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The Carnival Victory in Amber Cove on Tuesday. The arrival of the Carnival Victory opened the new port of Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday. It is the first of many Carnival Corp. ships that will dock at the $85 million facility. Amber Cove is expected to revive cruise tourism on the north coast of […]Oliver Onions, in full George Oliver Onions (born 1873, Bradford, Yorkshire, Eng.—died April 9, 1961, Aberystwyth, Wales), novelist and short-story writer whose first work to attract attention was The Story of Louie (1913), the last part of a trilogy later published as Whom God Has Sundered, in which he achieved a successful combination of poetry and realism. Of his other novels, the greatest success was perhaps The Story of Ragged Robyn (1945), a tale of 17th-century England. His Poor Man’s Tapestry (1946) earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Onions was married to the Welsh-born novelist Berta Ruck.

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(1872-1961). The English short-story writer and novelist Oliver Onions thrilled readers with his supernatural tales and shocked some of his contemporaries with his gruesomely realistic crime novels. He


wrote that in case of 27 towns and villages the lands were won by external firms instead of local ones. He mentioned, for example, Kőröstetétlen, Pusztavacs, Sóskút, Hévízgyörk, Galgahévíz, Kóka and Pomáz. However, for example, in case of Pomáz, a small town near Budapest, a bypass road will be constructed on the lands sold. Therefore, it is not surprising that among the winners one can find real estate appraisers, a company owned by the cousin of the National Bank of Hungary’s president and a person who is suspected to be a strawman. In the case of these external winners

the possibility of real estate speculation often comes up

– wrote Ángyán.

According to the former secretary of state, government-close relatives and entrepreneurs won large territories, too.

Most of the lands, 1,010 hectares"Mater puerorum'. A medieval naming for an enigmatic children's disease.
The pediatric clinical entity called "Mater Puerorum' appears first in the latin translation of Rhazes' "Practica Puerorum' and in his "Continens'. His descriptions of the disease could give some likeness either to a diagnosis of night terrors, or of hyperpyretic convulsions, or of a slight form of epilepsy. Mater Puerorum is afterwards described by most pediatric authors till the Renaissance period without much originality. Rhazes being one of their main sources anyway. Mater Puerorum has been considered by Still and Radbill as a synonym for hysterical fits in children. Going back to the Arabic original naming: Ummu's Sibyan, we venture another etymology based on Babylonian-Judeo-Arabic demonology. The "Mother of the Children' could be the female demon Karina--or Lilith--which is


Umesh Mishra

Umesh K. Mishra is a professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara (1990–Present).  He is the CTO, co-founder and board member of Transphorm, founded in 2007 and the first company to deliver gallium nitride (GaN) transistor products for high efficiency power conversion technologies.  Prior to Transphorm, he co-founded Nitres Inc. in 1996, which was the first company to develop GaN LEDs and transistors.

Career

Mishra earned a B.Tech degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India in 1979.  He went on earn his M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University in 1981 and Ph.D. at Cornell University in 1984 and served as a principal staff engineer at General Electric.  Mishra was elected to the National Academyname and lists the web-links for you to stalk him!

1. He’s holds an Ivy League degree. The California-native traveled all the way across the country to attend Harvard University in Cambridge, Ma. There, he majored in economics while excelling on the college’s basketball team. He graduated in 2010 with honors.

2. He began his professional career as an underdog. Since he wasn’t drafted into the pros upon graduation, Lin joined the Dallas Mavericks for their summer league, but was released on account of the competition. In July 2010, he signed with the Golden State Warriors in California, but was cut to free up a roster spot on December 9, 2011. Three days later he was picked up by the Houston Rockets, who then released him to sign a bigger


Bryce Cuellar of Las Vegas was arrested after making a YouTube video detailing how he was going to kill “gays, faggots, lesbians and satanists.” He also claimed to be a “Christian Warrior.” Both his YouTube and Facebook were full of violent anti-gay rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and also arguments for Christianity. Police said his posts were becoming more violent and radical over the past few years.

Beyond his violent speech, Cuellar is a domestic abuser. According to KTNV Cuellar attacked his wife shortly after making the video.

An hour after Cuellar posted the video, police say he attacked his wife, punching her and causing her to fall to the ground. He then jumped on her and began choking her and telling her that he was going to kill her. During anSikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion

The CH-53 Sea Stallion is the most common name for the Sikorsky S-65 family of heavy-lift transport helicopters. Originally developed for use by the United States Marine Corps, it is in service with Germany, Iran, Israel, and Mexico. The United States Air Force operated the HH-53 "Super Jolly Green Giant" during the late– and post–Vietnam-War era, updating most of them as the MH-53 Pave Low.

The dimensionally-similar CH-53E Super Stallion is a heavier-lifting, improved version designated S-80E by Sikorsky. Its third engine makes it more powerful than the Sea Stallion, which it has replaced in the heavy-lift mission.

Development

Origins
In 1960, the United States Marine Corps began to seek a replacement for their HR2S piston-powered helicopters. On 27 January 1961, the Marine Corps began working with the US


a tiltrotor aircraft. V-22 Ospreys will replace the Marine Corps CH-46Es and CH-53Ds, but not their CH-53Es. The in-development CH-53K is planned to supplant the Navy and Marine Corps' CH-53Es.

HMH-463 replaced its CH-53Ds with CH-53Es in September 2011. HMH-363 and HMH-362 are to operate D-models until the squadrons are deactivated. Both units are to be reactivated as MV-22 and CH-53K squadrons respectively. Several CH-53D helicopters will be retained for the 3rd Marine Regiment for training.   HMH-362 retired the last CH-53Ds after its combat deployment in August 2012 and decommissioned in November 2012.

Israel

In August 1968, an Israeli Air Force delegation went to the Sikorsky plant in Connecticut to choose the service's next assault helicopter. The delegation was looking for a helicopter with augmented payload carry capacity, highlywater vapour in the air.

Dr Angelyn Moore, from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said: "It might be surprising that we are using GPS to monitor weather hazards, but GPS is a weather instrument.

"Fundamentally, a GPS station is measuring the time it takes a signal to travel from the GPS satellites to the receiving stations on the ground, and that travel time is modified by the amount of moisture in the air.

"Whenever we measure the position of a GPS station, we are also measuring the amount of water vapour above it."

Through this, the team is able to track in real time how air moisture is changing and whether heavy rain is likely.

Image caption GPS stations like this one are fitted with small seismic and meteorological sensors

In the summer, the researchers


During the last three years, Latin America in a Glimpse has been an annual recount of the most relevant events in Latin America in terms of technology and human rights. This summary allows readers to get an idea of the scene in the region regarding: relevant issues discussed, emerging threats, the response of public policies to the challenges projected by technology and the role that civil society organizations are playing in those scenarios.

We also wanted to highlight the work that each of the civil society organizations are doing in their respective countries and areas of interest, both through the report and the annual event held the day before the internet Governance Forum, with the intention to establish a bridge between Latin America and other regions of the globe,Finland postpones deportation of ill 82-year-old Russian woman

82-year-old Irina Antonova was due to be returned to Russia on Thursday. However, Finnish immigration authorities are waiting for the results of a medical examination before deciding what to do.

Irina has been staying with her daughter in Helsinki on a guest visa for more than two years, though it has since expired.

She was denied leave to stay in the country despite being in a wheelchair and with no family to look after her in Russia.

Under Finnish law, foreign women who have children living in Finland do not qualify for residency.

But the Russian Antonova is not alone in her troubles – 65-year-old Eveline Fadayel from Egypt is also on the list for deportation.

The story of two grandmas has caused sensation in the


not followed the way the Great Magician planned, because Stribog had looked into his soul and had seen his dreams, full of the black despair. But the wish to help the people was stronger than uncontrollable powers of Master of Rains, and the next part of the Pact was concluded...

The school of Elements.

Destructive, hard-to-control spells of this school are hardly able to heal the wounds. The tradition of Elements is, probably, the most powerful of the schools of the battle way. These spells are not oflen used, and people are afraid of those magicians who practice them, because they are reputed as the insane ones.

The uncontrollable power of the elements is sometimes used in those moments of the battle when all seems to be lost. In this casethe spells of elements serve as the dazzling funeral for the magician and those who lifted their hands against him. The magic of Elements was the magic of the hermits from the ancient times. They went to the forests and mountains to learn the Secret Knowledge - and to learn the seamy side of the world and themselves. It is worth adding that in some cities of Golden Land use of these spells is forbidden by the government. Below are three spells from the school of the magic of Elements.

Fire Storm Causes the uncontrollable amount of fire, which comes from the skies and destroys all in a quite big radius. This spell should be used very carefully.

Sulfur Rain The flow of sulfur dashes down to your enemies from


EXCLUSIVE

Bruce Springsteen looked the way a lot of NY Giants fans felt Sunday after a gut-wrenching loss against the Carolina Panthers ... with the game slipping away in the final seconds.

The Boss was spotted at Wonder Bar in Asbury Park, New Jersey watching the Giants game with friends. The team was up by a point after a clutch touchdown by rookie Saquon Barkley in the last minute of the game -- but Cam and co. came charging back up the field.

.@SAQUON! He's IN for the TD and the @giants take the lead in Carolina.

📺: FOX #GiantsPride pic.twitter.com/syYxkP8SdG @NFL

As great of a play as Saquon made, it was trumped by Panthers kicker Graham Gano in the last 6 seconds of the game ... when he kicked a 63-yard fieldDonald Trump's campaign has coasted on controversy, free media coverage and hysterical mega rallies. To the shock of veteran politicos everywhere, Trump has bulldozed through most of the primary process without the overwhelming aid of super PACs and paid advertising. He's even shunned what's often called retail politics – shaking hands in shopping center parking lots, attending local events, holding intimate Q&A's in small-town pizza joints.

What's peeved establishment Republicans more than anything is Trump's vacuousness. Debate after debate, speech after speech, Trump has replaced substance with vitriol, ideas with insults. The results speak for themselves. But there's a limit to this kind of politics. The bombast and the bigotry will excite the base in unfortunate – but predictable – ways, but eventually Trump had to get serious, or


at least pretend to.

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Now that Trump is inching closer to 1,237 delegates (the number needed to secure the nomination on the first ballot), he appears to be reinventing his image and campaign. There were signs that changes were coming a few weeks ago when Trump began reshuffling his staff. He demoted his amateurish campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, and brought in old-school GOP operatives Paul Manafort and Rick Wiley.

There were reports that Trump's plan was to “professionalize” his campaign. It's now clear what that meant. If you watched his victory speech after the New York primary, you heard and saw a different Trump. He was prudent, measured, concise. “We have won millions of more votes than Senator Cruz,” Trump said, “millions and millions of more votes than Governor Kasich."I had never met him until that tour but I will always remember the first time I saw him bat,'' Healy said.

"It was at a practice session at Loughborough Uni and it was just the way he set up and held the bat. I thought, 'this guy is a bloody good player.' You could tell straight away.

"You just knew he was going to score runs. He had a solid presence about him. He was pretty quiet on tour but is a great bloke. He has not got a bad bone in his body.

"Even at training today when I said g'day to him he was very welcoming.

"He is very technically correct which allows him to be good all around the ground.

"That is why he makes big scores. Because he


scores at 360 (degrees) and bats time. That is what a good technique enables you to do.''

Pucovski is one of Australia’s great hopes. (Peter Wallis)

Pucovski, who seems set to debut for Australia against Sri Lanka at the Gabba on Thursday, had his first training session as an Australian player at Allan Border Field.

Former Test player Kepler Wessels, who said last week Australian batsmen were losing their grip on the "Australian'' technique of crisp leg-side play, general stillness and prudent decision making outside off stump, would have enjoyed Pucovski's net session.

His leg-side work was very strong, his footwork bold to the slow men and, most significantly, he left the ball quite well outside off-stump, a significant skill in Gabba Tests where often the most important shots are the onesnot played.

One of his few false moments in the nets was a skied pull shot which prompted him to grunt in frustration.

But he looks solid in build and technique.

Australia's selectors have had their eye on Pucovski for several years and hope he will become their anchorman of the next generation.


FEMA to Transport Puerto Rico’s Hurricane Survivors to US Mainland

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(CNN) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency will help transport hurricane survivors from Puerto Rico to the continental United States, with priority given to approximately 3,000 people who are living in shelters, the agency said.

Hurricane survivors who want to temporarily relocate to the mainland, could end up in Florida or New York, as FEMA is working to establish agreements with both states. The two states were selected by Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello, according to FEMA.

The program he referred to is FEMA’s Transitional Shelter Assistance, which helps displaced residents findeven if there were an outcry to stop sharing it would take a ban on conversations between close friends to halt the practice.

One look at the playing field in the hours before kickoff — when players and coaches from both teams mingle as they warm up — reveals the close ties that form the underpinnings of the N.F.L. Players who went to high school or college together catch up, although some do that the night before the game, when they may go out to dinner together. Coaches who may have been colleagues on the same staff early in their careers trade war stories. Even scouts, seeking confirmation of their player evaluations, check in with their peers as preparations for the draft begin.

“I probably knew coaches and scouts on


former team. Pace volunteered that safety Adrian Wilson blitzes a lot and plays close to the line to assist in run defense. It was nothing that could not be seen in the most rudimentary film study. And Wilson did not play.

Still, the extra reconnaissance sometimes pays off. One broadcaster said he was told that before the Baltimore Ravens played the Cincinnati Bengals in their season opener, the Ravens asked offensive lineman Willie Anderson — who signed with Baltimore days after the Bengals cut him at the end of the preseason after 12 seasons — why the Bengals had so much success blocking the Ravens’ blitz. Anderson gave the Ravens’ defense the Bengals’ offensive line calls. The Bengals had not changed them. The Ravens were so effective that BengalsA man has appeared in court and admitted making racially-offensive Twitter comments about footballer Fabrice Muamba, who collapsed after suffering a cardiac arrest during an FA Cup tie.

Liam Stacey was in the dock at Swansea Magistrates Court, sitting at the Crown Court on Monday, charged with a racially-aggravated public order offence.

The 21-year-old, from Pontypridd, South Wales, entered a guilty plea and was bailed to return to court on March 27.

The comments appeared on the Twitter account @liamstacey9, which has since been taken down.

While the feed was still visible, comments claimed that his account had been hacked.

Other users of the site responded with outrage to the remarks.

Muamba , 23, was taken to hospital after suffering what appears to have been a cardiac arrest on the pitch before 36,000 spectators


on Saturday night.

He remains in a critical condition but is showing signs of improvement , a joint statement from Bolton Wanderers and the London Chest Hospital has said.

The footballer's illness has prompted a wave of support and prayers from both fans and others in the world of football.

Both Swansea University and Treorchy RFC, where Stacey is believed to have played rugby, have made statements condemning the comments on his Twitter feed.

"We disassociate ourselves from any racist remarks," a Swansea University spokesman said.

Treorchy RFC said: "The club wishes to completely disassociate itself from these comments and will be carrying out a full investigation into this matter.

"The club values its position and reputation within the local community and the wider rugby community and at all times encourages our members toWASHINGTON — The Justice Department pushed back on Wednesday against accusations that President Trump’s appointment of Matthew G. Whitaker as acting attorney general was illegal, arguing that it complied with both federal statutes and the Constitution — and that it fit within a history of similar designations dating back to the earliest days of the country.

The Trump administration made its case in a 20-page memorandum by Steven E. Engel, the head of the department’s Office of Legal Counsel. It came a day after the State of Maryland asked a Federal District Court judge to issue an injunction declaring that when Mr. Trump ousted former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the role of acting head of the department passed instead to the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, as a


A community of four crore people have been affected by criminalising gay sex, says BJP city chief Ashish Shelar, seeking a national debate on the subject.

Seeking a new, nuanced position on homosexuality among his party men, BJP Member of the Legislative Council and president of the Mumbai unit of the BJP Ashish Shelar has shocked many in his party by stating that he supports demands for protection of gay rights, though he is not really promoting gay sex. Given that it's an issue affecting a community of nearly four crore people in India, Shelar's comments have been widely welcomed, reflecting a fresh position in the BJP that has otherwise held a mostly conservative view on the subject.

In fact, soon after the Supreme Court ruling upholding Section 377 ofis a resident of Bandra (W) in suburban Mumbai and is a lawyer by profession. He was twice elected as a corporator from 2002 to 20012. In 2009, Shelar lost the Assembly election from the Bandra constituency to Congress MLA Baba Siddiqui by a narrow margin of 1500 votes. He was elected MLC a couple of years back.

“There should be a national debate on the issue. There is a very large number of people who have been campaigning against Section 377. One needs to look at the issue on humanitarian grounds. I think Parliament cannot ignore something that affects a large number of people in the country,” added Shelar, who enjoys the support of large sections of upscale Bandra and Khar. Shelar has been preparing to contest the


When Calls The Heart: Trials Of The Heart, DVD review

(From Amazon)Elizabeth Thatcher (Krakow) is an independent, strong-willed teacher who has foregone the life of the big city and found a job, a home (and romance with a handsome Mountie named Jack) in the small frontier town of Coal Valley. But when she learns that her mother has taken ill, she returns to Hamilton, her hometown, with Jack as her escort. Once in the comparably opulent Hamilton, Elizabeth and Jack are confounded by Jack’s ne’er-do-well brother and Elizabeth’s former suitor, Charles Kensington. But it is Elizabeth’s father, William, who drives a wedge between them when he suggests to Jack that Charles would be a better match for his well-bred daughter.My thoughts:Inspired by Janette Oke's novels about a well bredcity born teacher moving to the rugged Canadian frontier, this series brings to mind Little House on the Prairie. Producer Michael Landon Jr. follows in his father's footsteps (Producer/Director of the 1980's sitcom) with this new series, always family oriented and a little gem in a otherwise blase world of cinematography.It is a relief to see such movies for any family and the charismatic relationships makes even adults look forward to see what happens next.That said, this episode surprised us as new actors were introduced to replace established characters and along with inaccuracy in details such as period costumes (few women wore such colours or even ventured outside without hat/head covering) and too many 'newcomers' to remember, this episode disappointed. The series might well soon fall in the


'deja vu' category.Still, I enjoyed the chemistry between our favourite Mountie and spunky teacher and I too cannot resist wondering what happens next in the series!4 Stars.From director Michael Landon Jr., son of the late television legend Michael Landon, who has been in the film business for over 25 years. With two of the highest rated films in the history of the Hallmark channel, and several top ten releases targeted to the Christian market, Michael has become known for creating heartfelt, inspiring films that connect to the family. He has developed and/or produced, directed, and written screenplays for Fox, CBS, NBC, Disney, Sony, Lifetime, and others.

About Word Entertainment:A leader in the music industry for over 60 years, Word Entertainment, a Warner/Curb company, is a unique, comprehensive entertainment companyWoody Allen’s latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, has been left in limbo after Amazon Studios appeared to shelve it indefinitely.

The production company, which was contractually obliged to distribute the film, said on Thursday: “No release date has ever been set.”

Amazon, which signed a five-film deal with the director in 2016, struggled to find wide theatrical distribution for his previous offering, Wonder Wheel, after renewed media focus on a sexual assault allegation made by his then seven-year-old adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, in 1992.

Allen has always denied the claim. Authorities looked into the details but no evidence was found and the case was not pursued.

Sources suggest dropping the film could cost Amazon $25m (£19m). Filming for the romantic comedy – starring Timothée Chalamet, Selena Gomez, Jude Law


and Elle Fanning – finished last autumn.

Amid growing public support for the #MeToo movement, Chalamet and Gomez said they regretted working on the film. The pair later donated their salaries to Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment in Hollywood.

On Tuesday, it was reported that Allen was unlikely to release a film in 2019, which will be the first time he has not done so for 44 years. Or 43 if A Rainy Day in New York is not released.

In June, Allen appeared robust in the face of renewed attacks on his reputation, saying his track record both personally and professionally ought to have made him a “poster boy” for the #MeToo movement. The film-maker has written many acclaimed and Oscar-winning roles for women.

Over a long career, Allen has“The suspect confirmed that her goal was to enter Russia and go to Chechnya, where she would detonate a bomb that she would carry into a public place,” Lithuanian prosecutor Algimantas Klyunki said, as cited by Itar-Tass news agency.

Egle Kusaite was detained in Lithuania in October 24 by security service officers. The girl had been under surveillance for several months due to extremist anti-Russian posts on the Internet and repeated applications for a Russian visa.

According to investigators, Kusaite had contacts among Islamic radicals in Russia, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Great Britain. Her contact in the Chechen Republic, who has been identified and detained by Russian police, was to take her to a training camp where she would undergo conditioning to become a suicide bomber. She also received training in


with respect to MDA or both in terms of filarial infection (Mf/Ag/Ab) in humans or disease in humans or infection in vectors.

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The studies in this review were from the regions of Africa, Americas, Western Pacific, East Mediterranean and South-east Asia (as specified by WHO). The countries included from the African region were Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia; the studies in the American region were from Brazil and Haiti; the Western Pacific included studies from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and American Samoa; Egypt and Sudan were the two countries from the East Mediterranean. The countries includedendemic areas, which helped to increase drug compliance and importance of disease elimination.**5**Western PacificPapua New GuineaKhieu et al, 2018[@CIT0126]Four sites (two sentinel and two spot check)Not mentioned≥5Ab prevalenceIn this study, as a first step towards LF elimination, mapping exercise was carried out in all provinces and districts, based on Ag surveys during 2000--2002. Any province with even one Ag positive as endemic. Two provinces and four districts in two other provinces classified as endemic due to the focal nature of LF. MDA with DEC and albendazole was initiated in 2005 through 2009 completing five rounds with effective coverage of 65%. In sentinel sites, Mf surveys were conducted during baseline and 2nd, 3rd and 4th years and also after the final round of MDA in 2009. In spot-check sites,


transmission interruption in the IUs. To ensure this, TAS 3 with an antibody survey of children in one of the historically known LF endemic district was carried out and only one child was positive substantiating the earlier finding tha that transmission has been interrupted. Having passed TAS3, as the final stage of declaring elimination of LF, in 2015 the MoH prepared the dossier documenting elimination of LF as a public health problem and submitted to WHO which was validated by the Regional Dossier Review Group of WHO Western Pacific Regional office. In 2016, WHO headquarters officially acknowledged that LF elimination was achieved in Combodia.**6**South East AsiaNepalOjha et al, 2017[@CIT0127]Five districts9495 children6--9Ag prevalenceThis study in Nepal provides findings of the Pre-TAS, TAS and drug coverage surveys conducted after 6from mapping endemic districts to post-MDA surveillance of LF, the progress and impact of the those activities and highlights the first evidence that prevalence has been lowered to a level when transmission is not sustainable. Data for this study was from 15 administrative units of Myanmar, consisting of 65 districts. Mapping exercise in 19 districts and historical data showed that 45 districts were endemic for LF. Starting MDA in only two districts in 2001, it was upscaled to all 45 endemic districts by 2014 so the number of MDAs completed ranged between 2 and 12 in different districts. Seven years after the start of MDA, the first TAS wasconducted in three districts and subsequently in other districts too. TAS passed in 5 districts and MDA was stopped, but


that required more rounds of MDA had higher baseline Mf prevalence. Post-MDA surveillance in Cambodia[@CIT0125] showed that all the endemic districts had undergone five rounds of MDA with \>65% coverage and had passed even TAS 3 and is currently in the final stage of declaring LF elimination. The authors have attributed this success to the commitment of the government and effective implementation of MDA, monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance activities. MDA was successfully implemented even in forested and remote endemic areas through advocacy, sensitization of various departments, active participation of provincial- and central-level program personnel in MDA activities, and financial and related support from partners and stakeholders. In Nepal[@CIT0126] it was shown that interruption of transmission was established in five of the ten endemic districts and in oneEU of another district following successful TAS after six rounds of MDA, in-spite of not achieving the optimum coverage of 65% in three districts. In the remaining districts, MDA continued as they had a higher baseline Mf prevalence as reported in Bangladesh.[@CIT0124]

In Myanmar[@CIT0127] the program initiated in one district in 2001 was up-scaled to 42 of the 45 endemic districts by 2014. This slow progress in upscaling was attributed to lack of funding, resources (eg training of basic health staff, advocacy materials), continued problems in procuring adequate quantities of DEC, as well as security-related issues. In spite of this, five districts declared interruption of transmission with two passing TAS 1 after 6--10 rounds of MDA and three districts that had passed TAS 2 after undergoing five rounds. In


created ISIS through it's hamfisted
invasion of Iraq. Cheerleading tbis sort of effort is like congratulating a
child when they decide to eat their peas.

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arlk
Yes and no. US did also invade Afghanistan, but that didn't create a
phenomenon like ISIS.

ISIS was actually there, founded by Zarqawi like any other group, but its main
differentiator was its swift rise to power and popularity after 2011
benefiting from the unbearable oppression of Sunnis in Iraq by Iran and its
proxy, which made them align with whoever could be their savior and get rid of
the Iranian influence. You can see this clearly when ISIS stormed the prisons
where thousands of Sunnis were sentenced to death, and made them into the
second wave of recruits.

US did enable ISIS, Zarqawi and co created it, Iran gave people a reason to
join itwe never know the amount of covert ops going on) and what they
revealed was that one budget line was the biggest of the whole organization:
pensions. Suicide bombing is not the career path everybody chose there.

ISIS is not a US creation: that would imply GWB's administration capacity to
plan such a thing. But it came from crucial mistakes the US did despite being
warned about these years prior.

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Robotbeat
"ISIS" is an acronym and should be capitalized. (Isis is an Egyptian goddess
of no relation to ISIS.)

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mikeyouse
Isis is also an unfortunately common name. Most of my coworker's apps stopped
working and her banking became _much_ more difficult sometime around 2012.

~~~
FooBarBizBazz
This seems dumb on the part of the bank. Unless terrorists are really, really
stupid, classifying the first name "Isis" as "terrorist" is bound to have a
100%


Hernandez has gun in photo, officials say

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is holding what authorities have said is a gun in several surveillance photos released Thursday and had been recorded hours before — and minutes after — his friend was shot to death.

The photos, taken from Hernandez's home surveillance system, are in more than 100 pages of court records released by Attleboro District Court. Prosecutors have previously described the photos in court and in affidavits, but this is the public's first look at images showing Hernandez holding a gun both before and after the killing.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder in the death of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old Boston semi-professional football player whose body was found June 17 in an industrial park about amile from Hernandez's home. He was shot five times.

Authorities believe Lloyd was killed with a .45 caliber Glock, which they have said hasn't been recovered. Prosecutors have said previously that a gun Hernandez is seen holding in the home surveillance appears to be a Glock.

TENNIS: Federer loses in Swiss Open

Roger Federer lost to a low-ranked opponent for the third straight tournament, falling, 6-3, 6-4, to Germany's Daniel Brands in the second round of the Swiss Open in Gstaad, Switzerland.

Andreas Seppi of Italy advanced to the quarterfinals of the Croatia Open when Andreas Haider-Mauer retired because of an injury while trailing, 6-1, 4-0, in Umag.

HOCKEY: Weight, Guerin in U.S. Hall

Former NHL stars Doug Weight and Bill Guerin and Carolina Hurricanes owner Peter Karmanos are headed for the United States


Hockey Hall of Fame.

Also selected were former Michigan State coach Ron Mason and former women's star Cindy Curley.

The Toronto Maple Leafs signed general manager Dave Nonis to a five-year extension.

BITS & PIECES:

Irving impresses in Team USA showcase

Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving had 23 points and seven assists to lead the White team to a 128-106 victory over the Blue in the USA Basketball Showcase in Las Vegas. Clippers center DeAndre Jordan added 10 points and nine rebounds for the White team.

The New York Knicks re-signed forward Kenyon Martin.

Center/forward Brandan Wright re-signed with the Dallas Mavericks for $10 million over two years plus incentives, according to Wright's agent, Jim Tanner.

Rachel Fattal (Los Alamitos) and Jillian Kraus (Foothill) each scored twice and Tumua Anae (Corona del Mar) made 14 savesnew chapter confirming the report's finding that the abusive culture is endemic. Tuesday night, the Army revealed that Sgt. 1st Class Gregory McQueen, who was responsible for sexual assault prevention at Fort Hood, Texas, is under investigation for allegedly forcing another soldier into prostitution and assaulting two others.

He is the second sexual assault prevention officer in two weeks linked to abuse. Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, the chief sexual assault prevention officer for the Air Force, was arrested May 5 after allegedly groping a woman in an Arlington, Va., parking lot.

The pace of the assaults outlined in the Pentagon report — three an hour in 2012 — constitute a crisis of command that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says could undermine the very effectiveness of this country's voluntary military.

Yet despite


a greater awareness among the Pentagon's brass, as well as mandatory annual training to snuff out sexual abuse and usher in an era of openness in the military, the problem has only gotten worse.

USA TODAY interviewed lawmakers, social scientists and people who have worked on the sexual assault issue inside the military to determine why the Pentagon hasn't been able to stem this predatory tide. All pointed to two factors — one a new plague, the other as old as the military itself — standing in the way:

• A military culture more coarse toward women in the ranks, the result of stress from a decade of war and the status of women as second-class warriors barred from combat roles. Male recruits are drawn from a society where violenceand objectification of women are staple elements of films and video games.

• A military justice system with origins dating to the Revolutionary War that gives commanders of accused troops ultimate power over legal proceedings.

A starting point, experts say, might be the culture producing our soldiers.

"There's a coarsening of American life which is altogether too evident," says James Burk, a sociology professor at Texas A&M University who specializes in the military, referring to the proliferation of violence toward women in films and video games. "I'm sure the recruits are bringing that in with them," he says.

Army Maj. Gen. Gary Patton, head of the Pentagon's sexual assault prevention office, conceded in an interview with USA TODAY this week that deep-rooted cultural flaws in the American military must be eradicated, including


should come as no surprise. David Segal, a military sociologist at the University of Maryland, says America's volunteer force has been under enormous strain after fighting two wars and enduring back-to-back deployments that lead to pathologies ranging from suicide to alcohol abuse and mental illness.

Although women have served in uniform for decades — and have fought and died in Iraq and Afghanistan — they have always been deemed lesser war-fighters, barred by federal law from serving in combat roles, social scientists say.

"That reinforced the traditional notion (among men in uniform) that there are differences between men and women: 'Women are not our equals,'" Segal says. "'They're not allowed to be 100% soldiers. They're not part of our culture.'"

When the military was desegregated in 1948 and gay troops wereallowed to serve openly in 2010, cultural attitudes had to be changed. In both cases, black troops and gay men were considered the legal equals of heterosexual, white males as combat troops.

The same has never been true for women. Though they constitute 15% of the military, they have always been legally relegated by Congress to non-combat roles. Only recently has the Pentagon begun to explore lifting that legal restriction.

"Some men still think ... women are inferior," says Bob Shadley, a retired Army major general who has published a book on sexual scandals he uncovered at Maryland's Aberdeen Proving Ground in the 1990s. "They don't fit in the male macho war-fighter image."

A TRADITION TWO CENTURIES OLD

American military justice evolved during the past century to closely resemble proceedings in a


federal courtroom, with prosecution, penitentiary standards, witness testimony and trial by jury before a trained judge. There is one glaring exception.

The decision on whether charges should be brought, who sits on the jury and whether a conviction or punishment can stand is controlled by a high-ranking officer who is the defendant's superior. The officer is neither a lawyer nor a judge, although he or she receives written advice from a military attorney.

The arrangement is a core principle for maintaining order within a fighting unit. It is an age-old tradition the United States inherited from the British military when the nation was formed in the 18th century, says Gary Solis, former military lawyer or judge advocate in the Marine Corps and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

Britain,Canada and other countries have moved away from this principle of commanding officer's authority, but it lives on in the American military's Uniform Code of Military Justice created by Congress.

That issue undercuts military fairness in prosecuting sexual assaults, some lawmakers say.

"The military has proven that it is incapable of doing the job," says Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., who decries the Pentagon's prosecution of sex offenders as "abysmal." She is drafting laws aimed at removing the responsibility of these cases from unit commanders.

Those commanders reduce as many as a third of sexual abuse punishments, according to estimates provided to Speier's office.

"It's a tool the commander has to help ensure discipline and order and obedience to authority," says Victor Hansen, professor of criminal law at New England Law Boston and


strongly believe that if we allow them to report outside the chain of command, allow that decision-making to be made by a prosecutor, not the commanding officer, you will see justice done more often," she says.

'IT'S A TRAUMA'

Sarah Bonner awoke in pain in the soldier's apartment. Her nose was bleeding, her body covered in bruises, and she was naked, clothing strewn around the room. The man who had sexually assaulted her was asleep on the other side of the room.

She would never forget the terror that swept over her just then, Bonner says. "My worst nightmare (had) come true," the former airman recalls.

She quickly, quietly got dressed, found her way home and called a chaplain.

Two weeks into her deployment to Germany in 2005, Bonner had met the Armymilitary police officer for drinks the night before, then passed out in the taxi on the way home. She says she believes she was drugged.

Bonner was in the minority of those sexually assaulted in the military. Last year, only about one in 10 female victims reported the crime.

Bonner says that after the assault in 2005, her assailant was disciplined for beating her and shipped back to the USA. She was told to apply heavy makeup to cover the bruises and return to work.

"I'm glad I served," says Bonner, 32, who has since left the Air Force and is attending college. "I'm proud of my service. But there's that thing there. It's a trauma."

If Pentagon estimates are correct, more than 20,000 troops declined to report what happened to them


them through the aftermath of a sexual assault.

Gordon, who left the Army in 2008, remembers one female soldier she assisted in 2006. The young woman said a soldier in her unit sexually assaulted her after they had been drinking alcohol. By the next day at the battalion picnic, word had spread, and everyone knew about it. The accused soldier was boasting.

The young woman, humiliated by the attention and overwhelmed by the sense that she had somehow been responsible, eventually dropped the charges, Gordon says.

Gordon, who assisted nearly a dozen victims, including some in the Iraq war zone during deployment, has strong memories of the women she helped. She remembers the vacant look in their eyes after an assault, how they tended to blame themselves, how commanders sometimes gavehe also served a 14-month stint in Vietnam before he was medically discharged in 1972. Six years later, Ermey began an acting career, specializing in military roles, including an uncredited role in Apocalypse Now in 1979.

In 1987, Ermey was initially hired to be a technical advisor to director Stanley Kubrick for the film Full Metal Jacket, but Kubrick ended up casting Ermey as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and, in a rare step, allowed the Marine to improvise his performance as well as write and edit his own dialogue. Ermey was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1988 in the Best Supporting Actor category for his performance.

Ermey went on to play a variety of authoritative characters in more than 70 films, as well as in several television series and


video games. He also hosted the History Channel series Mail Call and Lock N’ Load with R. Lee Ermey, as well as the Outdoor Channel show GunnyTime (a play on his nickname of “The Gunny”).

In 2016 Ermey, a board member of the National Rifle Association, said that he had been “blacklisted” in Hollywood after criticizing then-President Barack Obama’s policies during a December 2010 event. However, Ermey identified himself politically as an independent.Sunday, July 22, 2007

A 49-year-old Makkah institution was bailed out of financial troubles with a SR10 million cash infusion from Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah’s personal account yesterday.

Al-Nadwa, which has chronicled the daily life of Islam’s holiest city in modern times, has been unable to meet payroll for the past three months, according to Hesham Kaaki, the 30-year-old editor in chief of the newspaper.

“King Abdullah ordered the payment of the amount to the Al-Nadwa newspaper from his personal account to help it overcome its current financial crisis,” said Culture and Information Minister Iyad Madani in a statement to the Saudi Press Agency.

The culture and information minister said that the kind gesture is proof of the king’s support for the Kingdom’s media. Madani added that he


As many as 3/4 of the world's big carnivores are falling in numbers according to the latest news. In the developed world, most carnivorous animals have already succumbed to extinction, and 31 big meat eaters are under increasing pressure in the Amazon, South East Asia, southern and East Africa. The beautiful puma, known as the cougar in North America, has already been declared extinct in the eastern US.A new data study published in the journal Science shows the majority of lions, wolves and bears now occupy less than half their former ranges. Of course, human persecution is largely to blame. The loss of the animal's habitat and prey has created global hotspots of decline. But rather than turning a blind eye to the animal's plight, we should considerthe implications. The loss of carnivores could be extremely damaging for ecosystems the world over.

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Fewer wolves and cougars in the US Yellowstone National Park resulted in an increase in animals that browse such as elk and deer. However, the researchers found that the rise of these browsers is bad for vegetation and disrupts the lives of birds and small mammals, leading to a cascade of damaging impacts.The rise of olive baboons in Africa has been linked to the decline of lions and leopards. But the baboons now pose a bigger threat to farm crops and livestock than elephants. The threatened animals have an intrinsic right to exist. In the miraculous balance of nature, they provide an economic and ecological service to the world. When large carnivores


are re-introduced, such as with wolves in Yellowstone, the ecosystems tend to respond rapidly.

Big cats are such magnificent beasts. They're featured wherever people want to show strength and power. I've often wondered why the lion is part of the British emblem along with the mythical unicorn. According to an Oxford University study of fossilized remains, 'Super-sized lions' roamed the British Isles 13,000 years ago. But Mesolithic Britons wiped out the lion, along with the elephant, and the hippopotamus. In medieval times, the Barbary Lion (Panthera leo leo) was a prized possession of British lords. A few large, shaggy individuals were imported from northern Africa to the menagerie of the Tower of London. Barbary Lion males had especially large manes, and they were among the biggest lions of theJed Purcell hasn't added a story.

A three-member team will try to summit the tallest mountain in North America to raise funds and awareness for the EOD Warrior Foundation, which helps the casualties and families of EOD operators who have sacrificed the most over the last decade of conflict.

The climb kicks off May 11 in Talkeetna, Alaska, when the team will fly by ski plane to the base of the climb on the Kahiltna Glacier. From there, it's up to three weeks of hauling 120 pound gear loads up the West Buttress route in subzero temperatures until reaching the zenith of North America.

Explosive Ordnance Disposal operators have a dangerous job and The EOD Warrior Foundation has offered personalized support to more than 350 of those wounded and fallen heros


Comparison of phenylketonuric and nonphenylketonuric sibs from untreated pregnancies in a mother with phenylketonuria.
Two children, one with phenylketonuria (PKU) and the other nonphenylketonuric, from untreated pregnancies in a mother with PKU provided the opportunity to compare the degree of damage from maternal PKU between these genotypically different fetuses. Both the phenylketonuric offspring and her nonphenylketonuric sib were microcephalic at birth and had congenital anomalies, esophageal atresia in the former and congenital dislocation of the hip in the latter. However, the phenylketonuric child also had intrauterine growth retardation while the nonphenylketonuric sib had normal weight and length at birth. Both children are mentally retarded with an IQ below 50 in the phenylketonuric child despite early dietary treatment for PKU and an IQ of 54 in the nonphenylketonuric sib. Bothbio

Amy Justman's career as a crossover soprano has spanned musical theater, classical music, jazz and beyond. She made her Broadway debut in the revival of Company, performing the role of Susan as well as playing piano as part of the actor‐orchestra. This season, she joined her 6th Broadway company, covering both Renée Fleming and Jessie Mueller in the revival of Carousel. Recently, Amy stood by for and performed 3 principal roles in the Broadway a cappella musical, In Transit, coming directly from the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera, where she performed the role of Carlotta. Other theatrical credits include A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder on Broadway, the 25th Anniversary National Tour of Phantom, both the Broadway and Pioneer Theatre companies of White Christmas,


Clara in the off-Broadway revival of Passion at Classic Stage Company, Heidi in [title of show] for the regional premiere at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and four productions with City Center Encores. Amy's concert work includes Peep Bo in The Mikado at Carnegie Hall, Cinderella and Rapunzel in Disney on Classic with the Tokyo Philharmonic, covering Kelli O'Hara in Lucky to Be Me at New York City Opera, and Jessie in Mahagonny Songspiel at the Ravinia Festival. She has also been a soloist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (Bernstein's Mass, recording on Naxos), New York City Ballet, Fire Island Opera Festival, Great Music in a Great Space, American Modern Ensemble, American Symphony Orchestra, the Kurt Weill Fest, American Opera Projects, Berkshire Bach Society, Broadway Chamber Players, MasterChorale of South Florida and Natchez Opera Festival. Her studio work includes the jazz recordings Songs for Pickles and Hoagy Carmichael: The Stardust Road, as well as Tania León's Grammy-nominated Inura. She received her MM from Manhattan School of Music and her BA from Yale University, where she has been a voice teacher for the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater. She lives in New York with her husband, writer Dave Itzkoff, and their son, Max.


The Stonemason's Yard

1726-30
Oil on canvas, 124 x 163 cm
National Gallery, London

Giovanni Antonio Canal's popularity with English Grand Tourists - mainly young noblemen completing their education with an extended trip to the Continent - has meant that many more of his pictures can be found in Britain than in his native Venice or even throughout Italy. Trained as a scene painter, by 1725 he was specialising in vedute - more or less topographically exact records of the city, its canals and churches, festivals and ceremonies. He visited England several times, but his English paintings did not please, and he returned home for good in about 1756.

Although we associate Canaletto for the most part with mass-produced, crystal-clear scenes of celebrated sights, the 'Stonemason's Yard', his masterpiece, is not of thiskind. A comparatively early picture, and almost certainly made to order for a Venetian client, it presents an intimate view of the city, as if from a rear window. The site is not in fact a mason's yard, but the Campo San Vidal during re-building operations on the adjoining church of San Vidal or Vitale. Santa Maria della Carità, now the Accademia di Belle Arti, the main art gallery in Venice, is the church seen across the Grand Canal.The Church of Santa Maria della Carità is still flanked by the slender campanile that collapsed in 1741.

Canaletto's later works are painted rather tightly on a reflective white ground, but this picture was freely brushed over reddish brown, the technical reason for the warm tonality of the whole. Thundery clouds


are gradually clearing, and the sun casts powerful shadows, whose steep diagonals help define the space and articulate the architecture. Not doges and dignitaries but the working people and children of Venice animate the scene and set the scale. In the left foreground a mother has propped up her broom to rush to the aid of her fallen and incontinent toddler, watched by a woman airing the bedding out of the window above and a serious little girl. Stonemasons kneel to their work. A woman sits spinning at her window. The city, weatherbeaten, dilapidated, lives on, and below the high bell-tower of Santa Maria della Carità it is the little shabby house, with a brave red cloth hanging from the window, which catches the brightest of the sunlight.IDET
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VERA - NG

PROFILE OF EXHIBITS

Product:

VERA - NG

Location:

Hall P, Stand No. 066

Producer:

ERA a.s.

Exhibitor:

ERA a.s.

Brief characteristics of the exhibit

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unique and no. 1 PET (Passive ESM Tracker) – VERA-NG

ERA has created the
ultimate, world-leading and advanced Passive ESM Tracker (PET) VERA. VERA-NG
utilizes MLAT techniques to locate and track targets by multilateration on
various electronic emissions in a broadband range. The passive technology
utilized by ERA allows for a virtually undetectable operation, it emits zero
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easily transported in general purpose vehicles.


The character creation and rules enforce the theme, and it's really refreshing. It's good for bringing young players at a gaming table because they play the young good people, protect their family and friends, and discover the dangerous world beyond the wall of their village. It's more low fantasy than D&D, and magic is less powerful and flashy, more subtle.

Characters

In BtW, character creation is made with all the players at the table, because they create their characters with bounds between them and are invited to create important NPC and locations to the blank village map provided. Each player picks a playbook (they are more than 40 playbooks at this time) and each playbook invite the player to roll on 7 tables to generate the character story, stats andpoint and framework to build plots and stories around, and the playbooks were helpful for players who were completely new to RPGs. The simplified rules (compared to traditional D&D of various editions and Pathfinder) I found massively helpful, while still containing elements that I found familiar and was expecting, like ability scores, alignment, etc.

The premise of all the PCs knowing each other and all living in the same village was helpful too, and makes the world seem more real, while giving plenty of opportunities for plot hooks and motivations.

I really liked this, and after purchase I downloaded the other free materials that contain plenty of ideas for future adventures, how to build encounters, monsters, villains, and the like.

There are a few elements here and there that aren't explained


In September 2011, former Michigan State forward Delvon Roe assumed he’d never don a green and white jersey on the court again. After playing in 109 contests in three seasons (2008-11), accumulating two appearances in the Final Four and one in the national title game, the 6-foot-8, 235-pounder developed chronic knee pain. Seeing that another year would lead to his discomfort worsening, as well as stealing away minutes from younger players, Roe forwent his senior campaign.

Following graduation, the theater major pursued his aspired career path in Hollywood, playing roles in both full-length and short films, such as Love and Honor, starring well-known actor Liam Hemsworth. On top of that, he even appeared in an episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, along with The Real Husbands of Hollywood onstarted to come to us.”

Once the free-of-charge tournament swelled up to 64 teams, it was divided into four regions (Charlotte, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia), consisting of 16 squads apiece. In order to enter, clubs must garner supporters, as the top-11 teams who compile the most fan votes from their respective fields receive a ticket into the bracket.

Additionally, three eligible groups in every region qualify for an at-large bid. The other two spots are handed out to the defending champion from the region and the team that raises the largest sum of money for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America in TBT’s GoFundMe contest.

Generally, the majority of teams consist of a general manager, booster, coach, players and a “ringer,” who represents any player that the squad wishes to add


if it reaches the Super 16, taking place in Philadelphia. The regionals and championship will occur in New York.

For the first time, St. Xavier University hosted Chicago’s side of the bracket, featuring both brand-name and generic faces, including ex-Sacramento Kings’ guards Mike Bibby and Jason Williams, who also won a title with the Miami Heat in 2006. Ironically, 15 years ago, the two were dealt for one another, as Bibby ventured to Northern California while Williams traveled southeast to play for the Memphis Grizzlies.

“I always wanted to play with Jason,” Bibby said. “The first time we played together was in Oakland, when the rookies played the sophomores, and it was just good to be with another point guard.”

The two prolific players took advantage of the TBT, pairing upboy’s varsity basketball team at Shadow Mountain High School, his alma mater, in Phoenix, Arizona. The 14-year NBA vet thoroughly enjoys preaching the game that he fell in love with as a kid.

On the flip side, “White Chocolate” competes in a pro-am league in Orlando, Fla., consistently toasting the competition.

Kaleb Lush, a resident of Sacramento, Calif., came to TBT, never seeing his favorite player in-person until the guard stepped onto the Shannon Center’s floor. In the early 2000s, Lush remembered the Kings advertising tickets based on who the opposing players were. Then Williams arrived, giving fans a legitimate reason to support their own squad.

“I just loved the way he passed, dribbled and just shot whenever the hell he wanted to,” Lush said.

Other attendees took in the chance to


New Zealand triplets killed in Qatar fire

Three New Zealand triplets were among 13 children who died when a fire tore
through a shopping centre in Doha, claiming a total of 19 lives, Prime
Minister John Key said Tuesday.

6:00AM BST 29 May 2012

Mr Key said the triplets, believed to be three-year-olds, were in a nursery in the Villagio mall in the Qatari capital when the blaze erupted. He said their parents were New Zealanders who had been working in the country for some time.

Radio New Zealand named the triplets as Lillie, Jackson and Willsher Weekes.

"It's a great tragedy," Mr Key told reporters. "Their family are obviously dealing with the terrible grief that they have at this time. Obviously it's a very tragic day for that family."

Mr Key said the children's grandparentswere flying to Qatar to support the family and New Zealand consular officials were also offering assistance.

Expatriate New Zealand journalist Tarek Bazley said he was in the shopping centre with his two children when the fire broke out, but they escaped unharmed.

"The volume of smoke coming out of it, it looked like you had 30 steam trains all pumping their smoke out above it," Mr Bazley told Radio New Zealand.

He said there was a lack of urgency from officials in the mall when alarms went off and complained of a "complete lack of planning, a complete lack of coordination in terms of removing people from this area".

"The first thing I heard of it was a very benign fire alarm, it sounded more like a door bell to be


honest," he said.

"After about 15 minutes I asked the attendant on the soft play area, where I was with my children, whether that was something we should be worried about, he said 'no sit tight, it's usually a false alarm'.

"About 10 minutes later someone else, a member of the public raced through this area and said 'everybody out, you've got to get out now, the other half of the mall is on fire'."

Qatari officials said the fire started in the nursery and firefighters had to break through the roof to get to trapped children after a staircase to the first-floor facility collapsed.Situated in the heart of the Iranian capital, Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art is home to the world's most valuable collection of western modern art outside Europe and the United States. The rarely shown collection, which includes works by giants such as Pollock, Warhol and Bacon, was bought under the supervision of Farah Pahlavi, the former queen of Iran who fled the country along with the late Shah during the turbulent events of the 1979 Islamic revolution. The Guardian has spoken to the former empress about the museum and its remarkable collection on the occasion of an exhibition showing some of the art pieces for the first time.

Q. Where did the idea for the collection come from?

I have always been fascinated with the arts. When I was in


did. The Museum of Contemporary Art and Museum of Carpets were built there. I wanted the museum's building to be both inspired by our ancient architecture and have modern elements and Mr Diba did it so well, the museum's rooms were designed in a way that the light came in through windows similar to the wind-catchers of Yazd's deserts.

Q. Who actually selected the art pieces?

Both Iranian and foreign works were bought under the supervision of my office. We provided the budget from NIOC [National Iranian Oil Company] and the budget planning office. Of the people involved, two were Americans, Donna Stein and David Galloway, and Mr Diba, who was the director of the museum, and Mr Karimpasha Bahadori, who was the chief of staff of the cabinet. Mostof the paintings were bought under the direct supervision of my office with help from Mr Bahadori. He had met the president of Christie's and Sotheby's and the [Ernst] Beyeler art gallery in Switzerland. When Mr Bahadori left the office, Mr Diba became more involved with selecting the works.

Q. How do you feel now to see the collection gathering dust in the basement of the museum?

I hope these works are not buried in the museum's basement aimlessly. I was very worried for the fate of those paintings during those events [at the time of the revolution], I was worried that the revolutionaries would destroy them but fortunately the museum staff protected them in the basement and Mehdi Kowsar, the head of Tehran University architecture faculty, made a list


on its return to Tehran in customs. When the director of the museum inquired, he was told the painting had been taken as ransom for the money that the ministry of culture owed to the customs. I instantly issued a statement in protest.

There was a painting that they exchanged some years ago, it was a painting by Willem de Kooning, which was deemed un-Islamic. They exchanged it for the Shahnameh owned by the American art collector Houghton. It's the Shahnameh that originally belonged to Shah Tahmasb [of the Safavid dynasty] and it's the most beautiful ever. In 1970, we wanted to buy it but it cost some $20m which we couldn't pay at the time. The owner printed them and gave some of its miniatures to the Metropolitanhaven't been able to stop the creativity of our artists. Some have to work underground, like in cinema, and sometimes their work has political messages, but the number of our artists now has definitely grown in comparison to the past. In reality, I admire all the new groups that exist, because in the beginning they had even banned the traditional Iranian music and some artists were practicing underground. I admire the film directors including those who have recently won international recognition, but I particularly regret that Iranian musicians are not allowed to show their instruments on national TV and the fact that lady singers cannot sign individually.

The picture of today's Iran in the world is terrible, comparing the past and now. I'm happy that few years ago at


the time of Tehran's post-election unrest in 2009, the world for the first time in many years saw the true face of Iranians and both people inside the country and foreigners once again reminded themselves of Iran's glorious civilisation, history and art. I hope the situation changes and they can have the regime they deserve.

Q. Anything to you want to add about the museum's collection?

In one of the films shown in the US from that basement, I saw that the painting Andy Warhol drew of me was cut by knives and a sculpture of Bahman Moases that they didn't like was broken. I had the chance to meet some of these artists in person, like Marc Chagall, whom I met in southern France, Dali in Paris, Henry Moorein the suburbs of London, Paul Jenkins in the US and the Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro, who we had commissioned to make three bronze columns for the museum's entrance, a project that was disrupted by the revolution. When I was in the US few years ago on a flight to Connecticut, I realised they had been bought by the Pepsi company.


the evolution of voter attitudes in socially conservative areas where Democrats still outnumber Republicans by wide margins, but where those Democratic voters now reliably vote for the GOP.

In several parts of eastern and western Kentucky, Democratic state legislators hold seats in districts President Trump carried with two-thirds of the vote or more. In Louisiana’s October election, Republicans carried legislative districts in Acadiana, west of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, that the party had not even bothered to contest in recent years.

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that extends upwards in register with the radial section and that consequently opens out at the top of the body.
According to another advantageous characteristic of the invention, the imaging means are positioned in the mounting housing by means of an adapter, the outlet being situated in the proximity of the adapter.
In another advantageous aspect of the invention, in use, the imaging means are situated above the treatment means, the imaging means being positioned in the top portion of the window. Thus, the air bubbles that tend to rise in the propagation medium as a result of gravity, would collect in the top portion of the window, but this is avoided as a result of them being evacuated directly out of the propagation space via the outlet situated inAs is well known and understood, government regulations more and more mandate the use of safety shields to afford protection to the operators of machine shop equipments. Usually positioned in use such that the shield is in the workman's line of sight to the piece being machined, these shields are generally made of a heavy plastic, see-through, material, bent to protect the worker, and oftentimes, those who may be in areas immediately adjacent to his. As is also well known and understood, however, there is much resistance to the use of these shields--one of the reasons being the inherent delay in having to continually adjust and re-adjust the shield positioning every time a workpiece is loaded onto, and removed from, the machine in question. Presently available safety shields


as are used today also suffer the disadvantages of either being time consuming in their respective set-ups, or overly cumbersome in their alignment or orientation with the workpiece and machine in connection with which they are operative--oftentimes being arranged by a series of connecting rods and links for desired positionings.finally began taking the industry to task over its embrace of filmmaker Victor Salva.

In 1988, while filming his debut feature Clownhouse, Salva sexually abused his 12-year-old star. He eventually pleaded guilty to five felony counts: lewd and lascivious conduct, oral copulation with a person under 14, and three counts of procuring a child for pornography. Still, Salva has been allowed to direct film after film in the wake of his conviction, from Powder to the Jeepers Creepers trilogy.

Documentaries like An Open Secret and the testimony of former child actors like Feldman have long contested that pedophilia and the abuse of young men is Hollywood’s other dark secret. If that is truly the case, what more will it take for it to come to light?


of California, so diversity of citizenship existed.   The district court gave summary judgment for Auerbach.   We reverse and remand for trial.

BACKGROUND

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The undisputed facts were that Michael Searcy, Sandra's divorced husband, removed Stacy in October 1986 from her home in Texas and took her with him to his home in California.   Michael then asked Auerbach, a clinical psychologist licensed by the State of California, to examine Stacy.   On December 4, 1986 Auerbach gave Michael a written opinion stating his belief that Stacy had been sexually abused while in her mother's custody.   Michael contacted the police and a child welfare agency in Houston in early 1987 and gave them Auerbach's opinion.   The Texas officials called their counterparts inNineteen companies from the North Star State now populate the annual list ranking businesses by revenue.

Downtown Minneapolis at night

Snowmobile and off-road vehicles manufacturer Polaris Industries edged into the Fortune 500 list this year for the first time ever, as did financial services firm Securian Financial Group. Minnesota’s presence on Fortune’s 2018 list, which ranks companies by their 2017 fiscal year revenue, grew by one year-over-year to 19 given the loss of St. Jude Medical, which was acquired early last year by Abbott Laboratories.

UnitedHealth Group, the nation’s largest insurer, once again earned the top spot among Minnesota companies, this year breaking into the fifth overall position. The state’s two big-box retailers, Target (38th overall) and Best Buy (72nd overall), took home the silver and bronze locally, as two Minnesota


manufacturers — CHS Inc. (96th overall) and 3M (97th overall) — rounded out the top 100.

Meanwhile, several of the state’s long-standing Fortune 500 businesses moved significantly down in the rankings.

Hormel Foods (323rd overall) took the biggest tumble, falling 28 spots from its ranking last year. Thrivent Financial for Lutherans (343rd overall) also dropped 27 positions. Shipping and logistics company C.H. Robinson Worldwide had the biggest gain among Minnesota companies previously within the Fortune 500. It jumped up 19 spots.

However, the state’s new entries, Securian and Polaris, each took a large stride up the rankings to reach the top 500, climbing 70 and 41 spots, respectively.

Here’s how Minnesota-based companies ranked altogether:

Walmart once again placed atop the full Fortune 500 list. The retailer reported upwards of half-a-trillion dollars in revenueinto a different and more in need positional department.

Newcastle still have to decide what will happen with unsettled midfielder Mikel Merino with the ex-Borussia Dortmund player continuously linked with Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad in recent times.

Merino enjoys life in Newcastle but is not content with the prospect of sitting on the bench next season.

Benitez wants Merino to stay and fight for his place but knows his head could be turned by the lure of regular first-team action in La Liga.

Ideally, Benitez wants a midfielder who will push Shelvey and Diame at the start of next season.

Newcastle will look to move on Jack Colback and Henri Saivet this summer in an attempt to raise more transfer funding while Benitez will also use pre-season to take a look at


operated on for prostate cancer. He was his usual exuberant and confident self, repeatedly saying how thankful he was for his luck which led to his phenomenally successful literary career. Lord Archer looked fit and well at The Sick Children’s Trust literary lunch at Madingley Hall, a charity... read more

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I am counting the weeks now till the publication on 25 September of my book, The Shop Girls. It is a heartfelt and dramatic collection of memoirs of young women who worked in an upmarket Cambridge ladies department store during the 1940s-60s called Heyworth’s which served titled and distinguished ladies related to the royal family, as well as gypsy women from the Midsummer Fair who bought... read more

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Liver disease rarely makes the headlines, yet it is one of the leading causes of human mortality, resulting in almost 2 million deaths per year globally â€“ many of which could be prevented by early detection. There are over 100 types of liver disease, which together affect at leastÂ 2 million people in the UK. It recently came to prominence following the tragic death of fomer British tennis... read more

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“Can I stay an extra night?” Nancy pleaded with the receptionist at the end of her short break at Ragdale Hall spa. Nancy has been a regular visitor there for 25 years, but with all the


which supports agricultural and rural businesses. Why worry about seeking support from hostile banks when savvy Matthew Smart and his team are willing to help, believing in the House Collection vision with its launch last year of Poets House in Ely, and now Paddocks... read more

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On Friday South East Cambridgeshire Conservatives – of which I am a member – voted to reaffirm Lucy Frazer as their parliamentary candidate, while seeming to concede there had been an error with the final count at the open primary last month, which went in favour of her opponent Heidi Allen. Heidi has made the most generous natured statement which I am confident will win her many new... read more

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After what has been an unsettling three weeks for South East Cambridgeshire Conservatives, Lucy Frazer was this evening reaffirmed by members as their candidate for the next parliamentary general election. A special meeting was held following uncertainty over the final count at the open primary held last month when Lucy Frazer was declared the winner over Heidi Allen; they were both stunning... read more

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I am delighted that my public relations work with Abcodia announcing their major collaboration with Cancer Research UK was runner-up in the BioNewsRound award at the Genesis 2013 conference this week. The award was based on our press release announcing the creation of the


Parramatta Eels Rugby League Club has re-signed outstanding young forward Daniel Alvaro on a one year extension that will see him in the Blue and Gold until the end of the 2019 season.

The contract extension is the third in as many days for the Eels, with the Club continuing to lock in key players ahead of returning home to the new Western Sydney Stadium in 2019.

Parramatta Eels Head Coach Brad Arthur said, “Daniel has an outstanding work ethic, he’s an impressive young footballer on and off the field, and I’m confident he will continue his development over the next couple of seasons.”

Speaking about his re-signing, Daniel said he was delighted to continue his career at Parramatta, “I’m really happy to be part of the Eels family. We’re atight bunch and we’re excited about the direction we’re heading in.”

Daniel made his NRL debut in 2015 against Penrith Panthers, his representative debut last year playing in the Country Origin side, and was selected to represent Italy in the 2017 Rugby League World Cup.

Off the field, Daniel was awarded his second University Blue by UTS in 2017 to recognise the level of excellence he has achieved in both his sporting endeavors and his undergraduate studies with his Business and Construction Management degree.


Lawyer: Bad medicine led Delco family to strip naked

The attorney for a woman who stripped naked with three of her children outside a suburban Philadelphia high school says an adverse medical reaction triggered the psychotic episode.

According to the Delaware County Daily Times, Sara Butler's lawyer says contradictory medications for lupus led the 44-year-old mother to think the world was ending.

Butler drove to Upper Darby High School in March with two adult children and a teenage son. She wanted to pick up another child, but the student wasn't released because Butler was not the custodial parent.

Police say family members then shed their clothes in the parking lot and chanted religious phrases.

Butler and her adult daughters pleaded guilty Monday to indecent exposure and related charges. All were placed on probation.some of the fairy tales of the Arabian Nights as history of Islam. In this article, we propose to bring to light another such fictitious story which is accepted as an historical fact in the occidental world. I mean the story of the burning of the Alexandrian Library by the Moslems. The anecdote of the alleged burning of the library runs as follows:

At the time of the capture of Alexandria by the Moslem General Amr (Amr-Ibn-Al-As), John the Grammarian, a famous philosopher contracted friendship with the Moslem chief and was in high favour with him. The philosopher solicited the conqueror the precious gift of the royal library which remained to be appropriated by the captor. Amr told the savant that it was beyond his power to grant him


the request, but promised to write to Omar, the caliph. Omar is alleged to have replied that if these books contained the same truths as the Quran (Koran), they were of no use since the Quran contained the necessary truths; on the other hand, if these writings were contrary to the Quran, then they were pernicious and ought to be destroyed at once. Thus Omar sent order to his general to destroy the library under any circumstances. The order was executed with rigid and blind obedience. The Library was burned. The vast number of the volumes were distributed among the four thousand public baths of the city and for six months they served to supply the fires with fuel.

The following noteworthy facts help us in arriving at thetruth about the fable.

First: The story of the destruction of the Library of Alexandria by Amr was first told by a Christian historian Abdul Fragius, six hundred years after the alleged occurrence of the episode. Before he appears on the scene with his story there is no mention at all of this myth. Whereas the minutest details of the conquest of Alexandria by Amr have been faithfully recorded, all the historians, both Christian as well as Moslem, are conspicuous by their mute silence on this point. This is exceedingly significant.

Second: It is an incontestable, historical fact, that, inspired by the lofty ideal set before them by Muhammad, “Seek knowledge even though it be in China.” “The word of wisdom is the lost property of the believer. He takes


elementary facts of history.

Fifth: History conclusively proves the utter falsity of this pure fiction. There were two libraries at Alexandria – one at Bruchion and the other at Serapim. The one at Bruchion quarter which was the larger of the two was connected with the Museum and served as a sort of academy. During his attack, Julius Caesar set fire to his ships in his self-defence; the fire spread to the Bruchion quarter and destroyed the celebrated library.

The disgrace of the pillage of the library at Serapim eternally belongs to the Christian emperor Theodosius. In 389 or 391, he passed an edict concerning the pagan monuments and according to this order, the Christian Bishop Theophilus destroyed the library at Serapim. So, there existed no library to be burnedby the Moslem General Amr at the time of his conquest of Alexandria.

There is a host of western historians who have frankly admitted that the story of the burning of the library of Alexandria by the Moslem General Amr is an ignominious lie. The following quotations which support our claim are of interest:

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Volume II, The Modern Library Edition, by Edward Gibbon, pages 754-755: “For my own part, I am strongly tempted to deny both the fact and the consequences. The fact is indeed marvelous. “Read and wonder,” says the historian himself: and the solitary report of a stranger who wrote at the end of six hundred years of the confines of Media is overbalanced by the silence of two annalists


of a more early date, both Christians, both natives of Egypt, and the most ancient of whom, the patriarch Eutychius, has amply described the conquest of Alexandria. The rigid sentence of Omar is repugnant to the sound and orthodox precept of the Mohammedan casuists: they expressly declare that the religious books of the Jews and Christians, which are acquired by the right of war, should never be committed to the flames; and that the works of profane science, historians or poets, physicians or philosophers, may be lawfully applied to the use of the faithful….I shall not recapitulate the disasters of the Alexandrian library, the involuntary flame that was kindled by Caesar in his own defence, or the mischievous bigotry of the Christians who studied to destroy the monumentsof idolatry. But if we gradually descend from the age of the Antonines to that of Theodosius, we shall learn from a chain of contemporary witnesses that the royal palace and the temple of Serapis no longer contained the four or the seven, hundred thousand volumes which had been assembled by the curiosity and magnificence of the Ptolemies.”

History of the Conflict between Religion and Science, by John William Draper. D. Appleton and Company, 1925 Edition. Pages 103-104: “But it must not be supposed that the books which John the Labor-lover coveted were those which constituted the great library of the Ptolemies, and that of Eumenes, King of Pergamus. Nearly a thousand years had elapsed since Philadelphus began his collection. Julius Caesar had burnt more than half; the Patriarchs


700,000 volumes collected by the Ptolemies remained at the time of the Arab conquest, when the various calamities of Alexandria from the time of Caesar to that of Diocletian are considered, together with the disgraceful pillage of the library in A. D. 389 under the rule of the Christian bishop, Theophilus, acting on Theodosius’ decree concerning pagan monuments.”

The Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Vol. XV-XVI. Page 546: “The usual statement that from the date of the restoration of the Brucheum under Cleopatra the libraries continued in a flourishing condition until they were destroyed after the conquest of Alexandria by the Saracens in A. D. 640, can hardly be supported. It is very possible that one of the libraries perished when the Brucheum quarter was destroyed by Aurelian, A. D.have made a great outcry against all the followers of Mahomet on account of the destruction of the library of Alexandria, the acts of one…, a disgrace to his religion and the literary character of his Arabian countrymen, if, indeed, he did burn it; but they carefully keep out of sight the circumstance that part of the celebrated library of the Ptolemies was burned in one of the battles of Caesar, and that another part, if not all the remainder, was burned by a decree of the Christian Theodosius, when he burned and destroyed throughout his dominions the temples of the heathens for the glory of God.

No doubt the pious acts of legitimacy of both the Christians and Mahometans had considerable effect in producing the darkness of the


FRANCE 2 - 0 GERMANY

Friday, 13 November 2015

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This page is dedicated to the people of the beautiful city of Paris and all who were affected by those terrible events. May you find strength in the face of cowardice and violence.

A football match overshadowed by the dreadful events in Paris that night.

Those of us watching the televised coverage of the game had heard two explosions during the first half, and news soon came through of the attacks that were occurring throughout Paris as the match continued. After the match had ended, the German team retreated to the changing room, although Jogi did appear in the TV studio to give a brief interview to ARD, in which he admitted he had no idea as to what wassticks together in such situations. A few people slept, not me."

"I think it was a great gesture by the French team and by (coach) Didier Deschamps," Löw said Monday, the day before another friendly, against the Netherlands in Hannover.""They offered us to overnight in their hotel and that they would clear a number of rooms. They also waited until it was clear that we would fly directly to Germany."

A full summary of the press conference and more quotes from Jogi can be found on my Netherlands page

Löw spricht über Terrornacht: "Ich wusste: Ich muss jetzt funktionieren" - 17 November 2015In an interview with Bild, also summarised on various other media outlets, Joachim Löw spoke about that evening and how they had little information about what was going on


in Paris. The players needed information and discussions with Olvier Bierhoff were what they could do to address 'zero risk' to everyone. They were aware that a coach would present a target and therefore decided to stay in the stadium. To stay in the changing rooms was the right decision, he said, as things then calmed down somewhat. Once back in Frankfurt, Jogi flew to his apartment in Berlin to "as far as it was possible, switch off and relax".

Germany national team evacuated after bomb threat to hotel in Paris - 13 November 2015The team's normal match day routine received a major interruption on Friday morning when an anonymous bomb threat lead to the team hotel being evacuated. The players spent the time at nearby Roland Garros tenniscentre before being allowed back into the hotel in the afternoon, after the all-clear had been given.

Joachim Löw spoke first of his opponents tomorrow saying they were a better and more mature team since the World Cup. "I have rarely seen a team that attacks with such purpose and determination. When the French find their tempo, they really get going. They have fast, strong technical players. Paul Pogba is central to their game. Kingsley Coman has proved himself very quickly at Bayern and is difficult to stop. He can play on both sides. France will want to know where they stand, and a game and the World Cup holders is the perfect way for them to find out." He called them one of the favourites for next summer's


Low has tipped youngster Leroy Sane to make the step up to the national squad as the Schalke midfielder prepares to make his international debut. The 19-year-old was rewarded with his first call-up for the upcoming friendlies with France and Netherlands after impressing during the Bundesliga season at the Veltins Arena. And Löw believes the teenager has all the attributes to be a valuable asset to the world champions. "Leroy has an incredibly good feeling when it comes to running into space and, with his speed, he has acquired this very well," he said. "He has shown the quality that he has in the final third third and in the Bundesliga matches that we have observed, he has simply convinced us. "He is a player with a specialgift and finesse, speed paired with technique and strong running - at just 19. He can make the jump with us very quickly."

Sami Khedira - "I think that Sami is ready. He has made a good impression in training and I feel like he is nearing the form he once had. He thrives on having a presence in midfield, winning 50-50s and playing forward once he's won the ball. He has shown how much quality he has."

Mario Gomez - "It's hard to make an assessment just from training sessions, but I saw Mario in Turkey, and he has had a big impact there, scoring several goals in the league. He has been unbelievably motivated since the World Cup to be able to go the Euros."

"We are looking forward


to both games, they are two big names in world football. We are now playing in the stadium that will host the European Championship final. France are a team full of good individual players who are very dynamic, play direct football and are definitely, as a team, world class. The game will be explosive."

"Habe ausführlich mit der Mannschaft gesprochen"Inevitability Jogi was also asked about the World Cup 2006 affair and how the resignation of Wolfgang Niersbach has affected him as national team coach."From a personal point of view, of course Wolfgang Niersbach's resignation affects me. I always enjoyed talking to him. He was a great listener and wasalways receptive, aware of our sports needs. We had a friendly and trusting relationship. That being said, it doesn't affect myscoring goals again in Turkey, as well as in the Europa League, he has stability again. I am very happy that he has overcome his injury miseries. He has earned his chance to prove his qualities and show us that he has still an option in our attack."Leroy Sané's nomination to the team is a consequence of his consistent performances for Schalke, said Löw: "We already know Leroy from the youth set-up. He's one of the season's revelations so far. He's quick, technically strong, looks to take players on. We see enormous potential in him."Sané has a special caveat: Joachim Löw, DFB sporting director Hansi Flick and U21s manager Horst Hrubesch all agreed that Sané would return to the U21 team after the match in France, to take


part in the crucial European Championship qualifier against Austria in Fürth on 17th November.

Four goalkeepers have been named in the squad, including PSG goalkeeper Kevin Trapp is called up for the first time. Marc-Andre ter Stegen is not in the squad due to having dental surgery.

Taking into account the lack of a winter break in England and Spain, Mesut Ozil and Toni Kroos were both rested for the internationals, a move which proved very popular for the fans of Arsenal and Real Madrid!

"We start with the preparations for [Euro 2016 in] France now, and we will test a few formations.""But I also have the players' strain in my mind. The season is long and some foreign leagues are even without a mid-season break.""That's also the reason why IRick Searle asks the following question after reading my argument with George Ayittey on secession in Africa:

Brandon, how do you respond to the geopolitical and macro-economic arguments in favor of strong federalism rather than small-state nationalism? The experience of Central Europe after the First World War seems to offer a telling example of what happens when you break-up multi-national states along ethnic lines. The collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire created a power vacuum which Hitler and Stalin were only too glad to fill. All of the thriving national states you have named exist under the implied or real security guarantee of the US. Secondly, whatever the attraction of economic integration without political integration seems to be coming apart at the seams with the example of the European Union


and enhance its durability.
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On Saturday, March 25th, local charity Water Missions International will host their annual "Walk For Water" in downtown Charleston. Opening ceremonies start at 9 am.

Participants will gather in at Brittlebank Park to walk 3.5 miles for those that trek that many miles every day to get water. Everyone at the event will rally together to give hope to those who lack access to safe water.

Water Mission International is a "nonprofit Christian engineering organization providing sustainable safe water and sanitation solutions for people in developing countries and disaster areas."

About Holy City Sinner

Holy City Sinner™, which debuted in August 2011, has grown to become the most popular local blog in Charleston, SC. In 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 the residents


highlighted the lack of action or recognition of the government's treatment of LGBT+ refugees:

The biggest fail is the lack of any pledge to end the detention and deportation of LGBT+ refugees fleeing persecution in violently homophobic countries like Uganda, Iran, Russia, Egypt and Jamaica.

He also calls for the government to compensate gay and bisexual men convicted in the past for offences that once criminalised homosexuality:Work crews in western Miami-Dade County, Fla., Thursday discovered a 16-foot Burmese python in the process of digesting a fully grown deer, the largest intact prey ever discovered in a Burmese python in the Sunshine State.

The snake was on a tree island, and it was killed with a shotgun.

An autopsy revealed that the snake had just swallowed a 76-pound doe (meaning that the hungry python didn't have antlers to contend with).

“It shows you they can eat huge things,” said python expert Skip Snow, rather obviously, to the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Snow conducted the autopsy on the snake.

Burmese pythons are threatening to become the top predator in the Everglades. The snakes began to take hold in the region in the mid-1990s, after being released into the wild by


overwhelmed owners of the exotic pets, who realized that they may have bitten off more than they could chew – a characteristic not shared by reptiles capable of unhinging their jaws.

The pythons are currently restricted to southern Florida, but researchers have determined that the species could survive as far north as Washington, D.C. (The snake is no stranger to cold, as its natural habitat extends to the foothills of the Himalayas.) Perhaps more worrying is the prospect that the species is interbreeding with the man-eating African rock python, yielding an extremely aggressive hybrid.

A study published in the current issue of Science found that postprandial pythons, which rapidly double the size of their hearts, livers, intestines, and kidneys, do so by expanding the cells in these organs through aYork Street gardens will close at noon on Friday, Dec. 9. Chatfield Farms will be closed during the day on Dec. 9. Both York Street and Chatfield Farms will be open for Blossoms of Light and Trail of Lights on Dec. 9.

Featured Garden of the Week: Schlessman Plaza and Fragrance Garden

My favorite garden this week is the Schlessman Plaza and Fragrance Garden, which along with the El Pomar Waterway and the O’Fallon Perennial Walk constitutes the Romantic Gardens. This garden is currently at peak bloom and the newly painted stucco walls provide a bold background that helps the plants pop out in the beds. This garden was designed as a traditional pleasure garden providing a romantic setting for weddings and other events. Artful plantings provide beauty and fragrance