining for funds.

Latin America's longest armed conflict comes to an end How the US got involved To help the Colombian security forces fight against the insurgency and to counter drug-trafficking, the US began sending billions of dollars under Plan Colombia. The US State Department classifies the group as a terrorist organization


and its leaders face US indictments.

Latin America's longest armed conflict comes to an end The human cost of the conflict Latin America's longest-running armed conflict is responsible for the death an estimated 220,000 people, while millions of Colombians have been displaced within their country. According to Bogota’s estimates, there are 7.6 million direct and indirect victims of the conflict. The country has more landmine victims than any country except for Afghanistan.

Latin America's longest armed conflict comes to an end Peace accord after decades of failed attempts Peace talks between FARC and the government collapsed in the mid 1980s after at least 3,000 allies of FARC's political wing Patriotic Union Party were killed at the hands of right-wing paramilitaries. Efforts fell short again in 2002 after the rebels hijackedan airliner to kidnap a senator. The latest round of talks started in 2012 in Havana and culminated on August 24, 2016 with a deal.

Latin America's longest armed conflict comes to an end 50 years of conflict "We have reached a final, integral and definitive agreement" to end the conflict and build a stable, lasting peace, the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia said in a joint statement. In June, the negotiators had already announced a cease-fire agreement and a blueprint for how the estimated 7,000 to 8,000 fighters will demobilize. Author: Aasim Saleem

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pieceWhen it was spun out from Google last year, Sidewalk Labs promised to improve urban living by creating "smart cities." Now, in documents obtained by the Guardian, we've got an idea of exactly how the Alphabet company envisions these cities will work. In proposals offered to Columbus, Ohio — the winner of the $40 million Smart City challenge award organized by the US Department of Transport — Sidewalk Labs says it will use camera-equipped cars to keep track of empty private parking spaces and offer them for short-term rental, and combine various methods of transport under one app, integrating car-sharing services, bus routes, and even bike lanes to create a new kind of public transport.

The company is reportedly offering Columbus a three-year trial of its capabilities, bringing 100


Q:

What does the phrase "whizzes by in a giddy blur" mean here?

Could you please help me understand the meaning of the phrase "whizzes by in a giddy blur" in the following text (not available online) from the description of the game "Retro Bowl":

Controlling your team’s offensive plays with passes, deft sidesteps,
  and carefully timed drives for the line, the gameplay whizzes by in a
  giddy blur – particularly when the opposition are in possession, their
  actions described by a text commentary.

Thank you for your time.

A:

"Whizzes by" means "moves quickly past". With regard to an event, it refers to the passage of time. The writer is saying that the gameplay moves quickly.
"Blur", when used literally, describes an image that is indistinct or unclear. In many cases,An Oklahoma sheriff requested a sexual relationship with one of his female employees in exchange for hiring her husband, investigators said Thursday.Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Carter County Sheriff Milton Anthony at his office about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was booked into the county jail on a felony bribery charge and released after posting a $20,000 bond.Anthony, 65, who has been sheriff of the southern Oklahoma county since January 2014, didn't immediately return a telephone call to his office seeking comment. It was not immediately clear if he is represented by an attorney.The female employee's husband was hired shortly after the sexual contact started, and sexual contact between the sheriff and the employee continued for several months, according to the OSBI. When the woman tried to


end the contact, Anthony allegedly insinuated he would alter her work hours and even fire her and her husband if she did not continue with their agreement.The woman began saving the sheriff's texts and recorded a conversation between her and the sheriff in April. The OSBI said the communications are considered evidence in the bribery case.If convicted, Anthony faces a possible sentence of up to 10 years in prison and forfeiture of his office.Anthony is the latest Oklahoma sheriff in recent years to face legal problems.Wagoner County Sheriff Robert Steven Colbert and a sheriff's captain were indicted by Oklahoma's multicounty grand jury in March on felony counts of bribery and extortion. The pair is accused of taking $10,000 from two motorists in exchange for not pursuing drug chargesagainst them in December 2014.Longtime Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz resigned in November after being indicted on misdemeanor charges involving an investigation of his agency following the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a volunteer reserve sheriff's deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun. Glanz has pleaded not guilty.The former reserve deputy, wealthy insurance executive Robert Bates, 74, was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday after being convicted of second-degree manslaughter.

An Oklahoma sheriff requested a sexual relationship with one of his female employees in exchange for hiring her husband, investigators said Thursday.

Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Carter County Sheriff Milton Anthony at his office about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was booked into the county jail on a felony bribery charge


and released after posting a $20,000 bond.

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Anthony, 65, who has been sheriff of the southern Oklahoma county since January 2014, didn't immediately return a telephone call to his office seeking comment. It was not immediately clear if he is represented by an attorney.

The female employee's husband was hired shortly after the sexual contact started, and sexual contact between the sheriff and the employee continued for several months, according to the OSBI. When the woman tried to end the contact, Anthony allegedly insinuated he would alter her work hours and even fire her and her husband if she did not continue with their agreement.

The woman began saving the sheriff's texts and recorded a conversation between her and thesheriff in April. The OSBI said the communications are considered evidence in the bribery case.

If convicted, Anthony faces a possible sentence of up to 10 years in prison and forfeiture of his office.

Anthony is the latest Oklahoma sheriff in recent years to face legal problems.

Wagoner County Sheriff Robert Steven Colbert and a sheriff's captain were indicted by Oklahoma's multicounty grand jury in March on felony counts of bribery and extortion. The pair is accused of taking $10,000 from two motorists in exchange for not pursuing drug charges against them in December 2014.

Longtime Tulsa County Sheriff Stanley Glanz resigned in November after being indicted on misdemeanor charges involving an investigation of his agency following the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by a volunteer reserve sheriff's deputy who said


he mistook his handgun for his stun gun. Glanz has pleaded not guilty.

The former reserve deputy, wealthy insurance executive Robert Bates, 74, was sentenced to four years in prison Tuesday after being convicted of second-degree manslaughter.

during the 1980s, knows that a shift in priorities by the Clinton administration could translate into less international support — and even less aid — for Israel.

The one opening Albright provided was to arrange for more separate meetings in the coming weeks with Israeli and Palestinian officials in Washington and New York.

But given the tenseness of Israeli-Palestinian relations, hardly anyone is putting much faith in those meetings.

For now, the Ras al-Amud affair is clearly on many minds. Several settler families moved into the predominantly Arab neighborhood on Sunday night after a district planning board upheld a July decision by the Jerusalem municipality to grant Miami-based developer Irving Moskowitz permits to build 70 housing units for Jews.

The action took place only days after Albright called on Israel to take


a “timeout” from taking “provocative” steps, particularly Israeli construction plans on disputed land.

When Israel began groundbreaking in March for a new Jewish neighborhood at Har Homa in southeastern Jerusalem, the Palestinians suspended negotiations with Israel.

The Ras al-Amud move has the potential to be even more explosive. In contrast to Har Homa, which is located in a relatively isolated area, Ras al-Amud is a densely populated Arab section of Jerusalem.

Indeed, Defense Minister Yitzhak Mordechai and other government moderates warned that the action could trigger violence throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, a warning loudly voiced by leading members of the Palestinian leadership and by members of the Israeli opposition.

Jerusalem police officials said the settlers’ title deeds were in order, but Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein said the governmenttown.

The fairgrounds and it’s quirks along and the ThunderDome are all part of the tapestry that makes up the foundation of the franchise. Hockey in Tampa, Florida isn’t some fad or passing fancy. Maybe it was when Roenick stepped on the ice during the very first game in franchise history as a 22-year old coming off a 50-goal season (he was held pointless in the 7-4 Lightning victory), but its not any longer. Anyone who says it is, is just plain wrong.

The second time Roenick appeared at a major event in Lightning history was the first All-Star Game held at what was then known as the Ice Palace in 1999.

“Lots of memories. It was Gretz’s [Wayne Gretzky] last all star game and being close to him, knowing him,


That was a celebration of Gretz, a celebration of Gordie and it was a phenomenal time down there.”

The 1999 All-Star Game was most definitely the Wayne Gretzky show. Even at the time, it was widely recognized that it would most likely be his last appearance as an all-star and was celebrated as such. Eric Lindros, despite being listed as the starting center for Team North America, gave up his spot on the ice so that Gretzky could be introduced to a chorus of cheers. He then went on to record a goal and two assists and earned the MVP honors, because that’s what Gretzky does. The Great One wasn’t the only one honored in 1999. As Roenick mentioned, Gordie Howe was there and participated in the Heroes gameskating alongside his sons Mark and Marty. The NHL also unveiled the Maurice Richard Trophy for the first time in Tampa.

There wasn’t much of a celebration of the past at this season’s All-Star game. In fact, it was more about the future. The oldest players were goalies (Henrik Lundqvist, Mike Smith and Pekka Rinne are all 35) and they are three years younger than Gretzky was in 1999. The stars of this year’s game were all young players, from Connor McDavid beating Brayden Point in the faster skater to Brock Boeser (and his glorious hair) winning MVP. There were also no tributes to veterans (or even an old-timers game). The NHL is wise to focus on its future and not its past as there are a ton of


Podsosenka train disaster

The Podsosenka train disaster happened on March 3, 1992 at 5:15 (local time) near Nelidovo, Tver Oblast in Russia.

Passenger train 004 en route from Riga to Moscow failed to stop at restrictive signal, and collided with an oncoming freight train at station Podsosenka. The collision of the two diesel locomotives caused a fire, which spread to the passenger cars. 43 people were killed, and 108 injured.

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Category:March 1992 events in Europebanging out breakfast in nearby guesthouse kitchens. I turned west and headed towards the roar of the water.

The Kali Gandaki river bed is nearly a quarter mile wide in most places around the village, and as the river slowly meanders back and forth across the valley, breaking up and remerging, undulating from bank to bank over the course of the day, it is continuously revealing a new landscape of stones and silt. The trick to finding Shaligrams, as one veteran pilgrim once taught me, was to first find one of the many small, shallow, side-streams branching off from the deep central currents. The best streams were the ones in the process of moving off course, easily identified by the tall banks of sediment actively breaking off and sliding


This is where the exchange or attribution of viewpoints also becomes possible; where the deities’ desires and actions are open to interpretation, ambiguous, and communally shared. For Shaligrams, darśan constitutes the first vital link merging stone and body as well as between deity and fossil, a link that is initially established beginning with the physical movements and spaces of ritual.

Arrangements of darśan altars (deities, deity accessories, miniature animals or people, photographs, sacred stones, etc.) are often carried out with the intention that each piece of the diorama can be connected to sacred texts, local events, household needs, and historical narratives that relate to the place or to the person that the altar currently serves. On an earlier trip to West Bengal, where I was first introduced to Shaligramsfamilies, or of specific children. But this layering of time in the context of mythic origin became even more complex within the relationships between Shaligram and devotee where, in the example above, the Shaligram is simultaneously Krishna as an infant in the presence of his mother Yashoda as well as the Hindu woman in the presence of her own mother now deceased. Unsurprisingly, several areas along the banks of the Kali Gandaki river are often used to perform death memorial pujas and more often than not, Shaligrams are incorporated. This begins the bridging of birth and death through the flow of the river which mirrors the bridging of birth and death in the familial genealogy (inheritance) of the Shaligram. In this case, an old Shaligram, passed from mother


to daughter, was carried and worshipped by a woman who spent her lifetime as a doting mother to her children. Then, a new Shaligram is born out of the river, which becomes that same deceased mother’s care beyond death, encapsulated in the story of Krishna Gopala. Through the material linking of myth, ritual, and landscape, both the deity and the dead can then be “seen.” This practice of seeing and being seen by the deity (and the dead) is one of the most common, and most important, parts of ritual practice among observant Hindus and is, also, one of the major driving forces behind pilgrimage in Mustang, and throughout South Asia.

Searching for Shaligrams is its own kind of darśan. As I walked with particular care not to disturbin places. Climb the flake and then traverse left on the black slab to another flake. Continue up the water streak to join the corner and up this to belay below the roof.

20 metres - Climb up to the roof, then traverse left and up awkwardly onto a ledge. Up the easy, mossy slab to finish.

Needs cleaning. Start as for 'High Spirits'. Climb up to the top of the flake and step right into a groove. Up this on positive holds past a bolt to a ledge. Easy climbing leads to a belay below the big roof. Scramble off right.

Sustained and poorly protected. Start on the lower slab, to the right of the steepest section. Scramble up the gully between the easy angled slabs and the cliff proper


Leader Osama Bin Laden Killed

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has been killed in an American-led operation in Pakistan, US President Barack Obama has announced.

In the latest pictures from Abbotabad, a town just 60 miles from the Pakistani capital Islamabad, flames are seen rising from a building that was the apparent target of the raid.

It is thought Bin Laden had been living in a $1m villa in Abbotabad.

He was reportedly asked to surrender by US forces before he was shot.

Pakistani television stations have broadcast what they say is a confirmed photograph of the bloodied face of the world's most wanted man after he was killed.

In the last few minutes, David Cameron has been speaking from Downing Street, saying the news would be welcomed across the country.

"It is, Ibelieve, a massive step forward," he said.

Earlier, President Obama confirmed in a news conference: "I can report to the American people and to the world, that the US has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden."

The US president said he was briefed about a possible lead to the whereabouts of the the world's most wanted man and mastermind of the September 11 attacks in August and last week appproved an operation "to bring Bin Laden to justice".

"A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties," President Obama said.

The body of Bin Laden - who fled the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 - was recovered by US officials from the compound


in Abbottabad, northwest of Pakistan, where he had been hiding.
President Obama said: "After a firefight they killed Osama Bin Laden and took custody of his body."

A US official told reporters that the corpse was being handled in accordance with Islamic customs.

Sky News' chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay said: "I am told that this happened in an attack on a house at 1.30 in the morning Pakistan time. The house has been cordoned off."

It was not clear how long Bin Laden had been staying at the compound.

Reuters quoted a US official as saying a son of Bin Laden's and two other adults were also killed in the raid.

US citizens welcomed the news with hundreds of people gathering outside the White House and in New York's Times Square.

Sky's US correspondent RobertNisbet said: "We seem to be building a picture that this was very well thought through. Obviously the president was informed every step of the way.

"It appears to have happened a few days ago with final confirmation coming today."

President Obama spoke to former president George W Bush and former President Bill Clinton before announcing Bin Laden's death.

President Bush said it was a "momentous achievement".

"The fight against terror goes on, but tonight America has sent an unmistakable message: No matter how long it takes, justice will be done," he said in a statement.

President Obama also warned that "al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks" against the US.

"The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation's effort to defeat al
Qaeda. His death does not


at home and abroad."
Britain remains at its second-highest threat level of severe, meaning a militant attack is considered highly likely.
LONDON ATTACK
Cameron said bin Laden, who was killed on Sunday in a firefight with U.S. forces in Pakistan, had been responsible for ordering the death of many British citizens both at home and in other parts of the world.
In July 2005, four young British Islamists inspired by al Qaeda killed 52 commuters in suicide bomb attacks on the capital's transport network. Sixty-six Britons died in the attacks of September 11, 2001, on New York and Washington.
"Above all today we should think of the victims of the poisonous extremism that this man has been responsible for," Cameron said.
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, in power at the time of the 2005and September 11 attacks, offered his "heartfelt gratitude" to U.S. President Barack Obama for the operation.
"The operation shows those who commit acts of terror against the innocent will be brought to justice, however long it takes," he said in a statement.
Cameron had been phoned by Obama in the very early hours of the morning, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.
The prime minister then spoke to members of the cabinet as well as National Security Adviser Peter Ricketts.
Bin Laden was shot during an attack on a compound in Abbottabad, north of Islamabad, despite the general assumption being that he had been in the mountainous region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
"Well, you end up in the business of world politics, terrorism, diplomacy, not being surprised by anything in the end," Hague said,


when asked about bin Laden's whereabouts.
Hague said Britain's work in Afghanistan, where it has 9,500 troops, would remain "phenomenally difficult and must go on."
(Additional reporting by Adrian Croft; Editing by Keith Weir)

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Foreign Secretary William Hague said Omar Jelban was "persona non grata" and had been given 24 hours to leave the country.

Diplomatic missions belonging to a number of Nato states have been targeted after an airstrike reportedly killed Muammar Gaddafi's youngest son and three of his grandchildren.
All that remains of what was the British embassy building is a burnt-out shell.
Mr Hague said: "I condemn the attacks on the British Embassy premises in Tripoli as well as the diplomatic missions of other countries.
"The Vienna Convention requires the Gaddafi regime to protect diplomatic missions in Tripoli. By failing todo so that regime has once again breached its international responsibilities and obligations.
"I take the failure to protect such premises very seriously indeed.
"As a result, I have taken the decision to expel the Libyan Ambassador. He is persona non grata pursuant to Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and has 24 hours to leave the country.
"The attacks against diplomatic missions will not weaken our resolve to protect the civilian population in Libya."
:: Daily video blogs from Sky's Mark Stone in Tripoli
Meanwhile, a UN spokeswoman has confirmed international staff are preparing to pull out of Tripoli because of the unrest in the capital.
And in the Libyan city of Misratah, rebels are said to be fighting for control of the city's airport from forces loyal to Col


A tale of two murders

India has seen new attacks to minorities. Two more people have been killed, and Indians should start caring, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara

Two brutal murders have taken place in India. Neither of them will stay in the news for very long.

It’s 15 December 2017 as I write this blog, and 16 December will make it five years since the infamous Delhi rape went viral, globally.

On 9 December 2017, a 6-year-old dalit girl was kidnapped as she lay sleeping next to her mother and two siblings. The father, a rag-picker, was away in Delhi. They lived in a makeshift tent on the roadside in Haryana state, near Delhi. No door. No security. Completely vulnerable to rapists or murderers.

After the mother reported her missing, police found theSeveral Libertarian Party candidates for California’s state assembly, of whom all but one appeared as write-ins, have secured top-two status in the June 5 primary election, granting many Californians the now-rare choice of voting for a state-level Libertarian candidate in the so-called general election being held on November 6.

On July 16, the secretary of state certified that Brandon Nelson, running in the fourth district for the state assembly, had received 132 write-in votes, beating a Republican challenger, Cherylyn Nutting, by two votes, and the Green Party’s write-in candidate, Sara Joan Fulton, by four.

As a result, Nelson will appear on the November election run-off ballot, along with four other Libertarian assembly candidates:

Justin Quigley , State Assembly District 21

, State Assembly District 21 Chris Stare , State Assembly District 51

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Anuradha Paudwal is one of the talented female singers in India. She is the winner of four Filmfare awards as Best playback singer. The singer who has started her singing career as a playback singer with the film 'Abhimaan' has now stopped singing for films. Currently she keeps herself busy with devotional and cover versions albums. As a student in Xavier college, Anuradha was used to participate in college cultural programs. She began her singing career with the film Abhimaan starring Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bachchan. A big break came her way with the film Kalicharan in 1976. While she sung her first solo song in film Aap Beeti starring Shashi Kapoor and Hema Malini. Throughout her career she workedwith biggest music directors of industry like Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Kalyanji-Anandji, Rajesh Roshan and Usha Khanna. Singer Anuradha married Arun Paudwal, who was working as a music arranger to S. D. Burman. Arun later formed a team with Anil as musician and the duo along with Anuradha Paudwal had given many hits in Marathi films. Her Marathi popular songs includes 'Raja Lalkaari Aashi Ghe', 'Disate Majla' from Ashtavinayak, 'Kaalya Maatit Maatit Tifan Chalate' and many more. Anuradha Paudwal came as a biggest name when she sang some exceptional numbers in the film Hero (1983). For the film she sang songs- Ding Dong, Tu Mera Hero and a duet Pyar Karnewale with Lata Mangeshkar. Music for the film was given by the renowned music directors Laxmikant and Pyarelal. Yet she was


the most controversial artist as well. She caught into controversy due to her comments for legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar and Mangeshkar sisters. She challenged Lataji's claim of recording maximum number of songs in one day. Her outspoken nature affected her career. Many music directors avoided her due to such controversy. Also Lataji dubbed many songs of Anuradha. As her career was not making good, she joined Gulshan Kumar, who was the T-Series producer. Anuradha's career again rocketed with the films like Tejab, Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin, Ashiqui and Lal Dupatta Malmal Ka. Anuradha Paudwal won her first Filmfare Award for the song 'Mere Mann Bajaa Mirang' from film Utsav. She also had received three more Filmfare Awards for films- Aashiqui, Dil Hai Ki Manta Nahin and Beta.When she was on her peak, she decided to work only for T-Series, which really harmed her on going rocking career. Her decision helped other female singers like Alka Yagnik, Kavita Krishnamurthy and Sadhana Sargam to establish their career. Later she stopped singing for Bollywood films and started singing devotional songs. Also after murder of Gulshan Kumar, her association with T-Series seemed to be decreased. Later she started working for other production companies than T-Series. Her association with other companies gave hits like 'Zara Aankhon Se Kajal' (Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehtein Hai), 'Akeli Hai Yeh Mis Khiladi' (Mr & Mrs Khiladi), 'Kismat Se Tum'(Pukar), and 'Chaha Hai Tujhko' (Mann).


business cessation requests at all costs as they can deal a direct blow to the economy, as long as stay-at-home requests can help tamp down transmissions. If requests to halt businesses trigger a greater economic slowdown, the government's very political foundation -- centering on expectations for economic recovery -- can be undermined.

With regard to the conflicting positions of the central and Tokyo metro governments over the business response to the coronavirus, a former Cabinet member belonging to the ruling coalition noted, "The national government may apparently be unable to do anything because industry groups are pressuring them."

Kohei Otsuka of the opposition Democratic Party for the People, who chairs the party's caucus in the House of Councillors, told a media conference on April 9, "They (the Abe administration) faileda movie. It has taken more than 80 years, though, for this to be fully recognised.

Man with a Movie Camera is a ‘city symphony’ film of a kind not uncommon in the 1920s. These films celebrated the vibrancy of the modern cityscape with pastiches of urban images, for the most part neither set up nor reconstructed. Vertov, though, plays fast and loose with the conventions of such films, to profound effect. He superimposes, splits the screen, deploys fast- and slow-motion and extreme close-ups, and animates using stop-motion. Most surprisingly, he shows us the processes whereby a documentary is made. The eponymous man with the movie camera is his brother Mikhail, and his wife, Yelizaveta Svilova, is his editor. Both appear at work on screen.

His experimental exuberance was not


artistically progressive” – a failing that could get you years in the Gulag.

Vertov, who always marched to a different drummer, compounded the threat. He never produced recognisable scripts, shot from the hip (most of the time), went over budget and was generally uncontrollable. He was a combative polemicist vehemently insisting that the potential of the cinema as a revolutionary tool was being ignored by his fellows. Their fictions were bourgeois distractions, unlike his efforts with the “unplayed film”, as he called documentary.

Almost from the start of his career in newsreels immediately after the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, and in total contrast to the fixed-camera procedures of the time, he was already experimenting with special effects to reveal, through the kino-glaz, the camera’s eye, film truth – kino-pravda. “Filmof the Jewish Holocaust falls within the documentary tradition of investigative journalism, but what he does with that form is so confrontational and relentless that it demands to be described in philosophical/spiritual terms rather than simply cinematically. Determined to make us imagine the unimaginable, Lanzmann literalises a quote from the philosopher Emil Fackenheim:

“The European Jews massacred are not just of the past, they are the presence of an absence.”

One could even describe Shoah as a kind of cruel but determined shotgun marriage between Judaism and existentialism – a match between Lanzmann’s sense of his tribal roots (he was born in 1925 to a French Jewish family of Eastern European immigrants, and joined the Resistance at the age of 18) and his adopted intellectual roots (in his 20s he


vessel for conveying both his footage and his thoughts to the audience – the film is unique in the documentary canon for its simultaneous embodiment of both documentary’s most classical and radical qualities.

At its core, the work is an exercise in ethnographic filmmaking, with Marker-as-Krasna decamping to locations in Japan and Africa to observe the environments and rituals therein. But the highly mediated presentation – the adoption of a fictional framework and the relentless manipulation and juxtaposition of the images into a kind of audiovisual labyrinth – gets so far away from Flaherty that it actually laps him: depending on one’s perspective, Sans soleil is either an hommage to the observational ethos of Nanook of the North or an ardent repudiation.

It’s a cliché to say that about aemu in the Ile de France is a rare bird, and so is Sans soleil.

—Adam Nayman

Alain Resnais, France 1955

56 votes

In 1945 moviegoers worldwide became familiar through weekly newsreels in their local cinemas with the unspeakable conditions in the recently liberated Nazi extermination camps. Immediately there followed documentary assemblages of this material (most notably for screening as evidence at the Nuremberg war crime trials). Not, however, until Night and Fog (Nuit et brouillard), commissioned to mark the tenth anniversary of the Allied liberation of the most notorious camp, at Auschwitz, did film producers truly confront and define the moral and aesthetic parameters involved in treating such an intractable subject.

Everyone involved in making the film was a modernist, associated with the international avant garde (most famously at the time the


composer Hanns Eisler, an Austrian former pupil of Schoenberg who had spent the Nazi era in exile). But the director, Alain Resnais, refused to take part until it was settled that the script should be written by the poet and editor Jean Cayrol, himself a survivor of the camps. They chose to act with the utmost restraint, questioning the nature of film itself and finding a direct, transparent, understated style for the images, the commentary and the unassertive music.

Resnais considered the film more a meditation than a documentary, and the movie unfolds chronologically. It begins in 1933 with the coming of the Third Reich, continues through the covert building of the camps, the transportation of the prisoners, the creation of the hellish death culture of gas chambers andinterviews with key players makes it clear a raw deal went down. Yet the filmmaker also includes the contradictions, the backtracking, the oddball asides. Most perversely, he creates a confounding palimpsest of deadpan re-enactments that flirt with the absurd (and find their echo in the iterative Philip Glass score). Intense close-ups – of sirens, of hurled milkshakes – evoke mystery, or myopia, in the search for meaning.

The Academy Awards documentary committee infamously failed to nominate the film, reportedly ending their preview before the climactic acknowledgment of guilt. But The Thin Blue Line would not be the last of Morris’s many voyages into the unknown (and the unknown known).

—Nicolas Rapold

Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin, France 1961

32 votes

Chronicle of a Summer still feels like a letter from a better future


died out altogether; to the cinema audiences of the time, Nanook was a journey to a foreign and fascinating place. This documentary may not play by today’s rules, but it continues to function as a living museum, animating a world that was almost gone then – entirely lost now.

—Pamela Hutchinson

Agnès Varda, France 2000

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“This is my project: to film with one hand my other hand.” Delivered in voiceover by the filmmaker, this is the essence of Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse, Agnès Varda’s handheld DV autoportrait of the artist as an older woman. But what seems small and simple, albeit rigorous in its intimacy, brilliantly encompasses agriculture, art history, class politics, ecology, economics, recycling raps and (via an interview with a descendant of Louis Daguerre) the origins ofMember Rating

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In addition to the parishes' announcements, President George W. Bush declared a federal state of emergency for Louisiana.

In accordance with the regional evacuation plan, New Orleans, along with the surrounding areas of Jefferson and St. Charles parishes, were given formal voluntary evacuation orders around 50 hours from landfall. This phased approach along with "contraflow", wherein all incoming interstate highway lanes are reversed outward, ensured that additional vehicles moving onto already congested roads would not create massive gridlock. The local newspaper reported that Nagin stopped short of ordering a mandatory evacuation


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This babe has some serious cock sucking skillsCurt Schilling, a former Major League Baseball pitcher and former ESPN commentator known for controversial views, says he is considering a run for Congress in Arizona. The news quickly drew a cheer from President Donald Trump.

Three days earlier, Schilling threw a fastball of a claim about guns that caught our attention.

A TV reporter in Charlotte, N.C., had tweeted that an armed patron with a concealed carry permit shot two armed robbery suspects at a 7-Eleven, killing one of them.

A sales manager for the U.S. Concealed Carry Association responded with a tweet saying, "You mean to tell me a law-abiding, responsible gun owner actually DID stop crime?"

Schilling replied to that tweet with a reference to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying:

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By Gemma Strong

March 22, 2016

A riot of colour swarmed Prince Harry as he was pelted with powdered paint while visiting a school in the foothill of the Himalayas. The traditional paint fight marks the festival of colour, Holi, and the good-natured prince was more than happy to give as good as he got.

The ceremony began with the school's head girl Juna Garang, 15, smearing red paint on Harry's bearded cheeks, but things very quickly escalated when his former Army colleague, Gurka officer Major Prakash Gurung, slapped paint on the Prince's shoulder.

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Prince Harry was covered in paint during the celebration of Holi

"Thanks!" said Harry with a grin, before scooping up a big handful of paint and throwing it back in return. The scene soon descended into good-naturedchaos – the royal, his staff, his bodyguards and even the journalists ended up being covered in paint by their Nepali hosts.

The Prince was visiting the school in the village of Okhari, which sits 4,500ft up in the mountains, to see how the Gurka Welfare Trust is helping to refund the building of the facility following last year's earthquake.

The Prince had managed to wash off most of the paint by the time he left the school, but his shirt was still heavily stained as he walked down a mountain path to a helicopter waiting to take him to his next engagement.

Harry had earlier described the experience of sleeping under the same roof as a Nepalese family as "amazing". He had slept in a sleeping bag in the home


leading to his suspension on September 18. "He did not resume work even after several reminders. He was neither available at his personal residence in Navi Mumbai nor at his official residence in Worli," said an officer from the Mumbai police headquarters.

Sources said Patil, who hails from Kolhapur, never informed the department that he had changed his address. On October 12, Patil's suspension was revoked and a constable was trying to trace him to give him the order, they said.

"When the constable recently visited Kolhapur to give order to Patil, he learnt that Patil was in a nearby village and was watching a bullock cart race. The department has penalised Patil by stopping his increments for next two years," said the officer.

Sources said Patil claimed that he wasGaza buries its dead after bloodiest day yet of Israel's ongoing offensive as thousands flee homes in fear of ground invasion

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Four Israeli soldiers wounded in the attack which Israel says target Hamas rocket-launching site

Israeli warplanes dropped leaflets in northern Gaza warning residents to leave their homes

Evacuation due to begin today of 800 Palestinians who hold foreign passports, including 300 Americans

Comes as Israel announced 'short and temporary' campaign against northern Gaza to start today

Demonstrations take place across the world against the latest campaign against the Gaza strip

Palestinian officials say more than 160 people have been killed so far in the six-day offensive

Israel says Hamas militants have launched more than 800 rockets into Israel. No Israeli has yet been killed

Neil Young concert planned for Thursday in Tel Aviv


cancelled amid fears of rocket strikes

Tony Blair meets Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as efforts grow to secure a ceasefire

Palestinians were burying their dead today after the bloodiest 24 hours yet in Israel's six-day offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip.

Strikes by Israeli warplanes killed 54 people in the narrow coastal territory, according to Palestinian officials, including one overnight attack which killed 18 members of the same family.

And this afternoon thousands were fleeing their homes in northern Gaza after a leaflet drop warning of a possible campaign by Israeli forces that could start today.

Any move to send ground troops into the densely populated Gaza strip would likely lead to a sharp increase in civilian casualties. So far 166 people have been killed, 30 of them children, officialssaid.

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The father of three-year-old Palestinian child, Mouid al-Araj, carries his son's body during his funeral in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, today

Palestinian mourners pray over the bodies of 18 members of the Batsh family, after their house was targeted by an Israeli air strike just before midnight last night

Mourners carry the body of one of the 18 family members who were killed in an Israeli airstrike to a mosque prior to the burial in Gaza City

Palestinians offer their prayers over the grave of a member of the al-Batsh family who was killed in Saturday night's Israeli airstrike

Palestinian children inspect graves ahead of the funeral of 18 members of al-Batsh family who were killed the previous night in Israeli strikes that hit their house

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son of one of the Palestinian members of Tayseer Al-Batsh's family sobs during the funeral today, after they were killed in an Israeli airstrike last night

Mass funerals took place today even as Palestinian militants kept up rocket salvoes deep into the Jewish state, and Western foreign ministers who met today said a ceasefire was an urgent priority.

It came as Israel escalated its attacks on Hamas-controlled Gaza with an amphibious commando assault early this morning against a suspected rocket-launching site in the north of the territory.

Ignoring international appeals for a cease-fire, Israel widened its bombardment of Gaza yesterday. One Israeli warplane hit a home for the disabled, killing two patients and wounding four others.

A second strike flattened a home and damaged a nearby mosque during evening prayers, killing 18members of one family, and wounding 50, according to Palestinian officials.

Plume: Smoke rises following an Israeli strike on Gaza, seen from the Israel Gaza border earlier today

A Palestinian man inspects his vehicle after it was thrown on it's side in an Israeli air raid this morning

Fear: Palestinians travel to a shelter at a UN school after evacuating their homes near the border in Gaza City this evening

This morning Israeli forces dropped leaflets into the town of Beit Lahiya near Gaza's northern border with Israel. They read: 'Those who fail to comply with the instructions to leave immediately will endanger their lives and the lives of their families. Beware.'

The Israeli military told the residents of three of Beit Lahiya's 10 neighbourhoods to get out of the town of 70,000


by midday on Sunday. UN officials said some 4,000 people had fled south to eight UN schools in Gaza City.

A senior Israeli military officer, in a telephone briefing with foreign reporters, said Israel would 'strike with might' in the Beit Lahiya area from the late evening hours on Sunday.

He did not say if this would include an expansion of an air and naval offensive into a ground operation in the north of the narrow, densely populated Mediterranean enclave.

'The enemy has built rocket infrastructure in-between the houses (in Beit Lahiya),' the officer said. 'He wants to trap me into an attack and into hurting civilians.'

Blast: An Israeli 155mm artillery unit located next to the Israeli border with Gaza, fires toward targets in the Gaza Strip Wrath: A picture takenfrom the southern Israeli city of Sderot shows rockets being fired from the Gaza strip into Israel (left). Right, an explosion is seen in the northern Gaza Strip after an Israeli air strike

A photograph released by the Israeli Government press office showing the Israeli 'Iron Dome' defense system as it is activated near the city of Ashdod, Israel

Israeli soldiers sit atop tanks inspecting their weapons near the border with Gaza today

Israel is yet to launch an invasion of Gaza, but overnight IDF commandos made an amphibious assault on a Hamas site inside the coastal territory

Israel's parliament recently authorised the mobilisation of 40,000 reservists, prompting speculation that the IDF will soon launch an invasion of Gaza

Show of might: Israeli soldiers and tanks are seen massing at a staging area


near the border with the Gaza Strip today

At schools run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza City, Beit Lahiya residents arrived in donkey carts filled with children, luggage and mattresses, while others came by car or taxi. One man, still in his pyjamas, said some inhabitants had received phone calls warning them to clear out.

'What could we do? We had to run in order to save the lives of our children,' said Salem Abu Halima, 25, a father of two.

The Gaza Interior Ministry, in a statement on Hamas radio, dismissed the Israeli warnings as 'psychological warfare' and instructed those who left their homes to return and others to stay put.

Dozens of houses in parts of Beit Lahiya were levelled by Israeli bulldozers during aGovernment Activities in the Territories.

U.S. citizen Ahmed Mohana said he had mixed feelings about leaving friends and family behind in the troubled Gaza Strip.

'It is very hard, it is very tough,' he said. 'We are leaving our family, our relatives and brothers and sisters in this horrible situation - we have to do what we have to do.'

Palestinians inspect the rubble of the destroyed home after an Israeli airstrike in the north of Gaza City, killing 12 members of his family, according to Palestinian officials

A man sits in front of the damaged house as Israel continued its assault on Gaza, targeting what it claimed where sites linked to Hamas militants

The strike which destroyed this home also damaged a nearby mosque which was full of people observing evening prayers

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wider view shows the damaged home, which was hit as Israeli forces launched an amphibious assault on Gaza's northern coast

The Israeli air force dropped leaflets telling Palestinians to leave their homes in northern Gaza in advance of a 'short and temporary' campaign in the area today

Israel's military used Twitter to announce this morning's commando raid on Gaza

This morning's commando raid on Gaza's coast was the first time that Israel has made a ground incursion into Gaza in the six-day-long attack on the territory, which is effectively cut off from the world by Israel.

With aerial support from fighter jets, the Israeli force attacked a site in northern Gaza used to launch long-range rockets, an Israeli military spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, said.

Militants opened fire, wounding four commandos, but thelaunch site was hit, he told Reuters. Hamas said its fighters had fired at the Israeli force offshore, preventing them from landing.

Lt. Col Lerner said the forces had 'completed their mission' and that the results of the raid 'would be the first published ground activity' by naval troops in Gaza.

Israel says a ground invasion of Gaza remains an option, and it has already mobilised about 20,000 reservists to do so, but most attacks have so far been from the air, hitting some 1,200 targets in the territory.

A blood-stained mattress rests on top of the rubble of a house following an Israeli air strike

The contents of a refrigerator, including bottles of soft drink, are pictured in the rubble

Injured people are taken away from the site of the Israeli strike


on a house in Gaza

A woman covered in blood and dust sits up in a stretcher as she is rushed to hospital following the airstrike, which also hit a mosque

A doctor treats an injured man as he is taken for treatment. Palestinian officials say more than 160 people have been killed and more than a thousand wounded in six days

Palestinians mourn their relatives in the morgue of the Shifa hospital in Gaza City last night

A mother cradles her child in the emergency room of the hospital in Gaza city after the area was hit by multiple Israeli airstrikes last night

The militant wing of Hamas, the Islamist political party which controls Gaza, has fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, striking the deepest inside the country ever.

The Israeli military saidmore than 800 rockets had been launched since its offensive began on Tuesday. Israel said it has carried out 1,320 attacks on militant targets, half against what it called rocket launch sites, and the rest at alleged command centres, rocket manufacturing installations, warehouses and smuggling tunnels.

Gaza's Interior Ministry urged residents in the area to ignore Israel's warnings and to stay in their homes, saying the announcement was Israeli 'psychological warfare' and an attempt to create confusion.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuffed international calls for a ceasefire while defending his country's offensive in Gaza during appearances on U.S. television today.

Netanyahu appealed for sympathy for Israelis under siege from militant rockets as a warning siren followed by an all-clear signal punctuated his interview on CBS' 'Face the Nation'.

'When we began


Israel fears Lebanese militant groups such as Hezbollah may try to open a second front.

Palestinian families travel to a UN school to seek shelter after evacuating their homes near the border in Gaza City

Palestinian boys draw on a chalk board at the UN school after their families evacuated their homes near the border in Gaza City

A rocket hits a person in this picture drawn by a Palestinian boy as he shelters from Israeli airstrikes in the UN school

Women and children rest in a classroom at the UN school as the Israeli bombardment of Gaza continues outside

Their evacuation follows a leaflet drop by the Israeli airforce telling residents of northern Gaza to leave their homes in advance of a stepped-up offensive in the area

Overcome: A mourner closes his eyesas he stands close to an open refrigerator in the morgue of the Shifa hospital, where the bodies of 18 family members are prepared for their funeral in Gaza City

Israel has said it's acting in self-defense against rockets that have disrupted life across much of the country. It also accuses Hamas of using Gaza's civilians as human shields by firing rockets from there.

Critics say Israel's heavy bombardment of one of the most densely populated territories in the world is itself the main factor putting civilians at risk.

HAMAS USES PSYCH WARFARE

Hamas militants warned Israel for the first time, and in Hebrew, of an impending rocket attack, adopting psychological warfare with the Jewish state while trying to raise the morale of Gaza's Palestinians harder hit by Israeli bombardment.

Hamas's domestic standing


violate international humanitarian law as well.'

As the international community grew increasingly concerned about the situation in Gaza British Foreign Secretary William Hague called for immediate action to quell the crisis during telephone calls to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.

He said Israel had a right to defend itself from rocket attacks but urged both sides to work to restore a ceasefire and said Britain stands ready to provide what support it can.

Mr Hague said: 'I told minister Lieberman that continuing rocket attacks from Gaza are completely unacceptable. Israel has a right to defend itself against such attacks, but the whole world wanted to see de-escalation.

'I welcomed president Abbas's call for a ceasefire agreed by both sides, and urged him to do all he couldto help bring this about. I offered my condolences for the loss of civilian lives in Gaza.'

Mr Hague is expected to talk to international counterparts, including US secretary of state John Kerry, about the need for 'urgent, concerted' action to secure a ceasefire.

His Labour opposition counterpart Douglas Alexander warned the spiralling violence risks 'fuelling yet more extremism and conflict'. The shadow foreign secretary said: 'The spiral of violence that has engulfed Gaza, southern Israel and the West Bank is bringing untold suffering to innocent people.

'I condemn the firing of rockets into Israel by Gaza-based militants. No government on earth would tolerate such attacks on its citizens but the rapidly growing number of Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza by Israeli air strikes risks fuelling yet more extremism and conflict.

'The


life of a Palestinian child is worth no less than the life of an Israeli child. Every life is equal, irrespective of religion or nationality.

'A spiral of violence that reinforces the insecurity of Israelis and the humiliation of Palestinians leads only to further suffering.'

Displaced Palestinians seek refuge at a United Nations school in Gaza City after fleeing their homes in the early hours of the morning

More people arrive at the UN school. Israel accuses Hamas of using Gaza's civilians as human shields by firing rockets from residential areas

Youngsters arrive at the UN school carrying what few possessions they are able to carry

The Israeli military has said it has targeted sites with links to Hamas and that it issues early warnings before attacking. But Mr Michaeli said civilians havebeen killed when Israel bombed homes of Hamas militants or when residents were unable to leave their homes quickly enough following Israeli warnings.

An army statement said that from Friday morning to Saturday morning, Israel targeted 158 targets 'affiliated with Hamas terrorism' in Gaza, including dozens of rocket launchers and a mosque where Hamas stored rockets and weapons.

Israel also targeted several civilian institutions with presumed ties to Hamas, widening its range of targets. Palestinian officials said this included a technical college, a media office, a small Kuwait-funded charity and a branch of an Islamic bank.

The Israeli military did not mention these institutions in its statement Saturday, saying only that in addition to the military targets, it struck 'further sites.'

A huge plume of smoke rises above Gaza after Israeli warplanes


struck another target in the territory

Israelis watch the bombardment of Gaza from a hill overlooking the territory

Israeli aircraft fire rockets at targets in eastern Gaza. Israel said it has carried out 1,320 attacks on militant targets

Gaza Health Ministry official Ashraf al-Kidra yesterday said the death toll there had reached more than 156, with over 1,060 wounded. Among the dead was a nephew of Ismail Haniyeh, a top Hamas leader, who was killed in an airstrike near his home, Hamas officials said.

Though the exact breakdown of casualties remains unclear, many of the dead have been civilians. Israel also demolished dozens of homes it said were used by Hamas for military purposes.

'Am I a terrorist? Do I make rockets and artillery?' screamed Umm Omar, a woman in the southern townof Rafah whose home was destroyed in an airstrike. It was not immediately known why the building was targeted.

Despite intensified Israeli military action militants continued to launch rocket after rocket across the border.

A long-range burst on Sunday morning triggered air raid sirens at Tel Aviv's Ben-Gurion international airport, which has not been struck in the hostilities and where flights have been operating normally, and some city suburbs.

On Saturday night, Hamas - the Islamist movement that rules Gaza - made good on a threat to send rockets streaking toward Tel Aviv at 9pm (6pm GMT) and other areas in heavily populated central Israel.

Hundreds of thousands of Israelis sought shelter as Palestinians in the streets of Gaza City cheered the launchings, the biggest strike yet on the Tel Aviv metropolitan


area.

Those rockets and the ones unleashed on Sunday were intercepted by the Israeli-built, U.S.-funded Iron Dome missile defence system that has proved effective against Hamas's most powerful weaponry.

A handful of Israelis have been wounded by rockets that slipped through, but none have been killed. The frequent rocket fire has disrupted daily life in Israel, with most staying close to home, although pictures have shown packed beaches in Israeli cities as close as 50 miles from Gaza.

During Saturday night's barrage, customers in Tel Aviv beachfront cafes shouted their approval as they watched the projectiles being shot out of the sky.

One casualty of the conflict has been a concert planned by veteran rock star Neil Young in Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial capital, for Thursday. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said theshow was cancelled by police 'in order not to put people in Gaza rocket range at unnecessary risk'.

Some 30,000 people had bought tickets to the Canadian singer-songwriter's show that was to be held at Tel Aviv's Hayarkon Park, a representative for the show's organisers, the Shuki Weiss production company, told Reuters.

A social worker picks up a wheelchair from rubble after a home for the disabled in Gaza City which was destroyed by Israeli air strikes yesterday

Two patients were killed and four others were wounded in the strike, after social workers were unable to evacuate all the residents in time

Israeli airstrikes meanwhile have turned bustling Gaza City into a virtual ghost town during the normally festive month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan, emptying streets, closing shops and keeping hundreds of


thousands of people close to home.

The offensive marks the heaviest fighting since a similar eight-day offensive in November 2012 to stop Gaza rocket fire. The outbreak of violence follows the kidnappings and murders of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank, and the kidnapping and murder of a Palestinian teenager in an apparent revenge attack.

Egypt's state news agency said that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had met with Tony Blair, envoy for the so-called Quartet of United Nations, European Union, Russia and United States, in efforts to secure a truce.

An Israeli government official said Blair had met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. 'There are no serious contacts toward a truce. There are many proposals, but as long as Hamas keeps firing, Israel will keep fightingresumption of direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians aimed at achieving a comprehensive peace agreement based on a two-state solution.

The statement also called for 'the reinstitution of the November 2012 cease-fire,' which was brokered by Egypt, but gives no time frame for when it should take effect.

The statement, which is not legally binding, is the first response by the U.N.'s most powerful body, which has been deeply divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Arab League meanwhile said foreign ministers from member states will hold an emergency meeting in Cairo on Monday about the offensive.

Israeli attack on Gaza sparks protests across the world

Today protesters in cities across the world took to the streets to demand that the international community takes action against Israel for its continuing attack on Gaza.

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