clothes and musical instruments. The items were collected from other counties that are also inhabited by the Qiang people but were less affected by the earthquake. There are also around 300 photographs taken by journalists showing the customs, constructions, and living habits of the Qiang people.

"We lost 805 items of Qiang cultural relics in the earthquake," Gao Zeyou, Director of Beichuan Qiang Folk Museum told Beijing Review. "Almost all the museums in Beichuan County were destroyed and all the items in the Qiang Folk Museum were damaged. The destruction has been ruinous."

The history of the Qiang ethnic group can be traced back to the Shang Dynasty (1600 B.C.-1046 B.C.). According to China's census of 2000, there were 306,000 Qiang people, living mainly in the Aba Tibetan and QiangNationality Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province. Beichuan, one of the counties in the prefecture, has a history of 1,400 years, and has long been a gathering place for the Qiang people. It is now the only Qiang Autonomous County of China. Among the 169,000 inhabitants of Beichuan, 60 percent are Qiang people. In the earthquake, around 30,000 Qiang people lost their lives.

The Qiang people have a rich culture. Their homes, clothes, food, music, dance and language all have unique characteristics.

"The Qiang flute needn't play the melody of the weeping willow, for the Yumen Pass shut out the vernal wind below." This ancient poem, usually accompanied by Qiang flute, is well known across China. The flute is difficult to play and few have mastered it.

The Qiang folk song and


drum are also specific to their culture, and gradually disappearing as younger generations look to more modern forms of music. The earthquake claimed the lives of a number of Qiang flute players, drummers and folk singers.

The Qiang language has no written form, so customs can only be passed down by word of mouth or demonstration. A number of Qiang elders, renowned for their cultural knowledge, were killed in the earthquake. "There were more than 10 Qiang elders in Wenchuan County, the epicenter of the quake, who knew a lot of things about Qiang culture and history. They are regarded as walking history books of the Qiang nationality. However, several of them were killed by the earthquake," said Hou Bin, a professor at Southwest University of Nationalities.

The Qiang villagesare usually built on mountains, a fact that has earned them the name "villages in the clouds." Traditionally they had watchtowers, or Qiong Long, that looked out over the surrounding terrain. Qiang people have a history of building watchtowers for more than 2,000 years. But the earthquake destroyed several of their watchtowers, and left others severely damaged with badly cracked walls.

While the earthquake has drawn extra attention to the protection of Qiang culture, it has in fact been an issue in China for some time. Last year the government of Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, allocated 100,000 yuan (some $14,500) for the collection of Qiang cultural relics. "Nobody could have imagined that this collection would just lead to more relics being destroyed by the earthquake," said Gao.

After the earthquake,


many Qiang people lost their homes and had to leave their villages.

For a lot of the survivors, it was the first time they had seen the outside world. "Since Beichuan was totally destroyed, Qiang people have had to find other places to build new houses. This might separate the Qiang people into many places, and add difficulty to the passing on of Qiang culture," said Gao.

On May 24, during a visit to Beichuan County, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said that the ancient culture and civilization of the Qiang people must be protected.

On May 30, the Forum on the Protection of Qiang Culture in Earthquake-hit Areas was held in Beijing. In June, the Forum of Emergent Protection of Qiang Cultural Relics was held in the Great Hall of theher."

"Now we have the regulations on the protection of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and we will follow the regulations in the protection work," said Gao. He has been busy searching for relics under the ruins.

"We are planning to build another large-scale Qiang Folk Museum. The location of the new museum has not yet been decided, but it will not be long," Gao said. "I believe as long as we are here and never give up, there will be a hopeful future for Qiang culture."

The Qiang people (Chinese: 羌族; pinyin: qiāng zú) are an ethnic group. They form one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China, with a population of approximately 200,000 living in northwestern Sichuan province. Nowadays, the Qiang are only


a small segment of the population, but they are commonly believed to be an old, once strong and populous people whose history can be traced to the Shang Dynasty and whose offspring include the Tibetans and many minorities in southwestern China.

In ancient China, Qiang was usually used as a generic term for the non-Han peoples in the northwest. These peoples were frequently at war with the inhabitants of the Yellow River valley, the ancestors of ethnic Hans. Not until the rise of the state of Qin under Duke Mu was the Qiang expansion effectively checked.

The structure of the graph 羌 also reflects this view. It was composed of two elements: 人 (man) and 羊 (sheep), suggesting a sheep-herding people. During the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD) and Wei-Jinperiods (221-419), Qiang were widely distributed along the mountainous fringes of the northern and eastern Tibetan Plateau, from the Kunlun Mountains (崑崙山) in Xinjiang province, and eastern Qinghai area, to southern Gansu, western Sichuan, and northern Yunnan.

Later, the Chinese restricted the term Qiang min 羌民 (Qiang people registered with the Chinese government) to refer to sinicized non-Han living in the Min River valley in Sichuan and used the term Fan Qiang 番羌 (barbarian Qiang) to refer to less sinicized non-Han living in the vicinity.

At present, the Qiang have a self-identity, referring to themselves as Qiang zu (羌族) and erma or rma (尔玛). There are some 198,000 Qiang today in western Sichuan, predominantly in the five counties of Maoxian, Wenchuan, Lixian, Beichuan and Heishui, of the Aba Tibetan and


Qiang Autonomous Prefecture. On 12 May 2008, the Qiang people were heavily affected by a major earthquake, whose epicenter was in Wenchuan County.

The Qiang today are mountain dwellers. A fortress village, zhai 寨, composed of 30 to 100 households, in general is the basic social unit beyond the household. An average of two to five fortress villages in a small valley along a mountain stream, known in local Chinese as gou 溝, make up a village cluster (cun 村). The inhabitants of fortress village or village cluster have close contact in social life. In these small valleys, people cultivate narrow fluvial plains along creeks or mountain terraces, hunt animals or collect mushrooms and herbs (for food or medicine) in the neighboring woods, and herd yaks and horses onthe mountain-top pastures. In the past, warfare between villages was common.

From the linguistic point of view, all modern Qiang people speak one of two Qiang languages, which are members of the Qiangic sub-family of Tibeto-Burman. However, dialects are so different that communication between different Qiang groups is often in Chinese. Lacking a script of their own, the Qiang also use Chinese characters.

The matrilineal Qiang society is primarily monogamous, although polyandry and cross-cousin marriages are accepted. Since most women are older than their husbands and also work as the leading people in agricultural activities, they act as the head of the family as well as the society.

Romantic love is considered important, and sexual freedom is prevalent, as the Qiang find marriages important.[citation needed] In the past, marriages were organized


by the parents, with approval from the children. It still is not unusual for brides to live in their parents' houses for a year or so after the marriage, and the children were usually separated from their parents after marriage, except for the first son and his family. However, such habits have been gradually discarded with the coming of liberation.

The Qiang also have a rigid taboo system in their birth and death. Prior to the birth of a baby, a pregnant woman is not allowed to go near the riverside or well, be at a wedding ceremony, or stand in the watchtower.

Upon a delivery, a Duangong shaman is invited to help the delivery procedure, and strangers are not allowed to wail or enter the house. This is preventedby hanging up a flail on the gate for a week upon the birth of a boy, and a bamboo basket upon the birth of a girl.

After she had delivered her child, she is not allowed into the kitchen for one month after delivery. This is considered a sinful action against the kitchen and family gods. A woman is also not allowed to leave her home, or meet any strangers on the first forty days after delivery. It is believed that danger of an evil spirits coming into the house would harm the mother. An initiation ceremony of cattle sacrifice would be conducted on the home altar, where the baby would be given a name.

Stillborn or premature babies are not considered as human beings by the Qiang. Instead,


it was considered as a demon which caused a woman to become pregnant, as it was believed that the deceased would cause problems for the family. Their bodies are thrown in a hole in the ground and then covered with dirt.

Owing to its ethnic diversity, Qiang culture have influenced other culture and as well as being influenced by others. Generally, those who live nearer to the Tibetans are influenced by the Tibetan culture, while the majority are more influenced by the Han Chinese, which has close links with its ethnic history.

Both the menfolk and womenfolk wear gowns made of gunny cloth, cotton and silk with sleeveless wool jackets. Following age-old Chinese traditions, their hair and legs are bounded. The womenfolk wear laced clothing with decorated collars, consisting ofplum-shaped silver ornaments. Sharp-pointed and embroidered shoes, embroidered girdles and earrings, neck rings, hairpins and silver badges are also popular.

Millet, highland barley, potatoes, winter wheat and buckwheat served as the staple food of the Qiang. Consumption of Wine and smoking of orchid leaves are popular among the Qiang.

The Qiang live in houses made up of granite stones, which consists of two to three stories. The first floor meant for keeping livestock and poultry, while the second floor is meant for the living quarters, and the third floor for grain storage. On the condition if the third floor does not exist, the grains will be kept on the first or second floor instead.

Skilled in road construction and bamboo bridges, they can built them on rockiest cliffs and swiftest rivers.


Using only wooden boards and piers, these bridges can stretch up to 100 meters. Others, who are excellent masons, are good at digging wells. Especially during poor farming seasons, they will visit neighboring places to do chiselling and digging.

Embroidery and drawnwork is done extemporaneously without any designs. Traditional songs related to topics such wine, plate, mountain and leather drums is accompanied with dances and traditional instruments are popular among the Qiang.

The majority of the Qiang adhere to a polytheist religion, known as Rujiao, a religion that involves belief in the White Stones that were worshipped as the sun god, who will bring good luck to their daily aspects of life. Others, who live near the Tibetans follow Tibetan Buddhism. Small minorities of Muslims and Taoists exist as well.

TheQiang worship five major gods, twelve lesser gods, some tree gods, numerous stones worshiped as gods. A special god is worshippeed as well in every village and locality, who are mentioned by name in the sacred chants of the Qiang priests. Mubyasei, also known Abba Chi, is known as the god of heaven is also considered as the supreme god. This term is also used to refer to a male ancestor god, Abba Sei. In certain places, Shan Wang, the mountain god, is considered to worshipped the supreme god. The Qiang people have also adopted many practices of the Taoist gods as well.

For the Polytheists, most White Stones were placed on the corners of their roofs or towers, as a good luck symbol for the sun. A square


stone pagoda, which is located on the edge of many Qiang villages and on the top of a nearby hill as well. The pagoda is usually over two meters high and its uppermost part is inlaid with a circle of small white stones. A larger white stone is also placed at the pinnacle as well.

A small pagoda is also sometimes built on the roof of a house, with a pottery jar that contained five varieties of grain is placed within the pagoda. On top of the pagoda, a white stone is placed together with ox and sheep horns. By tradition, the door of a Qiang house is supposed to face south and the pagoda is built on the northern end of the roof in line with the door.Every morning, the Qiang family will burn incense sticks or cedar twigs in the pagoda and kowtow to it, praying for the protection of the family by the god of the white stone.

However, with the encouragement of atheism, worship of the White Stones is not nearly as common as it used to be. There are several legends that explain the origin of this stone worship.

At the legendary time when the Qiang people moved into Sichuan from Tibet, they placed white stones on every hilltop and crossroads , for they did not want to forget the route leading back to their original homeland. These piles of white stones also acts as a token of their affection for their homeland and the people they left behind at the same time.

Upon


arriving at the territory of the local Geji people, the Qiang fought a losing battle. Jirpol, witnessing the condition that they were in, instructed the Qiang to find a strong white stone and attach it to rattan sticks and fight with this weapon, tying some sheep wool to the neck of the stick as well. Victory was on their side, and the Qiangs began to look upon the white stones as gods to be worshipped.Horse flies and their seasonal abundance in El Tarf Province of northeastern Algeria.
The horse flies of El Tarf Province, northeastern Algeria comprise 15 species within two subfamilies (Chrysopsinae and Tabaninae) belonging to five genera (Atylotus, Chrysops, Dasyrhamphis, Haematopota, and Tabanus). The genera Chrysops, Dasyrhamphis, and Haematopota are represented by two species for each, while the genera Atylotus and Tabanus are represented by four and five species, respectively. Seasonal abundance was assessed from mid-March until the end of September, 2017 for the trapped species. Haematopota pluvialis and Tabanus autumnalis appeared in April and lasted until September with a peak in May. Atylotus agrestis appeared in May with the highest density and lasted until September. Atylotus fulvus, Atylotus kroberi, and Haematopota italica emerged in April with peaks in May, while


Chrysops flavipes appeared in March, reaching its peak in May and June, declining in July, and disappearing thereafter. Atylotus flavoguttatus, Chrysops mauritanicus, and Dasyrhamphis tomentosus appeared in April with a peak in June, then disappearing in August. Tabanus nemoralis started to appear in April with a peak in May and disappearance after July. Dasyrhamphis algirus, Tabanus bromius, and Tabanus eggeri started to appear in May. Both Tabanus eggeri and Dasyrhamphis algirus peaked in June and July, whereas T. eggeri lasted until the end of September. Tabanus tinctus was observed in June with a peak in August and lasted until September.Experts question legality of Trump's immigration ban on Muslim countries

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Show Caption Hide Caption Trump says refugee crackdown 'not a Muslim ban' Shortly after signing documents in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump said his crackdown on refugees and citizens from seven majority-Muslim countries "is not a Muslim ban." (Jan. 28)

The future of President Trump's executive order suspending immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries may come down to a legal battle between his powers as commander in chief and discrimination limitations established by Congress.

A federal judge in New York issued a temporary, nationwide stay on the order late Saturday night. Lawyers, pushed along by a growing group of protesters, spent the day trying to free immigrants who were traveling when Trump's order was released, leaving


with national security," said Dan Stein, president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a group that advocates for lower levels of legal and illegal immigration. "And this is a national security judgement, something that courts would never want to interfere with."

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Critics of Trump's plan say his national security argument is undercut by his repeated calls on the campaign trail for a "Muslim ban" and his comments Friday that he wants to prioritize the immigration of persecuted Christians over Muslims. Trump's ban also applies to everyone from Syria.

David Leopold, a Cleveland immigration attorney and past president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said a president clearly has a right to bar certain immigrants or groups of immigrants from entering the U.S. Trump's order cited a long-standing federal law that allows a president to bar entry to any immigrants or group of immigrants who the president deems "detrimental to the interests of the United States."

"But what the Trump administration failed to do," Leopold said, "is understand


that nothing in our law justifies banning an entire religion, banning an entire nationality. He's going to have to answer how he can say that all of Syria is detrimental."

Leopold's argument rests largely on the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which forbids discrimination against immigrants based on their "nationality, place of birth, or place of residence." The U.S. had previously used an immigration system that set a limit on the number of people who could enter the U.S. from each country, a system that heavily favored immigration from western Europe.

But that law has been set aside by presidents during national emergencies, according to Michael Hethmon, senior counsel at the Immigration Reform Law Institute, which provides legal support to legislators and politicians who want to reduce immigration.

Hethmon usesthe example of President Carter, who in 1980 barred some Iranians from entering the U.S. during a crisis over 52 Americans being held hostage in Tehran. He said that case mirrors what Trump is facing now — the United States facing a large number of people in specific countries who are trying to harm the U.S.

"The court will say, 'There's a rational basis for picking these seven countries,'" Hethmon said. "They're all in the midst of civil conflict, they're all places where terrorist networks that are particularly dangerous to the U.S. exists. There are multiple reasons why refugees from these countries merit additional, or even extensive, scrutiny."

The seven are Iran, Sudan and Syria — which comprise the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism — plus Iraq,


Libya, Somalia and Yemen.

The key for a court to understand the true intent behind Trump's order — whether it's a religious ban or a national security concern — could lie in one paragraph of his executive order. It declares that once the refugee program is reinstated, the Department of Homeland Security must prioritize refugee claims made by persecuted religious minorities.

"Whoever drafted the order, I think they thought they were being incredibly clever immunizing this from legal scrutiny," said Jens David Ohlin, an international law professor at Cornell Law School. "But they might have shot themselves in the foot with that one."

Ohlin said that one section, which he said was the only piece of the order that did not pin itself to the national security argument, may open theReligion: or Vanquished Love (1714), a poem on the execution of Lady Jane Grey and her husband, dedicated to the Countess of Salisbury; and an epistle to Joseph Addison, On the late Queen's Death and His Majesty's Accession to the Throne (1714), in which he rushed to praise the new king. The fulsome style of the dedications jars with the pious tone of the poems, and they are omitted from his own edition of his works.

About this time he came into contact with Philip, Duke of Wharton, whom he accompanied to Dublin in 1717. In 1719 his play, Busiris was produced at Drury Lane, and in 1721 his Revenge. The latter play was dedicated to Wharton, to whom it owed, said Young, its "most beautiful incident". Wharton promised


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A significant time in Malaysia’s history is captured through the unique storytelling composition of Baling, unravelling the events of the 1955 ‘Baling Talks’ for the waiting audience.

For several years Malaya had been devastated by a revolutionary war until a highly publicised meeting took place that would change the course of Malaysian history. In a small classroom in Northern Malaya, three national leaders came together with the aim to bring the war to an end. Over two days the newly-elected Malayan leader Tunku Abdul Rahman, British colonial officer David Marshall and Communist ‘rebel’ and anti-colonial Chin Peng all engaged in passionate conversation, clashes of will and cunning political manoeuvres. This was all in the attempt to determine howMalaya would transform as it achieved independence from British rule and became Malaysia.

Secretary General of the Malayan Communist Party, Chin Peng, is a large focus within the production, with Baling detailing not only his brave stance against the controlling colonials, but also against the manoeuvrings of powerful and popular Abdul Rahman. Labelled a rebel leader, bastard and Enemy No.1 of Malaysia who was wanted dead or alive, Peng was lucky to survive and ended up in Bangkok where he lived out his days as he was not allowed back in his home country.

As Baling cleverly unravels the historic meeting via several mediums, the audience begins to understand the lies and deception that were used to organise a ‘solution’ to the political upheaval. The unique use of parts of


the original ‘Baling Talks’ transcripts bring a real-life historic element to the show with conversations re-enacted in a documentary-like style. This is re-enforced with the use of historic videos and images taken before, during and after the significant talks which are presented around the theatre and interacted with by the actors.

Since its formation in 1984, Malaysia’s Five Arts Centre has become a dynamic collective of Malaysian artists and producers who are dedicated to creating alternative art forms within the contemporary arts landscape. Incorporating visual and digital arts as well, it is well known for its cutting-edge performances in theatre, dance, music and youth theatre and has performed its productions worldwide.

Baling steers clear of the traditional stage, instead choosing to utilise almost 360 degrees of the theatre with paperis a Media student majoring in journalism at the University of Adelaide, and has a keen interest in the arts, culture, fashion, food and people. She hopes her passion and enthusiasm about the Adelaide scene will influence others to make the most of what Adelaide has to offer!


Mazen Darwish cowered in the corner of a blood-stained cell in the Syrian capital Damascus.

"Tomorrow, I'll be free," he told himself.

Deep down, he knew this was not true, but holding onto the faint glimmer of hope kept him alive. He had not showered in months and felt weak from food deprivation. Every day, he was beaten with clubs, shocked with electric prods and hung by his arms from the wall, Darwish recalled.

"The guards used torture for torture's sake - not to get information, but to humiliate and destroy us," he told Al Jazeera.

The prominent human rights activist spent three and a half years in government custody. In August 2015, he was released.

"Regime members have acted with impunity for years now," said Darwish, 43. "Any political solution to theSyrian conflict without accountability and justice won't bring sustainable peace."

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Earlier this year, Darwish and eight other Syrian former detainees submitted a criminal complaint against six high-ranking military intelligence officials close to President Bashar al-Assad, accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For four months, Germany's federal prosecutor has been hearing witness testimony from the survivors, most of whom now live as refugees in the country. The case is ongoing.

The Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, which has been supporting the Syrian group's complaint, sees this as a first step on the road to justice. The centre's lawyer, Patrick Kroker, hopes the case will lead to international arrest warrants.

"Torture has been used in Syria for decades,


which only a few countries in the world have implemented, allowing prosecutors and courts to investigate international crimes even in the absence of links to Germany. The International Criminal Court at The Hague cannot investigate or prosecute crimes committed in Syria because the country's government has never acknowledged the court's jurisdiction. While the United Nations Security Council could refer the case to the ICC, Russia, an Assad ally, blocked such a move with its council veto.

Darwish, a lawyer and pro-democracy activist, openly criticised the Syrian regime's crackdown on anti-government protests in March 2011. In February 2012, security forces stormed the Damascus office of his organisation, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. Darwish, his wife and other members of the centre were arrested.

In the ensuing years,he was transferred from one detention centre to the next, including a military branch, an air force security camp and a state security branch. Within the first year, Darwish said, he lost 90 pounds and a skin infection spread across his body. "I looked like a skeleton," he said.

Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been caught in the crossfire of the Syrian war, now in its seventh year. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, more than 465,000 people have lost their lives in the deadliest conflict of the 21st century, while 12 million Syrians have been displaced from their homes.

Rights groups have compiled evidence of systematic torture and extrajudicial killings, including mass hangings in a network of government-held detention facilities, such as the notorious military prison


Sednaya. Since 2011, more than 17,000 people have died in government custody, according to Amnesty International - but it is impossible to determine how many people have been jailed overall.

"This case is a sign that the wall of impunity around Syria is cracking," Sara Kayyali, a Syria researcher at Human Rights Watch, told Al Jazeera. "It's one of the first times that high-level Syrian regime members are being investigated for war crimes of torture."

The investigation in Germany shows that Europe and the international community is taking the alleged crimes committed in Syria seriously, she added.

"Realistically, you can't deny that it's a long road to justice. More has to be done, certainly, but it's a step in the right direction," Kayyali said. "The human rights abuses and war crimesin Syria aren't a secret that the world community can turn a blind eye towards."

In 2014, a former Syrian military police photographer released more than 50,000 photos under the pseudonym Caesar, showing the mutilated bodies of thousands of men, women and children who died in detention. The Syrian regime has repeatedly denied such allegations.

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Khaled Rawas, a 28-year-old complainant in the case in Germany, says he does not seek revenge: "It's about justice."

Rawas, an engineering student, was detained twice because of his political activities in Syria. In December 2011, he was arrested during an anti-government protest in Damascus and jailed for 28 days, during which time he was beaten with a pipe, subjected to electric shocks and forced to watch other prisoners getting hit with spiked


From workplace food fights to disputes with the neighbours, the humble yellow sticky note comes into its own

'You stole my cheese!': the seven best Post-it note wars

In Sydney and London, two communities are at war. Both alike in dignity – one, an office of journalists, the other a residential Brixton street – and bound together by the humble Post-it note.

In Sydney, the offices of SBS (Special Broadcasting Service) have been torn apart by one person’s quest to protect their cheese. In London, the issue of communal flowers has sparked a passive-aggressive neighbourhood row.

In honour of these two, Guardian Australia has compiled our list of the best Post-it note wars. And please, go ahead and tell us your best passive-aggressive note experience in the comments below.

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Cockroaches and spoons

The offices of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) are a goldmine of Post-it note glory.

Over many years in its Sydney headquarters, they have been meticulously collated in various Facebook groups and email chains. Leaked by ABC insiders, Guardian Australia has obtained some of the best.

First, The Shrine. When a cockroach died on level five and nobody cleaned it up, the Post-its began.

Facebook Twitter Pinterest Post-it notes at the ABC’s Ultimo offices after a cockroach died on level 5. Photograph: Supplied/Facebook

It started with flowers. Then tributes. Then references to the 2000 nu metal song Last Resort by Papa Roach. Someone eventually built it a coffin.

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Putin ally tells Americans: vote Trump or face nuclear war

Americans should vote for Donald Trump as president next month or risk being dragged into a nuclear war, according to a Russian ultra-nationalist ally of President Vladimir Putin who likes to compare himself to the U.S. Republican candidate.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a flamboyant veteran lawmaker known for his fiery rhetoric, told Reuters in an interview that Trump was the only person able to de-escalate dangerous tensions between Moscow and Washington.

By contrast, Trump’s Democratic rival Hillary Clinton could spark World War Three, said Zhirinovsky, who received a top state award from Putin after his pro-Kremlin Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) came third in Russia’s parliamentary election last month.

Many Russians regard Zhirinovsky as a clownish figure who makes outspoken statements to grablast week accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations.

Even as WikiLeaks released another trove of internal documents from Clinton’s campaign on Wednesday, Putin insisted his country was not involved in an effort to influence the U.S. presidential election.

THE RUSSIAN TRUMP?

Zhirinovsky likes to shock liberal public opinion and he has frequently heaped scorn on the West, which he and other Russian nationalists regard as decadent, hypocritical and corrupted by political correctness.

His combative style, reminiscent of Trump’s, ensures him plenty of television air time and millions of votes in Russian elections, often from the kind of blue-collar workers who are the bedrock of the U.S. Republican candidate’s support.

Zhirinovsky once proposed blocking off mostly Muslim southern Russia with a barbed wire fence, echoing Trump’s call for


a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Zhirinovsky, who said he met Trump in New York in 2002, revels in his similarities with the American businessman – they are the same age, favor coarse, sometimes misogynistic language and boast about putting their own country first. Zhirinovsky has even said he wants a DNA test to see if he is related to Trump.

But unlike Trump, a billionaire real estate developer who casts himself as the anti-establishment candidate in the U.S. presidential race with no past political experience, Zhirinovsky is a consummate political insider who has sat in the Duma for more than two decades.

Putin has also praised Trump as “very talented”, while the Republican candidate has said the Kremlin boss is a better leader than U.S. President Barack Obama.Klinsmann names 30-man preliminary roster for World Cup

Klinsmann names 30-man preliminary roster for World Cup

United States national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann released his 30-man preliminary roster for this summer's World Cup, and the most glaring omission was forward Eddie Johnson.

Bridgeview, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - United States national team head coach Jurgen Klinsmann released his 30-man preliminary roster for this summer's World Cup, and the most glaring omission was forward Eddie Johnson.

Johnson, who was a member of the 2006 World Cup team, was left off of the roster despite scoring five goals in 17 appearances in 2013 and helping the U.S. finish on top of the Hexagonal in CONCACAF qualifying.

But his stock has dropped recently as he has yet to score for D.C. United in eight MLS games this


season.

The 30 players will report to a pre-World Cup camp on Wednesday, which will conclude with a friendly against Azerbaijan on May 27.

Klinsmann must then trim his roster down to 23 players and submit his official World Cup roster to FIFA by June 2.

The U.S. opens its World Cup campaign on June 16 in Group G against Ghana.The Warehouse District, just south of Downtown Phoenix, is becoming a center for innovation and entrepreneurial activity. It’s industrial, a little gritty, and happens to be on the city of Phoenix’s economic-development agenda.

With wood trusses, stained concrete floors, original brick walls, hanging bike racks, and several (in)formal meeting spaces — their half of the building appears designed to maximize collaboration and creativity (the southern side has yet to be rented).

The national brand opened its Phoenix office 20 years ago. After outgrowing their previous space, the firm looked to a place where they could have a more direct impact on the community: Downtown Phoenix.

They wanted to be part of the densification of the area said Trudi Hummel, a principal architect at Gould Evans, and make a statement within the


industry.

“We talk about how important it is to be impactful with architecture, and we decided we needed to be here,” she said.

After looking for new locations in Grand Avenue and other areas around downtown, the firm was especially captivated by the Warehouse District.

Hummel said they reoriented the entrance to the urban edge of the building, moving the main entrance from the parking lot to the street.

The loading dock area, toward the “back” of the property, was retrofitted with street-level windows and doors, a fundamental aspect of good urban design. Additionally, they built a deck along the north side of the building and added a doorway, so pedestrians can walk straight from the street inside the building.

“The energy is in the future,” Hummel said.

Before, they were tucked away inIt was far from pretty but Munster will not have been too fussed as they secured their progression at Temple Hill.

While they closed the game out comfortably, the lopsided scoreline was a tad deceptive because it took 44 dour minutes for the first points to be registered, Scott Deasy slotting a penalty with the final kick of the first half.

And that was with the home side down to 13 after Sean Dougall and James Cronin were sent to the bin.

It was hardly a game to warm the hearts of those who braved the bitter cold, but the quality improved substantially after the interval. Munster, with the full complement restored, upped the ante and parked themselves in the visitors' '22' for the majority of the second period.

Corey Hircock, on


for an ineffective Luke O'Dea at the break, ran over for the opening try, crashing over in the corner in the 56th minute.

Deasy, on familiar ground, was unlucky with the conversion but the eight-point gap was never one that a lacklustre Plymouth were likely to recoup.

The red machine continued to pile on the pressure and CJ Stander went over for a second try with Albion down to 14 after Jack Andrew went to the bin.

Deasy added the extras via the post, and although they didn't score again, Munster had few problems sealing top spot in their group with five wins from six, although they missed out on home advantage in the quarter-finals.the earth and thus distribute the stresses.
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About the Author

MICHAEL HARVEY is the author of The Innocence Game, The Chicago Way, The Fifth Floor, The Third Rail, and We All Fall Down, and is also a journalist and documentary producer. His work has received numerous national and international awards, including multiple news Emmys, two Primetime Emmy nominations, and an Academy Award nomination. He holds a law degree with honors from Duke University, a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University, and a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in classical languages from Holy Cross College. He lives, of course, in Chicago.Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from
infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne. Born in Connecticut in
1861, daughter of Charles and Gertrude Tyler Carow, she grew up in an old
New York brownstone on Union Square -- an environment of comfort and
tradition. Throughout childhood she and "Teedie" were in and out of each
other's houses.

Attending Miss Comstock's school, she acquired the proper finishing touch
for a young lady of that era. A quiet girl who loved books, she was
often Theodore's companion for summer outings at Oyster Bay, Long
Island; but this ended when he entered Harvard. Although she attended
his wedding to Alice Hathaway Lee in 1880, their lives ran separately
until 1885, when he was a young widower with an infant daughter, Alice.

Putting tragedy behind him, he


and Edith were married in London in
December 1886. They settled down in a house on Sagamore Hill, at Oyster
Bay, headquarters for a family that added five children in ten years:
Theodore, Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin. Throughout Roosevelt's
intensely active career, family life remained close and entirely
delightful. A small son remarked one day, "When Mother was a little
girl, she must have been a boy!"

Public tragedy brought them into the White House, eleven days after
President McKinley succumbed to an assassin's bullet. Assuming her new
duties with characteristic dignity, Mrs. Roosevelt meant to guard the
privacy of a family that attracted everyone's interest, and she tried to
keep reporters outside her domain. The public, in consequence, heard
little of the vigor of her character, her sound judgment, her efficient
household management.

But in this administration the White Housewas unmistakably the social
center of the land. Beyond the formal occasions, smaller parties brought
together distinguished men and women from varied walks of life. Two
family events were highlights: the wedding of "Princess Alice" to
Nicholas Longworth, and Ethel's debut. A perceptive aide described the
First Lady as "always the gentle, high-bred hostess; smiling often at
what went on about her, yet never critical of the ignorant and tolerant
always of the little insincerities of political life."

T.R. once wrote to Ted Jr. that "if Mother had been a mere unhealthy
Patient Griselda I might have grown set in selfish and inconsiderate
ways." She continued, with keen humor and unfailing dignity, to balance
her husband's exuberance after they retired in 1909.

After his death in 1919, she traveled abroad but always returned to
Sagamore Hill as her home. Alone much


of the time, she never appeared
lonely, being still an avid reader -- "not only cultured but scholarly,"
as T.R. had said. She kept till the end her interest in the Needlework
Guild, a charity which provided garments for the poor, and in the work
of Christ Church at Oyster Bay. She died on September 30, 1948, at the
age of 87.Cheo Hodari Coker's had an ill journey. For many hip-hop heads, you'll remember him as one of the best journalists in music, putting in work for the L.A. Times as well as penning Vibe's cover story on The Notorious B.I.G.'s death. That led to an impressive biography on Biggie, which then turned into writing credits on the Biggie biopic, 2009's Notorious. He's since spent time on the television circuit, working as a producer on NCIS: Los Angeles, Ray Donovan, and Southland. Now, as the showrunner for Luke Cage, Marvel's next Netflix series about a bulletproof black man who is down to rid Harlem of it's crime element, it feels like Coker's taken all of his past work and poured it into the perfect project.

The show, which Coker's been


quoted as saying is the beginning of the "Wu-Tang-ification" of the Marvel Universe, is the most hip-hop thing we've seen from a comic book superhero yet. It goes deeper than having A Tribe Called Quest's Ali Shaheed Muhammad working as a music supervisor (alongside Adrian Younge), naming each episode after Gang Starr songs, or having your debut trailer sountracked by vintage Ol' Dirty Bastard.

During a quick chat as he navigated through a hectic press run, Coker broke down wanting to be a "hip-hop showrunner" and what that meant in terms of Luke Cage, his love of comic books, and how he feels about Luke Cage being called the "Black Lives Matter" show.

Were you a big fan of Luke Cage growing up?

I was a huge fan of comics, not
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Dryden's versions from Ovid span the full length of his translating career, and thus provide a unique opportunity to observe his principles and practice as a translator, the development of his translating art, and his constantly-evolving relationship with a single ancient author. Dryden had known Ovid from boyhood, and frequently echoed in his prose criticism the strictures on Ovid's verse which had been made from Roman times onwards: that Ovid was frequently 'witty out of season' and that his verse was often prolix, and 'against the order of Nature'. His earliest Ovidian translations, those included in the collaborative Ovid's Epistles (1680), do little to convince a sceptical reader of the high claims which he had made for Ovid as a skilful portrayer of female passion, since their wit himself, under the title Sultan Ali Alauddin Mansur Syah (1857–1870). He extended Aceh's effective control southward at just the time when the Dutch were consolidating their holdings northward.

Britain, heretofore guarding the independence of Aceh to keep it out of Dutch hands, re-evaluated its policy and concluded the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of Sumatra, which allowed for Dutch control throughout Sumatra in exchange for concessions in the Gold Coast and equal trading rights in northern Aceh. The treaty was tantamount to a declaration of war on Aceh, and the Aceh War followed soon after in 1873, with the Dutch making the unfounded excuses that Aceh was sponsoring piracy and preparing to conclude a treaty with the United States. As the Dutch prepared for war, Mahmud Syah (1870–1874) appealed for international


help, but no one was willing or able to assist.

In early 1874 the Sultan abandoned the capital after the palace was captured on 31 January, withdrawing to the hills, while the Dutch announced the annexation of Aceh. He would die of cholera, as did many combatants on both sides, but the Acehnese proclaimed a grandson of Tuanku Ibrahim Sultan. The local rulers of Acehnese ports nominally submitted to Dutch authority to avoid a blockade, but they used their income to support the resistance.

During this time, many Acehan politicians sought aid from the Ottoman Empire. Their efforts were futile, but they did serve to inspire resistance movements across south-east Asia. Local resistance in northern Sumatra then passed to the local lords and potentates, and then to the religious leaders.However, an adviser of the Sultan, Abd al-Rahman al-Zahir, soon returned to take command of the independence movement, fell out with the revolutionary leaders, and promptly agreed to surrender himself to the Dutch in exchange for a lifetime pension in Mecca.

The Dutch, now hounded by locals and cholera alike, fortified their coastal positions and began a slow siege of the entire country, conducted by General van Pel. The capital, in particular, was surrounded by forts connected by railways. The Dutch made another serious attempt to finally pacify the country in 1884, but it quickly slowed down and suffered from popular criticism. Dutch armies were finally able to make progress between 1898 and 1903, with each local potentate in occupied territories being forced to sign "The Short Declaration", a


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Steve Hodel's solution to the "Black Dahlia" cold case won acclaim a decade ago. But Hodel continued his search for evidence, and returned to the location where he believes Elizabeth Short was killed. Patrick Healy reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Feb. 1, 2013. (Published Saturday, Feb 2, 2013)

Updated at 9:09 AM PST on Sunday, Feb 3, 2013

Steve Hodel cannot let go.

And so he returned to a distinctive Hollywood mansion with another retired cop, Paul Dostie, and Dostie's search dog, Buster. Hodel had a mission for them.

In his book "Black Dahlia Avenger," the longtime LAPD detective and best-selling author convinced many skeptics that he had solved the gruesome 1947 murder that perhaps became LA's most notorious cold case.

Thebody of Elizabeth Short, 22, had been severed in two with surgical skill and technique, leading investigators to conclude early on that the killer likely had medical school training.

That killer, Steve Hodel ultimately concluded, was his late father, George Hodel, MD.

What's more, because there was no trace of blood in the empty Leimert Park lot where the remains were found, detectives realized she must have been killed elsewhere.

That elsewhere, Hodel concluded, was the landmark Hollywood mansion where Dr. Hodel made his home, the distinctive "Sowden House" designed on a Mayan theme by famed second-generation architect Lloyd Wright.

Steve Hodel lived there as a child. As he looked into the case, he was able to determine from records that he and his siblings were away with their mother at the


time of the Black Dahlia murder.

Hodel marshaled considerable evidence, which was later corroborated after "Black Dahlia Avenger" was published, when the District Attorney Steve Cooley agreed to reopen decades-old case files.

Right at the top was a picture of Dr. Hodel; it turns out he had been the principal suspect. Investigators had even planted a bug in the house to listen for incriminating admissions. But before authorities brought charges, Dr. Hodel abruptly abandoned his family and relocated to Asia.

The likes of Steve Kay, then a head Deputy DA, concluded that Steve Hodel had made the case against his father.

But that wasn't good enough for Steve Hodel, who has continued seeking more evidence in hopes of convincing his former employer, the LAPD, to declare the case officially solved.

So when theopportunity arose to return to the Sowden house with Dostie and Buster, Hodel took it.

The arrangements with the current ownership had been made by producers of a segment for the "Ghost Hunters" program on the SyFy Channel.

Hodel knew that the sounds of blows and a woman's screams had been heard coming from the basement, according to the transcript of what police heard through the bug. The basement had never been finished and when Hodel, Dostie and the SyFy crew went there last November, the floor was still dirt.

With his keen sense of smell, Buster alerted in four locations, indicating he had picked up the scent of human decomposition, faint traces of which can remain for decades, Dostie said.

But is it corroboration? Dostie cannot say for sure. The decomposition


so its position is pretty standardized. However, prior to the logo, the establishing shots of the world map zoom into the world itself, then finally into the hands of Lina Inverse, her hands casting a spell that leads viewers into the logo.

Past the logo, scenes are segmented to individually show the cast members. Shots are typically cut on action, and then the next sequence shows another character. With shows that focus on a large cast, how openings handle this can become a difficult but rewarding venture (think: Baccano).

The last thing to mention is how the opening handles tone. With so many cuts on the action, the opening initially has a serious and tense visual look. However, to represent only this would be falsely informing the viewer. More humorousand loneliness. The scene transitions to the second main character, framed through the isolated back alleys of the city. His look is framed at the viewers. Transitioning from this, these two characters are united in the next shot, revealing that they weren’t just staring into the distance, but at each other.

To further cement the tone and their relationship, the following sequences are quick shots of why they are together: the falling of a bag of money, the rolling of the coin, and a transition to the rolling wheels of a cart drawn by a horse. The opening implies these characters are linked by the quick shots (money, trading, traveling). However, there is more to their relationship, and a sequence of shots are of them together through seasons, timed


song imply a heavy, dark show. However, despite the tone implied, characters still find the time to lip sync the song as the opening transitions to various sequences of war. This playful aspect of its opening is pretty indicative of the humor in an otherwise dark show.

From the onset, this opening sets the tone. Heavy drums, guitar, and screaming vocals introduce you the logo: Rage of Bahamut. Establishing shots are then presented with heavy editing, to give a fantasy/grimoire feel to the visuals. Cuts are done initially to the guitar (turning of the pages during character introductions), then drums as the opening present minor characters, and finally cuts based on lyrics the song reaches its climax. Timing-wise, the opening transitions to what dominates a particular section of theBasketball is one of the most popular sports in the world. Points are generally scored by shooting the basketball through a hoop generally mounted about ten feet above the playing surface. Good shooting technique enhances a player's ability to score points.
Numerous methods for shooting the basketball have been developed. For example, there are shots known as the lay-up, the hook shot, the two-handed set shot, the dunk, and the jumpshot. Of all of these shots, none has developed as much importance in the modern game of basketball as the jump shot.
In a properly executed jump shot, the player jumps into the air and shoots the ball at the apex of the player's jump. Because of the increased speed and size of basketball players, the jump shot is an


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Biography

Born and brought up in Mumbai, India, he lived with his family in a house split into ten flats. His father worked for the Automobile Association as Chief of Road Service for Western India.

Todiwala graduated from Sophia Shree B K Somani Polytechnic having studied Hotel Administration & Food Technology. His first job was as a busboy. He trained as a chef with Taj Hotels Resorts and Palaces in India, eventually becoming Executive Chef


city, and taking a 10 day outback trip. AIFS was completely there along the way, from pre-departure to when it came time to leave. We had an onsite AIFS representative, who took us on a few outings, gave us advice, and helped us with adjusting to a new culture. With AIFS I was even able to participate in a week long Pacific Studies course taught in Fiji, prior to Australia.
Perth and the surrounding areas had a great public transportation system, which we all used to get around to the beaches, grocery stores, etc. It had a great nightlife and plenty to do during the day, as well. Murdoch University also had some great things for international students, such as some optional excursions which included the outback trip, a– I would advise you not miss it when visiting the city. Plaza de España was built for the Ibero-American Exhibition of 1929 (Expo 29), along with many of the pavilions you can see in and around the Parque Maria Luisa. I think Plaza de Espana is one of the biggest and most famous landmarks in the capital of Andalucia. Here is a fun fact. Star Wars Episode II Attack of the Clones was filmed at the plaza. If any of you are huge Star Wars fanatics, this is definitely the place to go if you want to feel like you are in planet Naboo with Senator Amidala.

Morocco AIFS Excursion

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Not every person has to receive the exact same benefits, for example the same degree of financial security. Nor do they have to make identical contributions – like invested time – insomuch as the ratio between benefits and contributions is comparable. Adams recognised that even the smallest and most unpredictable factors can shape an employee’s perception of their standing relative to others.

Who is John Stacy Adams?

Adams was born in Belgium in 1925 and served in the US Navy during the Second World War. He had a PhD in philosophy and was a professor at Stanford, Colombia and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also servedTandra LaGrone, executive director of In Our Own Voices, a not-for-profit organization in Albany that serves people of color who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, or LGBT.

The collaboration followed an August burglary arrest of a transgender woman who was identified in early police reports as a man, with the pronoun "he" used in a news release that was distributed to local media. The arrest of the 45-year-old was further complicated by the fact that the suspect was a volunteer at In Our Own Voices and spoke publicly as a transgender woman in transition before she was charged with third-degree burglary and petit larceny. An investigation found that she allegedly stole a television from the group's Lark Street offices in March.

"That was the spur to look at our


offense to 24.2 points per game, without Pro Bowlers Josh Gordon and Jordan Cameron (for the most part). His 97.5 passer rating is the 11th best in the NFL. The last Brown to play a season with a passer rating in the 90s? Try Bernie Kosar, who in 1987, posted a 95.4 rating.

In more recent memory, Derek Anderson‘s 2007 season witnessed the best passer rating (82.5) of any Browns quarterback since the franchise was restarted in 1999.

There’s that name: Anderson. The dynamic between Hoyer and Johnny Manziel and Anderson and Brady Quinn is eerily similar. Both Hoyer and Anderson were supposed to be bridges to rookie franchise quarterbacks.

But in 2007, Phil Savage overreacted, signed Anderson to an extension, and Quinn never developed. Anderson fell on his face, anddesigned not only to tether a balloon securely to a child's wrist, but also to have sufficient weight to prevent a helium filled balloon from flying away should the wrist band become disengaged from a child's wrist.
As any parent is all too well aware, small children and helium filled balloons seem predestined to have a very brief relationship with one another before the balloon is accidentally set free to ascend to balloon heaven leaving behind a crying child and a distraught parent or caregiver who purchased the balloon only a short time before.
As a consequence of the foregoing situation, there has existed a longstanding need among parents and caregivers for a new and improved combined wrist band and balloon tether construction which forms a secure connection between a


prevalence of AD in preschool and school children (according to previous studies).

A list of all preschools and primary schools in Kerman was obtained. It consisted of 129 preschools with 5,798 children and 154 primary schools with 37,694 students. The city was divided into four geographical areas. Then, according to the number of the students and the male to female ratio in each area, nine preschools and 30 primary schools were randomly selected. Finally, 133 and 732 students were randomly selected among these nine preschools and 13 primary schools, respectively. Randomization was performed using a computer generated number table. After obtaining written informed consent from their parents or official custodians, two trained medical interns under supervision of a pediatric dermatologist examined the children physically.

This study was approved by theBuilt the first inflatable antennas to support emergency communication

Glenn Research Center awarded Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contracts to ManTech SRS Technologies, of Newport Beach, California, to develop thin film inflatable antennas for space communication. With additional funding, SRS modified the concepts for groundbased inflatable antennas. GATR (Ground Antenna Transmit and Receive) Technologies, of Huntsville, Alabama, licensed the technology and refined it to become the world's first inflatable antenna certified by the Federal Communications Commission. Capable of providing Internet access, voice over Internet protocol, e-mail, video teleconferencing, broadcast television, and other high-bandwidth communications, the systems have provided communication during the wildfires in California, after Hurricane Katrina in Mississippi, and following the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Source: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110000731_2011000758.pdf


Increasing incidence of endometrial cancer in the United States.
Data from eight areas in the United States served by population-based cancer reporting systems indicate that, after many years of relative stability, incidence rates of endometrial cancer have risen sharply in the 1970's. In some areas the amount of the increase has exceeded 10 per cent per year. The incidence among middle-aged women has changed most (by 40 to 150 per cent between 1969 and 1973, depending on the area), but rates have increased in younger women and the elderly as well.Round barrow cemetery (including the barrows known as Three Howes) 220m and 360m north west of South Moor Farm

A Scheduled Monument in Ebberston and Yedingham, North Yorkshire

If Google Street View is available, the image is from the best available vantage point looking, if possible,
towards the location of the monument. Where it is not available, the satellite view is shown instead.

Coordinates

Latitude: 54.3022 / 54°18'7"N

Longitude: -0.6131 / 0°36'47"W

OS Eastings: 490350.146198

OS Northings: 490505.73055

OS Grid: SE903905

Mapcode National: GBR SL5P.2K

Mapcode Global: WHGBX.K486

Entry Name: Round barrow cemetery (including the barrows known as Three Howes) 220m and 360m north west of South Moor Farm

Scheduled Date: 7 March 1969

Last Amended: 9 May 2001

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1019936

English Heritage Legacy ID: 34678

County: North Yorkshire

Civil Parish: Ebberston and Yedingham

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England


Parish: Ebberston St Mary

Church of England Diocese: York

Details

The monument includes a round barrow cemetery which is situated in a prominent
position between the heads of Staindale and Deep Dale, towards the northern
scarp edge of the Tabular Hills. It lies within two separate areas of
protection divided by Dalby Forest Drive.
The cemetery has seven round barrows which are in a linear arrangement,
oriented NNW to SSE; six are in a direct alignment, although the second from
the north is offset slightly to the east of the line. They are spaced between
45m and 60m apart. The seventh barrow is situated to the immediate east of the
third barrow from the north. The most northerly barrow has an earth and stone
mound which measures 30m in diameter and stands up to 2.2m high. The other
barrows have earthenmounds which measure between 12m and 23m in diameter and
stand between 0.3m and 2.1m high. The three most northerly barrows are the
largest and most prominent and are known as the Three Howes. The four most
southerly barrows have been reduced in size by ploughing; formerly their
diameters were between 15m and 30m. The barrow to the east of the main
alignment is the most affected by plough reduction and is visible only as a
slight rise up to 0.3m high. Partial excavation in the past has left a hollow
in the centre of four of the seven barrow mounds. Any burials which were
placed in the area between the barrows are not visible, but will survive below
the ground surface as buried features.
An old footpath, visible as a linear depression, runs in a north east


to south
west direction past the northern edge of the most southern barrow.
The round barrow cemetery lies in an area which has many other prehistoric
monuments, including further burials and the remains of prehistoric land
division.
The surface of the gravelled forestry track which runs past the north west
corner of the monument and a fence which runs east to west across the southern
edge of the second barrow from the north are excluded from the scheduling,
although the ground beneath them is included.

MAP EXTRACT
The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract.

Source: Historic England

Reasons for Scheduling

Round barrow cemeteries date to the Bronze Age (c.2000-700 BC). They comprise
closely-spaced groups of up to 30 round barrows - rubble or earthen mounds
covering single or multiple burials. Most cemeteries developed over a
considerable period of time,often many centuries, and in some cases acted as
a focus for burials as late as the early medieval period. They exhibit
considerable diversity of burial rite, plan and form, frequently including
several different types of round barrow, occasionally associated with earlier
long barrows. Where large scale investigation has been undertaken around them,
contemporary or later "flat" burials between the barrow mounds have often been
revealed. Round barrow cemeteries occur across most of lowland Britain, with a
marked concentration in Wessex. In some cases, they are clustered around other
important contemporary monuments such as henges. Often occupying prominent
locations, they are a major historic element in the modern landscape, whilst
their diversity and their longevity as a monument type provide important
information on the variety of beliefs and social organisation amongst early
prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of their


during the Bronze Age.
The eastern Tabular Hills is an area which has many networks of prehistoric
land boundaries. These are thought to represent systems of territorial land
division which were constructed to augment natural divisions of the landscape
by river valleys and watersheds. The Dalby Forest and Scamridge areas have a
particular concentration which is thought to have originated in the Late
Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, earlier than most other prehistoric boundary
systems on the Tabular Hills. The networks within this concentration, and many
of their component boundaries, are notably complex and are of considerable
importance for understanding the development of later prehistoric society in
eastern Yorkshire.
Together with other burial monuments in the area, the barrows within this
cemetery are also considered to represent territorial markers, which would
have been part of the system of boundaries dividing theBogdanovich on hits, flops and surprises

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Famed director Peter Bogdanovich ran into problems with his musical "At Long Last Love."

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Peter Bogdanovich credits Fox employee with saving film

"At Long Last Love" was mess until James Blakely fixed it, Bogdanovich says

Bogdanovich: Some criticism aimed at him, not movie

Director's career includes "Last Picture Show," "Paper Moon"

Peter Bogdanovich would like to thank a man he never met.

The man's name was James Blakely, and he was a member of the editorial department at 20th Century Fox. He loved musicals and Cole Porter, and was primed to like "At Long Last Love," Bogdanovich's Porter-infused musical.

After the 1975 film flopped, Blakely quietly decided to recut it.

"Obviously he took one look


at what we'd done and said, 'These guys are screwing up the movie. I'm going to fix it.' And he was right," says Bogdanovich in an interview. "And he took his time and did it right and saved the movie from the garbage can."

The film is now out on Blu-ray.

Bogdanovich, who's preparing a new film produced by Noah Baumbach and Wes Anderson, took a few minutes to talk to CNN about "At Long Last Love," the value of previews and his thoughts on today's Hollywood. The following is an edited version of the conversation.

CNN: Tell me how "At Long Last Love" came to be.

Peter Bogdanovich: I was reading through (a Cole Porter book) Cybill (Shepherd, his then partner) gave me, and enjoying the lyrics, and thought maybe Ishould write a musical based on these lyrics. And then I read one of the songs, a very unfamiliar song and not a very famous one, called "I Loved Him (but He Didn't Love Me)." It sort of gave me the idea for the whole picture.

CNN: Burt Reynolds was unusual casting.

Bogdanovich: I didn't have Burt Reynolds in mind. I was thinking of Elliott Gould, who was a song and dance man, and then Sue Mengers became Burt Reynolds' agent, and she was my agent, and she said, "Why don't you use Burt?" So I met with him and I liked him, and I figured we'll try him, he's a big star, and I thought he would be charming. And he was.

Burt could do anything -- he was very


showed them the worst version that existed. (The film) began with Cybill, which was the worst thing to begin with, because they hated her and me particularly. That was the period when you couldn't open a newspaper or magazine without seeing some nasty crack about us.

Cary Grant, who was a friend, called me and said, "Peter, for Chrissakes, stop telling people you're happy, and stop telling them you're in looooove." "Why, Cary?" " 'Cause they're not happy, and they're not in love." "I thought all the world loves a lover?" "Naaaa, don't you believe it."

So that was the climate at that point. The picture was killed, except for people such as Roger Ebert, who liked it to a degree, and the Newsweek critic, who liked it to aThe Madisonville Fire Department received an alarm from Central Dispatch for a house fire on 311 Arch St. Upon arrival, at 1:45 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 24 fire units were informed by Madisonville Police Department that a fire was located in the floor furnace and all residents had been evacuated.

The crew entered the structure and discovered light smoke and a small fire inside the floor furnace. A carbon dioxide fire extinguisher was used to extinguish the fire. Positive pressure ventilation was used to clear smoke from the structure. Gas was shut off to the unit and Atmos Energy was requested.

When the scene was further investigation, it was revealed that a plastic clothes basket had been placed on the floor furnace. The basket melted on the furnace and caught fire.


After further inspection of the unit, it was determined that the unit should not be used until properly repaired and serviced. Atmos Energy arrived on scene and disconnected gas service to the structure.

MFD received an alarm from Central Dispatch for a stove top fire at approximately 10:33 p.m. Monday, Dec. 23 at 355 Graves St.

The crew met with the female resident outside the home where she stated that she came home and smoke was coming out of the stove. She proceeded to say that she noticed that one of the burners was glowing red and both the cabinets and range hood had been burned.

The crew entered the structure to investigate further. They noticed there had been extensive damage to the stove, hood range and electrical outlet behind thestove. They also noticed there was smoke and heat damage to the cabinets, window sill around the stove, and all around the kitchen walls.

The crew continued to check the electrical box and the breaker box for the outlet in the kitchen, which had been tripped. The crew removed the stove from the kitchen and checked it for any active fire extension but nothing was found.

All smoke inside the structure had been removed by natural ventilation. It was determined that the burner to the stove had been left on when the occupant left the residence.


The recent revelation that Azerbaijan has pursued a policy of bestowing gifts of caviar on parliamentarians and officials at the Council of Europe comes as no surprise to those who follow the interactions of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (Pace) with the Caspian petro-state.

Amid growing evidence of Azerbaijan's deteriorating human rights record and entrenching authoritarianism, voices continue to speak out in favour the regime.

A recent Pace vote to define "political prisoners" in response to Azerbaijan's obfuscation on the issue came down to a knife-edge after intensive lobbying by the government trying to magic away the problem with the help of its allies among the elected assembly.

A sorry tale when we consider that the Council of Europe - whose work is based on the European Convention on HumanRights - has a specific role as guardian of European standards in this field.

Officials in the EU, which conducted a human rights dialogue with Azerbaijan last week, admit privately that caviar has also been on the menu in Brussels. Whilst there has been no concrete evidence of bribe-taking linked to policy outcomes, Azerbaijan's relations with parts of the European Parliament are cosy.

The largest political grouping in the parliament, the European People's Party, held a February conference attended by Azerbaijan's foreign minister during which some of its leading members extolled the virtues of Azerbaijan's political reforms and the fact it "has made clear its intention of building democracy."

In comparison to other neighbours, the EU appears to practice a form of exceptionalism towards Azerbaijan.

Catherine Ashton, the EU's first High Representative


for Foreign Affairs, recently released two widely contrasting statements on Belarus and Azerbaijan within days of each other.

Though both feature side by side in various democracy indices and ongoing repression in the two countries is in many ways comparable, Belarus comes in for censure while Azerbaijan receives fulsome praise.

Ashton's congratulatory statement on Azerbaijan confirms the argument that the European Union is taking a different posture towards its neighbours depending on whether or not they have energy to sell.

In the event, Ashton welcomed the release of nine political prisoners under amnesty but neglected to mention that a further 60 remain behind bars.

Following May's Eurovision song contest, pressure on activists has intensified. Arrests continue, including blogger Zaur Garbanli on drugs charges, days after he criticised the inclusion in school textbooks of a poem by the president's daughter eulogising her grandfather and former president.

Senior government officials have targeted democracy activists and independent media calling for a campaign of public hatred against them.

Activists involved in the recent Sing for Democracy campaign point to arrests of their colleagues on politically motivated charges, including photo-journalist Mehman Huseynov, who was targeted as a warning to others.

Two journalists - Avaz Zeynalli and Hilal Mammadov - have been sentenced to prison terms on trumped up charges, bringing the number of journalists in detention to nine, according to the Baku-based Media Rights Institute.

Repression is also being stepped up in the regions, away from international scrutiny and the recent UN Internet Governance Forum, held in Baku, offered further opportunity for arrests and intimidation.

With intensive diplomatic efforts


and fight corruption in return for more direct investment and closer economic ties with the 400-million-strong consumer market.

The EU's human rights dialogue can play a role, by establishing benchmarks against Azerbaijan's performance on core rights issues, and by making them public - following the example of commissioner Neelie Kroes' critical speech to the Internet Governance Forum in Baku.

For the Council of Europe, the continent's premier rights institution, it means putting an end to the caviar-fuelled farce and showing Azerbaijan the door.

Jacqueline Hale is a senior analyst at the Open Society European Policy Institute in BrusselsIn a move around the standard refugee settlement process in America, the United Nations and the administration are scheming to find other ways to boost the number of Syrians entering the country, from 10,000 this year to possibly 200,000.

U.S. officials, meeting with United Nations human rights officials in Geneva, joined in a project that looks to "alternative safe pathways" to setting Syrian refugees in America and Europe that include pushing colleges and universities to offer tuition programs and encouraging Syrians already in the country to open their homes to those who've fled the war-torn Middle East nation.

The plan already has one victory. Last week, the University of Southern California revealed that it is offering five free tuition programs for Syrian refugees, including one in the school's journalism program.

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Nineteen crimes turned criminal into colonists. Upon conviction, British rogues, guilty of at least one of the 19 crimes, were sentenced to live in Australia, rather than death. This punishment by 'transportation' began in 1788, and many of the lawless died at sea. For the rough-hewn prisoners who made it to shore, a new world awaited. As pioneers in a frontier penal colony, they forged a new country and new lives, brick by brick. This wine celebrates the rules they broke and the culture they built. It would be a crime not to drink it!♦ The fire threat has receded in the Glenmaggie-Coongulla area as firefighters begin to bring the blaze under control. The CFA has downgraded its warning level for that district from Watch and Act to Advice.

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Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley said a group of Licola residents had chosen to stay in the township and were being assisted by about 30 firefighters, who had driven to the area on Friday morning.

The fire was originally estimated to hit the town by 6pm, however, a wind change has slowed its progress and downgraded the threat.

Locals gather near the firefront at Dawson. Photo: Michael Clayton-Jones

The residents are still stranded in the town but a CFA spokeswoman said the fire was now moving slowly towards the area.

Mr Lapsley said there was still no escape


for the residents, with Licola having its only road in and out of the community cut off by the fire. He said there was a dirt track that headed north towards Mount Hotham, but that was not an option for escape.

"It’s too late to move now and to move north would be too difficult with the type of road and terrain it would be," Mr Lapsley said.

Victorian Bushfires in January

Summer and Bushfires go hand in hand in Australia and the first month of 2013 has already seen a few move through Victoria, including the Gippsland towns of Glenmaggie and Licola. Photo: Justin McManus

"It’s a sensible decision for those 10 to stay at Licola and stay with the CFA trucks."

Mr Lapsley expected the fire to burn for about twothe elevated fuels that have regrown since the 2006 bushfires are light in structure, very dry due to the conditions we have had and have burnt more like a grass fire than a traditional forest fire, which has seen fire move very fast through the area."

Mr Lapsley said five homes had been lost: four holiday houses and one permanent residence.

At Coongulla, CFA crews are patrolling regularly to make sure embers from the west side of Lake Glenmaggie do not start spot fires near their town.

Coongulla Brigade captain Geoff Lynch said one ember started a fire that burnt for two acres, and may have only been controlled because crews saw it quickly and three aircraft were overhead and ready to douse the flames.

He said if any fires started and


CFA and DSE for their help protecting the parks.

About 1pm on Friday, minutes after Mr Coles spoke to Fairfax Media, flames threatened to jump the Heyfield-Jamieson Road and enter another section of his caravan park.

Firefighters kept the flames, which reached more than 10 metres high, from crossing the road, as Mr Coles and campers looked on.

Each gust of south-west wind flicked the flames higher, and a small spot fire broke out on the west of the road but was quickly extinguished.

Mr Coles, who has operated the park for 18 years, said fires in 2006 did not get closer than 1.5 kilometres.

Licola residents were told at 6.30am on Friday it was too late to leave. Earlier, 61 children and 15 adults were evacuated overnight from the Licola Wilderness Villagecampsite.

The affected towns face the prospect of spot fires occurring, where embers jump from the main fire and spark new blazes.

Mary Winter, from the Licola General Store, said this morning residents were putting fire plans in place with the town cut off.

‘‘We are just bunkering down, waiting for the onslaught,’’ she said.

Adam Wake, camp operations manager at the Licola Wilderness Village, told the ABC there were about 20 people left in the town.

A CFA volunteer fighting the fire on the Heyfield-Seaton Road said it had destroyed thousands of hectares of farmland.

Richard Dennis, speaking as a hay shed smouldered behind him, said he thought most houses had been saved, but he was gravely concerned about the impact of the wind change.

"We woke up at 2.30 [am] and she was


on our doorstop," Mr Dennis said.

"At Seaton and Dawson, we managed to save most of the houses, but only just."

Further east, a caller to ABC Radio said there were two houses on fire near him at Glenmaggie Point, with no firefighters in sight.

Lake Glenmaggie was covered in thick smoke, the eastern bank unable to be seen from the west.

A fire front south of Dawson was repeatedly doused from the air as the fire raced north-east.

The wind change arrived before the fire had an impact on Cowwarr.

Thirteen helicopters are fighting the fire, including ‘Elvis’.

Alison Acres, from the Timberline general store in Heyfield, said three people came in to the store on Friday morning saying they had lost their homes.

‘‘It’s pretty dark here, it’s pretty scary actually,’’ she told radioban has been declared for the West and South Gippsland, north east, northern country and East Gippsland districts for Friday.

♦ Low-interest loans will be made available to Victorians significantly affected by recent bushfires, the state Federal and State Governments have said.

The loans, of up to $200,000, will be available for eligible primary producers, small businesses and not-for-profit organisations affected by the Chepstowe-Carngham fire near Ballarat last week.

They are in addition to the emergency relief assistance and the emergency re-establishment assistance announced following these fires.


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The association Associació Fallaires Andorra la Vella is responsible for the Falles festival ever since it was recovered in 1987.

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The Falles, the summer solstice fire festivals, are celebrated in several regions of the Pyrenees. In November 2015, they were included on UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage. The association was created in 2013 and its mission is to teach, spread and preserve the tradition of burning the falles on Midsummer's Eve in Andorra la Vella.

Originally, a falla was a longtrunk that the young people from the surroundings, known as fallaires, brought down from the mountains to burn in a bonfire in the middle of town. Associació Fallaires Andorra la Vella has recovered the traditional "wheels of fire", where the falles are spun around quickly when lit to create balls of fire, making for a visually stunning effect.

In Andorra la Vella, fallaires gather in the Old Quarter. To initiate the little ones, falles of light rather than fire have been created, which are balls that are also spun around, allowing kids to participate and enjoy the festival safely.

The festival is celebrated every 23 June, on Midsummer's Eve. Apart from Andorra la Vella's fallaires, the falles are also present in Encamp and Sant Julià, where several groups participate in


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Ross Symons is an Instagrammer and origami artists. In his early career while he was at his IT job he would spend his extra times folding origami art. His desk was always littered with paper creations. The more he learned the more the people around him would give him books to expand his art. In 2014 he decided to do an Instagram project where he would fold one new figure a day for 365 days. He started the year with 165 followers and ended the year with 50,000. 10 months into his project he was featured by Instagram and his followers jumped from 10k to 40k in 4 hours. Toward the end ofhis project, he started adding in stop motion animation which attracted the attention of brands. Our conversation focuses on how Ross built and runs his business on Instagram. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about the business model of being a professional Instagrammer this is an interview you should listen to multiple times.

MEET ROSS SYMONS
Ross Symons is 34 years old who lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He started folding paper when he was 21 and the first origami figure he ever folded was a crane(bird). He folded that bird over and over again until he could fold it with his eyes closed.

If he had a beer in front of him he would tear the label off and fold it into a crane.

Not too long ago he


was working a 9-to-5 job as a website developer, but over time it became apparent that being employed by someone was never going to enable him to create the happy, free life that he wanted. Although he was competent in his work, he was not feeling fulfilled.

He found himself starting side projects all the time. One of these came out of my enjoyment practicing the traditional Japanese art of paper folding known as origami. He was always folding little paper creatures which littered his desk at work, and he kept challenging himself to create more intricate pieces.

He dedicated the entire year of 2014 to improving his craft and sharing it with world. That’s when he started his popular Instagram account, white_onrice, where he folded and posted a differentTiny Latina Deepthroats the D

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Curtis employment agreements.  The contracts require employees who leave Curtis Industries to refrain from competing with Curtis for one year.  Because a year has passed since Livingston and Larson left Curtis, and the non-competition clause can therefore no longer be enforced against the defendants, we now dismiss the appeal as moot and remand the case to the District Court for further proceedings.

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Livingston and Larson began working for Curtis in 1979 and 1984, respectively.  They each signed a non-competition agreement and each time they changed positions within the company they signed a new agreement.  On January 6, 1993, Livingston left Curtis and joined Winzer Corporation as a franchisee.  Two months later, in March, 1993, Larson left Curtis to work as an independent agent forDirector, Navy Energy Coordination Office; Dr. D. James Baker, Director of the Global Carbon Measurement Program of the William J. Clinton Foundation and Former Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the Clinton Administration; and Julia Whitty, environmental correspondent for Mother Jones whose cover story on this topic appears in latest issue of the magazine.


138 F.Supp.2d 392 (2001)
UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff,
v.
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION AND FINANCE, Glenn H. Ripa, Esq., and Benedetto Romano, Defendants.
No. 99-CV-104C.
United States District Court, W.D. New York.
March 9, 2001.
*393 United States Department of Justice, Tax Division (Alan Shapiro, Peter Sklarew, of Counsel), Washington, DC, Denise E. O'Donnell, United States Attorney (Gregory L. Brown, Assistant United States Attorney, of Counsel), Buffalo, NY, for Plaintiff.
Glenn H. Ripa, New York, NY, for Defendants.

INTRODUCTION
CURTIN, District Judge.
On November 17, 1983, Benedetto Romano drove across the Peace Bridge from Buffalo, New York, to Ontario, Canada, with $359,500 in undeclared currency in his trunk. He was stopped by Canadian officials, denied entry into Canada, and sent back to the United States' side of the bridge. Because Mr. Romano had failed to filethe termination assessment, plus statutory interest, due the IRS exceeded $750,000. Item 22, p. 19. Mr. and Mrs. Romano also petitioned the Tax Court with respect to notices of deficiency issued by the IRS for tax years 1981, 1982, 1989 and 1990. The Tax Court found for the IRS. Romano v. Commissioner, CCH. Dec. 50,876 (1995). The IRS assessed further tax liabilities against Mr. Romano.[6]
Murray Appleman, Esq. initially represented Mr. Romano in the termination assessment litigation in the Eastern District of New York, the Tax Court litigation, the civil forfeiture case, and the criminal tax prosecution. Following Mr. Appleman's death, Mr. Romano retained Glenn H. Ripa on August 28, 1995 to undertake representation for the remand of the civil forfeiture proceeding. They agreed on a one-third contingency fee


in the subject currency as a result of this court's dismissal of the underlying civil forfeiture action, United States v. $359,500 United States Currency, 84-CV-661 (Item 86). Without a cognizable interest in the funds, Customs withdrew from the action and left it to the disputants to establish the legitimacy and priority of their competing claims. The United States asserted a proceeding "in the nature of" interpleader, in which it claims an interest in all or part of the stake. Given that "departments, agencies and subdivisions of the United States Government constitute a single creditor for purposes of setoff," the interests of the IRS are represented by the United States as plaintiff. In re Whimsy, Inc., 221 B.R. 69, 72 (S.D.N.Y.1998).
[2]  A termination assessment informs the person notifiedwith stuff — she would claw at his arms and neck. She would punch and slap him.”

“As he got sick, he was defenseless,” his pal added.

“Cancer bought him from 180 pounds to 90 pounds. She always had to upper hand because he wouldn’t hit her. He was adamant about never ever laying his hands on her.”

In fact, the friend charges Niemi was neglecting her dying husband whenever his main care giver, younger brother Don Swayze, 57, was working or out of town.

“Lisa would be gone for hours doing whatever she was doing and Donnie would come in and Patrick would be lying in his own feces and pee,” the pal said.

The friend who spent years with Swayze and another family insider said Niemi was an “evil” moody control


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Hope floats. And from the 6 to the 12 of the December hope will float for the very first time for 100 lucky children in Luxorsuffering from cleft lip or palate. Established in 1982 on an international scale, and operating in Egypt since 2005,Operation Smile is a non-profit surgical mission which will visit Luxor for …

Piarohas previously participated in a mission with Operation Smile which took place in Aswan in 2016. As a gesture of unity and celebration,Piaro will be inviting the mission to experience the Nile at Luxor on one of the oldest working Dahabeya on the river.

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Karina Piarois a British born visual artist with a camera whose heritage emanates personally and creatively from the Nile.

For three decades Piaro has been creating a heritage narrative devotionally and professionally through the lens on the Nile in Egypt. At the turn of the 21st century, she became the first ever female Dahabeya director on the Nile, pioneering thevisually significant Nile Heritage on one of the rarest existing working Dahabeya remaining on the river, dating back to the late 1800s. Previous owners include the celebrated artist Farid Al Atrash, with distinguished guests such as notable members of the Aga Khans family, the current Earl of Carnarvon, and an array of international clientele


Tottenham Hotspur say they will investigate a banner allegedly carried by some of the club's supporters that referred to Chelsea wing-back Marcos Alonso's involvement in a car crash that resulted in the death of a woman six years ago.

Spurs condemned the banner -- displayed on social media, apparently outside Huddersfield Town's stadium on Saturday -- as "extremely poor taste" and said the perpetrator, or perpetrators, would face action "if found to be a Spurs fan."

Alonso's name was written at the top of the banner with an image of a car, an international prohibition sign for no drinking and a message reading: "He murdered a girl."

In May 2011, Alonso -- then a Bolton player -- was arrested and charged with offences including being over the legal alcohol limit andspeeding after a 19-year-old woman, one of four passengers, died following a car crash in Madrid.

Marcos Alonso joined Chelsea from Fiorentina in 2016. Catherine Ivill - AMA/Getty Images

The Chelsea player, now 26, initially faced up to four years in prison but, in February 2016, he was fined €61,000 and banned from driving for three years and four months.

According to the Times, Huddersfield did not confiscate the banner and there was no sign of it inside the John Smith's Stadium for Spurs' 4-0 win in the Premier League.

"This banner is clearly in extremely poor taste and we are investigating the matter," a Tottenham spokesman said. "If found to be a Spurs fan, they will be dealt with accordingly."

An image of the banner was posted on social media, before being


pulled over, got out of my car and headed over to them,” he wrote, noting that a young female was standing by the gate as a look-out.

Gatteny told the group to stop and asked what they thought they were doing.

“[The man] stopped urinating, pulled up his pants and started walking out of the memorial,” he recalled. “Both of them walked up Broadway laughing. I walked behind them for awhile, telling everyone I passed what they did.”

“What possible reason could they have for desecrating a WW2 Memorial?” he asked in disbelief.

On his return to the cemetery, he was thanked by an older gentleman, who claimed he had two friends buried there.

According to his post, Gatteny took a few photos and informed the police, who are reportedly “all over” theARCHIVES (Current Year)

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Third Historic Ship Discovered At Robinson Landing; Public Viewing On April 14

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Third Ship at Robinson Landing Discovered (Courtesy Photo)

The City of Alexandria has announced that archaeologists under contract with developer EYA LLC and working under a City-approved Resource Management Plan have found the remains of a third historic ship at the Robinson Landing construction site in Old Town. All three ships are believed to have been built in the mid-to-late 1700s, and buried before 1798. A similar ship was discovered nearby at the Hotel Indigo site in late 2015.

“The combination of Revolutionary War-era ships, early building foundations, and thousands of other artifacts makes Robinson Landing one of the most archaeologically significant sites in Virginia,” said Eleanor Breen, acting City Archaeologist. “The discoveries


Andy Murray took a step closer to overtaking Novak Djokovic as world number one by winning his third successive title at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna.

The Scot defeated Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-3 7-6 (8/6) in the final to add to the titles he won in Beijing and Shanghai earlier this month.

Murray can top the rankings for the first time in his career as early as November 7 if he wins next week's Masters event in Paris and Djokovic fails to reach the final.

It has been a remarkable last six months for Murray, who has now won seven titles, the most in a season in his career, and lost just three matches since the French Open in June.

His 15th win in a row did not look in anydoubt for a set and a half.

Tsonga, who had won only two of 15 previous meetings with Murray, was broken in his opening service game and made far too many errors to trouble the world number two.

The Frenchman was staring at a heavy defeat at 1-3 and 0-40 down in the second set but played some fine points to hold serve.

That proved the catalyst for a revival from the Frenchman, who recovered the break and forced a tie-break.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was beaten in straight sets (Getty)

But it was Murray who prevailed, the 29-year-old clinching victory with his fifth ace on his second match point.

Meanwhile, Dominika Cibulkova stunned world number one Angelique Kerber to win the biggest title of her career at the WTA Finals in Singapore.

Cibulkova, ranked eighth in


the world, was rewarded for her aggression and survived a dramatic final game to win 6-3 6-4.

The Slovakian looked down and out after losing her opening two matches at the round-robin tournament.

Her only hope to reach the semi-finals was to beat Simona Halep in straight sets and hope Kerber did the same against Madison Keys.

Dominika Cibulkova with her trophy following victory in the BNP Paribas WTA Finals (Getty)

That was exactly what transpired and Cibulkova repaid Kerber, who had reached the last four before facing Keys, for her generosity by denying her the perfect end to a remarkable season.

The Australian Open and US Open champion was the clear favourite but Cibulkova went on the attack from the off and even Kerber's powers of defence were not enough.

Cibulkova, the AustralianChina added more than 30 GW of solar last year but that figure was almost a third down on 2018.

The city of Yulin, in the Shaanxi province of China has abruptly halted all solar development this year, including under-construction projects with around a gigawatt of generation capacity.

The revelation was made by China-based German solar analyst the Asia Europe Clean Energy (Solar) Advisory (AECEA) in an update on the Chinese market released today.

Grid capacity and land constraints are thought to be behind the decision to reverse plans for an estimated 5 GW of new solar capacity in Yulin this year. The cumulative 4 GW of solar which had been installed in Yulin by the end of the year accounted for around 45% of the province’s 9.39 GW, according to