in Europe. A former CIA officer who worked under non-official cover wrote the 2008 book ‘The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture’, which detailed several operational stand-downs on the continent. Those included one in France in 1998 because of the World Cup soccer championship, and another in a European country in 2005, in response to unspecified security threats.

The author, whose nom de plume is Ishmael Jones, was successfully prosecuted by the CIA for publishing the book without first submitting it for pre-publication censorship, as he was required to do under his secrecy agreement.

Though spying stand-downs are common after an operation is compromised, they are "never this long or this deep," said a former CIA official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it's illegal to discussThe Minerve submarine was lost off France's southern coast with 52 sailors on board on January 17, 1968

A French submarine that went missing in the western Mediterranean in 1968 has been found, officials said Monday, ending a 51-year wait for families of the crew who continue to seek answers to the naval disaster.

The diesel-electric Minerve submarine was lost off France's southern coast with 52 sailors on board on January 27, 1968.

"We found the submarine Minerve last night located 45 kilometres (30 miles) south of Toulon, about 20 kilometres further south than where it was searched for in 1968," the French maritime prefect of the Mediterranean, Vice Admiral Charles Henri du Che, told reporters in Toulon.

Defence Minister Florence Parly on Twitter hailed the discovery as "a success, a relief


and a technical feat", adding she was thinking of the families who had "waited for this moment for so long."

At the start of the year, Parly announced a new search mission involving naval vessels and marine experts following fresh demands from families for an effort to find the final resting place of their loved ones.

"It's a relief, hugely emotional," the son of the Minerve's captain, Herve Fauve, told AFP after years of calling for the search mission. "These 52 sailors had been abandoned in some ways."

Tides and currents in the western Mediterranean were modelled by the French team, as well as seismic data from the time that indicated the likely implosion of the vessel as it dropped to the seabed.

The discovery was ultimately made on Sunday by aboat belonging to private US company Ocean Infinity, which found the Minerve at a depth of 2,370 metres (7,800 feet), a senior French naval officer told AFP.

The search vessel -- the Seabed Constructor, which is equipped with underwater drones with powerful cameras -- arrived on the scene last Tuesday, the officer said on condition of anonymity.

The Seabed Constructor was also successful in locating Argentina's lost San Juan submarine in November 2018 which disappeared in the Atlantic Ocean a year earlier.

- Naval mystery -

The cause of the loss of the Minerve has never been confirmed but the news that it has been found fought joy and relief to families.

"I can't find the words to describe my emotion," the wife of one of the lost sailors, Therese Scheirmann-Descamps, told AFP


on Monday from her home in Toulon where she lives surrounded by black-and-white pictures of her husband Jules.

"It's extraordinarily soothing, for my children too. It's such a surprise, such a joy," she added.

Fauve, who maintains a detailed website on the disaster, said there was unlikely to be any trace of the bodies.

Earlier this year, Jacques Dannay, who was just two when his father disappeared on board, said he was hoping the search mission would give him closure.

"I know it's stupid, but for me my father isn't really dead for as long as we haven't found the wreck," he told AFP as the new search mission began. "If someone told me he was alive, I'd probably believe them."

In keeping with naval tradition, du Che said the wreck would beleft where it is and not touched.

"It is a maritime sanctuary, as is the case for all shipwrecks," he said.

- 'Deadly year' -

The Minerve was on a training mission in bad weather early on January 27 when it went down while returning to its base in Toulon, France's main Mediterranean naval port.

Experts have speculated that the disaster was caused by a problem with the Minerve's rudder, a collision with another boat, the explosion of a missile or torpedo, or a fault with its oxygen supply systems.

France is a world leader in submarine technology and its modern-day fleet of nuclear-powered vessels are seen as a key part of its defence capabilities and independence.

The year 1968 saw the loss of three other submarines around the world.

The USS Scorpion sank in


the Atlantic, while the Soviet K-129 submarine armed with three nuclear missiles disappeared in the North Pacific.

It was found by the US in a covert operation in 1974.

The year was also marked by the disappearance of The Dakar, an Israeli vessel on its maiden voyage with 69 men on board. It was only found off the Greek island of Crete in 1999.How a Closed-Down Grocery Store Became a One-Stop Partnership of Hope

After recognizing the need to address hunger concerns in a county where the poverty rate is over 20 percent—markedly higher than the national average of 14.7 percent—members of churches from all over Haralson County, Georgia, collaborated in 2014 to repurpose a closed grocery store into a food bank and kitchen.

Today, the ministry serves nearly 30,000 people and is operating entirely from donations, grants and volunteer time, sending out 100 food boxes and serve 300-400 hot meals on a weekly basis.

Over the course of this past year, the ministry—run by the Community Christian Council—has added one more vital component.

The Council’s board chairman, Alan Kiker, said that as he and his co-workers have worked to serve the community, they’re seeing


new ways to tackle the root cause of hunger. For them, this meant adding “empowerment programs” to educate and equip those they serve with the skills to succeed rather than merely survive.

In addition to forming key community partnerships, the council also started raising money in November of 2016 to convert half of their building into a community medical clinic. By February, they had raised enough money and construction was underway.

Along the way, the council received donated furniture, cabinetry, software and medical equipment—including a $26,000 ultrasound machine. That was when the council approached Karmen Stamps, executive director of Pregnancy Resource Center in Carrolton.

“The food outreach was only using one side of the building and they planned to use the other half for medical services,” Stamps said. “The board approachedlamp socket to fix lamps. In order to easily fix the lamps to the bottom plate, a backlight assembly has been developed that includes a lamp socket combined with an electrode portion of the lamp through a fitting combination.
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NEW YORK – February 26, 2020 – WarnerMedia’s truTV has successfully debuted its first-ever feature-length film, Impractical Jokers: The Movie, directed by Chris Henchy (Daddy’s Home, Eastbound & Down) and produced by Funny Or Die with an extraordinary debut weekend total of $2,606,873 and per screen average of $7,302.

The highly anticipated film Impractical Jokers: The Movie opened in 357 select theaters nationwide on Friday, February 21, 2020 and stars James “Murr” Murray, Brian “Q” Quinn, Joe Gatto, and Sal Vulcano, also known as the comedy troupe The Tenderloins. The film will continue to expand to over 1800 screens nationwide and additional markets including Canada in its second weekend.

An extension of the wildly successful Impractical Jokers series, the film follows the four lifelong friends and comedians whose hilariously outrageousthe Street, the Peabody award-winning American Vandal for Netflix, the Emmy nominated Sarah Silverman series I Love You, America for Hulu and No Activity for CBS All Access, and Between Two Ferns: The Movie for Netflix. FOD also makes award-winning TV commercials and Branded Content for all verticals and many Fortune 500 Companies from soft drinks to automobiles and toilet paper.

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Jane was diplomatic, and she said she would sort things out with the security manager, who was hovering on the fringes while the discussion was going on, talking loudly into a walky talky.

It turned out that he had called the police and made an allegation of assault.

The police arrived and spoke first to the security manager. The young constable then spoke to us. He said he could not speak Welsh at first, but it turned out that he could understand the language very well. He explained that he would have to investigate the allegations, and would go through the CCTV footage. We are confident that that will show what really happened. Nobody was arrested.

Our conversation with the police officer was also relaxed and friendly.

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The impact of foreign-owned firms in the EU and Germany

In times of Trump and Brexit, protectionist tendencies seem to be a global trend. The advantages that economic interconnectedness implies are increasingly receding into the background. The calculations of Copenhagen Economics on behalf of Bertelsmann Stiftung show, however, that foreign-owned firms make a considerable contribution to employment and gross domestic product (GDP) in the EU and Germany.17,000 people 46 miles north of Salt Lake City, in 2013.

The Tribune reported that on the day of his deployment in mid-January, North Ogden police escorted Taylor and his family around town as hundreds of residents lined the streets to see him off.

Herbert scheduled a Sunday news conference with Maj. Gen. Jefferson Burton, the adjutant general of the state’s National Guard.


Imagine a media organisation where senior employees at its biggest-selling Sunday paper were convicted of criminal acts including phone-hacking and perverting the course of justice. Then imagine that the same organisation, having claimed a few years later to have cleaned up its act, is revealed to have its most high-profile TV station rife with claims of sexual harassment by its former chief executive and onscreen star, as well as allegations of widespread racial harassment – both the subject of legal action and US federal investigation.

Imagine also that the TV station was a byword for bias and slanted coverage and that as recently as May this year it falsely besmirched the name of a murdered Democratic staff member by claiming he, not the Russian government, had leaked thousands ofIn rolling mill technology, a type of installation is known in which a roughing pre-strip arriving from the roughing train is wound into a coil in what is known as a coil box and is then unwound for further processing and supplied to a finishing train. A coil box is a strip reeling device that first bends the metal strip arriving from the r train by means of rotationally-driven bending rollers, such that it is wound into a metal coil in a winding cradle formed by support rollers. When the metal coil has been fully wound, the end of the strip becomes the strip head in the subsequent finishing and rolling process. As long as the metal coil is in this winding position, the coil box cannot accept


Pirates who seized a Comoros-flagged oil tanker released the ship Thursday without conditions, according to a Somali official.

Security official Ahmed Mohamed told The Associated Press the pirates have disembarked the ship, which is now heading to Bossaso port, the region's commercial hub.

Mohamed said the release occurred after negotiations by local elders and local officials with the pirates, who seized the tanker on Monday and held eight Sri Lankan crew members hostage.

Earlier Thursday, Naval forces clashed with the pirates after they opened fire.

The hijacking of the Comoros-flagged tanker Aris 13 was the first such seizure of a large commercial vessel off Somalia since 2012.

Abdirizak Mohamed Ahmed, the director of Puntand's anti-piracy agency, confirmed the release of the ship Thursday night to the AP and said naval forces had boardedit to escort it to port.

The European Union anti-piracy operation in the region had said the pirates had been holding the crew captive and demanding a ransom.

Ahmed said the Puntland naval forces had been dispatched to the area not to free the ship by force but to cut off any supplies to the pirates.

"Attacking the ship will not help, but instead it will endanger the lives of the crew," he said.

Families of the crew members had tearfully pleaded for the men to be released unharmed. Somali pirates usually hijack ships and crew for ransom. They don't normally kill hostages unless they come under attack.

The ship had been carrying fuel from Djibouti to Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, on Monday when it was approached by men in two skiffs and the


Amid heightened tensions following the Apple vs FBI controversy, a privacy advocacy group in the US has launched a petition calling for the resignation of FBI director James Comey.

Fight for the Future, which has previously campaigned on everything from the CISA surveillance law to the much-maligned Trans-Pacific Partnership, has claimed the agency chief is "off the rails" and slammed his apparent "crusade" against encryption.

The attempt to overthrow the FBI boss comes after investigators attempted to use the courts to force the unlocking of an iPhone 5C at the centre of a terrorism investigation. At the time, critics argued the case was more about about setting a precedent than getting access to the device. Eventually the FBI found its own solution – reportedly by enlisting the help of hackersa pack of five walks in west Dorset and a similar pack of five walks in Purbeck (entitled ‘Beneath Your Feet’)

The group has also recently produced an educational CD on sites in Purbeck (The Purbeck Limestone Group. Virtual geology field trips to Purbeck limestone quarries in South Dorset). There is also a leaflet for a walk in the Poxwell area.

In order to keep the sites available with access to the public and educational groups the DIGS group carries out conservation work, mostly clearing vegetation (brambles, nettles etc) so that the rock faces do not become obscured. At a recent meeting of the DIGS group (meetings are held every two months at the Dorset Wildlife Trust H.Q. at Forston, north of Dorchester) it was decided to have a regular


President Trump broke 48 hours of Twitter silence Saturday with a series of tweets that included praise for US service members involved in Friday’s attack on a Syrian airbase.

“Congratulations to our great military men and women for representing the United States, and the world, so well in the Syria attack,” Trump tweeted at 10:54 a.m.

It was the president’s first social-media acknowledgement of the missile strike on Syria’s Shayrat airbase.

The shout-out to the military came after a pair of tweets about his summit with the president of China.

“It was a great honor to have President Xi Jinping and Madame Peng Liyuan of China as our guests in the United States,” Trump posted at 10:50 a.m. “Tremendous goodwill and friendship was formed, but only time will tell on trade.”

Trump, whoA man who attacked soldiers with machetes at the Louvre museum in Paris was placed under formal investigation on Friday, a judicial source said.

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Egyptian Abdullah Reda al-Hamahmy, 29, was shot and seriously wounded when he launched himself at a group of soldiers on Feb. 3, crying out "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) in what French President Francois Hollande described as a terrorist attack.

He has told police that he identified with the beliefs of Islamic State but he had not carried out the attack on orders from the militant group, a judicial source told Reuters earlier on Wednesday.

"The accused was put under formal investigation for alleged attempted murder of public servicemen...in connection with a terrorist venture and criminal terrorist conspiracy...with a view to prepare crime," the judicial source said


John Lennon's ex-wife, Cynthia Lennon, dead at 75

Cynthia Lennon during Cynthia Lennon Signs Her Book John at Barnes & Noble in New York City - October 4, 2005 at Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Lawrence Lucier/FilmMagic)

LAS VEGAS - JUNE 30: Musician Julian Lennon (L), son of Beatle John Lennon, poses with his mother Cynthia after attending the gala premiere of 'The Beatles LOVE by Cirque du Soleil' at The Mirage Hotel & Casino June 30, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The show is a joint artistic venture between The Beatles' company, Apple Corps Ltd., and Cirque du Soleil. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images)

Timothy White and Cynthia Lennon and Julian Lennon attends the 'Timeless' photography exhibition opening party atthe Morrison Hotel Gallery on September 16, 2010 in New York City.

Julian Lennon, (L), son of former Beatle John Lennon, stands next to his mother Cynthia as they unveil an European peace monument dedicated to the memory of John Lennon in Liverpool, north-west England on October 9, 2010. The unveiling of the eighteen foot (5.5 meters) peace monument entitled ''Peace and Harmony'' celebrates what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday. AFP PHOTO/ANDREW YATES (Photo credit should read ANDREW YATES/AFP/Getty Images)

Cynthia Lennon during Cynthia Lennon Signs Her Book John at Barnes & Noble in New York City - October 4, 2005 at Barnes & Noble Union Square in New York City, New York, United States. (Photo by Lawrence Lucier/FilmMagic)

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 27: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK TABLOID


NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 48 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) Cynthia Lennon attends the book launch party celebrating the launch of 'John', a biography of John Lennon by Cynthia Lennon, his first-wife, at Fitzroy Square on September 27, 2005 in London, England. (Photo by Dave M. Benett/Getty Images)

LONDON - SEPTEMBER 26: Cynthia Lennon, first-wife of John Lennon, signs copies of 'John', her biography of the life of her ex-husband, at Foyles on September 26, 2005 in London, England. (Photo by David Westing/Getty Images)

Cynthia Lennon during 'Come Together' A Tribute to John Lennon - December 11, 1989 at Registry Hotel in Universal City, California, United States. (Photo by Jim Smeal/WireImage)

NEW YORK CITY - NOVEMBER 23: May Pang and Cynthia Lennon attend the book party for Mike McCartney 'The Macs' onNovember 23, 1981 at Horn of Plenty Restaurant in New York City. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 01: May Pang, Cynthia Lennon, Mike McCartney, and Sid Bernstein (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 01: May Pang, Mike McCartney, and Cynthia Lennon (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - NOVEMBER 01: Cynthia Lennon (Photo by The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

UNSPECIFIED - : John LENNON and his first wife, Cynthia, April 23rd 1964. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

23rd April 1964: Singer-songwriter John Lennon (1940 - 1980) of The Beatles, with his wife Cynthia at the Dorchester Hotel, London, for a Foyles Luncheon after the publication of his first book, 'In His Own Write'. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

The Beatles' womenfolk,


The Beatles, outside the Royal Courts of Justice in London, where she is starting divorce proceedings against her husband. (Photo by Central Press/Getty Images)

Former wife of musician John Lennon, Cynthia Lennon, and Italian hotelier Roberto Bassanini dining together in a restaurant, 1969. (Photo by Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 15: John Lennon (1940-1980) formed the Beatles in 1960 with Paul McCartney (1942-), George Harrison (1943-2001) and Ringo Starr (1940-). Before being signed to Parlophone in 1962 The Beatles were found playing in the Cavern Club in Liverpool and venues in Hamburg, Germany. They went on to become the most successful pop group of all time and finally split in 1970. Lennon married his first wife Cynthia Powell (1939-) in 1962 and they had one child together,Julian (1963-). Following his divorce from Cynthia in 1968 John Lennon married the Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono in March 1969. The Beatles finally split in 1970. Lennon was murdered in New York on 8 December 1980 by Mark Chapman. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

UNITED KINGDOM : Caption reads: 'How to stop the traffic - John and Cynthia Lennon last night'. John Lennon (1940-1980) formed the Beatles in 1960 with Paul McCartney (1942-), George Harrison (1943-2001) and Ringo Starr (1940-) in Liverpool, England. They went on to become the most successful pop group of all time and finally split in 1970. Lennon married his first wife Cynthia Powell (1939-) in 1962 and they had one child together, Julian (1963-). Following his divorce from Cynthia in 1968 John Lennon married


the Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono in March 1969. Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 in New York by Mark Chapman. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Religious leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1918 - 2008, left) presents Beatle George Harrison (1943 - 2001) with an upside-down globe of the world at a party to celebrate the musician's 25th birthday at Rishikesh, India, 25th February 1968. The Marahishi presented the globe with the words 'George, the globe I am giving you symbolizes the world today. I hope you will help us all in the task of putting it right'. To the left of Harrison are his wife, Pattie Boyd, Cynthia Lennon and John Lennon (1940 - 1980). The Beatles are in Rishikesh to study transcendental meditation at the Maharishi 's academy.(Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images)

The Beatles 1964 US Tour, John Lennon of British pop group The Beatles with his wife Cynthia in Miami during the band's tour of America, February 13, 1964. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 15: John Lennon (1940-1980) and his first wife Cynthia Powell (1939-) on their way to the Cannes Film Festival. Lennon formed the Beatles in 1960 with Paul McCartney (1942-), George Harrison (1943-2001) and Ringo Starr (1940-). Before being signed to Parlophone in 1962 The Beatles were found playing in the Cavern Club in Liverpool and venues in Hamburg, Germany. They went on to become the most successful pop group of all time and finally split in 1970. John and Cynthia had one child together, Julian (1963-). Following his divorce


from Cynthia in 1968 Lennon married the Japanese avant-garde artist Yoko Ono in March 1969. The Beatles finally split in 1970. Lennon was murdered in New York on 8 December 1980 by Mark Chapman. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

Patti Boyd (left) and Cynthia Lennon (right) in Austria on the location set of the Beatles film 'Help!', 17th March 1965. They are, respectively, the partners of George and John. (Photo by Les Lee/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

23rd April 1964: Singer-songwriter John Lennon (1940 - 1980) of The Beatles, with his wife Cynthia at the Dorchester Hotel, London, for a Foyles Luncheon after the publication of his first book, 'In His Own Write'. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

2nd July 1964: Beatle John Lennon and his wife Cynthia leaving London Airport in a car,having returned from the Beatles' Australian tour. (Photo by Jim Gray/Keystone/Getty Images)

20th May 1965: Beatle John Lennon and his wife Cynthia boarding an aeroplane at London Airport. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

SWITZERLAND - JANUARY 31: John Lennon And His Wife Cynthia Skiing At Saint Moritz In Switzerland On January 31St 1965 (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

UNITED KINGDOM - FEBRUARY 07: Photo of John LENNON and Cynthia LENNON; while in The Beatles, posed with his wife Cynthia (wearing plastic mac) at Heathrow Airport (Photo by Cummings Archives/Redferns)

7th February 1964: Singer and songwriter John Lennon (1940 - 1980), of British pop group The Beatles, and his wife Cynthia wait for a flight to New York at London Airport. John is wearing the 15 guinea Mary Quant hat that sparked


a recent trend. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 7: Rock and roll band 'The Beatles' visits The Peppermint Lounge on their first night in the United States on February 7, 1964 in New York City, New York. (L-R) George Harrison (pointing), John Lennon (in sunglasses), Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr (below Paul), Cynthia Lennon (foreground, between John and Ringo) (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

UNITED KINGDOM - October 1962: John Lennon (1940-1980) with Cynthia Lennon at the Cavern Club. Before being signed to Parlophone in 1962 The Beatles were found playing in the Cavern Club in Liverpool and venues in Hamburg, Germany. They went on to become the most successful pop group of all time and finally split in 1970. In 1965 Lennon, along with theother Beatles, was awarded the MBE although Lennon later returned his as a protest about British involvement in the Vietnam War. Lennon was murdered on 8 December 1980 in New York by Mark Chapman. (Photo by SSPL/Getty Images)

John Lennon and his wife Cynthia in a 1966 photo. There were reports growing in London that the marriage of John Lennon of Beatles and his wife, Cynthia, is on the rocks as their lawyers met in London June 24, 1968. After prolonged discussions, the attorney said, "At the present time there is no statement which can be made." (AP Photo)

John Lennon, one of the Beatles, and his wife, Cynthia, are shown in a night spot after the visiting British Rock 'N' Rollers made their New York debut Sunday, February 11,


1964. Paul McCartney is behind Lennon. (AP Photo)

Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, at London Airport, in England, on July 2, 1964, when the group arrived from their three-week tour of Australia and New Zealand. At a press conference after his arrival, Lennon denied a rumour that he was leaving the group. (AP Photo)

Beatle John Lennon and his wife, Cynthia, arrive late for a news conference at Twickenham Studios, Middlesex, England, on June 12, 1965. The Beatles have been created members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's birthday honors list. Behind the couple at center is the band's manager Brian Epstein. (AP Photo)

Maureen Starr, wife of Beatle drummer Ringo Starr, left, and Cynthia Lennon, wife of John Lennon, at Londonairport in England on March 13, 1965, prior to flying out with husbands and other members of the Beatle group to Salzburg, Austria, where the group are to continue work on their second film. (AP Photo/Victor Boyton)

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Sad news: Cynthia Lennon, the late John Lennon's wife from 1962-1968, has died at age 75 from cancer. According to a rep, her sole child with the former Beatle -- Julian Lennon -- was with her at the time of her death.

Here's the statement:

"Cynthia Lennon passed away today at her home in Mallorca, Spain following a short but brave battle with cancer. Her son Julian Lennon was at her bedside throughout. The family are thankful for your prayers. Please respect their privacy


at this difficult time."

Cynthia met John when she was 18 and he was on the cusp of fame with the Beatles. They married in 1962 after she became pregnant with their only child, Julian Lennon, who was born in 1963. Their marriage was notoriously rocky, with Cynthia claiming her former husband struck her on one occasion.

"He was a very jealous young man at the time, and he had a lot of pain inside," she said in later years. "He wanted to trust me and he thought by seeing me dancing with a friend of his that I was being disloyal or messing around. So he smacked me, but that was the only time."

John divorced Cynthia in 1968 and married Yoko Ono in 1969, who he remained with untilhe was shot and killed in 1980. Cynthia wrote two books about their life together: A Twist of Lennon in 1980 and John in 2005.

Following her death, Julian Lennon posted the following musical tribute to his late mother.


Muhammad Ali, O.J. Simpson, Michael Jordan, and the Elephant in the Room

"I ain't got no quarrel with them Vietcong. No Vietcong ever called me nigger," Muhammad Ali famously said as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. "No, I am not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over ... This is the day when such evils must come to an end."

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Although white audiences might not have seen Ali's race (at least until much later, when he was a member of the Nation of Islam), he was very explicit throughout his career about being a black man and supporting black people.

And while somethe color of his skin, and the treatment of blacks by the LAPD.

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Michael Jordan was something of a first, both as a black athlete and as an athlete as a whole. He never spoke explicitly about his experiences as a black man. He never claimed to transcend race. He was, in all senses, a seemingly private figure who also sold his visage to become successful. He sold an ideal of himself rather than his actual self. We know Jordan more for the things he did on the court than for what he did off.

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Their various trajectories exemplify how much race is still an ingrained issue in the practice of sports. One did not shy away from his race and was shunned for it (Ali).


It could have been the plot of a sick and twisted horror flick, but it wasn't. This was real life — sick and twisted as it gets.

According to news reports, 26-year-old Meenakshi Thapar, the Bollywood actress who appeared in last year's thriller "404," was recently kidnapped and murdered in a most unthinkable manner.

First, she was strangled. Then, beheaded, and the rest of her body hacked to pieces.

Her killers — two aspiring actors who have since confessed — had reportedly invited Thapar to take a trip with them to a small town in the Himalayan foothills.

Once there, they called Thapar's family, demanding 1.5 million rupees ($30,000) in ransom. Thapar's mother, according to the Telegraph, allegedly paid 60,000 rupees ($1,200), but her daughter was killed soon after she wired theOverdorf wrote a piece just last week about a spike in kidnappings and murders in India. His piece delved into the similarities between cases that involved friends kidnapping friends, each seemingly linked to the desire for fast money.

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The victims Overdorf described were all from middle- or upper-class families, and the perpetrators appeared motivated to reap the benefits of India's fast-growing economy.

As a result, Overdorf wrote, "a debate has begun over whether these crimes can be seen as an unexpected cost of the country's headlong sprint for prosperity."

Thapar's case supports this theory. What appears to have pushed her killers over the edge wasn't just the desire for money — though they reportedly killed her after she boasted of her family's wealth — but


A Church of England hospital chaplain has lost his claim that he was discriminated against when his licence to work was withdrawn after he married his same-sex partner, in a case that gay rights campaigners hoped would force the church to change its stance.

Jeremy Pemberton was appealing against an earlier ruling that backed the church’s legal right to enforce its position that gay clergy are forbidden from marrying their partners.

The employment appeal tribunal judge Jennifer Eady said in her ruling that the state could not impose same-sex marriage on the church.

According to the ruling, Pemberton “was aware his marriage would be seen in conflict with the teachings of the church (even if he did not accept the characterisation of those teachings as doctrine) and he would thus beHall/Reuters

The church has been riven by the issue of sexuality for at least two decades. A two-year consultation of clergy, congregations and members of the general synod – the church’s ruling body – was completed in the summer. Next week the house of bishops will consider next steps before the next meeting of the synod in February.

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, has sought to hold together the global Anglican communion on this issue in a conflict between the liberal US church, which has backed same-sex marriage, and conservatives – principally from African countries – who are deeply opposed.

Welby apologised in January to lesbian, gay and transgender members of the church for the hurt caused to them. He is believed to have shifted his personal stance on the


induces you to transform into eternal laws of nature and of reason, the social forms springing from your present mode of production and form of property—historical relations that rise and disappear in the progress of production—this misconception you share with every ruling class that has preceded you. What you see clearly in the case of ancient property, what you admit in the case of feudal property, you are of course forbidden to admit in the case of your own bourgeois form of property.

Abolition of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.

On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But thisthank the physicians and health insurance companies supporting the DIACORE study: Axel Andreae, Gerhard Haas, Sabine Haas, Jochen Manz, Johann Nusser, Günther Kreisel, Gerhard Bawidamann, Frederik Mader, Susanne Kißkalt, Johann Hartl, Thomas Segiet, Christiane Gleixner, Christian Scholz, Monika Schober (Chief of Supply Management, Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Bayern), Cornelia Heinrich (Communication Manager, Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Bayern), Thomas Bohnhoff (Disease Management, Techniker Krankenkasse), Thomas Heilmann (Head of Disease Management, Techniker Krankenkasse), Stefan Stern (Consulting Physician, Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Bayern), Andreas Utz (Head of Department, Allgemeine Ortskrankenkasse Bayern), Georg Zellner (Chief of Supply Management, Deutsche Angestellten Krankenkasse), Werner Ettl (Barmer-GEK), Thomas Buck (Barmer-GEK), Rainer Bleek (IKK classic), Ulrich Blaudzun (IKK classic). We further thank the study nurses for their expert work in performing the study visits: Simone Neumeier, Sarah Hufnagel, Petra Jackermeier, Sabrina Obermüller,


the best quality waterway to swim in. The move has been criticised by some scientists and environmentalists.

The Land and Water forum has existed for nine years, although Fish and Game withdrew from it in 2015, saying it was being muzzled and stopped from speaking out on environmental issues.

Forest & Bird said the government's swimmable water move had undermined the good faith and trust extended to the forum to help address the freshwater crisis.

The NGO's chief executive Kevin Hague said the government's announcement did not go nearly far enough.

He said the New Zealand public were very concerned about freshwater quality, and that scientists had been saying the ecological health of the country's waterways was severely at threat.

"This very timid gesture by the government in the face of actually someNBA commissioner Adam Silver, from left, presents the most valuable player award to James Harden, of the Houston Rockets, as Harden’s mother Monja Willis looks on at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Adam Devine, left, and Lou Williams, of the Los Angeles Clippers, winner of the 6th Man award, pose in the press room at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

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Dwane Casey, current head coach of the Detroit Pistons, accepts the coach of the year award for his work with the Toronto Raptors at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar


in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

NBA player James Harden, of the Houston Rockets, poses in the press room with the most valuable player award at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Lou Williams, of the Los Angeles Clippers, accepts the 6th Man award at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Dwane Casey, current head coach of the Detroit Pistons, poses in the press room with the coach of the year award for his work with the Toronto Raptors at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

NBA playerJames Harden, of the Houston Rockets, left, winner of the most valuable player award, appears in the press room with his teammate P.J. Tucker at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Lou Williams, of the Los Angeles Clippers, poses in the press room with the 6th Man award at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

NBA player James Harden, of the Houston Rockets, arrives at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Lou Williams, of the Los Angeles Clippers, accepts the 6th Man award at the NBA Awards on Monday,


June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

NBA commissioner Adam Silver, left, presents the most valuable player award to James Harden, of the Houston Rockets, at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Lou Williams, of the Los Angeles Clippers, poses in the press room with the 6th Man award at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Dwane Casey, current head coach of the Detroit Pistons, accepts the coach of the year award for his work with the Toronto Raptors at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica,Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

NBA player James Harden, of the Houston Rockets, left, winner of the most valuable player award, poses in the press room with his mother Monja Willis at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Lou Williams, of the Los Angeles Clippers, accepts the 6th Man award at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

NBA player James Harden, of the Houston Rockets, poses in the press room with the most valuable player award at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Lou Williams, of the Los Angeles Clippers,


poses in the press room with the 6th Man award at the NBA Awards on Monday, June 25, 2018, at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

It was only fitting for James Harden to win the first NBA MVP award of his career in the Los Angeles. The Houston Rockets guard was born in Bellflower, Calif. and played basketball at Artesia High School in Lakewood.

It was a career year for Williams, who averaged 22.6 points and 5.3 assists per game. He earned 97 of the first place votes. Eric Gordon of the Rockets, who won the award last year, had three votes. Fred VanVleet of the Toronto Raptors had one vote.

Williams has previously won the award after the 2014-15 season as a member ofthe Raptors.

For the Clippers, it is the third time in the last five seasons that a member of its team won the award. Jamal Crawford won the award after the 2013-14 and 2015-16 seasons. Crawford, who spent the past season with the Minnesota Timberwolves, was the 2017-18 Twyman-Stokes Teammate of the Year recipient.

Dwane Casey was named coach of the year after coaching the Raptors to a 59-23 season and the top seed in the Eastern Conference.

James H. Williams joined the Southern California News Group in 2013 with a passion for sports, social media and journalism that has led to his role as a Digital Sports Producer. During his down time, he finds himself on social media providing scores and stats on local and professional sports. When he is


behind. In the foreground, falls cascade down a ravine into a lush valley. Carlos Farinango, a Cayambe man from El Hato, stands beside me watching the hillsides of grass shimmering in the brisk mountain wind. We stand in the buffer zone between El Hato and the limits of Ecuador’s Ecological Reserve Cayambe-Coca, known as Recay. Farinango describes the condition of this land just 10 years before: “The hillsides were bald, some tufts of grass, nothing more. Sheep were chewing at the roots of bushes to eat.” A decade ago, the land had been utterly denuded by years of overgrazing and burning.

This high-altitude steppe, called páramo, is unique to the Andes and surprisingly rich in plants and animals. It is often described as “the birthplace of water”—ground cover actsas a great sponge, absorbing permanent mists and melting glacier ice, which flows into streams that become great rivers. The páramos of Recay are the source for 13 major waterways in Ecuador’s vast river system, flowing out in literally every direction from the massive glacier.

The confederation of Cayambe tribes strongly resisted the empires of the Inca and then the Spaniards. Finally conquered in the late 16th century after years of siege, they were pushed out of fertile bottomlands to just beneath the frigid upper páramos. For centuries Cayambes worked as sharecroppers for large landowners, or hacendados. From colonial times into the 1990s, they labored several days a week on the haciendas in exchange for the ability to graze animals on the páramo beyond. The lack of coordination of


growth without drying out the land. The community tried various methods of managing the grass for grazing, such as chopping it down by hand and bringing crowds of community members up to the

páramo

to stomp it down. Finally they settled into controlled burns on the slopes, which allowed space for new growth while at the same time keeping the cattle out of the drainages where water flowed.

Today Farinango heads the Corporación El Hato, composed of five communities, which has managed the páramos since 1996. The corporation has no funding—when projects are needed such as construction of water storage tanks and canals in the agricultural zone, or roundups of animals grazing in the páramo, they are executed through mingas, or collective community work sessions. “If we had waited for theby the National Working Group on Biodiversity, would transform natural diversity into commerce. Allowing the state to regulate the extraction of biological resources, the law applies fees for genetic patents and grants private entities the right to use resources in natural protected areas. In early 2004, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), along with labor and community groups, demanded the immediate suspension of the proposal, calling it unconstitutional and a violation of collective rights.

In a process similar to the establishment of FONAG, the law is founded on the precept that biological diversity must be mercantilized in order to fund saving it. In it, the Cayambe and CONAIE see the state working closely with non-governmental organizations, the latter becoming “technical experts” or intermediaries to the market—thereby guaranteeing


the model that wins here will affect more than just the residents of El Hato and Quito. As world population explodes and the scenario is repeated, its implications span the globe.

Sonya Angelica Diehn (www.sonya.espora.org) is an independent writer and video-documentarian from Tucson, Arizona. With Pan Left Productions in Tucson she has produced and released several videos on environmental issues and the impacts of neoliberal policies. Covering social movements in the United States and Latin America since 1999, she is currently traveling in South America researching, writing, and recording video footage on topics including indigenous and environmental protection movements.Advancing the drug discovery and development process.
The current state of affairs in the drug discovery and development process is briefly summarized and then ways to take advantage of the ever-increasing fundamental knowledge and technical knowhow in chemistry and biology and related disciplines are discussed. The primary motivation of this Essay is to celebrate the great achievements of chemistry, biology, and medicine and to inform and inspire students and academics to enter the field of drug discovery and development while, at the same time, continue to advance the fundamentals of their disciplines. It is also meant to encourage and catalyze multidisciplinary partnerships between academia and industry as scientists attempt to merge their often complementary interests and expertise to achieve new improvements and breakthroughs in their respective fields, and the


calculated by combining the winning percentages of every opponent a team has beaten. Strength of schedule is similar, but combines the winning percentage of every one of a team's regular season opponents, win or lose.

After that, the tiebreaker comes down to a team's combined ranking among peers in points scored and points allowed against conference opponents, then every team on its schedule. For example, if (hypothetically) the Seahawks ranked first in points allowed and 11th in points against NFC opponents, and the Cardinals ranked third and eighth, respectively, the Cardinals would win the tiebreaker with a combined ranking of 11 (3+8) against the Seahawks' 12 (1+11).

Things simplify from there. Net points in common games is the next tiebreaker, followed by net points in all games, then most touchdownsprobability of risky reward was fixed at 100% (P25--29). Only data from the final day of 100% probability (P29) was analyzed.

Risk preference assessment took place during daily test sessions from P30--49, with each behavioral session consisting of two blocks of trials: 'forced response' and 'free choice'. The 'forced response' block consisted of the first 8 trials, in which only one of the two possible nosepoke ports were illuminated on each trial. For each subject, one port was designated as 'certain' and the other 'risky', with the designation counterbalanced across rats. The first trial began with the illumination of the cue light in the certain port to indicate that it was active. Once poked, the cue light was extinguished and the sipper tube inserted into the chamber. The rat


French heritage lottery aims to save national treasures By Hugh Schofield

BBC News, Paris Published duration 13 September 2018

image copyright Getty Images image caption The crumbling Theatre des Blues de Bar in Bar-le-Duc is one beneficiary

It takes a national treasure to save the national treasure.

Stéphane Bern, organiser of France's first heritage lottery, is himself something of a cherished institution. A historian, television star, and royal commentator, he is now lending his celebrity to a cause he holds dear - preserving the country's crumbling past.

But there is another side of Bern that is less well-known: he is an Anglophile.

And the whole lottery project is explicitly based on his experience in the UK.

"England has always been a source of inspiration. The British have more respect for their patrimony than we French,"he says.

image copyright Getty Images image caption Stéphane Bern is one of the most recognisable men in France

"I met people from the (UK's) National Lottery and they told me how some of the proceeds were used for conservation, and I thought: that's what we must do in France.

"I went to Emmanuel Macron (when he was still a candidate) and told him, and he said: 'Okay when I am president, you go ahead.'"

The upshot is the Loto du Patrimoine, whose first draw takes place today.

In fact, the Loto comprises two separate games. The annual prize draw tickets cost €3 and promise a possible jackpot of €13 million. In addition, there is an ongoing scratch-card game that costs €15 a shot. Participants stand a one-in-three chance of at least getting


their money back, and big winners can get as much as €1.5m.

With 10% of ticket sales going to his Heritage Fund, Bern hopes to raise €15m-€20m in the first year.

In the run-up to the launch, he held a nationwide consultation over the internet, leading to a list of some 2,000 buildings in urgent need of preservation.

This list was whittled down to 269 priority projects, of which 18 are described as "emblematic" and will be the first to receive money.

image copyright Getty Images image caption Fort Cigogne, near Brittany, is in need of work to remain stable

These include a Roman aqueduct near Lyon; a fort on the Glenan islands off Brittany; a 19th century villa west of Paris; an industrial-era railway roundhouse; a theatre in the eastern town ofEU referendum: Senior Ulster Unionists appeal to members for Leave vote By Gareth Gordon

BBC News NI Political Correspondent Published duration 18 June 2016

image copyright BBC/PA image caption Lord Kilclooney, Lord Trimble and Lord Maginnis are among the letter's signatories

A group of current and former senior Ulster Unionists have appealed to party members to vote Leave in next week's EU referendum.

It includes the former party leader David Trimble and some former MPs.

The party's referendum position is that it believes, on balance, Northern Ireland is better remaining in the EU , although it respects that some of its members may vote for a withdrawal.

But some party grandees have written a letter urging members to vote Leave.

They say Ulster unionism has always been about "protecting the sovereignty and independence of the


entire UK" and the party should not abandon that position.

Undermine

Voters will decide on the future of the UK's EU membership on Thursday.

Among the signatories of the letter are Lord Trimble, Lord Kilclooney and Lord Maginnis, who have all left the party, as well as their former Westminster colleagues Roy Beggs and David Burnside.

In their letter, they reject what they call the "dishonest scaremongering" that a vote to leave will undermine peace in Northern Ireland.

image copyright Getty Images image caption Those behind the letter reject claims by Sir John Major and Tony Blair that a Leave vote would threaten the Northern Ireland peace process

That claim has been made by Tony Blair and Sir John Major, among others.

The former prime ministers visited Londonderry earlier this month and said the "unityof the UK itself is on the ballot paper" in next week's poll.

Mr Blair added that Northern Ireland's prosperity and political arrangements could be negatively affected by a vote to leave.

Renaissance

Lord Trimble, the former Northern Ireland first minister, led the Ulster Unionists through peace talks that paved the way to the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 and the creation of a power-sharing executive at Stormont.

He and the others behind the letter say the agreement provided "robust structures to enable ministers north and south to reach agreed positions in the interests of the island as a whole".

"We have no doubt that these will prove invaluable in reaching sensible arrangements with the Republic of Ireland following a Leave vote," they add.


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In TOP SHOT: RELOADED â€“ THE COMPLETE SEASON TWO, sixteen fearless marksmen once again take aim for the $100,000 prize and the title of "Top Shot." Featuring an all-new cast of 14 men and 2 women, who face more intense challenges and surprising twists inspired by history, trials include shooting from the back of a moving vehicle, shooting while hanging from a 125-foot crane or while being turned upside down.

Across all 13 Season Two episodes on 4 discs, home viewers will see the iconic "Tommy Gun" and .44 Magnum in explosive action. But this season doesn't just feature firearms -- the marksmen's skillsIn cooperation with the pilot, the flight dispatcher furnishes
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TT Games is back this month with the release of their latest LEGO title - LEGO Marvel's Avengers. This will mark the second appearance of Marvel characters in a LEGO game, as the characters were not included in the recently released toys-to-life game LEGO Dimensions. It was disappointing, though not entirely surprising considering TT is owned by Warner Bros.

The upcoming LEGO Marvel title, one of our most anticipated of 2016, will not be a sequel to the previously released LEGO Marvel Super Heroes, but will instead adhere to the overarching plotlines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The game will include over 200 playable Marvel characters, including newcomers like Kamala Khan, the new Ms. Marvel.

While the game promises to be one of the biggest LEGO titles yet, WarnerBros. Interactive is already looking to the future. Today, the publisher announced two new DLC (downloadable content) packs coming to the game, one based on the upcoming Captain America: Civil War and the other based on the latest Marvel filmAnt-Man. Both packs will be available for free, for a limited time, exclusively on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.

Available on launch day, the Civil War DLC pack doesn't contain any new levels, in the interest avoiding spoilers for the film. Instead, the pack only features nine playable characters:

Agent 13

Black Panther

Captain America

Crossbones

Falcon

Iron Man (MK 46)

Scarlet Witch

War Machine

Winter Soldier

The Ant-Man DLC pack isn't scheduled to be released until later in the spring, but the pack will be more substantial than its predecessor. In addition to more playable characters, the pack will


feature a new level from the film - most likely with an emphasis on the characters' shrinking mechanic. The characters included are:

Ant-Man (Scott Lang)

Yellowjacket

Hope Van Dyne

Hank Pym

Cassie Lang

Scott Lang

Darren Cross

Luis

Ant-Man (Hank Pym)

The Wasp (Janet Van Dyne)

Ant-Thony

Most importantly, players will have the opportunity to fly Ant-Thony around the Ant-Man level as well as bring him into the main game. Perhaps the strangest character to be included in the DLC pack is Cassie Lang, Scott's young daughter. She does eventually grow up to be a superhero in her own right, code-named Stature, but that character will be included in the main game. It's unknown what abilities Cassie will have in the game, but the film version doesn't have powers so far in the MCU.Darlene Cates poses for a picture at her home in Forney, Tex., in 2012. (Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News via AP)

Darlene Cates, who played the morbidly obese, housebound mother in the 1993 film “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” died March 26 at her home in Forney, Tex. She was 69.

Her son-in-law, David Morgan, confirmed the death but did not disclose the cause.

Ms. Cates was cast in the film as the mother of Johnny Depp, in the title role, and his younger brother, played by Leonardo DiCaprio. Peter Hedges, the film’s screenwriter, had spotted her on the “Sally Jessy Raphael” talk show in 1992 discussing her struggles with her weight. She weighed more than 500 pounds and said she was struggling with suicidal thoughts at the time she appeared on


Matt Taylor's angled drive levelled the scores again only for Campbell to side-foot his team ahead before half time.

Daniel Sturridge headed Bolton's second equaliser of the game but Charlie Adam's lashed finish proved decisive.

As a result of Wolves' 3-1 win at Sunderland on Saturday, Blackpool remain in the bottom three with 39 points, but with four teams above them theoretically catchable they remain in the fight heading into their final fixture away at Manchester United next weekend.

If Blackpool do ultimately drop out of the top flight, they can leave with their heads held high. This match encapsulated all of the reasons why.

Ian Holloway's side have modelled their approach on attacking football, regardless of the opponent. It is a philosophy that makes them a major threat at one endbut vulnerable at the other.

This game - one of the finest of this, or indeed any Premier League season - was a testimony to Holloway's style, for better and worse, and the victory a reward for his players' dedication to it.

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This is not to discount the contribution of Owen Coyle's men, who crafted three superb goals themselves and competed throughout despite having relatively little to play for at the end of what has already been a successful season for them.

From the very first whistle, the home side were on the front foot. However, after charging forward for the first five minutes, they were behind in the sixth.

Paul Robinson lofted a free-kick into the


box from the left touchline and when Alex Baptiste slipped in attempting to clear, Davies was on hand to fire the ball past Matt Gilks from 10 yards.

The setback did not knock the home side out of their stride though and almost immediately they were level. Gary Taylor-Fletcher's head-on found Campbell and the striker muscled himself goalside of Gretar Steinsson before expertly side-footing the ball while unbalanced past Jussi Jaaskelainen.

With Bloomfield Road erupting around him, the Blackpool boss pointed to his temple and called for calm. It was a vain plea.

Passions were spilling over, most noticeably in a shoving match between the majority of the players on the pitch after a coming together between Taylor-Fletcher and Bolton's Zat Knight, which saw both booked.

Holloway's side continued to pile forward,the woodwork denied them.

Firstly, Taylor unleashed Sturridge on goal but Gilks was quick off his line to close space and block the striker's shot and then, moments later, Davies attempted a superb curling shot with the outside of his boot that beat the keeper but came back off the crossbar.

It was then Blackpool who held a half-time lead when Adam's cross from the left found Campbell in space in the box to side-foot past Jaaskelainen.

It was perhaps greedy to expect the second 45 minutes to match the first, and while it failed to do so, it came close.

Again chances were plentiful but only two of them were taken.

The first saw the visitors pull themselves level once again when Davies fed in Chung-Yong Lee, who skipped past Gilks before


For the first time in human history, global farmed fish production exceeds beef production. This from a civilization that has propagated cattle to nearly twice its own biomass and which utilizes over a third of the planet's ice-free land surface for agriculture.^[@CR1],[@CR2]^ In 2016, salmon surpassed tuna to become the second most-consumed seafood in the United States, second only to shrimp.^[@CR3]^

It is estimated that 91% of the seafood consumed in the United States is imported, of which nearly half is produced through aquaculture.^[@CR4]^ The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspects only approximately 2% of imported seafood, of which less than 0.1% is tested for banned chemical residues.^[@CR5]^ In 2017, the FDA inspected 86 samples from 379,000 tons of imported salmon.^[@CR6]^

Norway is the global leader in salmonYuri Cortez, AFP file picture | Mexican forces patrol outside the attorney’s office where an investigation into the Zeta cartel is ongoing

Federal forces on Wednesday arrested the leader of one of Mexico’s most feared drug cartels in a pre-dawn raid in the northern city of Monterrey, officials said. The arrest marks the second capture of a Mexican drug kingpin in less than a week.

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Omar Trevino Morales, who took the helm of the Zetas cartel after his brother was arrested in July 2013, was detained in the early hours of Wednesday in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a suburb of the industrial city of Monterrey, the officials said on condition of anonymity.

The Mexican government had offered a 30-million peso (€1.8 million) reward for his capture on weapons and


organised crime charges.

His arrest comes just days after the capture of Servando Gomez, leader of the Knights Templar drug gang, who was the most wanted capo still at large in Mexico.

The Zetas have been blamed for many of the bloodiest atrocities carried out by Mexican gangs in a wave of violence that has claimed over 100,000 lives since 2007.

The gang has been weakened since the killing of former boss Heriberto Lazcano in 2012 and the subsequent capture of Trevino Morales’s brother two years ago.

Among the grimmest incidents pinned on the Zetas are the massacres of dozens of migrant workers, an arson attack on a Monterrey casino in 2011 that killed 52 and the dumping of 49 decapitated bodies near the same city in 2012.

Founded by army deserters in2011-12: Played in and started 31 games as a senior … made 16 pitching appearances with four wins and 56 strikeouts in 68.2 innings pitched … second on team in ERA, wins, strikeouts, appearances and innings pitched … finished career second all-time in career strikeouts and appearances and fourth in career innings pitched … pitched complete game shutout with seven strikeouts against Thomas College on spring break trip (3/24/12) … went 2-for-3 at the plate and allowed just one run in six innings with seven strikeouts in first game of a doubleheader sweep of WPI on final weekend of conference play (4/21/12) … hit safely in six of the final seven games of the season … team captain

2010-11: Appeared in 24 games, starting 23 as a junior …


pitched 108.1 innings in 23 appearances, including a team-high 18 starts … pitched 11 complete games … ranked third in the NEWMAC in appearances (23), fourth in strikeouts (86) and fifth in innings pitched (108.1) … led the team in all major pitching categories including ERA, wins, appearances, strikeouts and complete games … her 23 appearances are the second-most in a single season in program history … has three of the eight-highest single-season strikeout totals in program history and ranks 2nd all-time with 240 in three seasons … batted .269 in 67 at-bats … pitched all 12 innings in a doubleheader sweep of Smith, allowing just one earned run while striking out 13 (3/26) … earned an extra-inning win over WPI, pitching all eight innings while surrendering justRussia says Syria ceasefire to be discussed at January talks in Kazakhstan: Ifax

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Friday he expected new Syria peace talks backed by Moscow, Ankara and Tehran to take place in the middle of January, the Interfax news agency reported.

It cited Gatilov as saying he expected they would focus on discussing what needs to be done to get a nationwide ceasefire for Syria in place.

The foreign and defense ministers of Russia, Iran and Turkey held talks on Syria in Moscow on Tuesday after which they said they were ready to help broker a Syrian peace deal.

The United States sought to downplay its absence from the talks, saying it was not a "snub" and did not reflect a decline of


Lengthy and protracted contract negotiations between Alastair Clarkson and Hawthorn are virtually complete with the four-time premiership coach to remain at the club until the end of 2019 and potentially longer.

Clarkson's historic new three-year deal — his current contract takes him to the end of this season — is estimated at $4 million before performance bonuses and places him second only behind Kevin Sheedy in terms of modern day club-coach partnerships.

Done deal: New contract will see Clarkson stay at the Hawks until the end of 2019. Credit:Paul Jeffers

It is understood negotiations have been stalled in part over the details surrounding a trigger clause for a fourth season taking Clarkson through until the end of 2020. That fourth-year option could still be placed in the deal. The financial settlementReport: Apple Boosting Its Own Apps in App Store Charts

November 17, 2015

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TechCrunch is reporting some irregularities with the rankings in the App Store Top Charts. The charts are different when viewed from different devices, and Apple's own apps appear to be ranked higher than they should be.

App store optimization firm Sensor Tower first discovered the issue when its internal data didn't match up with the top charts on the App Store. Several of Apple's iOS apps appeared in the top 10, even though Sensor Tower's data says they shouldn't be there. The firm also noted that an older iPhone running iOS 8.3 didn't have the same issue.


stud finder to find and mark the locations of the wall studs. Mark a point on the wall to indicate the height of the chair rail; the typical height of wainscoting is 32", but it can go as high as you like. Then use a straight edge and a level to draw a line across the wall to serve as a guide for installing the chair rail.

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Measure the wall from end to end to determine the area to be covered by widths of wainscoting panels. For electrical outlets, measure from the chair rail line to the outlet, and then from a wall corner to the outlet to determine the exact location for outlet hole; transfer those measurements to the wainscoting.

Step 5: Cut theWhen the new Nightwing series kicked off back in the Summer of last year, Dick found himself face to face with a mysterious assassin whose past yielded major ramifications within Nightwing’s own. After their tenuous partnership dissolved, our hero has returned to Bludhaven, gained and lost a relationship, a rekindled his old team-up with his own protege Damian Wayne. And now, just when stability is beginning to creep into his life, Raptor makes his return! Just ahead of Sam Humphries and Bernard Chang taking over the title in December, Tim Seeley (who is basically switching with Humphries, as he takes the helm on Green Lanterns) provides one last blow-up in “Raptor’s Revenge” with Miguel Mendonca on art duties.

Nightwing #30 is in stores next week, and The Beat has


all shipworms have two shrunken shells that have been modified into drill heads. Hundreds of sharp invisible teeth cover the shells in the wood eater, but the rock-eating shipworm has just dozens of thicker, millimeter-size teeth that scrape away rock.

Marine shipworms store the wood they eat in a special digestive sack, where bacteria degrade it. Like other shipworms, the rock-eating shipworm still ingests what it scrapes away to make its protective burrow, but it lacks both the sack and its bacteria and likely doesn’t get much sustenance from the rock bits. Their ingestion may be a holdover from wood-eating ancestors. Instead, it seems to rely on other bacteria residing in its gills to produce nutrients or food sucked in by a siphon at the clam’s back end forFree EMR Newsletter Want to receive the latest news on EMR, Meaningful Use,
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John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his


which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.

Time again to take a look around the EMR and healthcare IT twittersphere at some of the best tweets. We’ve got some really interesting tweets to consider along with a tweet that includes a video of the real Patch Adams (many I love that movie)efforts?

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An interesting discussion happened in the comments about HIPAA secure fax services in regards to the security of email. Being a tech person who formerly managed a few different corporate email systems, sometimes I


(Newser) – Things did not work out well for three Oklahoma City teenagers who allegedly planned to rob a bank—using Uber as transportation. Police say the Uber driver who took the teens to the bank Tuesday afternoon called authorities after hearing one of them say he had a gun and was going to "cap somebody," KOCO reports. Police say a gun was found on one of the teens after he tried to fight officers who arrived at the bank. The teens had apparently already arranged an Uber for their getaway, reports KFOR. Driver Brandon Case says he was waiting outside the bank when he saw the teenagers being taken away in handcuffs and was told by an officer that there had been a robbery attempt. "They called meShia LaBeouf arrested on 6th Street while Austin City Limits kicks off 2nd weekend

Shia LaBeouf was arrested on a misdemeanor public intoxication charge on Friday, October 9, 2015 and booked in the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas. Shia LaBeouf was arrested on a misdemeanor public intoxication charge on Friday, October 9, 2015 and booked in the Travis County Jail in Austin, Texas. Photo: Travis County Sheriff's Department Photo: Travis County Sheriff's Department Image 1 of / 93 Caption Close Shia LaBeouf arrested on 6th Street while Austin City Limits kicks off 2nd weekend 1 / 93 Back to Gallery

Actor Shia LaBeouf was arrested Friday in Austin's downtown bar district as the well-attended Austin City Limits music festival kicked off its second weekend a few miles away.

LaBeouf, 29,


was seen handcuffed in front of Darwin's Bar on 6th Street in a photo posted to social media around 8 p.m.

Travis County records show LaBeouf was arrested on a misdemeanor public intoxication charge.

According to TMZ, witnesses saw the actor acting erratically, possibly intoxicated on drugs or alcohol, in the popular music and bar district prior to police taking him into custody.

A call placed to the department's media relations line went unanswered.

It is unclear whether LaBeouf was in town for the music festival, which takes place at Zilker Park and features music acts Disclosure, Foo Fighters and Run the Jewels as headliners Friday.

Staff writer Sal Guerrero contributed to this report.

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“Minions” is one of the exciting animated productions from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment, starring Academy Award winner Sandra Bullock as super villain Scarlet Overkill. Starting out as single-cells, Minions are shown to be creatures that evolve through the ages from such to yellow servants to the most detestable masters like T. rex and Napoleon. The story starts with a unique Minion, Kevin, who plans to find a new change in their lives by finding a new boss, with the rest of the community of Minions hopefully following his lead. Little Bob and Stuart join Kevin’s journey, and the plot becomes more thrilling as the journey to a new master proves to be a never-ending adventure they sought in the first place. When they finally find


INDIANAPOLIS – Michael Joseph Murphy, age 45, of Indianapolis, passed away on Friday, March 25, 2016. He was born on March 16, 1971 in Greenfield as the son of Joseph and Martha “Jerri” (Trent) Murphy. Michael graduated... View Obituary & Service Information1. Field of the Invention
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Reviews are generally very good. At sputnikmusic.com the album was seen as excellent and received 4.1 out of 5. Allmusic.com also rated it as 4 out of 5. At rateyourmusic.com one reviewer likened them to a poor imitation of Faith No More with only two songs worthy of note. Other reviews on this site are much more positive, remarking on the band’s ability to showcase such a wide selection of styles, noting that they are one of the few bands able to do this so successfully. Overall the most common vote on this site is 4 out of 5.

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Against them were younger aides—not identified by the NYT—who made a moral and sentimental appeal: “Mr. President, you’ve got to be on the right side of history.” This exerted real power on President Obama, who favored a forward policy in responding to the “Arab Spring.” Still, it would be hard to go against the opinion of the adults in the room once again. On 15 March 2011, Susan Rice, the American ambassador to the United Nations, told the French ambassador that “you are not going to drag us into your shitty war.”

Abruptly, Secretary Clinton chose to join the side of the interventionists. Her motivations remain opaque. On the one hand, several of her former aides insist upon the “lessons of history.”


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Human beings have been consuming alcohol, in the form of ethanol, for centuries. After alcohol is ingested it is absorbed from the stomach and upper gastrointestinal tract. Alcohol that a person drinks shows up in the person's breath because it is absorbed from the mouth, throat, stomach and intestines into2013. However, objections raised by the Tamil Nadu Exhibitors Association and the Tamil Nadu Theatre Owners Association forced him to announce on Jan 14 that the film will be released on the DTH platform only on Feb 2.

Prior to these developments, the actor who has so far stayed away from politics made a statement with significant connotations on Dec 30, 2012. That day, a book about Finance Minister P Chidambaram was released at a function in Chennai. After DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi handed over the first copy of the book to Chidambaram's mother Lakshmi Achi, the Kollywood icon remarked that Tamils are very capable of leading the nation and pointed to the finance minister.

Kamal Haasan probably did not realise that by praising Chidambaram, he had unwittingly incurred Tamil


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Cary Waterman is a poet and non-fiction writer. She is the author of four books of poems. Her most recent collection, BOOK OF FIRE was a finalist for the Midwest Book Award. Her previous collection, WHEN I LOOKED BACK YOU WERE GONE, was a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award.

Her poems are included in the anthologies Poets Against the War, Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-territorial Days to the Present, Where One Voice Ends Another Begins: 150 Years of Minnesota Poetry, Poetry City USA, Volume 2, The Logan House Anthology of 21st Century American Poetry, In the Middle, and A Geography of Poets. Her poems have also appeared in magazines such as Water~Stone Review, The New Guard, Cutthroat, Blue Earth Review, Great River Review, Minnetonka Review, LakeRegion Review and others.

She received second place in The Common Ground poetry contest, was a finalist in The New Guard poetry contest and has received several Pushcart nominations. She co-edited with Jim Moore the anthology, Minnesota Writes: Poetry.

Her essay, Horizon, appeared in Rkvry Quarterly Literary Journal, and in the recently published anthology, The Heart of All That Is: Reflections on Home.

She has received grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board and the Bush Foundation including the Loft McKnight Award of Distinction for Poetry. She has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland.

She is Assistant Professor of English at Augsburg College in Minneapolis where she teaches in the undergraduate program and is Poetry/Memoir Mentor in the low-residency MFA Program.


June, partially due to the US’s reluctance to provide sanctions relief to the North, inter-Korean reconciliation is proceeding at a steady pace. Taking matters into their own hands, Kim and his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in held a symbolic ceremony to link their railway and road networks late December.

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In a recent letter to Moon, Kim wrote that he wants to “meet often” to “resolve together the issue of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.”

In December, Trump said that he hopes to meet Kim as soon as even this month or February, describing their relationship as “good” and even suggesting he might invite Kim to the White House.

However, US officials have indicated that the choking unilateral andto teach us how to observe life. Her best-known work, The Story of My Life, was published in 1903. Within it, she recollected her early years, spinning the dispersed wool of her babyhood into the tangled threads of her childhood. These would eventually be woven into the whole cloth of adulthood with the help of Anne Sullivan, and eventually immortalized in the popular three-act play, The Miracle Worker.

Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, in 1880, Helen Keller thrived as a healthy infant for 19 months, until she fell ill with what was probably meningitis. She survived the raging fever but permanently lost both her sight and her hearing.

Keller describes the outcome of her illness as having “plunged me into the unconsciousness of a new-born baby,” and then recounts how this


people who were stuck working for the Keller family bore the worst of Helen’s anger: She describes how she repeatedly kicked her nurse, locked her mother in a pantry, and bullied the cook’s daughter. Only much later, after Anne Sullivan had taught to her to sign using English, had Keller “realized what I had done, and for the first time I felt repentance and sorrow.” Unsatisfied with the world she knew, Keller was tormented by her inkling that there was much more to know, and she extended this torment to the people around her.

The climax of Keller’s childhood occurred during the summer of 1887 when Anne Sullivan convinced her that “everything had a name, and each name gave birth to a new thought.” Her joy in finding thatplay out—to see this same flower open—year after year in my classroom.

Keller did nothing to earn the privilege of full-time attention from a brilliant educator—she also did not deserve the fever that closed her ears and eyes forever. She was born to a measure of unique talent as well as unavoidable hardship. In response, she persevered through painful trial and error, while maintaining a faith in her own abilities. Later, when she had the opportunity to recount her life’s journey, her commitment to authenticity compelled her to include events during which she had been at her best and worst. Most of all, she shared with us her deep joy in the rewards that come from learning about one’s world. In so doing, she gave us an autobiography that


has held up for more than a century. In my book, that makes Helen Keller a heroine—in fact—in my book, her words form the epigraph:

The more I handled things and learned their names and uses, the more joyous and confident grew my sense of kinship with the rest of the world.

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« The Colombo Telegraph also learns of several moves to entice families in villages in the Hambantota District to move to Vavuniya. Sources on the ground in the District said that several people had been offered land and a Rs. 600,000 housing allowance if they moved to Vavuniya. The offer has come from such high places as UPFA Hambantota MP Namal Rajapaksa. However in order to avail themselves of the offer, the families would have to relinquish their residency status in Hambantota and take up permanent residency in Vavuniya. The villages had been told that a form was available at the Divisional Secretariat which needed to be completed. Once this documentation process was complete they could then travel to Vavuniya and hand the forms over to


the military personnel there to be assigned their land. Four persons had already made the journey and it is learnt that at least one such Hambantota resident had been granted a prime piece of land with high quality timber on the property. Most villages in the District have been made aware of this option and that the necessary paperwork could be obtained from the Divisional Secretariats of their respective region.

SLT personnel have also indicated that staff from the institution, specifically those who reside in the deep south have been offered relocation options with housing, relocation allowance and government job opportunities in the north. »

War-scarred Sri Lanka is experiencing an alarming scourge of child abuse and the apparatus for dealing with the problem, UNICEF says, is “grossly inadequate.”

Everyday, threepolarised as minorities are made scapegoats for prevalent socio-economic problems; the political economy of the hate campaign against the Muslims is deeply worrying. Is this, perhaps, the making of another great uprising, another major political shift, again with unpredictable consequences? »

The two clashes have shown us that the religious groups of Sri Lanka are growing in extremism, able to muster the masses on to the streets and threaten the law and order of society. The government’s see-sawing reaction to these outcries of the populace leaves many questioning their commitment to upholding any semblance of democracy.

With the country having just marked its 30th anniversary of the Black July riots, the communal clashes in Grandpass was a hideous reminder of what we are capable of.

The International Centre for Ethnic Studies


is pleased to announce the launch ofResearch Paper No: 08 on the theme of Post War Reconciliation titled, Is Peace a Hostage of the Military Victory? Dilemmas of Reconciliation, Ethnic Cohesion and Peace-Building by Gamini Keerawella.

Having militarily defeated the LTTE, Sri Lanka presently stands at a critical historical juncture in its endeavour to attain a sustainable peace. The peace and stability of post-war Sri Lanka depends on the ability of key stakeholders in peace to utilise the new political space opened up at the end of the war to systematically address the root causes that generated and sustained ethnic conflict and violence. The paper proposes to reconfigure the post-war peace-building from a human rather than physical infrastructure-focused approach.The Archimedean screw of the entire post-conflict peacebuilding is the abilitydocument via the following links:

The call for papers for the 2014 Tamil Studies Conference, which is sponsored by the University of Toronto and the University of Windsor, is now available. The conference will take place in Toronto on May 16-17. The deadline for paper proposals August 31, 2013. For details, see http://www.tamilstudiesconference.ca/

Focusing on Sri Lanka, this book offers a new perspective on contemporary debates about nationalism in South Asia. It looks at the ‘capture’ of Buddhism by a highly fetishsised form of Sinhalese nationalism in the colonial and postcolonial periods, and the framing of subsequent key constitutional and nation-building moments.

When the author speaks of ‘Sinhalese Buddhism’ in the period prior to its engagement with the British colonial State he has in mind a relatively unbounded (although at times


boundary forming) set of practices that facilitated both the inclusion and exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ concepts and people within a particular cosmological frame. It is the cosmic order of premodern Sinhalese Buddhism that is particularly potent in its capacity to inform the late colonial and postcolonial socio-political order. Juxtaposing the premodern against the backdrop of colonial modernity, when de Silva Wijeyeratne speaks of modern Sinhalese Buddhism/nationalism he has in mind a much more reified and bounded concept imagined through a modern epistemology whose purpose was not so much inclusion, but a much more radical exclusion of non-‘Buddhist’ ideas and people. Modern Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism, then, emerges through the conjunction of discourse, power and knowledge at a distinct moment in the trajectory of the colonial State. An intrinsic feature ofthis modernist moment is that premodern categories were subject to a re-valuation that generated interesting consequences for State-society relations and the wider constitutional/legal imaginary. The author goes onto explore the dynamics of constitutionalism within the orbit of anthropological and historical scholarship on the cosmology of Sinhalese Buddhism and its relation to Sinhalese Buddhist nationalism.

Presenting a timely analysis given the intensification of Sri Lanka’s civil war since the election in 2005 of President Mahinda Rajapakse on an overtly ultra nationalist Sinhalese Buddhist platform, this book is of interest to scholars of South Asian studies, anthropology, sociology, ethnicity and political science.

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Contents:

Introduction: Sri Lankan Nationalism and the Presence of the Past: Towards a Hermeneutic Perspective

1. The Mahāvamsa as History and The Pre-History of State Formation

2. The Cosmology of Buddhism, the Pāli


Chronicles and the Ontology of Evil

3. Textual Practices, Sinhalese Buddhist Consciousness and Dissonance

4. Galactic Polities, Cosmography and the Imaginary of Buddhist Sovereignty

5. The Transformation of Sinhalese Buddhist Consciousness in Its Colonial and Postcolonial Relation

How did the British come to conquer South Asia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Answers to this question usually start in northern India, neglecting the dramatic events that marked Britain’s contemporaneous subjugation of the island of Sri Lanka. In Islanded, Sujit Sivasundaram reconsiders the arrival of British rule in South Asia as a dynamic and unfinished process of territorialization and state building, revealing that the British colonial project was framed by the island’s traditions and maritime placement and built in part on the model they provided.

Using palm-leaf manuscripts from Sri Lanka toread the official colonial archive, Sivasundaram tells the story of two sets of islanders in combat and collaboration. He explores how the British organized the process of “islanding”: they aimed to create a separable unit of colonial governance and trade in keeping with conceptions of ethnology, culture, and geography. But rather than serving as a radical rupture, he reveals, islanding recycled traditions the British learned from Kandy, a kingdom in the Sri Lankan highlands whose customs—from strategies of war to views of nature—fascinated the British. Picking up a range of unusual themes, from migration, orientalism, and ethnography to botany, medicine, and education, Islanded is an engaging retelling of the advent of British rule.

“Islanded makes a critical contribution to our understanding of South Asian and Indian ocean history and


provides a novel lens through which to review both the British taking of and departure from India. Using a wealth of colonial and indigenous documents, Sujit Sivasundaram’s intriguing argument is that during the first phase of their rule, the British undertook an unfinished process of severing or ‘partitioning’ Sri Lanka from the mainland, so emphasizing its Buddhist and Sinhala character.”

Nira Wickramasinghe, Leiden University

“Islanded weaves an elegantly crafted, nuanced account of the recycling and appropriations of knowledges, as well as the movement of peoples, in Sri Lanka and beyond in the early nineteenth century. It firmly entrenches Sri Lankan historiography in the transnational moment, inserting it in wider circles while at the same time ‘partitioning’ it from the dominant Indian frame. The writing is engaging and lucid, a rarequality nowadays. A wonderful read that calls into question many assumptions on the nature of colonial domination.”

Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University

“Sujit Sivasundaram’s Islanded is one of the most important historical studies on Sri Lanka on the early colonial period. It deals with the British advent to Sri Lanka in the context of the country’s recent past and its strategic location in the Indian Ocean. It is not simply about governors and rulers and their doings but rather, as the Walrus said, about ‘shoes and ships and sealing-wax’—or, to put it differently, about peoples, places, traders, and such things in the island colony. Islanded is an imperative read for those of us interested in the colonial period in Sri Lanka and South Asia in general.”

The announcement of the book by


the University of Chicago Press can be found here:

Sujit Sivasundaram is University Lecturer in World and Imperial History since 1500 and fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795–1850.

6th August 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: A Bill titled “The Twenty First Amendment to the Constitution”, a Private Member’s Bill presented by the Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thero, M.P. of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), was placed on the Order Paper of Parliament on 18th June 2013. The proposed Bill, if passed by Parliament would have the effect of repealing Chapter XVIIA of the Constitution, which was introduced by the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) filedthe process by which Bills are placed on the Order Paper of Parliament. In response, CPA contended that the identical objection had been taken up in a previous case in which the Court had dealt exhaustively with the reasons as to why this objection was not correct. CPA also drew the attention of the Court to several of its own judgments, which inquired and pronounced upon the question of as to whether a Bill was properly placed on the Order Paper of Parliament.

In its Special Determination on the Twenty First Amendment to the Constitution Bill, which was placed before Parliament on 12th July 2013, the Supreme Court stated that:

In terms of Section 3 of Parliament (Powers and Privileges) Act incorporated into Article 67 of the Constitution, the placement


on the face of the record of the Supreme Court’s determination published in the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates on 12th July 2013, although the names of the Intervenient-Petitioners are as usual mentioned.

6th August 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka: The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) notes with the greatest alarm and anxiety the distressing events that transpired at Weliweriya in the Gampaha District of the Western Province last Thursday, 1st August 2013. It is not the first instance in post-war Sri Lanka of unarmed citizens exercising their democratic right to protest being tear-gassed, fired upon and killed by the security forces: in the export processing zone at Katunayaka in 2011 and in Chilaw in 2012, respectively, 01 innocent citizen was killed. Likewise, media personnel covering the event weremanhandled and their equipment confiscated, damaged or destroyed. The number of fatalities recorded in Weliweriya currently stands at 03, with many more injured.

These incidents of the killing of unarmed citizens – and in the Weliweriya incident, two young students reportedly not directly involved in the protest – are tragic and shameful reminders of the collapse of the rule of law in our country, and most importantly, of the mind-set of the government in respect of the exercise of democratic rights by its citizens. Serious and fundamental questions come to the fore with regard to the rule of law and the maintenance of law and order by the government, in the context of the complete disregard of the constitutional and legal framework governing the circumstances in which the armed