serving in Sevastopol, in the village of Privolny,’ Svetlana Nikolayevna [Shevkunova] tells Gazeta.Ru. ‘We went to the draft board, and he wrote a statement and began to undergo a medical examination. In the recruiting office he was given a blank contract, which was to be sent to Sevastopol for signature by commanders. Already in the ‘9th’ (control-assembly point in Krasnodar – Gazeta. Ru) they turned him around, saying he could only serve in the Maykop Brigade. He came here on September 17th and enlisted.’

In late September, Ivan Shevkunov was sent with his unit to ‘Kadamovsky’ for military training in the October district of Rostov region. The base is located near Novocherkassk. This is the place of assembly of the Southern Military District. It is about 80 kilometers fromhere to the border with Ukraine, and this adjacent territory is divided between the Lugansk and Donetsk People’s Republics [LNR and DNR, respectively – Ed.].

‘He said that he was going to the border with Ukraine, on a trip that would last until December. He called every day to complain about the conditions: he was sleeping on boards that had been abandoned on the ground, and for the first three days they were feeding themselves from what they could get from the rebels located nearby,’ says Svetlana. ‘It turned out that he had to sign some kind of document in the unit, and he asked for money for the trip and returned to Maykop.’

There, Ivan was assigned to another company, where he continued to serve, housed in barracks. When


his company returned from ‘Kadamovsky,’ according to his mother, they started to pressure Shevkunov. As a result, he wrote three letters of resignation. And he did not receive a single response.

Svetlana Shevkunova claims that her son was afraid of being sent to Donbas.

‘He told me that the soldiers were being forced to go as volunteers,’ says the woman. ‘When I was with my son in the lobby of the chief of staff of Unit № 22179, Maj. Kambarov, he began to shout that Vanya now had only two options: jail or the ‘Kadamovsky’ training ground. There were no other choices.

On June 10th, in the matter of Ivan Shevkunov, a criminal case was opened under Section 1, Article 338 of the Criminal Code (‘Desertion’).

From the decision to institute criminalproceedings:

‘On 30 September 2014, conscript I. N. Shevkunov, being a serving soldier under contract, being a member of his unit on a working excursion at the ‘Kadamovsky’ base, stationed at the October (rural) district of Rostov region, being dissatisfied with the fact that he was sent on a mission outside of Maykop and the Republic of Adygea, and not wanting to endure the hardships and privations of military service, with the intent of completely evading military service … willfully abandoned his place of service – the Kadamovsky training base, and left his place of residence.’

The story of 27-year-old Sgt. Pavel Tynchenko from the very same unit is similar. His mother, Valentina Ivanovna [Tynchenko], said that Pavel had served for seven years in the Northern Fleet – on the


atomic cruiser ‘Peter the Great.’ For family reasons he returned to Maykop and tried to obtain a contract in a reconnaissance brigade.

‘The command delayed the document process, but then they called unexpectedly in early August from the recruiting office and told him to urgently get his documents together. Over the course – I think – of three days, he did the physical training, received his rations and went on to the Ashuluk training base in the Astrakhan region,’ recall relatives of the soldier arrested under Sec. 4, Art. 337 of the Criminal Code (‘Unauthorized Abandonment of Unit’).

Tynchenko returned in late September from exercises, at which he had spent nearly two months. He spent the weekend at home and was then transferred to the ‘Kadamovsky’ training ground.

‘Previous exercises wereheld in appalling conditions, although my son had already served under contract and was ready for hardship. But what happened in Ashuluk was unbelievable,’ says Valentina Tynchenko. ‘He filed a letter of resignation. They gathered them – a few people – on the parade ground of the unit, and in the presence of guards read out the decree on the mission, forced them into a truck and took them to the Rostov region.’

The sergeant told his mother over the phone that they had taken them several times by military truck from the border area to fields where they guarded combat artillery units. They were there for a week to ten days, sleeping on blankets thrown on the ground. Tynchenko returned to Maykop with pneumonia. Officially, he spent a


Yenenko

About what happened at the base, she adds that 22-year-old Jr. Sgt. Alexander Yenenko is under house arrest.

‘After compulsory military service, which I performed in the same unit, I stayed there under contract. The contract was signed on 26 November 2012 for three years,’ Yenenko explained to Gazeta.Ru, serving as commander of a transport department.

‘I went to ‘Kadamovsky’ on October 14th. The guys were gathering ‘gobies’ at the site. They were digging holes pointlessly for whole days and then burying them. They were talking about how [the authorities] wanted to send them to Ukraine, and were waiting for the order to cross the border for about a week, but they canceled at the last moment.’

Yenenko says he also saw ‘some people in camouflage clothing with no insignia, campaigninggot blown up by a landmine. The agitators were not pressuring them with patriotism, but practically promised to give them veteran status (which entitles you to many benefits, housing and so forth. – Gazeta.Ru) and 8,000 a day. In fact, I know from my colleagues, they reneged on the money and no one consented to pay anything.’

Enlisted tractor mechanic Anatoly Kudrin signed a contract a month before the trip, at the end of August 2014. For leaving his post he was sentenced to half a year in a penal colony, and in early July disciplinary responsibility was attached to him for placing a swastika on social media.

‘People were coming to the base to agitate to go to Ukraine. The main incentive was money: they promised 8,000 a day.


months, I’ll tell you one thing – those are real men there, 16-year-old peasants, and the women there are the same.’

Gazeta.Ru called the political officer of the 2nd Battalion, 33rd Separate Motor-Rifle Brigade, 1st Lt. Maxim Grankin, who had communicated with parents and identified himself as the assistant to the commander of military unit № 22179. However, after hearing the question, Grankin hung up and refused to take further calls. Lt. Col. Kens could not be reached. The privates and sergeants do not know who has been exercising overall command of the ‘Kadamovsky’ base. The commanders who arrived with them carried out the military training routine, but the overall training leadership at the base consisted of officers whom the Maykop contractors did not know, probably from the Southernlaw 10 days are given for the soldier to appeal to the prosecutor and write a statement of the circumstances that led him to take such a desperate step. ‘If there is real assessment according to the law, the commanders may be held responsible for violation of the order of the unit,’ says Krivenko.

Anatoly Sahlin, a former colonel who has served in two wars and is an expert on the Presidential Council for Human Rights and the Development of Civil Society of the Russian Federation, says that each case of abandonment of unit must be thoroughly worked out, and not all the stories about the administration of the Donbas should be believed.

‘We have pending cases where contractors were dismissed for failure to carry out an order, but which


The debate over the justification for Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions League red card in Juventus' 2-0 win against Valencia will probably outlast whatever suspension he receives from UEFA, but what cannot be argued against is that the 33-year-old only has himself to blame for the mess he now finds himself in.

On first inspection, and then with the benefit of replays from all angles, Ronaldo's dismissal following his clash with Valencia's Jeison Murillo appeared soft.

But it was Ronaldo's stupidity and petulance in attempting to grab Murillo by the hair which gave German referee Felix Brych the grounds to brandish the first Champions League red card of the player's career.

It was a show of frustration by Ronaldo and he was punished for it.

He will serve an automatic one-match suspension when Juvehost Young Boys in Turin next month, but the tears which followed his dismissal might be down to the prospect of him also missing an emotional return to Manchester United on Oct. 23 -- potentially his last chance to play at the stadium where he first made his name.

A UEFA disciplinary panel will decide whether to extend Ronaldo's suspension, and it will be a huge blow for the player and Juventus, as well as the spectacle of the Champions League, if he is absent at Old Trafford.

But has this been coming? Was Ronaldo's petulance rooted in a realisation that his powers are declining and that he can no longer do what always came so naturally?

Add to that the pressure of being the man signed to end Juventus's long


wait for another Champions League title, and a slow start to his career at the club after leaving Real Madrid this summer, it is perhaps no surprise that even Ronaldo is showing signs of feeling the heat.

But one thing for certain is that the incident in Valencia was not an isolated one.

Rewind to late June and Portugal's World Cup group encounter with Iran in Saransk -- a game that ended with Ronaldo embroiled in controversy following the failure of Paraguayan referee Enrique Caceres to send him off for an elbowing incident with Iran defender Morteza Pouraliganji.

Ronaldo escaped with a yellow card on that occasion, prompting Iran coach Carlos Queiroz -- a man who played a crucial role in Ronaldo's development at United during his time as assistant managerfurther, but by grabbing at Murillo's hair, he showed how the Colombian had got under his skin.

During his six years at United, the one quality that Sir Alex Ferguson always cited above all others when discussing Ronaldo was his toughness.

Forget the skills and goal-scoring brilliance, Ferguson loved Ronaldo's ability to respond to all kinds of physical intimidation in the best way possible, by coming back and punishing the opposition with his talent.

He still possesses that toughness and the ability to change a game in an instant, but he is less mobile than he once was and lesser players have now discovered that there are ways to stop, or hold up, Ronaldo.

The incidents against Iran and Valencia are testament to that and Ronaldo is struggling to find a way


to respond as he was once able to.

But at least he cares. When compared to Neymar's anaemic performance for Paris Saint-Germain at Liverpool 24 hours earlier, Ronaldo was clearly busting a gut to make a difference against Valencia until he was sent off.

He is desperate to succeed in Turin and he will probably be as annoyed by the prospect of missing out on scoring two penalties -- both were converted by Miralem Pjanic against Valencia after Ronaldo was sent off -- as much as forcing his teammates to play with 10 men for over an hour in Spain.

But time is catching up with Ronaldo and both he and Juventus know that the big outlay for him is a short-term gamble aimed at hitting the jackpot of Champions LeagueAustralia’s urbane prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, is trying to revive the fortunes of his unpopular government by borrowing from an unexpected role model: President Trump.

When he ousted his conservative predecessor, Tony Abbott, from office in 2015, Turnbull had made his reputation supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage, the strengthening of ties with China and the replacement of Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state with an Australian.

Representing one of the most progressive districts in the country, Turnbull is one of the most left-wing members of the center-right Liberal Party. Before he became prime minister, his signature policy was support for an emissions-trading plan to fight climate change, a position that led to the end of his first term as party leader in 2009.

“He came across as a


very socially progressive and cosmopolitan politician before he became PM,” said Zareh Ghazarian, a political scientist at Monash University, in an interview. “Since becoming prime minister he has to modify his approach because of very conservative elements in his party.”

Voters haven’t warmed to Turnbull as prime minister, and he almost lost an election last year. Now facing what appears to be a guerrilla campaign by a bitter Abbott to undermine his leadership, Turnbull is not only copying elements of Trump’s conservative populist approach, he is awkwardly buddying up to the president in person.

At a recent ceremony at the Intrepid aircraft carrier museum in New York to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Turnbull congratulated Trump after the House voted to repeal the Affordabledeficit anytime soon.

One of the wealthiest politicians in the country, Turnbull was a partner at investment bank Goldman Sachs in the 1990s. The centerpiece of his last election campaign was a tax cut for business designed to stimulate the economy. Relentlessly attacked by the Labor opposition as a gift to overpaid corporate executives, the big-business component of the cut was rejected by the Senate, where the government is in the minority.

Then Turnbull pivoted and hit the five biggest banks with a large tax hike in May, even though the banks said the move would rebound onto customers. Members of Turnbull’s party were privately uncomfortable raising taxes, but the measure was popular: 68 percent of Australians agree with the plan, according to an Ipsos poll published May 15.

Turnbull’s switch


Massive Turnout for Medicaid Enrollment in Mountain State

April 1, 2014

CHARLESTON - On the final day to begin enrolling for health insurance under the new federal health care mandate, West Virginia has nearly doubled the projected number of individuals to sign up under the state's Medicaid expansion.

The total federal projection since Jan. 2014 in West Virginia was 63,000, said Jeremiah Samples, Department of Health and Human Resources assistant to the secretary. By Friday, 104,820 people had signed up, he said.

"It was hectic; We saw a significant increase in the number of folks seeking information about their options. Last week we had a surge in numbers and a higher volume of calls, but nothing we haven't been able to manage," said Samples.

Samples said the reason West Virginia nearly doubled the30% in Gladstone which made its list of 40 "Group A restricted postcodes".

It puts Gladstone among a list of Queensland "mining towns" such as Emerald, Blackwater, Mackay and Moranbah now known as "areas where significant deterioration in credit risk has been observed".

With lenders increasing their deposit requirements, the future looks bleak for first home buyers who already have challenges putting a 10% deposit together. Based on the poll, it will be highly unlikely that the banks demanding high deposits will see the business from 80% of first home buyers.

But the NAB isn't alone. It follows ANZ bank which, in July this year, also changed its policy, demanding all buyers cough up a 30% deposit for a mortgage. The decision has left readers less than impressed.

If I had $135,000


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WEBVTT 10TH AND DOUGLAS IN MIDWEST CITY WITH THE NEW DETAILS. PATRINA: THAT DOLLAR GENERAL STORE STEPPING UP SECURITY. AS FOR THE SUSPECT, HE'S STILL ON THE RUN. THIS CLERK'S VIOLENT ENCOUNTER WITH AN ARMED SUSPECT HAS EMPLOYEES AT THIS DOLLAR GENERAL STORE IN MIDWEST CITY NERVOUS. >> WHERE IS SHE SHOT >> SHE'S SHOT IN THE LEG. PATRINA: TONIGHT, ANWASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- U.S. National Intelligence Director James Clapper will not lead a National Security Agency review President Obama vowed would be autonomous, a spokeswoman said.

An Obama memorandum Monday directing Clapper, the nation's top intelligence figure, to "establish" the review group and report its findings to the president did not mean Clapper would head the panel or be involved with the panel members' selection, White House National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said Tuesday.

"The panel members are being selected by the White House, in consultation with the intelligence community," she said in a statement.

"The panel will not report to [Clapper]," she said.

Clapper's involvement will be limited to approving security clearance because group members will have access to classified material, she said.

Clapper's office "is the right place


announced," she said.

The panel members will be appointed soon, she added.

Clapper acknowledged in June he lied to the Senate in a March 12 public hearing about domestic spying.

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., had asked him in the March hearing if the NSA collects "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans."

Clapper answered, "No sir," then added, "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly."

The New York Times reported Wyden knew immediately Clapper lied, because Wyden is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which receives secret briefings from top intelligence officials, including Clapper.

Clapper told NBC News June 9 he felt he couldn't have answered Wyden's question with a yes or no. "So I responded in what IAQTOBE, Kazakhstan -- Two people have been killed in a shoot-out and explosion in Kazakhstan's northwestern city of Aqtobe, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports.

Kazakh Interior Ministry officials said unknown assailants shot at a group of police on the outskirts of Aqtobe and killed one policeman.

The attackers also detonated a bomb that destroyed a house and killed one unidentified person. A second person was injured by the blast.

Aqtobe Interior Ministry officials also said today that police found a gun and a large quantity of explosives during a search in the village of Kenkiyaq.

Two policemen were killed by unidentified attackers on July 1 in the village of Shubarshi, also in the Aqtobe region.

Earlier this week, Aqtobe Interior Ministry spokesman Almat Imanghaliev told journalists that on July 25 police shot dead a


man suspected of involvement in the killing of a 22-year-old man two weeks earlier.

In May, Kazakhstan's first-ever suicide bomber, Rakhimzhan Makhatov, 25, blew himself up in the entrance to the Aqtobe branch of the National Security Committee. Three people were injured in the blast.

In February, a car exploded outside a prison camp in the Aqtobe region, causing minor damage.

The Kazakh authorities have repeatedly denied any link between the various incidents in Aqtobe.employee of the defendant, was 52 years of age and had a normal life expectancy of approximately 18 years.  Early in the morning of November 5, 1958, while aboard ship, he suffered a myocardial infarction, an irreversible heart injury, which shortened his normal life expectancy.  Admittedly this injury was not caused by any act or omission of the defendant.  The claim for damages was based solely on the ground that subsequent to the heart attack the defendant's servants and agents were guilty of negligent conduct which aggravated the myocardial infarction.  There is evidence in the record from which the jury could have found, as it apparently did, that the heart injury was aggravated, as alleged and that this aggravation was the proximate cause of


Four civilians, including possibly a child, were “likely” killed in a US airstrike against an Islamic State group checkpoint in Iraq in March, according to a US military investigation.

It marks only the second such concession since the start of a coalition air campaign in Iraq and Syria – the US military in November 2014 admitted accidentally killing two children during a strike in Syria.

The US military, which for more than a year has led the coalition bombing Isis extremists’ positions in the two countries, investigated the Iraq incident after a woman said her car had been destroyed with five civilians in it.

“The preponderance of the evidence gathered during the investigation indicates that the air(strike) likely resulted in the deaths of four non-combatants,” the US military’s Central Command saidSchoolboy 'chased and stabbed' in Sydenham park Published duration 6 January 2011

image caption Nicholas Pearton was stabbed by gang members wearing their school uniforms, it was alleged

A teenager was chased through a park in south-east London and killed when he was stabbed with a knife which pierced his heart, the Old Bailey has heard.

Nicholas Pearton, 16, was caught up in a fight between members of two gangs in Home Park, Sydenham, last May, prosecution QC Edward Brown said.

He collapsed in a nearby fast-food restaurant, where his parents saw him "lying dead or dying", he added.

Six boys aged 14 to 17 deny murder. They cannot be named for legal reasons.

'Bragging'

Before Nicholas was murdered, the Shanks and Guns gang had clashed with rival group Black Mafia, Mr Brown said.

He told


the court: "Nicholas Pearton was chased across a public park by a group of young but armed teenagers. He was unable to escape.

"When he was caught he was stabbed and killed.

"The origin of the fatal violence in the park that afternoon may have been an incident earlier in the day at a school."

It was alleged that a 17-year-old stabbed the schoolboy - perhaps "the defendant who was able to reach Nicholas first" - but all six of the accused acted together, said Mr Brown.

The jury watched CCTV images of Nicholas slumping in the doorway of the shop.

His mother was nearby and had been told her son was "potentially in danger", Mr Brown said.

"In those dreadful and deeply distressing moments she saw her son lying dead or dying.

"His fatherAshley Andres was driving to work one morning when she was hit by an oncoming vehicle at 92nd Street and Shea Boulevard.

The accident occurred when the driver ran a red light and hit Andres' vehicle as she attempted to make a left turn, the woman recalled.

For the past two years, Andres has watched as other accidents occurred as she worked the hostess stand at Jade Palace, at the northwestern corner of the intersection.

She never thought that one day, she'd be a victim at the same spot.

But according to city records, 92nd and Shea is the second-worst intersection for accidents in the city, already tallying 23 since the beginning of 2012.

"I feel like it's the intersection. People drive too fast through here and many are distracted by other things,


92nd Street-Shea Boulevard intersection in the past couple of years.

City records show other intersections along Shea have tended to rank high.

Pubins said Shea Boulevard is a highly congested east and west street that runs through most of the city. Shea also crosses the Loop 101 freeway and runs for miles into Fountain Hills to the east and into Phoenix to the west, making it a favored route for longer commutes.

Other intersections that have been a problem on Shea include at Scottsdale Road and 90th Street.

Overall, however, Hayden and Thomas roads at the southern end of the city has held the top spot since 2006, records show.

This year alone Hayden and Thomas has had 24 reported collisions, with a high of seven accidents in January, records show.

Scottsdale Traffic EngineeringManager Paul Porell said one of the biggest causes for accidents at the intersection comes from the private driveways near the intersection. Each corner has a commercial enterprise.

"Many people are driving into and out of these driveways, which are very close to the intersection," Porell said.

Other causes could be general congestion, the high number of left-turning vehicles in all directions, and failure to reduce speed, according to Porell.

The intersection is about a mile west of Loop 101.

Porell said the city has been trying to reduce these accidents for a while with driver feedback signs that read and display the speed of approaching vehicles.

"Unfortunately, the signs had a diminishing value over time and they became ... routine to drivers," Porell said. "They began to ignore them."

The city plans to


Australian Leader Defeated in Election

SYDNEY, Australia -- Conservative Prime Minister John Howard, one of the Bush administration's staunchest allies, suffered a humiliating election defeat Saturday at the hands of an opposition leader who has vowed to pull troops out of Iraq.

Labor leader Kevin Rudd, a Chinese-speaking former diplomat, has also promised to sign the Kyoto Protocol on capping greenhouse gas emissions, leaving the U.S. as the only industrialized country not to have joined it.

Rudd, speaking Sunday in the northeastern city of Brisbane at his first news conference as incoming prime minister, promised "action, and action now" on climate change. Rudd said Labor lawmakers were due to meet on Thursday, and he hoped that he and his ministers would be sworn in soon after that.

Howard, who reshaped his country'simage abroad with unwavering support for the war in Iraq, dominated Australian politics for more than a decade but failed to read the signs that voters had grown tired of his rule.

Adding to the sting of his party's decisive defeat, official results showed Howard was likely to lose his parliamentary seat altogether. Only one other sitting prime minister has lost his district in the 106-year history of Australia's federal government.

The six-week campaign was fought largely over domestic issues such as economic management, and Howard's unpopular labor law reforms that critics say strip workers of their rights.

But a strong underlying factor was the prospect of a generational change.

Rudd, who was expected to be sworn in as prime minister in the coming week, had accused Howard of being out of


touch with modern Australia and ill-prepared to deal with issues such as climate change and high-speed Internet.

Howard campaigned on his economic management, arguing that his government was mostly responsible for 17 years of unbroken economic growth, fueled by Chinese and Indian demand for Australian coal and other minerals. He contended that Rudd could not be trusted to maintain prosperous times.

Rudd said he planned to visit Washington next year, and that atop the agenda would be his plan to pull Australia's 550 combat troops out of Iraq. Howard had rejected withdrawal plans for Australia's troops in Iraq, and refused to ratify the pact on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

"Today the Australian people have decided that we as a nation will move forward," Rudd said Saturday in a victory speech beforehundreds of cheering supporters in his home state of Queensland. "To plan for the future, to prepare for the future, to embrace the future and together as Australians to unite and write a new page in our nation's history."

The White House President Bush called Howard and Rudd Saturday evening.


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It was dusk in the ancient city of Kathmandu, and we were coming to the end of a long walk when I suddenly realized what had happened: My daughter had grown up.

Meg and I had come to Nepal to retrace the steps she'd taken several months earlier during a junior-year semester abroad. She was now 21 and showing me the world, letting me see up close why she had fallen in love with this skinny Himalayan country wedged between China and India. We were walking that evening to visit a family she had lived with for seven weeks, and with each step, it seemed, our old roles were reversing: The daughter was protecting the father.

Meg and Phil Roosevelt in Jomsom, Nepal
Courtesy of the Roosevelts

When we came toof a million a year. At Meg's school, Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, about half the junior class goes abroad. The experience had clearly broadened Meg's horizons and lifted her confidence, just as it was supposed to, but what exactly had gone on?

Most importantly, our trip would be an opportunity to go on a real adventure with Meg, perhaps the last chance before she became swept up in the urgencies of senior year and a first job. We would go for 10 days, the longest stretch we'd ever spent together without one of her two brothers around.

We were each bound to learn something.

ON OUR FIRST DAY IN NEPAL, Meg took me to meet one Manav Archaya, a gregarious man of 35 who runs a wholesale clothing business in


the main shopping district of Kathmandu, the nation's capital. He had been Meg's "brother" when she lived with his family, which in a way meant I was his "father." We shook hands vigorously.

Manav eased his small Hyundai into the traffic and took Meg and me for a wild ride through the streets of his city. Like all the other drivers, he stayed in the left lane unless the right lane looked like more fun. "The only rule is not to hit someone else," Manav said. He stepped on the gas and let out peels of laughter.

Looking out the window, I noticed something: This wasn't Ohio anymore. While Kathmandu has some beautiful historic districts, replete with exotic, wooden temples, it's essentially a big, dirty, impoverished city of 1.4 million.go hiking; and, she concluded, she might otherwise never get there.

Kenyon connected her with SIT Study Abroad, which runs programs for U.S. students around the world. Part of a Vermont-based nonprofit, SIT specializes in "experiential" education -- students are immersed in the local languages and cultures and pushed to find their way in the communities.

When Meg and I approached the residential house where SIT operates in Kathmandu, three of her language teachers came out to greet the long-lost "Mahimaa," the local name she'd been given for the semester. I immediately took a shine to one of them, Chandra Rana. A pensive man who peers at the world through thick glasses, Rana, 40, had grown up in a village in the Himalayas, earned a masters degree in sociology in


Kathmandu and written an authoritative guide to Nepali for English-speaking students. At SIT, he both teaches language and tends to logistics for the students' extensive trekking. Periodically, he gets on his motorcycle and rides five hours into the mountains to visit his relatives. Rana struck me as the real deal, a perfect instructor for Meg about the ways of Nepal.

For nearly two hours, Mahimaa and her teachers sat out on a lawn and bantered, first in English, then in Nepali. As I watched, I made a judgment: The $22,000 all-in cost for the program had been money well spent. Even if Meg never came to Nepal again, learning a complex language like this, and mastering the culture, was sure to enrich her understanding of words and the world.prepared to fly on a 20-seat propeller plane deep into the Himalayas. Knowing what lay ahead and her father's aversion to heights, Meg asked a pointed question of our local travel agent: "Is this flight safe?" The agent glanced at his boss, who didn't miss a beat: "There's only one crash a year, and it's already happened." We proceeded to buy two round-trip tickets.

Since the plane couldn't fly as high as the peaks, it weaved and tilted its way around them, sometimes floating so close to the mountain sides that you could practically see individual trees and branches. Then, suddenly, the pilot pointed the plane sharply downward and dove, pulling the nose up just in time to land on the tiny airstrip at Jomsom, Nepal. We were not


only alive, we were at the entry point to the Annapurna range, a spectacular array of 43 peaks ranging in height from 17,000 feet to 27,000 feet. Meg had lived with a family here for a week, so once again she knew the terrain.

Soon we were on a long day-hike along the Kali Gandaki River, which cuts a deep gorge through the mountains. The river was dried out for our visit, but within a few weeks it would be flooded by the monsoons. We passed the rustic Jimi Hendrix Restaurant, where the guitar god had stayed back in the days when hippies flocked to Nepal for enlightenment and hashish. We picked through the rocks of the riverbed for fossils, and rested in the shade beside cliffs. At oneand there was no telling who we might meet. As we sipped coffee in a cafe, we spotted a monk who was clearly American and probably in his mid-50s. He was reading a newspaper and complaining about the news to a friend. I imagined that in an earlier time this monk had been a tax lawyer. Meg leaned over to me and whispered: "He looks like he could be someone's da-a-a-ad."

Ah, that tone. It was the sound of young Americans talking about their elders -- incredulity mixed with embarrassment and a touch of scorn. It was pleasing to see there was still something of the child in Meg. And she had a point: I hadn't come all the way to Nepal to meet another da-a-a-ad. We stopped looking


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The incision of IL approach begins at the midpoint of iliac crest and is continued anteriorly and distally from ASIS to the pubic tubercle. Lacuna vasorum (femoral vessels) and lacuna musculorum (lateral femoral cutaneous nerve, psoas tendon, and femoral nerve) divided the IL approach into three windows. The region could be exposed through the lateral window of IL approach was similar to iliac fossa approach. The middle window is able to provide visualization of quadrilateral surface and pelvic brim in profile. Ipsilateral pubic ramus could be almost entirely exposedwith car dealerships, tattoo parlors, strip clubs. A woman left behind on such a landscape, again. For her, it is the middle of the afternoon.

At this hour, in Afghanistan, the recreation room is not full but far from empty. There is a clatter of keyboards, the scrape of heavy chairs, conversations overheard in halves. Nearly every base has such a room, and here troops and contractors gather to shrug off the war for a while and call or write home with communal phones and computers. They place their rifles or machine guns on the floor and sit side by side at carrels stained with ink and sweat.

All sound is amplified. I have heard laughter and professions of love in these rooms, proud fathers baby-talking over Skype to stunned,


Adel Daoud is no Ferris Bueller.

A Chicago suburban teen, he couldn’t drive himself to the Jewel Osco grocery store down the street without getting lost, let alone pull a Bueller and hoodwink his parents into letting him have the day off school. He is a D student and forgetful in the extreme. “He’s not a person with a complete mind,” his mother told me.

Yet the FBI began targeting Daoud as a terrorist mastermind shortly after his 18th birthday. At the time the FBI began its sting operation, Daoud wasn’t part of a terrorist cell, nor was any group recruiting him. He was, though, on the Internet, looking for answers about Islam and jihad. At home and at his local mosque, the Muslim teen was told that jihad wasStory highlights Between four and six people are believed dead, NTSB says

Ex-Microsoft executive was aboard the plane, a family member says

Two children, ages 1 and 13, are believed to have been in the house

It was not immediately known if anyone was in the plane along with the pilot

A former Microsoft executive and his son were aboard a turboprop airline that crashed Friday morning into two houses in East Haven, Connecticut, a family member told CNN.

There has been "no official confirmation or positive identification" that Bill Henningsgaard and his son were on board, but there is no reason to believe that it was not the two of them, his brother, Blair Henningsgaard, said.

Also feared dead in the crash were two children -- ages 1 and 13 -- in one


house, East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. said. The other house was unoccupied.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators cannot confirm the number of people killed, saying there are reports of four to six people dead.

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said there could be as many as five people killed in the crash, including up to three people on the plane.

But Blair Henningsgaard said only his brother and his nephew were believed to be on the plane.

Two bodies were seen inside the home but haven't been recovered because the home is unstable, East Haven Fire Chief Douglas Jackson said at a press conference Friday afternoon.

Fire consumed both houses, preventing firefighters from searching for victims, Jackson said, and the basement in the home holding at least two victims was filled with water.

Maturosaid the children were in one house with their mother when the plane struck shortly before 11:30 a.m. The mother escaped, he said.

"It's ... total devastation in the back of the home," Maturo said.

The multi-engine Rockwell International Turbo Commander 690B, registered to Bill Henningsgaard, took off from New Jersey's Teterboro Airport on Friday morning and crashed while approaching the Tweed New Haven Airport around 11:25 a.m., the Federal Aviation Administration said.

The plane missed its initial approach, which isn't uncommon, said Tweed airport manager Lori Hoffman-Soares.

But NTSB investigator Robert Gretz told reporters it was possible the plane was on its first approach.

The neighborhood is about a half mile from the airport. One resident said the accident wasn't surprising.

"They fly in very low, and a lot of times you can


hear the engine cut off before it gets to the runway," she told CNN affiliate WTIC

The mayor said the airport's close proximity to residents isn't unusual.

"It's always a concern, but it's something that happens in every airport," Maturo said.

Neither the pilot's identity nor information about how many people were in the plane was immediately available.

The fuselage entered one of the homes, Malloy said. The right wing of the airplane could be seen in the smoldering wreckage of one house, and the left wing was in another house.

Video from affiliate WTNH showed smoke rising from a heavily damaged house in East Haven, and what appeared to be the tail of a plane nearby.

NTSB investigators will examine whether the weather played a role in the crash. It was raining atStanford announces Rose Bowl allocation sellout

Stanford fans will be going in droves to Pasadena. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)

By Vlae Kershner

Stanford announced today that it sold out its allocation of more than 31,000 Rose Bowl tickets on Monday, the first full day of telephone sales. The athletic department says orders are still being taken as the Rose Bowl and Pac-12 make more tickets available.
The rapid sale comes as a surprise after Stanford drew an announced crowd of just 31,622 to the Pac-12 championship game against UCLA on Friday night–about 25,000 of whom appeared to be in their seats. The poor crowd drew mocking references, such as these on a Notre Dame blog.

People in California just don’t handle rain well.

How does such a tough team have such wimpy fans?

To be fair,


July 23, 2018

'The Crazies Were Right, And I Was Wrong': Former Federal Prosecutor Speaks Of 'Rogue' FBI & FISA Court Abuses

By Susan Duclos - All News PipeLine

Former Federal Prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, while being critical of many aspects of the special counsel probe into Russian collusion with the Trump campaign, had long maintained that the FISA warrants obtained by the FBI/DOJ, were applied for and granted properly, until the controversial Nunes' memo regarding FISA abuses was release, and later confirmed by the Senate Judiciary Commitees Grassley-Graham memo back in February 2018.

At the time McCarthy wrote the following:

With its verification by the Grassley-Graham memo, the Nunes memo now has about a thousand times more corroboration than the Steele dossier, the basis of the heinous allegations used by the Justice Departmenttitled "FISA Applications Confirm: The FBI Relied on the Unverified Steele Dossier," where he explains what a proper verification process requires, finding the FBI did not, or could not, verify the Steele dossier, and misled the FISA court by claiming they had verified the information used in their application.

McCarthy then addresses his critics that are still trying to justify the FBI tactics by claiming the redacted information may show the FBI did corroborate Steele's information. He highlights not only the Grassley-Graham declassified memo, but he also points out that former FBI Director James Comey had also testified in from of Congress by admitting the Steele dossier was "salacious and unverified." Further proving his point, he reminds readers that "the FBIs former deputy director, Andrew McCabe, told Congress that


Western-backed alliance of Sunni Muslim Arab states to try to restore Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and his internationally recognized government that was ousted from the capital Sanaa by the Houthis in 2015.

As fighting mounted overnight, Hadi appointed a new defense minister - Mohammed al-Maqdishi - and named Abdullah Al-Nakhi as Chief of Staff, state news agency SABA reported.

Maqdishi had been chief of staff and the facto defense minister for more than a year, and the official title would give him more authority to oversee the fighting, a senior Yemeni government official told Reuters.

Yemen’s ousted government has fled further south down the coast in Aden, but Hadi and other cabinet members are based in Riyadh.

The Houthis say they are defending their homeland from foreign invaders and accuse theYemeni government of decades of marginalization.

The United Nations has no up-to-date estimate of the death toll in Yemen. It said in August 2016 that according to medical centers at least 10,000 people had been killed.

Pressure has mounted on Saudi Arabia since the killing of Journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last month, to end the 3-1/2 year war that has already created one of the world’s worse humanitarian crises.

Amnesty added it has documented a series of air strikes carried out by the Saudi Arabia and UAE-led Coalition in the lead-up to the recent escalation in fighting, including two that killed 11 and 21 civilians last month.


wanted to earn the title with the help of Pythor. The Overlord would steal Lloyd's Golden Power and forge a massive suit of armor and mech using the Golden Weapons, thus becoming the Golden Master.

The Golden Master attacked New Ninjago City, wreaking havoc on the area and those living in it. The Ninja and their allies fought back, gaining an advantage by hiding in the Temple of Fortitude and wearing Stone Armor to ward off the Golden Master's destructive powers. Despite this, the Golden Master incapacitated all the Ninja except Zane, who sacrificed himself to destroy the Overlord's physical form, but at the cost of Zane's body as well.

Both the Overlord and Zane would survive, with Zane rebuilding himself while the Overlord's spirit remains dormant. The Golden ArmorThe missile launcher at the top of the mech that was featured in its set is smaller, and it also lacks the flag in the episode as well.

The Golden Master's role in the series is similar to the role of the Green Ninja in the first season. Both are incredibly powerful figures mentioned in an ancient prophecy, both are said to bring a decisive end to the conflict between good and evil (the Green Ninja is said to bring balance, while the Golden Master is said to ensure the demise of light), and both are eventually revealed to be the eventual destinies of a previously-introduced character.


muirii (Granby) A. L. Schutte
 Amphithalea muraltioides (Benth.) A. L. Schutte
 Amphithalea obtusiloba (Granby) A. L. Schutte
 Amphithalea oppositifolia L. Bolus
 Amphithalea pageae (L. Bolus) A. L. Schutte
 Amphithalea parvifolia (Thunb.) A. L. Schutte
 Amphithalea perplexa Eckl. & Zeyh.
 Amphithalea phylicoides Eckl. & Zeyh.

 Amphithalea purpurea (Granby) A. L. Schutte

 Amphithalea sericea Schltr.
 Amphithalea speciosa Schltr.
 Amphithalea spinosa (Harv.) A. L. Schutte
 Amphithalea stokoei L. Bolus
 Amphithalea tomentosa (Thunb.) Granby
 Amphithalea tortilis (E. Mey.) Steud.
 Amphithalea villosa Schltr.
 Amphithalea violacea (E. Mey.) Benth.
 Amphithalea virgata Eckl. & Zeyh.
 Amphithalea vlokii (A. L. Schutte & B.-E. van Wyk) A. L. Schutte
 Amphithalea williamsonii Harv.

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HART member, Hannah Henderson, was recently invited to present her work at a symposium hosted by Durham University’s Physical Activity Special Interest Group (PASIG), which is co-funded by the Wolfson Research Institute of Health and Wellbeing. The symposium explored “Exercise Continue reading Exercise Referral Research by Hannah Henderson→

HART Director, Prof Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson, and HART Associates, Dr Helen Owton (The Open University) and Dr Helen Clegg (University of Northampton) have been undertaking a qualitative study investigating gender and embodiment in dance. The project, which is being led by Dr Continue reading HART research on gender & dance→

An international team of HART researchers is undertaking a sociological-phenomenological study of sporting embodiment and the senses, in a range of physical cultures, including distance running, boxing, mixed martial arts,


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Follow @marketManama: Female students in Saudi Arabia have been allowed to enter university and colleges campuses with their mobiles in a landmark decision by the education minister.

Ahmad Al Eisa also told the heads of universities and colleges not to prevent the students from using them inside the facilities.

The decision was announced after several parents complained about their daughters being searched and told to hand over their mobile phones — and about the delays for courses caused by the “unnecessary procedures,” Saudi media reported.

Responsibility

The ministry said that the students at the university level have reached a high level of awareness and consciousness that allows them to rise up to their responsibilities and lead their lives normally, Al Hayat daily reported.

Some of the students have family conditions that require them to


remain connected most of the time, the ministry added.

However, all students will remain under the rules and regulations governing the proper behaviour on campus.

King Saud University in the capital Riyadh on Sunday cancelled the need for the approval of the parent if a female student wanted or needed to leave before 11 am.

Prior to the cancellation of the rule, a student had to stay on campus even if her courses were over before 11 am unless she presented the ID of her parent and his approval.

Family driver

Students who were chauffeured by the family’s driver needed to obtain a special card from the university after presenting copies of the driver’s residency permit, her parent’s approval endorsed by his employer, and the course timetable.

The relaxation of the rules was largelyof commercialism and the formulaic, progressive bluegrass has been quietly growing and developing into one of the most vibrant and varied genres in contemporary music, since its emergence in the early 1980s.

In brief, progressive bluegrass is an amalgamation of interesting musical ideas from all over the genre spectrum with bluegrass, a style of American folk music that is often heavily steeped in tradition. Progressive bluegrass musicians take the elements of that baggage which carry some sort of meaning (whether that be instrumentation, old-time melodies, an approach to improvisation, etc.), and use external musical tools, tricks and traditions to push those fundamental elements to their creative limits.

Often, the genre appeals to those who enjoy a sense of nostalgia in their music, but won’t settle for anything repetitive, formulaic or


creatively stagnant. Here are five albums (most of them fairly recent, but one released in the genre’s earlier period) that I believe represent a fairly varied selection of the genre’s broad church of stylistic approaches:

Skip Hop and Wobble by Jerry Douglas, Russ Barenberg and Edgar Meyer (1993)

This album was one of the early collaborations between those considered to be progressive bluegrass superstars. Dobro player, Jerry Douglas and bassist, Edgar Meyer were both early innovators in the genre through their work with the supergroup, Strength in Numbers, in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Guitarist, Russ Barenberg was the most traditional of the three, but he was known as one of the most melodic players in bluegrass at the time, and was well regarded for his virtuosity and creativejourney between big, satisfying harmonic resolutions.

This album is also significant because it was one of the first recordings that proved newgrass had legs beyond New Grass Revival and Strength in Numbers – the two major progressive bluegrass projects of the time.

Rocket Science by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones (2011)

The other major progressive bluegrass group of the early 1990s was Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. This band expanded the genre in a completely different direction, thanks to banjo genius, Béla Fleck (an alumnus of both New Grass Revival and Strength in Numbers) and his fascination with odd instrumentation and jazz.

Rocket Science was the band’s final studio album before they took an indefinite hiatus from making new music together, but it’s also the album which best represents a complete overview


the band’s essence most effectively, and is a creative pinnacle for both the Flecktones, and the genre as a whole.

A Dotted Line by Nickel Creek (2014)

Nickel Creek are perhaps the most widely recognised band in the newgrass world, having had significant mainstream success in the late 1990s and early 2000s, with their debut album as well as songs like ‘Spit on a Stranger’ (a Pavement cover) and ‘Smoothie Song’. They were, simply put, a pop trio with bluegrass sensibilities and instrumentation, and they used the virtuosity required in high level bluegrass to write music that was just a little headier than other pop or country music of the time. Unfortunately for fans of the young trio, after 15-odd years of writing, playing and recording together, the band wenton hiatus in 2007 due to a feeling of creative stagnation, stresses in their personal lives and a particularly strenuous touring schedule.

Chris Thile (mandolin), Sara Watkins (fiddle) and Sean Watkins (guitar) spent the next seven years working on their own personal projects, before reuniting in 2014 for one more album and tour. A Dotted Line was that album, and it draws together the experiences the trio gained during their hiatus with their natural instincts for playing and writing together, for an end result of some of the most engaging, memorable songs in the band’s catalogue. Nickel Creek’s sound has the characteristic acoustic warmth of early newgrass bands, like Strength in Numbers, and the poppy vibrancy of prevalent early 2000s pop rock bands like Pavement, Green Day, and the


an ambitious, four movement string quintet for bluegrass instruments by Thile, called ‘The Blind Leaving the Blind’, but after a short while playing together, Thile, Gabe Witcher (fiddle), Noam Pikelny (banjo), Chris Eldridge (guitar) and Greg Garrison (the bass player who was quickly succeeded by Edgar Meyer protégé, Paul Kowert) realised that this was a band; a project much bigger than one piece of music.

The quintet has been playing and recording together ever since and have embodied a more recent philosophy in progressive bluegrass – a marriage of folk and formal. The idea here is to fuse together the vibrancy of bluegrass and pop music with the discipline, complexity and formal structures of classical music and jazz, and that’s just what Punch Brothers did on their sophomore album,clear sense of the band’s own identity that comes through on every track, thanks to Thile’s vocal writing, the spindly melodies and the awesome, dense instrumental writing.

Through their eclectic song writing style and instrumental interplay on Antifogmatic, Punch Brothers spawned a much clearer genre identity for newgrass, and an aesthetic that has carried over to newer projects like Hawktail, I’m With Her, Julian Lage & Chris Eldridge, and many more.

Build Me Up From Bones by Sarah Jarosz (2013)

Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Sarah Jarosz is a member of a newer, younger generation of newgrass musicians. The young prodigy recorded her first album, Song Up In Her Head, while she was still in high school and became a protégé of the Punch Brothers, as well as Crooked Still’s Aoife O’Donovan, collaborating


song writing style, where instrumental virtuosity is clearly present, but takes a back seat to the lyrical and emotional themes of the songs. The album takes advantage of its long, star-studded list of guest musicians – including Jerry Douglas, Aoife O’Donovan, Kate Rusby, Dirk Powell and Chris Thile – to deftly create a powerful atmosphere for each track, rather than to simply show off their instrumental prowess. Douglas’ dobro playing, for example, on the song ‘Dark Road’ provides a sweeping musical companion to the allegorical journey described by Jarosz in her poetic lyrics, and Thile’s mandolin playing on ‘Fuel the Fire’ adds an exhilarating, rhythmic drive to a song all about fuelling one’s passions.

Sarah Jarosz is one of the most vital and necessary voices in the current progressiveWho We Are

Dua Foundation (DF) is a registered non-governmental welfare organisation. It was founded by a few professionals from Karachi in 2014. All of them are highly accomplished in their respective fields as well as armed with a built-in spirit of selfless social service. Dua Foundation has been serving people irrespective of their ethnicity, political and religious affiliation, caste or creed in far-flung areas. Its mission is: “Serving Humanity Without Discrimination”.In a short span of time,


In a message posted on its Telegram channels, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) said three of its “heroes” had stormed the Grand-Bassam resort, according to SITE Intelligence Group, which is based just outside Washington.

President Alassane Ouattara said six gunmen had been killed.

The strike, which targeted three hotels in the former French colonial capital that is popular with Western expatriates, also killed 14 civilians and two special forces troops, he said.

“By the grace of Allah and His granting of success, three heroes from the knights of Qaedat al-Jihad in the Islamic Maghreb were able to storm the tourist resort ‘Grand Bassam,’ situated east of the city of Abidjan, in Ivory Coast,” the SITE Intelligence Group quoted AQIM as saying.

One witness told AFP they heard one of the assailantsmiles east and west, 100 miles north and south.

Archenland

Archenland is a mountainous country south of Narnia. It is bordered on the north by Narnia and on the south by the Winding Arrow river. The seat of government is at Anvard, in the heart of the country, a fortified area. No other towns or villages are mentioned in the Chronicles. It is described as being somewhat open parkland, with many different varieties of trees scattered far enough apart so as to not constitute a forest – but it is mostly a mountainous country. Archenland is allied with Narnia, as is shown in The Horse and His Boy. Unlike Narnia, Archenland is inhabited by humans and is governed by Men. The second son of King Frank I of Narnia became


Quite a lot of British comics characters, some of which were published in Portugal, was conceived by brilliant writers and artists, and we have already posted about some of them, as well as about some of the characters they created. And it is sad that nowadays they are virtually unknown to the general public.

But the 50's, 60's and 70's saw the debut of some curious series, and Zip Nolan is certainly one of them. The main character is a North American Highway Patrolman (!) that fights criminals based largely on his intuition and frequently ignoring the instructions of his superiors. His adventures appeared between 1963 and 1974 in the British comic Lion, later merged with Valiant, where it lasted until 1976.

The stories were two or three pages long.Their readers were invited to discover clues that lead to finding the perpetrators, and were called Spot The Clue With Zip Nolan Highway Patrol.

The artist who started the series was Joe Colquhoun, and many of the arguments were written by Michael Moorcock, a prolific scriptwriter who worked on several series for Fleetway. Later, Reg Bunn, who we have already mentioned about The Spider, took over the series, as well as the Italian artist Roberto Diso.

Zip Nolan was occasionally published in Portuguese comic books, but with little sucess and, as far as we know, only a few fans. We have found two adventures in issues 99 and 105 of the comic Selecções do Mundo de Aventuras. In Britain, the adventures of this character were reprinted in Albion #2.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - North Korea has told its key ally, China, that it is prepared to stage one or even two more nuclear tests this year in an effort to force the United States into diplomatic talks, said a source with direct knowledge of the message.

A passenger walks past a television report on North Korea's nuclear test at a railway station in Seoul February 12, 2013. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji

Further tests could also be accompanied this year by another rocket launch, said the source, who has direct access to the top levels of government in both Beijing and Pyongyang.

North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on Tuesday, drawing global condemnation and a stern warning from the United States that it was a threat and a provocation.

“It’s all ready. A fourthand fifth nuclear test and a rocket launch could be conducted soon, possibly this year,” the source said, adding that the fourth nuclear test would be much larger than the third, at an equivalent of 10 kilotons of TNT.

The tests will be undertaken, the source said, unless Washington holds talks with North Korea and abandons its policy of what Pyongyang sees as attempts at regime change.

North Korea also reiterated its long-standing desire for the United States to sign a final peace agreement with it and establish diplomatic relations, he said. North Korea remains technically at war with both the United States and South Korea after the Korean war ended in 1953 with a truce.

In Washington, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland urged North Korea to “refrain from additional


that the escalations could inflame public opinion in China and hasten military build-ups in the region.

The source said he saw little room for compromise under North Korea’s youthful new leader, Kim Jong-un. The third Kim to rule North Korea is just 30 years old and took over from his father in December 2011.

He appears to have followed his father, Kim Jong-il, in the “military first” strategy that has pushed North Korea ever closer to a workable nuclear missile at the expense of economic development.

“He is much tougher than his father,” the source said.TOWN OF FRANKLIN APPLIES FOR CULTURAL DISTRICT STATUS TO THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS

Franklin, MA (June 15, 2018):Thanks to a multi-year effort by the Town of Franklin and a group of its citizens, an official application to establish a Franklin Cultural District was submitted to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts through the offices of the Massachusetts Cultural Council on June 8, 2018. The Franklin Cultural District (FCD) will be a demarcated region within the townthat encompasses the cultural facilities, activities, and assets that lie in a compact, walkable area. Franklin’s vibrant cultural atmosphere is already home to the nation’s first public library, the Franklin Historical Museum, Dean College School of the Arts, over 25 other performing and visual arts and dance studios, and a variety of restaurants and cafes. Establishment


of the FCD will likely attract additional arts and cultural organizations in the future, driving economic development.

Cultural District status will make the FCD eligible for a variety of state grant programs, state economic development opportunities and monies, strategic planning and historic preservation assistance, and marketing through the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism.

"Arts and Culture have become an extremely important and vibrant economic engine for the Town of Franklin," says Deputy Town Administrator Jamie Hellen. "Designating the Town as an official Cultural District will only enhance those opportunities and establish Franklin as the premier arts and cultural hub in the southern MetroWest region.”

This effort has been years in the planning, beginning with the Franklin Cultural District Steering Committee, who were tasked with gauging interest in the project andstarting the organizational efforts necessary to begin the application process. The Steering Committee met with potential partners, the Massachusetts Cultural Council (MCC), and Town of Franklin administrators to determine the needs, geographic area and types of businesses to be included, and the roles and responsibilities of the District itself. That Committee went on to create the Franklin Cultural Festival, which ran for three years and created a strong basis amongst the partners and evidence for the State of the vigor of the arts and culture community in Franklin. A preliminary site visit with the MCC and the Town resulted in a decision to move forward with the formal cultural district application.

On June 28, 2017, the Franklin Town Council passed Resolution 17-45, which endorsedthe FCD’s cultural district goals, namely


to “attract artists and cultural enterprises; encourage business and job development; establish the district as a tourist destination; preserve and reuse historic buildings; enhance property values; and foster local cultural development.”

In November 2017, seven Franklin residents were appointed to the Franklin Cultural District Committee, an official Town committee which took over for the initial Steering Committee, to make the formal application to the State and then oversee the new district. Part of the application included letters of endorsement and intent from the many cultural assets in town, establishing them as official partners of the District, including the Franklin Public Schools, Dean College, Franklin Downtown Partnership, the Franklin School for the Performing Arts, Franklin Performing Arts Company/THE BLACK BOX, the Franklin Historical Museum, the Franklin Art Association, the FranklinCultural Council, and many more. Some of the partners were involved in the FCD initiative from the very beginning, others, such as Drummer’s Studio, Encore Music Academy and Feet in Motion School of Dance, have signed on more recently as the momentum for establishment of the District increased.

During the first quarter of 2018, the Franklin Cultural District’s Goals were refined during Cultural District Committee public meetings. These Goals combine the aims for the State's cultural districts, existing planning initiatives (including Franklin’s 2013 Master Plan cultural resources goals and objectives), and input from Committee partners. The FCD partners will meet with the Committee quarterly, starting June 19, to discuss marketing, cross-promotional events between the partners, and ways to enhance the District. An FCD website, complete with a local arts


calendar, is being established to provide a single source of arts and cultural information for town residents and visitors.

The application filed on June 8, 2018, included narrative on the FCD's goals, marketing plans, partners, cultural assets, and State-required metrics to measure the FCD's impact, as well as the official FCD map. In addition, hundreds of pages of supplemental materials were submitted showing examples of arts and cultural events and programming within the proposed District.Once the MCC has reviewed the application, a site visit will be scheduled with the Town, the FCD committee and the FCD partners. Only then will the State render a verdict on the application.

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

The Franklin Art Association will hold its Annual Spring Show and Sale “Art from the Heart” on Saturday, Aprilgo to www.franklinart.org

Monday, March 26, 2018

The Worcester Chamber Music Society will be coming to Franklin for a unique multi-media concert on May 6 as part of ArtWeek. In conjunction with the Franklin Public Schools, the Art + Music Family Concert will offer music of Mozart, Debussy, Haydn, and Ginastera at the Franklin High School auditorium from 3:00 - 4:30pm.

Artwork inspired by the pieces and created by Franklin's elementary school students will be projected above the musicians' heads in a presentation timed to the music. In addition, Jacob Hoover and Katherine Bickford, who dance professionally with the Festival Ballet Providence, will perform, and children in the audience will have an opportunity to create art real-time.

After the concert, there will be a Meet & Greet with the musicians, giving audience


Puna (complete).

About the Franklin Cultural Council —

The mission of the Franklin Cultural Council (FCC) is to encourage participation and enhance opportunities for enrichment in the cultural arts and sciences throughout our community. Comprised of committed residents, the FCC meets monthly with the purpose of supporting events and programs through grants from the Town of Franklin, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts.West Indies opener Chris Gayle has opted to take a break from cricket for the rest of 2019, and will use the time to "reflect" on his future in international cricket.

Gayle, who most recently pulled out of the 2019 Mzansi Super League, where he plays for Jozi Stars, midway through the season, has been out of international cricket since the home series against India in August. Now, he has announced that he will take no part in the upcoming tour of the country, which includes three T20Is and as many ODIs, next month.

"West Indies called me to play ODIs, but I am not going to play," Gayle said on Sunday, 24 November. "They (selectors) want me to play with the youngsters, but for this year I am going


fifty 🔢.

What has been your standout moment from this knock?#MSLT20 #StarsVSpartans pic.twitter.com/85oKJdGqYs — Mzansi Super League 🔥 🇿🇦 🏏 (@MSL_T20) November 24, 2019

Gayle had a great start to the year, aggregating 424 runs from four innings in the home ODIs against England, but couldn't carry on that form thereafter. He finished with 242 runs from eight innings at the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019, before managing scores of 4 and 11 in the first two ODIs against India, the second of which saw him surpass Brain Lara's tally of 10,405 runs to become the leading run-scorer for West Indies in the format. He followed up that milestone with a stroke-filled 72 off just 41 balls in the third ODI.

The 40-year-old had walked into the game with aspecial '301' carved into his jersey, to mark the number of ODIs he's played in – the most for any West Indies cricketer. He walked off to an ovation from the opposition and the crowd, which suggested that it could be his last international appearance. Gayle however, dismissed retirement claims.

"I didn't announce any retirement," he said in a short video posted by Cricket West Indies, insisting that he would be around "until further notice".


Algonquin College is increasing some fees, reducing hours of operation and cutting back positions in an effort to close a $25-million shortfall opened up by Ontario's pay equity legislation.

Bill 148, passed by the previous Liberal government, requires employers to pay part-time staff the same rate for the equivalent work of full-time staff.

The current Ontario PC government is reviewing the law and Premier Doug Ford vowed Tuesday it would be scrapped.

Duane McNair, vice-president of finance and administration at Algonquin, said the college's big shortfall was created because it's been recruiting staff for lower wages than its counterparts in more competitive markets.

"We're the only public English-speaking college in town, so we didn't have to pay the competitive rates of the pay that they do in the [Greater Toronto Area], wherelittle attention to the Arctic in recent years, and the United States is “late to the game,” in the words of former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Meanwhile, a tiny town at the top of Norway has set itself an ambitious target: to be the next Singapore.

Rune Rafaelsen is a man with a very ambitious plan.

Mr. Rafaelsen is the mayor of Kirkenes, a small port at the northern tip of Norway, 250 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Kirkenes is the end of the line for a passenger ship that trundles daily up the coast through scenic coastal fjords. Its 3,000 inhabitants live in the shadow of an iron-ore works that went bankrupt in 2015. The town is best known for its dramatic northern lights and king crabs, the


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Contents
History ………………………………………………………………………………………. 3
Economy ……………………………………………………………………………………. 7
Transportation …………………………………………………………………………… 9
City layout …………………………………………………………………………………. 10
Main sights ………………………………………………………………………………..11
Sports ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 14
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Nizhny Novgorod (Russian:
Ни́ жний Но́ вгород), colloquially
shortened as Nizhny, is the
fourth largest city in Russia,
ranking after Moscow, St. Petersburg,
and Novosibirsk. Population: 1,311,252
(Russian Census (2002);[8] 1,438,133
(1989 Census).[13] It is the economic and
cultural center of the vast Volga-Vyatka
economic region, and also the
administrative center of Nizhny
Novgorod Oblast and Volga Federal
District.
View of Nizhny Novgorod near the Oka River
From 1932 to 1990, the city was known as
Gorky (Го́ рький),[11] after the writer Maxim
Gorky who was born there.
The city is an important economic, transport
and cultural center of the nation
History
A seat of medieval princes
After the destruction of the Mordvin Inäzor
Obram administrative centre and fillfort
named Obran Osh (Ashli) at the site offuture
stone Kremlin in 1220, a small Russian
wooden hillfort was founded by Grand Duke
Yuri II of Russia in 1221. Located at the
confluence of two most important rivers of
his principality, the Volga (Mordvin "Rav" or
"Rava"), and the Oka, and Obran Osh was
renamed Nizhny Novgorod. Its name literally
means Lower Newtown, to distinguish it from
the older Novgorod. Its independent
existence was threatened by the continuous
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Mordvin attacks against it. The major attempt made by Inäzor Purgaz from
Arzamas in January 1229 was repulsed, but after the death of Yuri II on March 4,
1238 at the Battle of Sit River the Mongols occupied the fortress and the
remnants of small Nizhny Novgorod settlement which surrendered without any
resistance in order to preserve what had been developed since Purgaz's attack
eight years earlier. Later a major stronghold for border protection,


Nizhny
Novgorod fortress took advantage of a natural moat formed by the two rivers.
Along with Moscow and Tver, Nizhny Novgorod was among several newlyfounded towns that escaped Mongol devastation on account of their
insignificance, but grew into during the period of the Tatar Yoke. With the
agreement of the Mongol Khan, Nizhny Novgorod was incorporated into the
Vladimir - Suzdal Principality in 1264. After 86 years its importance further
increased when the seat of the powerful Suzdal Principality was moved here from
Gorodets in 1350. Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich (1323-1383) sought to
make his capital a rival worthy of Moscow; he built a stone citadel and several
churches and was a patron of historians. The earliest extant manuscript of the
Russian Primary Chronicle, the Laurentian Codex, was written for him by the local
monk Laurentius in 1377.
The strongestfortress of Muscovy
Аfter the city's incorporation into Muscovy (1392),
the local princes took the name Shuisky and settled
in Moscow, where they were prominent at the court
and briefly ascended the throne in the person of
Vasili IV. After being burnt by the powerful Crimean
Tatar chief Edigu in 1408, Nizhny Novgorod was
restored and regarded by the Muscovites primarily
as a great stronghold in their wars against the Tatars
of Kazan. The enormous red-brick kremlin, one of
the strongest and earliest preserved citadels in
Russia, was built in 1508–1511 under the supervision
Kuzma Minin appeals to the people of Nizhny
Novgorod to raise a volunteer army against the
Poles.
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of Peter the Italian. The fortress was strong enough to withstand Tatar sieges in
1520 and 1536.
In 1612, the so-called national militia, gathered by a local merchant, Kuzma Minin,
and commanded by Knyaz Dmitry


Pozharsky expelled the Polish troops from
Moscow, thus putting an end to the "Time of Troubles" and establishing the rule
of the Romanov dynasty. The main square before the kremlin is named after
Minin and Pozharsky, although it is locally known simply as "Minin Square."
Minin's remains are buried in the citadel. (In commemoration of these events, on
October 21, 2005, an exact copy of the Red Square statue of Minin and Pozharsky
was placed in front of St John the Baptist Church, which is believed to be the
place from where the call to the people had been proclaimed.)
In the course of the following century, the city
prospered commercially and was chosen by the
Stroganovs (the wealthiest merchant family of
Russia) as a base for their operations. A particular
style of architecture and icon painting, known as the
Stroganovstyle, developed there at the turn of the
19th and 20th centuries.
Church of the Nativity of Our Lady, built
by the Stroganovs
The historical coat of arms of Nizhny Novgorod in
1981 was: A red deer with black horns and hooves
on a white field. The modern coat of arms circa a
ribbon with colours of the Russian national flag.
Great trade centre
In 1817, the Makaryev Fair, one of the liveliest in the
world, was transferred to Nizhny Novgorod, which thereupon started to attract
millions of visitors
annually. By the mid19th century, the city
on the Volga was
firmly established as
the trade capital of
the Russian Empire.
The world's first radio
receiver of engineer
Alexander Popov and
the world's first
hyperboloid tower
and lattice shellscoverings of engineer
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Minin Square
Vladimir Shukhov were demonstrated at the All-Russia industrial and art
exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod in 1896. According to official Imperial Russian
statistics


the population of Nizhny Novgorod as of 14 January 1913 was 97.000
(rounded to the nearest thousand).
The largest industrial enterprise was the Sormovo Iron Works which was
connected by the company´s own railway to
Moscow station in the upper part of Nizhny
Novgorod. The private Moscow — Kazan Railway
Company´s station served the lower part of the
town. Other industries gradually developed, and by
the dawn of the 20th century it was a first-rank
industrial hub as well. Henry Ford helped build a
large truck and tractor plant (GAZ) in the late 1920s, This building formerly housed the Great
Russian Fair
sending along engineers and mechanics, including
future labour leader Walter Reuther.
The Soviet Era
There were no bridges over the Volga or Oka before
the October Revolution in 1917. The first bridge over
the Volga was started by the Moscow-Kazan Railway
Company in 1914,but only finished in the Soviet Era
when the railway to Kotelnich was opened for service
in 1927.
The famous writer Maxim Gorky was born in Nizhny
Novgorod in 1868 as Alexei Maximovich Peshkov. In his
novels he realistically described the dismal life of the
Shukhov towers built in Nizhny
city proletariat. Even during his lifetime, the city was
Novgorod suburbs near Dzerzhinsk in
renamed Gorky following his return to the Soviet Union 1927–1929
in 1932 on invitation of Joseph Stalin. The city bore
Gorky's name until 1991. His childhood home is preserved as a museum, known
as the Kashirin House (Russian: Домик Каширина), after Alexei's grandfather who
owned the place.
During much of the Soviet era, the city was closed to foreigners to safeguard the
security of Soviet military research and production facilities, even though it was a
popular stopping point for Soviet


tourists traveling up and down the Volga in
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tourist boats. Unusually for a Soviet city of that size, even the street maps were
not available for sale until the mid-1970s. Mátyás Rákosi, communist leader of
Hungary died here in 1971.
The physicist and the Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov was exiled there during
1980-1986 to limit his contacts with foreigners.
Economy
Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast ranks seventh in Russia in industrial output, while the
processing industry predominates in the local economy. More than 633 industrial
companies employ nearly 700 000 people, or 62% of the workforce involved in
material production. Industry generates 83% of the regional GDP and makes 89%
of all material expenditures. The leading sectors are engineering and
metalworking, followed by the chemical and petrochemical industries and the
forestry, woodworking, and paper industries. The first three sectors account for
about 75% ofall industrial production.
Nizhniy Novgorod Oblast has traditionally been attractive to investors. In 2002,
Moody's rating agency confirmed a Caa1 rating based on the region's long-term
foreign currency liabilities.
The region maintains trade relations with many countries and has an export
surplus. The largest volume of exports goes to Ukraine, Belarus, Switzerland,
Kazakhstan, Belgium, and France. Imports come mainly from Ukraine, Germany,
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Austria, the Netherlands, China, and the United States.
The stock market infrastructure is quite well developed in Nizhniy Novgorod, and
the exchange business is expanding. Companies and organizations registered in
the region include 1153 joint-stock companies, 63 investment institutions, 34
commercial banks, 35 insurance companies, 1 voucher investment fund, 1
investment fund, 17 nongovernmental pension funds, 2 associations of
professional stock market dealers, and 3 exchanges (stock, currency, and
agricultural). Nizhny Novgorod Region is noted for having relatively


highly
developed market relations.
Information technology
Nizhniy Novgorod is one of the centers of the IT Industry in Russia. It ranks among
the leading Russian cities in terms of the quantity of software R&D providers . In
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Nizhniy Novgorod there are number of offshore outsourcing software developers,
including Devetel Ltd., MERA Networks, RealEast Networks, and Teleca, that
specialize in delivering services to telecommunication vendors. Also Intel has
opened a software R&D center with more than 500 engineers in Nizhniy
Novgorod.
There are 25 scientific R&D institutions focusing on telecommunications, radio
technology, theoretical and applied physics, and 33 higher educational
institutions, among them are Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy, Nizhny
Novgorod State University, Nizhny Novgorod Technical University, as well as
Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Information Technologies (former MERA Networks
training center), that focuses on information technologies, software
development, system administration, telecommunications, cellular networks,
Internet technologies, and1,200 are in Nizhny Novgorod
Oblast), is headquartered in Nizhny Novgorod.
Overnight trains provide access to Nizhny
Novgorod from Moscow. Since December
2002, a fast train transports passengers
Construction of metro bridge, April 2008
between Nizhny Novgorod and Moscow in less
than five hours. One can continue from Nizhny
Novgorod eastward along the Trans-Siberian Railway, with direct trains to major
cities in the Urals and Siberia, as well as to
Beijing.
One of the three bridges spanning the Oka
Nizhny Novgorod Strigino Airport has direct
flights to major Russian cities, as well as to
Frankfurt (three flights a week by Lufthansa).
The air base Sormovo was an important military
airlift facility, and Pravdinsk air base was an
interceptor aircraft base during the Cold War.
S7 Airlines goes to Moscow Domodedovo
airport daily.
Nizhny Novgorod is an important center of Volga cargo and passenger shipping. In
the summer, cruise vessels


operate between Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Saint
Petersburg, and Astrakhan. In 2006 a
small number of Meteor-class hydrofoils
resumed operations on the Volga river.
The city is served by Russian highway M-7
(Moscow – Nizhny Novgorod – Kazan –
Riverside terminal
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Ufa), and is a hub of the regional highway network.
Public transport within the city is provided by a small subway system (Nizhny
Novgorod Metro), tramways, marshrutkas or minibuses, buses and trolleybuses.
Electric and diesel commuter trains run to suburbs in several directions.
Free shuttle buses run from several points in the city to the MEGA shopping
complex, which opened in October 2006 in Fedyakovo, a few kilometers to the
east of the Nizhny Novgorod city line.
City layout
Nizhny Novgorod is divided by the Oka River
into two distinct parts. The Upper City
(Russian: Нагорная часть, Nagornaya Chast) is
located on the hilly eastern (right)bank of the
Oka. It includes three of the eight city districts
into which the city is administratively divided:
Nizhegorodsky (the historical and
administrative center of the city);
Prioksky;
Historic center of Nizhny Novgorod, including
Church of the Nativity and Kremlin walls on the hill
Sovetsky.
The Lower City (Russian: Заречная часть, Zarechnaya Chast) occupies the
low (western) side of the Oka, and includes five city districts:
Kanavinsky (the site of the Nizhny Novgorod Fair and the location of the main
train station);
Moskovsky (home of the Sokol Aircraft Plant and its airfield);
Sormovsky (where Krasnoye Sormovo and the Volga Shipyard are located);
Avtozavodsky (built around the GAZ automotive plants);
Leninsky.
All of the today's lower city was annexed to Nizhny Novgorod in 1929–1931.
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The city has many industrial suburbs, such as Kstovo, Dzerzhinsk, and Bor. The
town of Semyonov, to the north of Nizhny Novgorod, is


known as a craft center
for Khokhloma wood painting. Another suburb, Balakhna, is noted for its medieval
architecture.
Main sights
Much of the city downtown is built in the Russian Revival and Stalin Empire styles.
The dominating feature of the city skyline is the grand Kremlin (1500-11), with its
red-brick towers. After Bolshevik devastation, the only ancient edifice left within
the kremlin walls is the tent-like Archangel Cathedral (1624-31), first built in stone
in the 13th century.
Cultural features
There are more than six hundred
unique historic, architectural, and
cultural monuments in the city;
that gave grounds to UNESCO to
include Nizhny Novgorod in the list
of 100 cities of the world which
are of great historical and cultural
value.
Planetarium and circus
There are about two hundred
municipal and regional art and
cultural institutions within Nizhny Novgorod. Among these institutions there are
eight theatres, five concert halls, ninety-seven libraries(with branches),
seventeen movie theaters (including five movie theaters for children), twenty-five
institutions of children optional education, eight museums (sixteen including
branches), and seven parks
Nizhny Novgorod art gallery
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The art gallery in Nizhny Novgorod is a large and important art gallery and
museums of human history and culture.
Nizhny Novgorod has a great and extraordinary art gallery with more than 12,000
exhibits, an enormous collection of works by Russian artists such as Viktor
Vasnetsov, Karl Briullov, Ivan Shishkin, Ivan Kramskoi, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Isaak
Iljitsch Lewitan, Vasily Surikov, Ivan Aivazovsky, there are also greater collections
of works by Boris Kustodiev and Nicholas Roerich, not only Russian art is part of
the exhibition it include also a vast accumulation of Western European art like
works by David Teniers the Younger, Bernardo Bellotto, Lucas Cranach the Elder,
Pieter de Grebber, Giuseppe Maria Crespi,


Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and lot
more.
Finally what makes this gallery extremely important is the amazing collection
Russian avant-garde with works by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia
Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov and so on. There is also collection of East Asian art.
Churches
Pechersky Ascension Monastery
New Fair Cathedral (Aleksandr
Nevsky Cathedral)
Other notable landmarks are the two great medieval
abbeys. The Pechersky Ascension Monastery features
the austere five-domed cathedral (1632) and two rare
churches surmounted by tent roofs, dating from the
1640s. The Annunciation monastery, likewise
surrounded by strong walls, has another five-domed
cathedral (1649) and the Assumption church (1678). The
only private house preserved from that epoch formerly
belonged to the merchant Pushnikov.
There can be little doubt that the most original and
delightful churches in the city were built by the
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Stroganovs in the nascent Baroque style. Of these, the Virgin's Nativity Church
(1719) graces one ofthe central streets, whereas the Church of Our Lady of
Smolensk (1694-97) survives in the former village of Gordeevka (now, part of the
city's Kanavinsky District), where the Stroganov palace once stood.
Other notable churches include:
the Saviour Cathedral, also known as the Old Fair
Cathedral, a huge domed edifice built at the site of the
great fair to an Empire style design by Agustín de
Betancourt and Auguste de Montferrand in 1822;
the so-called New Fair Cathedral, designed in the Russian
Revival style and constructed between 1856 and 1880 at
the confluence of the Oka and the Volga;
Saviour (Old Fair) Cathedral
the recently reconstructed church of the Nativity of John the Precursor (1676-83),
standing just below the Kremlin walls; it was used during the Soviet period as an
apartment house;
the parish churches of the Holy Wives (1649) and of Saint


Elijah (1656);
the Assumption Church on St Elijah's Hill (1672), with five green-tiled domes
arranged unorthodoxly on the lofty cross-shaped barrel roof;
the shrine of the Old Believers at the Bugrovskoe cemetery, erected in the 1910s
to a critically acclaimed design by Vladimir Pokrovsky;
the wooden chapel of the Intercession (1660), transported to Nizhny Novgorod
from a rural area.
There is also a mosque in Sennaya Square, where the Muslim populations of the
city go for Friday prayers, Islamic activities and activities which are organised by
the mosque. There is also a small shop to buy halal meats. Most of the Muslims in
this city are Tatars.
The centrally located Nizhny Novgorod Synagogue was built in 1881-83; disused
during the Soviet era, it was renovated and reopened ca. 1991.
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Other
A singular monument of industrial architecture is a 128-metre-high open-work
hyperboloid tower builton the bank of
the Oka near Dzerzhinsk as part of a
powerline river crossing by the eminent
engineer and scientist Vladimir Shukhov
in 1929.
Volga riverside view
A staircase connecting the Kremlin with
the Volga river offers a panoramic view
of the surroundings. The staircase itself
was constructed in the late 1940s by
German prisoners of war forced to
labour around Gorky.
Sports
The city ice hockey team Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod play in the KHL. The city is
represented at football by FC Volga Nizhny Novgorod who play in the Russian First
Division. The other footbal team from Nizhny Novgrod, FC Lokomotiv Nizhny
Novgorod who had played in the Russian Premier League and Intertoto Cup
became defunct in 2006. The city field hockey team are HC Start. Their bandy
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