two Hong Kong-based airlines, Hong Kong Airlines and HK Express, are increasingly overlapping with each other. That their roles are undefined and uncoordinated risks the two fighting each other – rather than combining their different propositions to address multiple segments of the markets.

Hong Kong Airlines is rapidly growing in Tokyo and Osaka, and launching a new service to Seoul Incheon – its 11th new destination in 2016. These are strong O&D markets and present a change from Hong Kong Airlines' previous staple of connecting traffic from mainland China over Hong Kong, or competing mainly against Cathay Pacific in key regional Asian markets from Hong Kong.

Following Hong Kong Airlines' entry to Tokyo and Osaka it will further increase services to the point where Japan becomes a larger market forFlight 370 Rerouted by Pre-Programmed Computer System: Report

Missing Malaysian Airlines Flight 370's initial turn from its planned flight route was reportedly scheduled on a computer system and programmed by someone with access to the cockpit, casting further suspicion on the plane's pilots and crew.

The New York Times, citing "senior American officials," reports that whoever programed the system used a computer located between the flight's captain and first officer. The officials said it was unlikely that a passenger would have known enough about Boeing aircraft to have reprogrammed the system.

The officials weren't sure if the system was programmed before or after the flight departed Kuala Lumpur, though the changes were made sometime before the Acars communications system was shut off.

While the plane's fate remains unknown, one theory—suicide by pilot—can


likely be ruled out. From the New York Times:

One American safety expert, John Cox, a former airline union safety official, said that someone taking such pains to divert the plane does not fit the pattern of past cases when pilots intentionally crashed and killed everyone on board.

"There's an inconsistency in what we've seen historically," he said, comparing the disappearance of Flight 370 with two murder-suicides, on an Egyptair flight off Nantucket Island in 1999 and a SilkAir jet in Indonesia in 1997. In those crashes, he said, the pilot involved simply pushed the nose of the plane down and flew into the water.Starting this month, transgender state employees in Maryland can access transition-related health care under the state insurance plans. The change came as the result of a lawsuit filed on behalf of a transgender employee of the University of Maryland.

FreeState Legal, the firm representing the university employee, Sailor Holobaugh, publicly announced the decision on Tuesday, but the changes technically took effect earlier in the month.

“Maryland has moved one step closer to achieving full equality and justice for transgender Marylanders,” said Aaron Merki, executive director of FreeState Legal, in a press release.

Holobaugh, a clinical research assistant in the neurology department at the university, decided to file the lawsuit with FreeState after being denied coverage for a mastectomy, which he had already undergone and for which he had paid out of


color and avers a denial of her civil and constitutional rights. The defendants are Air Terminal Services, Inc., operator, as concessionaire of the United States Government, of all the restaurants at the airport, and Eastern Airlines, Inc., the air carrier on whose line she held a ticket for transportation. Defendants' motions to dismiss raise the issues. They contend that none of the six counts of the amended complaint sets forth a cause of action, because the defendants were under no obligation in law to serve the plaintiff or anyone else, that they could refuse to serve her without excuse, and that they have in no other manner deprived the plaintiff of her legal rights.
Washington National Airport is situated within the boundaries of the State of Virginia. With exceptionspresently unimportant, Federal jurisdiction over the airport is exclusive. Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of 1946, c. 26, p. 46; Public Law 208, 79th Congress, approved October 31, 1945, sec. 107, 59 Stat. 552, 553. The airport is owned by the United States and by an agreement dated February 19, 1941, the United States granted to the defendant Air Terminal Services, Inc., a Virginia corporation, the concession to operate, among other facilities there, "a dining room, coffee shop, soda fountain, employees' cafeteria, cafeteria for colored persons," for which the Government was to be paid a percentage of the concession's gross receipts.
Pursuant to this agreement Air Terminal Services, Inc. was operating several restaurants there on February 17, 1947, the date of the occurrences pleaded in this action.
On


that day the plaintiff had purchased a ticket for transportation by the defendant Eastern Airlines, Inc. from the Washington Airport to New Orleans, Louisiana, Eastern being one of the lines licensed to enter and depart from the airport. With the plaintiff aboard, the plane took off but within a few minutes found it necessary to return to the airport because of mechanical difficulties. Announcement was made on the plane that upon disembarking each passenger should call at the desk of Eastern in the Terminal Building at the airport, for a chit entitling him to have dinner at the expense of Eastern at the airport or at any other convenient restaurant. Accordingly the plaintiff obtained a chit for her dinner. She presented it at the dining room operated byhave been a State crime in Virginia.
The incident of which the plaintiff complains arose at a time when segregation of the races was enforced at the airport by virtue of the instructions of the Administrator. As indicated by the quoted excerpts, segregation seems to have been contemplated by the concession-agreement between the United States and Air Terminal. Too, the Court is of the opinion that the Virginia statute already cited was then applicable to the restaurants and compelled under criminal penalties, the separation of the races. The latter became a requirement of the federal law prevailing on the airport, by virtue of the Assimilative Crimes Act, supra, and continued in force until the promulgation, on December 27, 1948, by the Administrator of Civil Aeronautics of his regulation expressing


184 Va. 943, 36 S.E.2d 906. But we do not believe the same principle of law is applicable to this defendant's restaurants at the Washington National Airport. They are operated on public property in a building constructed with public funds and under a concession from the public government. In effect, the concessionaire here is conducting the facility in the place and stead of the Federal government. To conclude otherwise would overlook not only the status and purpose of the airport, but also the purpose of the concession. It is to provide food and refreshment to the public in travel and to complement the facilities offered by the United States Government in support of air transportation. We do not hold that Air Terminal was an air carrier, or engagedcitizen and citizen. The instant segregation was pursuant to a federal statute (the Assimilative Crimes Act) and under a federal executive's instructions, in effect governmental action, and unless provision was made for substantially equal accommodations to the plaintiff as a Negro citizen, she was deprived, by Air Terminal acting under the segregation laws and regulations of the United States, of her rights without due process of law, contrary to the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. If so deprived, she has a cause of action for such damages as may have thereby been occasioned her; Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. 678, 66 S.Ct. 773, 90 L.Ed. 939; and she need not, as contended by the defendants, prove direct physical injury in order to recover damages.


The Bitcoin white paper was published 11 years ago today, on Oct. 31, 2008, meaning that Bitcoin (BTC) is celebrating its 11th year of existence. From its humble beginnings to over a $300 billion market capitalization in 2017, the success of Bitcoin is truly a remarkable accomplishment.

What is Bitcoin? A question with many answers. Digital gold, magic internet money, a hedge against macro risk, tulip mania? One thing is for certain, Bitcoin found a product–market fit as a new form of money owned by the people. The Bitcoin brand is well known around the globe, the userbase is growing fast, and it continues to attract developers to the ecosystem.

However, Bitcoin is not a panacea. When Satoshi first launched Bitcoin, he made design choices that were optimal for becomingEarly in the Trump Administration, a memo claiming a group of former Obama officials was behind "coordinated attacks" against President Trump and his advisers circulated the White House, according to the New Yorker. Ronan Farrow, the reporter who broke the story, shares details on the "echo chamber" memo.


Series: Fed Tapes The Secret Recordings of Carmen Segarra

A federal judge dismissed the claims of a former bank examiner at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who says she was fired for refusing to change her finding that Goldman Sachs lacked a firm-wide conflict-of-interest policy.

U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams in New York ruled late Wednesday that the assertion by Carmen Segarra that supervisors retaliated against her failed to fall within the whistleblower statute under which she filed her case.

The law, enacted in 1989 after the savings and loan crisis to protect bank examiners from outside interference, covers an individual who "discloses protected information to a third party, not when she is asked to alter that information," the judge ruled.

ProPublica reported Segarra's assertions about Goldman last year. InOctober, she filed a wrongful termination complaint naming the New York Fed and three of its officials.

The judge dismissed the claims against the three officials, saying the law could only be used to file lawsuits against institutions and not individuals. Known as the "depository institution employee protection remedy," it safeguards examiners who "provide information" about "any possible violation of any law or regulation."

In her ruling, Abrams also concluded that the Fed guidance Segarra cited — that Goldman Sachs have a firm-wide conflicts-of-interest policy — was only advisory and not a law or regulation. As such, it was not covered under the statute, the judge decided.

The New York Fed hired Segarra in 2011 as part of an effort by the bank to ramp up its supervision of nine so-called


"Too-Big-to-Fail" financial institutions, including Goldman. Segarra, a lawyer, was hired along with other examiners for her expertise in compliance and risk management.

The new examiners were assigned to review the banks to see if they complied with a Supervision and Regulation Letter issued in 2008, known as SR 08-08. In 2009, a review by an outside Federal Reserve team had found problems with New York's efforts to ensure that the banks it supervised followed the policy, which covers a variety of topics from money laundering to conflicts of interest.

In her complaint, Segarra argued that numerous laws and regulations underpinned the guidance. She also claimed that her superiors violated the law by obstructing her examination.

A spokeswoman for the New York Fed declined to comment on the ruling. In a statementlast October, the bank said its personnel decisions "are based exclusively on individual job performance and are subject to thorough review. We categorically reject any suggestions to the contrary."

Goldman Sachs declined to comment.

Abrams' ruling also recounts how, earlier this month, the judge disclosed to the parties in the case that her husband, Greg Andres, a partner at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York, was representing Goldman Sachs in an advisory capacity.

During a telephone conference, Abrams asked lawyers for the Fed and Segarra if they wanted to her to recuse herself or consult with their clients. The revelation came the day before oral arguments on a motion by the New York Fed to dismiss the case.

During the call, both sides declined to request a recusal.


Aug 16, 2017

US-led coalition air strikes on the Islamic State group's remaining territory in Syria's Raqa city killed 17 civilians on Wednesday, including children, a monitor said.

The coalition is providing air support in the form of heavy air strikes for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) militia as it battles to oust IS from its onetime stronghold.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said the deaths on Wednesday followed two days of deadly strikes.

Since Monday, the monitor said, 38 civilians have been killed in US-led air strikes on the city.

Wednesday's deaths included five children, according to the monitor, which relies on a network of sources on the ground.Thank You Ottawa Fury

The Ottawa Fury hosted their first-ever USL Playoff match against Charleston Battery Wednesday night. The game lived up to playoff expectations as Battery took an early lead, but Fury equalized late in the first half. In the second half, Ottawa completely dominated every aspect of the game, but just could not find a way to put the ball in the net. The game went to extra time, and just like the second half, Fury did everything but put the ball in the net. This meant next up was the dreaded penalty shootout. Usually when one team completely dominates the game, but can’t score, and the game goes to a penalty shootout, that team loses. Sadly, this was the case for the Fury, as they heartbreakingly


lost in Pens 5-4. This means that the Fury season is officially over.

The game was intense and took on a playoff feel. Despite a low attendance of just over 2500, the crowd was electric on all sides. Chants were being sung nonstop and a lot of the time, it was actually the Bytown Boys who were following the South Side chants. The crowd was firing up the Fury and trying to help them grab that last goal. Even after the game ended, fans stuck around to thank the players for a great season. One could see that the relationship between the players and fans had built throughout the season.

The 2019 season started off terribly with Concacaf almost banning the Fury from playing in the USL. Fans had noidea if there would even be pro soccer in Ottawa anymore. However, as the season began, it was clear what the Fury were doing for the community. More and more people started going to games and the atmosphere kept improving every home game. Through wins and losses, fans kept coming back and kept building that relationship between themselves and the team. The playoff match really summed up the whole season with fans showing their passion for this team. Despite the loss, players and fans were able to thank each other for a fantastic season.

My Biggest Takeaways From The Season

Ottawa Fury finished the season 14-10-10, good for 8th in the Eastern Conference. However, they were only 8 points off 4th place (less than 3 wins). Fury were 10-6-4 at


Home (including Canadian Championship Games). After their first loss of the season at home, they went 11 games unbeaten until TFC finally knocked them off in the Canadian Championship. TD place was a fortress this season, largely thanks to the fans.

Steve Kingsman / Freestyle Photography / Ottawa Fury FC

Carl Haworth had an outstanding season finishing with 10 goals and countless Man of the Match awards. His leadership was everything you could ask for, and he is the perfect example of what it means to play for the Fury. Whenever Fury needed a spark, Haworth was the one to step up. I have to admit, I’ve never seen so many beautiful freekicks in one season before. The only thing that was missing this season was a callup to thebecame a fan favourite. I still remember the first game he played. As he was getting called from the bench to be subbed in, the roar of the crowd was deafening and at the end of the game, he was the player that was surrounded by the most fans. He has a bright future and I believe the Fury are really going to turn him into something special.

CPL. This season was the inaugural season for the CPL, and it was a good season for them! However, for some reason they could not get over the fact that Fury didn’t join their league and it created a new rivalry for Fury. It was constantly Fury vs CPL with both fanbases going at each other online. The opportunity to quiet


META will celebrate the underrated arts of imagination and creativity.META 2016 features 7 Round Tables, 10 Lec-Dems–including a new series titled The Craft of Journalism, 4 conversations with writers in a series titled The Writing Life , 7 Re-readings–where critics revisit books they have read, 30 Contests (most for college students, some for school students and the general public), and Performances.

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The first one, META 2013, lasted seven days–2nd February 2013 to 8th February 2013. And featured contests open to schools, colleges and the general public, interactions with youngwriters, readings from literature, lecture–demonstrations,panel discussions and sessions where faculty admitted to secret reading addictions.

META 2014: The second edition was a ten-day affair, stretching from 4 Feb 2014to 13 Feb 2014 and was organised around the theme of archiving and memory.

META 2015 lasted twelve days.

In 2015, META became three separate events: an inhouse festival titled Metonym, a schools-only edition titled META Schools over two days in November 27 to 28th 2015, and META 2016.


The MSU Museum will be closed on home football Saturday in Fall 2018.September 29, October 6, October 20, October 27, November 10, November 24¬†¬†

Location

The Michigan State University Museum is located on West Circle Drive, immediately east of Beaumont Tower and just north of the Main Library. Capital Area Transportation Authority (CATA) buses stop within short walking distance of the museum.

Campus address

MSU Museum ¬†

409 W. Circle Drive

East Lansing, MI 48824

Parking

Limited visitor parking is available in front of the MSU Museum seven days a week¬†(cost is $2.00 for a two-hour permit). In addition, on the weekends there is limited free parking available in designated faculty/staff parking spots -- see marked signs.¬†

Additional visitor parking: Grand River Avenue Parking Ramp No. 6The ramp, located at the corner of Grand River Ave. andmeaning of humanity is to use discrimination against androids as a mechanism for exploring racism in society, as in Blade Runner. Perhaps the clearest example of this is John Brunner's 1968 novel Into the Slave Nebula, where the blue-skinned android slaves are explicitly shown to be fully human. More recently, the androids Bishop and Annalee Call in the films Aliens and Alien Resurrection are used as vehicles for exploring how humans deal with the presence of an "Other". The 2018 video game Detroit: Become Human also explores how androids are treated as second class citizens in a near future society.

Female androids, or "gynoids", are often seen in science fiction, and can be viewed as a continuation of the long tradition of men attempting to create the stereotypical "perfect


bought our home in February of 2016, and I’m lucky enough that it has a big home office, right at the front of the house, with a big window. We debated a bit about who would actually get to use the home office – me or him – because at the time, I was still sort of working on my old real food blog, and I wanted to make sure I had a good window for photography and thought maybe the bigger of the two spare bedrooms would be better. In the end, I claimed the office, and my boyfriend got the larger of the two spare bedrooms to use as his game room. Soon, I bought some furniture: a tall bookshelf and an armoire, because the roomPaulo Dybala needs to train at the same level as Cristiano Ronaldo if he is to become a regular starter at Juventus this season, according to Andrea Pirlo.

Train like Cristiano is the call

Dybala started Juve's opening match of the Serie A campaign against Chievo but was not involved against Lazio and was limited to only 10 minutes off the bench in the 2-1 victory over Parma prior to the international break.

The arrival of Ronaldo in Turin has led to questions over the future of the Argentina international, with reports linking him with a move to LaLiga and the Premier League.

Palermo owner Maurizio Zamparini, who sold Dybala to Juve in 2015, even claimed the forward has already received offers from Spain and England and will change clubs in January.

But


not respond as the WFN held symposiums across Americafrom Seattle to Miamidenouncing Backpage. Indeed, we were never asked for response.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Village Voice Media, which owns this newspaper, owns the classified site Backpage.com . In addition to used cars, jobs, and couches, readers can also find adult ads on Backpage; for this reason, Women's Funding Network and their allies have often called attention to the site, sometimes going so far as to call for its closure.

The congressmen heard testimony from half a dozen nonprofit executives and law enforcement officials. But the most alarming words of the day came from Deborah Richardson, the chief program officer of the Women's Funding Network. She told legislators that juvenile prostitution is exploding at an astronomical rate.

"An independent tracking study released today bythe Women's Funding Network shows that over the past six months, the number of underage girls trafficked online has risen exponentially in three diverse states," Richardson claimed. "Michigan: a 39.2 percent increase; New York: a 20.7 percent increase; and Minnesota: a staggering 64.7 percent increase."

In the wake of this bombshell revelation, Richardson's disturbing figures found their way into some of the biggest newspapers in the country. USA Today, the Houston Chronicle, the Miami Herald, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, and the Detroit Free Press all repeated the dire statistics as gospel.

The successful assault on Craigslist was followed by a cross-country tour by Richardson and the Women's Funding Network.

None of the media that published Richardson's astonishing numbers bothered to examine the study at the heart of Richardson's claim. If they


had, they would have found what we did after asking independent experts to examine the research: It's junk science.

After all, the numbers are all guesses.

The data are based merely on looking at photos on the Internet. There is no science.

Eric Grodsky, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota who teaches about proper research construction, says that the study is fundamentally flawed.

"The method's not clean," Grodsky says. "You couldn't get this kind of thing into a peer-reviewed journal. There are just too many unanswered questions about their methodology."

Ric Curtis, the chairman of the Anthropology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, led a Justice Department-funded study on juvenile prostitution in New York City in 2008. He's highly skeptical of the claims in the Women's FundingWomen's Foundation, the Juvenile Justice Fund, and Harold and Kayrita Anderson's foundation. To measure the amount of juvenile prostitution in the state, the consortium hired the Schapiro Group, an Atlanta business-consulting operation.

The Schapiro Group members weren't academic researchers, and had no prior experience studying prostitution. In fact, the group was best known for research paid for by the American Chamber of Commerce Executives. The study found—surprise—that membership in the Chamber of Commerce improves a business's image.

The consultants came up with a novel, if not very scientific, method for tabulating juvenile prostitutes: They counted pictures of young-looking women on online classified sites.

"That's one of the first problems right there," Grodsky says. "These advertisers are in the business of making sales, and there's a market for young-looking women. Why would


you trust that the photographs are accurate?"

In other words, the ads, like the covers of women's magazines, are relentlessly promoting fantasy. Anyone who has tried online dating understands the inherent trouble with trusting photographs.

Even if the person placing the advertisement is the one in the picture, there's no telling how old the photo is, says David Finkelhor, the director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.

"How do you know when the pictures were taken?" Finkelhor asks. "It's not illegal for an 18-year-old who's selling sex to put up a picture of herself from when she was 16."

And if, for the sake of argument, the photos were an accurate portrayal, how do you train those viewing the photographs to guess the correct age?

Inmake, and that 38 percent of the time people misidentified Fords as Chevrolets. Using the Schapiro logic, this would mean that 38 percent of Fords on the street actually are Chevys."

But the Georgia sponsors were happy with the results—after all, the scary-sounding study agreed with what they were saying all along. So the Women's Funding Network paid Schapiro to dramatically expand the study to include Michigan, Minnesota, New York, and Texas. (Georgia's Kayrita Anderson sits on the board of the Women's Funding Network)

The Women's Funding Network says it would ultimately like to have the study running in all 50 states.

The count of online classifieds featuring "young women" is repeated every three months to track how the numbers change over time. That's the source of the claim of a


it up," says Sgt. John Bandemer, who heads the Vick Human Trafficking Task Force in St. Paul. "We take it with a grain of salt."

THE EXPERTS WE consulted all agreed the Schapiro Group's published methodology raises more questions than it answers. So we went to the Schapiro Group to ask them.

Beth Schapiro founded the Schapiro Group in 1984, starting out mostly with political consulting. The bulk of the group's work, Schapiro says, consists of public opinion research. In 2007, the group installed its own phone-banking center, and the group's website advertises services ranging from customer satisfaction surveys to "voter persuasion calls."

Counting hard-to-find exploitation victims wasn't exactly in the company's repertoire when it was asked by A Future Not a Past to devise a study on juvenile prostitution in2007, but Schapiro jumped at the opportunity.

The Georgia studies included efforts to count juvenile prostitutes on the street, at hotels, and in escort services, but they also marked the debut of the problematic online classifieds study that would later be reproduced in other states.

In a phone call this month, Schapiro insisted that her study was the first effort ever to try to scientifically determine the number of juvenile prostitutes—a claim that would likely surprise the authors of dozens of previous studies, several of which are footnoted in her own report.

When we asked Schapiro and Rusty Parker, the leader of the classifieds study, to fill in some of the missing pieces in their methodology, they had a hard time coming up with straight answers. In fact, Parker couldn't remember


in Georgia in 2007 when, as director of A Future Not a Past, she realized that having scientific-sounding numbers makes all the difference in the world.

In early 2007, McCullough approached the Georgia Legislature to ask for money for a regional assessment center to track juvenile prostitution.

"We had no research, no nothing. The legislators didn't even know about it," she recalls. "We got a little bit. We got about 20 percent of what we asked for."

Later that year, the first Schapiro Group counts were made, and when McCullough returned to the Legislature the following session, she had the study's statistics in hand.

"When we went to the Legislature with those counts, it gave us traction—night and day," she says. "That year, we got all the rest of that money, plusCONCLUSION: Last week, on March 16, the drumbeat continued in the U.S. Senate with a briefing on domestic minor sex trafficking that featured Hollywood actress Mira Sorvino and the startling statistic that 100,000 children are trafficked for sex annually in America.

Trafficking, in labor and sex, became a defining issue in the administration of President George W. Bush. But as an investigation by the Washington Post in 2007 revealed, victims in the sex trade were difficult to come by.

Today, advocates have shifted media attention to allegations of trafficking in children.

But facts to suggest a plague of underage perversion simply do not exist despite claims to the contrary.

In a deficit-obsessed Congress, there is a long line of those seeking tax dollars to raise awareness of trafficking: government agencies, nonprofits, religious


June 10, 2008

Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles

An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.

Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on C-SPAN.

"The House is not in order," said Kucinich to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), upon which Pelosi pounded her gavel.

"Resolved," Kucinich then began, "that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate. ...

"In his conduct while President of the United States, George W. Bush, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and to the best of his abilitypreserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has committed the following abuses of power..."

The first article Kucinich presented, and many that followed, regarded the war in Iraq: "Article 1 - Creating a secret propaganda campaign to manufacture a false case for war against Iraq."

On several occasions, Kucinich referenced RAW STORY and its noted investigative news chief, Larisa Alexandrovna, as source material for the articles. Two of the RAW STORY pieces Kucinich mentioned are viewable here and here.

Kucinich, a 2004 and 2008 Democratic candidate for the White House, abandoned a prior attempt to begin impeachment proceedings against Bush in January of this year.

In April of 2007, Kucinich presented impeachment articles


for each roller is closer to the main axis of rotation of the gear.
The object of the invention is to provide a device for applying axial loading to a member in an effective manner in varying operating conditions.
According to the invention an axial loading device for applying an axial load to a member includes spring means acting between an abutment and the member, which is axially movable relative to said abutment, the spring means acting on one part of said member in a first axial position of said member and acting on a further part of said member when it is in a further axial position, the said one part of the member being spaced from the said further part of said member, such that different axial loadingMelbourne warned of beach poo hazard after storms Published duration 2 January 2017

image copyright Scott Barbour/Getty Images image caption Officials say faecal matter has washed into the water around some Melbourne beaches

Swimmers are being warned to avoid some of Melbourne's most popular beaches, after torrential storms washed faeces into the water.

The Environment Protection Authority (EPA) in Victoria is forecasting poor water quality at 21 of the 36 beaches it checks in Port Phillip Bay.

Contaminated water can cause gastroenteritis - a stomach bug - especially in children and the elderly.

A "poor" quality forecast equates to an illness risk of between 5% and 10%.

Australia's public broadcaster ABC said the risky beaches run from Werribee South in Melbourne's south-west to Frankston, about 40 kilometres south of the city's Central Business District.

Dr


Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign was resurrected in South Carolina when Black voters propelled him to a 30 point blowout victory. A torrent of positive media followed, two major candidates dropped out of the Democratic race and endorsed Biden, and three days after the South Carolina win, his under-funded and under-manned campaign stomped to victories across Super Tuesday states to build a delegate lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

The big story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is the thousands of voters who in those three days decided to pull the lever for Biden. Biden won 40% of late deciders, according to Super Tuesday exit polls.

The surge of late-deciding voters for Biden appears to have come, in large part, from the suburban communities that have beensupporters of his former rivals. Some had backed ex-South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (Minn.), who both dropped out after their poor showing in South Carolina and endorsed Biden. Others supported Sen. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and were looking for signs of whom to support (Harris came out for Biden after Super Tuesday). The giant field of candidates the Democrats started out with also created confusion for those looking for guidance from earlier primaries and caucuses.

Ron Jenkins via Getty Images Sen. Amy Klobuchar joins former Vice President Joe Biden on stage during a campaign event in Texas ahead of the Super Tuesday vote.

“It was disappointing after Iowa and New Hampshire to have no clarity about where voters might coalesce,” said a 43-year-old Fairfax, Virginia, woman


Only he can explain why he thought it was acceptable for him to take that long. Only he can explain to Newcastle families why he thought it was acceptable to prolong their already painful Family Court matters.

Now Senator Brandis has indicated he is planning a huge shake-up of the Family Court system. We know this because he has appointed a Chief Justice who has only one year left to go before he retires. But we have no idea what Senator Brandis is planning, and who knows if he will even be around in a year's time to oversee this so-called shake-up? Perhaps he's planning to oversee it from Hyde Park Corner, London. Given Senator Brandis's long history of neglect of the courts, and those in them, you mustAlibi Picks

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For many the lo-fi, folk-rock “movement” of the late-'90s begins and ends with Neutral Milk Hotel. Originally formed in Ruston, La. by singer/guitarist Jeff Mangum as a recording project, it wasn’t until the 1996 release of On Avery Island that Neutral Milk Hotel became a full-fledged band. The budding foursome relocated to New York, where they would finish their short-lived career with an exhaustive tour for sophomore release In the Aeroplane Over the Sea way back in 1998. Think Sebadoh-meets-Guided by Voices. Critically acclaimed yet largely ignored by the mainstream record-buying public, the album eventually became something of a legend in its own time.

Fast-forward 16 years, and NMH has become the progenitor of such roundly lauded bands as Arcade Fire, Bon Iver and Franz Ferdinand,


section of the transparent substrate being formed in a circular arch shape whose center is at an axis of rotation of the exposing drum.
A second aspect of the present invention is an apparatus for exposing a photosensitive material, the apparatus including: a substrate; and a set of element rows formed by arranging a plurality of rows on the substrate in a direction substantially perpendicular to the rows, each row being formed by arranging a plurality of elements which emit light in the same wavelength range along the direction of the rows, the elements being spaced at first intervals, and the rows being displaced relative to each other with respect to the direction of the rows at second intervals which are smaller than the first intervals.Stanford baseball set to take the field

"I knew that when we would have to start games scheduled the rain would come," Stanford baseball coach Mark Marquess said. "So we took care of the drought."

The Cardinal begins its season Friday at 4:30 p.m. when it hosts Rice at Sunken Diamond. It's the first of 14 Stanford games that will appear on TV, with the Pac-12 Networks airing all but one of those.

"The TV coverage I think has benefited all of us," Marquess said. "Four or five years ago, that was rare to have a TV game."

Stanford went 32-22 last season and won two out of three in its last weekend series against eventual NCAA champion UCLA, but missed the postseason for the first time since 2009 and just the


fifth time since 1981.

A noticeable absence on the mound will be former ace Mark Appel, who was taken No. 1 overall in last summer's MLB draft.

"We tried to get him to stay another year, but his eligibility is up," Marquess said. "So that's about 105 innings and 10 wins that we have to replace. That's very difficult to do."

At least the arms will have the luxury of experience behind the plate as Brant Whiting and Wayne Taylor shared catcher duty last year. Whiting, who can also DH, started roughly two-thirds of the time, while Taylor can also play left field.

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Other position players returning include locals Alex Blandino (St. Francis-Mountain View) and Danny Diekroeger (Menlo School-Atherton). They will man the corner spots in the infield, with Blandino at thirdbase and Diekroeger likely shifting from second to first. Sophomore Drew Jackson has claimed the shortstop position, while second base looks like it's coming down to either freshman Tommy Edman or senior Brett Michael Doran.

"There is still a lot of competition for those starting positions," Marquess said.

Austin Slater is shifting from right field to center, but the outfield is still in limbo with switch hitters Dominic Jose and Jonny Locher battling freshmen Jack Klein and Alex Dunlap for playing time as well as sophomore Zach Hoffpauir, who played in back-to-back Rose Bowls with the football team.

"Right field and left field will kind of be up for grabs," Marquess said.

Back for the weekend rotation will be crafty southpaw John Hochstatter, last year's Saturday starter. A.J. Vanegas, who had back


Pac-12 and the coaches' poll has Oregon State as this year's favorite, with Stanford and Cal in the middle of the pack.

"I say this a lot, but I know it's true: Five years ago I could have told which one of five teams is going to win the national championship," Marquess said. "You could load up. If you would have told Oregon, Oregon State will be dominant teams and Oregon State would win two national championships, I would say that you're crazy. Can't be done, cold-weather school. That's not the case anymore. So I don't think anybody is devoid of talent."

Of note, Dean Stotz will not be in the Stanford dugout for the first time in 37 years. An assistant coach for Marquess' entire tenure on The Farm,Stotz retired after the 2013 season. Ryan Garko, who played at Stanford from 2000 to 2003 and took a five-year tour of the major leagues, was hired to take his place.

"It's difficult to get used to the fact of not seeing Dean in the office all day," Marquess said. "But Coach Stotz's golf game has gotten a lot better."

"Losing coach Stotz hurts," Blandino said. "He was a great mentor, a great coach. He brings a lot to the table with his wisdom every day. But having a younger guy on the coaching staff who obviously played here, had great success, went on to play pro ball ... and being lucky enough to have him come back to bring that kind of perspective -- he's been through what we're


Eight people were injured in a knife attack in the Siberian city of Surgut, Russian media agencies reported, citing the spokesman for the local office of the Russian law enforcement committee.

"A man was running along the main streets stabbing people", the TASS news agency reported.

The law enforcement committee said on its web site that "the attacker has been killed".

A committee member declined to comment on whether the incident was being investigated as a potential terrorist attack.

The state-owned RIA Novosti agency said two people were in critical condition in hospital.

It happened at about 11.20am local time, Russia Today reported.

Surgut, with a population of about 320,000, is an oil- and gas-producing centre 2,100km (1,300 miles) northeast of Moscow.B/R Exclusive: Jim Harbaugh Discusses His Contract, Expectations and More

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Jim Harbaugh's office is a bit of a mess. There are boxes on the floor, chairs askew in a small seating area near his desk and a pair of shoes tossed asunder in the haste to make it to practice. Another box sits atop a stack of papers on his desk, competing for space with two computer monitors.

And yeah, it's all a tad symbolic. Harbaugh is a man with a lot going on. Aside from coaching one of the league's most talented teams, being the father to three young children and traveling to Peru this offseason to do missionary work with his three grown kids, Harbaugh is close to becoming one of the most valuable


commodities in the NFL.

A great coach on the market.

Harbaugh's decade as a head coach has featured the kind of upward trajectory that few people could have imagined. After three impressive seasons at the University of San Diego, he kick-started a Stanford program that has now gone to four straight major bowl games.

In three years with the 49ers, he has made the Super Bowl once and the NFC Championship Game the other two seasons. Despite that resume, he and the 49ers are at odds about his next contract, and the team at least listened to a trade proposal from Cleveland in the offseason for Harbaugh.

The point is that, as of right now, Harbaugh has tremendous leverage. If he lets his contract run out in 2015, some team will payyear. This year, my older kids, Jay, Jimmy and Grace, went with me. We had a great time. I was really proud of them. They worked hard and had compassion. It was great to see in them.

B/R: Who got you interested in that?

Harbaugh: My buddy John Denniston. He's my daughter Addie's godfather, a good friend of mine. I just asked him one time, "What are you doing this summer?" He said he was going down to Peru (to) do missionary work at a Catholic Church in Peru. I said, "Tell me about that?" Next thing I know I'm going. John went to Michigan. I didn't know him then, he's a couple of years older than me. But when we came up to Stanford, he was at the press


conference with another friend of mine. We got to talking and found out he lived in the area. He offered to let us stay in his guest house while we were looking for a place. We stayed there for four or five months and became really close friends. He's a venture capitalist who has done really well and has a house in Atherton, so the guest house was really nice. But he has gone from venture capital to working for the church.

B/R: He's obviously had the financial freedom to make that conversion.

Jason Cole covers the NFL for Bleacher Report. He has covered the league since 1992, winning numerous awards for his work, particularly for investigative stories on Reggie Bush and on financial crime against athletes.right-wing fundamentalist group called the 'New Crusaders' who do not believe in separation of church and state." The storyline also says the mock terrorists were angry because the daughter of one gunman was expelled from school for praying in class. The drill "specified that two armed men invade the high school . . . shoot several students in the hallways, then barricade themselves in the media center with 10 student hostages."

Not surprisingly, Christian students, parents, and local pastors were upset about Christians being portrayed this way, and conservative media outlets expressed outrage. In response, Burlington township and school officials claimed the scenario was "generic" and did not specify any particular religion.

Oh, please. This is like garbing the police in Arab headdresses, naming them the "New Jihadists," and then


not murderous wackos, but indeed are followers of the Prince of Peace.

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He has been a fixture in the NLL, having served as a head or assistant coach with six different clubs in addition to Toronto. He won a second Champion’s Cup as an assistant with Calgary in 2009, and a third with the Rock in 2011.


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On November 19, 2017, the Arab League's foreign ministers held an emergency meeting in Cairo at the request of Saudi Arabia. The meeting focused on Iranian intervention in the internal affairs of the Arab states. Saudi Arabia complained of the launching of an Iran-manufactured ballistic missile into Saudi territory by the Iranian-supported Houthis. Read more...sealing member is disposed on the valve seat, the sealing member and valve disc are so formed that the sealing member pressed by the high-pressure fluid when the valve disc is open will not be damaged by the deformation in the flow direction of the fluid.
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Published 8:00 pm, Sunday, October 12, 2008

By BARBARA SHELLY

Should I ever be fortunate enough to be bailed out from the rigors of my workaday life, look for me at St. Regis Monarch Beach.

The resort, on a Pacific Ocean bluff midway between Los Angeles and San Diego, made news last week as the site of a weeklong meeting that a subsidiary of the American International Group Inc. hosted for about 100 of its top insurance agents at a cost of $440,000.

The timing was inconvenient, and not only because attendees just missed out on the October "Vino al Vino" special in the resort's Spa Gaucin, where a $300 package includes, among other things, a 60-minute "Chardonnay sugar scrub."

There was also the matter ofthe $85 billion taxpayer-subsidized bailout received by AIG days before the meeting.

The getaway was described in a congressional hearing on Tuesday as an "executive retreat." The idea of the just-reprieved brass golfing and enjoying pedicures brought denunciations from the White House, which called the behavior "despicable," and from Barack Obama, who called the event a "$400,000 junket."

By Wednesday, company CEO Edward M. Liddy had issued a hasty clarification, in the form of a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

"The vast majority of the attendees were independent business people and their guests, not AIG employees," he said. "Indeed, of the more than 100 attendees, only 10 were employees of one of our insurance subsidiaries who attended to represent their company. Not a single corporate executive from AIG headquarters


tale characters run scams on unsuspecting humans, Detective Prince Charming figures out what really happened in the Case of Hansel and Gretel, or how the Grim Reaper has updated with the times. The tales grow darker and the stakes higher as old familiar stories are stretched, skewed, and twisted to the point of breaking. Find out that Peter the Pumpkin Eater raised more than just vegetables, the feud between wolves and pigs runs deeper than anyone knows, Alice's fall down the rabbit hole was not all it appeared, and good help is hard to find - even for the Tooth Fairy. See what happened after Snow White married the Prince, the price a man pays for speaking his mind, the consequences for stealing a person's life, and ifMcCain spent more than three decades representing Arizona in the U.S. Senate, and unsuccessfully ran two presidential campaigns, most notably falling to Barack Obama in 2008.

Shortly following his death, many in the sports world took to social media — including nearly every team and many prominent sports figures from Arizona — to remember and pay tribute to the Republican senator and war hero.

“John McCain was an Arizona icon, an American hero and a friend,” the Suns wrote. “As we collectively mourn his passing, we also celebrate his unparalleled leadership and dedication to public service. Additionally, his courage, perseverance and ability to overcome adversity, in every facet of his life, will continue to inspire us all.

“The Suns organization stands with Cindy and the entire McCain family in honoring the


life and legacy of this incredible man.”

Goodbye to an American hero, one we were lucky enough to call a loyal fan.

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“The entire Coyotes organization is deeply saddened by the passing of Senator John McCain today,” the Coyotes wrote. “Senator McCain was a great American hero and patriot who dedicated his life and career to public service. Senator McCain was a maverick who fought for what he believed in and represented the very best ideals of the United States Senate. He was a courageous leader who servedA radio frequency identification (RFID) system may identify a thin flat-shaped tag adhered to an object, that is, an RFID tag, without touching it by use of a frequency signal, and process information about the object.
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the Stratford train, bus and subway stations to the Olympic Park in east London. Spectators will have to walk through it to reach a number of Olympic venues for the games.

Stratford has traditionally been a poor neighborhood with a relatively high crime rate but the Summer Olympics has helped regenerate the area. Police gave no further details about the man's identity or what caused the fight.Unprecedented Show of National Unity Remembering Turkey’s Failed Coup

Since the 15th of July 2016 military coup attempt in Turkey, mainstream media has tried relentlessly to make us believe that support for Turkey’s ruling party had dwindled following its nationwide crackdown on those involved.

On the 15th of July 2017, hundreds of thousands of Turks from all over Turkey and from every political persuasion gathered in nationwide rallies marking one year since the failed coup, under a motto of National Unity. Participants headed for the ‘July 15 Martyrs Bridge’ previously named the ‘Bosporus Bridge’ prior to the coup attempt. The bridge was one of the many sites on which long night confrontations took place between soldiers and ordinary civilians who had descended the streets to counter the coup attempt.

On the


God, or in the way of their nation, he has promised them paradise.”

Prime Minister Ben Ali Yildrim, former Turkish President Abdullah Gul and former Prime Minister Tansu Ciller along with other members of the Turkish Government participated in the event. On that Saturday, Ben Ali Tildrim addressed parliament saying: “a year has passed since the massacre that occurred on a dark night”, praising “martyrs who sacrifices their lives for the sake of the country.” Estimates put the number of participants in Istanbul alone, stretched over the bridge between 500-600 thousand whilst similar rallies were held in other major cities.

The event was introduced with recitation of the noble Qur’ān and included an emotional Duʿā (supplication) by the Mufti of Istanbul, Sheikh Hassan Kamel Yilmaz. It also included a broadcastof a documentary about the momentous event. At the end of the event, Duʿā and recitations could be heard from the minarets of Turkey.

Exactly a year ago, Turkish citizens took to the streets in their thousands, particularly in Istanbul and Turkey’s capital Ankara, where they came together to hamper some soldiers from overrunning the Parliament in Ankara, Istanbul’s International Airport and Security Directorates across a number of Turkish cities. This forced those members of the military surrounding the facilities to retreat in an extraordinary spectacle of unity, sacrifice, and resilience, finally failing the coup attempt.

Since then, around 170,000 have faced legal proceedings related to the coup attempt and 50,500 have been arrested, along with 169 army generals, 8800 police department members, governors, members of the judiciary and journalists.


Many have been found legally complicit in the coup attempt or found to have associations with “terrorist organisations” like the PKK, PYD and YPD.

Muslims across the world have marvelled over how a scheme of this size was scuppered, returning the favour to Allah, then to the resolute Turks, divinely rewarded for years of service to the people of Syria, Burma, Somalia and Palestine to name but a few.

About Ahmed Hammuda

Ahmed Hammuda is the Middle East Editor at Islam21c and one of our regular contributors. His interests lie mainly in the field of Middle East Affairs and how they reflect on Muslims living in the West.
He is an accomplished Electrical engineer by trade and has been involved in various Dawah activities over the course of his education and workingGlossy Casino Dreams Face Test At Ballot Box

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court shuffled the deck in New England public affairs Tuesday when it ruled that there shall be a referendum in the Bay State this fall on legalizing state licensed casinos. This was good news on many counts.

The principle of the people having a say in their own affairs requires constant affirmation in an age of bossy government. Casino opponents had collected tens of thousands of signatures, far exceeding number required to put a question on the ballot. Martha Coakley, the state attorney general whose authoritarian instinct is never far from the surface, had dismissed the petitions and blocked the referendum.

The Massachusetts decision was a


rebuke to Coakley as she plods along in her race for governor, a Democrat in an emphatically Democratic state. The casino interests that haven't already been voted down in local referendums are also unhappy. They will have to spend millions to persuade the state's voters not to repeal the law that allows three regional casinos and a slots parlor.

The poorly funded but spirited opponents of casinos in Massachusetts have shown themselves to be dab hands at defeating proposals in local votes in West Springfield, Milford, Palmer and East Boston. Springfield voters approved a casino referendum last year in a campaign that saw casino company MGM Springfield spend millions to win the vote in that beleaguered city.

The airwaves will be full of testimonials on the benefits to the economyand tax receipts. Opponents of repealing the casino law will trot out every manner of familiar types to proclaim that casinos will mean more police, better schools, construction jobs and the obliteration of every ill known to the people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, birthplace of the American Revolution. By November, some may wonder why there are not casinos planned for every town since their supporters see them as an elixir for any ailment.

Neighboring states ought to be rejoicing over this obstacle to building three casinos and a slots parlor in New England's largest state. Those resorts, if completed, will threaten Connecticut's two Indian casinos in the southeast corner of the state. Connecticut's government has a significant stake in the money spent on gambling at Foxwoods and the


City Council leader Shawn "Bringing Baseball Home" Wooden has learned this at considerable cost to his state Senate primary campaign against incumbent Democrat Eric Coleman.

Wooden brought a wide grin to the announcement of the Rock Cats stadium deal. It's turned upside down into a deep frown as the public has made its displeasure known over the price tag the poverty-stricken city would have to pay for a stadium. Other issues have won some attention. The entire process was conducted with a contempt for public participation. Stadium-loving consultants were hired in a manner that kept that expenditure secret until the unveiling of the process.

Hartford citizens will have been cast in one role by their leaders: the patsies who pay for the joint. There was talk that if Hartford hadnot reached a deal to move the Rock Cats from their home in New Britain, the team would have gone to Springfield. That appears not to have been true.

The Massachusetts casino vote offers some relief to Hartford's taxpayers. If the casino law is repealed, there are a couple of spots suitable for a stadium. I wonder how eager the people of Springfield would be to pay for one. They like colorful drawings.

Kevin Rennie is a lawyer and a former Republican state legislator. He can be reached at kfrennie@yahoo.com.


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quit the Labour Party after being suspended over alleged historic misogynistic and homophobic comments made online.

More recently, he closed his constituency office for a month in April, there were reports that all his staff were either sacked or walked out, and he stopped holding surgeries or responding to correspondence from the public for a period of time.

However, he also told The Star just weeks ago that he has got a fresh team behind him and is operating from a new office in the city centre.Paris Hilton SIGNS HUGE DJ CONTRACT

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Paris Hilton -- SIGNS HUGE DJ CONTRACT

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Paris Hilton's first major stint as an international club DJ was a huge success -- in fact, the legendary nightclub where Paris spent the past couple of months has already signed P for 2014, TMZ has learned.

Hilton has been a MAJOR draw this summer at Amnesia nightclub in Ibiza, Spain ... where she played to packed crowds on a weekly basis at the club's famous "Foam & Diamonds" parties.

We spoke to the owner of the club who admits he was "nervous" when he first signed Hilton earlier this year -- but his fears were alleviated quickly when she stepped in to the booth ... and the crowds went insane.

"The number of people attending kept


AGRA: Mahatma Gandhi was never accorded the ‘Father of the Nation’ title by Government of India and no rule or ordinance was ever passed in this regard. This was stated by the Union cultural ministry in a response to an RTI query filed by Hathras resident Gaurav Agarwal .

Earlier in 2012, a student of class VI in Lucknow, Aishwarya Parashar, had filed an RTI in this regard and had written to then President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to issue a notification declaring Mahatma Gandhi the 'Father of the Nation'.

The Home ministry had then told her that no action was taken on her plea because Article 18 (1) of the Constitution does not permit any titles except education and military ones.

Talking to TOI, Hathras resident Agarwalhave eyes on either side of their head so that each eye sees something different. Only very few fishes have eyes whose radius of vision overlaps in front, providing binocular vision, a special attribute well developed in humans that provides the ability to accurately judge distance.

Whether the new fish represent a new family will entail DNA testing and a close examination of a specimen, says Pietsch, whose anglerfish work is currently funded by the National Science Foundation. Scientists have already described 18 different families of anglerfishes and this is probably a 19th, Pietsch says. Families are large groupings; for example, all dog species belong to the larger family that includes wolves and coyotes.


Our mission is equipping girls with God’s love. 1st through 8th grade meet the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month during the school year.

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The Prosper Youth Group brings high school youth together from around the area to have fun and fellowship while praising our God. The group meets the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month during the school year.

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The Cadet Pledge: Thankful to God for His gifts to me, I pledge myself to be ready toPolitics

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'It Takes A Crisis': How '73 Embargo Fueled Change In U.S.

Drivers and a man pushing a lawnmower line up at gas station in San Jose, Calif., in March 1974.

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Americans started thinking differently about U.S. dependence on imported oil 40 years ago this Sunday. Decades later, the U.S. is in the midst of a homegrown energy boom.

The oil embargo began in 1973. The United States had long taken cheap and plentiful oil for granted when Saudi Arabia shocked the country by suddenly cutting off all direct oil shipments in retaliation for U.S. support of Israel. Other Arab countries followed suit.

Prices soared. Gasoline lines stretched for blocks. Richard Nixon became the first of many U.S. presidents to call for energy independence.

"Whenever the American people are faced


because of cheap oil and easy and abundant resources, we were lulled into complacency. So it takes a crisis to mobilize the United States, unfortunately," she says.

After dipping during the recent recession, crude oil prices are now back around $100 a barrel, and Americans are rediscovering the benefits of fuel efficiency. Two years ago, automakers agreed to develop cars that will go twice as far on a gallon of gas by 2025.

In the meantime, America has witnessed a revolution on the supply side, thanks to advances in drilling techniques such as "fracking," which allow producers to reach previously untapped shale deposits. Rayola Dougher, a senior economic adviser for the American Petroleum Institute, says that domestic oil production has come roaring back since bottoming out five years ago.

"It's beena real stunning reversal of fortune in terms of the amount of oil and natural gas we're able to bring to the market," she says. "Last year, we brought on a million new barrels a day, which is the biggest increase we've ever done in the history of the United States."

This year, the U.S. is expected to surpass Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas. Economic historian Daniel Yergin, who writes about energy in his books The Prize and The Quest, says the boom in homegrown oil and gas is supporting more than 2 million jobs, while saving money for consumers on their electric bills.

"What's happened with oil and gas has been the most positive thing to happen in our economy since the downturn


suddenly cutting off all direct oil shipments in retaliation for U.S. support of Israel. Other Arab countries followed. That 1973 oil embargo forced Americans to start thinking differently about our dependence on imported oil. Four decades later, the U.S. is in the midst of an energy boom here at home, as NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

SCOTT HORSLEY, BYLINE: The 1973 oil embargo was a rude shock for a country that had long taken cheap and plentiful oil for granted. Prices soared, gasoline lines stretched for blocks, and Richard Nixon became the first of many U.S. presidents to call for energy independence.

PRESIDENT RICHARD NIXON: Whenever the American people are faced with a clear goal, and they're challenged to meet it, we can do extraordinary things.

HORSLEY: One outgrowth of that '73a crisis to mobilize the United States unfortunately.

HORSLEY: After dipping during the recent recession, crude oil prices are now back around $100 a barrel and Americans are rediscovering the benefits of fuel efficiency. Two years ago, automakers agreed to develop cars that will go twice as far on a gallon of gas by 2025. In the meantime, America has witnessed a revolution on the supply side, thanks to advances in drilling techniques such as fracking, that allow producers to reach previously untapped shale deposits.

Rayola Dougher of the American Petroleum Institute says since bottoming out five years ago, domestic oil production has come roaring back.

RAYOLA DOUGHER: It's been a stunning reversal of fortune in terms of the amount of oil and natural gas we're able to bring to the


market. Last year we brought on a million new barrels a day which is the biggest increase we've ever done in the history of the United States.

HORSLEY: This year the U.S. is expected to surpass Russia as the world's largest producer of oil and natural gas. Economic historian Daniel Yergin, who writes about energy in his books, "The Prize," and "The Quest," says the boom in homegrown oil and gas is supporting more than 2 million jobs, while saving money for consumers on their electric bills.

DANIEL YERGIN: What's happened with oil and gas has been the most positive thing to happen in our economy since the downturn began in 2008.

HORSLEY: President Obama took note of the turnaround during a White House news conference last week.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: ThisMarking the Beat With Ari Melber

He’s the attorney turned award-winning journalist who beams through your television screen on MSNBC five nights a week with his show, “The Beat with Ari Melber.”

Born in Seattle but now living in New York, the 38-year-old Melber was named MSNBC’s chief legal correspondent in 2015. In the early aughts, Melber contributed several articles to the Jewish Daily Forward, and in 2004 he served as a Southern California deputy political director for John Kerry’s presidential campaign, responsible for Jewish outreach.

The Journal recently caught up with Melber who discussed in an email interview his move from law to journalism, where he keeps his Emmy and his penchant for quoting hip-hop lyrics during his show.

Jewish Journal:How did you transition from law to journalism?

Ari Melber: I got


Brad Pitt and George Clooney will lead an all-star cast in the Los Angeles reading of a play based on the trial over the constitutionality of California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8.

8, which was written by Milk scribe Dustin Lance Black, will be streamed live Saturday starting at 7:30PM PST on the YouTube channel of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group formed specifically to support the legal challenge.

Rob Reiner, an AFER founding board member, invited America to watch the play in a video posted Thursday. (The video is embedded in the right panel of this page. Visit our video library for more videos.)

The 2010 trial, which was held in San Francisco, resulted in federal Judge Vaughn Walker, now retired, declaring the 2008 voter-approved amendment unconstitutional.An innovative model of culturally tailored health promotion groups for Cambodian survivors of torture.
Cambodians living in the U.S.A. suffer from depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and chronic medical disease at rates far in excess of national averages. The Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma's Cambodian Health Promotion Program seeks to address this burden of disease by offering them culturally tailored health education in a group setting. A health professional and a bicultural health educator co-facilitated a five-session health promotion group for Cambodian survivors of torture from 2007 to 2011. The program covered five major topics from Western and Cambodian worldviews. They included the meaning of health promotion, nutrition, exercise, stress management and sleep hygiene, and health practitioner-patient communication. The bicultural worker administered Pre and Post semi-structured Health Promotion Questionnaires.


Ahern waits to hear if he needs coalition ally

Bertie Ahern's centre right Fianna Fail party romped to victory in the Irish general election yesterday, leaving the main opposition, Fine Gael, struggling in its wake.

But he will have to wait a few more days to see if he can form the country's first one-party government in 25 years or if, as predicted, he will fall one or two seats short of the 83 necessary for an overall majority.

Under Ireland's single transferable proportional representation system a handful of the 166 seats may not be decided until tomorrow or Wednesday. Tense recounts were under way in several other closely contested constituencies.

Mr Ahern's return as prime minister, however, is assured, with voters having responded to his considerable personal appeal and the economicfeel-good factor, which has dominated his five years in power. He professed himself "thrilled" at the results.

Sinn Fein was also jubilant after increasing its representation in the Dublin parliament from one to five members. It topped the polls in three constituencies, with the former IRA gun runner Martin Ferris, in Kerry North, its highest profile winner, his image undented by claims of links to vigilante activity in the area, or by the IRA's alleged involvement with Colombian Farc rebels or the Castlereagh police station break-in.

The Sein Fein president, Gerry Adams, said the vote, around 7% of the overall poll, was a ringing endorsement of republicans' peace process strategy and their quest for social and economic equality.

According to Belfast security sources, Mr Ferris's victory means four of the IRA's


seven-strong IRA ruling army council are now parliamentarians, with Mr Adams, Martin McGuinness and Pat Doherty elected to the UK parliament.

Some commentators read this as a sign that the doves in the republican movement are in the ascendant.

But northern unionists are nervous, particularly given the electoral threat which Sinn Fein, which eclipsed the moderate nationalist SDLP in last year's Westminster election, could pose in next May's Stormont assembly poll.

Mr Ahern has insisted he will not consider a coalition with Sinn Fein while the IRA exists. "Sinn Fein has to go the rest of the way and we have to make sure there is no IRA," he said. "There cannot be ambiguity. You cannot have a position where you have some sort of allegiance to a paramilitary army.

Fianna Fail'sformer coalition partners, the Progressive Democrats, confounded expectations of a poor showing by gaining at least one new seat - their tally was five last night.

They still look the most likely candidates to join Mr Ahern in government, should he need support, despite tensions between the two parties during the campaign.

Mr Ahern has insisted he has always worked well with the Progressive Democrats and that they are his preferred coalition option.

Mary Harney, the Progressive Democrat leader, said: "We would not run away from government but we'll only be there if we thought we would have a meaningful role."

Michael Noonan, the leader of centre-left Fine Gael, had called on his supporters to let him replace the culture of selfishness encouraged by the Ahern administration with a more caring society.

But


Currie, a founding member of the SDLP and leading northern civil rights campaigner in the 1960s and 1970s.

Gloom also descended on the Irish Labour party, after expected gains failed to materialise. Its best known casualty was its former leader Dick Spring, once a deputy prime minister and key player in the Northern Ireland peace process, who lostto Mr Ferris in Kerry North.

However, environmentalists were celebrating one of the surprise success stories of the campaign - the Greens' leap from two to six seats make it the fifth largest party in the republic.

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Seats won with 10 results to come, and, in brackets, seats held in previous parliamentghosts building". There is a rumor that the walls speak and talk about the fleeting partitions, gazes, and the eroticism of friction, movement, proximity, contact, suspicion, and an attempt at obliviousness.

The three by three meter grid on the facade produced by the generic balconies and vertical concrete partitions entice the passer by with voyeuristic gazes from the semi transparent balcony doors. Different intensities of light, saturation of color, transparency, amount of laundry, and exhibited utilitarian objects, fragment the screen and hint at the invisible affairs of the separated partitions. The ephemeral is the myth of the building.

It is illegal to rent a room for less than a month. Yet that can happen. Prices may range from hour, day, month

Its assembly has been composed due to the economic, political,


building through their words. I will represent six occupants, that attempt to make home in a space they do not feel attached to.

ALL THE FOLLOWING NARRATIVES ARE BASED ON INTERVIEWS HELD IN 2005 FOR MY UNPUBLISHED BARCH THESIS. ALL NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED.

Original image taken as part of a research project in AUB 2003 with BASTA

H the Doorman

The doorman, an illegal migrant worker from Egypt, called H, lives on the 1st floor of the building and has a small office in the entrance. H states that he is the man in power as he watches and questions everyone walking in and out of the building. He holds the keys to all the rooms, and will take you around. His job encompasses all legal work needed for the rentaldoor as it was half open. You could peak in; the colors were so strong, that the second you reach the corridor, the enticement is so powerful, as if she invites the voyeur.

She calls me in but I remain outside. She explains that I can look at her house and pick where I want to be seated. Her 5m by 5m apartment is divided into parts. The 1st part is where she entertains the visitors, and where I can choose to sit; the other space is a room divided from the entrance by a curtain with a bed. She entertains 'others' there. When she is bored she takes her walks, and causes some disorder or gets some work.

"The building to me is just my room and the corridors


are part of the street. I wouldn't mind if the others come and visit, but the women are scared for their husbands and kids". The wood piece at the door is to stop the kids from trying to sneak in, "what's forbidden is desired'" she says with a loud and vulgar laugh. "Look at him standing out waiting I have to pass by so many of these useless walls to get to my door.'"

Original image taken as part of a research project in AUB 2003 with BASTA

L the Migrant Family

The family, a migrant Guanine/Philippine women, who is married to an Egyptian man, with two children, occupy a room within the building. She is reduced, because of her nationality, to clean households. She says her furnished apartment building corridorsand seductive paintings makes the space suspicious. He sits with a sly smile, and this time H enters, and sits too. He says 'I live here because I love it; the greatest writers lived in slums. I had office in another building but it's easier to work from here. I help get some women living here money and I manage a few of the 'bars'. I am well located.

Original image taken as part of a research project in AUB 2003 with BASTA

W the owner/ alcoholic

Mr. W is the owner's brother. He occupies the last floor. He moves from the corridor to his bed. He is an alcoholic and everyone says that he was married to Miss France. When she dumped him he became depressed and nearly drinks himself


Five Los Alamos researchers receive Early Career Awards

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LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico, January 21, 2010—Five Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists have been awarded five-year research grants under the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act through the U.S. Department of Energy’s prestigious Office of Science Early Career Research Program, Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced recently. The awards represent a significant investment of Recovery Act funding to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce.

Andrew Gaunt, Christopher Mauger, Nathan G. McDowell, Evgenya Smirnova, and Tsuyoshi Tajima of Los Alamos were among 69 early-career scientists selected to receiveto develop and test a unified theory of vegetation mortality and survival during drought. McDowell came to LANL as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in 2003 and became a staff scientist in 2004. McDowell serves on advisory committees for the National Science Foundation, DOE, and LANL. He is an associate editor for two international journals and has testified before Congress regarding DOE’s climate change research.

Evgenya Smirnova, LANL’s High-Power Electrodynamics Group; Advancing Our Understanding of Photonic Band Gap Structures for Accelerators: Smirnova’s objective is to advance Photonic Band Gap (PBG) accelerator technology for use in the next generation of particle accelerators for high-energy physics. Superconducting PBG accelerator technology could also deliver extremely intense, short-wavelength laser radiation needed for free-electron lasers. Smirnova came to LANL from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, BWXT Government Group, and URS, an AECOM company, for the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.

Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health, and global security concerns.The chief of Algeria's national police force has been shot dead at his headquarters by another police official.

Ali Tounsi was killed by a colleague during a regular morning meeting in the police headquarters in front of several witnesses. "It took place during a working session, in the course of which a police official, apparently gripped by an attack of madness, used his weapon and fatally wounded Colonel Tounsi," the interior ministry said.

"A judicial inquiry has been opened to determine the circumstances of this distressing event," the statement said. There was no indication of any link between Colonel Tounsi's killing and al-Qa'ida insurgents who periodically attack government targets in Algeria, a major oil and gas exporter.

The police force headed by Colonel Tounsi has played an important role in the


effort to stamp out the long-running insurgency by Islamist militants. Earlier, a security source told Reuters that Colonel Tounsi, national police chief for more than a decade, was shot inside his office by a senior police official with whom he was having an argument.

"This guy was unhappy, he took out his pistol and he fired it," the source said. "Police officers nearby fired back."

The interior ministry statement said that after shooting the police chief, the attacker shot himself and was now in a serious condition in hospital. It made no mention of police firing back.

It is unlikely that Colonel Tounsi's killing will be a significant setback for the counter-insurgency, which has been successful in reducing the rebellion to a hardcore of a few hundred fighters.

"Tounsi's death is aWhile the enraged minions feeding from the trough of the New World Order plantation disrupt the restoration of the American Republic, ‘assassinate Donald Trump’ threats go viral on Twitter.

Despite this, Donald Trump accepts his rightful position as the 45th President-Elect of the United States of America.

Hillary and company sit in limbo, impossibly rallying faithless electors to throw the Electoral College’s vote as the pressure of all of her crimes bubbles to the surface of a bog of corruption.

President elect Donald Trump mentioned numerous times that he would assign a special prosecutor to wade into to handle Hillary’s five FBI Investigations.

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A scrawled name hidden for decades on the back of a painting by Amedeo Modigliani may hold new insights into the mystery surrounding the rightful ownership of a Nazi-looted masterpiece.

Seated Man With a Cane, painted in 1918, re-emerged in the headlines this year when documents contained in the massive Panama Papers leak added fuel to a legal battle for its ownership.

On one side, a retired Frenchman claims title to the painting through his Jewish grandfather, Oscar Stettiner, who he claims was forced to surrender it to Nazi invaders in Paris.

On the other, the billionaire Nahmad family, who masked their current ownership of the Modigliani through an offshore holding company, a joint investigation by the Toronto Star and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists reported earlier this year.

As thetwo sides remain locked in battle in a New York court over the fate of the $35-million painting, the latest chapter of the tale unfolded last week.

French television aired an image of a label on the back of the painting — a yellowing remnant from the 1930 Venice art exhibit where it was last publicly displayed.

The name and address of the painting’s “propriétaire” (owner) were crudely scratched out, according to the images contained in a documentary produced by France’s public broadcaster.

But the word “Stettiner” appears to be still visible in elegant cursive script — something emphasized by the documentary makers, who recreated the name through computer graphics.

An address on the line below, also partially erased, appears to correspond with Stettiner’s Rue du Cirque flat in Paris, where he


of the painting.

“Very often, the people who are in the provenances are not people that owned it,” Golub, the Nahmads’ lawyer, said at the time. “Lots of dealers have paintings on consignment.”

Documentary evidence gathered by the joint investigation included a program from the 1930 Venice Biennale exhibition that listed the painting from the collection of “sig. Stettiner, (Paris).”

A letter dated April 14, 1930, to the Venice Biennale, written in French, refers to Stettiner as the “owner” of the painting.

A day after publication of the joint investigation — by newspapers in France, Switzerland and Germany, and by the CBC and Toronto Star in Canada — Swiss authorities seized the painting in the Geneva warehouse where it was stored, pending outcome of the dispute.

The latest revelations came after the NahmadsYouTube.

Brennan has been practicing with the drone for weeks, and at least one other commercial whale-watching business has purchased one.

Dana Wharf, however, is the first local operation to show off footage from what it's referring to as the Dana Wharf Copter Cam.

Jan 27, 2014

Capt. Larry Hartmann has watched thousands of bottlenose dolphins ride the bow of his 30-foot boat, but until Friday he had never seen the mammals develop such a close personal bond with one of his passengers.

The accompanying footage shows several dolphins swimming to the outstretched hand of Taylor Carty and looking her in the eye, and taking turns rolling over, as if craving to have their bellies rubbed.

"We've all see bottlenose dolphins riding the bow and at times jumping and twirling, but I have never


seen them doing the backstroke like this," said Hartmann, whose vessel Discovery runs from Dana Wharf Whale Watching in Dana Point, California. "It was so far off the charts. I've never seen anything like it."

Carty is an exercise rider for thoroughbred race horses in Kentucky, so she has a way with animals, and it wasn't long before she earned the nickname, "Dolphin whisperer."

"She started talking to them the way she talks to horses," said Hartmann, who operates Captain Larry Adventures. "All four of the passengers were freaking out. When the dolphins turned over like that, it seemed clear that they wanted to be rubbed."

While the footage may seem lengthy and repetitive to some, it's remarkable that this interaction–with so many intimate approaches–lasted so long. "It went on forshould expect anything this intimate.

Jan 23, 2014

An enormous north swell is arriving in California and expected to build Thursday night into Friday morning, signaling a green light for the much anticipated Mavericks Invitational surf contest at notorious Mavericks near Half Moon Bay.

How powerful the swell turns out to be, and what type of conditions prevail remain to be seen. But it's the same swell that slammed parts of the Hawaiian islands on Wednesday and Thursday, luring throngs of spectators to the shores.

Hawaii News Now described it as "the largest swell in decades" and published a slide show showing massive waves breaking on Oahu's North Shore, near the fabled Waimea Bay.

As a result of all the publicity, nightmare traffic jams ensued on the highway leading from Oahu's south side


at Mammoth Mountain in California.

The Golds are not the first siblings to qualify for the Olympics, and will not be the only relatives participating at Sochi.

But this probably is the first time two Golds from the same family will be going for gold on the world's grandest sporting stage.

On Sunday, before learning she had made the team, 17-year-old Arielle declared, via Twitter, that it was an important day for two reasons: "Big day today … Broncos vs Patriots. Oh, and they're announcing the U.S. Olympic team. #BroncosNation"

The NFL's Denver Broncos then dispatched the New England Patriots in the AFC Championship Game, and the Golds began making travel plans.

Taylor, 20, qualified Friday with a third-place finish in the third qualifier at Mammoth. Afterward he tweeted, "I am officially qualifiedfor the Olympics. Beyond stoked! Thanks everyone who has helped me along the way."

He'll join Shaun White, Greg Bretz, and Danny Davis on the men's halfpipe team. It'll be the first participation in the Olympics for the Gold siblings.

Neither will be favored to win a gold medal in events that figure to be dominated by athletes from the U.S. Clark is the favorite among the women, and White is favored to win his third consecutive Olympic gold medal.

However, anything is possible.

Arielle, who is known for taking chances and nailing big tricks, enjoyed a breakout year in 2012, when she won silver medals in the halfpipe and slopestyle disciplines at the World Junior Olympic Games in Austria.

Last year she won a bronze at the X Games in Aspen, Colorado,


not far from the family home in Steamboat Springs. She also posted first-place finishes at the European Open and FIS World Championships.

Taylor, who posted a victory at the 2013 U.S. Revolution Tour and qualified for the Olympic team with consistent elite-level performances, seems to be coming into his own this winter. To be sure, the world will get to know both Golds a lot better in the coming weeks.

Jan 17, 2014

Not everyone can top a blog post with the headline: "A Sperm Whale Stranded on My Doorstep."

Nor can many say they've seen the enormous tail of one of the massive sea creatures protruding from the bed of a giant truck, as it's being delivered across town (top image).

Sarah Dolman, of the U.K.-based conservation group Whale and Dolphin Conservation,were taught an important lesson last week after a harrowing cage-diving stunt that involved a large tiger shark and a near-miss attack off Australia's Gold Coast. (Note: Video shows dramatic encounter but contains brief profanity.)

Cage diving generally ensures a controlled and reasonably safe environment. But the cage Shaun Harrington used was a $50 birdcage he placed over his head before jumping overboard.

And the 10-foot shark was not in the mood for pranks because it had just been hooked by a fisherman on the boat as part of a stunt performed by the twins, who apparently like to joke around.

The excursion began as a "B-grade shark-fishing tour," but Dean unveiled the birdcage and his idea for the prank, and Shaun swallowed the idea, hook, line, and sinker.

"He pulled out


the birdcage and told me, 'This is the cage we're going to use and we're going out there to find a shark,''' Shaun told News.com.au. "I said 'no way!' But we were out there and the first line our mate pulled up had an 8-foot tiger shark on it still thrashing around."

(The tiger shark is listed as 10 feet in the video.)

That was when Shaun jumped in with the birdcage. Dean also went overboard, but the shark seemed more interested in his brother.

It lunged toward Shaun, inspiring a panicked dash toward the stern of the boat. The shark made another pass before the diver was able to hoist himself aboard.

"I was flailing around like crazy to get back on the boat before it sunk its teeth into me,"Cabo Mar fiesta dinner cruise boat are always treated to stunning views of Cabo San Lucas and the rock formations at Land's End, but last week their tranquility was interrupted by a pod of energetic killer whales.

In footage uploaded Thursday, the orcas can be seen breaching close to the 65-foot catamaran and seemingly playing to the crowd.

Killer whales are not commonly seen off Cabo San Lucas, a popular resort destination at the tip of Baja California. But small pods are spotted sporadically in the area, and particularly in the Sea of Cortez.


"I see for the first time he is demanding more out of every pitch. He's asking for more and more. He's making good quality pitches, but he wants to improve them."

As the Red Sox seek avenues to improve upon their 108-win championship season of 2018, E-Rod might top the list. Fully healthy for the first time in three years, he devoted his winter not to rehab, but conditioning. He arrived in Fort Myers looking noticeably stronger and ready to hit the ground running.

"My goal this year is 30-plus starts, and 200-plus innings, and I'm getting prepared for that," he said.

Hitting those benchmarks would mark a significant step forward. He went 13-5 last year with a 3.82 ERA, but only made 23 starts covering 129.2 innings. That came afterThis is the best time to start working on that pitch. It's spring training, doesn't hurt your numbers on the back of the card."

Each starter has taken an interest in E-Rod, perhaps recognizing that he's the rotation's X-factor. They give him grief in the clubhouse like he's everyone's little brother, but they also push him.

"Besides giving him a hard time all the time, they want him to be great," Cora said. "They see it. At one point in their careers, Sale and (David) Price were that guy. They're hard on him because they know how talented he is. Sometimes he gets caught up on who he wants to be. He wants to be Chris one day, and Rick (Porcello) the next day, and David (Price) the next outing.


This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed to promote the 1972
105-minute Youssef Chahine color film Those People of the Nile
[al-nas wal-nil]) based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Hassan
Fouad and Nicolai Vigorovosky and cinematography by Yu-Lan Chen,
Aleksandre Shelenkov and Abdel Aziz Fahmy. Plot summary: This film
dramatizes the construction of the Aswan Dam in Egypt, which was a
joint Russian-Egyptian project completed in 1971. When the film was
completed in 1968 it was banned by both governments because of
political issues; it was not cleared for official release until 1972
after some of the scenes had been filmed again. The film portrays the
personal conflicts of displaced Russian workers and the displeasure of
some Egyptian workers and local residents because of the impact of the
diversion of the Nile.on BBC TV's "Saturday Night Clive", broadcasting from Moscow and later from Melbourne live via satellite, and a guest on After Dark and Have I Got News for You. For almost 3 years, he appeared regularly in Europe Direct, BBC World's magazine program on weekday evenings. His appearances on BBC Radio 4 include Breakaway, Excess Baggage, "Midweek", "Start the Week","In Our Time" and his own series "Eye on the East". In 2007, he was a researcher and script-writer for the multi-award-winning BBC comedy quiz TV show QI.   In October 2010, Vitaliev's factual drama (feature) film treatment "The Pavlovsk Station" made it to the shortlist of ten (out of 270 submissions) in the prestigious "Inspired by Science" film treatment award competition at London Screenwriters Festival. In 2016,


spring 2010, "Life as a Literary Device" made it to The Independent newspaper's list of Top Ten Best New Books. In April 2011, he was again shortlisted for a prestigious PPA UK Columnist of the Year Award, and in summer 2012 won another TABPI (see above) for the best regular magazine column. In 2013, was shortlisted for a BSME (British Society of Magazine Editors) Award for the Best Feature Idea.

In 2014, won another TABPI Award for Best Regular Column (Bronze), with the following judging comments: "Extraordinarily well written, crafted around unique technology topics and written in a personal way. Terrific entry."

In 2015, he was shortlisted again for the PPA Award in the "Columnist of the Year" category and won the GOLD TABPI AWARD for the best regularof the 2018 Caribbean Travel Media Awards for his "Migrants of the Caribbean" feature in Geographical magazine.

Books

 1987 King of the Bar Pravda Publishers. A collection of articles written for Krokodil magazine (in Russian).
 1990 Special Correspondent – Investigating in the Soviet Union, Hutchinson, ; translated into German (Econ Verlag), French & Japanese (Shinchosa).
 1991 Dateline Freedom – Revelations of an Unwilling Exile, Hutchinson, .
 1991 Vitali's Australia, Random House,
 1993 The Third Trinity (with Derek Kartun), Hodder & Stoughton, ; Seven editions in Germany: Aufbau Taschenbuch, Rutten & Loening, Fischer Taschenbuch etc.
 1995 Little is the Light- Nostalgic Travels in the Mini-states of Europe, Simon & Schuster,
 1997 Dreams on Hitler's Couch, RC Books, Simon & Schuster,
 1999 Borders Up! Eastern Europe Through the Bottom of


East Mangoli District (at Waitina and Kawata) and coal mines are located in the peninsula of West Sula Besi District, East Taliabu and Sub Sanana (Wai Village Ipa). Reserves of coal are estimated around 10.4 million tonnes.

Tourism
The Indonesian Ministry of Tourism (Kemenpar) is ready to support the promotion of tourism destination potential on Sula Islands. Demographically located between the crossroads of Wakatobi and Raja Ampat tourist areas, it is ideally developed as marine tourism and special interest tourism for diving enthusiasts.

One of the support is Maksaira Festival at Wai Ipa Beach to Bajo Village Beach. On 2018 the festival as a cultural and marine tourism attraction event has entered the third year and will be listed as MURI record breaking for the largest grouper fishing participant targetedIf you have any interest at all in writing produced by the cultural exchange — or culture clash, if you prefer — between the West and Asia, you might consider keeping up with Signal 8 Press. Though a relatively new operation, they've already put out quite a few intriguing books, ranging formally from novels to travel memoirs to short story collections to college guides and geographically from China to Hong Kong to Laos to the Philippines to Korea.

Having read my own writing on Korea for The Guardian, Signal 8 author Giacomo Lee (@elegiacomo) reached out and offered me a chance to read his upcoming novel Funereal, a dark and sometimes surreal exploration of the country's drive for perfection, its unceasing competitiveness, and its conformist beauty culture — especially