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Handmade missing posters of victims of September 11 are viewed during a tour of the National September 11 Memorial Museum on May 14, 2014 in New York City.
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Handmade missing posters of victims of September 11 are viewed...

Artifacts from Ground Zero, including part of a television and radio antenna from the North Tower, is viewed during a preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum on May 14, 2014 in New York City.
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Artifacts from Ground Zero, including part of a television and...

This file photo of June 19, 2011 shows an American Airlines slipper stored in Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. The slipper is an artifact from the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks that isto be part of the National September 11 Memorial Museum, which will be dedicated Thursday, May 15, 2014, in a ceremony attended by President Barack Obama.
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This file photo of June 19, 2011 shows an American Airlines slipper...

An opening panel showing a timeline of events seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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An opening panel showing a timeline of events seen during a press...

Audio and visual panels seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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Audio and visual panels seen during a press preview of the


Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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A photograph of the World Trade Center twin towers(R) is seen...

A worker under a photograph of the World Trade Center seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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A worker under a photograph of the World Trade Center seen during a...

A photograph by Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora (R) of people looking out of one of the World Trade Center towers after the September 11, 2001 attack seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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A photograph of one of the World Trade Center towers collapsing after the September 11, 2001 attack, seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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A photograph of one of the World Trade Center towers collapsing...

A display showing the Al-Qaeda hijackers, is seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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A display showing the Al-Qaeda hijackers, is seen during a press...

A display showing information, is seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014


in New York.
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An exhibit about the plane that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001 and a photograph of the plane crash (R), seen during a press preview of the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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An exhibit about the plane that crashed near Shanksville,...

People peer in at the World Trade Center "tridents" (R), two steel columns that formed part of the building's structural support, seen in the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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People peer in at the World Trade Center "tridents" (R), twosteel...

A detail of a World Trade Center "trident", a steel column that formed part of the building's structural support, seen during a press preview in the National September 11 Memorial Museum at the World Trade Center site May 14, 2014 in New York.
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A detail of a World Trade Center "trident", a steel column that...

The National September 11 Memorial Museum is viewed(L) next to One WTC 9World Trade Center) during a media tour May 13, 2014 of the WTC site after a press conference and a symposium event to talk about the documentary "16 ACRES & BEYOND: Inside the Struggle to Rebuild Ground Zero" in New York.
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The National September 11 Memorial Museum is viewed(L) next to One...

A man is reflected


in the side of the 9/11 Museum during a media tour May 13, 2014 of the WTC (World Trade Center) site after a press conference and a symposium event to talk about the documentry "16 ACRES & BEYOND: Inside the Struggle to Rebuild Ground Zero" .
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A man is reflected in the side of the 9/11 Museum during a media...

Jonathan Best, who is the Director of the Department of Public Health Office of Preparedness and Response, poses at his home in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday May 15, 2014. In 2001, Best was a supervisor for an ambulance company in Manhattan. He lost several friend in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center.
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Jonathan Best, who is the Director of the Department ofPublic Health Office of Preparedness and Response, poses at his home in Stratford, Conn. on Thursday May 15, 2014. In 2001, Best was a supervisor for an ambulance company in Manhattan. He lost several friend in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center.
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Tears in her eyes, Maureen Fanning emerged Thursday from the new Sept. 11 museum deep beneath ground zero, unable to bring herself to look at all of it.

"I just think it would be a little too overwhelming today," said Fanning, the widow of a firefighter who died that awful day. "It's a lot to digest, to absorb. Not anytime soon."

Rescue workers, victims' friends and relatives and survivors of the terrorist attack visited the subterranean space as the National Sept. 11 Memorial Museum was


voicemail.

Herald said he plans to visit the museum in June, a trip he considers a "pilgrimage."

"There are few places in the country that I think people should make a pilgrimage to, and this testament to the World Trade Center is certainly among them, like the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.," Herald said. "This is a seminal event for our generation."

More than 150 Connecticut residents were among nearly 3,000 who died on 9/11.

Some relatives visiting the memorial found the exhibits both upsetting and inspiring.

Patricia Smith came to see one small object: the New York Police badge her mother, Moira, was wearing when she died helping to evacuate the twin towers.

Patricia, 14, said she left feeling a new level of connection to her mother, but "seeing that, reading the storyhere," she said. "I know he's here."

Many in the audience wiped away tears during the dedication ceremony, which revisited both the horror and the heroism of 9/11, the day 19 al-Qaida hijackers crashed four airliners into the trade center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania. The attack plunged the U.S. into a decade of war in Afghanistan against al-Qaida's Taliban protectors.

After viewing some of the exhibits, including a mangled fire truck and a memorial wall with photos of victims, Obama retold the story of Welles Crowther, a 24-year-old World Trade Center worker who became known as "the man in the red bandana" after leading many others to safety from one of the towers. Crowther died in the tower's collapse.

The president said the museum pays tribute to "the


The Ohio State women’s basketball team notched its first win of the season Friday night against Detroit Mercy, defeating the Titans 55-41.

History came early for the Buckeyes as redshirt senior guard Carmen Grande recorded her 700th career assist within the first minute of the game, furthering her active lead in the NCAA in assists. She would finish the game with seven assists.

The action was back and forth for much of the first and second quarter until the Buckeyes were able to pull away during the second quarter after Detroit Mercy had a scoring drought lasting over five minutes.

Freshman forward Aaliyah Patty was the highlight player for Ohio State off the bench, leading the team with 16 points, connecting on eight of 11 shots from the field, with fourkeep going.

A few hours in, we recognised the feature in front of us. The crux of the canyon awaited...

THE SLOT OF DOOM

Justin went first, disappearing into the white, roaring water. Whistle signals were all that could be used to communicate the most basic commands.

‘Give more rope’ sounded with three blasts.

A long silenced ensued as the rope was crept out.

‘Stop’ sounded in one sharp blast. Followed shortly by the familiar two whistles for ‘off rope’.

He had made it to the mid way anchor.

The slot of doom was comprised of a series of multipitch abseils in a steep, constricting drop. There was little chance of avoiding the water completely, and we would have to be quick in this section to avoid bottlenecks and delays.

Dan followed next, with the other rope


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Aug 15th, 2017

Australian Olympic track cycling champion Stephen Wooldridge is being remembered for his tireless contribution to the sport after his death at the age of 39.

Wooldridge won Olympic gold in the 4000m team pursuit at Athens in 2004, also claiming four world titles in the same discipline during the 2000s.

He was not part of the quartet of Graeme Brown, Brad McGee, Brett Lancaster and Luke Roberts who won the pursuit final in Athens.

But along with Peter Dawson, he was awarded a gold medal due to his participation in the preliminary round.

Cycling NSW confirmed the cyclist's death in a statement.

"Stephen was an inspirational figure in track cycling, particularly in his home state of NSW," the governing body said.

"Cycling NSW's thoughts are with Stephen's family and hisfriends during this difficult time."

Wooldridge, who also won gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, is being remembered for his efforts in supporting young cyclists.

“Stephen was an exceptional cyclist and Olympic Champion who will forever be remembered,” said AOC President John Coates.

“He was always very giving of his time to the Olympic movement, helping out with fundraising efforts whenever he could for the Australian Olympic Team over the years.

“Our deepest condolences are with his family, friends and all of those impacted by Stephen’s passing.”

Cycling promoter Phil Bates said Wooldridge was Australia's most successful track pursuit cyclist at the time of his retirement.

"In your lifetime, you give support, encouragement and the opportunity for young cyclists to reach their goal," Bates wrote on cycling magazine Ride's website.

"In our sport


of cycling, you see some conquer with lesser effort than others. Then you witness those that continue to work harder and reach even greater heights."

Wooldridge was inducted into the NSW Hall of Champions in 2015.

He sat on Cycling Australia's board from 2007 to 2013

"Steve will be remembered by so many for not only his success in competition, but also for the contributions he made across so many roles in the sport," CA chief executive Nick Green.

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known to them. That term comes, as it happens, from the Septuaginta, the Greek translation of the Old Testament, which most of Jews used then.

The associated verb euangelizomai (evangelization or bringing good news) is found six times in the prophecy of Isaiah. And the Jews of the first century accepted that it concerned that convalescence of royalty. This had, however, to mean that the coming Messiah would dissipate the Romans from the country, and he would make their state independent. But the one who read Isaiah well, sees that it concerns in reality something very differently, as it happens, concerning the release from the power of sin and dead. And that is still much larger news than the state independence where they watched for. But during Jesus preachingcalled the son of God, who shall be the most pure set apart (holy) servant of God who was been told about in the Garden of Eden, to be the one bruised.

Many Old Testament writers wrote about the prophet to come, about whom is spoke in the book of Moses and who shall be the special “Seed of a woman” given by God and who will bruise Satan’s head whilst his heel would be bruised with nails on the wooden stake.

Jewish and Christian literature since the time of Yeshua or Jeshua have pointed to Genesis 3:15 as the first reference to the Messiah in the Torah. Genesis 3:15 NHEBJE I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise


to New York City (Real or Surreal), this book DOES jump out in the most positive sense.

The story follows titular characters: Herman, a crocodile salary-man who loves playing his oboe, hot dogs in winter, and movies about the ocean, and Rosie, who loves toffee, movies about the ocean, and singing her heart out at a jazz club at night, after working in the restaurant biz by day.

While both Herman and Rosie love life in the city, it can feel lonely at times, sometimes lacking the kind of community building more directly inherent in a small town, or county within a large city or town.

The illustrations do an excellent job projecting the urban motif, using collage scrapbook-like elements to further enhance the overall charm to the illustration.

When I firstto take over the world.

Babar on Paradise Island

Pub. Date: May 13, 2014

Much like other classic series such as Madeline and The Berenstain Bears, an extended family has carried on where the original creators left off, and the pachyderm who became King is off on yet another adventure, but will paradise turn out to be a foreboding misnomer?

I Am Otter (@i_am_otter)

Pub. Date: April 29, 2014

Just like a certain “Wimpy Kid” this character began as a niche online experiment by author-illustrator Sam Garton, and is now entering the print book world in April 2014! Fans of Calvin and Hobbes and Katie Davis(The Latter of which was spotlighted for Picture Book Month 2013) will be in stitches when Otter struts in!

I discovered this on November 1st, 2013, at the START of


as well as our secular history, capturing Indian cosmic iconography as well as portraits of everyday life, stylised erotica and fragments of a colonised past. In a current context, the deep essence of Indian urbane-ness has been dramatically portrayed by masterful sculptors from the early 20th C. onwards --- from Debiprosad and Meera Mukherji to Seema Kohli, Radhakrishnan and Srinivas Reddy.

Art Pilgrim Gallery has organised an extensive sculpture-collection, which will be on display in a succession of important shows, beginning this March. The Gallery director Geeta Singh, who is particularly enamoured of Indian Contemporary Sculpture, has been collecting a fine body of works over several decades. Many larger sculptures remain in her private collection, in the expansive spaces of her farmhouse. At her Sushant Lok Gallery, the currentfood safety expert, according to a media spokesman for Cornell University. The university spokeman said he was not paid and has no financial ties to the company.

Worobo said plants typically absorb the mold from surrounding soil, though it can also be found in processing plants. It can grow on yogurt only when it is kept above refrigeration levels.

"It would take hours or days of temperature abuse to result in visible mold growth," Worobo said.

Chobani spokeswoman Nicki Briggs said the company is still investigating how the yogurt became contaminated. She added that there was no evidence of mold on the products when they left the company's facility.

Chobani formally recalled more than a half-dozen yogurt varieties on Thursday, a week after it first started asking retailers to pull the products


Ky. clerk Kim Davis doesn't interfere as marriage license issued

Mike Wynn | The (Louisville, Ky.) Courier-Journal

Show Caption Hide Caption Kentucky clerk won't block, or issue, marriage licenses Kim Davis is back at work several days after being released from jail. The embattled Kentucky county clerk says she still refuses to authorize marriage licenses, but will not stop her deputies from issuing them.

MOREHEAD, Ky. — Under the threat of more jail time, Rowan County (Ky.) Clerk Kim Davis remained out of sight Monday as one of her deputy clerks issued a marriage licence to yet another lesbian couple, drawing heckles from some anti-gay protesters who questioned Davis' decision to not interfere.

Shannon and Carmen Wampler-Collins were the first couple to obtain a license since Davis returned to work after herRowan County Rights Coalition, which protested Davis' policy for weeks, said the case was due to bigotry and that to equate Davis with civil rights icons — as many have sought to do — is a "travesty."

"When she willfully decided that she was going to disobey the law, she became a criminal. For whatever reason, all criminals have an excuse for their actions."

Ante Pavkovic, a pastor from North Carolina who has protested same-sex marriage outside the courthouse for about two weeks, appeared conflicted over the announcement Monday. He said Davis' attorney is probably trying to protect her but not addressing the larger issues of principle. He said it's hard to know whether Davis backed down without talking with her first.

"On appearances, it is not enough," he said. "It's


yielding our republic to a rogue Supreme Court ... and that's a big mistake if that's what it is."

Timeline of dissent

Soon after the Supreme Court ruled to allow gays to marry, Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis decided to stop offering any marriage licenses through her office.

• June 26. Supreme Court rules 5-4 that states must recognize and allow same-sex marriage. Later that Friday, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear directs county clerks to comply.

• June 29. Davis declines to issue marriage licenses on Monday, saying the new law of the land conflicts with her religious beliefs.

• July 2. American Civil Liberties Union sues Davis and Rowan County on behalf of four couples, two gay and two straight.

• July 8. Some county clerks ask for a special session of the KentuckyMenu

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I have gotten quite a few compliments on the book jacket for The Incident at Montebello and questions about how it was created. Here’s the scoop: I contacted a very talented illustrator, Alex Ross, who went to Savannah College of Art and Design with my son. Alex and I talked over several months to visualize my concept–a provocative image which encapsulates the story. I knew we wanted to focus on the hit-and-run in the opening scene of the book. So, we started with an image of Mussolini’s car, the Fiat 514 Mille Miglia.

We also wanted to convey a sense of mystery, which would entice readers to open the book, so we moved the car into the background and added Lucia, the main character who is at the heart


Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Oregon's Permissive Assisted Suicide Regime

The media have always gone along with the nonsense that assisted suicide and euthanasia laws are governed by strict guidelines to prevent abuse. In actuality, the guidelines–such as they are–are merely to give an appearance of control.

Since the media has no interest in really investigating how these laws work–meaning, they refuse to do their jobs–the truth often comes out via overseas inquiries of investigators from countries considering legalization. Thus, several years ago, a House of Lords commission uncovered that Oregon death bureaucrats destroy all records used to compile their annual reports–meaning that there can be no effective independent inquiry or investigations. The HoL investigators also learned that the oversight agency has no budget or authority to investigate abuses.

Now, a Swedish citizen-investigator

MENA's future developers pause for a photo at the She Develops hackathon. (Images via Karim Shehab)

A lot has been said about the lack of voice and opportunity for women in technology, especially in leadership positions worldwide. According to a recent IDC report, only 20 percent of all programmers in the world are women.

In the meantime, many reports say the IT industry is one of the hottest, with demand for skilled software developers projected to increase by 22 percent in the next 10 years.

The situation in MENA is no different. Demand for software developers is soaring, while the number of women in technology is decreasing. One the main reasons behind this is simply culture and stereotype. Throughout many cultures in MENA, women and men are expected to take on


these is She Develops.

On Saturday, November 21, ArabWIC (Arab Women In Computing) and IEEE Women in Engineering produced the first women-only hackathon for university students in AUB (American University of Beirut)'s Bliss Hall.

They brought in female students from seven universities across the country, who have diverse technology backgrounds (computer science, engineering, information systems), and to create a supportive atmosphere for them to building mobile applications.

The goal, to help students develop the technological and leadership skills critical to jobs in the software industry, as well as offer women a place to share ideas, experiences and to help each other succeed.

“Coding is not gender biased, anyone can do it, someone just needs to point that out,” Ben Rim continued.

The hackathon was preceded by three free workshops from November 13 toMediterranean diet and CHD: the Greek European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort.
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD) has been reported to improve CHD prognosis and to be inversely associated with CHD mortality. The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of adherence to the MD with CHD incidence and mortality in the Greek European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort, a population with traditional Mediterranean roots. In a general population sample of 23,929 adult men and women with no CVD or cancer at enrolment, a validated FFQ was interviewer-administered, sociodemographic, physical activity and other characteristics were recorded, and arterial blood pressure and anthropometric characteristics were measured. In a median period of 10 years, 636 incident CHD cases and 240 CHD deaths were


acknowledged that congressional action on repealing and replacing ObamaCare would have to wait until after the 2020 elections, given that Democrats currently control the House.

But the continued push from the administration highlights the stakes of the election, given that Trump says that if Republicans keep the White House and Senate and regain the House, he would renew his push to repeal and replace the law.

The Trump administration is also supporting a lawsuit currently making its way through the courts that seeks to overturn the entire law.

Many congressional Republicans wish that Trump would move on, given the success Democrats had last year in running on maintaining provisions in the law like protections for people with pre-existing conditions.Placerville is the county seat of El Dorado County, and it is where Lincoln Highway and Highway 49 intersect. The area of Gold Hill sits to the northwest, Apple Hill to the east, and Diamond Springs to the south border the city. The small town has a population of over 10,000 and is the still part of the Sacramento Metropolitan Statistical Area. There are several historical landmarks in the community that preserve the history of Gold Rush which boomed in the region. This includes Gold Bug Park and Mine which used to be an actual mine and is now a family-friendly cultural site where guests can relive the old mining days of the city. Nowadays gold in the area is mostly from the many wineries and vineyards that


of a $230,000 pot on the GoFundMe website, is pictured above with college student Evan Leedy, who started the project

All he wants: The modest Ford Taurus, above, is the car Robertson has said he'd most like to spend his money on

Robertson, who lives 23 miles from his job, and has worked 2pm-10pm shift for the past 12 years, never missing a shift.

As only part of his journey is covered by bus routes, he puts in 21 of the 46-miles round trip on foot.

He walks eight on his way in way in, while on the way home he faces a 13-mile trek, since some services have finished.

However, the punishing, all-weather hikes now look like a thing of the past for Robertson, whose surging total on a GoFundMe donations pageinvestigations after he returns from overseas.

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On the March 29 broadcast of SBS’s “8 O’Clock News,” it was revealed that a famous idol group member was sued for sexual assault.

During the show, SBS reported that on March 25, an official complaint was filed to the police stating that member A of a famous idol group had sexually assaulted a victim in May of 2010.

The female victim, B, met A at her former workplace, a bar, and kept in contact with him. She stated that A had sexually assaulted her in her home in Ilsan after he came home drunk. She revealed, “He said he would help me fall asleep. So I just lay down like that, but in an instant…” Although she rejected his advances twice, she


Expert recommendations and insider tips for first-time visitors and locals alike from ARTĚL’s founder, Karen Feldman, who has lived in Prague since 1994. Click on the links below for detailed reviews – from Feldman’s own unique perspective – of all the best that Prague has to offer...

Introduced way back in 2011, our Jungle Baroque set is one of our most popular motifs – and also among the most labor-intensive to produce.

Comprised of eight different jungle animal-themed variations – Elephant, Piranha, Rhinoceros, Monkey, Jaguar, Bird of Paradise, Parrot, and Iguana – which are available either individually or as a set of eight glasses (sets include one glass with each animal design), Jungle Baroque was inspired by a wide range of classical and modern sources.

After being mouth-blown by ARTĚL’s masterThe Times reports that the Crown Prince of Bahrain wrote to Mosley, telling him to keep away “in light of the allegations”.

The NoW claimed there were Nazi overtones to the orgy with Molsey, son of Fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, speaking in German. Mosley denies the Nazi allegation and The Times said he will claim he spoke in German as he spanked the prostitutes because at least two of them were German speaking.


An Ancient River in Syria Sections Off a Modern War

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The near side of the Euphrates River near Manbij, Syria, is controlled by American-backed Kurdish-led forces. On the other side are Turkish-backed Arab rebels.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

ZOUR MAGHAR, Syria — On the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, Kurdish militiamen aligned with American troops burrow into sandbagged positions and eye their foes across the water.

On the other side, Arab rebels backed by Turkey shoot at anyone who nears the river.

For millenniums, the Euphrates has given farmers in the village of Zour Maghar water to irrigate fields of wheat, eggplant and sunflowers. Generations of families have sprawled on its banks for picnics, the older children teaching the younger to swim.

But after seven years of war, the riverthat has fed life in Syria’s parched east has become a hostile front, separating warring sides as it travels north to south. Deprived of its water, families have fled Zour Maghar, abandoning their mud-brick homes and leaving their fields idle.

“The river was everything for us,” said Muhammad Bozan, 35, a farmer who can no longer work his waterfront land. “We used to live from the river and now we can’t.”

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Members of a family picnic in their garden in Zour Maghar, a village on the Kurdish side of the Euphrates near the Turkish border. Behind them is a wall built this year by Turkish forces, and beyond that Turkey.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

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A pump in the Euphrates provides water for the region near Zour Maghar. South of


that, the river becomes a battle zone, its water inaccessible.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

Syria’s war has taken hundreds of thousands of lives, displaced millions and left entire cities in smoking ruins. It has also ensnared the Euphrates, an arc of the Fertile Crescent that is considered a cradle of civilization.

On a recent trip along the river, we found a wasteland dotted with depopulated towns, gutted factories and civilians struggling to get by.

We mostly stayed on the east bank, an area out of Damascus’s hands that is effectively stateless and boxed in by hostile powers. The only way in was to cross the Tigris River from Iraq in a shaky, seatless motorboat.

As the government of President Bashar al-Assad has focused its military power on defeating rebels inthe north and south, the river has emerged as the collision point for the great powers and their local allies struggling for influence in the east.

On the eastern bank are mostly American-backed Kurdish-led militias. On the west, along the northern part of the river, are Turkish-backed rebels. Farther south are Syrian forces supported by Russia and Iran. The Islamic State still holds a pocket along the river near the border with Iraq.

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For now, the division is holding because none of the other powers wants to confront the United States, which has about 2,000 soldiers on the eastern side and whose fighter jets control the skies there.

Most of the world has accepted that Mr. Assad will continue


Have Heard Of

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An American military convoy patrols the front near Manbij several times a day, a show of force to protect the city from Turkey, an American ally.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

Three hulking, armored American military vehicles leave their base in the olive groves east of Manbij and rumble off to patrol the front lines. American soldiers staff gun turrets atop each vehicle, helicopters or drones fly overhead, and the convoy flies large American flags to make it clear who is driving.

The Americans came to Syria in 2014 to fight the Islamic State, but the jihadist group’s nearest outpost is 200 miles away. The convoy heads out several times a day to protect Manbij, a town with no resources and which few Americans have heard of,from Turkey, a NATO ally.

The American presence in Manbij is a clear indication that the United States came to Syria with one goal but picked up others along the way, complicating a potential withdrawal.

As the United States worked with Kurdish forces to take territory back from the Islamic State, its footprint in eastern Syria expanded. The area, about one-quarter of Syria and mostly desert, is now dotted with American military bases — housed in fields, in an out-of-use cement factory and in oil and gas facilities that the Syrian government would like to take back.

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Kurdish troops, in a sandbagged post outside of Manbij, fear a disaster if the Americans leave.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

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The American security umbrella has allowed Manbij to become a relatively stable island


in the war-torn country.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

The American security umbrella has allowed Manbij to become a relatively stable island in a war-torn country. It is a local economic hub, with a bustling market and about 200,000 new residents displaced from elsewhere.

But Turkey sees Syria’s Kurdish militia as a terrorist threat on its border and has threatened to attack it. The United States worries that a Turkish attack on Manbij would siphon off the Kurdish fighters from the battle against the Islamic State in the south. Thus the American patrols to keep the Turks at bay.

But as the battle against the Islamic State winds down, the Americans will have less reason to stay.

On the flat roof of a cinder-block farmhouse converted into a military base westof town, Kurdish militiamen pointed across a shallow valley at Turkish military positions and acknowledged that the Turks could storm the area quickly if they wanted. But they did not because of the American military base nearby: a few trailers surrounded by armored vehicles, the Stars and Stripes flying overhead.

“If it weren’t for the Americans, there would be a disaster here,” said Ibrahim Sheikh Muhammad, a Kurdish militiaman.

Burned, Bombed and Still Turning

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The control room of the Tabqa Dam, built by the Soviets, its turbines blown up by the Islamic State, its buildings shattered by American-led airstrikes. It is now back online.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

Most of the territory held by the United States and its Kurdish allies was once ruled by the Islamic State, and the


scars of the military campaign to defeat it run deep.

South of Manbij stands the Tabqa Dam, which the Soviets built in 1973, creating Syria’s largest body of water, Lake Assad, and generating power for much of the country.

The jihadists of the Islamic State ran the dam for years but blew up its turbines when they retreated.

It is now back at work, sort of. Its 350 employees work in buildings shattered by coalition airstrikes that blew holes in walls and shook tiles off the floors. Inside the hydroelectric station, rows of charred circuit boxes set alight by the jihadists sit below ceilings stained black from smoke.

But three of the dam’s turbines were whirring as water rushed through below, and a man with a blowtorch worked to repair a fourth.From eight damaged turbines, engineers had salvaged enough parts to rebuild three of them.

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The Tabqa Dam is a rare example of cooperation across battle lines, run by the Kurds with Syrian government help.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

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The Tabqa Dam created Lake Assad, Syria’s largest body of water, where a Kurdish family displaced by the fighting lunches at a cafe.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

The dam is a rare example of cooperation across opposing sides. A power line that connects it to a smaller dam passes through a government-controlled area, sending electricity to the station that provides drinking water to the city of Aleppo, said Mohammed Sheikho, the head of the mechanical department. And the Syrian government still pays salaries to some workers.

But the dam is


just limping along.

New heavy electric cables cannot be installed because the German company that made them will not send its engineers into a war zone. And the country best able to fix the rest of the dam, Russia, is allied with the Syrian government.

Even worse, there isn’t enough water.

Since the Kurds took over the area, Turkey has reduced the amount of water it allows into Syria by more than half, limiting the generation of electricity, said Muhammad Tarboush, the dam’s supervisor.

The situation had never been so dire, he said, even when the Islamic State was in charge.

“They are boycotting us with water,” he said.

Shattered City, Uncertain Future

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With Raqqa’s 32 bridges destroyed by the war, residents depend on crude barges to cross the river.CreditIvor Prickett for The New Yorkthe world powers who fought here, led by the United States, are staying out of reconstruction, so Raqqa’s residents are largely on their own.

All 32 bridges in the area were destroyed. The two major bridges spanning the Euphrates are impassable, cutting the city in half. One has a hole large enough for a tractor-trailer to fall through. Under the other, boys climb downed electrical cables to plunge in to the water below.

That has left only the barges to get people across.

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A bombed-out bridge in Raqqa, no longer suitable for crossing the river, has been repurposed as a diving platform.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

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The military campaign that drove the Islamic State out of Raqqa left two-thirds of the city’s buildings damaged or destroyed.CreditIvor Prickett for The New


York Times

Muhammad Jassem, a heavy-machine operator, lives on one side of the river and his elderly parents on the other. The once-simple trip to visit them now takes longer, costs more and gets his shoes and trousers wet.

“As you can see, life is a bit miserable here,” he said after wading ashore.

Everyone relied on the boats: a woman taking her grandson to the doctor for diarrhea; a family of four crowded onto a single motorcycle; a shopkeeper hauling chips and soft drinks.

Since the battle ended, the United States has put $ 13.7 million into Raqqa for water, electricity, rubble removal and other projects, in addition to $ 54 million to clear mines left by the Islamic State, according to the State Department.

But it is not rebuilding the city,which Ahmed Ibrahim, the city’s co-mayor, estimated would cost $ 5 billion.

He had no idea where that money would come from and worried that a lack of support would leave a vacuum that the Syrian government or an extremist group like the Islamic State could exploit.

“As long as they give concrete aid, the people will belong to them,” he said.

Facing Off Across the Water

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In Deir al-Zour Province, people take rowboats from the Kurdish controlled-side of the Euphrates to the other bank, controlled by the Syrian government.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

Farther south, the road along the Euphrates is strewn with the remnants of an economy blown back decades by the war: a gutted sugar factory, an idled cotton mill, a train station littered with cars blown off


their tracks.

The Syrian government controls Deir al-Zour, the largest Syrian city on the Euphrates, but the bridge that connects it to its eastern suburbs across the river is destroyed.

The Kurds, their Arab allies and the United States hold the eastern side, with bases in the oil and gas fields to keep the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies from retaking them.

In some places, opposing bases face each other across the water, so close that soldiers can see each other’s flags and watch each other smoking cigarettes. At one crossing point, a local militiaman monitored the eastern side, while Syrian soldiers stood on the other, about 200 yards away, while residents rowed across in battered metal canoes.

“It’s like an international border,” said a woman on the Deiral-Zour civil council after stepping off a metal canoe that carried her from the government side.

The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity so that she could continue to visit her parents on the western side, said that most of the forces on the government’s side were Syrian but that she sometimes saw Russians and Iranian-backed militiamen from Iraq and Afghanistan buying items in shops.

Incursions in either direction are rare. In February, a column of tanks carrying about 500 pro-government forces, including Russian mercenaries, crossed the river in what appeared to be a push to seize an oil field. The United States repelled the raid, killing 200 to 300 of them.

Since then, all sides have largely accepted the river as the dividing line, an understanding likely to hold


until the Americans leave.

The division was bad for Syria, the local councilwoman said, but she did not know how to end it.

Wives and Children of ISIS: Warehoused in Syria, Unwanted Back Home

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“Who is responsible for us?” asks Sarah Ibrahim, 31, one of more than 2,000 foreign women and children detained at camps in northern Syria with no foreseeable way out.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

ROJ CAMP, Syria — When her husband uprooted their family from Morocco to live under the Islamic State in Syria, Sarah Ibrahim had little choice but to go along. After he disappeared — she believes he was killed in an airstrike on a prison — she fled with her two sons.

They were captured last year and have been held ever since in thistens of thousands of partisans from around the world who came to fight or to live in what was billed as a pure Islamic society. Among them were many women, some who were brought by their husbands or fathers. Others came alone and married, or were forced to marry, after they arrived.

But as the caliphate collapsed under a military campaign by Kurdish militias backed by a United States-led military coalition, many of the men were killed or captured. The wives and children who survived ended up in camps like this, unwanted by anyone.

“We are working responsibly, but the international community is trying to flee from its responsibilities,” said Abdul-Karim Omar, an official in the local administration charged with persuading governments to take their citizens back, an effort he


let us interview or photograph Western women for fear it would complicate negotiations with their governments about their return home.

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An Egyptian woman and her daughters inside their tent at Roj Camp. The camp’s 1,400 foreigners come from about 40 countries, including Turkey, Tunisia, Russia and the United States.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

But during a walk through the camp, we spoke informally with women from France, Germany, Denmark, Holland and a number of Arab countries. Kurdish officials did not let us ask the Western women their names.

Some said their husbands had forced them to go to Syria. Others said the trip had been a mistake that their children were unjustly paying the price for.

Near a bank of latrines, three women — two French and one German —governments, including the United States, provide some aid to the local administration, but it is a pittance compared with what they spent on the military campaign. And the issue of detainees is particularly thorny, given the security risks of holding seasoned jihadists and the women and children who lived with them in a war zone.

The local administration has imprisoned more than 400 foreign fighters, Mr. Omar, the local official, said, and the United States is helping finance their detention to prevent prison breaks.

But the administration has received little help in dealing with the women and children who are now held in three camps.

It has established ad hoc courts to try Syrians for crimes committed under the Islamic State, but it does not try foreigners. And the women and


children in the camps have not been accused of crimes.

The roughly 1,400 foreigners at Roj Camp are from about 40 countries, including Turkey, Tunisia, Russia and the United States, said Rasheed Omar, a camp supervisor. The women are generally well behaved, he said, although it is hard to determine what roles they may have performed under the jihadists and how much of the ideology they still endorse.

“There are some of them who are still following the ideology, and there are some who came because they thought they were coming to heaven and found out it was hell,” he said.

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More than 900 children, many of them toddlers, are being held at Roj Camp.CreditIvor Prickett for The New York Times

Ms. Ibrahim, for instance, said she was horrified by the jihadists’few countries have taken back their citizens.

Russia repatriated about 35 women and children, and Indonesia took back a family of about 15 people, said Mr. Omar, the local official. He said he was talking to Canada and Denmark about their citizens, but no returns had been finalized. Many other countries just ignored his overtures.

Dua Mohammed, 44, said she had come from Egypt to Syria with her husband, who had been attracted to the idea of the Islamic state. “But what we saw there in reality was not what we expected,” she said. “What we lived there was not what we had come for.”

Last year, her family managed to flee and was detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Kurdish-led militia that is working with a United States-led coalition


dozens of Iranian military targets inside Syria. It was a furious response to what Israel called an Iranian rocket attack launched from Syrian territory just hours earlier.

The cross-border exchanges — the most serious assaults from each side in their face-off over Iran’s presence in Syria — took place a little more than a day after the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear agreement.

Israel’s defense minister said that Israeli warplanes had destroyed “nearly all” of Iran’s military infrastructure in Syria after Iran launched 20 rockets at Israeli-held territory, none reaching their targets.

Iran struck shortly after President Trump pulled out of the nuclear agreement, raising speculation that it no longer felt constrained by the possibility that the Americans might scrap the deal if Iran attacked Israel.

Israel appeared newly emboldenedand that Iran has no significant way to react without risking itself,” said Ofer Zalzberg, an analyst at the International Crisis Group.

Israel made it clear on Thursday that its planning for the airstrikes had been known internally as “Chess,” and it looked in the aftermath as though Iran might have been baited into a trap on the Syrian game board.

Iran’s rocket attack against Israel came after what appeared to have been an Israeli missile strike against a village in the Syrian Golan Heights late on Wednesday.

Early on Thursday, Iranian forces fired about 20 Grad and Fajr-5 rockets at the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, targeting forward positions of the Israeli military, according to an Israeli military spokesman. The barrage was launched under the command of the Quds Force of the


Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and used Iranian weapons, said the Israeli spokesman, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus.

Four of the rockets were intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile defense system, and the rest fell short of the Israeli-controlled territory, the military said. Indeed, by Thursday morning, Israeli life returned to routine in the Golan Heights, with children going to school.

Still, the rocket attack was a significant escalation in Iran’s maneuvers in the Middle East. Though Israel has hit Iranian forces in Syria with a number of deadly airstrikes, Tehran had been restrained in hitting back, until now.

“Iran had to make a point: that it can respond, even if it’s a weak response,” said Joshua M. Landis, a Syria expert and director of the Center of Middle East Studies at thePresident Bashar al-Assad, whose grip remained unchallenged. In Raqqa, which was recently liberated from the Islamic State, teams defused mines the jihadists had strewn across the destroyed city. Thousands of people from Douma, the site of the reported chemical attack that prompted the American strikes, looked for shelter after joining the millions of other Syrians who have been displaced from their homes.

And on the front lines separating hostile parties throughout country, fighting continued as it has for years.

Now that the dust has settled from the American strikes, with President Trump declaring “mission accomplished,” Russia logging complaints and Mr. Assad returning to work, how does Syria move forward?

For tomorrow and the next day, at least, it will remain mired in its painful status quo: a multilayered conflict with the


Islamic State, the United States is helping restore areas like the city of Raqqa that were recently retaken from the jihadists.

Given the tremendous damage to the city, this is a gargantuan task, said Mustafa al-Abed, of the Raqqa Civil Council, which is supported by the United States. Among his group’s priorities are fixing the water and electricity networks, clearing rubble from roads and restoring irrigation networks so that farmers can plant.

But before that can happen, and before residents can return to their homes, the city must be cleared of the many mines and explosive booby traps that the jihadists planted before their defeat.

“They are everywhere,” Mr. Abed said of the mines. “In homes, in cars, in roads. There is no normal size or place. They are everywhere.”

He wasSyria had taken out the “heart” of President Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons program, but acknowledged that the Syrian government most likely retained some ability to again attack its own people with chemical agents.

Warplanes and ships from the United States, Britain and France launched more than 100 missiles at three chemical weapons storage and research facilities near Damascus and Homs, the officials told reporters, in an operation that President Trump and Pentagon leaders hailed as a success.

“A perfectly executed strike last night,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter. “Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!”

The president, in declaring the mission accomplished, invoked a phrase made infamous by President George W.


Bush in 2003, when he declared success in an Iraq conflict that would end up continuing for more than eight years before American troops finally withdrew.

Beyond the immediate question of whether the new strikes actually accomplished the stated goal of diminishing Syria’s capacity to make and use chemical agents, the attack posed the risk of drawing the United States more deeply into a conflict in which Russia and Iran have more invested than ever in keeping Mr. Assad in power.

The United States is “locked and loaded” to strike again if Mr. Assad is believed to renew his use of chemical weapons, Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the United Nations, told the Security Council on Saturday at an emergency meeting called by Russia.

“We are confident that wewere struck were producing substances covered by the 2013 agreement between Russia and the United States to eliminate Syria’s chemical arms.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Friday that the American government was confident that Syrian forces had used chlorine in the deadly attack on civilians last Saturday in Douma, but did not provide evidence.

The White House has cited photographs and videos from Douma to make the case, and has dismissed alternative explanations from the Syrian and Russian governments. It said that the nerve agent sarin may have been used in addition to chlorine.

Chlorine, as a commercially available substance, was not included in the 2013 agreement. But the Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria joined as part of the 2013 deal, prohibits the use of any chemical as a weapon.

The


American-led strikes on Syria jolted residents of Damascus, the capital, from their beds as their walls and windows shook. American officials said the offensive was to punish Syria for the Douma attack, which left scores dead.

A group from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which had announced a fact-finding mission to determine if chemical weapons were used in the Douma attack, arrived in Damascus on Saturday morning, the group said in a statement.

A statement by the Syrian military said 110 missiles had been fired in the American-led strike. Three people were injured in Homs, it said. Videos from Damascus showed Syrian air defense missiles launching into a dark night sky, and the Russian military said that at one Syrian air base, all 12 cruise missiles thatmake Mr. Assad and his allies more secure.

The rebels who once threatened his control have been routed from all of Syria’s major cities, and even from smaller strongholds like Douma, the last town they held near Damascus, which they surrendered after the reported chemical attack last weekend.

Buses carrying rebel fighters and their families from their former rebel bastion of Douma, pictured on Friday at a checkpoint near the northern Syrian town of Al Bab. Nazeer Al-Khatib/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Meanwhile, the war has further shattered Syria, and international powers including the United States, Russia, Turkey, Israel and Iran — along with militant groups including Hezbollah — have intervened to fight for their interests.

Iran and Russia have expanded their military reach. Russia has a presence on most Syrian military


bases, and its air force has been essential to Mr. Assad’s recent advances. Iran has used the chaos of war to strengthen its proxies to deter and possibly confront Israel.

The United States still has about 2,000 troops in eastern Syria working with a Kurdish-led militia to fight the jihadists of the Islamic State. But with the militants now nearly defeated, American officials have started thinking about when to withdraw. Before the suspected chemical weapons attack in Douma, Mr. Trump had said he wanted to bring them home soon.

While the United States called for Mr. Assad to leave power early in the conflict and gave cash and arms to the rebels who sought to overthrow him, it has more recently resigned itself to his remaining in power. That wasof multiple explosions shaking the city before the dawn call to prayer. The city and the hills are surrounded by military facilities, and it appeared that these were among the first targets.

Syrian state television said government air defense systems were responding to “the American aggression” and aired video of missiles being fired into a dark night sky. It was not clear if they hit anything. It reported that 13 missiles had been shot down by Syrian air defenses near Al-Kiswa, a town south of Damascus.

The targets were chosen to minimize the risk of accidentally hitting Russian troops stationed in Syria, according to Gen. James F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon on Friday night that the


pulling the United States deeper into the complex, multisided war in Syria from which Mr. Trump only last week said he wanted to withdraw. They also raised the possibility of confrontation with Russia and Iran, both of which have military forces in Syria to support Mr. Assad.

Pentagon Briefing After Trump Announcement

Pentagon officials spoke to reporters after President Trump announced airstrikes against Syrian targets.

In choosing to strike, it appeared that Mr. Trump’s desire to punish Mr. Assad for what he called a “barbaric act” — and make good on his tweets promising action this week — outweighed his desire to limit the American military involvement in the conflict, at least in the short term.

The strikes marked the second time that Mr. Trump has attacked Syria to punish the governmentafter it was accused of using chemical weapons. The White House had sought to craft a response that would be more robust than the attack in April 2017, when the United States fired 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at a Syrian air base that was back in use a day later.

While France and Britain joined the United States in retaliating for the suspected chemical attack in the town of Douma outside Damascus last Saturday, Germany refused to take part, even though Chancellor Angela Merkel called the use of chemical weapons “unacceptable.”

Prime Minister Theresa May of Britain said Syria had left the allies no choice. “This persistent pattern of behavior must be stopped — not just to protect innocent people in Syria from the horrific deaths and casualties caused by


giving off some sort of chemical compound that suffocated at least 43 people.

On Friday, American officials said they had intelligence implicating the Syrian government. “We have a very high confidence that Syria was responsible,” said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary. She said Russia was “part of the problem” for failing to prevent the use of such weapons.

Victims of a suspected chemical attack in Douma, Syria, on Sunday. Residents said they heard objects falling from the sky, followed by a strange smell that witnesses said resembled chlorine. Emad Aldin/EPA, via Shutterstock

At the United Nations, Nikki R. Haley, the American ambassador to the world body, accused the Syrian government of using banned chemical arms at least 50 times since the country’s civil war began in 2011. StateDepartment officials said the United States was still trying to identify the chemical used on April 7.

President Emmanuel Macron of France on Thursday cited proof that the Syrian government had launched chlorine gas attacks. The same day, the British Cabinet authorized Prime Minister Theresa May to join the United States and France in planning strikes against Syria.

Leaders in Syria, Iran and Russia denied that government forces had used chemical weapons, and accused rescue workers and the rebels who had controlled Douma of fabricating the videos to win international sympathy.

On Friday, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, said images of victims of the purported attack had been staged with “Britain’s direct involvement.” He provided no evidence.

Karen Pierce, Britain’s ambassador to the United Nations, called


Islamic State and other extremist groups — that has surged against Mr. Assad since the conflict started more than seven years ago.

Last year’s American attack on Syria came after a chemical attack on the village of Khan Sheikhoun killed scores of people. Mr. Trump ordered a cruise missile strike against the Al Shayrat airfield in central Syria, where the attack had originated. The base was damaged but Syrian warplanes were again taking off from there a day later.

Still, the response set Mr. Trump apart from President Barack Obama, who declined to respond with military force after a chemical weapons attack in August 2013 killed hundreds of people near Damascus, even though Mr. Obama had earlier declared the use of such weapons a “red line.”

Mr. Obama ultimately backed offa military strike and reached an agreement with Russia to remove Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. That agreement was said to have been carried out, although a series of reported chemical attacks since have raised doubts about its effectiveness.

Both American presidents have sought to keep United States involvement in Syria focused on the battle against the Islamic State, and not on toppling Mr. Assad or protecting civilians from violence.

The question now for Mr. Trump is whether his intervention against Mr. Assad will make it harder to keep the United States from slipping deeper into the Syrian war.

Within hours, images of dead families sprawled in their homes threatened to change Mr. Trump’s calculus on Syria, possibly drawing him deeper into an intractable Middle Eastern war that he hoped to leave.

“Many


dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Sunday. He blamed Iran and Russia — even singling out President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia by name — for their support of the Syrian government.

“Big price to pay,” he wrote, without providing details.

Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price…

The reported chemical attack on Douma, a suburb of the capital, Damascus, on Saturday seems to have squeezed Mr. Trump between conflicting impulses, and raised the political and military stakes as he charts the United States’future in Syria.

On one hand, he has emphatically expressed his desire to bring American troops home as soon as possible in line with his “America First” approach. On the other, he has vowed to punish some bad actors, and withdrawing from Syria could open him up to criticism at home and abroad.

“The withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria now would have major negative repercussions for the region and beyond,” said Murhaf Jouejati, a Syrian-American professor of international relations at the Emirates Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Just last week, the presidents of Iran, Turkey and Russia joined hands at an international summit meeting in Ankara, Turkey, to celebrate their successes in Syria and plot their next moves. The United States, notably absent, had not even been


counter Israel.

A withdrawal could also leave the door open for the return of the Islamic State in some parts of Syria, the very reason the United States gave for intervening in the country to begin with.

The bombing that Mr. Trump was responding to was part of a battle between rebels and the Syrian government, one that the United States had withdrawn from long ago, in a part of the country where the United States has neither a military presence nor any clear allies.

There is nothing to stop Mr. Trump from ordering a missile strike on western Syria, where the chemical attack was alleged to have taken place, and still pulling the approximately 2,000 American troops out of eastern Syria, where their main task was battling the militants ofthe necessity for a withdrawal of American ground forces. A White House official said he could provide no guidance beyond what the president had said on Twitter.

Mr. Trump’s furious response echoed his reaction to a similar attack that killed scores of people in northwestern Syria a year ago. Within three days of that attack, Mr. Trump sent a storm of cruise missiles raining down on the Syrian airfield where the attacks originated.

Graphic photos of the victims played a role in his decision then, as he expressed horror over images of “innocent children, innocent babies.” So did his repeated criticism of President Barack Obama for not intervening in similar circumstances.

But the strikes last April were an exception. Throughout the war, the United States has declined to intervene in Syria


despite many attacks with much higher tolls.

“The Trump administration has ignored both conventional attacks on civilians and repeated use of chlorine gas against civilians which have claimed far more lives than this single horrific attack,” said Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East adviser in Republican and Democratic administrations and vice president of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.

Seven years of fighting have shattered Syria into a series of overlapping conflicts among a kaleidoscope of combatants and international powers seeking to advance their interests.

Over the course of the war, Russia and Iran have committed deeply to Mr. Assad and have made major military, financial and political investments to ensure his survival. The United States initially called for Mr. Assad to leave power, and supplied cash and guns tothe rebels seeking to oust him, but gave up hope long ago that they would prevail in toppling him.

The primary involvement of the United States now is in eastern Syria, where it formed an alliance with a Kurdish-led militia known as the Syrian Democratic Forces, or S.D.F., to fight the jihadists of the Islamic State.

The Islamic State has lost most of its territory, giving the American-backed forces control of a large area where they have set up local administrations and occasionally clashed with the Syrian government and its Russian and Iranian allies.

Those who support keeping American troops in Syria, including top American military officials, argue that they are needed to protect those gains.

Highlighting the internal debate in Washington, at virtually the same moment that Mr. Trump was saying


it was time to leave, Gen. Joseph Votel, the head of the United States Central Command, was saying almost the opposite.

“The hard part, I think, is in front of us,” he said, suggesting that the United States should stabilize areas taken from the jihadists, return refugees to their homes and help with reconstruction. Currently, the United States military is clearing unexploded ordnance, mines and other booby traps from Raqqa just to make it minimally habitable. A withdrawal could jeopardize those endeavors.

The debate goes to the core of the American mission in Syria: whether United States troops are there solely to defeat the Islamic State militarily, or also to stabilize the areas the jihadists once ruled to keep them from coming back.

American military leaders have supported the latter optionand most of the infrastructure have been destroyed.

Mr. Putin has called on “massive capital investments” from wealthy countries to help rebuild Syria, saying they need to become “more actively involved in deed and not only in word.”

But Western nations are unlikely to support the project as long as Mr. Assad, whom many consider a war criminal, remains in power.

Hanging over the decision to stay or leave is a the bitter American experience in Iraq.

In 2011, after years of heavy military engagement there, the United States declared victory over the Iraqi insurgency — the predecessor to the Islamic State — and left. Three years later, the jihadists returned, stronger than before, and took over a third of Iraq and a large part of Syria.

Some of the United States’ regional


rattled across the desert. The air was stifling, and he and the other employees were on edge.

For months, they had worked to the percussion of distant fighting as the Islamic State waged fierce battles in the autumn of 2014 to seize territory in Syria’s rapidly escalating civil war. Their employer, one of the world’s largest cement makers, Lafarge, didn’t want to abandon the plant, but aimed to keep it running so it would be well positioned when the civil war ended. And the men, all local workers, had few other options for employment in a country where conflict was ravaging the economy.

Security managers urged the workers not to worry. Safety was a priority, they insisted. If the fighting got too close, Lafarge had an evacuation plan that includedto face our deaths?”

While other multinational companies pulled out of Syria in the midst of the civil war, Lafarge made a calculated decision to stay, pushing the limits of international law to keep its operations running. Lafarge’s actions, reconstructed from sealed French court documents reviewed by The New York Times as well as interviews with former employees, provide rare insight into the costs and complexities of doing business in a war-torn country, trade-offs that have left a large company exposed to a French criminal investigation as well as a civil lawsuit.

To move supplies and employees through dangerous areas, and to secure raw materials, Lafarge funneled money to intermediaries who conducted negotiations with the Islamic State, as well as Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria and other armed factions. All


at least a dozen workers were kidnapped, according to testimony and witness statements of former employees, company documents and the internal review. Employees faced gun-toting militants when they went to work. And the factory — one of the biggest foreign investments in Syria — was captured anyway. It has been shuttered ever since.

A panel of French judges appointed by the Paris High Court, which oversees criminal investigations, is now looking into whether Lafarge put workers at risk and violated international sanctions by paying the Islamic State and other armed groups to keep operating as war bore down. Six former top Lafarge officials, including two former chief executives, are being formally investigated under charges of financing terrorism.

The judges, who decide whether cases go to trial, are also examining aexecutives could face penalties of up to 10 years in jail and fines of 225,000 euros. Authorities will also determine whether the company itself can be held liable. The activity occurred before Lafarge merged with the Swiss cement giant Holcim in 2015.

The former chief executive Eric Olsen resigned last year after the internal inquiry, although Lafarge concluded that he was not responsible for, or aware of, the activity. In the United States, the company, now called LafargeHolcim after the merger, dropped plans to supply building materials for President Trump’s proposed wall on the border with Mexico amid criticism in France over the Syria affair.

LafargeHolcim, in a statement to The Times, insisted that the No. 1 priority of Lafarge executives was to guarantee employee safety, and pinned the decisions


and is still trying to land permanent work. Mr. Mohamad is living as a refugee in Turkey, unable to return home while war persists.

‘We Kept Going’

When Lafarge bought a dilapidated factory in northern Syria in 2007, one of the biggest advantages was a local partner with ties to President Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The partner, Firas Tlass, an influential tycoon, could navigate back channels in a country with murky rules and bureaucracy. He arranged an operating license and other permits for Lafarge.

Founded in 1833 as a family business in France, Lafarge had a history of landing big and complicated projects. In the mid-19th century, it won a contract to build the Suez Canal in Egypt. During World War II, it helped furnish cement for the construction of a massive coastalwall of bunkers for the Nazis, known as the Atlantic Wall, that stretched from Scandinavia to the Spanish border.

Militant Islamist fighters parading along the streets of Raqqa province in June 2014. After Raqqa fell to the Islamic State in 2013, fighting moved closer to the region in northern Syria where the cement plant is located.CreditReuters

In Syria, Lafarge saw a new opening to the Middle East. After a three-year renovation of the €680 million plant, Lafarge Cement Syria opened in October 2010, employing hundreds of people and generating thousands of related jobs. Trucks and vans crisscrossed the desert, transporting employees, delivering Lafarge cement and bringing in fuel and raw materials from nearby quarries.

As operations ramped up, a wave of revolutionary fervor from the Arab Spring movement swept the region.


Anti-government protests spread to Syria, and were brutally suppressed in March 2011 by government security forces. Soldiers from Syria’s army defected and, along with civilians who took up arms, formed rebel groups to battle the government, some of them loosely organized as the Free Syrian Army. The government responded by attacking rebel-held areas, in an increasingly complex and bloody conflict that continues to batter the country.

While the fighting took root in the south, the security around the Lafarge plant in the north slowly began to deteriorate. Free Syrian Army groups moved into the area, long controlled by Mr. Assad’s government, along with the militia of the Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD. By the end of 2011, the United Nations declared Syria in a state of civil war,and the European Union placed an embargo on arms and oil purchases in Syria.

After that, Total, the French oil giant, halted its Syrian operations. Other French multinationals followed, including Bel Group, the maker of Babybel cheese, and Air Liquide, France’s largest gas company.

Not Lafarge. Bruno Lafont, who was the Lafarge chief executive at the time, saw no reason to leave. Company security advisers assured bosses at headquarters in Paris that the plant was not in a combat zone and remained safe. “So we kept going,” Mr. Lafont told investigators, according to the court documents. “Lafarge has never run away.”

By summer 2012, the situation in Syria had grown increasingly uncertain, and Lafarge decided to move hundreds of foreign employees out of the country for their safety. Senior managers, including


had to go through the same road, because Lafarge would ask why you didn’t go to work.”

A Growing Threat

When the fighting got too close, the payments to ISIS started to flow.

In mid-2012, local Lafarge executives provided the Syrian partner with a monthly budget of around $ 100,000. They gave him instructions to act as an intermediary with local groups to ensure safe passage around the factory, Mr. Pescheux told investigators.

The partner, Mr. Tlass, according to the law firm’s review, steered large sums to the Free Syrian Army, which occupied Manbij, where Lafarge had relocated employees. More money flowed to the Kurds, who had worked with the Free Syrian Army and promised military-style protection for the factory, which they considered to be in their territory.

The payoffs didn’t guarantee safety.In autumn, the Kurds kidnapped nine Lafarge employees and transferred them to local militias. Lafarge’s local managers reported the kidnappings to Paris and spent around €200,000 to secure their release, according to the internal inquiry and testimony of former executives.

The troubles worsened in 2013, when the Qaeda affiliate in Syria, the Nusra Front, and other Islamic groups seized Raqqa, a strategic city about 90 kilometers south of the factory. In the ensuing months, a schism within Al Qaeda split the Nusra Front from the Islamic State group, which took control of Raqqa. ISIS began a slow but steady push toward the region around the Lafarge plant.

The Lafarge cement factory in northern Syria was seized by ISIS in 2014 and has been closed since.CreditDaniel Riffet/Alamy

Soon, the fixer, Mr. Tlass,


production and told most workers to stay home, according to testimony by the former employees and executives. But local managers ordered an essential team of around 30 people, including Mr. Osman, to remain. By early August 2014, the Syrian partner, Mr. Tlass, claimed he had negotiated a new agreement with both ISIS and Kurdish militants that would allow the factory to resume production.

Lafarge continued the payments to ISIS through Mr. Tlass until the United Nations banned commercial and financial dealings with the group on Aug. 15, according to the internal review. Without the protection afforded by the payments, Mr. Lafont advised the executive board that the plant would need to close, probably in September.

It was still operating in the middle of September, as fighting in the region intensified.When ISIS assaults against Kurdish forces became more violent, villages near the plant began to empty out.

Local executives again ordered an essential team of about 30 workers to keep the plant running, and began sending others home. On Sept. 17, 2014, evacuation buses, a crucial piece of the company’s security plan, ferried nonessential workers back to Manbij.

But the buses never returned to the factory, as planned. Kurdish forces, occupied by the battle with ISIS, would not let them pass, according to testimony by Jean-Claude Veillard, head of safety operations at Lafarge in Paris.

The next day, Frédéric Jolibois, a new chief executive of Lafarge Syria who had recently taken the helm, emailed the plant’s supervisors a security plan that he had devised, according to a copy of the message


hours on end, they wait out the bombing, which shows no signs of slowing.

The assault is the latest by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces on rebel-controlled areas in a seven-year civil war that has fractured the country.

In other cities and towns once held by rebel groups, like Aleppo and Daraya, the government has used a similar tactic of bombarding infrastructure and residential areas to force a surrender of fighters and the relocation of civilians. The Syrian government says that there are few civilians left in eastern Ghouta, and that those who remain are being held as human shields — an assertion disputed by international human rights groups and activists on the ground.

Footage from local activists shows women and children gathered in basements, playing and cooking to pass the time.Some share audio recordings of the planes and helicopters buzzing overhead, issuing desperate pleas on social media and WhatsApp.

In some parts of the sprawling suburb, the underground spaces are connected by tunnels. A local media activist, Firas Abdullah, filmed the scene as he made his way between the joined rooms on Wednesday.

“People here are hiding from the massive bombardment,” he says in the video as he ducks his head to walk through the tight space.

Mr. Abdullah, who has posted updates from the area for the past several years, said some women and children had been sheltering for more than 72 hours and were in need of food and water. He described the conditions as “grave.”

Local humanitarian groups have relayed the same information to international partners: The safest place


indeed a dangerous escalation that raises the specter of direct conflict between Israel and Iran in Syria — a far more serious situation than the drawing of red lines and tit-for-tat exchanges that have occurred before,” said Robert Satloff, executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Forces from Russia, Turkey and the United States are also on the ground in Syria in a war with multiple fronts and multiple factions, including the remnants of the Islamic State and other Islamist militant groups.

Israel has long warned about the risk of conflict as Iranian forces and their allies, including Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group militia, have dug in on Syrian territory and approached the boundary with the Israeli-held portion of the Golan Heights. Israel, which considers Iran itsmost potent enemy in the region, has been lobbying world powers to push these forces from the border areas.

Israel has carried out scores of strikes in Syria in recent years, largely targeting what it says are advanced weapons stores or convoys taking weapons to Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. Israel has also reportedly hit Syrian government facilities involved in weapons development and an Iranian base under construction in Syria.

But this was the first Israeli strike on a site where Iranian forces were present, analysts said, and Israeli military officials said this was the first time an Iranian drone had penetrated Israeli airspace during the Syrian war. There was no immediate indication that the drone was armed.

Israeli military officials accused the Syrians and Iranians of “playing with fire,” but indicated


and airstrikes.”

But just as Syrian self-confidence appears to have grown, Israel also sent a strong message with its broad wave of strikes on Saturday, Israeli analysts said. They noted that this was the first time in recent years Israel had struck Syrian territory in broad daylight and said that Israel had inflicted serious damage on Syria’s air-defense system. Despite more Syrian antiaircraft fire, all Israeli jets returned to base safely from the second mission, after the first jet was lost, according to the Israeli military. Syria is believed to have fired at least a dozen antiaircraft missiles, with the wreckage of one landing in Lebanon.

It was not immediately clear if the Israeli F-16 was directly hit by the Syrian antiaircraft fire. Early assessments suggested that it was, saidLt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, another spokesman for the Israeli military, though he added that nothing had been officially confirmed.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel spent much of Saturday in consultations with his defense minister, the Israeli chief of staff and other military officials.

Russia, along with Iran, has been helping prop up the government of President Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the Russian Foreign Ministry issued a statement calling on “all sides involved to show restraint and avoid all acts that could lead to complicating the situation further.”

The ministry added: “It is absolutely unacceptable to create threats to the lives and security of Russian soldiers that are in the Syrian Arab Republic on the invitation of the legal government to assist in the fight against terrorism.”

After a meeting with


the showers and stop the bar".

The company, which is headquartered in Manhattan, employs a number of high-profile personnel including former Tory communications director Sir Craig Oliver.

Other senior advisors include Brian Mulroney, the former Canadian prime minister, former US/Middle East envoy George Mitchell and BT chairman Sir Michael Rake.

Mr Tempest-Hay did not respond to a request from The Times to discuss his message to staff.'Angry Video Game Nerd': Fantasia Review

Video game enthusiasts unravel an enduring contemporary conspiracy theory in a microbudget comedy from Kevin Finn and James Rolfe.

Together with collaborator Kevin Finn, writer-director James Rolfe expands his prolific web series about a cranky video game reviewer to full feature length for the benefit of an international network of YouTube followers. Variable production quality, bargain-basement special effects and hammy performances won't deter fans of the original, but expansion beyond the current, limited theatrical tour and planned VOD and DVD releases looks fairly uncertain.

Multihyphenate Rolfe plays the titular Angry Video Game Nerd, whose principal mission in life is to record and upload severely critical reviews of mostly obsolete console and computer games. One that he won't revisit, however, is Atari's "E.T.," a release based


on the 1982 movie. Widely considered one of the worst games ever, it memorably traumatized his childhood and became such a commercial failure that thousands of game cartridges were rumored to be disposed of in a New Mexico landfill.

The Nerd's insistent refusal to review the game wavers, however, when he's approached by Cockburn Gaming company representative Mandi (Sarah Glendening) to evaluate the new release "Eee Tee 2." Fearful that the title will encourage his vast network of fans to seek out the original game, provoking widespread consternation, the Nerd agrees to review Cockburn's product if the company will fund an expedition to the Alamogordo dump so that he can debunk the urban myth concerning Atari's massive game disposal. Together with Mandi and his admiring sidekick Cooper (Jeremy Suarez),the Nerd sets out on a cross-country crusade to save his fans from the never-ending threat of awful video games.

Although Rolfe's vitriolic reviews form the centerpiece of his web episodes, the feature film strategically incorporates his frequent rants (invariably delivered directly to the camera) as subsidiary components of this extravagantly conceived adventure. Beginning as a haphazardly planned road trip, their quest shifts into thriller mode when the group reaches New Mexico and encounters a former research scientist from a famously top-secret project who's concealing incriminating information about the Atari game. In its final phase, the film morphs into an off-kilter sci-fi comedy, although the filmmakers manage to capably anchor these disparate storylines to their central plot concerning crusading gamers. Similarities to Dr. Strangelove, Close Encounters of the Third


awarded.
Wanda is Hubbard's paternal grandmother; Beverly and Jim Jeffrey are Hubbard's mother and stepfather. Beverly was involved in a custody dispute over Hubbard with her ex-husband, Kenneth Kiersey, who had moved to Florida. At a custody hearing on September 26, 2002, a Sebastian County Circuit Court placed primary custody of Hubbard with Beverly.
On October 8, 2006, Wanda picked Hubbard up after school and drove him to the home of Jack and Reba Baggett. Once there, Hubbard called his father and told him that he was at the Baggetts' and that he would "hopefully . . . get to Florida soon." Hubbard also called his mother and told her that he was with friends and was okay. Hubbard stayed with the Baggetts for several days, until after Wanda wasunder the circumstances. Liability arises only when the distress is extreme. Restatement, Torts 2d 78, 46, Comment j.
Counce, 268 Ark. at 280, 596 S.W.2d at 687 (emphasis added).
Turning to Wanda's arguments, she first discusses Hubbard's lack of severe emotional distress. Hubbard testified at trial that, when Jack Baggett dropped him off at home, Hubbard was a "little bit" upset because he "wouldn't be able to get to Florida," but that he was "embarrassed about the whole thing." He stated that he did not go back to school for a few weeks afterward because he was "still nervous and . . . just felt out of place," and that, when he did go back to school, it was "kind of embarrassing talking to the other students because they all


had questions to ask, and it was just hard." It was "probably a long time" before he felt "totally comfortable again," but the thing that bothered him was that it was "really embarrassing." Some of his grades dropped from an A to a B, and he had some trouble catching up with homework. However, Hubbard testified that he did not fear that a similar thing might happen again, and he stated that he did not fear his grandmother.
Regarding Hubbard's alleged distress, Beverly testified that, after he came home, he "was not comfortable about going to school, he was embarrassed." On the day he came back, he "wasn't talking very much." She also stated that he was quiet and did not want to talk about what had happened, andthat he "wasn't as outgoing and gung-ho to do things." She noted that his grades had dropped from all A's to some B's, and Hubbard "never liked it if he didn't make A's, so that bothered him."
On cross-examination, Beverly agreed that Hubbard was a "well-rounded young man." She also stated that, after the events of October 2002, he continued to be active in the band at school and in his church activities. Beverly conceded that no doctor, including Hubbard's psychiatrist, Dr. Barling, whom Hubbard had been seeing since he was three years old, had ever told her that Hubbard suffered from any severe emotional distress; that Hubbard had never needed to take medication or see a psychiatrist; and that Hubbard had never been diagnosed with depression, anxiety, or


"anything like that."
The evidence of Beverly's alleged emotional distress showed that she was understandably upset; she stated that she was "very upset, . . . crying, . . . [and] shaking all over" immediately after Hubbard disappeared. She further stated that she slept very little during the time when Hubbard was gone, and that one night, she "was having a hard time breathing, [she] was just getting really, really hot, and . . . was just so upset[.]" She said that she *443 couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and was "just upset."
On cross-examination, Beverly stated that she had gone to see her regular physician after this was all over and told him that she was upset; he suggested that she "probably was depressed[.]" Her doctor prescribed her sleeping pills,in running heavy construction equipment over burial plots in such a way as to damage and expose burial vaults, including the vault belonging to plaintiffs' loved ones, caused "severe mental anguish and distress" to the plaintiffs).
In the instant case, there is no clear-cut proof of severe emotional distress. While Hubbard may have been embarrassed and briefly suffered a dip in his grades, nothing in the evidence presented to the jury supported a conclusion that he suffered emotional distress so severe that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it. Likewise, Beverly's testimony about her own state of mind was insufficient to warrant a finding that she suffered severe emotional distress. The evidence certainly showed that she was upset; however, she was not so upset as to seek


Russian NGO blows whistle on Lviv lawmakers for renaming city streets

Nationalist feelings are on the rise in Lviv

Ukraine

18:11, 24 April 2008

Nationalist feelings are on the rise in Lviv and this was evidenced by giving a new name to the Turgenev street, the UPA Heroes street. According to ZIK, the street residents allegedly decided to contest the renaming in court, head of the Russian Bloc and the Russian Movement in Ukraine, Crimean parliament deputy Oleksandr Svistunov said, speaking in his Apr. 24 press conference in Lviv.

According to Svistunov, Lviv lawmakers should be aware that they represent a multi-ethnic community, not only Ukrainians. He says that only spiritually impoverished people can rename the Turgenev street for UPA Heroes street. The 90-thousand strong Russian community enjoys the same rights as itsCamden is situated on the west side of Penobscot Bay,
and is the north-eastern town of Knox County. Rockland bounds it on the south, Hope on the north-west, Penobscot
Bay on the east and Lincolnville, in Waldo County, on the north. The area is 26,880 acres. The surface is broken
and mountainous, and the Indian name of the place (Megunticook) signifying great sea-swells, is properly descriptive.
There are grouped within the town five mountains, spoken of in early times as Mathebestucks Hills. Mount Megunticook
is 1,265 feet in height; and of Mount Beatty, Bald Mountain, Ragged Mountain and Mount Pleasant, no summit falls
below 900 feet above the sea. They range in general from north-east to south-west, and are more or less clothed
with forest trees quite to their tops. The summit of Megunticook affords


one of the noblest of marine prospects,
embracing Penobscot Bay with its islands, Mount Desert at the east, and a vast sweep of the ocean on the south-east.
These are possibly the mountains mentioned by Captain Weymouth, as seen in his voyage in 1605, and by Captain Smith
in 1614. They are visible 20 leagues distant. They are supposed to have been the boundary between the great Bashaba’s
domimons, situated on the west, and those of the Tarratines on the east and north. Mount Beatty, 900 feet in height
and threefourths of a mile from the village, was during the war of 1812 furnished with a battery consisting of
one 12 and one 18 pounder. Though there were no gunners qualified to manage the battery, and few soldiers in town,
this appearance of readiness fordefense kept tile British in cheek.

In the war of the Revolution the place did not escape so easily. After the British, in 1779, occupied Castine,
Camden became tile Only place upon the Penobscot of general rendezvous for the Americans. A small force was encamped
here, believed to have been under the Command of Captain George Uliner, afterward major general of militia, state
senator and sheriff. In one of their descents on the place, the British burned the saw mill on Megunticook Stream.
They also set fire to the grist-null, but it was extinguished by Leonard Metcalf and and a small party, who bravely
drove the assailants to their barges.

Camden was a patt of the Waldo patent, and the township passed into the ownership of the “Twenty Associates,”
becoming Megunticook plantation. It was surveyed by


David Fales, of Thomaston in 1768, and settlements were commenced
a few years after on Goose River, Clam Cove and Megunticook, and mills erected. The first settler was James Richards,
who commenced a settlement at the mouth of the Megunticook in 1769. Robert Thorndike together with Peter Ott, Paul
Thorndike, Harkness and Ballard, about the same time commenced one at what is now Rockport village. Gregory, Buckland,
Porterfield and Upham were the pioneers of the settlement at Calm Cove. The town was incorporated in 1791, being
named in honor of Lord Camden a parliamentary friend of the colonies in tile Revolution.

Camden has six ponds,—Lily, Hosmer’s, Canaan, Grassy, Rocky., and Oyster, containing from 65 to 900 acres. There
are five considerable streams and twenty-one water-powers. Fourteen of these are on 3iegunticook Stream, the outlet
of Canaan,principal rock underlying the soil. The latter is generally sand
and olay,—a diluvial formation. Hay is the principal crop exported. Camden village is on the stage line from Bangor
to Rockland, and is 8 miles from the latter place. The nearest railroad station is at Rockland. Camden is also
on the steamboat line from Portland and Boston to Bangor.

Each of the villages has its peculiar attraction in elegant buildings, fine situation, or streets shaded with trees
of elm, locust, maple and horse-chesnut. The Post-offices are at Camden village, Rockport, West Camden and Rockville.
Camden Saving’s Bank at the close of 1879, held deposits and profits to the amount of $145,672.72. Camden National
Bank has a capital of $50,000. The “Camden Herald” is a spirited and ably conducted sheet, a good collector of
local as well


as national and foreign news. At this date it advocates the measures of the greenback party. It is
issued every Saturday by W. W. Perry.

Among the eminent citizens were Hons. Jonathan Thayer, Erastus Foote, E. K. Smart, Joseph Hall, and William Merriam.
Camden furnished 300 men for the armies of the Union during the war of the Rebellion, of whom 90 were lost. The
churches of the town number three Methodist, two Episcopal, four Baptist, two Universalist. At Camden village is
an excellent new town-hall, having an audienceroom capable of seating 600 persons. The cost of the building was
$12,000. In the villages are three libraries, and two book-clubs. The larger villages have graded schools. The
town has sixteen public schoolhouses. The total school property is valued at $11,650. The valuation of estates
in 1870of human beings, independent of their origin, skin colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political position".

She also lambasted Trump's ban on refugees and citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries - unlike, say, Britain's Theresa May, the first foreign leader to visit Trump.

Responding to the ban in January, Merkel said the fight against terror "does not in any way justify putting groups of certain people under general suspicion".

Merkel, who is standing for a fourth term in Germany's September elections, takes a list of issues to the White House: Russia, Syria, Ukraine, Nato as well as trade - the US is Germany's third largest trading partner, after China and France.

Trump, with his protectionist claims of "America first", his tirades against Nato and praise for Putin, also seems to want the European


The president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, has stated that he does not know what bitcoin (BTC) is, and endorsed the suspension of a project that would create a crypto for indigenous people to use, Cointelegraph Brazil reported on June 4.

Bolsonaro supported the Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves in the termination of a project worth 44.9 million Brazilian reals ($11.5 million) between the National Indian Foundation (FUNAI) and the Federal Fluminense University (UFF), which promoted the creation of a cryptocurrency for indigenous people to use. Bolsonaro delivered his comments during an interview with Ratinho's SBT show on June 4.

After saying that the Minister acted properly in blocking the project that "wanted to teach the Indian to use bitcoin," the president was asked by a showparticipant if he knew what bitcoin was. Bolsonaro replied:

"I do not know what bitcoin is."

Shortly after the speech, Bolsonaro rectified his statement and said that bitcoin was a "virtual currency." The project offered by FUNAI and the UFF will purportedly neither receive financing and support, nor integrate bitcoin.

Over his career, Bolsonaro has made several controversial statements regarding indigenous people in Brazil, and promised to roll back protections on their lands.

As previously reported, the government suspended the indigenous crypto project in early January claiming that the contract was issued improperly and lacked technical analysis, such as a detailed description of the project. The contract was signed directly between FUNAI and UFF, instead of through a legal bidding process. Moreover, the government said that the contract had been approved too


quickly and entailed considerable expenditure.

In late May, the President of the Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, Deputy Rodrigo Maia ordered the establishment of a commission to consider cryptocurrency regulation in the country. The commission will be composed of 34 members in accordance with the House Rules of Procedure.San Diego ranked fourth in the western U.S. as a place for new grads and 19th nationally, in a recent study by Zumper, an apartment search site.

San Diego scored within the top 10 percent of U.S. cities for young professional income and amenities and in the top 20 percent for millennial population and dating life. The report analyzed 260 cities across the U.S., using the latest census numbers and Zumper’s own rental data.

San Diego’s overall score was 74.1, receiving an ‘A,’ with higher scores in millennials, income, amenities and dating. The region had lower employment and rent scores.

Salt Lake City topped the listing for the western region, with high employment and income scores. Boulder and Denver followed. San Francisco was absent from the list due to the cost


Nisrine El Kettani, PhD student, becomes the second Moroccan to win this competition since it was first created in 2014. The second runner-up was also a Moroccan, Ilham Bouaadass while the first runner-up was the Egyptian Mayada Mohamed.

Several criterias are taken into consideration for the selection of « Miss Arab Veil ». Beauty, academic level, general culture level and the social project they had to suggest are among them, according to Akhbar Alyaoum. The winning card of Nisrine El Kettani was apparently that of proposing an NGO project to fight against sexual harassment and violence suffered by Arab women, witch won over the jury.

The ceremony took place in a prestigious Cairo hotel and was attended by different personalities from the world of fashion and beauty, including Moroccan designerAccommodation summary

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Great home located in the best area of Málaga, Cerrado de Calderón. Excellent communication, highway A 7-4 minutes walk to the nearest beach at 7 minutes and 15 minutes by car or bus from the historic center

It has a bus stop # 33 line less than a minute , the last stop is the popular Larios Street, the heart of the city, where you can enjoy a wide range cultural and gastronomic . Only 500 meters walking distance is the famous beach of Baños del Carmen , located a short distance from the Neighborhood of El Palo . Taxi within 3 minutes.

The layout of the house is divided into two floors, the ground floor has an entrance hall, kitchen , bathrooms