of the day, that's what counts."

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Tomlin, who was just 34 years old when the Steelers hired him back in 2007, led Pittsburgh to a division title postseason appearance during his first season, a year after the team had gone 8-8 and failed to qualify for the playoffs in Bill Cowher's final season. Tomlin's Steelers went 12-4 in 2008 and defeated San Diego and Baltimore in the AFC playoffs before defeating the Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII.

After taking a step back in 2009, Pittsburgh put together consecutive 12-4 seasons in 2010 and 2011 while appearing in Super Bowl XLV. But after it's stunning loss to Denver in the 2011 playoffs, the Steelerswent 8-8 in both 2012 and 2013, as Pittsburgh lacked an elite running game while its defense transitioned away from the players that helped the team win two Super Bowls in the 2000s.

With the addition of Le'Veon Bell, the emergence of Antonio Brown and with an improved defense, Pittsburgh went 11-5 in 2014 and returned to the postseason. They've advanced one step further to the Super Bowl each of the past two seasons, nearly upsetting the eventual champion Broncos in 2015 and losing to the eventual Super Bowl champion Patriots in the 2016 AFC title game.

This season, armed with the stronger roster he's had since 2010, Tomlin will look to guide the Steelers back to the Super Bowl while adding to his reputation as one of the best


Since crossing over into the world of mixed martial arts, Garry Tonon has been a force to be reckoned with. Competing under the ONE Championship banner, Tonon has amassed three victories, all three of which have come by way of finish.

At the age of 27, “The Lion Killer” has made his name as one of the most exciting and prolific grapplers in all of competitive jiu-jitsu. The Renzo Gracie representative has seen it all on the mats, competing at ADCC, taking home three Eddie Bravo Invitational (EBI) titles, and winning an IBJJF Pan American No Gi championship, but Tonon admitted that even he still harbored some anxiety ahead of his MMA debut.

“I was super nervous, man,” Tonon told The Body Lock. “I remember getting my hands wrapped and,we are very eager to hear from Federighi and Cue, longtime Apple veterans and key decision makers at the company who have contributed a lot to its success.

Cue, who has been at Apple for 25 years, is SVP of Internet Software and Services, reporting to Cook. That is a modest description for a very large portfolio, including the iTunes Store, the App Store and the iBookstore. And even more: Siri, Maps, iAd and iCloud. Cue has also worked on iLife and has been a manager of software engineering and customer support units.

Federighi, who has also been at Apple on and off for a very long time, is its SVP of Software Engineering. Also reporting to Cook, he is in charge of the development of iOS, OS X and


Sri Lanka's players celebrate during the Pool A 2015 Cricket World Cup cricket match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan in Dunedin, New Zealand on February 22, 2015 (AFP Photo/Marty Melville)

Melbourne (AFP) - Sri Lanka flew back to New Zealand on Friday grumbling about their World Cup travel following a hectic dash across the Tasman sea for just one game even as some other teams enjoyed a relaxed schedule.

Angelo Mathews' men played their first two matches in New Zealand and then flew across to Australia to complete a 92-run drubbing of Bangladesh at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Thursday.

A few hours later they were back on the plane heading for Wellington where England await them for a crucial Pool A at the Westpac stadium on Sunday.

Sri Lanka will thenreturn to Australia for their last two league matches against Australia in Sydney on March 8 and against Scotland in Hobart three days later.

"It would have been nice to have finished New Zealand before coming to Australia," team manager Michael de Zoysa said. "It certainly is inconvenient and tiring for the boys."

Zoysa said with Friday spent in travelling, the team is likely to rest on Saturday which leaves them little time for serious training ahead of the England game.

The match against Eoin Morgan's side will be Sri Lanka's third in eight days, having played Afghanistan last Sunday and Bangladesh on Thursday.

In contrast, defending champions India are enjoying a relaxed itinerary.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men played their first two matches a week apart, clashing with Pakistan in Adelaide on February


15 before taking on South Africa at the MCG on February 22.

Since then India have been based in Perth where they are staying for 12 days for two games against the United Arab Emirates and the West Indies, before flying to New Zealand on March 7 for their last two Pool B matches.Taliban Seize Vital Pakistan Area Closer to the Capital

An armed Pakistani Taliban stands beside the body of one of two policemen killed in the Buner district on April 7. Credit
Reuters

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pushing deeper into Pakistan, Taliban militants have established effective control of a strategically important district just 70 miles from the capital, Islamabad, officials and residents said Wednesday.

The fall of the district, Buner, did not mean that the Taliban could imminently threaten Islamabad. But it was another indication of the gathering strength of the insurgency and it raised new alarm about the ability of the government to fend off an unrelenting Taliban advance toward the heart of Pakistan.

Buner, home to about one million people, is a gateway to a major Pakistani city, Mardan, the second largest in


has been building for weeks, with the assistance of sympathizers and even a local government official who was appointed on the recommendation of the Taliban, the senior official said.

It also comes 10 days after the government of President Asif Ali Zardari agreed to the imposition of Islamic law, or Shariah, in Swat, as part of the deal with the Taliban.

A local politician, Jamsher Khan, said that people were initially determined to resist the Taliban in Buner, but that they were discouraged by the deal the government struck with the Taliban in Swat.

“We felt stronger as long we thought the government was with us,” he said by telephone, “but when the government showed weakness, we too stopped offering resistance to the Taliban.”

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clintoncamps will provide waves of men coming into Buner,” the senior law enforcement official said.

The Taliban expansion into Buner has begun to raise alarm among the senior ranks of the Pakistani Army, said a Western official who was familiar with the Pakistani military.

On Wednesday, one of the highest-ranking army officers traveled from Islamabad to Peshawar and met with the officers of the 11th Corps, the army division based in Peshawar, to discuss the “overall situation in Buner,” the official said.

One of the major concerns is that from the hills of Buner the Taliban have access to the flatlands of the district of Swabi, which lead directly to the four-lane motorway that runs from Islamabad to Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province.

The Pakistani military does not have a


senior law enforcement official said.

Last year, the villagers around the shrine kept the Taliban at bay when the militants threatened to take it over.

But in the last 10 days, the Taliban closed the shrine and said it was strictly off limits to women, the senior official said. The militants are now patrolling it.

The Taliban control in Buner came swiftly in the last few days, officials said.

The militants were helped by the actions of the commissioner of Malakand, Javed Mohammad, who is also the senior official in Swat and who was appointed on the recommendation of the Taliban, the senior law enforcement official said.

The Taliban began their assault on Buner in early April, when a battalion of the Taliban militia with heavy weaponry crossed over the hills from Swatto Buner, according to an account in the newspaper Dawn that appeared on Saturday.

The Taliban then captured three policemen and two civilians, and killed them, the newspaper said.

Infuriated by the killings, people in lower Buner and Sultanwas assembled a volunteer force and killed 17 Taliban fighters, the account said.

But soon after that, Mr. Mohammad tried to persuade the local elders to allow the Taliban to enter Buner, the newspaper said.

Soon afterward, Mr. Mohammad ordered the local armies to dissolve, the senior law enforcement official said. The order led many of those who had been willing to stand up to the Taliban to either flee or give up, the official said. Among those who are reported to have fled is Fateh Khan, a wealthy Buner businessman. Mr. Khan had


been one of the main organizers and financiers of the private armies in Buner.

In a show of strength, the militants held a feast in the home of a local Taliban sympathizer two weeks ago, and since then the Taliban have fanned out into the district, the senior official said.

Pir Zubair Shah contributed reporting from Islamabad, and Mark Landler and David Stout from Washington.

A version of this article appears in print on , on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: Taliban Seize Pakistan Area Nearer Capital. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribedirected to the forming of a stream of a pulverulent product suspended in a gas in the shape of a blade, directly above the substrate and over a length at least equal to the width of the substrate to be coated. In addition, to maintain the stream of the pulverulent product in a continuous flow in the direction of the substrate over its entire length, gas currents are introduced into this stream to create turbulence in an attempt to homogenize the mixture of gas and the pulverulent product as the mixture is directed toward the substrate. Finally, to uniformly accelerate the movement of the pulverulent product gas mixture toward the substrate, this mixture is entrained in additional gas currents introduced from the sidewalls of the device toward the


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U.S. Pat. No. 4,562,095 specifically describes a nozzle as a device for the distribution of the pulverulent product whose length can correspond to the width of the substrate to be coated. This nozzle comprises a longitudinal cavity whose walls converge uniformly in the direction of the substrate to be coated, so that the zones of homogenization and acceleration converge. The upper part of the nozzle comprises an element for covering the cavity which is pierced with an orifice which makes possible the feeding, through separate ducts, of the pulverulent product suspended in a gas which is called a primary gas. The ducts for feeding the pulverulent product primarygas flow over the entire length of the nozzle. The secondary gas also entrains gas or air from the ambient atmosphere (induced gas or air), thus making possible the formation of turbulence which facilitates the homogenization of the pulverulent product gas mixture.
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Category:Apocrita subfamiliesin the driving seat of a train is quite rare. East Midlands Trains employs a total of 515 drivers, 72 of whom are depot drivers and 443 are mainline service drivers.

Only 27 of those are female.

As you might imagine, depot drivers are responsible for moving trains around depots. But, as well as driving, shunting and carrying out light maintenance, drivers also carry out other tasks such as fault finding and reporting.

Depot drivers can progress in the role to become drivers for passenger services. It is often the case that depot drivers - who theoretically train for around nine weeks - can progress into a role within passenger services within two years.

Train driving is a job that appeals to young people, given the firm offers a salary of £26,391


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RevolutionThe reaction to the perceived unreasonableness of the empirical method was most apparent in the philosophy of Rousseau in France, which eventually contributed to the Romantic Movement, with its disdain for reason and advocacy of giving free rein to feelings and instinct. It was also taken up by those who instigated the French Revolution. Rousseau believed that man is inherently good but that the rise of civilisation, begun through the inequalities created in claiming ‘private property’ had corrupted us. Voltaire, on reading of his ideas, sarcastically commented that he was too old to start walking on all fours or searching out the savages in Canada. They also quarrelled over an earthquake in Lisbon. Voltaire saw in it a justification for questioning the beneficence of a GodJamshedpur: Man mauled after entering tiger enclosure

Jamshedpur: A man was mauled and seriously injured by a tiger after he sneaked into the animal's enclosure at the Tata Steel Zoological Society in Jamshedpur, police said on Tuesday. The man, whose identity is yet to be established, had entered the enclosure of Raghav, the full grown tiger, on Monday night and was found unconscious inside the cage by zoo staff on Tuesday morning.

The victim was removed from the cage by the zoo staff and admitted to the government-run MGM Hospital here after administering first-aid, sources in the zoo said.

The man, whose identity is yet to be established, had entered the enclosure of Raghav, the full grown tiger.


'mental organ.'

Human brain is a highly evolved coordinating mechanism in the species Homo sapiens. It is only in the last 100 years that extensive knowledge of the intricate structure and complex functioning of the human brain has been acquired, though a lot is yet to be known. However, from the beginning of civilisation, people have been conscious of a 'mind' which has been considered the origin of all scientific and cultural development. Philosophers have discussed at length the various attributes of consciousness. Consciousness is being conscious of the outer world as well as of itself. Human being is conscious of his own consciousness.

Most of the philosophical or scientific frameworks have directly or indirectly implied mind-body duality. It is now imperative that we develop an integrated approach to understandactually disgusting.

Paul's been missing for the entire party…until he shows up in a tree with some of Adrienne's other painted people. In her confessional, she essentially calls Paul a pathetic, attention-hungry, thirst bucket, which says way more about the state of their marriage than any of Brandi's bleeped out gossip ever could.

After the commercial break, Lisa informs us that Adrienne and Paul announced their separation online. I hate them both, but being right about that sucks. She's got a party to finish preparing, but she can't help feeling bad for her former friend.

Brandi and Jennifer are headed to Lisa's party, and of course, Adrienne's separation crops up. Brandi thinks it's a publicity stunt, because of the timing and the rumors.

She also knows about the gossip at Adrienne's party,


No one personified Lake County's torrid growth more than County Board Chairman Robert Depke, nicknamed "Bulldozer Bob" by friends and foes for his propensity to build.
Now, his opponents are ripping up the county's political turf after the surprise defeat of Mr. Depke and two of his board allies.
The Republican primary victory last month by three slow-the-growth advocates could result in a board more leery of new projects and more receptive to environmental concerns.
"They could cause a slowdown in a manner that will be detrimental," worries Ron Galowich, chairman of Chicago developer Madison Group Holdings Inc., which has done numerous projects in Lake County. "The question is, how far will they go?"
Even more surprising for Republican-dominated Lake County: The board's five-member Democratic minority could benefit as the pro-and anti-growthRepublican factions curry its support to win majorities on the 23-member panel.
It all adds up to a strange new era in Lake County politics.
Although the 66-year-old Mr. Depke will continue as a player, it will be only as Warren Township supervisor, a paid post he's held since 1961 that serves a booming area including Gurnee Mills mall, Six Flags theme

No one personified Lake County's torrid growth more than County Board Chairman Robert Depke, nicknamed "Bulldozer Bob" by friends and foes for his propensity to build.

Now, his opponents are ripping up the county's political turf after the surprise defeat of Mr. Depke and two of his board allies.

The Republican primary victory last month by three slow-the-growth advocates could result in a board more leery of new projects and more


receptive to environmental concerns.

"They could cause a slowdown in a manner that will be detrimental," worries Ron Galowich, chairman of Chicago developer Madison Group Holdings Inc., which has done numerous projects in Lake County. "The question is, how far will they go?"

Even more surprising for Republican-dominated Lake County: The board's five-member Democratic minority could benefit as the pro-and anti-growth Republican factions curry its support to win majorities on the 23-member panel.

It all adds up to a strange new era in Lake County politics.

Although the 66-year-old Mr. Depke will continue as a player, it will be only as Warren Township supervisor, a paid post he's held since 1961 that serves a booming area including Gurnee Mills mall, Six Flags theme park and thousands of new homes.

Mr. Depke served severalstints on the County Board, including the past five years as chairman. "There's not a call I'd make different," he says. "I believe in building."

But Mr. Depke concedes that he could have benefited from better public relations and admits he is stung by the loss. "I didn't want to go out as a loser," he says wistfully.

Roundly criticized

Conservationists and slower-growth advocates successfully associated Mr. Depke with the ills of Lake County's rapid development: traffic-choked roads, overcrowded schools, rising taxes. The chairman was also roundly criticized for pushing the $12-million extension of an east-west artery, Yorkhouse Road, through wetlands in the northeast corner of the county, near an environmental research project.

Mr. Depke was defeated by political newcomer Al Westerman, a 47-year-old landscape architect who previously worked for the Lake


says today that new taxes are a part of life. "People moved in, they want to educate their kids."

After a 17.2% spurt in county population in the 1980s, growth has continued at a near-2% annual rate in the '90s, according to Lake County's Planning Department. Annual permits for single-family houses doubled last decade, to 4,103 in 1988 from 2,046 in 1984, then tapered off in the early 1990s before rebounding in 1994 to 3,827.

Environmentalists say their victory will restore balance to a board on which they've been outnumbered. The two factions will have equal weight, says board member Carol Calabresa, a Depke opponent. "The new board will be more cautious."

Right to sell at profit

But business executives-many of whom are fans and financial backers of Mr. Depke-point out thatlandowners have the right to sell their property at a profit, and commercial projects add to the county's tax base and create jobs.

"Although portions (of Lake County) are farm and rural, the better part is a metropolitan county," says Madison Group's Mr. Galo-wich. "You need roads that people can drive on."

Mr. Depke says he was skewered unfairly for his advocacy of several projects, such as a compromise plan that reduced the density of a farm-turned-subdivision in Vernon Hills to 2,100 homes from the 3,200 proposed by its developer.

1994 negotiation

And he helped negotiate a 1994 agreement in which industrial distributor W. W. Grainger Inc. donated more than 250 acres to the Forest Preserve District to gain approval for a controversial headquarters complex in an unincorporated area near Interstate 94.


Opponents point out that the project was first rejected by the neighboring residential community of Mettawa, which feared noise and congestion.

Even Mr. Depke's critics concede that the chairman ran county government efficiently and rarely, if ever, equivocated. "Depke never hides," says Susan Zingle, president of a citizens group that led the fight opposing the Yorkhouse Road extension.

Mr. Depke's departure after the general election in November will leave a void in county government-and lead to a more fluid period in local politics.

The Democrats on the County Board, who have tended to be moderate on the growth issue, could gain new clout. One even could be elected chairman as a compromise choice.

Still uncertain is whether Mr. Depke will attempt a comeback, as he's done after previous defeats during his 35-yearConstantine IV (Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Δ', Latin: Flavius Constantinus Augustus), sometimes incorrectly called Pogonatos, "the Bearded", out of confusion with his father, was Byzantine Emperor from 668 to 685. His reign saw the first serious check to nearly 50 years of uninterrupted Islamic expansion, while his calling of the Sixth Ecumenical Council saw the end of the monothelitism controversy in the Byzantine Empire.


The pain and gain of Brexit vote: British economy a year on

LONDON – Few events outside of war can have quite as much potential impact on the economy of a country as Britain's decision a year ago to leave the European Union.

The momentous vote on June 23, 2016 has the potential to sever Britain's ties to its main trading partner, a grouping it has spent more than four decades building ever-closer ties to. From subsidies for farmers to standards on consumer products and banishing all types of impediments to trade, the British economy is deeply enmeshed in the workings of the EU.

Since the vote, the British economy defied the gloomy recession predictions of many, including the British Treasury and the International Monetary Fund. Other forecasts like an immediatehouse price crash didn't materialize either.

But other predicted events did occur, such as a sharp fall in the pound and rising inflation. And now that the official two-year Brexit process has begun, there are renewed signs of economic pain.

So where is the British economy, one year later? Here's a brief guide.

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STILL GROWING, JUST

The British economy did not contract in the wake of the Brexit vote as many had warned. In fact, for much of the time since, it's grown faster than many of its peers in Europe, largely because of a sharp fall in the value of the pound. The 15 percent decline made exports cheaper, a boon to growth. However, the economy is now weakening amid the Brexit uncertainty and the pound's drop makes imports more expensive.


of food systems for shaping human health and nutrition.[@R2]^,^[@R3] That our systems of food production should be designed to meet recommendations for healthy diets seems obvious. Yet, the goals of agriculture and nutrition have often diverged.

Following the Second World War, increasing food production was seen as fundamental to fighting hunger, reducing social inequities and lifting families out of poverty. Investments in agricultural research to develop high-yielding varieties of wheat and rice helped to double cereal yields in Asia and Latin America. This Green Revolution averted global food shortages and saved millions of lives. Part of its legacy however, has been a persistent emphasis on expanding production of a select few staple grains. This calories-first inheritance has limited the contribution of agriculture to meeting most national dietary recommendations thatA painting of Christ by Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci has sold for $US450 million ($591 million) at auction in New York, obliterating previous records.

Key points: The long-lost painting, Salvator Mundi dates, from around 1500

The long-lost painting, Salvator Mundi dates, from around 1500 The New York auction smashed the previous record of $US179.4m for art

The New York auction smashed the previous record of $US179.4m for art Auction house Christie's has not named the buyer

The 500-year-old oil painting depicting Christ holding a crystal orb, called Salvator Mundi — or Saviour of the World — is one of fewer than 20 paintings by Leonardo da Vinci known to exist.

The 66-centimetre-tall painting dates from around 1500 and shows Christ dressed in Renaissance-style robes, his right hand raised in blessing as his


left hand holds a crystal sphere.

"The word 'masterpiece' barely begins to convey the rarity, importance and sublime beauty of Leonardo's painting," said Alan Wintermute from Christie's, the auction house that conducted the sale.

He described the artwork as "the Holy Grail of old master paintings".

A backer of the auction had guaranteed a bid of at least $US100 million, the opening price of the auction, which ran for 19 minutes.

People in the auction house gallery applauded and cheered when the bidding reached $US300 million about halfway through, and when the hammer came down on the final bid, $US400 million.

The record sale price of $US450 million includes the buyer's premium, a fee paid by the winner to the auction house.

The painting attracted huge public interest at exhibitions ahead of its sale.( Reuters: Christie's New York )

Christie's did not immediately identify the buyer.

The highest price previously paid for a work of art at auction was $US179.4 million, for Picasso's Women of Algiers (Version O) in May 2015, also at Christie's in New York.

Picasso's Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O') previously attracted the highest price at auction. ( Reuters: Darren Ornitz )

The highest known sale price for any artwork had been $US300 million, for Willem de Kooning's Interchange, sold privately in September 2015 by the David Geffen Foundation to hedge fund manager Kenneth C Griffin.

Salvator Mundi's path from Leonardo's workshop to the auction block at Christie's was not smooth.

Once owned by King Charles I of England, it disappeared from view until 1900, when it resurfaced and was acquired by a British


collector. At that time it was attributed to a Leonardo disciple, rather than to the master himself.

The painting was sold again in 1958 and then acquired in 2005 by a consortium of art dealers who paid less than $US10,000.

It was badly damaged and partly painted-over.

The art dealers restored the painting and documented its authenticity as a work by Leonardo.

Bidding was strong for the Leonardo da Vinci painting. ( AP: Julie Jacobson )

The painting was sold by Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev, who bought it in 2013 for $US127.5 million in a private sale that became the subject of a continuing lawsuit.

Christie's says most scholars agree the painting is by Leonardo, though some critics have questioned the attribution and some say the extensive restoration muddies the work's authorship.

Christie's capitalised onthe public's interest in Leonardo — considered one of the greatest artists of all time — with a media campaign that labelled the painting "The Last Da Vinci".

The work was exhibited in Hong Kong, San Francisco, London and New York before the sale.

In New York, where no museum owns a Leonardo, art lovers lined up outside Christie's Rockefeller Centre headquarters on Tuesday to view Salvator Mundi.

Svetla Nikolova, who is from Bulgaria but lives in New York, called the painting "spectacular".

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience," she said.

"It should be seen. It's wonderful it's in New York. I'm so lucky to be in New York at this time."

AP


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The Indian couple going shutter-happy at the pretty little bridge on the raging river Had no idea of the calamitous chain of events that their innocuous photo-session was about to trigger They had eyes only for each other, and forthe president and escort him safely back to the Blue House.

Three Days follows the intertwining fates of those sworn to protect the president, the president himself, his political staff, and the true power players in the shadows who decide whether he lives or dies.

Cast

Main characters
Park Yoochun as Han Tae-kyung
Nam Da-reum as young Tae-kyung
Son Hyun-joo as Lee Dong-hwi, President of South Korea
Park Ha-sun as Yoon Bo-won, police constable
So Yi-hyun as Lee Cha-young, SWAT team agent
Choi Won-young as Kim Do-jin
Yoon Je-moon as Shin Kyu-jin, chief presidential secretary
Jang Hyun-sung as Ham Bong-su, chief of the Presidential Security Service

Supporting characters

Staff of PSS
Ahn Gil-kang as Kim Sang-hee, Chief Director of Presidential Bodyguards
Kwon Min as Chief of the Situation Center
Kim Jung-hak as Moon Sung Min
Jo Young-jin as Blue House's Senior Civil Affairs
Yoon Seo-hyun as


footage of the Christchurch killings, in which 50 Muslims died as they prayed.

The video was livestreamed to the attacker's Facebook page on 15 March, before being copied 1.5 million times.

Mr Zuckerberg's letter did not specifically name these incidents.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Facebook has faced criticism for failing to remove the footage live-streamed by the Christchurch attacker

However, the site earlier announced that it was considering introducing restrictions on live-streaming in the wake of the Christchurch attacks. On Thursday, it also said that it would ban white nationalism and separatism from the site.

On Friday it also started labelling political ads appearing on Facebook in EU countries, showing who the advertiser is, how much they paid and who they've targeted.

"I believe Facebook has a responsibility to help address these issues,Asia

Corruption in India

The season that never ends

THE denial by Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, sounded categorical. He claimed, on March 18th, that no one in his ruling Congress party, nor in his government, had paid any bribes to opposition MPs to get support in a crucial vote of confidence, in 2008. Yet the opposition parties in India's parliament, on both the left and the right, were furious over the issue, disbelieving him, calling for him to resign and lamenting that “shame” had been brought upon India's reputation.

There's plenty of shame to go around. The corruption saga bedevilling politics in India has reached another extraordinary stage. The latest fuss follows the publication this week, by the Hindu newspaper, courtesy of WikiLeaks, of details of a cable transmitted by American


diplomats in 2008. Apparently the Americans were told by someone in the Congress party that chests filled with cash, some $25m, stood ready to be spent on swaying the votes of opposition MPs, to help ensure the confidence vote would be won. The American interest was acute: the vote had been called over efforts to pass a bill on nuclear power, which was seen by many on the left in India as a sop to potential American investors. To the Americans—and to India's rulers—the bill was vital, part of a deal between the two countries which would allow a big expansion of much-needed civilian nuclear power plants in India. As important, it enshrined much warmer relations between America and India, which infuriated India's Communists, and some others.

Mr Singh'spolitical toll. Mr Singh looks burned out. No one suggests he is personally corrupt—indeed he is very widely respected as a liberalising force—but he seems unable to get a grip on problems around him. If there were an obvious, strong and clean individual waiting to replace him as prime minister, Congress might now be getting ready to engineer a change. Mr Singh is 78 years old and is widely expected to have left office before the next election, scheduled for 2014. But Congress seems unwilling to act now. Rahul Gandhi, the young leader-in-waiting, shows little appetite yet for the job. In any case, the high command of the ruling party probably prefers to keep the scion of India's ruling dynasty as unblemished by the grind of daily politics


as is possible, before the general election. An interim leader is possible, perhaps Pranab Mukherjee, the finance minister, but it is not clear that he would be any better than Mr Singh at fending off the opposition's allegations of graft.

Instead the ruling party has a strategy of hoping for the squalls to pass. A series of important state elections are pending in the next few weeks, and Congress—despite the corruption woes—is hoping to do well, especially in West Bengal and Kerala, at the cost of the left-wing parties. At the same time, Congress hopes that the Communist parties and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will be unable to co-operate for long. In the background, most voters may yet be more concerned that the economy keeps galloping,against corrupt politicians and officials.

The death of a key witness against Spectrum Raja, Sadhik Bacha, many Indians think, was not a mere accident or a suicide. The death may have been part of 'professional advice' received in squashing the entire 2G spectrum prosecutions - the same way the Bofors prosecutions were eventually grounded down.

But the nuclear deal was good for India, so few leftist MP's were bought with $25 million. I think it was a good deal. That amount of money in cash is just too good to leave. Left has only won elections in the state of West Bengal for last 25 years, and no surprise that WB has remained a backward state till now.

It was Indian sources - the Comptroller and Auditor General of India, the


progress of Gujarat under his rule), he is the only one who has the capability to tackle the main issues plaguing the country. On a broader point of view, as long as there are caste, regional and religious based politics, the country cannot truly progress forward.

The economist seems to have a really simplistic view on Indian politics branding Congress as secular (more like pseudo secular) and other parties like BJP, Hindu nationalist. Indian politics do not fall so neatly into black and white categories like those in Europe or USA.

Mr. Singh's personal reputation as an uncorrupt liberalizing force seems to be one of the key things keeping the corruption in the Indian government from becoming a major political issue to the people, and a growing GDP certainly helpsGreg Chimera, who has served as offensive coordinator for Johns Hopkins University's football team for the past five seasons, was named the 27th head coach in the program's history on Friday.

Chimera takes over for Jim Margraff, who had led the program for 29 seasons before his death last month.

"Greg Chimera emerged from a talented and diverse pool of candidates as the right person to lead our football program," Director of Athletics Alanna W. Shanahan said. "He has been a member of the Blue Jay football family for 14 years and has been an instrumental part of the success the program has enjoyed for the last decade. His passion for Johns Hopkins and understanding of the goals and mission of both the university and our football program have long


been evident. We look forward to the leadership he will provide our student-athletes as they develop academically and athletically."

Chimera, a 2009 Johns Hopkins graduate and a four-year member of the Hopkins football team, recently completed his 10th season as a member of Margraff's staff. After coaching the Blue Jays running backs, tight ends, and wide receivers during his first five seasons, Chimera was elevated to offensive coordinator prior to the 2014 season. Since then, the Johns Hopkins offense has set numerous school records and is coming off the most successful offensive season in school history.

During a 2018 campaign that saw the Blue Jays post a school-record 12 wins and make a run to the NCAA Division III semifinals for the first time, Chimera's offense averaged 45.8 points and550.3 yards per game. Both of those totals are school single-season records, as were the Blue Jays' 39 touchdown passes, 91 overall touchdowns, and 641 points scored.

Johns Hopkins has averaged at least 37 points per game in each of Chimera's five seasons as the offensive coordinator and more than 500 yards in each of the last four.

"I am humbled and honored to lead such a special program at one of the top universities in the world," Chimera said.

"Our goal is to continue performing at an elite level on and off the field, just as we did under Coach Margraff. Learning from him for the last 10 years has prepared me for this opportunity. He left a lasting impact on the program and I will be reminded and motivated


This is the moment a freediver, who took just one breath before he hit the waters, reaches the bottom of world's deepest pool.

Guillaume Nery can be seen sinking at a rapid speed until he makes it to the bottom of the 130ft deep Y-40 Deep Joy pool, after around two minutes of plummeting.

The record breaking diver had to empty his lungs to be less buoyant and sink more freely.

Record breaking diver Nery sinks rapidly to the bottom of the pool

After around two minutes of plummeting Nery touches the bottom and thinks about going back up

Doing so, Guillaume said, was only one half of the challenge, though - the other was to have his wife, Julie Gautier, swim next to him and film the entire breathold, without using scubaWhich rebuilding NBA team faces the most depressing road ahead? The Crossover examines the good, the bad, and the ugly of the NBA's seven saddest rebuilding situations.

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England’s first female monarch, Mary I (1516-1558) ruled for just five years. The only surviving child of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, Mary took the throne after the brief reign of her half-brother, Edward VI. She sought to return England to the Catholic Church and stirred rebellions by marrying a Spanish Habsburg prince. But she is most remembered for burning nearly 300 English Protestants at the stake for heresy, which earned her the nickname “Bloody Mary.”

Mary I: Early Life

Mary Tudor was born on February 16, 1516. She was the fifth child of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon but the only one to survive past infancy. Educated by an English tutor with written instructions from the Spanish humanist Juan Luis Vives, she excelledin Latin and, like her father, was an adept musician.

Did you know? Mary I of England and her half-sister Elizabeth I, the first and second queens to rule England, are buried in the same tomb in London's Westminster Abbey.

At age 6 she was betrothed to Charles V, the king of Spain and Holy Roman Emperor. Charles broke off the engagement after three years but remained a lifelong ally. Henry desperately wanted a son as heir and sought permission from the papacy to end his marriage. When Pope Clement VII refused to grant the annulment, Henry declared himself exempt from papal authority, asserting that England’s king should be the sole head of its church.

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Mary I: The Princess Made Illegitimate

In 1533 Henry VIII married


Anne Boleyn, who bore him a daughter, the future Elizabeth I. Mary was demoted from her own household and forced to take up residence with her infant half-sister. In 1536 Catherine of Aragon died at her castle in Cambridgeshire, Anne Boleyn was accused of treason and executed, and Mary was forced to deny the pope’s authority and her own legitimacy.

Henry married four more times before his death in 1547. He got his longed-for male heir in the future Edward VI, son of his third wife, Jane Seymour. Upon Henry’s death, the official order of succession was Edward, followed by Mary and then Elizabeth.

Mary I: Path to the Throne

Edward VI remained a minor for his entire six-year reign. The lords of Somerset and of Northumberland served as his regents,working to expand his father’s ecclesiastical changes. They also altered the order of succession to favor the Protestants, placing Henry VIII’s niece Lady Jane Gray next in line to the throne. When Edward died in 1553, however, Mary had her own succession strategy planned: Proclamations were printed and a military force assembled in her Norfolk estates. Pushed by Edward’s regents, the Privy Council made Jane queen but reversed course nine days later in the face of Mary’s popular support.

Mary I: Reign as Queen

After taking the throne, Mary quickly reinstated her parents’ marriage and executed Northumberland for his role in the Jane Gray affair. Her initial ruling council was a mix of Protestants and Catholics, but as her reign progressed she grew more and more fervent in her desire


to restore English Catholicism.

In 1554 she announced her intention to marry Prince Philip of Spain, the son of Charles V. It was an unpopular choice for Protestants, who feared the permanent loss of Henry’s reforms, and for those who suspected a Spanish king would herald a continental takeover of England. Nevertheless, Mary moved forward with her plan, persuading Parliament to assent after Charles consented to leave Mary in full control and to keep the throne in English hands if the union produced no heirs.

Mary’s marriage to Philip was nearly as troubled as her father’s unions. Twice she was declared pregnant and went into seclusion, but no child was born. Philip found her unattractive and spent most of his time in Europe.

Mary I: The Protestant Martyrs

Mary soon moved fromqueen, Elizabeth I.

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It was the final week of auditions for American Idol 2013 and the new American Idol judges 2013 made their way to San Antonio, Long Beach and Oklahoma City to see if they could find some talent to bring with them to Hollywood Week on American Idol Season 12. While again no one stood out as much as Lazaro Arbos during week one of auditions, there were some stories and singers that brought me to tears. Let’s looks at the Top 3 auditions from the final week of auditions on American Idol 2013!

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#2 – Cristabel Clack. She also came from the San Antonio auditions on American Idol 2013. She has the look and the voice to make it to Hollywood Week, but she surprised me with how close she sounded like Alicia Keys when singing one of her songs. She did put some twists in there, but I had to look and see if it wasn’t really Alicia auditioning!

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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Weather in the Phoenix area has been perfect through the first week of Mariners camp, with blue skies and temperatures in the 70s, but the forecast for Wednesday is far more foreboding.

With 70 percent chance of rain and the temperature expected to be in the mid-40s when the team is scheduled to take the field at 9:30 a.m., manager Eric Wedge and his staff have been readying a backup plan.

The first Cactus League game is slated for Friday, and this year's tight early schedule doesn't leave much wiggle room for teams trying to get ready that quickly.

Pitchers have each thrown just one live batting practice after Tuesday's round of work, and hitters are just beginningMeyer became totally disabled, CUNA would make payments to the credit union covering Meyer's outstanding debt on his car loan. The policy's definition of "Total Disability" provided:
during the first 12 consecutive months of disability means that a member is not able to perform substantially all of the duties of his occupation on the date his disability commenced because of a medically determined sickness or accidental bodily injury. After the first 12 consecutive months of disability, the definition changes and requires the member to be unable to perform any of the duties of his occupation or any occupation for which he is reasonably qualified by education, training or experience.
(App. at 39.) As required by Pennsylvania law, the policy was approved by the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.
Diane Konz ("Konz"), a CUNA


employee, worked with a team of employees at CUNA to draft and submit insurance contracts to state regulators. The drafting team included the manager of claims, the manager of underwriting, the manager of accounting, and an actuary. Konz testified, during her deposition, that she drafted the policy language at issue during CUNA's efforts to modify policies to include plain language.
On May 27, 2000, Meyer suffered a work place injury and filed a claim for disability benefits under his CUNA policy. In response to the claim, CUNA awarded Meyer benefits for the period of July 7, 2000 to July 7, 2001, pursuant to the definition of "Total Disability," that governed the first 12 months of disability. CUNA found that Meyer was totally disabled according to the policy for thatAuthorities are investigating two Texas police officers involved in a violent arrest last year in which an elementary school teacher who is a black woman was twice thrown to the ground and later told by police that black people have “violent tendencies,” the Austin American-Statesman reports.

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In an incident report, Richter said King was “uncooperative” and was “reaching for the front passenger side of the vehicle,” the American-Statesman reports. The officer said he feared the


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of frustration in the continued mismanagement of funds and unethical business practices of banks."

"My goal was to educate and inform my friends of these practices and to encourage them to move their money to local credit unions. From there the concept spread at an incredible rate," she said, explaining that she researched the Durbin Amendment and bank practices on her own.

When asked why she chose to employ the Occupy Wall Street mantra "the 99 percent" in the event's description and the now iconic imagery of Anonymous, including the Guy Fawkes mask from the graphic novel-cum-movie "V for Vendetta," Christian wrote:

The date and imagery were chosen in an effort to give new life to the infamous date. It was my hope that the date would no longer be knownas the day an accused-terrorist attempted a violent act of rebellion, but as the day that the American people peacefully stood together in solidarity to stop funding big banks unethical business practices. This movement doesn't condone or support terrorism, violence or treason. It's very simply an effort to bring money to the community level where it can make a bigger impact.

Christian also said that the only support she's received is "calls from many credit union representatives offering their assistance in educating both myself and the public on the inter-workings of credit unions. "

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I signed the statement in question, along with people like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, and many other thoughtful citizens from various countries (including a number of Israelis) some of whom have suffered from very real


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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Just hours after courtroom setbacks for two once-close allies, Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump held a rally in Charleston, W.Va., a state he won by 42 points in the 2016 election.

Trump’s remarks, lasting about an hour and 15 minutes, did not directly address Manafort, who was found guilty by a federal jury in Virginia, and Cohen, who pled guilty to charges in a New York courtroom.

Instead, his speech covered a range of topics he frequently brings up, including his administration’s economic accomplishments, immigration and the military.

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"United States Steel announced a massive infusion of cash. They are opening seven different plants."

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Demolishing work at Istanbul’s historic Atatürk Cultural Center kicks off

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Demolishing works at the Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM) began on Feb. 13 to replace one of Istanbul’s landmark buildings with a cultural complex that will include an opera house, an exhibition center and other facilities.

Heavy construction vehicles arrived at the site on Feb. 13 and full-scale demolishment work is expected to start soon.

The new building will consist of a cultural center overlooking Taksim Square and Gezi Park. The opera house within the premises of the new building will host up to 2,500 people.

The new building to replace the AKM will also have theatre, cinema and concert halls, an exhibition center, a convention hall, a library, a museum, an art gallery,


cafés and restaurants.

The total size of the center will increase to 35,206 square meters, up from 5,794 square meters.

The AKM’s new architect is Murat Tabanlıoğlu, the son of the architect who built the original AKM building, Hayati Tabanlıoğlu, in 1969.

Controversial project

In November 2017, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that the new building would be completed in 2019.

“This project is much richer than the current project. Its multi-purpose design will satisfy many more needs,” Erdoğan said.

But the Chamber of Architects has repeated its criticism on the demolishment of the old building.

“The AKM is one of the monumental symbols of modern Turkish architecture and of the Republic,” the Istanbul branch of the chamber said in a statement on Feb. 13.

It also referred to a previous decision which deemed the AKMa cultural asset, calling the demolishment of the building “a crime.”

In 2005, then Culture Minister Atilla Koç proposed demolishing the building, saying it was not profitable enough. But the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) decided otherwise after demolition plans were met with fierce resistance.

In November 2007, the Istanbul Protection Board officially deemed the AKM “a cultural asset,” and in February 2012 restoration work commenced, with the support of 30 million Turkish Liras from Sabancı Holding.

Construction for the original AKM building, named after Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, began on May 29, 1946. However, due to a lack of funding, works were halted for many years.

Ten years later, building works began afresh with Hayati Tabanlıoğlu.

It was finished 23 years later, opening its doors on


Late Friday evening, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings sent a letter to White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney requesting he submit documents related to their impeachment inquiry by October 18th. In addition to Cummings, it was signed by Reps. Adam Schiff (Chair of House Intelligence Committee) and Eliot Engel (Chair of House Committee on Foreign Affairs). Cummings repeatedly insists that the letter is a subpoena.

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It cites several earlier deadlines which the White House has ignored.

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"It has been a privilege for me to lead this organization for so long, and there are many people I will remain grateful to," Franey said in a statement issued as the festival wrapped Friday night.

"Our senior staff and board have been working towards this executive transition for a few years, and we are fortunate to have several deeply knowledgeable and dedicated long-term employees who work 60-80 hour weeks on our behalf," he added.

In total, the Vancouver fest screened 341 films from 75 countries, including 92 Canadian films, during its latest run.

Other audience award winners included Ben Ratner's Down River, which wasnamed the most popular Canadian feature, and Haifaa Al Mansour's Wadjda, whichemerged as the most popular first feature.

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5th ODI: England's shock defeat gives Australia 4-1 series win

After Ashes whitewash, the English team ended the ODI series as well on a sorry note - failing to chase a paltry 217 to lose the game by five runs.

Adelaide: Clint McKay took three wickets, including a bizarre stumping to dismiss Ravi Bopara, as Australia beat England by five runs in the fifth one-day cricket international on Sunday to win the five-match series 4-1.

Australia made 217 for 9 in their 50 overs after choosing to bat on a sluggish pitch at the Adelaide Oval and England lost their last wicket at 212 with three balls remaining in a match marking the Australia Day national holiday.

England seemed to be coasting to victory when Joe Root made 55 and Eion Morgan


39 in a 64-run partnership for the fourth wicket that had them 154 for 4 in the 36th over. But they lost vital wickets quickly in a chaotic run chase and Bopara was left as their last specialist batsman and their last hope of ending the series with a win.

Bopara saw a succession of partners come and go as England stumbled towards a winning total and did everything in his power to marshal the resources of the England tail.

He was on 25 and seemed in command of an anxious situation when McKay, bowling at pace to wicketkeeper Matthew Wade, who was skilfully and courageously standing up to the stumps, beat his outside off. The ball struck Wade's gloves, dislodged and fell forward onto the stumps just as Boparalifted his back foot an inch above the ground.

Australia appealed, more in hope than confidence, and the television umpire studied a long series of slow motion replays before deciding that Bopara's foot had come up just as the bail had been removed. He was out and with him went England's last chance of victory.

His departure left England's last pair at the crease, needing nine runs with eight balls remaining. Chris Jordan and James Tredwell reached the last over with eight runs still required and reduced the target with a single and a leg bye before Tredwell was caught by Wade off Shane Watson to end the innings.

McKay finished with 3 for 36, including the wickets of Bopara, Ben Stokes (0) and Stuart Broad (7). Nathan Coulter-Nile took 3


in the series we could have won. Instead it's 4-1."

Earlier, Broad and Stokes shared six wickets as England restricted Australia to 217 for 9 in 50 overs.

Broad bowled opener Aaron Finch (7) and Wade (31) and dismissed allrounder Watson for a duck to finish with 3 for 31 from 10 overs. Stokes removed March, Bailey for the innings' top score of 56 and Glenn Maxwell for 22, severely denting Australia's batting effort and finishing with 3 for 43.

Bresnan bowled returning captain Clarke for 8 and Jordan claimed the late wickets of Faulkner for 27 and Coulter-Nile with consecutive deliveries in the last over but was denied a hat-trick by Doherty.

Bailey's 56, which included a half century from 60 balls, gave stability to a flimsy Australian innings. He puton 58 for the fifth wicket with Maxwell in the innings' most productive partnership, helping Australia recover from 64 for 4. Bailey and Wade then put on 55 for the sixth wicket, lifting Australia to 167 for 6 in the 40th over but sound late bowling helped England regain the upper hand. After Bailey was out, Australia lost four wicket for 48 runs.

Faulkner was later named Man of the Match for his outstanding bowling at the death and opener Finch was named Man of the Series.


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NATIONAL PREMIER LEAGUE (NPL) VICTORIA MEN'S PREMIER COMPETITION

The top-tier NPL Victoria competition remains with 14 teams, as in 2019. However, season 2020 will no longer stage a playoff match, meaning that the top two teams in NPL 2 will be automatically promoted into the premier NPL competition. Equally, the bottom two teams of the NPL will be directly relegated into the NPL 2 competition.

In accordance with the 2019 NPL Rules of Competition, FV has applied the promotion and relegation policy to its full effect. The following positional changes have now been made in the NPL 1 men’s competition.

Promoted Clubs Relegated Clubs to NPL 2 Eastern Lions SC Pascoe Vale FC St. Albans Saints SC Kingston City FC

NATIONAL PREMIER LEAGUE (NPL) VICTORIA MEN'S 2 & 3 LEAGUE STRUCTURES

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NATIONAL PREMIER LEAGUE VICTORIA (NPLW) WOMEN’S AND GIRLS’ LEAGUE STRUCTURES

Following the recent NPLW licence audit process, Southern United FC and Galaxy United FC will not compete in the NPLW senior women’s and Under 19 competition in 2020. Both clubs will continue to participate in Victorian senior football next year. As a result, the NPLW Senior Women’s and Under 19 competitions will comprise eight teams.

The following positional changes have been made in NPL W and Under 19 competitions:

Promoted Clubs Continued Participation in 2020 N/A Galaxy United FC N/A Southern United FC

The junior girls’ structure remains unchanged with 10 teams. NTC will field all teams except for an Under 12 team.

Further changes are expected to be implemented post


the 2020 season. FV’s recently released Football Competition Review: Women and Girls’ report can be accessed here.

NATIONAL PREMIER LEAGUE VICTORIA (NPL) JUNIOR BOYS’ LEAGUE STRUCTURE

After an extensive review of FV Men’s and Boys’ football competitions, including the awarding of 13 new licences to existing community clubs, the Junior Boys’ NPL has now been decoupled from the senior NPL for the purpose of promotion and relegation.

The new structures follow an extensive review and application process, aimed at ensuring a new era with 48 clubs involved in Victoria’s Junior Boys’ NPL competition.

Junior Boys’ NPL teams will take part in the pre-qualification phase in their geographical zones on the weekend of February 9, 2020.

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National disgrace responsible for two deaths

The Washington establishment was rocked Tuesday by news that a high-level FBI agent specializing in counterintelligence and electronic surveillance had been arrested and charged with espionage on behalf of Russia, following a six-month investigation.

FBI Special Agent Robert Philip Hanssen, aged 56, was placing a packet of classified information at a dead drop site near his residence in suburban Virginia Sunday night when the Feds collared him, much to his surprise.

Hanssen gave his Russian handlers over 6000 pages of secret and top secret documents, according to a detailed, 103-page FBI affidavit in support of a request for search and arrest warrants.

It is believed that he took in over $600,000 in cash and valuables for selling out national security,


and in some instances his own colleagues. Much of what he sold involved US counterintelligence and electronic surveillance techniques, information on active double agents, and documents related to nuclear weapons technology.

Hanssen supplied information to the KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvenoy Bezopasnosti) and its successor, the SVR (Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki Rossii) tailored to enable Russian spooks to evade detection while improving their own spycraft against US targets.

Worse, it's also believed that he confirmed information originally supplied by convicted CIA rat Aldrich Ames, regarding three double agents attached to the Russian embassy in Washington, which led to the imprisonment of one and the executions of two.

"Hanssen compromised these three individuals expressly in order to enhance his own security and enable him to continue spying against the United States," the FBI affidavit alleges,qualifying him as one cold bastard.

Hanssen is a specialist in spycraft, and even trained other agents. He employed his skills to evade detection on the job with the FBI for approximately fifteen years. It is believed that his Russian handlers never knew his true identity, or even which US government agency he worked for.

Unlike the greedy Ames who spent his ill-got gains lavishly and so tipped investigators, Hanssen was exceptionally disciplined, remaining in a modest house and continuing to drive an older car, in keeping with his government salary.

Having the highest security clearance, he routinely scanned FBI files for evidence that his drop points were under surveillance, and for other titbits of data which might have suggested that the Feds were onto his schemes.

It was not until the


government source, probably via the CIA.

If the Russians suspected that they had a traitor of their own who gave Hanssen up to the Americans, they might well have planned to wait a day or two before going to fetch the packet he dropped.

Brilliant Career

Few traitors could have been better placed to compromise US security. In 1979, Hanssen worked in the FBI's New York field office where he helped establish a database about foreign intelligence officers assigned to the USA.

In the early to mid-1980s he was assigned to FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC, as a supervisor in the intelligence division. He was later assigned to the FBI's Technical Committee. In the mid to late 1980s he was again assigned to the FBI's New York field office, this time asthe supervisor of an intelligence squad.

From 1995 until shortly before his arrest, Hanssen served as the FBI's senior representative to the Office of Foreign Missions of the US State Department, working as the head of an interagency counterintelligence group, and as the FBI liaison to the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

During the investigation he was moved back to FBI headquarters, into a slot from which he would be unlikely to detect the Bureau's inquiries into his affairs.

The revelation is of course an immense embarrassment for the FBI, which has tried to stay 'on message' touting their success in investigating and catching Hanssen, while avoiding the fact that this bastard remained in operation under their noses for fifteen years.

"A betrayal of trust by an FBI Agent, who


1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation

1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation tells the fascinating story of how generations of physicians from different countries and creeds created a medical tradition admired by friend and foe…

About The Book

Medicine and allied sciences flourished in the medieval Islamic world. 1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare from Muslim Civilisation tells the fascinating story of how generations of physicians from different countries and creeds created a medical tradition admired by friend and foe. It influences the fates and fortunes of countless human beings, both East and West.

Based on a translation movement of Greek medical tests, it drew on the legacy of surrounding cultures (Egyptian, Persian, Indian and Chinese). Importantly, it innovated in surgery, gynaecology, paediatricsand pharmacology, to name just a few areas. Ultimately, this tradition served as the foundation for European university medicine in the medieval and early modern period and has thus impacted on healthcare until today.

The choice of the title 1001 cures like its predecessor publication 1001 Inventions, reminds us of the famous 1001 Nights or the Arabian Nights. These were allegedly stories to entertain the caliph of Baghdad Harun al-Rasheed who, like his son Al-Mamoon, was a patron of the arts and mathematics. During their period the movement of translation of philosophical, cultural and medical heritage of the antiquities to Arabic contributed to the start of new Renaissance of intellectual activities in the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia in the high middle age. This is demonstrated in


College, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Professor Abdel-Halim developed an interest in medical history for over 20 years and published widely in various international journals and conference proceedings, and became a visiting professor at Al-Faisal University, Riyadh, where he authored and taught courses on the History of Islamic Science and Islamic Medical Ethics. In 2005 he was awarded the Kuwait Foundation for Advancement of Sciences prize. He was also a poet with several Arabic poetry publications. His website is www.rabieabdelhalim.com.

Peter Adamson

Peter Adamson is Professor of Late Ancient and Arabic Philosophy at the LMU in Munich; he moved to Munich from King’s College London, where he is still affiliated. He has written two monographs on al-Kindī and his circle, and together with Peter E. Pormann produced a book of translations ofal-Kindī’s works. He has published numerous articles on ancient and medieval philosophy and edited a number of volumes, mostly recently, again together with Peter E. Pormann, Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam (2017).

Natalia Bachour

Natalia Bachour studied pharmacy at the Universities of Damascus and Kiel, translation at the University of Mainz, and history of medicine at the University of Heidelberg, where she obtained a doctorate with the thesis on early modern Paracelsian physicians and how their word was received in Arabic and Turkish; the thesis won the Prix Carmen Francés. Since 2010, she works at the University of Zurich, teaching Arabic and history of medicine. Her research focuses on the human body as a remedy in cultural and medical history.

Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt

Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt read Arabic


and Islamic Studies, Ancient Philosophy and Medieval History at Freiburg im Breisgau, Munich, Göttingen (PhD 1970), and Yale. After a two-year fellowship at the Orient-Institut of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft in Beirut he taught Arabic and Islamic Intellectual History at the Universities of Heidelberg and Bochum. He published on the transmission of Greek medicine and philosophy to Arabic culture, on the early history of classifications and transmission of knowledge in Islam, and on classical Arabic prose literature.

Leigh Chipman

Leigh Chipman (PhD 2006, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is an independent scholar, editor and translator based in Jerusalem. She has held post-doctoral fellowships at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Beersheba) and Tel Aviv University, and has been a research fellow on projects on the reception of Galen in Arabic andHebrew (Bar-Ilan University) and on Arabic epigraphy and on affluence in the Fatimid period (both at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Her own research focuses social and intellectual history of medicine and science in the Mamluk period and the Cairo Genizah. With Peter E. Pormann and Miri Shefer-Mossensohn, she has recently editied the two-volume special issue of Intellectual History of the Islamicate World on ‘Medical Traditions’.

Aileen Das

Aileen Das is an Assistant Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan. Her work draws attention to the relationship between medicine and philosophy in the classical and medieval Islamicate worlds. She is broadly interested in the transfer of Greek philosophical knowledge into Arabic. Her research considers not only how the transmission of certain texts shaped the development of ‘Arabic Platonism


and Aristotelianism’, but also how the translators of these texts, who were working in the Sinai, Palestine, and Baghdad, adapted the sources for their monotheistic readership.

Nahyan Fancy

Nahyan Fancy is an Associate Professor of Middle East/ Comparative History at DePauw University. His research interests are in pre-1500 medicine and intellectual history. He published a monograph on Science and Religion in Mamluk Egypt (Routledge, 2013), examining the intersections of philosophy, theology and medical physiology in the works of Ibn al-Nafīs. His current research focuses on Arabic medical commentaries on Avicenna’s Canon of Medicine, particularly the many developments that took place in medical physiology between 1250–1520 across Islamic societies. He was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in autumn 2015.

Peter E. Pormann

Peter E. Pormann in Professor of Classicsand Graeco-Arabic Studies at the University of Manchester. Recent publications include two special double issues The Arabic Commentaries on the Hippocratic ‘Aphorisms’ (Oriens, co-edited with Kamran I. Karimullah; 2017), and Medical Traditions (Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, co-edited with Leigh Chipman, Miri Schefer-Mossensohn; 2017–18) and two edited books: La construction de la médecine arabe médiévale (with Pauline Koetschet, 2016); and Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam (with Peter Adamson; 2017). His Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates is forthcoming in 2018.

Pauline Koetschet

Pauline Koetschet is a researcher at the Centre National de la Research Scientifique. She studied philosophy at the École normale supérieure (Rue d’Ulm) in Paris, and obtained a doctorate from the Unversities of Paris-Sorbonne and Warwick with a thesis on Abū Bakr al-Rāzī. She has


published an anthology of Arabic philosophy (La Philosophie arabe, IVe-XIVe siècle, 2011) and edited, with Peter E. Pormann, La construction de la médecine arabe médiévale (2016). She is currently preparing a critical edition and French translation of al-Rāzī’s Doubts about Galen (al-Shukūk ʿalā Jālīnūs).

Mahmoud Misry

Mahmoud Misry, Lecturer at Fatih Sultan Mehmet University, Istanbul. In 1990 he obtained a BSc degree in Paediatrics, and in 2002 he obtained a PhD on the History of Medicine from the Institute for the History of Arabic Science, Aleppo University. He is also the Director of the Wakfiyah Manuscript Library. He is the author of numerous books, papers and presentation on history of medicine in Arabic. In 2005 his book on the Benefits of Bodies and Souls (Maṣāliḥ al-abdān wa-l-anfus) by al-Balkhī wasawarded a prize by the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science. His book on the History of Paediatrics in Arabic and Islamic Heritage was awarded the 2005 Prize of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences.

Ahmed Ragab

Ahmed Ragab is the Richard T. Watson Associate Professor of Science and Religion at Harvard Divinity School, affiliate associate professor at the department of the history of science, and director of the Science, Religion and Culture program at Harvard Divinity School. He obtained an MD from Cairo University in 2005 and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from L’École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris (2010). His thesis, now published as a book The Medieval Islamic Hospital: Medicine, Religion and Charity (2015), dealt with medieval hospital provisions


in the Islamic world. Other interests include the history of prophetic medicine and modern Islam’s relationship to science and medicine.

Emily Selove

Emily Selove is a lecturer at the University of Exeter, where she teaches and researches medieval Arabic literature. Her published monograph, Ḥikayat Abī al-Qāsim: A Literary Banquet, centres on the eleventh century story of a Baghdadi party-crasher in Isfahan. She published a translation of Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī’s partycrashing book, Selections from the Art of Party-Crashing in Medieval Iraq (2012). Her current research involves a literary reading of medieval Arabic magical texts, and a translation and edition of Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī’s thirteenth-century handbook of magic, Al-Kitāb al-Shāmil wa-l-baḥr al-kāmil (The Comprehensive Book and the Full Sea).

Justin Stearns

Justin Stearns is an Associate Professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. His researchinterests focus on the intersection of law, science, and theology in the pre-modern Muslim Middle East. His first book was Infectious Ideas: Contagion in Pre-Modern Islamic and Christian Thought in the Western Mediterranean (2011) and he has published articles in Islamic Law and Society, Medieval Encounters, Al-Qantara, and History Compass. He is currently working on a book on the social status of the natural sciences in early modern Morocco entitled Revealed Science: The Natural Sciences in Islam in the Age of al-Ḥasan al-Yūsī (d. 1691) as well as on an edition and translation of al-Yūsī’s Muḥāḍarāt for the Library of Arabic Literature.

RS Book Launch
London: 14 March 2018; The Foundation of Science, Technology and Civilisation (FSTC), the publishers of the title 1001 Cures: Contributions in Medicine and Healthcare, in


partnership with Healthcare Development Holding (HDH) organised a book launch event at the Royal Society in London in celebration of the British Science Week 2018.

The book launch event included an enlightening panel discussion that presented the long medical traditions from the East including Muslim and Indian civilisations as well as along the Silk Road. The panel, which was moderated by Bettany Hughes, included Peter Frankopan, Peter Pormann and Aarathi Prasad. The distinguished speakers discussed the fascinating legacy of healthcare from the Eastern world, and how it drew on ancient cultures and influenced European thought.work in scouting, for top clubs and companies;
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